skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can’t you outsource all that to AWS?

At a large enough scale you will still need a lot of people dealing with infra. AWS is not magic

> 118 people just sounds like “hiring for the sake of hiring” to me.

You'll need 20+ people just to deal with copyright issues on a daily basis.
I don't quite get what you're getting at. If North America froze under 3km of ice today, quite a few people would be annoyed. Life wouldn't go extinct, but it'd be harder to commute to work.

Similarly, climate change isn't a threat to life on earth as we know it, but it does inconvenience a few species. And asking people to move to another country because you drowned their island or burnt their city isn't a great way to make friends.

By and large the Earth is a big wet rock that suffers a variety of misfortunes from time to time, and it tends to suck for things living on it during those times. Climate change just happens to be one of those periods of unpleasantness, except this one is human caused and happens on a human timescale. If humans sent a asteroid hurting towards ourselves, to hit us in a few decades, you'd probably see a few protests and strongly worded science studies about that too.
> Those who listen passively and do not own or care about albums

I see it very differently. I care about good music. There's an incredible amount of good music out there, and it's rare that an album is full of it. Your definition of "good" may vary, but mine isn't really influenced by the artist. Most albums are mostly not-good-music. I'm picky, and look at unrelated songs independently. This is why I don't really care for albums. I feel no debt to a single artist or a nothing-more-than-release-time-related collection of music, which is what most are.

Some albums I do considered a complete, single, work, but that's relatively rare. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories is a good example, in my opinion.

I don't see what concerts have to do with anything. Those are often related to luck and finances/privilege.
Chestersons Fence

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
That’s what I heard from someone who worked there
Which is why I have gotten rid of getaddrinfo() calls in my server code, and rather resolve DNS directly reading the DNS server setting from the system.

Other issues I faced :

- Not epoll() friendly. Always forks a process while resolving domain name.

- Valgrind complains of uninitialized memory touches when the function is called and I can't get rid of it.
> Of course, I'll now fall back on godel's second incompleteness theorem and say that one cannot prove, inside ZFC, that ZFC is consistent. But if the above turing machine halts, then we proved ZFC is consistent - a contradiction!

No, the machine halts iff ZFC is inconsistent -- as you correctly stated up top. Somewhere along the way you got this reversed, looks like. There's the problem.
Are you technically competent? Have you read the whitepaper? It’s the fundamental theory of the paper. I am not sure how I can describe it better than the whitepaper itself, which necessarily depends on its substrate which is a substratum which provides compute which necessarily implies a concrete material in physicality. Thus, physical material acts as the mechanism for computation, which Bitcoin depends on for network security, incentivized by the value of the distributed nature of the network thus requiring an ever greater need for compute.

Even in a world where computation doesn’t become more efficient it still takes up the total space available eventually due to the incentives of protecting against network failure.
Or, you know, the people dealing with the advertisers ("partners") are gone and no money is coming in. But sure the servers are still running ;)
They could help the first few kilometres, where the air density and thus the drag are highest.
Here's my guaranteed (for me) method for falling asleep in less than 30 minutes: playing BBC 4's "In Our Time" episode on the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Here's how it works:

I set the volume to be as low as possible while still allowing me to understand the content.

This makes me focus in order to hear the words, and since the topic is very interesting to me (with incredible guests), I naturally concentrate.

This deliberate effort channels all my brain power into listening, preventing my mind from being bombarded by a multitude of thoughts at a rapid pace.

I usually set the sleep timer to 30 minutes in the podcasts app. In my years of applying this method, I've only managed to stay awake past the half-hour mark twice.

Why this particular episode?

As mentioned earlier, the guests (and the host) are exceptional, and the information they share remains intriguing even after repeated listening. Moreover, their soothing voices, slow pace, and absence of interruptions or advertisements contribute to the calming effect.

I hope this helps!

I just wanted to add that I tried multiple podcasts intended to induce sleep, but their lack of any substance (by design, of course), does not work for me as my brain would start drifting not long after I start listening.

Also, having one single episode to listen to over and over again means that I can simply download it once to be able to play it even when there's no internet. The repeat listening also creates a reinforcement effect where, now, I feel my lids becoming heavy almost as soon as I hear the host talking!
Why does managing the team takes so much work? Do you need to hold the hand of all your reports?
In this day and age, remote work is the way to go. Hope Dropbox keeps it this way going forward.
I agree we shouldn't use this thing for cultural expression like art and writing, but if all your job entails is interpreting radiological images, and a computer can do it faster, better, and cheaper, you should probably learn some new skills.

