skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "comfortable" or "convenient". People are just trying to piece together stuff to find the most likely hypothesis.

For instance, if you saw evidence of a successful space program you'd assume that it requires government. That's because there are natural difficulties with these enterprises that require some degree of coordination because you have free-rider problems, transit provider problems, etc.

The coordination mechanisms can be a whole bunch of things: we use markets very effectively today, but we also use governments or religions.

And yes, it could be another mechanism but someone has to postulate one such mechanism and find tests that it does not fail.

What's interesting is that the evidence pointed overall to one mechanism and now it points to another.

This sort of low-brow stuff fills people who read this stuff so much. "the elites", god.
Yeah I'm curious how it shakes out with these kinds of moves. I don't know anything about Flexport, but to me it's just more signs of a broader phenomenon of copious investment money drying up.

It's been "easy" for a long time, and lots of cultural practices built up around hiring and managing staff that look "normal" to people who got into the industry in the last 10 years but more of an aberration for those of us who have been around longer.

We've had a lot of bargaining power as a profession. We still do, but we'll have less. So I think you'll find that, yes, future candidates will have short memories. But more than likely, they won't need them, because a lot of these companies will simply cease to exist.
Actually, all 8 have left
We don’t need browser ballots. No desktop operating system comes with Chrome installed. Every desktop user who uses Chrome, willingly goes and downloads it. They explicitly made a choice.

If you do have browser ballots , you’re going to be able to “choose” which Chromium skin you want to use.

Most people know about Firefox and they still choose Chrome.

And if they choose Firefox - they are still downloading a browser where most of its revenue comes from…Google.

No one is going to pay for a browser. Any browser you choose is going to end up supporting itself via ads
Unless you’re a public figure with troves of available text to your name, I don’t really buy the idea that stylometry could be used to identify normal folks or even link accounts between platforms. I would need to see some reality compelling evidence. Especially because character limits and different use patterns for different platforms could throw a wrench in things.
It depends on your child. That's it.

My kids are 9 and 6 and the older is impulsive/adhd, so I am very careful with her. She used to want to watch kids playing with toys / unboxing videos when they were in vogue years ago and I shut that down quickly. I want her to play with those things, not watch someone else.

We allow a <2hours of screentime a day; TV or Chromebook. But it's mostly the former.

I have adguard at home where I sheepishly block things when they find sites I don't like and they use their schools Chromebooks at home which already is pretty restrictive. Only Roblox on the tablet.

Their friends have smart phones, which I find abhorrent. Although her friends are breaking them and parents are just not replacing them, so at this point it's moot. The unrestrictive iPad time I hear from her that other kids get is annoying and won't happen here.
It used to be really easy to search about:config for 'http' and just delete all URL's to quiet things down. More recently the about:config search only searches attributes not values so you have to "show all" and it's quite tedious to find them all. Even then there are some things you have to block with a hosts file entry.

That said it is possible to have firefox start cleanly with absolutely no network traffic except for sites you visit.
That's what he may have done, but the "executive" in the title means he was an officer with authority to actually do stuff on behalf of the company. Unlike non-executive chairmen, whose power generally is limited to hiring and firing the CEO.
> While the EPA reports the cattle industry in the United States accounts for 2.4% of total greenhouse gas emissions, some consumers are convinced that beef production is a major cause of climate change.

This seems to imply that cutting 2.4% of total greenhouse emissions wouldn’t have an impact on climate change. Motivated reasoning.
What about those who left their previous jobs? Sorry about that?
> How many squiggly red underlines do you think it will take before the writers fall in line and switch their creativity off?

That’s definitely a hard line to walk. On the other hand, not everyone is David Sedaris, and most writing should cut down on the cuteness and just give me the facts.
The handshake is hilarious. That's so many fingers
Ahh that makes so much sense, I feel like I should have guessed something like that was going on. Thanks!
People who did not experience this will not remember. All the new grads of 2030 who will want to build their resume will apply to the same companies.

Just check the consulting, the finance, the O&G businesses. Similar hostile practices, no problems with hiring.
I'm unsure if they're claiming "It's 100% automated now" vs "Our goal is 100% automated".

If it's the former, then yea that's dishonest, but the point is whether it's scalable now / likely possible eventually. I could imagine that being the case.
The board are often paid, but typically not much. Perhaps pro-rata "market rate" for the sorts of people on boards like this, but with the amount of time being so limited it's not huge sums of money. I'd expect much less than a typical SWE salary, perhaps an order of magnitude. I think the roles are often fulfilled for free.

