skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realise that the campaign was considered a fizzer. As a 14yo in a regional area who had just started connecting to the Internet (and hadn't yet developed distrust of Microsoft), it was one of very few ad slogans that ever inspired me. I think about it often.
It’s hard, but come on. It’s totally doable.
> We have allowed them to become so big

You have?
The quality of actual technical discussion on HN is not much better on average than any programming or technical subreddit in my experience, if they are well moderated. It shouldn't be surprising that the most technically adept people here also tend to post the least often.

The biggest difference is HN is strongly anti-humor, primarily because of the weird pathology the culture here has about Reddit and appearing "mainstream." But the lack of memes here doesn't make the rest of the content better, rather it tends to result in aggression, knee-jerk contrarianism and overconfident assertions in ignorance becoming low effort virtue signals instead.
Yeah correct, my experience is just locally, and the healthcare isn't that bad here.

US is just simply has a system that's very cons for employees, especially with visa and right to work law.
Did we ever figure out why 15% was the magically common layoff number over the past 18 months or so?

By "figure out", I mean something beyond mere conjecture.

(Sorry for the tangent. I just thought of it because I noticed this layoff is something other than 15%.)
GCP has had growth, like Azure
I'm curious about your workflow including all of these, is it only for your curiousity? Do you switch between them for specific tasks, or even run them in parallel for some purpose?

Also, is anyone aware of a service that supplies API endpoints for dolphin? I'd love to experiment with it, but running locally exceeds my budget.
Companies aren't charities. Just because they can afford to hire or keep an employee doesn't mean they should or have to.

You're also forgetting that raw dollars are not how companies are viewed. Every company is viewed on how it performs agains the risk free return rate. The rate going from 0 -> 5+ means companies must now generate returns in excess of the RFR in line with their generally accepted risk. This is the ultimate outcome of raising rates to reduce inflation - across the board layoffs lowering averages salaries.
Related: Grey Hack is a fake OS, Network, Internet in a multiplayer game where the objective is to hack (including each other). It simulates many basic functions quite well (you can steal files, place files on other computers, install software, run commands from a command line, including imitations of many tools). You can also write your own programs.
Where did I say that?

I said that whatever price AWS charges Twitch, it makes Twitch unprofitable. Since this is all just moving numbers around on a spreadsheet, they could choose a different number and Twitch would appear to be profitable.

The point is that Twitch being unprofitable is an artifical narrative not an objective reality.
From other comments it sounds like there are similar problems in more than one language, which I suppose is not surprising since the low counting numbers in many languages are short words and so have a higher chance of sounding like other short words.

I suggest switching to a non-number sequence with at least the end word not being short. My suggestion:

drummers, pipers, lords, ladies, maids, swans
geese, rings, birds, hens, doves, partridge

For extra safety, such as if the countdown is over a noisy communications channel or in a noisy environment, those words could be used in phrases so that even if a word gets garbled it will be easy to tell were the speaker is in the sequence:

drummers drumming, pipers piping, lords a-leaping,
ladies dancing, maids a-milking, swans a-swimming,
geese a-laying, golden rings, calling birds,
french hens, turtle doves, partridge in a pear tree
I'd argue that in languages with manual resource management, you should be very careful how you return in the middle. Say you allocate something, or initialize communications with a device before a loop begins. In the middle of the loop, you find your result early and want to return it.

But your "return" should also have all deallocations performed! Also if you open communications to some external devices which tend to be notoriously stateful, you need to bring them back to a usable state by either completing commands sent so far, or resetting them, or whatever is needed.

If there is nothing analogous to "defer" statements or "finally" clauses, you will be in a world of pain if you sprinkle return statements without paying attention to all details.

Thus I can see a point of such a rule being in MISRA-C or something like it. Guess it's better to enforce an easily checkable rule (prone to birthing monsters) than educate all people properly.
What should really matter is what the people who live there want. From what I understand, they've had a referendum about that a long time ago, and the vast majority supported independence.
They erase their own history: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.java/c/aSPAJO05LIU/m/u...
Yeah old switches, BMCs, and other embedded SSH servers often use it. Really that stuff is too old to be using in a production environment but sometimes reality is different.

Keep an older release of openssh if you need it for those. No sense keeping obsolete code for obsolete use cases in the codebase, it's a maintenance an testing headache and a security risk.
E.E. Cummings has all these Gen-Z hipsters beat by about a century give or take.
The batteries connect to the charger, yes. The tool never does, and probably can't be physically plugged into anything for want of connectors.

