skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politely disagree. It’s productive because hopefully future teams who launch on HN ask each other, “Is what we’re saying true?” during all those polishing and condensing sessions. If they don’t, the risk is crossing a line that damages the reputation of the team and undermines months if not years of hard work.
I think you're right in one aspect, if the product is changed out from under us when it's been purchased, finding a working copy is acceptable.

> That said, why judge if they didn't buy it?

Because my paycheck (I'm a software dev), and the paychecks of millions of other workers, depends on people paying for such products. Pirating smacks of entitlement; it says that everyone is entitled to a product whether they pay for it or not. There's plenty of arguments that it doesn't really impact developers/actors/etc - I've seen most of them on HN - and they're just wrong. Those arguments are just crutches to help pirates believe they are behaving morally.

So why is option 2 morally bad? The truth is that piracy does impact developers, actors, writers, artists, and so forth. It disproportionately impacts those who work in the margins, who aren't EA or Universal or Disney. And the truth is that nobody is entitled to a product, even if that product is an IP and not a physical good, created by another person.

Anyways, that's my rant.
I was very surprised not to have it in business class on the return trip over the Atlantic around Christmas, so it happens.
Integrating AI into High Traffic Rails Applications
While rolling codes can be secure (KeeLoq [0] is a more secure example but has it's own issues), this [1] is an example of some of the weaknesses that can happen if a rolling code algorithm is broken. I have personally been able to capture, decode, encode, and transmit garage door codes using that python script and a HackRF (which can also be done with a flipper and custom firmware).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeeLoq

[1] https://github.com/argilo/secplus
How niche is your use case?

Despite all the questions I have about storing un-versioned large media files in Git instead of EC2 and your lack of good management about modularizing the code base and lack of build tooling....thats the use case I specifically stated in my post.

The monstrosity that is Diversion could have great benefits for niche use cases like yours. i.e. large media file Version Control for teams who aren't knowledgeable about how to manage large code bases.

If for some reason you want to pay an additional nine person team with a huge infrastructure instead of just using EC2 and a build script..feel free.
Is there a canonical definition of these ages? It seems like a useful way of making analogies between industries/mediums.

If there isn't, maybe you could make some sort of website to explain...
Yes, Change Data Capture Still Breaks Database Encapsulation
> My understanding is the benefit of uncle ben is its reliability for beginners, not so much yield or quality.

This.

- You get sterilized substrate, which requires special equipment to produce on your own (large enough pressure cooker, mainly).

- Sterilizing rye is a bit of an art. Not too mushy, not too hard, properly sterilized, get the moisture right. Might take a couple of attempts.

- Financial investment is negligible either way.

- You’re hedging your contamination bets with 200g packs, because creating lab conditions at home isn’t that easy. (Plenty of tutorials claim it is, and then show you their special mushroom tent, which you won’t recognize as a beginner, and then you wonder why you’ve got orange fluff a month later.)
Rendering a website inside GitHub Readme
The population decline is not dramatic enough for that.
Those extensions are far from perfect in my experience (ditto the lists in uBlock Origin)

Often leave you wondering why you can’t click anything on the page
Maybe he's just optimizing the short-term stock market value so he can sell all his shares.
I think this is just expected. Google hired way too many people during the pandemic.

Really a question of why they thought that was a good idea. They added like 70k employees in about 4 years. For what?
I've mentioned this before, in my company (big media company) I saw some S3 costs creeping up each month. I looked into it and it was a system we abandoned that was still copying files to this bucket.

I reached out to the team and they turned it off, it saved us $1m a year. The higher-ups rewarded me by telling me that a team should have caught this so I should meet with them now.
Your applications also shouldn't lose work when you don't press save, this is the entire impetus for the "recover unsaved work" in most document editors. A version of Git that shunted uncommitted changes to a special named stash whenever you did anything destructive would be a positive thing.

It's what I end up doing manually anyway but why make a system where the default behavior is destructive and I have to remember every.
> Usually business assumptions about user accounts have their tendrils deep into the architecture

If their business assumptions are "users will never have a choice about how much we track them", they deserve what they got.
Yeah, I kinda forgot about that aspect. If you bought it and it changed out from under you (especially when it drops an entire platform), I can see piracy being acceptable.
And which nation are you lucky enough to be from that doesn’t have a history of waging unjust wars?
Here's the thing though – do people want a $3500 gen 2 or gen 3 Vision Pro with all the kinks sorted out and a few incremental upgrades, or a $500-800 version with vastly inferior specs? I'm going to say neither, because most people I know are waiting for a $500 Vision Pro, but I don't think that is ever going to happen.
Not sure, even then, doesn‘t reflog keep it quite a while locally on the machine that the force push was sent? Maybe he did not commit his changes for a month and sent a git reset —-hard
Not sure why you are being downvoted; this is a common concern post Covid with early retirements and companies no longer investing in training.

