skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is potentially a good sign if Fastmail management voluntarily recognizes the union - that would imply that management and employees are on relatively good terms and the union is not asking for enormous changes.

Even if you love your company, love how you're treated, and don't want anything to change, forming a union still gives you two big advantages. First, it gives employees more influence and voice over the future of the organization, and second it protects the current conditions you love so much and makes it much more difficult for management (which can change at any time) to take them away in the future.

Here's one illustrative example: the staff of Politico and E&E News announce they are unionizing (https://newsguild.org/staff-of-politico-ee-news-are-unionizi...). Why?

> “We want to establish certainty and codify all of the things that we like about E&E into this new world order,” said reporter Emma Dumain. “E&E News is the most family-friendly newsroom I’ve ever worked in,” she said. “I feel supported by my editors as a working parent and that support helps me be a better journalist.” She wants to make sure everyone has the same support, no matter who their editors are or who owns the company.

> Leah Nylen, who has been involved in four company sales over 15 years, said that each one led to changes in benefits, bosses and sometimes layoffs. The day the Politico sale to Axel Springer closed, management informed workers that because of an oversight their 401K would be frozen for the rest of 2021. “If employees had had a seat at the table, I doubt something as important as our retirement and healthcare savings would have been missed,” Nylen said.

Less than two weeks later, management voluntarily recognizes the union: https://newsguild.org/politico-ee-staffers-win-union-recogni.... Everyone seems pretty happy.

> With union recognition nailed down, Organizing Committee members immediately began informing coworkers about the new rights that brings. A legal protection known as “status quo” requires management to maintain the same wages, hours and working conditions that existed when the union was formed, unless they negotiate an agreement with the union or reach a final contract. “Just a week-and-a-half after going public, we have all of these new protections,” Snyder said.

How's it going two years later? Well, not great honestly, they still haven't agreed on a contract, but Politico is still going strong and I imagine most people there are still happy with their decision to unionize.

Here's an article about voluntary union recognition: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/voluntary-recogniti.... This is not an unbiased source, but you can ignore the framing if you want and just use it as a big collection of links to voluntary union recognition examples.
I think he thinks he is Hunter S. Thompson.
Same. I know everyone has denied it and security researchers have found no evidence as far as I know, but I'm not letting go. Here's mine:

I was at work one day and my co-worker was dribbling a basketball in the office just talking to me, and I happened to mention that I could ALMOST dunk but never actually got it in no matter how hard I tried. I open my phone and see an ad for "learn to dunk in 30 days guaranteed."

I don't care about basketball. Haven't watched or played it regularly since the 90s, never search anything related to it.
Seems we have finally crossed the uncanny valley…

Hope the benefits will outweigh the dangers!
If you really want to look at the source of truth of why these decisions are made, all you have to do is Follow The Money. Two key reasons I can posit:

Advertisers do not want their products advertised next to adversarial content. The exodus of advertisers on Twitter/X is a great parallel - flood a user generated content platform with content that does not bode for positive brand associations, and brands stop paying. You can argue that it's "puritanical ethics" at play here if you'd like, but I see this more as wanting to associate their brands with mass market appeal.

Secondly, the moment you cross into pornographic content, your payment processors start bailing. This, in my opinion, plays more into your perception that mass standards for acceptable content influence the decision. I can't think of a major payment processor that permits their service to be used to pay for pornographic content, and that is because it's high risk. It's high risk because it's rife with chargebacks. Things like claims "I didn't pay for this!" when a partner happens to see a charge for a pornographic product, buyer's remorse as the truth of a parasocial relationship plays out to an unsatisfying conclusion, whatever the reason, payment processors just don't want to be associated with it.

You don't have to like it, you don't have to agree with it, but in a sense, this is companies choosing what markets they want to serve.
Actually yeah, I vote for this one.
I still don't understand why McDonald's is accepting a 10-20% "broken" status as remotely acceptable. Especially when its clear its solvable.
I have tried it when it came out. It works nice, but wasn’t at the level of immersion DCS gives.
I don't have favorites, but Spritely is definitely an equal favorite for the projects we support at the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Others HNers may also be interested in include:

* Internet Archive's Democracy's Library https://blog.archive.org/2022/10/19/announcing-democracys-li...

* Distributed Press
https://distributed.press/

* Guardian Project
https://guardianproject.info/

* MuckRack Document Cloud
https://muckrack.com/

* Harvard Library Innovation Lab
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/

* Human Rights Data Analysis Group
https://hrdag.org/data-publication/

Longer list here: https://ffdweb.org/explore/#partners
I would have preferred prompt crafting.
This brings back memories. I still have the Falcon Gold boxed set that brought EVERYTHING! Besides Falcon 3.0, it had F/A-18 Hornet, MiG-29 Fulcrum, the extra theaters, separate manuals and reference cards for everything, giant wall maps of the theaters, and an instructional video course called Art of the Kill and its manual. There was so much literature. It was amazing. 12 year old me could've probably taken off in a real F-16 given the chance!
> The union/employer relationship is inherently hostile.

