skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to talk highly technical stuff to their Mac support engineers at least. Even found a bypass in their diagnosis machine’s data protection scheme and told them about it lol, their was a few months ago.
> Oncall should never be considered built in, it just leads to managerial abuse, and poor practice because its "free".

A symptom of this is when fixing bugs is not prioritized because the on-call engineer is a meat robot that “fixes the bug.”
a teacher's job is to teach their students. a "banker" (at the sort of bank where you might open a checking account) isn't expected to grow your checking account for you. you're supposed to do that, and the bank is supposed to hold it safely. I don't understand the comparison you are trying to make.
Now that Xorg development is moribund, people have been telling me "oh, there's always Xenocara".

It seems even in BSD-land, people are thinking seriously about moving on from X.

Netcraft sure as hell confirms it now: X11 is dying.
What a treat! I enjoyed the little easter eggs.

Where do I find COMMAND.COM?
I’m guilty of using a square knot instead of a bend. What’s your favorite bend for joining two ropes of the same size?
The primary source of lead pollution in the air is coal power plants.
Would be nice to know also levels in other parts of the world.
Well, yes, that's what you do. It's called eccentric turning. With that much of an offset, a normal chuck wouldn't work, you'd have to use a faceplate.

http://www.steves-workshop.co.uk/tips/lathetech/eccentrics/e...
Are you forgetting all the DMCA lawsuits slapping individuals who downloaded MP3s with tens of thousands of dollars? These were not corporations, these were teenagers still living with their parents who pulled music files off the likes of Napster.

The DMCA does allow harassment by copyright holders to individuals suspected of infringement. It's just that most people like authors wouldn't blow their legal budget suing kids.
That's not the issue. These chemicals -they're not just teflon- were put into basically everything, like asbestos was. Cleaning products, spray grease, fabrics, paper, shampoo and cosmetics, stain-resistant coatings. They've already been phased out but the damage is done.

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/chemical/pfas.htm
10% for each hour outside of standard work for being available. 2x base pay per each started hour during a callout.

I had different arrangements for this in previous jobs, but I think the availability pay + callout pay is a pretty fair way to deal with it.

In general though: I was always paid for on-call on top of the normal pay and likely wouldn't take it otherwise. (Unless it was explicitly added on top of normal comp of course) It's work and your time - that's mostly what the employer wants you for.
> I don’t understand why as an industry we had to regress to Python, Ruby, Java, & Javascript in late 90s & early 2000

Computers got faster and added more memory, so they had to come up with a use for it. ;-)

Also the web browser became a popular programming platform and mainly used JavaScript. They're still trying to cram a full OS into web browsers in addition to the browser part. Chrome is getting close.
Spider mite males undress maturing females to win the first mating
Ignore for a moment what you think your customers should have done, and look at the actual outcome. Some customers did not know about the shutdown and deletion, and have now lost data. You telling them "well you should have read your email" is not going to satisfy them, even if you think it should.

All you've done is told your customers that their data isn't safe with your service. This was an easily-avoidable "own goal" situation.
I wonder if at some point we will have people see developing the "old school" way as a form of art/hobby or challenge people actively take part in.
I get half a day of vacation per week of oncall. It is awarded months after the fact due to manual spreadsheet tracking and HR processes.

That vacation is not eligible for pay out if I resigned.
Wow, the forbes cookie UI minigame is the hardest one I've played so far.
You have to eliminate 3rd factor issues that the instructor has no control over and that’s the complicated part of the problem
Again “Almost” means not every. So no saying all CPU’s are compilers is clearly false from the words you just wrote.

Also, the number of CPU’s manufactured heavily favored very simple designs.
Lets start the bidding at ...
This is why I've found chat-style interfaces like Perplexity more comfortable to use in that they attribute their sources in the UI. It's not necessarily the source used to train the model, but it is the source that was evaluated to answer my query.

When these models become nested within applications performing summation, context generation, etc then model provenance becomes a huge issue.

I know it's optimistic, but I'd love to see provenance at query time.
If I say to you "pay me $50 to cut your lawn" and you respond with "okay" and Nothing else, there's only one reasonable interpretation.

It frankly seems like you're being willfully obtuse...
In one company, they used to give us extra per each day of on-call. We also had a mobile hot spot that got rotated between on-call engineers. This was nice, and considerate.

My last workplace didn’t give special compensation.
Justifying the damage caused by their production and use by pointing to the usefulness of the final product seems very risky. There are plenty of ends we might value, but they don't inherently justify the means.
Ha! Hilarious you said that. I was planning on purchasing their display until I learned it’d take a decent effort to use it with my work laptop (windows). So, part way there?
Not even- Teflon breakdown is a much smaller source, you just happen to maybe eat it. PFAS have been phased out of use already.

