skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sending three boxes of t-shirts to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, I found out that FedEx actually has an office in the hotel/resort. Fedex wouldn't deliver the boxes to my room for free (which I'd paid for, since I'd put my room number on the address form when shipping), and the office is actually about a half mile away down very long marble-tiled hallways.

The hotel wouldn't let me use one of their hand carts/trolleys (they had to be handled by their bell people), and they wouldn't go with me even for a substantial tip, because they had an agreement with FedEx.

FedEx charged me $150 to deliver the boxes to my room -- more than it'd cost to ship halfway across the country.

This was about ten years ago, so things might be different now.
One big advantage to startups in defense tech is the opportunity for non-dilutive funding: SBIR. A Phase 1 SBIR is worth $100k-ish, and a Phase 2 can be close to $1MM.

Check the SBIR schedule for new topic releases at SBIR.gov.
Lots of businesses use Zoom for very private things like law and finance. I smell lawsuits.
Looks like a good start! We definitely need more documentation that does not go stale.

Is this for single repository? If so, do you have any plans for visualizing multiple repos?
Lots of "customer support" is literally just lying people to get them off the phone and hope they give up. It's pretty clear that's what this is. They have no incentive to help, so they dont.
And will we finally see a transfer rate higher than USB 2’s 480 Mbps? If we got 5 Gbps, I would finally be able to do local backups easily and effectively…
I'm afraid I don't think I've got an article in me about this, sorry :(

I've got pretty good instincts when it comes to figuring out likelihood of PMF when it comes to products for gamers, but I'm not sure I could articulate my process well even for that one area, let alone figure out how to broaden it out to get to a good guide for tech more widely.

The next few times I'm working on this sort of thing for a client I'll try to pay attention both to how I approach it and more importantly to how my partners do (I'm probably the least experienced of us when it comes to market research generally), because it's getting me down to realise what significant blind spot (relatively speaking) this is for me! So just maybe you'll see a HN submission about this from me in a year...
Yes, in med school we referred to this as "an acute itch crisis"
Once RISC-V gains market share, Intel and ARM will gradually react, lowering fees and opening their platforms proportionately, if needed. They will try to block the addition of value and market capture.
> But it doesn't say that Customer Content is being used to train AI; it says that Zoom can do whatever it wants with Service Generated Data.

Customer recordings are service generated content.
My comment specifically said GOOD food :-)

(I worked on grocery wholesale/distribution and marketing for many years, and can "go down the rabbit hole" on the difference ;-)
>In short, in practice, employers and employees both seem to prefer it when people work long days. If employees get more productive, both side of the bargaining table tend to negotiate for hours to stay at about the limit of what workers are physically capable of.

If that were true our workday would be something like 6 hours.

>they usually prefer to work more and have more stuff

My paycheck is the same whether I work 40(45) hours per week or 90. I've actually reduced my productivity rather than increased it because there's no point in being more productive as an employee. All that will do is give me more work to do for the same wage.

The answer is that we (I speak as an American) hate lazy people and view anyone not working full time plus as lazy. That's it. There's no additional overhead that magically appeared as productivity went up. It's greed and presenteeism. Work hard so your boss notices you so you can get that sweet, sweet 1% raise and a promotion that entails 200% more work. Why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37022243
7~10 day ground shipping is still a thing. Unless you mean even slower services.
this submission is not about individual cost of a car but overall societal cost of people using cars.
My 5 shares out of the companies 100,000,000 give me little power and is a huge investment of my time to vote intelligently with, and I have little way to coordinate my decisions with hundreds of thousands of other minor share owners. It would end up with the retail investors going with the path of least resistance or it'd be democratic noise.

I also don't care to use that power - my only goal is to retire one day by investing in the market as a whole through broad market ETFs. I have no interest in individual companies or how they vote. I, and the majority of other retail investors, are simply interested in financial security. Are we wrong to have that goal? Why do we need to start playing boardroom games that we can't and don't care to win?
I know senior people that have taken the management path after being software developers, and they're definitely 'we need to collaborate'. I've yet to meet a senior developer that wants to collaborate in person more than once a week since COVID.
The word talent is being used in two senses here. The original meaning - an employee, you’re using it to mean an inherent ability. The article is about the top performing employees.
At the scale of Zoom and MS Teams ... you could theoretically train an AI model that can autonomously conduct all meetings businesses ever need -- all day every day -- without any human ever needing to attend. So much productivity claimed back!

