skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's completely unworkable, offers no value proposition to users, is more expensive to implement and is way more complex.

And yet we still have thriving communities with tens or hundreds of thousands of people who are all pretty happy and satisfied with the way things are.

Because you don't understand what the value is doesn't change the fact that a ton of people do find it valuable. Calling mastodon a failed platform is laughable when we have so many people who enjoy it. I mean that literally, it's a running joke and we all laugh at takes like this. We even have memes about it.

The value proposition is actually quite simple: it's small, it's decentralized, theres no algorithm, it's wholly independent of corporate or advertiser influence, and it's full of people who value those things highly. It is the antithesis of centralized corporate social media, built by and for people who find the modern corporate web intolerable.

What you're complaining about is ActivityPub. It's bad, everyone knows it's bad, we talk about it all the time. There's a great deal of discussion and effort being put into improving it. It comes with some frustrations and odd behavior, but it's largely irrelevant to most users.

The fediverse in general has quite a lot of active users, and that count is growing slowly and steadily. Clearly these people find value and utility in these platforms. Claiming it's an unworkable platform with no value is objectively incorrect.

> Famously, POTS has no issue with spam

You should do some research into this claim.
> The labels we give to others to divide us

Labels are an optimisation, an imperfect shortcut. They are a way we represent ourselves to others. If you don't tell me you're an engineer, I have to ask a ton of questions to assess your area of competence and skill. If you tell me you're an engineer I can save minutes or hours by putting you in a rough box. If that box is unnecessarily constraining it'll become clear as we spend more time together.
> Do you think you have an obligation to eat it no matter what?

Only if you put it on your plate ;)
Interestingly: S3 loses based on their own figures some data every year. They store 100 trillion objects and they say they are 99.999999999% reliable on an annual basis. So every year they lose some objects, but the chance that these are your objects is vanishingly small.
When it mentioned that there was something off about the printing/logo, I zoomed in and recognized it immediately. As I recall the Rockwell International logo has curves joining the angled borders, like you'd expect to see for laminar flow. The pictured one has straight lines that meet at a corner. You can see the difference in logo between the 11450 and '11473' chips.
Climate Conference Head Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Fossil Fuels Are Fine
This is true and I upvoted your comment.

Tesla, welcome to a free country where the state doesn't interfere. Truly a Rand-ian paradise. ;-)
Please say what you mean.
There's been over a year of quarterly earnings calls where executives have told investors about falling supply chain costs and when asked if prices would drop have laughed.

Trump also slashed corporate taxes and taxes for the ultra-wealthy, which certainly didn't help.
There are definitely some parkings where you can only pay with a smartphone. The worst is when they force you to download a shitty app. Super fun when the parking does not have good reception and you have to download an unnecessarily large app over 3G.

I've also been to random parking lots in the middle of nowhere with a cardboard sign saying "Venmo $5/hour at X".
What would you have named it? It seems for for purpose, IMHO, though it won't win any awards.
It wasn't "clever", it was all about cost-cutting, and from a high fidelity perspective, it was a terrible chip.

But, that gave it character, and people grew to love that sound. Maybe it was a fluke, maybe nostalgia, maybe people at Commodore had a good ear when tweaking the circuit and made something sound good out of the little budget they had because they knew they couldn't go for hi-fi (that would actually be clever).

This is a bit like the TB-303, a terrible bass synthesizer that ended up revolutionizing electronic music. Or overdriven guitar amps that became the staple of the hard-rock/metal genre.
That's for developers. But if I'm a user of Debian and I download and install the ISO, I am not part of the web of trust. I'm trusting Debian as a central authority to ship me a valid keyring.

Which is fine; the centralization here makes sense, for the same reason I trust Microsoft to give me Windows updates or McDonalds to give me fries and burgers. But it's no more "web of trust" than either of those examples.
Yeah...I know a couple of folks with 5-figure $US synth collections who can't actually play. They futz around with the knobs and press a couple of keys and call it 'ambient' or 'trance' or somesuch.

See also: guitar hoarders.
*fist bump* for fellow Demon user lol
The only advantage is that it validates that the send composed the message in the case without a shared secret (which is not what the article appears to advocate for).

A shared secret alone, or an HMAC based on a shared secret, just means any party with the secret -- which could include anyone who would need to verify it -- composed the message.

I generally don't do what's advocated for in the article because it doesn't make a lot of sense, I do either:

- A shared secret

- A signed and HMACed payload with asymmetric key
>There were multiple assassination attempts at Zelensky, they just failed.

