skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is perfectly fine. S3 is simple and stable, and that's their selling point. There's no competition to the history and the proven stability rather than chasing shiny features.
Oh, whoops. That’s the right one. I should have specified! I found it a perfect level to get a competent programmer familiar with Go without oversimplifying or omitting too much. I came away from it significantly more productive and confident with the language.
Sorry, I do not accept this "it's so simple I'm not going to answer". If it's so straightforward to answer in general, then it should be easy for you to answer. Because what I see is a field of unknown unknowns. It would be bad enough if the bar was me knowing that a harm could happen. But rather even if I don't know, a court can just fall back to social bullying with the catch-all justification of "any generally responsible person" should have known. So despite technically not needing to make things "completely" safe, it is effectively completely because the possible conditions for which you can be held responsible for allowing is unknowable without going to court.

I don't know why you'd mention HOAs, as they're generally their own little micromanaged Hells - I'm not looking for an answer that even grass over two inches tall is unsafe because Karen might have a panic attack. And general contractors generally create LLCs and buy insurance rather than preventing all liability ahead of time. At best they react to problems that repeatedly occur in their industry. They're happy to take money to provide an illusion of complete ownership though.

I do mean all of those examples literally. Personally, I can foresee harm in all of those, and they all seem quite "economically reasonable" to mitigate. So do you just mean "yes" for all those examples? (and if so, why didn't you just say so?)

I'm obviously not happy with any of my listed sources of possible harm existing at this here fix-er-upper, hence them being in my head. Which is why I'm working on them before say having guests that I let run wild in the backyard. But it's a bit rich that such extreme responsibility is still legally inadequate because randos can just trespass uninvited (thus unsupervised and unbriefed) and then demand I pay for the results of their poor choice.

And note here I'm not trying to be callous. I have said that there are legitimate reasons for swimming pools to have fences. We're quite agreed that the well-known pattern of kid jumping into swimming pool alone and drowning is a horrible thing that should be specifically addressed. If we were only talking about specific enumerable regulations like swimming pools needing to be fenced, one could run down that list and know they've all been taken care of. What I'm taking issue with is the unknown blanket liability simply by virtue of owning property, especially when you have not held that property out as a place for others to be.
Ask HN: With all that is at stake, why haven't we diversified chip production?
Meh, the program execution language about main() has included from the beginning an escape hatch: it allows main to be defined “in some other implementation-defined manner.” “int main(void)” is one of four forms documented in the standard (or one of two specific shapes of code; the other two are “or equivalent” and “or in some other implementation-defined manner.”
agree, but as i said: "he was making a memorable and funny quote, with quite a bit of truth to it, not a precise scientific hypothesis"

never-the-less there is still a lot of truth to the saying, nobody said it was universally categorically true.

i've written clever code when it needs to be clever, for example performance. along the lines of the RCU code. when i do i plan for handling the complexity - static analysis or exhaustive testing if possible.

suddenly needing to advance your cleverness by 2x isn't impossible, but it's not fun if your butt is on the line.
Big doubt, they have obviously been right to focus on hybrids for the current market. What makes you think they will not be able to compete on whatever the next pure EV cars look like?
Hire only the lowest cost employees, I demand it!

You’ve mildly annoyed me with that banner each of the thousands of times I’ve used your free world-library over these decades, and I’m done putting up with it!
Eddie Lampert killed Sears, plain and simple: https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsxn8l0u5yr6z...
Internet boycotts of megacorps never work but people keep trying
That's like asking why would anyone go to college anywhere but Harvard. They would, but Harvard has limited slots, so you do the best you can.

Also, it's weird you pose this as some kind of counterfactual proof by contradiction, it already happened, because "locking up the labor market" the way you describe is kind of what FAANG did, in at least a mild way, to software engineering, during what we now have to sadly call (if we rely on it for our livelihood) the good old days of the 2010s.

In fact, the dearth of math teachers in America probably has to do with this a little, for example. Shortage of math skills, and they really help getting into tech or finance, and the pay difference is huge, so, they suck all the oxygen out of the room.
You have to strike while the iron is hot! Even iTerm just released an update that adds an “AI concierge” to your terminal…

And no, it’s still not April 1st!
Especially where technology was concerned e.g. their IBM and HP investments…
Lowercase typing is broadly informal and (historically) faster (autocorrect especially on mobile devices was terrible for longer than it has been any good).

Anything else people read into it is very often just projection.
I'm thinking more in terms of browsing, not just selectable items in a menu, but any scrollable content.

A real-world analog would be adhesive color tabs people stick to the sides of books or printed documents to mark a paragraph non-destructively, so they can return to that point later more easily.

