skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has topless photographs of his underaged niece, he had to hush his psychiatrist because her parents to her implied he molested her, he has chat messages about her "thinking I raped her" and openly admitted to showing her his naked body. You can go read the leaks right now if you want a source.

Or you can read this highly editorialized version that takes some innocent things out of context, while openly displaying the worst with it (https://bidenlaptopreport.marcopolousa.org/report_viewer/#p=...)
Top engineers? Sounds like a bunch of regular good practices that I'd expect by default from a senior engineer.

Maybe the term senior engineer has been overused and now we need a new term for "pretty experienced at the job"?
Best use I’ve ever found was a wall mounted fishing rod holder. Takes a bit of work to get the lip opening just right to match your rod side (if you’re a perfectionist), but final product is the pinnacle of functional efficiency.
10% is not high. (some) Populism is part and parcel of democracy. Taking an example out of China it seems authoritarianism is good for GDP. so what?
Two related posts by me:

- https://stackoverflow.com/a/66105692
- https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/149405
Use your email to chat with PDF files
Do you think email inboxes are actually a good entry point to AI?
this is the one i use and has widget as well https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
Fixing the housing crisis is not rocket science. “Minneapolis has been build
Yup, That Death Starling should be in the sequels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uQJcJNU3g
I read the comment as being the whole group going to the activity and talking about it afterward, again as a group. A “gym club” doesn’t necessarily “brag amongst themselves” about their activities; they just talk about the activity.
REWE seems like the only publicly listed grocery retailer in Austria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REWE_Group

2022 numbers:

https://www.rewe-group.com/en/press-and-media/newsroom/press...

> combined net profit fell by 33.4 per cent, from 755.6 million euros to 503.5 million euros.

> Total revenue up 10.4 per cent, or 8 billion euros, to 84.8 billion euros

So 2022 profit margin of 0.5B/84.8B = 0.5%.

2021 profit margin was 0.75B/76.5B = 1%

That is spectacularly low, even Walmart manages > 1%.

Everyone else seems private so their financials are probably not available:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_...
I tried Kagi. It’s missing a lot of stuff still. I find yandex is the best for looking for stuff that Google hides like ebook downloads
Ok, that part wasn't too great actually. I guess you could put some clear finish over the paint to help protect it.
> A memorable BMW shouting at me every time I exceeded the speed limit, in Dutch.

That BMW could have saved you a fine if you had been driving on one of the roads with 'trajectcontrole' [1], a type of entry-to-exit average speed check which is used on a number of roads in the Netherlands as well as in Belgium. This system is based around cameras with number plate readers which are placed on all entries and exits to the roads as well as on the roads themselves which record when you enter and exit a stretch of road, calculate your average speed and send you a fine if that average speed is more than 3 km/h (for speed limits up to 100 km/h) or 3% (above 100 km/h) over the posted speed limit. That posted speed limit varies depending on the day of week and time of day. The limit can also be reduced temporarily which is indicated on matrix signs on portals above the road so I assume those limits are taken into account as well. Suffice to say this system is hard to circumvent and it is very easy to end up getting fined.

[1] https://boetes.nl/trajectcontroles/
If you look at the video showing how it works, you will see, that it apparently starts displaying file content, while you navigate over files and directories. I think this is what happens asynchronously, in order to never block the ability to navigate.

I am not sure I am a fan of this, because I don't actually need everything to start being rendered. Maybe rendering something when I press a specific button would be good enough and that wouldn't necessarily require async stuff.
Red Bull is not made in Austria, at least not necessarily. The European company is headquartered there, but its business model is largely just owning the IP. The filling of Red Bull cans is outsourced to Rauch, which produces at least some of the product in Switzerland.
Why do you consider it meaningless (section 2 goes a bit deeper)? For example, not every politician claims to be the sole representative of the people vs an elite.
Standard reporting now, something that isn't "us" must be Russia or China, no need to do any real investigation
Interesting, no one using .net ? Why ?
What are the legal ramifications grocery stores can realistically get into ?

Are there any examples of stores getting in trouble in the past? Did it actually solve anything ? Obviously the stores are not scared of any ramifications.
This is really cool. I thought it was Hank Snow, not Johnny Cash, who made this popular. Not that it matters.
(Looks like it was both, and a boatload of other people too.)
The (small) list of removed items is hilarious: http://www.enron-mail.com/email/removed

The other comments explaining that this is a restoration project make me wonder where this script came from. The archive of the original website?

There are more directories: http://www.enron-mail.com/email/
A deposit is literally you lending money to your bank, payable on demand.
Java + Spring Boot. Old school server-side rendered templates with Thymeleaf if the site is static, Vuejs frontend instead if something more dynamic is needed.

