skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they're exactly this way with youtube, too.
Btw, automatic1111 was made by a racist rimworld mod author, and directly cites 4chan as being a primary contributor!

Fun world we live in.
Yep, yet another thing captured. Now if you want take a taxi you have the choice of iphone, android and nothing else. Add that to the lengthy list of modern life you're excluded from (including the govt!) if you exercise your supposed choice not to us apple or google.

The turnkey is right there, who will turn it?
It's amusing to point out eggs as some kind of holy grail of how price moves naturally, when the two largest egg producers (Cal-Maine Foods and Rose Acre Farms) were just fined in federal court for price fixing.
found the rich synth kid.
I mean, it's totally fine for a non-profit to "wallow in irrelevance"? I think the fundamental issue here is that a tax-exempt non-profit organization like these board members are leading _shouldn't_ necessarily be chasing fame/fortune. By definition they've put mission above profits (with tax writeoffs as a benefit). The naivety seems to be that the company is trying to be altruistically mission driven while also acting like a typical ambitious/profit seeking startup. Startups are great! Just weird to wrap one in a non-profit which brings different incentives
I did this at university.
It was our first comp sci class ever, we were given raspberry pi's. We had no coding experience or guidance, and were asked to create "something". All we had to work with was information on how to communicate with the pi using putty. Oddly, this assignment didn't require us to submit code, but simply demonstrate it working.

My group (3 of us) bought a moisture sensor to plug into the pi, and had the idea to make a "flood detection system" that would be housed under a bridge, and would send an email to relevant people when the bridge home from work is about to flood.

So for our demonstration, we had a guy in the back of the class with gmail open ready to send an email saying some variation of "flood warning".
Our script was literally just printing lines with wait statements in between.
Running the script, it prints to the screen "awaiting moisture", and after 3 seconds it will print "moisture detected". In that 3 seconds I dip the sensor into the glass of water. Then the script would wait a few more seconds before printing "sending email to xxx@yyy.com". We then opened up our email, our mate at the back of the room hit send, and an email appeared saying flood warning, and we would get full marks.
Nice. I totally noticed that FireFox was nearing 2% rule a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776603

Glad this is getting more exposure.

In my opinion 2% is probably too high.

"There were 5.40 billion sessions over the past 90 days.".

2% is 108 million sessions in the last 90 days.
Have you read, or at least read about, The Silmarillion? Your assumption about their trauma is very correct.
> It is the more reasonable choice to GrapheneOS anyway, given their recent issues with developer behavior.

What were these issues?
These people took chances on their belief in the future, that AGI was coming and monumentally impactful, back in 2015 when the entirety of people on HN mocked and derided it. Even in 2023, the majority do.
GitHub GraphQL Service Down?
We seem to be unable to access Github's GraphQL API service. All requests with a Bearer token are timing out. You can see this for yourself by trying to use their GraphQL Explorer here:

https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer

(After trying to fetch the schema it will time out and show an error).

This has been going on for at least an hour and the Github status page still shows green. Anyone else seeing this?
Wouldn’t this be a criticism of any long-running program which uses dynamic allocation, not only Rust? It’s the operating system’s job to manage fragmentation in the allocator, right? And it’s straightforward to switch to jemalloc, which often improves on the system allocator.
I never liked how `mv` would make new subfolders [when the destination has a subfolder with the same name](https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/journal/blob/main/programmi...) so I made my own utility.

`library merge-folders` acts similar to `rclone move` but `rclone` always copies then deletes instead of using the rename() syscall. My tool only renames and it should preserve inodes.

library merge-folders [--replace] [--skip] [--simulate] SOURCES ... DESTINATION

Merge multiple folders with the same file tree into a single folder.

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/journal/blob/main/programming/linux/misconceptions.md#mv-src-vs-mv-src

Trumps are files that are new or replaced files from an earlier source which now conflict with this later source.
The count of conflicts also includes trumps.
This link is incredible, thank you!
> Because real markets are not as simple as the toy ones of price theory in economics classrooms.

If the experts in academia who spend their lives studying this stuff are so off the mark, how is it that you have more knowledge of how things "really" work?

Where did you learn the things that drive these strong opinions?

Do you believe that economics theories ignore the market forces that you're discussing?

That fundamentals like supply, demand and consumer behavior are less relevant than "cartel behavior"?

I guess I'd just like to understand what you're basing all this on.
> Power steering pumps are electric and have one of the largest wires in my truck.

Most new cars don't have hydraulic power steering systems anymore and use an electric motor for power steering. It improves fuel economy as well but the steering feel is generally worse than a hydraulic power steering system.
The time-honored tradition of escape sequences can deal with this. Unfortunately, we might need some new escape sequences as the current ones are already taken with the traditional protocols.
+1 for Barbara Tuchman (A Distant Mirror)
Pocket Network Is Working on Decentralized LLM Inference
She comes across as a childish idealist, typical of many uni graduates who've yet to encounter the real world, also typical of the EA cult. Giving people like her real power before they've had the uni nonsense knocked out of their heads is a ludicrous idea.

