skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in that situation (also due to unresponsiveness) as a senior developer working on complicated projects many times.
The employees deserve to be thrown under the bus for this imo. I’ve done support work, if any of them gave a shit they could have helped her, but they didn’t.

Stuff like this suggests major cultural problems across the entire org (which includes employees like this). Probably major changes required to fix.
Engaging Volunteer Developers Effectively
Huh, I've come to completely the opposite conclusion. Simplistic moral messaging like Star Wars is harmful to public morality. It teaches people that evil is some obvious lifestyle / alignment that people consciously choose. That evil people know they're evil, believe being evil to be good and behave in evil ways for the sake of being evil. What's wrong with that? It gives people a framework for rationalizing away their own evil acts because they believe themselves to be fundamentally good, not aligned with evil. Simplistic moral messaging facilitates moral self-licensing, in which people form a self-image of being fundamentally good and use that self-image to give themselves license to occasionally commit evil acts. People 'know' themselves to be fundamentally good, and believe an occasional evil act doesn't define them as a person. Mass media like Star Wars promotes this model of morality because it helps the audience feel good about themselves, and that is good for business.

We should instead be teaching the public about the banality of evil. Evil people should be depicted as complex characters with a mix of good and bad traits, not flat sociopaths fanatically dedicated to evil for the sake of evil. This encourages people to evaluate their individual actions, and particularly to evaluate the morality of their own actions when they know themselves to have a mundane (or even good) motivation rather than some comic book supervillain's alignment to evil itself. In stories with complex morality, a character who is generally good can do something evil and the story recognizes that as evil; this helps people who believe themselves to be fundamentally good to recognize that they might nevertheless sometimes do something evil. Even better is when a story shows how evil can be motivated by the pursuit of some good and noble goal; it teaches people that they might be tempted to commit evil acts when "the ends justify the means", and that doing so is still evil despite their pure motive.
Zoom is still used without remote work. Businesses talk to other businesses and talk to other offices that are not in the same location. Pretty common for a Fortune 500 to have more than one office location.
Workers without deeper financial literacy notoriously underestimate how much capital there is rotting / desperately waiting for any potential investment upside.
And there are multiple us states larger than Germany, and unlike Germany many of these places are not flowing with navigable rivers all over the place. The closest navigable river to me is an 8 hour drive, and that's still loads closer than where I grew up that didn't have any navigable rivers in the entire state.

(Seriously people out East have no idea what a mountain is, and people out west have no idea what a river is in the US)
The conventional (actually drivel) explanation is that individuals don't care about their online footprint because: convenience, free, nothing to hide etc.

But how to explain that corporates don't care? Any value extracted from their casual attitude toward online information flows is value that nominally belongs to their shareholders. Commercial secrecy is a required fundation for any enterprise.

The whole edifice of current tech business models seems to be resting on false pillars.
Ask HN: What do you do to prevent runaway billing cloud costs from bugs?
Had an error on vercel recently that caused unexpected costs and had the same on gcp. (Not saying it's the platform's fault)

What do you use/do to prevent unexpected costs and runaway billing issues? e.g. what kinds of manual scripts, or any purpose-designed tools
Rural MB has "I seen" quite a lot. There are some really thick accents in places here.
People from Saskatchewan seem to be more nasally and higher up on the palate.
Albertans usually sound like mid western Americans.
It is quite obviously completely illegal, and you can look at the search warrant (indicating a judge agreed there was probable cause) for the specific laws. I copy/pasted a few below for you. Whether all or some of those laws are constitutional and will stand up in court can change year by year. I strongly, strongly suspect that no judge is going to strike down the government's ability to restrict people from collecting and disseminating information on secret military installations. It is objectively true that these installations, their secrecy (and this one installation and its secrecy in particular) have been instrumental to the federal government's ability to carry out its obligations over the past several decades.

18 USC 795: It's illegal to photograph or sketch secret military installations (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/795)

18 USC 796: It's illegal to use an aircraft to photograph secret military installations (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/796)

18 USC 797: It's illegal to disseminate photographs of secret military installations (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/797)

Arresting people for openly breaking the law is a perfectly valid component of "securing their stuff." In fact that is precisely how almost everything in our society is actually secured: by threat of law.
Loose is visually more loose (wide). Lose in comparison loses an “o”.
i need to figure out where my slowdown is happening...I'll be needing a phd for that
Yep I'm familiar with regular expressions, but I don't typically use them as a command prompt.
AirTags only work with an iCloud account and Apple ID. To get such you need to provide a telephone number, which is linked to your real-world identity, allowing Apple and the US federal police to track your ID-linked tag whereabouts in real-time without a warrant.
I wrote recently about how much sense of location I've lost by using GPS, but at the same time, it's a huge boon for exploring. Everything in life is a tradeoff.
One of my bucket list items is to bring about a new model of computation, the BitGrid[1]. It's a cross between a systolic array and FPGAs... but it would definitely NOT work as a practical FPGA.