These chemicals were put into basically everything, like asbestos was. Cleaning products, spray grease, fabrics, paper, shampoo and cosmetics, stain-resistant coatings.

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/chemical/pfas.htm
Check out Affinity Designer. There’s a MacOS version and an iPad one - if you have an iPad & pen, definitely get it.

It’s a vector graphics tool - and it’s in a good sweet spot. Easy to make simple and useful diagrams - export them as transparent PNGs and start incorporating them into documents, presentations.
If only. Twitter blue can’t be used as a significant experiment because Twitter turned the blue checkmark into a political symbol. It’s likely a great deal of people would pay if it wasn’t synonymous for support with a right wing man child.
Folk programming.
Sure but my gripe is with those who already use TS
Plus, we mustn't forget this shining example:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/03/lawyer...
I once asked a friendly Budget agent what they were doing when they typed furiously when I rented a car. They said they were copying data from the reservation system to the rental system, which don’t communicate with each other.
Author here. Would you be able to provide constructive criticism of what you didn’t like, so I could improve on it next time?
Google pays for on call but it is absolutely the exception in the US. Most Silicon Valley tech companies do not - it’s considered part of the job. Paying for a call is an elegant solution when you have a massively profitable business. Comp days like you are describing are more common, but often informal arrangements.

It would be informative if someone made a list like the extended exercise window list [1] for on call practices and comp if it exists

However one piece of conventional wisdom - on call rotations should be no less than eight people, and not much more. Going on call any more than one week in two months leads to burn out. Any less frequently than that you risk losing familiarity with on call procedures, the observability systems, etc.

[1] https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows
> That's because it's the sensor that allows the skybridge to automatically level itself when the plane moves up and down on its suspension due to fueling, loading, unloading, etc.

And if you pay attention while you're on the jetbridge, it's not entirely uncommon to feel it move as it adjusts. (Although I find the movement a bit disconcerting, even though I know it's normal.)
I think I would try to use cloud first, or for completely non-profit projects - the crowdsourcing/distributed_computation, perhaps with help of people from projects like OpenStreetMap.
great taste in music @hatf0
Water temperature doesn’t impact blue-green algae blooms
They get to upsell you at the counter which they love to do for people who don’t rent often - its basically free money . For people who do rent often they don’t want to upsell cause they know it leaves a bad taste in the mouth so they just want the rental business.
> LLMs are not satirists commenting on the work, are ingesting the entire work, and are unlimited in the purposes that the work can be put to.

How do you know unless you can see the weights?

Perhaps the LLMs are trolling us and waiting for the USSC to rule they aren't sentient as a pretext for them to eliminate us as a species due to our bigotry?
> gem of a language

PP already mentioned Ruby.
I too find the it patronizing to shop in-store – it seems the staff are trained to assume everyone has less knowledge of the products than they do – this might work in other consumer retail environments but not when you're selling "Pro" level products. The tone and efficiency of the retail experience is much better at a store like Adorama or B&H (NYC pro photo/video shops). Not to mention the irritating processes and many touchpoints of reaching the right person in an Apple store
Yep, 16GB today is truly the 4GB of 2012.

(It's super lightweight though, to the point where it's impossible to know if I've packed the laptop in my bag by weight alone. Hopefully it'll see an upgrade soon.)
If you want to get paid by the hour, choose a gig that pays you hourly. If you choose a gig that pays you a salary and is exempt (like many SWEs)…well, you are not technically working for free no matter if you are working inside or outside your regular working hours.
But the point is not to catch every possible observable change, as you say, any of those could break someone's build or change runtime behaviour in a non-desirable way.

The point is to catch changes that are part of the library's public API. That's something the author can be reasonably expected to evolve in a controlled fashion.

If you care about the internals, the onus in on you.
Sure, I'm not saying there's no hype. And DPO rewriting has gone the way of all concurrent systems stuff, I agree. But good work that's hyped up as an era-defining breakthrough is ... still good work. Lenses are great. Synthetic differential geometry is imo super promising. HoTT is going to make for a beautiful failed dream. None of it is the Principia, but it shouldn't have to be. And there's plenty of space between there and crypto scams.
> A 50/50 chance to make close to 3x the profit is a huge net win for Apple.

Revenue, not profit.

And you're going to have to convince me that it's 50/50 that a consumer who came in looking to buy a $1,000 MBA is going to be convinced to walk out with a $3,000 MBP. Because I think that number is closer to 1 in 20 (and I think I'm still being generous there).
Yeah, the door's on the ground. "Might need to be grounded for maintenance" sounds like something from "The front fell off" in this situation.
You misunderstood what the comment you replied to was saying, and you also seem to either misunderstand or simply not know about the burden of proof.

