skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting court case happening in Dallas right now between two former radio hosts and their former employer. Basically, the hosts were unsatisfied that they didn't own their own material and that they couldn't get corporate to bump the pay of the producers and board operators who helped make their show work. So they proposed a solution where they would record additional content in the form of a podcast and use a subscription to that material to pay these other guys more money. While the hosts were slated to make ~$250K each for 3 hours of airtime a day, producers usually make around $35K, and board ops less.

The corporate side said no, and thus the hosts resigned. This began the enforcement of a non-compete agreement that the hosts thumbed their noses at, immediately starting up a podcast in the same format as their radio show, with a similar name. They were promptly sued for violation of the non-compete and currently have a TRO until they have mediation next Monday. They had accumulated around 4000 subscriptions at $6.90 a month in about a month's time.

Twitter-adherent people might be familiar with one of their lawyers Matt Bruenig, who is a socialist lawyer with a strong internet presence and has been involving himself in NLRB related matters since he was in college. He's a friend of one of the hosts and is apparently using this as a test case to try to at least limit what non-competes in the entertainment industry can enforce. At one point, two of the drive-time show hosts went to corporate and asked to have their current contracts rewritten to have their contracts end at the same time as the proposed new contract of these hosts. They were shot down. This will be brought up in court as a strike against collective bargaining.

For example, it's standard in radio non-competes that you do not broadcast within the listening area of your market for the duration of the non-compete. The format and name of the show is owned by the radio corp. And should you decide to negotiate with any third party during the course of your contract or non-compete for better pay, you are required under the terms of the contract to disclose these to the company because they have the right of first refusal. The argument of these hosts is that they are not technically competing with the radio station because they took their show online and do not release the show until late in the evening after the station's unsyndicated content has run its course.

The hosts claim that the non-compete is unfair. The station claims that they've spent considerable money promoting the hosts and would suffer financial injury if hosts could just roll off of a contract and directly into a podcast. IMO they both have valid points.
The datahoarder subreddit is probably the best place to ask for this info.
Same things arrays are used for in all mainstream languages ie. index-based access.
Because that's how LLM chatbots are designed. Those papers describe systems where the review process is automated for better results.
No, that's very possible. The problem is our obsession with making everything single-serve and disposable. I think this is what you are looking for:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stainless+steel+tea+infuser+ball
Here are some of my perspectives on how mental health chatbot can be helpful:

Chatbots can provide immediate support to a large number of people at any time, making mental health resources more accessible to those who might not have easy access to traditional therapy.

Some individuals may feel more comfortable discussing their mental health with a chatbot due to the anonymity it offers, allowing them to open up about sensitive topics without fear of judgment.

Conversational AI can contribute to normalizing conversations around mental health. When a widely used technology addresses these topics, it can help reduce the stigma associated with seeking help for mental health issues.

Mental health struggles can arise at any time. Having a chatbot available 24/7 ensures that support is available even during non-business hours or emergencies.
Release engineer here, we see this as complementary to environments. When you spin up your infrastructure and environments using our service, how do you interact with them? How do you see what is happening? How can you (easily, as a lay person) figure out how to diagnose, maybe even fix, problems? That is the idea, hope you like it.
By easily, you mean fight them forever in an un-ending arms race like we see in every other form of online fraud? Sounds like a great plan.
>The best use of LLMs that I've seen so far is as a boilerplate-producing autocomplete system. Considering that we have better ways to automate this (better programming languages that can abstract away the boilerplate), this is not very high praise.

I think it's in our nature as software people to look at their ability to work with code, but they're quite good when applied to general language tasks. I've been using them for summarisation and reading comprehension and they're quite effective. I've also been working with a teacher friend on seeing if they can generate well-scoring essays on highschool English essays (as always, the problem is prompting and context).

On code, GPT-3.5 (moreso GPT-4) seems to have a good ability to generate and translate smaller scale code problems (hundreds of lines in low-boilerplate languages) but yes, they're like an eternally junior engineer whose work you're constantly having to oversee for subtle bugs, and I don't know that it actually saves time.

I'm pretty sure people are working on different approaches to applying them to code, with better prompting+context from larger codebases, and multi-step processing (i.e. rather than just a single prompt->response, letting the model iterate through a few steps independently, possibly guided by other adversarial/supervisor agent instances, testcase generators, etc.)

>If you're going to include the whole animal on the human side, you need to include the whole supply chain on the LLM side. The cost of building all the fabs and doing all the R&D to develop and manufacture model training-specific computers (matrix multiplier hardware). Just like with crypto, these resources had to be diverted away from other things (e.g. causing the price of gamers' graphics cards to skyrocket). It's only fair to interrogate the ROI.