And what difference would it make, anyway? In exchange for massively complicating every aspect of the monitoring and control tasks, you're just interposing the need to infect the battery firmware in order to pop the tool. Do you imagine the battery will be secure when the tool is not?
Very nice. I wish it would also work on mobile. The initial screen showed up but "clicking" on folders does not cause any action.
That’s the definition of a failed state, not all civil wars are fought between with break away territories.
Post with an URL in the text are penalized and it is harder for them to reach the front page. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
The US military stockpile is staffed by Americans, not Ukranians, and there's no political will to transfer some of the really expensive stuff which requires extensive training like F35s. The transfers of Patriot anti-missile batteries, HIMARS, Bradley vehicles etc have been extremely effective in pushing back the Russian line of control from the initial invasion, but now it's a nasty question of assaulting well defended positions without air superiority.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040

• 39 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);

• 12 National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems
(NASAMS); 1 Patriot air defense battery; other air
defense systems; and 21 air surveillance radars;

• 31 Abrams tanks, 45 T-72B tanks and 186 Bradley
infantry fighting vehicles;

• 300 M113 and 189 Stryker Armored Personnel Carriers;

• 2,000+ Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;

• 10,000+ Javelin and 90,000+ other anti-armor systems;

• Phoenix Ghost, Switchblade, and other UAS;

• 198 155 mm and 72 105 mm Howitzers and artillery;

• 227 mortar systems;

• Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;

• 9,000+ Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-
Guided (TOW) missiles;

• High-speed anti-radiation missiles (HARMs) and laser-
guided rocket systems;

• 35,000+ grenade launchers and small arms;

• communications, radar, and intelligence equipment; and

• training, maintenance, and sustainment.

(What's NOT on that list? Aircraft. What's the US doctrine way of winning a war, such as OIF? Air power.)
> Surprised to see another cycle of layovers happening here. What’s going on in the industry?

Nature is healing itself. The boom cycle is over. Correction is in the process.
Then it's settled, it's gonna be Software Engineering Bestiary.
Size of a Texas ranch. Call it “reverse solar” and you might have a winner.
Yup, "police did not know if 234,354 people over the age of 100 were still alive" (with implications probably still filing pension paperwork and benefits).

"officials said that many may have died during World War II. One register claimed a man was still alive at age 186."
But their control of Crimea is conquest, not requested by the people of Crimea.
Yes that's what I mean that you have to take great care, I was trying to say that it's not easy to engineer around these, just feasible. You still want some capacitor buffer, work in short bursts, sleep everything aggressively, etc. And while there are definitely useful applications they aren't gonna be as revolutionary as the headlines that always come up about these things seem to imply. But you can do more than power a few gates.

Regarding power supply, I'm not sure what these exact ones are, but other betavoltaic batteries are not high voltage. They're in the range of a volt or two and these are probably the same since these work more or less the same way as every other betavoltaic battery with a bit of extra proprietary sauce.

Edit: Also regarding RF, you can do passive RF via backscatter or a complementary RF energy harvester. Imagine a temperature sensor that logs data a few times a day powered off the battery, and someone with a handheld scanner comes by and reads it out every so often. Or an active tamper seal that spends most of its life making sure a wire isn't broken. Just brainstorming, but something like an RFID tag that can do stuff while it's not being interrogated is the main proposed use I've seen for these.
Fr I feel like they need some explanation in this show for laymen that the fundamental issue here is not "COMPUTERS SCARY", it's that literally no competent software development team works on the assumption that they are infallible, and if they do these are the consequences. Fallibility is fine, the problem is that Fujitsu and the Post Office were so scared that admitting fallibility was somehow a massive moral failing. It's not. You just be prepared for it and then none of this would have happened. As an SE this is what I was thinking while watching the show throughout. But, as a layman you probably would never understand this nuance.
Warehouses have locality.

Digital jobs dont.
No way should we even allow this to happen. Countries shouldn't continue to boom in population when their societies can't even function.
Thank you. The one that always bugs me on HN is folks “pouring” over something when they really mean poring, or to pore over something.
A layoff isn't a firing unless you choose to not accept the package. Accepting a severance is considered voluntary separation. You sign a document stating this.
I worked at a shop where most of the devs were SAP contractors.

The whole thing was fishy.

One year I wanted to hire a couple of interns to improve out site for screen readers.
The work boiled down to adding role and aria tags to 100s of elements. Perfect work for some people we could pay $20 an hour for.

What happened instead was my request was denied and the VP made a call to hire 2 SAP contractors for $150 an hour instead.

They were hired and I never heard from them at all. One month later, my team had to do the accessibility work anyway and those 2 contractors stayed on payroll.

Very very fishy stuff. That VP LOVED hiring SAP staff.
Real Ben >> GPT Ben. However if you are going to the wider world you problem need to self varnish a lot (i know i would have to). You are fine in here!

What you are alluding to is quite similar to the that “instagram face” that everyone pursues and self filters for except its more about your communication and thoughts. Also the argument that you need to reach a wider audience i dint think isn't necessary unless you want the wider audience to comment and engage.

