skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
An overview of how FusionAuth selected our SOC 2 software vendor for 2023.
They will lose talent and I'm guessing have to change back to compete against the many companies and agencies who are still remote and or changed to fully remote.

Remote working many view higher then more money.
> if so do you think it's due to cultural habit (being raised on pen and paper) or maybe a neurological need (paper requires more psycho/physical stimulation, you have to draw geometries, letters, organise.. that cost might be actually beneficial for your brain way of working)

There is some of that. But pen and paper has other benefits that are hard to match:

- Pen & Paper works even if there is a service disruption / outage

- Pen & Paper works even if the device's battery dies or the power goes out

- Pen & Paper is fast. I don't need to unlock the screen, I don't experience progressive sluggishness due to memory leaks, analytics / telemetry running in the background or feature/library bloat

- Pen & Paper doesn't send everything that I'm writing to some remote server for analytics purposes

- Pen & Paper has never crashed on me

- I get to decide if and when I want the newest version of pen/paper. I don't ever reach for Pen & Paper to discover that some product owner has pushed a change on me without my opt-in / consent.

- Pen & Paper works in virtually every envrionment, regardless of whether I'm wearing gloves or my hands are cold (though admittedly cold hands can slow down the writing process, but much less so than trying to use a touch-screen or keyboard).

- Pen & Paper is often easier to read (assuming the hand-writing is legible, which is admittedly hit or miss, but it causes much less eye fatigue than staring at a screen).

- Pen & Paper doesn't distract me with spell/grammar checks that I don't need in the moment. Disabling / re-enabling these features is time consuming.

- Pen & Paper is a technology that has truly stood the test of time. The fact that it continues to persist into the digital age is very telling. Sometimes "simple & works" beats new and featureful but complicated.
Nice! What % of ticket sales will go to the Wikipedia for Refugees and the ADL (I'm Jewish, but wtf?)?

Seriously, why can't the open source foundations just use the donations/income the way it's intended? Wiki does the same exact thing, and every year it's a bigger hunk of money.

https://www.mozillapulse.org/projects?keyword=grants
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/fellowships-a...
My prediction of future bandwidth growth is that to get super high speed wi-fi you'll need line of sight to an access point that has fast enough (ie. wired) backhaul. Even today you can get considerable speedup by doing that. So I think power and network cabling (or just PoE) to eg. every area of ceiling or wall is still worth it and reasonably future-proof since that'd typically be enough for up to 10G per area.
Do you have a sample edition? It looks difficult to convince people to subscribe without a few samples.
And that's all I need to know about replacing all NVIDIA stuff. I know it's pretty hard to get there, but Intel should know that having a serious general purpose computing thing means solid compilers, toolchains, optimized libraries, and a whole lot of mindshare (as in 'a large number of people willing to throw their time to test your stuff').
In win11 I am unable to even find apps (properly installed via signed msi) by typing it's full name.

Searching for setting screens is also a pain in the ass, especially if you use different language. MS recognizes only their own translation, not the most intuitive text, not English text ... you just have to know
Does it have reliable supplies of plentiful and cheap electricity and water?

Because without that, datacenters won't be showing up...

And even if it did, big US companies don't really like to have data centers in places that are too remote, if only because staff have to visit from time to time and don't want to have to take an 8 hour seaplane ride to get there...
But how was this 3% attribution done?

There are lots of ways to buy books that aren’t clicking affiliate links.

I see book recommendations on HN all the time and regularly buy something I see… by searching Amazon or a local store, nobody would ever link that purchase back to HN.
In comparison, in about < 1 day of TV use I somehow downloaded (streamed) > 115 GBs of data. Mostly Netflix and other streaming services. Insane how far we have come, compared to a 4-9 GB DVD disc!
Sounds like a better and cheaper deal than in Berlin!

(Semi-joking. Never lived in Berlin, but the mind-blowingly bad infra for such a big EU IT hub is a recurring meme).
Damn, caught red-handed not reading TFA that I posted!

I did glance at the Ian's version for sanity, but somehow missed that part in the link I posted; thanks.
Names.

The problem always comes down to naming.

`StartLine.Verb.GET`

is not a good name.

Neither StartLine nor Verb are used in that context in the HTTP spec.

The most widely used name for GET/POST etc. is Method.

The author will find that these seemingly small things will hinder adoption.
I’m thinking with 4G, 5g, one day 6g and one day 7g, physical data infra’s days are numbered or will become a premium product at the residential level.

Except in Canada and elsewhere where the mobile and wireline providers are the same and deliberately keep mobile pricing high enough to disincentivize cord cutting.
Yes, we want the protection of jobs to limit our use of technology when said technology is proven to be inherently dangerous without human supervision. The difference between a Tesla driving into oncoming traffic and a semi driving into oncoming traffic is massive when it comes to potential loss of life. These trucks are not proven to be safe and we shouldn't pretend that they are.