On the other hand, maybe it could bring Exaflop computing to the masses? A million LUTs all working in parallel is a ton of horsepower. And it should only be a bit bigger than a 2 megabyte Static RAM

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid/blob/master/WhyBitGrid....
> Lots of "customer support" is literally just lying people to get them off the phone and hope they give up.

How many people earn their living (it's their primary and only job full time job) in America doing this? How large is the "customer service" sector? How many of those people are happy having to deal with nothing but complaints every single day?
It could be printed on an 3x5 index card and be way more cost effective than this cookbook which mostly is processed junk.
Google is paying Mozilla to develop a web browser, to allow Google to develop a web browser without pissing off anti trust.

They're doing a merely ok job. It's not clear if that's intentional or because they're badly run.

There's a story there, this article seems to mostly be political winging.
Scientist publishes paper based on ABCD data.

Replicator: Do you know how much data I'll need to collect? 11,000 particpants followed across multiple timepoints of MRI scanning. Show me the money.
worth a lot more ... than free users

Why?

I'm not sure about that, either way. I feel like I've seen cases where this is true, and cases where it isn't.

For YouTube, for example, I'd guess this could be true, now. It depends on hours and type of content watched, yes? While the charge to advertisers per ad impression is very low, and low enough for click-throughs / other categories that might be considered 'hits' in advertisers' search for customers*, it is presumably carefully metered to ensure solidly net positive "monies"** to Google. YouTube premium is billed at a flat rate - hence, its worth likely varies rather inversely by "hours watched" as compared to ad-supported viewing, right? I.e., the best "premium" customer, strictly from the POV of max direct revenue / profit should be one who pays and doesn't watch even a second of YouTube content in a given month.

Obviously, I'm simplifying all of this a bit, and, also, not really getting to the point efficiently - Sunday morning blah blah. So, to wrap, it's all about distributions. Oftentimes, when companies introduce plans like "premium", the heaviest users immediately sign up. The distribution is often heavily skewed, initially. Over time, "non-addicts" and such do accrete ... distribution shifts a bit. That's basically why it's not so clear to me - on the one hand, YT premium charges quite a lot, AFAIK, compared to $ / ad ... but, at some number of hours viewed, that stat flips. I.e., YT makes less money (directly, at least) from Premium. Now, that's probably a quite high # of hours. But, I just have no sense of what it might be and what the metrics look like.

And, ultimately, this ended up also being a long-winded way of saying my brain still isn't fully online and I'm too dull / lazy to try and pull up Google's / Alphabet's 10-Ks etc. ... but not too dull / lazy to let the world read a big ol' pile of words! Ugh... Almost as bad as drunk texting.....

* I.e., "more money" - https://youtu.be/aN8wxQDqfRk

** https://youtu.be/5I_B5mdLry4?t=6m40s
Your manager holds your backup.

If you're their number two, possibly you hold theirs.
Employees with MacBooks do primarily use touch id. They get a Yubikey for redundancy.
wel akshualy it's NetNewsWire

https://netnewswire.com/
I liked “optionated” it’s like opinionated but with BYO opinions
> In the early days, when I didn’t know about my wife’s msg reaction, I put msg in her food and didn’t tell her and she still got a migraine.

Please retest double-blinded ;)
While that is true, in the 3 years I've been working from home I gladly trade a few hours on the occasional Saturday for 10 hours of commuting per week.
In fairness, this was something of an edge case where there was apparently a baggage tag mixup. The airlines' computerized systems have gotten much much better at tracking bags in real-time than the old days when a missing bag would pretty much require a very manual someone setting eyes on the bag process. (Which I've personally experienced.)

Today I can look at the United app to see where my bag is in the process. Of course, that does no good if the computer has the wrong info.

I do toss an AirTag into my luggage to give me some backup to the airline's system. I do understand some skepticism on the airline agent's part. On the other hand, if they genuinely can't find it, I'd expect them to act on the AirTag suggestion whatever their skepticism because they should realize something is amiss with their tracking system at that point. As far as I know, checked luggage thefts are very rare in the US.
yes, we'd love more contributors
Looks their performance is better than llama.cpp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37018989 - and scales to batches of prompts.
I had the opposite experience: using taxis/Uber/Lyft was far more expensive than owning a car so after Uber stopped subsidizing rides I had to buy a vehicle.
That was in a city with a metro system, living in one of its main boroughs.

