skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I had a job I felt a ton of responsibility to meet a high standard in everything I was paid to do

Do you think you could’ve learned to not feel that? I feel fine doing an OK job as long as my OK is the standard my employer expects.
Alabama has a higher per-capita GDP than virtually all of Western Europe.
They’d probably argue social justice isn’t inherently good because it’s collectivist or something but yeah I agree with you.
Don't let that deter you. Build a better product, and target a niche (vertical), at least to begin with. MS tries to be everything to everyone, with predictable results.

If I were in the market I would not even consider Power Automate, coming from MS.
It's interesting that you're moving from a "cloud/batch" approach based on GitHub issues and PRs to more of a "local/batch" approach. It seems that this new version of sweep still is sort of agentic and sends GPT off to iterate on a highly specified task until some pre-written tests pass?

As a contrast, aider [0] has always been focused on a "local/interactive" ai coding model. It lets you "pair program" with GPT-4, within your existing git repo code base.

You can give GPT fairly short, informal instructions and you see GPT's code edits stream back in real time. If you see that it has misunderstood, you can interrupt or undo the edit and offer more direction. This feels potentially more efficient than very carefully specifying the task up front, pre-writing the tests, firing off a long agentic job ... and then finding out 20 minutes later that your instructions weren't clear enough.

Have you considered a more interactive approach?
What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner
Bard sounds archaic, almost like an unintelligent persons name, no offense to the bards out there.
A study on the coffee spilling phenomenon in the low impulse regime
"During this time there were also plenty of negative experiences. GitLab suffered from terrible performance, frequent outages (almost every week some), poor management, and many other problems that startups face. This lead to "GitLab is slow" being the number one complaint voice by users. Especially on Hacker News people just loved to complain about it, no matter what the original topic (e.g. some new feature announcement) might've been. Of course GitLab was aware of this, and in fact one of the reasons GitLab hired me was to resolve these problems...During this time, GitLab started to realize you can't solve these sort of problems by just hiring one person, especially if performance isn't a priority for the rest of the company...At the same time, writing performant code (or code that at least isn't horribly slow) wasn't at all considered a priority for the rest of the company. GitLab also had a tendency to listen more to complaints on Hacker News than internal complaints. This lead to an internal running joke that it if you wanted something to change, you'd have better luck complaining about it anonymously on Hacker News instead of bringing it up through the proper channels...After the first rocky 1.5 years, things started to improve. Performance had improved greatly, and GitLab was starting to take it more seriously."

Hooray for Hacker News, then, if performance was one of its biggest problems for users and yet the 'proper internal channels' were ignoring it in favor of other priorities which didn't matter as much to, y'know, the users.
Yep, I’ve never personally seen a problem with this law.

We’ve made plenty of dumb decisions as a country but I’d say trying to keep knives off the streets is not one of them.
Not familiar with its deployment strategy. I assumed it could built into a binary but maybe not.
Try Svelte - especially for personal projects. It's v. easy to get started.

Downside is that there are many jobs yet.
That's the logic behind Adobe Creative Cloud. A lot of people want something they could purchase outright, and I'll just grab the text:

> Can I buy Photoshop outright? No. Photoshop is available only through a Creative Cloud subscription that you pay for either monthly or annually. You can subscribe to Photoshop alone or choose a plan with multiple apps.

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/plans.html (bottom of the page)
This idea that “Thoreau faked it” comes from people fundamentally misunderstanding what Thoreau was trying to do.

His goal was to critically evaluate how you spend your time and energy, and focus it on what really deeply matters to you, and nothing else: to live deliberately and cut out the BS.

He got tons of regular help and support for his unusual lifestyle experiment from his community and friends, and his cabin was not way out in the wilderness. And he is totally honest and up front about all of that- he was trying to live simply, not trying to win an episode of Naked and Afraid as New Englands most badass survivalist as people somehow seem to assume.

What it means to live deliberately is different for each person, what would it even mean to “fake it?”

I blame kids that were forced to read Walden in school, but lacked the life experience to comprehend it, for this common, but absurd misconception.
The private sector has demonstrated a thousand times over that they're bad-faith actors.
What Algorithms Can Transformers Learn? A Study in Length Generalization
The Apple M1 is very useable with ollama using 7B parameter models and is virtually as “fast” as ChatGPT in responding. Obviously not same quality, but still useful.
> "I think there is a very distinct “lightning in a bottle” component to great and/or successful companies."

