skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Code is useless without engineers. When the flight begins no one is going to do anything. Everyone checks out and spends their time fluffing their wings.

At GE the engineers know that engines don't fly without them (designs and specs are useless without engineers) so if they are in a position to do so they hold information close to their chest--tons of info are not in the design. They are very much dependent on a core group of engineers for each system. Just like any tech system, things are going sideways constantly for various reasons and they have to respond very quickly to customers and regulators. That response requires the tacit knowledge they hold in their head or under their desk. Not to mention the pet unicorn spaghetti code they develop to analyze sensor data which is crucial to projecting failure across fleets when one-offs are encountered.

Middle management has it's own game they play...it's wink and knod all the way down the chain...if they like you.
Great, then if they keep supporting the codebase internally, back-porting security patches to an older device should be easy.

Manufacturing millions of widgets that go into the garbage every three years is bad and should carry heavy consequence. If the company isn't willing to support the devices they sell, it should be possible for consumers to do it.
Looks great but the fact that it uses zig which is pre 1.0 and describes itself “not for use in production” gives me pause.

Realistically how much of a problem is this likely to be?
Q&A: Study finds hybrid PV-thermal energy systems could reduce global emissions
You missed the point. Apple tracks every app launch. And reports it to an external server. Not localized. Not anonymized.
I remember I read about this before, random article: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/data-storage-techniq...

A whole new kind of digital data storage could protect the legacy of the documents humanity considers most precious. The tiny glass disk can store up to 360 terabytes of information, and will be able to survive for billions of years without damage or data loss

No idea if the technology is viable, or how much it costs. But you can do some research based on the link.

I don't think you are the first one thinking about this :)
> the reasoning was like "we do not want to force an external dependency"

It was not the optimal solution, agreed. The reason was actually that a significant technical complexity was found while trying to adapt the existing modes. The syntax table vs. tree-sitter parse tree was simply too divergent for a mode to be just switched from one to the other. So the decision which I don't think anybody was completely happy with, but considered the only feasible way to move forward, to have new modes with tree-sitter.

You can see some discussion here: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/15g9cna/why_is_emacs... and quick link to the mailing list thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-12/msg01...
Yeah, I've seen people get fired and it actually lessened the amount of work those around them had to do. There's people out there in big and small companies, doing negative work every day.
I too have musical education. using osx on m2pro, tried safari / chrome / firefox — nothing helped, the delay was maddening.

"was" — because indeed, blueetooth audio was the culprit. was using external speakers at the time I tried it first. now it's flawless and extremely enjoyable.
I think eventually Ads industry will catch up on those like you if it will threaten Ads revenue in significant volumes.

There were news already that they block people from playing youtube videos if they blocked ads.
They did several things differently from Llama 2.

From my understanding, you'd have to repeat the experiment isolating each variable to see what difference each one actually makes, no?
Just came off your Elixir talk photos on Twitter to find this on HN. Please share your ElixirConf talk recording. Producing a nice emoji/avatar for an AI agent seems like a cool idea.
Super annoying that RDS Proxy doesn’t support IAM auth against the DB.

We moved all our DB users to use IAM auth based on instance roles and then found out that RDS proxy doesn’t support it.
There is a very obscure undocumented api in macOS for detecting if two files are equal block-by-block but yeah I don’t think most tools can tell when files are clonefile’d
FFMPEG & QEMU from Bellard, perhaps?
Waterfox is independent again: https://www.waterfox.net/en-US/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterf...

And System1 are an “ad-tech” company but the term should be used loosely. The ownership made sense as they are a search engine aggregator and they own a bunch of old school search engines like DogPile, InfoSpace etc. Nothing to do with what people associate ad-tech with, i.e. tracking you across the web or collecting personal data.
The Turkish justice system metes out stiff sentences, then reduces or pardons them outright later.
The problem is you're ignoring the propaganda they did fall for. In the US we have the "America is the best and most free country in the world" propaganda that tons of us fall for. Also the "police are great and are only out for your good" propaganda. Then, especially the older generation are completely surprised every time a hidden cam video of the cops doing some bad crap and say "well, that's just cops now, it wasn't like that back then".

We all have biases and propaganda we fall for. The issue with the internet versus past media is we now have unlimited sources of propaganda 24/7, rather than it just being select articles in the paper or on the news. Even if you only fall for something 1% of the time, if you see 1000 of it a day, you still fall for crap all the time.
Yes, but I will never drive the road to Prudhoe Bay, so pictures are the nearest I will ever get to seeing it.
Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software
I'll buy it even though I have no use for it just because I want to support the company.

For me, Procreate is a killer app. It's the reason I bought my iPad. IMHO, the $450 or so that it costs to get an iPad + Pencil + Procreate is well worth it.

