skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned that the car rental desks in a certain airport are split up with the 'good ones' on one side and Hertz, Dollar and friends on the other side.

One fateful evening I land for a work trip and the whole lobby is a zoo with probably 100-150 people waiting in lines, milling about, trying to figure out travel plans because the cars we all reserved with the 'wrong side' rental places had all been rented out to other people.

The companies on the other side had no cars either but at least promised that if I had reserved a car with them, it would actually be reserved for me. So that's where I go every time now
So we know Hertz is a total shitshow. What other company is good to rent from? I don't really trust Turo yet.
I personally empathize more with the concerns of poor humans than I do mistreated animals and increasing food costs seems likely to increase their pain. I'll gladly wait for technology to improve the lives of animals, but I think it's important our legislation focuses entirely on improving the life of people, exclusively.
I’ve had success canceling without fees by calling and talking to a human.
I'm sure that management was highly self-congratulatory, and rewarded themselves accordingly.
Ask HN: Why all these GitHub fake accounts starring my project
Many of the stargazers of my MLtraq GitHub repository https://github.com/elehcimd/mltraq look weird.

There is no verifiable information, seemingly from China; they have a massive count of stars/forks. My attempts to contact a few of them failed, so I tend to think these are bots.

What's their purpose?
Why did you omit this part?

"at the authorization holder's request"
Competition is ruthless.

Try to open a lemonade stand in other kids neighborhood they will kick you out :)

Now try to do the same where millions or more $ are at stake, good luck with that :)
Well, I'd suggest you start by reviewing your idea of "success" and how companies achieve it.
A lot of this seems to be like that Ralph kid from The Simpsons; "I'm helping!" Well-intentioned? Absolutely. Actually helpful? Meh.

At one company I worked for someone suggested that we should all stop using metaphors linked to cars and internal combustion engines, to stop normalizing these things and help fight climate change. And look, I don't like this car-centric design; I don't even have a driving license. But how does this stop climate change? "I'm helping!"

This was shot down pretty hard by the CEO and pretty much everyone else by the way.
Adding a subscribe feature to get an email with the most recent posts in a topic/community would be really cool. One of my favorite parts of HN is the weekly digest I get in my inbox; it would be awesome if that were tailored to me.

What you've built is really impressive. I'm excited to see where this goes!
I can here to post the same. It literally happened to us in Japan. My wife left her purse with a lot of cash, credit cards, and her passport at a cafe. She was panicking while I reassured her it’s going to be returned. Sure enough after our long walk back, the store clerk recognized us immediately and gave us the purse. Everything was there.
Now you're just being belligerent. You should take a break and read the HN guidelines, because you're contributing nothing to the discussion, you're actively degrading the quality of discourse on HN, and you're not adhering to the community standards.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> X protocol requires a lot of round trips that waste a lot of time.

This isn't very true. The X protocol is very async and lets you batch plenty of things when a response is required.
I don't think anyone here wants to hear this or understand it, but SWE work needs a hard reality check. I think a lot has been lost in the swirl of easy six figure salaries and recruiters constantly nagging you to jump ship and come work on awesome xyz. A downpour of VC money doing billion dollar shotgun blasts hoping to find just one gem.

Let me put it this way: If you had a team of EE's and ME's who all made between $150k and $250k, you would basically have the cream of the crop. A team that could make mars rovers or infallible pacemakers.

But a team of SWEs making that much? You get buggy weight loss apps and serially broken web access portals.
You file a small claims case. I had a similar experience with Hertz where the math on my invoice was clearly incorrect and everybody swore up and down it was right. Tried to contest it with my credit card (who I no longer use), they didn't help out even though they had the invoice where the math was clearly wrong. Filed a small claims case in my local county court, Hertz legal called me a few days later saying they'd pay for my court costs and the full amount I contested.
Not as made up as the value executives bring to their company.

Feigning academic interest is nauseating by the way. You bring nothing to the conversation and demand other people do work until you reach some arbitrary level of satisfaction; even after doing the work you'd just disappear from the conversation and not have your opinion changed.

Searching through your comment history you've only offered citations or references a handful of times, despite having over 11,000 comments.

Practice what you preach.
Henry George's reason for wanting a land value tax was to abolish cities
Soybeans aren't just good for food, they can be turned into fuel and plastics.
This sounds kind of stupid and not rockstar-like at all. Imho a rockstar is someone who has integrity. And the integer (lol) thing to do would have been to tell that CTO to go take a hike. It is not your responsibility to compensate for extraordinary stupidity nor to single handedly lift the weight of all your coworkers. You are making this agonizing system work in the first place.
Amazon Bedrock Studio
> Or is the argument that every cloud company should independently decide not to serve this particular industry? If that's true, why are we pressuring private companies at all? Wouldn't it be more effective for the government to sanction these forbidden companies, instead of relying on so many independent profit-motivated companies to voluntarily lower their profits?

