skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also do this to save on staff costs; if you don't tell someone why they were banned, they won't have any counterarguments either, nothing to try and argue with.

No room for arguments = no time needed for a human to interact.

For a while now, it's become pretty common knowledge that the big tech companies do not want anything involving people, because people don't scale. This is also why they invest so much in "AI" tooling, so there's even less people needed.
I wonder if anyone is recognizing that the fail here is in removing a human element in the support and instead relying on a far inferior technology to handle cases it can't handle.

In other words, the problem is that suddenly a machine is not only making laws but also executing them. But we as a society did not agree to hand our laws to the machine. Luckily, the area where these laws apply, is very narrow atm - it is only the fb space.
But the tendency seems alarming.
From the link: "I’ve been in the computer industry for a while, and have no small number of contacts. Three friends who have worked at Meta (two current, one past) offered to check into this for me." Followed by a description of their failures.
Note not "intelligent" life. You'd be hard pressed to find that living on the surface.
Minecraft (and to some extent, eg Factorio) is still very dominantly a free for all game. Nothing can recreate the first ten or hundred hours of gameplay, when you still keep discovering small and big stuff like tridents, coral reefs, bastions, frogs, lush caves, yes you will eventually build a cured villager trading hall and a wither skeleton skull farm and use beacons as street lamps and shulker boxes for wall textures. But that's the point. If you want to build a 100x scale statue of a shulker from shulker boxes, it's entirely your call, and your call alone, and no, it's not an easy project not by any measure.
Shareholders and investors always want more while becoming more risk averse over time, so a company loses the ability to innovate and then switches its focus to squeezing the customer.

Not to mention the cohort in product, design and engineering who want to work on the new shiny and embark on massive rewrite projects that deliver only a subset of old functionality because the ‘metrics’ support it. They’re never around to maintain it long term.

Not an issue if you don’t go public or accept VC or have perverse incentives that encourage enshittification over excellence. Nobody pulling the strings for you then.
rich-argparse: A rich help formatter for argparse
Not suprisingly, most people commenting in this thread have no idea about Nokia and what they are doing. They are really big and somehow succesful company, but no one can escape recession.
Not the fort-knox implementation it claims on the tin.

'LocalSend uses a secure communication protocol that allows devices to communicate with each other using a REST API. All data is sent securely over HTTPS, and the TLS/SSL certificate is generated on the fly on each device, ensuring maximum security.'

How do they achieve maximum security while generating X.509 certs on device?

Let's look; 'https://github.com/localsend/protocol#2-fingerprint'

'When encryption is on (HTTPS), then the fingerprint is the SHA-256 hash of the certificate'

Confusingly there is a HTTP non encrypted mode, and the docs claim the fingerprint only used to avoid discovery collisions.

Out-of-band [visual comparison / QR code scanning step] sharing of fingerprints COULD be acceptable to prevent 'man in the middle' attacks, however the documentation doesn't seem to indicate that this detail is surfaced or shared with the user.
The discovery protocols look 'hella sus', but most local media sharing and discovery is.
> non-employement

trust that your accountant won't fiddle your books for you (plus occasional audits)

> capital gains of real estate

in the UK all transactions go through the land registry and they can reconcile

> equity, or even selling products online

for these categories: generous allowances to almost all regular people from taxation

at the point it's more than this then it's fair to call it a business, at which point the penalties are severe for fiddling
I don't want to sound negative, but something about this makes me feel weird. It's a very polished presentation and looks very well done at first sight. The license is GPL3, which makes me think they are probably planning to add a commercial license on top of that. This is all fine, but I am very skeptical as to whether this will be maintained for a long time as a real open source project.

I've had multiple occasions where I regretted deeply going all in with all my data on a new product making bold promises. Also, maybe it's because I'm getting old, but I somehow don't think that having all my data available everywhere at any time is as big a deal as I previously thought.
Oh they know, it's just that giving you the time of day costs them money and effort. Which is weird because they were earning money off of the adverts.
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Most of this is conjecture though and should taken with a huge grain of salt (if we’re focusing on Alzheimers specifically)
Think about what you're saying. Texas didn't suddenly lose generation capacity that day. Their generation failed to work because it was frozen - and let's be clear: it was the natural gas plants that were the problem. The Texas legislature incentivizes utilities to not winterize their plants, so they don't.

At the time Texas was dealing with frozen power plants there were plenty other colder parts of the country that had their generation, including windmills, running just fine. Let's not pretend the lack of generation capacity caused the problem, because it didn't.
I've been on a journey of hyper-optimisation of my nutrition for various goals (sport performance, health, intellectual performance, etc). Mediterranean diet seem to be the GOAT in most cases
Consumers don't get anything. This is not about them.
This is about workers making sure to be treated fairly and using their power (the collective productivity they stand for) to bargain better conditions with employers.

