skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably very little. Motivation to keep up with social signaling only goes so far, and habits / dedication are what actually leads to lasting improvements from self-optimization. Long-lasting habits really only stick if you actually want the changes for yourself, not to impress others.
3:55 PM Eastern: Our entire website hosted on cloudflare pages is returning 500. I also cannot login to the dashboard either (it just spins)

EDIT 4:10 PM Eastern: Now I can login to the dashboard but "Workers and Pages" menu is returning errors and no access. Website still down :(

EDIT at 4:23 PM Eastern: RESOLVED. Website (cloudflare pages) is back up now for me.

Looks like they took about 25 mins to resolve.
So if I mail my senator a list of complaints every week, and the government bans any letters from my address reaching the senator, do you think my best course of action would be to simply throw my hands up in the air and say, "Well, it was unlikely he was going to read those letters anyway!" ?
The details of the actual cases.

> The first case, O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, involves school board trustees who used their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts to solicit feedback from constituents, invite the public to board meetings, and answer questions. But when the trustees got tired of two concerned parents’ probing commentary, the trustees blocked the parents.

> In an attempt to justify their censorship, the trustees argued they were acting as private citizens, not as government officials. These were just personal accounts, they claimed. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, like most courts judging similar cases, didn’t buy this argument. Instead, it correctly examined the content and appearance of their pages and determined the trustees had “clothed their pages in the authority of their offices and used their pages to communicate their official duties.”

> The second case, Lindke v. Freed, diverged from that commonsense rule. There, a city manager used his Facebook page to conduct official business but blocked a critic whose comments he disliked. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit departed from other courts that have considered similar cases, holding that the city manager’s censorship did not violate the First Amendment. It’s his personal page, the court said, and “presenting himself as city manager” and “talking about his job” isn’t enough “to transform a personal page into an official one.”

So my layman opinion is then that the question is when does a social media account become an official account?
Finland here. Used to carry some cash, even coins, with me. Even had a fancy leather coin pouch on me =)

When COVID hit, I didn't want to touch other people's grubby coins and neither did stores. Day to day everything is card or Apple pay. Nowadays even more with Apple Pay since it doesn't have a spending limit like NFC cards do. Can't be arsed with Chip&Pin any more.

I still have enough cash to get me back home with a taxi at any time of the day on me, but I haven't needed it yet.
Cloudflare Pages aren't working on a few of my sites too
A Python library to simplify the headache that is relative paths and imports
I wonder if Wikipedia articles ever cite paid encyclopedias as sources? It's kind of a conundrum: many people who don't trust wikipedia would regard paid products as more "legitimate", but Britannica would presumably not want to be cited because that implicitly helps a free competitor.
This is true, but skirts around a bit of the black box problem. It's hard to put guardrails on an amoral tool that makes it hard to fully understand the failure modes. And it doesn't even require "bad acting humans" to do damage; it can just be good-intending-but-naïve humans.
BrainFuck? no. L-systems are a string rewriting language basically. L-systems though are more about the patterns they make when they're interpreted more than anything else.
Yes, down since about 3:55 ET.
Yes, it is unreasonable.

You have contributed to the growth of the company. Find out what they are selling shares for to new investors and sell back for that, or don't sell back at all. Those shares are part of your compensation for working there and taking the risk of a startup. Don't just give up on the value that you helped to create.
"People are buying into" is a mis-statement, IMO.

I hate advertisements. I loathe them with every fibre of my being. I'll do almost anything to get rid of them. Multiple browser addons, a pi-hole, using a browser instead of an app, modem and router tweaks, whatever it takes.

But the data collection? I don't care at this point. It's absolutely everywhere and totally unavoidable, short of living off-grid in the middle of nowhere. It's in the software, the hardware, the services, the organizations. You cannot escape it.

Yes, it sucks. But it's just part of living in a modern digital society now. It could be better but you can't avoid it.

Hell, I use an app on my phone to track my driving so I get an insurance discount. It's one drop in an entire ocean of data collection that I can't see or hear or taste, but the money saved is very real in my pocket.
Believe it or not, Comcast Business was great back in the day. One day my cat puked right on the modem/router, killed it. They had a guy out that night with a replacement.

Today, it's terrible. 2-3 day wait. I cancelled them as soon as a new provider came to town.
rather than a senior colleague telling a junior
colleague to do something "because I say so"

Sure. Agree 1,000% in this specific example.

There are a lot of other contexts where it seems wildly impractical.

Should Linus have explain to you and negotiate your right to be (or not) a Linux kernel committer? Should a crossing guard at an intersection negotiate with every car?

Should an air traffic controller negotiate and explain with every given aircraft? Okay, maybe we could treat the role of ATC as an education issue during pilot training and certification, so nobody has to "blindly" obey. But what if I don't want to obey even in an informed way? What if I think the certification process sucks? Why submit to the FAA's authority in the first place? They don't own the sky!

