skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently read "The Machinery of Freedom". It makes a strong case for an anarco-capitalist society.

I'm not sure about either of these arguments. The most robust arguments, as far as I can tell, are those relative to common goods (where you can't exclude access to goods/services) and externalities. The book tries to answer most of these questions. While I'm not entirely sold (at lest not yet) I recommend the book. It's not a rant about the Government, instead it goes quite in depth by proposing what anarco-institutions might look like and what kind of society those institutions are likely to produce by looking at historical cases (like Medieval Iceland) and parts of the current system.
Is there any strategic advantage of using IBM cloud?

Personally, they wouldn’t be my first choice. Only if I had a gun to my head
Pork isn't partisan.
Google also could cut off Mozilla's funding in a heartbeat. Since their management is incompetent (but their engineers are awesome and I love them), they haven't done any serious attempts to diversify their sources of income, or at least to put some of that cash away for a rainy day. Firefox is just as dependent on Google as are any of the Chromium rebuilds. (I am writing this as someone who has been using Firefox since about 2006 non-stop, seeing its market share drop by a factor of ten in that time).
You've lost me on AIX. Never again.
[I have no idea] why we had over 200 open roles are on our web site.

I do always find it odd when a not-megacorp company has dozens of open positions for various departments. Surely they can’t actually be hiring for these jobs simultaneously, and it’s just a hiring strategy to attract talent that might otherwise not be aware the company exists?
Wonderful, but the background removal breaks the image - the original final is great, then it destroys it trying to remove the background...

Try this prompt, and it gives a full image, then depending, it culls far too much when removing background, please make background removal optional?

"round brook as designed by comfort tiffany and alphonse mucha in green black and gold"
You seem to see through the deception, but most don't. The whole policing house of cards is built on the idea that they "stop crime". They don't really, as you point out. In general, they do a pretty terrible job cleaning up after crimes occur, too.

The one thing that police consistently and effectively do is themselves act as a criminal organization outside the law. They cause destruction and mayhem regularly on very flimsy premises and see little to no oversight for it.
Yeah I guess I should have left that in the original submission. I just thought it was a bit confusing out of context (I initially thought it was the third major revision of this particular report)
Fairly recently Jews, Blacks, and more groups were literally excluded from joining many universities... I'm not entirely unsympathetic to your point but it's not as if universities are historically unproblematic.
Holy moley what a screw up. I can’t believe what I’m reading.
Elixir doesn't technically have default arguments, and this isn't such a pedantic distinction since what it has is a macro that defines a whole other function.

defmodule Foo do
def bar(baz \\ "baz") do
baz
end
end

becomes

defmodule Foo do
def bar do
"baz"
end

def bar(baz) do
baz
end
end

Which, as you pointed out, are two completely separate functions.
I find it quite readable especially with nested logic. Here is an example:

https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/blob/master/lib/ecto/que...

Edit: Just remembered another use case where function overload is used to override default implementation

defmodule Downloader do
use GenServer

def handle_cast(:start, state) do
...
end

def handle_cast(:stop, state) do
...
end
end

Here, "use GenServer" imports default implementation of various handlers which can be overridden.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/lib/elixir/l...
I'm convinced that most of the time when someone blames Garbage Collection, they're just not digging deeper into their code for a different strategy. It's like when you finally realize why you need database indexes, or the benefits of memoization. You will find it and it will all feel so obvious, and you will likely refactor everywhere else you made the same mistake, and be amazed how much better everything is when you take the time to learn why your performance has downgraded.

Chances are insanely low that the GC is actually your problem.
Thanks for the support!

We only used the standard GPT-4 API (without visual capabilities).