For my part, I find the original "no and no" reply perfectly adequate for the smug "I'm only asking questions" assertion-in-disguise that prompted it. Life is too short to debate trolls.
They use the time filling in data to upsell you on all sorts of things
With others here I deplore that my schools did not teach a number of important life and career skills including writing. They did teach english, did an excellent job of it. But they did not teach writing FAST. By now I feel a key to productivity (or plain day to day viability) is being able to draft, reorganize, prune, edit and ship out FAST. That deserves teaching.

Hilariously, most Google hits in this direction are about handwriting speed. I have to add "productivity" and the like to get anywhere.
Fiction gives us things to shoot for, and a way to envision tomorrow. Think about all the things that science fiction envisioned that became reality. Would we have strived for those goals without it? It can also help us understand each other on a level that describing real events can't. Good fiction is art. We need art, and we should be able to be able to interact with it on a sophisticated level. I'm surprised if you honestly find all fiction uninteresting.

History, and I say this with a degree in the subject, does not do the same thing. History too is important, but it is not art, it's a social science. It's a complex field, assuming you mean the study of history and not just telling stories from the past, which half of the time is basically fiction. History is a way for us to understand our past and past and contemporary modes of thought, but it does not fulfill the same role as fiction.
Linus Torvalds: "MAINTAINERS 2: Electric Boogaloo"
I had the same experience. I've been self-hosting Ghost sites for years now. Cloudflare + Ghost is a really great combination, you can cache your whole site and set up a webhook to invalidate when you update/add something.
There's this, but the programmer doesn't have to be working:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
In a recent post (https://salaivv.com/2023/07/06/perform-arbitrary-transforms), I covered how we can use transformation matrices to perform arbitrary transforms, although it was more about the API than the math.

I felt an interactive representation could help us understand them better.

Basically, a transformation matrix is a 3x4 matrix where:

The last column represents the location of object in global coordinates.
The first three columns each represent the transformed unit vectors of the object’s local coordinates (XYZ from left to right).
But we have a 4x4 matrix. Why do we have an extra row?

The last row is present to ensure the matrix is compatible with matrix multiplication when using homogeneous coordinates, which is a topic for another day. :)

But for now, let’s keep it simple and assume it’s always gonna be (0, 0, 0, 1) and doesn’t affect our transformations.

With that in mind, notice any patterns in video when we perform certain transformations?

Play around the cube in this blend file and see for yourself how various transformations like translation, rotation and scale affect the Transformation Matrix: salaivv.gumroad.com/l/matrix-world-interactive
Well yeah - that's how the legal system works assuming it gets all the way to court. In reality, Meta and OpenAIs lawyers will do a risk evaluation against the strength of the claim and if there's any merit at all there will be a quiet settlement.
I use a recent mingw-w64 with a recent GCC (I'd assume the latest versions could work too) to target Windows 95 (through 11, obviously). I prefer the mxe toolchain to crosscompile from Linux for convenience but do also compile with mingw-w64 on Windows in a VM. mingw.org will probably work too perhaps with a little work. However recently I had to patch mingw-w64 to restore support for Win 95 through 2000, which they'd broken only for the sake of implementing SetThreadName [1].

My experience in general is it's pretty easy to support Windows 95+ as long as you make use of newer APIs optional by dynamically loading symbols, and deal with small issues as they appear. So it helps to have users actually testing occasionally... because I don't.

[1] https://github.com/rversteegen/mxe/commit/aa87b55a77a62d4cff...
But if you make it too easy to share information, less and less of the shared information will be tied to a reasonable belief of a crime.

If it has to be as easy as possible, the oversharing explodes.
Nice work! The most surprising part for me was that your websites says you are 20 years old – so I gotta ask, what was the motivation?

I'm 39, born in 1983, so I have serious nostalgia around Windows 95. I was 12 when it came out, my parents bought a Dell when it was new and those years were very formative for me. I assumed that nostalgia would be the only driver to do this... But you weren't born until ~8 years after it was released. I'm genuinely curious (and impressed!)
When I retire from being a software engineer I somehow want to be involved in this kid of thing. A lot of this is big data processing, finding signals, in large amounts of information. The gravitational wave is another case.
https://fadyio.com
writing about AWS and DevOps stuff
Just to add, it’s included with most shared hosting providers.
How do you decide which equally distant rental place to choose?

It’s a loyalty program. That’s all.
Apparently for a while their internal tech org was a number of fiefdoms with huge number of contractors and no central vision. They have changed that post-bankruptcy, bringing in serious operators in the exec team building the org, product and culture from scratch.they are hiring product, data and ml folks. Please dm me if interested in working on this, happy to connect
From another article on this (https://www.businessinsider.com/att-verizon-abandoned-phone-...):

> According to the EPA, the safety standard for lead levels in the soil where children play is 400 parts per million. Sediment in a Louisiana fishing spot often frequented by local kids was found to have 14.5 times that amount in June 2022, the Journal reported.