How else do you want to balance out the power distribution?
What's the value prop of running your own instance vs just using pairdrop.net infra itself?
I’ve only seen it from the sidelines, but our 7 y.o. was introduced to it through an activity with Girl Scouts last year.

We went through a number of lessons via a website (which escapes me right more) and she was really into it. So much so, that we ended up downloading Scratch Junior and let her run free with it.

She uses it to make little interactive stories, with movement, audio recordings and the like. It’s pretty neat!

Now, whether that translates into her having more interest: I’m not sure. Her eyes kind of glaze over when she sees a wall of code on my screen when working from home.

—-

Side note: There is a board game called Robot Turtles that is supposedly good at teaching very basic programming concepts to kiddos, but she has had very little interest in ever playing it.
Make, install and service telecoms infrastructure equipment and related services.
Saw a team trip all over themselves trying to implement the pagination and also introduced a bunch of caching bugs(predictable any time caching is introduced).

It's cool that it's ALSO a general pattern for any async call, but it's really heavy for just that if you don't want the caching and stuff.

Personally I'm just sticking with MobX and more straightforward fetching mechanics.
For another perspective, in Germany, if you are an elected representative of the workers (Personalrat) you have special protection against being laid off during your term. It's basically impossible (technically it is but it never happens and the requirements are very strict). There's pros and cons to this of course.

These are not the union bargainers though but rather the people who represent workers' interest in the company (they need to sign off on contract changes etc.). The bargainers are usually working for the union and not a company.
Very good essay. The new cathedrals are being build on very loose foundations these days.
Why does it say "Use GitHub Copilot locally on your Macbook with one-click!" when it obviously doesn't use the Copilot model?
Can you provide examples regarding right/wrong common mistakes you found in use?
"companies have to actually follow laws“

What? Nokia won't follow laws in other countries?

"No firing of individuals without cause"

That's generally the distinction between firing and laying off. Layed off employees generally get unemployment.

"7 months until your employment actually terminates"

You continue working at a company that you will have to leave? What incentives do you have to keep putting in any effort? Doesn't this lead to massive amount of corporate theft? In the US you are typically "shown the door" when your employment is terminated to minimize the possibility of disgruntled ex-employees taking corporate IP with them.

"employees know that even if there's talks of layoffs going on, their lives won't be upended randomly"

That honestly seems just worse for everyone involved. Aren't you in a weird limbo for months/years on end where you don't know if your position will be terminated? It seems horrible for moral. The most talented people would probably not want to put up with the uncertainty and will leave while unions are negotiating
> Songtradr had no access to union membership information and we executed our employment offer process with full-consideration of all legal requirements

I know this won't be a popular thing to say, but I'd like to take a moment to thank Songtradr for consulting their lawyers and full-considering all legal requirements.

I believe them when they say they didn't legally acquire the union's documentation on membership. But they "carried out a comprehensive, full company evaluation that involved a detailed examination of each role" and seem pretty anal about their legal requirements. It's become expected that a prospective employee's social media accounts will be "evaluated" as part of the hiring process, so I imagine that was the case here, too. (Do you think any of the union members, the union-curious or even the anti-union weirdos ever mentioned the union on twitter?)

It goes on to explain that the "evaluation considered several factors such as product groups, job functions, employee tenure, performance evaluations[0]," and amusingly "the importance of roles for smooth business operations".

[0] performance evaluations were just one of several factors evaluated (comprehensively) in the detailed examination during the full company evaluation
It sounds like you want to offer a credit card which I don't believe Pier is doing. It seems like you want something like Ramp for consumer use. I'm not familiar with it, but it seems like Enfuce[0] might be a possible solution.

[0] https://enfuce.com
Illegality is not an absolute value so it had no place in a discussion about ethics. Many laws are ethically wrong.
The issue is that history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.

I'm not saying history is useless mind you. But the author is putting the cart before the horse, in that they don't form a strong foundation that is based on observable data or events that we suspect is contributing to the collapse.

Instead they define a probable cause "Strategic naïvety", okay fine how do we know this is the cause? From The author we don't instead they just jump straight to historic similarities and is only focused on proving the link between present and the past.

Instead to demonstrate a more proper way of analyzing plausible collapse, look at China.

When we look for China there are various observable data and signs that it isn't doing to great for this demonstration I'll focus on the social aspect, because it's harming the backbone of Chinese might, it's demographic.

We can observe various data here like the amount of young people, the amount of babies, immigrants, the welfare of the people, homelessness, social services etc.

