skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly anything Amazon touches works. They can barely deliver stuff that isn't scuffed up and damaged. Their website is terrible. Prime Video borders on almost unusable. They still sell Kindles without USB-C. Their customer service is impossible to get a hold of now, as you are blocked by an inane "AI" chatbot. I've done their Amazon Day shipping, and they just toss a bunch of heavy stuff in a big box with (literally) a single piece of paper of "packing material". I'm still a bit chaffed by the interview I had with them. They acted like their principles made everything they touch turn to gold, whereas I can't name an Amazon product that I'm impressed by the technology or even process.

Amazon just does everything at scale. It's like they win 51% of the time, but since they place millions and billions of bets, they make oodles of money.
> Western open pit mining operations will have environmental remediation plans that are likely bonded.

New pits opened within the last two decades probably .. but possibly in ways that can be dodged.

Older pits nearing the end of 50 or 70 year life spans .. unlikey.

These are often "sold" to cut out companies that have no real assets to speak of and soon go bankrupt .. leaving the former owners in the clear.

Eg:

Once the largest open pit lead-zinc mine in the world, Faro Mine is now the site of one of the most complex abandoned mine remediation projects in Canada. The 25 square kilometre mine site located in south-central Yukon on traditional territory of KaskaNations was abandoned in 1998 and has since been in care and maintenance.

https://aecom.com/en-ca/projects/faro-mine-remediation/

In 2022, we were contracted by Public Services and Procurement Canada on behalf of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada to lead the team developing the remediation plan design and quality assurance support services.

ie. Private resource extraction and profits .. public (tax payer | indigenous communities) bears the cost of cleanup and toxins.

It's the same with offshore rigs in marine environs being abandoned for the public purse to deal with.

In theory it shouldn't be happening and bonds should have been held in escrow, in practice many western countries (New Zealand, Australia, elsewhere .. ) are seeing projects ending with no remediation.
That definitely is spooky!
No, they should come down as causing or avoiding harm/suffering
Can Chatbots Hold Meaningful Conversations?
> Delegate [...] Paperwork

The funny thing in real life is that paperwork and "boring" tasks can rarely be delegated or will need a cost/benefit analysis that becomes in itself a task.

For instance taxes. Will you pay an accountant for your taxes ? Either you have enough money to not care, either it's a non obvious trade-off and you need to decide how much you'd be paying vs how much your own time costs and what opportunity you'd lose/gain from there (including not getting fine grained knowledge about how your taxes work)

Or for our field, PR/MR reviews. where do they fall, and will you spend time on them or pass the bucket ?
It’s goddamn rare to work on something useful.

I’m not sure more than 50% of the code I’ve written in about 20 years of this was ever actually used by someone who wasn’t, like, working on the project.

Much of the rest shouldn’t have been written. Total waste, usually easy to see.

A lot more that’s basically just rearranging shit for little reason.

Yeah… very little was useful.

At some point you just have to stop giving a shit. You’ll pay me how much to dig a hole then fill it back up over and over?! Sure thing, how deep do you want it?
I get what you’re saying. I think you’re over simplifying. Building a bridge to a town of 10,000 is hardly nowhere. What you’re saying sounds like we should all just live in cheap concrete studio apartment complexes in one big city where we can hyper optimize human existence and squeeze maximal profit out of society… A bridge to a town of 10k can be quite profitable. Maybe not as much as a bridge to a town of 10 million, but my point is that because these companies are so big they shy away from projects with smaller rewards. Small locally owned mom and pop ISP would step in and fill the gap, but big telco has the monopoly on infra and won’t do the build out. Nobody is running negative and the line still doesn’t get deployed.
The Marvelous Seamounts of the Southeast Pacific
I personally believe university is exactly what you make of it. I went for a full 4 years to an expensive private university with a good reputation in my field, and it’s done a lot to open doors for me. However, I don’t really believe that my accomplishments (work I have to show) from my time there is automatically better or higher quality than peers from state schools or self-taught people. But the words on the resume do work.

The truth to me seems that a lot of ego and subjective judgement comes from the prestige of university to begin with, and oftentimes any specific school is not a guarantor of quality or success. And if alumni from “good colleges” are not easily distinguishable after 5 years from alumni from “middle colleges”, then to me that calls into question the entire system as potentially dubious.

