skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Join the alphabet workers union if you’re a Googler who cares.

I was considering, but after seeing how they operate, I am certain I will be ok without doing so. I am yet to see them accomplish anything meaningful, and behavior of some of their members tripped my “this seems unethical” meter really bad.

I might’ve mentioned that story on HN before, but the rundown of it was that one of my friends was interviewing at Google. He called me the day after one of his interviews, saying that he had a really weird experience, and he wasn’t sure what to think of it.

TLDR: his interviewer was a member of AWU and spent every single second of the interview (that wasn’t spent on working on the coding problem) on trying to sell AWU to my friend (as a candidate/interviewee). All that time that would normally be reserved for the candidate to talk about their experience/projects, ask questions, etc., it was all taken up by the interviewer shilling AWU. My friend was shocked enough by this to warrant calling me, which he never did before with any work-related things.

Had a neutral-positive opinion on AWU until then, and had a neutral-negative opinion since then. And it has only been very slowly going down as the time passes.

P.S. The following part is definitely biased on my end, but the vibe I got from a bunch of interactions with a number of AWU members over the years was the same vibe I get from reddit slacktivists coming from certain subreddits (antiwork and atheism ones specifically). And while I have nothing against the stated goals/purposes of those subreddits, I have plenty against the actual reality of the behaviors of their members. I don’t care about it much, because a lot of them are actual teenagers. But it isn’t good optics for an actual workplace union, when your union members behave like they forgot they aren’t on reddit anymore.
This is interesting. I've recently started fiddling with a startup idea and I need some custom hardware but it's so hard to find these products.
> Perhaps surprisingly given they are currently led by a former human rights lawyer the Labour side also seem to be authoritarian

That distinction was lost long ago in the west.

Canada's left wing liberals/NDP are doing it under the guise of hate speech and protecting kids:

https://globalnews.ca/news/10317040/online-harms-bill-canada...

Conservatives more stereotypically spin it for national security/terrorism. But it will come in some form or the other each administration like clockwork.

Generally it seems the intelligence services get a free pass from the entire political class on all sides, regardless of pretence, as we've seen in every Five Eyes countries, including Australia.
the difference is the wire format: htmx expects hypermedia (HTML)

that's the core difference w/ other SPA approaches
The biggest problem I have with this is a question this article is not asking - do we need to devote so many resources to growing almonds? The water usage alone is a little ridiculous in a state that has droughts that almost certainly will get worse over time. 17% of the total agricultural water allocation in CA (which is a buttload of water) goes to growing almonds.
He is doing some grand work.
Anything you can do at the network level that can MITM in 2024 for TLS without the client needing a custom cert? I assume no, but curious anyway
EIR Recommended Reading – Peter Groverman – Book List
I think I'd prefer to have options for each audiobook. I have favorite narrators, and find others unlistenable. There are also thousands and thousands of books that will never otherwise be turned into audio format unless an AI is used.
That doesn't make Amazon "out of control" as claimed.
It's still not that uncommon to see programs on Linux not understanding multibyte UTF-8.

It's also true that essentially nothing on Linux supports the UTF-8 byte order mark. Yes, it's meaningless for UTF-8, but it is explicitly allowed in the specifications. Since Microsoft tends to always include a BOM in any flavor of Unicode, this means Linux often chokes on valid UTF-8 text files from Windows systems.
Due process should always fall on the side of protecting the innocent.

That would have been a nice constitutional / Bill of Rights principle. Or a Supreme Court standard.

Instead many ways in which clearly innocent (or very likely innocent) people have been convicted or had appeals denied have been upheld, at the alter of not just due process, but at having no principle or procedure of adjusting due process in these cases.

In this case, how can there be information that was not submitted directly to the court given its relevance to the case? Who had that information and withheld it? That should itself be criminal. (Some information may be sensitive - but courts already deal with that in other circumstances.)

Due process adjustments for an "innocence protection principle" would still be reviewed by higher courts, so this could be a standard but rare practice with its own due process, without being a Wild West.

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No system for any large organization should provide no process for exceptions to accepted practice at the ground level to be escalated.

Corporations, governments, social media sites, banks, etc. all end up crushing powerless people when they provide no recourse for unanticipated or ignored harm by the organization's current rules.

Individual humans do not have a legal pass to say, "well I have these rules for myself, and they don't include effective review or action on information about my unjustly harming you." If an individual is notified of harm, their culpability starts then. Courts would consider systematically ignoring such communication to imply a significant increase in culpability - for an individual. Throwing away such communication would be interpreted as a conscious intention to continue harming.
> Your T-shirt, your soda can, that wall of books behind you, walls and windows - all a canvas for our creative ad team to enhance your video for you!

