skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I used to really thumb my nose at the National Park permit system, now I love it.
Coming of age in the 90s and witnessing the sheer audacity of greed that followed, I can tell you that the cynical answer tends to be the right one.
While I can totally see toxic managers reading this, and thinking, "Ha! I told them my management style isn't toxic," my takeaways were a bit different. I read it as being about the dangers of overcorrecting when trying to avoid bad management practice.

To play a charitable devil's advocate, here's my summary:

- You should have some understanding of what your people are working on.

- Suggesting a (potentially) bad idea is an efficient way to get people to teach you all the information you're missing.

- Rather than pinning down the perfect metrics, try to make do with the imperfect measurements that you already have. What do you want to achieve with those measurements? Focus on the end result (e.g., CEO understanding) rather than the metrics themselves.

- Don't sacrifice transparency on the altar of your shit umbrella. Protecting your team is good. Hiding things from them is bad.

I think these ideas could have been expressed better, to make them less easy to misconstrue. (I might be misconstruing the article in my summary! I'm honestly not 100% sure myself.)

If a toxic manager recommends this article and doesn't change their behavior, then that's definitely a red flag. They'll read anything and take it as vindication that they're doing the right thing.
this one has cost us many thousands of dollars.

we had cron script on a very old server running for almost a decade, starting a multipart upload every night, pushing what was supposed to be backups to a bucket that also stored user-uploaded content so it was normal that the bucket grows in size by a bit every day. the script was 'not working' so we never relied on the backup data it was supposed to be pushing, never saw the files in s3, the bucket grew at a steady and not unreasonable pace. and then this spring i discovered that we were storing almost 3TB of incomplete multipart uploads.

and yes, i know that anecdote is just chock full of bad practices.
Sure, as well they should … and then do it for every other company one or two orders of magnitude more - then it’s a reasonable comparison.
Don't confuse competence and ethics.
Hah, indeed. I'm sure there are... attention/traction is difficult though.

I'm more and more disenfranchised. Opportunists steal the show.

I still pay attention/go to the booth, yet I'm sour because the larger group confuses public servants for celebrity.
Boy I sure am glad that Ticketmaster refused to let me change my email address some months back when I was trying to clean up my profile and change the registered address from my_handle@gmail.com to my_handle+ticketmaster@gmail.com.
Is eBPF driving you crazy? Let it run Lunatik instead
It has been a while since we have introduced XDPLua, a Lua binding for running scripts inside the XDP (eXpress Data Path) environment using the Lunatik framework. Since then both XDP and Lunatik have evolved quite a bit. Especially, now it is possible to expose kernel functions (kfuncs) to eBPF programs, instead of relying only on eBPF Helpers. This feature finally allowed us to get rid of the hard requirement of running our Lua binding as built-in in the kernel and enabled us to run it as a kernel module. Moreover, Lunatik has also evolved towards a modular framework. Now we can develop new bindings for kernel subsystems as Lua libraries and link them as loadable kernel modules. Thus, leveraging these two features, we have created a new Lua binding for the XDP subsystem. We are glad to introduce in this article the new LuaXDP library!
Depending on your use case, fire alpaca, azpainter, graphics gale.

The problem is that Krita/GIMP have many features that very few people use. Like you have digital artists who don't need CMYK, but the entire application needs to support it. Or you have people who want to write text on images. Or people that want to do photo manipulation. Or people who need to make assets for games. Or even doing something weird like saving a PNG without pre-multiplied alpha.

So whenever you compare it with something else, you're able to point out to all these features they accumulated through the years.

But if you started making an app today for a specific use case, in 1 month you would be able to add features that these applications have lacked for decades, and these will be just the first features you'll be able to think of.

