skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not bad considering Apple sold 270k $500 1st iPhones on its 1st week domestically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)#cite_n...
Have Chinese based electronics improved in the last decade. I remember the concerns about devices catching fire (hoverboards) and lead in vinyl and other materials (I remember an Amazon kids pencil bag that was recalled two years ago)

For a household product that runs autonomously throughout my house and interacts with many surfaces, and with small kids in the house, I want a reputable supplier, not just whiz bang features and a slick app.

Maybe Roborock is that, but there is so much opacity when dealing with Chinese companies even in cases where the govt is not involved.
Pub/Sub is truly the stuff of nightmares compared to Tasks. I wish Tasks were a little more loved, because I keep ending up using Pub/Sub inevitably.
Does IBM have many, or even any roles like this? The only rational assessment of "roles that could be replaced with AI" is first-level customer support, or perhaps translation, both of which I'd expect IBM outsources rather than hires for. Of course the answer is probably that this is based on an irrational assessment.
Growing up in the 80s, no one I knew avoided cigarettes because of regulations. Cigarettes were easy to get your hands on as a kid, even though it was illegal to sell to children. We avoided cigarettes because we had a general understanding of the health risks, because we knew our parents would beat our asses if they caught us smoking, and because smoking makes your clothes smell like shit.
I mean, I guess I get it for certain things. Silly to mandate it though. Anyone who has work requiring them to be in the office should be in the office. My in office time jumps up to 3-5 days per week when I have a new employee until they’re somewhat self sufficient. My in office time jumps when I have to prepare hardware for a project *in house*. My in office time plummets when I’m doing a software project hosted on one of my customers systems.

I guess what I’m saying is just be pragmatic and get your stuff done.

P.S. One of my senior guys is a road warrior, highly effective and I see him in the office maybe three times a year.
They have the third highest property taxes after New Jersey and Illinois. Connecticut, Texas, Vermont are next, so two nearby states, but Vermont and Connecticut are the states with the fourth and eighth highest taxes, when counting property, sales and income taxes combined, while New Hampshire has the fourth lowest taxes combined.
Maybe they are counting embassy security..
Cracked is back? I loved it like 10 years ago but it seemed like the site fell off the face of the earth
Yep, same reason why a lot of businesses also still run AS/400
I'm the same boat as I was skimming through meetups. I'm in the S.bay and aint interested in trekking to SF with no promise of anything meaningful.

ping me if you're interested in a chat over coffee. My boss is with his 4yr peers at preschool so free-ish.

I think my info popups on my username.
Doing a small project together before you commit is a good idea for all cofounders, in my opinion.

If it doesn't work when almost nothing is at stake, it won't work when there's more at stake.
The deposit is $1.25 million if anyone is looking to buy a few ;-)
The thing with these headsets that I think is overlooked is they are gonna have to compete with huge relatively inexpensive high quality TVs. Obviously they are. providing different experiences but let's not discount just how good a big ass TV is at providing its own type of immersive entertainment experience. So at least for recreational uses I think most people would rather spend the money on the biggest best TV they can possibly get and skip the expensive headsets or at least buy cheaper models for limited novelty use.
WARC is also resistant to hardware errors though, and has this property without requiring constant fsyncing.

A CSV file is arguably harder to recover by comparison.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? I researched online for this reference and consulted with some colleagues while discussing this topic but none of them could figure out what you mean by when the balloon goes up.
If you want to submit it to the app store you'll need to install XCode anyway to build it and submit it. Might as well just start there and have it configured right from the beginning.
Make sure you know how to calibrate it though.
Well said. If Matthias, a person who programs Python scripts for stress testing machines, and can navigate the hideous UI/UX of some digital oscilloscope, is not "computure-savvy"...

Give any of us a tired morning without coffee and a mis-click, and many of us could be in the same predicament.
I wonder if bcachefs can do it.
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So... Disney licensing content to Netflix means Netflix won?

Yeah, no.

Netflix's content has been on a downward spiral for years now. It's mostly the same rehashed true crime dramas and low budget trashy content. They're rarely willing to pay for good original content anymore.

Compare it to eg; Apple TV+ that has a bunch of amazing originals. From "For All Mankind" to "Severance".
I found the same thing. I think it's one of two possibilities. Either they were
able to redirect his channel to their (completely separate) channel, in which case the upload date and view count would have been more organic, or they were able to replace his videos with theirs, leaving his video's view count and date-uploaded intact (although I find it hard to believe youtube's creator tools would allow for a complete change of video)

All we know is his credentials were stolen.

N.B: there's a larger thread over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182122
To your last point, I agree. I think that most people (including most people in uniform) don't realize how well it actually pays to be an officer. The corollary is that it's not easy to make much more by transitioning to the civilian world. But yes, one can leave active duty in their early 40s in a really good position - a couple million in savings, the pension, the retiree healthcare, the GI Bill for the kids - and keep making similar money in a new job or launch a new venture (having plenty to fall back on if it fails). Ending up with $11M later in life is not out of the question.

