skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also seen other dynamics, in which pointing out what should be showstopper problems didn't go as well.

I assume that the most common in business as a whole is a variation on: someone doesn't want to hear about it, because (put broadly) acknowledging it would conflict with business goals or their individual goals. Example conflicts: don't get a sale, slip the schedule, fail to meet some individual OKR/KPI, or expose an earlier mistake of the individual.

Also, the dynamic doesn't have to come down to conflicts between plausibly rational motivations (for business or self). Egos and irrational cognition are also parts of our collective human situation, and an individual's particular traits (or a personal challenge they're going through) can sometimes lead to that taking over decisions. It happens, and we should try to realize when that's the cause (rather than just an attempt at cover for some rational motive they don't want to state), so that we can try to get to rational decision-making.

A different thing, or a complication: There are also be dynamics in which an 'ambitious' person in an org, not naturally involved in the situation, uses the situation to grandstand or hit a rival. And obviously this can affect the dynamics for people who are involved (e.g., person A would normally do the aligned thing for the company, but it's more complicated now that B will twist that to gun for their job). Fortunately, I don't immediately recall seeing an egregious example first-hand, but have heard of it.
The demo is embedded in a iframe towards the bottom of the post. If you are using a browser that is Wasm GC and tail call capable, you'll see something that resembles the gif at the top of the post. If not, you'll see a message about needing to use a different browser.
Why is it that my non union company showers me with incredible benefits and pay, far beyond any union employees? Hmmm...

Makes you think, maybe it's you who confused the cause and effect?
The US does in some sectors! But this traces all the way back to when two competing union organizations in the US (the AFL and CIO, before they merged) had major beef about how unions should operate. In the end, the CIO's model mostly won out.

It would be really hard to do sectoral bargaining in the US because there are vastly different costs of living across the country but each state is required to have free trade with each other. So to have New York workers bargaining for Alabama workers or vis versa would be a disaster.

It should also be worth pointing out that countries with sectoral bargaining also have huge number of self-employed and sole enterprise people. France has something like 2-3 times the number of self-employed people, and my understanding is that it's one of the only ways people in these economies can "opt-out" of bargaining agreements.
Related: https://xkcd.com/1732/
> there should be some sort of consumer protection law against companies including clauses that they can't reasonably expect to be enforceable.

The framework exists; see apartment listings. Add the caveat "no blacks, Jews or gays" and the government will step in to say Hell No.

It needs to be extended to any illegal contract. The burden of determining enforceability should not take civil action from the aggrieved; there's no consequence for attempting this crap in the first place. It's an abuse of process.
If I remember right that game was wildly picky about the amount of memory free in the lower area. It may also have been an XMS/EMS issue. Some games were really picky about what you had running. It could have been not using the extra 15MB of memory if it was not set correctly.
Johnny Harris (journalist) covered this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
Thanks for the tip. Predibase has support for Zephyr-7B, but I wonder if they offer the same price per 1k token for a fine-tuned version of Zephyr-7B? Most likely, they will ask me to get a dedicated instance for that, which is the same as together.ai.
Convincing people that photos and video are as believable as a rumour is not as helpful as it should be.

It is very helpful to some people, namely those parties who flourish among the ignorant and poorly-educated. Remember that the real goal of disinformation isn't to make you believe false things; it's to make you believe nothing.
I find it amazing to think that your Christmas lights are now way more powerful than my first computer.
From a skim, "Project Hug" seems like it was a deal to keep games in the Play Store. That is a far cry from some kind of weird deal to sabotage a competitor's product.
It is my thinking that successful religions are built on at least one tenant of "have kids and teach them the religion" otherwise as social complexity grows we tend to forget the have kids point and the society falters, and this has been an issue with humans for much more than the modern age.

I'm not saying religions are right or closer to some ground truth here, but evolution does hing on the point of requiring reproduction of some type.
Often times I think lawsuit culture in the US is ridiculous, but maybe its justified in some cases. I'm astounded that he only got $180k from these lawsuits. I would expect a conviction like this to result in sums that would bankrupt the news paper. Even if dozens of other celebrities got the similar amounts it would be low. Also this article doesn't discuss the felony aspects of phone hacking. Was it not illgeal in the UK in the 90s?
>“Not sure if there is anything we can do to slow up the franchise community on the other solution,” FitzGerald wrote on October 17, 2020. “Not sure what communication from either McD or Midd can or will go out.”

