skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but capitalists have all the guns. Not directly, but the hired guns (police, military), work for the capitalists.

In fact, if you watch The Rules for Rulers, there’s the possibility of turning the entire world into a 3rd world corrupted structure: a few people at the top enjoying the riches of full automation, a few more people with guns to protect them from the unwashed masses, and everyone else.

If democracy really comes from the fact that we need everyone’s labour to make a country, we may actually lose it as automation makes most of us economically irrelevant. We need an alternative before the window closes. If we’re lucky it won’t ever close, but to be honest I won’t bet on it.
But that's not what you were actually implying.
At a colleague's company it receives better customer support user feedback than 80% of their human live chat staff, and 30% less churn. It also costs 98% less.
But not as reliably. Especially the Chromecast.

Paying extra for reliability is absolutely worth it.
Hope this takes down good reads
The alternative is places where people congregate. Google used to be a great place to find relatively objective information, but being ad driven it’s all gone to commercial advertising. Word of mouth (IE searching with “[…] Reddit”) gives far better information.
The amount of corpo brainwash in the comments is amazing: "If it's so important... jump through a hoop... and another... and another".

Fact remains - Google is unique in its constraint. It gives no added value over competitors. Why accept?
If your friend can afford that, it's honestly none of your nor our business to tell her how to spend her money.

If your friend can't afford that, why is the problem Uma Musume and not your friend? We could regulate gacha games into extinction, but that only means your friend will just find another avenue to spend $700 dollars of unaffordable money in.

If anything, I would at least take solace in the fact your friend isn't spending her money on things that would matter of factly cause tangible harm like drugs and alcohol instead.
Retired dentist's bird's-eye view of Australia from his homemade jet aircraft
Yeah I'm also curious
The FDA part is indeed expensive, and is a major part of the cost in what I do too (medical devices, hardware), but often these molecules are the result of decades of research. It's not really the case, the FDA part is hard, and takes years, but the molecule part often is even harder and takes even longer, costing even more.
In this metaphor, Ableton Live would be bought by Gibson and immediately end of lifed.
Coutts' 40-page dossier on closing Nigel Farage's bank account in full
https://archive.is/GuEu2
The problem is that writing abstractions in C is more difficult than virtually any other practical language.
Yes you can live without it. But you'll be missing you whole lot of jobs that are "linkedin only" in the form of posts, DMs and people spontaneously discovering your profile and reaching out.

Some people will be fine finding jobs without it, a lot won't be that fortunate.
Just like they faced scrutiny when bundling IE. Microsoft has been at the monopoly game again forever since the restrictions expired, with bundling and pumping up their inferior OneDrive, HyperV, Teams, Edge and Bing products.

They don’t care and the EU will not impress either them or me unless instead of shaking fists they actually act: break up Windows, Office, browser, hardware and services, forced opening of any API used by another part, permanent bans on any kind of bundling, permanent vigilance and enforcement with mega fines and product bans.

But that is just never going to happen. The EU only actually acts against parties that don’t talk back and Microsoft will drag this out until they slither out underneath and the EU will find an excuse why they ‘let this one slip’. Because they are totally dependent on and addicted to Microsoft.
The main reason is that hiring a bunch of new developers will be 100x more expensive than spending a little extra on a Windows/x86 machine.
Does anyone have resources or links on this topic? I was not succeeding in finding it being discussed on the open web. Is there a term for it that I need to know?
The pandemic showed that in a lot of countries government could just suspend basic human rights handing out house arrest to innocent people and get away with it.
Didn't murder or rob nobody and was serving a a bigger "prison sentence" for free.
The pandemic wasn't prevented and the goverement didn't get guillotined for locking up people and failing to achieve a justifiable goal.
One LFI bypass to rule them all (using base64)
I noticed stable diffusion's CEO made a similarly fantastical claim, @13:33, "41 percent of all code on GitHub right now is AI generated" [0]