I'm still thinking about the exponential curve vs. S-curve. I do think there are a lot of jobs, regardless of someone's final military rank like you said, that will pay low six-figures just for the security clearance and knowledge of certain systems. The few jobs that pay much more - getting into the world of corporate executives, board members, consultants, lobbyists, media personalities, guest speaking - might be accessible to some retired flag officers, but there aren't a lot of retired flag officers to begin with.
Haven't had an exclusively lisp job, so maybe I shouldn't comment, but... I did use CL and Clojure on the job for a few smaller things at my last two places. It's easier to find Clojure companies (and them to find you) than Common Lisp ones. You might want to peruse https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies from time to time and see if any have openings. There's other resources linked too and of course there's the reddit and discord community (such as there is) hubs. You can also see if there are any meetups in your area, that's how I almost ended up at a Clojure startup some years back.

I should have taken strategy notes after talking to a guy at my last job who got management buy-in to rewrite a lot of Java code (for android) to Kotlin and have all new code for android be in Kotlin (before that was considered the sensible default). I think that's in general a better approach for a lot of would-be paid lispers: don't wait for or look for the lisp job, make the lisp job. Whether that's doing work where the customer doesn't care what language the thing is made in, or introducing it (some have even snuck it in -- the original clojure.jar got a lot of early success that way) to an existing work place. What I somewhat remember from my conversation was that if you can make a good technical case and have at least one other person supporting you (ideally your entire dev team as was his case), it's a lot easier to sell. No one raised bogus concerns about increasing the hiring difficulty or effort learning the new system. (I say bogus because engineers are learning all the time, and huge swathes of the industry have already had to do things like migrate from ObjC to Swift, or the various versions of JavaScript and later TypeScript + all the framework churn, switching IDEs; learning and change are quite common and a non-issue.) From other Lisp company reports, getting a new hire up to speed to be productive with the team using Common Lisp is a matter of a week or two, a small portion of the overall onboarding time a lot of new jobs have. Mastery takes longer, of course, but that's different.

If I had stayed longer at my last job I would have continued to flesh out a better demo for interactive selenium webdriver tests for our main Java application after injecting ABCL into it, it seemed like the easiest vector to get more interest from my team and other teams. It kind of sucks when you're debugging a broken test and finally hit an exception but now you have to start over again (especially if you stepped too far in the debugger), especially with heavy webdriver tests that can take a long time. The Lisp debugging experience is so much better... And when writing the test from scratch, it's very interactive, you type code and execute it and verify the browser did what you intended. When you're done you run it again from scratch to verify.
Good. These all usually have mixed plastic, glue, paint, metal, microchips, wiring, and a (usually low quality) lithium ion battery (which can in most cases actually be reused.)
Not to mention residue of whatever substance was being vaped, little cotton pads, etc, etc..
That is all to say that they’re a recycling and e-waste nightmare.
That's exactly what I was thinking. If they started charging $5 per gigabyte of gmail storage with 10MB of free storage they would instantly rake in a lot of money while simultaneously pissing off 20% of the world (total guess at gmail's market share).
So then why would you trust the company? Wouldn't he direct them to do the same?
People are working on R7RS-Large, a lot of the standard is decided upon by now. I suspect, though, it'll take another five years...

https://github.com/johnwcowan/r7rs-work/blob/master/WG2Docke...
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I’m a novice in the crypto and block chain space, and trying to see if NFTs can exist outside crypto markets (working on a paper for a friend). I think if NFTs were running on an independent block chain, you could still transfer NFT ownership by payment with credit card or cash etc, right. Crypto is not intrinsically involved, though I suspect ethereum contracts would help ensure payment and ownership happen simultaneously?
ACLU Files Amicus in a Challenge to a Wrongful Arrest Due to Face Recognition
My friends and I had a small server set up in college, and those were some of the best times of those years. :D
7-10 days for Amazon Prime shipment to arrive here in Montana.
Here are a few subject areas exhibiting short term thinking

* music producers and iTunes

* movie studios & Netflix

* retailers (e.g. Toys R Us) and amazon

* Zynga & FB

* Taxi drivers & Uber

* short-term-rental buyers (taking massive risk) & AirBNB

There are hundreds of these cases. Within 2-5 years the risk will change.

The solution isn’t “use the competitor”. The proposal I’m making is “don’t fund the business that is out to destroy you”
Then send me a link of a CCTV camera around your local mall or train station. They only publish it if it will be used for the news / evidence of a crime.

