skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds interesting! My question is: is there a product doing this currently? It sounds like Anthropic is working on something, of course Google Alerts still does its rudimentary thing and I would imaging is going to get AI enhancements.

I have worked on the idea of a single pane of glass for the C-suite... where a cloud agent is watching all the relevant data source for the end user and then surfacing alerts, trends, threats, opportunities to what the end user cares about and then allows the user to dive into anything that interests him/her/they. The key is an agent that learns over time and begins to understand what the user might care about.
PetaFLOPS Inference Era: 1 Pflops Attention, and Preliminary End-to-End Results
Been using Marketplace for 5 years with probably +100 items sold. Scammers in my experience usually exhibit these traits:

* They have a new account, and have no Marketplace reviews.

* They want it shipped and will pay extra for shipping. (While some real sellers will want it shipped, most will come by to pick it up.)

* They do not try to low ball you or even negotiate. (Facebook sellers are notoriously cheap.)

* There is a sense of urgency and very responsive to messages. (Most Facebook sellers are not instantly responsive as they have a life.)

I have also seen scam sellers appear as well. They sort of do the same thing:

* The price for the items are amazing, a steal.

* They always ship, often for free. You can never pick it up.

* They are very responsible to any messages.

* The account is new.
skateboarding doesn't scale to take up all available resources. I could be 10x the skater as Tony Hawk and I'd still only use one skateboard at a time. Doesn't matter if it's a $1,000,000 skateboard, I'm still only using one at a time. Meanwhile, $1,000,000 of cryptomining by one person is going to use so many more joules, and for what?
I think I've read every one of his books. My favourite is The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O..
HR Consultancies in Dorset?
Wondering about outsourcing this or bringing in an FTE any experiences?
*And a working executive function system in your brain. No amount of genuine desire and motivation can fix that issue.
I haven't used any such slow thing yet (am mostly a commandline world person).
> does this mean instant SEPA transfers must now be free ?

It seems that is the point. With my current bank it‘s free, but I need to enable it for every transaction. Annoying.
I don't have the skill to actually address the details but seeing that rebuttal I get a definite feeling that the authors were engaging in p-hacking.

Being used in a Supreme Court case of course would get extra scrutiny.
Modern Day Jobs: Bounded Reward and Unbounded Risk
I am wondering if the nature of the modern day jobs have changed a lot. I used to think workers/employees traded off their unbounded reward, receiving a salary in lieu of bounded risk, having a stable job. But looks like modern software companies have figured out ways to offload the risk to the employees while at the same time having the bounded reward structure intact. What would be a good strategy for a modern day tech worker against this?
> Odd battery pack … only 2 hour charge

I agree that 3 would be nice, since it would get you through pretty much any movie, but I feel like when I'm watching a movie I don't mind plugging in. After all, I'm not likely moving around a whole bunch. I have USB-C plugs by my bed and near my couches, so it doesn't seem like this is a huge inconvenience (though it would be great if there were a "you're plugged in" warning if you start getting up while you're plugged to a wall).

But if the tradeoff is a heavier battery (or a more expensive device), I'm fine with 2 hours. No hot-swapping, that seems like a bigger miss! People don't want to shut down just to change battery packs.
It looks like it invokes the compiler every time the script is run? That's nice if you've changed the file, but takes extra time if you haven't. It seems neat at first, but I guess I don't see the advantage over just compiling to an executable and then running that.
Meanwhile here in the US, we still have payments that take up to 5 days to fully "clear". As far as I can tell, the only reason for this because other payments take a long time to clear, and thus until those have been reconciled you won't know if there's actually enough money in the source account or if some fraud has taken place. Of course, this is kind of a self feeding problem, so it would seem that such a limit on transaction time would make the problem (with transaction time) disappear.
Is this deltalake the same as Databricks deltalake? Is it compatible?
This is pretty much how I hire but also try to gauge "conscientiousness". Some people are smart, cool, high energy and decently experienced but just don't seem to care about the success of the team and aren't the best for a lot of roles. Its hard to judge because extraversion/cool/high energy can appear similar in an interview.
It's a new way to submit commands, and there are tons of teething issues. Especially considering that Linux had not been designed to work with async APIs from the beginning.

These are not fundamental issues, but definitely something that should be kept in mind.
As a fly.io employee, I can tell. I can tell fairly quickly.
From many to one: Moving our JavaScript code into a monorepo
I think these conspiracy theories happen because people don’t understand how easy it is to leak data and how easy it is for data collectors to gather metadata and make a conclusion. Metadata is incredibly powerful and a lot of non-data scientists don’t realize the level of sophistication that companies have in their possession.