Some redditors put together where the claim came from, it's a bad interpretation of Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, should be "40% of code checked in by users of github co-pilot" [1][2]

[0] https://youtu.be/ciX_iFGyS0M

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/14qwhem/how_does_gi...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/events/FY-2023/Morg...
| I was successful in getting the companies to use a lightweight, elegant, user-friendly, not-Salesforce CRM

Can you please name these softwares?
I’m sorry, I can’t understand your English. Would it be a terrible idea if you really spelled it out for me what you’re saying or used your native language and I’ll Google Translate it. Thanks! :)
Yes, but then again, it is a Chinese company, so all bets are off.
I remember when there hadn’t been an update to Netscape in a long time (years? Maybe). People were taking advantage of vulnerabilities left and right. You would use literally any other browser if given the chance. They “lost” the browser wars because they stopped updating the browser that got them there in the first place. Firefox didn’t come along for quite awhile…
Do you per chance have some recommendations on where to start with Newton’s biography? The aspect you mentioned really interests me, but I may not be into reading through all his life.
My favourite is Castella a type of speciality cake from Nagasaki. Castella means Castilian and it is the cake you can buy in pretty much every bar in Spain. Brought to Japan 400 years ago by the Portuguese and now a local speciality.
There is the question of why does pressure rise that much? It seems that there is no pressure control behind the pumps. So that is to say, they use powerful pumps in some kind of open-loop operation, where the pressure is controlled by the lack of impedance to flow.

It's as if, in electronics, we used a power supply with an insanely high unloaded voltage, and then just relied on that voltage dropping to an acceptable level due to system load. Then if the load is too low due to an open circuit, the voltage rises, and fries something that is powered from the same node.

Why not control all the pumps so that the maximum pressure that can exist in the system is well within the capacity of the pipes and cisterns, even if everything plugs up.
You still need enhanced tracking protection for cookies.
The board game Diplomacy is the classic example of multiplayer competition, where there is explicit negotiation of alliances and the possibility of trust and betrayal at every turn.

P.S. Recent success with AI for Diplomacy at DeepMind:

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/ai-for-the-board-game-diplomac...
It was called Phoenix. It was renamed to firebird later.
Async Rust does definitely work for non-toy use cases. As a data point, we use Embassy for all production firmware at my startup (https://akiles.app/en), using async tasks for everything: Bluetooth, TCP/IP networking, motor control, user interface (LEDs, keypad), a key-value database in flash, stats collection... Async helps with battery life too since it allows putting the core to sleep when no task has work to do, it allows us to build devices with 1-2 years of battery life.

There's other companies using Embassy in production. Sadly firmwares are usually not open source. There's a few non-toy open-source projects using Embassy though:

- https://github.com/nviennot/turbo-resin

- https://github.com/ivmarkov/ruwm

- https://github.com/dkhayes117/propane-monitor-embassy

(disclaimer: Embassy maintainer, Akiles CTO here)
Let's put it that way, the will is never sheer. Looks like the will pushed Kevin to deal with it and relentlessly look for solutions (and put his money to use) instead of succumbing to it. If so, then in the end obviously it's his will that helped him score a win against cancer.
That sounds like they mean the default pronunciation, and those are pretty clear.

C and G have some ambiguity, but they didn't include C and it should be obvious that G is not going to be the same as J.

> There's a reason humans invented the IPA.

99% of people can't use IPA without an example chart.

But also: "Each letter matches its International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation with the exception of J, which is the English /dʒ/."
The WLCSP Lattice FPGAs are waiting for you! Only 2€ a pop for 1k LUTs!
Bond over gRPC appears to have been deprecated.
https://github.com/microsoft/bond/issues/1131
But there's also a down side.
You are obviously right but the question is still valid. They are using git and a deleted file is a one command away, so why keep the file but fully commented?

