skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absurd how they keep finding new ways to make this worse. They have ignored `Accept-Language: en` for a long time but used to at least have a link to switch to the english version. Then that link stopped appearing on search result pages and now it doesn't even consistently show up on the home page. Now it seems they don't even fully respect the account language wile logged in. WTF.

While on vacation google decided to switch me to chinese even though I was logged in with an account that was set to english for decades on a browser that didn't change. The only way to change that back is to go to your account settings, and all the links leading there are ... in chinese. Even once back home this language change persisted. At no point did Google ever get an `Accept-Language: zh*` from me or any other indication that I wanted to switch languages besides the IP I'm connecting from which means fuck all.
Has it? Nothing in my life except gasoline has gotten any cheaper.

Edit: I misread the comment. I am aware of the difference between rates and absolutes.
> Okay but how do you distribute the program that depends on Julia to clients?

That's not the question that was asked though. The question the person asked as "Can you call Julia routines from other languages?" and the answer to that is "yes, you can easily do that".

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> I guess we're both right. I was talking about the "libraries" functionality

I'm confused, what functionality exactly are you saying is missing from the libraries functionality? That very example you link to shows one using the julia runtime via printing.

And yes, dynamic dispatch and dynamic code generation do work from libraries created by PackageCompiler.jl as well...
> C++ is a pain

Fortran would be less painful than C++, for math-heavy code.
How much more money do you want Spotify to lose?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SPOT/spotify-techn...

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

Shareholders have a 1.52% return since it went public, Apr 2018. A riskless investment in sp500 earned 11.7% since Apr 2018.

How much more do you want shareholders to lose? They have been losing 10%+ per year for 5.5 years.
A. Sure, but it isn't sufficiently beneficial for the cost.

B. WebAssembly is immature for developing a plugin system because of the lack of a sufficient ABI: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model

C. There aren't any other languages that meet the criteria. Lua was a no-go from the start. The maintainers did not like the language, and it necessitated adding more C code to Helix which could complicate building even further. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
Agreed on Safe Deposit boxes.

I would probably invest in a real fire rated safe. Real defined as a safe over $1000. Not the consumer crap that gets shoveled out.
> They can believe whatever they want, that doesn't mean I have to share their beliefs.

I don't claim you have to, and noted that whether you're willing to make such an inference depends on the views you subscribe to.

> Fact of the matter is: Without a definition of intelligence that doesn't involve pointing at ourselves, there is no accurate test of intelligence for something that isn't us.

Say people have varying, largely ambiguous, definitions of what it means for a webpage to be responsive. You propose measuring time from user click to the new content being presented.

For some the test is entirely sufficient as it already encompasses what they mean by responsive, for others it's a partial indication but not on its own conclusive, and for some it may be a separate concern to what they mean.

The test wouldn't settle the issue of definition, and generally isn't equivalent to the original question, but is still useful, relevant, and can actually be carried out.

> Nature doesn't do duck-typing. A porpoise isn't a fish.

I don't think nature really does any typing like this at all. "Porpoise" and "fish" are our own labels, and we may choose to define them based off of observable characteristics or behaviors.

> Without a clear definition of "indistinguishable from human", this, again, is more a test of the discriminating factors (the interrogator) ability,

The test can be repeated with many interrogators to help factor out the variance in individuals' ability.
Unlike most other JITs V8 keeps the block structure of JS internally and they did not want to add GOTOs to their internal representation.
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'
Earth is round, and if you think ai isn’t going to be intelligent then you’re not intelligent yourself. Also don’t use windows daily but atleast I’m not an idiot “m$ bad cos reasons so I can whine on hacker news to my boyfriends in a circle jerk”
Turns out, more people use a streaming music service (and frankly... really care about it), than they do about the Apollo moon landing.

A lot of the main tech achievements are great geek talking points but not where labor is really concentrated.

Humans are vain and shallow, that should probably one of the core things drilled into geek skulls.
France specifically lists political affiliation among protected categories, while post-socialist countries flat out prohibit hiring decisions on anything unrelated to the ability to perform the job (and arguing “cultural fit” qualifies would be a difficult proposition, were the rejected hire to actually go to court).

Governments may be allowed to be more discriminatory for national security reasons, and AFAICT security clearances are in part a backdoor to get this to be permissible in private employment as well.

(Of course, it’s a different story if the political organization in question is actually banned, but in most civilized places that’s a very high bar—I’d argue that’s one of the qualifications of the moniker, even.)
Wait you're the guy who wrote the mature optimization book, right?
> I don't understand why they are not able to turn this much engagement into profit.