In this case, it was the founder, so his upside is huge already from stock. Call that pay if you like, but I think it's a bit different.
Without presenting a full argument, just based on your own post, if everyone is starting to do this almost in unison, in cartel-like fashion, then each individual company has no consequences to worry about.
I'd bet $50 in 18 months "the crunch" will still be in full swing (and Raspberry Pi will still be "bringing huge volumes to the market any week now").

There is no way in hell all these expensive fabs will pay for themselves if chips are too cheap. So no one (especially not TSMC) will risk oversupply by building too many fabs.
My scripts have not opted-in to accepting any terms of use nor have they signed any contracts.

[Edit] I should add that nobody has paid me for accessing my site that has a ToS/AUP requiring everyone to pay me 10% of their monthly income.
See in french we don't even have the possibility for that kind of confusion because we named a "byte" an "octet" which also reflects its relation with the number 8

That way they don't get gigabytes and gigabits abbreviated with the same letters and we don't have to rely on a capitalization convention

Join the enlightened gigaoctet convention
In my experience at smaller companies, often times you are open to candidates of multiple experience levels or backgrounds filling a role, but if you don't advertise for very specific roles, people are confused and don't apply.

e.g. if your hiring manager says "If we could get someone on our team to cover either some of the devops or some of the backend dev, our one 5-year-tenured person on the team who is doing both could focus on the other." Now you've posted two roles for one opening; devops engineer and server software developer.
Causal evidence is basically non-existent in archaeology. You are correct that, deductively, we can conclude little more about society from this other than that construction took place. Archaeology attempts to collect all possible evidence and weigh the potential narratives. This can be especially effective at teasing out trends across many sites and cultures. Are we likely getting details wrong if we were to infer a specific society from these trends? Absolutely. We will likely never know most aspects of these cultures—but if that's your goal, even well-documented history will fail us. We know a lot about the lifestyles of european benedictine monks, for instance, because they were excellent record keepers, but we still can't answer basic questions about their lives.

Anyway, with this specific article social stratification is one of those things with little ability to extract a narrative from a single data point, but whose importance emerges when collated with others. And it does sound a bit editorialized for modern narratives, but that's probably not intended by the researchers.
What exactly do you want to scale? But in the end the answer is likely "connection pooling", either integrated in the application or with a dedicated pooler like PgBouncer which this article is about.

For Postgres a good way to scale is to just use a bigger server. You can get a lot of very fast storage and lots of CPU cores inside a single server today. And if that isn't enough you're far, far into territory where you can't give generic answers and it depends a lot on your specific use case and what you do with that database.
>Actually if the IC design tools would be FOSS, the cost of new designs would decrease considerably, even up to two times.

There are FOSS IC design tools but nothing that can match Synopsis, Mentor and Cadence and the semi industry isn't gonna start dealing with FOSS jank and destroy their productivity and competitiveness just to save a few milion in licensing costs to those 3 companies, which are peanuts in the end.

They're like the John Deer of semi tools, expensive to own and run, but necessary to be competitive and get the most out of this field.

Plus, the proprietary stuff is still the standard-cell libraries of TSMC, Samsung, Glo-Fo etc. They will never open source this.

>and this perpetuates their monopoly and their ability of extracting huge amounts of money with minimal software development work,

Oh, you mean just like Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc?
I don't buy it either.
thanks for the spam man. always nice to see spammers
sorry, bud. your site has 'design' as tld but it seems you don't put any mind into content readability on mobile.
It wouldn't. Just like manufacturing moving out of the US didn't reduce smoke - it just moved it to China, these cattle will just be raised elsewhere. Except, now a few hundred thousand folks in the US are out of a job.
Bypassing Large Diffs in SubmitQueue
They support email address for sms id as well. Pretty common for phishing.
I thought it was résumé collection. I’ve noticed a weird pattern lately, where I’ll see a job, apply to it, and a day or two later it’s delisted.
From 10 to 30 years. They need to clone ASML.
yes! This was my request as well.

And maybe a "learn" mode where you can see the original timing or the timing of a famous interpretation, like ghosts in video games.

Love it! Thanks so much for doing this.
Hostile? I just stated that the audience isn't programmers.
There's actually only about 15 times higher partial pressure of carbon dioxide on Mars because the atmosphere is so much thinner.
Hahah yes, yes it was.
A sure sign that it was trained to replicate a particular style, which the trainer decided to name TOK.

It’s somewhat helpful to pick names that are a single token after byte pair encoding, which TOK happens to be.
yes, that's right, i should have added the conclusion: by increasing supply, price goes down, that's how consumers benefit.
Is this because your default approach is to horizontally scale or because you have tried other options? Logically scaling vertically a single server with pooled connections should have a better effect than horizontally scaling to multiple servers that need to share connections through a proxy. The proxy doesn't magically increase the number of connections available to the database. It will add overhead to all your database interactions though.
Apple's core incentives are misaligned with stealing your data. And that's why they are more trustworthy than facebook. It's that simple.

