skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you design a personal site with HTML and then decide to make a change to your site's template, you have to make changes to every single page of your site.

Unpopular opinion: not only do you not have to do that, you probably shouldn't do that. It's only an unfortunate consequence of déformation professionnelle that people feel compelled to. People treat the Web like it's a sui generis medium. It doesn't have to be.

If you wrote a book (or a pamphlet) and decided to go in a different direction, stylistically, from the house style that was applied in one of your earlier works, would you insist that your entire back catalogue be reissued in the new style (not to mention insist on denying access to the first edition to interested patrons)? If you wouldn't do that, and you wouldn't be happy with an author you admire whose productivity were hampered similarly by an unfortunate decision to focus their attention and efforts on one of the most irrational yak-shaving exercises for a writer to undertake, then you should really reconsider whether you really do need to reissue all your old blog posts in a style that conforms to the fashion of the era in which the newer ones are being published.

PS:

> chronological like a blog to an algorithm designed to maximize engagement or push the platform's agenda

No such algorithm exists. The problem is fundamentally heuristic and not guaranteed to deliver the desired results. It's more appropriate to refer to a (reverse) chronological sorting procedure as an algorithm (because it is one) than it is to use that word when talking about fuzzy recommender systems.

In technical forums, let's not adopt regressive language changes that leak in from popular culture following trends of journalists latching on to words (like "algorithm") just because they sound cool.
First thing that came to mind.

One of many mindblowing molecular genetic animation by Drew Barry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5AXGS1aL8

Zoomed out electron transport chain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoLoiFakxY
yes, just publish it on the readme.me here https://github.com/radames/Real-Time-Latent-Consistency-Mode...
This argument pertains to every tool: guns, kitchen knives, cars, the anarchist cookbook, etc. You aren't against the argument. You're against how it's used. (Hmm...)
That sounds way too close to, "Boys will be boys."

Culture in companies is set top-down. Setting what's tolerated at a top level is a huge step towards compliance below. Shrugging shoulders isn't a good enough response.
Still trying to unlearn that one. Turns out, most decisions are cheap to revert or backtrack on, while delaying them until Last Responsible Moment often ends in shooting past that moment.
I would be curious to know exactly what is meant by simulating a biological cell on a computer. I don't believe in anything mystical such as a soul and think intelligence could be an emergent property of complexity. Maybe with enough processing power to simulate trillions of cells together something could emerge from it.

My thought process on why it might not be possible in principle with conventional computer hardware is how perfect its computations are. I could be completely wrong here, but if you can with perfect accuracy fast forward and rewind the state of the simulation then is it actually intelligent? With enough time you could reduce the whole thing to a computable problem.

Then again maybe you could do the same thing with a human mind. This seems like a kind of pointless philosophical perspective in my opinion until there is some way to test things like this.

I would love to know one way or the other on the feasibility of AGI on a silicon CPU. Maybe the results would determine that the human mind is actually as pre-determinable as a CPU and there is no such thing as genral intelligence at all.
I worked for a large telco that operates very, very similarly to the company in the article.

About once a year or so one of the stand-out engineers that had the weight of the world on their shoulders would get burnt out and frustrated enough to do exactly what you suggest above.

Literally everyone would just look around awkwardly, leave the meeting and never talk about it again. All of middle management already know all of this, the only way they keep their jobs is by never talking about it, and just ignoring anyone that does. The VPs and President only know what those below them feed them.
Heh, I see someone has never had an automation script go bad.
Germany has an ever growing pile of problems to solve though. Corruption, lobbyism, undemocratic measures, horrendous education sector, overworked employees in the most critical institutions and jobs (teachers, medical personell, doctors, firefighters, etc.), bad integration policies, failing infrastructure and politicians, who do all they can to make sure it keeps failing, and probably many more.

Gemany might not be the worst place. But it definitely has lost a lot of appeal due to all those issues.
"I hate graphs that don't start at zero."

Why? I think there's some intuitive idea that something is being hidden or there's cheating in the presentation, but that doesn't have to be the case if the purpose of the plot is to illustrate relative change (and the y axis is clearly labeled).

The counter-argument is that it makes it look like CO2 has 10x'd instead of doubling, but since those values aren't calibrated in units that we can intuitively understand, it's not obviously the correct choice to start at 0.
Agreed. I shared the same view here: https://mailmeteor.com/blog/new-gmail-protections
The article focuses on size over and over again. Nobody cares about the size. Efficiency, scalability is key.
When I had a team, we'd trade based on faith -- Jewish or Muslim folks worked Christmas, and on their holidays us "cultural Catholics"[1] covered so they could have "their" day off.

Even among those who were no longer religious, folks often had families who still hold these beliefs.

