skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I often think of a lot of the enterprise work that I have been doing as just greasing the wheels of capitalism. More and more people must be becoming aware that the economy is unsustainable.

I would argue that those are not the goals of every industry. For example, the majority of the clothing industry pushes fast-fashion rather than trying to sell high-quality goods that will last and that are manufactured fairly. I could continue to give examples for other industries but in short, their main goal is to extract profit.

At this point I would settle for work that is not actively causing harm to people or the environment.

I've tried to find b-corps or co-operatives to work for, however, there haven't been many options out there.
I'm not expert in the system in California, but usually consumers are already paying the average spot price (plus some significant margin, which takes into consideration the demand profile of the consumer). Switching to spot pricing would not raise rates, and if consumer would adapt slightly to spot prices the average rate would actually decrease.
> It is fair to note that end has a lot more characters than } but I do think it comes across as more human.

It's also easier to type on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts (including the portuguese layout), where you need the Alt Gr key (the right alt key) to type curly braces.
https://archive.is/jXz8i
at my work place we've switched to plain JS with jsdoc comments and a couple d.ts files for reused types so far it seems easier to move faster

typescript is still added to the projects but only for type checking with "allowJs" and "checkJs" configured to true
Even though I feel devastated (I have been growing my account since 2016), my post is emotions-free. Only facts. Did Y got Z.

> d)

Great point! But do you think people of China trust WeChat? I doubt you need to have reputation to do what Elon plans to do with X. You just need lots of power/money.
Latency and fees are higher than existing mechanisms in most of the world, and at much higher environmental cost.

Also, crypto is an objectively riskier "store of wealth" than traditional measures, and is mostly used as a speculative investment or an arbitrage opportunity.
Why defence is unethical?

I wish you arent forced to reevaluate your opinion by war like the one on Ukraine right now.

If I were your enemy, then I'd really try hard to push such narrative.
> So my theory is as well that some of these words derived from their use by infants when they desire attention or breastfeeding and were not “invented” by adults.

An addendum to your theory. Words with few short syllables, composed of vowels and labial consonants are probably the easiest to pronounce, therefore "independently discovered" by babies. They are not "invented" by adults in a sense that "hey let's use this word for this phenomena", but rather "assigned" in a sense that "the baby babbles this, so let's refer to this phenomena by it". I guess this process is similar to how onomatopoeias appear in languages.
But most of your first paragraph also describes Dune!
I have been trying to avoid this as it would have a negative impact on the work-life balance that I have fought for, however, it could end up being the only way!
Because you don't even give someone else the chance to not build a weapon.
People here (and not just here) are advocating for banning of various techniques outright, preemptively.

In absence of a ban, you can be almost sure that someone will go to the extraordinarily lengths to develop such techniques for human use.
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I think your picture of the world is too negative.

Defence is a necessary evil, because otherwise you will be governed by thugs.

Financial services enable people without capital to build things.

While there are surely material things that you consider vain, consumption is a good thing that improves people's lives.
I'm not sure what you think you're arguing. All loanwords in every language are pronounced using the phonemic structure of the borrowing language, the one that is being used, because that is the only possibility. The fact that someone is theoretically capable, after years of study, of learning to pronounce a foreign word, is not relevant in any way.
Even in Eurasia, I think there are languages like Mongolian - "eej" is mother in Mongolian. But the general premise that these are the simplest words for babies is still possible : eej is mother, aav, father.
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I try to balance and minimize harm.

I suggest that your best bet is incremental change.

Totally reskilling isn't realistic, but taking a series of jobs that move you closer to skill sets you want is.

Similarly, if there are types of work you would find inspiring, can you figure out what those companies are looking for, and move towards roles that would help you become that?

Working for a slightly more ethical company is a positive change. Stack up many small improvements, over the course of 5 years you might be surprised.
You may wish to consider government work. At least in the UK it can pay quite competitively[1] with our private sector, especially when you factor in the hours they ask of you and benefits like pensions, the full package of terms I think looks surprisingly competitive.

But more importantly I think the work is meaningful. Whatever your view of government in general, or any executive of the day, often tech folk in gov have a chance to make solid products that benefit millions by just working simply and smoothly.

I think making services that work well, especially when users have no choice about engaging with them (and often when they get important goods and services as a result!), is one of the better streams of tech for good jobs out there.

[1]: https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk
Dad in Estonian: isa, issi
Mom in Estonian: ema, emme
A few issues there.

For an invasion of Taiwan numbers are important, sure, but it's a wide channel and amphibious assaults are absolutely the hardest kind of operation an army can attempt. Technical competence, and I would also argue operational flexibility at every level, are absolutely crucial.

