skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im noticing quite a bit lately - having again cracked my own phone recently - that people seem to have just stopped replacing their still functional yet cracked phones. My rationale is simple, I cracked the last one and the one before that and I'll crack the replacement too. This one works fine and Im just not going to worry about it. It seems I may not be the only one thinking like this. iPhones break too easily, thats all there is to it.
Totally randomly, I visited cool link site Boing Boing to find “Orangutan Building a Hammock” with an overhand knot. Wow

https://boingboing.net/2023/09/24/incredible-video-of-orangu...
Should’ve had better backups.
The casino in your pocket
>for sailing boats with water makers when the UV module fails

UV add-ins for water makers are a peace-of-mind option for boats with very large tanks that have opportunity for fouling; they are by no means common in the water-maker loop except in the very high-end; the high pressure membrane filters do the job just fine.

plus side : most sailing offers all the UV you could ask for. Grab a bucket and hit the deck, no need for future-bottles.
I'm using Apass and am happy with it https://github.com/balu-/a-pass#readme
Monitoring and Me
The database is 8 gigabytes so it will take a minute to upload, but I put one of the output images on imgur:

https://imgur.com/a/oMtVDYO

The source color is in the top left corner and below it are colors darker than it ordered by lightness descending from top left to bottom right. The hue of all the colors is supposed to be similar but there is so much variance in the hue that really only 20% of these colors are usable.

This image would be printed out and if one of the colors is more accurate after printing, then the source color in the original art would be replaced with that other more accurate color.
Fix Your Bike with ChatGPT
There is no such thing as "same work" outside of a production line and the like. You learn this in the initial weeks of your career.

In every tech company there are programmers, project managers, and sales people who have the same titles but deliver vastly different quality of outcomes. And everyone knows this because they instantly pick the good ones whenever they have the slightest optionality.

You have a new project, difficult client, some fuckup to straighten out, and everyone's eyes turn to the same person. It's such a common occurrence, you must have seen this. You must have seen people being fired without a single tear or with a sigh of relief and others quitting to widespread worry over who will manage to step in for them. People with the same roles on paper.
The market just grew a lot in the past decades (adult fans in particular, but on all fronts). Also, Lego will inevitably get thrown away, but a lot of it resides in boxes in attics etc. stored for decades for the next generation (my four year old is busy laying out his claim on my stash at his grandparents house and arranging for its transfer to him).
I’m still trying to get my mind around a world where Brain/DeepMind aren’t way ahead on all this. They were so far ahead so recently.

Is there a comeback story here? IIRC they’ve still got Dean and Hassabis and a bunch of other bruisers, along with arbitrary financing, the best training sets, and novel compute.

Is it time to put Hassabis in charge and start making Ilya and Karpathy offers they can’t refuse?
Thanks, awesome product! Happy user for many years.
Which is basically the same as the government, because they are the ones voting for that totalitarianism.
There are mobile apps for keepass e.g. KeypassDroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ke...
Inflation serves to redistribute wealth, since the first people to receive the new money created are those who benefit most from it. The reduced value of money some rich man has under his mattress is of very little importance here, what's important is the reduced value of the money received as wages by labourers.

When Roman emperors inflated their currency, the first people to receive the new money created were their soldiers. Wealth of the rest of Roman citizens was in this way redistributed to the soldiers.

Today we have a fractional reserve system in banking, meaning that banks actually create money and inflate the money supply when they give a "loan". While a lot of this money goes to governments and some goes to companies, the wast majority of new money enters circulation by being lent to real estate purchasers. That's why real estate is so unaffordable. It's not more complicated than that.

> The only way this can be counter-balanced is with government regulation

Then start regulating the banks and take away their privilege of creating money from nothing.
Yeah, we should totally put our trust in founders who would gladly accept money from immoral sources.

We need to understand that society only values who moves first. The early bird gets the worm. If they want to play the game, they need to raise funds from people who truly understand power and money, regardless of the human cost.

/s
Think about it for a sec. Steel or aluminium is going to yield a hell of a lot quicker than titanium. If you try to bend a phone those materials are going to yield before the glass. All the energy is going to break the frame then the adhesive of the glass from the frame.

Titanium frame? Glass will yield before the frame. There's no strain relief that the frame provides by sacrificing itself. It'll withstand more force but the glass now has the lowest strength.
Thank you. Unfortunately, my experience is the same: it's hard to promote a software project on today's Internet without investing a lot of money or spending 4 hours/day on social media like the original poster did. There are many interesting projects like yours that remain invisible to their potential users.
If you have that, impressive to have survived Amazon for longer than the on-boarding. I consider myself quite resistant to stress and pressure, and don't think I'd be able to survive that again. Good thing, I know I did once, and am in a comfortable position of not having to anymore.
P.S.

