skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intent was to keep their chummy contract with government going and keep riding the gravy train, no matter how shit the software was.

So far, I haven't seen evidence of anyone at Fujitsu inserting fake records in order to enrich the company - FYI the contract was such that the government took basically no risk, Fujitsu fronted the money to pay for Horizon's development, and in return Fujitsu gets a cut of all transactions. All they need to do is keep the sweet deal going.

What I have seen evidence of is them clearly detecting bugs, and inserting fake records to make the numbers reconcile, but still being so thick that their support staff didn't notice the fake numbers didn't add up either.

https://www.postofficetrial.com/2019/03/the-smoking-gun.html

Their motive appears to keep the corporate gravy train going, so yes it's personal enrichment, and to fudge the numbers on the sly so nobody questions Fujitsu's competence to run their system... but not cook the books directly.

Then of course the Post Office would prosecute the SPMs for discrepencies hallucinated by Fujitsu's broken accounting software, and not be curious or ask questions of Fujitsu, because then the Post Office bosses wouldn't get their performance-based bonuses.

There's also straight up incompetence:

https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/ecce-chambers/

> Chambers admitted to the Inquiry that despite being told the discrepancies had occurred on various occasions at the branch throughout the year, she only looked at the system information behind the most recent discrepancy. She also didn’t check to see if something similar had been reported by any other branch. Her “investigation”, from assignation to conclusion, took one hour sixteen minutes.

> Chambers conceded that she didn’t know if it was an unknown system error was affecting the branch, and seemed to accept that her stark conclusion in 2013: “No fault in product” and “user” error, was misleading. She added:

> “I don’t think I handled it terribly well. I was frustrated by it and I think that shows… because, you know, it really looked like there was a genuine problem… [but]… There was no sign of it.”

> In summary, ten years ago, Anne Chambers appears not to have considered the possibility of unknown system problems, or prompted an investigation more advanced than what she could achieve within the limits of her knowledge and ability. Instead, after a quick squizz at a limited dataset she concluded there was no obvious problem, which meant there was no problem and the cause of the discrepancy was the Subpostmaster.
Good explanation of the components seen inside: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/19amwul/...
So the neighbors who where there first also don't have any parking in their buildings? Only the new residents should be required to park thier cars off street? I fail to see how that is justifiable.
Being principled would preclude you from changing those principles to excuse your own bad behavior.

Put another way, if you were to do this, then you weren't really principled in the first place, were you?

And it's not like people don't say out loud that they are a certain way, and then act against that. There's no magic in principles being explicitly stated.
That is indeed an issue, and I am actively working on it.
https://archive.is/q2yPV
if you're a retail investor maybe

there's thousands of ways to get exposure to MSFT one way or the other beyond the primary market
What "Behind-the-Scenes" technologies are you most excited about?
Hey HN,

My ears always perk up when I hear about some interesting technologies. For example, I'm fascinated by real-time facial action analysis, DNA digital data storage, nuclear phone batteries, SS7, brain-computer interfaces, power analysis, and so on. These technologies may not make the headlines as often as artificial intelligence, but I still think they are very interesting.

I'm curious to hear from you: What are some technologies that you find most exciting or intriguing? What is it about these technologies that captures your attention?

I'm looking forward to discovering some hidden gems.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Hi Dmitry, thanks for replying here. You raise some good points - I'll do my best to address them below. I'll also add that we have a fully-featured free tier that you can sign up for on our website (www.multiple.dev). Any hands-on feedback from our product or the TestGen feature would be extremely helpful.

Test feedback - during our TestGen flow, the user provides feedback on the sequence and contents of the API requests. And at the end of the flow, our users can manually edit the resulting JS code for additional customization.

Effort to create a load test - You can go from a Swagger or HAR file to a function load test, written in JS, in a few minutes. There is no learning curve, assuming you have basic knowledge of JavaScript. Maintenance is typically minimal.

CLI - we are launching our CLI shortly, where users can start tests from command line as you describe. It'll work similarly to Jest or other unit test frameworks, where the test scripts will live in our user's codebase.

The use of AI - we use AI to generate realistic-looking synthetic data, which can be challenging with strings. The AI matches each field to the most relevant faker-js function. We need the content of the string to look like something the target application would receive in production. And with HAR files, we use AI to help filter out irrelevant requests such as analytics.

I hope that was helpful, and I'm happy to go into more detail.
A monthly subscription restaurant would be a true game changer.

