skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stress "anti-competitive"/"antitrust" perspective. For those in the US - an ancillary buzzword for some districts you could go as far as label this as "one further step towards <insert your flavor of "Communism"/"Socialism"/"Fascism", regardless if it actually applies or not(crony capitalism via favoritism is more apt but less likely to pique interest in said districts)>"
And as if by magic, this just in from Google by email:

Dear AdSense Publisher,

On 30 August 2023, Google will update Shocking content in the Google Publisher Restrictions to include an exception for gameplay imagery. In the context of gameplay imagery, content is only considered to 'contain gruesome, graphic or disgusting accounts or imagery' or 'depict acts of violence' if it depicts acts of torture, sexual violence, violence against minors, violence against prominent real-name persons or violence against an individual or group on the basis of a characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalisation.

...
This isn't as good of a thing as you think. Instead of focusing on finding out the scope of the compromise and making sure the threat actors are contained and can't easily compromise again, incident responders will ger pressures to focus on answering questions about who gets notified. They should be given enough time to thoroughly respond to it and then notify everyone that needs notifying.

Having to dedicate resources to scour through compromised data for pii instead of for forensic evidence before you even contain/eradicate a threat only helps threat actors. The public does not benefit from bad or inefficient incident response.

I am sure HN crowd will get that this isn't something you can just throw manpower/bodycount at either to get a faster response. It takes as long as it has to take.
Europe: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/eur/europe/life-expect...

USA: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life...

I'm sure there are nuances but according to this particular source European life expectancy went from 75 to 79, US life expectancy went from 78 to 79 with a period of a decline between 2013 and 2018.
and Smalltalk ;-)!
Oh man, I wouldn't personally recommend switching to teams if the chat functionality is the majority of your use for it. The paradigm of chat on teams is a very different experience. Calls are pretty good though.

I will also say, teams may actually be better aligned for business use given two reasons, threads promote conversation focus, and threads also make me not want to post idle thoughts. A lot of slacks devolve into chatter, making a thread for a minor thought doesn't feel right. Upside, less idle chit chat, downside lots of things probably go unsaid and it's a less communal feeling.
experiencing issues in South Africa
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36753161
What are programmers, labourers or artisans? What are managers?
Chromium intent to ship: enable back/forward caching despite 'no-store'
When everyone with a job could afford a car public transportation became the refuge of the lowest society has to offer: homeless and students.

But then in the 1990s traffic became so bad that everyone in European and Asian cities was forced back into the trains and subways. This never happened in the US because its too rural.
> This would benefit from being further from the metal.

How, exactly, is that a good thing?
Greater problems is not what I have in mind it's biology. Such things as fatty liver and then cirrhosis. Alcohol tolerance is just the tip of that iceberg. The phrase "alcohol tolerance" belies its powerful meaning.
The authors probably didn't meant it, but this is surprisingly realistic of math geniuses (see stories of Grothendieck Prime and Weyl in the following thread)

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/6358/story-of-grothe...
I surfed near rivers and storms drains my whole life and never had an issue, YMMV.
Yeap, that’s the case. Pix is awesome, but is being used to scam people all around the country. Our Central Bank is trying to tackle this issue since with new features, such as limiting transaction at night (when kidnapping is more common) and, soon, new disputing mechanisms.
US judge tightens Sam Bankman-Fried's bail, will consider jailing him
Maybe you should ask the Native American tribes who died of smallpox what “scientific” basis there is for being afraid of foreigners?

I know you are going to say that’s not the case in the modern world, but you need to at least understand there are very concrete reasons why xenophobia evolved, and why it’s a natural reaction. Some might not be relevant in the modern world, but I’d argue there’s a lot of complexity that we might not understand.

For example, there are some extremely intolerant immigrants to Europe right now, 100% of whom in London polled as wanting homosexuality criminalised.

Should everyone be 100% accepting of this because they are foreigners? Is xenophobia justified in this case in your opinion?
except for the autistic crazy who just somehow knows

but I haven't seen that movie in many years, so I don't remember what he knows

but the actual test was 9 digits? (if i recall well)

I 'memorized' the first 31 primes! why? I'm not sure; but
I know how I did it, I don't know what it means tho
> This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive to teach said new developers all those underlying concepts

That's what I said.

Furthermore, let's be pragmatic. The operations team needs to know, yes. We want new hires to contribute and feel productive. They'll naturally learn while working on software. A junior person can contribute almost immediately with a limited surface knowledge.

Less friction: no need to understand systemd/upstart/rc what have you, /etc, /opt, /usr, mount, umount, differences between various distros, build-essentials, Development Tools, apt, dpkg, rpm, dnf, ssh keys, ...

The right time will come but give them an easy way in. Containers provide exactly that.