It’s not that university “doesn’t work”, it’s that it mostly just isn’t a good value of dollars-to-knowledge at todays prices.
People aren’t born with this knowledge. Everything we know is learned…

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned that everything I’ve learned is something younger or newer people are learning or haven’t learned yet.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39946694
Popular Websites over 10 Years (2019)
I commented to my wife this past week that I was suddenly contacted by multiple recruiters, seemingly out of nowhere. It had been many many months prior since that had happened.
All of them? I do wonder if anything I have ever worked on has actually been useful in a real, honest sense. Yes, people use stuff I've worked on or been a part of and possibly still even do (and there's plenty of stuff that wasn't used at all or canceled similar to your story), but it's hard to know the projects' actual usefulness. Perhaps it depends on the definition of useful. I'd say that if something makes someone or something safer, happier, healthier, or some other similar criteria, then that was useful. But I'm not sure I've worked on anything like that, and I'm not sure most people do either.
Germany has a good model that we can follow with a very economical university system (sans some elite schools). They do it with low overhead courses with homework that isn’t graded by a TA that they can’t afford, no midterm just your entire grade based on a final (at least, that’s what I heard from my colleague who went through it just after unification). No fancy dorms or student recreation centers, just classes that you show up to take.

Why don’t we have this in the states? Even community colleges are expected to be luxurious with lots of graded homework, exams, and a less high-stakes final. But really, we really just need the classes to go to and maybe someplace to study (but local libraries can help there). We don’t actually need N-layers of administrators and counselors. That’s all overhead.
This is not a productivity hack.

It is how you're supposed to do things. Indeed, it is how most people on Earth accomplish every single task in their life whether they realize it or not.

I wish I was morally bankrupt enough to be a productivity guru. I could, like, charge $50k to stand behind a podium in a hotel ballroom and spout nonsense at desperate people in an attempt to get them to buy my book and planners. It would be awesome.
There is no “save the environment”. Simply can't be done.

150 species go extinct every day. There's no “saving the environment” that accounts for even a tiny fraction of that relentless genocide.

The only effective strategies to in any way ameliorate our environmental impacts are deeply unpalatable to the vast majority of people: less people, less consumption.
> Except… these are a bunch of tiny PCs on a high shelf in my utility room. Selecting the boot order is a _project_.

Every once in a while I look for a cheap remote KVM I can use as a crappy IPMI stand in, either with RJ45 or WiFi. I haven't looked in a year or so, but at the time the options I found all seemed far more costly than I would have hoped (the pi based ones seemed interesting but once you add the requirements together it wasn't cheap enough to be attractive to me for a home use). Server class equipment with built-in IPMI is quite a bit more expensive. I just want something affordable to put in front of a NUC to make dealing with it easier in some instances. You could stick some refurbished old KVM device in front of it to support multiple systems on that one KVM as long as they were in close proximity.

Seems like you could benefit from that as well (but in your case you might get a workable solution out of switch config though).
Cool tech indeed. However:

> Applications close at 12 noon CET on the 3rd April [sic] 2024.

Plus the 110k salary ceiling for a staff engineer.
The software stack for tiny startups
I think from their perspective, the likely $XXm legal settlement wouldn't be worth the time and effort to bring a case against Samsung for this crime. I guess it could go on a backlog somewhere though. Still unfortunate.

Anyway, it doesn't violate wiretapping laws, because the resources/budget to uphold the law isn't high enough. A programmer might say they chose availability over consistency.
IDEs where mostly non-existing in 1995.

I believe Smalltalk could have been considered an IDE? Just vague memories from people using it those days, I have never used it.
I trust myself a bit more than I trust someone else to run my queries sadly. I understand that they claim to store no user data or associations etc, but honestly, it's just their word.
Have you tried using local models for this? Are they simply not capable enough for something like this?
What I meant to say is that if when somebody both admits their misunderstanding , admits it, then starts a discussion on what to do about it, then I don't understand the "this guy is a joke" part. Don't you wish everyone was like that?
“ Is there a possibility here that mining could actually have a positive impact on biodiversity?”

There's a job for you in the marketing department of any mining company you care to name. They'll love you!
Does a $400k degree make any sense? That seems like a massive amount of debt to take on for knowledge you can get from watching youtube and personal learning. I'm not sure the elite status of schools is worth this much. Especially for non technical studies.

Are we moving back to when elite schools are only for the very rich?
And Ford was hardly alone collaborating with Nazis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39888684
Ok.

A "mere" 20% would be a four day work week with zero productivity loss.
It’s coming back as the trump tax cuts for non-companies expire with little hope of being renewed.
^_^'

Hah. FWIW, it's a fork of searX. https://github.com/searx/searx
Well yeah, that's why I said it appears to move. Shadows aren't objects at all so they don't really move, but colloquially we think of them as moving as much as we think of a laser dot moving (which also can "move" faster than light).
Other customers bear most of the cost of merchants raising prices because of the 3% fee, not you.
Funny thing is other services such as banks and even Tinder (!) are way better at automatically not trusting and even demoting VPN users. Perhaps GitHub and others should do better here with making that stuff more visible.