We can also look at social dynamics such as how many people get together, what about the social hierarchy, how much trust do people have in society, how does socialization generally work? What about it's antisocial cultural norms how severe are they? Etc.

Now we can start forming a more proper picture of what the social issue are that are harming demographics, and the inability of the government to even want to consider the issue.

Now we can look into history for inspiration or as a alternative timeline into what happen, but not to how things will play out.
"Muutosneuvottelut", which literally translates to "change negotiations", is basically the Finnish way of saying "mass layoffs and corporate restructuring incoming". Not the same thing as what you're describing but I find it funny in the same way.
It's a very white-collar thing.
You can call it relatively complicated, but it was not complicated in the absolute sense. Perhaps tedious and busy work-ey. The process was basically typing 10-15 numbers that I read from 2 forms sent to me by mail rather than thinking/reasoning.

Don't get me wrong, it would be a lot better to not do it like you describe, but as far as bureaucracy is concerned, I'll take this over all the other bureaucracy you have to deal with in Europe. It's the one time in the year that I feel I have to actively deal with the government in the US, at least in the state I live.
Yeah, that was actually quite helpful (when properly implemented). Especially in era of laptops that had a mixture, you knew to plug in the portable drive into blue not the black USB port (and put your phone to charge into yellow one:).
Requiem for a stringref
It is also a bit like black magic when it just won’t work and you can’t figure out why.
And why is the website that's pushing malicious scams not punished by the appropriate government mechanism?

That seems to be much more appropriate approach to prevent this kind of crime. Why is US so incompetent at punishing scammers as a country?
Interesting, it's the opposite for me. The sun is high and days are long in the summer, so that's where peak is.
Ditch the glass: It's time to bring back less-fragile plastic smartphones
My shiny new Pixel 8 just fell off a table after 1 hour that I left it there. It didn't vibrate and I didn't move the table or anything like that. Glass phones are so slippery that they take a life of their own when placed on a flat, smooth surface. I miss plastic phones.
> set of if statements in their code should be enough to check for typical suspicious circumstances.

I am not defending Facebook here but come on. There is at least some nuance you should acknowledge
Its ethical as you dont contribute to bad incentives which is the lock down of information behind DRM. Profits motives come after such considerations.

We have been living millenia without DRM protection of books so I would wager the justification of their necessity is dubious at best.
https://deta.space is underrated.
They can, but can you afford to be policed and punished by them?

It's kinda bizarre how many here whine about not trusting Google and then just want to give them police powers.
Satire, I'm sure?
It seems the notions of accountability and responsibility have broken down when it comes to AI. Any given AI should have clear lines of delegated responsibility from an accountable flesh and bones human. Any decision made by an AI should be marked as such and provide a channel for the decision to be reviewed by said human or a human delegate thereof should scope (in Meta’s case) be large. If it’s too much work to manage the reviews, tough shit.
Business-to-business services.
Running it on your own infrastructure?
Kafka is about human bureaucracy.
This case is about AI bureaucracy.
Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering
I guess the stock market is maybe 30% speculation, 70% actually investing in companies? Crypto is maybe 90% speculation, property 20% speculation? You can't really separate the two very cleanly but a lot of speculating goes on.
Does this require M2 AI capabilities or can it also run on other platforms?
A friend told me that you can easily crack Kobo DRM when you download the book through the Adobe reader software. Likewise with Internet Archive downloaded books. Unfortunately, many books aren't available on Kobo.
I mean who cares. Some website blocked some person from spending money on advertising on their platform. This person who already has their own website and a lot of means to propagate whatever they wish and conduct business on the Internet in many other ways.

It happens all, the, time. Also this non-sense is repetitive here, with nothing new to add, nothing technical, nothing intersting.

Just useless filler content, to induce some fake indignation towards some useless entertainment platform that will change nothing.
If you zoom out, it's less impressive. It did restore at least a one-time upstep in a pattern where they had hit a plateau. It's unclear if that helps more than just once.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-... (only shows through Q2/23, but shows the pre-2020 history they are trying to get back to)

They also mention a big shift from ad-free to ad-supported. Though they don't mention if those are equal from a revenue perspective or not.
> when I incorporated an LLC

An LLC can’t be incorporated.

If you say you had an Inc when you had an LLC is a good cause of rejection.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder that too... since most independent musicians are broke and underappreciated, it might be better to start a crypto project..