I think it's okay to have a some discussion here. We employed traditional OCR, GPT-4, and some of our own algorithms to assist GPT-4 in understanding the context and relationship within the image scene (allow me to retain a bit of mystery here).
It’s more insidious than that, because it also means reframing identities that are built around viewpoints. Islam, for example, gets reframed as post-Christian humanism in a hijab.
It seems like many companies have recently become more willing to take actions that I view as extremely trust breaking:

- Forcing employees who were hired as remote employees to relocate for RTO

- Rescinding offers

- Layoffs with seemingly little connection to performance

What I'm trying to understand is do companies not think these actions will limit their ability to hire in the future?

Are they:

- Hoping that future candidates have short memories or they can hire new grads who don't have other options?

- Calculating that the job market will stay slack for a long time?

- The C-suite has short time horizons and thus see these problems as someone else's future problems?

- Something else?

Obviously companies will do these sorts of things if faced with existential threats, but the recent trend seems far more widespread than this.
I got fed up with Chrome recently (some real ugly on-by-default advertising tracking) and switched to Firefox on my work computer but not my home computer yet.

Is anyone out there self-hosting firefox sync successfully? My googling seemed to only bring up a deprecated version so I haven't really tried setting it up yet.
Just amazing how much work goes into, something that isn’t really, that worthwhile.

So one match fixing ring is down for the count and…. This solves what? “Repetitional risk of tennis?

The only interesting thing is how cheap it is to get a player to throw a match. $40,000 high end, average 10,-15,000. Us dollars.

But maybe I’m confused. Is this really a crime?
Bingo! Thank you. Turning off silent mode and refreshing the page fixed it.

That's very strange though, I wonder if it uses a weird sort of web calling API or something for the audio. I've never had an issue with audio in web pages before, and even the youtube video the page embeds sounds fine. It seems quite poor UX (of Safari? Chrome?) to require turning off silent mode – many people never turn it off so it's not very discoverable, and then forgetting to turn it back on again could be pretty bad.
Additionally, humans are unique in their ability to create complex social constructs and realities, which is a reasonable prerequisite for a potential to create novel methods of social organization.
Plausible-sounding platitudes and generalities. Forrester doesn't have a clue.
and by "executive chairman of the board" you mean "guy who got paid $$$ to sit around and ignore everything that was going on" of course.
> Latency and fees are higher than existing mechanisms in most of the world, and at much higher environmental cost.

This statement is simply incorrect. The later 2 scaling ecosystems built on top of Bitcoin and Ethereum offer 1-2 second transaction times for 3-4 cents in fees. The electrical costs are equivalent to sending an email.

https://lightning.network/

https://www.optimism.io/

https://arbitrum.io/

https://ethereum.org/en/layer-2/

> Also, crypto is an objectively riskier "store of wealth" than traditional measures, and is mostly used as a speculative investment or an arbitrage opportunity.

In a country like Argentina where inflation is over 100% the risk of holding crypto seems to be a much better deal than a savings account.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-argentina-presidenti...
These are both interesting niche projects from a user privacy perspective.

Is anyone who is more familiar with Waterfox and LibreWolf able to objectively expand on the differences between these projects?

It sounds like the unsigned binary may be a maturity issue that will get tackled based on the mission statement(educated guess?).

Would greatly appreciate anyone with more knowledge about these projects elaborating.
It's fascinating that there are quite a number of forks from Firefox aiming for more privacy, security and old codebases, but none for improving the browser itself, making it more interesting for power users. Considering all that was lost in the quantum-phase, I would think someone would fork it just for improving some small things like better vim-style support or a second sidebar.
I’m curious, have you done much profiling? And what tools have you used if you have? This isn’t a judgment against you, it’s a genuine question because I’m wondering if perhaps I really am just this inexperienced. But the one thing I’ve learned is I’m always very surprised by where the hotspots in my code come from. I always assume big allocations, or bad cache coherency, or O(1) loops when I could use a hash map will be the killers, but then it turns out it’s something else entirely.

Because of this, I’ve just learned to never trust my intuition when it comes to this. Compilers are crazy these days, and it’s very difficult to tell if something will be slow or if the compiler is going to clean it up behind the scenes and make it a non issue. Add to that JIT for certain languages and I don’t even know how you would begin to intuit where a hotspot would be.