Do you have an example of one of these attempts from a credible source?
This is why GPG sign-off on commits is important.
I mean, that's one way of viewing it, yes, but considering how influential they are in spaces other businesses are struggling in (free software), having a $34B market cap isn't shabby performance. IBM getting an easy-in to free software via a respected (by business, anyway) partner is a big opportunity, but they'd have to play their cards right and I can't think of the last big thing IBM was behind. They might be able to sell Red Hat to everyday people if they pair it with hardware and have reasonable pricing for personal or self-hosting support licenses. I'm not savvy enough on IBM's history to know if their current staff are good picks to develop a more complete product on top of RHEL, but I can see it having value and success if priced well. As I understand it though, both IBM and RH seem more interested in cloud stuff.

You'd have to be blind to consider Red Hat not influential in its sphere.
I knew a couple friends who worked at a startup. I was career changing at the time, and the company happened to have need of people to do very entry-level programming tasks. I had them put in a good word for me and got to interview for an internship. Got hired, and then brought on full time at the end of my internship period.

Lots of great stories of people really hustling and making their own opportunities here, but really mine just came down to the network I built in college.
By the time Hubbard started his religion, he wasn't really able to be part of a cabal of SF authors. He started his own cabal.
> This commit also adapts our jpeg fuzz test to work with the modified

> API. After limiting it to deal only with approximately screen sized

> inputs, it fuzzed for 25 hours CPU time without a single hang or

> crash. This is a notable improvement over running the test with our

> old decoder which crashes within a minute.

Cooool.
This is a great answer. In particular, demand in general likely became more elastic during COVID, as consumers suddenly had more cash on hand. In that case, a single firm could raise prices without decreasing quantity demanded too much. That would have caused other firms to follow suit.

The assumption of defecting against a cartel by lowering prices also requires that the defector have more supply, but supply was restricted during COVID, so it stands to reason that defecting wasn't possible in the short run.
Google uses a proprietary version control system called Piper
This is a better article, but we have a 681 point, 398 comment discussion from 6 hours ago too [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582
The board should have shared those specific details with their initial announcement. Might not have been enough to win over the employees/stakeholders, but they'd have a much better chance that way than how things actually played out
> It understands that the girl with the profile picture with 200 likes and 2k friends is better looking than the girl with 4 likes and 500 friends.

I'm not very familiar with model training. How does it understand this? Is such information part of the training data?
Crazy, my day 1 iPhone 6 Plus is still working today with a smashed screen just fine! (Not primary phone anymore, still use for music)
Don’t you still have the adapter?
Ahh interesting, I thought this was a calculated reliability rate, not an actualized one.
The fat lady hasn't sung yet and if Sam can control the board indirectly he doesn't actually need to be on the board.
Most automotive parts are 12V so that just means due to economy of scale, 48V parts are more expensive. They are trying to reduce their cost basis by getting everyone to move over to a common, more efficient voltage spec. This is good industry advocacy.
Is it this? https://nation.cymru/news/this-is-why-the-sky-turned-pink-an...
It’s often the starting point for me to investigate something further, even This American Life might mention something and I have to look it up for proper context.
Discussing non-existent problems hides the real problems. And that is often the purpose. Bible clearly says that you should not spread rumors:

Exodus 23:1 : “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness."

It's a sin because it is against Bible. Shame on Elon Musk.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+23%3A1&v...
It's not price fixing. It's what's stocked by big retailers.

Real world example.

Heinz Baked Beans, UK. There are tons of other baked beans brands, but almost every store has Heinz. It dominates the shelf space by a huge margin.

Heinz is specifically called out in the article. They've made massive hikes in price, everyone's complaining about it, but often it's the only product on the shelf for a common, quick meal ingredient in UK meals.

There is no choice. It's not a simple economic choice. Most people can't choose the cheaper brand as often there's no choice.

Heinz Tomato Ketchup is/was in an even more dominant position. Many mid-sized grocery stores literally only stocked Heinz. (the co-op one is a pretty good substitute btw).

While theoretically there is consumer choice in the market, the reality is that it's wasn't true unless you want to go round a bunch of different shops.

In the long run Heinz has done some serious damage to their brand, but short/mid term are making juicy profits as the market is so slow to correct due to the way supermarkets work. How shelf space is allocated. By how the industry has become a small amount of ridiculously large companies hiding behind a patchwork of acquired brands.
My experience is that many established companies are still struggling to get adequate operational reporting. Data engineers are still helpful to move the data necessary to make that happen. DS and ML become useful later once there's a more mature data culture and infrastructure. Otherwise you have analysts spending most of their time doing data engineering so they have something to analyze.
When I saw the demo I figured out that it wasn't live or real but the article does have some nice examples of exactly how it was faked which is good to see.
I consistently bought Galaxies until they got rid of the headphone jack, and switched to an Xperia when they did. Like, yes, there are other features that I pay attention to too, but I've empirically demonstrated a willingness to switch brands and pay more for the sake of a headphone jack. It does matter.
> Most games do this, though

