skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The solution is always the same: pay people off and keep it under the radar.

You’re making this into a conspiracy unnecessarily. They didn’t “pay people off”, they bought an item. Do you “pay off” your grocer when you buy a carrot from them?

> What stops the vendor, or other vendors, from creating more gnomes with sneakers.

The fact they don’t know their entry was causing this issue to a major corporation?

> Maybe they made the vendor sign an NDA.

Why would they? Someone had one gnome with sneakers for sale; someone else bought it; end of story.
How does this fit into the wider picture of steelmaking with electric arc furnaces? Those have been around for a good long while; what can this do that an electric arc furnace can't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc_furnace
Academic/theorical computer scientists, totally.

But pragmatic programmers / software engineers, try reading the average PhD's python code. Usually it is a mess.

Knuth may be an exception, rather than the rule.
I'm not sure if archive.is leverages this (I doubt it has a huge database of paid accounts) but a lot of sites put up full content versions of their sites so search engines can scrape them, so there may be some legal shimmying about taking that search engine version and making it available to regular human eyeballs.
To all the sceptics: been using SpinRite since 2007 on many HHDs and it has saved us _many_ times. Steve Gibson knows hard drives and their recovery better than anyone. Highly recommend it if you need to recover a drive.
I am not sure that the ambiguity has to work that way. The suggestion I am making is that if we fix the distribution on questions and the training data, we might (a) know the value of X in this specific case, (b) be able to ensure that it is fairly high.

I’d say this is the murky case because on the fixed training data and query distribution X ≈ 1 and we know that even though we don’t know the value of X on other training data and other query distributions. I think that might be where the disagreement lies.
Plug-In Hybrids? Just Say Hell No
Runtime code generation and execution in Go
Racketeering is easier and more profitable than actual services.

Shocking how often "gatekeepers" fall to the temptation.
Here is the marketing ad for it, looks pretty neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEedrb1vJ_I
Except that issue you brought up is NOT what supersize me is about. Its competitor doc, Fathead, is about that though. And absolutely lambastes supersize me.

And im not saying just eat less to fight obesity. Im saying portion sizes at a resteraunt are a moot point. People stop eating when they are no longer hungry. Do you always eat 100% of the food you get at a restaurant? Again, peiple treat obese people like theyre too stupid to figure out how they got fat, or theyre too weak minded and must have dietary decisions made for them. Fuck that. Theyre adults free to make choices like anyone else. Im all for education about nutrition, and supersize me offers 0 in that department.
My solution here was to name my son w/ the same first/last name (both grandfathers had the same name, one as middle, the other as first, so he got that as a middle name instead of the traditional southern great-grandmother's maiden name as middle name which was inflicted on me of my paternal grandfather whose name I bear).

My main e-mail address matches this (and most user names on various forums --- I even offered my son my @willadams Twitter handle which I don't use), so the current e-mail password is written down in an envelope in a safe and on my demise he can take over that e-mail and notify folks of my passing and more importantly, seamlessly take over those accounts tied to it which he views the digital content of worthwhile (Amazon Kindle w/ over 1,000 books, Amazon Music w/ decades worth of Amazon Rips for purchased CDs, GOG games (which brings us full circle almost).
It's important to note that music streaming and texting are also wants rather than needs. I've recently started leaving my house where the only electronic device that I go with is my compact camera.
Exploring Autonomous Agents Through the Lens of Large Language Models
Fun and Colorful Explanation Of – How DNS Works (2015)
What about giving cancer to others by secondary smoke inhalation, what about tongue cancer and mouth cancer and gum disease and cardio-vascular problems and breathing difficulties and eventual COPD and all the negatives of smoking that aren’t lung cancer?
Another explanation for the "bubble" is that there is sufficiently convincing confidential information spread among key players in the world economy, pointing to amazing, not yet publicly disclosed LLM technology running behind firewalls and NDAs, highly advanced beyond the known public "bleeding edge" AI developments.

Hence, some potential achievements, maybe AGI, ASI, are actually atenable, because the predicted path to achieve them is some more cash dumped into a giant hardware backend, from where you, eventually,

would get to retrieve enough intelligent entities that will be capable of designing a better AI, or will be able to solve any social-organizational/technologic/economic bottleneck found in the way, thus enabling a simpler and/or easier achievement of the gotten objective, being AGI, ASI, whatever.

Allowing mankind to get there going through a better path.

if it's energy, a new source, a revamping of previously known source (micro-nuclear reactors everywhere, ubiquitous solar power, freeing the current fossil generated electrical networks thus allowing a much greater world provision of energy)

if it's economic growth without humans, because of a shrinking population, it could be technology automation (such as prompt based helpers everywhere, heck, the prompt technology could be just an offspring of the actual original - still secret - idea of a powerful LLM, to enable the next step in the AI evolution path).

