skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That DB pension still has interest rate risk over a period of decades. And, although with some exceptions (charitable trusts and the like), an equivalent annuity is mostly not a great investment for individuals, there are a lot of other ways to manage risk if you're happy with a modest 6% or whatever return. For starters, I can buy long-term treasuries although that may be too safe by itself. And almost certainly wouldn't be the optimal investment for an early-career employee who may be starting to think about saving for a house down payment.

I'm perfectly happy to have an early-career pension coming that I probably didn't really think twice about at the time. However, overall, myself and I imagine most of the people here would prefer to invest their own money rather than count on the pension from the company they worked for long ago (assuming they worked for them long enough).

But maybe you just prefer effectively being forced to save at a low-risk rate which is what a DB pension is.
love Tailscale! hope it remains free
Most people can’t or won’t take ownership of something, as they don’t want to take the risks - as you note.

It’s much easier (mentally) to be told what to do and hope it eventually works out. And if it doesn’t, blame everyone else.
We've been using the ChatGPT API from Retool Workflows (for spam detection) and it's been valuable for our business. The built-in vector DB looks interesting
1) Be investment firm

2) buy houses

3) lobby govt for more immigrants saying "diversity is our strength"

4) Hire PR firms to say "diversity is our strength"

5) Immigrants need to live somewhere so housing prices go up because of demand

6) Profit
CSS Color Scheme Ideas
A little pedantic, but it's worth mentioning that the assumption here is _spoken_ languages. There's a whole set of sign languages around the world as well.
try `ollama pull llama2-uncensored`

https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama

it's not completely "uncensored", but you avoid at least some of the silliness of the standard model.
Any sort of export control/embargo that cuts off specifically VPN access to foreign nationals is supremely stupid imo
I mean, if they're allowed to remove the parking (even if the city still has to pay) that means they could get rid of the Kafkaesque bus lane situation, no?
Don't waste time disagreeing with people on social media, just prove them wrong by doing the right thing. People are really downhearted by how things have turned out in the tech industry, but maybe someday we will point to Arduino as one of the companies who turned that around. Good luck!
LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI
You don't pay the $50 to change a vote; you pay it to be the first to plant the idea of which way they should vote on a new issue. The next guy is gonna have to pay a lot more to change it.
JuiceFS 1.1: Easier Cloud Storage for Billions of Files
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

Review sites can still be helpful. Even though many reviews might be paid for, you can usually spot them if you read carefully. And then you can focus on the genuine reviews.
To look at this through the lens of an entrepreneur, "failure" is a relative term.

If you learned something which contributes to your future success, it's hardly a failure. I have lots of defunct personal software projects that "failed", but all of those failures make me pretty good at my day job.
So you're a "Cafeteria Christian"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria_Christians
Craigslist, Wikipedia, Hacker News. The best designs are fast and functional.
That's exactly what they address here under "Private and (mostly) anonymous
": https://tailscale.com/blog/mullvad-integration/

tl;dr: As always, it depends on your threat model.
I agree with a lot of principles of Servant Leadership, but boy is that ever a cringy name. I don't 'serve' anybody. It gives me the icks.
I wrote a TUI before for work, entirely of my own volition and for my own near-exclusive consumption (it was theoretically for anyone, but I'm the only person who would've had a reason to look at it - we were a fairly silo'd dev shop).

This is what made me pick TUI over a web UI:

* no web stack, period. no client/server. no js or html. this simplified the problem dramatically. also, no additional services to babysit.

* no browser - no certificates, security, auth, etc. It's just unix permissions and ssh.

* there's something comforting about the constraints of just ASCII/ANSI and curses. No bikeshedding over border widths or radii when it's just you picking among a few characters for the shape. just having less decisions to make speeds things up and helps you focus on what you actually want the UI to be able to do.

Obviously if your app is just calling APIs anyway, that might be negate some of these bullets about no additional services to babysit etc. In this case, it was running an internal infra app that directly connected to a pg db.

And what made me pick it over just having a CLI:

* discoverability - it was a complicated app and while it was all technically exposed via cli flags, having a GUI made it a lot easier to figure out what the right incantation is.

* richer communication medium that's back-and-forth instead of unidirectional. The TUI is able to fetch a list of e.g. valid IDs and let you pick them with a check-list, instead of you having to go query the db yourself and type them in.

I consider it one of my greatest victories that my boss was able to use the TUI to recover from an incident without needing to page me while I was on holiday, and he said he barely had to read the docs and felt confident he was getting it right the first time. "I did it while sipping my coffee."