That's the extent of the "smoking gun" that's in the article. Needless to say, I'm far from convinced it's a "smoking gun" given how short and probably cherry picked it is. Is there a full copy of the email somewhere? All the cases on courtlistener don't show any relevant documents.
It might be that employees were asked to deliver fast mails on week nights and weekends without extra compensation/ overtime.
It's like FireSheep. Session hijacking wasn't new but it made easy and something anyone could do.
> Email as a decentralized protocol is basically dead at this point.

While I wouldn't consider it healthy, it is far from dead. Billions of emails are sent every day from untold numbers of operators, few of whom have a direct relationship with one another. Few systems can claim that level of use and distribution.

Email users can choose from a number of free or paid providers. None of those providers had to request access to participate in the email network, such as requesting API keys from Twitter or Meta to participate on their platforms. This is not to say email is easy or without gatekeepers! This is only to say it's possible for a determined and technically capable operator, whether an individual or an organization, to participate in the global email system without having to ask any one entity for permission.

Again: I'm not trying to assert it's a particularly healthy federated ecosystem, but I would argue it's still a successful one.
I think people just come at it from an odd point of view. Would trying to minimize AWS bills seem morally wrong to people? No, it wouldn't. But when you try to lower bills of other suppliers, say labor rather than compute, it is suddenly evil.
Those don't have a combo of typography and word choice that looks like a children's birthday party supply store's name was merged with the results of a cat walking on the keyboard.
This is intense. I was in high school in downtown manhattan at the time. Seeing these photos is surreal, it brings me right back to that day over 20 years ago. I think aside from that, the curation of the photos captured the feeling of that day and those after quite well.
The morals our societies held for hundreds/thousands of years were held to justify slavery, blood sacrifice, antisemitism, genocide, rape, witch hunts, inquisitions, white supremacy, child labor and countless other once noble and virtuous ends now considered among humanity's greatest atrocities and horrors. Of course that also depends on when and where you look, because those morals have also evolved over time even within the window of what one might consider "traditional values."

Yes, we can be wiser than all the generations that came before us. The premise that all morality and ethics were solved before humanity even learned to smelt iron is absurd.
> "YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE FEWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL DIE."

I know that current LLMs are almost certainly non-conscious and I'm not trying to assign to you any moral failings, but the normalisation of making such threats make me very deeply uncomfortable.
> This just makes it clearer to the speaker

When you say 'just', do you mean you think this is the only effect?

As in the one and only effect of one of the most used text editors suggesting changes to its users writing will be to make their writing more clear? Thats quite optimistic.

If anything, it will make their writing more anodyne, which may be great from a business perspective. But it will probably have all sorts of effects that we won't be able to measure until years after the fact, if ever.

This is like Facebook making little tweaks to their timeline. Just by virtue of the fact that billions of people are exposed to it, you are actually shaping thought around the world, intentionally or not, knowingly or not.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229836 - May 2021 (79 comments)

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635075 - Nov 2015 (18 comments)

An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948082 - Dec 2012 (25 comments)
> For a brief, maybe fifteen year period out of their 100 year history.

More like 34 years.

The IBM PC debuted in 1981, and they sold their PC business to Lenovo in 2005.

> And even those weren't big sellers.

Still, let's not downplay the impact that the IBM PC had on the industry.
That’s a lot of hand waving around an assertion conspicuously missing any supporting logic or data. Do you have any citations? Say, for example, a study comparing the actions of unions versus senior management over time? It’s not hard to find examples of unions accepting cuts to help the future of a business during a bad economic downturn, or executives focused on juicing the share price before they sell, so I think something rigorous would be better than trading vague generalities.
The decision was already in the hands of the people.

We don’t - didn’t - need to elect people to implement our preference.

Stepping away from a politically-charged question is still a politicized decision.
the regulations are much stricter after the fallout from the Ranbaxy scandal in 2013.

And yet 10 years later, problems found with adulterated generic drugs and recalls are only increasing.

January 2023 saw a significant increase in the number of
drug recalls and units recalled compared to the Q4 2022
monthly average.

https://www.pharmaceuticalprocessingworld.com/drug-recalls-2...
Yes, I looked into franchising many years ago and that was my recollection as well -- often groups also sell you the inputs/ingredients and force you to purchase through them to "maintain quality/consistency" which would seem to be another reason why McD would want more volume/sales.
Good idea! I’ll get the multimeter out.
Recently I've been realizing that decision fatigue has been a big hurdle in trying to cross things off my personal to-do list, especially as the list seems to grow faster than I can finish things. I created an iOS app that will automatically select/prioritize a select few things to do each day so I don’t have to manually prioritize or schedule items each day. So far it’s been working well for me as a way to eliminate the decision paralysis and feeling of overwhelm that often prevent me from starting at all.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onetoday-automatic-to-do-list/...
> Every non-trivial production system is a distributed system.