Edit: And just for additional context, I’ve used Intel’s VTune profiler, Tracy, Optick, and written a few manual benchmarks. Using these tools isn’t always easy, but they give a lot of insights that I wouldn’t pick up on my own.
Expect logical contradictions in statements following that line. It's a medical condition called: "I don't like _____ butt." One of the symptoms is argument in bad faith. There will be an epidemic next year.
I hope Wayland's story mirror's Pulseaudio's, in that it limps along until something actually good shows up to replace it (ie. Pipewire) and everyone, relieved, jumps on it at once.
Now that you mention it. Isn’t the brand new FedNow program built using mainframe tech?

Shit man, IBM will live on for centuries (assuming we get that far)
They also oversubscribed office space and are actively working to get out of signed leases, or to sublease where that’s not possible, according to a friend over there. Morale is a bit low at the moment with the CEO being ousted, office space being given up, offers rescinded, and RIFs in the horizon.
Short Explainer on the (potential) bloodsport tactics in play.[1]

> Amazon's coup against Flexport in the battle for logistics, in 12 months:

1. Dave Clark, 20+ year Amazon vet joins as CEO of Flexport

2. Amazon works out a deal with Shopify to partner on logistics, on the condition that Shopify exits logistics, i.e. sells Deliverr, a notoriously overpriced acquisition and unprofitable division

3. Dave buys Deliverr from Shopify, installs bureaucracyOS at Flexport

4. Dave leaves Flexport, same day Amazon announces its deal with Shopify

> Amazon removes Shopify as a fulfillment competitor and severely hobbles Flexport

I don’t know if Flexport is big enough to be a threat here, but would be some brutal shit if true.

[1] https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1699818506752287055?s=20
We are too spoiled by cheap garbage and the true cost of these things is hidden.
If a Database needs to support more than 500 connections at a given time (due to scale), what's the way around?
Hey boss lets secure this system. We need to do these 10 things.

Sure thing... How long will it take and will it get in the way of these 4 features we promised to the customer that they wanted last week?

Probably like about a month of work.

Well add it to the backlog and we will get to it eventually.
Link to study: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/152/3/e20230...

Am I reading this correctly - that there is a higher correlation (of death) to economic status than to anything else?
Haha, man, I wish more people than literally just you and I still thought this way

Every fucking piece of software out there is packed with shady spyware and BS, and everyone thinks he's entitled to treat users as cattle and do whatever he wants to them.

It's probably going to keep getting worse at this rate too. It'll become illegal to do anything privately or anonymously in the name of preventing misinformation and spam/click fraud
A while back, a colleague updated their system and screensharing broke. I went "ah I know this", switched their session back to X11, and the issues went away.
Privacy blog post. vercel-insights.com, www.google.com, 'Sign up with Google', Join 132,793 people from companies like: Microsoft, Amazon, facebook, Google, Disney

"There it is again. That funny feeling."
I came to a different conclusion (see sibling comment to yours) in part because I don’t believe the 98% O2 solution was toxic (and it would be if the other 2% were CO2, no?). I don’t have hard evidence for that belief, but I just expect that if it were toxic it would have been mentioned and NASA wouldn’t have been celebrating. (My guess was non-CO2 atmospheric gases.)
I wouldn't hire anyone with a mullet, the jealousy and envy would be too much to bear.
The top 5 topics for an epoch is calculated using all of your browsing history in that epoch.

A site observing a topic in the last 3 epochs unlocks the ability for document.browsingTopics() to return that topic from your top 5.

Every epoch each site has a 95% chance to be assigned 1 topic out of your top 5 topics and a 5% chance that it is assigned a random topic. When browsingTopics is called it gets the topics it was assigned for the last 3 epochs. Real topics are not returned if the site did not observe that topic in the last 3 epochs as mentioned in the previous paragraph.
You don't expect your health data, financial data and purchase history (does that include anything paid for by Apple pay?) to be shared with Meta just because you are trying out Threads.
My god its so complicated
If I have to read and understand all the diffs myself I might as well maintain my own fork.
I did them all, once upon a time.