I'm imagining going to a place where I sit and choose food without ever making price calculations, the restaurant also doesn't have to care about pushing drink orders or time spent at the table.

if the cost was low enough people would probably stop caring about optimizing and try to get their money's worth, while the restaurant would only need to focus on customer satisfaction to get renewals.

That must exist in some way, what is it ?

Edit: school restauration is that, and I genuinely think of it as a crucial system that helps so many kids. I could see company restaurants in the same light but the closed nature isn't great.
Looks across the street at the massive electrical substation beside my house.

Definitely weird and not at all something we expect other people to live with.
Someone born in 1900 went from horse and cart to landing on the moon in their lifespan.

Someone born in 1960 will go from telephones and libraries to apps and VR headsets...

I know which transformation I think is more impressive.
Microsoft is using Llama, reducing its dependence on OpenAI
Theory of quantised inertia gets rid of dark matter [video]
Ask HN: Is this a useful tool for product managers?
Hey,

I'm building a tool for analyzing customer feedback at scale. https://usepainboard.com/. I think it's a useful tool for product managers especially if you have lots of customer feedback to make sense of. But to be honest, this is just a guess since I'm an engineer, not a product manager myself. So I'd really appreciate some feedback to point me in the right direction!

Here's the story of how it got started just in case you are interested. The initial inspiration was somehow different. I built this tool to scratch my own itch while trying to prioritize features of another app. There was a competitor who had lots of customer reviews. I was like "nice! but that's too much text to read and I should automate it". I built the first version in a weekend and published it. Then a client came to me and we started to focus on their specific use case. The current Painboard is the result of working with initial clients and tailoring the features for them. At this point, I think the features are generic enough and useful for a broader set of users. That's why I'm really eager to talk to you!

Thanks and happy Friday!

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According to a sibling comment they already made a FET

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39057303
TLDR:
UK legal system has no legitimacy.
The whole thing is just yet another example of the consequences of letting lawyers lie as much as they want without consequences in order to win.
It's also the case with OCaml, Elixir, clojure, etc. Non lazy languages can also have a rich collection of immutable data structures and have more predictable memory usage than Haskell. On the other hand, Go doesn't have a culture or features that encourage immutability.
The issue for Ukraine that even it gets the same capacity, it will not exactly be able to bomb the Lancet factory in Elabuga. Russia can keep essential stuff out of range. That's also what it did in WWII.
There isn’t. About every specialized corner has its own conventions.

The derivative of a function, for example, can be written in at least 4 ways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation)

Also note that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbo... lists only fairly common notation, but already says “may”, “in such-and-so field” or “it is also denoted as” lots of times, and mentions several notations with multiple meanings. The section on brackets, in particular, clearly shows the same notation can mean wildly different things.

There is some notation that’s almost universal, such as using ‘+’ for edition, but that’s the case for programming languages, too.
Nah, went through what 18 years of relatively little rocking the boat in overturning precedence and then overturning roe v wade and now the chevron defense in 2-3 years? Maybe the courts history as a whole has less overturning but these past few years have been markedly faster
Speak for yourself; lots of humans are still science-ing
I wouldn't want that kind of interface. I'd worry about it retraining my mind to think "Braking = pulling this paddle", and then one day I'll need to make an emergency stop, and I'll pull the paddle instead of hitting the foot brake and ram into whatever I wanted to avoid because the regen braking was insufficient.

I suppose the system could be designed to detect a user suddenly putting a death grip on the paddle brake and apply the foot brake automatically.
> which take money for services they don't deliver

They are delivering a service.

> This particular behavior is little better than taking money and simply refusing to provide service

No it's not.

> No matter how awful or shameful, people say 'it's business' and those magic words absolve every evil

No, they don't.
brah, just buy from cerebras. (x.x)``
Mummification. On a bet. With the motivation being to demonstrate utility.

That is seriously enough to recheck everything because it seems to have blown up the founder. And if it does this to him, what's it gonna do to us?

It does not need to be more complicated than this.
Is there any evidence for this? The HN post that you linked is sourcing a Reddit thread where the person is making that assumption based on a response from a support person from Brother and the fact that they're unable to manually calibrate the printer (which they're admitting is simply something they don't know how to do).

This would be extremely disappointing to me if Brother has gone the way of the dodo because I specifically bought a Brother printer for this reason and continued to buy their OEM cartridges and toners as a means of support. I've been voting with my dollars and would like some evidence that this is the case and possibly that this is intentional before I bring out the pitchfork on this one.
It's worse than that. Post Office investigators got performance-related bonuses for every successful prosecution. They were chomping at the bit to prosecute anyone who showed the slightest discrepancy, and all their Christmases came at once after Horizon was installed.