I don't understand how they can make something as good as Procreate and sell it for $15.
thank you. it was bluetooth to blame in general (was using external speakers). now all delays are one.
Not mentioned in the article but I think what triggered BK to pull the license was Andrew Tridgell (SAMBA and rsync) reverse engineering BK's protocol to implement a third-party client.
Does the Apple Mail client do this for images included with the message (instead of referencing by URL)? Like another comment mentions, this is done for other reasons, and many clients render embedded images by default.
Maybe the bees just don't like traffic and decide not to come to your particular establishment because there are easier places to get to?

On a slightly more serious tack, traffic causes not only air pollution, but air currents are also changed. Noise is also significantly higher. I have no idea about a bee's hearing, just expanding highway traffic's effects beyond air pollution. We saw USGS seismographs showing the decrease in vibrations with the pandemic's decrease in traffic. Humans have an impact on the environment in so many ways that go unacknowledged/not understood.
Thanks Mike! Your advice and support has been super critical and motivating!
The wire protocol isn't relevant -- it's an implementation detail of React, and both the client and the server for it are open source and in the React repository. Next uses those. So will Remix, Redwood, and other RSC frameworks.

If you're curious:

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/packages/react-c...

https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/main/packages/react-s...
I remember when he made a splash by designing the office so that every developer had a window and a door. I think they later abandoned the idea, but it felt like the first time someone had actually put real thought into developer's ergonomics when building an office.

Other classics from his blog: why you should never do a Big Rewrite (he was scathing of Mozilla), "Fire and motion", relentless advocacy for "boring" tech, the historical bits about Excel and Lotus... I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot more. It really was a blog worth reading, when most of them were already turning into the "microblogging" spam that eventually begat Twitter.
What about running PHP, Django, Node, or Ruby based applications ? They all do connection per request so the pooler on host gives you an immediate improvement to connection latency.

Even if you are using a language with a built in connection pooler like Go or Java being able to manage your connections external to your application is enough of a benefit to keep the pooler separate.
From the top hit for IDFA (the wikipedia article):

> Starting in iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5, users are prompted to decide whether to opt-in or out of IDFA sharing before apps can query it. This choice can be altered in Settings.[2][3] In May, 2021, Verizon-owned advertisement analytics company Flurry Analytics reported that 96% of US users opted out of IDFA sharing.[4]
The US has private firms buying, developing, and selling malware as well. NSO group is just a little more open and shameless about it.
Agreed. Utilizing the power of LLMs with RMs (retrieval models) can be much more powerful, and I expect RAG implementations to progress in that direction in the coming years.
FYI https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weird-dinosaur-pr...

A newly described fossil is as old as the “first bird,” Archaeopteryx, and represents a birdlike dinosaur that might have specialized in running or wading instead of flying

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edit: further https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-birds-evolved...

A remarkable fossil record of the dinosaurs that led to birds reveals how evolution produces entirely new kinds of organisms

This is not 'the truth!!!', it's just science's best shot at explaining. It will be wrong in parts, it could be wrong overall, but it's the best we've got.
Htmx Tailwind Alternative: Inline Scoped CSS
A compromise for people who are intrigued by Tailwind's Locality of Behavior but don't want the insane bulk of the CDN or build step-- and want to still write pure vanilla CSS.

Write <style> inline and automatically have it scoped to that element. No more writing individual class/id's.

Been really wanting to transition back to plain CSS for everything moving forward. I miss the ultra-fast "inspect, play with styles, copy/paste into project" workflow that this re-enables.

BTW: Totally unheard of CSS feature you get for free: Scoped inline @keyframes for looped animations!
Companies never see all of their workforce quit. It's a very very rare occurrence, he's taking a safe bet.
> Every human is equivalent in their given role when it comes to planning/org structure.

It's the Burger King approach to management: all employees are just generic worker bees, and you can just go down to Burger King and order a Whopper, some fries, and maybe six engineers. Problem solved!

Anyone who bothers to think things through can see the huge, obvious flaw: people are not all the same and that these are human beings, not robots or drones.

This flawed point of view, that you can just think of employees as widgets, fails again and again and again, and yet MBA schools apparently keep teaching it, and/or people keep trying to use it.

And in this case, the failed RTO initiatives: really, I would love for one of these CEOs to explain to me what the point is. You don't think people are productive from home? Based on what, your gut feelings or conjecture? Because the opposite is true. People in offices waste a ton of time—just watch them. They stand around and bullshit. They get up and look for people to talk to (about non-work things). They make disruptive noise. What they don't do a lot of is actually get work done. Meanwhile, you're paying for their office space and electricity and everything else it takes to keep an office running.

