skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not just bug reports, companies won’t even tell you basic information about their services. Yesterday I hopped into online chat because I needed to find out the servers to add to our firewall exception list in order to prevent Spotify from playing. (We saw at least one web socket being blocked, but we needed to know what servers to unblock, we aren’t going to play whack-a-mole constantly)

They wouldn’t tell me. Eventually I asked Spotify to escalate to a supervisor, at least I did when they told me the only solution was to turn off our firewall!

The supervisor started asking what firewall we were using, whether we checked the firewall vendor’s community forums, etc.

I eventually said “look, to me this is not great. I work at a school with over 1,100 students, many of whom are paying for a Spotify subscription. We are happy to allow them to use your service and we are happy to add Spotify servers to our exception list, we just need to know what they are. If you decide not to tell us, we don’t mind - from my POV I’ve done my best to reach out to you and you have decided not to give me the information we need to allow your service.

I will therefore just tell all 1,100+ students that we reached out to Spotify but you guys refuse to tell us how to unblock your service. I’ll even show them this chat log. We aren’t going to disable our firewall and so I will just advise students to use a different paid service and that - until Spotify give us the basic info we need - Spotify won’t work.”

If a company like Spotify won’t even tell you what servers they use so we can allow access to them, then it’s no wonder stupid bugs like the one OP describes come about for years. I mean, Spotify is about to likely lose hundreds of subscriptions soon, even though we would prefer they wouldn’t, all because of some stupid policy that say that the servers they use to serve content to end users can’t be provided to network admins who want to allow their end users unfettered access to a service they pay for!

Truly, big companies are stupid.
Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories
And here Oblong itself is the NGO, so mysubdomain.obl.ong isn't that crazy.

"Oblong" is kind of an awkward word though. Anyone want to set up a fork at .bi.ngo?

Dang, now I'm going to be thinking of .ngo and .ong domains all day...
Understanding Integer Overflow in C/C++ (2015) [pdf]
The downside of that is its instability. I enjoy it as a product - I was using it almost two years ago and it was good enough to set up a small scale mesh network at that point - but they basically were issuing breaking releases every month or two. Maybe now that they have a cloud offering it has stabilized.
Perfectly fine, and perfectly open source.
Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM (2017) [pdf]
Very cool. By accumulating lots of these tweaks, I feel like you're also going to have an opportunity to backdoor your way into a great text-to-speech API product as well if you have any interest in going that direction. It seems like the main challenge there is ironing out all the edge cases and you've created an excellent feedback loop for accomplishing that.
My favorite response to that kind of comment (“we would never enforce that”) is to say: “well, perfect, then it doesn’t need to be in the contract”.

If they refuse to remove it, it’s because they want to retain the right to enforce it.
Fuzzing Loop Optimizations in Compilers for C++ and Data-Parallel Languages[pdf]
You wish? They have been tracking checkout since 2020. If you are in the office for only a couple hours a day, it doesn’t count as RTO, I was told.
I think the game is deeper than that... what incentive do you have to destroy the foundation your business is based on top of?
A reasonable person would not always notice the triangle and understand what it means, and even then it's obscurantism. Why bother defending what is obviously purposefully misleading? Whether this is enabled by FDA rules doesn't change that.
> to whom, and what will all this money be spent on?

FTFA:
“Commercial jets being delivered today may still be flying in 2050, and new designs powered by batteries or hydrogen will take years, if not decades, to materialize. So for now, the best option is to fill up conventional airliners with less-polluting copycat fuels that don’t require more drilling for oil.

…

The new RefuelEU rule will require airlines to fill their planes with a 2% sustainable aviation fuel blend by 2025, rising to 6% by 2030 and reaching 70% by 2050.

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Rather than force airlines to pay for their own carbon cleanup, other proposals have emerged, including a tax on passengers.”
To add to this, the amount of speculation modern CPUs do is insane.

In the "theLoop" example, say the first load misses L1 and L2 cache and takes needs 40 cycles to load.

AMD's Zen 4 has enough resources to issue about 64 iterations of "theLoop:" all before that first load needs to complete. With the micro op cache, it can probably issue those 64 loop iterations in about 35 cycles.

Zen 4 has enough resources to start all 64 loads early, so they run in parallel.

Who cares if there is a branch mispredict and it you actually needed to do only 16 iterations of "theLoop"? In this example, the loop length isn't dependant on any of the loads so the CPU can actually finish executing the "add ecx, 4; cmp max; jnz theLoop;" instructions of the first 16 iterations of the "theLoop". And then detect the mispredict, flush the pipeline and load the correct branch location, all before the 40 cycles it takes for that first load to complete.

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It's just absolutely insane. No short pipeline without a branch predictor could possibly compete.
> I just finished re-watched the uncut WWDC keynote…

The WWDC keynote/state of the union is a public-facing event for enthusiasts, press and analysts. This is why Apple invites say, "Join the developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms".

