skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He achieved a lot.
Launched a new browser with full privacy protections by default, an independent search engine, a private LLM service and more while Mozilla just rebranded things from others.
Not a WFH thing. This is a USA thing!!

Edit: OP said "Layoffs in the WFH era are weird"
Yes they are, but people here don't suddenly go offline quite as weird is what I was trying to get at.

Here in Sweden if you are FTE there is usually a 1-3 month layoff period (upppsägningstid) where you work and get paid still. At the end of the period you leave.

People usually email the team and even the entire company with "hey im leaving here is my info"

Now people CAN get fired day of, but that has to be VERY grounded.

Again, Not a WFH thing. This is a USA thing!! I notice this time and time again where people complain about IT or WFH, but it's just that you're in the USA, land of the exploited.
The one way data binding was also important at the time, for people coming from Angular. It was a way to clearly differentiate the two frameworks.
This can't fully address the concern I raised. Their curl alias addressed the most basic / common usage and it caused issues.

I also can't imagine a different name to cause such a training issue. We are speaking about people who learned using the terminal on Unix and are using it on Windows. They are likely at ease with computers. If they are confused by a name change, I can't imagine how confused they could be at the first difference they encounter. The same name might as well cause more training issues. I'm not convinced.
Call centers will dial multiple numbers and connect to only the ones where someone responds. Sometimes they will still hang up on you because multiple calls responded.

Probably a wash whatever you do after picking up.
iPhones aren't a monopoly (yet): they have to compete with Android phones still, plus Apple probably prioritizes increasing their marketshare and retaining customers over maximizing profit from iPhone sales. iPhones generate a lot of other profits from things like the app store, not just from the phone sales, so pricing the phones maximally would hurt those.
It's one thing I miss from the work from office lifestyle - the more human connections. People stopping by your desk to chat about life, the joking - I'd never laughed so hard in my life. Closer connections in general, and being sad when people left, but happy when they were for greener pastures.

WFH feels so sterile and impersonal in comparison.

I've been WFH since 2015 or so, so this isn't a RTO endorsement, just reminiscing.
I immediately saw this and knew it was BS. It’s a search problem, the human brain even does a search. Model internally is scanning each position and determining the next probably position. That is a predictive search, you can’t just restructure the problem.

Now arguably it’s doing it differently, maybe? But still a search
The US is really bizarre about alcohol, and it varies wildly between states. Many states don't allow liquor sales in grocery stores, and only in either specially-licensed liquor stores, or in state-owned "ABC" (alcoholic beverage control) stores.
On a side note, I really wish the Jellyfin people would do some work on their UI. It's pretty wonky for me. The underpinnings seem good, but using it on my TV to just find a file I just copied onto my HD into ~/Videos isn't all that easy.
This happened with MSN Music back in 2008: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/04/drm-s...

My family was impacted, hundreds of dollars of legitimately purchased music files were mostly useless. Fortunately, there was a way to replace those music files (cough BitTorrent cough). Seriously, DRM just compels people into copyright infringement. I won't touch anything DRM with a barge-pole anymore. BandCamp has a good DRM-free model but it's only really used by a few small-time artists and bands.
Very helpful answer, thank you!
The youtube link: https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M

Prefer piped service as it is lightweight and simple.
Thanks. That’s fair. Just shocked by the extreme hype.
The attributes that would let one reliably eyeball a person who got fired doing their walk of shame also made for a soul-sucking workplace.

That "back in the day" algorithm required an office that emphasized butt-in-seat, lacked flexible working hours, and lacked both personal offices and multiple exit points.
when you open-source something, with any reasonable OSS license, you are placing it out there freely. not just free to people to use as in cost, but free for them to do mostly anything with it.

if you expect to be paid in gratis, fame, recognition, etc. you are frankly barking up the wrong tree. you are neither required, expected, or have any obligation to support it but, flip-side, you have no right - morally or otherwise -- to complain about it or control it either.

if you used copyright and a good license, you can't "rip off" the code without at least keeping the copyright and notices intact, which i'm sure is all fine or you'd have a real cause.

promoting your work on twitter as his is maybe disingenuous, but people are free to be assholes.

if you want your thing to be the dominant popular thing, it better be the best. if your thing was better than his thing in some way by a sufficient margin, including promotion, then it would dominate.

and we're still back to: "and why do you care?" move on and make something else or make it better.

(hey to all the downvoters! - guess what - I don't care. i find the idea that people think that they can open-source stuff and then still control it to be obnoxious)
Pretty fair, especially since there's already tons of ways (albeit far less convenient) to accomplish nonmalicious escalation.

Great work making this happen!
Makes sense.

