skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case studies are all around us in different forms. The example closest to me is the country I live in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa

It's been slowly cannibalized and is barely running on Inertia left by the previous government. Took almost the same as Boeing, about 25years. We barely have electricity, and now we're unable to supply clean drinking water to vast amounts of the country, including the capital.
There’s plenty of competition to netflix.

Tiktok is probably the biggest competitor to YT. But it had to come in from short form video angle, because the moat of YT in long form video is probably insurmountable. Its fate remains to be seen.
Those scripts might be frustrating, but that's a different problem. The good thing about boilerplate is that at least one human has looked at it, and the set of responses is known and generally auditable. Also, lying about being a human when someone is not a human is just plain old misrepresentation even if it works correctly.
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This advice reminded me of blogging at work, something that I started doing a few years ago and encourage others to do. I used to blog just to share nitty-gritty technical details of what I was up to, and coworkers found it interesting enough to read and learn from, and soon others started blogging. But then I realized there were benefits I didn't anticipate. For example, looking back over my last 8 posts or so, I found times where I was particularly productive and times when I wasn't. Sometimes I wasn't productive because I needed to learn new things, but other times it was because I was stuck in meetings or low-value activities. With a log of what I was doing, such low-value activities stuck out to me pretty clearly and helped me prune them.

You mention CYA which blogging can also help with, depending on the granularity of your posts. Personally, I open a blog post draft each Monday and just itemize things I do in the draft, and then on Friday I flesh the post out and submit it. It's been cool reading peers' blogs, too, because some people go very technically deep--or even just link to pull requests which do the same--compared to what is tracked in a GitHub issue or Jira ticket. So it ends up being educational material for everyone with built-in CYA should you really need it.
This is what Google is actively doing. The layoffs continue and they are culling the most senior employees.
It sounds like it, and if true, is pretty damning.
If the loss was due to the speculative asset going the unexpected direction sure. But here was fraud.

Would you say the same if a pension fund ran with your retirement, since it is invested in some stock index, most likely in previous metals, and probably a slice in crypto?
> there's still a really good art scene based on NFTs and smart contracts

I'm still not quite getting the idea here—these assets only really "exist" in web3 apps, right?
https://kate-editor.org

Link for the lazy

Looks like an IDE more than a notepad, with the side bar browser, but then I suppose it's a small step up from NP++ (with syntax highlighting and ftp^W git support already built in) to a fully fledged programming environment. Spotted the all-important keyword "vi bindings" also. I should give this a try!

Bit sad it won't work on remote systems (without inefficient X forwarding at least), but I've been looking to try out a new editor and e.g. not having to deal with things like O timeout (apparently that looks indistinguishable from the start of an escape sequence and so the command line has to wait to see if the rest of the sequence follows) has advantages as well
John,

Even though this HN post is about GMSL specifically, I want to use it to thank you for writing "The GNU Make Book"[0]. It was a veritable treasure trove that greatly increased my competency with GNU Make.

The experience of using that book, and playing with GMSL, was one of the sparks that inspired me to start experimenting with Guile-enabled GNUMakefiles (no public release yet.)

[0] My tech books are packed at the moment, so I can't be sure but: I have a fuzzy memory that your book originally had a different title, or at least a different cover?

EDIT: seems I have nostarch PDF, so I'm probably conflating two memories.

EDIT 2: Hold-up, I have this in my CREDITS file:

The author would like to thank the following
people for their insights:

* Scott McPeak for his article "Autodependencies with GNU make"
available at http://scottmcpeak.com/autodepend/autodepend.html

* John Graham-Cumming for his indispensible book, "The GNU Make Book"
(formerly known as "GNU Make Unleashed") ISBN: 978-1-59327-649-2
This isn't just a theoretical point. Chrome extensions are the canonical example of products which start off with the best intentions, get acquired, and then ...
From your perspective, the application itself is untrusted un-vetted third-party code until you yourself have vetted it, no? The fact that you also have to vet dependencies is meaningless implementation detail. You’ve got a bucket of code, you want to run it on your machine, and you decide that you want to vet it first. How does a package boundary change that? You’re describing security theatre.
I work in a bubble with people who are ignorant.
> Anyway, do you eat a lot of raw meat?

At least twice a week... mostly raw fish. I tend to eat some raw beef when I eat steak, but that is pretty rare.
What language is Python calling to do this? Hint: a language closer to the silicon.
Wow I never made that connection.
Think the comments are missing the point it a bit - it was Royal Mail _themselves_ who provided these "counterfeit" stamps.
The system is corrupt. From planes to tampons, it's self-checking and self-reporting and a conflict of interests: the regulators have no incentive to do more work (or are paid-out not to do), the companies are corrupt to the bone, the public is blissfully not interested to hear, the C level suite is there just for the money, middle management is hired and promoted based on weird criteria, the "fake it" system works too well and people hop through jobs before anyone takes action. Modern company management is not a science, but a smoke and mirrors act.
Buried in the article, but not just Netflix, Spotify as well.

