skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might call themselves REI "co-op", but a consumers' cooperative is really the polar opposite of representing the interests of workers. It's really just a shareholder owned company with a few steps removed in the middle.
But did you look at the program code of it? Did you figure out that 8675309 opens it even if you didn't program it? That's what I have worried about on these kinds of devices.
> And by the way, 9 weeks of severance on pretty good tech job salaries is far richer than many get.

It's drastically shorter than their cohort of tech companies, which is the comparison they sell themselves as.

Between that and the rescinded offers, if they do ever make it out of this trough, they'll have a hard reputation to shake and have to pay up with signing bonuses.
As an academic, he can afford to have such luxury beliefs. For example, imagine how this incident would be discussed in an academic interview. Most departments would entertain these antics
Mondragon is a worker co-op. REI is a consumer co-op.
Assuming such a group exists, the point is that if you do offer them an education (or, rather, try to force it upon them), they won't accept it, so they still won't earn much or grow the economy and might end up going to prison, but now their peers don't get an education either and suffer the same fate.
If you're interested, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1388534400&dateRange=custom&...

Ironically, back in 2012 I remember people were expressing their distaste for the skeuomorphic design of iOS and macOS.
>Demographics refutes your last point.

By all means, please explain.
I saw it save the ass of a client who had one, as they got robbed and all their desktop computers, mostly iMacs, were stolen. The Mini was as much as lost in the wiring in the network closet and was overlooked, so everything had backups.
Setting up an OS to support virtual environments along with setting virtual environment to run/experiment with XV6 or Minux will save time/pain when accidently do things that hose the OS aka 'rm -rf /*'. .[0]

Take a look at live distro (run just in ram).[1] If totally hose the system while messing around, just reboot (assuming no writeable media on box when running in ram only)

[0] : https://www.altaro.com/vmware/open-source-projects/

[1] : https://www.makeuseof.com/best-live-usb-linux-distros/
Oh now I know you are a troll. It would be cheaper to build level intersections with traffic lights. Why then are billions spent on wide freeways, exchanges, overpasses when it’s road over road but when it’s about pedestrians then sure, do whatever is cheapest because they’re already on foot, how much of a hurry can they be in?
The whole co-op part of REI has always felt weird and forced and then when they started union busting it became clear they didn’t actually give a fuck about that part of themselves.
It looked like Windows 2000.

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win2000pro
Awesome. 10/10.
So what is this no-animals no-humans alternative?
WebGPU is that future.
Thanks for the Joe Truzman link
It's too early to say who is winning/will win, of course. But so far the UI and its accessibility have made a huge difference in how different gen AI models are being used.

For example, I struggle to see DALL-E winning over Firefly if Firefly is integrated into a very rich environment, whereas DALL-E is basically prompt UI only (while DALL-E 3 is a better model IMO).
About once a year, I would go to each room of my house and use Photo Sphere Mode to take photos - instant proof for the insurance company in case of fire.
> either don't understand or don't care that this is of net negative value

Or genuinely think it's of net positive value.

One disruptive kid can spoil the educations of 29 others pretty easily, and probably won't even gain anything from staying in school. It's a dead-weight loss. But we're too chickenshit to openly do anything about it, so the rich buy their way away from the bad kids one way or another, and the decent-but-poor get to suffer.
When you said "Portfolio" were you referring to Adobe Portfolio? https://portfolio.adobe.com/
While this is a valid nitpick, I think people sometimes overdo it.

Mathematical objects can be both abstractions and systems in and of themselves. They are abstract "enough" to be useful as models, but anyone who infers causality has a fundamental misunderstanding of what mathematics is.

I think this comes from our priority in the educational system of teaching mathematical techniques applicable to specific subjects rather than focusing on mathematics as the art of using and manipulating mathematical objects.

On the other hand, I had an interesting chat with sommeone who had earned a pH.D in mathematics and physics (and one other discipline which I forget) and he regretted wasting his time learning about mathematical systems that were not applicable to physics research.

I didn't retort, but if I had I would have said simply that one never knows how useful links might be found and that there have been a lot of surprises.
Unfortunately there's nothing amiss here: it's inherently in the interests of the consumers who own the co-op to exploit the workers who work there.
I don't know if a post to HN has been made (don't think so), but Envoy released 1.27.1 in response to Rapid Reset as well.

https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.27.1/version_history...
A lot of people in that sub say they are part of the layoffs. Maybe they just laid off everyone that goes to that REI subreddit.
I also don't understand -- from the article, it's not clear what is changing at all.

My only guess is that maybe this is applying to non-commercial use as well?

Like maybe this is intended to make deepfake videos illegal altogether? Posting them to YouTube or social media or anything? If they're not presented as parody, but rather being claimed as real-life footage?