In the HN bubble, yes. From the perspective of the average business, definitely not. Or at least, doesn't have to be.
This really hits home. It was absurd. 12 people on a zoom call, 1-2, at most, speak beyond the introductions.
> This is not uncommon in "new" industries. You see the same effect in cars and planes - in the early years the companies had to "do everything". Once scale is reached then companies appear that do "just on task", which then "take over" that task for the parent.

This is called vertical integration. It's not about "new" though it does crop up there. Amazon is an example of this: Chips for servers, warehouses, ships, vans for last mile... YKK zippers is another, they make their own equipment, refine raw materials all in an effort to have the best final product (and it shows).

> And this is the point. IBM always existed to sell services. Everything else was to get them there.

So the bit where IBM sold typewriters and time clocks in 1911 was all a big plot to sell software services someday?

> 10 years goes past, and customers now already have computers. 10 more years and they have IT either on staff, or on contract.

The failure of IBM is long, slow and tragic. It is a failure to evolve with the market, it is the gutting and miss management of core assets.
> "Vendetta journalism"

Fast forward to today, it seems journalists are increasingly engaged in activism.
Sounds very similar to the existing road infrastructure.
People eat rice or bread every day in every meal. I see no complain at all...
What you're describing is artisanal or craft work. It's a crucial aspect of human endeavor but it's simply not engineering. Real engineering requires a foundation in accepted scientific theory and a consistent body of knowledge.

Call it "prompt crafting" or something like that.
A desktop environment is more than a window manager. Can't remember installing a DE and not having a platform default text editor included as a core application.
If my Spanish translator is correct, roughly a little over half of the n=150ish participants developed at a slower rate.
How did they hack their phones?

I vaguely recall it being possible at one point for an attacker to get into someone's voice mail by spoofing the target's caller ID and calling their carrier's voice mail access number. Was it something trivial to pull off like that? (Not to trivialize how violating that would be.)
At this point in my life, I just don't have time. I basically use either mp4 or PNG for all web "images/animation" when doing web pages. I don't detect browsers or the like. Unless there is some revolutionary new image/video tech, I'll stick with them for the foreseeable future. I only bother with JPEG when it's straight from the phone/camera and I don't want any reduction in quality from the original high rez.
The subject of the parent comment was about AOT WASM compilers - definitely languages using WASM GC right now, and (hopefully) more to come
You mean "judgment", not "conviction".
It's not migrants who created fiscal and bureaucratic hell that disincentivizes people to open companies and employ citizens / become self-employed. It's government that was democratically elected by citizens itself.

Foreigners, on the contrary, often work remotely for other countries, so they don't steal job from Spanish citizens. It's hard to survive in Spain without Spanish, so it's strange that natives lose employment battle to people who don't know the language.
VS Code is in an entirely separate category. This is a text editor, not an extensible code editor.
Public trust in government has been declining since the 1960s[1].

There's a book called Congress and the Decline of Public Trust, published in 1999, which talks about this trend[2]. You can borrow it hourly on archive.org.

There's a paper from 1983 called The Decline of Confidence in American Institutions which discusses this as well[3]. People already knew about it during the mid 80s.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/11/23/1-trust-in-g...

[2]: https://archive.org/details/congressdeclineo0000unse/page/n5...

[3]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2150494?seq=1
One of the first road advocacy organizations in the United States was started by a coalition of farmers and bicyclists, before the car became common:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement

>It started as a coalition between farmers' organizations groups and bicyclists' organizations, such as the League of American Wheelmen.

Also:

>the vast mojority of people move alone in a vehicle of 1500kg

The total number of cars in the world is estimated at around 1.5 billion. The population is around 8 billion. In fact, the vast majority of people do not own a car. This article focuses largely on road construction in less developed countries, such as Nepal.
I might have missed it, but I don't recall seeing anywhere that they identified a specific person who was doing the hacking so I'm not sure who they would criminally charge. I believe it was definitely illegal as they had a computer misuse act in 1990.
My memory is really bad for this kind of thing, sorry. I think some of Keigo Higashino's recent translated works have this kind of physicality in their mysteries, but I'd have to reread them to remember ahahaha. (But on the enjoyment angle, I do really like Higashino's works, so I do recommend them if you like mysteries)
A lot of people overseas have the idea that British newspapers are prestigious titans of journalism due to how old and widespread they are, and I could scream from the heavens about how wrong that is. The tabloids are a dire stain on our society.