GenAI provides the agenda, GenAI bots log in with a AI avatar and spout hallucinations, bots agree to disagree and setup a followup meeting next week after resolving fake calendar conflicts amongst themselves. Minutes and action items are sent out and reviewed in next meeting, jiras are updated, CRs approved, budgets allocated and rescinded.
Except it’s a few steps away from customer input and customer content.

Sounds like it can eventually include chats during a call.

Sounds like it can eventually include the files of your meeting recordings in its processing, since it is a file. A call recording stored to your zoom cloud can be a form of service generated data from calls.

And sounds like it include transcripts of live audio could also function as service generated data (was the audio clear? Could ai convert speech to text?)

The statistics of calls could turn into the wavelengths of the audio and video in real time. Gotta keep an eye on the quality with AI.

My only question is if this include the paid users?

If so, I had been meaning to move on from Zoom as a paid customer and this may have done it.

It’s not end to end encryption if Zoom can tap into your files on your cloud or computer. Or let you pretend you are providing the other party with encryption when they aren’t safe. Corporate information is valuable to some.
Specifically because of the discussed TOS.
more than likely
It is defined not at all. Sorry if this is bad for your investment decisions, jxf, but this company is not trustworthy.
Falsify: Internal Shrinking Reimagined for Haskell [pdf]
You might want to rethink your perspective on this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy...
Well it’s a Chinese company. So they are beholden to the CCP.
Wow. I hope the op just didn’t read that far.
No viruses or malware of any kind. It's completely safe to use
-- See --

HN: Discussion - (9-comments - 2023-08-05) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015003

<Full Title>

The hedge fund titan who’s been watching for ‘black swans’ for decades says the ‘greatest credit bubble in human history’ is set to pop—but he’s not worried.

https://archive.is/SpZUC
sign me up lmao
Australia headed toward cashless society
> What do you have available to you when the internet is down?

Everything, because I pretty much started shunning everything I can't reduce to a bunch of files I can use anywhere, and am using the same folder structure on all machines. If an application has a portable version (and doesn't have configuration that may vary between machines, e.g. hardware sensors displayed in the tray), I always use the portable version, install it on one machine, and then sync that to the rest. I love it so much. I can open a Sublime Text project file anywhere and it just magically works, because the paths are the same.

The only reason I sync some things manually instead of using Syncthing for everything is that I don't want to needlessly cause more SSD wear. E.g. Firefox/Thunderbird constantly write and delete stuff in the profile, so if I want to use a profile on another machine, I close it, sync, and open it on the other machine.

My source of truth is completely in those files, including my web stuff. Which, admittedly, is rather simple: just PHP and JavaScript and MariaDB really, or sqlite where that's enough. I thought I liked golang, but after spending an hour yesterday trying to compile something I haven't touched in 5 years, I decided to just rewrite it in PHP - because something that is slow but doesn't require constant hand holding beats anything else for me. I want to be able to pick up where I left, regardless of whether 10 years passed. PHP and JavaScript are unsurpassed in my personal experience when it comes to that. Even the shittiest JS still works fine 20 years later, and when you use PHP with warnings turned on, upgrading to new versions tends to throw very few errors, and they're actually helpful, so making the changes is trivial.

I miss out on a lot of fancy things that way, but I don't miss any of them. I love thinking of my stuff as where it is in my "home cloud" folder structure, and that though they're not actually thin clients, the particular machines really don't matter. Of course I also have backups, but the plan is to never need them because I always have more than one "live" working environment, which reads from and writes to that shared set of files.
It sounds like he was there after deregulation started making things worse for workers. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/901110994/big-rigged
I desperately want to sell my car. I live in a city with decent public transit by NA standards (Montreal), and can get to my suburban office by train. The main hangup is visiting my family across the border in rural Pennsylvania, there’s not a feasible way to get there which wouldn’t require a relative spending 2+ hours to pick me up from a bus or train station. That, and being able to go camping on short notice.
The parent post did not make a claim of universality.

I don't really understand this implicit criticism of lack of explicit completeness thing that goes around on Hacker News but I wish people would do it less.
Out of curiosity, how has it been working with the pganalyze team? It seems like Supabase has been able to collaborate really effectively with other teams in the Postgres space (including pgAdmin and pgmigra, for the `diff` migrations tooling), and it's wonderful to see!
In that case the main strength of RISC-V would be Chinese companies since it is theoretically sanction resistant.
a lot of old (read strange) machines don't have curl or wget available
how long until the "enhancement" list includes telemetry?
Thanks for posting the job.

Could you please also mention the email address to which applicants can send their applications?

Alternatively, providing a link to the jobs page of zoopit.no would be helpful.
Washington is on the western side of the US, opposite boston. Are you thinking of New York?