I don't know if it is true, and I hope someone can address the substance of the argument.
Google search has gotten so bad I’m genuinely considering trying bing
We don't wash our cars much here but being told to shower less while big Ag is growing almonds in the desert is a slap in the face.
It is about as sensible a design as you could come up with while still tying the access to be gated by the manufacturer. I still don't really get why it's done this way: the stated reason of security against a previous owner of the system doesn't make sense: this can more easily be accomplished by being able to reset the password.

(As an aside, assuming the system gets its time from NTP, I wonder if you could extend a token's access time indefinitely by returning a looping timestamp from a local server)
They literally don't know.
In my experience this isn't true. I use NixOS because it is my preferred OS due to ease of setup and ergonomics. When I have no choice but to use a different OS the tooling is still there for me to use and it works fine. It's the other package managers that I worry about.
An ironic comment for someone called "Robotbeat" :-)

Robots have been traveling to Mars for over 60 years. Humans? Maybe another 60. And most of the mass sent won't even be the humans, but all the support crap they need.

And Pluto, or the heliopause? What human is going to hang out for half a century to go there?
For maximum authenticity, it will need a copy of index.bak ;)

(more than ten years ago, they accidentally left a copy of their index.php sitting around as index.bak, I might still have a copy of that somewhere)
I have no power service at all. Generator+solar, not that hard to figure out what to do for weak grids.
Why you gotta yuck other people's yum, man?

To me it seems like Hackernews, as a whole, goes off on the same kinds of thought-tangents as I do, and that makes the site more interesting. And I was one of the commenters about Jazelle on the thread you mentioned.
Product as a Multi-Layer Map
you can get 1TB storage with an M2 chip. if you're ok with being plugged in, then this can be a developer machine.
General aviation is and always has been unsafe, due to the prevalence of single engine aircraft and unskilled pilots.

Did you mean commercial aviation?
LoRA from scratch: implementation for LLM finetuning
Java Card still survives, though.

I find Java Card pretty puzzling. You go from high-level interpreted languages on powerful servers, to Java and C++ on less powerful devices (like old phones for example), to almost exclusively C on Microcontrollers, and then back to Java again on cards. If. it makes sense to write Java code for a device small enough to draw power from radio waves, why aren't we doing that on microcontrollers?
> Investing money gives the company (assuming stocks/etc.) funds to grow.

How does that work? If I buy 100 shares of MSFT from some other shareholder, no funds are going to Microsoft.
Fuck - from an average coder perspective, try getting a working linux DNS server for home lab use in 2005 without having to waste a weekend or two on it.

LAMP servers were heralded as the best thing since sliced bread because of how it all just "worked."

And then add in maintenance and all the other sucky sucks of having competing binaries screw everything up.

Now, when it worked, it felt more accomplished than spinning up a `docker run...` or `argocd app create...`

However, I enjoy doing the cool shit on top of this stack now rather than waste my life figuring out why my apache process can't properly invoke php code.
This was, broadly, my experience too. So much potential, never really worked.
When we try solve a problem by saying people should do something, we are solving it as a society. Which means we should solve it a societal level, not by making it responsibility of one part of society to do individually.

In this case, it can’t be just city dwellers responsibility but farmers too. What individual resp in this case means that it is easier to persuade individual residents than individual farmers. Or that they don’t care about problem and dumping responsibility for it where nothing will happen.
Thanks for the feedback! We do hear that remote artists with flaky network connections is common, and plan to address it in several ways like CDC (a method for efficient chunking and diffing of binary files to minimize network transfer and storage duplication), local network caches or peer-to-peer transfers. Private cloud deployment or on-prem with SSO will also be available.
lately Im amused by this because I actually got into a car accident on my way to airport (was in an uber/lyft that got rear ended on a highway) So for trips to and from the airport, they have been more dangerous for me lol.
true. the first step is to have visibility into what's eating the bill. it's just like you need to profile the program before optimizing it.

that's why we did finops dashboard first thing when we first started the cloud journey.

can't optimize if you dont know.
I suspect manufacturers see this particular standard as unlocking a race to the bottom in hardware prices and so are unwilling to bite.
because they imagine the past was better than it was

Old people romanticize the past.

Young people romanticize the future.
"at a senior level at FAANG-level companies" is the last bit of that sentence you left off.

The median software engineer salary in the US is something on the order of $120k/yr. The GS pay scale tops out at just under $160k before locality is taken into account and that's only a small single-digit percentage increase at best, but nobody is getting hired as a GS15 to do development work.

You will make more in the private sector for sure but "hundreds of thousands" is going to be the minority by far.
Most of those are... pretty bad at being words. I mean, they're pronounceable, but they're just pretty random. It takes more than random syllables to make a usable word - some linguistic connection to the language in use would help.
Sundar should have been let go years ago, but I guess the pandemic money explosion made it easy for him to show big returns.