That's fair, although it gets complicated to work out numbers because we don't train many LLMs, whereas we're constantly training humans, each of whom cost the planet tons of CO2 emissions every year... and, of course, your point that LLMs just aren't very good yet. I fear that they're good enough (or appear to be to the layperson) that execs will replace customer support staff with them, even if the outcomes overall aren't as good.
Build Something AI Wants
You can also get a re-usable metal mesh infuser.
maybe

maybe not

If you check the links I provided, you'll see "startups" are included in those metrics

And successful (by whatever other metric you want to count) startups (and businesses in general) are relatively rare ...pretty sure I've heard that only about ~1:10 new businesses make it past 3 years. And "startups" have an even lower overall success rate.

You also have to account for serial founders - who may have a list of "not successful" and/or "failed" businesses before finally having a "successful" one ... which also, by dint of physics, means they'll - on average - be older by the time they are "successful" :)
> There was never a concrete, non-criminal (important caveat) application where crypto was easier than just using PayPal or whatever.

That isn't true.

You can use it anywhere that irreversibility matters. Suppose you're going to commit significant resources to the customer's request, so you charge them, commit the resources, deliver the goods, and then discover that they gave you a stolen credit card and you get a chargeback. Cryptocurrency avoids that.

You can use it to accept payments from all over the world. Someone in Asia or Africa may not be able to open a US bank account or get a US credit card, but if they can find a Bitcoin ATM to put their local currency into, they can pay you, or vice versa.

It allows you to pay for something over the internet without giving your name. There are situations where this is important.

The main impediment to using it is, ironically, regulatory. The IRS decided that it's an investment and not money so every time you want to use it for what it's actually supposed to be for, they treat it like a securities transaction where you have to fill out paperwork, even if you're just buying a pack of gum. Which makes it much less convenient for ordinary people to use than cash or credit cards which don't require this -- presumably on purpose in order to destroy its utility in the US.

But it can still be useful for people in countries that don't do this, or in the US if a less explicitly antagonistic regulatory environment could be established.
I think they were still there but it started showing your icloud notes instead of asking you to import your local notes into icloud.

Apple still hasn't learned how to do online stuff...
4.5k of information behind a 6s load/animation.

Powerful technology.
"For many people, the idea of a 'garbage patch' conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called microplastics. Microplastics can’t always be seen by the naked eye. Even satellite imagery doesn’t show a giant patch of garbage. The microplastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can simply make the water look like a cloudy soup. This soup is intermixed with larger items, such as fishing gear and shoes.

"The seafloor beneath the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may also be an underwater trash heap. Oceanographers and ecologists recently discovered that about 70 percent of marine debris actually sinks to the bottom of the ocean" (https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...)
> all([])
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> any([])
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Not very consistent philosophy in that case. Surely if 'all' is True then 'any' got to be too?
You definitely can if they're blatantly not using the product as designed. If I offer "unlimited pdf storage" and then people start encoding petabytes of videos as PDFs, that's abusing the system. Dropbox for business is for business documents, not for crypto miners
Metal tea balls are also available to brew tea.
The link "Changed to GPL v3" was actually "change to Enterprise Edition license. So that's a bizarre comment to make in the blog post.

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/4671d4afb4d3...
Unless these "forever chemicals" (poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, per the article), can get stuck up a turtle's nose, nobody cares. Plastic straws aren't banned because they are bad for the environment, they're banned because one got stuck up a turtle's nose.
You’re falling for the trap I’m suggesting you avoid. Stop caring about platonic ideals of what Good Code ought to be, and start focusing on how well the code solves the problems it was built to solve.

You can call that good code if you want, but my argument is to stop caring about the code’s “quality”, as a value it carries independent of the problem.
Thanks - I've reverted the title now (minus the "to us" as I don't know who else they'd be a danger to).

Submitted title was "Does wearing waterproof clothing increase PFAS in our bodies?".

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Only 97 hours of iPhone ProRes 4k video, which is 6 GB per minute.
The reason you go with process isolation over VM isolation is performance. If you share a kernel, you share memory managers and pages, scheduler, limits, groups, etc. If you get better performance running VMs vs running processes, then what was even your isolation layer for?

But at the end of the day, there is a line in the sand around hypervisors vs proc/kernel isolation models. I challenge you to go to a financial or medical institute and tell their CTO "yeah, we have this super bullet proof shared-kernel-inproc isolation model"

The first question you'd get is "Why is this not just part of upstream linux?" Answer that question and realize why you should just use a hypervisor.
I rarely see plastic tea bags here in the US (outside of Starbucks). Most use filter paper.
Data is also immutable in Clojure but it still has vectors.
> at the current HDD sizes, "classic" RAID is not sufficient.