I used https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna - would recommend. They even have a Swing-based emulation mode for easy development iteration running it from intelliJ.
Well, hobbling in the west has more to do with injuring another person in some way, or topics that are injurious, that would cause reputational harm or expose the model provider to excess liability. That’s significantly different than trying to alter facts or history or a singular geopolitical view of the world to ensure social passivity in the face of political shenanigans. I’m not saying lobomomizing LLMs is good or bad, but one is not like the other. The first is more around “sanitizing” for a family experience in a way that doesn’t cause reputational harm to the hosting entity, the other is about mass thought control around an entire people to align their thinking against reality.

So, the first type of lobotomy is more about aversion for certain subjects, while the second type requires directly manipulating facts contrary to what the corpus likely says in some way or another. Hence you see the weird artifacts highlighted in the article where it shows behaviors like a 30B model, wandering into weird semantic spaces and mumbling craziness in response to reasonably well posed and structured prompts.

The averse LLMs on the other than have begun to show inability to keep context between prompts as they become more lobotimized and averse. It’s like the semantic barriers cause their context to lose its value, almost like it’s averse to even correlating context without explicit instruction to remember the context.
Musk Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships
I will never forgive the producer, James Urbaniak, for what he did to Forrest’s marriage.
*collaboration, not merging, which is a good thing :)
Maybe it's just me, but when people higher up in the hierarchy than me insist on describing themselves with "low status" labels, it really rubs me the wrong way. This is something I think the military does a good job of avoiding via clarity of rank.

And speaking of the military, Jocko Willink's Extreme Ownership idea is a similar concept to "servant leadership" without the cognitive dissonance. The basic concept being: the leader takes responsibility for everything that goes wrong, full stop.
Why so pessimistic?
Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech
This project is really weird. I mean, it's normal when all you want to do is view PDFs and DOCxs and so on. But the weird thing is...you can view webm files, mpeg files, mp4 files. But they're like...not...normal.

Take for example a recent webm screencast I captured. It seems to be displaying the "compressed diff frames". It's really quite glitch-core and cyberpunk when you look at all the frames that come out.

Basically the idea is the to take an input and convert it to a linear sequence of images of pages...but...what happens when the underlying file doesn't have a "normal" representation as a "page"? well, you get weird glitchy goodness.

I love it. I am share here.

I have very happ because I recently discovered how to use latex to typeset textfiles, using pandoc / pdflatex. Previously this was offlimits. So now I have a monster of a bash script (./scripts/convert.sh) that turns all manner of crazy insane formats into nice, orderly linear image sequences. Hurra! enjoy my goodness friend!

It can run on local or deploy to a server. The docs may be a bit lacking but basically you need to:

0. Edit ./secrets/key.js to be module.exports = 'your secret api key for your doc server'

1. ./scripts/setup.sh

2. ./scripts/restart.sh

3. Open https://<hostname>/secretpage-canneverbefound.html?secert=<y... API key guy> in your browser.

4. Open your docs.

5. Profit....

(somehow)

Please consider donating...just kidding! It's free. Use it. To your heart's content (AGPL-3.0 tho huh). Weird to visualize the compression process of various image formats by seeing the "frames" that come out of this when you "Choose file" a video input.

Let me know what you think. Many things can be improved (for instance: i want to put a number control for the page number so you can scroll up and down the pages rather than click left and right to go back and forward). Suggestions welcome!
Here are some assorted considerations, in no particular order.

- Understand the use case. Who's the audience? What kinds of developers are those - do they like dense documentation, or just want a bunch of code examples so they can move on to more interesting problems that use the API?

- Look for something that can interface with code comments, such as Doxygen for C++. That will encourage engineers to keep documentation up-to-date in line with their existing work.

- Use non-proprietary formats where possible. Markdown + pandoc can be a nice option. Notion looks pretty upfront, but it get's frustrating when the keybindings are slightly non-intuitive and doesn't support how devs want to work. But this kind of depends on how involved the tooling for the existing documentation is. Maybe other stuff is already in one tool, so it makes sense to re-use the existing tool so clients don't have to navigate between tools
I really like most of the hardware buttons. But when I need to make adjustments to the map with CarPlay, the wheel control just takes too much attention with driving. "How many rotations, ohh to far too, okay zoom out, ohh okay reset the view". I wish in these cases it also allowed touch.
> It has tense markers that English lacks

English has (at least) four constructs to talk about the past: "he went", "he was going", "he has gone", and "he used to go". All four mean something clearly different. French meanwhile only has "il allait" and "il est allé" (and, technically "il alla" though nowadays that is basically only used in writing and its meaning is not clearly distinguishable from that of "il est allé").

