skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fast internet is not that ubiquitous. There are plenty of people in rural and even urban areas with 16 Mbit or less even in developed countries. Game downloads are extremely frustrating to some friends of mine because it takes literally 20 hours to download sometimes.
Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
I was looking for this as I was surprised that a map would be displayed the way it is in the shared link.
Trouble travels in packs.
We are actively working on reining in permissions, I would not call them "tight". It's just not a top 3 priority, though that is likely changing with the upcoming SOC2 efforts. I still don't see us reaching for LLMs to help us here.

I'm not saying don't use them, just use them as an extra pair of eyes, mostly to catch errors rather than to drive and architect

> get it that there is a lot of skepticism because of people hyping LLM's

The skepticism is not from the hype, it's from experiencing LLM output personally. They are fine if the output can be fuzzy, like a blog post or a function signature, not so much if there is a specific and fragile target.
In my late teens, I accidentally formatted the wrong harddrive and erased hundreds of photos. Most of those photos were rubbish, blurry, and of things weren't important, or if they were, they aren't any more.

But amongst that hoard was some pictures of valuable memories, or places and people that no longer exist. I realised that I didn't have a single picture of my cat who passed away shortly after I lost all the pictures.

Now I don't take that many photos, and I don't let the activity of taking photos get in the way of any experience, but even the blurry crappy photos I make sure are thoroughly synced and then backed up.
https://archive.is/oKsbi
A paywalled article by the Washington Post.

If you want to hear from the people who implemented the program itself, their thoughts and how successful they were, there are Portuguese language podcasts. Maybe OAI Whisper can translate them.

There's plenty of coverage in local media about the issues with the program. Many related to underfunding. Something like 80% less than it was in previous years, according to the comments in your HN link. The points I made - focus on public health - psychiatrists instead of jail - HIV transmission massively reduced - remain.
A s.o. loving to take photos can be a source of tension. I travel most of the year and take lots of photos. Sometimes for my own personal memories, sometimes for travel-blogging purposes. For the latter, I wanted my photos to be informative about the destination, and they shouldn’t really have been about me specifically. My s.o. for a period, on the other hand, was clearly taking photos for vanity and social-media prestige-winning reasons: nearly every shot had to have the s.o. in a glamorous pose in a glamorous setting, and I could get blamed for any result turning out less than glamorous.
I guess to be more exact, Stuxnet didn't break anything, but the PLC payload it delivered was designed to damage centrifuges, and that would have been the module under test in that QA environment
Peterson's podcast is in the top 30. Some people live very siloed lives.
Joe Rogan Again Had Spotify's No. 1 Podcast in 2023
user specific topics isn't the right path, conventional wisdom would be that you want < 1000s of topics.

It looks like that limit has been changed more recently: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32950503/can-i-have-100s... but I'm still skeptical it's what you want. You'd need a consumer for each of them, you're tracking offsets for all of them.

Much more normal would be a single topic here, partitioned on user.

You can have 2 consumers then. One that pulls things off and notifies. Another one that pulls things off and stores to the DB, which is indexed by user ID.

Then when they read a notification, you flip a bit in the DB for the notifications.
My take is: take photos, but take less of them.

One blurry photo of Christmas as an eight-year old prompts me to relive the experience and to browse through my memories and associated feelings. It's like a window through time.

On the other hand, several hundred images taken during a vacation have the opposite effect, almost like they dull the experience. Been there, done that, seen all the photos!
calling it "ancient" and putting it in italics doesn't change the reality
I'm not sure how specific you want your criteria to be, but you can create a Spotify "radio" station based off of any song, band/artist, or playlist. Spotify's discovery capabilities are miles beyond Pandora, in my opinion.
Agreed. I have “lost years” from my twenties… not really lost of course but I looked so derisively upon the idiots with their selfie sticks, as I wandered around with my DSLR taking interestingly angled shots with absolutely no one I knew in them. It’s a fun hobby but in hindsight I think I had my priorities backwards. Every now and then I stumble across a photo I’m actually in and I’m shocked by how young I am.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the author of this piece was a college student at the time. I wonder if their perspective will change revisiting this article a decade or so later.

