skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting thing about it though is the Fermi Paradox. Our species entire existence isn't even a blink on a galactic timescale. And in another blink we will likely have spread all around this galaxy, and perhaps even further. If we imagine things that are already reasonably viable like exploratory swarms - glorified robotic 3d printers that can harvest their own material for further self replication and spread, we'll be absolutely everywhere in no time. The implications of this being that advanced life will likely tend to expand exceptionally rapidly, and visibly, on a galactic timescale.

So the seemingly logical argument that life should be extremely common, begs the question... well then where is it?
Messenger and Marketplace are insanely successful. You have to be willfully blind to not see it.
Hard to say. I haven't watched the movie in a decade or more.
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As per the mobius sync FAQ:

"No iOS app can run continuously in the background. This means that Möbius Sync can only connect to other devices whilst the app is open, for a short time thereafter, and whenever it is triggered to run briefly in the background."
Microsoft, whose testimony has gotten the most attention in this case, has $111.26 B on hand. Google pays Apple between $18 billion to $20 billion a year, supposedly, and of course makes money back in search revenue. And even more by being number one in search.

If you thought I was suggesting a random person on the street would have the money, then you misunderstood.

The actual answer to the question I posed, which you quoted, is that it's actually quite difficult and not a matter of just writing a check.
I do the same with DuckDB and pretty print with tidy-viewer.
> Government contractors. It’s a legal requirement.

Probably things have changed, but back in the mid 90s we had our first government contract, and one thing was that we were required to have a "drug testing policy".

A couple of team suggestions were "you bring 'em we'll test 'em" and "employees have access to private ceramic urine collection devices. After collection, other employees do not have access to the results of processing".

In the end we sent in "Our policy is not to test for drugs" and we got our contract.

(I agree with you that what matters is actual functional risk, not paranoia)
What distinguishes this from UI.Vision's (https://ui.vision/) session recorder?
Agreed, I think this is corporate lore and mostly bullshit. I've flown Southwest many times and they're not turning those planes around in anything approaching 10 minutes, it's more like 30-45 mins. I don't doubt that they aimed for that and maybe even hit it here or there, but I'm highly skeptical that it was the norm.
I agree that the average person doesn't generally know how technology works. I think the solution is not to limit the use of technology but to restrict the exposure of the average person to technology until they can prove that they know how it works (some sort of internet license, if you will)
One thing that video meetings don't support is higher-level managers throwing their weight around where they technically shouldn't.

When you have multiple levels of people working under you in an office, you can go down the management structure as many levels as you want just by dropping into people's offices, and there's no record of it and no way to prevent it. If you have to schedule a zoom call it shows up in people's calendars and gives worker's immediate supervisors the chance to intervene.
Ask HN: Are you ready to create contracts on a website without signing up?
I spent 4 years in legal tech, creating Juro - a European analog of Ironclad. I joined as the first designer and left as the design director. Throughout this time, the idea of simplicity captivated me, and together with the product team, we managed to achieve a minimalist design. It was gratifying to receive comments from users saying it's "like Apple."

Although we were able to implement many of my ideas, one remained unrealized: the ability for anyone to create contracts directly on the website's main page without signing up.

Like in childhood: you're sitting with a friend in a treehouse, you decide to solidify your everlasting friendship, you grab any piece of paper, write down an agreement, and sign it. That's it; nothing more is needed.

But this is just my hypothesis and a bit of a wild bet. May be this only worked in childhood. In the adult world, we might feel insecure about streamlining workflow, especially when it involves something as serious as a legal contract.

In short, we decided to test this hypothesis by creating a super-simple website where one can create and sign a contract: https://sendforsign.com/

So, my question to the hackers is—does anyone actually want this? Or does the childhood approach no longer work?
Absolutely terrible. Tiny companies NOT backed by some of the richest men in the world give more when they wind down.
https://archive.ph/2023.10.19-101801/https://www.theatlantic...
If you look at Ajit Pai's (former Verizon lawyer turned FCC chairman who did away with NN) comments, he basically says "there is no problem to solve".

However, you can read through this thread and see if you feel this is true or not today in practice, let alone in perpetuity in theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37945011
Infrastructure Engineers are usually SWEs who are working on infra. SRE is a combo SWE and Cloud Engineer, often writing their own tools for the job (while I'd consider a cloud engineer to just use existing tools).
"Use your real account" has never been said by a person who did not understand exactly what would happen.
DRAM latency is tens of clock cycles. There's a minimum of about 10ns of latency happening within the DRAM chip itself, so a slightly longer bus doesn't affect total latency by much.
I shipped a car across the country a decade ago, and I didn't go through any of this. I used a website, it gave me a price, I paid it, and a truck showed up.
Personally my weapon-of-choice fort his kind of thing is just raw Powershell. It means all your queries will be simple linear-searches, and powershell is a warty-as-hell language, but the ergonomics aren't bad.

