skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the full-page insecure advanced continue with http is even worse. I (we) understand there's no real reason to need it, but if you're serving the general public (as isn't the case here) you absolutely need TLS whatever you're doing in 2024 IMO. Personally if I were blogging even for this audience I'd want to avoid that friction, but I think it's not like antirez doesn't know about it, I assumed it's a sort of protest.
tl;dr: “...check what people say against evidence...”
In the best case they are learning that, due to their own behaviour, they are now sharing custody of the EU app store with an adminstrative bureocracy.

But I suspect it'll take them more time until it fully sinks and until they are done testing their new boundaries.

Well done.
Is there a word for the "If I don't get paid for building a baby-killing-machine someone else will" type of regressive attitude that many self-deluded contrarians exhibit in the tech industry? Many such people would be diligent VW/Mercedes/Tesch and Stabenow/Degesch employees during WW2.
Immigration policies to keep wages low and prop up the housing market. Canada's population grew by a record 1 million in 2022 alone [0]. To give people an idea how much that is, Montreal's total population is 1.7 million.

[0] - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-record-population-grow...
Amazing how fast this decision was reversed. It's truly awesome to see regulators standing up to walled gardens. This will greatly benefit both developers and consumers.
> IMO simply striving to gain power or money is easier than to achieve greatness and mastery

While my ego would want to agree the truth is staying in power and making money exponentially isn't easy either, and you can't lie your way to lifelong power and fuck you money because eventually people figure you out, your reputation plummets and then you have less power and less opportunity to make money.

That said you choose what game you want to play, if you care more about your craft focus on perfecting it even though that's not gonna make you as much money as pursuing money for its own sake.
you might be right

i haven't tried the 'three-instruction forth' approach myself (which i had misremembered as being due to brad rodriguez rather than frank sergeant) but that paper was definitely a major factor in forming my viewpoint that forth is not really a programming language but rather an interactive environment that happens to have a programming language (a language the 'three-instruction forth' omits!)

you probably do need a fourth 'instruction' in practice: reset, or at least some kind of interrupt that returns you to the interpreter when you're in an infinite loop. usually there's a separate reset pin, though, which leaves memory intact so you can debug what went wrong — or, at worst, set up the thing so you can power-cycle it. usually that goes without saying, but sometimes hardware is physically far away these days...
Why should it end? So far it's awesome.
No one ever got elected to higher office for putting their head down and doing a good job

It’s kind of similar to office politics in a way, you have to spend most of your effort on visibility
Not the OP, but the thing that springs to mind is to make it resilient to DOS attack and similar. As you say, it didn't crash after the HN spike, but it seems likely that a motivated attacker would not have trouble bringing it down. Also the request latency is quite bad, which doesn't bother me a bit for the type of site that it is, but that's solved easily enough since it should be super cacheable.
> Google are more than ready to fire you if you get in their way

If a person disagrees with Google's policies, and are not in a position (as VP) to change them, they should simply quit the company.

If instead, they decide to take deliberate actions which hurt the business (and thereby their peers), then the company should quit them.
A ban has been attempted since at least 2020, and has gone nowhere. There is no precedent for something like this, as Congress cannot show what law Tiktok has violated. It would need to go to the Supreme Court, even if both houses passed the bill.

Congress puts forward many bills that have no shot at passing. The goal of something like this is to force Bytedance to sell its US operation to a US company, rather than deal with regulatory uncertainty. Hasn't worked yet.
The go to excuse of every apologist ever, which will be applied to anyone that takes a stand in an effective manner.

The being fired is an implicit sign that the people trying to control the collective narrative of the organization feel their grip slipping.
Where does the command over minimum wages, minimum maternity leave and minimum consumer warranty end?

Where democracy decides it ends.
Wow. Shockingly good-sounding demo on home page at https://infinitedigits.co/wares/pikocore/
In a quiet email to the CEO which will promptly get deleted, and will never hit any big media or HN's frontpage is what a lot of commenters here would argue for.

Being "polite" is nice if the person you're talking to is also nice. If the guy wanted to bring attention to the fact he did it very well.
It is completely serious. It is put out by the Heritage Foundation and has input from a bunch of conservative organizations including many with close ties to Trump campaign.
Israel is an inherently inequitable and therefore likely terminally conflict-ridden ethnostate. Israel is a reasonable reaction to a long and terrible history of ethnic persecution. What's going on in Gaza is an unacceptable humanitarian tragedy that is a reaction to an unacceptable attack. There are players on both "sides" of this conflict that are driving it because they actually want the conflict, people who never wanted it and desperately want it to stop, and most are caught like bits of air in this conflict hurricane that even the head of state in a world hegemonic power can do scarcely more to dictate terms to than an actual hurricane.

