skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been after one for years.-

Holding my own, though, after a bad experience: I emailed them to beg (er ... respectfully inquire about) them extending a one-time offer they had, with great savings. I had missed the deadline by less than a week.-

No avail. They replied with something along the lines of "too bad" ...

And swore (well, promised) never to get one.-

I might yet renege.-

(If they every come up with a similar offer ...)
The venerable 'Half A Giraffe' subreddit covers the frequent use of nonstandard journalistic measurement units --
https://old.reddit.com/r/HalfAGiraffe/
It's perfect, actually. Its pithiness reflects the limitations of the walled garden in which the mind that conceived it lives. Normally, when you read "I fucked with the iPad. Hard", you'd think that at the least a soldering iron was involved. Maybe even wires, multimeters. Maybe hacking the boot process using gdb. Maybe an oscilloscope? That would be wow.

No. When your range of expressivity is passive consumer to passive-aggressive consumer, you are reduced to a small essay that ends with the whimper, "Can't wait to see how I feel about iPads next week". The only qualification to be a repeat Apple consumer is the complete lack of self-awareness and this essay is beautiful in encapsulating the cheery vacuousness of the cult.
Currently, we simply use GPT4-as-a-judge, with a general system prompt we've written which is task agnostic. This is then used to train the neural scoring function, which predicts quality ahead-of-time. However, it's on our roadmap to add make the judging more flexible, potentially task-specific judge prompts and in-context examples, also perhaps using a jury [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.18796].
A Theoretical "Case Against Education"
You can implement hot corners on Wayland using layer-shell and creating a 1px transparent surface on each monitor corner.
It's fairly quick and supports !bangs, and it actually works right now... I'll give it a try.
> we go back to an almost purely connections/network-driven hiring process

What if you don’t have friends? What if you are interviewer/not very social? Etc.
> That seems more like a typo than anything

I assure you it isn't.

> To increase the agility, steering response, handling and starting performance of the Macan T, Porsche uses a particularly light powerplant

https://media.porsche.com/mediakit/macan/en/the-new-macan/ma...

> Porsche has developed a hydrogen powerplant prototype that can be installed in luxury sports cars and perform as well as a 4.4-liter, eight-cylinder petrol engine

https://www.ryzehydrogen.com/2023/03/07/5172/

> Of course, removing the roof completely on a car boasting such a supreme powerplant presents its own set of unique aerodynamic challenges

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/the-ferrari-...

> The Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 S E Performance allies a hefty 671bhp powerplant to a 2,310kg body

https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/mercedes-benz/glc-amg-es...
> and has decent tooling around it, like java, c#, perhaps scala

All of these are perfectly mediocre and usable languages (in which I would write in if somebody pays me), but surprisingly even for myself I ended up really liking Go.
What sort of damages can Scarlett Johansson expect to get if OpenAI launches with the Sky voice for a short while, then pulls it quickly after the backlash (like they did)?

Are punitive damages commonplace for such scenarios?
Try that with the billions of folk in what we still call the developing world. 'Rewarding them' sounds a bit patronizing.
Key Differences in Virtual Desktops, Enterprise Browsers and Cloud-Based Dev
This massively increases risk too, right? Pinning all your revenue on a much smaller customer base means losing one or two of them has a huge impact!
It seems you were immediately downvoted (I see this comment at the bottom and in grey). The cult is strong on HN and cannot bear this kind of reality, Sir.
Under construction page template doesn't have an animated gif of a workman digging a hole. No flashing lights either. Hard pass.
A lot less sales and cuatomer support people
See also: The search for Autumn

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/02/autumn200702
And what if you are introvert or have social anxiety and not good at connecting to people? A lot of such people are very smart and exactly the type of people you would want to hire for some positions. Or what if you have a disability that makes it hard for you to travel and socialize? How about working remotely?
tl;dr

The facts you learn at school are surprisingly ill remembered. But stuff learned by cultural osmosis is remembered very well. So why go to school?
Dictators can actually get something done for you, I'd prefer that to our current anarcho-tyranny.