(I was educated in a Catholic school, was an altar boy, and will never return to either place, so I use the term "cultural Catholicism" to distinguish my agnosticism from the full blown atheism I see on HN which often has a bit too right libertarian branding for my left libertarian tastes.)
I actually considered applying for the US Digital Services, I was okay with the salary decrease as long as I could continue to work fully remote, but they require you to work in DC. Telling ppl to take a huge pay cut AND to have to show up to the office is a huge ask.
Doesn't matter to me, if an email doesn't have a one click unsubscribe I just mark it as spam. Messes with their email reputation so they hopefully get kicked off of reputable email services.
Every company i have advised jumped on the microservice bandwagon some time ago....
Here is what I tell them:

1. Microservices are a great tool... IF you have a genuine need for them
2. Decoupling in and on itself with services it not a goal
3. Developers who are bad at writing proper modular code in a monolithic setting will not magically write better code in a Microservice environment.. Rather it will get even worse since APIS ( be it GRPC, Restful or whatever ) are even harder to design
4. Most developers have NO clue about consistency or how to achieve certrain gurantees in a microservice setting ( Fun fact: My first question to developers in that area is: Define your notion of consistency, before be get to the fun stuff like RAFT or PAXOS)
5. You don't have the problems where microservices shine ( e.g banks with a few thounsands RPS )
6. Your communication overhead will dramatically increase
7. Application A that does not genuinly need microservices will be much cheaper as a monolith with proper code seperation

Right now we have generation of developers and managers who don'T know any better, and just do what everybody else seems to be doing: Microservices and Scrum ... and then wonder why their costs explode.
...no.

Inflation is actually very simple: More money is added to the system than value produced. That is, money is printed faster than value is created through labor. Stop and think for a second. How do we have trillions of USD? Banks create money. And they're doing it faster than ever before.

Now you can absolutely have price gouging at the same time, but the two are independent of each other, even though combined the affects are worse for the price gouged.
> For example, when I got a new boss and all the underlings went to them and start chatting about the boss's favorite sports teams and hobbies to get on their good side. I refused to do that. I'll be friendly, like any other new hire.

I don't know if I would consider this to be only getting on their good side. In many cases, if I am going to spend a significant amount of my life working with someone, I do want to get to know a bit about them and that includes their hobbies and interests outside of work. To me, that is being friendly and I also do that with new hires.
Very nice idea and great execution.
Sometimes it includes clips where the generated subtitles are wrong and the word is actually a different one with similar pronunciation (German heiß -> heißt for a lot of this).
Which brings to mind an interesting bias where it leaves out any examples that the AI transcription didn't recognise as the word, thus presenting only the "canonical" pronunciation according to whatever process trained the AI and potentially propagating AI artifacts into the speech of actual humans.
Which is... everyone who has ever opened a YouTube link? Though might make sense to not include it in the Zero series.
voted for the Kafkaesque of 2023
Hence "with good intentions".
I don't think that explains it, there is a structure (various levels of mainteners) and mainteners aren't outright malicious.

Theoretically there is also a CoC.

The problem's more that you're going to have strong conflicts of opinions that you can't hash out face to face between people who are already overworked and under stress

It's hard for devs, but you also have people quitting because the maintener position is not just thankless, but fucking thankless.

It is not as simple as reviewers abusing developpers because of a lack of structure. A large part of the kernel is under resourced, lacking mainteners, and that is stressful for everyone
You actually got it. If it isn't a bother, I'd actually like to know how you guessed this, as I thought all the Big 4 were roughly the same.
Break down into what and where else than down would it go?
Russia renamed its ambitious satellite program after Putin misspoke its name
> a sufficiently mature corporation has a de-facto agency of its own, transcending any one shareholder, employee, or board member.

No, the corporation has an agency that is a tool of particular humans who are using it. Those humans could be shareholders, employees, or board members; but in any case they will have some claim to be acting for the corporation. But it's still human actions. Corporations can't do anything unless humans acting for them do it.
C# and C++ devolve to just C, unfortunately. And I’m still not sure how to pronounce Azure. ;)
> Amazon SES

It's really nice to see a company with a cloud offering ... using a rivals cloud offering (yes, Oracle is large, AWS probably has Azure/Google-services, but it's fun :) )
Likewise on all counts. The (over)confident arrogance on display in this thread is off the chain.
> Isn’t this the natural outcome of the American medical associations license cap?

It is an inevitable outcome of trying to manage healthcare as a for-profit business. That means the primary directive is to maximize profit, which you do by maximizing throughput and minimizing interaction and services.
> Is this a monolothic app or a micro service architecture?

Yes.