Thanks for taking the time to answer, very appreciated! You must be happy to have been wrong, ah ah.
I knew the robot overlord was going to take our money in some ingenious way, the plot doesn't disappoint, we are just going to hand it over?
A unit is nothing more than a a relative comparison. A “unit meter” is the length of a stone in Europe.
Interesting point. 7 digits was in part chosen because people used to have to remember phone numbers.

So.. add a few digits and suddenly spammers would have trouble.

On the hand, add a few digits to phone numbers and Y2K might look like a walk in the park.
I like your idea.

Though in a sense this problem is already solved. If a company promises "forever" but doesn't back it up with a surety bond or endowment guarantee of some sort, then you should treat it with great skepticism.

In the meantime, consumers are free to litigate under breach of contract, false advertising or other appropriate doctrine.

In this case, it was never really "forever" at all, as the Terms stated:

Funimation can “without advance notice… immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the Service and/or content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part, for any reason."
They are also looking into ARPANET and Chaosnet.
Wow, that is creepy.
Laptops, not desktops. Lugging a desktop around would certainly be worthy of an eyebrow raise. As for why it's not a good work environment, you've presented a loaded question. It may not be a good environment for you, but it is for me. To presume it uniformly bad is a starting off with a flawed premise.
It's amazing how many people came to the same idea independently. At my old gig I created "the sackinator" (getting sacked = getting fired). It was a cronjob that dumped the entire AD directory nightly and then a script to diff the output of any two days.

Since the data was dumped, you could always go back and do more analysis. First I just cared about which accounts got deactivated. Then I started tracking title changes, last name changes (people getting married), department sizes, company head count over time etc.

> Incidentally, if someone gets mad about you running this sort of thing, you probably don't want to work there anyway. On the other hand, if you're able to build such tools without IT or similar getting "threatened" by it, then you might be somewhere that actually enjoys creating interesting and useful stuff. Treasure such places. They don't tend to last.

Couldn't agree more.
How does Ollama compare to LocalGPT ?
As a former physicist, I never understood the full math behind Schrodinger's equation. Since then I ventured into CS, so I wonder if this book will be a good refreshment.
Just to be clear for anyone who didn’t read TFA, the digital copies were given out as a bonus with purchases of physical media. Sure someone may have made a different purchasing decision if they knew the streaming platform would be going away eventually, but it’s not like they took back their DVDs.
Back when I was at DigitalOcean they were laying off/firing people from the company but not announcing any departures. You'd just go to message someone and their Slack account was deactivated. This was over the course of several weeks. I built a Slack bot to post when accounts got deactivated and learned of some new departures well before those impacted actually did.

https://github.com/eddiezane/no-ghosties
Did this for a supermarket delivery company, they had an API that exposed their exact stock level for products, scraped the data every 30ish seconds, diffed and repeated :D
There were some interesting orders for sure (cigarettes + soap + 1 beer)
> You're describing an ideal that has not been realized historically

As a counterpoint, it seems much of this has been seeded into US business practises:

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/page/n...

Under "General Interference with Organizations and Production", most should seem very familiar.
I set it up on my 486-class PC tonight and did my first toot from it (followed by a selfie of sorts).

https://oldbytes.space/@blakespot/111898550167322715
Works fine on Pixel 6, it's likely Safari's rendering engine on iOS
Combinatorics (By Joy Morris) Free Book
But if the company is worried about access can't it just pay the employee the 1-3 months without allowing them to work, even in Sweden?
Prop 13 is far from being agreed on as a problem amongst Californians. When your property tax could reasonably exceed your mortgage, something must change.
There has been a lot of progress with tools like llama.cpp and ollama, but despite slightly more difficult setup I prefer huggingface transformer based stuff(TGI for hosting, openllm proxy for (not at all)OpenAI compatibility). Why? Because you can bet the latest newest models are going to be supported in huggingface transformers library.

Llama.cpp is not far behind, but I find the well structured python code of transformers easy to modify and extend(with context free grammars, function calling etc) than just waiting for your favourite alternate runtime support a new model.
Trader Joe's doesn't franchise. I'm not entirely sure what that means for store autonomy but I know it means less.
I made epitaphs! AMA
I'm going to email this to Boeing.
If you’re serious about production deployments vLLM is the best open source product out there. (I’m not affiliated with it)
This is a bit of a word puzzle! Here's how to solve it:

Sally's brothers all share the same sisters. They aren't each talking about a different set of sisters.
Sally is one of those sisters! Each of her brothers has Sally as a sister.
Since there are 2 sisters total (Sally and one other), Sally has one sister.
Let me know if you'd like to try another brain teaser!
So why should it be possible to buy assets and not obligations then? Perhaps this should be illegal: if you want to buy another company, you get stuck with the whole kit n' kaboodle. If the obligations are toxic, then don't buy it.