Watching The Grand Tour[1] season 1 it feels stilted, awkward, like they are reciting their lines for some forced humor while Amazon showers cash and flashy cars all around trying too hard. If it was like this with three unknown people I wouldn't bother - I'm only watching on the hope that the lightning in a bottle sparks up again as they settle in, because the highs of Top Gear were good - friends messing about for a laugh, daring bold ideas, beautiful filming and settings.

e.g. scaling the Guallatiri volcano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOcJOn0nxnU

Crossing salt flats in Botswana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OETj9aTYO2Q

Driving to the North Pole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNkvASxfEWQ

Driving the Bolivian Death Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daQcxVqQJsI

Building their own amphibious cars and crossing the English Channel in them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTVPPTV-bQM

Trying to run out of fuel before arriving at the Chernobyl exclusion zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YtVV1VJ4f8

Getting lost trying to leave a traditional Italian city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_eLViH7_YI

Budget Italian Supercars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCff8nCxBU

[1] When they stopped Top Gear, Amazon snapped up Clarkson Hammond and May to make a Top Gear knockoff for Amazon Prime, that's The Grand Tour.
From Naive Rags to Advanced: Improving Your Retrieval
In this article, I explore how to improve the retrieval subsystem of RAG pipelines. I discuss common issues that can occur at the retrieval stage and provide practical solutions. Topics covered include tracking relevant metrics, addressing database coverage and embedding model suitability, query rewriting techniques, and strategies for enhancing context relevance through chunking.
Have you ever had to reply 'from' a random iCloud email? Is it possible?

I faced that with Costco support. My method is custom email on personal domain name. Had to setup email alias in gmail to do so. Was a pain.
> A more convincing rationale [...] keep income that would otherwise have gone on drivers’ wages.

My pet-theory is that the growth of these investments comes from demographic timing, where (esp. circa 2015) investors were excited by the idea that aging baby-boomers would create a uniquely rich field of customers with disposable income but unable to drive themselves.

If so, then "eliminating drivers to save wages" wasn't the original intent, but it may be a way to continue to drum up investment dollars if it looks like that demographic window will close before the technology is ready.
Chevron deference would come into play if the FCC tried to say that a test-tube baby was an artificial agent. I support ending the doctrine, because the shadow laws are strong and bad.
Question to all here: anybody (except me) learn plasma physics and understand what author write about?

Only I see so obvious mistakes in physics?

1. Debye length DECREASE is harmful, but he talks about INCREASE.

2. When aluminium vapor become conductor? Why aluminium should be vapor there? And why author think, all these THOUSAND tons of vapor should lift to 400km from 60-70km where satellites really burning?
The location-based pay point is valid. I’ve worked a number of jobs for international companies, earning a salary literally 4x less than my international colleagues in the same or lower roles. I do understand that some companies do this on purpose because some countries are “cheaper” to hire from than others, though a company making this choice deliberately is exploitative. Just because someone lives somewhere else doesn’t make them worth less as an employee.

After a few jobs I noticed this trend and started rejecting the ones that were obviously just after cheaper workers, and negotiated harder where I was interested. The result is a closer-to-reality salary.

I found this most common among software consultancies or companies based in the US with the bulk of their developers outside the US. They also loved pretending that they were an American company with American values, meanwhile they were a small management group in America with literally everyone else paid less in other countries.

It’s pretty demotivating knowing that you’re earning multiple times less than others in the same roles due to this.

One company did layoffs when they and their clients were US-based and developer salaries paid in non-USD, paying them probably 4x less than they would have been paid if living where the company is based.

If you’re laying people off when you’re charging customers US-salary based labor prices for workers you’re paying literally 4x less (at least), its exploitation and there is something _seriously_ wrong.
It seems that rebellion is getting more difficult, either because of better surveillance or social media. It was originally thought social media would increase rebellion and revolution (e.g. Arab Spring). But social media also makes it much more difficult for anyone to emerge as a leader of it. Social media transparency makes the leader mythos evaporate pretty quickly. Arab Spring failed, and no real leaders emerged as a part of BLM or Occupy Wall Street.
It's an obnoxiously tough time and it's easy to fall into a pit of despair regarding the decreasing availability of a prosperous future if you don't already have it, and all of those issues can be both interesting and depressing to think about.

However, what we do have is a pretty welcoming, friendly, and adventurous population that's a great basis for building a home, even if that doesn't mean having a house. If you have no sentimental attachments, no social life, no outdoor hobbies, no family, no job, and no prospects for a job, all of those together are perfectly legitimate reasons for getting the hell out and seeking prosperity where it might actually be found.