The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."
This article really piqued my interest, so I did some further research into these claims.

- The source of the "illiteracy costs $2T/year": https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BBF_A...

- Literacy is a global problem. There are myriad reasons why people don't learn how to read. It is very difficult to learn _anything_ when your housing is at risk, for example.

- Literacy in general is relatively new. We've been illiterate as a species for _way_ longer than we haven't, and reading/writing was an activity reserved for the elite for a long, long time. Literacy as a metric for social progress really started in the 1800s!

- UNESCO is responsible for collecting global literacy levels, but countries can choose how this data is collected. Self-reporting is very popular, as you can imagine. (This is a catch-22; to participate in these surveys, you have to be able to read...)

- The metric for how literacy was reported changed in the 2000s, and I'm not sure if data from prior years was normalized retroactively

As an aside, I think _this_ is the biggest reason why photo and video based social media took off. 1 in 3 people can't read beyond a fifth-grade level. Reading is HARD for a lot of people.
This is not current. GPT-4-Turbo (128k) has lossless recall to the first 64k input tokens and produces output indistinguishable from GPT-4 (32k), though both are limited to 4k output tokens.

Several downsides: Recall accuracy past the first 64k tokens suffers badly; Cost is astronomical; Response latency is too high for most interactive use-cases.

I would point out the astounding leap in input context in just one year. Should we assume effectively-infinite (RAG-free) context in the near-future?
This is a highly technical article written by a protocol researcher to be read by other protocol researchers and implementers. I'm not really sure what level of jargon you expected.

This article is akin to an aircraft architect writing about engine design to engine manufacturers - there's no reason to spell things out that the target audience already knows well.
We are in the kind of future that the fear of being trained by AI makes people abandond services if they show any suspicion
1. Development and research are two different skills. Not all developers are good researchers, and not all researchers are good developers. With that said, there are people who are good at both; Dennis Ritchie and Jeff Dean are great examples.

2. The biggest barrier to starting a research lab is how will this lab make enough revenue to fund the lab’s operations and the living expenses of its staff? A significant challenge of running a research institute is fundraising. The first thing a lab must do is to establish a mission. Will this lab do long-term, speculative work or will it aim for shorter-term surer bets? What are the lab’s boundaries; what stipulations from funders can it live with, and what ones are unacceptable? I say this because as a researcher, I have learned The Golden Rule: “He who has the gold makes the rules.” Another way of putting it: “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” It is often the case that money comes with strings attached; it’s up to the lab to determine which strings are acceptable or not.
Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons
What, another “computer says no; you is criminal” connected with Royal Mail?
And this is a very sensible precaution where developer environments have SSH keys and other privileged credentials available and exposed in predictable locations, ready for exfiltration over the unfiltered internet connection that developers insist on having available.

Hopefully the VM/container run environment is also in a network-isolated environment too, so it can only be accessed and invoked through the expected routes, and it can't make arbitrary network calls to external hosts that haven't been manually reviewed and approved.
So it's true that just talking to anybody about anything automatically triggers a flag in some server somewhere.
What an absolute joke. What’s your alternative?
A lot of companies seem to pay to keep data they are not using.

Some because they forgot, some because they have not figured out how to monetize it yet.
Thank you very much for using 'deontological'. I learned a very useful word today
There's also DragonflyDB
Nice list, also pickles apparently glow under mains AC -
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/pickle.h...
i like this quote from NASA writer (not sure if he is a researcher or scientist),"you only can measure on what you can measure", on climate. just like the useless PCR test, but it worked for the narrative.

"... cut back on flying private jets.", they have influenced you. Help yourself reading my replies to comments, the Mayan and Angkor Wat civilization faced climate changes too (if not wrong 3k years ago), the catch is they aren't flying around ;) ... and zero emissions.Use God given common sense.
Why not using a faster language that compiles to WebAssembly?
> […] and NLOS usually needs much stronger transmitters than would be practicable in a handheld radio.

While not typically thought of as a "handheld radio", Elecraft's KX-line are pretty compact and portable:

* https://elecraft.com/collections/kx-line/products/kx2-ssb-cw...

* https://elecraft.com/collections/kx-line/products/kx3-all-mo...

The KX3 can run on eight AA batteries.
https://kycnot.me/
Yeah it could be a speeding fine caused by a faulty detector after all!
You’re assuming he has skills. He had connections that’s all. You can tell by every single action he took during his trial
> if they don't have your email, they won't send it

They could post a notice in their app, for example.

