skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Alex Jones was in the news for carrying someone out of a burning building, I'd be acknowledging his good work while continuing to "punch up" on him due to his behavior that seemingly seeks to destroy civilized society (an exaggeration, but not a wild one). Someone doesn't get a free pass from earned mockery on an article-by-article basis, Thiel's civic duty to the FBI in this instance isn't some temporary hall pass for his tangible support for fascistic policies and politicians.

That's he gay is only relevant to you in this conversation, the person critiquing the critique. Why does that somehow give him extra victim status? Thiel is not subject to the power or cultural dynamics individuals in marginalized groups often are. He's being treated like Charles Koch would be were he to do the same thing - that's equality, baby.
Cobra is such a huge slap in the face too for most people. We know you just lost your income as of today, but do you wanna buy this health insurance plan for 3K a month?
I’m grateful for the moral filters.
And that's totally fair, but at the same time something of a catch-22. The most well-funded FOSS projects (and thus, those one is most likely to be paid to work on) are generally those that are more polished. What this means to me is that projects need to have a very focused featureset and polish culture from the very beginning to kickstart the virtuous cycle.
In Catania (Sicily) it is very common to eat "mauro", that is, Chondrachantus teedei,
and replace with what?
Hi, author here.

Yes agree that you can't "just" put a POSIX API on S3, but that doesn't make it impossible. For the sake of keeping the article to a reasonable size, I left a lot of things out. There are tradeoffs that occur between POSIX semantics, consistency and performance. Each application/process has different needs but the great thing about running right inside the process is that we can see what those needs are and adapt. For example, many applications have no need for random access writes - the only libc calls and syscalls exposed are purely sequential. Some processes have both random access writes and POSIX record locks around them to protect them from other concurrent processes - and we can see that. That means we treat these applications/files differently, with some corresponding performance implications. This is very different to a normal filesystem that has to treat every process the same way because it is a "black box".

You're right that AFS, and for that matter NFS, can in principle return error on close which many existing applications unfortunately aren't written to handle. However, that doesn't mean that NFS isn't practical - it is very widely used.

Our customers mostly run workloads in the same region as the object storage (whether in cloud or on-prem) typically with very high availability. As an essentially networked file system, you're right that it can't make much stronger guarantees than the NFS protocol itself does, but operating inside cloud infrastructure you typically see 4 9s availability.
This will change nothing. Since 2020 and their efforts to get more than gamers on Discord it has been a cesspool of minging, predators and other nefarious activities. I've gotten like 4 or 5 Discord accounts banned for trolling, raiding, false reports or other harmless crap like that and they have no systems in place to prevent people from just making another account other than phone verification, and I have used the same phone number to verify 8 accounts before. The things going on already are newsworthy, but in my opinion TikTok/Instagram algorithms encouraging teenage girls to starve themselves is probably as serious if not more.
Interesting how expressed frustration with POSIX.2 is received.
Oversimplifying things doesn’t help anyone here.

People don’t understand the limitations of AI/LLMs because it wasn’t a normal part of their lives until recently. They don’t need to understand how it works to understand that it has limitations and it’s going to be occasionally wrong.

The average person is well aware software isn’t perfect, things break all the time. This is no different.

It’s not a leap to think people will start grasping what current AI can and can’t do simply through a) careful communication and mostly importantly b) using it themselves.

Much of the talk about AI safety is just an elaborate dance around this idea that users will never understand the limitations and will freak out. But these high profile cases (and warning labels) are exactly how people will learn the flaws exist and they’ll get used to the process of it getting slowly better and better.
We use https://read.ai for every meeting, and it's quite good (not affiliated, just a customer :)
I dunno. The American Geophysical Union seemed to think it was a BFD in one of their conferences back in the 2000s. Had a whole presentation about how certain parts of the US grid would lose large transformers that would likely take months to years to replace as there are few spares and they have to be wound with miles and miles of copper by hand. Said that large swaths of the US would be without grid power for very long periods.

Said that third world countries would fare pretty well though.
My first programming book, in 5th grade:

https://archive.org/details/My_Computer_Likes_Me_When_I_Spea...
Your argument makes no sense: for a normal person, a credit card number is 16 random digits (in some places more) + 3 random digits (the validation code) + a date + a name - a vast amount of data incomprehensible to the average user that must be copied flawlessly. Compare that to an IP and port which is on average just 8 digits + 5 digits.

Heck, the number is even organized similar: the CC is 4 groups of 8 + a group of 3 (ignoring date and name), the IP and port is 4 groups of average 2 digits + a group of 5. And unlike the CC info, every IP a non-techie ever deals with - and they have most certainly seen and typed one at least few times at this point, such as when they got internet service - starts with the same 6 digits.

Not to mention electronic bills and bank accounts/SWIFT/IBAN being even longer and copied without fail.