But the article doesn't say that or even imply it.
A very popular outdoor gear outfitter (camping, hiking, etc) in the US.
https://uptimefunk.com - (Yet) Another Uptime Monitoring Service.

Couldn't find an easy setup uptime monitoring service with some advanced features, so i built one. The features i missed in existing tools:

- monitoring databases (sql, mongodb) with simple queries, checking rabbitmq queues, checking OS memory and disk space.

- monitoring private resources not exposed on the internet and/or on private networks.
Mid to high end sporting goods.
I mentioned this in the thread about the RIAA getting worked up over this:

Should that be illegal, as long as the result isn't described as being the real person? To repeat my analogy, say I want to cover Guns N' Roses. I can hire a guitarist that could copy Slash's guitar parts (but can't say it's Slash playing them). Is that fundamentally different from getting an AI to sing Axl's vocals (as long as I don't say it's the real Axl singing)? It feels different, somehow, but I'm not sure that's philosophically defensible.

Help me think this through. Why are AI replicas that don't claim to be the original different from a cover band or an impressionist?
you lost me with the supermarket... lots of people in NYC walk or take the subway to supermarkets that have little/no parking... people like a big store where all the food is in one place.
> However I don’t look forward to what do at work

Why not?

>I know rsijg up at my current job to a Leadership role would get me to financial independence but I just don’t see the path.

Why don't you see a path?

How long can you support your family without a job?
Automated/template-free astronomical spectrograph/spectrometer calibration. Given an emission spectrum and a list of known wavelengths that you expect to see, we try and determine the pixel/wavelength relationship. Traditionally this would either be done with templates (convolve a known spectrum and see where it lines up) or by hand (identify peaks and pixels and shove them into Excel).

Something of a passion project that's being used by a few researchers now. We're hoping to get a paper out at some point. Currently overhauling the fitting code/config handling.

https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis/rascal
In practice, the “co-op” stuff really just amounts to a run of the mill rewards program. I can’t tell any actual difference between it and various other “loyalty program” thingies, aside from that they force you to join it to buy anything from them.
Fragrance that smells like brand new electronics
I keep a handcuff key on my keychain for giggles. It caused me a small amount of trouble when I showed up for jury duty.
> figure out

It's statistics. If you can cast your data to a common format (relatively trivial in cases where they are stored as binary representing numerical values) you can learn from patterns. It is not surprising.
Bette Midler won a lawsuit over a soundalike in a Ford commercial. Ford first approached her to do the ad and when she turned them down, they hired an imitator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
You are missing the second order effect.

> get rid of the worst performing kids.

The threat of this consequence is often enough to motivate kids to study.
Thanks! Appreciate that
> But, for exactly the same reasons, this thing is probably a pain to clean.

I dunno, given the size I imagine a regular toothbrush could dislodge anything dried, and small sponge-on-a-stick could get it acceptably dry.

It's also worth asking what it might replace: On the ISS do they clean any drink-pouches, or are they all treated as disposable? I imagine that they become trash, since the next drink (or dehydrated drink-to-be) was probably already shipped in its own flattened pouch.
I wish there was a way to save the smell you get from new Sony headphones or a new iPhone. The engineer within me just can't get enough of that and the smell takes me back to my childhood when my dad bought a VHS for the first time...
Yes it has. Apple fixed the recent watt and temperature issue. In addition A17 Pro delivers significantly more transistors. Lastly, N3E will be an improvement over N3B that Apple used.
I was just having the argument the other that dragging windows on Haiku on a plain old unaccelerated framebuffer just feels an order of magnitude faster than dragging windows around on Windows 11 with all acceleration enabled. On a 5K monitor. Windows is not setting a very high bar these days.
There is a market but not for the hobbyist. You have better luck on iOS than macOS for games. However, tools, you can make a killing selling simple tools with sexy UX on Mac.
Large outdoor goods retail chain in the form of a co-op. They're known for having a very open return policy as well as cash back to anyone who joins their cheap membership things.

(Naturally, they're not perfect -- so they're known for putting small shops out of business when they arrive and for becoming more faceless to some of their employees as they grow.)
How bad a company do you have to be that you filled it with 20% non working bums.

Even FAANG with the 100s of thousands they recruit aren’t so awful at recruiting.
It’s a random clothing store.

/shrug

Not tech related.
Plumber is very, very difficult job. You don't want to be crawling on your knees, with literally shit floating around in your fifties.
Dialogs with static text that you can select and copy are wonderful.
lovezone.io

A platform for creating and hosting dating sites, for free.

Lovezone is based on the observation that in the physical realm, mating
often happens in smaller circles: within a group of friends or
within hobby groups. Lovezone makes possible for such small circles to
have their own dating site. The sweet spot for the users of this service is probably existing communities such as Facebook groups with perhaps 1K-10K members, such as "dog owners in Finland", or "hiking enthusiasts in Finland". In such groups, the Facebook introduction threads are no longer feasible.