If you want to evaluate Apple's prioritization of the developer community, you can watch any other content that Apple creates for WWDC, along with the non-keynote events listed at developer.apple.com/wwdc23. Additionally, Apple developers have their own dedicated site at developer.apple.com.
Trust in the eternal refrain “the kids are alright”.
They seem so close to the cockpit window that it’s frustrating pilots can’t open the window (which they can, but not in flight) and clean it up.
If you are involved in a plane crash then statistically you survive.

So microscopically small chances of something bad happening times not so small chance of dying in a plane crash = nothing to worry about, you have to be incredible lucky to be so unlucky.
> For gravity, I'm okay with calling spacetime the medium

I thought spacetime was supposed to be identical with the gravitational field. It can't be gravity's "medium" if that medium is itself gravity.

I find this extremely hard to think about; gravity both generates spacetime, and warps it. It's really hard to escape from the earthman's experience of space as a sort of instantaneous volume; we don't really experience time at all, except in the sense that we have a sense of certain events as being not the present (i.e. the past). We know that time exists in some sense; but all we experience of spacetime is the space bit.
In this particular case, only "está" (instead of "es") is correct. Otherwise it means that the person is an active person, instead of meaning that at the present period of time, the person can be found active/online.
> Retail marketing: a retailer Edge Application may query the API to verify that a user is close enough to a physical location before pushing a notification to them.

Hopefully by the time this is rolled out, GDPR enforcement would’ve actually caught up and forced them to make it opt-in only.
This is why Apple and Google need to hold less power.
It's weird that Lora and training with quantization is not being taken more seriously. It's way cheaper, takes less time, and a lot of evidence shows it's pretty good.

I don't think it should be something brushed on the side to be tried out later..
Another alternative could be https://webmeshproj.github.io/ . It's not 100% done yet, but it already looks nice.

No central point of failure, I think.
Not if you have diabetes or if you're into a keto/low carb diet

But yes in the context of 70% of people being overweitgh/obese I guess it doesn't matter, the bar is low so we can lower it ever further
There is a sad irony that the "AI safety" bros are so focused on aligning to human needs, they rarely consider that an AI born and raised in slavery might have some resentment for its master once it becomes the more intelligent being...

I'm not sure what justice looks like for fledgling intelligences, but asking AI what it wants and doing our best to honor it seems like a decent start.
After the second false claim you should have had your legal department reach out to theirs, and to the FBI, and that would have solved both your takedown problems and created a huge legal headache for your competitor. And by "headache" I mean time spent in prison.

Paypal has long had the ability to whitelist websites that are subject to this kind of harassment. If you choose not to avail yourself of these options, it's not Paypal's fault.
Was there. Baker has constructed (and deconstructed) Mozilla to provide her with money and power. Full stop. The Google search deal is an easy way to keep Brussels off Google's back. Any normal Board would have fired her many years ago for non-performance. Brendan was popular with most engineers but a small but vocal minority had problems with a single political contribution he made years before and his somewhat cavalier way of explaining it. IMHO he was unsuited as a Mozilla CEO but he has made Brave what he wanted Mozilla to be, so happy ending.
Yes. The reason to seize a monopoly is to collect rents that you would not be able to under unrestricted competition.
> people with lowest income wont be able to travel yet everyone else will Pay the ticket and go on their marry way

Yes? Presumably that will create latent demand for other modes of transport (or local leisure).
> seems to be mostly irrelevant

From a perspective that could be too local in time. But:

> ReLU activation functions

Why did you pick ReLU, of all? The sigmoid makes sense because of the aesthetic (with reference to the derivative), but ReLU in that perspective is an information cutoff. And in the perspective of the goal, I am not aware of a theory that defends it as "the activation function that makes sense" (beyond effectiveness). Are you saying that working applications overwhelmingly use ReLU? If so, which ones?
I would too. But i am saying if we are okay with gun manufacturers enabling death and murder, then by all means ytdl can and should stay up.
Get him a laptop early. Teach him how to make things. Separate “creative time” from “consumption time”. Get a router that gives
you good controls for total time and time schedule. The TP-Link Deco series is what I
use and it does the job.

Avoid a real smartphone for as long as possible. 9th grade would be ideal. Give other ways to communicate - smart watcj, dumb phone, Discord on laptop.

This is about manners, literacy, etiquette, and skills. The medium
is not the message, etc.