Ideally, we should all have individualized speed limits on roadways, too, based on our skill, the weather conditions, and the vehicle we're driving at the moment. And yet we recognize that this is just sort of impractical.

There are a lot of issues with negotiation that get awfully intractable if we scale them up past much more than two people.
Cloudflare Pages Is Down
Affecting a lot of services!

e.g.
https://auth0.com/
> > 11+ at $999.99 each

> Wow...

Prices should better be sub-additive, since otherwise market arbitrage opportunities appear (in this case: to get more than 10: buy 10, and find some friends who also buy 10).

If such an irrational pricing appears, it is a sign of market failure; in this case: if the demand is higher than the demand, prices have to increase until for the given pricing level supply=demand. This is how markets self-calibrate.
The degree to which someone's emotionality is endearing to another depends on how attractive they find the emotional person..
Well you're in luck, because it supports French too, and dozens of other languages. You can click on the "English" with the little triangle to change the language
I dont think it's supposed to be consistent. It can't easily be with StableDiffusion. LCM sampling is very fast and has brought StableDiffusion closer to real time. It will be helpful iterating fast, I am more interested in seeing the effect of prompt while I am still typing.
X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it
Yeah, my system alerted on 19:56 UTC
> More powerful people were better somehow.

This is still the case in modern society as well. We've just substituted noble blood for money.
Thanks a lot, I got it. You're the best _benj!!
Could you point us to examples of Vaclav Smil's evil doings? I was under the impression he's a very strict honest scientist. Thank You!
Yeah, sorry, after rereading your comment, I realized I may have responded to a point you didn't quite make.
You know, that may be true. In my experience most NT friends/colleagues don't seem to think about it all but it may be they're simply brushing it off, whereas instead it's unignorable to me.
It will try to do a simple reproduction, and yes the frame are decoded in order.
Who named it that? Musk? Or is it like Tesla where he co-founded it after it had been founded?
> ">50% chance your society collapses in the lifetime of your children"

That's not far from the default for all of us anyway, isn't it?

Soviet Union fell apart in my lifetime; my parents were born during and just before WW2, got to see the Winds of Change.

I'm not sure about my grandparents, other than one grandmother's funeral anecdote being that she wandered off unsupervised as an infant, which had the people looking after her scared she had been eaten by a tiger because this was in a military camp in the British Raj.

No Ottoman empire, no Austro-Hungarians, and the borders of the Germany I moved to no longer go as far as what's now Калининград.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/l6x2h1zp69bc
Interesting - and it looks like there's still a frunk below the windshield
Yeah these could be very literal problems. The first seems useful for assessing the value of a taxable asset, and the second for paying back a loan or a penalty over time.
It does French too. Just click on English and a drop down menu appears.
Which is easy to say if it's something you use a lot. But many things are just stepping stones to, or the fundamentals of, the part you do use a lot.

I never gave it much thought in school, but I'm glad we did things like memorize multiplication tables. Being able to instantly know all multiplications of numbers up to 12 makes reasoning about numbers much faster.
This is preventing new logins to ChatGPT.
There's a good likelihood that an authority
figure _does_ see themselves as better than
subordinates, yes.

I always knew the ticket-taker at the movie theater was looking down his nose at me.
A lot of people only seem to be considering this in the context of individual bans. The real concern is the possibility of blanket bans on everyone discussing a specific topic or view. Right now, the words "ceasefire" and "genocide" come to mind.
Damn yeah, noticing for last few mins+
Looking at the “costs” section and considering the recent developments, it seems better tooling will increasingly be helpful in running a software company. See for example Nix Flakes. You can now have instant and performant declaratively defined identical environments in production and development, and across teams.

IMHO widespread use of such technologies (as opposed to heavyweight ones like Docker) could relieve one of the biggest costs of microservices: They are expensive to run.
Long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I replaced the need for N * (Oracle license + Sun server) with a simple perl script (< 100 lines) and one Sun server for a total cost saving in $300M+ / year. While doing it, I also invented map-reduce (it was before Google time).

The problem was to calculate bunch of stats from web servers logs (e.g. 10 most popular pages). The original solution was loading it all into Oracle database running on multiple servers since logs were huge. And then running bunch of SQL queries. Rinse and repeat daily.
https://www.service-architecture.com/articles/web-services/s...

After enough people retire that remember how big of a mess this was, we can probably re-use "Service Oriented".
All of them, or just those in some data centers?
When they introduced ads (2012 I think), they also removed the ability see a feed that was a direct reflection of your social graph.

They also jumbled the feed so you can never return to the last thing you were looking at, unless you explicitly "Like" it and then fish through your Activity history.