Laws can be revised.
In summary, this is fundamentally a bad idea. So, do you want to invest?
Agreed - posted something very similar. Check out their partners and grants, sure seems like they think that Firefox doesn't need the money

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/fellowships-a...
man, i was hoping this was going to be a serious discussion on NLEs. instead, we get some niche product of a niche field. i'm not really sure this counts. that's like the team that works for lighting within Unity left to build a new tool that exports settings to JSON.
Will we be seeing this for Menendez too?

"At one point in 2018, prosecutors said, Mr. Menendez texted “highly sensitive” information from the State Department about employees at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to Ms. Menendez. She forwarded it to Mr. Hana, who forwarded it to an Egyptian government official."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/nyregion/robert-menendez-...
The Brokers are the compute layer. The Servers are the storage later.

Note that this is separate from the fact that the Servers can also be in a tiered storage configuration.

https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/architecture
If I took 2 weeks off from work I could build this prototype quite easily. We're in an interesting period where the space of possibilities is so large it just takes a while for the "market" to exhaust it.
Firstly no, the gap between 3 and 4 is not anything as large as the gap between 2 and 3.

Secondly, nothing you said here changed as of this announcement. Nothing here makes it any more or less likely LLMs will risk software engineering jobs.

Thirdly, you can take what Sam Altman says with as many grains of salt as you like, if there really was no innovation at all as you claim, then there will be a limit hit at computing capability and cost.
Hello, World: We’re Railway
J. G. Ballard’s brilliant, “not good” writing
> Should we hold grudges against brands for things totally different people did 10? 20? 50? years ago? That seems weird to me.

It only seems weird because it's irrational, but the irrationality of vengeance is what has made humans the dominant species on the planet.

If your child is killed by a lion it makes sense to avoid lions. It makes no rational sense to seek out lions to kill, but guess what a human will do. And see what the result is.
> I would love to be financially independent and watch this with excitement

Even if you were, your money would be invested in something which is tied to the overall economy and if a huge proportion of knowledge jobs are at risk, you would still be exposed to it through whatever assets you own. Don't expect stocks (or currency, or property) to do great when unemployment is 30%+.
Maybe they could lock it to COLA used for SS benefits?
Sounds lazy and crass to me. Instead of a word meant to accurately convey a concept it's meant to broadly convey a concept and ones feelings on it in the same breath; much like the term "woke". I'd rather use something around a historical event that can also be used to help understand a concept through allegory, like "Dutch disease", or "cargo cult". Those are fun.
That would be a hilarious way to lose every customer over night.
I think it is a more specific thing that just “things get bad.” Lots of tech services start by giving things away, or providing services for cheap/free unsustainably, and then start making unpopular moves when the free money dries up and they have to become profitable.

It is sort of like a subset of anticompetitive behavior (dumping) but done by a small player using investor funds instead of a large company throwing weight around. Or in a field where the “cost” is something nebulous like ads, so it is harder to actually spot.

A weakness of the name is that it invites the broader definition, I think.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
Is there a lot of HDR content on the web?
If Level 5 means there is no driver, then Cruise and Waymo already don't have drivers.
University of Minnesota: Notice of Data Incident
AFAIK this will be the first chip where multiple processes are combined into one die, at least for consumer devices. AMD's chiplets use separate dies from multiple node processes all on one substrate so maybe they don't want to confuse it with that.
kafka is not for latency, it is used for high throughput. By design kafka shines in high throughput workload due to consumer and producer concurrency (consumer group), broker concurrency (multiple nodes and partitions).

for latency sensitive you will probably need redis pub/sub or something in-memory
While I don't have much experience with C#, and I agree that Java is the worst, this at least applies to Go as well. Though to a lesser degree.
> E-books do not make such attractive visual props. According to a survey by Nielsen, 80% of Brits aged 14-25 prefer print.

As one of the central pillars of what TikTok is reportedly changing, it has extremely weak supporting evidence. How many outside of that age group prefer print? Is it also 80%? 90%? 50%?

I personally prefer physical copies as well due to DRM. I also like the physical appearance of being able to see all of the books I’ve read.

The other pillar seems to be virality which is likely far more relevant. And the article has some better examples of that.
Open Letter to the Board of Directors of Gitlab Inc
Dec 22 through Aug 23

That's a long time, I would love to know the breakdown on that. How long was he operating undetected vs how long was he operating after detection (while being monitoring/investigated)
I miss Chrome tab groups. Firefox doesn’t seem to have an elegant equivalent.
Railway Launch Week 01
Norovirus in the wilderness? How an outbreak spread on the Pacific Crest Trail
I think it's a self regulating system. If the product was so important and so many people relied on it (eg. Unity) where a cash grab by the Unity development team results in the entire community considering switching to a completely different product (eg. Godot), then I'm sure the community would rather fork the existing product and make it better. On the other hand, if the product wasn't that important or the cash grab wasn't that bad, then fewer people will be likely to fork and the current product will continue to be the mainline. Open source gives users more options which is always better.
Is the Intel Xe ISA even publicly documented? I’ve searched before and I can’t find a PDF detailing the instruction set. AMD releases them,[0] but I can’t find anything from Intel (or Nvidia for that matter).