In terms of supply chains, that matters for an extended conflict, as we can see in Ukraine. However an invasion of Taiwan would either work in the first week or so, or it's over. I suppose they could try a long terms blockade, but that doesn't seem to be their strategy.

China is extremely vulnerable to a blockade themselves though. They have no control of their essential seaborn supply routes, and are highly dependent on external sources for energy, raw materials, high tech parts, and maybe most importantly food and fertilisers. The US can turn all of that off like a tap at a moment's notice.

The sorts of sanctions levelled at Russia since last year would have China on it's knees in months. The only way to mitigate that would be for the PLAN to go toe to toe gobally with the US, UK, French and Australian and Japanese Navys all at the same time. Also maybe India. The Indian Navy is small but it's no joke, and they have two fully operational carriers.
Sideloading would most likely apply only to Europe. The US will continue as its at the moment, same with China.
well, there are mutual disarmament treaties. Like the ones that are being cancelled by russia right now.
> Servo can be used to build embedded applications with web technologies, such as kiosk interfaces and digital signage. At present, Servo is especially suited to applications that use WebGL or WebGPU, as well as CSS-based applications where the developer has control over how components are implemented. Servo's layout engine can similarly be used as the basis for Rust-based native UI frameworks.

It feels like there's alignment between the Servo Web Rendering Engine and https://tauri.app, an alternative to Electron, another staple in the Blink hegemony.
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and : https://archive.is/K925N
Same in Malayalam and Tamil.
Yes. But there are problems that need to be solved which are ethical, and which can be solved. Find them and solve them, leverage your solutions for money, use that money to solve more problems.

Bam - you're working for an ethical business.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. July 2023 robotics investments total US $2.1 billion, North American robot orders drop for 2nd quarter in a row, FPGA boosts detection area for automotive camera, Why is the China chip fund preparing its largest funding round yet?
And yet: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-...
Depends.. yes, why was the flight plan not rejected individually or before (and where is at least the proper logging which allows to find the root cause and restart quicker)? But the system is likely more complex and distributed, and I can also see that defensively programmed safety critical systems can and should do that at a certain point where certain input or output is just unexpected and wrong. To recover in some way or silently go on with eventually unexpected (even if not undefined) behaviour then is no option.
Even if I'm technically allowed to create a new account, I'm not doing this: I do not want to stress because of a risk of getting banned again.
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I used to buy&sell mtg cards and some collections, depending on the time you want to invest there are different options:
1. Take everything to a local shop that buys cards, most big cities have one and they buy everything at once, but pay under market value.
2. Ebay, sell it as a single collection
3. cardmarket.com is very good, helps you grade the cards and shows accurate market values, might take time to set everything up and might result in lots of different sales, so lots of Briefen
The difference is large. If you blow up a nuke without contact to soil and stuff there is very little left for dangerous long term contamination. Hiroshima isn't dangerous to live in. Chernobyl is.

If a rocket blows up and spreads whatever is left when we removed it from a nuclear power plant that would be bad.
What is wrong with Mastodon?
Yes, look at profile. I have done the calculus, and depending on the project I am working on, I make the choice on whether to stay.
Do we want to encourage the use of LLMs in discussion? Soon there will be just LLMs...
Finnish would use "no niin", as seen in this standup (subtitles are required, sadly):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EWMlCusxjQ
I am not sure about node, but I think deno could be in trouble, it looks like they both compete for the same market
But there's a word for "all of the Eastern Roman Empire, except for the parts that are not Greece". We just call that "Greece". Greek used to be the language of the Eastern Roman Empire, and it was almost completely extirpated; it is not a good example of persistence.
Seeing as it's their third biggest market - are they and their shareholders ok with losing 20-30% of all revenue over this?

The stock price alone would plummet.
https://archive.is/mJCXR
I mean, microsoft's code is probably better than the github average. There's an awful lot of horrific code out there.
I won't comment on Ukraine specifically, however, the military industrial complexes of Western countries aggressively lobby for forever wars so that they can profit endlessly.
How do you define "ethical"? Oil & gas are an essential ingredient for lifting some societies from extreme poverty. No oil & gas would mean not being able to transport a baby to the hospital or heat their room. "Fast-fashion with questionable supply chains" is only a first-world problem. In some countries, "fast fashion" is all people can afford.
“In Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands and is derived from rab, meaning "slave".”
Then just claim the credit for fixing their bugs.
> imagent [...] processes incoming messages

does it?