Even today, a cab to anywhere (even 3 miles) would cost me at least $10 each direction, and we have at least 5 such trips weekly. This easily surpasses the cost of the car, including depreciation and fuel.
Did he at least apologize after that? Sometimes being embarrassed like that can turn a person nice, but sometimes not.

Hopefully in the future he gives you less of a problem.
Yes, and it starts with some rich guy wanting to live forever, and he's 'heroically interfacing himself with the network to prevent it from hallucinating.' And then the whole process becomes common place, but eventually forms a class segregation of sorts, where the types of hallucinations you're allowed to resolve are based on your education, social standing, etc. An interesting afterlife I suppose, matrix purgatory.
Would you lie if your boss told you to lie?
You carry stuff ?!!?

Get a plane: https://www.magspec.com.au/about-magspec

STOL crop dusters are fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_MO5Wfomks
If your job is paying you to beat up pregnant women, would you still say that it was primarily on the corporation?

People are responsible for their own moral choices.
Isn't that what "Customer Content" is?
Turns out people are more likely to respond to Slack when their boss is behind their back. Who would have thought?
You can't look at one agreement in a vacuum. Organizing a society such that most people are forced to make such an agreement is coercive and inhumane (given our abundance of resources and ability to guarantee these rights to everyone). If we lived in a society where nobody was forced to make that choice and all people were guaranteed all the rights in the declaration, then two individuals entering into the agreement you describe would not be a problem. In this scenario, neither individual would be putting their health or safety at risk, even if one of them went without pay or the agreement fell apart.

Shorter answer: an agreement itself cannot be coercive if you voluntarily agreed to it, but you can be coerced into making that agreement. That's often the situation in America today.
This hit too close to home :(
We set up some cost alerts in Azure to email us a warning if we trip certain thresholds. Do the other hyperscalars not offer this kind of feature?
I would claim the early web diminished primarily because the users left, not because the services died off and left users stranded (though I'll note that a lot of early services--IRC, Usenet, message boards, blogs, etc, are still around, though reduced in size and scope).

As for services dying, I picked Google because it was easy. But the graveyard is endless: Myspace, Friendster, and Geocities all spring to mind, just in the social space (and since you don't want to talk about Google, I won't mention Google+ or Orkut).

That's not to say the early internet was somehow perfect. My point is simply that a service being commercial offers no guarantee of longevity, and given the need to extract profit or die, with no way for a community to take over an unprofitable service and run it for their own benefit, I'd claim the opposite is true, especially as interest rates have risen and cheap funding has become more scarce, thereby placing a lot more pressure on those services to monetize or die.

> and running a modern web application that hosts images, gifs, and videos at scale is obviously a different beast than static html where a marquee tag is as fancy as it gets.

Except that's not what a Lemmy or Mastodon instance has to do. A small instance might only need to serve dozens or hundreds of users, and it only needs to host and serve the content they subscribe to.

I'll take that over one massive single point of failure.
of course you can put a newborn in a cargo bike. It's no different than a car if you have the proper equipment.
AWS' definition[0] I think is pretty good:

"Cloud native is the software approach of building, deploying, and managing modern applications in cloud computing environments."

An example of this would be how Podman Desktop includes tooling that allows you to easily deploy and manage pods in Kubernetes.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/cloud-native/
Well, yes and no. What you say also applies if two errors have the same type but you want to differentiate where it comes from. In all these cases you can wrap the result or error into something, which essentially means tagging it (but without actually needing sumtypes as a language concept.

Sumtypes sure are useful, but I believe that except for GADTs, you can emulate sumtypes with uniontypes, but not vice versa.
I'm always shocked bags can get "lost" at all.

They get those huge universal bar codes in multiple places, and then whisk away on the conveyor. I understand there would be mix ups, bags fall off, bags get jammed, bags get pulled off flights so airlines can put more expensive cargo on there. That's all fine, because none of those bags are "lost", they're just delayed or in the wrong place.

Surely whenever a bag is in an odd place someone can just scan it, and send it back on it's way. Other than bags actually getting stolen (is that really a HUGE problem?), I can't understand how any bags wouldn't eventually get to the correct destination.
set yourself up with a couple of vices [coffee, smokes]
and have look here, for things you can do:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37022623 [a number of links regarding how to play with bots and bork training by"malforming" your inputs]
At Google the IT desk had a jar of Yubikey. You could just take and enroll however many you wanted.
After that, section 10.4:

> 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content: ... (ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, ...

I believe this might be the wording the submission references.
Lets rewrite what I have issue with in clear text: Farming "up-votes/blog impressions" because VIM creator died seems off putting.

Putting VIM in that blog post is unnecessary and I do believe it was posted with bad intentions.

