skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this quite covers it because it's not just the rising prices. That's expected to happen, it's that prices are rising but these owners keep shoving their hands deeper and deeper in the customers pocket to "line item" their costs. The application of a "service charge" is just one example. Ok so if you're going to line item this, how do I avoid it? If I get takeout can I avoid the service charge because I'm not getting any service. If there's no way to avoid this line item why isn't this baked into the price of the goods. Why are you increasing the price of your food so astronomically but then also increasing the suggested tip amount to 25%, 30% or 40% for a counter service restaurant where customers bus their own tables. Pay your employees appropriately because you're certainly collecting enough money with the prices you charge.

The pricing insanity is more than just the cost of food that is increased. It's the ever-expanding greed of these people who have failed to wisely save and manage their business in the past and expect that customers will have an infinite money supply to waste on their ever decreasing quality of food.

Especially with so much of the food being changed to a delivery or take out customers are just fed up with this garbage. If the prices were worth it people would pay but they're looking around and saying this slop is not worth it. If I want microwave reheated trash thrown on a plate haphazardly I'll just go to the freezer section of the grocery store and do it at home. The sad thing is when you do get a plate of mediocre food that you've plate $70 for that isn't even presented in an appetizing manner and you complain they look at you as if you're wrong. I'm sorry if you don't care enough about the food to present it to me in an appetizing way then I don't care to pay you any money for it. Especially when your markup is around 700%.
Same energy:
https://hackertyper.net/
The company will be around, but it might only be in the form of a patent portfolio and government contractor. No telling if the government contractor will have their own data centers or resell other clouds.
Turning quantum into a business model that is not only self-sustaining but at the level of profitability of IBM's legacy business... that's a big ask for even the most agile company with the best technologists in the world. And if they internally knew their Quantum System 2 was game-changing - why do this desperate move in their cloud business?
I just hope they won't end up selling RedHat to MS in few years...
What is a hierarchy? Broadly it's a ranking based on some criterion. As such hierarchies follow from a society's wants and needs (you could say it follows from the needs hierarchy of society itself) and shift all the time. As an example consider the rise of software developers which was based on the increasing need of society for software.

A hierarchy is necessary to allows society to adjust rewards to its needs. It isn't necessarily some oppressive force keeping people caged in their circumstances (though a dysfunctional one quickly becomes that, see the CCP aristocracy in China).

If we want more renewable energy installed, we necessarily have to adjust the hierarchy by increasing the rewards (status, money ...) for the entities and people installing it.

I don't quite get how you can reduce it to "someone is above someone". While that is obviously an aspect, you cannot have a society that does anything without having a hierarchy. If you can show me a society with no hierarchies I'm all ears.
Fall '23 distro roundup: 7 new releases
Does this same argument justify DDoS attacks?
I fail to see the problem
Why not just use the JVM and concurrency? I routinely parse 300+ GB of geospatial data without breaking a sweat using a very simple combination of concurrent linked queues and cached thread pools. I couldn't imagine diving head long into some new esoteric language just to do something as simple as what this author is describing. And things are only going to get easier with Virtual Threads...If I'm doing something boring (parsing data) I'd just want to use a boring standard language I guess (Java).
Well, no. To amend your example, let’s go with the sign saying “This is a gropy sort of party. Please use one of these convenient ‘I don’t want to be groped’ stickers before coming in if that’s not your thing.’”
This is the first I've heard of such a law. Do you have a reference? Which country?
That's all fine and good. But if, as is being reported, this was a personal decision by Musk, that is not an implementation of this policy.

This kind of individual discretion over company operations is a process failure, at the very least, and I'd say it's a dangerous risk that cries out for public regulation.
"Spouting off" is an idiom that means, essentially, "angrily complaining". It does not mean publicly confessing to a crime.
More details from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Oxygen_ISRU_Experiment the reaction is

2 CO2 + heat --> 2 CO + O2

CO is a gas, so they let it escape. (It's toxic for mammals (in particular humans), but there is no one around to worry about. It will get transformed back to CO2 in the atmosphere when we react with something else that has an oxygen to steal. And in extremely low concentrations it's not a problem. So it's safe to let it escape for now.)

It's energy limited. You need heat to make the transformation.,
Google Wants to Show “Fewer, Longer Ad Breaks” on Its YouTube Apps on TV
I've had dozens of repos doing this kind of thing for a few years now and I've not found any downsides yet - it just works.

There's a size limit to consider: GitHub won't let you push a file larger than 100MB and prefer you to keep the repo itself below 2GB.

Most of my scraping projects are a tiny fraction of that size though.
> Oracle has an always free tier, but it is hard to build much on 1 vcpu and 1 gb of ram.

Oracle will throw away your running VM on free tier no warning.

