skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why are people surprised the private companies find any way to squeeze every penny of profit out of the services they run, it's what they do!

Because companies bullshit their "missions" and "goals" everywhere and repeat after me, PROPAGANDA WORKS. Even if you think it doesn't, it plants a seed somewhere in the back of your head that's very hard to dislodge and clouds your "fully rational decisions".

After hearing from a myriad channels that companies want what's best for the customer, from a myriad authority or friendly famous figures, the average person is convinced they must be right. If you ask them directly they'll agree with you, and then their actions will show the exact opposite.
The tiny town (not village) of Stavoren is fortunate enough to actually have a train station (not to mention a ferry link to Enkhuizen). That it still has a train link is a miracle in itself. A lot of those lines were on a razor's edge in the nineties, and if they had gotten replaced by buses (as was considered even for the larger towns of Harlingen and Franeker) they would have been harmed quite a lot by now (significant loss of tourism and being less attractive to live in).

Try Lollum, Burdaard, or Earnewâld by bus! Similar in population to Stavoren, no train, no dedicated bus line (anymore).
Minimana.io – Browser Action-RPG Made with React Three Fiber
https://archive.ph/NoBGx
Pretty similar idea but for NYC, I also like this one a bit more since it accounts for actual subway stops + walking, etc:

https://subwaysheds.com/stop/g34/classon-av
I must not know how to use it.

My experience is an empty shell of people that only use it when they are looking for a job. The active ones post things that they think will make them look smart, cheap blog posts about “5 management tips”, “is your manager micromanaging you?”, “9 must have resume tools”, stuff like that.

The people that I’m actually interested in have a profile, but never actually use it. Or already got a job and don’t need to open it often, if at all.

The recruiters that reach out are always scammy or offer ridiculous things hoping that if I’m there, I’m desperate. 12/h do it all position, contract, for maybe 2 weeks, maybe 6 months, (doesn’t matter, I’m on the verge of homelessness anyway right?) for a “very important and growing company” that’s not even in the area I’m in.

It always gives me that fake useless vibe. I don’t really know how to turn it into something I actually want to be part of.
Telcos hire vendors to run their networks and services. For them WhatsApp is yet another vendor.
If I've understood what's said about Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', even science is all about consensus.

I'm fond of Max Planck's “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”, or its pithy summary "science advances one funeral at a time."
This has been a big downside for years, I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. Your account has to be tired to a phone number (though you can use voip) and only their mobile apps act as a primary that can register the account.
Every additional form of communication you take part in is a burden to some degree, and depending on the person they may only have the capacity for a handful before it becomes overwhelming. Personally I can handle like 4 forms of primary communication before either further forms become mostly ignored or it starts hurting my ability to communicate with anyone on anything. I can understand that someone, no matter how much they may want to stay in touch, may just be unable to through some forms of communication.
Definitely have never heard anything about that aspect of Japanese culture - thanks for sharing!

I have experienced the bit of "Japanese working folk being willing (or perhaps expected) to commit their lives fully to their jobs", and I wonder if putting your own health on the line comes as a byproduct of that? Definitely not an aspect of the culture I'd try to encourage.
The numbers of inspections from the 20 group were roughly double that of the 10 group...

Isn't it like, the same amount then once compensating for population?

The 5 group re-enforces the volunteer's dilemma's pre-existing conclusions too
I think you can. That’s basically corporate research teams.

The problem with academia is that it’s comprised of people who are held hostage until they find something. Just terrible incentives.
It's infuriating to see such a stupid take bubbled up to the top replies to the top comment on this post.

Why would a singer know what Microsoft Excel is? And how exactly is her response even "pride[ful]" ignorance? She just said she doesn't know what it is and therefore doesn't care about the memes. Which part here is pride in her ignorance of software mostly used in the accounting profession?

I'm not going to say she's a genius, but it's grounded for a person to acknowledge when they don't know what something is and don't give a shit. This thing was an afterthought to a music video for a song she was in. The video is tangential to her actual work. Why should she care? If you're going to call her ignorant and stupid for it, you should be able to explain why she should care about Microsoft Excel specifically when it's presented to her in a flurry of internet memes.

Also, why is she on TV? Because she's the second most famous person who was in Destiny's Child, behind Beyonce. Is TV only supposed to show people of high intelligence? Are "stupid" people actually subhumans who should not be represented on television, the bastion of idiots? Are stupid people actually morally bad and smart people are morally good? I'm so confused about all the things your worldview could imply. It's nonsense.
I'd agree on that about e-mail but honestly wouldn't care for chat, as long as I can keep logs locally.