(as a parent I feel it a hundred times over. I want to be entirely present but already feel extreme nostalgia for the days my kids were younger and love to watch old videos. It’s a constant balancing act.)
Insecure Password Allowed Administrative Access to Electric Vehicle Chargers
Only to a small extend. Mostly it happens in software. And no it's not just "overhiring" (that doesn't happen across so many industries). That's only part of it. We all know with AI we won't need white collar jobs anymore. If I had children I wouldn't allow them to study CS. Not anymore.
This is article is way too old to be relevant right now. Back in 2016, Instagram and snapchat were just developing. And honestly I'd like to see a comparison between this study and a more recent one to see if the results actually match.
You should come next year!
Thanks and let's see what Q will look like. I'm hoping the project will further evolve in integrating it in your CI/CD with PR's when commit requires IAM changes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
> I want to dismiss Rogan as much as anyone, but I think this underestimates the complexity involved. It's not just a button, it's what the button does,

This is the kind of statement that leads to people saying "Should have fired 80% of their employees years ago when service was reasonably feature complete." by making it sound like a big development team creates an unwieldy product then struggles to implement even the simplest of features.

The button is absolutely not missing because of any technical difficulty implementing it. Spotify is already storing per-user preferences - and doing all sorts of algorithmic stuff to make smart recommendations and suchlike, all with the ability to scale.

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.
If you have too many UI designers, you’re going to get a lot of UI redesigns. Probably whole devs working on one button each getting laid off today and in future.
3/4th of F-Droid Community Council members resigned
Where are all the robot trucks?
Extropic announces it's $14.1M Seed round
They would likely accept it if it came with strict requirements that the addicts must also undergo counseling and engage in a job/housing search if they are currently unemployed or homeless. It’s not punishment that most people on the right want, it’s personal responsibility of which being punished for criminal activity is just a small component. If the addicts using these centres were demonstrated to be making real progress towards getting clean and reintegrated into society then the vast majority of conservatives would support them. The opposition is to a policy that is essentially no different from legalizing opium dens that support only the habit without requiring treatment.
I completely agree. This was my realization as well.
VisualD if you're accustomed to Visual Studio classic it's pretty much the same.
Stick an email in your profile if you want someone to contact you. Also, 4chan is probably a better forum for your question. Specifically, the torrents board.
Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 User Manual [pdf]
A phenomenal piece of engineering and spycraft, this implant was the reason I wanted to apply for officer school at the airforce

Shortly after, the Snowden leaks would happen, which influenced my decision otherwise
Yeah, looking at it again it's not as accessible as I remember. It's quite mathy, but well-written.

An epsilon-ball is just a "ball" (circle or sphere analogue of dimension n, where n is the number of inputs) of radius epsilon (some arbitrarily small number). So you're correct that it relates to the resolution at which we can be said to "know" the solution.

With simulated annealing, the cooling schedule dictates how and when the algorithm switches from exploration to exploitation. With a logarithmic cooling schedule, the cooling rate is 1 / log (1 + t), so the temperature approaches zero extremely slowly, and the algorithm basically never switches out of exploration mode. You're correct that this is basically a brute force search of the domain, and this is the implication of the theorem I mention above--ANY global optimizer reduces to brute force search in the worst case.
The start a jam and speaker sharing functionality is partly new and partly old. What is definitely new is that it works well now and doesn’t glitch out.

For better or for worse, Spotify has a lot of customized playlists. At some point, the “workout” playlist playlist stopped being a regular global playlist and started being one customized for individual users.

Their “keep playing more like this” functionality that takes over after the playlist ends is quite good, as is smart shuffle which will mix in tracks that “belong” in the playlist even.

Some songs will play artist uploaded music videos when you play their songs. Their “now playing” widget now shows a larger album art and background information about the band.

I don’t know what happened to the lyrics all of those years, but I’m guessing it was a licensing issue. A random add on is different from first party application support for all of your users, globally.

It’s possible you don’t use any of this and think it’s a waste of time. That’s fine. I think Spotify is seamlessly stitching in extra functionality in non-annoying ways, which I like.
If you're mentioning it, I would expect you to know that motivation behind writing Swift helpers was entirely different. Not that it matters in the long run because there will be even better way to do it.

If you don't, then the comment is speculative, pointless and driven by bias.
The Spotify inserted ads during the podcast makes a lot of sense now. They are really trying to make the books look good. Is this a leading indicator that the podcasts could go more towards the exclusives / originals route? For example: Like Joe Rogan.
It certainly is and if alone because the corpus of all Rust software is minuscule compared to that of other mainstream languages.

With Rust being in the kernel of both the most mainstream operating systems and it gaining traction in the embedded world it would require a catastrophe of gigantic dimensions to bring that tanker off course from becoming mainstream.

It will take time of course, but that is no difference from other contemporary mainstream languages. I remember that Guido van Rossum being asked what he'd consider Python's breakthrough and he answered that it had none, that it just grew slowly and steadily over a long time. Now, things have been set in motion for Rust, we will see where it leads.
> Why is 'old fashioned' bad?

Why do people fall in love? It's just human psychology.

> Further, why should a logo even be fashionable?