Mine got thrown away so hard entire account was fucked and I didn't even had an option to upgrade to paid account...
Thanks! I use madblog for my blogs (https://git.platypush.tech/blacklight/madblog), it's a small CMS based only on Markdown that I implemented in my spare time. I make most of the thumbnails myself too - usually by putting together or modifying other images I find online.

About the inversion of licensing - CLAs are basically inversions of the usual collaboration flow between community and enterprise. The community usually contributes to the FOSS project out of the terms of the FOSS license (which usually includes free redistribution, no warranty etc.). The enterprise maintains, well, an enterprise version of the project, that abides to its own licenses and all.

The community has never had to come in contact with the enterprise side so far. I can contribute to the CentOS trunk, without ever signing any agreement with Red Hat. If I need to contribute a patch directly to the Red Hat codebase, then it makes sense to sign a CLAs, otherwise it doesn't.
> We see Phind as a superset of ChatGPT. For the problems where search results may not be relevant, it should still function as GPT-4. Do you see it performing worse in your use case?

I did, but honestly i've not tried it in a while. I'll keep this in mind and try to give it a go again before i cancel/go back to CGPT.

> As for mistaken library versions, we’re working on developing our own index as a long term fix. But in the meantime you should be able to tell it the proper version and it should work.

That is true, i rarely give it my library versions. Though, i feel what's needed is frequently versions are ambiguous in results. In the case of something like Rust, i would take a search result, go to docs.rs/foo and see if those results exist in the lib. Usually that's the mismatched step, something i'm unsure if Phind is doing at all.

I'll try giving it versions more frequently, though.

Unrelated side note: i'd love if Phind had nothing user/pass auth or at the very least much longer valid logins. Using email on multiple devices is a bit annoying for me. For me (i use anonymous emails) it's all the downsides of auth, but plus email validation every time hah. Though this is not making me cancel or anything, i just had to login again and figured i'd vent my small annoyance :)
For the younger generations Fortnite has a third-place vibe, which is fascinating to me as someone that played FPS as a youngin and never considered using them primarily to socialize
That’s what Google is calling it, so I’m inclined to believe them.
Even if no identifiable person gets to decide, the climate may force a whole series of individual decisions. Or a wildfire decides for you.
I’m in the Tech Community. I’m fine with the NSO group. (Which, btw, is owned by U.K. Novalpina Capital, and managed by a firm out of Luxembourg. But for some reason you all here aren’t obsessed with those countries.)
> Borremans was a tall, slender man with searching blue eyes and a bald head who cycled 40 miles to and from work every day. He was the son of a cheese vendor. Borremans joined the police force at 19 and worked for years in a carjacking unit. Once, he broke up a criminal network trafficking luxury cars between the Belgian port city of Antwerp and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Does that paragraph strike anyone else as strange being in a top tier newspaper like The Washington Post? It reads like a grade school essay where the student is trying to stuff a bunch of miscellaneous facts into a paragraph rather than the polished prose you usually see in a top tier newspaper.
I often wonder is AWS success due to paying top dollar to staff where as IBM seems to have gone down the cost cutting route and low salaries. I'm sure that isn't the only reason, but IBM's fall from the top has been pretty drastic over the last 30 years.

I guess it also could just be due to companies eventually get too big and bloated which causes them to innovate slower.
It seems like the Android version is not (yet) available despite it being advertised for Android.
Not that other words have not been adopted. Like Finnish roskaposti "trash-mail".

Not that spämmi isn't used as word as well.
> Professor Soucek, at Davis law school, said ideological diversity is not the point.

> “It’s our job to make sure people of all identities flourish here,” he said. “It’s not our job to make sure that all viewpoints flourish.”
I haven't really had issues. They have a "programming" toggle that filters results to what looks like mainly forum type content like on github or stackoverflow, but I don't use it often, I'm sure some people do though
<cough> google container for firefox
In America we have a "policy" against search without probable cause that the NSA consistently violates. Policy doesn't keep them in line.
H2Fly – Breaking the Hydrogen Barrier
That's exactly the direction it's going in. As long as there is money in this, the charade will go on forever. It's not like no one knows that majority of the "science", produced currently, is with the purpose of advancing in the education hierarchy, not concerned with actually expanding human knowledge.
Yep, this was my first thought: too much power concentrated in a single person; regulation needed.
Time to open source the chip making industry... ... ...

This whole fabrication thing is a biiig chokepoint.
yea, the justice system is quite the misnomer way too often
I don't think this analogy makes sense.
If you are in a public setting having a lowered-voice conversation you think is private, but you speak in a way that more people hear you than intended.. then.. you don't have any right to have that be inadmissible in court.

Just like posting things on your social media profile and 1000s of people see it instead of 100s of people you intended.