For me, I haven't had a job for almost a year, nobody's hiring, nobody will be hiring, rent is increasing, I'll almost certainly never own a home or be able to retire, and I don't think having kids would be feasible if I was set on it; all together, a miserable situation to be in. But... I do have friends, I have places to spend my time, I don't need to worry about medical expenses, I have a roof (for now), and I'm in better shape than many people in their early thirties. I like the vibe, and don't think I'd have better opportunities in those respects anywhere else.

That said, I did already move for work once, and picked the most appealing place imo, so anywhere else would have to pass a very high bar in order to compete. I'm also relatively more outgoing and open than people who claim to want strong social lives, and am willing to put in the groundwork. If you're a lonely, socially anxious or inept person, or a sweaty careerist tryhard who doesn't take time away from work anyway, being here vs anywhere else probably won't be such a significant difference except a better account balance.

Edit: I'd qualify my characterization of being welcoming, open, and adventurous, with the possible exception of smaller towns and cities where quite the opposite can be true. No so much because they don't like newcomers or because they're bigoted, but many people in those places—even if they're relatively cosmopolitan—haven't bothered to look beyond their high school friends for connection, even well into adulthood, and I've heard that can be quite difficult to break into. But I also don't think it's unique to Canada and it's a worthwhile experience to get the hell out of your hometown no matter where you're from by your mid-twenties I think, if even for a few years.
> But it's not like Funimation has the ability to just be like "Here's the video file, go ahead and download it" - even if they had the will to do so they likely don't have the legal ability

Potentially true, but probably only due to themselves being under a licensing constrain. The point here is that the folks who ultimately do have total licensing control, the folks who licensed to Funimation to license to users, those folks should have foreseen that in the event of end customers losing access they should've allowed for giving them offline files (at least that's what I as a customer who "bought" a thing would expect).

Instead, as usual the customer is getting screwed after a big "eh, that would be inconvenient/we might merely make a lot of money instead of a shitton of money."
Yes, I agree.

I do think it was correct to use the name, though, which means they should be more compatible.
otoh he did have one of the first viral videos:

"The Final Days" White House Correspondents' Dinner Skit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbbUYhyoWz8
Aaah, more and more the /r/drmgraveyard subreddit gets populated...

https://www.reddit.com/r/drmgraveyard/comments/1amdv5q/sony_...
> It was outstanding.

Fond memories. I've wondered if it, and Nature's equivalent, might be used for llm training? Hoping to get correct stories, let alone insightful and integrated ones, from textbooks, reddit, and wikipedia... seems unlikely to end well. Perhaps also survey papers. And parts of doorstop-tome-on-topic's. Maybe the intro and related work sections of research papers? Pity research talk intros and Q&As are rarely captured.
100% of books that reach New York Times best seller use tricks to get there. It’s always been fake.
It would actually be pretty rad if the rule was "if your thing fails, you need to make DRM free copies available for your users for __ period." Give the soft landing that Google gave for its Stadia controllers.

Hard to enforce though if the company that fails also ceases to exist (and ceases to have servers, etc.).

I wonder how a rule like that would impact contract negotiations.
In theory sure but have you been following Congress for the past decade? They can't even come to terms on continuing resolution funding bills, let alone pass complex rules related to new contentious technologies. Perhaps I'm just a pessimist but is something that makes you think this might drastically change?
Or is that backwards? Revenue comes in the door, and we must spend it, because empires must be built. No longer 100 developers working on a browser, but thousands working on all sorts of unrelated things and all the support staff. Whereas the alternative would be staying small and focused, sticking that money in the bank, and become financially independent. A new CEO could even do that. Conservatively invest one year's 600M revenue, rake off 20M per year, and the nestegg would still grow with inflation. And that is enough to develop a web browser provided you don't do it in silicon valley. Two or three years revenue and you can even market it.

I think we see this a lot, with companies pulling in too much money from IPOs or venture capital, pissing it away on unfocused growth, and if they are lucky back where they started. Or unlucky and bankrupt.
The alternating pairs is just convention and isn't actually law.

The actual law is that you need to complete stop first, yield to any vehicles already in the intersection, yield to the first car (tie goes to your right).

Which allows for an interesting scenario to occur.

1) East-bound truck arrives at intersection and stops first before proceeding into intersection.

2) South-bound bicyclist arrives at intersection and proceeds (illegally) without stopping.

3) West-bound Waymo arrives at intersection and stops but proceeds (now also illegally; as the cyclist is within the intersection) through the intersection.

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2022/code-veh/divisi...
>They could have kept those, probably did...