> 4 is basically having my data stored on a crappy Core2 Duo server under a staircase, managed by a teenager

... isn't 1 the same then ? Aside from teenager part
"Virtue signalling?"
Aside from the occasional lunatic post the feed's been pretty decent for me. A lot of it can be noise but I think the fact that it's kind of basic and doesn't manipulate you into constant engagement is what makes it better - I see a lot of stuff that I might not have come across otherwise rather than being fed content the algorithm thinks I enjoy, and the stuff I post gets decent visibility.

I suppose it's kind of old-skool in a way while also just being there to fill the space with... something. Meanwhile you couldn't pay me to sign up to FB, Twitter, Insta or TikTok.

Overall though - LinkedIn definitely grows in value as your career moves from 'what you know' to 'who you know'.
Oh, yeah, it happens all the time even in TS code. We’re on the same page.
I happened to see one of the brightest shooting stars of my life shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year and it was headed towards the nearest city. I'd be lying if there was a big part of me that thought 'I really hope I don't see a flash in a few seconds'.
this isn't even very remarkable, it's kind of a perpetual ongoing thing with all big banks:

> Six of the nation’s largest banks—Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo—have amassed more than $1 billion in fines in 35 cases in just the last 15 months
How would I go about starting a home wiki of my own?
it's definitely done on purpose by Sony, to have PC grade hardware so they can port their games easily to the PC platform and have a larger install base for the first party titles, which previously only existed on the Playstation. All in all, I see it as a win for end users that they are converging as the software titles are available across multiple platforms. So price competition is very relevant. In a world experience worst inflation in decades, this is a very thin silver lining for sure.
You think science is what the consensus says it is, even if you cannot personally verify it?

If that's it, what exactly is the difference between science and religion?
Can't agree more..It is some UX done right.
I get the sense that you think this approach is inferior, but package managers based on version constraint solvers can't begin to approach the level of automation and reproducibility that exists in functional package managers. Lots of interesting stuff is not done by hand but through transformation with functions.
It may go against the principle, but it is possible to use whatsapp (and others) bridged through matrix.
In a properly functioning organization, a leader takes responsibility for the everything that happens on their watch, not just the successes but the failures as well. Even if an underling actually did something to cause a failure, the supervisor put them in the position where they could cause failure, kept them there, and failed to put into place the precautions to prevent that failure. Obviously many organizations don't work like this, but for success-motivated people it is very draining to work in such an environment, especially for long enough to get to the high levels where you could potentially benefit from its dysfunction.
Had the same issue with built in Archive Utility but I got it to unzip with the app The Unarchiver. The regular font files work but it does say this about all of the Italic font files:

>Could not extract "CommitMono-450-Italic.otf" from the "CommitMono.zip" archive: The archive file is incomplete
>I've read several such LKML threads about bcachefs and while the discussions have been contentious (and Kent could stand to chill out a bit), everyone has been in agreement that they'd like to see bcachefs succeed and be merged. Bcachefs also has plenty of features which ZFS does not, so I don't see why you're so critical.

Only because I've read this story more than a few times before? See: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

>Oracle could relicense ZFS at any time, or make an explicit statement about its legal status. They have not done so after 10 years.

Any legal difficulty remains from the GPL side, and no suit has been brought in the years upon years of the GPL hair shirts screaming about non-compliance. Unfortunately, the GPL hair shirts don't have much (any) credibility on the subject of what the GPL means.

Bring the suit or STFU. I have no patience for armchair legal opinions from people who won't put their money where their mouth is. Stop spreading legal FUD!
Tom Waits claims that crows are "the teenagers of the animal world".

I imagine Magpies are just as impetuous and angsty
I found the experience of the characters to be pretty moving and not irrelevant. Especially the woman who was cheated on repeatedly. Anyway, very fun book in that sooo much is repeated and the symbolicism is very heavy, makes it fun to find the patterns.

If you read a lot of his books they all turn out to be pretty similar imho, but it fit my vibes when I was like 18.

Another book that's great for re-reading is "The master and Margarita", pretty layered in terms of the different experiences you can have reading it.
Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousands of times every month
Always see this sort of pedanticism with topics. Are we gonna start counting the bytes of firmware on all chips on motherboard as well?

Display drivers and firmware of various mcus used in the computer monitor itself?
Looks like it's playing at half the framerate (can confirm this in the preview player). At full 24fps it'd probably be too seizure-inducing.
to be fair it is (mostly) a Rube Goldberg machine designed to keep backend engineers employed.
I think having exclusive distribution rights within geographies is one such usecase for geofencing. This is why Netflix et al may have content available in some zones but not others.
I can't agree with this analogy. This is not a defective user implementation of hashcode; it is a defective platform implementation of equals (and starts with, etc.).
>Did you originally mistype what you meant when you said greater exposure leads to worse outcomes? Because now you’re implying more exposure has the opposite effect.

