skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that Venezuela was totally fine with Guyana being the way it is for 100 years but now that there's oil. They're all REAL SHIT? meme.
I think, sometimes, buying the competition and killing it is the intended effect. Especially if you're as anti-competitive as Microsoft.
He's the Vice President of the D Language Foundation, although he's not contributing as he used to.
I was thinking the same thing. Extraction and basic formatting of information from human language is something that LLMs excel at. Especially if the result is being shown to a human so small mistakes can be tolerated.
> and if you think ai isn’t going to be intelligent

With due diligence and careful selection pigs can eventually fly.
The concept has a long history going back to the 1940s (Pitts and McCulloch) and was based on their ideas at the time about how neurons in the brain functioned. That's why the association with the brain is still with us, even if our biological and neurological understanding has evolved.

I wish the industry would be more transparent about where all these brilliant ideas come from (spoiler alert: academics from the 1930s-70s, not "genius founders").
Doesn't the absence of fibre lead to the opposite: a pleasant stream out the ass?
I setup storage and replication for my father between Florida (primary) and a midwest state (secondary) using two Synology NAS devices. 30TB (VMs and install images because he likes to tinker with tech being retired, as well as lifelong personal data) corpus he was carrying with him on external drives, ~50TB usable after accounting for RAID whatnot. To store this in Backblaze B2 was going to be $180/month ($6/TB). He breaks even in ~6 months at ~$1200 for equipment outlay. Power costs are immaterial outside of California (less than 10 cents/kwh at both sites, rooftop solar on both properties, YMMV).

I really wanted the cloud solution to win, because I am not around often and don't have time to troubleshoot mouse trap tech setups. I can twiddle cloud primitives from anywhere, which is very appealing for obvious reasons. But in this case, the math was clear.

(no affiliation with Synology or Backblaze, but a big fan of both, infra/devops engineer in a past life, I also pay for Dropbox personally)
CIAM and the Trust Thermocline
Are you happy to post this having read the whole thing or just the headline?

I've read this article since everyone here kept quoting it.

It contains two "criticisms".

First Porto's well connected mayor, Rui Moreira, and his people, saying that the problem is out of control. It very likely is, in Porto. I live there and it's kind of shit since the pandemic.

The second one (and in my view the only one that matters) is by the architect of the program Joao Goulao.

"João Goulão — head of Portugal’s national institute on drug use and the architect of decriminalization — admitted to the local press in December that “what we have today no longer serves as an example to anyone.” Rather than fault the policy, however, he blames a lack of funding.

After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs."

So yeah here's the thing.

No one is having second thoughts about the program, they've just massively defunded it to the point its architect says it barely works, and the Porto mayor got to complain about it to the Washington Post, likely because he has a really good PR company.

That's it.

Rui Moreira is not even a part of any major party.

No data on Portuguese support for the program is ever mentioned.

No major politician is ever quoted.

The statement that "the Portuguese are having second thoughts" remains unsourced, unless you are talking about Rui Moreira.
> Meanwhile Rust managed to appeal to the pragmatists by saying "we know you use C and C++ because of the performance despite the issues with it. Why don't you try a language with the same performance, which also fixes some of the issues (buffer overflows above all) at compile time".

And introduces a straight jacket that avoids valid patterns from being used and makes binding C++ a hell.
Rule of thumb is double. So if you're average total comp is $150k then total cost for each of those employees is $300k/employee (office, expenses, HVAC, insurance, etc..)
A big reason the Romans stopped using concrete is because they no longer wanted to build projects that needed concrete. r/AskHistorians has a good post on this...

Why Was "Roman Concrete" Not Used for Centuries After the Fall of the Empire?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d79rpp/why_w...
I wonder why they force podcasts so much. I've never listened to them, and I'm sure they have that data, and the recommendations are way, way off anything I'd consider listening to.
It's also in the (1998) Metal Gear Solid game, where the protagonist is the unknowing carrier of a virus deadly only to specific key people.
> Corporations raking in higher and higher profits,

To what is this claim responding? Spotify only turned a profit in 1 of the last 5 quarters. It has never turned an annual profit.

I actually think the story is quite different here. Tech companies had been hiring like drunken sailors leading up to the pandemic. They're only in the last year rationalizing down to levels that are necessary and productive. I have close friends at a few FAANGs and the stories of bureaucracy, bloat, and entitlement are mind blowing. Meta/Facebook made the right move by taking a hatchet to middle management. Let's hope the other big ones do the same before the plague spreads further.
Thank you for your response. I will try to do something about blank values.

As for the other features, I think I will stop here only, as I created this to give a rough estimation rather than a complete breakdown.
There are amazing tools out there that do an excellent job at EMI, graph, prepayment, etc.

