skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my biggest frustrations with going to brick and mortar stores is getting all the way there to find that they don't have stock of whatever I'm looking for. Sure, I can call ahead or check their website, but often that is not actually reliable. If I'm already on their website I might as well just order it online.
There are definitely cases where companies have true existential risk and layoffs can help get them through that.

That's not Google. Instead, this means that now I need to go have a fire drill where I figure out who has been fired on all the teams I collaborate with and figure out how that fucks with my team's 2024 plans that are getting reviewed and finalized basically right now. I need to deal with the morale killer that is another layoff at just about the one year anniversary of the big one last year when memories of layoffs were on just about everybody's mind anyway.

I don't know anybody in Assistant, but when I read this headline I assume that the reason there are layoffs there is because Google wants more people working on new LLM hotness and is unable to naturally transition people from Assistant onto Bard or whatever so they are just firing a bunch of people in Assistant to free up budget to hire people working on LLMs. That's not a mechanism for saving the company. That is covering up for shitty management and incentive structures that can't get people working on the stuff they want without this sort of extreme action.
> The signature is a relatively small hurdle (it's an RSA public key encoded in base64 ...

Heh. If you look at the problem like this, I believe you have already implemented it wrong. The signature has an algorithm that you can specify, but sadly Mastodon only accepts RSA 256 keys which then rippled into the wider ecosystem and everyone is just accepting those. Sigh. A valid HTTPSignature can be built using almost any key algo, the fact that servers only accept RSA is an endless frustration of mine.
Nobody wants to work at a company that does layoffs after a huge year.
Huawei and Security Analysis (2019)
> you put everything online and then there's no extra steps

It almost feels as if “online” is a centralized system.
what do you mean by “earnings per staff member laid off”? are you dividing their total earnings by number of staff laid off? if so, then Apple earning 100 billion while laying off 10 employees would be “earning 10 billion per staff laid off”, or am i misunderstanding?
> Nowadays you have a wealth of tools to trivialize TLS certificate tasks.

Trivialize what? You have to learn the tools. When you're paid for it or actually believe that signing everything is useful, you're willing to spend the time.

In the original article it looks like the poster already went over their time budget by a lot without even getting to researching if these tools exist.
That's not true, you can use the local language as well. What is required is to answer in English if prompted in English.

Though nowadays most major airports probably are English only, it wasn't so long ago that pilots were complaining that most of the traffic at CDG was in French for instance.

For what it's worth, I believe Japan is very strict in the English only however.
> Browsers deal with this by considering localhost a "secure context"

Broadly yes, except Safari which still sometimes doesn't: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171934

(Not relevant to this case, but eugh it's a very annoying exception)
Previous discussion (different article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939116
Ah, I probably missed it because we had the following dialogue at the office.

<senior-sysadm> Hey bayindirh, is the log server up?
<bayindirh> *SSHs to server* Yes, it's up and running nicely.
<senior-sysadm> Where's that thing in the system room?
<bayindirh> *Scratches head* Umm, I don't know?
<senior-sysadm> Go find it, we'll upgrade it to newer HW.
<bayindirh> Uh, OK. *leaves desk to dig the system room*.

P.S.: I'm the one who installed that server physically and configured it in the first place. :D
"Why is a wrench on the internet?!"

Because we need to track critical bolt rundowns (generically called fasteners) and tool condition.

That being said it doesn't need to be on the public internet, but it makes it a lot easier than setting up and managing a private network.

I'm not defending putting this tool on the public internet, but its very normal to put all kinds of stuff on the network in a manufacturing plant.
It's fun to see in context of human power struggles.

Business, finance, politics, and law were always the power centers since time immemorial.

Tech comes out of nowhere and starts to upend the system with salaries competing with the above.

Tech inventing its own replacement (none of the other fields are capable of this) may reduce tech power in the end. The others will laugh to the bank.
To nitpick, most will have GA, not commercial (i.e., professional) licenses.

But yeah, there's a lot of pilots.
The strange fact is that the Post Office runs its own court system, I take it many people didn't realise this.

Having worked through the thicket of rules for FCA regulation I am gob-smacked how far things went.
"I think we should recognize the reality of the situation not what whatever group wants it to be."

I am not so certain. Do we recognize Crimea or Mariupol as Russian, because they are de facto under Russian control?

In case of pure self-determination, which is the case of Somaliland, there may be an exception. But a totally realistic approach gives bad actors one more incentive to conquer their neighbours by force.
I don't think it's about just air purifiers. If their air purifier review is so obviously low quality, how do the other reviews fare? Do I need to read a debunking review of Wirecutter recommendations for every category I read? Why read Wirecutter at all then, if they're not trustworthy? Is it actually a review or an ad for the winner of the comparison?