IIUC (from a cursory look) according to the diagram it delegates all message processing to MessageBlastDoorService/IM{Transfer,Transcoder,Persistence}Agent, relying only on locally computed boolean-ish metadata replies from these services, and merely transparently forwarding actual data between those.
Is this kind of bigoted nonsense really welcome on HN? Are we that kind of people?
Why there are still people who do not understand that when Big Tech talks "security", it is theirs against you, not yours?
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I tried to turn the hackernewsletter into a magazine styled pdf, for easier recall and faster reading/scanning. With text scraping, screenshots, metadata, latex... Any suggestions for improvement?
Yes. The ST was very basic and didn't include too much in the box. A lot of it needed a couple revisions to work well. Hardware scrolling is not a huge thing on a GUI machine - the Mac didn't have it either. The ST is not a computer built out of a gaming console (much like, BTW, the C64 - which just happened to be quite good for that). Later versions improved on the on-board audio and video and at least two were built around a VME bus (probably the only home computers to ever do that). Much as Commodore, Atari was also slow to iterate (and it had a much better starting point for that, but not as much money).

> What hurt Commodore was technologically clueless management.

That, too, but all the bus timings on the Amigas tied to NTSC (it sprung out of a gaming console, after all), the complexity of the custom chips (they'd all need to be iterated to keep up with new Motorola processors AND what was being offered in PC clones), resulting in multiple buses, fast/chip RAM, and so on. The Amigas were incredibly capable for their time, but were not elegant computers and did not evolve, in part, because it'd be too costly for Commodore to do so. A lot of the features of the Amiga made sense in games (planar graphics), but made none for a general purpose computer. What's obvious now (hindsight is always 20-20) is that they should have segmented the line, have a gaming platform at the low end, and a general purpose computer, running the same OS but with things like VGA ports and preemptive multitasking with memory protection and virtual memory. And they SHOULD have taken the Sun proposal of selling 3000's as low-end UNIX machines seriously.

As for the floppy, I have no idea why they didn't just adopt a market standard FDC and let the original's floppy side rot. The audio part was quite impressive but I doubt anyone was using the FDC side without the OS in the middle.

Another thing that always surprises me is that both made PCs with little or no commonality with their "proprietary" lines. Using the same chassis for Amigas, STs and their PCs would save money, as well as putting Amiga and ST keyboards on PCs (this was all before the PC-101 layout).
https://archive.is/HISud
Okay, but this thread is talking about billing, right? That's the point of talking about costs. How many people in California are paying their electricity bills to a utility that covers just their neighborhood, and nobody else?
No mention about whether they use their own in-house LLM or whether they use a 3rd party like OpenAI, does anyone know more about this?

Edit: from the linked Privacy Statement:

> Contracted service providers may also deliver artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence capabilities to analyze data, determine trends, make predictions and create AI-generated responses

So it looks like they may use a 3rd parties to generate AI summaries and responses, sounds like a privacy nightmare for companies.
Both tea and cha come from the same word, but using different pronunciations in Chinese, I think: cha is Mandarin, and tea is Hokkien.
Whoever wrote this was probably trying to showcase more of the language's functional features (or just trying to be clever). This works:

def main :=
for i in [1:101] do
if i % 15 == 0 then
IO.println "FizzBuzz"
else if i % 3 == 0 then
IO.println "Fizz"
else if i % 5 == 0 then
IO.println "Buzz"
else
IO.println s!"{i}"

You can run it with `lean --run FizzBuzz.lean`, and you can read more about programming in Lean 4 at https://leanprover.github.io/functional_programming_in_lean/.
Except that doing very, very simple stuff, like counting 10 rows, on a laptop is excruciatingly slow.
Buffalo bison, which Buffalo bison bully, also bully Buffalo bison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_b...
Ukraine decided to trust others and disarmed (nuclear). 2-3 decades passed and they have to fight for their lifes
Worldwide militarism is a problem, it's a shame that governments still see force as a legitimate means of policy, and investment in force capabilities rather than mutually beneficial peaceful ones. Such waste, such idiocy.

Perhaps our new AI overlords will be wiser
Related:

The Silver Thief: a smart burglar who perfected his craft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020547 - Dec 2009 (26 comments)
I think you may have an unrealistic view of what is an ethical company. The world is a complicated mess of difficult situations. Oil can raise people out of poverty, defence can save the futures of people from aggressors, the world of finance can do a lot of good too. Everything, more or less, is double edged if you dig deep enough.