This can be fixed by manually setting the IP in the Tailscale console though, so for this particular usecase I think it's okay, too.
That's actually precisely the problem. People abusing the system make things more difficult for people who have legitimate reasons to be the exception to the rule (e.g. people with allergies).
Haha, fair point, yes, indeed. The most clear form of survivorship bias, thank you for pointing it out.
How to publish a website with Gitlab Pages assisted by Duo Chat (AI) [video]
I'm not the original poster, but yes I do. Sure there are plenty of examples of power hungry non-profits and once in a while a for-profit company acts altruistically, but on average I think that there's a difference. If we randomly picked some executives from either type of company I would bet that the people in the non-profit group would more often have motivations beyond pure power and money accumulation.
The Omnichord will be re-produced to commemorate our 70th anniversary
Are you telling us that 42 wasn't the answer after all?
This video sums up pretty much what most people do every other night. Get lost on a curiosity, google a bit, and realise you were an idiot from the beginning. Nothing special.

Cool to learn Madagascar and India split apart and what these volcano's do with a shifting surface but....

Duh, people live where water is.
I wonder why. I assume because they heavily use objective-c.

I have to hope it's at least 8-bit safe.
I am irritated when comments like yours imply that there aren't wealthy people in the Silicon Valley. I'm sorry to tell you, but the central bank isn't investing into startups.
> In most restaurants, the food itself is a loss leader.

Food cost isn't typically a loss leader, but (American sense) entrees are often aimed to be around neutral because people judge mainly on that when they peruse menus. But that's neutral including loss.

Desserts margins are similar to booze, often. Appetizers make them money, as do sides and upsells.
You'd hope that with such a massive statistical base that the two would approach each other?
"It was also, it turned out, a false alarm. The phosphine not only wasn’t a signal of life, but probably wasn’t even there at all, a swing-and-a-miss of data interpretation."

Why not at least link to the source of such a claim? Is there a paper that says this? I love how a pop-sci journalist can just throw out some definitive claim like that with no evidence whatsoever. As if there's overwhelming evidence for their claim to the point where it's not even worthy of debate.

I have no horse in the race either way, but last I heard there were multiple theories about the phosphine readings and just not enough data to come to any conclusion yet. I thought we were waiting for future missions to collect more data. There's multiple upcoming Venus missions, at least one of which is going to swoop up material from the atmosphere for analysis.
I feel this is increasingly becoming the era of the NAS.

A lot of the time I go looking for shows or movies it’s no longer offered on the same service if quite literally at all. Many of my liked YouTube videos are now just [deleted].

Not to mention any data you store in the cloud when engineer(s) experience career altering events.
I've found laser cutters to be more practical than 3d printers for tiles. I made a jigsaw puzzle using spectre, and managed to confuse a bunch of coworkers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10587
Only if you choose to ignore the iPhone SE, the cheapest iPhone currently on sale by Apple.
I didn't know about Azure Premium blog storage! The pricing is very similar too.
DO NOT SCAN THE QR CODE!

biggest mistake of my life
I wish I had read this when I rolled by first API key management system.

Some other useful points to note:

- in general, you’d probably want to version your API keys (something that wasn’t done in the example)

- I tend to think base58 is less important for something that you expect your users to copy and paste (eg API keys) rather than enter manually (eg OTP)

- In a previous product, we have used a high entropy string in lieu of having a username and password to access authenticated resources. It’s somewhat risky in theory but in the years it’s been around, it actually works surprisingly well in practice.
As a Data Engineer, I feel like a fixer. People think their data is incorrect and they ask me to fix it. It's similar to fixing someone's computer when they think its broken.

Incredibly valuable but also somewhat unfulfilling in that you are rarely innovating/inventing like a SWE. There you are building tools that can change how people act/think. On the other hand, as a SWE/inventor you aren't desperately needed like you are as a DE. The needing can be nice...
Executives are bragging in earnings calls about their supply chain prices falling and how they're keeping prices high...
You don't need it for the DVD anymore, now it's the zillions of cameras instead. The IEEE recently standardized automotive (= single pair) multi-gigabit ethernet (2.5/5/10GE) in 802.3ch…
Doesn't do "hard prompts" better than other systems I've tried. Looks pretty similar to them too.

eg: "horse riding an astronaut", "upside-down mini cooper", "kanji alphabet soup".
I would like to see a fantasy setting that really grapples with the seemingly bizarre military/population dynamics of Elves. The must be incredibly battle hardened and/or traumatized.
US push to turn farm manure into renewable energy draws concerns
fwiw, I've had an OK time using the web version of uber on my degoogled phone
"Once you screw this up to such an incredible degree, how can anyone really trust that you were doing the rest of your job well."

How can anyone take any "AI" company seriously other than as a get rich quick scheme. Doubtful a successful investor focused on management would bother with a company like OpenAI.

https://fortune.com/2023/05/06/ai-warren-buffett-charlie-mun...

