skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's vegan food, the processed, pale imitations of animal products you'll find in the health food aisle, and there's vegan food: rich, hearty vegetable and bean soup, fresh rustic sourdough bread, and vegetables roasted until they caramelize.

Most people would think these foods boring, but that's because they've only ever had the shitty, mass-produced versions.
That reduces a framework to 'anything that accepts a callback function.
That will raise the price of insurance even more. Now you have to cover the cost of risk of suing your own insurance pool.
When it comes to large shareholders that wouldn't actually do anything. Nobody sells in these new blue chips; they just borrow against their positions.

I've thought about this for a long time. If we wanted to actually tax this wealth, we should just make people pay capital gains on marked-to-market positions every 10 years. Now before everyone starts shouting "yea, but the valuations aren't value," you could easily tax them on the lowest reasonable marked-to-market nominal value over the last decade, and you'd still get that tax revenue, just a decade later. It's just a way to have a property tax on a very speculative type of property.

I've been a casual investor my entire life, and I still think it's ridiculous that you can just hold an asset forever and never pay a property tax on it, but some guy scraping together a life for his wife and kid has to pay property taxes on his house every year.
It's a big assumption that he died. A pretty standard way to disappear is to die in some 3rd world country where you can easily bribe the officials.
The blog post this discusses is freely available: https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373.

I don’t see it agreeing fully with the title of this post. It says:

“Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack of interest in maintaining the cultural norms of early Google. A symptom of this is the spreading contingent of inept middle management.”

So, it claims “inept middle management” is a symptom, not a cause.
A lot of companies saw unexpected spikes in revenue and wanted to strike while the iron was hot. The impulse was rational but the scale of the response was completely out of proportion with reality. But it's not like we saw hiring sprees in airlines and hotel resorts. We saw sprees in industries which benefitted from people staying at home and communicating digitally (like Discord).
Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
I've noticed many recent posts about layoffs in the US. Are these continuing due to recent changes in the way software expenses are accounted for?
OK, good, so I think we agree I am using the term "hypermedia control" correctly then?

> None of them existed in the "basic idea of HTML".

Well, the form tag was introduced in HTML 2, which was in some ways the first "standard" for it, so relatively early in the game:

After the HTML and HTML+ drafts expired in early 1994, the IETF created an HTML Working Group. In 1995, this working group completed "HTML 2.0", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.

But I can see what you mean and arguing over the meaning of "basic" isn't a hill I'm particularly interested in dying on.

> No, you're appropriating the definition, contorting it to pretend that it only means HTML as extended by HTMX, e.g. this

That's my definition of a Hypermedia-Driven Application, a term I made up to contrast with SPAs. I agree with you that a hypermedia can be imposed on top of JSON, which does not have native hypermedia controls, but I hope you can agree that this is not the way it is typically used today, and I also hope that most readers would understand that. I think the level of detail is appropriate for a high-level introduction to a concept that I created, but I see your point.

XML is another example of something that is not a natural hypermedia, but I included https://hyperview.org in the https://hypermedia.systems book, so I hope that demonstrates that I'm not wedded to the idea of HTML being the only hypermedia in the world.

I also agree entirely that a proper hypermedia client is crucial for a properly functioning hypermedia system:

https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-clients/

> I'm just getting tired of people hijacking specific terms to suit their own narrow definitions (however many hoops they have to jump through to get there), and present these narrow contorted definitions as the only true way.

I don't know, I think we agree I am using the term "hypermedia controls" properly, and I don't know if you have different feelings around my idea of generalizing them in HTML, given that fact. Does that change anything for you?

I certainly don't feel htmx is the only true way. I have never said that, and I try to be explicit when the hypermedia-based approach will be effective and when it won't here:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/
Nope!

Keep the declarations, ditch the statements.
Stock market was climbing and everyone thought digital was going to be permanently the new default, so companies tried to move quickly to land grab all this potential market.
Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4
Now imagine if they opened those jobs to all of us in low cost of living areas instead of demanding in person presence. They'd get better people, and people like me would be getting a decent bump even if we were only getting 50 or 60% of SF salary.
and it's up to the user to make sure it's set properly and that the fastener is installed properly

...and with these "smart" wrenches, it's up to the software developers, network administrators, hardware manufacturers, etc. All of which have to do a good job.

People like talking about supply chain attacks these days. A mechanical torque wrench has a much smaller dependency graph and can be easily calibrated and checked with a simple weight and a lever, and can't be programmed to behave subtly different every 12th bolt. These, on the other hand...
That’s what markets are for: someone else will fix the problem because there’s money in it. It’s generally something you can rely on, that someone will try to get their hands on stored euros.
So this is just a new annual tech industry thing yeah? Because every year it happens, and always the same excuses. This screams of a boiling the frog strategy.
eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment case, civil suit continues
I'd dial it back a notch to reality. This is a small iterative step, not a revolution. Or to put it in your terms -

Most people don't need sports cars if they already have regular cars

Most people don't need smart lights if they have regular lights.