Yes, it would be more effective but in the absence of any adults in the rooms of government, I don’t blame regular folk from using whatever little power they might have to try to effect change, albeit however futilely. Our world is a dumpster fire and the ruling class seems fine with fanning the flames, so it is incumbent upon everyone else to fight in whatever ways available to them.
"wow, one year in jail just for trespassing"

Many western states have much stricter views on property rights and trespassing than the coasts. The penalties are generally higher even if not dealing with this specific scenario. Even regular ID trespassing law can carry 6mo-1y jail time depending on the circumstances, etc.

One often overlooked thing that isn't particularly applicable in this case is the biosecurity aspect involved in agricultural trespassing. Even trespassing in agricultural areas without taking pictures can carry higher penalties in many states.
It is not just about programmers, it is just that the Earth is not considered an accurate enough clock anymore. We can do better with atomic clocks.

For day-to-day operations, we don't need the exact position of the sun in the sky, in fact, with time zones, we can be off by hours and still do business. Using the sun would be inconvenient anyways, as each location would need its own time. So for that, a few seconds is completely negligible.

Not many people care about the precise position of the sun in the sky as seen from an arbitrary location, so there is no real need to skew our overall more useful atomic clocks for this.

Maybe, in a distant future, people will need to update their time zones to catch up with what would be a noticeable shift, big deal...
The sensational capture of a coelacanth was really very recent, only since 1938 we know they still live!

Did you know all birds are living dinosaurs?
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer or an MD

The way that Apple added blood oxygen sensors to the Apple Watch seems instructive in showing how things have changed.

It's not a strictly a medical device -- with explicit disclaimers to that effect -- so making a diagnosis based on only those readings isn't something they would stand by. Defer to the experts.

Masimo's case seems to be looking for an answer to part of this question, determining whether or not the patents apply in nonclinical settings. Regardless of that outcome, it seems like there should be a legal distinction between these two classes of products as most reasonable people would argue they serve very different purposes.
Fusion of two sisters into single woman suggests human identity is not in DNA
Can AI search like Perplexity win vs. Google
Let's say you have a C program to write, and you really want exhaustive pattern matching on the tags of unions (which is what Datatype99 provides: "Put simply, Datatype99 is just a syntax sugar over tagged unions").

Let's say further that you already know Rust exists, and aren't going to use it for reasons that anyone writing a C program already knows.

At least consider Zig. Here's a little something I wrote in Zig two days ago:

/// Adjust a label-bearing OpCode by `l`. No-op if no label.
pub fn adjust(self: *OpCode, l: i16) void {
switch (self.*) {
inline else => |*op| {
const PayType = @TypeOf(op.*);
if (PayType != void and @hasField(PayType, "l")) {
op.*.l += l;
}
},
}
}

This uses comptime (inline else) to generate all branches of a switch statement over a tagged union, and add an offset to members of that union which have an "l" field. You can vary the nature of the branches on any comptime-available type info, which is a lot, and all the conditions are compile-time, each branch of the switch has only the logic needed to handle that variant.

"But my program is already in C, I just need it for one file" right. Try Zig. You might like it.
> Now you are lecturing me about what's appropriate on HN.

You're flagrantly breaking the HN guidelines. If you cannot adhere to those, you should stop commenting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I find it hard to believe that he’s a pedophile. I won’t deny that he looked at CSAM since he readily admits it. He was well-known for being fascinated by depravity and murder and the darker side of human behavior. Here is an excerpt from the liner notes of Big Black’s Atomizer about the song Jordan, Minnesota, which is about child abuse (which ended up not being true, or not nearly as widespread as claimed, nearly all charges were eventually dropped. This was part of the satanic child abuse 80s moral panic):

> ”you can’t think about it, really, because if you do then you go crazy, stark gibbering spitting and pissing in your pants crazy, so you don’t think about it. but once in a while you do think about it, and there’s all this weird shit going on and you can’t believe it can all really be like this. you think of all the bad, bad things you do to yourself out of some weird need. you go places, bad places, to fulfill some gnawing need, and you do ugly things to yourself and other people not because of the ugliness–well, sometimes because of the ugliness, i guess–but usually because there’s something else there and you’d do it no matter what. there are people who do. no matter what. they fuck their children, for shit’s sake. a whole town. bus drivers, school teachers, cops, storekeepers, housewives, little boys, little girls. very little, they play games with it, like very special hide-and-seek, and very special spin the bottle and very special poker, and every day the little boys have to get up and walk to the bus stop with the daddy who mouth raped them the night before, and they have to get on the bus with the bus driver who rubbed his shit in their hair, and say “yes maam” to the lady who made them lick her the night before, and then they have to go home, you know, where daddy and mommy have been making martinis for the little get together later on, and go hide under the covers where they know they’ll be found anyway and day in and day out for the rest of their motherfucking lives and then they grow up and they have babies and like i said, you don’t think about it because you go crazy."

