skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than the comments about titles, the entire blogpost doesn't show for me with ublock. So I'll open it, see a picture of some birds, scroll around for a bit then give up.
Is the controversy that the "Clovis" (who are the genetic ancestors of Native American or indigenous) were not actually the first people in North America?

Did the Clovis conquer or wipe out the pre-Clovis people?
As a manager who reviews resumes frequently, I've never really looked down on "job hopping" provided their stints weren't exclusively short (A year or less). I feel like people spend way too much effort trying to suss out "vibes" from a resume. I'm far more interested in having a conversation to understand how they work, their approach to problem solving, testing, how they manage constraints (time or technical ones) and getting a sense for what they'd be like as a team member. And I'd like to see their code and have them talk through it.

I always ask people to just explain why they left their last few gigs. You can read between the lines on the answers and typically they're straight-forward, sympathetic reasons.
That's still going to be either a female or male voice isn't it? Based on the fact that the person providing the voice is either female or male.
> Evolution basically says humans are conscious matter.

Evolution states nowhere that humans are concious.
The only way you fix this is hold executives criminally liable. Fines don't work and never have. If people started going to jail over it then they would change their behavior. Everything in life is about incentive structures.
My Amazon stock thanks you.
except the reality for the vast number of people isn't about needing to moderate, it's about getting outside period, instead of glued to their devices inside

you can look at the epidemic of myopia as a related indicator that kids especially are not outside enough

so this whole safetyism nagging about melanoma is ridiculous when they can just go to regular dermatologist screenings and avoid sunburns
c0v-19 vaxcne made by aztrasenca, fiser, moedrna , johnson & johson are also same p0ison ...is it time for a revoluson ?
Proposal: Add "SIMD" package to standard library
> Using length of previous employments as a metric in ascertaining someone's skills isn't worth it.

It depends on the nature of the type of labor needed. If an employer needs a warm body, then evaluating length of previous employments might be worth it. If an employer needs a high performer, then it might not be worth it.
If you read the article the system was a layer on top of DynamoDB they updated it to use internal product Docstore which required adding a feature to Docstore. So it's not as involved as people make it out to be. Also records are immutable which makes a lot of things way easier.
How to develop good taste in clothes
A better strategy as a company this size would be to write the PRD for moving and then call AWS and negotiate.
Did you work in china though? I don't want to make wrong assumptions but I think the intellectual property protections are taken a bit less serious there.
Even if it was AC, the ratio of the number of turns is what matters. I don’t see why 3 would matter there.
> We're not going to get out of this by making more money.

I absolutely think we are going to get out of this by making money.

The incentives preventing action on climate change are not moral/ethical, but economic.

Countries and individuals use fossil fuels because they are cheaper, and are unwilling to make decisions that put them in a worse position relative to others.

While de-growth naively sounds appealing, the results are horrendous – countries with approx. the same GDP that they had 20 years ago are not places you would want to move to.

You might also point to the ozone layer issue in the late 80s and argue an accord will fix our current problem, but fossil fuels are far more fundamental to our way of life than CFCs were.
YouTube blocked videos for Russian draft dodgers on request from Roskomnadzor
I worry about this. I happen to have done quite a lot of programming in Lisp dialects over the last decade or so but since adopting Gpt4 I tend to just code in Python because that is what the model understands best. It does seem like AI will enhance network effects by increasing the efficiency difference between technologies that the AI knows and those that it doesn't. Kind of depressing.
To me, the second is more readable, more pleasant to work with especially if you're using an IDE. And ultimately, it leads to higher productivity.

It may be philosophically correct per some definition of philosophically correct but this is not what I care about.
I’ve never gone so far as to pull in fp-ts into a work codebase because it often doesn’t feel that it’s worth the headache of arguing for it.

However, I check back in from time to time and was recently confused as to whether or not the community has moved onto effect-ts as it seems effect consumed the fp project?

Do you have any context on that?
> granted leave

does this mean hes out of prison? he might try the embassy trick once again
Economies of scale generally have upper limits. Often when you approach the largest scale the existing market will supply you essentially need to become your own supplier which then runs into span of control issues. The organization needs to become competitive in that new market or their costs increase.

Keep scaling and eventually vertical integration ends up looking like a Soviet style planned economy. Your remote mining town needs some way for people to get soap etc so you open a store with it’s own supply chain etc etc.
waterfall project, cost-plus contracting and congressional appropriations "report language"

On Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones, a paper by Pete Worden about NASA's bureaucracy, to describe the relationship between the Space Shuttle and Space Station. [0, linked from 1]

0. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234554226_On_Self-L...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
I don't think you can altogether avoid the mundane stuff, but you can at least outsource it to a managed host at whatever level of abstraction you're comfortable with, whether that's a simple blog on Wix or WordPress, using managed DBs like Firebase, something that combines a bunch of services like Vercel, or putting them together yourself with Cloudflare products.