So it's always this strange feeling where an application clearly has had a lot of work put into it and yet seems to lack something extremely basic you would expect to find in an application that has had a lot of work put into it.
I can think of lots of possible answers outside Europe and North America, particularly where infrastructure is either limited or unreliable.
https://archive.ph/nBz7W/again?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2...
Math behind everyday life: on distribution of "black days" and beyond [pdf]
That sounds about right.
Rode a motorcycle in SF traffic for years. About twice a day people would do something that could have killed me. Changing lanes without looking, blowing a stop sign, just generally not paying attention. I had a woman pull up while I was waiting to pull out of a gas station. She somehow thought that I should back up, up hill and let her in. I don’t think she realized that motorcycles don’t have reverse. She got super mad and her boyfriend wanted to fight me. He stormed over with chest puffed. People are dangerously stupid and clueless. About half way over he noticed the armored knuckles on my gloves and realized it probably wouldn’t go well for him.

It is super dangerous. I couldn’t stop though because my commute was 4x as long in a car and 6x-8x as long on public transportation.
> The top 10% line would be at $86K/year.

The top 10% in wealth is >$1M - doctors on average do not hit that wealth until 55 (w/o INCREASED tuition costs): https://www.leveragerx.com/blog/average-doctor-net-worth/#:~....

> Let's be more real. Public Health pays the lowest physician salary, averaging at $249K/year. That already puts you in the 2%.

It does not put you in the top 2% if you have a tax rate of ~45% and a post-tax student loan payment of $4k per month.

Until your medical debts are paid off - you're not making much more than a mediocre mid-level SWE can make at an average startup.

And you have to put up with the misery of being a doctor, as well as the misery of medical school.
On many of the Bstock sites you have to be approved (as long as you have a tax certificate from the state, which is easy to get, it's not difficult)

(My wife and I have a reselling business side hustle)
Perfect is the enemy of good. It is quite acceptable to streamline the easy cases now and the hard cases later or never.
For me it only increases the resolution, but not the correctness. The shadows have more detail, but are still wrong.
I haven't worked in a decade, and my predictions about what I'd do were... bad.

I am not volunteering, or consulting for non-profits. It fulfilling or interesting, possibly because I wasn't invested in the cause(s).

I am not reading as much as I thought. It is lonely and boring to read for more than half a day, day after day.

I am not doubling down on family, as they are busy doing their own things.

I am not traveling constantly, because it is lonely traveling by myself (again, family is busy).

What am I doing?

I'm studying neuroscience at a local university (after working through chem/bio prerequisites). I had zero interest before, now it is all I care about. Surprise!

I spend a lot of time walking through town, aimlessly. No idea why.

I average 1.5 grocery stores every day, and cook needlessly elaborate meals for my family. Again, brand new interest.
It does. But if you're concerend about this (and many of the other items mentioned), you can control access to those features using IAM.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/service-authorization/latest/ref...

The condition keys specifically are here and you can see keys to control access to storage class, tagging, etc.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/service-authorization/latest/ref...
Does that same reasoning of yours apply to JavaScript, given that person's involvement with its development? For example, do you disable JavaScript in whichever browser(s) you use? Do you avoid all desktop and mobile apps that may contain JavaScript code?

Does it also apply to Mozilla's offerings in general, given that person's significant involvement with the formation of that community, its organizations, and its software? Do you avoid Firefox, Thunderbird, and so forth?
> How often do you turn off your iPhone or android device? Completely turn it off and then reboot it, rather than just going into standby mode, that is.

I do this two or three times per week, sometimes more, so I guess I'm already good!
How to think like a programmer*
They offered their patent conditioned on a reciprocal patent grant (or agreement not to enforce any patents against Tesla) from the takers, as far as I understand. The difference with NACS is that they genuinely opened the connector and removed that requirement.
Easy answer: The US loses and loses bigly.

The brutal fact of the matter is if the US needs to blockade Chinese cars lest the US automotive industry completely collapses on itself, the US has already lost. There is nothing worth protecting at that point; an industry that can't make first rate products can't create instruments of war that can win.