> They explicitly ruled out using your data according the new policy - retroactively means, if they update it, the updated version doesn't apply to you.

I think it's much more vague than that. Maybe it's not retroactive to prior actions of theirs or to prior data they had. You're assuming it's not to prior users.
I strongly dislike this practice, because it impedes understanding.

"a11y" is especially bad, since it runs counter to the very thing it is supposed to represent.

I hope the fad passes quickly.
You gave 2 examples supporting exactly what I just said.
And there are 1000s of other ones that encompass "crypto".
reddit has the worst dark pattern in this case... I think most people think they need an email address to signup... yet you can just click next and skip email input... I have about 40 reddit accounts with no emails associated with them... first one was probably created 15 years ago, and last one yesterday
Only sort-of. One of my favorite series has a situation where a terrorist is trying to destroy a wormhole - the only practical route for one particular planet to the rest of the galaxy. While the analogy is imperfect, it's basically permanently filling the only narrow channel that a ship can get through to the outside world. It's burning the bridge to the outside world. The Wormhole part of it is immaterial.

Consider that a lot of the best Star Trek stories are merely allegory for our own struggles. Some of them are pretty thinly veiled (The half-black-half-white people hate the half-white-half-black people) but even a kid can pierce that veil and understand and say "Oh... racism is stupid"

I think the "____ in space" effect is probably more related to poor writing then a specific component of the genre.
Right, but wouldn't that generally mean that IQs remain static (if evolutionary pressure is the only influence)?
I own a few UV-K5s and compared to superheterodyne the actual RF capabilities of the radio isn't all that great. I own a few Wouxon (higher end Chinese radio) and they aren't even remotely in the same league. I've tried a number of more quality antenna on the Quansheng and they do help. I've even had one where the RF was clearly broken out of the box, so your mileage will really vary on these.

All that being said, for the money and programability, they really are cool radios. Not legal on GMRS, but perform as expected in those bands with a better antenna. Airband on these things is pretty much next to useless though.

Hopefully other manufacturers will follow suit.
These are listed $24 (Canadian) on aliexpress, with free shipping. How is that possible? I just can't get my head around how these can be so inexpensive. Wouldn't the materials cost more? Like really, can someone help explain the economics of how this works?
Even on the screenshots on instagram in this very post the word "sexual" is censored. It's ridiculous.
Python, one of the two languages mentioned in the parent comment, has if anything a standard library that is TOO extensive, as made evident by the ‘dead batteries’ stdlib removal effort.
I especially like the blurb at the bottom about the blitz rewrite using servo!
Yep… I wish it were possible to easily invest in the downfall of obviously poorly run companies coughSirius XMcough, but things like puts and shorts really only work if you know when it will fail, and that it will be very soon.
Visa's take isn't anything like that, it's close to 0.10%. The vast majority of that fat fee you refer to goes to the bank who issued the card.
Now available as an ETF in your favorite brokerage account
Most people nowadays are trying to optimize dollars for amount of work, without the dedication to the craft that was prevalent in previous generations. Large companies exacerbate this issue with all the layers of abstraction between a person's work and seeing the fruits of their labor.

There's way less pride from work: most people don't judge themselves too much on coworkers opinions since jobs are more changing, and it's unlikely for you to develop lifetime friendships with people who remain on your team.

Large corporations have too many regulations and HR policies to meaningfully pay based on performance, so there's little monetary incentive to be a strong performer.

You rarely get to see the product you've built get used in a meaningful way where someone would say something about it. It's likely that only one or two disinterested people quality check your work, and in this case you're either within spec (expected), "close enough to pass" (which wasn't getting reported), or failing miserably. The QA people hate getting the last one, but there's so much apathy these days from what I've seen because everyone just wants to be somewhere else doing something else.

So basically they've evolved to take away any dopamine one can get from pushing for quality from anyone but the most intrinsically motivated workers. They got rid of those people systemically and purposefully, and made a lot of money doing it.
How do companies not have a defense against this? It seems rampant. Is it just more visible for some reason?
> Subtract some adjectives, would that make a difference?

That would help, but that's secondary. They need to add the information I discussed on the GP. That info is incompatible with sweeping, absolutist adjectives, so they would go away.

Sweeping, extreme statements are a tip-off to BS for anything: Reality isn't that simple.
Mise-en-place – The front-end to your dev env
Maybe the FAA should hire three engineering firms to go over the designs and manufacturing and have them compete to see who can find the worst flaws. Just having one big entity (FAA) check up on one other big entity (Boeing) leads to problems.
Perhaps those people risk their lives to cross our border _so that_ they can learn how to read.