Its progress, that doesn't mean we all need to buy it right now.
A bit surprising: nobody had override powers? Possibly sending someone over to flip the switch?
Valley of lost cities that flourished 2k years ago found in Amazon
I'd wager the number of workloads that'd actually take advantage of operating on entirely different data on a per-thread basis is much, much lower than ones that benefit from massive L3 cache.

And note that the infinity fabric and memory controller don't run on the same clock. The fabric tops out at ~2200 (though testing shows sweet spot at 2033 usually) and the memory controller usually tops out at ~3100 (DDR5-6200).
Federal pandemic money plus we were still at super-low interest rates.

Now the Federal spigot has dried up (well, is back to normal) and interest rates are higher.
SRAM's Role in Emerging Memories
I don't think we are using the same meaning for the word "sanctions".
Layoffs are very personal though?

The person who is laid off has to scramble in order to say, not have to move countries, or pay for their healthcare bills.

It's not personal for the company, but it is personal for each person who was laid off
A Season of Ackman's Life
Does AWS or GCP? Doing some web searches, it looks like at least parts of GCP do not:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/195231191

And some parts of AWS do support the key type:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/08/amazon-ec...
Wow, a whole lot of people in this thread don't know about Jack Welch and his outsized influence on the current state of US business. No, US businesses did not always focus exclusively on current quarter's earnings, nor did they lay people off every year to juice the share price. In fact, before Jack Welch, many US corporations openly said that their mission was to "build/provide X", and that dividends to shareholders were just another bill to pay on their way to providing X.

Although he wasn't the only one, Jack Welch was probably the biggest figurehead of the "shareholder value" movement, and was given deity status by the business press back in the 80s. The revelation that his amazing numbers at GE were based upon deceptive accounting practices, hasn't seemed to dampen his influence one bit.
I feel like there's a big market opportunity to create an EV-only rental car agency that will eventually get rolled up by an Avis or Hertz.

Besides the body damage repair cost mentioned in the article, one other reason for Hertz' decision has to be customer complaints. Car rental agencies frequently have to give people a different car than the one they reserved and for whatever reason, a lot of Americans have a bone to pick with electric vehicles. Having traveled extensively for work over the years, I've seen some pretty stunning meltdowns from the people ahead of me in the Hertz line when they got, e.g., a Traverse instead of a Tahoe (i.e., a marginally smaller SUV than the one they reserved).

Imagine the theatrics that ensue at the Honolulu airport when an entitled boomer out of central casting (sorry to stereotype) gets a Bolt instead of the Malibu they reserved. I could totally see how such incidents, at scale, would bubble up to Hertz leadership and drive decisions.

It doesn't seem like there are any electric-only agencies out there except for the Tesla plan to let owners monetize their vehicles during owner downtime. Feels like a good market opportunity and the US Gov would probably subsidize the shit out of it.
Happy full-stack React + Back-end guy here :)
The competition is not against current bidders, but also against historical bidders and averages. It means that even if no one is competing for a ad place, you play against virtual bidders.

That's one reason why ads are so expensive, maximizing bids by companies with high LTV causes bidding to be too expensive for bidders that didn't max out LTV in terms of very wide market.

It's especially troubling because impression campaigns also max out bids.

All in all having a good ROAS is not trivial for conversion based campaigns
Thank you, these look really beautiful!

Though layer 8 seems to be missing :p
mergekit is the tool you need to do this

https://github.com/cg123/mergekit

you can slice off layers and blend models with different strategies.
I suspect there's a huge benefit to deduplication for things like gifs and memes and emoji for them. But yes, still.
Ironically the longer and more trusted a company becomes, the more data it gathers, the more potential money it can make by going to the dark side. It only takes one bad CEO thinking of short term profit to see the $$$ and cash in that data and goodwill. Similar to MS it will take 5-10 years for people to realise what's happening and spread the word. By then that person may have cashed out. Is every CEO of Apple or any company for 100 years going to have a long term privacy mindset. I think the only viable way is for the company not to have the data or for them to only service highly knowledgeable users that would move quick if things went to change. But that means the majority must always lose their privacy. It feels similar to the trade off for adblocking.
great news! haven't seen it as I had to update my workspace manually, but just did it.
US produced ~4% of its electricity from solar in 2023 and it’s predicted to hit 5.6% in 2024 and 7.0% in 2025. So ~4 years to break 10% of total generation which still doesn’t offset higher daytime demand.