Maybe the AI bubble is not a bubble, but just the beginning.

Remember that the current models, if proven as the definitive path to AGI/ASI will be with us for centuries to come, probably enhanced, they would be effectively inmortal.
Don't agree with some of the point made, but thought it would be interesting to analyze them, as to whether PHEVs as indeed pretty useless or not.
Sending email is inherently asynchronous so the errors aren't an issue really.
This is my way of thinking too, but realistically we don't know if today will be our last - one needs to have a dead-man's-handle now. It's like backups, something else I really need to get done!
Yes, same way computers generate strategies for games that are seemingly incomprehensible at first but after further analysis humans discover deeper underlying principals that went unnoticed
The more interesting one was the Klapdor-Kleingrothaus claim of observing neutrinoless double beta decay in germanium 76 in the early 2000s. That was a major impetus for the generation of double beta decay experiments like this that ran in the 2010s. The MAJORANA experiment used the same isotope and was significantly more sensitive, and pretty thoroughly excluded the half life Klapdor-Kleingrothaus claimed.
I disagree that any "swiping" took place as I wasn't aware of the prior meaning because hardly anyone was using it in 1999, nor did anyone bring it up at the time.

Similarly, no swiping took place more recently unless you think using the name of my own project is "swiping". I address this in more detail in a recent [1] reddit comment.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Freenet/comments/1d05zw9/questions_...
Couldn’t the conversion run locally?
Loomis is the armored car people right?
people complain about character assassination in this thread, but then, what is this supposed to be?
Doesn't the Chromium sandbox, the gold standard for browser sandboxes, use user namespaces?

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/l...
Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005)
Cool! Feature req: a way to 3d-skew the screenshot.
It's crazy that iPhones are such powerful generic computing devices that only the people who sold it (see: don't own it anymore) can use it as such.
Alcmaeon of Croton identified the brain as the seat of thought as early as the 5th century BCE.
Ok? It’s still irrelevant
Nobody orders crop dusting because they think it's fun, they do it to increase the profit from their crops. If it has utility, then it will give the farmer the budget and the willingness to pay. If crop dusting doesn't have enough utility for the farmers to pay a salary attractive enough for pilots to do the work, then it is inefficient. Alternatively the farmers or the pilots are acting irrationally.
Good idea ! I put it in my backlog
The easiest way is to start lobbying against this malpractice.
> a 29-year-old self-taught French developer

Which part is the self-taught part? :p
That also works in göteborg.
If you’re Australian, they can be circular.
Ant mega-colony takes over world
Alright, then emulation, cracks, and BitTorrent are fine.

A company can steal the stuff I pay for legally, impose nasty DRM on my legal experience, limit my usage of it for arbitrary reasons, and they have the fucking audacity to tell me I can’t transfer shit when I fucking die?

I have copies of books from the 1960s, and you know what’s cool about them? They still work. If I die I can give them away to someone, if I want to read them tomorrow that’s something I can just do.

Did all the book companies just up and die because parents were able to leave books to their kids? That seems pretty unlikely.
Thanks re: liking the project.

I'm not going to change the name again. I carefully weighed up the pros and cons over the course of a year - debating the issue with those that disagreed. Eventually I made a call as the architect of Freenet. It's not without risk, but risks are sometimes necessary.

People are entitled to disagree but I'm not going to relitigate it at this point.
Yes, this happens to me. In fact, at the start of reading this thread, I thought "the tunnel" was what we were all talking about.
Back button fixed ;) !
I take a medium approach and turn off almost all notifications, do not install “social” addictionware apps or similar junk, turn off background refresh for almost everything, and if I need some gratuitous app on a trip I uninstall it as soon as I don’t.

I haven’t tried their lock down mode yet whatever it’s called.
Good video, also at https://finance.yahoo.com/video/google-translate-uses-math-u...
He was. But it's irrelevant question on the topic of his success.
How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon
It's fixed now !
I guess you and your friends are rich. I can easily go out 3 nights instead of going out 1 night and taking a taxi home in sweden. I can imagine dk is worse :D
I used to work in neutrino physics, and I will consider myself lucky if I see a detection of the cosmic neutrino background in my lifetime (roughly the next 50 years).
I think most people are okay with just renting stuff, and would never consider reselling something in the first place.

Its a strange concept to me, especially when I see people who haven’t paid their off their house or student loans throwing things away that work fine.

