skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then you can employ 7-8 front-line CS reps at half the cost who just take diligent notes

… the actual reality is that companies employ 7-8 front-line CS reps that can't even read the ticket, and end up asking questions already asked & answered by the form I was required to fill out during the ticket!

I'm not buying upthreads' math either, though. Either the support plan is paid, or not. In the case of paid support plans. AFAICT given the support vs. the pricing for plans I've been a part of, a customer is just profitable. I don't get a full time, 40h/wk support agent, I only get them for the duration of time they're attending my tickets, and that proportional yearly salary cost is < the support plan's price in the cases I've seen; support plans are just ludicrously expensive, but so many companies feel they're obligated to have them, whether for DR, compliance, or whatever, that they don't question it. There are some companies that just do support as part of the included purchase (this is the right way, IMO), in which case, yeah, it takes a few customers. But in this case, how many customers/support rep is dependent on how much you can or are spending on operating costs.

> I agree, completely, however, that ideally, every real issue happens precisely once and results in a change in the automated failure response.

Today's customer support zeitgeist is utterly opposed to this idea. I agree that it's the correct response, but support's goal — that is, the metric which they are apparently measured by, in nearly every case I've seen is, is to close the ticket as fast as possible. This means not waiting around for permanent fixes: if a problem can be kludged around & the ticket closed faster, that wins. But then the extra due diligence of leaning on the engineering side becomes optional, extra … and just doesn't happen.

I've literally had tickets closed because "there hasn't been a response on this ticket for some time" — with the ticket plainly in the provider's court — and "we don't want to waste time your time with long running tickets" — nor a fix to my problem, clearly.

Customer Support is Goodhart's Law.

The latest change is that now I have to fight an LLM that cannot address my problem to get to that front-line rep who won't read my problem. Yay, progress! /s
Not really because they can track AP MAC addresses even when not broadcasting SSIDs. The only sure way is to use only wired networking.
Thanks for the game!
It is a very entertaining and is highly educational, probably thanks to the pictures ... And a good way to show us fascinating species (like the purple frog) that we would otherwise not bother to look up.
Except for the most abundant species available in Europe, it seems quite unlikely that people would be willing to give these species "common names" in English. This does not decrease the value of the game at all, but it is perhaps a tad misleading what the objective is: are we to guess
a) whether a particular specie is named as a "frog" or "toad" in its common name (folk taxonomy) or
b) where they belong in taxonomy (is it a Bufonidae or not)?
If we go for a), that is perhaps not as exciting to show species endemic to places without tons of native English speakers (like Thailand etc.). But this does not decrease from the value of the game at all.
I think it shows a very efficient approach to gamify and teach taxonomy to people.

Would it be of any use to show a success rate indicator perhaps or a feedback whether the guess was correct or not?
It pales in comparison but it's still the best free option besides Fusion 360, which I'd recommend if you don't mind the limitations of the personal license.
@ActorNightly for the use case you describe FreeCAD will serve you well. I recently spent 200h learning and using FreeCAD for an architectural project and once over the learning curve it’s great! Devs are super responsive on forum & GitHub. Definitely not as “mature” as Solidworks but easily “good enough” for 95% of use. If you get stuck, post on the forum and you’ll get help usually within a couple of hours.
A trip to New York but it's all text
You maybe right. I think the UK and Canada share similar problems. Low risk taking, real estate as the only investment, pulling each other down like crabs, appeal to authority.

The US for all its faults, is the land of hope and can do. I have travelled a lot in the world but somehow places like Miami, New York, SF, Vegas, Dallas and a bunch of other cities have this palpalable energy that you can do anything that you want.
Actually that seems very Japanese in a weird way - they might be trusting themselves and everyone else to follow rules precisely, thus avoiding all the accidents and obviating the need for seatbelts.
but enforcing those standards takes away from muh freedoms
One turbulence death out of millions and people here are like, “see, you die if you don’t keep your seatbelt fastened at all times!”

Tbh, I do try to keep mine fastened, but generally don’t go anywhere, so as to maximize my safety.
Is there any evidence to substantiate the claims?
How can you expect this to find out what should have been the goal when this code was written without meticulous prompting?
More than money, open-source pros want these things from their next jobs
I suppose, except that for a model of 7B parameters, the number of combinations of dropout that you'd be analyzing is 7B factorial. More importantly, dropout has loss minimization to guide it during training, whereas understanding how a model changes when you edit a few weights is a very broad question.
Semantic note-taking
Tesla puts '$25,000 electric car' on back burner despite what Elon Musk said
It would be helpful if you could actually read the article. Then you'd see that the article outlines some specific situations where deflation is bad for the economy, but concludes that it is good in general. You'd even take away as much if you only read the key takeaways section, but sadly that seems to be a tall order.
Hitler's Second Coming by R. R. Reno
I tried to extract everything that looked like a name from the History section of the Wikipedia article on computer graphics.

