skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This needs to be said in every single thread where the IA comes up. With all the pearl clutching about how "irresponsible" and "reckless" Kahle is, you would think he owes something personally to each and every one of us. He's fighting tooth and nail for what he believes in. Anyone who doesn't like that should go build something of their own and fight in the way that they see fit.
Hmm, given the average age of a millenial is ~33 the statistic and the claim (exaggerated as it is) don't necessarily need to be totally out of alignment.
I used this for a while. Funny how it even has a "damage meter" estimating how many $ of ads I've clicked on the page. At some point Google started occasionally giving me captchas just when I searched stuff, saying they detected unusual behavior.
Even though ACID-compliant databases are very trustworthy, it's still bad practice to mutate amounts of money in-place, even if you trust the database not to duplicate or destroy money. "Accountants shouldn't use erasers" and all that.

If you're dealing with money, you should at a minimum have some kind of ledger, and derive the current state from that.

Calling an SQL transaction "Classic funds transfer" is a bit of a disservice to all the banking that happened before databases. Mesopotamians were recording transactions on clay tablets 5000 years ago.
I live in a country where people don't clean their dog's shit. I don't look up when I walk
Help: what are “headless e-commerce stores?”

Is that like having an eComm shop built atop Shopify?
Click the multi-container tab. Click "open in new tab". Then pick the container. This will give you a blank page in container. Type the url. Boom! The site url will now be attached to that container.
In my experience not a lot of human effort is required to operate a modern pedal "assist" ebike. Unless I'm going up a very steep hill the vast majority of the time I find myself "ghost pedaling" just to keep the motor going.

I actually vastly prefer throttle-control as I consider it much safer. You can ask for the exact amount of speed you need as well as cut the motor instantly any time and there's no "herky-jerky" feeling like you get from some pedelecs.

I've had pedelec-controlled ebikes shoot away from me when I am trying to walk them somewhere or dismount, or just trying to adjust the peddle position at a stop, but this has never happened to me on a throttle-controlled ebike.
Ask HN: What was the Data Engineering book recently recommend in HN comments?
There was a book that people in the comments seem to overwhelmingly recommend but I can no longer find.

The bits I remember were it was written in 2017, possibly O'Reilly, maybe 375 pages long
My favorite bit of Apple user experience is when I get a text and don't read it immediately. My phone will buzz me again two minutes later to really reinforce the urgency.

/s
I was asked to sign one once, I said no, and it turned out the startup had just got some standard contracts from someone and was using them because they had them, not because of some specific concern so they had no problem changing them to something mutually acceptable. Any company that won't do this is not worth working with.
> If i weren't an iOS dev, i would have ran away from the apple ecosystem a long time ago.

Yeah, instead of drivers for M1, I'd be more impressed+happy if someone implemented the iOS APIs running on Linux, like we have Wine for Windows on Linux.
It generalizes to any arithmetic sequence. Intuitively, you're simply taking the average of all values (which is the midpoint for a sequence of evenly-spaced numbers) and multiplying by the number of values.
This would be a good moment to ask for good free Python courses.
This might be related to France/Canada news organisations asking for money if their headlines/summaries are used in a link preview.
Oh dang, diarization? How well does it work?
Does it support syncing? I have a MacBook but I mainly use my Windows desktop as well as an Android phone, all with Firefox.
I forgot to mention. I believe they were from England.
There a reason a number of sites have taken similar positions about HN.

It’s more toxic on a few axis.
I imagine since they're on the receiving end, they'd know. Also if even one HNer tried to dox me I'd ban the lot of you, and I'm a relatively cantankerous straight white guy.
If you are doing transactions across Microservices you have done "Microservices" incorrectly. Divide your microservices along business, not technical, concerns.

While Microservices themselves can/should absolutely use transactions internally, they should be coarse grained actions. A call into a microservice should either fail and complete, but never leave a system in a partial state.
Nostalgic? Sure

Do I actually want to play these ten really basic games today? Maybe for five minutes

Is it worth $120? Nope
> Rebirth being untrue does not imply nothing comes after death.

Yes, the best way Vedantists as well as Buddhists scholars explain this is that even if there is no rebirth, you need to understand that a lot of us agonize ourselves in this life over our own deaths. I have seed devout christians who lived good life just feeling terrified about hell when the moment of death comes near.

The Buddhist and also Hindu doctrine while does address life after death also provides you very actionable advice to avoid suffering in this life itself before death too.
Supawaldo – Photo sharing platform powered by face recognition
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The security team at work implemented these policies. The first time we saw the alert it was exciting - they have fired enough that now everyone ignores them

Is it normal for the security team to be hated at a company?
Yes, on Bing.
How to Write Software with Zero bugs – 25 years after qmail 1.0 – D. Bernstein [pdf]
Ask HN: Azure ChatGPT GitHub repo no longer available?
I was excited about the fact that we could finally use GPT without worrying about privacy issues. I saw this on HN a while ago:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112741

But now the link no longer works. Did Microsoft stop doing this?