The classic example is Target predicting your pregnancy based on specific purchase behaviors. All they have to know is a consistent identifier and your purchase history and they can predict whether you’re pregnant. There’s no need to listen in on conversations or obtain other more detailed user data.

Also, a lot of “private” services and apps really don’t promise jack shit in their privacy policy. They are probably all gathering and selling the data nearly in real time. Their privacy policies are often far more broad, vague, and permissive than their PR will tell you.

You’re with your wife, your devices are often on the same networks, so it’s likely that advertisers know you know each other when you browse. Despite what your wife says, you really don’t know if she interacted with a Pacifica ad or piece of sponsored content. Even if she didn’t search for a Pacifica, it doesn’t have to be specifically something related to minivans, because that information that you are potentially more interested in minivans can come from other metadata.

TikTok manages to figure out your perception of a particular video based on how your fingers are moving on the screen, how long you’re spending on a video, what’s happening when you’re lingering or swiping, etc. You never really have to tell TikTok directly what things you like.

The game of 20 questions works from a similar concept. You can start knowing absolutely zero and ask a very small amount of binary questions to find the specific item the person has on their mind, only metadata.
Sure, that makes sense, I guess. Since I do support the sale of semiautomatic weapons to the general public, unlike genocide supporters such as yourself. Every government which commits genocide begins by confiscating weapons from the public, after all. So that must be what you want.

I'm kind of joking, I consider gun-control advocates to be sincere, but tragically mistaken. I just figured your insane hyperbole deserved the same.
which is point of worry, because that one is not mature and well adapted product
NeuroAI: What comparing deep neural networks can teach us about human vision
Interesting and disturbing I set up 2 factor with a token in Authy for Paypal a few years back and I never click the 'leave me logged in' link to prevent anything at all like this.
I grew up using British software. It would be very polite.

Please enter your name.

Nowadays, I see this level of terseness in software:

Name:

And error messages are usually an afterthought, so the concept of politeness doesn't even appear on the radar.

Error: null.

There's a turnstyle I use everyday that simply orders you to "Leave" or "Enter".

I think UIs should apologise if something that's not the user's fault happens (no network connection); be polite when giving orders (please do this or that); and be very precise when indicating input errors and suggest a course of action.
iPad? Apple watch? Slim laptops (involving aircraft metallurgy tricks)?

Apple's been accused of copycatting practically since the beginning. But if you only copycat, you don't typically last this long. They can always offshore somewhere cheaper if you stand still long enough.
Unison is an actual language with many cutting edge features.

Im fairly sure Unison was created for a mix of practical and theoretical concerns, especially the intersection thereof.

My gut tells me Cloudflare workers are some type of low-code solution.
I'd just like effective privacy laws in the US generally.
People are ok with talking about their trauma in an interview? Next time someone asks me “name a time you faced adversity” should I bring up navigating an eating disorder in a workplace where eating is done in view of your peers and it’s socially acceptable to comment on food, socially unacceptable to refrain from a catered lunch?
That CNBC article points out one of the big sea changes in the fast recent jumps from a used car average of 3 years (for decades prior to ~2017) to 4 years (prior to 2019) to 6 years is a big change by rental car companies to hold rental fleets longer. The biggest sea change for rental companies over the last few years has been a switch to a higher balance of BEVs in their fleets. It certainly seems to me to be causative, the used car age average is rising for the first time in my lifetime just as BEV ownership is rising doesn't seem to be a correlative coincidence and more indirect evidence that the BEV first owner lifetime is higher than historic ICE averages. (Possibly much higher given that 4 to 6.1 year jump in just one calendar year.)

The early EVs have passed their 10 year marks. Some are closer to 15 years. There's a very long tail of BEVs already on the road. The only models that statistically have shown "battery degradation" enough to remark on have been the early model years of the Tesla Model S and Nissan Leaf before both companies invested in active thermal management of their batteries. So far "to remark on" was "noticeable compared to factory spec", but most of those batteries remained in first use (as car batteries). I've heard of Nissan Leaf battery replacements as a mini-industry, but not due to battery degradation, due to massive jumps in density upgrading the early Leafs to larger range than their original spec. There doesn't seem to be much of a market yet for Tesla battery replacements and most of the numbers thrown around are speculation and/or misinformation.
Or, go the other way and slightly insult the user's intelligence: "You cannot perform that action on that selection because it would violate causality"

Strictly professionally, of course.
I'm so glad that NACS has won.

I love my Model 3, but I already decided that my next car would not be a Tesla because I don't like the direction the design of the cars have been going, and I don't want to give more money to Elon Musk, but I'm still going to remain an EV driver.

I have a Tesla wall charger in my garage. By everyone switching to NACS, it means I don't need to replace it.