Lovezone is not a dating site, but a platform for making
dating sites. The idea is that anybody can start a group, which is
kind of a miniature dating site, in the Lovezone. They can do it just in few minutes, and it is free.

The problem with commercial sites is the short-term profit thinking caused by economic incentives. It is in the interest of the dating sites to hold on to paying customers as long possible. Each pairing will cause them to lose two customers, so pairing is not in their economic interest.

That is the reason why such sites show you only some of the profiles, and it seems that you do not necessarily see the profiles that would be a really good match for you.

On the other hand, showing people endless number of profiles skews the attitudes. Why settle for getting to know this one person behind this one profile, when a slightly better person might be just around the corner? This causes dating exhaustion, which is a real phenomenon. Under this stress, people
start over-emphasizing superficial things, such as the looks.

Therefore, Lovezone will never be monetized by charging the users a monthly fee. If the running costs become an issue, I want to figure out a monetization scheme where the incentives are aligned with the users really meeting people.
Looking at their consolidated annual report dated Dec 31 2022, it does not appear that revenue was an issue. But cost of goods and opex for salaries and G&A were way up, 20%+. Do you have more recent information about their top line or are you speculating?
Right, but if as an independent logistics company you cannot beat Amazon for a contract with a company which has basically defined itself in opposition to Amazon, is there even a reason to exist as a company?
Spot on. Their laptops are so close to being great but there was always a little catch that made them just a hop and skip away from being all they could be.

They could be wonderful design but manufactured with some less than stellar materials. Things like that.
The difference is that the company is actually owned by the co-op members, so it’s a co-op and not a rewards program.
Show HN: An app that help you be productive without having a todo list
Mond is a tiny chrome extension that kindly ask you to choose what you want to do before having an Internet session. Based on your choice, it will open in advance / block webs to save you lots of manual actions and prevent distraction.

This is a product I made to solve my own problem and I been using it for about 2 months before releasing it. Look forward to your feedbacks folks.
I am going to assume that the userbase of Loom doesn't need to pad videos to 10 Minutes because the algorhithm only suggests videos that have enough space for ads, and I've never heard "Make sure to like and subscribe" and "You can edit your privacy settings here. Speaking of Privacy, did you know that your ISP can read all your stuff? Sign up for a free month of BarfVPN using my link" in any of the videos attached to pull requests or bug reports.
Steam will track this for you. They have some excellent metrics.
Do you know Aleph from the OCCRP?

That's an open search engine for legal documents which tries to trace internationally operating crime syndicates, and it's used by a lot of international newspaper agencies.

[1] https://github.com/alephdata
It's not about bums. It's about returns. My comment is so real, I can send you invoice and pictures.
Complete OS boot or OS boot and use mount points on usb?
a) could just make live distro to boot pc & have live distro provide option of mounting just the development directory (with development tool & setup) or just directory with binaries to boot OS.

b) do same thing using QEM but from within user account. -- longer sneaker tread life.

Run XV6 under QEM from user account directory: relevant non-XV6 example setup.[0]

[0] PintOS : http://computercalledvarun.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/pintos-o...
The superset of 12factor is platform engineering, especially managing stateful backend components.

I worked at a MAANG where both manual discovery (documentation) AND automated discoverability were completely haphazard and often missing because everything was home-grown.

Important takeaways should be:

- Don't reinvent everything without a specific problem that cannot be solved with reasonable scaling of what already exists.

- Theory of least surprise.

- Churn is bad. Don't change APIs or functionality for "refactoring" reasons. Replacing something with Rust is no excuse for leaving it broken for a month.

- Don't duplicate functionality without differentiated purposes.

- Make the purpose of a service and it's use-cases crystal clear.

- Name things sensibly rather than giving them cute names.

- Standardize stateful storage into a common API that allows for interchangeable and migratable backends.

- Document everything into a wiki that's consistent, organized, and is maintained by dedicated, effective technical writers. Don't brain spew text into massive documents!

- Following the previous, have a comprehensive service catalog.

- Don't assume the reader knows what you know. Explain everything from primitives.

- Aim for self-service.

- Service owners and/or their operations support must be professional and available enough to provide input when self-service, board messaging, and peer discussions are unable to provide an authoritative resolution.

- Reuse, reuse, reuse, and reuse some more.

- Build tools that can visualize, chart, and record query results from almost anywhere.

- Don't be Twitter: Build selective authorization into every internal API.

- Least (but necessary) privilege: issue enough reason-tagged authority delegations such that people can do their jobs. Locking down every bit of internal telemetry and analytics preventing joins between datasources doesn't scale OR create a situation where people are perennially in technical violation of the wording of official policy to do their jobs.

- Reward the reduction and efficient maintenance of code because too often, only adding features is rewarded.