- https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt
>It isn't necessarily the case that nothing leaving Earth today could ever get past that horizon. Light can travel forever if nothing ever scatters it. Given some very large amount of time, it can beyond the boundary depicted there.

Careful with that. You could indeed aim a beam of light to deep space trying to reach something on the edge of the observable universe, and that beam could indeed some day travel 46.6 billion light years[1] away from the Earth, however the beam could never reach the stars[2] that were right on the edge when you shot out the beam, because those stars[3] would have receded out into the event horizon in the intervening time.

[1] The current radius of the observable universe is greater than the age of the universe due to expansion.

[2] Or whatever happened to be at that same location after countless billions of years.

[3] Actually it's not the stars receding, but the space those stars reside in.
And this is exactly the kind of attitude they don’t want to deal with.
It's kind of crazy that Google of all places doesn't have any sort of system to alert when one of their devices signs on from a location not associated with that employee.
Believe Quora. Believe the news articles. Believe the current and former employees that post and comment on HackerNews. Here's some light reading:

"Amazon leaders are worried that a 'Day 2' mindset is seeping in at the company" [1]

"A top Amazon executive recently said he had 'no data' to support the company's return-to-office mandate, prompting criticism from frustrated employees"[2]

"Inside Amazon's little-known Slack channel for performance improvement: Leaked messages reveal anguish, despair, but also community"[3]

"I was a manager at Amazon. My boss encouraged me to quit after I defended a high-performing employee who was about to get the lowest performance rating."[4]

"Amazon employees are internally sharing mock leadership principles that make fun of the company's aggressive RTO policy: 'Disagree and comply'"[5]

"A bunch of Googlers who used to work at Amazon are internally sharing horror stories about their former employer's 'frupid' and aggressive culture"[6]

"'Stress, burnout, churn, and a cut-throat atmosphere': An internal Amazon study slams the company's culture."[7]

"'Frupidity' is a new word making the rounds inside Amazon, a combo of the company's 'frugality' leadership principle and 'stupidity'"[8]

"This leaked document shows exactly how Amazon managers evaluate employee performance and decide pay"[9]

"An Amazon manager told staff to collect donations if they wanted to keep buying cereal for their office"[10]

"The downside of life inside Amazon's cloud growth engine: ProServe employees describe a culture of bullying, derogatory remarks, and retaliation"[11]

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-leaders-aws-day-two-m...

[2]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-mock-leader...

[3]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-slack-channel-for-wo...

[4]https://www.businessinsider.com/former-amazon-corporate-mana...

[5]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-mock-leader...

[6]https://www.businessinsider.com/former-amazon-employees-who-...

[7]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-earths-best-employer-...

[8]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-use-frupidi...

[9]https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-document-shows-how-am...

[10]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-manager-told-staff-to...

[11]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-proserve-culture-inve...
> the Python part faded away and we ended up enabling JavaScript Custom Functions in Excel instead.

Nobody could have anticipated that GPT4 would author Python better than anything else.

Nonetheless, I kind of just want Google Drive except Excel, without adopting anything more than the Office ecosystem, that just works with simultaneous editing.
I am in a pretty similar situation to you: founder, but no big FU money exit. Debt + stress slowly killing me. Wondering if I can make it, how embarrassing to go back to getting a job, etc. Know that if i can stick it out, there's a few mill.

Well, I can only share what I did, which is call up a couple of friends of mine who I knew needed my skillset and did a couple consulting contracts for them, which then led to taking a full time position.

Do what you need to do to take care of your mental health and forget the rest.

Taking on side work doesn't necessarily spell the end of your business, but one thing is for sure (and this I also had to follow for myself): no more putting the business finances ahead of your own.

I had to get my business to a place where it wasn't losing money so it could continue without my everyday involvement. If you can't do that - then scrap it, take a job with a steady paycheck for a couple years, pay off your debt and, if it still sounds appealing, you can always start another company.

It's tough. Best of luck to you!
Hey should get sued for FSD claim
Contra is a great beginners dance that is also fun for experienced dancers. It is basically just walking, no fancy steps.

A friend of mine used to host Contra dances done to techno with nightclub like strobes that were very popular with the university students nearby.
You can, yes: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Agreed - I have my collection encoded in Opus on my phone's SD card.

Tempted to do the same for my in-home setup to lock the sample rate at 48KHz - my tired old home server struggles to down-sample the higher resolution FLACs that I have before throwing it to SnapCast.
Was it Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann?

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/23463279
If you're too lazy to make a Linux driver for your hardware, it's a hardware issue.
Free market working as intended.

