skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like Flexport should lose their right to post wanted ads here permanently over this.

It’d be a largely symbolic punishment, let’s be real, but unethical behavior like this shouldn’t be allowed to pass.
Whenever I visit someone's Twitter profile without being logged in, I see an assortment of years old tweets and nothing current. Do other people experience this too? I assumed that I was being A/B tested with some limited view after the forced login modal stopped appearing.
It's because they are straight up lying. Like c'mon, you get your OWN PRIVATE BATHROOM when you work from home. The benefits are so obvious, I wonder if the in-office people are legitimate trolls at times.
If you think firearms couldn’t be a lot worse you’re out of touch with reality.
Unless you go the custom ROM + microG option that 98% of folks would never do… or you embrace the Linux phone OS which has no ‘apps’ (like that banking app that banned you for rooting your other Linux (Android) phone) & the telephony barely works if it even does.

This duopoly sucks.
in the event people want to read about one of the most egregious instances of this in recent times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility
what did you use to recorder the demo in the GitHub readme? its very smooth on the transitions.
I recommend reading up on what Prettier does, because you can and should be using both.
Directly from the NYPD website:

"
Values

In partnership with the community, we pledge to:

Protect the lives and property of our fellow citizens and impartially enforce the law.

Fight crime, both by preventing it and aggressively pursuing violators of the law.

Maintain a higher standard of integrity than is generally expected of others because so much is expected of us.

Value human life, respect the dignity of each individual and render our services with courtesy and civility."

It occurs to me that the concept of fighting crime is as much of a misnomer as the war on drugs, providing the wrong primer for the mind. One cannot fight a concept or object. I think it's important to retire the phrase. They see everything they do as fighting, they're trained to see threats, and so threats they will see regardless. (Just the wrong ones)
> 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.

That's why finding their garbage or where they emptied their latrines is often more insightful than finding yet another written record.
Thank you for the glowing feedback. I am glad you find it useful!
> if we want Linux to get more than its current (pathetic) desktop market share

I don't, and have never, wanted this -- exactly because of what doing that means for the direction of development for the OS.
There is a lot to explore here (emissions per calorie, protein content, etc):
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore
How does this sit after the Linked In scraping decision?
There's a website to accompany this which is more readable than the paper: https://sites.google.com/view/pypiempircal

(At least I think it's to accompany this paper, I found it in a footnote and it's not entirely clear if it's officially related or not.)
I encounter tweets all the time when I'm trying to find out more about recent events.
Java isn’t really something we want to work with. So I guess that’s the quick answer. There is nothing wrong with Java, I think projects like quarkus is pretty cool and the JVM is a battle tested machine. Our issue is more process related. We’re a small team so we try to use as few languages as possible, and since we can’t realistically avoid using TypeScript we tend to use it everywhere we can. Then when we need some extra juice we turn to C. We even PoC’ed Rust but decided it wasn’t “boring” enough for us yet.

Aside from that it can be hard to hire people for Java around here. It’s not a language a lot of people want to work with, and it’s common enough that the ones who do already have jobs.
Does anyone else feel like this article is trying to say something without actually saying it?
Any company that claims they can’t amend a contract is full of shit. That’s literally how business operates - they negotiate and change contracts all day long.
>There is no way in hell all these expensive fabs will pay for themselves if chips are too cheap.

While this isn't exactly the case here since it is Hi-End packaging that is the problem. But I am still happy to read the statement on HN as I have been ranting about 99% of comments giving little to zero credit to current state of art chip manufacturing and cost.
Couldn't agree more with your comment. Sounds full conspiracy to think that Amazon would send in a double agent that somehow passed the filter for a small start up.

What is this world coming to that we think elections are stolen in a mass conspiracy or that large tech companies will somehow install puppet CEOs in a start ups in an effort to fight off a non-existential threat while negotiating a deal with a competitor at the same time (that would be contingent on this first deal happening).

People have too much time on their hands.
So you hang onto your allocated strings in a record array and wonder why you run out of memory?

You should be saving the strings to the database so the GC has something to reclaim. It doesn't work when you keep fields 5, 7, 8 around in your records array.

Bulk insert should probably be used and bulk write should be called periodically. You should pause processing while it saves so you keep total active allocations nice and compact.

Otherwise the process will slow to a crawl when you get near your memory limit and all the time is spent in the GC trying to find ways to reclaim memory that you are still hanging onto.

You see massive swings in processing time by chunking the data because you are handing memory very poorly.

