skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we have a market failure around that. If I introduce bugs that matter the company loses money. If that happens the company will penalize me by not getting promoted or a raise our even getting fired. Both the company and the individual are already held accountable.

In contrast, how do I even know my medical diagnosis was wrong? How do I know it could have been better given the facts at hand at the time? There also seems to be no market function at all that gives market feedback to the medical institution

Edit: procedures going wrong is of course already highly penalized and insurance for this is a significant cost of our health care.
Second Life's Formula Will Never Be Replicated
You are hinting at the edges of the issue: mis-aligned incentives. A big problem is that your health care is tied to your employer for most people (WW2 is over, we need to stop this practice). It makes sense for an insurer to deny everything because it is low chance that the repercussions will come back to their bottom line, some other company or Medicare will get the bill. If once signed up, your healthcare came from one company forever, the math would change. We could finally move to value based healthcare where is makes more money to prevent health problems in the first place.
I don’t think you’re interested in a good faith discussion.

There’s a study being discussed in the article cited.

Feel free to discuss Krueger’s data if you think cases were cherry picked.
> thought this was an emulator to run (original) AT&T Unix applications on a PC

Technically it is, if you mean System V for MC68k :)
Liz Shuler Wants AI to Reinvigorate the Labor Movement
> or the state (communism)

That is also socialism. Communism is an imagining of what the world will look like after entering a state of post-scarcity. In fact, part of what is imagined in that is that we will become stateless. After all, absent of scarcity, what would you need a state for?

Now, it was once theorized that capitalists would artificially withhold entrance into post-scarcity and that the only way to achieve post-scarcity is, first, for the state to take over the means of production. This theory bred the Communist Party. States under rule of the Communist Party are often called Communist, but in that vein does not refer to capital ownership, but rather the party in power.
The logistics fallout is a nightmare.

Let's say you're running a 10000 store burger shop. There is an outage and all of them are offline now.

There's the sheer hassle of recording everything and everything needs to be recorded correctly for compliance. Not only does it need to be recorded, but now it needs to be manually inputted back in correctly as well.

Let's say you could do that. More & more stores are getting rid of their fronting staff for the Kiosk systems. The store won't even have the capacity to keep up.

Now you've got boatloads of cash sitting in these stores that far exceed what normally would be there. Target for robbery.

If you pencil all the orders how will the fulfillment systems know when to ship you replacements and of what? Now reconciliation needs to happen across all of them to make sure they're properly stocked.
As they said, open source maintainers don't owe you any of those nice conveniences you're missing with a clean commit history. If someone is embarrassed at their commit history or worried that they committed secrets at some point they're free to start clean and open source that. Don't put up artificial barriers to people releasing their code.

This fact (nothing is owed you) is entirely independent from the squash-or-not debate.
There is no such thing as a free market without rules and regulations, rules and regulations are what allow a free market to exist.
> cultural misunderstandings

It's funny that you think that being located in Europe the positions will be stuffed with Europeans...

I'm in this exact situation: work for American company, while living in the EU. Am not a EU citizen (Eastern Europe / Middle East). More than half of those working with me are foreigners too. Eastern Europe, Middle East, Latin America and India would be the most common origin countries. Europe immigrates tech workers by a truckload.

To reflect on the original issue. I'd guess that some manager either hated some other manager, or was looking for a promotion or was just dumb and executed some instruction in the stupidest way possible... there doesn't seem to be any apparent reason to move a team like that. Even if the team was entirely rehired in the poorest place on Earth, we are still talking about ten people. Whatever difference Google makes from the move is not even peanuts. If there's a manager being rewarded for this stupid idea, their bonus will probably be more than whatever savings this move can possibly generate.

I don't believe there's any actual rational justification for this move. Just middle management being middle management.
They're a pharmacy, they get directly reimbursed by customer's drug insurance plans and only charge customers for the uninsured amount. They need to submit prescriptions to insurance, and find out how much insurance is covering, before filling prescriptions.
They famously don't pay you in equity at all. If you work at Netflix and want NFLX stock, you buy it yourself.
That would be the case if the Netflix UI was a search box where you type in the name of a movie and then it starts playing.

The actual UI is a lot more complex. On the front page there are dozens of dynamic categories that are filled out with high-res thumbnail images, and the content starts autoplaying within a few seconds when you stop on an item.

Now, I’m not saying that’s necessarily a good interface (personally I hate overactive autoplay). But from an engineering POV, clearly there’s a bunch of prefetching and cache management that needs to happen to make that UI look seamless, without loading pauses or missing content at any step. And media caches do qualify as “resource intensive.”
Built in a bunker under a mountain, so reduced airflow, plus need to hide heat signatures from outside surveillance?

