skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was last year, so it's not in recent memory, but most of the problem was around instability. We ran into some frequent issues where we would begin troubleshooting, assuming it was something on the application end, only to find out that the issue was happening in the network. We eventually figured out that the Headscale network was randomly dropping in and out. I'm sure with a lot more time we could have identified the root cause, but unfortunately, we had a deadline and just paid Tailscale (and haven't had any issues since).

Like I said, I'm sure it's coming along fine, it's not just something that we were able to set and forget like with the Tailscale experience.
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This line of reasoning makes no sense. If full remote were more productive, companies would continue to do it.

The fixed costs don't change either way.

What protective measures do you want to see? The aggregate risk here has not changed significantly at this point vs. before remote policies were implemented.
Pitot tube failures are incredibly frustrating. In one case it's theorized a wasp nest blocked the inside of one, after not being covered while on the ground a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301
I remember gas plasma displays being used in the machine room of an IBM 3090

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090

circa 1987

They had a system where the computer would tell people to get a 9 track tape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape

out of the rack and mounted that used plasma displays. Funny I had a 286 machine that had a 32 MB hard drive but I wrote my own software to archive files on 1.2 MB floppies that would tell me to fetch disk 45 or whatever and a friend of mine had written similar software for a TRS-80 color computer (which I had had previously) and he had even written his own filesystem for it.
Yeah, I understand. Thanks
The "user hostile" tab design change was the addition of a space of a few pixels between the tabs and address bar: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463321/firefox-design-re...
I first encountered this with "Oscillofun" by Atom Delta, which absolutely blew my mind at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1ZxR71VJI
That’s pretty much how all payment processors work. The issue for them is that letting fraudsters continue making payments will lead to big Ls for the payment processors, since they end up being on the hook for the money that card networks will clawback or liability from regulations and money laundering laws.
> They sold machines and even mined with them before shipping them to customers.

At what efficiency treshold do you not sell the product to your competition?
Bailouts in 3, 2, 1...
This kind of hyperbole is silly.
Typescript is a superset of Js/tsdocs so you’ll probably get a long way but at some point the types will be dumbed down.
> They're breath mints, not candy.

Based on what? I think they're definitely candy.
Our perception is the perception of what's beyond it -- the world is the direct cause of our experiences which present that world.

" but by definition we can't perceive what's beyond our perception "

This is one of those sceptical propositions I'm talking about. All these sceptical claims which follow "by definition" follow only by the definitions of sceptics -- definitions held (with no sense of self-awareness) with certainty.

How I would define "perception" would make such a claim incoherent or trivially false.

The light which hits a camera from a tree does not travel via some daemon. And a camera so-positioned can indeed photograph its own mechanism.

We have for at least half a century being using perception, without trouble, to perceive the mechanism of our own perception (visual cortex, retina, lenses, etc.).

All these alleged impossibilities begin from the premise that we are not within, part of, and directly causally engaged with, the world.

This is the most outrageous of all 'philosophical' propositions, the most naive, the most absurd --- and yet lies as the undoubted presumption of nearly all scepticism.
Show HN: Pykoi – a Python library for LLM data collection and fine tuning
Hi HN,

pykoi is an open-source python library for ML scientists. pykoi makes it easier to collect data for LLMs, to use that data for finetuning, and to compare models to each other (e.g. your model pre- and post- finetuning, or your model vs openai vs claude). The library comes from pain points we experienced in LLM development:

1. Collecting feedback data from users isn't as easy as it could be. (The current process usually involves sharing excel files of annotated responses back-and-forth, offering no insight into how users actually engage with your models).

2. RLHF remains complicated to carry out. By complicated, we mean requires a lot of steps, hundreds of configs, lengthy setups, etc.

3. Comparing models to each other as they're used (that is, independent from academic metrics) is full of friction. The current approach: spin up a model, ask questions, write them down. Repeat for other models then compare.

At a high-level, we think that the active learning process should be closed-loop: data collection, fine tuning, and inference all feed from the same system. This library is our first step in that direction.

The project is still very early but we hope that some if it is useful. Note, we're fully open-source, and actively adding features!

Website: https://www.cambioml.com/pykoi
GitHub: https://github.com/CambioML/pykoi

We would love your feedback!
A slave can't leave. Employees can. I'm not saying that these relationships aren't unhealthy and unbalanced, but it's not slavery.

I think that such hyperbole makes it easier for people to dismiss legitimate criticisms of employer-employee relations, so is counterproductive.
I would agree except it seems that the Legal Terms and Agreement doesn't even mention any of that (even if the marketing part of that page does).