If I had any assureance they would revert to the pre-2012 UI/UX I'd be tempted by this offer, but I'm not in the EU so it doesn't matter to me.
Yeah I grew up going to NYC's public schools which are famous for this shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_center
I'm not required to be friends with my boss, only to do my job and be respectful and friendly to all co-workers. He was not managing me, he was just wielding the power that came with the title.

Whenever we talked, it was because I came to him. He never came to me, I was ignored. The more I felt that he disliked me, the less frequently I went to talk to him and resorted to emails. I felt that he had already written me off.

In the performance review, one of the things mentioned was that I wasn't communicating with him enough. I pointed out how one-sided our relationship was, I would come to him and rarely the reverse. He said that he was very busy and doesn't always have time to come by my office but couldn't explain how he did that for all the other engineers.

I knew that I should suck up to him if I wanted to succeed there but the circumstances caused me to detest working there so I cared less and less about the threat of being fired.
Thanks for the feedback. It’s actually kickoffpages UI, so not my doing. :/ Just a placeholder for now. But tested it on mobile and it looked fine.
Does Pakistan has the same geopolitical influence as the US from the atomic bomb? Or France?

Being a nuclear power is something shared by a few, but the US dominance has no equal.

It's pretty clear that the US leadership mostly comes from its economic power, which it used to derive from its industrial strength and is now more reliant on its technological superiority (since it has sold its industry to China, which may end up as a very literal execution of the famous quote from Lenin about capitalists selling the rope to hang them).
This killed our app immediately. Looks like auth0 and a lot of other sites are down.
Can we expect local governments to develop and run

Why not just have a template app that's open source and publicly financed, and the only local part is configuration data like name of the mayor, specific phone #s etc. US local government is already massively duplicative and wasteful.
"Rust From the Ground Up". I've been releasing it chapter by chapter on Leanpub - the first 220 pages are out and I'm finishing up another chapter ('cut'), hopefully by the end of the year.

https://leanpub.com/rust-from-the-ground-up/
Mine was like that too. I started using the "I don't want to see this" flag pretty aggressively, and outright blocked a lot of accounts I had no interest in. It has worked pretty well - aside from some ads, my feed is from people I follow. I thought they weren't posting, but it turns out the algorithm was prioritizing NBA memes and other crap.
A LLM trained to follow annotation guidelines, for information extraction tasks
This chart doesn't look right. The it went from 280 in the 1700s to not even 500 now (not even a double) yet the chart looks like there was an astronomical spike. With dishonest exaggeration like this, who needs climate change deniers.
Apparently Auth0 as well. Possibly related.
As in it's a joke if they accept it?
What makes you think that these images from the 1960s and 1970s see anything "underground" or sub-surface?
I don't know if I'm being argued with/downvoted because I said "all neurotypical people are this way" (which I did not, explicitly) or for some other reason. None of this thread makes sense to me.
Yeah I jut looked up some examples from this list <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249> starting with 'Frome'.

The first video hit had someone pronouncing it rhyming with 'home' when it's meant to be "Froom".

Ok, so it got 'Ballachulish' from a video specifically about Scottish Gaelic. (As an aside - how is 'Omagh' difficult?)
Usually I just do a Google Sheet for a waitlist. LOL
What do they idle at? I have two home servers that are essentially at idle 24/7.
Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders
> Just playing the cards here, but if my IQ is 155 and yours is 120. Why should I listen to you?

Off the top of my head:

- I may know a fact that you do not. Your IQ does not make you aware of things you do not know.

- I may have a relationship with someone that you do not.

- I may have past experience that you do not.

- I may have different values than you. Your higher IQ does not dictate that we should make decisions according to your values.

- I may have access to resources (money, engineering teams) that you do not.

A meta comment is: If despite your higher IQ you were unable to consider these possibilities then IQ may not be a good proxy for the kind of intelligence a business may value.
really good idea. I already use youtube for name pronunciation and this just hones that search better than hoping youtube's search comes through.
OMB kickstarts effort to modernize FedRAMP for 'today's cloud challenges'
The REPL in current versions of Ruby is probably a better example of how it should be done. Because it is actually running the code it has much better information.

https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.1.0/NEWS_md.html#label-IRB+Autoc...
Actually quite the opposite: they're specifically targeting people with FAANG and/or Ivy League pedigrees.

The government can't afford these people straight up, so they slap "Presidential" or "White House" on a fellowship to make it more attractive.

And it is; a Presidential or White House fellowship is as much a resume maker as working at a FAANG or an Ivy League degree.
I sure as hell wish this were the case, excluding abuse like actual death threats, of course.
Yahoo: https://blog.postmaster.yahooinc.com/post/730172167494483968...
Signaling virtue isn't the same as being virtuous.
Gazans shouldn’t have started the war, nor committed atrocities.
The demand that every graph should start at zero is completely absurd, probably from teachers that try to enforce random demands, nobody expect CO2 levels to go to 0 and it is better to use the full space of the screen.
Just noted on HN and already incident upgrade. Much faster "response" than most other companies:-)

All the best to the people fixing!
Here's something I've been wondering that maybe some smart hackernews-ian can explain to me. I watched a spider build a web last night. A ton of extremely complicated engineering went into it, all driven by pure instinct, presumably coded in DNA somewhere.