The internet is the great homogenizer soon(ish) we will be uniform.
That's kind of what I do for my shrimp tank. I RO filter to get the mineral content close to zero, then add a specific amount of minerals to get the TDS to what it would be in their natural habitat.

There are RO systems which have a final stage to add minerals back into the water, but I don't know how well they actually work.
Those interested in a back story should see the documentary: "The internet's own boy". It's free on youtube.
> He kept referring to employees as “resources”

The classic comeback for this is to refer to management as "overhead."
Or just use an existing version of OpenSSL. They aren't sending a terminator back in time to purge DSA support from all of time.
Custom GPTs that do not use uploaded documents for RAG have no moat because the system prompt can always be exfiltrated. Not sure if the uploaded documents can also be leaked, one chunk at a time.

There is currently no way to monetize this reliably for the GPT creator.
I’m not the OP, but I don’t think you understood her/his comment. People leave jobs.
The only universal thing countries seem to agree on is that they’re really really really don’t like to encourage secession.
Just Say No to Artificial Intelligence in Your Creative Pursuits
Amortization is basically just a way of splitting the cost of something out over multiple years to change how much you may owe in taxes.

In this case, previously software engineers' salaries were considered an operating expense like any other salary, and the full amount of that was used to decrease how much profit you have to pay taxes on. Now you can only write off a portion of the salary, having to split it over multiple years' taxes instead.

This is really common with R&D expenses, physical equipment, etc. The big change was that software engineers are now considered an R&D expense rather than someone working to assemble a final product, for example.
None of them offer the probability of bitcoin. It's the most asymmetrical bet I've ever seen.

The only reason it's not already $10M/BTC is that noone understands what it is - many people think they do, but they don't. As someone who has studied the subject for 100s of hours, I haven't come across a single valid argument for why it won't absorb all the stored value in the world over time. The hardest part is just being patient while everyone figures it out.

The supply halving every 4 years helps to bring it to their attention :)

Regarding potential value, this article offers food for thought:
https://t.co/eLqJCYeCKW
I like this fuzzy definition better than "your code calls a library; a framework calls your code."

The sweet spot for HTMX I've found involves liberally using the hx-boost attribute enhance links and forms that already work without JavaScript. You definitely sacrifice some of the expressivity of HTMX, but you also get a website that is much less coupled to the (library|framework).
That's not a very useful approach, there are big issues with all of the stock configs, though with enough customization you could pick various design patterns to make it good (but still you can't collect all of the best ones in one app unfortunately, and doing that is a lot of effort). Thinking from "first principles" like this list is more appropriate

But a few examples:

The "visual-first" approach of kakoune/helix is good UI, better than the "keep the whole sequence of ops in your head". Then emacs' which-key displaying a helpful menu of key chord continuation, but only if you're stuck (after a delay) is good UI design, better than Helix's constant popups.

That's "informative feedback" right there

Then any GUI's tab management approach where you can simply drag&drop tabs around is good. Though if you could "cut/copy&paste" that would be better as that would be consistent with how you manage files in a file manager

Command palette like with fuzzy search like Sublime Text's is good UI design, that helps in reducing your memory load as you can find an action without remembering a shortcut (but then if you invoke it frequently enough you could remember the shortcut from the tip and use that instead)

Then keymaps that prioritize convenience of key locations for most commonly used keys is good UI design (don't think any text editor has it by default, most prioritize English-only semi-abiguous keycap abbreviations)

Etc. etc.
Kekw
Does anyone really trust openai isn't training on their data given their views on copyright?

It would make more sense for them to just train on it anyway.
So what's the real reason the international community won't recognise it? What reason do they have to keep it part of Somalia?
Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years
Office has stagnated? It's the first thing orgs require third-party apps to integrate SSO for.

Office 365 + Sharepoint is a major, major business.
=)

Have you ever worked in a manufacturing plant? Yes, the solution is TECHNICALLY very easy, but there's a bunch of gatekeepers that really slow things down.

The solution to the problem in front of you is always technically very easy and clear, but there are always a tremendous number of problems to be solved in a production manufacturing environment.
I'm going to need more context here on the ChipMixer claims. Let's say a tracked party deposits amount A in CM style mixer, and then receives private keys corresponding to amounts B, C, D, E, F, G, previously deposited in the blockchain, which happen to add up to A minus a random 0 to 4% mixing fee. You have full view of A and know that it's being deposited to CM with 100% confidence.

As long as nothing moves on the blockchain, and the trust requirement you mention is fulfilled, I hope you agree that, save from some bug in the implementation, you will have no idea what private keys were received by the original owner of A. It's logically impossible, since CM has already pre-deposited many more other funded private keys (in fact, the entire previous volume of their laundry) and by the definition you don't know which ones of those were disclosed to the client A. The number of combinations is a factorial of the number previous clients, the vast majority you won't know.