I had heard of Bui Tuong Phong, Henri Gouraud, Ivan Sutherland, John Carmack, John Warnock, Martin Newell, and Nelson Max.

I hadn't heard of Arthur Appel, Dave Evans, David Immel, David Pearson, Edwin Catmull, Elizabeth Waldram, Frank Sinden, Fred Parke, James Clark, James Kajiya, Jim Blinn, Ken Knowlton, Maurice Benayoun, Michael Noll, Ralph Baer, Steve Russell, Tom Stockham, Verne Hudson, William Fetter, or William Higinbotham.

I haven't studied computer graphics, other than doing the Raytracing in One Weekend project.

(Oops, I missed people with accented, abbreviated, or uncapitalized names, like Pierre Bézier, David C. Evans, and Paul de Casteljau. I don't think this will change the ratio much, though.)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is one of my favorite coffee table books. Props for a Tufte reference!
Very disappointed by the absence of score in the end, I feel my effort was stolen.

I don't bother about real taxonomy
Thanks for that, it makes sense. Same techniques are available in radar. This will give you a higher noise floor and also lower signal if fog sits between you and the subject. It probably does improve the situation over visible light, but only up to a point.
Reminds me of one of my favorite Seinfeld clips "Frog is Wrong" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0MtSBKgUNk
> The 1930s show the consequences of inflation, speculation and credit expansion […]

The 1930s were nothing special when it comes to wild swings in prices (as the article show), speculation was not new (see canal mania, railroad mania, etc)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

What is special is the post-WW2 era (where there was no deflationary bust, especially after a major war), and the decades that followed (when there was no gold standard to handcuff monetary policy, and when Keynesian economics allowed for fiscal flexibility).

> And it brings up a good point which no one answers satisfyingly: why shouldn't the average person just enjoy price savings produced by technology?

There's a difference between deflation through innovation, and deflation through economic turmoil (e.g., mass unemployment, collapse of aggregate demand).

One of my favourite examples of 'invisible deflation' that no one notices (often while they're complaining about inflation) is a 1991 Radio Shack ad:

* https://www.huffpost.com/entry/radio-shack-ad_b_4612973

* Via: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/01/inflation-truthers/
> As one of the Solvespace maintainers I have a few comments:
>
> 1) You don't want just 2D constraints, 3D is better. If you were writing in C++ I'd say just take our constraint solver (Like Dune3D did).

There is also a wrapper around SolveSpace's solver for Rust[1] but I dunno how hard that would be/is to compile for the webassembly target ...

[1] https://github.com/thekakkun/rust_slvs
Sure, but if you make E2EE marginalized, then it benefits those who can access it. And criminals have an incentive to access it.

Again my point is that it is impossible to remove it. Making it illegal will not making inaccessible to those who ignore the laws.
Yes and Japan's economy has been stuck in the 90s for the past 30 years with very little growth.

What you're describing wasn't their goal, they have been keeping interest rates at ~0% since the late 90s to avoid deflation and to stimulate the economy (and therefore increase inflation) with limited success.
Unfortunately it takes time, dedication and some amount of talent. How inconvenient!

/sarcasm off
"Called “one of the best books ever about human communication,” and a perennial bestseller, Pragmatics of Human Communication has formed the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwork for context-based approaches to psychotherapy."

With a summary like that, I think I absolutely have to add it to the list.

Might make me a better HN commenter, too. Thanks!
Here the corresponding music to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqPHCymTpVE
> Why in a browser if it's local-first?

Because the web browser did what systems developers have failed at for at least 60 years: creating a platform that can host an application that just works on many different devices.
Watched this lecture by Michael Seibel to YC in 2018 and thought it was useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C27RVio2rOs

Thought it could be helpful to keep other founders accountable to build their mvp quickly and get it in front of customers.
That's great, I guess, but the point is that all work is ephemeral. Whether it lasts five years or 100, there's going to be an end date. When you're on your death bed, is "my code was in production longer than average" going to be what you want your legacy to be?

That's what we're talking about here. Sure, it'd be nice if I built a knockout startup with code so great it lived beyond me, and that's a worthy thing to pursue. However, in the end looking back you may, like Woz, find that was less important than other things.
> unless the monetary authorities are totally negligent and incompetent

See Japan for the last 3 decades!
and other investors.
MRI Sheds Its Shielding and Superconducting Magnets
Totally going to check this out. I've been rooting for FreeCAD but I think it's just going to be consumed by Ondsel in the next few years.

Does CADmium suffer from a topological naming problem like FreeCAD?
Hey, you're <insert billionaire here>!

Just a reminder for those not in-the-know: https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidanc...
Melting ice floating on water does not change the volume of the water at all. Melting will have no impact on sea level at all if the ice is already floating. It does have an impact on albedo.