Because it's aesthetic, and aesthetics follow fashion. Again, it's just human psychology. It's what people like.

> Sure if I get this week's fashionable hair cut it'll be out of fashion next week.

The fashions we're talking about last for years, not days. Think 70's hairstyles vs. 80's hairstyles. You'd keep your hairstyle for many years, same as a logo lasts for many years.

> So why get the fashionable haircut to start with.

So you look good and have aesthetic appeal. So people want to date you, and in the business analogy, people want to buy your products.

> To extend this further, presumably tech companies want to communicate that they are ahead of everyone else.

No, they want to communicate that they're up-to-date and the right solution for you.

> If so why are they following the fashion.

Because that shows they're up-to-date.

> If you change your logo to be fashionable today, your communicating that you're a follower, not a leader.

Who said anything about being a leader? Yes, of course you want to follow the fashion. That shows you're up-to-date. The question isn't about being a follower vs. a leader, the question is about being up-to-date vs. being out-of-date. Being out-of-date is a bad look for any company. You want to be up-to-date.

> All companies make grand statements about what logos are supposed to do and represent, but then they change the logo, which you can't really infer anything good from if you take those statements at face value.

Sometimes the new logo is a new way of representing the "grand statements" but simply updated for the current fashion, reflected in the current design language. So you absolutely can infer that they're staying true to their values.

On the other hand, sometimes company values and priorities and "grand statements" change, because the older ones aren't right anymore. In which case a new logo can reflect those changes too.

In both cases, what you can infer is going to be valuable if they did a good job with the logo.

Hope this all makes sense.
Or Spotify could have not taken the risk a couple years ago and never hired them. Which is what would have happened in your scenario. (No dynamism)

Businesses take risks. Part of that includes hiring people for things that may not work out. It's really not that hard.

And "fuck-over"? Please. 5 months of salary with no work? Actual working class people would go nuts for that. Get a reality check bud.
That's a neat method! I hadn't seen it before.
Nowadays I mostly piggy-back on someone else more enthusiastic than me who would take the picture. And sometimes I'm the enthusiastic one.

There are better memories to be had if you have someone to share with.
The final shuttle launch seems like the perfect example of what to not film. It's surely captured by professional broadcasters, available for free forever, with every amateur filming kind-of unnecessary.
Yeah true. But at least the virus binary might be able to get passed the heuristic checks of a virus scanner.
How so? No totalitarian government to execute you? I’m pretty sure people have been getting fucked up even before capitalism
Bear attacks in Japan hit record high as hunger forces some to delay hibernation
More important than SLAs is who takes on the liability for these mistakes? With the changing laws and regulations for breaches, do I want to rely on an LLM that isn't going to own that liability?
I believe you're trying to assign a design intent behind sleep. Nature doesn't need this. We sleep because it works better than not sleeping, and that's all there is to it.
What would you have them study instead? If you're optimizing for what AI is least likely to be able to accomplish, some forms of blue collar labor would probably rank highest on the list.
Elaborate? Germany issued recalls and is forcing VW to pay back full price of the car, in response to USA issuing rebates larger than what Germany originally did, and South Korea sent people to prison. It looks like everywhere punished them.
Software industry is a giant bubble 90% of the time, so it's usually the first one to go. But no most industries seem to be hiring averagely to better then average at least as per the JOLTs report.
quite similar to "Mop Theory" -- https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Exactly. Take a few seconds to take a single shot or two to capture the moment then move on and continue to be present for the experience.

It's also fun to explore alternative methods of recording your experiences, writing them down in a journal, doodling, etc.
It’s not that businesses can never shrink but that it should be considered and linked to a specific reason (e.g. a change in business strategy or consumer preferences). If they were, say, RIM a decade ago, layoffs would make sense once they had no path back into the consumer market and also were bleeding cash to the point where they soon wouldn’t be able to make payroll. When the Cold War ended, manufacturing layoffs were inevitable at some of the big defense contractors because the market for stealthy aircraft shrunk and nobody else needed to buy them.

A layoff this large means one of two things: the management screwed up on an epic scale (and should be the first to go) or it’s just giving investors a short-term stock boost at the expense of long-term success. Broad layoffs are usually bad for companies long-term because they signal both a lack of management skills and mean that everyone still working there is going to be worried about another round, so politics and making yourself harder to replace will consume a certain amount of otherwise productive time.
Security and cost tend to be less of a win locally than you might expect. I'm a huge advocate for going local and owning your stuff, but it depends on circumstances.