This tool won't give you a precise answer but can give you a high-level estimate that you are not straining your finances. Keep a look at those red values
No they aren't irredeemable, or at least weren't always.

This doesn't respect the power of the radicalization pipeline and let's others escape accountability for their part such as avoiding conflict when their friend says a racial slur or joins an incel forum rather than providing a less extreme take.
Citadel.

Chicago has been a big centre for developers for finance companies for a long time. Hedge Funds, Market Makers, Asset Managers etc.
> Citation here says the avg was 125.000[0]

My comment you are referring to.

For the record, I used Glass Door, checked mostly Stockholm, but Paris, Barcelona, and Helsinki all seems to be in a similar range.

which lists most roles (including managers and senior engineers) as making less than SEK 1M ($98k) per year, most in the $75-$87k range it seems. Add on office space and equipment and other costs of roughly $30k per year and you got something like the above number.
Are the economies of scale really that aggressive here? A feature-rich cloud solution ending up cheaper than self-hosted by around 10% just using napkin math?
I don't use those, I use liquid dishwashing gel.
Sure, but the OP is about heavy drugs. Antidepressant use is not illegal.
I was about to go to a psychologist in the next few weeks because I can't function socially anymore and I'm depressed, but your comment made me rethink my choice. Maybe I just have to live with my problems if psychology is just astrology and I can't get help even from them. Now I feel worse but thanks for stopping me from doing something that probably would be useless...
I think you are right. If electric vehicles continue to gain steam, this will become the #1 seller in America, displacing the F series pickup.
I feel a lot of my faith in public health scientists was also burned.
Interesting points. But I do question the assertion that humans are innately more willing to trust natural language interfaces.

Humans are evolutionarily primed both to trust and to distrust other humans depending on context.

It might actually be easier to flip the bit and distrust the creepy uncanny valley personal assistant than it is to "distrust" a faceless service that purports to be an objective tool.
When you overpay massively for IP, you have no choice but to shove it down people's throats in the hope that even 1% decide to subscribe.
Well I just googled and Valve has 1,139 employees, and Spotify will now have 7,800 - It's nowhere near 20x.

Still a big gap, although I suspect they are very different offerings and companies. Differences include:

* Spotify needs to sell ads (to support it's free tier). This requires engineering and people to sell the ads.

* Spotify is in a more competitive market than Steam (who have a nearly de-facto monopoly) so more advertising/marketing effort is required.

* Interfacing with the entire global music industry takes time and resource.

There may also be differences to the extent these companies outsource and use contractors which could make it more difficult to see actual headcount.
> Research shows that 95% of the permissions granted to users aren't used

These would be the "s3:*" and "Resources: *" scoped permissions I assume? I can't imagine users are explicitly typing out permissions, 95% of which are not relevant for the task.

> which creates huge problems

Such as? What is the material impact of a workflow or a user having too many permissions?

> and is a reason for spending millions in security tools

Are you claiming that overscoped IAM permissions alone are responsible for 1M+ security tooling bills in companies? Would you be willing to share information on which tools these are?
yes, and sometimes someone can post some helpful background or relevant details.

that doesn't seem to be happening here.
No, $0 is a full path when invoked via $PATH.
If I were going to use ChatGPT to generate my IAM policies, why do I need a middleman to do that?
The poor today are the middle class of 15-20 years ago and the kings of 300 years ago.

It’s not perfect but a rising tide does raise all ships.

Regarding the ultra wealthy, the disparity was actually greater in the past.

All that said, you distribute wealth by reducing taxes on the poor and increasing it on wealthy. Alternatively, shifting the growth differential such that the poor grow faster than the wealthy (hard in a capitalistic economy). That said, I don’t see the wealth disparity as a problem itself; if you have the top 1% gain more wealth but it’s easier to become the top 1% or the top 1% rotates out often it’s probably better
Location: Toronto/GTA, Ontario, Canada

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I've been deep into using and developing on top of LLMs for the past year. Learned Typescript / Node. Previous daily go-to was Python. Before that, Unity/C# and C++. Helped ship https://ollie.ai . Side-projects include AISH3 LLM / notes playground (https://github.com/jawa0/aish3), building a personal assistant robot (C++ video streaming). Have done research in an ML + neuroscience lab (http://www.jzlab.org/). Shipped multiple hit mobile games, in the past.

Looking for Machine Learning Engineer roles, Senior Developer roles, back-end developer roles, and data analysis roles. Would be super down to work on programming assistants, embodied assistants, spatial computing, etc. The game-development, tool programming, and teaching experience mean I have skills overlap with design and product management.