I don't know what the answer is, and I appreciate the urgency of feeling that causes people to protest, but at this point I'm pretty sure most protest gestures do little other than feed the tribal vortex at the heart of the hurricane, especially the farther away from any actual leverage points on the dynamic that they are. And an Israeli tech exec existing and doing tech exec things is probably not close to a leverage point, nor is protesting them doing tech exec things doing anything worth levering.
The employees collectively have a lot of power.

A single employee has almost no power at all, which is rightful.
So, does this mean that if citizens who live outside of the EU, say the US, travel to the EU, they will then get access third-party app stores ?
I don't have a good answer although I will say that in past such stories discussions about internal forums of various types, some employees came to say that the more "advocacy" (I don't know of a good word here) type forums were dominated by a few voices and had relatively low participating rate compared to say ... everyone who could participate. They indicated that many employees had / wanted nothing to do with those forums.

In this example we have one person, that might be telling.

So while it might be a problem, I'm not sure how widespread it is.
when I have a new use for ai I'll try Claude, Bing, and Gemini and go with whoever is best for that use case. sometimes I'll have another model check and offer suggestions for improvement like for Etsy listings title or description etc...
I'm no lawyer, but it seems like it ends and begins at wanting to sell in the european market. It doesn't seem that different from mandating that cars obey certain emission standards, contain digital radios etc. Or how food packaging contain nutritional information. Mandating 2-year guarantees for sold goods. There's quite a lot of legislation on specific requirements on sold goods.

One can argue whether this specific legislation is wise, but legally i don't think there's any limit to what the EU can mandate for goods sold in their market.
The ICJ didn't rule on whether or not Israel was committing genocide. It said Israel needed to take the steps to not commit genocide.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/key-takeaways-worl...
Being unprofessional about it in a way that brings reputational (and by extension financial) damage to the business is fireable, yes.
Writing code. Quick data analysis (with Code Interpreter and the like). Brainstorming ideas for things. World's best thesaurus. Entertainment.

Lots of quick answers to questions: my rule of thumb is that if someone who had just read the relevant Wikipedia page could answer my question, and the stakes aren't particularly high, I'll use an LLM.

Jargon decoding - I can read academic papers now!
We must be living in a different world. It literally takes me seconds to create new executable project.

>"Even just adding a package fetch in CMake is infuriating."

I am not sure how to do it because I do not let build process / environment fetch things from the Internet. I always download / deploy / update manually upon real need. I would agree that having IDE do it for you is convenient but since I only use very few libs there is no need for me to do it at all.

If I need to create new project I just copy a template, fire up CLion IDE and it all takes few seconds from the - I am going to do it, to start actual coding.
> I've never found the notes from mine to be "worthless", you may want to find a new doctor.

Thanks for the thought, but unfortunately our whole system (Stanford Health Care, FWIW) is like this. My doctor is better than my kids' doctor, and my wife's doctor. The incentives are just not there for them to engage, so mostly I get nurse messages that are useless. It appears to be a copy/paste from google (or some internal system), basically.

As for "TFA", I do know what it means and see it used here regularly [1] and without meaning anything harsh. It's not like some people say "TA" and some people say "TFA". It's just TFA. Regardless, I didn't meant to offend you or make it seem like I was demeaning you. I was just pointing out that the article addressed your complaint, and indicated that the vast majority of insurance plans don't leave the cost up to the patient. I nonetheless appreciate your feedback and will consider "TFA" more carefully in the future. If you have any equally pithy alternatives, I would welcome them!

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tfa
The employee clearly wanted to be fired, wanted to vilify the company, and wanted the news to broadcast the matter.

Who in their right mind who says “I refuse to build technology that ____” wouldn’t already be planning to quit barring outrageous hypocrisy? Who in their right mind screams it out in the middle of a presentation without expecting to be dragged out?
Apple hasn't faced a fine yet for this, so there's really no material harm to them for acting like this. And it's great theater for shareholders. I'm sure once we get to the point where the EU is going to begin issuing fines for DMA violations then Apple will change their position.

Microsoft was acting like this in the 90s. I think history is just repeating itself with Apple.
There have always been people who have thought themselves better or more worthy than those they felt were beneath them, and there always will be. The solution is not allowing any one person to collect more resources or power than the rest. We’re failing there.
>I would argue that Google has more power over us now than King George III had over his subjects in 1773

This is not the first time I have seen bizarre hyperbole like this - it's quite strange. Russia, China, and King George III all have and had people killed for dissent. Google didn't murder this engineer, imprison him, or anything of the sort. They just stopped paying his salary.
I used to think this until I realized that the theoretical point isn't to prevent great loss of life, it's to prevent the usage of airplanes as a weapon. Malls, subways, concerts, sports games were always target-rich...targets, but a plane can be used to attack infrastructure and militarily significant targets (e.g. the Pentagon) and to kill far more people with lighter weapons than you could otherwise.