This should be bounded by database writes, not your language. Sigh.
Given how utterly trivial it is to accidentally achieve turing completeness, I suspect any reasonable subset you could come up with would also be capable of general computation. Moreover, such a design would be inherently expensive and inefficient, because it can't achieve the economies of scale modern uCs do, nor can it do anything without an external (presumably networked) command for every single operation.
How not to footgun yourself when writing tests – a showcase of flaky tests
A showcase of flaky tests. I provide code examples of flaky tests along with tips on how to detect and avoid flakiness hopefully helping you move one step closer to a more reliable test suite.
i think investment is speculative and tends to go where the biggest returns may be.

often the best returns are in taking things that already have a proven market and making them faster and or cheaper.

if you try to do something new or original you have a mountain to climb. don't listen to the customer.
Yes, but the other is the "No. 1 thing people get wrong". Especially people reading founder interviews and success porn.
If you negotiate an employment contract make sure that there is some sort of break up fee in case a company tries to pull this sort of nonsense on you. There's no reason why someone should be able to upend your life without due compensation. Accepting a job offer is not something that is done on a whim for most people, so it should be fairly easy to add in a clause that states "If this offer is rescinded for any reason after it has been signed by both parties, {{COMPANY}} agrees to pay 9 months of the negotiated salary to {{EMPLOYEE}}"
It's funny how many startups crowd into certain areas but often miss the critical point.

About 10 years ago I was interested in offering a paid API based on some code I wrote. I was absolutely overwhelmed with the number of "API Management" startups but could not find a single one that integrated a payment gateway so I could sell access.

I really couldn't get it because every other feature offered by these vendors was a "nice to have" feature but having the payment gateway is the difference between having a business and not having a business.

I talked to plenty of people at these companies and never got a clear pictures of why it was that way but I think you're facing the same problem today.
Could someone keep scraping data and claim it's a negotiating tactic to reduce the cost of the API? Musk is a businessman, he'll get it.
Yep, and clearly read the terms and conditions checkbook when you sign up for stuff to make sure it doesn't also include the ability to send marketing emails.
I think we killed it
Is this like "clean coal"?
Sitemap aint even working
Some users' profiles are set to private and un-indexable by search engines. I like this feature of Facebook. It stops bots scraping mine and others' profiles.
I don't understand the motivation behind lying to you in cases like this. Did they honestly expect you to accept their low-ball offer? They most know they're wasting everyone's time.
Good news from Fly.io! We don’t collect bills smaller than $5.00.

Bad news, you made it on the HN homepage and your CC is now on fire.
I can't not cringe slightly when someone calls something like Moonlight Sonata a "song".
I wrote that tweet — what people are missing is that it doesn't have to be premeditated or explicit coordination to have the same result. The word "coup" probably ascribes too much intentionality.

1, 3, 4 are facts. The only item that is speculative is 2 but it seems obvious that Shopify would have used that lever in negotiating the partnership that was announced this week (buy with Prime + Amazon's logistics network).

In other words, you can draw your own conclusions about whether it was intentional, incompetence, or a series of selfish decisions that had the same emergent result.
That's the thing: they don't care. Someone else will interview, unaware of this, and someone after them, etc. until someone takes the job.
I like the Futurama ones. They’re inaccurate but in cute ways. Fry has smaller Frys coming out of his head and Leela has two eyes.
The binary matching is relatively idiomatic in liveview - check the CoreComponents files.
Weird tos. I'm not clicking agree on that.
>The Saudis have one very big lever they can use to force the west to do what it wants: gas prices.

The United States gets most of its petroleum from Canada.

Saudi Arabia accounts for only 7% of U.S. petroleum and crude oil imports.

Source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
It also just occurred to me that _he was on the board signing off on the equity grants_. So it is insane that he says he has no idea how this happened and later backtracks and says they were aligned on a growth plan that didn’t pan out. The rule that company CEO tweets a ton == poorly managed company never ceases to fail.
At least I am 99% certain they index only whole words. YYMV
It’s pretty well known that people can develop psychological dependence on cannabis.

Psychedelics have anti-addiction effects, and it might’ve helped you quit cannabis sooner, even give you insight into why it happened in the first place (potentially numbing of some underlying emotional pain)
An interesting followup would include a pharmacology component.

Estrogen has numerous routes of administration: intramuscular, oral, topical, sublingual, and even subcutaneous. Each of these will have various pharmacokinetics, some of which include supernatural serum levels.

This is why serum testing is done midway through routes of application that are cyclical. ie to test at the midpoint.

It would be entirely unsurprising if brief though still supernatural levels had an etiological contribution.
I don't believe in anecdotes. I believe in data. According to the BLS, "Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services" sector added 6000 jobs last month and > 30k jobs in the past year. Unemployment among educated professionals stands at 2.2% which is ridiculous.
Only -2 points!!!