IMO this highlights further bad engineering culture.
varanda, kapitan exists in my language ( Malayalam ) as well, with same meaning and origin.
Also vada pav , which is a beloved food in Mumbai also uses pav , which comes from pão, bread in Portugese.

Interesting such a small small country had such a worldwide impact
Economist is nothing but full of crap these days. No one in their right mind would think that China would be friends with anybody let alone India which is the biggest democracy
Promoting the idea that vaccines cause autism is more that sufficient to be a nut-job. This isn't a "baseless ad-hominem attack", this is well-known about this fruitcake. And that's just one of the insane conspiracy theories he pushes.
Indeed. But a big reason for this is that the homogenizing nature of the union they're in, focuses on getting more people into the writing room, and giving them more minimum baseline pay, and completely ignores the concept of people building names for themselves, standing out, so they feel they have the creative freedom to experiment and truly express themselves. And for studios to entrust them with greater risks.

Writers will never admit they drove themselves into that hole. Bargaining individually against large corporations was indeed not tenable, but the way this union is run, they're victims of it just as much as victims of the studios.

This is why studios rely so much on existing IP. Among the writers no one stands out. But if you lean on existing book, game, comic, you lean on something that stands out, so it has audience and apparently made an impression because it has quality.

Imagine if directors had a union that operated like the WGA.

1. Every movie must have a director's room of at least 10 people.

2. They should get minimum this much pay per year.

3. The director's room hired must match a diverse profile of genders and races as this formula says.

And so on. You can literally see in this how we'd never get a Christopher Nolan, or a Quentin Tarrantino, or a Scorcese, or Paul Thomas Anderson. Some of the best scripts out there were a vision of one person. WGA actively sabotages this, as they thrive on having more members and this requires more of their people hired per project. When you say "PRODUCED BY" or "DIRECTED BY" it means something, while "WRITTEN BY" rings hollow, which is why it's rarely ever in marketing. Absurd, but a fact.

You hire a room of "little people" propped up by a union contract, and they feel like they're there to do what the studios tell them, not as artists that own the project, but just employees. On top of that they need to juggle a script with their colleagues each of whom pulls the story in different "diverse" directions, until everything unique and specific is torn apart and only the most homogenous and bland elements remain.

And of course the result is mediocrity. WGA actively forces through their contract higher entropy in scripts. This is how high entropy looks: something that's homogenous, has a little of everything, doesn't stand out, blends with the environment (cultural in this case) and has no potential to make an impact.
Every type of cancer is different. I think that if you're young enough and lucky enough to have avoided close dealings with terminal cancer, you might be fooled into thinking that the are all kinds of new treatments that can cure you if you get diagnosed. But what you eventually realise is that every cancer is different. Some are treatable, and others are an extremely aggressive and don't respond to anything. My sister's ovarian cancer made itself known in March, was officially diagnosed in early April and she was gone by September. It did not slow down for anything. On the other hand an old boss of mine was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer and lived 4 years, eventually choosing to end his treatment because he'd just be dragging out a final two painful weeks into 6 painful months. And then there are the lucky ones that get a lump removed and never hear from it again.
Mobx had one thing going for it -- it let you update your neighbor easily. But now Reacts useExternalStore achieves that cleanly with about 100 lines to wrap it in a cute API.

The proxy stuff I don't trust. Burned me once, never again.
SigNoz (YC W21): Open-Source Observability Platform – Is Hiring DevRel Engineers
Yes there seems to be a trend! Way behind the number of LLM-related startups, but still quite a large group within the current batch
Reasons to teach what we teach (2010)
For those who are curious ...
Scaling up also takes up a lot of resources so you're never able to scale up in response to load without hosing your database even more.
The three levels of confidential computing – what do they protect?
Maybe deploying a train load of commodore 64s would work.
It's worth mentioning that gachapon is enjoyed by people of all ages young and old, including kids. Yes, kids. It's "gambling", spending money for a chance at obtaining something, but gachapon is just a part of ordinary life in Japan.