There's still somebody managing all the scaling and uptime and updates and upgrades (which is a necessity, because the internet and www aren't static entities, like browser vendors forcing https on everyone a few years ago). But the important thing is that someone ELSE takes care of all that for you so you can write business logic for your app, not worry about infra.

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I work for a headless CMS company, and part of our value prop is that our customers (generally) don't have to maintain their own backends, just a frontend. That's still a lot of work to keep up with npm and browser updates though.

Some of our competitors are working towards first party frontends and widgets too, becoming full stack hosted CRUD composables.

There are also others, like MUI, working towards headless frontends that can be easily attached to any backend.
This Feb 1968 poll

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31107646/questio...

asked of 58% of people who favored cuts in domestic spending, found 5% of people wanted cuts to "Space technology, Moon Shots, Scientific Research" (compared to 20% in welfare)

However, this one

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31107534/questio...

says 54% of people think the space program is "not worth it" in July 1967 and similar questions around that time get similar results. In April 1970 (after the 1969 success) Harris asks the question

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31107574/questio...

and gets 64% "not worth it".
Every time I've ever used DynamoDB it cost way more than I would have ever expected.
Previous discussion (from when it happened but before the victim company was named): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248649
Thanks. The funny thing is… FSD actually works really well now! But, I’m no longer interested in it as a feature.
ChatGPT to lose voice over Scarlett Johansson similarity
No I'm not, getting reinforced concrete to last beyond a century requires an increasing high amount of effort, which isn't the case with most other building materials.
Congress: Use Shuttle engines and SRBs to build a vehicle capable of deep space transportation.

Nasa: No that's too costly.

Congress: lol ok we'll slash funding + you legally can't refuse.
It seems like a better fit for high-end apps that want to adopt the native framework for Windows and macOS. Developers of these apps will often accept some of the quirks with manual bindings to get the performance they need while trying to maximize code sharing and minimizing divergence for as much of the shared code as possible. This is not going to be accepted by most developers on the Windows platform, but they seem out of sorts with their current options anyway.
Sure, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. But this claim is not so extraordinary. It's just against what was (at one time) the common wisdom.

Extraordinary claims would be that humans were in this location far earlier than previous evidence suggested and they had mastered flight or were doing calculus or something.
That has been my experience, yes. You need one full-time manager, one full-time on-call/pager duty (usually a rotation), and then 4-6 people doing feature development, bug fixes, and operational stuff (e.g. applying security patches, tuning alarms, upgrading instance types, tuning auto-scaling groups, etc. etc.).

Maybe you can do it a bit cheaper, e.g. with 4-6 people, but my point is that there's an on-going cost of ownership that any custom-built solution tends to incur.

Amortizing that cost over many customers is essentially the entire business model of AWS :)
Good question. I don’t know. I find it challenging to do consistently. Do you have experience with it? Has it helped?
By the time the company get sentenced, the people involved have already left with a nice bonus, and found a nice new job, there is no incentive for avoiding it.

You need proper fines and jail time for the people involved, even decades later.
> One might inquire about the feasibility of developing GUI applications using Swift on Windows, particularly regarding the necessity for manual FFI bindings,

How common is it to need manual FTI bindings and if so, how hard is that? Reading https://www.swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/ and https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/744361, I get the impression it’s fairly simple, if not often fully automated, and both Swift-to-C++ and C++-to-Swift calls look like normal calls in the respective languages.

> The strategy Apple employed in not prioritizing C++ as a primary language, while also introducing Swift as a new language, is quite intriguing.

They’re aiming to have good compatibility with existing C++ code, with all new code getting written in Swift.
Well the reason I’m working on this in the first place is that when I was on the other side of the table I was looking for one. I filled in the contact forms of a couple of different startups that had products somewhat in line with what I was looking for, and talked to their sales reps. Admittedly they weren’t as early stage as my project, but on the other hand they weren’t 100% focused on my use-case either.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I was hoping that someone with a write intensive workload would want to spend some time evaluating a product built specifically for that. But perhaps I’m wrong? Even if your workload was 99% writes you’d rather go to some established player (e.g. MongoDB) with a product optimized for 50/50 read/write?
32" is large enough that you can get away with 100% scaling and have much more actual workspace instead of increased clarity. It's not really until you get to the 15" or 17" laptops 4k starts being about high DPI and in that space the MacBook Pro screens actually overshoot the target a bit.
This really is completely independent of "AI". I remember seeing a famous presentation (maybe it was a TED talk?) about the "echo chamber" effect of personalization from the mid 00s - and IMO nearly all of the negative impacts discussed in that talk came to pass and then some. AI just makes it worse.