> You hereby grant to HashiCorp and to recipients of software distributed by HashiCorp a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.

This pretty much covers anything they'd need.
(I'm not a lawyer.)
Show HN: Paying Homage to Binary Large Objects with NFTs
Thank You to the Terraform Open Source Community [video]
Lionel Messi might be the biggest sport star in history. It's amazing what this man does for people.
> How is Mozilla supposed to build a browser that outcompetes two companies that literally build all in one corporate environments?

Do any of those companies' browsers actually come anywhere close to the feature set I just outlined? Chrome is functionally a very good browser but lacks those features, and Edge is malware disguised as a browser that needs a full-time sysadmin to keep on top of the group policies to disable whatever bullshit "feature" they release every few weeks.

None of them have ad/tracker/malware blocking, logging or data loss prevention. Not sure if any have website/domain blocking capabilities. All of these are features that big enterprises currently use expensive third-party solutions (such as TLS intercepting proxies) for. A browser that has that built-in would actually be an upgrade.

> Oh fuck off

Shall we keep it civil? I think we’re both ultimately on the same side in wanting a browser that puts users’ interests first instead of adtech or dubious corporate interests (I’m not even sure of Mozilla’s current strategy because the user-hostility and annoyance of Firefox isn’t even due to actual ads).
on the cybernetic systems thing: take a look at a book named "brain of the firm" by stafford beer
thats great, but amazon pays top of market, so they have more power. You get more money in exchange for less freedom, its not completely explicit, but its also not a secret and its not like they're abusing their workforce by paying them well and having specific and high expectations for how work is being done.
You can do a "show don't tell" with a fix suggestion in a Github PR, which one accept as-is or can use for inspiration. I feel like in the majority of cases doing something for someone is a missed opportunity - esp. again in the situation where there are many. A lot of those aren't going to stick for most people if they're simply quickly reviewing it. It also seems like an opportunity for certain personality types to run roughshod over engineers they don't respect.
> Increasing biodiversity would most likely also mean increased diversity of pests

The exact opposite is true.

https://www.caryinstitute.org/science/research-projects/biod...

In ecosystems where predators are removed, the population of their prey, in this case, mice, often increases due to a lack of natural control. This process can lead to an increase in the tick population, as ticks often feed on mice. This is especially true for the white-footed mouse, which is a common host for ticks in the eastern and central United States. When the mouse population increases, ticks have a higher chance of obtaining their first blood meal from a mouse, which often carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. (less predators => more mice => more ticks)

https://theconversation.com/as-biodiversity-declines-on-corn...

As biodiversity declines on corn farms, pest problems grow

"We found that communities with stronger networks – that is, more linked species – had fewer pests. Not only this, but network centrality was important; communities with several groups of highly linked species, including insects that prey on others, don’t have the pest problems that loosely linked networks have. Thus, in addition to species diversity, the strength of interactions among species within a community seem to be related to when and where pest outbreaks occur. This research suggests that practices that reduce diversity in cornfields will aggravate pest problems over time."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4646789/

Decisions that reduce insect diversity and decrease the network strength in insect communities result in higher pest abundance.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821039116

Tree diversity regulates forest pest invasion

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97811182318...

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at the local and landscape scales to check pest build-up.
Yes. Though sometimes LEO satellites use standard hardware. Otherwise, rad hard electronics are quite behind the state of the art. A ~100 MHz 32-bit machine with a few dozen megabytes of RAM is typical of recent low-end rad hard space hardware. Still, even that is quite capable of modern public key encryption.
Shh… don’t tell anyone about the other project.
Seeing NER examples pop up more frequently now, and wondering why folks don’t use spacy for those sorts of tasks.
when this term first came out, it really seemed like that was the point

now it just seems like a hundred children you have to pacify and get to bed before you can even start working
Good. I have no problem with said filter. I'd much rather focus on the business not on bureaucracy that is working against me.
Point 3 is why I don't use vertical tabs on Firefox. While I don't think that vertical tabs is a necessary feature, facilitating modifications to the UI via addons would be a huge win for anyone who wants to implement such features, or even experiment with different forms of user interaction.
An L5 (SDE II) at Amazon makes $251k a year total comp according to Levels.fyi. That’s more than directors make at some companies and double the total comp of a principal engineer at other companies. Barring a medical reason which absolutely should be accommodating, asking employees to show up is not an unreasonable request at that compensation level.