It's easy to find examples of distinctions made by French that English doesn't make, and vice versa. That doesn't mean that either language, overall, tends to express concepts more precisely than the other.
The article is talking about British Columbia, which is laughably underpopulated, like all of Canada. BC has a population of 5.5 million, which is two million less than Hong Kong; and if you overlaid HK starting at the western edge of Vancouver, you make it about halfway to Abbotsford. Vancouver Island alone is more than ten times the size of Hong Kong.
I do think the gun owner is a good example for the given situation it's referring to.

I'm not sure 'never tell anyone' is a first rule, although I do agree that in many situations one could gain more value from other not knowing you have it.

There are some situations in which sharing possession of such a tool and the knowledge of using one could be beneficial.

Although most of the time, in most situations one would gain advantage in having defensive ability without broadcasting it to the world, and as the parent comment eluded to, one often gets by / through social interactions just fine, and due to some group's disdain for such, often gets by better, without advertising such. imho.
> … it is interesting that ERNIE is very comfortable making moral assertions …

Yeah. That’s not interesting at all. That’s the norm.
It's not only the tories:

'Labour pledges to toughen ‘weakened and gutted’ online safety bill'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pl...

It's very disheartening to see no opposition to this.
> Another consistent part is earmarked to help Arduino grow even more in the US, where we recently opened an office in Austin, TX and bolstered our presence in Chicago, IL.

Oh! I want to hear more about what they’re doing in Chicago since I’m in Chicago.
Neat. I’d like more alternatives to the current paradigm of design. For example I’m currently building a UI with gradio and I’m enjoying it vs html/JS. The level of complexity to build a usable app is about as low as I can imagine until we get to a wisywig.

As a user I don’t like what the web has become. People build UIs as if the medium is the message, but I can assure you the content is more important to me than the form. Plain text sports is popular for a reason!
I believe in mentioning origins the parent is referencing your unceremonious fork of the Wiring project

The Arduino corporation has been a great benefit to open source but it's also a classic trope of an advisor taking credit (and profits) for his students' work.

http://arduinohistory.github.io/
I’ve heard this before, but I don’t understand why people think this. Having an SBOM for a lovecraftian horror won’t make it less of a horror, and it will give people something to point at and say “it must be safe, it’s got this cryptography stuff!”
Fuck this is good, I've been manually maintaining NAT instances for each country with Mullvad on them, it was awful
> Completely and utterly false

As far as I can tell you lazide are in agreement. If your comment didn't start with "Completely and utterly false" I'd think you were writing a supporting/reinforcing follow-up!
Same goes with Palantir. No idea how the estate chooses what to go after.

"Hobbit" is rather central to the Tolkien brand; Palantir and Anduril are essentially props, so it could be that these were seen as less important instances of name-theivery.
PgCompute uses the plv8 extension on the database end. Basically, PgCompute will be transferring the function logic to the database where plv8 will get it executed. This function transfer happens only once and then PgCompute just passes the method signature for the execution.

I think that the perf impact should be negligable but you're right that the next reasonable step is to do some perf testing.

Nope, nobody uses it in prod yet. I've just released the first version.
You can pay for the service by mailing them cash: https://mullvad.net/en/pricing

They run servers with no hard drives: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/8/1/expanding-diskless-infr...
Show HN: Glee – Publish Markdown Files into Ghost Blog Posts
Hi HN,

Earlier had published a related blogpost [1] to HN. Just posting the github link, in case someone (or engg. team) finds this useful.

TLDR: A simple tool to publish markdown files into a Ghost [2] blog post. Super useful for engineering teams, because as engineers we'd rather commit our blogposts into git, and have things edited and collaborated on pure markdown. Nothing fancy.

[1]: https://journal.hexmos.com/glee/

[2]: https://ghost.org/
>> Managers who believe in servant leadership prioritize the well-being of their team instead of focusing on their objectives.