If he's keeping up with his tasks and Google is satisfied, why work more?
Did Google culture in 2011/2012 then again in 2022/2023.

2011 was watching them recruit and hire everyone smart enough to sit around to just make stuff and eat each other's dogfood. There were posters for little experiments to try at the elevators or lobbies. Good times! Will we release this Dropbox clone or not? Should we drop this dorky AR glasses or not? Anything is possible in the quest to organize the world's information and free food!

2022 was watching the new cohorts come in and realize the game is now just throwing stuff against the wall, clinch an exec to back you, get to google scale, and get your bonus so you can finally buy a house in a post-G+ landscape. Oh, on top of that you're really just a pawn in a corrupt game of keepaway from the other companies.

Now everything scaled back, a lot of projects get scrutinized, then boom, someone else is taking Google R&D and productizing it better than Google PMs can and we don't know what to do anymore. But we still do leetcode, and if you pass then just press that space bar so you can buzz in during the standup to say all good, no updates.

This new silicon valley era is weird.
Blatant stock-owner propaganda.

How many engineers work 12 hour days and come in on weekends, all unpaid.
I have been using https://www.yworks.com/products/yed for years. You can import a c4 palette probably. I do not really stick to specific shapes but use what makes sense for the context.
> I really wish they'd share some info as to if we'll be able to fine tune the multimodality of GPT-4 as well.

Literally the first sentence in the article:

> Fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo is now available, with fine-tuning for GPT-4 coming this fall.
We take it for granted. But intellectual decline is a real thing. My memory was superior before. And my work processes revolved around superior memory. Then I got sick for 19 days with severe headaches. And I was not the same after.

I deserved it too. I was too proud and demeaning others for not being able (like me) to remember things.
Do they have "reveal codes" function (like Word Perfect has) yet?
I did not argue that it was inert. I actually argued that

1.) not really doing what enthusiasts claimed it was specifically doing.
2.) making people become develop bizarre beliefs and generally become irrational.

It can be a cult pseudoscience while not being inert.
This idea could be useful to prove, for example, illegal use of a OSS-licensed library in a closed-source software.

Also, I can understand Apple's mindset on this matter: you'd be rather disgusted if someone took the code you wrote and claimed to have written it all by themselves. It's not the idea that was (trying to be) protected here, just the work behind the code.
A model which outputs things that OpenAI deems is unsafe. Try getting text-davinci-003 to complete instructions about building Molotov cocktails and compare that with davinci-002.
Not to be that guy, but I have one better.

My nephew is now 20. When he was 5 we gifted him some cash in a savings account (to teach him about money stuff). We were immediately served notice that he was overdue on two mortgages. It took three years to get that straightened out (and find out that his ss# was already compromised).

What a mess. What kind of an agency would see the ss#for a literal child and just think, yep, this is fine.
Indeed, and this is really missing from the public discourse. People are talking about Llama 70b as if it was a drop-in replacement for gpt-3.5, but you only have to play with both for half an hour to figure out that's not generally the case and only looks true in cherry-picked examples.
I've never seen anger from people for not responding right away (unless it's time urgent and we've discussed it beforehand, such as meeting up at a location and one party is late), and I'm relatively young. All of my friends just respond when they can, it's known that it's an asynchronous medium.
Look at the 'a' HTML tag.

<a href="https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html" rel="noreferrer">The first conformant M1 GPU driver<a>
I think a better analogy would be Deedee alone in Dexter's laboratory.
I know if I was making $150K working one hour per day and spent the rest of my time working on a startup, I would not want an article written about me and published on the internet...
Such a classic!
Brian Josephson won his Nobel and then got into transcendental meditation. He was talking pseudoscience since. It does not take away from him that he is a smart man, but it seems to have effected his rationality quite a bit.

I know some meditating academics. They all have this tendency to irrationality.
Anti-semitic is a very deliberate choice here. Anti-semitic implies a highly prejudiced hatred against jewish people. The hatred from Brahmins is exactly the same, to the extent that some of the caste grifters literally use Nazi era propaganda posters and replace the Jew with Tamil Brahmin. (I am not a Tamil Brahmin, I only observe this from outside).

See this for example: https://indicworks.org/2023/05/04/sb403-is-hindu-segregation...
I agree, I've tried numerous times to get my kids interested in the games I love from childhood, and they find them so boring. Modern games have a level of pacing, engagement, and art style that are all really attractive to kids, it's hard to get people with no nostalgia to go backwards. However, there will always be some that are attracted to retro and lofi but not the majority.
Yeah, I think the Siberia-Alaska oversea connection had been established by then as well. So had the Kilwa Sultanate (connecting much of Africa).