"Francis's term "anarcho-tyranny" refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens' lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law."
Some mice are monogamous due to previously unknown hormone-generating cells
Living documents as a UX pattern in AI
Every week they get free publicity. Sam Altman is a PR genius. Just look at how much discussion he generates.
Is that something that you could do with an Open AI API call?
You hate they're speaking as (very snarky) humans?

Corporate speak is better?
Hmmm. This isn’t voice acting though. I suspect that we’ll find that OpenAI used thousands of Johansson’s voice samples for general training to give the voice a “Her” feel and then found someone with a similar voice for fine tuning but had Johansson said yes, they could then have had her do it instead.

If the records show that they did train Sky with Johansson’s voice samples it will be an interesting case.
I hear you but I feel that there's more to it than that. Workspaces while useful, are still more of a closed-door where once you've switched to a workspace, the other ones just disappear as if they don't exist.

Scrolling fixes that problem because I can quickly use my touchpad to scroll through multiple windows, that can be set to 70% of the total width. This means I can actually see what the other apps are doing in realtime. This is different because scrolling WMs 'make you feel' like you're using multiple monitors, since switching to the other windows is very similar.

Scrolling WMs still have workspaces though, so that's not going anywhere but it's one of those 'see it to believe it' things. Scrolling WMs really changed my perspective.
Imagine if they spent the same time for fixing/improving the search bar on Windows instead of the recently announced Recall feature.
How would these companies survive if their systems caught fire, or had some kind of programmatic major data corruption, these companies that "can't survive" without paying the ransom perhaps needed to die, their management doesn't value business continuity.
Layoff. They were costing the company money for irrelevant problems.
I doubt they can control the smell.
I don't think OpenAI wants people to think ChatGPT 4 or whatever is Scarlett Johansson, that would not make any sense.
I recently setup a self-hosted Ubiquiti UniFi Network Controller running on a Linux Mint VM, and if you missed the article, you could check it out here. So, I have been busy adding Access Points (APs), I want to say that it has been quite a smooth ride except for a few challenges that come with any new solution. In this article, I want to share my observations, best practices, and lessons learned while adopting APs to the controller.

Adoption is the process of connecting a UniFi devices (e.g., APs, cameras, switches, routers, etc.) to the UniFi application that will manage it, which in our case is the UniFi Network Controller. I will try to give deep analysis of what goes on during this adoption process.
Yes the benchmarks are ongoing, we continually plot the speed and cost across time in our runtime benchmarks [https://unify.ai/benchmarks], and we use this live data when plotted the quality scatter graphs [https://console.unify.ai/dashboard]. The router configurations are "self-improving" in the sense that any given router config will quickly wrap the latest models and providers under the hood. Using a router config is a way of riding the wave of models and providers, whilst just specifying your priorities for quality, speed and cost. We will have some case studies which better explain this soon!
Number of videos are less relevant than the total duration of high-quality videos (quality can be approximated on YouTube with metrics such as view and subscriber count). Also, while YouTube videos are not labelled directly, you can extract signal from the title, the captions, and perhaps even the comments. Lastly, many sources online use YouTube to host videos and embed them on their pages, which probably contains more text data that can be used as labels.
So they end up in the same situation as hotels or airlines, beholden to the middlemen? They’ll never allow that :)
> he’s going to drop everything they are working on.

Without asking for anything in return?
I learned calculus there and in a way that gave me an advantage when I studied it formally with a much much lower quality teacher.
>When cornered on factual grounds

I haven't seen any facts from you, only unsupported statements and suggestions that I google facts myself.
The current republican candidate is highly different. He fomented a mob on the steps of the capital because he was upset he didn’t win.