We'd probably need a good regulatory body to investigate M&As though, to make sure some company doesn't split itself in half, with the good parts in one half and the bad parts in another, and then sell off the good part while letting the bad one fold.
This is too easy to loophole out of and it leaves too big of a hole to patch. As a company, all I would need to do is sell the rights, shut down the service, buy it back, rinse and repeat. I don’t think this is a great solution.
I didn't know ollama was VC funded
> Consistency of user experience.

like how the back gesture works on iphones across generation and apps?

> Reliable security updates for old devices that still function

7 years of update isn't long enough?

> Heavy integration with the Google spyware ecosystem

last I checked iOS is closed source. Run your own OS or just don't use google apps. I bet most people are using gmail and google maps on their iphones too.

> Poor CPU performance and battery life.

compared to which android phone? and is this before or after apple throttles your iphone?

> Low-quality peripherals such as cameras

flag ship androids consistently have better camera hardware compared to iphones, iphone just makes it up with better camera software. You could go the sony route if you don't live in the U.S. to get a better overall camera focused phone.

> Manufacturer defects in Google-branded device

good thing you have options in android ecosystem.
They had decades to ship next and they didn't want to be bug for bug backwards compatible. Local optimums in hell don't have a path to heaven.

I think demise by drastic jump stories work because the examples are few and notable. Most projects accumulate experts in moving around the wrong optimum who then block plans of getting free that aren't too conservative to possibly work.
Sadly, it isn’t that hard to imagine these kinds of tactics being used in a western democracy. I don’t want to weigh in on the specific controversies but you’ve basically described small extrapolations from various tactics both US parties have variously been accused of trying.
> The industry could not break compatibility with over a 15 years' worth of CD players, especially since people had them in their cars, etc.

Sure, not at first. But how long has it been since most people interacted with a CD player now? Most teenagers haven't, ever.

Yet here we are, music is still being sold on CDs.

Not that I want to put the music industry on some kind of pedestal as a paragon of virtue in the digital age, but it's certainly odd and noteworthy.

> Now, since CSS was cracked, DVDs are, in practice, no harder to rip. But a company like Apple can't ship a DVD ripper in iTunes.

DVD quality is not really of sufficient quality for most consumers today, though. Meanwhile, CD quality continues to match or exceed modern streaming services.
I had this happen for the first time to some prod jobs the other day in spark. We made a pretty normal update to a join with an additional condition, our integration tests which run local Spark succeeded. But something about it running on the cluster… it was generating a completely different query plan than it ran locally. We eventually had to rewrite the whole query to work around it because it was trying to broadcast a 3TB table and couldn’t be talked out of it.
World GDP is >100T/year. US ~28T/year If it was so important and urgent in people's mind. They would have stop wasting electricity, eating so much beef, wearing fast fashion, driving gas guzzlers and in general consuming so much shit.
It seems it was released, about one year later.

https://github.com/EyeAndTea/CrxOop
Since Russia through Hungary organise and support the farmer protests monetarily and politically, there is no question that they should be monitored on some level.
As I said, you don't need contexts for this, signals can be completely global, and in the example I gave the signals were global (you don't even really need the function).

But the whole point is that "simple, easy to understand" is very context-dependent. Goto, for example, is very simple, possibly the simplest form of control flow you can imagine, and it's also easy to understand at the point that you're writing it down. It just moves control flow to where you want it to go - what could be simpler than that?

But simplicity needs at least some structure, otherwise it becomes chaos. That's the value of encapsulating both the events and the state in a single place, and then providing a limited interface to that reactive state. Yes, it's (slightly) more up-front work to write that interface out explicitly, as opposed to just putting things into events, but it has real value later on when someone else needs to read the code and understand what it's going to do.
> It sounds like it would have to be an opt-in feature which could be applied per query

That's called a hint :)
I wonder if this counts as personal data. It's a copy of everyone's name, job title and employment dates.

I can certainly see many European businesses would be wary of an employee keeping this list.
This is similar to one method that I’ve used in the past with the BroadcastChannel API. You can essentially create a pub-sub pattern in the frontend. It worked well for microFEs, but now that Preact released their Signals library I’ve moved to that.
I don't own a Vision Pro, but according to the reports you need to actively look at UI elements to interact with them. In other words, you'd end up only using your peripheral vision for driving. Unless a special driving mode is implemented where you only use passthrough (at which point just take it off please) I don't see this being safe. What does this thing possibly get you while driving that you can't get otherwise in a much safer way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray#PC_playback

With each iteration of video optical disc, industry got more ridiculous.

(Started with DVD, with CSS nonsense, unskippable parts, and threatening screens with police state overtones. Then someone said "How can we make this even more consumer-hostile, and be total jerks about it", and thus all the garbage of Blu-ray. That was pretty hard to top with Blu-ray 4K, but sounds like someone said "Hold my beer...")
Ehh. I think it makes it a lot harder to understand what a continuation is if you say they’re closures.