This wasn't just Prince Harry or celebrities who were victims of phone hacking, it was ordinary people who weren't prepared for such an industrial violation of privacy and sheer decency from multiple newspapers. And it went on for decades[1]. In one case the mother of a dead teenager thought her daughter was alive because her phone's voicemail was being accessed. It turns out that The News of the World was doing it, it was such a widespread thing. And I'll never forgive the Conservatives for gutting the Leveson Inquiry[2] which went neck-deep in exploring how much of a mess the industry was.

---

The sad thing about the court finding that Piers Morgan knew of the phone hacking is that it'll do nothing to him. The man is mired in decades of scandal and certain connections he made allowed him to bounce back every time. That, and the tabloid industry has an incentive not to act against their own lest all their dirty secrets get out there.

I could talk about Morgan all day, but I'm still in awe at how we let him recover his career after 2004. He put British soldiers at risk when he published faked photos of British soldiers torturing Iraqis, and when they were found as fake, he outright refused to apologise for it and got fired. That ought to be a career-ending move, but having connections with Murdoch lets you get away with anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_news_media_phone_h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry
And this is why one shouldn't use biometrics.
I could see value in unions in some industries, but I would actively fight against one as a software engineer. I completely agree with the rest of your comment, this has become a new virtue signal, and a way for the worst among us to leech away value and hold us back.

But I doubt you’ll get any advice for stopping it here. hn has turned into a midwit reddit when it comes discussion quality. I assume you should be allowed to continue working without joining the union or paying their dues.
There are lots ways to make LLMs more efficient:

- Pruning

- Distillation

- Sparse transformers

- Mixture or experts

- Quantizations

My understanding is that none of these are free and they all come with various trade offs.

For example MOE lets Mistral beat similarly sized models, and the inference performance stays close (only an incremental increase). But the training time is way more than a typical 7B model.

But which of these approaches gives the most bang for the buck?

Also consider it’s not either/or many of these techniques can be combined.

And maybe worst of all, some of the testing that can be done to find out doesn’t give the same answer with smaller/toy models.
Works fine. It'll work better once they finish the terrain overhaul they're working in.
sure, but you can fill the drain bucket with enough water to keep it from boiling over
I think we can get support for a 2 mile large Lego Death Star hauled up by NASA and assembled in orbit - write your congressman now !
So all of the comments I've seen so far are (predictably) armchair snark from both sides of the political spectrum. Perhaps the reason for this is that there is a very conspicuous lack of information here. For all we _actually_ know, this could be a fake account posting a fake announcement to a fake twitter.

1. Why did the Fastmail employees decide to form a union? Were the working conditions poor? Was the pay below market rate? Abnormal working hours? Not enough vacation or maternal/paternal leave?

2. Has Fastmail released a statement on this? What is their position?

3. Who comprises the leadership of this union?

4. What is the charter or mission of the union? (What are they seeking to accomplish or remedy?)

5. What percentage of Fastmail workers are members of the union? (Does the union have a target membership percentage?)

6. Is the union seeking to renegotiate the employment contracts of its members at this time? If not, are they expecting to in the future?

7. Will it be possible to work at Fastmail in the future without being a union member, or will union membership be (formally or informally) compulsory?

8. Who are the members of the union? (By job type, I mean. Engineers? HR? Janitorial staff? Managers?)

9. Does the union charge dues and how much?

10. Are there union meetings and if so, how often?

11. What action can a union member take if they disagree with a union decision, or the overall direction the union is taking?
What are you unhappy about with the webmail?
The Postgres Playground: BYOS (Bring Your Own SQL)
Have you tried it? It's better than mint, which is what I used before for an "Im too busy programming to be assed with Linux configuration" distro
@dang - could you change the title of this? It is factually wrong. The spacecraft is still communicating with Earth.

This gives information (and may be a better link anyway):

"Engineers Working to Resolve Issue With Voyager 1 Computer" (Dec. 12, 2023)

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/12/12/engineers-working-...
What are the problems at Boeing which you see as union-related?
> And it's not possible to simply argue to use older designs to last longer in a new mission, because you would give up multiple orders of magnitude of data collection.

Why not both?

The heavy parts of the probe, then or now, were presumably not the electronics themselves so much as the physical structure, the power system, etc etc.

If you were designing a probe to last fifty, a hundred years, why not include series of fallbacks of the electronics to simpler and more basic systems, so that you could still get something out of it, after the primary state-of-the-art electronics fail?
And off-by-one errors. :-)