A long time ago a particularly wasteful friend of mine tried to explain it by saying he was like a snake that eats and shits money and just keeps pumping it through without ever letting anything collect. I think this is accurate for quite a few people, even if they’re not articulate enough to explain it.
There's something to this. I worked in credit card processing for a few years. The dumbness of on line card inputs annoys me to no end. State Farm and Papa Murphy's have good experiences, most places absolutely do not and should be publicly shamed
Same is true on Android. Uber lets you disable annoying notifications in App or through settings because otherwise fewer people would use it.
This is more a case of bad assumptions not being made clear. The software assumed the system would be rebooted every like 48 hours (so when it had been running for over 100 hours it was way past its design envelope) but if I remember, the manual did not specify why the system had to be rebooted so the soldiers left it running because, ya know, it was a war and it would suck to have the system booting when a missile is coming in.

All that is to say, the Iraqi guard killed those soldiers. Failing to intercept a missile doesn’t mean the software killed those people. It just failed to save them which is not the same as, let’s say, the infamous Therac-25 problem that irradiated 6 people very seriously.
You could set up an "on app launch" automation shortcut for Maps to alter the Color Filter setting, but I'm not sure how you'd automate switching it back after closing/leaving Maps. I don't use the automations, but instead have a shortcuts widget with "toggle greyscreen" (among others) which is sufficient for me most of the time.
The name belongs to the non-profit and not a specific codebase, the previous codebase had itself a number of fundamental rewrites (eg. with the 0.7 release) and retained the name Freenet through them - this is no different.

The name change decision was made over a year ago after a long debate and very careful consideration. There is risk but risk is inevitable if you want to make progress.
Nice tool! Is there a simple way to format the image without a background, or just a transparent background?
NC (USA) just made masks illegal in public.
different devs have done through history different methods implementing this.
the real answer is context depend, who's the target audience and what do they want out of that progress bar.

you can have a progress bar that show the milestones + ETA. multiple progress bar + log messages box that shows what the background is doing, or you can just have single disconnected bar that's based on a timer based on what you estimated the task would take etc.

as user:
- how do you know if the UI / process is stuck then or just taking ?
- how much time is there left, you got other things to do after 5 more tasks like the current one and want to estimate a rough estimate when you'll be done with this.
Texas A&M wants a network of power plants on its land across the state
Yeah it seems going to https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/12088655 the report doesn't even exist anymore.

Would be good to get an official answer from Apple if this is won't fix or coming as a fix in a future release.
I love it. It also gives the benefit of very easily knowing whether or not it is actually following your prompt.
You cannot talk about what's going on without discussing: Israel's long history of treating Palestinians unequal to Israelis; Israel's arrest, detention, and torture of Palestinian children and other civilians via secret police; denial of Palestinian self determination; Repeated attacks on Palestinian civilians before Oct7, killing thousands; and Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Each of these actions is literally inexcusable, as in there is no excuse one can come up with, which justifies any of the actions.

Because of this, anyone involved in the Israeli abuse and genocide of Palestinians is as extremist, if not moreso, than those involved in the attack that killed 95% fewer innocent civilians last year.

Either way, the first step is that Israel must stop treating Palestinians as half-people. It's the right thing to do, and it will take the wind out of the sails of Hamas, as well as the global condemnation of Israel.

> They took Palestinians hostage and used them to turn the world against Israel.

This is the gaslighting language of spousal abusers: "You made me hurt you". Israel did both those things, and is (unsuccessfully) attempting to gaslight others with abuser language, because they are abusers of Palestinians.
I incorporated some undo functionality in my shell.

For the removal of files/dirs, I alias `rm` to `mv -t ~/.trash` in my .bashrc/.zshrc file.

Running `rm foo.txt` then only moves foo.txt into the trash instead of removing it completely.

This can the extended to incorporate a simple automated timed trash empty process.
My assumption is that the comment I was responding to addressed Google Docs specifically (which afaik is web only?). If this is the case, then your options to run locally would be for the conversion to run in your browser, or for you to have some Google agent run on your computer that can handle these requests instead of the Google servers themselves, neither of which is a scalable option in this case (due to browser differences / expecting people to be able to install software locally to their devices)?
Nothing, probably. I could be convinced of something else if it’s a good idea. But the current behavior of interrupting the user with a save HTML page dialog is always wrong UX in that case.
What kind of training did you do? I have trouble figuring out how I'm feeling and want to get better at it. I'm particularly bad at noticing when I'm stressed, and by the time I notice I'm already redlining.
> When we told them we were also in talks with Fastly, they suddenly "purged" all our domains

Holy shit.
My guess is it's more that software was eating the world. Since so much more was being made there was less care being taken to be consistent, implement automation workflows, and instead focus on visible features. This was also the era of 'skins' for media players and theming the whole OS was falling out of favor. IIRC OS X had no theming and only an invert option for accessibility; not even dark mode.
In the US gas prices at gas stations usually also show a tiny 9/10 of a cent in addition to the x.xx price, i.e. actual price is x.xx9 and I have never seen any other value for that 3rd decimal place
Thanks! There's a Hack to do this.
You can use the "imported" tab without importing any file as a background. The dowloaded result will be the card without any background.
Not true about iOS. You can make a DnD profile and let any apps you want through the filter. I use this all the time.
I like the sentiment, but the article ignores that this approach may incur the price of adding complexity to the implementation.
Depending on your architectural constraints, adding an undo operation may not only be hard, it may necessitate changes which in turn make future changes harder as well.
Or it may not, of course - as usual it depends.