I think the Elon musk point is a key difference. You guys have a massive reality distortion where you either entirely or mostly discount that value of capital allocator class whether if its human or actual capital.

There seems to be some notion that the Elon, Collison brothers, Toby Lutke, Sam Altman etc are just people who got lucky to win the "owner class" lottery.

In reality these people are barely human, they should be revered and we as a society should aim to be more like them. There is a saying popularised by the founder of this forum that goes something like (really paraphrasing) you wanna start young & naive as a founder since nobody in their right minds would put themselves through this.

Its the equivalent of playing a jailbroken game where you manually set difficulty above hardcore. You need to be top percentile of everything (IQ, EQ, creativity, industriousness etc)just as tablestakes and now you get opportunity to compete against freaks just like you. You can tick all the boxes, sacrifice your life (tunnel vision) to work like a slave and still lose. Even if you win, now you gotta win again and again.

Its really not even close, the asymmetry is insane. Yes there are exceptions (nepo-babies, trust fund kids etc) but usually the former eats these peoples lunches given enough time. Thats why wealth never stays in the same family for more than a few generations.

Btw in your utopia, Bernie Sanders (a hippie that got kicked out of a commune for being a bum) will be valued more than those people I described. Let me repeat you would rather value the former bartender AOC more than people who can retire multiple times over but choose instead to work 70 hour weeks in service of humanity.
I’ve been running netmaker now for little over a year in conjunction with keycloak. This was back when tailscale didn’t have support for oicd SSO in their lower-tier offering. I’ve had some difficulty with upgrades and connectivity behind various NAT scenarios. One issue that I found difficult: If a client updated, it would not longer connect until the server side software was updated. This meant I had to exclude netclient from package upgrades. Overall, when it works, it works great. There have been some improvements. I would like to see networks statistics get included in their free/open source offering.
> he founded Right Scale in 2007 which exited in 2018 with 250 employees.

A strong negative signal as far as I am concerned.

For a consumer-oriented software startup, an “exit” is most of the time a polite euphemism for selling the userbase to a juicing machine of some sort; the second place is taken by selling the product to an enterprise-oriented business which doesn’t want the userbase and eventually will, with more or less grace, show them the door.

Therefore, when I see a consumer-oriented, VC-funded startup, I don’t see why I should consider trusting them for even a second. Dine on the free lunch while it lasts, yes; squirrel away every bit of software they’re willing to release, yes; trust, depend on, or invest even a tiniest bit of my time, no.
Since they're talking about an age range, and the boomers are being looked at because they're currently that age, you'd have to either also specify the name of that age range back then, or drop the names and just use the age range.
Why Einstein Thought Nuclear Weapons Were Impossible [video]
While I do agree, I think that this might be too general to be correct in every case.

I do wonder however if the COVID lockdowns and WFH made the remote work market worse. The amount of remote positions available skyrocketed but so did the amount of people wanting to work remotely. Now, the combination of layoffs and RTOs might make finding a remote job harder than it was before the pandemic - amount of remote jobs shrank and the remote talent pool grew. Would love to see some data / opinions on that.
A bad viral infection can sometimes lead to a longer term stress intolerance condition. It is a real thing.
Could it be people are choosing over-engineered solutions because AWS has bad documentation and that's what the solutions architects tell them to do?

Could it be because microservices and so-called "server-less" have been sold as cost-saving measures that increase the business' flexibility and decrease capital investment?

When... in reality a single deployed Docker container is way more manageable than a distributed system constructed with "lambdas" and requires fewer engineers in the long run?

What I'm trying to say is that FAANG cargo-culting is only part of why developers choose to build solutions that scale larger than they need. Another large part is the cloud development ecosystem writ-large and the consulting culture that has built up around it.
I agree the "what it is for" of each layer could be improved. Digging up the wiki [1], there's (I'm aggregating the content of "significance" and "uniqueness"table):

- Standard: "Attempts to do many things at once (Jack of all trades, master of none)"

- CyclOSM: "Contour lines. Cycle map. World coverage"

- Cycle Map: "Contour lines. "Focuses on bicycle features, shows bicycle routes"

- Transport Map: "Displays routes, and public transport. Roads are not most prominent feature."

- ÖPNVKarte: "Displays routes, and public transport. Roads are not most prominent feature."