The others you mention just had political qualities people disliked.
> if I were running the company it would be blankly obvious that the optics would be a problem, so I would start to collect a LOT of paperwork documenting that the casting selection was done without a hint of bias towards a celebrity's impression. Where is that paperwork? The obviousness puts the burden on them to show it.

I think optics-wise the best move at the moment is quelling the speculation that they resorted to a deepfake or impersonator of SJ after being denied by SJ herself. The article works towards this by attesting that it's a real person, speaking in her natural voice, without instruction to imitate SJ, from a casting call not mentioning specifics, casted months prior to contacting SJ. Most PR effort should probably be in giving this as much of a reach as possible among those that saw the original story.

Would those doing the casting have the foresight to predict, not just that this situation would emerge, but that there would be a group considering it impersonation for there to be any "hint of bias" towards voices naturally resembling a celebrity in selection between applicants? Moreover, would they consider it important to appeal to this group by altering the process to eliminate that possible bias and providing extensive documentation to prove they have done so, or would they instead see the group as either a small fringe or likely to just take issue to something else regardless?
I wish there was a duplicate file finder that used the MFT scan to pre-process the data instead of the FS tree walk
Lots of people have done it.

I went to college but I resent the implication that the only way to make it into one of these fields is through college. It is incredibly difficult to learn advanced math outside of an academic setting, but it is absolutely possible.

Where I work we have invested in programs that take people just like me and give them an opportunity to go through a pretty rigorous 6 month program that teaches them how to develop software, work in a corporate environment, etc.

There are people FAR more impressive than me who have done more with less, and when they have come out of that program many have been able to go toe to toe with our college grads.

We’ve got a LOT of people who have similar stories, and we’re doing the same thing in accounting now. And it works.
Yes, they are fundamentally different in a way (although you could still keep the same layouts with Scrolling WMs). Scrolling WMs are a lot more useful for laptops, where the screen area is limited. It replaces the need for multi-monitors for me and that's quite revolutionary.
six mountains dewing

five bajas blasting

four attournies generalising

three jokes fading

two eyes closing

one final line
Also pretty much guarantees flight of your former customer base to close compliments - who then have improved revenue to bring their products closer in alignment to yours. You'd better have a hell of a moat to follow this strategy.
which is surprising given how unbearable google has gotten

it's a bit like sticking to using windows in 2010
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity" [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I love such stories. Thanks for sharing. I'd be super glad to read about your process, your note-taking techniques, etc if you ever write a blog post about it!
Halbach Magnetic Array
Of course I know about the POD idiom. You and chipdart are misunderstanding me because there's a tension between how the C++ Standard defines things and how C++ gets used in real life. Because strictly speaking, the Standard doesn't really have a concept of POD[0]. What it does have is "trivial" classes and the concept of object lifetime. For instance, if your class/struct isn't trivially_copyable and you memcpy it like a C struct, you're in Undefined Behavior country. If your class/struct is such that you must observe C++'s lifetime rules, but you are writing its fields by casting a char pointer to some bytes, that's UB.

But yes, if you make extra sure (under threat of footgun) that your struct only has simple types in it and doesn't use virtual or define any ctors/dtors or use protected/private or use inheritance and all of its members follow those rules etc etc, maybe you can treat it like a C struct. But the C++ Standard is telling a different story.

Keep in mind, I'm not blaming you for ignoring all these complications if at the end of the day the compiler seems to give you the behavior you expect. But the fun of C++ is that it's kind of two programming languages in one: the language the Standard defines, and the language the typical programmer thinks it is.

[0] There was std::is_pod, but it was deprecated because it doesn't reflect how the Standard actually defines things. A bit of a cruel joke, dangling that in front of us and then yanking it away.
I think that's just a matter of jargon. As an aircraft mechanic, I heard and spoke the phrase "Pull the motor on aircraft..." Many times. We used engine and motor interchangebly on an engine thrust powered aircraft.
Free Pascal’s initial release was in 1997. "Long long time ago" may be longer than that.
Mandela's vision of Black unity fades as South Africa closes door to migrants
except that customers that pay 10x have different expectations. They will have a dedicated account manager, SLA's with very short response times, etc
The comment was about the caché of assosciation with Google.