Continuations capture the stack. Closures capture variables.
Does Stockfish really use a Leela-inspired NN? I thought the NNUE was independently developed and completely different (it's a very tiny network that runs on the CPU).
Tooth factor authentication couldn't stop journalists from reporting
Thank god I'm not the only one to think that.

This thing is a farce, as you said, it lacks taste and purpose like most of the stuff of Cook's Apple.

And as an Apple Watch owner (2 models over 5 years), I can attest that in many ways it is still a piece of shit and in fact for what is the only relevant use case (sports) Apple has no proper cohesive approach and makes very little investment. In fact, they try to push their garbage subscription on you.
For the price it is sold at, the Apple Watch is a piece of shit, the price of the SE should be the price of the standard model basically...

Anyway, I don't understand how people are so delusional about the iPhone history but I guess this is Stockholm syndrome trying to defend Apple on everything. Reality is that all the products they made since the iPhone are "meh" at best and not exactly groundbreaking especially when you consider prices...
The lockout always struck me as dumb and I didn't do it as a manager.

If I trusted them for the 3 years they worked for me, I can trust them for another week or two.

Tie up loose ends, take your time. We're all adults here.

I understand that under the worst circumstances bad things can happen but that's always the case.
Which they shouldn't do unpenalized since selling would void the contract.
Anyone elses company executives losing their shit over GenAI?
I work at a large corporation. Most of the people have transitioned to WFH now.

At least five times I can say I had no idea someone had been laid off or sacked until weeks later. I just assumed they were on PTO or something, and then in the middle of a meeting, I'd say something like, "Yeah, where's James been, I haven't seen him online for a few weeks now." Then the manager would chime in and say they got laid off or let go several weeks ago and they were waiting to announce it to everybody.

Twice my director had a meeting with the team and forgot to include myself and two other devs to announce someone had been let go - which is scary AF when we're all on Teams wondering why they just randomly left us off the meeting, which then made us all paranoid AF for a few weeks.

The whole process with laying people off or people getting sacked has just been handled in such a ham handed way, it doesn't inspire confidence at all, and people are constantly looking over their shoulder when a team loses people and have to pick up the slack immediately.
Thanks for making epitaphs <3
I find this super weird and almost borderline invasion of privacy?
I mean, a job is your professional life and you’re there to work, not go directly make friends or stalk people… I mean sure I’ve made a few people whom I’d call friends in previous jobs and current one too and I’d like to believe that we’d have enough confidence in the friendship to tell each other about quitting. But seeing that potential info about anyone feels very weird…
NPM is a nightmare that makes old style C++ dependency management look like a next-gen wonder.

It's hundreds, thousands of silly dependencies taking countless disk space, and a waste of time "minimizing" what should have never been there in the first place.

I avoid Node.js like the plague. I feel nauseous just thinking about that.
Not all mail servers treat a+b@a.com and a@a.com as the same email.

By equal token, you can't be sure that the email address doesn't actually just contain a plus sign.

I was disappointed to find out at work recently that the plus convention was not configured. It made testing account signups more difficult. This is when I dug in a bit and found it that it depends in the mail server for whether those are unique addresses or not.
Yeah. Having a searchable database of translations for all texts discovered and translatable will be amazing.
You really have no clue, if you had owned one you would know how much faster to use it was than pretty much all the competition in practice. Maybe it was beaten on some benchmarks or whatever but it is largely irrelevant and its exactly what people wish Apples would go back to...
So negative! Where I work this tool is called “new-hires”. It uses a restricted read-only API key to our third-party people tool. It was given to me by our People Director. Sometimes there are lines beginning with - but the tool is named for the lines beginning with +.

new-hires is built on top of the “people” python module / cli in our monorepo. That tool is so much more useful than just a way of diffing the org chart. Who is in what team, where are they, are they working today, is it time to celebrate their anniversary, etc. It also follows what I coin the “ZFS litmus test” for good CLI tools by providing -pH for parseable, headerless output.

Treasure such places indeed.
Very cool, thanks for indulging my curiosity
Isn't that still false advertising? At least in some parts of the world?
I can easily imagine people wanting spices and for the purposes benbreen (the OP) says, including as components of drugs (in the medieval sense of drugs as described).

But a key to spice trade puzzle, for me, is the transport cost. Some shipped almost all the way around Eurasia, the long way. I know sea transport was and is relatively very inexpensive, but how much did it cost in the technology of the time? And they also had the overhead of military costs. What was the total cost of procuring spices, if that can be calculated?

(Also, I'm not quite clear about the time period this history describes. Freedman's book's title says it's about the medieval period, but most examples in the article seem to be early modern. It's starting to sound like a wide swath of history.)