Shelves and on land glaciers are structurally held up. It's when they enter a floating state that sea level rises, and this is the only time ice can cause a sea level rise. If parts of the shelf are cracked, or otherwise the water is supporting them, then they're already floating and so breaking of the parts that are floating will also have no impact.
They’re only mutually exclusive as far as getting a good error message is concerned.
Using up to date software with all known patches applied, and encrypt all data using some approved OSS infra(I am not expert on this, so not sure what it would be) takes only from freedom of negligence.
How the Cockroach Took over the World
"My fear is that it will prevent people from exploring and finding their own path, passively following the track laid out by the ai"

My experience learning with LLM-based tools over the past ~18 months has been the opposite. The ability for me to redirect the learning path in a direction that best matches my own interests and curiosity is unparalleled. It's that ability to directly influence the learning path that makes me do optimistic about LLMs as a tool for learning.
No, they didn't misuse it. You can buy lit fiber too. The difference with dark is that you get a lot more control in terms of what transmission tech you use, link-layer capabilities, etc
> you are free to edit those out

It takes much less effort for me to simply switch back to Terminal.app.
Gordon Bell has died
I am currently ~400 pages into the Power Broker. I was motivated to pick it up again by a "read along" with Roman Mars from the 99% Invisible podcast. He's spacing out the book over the course of a year and interviewing fellow Caro fans and recapping major portions of the book. Never been a better time to tackle the beast! I am not sure I'll ever read a better biography in my life. At least, not until I read the Lyndon Johnson books.
Like Docker Desktop but Also for the Cloud
The main games in niche can easily sell 100k copies, that is a lot of money for a couple of indie devs.

And no those games are far from excellent, I play a lot of such niche games but they all suck quality wise compared to mainstream games with similar sales, I play them for new experiences but I never expect quality from them. So it is much easier to sell well enough to maintain an indie team by making niche games than by making mainstream games since the competition for niche markets is so much smaller.

Maybe you think that "100k" copies is a failure since it didn't sell millions, I have seen people thinking along those lines. But no, 100k copies is a massive success, even 10k copies is more than enough for a 1 person indie game, so those "indie gems" hardly failed at all.
Yeah, of course, but that's bad for engagement and revenue, so it won't happen
It doesn't matter if a small group of nerds don't like it.

No one really rips out iTerm2 from a mac setup and they can throw their Mac out of the window with iTerm2 if they really hate AI that much (because it has ai and will get more, you had to get out of your way with Siri and co already anyway...)

And as I said it before: this is not a hype. Look it up. Ai delivers already things it doesn't fit hype.

And no ai will not go away, at least I'm not seeing a single thing right now indicating a platoon very soon.
The tutorial rick rolled me! I trusted you sabrina_ramonov!
For a big purchase like a car, I don't think home delivery vs. pick-up in town matters much at all. I'll defer to your experience, but my expectation is that cars are such a big purchase that the time cost of one trip to pick up the purchased car is negligible.

The reason people want to be able to buy directly from the manufacturer is that they want to see real posted prices so that they can comparison shop from home without needing to drive around to twenty separate dealerships (or have painful email conversations with twenty separate salesmen) to discover the real price for each car. In other words, they want an efficient public market where the posted prices reflect the actual going rate, so that they can be confident they are getting the fair market price, rather than needing to negotiate to avoid price discrimination.
Happiness: The Science of What Makes You Happy [video]
The original letter Hans sent was discussed here,

Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626) - Jan 2024 (438 comments)
https://github.com/koryk/reverse-ai-search

I have been working on something like this that fits better into my existing bash/zsh workflow. So I landed on using ollama and a small widget that tries to mirror the same behavior of ctrl+r aka reverse-i-search. Barely functional, but I have found value from it.
SolidStart 1.0: The Shape of Frameworks to Come
What would clothes be categorised? Medical supplies? Only food? Sanitary napkins? Shoes? Israel doesn't need to provide this, just let what is needed for 2 million people to live given by the whole world.
Tesla's oldest factory ignites another headline by catching fire
We Got burned by Fusion360 after spending several hundred hours learning it the “personal use” license is deliberately neutered to force upgrade. Switched to FreeCAD and haven’t looked back!
It generally means the mods find it interesting but not necessarily the community.

The frontpage isn't a popularity contest. The frontpage is curated and moderated. Dang himself said certainly articles get boosted while others get throttled.
Also if anyone is interested here is the roadmap/backlog I'm working on for this project: https://chrome-plate-9c6.notion.site/74b2aa80a3fe4e1e93f536b...
> It is both possible and feasible, it's simply a matter of policy.

It is been their policy and their desire to get out of the situation that you describe, and not to be living in it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics

They want(ed) to hit higher inflation:

> Under Kuroda, the BOJ deployed a huge asset-buying programme in 2013, originally aimed at firing up inflation to a 2% target within roughly two years.