> And remember, most people don't have enough patience to retype the address once it didn't work.

What? If people have the patience to retype CC info when wrong, they have the patience to try typing an IP again.

Heck, the only use for this feature at all is if you're two people where one has the app and the other does not, so it's two people that need to collectively fail and give up!

You can say that it's annoying to copy an IP, but the task is objectively simpler and less time consuming than other regular day-to-day activities a smartphone owner would go through. The suggestion that two people should collectively fail the task is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

> A QR code is a far better solution

Then just use that instead of ranting about how IPs are unacceptable. The button for the QR code is right beside the address in the app. Or if that's too difficult, install the app on both devices so it's automatic.
A Typewriter for the Paperless Age
Reminds me of an episode of an old TV show (I think it was [0]), where one night, the Moon was shining unusually bright. While everyone else marveled at the beauty of the phenomenon, the protagonist is one of the few who understood that if the Moon is this bright, it means the other side of the Earth is currently on fire, and they all have but a few hours left to live.

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Outer_Limits_(1995...
> You do something that is sold for X and you are paid X-Y.

If my neighbor wants a new fence (the Y), offers me $50 to dig a hole (the X-Y) to put a fence pole in.

I dig a hole, i get $50. He gets closer to a fence. we have both profited, who is exploited?

Or if you want to go even more basic:

he wants a fence, he pays me $500 to build a fence, i build the fence and get $500. who is exploited?

Note these are real examples from real life that i deal with.
Bad Pirate IPTV User Mandatory PSA Targets Uninformed "Common Man"
Talk with local car dealers. They often employ independent drivers to go and pick up vehicles all the time for little to nothing.
It is the same in software development as well. I would rather take review comments from an automated AI system than from my colleagues.
Nope. Follow the advice. Give tech supports.

It will be more convincing than any argument I can make.

It will also eat your soul a little. Sorry about that.
I wouldn't argue every browser needs to be pre-installed, but as it stands now you can't even choose to install another actual browser engine at all on iOS.
... including this one.
I mean their defense is ridiculous on its face. "It's our smart enployees" half of which either now work at those competitors or were poached from those competitors. And if we talk about Google's extreme institutional incompetence across its entire portfolio...

Fifteen years ago the claim Google employees are uniquely smart might've held to even minimal scrutiny but not today.
Anthropic's Claude 2 is great for pasting large text files in, and Flan T5 seems to be excelling at summarization benchmarks: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/flan-t5.
Wasn't expecting to see Portstewart on Hacker News today but here we go!

Aye, I've only had the fresh stuff myself as a child. My aunties would rent a caravan down on the Strangford coast and we would go down to get it ourselves, and we'd pick mollusks from the rocks and other things of that nature. Some great memories there, thank you for bringing them to the fore.

Salty rubber is right. I don't actually like the stuff myself but I still enjoy eating it somehow! The iodine flavour is always the main thing for me, but I can see the appeal for sure.
Because at the time of release of 5000 series, they couldn't get all this silicon to make SKUs at every price point, so they tried to sell at the highest price point. Now that they are not selling much of anything, they will try to get their profits at the HEDT market
That’s kind of the fundamental issue with antitrust law. By the time you’re in court, the case is already pretty much irrelevant to the addressable market the prosecution is representing.

The fear is that someone will dominate a market so thoroughly that they will never have any real competition from an alternative. When you were talking about railroad rights of way and maybe a finite number of salt mines, I mean, fair enough.

But now we fly over those rights of way and finding new places to get mineral resources is generally not that difficult because we either find new physical locations or we develop new technologies to re-exploit sites that were thought to be tapped out (and technically were with just older technology). Plus with electrification we’ve figured out new ways to get large quantities of energy other than drilling for oil.

How do you even define a market for search, when what people were really after was what search engines could get them and there are more ways than ever to get that now?
We really need to start harden our grid and in all ways prepare for something like this. It will happen again and I suspect we will say: “no one could have predicted it” once it does.
The definition of a startup is a company that is still searching for a viable business model / target customers / distribution channel. The size, age, amount raised or even revenue doesn't matter. Only that whatever revenue it has, it is sustainable, and customer acquisition is repeatable.
Instead of Draw.io or Figma (or Mermaid or any other option), I sketch around with Excalidraw and create diagrams with Miro. Miro took the world by the storm when corona hit and I am not super fond of the way people use it for everything from Kanban walls to whatever, but it does the diagram parts really well and works fast.

I bet I have wasted hundreds of hours fighting to get lines straight or arrows pointing to the correct direction with Draw.io - Miro they always just work.
Just guess. And really just facetiously as I doubt Monty Python would use AI to process their film.
Thing is, Firefox itself (Phoenix) was a skunkworks project. It caught fire and did well for a time precisely outside of the bounds of Mozilla mgmt.