But look between the margins and it's clear google is rotting on the inside. Search sucks. Gemini a year behind (despite google inventing transformers). Canceling products left and right leaving no consumer faith in new offerings. Cloud platform being an absolute terrible experience, even if you have a rep inside too. Internal power groups crippling anything that isn't deemed sufficiently DEI compliant.

The laying off Sundar should be what investors want the most.
I think SEO-spam would be much harder to implemented in an LLM vs. a traditional search engine. The harder part is figuring out an economic model where sources get any traffic in the first place.
If you're spending $425k per year on non-production AWS resources, you have an interesting setup.
At least Ballmer was funny and charismatic.
For many of us, the story rings true. We have ourselves had horror stories that we did manage to recover from after a few hours of fearfully googling, and we know of other, less capable friends and colleagues who were unable to recover the data and who just accepted the loss.
Small fry, I saved a public sector body $1m/year by doing this and rightsizing the kubernetes hosts. :D
Instagram might have been a separate product, but Messenger was just Facebook’s built in chat feature.
The waste issue is the least pressing problem the Nuclear industry has. The total quantity of the stuff is tiny. Like you could stuff all of the nuclear waste produced by power plants in the US into a few Olympic size swimming pools. It's only a political issue, and the workaround is to just store the waste on-site at the power plants which has been feasible despite decades of pushback against permanent waste sites. Try doing that with a coal plant and they would be completely buried under a mountain of flyash within a month.

So this reaction is solving a problem that isn't really a problem. The big issue is the cost, and that's one area where Fusion power has yet to show any benefit. An economically practical fusion reactor is still a pipe dream, especially as renewables continue to chip away at the price of electricity and as storage costs continue to fall.
I knew a guy who studied ancient history, and he told me how it goes: ancient history supports whatever ideology you want. According to communist teaching, ancient societies were proto-communist. According to capitalist teaching, ancient societies were proto-capitalist. And so on.
I feel like the Embraer 175 and 195 and the little Fokker jets can compete for that title.
I agree that git is very complex (just try reading its documentation and how many options or commands you have never heard of before). But I think push --force is probably one of the easiest git concepts to get.
The fact that someone in your team copy pasted something from SO without understanding it doesn't seem to be related to git. Otherwise we could say that the fact some people lose their data through "sudo rm -rf /" proves the complexity of Unix. I don't think so.
You can do that with microwave oven. It would need some adjustments..
Yes. We should still be compassionate for the suffering of others even if their suffering isn’t as severe as the suffering of some.
I agree in general, but when I see a dialog box titled "We respect your privacy" and a choice between "allow all" or "see more", I donate 0.10 € to NOYB.
> The rudder is necessary for directional control specifically turns,

Only if you add a secondary constraint of coordinated turns, which are important for passenger comfort and efficiency, but not directly a safety concern. (You still need directional stability, but that's provided by the fixed portion of the vertical tail, not the rudder.)

> and for flying straight in a crosswind.

Only if you add a secondary constraint of alignment between body angle and flight path. This constraint is totally absent in normal flight -- it only comes up during takeoff and landing, where it's useful to have the plane lined up with the runway to avoid side-loading the landing gear. In the case of a known rudder failure, you'd head to an alternate where there's not much crosswind, to avoid this issue; but you wouldn't expect many issues getting there.

The third case where the rudder is actually critical is when combined with other failures, especially asymmetric engine failures. There are parts of the flight envelope where a single engine failure combined with a rudder failure would not be expected to be survivable.
> This seems naïve: "Yes, it's making money, but it isn't making enough money" is the phrase on the tombstone of a lot of goods, services, ...

I'm jaded enough to know it's not a panacea. It's further along the spectrum from "This is costing us money..." at least.
requiring events to kill anyone as evidence of danger of death is a foolish standard, obviously.

People are "bad at statistics" in the sense that the very real evidence coming from, e.g. 3 mile, is hard to bring into statistical models appropriately, not in the sense that there was no evidence there.
Understood, and I've advocated for this at my company, but I like to talk about things I have sphere of influence over.
coasting on their search+ads monopoly you mean.
Goodness I hope so, that'll be easy money
So you’re saying more scalpers than I thought?

More seriously I found 150 million active iPhones in the USA, which would make it roughly 0.12%, or we can use 40% of revenue to scale our original guess (since presumably the US contains a large proportion of those 1.2 billion who would purchase a $3500 device) and get to 0.035%.
They also sell around 20 million Mac per year.
Even though they are great these days and people see value in having laptop/desktop it's still only like 10% of market share.