I'm embarrassed she comes from my country, but not surprised about the particular uni she attended within my country.
Two big stories for Google this week. One is "we can't do this AI thing and we wish we could" and the other is "we accidentally deleted a bunch of data and we're pretending we didn't". Seems the two have attributes in common - their execution has failed and marketing is trying to paper over the void.

One hurts the credibility they built with Alpha Go etc and the other hurts the confidence that they know how to run reliable servers. Seems end stage to me, company trending in the direction of IBM.
How about this: I apologize for confusing you with the other poster. And I ask you to apologize for calling me rabid.

Nobody has corrected me, it is a fact that some large employers in Sweden will sign you up to a union without your consent.

I should know, because it happened to me. Decades ago the company I was working for was sold to Sweden. One day I received a bill for a home insurance from a Swedish insurance company. I didn't own a home. Called the insurance company to ask what it was about. They apologized and said a Swedish union had signed me up with them. Called that union and they said yes now you're a member. Told them I didn't want to be a member. They told me I can't exit the union, my new employer had signed me up as a member, talk to them. I called HR and said that I'm not going to be a member of any union. They told me that it wasn't optional and I had to be a union member. I told them I'll get my lawyer if that's the case, and they relented and asked me to hand in a signed statement that I didn't wish to be a union member. And that was the end of it.

Then hackers here say that these things don't happen, even though the union clearly states on their webpage that this is standard procedure. And if it did happen, then it's a good thing. It is a bit funny, and dumb at the same time.

How would you feel if your company was sold to Utah. Then without you knowing, your new boss signs you up as a paying member of the Mormon church, and then the Mormon church signs you up for home insurance? It's kind of the same thing. The union - or the church - might be wonderful, but I'm not going to allow anybody to sign any contract in my name without my permission. That's fucked up.
change board to council of elders and a few other tweaks and we have a ballin' high fantasy back story of a villains rise to power.
well, hold on guys. let's not go too orthodox with all the education and moving abroad thing. People move abroad to the "west" for a variety of legit reasons which give them perspective. Many companies are in the UK and London still is, and probably always will be a powerhouse. Same for US, Germany, etc. I don't know that one can cross out the benefit of having studied abroad along so many talented people that easily. Can you get that at home? Depends on a lot of things, specially where is home for you.
Has anyone asked the estate of Stanley Kubrick?
If Heinz is the only supplier of baked beans, that is literally just a monopoly. In that case you have a monopoly problem, not an inflation problem.

Do you all not have private label brands? I’ve never been in a UK grocery store but it is hard for me to fathom that you would only have one brand of baked beans, given it is a food regularly consumed in the UK (or so I’m led to understand by the abomination that is beans and toast).
This is my dream setup. Awesome.
It is Friday, but I guess not in my timezone (NZ) :P
I have, so far, been lucky not to have experienced much of this attitude myself.
Show HN: Cosmos - AI File Manager for Mac
Made this to browse through my own files. Thinking about adding text files too. What do you think?
She was one real paper of note, and was one of a dozen authors on. Those authors include ppl with significantly greater reputation.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6-e-ZBEAAAAJ
How terrible are people treating their cables? That number is insane to me.
But is it tiny with respect to the volume of data required to create a good model and the compute costs associated with the training and operation of that model?
Whenever I come across this argument I don't even know how to start attacking it because of how asinine it is.

If inflation is a product of corporate greed, do you concede that the fairly stable prices over the years have been a product of corporate benevolence? No, you won't.

The only workable explanation, in Friedman's words is that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Any other explanation is economically illiterate.
All of which, as I said, provide an enforceable claim against those things.
It worked well for his own free speech.
Friday is the 8th. The 7th is Thursday.
I have been part of these discussions, mostly on the VTE side, as I made a promise to implement something that I'm yet to be able to deliver upon.
It's a bit of an arbitrary determination; 60V is the international common denominator on what various legal or civic (e.g. insurance) regulations consider safe; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-low_voltage#Separated_or...

48V is somewhat of a dinosaur from the days when you designed things with a 20% margin since that's what was cheaply attainable. Regular PoE is 54V these days (10% margin), and some more specific applications creep even closer to 60V. (I've seen 57V and 58.5V, which is of course 5% and 2.5%)
Not what you're asking for, but an interesting angle is R Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse books. He has a race called the Cûnuroi who are approximately Elves, and they accept immortality in a deal with a race of depraved starfaring bio-engineers, except it renders them sterile. They go quite mad over the years, and require increasing levels of violence to feel anything at all.
> Again, these are not the densities that actually prevail in Middle Earth

Obviously the author of TFA knows LoTR is a fantasy novel but I still find this comment hilarious for some reason.
Are we sure this is limited to Drive? The Ars article mentions that some users reportedly lost data without using the desktop app at all, which seems to imply that (one of?) the bugs was inside Google's infra.