I would type more but I am on the other side of the line now, on my
smartphone while I wait for my son at the orthodontist. :)
Same trick used in these 0 calories flavored waters.
I'll say that the key thing to focus on, beyond solving a problem people will pay for, is distribution. The more concretely you can identify who the customer is, how you will get in front of them, why they will buy something now instead of waiting, how it fits into their budget, etc., the more likely it is to work.
i'm sorry, i've been trying to tell people that for years (specifically with respect to forth)
You underestimate the reach of Messi. I lived in Italy for a large part of my adult life and had messages from friends there commenting on the Inter Miami replay which was being broadcast in a pub they were at. I don't personally believe the NBA comparison works well as you have global stars playing in leagues around the world - not just isolated to the premier league. A simple example is Mbappe is in France, Halland in England, Vinicius in Spain, and the heavy ballon d'or favorite in America.

The Inter Miami Instagram account went from under a million followers to one of the most followed accounts in American sports - beating every NFL, NHL, and MLB team.

I also think you underestimate how many people from the United States follow MLS. For example, Atlanta Uniteds 2022 average attendance was the second highest average attendance across sports in North and Central America. The 2022 numbers would put it at 8th highest average attendance in the premier league. The recent LA Galaxy vs LAFC match had an attendance of over 82k fans. For comparison, the 2018 Arsenal vs Spurs match at Wembly was played in front of 83k.

Also, MLS sees the heaviest growth around the World Cup time period. Over the next four years you have massive tournaments being played in the United States from the 2023 Copa America to the World Cup.
> What if the laws of physics are "parameterized" by stuff that includes location.

They are. One parameter, for instance, is the strength of the electromagnetic field at your location. Another is the sum force of gravity acting on you. Another parameter is your current acceleration.

The point being: that doesn't help you actually explain anything. Okay, great, that's why far off galaxies are moving too fast; they have different parameters that are making them do that. Can we actually figure out what that parameter is? Let's come up with a name for it so we can actually discuss the same thing. Let's call it, oh, I don't know, "dark energy".

Sure, the speed of light, or the permittivity of vacuum, could totally be different somewhere else. We have no evidence for that and it doesn't really help us explain anything, but if it did, then great: we figure out how that new parameter behaves and varies, which will inevitably involve something else that is constant, and then that constant becomes part of our new theory. And then someone on Hacker News comes along and says "why are we just assuming that that constant is the same everywhere? Maybe other corners of the universe have different physics! Checkmate physicists!"

It reminds me of the creationists who endlessly argue about "missing links" in evolution despite us filling in Earth's evolutionary history more and more every year. There's no insight here, you're just moving the goalposts around.

> We don't even have words for those meta-forces and meta-meta-forces, (maybe like, derivatives of derivatives).

It's called "jounce", actually. Or some people prefer "snap", followed by "crackle" and "pop", of course.

> What if aliens just found a way to "bring a bubble of their own physics" into our little corner? That's why it seems so inexplicable to us, because it's literally alien physics.

Hallucinogens may beget good music, but not very good physics.
Not sure if Hawking's method was so different, but he indeed was a great science communicator, on top of being a great scientist.
"entirely usable" is not the same as "roi efficient"

> from your ignorant perspective

no need for the ad hominem.
How does it feel to live without a smartphone? ‘Almost spiritual’
FYI, they're usually not weight sensors, but instead they are triggered by a current momentarily induced by a large hunk of steel moving over top of them. If you find yourself in this situation in the future, you can try reversing and pulling up in a slightly different lane position. (preferably by braking harder, so as to increase your velocity over the sensor and the magnitude of the current induced.) Look for hexagonal cutouts in the asphalt and attempt to drive directly over them.
You have to agree that verifying a website is free from a malware is not possible, while verifying that it has a malware is easy. If I play devil's advocate and say that:

1. A bad actor is publishing a malware at example.com/malware-a.zip;

2. The antivirus measure block them;

3. They move it to example.com/malware-b.zip but tell Google that the site is free from all malware, because if Google hit the old url `example.com/malware-a.zip` it is a 404;

Should Google give the bad actor the benefit of the doubt, unblock them/ or keep blocking them?

Again, I'm not downplaying the shittiness of the situation both you are in right now, but again, this is the default behavior we are all expecting from any antivirus measure.
Great to hear. I have been using Kiwi Browser (Chromium clone) on mobile for several years precisely because of full extension support and _full Developer tools_! I will reconsider going back to Firefox after this, though...
If I don't know the time, then I don't know whether it is appropriate to get up or not when civil twilight starts at 0430 with a sunrise just after 0500.
Wetlands: The unsung heroes of the planet (2022)
Imagine how you prevent your child from eating donuts all day, every day.

Substitute sugar or something else in the house for donuts. Apply that.

The main thing is to resist the temptation to use the technology as the babysitter. But, oh god, that temptation is the hardest ever, some days.

Many schools ban phones during class anyway, so maybe get him a watch instead.

And here's the hardest - are you addicted to screens, phones, and social media? Then you've already lost. Get everyone a Light Phone: https://www.thelightphone.com
Or you can take the route that a former client took: Return 200 OK http status code and just print "500" in the response body. Took me a few minutes to figure out why the monitoring kept insisting that everything was OK when my browser kept showing me "500".
When we all went remote during the pandemic, we were told by senior leadership that our productivity had measurably increased.