Of course, this could never happen. It's been said to death, but the conventional wisdom before 9/11 was to allow plane hijackers to run their course and assume that all they wanted was cash, to just sit tight and wait for them to set down somewhere. Not even after, but mid 9/11 people realized that old paradigm was out and the passengers of the fourth plane the cockpit door, preventing the usage of the plane as a weapon.

Post 9/11, nobody could hijack a plane with box-cutters anymore - enough people would rather be stabbed than see their plane be used as a weapon that it's simply insufficient, especially since if they crash the plane you're probably dead anyway.
The wording and tone are common for broad agreement, both practical and moral (curtness, appeal to popularity, etc). Otherwise, one would normally use a wording that expresses the scope of one's tone, e.g. "Regardless of the issue, I think it's the right call to resort to firing to enforce this rule."

(It's hard to come up with a good example that demonstrates exactly what I'm talking about, because the topic is highly subjective, highly emotional, and has a few different angles. There are a million different things the parent could have said to communicate an attitude that doesn't imply an emotional, moral, or political distaste for the context of the protest itself. My example isn't necessarily "correct" for the parent.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

There is no ever shrinking pool of jobs, and real wages today are 10x higher than prior to automation.

Instead, we do more with the same number of people, and invent new jobs that didn't exist prior to automation. Like Youtube star or computer programmer.
Because it encouraged people "to bring your whole self to work", and during previous years it supported and encouraged employee being vocal and protecting about certain issues. They like to "amplify" certain voices and suppress others, so to speak. It's in their DNA both as a company culture as well as their main business - moderating social sites.

What some employees haven't quite learned yet is how to read between the lines. They are certain topics which are ok to protest and be vocal about, but others, are not, like unions or this case. To be safe, it's better to think of "bring your whole self to work" as a gullibility trap. It may not be that, but effectively it will function as such. It catches the naive troublemakers so later on they can be filtered out.
Question for HN readers in areas with a T-V distinction: is the number of people whom you T on a monthly basis roughly O(Dunbar)? (I'm wondering if it's just coincidence in my case)
Ironically my blog is written with the help of an LLM, so AI scraper bots are trained on their own output.

But if you are concerned there's a good resource here for blocking them: https://darkvisitors.com/
A childish move, unexpected from such a company like apple especially with timing.

Which probably boils down to one overzealous middle/higher manager trying too hard to be a good boi for superiors to get extra bonus... I don't think it panned as expected. Otherwise apple corporate culture is quite rotten.
What an astonishingly bizarre non sequitur. Are you implying that someone's socioeconomic status affects how they perceive animations in interfaces?
So happy to see the will of elected officials usurp a multinational. There is literally nothing to dislike about this.
That sounds like TSA Precheck, which doing a basic background check to get seems very reasonable.
There is Hamas, there is the Israeli government and there are the Palestinians, and before, Israelis who did nothing that suffer.

I take the side of those loosong their homes, families and lives in Gaza deapite doing nothing at all.
I am willing to bet that this already is an AI model. A recall of less than a min with proof is not humanely possible.
> When a machine does what a human artist does

Because a machine is doing it. It's an unfair competition.

Enforce that the machine can only work 8h/day, pays taxes, rent, student loans, has to spend 20 years training, can't be owned by humans...I think there would be fewer complaints.

> I feel that the problem is not "theft" but the fear of being replaceable in the workforce.

Sure that too. If you paid artists regardless of whether they do the job or a machine does it, they'd fear it less. Not zero fear because most people want their work to be useful and have a point, not just pick up a paycheck.

But also generally artists know other artists can learn from their work and they factor that into the price they charge for said work. They never expected machines would learn too - it really changes things.
It's difficult to do that though isn't it, because it's inherently then also a function of the recording and your playback equipment.

Much like you can't expect a (useful) recording in a speaker review.

It'd be a bit more reasonable here I suppose because it's almost certainly going to be the weakest link, so everything else is to some extent preserving characteristics of it.
Nice job! Working on things is really the only way to get better and this is a great project to sink your teeth into.

My advice is: Keep working, keep learning. If you love computers and want to work for a startup you absolutely have what it takes to make that happen. And if there are no startups near you which are right for you, you can found your own.
Sometimes people use the phrase "adults in the room" and I think anyone who is not capable of separating a specific issue from a specific policy or not adults. Clearly, as you said, it would be chaos if exceptions for not following rules were given at the discretion of how popular a political issue is.