I wonder if they might have suffered some invisible data corruption issue in Colossus or whatever they use now, and the effects on Drive just happen to be the most visible. Though presumably whatever broke wasn't part of GCP or we would have noticed by now, right?
By not getting abruptly fired in the first place. He ultimately survived with the backing of the investors, but he didn't come out of this looking amazing. He clearly had issues with a number of the board members and appears to have been caught totally off guard by the firing, which isn't a great look.

I think the old board came out of this looking even worse, but that doesn't mean Altman ended up better off than if he had managed things better from the start.
Embarrassing? It’s a complex system and it’s impossible to predict the future when so many parties are involved. Altman started the chaos, but somehow avoids the blame.
SUDS – A Guide to Structuring Unstructured Data
I've spent a decent amount of time indexing and formatting a lot of machine learning datasets that include images, audio, video, and text and wanted to propose a simple format that might help us standardize a format for the data with a little more structure. Wouldn't say it is ground breaking, but I feel like could be a good practice! Let me know what you think.

https://blog.oxen.ai/suds-a-guide-to-structuring-unstructure...
I reread it every 2 years or so. There's so much in there that you see new things every time.
companies are always in maximized greed mode, governments are blaming them for stupid monetary policy and poor handling of COVID which resulted in tons of supply chain issues that allowed smart companies to maximize profits even more
TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback
I also prefer events over a persistent connection for efficiency, but webhooks are far better when the client is using a function as a service model.
Reminds me of the bit in Jekyll and Hyde where it turns out the doctor's alchemical formula only worked in the first place not because of the salt he using, but because of a unknown trace contaminant in the salt.

Also, of course: "instead of bobcat, package contained chair".
Or one day being locked out of your account for violating some nebulous Terms of Service with no recourse. The horror stories appear here too often.
>Think of it this way: two sources of persistent data (your memories, and the source control system) are in conflict. You'd want to audit both, wouldn't you?

Going to see a psychiatrist for $300+/hr seems a bit extreme. A better first step would be to document the phenomena, so if it occurs again you can convince others that you're not at fault. For instance, having a screen recorder on 24/7 so you can rewind back and see what actions you took. Or if you're paranoid that your machine is backdoored, printing of screenshots of the diffs in the CL, reviewing the hardcopy to verify they're good, and then putting it in a safe place.
Perhaps the world needs fewer Americans that speak so confidently about labour relations in other countries. As usual, 90% of what’s being said on this matter is utterly ill-informed back and forth by Americans that despite their best efforts can’t hide that they’ve bought in to the longstanding American anti-unionist culture.
I concede yours is the better link :)
> You're hired on a probationary basis, usually six months.

Where is that the case? I have never heard of such a practice, and I don't remember that being routinely done at either Microsoft or Google.
Agree, should have had (2018) in it title (that's the year of the oldest file in the GitHub repo
Wealth is not zero sum, my fellow HNer - and just because a few news houses blame the effects of government shutting down the economy on the wealthy doesn't make it right.
I am increasingly wondering why anyone trusts Google for anything other than ads and search.
I run my own RaidZ3 server at home. It's rock solid. Uses old surplus hardware and a whole bunch of 8TB drives.

Synology is cool but too limited in what it can do for a homserver, IMO.
I have my doubts that those are good choices. But I would cautiously suggest Stephenson and Vinge.
it's about 1% more convenient
Car A costs $5k less to manufacture than car B because it uses castings. Car A would be wiser to build because you can get better margins, or lower prices. It'll take a lot longer for buyers to catch on to the fact that the car costs a lot more to repair.
Local backups can also fail.
> Are we sure this is limited to Drive? The Ars article mentions that some users reportedly lost data without using the desktop app at all, which seems to imply that (one of?) the bugs was inside Google's infra.

Seems much more plausible that there's something wrong with the backend code for google drive (the product).
Better way to transfer files between Windows <> Mac?
I recently bought my first Windows machine in 20 years (!!) because I needed a NVIDIA graphics card to run Stable Diffusion. But, I struggled to shuttle files back and forth with my Mac in a quick and easy way.

I built a little app for myself - I'm calling it Beamhole - where I can simply drag and drop a file on the Beamhole icon, and it will turn up on the other device. (Or you can right-click -> Send, or type a CLI command.)

Your files won't be uploaded to the cloud, everything is done peer-to-peer and encrypted during transit.

