skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's on a per-tracker basis. For an ad provider to see a given topic it must have been embedded in a site with that topic. In GP's comment "site X" is referring the site being embedded, not the top-level site. Again, this is reducible to third-party cookies.
It's this. This is why TLJ got the high critics score. It was politically correct (all the men are wrong, all the women are correct and proper, none of the women characters need a man, all of the men need a woman to tell them what to do, and the male hero from the past is now a bozo that can only redeem himself by dying and getting out of the way).
People underestimate how many are holding things together/putting out fires behind the scenes until those people are gone and the seemingly-reliable app is now a smoking wreck.
From the headline I thought it was going to be about hedgerows or living bridges (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_root_bridge)
The digital roadblock that’s keeping green electricity off the U.S. grid
I certainly agree that marketing plays a huge role in software, but I was actively looking at different VCS trying even the obscure ones, there were really no reasonable non-proprietary options.

Bazaar and mercurial got created the same year as git. Before that it made you happy if people were using subversion instead of CVS.

Sure, if nobody knows about the project nobody will use it, but I think git stands on its own. If any medium project adopted it (and it seems likely that its author would be working on some other things too), I think it would spread.
I’m not over the moon with it but I’m kind of interested to know why I need a Node successor at all. Both Bun and Deno are VC funded tools so I have base level suspicion around monetization and longevity.

It seems Bun’s major selling point is performance. I can’t say I’ve really run into massive performance concerns with Node. It isn’t earth shatteringly fast but I’m way more likely to run into IO constraints than Node speed issues.

Deno’s major selling point was that it was Node Done Right in many ways: better packaging, ES6 all the way, etc. (a pitch I was sold on!) but it seems they gave up trying to create a new ecosystem and instead are adding Node compatibility.

Alongside all of this I'm encouraged by a number of recent Node improvements like having its own test runner and built in .env support. So I’m struggling to see good reason to use either Bun or Deno. Even if I were to switch I'd need to make sure I have a concrete path back to Node should the new generation tool become unviable.
The R in RTO is for "return". Unless I'm missing something, these employees were hired remote from the start and Grindr later decided that they needed to move across the country to newly-assigned offices.

This isn't a normal RTO story. This is a company that hired remote-first and then demanded that all of those employees relocate, often across the country.

Even if they wanted to continue working at the company, perhaps even in a local office, moving across the country is always going to have a high attrition rate.

This isn't really "RTO". It's "relocate or your fired"
Well, the fact that he and the other Linux maintainers had previously used (and were intimately familiar with) BitKeeper, and thus had a good idea of what their new FLOSS DVCS should look like, probably also helped.

Not saying that he copied BitKeeper 1:1, but if you look at BitKeeper usage examples (http://www.bitkeeper.org/), they do look familiar, don't they? BTW, BitKeeper is now open source - and development seems to have largely ceased...
Risk and $$$

Many novel problems that would be worthy to solve don’t have a clear path to monetization. And novel problems are inherent risky since no one has implemented a successful solution before.
What’s funny is that the calculus is still the same: your best people are going to leave and your worst are going to stay. Breathtakingly poor foresight.
They didn't really. What this wants is gobs of memory bandwidth. The fastest NVMe SSDs can essentially saturate the PCIe bus. Using a dozen or more of them in parallel might even have reasonable performance for this. (Most desktops don't have this many PCIe lanes but HEDT and servers do). And they're a lot cheaper than Optane was.

To do better than that would have required the version of Optane that used DIMM slots, which was something like a quarter of the performance of actual DRAM for half the price.

So you had something that costs more than ordinary SSDs if your priority is cost and is slower than DRAM if your priority is performance. A lot of times a middle ground like that is still valuable, but since cache hierarchies are a thing, having a bit of fast DRAM and a lot of cheap SSD serves that part of the market well too.

And in the meantime ordinary SSDs got faster and cheaper and DRAM got faster and cheaper. Now you can get older systems with previous generation DRAM that are faster than Optane for less money. They stopped making it because people stopped buying it.
Their "ecosystem" model is why we need crowbar legislation like Europe's DMA to force interoperability. Make no mistake, Apple is playing for keeps just as hard as Google is: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-att...

All of these companies deserve their due scrutiny. Specifically around the illusion of privacy though, nobody has further to fall than Apple.
This doesn't match the data. First, the development of SLS began in 2011, two decades after the missile production had stopped. Second, SLS is designed around the use of shuttle era components which not only are very different from what would be used in missiles, but also specifically reduce the amount of practice that the next generation of engineers can get on developing these systems. Third, the actual rocket and the launches are a miniscule part of the program budget not launching doesn't save much money. Finally, the source of the high price tag is delays and reworks that would be wholly unnecessary if the goal were never to produce a working vehicle and which do not contribute to knowledge retention at all.