And in those 20 million Mac a year probably bulks of sales are cheaper Macbook air and Mac mini

It's unlikely to gonna be a big source of apple revenue until they can reduce price to sub $2000 and/or provider bigger value. Would like if they provided usb/Hdmi out so that it could also act as Mac and apple Tv replacement when connected to TV or monitor + MacOS support.
Money was stupid cheap, so employees didn't have to return much value to be a positive investment. Now, money is more expensive so they aren't worth it anymore.
It's truly fascinating how companies won't bat at an eye at spending ungodly amounts of money on things they don't need, but will sweat profusely at the thought of a tiny fraction of that going towards additional compensation.
>and hence while either fd is open, the kernel can not detect a close.

Which is what the author wants. He wants the socket to close once both generate-data and consume-data are done with the socket.
Waymo, Google Brain, and now DeepMind (acquired).
Well with Boeing the problems started long before COVID though. Basically with the reverse-takeover of McDonnell Douglas, so more than 25 years ago.
That's actually a very good definition of schizophrenia, I don't understand your point. Mania does not necessarily mean connections and meaning, it's more related to mood and impulsivity.
Yeah, me too. Never thought I'd ever do that.
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Google is not hostile to JPEG XL.

Google Research develops and maintains JPEG XL, currently main focus on improving streaming encoding -- to use much less memory during the encoding process.

Google Chrome added and then removed experimental support of JPEG XL from Chrome. This has caused discussion in the related bugs.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=145180...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
Micro dosing psylocibe/psylocin on a regular basis puts your heart valves at some risk of permanent damage in ways occasional high dose use does not.
Also

[How America accidentally made a free-money machine for banks (economist.com)]https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/01/18/how-america-acc...
>The Lower Mainland is a geographic and cultural region of the mainland coast of British Columbia that generally comprises the regional districts of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

--Wikipedia
Or the fact that many of the major "security bad press" or "S in IoT stands for security" stories are because such interfaces were made but not properly secured. (see bosch story)
There are a decent number of people here in academia, which pays the same/worse.

Money is important, obviously, but it's not always the only thing that motivates people.
You got rewarded with more meetings? Not a bonus?
You don't need to be so dramatic ("rebel and exterminate their biological forbears" lol). Robots are perfect for interstellar probes; for example they can go to sleep indefinitely and can easily recharge at the destination with solar.

We are traveling on a spaceship for which we are perfectly adapted (unless we set fire to it, which we are in the process of doing). Why not send our robot progeny to do the unpleasant work for us?
I think early equity funding has a role to play in video games… a role that’s very similar to YC. So I started EGG:

https://www.elbowgreasegames.com/
> I’ve lived all over this country, the only places I can think of where most of an urban area can take any sort of train from most of the city to the airport are NY, Boston, Chicago.

DC has the most convenient airport for transit access; if you park, you literally have to work through the train station to get to the airport. Atlanta has a mediocre train system, but it has excellent access to the airport. Philadelphia has a mediocre connection to the airport, but stronger system overall. SFO also is reasonably accessible by BART.

Indeed, the only US city I can think of with a large urban rail system with an abysmal airport connection is LA, although LA's rail transit network in general is just a smorgasbord of sadness.

> The US has a population density of 1/12th the Netherlands.

Yeah, that's because there's large expanses of land in Alaska or the West where literally nobody lives. But most people live in urban environments of some kind; the fifty largest MSAs account for over half the population (too lazy to do the math to get the exact number), and even the fiftieth largest is of a size that would, in Europe, have a functional transit system of some kind.
That data not committed to git can not be recovered by git should hopefully not surprise anyone.

Neither is it the fault of your version control system, or any other system really, if you cannot access your server and are without backups.
growing chrome from nothing to monopoly-level browser?
Dev env. for complicated products can be fairly involved and large companies might have a lot of them.
Luddites aren't pro-worker, they're pro-worker's-status-quo. They want workers to be artificially insulated against change at someone else's expense, which is really to the long-term detriment of workers.
Why Isn't Solar Scaling in Africa?
Let's not shift blame. Charlatans gonna charlatan, regardless of whatever misdeeds you perceive "advocates" have done.
I find the scalpers always have such reasonable sounding rationalizations.
Sounds like a great way to find out who's working late or is an early bird
It's an inflation phenomenon, it largely stems from the explosive growth and centralization of the government post-WWII and subsequent abolishment of the gold standard. You exchange labor for Nancy Pelosi's (alternatively replace your preferred congress person) Chuck-E-Cheese tokens and those tokens are being created out of thin air (treasuries being the gold replacement) to finance whatever war, bureaucracy and any other boondoggle imaginable.

Now instead of getting tokens that are constrained in their scarcity (gold based), you've got constantly depreciating ones, which means your employer can pay you less every year without lifting a finger. The playing field is in their favor in an inflationary environment cause it's now the laborers' burden to search for new employment if they want a raise.