Charnas was one of the last old-school s/f writers and the proof to it is that The Vampire Tapestry is what they used to call a "fix-up." She brought a certain psychological angle that was almost tender, I think, to the issue of being a predator (and worse, what appears to be a species of one!) embedded in a world of your prey.
We have this in the US too but with two colors, both neoliberal.
Interesting, this was almost word-for-word how I was explaining it to a non-space-nerd friend of mine.

I'm still convinced that this theory, in a sort of occams razor way, is the most likely to be true.

If SLS was just "a jobs program", then what is the government's motivation for "a jobs program"? It keeps unemployment lower? Is that true though? If the SLS didn't exist, the engineers would just move on...no?

To me, it seems clear that it is just a knowledge preservation program; a way to keep STEM, rocket science and engineering in America, in-house.

I'm currently based in the UK, and lord knows how messed up our manufacturing sector is today because it got all exported to the rest of the world, because the government didn't inveat and ensure that we maintained a sizable manufacturing worker force. US is just doind what every other government is trying to do nowadays - keep valauble (military, industrial, etc.) skills in-house.
Based on some of these, it seems 'AI' still just can't figure out fingers.
Maybe not legally, but morally this is a mass layoff without severance. Hopefully people remember if this company tries to hire again.
Actually if the IC design tools would be FOSS, the cost of new designs would decrease considerably, even up to two times.

The cost of the subscriptions to the design tools provided by Cadence, Synopsis, Siemens (Mentor) and a few others is ridiculously high and it can contribute with many millions of $ to the design cost of a state-of-the-art chip.

The design tools themselves have been improved extremely slowly and they are of a quite low quality for so expensive professional tools. In an open-source environment it would be easy to make much better alternatives.

The reason that only a few timid attempts exist to provide alternatives for only some parts of a complete toolchain, is that the semiconductor manufacturers, like TSMC, do not provide public information about the exact data that they need as input for manufacturing, about the design rules that must be implemented for valid designs and about the characteristics of their processes that must be known for simulations.

All this information is available only to big companies like Synopsis, Cadence etc. and this perpetuates their monopoly and their ability of extracting huge amounts of money with minimal software development work, from all the companies that design ICs.

While the companies that design ICs are not happy for this huge rent that they pay for the design tools, they are also extremely risk-averse and they do not want to make any change in their design workflows, no matter how small, that might increase the risks of failure in a designed chip. Because of this there are no chances of replacing the incumbents with open-source tools, at least not in the big established companies that design chips.
75 people have (presumably) told their current employers that they're quitting, and moving to somewhere they believe is "better".

They are about to have no income, and no health insurance, in a fucking difficult job market where it can take extremely well qualified people months to find positions.

"I am deeply sorry to those people who were expecting to join our company..." does not begin to address the level of absolute upheaval he's just caused in 75 people's lives.
I had 0 intention of it to sound patronizing as you prob noticed english is not my native lang.
Translation (perhaps)?

“I found out last week that we had 200 open roles and had signed 75 offers. Upon learning this, I fired the CEO. I regret that I now have to be the one to deliver the bad news.”
Google Play app link says "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server."

Surprisingly satisfying -- I think my heart rate dropped a good 10 bpm in a few minutes of playing. I'd love a little map to know how far I am in the song, and some way to work pedals for dynamics for more advanced users; I don't play piano, but I'm a musician and am familiar enough with many of these pieces to have opinions on the expression. If I could map it to custom keys that would be perfect -- I happen to have flight pedals. Obviously that's atypical.
They are useful for recursion:

def factorial(0), do: 1
def factorial(n) when n > 0, do: n * factorial(n - 1)

Otherwise it comes down to a matter of taste. Sometimes they read nicer than a `case`, sometimes a `case` is better.