Definitely not how it works in Europe. Unions make it easier for companies to have predictable relationships with their workers, and sector-wide unions mean that a company doesn't have to worry about a labor agreement putting it at a competitive disadvantage.
Fits with my first intuitive guess: it’s implicit regularization (that works as you describe).

Would be interesting to try some explicit regularization. But unfortunately you need a million bucks to an experiment on LLMs. :/
Attempt to Vanish My Article About Attempt to Vanish My Article About Attempt
Email etiquette: How to ask people for things and get a response
And how it's pronounced!
Bron seems like a good CEO. He's come up through the ranks at FM, so hopefully he's fully onboard with the workers. I had an account when they first got off the ground, survived the Opera days, and built their little email empire. I followed Bron and RobN on Twitter and on blogs.

If I lived in a place where there was an IT union like the Communications Workers of America union that covered IT people, I'd join. They are in a battle at the moment: https://cwa-union.org/news/cwa-leaders-and-federal-call-cent...
The associated video has quite a cool intro [0], however after that it’s fairly slow and lack details, apart from perf and cross platform characteristics (which are cool).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAC1KcjR28
I believe everybody should have empathy for people that have been murdered. I'm not American and I think the US has done a lot of horrible things, in Palestine and other places. But why would that hinder my empathy for American victims? Just because the US people show too little empathy with Palestinians why should I stop showing empathy? Has that way of thinking ever led to anything positive?
In learning any new area of study, I’ve found that sociology to be super important. Rather than just reading the literature, I try to be immersed on the community and to overhear what people are talking about (r/localllama on Reddit is a good start). RAG is the coin of the realm in those communities and beyond. It’s not infrequently mentioned — in fact rather the opposite.

I’ve found that learning an area solely by reading the literature
etc is necessary but insufficient because you don’t get a sense of which topics are important. I’ve made this mistake several times in my career and ended up working on things that no one cared about.
Oh wow, I didn't know this existed, thank you
> what is people's typical response and what is the dynamic?

Not the OP. One place, a few times when I was doing an integration with a large company, I discovered a grave security flaw in the customer's systems.

One time, had I done the integration despite the flaw, it would've required me to knowingly code some obviously 100% wrong use of cryptographic protocol.

When I started to tell the director to whom I reported, I felt an initial "oh no..." mixed with skepticism, from hints in their voice. So I explained, and answered their questions.

Then they seemed to switch from dread, to solving it. Instead of quietly taking the client's money, they halted integration, and put together a presentation for the customer, telling them how part of their security had a grave problem. (Possibly awkward, because it might've been a team internal to the customer who had made such a mistake on something so sensitive.)

I'd say that the dynamic in that case was what you'd like to imagine from engineers who'd risen in influence: acknowledging the problem, understanding and doing the right thing, when it had to be done, even when they wish it didn't.
Economic Catastrophe, Pollution and Famine
I'd say it's more like building a hotel than building a house. Sure you might not need the people that built the hotel, and the hotel probably won't fall down if you just have a minimal maintenance staff. However, if you want the hotel to thrive and grow and be profitable long term, you probably want to hire more than just a couple maintenance guys.
- "Internet clubs where they will accept food stamps as payment might appear."

- "In addition to humidity and temperature, the weather forecast will talk about the level of radiation or pollution."

- "After the Hard Times, we expect the greatest pollution in China."
there was a time that google did something that doesn't scale: you could pay google to employ some employee to manually search something in the web for you

i never used this service but people said it was magic, because those employees really really knew how to get the most out of a web search

i suppose it was retired because the plan was always to make the search itself better

however in the last years or decade i have noticed a regression, in that i can't find things i was sure i would

in some ways this mirrors the chatgpt regression in quality due to constrained compute resources or something like that
Competitive performance claims and Inference performance on AMD MI300X
Are you selling them?
> If you have a whole database of them, the trick is to try one code with a thousand cards

That still sounds like a crapshoot... Of those 1,000 cards, there might be 14 that have 982 as CSV, 9 that have 307, and none with 118. In other words, there's no guarantee whatsoever that any given CSV will be used in a batch of 1,000 or even 10,000 cards.
This is a good question, no idea why it's been downvoted. Will Fastmail recognize the union?
Yeah in many ways, Nix is a research project that escaped the lab. It’s the first tool of its kind that also happened to become successful. You have to write in this dynamically typed Haskell with poor affordances for being a build system and fragmented ways of addressing pinning.
I really do not like to do this on HN, but you‘re either outright lying or living in a privileged living situation near educated muslims who are already beginning to assimilate. I figure you are living in the US, where stringent immigration laws protect you.