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I think the catalogue is just as good, but searching can be more difficult.
The main problem with packaging julia is that it requires a custom version of LLVM (since LLVM ships breaking versions every 2 years and doesn't do downstream testing for projects other than Clang). Lots of linux distros have repeatedly tried shipping Julia with random LLVM versions and as a result, shipped broken Julia versions to people.
> but currently everything is done manually and it shows that doesn't work well

If it is all done manually, and there are both good and bad IAM setups, can you really extrapolate to "manual" being the root cause? How can you even get an LLM to produce secure policies without having existing secure policies to train on? The entire premiss seems off and misleading to me

I would expect a hands-off approach to have worse outcomes
That's a different use and meaning of the word trust. The essay is specifically talking about the difference between interpersonal trust (the sort of trust that might be captured by a poll about whether people trust businesses vs. government) and societal trust (which is almost invisible -- it's what makes for a "high trust" or "low trust" society, where things just work vs. every impersonal interaction is fraught with complications).
When static types make your code shorter
Your question was "What the heck makes you think that heroin and AD use is related?", and I answered. I didn't say they were illegal, I just showed that while some type of substance abuse went down, another type went up. Both related to mental health issues. I don't think this is some wild take.
Python JIT compilers don't exist in a vacuum. If you want one to take over, it needs to be worth using. So comparing the performance of that JIT compiler to C performance is very relevant, since the goal has to be to replace code which was written in C with Python code.

At the same time though, because Python has such a tremendously big ecosystem, all written in C, and targeting specifically the CPython interpreter ABI, even if you make a JIT compiler that is as fast as C, it'd also need to support the CPython interpreter ABI, otherwise it'd never catch on because the JIT compiled implementation of the language would have to start fresh with almost no ecosystem support.

The situation is even worse if we take the realistic view that such a JIT compiler will make some serious performance compromises relative to the existing C code everywhere in the ecosystem, and the fact that the CPython interpreter ABI is so entangled with the internal implementation details that it's impossible to support in a way that's even approaching being performant.
Recently I just wrote a basic tutorial on building a real time chat web application using htmx: https://dev.to/viiik/making-a-real-time-chatroom-app-with-cl...

Minimal html, like just a couple of lines including regular html boilerplate.

The amazing thing of libraries like turbo or htmx is the client complexity does not increase with feature complexity.
I'm in the same boat. Not to mention security concerns that often crop up in (interpreted) language specific deserialization (I'm looking at you, pickle, thinly veiled `eval()`). I agree that CBOR should generally be the serialization tool of choice for self-describing data (ie. in places where you might otherwise choose JSON).

And if your language of choice doesn't have a CBOR lib, CBOR is fairly easy to implement and writing a encoder/decoder is very fun! I recently completed my implementation for the Gerbil Scheme language last week [0].

[0]: https://github.com/chiefnoah/gerbil-cbor
I think we're facing a perfect storm of the end of an era (easy VC money), the commodization of a job (web dev), and the fear of the unknown (is AI going to make us all obsolete). I don't think those jobs are coming back. The world didn't really need them to begin with, companies were just hoping to profiteer off the covid boom and remote workers. That's over now...

The extreme enshittifcation of big tech from Alphabet to X is a sign of how desperate companies are getting. The advertising bubble finally burst and I don't think it's coming back.

All the money is probably going to chase AI instead, but there's only room there for a few huge companies and chipmakers instead of a bunch of tiny startups, unless someone actually designs a novel method that doesn't take insane capital.

For myself, I've decided to use this opportunity to try to go back to school and get out of coding altogether. Just kinda burnt out after twenty years.
If it's not vim then it's likely emacs. If not emacs then prob some other console based text editor.

Unlikely for you to be vscode or jetbrains the performance profiles on that are too slow for you plus it's closed source. But at this point it doesn't matter what you say because I wouldn't think you're being honest.

>You can use VS Code on Linux, install XFCE and skin it as macOS, and install Tilix instead of iTerm2. Now it is the same thing.

Yeah I can see you saying that. Just reskin Linux and you can have any operating system you want. Windows, Android, macOS... You name it. Maybe you can reskin some Linux distro into openBSD then from there reskin that into macOS. Oh wait a minute.

You can solve the all problems with this technique. Just reskin Linux into anything and then the world will only need one operating system. Makes perfect sense. Not.
Less reach with Spotify
Just because EU has weaker consumer protection in areas it actually matters than USA (preferring performative legislation such as GDPR, but I digress) doesn't mean the rules don't apply. They just don't apply to the severity you personally think is fit.
My exact feelings... It seems like some nice events are happening around, but I have trouble keeping myself in the loop.