Think anchor headings, except user-driven, because many websites don't even use anchors to enable linking to page sections by URL hashes, and without inspecting headings for anchors (by tapping or long-pressing on them), nobody would ever know it's a feature.

I wish I could just mark my current scroll position and return to it later by navigating back + forth between the ones I've saved for a page. I've lost count how many times I've made mental notes saying "This is interesting, I'll return to this bit later" only to struggle finding it again because it's lost in a sea of text. Browsers have no way to temporarily bookmark bits of content without developers (or CMS'es) being smart enough to anchor headings and sections.
We're not giving up meat.

And even after lab grown meat becomes the norm there will still be cows raised for food to satisfy high end markets.
Same. It’s something you learned if you did a lot of chat (irc, icq, battle.net etc.) before smartphones. It makes sense young people wouldn’t know it’d been a default, faster way to type.
Jim Jordan dunking on Democratic political appointees? Gee, there's a big surprise.
Merely being a monopoly is not sufficient to warrant antitrust action.
Having been part of the i3 community for many years, yes it is, and thanks!
They genuinely believe that everything is justified; even if they hide what they are doing from public view. "I do this because I care about you, other parents would have given up a long time ago". The hiding is also blamed on the child, claiming that he or she is the one that would destroy their reputation if words got out of what he or she did and what the extend of what the parents had to do to "remedy" the situation.
I think they're talking about one of the short stories in The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks

What a great read.
Meta, Google, and Amazon have all been sued for illegally maintaining monopolies. [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2020/12/...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

[3] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/...
Can also be an instance of Baumol’s cost disease.
> Banning is impossible in democracies

> lab-grown meat, which unfortunately is now banned in FL

Unless Florida is no longer a democracy, I don't see how these two statement square. It's clearly possible to ban things with enough political will, no matter how smart or stupid the ban is.
Has anyone tried asking Apple? I think an offer like:

1. Apps must be FOSS and reproducibly buildable on the store's servers, like F-Droid.
2. No monetization allowed, not even donation links.
3. The store itself undergoes yearly security review by an accredited third-party firm at its own expense.
4. The store undergoes yearly compliance review for these terms at its own expense.

Would be pretty much all upsides for Apple: non of their services are used; they don't pay infrastructure or human costs for app hosting, review, or developer support; and they don't pay these costs for apps that don't make them money anyway.
The right thing would be to not try to put that clause in there to begin with, not release employees from it when they get caught.
Ah I see. You’re saying that you don’t expect this to complete, not that this is cynically political/false… sorry!
Everyone I knew in school copied porn images on diskettes downloaded from BBSes. That's a lot longer ago. We copied them like crazy lol. It's not a recent thing.

And it wasn't soft stuff. I remember having pics of the aftermath of bukkake sessions etc. Yet I'm extremely respectful of women especially in bed.
I think this is from the traditional "Trivium" - grammar, logic, rhetoric - which was considered to be a well-rounded education (presumably for scions of wealthy families).

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

In contrast, "Quadrivium" - arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy - was a follow-up.

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

These constituted the "seven arts". But it was perfectly fine just to be educated in the trivia, if math wasn't your cup of tea.

See the "Yes Minister" clip where Sir Humphrey vehemently denies being so low-standard as to be educated in the sciences - he was good enough to study the classics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckgt4VWIsf4

(edited for better grammar, logic and rhetoric.)
My 5-person team got almost 1000 applications for a job opening recently. We'd need AI summaries to have even a chance of sifting through all those 6-pagers, in which case we're better off if candidates just submitted a resume that was loosely targeted at our job opening.
Show HN: YouValidateMe HTTP server that validates JSON data against JSON schemas
YouValidateMe is an HTTP server that validates JSON data against JSON schemas. It's written in Golang.

Put your JSON Schema documents on the server and then submit JSON data to validate against those JSON Schemas.

Why? To centralise field validation logic for your applications instead of scattering different validation logic everywhere that might get out of sync.

It's a single binary - nothing to install or configure though we do provide a systemd unit file to run it as a service.

MIT license.

Source code at:

https://github.com/crowdwave/youvalidateme
> Use “true” RGB colours; this is supported on almost all current terminal emulators, unless explicitly disabled by the user.

It would be nice for Linux built-in framebuffer tty to support true color. I wonder why it doesn't yet.

The last mentioned comment seems to be "it needs a large amount of code". So it should be possible in general?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I think UBI will be pointless because machines will be able to do all the work. Other machines will fix them. Humans will have everything they need or want deliverable by drone and summonable from their phone. Humans will then focus on love, fun, play, and exploring the subjects they are most passionate about.
That post was, as far as I can tell, basically an opinion piece repeating/summarizing stories that had been on the HN frontpage dozens of times. This post is investigative journalism with significant new information.