Europe is suffering from mass immigration of people with - in our opinion - close to extremist values. A conservative German who dislikes gay people is much less threatening.

Gay and trans people are even more of a minority than muslims, and only one party is actively threatening the other.

My institution offers protection of ex-muslim women and gay people. Their stories are harrowing. And these people have lived in Germany for generations.
>most people in tech (young and old) have never dealt with them nor do they know any of their products

It depends on how "working in tech" is defined.

If you work in IT at a Fortune 500 bank, insurance company, telco, manufacturing company, etc. then you almost certainly Know who IBM, SAP, Oracle, etc. are. If you work for FAANGMULA and adjacent SV companies you probably don't especially if you are under 35 or so.
Similarity Metrics for Vector Search
You need a virtual table (same as sqlite-vss) and a library that does cosine similarity indexing (Faiss here)… which I know little about.

My plan was to evaluate Go for cosine similarity indexing, and if I found something promising, port the virtual table.
People have been searching for this song from 'The X-Files' for 25 years
hahah you actually guessed it so I'll tell you - it was "Chunky man", and yes, I was slammed on social media with a relentless stream of inexplicable adds for CHUNKY soup, until I was like "holy shit"

edit: and before anyone asks, this nickname was only said verbally, in my house, among my family members, and never typed into a computer a single time
Fastmail is, IIRC, employee owned. A lot of works on employee-ownership (coop or otherwise) suggest using union structure as a mechanism for procedurally protecting workers (both for things like negotiation and for due process purpose for adverse action, etc.) preemptively as a check against problems happening in the top-down the employees-as-owners -> top management -> line management -> employees-as-workers chain, rather than in reaction to problems.
Which country were you in at the time? Union laws vary substantially by country so I think this is relevant to understanding different unions and people's experiences with them.
Nikola Tesla was that way
You're only looking at it from one end of the funnel.

On the other end you have security researchers who are active in the cybercrime underground markets, and have the same opportunity to buy stolen data as the criminals themselves.

So disclosure can come from the other end when it becomes apparent that a certain company's data is being sold, and I think almost all of it does get sold eventually, even if the initial hacker has a way to exploit it privately: After they've finished, they can make money selling the leftovers.
The Twittering Machine (2019)
> I am mean seriously, why ostracized someone because they use a different type of phone?

Your current lived experiences may not be in sync with people in their teens or twenties. This is a well-known phenomenon called "green bubble bullying" that Apple has masterfully orchestrated to make people force other people to buy their phones.
I don’t really know the structure there. Does OpenAI actually have servers? Or do they use Azure servers?
Definitely. We migrated to a new telemetry vendor and I'm pretty sure it'll take 10 years for us to recoup the cost savings in man power and opportunity cost.

They were worried the old vendor might go under. My own track record with predicting company failures is pretty bad, so I suspect they'll still be around ten years from now.
"The gimp" is infamous for sometimes getting it excluded from consideration.

I once had a new manager after an acquisition do a (pathetic) security audit of our servers and get vey upset at finding a binary called "finger". True story. Somewhere along the way we've lost the ability to have a word that means something "dirty" and also retains other meanings that people can use without someone immediately thinking of the dirty meaning. Though I enjoy their sort of thing, I think Beavis and Butthead and their successors (e.g. South Park) may be responsible for the evidently-recent development of such extreme sensitivity to those kinds of multiple-meaning words.
This is amazing. I am not finding the link to open a Scheme REPL in the browser (without doing my developer job). Am I missing something?
Surpassing Immer with 10x the performance.
Matches complete test suites for robust reliability.
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Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
You maybe correct.

I kinda of remember a co-worker getting one as a bonus. The place was in lower Manhattan and everything changed after that.

It could have been some Palm or Handspring spring board or somebody was making a treo accessory that turned into the Treo of 2002.
Anamexis has a couple of examples in this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38655101
> The first is high demand. GPU time on a lot of cloud providers is sold out.

Something I'm trying to help with. =) Of course, I'm sure I'll be sold out too, or at least I hope so, cause that means buying more GPUs! But at least I'm actively putting my own time/energy toward this goal.

> The second is that this costs money at all, vs. using the GPU you already have.

As much as I'd love to believe in some utopia that there is a world where every single GPU can be used for science, I don't think we are ever going to get there. AMD, while large, isn't an infinite resource company. We're talking about a speciality level of engineering too.

> You want the barrier to adoption to be level with the ground.