For example, the "all the cities in Iran" query.

Import-FromCsv GeoLite2-City-Locations-en.csv |
Where-Object {$_.country_name -eq "Iran"} |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty city_name

You could probably find modules to help with the IP-aware stuff like `cidr_match`, but the real place where it would probably fall over probably performance when joining, since you'd probably be just be doing O(n*m) convolution operations.
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Here is the JDK 7 String#hashCode(), which operates on characters: https://github.com/openjdk-mirror/jdk7u-jdk/blob/f4d80957e89....

That's changed in the newer versions, because String has a `byte[]` not a `char[]`, but it was just fine. A hash algorithm can take in bytes, characters, ints, it doesn't matter.

In Java, you don't get access to the bytes that make up a string, to preserve the string's immutability. So for many operations where you might operate on bytes in a lower level language, you end up using characters (unless you're the standard library, and you can finagle access to the bytes), or alternately doing a byte copy of the entire string.

I admit, checksums using characters are a bit weird sounding, but they should also be perfectly well-defined.
Threads and Facebook were supposed to be differentiated. Tying Threads to IG to FB just sounds like they want to marge it all.

Sounds like Threads is beleaguered.
such as? all the teams I’ve been on have been using these tools to ultimately get them to be something more than pictures, what I described seems to skip that process and those personnel entirely
Good luck and my condolences
I've been enjoying Curiosity Stream and Nebula. Pretty happy with both so far.
That is something I was looking for to be honest with you, but didn't know how to "look" for it lol.

I had in mind the modern C++ `using` mechanism for creating my own types, but didn't know how to write such logic.

I guess a union would be handy dealing with different alias types, depending on the use case, if you understand what I mean.

On the other hand, `match` is far better to be used if we really get type aliases as you suggest.
Don't misunderstand me. I never said he is neither dumb nor ingenious. I am just sharing my observation, on how it looks like in this case.
I've recently read some PC chipset datasheet and it was almost 1000 pages of obscure tech: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
Most executives have major real estate holdings in their pension plans. If the employer owns the building, the employer and equity-owning executives have yet more real estate holdings, albiet indirectly.

Because of ZIRP, pensions have been reaching for yield by doing anything they can, and that has often been CMBS, CRE equity, CRE bank loans, etc.
I used to really enjoy BB&B shopping. It was like Santa's Workshop of medium-quality products stacked floor to ceiling. And I liked their Wamsutta brand stuff years ago when the quality was still decent.
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Agree about the dongle thing, but years on a single set of batteries? That has to be an exaggeration, that or you somehow found the glorious golden mouse crafted by the gods themselves. I've never seen any device last for years on a single set of batteries, not even the lowest power of devices.
More people ought to do this. It's the best way right now to defeat spurious decisions by platforms. Reddit's app is off my phone. I use its terrible website, so I don't go there anymore. Youtube has a good website, and until they enshittify it, it's the best way to experience Youtube on a phone.
Indeed, I have a Mexican friend (I'm American) who when we met was a chemistry postdoc in CDMX. His entire focus (as a postdoc) is to examine chemical compositions of paintings and artwork (from pre-modern artifacts to Diego Rivera murals/frescos). Not sure where all the funding comes from but believe a lot of it is from the Mexican Gov for cultural and regional restoration efforts.

A few years back him and a colleague traveled to San Francisco to analyze a multi-panel Rivera piece ("Pan American Unity" [1]) that was on display at (and owned) by City College San Francisco. The goal was to move the panels from CCSF to the SFMOMA [2] for display and their task was to make sure it could be moved properly to minimize damage.
It was super cool to visit and see their workspace and tooling.

For the mural itself - it's amazing and huge and recommend folks take a look if they can.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Unity
[2]: https://riveramural.org/
Except for the fact that the facts are different.

When you sign up with an ISP, you’re signing up for a guaranteed service at a physical location with defined jurisdictional borders and laws governing it. My ISP throttling their New York customers who try to use Netflix isn’t going to affect me. Honestly throttling their Oregon customers wouldn’t either.

This is factually different from Facebook who serves people independent of their location, residence or citizenship and don’t give a fig about who your ISP is because laws might cover someone based on any or all of those whereas a Californian who invades Texas is no longer covered by California-specific consumer protection laws, and to the extent that businesses choose to adhere to them in Texas is incidental. ISPs are very much bound by the location they setup infrastructure in in the way that the services you access through that connection are not as evidenced by the fact that they already take into account your residential address when determining 1. if they can service your location at all and 2. what services and what quality guarantees they can make to you.