But even assuming that you are able to follow this advice, I assume (and have personally witnessed) another side-effect.
Just as people get accustomed to, and ignore, warnings, they will just as well become accustomed to being able to undo mistakes, and as a consequence become less careful about what they're doing.

One may argue that reserving warnings for only the non-undoable operations will improve their signal-to-noise-ratio and compensate for an overall gain, but whether that is true and worth the additional complexity is not black-and-white.
Speaking of racketeering, it's an enlightening experience to search for "stresser" or "booter" providers (euphemisms for DDoS-as-a-Service) and look up their NS records to see who helping them ward off competitors DDoS attacks and keep their origin servers hidden. 9 times out of 10 it's Cloudflare, with the few exceptions being DDoS-Guard, who more or less specialize in facilitating crime.
I can think of one possible regulation that I think would produce the proper behavior incentives.

Require that the system intentionally produce false positives (selected at random) at approximately the same rate as the true positives. This means that the users of the system will be aware that any indication has only a 50% chance of being "real", and therefore can be used as an indicator to increase caution but NOT on it's own as a signal of guilt.
Haha. The "developper" part of course.

Pardon my french ;)
Ask HN: Is the gold era of tech gone forever?
Some background:

I have over 10 years of experience in software development, mainly in Ruby/Rails and Node.js. I have done consulting for some large companies and even co-founded a startup that raised approximately $4M in funding.

Pre-pandemic, I could cover my eyes, throw a stone out the window, and hit 10 $150,000/year software engineering job offers.

Fast forward to today, and I've been unemployed for 3 months. Not only that, but some very impressive colleagues are unemployed too—I'm talking top 5% FAANG-level talent.

Will the tech industry ever bounce back? It feels like it won't. I think the contributing factors are:

We are mostly an investment-funded industry: We build things and then move on to the next project. It takes fewer people to maintain a system than to extend it. Right now, central bank rates are super high, and it's a terrible time to borrow money.

The hypernormalization of mass layoffs. Thanks, Elon! It seems like it's now completely normal to lay off large numbers of people in tech. I can't recall another industry where the same happens.

AI. I think LLMs aren't there yet, but they can make quantum leaps. Yes, I know the code they generate is rough and mostly wrong right now. Remember the Will Smith eating pasta video? We now have Gen AI producing 4K 60fps POV videos of an ant going underground. If code generation makes the same jump, I think it's over.

That being said, I am looking for a remote placement ASAP and can accommodate permanent or contract roles.

You can find me on GitHub @shellandbull or by email at mariojgintili at gmail dot com
While Gibson is overly pompous, I should point out that SpinRite works below the file system structure, and not all filesystems are robust like ZFS, etc. Second - there are two main SpinRite modes - Read/Check and Read/Write/Correct. SSD's should obviously never use the second mode. I suppose the first mode might be used to check if there are problems on a SSD.

SpinRite - last time I used it, was painfully slow - like days or even weeks to run. He's been working on a faster SpinRite 6.1 for at least 10 years now. FWIW, here's the current (2021) roadmap - https://www.grc.com/miscfiles/GRC-Development-Roadmap.pdf
Sounds like OP is a casino and plays domain games to avoid regulatory interest. Recommend reading article carefully before reacting to the headline. Hopefully Cloudflare provides a perspective.
Microsoft is killing off an iconic programming tool – farewell to VBScript
Doesn't matter if you're an asshole company or not: always have an exit plan and test it.
A global seafood giant broke Red Lobster
Cloudflare was the company that went viral for the firing of an account rep not hitting her goals. I wonder if it’s overall indicative of not a great culture in terms of relationships with enterprise customers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7LuwPdp-_4c
has this happened to any businesses that were not questionably legal?
I'm working on feature-based testing environments SaaS project
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The product also aims to be cost-effective by using minimal resources to spin up the environment.

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I would love to hear about your use cases!
Yes, famously so. I don't think I've ever met anyone that smoked as much as he did.
What a way to more quickly show your customer the door.
But for $10k a month cloudflare is ok with that? Either it's acceptable or it's not, there is no way that this looks good for cloudflare either way.