That would be awesome. Think of the potential! "Product place" a big Trump MAGA poster in some progressive commentator's videos. Or even better, a deepfake ad where the video creator is hawking some product that they'd hate (e.g. the progressive commentator selling a Tucker Carlson book).
Well, there's this:

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239691465/tiktok-ban-bill-se...
There are two distinct questions here, to which implementations can provide different answers

1. Interface: How can I interact with "string" values, what kind of operations can I perform versus what can't be done ? Methods and Operators provided go here.

2. Representation: What is actually stored (in memory) ? Layout goes here.

So you may have understood (1) for Python, but you were badly off on (2). Now, at some level this doesn't matter, but, for performance obviously the choice of what you should do will depend on (2). Most obviously, if the language represents strings as UTF-8 bytes, then "encoding" a string as UTF-8 will be extremely cheap. Whereas, if the language represents them as UTF-16 code units, the UTF-8 encoding operation will be a little slower.
They are a pleasant and improved UX for the equivalent of X.509 PKI primitives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509
You can still opt out, just fill out a declaration that you don't have a TV. It can be done online in two minutes (it must be repeated every year tho).

The difference is that before it was basically opt-in, with spotty enforcement, and as a result about 30% of the population was not paying anything. Today it requires lying on an official form, making it much more serious.
The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems
Can you speak more to that? I'm not familiar with MAID beyond a surface level understanding
And still, I already paid the ISO standard (at least to some degree, in my country) by paying taxes and I still have to pay for a standard?

It's like having to pay for research I already paid for with my taxes... oh wait!
Technically yes. You were trying to get unauthorised access to a server

But the law is never black and white. Programmers think the law is some code to run. It’s not.
Show HN: Rot – Secure Secrets Management for the Modern Sysadmin
Rot is a "swiss army knife" cryptography tool designed for CLI users. It helps you create and share secrets, convert cryptographic values between formats, and inject secrets into other tools.
Don't most ISPs have a bandwidth cap?
Nice!

Out of curiosity what model(s) are you using to generate the embeddings?
Technological advances in the military sector are always very interesting and research into them is to be welcomed.
From ARPANet to GPS, we have benefited greatly from this and despite the moral concerns of some, AI-controlled drone swarms and fully automated target acquisition are also very interesting and important developments that future armies will need for its defense.
It's curious, to me at least, why they didn't just go back and fix those themselves later. The early ones were on CD (or tape?), so maybe that's why.
So, anybody using Bun? Does it live up to hype?
If anti competitive corporations are the problem, why not pursue these monopolistic companies using the existing anti-trust laws? Why does there need to be a new law with the FCC involved?
> In communist China.

Oh boy, the American red scare talk.

It's 2024 guys. Capitalism won. You can stop salivating when you hear the word 'communism'.

Traitor Trump said this, sleepy Joe looked there, bad communist China will take freedom guns away... in 10 years American English will be fully memefied dum-dum talk.
This is the problem with living in a democracy while working for a feudal corporation. You might get it in your head that a feudal political structure is somehow more efficient, rewarding, or just, and bring this with you to the voting booth.

We desperately need more democracy in the workplace.
I would say the exact opposite, traditional ssh key management should eventually give way to resident keys. Aka, treating them just like passkeys.

We've been storing ssh keys directly on our yubikeys since before passkeys were a thing.

Not only is it clearly more secure it's also been a usability lift. Plugin your yubikey, start an ssh agent, and run ssh-add -K to get all your resident keys added to your current session.
> [...] remove consistently polarized components of the image (as specular reflections from glass are).

It was my understanding that reflections in glass can be either polarized or non-polarized, or a mix of both.

If you use a polarizing filter on a camera (e.g. when taking photos of artwork through glass, or shooting over water that you want to see into), you will often find that it does not remove all reflections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle
That heavily depends on your situation: if you have an unusual setup (say non-US remote senior looking in the US), the numbers go down quite significantly. I currently just got 1 interview out of 600+ applications (counting Easy Applies and such on LinkedIn).
Server rendered React components have always been in, and server rendering was the primary precursor to React in the first place. Still full circle, without coming or going anywhere.
> How about making content that consumers want to see?

What's the point of content if not a place to attach ads?
Reason may be "slanted", but you can follow their logic in their articles, regardless of your stance.
A lot of people trash about bun, but I think that they are highly motivated people bringing a lot to the table.
When I look at robotics transformers like RT-1 I'm left scratching my head why nobody has tried to build a robot to apply grout/plaster. At some point robotics transformers will be so good that they could learn directly from human demonstrations.
Less "offense". America's modern foreign policy doctrine has centered around "strategic control" of key infrastructure and chokepoints. Economical, Informational, Militarily.
Which of the said deals makes it legal for settlements in West Bank?
There's some memory usage that comes from the tab/window itself, but there's also some amount of memory used per each Chromium instance you run. If they're browser tabs, they use your existing browser instance instead of creating their own ones, thus saving memory.
I have forewarned my employer that if this bill passes I will be considering my position as I am idealogically opposed to being forced to comply with state surveillance.
No, that's like having only one key to your house.