It should not be surprising that the outcomes are different.
In many ways, it would make more sense to use a leading 1 for A.D. years instead of a leading 0. This way, 1984 would become 11984, and the year when Caesar died, 44 B.C. (which is astronomical year –43) would be the year 09957. With this system, which is known as the Holocene calendar, we can specify any year during the period of history for which we know actual year numbers without having to distinguish between B.C. and A.D. (and deal with quirky off-by-one errors due to skipping the year 0) or use negative numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
That's ok, I'm a voting member of the general public, and if we decide it's to the benefit of us all for the public to have access to their land, we will!
I disabled it for being annoying and frequently wrong. The idea that someone might interpret my laziness as a flex (or vise versa) is hilarious to me.
I saw in a wild bitshift methods text-only-page many years ago that had a method to do an approximate distance between two 2d vectors using only bitwise operators. Anybody know it? I've been unable to find it for about 8~ years
According to Gallop only 2% of Americans list climate as the top priority. by far the most important priority is the economy. For non economic issues immigration ranks #1, climate being #11.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1675/most-important-problem.asp...

Or maybe being out of touch with what people want is the biggest issue
i run emacs inside the terminal in vscode so i can have a terminal multiplexer with vim shortcuts clipboard sharing and other weird integrations :)
I've done it and I think it's neither. Neither easier nor harder than software engineering and the like. Just different tools. Very similar in a way really.

Why one pays more? Not sure. Some kind of higher barrier to entry for software, weirdly enough. Something about the working with your hands stuff I think makes it easier to persevere than working with something virtual and abstract? Just guessing here. But the smoking gun is, why is abstract math achievement so low in America? Like a small minority of grown adults can do basic algebra. Yet a lot of blue collar work really is just as intellectually demanding. I mean you're constantly solving the [[Planning problem]] and all kinds of problems that come up in [[Operations research]]
Just like taking medical advice from a janitor because they work in a hospital, eh?
I took remedial math at UNC Chapel Hill. My parents decided to homeschool me my entire childhood, but their math ability ended at about the 8th grade, everything else I had to figure out on my own.

I always thought I was bad at math, but it turns out having a teacher who is not your parent with a tenuous grasp on algebra helps a lot. That remedial math course changed my life forever and let me work in a career I love.

I am eternally grateful to the kind graduate student who led that course - John, wherever you are, thank you.
The single best professional decision I ever made was to get a business degree. The degree itself wasn’t worth a damn, but the network was invaluable. I have very close friends who are the exact kind of attorney who you would expect to have an undergraduate business degree. They’re greedy, combative people who absolutely relish these sorts of opportunities. And as a bonus, they are MY greedy, combative people who relish these sorts of opportunities.

They’re great partners when confronted with this kind of contract. And fundamentally, if my adversary/future employer retains counsel, I should too. Why be at a disadvantage when it’s so easy to pay money and be at even?

There are some areas my ethics don’t mesh with, but at the end of the day this is my work and I do it for pay. And when I look at results, lawyers are the best investment I have ever made.
Multi-region is pretty essential IMO. You can’t get the same cost effectiveness by building your own multi-region S3, stapling multiple buckets together. The basic premise of S3 is that you get a keystore interface, and S3 handles error correction and distributing the chunks among multiple physical machines on the cheap. Multi-region is the same product, at a larger scale. The complicated part is that somebody has to pay for the network bandwidth (whereas in a single region, it’s so cheap it’s unmetered).

The CAS thing is also pretty essential. Everybody wants to build some simple storage system on top of S3 and without CAS it’s pretty damn hard to have any kind of consistency guarantees, even for very simple systems… you end up having to build something outside S3 to manage consistency. An easy to understand use case is backups. Suppose you are using S3 as a backend for a backup system which deduplicates backups. You want to make backups from multiple locations, you want to deduplicate because there’s a lot of duplicate data floating around (maybe you have terabytes of video files getting copied, ML model weights, something else big that you copy around), and you want to expire old backups. You can almost build this on top of plain S3, and the only reason you can’t is because it’s unsafe to expire old data in such a system if any backup is writing (because the other backup may add a new reference to data, racing against the expiration / garbage collection process). A simple CAS gives you a lot of tools to solve this. The alternative to CAS is doing something kinda silly, like running a DynamoDB table as a layer of indirection.

Neither of these things add much complexity to S3.