Alternatively, Flask/Jinja/Vuejs if I'm working in Python.
Before considering what makes "the best game console", consider what makes "a good game console".

* does it run majority of existing game titles?

* if no, are a large number of game-changer titles expected any time soon?

* if no, by the time iPhone has earned it's stripes as a game console, will the iPhone 15 Pro still be competitive?

Kick-ass GPU with hardware raytrace capabilities isn't worth a dime as long as it's hidden behind Apple's Metal API, alien to 99% of existing games.
This. If the populist leader reduces the GDP by 2% and decreases a high gini coefficient by 0.2 that's a hit-it-out-of-the-park economic win for the majority of people.

Not according to the authors of the study, obviously. To them an extra 80 cents in a homeless guy's pocket is worse for everybody than an extra dollar in Bill Gates' pocket.

Then there's the reversal of cause and effect - were those populists the cause of economic decline or did they get into power because they were surfing a wave of resentment caused by it? Were the economic decline and the populist leader both caused by external actors cough Ukraine cough?

Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick and Christoph Trebesch say "we show that the economic cost of populism is high" so no, they clearly they don't think that this is a plausible explanation but they also don't seem to have accounted for it.
Doesn't Emacs fit that bill? In Emacs you can run terminal emulators and various shells and from all of them you can copy and paste into other buffers or from other buffers into them.
Similar idea that I had in my mind is to compile Linux to webassembly and run it in the browser. I don't have skills for that, however it seems to me that Linux is more mature than new operating system and webassembly surely could work as yet another architecture for Linux.
> As a society, we should get to decide what's moral and immoral, not OpenAI's board.

Of course! After all, if we're not free to be wrong, then we're not free. I do think you might be overstating OpenAI's influence, though. Rather than a hammer manufacturer, I think a more apt analogy would be a publishing house. A publishing company can and should decide for itself what it will or will not publish using whatever criteria it chooses.

> If an independent third party (like a truly independent regulator) would get to decide that no LLM can answer certain questions as that information is too dangerous for very clear reasons, I would be more okay with that.

This one of these "now you have two problems" solutions. As an American who, perhaps stereotypically, is passionate about free speech, I've never read a way to make this kind of oversight work. The composition of the board will always be political, and because of the power and authority of this oversight board, there is political control over what people are allowed to know about. At least currently, if I don't like ChatGPT I can choose another LLM or try to run one locally. Some kind of oversight board would elide that choice.
I saw this written and told by various people but never saw it confirmed in real life.
And people should remember the difference between what is legally permissible and what is allowed to exist because it’s too complicated or hard to prosecute.
What I'm looking for is the equivalent of this .npmrc contents to access an NPM module on Github Packages:

//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${AUTH_TOKEN}
@myEmployer:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/

My impression is that the document you've linked isn't related to their NPM compatibility, but perhaps I need to look more into it.
You hit the nail on the head. I'd add moderation to that list. Also, when you're in revenue mode and scaling from 14M users to billions it's no longer sustainable to outsource most of your infrastructure - OS, storage, other basic services - to a cloud provider. So you're going to need people to develop and manage those, even if you tell yourself you don't have to count them because they're elsewhere in a large company (as I was once). Then you have things like observability tools, non-trivial deployment tools, etc. that are also Other People's Effort.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that we live in a world where there's infrastructure lying around that makes it possible for a three-person team to achieve so much so quickly, and that team deserves a ton of credit for doing it. But it's not the "these companies are so bloated" lesson that some people are going to try to take away from it. That's just Tall Poppy Syndrome.
A lot of the capital allocation is driven by rules and regulation (incl. on taxation) - the political say is much bigger than you make it out to be.
I work for non-tech company. I report to VP. He doesn’t care if I work 30 or 40 hours. Sometimes I work more, and sometimes I work less to clear my mind. What he cares about is deliverables.

I want to try a new challenge but I have a hard time finding a corporation that does this. There is always annoying cringey slogans about “collaboration”.

I have built large gaming communities. Hosted servers and worked with other people all over the planet. But some execs just want ass in the seats.
wow, Metro AG's stock is doing horribly this year. but they're supposedly raking in tons of cash from Austria?

EDIT: SPAR Group, Inc. is doing very badly as well. I think this theory is highly suspect
I'm not sure if it's still happening but... there was a potato shortage during the pandemic. At least here in North America. It had to do with a disease affecting the crops IIRC.
I think it's just some networking misconfiguration they haven't noticed. I can't see them intentionally trying to prevent DoS this way, that's what API key rate limits are for (it would be a very expensive and slow DoS otherwise!).
I'm using Harmonic too, although I wish it had better views over my threads.
There's no glossing, I just don't understand. It's also far from my corner of technology.

Still, between 3 devs and thousands, that's 3 orders of magnitude. Let's take the core team and 30x them for a broader project. Add 50 (?) for billing. Another 50 for web apps. Another 30 for general devops? That takes us to a "mere" 220 devs.