Also, likely they had infrastructure available, from the nuclear power they use.
Exactly, thanks for explaining it.
Alberta is pretty close to being electronic.
For some reason this causes "A problem repeatedly occurred" on my iPhone 15. Reminding myself to try when I get home.
Show HN: Bash script to easily share the last post of an RSS feed
After Apple now it is the turn of Meta.
This looks good and neater than my solution in my .zshrc:

envup() {

local file=$([ -z "$1" ] && echo ".env" || echo ".env.$1")

if [ -f $file ]; then
set -a
source $file
set +a
else
echo "No $file file found" 1>&2
return 1
fi

}

You can also specify `envup development` to load .env.development files should you want. Obviously this will pollute the current shell but for me it is fine.
Finnair suspends flights to Tartu due to GPS interference
This corruption of nonplussed is so annoying to me that I’d just as rather abandon its usage and consign it to an archaic listing in the dictionary. Especially because this response can be both described as nonplussed according to its original definition, and not by its emergent!
France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French
You can't say what it's about without seeing exactly where the traffic and rankings decreased and looking at the Google search console. I'm happy to take a look out of curiosity if the OP wants to share.
I don't know how US works, but anywhere in Europe doctors making any sort of mistake can and are sued to hell, my wife is one of them (luckily only once and error was done by her senior doctor not herself).

Now depends what happened, how much you sue for, but losing license and ending in jail are not impossible results. Its up to judge to decide. If that's not skin in the game then I don't know what is. Compared to 99.9% of IT folks who at worst can lose their jobs and move on (not ideal situation of course, but incomparable pressure for relatively similar compensation).
She'll be replaced with an AI soon enough.
This is Wopr! How about a nice game of chess?
Yeah, there’s index size, and also disk size. Postgres packs table rows on disk tightly, but not in RAM.

So I guess an 8kb page on disk could be more than 8kb in ram?

Seems to only affect working memory for table row data. Still significant (especially in Postgres where rows are randomly ordered which is horrible for locality for range queries) but not a home run insight imo.
I'm a big fan of PythonAnywhere. The team are great.
I've always thought that people misunderstood nonplussed because they interpret it as "not fussed".
Answering Legal Questions with LLMs
I think the author just lives in a bubble and assumes agriculture is the same way they saw it 20 years ago.

Meanwhile image recognition is already being used to identify weeds to avoid spraying on the entire crop. Combines are somewhat self driving.
Nice setup!

I have a 7300 and a 3B1 (7300 is single half-height hard drives, 3B1 is two HH or one full-height). One has a Combo Card (RAM and serial) and a Floppy Tape card, I can't remember what the other has, but cards have been pretty thin on the ground. A DOS-73 or network card would be extremely nice to have.

The emulator actually started life because I couldn't find a machine for sale at a price I could afford, but the manuals were on Bitsavers. Someone later sold me the 7300 and 3B1.
> If a company issues a bond and I buy it then I have to give my own existing money in exchange.

> If a company takes out a loan from the bank, the bank isn’t putting up existing money, it just creates a new asset and starts accounting for it. Hence new money is created from nothing.

Sorry, your analogy doesn't work out, because the roles are reversed.

Look at the situation where a company sells me a bond, to be paid back in ten years. But instead of me handing money over to them, I give them an IOU (or credit line) that they can draw down any time they wish to.

We can create this pair of bond and IOU out of nothing, just like the bank can create deposit-loan pairs out of nothing.

However, just like with the bank, people don't borrow money to let it just sit there. They want to invest.

So they spend their deposit, and draw down their IOU.

And once your customer does that, you better have some money in your 'safe' that you can hand to them.

In the classic case, that money comes from outside deposits.

> What stops the bank from creating too many loans is that the bank would become insolvent and all the workers have to carry their stuff out in cardboard boxes (except the execs they probably have someone to do that for them).

How would they go insolvent in your model?
Call me a Luddite but I don't want more and more technology. I don't want AI. I want to build my own house, grow my own food, make my own shoes.

We've had lots and lots of economic growth... but at what cost?
I didn't get the impression that this post was trying to compare vim to anything (which is refreshing). Seems like this is simply demonstrating how to use vim, given a few real-world editing examples.
This very much sums up the problem.
Worth noting before any outcry about breaking copyright: A lot of these streams are geo-restricted (based on IP, afaik), or encrypted in some other way. It's not a 100% sure, free and easy way to view the content of streams you otherwise shouldn't have access to.
KusionStack step inside Platform Tooling Landscape
KusionStack has recently been included in the Platform Tooling Landscape Platform Orchestrator category. It is also the first-ever open-source project which included in both the CNCF Landscape and the Platform Tooling Landscape that focuses on the field of Platform Engineering.
They need to get banned as the company is handled as per chinese govt. only.
That's the only time I can recall ever encountering the word in the wild. I've probably seen it in passing, in a newspaper column or a novel, but Archer is the only reference I distinctly remember. It's not a widely-known or widely-used word.
A lot of these are nice, but honestly, why not use the arrow keys? You can prefix them with a number just the same as `hjkl`, and jump around by words with Ctrl, just like you're already used to.