So the attack scenario has to be more convoluted than that, perhaps the client immediately consolidates his received keys into a single address, perhaps we assume the attacker has perfect information over all amounts A deposited, which is clearly not practical etc. But that's another discussion altogether that deals with breaking a certain implementation of finding a launderer with a certain behavior. Research papers always make bold claims to raise interest, and often deliver crypto style failures, that require "only" 2^64 attempts, so the system is "broken".

But the issue we debated above - address pseudoanonymity enabling untraceable off chain asset swaps - is already settled if you agree to the second paragraph.
> a belief in the reliability and credibility of IT systems

I found it fascinating to learn that UK law explicitly does (but did not always) encode this presumption:

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/computer-says-guilty-an-int...

(This link is to the substack of David Allen Green, an excellent legal commentator in the UK.)
Ok, you can go pay TurboTax $200 or whatever then. You have to enter in like 3 numbers, total $ bot/total $ sold/$ of wash trades.

I’ll spend 30 minutes, $15 dollars, and my office’s mailroom to send one single 9x13 envelope once a year. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Rewarding shareholders.
What is interesting is that now with all the layoffs we also have more CS graduates than ever [0] who were told that tech companies are struggling to find candidates to fill their vacancies. We are reaching a point, if not already at the point where we will have bunch of unemployed CS grads who will have to make a pivot into something entirely different.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_322.10.a...
To Squash or Not to Squash: The Merge Debate
Yeah, literal int representation in source is one thing, changing int parsing string methods is something else and probably should require explicit inclusion.
It seems bizarre to me that such a critical part of air safety is still handled by a bunch of people keeping a large amount of information in their heads and talking to each other over shitty radios. ATC needs some massive upgrades top to bottom. This "no changes, we have always done it this way" attitude is slowly starting to collapse on itself.
When dealing with incidents where there is no clear root cause, it's often advisable to implement guard rails to reduce the likelihood and/or impact of a repeat occurrence. As a result, this seems like a sane change.
I want to be able to stably enjoy many years of working on whatever is of interest to me without needing to exchange money for it. So accumulating enough wealth for that is super reasonable. It looks like you don’t mind spending most of your time working for survival and pursuing your interests as fully as possible right now. That’s also a reasonable way to live.

These are just choices different people making different choices
I'm assuming an ignorance in IT which allows for a vote of confidence from a trusted party to go unquestioned and unsubstantiated. Not a blind faith in all IT.
> Still, the idea seems good: couldn't we have a system that detects if the runway is occupied and broadcasts that information on ILS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_surveillance_and_broad...
The world is grappling with the effects of old school and new colonialism all over (its at the heart of nearly all the major conflicts right now.

The major powers (aka the UN security council) have a lot to answer for IMO. And don't nearly to enough to make amends.
> Google confirmed the Assistant cuts, earlier reported by Semafor, and the hardware layoffs, earlier reported by the blog 9to5Google.

Nice. So one can reasonably expect the Google Home device et all to get even worse at all the basic functionality it used to be quite good at as far as 2017.
A place where I contracted used them to solve timing issues with the database.

Actions would be written to a database and a web page sent to the user, then the user would click something and a request would reach a web server, occasionally arriving before that server's database shard had seen the database write.

JWT passed the information via the user's browser, eliminating the race.
The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
In December, I experimented with the potato diet from Slime Mold, Time Mold, and I actually lost some weight effortlessly. Not only I was way more satiated, I also noticed that I was losing appetite for meat etc.

I am inclined to believe that the root cause for the obesity epidemic is our satiety signals being out of whack. In which case "just eat less" is about as useful piece of advice as "just breathe less". In both cases you would be struggling against enormously strong, primordial bodily mechanisms.
They always do. Are you one of those who'd prefer to be poor and sick rather than rich and healthy yourself?
How often does it return to the base station? What is the required latency of the rundown information?

You charge it once per shift, and you need an update every minute.

The dumb problem exists because of very real limitations.
I have a feeling this is going to continue as AI / LLM's become more capable. I know I am late to the party but was messing around with chatGPT the other day to see if it could help me with a code issue I was stuck on. It blew my mind!

I don't see how it and similar LLM's don't lead to massive replacement of tech workers and creatives.
No, it’s definitely true. Other things can be true as well, of course.

But if you’re not accomplishing the things you want to accomplish you should deeply consider the possibility that you’re lying to yourself before you accept that your circumstances are at fault.
Why? It’s think it’s an even better time to hold.
Have they said anything at all regarding TikTok? Search seems empty.
I don't need a source for all of these points in one place. Just if you have something on any of them.