Thus for the next few years we’ll see higher daytime rates than nighttime outside of specific regions and specific times of the year.

Beyond that you need to consider increasing EV adoption, energy storage etc. Cheaper daytime rates is going to happen faster than people realize, but not fast.
Microsoft Teams on my phone yesterday pushed a Power BI ad into my work chat timeline.

I couldn't find a way to turn off these ads.

Great way to destroy trust, Microsoft!
How good IRC is only makes me hate how awful discord is in comparison.
Their alternative is to find some way to generate a lot more cheap electricity after sunset. If whatever they're doing can't beat the cost of solar panels on your roof + batteries and a small generator to top them up in exceptional circumstances, people will just stop paying them altogether.
"1985" in the title is misleading. The sentence is an excerpt from a biography published in 1985, describing Feynman's experience as a young Assistant Prof at Cornell shortly after WWII.
David Foster Wallace on Leadership
> They should have allowed a non-us ship to transfer the oil and send it to Iran or whatever. After all it wasn't Iran's fault that the company that moved the oil around was not abiding by the laws of the country they were incorporated in.

Did Iran already get paid for the oil? If so, they certainly don't need it back. If not, they should do better due diligence in the future, when handing their goods to others without cash-in-hand. Weird to trust something so valuable to some company without better awareness of how they operate. Cough.

> If you want to be the country that sends a clear message that all you need to do is to follow the rules of capitalism

I disagree with much of what follows, in part because I don't think this describes something we are actually trying to do, now or historically, so the rest is built on a premise that I believe to be shaky. I'm not aware of "all you need to do is to follow the rules of capitalism" being either an explicit or implicit message of US foreign policy, ever (though I'm open to evidence to the contrary!) Pro-capitalism and pro-free-market (especially for foreign capital investment) policies are things we have pursued and advanced, yes, but there's always been a lot more going on, too, and I don't think those other parts have been covert or otherwise something that anyone on the international stage could have failed to appreciate.

> It's still possible to apply pressure and sanctions while keeping up with your principles. Otherwise you're missing the whole point and become an international joke

Giving countries a do-over when they "accidentally" (wink, touch nose) get involved in evading sanctions takes you to "international joke" territory real quick, too, though. Is this particular action a betrayal of principle, or following through on plainly-stated intentions, pragmatically and consistently?
I used to own a pixel phone and loved it. What made me move was the data collection, and to some extent lack of security updates on older models. Feature wise, I still like Android over iOS.
It's the quintessential hard problem solving strategy.

It works on many hard disciplines, and it boils down to two steps:

1- Obsess

2- Let Go

Step two is the hardest one, but it's the most fruitful one and you really have to let go, no cheating.

Once you do, for some reason your mind will use everything from step one in the background to find the solution, in a weird moment, in an effortless manner.

But if you don't let go, it will never happen.
See: Amazon
every single sp500 company will ask managers to say a random number between 60 and 90 to claim as their engineers' percentage hours under this tax credit.
I’m sure we’ll see a lot of this soon with the US presidential election.
Google as a company doesn't have the attention span or focus anymore to ship excellent hardware. "Everyone knows" that they don't stay focused on things, and I can't imagine that making it easy to higher top quality hardware and firmware folks. Once you eliminate good pay and stability, there's not a lot to recommend Google to hardware folks.
The great majority of people grew up with the internet at this point, and this is largely not true.
only APU like the 5700G, 8700G or the recent Steam Deck APU (in reasonable comparison targets)

The integrated GPUs of the 7000 serious (not APUs) are maximal minimalist to a point I think they couldn't have shrunken them more without running into unusual issues (assuming not changing the architecture/design). They are only suited for web browsing, office use-cases and debugging (but also kinda where made only for that use-case). Well I guess Dead Cells and similar "low requirement/high optimized" games still run nicely on it on 1080p.

Still nice to have them if you only have such use-cases saves a ton of money.
That's what CTF at Defcon is like!
Oh man, I had a boss once that was really into dropshipping back in ~2017. He kept it professional at work, but once over beers he got on to how he was making all this money with dropshipping and how it was this great idea. Never pressured us into it or anything, thank god.

I had previously thought that the guy was somewhat smart and had it together. After that, I never looked at anything he did the same way again. The nice clothes and car? Yeah, no way he wasn't doing all that on a load of debt.

That said, all his up-to-date management-speak and being 'with-it' when it came to the latest corporate craze, well, I hate to admit it, but it made him a better boss. He was at least trying really hard. Were a lot of the methods just hot air? Yeah, of course. But it was a lot better than a boss that actually thought that they knew what they were doing. My boss just pretended but was otherwise terrified of being left out, and at least he was hungry that way.