All they need to know: it's somewhat isolated so under normal circumstances whatever you do in the container doesn't affect the host, how to expose ports, basics of getting your dependencies in, volumes, basic understanding of container networks - for things to talk to each other they need to be in the same network. Enough to start.
The MIC is a conspiracy theory?

Imagine this then...the term was popularized by a multi-star military general who was also a POTUS. Eisenhower didn't know what he was talking about?

Remember: They lied about WMDs, but you don't think they'd stage a balloon incident? You're naive.

I *do* know what to tell you...stop making eveything you don't want to understand a "conspiracy theory." Life isn't that simple.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y&pp=ygUzZWlzZW5ob3d...
u-24tb1.112xlarge in us-east-1 is $218.40/h and you can dispose of it after a few minutes of use. Does AWS physically throw away the hardware?
Frankly I can foresee reduced online participation on places like Stack Overflow. Why would anyone help train AI, that employers are eager to replace you with, without getting anything in return?

The “work together with AI” is just a transitional phrase. The endgame is to completely replace the employee.
It's possible that they not only reached it, but spread across both American continents before Europeans arrived.
Ask HN: How to have impact as engineering manager to a senior engineering team?
Hello HN,

My company recently did a re-org, and shuffled people around. The project I've been working on (as EM) was paused, and I was put into the core company product. Half of my team stayed the same people, but the other half are the existing engineers who worked on the core product for a long time, and they're also very senior engineers.

I'm always tried to be a hands-on manager. One that could usually jump in, and do code reviews when necessary, or deal with incidents, the same way a senior engineer would. But also establishing trust, and letting people to take ownership over various parts they were interested in. This is sadly not possible in my current situation, though. I lack a lot of the context, and there are a lot of skeletons in the code & infra to worry about (making it more difficult to jump in, and propose changes).

The bottom line is that the engineers around me have way more context than I do. Not just about the engineering side, but also the product in general, and ways of working (there are multiple teams working on the core product). Which is fine with me for the onboarding period. I'm learning new things every day, and slowly progressing. But I'm left wondering how can I have a positive impact on the team, especially in this transition period.

Would anyone here have any advice? Something that worked (or didn't work) for you either as an engineering manager, or even as a senior engineer with a manager who lacked the technical understanding of what you were building, but still was a great manager to you.

TLDR: Company did a re-org, and I ended up in a team of senior engineers while having very little context of the infra & product. What's the best way to have a positive impact on the team in the short & the long term?
Tips [XFCE Wiki]
1) There's a "No" button in this dialog. It allows you to opt out from detailed data sharing, and you can still use the plugin.
2) In the next plugin update, we'll make it so that the detailed data sharing prompt is shown only in EAP builds of the IDE, and detailed data sharing is never enabled in release builds.
congress controls the budget, not the presidential administration. It is very common in US politics to have split branches (Republican president with Democrat control of the congress and vice versa) with only very brief periods where a single party controls both branches. I think the conclusion you can come to when looking at deficit spending by congressional control is neither party is fiscally responsible in the last 40 years.
Google Public DNS has enabled case randomization globally
Lol, imagine how confused people will be. They will think that there is a mistake somewhere when infact this guy rightfully owned the username username!
the attestation requirement increases the cost but also increases the value of the spam as the spammers competitors are put out of business
I am Parisian. Please enlighten me where those places are so I don't go. /s
If I were you I'd try to add some friction to that process. Make it harder to access work stuff during vacation, it should help to decrease the bad habit.
Maybe we have different teams configs, it definitely has threads. Chats do not have threading, but teams/channels only have threads. At least on our install.
You are not fixing the issue in the dynamic context of a running program. Doesn't matter in this trivial example but is very noticeable when you have a loaded DB cache and a few hundred active network connections.
> Any kind of digital National ID is a privacy disaster in itself…

Ah, ha!

The PR spin necessary to kill this in the US would be to connect it national ID. I hadn’t thought of that.

A narrative about national ID with some vague “mark of the beast” insinuation thrown in and suddenly a large political faction who otherwise would care about this would be opposed. I like it.
Do you have to, or FOMO?
There’s no tax on transactions between individuals by default. When dealing with business, banks can charge a small tax from business side only, but most banks waive this fee for competitive reasons.

Pix is so well designed and nice to use that sometimes I wonder how it exists. It’s one of those futuristic things we could only dream about a few years ago.
I'd expect world leaders to be more vocally opposed at having their citizens' (and their own) freedom being singlehandedly restricted by an american company that seems to have huffed authoritarian paint fumes.
Absolute Unit NNs: Regression-Based MLPs for Everything
If the result of making hardware inexpensive is people getting careless about damage that's a loss imo.
They probably died of food poisoning.
Lost Album of the Week: Audience's The House on the Hill
Depends on your network I guess, netsplits were daily on some nets.
It doesn’t adjust to my screen size. So in portrait mode I have sentences with 80 characters per line that are 5 points wide.