To be less facetious, the continuum goes from "all the code in a single process" to "every line of code is a separate service". It's not either-or.
I tend to call these things “distributed monoliths” assuming the camera, ML and laser driver are integral to the functionality of the system.

There is no hard rule that I know of but my heuristic is something like “can I bring instances up and down randomly without affecting operations (too much)”. If so, I’d call that a microservice(ish) architecture.

The waters have been muddied though. Microservices were IMO once associated with Netflix-like scalability, bringing up and down bunches up “instances” without trouble. But nowadays what used to be good old service-oriented architecture (SOA) tend to be also called microservices.

SOA can also be about scalability, but it tended to focus more on how to partition the system on (business) boundaries. I guess like you did.

It’s all a bit muddy in my experience.
I guess it leverages LLMs to do semantic search on YouTube audio dataset?
>Where's the guillotine tweet?

https://files.illinoispolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/...

>And this is a public sector union, they are not straight up advocating for revolutionary class war for crying out loud

They say "we're terrified but completely in support of wherever this is going" when people set up a device used exclusively for beheading humans. Whatever it is, it is ridiculous and a prime example of how you'll have to fight a war on two fronts if you don't agree with the union.

>I just want to see some experimentation and innovation in an industry that has an avowed commitment to such values

Anyone is free to start a software co-op and or experiment with different methods. I could agree in theory, but in practice, experimentation isn't free. I have family from eastern Europe that are still recovering from the "experimentation" that went on in the USSR.
There is an expression regarding distressed tech properties: Don't try to catch a falling knife. In other words, once a property is damaged, there is added risk that has to be priced-in.
> there is a future where the human has given AI control of things, with good intention, and the AI has become the threat

As in, for example, self-driving cars being given more autonomy than their reliability justifies? The answer to that is simple: don't do that. (I'm also not sure all such things are being done "with good intention".)
I learned early in my life that passing as typical was important. Learning to pass is all about learning which arbitrary social constructs people value personally. You can learn that by paying attention to their mannerisms. You can then tailor your behaviors to that person.

It also helps to establish a reputation as a boundary pusher who will maliciously comply with stupid rules.

Higher education is a great field to work in, because everyone expects a certain amount of that sort of thing from you anyways.

Right or wrong it has kept me gainfully employed for decades. Ethics and personal identity are very funny things when you have to eat.
Unsubscription requirements are a pain in the ass in the sense that anyone that steals a large list of emails (from any service, not yours in this particular case) could now run it against your service and unsubscribe a million users before you realize what's going on via a botnet.
> are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don't have to.

There’s two assumptions in this sentence that are frequently unwarranted.

Additionally, sometimes it’s both easier and less costly to let certain things go. This is may be one of the areas of, well, neurodivergence: “it’s going to be a pain in the ass to fight whatever the hell this is, and I don’t care enough to do it.”
If you want to talk about history, these things were invented using a 1950's understanding of neuroscience then promptly discarded until the ml people figured out how to make them useful.
Well back in the day it wasn't a problem because we had an on call allowance and you got paid for that, nowadays they told everyone

"you're too good for hourly work, we're going to make you salaried, it's great now you can just focus on getting your work done and not have to worry about hours on the clock. But you still have a timesheet and we still expect you to be here 9-5 and you can't leave early unless it's approved by your manager. Also you'll have to work 60-80hrs a week until we are caught up which should be sometime around Q3 of next year. But you're empowered now and we are flexibile"
Ditto. I lucked into being a courier. We had a second phone line at my house and while we cancelled it, Bell Atlantic left it active for three YEARS, but no active billing attached to it, so I could call anywhere in the world for free. I used Slip.NET for years too, and became a courier between EU and North America, since I had free long distance I could make the long calls to upload/download. To this day I have spoken aloud my warez courier handle exactly once, to my wife, and I doubt she remembers it. There's two other people in the world who know (each ran a BBS in the 412 that were my US endpoints), but I doubt they remember today, and I have no plans on becoming culpable what that identity did. :D
My first Q was re: monolith on one host to many services on one host.

And yes, when going off-host, you'll have these issues. One should not employ network hops unnecessarily. Engineering is hard. Doesn't make it not worth doing.
From the article:

>The plaintiffs further claim that Google still collects data during private Chrome sessions that the company can de-anonymize and use to target you with ads. They say the company stores people’s browsing data in the same logs, whether they’re in regular or private mode. When combined, “Google can use them to ‘uniquely identify a user with a high probability of success.’”
paypal used to be x.com
Frankly I think the only reason China copies and clones is because it’s the path of least resistance to profit. They have lax laws on IP protection. Ther is no reason to do R&D when you can just copy/clone and make just as much money with none of the risk.

And that’s probably the only reason. If push comes to shove, they can probably innovate if given proper incentives.