Eh, RAID 6 is fine. Your chance of losing two extra drives in a two day rebuild isn't that high if you've been testing your drives regularly.

And if you haven't been testing regularly, even small drives would eventually have some scary risks of dying.

That said, 50% more drives with raidz3 is a lot safer than RAID 6.
They could also add a clause to the ToS prohibiting specific activities, but instead it appears they are just cancelling the service entirely.
Sure, it works in vitro. Call me when it's in vivo!
I don't know how much you know about water filtration plants, but in the real world everything is a series of filters, each more fine-grained than the one before it. You would never use this on unfiltered ocean or waste water - it would be yet-another-stage in the filtration pipeline, after many of the others and possibly before a few more.
> perhaps 'unlimited' could be read as a class of user that encompasses the vast majority of cases, as opposed to a literal resource quota. Is this reasonable or deceptive?

Depends on the facts and circumstances. When cellular providers throttled unlimited plans, I felt like it was deceptive. In this case, I do not. I am curious if those cut off genuinely feel they were deceived.
> The TS1170 drive operates at 400MBps raw throughput

Am I reading this right? At that throughput it would take about a year to fill a compressed tape (assuming 3:1 ratio is achievable).

Or is there some parallelism involved? (i.e. many tracks written in parallel to the tape, I don't know a lot about tape drives)
> Big cloud providers have disk replacement robots […]

[citation needed]
GitHub works ok on iOS with Working Copy, but it seems a little more error prone than Sync, which Just Works. I use Sync for primary syncing, and Obsidian Git for secondary.
This is a GitHub repo, not a NASDAQ corp. Shareholders’ bottom line will never be my concern in the mental health space. If someone wants to build a startup in this space, they should organize it as a public benefit corporation, non-profit, or a co-op.

In terms of outcomes, many people are put on hold calling the suicide hotline. In terms of pranks, the suggested one is criminal and would be prosecuted as such. In terms of accidents, yeah, if this were a product, it needs more fineprint and guardrails.
>In magnetic tapes, either barium ferrite or strontium ferrite are preferred to ferromagnetic metals that have been used in the past, because they already are oxides, so they cannot be oxidized by the air, which enables long lifetimes for the magnetic tapes, of at least thirty years.

This was very interesting. I quit paying attention to tape formulations decades ago, but even when paying attention, I only knew of the names vs actually knowing this level of detail.
I'm pretty sure he isn't sore - what made you think that? I asked him at one point and was surprised at how sanguine he was about it.
The term 'chatbot' has become hopelessly conflated with LLMs in only the last two years, but they're not the only 'chatbot' frameworks in town. Nor are they even properly chatbots in the sense that they can do real dialogue management, slot filling, intent classification, and reliable API calling.

An actual chatbot framework like dialogflow or rasa would be more appropriate here. Even if the conversations feel more artificial, you have drastically more control over the flow of the conversation and the content of the responses.

It's pitiful. The collective amnesia this community has.
This app is really well done! Get ready for just “one more book”
Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
I think you misunderstood the analogy.

Knowing of Mindustry but not Factorio is like knowing Roblox but not Minecraft.

It's like knowing Arch Linux, but somehow never hearing about Ubuntu.
The government is paternalistic by nature, so just say "I don't want government" instead of some weird statement that most people would likely feel is fundamentally opposite of how privacy should work (Most private by default, opt OUT).

Do you believe that most consumers fit your description? That most people fully comprehend what selling their data represents? If so, how do you reconcile that belief with the date presenting by the polling? Is the polling bad, and if so why not attack their methodology? Is there an alternative conclusion you're able to come to?
Release engineer here. That's an excellent question, and we worry about it all the time. The AI "seems" authoritative, but it can't even add 1+1 sometimes :crying-emoji:. We've tried to engineer the prompts and tooling so that it will say "I don't know" if it doesn't know. But we've still seen it say some crazy things, like "Your cluster is fine" when it clearly wasn't. :tounge-sticking-out-emoji: I guess the only real answer is you have to trust but verify.
It's not like subconscious knowledge must be valid subconscious knowledge. The ideomotor phenomenon is an expression of internal belief, which may be little different than a wild-ass guess.

There's no evidence that the dowser is tapping into subconscious knowledge in a way that gives results any better than - or different from - chance.
Well if you click on the link you can see that 5 is the only odd untouchable, much like how 2 is the only even prime. Maybe there's a connection that ties them to cryptography?
Since this is currently talking to AWS and k8s directly, unless you are setup in a way that would let AWS know about the intrusion detection, then this is likely out of scope for now.