Because any growth in profits that spotify sees will quickly be eaten by music rights holders.
Just wait. If there is any hope for passage at all, there will be dozens of BS riders and twists added to grab votes before it gets anywhere.
In response to the challenge of efficiently assessing the increasing number of vulnerabilities, PRIOn has developed NLP models automating the prediction of CVSS vectors and base scores . These models leverage textual vulnerability descriptions (public or private) to provide a CVSS vector/base score output, addressing the time and resource constraints associated with manual assessments.
It is december. The nights are quickly growing very long. For the next few months I will travel to work before dawn and return home after sunset. And the cold will soon mean i dont go out much during the day. If i work sat/sun during a push period i might not see sun for weeks. Since my health is therefore basically f-ed, I guess I can now take up smoking. Tell all those people working on ships and submarines that they are also free to smoke. Or, perhaps we are more adaptable than we think and annual cycles of darkness are no more dangerous than any number of lifestyles factors. Id bet good money that my risk of skin cancer drops considerably in winter.
Reminds me of: "Nobody ever got fired for buying cloud".

Spotify was a stand-out, almost no large tech company bought into cloud like they did, and everyone said the same thing: "It's not our core competence, it would require more people".

I get it, it's not sexy at all to deal in infrastructure, but I've seen their cloud bill and it's significantly higher than 1,600 peoples jobs, even with the discounts they got through committed use and even when considering the actual costs for infrastructure they need.

I'm sure there are inefficiencies everywhere, but this was the one that I talked about before and was talked down in a rather condescending tone. "Nobody got fired for buying cloud" is evidently a misnomer, because if you spend a lot of money and you don't have a lot of income: something has to give. And cloud has a lot more lock-in than most employees.
Rust put the focus on the right place, perhaps not entirely on purpose at first, but having learned that this works they've doubled down.

Culture is first. If you have a safety culture, that supports and enhances safety technology, and the resulting software has better safety properties than you'd get even if your technology had been just as good without the culture. If you start with the technology instead a culture which isn't interested just undoes all your good work.

Look at C++ span. This is a slice type, roughly equivalent to Rust's [T]. As originally proposed it has good safety properties, its index operators are bounds checked and it provides safe but fast iteration. WG21 got hold of it, and std::span, the resulting standardized feature in C++ 20, doesn't have any bounds checks, destroying the safety properties. That's a product of a culture which doesn't value safety.
Overhiring is the most important factor for manager promotions, unfortunately.
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I just love that not only they copyrighted it, they even give excuses for it.
You can't copyright someone else's work, regardless of how long you took to reverse-engineer it from disassembled binaries. Obviously the "rights owners" are not going to take those two guys to court (pity though, that would've been hilarious), but since the only reason those two could license this is that this is a computer virus and no one will claim authority, their claims to ownership of the code have no merit.
I would love it if someone would publish or use it and not give them credit or "violate" the terms of the license in some manner, as I'd love to see those two try to claim their case.
All the data is available at https://news.ycombinator.com/.

As a suggested experiment, randomly select 25 stories with comments>votes, and 25 stories with votes>comments. Go through the comments on those 50 stories and score them for flamewarishness. It's probably a half day's work. 50 stories * 3 minutes each for scoring, plus some time for the random sampling and stats.

You could present the data as a plot of your subjective flamewar score vs. log(votes/comments)
lol why does Spotify even have so many employees to begin with. Doubt it was 1600 tech jobs cos they don’t need anywhere close to that to run the service.
Based on your source Wayland vs Xorg memory usage looks to be within the error margin and I don't know which computer you're running where an additional 100MB claimed make the system unusable.
this is quite old, so I'm curious about what triggered it being posted again, has something happened / changed?
TÜV vehicle report 2024 – Tesla Model 3, most issues (German)
>Here's what Bard says: [...]

Unfortunately, that's an example of where A.I. didn't do a good job of extracting the key thesis of Benn Jordan's argument. Arguably, Benn Jordan himself didn't make it easy for the automatic semantic algorithm to summarize his main point because he's not stating it clearly enough and sprinkles in tangents throughout the presentation.

Basically, he says "Spotify Will Fail" because they created a flawed and unsustainable economic structure which happened because it signed lopsided licensing deals with the Big 3 Labels that leaves no significant money for smaller artists trying to make a living. Spotify had to "overpay" for the Big Labels song catalog to attract a large userbase so its current financial history has been a roundabout funneling of VC investment money (and most subscribers' money) into the Big 3 Labels rather than create a sustainable streaming business where more musicians can share in the pie.

The random sentences extracted by Bard AI hide Benn's core thesis.

The other sentences not extracted are the ones that support Benn's main argument: (1) the lopsided Sony licensing deal example, (2) the various other examples of VC money spent on subsidizing fundamentally unprofitable businesses structures for participants (Uber, $9.99 unlimited movies at theaters, etc).
Well vice versa great answer.