Oh and it appears the dev was working via email rather than the mailing list for a bit too. Probably should be more suspicious of any back channel attempts like that too.
> These things aren't ordered, and in fact you can't really distinguish between the three familiar spatial dimensions: imagine trying to point along dimension one, whatever that means.

I actually don't know what this means. You can certainly distinguish between the three spatial dimensions. Pointing along dimension one is irrelevant. Once you point in a direction, you can define the others given an orientation, and there are only two unique orientations on a three dimensional manifold.
Why is Cockroach adding READ COMMITTED? Is using a lower level of isolation better for performance or just reduces the amount of serialization errors and retries that need to be done?
Those parking lots are not owned by the stores. It's usually by the city or some other property investor.

If it happens to be a store-owned parking that charges per hour, it's to prevent abuse from drivers going to other stores nearby if it's in downtown. Charging for parking outside your store in a less dense district is equal to putting up a sign that you don't want customers.
Nvidia Shield. Bonus is that you can run Steam Link on it.
Very interesting Claude ethics here:

Have no problem in creating super robots to enslave human.
Refuse to add Khorne or Tzeentch to the world.

I guess now we know how to deal with a machine uprising.
There are some great retrospectives on Connectix, I encourage you to find them on YouTube.
Congrats on the launch. Interesting idea. From a UX perspective, I think it won’t be an easy sell. Who’s your main user persona? Getting people to switch tools is very hard. It seems to me this should be an extension/plugin for tools like Slides or Pitch that gives users the option to embed live charts.

I’m happy to jump on a 15-min call if you want to brainstorm. I’m a product designer with 10+ yrs experience. More about me on https://contrast.studio
Quite likely I am! And of course the article was fine. But I will note there was already a comment on it about how "the fourth dimension is time, actually." So this particular phrasing does seem to keep confusing people.
I wonder about this too, at least in a testing/honeypot build
Amazon may not be best but this is being overly negative.

Amazon is still growing at a decent pace(https://www.statista.com/statistics/266282/annual-net-revenu...). AWS is thriving, Microsoft and Google are hardly able to compete with AWS.

> They still sell Kindles without USB-C.

Every Kindle(latest model) they sell now has USB-C even the basic one.
To sell to other data collection agencies.

Ultimately I'm not sure there is an end goal, except figuring out reasons to extract more money out of VC's. Buying consumer data to confirm your biases is probably a good one.
Does this apply to the US response to Chinas lead in battery and solar production? The Inflation Reduction Act is essentially a protectionist policy for manufacturing in response to Asian and Chinese tech manufacture. I feel like we are trying to fight our way out of one of these situations. I'm concerned because every time I see something happening that excites me (the massive policy shift from enacting the IRA and the surge in American manufacturing) it usually means something really bad is about to happen.
It would be remarkable to say AWS doesn’t work.
I think it’s ironic that Windows is removing “windows” from the UI.

I used to be able to have System settings and Windows Update open at the same time. (Not the best but something like this bugged me recently). Now I can’t?!?

Can’t even flip back and forth (without triggering rescan of windows updates).

Maybe Windows 12 will just be a touch enabled DOSSHELL.EXE
It's hard to induce a current in a bird.
I dont know. There is definitely a flow of energy between the power line and the drone. But there is no closed circuit between them so there is no current flowing. I imagine there is a (slightly, almost not measureable) raised current in the powerline due to a lower resistance due to the parasitic voltage drop and phase shifting cause by the inductive load. So technically no current between the drone and the powerline. Although there is energy transfer.
But there are probably lots of people here that understand the laws of electromagnetism a lot better than me.
This is a really great visual overview of website design changes, and quite nostalgic at this point. Thanks for putting it together!
> On Facebook/Instagram I frequently see ads for products

I never have that; it’s always irrelevant stuff OR stuff I just bought (because the ad tracking know I was on that other site looking at that product; somehow they don’t know I bought it so now I get weeks of a product I no longer want to buy aka fully useless) so will definitely not buy again.
AWOL as in they don't come in at all, or AWOL as in they don't produce any noticeable artifacts or effect on your personal or team output?

I manage a team and we have a return to office policy that I'm waiting to be reprimanded for not following before I actually come in, but I also don't hold my people to any standard beyond what I'm willing to do. I couldn't imagine ordering them to go in and not doing so myself.
I think your example is pretty much the definition of zero-sum thinking - why would a benefit to you automatically "subtract value from the system".

I would argue it's a positive sum transaction - the person you helped receives something of value, from a real human they know, strengthening the relationship between the two of you, others in the community see that and are encouraged to do the same, and the recipient feels a sense of obligation to at "pay it forward" any way they can leading to further "good works".