Basically, if this is a know-how preservation program, it is horribly mismanaged. And there's no reason why you couldn't have a know-how preservation program that also produced useful results. As with so many things, they're not playing 5D chess, they're just playing poorly.
Yea BitKeeper was a one hell of a story. They also had a clause that holders of commercial BitKeepers licenses could not develop competing products and even forced a company to ban one of their employees from contributing to Mercurial(?) or the whole company would have their BitKeeper license revoked.

The sad part is that BitKeeper really was an amazing product and way ahead of its time, pioneering many of the features git later made popular. Had they just been a bit smarter about the whole thing they could be where git (and GitHub) is today

Ironically the last thing they did before going bankrupt was release BitKeeper as Open Source.
Just curious what kinds of models are used in your project?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08891 One paper seems to suggest trained specialized model can outperform LLM in some tasks.
Sorry ! I did a quick visual check and I thought I was replying to someone different from the one who posted the article, and she had additional anecdotes. Don't know why I missed they were the same.
IBM has a GSA contract, so they'll never fail.

Like Lowes. Home Depot might go out of business if the market crashes hard enough, but Lowes is protected as they're a GSA contractor. The Federal government will never let them fail. Too essential.
Yep. Pets, or just one of many biological species that go extinct as more and more resources are taken up by AGIs doing what they want to do, remaking the planet to be more suitable for themselves and not terribly caring if it becomes less hospitable for us.

I expect that AGI is probably between 2 and 6 years away, with super-intelligence a year or two after that, if we don't make a concerted and coordinated effort to restrict access to computing power. So much of our brains are taken up with things like processing visual, auditory, and sensory input, muscle control, emotions, etc. To have a consciousness, you don't need as much processing power as we have -- which is a lot, but we're rapidly approaching it.
Don’t care or are ignorant about why they should care (even when they “have nothing to hide”)? I think this part of the these conversations get lost. Consumers care about privacy, even if just at a surface level as we’ve seen the megacorps change their messaging to trick folks into feeling they are safer. These consumers just don’t know what is at stake when they do something ‘foolish’ like running not using an ad blocker, browsing with Google Chrome, emailing with GMail, chatting in Discord, hosting code with Microsoft GitHub, sharing their contacts with WhatsApp, tweeting on X/x-ing on Twitter, etc. When it comes to e-commerce, often it’s the only way to get items now & when it comes to banks, they’re all blocking root “for our safety” but users not understanding their value doesn’t mean there is no value.
One of Tufte's books, I suppose Envisioning Information includes a Washington Post graphic about this from forty years ago--a number of soldiers who were rafting had drowned in the hydraulic below the Little Falls pumping station dam.
Yes but it’s hard to disentangle the effect of the crypto crisis ending last year, the pandemic boom in consumer hardware sales coming to a close, and the pricing of Ada from one another. So many GPUs were sold to miners and made their way to the secondary market that gamers have lots and lots of options that aren’t new sales.
> if you have good reason to believe your model is complete.

When in archeology is that ever true? Frankly, outside of archeology when is that ever true?
Not the same. GPS is operated by DoD.
I edited my post, I incorrectly assumed that some form of compensation was given/offered.
I don't have much of a reference since I just moved here last September, and the lawn was already mowed at that point, but I've seen a really good number of bumblebees and honeybees this year (endangered Monarch butterflies too) leaving most of my lawn unmowed besides the small range I walk on. The native flowers and wildlife are really thriving on my property now. No particular problem with pests as a result either. I recommend anyone to do this if it's practical (no overbearing HOA etc)
twitter is arguably more complex than grindr lol.

hate to sound like a cliche but grindr could be recreated in a weekend with rails or django. pretty sure the app is a webview. it's truly stuck in 2012-2014.

the hard part of that app is just the scale... but a handful of servers running elixir/erlang would handle it without breaking a sweat.
If there is anything that can actually get a tech worker unionization effort going, it's going to be the back and forth on these RTO policies.
Folks have tried in the past around non-competes, or equity tomfoolery, but this is people's lives, family, kids schooling, etc. We know WFH works, if you spend the time to make it work, and upsetting folks lives doesn't make for positive employee relations.
> I actually bought this on DVD

I did too. It was quite motivating to watch at the time!
You don't need to opt-in to terms of services. The service provider can simply refuse to service you if you violate the ToS. Violating ToS is not a crime.

