skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well something must be working because I have only had one cold call in the last ten years. We never got very many but now it's so rare as to be worth remarking on if it happens. That one cold call turned out to have been a mistake on the part of an otherwise well behaved company who were very apologetic when I pointed out that my number was on the register.

Companies do occasionally get fined.

I have had a couple of calls from outside the country but I generally just don't answer unrecognized numbers from outside the countries that I have a connection with.
> You cannot possibly review this in one minute.

I didn't mean to imply that you can. It's more that at Amazon's scale, they are surely constrained by how many new items are put up for sale every second. If even just 1/100 needs to be reviewed, then that's a considerable amount of work. Once the pipeline is setup their workforce probably got progressively better so they increase the review/day targets to match. That loop does not have a lot of feedback so they probably raised it too high at some point and this is the result.

All of that to say, it's much more likely to be a process failure than anything else. They probably tried to optimize that process but cut too close to the bone and this is the result.
It's a Maureen Dowd piece, if that helps you decide whether or not to drop it.
It doesn't matter what you, or I, think is the right thing to do. Commerce is a consensual act. I can deny you a deal on any basis. Amazon did not exercise judgement.
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Our cluster has reasonable complexity and yamls work well so far. Maybe we will see what you are saying if we scale further. It allows us to maintain a much more complex cluster with fewer developers. And the software is well tested/reliable.

But not having LTS is really difficult. It is impossible to keep rewriting things. And all related components: terraform, helm, GKE etc also update too quickly for us to manage with a small team. We do some lower level infrastructure work so these problems bites us harder.
This seems precisely backward to me. Programmers are humans, not input/output machines, and there's definitely a role for encouraging a certain standard of judgment that doesn't require tooling to enforce. To argue otherwise seems akin to arguing that any bad behavior is fine that isn't explicitly banned in paragraph 5 subsection D. Tooling is expensive, especially for smaller teams, and should be saved for phenomena that hit the cost/benefit calculations squarely.
These are mostly just investors and CEOs...

Joke of an article

No mention of the likes of LeCunn, Bengio, Li, Goodfellow, Ng, Rusell, Schmidhuber, Norvig, et al
that's a hell of a way to market yourself :-)

Did it have an impact on your business? i.e. was it easier or harder to find clients? I would guess harder, but for me personally I'd be more likely to check you out with such an awesome name, so I'm quite curious
Yes. I'm quite tired of hearing "it's not our fault that toys full of lead were sold on our storefront and stored, fulfilled, and shipped from our warehouse in boxes bearing our logo! When we said that we 'recommend' the product, we meant, like, algorithmically, not for realsies. We had nothing to do with these products! It's all XGZDoo, a company we kicked off the store. And now would you like to buy any products from XGZDee, our latest new seller?".
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i'd consider anything from nytimes and cnbnews clickbait trash that probably shouldn't make its way to HN
> but most places are building like crazy.

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I think I have two things to contribute to this thread:

1. The observation, after going and looking it up a week ago, that the slogan is associated with not just Hezbollah and Hamas but also the Kahanists.

2. The observation that people of good will have and continue to a "decolonization" narrative that posits the dispossession of Israeli Jewish people as a kind of restorative justice, based on the terribly broken premise that Israeli Jewish people are all descendants of settler colonists. They largely are not that, and advocacy for blanket dispossession for those people can reasonably be seen as genocidal. Israelis are not moving back to Yemen.
Are you not going to send it, if they say no? Go for it!
Because I am totally allowed to film myself with a bathroom towel camera in my bathroom. The product is legal even if more than a bit eyebrow raising. The owner of the product decided to break the law with it. Why do we have to sue the seller?

The plaintiff didn't had any kind of interaction with amazon
No idea where they got that stat from because it's not supported by anything they've linked to.

The article attributes the stat to "a study by Business Insider" but the reference links to an article in The Atlantic which: A) doesn't support the claim and B) is mostly dedicated to debunking it.
> Although seemingly innocuous, this made maintaining internal libraries very challenging. There was no way to update every call site of your library in an efficient way. Tools like Rosie were added on top so that you could shard your PRs and shepherd many PRs through a Byzantine approval process.

Ownership is the easiest issue to solve here. Beyond a few dozen clients, you're going to run into the inability to run tests fast enough, and beyond a few hundred clients, you won't be able to sync fast enough, even if you skip all presubmits (there will, in expectation, always be a merge conflict in some file). 3-stage migrations/rosie are necessary at that point anyway. Owners is only the problem at like, 5-10 clients, and when I made changes at that scale, messaging owners was usually fast and effective.
My problem with passkeys is this:

I don’t understand how to use them.