[0]: RDNA2 ISA: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/radeon-tech...
Here's something with very little latency.
https://www.bland.ai/
until someone automates uploading 1x1 white pixels, thus ruining the model after a brief, glorious payday for some brilliant fool.
We looked at our baked products line and found that we could increase shareholder value by improving the pricing model on our lowest-tier offering. Anyone who doesn't like it will have the option of engaging with our higher-tier offering, whose prices will remain unchanged.
Interesting: the article states he used "an encrypted application" but follows that with contents of the communication from that app.

Did they break the encryption or access the communications through device exploits (once in plaintext).
I think we need to decide on its meaning first. Most people these days use it as a death mark. Except the original op-ed often quoted used Meta, Uber, TikTok and Google - companies who make billions of clean profit per quarter, and more profits than they ever have, as examples

Enshitification = more profits is unfortunately correct in my mind, but most people use it with a much different meaning. I don't think Unity is going to break all profit records soon
That's actually a very good idea. I was thinking about using a CLI, but this will make that not necessary, and easily scalable.

Thanks for the idea.
Value of a human in the loop is not so much for driving but for eg fixing flats, clearing debris from cameras, etc. Less training needed, you probably only need one per convoy and they can do something else when the truck drives.
You're being overly dismissive. There are thousands of people working in such software every day - from serious composers, professional music engravers, orchestra libraians, down to church choirmasters and the like.

It's a several hundred dollar product that supports a dev team in the low double digits. It's niche, but it's not THAT niche.
We've had "small-scale" Kafka for a long time. It's an append-only log, and there are a number of ways to implement it, but it's essentially that.

The thing that makes Kafka interesting is the technique of operating from a linux disk write-buffer. That's the trick that makes it fast and scale to huge volumes. But if you don't have the scale, you can stand up a table, or RabbitMQ, or anything that manages append-only ordered log entries. There doesn't need to be a new thing... Kafka was the new thing.
Interviews and statistics.
i know some people say its extended context is more hackery than not, but I've found better success with Claude in roughing out some paragraphs before editing when i provide it a lot of context
Then you have dependency on a specific proprietary API / technology available from a single company. Doesn't look like a good trade off.
Those sound like exactly the use cases the registry should be used for. However in practice all kinds of state ends up in there that does not need to be accessed by anything other than the game process.
This is about the fourth time I have thought about the Roman Empire today!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-roman-empire-tiktok-trend-w...
because the corporation made the math simple. simple is fair, and honest, an honesty we can all understand.
Best epic fantasy series for me. Witness.
but kafka isn't fast. Most things are backed by real files, so when you hit limits or something ejected from cache, it gets slow real fast.

Kafka isn't the right choice for most things.

SQS, MQTT, NATS, rabbit if you're wanting a lot of admin are all better (plus the crap that azure and google make)
By the time you’re a young professional your credit is honestly pretty decently established, hell I tried to buy a house on an internship and they qualified me for a 250k mortgage with a 48k salary.

Hell I know guys that went straight into the workforce after high school, nothing stopped them from financing 6 figure pickup trucks, and those depreciate badly in comparison and are harder to repo and re-sell.

Problem is, most places with work that won’t get you a place to live. Houses used to be 3x the median income, nowadays it’s more than 10x.

The idea of housing only being for very established people is new, and only due to its staggering costs nowadays. When my father moved to a town to wash dishes at a pub, he bought himself a house. Cost him 3x his salary.
Considering we haven't executed anyone for espionage or treason since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, I seriously doubt that's a likely outcome for him, especially since someone you're going to execute has little incentive to cooperate with the counter-intelligence response.

He'll get a few decades if he cooperates, and life if not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_imprisoned_spies
Why would I even want to build a game if I'm going to have to give between 4-8% of everything I make to steam and unity? I completely understand why nearly every AAA studio builds their own client and game engine, it's cheaper in the long run.
Funny enough when I saw the gobbledygook, I immediately thought to myself this looks like an AVX instruction.
Cruise and Waymo are level 4.

https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update
Awesome project, would be great to see it enabling diagnostics inside medical system. Or, as a platform for more unified biohacker community?
It’s sad how $$$ legacy satellite services worked almost everywhere (Inmarsat, iridium, globalstar, even ham/hf), but now that it’s within reach of the poors, they get heavily regulated to oblivion.
One would hope that he is not above the law -- the evidence publicly shared is quite damning.
There we go. Thank you.