I don't believe article would land on main page if it would not have VIM and it would be only about text editing one liners. Especially when those one liners are not amusing.
Net greenhouse gas emissions from gas and coal at varying methane leakage rates
The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions
What about those that get anxiety when they are in the kitchen due to past trauma or something? To brush them off as “fine with not being able to provide for themselves” is shaming them for having said anxiety. Maybe the last time they were in the kitchen was with Mom when she had her stroke and her face plant into your eggplant is a memory you get every time you see your mixing bowl? Everyone has something, so be kind to those who suffer.
In general the metal part of the hoe will only wear out in the constant use/multi generational use. Most of time the problem is the interface between the head and the handle that causes the most issues.
"goodResult | barError | bazError" method just don't scale; eventually, especially if using third-party libraries, you may end up with dozens of not hundreds of error types this way.

The way Rust does it with its try operator (?), you have to tell it if it's barError (in which case it's up to you to tell it how bazError is convertible to it), or perhaps bazError, or something else altogether (e.g. sum type like you suggested, but conversion still needs to be supplied). There's also some libraries that provide error types for the lazy that are convertible from everything, so you can use try operator without much thinking, but for libraries you almost never use them.
Google was one of the earliest adopters of Yubikeys, and they used them for EVERYTHING. When I worked there, we always received 2 keys: one of those itty bitty ones that sits in your USB port permanently, and a regular key that fit into our security badge holder, or you could keep at home, or whatever. The switch to security keys reduced account takeovers to 0:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...
If you think monasteries were a solution thought up by poor people to be less poor, then I don't think you know much about the history of monasteries.

Not that I'm an expert either, but from what little I gathered monks were relatively privileged people.
Is it me, or a Git repository, (either externally hosted or self-hosted) sounds like could work as a memex?

You have a shared folder backed by version control.

You have projects which can serve as memex projects, and issues which you can edit via markdown and link to the files in the repo.

Plus you got CI-CD that allows you to have access to a cloud environment to perform work.
TemplateMaker: Create and download papercraft and packaging templates for free
So it only needs to support 250 participants, really.
Machines will never be zero cost.

And AGI is probably unachievable anyways.
I was in Seattle recently. Just visiting briefly and didn’t use the bus; everything I needed was in walking distance. I did, however, use the light rail to and from the airport, and… maybe it was just unlucky timing (I think there was some maintenance) but the complete disregard for schedules was surprising (and I’m coming from Dublin, where the transport operators are pretty lax about schedules by European standards).

Also, the stations were very… urine-y. Noticed this in San Francisco as well; both cities’ public transport infra could greatly benefit from more public toilets. (I’m being semi-serious here; I expect it puts users off and it seems to mostly be an American thing).

Generally liked Seattle, but worst rail journeys I’ve had in a while.
I'm waiting for my plane to takeoff for Vegas now (weather delay). There's a 32 pack of water in my free checked bag for this reason.
"Congestion is a separate problem from road design" what ??

I will just say compare the space dedicated to cars between a random american city and Amsterdam, so much space wasted and so much more infrastructure to maintain; and I believe emergency vehicule are still able to circulate (might even be faster with less cars ?).
The submitted title might very well have been "This code smells of desperation.". HN has some strange rules that edit submitted titles like stripping "10" or "How to"
I think you just see it work out to continue to do the same shit we did at the same levels of realism, making you question, we were just an AI mimicking some previously inane activity to begin with?
And then the designer up and quits, leaving you with a sketchy and gratuitously complex design that nobody can fathom.

A volume like 10k puts you in a dreaded "in between" zone. You're not making a one-off widget that a customer is willing to pay an unlimited amount for because it solves a unique problem. And it's not enough volume to make something that just rolls off an assembly line. All of the simplistic mental models for how to proceed, don't work.

I work in such an industry, making specialized equipment. Every component is an expensive buy-in. It's ridiculously hard to find cost savings every component is up against the same math. Then again the competition faces the same problem.
Yeah, "Qualcomm" is one of those places information never gets out of, right? This might turn out to be "influenced by RISC-V" but completely different actual instructions; with the NDA and lien on your soul before you can even sniff documentation .
Those average direct costs seem rather high. I think I spend more like $3000/yr for quite a nice car.
I'm highly sus of this. As far as I recall OpenAI never actually wrote that they purchased ai.com.

What I believe is far more likely is that Musk bought or owned ai.com and played a smart move (for once) by having it direct to ChatGPT, only to switch it out to X's site now.
WebAuthn makes you unphishable, so there’s that. But that’s not to say Okta needs to be in the loop.
There is nothing really “affordable” in SF, if you are in touch with the reality.