Edit: Is there something offensive about what I’m saying here? Why am I being downvoted for this comment?
People who work from home have the opportunity to nap, DIY, or have sex, interspersed with work. That's a good thing. Most jobs, especially in tech, have a certain ebb and flow as things - builds, deploys, reviews - must be waited for. Yes, you can multitask to some extent, but science tells us there's a limit. The cost of using a "blocked" period to take care of non-work things (I'd also include exercise BTW) is absolutely dwarfed by the positive effect on workers' mental health. The OP does nobody any favors by using "spend their time" to paint a more prejudicial picture.
Take advantage of the fact that you can change companies to somewhere that provides you with enough compensation to live near your work. This might require a move. People have moved for work for centuries.
I like how the Hashicorp staff is addressing concerns here /s
Damn I dont know what to say to this. Should I pissed off on all this backtracking and BS arguments for RTO? Or should I "pleasantly" surprised that instead of playing the "talk to your manager/hr" ping pong game leadership (remember Robert California episode in the Office with Andy stuck in between RC and his Wife for an office job??) is actually owning up to their BS policies?
Hate is a very strong claim. Nothing is perfect but in my experience all of the strong negative reactions were fundamentally attribution error where some combination of culture, limited technical depth, and poor architecture skills created a problem but it was politically appealing to say it was Terraform rather than, say, not reading a plan before destroying resources or building something far more complicated than the business needed.

In every case, the same people made the same mistakes with other tools. A common trait was that they [incorrectly] thought they were rock star developers and boring details like how their code actually runs were beneath them so they wasted huge amounts of time on deep module structures (or with CDK, elaborate TypeScript hierarchies) but resisted learning how the AWS resources they used actually worked.
Innernet is also in this space. Also rust, but using wiregaurd.

https://github.com/tonarino/innernet
Assigning copyright to something like the FSF or the Free Qt Foundation is not at all like assigning copyright to Hashicorp or Microsoft or Oracle.
The only thing it can mean is Spacelift have to license Terraform from Hashicorp, and pass the cost onto the customer, making them less price competitive than before. That's literally it. I'm confused by the moral high horsing PR release. Time to pay up.
FraudGPT: The Villain Avatar of ChatGPT
I agree. I'm not big on social medias (except this site) but I have absolutely no use for post-2012 Facebook. Banning news sources from it would improve it considerably in my eyes.
Reading the CVR again, he did in fact ask for the controls ("So give me the
controls") several times, but still seemed to be under the impression that they were in overspeed, or at least had to climb.

I think my sibling comment is probably right, Bonin would've required much more severe shouting to take his hand off the stick.

Certainly worth reading: https://bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/annexe.01.en.pdf
The worst is sites that fails when Sentry is blocked as part of tracking protection
> Amazon is just a lose federation of mostly autonomous orgs.

Great, that will come in handy when it comes time to break them into separate companies.
Alanis Morissette articulated it quite well: "I'm broke but I'm happy, I'm poor but I'm kind"

Morality doesn't have to come with a price tag.
They seem to be using this custom add-on collection: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1620123...

But that was already possible to do on regular Firefox Beta and Nightly. We just had to create our own collection, like Iceraven did.
That 'strawberry' body looks far more like areas of the small tentacles were busted off - those nubs look exactly like the first link of a tentacle?
what about gnumeric, observablehq, jupyter, the unix shell, and the browser console (firebug and its clones)

admittedly it's hard to save the state of the page after you hack on it in the browser console, but jupyter doesn't really have that problem
Higher prices would be a great incentive to keep my SO on their butt and not flying, and that way I could also fly less.
"The potential side effects are still insufficiently researched" so that's all right.
Those "oopsie-doopsie, website made a poopsie" infantilizing error messages are just awful. Tell the user 1. specifically what went wrong, 2. what, if anything, they can do to correct, and 3. a token (like an error message) that could be useful for tech support or reporting a bug.

People's heads aren't going to explode if you treat them like functioning adults.
The x87 FPU used here gives 80 bits of storage, so it's actually 2^80*2^80 operand pairs.
The wait between major video game sequels is getting longer
> I've never gotten the point of squash-merge.

1. Broken intermediate commits hamper git bisect.

2. Fixup commits are noisy in git log, git blame, etc.

Note: there's zero issue with NON-BROKEN, NON-FIXUP commits. Separating large changes is even preferable for the reasons you stated.

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tl;dr Broken intermediate commits are bad; whole intermediate commits are good.
The parent post says "different error lights" and that might be indicative of experience with European cars. In, say, an Audi, there are 3 or 4 different subsystem lights, with yellow indicating a "get it looked at" issue and red a "stop now" problem. And "might literally explode" usually results in an engine shutdown.