If you have two passkeys from different providers, they serve as backups for each other. And there are other alternatives, like a printout of recovery codes.
I got pretty beat up by a shoplifter before I was old enough to realize that it wasn't appropriate for my employer to ask me (a scrawny 16yr old checkstand clerk) to detain him.

It really sort of radicalized me against any sort of property-protecting action on the part of an employer.

Two decades later I realize that some balance is probably appropriate, but I don't think that having the law on my employer's side would've improved things. I'd just have had the state on my shitlist also.
As a software developer who occasionally having fun with assembly coding, I think this Shenzen/IO are the finest coding games by Zachtronics (and probably in general, ever).

I'd love an updated/improved version of CoreWar, but probably it's too geeky for most people. Oh well...
I could see some forms of advertising or spam (or scams) preferring this.
The problem with Checkout/Billing and co are that when they're missing a key feature you're forced to unwind the whole thing.

A good example is the classic SaaS scheduled downgrade. In 99% of SaaS plans I've seen downgrading a plan happens at the end of the period. As far as I could tell such a feature didn't exist in the redirect based Billing offerings of stripe as of 6 months ago.
Marxism appears to be behind a lot of these trends
I use Alpine as my personal laptop OS. There's a lot of unfortunate things, like the fact that a package upgrade or install will often uninstall other packages which your system needs, and you spend half a day fixing it. Package/config backup and restore is a PITA and I still don't quite understand it. Getting a full GUI desktop set up is also a PITA and requires a lot of research and trial and error. Things like Bluetooth Audio seem unnecessarily buggy/difficult. And it takes a while to figure out what isn't going to work with libmusl, and the workarounds thereof. It's also pretty hard to try to contribute to the community.

But overall, I prefer it to the more bloated modern distros. There's less complexity, it's snappier (I use an old laptop), and nothing gets shoved down your throat. Flatpak makes using 3rd party or bigger glibc apps a breeze. To get 1Password GUI to work using Docker took quite a bit of experimenting but it worked out in the end.
The best book on this is:

Surveillance Valley:
The Secret Military History of the Internet
(Desc: The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.)

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/yasha-levine/survei...
There exists already anti-trust laws to deal with monopolies.

Why does there need to be another new law that, instead of punishing the monopolistic companies, gives them the right to maintain their monopolies as long as they promise not to discriminate on filtering their traffic?

Why can't the government pursue these literal monopolies using the DOJ with existing laws?
Not the OP, but I see this pop up quite frequently in ETL, usually handling csv files.
The taxes paid on nicotene products more than offset the cost of the healthcare.
#HamRadio Live! 80 Minutes Live With Martin F Jue Who is Now Celebrating His 50th Year At MFJ! (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9RBz41Q8o
A different one that just bit me the other day was implicitly changing line endings. Local testing on my corporate laptop all went according to plan. Deploy to linux host and downstream application cannot consume it because it requires CRLF.

Just one of those stupid little things you have to remember from time to time. Although, why does newly written software require a specific line terminator is a valid question.
Yeah, tailwind supports /80 for opacity or you can write opacity:.80

which is clearer?
Yes, how dare they give out their work for free. The audacity of these people!
I have no knowledge or opinion about what thresholds various auto makers have relative to each other, beyond the fact that they probably all meet regulations.

But I do want to point out that ~nobody would buy a car that deploys airbags for "pretty minor bumps". Airbag deployment is a serious event, it can injur or in rare cases kill a person itself.
It seems like Sicily is an experiment in what happens when you let a few thousand people intimidate the rest of society into letting them cut in line and cheat on a grand scale. I bet the average person's cost of living and taxes are probably at least 5% higher than they otherwise would be as a result of extortion fees, cleanup costs from illegal dumping, VAT fraud, cartel/monopolistic behavior, etc.
Don’t know how that helps when a google docs tab starts at 4-500 mb and goes up to 1.5 gb if left unrestarted for weeks…
Technically, yes.

On practice, we are talking about the root certificates store. That thing that organizations update every 10 or 20 years. Every other year there's an update there, because there are a few of them, but your "very long" there uses a strong "very".
https://archive.is/ftGO2
I would like to add Wirecard to the list of audited companies that turned out highly irregular.
> It's simply reasonable behaviour: if someone says something horrible about someone else, the person saying it must be able to prove it was true.

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

The UK's system required a historian to spend two years and millions defending against a libel claim from calling someone a prominent Holocaust denier a Holocaust denier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd

That's to argue one of the most clearly documented historical facts we have.