Taking the first example I would instead do: `<UP>f.i<Ctrl+W>this<ESC><End>i;<ESC>`, which is probably a couple more keystrokes but also much less foreign to people today...

Edit: `<UP>f.i<Ctrl+W>this<End>;<ESC>` - no need to end and restart insert mode
It's my own experience, and it anecdotally seemed to be shared with other people who have modified their main keyboard:

The regular qwerty/qwertz keyboards are so ingrained in our muscle memory and society (think touchscreen keyboards) that they still work as backups and you do not "forget" how to efficiently use regular keyboards. I guess it does depend on how often you're swapping around.
Is a NullPointerException so much worse than a NoSuchElementException? Is there a difference?
There's a whole sub-industry of people bidding on government auctions in order to part out the stuff. I'd be pretty surprised if the whole cluster got reassembled. But people on a budget will buy those compute nodes, someone trying to keep their legacy IB network will snap up those switches, the racks, etc.
Irregardless of begging, they should of been less of a lose cannon with they’re word’s
It's also dangerous to drive on the shoulder. Perhaps the safest thing is to keep going while it's obviusly just highway, perhaps a bit under the speed limit (low enough to get the attention of other drivers but high enough to not cause collisions). It could navigate to the slowest possible road and just park. Maybe drive with one wheel on the shoulder at 80km/h road on a 90km/h road, with warning lights and headlights blinking, car horn sounding etc. Worst case if the car approaches the end of the highway and there is a shoulder maybe it could stop there. After all, it's what any driver would have to do with a flat tire anyway (the self driving car can't run out and place a warning triangle 100m behind the car though).
Probably just two wheels and almost no "body".

That, or one BIG wheel, a very tiny second wheel, and almost no "body".
The VM support was the killer feature. The 3B1 has a hardware (discrete logic!) MMU, a custom designed thing completely unlike the Motorola 68451. It's an odd beast and took a lot of work (by several people, not just myself; check the git commit logs and CREDITS) to get it right.
BlogFox – Convert YT videos to blogs (that sound like you, not ChatGPT)
I just launched an app to convert Youtube videos to blog posts.

It uses Claude Opus to generate the post which I find generates a blog post that sounds much more like a human than GPT4 or other models I've tested.

You can try it out for free / no credit card or sign up. Would love your feedback.
For those curious, Cheyenne is a supercomputer from 2016/2017 that launched on the 20th spot in the top500 super computers. It was decommissioned in 2023 after pandemic lead to a two year operation extension.

It has a peak compute of 5.34 petaflops, 313TB of memory, and gobbles 1.7MW.
Hurricane Electric 3D network Map
> We’re getting sued for the homes we built that have unreachable floors and outdoor facing windows placed inscrutably on load bearing interior walls but I feel really good about our legal defense

This seems oddly specific, has this already happened in real life?
Its clearly a UK/USA split, for some reason the article does not mention this.

Wikipedia has it on 'List of words having different meanings in American and British English'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different...
The layout in the article is on a split ortho keyboard and I think this is the best arrangement for a modern keyboard.

What I think is not so obvious is, that the staggering makes traditional non-split keyboards bearable, because it allows to touch type with both hands at a slight angle.

At least this is true when using the European fingering. In the US version the number row is awkward to type with angled hands.
> Yes I know that singular "they" has existed for a long time but nobody apparently told my English teachers who would circle it in red every time I accidentally used it.

I remember reading in the 80s or 90s there was a movement to actively eliminate it.
>I don't want AI.

Don't use it.

>I want to build my own house, grow my own food, make my own shoes.

AI is not stopping you from doing these things.
I bet he could care less.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40185903
We use drones and satellite imagery to evaluate crop health and yields. To say there has been no advancement means that either they don't know what they're talking about or living under a rock. But then its people pushing AI hype so it could just be that they're just trying to trick people that don't know better to believe the hype.
It would also enable unhappy customers to move to a different insurance. I'm currently taking a prolonged time off and there was so much more flexibility on the market than what I've ever gotten from an employer.
Past HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18813429
> No -- is says whichever is greater, not smaller. So it's capped at $10M unless your GGR is more than $166M, then the cap is higher.

I don't understand the correction. Here's my groggy Monday morning thinking...

If they only said the cap was 6%, without the $10M part, then a small startup could probably survive that.

But by making it the greater of 6% or $10M, that can kill small startups, but remain capped to protect large companies.

Unless small startups are exempt?
> Some people literally don't understand the original meaning and their usage takes over. Supposedly this has happened with "literally".