Then I read that Uber had around 2,000 SEs in 2020, and Airbnb at some point was 1,200. I don't know how to grok that.

You mention AWS, my impression was that even many very large orgs run their their hardware in the cloud (surely not all but still).
Yes, it would indeed be interesting to see a proper analysis on timing of populism vs the economy.
You are hinting towards the bigger issue here. Yes, this guy has looked through the crack in the matrix, but the fact that inflation is impacting prices all over the western world directly and elsewhere indirectly has nothing to do with pricing shenanigans of the oligopolies.

These are issues that not even perfectly regulated and perfectly competitive markets could change, if that were even possible. These are systemic monetary, political, governmental issues.

I hate to break it to people, we are currently only in a lull where some may feel localized price increase pressure relief, but that is just a temporary condition.

The things that have been done, especially over the last several years, cannot be done without suffering the inevitable consequences, regardless of how much one did not consider them or wants to believe that they are starting to grip.

Unfortunately for people this is only the beginning of this roller coaster; and most here and in the subject mastodon thread are part of a social strata that is only affected in limited degrees. There are people who worked all their lives with a promise of a pension, only to find out that they get half of what some “refugee” and “immigrant” gets that hates them and is violating their indigenous society and culture. They have something like $/€1500/month and see their cost of living going up a compounded ~30% over five years while the government/pension masters keep promising an eventual 2% pension/retirement/social security increase.
Interesting! The end of the page https://www.findmycat.io/ says this:

“Completely Open-Source? What’s the catch?

Yup. No catch. All Software and Hardware files can be found in the Engineering section and the Github page under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License”.

This is in the Frequent Questions section. (You need to click on the question to see the answer.)
I'm mostly doing that.

Django + Unpoly + Postgres

Development as fast as it can be. :D

https://alexandremjacques.com/django-plus-unpoly/
Very interesting article. I think energy storage will become be important but in many cases these kinds of solutions could be a good alternative.

Not sure how relevant it’d be for northern climates like where I live though.

> The production of lithium-ion batteries requires fossil fuels, and (unlike lead-acid batteries) they are not recycled.

This isn’t quite true. Recycling of li-ion batteries is already happening at an industrial scale and it’s clear that we’re heading towards 100% recycling eventually. Didn’t Apple just announce that they’re using 100% recycled cobalt in li-ion batteries now?
Then when wages do come down and questions get put to politicians and the central bankers about the lack of wage growth they shrug their shoulders and act confused like it's some unsolvable math problem.
I think it's an established fact / pseudo-open secret that there has been deliberate weakening of the academic field of cryptography, and cipher and hash algorithms, by cryptanalysis actors happening for a long time.

The weird thing about the field of cryptography is this is not accepted, and is basically taboo: that the strongest designs are classified and the unclassified ones deliberately weakened.

It's this weird suspension of disbelief / faith in security that has been carefully created by the cryptanalysis actors, so that the public designs are breakable by the ones who hold the classified designs.
> It appears that this is the beginning of the end of the big tech party.

I think about it differently. First, the government going after a company for being a monopoly is the goal for every company in a capitalist system. It means they won the game by cornering markets and crushing every possible competitor.

Second, breakups will grow the big tech pie and increase shareholder and employee value. How many small, but growing endeavors has a company like Google killed? How many internal projects never see the light of day because they aren't Google scale day 1? Breaking up some of the current big tech behemoths will unlock and trigger a new big tech party, it will just be spread across more different companies.
You do not need a scheduler in a web browser. In exaequos, each process is an iframe
That is correct.
To communicate a leader must boil down complex issues. To explain effectively.

It probably comes down to a word count and what can be chanted.

Take immigration, very complex.

Populist "Build a Wall". Super simple, can be chanted.

A more Capable Leader might take several sentences, or paragraphs to digest such a difficult subject. Still simplified, still glossing over a lot, but trying to convey some concept. It can't be chanted, and it still takes the listener some brain power to process.

Basically Anger. If you can come up with a slogan, that people can chant angrily -> "Populist".
In my experience the smarter engineers write code that's a bit sloppier. It's the stupider engineers that tend to be more into style.

Smarter engineers see the world through a different lens. They don't need ultra clear code because they are too smart and as a result their coding style reflects that. Things that are obviously easy to read to them actually aren't easy to read in general but they don't know that because they're too smart.

The stupidest engineer often attacks pointless stylistic choices. First off style in general is more important to them because they aren't as smart... But additionally they can't differentiate between pointless stylistic conventions and ones that arent. For example, I've seen this:

// More comments
// Comment
//This is a comment

Get corrected in a review to this:

// More comments
// Comment
// This is a comment

Which is fine, but.