You mean to say CCTV footages in its entire duration gets profit?
What you are saying might be problematic. This is a naive approach towards saving cost in the cloud. Companies who would pay big bucks for a platform like this, I would imagine they would optimize cost by managing commitments on Reserved Instance over 1 year/3 year or sometimes monthly via platforms like some non-aws platforms. Net-saving is much higher than just turning off/on instances.

Managing cost without impacting any infrastructure is the right way to do it in my opinion.
How about during the journey in space, where there's more radiation? Was any shielding provided during transport? (e.g. even from the position of sensitive components relative to the rest of the mothership).

I notice the two flight control MCU's connected to the Qualcomm CPU were still radiation-hardened.
I'm tempted to build a tool that uses DAGs to orchestrate sequential prompt engineering, but typing that out makes me feel dirty.
I think vbb has an archive site, similar to how mailing lists look, not sure what the subpath is.
Yes. I deploy prompts professionally for work and I almost always iterate with chatGPT.

It requires a bit of back forth but you can get great results. It lets you iterate at a higher level instead of word for word.

I also find that the prompts work better. Prompt engineering is often about finding magic words and sentences that are dense keywords from the training data and another LLM is going to be good at finding those phrases because it knows those phrases the best.

Here’s an example dialogue I was using recently to iterate on a set of prompts for generating synthetic training data for LLM training. (Inspired by phi-2)

https://chat.openai.com/share/51dd634b-7743-4b5e-9c3f-3d57c6...
Work from office mandates may serve as a proxy for companies on the decline. When things are going well, companies are more willing to take risks that could impact the top line, when things are going wrong it’s all scrutiny and bottom line optimization.
I’m thinking they mean physical Passbooks. With pages that show hand written transactions and current balance.

I’m genuinely amazed these are even still a thing at all!

I remember them from the 1980s in the UK!
> Data include personnel who are assigned to the State Department and Embassies overseas.
>Seems pretty trivial to .....

Then go do it. If it's pretty trivial....
One thing I've found interesting with social media and children is that almost every parent I know recognizes the impact social media has on their children, but they willfully ignore it or feel powerless to avoid it. I hear stuff like, "It's impossible for kids to not be on social media. It's required these days.", and "The social consequences will be worse for them if they're not a social media."
Typically the Nyquist Shannon theorem is stated to say that you need to sample at twice the maximum frequency for complete reproducibility. Applying this to a digital signal, that does indeed work with a discrete Fourier transform. Applying this in the perspective of a sample rate (i.e. *.wav file of a recorded audio signal) does not hold true though in my opinion as the discrete signal has become a scalar, not a vector of the Fourier example.

If we take the highest reproducible frequency, two samples per wave, we find we could perfectly sample at the highest and lowest values of that wave, but we could have equally sampled the zero-crossing point, all depending on where in the phase the sample rate aligns with a given wave form. As the sampling has lost significant information, I believe a sample rate should be much higher than what Nyquist-Shannon would suggest for a high degree of reproducibility.

If your source is a digital signal, and you only need to reproduce that signal, of course 2x is ample.
If you're referring to this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Project-X-AMD-Zen-Coreboot

This seems to make no mention of Oxide at all. Perhaps you're connecting two different unrelated organizations together as Oxide appears to have never had any relation to it. I think you're just perhaps confused about what the situation is.
>> > Can you please please please integrate with Python on the server?

> You expect the developer to port and maintain their entire project to Python because you can't be bothered to learn a new programming language?

They are literally begging, 3 "pleases", rather than "expecting".
So Titan gets its flying car before I do. 1960's called and asked "what happened?"
Price floors are not uncommon in US agriculture regulation, it prevents prices from falling too low and suppliers going out of business as a result. Milk is one of the common examples of this in the US.

e.g.: https://www.maine.gov/dacf/milkcommission/minimum.shtml

Again, as you point out, it is another example of reliability being more important than free market pricing.

My point here is that "economists say prices control are bad" is an oversimplification. Importantly, economists know how price controls effect markets and sometimes they can be effective tools.
Plausibly true. And I'm far too removed from the culture wars to know if "higher ed is broken!" is a battle cry for any of the current factions.

OTOH - back in boring old-fashioned King's-English usage, "broken" is used in a wide variety of contexts; both for things that nobody would bother to repair (a water glass) and that everybody would very much want to repair (the speaker's leg bone).
My (non-technically inclined) nephew age 14 managed to get caught with an old Wii u from a friend and was using it to browser the net at 3am via the friend's (neighbor) Wi-Fi. I don't think paying close attention, as much as it should be done, is really the be and end all answer for everyone to know their kid is never on social media or sites they shouldn't be on. Beyond this example unless you're home schooling them in remote isolation with regular prison level searches there are going to be other ways your kids do things you wouldn't like them to. If you are talking about that kind of setup I'm more worried about that in society than Facebook.