- Humanitarian: "Focuses on the developing countries with an emphasis on features related to development and humanitarian work. Good contrasting style in terms of overall colour choices. Terrain shading. Many new/different icons (particularly for basic amenities in developing countries) and more nuanced surface track-type rendering. "

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_tile_layers
If Amazon has $4B to invest into what may end up being the Theranos of AI research, why don't they have $4B to invest into their workforce and, you know, actually pay people instead of all the extra-legal shenanigans they're pulling to avoid cutting paychecks?

Edit: For those not understand what I'm referencing, Amazon is currently trying to get out of owning their Seattle offices, and are using "get back to the office" tactics to harass workers into leaving so they can dump the real estate at loss: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/unpacking-amazons-steal...

It isn't about their global payroll spend dwarfing the $4B. Its about having a sense of ethics and a grasp of math.
I guess a lot of people have a hard time saying no when offered a hundred million dollars.
I reckon archeologists will be digging them up in centuries to come.
Now define “same”, particularly for creative work where value created can be a factor of 10 or more off.

There are qualified, employed SWEs that I’m 3x as good as. There are other SWEs who (correctly) look at me and draw that exact same conclusion.
This also depends on whether you distro is using zlib or zlib-ng, which is significantly faster.
I don't think hybrid is really accomodating to people who wants to be in the office. The main point in being in the office is to have all your colleagues around with you. My current place is hybrid, but thankfully my team is mostly always in. I really dislike when I need someone and I have to use slack or zoom to contact them. It's always a bit of a pain.

A company where remote work is the exception (you need to wait for a parcel one day or something like that) appeals to me much more than a hybrid model. A full remote job I'd only consider it I were desperate.
Taxeringskalender
> Shared objects do in fact allow doing the safe subset of this, which is to load 2 versions of D that are used by packages B and C without exchanging API objects.

It's a fair point. But in practice this can only be done when the versions of D have different sonames - at least with the usual filesystem layout we use for dynamic linking. In that respect, Python can do it too - we just don't typically embed the major version into our Python module names, as is typical with sonames.
siri is honestly only good for basic question/answers. like "how is the weather going to be later" or "play X song", or "how old is X". i wish they integrated LLMs into personal assistants to truly have a conversational type experience
There's always a trade-off. By promoting Send futures, Tokio prioritizes safety and parallelism. However, this does add complexity for developers, especially newcomers. They need to be aware of the Send and 'static requirements and might have to use synchronization primitives more often.
Because of this, I think promoting Send futures as the default is the wrong way to go.

LocalSet + spawn_local are great, and I wish more developers would know about them, but the Tokio tutorial [1] doesn't mention that and focuses on the multi-threaded runtime instead. AFAIK LocalSet is only mentioned in the docs [2]

[1]: https://tokio.rs/tokio/tutorial
[2]: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/struct.LocalSet.html
I genuinely wonder if tech companies who cave in keeping WFH for good are just going to start hiring cheaper talent oversees.
That's in the premium tier.
> What stings the most is that if London didn't exist, became independent, or fell into the sea, everyone else would likely benefit very rapidly.

Almost all regions/cities make below-average contributions to the UK economy. That's because London drags the total way up (IIRC Bristol is the only other that's above-average, but barely).

That's obviously driven by a feedback-cycle that encourages investing in London rather than elsewhere. That does not imply that the rest of the UK would "benefit" from losing London; it would be an economic disaster.

The problem is that governments are focused on raising the UK's GDP, but that's the sum of each region's GDP and London's contribution is so large that it's equivalent to just maximising London (to optimise a weighted sum, put all the weight on the largest term). Perhaps a solution is to use metrics that combine regions geometrically (multiplying each region's GDP): that encourages investment in poor areas, since they drag down the result (rather than simply contributing less; and in the extreme case, a contribution of zero would wipe-out everything else).

We could do the same analysis on other partition too, e.g. multiplying each sector's contribution would make things less dependent on finiancial services.
We need the API to keep up with consumer front end.
In Europe there's limited market for sex work anyway because sex is so easily accessible, unlike in religious U.S.
So it's not nearly as big of a problem as the article makes it look like.
Easiest way to combat prostitution is destroying market for it by making sex easily accessible for virtually every man, and lack of religion plus culture of equality (including low income inequality), gets us there, more or less.
> Because of this, there’s more deviation from what was planned and designed to what was shipped and there’s less alignment across teams, so it’s harder to coordinate feature development.

Asking as an outsider, won't shipping a lot of things in this environment lead to some suboptimal product state. I'm used to coordinate > build > learn > iterate > ship; which although slows down gross feature development, tends to prevent the 60-80% of experiments that don't work from getting launched.

Does removing meetings to optimize throughput of feature development not get us into some feature factory mindset? This isn't binary btw, but I think moves thinking more towards a build mindset vs a solve problem mindset.
At least for people who like to come to the office (like me), this is even worse than working from home.