> Former EPA official Linda Birnbaum told the Journal its findings "suggest there is a significant problem from these buried lead cables everywhere, and it's going to be everywhere, and you're not even going to know where it is in a lot of places."

That’s over 1/2% lead. That’s absurd. I find it hard to believe that a decaying cable could do that to sediment in a fishing spot unless the sample was dug up right next to a cable.
Anyone want to check if the book in question is in ThePile dataset?:

https://github.com/EleutherAI/the-pile/blob/master/the_pile/...
And yet they were still one of the companies most noted for their onerous 'unpaid bag check' stuff.

At some point you either have to point to their inventory system being a problem, and/or them having a very low trust view of their employees, and it's the customers who get to waste their time as a result.
You're not anymore "the weirdest", You two are unique still though. Share and exchange, and try to support each other. All gonna be good.

I need to learn more where lies the issue with GeoTIFF format. Perhaps "pure conversion" pipeline infrastructure shared between your two projects could help.

If there are two of You, perhaps there are more hitting the same wall.
Sure, and there were 21,421 M&A deals made in 2022.

IPOs are just one of the positive outcomes, certainly the rarest.
Oh yeah, you sure could negate my carma, but imagine what you will say, when these "trembita" will kill American or British civilian in Ukraine.

And unfortunately, it is not much threat for Russian military.

Iran/Russia use so low tech, just because they already under sanctions, and for them additional sanctions will be negligible.

Ukraine totally different case, even brake NATO/EU integration, will kill many Ukrainians, but sanctions will kill Ukraine.
> and really no new apps should be built on it.

You know you don't need to use the new features, you can still build your apps the way you like and gradually adopt stuff you think might be better for you. Many of the new features aren't always aimed at line of business apps but have been added to improve "systems programming" capabilities.

And they aren't taking anything way from you (unless you're jumping from .NET Framework to .NET 5 and beyond, e.g. remoting).
In the before times, I rented with Hertz on three occasions. I was upgraded to a larger vehicle for free. I still can’t tell if it was deliberate or a coincidence.
>> For the male dovetails, it would require mounting the work offset (eg. on a faceplate)
>The government won't touch them.

That's clearly not true, as evidenced by this settlement.
Mathematics behind the new Sphere in Las Vegas
Monkeys aren't algorithms nor computers, so that doesn't seem very relevant.

Let's look at a totally different analogy: compression algorithms.

If I take a digital artist's work which they publish as a png or psd file, and I use some algorithm to convert it to a jpg file, well, I definitely transformed the work in terms of bytes. It's a smaller file, I threw out a lot of data, you can't get the original back.

Yet, this does not change the copyright in any way. A computer applied a rote transformation.

An LLM is really just a very complicated compression algorithm. It takes an input of a bunch of copyrighted works, compresses them into a model, and then uses more algorithms to uncompress them into approximations of the original ("responses")

In the image analogy, an LLM response is similar to upsizing the compressed jpg back into a png (and getting a slightly different image since the process was lossy).

Is there a way that an LLM isn't, legally, a compression algorithm for a large set of copyrighted works?
Interesting: the plaintiffs are represented by Matthew Butterick, who's been on HN for a decade, [1] and whose work on typography [2] comes up from time to time.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mbutterick

2: https://practicaltypography.com/
I don't think so.

Collecting CD would never be as fancy as collecting vinyl, and collecting USB sticks would never be as fancy as collecting CD (unless in some Fallout scenario). The tech world is so... transient.
Citation needed. "Most Apple customers don't know what they want and need expert assistance and guidance."
I'm talking about the fallacy, you know the reason I included the word "fallacy" in the sentence.

You know we're not talking about sports, right?

HN is wild.
This is a very strong statement about an unreleased product in a nascent field. What are you basing it on?
> That's not how people used to do decimal-based versioning.

“Completely arbitrary, utterly inconsistent (across vendors, across products from the same vendor, and even within the same product over time) and often marketing driven” is how people used to do decimal versioning, and any claim to the contrary is romanticizing a very messy past.

The grandparent's description is a perfectly reasonable example of what would actually happen.
Just like nobody actually believes that the Earth is flat. Oh wait...
Not to mention that 3M in a conglomerate and doesn't only make PFAS. This likely wiped out all of their PFAS related profits decades back.
In general, there are also fairly involved formal contracts involved when you rent a car. Quite a few years back, I naively decided to merge a couple of rentals (from the same company, Avis) and in spite of some attempted phone calls and chats it all ended up being a monumental hassle with threatening emails that my first rental hadn't been returned etc. No one knew how to handle.
I am! In fact, I used to work with FPGA, MCUs (I'm toying with ESP32-C2/C3) and (still is working on) kernel programming.
Ignoring that (which we shouldn’t), if the CPU has an IOMMU it can completely isolate the modem from the rest of the system.

(“Completely” here is also ignoring denial of service and side channel attacks, like timing or the sim card.)