Combined with more serious forms of gambling like horse racing (keiba) and pinball (pachinko), there simply isn't a stigma against gambling like there is in the west.
Cilium vs. Calico vs. Flannel
I'm definitely not judging, I also spend too much money on stupid things and we're friends - we commiserate about it.

I just meant it as a concrete example of how the parasocial marketing tactics GP mentioned in these games get people to spend way more than they had planned to (or that you even could spend in "classic" games)
I think it's your english that is at issue here today. Try a little harder. :)
And it's great for a team of thousands. Speaking from experience.
‘The best blueberry’: how a tiny North American fruit took over Australia (2022)
It is so frustrating when everyone is working hard to raise money for research to see it pissed away like this. I just saw a commercial for an upcoming cancer charity show put on by celebrities and I got really angry.
Netflix password crackdown fuels subscriber surge
There is simply zero value in TIOBE. At least use redmonk (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2... ), it is also not without fault, but it doesn’t have obvious bullshit like what you are mentioning (TIOBE once listed goddamn visual basic ahead of javascript.. completely braindead).
Sorry about that, it's not an intentional dark pattern, just the result of a very short timeline to build this. I've just created an issue to prioritize this soon: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/issues/774

We are trying to be conscious about data privacy too (e.g. no tracker or third-party cookie on our website)
China’s meatier,fattier diet is impacting its health,food security,& environment
Translation: they should call anything with in app purchases a gambling app.

The pay once titles are video games.
I’m guessing the people writing about this are against the other things too, though?
I installed Sidebery and just switched from TST to Sidebery, it kept whole tree structure and there's easily accessible option (from Sidebery's top menu) to switch back to TST.

The only problem so far I have with Sidebery is that it hasn't scrollbar on the left like TST but it seems that it's available in beta and should be included in new version.

So far I'm happy with it, I like how the text color on tabs is fading with time so you can see which tabs you visited recently.
Amid Crackdown, Reddit Lowers User Requirements to Take over a Subreddit
AI apocalypse is more likely than nuclear apocalypse
https://archive.is/NGDoZ
> I take it you've never used an application that hot-reloads plugins?

Used and implemented many times. Sometimes this could be a problem, but IME most plugin architectures I've seen don't rely on static constructors or destructors for implicit registration/deregistration of callbacks. Among other reasons, it's a landmine of multi-threading issues and glibc itself has historically had many bugs related to this, albeit mostly a consequence of glibc implementing (until recently) libpthread separate from libc.

Also, POSIX does not guarantee that dlclose does anything: "An application writer may use dlclose() to make a statement of intent on the part of the process, but this statement does not create any requirement upon the implementation."

> Who cares about memory leaks, right?

I can't find the blog post now, but IIRC Solaris made getenv thread-safe by never deallocating any memory allocated for the environ array or its contents. The blog post had a curious and memorable defense which explained how the memory usage was asymptotically bounded, similar to how hash table operations are described as asymptotically O(1) in time. And Solaris cares very much about memory management--unlike Linux or FreeBSD it implements strict memory accounting, so no OOM killer non-sense.

Is it ideal? No. But these are legitimate decisions taken in light of lots of experience, and if you want to write truly robust applications one has to pay attention to standards, implementation details, and best practices. IME best practice wrt module systems on Unix and the open source world generally has always been to avoid implicit registration/deregistration of callbacks. I believe the same is true in the Windows world, though I've never written much software for Windows. (Anyone know if FreeLibrary immediately invokes static destructors?)

FWIW, I have implemented hacks which relied on static constructors and where hot reloading was more problematic in the absence of static destructors. For example, I once implemented a proof of concept for automatic runtime reloading of SSL certificates and keys in the Splunk server by writing a library interposer (supporting FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Solaris) that installed global OpenSSL SSL_CTX callbacks. So I know why these things could be useful. But that example was a PoC hack. And even in situations where dlcose is supported as one might naively expect, you can still easily run into similar gotchas, like a user loading a module twice under different names. You have to choose either to deal with it the hard way, or disclaim support for such niche cases.
I 2nd this, minus Salesforce being hard to customize. It's probably too customizable.