> Computers show errors on a daily basis and most of them are trivially fixable

As they say, "citation required". How do I fix my Windows Update 0x80070422 error? (And yeah, I know, don't use Windows -- but I have plenty of *ix examples as well...)
Dunno. Sounds like a normal price correction after years of stock shortage due to lack of chips.
They’re talking about the risks also, read the article!
I think I've trained myself to keep most important issues rather shallow and funnelled through my email. So, that's the bottle neck. I do often think "Wow, I'm doing some data forensics on myself, ha!" as I try to search for whatever address or number that I need in the stream of the last 20 years.

I do feel like Google will nail down that for Gmail pretty soon. Having a conversational search instead of the old style search bar. So, I guess, if you can get yours working first you might be able to sell it to them in a couple years (or less).
Yes. Hard to distinguish except for the trademark on the nobs.
This is a fabulously well written article in the means of a technical thriller.

"All of this happened near instantaneously, leaving the pilots completely in control of the airplane with little advance warning."

Complex systems have such a low-window for handling or preventing failure that it is impossible to deal with it at manual scale unless we have a super-good control panels and copilots.

Why we need a lot more work on observability and interpretability while operating complex systems.
Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction
> Gitlab is losing money.

GitLab (Enterprise) is also proprietary software.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_Found_in_a_Bathtub

Related, great Stanislaw Lem novel about the "Great Decomposition" of paper.
Sure, simple.

I'll just pack up my family of four and move to a bachelor apartment to save the commute.

I choose to have a family, and I choose to work too, I suppose.

Maybe $JOB will provide me a raise to do so.
"Hard mints are hard candies or boiled sweets flavored with mint. Examples of hard mints include starlight mints, also known as pinwheel mints, white, circular, with red or green rays emitting from the middle; candy canes; humbugs; and brand name mints such as Altoids and Ice Breakers."
This will be dead within 3 months. The naivety with which your company made this fork tells me all I need to know about Digger as a product.
Why? For pay? SDEs at Amazon make more than a lot of C-level employees at smaller companies. Working conditions? Oh no, you have to show up to an air conditioned office three days a week (not even five!). The amount of entitlement is insane.
What if we made software with the expectation that end users would make at least a few changes? This would greatly simplify things.

Though they don't really say so in their philosophy statement, I think the suckless.org software tends to be like this. Configuration/customization of their software tends to be: change the code and/or header files, and recompile.

It makes the code simpler and reduces the attack surface area by reducing the handling of untrusted input.

To me there is a slight difference between open source software and editable software.

Open source is editable, certainly, but most users will never do this. They will install a package from their package manager and use it, exactly as they would install an app from the App Store. The software is written with this expectation.

Editable software would be written with the explicit expectation that a user will tweak it to his or her liking. It would be like buying unfinished furniture or a roughed-in house -- the framework is all there, but the buyer is expected to do some work to get it to its final desired state.
> With magic money? Do you think mozilla employees and firefox employees should starve? Should they be making firefox entirely as charity?

Well they've got enough magic money considering the salaries of their C-suite, so short-term needs are absolutely covered.

Long-term the Google subsidy will eventually dry up but focusing on an enterprise-grade browser (see my other comment here) is worth a shot.

Charity isn't actually that bad of an idea either, since Mozilla Foundation is actually a non-profit (but somehow owns a for-profit company that pays insane salaries to execs? Shady as fuck). Developing a browser that is actually focused on the user fits with their purported mission and will do more to improve the web than all the auxiliary projects/initiatives they've done so far.
Thank you, I added it to my Amazon list just to remind myself based on your comment.
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Ok - what is the location? What is the CoL? In the bay area a crappy 60 y/o house costs north of 2M. Are you sure the "directors" you are comparing with are living in comparable neighborhoods buying houses at the same time or living off an inherited property or something they lucked into in the early 2010?
I despise that check engine light for exactly that reason. It would be much more helpful if the car also displayed the error code that made the light turn on. Then I'd know how urgent the issue is and whether I need to take it to the shop.

But then, I'm a dev, not a normal person.
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Isn't Kiwi really outdated though?
It's in the readme of the github project.

> In short, the main reasons why MPIRE is faster are:

When fork is available we can make use of copy-on-write shared objects, which reduces the need to copy objects that need to be shared over child processes

Workers can hold state over multiple tasks. Therefore you can choose to load a big file or send resources over only once per worker

Automatic task chunking