I usually learn rules and terminology to sports I’ve played little or not at all, by playing sports video games. I’ve yet to find ones for rugby or cricket that I liked, so continue to barely understand them.
My wife did book promotion on TikTok last year and didn't really see it result in too many preorders, despite a few of her videos going somewhat viral (about 5-10k views).

And the instant she took a break from doing 1 video/day her future videos went down to a trickle of views (like around 100), so it seems you have to go pretty hard and consistent on it to get the algorithm to keep throwing eyeballs your way.

She finds book swaps in newsletters and parties and takeovers of Facebook communities to be more effective and easier to keep up with, and she can take breaks from it without suffering too much from it.

That may not be true for all regions or genres, though. And she's a pretty new author still, working on finishing up her third book in her first series, although her first two did pretty well.
Batch update many many rows at once with entirely different values.

(Agree that the “WHEN NOT MATCHED DO NOTHING” is effectively the default behavior.)

Use case is the Outbound Prober processes for https://heiioncall.com/ which can do thousands of HTTP requests per second, then aggregate all those row updates into a single query (or single transaction, which in practice is a single query).

We can do these batched updates very, very fast using INSERT … ON CONFLICT. No need to re-parse a differently shaped query, only a single index rebuild. Smooth :)
I am an Intel shill lately but I think it's more of a time thing rather than the desire to keep stuff a secret. They've been pretty good about open documentation on the stuff that matters (like this) such as OpenVINO.
This is really cool to see. Congratulations!

The existence of a project like this can lead to feedback that can improve other web frameworks and the JDK itself.
That’s the opposite of what would be better. We need more engineer solidarity not more divisiveness. Give me a list of your past employers and I can guarantee I can find some sketchball business practice you indirectly contributed to and make some tenuous argument for you to be blackballed.

95% of shitty tech industry practices can be root caused to people identify more strongly with their employer than with their profession. We desperately need a professional organization / union with teeth and the main thing that should be shunned is rhetoric that divides rather than unites it
.

Engineers can hang together or hang separately.
Google VC doesn't push Google products in an effort of remaining neutral and getting access to the best deals. It's a strategic mis-step for Google the company, but a win for Google the VC arm. Also shows Google's internal dis-organization.
Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200M cryptocurrency heist
Buffet's "When the tide goes out" line is something I thought of often during our Bull Decade. It guided my choices of employers. I missed out on some sexy trends by only ever choosing to go with extremely profitable monopolists, and within those companies I always try to be a key player on a project that leadership knows is what funds the crew on their yachts. It's my own insurance policy.

I started my career in 2008, and I talked to a lot of guys who started theirs in 2000. I have played defensively since then. It's worked out pretty well to be conservative.
It just intercepts any files of "text/css" mime types appends them all together while also including the content of <style> tags.

If anyone wants something more specific that gets a section's CSS and all associated styles, I built an extension for that called SnipCSS.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma...

My extension doesn't download or parse CSS stylesheets to get styles, I use the Devtools protocol https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/CSS/
Wow, the latency on requests feels great!! I’m really curious: is this running entirely with Python?
This article appears to be a summary of https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-dept-it-contractor-espion...
Fair point. There is more nuance than just rent seeking.
Does it depend on the company culture, which can persist awhile?

For example, the first company that comes to mind has seemed to have shameless underhandedness deep in its DNA, and to exhibit its malevolent side each new chance it gets, as much as it can. This has repeated over the course of decades, and over multiple top leadership changes.

If it's true that certain kinds of underhandedness are in that company's DNA, to a degree unlike most other companies, I wonder how deep they'd have to decapitate the org chart, to cut out the roots of that culture. Including SVPs? VPs? Further? It's in the board, too?
There are already a few research demos.

For driving - https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...
all it has to do is add a random selection of "uhms" and "ahhs" and "mmm"
Would their likelihood to side with mass unemployment of truck drivers increase or decrease if it were explained to most people that this would lower the prices they pay?
I think he says in his interview that he came to wish he'd spent more time on the early years of the wars. Because he was running out of war by the end.
What do you think an explanation is?
Exactly. I think what we are seeing is the result of decision makers at these businesses now having to report to investors who are essentially outsiders to the community. Their only stake or interest in the operation comes from having dumped a bunch of money into it. But now they get to call the shots or if not, exert a ton of pressure.

I think the takeaway is that businesses built around a community really should not go public.
True for subway. But not for longer distance/inter-city.
The move to python 3 helped shake loose a number of text processing bugs with library I work on, that was never caught in python 2 with its loose goosy text type handling.
Yeah, the problem with that kind of thing is that GC languages disincentivizes thinking about ownerships, and tacking ownership on after the fact is basically a rewrite.