Moral hazard, cobra effect, if all you have is a hammer, etc.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/10/post-office-exec...
> ZFS is nearly perfect but when it comes to expanding capacity it's just as bad as RAID.

if you don't mind the overhead of a "pool of mirrors" approach [1], then it is easy to expand storage by adding pairs of disks! This is how my home NAS is configured.

[1] https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs...
I'm sure there are some out there that remember 10.. 15.. 20 CDs for 1¢ mail order.

My assumption was that they would bank on guilt or forgetfulness to keep the cash flowing in.
Methanol is extremely flammable, it's vapor is heavier than air at lower temperatures, it can float on water, and the flame is invisible, so leaks could create big problems. But industry already has a lot of experience handling methanol:

https://hero.epa.gov/hero/index.cfm/reference/details/refere...

https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/3363...
Stocks Climb to Record, Lifted by Big Tech and Rate Cut Hopes
The main conclusion I draw from this is that people will generally do whatever they want or feel they need to do, and their religious beliefs or affiliations continue to not really matter all that much.

> she apparently acted in a way that's not consistent with Christian ideals

Considering that "Christian ideals", depending on whom you ask, can include some pretty bad things, I don't think this matters all that much.
Microbe dot tv

Dickson is semi retired now but you can check him and Vincents podcasts, TWiP and TWiV there.
I bought it, too, and am excited. I woke up at 4:50 AM PT to make sure I got it on Feb 2.

I was on the fence, honestly. It's a crapload of money. The battery life is worse than a Gateway Laptop. There is no killer app.

That said, my first stupid purchase was telephony equipment in the early 90s to make something like Asterisk. Then I bought a $1500 ReplayTV. It should have beaten out TiVo but didn't. Then I bought Google Glass. Some would say that $1,500 was wasted money. My life is littered with stupid purchases...

But somehow, I have got to a place where I am doing OK in life.

So, why not take the next plunge. Who knows... this device could be the inspiration for the NEXT BIG THING, or (more likely) it will contribute, and I will have more tech insight than I had before.

I hope we both enjoy it.
I mean I'm partial since it's my site, but I do like Beat That Flight - https://www.beatthatflight.com.au/ - in Australia/New Zealand (although you can use it anywhere, if that wasn't obvious) ;)

I find OTAs are often substantially cheaper, they make their money with upsells (insurance, txt updates, etc) but if you just tick no to everything, you can often get quite the bargain.
In the original, none of those are cited as his personal observation- all of them are based on (with links to) publicly available news reports on the company, published by reputable news organizations like Business Insider, who presumably have at least a reasonable due-diligence process before they publish, or at least one could make reliance on their having done so.

Basically, I know where I'd put my money on whether they happened, and who ends up looking bad.
It’s not broken per se. Charging different customers different prices based on their willingness to pay maximizes profits. Heck even Sourcehut does it, but they don’t require interacting with sales because at their pricing they don’t have enough margin for a sales team.
Because it's very much a language if you want to formally communicate your thoughts. The 'syntax' becomes flexible when you're into higher levels of math. Feynman inventing Feynman diagrams comes to mind. This was one way math became more intuitive and flexible for communication of novel thoughts.
> and such a relationship is a lot less asymmetric in terms of power balance than corporation-consumer relationships are

For these subscriptions, the customer holds not just equal power, but all the power. Clicking unsubscribe really isn't very difficult. If corporations held any power, some of them wouldn't try dark patterns.
> “This item is customized for one big client in UKR [Ukraine],”

Is his name Vladmir?
There can be multiple existential threats at a time. And on top of that, there can be actions that also increase the chances of succumbing to said existential threat.

Look at it this way. Someone who is bitten by a rattlesnake is at risk of dying (an existential threat). Certain medical care, like giving the patient Advil or any other form of blood thinning pain killers could actually end up making matters worse which in turn could increase the chances of the patient dying.

No one here is saying we’re all doomed and there’s no use in trying. What they are doing is pointing out that carbon capture and geo-engineering may not be the most fitting solutions to this existential threat, and that these solutions could even potentially make matters worse.

>“How can something be worse than an existential threat?”

If something you do makes your chances of surviving an existential threat worse, the consequences of your actions could make the initial existential threat harder to manage and in turn make it more likely to succumb to said threat.
Additionally, there were (and still are) many factions and subteams across Brain, Google Research, and Deepmind that now make up today's "Google Deepmind"
> What's wrong with people putting on their adulting pants and actually being responsible?