Similar to the logs/systems access. If AWS or k8s can read the logs, there is a chance we can crunch them, if they are in a separate logging platform, we would currently be unable to fetch that information. Great ideas for future features though!

It is currently read only yes.
Data Pipelines Pocket Reference: Moving and Processing Data for Analytics

Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
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May OP's answer is now part of the meme ?
TIL there was a version of UNIX for PDP-7, and PDP-7 did not have MMU, therefore UNIX by definition do not require MMU, and that version of UNIX had been archeologied in a runnable form on GitHub[1]

1: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/pdp7-unix
Words mean things. Unlimited means without limit. If that isn't what you are offering, use another word.
yeah, I really wish the FTC would really come down on companies using 'unlimited', but companies coming out and saying "customers using the service as advertised are abusing it" are ridiculous. I do appreciate that they're at least going to a hard limit instead of a "at our discretion" limit that a lot of phone carriers used for a long time.
That comment has been unfairly misread over the years. He wasn't being dismissive, he was trying to help them with their YC application (that's what "app" meant on HN in 2007).

Here is how BrandonM responded after Drew replied: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479. If that's a prototypical HN dismissal, we're in the sixth sphere of Paradiso.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Everything about that article is delightful. Author is way too modest to point out that it’s a stunning achievement.
If you're washing your teapot, you're doing it wrong. A light rinse is enough. Over time a patina will build up on the inner walls of the pot, some say this makes the tea better.
I don't think that is correct. 50tb / 400mb/s = 1.45 days
Freelance contractor jobs are the way to go. Easy for people to sack you (...or just not renew) so a lower risk for them. They're typically in a hurry too, so might not be too concerned about long winded interview processes

Perhaps also broaden horizons to typescript and (pains me to say this) react.

Good luck.

Edit: just looked at your resume. It is a bit ... fruity - might be worth sticking to something straight-laced and focusing specifically on skillset until you are out of the danger zone.
No, it wasn’t hyper–optimized, it just doesn’t draw many triangles or use many light sources. There is simply a lot less for the renderer to do than in a modern game.
You're probably right; I just remember him coming across as upset when I mentioned it a while back. Like I said, I could easily have been the target of all that ribbing myself, and I don't know that I would be any happier about it.
You should link the source if you're quoting stuff. (Posted below: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...)
I can only imagine how this survey went. At least half the respondents wouldn't even quite now what a privacy law for the internet is or does.
You seem to be arguing that downloading copyrighted material without permission is not copyright infringement. "Acquire 'unlicensed' copies" is exactly downloading without permission. You are making a copy, thus infringing on the author's copyright.
It's not platonic, my argument is empiric.

The physician - operates "via negativa". He tries to find faults with the given body, tries his best, and when can't find - he calls it "healthy".

The engineer/businessman can look at the code from an empirical point of view.

If onboarding is bad -> code is bad

If understandability is bad -> code is bad

If deployment is bad -> code is bad

And so on. As you eliminate these issues, your "code quality" increases (just like as you eliminate disease, the body becomes more healthy).

Look into say, Taiichi Ohno's Toyota Production Management - one associates "zero defect" ~= "quality". So, the term quality alludes to a continuous elimination of faults and shortcomings.

The aggregate placeholder/banner term 'code quality' stems from very firm practical sources, that can be inspected, amended and improved.
Right but there's nothing database specific in it is there?
Alas, the alternative appears to be to shut down their 'unlimited plan', and blame crypto. Sorry for those customers who bought into their failed product offering.
Again, take the data buying and selling and set it aside. That's kind of like a whole separate thing.

Even without data brokers, there is tons of fraud and snake-oil. When you are comparing advertising success, website traffic, email delivery, product usage, etc - actually getting consistent user data between them is a nightmare. Everyone has incentive to pump up their own numbers. And oftentimes the reporting you are engaging in is so complicated that a lot of companies rely on consultants to do all of the work.

> I don't think that many companies (buyers) have the guts to stop for - say - 6 months all advertising on a given channel and see what happens.

Our company had a broken ad run on LinkedIn for 6 months. It cost us over $100k. The manager's response was "Can we turn them on again until we fix them? I need to spend the budget or I will lose it."
My point was simply that no one is doing that. That isn't what these are for, and an enterprise that wants to provide a thin client desktop can't use anything that doesn't run the applications the business already uses, so they are going to be deploying an actual windows desktop hosted in the cloud using any of the many solutions available from tier 1 cloud provides or others to do that.
Cheaper tea bags are made out of paper and they work just fine. Tetley, for instance.