Fire, theft, misplaced/lost, water damage, tiny kid damages the disc, so on and so forth. Keeping something sometimes is out of our control.

>... but it's a long way from removing access to digital content which people have paid for, which is what the title suggests.

They're literally pulling content they paid for. They bought this knowing they would get a physical copy and streaming access. They paid for both, and now part of that "both" is being taken away.
I'm in my forties, I have books and comic books that my dad was reading as a kid.
Forgive me if as an American I hold up the English people and their government as a model of how a free and democratic nation ought not to be.
Or absolutely fantastic games from smaller studios like Balders Gate 3
Read Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen. It's a classic and it's lessons are key.
Superseding in compatibility. I’m not talking about business segments.

They don’t have to adopt it, they will probably fork it.
One thing that all the guns you listed have in common is that they are all battle rifles or derived from battle rifles (very tenuously the M14 in the case of the mini 14).

In other words they were designed to be given to young men in the military to shoot at other people.

I don't particularly like the new gun rules, but I think that gun advocates do themselves a disfavour when they pretend that an SKS or G3 wasn't designed first and foremost as a military weapon.

You don't have to be a gun nerd to know that a gun that comes standard with an attached bayonet is materially different from a rifle designed with deer hunting in mind. https://www.cabelas.ca/product/110383/chinese-sks-semi-autom...
Ask HN: Massaging many client CSV/textfile to correct columns/format etc.?
We have hundreds of files arriving every month and each client's layout looks a bit different.

For a single client, each file they send will be the same.

But each client has their own layout.

Is there a good service around that I can setup conversion templates?

Would be great if we can setup a template for each client and the file gets run through the template and arrives happily in our standardised layout.

I haven't managed to find one but no doubt I'm just using the wrong search terms
If he's in Nebraska, then it's literally https://xkcd.com/2347/

According to his website, he's been the maintainer for 30+ years.
Yes, apparently copying gel images is fairly common. And the folks who do it don't give much thought to how easy it is to detect, by skilled human eye or by computer.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/health/dana-farber-cancer...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-res...

I should say, when I learned about Elisabeth Bik it was a revelation because I never thought other people saw copy patterns in papers, although I always assumed it just happened accidentally (I've run gels before and the whole process is terribly manual and prone to mistakes).
This was super informative, thanks for writing it up!
HDCP itself isn't broken, but it shifts the problem to the next weakest link which would be between the controller board and the panel.
Snail mail tends to work better for reaching out to Members of Parliament just out of the blue, though still no guarantee since it's still an intern that's opening and reading it.

Emails seem to work fine if they already know you.
That’s irrelevant. People were starting to see alarm bells ringing when her salary had quadrupled to $2.5m (this is in 2018 or 2019 I think?) while market share was dropping, it should have stayed basically around there until she turned things around with an increase as an incentive.

Instead it doubled and then increased again (wasn’t it more like $7m by the end?)
You are reasoning from what might be better described as an artifact of a limited period in time that will never come again reasoning from happenstance as if it were a fundamental source of meaning.

It's trivial with backups to retain digital data forever. Even going just a bit further back in time books and vinyl can last a lifetime. What you are hanging your argument on is the lack of durability of optical disks a factor for ~40 years vs the inherent infinite durability of files forever after.

We shouldn't expect infinitely durable things to emulate tangible things that wear out because it would be convenient for rights holders if it were so.

The interests of rights holders is rarely aligned with the public. Its a multitude of barren fields that have never yielded anything because they are capable of buying art but not capable of making it. Even creatives have largely been compensated for their work many times over and are largely offering society bondage in return for nothing. More manure than fertile field. I suppose this is an overly long way to say fuck em.

Instead of quite frankly over complicated nonsense just don't legally let people use the term buy if the company can by any means whatsoever reclaim their rights EVER. They should have to use the word rent and give a duration and that duration should be enforced. The simplest way to enforce this is if you use the word buy you cannot encumber the PURCHASE with DRM whatsoever.

Current rights holders should have to provide a means to remove existing DRM. Failure to do so should imply forfeiting the entire purchase price. Rights holders that offer rentals and don't meet the duration should have to offer a prorated refund for the time stolen from users.

The sky wouldn't fall. People would still make movies, music, and write books.
AWS generates all their SDKs from something like Smithy. Not to say that that doesn’t have its own problems, but given that they have an existing Rust SDK, it’s not an insoluble problem.
Where is it a crime to rip a DVD you own?
How would it? The FCC aren’t experts on the philosophical or scientific difference between artificial and natural insemination.
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What you are describing falls outside the definition of a static page. At least insofar as I’ve always understood.