But there is still little hope (I hope)

https://formaviva.com/khoros-records/f-h-l-rmxs
It's not a donation, you're expected to pay for it. Donations can be of any size, this is a $10 one time payment for the use of the software. There's a license key and everything.
The policymakers in U.S. government have been bribed for decades by the likes of Intuit and H&R Block to not simplify the tax filing system.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
Would not make it legal either strictly speaking
I wish I can just donate to authors whose books I'm pirating without paying Amazon.
Your sarcasm has been noted and recorded.
That's not a value proposition. That's more of a definition :-P

I'm thinking things along the lines of privacy, security, speed, etc
Maybe their AI found https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-2635049 Godo Kaisha Seigi Ya 1 (Young Animal Comics)
and decided Japanese mangas are off-limits for stripe.
Lack of accessibility outside the app. It's harder to back up or make external tools that integrate.
Maybe. Help me. When people in this study say they see for instance a circle when they think about a year, what do they mean exactly?

a) every time they have to operate the "year" concept they see this mental image

b) when they deliberately want to create an image out of the concept of a "year", they see a circle

If (a) I'm probably wildly aphantasiac. If (b) this is only conceptual art.
I'd be surprised if nobody's hacked together an interface for that. Some light googling didn't lead me to anything though.
It's the end consumer that has to pay for every extra bit of overhead accumulated along the way.

And the bill isn't delayed by a lifetime either.
Yeah, it's totally my fault that I didn't jump right away to find out why I had been banned from an advertising platform, when I'm running a one-person business and hadn't been advertising for several years.
Yeah it's really frustrating for me to look at it because of such appearance.
It was more of a general misunderstanding on how React Query is supposed to work, partially triggered by some mistakes in defining the query keys that meant that React Query didn't work as intended.

I'd recommend this blog post (or actually all blog posts on React query on that site):

https://tkdodo.eu/blog/effective-react-query-keys

What I observed was that the query keys were not consistently defined, which broke automatic refetching when the data was modified and invalidated. So the developer added some manual refetches because they thought React Query couldn't handle that automatically.

You need a consistent structure for your query keys and use that everywhere. Then you only need to make sure to invalidate the correct part of the query key hierarchy and the rest works automatically.
https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/releases

Import the plugin into Calibre, provide your Kindle serial number, and then DRM removal is transparent.

I have over 2000 books in my library, all DRM-free, thanks to these excellent tools.
I had, in chronological order, a Yamaha flute ( yes, flute ), amplifier and motorcycle.
I think that any images I used came from their approved list of stock photos.
Sure, but how does it fill that gap?

Like, say I'm in a startup working on a novel microcontroller, or a novel ASIC, or a chip for a space rocket. Right now I'm prototyping on an FPGA, but performance / power / weight isn't good enough. Where does your product come in?

Like, if I'm not getting enough performance-per-power from an FPGA, how am I going to get enough from your eFabric chiplets? The underlying computation still happens on FPGAs and RISC-Vs, right?

Or is that you can embed your own custom circuits between pre-made chiplets? In that case, how do you save on capital costs (eg making the mask)? Through a fab shuttle?
i procrastinated on getting my tax paperwork together this year until an unbelievably late date. so i was kind of surprised to get a call from my tax guy on oct 16 letting me know my return was ready —they had just requested my transcripts from the irs, which had all my income from 2022 listed.

so it would seem that a) for at least the nominal taxpayer, it’s entirely possible that the government has your information already; and b) unless i get back into consulting or otherwise complicate my income, my tax guy just set himself up to request those transcripts every year!
Not sure how it could be a universal standard considering it relies on accounts and a server.
Building less-flawed metrics: Understanding and creating better systems
Reasonable until they bait-and-switch customers again. Trust is gone.
While the brand name for phones still exists, it's no longer held by the corporation now called "Nokia"

The corporation now called "Nokia" still owns the brand name "Nokia" for phones, but is licensing it to HMD Global, a Finnish mobile phone company started by ex-Nokia people, but largely financed by Foxconn.
1.) Was macht Tino Chrupalla rechst-extrem? Heutzutage isst alles was einter nich mag rechts-extreem. Weil heutzutage wen du nicht übertreibst hört dich keiner. Darum muss man da die Deteils beachten. Ist Tino nurh gegen immigration oder sind da andere rechts-extreme parolen?
2.) Ich verstehe Deutsch. Das war kein Deutsch.
4G/5G and PON(technology used for providing "Fiber To The Home") - these are really big markets as you can imagine. But everybody is cutting investments right now in fear of recession.
I used to cache queries.

Now I just fetch the data again.

Simple.
Best thing you could do, spend some time learning how it works properly (query keys, invalidations... ) and how you'd set up things like pagination.

If at any point anyone goes like "oh it doesn't seem to support this, we'll have to write some wrappers/custom stuff", take a step back and read the docs again or ask around - the library in general takes care of everything it should and gets out of the way really well otherwise.

Happy to help with this.
And the use of spam for unsolicited messages comes from their spam sketch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKNt0MhTkk