Still praying the Corvette EV impresses, and praying that I won't have to be on a 12+ month waitlist to get one.
Also: Arlington is to DC as Oakland is to SF or Jersey City is to Manhattan. Only, you know, a lot nicer.
Same. I was annoyed at first with what felt like duplication (and indeed is duplication for the first time the table is created), but over time the Ecto/Elixir method really showed it's merit and is IMHO the cleary superior way for a maintainable long-term application. The magic and the convenience in the short term it brings are not worth it. The straight forward, explicit and crystal clear declarative way for migrations and the schema are IMHO a joy.
It's Sony's display. You can see a very similar version here. [1]

[1] https://www.sony.com/content/sony/en/en_us/SCA/company-news/...
For the rustaceans in the crowd:

It's not a universal "for all compiled langs," but I published a two-liner [0] with zero (non-standard) dependencies or pre-requisites that can be copy-and-pasted to the top of any rust code to turn it into an executable script (cached! also correctly cache-invalidating!) back in 2020.

It even lets you optionally omit the `fn main() { ... }` surrounding your code as well, if you really want to feel like you're just shell scripting <insert appropriate emoji here>.

It's an example of "polyglot source code" that is valid under two languages at once (in this case, standard sh and rust), (ab)using the rust `#[allow(...)]` "macro" to do double-duty as a shell script comment opener.

[0] https://neosmart.net/blog/self-compiling-rust-code/
How does a law like this increase competitiveness? It looks like it decreases competitiveness, since banks can no longer compete on who has the fastest transfers.
I agree with the sentiment in the article, but I don't think there is much actionable advice to be taken from it.

Understanding what "simple" and "clean" is, requires years of experience. A junior might get caught up in DRY or test-driven principles which do more harm than good.

There are tons of blog posts out there that suggest that something is clean and simple, when it not so obviously is not. Take the entire frontend fiasco with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. How can one go for the simplest architecture in that morass of historically accumulated complexity?
I agree, I don't think the purpose of sci-fi is to predict the future. The future is just impossible to predict due to the myriad factors, variables, unknown unknowns, and second-order+ degree effects an action can have.

The purpose of sci-fi IMO is moreso to:

1. Provide an entertaining story/narrative with technology as the main focus of the world and characters' actions

2. Define a set of concepts to help you think about technology and its possible effects on humans and the world

3. Nudge people to think about what kind of future they would want or not want and how they can use or control technology to achieve that

Here's Ken Liu talking about the purpose of sci-fi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5knkpmxXu-k
Hate to pile on, but this is absolutely not the definition of functional programming.

Functional programming uses stateless, immutable transformations to contorl data flow. The second you instantiate an object with some internal properties that change in memory, you are no longer programming functionally
Lisp has converted fixnums (hardware integers) to bignums on overflow since the 1970s, too, so it's not just the "Java generation."

Their words:

> Computers are implemented in hardware, not maths proofs. The _ generation is infatuated with _ without realizing their performance cost.

This sounds just like the assembly programmers arguing against high level languages, who were against the overhead of unlimited named variables and recursive function activation records.

We should optimize for writing a lot of correct but slightly inefficient software. By keeping high-level language compilers (rather than assembly language programmers) in mind for the design of newer ISAs, we already have, to some extent.

That said, I still don't know about making the lowest signed number a trap representation in hardware. We already usually have a flag to detect signed overflow; why not just check that?
Plus you get a bunch of free work out of every applicant if you delegate real issues out as work-sample tests :P I'm pretty sure the new Audi A8 cup holders are from my mechanical design engineer third round volkswagen interview a couple years ago
Apple has always been aware that "first mover advantage" is largely bullshit. "The pioneers get all the arrows." The sweet spot is to be second or third to market.
One of the ParadeDB makers here -- Yes, we release our Helm charts under the `paradedb` name.

We also ship our individual extensions (pg_analytics and pg_bm25) pre-compiled as .deb under our GitHub Releases, and as a fully complete product, ParadeDB, as a Dockerfile and Helm chart
> On the brighter side of things, the number of embeddings we've to query over is small. An average user has < 100,000 photos, and running a brute force search over 100,000 items on midrange mobile devices takes < 500ms.

So your embeddings are an index? That's kind of the point of an index.
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They may have a person on the inside.

Whats disturbing is Paypal didnt investigate the issue at all.
This is changing with FedNow, where payments settle fast enough for synchronous applications.

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow
>Apple customers demographics from 2019 show that about 51% of all iOS users were female, while 43% were male. Moreover, the percentage of female users in the US was 58%. While it’s a small majority, it is the only major smartphone vendor with a majority of female users.