Who planed and executed a strategy like this and why isn‘t it done in a way to not get as much employees which would lead into them getting laid off?

Why getting cheap money without taking into account that the situation is different in 5 years?

I couldn’t care less that growth businesses run into this situation. Then don‘t grow it so fast!

People are getting fired across so many businesses. It appears unlikely they will get another job soon. The situation leads to health problems and has ramifications for people. Fucking management can do whatever they want. They still get highly compensated.
I used to think likewise, until NVidia and Microsoft decided it was about time to make Python implementations actually embrace JITs.
This is like the HN trope of “nobody uses Facebook / Instagram / [other social media product] anyway.”

These services are global with hundreds of millions of users or more. There’s nothing useful to be extrapolated from the usage patterns of yourself and a handful of friends.

(Personally I only listen to Amiga MODs and watch 8mm home movies of my mother while whistling the theme from “Psycho”.)
And the flood reports!

(I'm on the combination bushfire and flood website.)
FYI realpath was not available by default on MacOS until very recently as others point out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514413

Prior to that you would need to do 'brew install coreutils' to get realpath.
Having used FreeNAS and TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS Scale, honestly it's not that complex and doesn't require any technical knowledge to get a basic system set up with backups to a cloud location of choice. The docs are very straightforward apart from a few specific terms you might need to Google but help tooltips generally do the trick, and everything that regular users might need is accessible through a trivial web UI.
I am a cynic here but part of me feels that with such low interest rates for so long, a lot of companies in tech could ignore profitability so long as they were hitting that MAU and related targets.
What are some stand-out ones you can remember?
Agreed, but this will change in the feature when Wine and later Proton get native Wayland support.
> This isn't about rising costs though, this is about the labels and shareholders being greedy and wanting an even bigger piece of the cake that is already massive.

Source? Because losing money every year does not seem sustainable.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SPOT/spotify-techn...
Why not a billion micro clouds, with minimum standards like "anything you put here has appropriate backup with a RTO of ~2 days"?
Why would it get cheaper with a low inflation rate?

Low inflation rate means stuff get more expensive slower. It's still getting more expensive.
No, UV radiation doesn't matter at all for this purpose. The only thing that matters is brightness of the visible spectrum, especially blues and greens. Buy the brightest white light lamp you can find, those that treat Seasonal Affective Disorder are good.
Post-Quantum Cryptography: It's already here and it's not as scary as it sounds
Nah, it was good in ‘04 ‘05. Being able to see photos other people took of you at parties was a novelty and was welcome. It was like a phone book with photos.

Even later the groups function was great for many.

On balance it’s been bad, but it has its moments in the sun.

It was also a desktop experience so it wasn’t nearly as potent as it was when the smartphone showed up
I‘m no business major, I have no clue how to handle a company on a stock market. But the results I see is that leadership took steps that let into people loosing their jobs. Why are shareholders and management so important and employees at the branches are not? Everyone in that chain should be taken into account.
Which is basically the reason why Go has Oberon-2 method syntax and SYSTEM package as unsafe.
I don't think there was a PR drive from the US/Israeli government, more like despite the US/Israeli government.

Remembering that the only reason we even know about stuxnet is because it was so aggressive that practically every PC on the planet caught it at one point. Also "stuxnet" is the name we gave it, it seems similar to another US Govt project that we know very little about codenamed "Olympic Games".

If it had not been so aggressive it would have gone completely unnoticed. Likely this is the case for a lot of state-sponsored malware. (especially coming out of FIVE-EYES).
Not to forget: Government is also a large employer, not just the private sector.
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You should actually read the article. ;p
That isn't what the inflation number means. An inflation rate of 0% means prices stop going up and stay at their current level, not that prices go down. Prices going down would be deflation, and that almost certainly won't happen.
Yes i can't recommend this book enough if you are interested in Stuxnet or cybersecurity. Very detailed and thorough.
More and more it seems they're an advertising company that also serves music and podcasts. I keep seeing sponsored recommendations and I'm a premium subscriber, for now.
The amount of light your eyes get on cloudy days while outdoors exceeds the brightest SAD lamps on the market.
What opinion? It's a statement of fact, not an opinion. The flameware detector is a well-documented and old HN feature:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Do you have a specific claim or question, or is this an emotional response anytime employees are let go?

I already showed you that shareholders have been losing money for 5.5 years (while employees were being paid).
that's not what "less inflation" means
> Photos sync'd from phone to laptop making pics taken instantly available to share via desktop apps.