I guess so. I've never meant to imply greater exposure leads to worse outcomes.

>I would argue my performance wouldn’t be any different than base-82.

Even if that were true and i don't know that i agree, the authors of that paper make no attempt to test in circumstances that might make this true for LLMs as it might for people. So the paper is not evidence of the claim (no basic principles) either way. For example, i reckon your performance on the proceeding 82 test will be better if taken a immediately after than if taken weeks or months later. So surrounding context is important even if you're right.

>What the LLM result you referenced shows is that it is not learning basic principles.

I disagree here and i've explained why.

>You can see this in the relatively recent Go issue; any human could see what the issue was because they understand the contextual reasoning of the game but the AI could not and was fooled by a novel strategy.

You're talking about this ? https://www.zmescience.com/future/a-human-just-defeated-an-a...

KataGo taught itself to play go by explicitly deprioritizing “losing” strategies. This means it didn’t play many amateur strategies because they were lost early in the training. This is hard for a human to understand because humans all generally share a learning curve going from beginning to amateur to expert. So all humans have more experience with “losing” techniques. Basically what I’m saying is, it might be that the training scheme of this AI explicitly prioritized having little understanding of these specific tactics, which is different than not having any understanding.

This circles back to the point I made earlier. Having failure modes humans don't or won't understand or have is not the same as a lack of "true understanding".

We have no clue what "basic principles" actually are on the low level. The less inductive bias we try to shoehorn into models, the better performing they become. Models literally tend to perform worse the more we try to bake "basic principles" in. So presence of an odd failure mode we *think* belies a lack of "basic principles" is not necessarily evidence of a lack of it.

>The points I’ve been making have completely flew over your head to the point where you’re shoehorning in a completely different conversation.

You're convinced it's just "very good pattern matching", whatever that means. I disagree.
>I’ve got a pair of ravens that drop by on occasion to watch television

Damn, you're making me fee lonelier. Can't get any human friends while mfs on HN already have raven friends.
> But... the UX on PowerMac G5 is lot more pleasant and everything feels lot more responsive

Heh, that reminds me of when a friend of mine invited me over to show-off his hand-restored Mac (early-1990s-ish - I think it was a Performa 520 or 575?) and despite the lack of double-buffered graphics there were hardly any painting artifacts but the most striking thing was just how smooth and responsive everything felt - obviously the fact it's a CRT helps a lot.

When the world moved away from computer CRTs to TFTs we also went from 70-85Hz to 60Hz everywhere - and I swear I definitely can "feel" 60Hz vs. 85Hz - so I'm looking forward to monitors gradually shifting towards 120Hz or 144Hz (or higher?) because that definitely helps with responsiveness and snappiness, even with double-buffering and desktop composition.
> Anarcho-capitalists would argue strongly that all 3 of your examples are no different from any other service provided to customers. I've seen them (or sympathetic sci-fi writers) think up all sorts of imaginative scenarios about how that might work.

That's just silly, we've had the anarcho-capitalists perspective in the past, that's how the modern firefighting services were started.

Do you know how they'd work?

Firefighters would come up to your house and ask for half of what was inside in order to extinguish the fire, because there's no free market for desperate people.

Ooooor... they'd do the same to your neighbors, because if they wouldn't extinguish your fire, their house could burn down, too.

Ooooor... they'd set stuff on fire so that they'd have who to blackmail.

Ooooor... you could pay them a constant insurance/protection fee so that they'd actually help. And that insurance/protection fee would become widespread, because who wants their house to burn down?

At which point, why not just distribute the cost to everyone since 99.999% of buildings can burn down, and make it a public service?

Which is where we are now.

Anarcho-capitalists and libertarians are basically people who don't know history and would want to speedrun it with great pain and suffering for everyone, along the way.
Hah, speaking of budgies, I failed to latch the door on my budgie's cage one day and the cheeky little fella figured out he could push it open to escape. We originally found him at a bird feeder outside, so I should have known he was clever enough to escape if he wants.

It's easy to underestimate them with how silly they act, but never again. He gives me green cheek conure a run for his money on intellect.
Our work went DP on all laptops years ago but then didn't add adapters to the projectors or TVs, so everyone complained and then the newest laptops are back to hdmi and usb.