Window and Mac only for now, but perhaps Android, iOS, Linux, etc if this is useful to more people.

Before I keep coding, I want to validate this solves an actual problem.

If you like the idea, please fill out the survey here:
https://bit.ly/beamhole_beta

Thanks!
I'm talking about for regular users, not the HN crowd who can build their own NAS out of anything. :)
I mean, only a handful of my friends use iMessage, but that's because I don't have that many friends.
ah I missed that context and it's too late to delete it. thank you for pointing that out
There's a pretty big difference, though, between an ad-supported free-to-use service vs a service I pay $216/u/y for.
pedantic: Dúnedain
An expense is always someone else’s profit. All inflation, all prices, everywhere, is the result of someone putting up their prices, trying to make as much money as they can.

If it’s not the retailers, it’s the wholesalers, the suppliers, the utility providers, the lenders, the executives, the land-owners, the unions and even finally the workers. All of them trying to make as much money as they can. All of them raising their prices whenever (and if) they can.

Greed is not an explanation, because greed is everywhere in the supply chain, right down to the bottom. The question shouldn’t be why they wanted to (since why wouldn’t they?), but why they could.

Examining which part of the supply chain put their prices up seems pointless unless it sheds light on why that part of the supply chain in particular could put their prices up.
If he gave away 99.99% of his wealth, that would tank the retirement accounts of millions of people, possibly have his life's work be taken over by some hedge fund ("introducing the Tesla Model V8, now with extra vroom-vroom!"), and then get sued by shareholders for the remaining 0.01%.
I suspect it's an accident/unintentional by Mozilla but it's kind of odd how it's written with literally no mention of project start/history (besides ONE mention of some action in 2022, when it was already 4 years old)

I get that this happens with online articles trying to give a sense of being "current" but this is a little strange here.
People use headphones for phone calls not just videos. The delay is annoying. Mobile phones already have lag compared to land phones and BT makes it worse.
Kinda similar, I've been forever looking for this classical song played at the end of Stargate Atlantis S05E03
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ostmot-zVDs

I think I read somewhere the guy died who made the song (and was going to release it), but probably lost forever now :(
https://forum.gateworld.net/stargate-atlantis/episodes/seaso...
Google, institutionally, still seems to have not realized that many users are now customers and not (or at least, in addition to) product. If you are receiving money from somebody, they are your customer, and you have a responsibility to provide at least vaguely good service.
You believe it is wrong to price products according to what the market will bear?
Actually, I think it's a little different. During the pandemic personal savings rates exploded and credit was extremely cheap. Companies realised that customers had plenty of cash in their pockets so could afford to raise prices without the demand destruction you'd typically expect so they did.

You're right in the sense that this idea that corporate psychology just randomly changed over the last few years makes just as little sense as saying customers skimping and building up savings in 2020-2021 contributed to inflation in 2022.
Two big targets are off limits: cops and domestic violence, and clergy and child sex abuse. That's not compatible with the overall program. Diversions are needed.
Thanks! It was fun setting it up! I was originally a network engineer working for early ISPs, before moving on to more of a software focus. I was lucky enough to register my own IPv4 block back in the 90's.
Whether or not the thing keeps soldiers alive is actually pretty far down the list of reasons to control the supply chain (see, for instance, the various reviews of the M249, or the specific small-p political decisions around the M16 design. I've heard first hand accounts of Afghan National Army/Police answering calls while the US Army operated cell phone jammers a few feet away). The main thing is consistency.

If you can depend on depend on your machine gun to jam if you fire it for more than 3 seconds, then you just don't fire it for that long. But if you have no way of knowing how many rounds you'll get out of it (if any) before it jams, you'll just stop using the thing.

Further, a lot of the procurement rules devolve down to "is this supply chain a strategic weak point?" We don't buy our HMMWV tires from Russia not out of quality concerns, but to deny them that weapon. So the testing is done to verify provenance, rather than quality.
Ask HN: How Do You Get over Worthlessness Feeling After Restructuring?
After 5 years working in a very successful product line, core to the company, the Engineering department decided to restructure the teams to decrease payroll burden and my team got dismantled.

It was purely investor pressure to make the company worth more for an eventual sale.

I found out I was the only one kept to keep the lights on a particular system. The system still generates lots of money, but C-level wants to invest in other options. It was made very clear that there's no opportunity for me to improve on it or work on my domain area.

Now Im stuck in a thankless maintenance role and doing duties outside of my job description. Worst yet, now I have to be always on-call so nothing fails.

Im trying to look for a new job, but between raising two small kids and the stress of on-call duty, I dont feel like I have energy or time to interview around.

I also found out that I was kept on the payroll just because of my knowledge of this system. Never mind everything else that I created and that other teams now own and get to improve on.

How can I get over this feeling of being worthless?