Also, you interact with and work amongst many, many, many more undocumented people than you think you do. Be kind.
Okay, I'll bite. What's the reference?
The only reason it's foreign to you is because you are not familiar with any of the technology. It's no different that having no idea about LLMs or ML or transformers etc., or if you are not a programmer than being confused by arrays and recursion and TCP/IP...
Right, it's merely a convention at this point. It's also been the case that no country has really escalated LEO warfare against another country at this point. Until then it's mere courtesy between countries. We don't quite have a solid line like we do with international waters.
Why would that be a good thing to do though?
25 Years for Sam Bankman-Fried
I mention that in the first nonquote sentence
You don't have to drive like a maniac. We're at 65,000 km on our EV and still on original tires.
> why the system as a whole didn't spot much sooner that their engineering had been trashed

Current brokenthink of the management class is that their job is to wage war on their own workforce and labour rights. In the process destroying human capital. This isn't just my conclusion based on the fact that FANG was fined for having anti-poaching agreement - country-wide, corporate spending on workforce training and upskilling has been falling for the past 20 years.
Twitter Caught Selling Data to Government Spies While Complaining About Surveill
I doubt they ever prosecute anyone for counterfeiting a stamp, but if the law only forbid counterfeiting 100 stamps a counterfeiter would do 99 at a time.
Millions of people are willing to spend a lot of money to be there.
If so, I can empathize. I viewed it much more fondly in recalling having seen it in its theatrical run, than I do now after rewatching it last year.

It was still worth the rewatch, even if I doubt I'll ever feel the need to do so again.
I think your challenge will be selling it to decision makers who, like the poster above, don't personally deal with that stuff and feel the pain.

Maybe if you could get analysts to create some of those reports for free until the decision makers see the value? I wish you success!
Keynes wasn't wrong about economics. Keynes didn't have a theory of power, and he didn't know that a Soviet spy* with the full support of US oligarchs was going to sink the Bancor. He thought his vision would prevail just because it was right. Nobody cared what was right, these were people carving up the world and taking whatever they could leverage their power to grab. They weren't interested in his morality, they were interested in his tools.

Rather than simply "class conflict," it's a theory of power in general that he was lacking, other than the abstract spending power of currency. He didn't understand that people who had everything that they could possibly buy would still be unhappy (even be driven by unhappiness) because others weren't suffering sufficiently. Or as Veblen explained, that people would be upset at the existence of less virtuous people who had as much as themselves, or alternatively upset that their lack of comfort advertised a lack of virtue. Or even:

> “Keynes also underestimated the competitive drive that fuels the relentless quest for wealth and social status. The wealthy, in particular, are often motivated by a desire to maintain their relative standing, leading to an endless competition for supremacy.”

Bill Mitchell also seems not to have a theory of power that I can recognize. Or he's simply lost all hope; I don't know that declaring that production and ownership should volunteer to shift itself is more reasonable than thinking that power could be morally and logically argued into relinquishing itself. Of course, the dope he's quoting thinks that power already has volunteered to give itself away, but of course the New Yorker would say that.

In the Stalin-Wells talk, Keynes directly confronts soft socialism to hard Bolshevism in Shaw, Stalin and Wells with infinite confidence in his knowledge of how economics should work, but carries that cockiness into a unearned belief that he understood the psychology of the captains of industry and government. His pages are an interesting window, and it tells you all you need to know about capitalism that it is nearly impossible to google, nobody is distributing it, and it may be against the law to share this 1934 pamphlet.**

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[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White

[**] downloadable at: https://theverbatimrecord.wordpress.com/
>> It's worth reading, perhaps unless you're going to be flying on a Boeing plane anytime soon.

Just returned from Miami yesterday aboard a B757-200. I was intrigued because it has been so long since I've flown on one. The trip down was a 737-Max8 (or 9 I'm not sure). So I wondered if this was a plane that they had dragged out of retirement. Not like Newark-Miami is a backwater route.
These cars have way more acceleration than any car should.
When journalists write about unions, like this:

>The plan would save money while busting unions, a win-win, he promised investors. Instead, McNerney’s plan burned some $50 billion in excess of its budget and went three and a half years behind schedule.

They have a moral obligation to disclose their conflicts of interest in being unionized themselves.

The staff at The American Prospect are all part of a News Guild, with their employer mandated into exclusive collective bargaining with their bargaining unit:

https://wbng.org/unit/the-american-prospect/

They thereby benefit from laws that enshrine union control at the expense of contract liberty.
I find the article quite confusing and unclear to be honest. Are there any other sources?

This is the original NYT article from 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
"Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed."

Facebook promised E2E at the end of 2023.