So in a way it's more of an open question of what would happen to Firefox without Mozilla's patronage, or with reduced budget.
I've seen even at home background check and interview. To answer, who really is this person and how does he live?
Intel used to come up regularly in discussions as requiring drug tests of all engineer new hires - and people either not bothering to apply based on that or trying to never show up for the test. Good to hear hints that this changed.
You could be surprised that the real number is bigger or smaller than whatever you assessed.
Causes one person I know anaphylaxis. It appears to be a pseudo latex allergy: https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(95)70091-9/pdf
Tesla Earnings Slide 37%
It's fine if you've got a low-volume service or one where downtime isn't a huge deal. If you ever find yourself needing e.g. autoscaling due to load or you start measuring how many 9's of uptime you get, then you'd want to look elsewhere.
Here's another take: Climate scientists are paternalistically lying about our ability to stave off climate change. We're going to 2 degrees and more, too many lemmings to steer away from the cliffs. We're not meaningfully pulling back on a number of measures of pollution. The food web is looking quite threatened and no one's meaningfully protecting it. No generation currently alive is looking at a better deal or outcome in the next 10 years or ever, environmentally or economically, unless you're in that top 1%. So eat delicious food (all the disappearing fish, no one's keeping those around, all the fatty and sugary stuff), enjoy alcohol and life-shortening drugs, and check out happy. Yolo.
Is it really very different? Mind you just slapping the subject and a random background together would, accurately, not produce a very good result but for decades before SD existed people were able to accurately composite objects into images matching shadows and manipulating lighting to fit.

The distinction doesn't feel worth commenting about overall.
> If search engines overlap 99.9% in quality, default might win purely because users are lazy and uninterested in understanding the application domain.

What Microsoft is saying in this case is that their search engine sucks by comparison to google and lacks quality because they don't have the same number of queries since they aren't the default. That whoever has the most queries will automatically be the highest quality and win across all platforms, not just Apple where it's the default. Your argument is very different! You're essentially arguing that Microsoft is wrong about not being nearly as good as Google. See https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/2/23900233/microsoft-ceo-sa...
I use Firefox Focus. It doesn’t block everything but it does stop most annoying ads. I doesn’t support “tabs”, but in vanilla Safari I find tabs to be a graveyard of things that I occasionally clean out but rarely actively use.
Underrated Feature on a Chromebook: Install with Linux
If anything locking down iOS that much now probably means that Safari remains a viable browser. If people could install Chrome, I imagine we would have more of a monoculture of browsers.
Rails World 2023 – Amsterdam – Oct 5 and 6 [video]
Rails World was a two-day, two track community conference featuring technical talks, demos, workshops, networking, and keynotes about the latest features and best practices in Rails development. There were 700+ Rails developers in attendance, 29 speakers, and one big birthday celebration.
Their big argument there was around asymmetry. "Netflix sends us a huge amount of data. That's not what peering was made for - it was meant to be more equal sharing of traffic. That's why we want to charge them."

So how about "We send BackBlaze, Dropbox, Acronis, etc., huge volumes of our customer's backup data, so we should be paying them"?

Hah. Not likely.
Vinegar is amazing, combine it with SponsorBlock and you get a much better YouTube experience than the native app
I've dealt with this, I've had friends deal with this, etc. Every person I've known who shipped a car was screwed over by it. Even military people. You're lucky they told you up front that your cost was double. I had a shipper tell me that I they were doubling the fee about 45 minutes before they delivered it (I called their bluff and said I'd just report it stolen - it was an $800 rat rod Miata though).

I think the fact of the matter is, shipping cars is not going to be cost effective for an individual. Trucks are expensive, putting fuel in them is expensive, paying a trained person to drive one is expensive.

Maybe a company like Carvana could offer this as a side service, drop your car off at a local Carvana, and eventually pick it up at another location. Even then, I think the costs are going to be order of thousands of dollars.
The best career advice I can give anyone is to know what's going to happen before the boss does. It has gotten a lot easier in the last decade or so since most managers think that Agile means "don't have to do any planning"

To paraphrase Wayne Gretzky a bit: "An ass-kisser plays where the manager is now; a great employee plays where the manager is going to be."
Are threadripper just the rejected high frequency “F” Epyc chips?
It's stupid and egregious to ban someone for "breaking TOS" or "sharing harmful information" and not telling them exactly what they did and where they did it, no matter what you see them as.
Mozilla might go under, but at least the browser is still open source.
Low price, high volume?
Funkey is a Mac menu bar app that enhances your typing with enjoyable sounds of mechanical keyboards and mouse clicks, making your work more productive, whether it's coding, designing, or anything else.
I don't think "regurgitated" is a derogatory term at all, at least in the sense that I'm using the word — "[to] repeat (information) without analyzing or comprehending it." [0]

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=regurgitated%20definit...
Assuming you're talking about Android here (given on iOS everything is just WebKit)...