Edit: I think it was this I was referring to about "filter bubbles", https://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s?si=rK1T-v5D0sAeiHJe . I was a tad mistaken, this was from 2011.
What's interesting is thinking about what (if any) parallels of "PFOS" exist in the tech industry - collective delusions of products that aren't harmful. I would vote for most social media apps, maybe?
Imagine being born in a habitat on another planet that is further away from Earth in travel time than one's lifespan, and being robbed of your birthright to experience the natural wonders and beauty of the cradle of humanity.
> a stepping stone to being able to live in space long term in very large, permanently spaceborne crafts.

That is not going to happen, without technology that currently only exists in Science Fiction, like artificial gravity, for the simple reason that we require 1g to live, let alone thrive.

> because of immediate access to materials that’d need to be launched into orbit otherwise.

1. How does this "immediate access" benefit the aforementioned "very large, permanently spaceborne crafts", which apparently won't be moored to planetary bodies?

2. There is no "immediate access". Having rocks next to me, and having the sort of highly refined materials that go into building the tech required for spacecraft, are 2 VERY different things. But, I am always happy to be proven wrong: Let's take a very simple task, like ISRU'ing LOX & Methane, and let's do it, at scale, here on Earth, where there is no lack of energy, breathable atmosphere, building materials and labour. Strange, isn't it, that no one seems to be doing that.

> In a universe where there are large human civilizations not just throughout the solar system but also scattered amongst other star systems, there are numerous paths and discoveries that each branch will take that Earth’s branch in its lonesome may never have trodden.

I agree. But given that, what evidence supports the idea that the branch that eventually allows us to leave our solar system requires us to first waste tons of resources on trying to send people to inhospitable, irradiated rocks for no good reason?

Especially since we have a perfectly good alternative to this waste of time: Sending robots.

> It also just seems a bit cruel to be able to see the vastness of the universe and never be able to touch any of it, in person.

Unless we discover a way to do FTL travel, it doesn't matter if that feels cruel or not, it is reality.

And I can pretty much guarantee that the person discovering the means to cheat physics in such a way won't be doing so while constantly worrying about his habitats airlock malfunctioning, or the piss-regeneration system giving out, or the supply ship getting canceled in the next congressional-bickering about the budget.

It will happen here on Earth, likely by someone who never visited even LEO, someone who works and lives in a stable environment with books, people to talk to, air to breathe and delicious non-freeze dried food to eat, who never has to worry whether there will be enough recycled piss to make his next cup of coffee.
If it was put together with tin solder it's not lasting 200 years.
“I must feel good, I must feel good, no bad thoughts, feelings or words! Happy jokes hahahaha”

Seek happiness through accomplishments
> 75-100B

This seems low, off the bat. 15 years of Uber, 9 years of Uber Eats.

But even just looking at my most recent trip with Uber, there are 7 different records visible on the receipt. Not including backend recordkeeping that isn't exposed to the user (driver payments, driver loan repayments, revenue recognition, internal fees/records, etc).

Total trip amount,
Trip fare,
Booking fee,
Tip,
State fee,
Payment #1 (trip itself), and
Payment #2 (driver tip)

Now consider Uber Eats where there is (at least) one record for each item in an order...plus tax, tip, etc as always.

Then consider things like wait time charges, subscriptions, split charges, pending charges, chargebacks, refunds, disputes, blah blah blah.

An average of 10 records per customer transaction seems entirely reasonable.
Nothing wrong with equal rights, with having a career, etc.. However, some feminist voices are focused less on promoting women and more on tearing down men. Surprise: misandry is not attractive to most men.
What if we could keep them, but make them work for the good of us all?

I'd like to see them 'multi-nationalized' - not for one nation, but for the world.

All the major offenders, all the companies who have wreaked havoc on us: Fossil fuel shitheads who sponsored climate doubt, arms manufacturers who lobbied us into illegal wars, social media companies responsible for polluting the minds of our most vulnerable, advertisers who greenwash and whitewash crimes.

It's only a fantasy, for now - we can't even prevent our tax dollars from arming mass murderers. We need to do something though. I'm sick of paying for the privilege of being gaslit, and tired of subsidizing the strip-mining of the planet.

Switch the major offenders and monopolies by force to a co-op model, and let's see if we can't turn the fate of the planet around.