Also just to make a note on GDPR, one of the screwy things about it is that covers EU citizens. EU citizenship is a complicated enough thing, but there’s a lot of people with EU citizenship living elsewhere in the world. Fully complying with GDPR is a much more onerous requirement in terms of infrastructure and professionals you need to hire than ISPs complying with a net neutrality law in one State. I’m not saying there’s no additional overhead, it probably is easier to have contracts that are as standard across as many markets as possible, but ISPs are already skilled at working within local jurisdictional requirements.
I'm assuming that is more texture based. I think it just tastes of seaweed. I'll bow to your greater experience on the flavour of used condoms.
I didn't know I had to. I see it now. Funny how GTP-4, the most sophisticated LLM on the plant, couldn't explain this to me :P
In my experience, ass-kissing leads to better career outcomes than the opposite. Not many people like being challenged.

Life lessons from a too-blunt guy who just wants to work without the politics.
Signal isn’t a social network… it’s a messaging app.
I think being forced to socialize/build relationships outside of work is a benefit of remote work, not a drawback. I say this as somebody who spent way too much time working when younger.
Yes.

My second language was python. But I just wanted to make cool games, and Python’s graphics were too low-level and verbose (compared to Scratch at least where you get a canvas with 0 code), so I wrote much more in Scratch until later on (my third language was Objective-C and a big part of that was Interface Builder, so I also had “graphics-for-free” there more or less)
I think the point the GP was trying to make was that when you see official unemployment numbers from the US government, those numbers are derived from the number of people actively seeking unemployment benefits (which includes job training, job placement, and payments). Those numbers don't include anyone who doesn't officially apply for benefits, which would naturally exclude all sorts of people who are not employed.
The announcement describing this attack is top notch technical writing, it is linked in the article.

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1998/Dec/79

Antirez should be humble to his younger self, even with Redis under his belt now.
The only explanation I can think of is they are comparing them to other ear buds. It would be easy to be the best ear bud mic when they are universally bad.
Ranking productivity over retention is what is crazy. Enterprises have fostered a culture that promotes thinking of people as replaceable commodities instead of assets that gain value over time. The turnover that view engenders means there is no institutional knowledge built up over time, forever keeping the company on unstable footing as they never really know what's going on.
> By definition unions have local monopolies and can't be attacked.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “local monopolies”, so this comment may be a bit off base: My Norwegian employer (<1000 employees) deals with four different unions and a bunch of un-unionized people. (All with no problem)
Yes, there's tons of evidence that distractions are incredibly costly, especially for complex or creative work,

and that home offices are cramped places where work intrudes on the home sanctum; where the chores and unfinished personal tasks of one's life haunt the mind of the worker and distract them from the undivided attention of their work tasks and interactions with coworkers.

I am more on edge from waiting for someone to message me while at home than I ever was when I thought someone was going to walk up to me.

Disclaimer: like everyone else here, this is an opinion. Thinking WFH is magical is also an opinion. WFH has some upsides, and some people get more upside than others.
In general I agree with your position. But for cases like this, these kinds of statements have been so common from H&R Block and Intuit, and the topic has been wending its way through the system for a couple of decades that if you were a journalist short of time it would be fine to quote some other public statement from either of them.

The actual article is about something more interesting: that they are piloting it with states that have state income taxes as well, and that they will be rolling it out in phases (the right thing to do). The response to Intuit isn't about the meat of the topic.
Hi Jon, thanks for recording! I'm excited to watch this. Do you happen to know why captions aren't enabled on your videos? Oftentimes the issue is that the video's primary language isn't set. Once this is done, youtube will probably caption the rest, though I'm not sure if that's true of videos of all lengths.
I once watched it at a student run theatre that had somehow retained a physical 35mm copy of this, and showed it once a year. Every time it got a bit more scratched and spliced, but still worked.

They had been doing it for a while, and had rocky-horror picture show levels of audience participation and costumes (Yes, including a cadre of knights in armor that brought their own shrubbery).
I think we're living in a time where the tendency to see "smug" in writing/speaking/personalities is unusually high. There's a deep hatred for smugness that is maybe justified and maybe not, but regardless it has been wildly overapplied during the past 10 years.

Specifically I think the line between writing in a colloquial, sarcastic, dry, opinionated, florid, or satirical style; and being arrogant; is where we are overinterpreting things as the latter.

We seem to be sensitive to the idea that somebody might think they are "better than us". It seems often like an insecurity?
The exceptional number of people I've known in Unions for decades are mostly career professionals with good professional ethics. Your anecdata vs mine. I hear garbage like that from anti-union people but have never seen that in reality. Is it a union for bank robbers?
Server chips

These chips are great. You get a lot of cores, without having to compromise on frequency (you get high frequency as well).