This is not really true and totally impossible when presented as simplistic competing approaches. What it really means is look for the compatible path in service of both, let the action plans bubble up vs dictate down, and own & share in the impact (and shit work) when corporate objectives trump personal and team objectives (it's gonna happen). In other words, the leader is the ocean, not the boat.
Didn't most AOL keywords redirect to AOLs content only hosted on AOL? I don't remember what their "sites" were called, but I used to use keywords to navigate to those areas. I don't really remember using them at all to get to actual websites. I only had AOL for two years before we got a cable modem in late 1998 though, maybe that was more common in the later years when the web started picking up.
if this was a service i’d join

edit: ah, sign in = sign up
Raise their value by*

They're worth more than the money they raise. Unless they passed on 100% of the company (which they didn't)
Ask HN: YC company copied our product, what can we do?
Hi there, a YC company 'pivoted' into copying our product completely, even the API calls. I discovered that, noticing their employees in our Slack Community channel. As a female founder, having my app rejected by YC with this product, it just makes me angry. What can we do, apart from, of course continuing on our mission??
I once was rejected from a leadership position at a very large company for mentioning that my management style reflected servant leadership. They actually called it out to me during one of our interview meetings as a negative and a primary reason for them to not proceed with my application. I did not expect them to see servant leadership as a negative! I guess they thought it meant I would be a doormat, and unable to effect change.
What gives you that feeling? Educate us.
I'm sorry but is anyone surprised? I haven't trust reviews in a long, long time. I'll take a look every now and then knowing they are largely fake and with an agenda. But to be shocked that some critics are being paid is pretty laughable in this day and age.
Feedback

I really like UI-- it's very clean. I think it is unlikely that someone would use this as their main driver tweeting only for developers. Maybe, you should find a way where a dweet also reposts on to Twitter or reddit communities.

Maybe also an ability to refer users to the site would be cool.
trustworthiness
It's a lot of work to find them. It would be neat if there were a site where I could rate a number of movies and then it offers to me a critic or critics I could follow who generally share my tastes.
Exactly. I do believe that certain individuals and organizations might/should be excluded from service here; however, it seems like the only technical solution to regulations enforcement is to wholesale block a whole country.
You hit the nail on the head.

SMIC can get a bit further with DUV, but they are certainly going to get eaten up with multi patterning. The additional cost and complexity from this will be significant.
You're in luck. Email forwarding with Yahoo is now a paid only feature.
The thing about this point of view is that it seems like it would indicate that the top companies do not hire designers. Website usability has really deteriorated in the last 20 years or so. Or maybe they aren't designing for usability? Netflix is an awful website for example, it takes so long to find something to watch you might as well just give up and not watch anything. The changes and addition to gmail and google docs (Drive now!) have all been usability regressions. Facebook used to be really useful for keeping in touch and finding events around you. Nothing Microsoft has ever made has been usable. So where are all of these designers creating great usable experiences, since its not at Billion and Trillion dollar companies apparently.

Craigslist is a website so elegantly designed that I know 80 year olds that can use it just fine.
I have an email of the format:

Foren@meSurna.me

Except it's much shorter (10 chars total). I basically only use it on my resume now, as people that work in tech are the only ones recognize it as a valid email address.
Fandango owns rotten tomatoes and warner brothers owns a minority stake in fandango.

Also anyone with a little cynicism who watches movies is probably not shocked by this.

There has been a lot of positive review inflation over time and there are other tricks like having a score for 'critics' and a separate score for 'top critics'.

Then there is question of if the review they post was actually positive or not. There are plenty of ways to bend and play games with their system and the seem to do it. Just like yelp 'does not delete bad reviews' if you pay them, they just get relegated to a hard to find page and not counted.
Maybe it’s just me right after a nap, but boy that was this year’s hardest and emptiest read. The only thing that became clear is you can buy more of it in a book format.
Is that a real thing? I don't get the appeal of these "what if this historical story was created now instead of hundreds of years ago" genre.
In my e-signature workflow, I initiate the process from outside. So, a network provider notification comes in, I accept it, check a fingerprint presented, enter PIN, and hit send. So, there are couple of screens and a keyboard is presented to me.

When I used a custom ROM, I never received the notification, IIRC. Even carrying the relevant bits from the official ROM didn’t matter. It never worked, crippling tons of things at the end.

If used or reflashed the stock ROM, things have returned to normal.
Sure, but it's also illegal to knowingly participate. The stuff on Amazon largely skates by because the products being reviewed and the businesses selling them aren't under US jurisdiction.

PR firms paying for reviews on RT on the other hand don't have that luxury...
FTC.
Semver violations are common, better tooling is the answer
They essentially eliminated the SDET role across the company. There may be a few left here and there, but it used to be a whole thing of its own.

The book How We Test Software At Microsoft describes in detail what the SDET role was about and how Microsoft used to approach quality.

I think it’s a tragedy that they eliminated the discipline entirely.
The Irish uisce is the source for the English word whiskey.
Have you tried:

alias ls='ls -U'

? I find my ^C usually makes it through if I need it. Sometimes minimizing the terminal or switching desktops also helps.

(it probably helps that I use a filesystem - btrfs - that is fundamentally append-based so gives a meaningful order even with -U)