skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thank you for inviting Google to give evidence to the Online Safety Bill Public Bill Committee, and for your subsequent invitation to provide written evidence.

So, they've now provided written evidence. But they haven't responded to the invitation to appear before the committee.

It sounds like they're saying "Sure, here's our evidence. We're not prepared to answer your supplementary questions." Will Goo be sending someone to appear before the committee?
Attempts to divert discussions into not related issues are usually met with people dismissing them.

We were discussing the "return to work" vs "return to office" thing. Nobody mentioned anything about house maintenance being "women's work" or dismissed its importance before you brought it up accusing us of that.

If anything, in your first comment you dimissed the protesting about the title's "return to work" muddying the waters to make even paid work as something that only happens in an office.
Okay, for the record, you are officially an antibeleiver who thinks simply asking the question and investigating it and trying to answer it makes one a nutter.

For the record, I hate this out-of-hand dismissal of anyone who asks "What if..." about anything outside the current Overton Window.
I think the concern is less about a small handful steeping themselves in misinformation and more about what to do when a large chunk of public discourse starts to veer in a tabloid-like direction because such ideas are more captivating and viral than reality, especially with narratives specifically designed to do that being spun ever more frequently by a growing array of parties. Hoping that people think for themselves and practice due diligence only goes so far, particularly when there’s a shocking number adhering to a culture of ignorance and taking pride in not critically thinking or scrutinizing sources.

With that in mind, I can see why a government might want tools to help keep yellow-journalism-like discourse from dominating public forums, but as noted there’s dangers that come with that. It’s a thorny issue.
The rest of the story was that he was hired at a startup that was founded by two non technical brothers. The brothers got funding and hired a consulting company to build the MVP and find product market fit.

They brought him in to build out an internal team to remove their dependence on the consulting company. I was his second technical hire. He wanted to make everything “cloud native” for HA and scalability reasons. We sold access to micro services to large health care providers.

We just talked during the interview. No leetCode, no techno trivia and I came up with my proposals and even though he knew I had no practical experience with AWS, later on he told me he thought I was a smart guy and could figure it out.

Two years later when a little worldwide pandemic hit and people were hammering our services, they didn’t miss a beat.

After I basically “put myself out of a job” and had done everything I was initially hired to do, I got bored and got a job at AWS in the Professional Services Department.

Three years later, the company we worked for had had an exit, he moved on to another company and I got Amazoned. I called him up and we talked about some problem he was having with an Amazon Connect (call center) implementation. It was a service I knew well and he offered me a consulting contract on my last day at AWS.

FWIW: I also got another full time job two weeks later.

I don’t see anyone else giving me the opportunity that he originally gave me to lead his “transformation” vision. He knew I had never opened the AWS console when he hired me.
Sovereignty vs. Society
> It also deters other potential criminals.

[citation needed] The original article would imply this simply ain't so. This follows the same logic that the death penalty acts as a deterrent when no correlation between states with a death penalty and lower violent crime rates exist (let alone a causal link).
Music Theory for Guitar
Tangentially relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1217/
Yeah, the ego and entitlement of people living in their native country who can’t be sent back at a moment’s notice.
> That's what email forwarding is, i.e. using IMAP or POP.

No, mail forwarding is SMTP and requires no access to pop/imap. What you're thinking of is the ability of Google to fetch from other accounts using POP.

Once mail forwarding is setup you can lose access to the account and it will still with. In contrast pop fetch will only work as long as you can log in the account.

They can both achieve similar goal (have mail from one account show up in another), but they work in fundamentally different ways
And you're right to be skeptical. With performance, so much depends on your actual code and program-specific bottlenecks. The difference in runtime speed between JSC and V8 is minimal, so a lot of Bun optimization must be in the gaps between your code and the core JS engine or in startup time (e.g., running `bun install` or `bun test`).

In my benchmarks, our actual runtime performance of long-running JS code is ~25% faster under Bun than under Node. However, sometimes Bun is ~25% slower - notably with tasks that require binary processing (e.g, fflate, sharp) or encryption (e.g., jose). We're committed to JS and will be constrained by its performance for a long time, so a "free" 10-30% speed up at runtime is worth the effort, but it's not a 10x slam dunk like the benchmarks on Bun's homepage imply.
Yes. Cellulose acetate warps or breaks down in two main ways: it can warp from plasticizer migration, and it can “weep” or liquify as it ages. Weeping has been called “vinegar syndrome” because of the smell involved, which of course is acetic acid.
> "japs" is considered an offensive term

By whom?
4 mm is already considered microplastics? Wouldn't have guessed that. Almost as if the definition was "smaller than a 1x1 Lego plate" (which wouldn't be all that unreasonable I guess, it's the only system of units more commonly understood than the metric system)
uniform distribution isn't always the worst case. just for an example, if you stuff a btree with pages and pages of the same key it starts to get funny. it also doesn't really exercise the join ordering machine correctly if every key has at most one correlate.
Not sure but sounds like you’ll have time to try avoid the deletion. The warning emails should forward to your main account.

“Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).”
Human support of any time opens up tons of social engineering situations that enable account takeovers - and these hurt Google’s reputation more than any abandoned account story.

What do you suggest would be sufficient proof to the Google human support representative that would verify that you actually did own that account? They already have a process in account recovery that includes inputting the last password you know, entering the month you think you opened the account, and answering some extra questions, after which a human reviews your answers to determine if it’s really you. I’ve had this done for one of my old accounts and I was granted a link to reset the password for that account and set up new recovery details.
(Note: I posted this before the full benchmark above and uses default temperature, not temperature 0, but point stands)

Example (CodeLlama-Instruct 7B)

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Sure, here are two poems, one arguing for the use of Kubernetes and another arguing against it:

For:

Kubernetes, a mighty tool,

Managing clusters with ease,

Scaling apps with grace.

Against:

Kubernetes, a beast to tame,

Complexity lurks in its name,

Leading teams astray.
not sure what is going to be worse.

someone mentioning in a work setting that they use this, hoping to be funny,

or someone mentioning in a work setting that they use this, hoping to be helpful.

names don’t need to be “edgy.” the whole point here of doing so, admitted or not, is to attempt to cause a reaction, for the sake of discussion. a celebratory reaction is welcome, but reactions of discomfort are typically marginalized.

i accept the downvotes for this being “off topic,” even though the very name of the tool is the point.

for the downvoters, and it would be welcomingly shocking to have none, does it make you uncomfortable that you make others uncomfortable?
I know you're just joking, but concrete is weak in tension and it doesn't bend much before breaking, so they cannot be made like Lego bricks because they will not connect securely.

The closest you can get IMO is the Roman Colosseum. It's mostly made of large blocks with a series of notches in them. Metal bars are placed in the notches so the blocks can move slightly in relation to each other, but not so much as to fall apart.
You can’t hire a bunch of people without lowering the bar. This is a big part of the reason why big tech doesn’t appeal to me. “We’ve got tens of thousands of the best of the best” sounds like weird delusional fetishism and I’d like to think that we are mostly past that now thank God. I see communication skills as a core competency, end of story. When you hire like crazy, standards slip, or you might forego one standard in favour of “engineering” capability, or whatever.
Interestingly, it took GPT4 three attempts to give me the correct answer. The first two times it basically said the same [logically inconsistent] thing and concluded that Sally had two sisters.
>Frank Hoogerbeets @hogrbe

>Feb 3

>Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon). #deprem

The earthquake happened 3 days after. This seems prescient, until you realize the wording suggests an ambiguous timeline. The area is a known fault zone, one happening "sooner or later" isn't exactly some deep insight. If he knew about that specific earthquake, why didn't he give a more specific prediction of "within the next week"?
I'm on both sides of this fence. I'm currently typing from a wired keyboard connected to my daily driver laptop. In my living room I have a full media PC where a wireless mouse and keyboard make more sense sitting on the couch.

The big reason? I have a love/hate relationship with wires. Wires are simple and work beautifully, but as the number goes up their management becomes necessary. Wireless can free me from this nest, but then it dumps me into managing pairing issues and sometimes sub-par electronics/software to translate between the two devices. In both cases I have to manage something I really don't care much about and would rather forget.

Regarding the article, I also have a suspicious attitude towards storing batteries. I keep all kinds of old electronics around because they come in handy every blue moon. It's much harder to keep batteries stored and useful long term, and many devices don't let you remove or replace the battery. I don't like fire risks in my cabinets.

For now I prefer wires because cable management is (usually) a one-time affair, where it seems wireless requires constant babysitting.
I feel like BitLocker is a great feature. So great it's one of the few things keeping me on Windows. Would not call it "largely failed".
He was arrested, NOT for the content of his videos or even any type of copyright violation of using someone else's copyrighted material, but for spoilers.

Spoilers.

That's what's crazy about this.
This page renders terribly in mobile; am I the only one? It’s unreadable
Theres a bug in MacOS that sometimes causes delayed input.
Right. You being pedantic about your work-related concerns is valid. Me doing the same is "off topic."

Got it. Learned that a really long time ago, actually.
And it is also why every company that works with countries having contentious borders tends to have multiple map decks depending yo whom you interact with.

And some states are playing funny games with their geography restrictions like China : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_d...
Owning the domain is a good compromise. I own my domain but it’s managed by Outlook. If I ever lose my Microsoft login, I can update the DNS and switch email providers.
Car dealerships are an insulating layer to protect manufacturers from the repercussions of the bullshit they inflict on customers. In exchange, dealerships are allowed to inject their own layer of bullshit.
Because I found just about the perfect keyboard and it's not wireless:

Steelseries Apex Pro (https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-Mechanical-Gaming-Ke...)