That’s barely possible to read on a high dpi screen, but fairly uncomfortable.
Here's the post explaining their decision:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...

The main reason being stated as:

> Exiting this space allows us to refocus on products that build on our core strengths: knowledge reuse and building communities at scale.

A year has passed and I'm not sure what progress have we seen on the "knowledge reuse" and "building communities" front.

The post has this quote from the CEO:

> We are realigning the Talent business to focus more on customer employer branding and company awareness needs, and moving away from job slots and direct hiring. This will tie the product closer to what we offer through Stack Overflow Advertising [...]

The article linked by OP (related to generative AI) has this quoute, on the other hand:

> There's definitely a question around how we leverage [generative AI] technology to deliver on our mission of helping build technology through collective knowledge. This intersection between the power of community on one side and AI on the other side—from my standpoint, human-generated community content has taken us to this level, we have a large impact, but there are also so many problems we can solve by leveraging this technology.

Reading these CEO's quotes filled with words like "realigning" and "leveraging" makes him sound like a typical MBA executive (yes, he's a Harvard MBA) who thinks that the same rules can be applied to a business in any industry. All while completely ignoring the feedback of a business's users/customers.
What mechanics and filters are you referring to? They don't seem to be at all effective.
Yeah, that's the perfect symbol of what's wrong...

"Our river is so dirty, it's too dangerous to swim in there. Let's build a swimming pool into the river!"
The UBI argument seems fundamentally flawed - things like food-stamps or free social housing make more sense.

Let me give you an example: If the government offers anyone buying a house an incentive of $10K, every house asking price will go up by $10K and wipe out the discount. The relative/competitive nature of the market opposes many en-mass pay-outs.
It's so hard to say, really.

I traveled extensively across the USA on Greyhound, Amtrak, car, and motorcycle, over maybe a decade. The America I saw on those trips felt so different from the America of living in SF as an engineer, or living in Houston as a student, or watching a tv show or movie set in America.

When I read Hunter S, or watch a Callaghan video, I think of those trips. Hari Kunzru said that Hunter S "makes himself ugly to expose the ugliness he sees around him," and I think that puts it well. My chief takeaway from my trips across middle America is that America is ugly. It's thousands of miles of freeway with towns dependent on the local mcdonalds and gas station stamped around it. It's trailer parks and fentanyl and painkiller addiction. It's isolation, boredom, malnutrition, anger, untreated disease. It's violently masculine. It's unhinged conspiracy and functional illiteracy.

When I watched Callaghan's Q conference video: https://youtu.be/KYKOLwt8pwo all I could think was "holy shit I met every one of those people." Not actually, it's just, so many people I met on my travels were like that.
Millions of developers cried out in relief & freedom.
counting the days until literally any regulatory body rips this awful joke of a company apart so they can stop pouring poison into the world
Sadly, this feels exactly like what working in big tech has been like for me. It amazes me that after so many years of these types of problems that in 2023 a team can have a bus factor of 1 across the entire team, with requirements often being one sentence in a Slack message or a Jira ticket with zero context that says "do this".
Huh, I had to start paying them $2 more for my nonexistent PC I think, but otherwise was fine. I have only 1 TB of total storage on that PC though, so maybe that’s the reason.
Alice registers as a merchant and has her friend Bob pay her a large amount of money using a UPI enabled credit card. Neither Alice nor Bob paid any transaction charges. Alice sticks the money in a high interest bank account and returns the money to Bob after 30 days along with half of the interest she earned. Bob pays off his credit card bill before the due date and therefore isn't charged any interest. Alice and Bob have made money out of thin air.
You’re misinformed. Brazilian income tax is progressive. In your example, 20% tax would be applied only to the 1k of 31k.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
Good point. Also Liberal != progressive. progressive policy in the last 20 years has in no way championed ideals of individual rights and free enterprise, and they have curtailed certain civil liberties (speech and self defense).

The hallmark of traditional liberal ideals are now mainstream conservative thought (at least in the US). That is why you see a lot of people saying they are 'classical liberal' when describing their political beliefs.
> That's like claiming color has no physical concept, because wavelengths vary continuously, and our language about color doesn't perfectly match the underlying physical reality.