If we wanted Pax Americana to last, shit needed to change at least a few decades ago. Anyone who was paying attention to EV development would have foreseen China dominating the field.
Very helpful to figure out what seats in a stadium would be best to avoid the afternoon sun.
Goalpost movement noted.

Is being "driven by the cattle prod" a valid excuse to hold views described as "distrusts or dislikes the government?"
IBM servers this was the default as well. Where the difference between ram amounts on AS400 systems was a phone call to enable more.
> The authors found that supersharers were disproportionately Republican, middle-aged White women residing in three conservative states, Arizona, Florida, and Texas

But where do the supersharers of true news live? California and San Francisco I guess...
Part of the point of the UN is that it never makes sense to withdraw your membership, even if you're at odds with the whole body. It's a useful forum, even if it's absolutely preposterous as a governing authority.

At any rate, scoffing at UN decisions is hardly an Israeli idiosyncrasy. It would be weirder if a country of Israel's scale showed it reverence.
Where in the US is there a supermarket that sells guns? I've never seen one. They'd need a FFL (Federal Firearms License) and anyone purchasing would have to go through a background check and in some states, a mandatory wait period of 3-10 days.
I actually enjoy Discourse, it's the best software for forum that I encounter as a user, but someone who wants to create a forum using it must either pay at least 1200€/year or know how to manage a server, including securing it. I'm not saying that the price is not justified (it is) and it's great that it is free software for anyone to install it, but for most non pro usage it cannot compete with discord.
Old people? Noooooooo
No JS can actually increase roundtrips in some cases, and that's a problem if you're latency-bound and not necessarily speed-bound.

Imagine a Reddit or HN style UI with upvote and downvote buttons on each comment. If you have no JS, you have to reload the page every time one of the buttons is clicked. This takes a lot of time and a lot of packets.

If you have an offline-first SPA, you can queue the upvotes up and send them to the server when possible, with no impact on the UI. If you do this well, you can even make them survive prolonged internet dropouts (think being on a subway). Just save all incomplete voting actions to local storage, and then try re-submmitting them when you get internet access.
ChatGPT-4o only hallucinated on my son’s god awful handwriting with mathematics, mine is pretty bad and it still did fine.

What’s funny is my son made an error in the arithmetic and ChatGPT corrected it - that was the hallucination.
This is my thought, too.

I'd bet customer perception is also a factor; there's a risk the old boards (not even made by Intel) die and cause problems, and Intel wouldn't want to deal with press/comments like "This CPU stopped working after 2 months" or "I installed this new CPU, and within 2 months it killed my motherboard that had been working fine for 7 years".

They've released CPU upgrades with the same socket before, I'm sure they have the sales data to know how that performs vs new socket.

Laptops have outsold desktops for well over a decade, and their CPUs pretty much non-upgradable. I can't easily find a nice chart to reference, but intuition tells me the desktop industry is similarly trending towards complete "system" sales vs individual parts. In other words: Most people don't upgrade their CPU, they upgrade by replacing the entire system. If true, this also means the socket would be almost entirely irrelevant to sales performance.
In the book club I run, we voted on books for a few years. I kept hoping the non-attending voters would choose the right books to bring them to a meeting, but the choices sometimes felt aspirational like that -- people voted for a heavy title but still didn't attend, and it was irritating to be reading dull books chosen by someone else.

So we switched to making selections in person at a session; if you can't come, you can submit suggestions, but the people who actually bother to show up make the final choices. We choose a monthly book for a whole year at a time, so we just do an hour-long discussion in December and pick 11 titles. In a monthly group you could probably do it in 10 minutes after the regular discussion.