So what's the purpose of RTO? If I didn't know better, I would say it's 1- an attempt to justify sunk costs of office leases, and 2- a huge power trip.

Doesn't matter: it will ultimately fail because offices are counterproductive to actually getting work things accomplished.
How can the audience of a general-purpose programming language not be "programmers"?
Square is built on relatively modern (eg this century) tech stack. Modern tech stack are inherently more fragile than the real legacy stuff. The Mainframe tech that powers visanet has enormous practical limitations. But holy crap is it stable. Something about the dozens of abstraction layers that hadn't been invented yet when the original ISO payment standards and processes were first invented. The very close to metal and low surface area for breakage. And the benefit of decades of experience in these legacy stacks to shake out bugs. All of Visa's global commerce literally runs through just one of seven (mostly one of three) physical computers. Crazy stuff. But probably not sustainable many more decades. Eventually core networks will have to migrate to modern hardware, OS and SW stacks. That migration could create a lot of benefits, but I would not expect that maintaining the currently observed ~5-7 nines reliability to be one them.
Why Should I Trust Your Code?
Sure. But Apple didn't invent billboards and you can be rest assured it (billboard advertising) is never coming up in an iOS update in the future!

Enough with carrying water for a megacorp that makes money from selling advertising services.
I worked in the parking biz for a decade. It's an industry that attracts a lot of scumminess because a lot of money passes through it and controls are lax.

We had more than one customer unhappy with our system because it generated tight, accurate audit reports which meant that nobody could skim.

I also recall an effort to put all parking meters in San Francisco under the purview of the department of weights and measures, but IDK if that was successful.
Ha. Now we get to think about both lithium and zinc reserves among geopolitical rivals...but it does appear that zinc it about 100x more abundant than Lithium.
Using these sort of downstream patch set browsers is rarely a good idea. If it has multiple full-time developers from a respected org dedicated to it, then it can be justifiable (Tor Browser, Brave), but take a look at the gaps in time for these two pages:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/rel...

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/ch...

There's often days you're going without security patches. If you want a browser without Google tracking, Firefox is a much better choice.
Not enforceable in a US court but it is enforceable through technical means.
Shouldn’t there be a second person checking the work, at least every now and then?
A few years ago I made a chat bot at work that read the last few messages on Mattermost and then used GPT-2 to predict how the conversation would continue. The bot would then post that message. I added emoji reactions as well so the bot could also react on posts. Shortly afterwards, somebody noticed an empty emoji reaction on a post. It turned out that the emoji names were just strings, and you could react even with non-existent emojis. The bot had invented the “phantom-dummy-tune” emoji. Promptly a colleague made an emoji for it and uploaded it under that name, and it would show up. Glad to see that this process can now be automated as well :-)
I'm more optimistic. Procreate has gotten so many people into digital painting that avoided Photoshop. Dreams will introduce many people to animation. I'm excited about that because lots of people have ideas and talent but find animation tools too intimidating to explore.
I don’t see China’s relevance here: they have two choices: play by their rules or leave on the table shitloads of money. Maybe not morally the best decision, but it is not black-and-white evil I would say. For a Chinese person that also has to play by the same rules it is an added choice, and since all are similarly hijacked by the government this aspect doesn’t make it any worse.

Also, CP scanning was deliberately proposed as a way to actually enable e2e icloud - but they just didn’t want to be liable, as storing CP encrypted on their servers may also be problematic. So, I don’t see them malicious against privacy at all, in fact that is a core selling point of theirs, it would hurt them greatly to cheapen it out.
In those cases, does one keep the application-level pool at each pod, in addition to the "communal" PgBouncer pool, or does not offer any advantage?
1% of 11196 would be 112 years, so I expect he won't serve 1% of his sentence regardless. Or is that the joke you were intending to make?
No, not really. Compared to just about any game I’ve played it rarely gets stuck, and when you are up decisively it usually ends quickly.

Also most everyone plays time controls that completely avoid this.

Feels like people are reaching for reasons to dislike it here. It’s the most balanced and fun game I’ve found, and these issues ring totally hollow I think to anyone who plays it regularly.