Regardless of the reality of the character of any individual Google employee or ex employee, the point is valid that Google's name comes with a different, and worse, impression today than yesterday.
"My boss says we don't need any engineering managers"
I work with the folks who built that! It truly was months of giddy passion on their part[1]. And it was such a joy to see in person.

Disclosure: I might not have worked on The Orb but I do work on Steam Deck and other projects at Valve.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/41180511...
SJs voice has some very distinctive characteristics and she has distinctive inflections that she applies. None of that inflection, tonality, or characteristics are present in the chat bot voice. Without those elements, it can be said to be a voice with vaguely similar pitch and accent, but any reasonable “impersonation “ would at least attempt to copy the mannerisms and flairs of the voice they we’re trying to impersonate.

Listening to them side by side, the OpenAI voice is more similar to Siri than to SJ. That Sam Altman clearly wanted SJ to do the voice acting is irrelevant, considering the timings and the voice differences.

The phone call and tweet were awkward tho.
I admit to not understanding or caring about the full scope of Computershare’s business (side note: that’s a dumbass name), but having been forced to suffer their software when working for a former company, it boggles my mind that they need 24,000 VMWare VMs, in addition to a bunch of Nutanix VMs.
Right. The way the science community carry out their activity is increasingly shameful, I was thinking about an idealistic situation still, that is right.

He will definitely have a fruitful career in a science leadership position, possibly not only in China.

Scary examples. Scary. It is increasinlgy benefitial to live life with a great deal of ignorance just to feel worthwhile getting out of the bed in the morning and put one tiny straw into the big haystack of the humanity, while others put it on fire all the time for their own personal warmth.
Yes, Kagi is expensive. But it also has useful features other search engines don’t. It’s nice if you can afford it.
That's a good point, only very small data is cheaper in DynamoDB than S3. Also adding global secondary indexes tends to add cost, since writes are charged for each of them.
I just hope Nutanix can keep their act together, they've been given a gift.
> Also I hate hate HATE The Register's tone

I find the snark refreshing compared to all the corporate drones using their carefully worded lawsuit-proof, passive-voice, non-committal, lawyer-vetted style.

You must work in a very, very sane environment - for most of us this is literally a breath of fresh air.
IBM shipped 3 BASIC interpreters with the PC. Cassette Basic, Disk Basic and BASIC Advanced. Cassette BASIC was contained in a 32k ROM. Disk BASIC depended upon cassette basic but added support for floppies and a few other features. It required the cassette basic rom to be present. It was meant for machines with low memory and was launched via basic.com. Once all PCs shipped with more memory by default basic.com became just a launcher for BASICA for batch file compatibility.

BASIC Advanced (BASICA) also required the presence of the cassette BASIC ROM. It added additional features above disk BASIC but required more memory. It was originally launched via basica.com. This eventually changed to basica.exe. At this time basica.com became just a launcher of basica.exe.

Non-IBM versions of MS-DOS, at least the versions targeted for PC clones, shipped with basic.com and basica.com being launchers for basica.exe. This is true at least as far back as Compaq DOS 1.10. Earlier versions of MS-DOS were branded by OEMs and included versions of GW-BASIC which didn’t make direct reference to GW-BASIC such as the Compaq example you gave. I have a Zenith Z-161 luggable in my collection and the Zenith version of MS-DOS it runs has a BASIC which is gw -basic but reports itself Zenith BASIC and simply includes Microsoft in the copyright notice.
Avoidance of sun exposure is mostly connected to more time spent indoors, where the ventilation is lower with higher CO2 buildup, viral exposure, and indoor pollution (mostly VOCs, but also Ozone, and also particulate and NO2 pollution (for gas stoves) from kitchens, etc.). However, outdoor time would have slightly more exposure to vehicular pollution, but likely less to nanoparticles in the case of gas stove usage (https://www.earth.com/news/gas-stoves-release-more-harmful-n...).
Not only that. They established the comparison between their product and Her. This will last for a long time.
Unix was effectively free for a long time, ported to pretty much everything, and with source-based portability a lot of software could be adapted between places.