If the person thinks the cause is worthy of being fired of that's completely their choice, but that doesn't mean the rule itself is immoral.
It's just too uncharitable to call it "blowing" the money. Any investment implies risk, and risk means that it might fail.

After stockpiling a couple hundred billion dollars, there are diminishing returns for stockpiling each additional hundred billion dollars.

A company in that position should either spend the money on R&D (if they can think of worthy risks) or disburse the money to the shareholders (if they can't) so that the shareholders can choose how the money should be invested.

It's a good thing that management was courageous enough to risk failure. They should be encouraged to do this, because for every 10 which fail, there will be one which more than pays for all.
You did did read the employment contract before you signed for your very own personalized but infernal handcuffs, didn't you?

Bet you will find that clause, a clause often with no title but commonly referred to as the "moral clause" (or behavior code or morality clause or even "bad boy clause") that is embedded (often claimed by so-call-victims as "hidden") somewhere in the middle of your lengthy employment contract.

At any rate, you cannot say you weren't warned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morals_clause
(no longer below, now it's above)
Sure, I'm not in favor of them but neither do I consider them right or wrong for all parties. But the parent comment seemed to imply that firing him was justified, because any company would do the same. I disagree with the part about it being justifiable just because it is a common practice.
Or they don't want jihadists flying planes into their buildings either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ultra has a 2 month free trial.
> “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide!” he yelled, referring to Google’s Project Nimbus contract

Well, then Google did him a favor by firing him. Saved him from hypocrisy, since he could have quit long before that.
Its striking to me that there seems to be a segment of the population now that think that a company should behave like a democracy. I'd be very interested to see research about how this kind of viewpoint has changed over time, at what kind of companies it is more or less prevalent at, etc.

I find this viewpoint astonishing personally, but that might have to do with my upbringing and cultural background.
It seems that way, but startups are creating with the dream (unrealistic and quite misguided, I know), of conquering 100% of the market. You mess with that dream, you get fewer startups.

It's how the founder's mind works, sorry. This is (one of the reasons) why Europe gets fewer startups than freer places like the US.
I don't know the opinions of this particular speaker but my feelings towards the actions of the Israeli government make me opposed to any business relationship with that country until they end their genocide against Gaza.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643981
I can't believe this is a full-throated, illustrated, pop-culture defense of luddism. Luddism is a caricature of an ideology, a thing you throw at opponents in debate and they are forced to deny.

You're not supposed to adopt it as your real, actual ideology lol. Is this a joke?

Guess I'll need to find some clogs, sign me up General Ludd.
Not "prohibit the same ... behavior", just "lead to consequences, like being fired, for the same behavior".
The US has "solved" this in some airports by investing in better imaging tech that doesn't require removal of laptops and the like.
There are immediate cybercrime etc activities happening around AI -- eg, content abuse is rampant rn -- so someone advising on active standards that explicitly doesn't (relatively) care about these, especially at the federal standards leadership level, is insane. That's the job!

Internally to gov, depts deploying AI are terrible at data security even before LLMs hoover & regurgitate everything. Most senior leaders don't understand this stuff, like why secure RAG indexing is hard. (Some are sharp, just too few.) That's even before other basics like ai vs human decision making for diff tasks. Getting a future-ethics person asleep at the wheel on the on-fire problems right as deployments & ATOs are getting figured out in every agency.. ouch.
Isn't that the functional purpose of hashtags? So that people interested in a topic can find information about it? Wouldn't this tweet be highly relevant to people searching with that tag?
I think the problem is that folks look at things in a bizarre black and white manner and see it as either 1.) Israel has every right to defend itself from further terrorist attacks and isn't doing anything wrong, or 2.) Israel has no right to retaliate at all.

I think the more moderate view is that Israel suffered a heinous terrorist attack perpetrated by a terrorist group in power. Israel has a right to defend their people from such attacks and a military response shouldn't be surprising given the extent of the crimes. However, the people in Gaza (non terrorists) are also human beings who should be treated that way. Not everyone supports the terrorist actions (apparently Hamas is incredibly unpopular amongst the people, but they have little discourse if they don't want to disappear) and the military response from Israel seems to have gotten to a point where children being blown up and starving to death somehow comes with the territory. Surely there is a way to reduce the casualties of innocent bystanders. Surely Israel should provide food and aid to the people after bombing all their infrastructure into the stone age.

I admit not being as informed as I should be, but just how many times are we going to have genocide before we learn to stop? Just since the Holocaust we've had genocide in Cambodia, Serbia, Rwanda, China, and now Gaza. In the more distant past it was even more common (e.g. trail of tears).