We're not talking about the wider economy here, we're talking about radiology in particular.
Have you tried executing the tests in github actions where the tests would run on different Operating Systems?
If the managers are also individual contributors then that makes sense
Yep, that's the one.
Just a weapon to be used and then thrown away.
Why would anyone bridge Nostr to ActivityPub instead of the opposite?
> trying to find music that I like to listen to

As mentioned, my problem, as a listener, is discovery, which bandcamp doesn't address.
I hope this city learns its lesson after being sued.

Separate but related, I'm actually sort of sad about the "defund the police" movement. While it's catchy, it's pretty unhelpful. We don't need less funds, we need different use of funds. Deescalation training would be a massive one.
> The difference is that LLMs can not acknowledge incompetence, are always confidently incorrect, and will never reach a stopping point, at best they'll start going circular.

Like a smartass?
As cheap money era seems to be ending, long term quality product/service might be the only viable strategy going forward.
Sorry to be so bitter about this, but at this point, "Amazon botches UX design for feature X" isn't news – "Amazon delivers useable UX" would be.

Passkeys are complicated enough, but even as somebody having spent hours looking into WebAuthN and setting up my own smartcard-based NFC authenticator, it took me a while to understand what's going on with Amazon's implementation.

- "If you want to add a passkey, use a different cloud service account (example: Apple ID or Google account). Each cloud service account can only have one passkey for Amazon." is what I see in Firefox, for example – what on earth does that mean? Firefox doesn't synchronize passkeys with either of these accounts. The issue is that they don't support platform authenticators on macOS. That error message does not make sense!

- Ok, I get it now, so Firefox does not support passkeys, hence the button is greyed out, fair enough. But, wait... 1Password does provide passkey support through their Firefox extension. It works on every other WebAuthN/passkey-supporting site. And 1Password's passkeys do work on Amazon using Chrome! Do they just sniff the user agent here and grey out the button on Firefox? What's going on?

- The only option to manage passkeys in my Amazon account is to... delete ALL of them. I guess adding a list of passkeys and the dates they were added, like almost every other service I know supports, was just too much to ask from Amazon.

- "If you didn't set up this passkey, please go to your account settings to delete the passkey.". – Oh, right, let me quickly go through the literal dozens of options in my Amazon account page. I get that Amazon does not want to train users to click links from emails (although that ship has arguably sailed, which is why we are getting WebAuthN in the first place: It's phishing-resistant!). But Is it too much to ask to simply reference the path there, i.e. "Your Account -> Login & security -> Passkey" in that message?

On the other hand, this is completely in line with my user experience on any Amazon site or product. I wonder if Amazon is even aware of the mere concept of UI/UX design as something other than a half-day task any backend engineer is just expected to do as part of the feature they're shipping.
All these alternative frontends, hacks and crutches are a sad testament to the state of the web.
Anything but working towards lasting peace.
All of those hypotheticals can be true, yet you'll still need to deal with people who consciously choose not to work or do much less work. Under Socialism these behaviors are encouraged because they are rewarded regardless. Under Capitalism these people pay the price themselves, whether that is fair or not, not only is it more unfair to have others pay for it, but at least it discourages people to a great extent.

> 1) Some folks will just do extra work and not be bothered that they are doing more

I doubt this for most people. This is basically saying that right now a lot of people are ok with a pay cut (same work, less pay = free extra work). I can see a lot of people doing #2, which is equivalent to not working. And as mentioned before, these people are not working yet still somehow rewarded for it.

#5 and #6 are true, and is why if everyone gets a living wage regardless of whether they work or not, the people who currently don't enjoy doing what they do would simply stop doing it. Maybe everyone would become some kind of artist, while machines keep the economy running, but that is a utopia that requires many technological breakthroughs, i.e. advanced AI, unlimited renewable energy, better batteries, etc... and we're not getting there without Capitalism, which is somewhat ironic.

> but we'd also probably need to decide on some mechanism for "who performs sanitation if we do not get enough volunteers?" Today that mechanism is "you gotta eat, so you gotta work wage labor", but we could absolutely replace that with "least popular labor gets bonus luxuries" or "we all take turns, once a year you gotta collect trash".

This is something that the market solves as if it where a large, decentralized computer. Without market incentives there needs to be top-down coordination to incentivize people and this becomes unmanageable and does not scale.