If you gave me enough time I could lay out how a semi-conducting material turns into a T-gate transistor, which can be chained with other transistors to create AND, OR, NOT and NOR gates, which are executed in the CPU by machine language code, which is created by compiling down from higher-level C code, which is executed by Javascript code running in the browser, which uses React to power the Facebook front end. Maybe I missed a step in there, but you get the idea.

Is that how DNA tells a spider how to build a web? Or tells me I should drink water when I feel thirsty? Does it all boil down to ones and zeros stored in protein sequences? And if so, are there layers of abstraction like in computer code? Or is there some other fundamental mechanism?
Error 1101 Worker threw exception. Interestingly fronting their auth0 tenant with CF.
If you don't use something a lot, then don't memorize it.
"""
Through horizontal integration in the refining industry—that is, the purchasing and opening of more oil drills, transport networks, and oil refiners—and, eventually, vertical integration (acquisition of fuel pumping companies, individual gas stations, and petroleum distribution networks), Standard Oil controlled every part of the oil business. This allowed the company to use aggressive pricing to push out the competition.
"""
https://stacker.com/business-economy/15-companies-us-governm...

Standard Oil, the classic example, was destroyed for operating too efficiently.
Yeah we keep hearing this repeated over and over and then we actually look at the reality and see something completely different.

As I said, it's almost like it would be very difficult for people to admit that they slacked off for 2 years.
I had this crazy experience this weekend where a grown person abruptly stopped mid conversation after glancing at their Apple Watch to reply to an email on their phone. They did apologize after the fact but it was jarring nonetheless.
> It's not unique to chocolate at all.

Same is mentioned in the show.

> This is just how things are We all know that this is how things are, but we pretend like it's not so we can enjoy the feeling of being outraged.

Not sure what your point is. Is the 'outrage' bigger problem than the way that things actually are?
This is hurting my ears.
There is something similar for German:
E.g. Zucchini: https://youtu.be/RqPqOTFh-Sc
>It’s not that we’re deficient, after all. It’s more that this authority business is a neurotypical notion that we don’t seem to share, and thus we tend to ignore it.

I'm neurodivergent and always find it off-putting when people talk of things like "neurotypical values". neurotypical people are no more of a monolith than neurodivergent people. I've personally met plenty of neurodivergent people with a sense of hierarchy or authority, and plenty of neurotypical people who don't. if you want to make claims like this, at the very least back it up with a study. don't just say how you feel and assume that applies to everyone
Not a crazy idea at all that sounds super fun! It would be much safer to write a server taking untrusted input from the network in Rust.
"Dumb mother**ers" to be clear.
> Blocking people who are harassing you seems like a reasonable balance to free speech.

We're not talking about private people or private enterprise. We're talking about appointed, elected and employed government officials acting in their capacity as a government official. Far too often, public officials believe anything negative is abuse, and I for one want them to hear the wingnut who is angry because their kid was beat up by the cops or the kook who is still mad because they lost his paperwork.
> It’s very common for auto body shops to only work with insurance claims.

Right, because like health care they treat the insurance company like a giant piñata to beat free money out of. Ive seen auto shops lie about damages, things like claiming previous damage is part of a claim - anything to bilk them. Of course the clients don't see any moral issues because their car receives "free" work.
Given the entire company is worth < £200k, I think I'd say "the best of british luck to you".

(https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-live....
I agree, public officials should not be using private accounts - email social, etc. - for public/government work. It seems a lot of politicians are doing this, and quite possibly to avoid public records requests and scrutiny
>Sorry, but the Here Comes Everybody phenomenon Clay Shirky predicted has not worked out so well. Public discourse doesn’t work at scale. It’s fine at the corner pub. Watch out for Joe. He says crazy bigoted stuff. Whenever Joe comes in, we stop talking about politics and change the subject to sports. Five people can moderate or avoid the intransigent bigotry of someone in their real community.

>These local, non-scaled examples of public discourse are not a replacement for CNN or the New York Times. But neither is social media, even though so many people now think they’ve got to run to those platforms to get the real story. That’s because the real news networks are turning to twitter as if it were a primary source. Let’s go to Twitter to find out how the public feels about this war. Really? That’s like going to the psych ward at Bellevue to find out how people feel about current events. If you report from X, you’re in even worse shape because Musk has gone and tweaked the whole thing to favor authoritarianism. He’s institutionalized and amplified the worst qualities of the mob.

The clash between professionalism & "everybody gets to play".