These are not the words of a pedophile.
Rgenerative AG is BS. For example, they'll talk about how they sequester CO2, but fail to mention that after 10 years, the ground reaches a limit, from which point forward it produces far more CO2 than our current meat production.

They'll also ignore any imports into the system from conventional sources. SO, they'll feed conventionally grown feed, but not include that in their numbers.

In the end, even if regenerative farming was any good, the amount of meat we could afford to produce (aka without using too much land, water or other resources) is so tiny that 90% of our food would end up being vegan anyway.
This is a surprisingly big endeavour for what looks like an exploratory hobby project. Not to minimize the achievement, very cool, I'm just surprised by how much was invested into it.

They used 150 GPUs and developed two custom systems (db-rpc and queued) for inter-server communication, and this was just to compute the embeddings, there's a lot of other work and computation surrounding it.

I'm curious about the context of the project, and how someone gets this kind of funding and time for such research.

PS: Having done a lot of similar work professionally (mapping academic paper and patent landscapes), I'm not sure if 150 GPUs were really needed. If you end up just projecting to 2D and clustering, I think that traditional methods like bag-of-words and/or topic modelling would be much easier and cheaper, and the difference in quality would be unnoticeable. You can also use author and comment-thread graphs for similar results.
I have worked at companies where they were okay with getting “ripped off”. Most firms would rather farm out the work to vendors since they often have high turn over and rely on low paid contractors. Knowledge is lost repeatedly every quarter.

It was at that point I realized I was in the wrong business.

Find a whale, hook them on a product, book many hours of after work (squeeze them when a quarter is light or need to pump the books)
Making a blog is not a rule but having content on your website will ultimately be beneficial. you have more chances to rank on Google. (What's stopping you from writing blogs?).

"Almost all business owners I've talked to suggest doing this initially"
sure this advice still stands but not when it comes to the target audience. you know most founders don't know their ideal client and that's an issue.
I think it's the not caring about quality before 5pm that GP was calling out.
How many jobs are available in technology in the US?
There is no hypocrisy in cattle farming. No species on earth other than humans care about another species existence other than how it will benefit their own species.

I'm not saying humans shouldn't be different, but there is no hypocrisy in keeping in line with every other species in the known universe.
Cold sintering may rescue plastic, ceramics, battery components from landfills
Reminds me of a similar project a few months ago whose purpose was to unmask alt accounts. It wasn’t well received as I recall.
> you need regulation

Bingo, except government and industry are so closely related now they resemble a circular human centipede, so we can’t rely on that.
US conservative federal judges plan to blackball Columbia University graduates
is a gold mine*

present tense :)
Accelerationism at its best. First political statement from Apple if I’m not mistaken.
Seriously, the is a big problem in the US. Cattle are grazed on BLM land and they trample all the stream banks to such an extent that riparian ecosystems are totally destroyed. And in exchange the grazing fee is only $1/head/month! If you stand at the point where a stream crosses from a fenced conservation area into a grazing area, the difference across the boundary is stark.
My big suggestion is ask your younger child what they would like you to do first. Then separately ask your older child what they would like you to do.

Do them both. Good luck.
I suppose that there is always some way that it can become even worse. But by the time the consequences are felt enough to get people to do something, the costs are going to be a hundred times what they are right now.

Actually dealing with climate change is hard. It takes real effort. People are going to want to cheat. People are going to point fingers at everybody else as the real culprits. Actually getting to genuine net zero will take decades... and that's a process we have not started yet.

So yeah, maybe by then we can prevent it from hitting 8C. But if we wait for the consequences to be felt, such that the deniers are dismissed from the table and the actual hard work can begin, then 4C is unavoidable. And "major catastrophe" massively underplays how much damage that will cause.
How Facebook planned to spy on Snapchat users
Enforcing ignorance is the answer?