While the points you make are interesting, there is a massive swath of the us in between New York and LA, and I think that's where the argument is made.

I'm in Canada with 38 millions individuals in the second largest country in the world, I can assure you it's quite different from Europe. (Edit: just looked it up and we get about 15 people per mile!)

On average, North Americans also drive about double the distance europeans do per year.
Viberary
One of the things I absolutely love about the country I live in is the culture of the daily menu. Every day you get a different, grandma-like soup, main course, fresh juice, and small desert. Nearly every restaurant does this for the equivalent of 4 - 6 dollars (I'm in LATAM). Eating that well would be otherwise impossible for me as I don't enjoy cooking at all.
> You buy only the bread that tastes good

This is a pretty wild omission of all of the food safety regulation out there. Regulation we got because the "let each consumer get sick enough to change their behavior" approach turned out to have some flaws that people did not like.
annnd "customer support" is usually someone working in a boiler room warehouse somewhere and paid low wages, so an even bigger incentive to not help.
Seize: Fast, efficient, and robust reclamation for concurrent data structures
I haven't done it in a while but the flatbread pizza crusts/naan that at least in the stores around me make a good base for a superfast pizza that's definitely better than the frozen pizzas I very periodically try and am disappointed in. Using sliced through French bread is another good option.
It wouldn’t be surprising.

Gotta make sure audio is clear on calls.

How?

We run randomly less random speech to text to make sure words are being said.

Which words? Well if any are on this list of words we might think have to tell someone.
The first rule of flying with medication is that it goes in the carry-on, over everything else. If you can't fit so much as a book alongside your meds? Tough, meds have priority. In the US at least, the airline simply isn't allowed to make you check your medication, and the TSA is not allowed to confiscate prescription medication in its original container. OTC stuff, beyond what you need on the actual flight, should just be purchased at the destination.

FedEx in that context is probably because it has less trouble getting through customs, rather than for airline employees.
Imo, A more realistic thing to do is "replicability review" and/or requirement to submit "methodology map" to each paper.

The former would be a back and forth between a reviewer that inquire and ask questions (based on the paper) with the goal to reproduce the result, but don't have to actually reproduce it. This is usually good to find out missing details in the paper that the writer just took for granted everyone in the field knows (I've met Bio PHD that have wasted Months of their life tracking up experimental details not mentioned in a paper)

The latter would be the result of the former. Instead of having pages long "appendix" section in the main paper, you produce another document with meticulous details of the experiment/methodology with every stone turned together with an peer reviewer. Stamp it with the peer reviewes name so they can't get away with hand wavy review.

I've read too many papers where important information to reproduce the result is omitted. (for ML/RL) If the code is included I've countless of times found implementation details that is not mentioned in the paper. In matter of fact, there's even results suggesting that those details are the make or break of certain algorithms. [1] I've also seen breaking details only mentioned in code comments...

Another atrocious thing I've witnessed is a paper claiming they evaluated their method on a benchmark and if you check the benchmark, the task they evaluated on doesn't exit! They forked the benchmark and made their own task without being clear about it! [2]

Shit like this make me lose faith in certain science directions. And I've seen a couple of junior researcher giving it all up because they concluded it's all just house of cards.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12729

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02465

Edit: also if you think that's too tedious/costly, reminder that publishers rake in record profits so the resources are already there
https://youtu.be/ukAkG6c_N4M
A nap of under 30 minutes never fails to reinvigorate. For that matter, a nap of even just one or two minutes brings a wave of refreshment. Nap evangelism!
Creating a robust bus network with dedicated bus lanes vs an extensive rail system.

I've also lived in both cities and Seattle's buses are timely and clean. MTA buses are much, much worse.
I got myself a cooking robot (Bosch Cookit). All I have to do is buy ingredients, follow the instructions on the display, and put it to the dishwasher after cooking.

The recipes are easy to follow, very tasty and most of them are healthy.
Perhaps this MDN article, which used to be called "A re-introduction to JavaScript" and is now called "JavaScript language overview": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Lang...

Also, if you search for "A re-introduction to JavaScript" in HN Search, you will find previous posts of the same article with comments pointing to other similar sources.

The book Eloquent JavaScript is also available online, but is longer: https://eloquentjavascript.net/
It's increasingly difficult to prep more meals. The difference between one and two or three is vanishingly small though. For me (active adult male) I can prep up to six meals at a time. More than that would require a larger pressure cooker and a lot more fridge space.
The definition of phrases like “Customer Content” and “Service Generated Data” are unclear. It is disingenuous to say that the headline is the “opposite” of what the headline suggests.