You still spend lots of times in meetings in front of your computer, can't take those meetings in person, often can't solve quick issues on the way to lunch, and can't socialize with the people you are working with (which leads to getting to know people much quicker which IMHO makes working with people a lot easier).
Some people also like to be in offices. What is correlation between performance and office preference in different fields?
Great Britain is the name of the island - this comment is about islands.
> "I’m not an activist fighting for a better world or anything. But I get angry about the corporations screwing over people, software, planets. I’m not in a position to solve that."

You ARE in a position to make the world a little bit better. We all are. Start with simple things, like thinking about using cc-by license and think about why, when and what FOSS license to use. A FOSS license is just a tool but make it work for your goal(s)... And why not just ask your local government to use FOSS software on websites to be a bit more compatible with every home baked browser. Your privacy and freedom is limited year after year.
a) the article is about a female, not male

b) the article claims the RTO order was in March, but as the linked blog post shows, it was mid-February
What about shipping the disc back and forth?
I feel like these are a little too rigid when starting out, just make sure you version your API and try to keep it backwards compatible, it will evolve anyway
> We don’t know for sure that they would do that.

If they get the chance to do it, they'll do it. 100%. Guaranteed.
The demarcation of boundaries is occurring at this juncture. In an era marked by the reconfiguration of internet protocols due to the advent of GenAI, a singular entity acquiring total control is unlikely.
According to the article:

> In March, less than a week after I moved, Amazon issued its RTO order.

Jassy announced that he thought that return to the office was best for the company in February and that RTO timetable was being planned group by group and details would be "finalized in the coming weeks".
Few ambushes and you have the heavy equipment. That's how many Ukrainian volunteer groups armed themselves - on russian forces.
Strictly speaking, it is over the companies monopoly in search. Google also lives in other markets where there is competition, so this may be about those markets not search.
The paper around GPT-4V(ision) which this uses: [0]

Again. Model architecture and information is closed, as expected.

[0] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/GPTV_System_Card.pdf
And yet, having some people work from the office while others work from home, might actually be the worst of both worlds. A meeting works great if everybody is in the same room or everybody is online. It's awkward when half are in the same room filling one screen of an online meeting and being barely audible there.

Everybody at home and using online chat tools to connect and work together works great, having your coworkers sitting next to you so you can have spontaneous meetings about technical details works great. But having two in the office and one online is awkward.

Maybe we should separate into fully remote and fully at the office companies.

For the record, WFH works great for me, but I also appreciate our one day per week at the office where I can see (nearly) all of my coworkers in real life.
For the those who don't know: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-leaders-aws-day-two-m...
Especially if “got mine” depends on a forest of laws and regulations and transfer payments rather than genuine liquid savings and investments
I work for a company that has multiple offices world wide. We also have a pretty sizeable, entirely remote workforce as well. You can do both.

I think the rub is that often the office crowd, in order to get their office, have to drag the remote crowd with them otherwise they're not getting what they want out of the office experience.

Personally speaking, I will never work in an office again. I get more done working from home, I video chat with my colleagues all the time - even pairing, I meet up with them in cool places 2-4 times a year, and I have way more time for gardening, house projects, pets, and my partner without a 1-4 hour commute in a 24 hour day.
Presumably they pay their internal price to fix phones with AppleCare, so folks without it are seeing that too.
A crack is like a scar, it gives your phone character ;)
>> - Presided over a bunch of aggressive and needless wars.

Sorry, help me out. What "bunch" of wars did they "Preside" over? Boomers were born 1946-1964 (per Wikipedia).
John Hessler – In Conversation with David Rumsey
>I see diagrams of data visualization as maps even if they do not have explicitly spatial aspects. Like maps, they show relationships between expressions of data with juxtapositions that promote imagination
Academia is just as hostile. It is even a stated policy that you are supposed to move countries between your undergrad (up to masters), Ph.d, multiple postdocs, all the way until you get tenure, to the point that some specific funding schemes require this.
At the same time and without even a single bit of irony, they advertise a family friendly environment and a women first hiring policy.
In places like the bay area with a housing crisis and limited space to expand, the state should seize office buildings (remote work is the future and would help alleviate the shortage while new housing is developed) by eminent domain and set up a scheme like Singapore's HDB system [1] to develop affordable housing.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Development_Board
I know there are shades of grey to how they operate, but the near constant stream of stuff they're shipping keeps me excited.

The LLM boom of the last year (Open AI, llama, et al) has me giddy as a software person. It's a reach, but I truly feel like I'm watching the pyramids of our time get made.