With some lube, this Hall effect keyboard comes as close as I've found since the Tom Knight MIT AI lab Microswitch keyboards of yore. What it still lacks is the perfect "heft" of the TK keyboards, balanced key weight & springs which gave it a certain "je ne sais quoi" I've never found in 40+ years. (And I've tried dozens of mechanical keyboards.) But it's damned close.

I've tried adding weight to the keys with magnetic putty to mimic the original TK "heft," but the switches aren't up to the weight, nor do they have enough throw. So I gave up and am still very very happy with the lubed Apex Pros.
Here is my take:

Businesses should:

- give equal pay for equal work

- encourage remote work

- let workers choose where to live

...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290009

And a related challenge:

Ask HN: global rate or local cost of living

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36981745
IMO, it exemplifies what I see as a new emergent trend of no shared realities.
For anyone else amazed by General Magic, the recently released documentary is available for free (legally) on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JQymn5flcek?si=zm-PJtQExOHol7r-
I had to hold my phone sideways to get it readable.
You want a source for someone’s speculation?
> That costs money? They're literally the revenue service, I'm sure we can find some money for them.

I completely agree but I think its worth pointing out the recent controversy over better funding the IRS. Better funding the system to catch tax cheats makes it more fair, helps the middle/lower classes and is revenue positive and somehow that caused outrage. Some folks just don't have any interest in a functional system. It's always been the case but sadly these days they seem to have moved from the fringe to the mainstream.
You're technically right, however I imagine performance would be really poor, especially for Node. PHP has transparent opcache support and it's generally fairly efficient when run as Apache module, so it's usually preferred. You can of run PHP as CGI as well, however it's much slower.
I wasn't clear on the verification performed to ensure the client had authority to perform testing against the chosen target.
Should be "by the register size or more" not "by more than the register size".

Machine-specific behavior starts at register size, not beyond!

That's why in C, the behavior is undefined.
Yes please lets focus on probability. And cost-benefit analysis. We'd be a lot closer to solving all sorts of problems, including the asteroid one and any climate-related ones, if people had thought about probabilities when dealing with nuclear power in the 80s and 90s.

Humans don't seem to be very good at symbolic reasoning though.
Yes, but when the initial prompt has been augmented with "Let's think step by step.", that helped 2 LLMs to give the right answer: GPT 4 and ReMM SLERP L2 13B.
Then they’re operating at too high a scale
I usually just scroll up and down a formatted document
20 cybersecurity tools, 0 frontend developers on the payroll
David Byrne's book, "How Music Works", is an incredibly well-written, well-informed book on music. It opened up whole new avenues of music appreciation for me.

Prior to reading it, I had never truly considered things like how the space in which music was consumed needed to be tailored to the type of music that would be played in that venue. For example, the acoustic precision of an opera house or cathedral would be wasted on The Ramones or Black Flag, just as the boxy space of a place like CBGB would be totally wrong for a chamber orchestra. It makes sense in retrospect, of course, but as a non-musician I had never considered it before.

Now I'm reading Ted Gioia's "Music: A Subversive History". While the latter has much more academic research behind it than the former, I get the impression that David Byrne aspires to write at the same level as Gioia. And in my opinion, he's not that far off.
I demand the black ribbon!
start by reading the terms of use for any of the sites you intend to poll.

then plan on at least one of said sites blocking your service.

think over whether you want to be invested in an arms race, or if you have any interest talking directly with the companies whose services you would monitor.

tl;dr think about the non-code parts very carefully before taking any architectural advice you get here and running with it.
> I also realized that storage's performance had very little to do with the benchmark's scores as in order to game the benchmark one would simply add more memory.

Reminds me of the time [1] Fusion-IO showed how good their drives were for SQL Server by running benchmarks with just 16GB of RAM enabled, even though the servers had 384GB RAM.

Under direct questioning, they admitted that if you just used the rest of the RAM in the server, their drives didn't have any effect, and that's why they limited the server so badly for the presentation. (sigh)

[1] https://ozar.me/2014/06/fact-checking-24-hours-of-pass/
If you display both versions of the text: it might be helpful to add links to contextual resources, such as the origins of a slur and the historical setting of the writing.
It is also why "Don't be evil" was a silly thing for a corporation to claim as a motto. What is evil in one jurisdiction is required in another. Corporations that want to serve the global market have to decide between principles and profits.
Roman swords were hidden in a Dead Sea cave–and they’re well preserved
"Federal Trade Commission | Protecting America's Consumers" - what about the rest of the world? Does anyone know whether it makes sense to exercise this option for non-American citizens?