That's "disa-point-ing"!!!
Cryptomator[0] hooked up to Dropbox.

[0] https://cryptomator.org/
Smoke on the water is great starter song - and given that amateurs and new players are a large part of people buying guitars, makes sense as a guitar shop song too!
Might want to think of a different name, napi is an API in the Linux kernel, a space that Rust is targeting. It's going to be super confusing searching for napi driver implementations with this node thing out there.
Vertically scaling has a cost component. If you're able to use pgbouncer with transaction pooling to better utilize but not exceed your existing vertical postgres limit, then you're set. If you do, then you must scale up. Pgbouncer can help you lengthen your runway. Tuning your pgbouncer pool sizes can help minimize the overhead but as with anything we do, it's about weighing trade-offs for your situation.
Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution
MoYu RS3M 2021 is considered a better budget cube nowadays. Many people use it as their main, which is not something that can be said about the YLM.
Can't = don't want to.
I am a programmer/blogger. I refuse to use these "AI" things. (I haven't even accessed them once.)

I put "100% AI-free organic content" in the footer of my blog. [1] So people see that on every page.

I'd suggest something similar.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/
> It’s just not something 99% of consumers care about

Consumers definitely care about this. That's why there are so many dark patterns to tric consumers into providing their data. Also: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/07/most-iphone-users-app-t...
It is exactly that simple. Closing down a tank factory to build something in another state isn't going to help the representative in that district get elected.
Sounds similar to how Microsoft killed Nokia.
I just saw this was on fly and thought the same thing lol. But I also thought to myself “this is actually a good use for fly, nice simple app to see if there’s traction before moving to something reliable.”
Instead of transferring the cluster can you transfer the application(s)?
Yeah, and a very big difference between Lean and projects such as the LHC or the James Web telescope are that the LHS and the James Web are massive taxpayer-funded projects, so there is an expectation that their significance is clearly explained to those taxpayers (and scientists want continued funding, so it pays to be clear).

Lean started as a small research project hidden away within Microsoft Research, and mathematicians learned about it and have built a community by word of mouth. There is no accountability needed at all for the project, and there's no need to advertise it -- that's not to say that there hasn't been any effort put into advertising it to mathematicians. I just advertised the system myself an hour ago during a talk that explained Lean and Mathlib to a group of mathematicians, computer scientists, and linguists.
Browser isolation is smart, and Firefox+Librewolf is better than Firefox+somethingelse.

Don't forget about Firefox profiles though. You can have unlimited, 100% isolated browsers with profiles. I use a few dozen Firefox profiles.

For isolation of cookies but not preferences, you can use Multi-Account Containers within a single Firefox profile. I use this for admin-vs-user accounts at AWS, GitHub, etc.
Was the Kool-Aid tasty? But seriously, all of these megacorps are bad for our privacy on absolute terms & doesn’t matter if one is relatively a little better or keeping your data from another corporation since they’re hoarding it for their own advertising.
I see rescinding offers as a whole separate level because it has a big impact on the logistics of taking that job if you’re already employed somewhere else. If you can’t rely on the offer in hand there’s no way to gracefully wind down your work at the other place. I feel like this will result in employees stopping giving two weeks notice.
If you find a novel problem, there are two possibilities. The first is that people have been living without a solution to that problem for 100,000 years and never noticed. It doesn't matter how life changing your solution might be, you will need to convince people that their lives need this particular form of improving. The other possibility is that people are well aware of the problem and everyone before you that has tried to solve it has failed. You will need to convince people with money and talent that you can succeed at this herculean feat, and then you actually need to do so.

On the other hand, if you find a problem that people are already spending money to deal with, and you can offer a solution that's better (faster, cheaper, more flexible, more convenient, etc.), then you're in the money. You don't need to be particularly brilliant or creative, just bold enough to try something different.

There will be a few that go for the exceptional route, but the generic startup is going to go for the generic product, for exactly the reason that it became a generic product in the first place.
Yes that's true and I am sure they will do that. Politicians will of course get encrypted messengers because "national security". But their friends won't, their families won't, their children won't.
> running AIX

Ah, I see you like pain.
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Despite the significantly high traffic, there are a couple of SEO-based opportunities that OpenAI can implement to increase its traffic further. This post covers those strategies and their implementation in detail.
I worked on an initiative within IBM that was forced to use IBM Cloud. Not only would they not be my first choice, they wouldn’t be in my top 10 choices. And I can’t even name 10 cloud providers.
11,196 Years Jail Sentence for Faruk Özer, CEO of Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex
They will find them.
The broken AI hands with extra fingers as the thumbs up / thumbs down button is a nice touch.
> There's nothing wrong with a bit of data collection

I would argue that there is something wrong with a bit of data collection. Just take credit score for example, there's never an ethical reason for a social network to ever ask for or know my credit score.

edit: the author implies that collecting this kind of stuff is OK as long as companies are transparent about what they're doing and why. I don't think there's any level of transparency that makes collecting this user data OK.
My point was, if they quit, I would no longer be their boss.
Why are you getting so worked up about this?
Let’s play another round of “was it a shadow layoff or just routine incompetence?”
We recently opensourced a similar platform for building workflows by chaining LLMs visually along with LocalAI support.