Apple is first and foremost a lifestyle company, then a b2b platform company, then a hardware company.

The lifestyle company ensures customer acquisition and the 'unreasonable' pricing . The platform company is the revenue, the moat and the golden handcuffs for every 3rd party company who works with Apple. The Hardware company ensures that Apple stays ahead, so no one can be the next Apple.

Apple could be an ads company too.

But ads companies bleed trust. That weakens the value of both Apple the lifestyle company and Apple the hardware company. Apple already skims 30% of your app revenue. They don't need to make money from ads, when they can make money from those who make money from ads. Apple being an ads company would spook the partners of Apple the platform company.

I trust Apple not because they're good. But because selling your data hurts their bottomline. Trust capitalistic incentives and teack records, everything else is virtue signalling.
In my experience specialists will not take patients without a referal. So that is the express purpose of a primary care. Referalls. That and vaccines/physicals
If AI generated images/videos are indistinguishable from real ones how can one make money off the real child porn? Urgent action needed!
I wash my clothes after each use. Clothing, unlike the cheap grocery bags, are usually better quality and last longer than bags. Perhaps I just have cheap bags, but they don't seem to last all that long.
I agree with you in general, but wanted to point out that layoffs are often related to the companies overall performance and direction. So it's not uncommon for layoffs to have very little correlation with the performance of any individual affected employee.
Also note that Chrome on my home machine has asked me more than once to enable the new feature. Each time I've said no, I find it has turned on other related features. This may be the final irritation that makes me pull my finger out and switch to Chromium or back to FF¹. I used to switch back & forth every year or two, as one of them did something to irritate me⁴ I switched to the other.

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[1] I switched to Chrome a few years ago when FF went through a period of being unstable²

[2] and because certain extensions didn't have good FF alternatives, because they never were or because some were crippled by the changes in ~2017³, but that latter point is fairly moot as Google is now taking their turn to work towards crippling useful extensions

[3] at least FF's change here were mostly due to massively misreading the room while trying to streamline their platform, where Google's seem to be more malicious when you consider most of the affected extensions are ones that go against their primary business of tracking people & selling adverts.

[4] things breaking after updates, periods of general instability, not keeping up in the performance race for a while, etc.
True, see also the Leo Szilard two-hour-bathtub session approach. Although reports are that he also used the walking method:

> "When Szilard told the story later he never mentioned his destination that morning. He may have had none; he often walked to think."

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...
Propaganda. Even if, a user toggle would have worked wonders.
I use the friends list to DM people without sharing a server with them, that's it.

Isn't that what friends lists have always been anyway?
I was going to say, nobody believes in any privacy Meta alleges. Even when they do E2EE they still collect anything else about you that they can.
So technically too hard to "downgrade" your Threads account back to an Instagram account? Odd.
100% - just like plastic bags. Either way we are all paying for the cost as that is spread into the price for everyones food.
Or you could just log in with the embedded „Log in with Google“ Button. Which ironically probably tracks you too without even clicking it.
Lack of market disincentives to carry out abusive behavior.

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

Yes. Need for $$ outweighs desire for individual dignity. There's always someone out there willing to take your shitty job, as long as you're willing to wait. And why hurry? Just keep squeezing your current employees in the meantime.

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

Repeated prisoner's dilemma. There's no reason to start hiring aggressively if nobody else is.

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

What problem? How does it actually affect their performance or their company's performance?

> existential threats

On the other hand, they won't stop doing something that's perfectly profitable and effective unless there's an existential threat.
I wonder what it will take for people to finally get fed up with creepy advertising companies.

I received a letter from Target that by default they’ll sell my information to unaffiliated third parties and I have to call or write a letter to opt-out. I’m sure I agreed to that at some point (and anyone signing up for a loyalty program that doesn’t cost anything should realize that’s what they are agreeing to, even if they are not explicitly told that), but perhaps they should be required to explicitly list the actual costs to the customer along side the benefits.

Last week I was picking up a prescription at CVS. In between confirming name and address and signing for payment or receipt of Rx they slipped a marketing agreement that I stupidly agreed to before realizing that it wasn’t an agreement related to the prescription purchase. So in someone’s compromised medical state (assuming), when you just want to get medicine to get back to normal they hide an agreement to sell information.

None of this improves my life. I just want to transact money for items and end the relationship until it happens again. I don’t need every advertiser knowing every one of or even habitual purchase I make.