I tried to use Meetup and find events, but I didn't have good luck filtering off events (especially ones happening in months or even weeks).
You can always pay more for a different car, but they won't make that many because they're not profitable, so expect a long wait
i loved the 6809 - more addressing modes than you could shake a stick at, but most of the assembler code i wrote in the 1980s was for the Z80 (which i also liked) and the 6502 (which i didn't).
The music is propertiary. Even recordings of Mozart is unless the recording is older than an ever increasing limit of a bazillion years.
You don't really need the centrifuge, just the inverter.

I was working in industrial control and automation at the time, there were sweeping changes to what could and could not be done and by whom at every level.

Old drives of all manufacturers that sat unused were audited and had to be brought up-to-date before any sale or change of hands could occur, serials were noted etc etc.

Never felt like a manufacturer decision since it occurred in unison almost globally.
One challenge will be similar to self driving cars. The error / fatality rates need to be several orders of magnitude lower than for human operators for it to be acceptable.
They were there 'cause the US knew they'd be needed. I don't think they've been anything besides shooting down drones attacking shipping... but they don't really exist to be neutral bystanders.
It's the end of the internet service software business cycle. This plus a ton of unprofitable VC funded companies unable to get the funding they were hoping to get with interest rates up lead to a massive pullback.

Will things change next year? Maybe if some IPOs hit and the VC pump and dump pipeline gets back up and running.
“hidden exploitation”

Its going to be challenging to detect AI intent when it is sharded across many sessions by a malicious AI or bad actors utilizing AI. To illustrate this, we can look at TikTok, where the algorithmic ranking of content in user feeds, possibly driven by AI, is shaping public opinion. However, we should also consider the possibility of a more subtle campaign that gradually molds AI responses and conversations over time.

This could be be gradually introducing biased information or subtly framing certain ideas in a particular way. Over time, this could influence how the AI interacts with users and impacts the perception of different topics or issues.

It will take narrowly scoped, highly tuned single-purpose AI to detect and address this threat, but I doubt the private sector has a profit motive for developing that tech. Here's where legislation, particularly tort law, should be stepping in - to create a financial incentive.
> The button is missing for a business reason: They want their purchase of Rogan to be a success because they've spent a lot of money on it.

Precisely. If everybody was opted out by default, podcast growth would be anemic, and the product managers would find themselves on the list of people losing their jobs.
Yeah, where I live (NL), it's required to be something like "group people into roles, then let people go in reverse order of seniority (i.e. LIFO) within those roles."
Nah man. It's a race. I finish first, I win. I win every time.
> No it's not, it has hit multiple usage records this year.

Really? I’m not sure I believe it.

Elon promised to get rid of the bots, but when I briefly stick my toe in that open sewer, I get the impression that there is a lot of astroturfing.
The classic observation is comparing the histrionics about TikTok to the big yawn about countless data brokers who can (and almost certainly do) sell much more sensitive data to China+everyone in bulk, continuously.
Anytime I see layoffs like this, All I hear is "We hired for the sake of hiring when money was cheap and we wanted to signal 'growth', But now reality has set in and we need our employees to serve a purpose beyond simply headcount".

In my opinion they did these employees a disservice by hiring them in the first place. We need our companies to act more responsibly regardless of the price of capital. Innovate sure, but don't fill up your tank when gas is cheap just to do doughnuts in the parking lot.
Is that a counter example? I thought a counter example would refute the notion that 50 years is not a sufficiently long time frame for considerable change to occur.
Resistance is futile. The EU will regulate your holodeck
Russia maybe have the numbers, but the troops and equipment they're fielding today in Ukraine is not equal to what they were fielding two years ago.
The inspiration isn't top down. It's bottom up.
I don't have particular interest in that. But I suppose having access to poorly executed examples of such is important to the folks that do. In the same way having access to Shein is important to folks that think the world needs more environmentally friendly fashion.

I'll keep using old car models that don't require child laborers removing several tons of material from the earth to satiate my personal environmental sanctimoniousness.
CyberNews GPT
CyberNews GPT is an assistant that provides the latest security news about cyber threats, hackings and breaches, malware, zero-day vulnerabilities, phishing, scams and so on.

https://cybernewsgpt.com
Ah, I see what you meant now. Thanks for mentioning Samsara, I shall try and remember it exists later today when I'm more caffeinated.
10000 employees with let's say 40% overhead translates into 2000 3-ish lean teams. Certainly some would be far larger than 3 person but even then. Is Spotify surface that huge really?
> There is ProtonDB (Or WineDB) where you can check supposed working games (at least the emulated ones) and how well they work.

pcgamingwiki.com sometimes has issues and fixes for native games, but there don't seem to be many Linux users contributing.