2 TB from dropbox is $120 per year. A 2 bay Synology is $448. Brand name 2TB harddrives are ~$50, so all in you're looking at $550 for a reasonably nice home NAS. That will probably use around ~20 watts on average, or 1 kwh per 2 days, working out to 175 kwh per year, or ~$52 if you're paying $0.30 per kwh in a high cost of energy place like California. Assuming you get ten years from the NAS box, that puts you at $1,070 for the NAS versus $1200 from dropbox...

So you get into big questions of who do you trust to last longer: hardware or the current storage provider pricing. Also which one do you think will be less of your time to manage. You should still 100% have an offline backup for either one, so that's another $50 for both for a external HDD that you store in a closet.
Without paywall:

https://archive.is/v5UA8
We are looking for a Senior/Staff Android Engineer at amo the newest project from the same crew that built Zenly (a European social network that was acquired by Snap a few years ago). As an early member of the team, you'll help to build the foundational platform that will power all future features.

Paris France, Onsite, Fulltime, visa sponsorship + relocation included

https://amo.co/jobs/?ashby_jid=85d3017f-1bc5-4124-8d37-2497f...
The open-source project is a CLI you can put into your CI/CD so i think a pretty neat workflow where there should be less friction considering DevOps/security don't need to ping-pong on permissions.
Really? Tell that to Adganistan which has a huge drug problem.

People get hooked on whatever is available, and there’s almost always something available, few exceptions are countries with capital punishment for this offense.
I suppose I appreciate that the CEO was mostly honest about the goals and what the business actually values. “Supporting work”, ie operations, maintenance, etc is considered worthless. Near term financial ROI is the only metric that is important. Investments in the long term health of the business and treating employees with respect are of no consequence.

We all know this is true, but so few layoff announcements are willing to spell it out.

That said, the thing that’s missing is accountability of the executives. They overhired and overinvested in 2020-21. Where is the accountability for their massive failure of leadership?
I've posted it because I'm always on the lookout for simple solutions for complex problems, and especially for how these solutions are designed. The post describes the design process well.

Also Rob Pike is a great technical writer. Another example of his style is "Effective Go":

https://go.dev/doc/effective_go
What the article doesn't mention that Switzerland also supplies hard drugs, including heroin to hard core addicts.

That was and is an integral part of the harm reduction pillar besides the opportunity to use in a safe and clean environment.
Can't you store the connection metadata (like a curl request) in plaintext, but binary blobs in git lfs or similar?
I get that this is for businesses (mostly) so every outward call seems to originate from a single number, but why in the hell can't there be a verification that the number originated from that specific business? Isn't everything digital now? Just do NATing with phone numbers.
Taking the title completely literally, I still find with modern AI and expensive phone cameras that it's still difficult to accurately capture colour as we experience it.

I tried to share a picture of some fabric samples get an opinion from someone. From the display, most of the samples looked correct except one - a deep turqoise that the camera would refuse to capture no matter what exposure or white balance I chose.

I remember browsing through a pantone book (I think) and how all the colours would react to the tiniest change to ambient light, something you'd need a spectrometer to properly capture. Displays and cameras have been getting higher and higher resolutions, but the fedility in which we can capture and display colour doesn't seem to have improved in the last 10 years.
I think nicely framed photos of buildings from <Random City> helps complete the experience. It’s also not just that one building, but also the photos before and after that complete the exhibition.

It’s why we like albums and curated art exhibitions too, I believe.

As much as I care for people close to me, I also care about the world we live in, and this is where photos of the inanimate things that make up <Random City> where I went comes in.

I don’t think I have a photo where I’d go “and this is a building I photographed for no particular reason at all”.
I predicted this......their API v2......that was all I needed to see you know they were firing a lot of people......they need to get profit somehow and they have no knowledge at the top....so they do what all dumb companies do....flounder until someone saves them....so cut cut cut.
>One that I left out, Project Phoenix from Microsoft Research, using MSIL for similar purposes, with C# and C++ compilers.

Can't CoreCLR be used for the same stuff?
Don’t forget to adjust for inflation.
At least for when videos are uploaded, I believe YouTube offers that option.
You can also use software to detect “cuts” in the video, which can be used to improve the frame-extraction over just getting six evenly spaced frames from the video.
How much profit does Apple make versus Spotify per user? Android has had a larger user base but that hasn’t made it more profitable.
That's.... not how things work. (Maybe on DSA Twitter, but not in the real world lol)
Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China
Now I feel very, very annoyed. I've been wanting to go for many, many years to any Demoscene vent. Moved to Portugal and was excited about it... googled, found that Inércia and Momentum were a thing or something, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find any news about it, it seemed dead, the site last update was from 2022.

So I was resigned I would have to go to some other country, then I find out Inércia actually happened this year... yesterday :(