- Don't make the common cases difficult and awkward.

- Avoid code generation.

- Avoid unnecessary layers of abstraction.

- Avoid building layer upon layer of CLI codegen or service commands lacking in documentation and missing man pages.

- Hire some people with actual software engineering, software architecting, systems engineering, and systems operations experience. (The names and responsibilities of these roles seem to change every 5 years now without any particular logic.)
Members can vote on the board of directors.

I doubt anyone really cares, and it's not open nominations.
An AI interviewer that shortlists top candidates

https://huntify.ai
Don't forget how transportation has been one of the key areas of conflict for racial integration and has been used again and again to ensure that black and brown people did not have access to certain areas of cities.

Robert Moses being the most egregious direct example, but Plessy v Ferguson enshrining racist segregationist laws around transportation which then provided precedent to spread to other segregationist laws.
Unfortunately they’re all pretty similar distances away from you, so that doesn’t help here.

Having more than one satellite above the horizon really only works when both antennas are (highly) directional. Cell phones aren’t.
Bot Typist - a VS Code extension that lets you chat with an AI bot (such as GPT4), but in a Jupyter notebook that you've opened in VS Code.

I wrote it because I was frustrated with OpenAI's Code Interpreter and I thought working in a real notebook would be better. And it is!

What's half-baked? Using the GPT4 API gets expensive if the conversation gets long enough, and it should warn you. Also, the install isn't as easy as it could be, since you have to install the 'llm' command-line tool first, and set your API key.

It supports two languages, Python and TypeScript (via Deno), but Deno's notebook support is itself pretty half-backed.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=skybrian...
https://dime.run/

We host GitHub Actions runners for you, with faster CPUs and larger storage at lower prices than the official ones. Currently running a waitlist and onboarding customers in batch to validate the idea.
Fellow cicada blamer here....no cicadas on airplanes.
Not easy to find, anyway here is a small one: http://toastytech.com/guis/wxpclassic.png

Here is a blog post that explains how and why:
http://softwaretracker.blogspot.com/2007/08/improve-windows-...
"Spot robot dumpster dives in landfill and finds 100,000 bitcoins in discarded hard drive"
"Flexport is hiring" posts were popping up like weeds here on HN for a while. And they never allow comments, which I found to be highly suspicious.
I used to do that but you can record screen video with the Snipping Tool now. Works fine, mp4 file as output.
Mayu, a server side web framework written in Ruby, inspired by React. Been working on it for over a year, and I'm currently doing a complete rewrite now that I have a better idea of how it should work.

https://github.com/mayu-live/framework
You don't even really need gear to camp either.
I've also read that drivers drive faster on streets without trees than those with because they feel more open
"We're hiring" ads from YC companies get special placement on the front page, and (AFAIK) they always have comments turned off. Nothing nefarious about that.
Scala SDK for Pulumi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1DDwnFWLM

QR-powered home organization app! My family and friends use it constantly, but I never polished or promoted it further than that video :) If you're organizing your garage/shed/projects bench and want to give it a try, I'm happy to mail you a big stack of stickers!
> I’m looking for AI that can do things other than make capitalism more efficient at parting people from their money.

I think you're really under-estimating the positive, human value that can come out of what I'm describing.

If you leave the world of software companies you'll find that a lot of humanity is wasting huge amounts of time on tasks that could be easily be automated. My most recent experience was the Electronic Vehicle research space - I was able to rather straightforwardly reduce testing cycles for certain key components from 1 year to 1 month through some straightforward software and collaboration with some scientists.

Most of what I accomplished could have been achieved by the scientists if they had used something like Retool[0], but Retool is too sophisticated a tool for them to ramp up on. If AI could make Retool accessible to someone with the technical sophistication of Material Scientist who can write a little Python, it might greatly speed up the rate at which we advance EV technology.

The point I'm making is that making it easier to make products that are accessible means that it's easier to distribute the positive effects of innovation to the rest of society faster. If anything, there's the potential to lower profits long term because today creating a product that is both valuable and accessible is an incredible moat.

[0] https://retool.com/
Sexual assault is a taboo subject that happens under the surface and commanders at all levels are at their wit's end.

First, I assume that here, "sexual assault" is perpetrated by men against women. (Yes, I know there are other forms.)

In your opinion, what do you think is the root cause of this problem? And, is the rate of sexual assault higher for women in the military vs civilians? (I assume yes due to self-selection for more aggressive men.)
Since (IIUC from Wikipedia) REI is a member-owned co-op that elects the board of directors, does this decision to do layoffs reflect the interests of the members?
I guess you’d have to ask his wife
In Chrome the page just never arrives. No client-rendered loading spinner, just a tab that seems to want to crash. In Safari, after a decent wait, the page arrives and then there's a loading spinner. After 30 seconds of that, nothing seemed to happen.