The problem with the American concept of “race” is the idea of dividing humanity into a small number of categories (five or six), with very arbitrary boundaries - the US government officially considers Afghans to be “White” but Pakistanis to be “Asian” - so two Pashtuns who look rather similar, but whose ancestors come from opposite sides of the border, are different “races”, according to mad Uncle Sam

Now, if you want to defend the idea of humanity as biologically divided into different “descent groups” - I think that may be more defensible, but we will end be up with hundreds of groups not just five or six - groups such as Sicilians, Welsh, Cantonese, Yoruba, Zulu, Ashkenazim, Navajo, Pitjantjatjara, Pashtuns, Malays, Tamils, Punjabis, Bedouins, Berbers, etc - not “White” or “Black” or “Asian”
I'm in SE Canada a region called The Maritimes and supposedly there is evidence of Vikings visiting here. I'm West of Newfoundland but also an island. But Nova Scotia and even Maine in the US may have been visited by Vikings.
Apple ordered to pay £785M in damages to U.K. app store devs
WordPress Playground lets you run WordPress in the browser
WordPress Playground is a sandboxed environment that lets developers try new things. It runs a WordPress instance directly in the browser without having to mess around with a server.
99% of websites are not insanely popular development environments. vscode.dev, for example, takes up the full browser width.
Look up pictures of the Star Wars (Holiday) Special and compare that to furry cons. Next type the words "furry con" in the search bar (google or bing) and see the suggested continuations. Make your own conclusions.
Yes, because it’s monumentally wrong. See my comment above.
Consider a city, paying two gardeners 25k each per year, and an extra 5k for two month. Spending is 55k+oil+chemicals+tool maintenance (that the gardeners usually do). Let's say the annualized cost is 75k. So this service contributions to GDP is 75k.

Now, the city wants to show GDP/capita growth. Simple : let's pay a company X that will pay the gardeners. It'll cost 95k. Now the GDP is 95k+ 55k (let's say the gardeners are on the same pay and have the same work). But wait, maintenance can be done by the company Y! Now the GDP is 95k+55k+20k (maintenance fixed cost 10k+worker time 7k+ 3k profit). But wait, now during winter, our gardeners have nothing to do! That eat into our profits!

Now the GDP is 95k + 50k (what is paid to the temp company)+20k+45k, and gardeners are both paid 20k/year gor this job, and can do other stuff during winter (I hear a repair shop need temp workers during inter to fix gardener tools).

The GDP grew from 75k to 160k, a bit more than 100% growth, and we optimized the economy as now gardeners can keep specializing and do gardener stuff during winter instead of learning about motors and mechanics. Great!
Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough
> A closed canal system (with proper tubes) would be safe, no dirt (street dirt, mostly dog shit) could overspill on heavy summer rains into the canals and river

There is a logic step I'm missing here. I fail to see how a closed canal system is safer. Will the dirty water not, by definition, end up in the lowest point anyway, i.e. the river? Whether the canals are open or closed? I mean, the dirty water is not just going to disappear, is it?
Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
The guy who created TLO was a former cocaine smuggler.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Asher
You can just pay extra for extended or infinite retention.
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/features/extended-ver...
I think it's a great policy. Hopefully Elon will raise the price another tenfold or more.
Yeah but it sucks lol. I could do it in 24 hours on my motorcycle but it would be miserable.
>Is this supposed to be a surprise?

It remains a constant surprise that the richest country on Earth can't make life better for its poorest homeless people.
Where?

Old cities have combined sewage system, and storm water mixes with poop. Then it comes out of the storm drain into the river
Newer cities have separate systems for storm drainage and for human waste.
I have never seen anyone claim that this didn’t happen. In particular I have never seen evidence against L'Anse aux Meadows.
"Calyx has been used as a part of four research projects and an industrial
toolchain to compile PyTorch programs to customized hardware accelerators"

Incredible project.
Couple sells their baby to buy an iPhone
in my experience a SharedInstanceSingleton or LocalImmutableConfig or BatchedMonitoringEvent wouldn’t need it

When you can't have something, it often becomes felt that you don't need something.
Isn't Twitter the place where your company's ad is likely to be placed next to, for instance, a porn site's ad? Why would anyone want to advertise there these days?
> The problem here is that most people don't give a crap

Most people are not qualified to give a crap.

We don't adopt medicines on the basis of "most people's" opinion, we don't adopt anything technological with potentially harmful impact on the basis of the opinion of large uninformed masses.

Thats why we have regulators and other institutions that should be informed and give an informed crap. On a ongoing basis and not only a result of popular outrage.

Which brings us to regulatory capture and said institutions actually failing their mandate to serve the interests of the people that fund them.

But now we have something that most people should give a crap about. This is not technical, it goes to the foundation of democracy and governance. Otherwise we might as well stop voting and accept we live in a corporate oligarchy.
Prions, viruses and parasites?
South Korean researchers claim to have developed room temperature superconductor
Expecting them to update status page before someone notices and posts on HN might be too high of a bar.
(not the creator, just something interesting I came across today; curious if people are using it)
A markup language, or named entities, some length-prefixed blob, just generally something that doesn't require making UAX 29 more difficult.

I understand why emoji is as complicated as it is. I don't think it was a good idea to bake that complication into Unicode.
Shaan is rocking a cool website.