I heard the tale about the Japanese lens industry. For the longest time they made crap lens that were just clones of foreign designs until the Japanese government banned licensing of foreign lens designs forcing their people to design their own lens. Now they are doing pretty well in that industry if I’m right.
I've run a lot (~120,000+) of 470, 480, 570, 580 gpus and one kind of depressing thing is that they are all complete snowflakes. It is literally luck of the draw on performance.

I would suggest learning how to tune them if you really want to pull some performance out.
First I've heard of TechCongress, thanks much!
This is approximately right. They also almost have one warehouse per two data engineers. I've been told there's a reason and usage analysis has been done by actually smart people, but it just sounds incredibly suspicious to me.
> YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds.

Well, they work great for skipping ads..
You are completely right. Once inside, your power to affect change is nearly zero unless you are a very high ranking person, and even then it's pretty near impossible.

The change will come when enough people say "we can't hire the best people!" Until then, the only argument is "it's an invasion of privacy and outdated" but if it's not broken (i.e. not causing any problems) they won't fix it. All the candidates power is at negotiation of the offer time. Once you accept, it's kind of over.
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Also, several grating spelling mistakes. Even running the copy thru chatgpt would drastically improve matters.
I get that we associate focus and attention with not having anything in our ears. But consider that many people, myself included, will wear AirPods in noisy environments, because the Conversation Boost feature makes it possible to hear speech more clearly.
It's helpful because they know more about what they're looking at, I guess? I'm a bit confused by the question - why wouldn't consumers want to know if a photo they're looking at had a face-slimming filter applied?
> With a lot of AI the feedback loop gets closed, and people are using it to help them make decisions, and might be taken far from the good outcome they were seeking.

The answer to this is simple: don't use a tool you don't understand. You can't fix this problem by nerfing the tool. You have to fix it by holding humans responsible for how they use tools, so they have an incentive to use them properly, and to not use them if they can't meet that requirement.
Who finally cares how exactly an ANN matches a human brain? Is such ANN smarter than ChatGPT?

It is more useful to use AI to develop more ecologically valid measurement methods for biology.
Spoofing the sender to show up as gmail.com on gmail.com is not possible.
S3 as the Storage Layer
It's also standard practice to use self-signed certs with mail DKIM. Mail as a protocol has, for the most part, tried to stay true to it's federated roots and most things can be implemented without dependencies on third party corporations.

I avoided DKIM till 2018 when google started accepting my mail but silently sending it to the spam folder; so I wouldn't even get a reject message. I thought it'd be to onerous to implement but rspamd's dkim signing feature made it easy to use with my locally generated self-signed certs (and postfix).
As you mentioned, I'd attribute this to the cost and not the material. In Latin America having "exposed concrete" walls or ceilings is it's a whole trend right now. The look of course involves nicer, well-worked cement, and tends to be paired with either dark woods and metals painted matte black, or light woods and linen whites.

Some examples:

[1]: https://www.planosdearquitectura.com/diseno-departamento-dup...

[2]: https://www.lahaus.mx/ed/tulum/nativa-tulum

[3]: https://www.legacysir.com/sales/detail/10-l-647-c9gshd/av-de...

[4]: https://www.icasas.mx/venta/departamentos/ph-estilo-industri...

[5]: https://www.portalinmobiliario.com/MLC-1421396709-moderno-de...
Not sure why I can't edit my comment to say this, but yes I do understand the moral of the story, though I also see in hindsight how this was confusing.

The wolves are coming, but this person has seen "crisis" and "emergency" called for every little thing and now they just don't believe it anymore. And we get to be eaten by wolves now!
There's a grain of truth here, but only a grain. Who hasn't seen an obviously affluent TikTok Tot (fancy home studio, high end video gear, expensive clothes and makeup) trying to gain clout by talking about the very same injustice of which they are the beneficiary? Pretty annoying, yes. But at the same time, the fact that an idea is expressed for clout doesn't make the idea wrong. We could debate "defund the police" all day, but whether TikTok Tot supports it is irrelevant. That's called well poisoning, close relative of ad hominem, and it's a fallacy. It's the fallacy that pervades OP.

In some quarters, superfluous weaponry is a status symbol. In related quarters, it might be ostentatious displays of crosses and other religious symbols. Does that mean guns or religion are bad? Maybe they are and maybe they aren't, but their use as status symbols doesn't determine the answer. What's more interesting is that OP omits such examples. All of their examples feed into a very particular political narrative, and cherry-picking is another thing that should make readers suspicious.

In the end, the article starts with a small and somewhat interesting observation, which is great, but then ascribes to it greater (and more particular) significance than it deserves.
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(I assume this is all a reflection of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law )
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