However, if you actively try to circumvent this refusal of the service provider, this could very well be a crime, depending on what you are doing.
I'm often amazed how old people that lived the majority of their lives under a communist regime (in my country) that exposed them to propaganda all the time can fall so easily for for various "youtube revelations". I feel if anyone it is the younger generation that should be more susceptible to such misinformation. Everyone who lived during the communist times knew media as worthless. It's reflected in the jokes of the era, for example "- Have you seen today's newspaper? - No. I'm a non smoker" (explanation is - no one would ever buy a newspaper for news, only smokers buy it for rolling cigarettes).
- The general idea of providing guiding prompt + scoring for better objective values is interesting. Though I doubt how this scale since it requires a lot of guiding/customization towards different/bigger problem, but I’d love to think further on it.

- Maybe let LLM help explain it’s thinking process/logic to help improve existing algorithms (rather than using it as a standalone-optimizer). I once did that for an allocation problem - and it was able to show a basic algorithm for a feasible solution.

- A essential topic in optimization is about proving optimality, maybe having AI providing insights on proving could also be cool.

- Author compared their algorithm with heuristics on randomly generated TSP problems (why not TSPLIB), the claim is that LLM can do better than heuristics on small problems. They showed an interesting metric on # of success suggesting we might need to sample multiple LLM runs for a good results.

- One big question I did not find an answer is how they replicate the runs given the stochastic nature of LLMs. Even with a zero temperature, LLM is only relatively less random. This extends to many LLM-application papers and hence must be papers talking about it.
There are commercially compostable PLA options for cutlery commonly available even in (US) supermarkets. That seems preferable?
Doesn’t really work like that. An employee can’t be forced to move for work, so at some point the company will have to fire them. That said, companies are _never_ under any obligation to pay severance, just unemployment insurance.
> When viewed from afar, war is just an extension of diplomacy. I am against any invasion whatsoever, but using any means necessary to ensure Ukraine does not join NATO (something that the US fought for), is indeed a defence of Russian interests.

Russia already got multiple assurances that Ukraines NATO membership would be vetoed.

They clearly don't care about NATO or about defending Russian interests, this is plain and simple imperialism.
I'm not saying it's not useful, but much like the internet, claims have been overstated.
Estimated from market cap.
That might take a little longer, it seems. From the linked source on europa.eu;

> Second, the Commission opened a qualitative market investigation pursuant to article 3(8) DMA into iPadOS to determine whether iPadOS, despite not meeting the quantitative thresholds, constitutes a gateway for business users to reach end users.

It seems like their rebranding a few years ago might really pay off.
My point is that "open fire" is the wrong phrase. Just say "over a fire."

Medieval blacksmiths did not use an open fire.

I follow a blacksmith who uses a propane-heated forge to make knives and other small items. Here is a picture of the new forge in his workshop: https://ranum.com/badger_forge/2023/05/19/the-new-forge/ Here is a picture of the old forge in use: https://ranum.com/badger_forge/2019/06/04/silver-in-the-forg... . Using coal/charcoal would not make it more bad ass.
I'm the same way, but the platforms incentivize the collecting of friends and have like a decade+ of gameification features to promote it.
What about human farts? Don't humans out number cows? And don't humans fart daily?

Shouldn't we instead focus on a diet that prevents humans from farting?

(Incidentally, I ate no calories from any plant-based source during all of 2021, and an interesting side effect that I noticed (other than spectacular overall health) was that I completely stopped farting. Others who have tried the all-meat diet have also commented on the fact that humans don't fart on an all-meat diet.)
Yeah, I recall seeing a low-quality DVD rip on YouTube a few years ago. When I was researching the article, I found lots of places online where Joel and the other people in the documentary had linked to YouTube URLs that are now dead, so I think there were definitely copies on YouTube floating around for a while.
simple queries, grouping writes, minimizing updates, caching, connection pooling
As long as it's not behind a login, and is publicly available, I think there's US precedent that this is unenforceable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
> Third-party cookies only let you track stuff where your code runs, whereas the Topics API uses the entire browser history

This is false. Topics only allows ad trackers to see topics associated with sites they were embedded in. In this way, topics is reducible to TPC.
Zinc-air batteries as an alternative to lithium-ion: study
>if it was better this year, it says a lot about how it was implicitly gamed in the past, and if it was problematic this year, I think it says something about how it was gamed that way.

I think you're right.

I like the list, but I also don't think that the canon was set on fire.

Yes, there are a couple more women-directed movies near the top. The list is virtually identical to the one from 2012.
The age of guilds has long passed

Are people like these not programmers? https://leandojo.org/
Layoff-by-RTO.

The dumbest move a CEO could make.

Now all the smartest people have quit, and the most desperate half of your staff stuck around.

A players hire A players, B players hire C players, and apparently D players fire A + B players.
There are various flowers people recommend because bees like them and I have tried to have a guarden design to feed the bees based on this. What I have found is those that smell more due to either their quantity or are stronger scented seem to attract more bees and be more popular. Two big lavender bushes for example seem to be very well visited and I can smell them from a greater distance than anything else.