VMS could be way more solid than whatever was cobbled in Unix (outside expensive niche implementations) but over time Unix would grow and grow while VMS was limited in users and platforms. [1]

Digital selling off some of the software packages they used to provide with VMS only made for quicker demise.

[1] This is also oft-forgotten reason why Oracle got so widespread in enterprises - you could get Oracle with most features on most platforms, even if some were more blessed than others. It might run slower than packages optimized for given platform (think DB2 on S/390, Rdb on VMS) but it would be mostly the same database whether you connected to development server on PC, some department's VAX Cluster, or your recent acquisition's IBM Mainframe.
`ncdu` has the `-x` flag which means that "Only count files and directories on the same filesystem as the specified dir.".

Maybe that could help.
But isn't it more profitable to replace a high-cost job like a data analyst or logistics expert than 10-20 low-cost jobs like warehouse workers? Like the cost of the machines and the maintenance probably will end up costing more than humans.
Puffer fish can't control being poisonous, but it still discourages predators.
I’d say simply because of language preference
They are not snarky and they very gladly work with corporates as well.

Look at all the sponsored content they have from ZTE, as well as all the Nutanix specific articles because of Nutanix .NEXT

Snark is fine if you are evenhanded by being snarky about everyone, but it ain't great if you're clearly picking and choosing and deciding to take money from vendors.
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Git
Innovation-Friendly Software
Important to note that PyOxidizer, the tool that gets a special mention at the end of this blog post, is currently in a zombie state and not getting updates [1]. So alternatives in this space are extremely welcome!

[1] https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2024/03/17/my-shifting-open-so...
As I mentioned below:

They are not snarky and they very gladly work with corporates as well. They are just writing in some weird pissy tone.

Look at all the sponsored content they have from ZTE, as well as all the Nutanix specific articles because of Nutanix .NEXT

Snark is fine if you are evenhanded by being snarky about everyone, but it ain't great if you're clearly picking and choosing and deciding to take money from vendors.

I'd like snark, but I'd rather hear that from an actual practitioner, not one of the several tech "journalists" we'd wine and dine when I was still working for vendors.
>Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a professor of pediatric neurology at Case Western Reserve University, says he suspects some parents may be reluctant to put their kids on ADHD medication out of misguided concerns. "There's the myth that it's addictive, which it's not." He says studies have shown people treated with ADHD have no increased risk of drug abuse.

The concern is the medication itself is addictive - not necessarily of some increased risk of unrelated drug abuse.
I wonder if this is why GEM suddenly stopped working! All of a sudden, I couldn't access my stock option platform for a previous employer through ComputerShare. The platform was suddenly shut down in April.
Similar to pmx's point, an implicit assumption in this (which is unlikely to be true in many scenario's) is that the there is a negligible spread in the distribution of revenue per customer. Imagine if you have one whale customer and a bunch of small fish, if you lose the whale in the change you won't maintain the same revenue.

Some scenario's this assumption is reasonable though (say Netflix subscribers).
I went looking for a DDG status page this morning before seeing this link on HN. Google found a tweet from them earlier today with an announcement [1]

I'm pretty surprised that I'm unable to find a dedicated status page for DDG - kinda horrible that I need to rely on twitter/reddit in order to know that they are having issues.

I'm also a little tickled by the fact that I need to search "Duck Duck Go status !g" in order to be directed to Google, because searching for DDGs status on DDG does not, well, work.

1 - https://x.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1793557968027570527
Yet all they offer are ghost jobs at worst and hourly/gig work at best?