Another offline analogy would be - talking on your cellphone, you have the right to be free of warrantless wiretap.

However, if you sit down in a bar that you thought "was cool" and take a phone call, but the bar happens to have accidentally let a cop or "narc" in .. and they overheard your end of the phone call because you talk too loud, then what they testify hearing is totally admissible in court, and you are an idiot.
They have ironclad contracts with the DoD and other government organizations, and with the way those processes work if every person from the president to the peon decided they wanted to move everything off of IBM and were going to move heaven and earth to do it. They wouldn't even be able to start entertaining bids from other competitors until 2035.

Beyond this IBM's core competency is winning government contracts, a niche very few other people have the desire or the resources, or the proper understanding of the necronomicon to enter.
NYPD sends undercover cops across state lines to spy on other states' residents that are engaged in lawful activities. It's well documented.

The NYC government has traditionally treated their police force as its own personal millitary and intelligence service, and neighboring states as hostile foreign enemies.
>>> you do not have a constitutional right to spouting off in the public square without consequence. What you say publicly can & will be used against you in the court of law.

"spouting off..used against you in a court of law"

But, even if the OP didn't intend for these two to be tied together in this way, then a very strong constitutional right still exists for spouting off, so whether conflation occurred or not is moot.
"First Piloted Flight of Liquid Hydrogen Powered Electric Aircraft" - https://www.h2fly.de/2023/09/07/h2fly-and-partners-complete-...
Indeed! I think this is what makes this so fun. I can also highly recommend listening to various recordings of the moonlight sonata and notice how different it is depending on the precise timing the pianist uses.
Yeah, I could confidently take my MacBook on a day trip sans charger, but I have yet to own a contemporary x86 laptop that could I could do the same with. That said, my newest x86 laptop is Intel Tiger Lake which wasn’t ever really good in that department.
Browsers are complicated to package and so maintainers may not feel it's worth the time to package a fork of Firefox. Especially as pale moon's drama in the past may have led to a general skepticism about the whole ecosystem.
The unsatisfying answer is that elixir inherits this from erlang. I don't have a good answer on why erlang does it though.

For functions of different arities, erlang (and therefor elixir) considers them completely different functions, and requires a declaration for each arity at least.

But then elixir adds optional args which confuses the answer a little. Being able to hard code handling of exceptional constants in a separate body is very useful but like you said it's conceptually the same thing as a pattern match, and not really an answer about why that feature is there.

I've looked a bit before but I haven't come up with anything more compelling than "erlang was kinda off doing its own thing, syntax-wise, and so some of it is just Like That now."
Funny, I made some collages of images from the Ukraine MoD about as soon as Russian attack last year and a lot of them were of the Ukraine delegation to the Invictus Games which were really remarkable.
If something is banned by Meta it must be criminal or at least unethical. Meta, the paladin of data privacy.
I have been reading The Washington Post regularly for 45 years, and very little that I encounter in it surprises me. It has never seemed particularly well edited.
I'm sure this didn't sell well in the terms of Lenovo's usual customers who need x86 processors.
There have been many ancient cities in the Amazon rainforest discovered through satellite imaging/LIDAR/other techniques, but before those discoveries large settlements in the area were considered legends and myths.
Whatever definition of “falsifying research” you have, AI is up to it. The best illustration is the lawyer earlier this year that assumed ChatGPt was truthful and used nonexistent references with complete text.
The annual NSDUH survey disagrees with you. You know, actual evidence. And a random Sky News video about a specific increase in fentanyl-associated deaths where xylazine was detected is hardly evidence of larger trends.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/release/2021-national-survey-dru...

> one only needs to walk the streets of LA

So you follow one poor example of evidence with another. There are many confounding factors for why large cities are more likely to have observable population of unhoused and drug abuse, such as availability of services and facilities that treat vulnerable populations and the habit of smaller cities to ship their vulnerable populations to these areas. Let's not forget stagnant wages and disproportionate increases to the cost of living and lack of housing.

Decriminalization also means we're not hiding away this vulnerable population by stuffing them in jails and treating the justice system as a half-assed mental health solution. Let's also not forget that the Greater Los Angeles area has a population equal to the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Utah combined.

> Free access to fent, heroin, crack, cocaine, lsd, meth, and even mdma

How do you jump from decriminalization to free drugs? What a silly attempt at a straw man.
Confidential sources are not credible. They usually have some ulterior motive and often don't tell the truth.
Microsoft, honestly.
Counterpoint, in the context of education, the goal of the assignment isn’t to produce the end product of a 3000 word essay, but to have you go through the associated process of formulating, organizing, and presenting your thoughts. LLMs give you the product, but not that process. Outside of school the product matters more though, so learning to use LLMs as a tool seems like a worthwhile part of education as well, as long as you learn enough about writing to prompt and judge the quality of its outputs.
None of that is wrong but as I understand, it’s established precedent that a “public square” setting does not provide a legitimate expectation of privacy.
I can only speak for the fields with which I am familiar but in those fields, peer review is probably a negative indicator. Peer review says that the ideas of the paper are not interesting, meaningful, or true enough to stand on their own. That they require the imprimatur of legitimacy in order to be taken seriously.
Evidence that most likely leads directly to the source. Especially in investigative journalism, true that a lot quick online stories are a different story.