I think a lot of our mainstream media is so bad because nobody is calling out the shoddy reporting.
From Russia with Love for Christmas: Jamming Baltic GPS
> it's the english phrase. all pilots and ATC in the world are required to use english.

This is not strictly true, is it? They should be able to speak English, but they are not required to use it. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/14254
I don't think this necessarily holds in the world of remote work. At least for me, relationships are very surface level. Almost no friendly banter, limited 2 second "How was your weekend?" before meetings that no one cares about. Its hard to be friends with little black boxes and white text on a screen.

This is compounded when 75% of the team is made up of consultants.

I do agree though that its pretty awful but the thought of moving my family to a big city, doubling my cost of living and having to commute is also pretty bad. I live in a not tech city and would have to move to get a comparable salary at an in person job.
I initially misread the word 'international' to mean 'intentional'. Come to think of it, it may all be very intentional indeed.
I'm impressed that it is reasonably usable on mobile. I've built online toys inspired by spirographs and harmonographs and it's a tricky balance to get the image and controls to share a mobile screen space.
Sports and movies/TV have unions, and those are by far the highest paid individual contributors. Tech workers just have been sold a bill of goods that they will be held back by unions. Meanwhile, tech CEOs "unionized" to make sure that poaching was held back, and by extension, compensation.
Trains fail safe. If you cut the power to the wheels and apply the brakes, it will be inconvenient, but generally fine.

Planes by their nature fail unsafe: if you cut the power they fall out of the sky and crash.

So it's more difficult to design a signalling system for planes. Still, the idea seems good: couldn't we have a system that detects if the runway is occupied and broadcasts that information on ILS?
Google removes 17 features from Google Assistant
Does the price of whatever SaaS you're working on correspond exactly to the RAM usage of a customer?
So, just to be glib, my car reports GPS positions at about 3 Hz at all times to an app (Teslamate) under my control, which is far more accurate than needed for runway incursion detection. And to boot, it literally drives me around, autonommously, every day, in an environment (my suburban neighborhood) vastly more complicated than any mere airport.

To say that the problem will require some engineering is correct. To claim it's infeasible is just ridiculous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association - For Lawyers. A bit like for Doctors, they get themselves involved in the accreditation process of education facilities and then by extension the State Bar organizations.
To a person complaining about increased complexity introduced by mandatory usage of HTTPS you respond with an option to introduce even more complexity in the form of internal VPN?! Can you tell me how you find that reasonable?
Great website, enjoyed the animated background (with "click to spawn") a lot!
> We sometimes have to connect to older systems that use insecure keys, and no those systems cannot be fixed

At least there's now a way to tell management "hey, there is no choice, <thing> must be replaced because we literally won't be able to connect to it any more".
Is the custom Windows 11 "Tiny11" safe?
Yeah, out here in reality, when you keep doing unhinged things, people start to assume you are -- or are going to do -- unhinged things. That's why those of us living lives tethered by the rules of society try to preserve our benefit of doubt.
Rerun v0.12
Discoverability and fragmentation seem to be the problems on Lemmy. Groups are small (not really a problem, the smaller subreddits with active and engaged people are better IMHO) but it's really difficult and high-effort for groups to form. Reddit did seem to have that part working well. I think people have gone into Discord (which sucks/I cannot stand).
Ouch. Did Boeing shares already see an uptick? Because that's what it looks like when torque wrenches systematically misread...
More than once I've known I have an early meeting and got to my desk just before the clocked turned - but by the time I got into the meeting several minutes had past. I work with people around the world, sometimes you need someone in Germany, India, Australia, and Basil to all meet at the same time - there is no way to pick a good time for everyone, and the closer you get for one person the worse things get for someone else so you end up with barely acceptable times for everyone as the best compromise.
Governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu
The lack of a standard way to specify your trusted CAs on a system or network is one of the biggest hassles in that area. It’s typically all bespoke configuration, and often not well documented.
US banks' net interest income is quite a bit lower, more like $700B per annum currently (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QBPQYNTIY#).

As far as house price inflation is concerned, depending on what your basket is, prices increased quite a bit more than the CPI basket (so up in value), if you hold the S&P next to it, not do much difference.
Same in China with 4 (sì), although they have no issue with 7 (qī).

It makes a mess of hotel floors that try to cater to many cultures.
Modern turbines can adjust the angle of their blades to extract less energy from the wind. There’s always tradeoffs so people still chose maximum wind speeds based on the area. But, we’re talking being near the center of a hurricane not just storms at that point.
Yeah, same here. Regarding that, this is essentially that (same LLM and all) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
We at a stage where desktop environments become faster than the OS they run on (ahem... Windows).
One of the most famous software defects - Therac 25 - happened because of a transfer of medium. The software was embodied in a machine with physical controls, then the software was embodied in a machine with software controls only. The assumptions in each medium were very different. I wonder if something similar happened here.