What's wrong with asking businesses to simply not charge you if you don't use the service? You can play the blame game all day, but that doesn't actually give us any reason why not. "Cars shouldn't have seatbelts because you can just not crash your car" is a similar line of thinking that also doesn't make very much sense. Why shouldn't the car manufacturer take some level of responsibility?
Rewrite it in Erlang
This argument sounds ridiculous/unhinged to the average person.
And imagine running out of coal!
No more 'Big IT': the failed 90s model has ruined too many lives
I’m not sure if it’s a lack of shame from the CEO, or a lack of healthy fear.

I can tell you that if I ran my mouth the same way he did, I would be worried about someone throwing a fist.
Slackware goes back all the way to Slackware-1.01.

I'd say that slackware versions 8 to 10 would be about the right vintage for your machines.

Yes those versions are old, but the packages worked then and they will work now.

I think that what the OP actually wants is a Boeing 747 powered by a rotary aircraft engine from WW1. And that's a completely different barrel of fish.
"It’s just not a normal way to live regardless of how much people defend it lol"

Growing up in the 80s I heard this all the time from the people around me, but in reference to being gay. I'm glad I shrugged that off.
I think it technically counts as a missile, but also fits the categories of typical UAVs so there's some ambiguity as to what the "correct" name is.
Author Admits She Used ChatGPT to Write Award-Winning Novel
The UK government took Fujitsu off their "preferred vendors" list. But they're not allowed, by law, to exclude a company completely from new contracts.

They tried to cancel another Fujitsu contract, but Fujitsu took them to court and won, so the government have to keep accepting their shit service.
If you think that services should start unsubscribing people just in case they have ADHD, that seems a very odd way round to think. They're just businesses. I don't think it's reasonable to assume they can know what you want or intend.
It is government sponsored. It says in the article.

>Microsoft has identified the threat actor as Midnight Blizzard, the Russian state-sponsored actor also known as Nobelium.
>My dad was a piano professor and my mom a German professor

I bet you are fun at parties, and I'm not even being sarcastic. What a wonderful childhood.
Read the details of the case.

Did they diagnose people with high functioning autism back in the 60s and 70s? Was Asperger’s even refinished as a thing back then? I don’t know for sure that he got a diagnosis. But was pretty obvious to all in the neighborhood in retrospect.

Anyway, I shared my perspective as someone who was a little closer to the whole episode than most. Perhaps there are some details in there that did not make the Wikipedia page. You are free to discount it or not. Ain’t a thang to me.
“It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.”

― Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics
I've been driving a Tesla for just over 4 years.

When I first got it, one-pedal driving wasn't implemented yet. Regen had a "low" and "high", and at first, I used "low", but found myself still using the foot brake to decelerate from high speeds. I change it to "high" after only a week or two, and it became exceptionally rare for me to use the foot brake.

It doesn't feel sluggish at all. You just have to get used to maintaining constant throttle input unless you want to stop. It's a bit of a retraining, but I learned it quickly.

Maybe it's because my previous cars were both manual transmissions which will always apply engine braking, especially in lower gears, so I was used to merely reducing throttle instead of completely removing it when I wanted to slow down a bit.
It could be sort of neat if there was a convention for all news agencies and press rooms to queue up all their stories and release them after the end of the business day.

Why advantage parties that can process in less than 12 hours? Rushing analysis just makes it worse.
Most so the book is meant to be taken as a rule of thumb. I personally think simple interface hiding deep functionality is a really good one. I was looking at the langchain codebase last year after having read the book and the point was struck home. Many of the functions in Langchain are one line wrappers of other functions. I try to think of functions as atomic units of knowledge. Very short functions are a good indicator that you're not organizing that knowledge effectively. When you have a simple interface with deep logic, you're encapsulating logic in a single place. This is very good for reducing the cognitive load of a developer. Shallow functions fragment that knowledge across multiple classes/functions/files. The developer needs to hold more of the world in their head to make sense of things. This increases complexity.

Additionally, you can sort of intuit this by looking at very successful commercial products like Google Search, the iPhone, and ChatGPT. Search is a single text input. The iPhone is a screen with a very small number of buttons. Chatgpt has a simple chat interface. All of these systems are incredibly complex, but they're able to present a simple interface to the public to allow most people to leverage that complexity without having to think about it.

Just my 2 cents.
Almost definitely.

But so will farming it, paving it over, parking over it, mining it for coal or pumping it for oil and gas.