Also, as the organizer feel free to put your thumb on the scale: pick 3 books you'd personally like to read, and ask them to choose one. You may want to be completely democratic about it, but people often appreciate someone else reading reviews and limiting the choices (avoiding the paradox of choice).
Network of news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines
Come to Spain. We haven't everything, but our optic fibers and internet plans are top notch ;P
"Japan plans to make all publicly funded research available to read in institutional repositories. "

Oh, are you not a student or teacher or employee here at the University of XYZ? I'm sorry, this research is not 'freely' available to you.
Thanks for your comment back… I clicked on it for game market Steam as well, but I learned a few years ago that my great grandfather built some steam cars in Rochester around 1900, so I found this fascinating. Thanks!
> The authors found that supersharers were disproportionately Republican, middle-aged White women residing in three conservative states, Arizona, Florida, and Texas

Unstoppable force there
Startup tips from an ed-tech founder
I attended a speaker event on ed-tech startups hosted by Y Combinator at UC Berkeley. The speaker had some interesting things to say about startups, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on Hacker News.
It sounds like in your view simplifying a UI is not possible or has never been successfully implemented.

I think it is very much possible, very much needed by lots of software out there, but indeed it’s hard.

The hardest part is not alienating existing users when messing with muscle memory.
In my case I waited patiently because it was outsourced, so I assumed its a company with maybe 10 people running through thousands and thousands of recalls for various companies. They might be slow, but as long as they get to it, doesn't bother me.
People dramatically underestimate the complexity of even reasonably relevant search systems.

One reason is unlike other data products - it’s an active, conscious action of users. If ads or recommendations are wrong nobody gets mad. But screw up search and it’s like the shop sales person taking you to the wrong aisle. It’s actively frustrating.

So basically every useful search system is disliked to some degree because it will get some things wrong some of the time.
One of my first professional software projects, as an intern, was I wrote a tool for simulating this type of latency. I modeled it as a set of pipe objects that you could chain together with command line arguments. There was one that would do a fixed delay, another that would introduce random dropped packets, a tee component in case you wanted to send traffic to another port as well, etc.
Indeed, and when The People voted to pay and appoint people to build roads they were expressing Thier Needs
I find that German cars have really dropped in quality. My dad changes car leases every 2 -3 years. Over the past decade, he's driven Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Genesis. They were all brand new when he got them. He's only ever had problems with the German brands. His BMW crapped out twice, once on the highway and once while waiting at a light. My brother bought a BMW and he's constantly having to take it to the shop for repairs because something keeps dying. Over the past 5 years, my other friends that drive German cars usually always have issues. Meanwhile, my friends that drive Japanese or Korean brands seldom have to take them in aside for regular maintenance purposes.
Actually it was the Ati Radeon 9500 non pro that could be modded into a Radeon 9700. Regarding the ATI Radeon 9600, there was a variant called Radeon 9550 that could be overclocked from 250 mhz to 400 mhz.
You can estimate it empirically. However large changes in model parameters/capacity tends to interact with hyperparameters, so would want to do runs with multiple values of hyperparameters. And training processes give noisy results, so might want to do multiple repetitions.
And each run may take several GPU days. So even a small experiment of 10 repetitions X 10 hyperparameters X 10 model sizes takes several thousand GPU days. But there are many papers from the large labs that do such.

And the whole result is also conditional on the optimization/training process used. Which is an area where we have no reason to think that we are optimal... So we can do studies with practical results (given sufficient money), but we are far from being able to identify the actual maximums available.
SEC registrants are required to make a disclosure within 4 business days once a cybersecurity incident is deemed by the company to be material to a reasonable investor.

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gerding-cybersecurity-dis...
> […] from my_handle@gmail.com to my_handle+ticketmaster@gmail.com.