The probability of OpenAI employing wackos, like the guy at Google who thought automplete was sentient, is very high.
Irrational conjecture. What’s come of Epsteins death and maxwells conviction? Oh… right…
https://www.google.com/search?q=COVID+wealth+consolidation
They gave a list of characteristics that differentiate one human vowel sound from another, and showed that the whale clicks have all of the same types of differentiators.
Elegantly put! This is where the glorification of 'shareholder value' has got us; it's very unfortunate that commitment to other values like employment security or product quality are considered bad management in mainstream business thinking.
And this is why no one should have anything to do with Google. If the last fifteen years haven't taught people that, well, there's just no hope for you. For everyone else: Stay away from their offerings as if they were the plague.
I have seen plenty of images on the internet where I would gladly accept this as thing. Unfortunately, what's been seen, can't be unseen.
So to continue the analogy, if the staple gun is broken and it requires you to do more than a working (but non-existent) staple gun BUT less work than doing the affixment without the broken staple gun, you would or would not use it ?
> Helen Toner was a relatively unknown 31-year-old academic from Australia—until she became one of the four board members who fired Sam Altman

> Toner graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2014 with a degree in chemical engineering [...] In 2019, she spent nine months in Beijing studying its AI ecosystem. When she returned, Toner helped establish a research organization at Georgetown University, called the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, [...] She succeeded her former manager from Open Philanthropy, Holden Karnofsky, on the OpenAI board in 2021 after he stepped down.

Honest question, how do people find themselves in the board of one of the hottest startups at the tender age of 31? Are they geniuses or is it all about connections?
I saw that video on Youtube where someone decapped a fake chip to find out what it really was.
If only this energy and all the anger was directed in finding actual perpetrators of assault and charging them for their crimes. They are everywhere.

The right loves to fixate on this, yet they aren't doing anything.
“A handful use iMessage”.

Right…
1.1B is tiny.

Given that FB & IG combined have ~0.5B photos uploaded daily, this effectively translates to training data from just a few days of user generated content.

https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/facebook-statistics/#:~:text....

https://www.zippia.com/advice/instagram-statistics/#:~:text=....
Exactly.

Corporate tech demo exaggerates actual capabilities and smoothes over rough edges? Impossible, this is unprecedented!!

The Apple vs Google brand war is so tiresome. Let's focus on the tech.
Page sizes in UNIX and UNIX-like systems have been 4K for as long as I can remember knowing about pages, about 30-odd years.

It was obviously a good compromise size back then. It could probably be increased to (say) 64K without much hassle in these days of 32-64 gigs of RAM.
What support, specifically, would you like to see?

Directly after the attacks the government was overwhelmingly in support of Israel. People do not protest when what they want is already happening.
To be fair that’s exactly what NextJS does too. In dev everything runs locally, when you deploy to Vercel or a similarly capable host each non-static route becomes a lambda.
It wasn't very hot in 2021
Would there actually be switches switching 12 or 48V in a modern car, especially a Tesla? I'd expect the switches to only switch signal voltage/current, and power electronics (MOSFET? no idea, not an electrical engineer) switching the actual loads.
Well they have gone a long way from FP3 to 5. I do not things will be out of stock or hard to repair for the 5.
What you've described are conveniences, which in essence was what my comment was about. A headphone jack is a convenience. It is inconvenient to use a dongle to convert from USB-C to 3.5mm, just as it is inconvenient to go down to your local government branch to change your address. You could do it, but you'd probably much rather just use your phone. You could ask the restaurant staff for a physical menu, but it's probably more convenient to scan the QR code.
Ample Hills Founders Are Out of the Business Again
Not sure: https://proton.me/blog/proton-100-million-accounts

But yeah, I was more thinking of email than code signing, since it's hard to get statistics on the latter I should've qualified :)
> What are the "other number of events"? Please be specific.

Why? Its not relavent to my argument and a full history of the conflict wouldn't fit in a hn comment. I'm sure wikipedia has a big timeline of events of this conflict.

I'm claiming your narrative of events could fit either side. Your narrative only mentioned ethnic cleansing once so i only need a single event to make it fit. There are sadly a number of events that probably fit the bill of ethnic cleansing so i picked the most famous one in the region. It doesnt matter how many so long as its at least one.

> (which by the way is after the nakba so the tit-for-tat theory doesn't hold up)

I did not claim that it was. I only claimed that both events fit your narrative of events.

> what does this have to do with Palestinians being ethnically cleansed?

Nothing? I didn't claim that it had anything to do with that.

> Are you justifying one for the other?

No. Obviously two wrongs don't make a right.

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My claim is that your view of the conflict as "simple" makes no sense as a way to cast judgement on which side is right as the things you mention arguably happened to both sides. So if you think that justifies one side, than logically you should say the same thing about the other.

Unless you want to say both sides are wrong, which i suppose would be logically consistent.