I still feel that there is a problem with markets in how success is exponential for an extreme minority, while seemingly impossible to attain for a large portion at the bottom. I'm not sure what the best approach to solve that is, but we cannot take the wealth markets produce and expect the same output for a system without markets. The wealth we have under markets is not attainable without it, even though some people exponentially get rich from it. While inequality between rich and poor is bad, having everyone be poor because nobody can coordinate their productivity is even worse. Personally, I feel once AI becomes powerful enough, we will be able to do this kinds of complicated coordination that may solve the problem, however that path is a minefield of potential dystopias.
I think it's possible to support open source projects and not support the idea that you should be able to pirate content by bypassing the monetization effort of the host and content creators.
I’ve worked with engineering managers and they did none of the stuff you listed lol. I’m still wondering what they were doing.
To be real ;

There is no docker and if you have to use it then it's a problem

Same might go for anything that needs NVIDIA
This person is incentivized to show off how glamourous and laid back it is rather than the actual work they are doing in the 8 hours around this 2 minute video, so I'm not sure why you'd be reminded of it.
Do you see the cat: https://www.henrygeorge.org/catsup.htm

I mostly agree with the goal of Georgism: I've seen the wasteland that occurs when everyone is an investor waiting for the area to take off (New Brighton, Christchurch which has been slowly rotting over many decades because of investors IMHO).

However an 11% tax on land value is completely whacko.

There is already a holding cost for undeveloped land: either a mortgage or the opportunity cost (of not investing in say the stock market). (Albeit balanced somewhat by the benefits of using land as collateral for loans when interest rates are low).

The clichéd story of Georgism is an undeveloped plot amidst developed land. I suspect that situation is not common: developers usually will develop if land is surrounded by valuable property! How much of central New York is blank property?

Detroit: what happens when a whole area is blighted? The tax is just a way to steal the land value over time from the owners. 11% less CPI means devaluing at say 6% per annum so property has zero value after a couple of decades. That is definitely not capitslism and is not so far distant from communism (state owns private property over time, it just takes longer than a revolution to do so).
> have that well-covered.

Could you share your secrets?
getenv() could be made thread-safe by leaking the memory returned.
This is also my question. I think ruff is a great tool. I love it and use it on all my new projects. It is an insanely fast and enjoyable tool in a Python world where tools are frequently very slow and a pain to use. But how are you going to make money as a linting tool?

I will say that seeing from afar Charlie has been hiring some very smart people. Not sure how it will turn out but hopefully something good will come of it.
Interesting read !
There are already laws that are written referencing primary residence. It’s not hard to imagine exempting that and just making sure grandma only pays for her 8 vacation homes.
Theoretically, whichever elected body that appoints the police captain will look into hiring one that won't cost so much in legal fees and compensations.
> This is not just some abstract result; this is a computation that we can perform and draw a real value from.

No, this isn't a computation we can perform. There isn't enough energy in the visible Universe we can use to increase entropy to run this computation.

Even if we built a computer that would use all matter and energy in the Universe, even if the computer only had one task and even if it ran the task as efficiently as is physically possible, it would not complete the computation.

So this is kinda where mathematics gets disconnected from physics and reality in that we can talk and reason about those things but they no longer have physical meaning.
> plus it’s bad for ic morale because there is now no path forward for advancing our careers to the managerial level.

Why would one want to advance to a level that gets very rapidly shafted as soon as the s*it hits the fan? Just increase the programmers' comps to the same level of the managers' comps, if that low morale is actually about the money, and you've already solved half of the problem.
I suppose I did!

I was having a hard time reconciling this with the intuition that BB(n) is in principle "computable" (colloquially speaking) for any n - my thinking went that if I want to compute BB(n), I can enumerate turing machines and run them until they halt, since infinitely looping machines are excluded from BB(n). But of course I have now reduced this to the halting problem! How do you know when you're "done" for that n? You don't.

Thanks to you and sibling commenters.
I think the closest existing concept to signals is the gas/fuel mechanism implemented in some WebAssembly runtimes, used by WASM blockchain VMs to preempt untrusted code. Runtimes either instrument the JITed code to check a fuel counter in every function/loop, or they register a timer signal/interrupt that periodically checks the counter.

From a similar handler, you could check if a signal flag has been set, then call a user-defined signal handler exported from the module.

If you don't control the runtime, you could do this instrumentation to the bytecode rather than the generated machine code, effectively simulating preemption via injected yield points.
> [Matt] Dorsey, a former police-department spokesperson, had the idea of adding fentanyl dealing to a list of crimes for which undocumented immigrants lose their sanctuary-city protections. "My hope was to incentivize a change to the drug market—if we went back to the good old days of heroin and Oxys, we’ll save hundreds of lives every year," he said. "It didn’t go over well with my colleagues."

I wonder what share of San Franciscans would actually oppose the deportation of undocumented immigrants who'd been convicted of dealing fentanyl. Are residents being poorly represented by their elected and appointed officials, or are they living in the product of their own preferences?
Most managers are not good, that’s the problem.
> And Ayn Rand would have enjoyed having "John Galt" listed in her place, I think.

What a bizarre ideology!
For those who think this case will be a slam dunk, don't be so sure. SCOTUS recently rejected an appeal from a man who was arrested for making a parody FB page of his local police department, then denied the right to sue on the grounds of 'qualified immunity'.[0] As a side note, this was the case where The Onion submitted a humorous amicus brief;[1] it's worth a read.