Still, after he boasted about his dropshipping business, I knew the guy was mostly hot air and his ventures would change with the wind. I'm glad that particular get rich quick scheme is (mostly) over.
>Not all AI-generated content will be horrible. And not all human-generated content will be trustworthy. There will need to be a way to mark reliability based on community-oriented standards. For AI-generated content (and human-generated content too) there will need to be ways to cite sources.

Exactly; if AI can for example summarize a research paper or a book better than human then it is hell of a more useful than any person could possibly be and that's the point of AI(that it possibly can exhibit super human skills).

Web search engine is a massive data mining and data analytics software solution powered by graph theory and data science algorithms for information retrieval. No search engine can know what information is per se better and no search engine can know what you know and know what you want but it can use graph theory and data science to approximate and show you what it thinks that you want.
A Knife Forged in Fire
I was hired as a remote worker (as were the other people on my team). During the hiring process I asked, repeatedly "This is a remote job, correct? I'm fine coming in once a month for a team meeting or important events, but I expect to be able to work from home in perpetuity". I was told by everyone during the process that it would be fine and that many of my coworkers are remote.

Now this came out. I was not given a special email on the side that said "don't worry, this isn't about you". I just got the weird threat video.

Don't defend these people please. They're not good at their jobs.
I gave you an upvote just because I found you highly unique mode of responding here to be quite... interesting. Thanks for the comment, it really made me think a lot of... things.
Do they get fired at maximum?
Supabase has arguably a better alternative, which uses logical replication and can be used outside of Supabase.

https://github.com/supabase/realtime
I'd probably get fired for playing around at work. Burnout is just the standard state for most workers in today's world. We just have to live with it.
How about this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SYTQ6FT/

No computer.
Like telemetry? We have to collect customer data that's what we get paid for. As for pinky promises we are SOC compliant and externlly audited. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offe...
Alternatively, they could consider not having lone employees mass-denying procedures from a spreadsheet. Or at least stop using the AI that gets it wrong so often it's indistinguishable from intentional.
if you have millions in cash why would you ever fire someone except that?
All the Types of Science Fiction
I’d hardly qualify a sub stack with a policy agenda as a source here.
Sorry if I'm straying from the topic, and I understand that we are technological beings and want to develop more and more.

But I keep thinking about how much we've lost control in all this. The fact that we need to spend rivers of money on energy and GPUs for LLMs, to automate our super boring daily tasks (which didn't even need to exist in the first place) says a lot about our dysfunctionality. I would trade all this paraphernalia we created for the freedom to have my small farm, grow my own food, and be happy with my family and friends, too bad that this is a very, very distant dream.
Long ago, Insignia Solutions (famous for the SoftPC/SoftWindows emulators) had a product called NTrigue which I think later turned into Citrix MetaFrame? Not sure about the lineage. Anyway, it was an early NT terminal server product.

I remember they ran an open-to-the-Internet NT 3.51 server, you could download the ICA Client and connect to it. Imagine leaving a Windows terminal server that wide-open now.
> This is an intellectually fascinating thought experiment.

It's not a thought experiment. I'd actually like to do it (and others to do it). IRL.

I probably would start with an open source model that's especially prone to hallucinate, try to trigger hallucinations, then maybe feed back the hallucinations by retraining. Might make the most sense to target long-tail topics, because that would give the impression of unreliability while being harder to specifically counter at the topic level (e.g. the large apparent effort to make ChatGPT say only the right things about election results and many other sensitive topics).
It wouldn't look like such a master piece if Trump won his re-election. It would have happened during his watch. So, are you saying he's such a master that he knew he wasn't going to win (which is contradicted by the tantrums thrown saying he didn't lose)?
US and UK prepare to launch strikes against Houthis in Yemen
Citations? I find this difficult to understand.
What choice do they have? Airplanes wear out from metal fatigue over time, so airlines must replace their airplanes regularly. It isn't safe to keep operating the same airplanes for decades. (this very much depends on what the plane is made of - so some airplanes from the 1950s are still safe while others from 2000 are not). Sometimes airplanes are scraped by selling to some "third world" airline that keeps operating the airplane long past the safe date - engineers are very conservative about max life of an airplane but eventually the wings will fall off an old plane in the air.

Because of this all good airlines won't operate old airplanes. The few bad airlines can't operate very well because any country with a functional government will not allow you to fly an expired airplane. And so Boeing and Airbus have long order books to replace planes as they hit end of life. Of course airlines are limited to airplanes still in the current catalog, so they often cannot order the model that was working great for them 20 years ago.
At what point does it start looking too much like your real job? Zachatronics game Shenzen had that problem for some friends of mine that do chip design professionally.
Do you happen to have a source for this comparison? I'm curious to know what the economics of grid scale electricity storage are.