At a certain stage of a company, sales reps expect Salesforce. So much so, that even when we finally caved and got it, I had reps specifically turn off Lightning and stick with Classic mode. It's like Bloomberg - it's what they know and can move fast in.

As much as it pains me to say this, it may make sense to have an option that can mirror the Salesforce UI vs reinventing the wheel. Or maybe even an integration / escape hatch to migrate everything off of Salesforce to this. Basically, if you want reps to adopt it, make it close as possible to what they know.
MSX-DOS
Was eating Canadian blueberries today as they're in season, and thought to read a little about blueberries and found this article discussing the super-sized Australian blueberries that were going around social media in recent years.
Wired story about the origin of the cards: https://www.wired.com/2007/06/lock-pick-busin/ (I looked it up because I thought they looked like some cards someone I knew designed, and sure enough…)
Are you using the Nano Developer Kit or some third-party for-production version? I'm asking because my understanding was always that the Dev Kit is not meant for constant use / sustained load.
Unfortunately, it really only works ergonomically at Google, because you need the global protodb and a proto-aware SQL dialect to make it usable for humans, and you need proto-aware indexing to make the retrieval speed usable for machines if you ever query by the contents of a proto field. Externally, the closest I've been able to get is using JSON-encoded protos as values, but that comes with its own problems.
Curious to know how many macroservices or monoliths LinkedIn has currently
And it's depressing that so many people have given their phone numbers to OpenAI.
I think it's two sides of the same coin. Demand for medical imaging is not necessarily the same as demand for human radiologists. One radiologist can service 2 or 3 hospitals thanks to the internet, and "AI" is getting better at radiology too. Human-AI Augmentation is happening right now.

When steam drills were becoming the norm I'm sure some mining firms were struggling to hire human diggers too.
Hashi for chopsticks I believe.
Another example of the ever-worsening quality of Google's search results. It's pathetic that they now suck at their core business.
"The brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things" - Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
What's the purpose of call centers now?

1) Solve problems that are not solvable elsewhere

2) People who won't go for easier ways of solving their problem, which I think is the majority of cases (you know, because of boomers, and why wouldn't you waste money with "dial 1 for..." menus if not because of that)

3) (not in all cases) push BS scams, etc

Call center workers are often too stressed out and the work environment is awful. Frankly I'm not sure people shouldn't want more automation here
How is it different from Google's protobuf?
> As I mentioned previously, computerized medical imaging has caused demand for radiologists to go down

And as I said in my reply, this isn't true.
that's incredibly simplistic and lacking in empathy.

there are people with serious psychological disorders such that they can't control negative impulses and behaviors. Some people are born or develop an empathy void, but they are still human beings. Yes, we need to make sure they don't harm others, but pissing on them doesn't help you or anyone else, so why do it? All men are created equal, judge not lest ye be judged, ChristianGeek.

"Judgement is Mine." - Your Friend
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Related. Threads has lost half of its daily active users a week after launch - 2023-07-18 (53-comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36766734
I recently re-read Scott Aaronson essay about big numbers and I can just say it's pretty cool

https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
With the upcoming Metaverse era, I see media taking a whole new dimension!(pun intended)
Although I feel the AI era will change the type of media we consume. I will be a lot of the human connection between the creator and the consumer rather than just the value from the content.
Important ruling about Howey test in case “SEC vs. Ripple Labs”
The Skill of Capital
One wonders if Yelp could just run on a basic Postgres setup. It's not too much data, the data is relatively unimportant and the traffic is modest and mostly from US. How do the setups get so complicated?
I didn't say it was a glaring issue. But, unnecessary cognitive burden on the reader is unacceptable.

> Have you actually done code reviews professionally?

Yes, I did.