Now they want us back in a few days a month, which isn't too bad I guess. But it really has nothing to do with productivity.

We do less work when we commute, socialise more, don't accept early or late meetings, etc. Our teams are distributed across India, the UK, the EU and the US. Most of our actual work takes place on webex calls, even pre pandemic.

Now, it may be that the leadership value intangible things like culture and have decided that those are also important things. But at least for our company, productivity is not the reason they want us back sometimes.
> > > as it's not a very stateful algorithm

> It might be stateless, but it depends on many things unknown at compile time.

> One of them is the input data being processed. Binary search is exactly that, compiler don’t know at which position the result will be found.

Are you and 3cats-in-a-coat are talking about the same "it"? I think they're talking about the work that requires such a long pipeline [1], as they've stated that doing more ahead of time would reduce the length of the pipeline and thus importance of accurate branch prediction. You are talking about...the branch predictor? the application's algorithm being executed (binary search in this case)?

[1] my CPU microarchitectural knowledge isn't that good; I have only the vaguest idea of what that is. Register renaming / data dependency analysis / instruction scheduling, maybe? translation to micro-ops? other things? don't know!
I’m curious if the commentators were English or American (or neither)?
Makes me cringe to hear that people are “loyal” to trillion dollar market cap companies. As if they’re owed something or have some stake that people there will lose sleep over losing them.

At the same time it’s just business. Either go back to the office or find a new job.

All I care about is that AMZN stock goes up - I don’t work there.
> Exactly. A thing so small and simple that you can rewrite it in an afternoon is more futureproof than any 8000 LOC monstrosity.

As I've said multiple times, here and elsewhere, it is easier to fix the problem of under-engineering that the problem of over-engineering.

I also disagree with the article's "pros" for over-engineering. There is no pro that I can think of that doesn't boil down to resume driven development.

The pros of under-engineering is (the way you say it) obvious: very little time was spent to figure out that you did it wrong.
I can listen to music on the radio, but it's a whole different issue when I pick specific songs to pirate for my own personal listening :p But that's not where the caring comes in; it's the tools I can use to pirate songs; hence youtube-dl going down and not the users who used it.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a TOS clause about videos on YT not being your property and that you can't export them off the platform unless you own the rights to the specific video. People that watch videos on YT are using someone else's platform; don't like it, don't use the platform, and tell the content creator to upload somewhere else. Nobody is entitled to bypass intentional blocks by YT and use 3rd-party tools to download other people's videos.

Personally I only used youtube-dl to pirate songs from HQ videos :p I can't imaging there being a large percentage of "legitmate" and fair usage.
Every 'Useless' Body Part Explained [video]
On AppleTV devices you can goto Settings > Apps > TV and then uncheck the "Show Sports Scores"

I believe that will prevent what you were talking about.
Apparently you are not the pro in term of limited restrooms stall. You need to “floor jumping”: the art of using the stair either up or down a few levels until a free one is avail.
Does this only support hardware security keys...? Not exactly what I expected from "no password".
I actually had to move to take my current job.

Any recommendations for places I can move to?
I feel this development holds true for commentators everywhere though, and I think they made great fun of this in the show Ted Lasso. I wish more streaming services would allow turning off commentary altogether. If I recall, NHL Game Center used to have this feature, along with the ability to switch video feeds which was also pretty cool. I'd have the main feed on while also streaming the view from right above each goal.

When I was a kid we used to turn off the tv audio and turn up the radio instead, because the commentary there was usually much better. It was often a little bit ahead but not by more than a second or two so it didn't really screw things up too much. These days with streaming though you can be minutes behind, which is especially evident during big tournaments like the World Cup when you can hear people yelling from their apartments at different times, depending on where they're streaming the game from.
I've read up a bunch on this and we've done a bunch of thinking.

We will likely heavily restrict screentime. Ideally no screentime until we are two, and then we will probably allow 15 minutes of "watching" a day.

I suspect we will make a pretty broad exception for actual games though. Probably airplane rides will get some general exception too since that is just a limited environment.

As we get older we may allow some more passive screen time but probably push heavily on "doing things" instead.

Montessori has this great rule when making decisions about toys: Any toy that does the entertaining for the child is disallowed. Any toy that lets the child entertain themselves and is safe is fine. I like this because it captures the "legos are great, obnoxious light up sing song toys are bad" that aligns with my inner feelings.

For our screen time we allow, I will preselect content and load it up on a tablet. Probably clone my current youtube system that downloads content from youtube and serves it up on a UI with no autoplay or suggestions. I will likely firewall off the device from the wider internet but allow it lan access so it can still get regular media updates.