Webdevs of HN: how many of you make a point of allowing sub-addressing?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Sub-addressing
Is Google Workspace HIPAA Compliant?
Like in all situations, I think this ultimately comes down to the circumstances and consequences. Rights are, in the end, mere principals which may help us make good decisions. At least, I've never observed a right descend from platonic space and intervene in the real world to prevent itself from being violated. If the benefits are sufficient and the consequences small enough ignoring a dead person's wishes seems like not that big of a deal to me. Its hard to see the point or benefit of misgendering a person after they have died (ceteris paribus) but sometimes a person's private writings are of large value to the rest of the world and they are, after all, dead.
I would say that Intel is a company, not a person, and isn't motivated but directed. If the same people own both Intel and the mobo manufacturers, they win by forcing new purchases of new products primarily distinguished by a higher price.

One computer owner in a thousand upgrades their processor alone, or would even know how to.
Steam is a power generator.

Electric engines are a power consumer.

What you are saying here makes no sense.
This grants tends to come with strong rules on what you can and can’t do with the money, it’s hard for them to be used to prop up a company substantially, they are used to nudge an industry in a direction the market may not yet reward.

China’s support is an order of magnitude more and essentially allows their companies to be unprofitable and not worry about.

Similar to how American VCs enabled Uber to unprofitably wipe out many countries taxi industries in a way that those taxi companies couldn’t compete with.
That is a very insightful comment, thanks.
Neither does it magically summon infinite traffic under all conditions
That echoes my experience as well. I think it may be easier for those who have not had formal training in a traditional programming language, who happen to also be especially detail-oriented writers.
Small town politics is based on voting and laws. I can participate in Town Meeting, or call the town manager, or volunteer for a role in town government. And unless I make a spectacular nuisance of myself (or ruin the groundwater or dirt roads), the town doesn't much care what I do with my land.[1]

HOAs are basically private pseudo-governments, and most of the ones around here seem to impose far more stringent rules about how people use their land than the towns do.

[1] If I were operating on a scale beyond an individual homeowner or a small farm, the town would pay more attention. Want to keep a dozen goats or turn 5 acres into a truck farm? Go for it. Want to raise 1,500 pigs with a manure lagoon? You'll need to go through a permitting process.
Indeed! For instance, Kuwait Nabka'd about 400,000 Palestinians in the wake of the Gulf War. And Syria just Nakba'd another 300,000, with barrel bombs dropped from helicopters.
PS. I just wanted to note, this is by the same outfit also responsible for the Santander break. (Both, apparently, due to a successful breach of an upstream storage provider).-
But KB is indeed 1000 bytes, and MB is indeed 1000 KB.

In case of 2^10 units the correct names are kibibyte (KiB) and mebibyte (MiB). Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte#Multiple-byte_units

Yeah we have long standing confusion that for historical reasons KB and MB often means 2^10 bytes units so now when you see KB you really don't know what it means. Therefore I am a staunch supporter of unambiguous KiB and MiB.
Why would you need to make a point of allowing sub-addressing? Surely it’s whether or not you make a point of disallowing it?
For ICE? There is no Chinese competition, but Kia stinger and Lexus RC are direct competition.

In an EV world even the Hyundai Ioniq 5 can smoke the M4 or the S5. Take it for a test drive you will be shocked. For Chinese both BYD and Xiaomi have offerings in the space.

(Btw I own an RS5 and would never trade it for an soul-less ev, but there are very few of us who care)
Well yeah, it is kind of crazy.

Any scenario in which undo harm is brought upon someone because they were a passerby on the street in a video, is a such a reach that you have to question how grounded in reality they are. It's some deep "I'm the main character" level thinking.
Surprised it didn't happen sooner, their infra guys are getting paid next to nothing and there's very little competence left on the team.
Thats been true since the iphone 3g with unlimited data plans though
Well either way, it exists, and the FDA is apparently going to say it's not harmful. I'm in the "nobody in my entire extended family has ever had a single cavity" club, so no dog in the race for me other than my strong suspicion that the line of reasoning behind managing the risk of cavities by managing the microbiome in the mouth is the right approach.

Is there a good way to order genetic sequencing of s.mutans from my own mouth? Have we gotten to the point where a lab test like this is inexpensive enough to be done for the sake of curiosity?