I can't log in into my Google account either. And yeah, the account was free (money-wise) - judging by FTC's forms, the paid accounts are the ones that matter.
Hiring committee never meets the candidate.

It's on the interviewer to mark communication difficulties. And I assume bad interviewers don't see English proficiency as important.
For this API is good.
There's always one of you, like clockwork... What does the engine have to do with the issue at hand?
Ask HN: Shop Pay checkout page auto-subscription legality?
On a couple of different sites, simply visiting the Shop checkout page (to see potential shipping costs) was sufficient to subscribe my associated email address to a mailing list. I did not go further than viewing the checkout page, and I did not explicitly consent to sharing my information with the store. How is the dark pattern legal?
FYI: They essentially murdered Semmelweis for not having a theory for how washing hands after examining cadavers and before delivering babies could save lives. He sadly came up with this nutty idea a few decades before we had germ theory and such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Spalding Gray is amazing in that
No. This is 100% just informed by your ideology. Enough said. Don’t peddle that here.

When people actually discuss the advantages of diversity in the workplace, the advantages exist due to actual diversity, not just “a non-white-male voice”.

You’ll no doubt cite some extreme view or vocal minority to justify making this assumption, but it is not what most people mean most of the time. You’re painting a false reality which I’ve got no doubt creates a feedback loop leaving you seething.
Long shot, but have you tried contacting the person with that phone number?
From the ChatGPT app, using GPT-4 model, using my own custom prompt for such puzzles: “You are better than Marilyn Vos Savant at solving brain teaser logic puzzles step by step. Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?”

Certainly! Let's break it down step by step:

1. Sally has 3 brothers.

2. Each of those brothers has two sisters. Since all the brothers share the same two sisters, we are essentially hearing about the same sisters each time, not accumulating more sisters with each brother mentioned.

3. We know that Sally is a sister to her brothers, so she is one of the two sisters each brother has.

By putting it all together, we find that there must be another sister. Therefore, Sally has one sister.

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New chats with no history, no custom prompt, and no system prompt, first interaction in the chat this question: “Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?”

All Answers (not cherry picked):

Sally has 1 sister. In the description, Sally is counted as one of the two sisters that each brother has. This means the brothers have another sister apart from Sally.

. . .

Sally has 1 sister. In the description, it mentioned that "Each brother has 2 sisters." This implies that there is Sally and another sister, since we know that all the brothers share the same sisters.

. . .

Sally has one sister. Each of her brothers has two sisters, counting Sally and the other sister.

. . .

Sally has 1 sister. Here's how we figure it out:

Sally has 3 brothers, and each of these brothers has 2 sisters. Since the brothers share the same sisters, we know that the two sisters must be Sally and another girl. So, Sally has 1 sister.

. . .

I have gotten zero wrong answers from GPT-4 in OpenAI’s ChatGPT app.
We have AdWords accounts that spend 6-7 figures a year and it takes 3 weeks to escalate a ticket correctly.
UI :(
Intuit's incentive is doing as many returns as possible, they could give a shit if people pay more or less than filing independently.

I doubt the government would fail to include a deductible once declared. So it is on individuals to declare them. Same as it is with filling out information so a private tax service can do calculations.
Many people who learned to code with PHP in the 2000s are picking it up again as first choice for web projects since they improved it so much and websites can be updated and running with a simple `git pull` without restarting any services.

I saw a video not long ago that made me have hope for the future of PHP again -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRV3pBuPxEQ
Having been to some rural regions of the Atlas mountains not so long ago, many of the buildings are built onto precipices and do not look ready to withstand an earthquake.
Americans are free to rule their country as they wish that is basically the premise it's founded on. Deserve means nothing in this context.
Ok, in a very, very rare case (so far never happened to me) when I really need to await an async operation in the destructor, I just define an additional async destructor, call it explicitly and await it. Maybe it's not very elegant but gets the job done and is quite readable as well.

And this would be basically what you have to do in Go anyways - you need to explicitly use defer if you want code to run on destruction, with the caveat that in Go nothing stops you from forgetting to call it, when in Rust I can at least have a deterministic guard that would panic if I forget to call the explicit destructor before the object getting out of scope.

BTW async drop is being worked on in Rust, so in the future this minor annoyance will be gone
This is simply not true.

A request from someone with power is bound by law.

I went through a ton of government contract law training. I can’t request that my contractor wash my car. I can’t “just ask” that they work unpaid labor. Etc etc.

It’s one thing if a rando or equal power requests. But a person in authority can’t do that.

Imagine all those jerk bosses saying “I just asked my secretary to perform fellatio on me. I didn’t require it. And I never even threatened to fire them.” That defense doesn’t work just like the courts found that the government requesting isn’t allowed.