(I think append is less useful and potentially a lot more complicated, both in terms of its API implications and in terms of the underlying complexity. If I want “append”, then I can use multipart uploads, or just upload multiple objects and reassemble them on the client side.)
I worked pre-ipo Uber with TK as CEO and they were bro-af and had nothing like this.
Talk is cheap but no one actually wants to make any real (if very minor) sacrifice. Not really surprising…
Meanwhile the stock Google pays you can be cashed out same day. Really dumb move for OpenAI.
No one is forced to go see a concert. Somehow millions of people survive without doing it.
Please say more about "legal frameworks for life management solutions". You can't just drop those words in that order with no further context and walk away.
This is super cool! I wonder if you could do a similar thing, but choosing between a collection of prompts for a task based on the input. Similar to dynamic few-shot prompting, but replacing the entire prompt instead of just the examples.
So as someone who took many of those remedial math classes this article rubbed me a bit the wrong way. Not necessarily that any of his descriptions are wrong about the students or the type of things it covers. Instead there seemed to be this underlying theme in the article about it being a waste of time and of little value to society. I strongly feel any time us as humans sit in a classroom and try to better ourselves even when we ultimately fail, it benefits society overall.

Personally, I was in the basic math in High school, like long division/multiplication freshmen/sophomore year. When I first went to community college around the age of 16-19 I got farther, taking Algebra I and then II. However, once I reached Calculus I crashed and burned, although I did great in my CS and other science classes.

I eventually entered the work force (programming/tech) and over the next half dozen years tried and failed at least 3 times to restart at community college usually failing at Calculus I or college level english. Finally, at 30 it seemed to take, I eventually passed Calc I, Discrete, Linear, got my degree. A blend of community college and state school so I didn't break the bank.

I have friends from other sides of the world that have told me this would only really be possible in the US. In many places their is no equivalent of community/junior colleges or an attempt at adult remedial education. Instead you place in your teens, and if you score well enough you get to go to college. Otherwise, its trade school or similar and much more difficult to escape your socio-economic class. The author and others seem to be advocating for something similar here under the guise of it being unethical to waste resources or give hope to the dumb dumbs. I can't say I agree...
That is not the same at all. Those are very mechanical and boring.

Using human instruments with refined and subtlety random velocity and reacting real-time to whats being played is what's interesting IMO.
PG is Altman's godfather more or less. I am disappoint of these OpenAI news as of late.

5. Sam Altman

I was told I shouldn't mention founders of YC-funded companies in this list. But Sam Altman can't be stopped by such flimsy rules. If he wants to be on this list, he's going to be.

Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"

What I learned from meeting Sama is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups. It applies way less than most people think: startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.

https://paulgraham.com/5founders.html
> Do you think learning Clojure would get me something in addition to that

For me, the biggest benefit is that it's hosted. Learning only Clojure, I can easily today write for JVM, .NET, JavaScript, Flutter, or shell scripts. Even when I need to write Lua, I'd usually pick Fennel. It's not Clojure but feels very similar. There are libs that can give you Python or R interop from Clojure. There are projects to target Golang, Rust or Erlang. Jank is a super interesting, experimental implementation of Clojure that runs on LLVM, I'm very excited about it. Do you want to become a true polyglot programmer? You only need to learn Clojure.
Nvidia, being the 3rd most valued company in the world right now, couldn't get bought by any of its customers until after it's no longer relevant to leading the AI race and has been devalued accordingly.
So who gets to work for the richest company? The luckiest, the most connected or the hardest working? Is it better being a warehouse worker for Amazon rather than a ML engineer for a poor startup?
When I have a problem figuring something out with S3, I slide into my shared slack channel with my AWS account rep and solutions engineers and ask them for help, and they help. Is this a feature other cloud storage providers have?

(But this rarely happens with S3, because it's so simple.)
How well did that work out for Nixon?
In all fairness you can have a lot of fun doing AI art in the style of William Morris. But can you sell it? Well, nobody has bought any of mine!

It requires a special type of individual to fake the greats and a special type of customer to buy the forgeries.

Creating a new 'art franchise' is an entirely different proposition, and I am sure that there will be plenty of new artists that are able to use their own name/brand/identity to succeed. It might also take time for people to get recognised.
Did anyone actually think Epic was pro-consumer in any way?
It's usually not actual choking (also called breath play). Usually just a firm grab by the throat. It's pleasurable for me too and most people don't go further than that. Real choking leaves serious bruising. I only know it being practiced by serious BDSM people and only a small subset at that. And always with full consent and safety.

But my point is, what most people call 'choking' isn't choking but just some mild consensual degradation. Which is very pleasurable to people with submissive tendencies, of which there are a lot more than people realise.