Strage to point out white males in your statement.
I don't want to spam the link, but I actually just posted a top-level comment to a version of this I published back in 2020 that does caching and cache invalidation, using the hash of the script as the key for the compiled output path.

EDIT:

Actually, that was how the original version worked, but it had the limitation that once the script changed you could no longer determine the path to the previous executable output to delete, so you could end up accumulating a lot of defunct binaries. Now the hash is stored alongside the target.
Mike actually talked about the term in LinkedIn, trying to clarify it, accepting that it's an internal term in the process. Citing relevant part of his answer [0]:

Finally, I wanted to say something about the term "freeloaders" I've seen many use it. This is a mostly internal term we have at Red Hat, it looks like at some point it slipped out in the public. So what does it mean? A freeloader is when a large enterprise business has 20 RHEL licenses, 150,000 community rebuild systems, and sometimes hundreds of user accounts and hundreds of kbase searches per month. It's not the enthusiasts, it's not the hackers and coders, it's not the academics, and it's not the people that use rebuilders because they can't afford it. We really try not to use the term, but when we do, it's about the large companies that can afford to pay but don't.

I see this as damage control mostly, because RedHat and IBM has the power to negotiate these problems on every level they want with their customers. Heck, Docker called us for 280 Desktop installs in a month (which is another story not related to my department, but I digress).

At the end of the day, we became labeled as freeloaders, even if it was unintentional. Also the quote above acknowledges us (researchers, enthusiasts, coders, hackers (in folklore sense)), and does nothing to address about the rugpull we had gone through.

The only thing we got after that was discontinuation of SRPMS like a slap on the face.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7080669...
What Was the Sturmabteilung?
> if a question about a traumatic experience makes someone freeze up then they may not be able to perform certain roles

What certain roles are needed to plunge into reliving the time they were raped or assaulted? When they were a war refugee? And while reliving being assaulted to navigate a professional space??
Why care about the environment when you can be richhhhhhhh
> The first mover rarely wins in the long run

Not enough patents, tbh. It's so hard to innovate and scrap things together, that this gets left as an afterthought.

Then the giants move in and steal your lunch, leaving you with nothing.
If I say these things "require a lot of context" and you respond with an insult, the natural inference is that you disagree. If it bothers you to be seen as supporting a position you don't agree with and feel may entail legal jeopardy, consider that it is entirely within your power to make a different decision about how to respond.

That's my last word on the matter. Have a good day.
> but I worry about what happens when a useful industry becomes politically unpopular.

In a society driven by supply and demand capitalism, I can't fathom this scenario. Even popular stuff we currently prohibit, drugs, prostitution, gambling have thrived.
I don't really care if the error message is cute or whatever. What I care most about is that you did everything possible to prevent me from even seeing the error in the first place. Then, once you've determined the error is not recoverable without user intervention make sure to tell me about it in a way that's actionable on my part. I should immediately know after reading the error whether I should:

• Immediately try again

• Wait some time and try again

• Change my input and try again, or

• Give up and walk away
> high drive + low aptitude: hire, train, and foster aptitude growth

This needs to be subdivided. There are plenty of people who've had a lot of opportunity for aptitude growth, but they didn't grow. And having high energy in those circumstances really messes up a lot of stuff (they're incompetent, but jump into and be involved in everything, and you have to politely tell them to get off your project).
Bluesky Out of Beta
The last of those is at least a value-added service for some people.
Disclaimer: This is my talk/video

If you like the presentation format rather than written format, I did what was called by one reviewer "a delightfully thorough" intro to Elixir for Rubyists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPWMBDTPMkQ
I presume they have an SE model in mind for their second iteration. Maybe there's a mothballed project we don't know about, or maybe someone at Apple is tired of rebranding product lines and insisted on making space for both.

Or maybe someone thinks they're managing expectations on price by putting Pro in the name, since it's on par with their other Pro products.
Recent freeze in US Midwest exposed a lot of literally frozen Superchargers and long, looong lines of Teslas hoping to charge before already cold the battery drops to 0. Some people ended up stranded in the cold, so bad it made the news.

How could a Supercharger freeze? I don't know all details, but some connectors would report as NO LATCH and Tesla would refuse to charge.

Apparently it's about some moisture freezing in the connector and preventing proper mating with the port. Literally, some ice in the 'needle' holes. Maybe some other issues.

I'm not sure if this is a design problem or maybe some improvements are due if this type to become standard.
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It's also worth remembering though that neither the iPod or iPhone were really breakout products on Day 1.
ok, yes, putting it this way does make more sense. reality however is that at least for me, my childhood experience affects how i work. although i acknowledge that this is more about self reflection and not about actually sharing this with anyone at work. but it does deeply affect how i interact with them. for example as a team leader i can become very protective of those under me.