There are some other issues you could point out, but they mostly exist entirely in classical time controls, or perhaps if you enjoy a less rigid and punishing game.
Very interested, will be applying soon! Just under 10 years total experience, 8 of that as some form of data engineer and the latter 5 being heavily focused on ML infrastructure/ops/tooling with one of my favorite roles being in biomedical research (digital twins for chronic illness - and my academic background is in neuroscience). Looking forward to learning more.
Don't expect anything from the government. I'm pretty sure the government is heavily pushing RTO to rescue the CRE market. Think about it. Until about February of 2023 everything was fine, remote hiring was still moving ahead. Suddenly, everyone decides remote isn't productive and the most productive you're going to be is 3 days in office. Every company, everywhere suddenly has the same realization.
decisions about value allocation to be made by people who generate value

I don't believe this to be the case in most instances. Value agglomerates due to preferential attachment, and greater a capital accumulation the less effort is needed to increase it.

relatively peaceful

Compared to what, historical nadirs? Substituting economic conflict for kinetic warfare has had only limited success and had drastic atomizing effects upon society. I don't regard this as a great improvement over the historic methods, which were more pragmatic than you suggest and where excess could be tempered by replacement. The elevation of property rights over virtually all other considerations has been a net negative in my view.

a glass that is generally getting fuller over time

Sure, if you look at naive measures like GDP growth or the like. Capital proponents recoil fromt he idea of factoring in all externalities, viz environmental impact. There's a reason insurers are scrambling to get out of many markets. I used to believe in the cis cornucopian version of capitalism, but have come to think it's much closer to zero-sum than proponents care to admit, preferring to take refuge in idealistic accounting than frankly appraise reality.
if I did this my life would probably fall apart, gmail notifications are the only thing that gets me to check my email
No more than our current situation. A sufficiently determined hacker can break into most IoT widgets given enough time, and decompile the firmware.

The vulnerabilities exist and will be exploited either way. But with source available, we now have the possibility of a whitehat group springing up to patch them.

Would you rather have no chance of ever patching exploits or giving people the ability to patch them?
They also get called to many non-crimes and to other situations that do not require armed, violent responses.

I think it would be great to set up competition to Police forces: Cities should create and staff an unarmed "Helper Force" who gets deployed to non-emergencies, to help people in distress, investigate "Karen's" complaints of this and that, to defuse mental health episodes (maybe bring a social worker), incidents involving children, rescuing cats out of trees, and so on. Carry on for a year, and then have both the Helper force and the Police force summarize in writing how they benefitted the community over then last 12 months, and have them fight for funding on the basis of that report.

I think taxpayers would decide that they'd rather have the helpers.
Signing in with Google is your choice, the author is not putting the article behind a login wall. I see nothing wrong with it.
At this point, I don't really care who is to blame between Apple allowing Meta's intrusivity, and Meta or any others just being intrusive.

There is no solution other than "regulate the personal data market out of existence" - meaning going one step further than GDPR and just forbid any use of my personal data except in the context of fulfilling an actual purchase or specific request by me and for communicating with me to the extent I allow it. All other uses are banned.
And it wasn't just because the execs wanted butts in seats, or to do layoffs without calling them that. It was direct retaliation for the workers voting to unionize two weeks ago.
He would be pretty lucky if he got to serve 1% of such a sentence.
Aw man, this guy would probably love strut or 8020.
Regarding the issue of representing symbolic expression and controlling their evaluation or simplification, are there precedents of using e-graphs to memoize and reuse work rather than simple trees with destructive updates?
You didn't make a point. App telemetry is absolutely benign compared to the kind of invasive ad tracking that Facebook participates in. There's no shortage of horror stories of poorly implemented Facebook Pixel integrations passing sensitive user data that marketers then use to create custom ad campaigns.

Most recent examples that come to mind:

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/341111-tax-filing-websi...

https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/nhs-data-bre...

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/12/13/out-of-control-d...
Interesting! The original link has no Windows binaries, so I assumed nothing had changed.
OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work
They are called “display ads”. Apple did not invent them. If your site produces above average content, then display ads are likely more profitable then keyword ads, since they target high quality ad real estate instead of high value eyeballs.
Is there any comparison of their features anywhere? Last time I tried sympy a few years ago, it was quite a bit lacking compared to Mathematica.
It is a lack of morals.

Most founders of startups only want money. They do not care if they make other people's lives better or worse.

This started with ethics laws. Ethics only means following the law and making money.

Seeking the greatest good for the greatest number was aborted when ethics became mandatory.

Ethics literally turns people into sociopaths. They are legally prevented from considering the welfare of others if corporate profits are on the line.

I am NOT an ethical person. I am a moral person. I work for the greatest good for the greatest number.

It is not a lack of diversity. A homogenous group without women or older workers is still capable of trying to improve the world for everyone.

Having said that, cutting costs is a moral thing to do. That eventually improves everyone's standard of living. Capitalism is better at cutting costs than it is at anything else, and capitalism has pulled more billions out of poverty than any other economic system ever.

It is perfectly moral to disrupt an industry by introducing a better product at a lower price and driving the incumbents to innovate or go out of business.

I wish we taught morality in schools.
I mean the check box text which says you accept it + marketing emails.
no way to do this better with rail??