Have you really never received anything of value from someone who had no obligation to do so? Not even a lead on a new job, or an introduction to someone who helped your career, or a mentor? If so, do you really feel the situation would have been better if that information had arrived in an anonymous form?
An LLM makes no sense to me in this use case. I don't know shit about investing, but machine learning has a place in analytics, but llms are about finding correlation in text. When I'm dealing with images, I use a convolutional nn, not an llm. Developing a finance model makes a ton of sense to me, but not as an llm. LLM can't even do math without writing code to do it.

I guess you see something I don't, which is not unprecedented. I miss lots.
I live less than a mile away from VolksWagon's Chattanooga facility, so several of my neighbors are on their car production lines; most of them don't understand how a union helps them. I completed an IBEW apprenticeship before running my own shop for a decade... so I have a foot on both sides of the fence.
I'm nervous asking, but a little curious what kind of equipment someone would need to give it different instructions. Does it use 1970s encryption? How big would your radio need to be?
Have you ever tried contributing to a Wikipedia article? It's a nightmare due to the other contributors who'll revert all your changes and fight you on everything and it's not worth the effort.
I don't think it's overly negative in the sense that everything I said is basically the case. And the Kindle Oasis doesn't have USB-C. The fact that AWS might be entrenched or useful doesn't negate the general public's interaction with Amazon. They're even now actively discouraging returns. They are intentionally taking longer and longer to process returns, despite receiving items days, weeks, and even months prior to the return.
I cannot imagine they make more money off me with ads than just asking me money to buy them away like YouTube premium (minus that they allow sponsors in the videos which I think should be a violation if I have Premium but ok). So why don’t they offer that; let me pay something to stop tracking, snooping etc and showing ads. I have never clicked an ad in my life.
Tiny[stash] – a storage/database-less file sharing service powered by OpenResty
tiny[stash] is a website and a Telegram bot for file sharing. A key feature of the service is the fact that it does not actually store anything — all files are stored on Telegram file servers and proxied by the service. You might be familiar with this idea — there is a plenty of file sharing services that work this way. But tiny[stash] is going even further. In addition, it does not use any kind of database, all required information is encoded, encrypted and stored directly in a URL.
Is it legal? I mean, can you just make it and go to the street and play with it?
Insightful but disappointing.
Seconded! (Or thirded?) Prologue is so much better than Audible. I’m using Libation to liberate my copy protected audiobooks, not to share them but to avoid that godawful Audible app
Interesting idea! Well done.
The interaction design on the site is a bit weird IMO. I can swipe up or sideways through results. I’m not sure what’s the difference in information architecture. Also there’s no indication of how many results there are. You could display the results as a stack of cards and show a counter for the number of results. I’m happy to help you with the UI design if you’d like some help.
You can get a used Wyze which is fast enough for any media consumption, and fanless, for <£50.

However I wouldn't say that the streaming services make the interface suitable for consuming via a TV. Windows lost it's Media Centre interface, and most services are hostile to Linux.

Video is still an area where piracy provides the best experience.
I marvel that anyone would use a CRM system or any important HTTP API that doesn’t support conditional operations. I mean, this is mission critical data, right?

Support for If-Match seems like a low bar and yet few clear it.

When asked about data quality issues (“data in a weird state” or “shouldn’t be possible”) and the API has zero protection for lost updates… I sigh. Nothing to do.
The visual effects are a serious accessibility issue, unfortunately. Particularly the motion.

We're all different in how we process visual information, and while it looks great, it definitely needs a mechanism to turn it off.
I don't think this paper goes deep enough, they don't consider for example structured diversity seeding for LLMs, which entails prompting the model to combine diverse entities, knowledge and skills selected at random from a list. Random combinations of conditioning context can lead the model to hyper-diversity. The Skill-Mix paper shows how this can work. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17567

LLMs have been trained on everything, when they are also prompted by diverse people with their own tasks and styles it won't lead to knowledge collapse. Two diverse worlds meeting each other in chat LLM interactions - the training corpus and people.

But if you remove the human and just use fixed prompts, and then also narrow the training set with various methods, it might collapse.
General Relativistic time differences come primarily from differences in gravitational potential, not field-strength.

Thus, it is impossible to perform the suggested procedure. We don't (and probably can't) know what zero potential looks like.

Furthermore, we would probably measure those potential differences using clocks that rely upon the SI as presently defined.
It goes even further than that https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/01/bedazzled-by-energ...
Read committed is explicitly asking for hard mode. If you want a simple life stick with Serializable as always. It took years before people found anomalies in Repeatable Read in Postgres. This stuff is hard even for world class researchers.
> devices were far more picky

I agree with you in general, but it still annoys the crap out of me that QuickTime Player on macOS still won't load completely valid videos.

My basic "QuickTime compliant" options are:

-tag:v hvc1 -c:v libx265 -crf 28 -c:a eac3

Of course for everything else there's VLC.