Perhaps bring your ethical values to those industries you see as problematic. Otherwise, you're leaving those industries to people with different ethical views. (And that seems unethical).
The main reason is that you might not want the raw information but some reasoning above. LLM is not only the context but all the information it has been trained with. For example a math student is making a question, it doesn't want the raw theorems but some reasoning with them, and currently LLM can do that. It will make mistakes sometimes because of hallucinations, but for not very difficult questions it usually gives you the right answer. And that helps a lot when you are not an expert in the domain. And that is the reason GPT4 is a great tool for students, it helps you to understand the basics as if you have a teacher with you.
https://archive.is/najLk
Is it just me, or there's no actual difference in simplicity between global constant myExperiment=false and well abstracted A/B experiment library?
It 100% is an abusive relationship. And it's the same as with Microsoft and Windows. People struggle a lot against it, but at the end of the day, they are completely vulnerable to Windows, as they depend on it.
> if the community had gravitated to a better language

As someone that started to use python for science relatively soon (before numpy), I have to ask: which better language was existing at this time ?
I heard waypoint ALVIN is a candidate

https://mastodon.social/@Edent/111017144236825037

https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/ALVIN

https://opennav.com/waypoint/UK/ALVIN

But this suggests not (as one of those ALVINs is inside the UK):

> Although there has been work by ICAO and other bodies to eradicate non-unique waypoint names
there are duplicates around the world. In order to avoid confusion latest standards state that
such identical designators should be geographically widely spaced. In this specific event, both of
the waypoints were located outside of the UK, one towards the beginning of the route and one
towards the end; approximately 4000 nautical miles apart

https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL%20Major%20Incident...
https://archive.is/Wuroi
> In the nuclear weapons case we deliberately dismantled it.

I'd say that is actually a good thing. Nukes are meant not to be used. They are a deterrent, so it's important they exist, that they are functional, and that you are willing to use them to hit hard against an aggressor. MAD kept us alive until now.
Because you are building stuff to kill people. Even the doublespeak of naming it defence is atrocious. It might be justifiable in some cases like the current weapon shipments to Ukraine, but not if they are used in something like the Iraqi war. And you definitely wont be the one who decides where the weapon you helped to make is used.
From personal experience: Education and third sector (charities), or the companies that support them. All the universities I've ever dealt with have an ancient patchwork of backend systems, many of which are on the .NET side of the fence. Fair warning: you're not going to get fintech money in the third sector.

(Lot of people telling you your personal line in the sand is wrong, rather than just answering the damn question. "Try to change an arms manufacturer from within as a grunt programmer" is especially out-there).
Oh my god this is incredible
only? :(

I was expecting around 5, if not more.
So, fix this particular problem?

Like, deploying army isnt a decision of some random ceo that wants stock to go up 10%
It doesn't seem to be working for RU though. Finland joined NATO and Sweden is going to because of their Ukraine shenanigans.
It depends on your ethical guidelines.

I think that working in weapon industries helps to maintain peace by deterring autocrats and dictators from taking over the world (and there are a lot of them right now, so it is absolutely moral and necessary to maintain strong defence force for democratic countries).

Efficient open markets are contributing to the world peace by maintaining interconnected world. It is difficult to wage war with countries you trade with. And financial service companies are contributing to the global trade and therefore world peace.

Oil and gas are a declining industry (however, there is a lot to be done there to help it decline safely and ecologically responsibly). Nuclear power, however, is absolutely necessary for energy transitioning and mitigating climate change.

Only adtech cannot be redeemed.
I am curious!

My understanding of the usual expression of cuckoos is that they hatch alongside the genuine nestlings and are then given all of the food, leaving the genuine ones to starve.

If that's right, abandoning the whole nest seems like a waste - it should still have viable wren chicks in it?

Particularly since the mechanism you describe involves recognizing the cuckoo as an individual chick (assuming there are also wren chicks in the same nest, they will repeat the song, so it's necessary to keep track of which chicks have done so and which haven't), it seems like a better approach would be to just kill it. Do you know if any wrens do that or might be moving in that direction?

(On second thought, I see that the National Geographic piece appears to say that the cuckoo chick will kill the wren chicks? That's not quite clear, since it also says the cuckoo will hatch first, so I'd expect it to be shoving "eggs" out of the nest rather than "siblings".)
Everyone who has exa installed can continue to use it as long as desired.
That is not how this works and you can't be serious by being so extreme and assuming guilt without a trial.

Eventually one has to negotiate in order to stop this war otherwise everyone loses as it gets worse.
I’m sure we fairly quickly (as in fairly quickly after 56k became a thing) had zero call rate ISPs who just charged a small monthly. We used to use FreeUK (eventually taken over by Clara), and had a second line dedicated to it.
At this point nothing is clean in the current economy in the world. The current world is build by warlords (British Empire), robber baron (Rocketfeller, Ford), drug dealers (HSBC), or descendant of them. But some of us may have fiduciary duties to our family or dependants, or student loans, this is only reason that big corp can get people working for them.

If you don't have any of these responsibilities, then do something else that is meaningful for your life.
Another way to ask this question is: why is go less popular outside east asia? It's huge in Japan, China and Korea, and although it has its fans in Europe and the US, it's much more niche there.

I've got to admit, since I got kids I moved back from go to chess. Somehow it's more accessible, because everybody here knows chess.
Slack already late to the party