Stupider engineers tend to follow certain common human ocd conventions. The corrected code does not practically improve the code at all even from a readability standpoint... it's just jarring to the ocd tendencies of the stupider engineers who cant tell the difference between his own ocd instincts and actual practicality of readable code.

Auto formatters help alleviate these things a bit, but not always.

I admit I'm more on the stupider side in terms of engineering.
This seems like a reasonable amount of pragmatism. As with most things in contract law, it's not meaningfully illegal unless some claimant is actually going to enforce it. You give enough context in the post to alert at reader that they should be careful of using it.

Thanks for sharing a cool story.
Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
12 miles is quite beyond normal “reasonable walk” range so this could have some “legs”.

It’s also smaller than a bike and maybe even than a collapsible bike.

But it pretty much needs to be on pavement.
(That's the point they're trying to make btw)
Don't think so. The storage capacities in Austria are rather big compared to other countries. In contrast to last year the gas storage facilities are already filled to the brim.

Europe wide gas storage information: https://agsi.gie.eu/#/

Ownership information for gas stored in for Austria: https://www.e-control.at/gas/gasmarkt/speicher/speicherstaen...
Didn't know that, I still don't use Instagram lol. So yeah exactly - it's easy to run a simple app with a few devs.

Iirc in Singapore, Netflix has a reasonably sized team just dealing with payments.

Presumably for a global business, payments is a pretty gnarly long tail of integrations (never worked with payments so pretty ignorant on the subject) not to mention I wonder whether they also are onboarding content distributors onto some kind of automated payment platform so they can very quickly churn content libraries or attribute some kind of viewing related payment...

I guess tldr doing business is complex and needs lots of engineers vs making a small and focused app.
It's called gallows humor because you're the one standing on the gallows. When you're the strongarm of the state and laugh about how the city you serve is going to just cut a check in response to one of your coworkers killing some random innocent you're not engaging in gallows humor—you're part of the execution.

You people can dismiss or deflect anything
Indeed, I do hope so. I have my poolside lounge chair ready.
The shareholder of big companies is usually other big companies, universities, or… the people. The people own these things by way of retirement funds, savings accounts, CDs, index funds, etc. It’s just that they are often unaware.

The financial industry definitely has outsized power and charges excessive fees but the situation is not at all as simple as the financial industry owning everything. It’s a complicated web of ownership with finance being deeply embedded within it and controlling a lot of the hubs of the network effect.
Wondering how much of that was him expecting to get laid potentially
Actual study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

>Funding: This research and its publication open access was funded by food awareness organisation ProVeg International (https://proveg.com).
I wasn't necessarily comparing a programmer working remote with a programmer working in the office.

I mainly tried to say that if we want to have people working in factories, working as nurses or doing office work that requires working as a team in person or meeting clients or what ever it might be then we have to start to pay them more compared to people who work from home.
Yes for a small room, but a whole house system typically needs a lot more then one small ceiling mounted unit.
Since it's 5 minutes I'm wondering if it's just "that's how the web works by default". I remember a while ago I was doing a long-running calculation on an POST request and was trying to debug why the connection always broke after 5 minutes, and found the hard way that there's a 5 minute timeout.
Money transferred between the governments of two countries as part of cooperation on other issues is not really a gift in any sense of the word, but rather just diplomatic relations.

In your metaphor, it's as if you're working to negotiate a deal on behalf of your parents for the family business.
Bedrock almost certainly has more players, especially in the younger bracket.

Most adults and definitely most content on YouTube is on Java.
an exclusive club would provide an incentive to accomplish things
Why I'm in the Tailwind Cult
To add to this: I had lots of problems with Emacs terminal emulators until I switched to VTerm. Most things work like you’d expect in VTerm.
I wonder how they horizontally scaled shards. If they had 2k logical shards they probably had much fewer real/physical shards. So a single database was holding many sharding keys. So when a new physical shard gets added, the data needs to somehow be replicated. That is only true if w reading is the problem. If only a relatively short time period of data is hot you can probably just move over the logical shard IDs to the new physical shard without moving existing data. This requires keeping track of when which physical shard became active.
Yes for both Google Play and App Store it’s all self reported. Some developers are fully transparent, some will lie, and some may not be realizing that while they may not be collecting anything, the libraries they are using are.
GTNH modded Minecraft 1.7.10 to run on Java 17 and 20.

That’s the level of dedication there.
Its not only that, but when they can't beat them...they make them join: startups with valuable market intelligence get bought all the time by Chinese companies.

See for example the case of DEAR systems, which is a cloud-based WMS that is particularly useful for intelligence as to how much (US) importers are paying for worldwide goods, and what is the cost of shipping from A to B.

It was bought by a chinese company not long ago. That's 1 example.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cin7-acquires-dear-...