If you work in ad-tech or are responsible for these front-end schemes to collect more information:

1: screw you

2: it’s super creepy and even if you’re not creepy, the stuff you’re working on and the people you are working for are

3: seriously, it’s really disgusting, immoral, and deceptive to find all manor of ways to trick people into agreeing to sell personal information that they assume (rightly) is private (even when done in public)

4: start leaking information on schemes, tricks, & loopholes so something can be done to destroy invasive ad tech
"Let them sue"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-unpaid-bil...
Super interesting. I haven’t seen much chain support tech for ts folk which is a hard requirement for more production applications.
i'm sorry but you don't know what you're talking about
uac is pointless because the concept of "admin" or "root" is an obsolete boomer idea. we are never going back to shared OS, good riddance.
2GHz machines can be had for $5 from thrift stores. the only thing keeping them slow are the likes of Cloudflare who insist that the web should be viewed in a bloated proprietary way like using Firefox or Chrome (yes these are proprietary in every way other than literally since they have all the bad features of proprietary software: spyware, adware, bloat, news, "Firefox Suggest (TM)", infinite half implemented features, terrible perf due to letting websites use all these features)

uac doesn't stop malware (as in, you wont even get a popup) from sending all your files to a remote party, which is the only thing i care about as a desktop user. i would prefer if windows went back to having no users and i didn't get random "permission denied" errors while browsing my documents.
The Raspberry Pi wouldn't have issues if not for the fact that they are explicitly an outlet for Broadcom's excess chips, and they have never paid full price for their CPUs. If they doubled the price of the boards, they would be able to get the parts.
Neurogenesis inhibition improves learning and memory performance
> a fucking difficult job market

? This is the hottest job market in living memory. Labor economists have run out of ways to describe it. A damp log can get a six-figure signing bonus.
Is bureaucracyOS a real thing or a metaphor?
They are just doing what they need to do. Additional investment dollars are not guaranteed and companies need to get profitable.

When money was easy to find and nobody cared about profits, companies could afford generous operating policies that inspired confidence. Now they can't.

This may impact their ability to hire in the future. On the other hand, they will remain in business.
You mean... like this?

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...
is that the case? They sold a bunch early on but theres been lots of press about the lousy 40 series sales volume this year and their struggle to get people buy 4080/70's.

In Feb they artifically constrained 4090 volume to try and push 4080s no one wanted. The 4070 was dead on arrival and had production cut by April.

They've near stopped production now - theoretically because the AI stuff is so lucrative, but if they were really "shipping a ton of units" of the 40 series and didn't have excess inventory i doubt they'd have done that.

- https://www.dexerto.com/tech/nvidia-rtx-4070-production-repo...
- https://www.dexerto.com/tech/nvidia-rtx-40-series-production...
Yeah, it reads backwards. 2.4% of total greenhouse emissions just for one kind of food item sounds huge.
The HN stylometry site (now dead) was actually pretty effective.
I think in general, the idea is that you can execute SQL using the query engine on Spark.
Would be a lot more refreshing if Flexport gave some compensation to those affected. If not, the only real difference from a corporate blog post is in style of communication but not in substance.
My friend is a heavy duty mechanic working diamond mines up north above artic circle. He gave my kids a slide show of all the crazy stuff he's worked on. Super human will power and constant problem solving. Grown men breaking every week up there.
I have the opposite problem, especially in California. I'll be staying in a hotel and need cutlery, but even though I've checked the box, I won't receive any with my order.
Part of the thing is that long haul truckers themselves often prefer these hours. They would rather just get the trip over with and back to their family than spend 16 hours at a motel in Coldfoot, and pocket the difference.

They could run double crews but you don't get that much consolation sitting in a passenger seat vs a drivers seat.
Does it make sense to prompt it based on the names of existing Apple emojis? I can’t tell if it’s helping or not. Some tests are exceptionally good, some are inexplicably awful. Very cool either way! I had a lot of fun experimenting.
Might want to fix that.
Deploying Large Language Models Cheap, Good *and* Fast
But there is no database keeping score reliably on all the nefarious actions. If a lot of companies already behave this way, then the behavior becomes normalized. None of these companies get ostracized. At worse, they just make a better offer to future candidates to attract them. In the current capitalism, everything has a price, even honor.
Hence why you need to sign in to access content from most feeds at least, so that you've agreed to the ToS.
Or, imagine smart, young Americans trying to make a living in a high cost of living area like the Bay Area, having their life FUBAR'd by a selfish exec. Most likely as they just told their previous employer that they're leaving that company.
> I wonder what it will take for people to finally get fed up with creepy advertising companies.

As long as people get "free stuff" people won't get fed up.