My current workflow when I sign up for a website is to save my login and password to my password manager. This works across all platforms and browsers, and I use both Mac and Windows along with using both Safari and Firefox.

If I choose the passkey option Passkey stuff comes up on Safari and I’m 80% sure that means I can’t use that passkey with my PC? I don’t know how to make sure my passkey isn’t lost by switching devices.

Then what do I do if I use an embedded web browser like the one on a Steam Deck or Meta Quest? With my current workflow I can just reveal the credentials and type them in in a worst case scenario that my password manager can’t be installed on that device.

I have no idea what I am supposed to do, and this is even true despite the fact that I am aware that my chosen password manager supports passkeys.

If this is the learning curve the average person is supposed to contend with I am hesitant to migrate because something this difficult to figure out will never be mainstream.

I would welcome any of you to tell me how this is supposed to work.
Low FPS can be a stylistic choice, but as a member of the audience, I tend to disagree with that choice.

Perhaps it depends on the quality of the execution, but there are shows where I wished I had frame interpolation.
Because it’s not true anymore, and complaining about high prices for a service that is just moving up market kind of ignores the reality that a business can make fewer sales if its margins on the remaining sales are sufficiently high, which is exactly what has happened.

In other words, delivery apps went through the “burn vc money” phase already, and are now focusing on profitability, and successfully so.
>Anyone who has ever come along in a code review and told me my code “isn’t up to standard” will inevitably start a very long game of attrition with me.

standard is relative, and while I'm talking generically as someone on the internet with no context of your experience, a code reviewer shouldn't. Someone literally saying "the code is not up to standards" needs to clarify.

For my generic take, take "standard" as "whatever that team has laid out in its code architecture". Sometimes there may be times to question the standards if it compromises other important factors, but personally I don't think the code review is the time to fight over whitespace and bracket placement (those should be solved via a linter anyway). Make the correction and submit, those later discussions can happen offline.

>A code review simply isn’t the place to enforce your unique perspectives on someone else.

Likewise, the goal is to align everybody, not to argue over semantics or enforce your own POV. That's why code style sheets are a thing; it's a mediator that can serve as its own battlground should team/company style need to be changed. Again, every place is different, but

1. style should be automated as much as possible. If there's some stupid whitespace rule, it should be a one button click on my IDE from some provided linter to resolve (even if I will proceed to re-lint it to my style afterwards on my local machine).

2. style sheets can have suggestions as well as laws. Be reasonable on what is what

>For some people, they want layers.

sure, lawful evils exist, both maliciously and inadvertently. Sounds like you ran into both kinds. Office politics are inescapable even at the best companies.

That sounds like another discussion to adjust to style sheet, not throw it out upright. If you see a bunch of examples of a law being broken, adjust it to a suggestion unless is a strong argument made otherwise. (most) companies aren't a congress where amending such things takes months of proposal, and we can very much adjust the document to the people if there's no resistance.

Now, do you actually care enough to spearhead that change? I imagine many don't, and there in lies the problem. That's why I'm not on management track; I don't have the care nor attention to worry about documenting such things unless someone throws it at me. I'll leave that to those who do care.
Is it not better to be just understood?
Like 0.01% of the population know what RIF means.

But as soon as RIF becomes widely understood, with all the negative connotations of layoffs, a new term will be need for some other nuanced reason.
Yeah, but I mean I assume the people selling date rape drugs do a bit of wink, wink, nod, nod, thing too. Do you think literally a single person bought this and used it as a nanny cam? I think I can imagine, maybe it got used outside of a bathroom, or got used by people play acting hidden cameras, aka used with everyone's consent, but I don't think it gets much worse than this, except maybe for this other product amazon still sells https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-Shower-Security-Cameras-Outd...
Ha! Print that video? Yes, but can you FIND THE PRINTER? ---- I humbly apologize, I thought this was some joke, or errant stupidity. Its not. This person has put some very serious thought into not only getting it to work, but to make it useful. Very useful. You have earned my Upvote, and recommendation. Thank you Mr Forret. Thank you.
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Ah, you beat me to it. Yeah, not only do the link sources not support the claim, they actively debunk it.
No it doesn't.

If you can't keep up you have two options:

1. Pay someone else to do it for you (effectively an LTS)

2. Don't use it

Software is imperfect, processes are imperfect. An LTS doesn't fix that, it just pushes problems forward. If you are in a situation where you need a frozen software product, Kubernetes simply doesn't fit the use case and that's okay.