100% agreed, it is a good goal, but that's a much larger problem than just AMD supporting their 6-7 year old cards.
Agreed. I think abortion is a right that should be preserved, but not at the federal level. These asshats in DC can't even do something as simple as stop minting pennies. They are in no way qualified to be legislating on women's health.

The real duplicity of the Republican party is that they said, "it should be up to the states" until it turned out the states very much want to allow abortions. Now they've about-faced and are pushing for a federal ban. That's some bullshit right there.
What tool do you use to make those diagrams? They look great!
I did this super similar (ESP32) with a set I got from walmart. Works great!
Nowadays there are several "knock-offs" on the market with higher quality and at a cheaper price.
It depends.

A union that does right by its members means you have leadership who does that. I’ve seen numerous cases where that didn’t happen across several industries. The leadership ended up making bad decisions for the members.
Lots of them. I've read a lot of comments from the Rust community that they'd love to build native applications in Rust. This will be their moment to make something as C programmers had with GNOME, and C++ programmers had with KDE.
I am anti-union, but not because of any indoctrination, but because when I was younger I worked in union shops before I got my first tech job and I saw how corrupt the union was, it was a complete racket, and it encouraged people to do mediocre work and mess around all day.

In theory I support all the goals people say a union has, but in practice most unions are a way to protect slackers and incompetents while bilking money from your paycheck to do little to advance your interests as an individual. One of my primary interests as a high-performer is working with other high-performers, meanwhile when I was at a union shop I'd get chastised by coworkers for doing /too much/ and being /too good/, because it made the rest look bad and increased expectations. There was a heavy heavy amount of bureaucracy caused by the union insisting on working to rule most of the time, which lead to everything being much worse every day in the workplace and generally being miserable as someone that just wants to get shit done.

I have been burnt out in my life a few times, but never by the workload, always by the work environment. Working in a union environment was a recipe for burn out, because I can't take a lackadaisical approach to my work, that's not my personality or who I am as a person. Anything worth being done is worth being done right and well.

My direct experience is that unions are run by, attract, and retain people who like to lolly-gag around with their thumbs up their asses and get paid for it, and basically have zero ambition or desire to improve the world around them for themselves or for others.
Sure, but from my experience it seems like humans currently have a much better ability to infer context and meaning from input than these current generation of LLMs.

I assume that as LLMs get better they will be able to produce better output without needing to be prompted in such specific ways.

Or perhaps ask simple and common follow up questions when they detect ambiguity in the request, like humans do.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. I can only attribute it as an expression of MIT
Figure out your costs…how much will it cost to develop? How much will it cost to run? Do the operational costs increase or decrease over time? Do they increase or decrease as you add more customers? How much will maintenance cost over time? How much will adding new features cost over time?

Don't forget the vig that the app stores and payment processors take (anywhere from 2-5% depending on the whims and fancies of the companies involved as well as the credit card the consumer used, if you take credit cards).

Don't forget compliance costs, e.g. if your service has to access another service's data in the cloud they may demand SOC 2 certification or some other certification.

No, you're not going to be able to accurately identify each and every cent / yen / euro of cost but you need to identify as much as possible and then set your price as some multiple so that you can eat moderate fluctuations in costs or revenue or items you missed and hopefully have a decent profit.

I think too many SaaS's underestimate the basket of costs involved in providing their probably perfect useful, viable service and attract a decent customer set (or they use investor funds to subsidize the cost of service). Then when they actually have a sense of how much money they're losing per month or per transaction they radically change the cost structure with too short a timeframe for customers to adapt. The larger the customer, the longer it will take to absorb a change to expenses. Doesn’t matter whether they can afford it or not, what matters is how the increased usage fee intersects with the customers annual or biannual budgeting process.

Just my opinion, I mostly walk a dog now.
Lucy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(2014_film)
It's an EHR... with no actual EHR logic in it. It's just a front-end to a proprietary service, zapEHR, that does all the actual heavy work of being an application.
> I often wonder: given how much of the complexity of modern DBMSes exists because of constraints imposed by certain use-cases that only pertain in certain business domains... what efficiencies could we gain if we designed a domain-specific DBMS with the knowledge that use-cases outside of the domain are off-limits and can be ignored?

And how many serious problems would be caused by people not correctly understanding what use-cases could be ignored in their domain?

IMHO, complexity in the service of giving an easier-to-reason-about interface is usually well worth the cost.
The people who get hurt the most in that case would be the employees who aren't hired and the customers who are not served by the business that therefore does not start.
Downvote to disagree is a perfectly fine thing to do on HN and not a sign of anyone's depravity.
Nice infographic, but it‘s no secret that we‘re counting radical attacks by people who also - by complete chance I wonder? - happen to be muslim as „rechte angriffe“ as well.