You really think that the engineers in China are not actively working on developing AI models of users without using a lot of user content to feed the model? Doubtful. Hiding behind ill-defined terms has the fingerprints of an Orwellian regime. I think I know which one.
You raise an interesting point.

For large companies, they'll use this as an opportunity to push salaries down.

This happened in banks in London over the 90s and 00s. At each 'crisis' (IR35, LTCM, credit crunch, etc.), they made staff redundant, and reduced new salary offers across the board, you could argue, almost like a cartel.
https://archive.is/AwJmG
I hear Qualcomm also doesn’t pay its engineers well. I wonder if that’s true.

I certainly see Qualcomm engineers frequently leave and transition to FANG.
You can make plastic out of milk and vinegar. Aluminum or tin is a good guess too. Some weird craftsmanship and a game of historical telephone is probably the basis of this and many more strange tales.
Refurbished devices are just fine, when/if they are refurbished and/or properly checked/tested, it all boils down to the (good name of the) refurbisher and their guarantee/insurance (if any).

Buying second hand/used items (not refurbished) may be more risky, it is essentially an act of faith on the seller, but I would say that most people use their devices correctly so that they are in good condition anyway.

The "unsanitary" thought is something that never crossed my mind, but how difficult is to clean/sanitize a phone?
>A ductile material like aluminium might be a stretch

Worth knowing that alluminium is an extremely hard metal to refine without modern processing.

It was considered rarer than gold in the 1800 and Napoleon would impress his guests with alluminium spoons and forks
To be fair to that point there are maybe a hundred million people around the world living in tiny places without much more than a hotplate or rice cooker, or working in factory dormitories and having no control over the food they eat.
We have the solution, and not just for the warming, but for most symptoms of the overshoot, we just don't like it.

Climate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and overfishing are all symptoms of ecological overshoot.

If we'd stopped fossil fuels ASAP, reformed agriculture and switched globally to plant based diets, we'd free up 80% of agricultural lands we use for animal agriculture. That's the area a size of Africa.

Reforest/rewild it (cca 3+ trillion trees) and we'd store enough carbon to return CO2 to pre-industrial levels and enable biodiversity to return to previous levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_overshoot

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/18/after-millennia-of-agr...

After Millennia of Agricultural Expansion, the World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-global-forest-area-capita-decr...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improvin...

Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows

New study finds global forest area per capita has decreased by over 60% over the past 60 years

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century

https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article...

Mass extinction of Earth's wildlife is closer than we think - study

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/brv.12974

More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through thediversity of population trends
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A recording of your call can be generated data based on their service recording it.
> You agree that Zoom compiles and may compile Service Generated Data based on Customer Content and use of the Services and Software.

This clause reads like the distinction is less about the contents and more about zoom's rights to use any content
I hope the government hasn't been reimbursing travel expenses without first confirming there are no excess prison accommodations going to waste. A review is probably necessary to get hotel costs back.
Well, Ive had to buy a fancy generator and powerful LED flashlights because my fly-over America town's infrastructure has terrible reliability.

Not that Im in a bad neighborhood: I just realized I might be the only one in my block that doesn't have a luxury vehicle. 8 year old Hyundai and 10 year old Golf for me in a sea of Mercs, BMW, Lariats and Lexuses.

Of course, I must be poor. I have a portable, Chinese clone 7000 kW gen that only feeds 6 circuits and sounds like a pneumatic gun. Half my neighbors have full-house automatic, natural gas fed GENERACs.
How do the efforts compare? Does methanesat add anything beyond what these already do? Genuine question, im unfamiliar.
Vllm
In practice this is happening in many disciplines, for most research, on a daily basis. What _isn't_ happening is that the results of these replications are being independently peer reviewed, because that isn't incentivized. However, when replication fails for whatever reason, it usually leads to insights that themselves lead to stronger scientific work and better publications later on.
Programming have become an industry. It is all about profit.
I live in a country where train stations are often surrounded by high-density developments. What most tourists don't notice is that there are massive multi-level parking lots underneath all that housing and office buildings, not to mention the train station itself.

So you can have both high-density development around train stations and car parks for people who need to drive. It's not an XOR situation. The U.S. just tends to be wasteful with its land, because it has so much of it.
Code Smell is an industry accepted term. I am unclear how any other interpretation of the modified title could be expected.
Oh my, this is a rather bleak comment. I’m sorry that you have such an impression.
I’d suggest you look into Kiwix¹ and also Zeal².

I wrote more about offline documentation here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27838105>

1. https://www.kiwix.org/

2. https://zealdocs.org/