I wish cloud / dedicated server providers sold these chips. Because most workloads need higher frequency than more cores. And you get the best of both with these.
I think this is exactly right. Also I think that control over the bodies of others is a big point as well. You are talking about power and physical power to dominate the body of another is a very pure form of this power. So telling people where to sit, when they come and go, having them gather in this room and that room, it fulfills a primal need.
Not seaweed but in Turkey we still eat marsh samphire (Salicornia europaea), barilla plant (Salsola soda), and rock samphire (Crithmum). These grow in the tidal marshes on the sea. Very salty and delicious. It is not a rare thing either, in Izmir every other fish restaurant will serve these in season.
Yes feels like we've seen surprisingly few shutdowns.
Meaning what, just municipal governments, or are those bad too?
No, 99% would not know what the question is about, ask their geek friends, who would be able to move the needle.

That's how firefox became popular before google put an ad for chrome on their home page.
I quickly found that this feature has rate limits: "I apologize for the inconvenience, but due to rate limits, I'm unable to generate images at this moment. Please wait for 14 minutes before generating more images. In the meantime, I'm here to help with any other questions or information you might need."
They’re positioning to introduce a crapload of ads to lower tiers and become and ad supported service.

As they do this they have to use the YouTube strategy of “adding enough value” by raising prices to keep from undercutting the ad supported service.

Classic television executive thinking and just God awful user experience.

Netflix is quickly becoming the next Comcast.
I'd be interested to hear more about companies that are successfully doing this now.
I used to work with a guy who prided himself on his work ethic and productivity. He would pound away at the code daily yet, he was probably one of the worst programmers I've ever known. He was so interested in being productive (which is laudable) that he never took enough time to rest, recharge, and integrate what he had learned. He thought he was delivering quality results because his metric was wrong. Meanwhile, multiple people had to go behind him and rewrite his code because it was so bloated and inefficient.

The funny thing is, he told someone he thought I was the worst programmer he'd ever worked with because I didn't come in and grind out hundreds of lines of code each day. Maybe he was right but, I suspect he had that opinion of other people at the company that didn't meet his skewed standard.
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I dislike that you’re being downvoted, downvoting is not a disagree button.

There’s a lot of studies that show that productivity is better at home for some individuals, I don’t think there has been a proper meta-study because there’s studies that prove whatever you want to believe right now.

Even without citing any study, it does feel organic that it depends entirely on your job, your level of autonomy, your existing relationship to your colleagues and manager, the level of trust and ultimately your home situation.

Having 3 kids running around most of the day in a 2bedroom apartment is not going to be as productive as sitting in an air conditioned office that has good physical and auditory privacy.

However, it’s also true that management has been basically cutting costs extremely in terms of office space for decades, you don’t even get enough personal space or privacy for a cubicle now: let alone a door you could close.

Erosion of the quality of the office over this period of time has created a pretty large gulf to cross. I would argue that most people have better working conditions at home than the torrid open office that we’ve been subjected to.
I don't understand how autonomy and apartheid are anything other than positive and negative spin on the same concept.
Not saying that’s what happened here but occasionally you can get money off the table by selling some of your equity during a funding round. Afaik that’s how Hopin and WeWork ceos got hundreds of millions despite their companies going to zero basically
No. Verily is an Alphabet subsidiary, sibling to Google. They are a mostly-in bet, sharing much of their infrastructure with Google.
This isn’t as true anymore but it’s definitely best practice to build on UDP. Games built on UDP normally have several different policies including the ability to send messages that guarantee delivery even if packets get lost.
In the UK, the National Grid Operator maintains "black start" plans[0] for rebooting the entire national electrical grid from a zero power situation, and they pay individual plants to conduct annual drills. However, for obvious reasons, these plans have never been tried in anything close to real-world conditions, and it's something of an open question whether it would work.

[0] https://www.theblackoutreport.co.uk/2023/06/13/black-start/
What's the appeal of allowing US state propaganda?
haha a costly demo to run with the hn hug + inference costs..
It's not stated anywhere, either in the response above or on the website (that I can find).
WSL1 doesn't even handle userspace. It just ships Ubuntu. And certification or no certification, Ubuntu is very trivially not POSIX-compliant. Perhaps you can make it POSIX compliant, but there is no obvious way to do this; you would have to go point-by-point.

I don't think that is any better than OSes that conform to some specific subset.
How is this "outrage bait"? It describes an event that happened quite accurately, and how the issue came to be is something worth discussing and reflecting on.
Interesting question. They are called Sea Vegetables. But they do need seawater. Now seawater aquariums are a thing so it should be manageable to "farm" those.