> but I think it's important our legislation focuses entirely on improving the life of people, exclusively

What about the activists who are motivated by a genuine belief that this is wrong and believe it's their life's work to raise awareness of the issue? Throwing them in jail isn't improving their lives - what framework are you using to pick losers & winners of the people you help vs hurt?
> Besides a real Cray you can sit on

Yes! It's very surprising how small it was. Images back in the day gave the impression of a hulking monolith.
I wish \d allowed sorting alphabetically.
As an American why would you buy Brazilian beef when it’s already available here probably for cheaper, local, and higher quality?
Despite Symbolica being licensed, its source code is still available which clearly shows the author's intent.
It may be important in various contexts, e.g. security or satisfying certain grant requirements in academia, or whenever custom minor modifications are necessary.
Thats the key. If a CTO doesnt set a stage of “look be fully frank with me” then nobody will just say “look bossman, we could have finished this three months ago.” When it really could have been less effort.
Eskimo sneaker-net design docs
NAND is a universal circuit primitive because it can be used to create all of the other circuit primitives. But if you think about it, this is more of an argument of manufacturing than it is in comprehensibility. Only needing to manufacture NAND is easy, but if you could only create your circuit this way, then you would have an unmaintainable mess.

You can do the same thing with boolean logic and just have not-and, but thankfully we have and, or, not, xor. Similarly, you don't need greater-than-or-equal because you can just write 'x > y || x == y'.

Comprehension is linked to how closely you can express the idea of what you're doing in the object language that you have to look at. It might be convenient to compile everything down to SK combinators so that your optimizer and evaluator can be simpler, but people should never look at that level (at least not until you suspect a compiler defect).

So we get to object oriented programming. Where our data expression has an AND property (a class has an INT field AND a STRING field), an existential property (interfaces: there exists some object with these methods), and inheritance (a truly bizarre feature where we duck tape subtyping to a method and field grouping mechanism with a bunch of hooks).

With interfaces and inheritance you can simulate both a universal property (generic) and an OR property. But because it's not a direct expression, we leave this giant gap for what people intended to happen to diverge from what actually happens. Especially after time passes, defects are found, and requirements change. [For example, when using interfaces to simulate an OR property, there really isn't any mechanism to let everyone know that this construct is closed. So if something erroneously gets added, you won't know to check the entire code base. And if requirement change and you need to add a new case, then you have to check the entire code base. Completeness checking of ADTs give you this for free in your pattern matches.]

Too many non-trivial architectural messes that I've encountered in my career have been due to either someone trying to solve all of their problems with interfaces or the same with inheritance* when a simple OR data structure would have made everything simple, clear, and correct.

[*] - Inheritance being more problematic when someone tries to create a non-trivially sized category hierarchy, which ruins the day when requirements change and suddenly the tree needs to be reorganized but doing so would invalidate entire swaths of the code base already accepting types with a different assumed (and undocumented) hierarchal tree structure. Thankfully most people have gotten the memo and switched to interfaces.
What bothers me about MongoDB limits is clearly this vendor was using MongoDB incorrectly.
Have you tried not harping on people who have been fucked by the very system you simp for?

Every one of your replies is “omg you don’t like capitalism? go read econ 101”

Like you think capitalism is some sort of manifest destiny.

Who hurt you?
Indeed I've long been intreagued by the idea of rendering such clustering maps more like geographic maps for better readability.

It would be cool to have analogous continents, countries, sub-regions, roads, different-sized settlements, and significant landmarks... This version looks great at the highest zoom level, but rapidly becomes hard to interpret as you zoom in, same as most similar large embedding or graph visualizations.
I think it's not about the Jira itself, it's about who manages it and power asymmetry it creates. If a bug tracker is configured by managers it will be optimized for manager productivity at the cost of developer productivity. Same thing often happens with infra/devops.
I wonder if the author is doing anything to overclock the HBM here or if this is within the ratings of the Samsung HBM stacks. It's nice to be able to do this when you have a few cards, but if you are working with hundreds, it may not be practical to push the HBM this far without overvolting them a bit.
The 'Disinformation' Industry [video]
Isn't it in public beta now?
Its not about price, its about compatibility. Just because software compiles in a different ISA doesnt mean it behaves the same way. But if that isn't obvious to you, good for you.
>while not being the typical part that would break ?
The issue isnt MongoDB it is inexperienced people using it. I have built very useful and great projects using MongoDB.
You people are failing to grasp my metaphor.

Replace it with "the only way to feed my kids is by performing evil deeds, like trafficking in illicit beef".

What do you do when you are stuck in a game like that? You aren't exactly evil, but what are you?

What other games like this are there?
People that surround themselves with “yes” people often fail to digest the truth. So as others have mentioned, they will “take it under advisement” and then you will slowly get phased out or put into “busy work”.

Second option is to hold your tongue, watch them struggle, and eventually fail over a long period of time. Usually 1 year but have seen it fold in less than 2-3 months and the leadership effectively canned the next quarter.
XPRA
> Phone numbers cannot be re-used

> Old phone numbers are recycled and get reassigned to other people.

Minor nitpick. It’s not that old phone numbers are recycled and reassigned but those that are disconnected/unused.

The duration before recycling varies by country, carrier and the carrier’s ever-changing policies.
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