I suppose it's pretty much all about expectations and managing those instead of trying to hide mis-matches, bad choices and ineptitude. (most LTS use cases) It's essentially x509 certificate management all over again; if you can't do it right automatically, that's not the certificate lifetime's fault, it's the implementors fault.

As for option 1: that can take many shapes, including abstracting away K8S entirely, replacing entire clusters instead of 'upgrading' them, or having someone do the actual manual upgrade. But in a world with control loops and automated reconciliation, adding a manual process seems a bit like missing the forest for the trees. I for one have not seen a successful use of K8S where it was treated like an application that you periodically manually patch. Not because it's not possible to do, but because it's a symptom of a certain company culture.
> Copper is the rarest material used in major applications, but this is relatively less total mass consumed than rebar.

At 43:51 in the video, he claims that an outer layer of stainless steel rebar is sufficient to protect the interior, so the goal is not 100% stainless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... says chromium is slightly more abundant than copper.
Maybe GKE and EKS should make LTS versions.
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I still can’t get Backstage set up correctly.
Read the Redis code base please.
Yes, but that pretty much proves the person is not acting in good faith.

normal use of spycam -> spying.

normal use of beer bottle -> holding beer.
What an incredibly powerful, robust, well-documented, carefully-designed piece of open source software. I love Django so much and I use it every day. A huge thanks to all developers and maintainers.
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The linked to Atlantic article literally makes the opposite point; the subtitle there is "Blaming the housing crisis on hedge funds and private equity may be easy, but it’s dead wrong."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...
You clearly did not read the second sentence in my tiny comment. Hand wavy nuclear apologia is what's actually incredibly disingenuous.

You don't just need to keep tabs on it for 100 years. Much longer & ideally in a coordinated fashion.

If there's such demand for nuclear waste, why aren't companies making bank off of it? The demand isn't as high as you think.

We'll build magical breeder reactors that aren't actually commercially viable & use reprocessing facilities with the same process drawbacks that created some of these messes in the first place? Sounds like a bad idea.

Poo pooing the fears and dangers of nuclear is how we got into this mess where nuclear has a bad rap, deservedly so, from very poor management of very powerful substances.

The realities are that nuclear is incredibly complex & costly to implement & manage in a way where its full potential is realized. That's not a reason we shouldn't do it, but let's stop pretending commercial nuclear is viable.
macOS was 64bit by default more than 16 years ago[1], and has only operated on 64 bit hardware for almost 15 of those years, only dropped 32bit 4 years ago, and Apple literally no longer sells any 32bit hardware.

It was game developers who chose to keep producing 32bit software for more than a decade despite it clearly being a deprecated architecture, and clearly having no future, that created this problem. Developers have had more than enough time and notice to switch to 64bit, and chose not to.

I see HN talk about MS being stupid for supporting decades of weirdness, and I see HN talking about how bad Apple is for not doing the same thing. You can't have it both ways: either you support everything indefinitely no matter the cost, or you move forward and require developers to actually pay attention to deprecation information.

[1] Minor edit, macOS had 64bit kernel and bsd layer before leopard for ppc64 but iirc a lot of the UI layer frameworks (Cocoa, etc) had issues that meant it was not really a 64bit OS from an normal user PoV
Sculpty terracotta would be a fitting choice. It's pretty easy to sculpt when kneaded, bakes in a traditional oven, keeps it's details. Perfect for silicone mold making.
SSDs don't tend to market themselves via description/pics as "great for child porn" though.

The likelihood of a towel rack spy camera being used for ill purposes is substantially higher than an SSD.
> broad share of population in Venezuela, Iran, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Argentina, Zimbabwe

Turkey and Argentina have better options at the state and population levels. (And they use them.) Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, at the state level (but not necessarily population). They, too, use them.

The only names where it might make sense for the state to use crypto are Iran and Venezuela. And it’s for the reason I described: it lets them pad pockets.

Crypto promoters whitewash their work as a humanitarian effort when it’s largely about making money from embezzlement, laundering and fraud. Like, the humanitarian stuff exists. Just as opiates have legitimate uses. But it’s predominantly not, and practically never for a state.

> crazy inflation

Bitcoin's inflation in 2021 was worse than most of the countries on your list. Its value plummeted by over two thirds.
Looks neat. How old a kid do you think would get this? My preschooler can only handle Scratch at the moment. I tried Logo but realized she would not be able to deal with the angles, which requires some understanding of multiplication and division.
PSD3 covers international IBAN verification and will, thanks to regulation, ensure that this works cross-border. I think the technical aspects are fairly similar to CoP as we have it in the UK. Even in its absence though, the international payment flow puts enough friction into the process it would probably ring some alarm bells for a potential victim.
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What are you going to tell your friend if Google and/or Apple unexpectedly, permanently locks them out of their account, with no possibility of appeal, because they triggered some kind of false positive in the "security" algorithms?