What happened with literally is not that people didn't understand it's meaning and started using it with some other meaning. What happened with it is what happened with "very" a much longer time ago: it started being used as a generic augmentative adverb and started losing its specific meaning.

When I say "this coffee is so bitter I'll literally die", I'm using literally as an augmentative, as an exaggeration. Similarly, originally when you used "very bitter" it would mean "truly bitter", but overtime it started becoming just a formulaic way of strengthening the meaning of bitter.
To be honest, opinions like these are why it’s so draining to be an open source maintainer.

Some open source projects are just that - open source. You get the source and nothing else. You are not owed anything and you are not invited to collaborate and contribute. And that’s fine. Fork it and do things your way.

The community would be much more pleasant and healthier if casual passersby were not demanding things be done a certain way without actually caring about or contributing.
The EU - "it would be a shame if something happened to your business model". idk it sounds like the EU is becoming more like organized crime in how they act - "and hey we need you to make a way to break E2E encryption so we can monitor".
While it may be technically true, the article simply uses it as a "hook"; and instead of explaining the likely plethora of factors contributing to that, it allows the reader to assume it is because of AI, which is ridiculous.
The correct word is "isomeric", as in the state of a nuclear isomer.
>> As such a certain amount of default well above zero is optimal to maximize the amount of real world value being generated.

Someone who had worked in banking once told me they adjust lending standards to maximize profit. I was shocked that this meant about a 6-7 percent default rate on the mortgage loans. If you are too stringent you won't lend any money and if you let it flow freely you'll fail under all the defaults, so yes there is an optimal amount of failure even for the lender.
Mind sharing why you consider this exciting, please?
We’re so close! Send some spiders into the reaction chamber!
Well, if you refuse to learn, we can't help you.
Some features are better than others...

I find adaptive cruise and reversing cameras really useful, whereas I find lane assistance features quite dangerous. It's exactly what you want while going around a corner - the steering wheel jumping under your hands, and making you jump/panic.

Although - on the other hand, there's nothing quite like having to fight the car for control of the steering wheel to solve drowsiness...

Emergency braking is another one that I tend to find is almost entirely false positives. Overtaking a wagon on the motorway, lets trigger the emergency brake! Steep angle in the multi-story car park, lets trigger the emergency brake!
First of, I do like that style.

In the context of my argument its quite interesting because you essentially argue that one can get the benefits of separate runtime implementations without actually needing pure functions (in a very strict sense) or any of the IO encodings.

What I had in mind when I said application specific handling, I meant things like the application developer writing a custom optimization pass on the returned IO values to make the execution more efficient for the specific application. Or adding custom way of handling/reporting errors.
And I meant doing so while not making their own interfaces and instead working with whatever the common IO abstraction is.
Tesla strikes deal with China's Baidu for driver assistance
File Compression Is Awesome: A Practical Guide to File Compression
Just finished this blog post as a beginners guide to compressing everything, with the most recent tools and a quick summary of the best file formats & settings I've found.
> DR Loan, CR Deposit.

> Job done.

You can do that, sure. And if that was all there was to banking, it would be a fantastic business to be in.

Alas, the whole point of taking out a loan is to spend the money on something, eg to invest it.

And once the bank's customer withdraws the deposit half of that newly created pair of anti-particles, the situation isn't nearly as symmetrical and neat anymore: the bank better have some money in the vault to be able to satisfy that withdrawal request.

(Slightly less antiquated: the customer will likely spend their borrowed money electronically, but then just means that you need to have the funds available to settle with the bank who runs the account on the receiving end of that transaction.)

> Generally there is legislation that then brings these 'deposit holders' under specific requirements.

Even without legislation or specific requirements, you can't just keep creating these loan/deposit pairs out of thin air. At least not, if your customers are supposed to be able to spend their borrowed funds.
I know someone who in the last 10 years was involved in a project to drive trackers. From space. And not like R&D, from what I understand, they're selling this at the moment.
A new business hasn't proven itself viable therefore it's a huge risk to a bank.

Between personally guaranteeing a loan and not having the funding available at all, I'd take the former.

Once the business has been trading for a while and shows it has a working model, it shouldn't have any problem financing without a personal guarantee.

Either way, limited liability remains crucial. You're still in control of how much personal risk you're accepting, putting a backstop on any loss.
It's really a shame how little of that software has survived. I think I have a complete Foundation Set disk set, some others I wrote from ImageDisk images, and that's about it.

UNIX software in general seems pretty thin on the ground. The OSes are out there (even rarities like Interactive Unix 4.1 - though not the later patches e.g. FDISK 2GB) but software? Hen's teeth.

ACCELL Unify would be interesting to find, it's the software General Instrument used to write the front-end for their cable TV headends.