> The central bank introduced negative rates and YCC in 2016 as tepid inflation forced it to tweak its stimulus programme to a more sustainable one.

* https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/japan-poised-end-negati...
I'm a daily OnShape user, and a big fan. Initially I was hesitant to use a web-based tool, but honestly, it's a joy to use.
Data Privacy?

Is a 3rd party getting every key stroke I make and output it produces?
I think that might be survivorship bias talking. We tend to forget all the shovelware and only remember the gems.

I remember playing a ton of awful shareware games as a kid, on floppies and disks packed with a few dozen each. Same thing later on, bringing a game home from the store only to realize I'd chosen poorly.

And it's easy to get a bit jaded after years of experience and look back with a rose tint. I loved the hell out of that junk as a kid, because it was still the best stuff I'd yet seen and I had time to spare. Today I'm a little pickier.
Deluxe Paint II Enhanced and Deluxe Paint Animation for DOS represent. Fantavision honorable mention. A decade later: 3D Studio, Maya, and Kai's Power Goo.

(Couldn't afford an Amiga or a Macintosh, and a PC.)
On a related note, starting today, I noticed that x.com (fka Twitter.com) is no longer working in Firefox.

I get the following error:

> Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

> Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com
FWIW, searching for Спарта or Лакедемoн on https://diafilmy.su turns up nothing (albeit a couple of Spartacus filmstrips), while searching for Афины does turn up https://diafilmy.su/7799-afiny.html .

(I had wondered why there was a "Star City" filmstrip included in the search results; it appears to be because of a cosmonaut using a Spartacus-named fitness machine: https://diafilmy.su/uploads/posts/2015-04/1429074979_08.jpg )

Someone with better cultural knowledge will do better than I, but I'm getting the feel that the closest approach to Sparta was that the Soviets didn't gender-separate their scouting programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvrS6z4tUtI
What dealing with filesystems will make you do is sobering. It's a cautionary tale.
A graffiti 'takeover' roils downtown Los Angeles
I was looking for a SolidWorks alternative and I found OnShape (onshape.com), works pretty well but is quite expensive (but it has a free plan where all projects are public)
If someone knows of a valid open source, I'm glad to hear it!
Solid.

Fear and greed drive markets - Anon.

And humans - Me.
How Big Is Taylor Swift?
Agreed. The law either applies to everyone, or to no one. There is no in-between.

I watched a show and read a few books that dived a bit into how the FBI’s counterterrorism unit ran their interrogations. Sounded like their techniques led to more useable intel.
Yes, the short term behavior/output of the LLM could reflect an implicit goal, but I doubt it'd maintain any such goal for an extended period of time (long-term coherence of behavior is a known shortcoming), since there is random sampling being done, and no internal memory from word to word - it seems that any implicit goal will likely rapidly drift.
Your point does not address the thing the person you're replying to said. After you buy (really, lease) some dark fiber, and run traffic through it yourself, now that fiber can no longer be sold to anyone else as dark, because it's been lit up, by you. Dark fiber is only dark fiber for its first subscriber.

Whether that first subscriber themselves considers the thing they've bought "dark fiber" or "lit fiber" once they light it up, depends on if they're made an exclusivity agreement with the provider. If they have, then the fiber is still "dark fiber" from their own perspective. If they haven't, then the fiber should be considered "lit fiber", because now that it's been set up for their use, the provider has likely put it on the market for others to lease as well, so it's not going to stay "dark" for long.

But really, these are silly terms. Customers don't care about buying "dark fiber" vs "lit fiber"; they care about buying "dedicated fiber" vs "[dedicated throughput on] shared fiber." (A lease on dedicated fiber allows for nearly-arbitrary throughput scaling over time at no additional OpEx — just the CapEx of upgrading the transceivers on either end once-a-generation or so.)

The only two things that you know by buying "dark fiber" from a peering provider, are:

1. Demand for that path was lower than predicted at the time you requested it, so there existed at least one fiber-infrastructure developer who had run some fiber along the path but not managed to sell it off to any particular peering provider yet. (Peering providers don't tend to buy-and-hold fiber without either immediate or predicted base-load demand; rather, they index available-to-purchase fiber from infra developers, offering those to their customers at snapshotted rates; they then buy the fiber from the developer in response to a customer Purchase Order, eating any loss from purchase-price volatility.)

2. You might have to pay the peering provider you're leasing from, for the initial set-up work of lighting up the fiber: routing a secondary fiber link from the optical switch in the fiber-infra developer's overland or shoreside termination point, over to the peering provider's cable hotel; terminating that fiber into a [maybe fresh] optical switch or transceiver in the cable hotel; etc.
You might want to look into Citizens United vs FEC.
Simplified Embedded Rust: ESP Standard Library Edition