Allegations - testimony - are evidence. Multiple people alledging something is evidence. Even under US libel law, accusing someone like Cosby or Weinstein of misconduct is risky enough; in the UK, it led to things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile being untouchable.
Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn't Going Well
To my mind, it's a little different because bodybuilding is a form of fitness when done right.

Injecting blood into the skin on your face is purely cosmetic.

And I have a lot of experience with doing things that helped my health in the face of not having a proper diagnosis for nearly 36 years that other people were highly critical of, so I'm a tad skeptical that young men using steroids are all 100 percent merely being stupid and self destructive.

No doubt that some are. But I feel it's more complicated than the kinds of cosmetic crap women tend to do.
> this tiny box of expiring interest

Did you coin that phrase? It wonderfully expresses the idea.
Some algorithms can operate much easier if they can assume that multibyte or variable byte characters don't exist. The BOM means that you don't have to scan the entire document to know if you can do that.
I also wonder that. I'm not an audiobook narrator but if I were I'd need a audio "library" of names/places/etc that I could refer back to before reading a passage with a word I can't remember how to pronounce. The source of that "library" could either be from the author and/or my previous pronunciations. Without that I'd have no idea how I would stay consistent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/opinion/the-trump-berlusc...

"Nobody who knows Berlusconi and has watched the rise and rise of Donald Trump can fail to be struck by the parallels."
Re: Linux security, if someone can run any code at all on your system, you're screwed. Linux is swiss cheese. The only reason it isn't just as overrun with malware as Windows is nobody uses Linux for a desktop, so malware authors don't really try. (honestly I'd say modern Windows and MacOS both have a superior security architecture)
I wish there were more people like you. Big respect for this.
Even if that were to happen (which I cannot see as the PS polls around 12%) it would be a far cry from actual communism. Also, how would crypto help if the situation would be permanent and you stayed there?
I was Amazon for quite some time, and also outside of Amazon trying to compete against them. The company is both decentralized and has a culture of delivering. While that sometimes has unintended consequences, the people there are quite aware that they can sometimes be an elephant in a china shop. There are practices in place to rein that in. Nonetheless, investigations like this book hardly ever give a balanced view.
This proposed action just sounds like more election year grandstanding that will reduce American consumer's freedom to choose while having little practical effect on actually improving any national security that matters or can't otherwise be worked around. If it becomes law, the most likely outcome is that DJI becomes a US-based and owned company to whatever extent the law requires. The enterprise itself is too valuable to just shut down, so it's basically a government forced transfer of an asset. Being a forced sale, DJI's valuation will be substantially depressed. This will harm the Chinese entrepreneurs who started DJI as well as their investors but only indirectly cause relatively inconsequential damage to the overall Chinese stock market. To whatever extent Chinese intelligence is harvesting DJI drone data, there are other ways they can get that data ranging from LEO satellites to hiding imaging/sensor packages on any of the thousands of China-based passenger, cargo and private jets that overfly the U.S. weekly. Thus, any actual net improvement in national security posture is relatively minor at best.

It's frustrating because even if we grant there's significant national security harm happening from DJI drone data, there are far more direct and effective ways to mitigate any such harm. For example, mandate that consumer drone data acquired in the U.S. cannot be stored in or transit China without a license. At the same time reverse the new FAA requirement for drone manufacturers to install software remote kill switches on consumer drones. While the idea may have sounded vaguely appealing in concept, in practice it's been a huge hassle for American consumers while being ineffective as a security measure because it's so easy for bad actors to work around. Thus, the only remaining effect is the unintended consequence that it forces U.S. consumers by law to accept the anti-feature of drone makers being able to kill American's drones at will - including foreign owned companies.
This guy ships
> I often wonder why some—perhaps all too many—scientists (especially physicists) dismiss Philosophy as being irrelevant and pooh-pooh its ideas.

Should this be surprising? What does one learn in Physics that could give one the ideas and methods to identify and escape the Naive Realism that default consciousness/reality is composed of? Is this not a bit like being surprised that philosophers can't do physics?

That's one aspect. Another aspect is cognitive training: if you are a member of a community, you are subject to indoctrination of the beliefs of the ideology, and the beliefs of the ideology cannot be understood to be false/flawed without the right knowledge and methods.

What we should wonder about imho is why things are like this, because this problem is fundamental, it is always and everywhere.
Justice at last.
The climate may require using corrosion resistant rebar; most non-corrosion failure modes would happen with unreinforced OPC.
This is like "old web" versus "platforms".

Me personally, I like the old web. Websites that people make and put stuff on.

Platforms are generally great... until they aren't. Your own website will be great as long as you want.
> we need less engineers building adtech and more engineers building drones and bombs.

Nope. I'll be doing neither.