That doesn't mean parents should not pay attention or give them easy access but I'm not sure the proud proclamation is really solving or responding to the conversation at hand. Most likely, IMO, it's a problem without a single golden solution.
I guess it depends on how you perceive "face". Admitting to and taking responsibility for mistakes can be good, but both academia and the PRC are united in their delusion that pretending to never make any mistakes is somehow good, even when it's almost an open secret that those mistakes exist. Doubling down and tripling down, if you will.
Are there any such advantages that you can't get with illumos?
We don't eat the brains of people with Alzheimer's, so we don't see it transmit?

I know CWD transmits from pretty much any shedding of the animal, but is that necessarily universally true?

Can we map that onto human beings who practice hygeine and don't eat leaves that another human urinated on?
We still can't explain the big bang, yet here we are. Just because something can't be explained with our current models or understanding, doesn't mean it's forever impossible.
In that case the list is basically all countries without a US embassy? And aren’t there US troops in Iraq still?
Aren’t bonds linked to governments, not land? Russia the country can default.
Embassies are guarded by the US Marine Corp.
Recently, South Korea has been issuing tickets to popular singers and performances as NFTs to solve the problem of black market ticketing, making them non-transferable.
I was able to get around this by using a VPN, interestingly enough.
yeah, the paternalism was out of control, given that billions of people could and were making daily choices to expose themselves.

A nurse could choose (or be strongarmed) into treating sick patients. Parents and spouses can choose to tend the sick. Hell, people could and did go to covid parties to get infected.
Deja vu? [1] I thought the last time was earlier than 2017 because I seem to recall it happening while I was busy administering IBM products like Rational Jazz and Websphere but I guess not.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-a-pioneer-of-remote-work-ca...
I think for now they are still pretty good at assessing something like "Are the odds that Trump wins Wisconsin in 2024 closer to 2/3 or 1/2". The post-election stuff was annoying (I had several thousand dollars on the site) but the market limits + uncertainty over the platform made is understandable.

It would be nice if there was a platform that didn't have limits and had interest rates closer to savings interest rates.
You hit! From my experience, metric system is best for pharmaceutical calculations, like "how many water need to got 40% alcohol", and it's also extremely important for taste, as in many cases better 38%.
2077 is as deep as the modern deus ex games IMO. they could both learn from each other
The software interface isn't the problem: the problem is that there are no physical GPUs in the product. There's nothing to pass through.
Can someone post a screenshot? Haven’t seen one but am curious.
Well it matters because it's how we discover things and grow

If we say knowledge we don't know yet doesn't matter, then we will stop progressing anything.

Why go learn to bake bread, if the knowledge you don't know yet doesn't matter
What types of tasks can the service handle? What can’t it do?
I feel like that is true of all companies.

The people with limited responsibilities who are easily replacable get paid nothing. Jobs that are hard to hire competent people for get paid $$$$. Supply and demand in action.
Same. I'm hoping the push the Nix documentation team is pushing right now sets the path to something like the Arch wiki for NixOS.
Between this and the recent elimination of 401k matching, IBM is sending a strong signal that it’s not a place I’d ever want to work. Hard to imagine they will be able to attract or retain talent.
I think these might be the marine embassy guards, which would make sense since the us doesn't have embassies in these countries, but it does have one in Russia.

https://www.marines.com/resources/marine-security-guard---em...
"there's also countless examples of businesses who
clearly only hire white dudes with beards and
wraparound Oakleys. So the point feels fairly moot."

Name one. I bet you can't. If you could, multiple public interest law firms would be competing to sue that employer.

I believe there was a time when hiring managers discriminated against black people, women, etc. But aside from one indian manager who only interviewed indian candidates in 2005, I have seen no evidence of it in the last 20 years. In contrast, I have seen dozens instances of favoritism toward female candidates in my last three jobs as a programmer. I think your stereotype of corporate america is 20+ years out of date.

I will change my mind if I see evidence. Will you?

Do you actually see white and asian men being favored in any way at work?
Obviously, but there are some serious contenders here who are actually working on a reliable brand. But if you just buy a random generic bot...ya...it probably isn't going to work out well.
I wonder if you are competing against IBM for a contract with a company that you could use this to your benefit:

See IBM is so far behind on the Internet and collaboration technology that they are requiring their managers to have to be physically present. They don’t even trust their own ability to remotely collaborate.
I'll admit that I am somewhat ignorant here. But I thoughts the "Alzheimer's is caused by plaque buildup in the brain" theory was on its last leg and pretty much disregarded by most new scientists.
I've used it for about a year. ArchiveBox works well. My only complaint is that there's no JSON API to trigger archiving a page--it's primarily a CLI tool despite being built with Django. This can be worked around of course, and there's a browser plug-in to auto-archive sites you visit based on a whitelist.
this is one reason why you always have to keep your offline copy. always. from the beginning.
I'd just finished Interface (by Neal Stephenson) when Neuralink was founded. That was just a bit unsettling.