Do note that I have nothing against System Webview implementations. I think they're a great solution to avoid the current Electron hellscape we're seeing play out on the desktop, where every single bespoke application is running an entire copy of Chromium under the hood. The idea of just having a single copy of a browser running in the OS as a sort of backbone for in-app HTML pages/external links without launching the entire browser is a very reasonable approach, especially given phones have historically been much less powerful devices than desktops.

The problem I have is the lack of user choice; you have no control as a user what your System WebView is. Google used to offer that choice, but then quietly let vendors slam the door shut (unless you go the custom ROM route or root, which is beyond the skills of a regular user), and the default they offer (afaict) means most vendors do that, with vendors assuming most users won't care about it, so why would it matter. In fact this is also why I really dislike the Firefox approach of making it something the developer chooses to switch out, not the user - it's just bringing the Electron problem to mobile. The user should be the one making that choice, not the developer.

It really shouldn't be difficult to ask the user to pick from a list of browsers and then to actually respect that list. If a user says "I want to make Firefox my browser", then Firefox should also be the System WebView. Not to quietly put them back into Chrome (and therefore subject to Googles data collection practices) just because they clicked a link in an application.
> Wireless headphones are very good for their particular use case—not being tethered to a device

But that's an end-result, not a use-case, no?

I can think of only one situation where the faff of wireless headphones could be justified (though not for me), and that's exercise. Personally, I'll take the slight annoyance of cables getting in the way, but I can understand not everyone would.

Wireless headphones are a pet-peeve of mine, ever since Apple set the world off getting rid of the high-quality 3.5mm jack. It's sadly disappearing fast, and nobody notices the abysmal sound quality demotion, because they're mostly listening to poor quality streaming services anyway :(
That’s why he’s paying people for tweeting. In order to get the money you have to KYC.
My friends on Signal do, but I have no idea how widespread it is across their whole userbase. It's not as in-your-face as Instagram, which is actually kind of nice, but like it's being said - signal is social media. you can choose to not use that feature but that's on you. To look at you and your friend group and extrapolate from there is not science, or data driven. the plural of anecdote is not data.

It's like saying no one uses Facebook or Google anymore. That's true for certain bubbles, and it's hard to know when you're in one, but, say least for those two,
it's not too hard to look outside your bubble.

Now the cryptocurrency integration, that one I do wonder about. (Since my friend group doesn't use it and I'm extrapolating :) ).
I think that's the truly rotten thing about social media. They need you to interact with it in pursuit of their business goals, instead of letting people drive social dynamics themselves. It's less "social" and more "consumption."

By contrast, a private group chat is entirely driven by its participants and the social expectations between them. A private group chat won't say "hey, we recommend you add X, Y, and Z randos!" or try to commodify your social ties.
So who's gonna tell him?
Amazon overhauls warehouses utilising robots
Ex-Convoy employee here: if a company is shutting down, it obviously can't provide severance. It's not a matter of class or not.
But there are many famous paintings out there that I know of because they are famous that I didn’t fall in love with.

The argument seems to be that I fell in love with the Mona Lisa as a result of it being famous, versus some other quality it has which I find appealing.

But for example, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is also incredibly famous but I don’t find that painting appealing at all. For me, it’s boring. Ditto for many other famous paintings. What I’m saying is that I’m not sure so sure that’s it’s logical to say: “oh this thing is just popular/well loved because it’s famous, there’s no other reason”
Ah yes samphire! Zeekreel. Funny enough it's something I've seen growing at home in Ireland but never thought it was something I could be eating. I'll check that out for sure, thank you.
I feel the exact same with YouTube. I would pay for it but I wouldn’t pay what it costs now because I simply only watch maybe 3-10hrs of content a week.

I’d love to see them test a tier where you get something like 10hrs of ad free content a week for $5/month or something like that - it might get users like myself watching more and this upgrading to an unlimited tier. Audible do something similar and now Spotify are rolling out 20hrs of free audiobooks in their premium tier with the idea that people might upgrade.
i stand corrected, thanks. what an odd way for them to collect data considering they seem more than capable of making a form on their own website...
> Speedtest.net was definitely getting gamed and may still be or at least Comcast et al was prioritizing burst traffic

Hell, during the height of this Comcast partnered with Speedtest, and now hav their own Speedtest servers all over the country, so you don't even leave Comcast's network.
All that means is that you need to find an idle machine C with predictable packet IDs to make it work. This is growing harder over time, but by no means is impossible.
I learned to not use my name online the hard way. I'm 15 now and I had poor opsec when people started getting mad at me on games or whatever else, and I use online personas on almost everything.
What caused the flagging here?