This isn't my experience at all. I find that normally Syncthing has stopped working, and I have to open up the app, find the remote host (which says "Disconnected" next to it with no further explanation) and tap around the UI at random until it decides to connect and sync.
I like the way you broke thid down.
With “X’ style” meaning “handled in the worst possible way”?
- Curiosity

- Speed, even though emacs with the emacsclient is pretty much instant

- Font support, for some reason the terminal with Emacs sometimes doesn't render as well as it should

- Some keybindings issues in the terminal like Ctrl-Backspace not working properly.

- See if there are good workflows/defaults I could use in Emacs
Use an editor that auto-inserts parens and that indents the code correctly. Now nothing bad can happen. And the parens are used to edit code structurally.

re typing: Coalton brings Haskell-like typing on top of CL. https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/ Other lisps are typed: typed racket, Carp… and btw, SBCL's compiler brings some welcome type warnings and errors (unlike Python, for instance).
Call of Duty on PS5 hits me with an update about once a week that’s multiple GB in size.
You don’t even need to travel - I’ve seen Google decide at different times that I should be getting Polish, French, or Portuguese, instead of English from my desktop in London.
It's a bold extrapolation from two updates though, I doubt it will continue, and I'll be downloading 1TB Xcode updates in ten years time.

Also, I just checked. Even this record "small" sized update is still an upward trend based on when my Internet connection was originally provisioned.
A postquantum theory of classical gravity?
Recent Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/04/wobbly-space...
If it makes you feel any better, I got contacted like a decade ago by these two super friendly guys, who wanted some advice on how to handle infosec/devops in their fast growing startup

I happened to be travelling to San Jose as I had just started working in a company based there, and they were based in the YC offices in Mountain View so they invited me to come over for drinks at this nearby bar. They were very casual about it so I took it to mean they were there with other people, so I showed up slightly later (as they said "we'll be there from 4pm") and it was just the two of them waiting for me.

We had a couple drinks and I basically talked myself out of a job by emphasising that I had just started a job and it would be awkward to leave it, plus they didn't really need me and they were doing just fine. Said "let's keep in touch" but, you know, life got in the way and didn't really.

Their startup was valued at $5b on their last raise :)
Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi
How big is the difference in your estimate, between the bills they have now vs cost of cloud + staff to support it?
There is also a reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/d_language/
Just because you already knew it all doesn't mean everyone else did. I hadn't seen it before.

Sometimes even when something was posted a few years ago some people just haven't seen it yet.
It was improved by adding the 'e'
Plus it’s a two sided market - most of that needs to be created and operated for consumer and producer side, and all the systems linking them between.
Seemingly every company in the "tech" industry is just an advertising company shambling around in the rotten skin-suit of a legitimate business.
Buy a SAD therapy lamp they're cheap.
Firing people is business as usual. I don't know why this is usually taken with such surprise.

It's part of the life cycle of many companies to hyper-hire when money flows in, and cut lots of jobs when they "re-adjust". I don't think this is good, I personally don't like it, but I learned not to be surprised anymore.

We like cloud because it scales in and out: often management don't see workforce differently.
Is the law clear in this? They created something different from the source material binary program.
Companies exist to make money, not to be a charity for their employees.
You can freely disregard anyone's POV at any time, regardless of their gender. I won't stop you if that's your prerogative.

However, I've also talked to people (to women!) on the subject of these dating spreadsheets, and found those discussions to be way more nuanced and interesting than the puppet show the original work's author put on. So disregard my POV (and theirs, and everyone else's) if you like, but I find discussing the actual experiences had by affected individuals to be way more interesting than whatever game the rest of y'all seem to be playing.

Also, man or otherwise, the original work fails in terms of like, plain literary merit. The fact that a man wrote it only comes up because a woman would have been unlikely to make so many mistakes and to have put up so many extraordinarily shallow characters if she were working with lived experience.
How does this help accessibility, though?
(Maybe I don't know enough about HTML. Is the usual way to produce a descending enumeration to write the elements in reverse order and then re-reverse them in CSS or so, which makes them be read wrong by screen readers?)
They tried with podcasts. Several podcasters jumped on the chance to trade exposure for a nice big check. Don't know if it worked out for Spotify or not though.
What a weird world we live in. Abuse of any type is not condonable but at the same time proof of some type is necessary. Provide proof and there can be discussion around it. I am concerned you feel the need stretch so far to attack someone.

Edit: Don't even bother replying, this person is a Elon/Altman hater. The majority of comments are just negative spam against any kind of thread related to OpenAI or Tesla.
Instead of investing in massive podcaster deals, they should have just focused on integrating podcasts into the app in a sane way. I would pay more if it were as good as Pocket Casts, but it's nowhere close.