So I suspect this likely is part of the problem, it impacts our smell capacity too as pollution quickly overrides the ability to smell the flowers.
So there's some magic where if they RTO they will suddenly come clean?

Slackers will still slack off. Maybe it's just you can't tell when you're in the office - that's all.
The FCC actually could have a decent mechanism to force this. The documentation for Part 15 compliance often has a confidentiality request for certain device internals. They could have some uncloaking mechanism where that information is released if the company is no longer supporting the device.
The article confuses several things by talking about authors using ChatGPT to help drafted their papers.

I can use my friend to help draft a paper in several ways:

I can plagiarize from my friend's work, which is unethical.

Or, I can quote my friend with a citation. This is ethical.

Or, I can ask my friend to look over my paper and - without rewriting any part of it - make suggestions on how to improve it. This does not require a citation and is ethical.

Nature seems clueless about the different ways my friend (or ChatGPT) can help me draft a paper.
Linus's biggest contribution to software engineering is git but it took writing a kernel first to give him the idea. I'd argue that git has had a bigger impact on the world than Linux.

The Linux kernel is an amazing piece of software but especially in the beginning wasn't especially innovative. The Solaris kernel was a much better implementation of the Unix lineage. The Mach kernel was interesting from a research perspective, and lives on in MacOS and iOS. HURD was a worthy experiment, as was Plan 9. But git was really head and shoulders above anything that came before.
Honestly, I think that is the key. He didn't just create Git out of thin air... he spent alot of time thinking about what he wanted and using something that gave him a conceptual foundation.

10 days of writing code is impressive, but there would many,many days of thinking that preceded it.
Database Performance at Scale
What do you mean by "care less about work"?

Do you mean they care less about the business? The two things overlap, but not perfectly. One can care about the business 100%, and be apathetic about the "work".

It might even be true that managers care about the "work" to the detriment of the business.
Looks nice but I'm confused why it's advertised as if it's training anything. It's just doing retrieval from a vector db and generating a prompt with openai/LLM.
Agree we would need data. I've seen both sides of this. Some people like WFH because they can totally slack off. Some like it because they can get more done. Some people have options because they have great social skills and know people from their fraternity or other social groups. Some people have options because they are good.
I agree, but there's no reason to make it easier for even more parties to get their hands on the data if you're going to use them anyway.
Yea DOA for me too
> @Nature @dangaristo’s statements are nonsense.

Discussed here in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149349 (2145 points | 22 days ago | 714 comments). The idea is that the production method creates also Cooper Sulfide that has some weird changes in conductivity similar to the reported, but it's not a superconductor. This alternative explanation is very convinced for me, sadly.

> Only Lee Seok-bae can create Lk99

comment> The real world isn’t a Marvel movie. There’s no such thing as uniquely qualified people or their unique products.

It's more complicated. I've seen people doing amazing stuff in the lab. Some early versions techniques are difficult to explain. <capital>IF</capital> the samples are confirmed, let's lock him in a lab doing more samples and teaching others the method for a year. After that, he get's a million dollar, a Nobel price, we promise to cite all his papers a so he max out any citation and h-index metrics known to humanity, serral let him win a SC2 game, the sky is the limit [scratch that] Elon promise him a trip around the Moon, ... whatever he wants. Anyway, after the Copper Sulfide report, I'm not longer optimistic :( .
I don’t think the RTO people are louder, what they are is more powerful. You have a lot of upper management and executives that are RTO people, for whatever reasons that may be. But they hold a lot more power than the ic that like remote.
These pieces of ostensibly impressive trivia of the format "X was written in Y days" promote a fallacious impression that managers often suffer from: That "work" is writing code, and great developers "work" fast. Writing v1 is the easiest and fastest part of making a great product, by far. Understanding the details of the problems it solves and the ramifications of specific solutions - that's the hard work that takes years of experience and months of planning, and is the real measure of a developer. Unfortunately the former can be tracked with metrics, while the latter can not.
I am not a lawyer but I am pretty sure a website protected with a password and/or firewall means something different from a robots.txt that is nothing more than a convention.
This article has more details on what's happening: https://www.wired.com/story/grindrs-return-to-office-ultimat...

The key thing here is Grindr leaderships changed its policy right after employees tried to unionize. There's an active unfair labor practice case.
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I could believe the J-20 could match the F-35, and apparently the Air Force could believe it too because there’s also the F-22. And strategic lift planes use normal jet engines not supersonic ones so they face the same issue as Chinese airliners do.
Interesting related story of a friend at Amazon. He has relocated to his home town during covid to care for his ailing mother. He was informed recently he needed to return to seattle or be let go. He left his mother, moved his family, and returned to seattle. Two days after he relocated, they laid him and his whole team off.