Like I would favour:

def zero?(0), do: true
def zero?(_), do: false

over the case version, for example, but that's just me.
Awful look for this company. Imagine international students /H1B holders who turned down other offers to join Flexport, and now may not have enough time to get another offer before needing to permanently leave in 60 days.
The podcast seems to be available on Spotify and similar.
Really cool, I think this would be a nice service for Slack, etc to add custom emoji
Exactly. Indeed, in Phoenix v State, 455 So.2d 1024, the Florida Supreme Court implies that a private citizen could request and receive a warrant to arrest a felon. They say the citizen could be excused for failing to obtain a warrant by proving the person arrested was actually guilty.
I would look at it more like both sides are players. Playas gonna play. The girl plays, the guy plays.

Omar: All in the game

It's not like devs aren't gonna jump ship when the cycle shifts back in the other direction.

Edit:

RTO is a hill I think devs should be prepared to die on. If every dev is not ready to fight for Remote, don't be shocked when it's not even an option as the years go by. Covid gave us a gift, and it's precious. We have to fight to keep it.

Remote or Die.
I bought this book back in March 2020 and it was a great read then. Since I've received numerous updates from Leanpub on the additions Andy has written!
Curious, does the shortage squeeze company stocks up or down, or hold them steady?
Cool find!

I like this: https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1257434/?site=msl

Rocks. Many rocks.

i wouldnt want to walk on that terrain much less drive a 10 year old remote controlled car with insane lag times
7 of 8 authors of Transformers paper have since left Google
Why would an iPhone be running x86-specific code?

I don't dispute that these optimizations may have been necessary on older hardware, but I think the current generation of Apple CPUs should have plenty of power to not need these micro optimizations (and the hardware video decoder would take care of this anyway).
As an HN poster I endorse $yc and dislike $microsoft
I'm showing Exos x20 20TBs for ~$500 new.

$300 is moving towards refurb / shucked prices.
Agree. But the point of the post appears to be to push Apple toward disclosing these bad actors and dark patterns.

Shaming Apple might work. (I think we already know that shaming Meta will have no effect.)
Is your phone on silent?
There's a fundamental design flaw with the way American police forces operate that makes ACAB practically factual.

Qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture, etc — abuse and immunity from consequences are built into the system.
I think at this point employer trust/employee loyalty has disappeared and companies/employees are acting accordingly.
"We conducted an empirical study to understand the characteristics and current state of the malicious code lifecycle in the PyPI ecosystem. We first built an automated data collection framework and collated a multi-source malicious code dataset containing 4,669 malicious package files. We preliminarily classified these malicious code into five categories based on malicious behaviour characteristics. Our research found that over 50% of malicious code exhibits multiple malicious behaviours, with information stealing and command execution being particularly prevalent. In addition, we observed several novel attack vectors and anti-detection techniques. Our analysis revealed that 74.81% of all malicious packages successfully entered end-user projects through source code installation, thereby increasing security risks. A real-world investigation showed that many reported malicious packages persist in PyPI mirror servers globally, with over 72% remaining for an extended period after being discovered. Finally, we sketched a portrait of the malicious code lifecycle in the PyPI ecosystem, effectively reflecting the characteristics of malicious code at different stages. We also present some suggested mitigations to improve the security of the Python open-source ecosystem."
The other commenters have done a great job of retorting this terrible take but I'll add that NY's Stop & Frisk program, after not working and being incredibly racist, was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Ironically I find the arch devs about as arrogant as the wayland devs

predictable.
The tweet says they are not offering compensation but I hope the victims of this are not simply adopting the company's unilateral stance on that. Everyone who was harmed by these rescinded offers (because they quit their other job, moved, sold their house, etc) should at a minimum brandish a promissory estoppel claim and see how much money Flexport coughs up to settle it.
No-JS Mirror [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/RkWFf