Or if Google and/or Apple just happens to lose all of their data? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38431743

These are real things that happen, as real and harmful as phishing.

And yes, I'm talking about free consumers rather than corporate drones. Of course, in a corporate environment, you're not likely to get permanently locked out unless you're fired, and you won't experience personal data loss, because corporate data isn't yours in the first place.
I’m not even talking about artists though. Just Spotify the corporate entity.
According to LinkedIn, Spotify currently has 13,900 full-time employees, with 3620 in Engineering (26%), 1850 in Arts & Design (13%), 1000 in Media & Communications (7%), and roughly 800 each in Marketing, Business Development, and Sales (5-6% each).

Over the last 12 months, headcount has risen dramatically within Sales (+32%), Arts & Design (+19%), and Business Development (+21%). In comparison, Engineering has seen just a 2% rise, Media and Comms at 0%, and marketing at +10%.

If I had to guess, lots of these layoffs will begin to affect their headcounts within these functions that have experienced rapid year-on-year growth, and affect their Engineering function (despite being their largest) proportionally less than these other functions.

I would be interested in how you came to your conclusion of needing only 200 employees for a company of this scale? Any company of spotify's scale will have entire functions that will be distributed globally and working on a variety of projects or products. For example, Spotify has almost 400 data scientists. Off the top of my head, I can't fathom what I would have 400 data scientists working on, but I can easily believe that a company with over $12bn in revenue and 574 million listeners this year could find a use for them.
Provisioning for overscan on 1080i CRTs seems just as valuable as with 480i CRTs.

People want content to the edge of the screen, but not to pay a TV technician to come and calibrate their tube to exacting standards in their home. Content creators need to know that some of their broadcast is invisible to some of their viewers as a result.

Pixel perfect tvs came later, so the transiton to HD wasn't the right time. ATSC3 could have been a reasonable time to change, but then broadcasters couldn't use the same feed for ATSC1 and ATSC3 ... and who knows if ATSC3 will ever win over ATSC1, or if all the OTA TV spectrum will be refarmed to telcos before that happens.
I think the newspaper would have actually been responsible if you tried to sell something illegal through them, it happened, sure, but still. Regardless Amazon is a lot more than FB marketplace or Craigslist. It provides the kind of polished experience that one couldn't create 20 years ago without investing a lot of money
You need version 2023.10 (or higher) for both extension and server for it to work.
Bastards like this being able to defend themselves as best as possible is the corner stone of our rights.

What I think is evil is that the firing squad isn't on the table for the marketing department.
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the "baby camera" part is just the vendor keyword-stuffing for search results so that their product will show to more people.
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"Democracy dies in darkness." Even their slogan is doom and gloom. "If you don't buy our product, democracy will die."
Obviously you can do it leaner, if they couldn't they wouldn't be firing people. My point is that you shouldn't be trying to estimate based on the technical side when most of the head count is negotiating with record companies and producing podcasts. In any case I personally wouldn't be so obsessed with every company running as lean as possible, great way to have 5 people make 10 billion dollars and everyone else just gets to pound sand. In a healthy society companies should run fat to keep people employed, engaged, trained up, ready to fill in as a replacement, and lots and lots of vacation time.
If we assume that 1% of the human population are potential geniuses, then at the moment, we have about 80 million potential geniuses on the planet. They are not always aware that they have this potential. Life and financial circumstances follow a standard distribution. Not every potential genius on Earth will receive the required education and a nurturing environment. You can assume there are more potential geniuses in India and China (simply by the numbers), and they do not always have the perfect conditions to cultivate their abilities. So, if you look around and pick 100 people, there is a chance that one of them is a genius or potential genius. Some of these individuals may be plumbers. They might have interests that are completely different from what you might expect of a smart person. Also, if you consider the number of people working in a company, you can estimate how many potential geniuses are among them. Although high-tech companies may have a higher concentration of such individuals, you cannot deny the high probability that a Mexican immigrant working at Amazon in their warehouse, packing your goods, could be a potential genius.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#:~:text=8.1%....
Dashed for 3 years, it's highly variable. I probably averaged 50% or less tbh. Also, un-tipped orders are weighted more into the pay-by-time in my experience, since you can't say no. It also means you can't avoid slow/bad restaurants, or unsafe/low-tipping neighborhoods.