I imagine the requirements document didn't say anything about the public internet.
SaaS Mingle: Community link building for SaaS and B2B brands
JSON Web Tokens are actually great, just not for sessions
Same here. Using the correct lowercase word "teams" would enable everyone to focus on the product.

Anything else is just wasting time.
With a 'runway incursion system' - https://www.atgairports.com/solutions-and-systems/airfield-c...

You don't necessarily need a system that scales all the way down to tiny airports.

Major airports like Haneda presumably already have things like stop-bar lighting, for operating in foggy weather. If we already know where each aircraft is, and whether they're permitted to cross the stop bar right now - I can believe this runway incursion could have been detected.
For me it is the cycle of over hiring and layoffs that make me mad. Executives bear no consequences for their decisions instead the consequences are borne by the lower level employees.

What I would like to see is senior and executive management (Director+) bonuses cancelled for the year a layoff occurs. If they aren’t willing to cancel bonuses company wide then a layoff is really just stock manipulation. By making sure they bear some of the consequences maybe they will make better choices in the future.
I'm running custom stuff that I plan/hope to MIT soon, but `gptel` is killer and I've substantially plagiarized feature-wise it in my own dots. (I don't intend to release anything under a more permissive license that it was published under, merely that it sets the bar on a good interface and I plan to launch nothing less capable).
Perplexity's high bar for UX in the age of AI
Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime
I randomly stumbled into Deno's homepage today, and was amazed by both how far it has come, and how good the homepage is now!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240111130315/https://www.nytim...
This is too simple an outlook. Every time in history that technology has displaced human jobs, there has been outrage and resistance. Yet if we look back at many of these examples, it is clear that people in general are much better off. The outcome of lowering production costs results in lower prices and higher availability for the lowest income bracket. Imagine the cost of a shirt before the industrial revolution, versus the $5 price tag currently at Family Dollar.

Yes, the growing pains can be horrible for the people affected, but it's ultimately an unstoppable force and in my opinion a much better approach is to try to help the people affected rather than resist the technology.

Imagine what we would have lost if we had let the Luddites force us to continue with human labor for everything.

Without a doubt, when it happens to a person it hurts and sucks. I am dreading when it happens to me, which I expect is only a few years away. It reminds me of the old saying: a recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job.
In Denmark we rarely perform tech interviews the way you Americans do. Part of this is because of how available education is, so virtually everyone who’s applying for a tech job comes with some sort of academic education, meaning that they’ve proven their worth to get it. I’ve worked a side gig as an external examiner for a decade now, I’ve got good confidence in anyone I haven’t failed.

Another part is that tech interviews are often sort of useless. One of the most expensive mistakes you can make as a manager is to hire the wrong person. Even in Denmark where it’s relatively easy to let a new hire go within the first three months, you’ve still invested an enormous amount of resources into the process as well as the impact a wrong hire will have on team moral. So what we look for first and foremost is cultural and personal fit within the team you’re supposed to be working in. We’re far more likely to do some personality test on you than a technical interview, not because we believe those are a science or accurate in anyway but because they are great talking points to get to know you in a high stress situation. We do this because technical skills can also be taught, and regardless of your background, we’re going to have to “adjust” you into the way we work.

We may ask you some technical questions, but they’ll typically be on a more theoretical level than practical because we want to know how you think about tech. Again to see if your “ideological” fit is good rather than to test your technical prowess.

In my anecdotal experience this is a far better process than technical interviews. But it is made possibly by education, precious work experience and the fact that if you really turn out to be terrible then it’s “free” to let you go. It also requires direct managers and often team members to handle the process with HR on the sideline, rather than HR handling the entire hiring process… but I can’t imagine working for someone I’ve never met.
It's interesting that you're so trusting of strangers knowing your inner thoughts (OpenAI) but not your family
Steam hardware survey to the rescue.
Stateless is simpler to implement and easier to scale across multiple nodes, but comes with additional overhead. When polling the kernel for sockets, the overhead was a bigger cost than implementation complexity and horizontal scaling. (Implementation complexity is still a problem – see the discussions regarding the quality of epoll; and horizontal scaling is just not something desktop kernels do.)
I believe what they meant is that all studies on safety have been made before TCH got so predominant - which may make such studies irrelevant in the current scenario.

Furthermore, the lack of regulation in the black market has allowed growers to make their weed stronger (which makes them more competitive).

The proposed solution is to bring weed back into above board society and regulate it so the THC content needs to be at least disclosed but likely limited - or create different classes of weed based on that (and perhaps other criteria).