Be smart people!
There's another reason that this is done. It's to separate the different copies of the characters. There are multiple of all of them in every park, but by keeping the sight lines contained like this there can be 9 Mickey's all over and you can never see two at the same time.
Finding it is like those I Spy books.
As someone else in Eastern Europe, 99% of people I know communicate over Messenger, Instagram (if more hip), or Viber (if 40+). I believe that the messaging app situation varies a lot from one city to another or even one "group" to another.
You can totally do that.

You can even run localstack on both machines to have mocks of AWS services that you can use the AWS CLI against.

You can even run Kubernetes on your nodes and run whatever you need on them. Plenty of folks do that; check out the homelab scene.

I personally don't because it costs me $5/mo to run several "serverless" functions via API gateways that communicate through message queues, some on a schedule, host some websites with globally-accessible DNS records and hold a ton of backups for stuff I care about, without me having to do a ton of systems administration to keep the lights on.

(Most of the cost is DNS, actually! Everything else falls within free tier limits. Genius move on AWS's part, as I know AWS well and have recommended it to several large companies; they've made their money from me for sure)

I did that back in the day (ran my own email server). I'd rather do other things with my time now.
Perhaps teaching math in an accessible way is the real challenge. When I was a kid...a looooooong time ago...you were greeted with "Math Problems" on day one. Perhaps a better word than "problem" would attract more devotees.
Depends on what restrictions you mean. The biggest here is vehicle access - BLM lands tend to have lots of service roads/gravel that are open for van-lifers. Around here, it's a lot more backcountry backpacking. But the land is still largely open to the public.
The "employee mentality" as you put it has a lot of upsides. You get paid every month. You don't have to worry all the time about making payroll. Your day starts at 9, and ends at 5, what happens outside those hours is not your problem.

When it all goes tits-up, you just walk away. No responsibilities, no debt. Polish your resume, blame the result on "bad management" and move on to the next gig. Want to go to another country? - quit your job, and buy a ticket. No responsibilities, no debt, no nothing. Just pack your desk and walk away.

By contrast a small business employer (or a one-man-shop) doesn't get to go on vacation, answers the phone day and night, hustles each month just to keep the lights on, risks all their time and assets on uncertain outcomes. They get to work, look at the parking lot, and take on responsibility to make sure all those employees are paid at the end of the month - their families and their creditors are relying on you.

Even in the good times you're the one making decisions, deciding what risks to take, when to spend, when to save. All the while your employees tell you what you're doing wrong. And complain you're getting rich off their labor. While your bank manager refuses you a loan because you're "self employed". And you get to take personal surety for company debts and leases... Oh, and when cash is tight you're first in line to get short-paid.

Who wouldn't want to be a small business owner? It's a barrel of laughs.
Favorite Star Trek Quotes
Any time my side is losing democracy is in peril.
Ok but then aren't you going to get memory fragmentation? If you allocate and then deallocate a billion 1kB objects, you can't then coalesce them to allocate larger units because the generation number locations before each 1kB can't be given back to user code.
That and ESO are under current development under M$ ownership, no? They are my main angers about Bethesda right now.

I played FO:NV and 3, again and again, but everything after it has been a doubled down poor experience
"approximately 25 organizations" using "an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key"

How did an acquired consumer signing key allow them to penetrate 25 organizations?

> token validation issue

wish we knew exactly what that was so we could gauge long-range impact, because the probability is 1 that there are more victims.
Reddit still has millions of people (tens? 100+?) who choose to use and submit content to the site. That's millions of people you can share Jesus Christ with, show love to (esp encouragement / counseling), learn from, collaborate with, and market to. There's so much good happening over there!

To see Reddit as having no value, a person's ideology would have to outweigh all those benefits. If it's a bad business, then all of that value it provides for all of those people wouldn't be worth whatever Reddit asked in return. Most still accept Reddit's terms for what the site offers them in return.

Much of the turmoil was about API fees. I'm happy to pay their fee to do more good for people. It might not have acceptable cost-benefit for everyone's use, though. I can definitely imagine better ways to do it for sure. That might include free blocks of or discounted calls to the API for OSS developers, academics, and Reddit Gold members (even if only 100-1000 for personal use). As an I.P.O.-focused startup, I accept that they're going to do what's good for their bottom line.

Let's say you want the situation to improve. For such companies, you can try to propose to decision-makers suggestions like above that increase value to everyone (including them!) with low or no extra cost. That's speaking their language. For avoiding harmful lock-in, people can (a) avoiding putting critical data in for-profit services or (b) keep backups of their data off-site in form OSS software can easily host. You can get a free copy of your Reddit data, too, at the link below:

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004304835...
What's the pedestrian experience like now compared to before?
1 to 4 pcie splitters are $10-20. In case of laptop you can use https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004873201793.html