I do understand why not all spurce material can be published, but that source material is usually strictly vetted before publication. And that is were the brand of newspapers comes in.
To be fair to Schrader, about the S&S poll, BFI did hire someone (a film professor in California) to manage the S&S voting pool, who specifically said in public, very clearly, that he was making it his aim to change the voter list so as to "bring down the canon" and things to that effect. It was heavily implied, if not explicitly being stated, that he was trying to select people on the list specifically because they would choose different films than what had been chosen in the past.

Just for example:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lousy-listing-on-sight-a...
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/12/b9nt3og3xtalyb227h3...
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/jb7gl4mobhpnsn03tc6tek9fzko...

The S&S poll results were very controversial and I don't really want to come across as saying the list was good or bad, or that any film should or should not have been ranked as it was (I'm at a point in my life where I think the whole idea of making lists is flawed and elitist regardless of how the polling is done), but Schrader wasn't the only one complaining about the process. In fact some people were predicting controversy before the list was even revealed because of how the process was unfolding. Having the person who is responsible for the voting pool go into it with the objective of "setting the canon on fire" — rather than obtaining a more voting pool more representative of the cinema community worldwide per se — I think is fairly opening themselves up for criticism.

More broadly, I think even if you accept the S&S poll as fine (which maybe it is), the controversy kind of points to ways in which the process could be gamed. I think that's true regardless of whether you think the poll was better this year or in the past: 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.

Maybe Goodhart's law is inevitable.
invariant pointers in a distributed global address space? how very database-y.

"pointer" implies ephemeral, to me; if you're in a cluster or something then you extend the pointer to include a "arena" component; be that process id or a cluster:procid pair or whatever. They're still invalid once the process is gone but then you're not chasing indexes and indirection tables quite so far for every single access.
Just plain "cost"?
> Chrome started as Webkit, which forked from KHTML, which was part of the very open source KDE.

Safari started as Webkit which forked from KHTML which was part of KDE.

The various forks of webkit incl Chrome came later. If Chrome was ever based on webkit, iForget.
The biggest problem with all these "privacy" oriented web browsers is that you have to trust their creators explicitly and I just cannot.

Most often the developers are some random anonymous Joes without CVs or anything proving they have reputation at stake.

Thank you, but no thank you. Even if the official Firefox "leaks" something it's well controlled and well known.

What do these browsers do? I've no idea.
At the time of writing, the top story (about Touch Pianist [1]) gets the following summary:

> This is a brief summary of a menu or selection of pieces available on a mobile app. The menu offers the option to choose a different piece and provides information about the app and its creator. It mentions that the app is available for free on Android and iOS platforms. The content seems to be truncated, so it is difficult to provide a more detailed summary.

For a canvas-based SPA, it's not very surprising, but it shows how trivial it would be to fool those new SEO tools before hydrating a different content.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431644
Famously, humans are the only creatures on earth that do lots of stuff. Like talking, writing, drawing pictures, or riding rockets into orbit.

I don't see what's so unbelievable about our massively unique cognitive ability vs instinct ratio leading us to also have different forms of social organization, or that this could lead to our social organization being detached from instinct almost entirely.

I feel like this whenever people try to do that Lobster argument. "right, but we aren't lobsters."
How is that unexpected or innovative ?

you-help-me-I-help-you attitude is staple of small, tight knit communities since forever. Can't exactly build barn single handed easily.
Totally agree with this. Moonlight Sonata one of my favorite pieces to play while I was growing up. I recall showing my piano teacher I wanted to play it - she was classically trained and taught very advanced pianists (I was not one of those) - and I remember her just rolling her eyes. I kept playing it anyway in my free time...
The NYPD and other big city police departments have been buying and using the same tools as the IC for years. When you hear about 'dual use' tech like Palantir, after DOD/IC these companies immediately target and sell to domestic law enforcement, from the FBI all the way down to the local PD.

I don't want to defund the police; I do want them to behave like they are part of the neighborhood and not its enforcers.

EDIT: Slashing funding ≠ defunding. It's a terrible, terrible argument that makes no sense, alienates people who'd otherwise support a more reasonable approach, and perfectly embodies the 'all or nothing' style of modern day performance politics.