It's true that legalisation alone won't stop this behaviour though - it needs to be properly regulated which is something the US seem to have a bit of an aversion to.
Here's something I'm wondering: Is it possible to create mechanical logic gates that do not involve any friction, elasticity, springs, gravity, as well as any active powered control, but only frictionless motions.

Example: a NOT gate is trivial to make without any such friction mechanics, just a lever (one side goes up, other goes down, so 'NOT') or two gears (one rotates one way, the other the other way).

But an AND or OR gate, needed to make the universal NAND or NOR gate to get any arbitrary logic, seem to always require some kind of elastic band, spring or gravity based mechanism to return the gate to initial position.

Friction / elastic bands, etc... cause wear and tear, which is why it'd be interesting to see a mechanism that's as frictionless as the NOT gate described above.

Things that are fine to use according to what I mean above would be: gears (including non-circular shaped ones), planetary gears / differential, levers, ... An example of something that is not fine is: an OR gate made by two sticks that can push an object forward, and an elastic band (or gravity or spring) makes the object move backwards again in the case both sticks are retracted backwards.

I mean theoretically, there's always friction in gears anyway but I don't mean avoiding that one.
I think it is a misconception that if a company does well, it will hire more people and pay more. It is purely a supply and demand situation. The ideal number of employees in a company is zero.
Tænk[1] in Denmark is a bit like that, which is not surprising given their customer is the consumer, not the advertiser. However they're not quite as much of an institution as Stiftung Warentest is in Germany.

[1]: https://taenk.dk/
I’ve been in several different orgs that held a lot of layoffs and they’re sometimes performance related but other times just wrong place, wrong time as others have commented.

I also see advice that states you should change jobs every few years to ensure you continue to grow as a person, ensure salary growth (a real thing in my experience) and to ensure you’re staying relevant. So it seems that we want the option to move on our terms but we don’t think companies should view it the same. Management is also painfully aware that key employees can be ‘one bad meeting away’ from leaving. It seems like if we want stability then we probably need to offer some as well; many in this thread describe the relationship as either transactional or a negotiation and if we really believe it then we should view it from both sides.

Finally, there are large industries where there is significant stability: government, defense, etc. They don’t have FAANG comp, but can pay reasonably well.
Good for Nvidia. They solo explored and invested in parallel computing hoping it would pay off and it did.

The fact their margins are so high is a measure of how much their competitors thought that Nvidia was wrong.

The funny thing to me is that crypto crashed immediately before LLMs exploded, WTF!?!

A timeline where they both simultaneously happen or LLMs come first would have changed the future quite significantly.
This is 100% true. The problem is not paying or not. The problem is that tracking, collecting and selling your data is irrelevant to the Facebook few. They will still trade you as a cattle. The only difference is that you won't be flooded with ads (BM - 15MM - ads playing in full volume because you dared to look away)
Some people have become so entitled as individuals that they think they can put their "progress" above the safety of the people around them.

Tell me you're a project manager without telling me you're a project manager.
I’m German and I never knew this! Thanks!
The British Medical Association would like a word. They are a union, despite the name. UK junior doctors and consultants are currently on strike!
> Worth noting that there's an equivalent of epoll on most platforms.

And libevent if you want a portable front-end to all of them:

* https://libevent.org

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libevent
The DPC is corrupt and does not want to go for the highest possible fines. They have been extremely lenient towards Facebook despite being able to impose harsher punishments.
> Since running a business costs money

They should charge a fair price for their product and deliver something good to customers.

No one is forcing Facebook to not charge for their service. They just can’t do it without slurping your data. If they can’t have a business without invading people’s privacy, they shouldn’t have a business. It is baffling that people still shill these practices from big corporations. It’s like saying “I can’t make money without robbing you, so it should be legal for me to rob you”.

> the only result that will satisfy organisations like noyb is that companies like Facebook disappear from the EU.

This is absolutely not true and frankly reads like an argument in bad faith. noyb’s position is clear: don’t invade people’s privacy.
This would be a 66% pay cut for me. As in, it would take 3 years of that pay to match one of my current year’s pay. Investing aggressively and retiring at 50 seems like a smarter option.
My mistake, icebergs are a YouTube phenomenon: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/kx5sj7/whats_...

I just assumed they came over from TikTok. But as the saying goes: "When you assume you make an ass out of u and me."
If you've built up a 1.2M / year lifestyle on a 1.2M / year income you've made some terrible mistakes, I doubt some internet advice is going to solve that.
market power also comes from a material log jam because we can't make GPUs fast enough to satisfy demand, so the wealthiest customers choose the price because the GPUs built essentially go to auction.