[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court...

[1]https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
Engineering Team Lessons from Cycling
> If you build a city full of dense housing, where does all the food and water come from? Or the electricity, furniture, and clothing?

I don't understand your argument. Are you saying that people that don't live in cities don't consume, or consume less of, food, water, electricity, furniture and clothing?

> It's also often the case that externalizing those costs adds even more impact as the product has to be shipped in and the waste shipped back out.

They have to be shipped to fewer places and thus save resources. The only way what you are saying makes any sense is either if shipping things to more places somehow save resources or if people that don't live in cities don't need anything shipped.
What you described in first half is how things should (and used) to work imo.

> On the other hand, it did make me more efficient as a manager. Whenever I encounter teams with 3-4 people and a full-time manager who only manages them, it feels inefficient.

Because it is?
You're right, I misstated this - but I don't think this is fatal. The other sibling commenters pointed out the real issue with my thinking.

The argument goes the same even though I misspoke here. If the machine {halts, runs forever} then ZFC is consistent. But this is a contradiction; so ZFC must be inconsistent. Tada, I have an inconsistency proof!

That was the implied next step which made me think my logic was clearly incorrect (which, it was).
It's like the xkcd about competing standards, except /s/standards/ex-police captains/ https://xkcd.com/927/

You give people guns and fast cars, of course they're going to escalate whenever possible. In my opinion I don't think it matters who is the captain.

edit: to back this up, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment .
Some companies supply that information voluntarily. Experian (iirc) even has a product offering that ‘helps employees qualify for loans and demonstrate stable earnings’ if the companies will just only send them payroll history. So it may not have been scraped necessarily, just “shared” in the ordinary course of business.
This. It would be suicidal to leave a manager a bad review. The only thing that works is anonymous feedback which is how Meta/Facebook is so effective at getting rid of bad managers.
They obviously were intent on getting him for something even as they continued to run into dead ends.

The body cam footage is infuriating: https://www.kcci.com/article/watch-newton-man-says-police-wr...
Computing BB(748) would be best, but if we could get an upper-bound estimate that's reasonably close, that would suffice.
please share where the "virality" of agpl is written?
Productivity tools don't help you when dealing with people problems. You can't throw a TODO app or some other bullshit on someone who is underperforming or to coach someone for a promotion.
A lot of the things you dislike about the platform are things I like about it. No bloat. You buy music and download it.
Sounds like they lack a tech lead rather
Yeah, it's actually freakin' awesome sometimes. I got the entire discography of one of my favorite artists for like.. $10 or something? I think I bumped up the price because I felt bad and felt they deserved more haha
where is virality of agpl and gpl written?
> I'm not sure what it will accomplish

One, it strikes the unconstitutional law from the town's books. Two, it sets a precedent in court that can be cited by the next person whose rights Newton, Iowa violates or a state or federal agency looking for a pattern of civil rights violations. And three, it gives this young man money damages.
>(f) play God with anyone else's life with total insulation from the consequences. [...] Who the heck even comes close to (f) except Big Tech.

Monsanto. Nestle. Enron, Goldman Sachs, the Pinkertons. BP, Chevron, Woodside, Rio Tinto, BHP.
Just one country, to achieve the computational and storage power of a raspberry pi. The mental gymnastics continue to beggar belief.

I wish people would just be honest and say yes, it's absurd and wasteful, but I think it'll make me rich so I don't care.
It’s the job that have too much free time that end up generating the most politics.
In what way did he hide it well? I’d best describe the story as “racist has a secret life where he’s even more racist”

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/165754101074508185...
On the metaverse.
It has been fixed recently-ish.
"the missing 80%" you mean the ones that would go from the salad bar to the yoga class and then go into a DEI meeting and talking about how we must change "the color of our vibes"?

Yeah I think Elon is almost picking up that slack. But I doubt anyone could find him at an yoga class
AGPL demands opening up AGPL code if you modify it, otherwise just say you used this particular agpl code, where does it say you have to open up your entire codebase?
Just curious, if flying's contribution to "observed human-caused climate change to date" is overrepresented (4%) compared to its share of global emissions (2.4%), then what is/are the activity or activites that are underrepresented?

Like, what generates lots of emissions but is a much smaller deal in terms of climate change?
Similarly, if you know BB(n), you can use it to solve the halting problem for Turing machines up to that size.
The fact that the word also contains "vid" probably has something to do with why they picked that word for the project name, in addition to the actual meaning of the word.
Alex Tropsha has some pretty solid articles on best practices.
Weezer read Audible Ad at Concert and then performs new Audible Song from Album