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Le Guin
I was implying many users would prefer the bot voice to be as much like SJ's as possible.
$6m in perpetuity is like infinite and engineers can be fired.
Newspapers, Radio and Television stations also right?
Glacier is not actually tape, the fancy tape-robot videos nonwithstanding. Most of it is just regular old S3 running on outdated storage hardware
PFOA/PFOS propaganda is wild. They're very useful substances. Yes, acute exposures cause harm, but the same can be said of salt. Though with modern instrumentation we can measure presence in parts per trillion, I have seen no evidence at all that likely bioaccumulative pathways have resulted in harm to humans. Even the opening of this article levers "we found it" with "EPA regulates it in drinking water" as self-evident that it's some kind of super poison. But it's not. Frankly, it's not always even clear what "it" is as there are thousands of different compounds, many of which people consume daily (e.g., flonase, prozac, etc). The health alarm around these substances is just astounding to me.
If I remember right the original policy was to delete the YouTube videos and after pushback the YouTube exception was added.
If we know what it binds to, could we just manufacture a lot of that and bind and destroy as much out of the environment as we could?
Kagi and Bing Copilot (strangely) are working out great for me.
I'm digressing from the topic, but R2 looked good on paper, but have a long way to go in terms of reliability.
I agree, it's just not as practical as wind and solar and grid-connected energy storage for 95% of the things you'd want it for.

But the reasons are that its complex and expensive, not that it's accidentally a bomb.
> This site is an absolute gem besides the news articles!

They’ve done some great things around information sharing over the years.

Interestingly, this site is also where the gaming equivalent of audiophile quackery congregates. Part of their forum (including an admin, IIRC) are convinced that EMI causes stuttering in games. They do things like upgrade the electrical outlets, cables, and other things around their computer and convince themselves that it’s improving their gameplay due to EMI/EMF.
My parse stumbled at "which type".
The advice is sound... mostly: there are ways to relax the different-origin nature of subdomains so you'd have to ensure that you're not using them, and some web properties have relaxed SOP by default e.g. cookies, renderer processes, ..., the public suffix list exists to try and mitigate these issues.

Frankly I'd just disable script evaluation if you don't specifically need that.
Another option is the related memtest86+ (https://www.memtest.org/), which can be found as a package on many Linux distributions (and the package often adds it to the grub menu), and on some Linux distributions it's even on the installation DVD (so you can use it to test the memory before installing).

For a while, it didn't run on UEFI (it required legacy boot), but recent versions now run on both UEFI and legacy BIOS boot.
Not really answering your question, but in my neighborhood (not in the UK), residents push back against developers asking them to install more brick facades on new homes. In my old house, a previous owner had installed brick veneer on one of the interior walls. So that's sort of the opposite of brutalism, or maybe it's some kind of imitated brutalism.
I guess I just disagree with you. My background is neurobiology and biological systems are just so fundamentally different than conventional computing architecture in so many ways. I just don't believe that a true AGI is achievable as software alone. We might get something that "looks like a duck" but until it actually is a duck, I don't think it will be AGI.
Companies this size almost certainly have different terms of use. I worked for a smaller, but still ASX200 company that had a custom contract, and assigned staff that would drop by 2-3 days a month. Of specific note was that if AWS wanted to stop doing business with us they had to give at least X notice (from memory that was 12 months for us).

For our risk profile this was more than enough time to migrate off any AWS' proprietary technology.

That makes it worth less to avoid exposure.
Yes, python exposes a limited list of names that map to operators, like __add__, __sub__, __ne__, __or__, etc. The list is large enough that it covers most normal usage, but the semantic meaning of the operators is normally fixed, so creating your own more specialized operators with new meanings is not very convenient (I mean, in principle, you can overload __xor__ to do something inventive, but it's probably a bad idea to veer from the established meaning of 'exclusive or'.)

In contrast, julia provides a nearly endless list of operators to use for whatever you like, allowing you to adopt mathematical operators from your field of study, for example.

Also, I am not aware of any type promotion mechanism in python, which, in Julia, makes e.g. binary operators on different types convenient to implement. The inherent multiple dispatch also seems more natural than the __roperator__ stuff you need to do in python.
Demographics isn't attention economy, not expanding doesn't risk extinction, shrinking does.
$6M/y is something like 20 heads (depending on where they are, could be more). So probably it's a win. Hard to see that this could take more than about 5. Add cost of hay and water of course.
It should be the people hold responsible
>This industry incentivize job hopping and you’re better off treating employees as a stream and figuring out how to manage project estimates and knowledge transfer around that

Yup, it's totally this. I think on average I've moved every 2 years or so (some longer, some shorter), but every time I've done so I've taken the offer back to my current company and gone "Look, I don't want to move jobs, that's a hassle, if you matched the offer (or even just came close enough) I'd stay" and never, not a single time, has a company ever done that. At the end of the day, I've gotta look out for myself.
What is your opinion of the financial system based on?
I live in a house that was built in 1840, and none of the issues you're complaining about exists here, since I had everything refurbished when I bought it.

Destroying an entire building to fix the wiring or insulation would be insanely wasteful.

Concrete is one of the most CO2 emissive technology, and it also consumes way more sand than what natural erosion produces, and thinking that all of this will be rotten in a century is heartbreaking.