But I think to claim the whole world, except islands, was connected we’d have to include Australia too. And before the 17/1800s there isn’t a lot of evidence of contact between Australia and Indonesia. According to this article, maybe contact started around 1500 or so: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/9320452. Though in the same article they mention some 1000 year old Kilwan coins found off the coast of Australia so you may actually be right that we were fully connected even in 1000!
Sure, and MLK should have stuck to marches instead of organizing strikes and other highly effective but risky forms of direct action.

Kahle has stated from the outset that he wants to build a digital Library of Alexandria. He wants all media, including books, movies, music, etc to be freely available to anyone curious enough to come and look for it.

Sounds like they are continuing to do exactly what they set out to do. Maybe what they shouldn't be doing is staying in some arbitrary lane that 3rd parties have decided they belong in, and instead continue fighting for freedom and universal access in whatever way they see fit.
In this case I think it would be more like a $10 fine.
> I know two people who like to think they're not attached to their device and leave it at home when they're out.

This baffles me. Like, 80% of the reason I even have a phone is to be able to communicate/look up needed information when I'm away from home. It's when I don't leave my house for a few days that I might find I missed a bunch of important messages.
But I don't want that. I just want a live stream of translated text.
I mean, is there any proof this is real, or is this a setup for "the kids just don't want to work these days"?
My favourite AHK story ever: https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qstsdp/my_5year_g...
This will be interesting given how hiring was driven by a preference to, as one Google exec directly described it to me, have people inside the tent pissing out rather than outside the tent pissing in.

If you're not denying the staff to your potential competitors by keeping them on payroll then are all of them actually worth keeping?
> Unlike ours, the manufacturer’s M1 drivers are unfortunately not conformant for any standard graphics API, whether Vulkan or OpenGL or OpenGL ES.

Yes, it is conformant to a graphics API. It's called Metal¹. You might enjoy pretending that "the manufacturer" hasn't given a damn to provide a fully working and highly performant graphics API designed under the same roof alongside the people who designed the hardware, but this kind of petty dunking on Apple that seems to be so popular is not a good look.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_(API)

Protip: Downvoting is not the same thing as refuting someone's argument with a cogent one of your own.
> This puts Apple to shame, plain and simple

But Apple clearly has zero interest in OpenGL. Thats been obvious since before the M series chips.

What they’ve done so far and continue to do is incredible. I love following what the Asahi team has done.

But anyone can win a “race” against an opponent who refuses to play.

Shame Apple for not playing the game if you want, but they could have easily done this if they wanted to.
Interesting! I missed that last time around.

I do wonder how Adobe will fare with empowered governments in the EU, UK, and US that want to thwart these types of acquisitions for big tech. Frankly I hope they succeed too. Mergers are not good for competitive markets and Adobe nearly owning every tool out their in the design space is extremely bad.
Have you ever seen a Morris dancer? If folk clubs will accept that...

But seriously, you're right that they don't always look like they'd be welcoming. Most folk clubs tend to skew older and that often means conservative, though my experience is that most of the old folkies now were all young hippies once and honestly they are more likely to attend a rally/march than a middle aged professional with a full time job and family...
That they're in the right? What?
Bacon did it better centuries before with his idols: "And where are the testimonies from the sailors who prayed to the gods but did not return safely?"
It really didn't, though. Parts of it have already been reauthorized through different acts that are still in effect. Point is, we didn't have a referendum, we didn't bolster our laws to prevent such a thing from happening again, and zero investigations of abuses of power have credibly been done in it's wake.

"Letting it expire" is not some accomplishment other than kicking the can further down the road.
YouTube scraped my view history for years with it turned off, for recommendations. YouTube shows me a non-stop deluge of outright scam ads, dozens of times a day, and that's when it's not showing me the creep-crotch shot of a cheerleader ad. (I've reported it countless times)

I'm not rewarding any of their behavior. I don't care if I'm sort some of hypocrite, they're scummy and I will never give them a dime.
> it's also tied to the browser rendering performance of SVG, which simply wasn't designed for the scale designers operate at. It tends to get extremely slow once you have 50 or so pages in a single artboard

Haven’t tried Penpot so this is in the hypothetical, but surely not all of that needs to be kept around as full live SVG trees? You could draw the SVG to a canvas and keep it static until it changes.
That's ironic, as growing up (in the UK) the Colorado beetle was/is a serious pest

https://ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/what-to-do-if-you-see-...

;)
You can do this with PowerPoint actually. I bumped something once and Japanese subtitles popped up following what I was saying in my confusion.
Headless means that you're using e-commerce platform only via API and build your front-end in whatever tech you want (next, nuxt, Remix, etc). It's different from a traditional approach when e-commerce platform handles front-end (HTML templates rendering). In Shopify can do both.

https://www.shopify.com/enterprise/headless-commerce