Check it out at https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack. Like you said, it was fairly easy to integrate LocalAI and is a great project.
I'm all for minimizing plastic cutlery waste but seeing how terrible paper straws are I can only imagine how annoying it would be to try and use a paper knife and fork. or eating soup with a paper spoon that flops apart halfway through the meal.

also, down with the checkmarxists!
Can we recycle dirty byproducts from coal-fired power stations?
But but the free coffee! Sometimes there are even doughnuts.
Apple is allowing nefarious actors into their "walled garden". See the "security theater guy" referenced in the article. If you want the benefit of having a "walled garden" to extort developers (30%) and control customers (offloading not allowed), you need to take responsibility when someone you admit into your walled garden harms users.
Nobody believes anything Meta or Google have to say about privacy.

Google is currently trying to sell additional ways to spy on users built into the newest version of Chrome as a "privacy sandbox".

> all of Google's documentation about this feature feels like it was written on opposite day, with Google calling the browser-based advertising platform "a significant step on the path towards a fundamentally more private web."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...
Some companies have a policy of hiring good people, even if they're not a close march for an open position; and of not hiring weak candidates, even if the hiring manager is desperate. That is, they hire good people when they come available, and never knowingly hire bad people. Hiring for a specific vacancy is silly - good people are adaptable.

So I think that's a great policy, if you have enough money to cover the periods when good staff are cheap and available, and your vacancy list is short. You don't have to fire the dross, because you don't ever hire dross.
Anytime a tax does not sufficiently reduce the action it is supposed to reduce, it just means the tax is too low.
Step 2: use uBlock origin, PiHole and vivalidi browser on mobile and don't be a part of this bs world
> Humans should gain the ability to live off this planet sustainably. If we don't work on that now, then when?

I'd go farther and say humans must gain the ability to live off this planet sustainably, and eventually out of this solar system, if humanity is to survive long term.

However, just because a problem must be solved for humanity to survive doesn't necessarily mean any effort should be spent now on it.

Sometimes a problem is so far beyond current technology and theory that instead of having your best people spend their lives trying to make tiny advances toward solving it you are better off if they work on things that can actually be solved now, and in a few decades or centuries our general level of technology and theory will have advanced enough that the work that took our best people their whole careers to accomplish will be something that would be a decent homework problem in college.
Dystopian, more like. It's fine when the parties to the contract are of similar size, but the vast majority of contracts are between relatively powerful entities who write the contract and relatively powerless entities who like it or lump it. That needs a thumb on the scales to stop the more powerful entity taking unreasonable advantage.
If you require 500 instances of your app to scale, how do you get away with just a single DB instance?
I ran the Pooler on the host.. I ran a few hundred hosts, so having a central pool was not ideal.
No. From a security perspective a Common Criteria certification to the lowest possible level does not establish meaningful security. That is kind of the point.

The companies that develop easily hacked systems that are repeatedly hacked hundreds of times a year like Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, Google, etc. can only achieve certification levels indicating they are easily hacked. They have never once succeeded at certifying meaningful security. The certification is pinpoint accurate, just the trillion dollar commercial IT companies do not like the results.

I agree it is largely not a useful differentiator, but that is because all of the commercial IT vendors are certified incompetent. The Common Criteria will not help you determine which fish in the barrel is hardest to shoot. Its job is to distinguish serious security by professionals.
Plus from what I understand, the law Enforcement Community wants all Autos to have a Kill Switch. Where if they want to stop you, they can via wifi.

I think some already comes with that.
The World Hum Map and Database Project
Guess a few HN users will be affected: I remember seeing dozens of who's hiring messages about Flexport right here on HN.
One of my quizzes included the copyright header for swift which was a giveaway, another was simply a pair of closing brackets and no other text at all, making it impossible. Overall the other ones that worked when it did work were fun though.
Slow or not, it’s extremely concurrent!
Literally your last comment included a "At its worst its propoganda to convince people its ok to keep buying things and living as they currently do as the rich abscond with the profits." so it seems we're on a similar page about there being propaganda out there.

Articulate your complaint here. I have, as advised, glanced at your comment history. I'm not sure what you don't like.