skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some of UniSuper's backups on Google Cloud's servers and elsewhere were salvageable, and the fund was able to recover its data, teaching us all a lesson about having multiple redundancies.

> UniSuper had backups in place with an additional service provider. [0]

What strikes me is that the backups didn't come from the provider who was directly responsible for losing the data.

[0] https://www.unisuper.com.au/about-us/media-centre/2024/a-joi...
If you believe that, buy some futures. I'll put my money in a savings account. Let's see who does better.

Supply of oil is artificially constrained but completely necessary for the QoL that we're used to.

Electricity prices for charging will much more than 10x to support a significant fraction of the population using EVs.
I am very curious if it is actually simple or not. I've had some "easy" interview questions that are pure CS trivia. But this and your other comments make it sound practical... can you just post it?
What does an Android phone look like without Gmail access? Does a Gmail ban = Google account ban?
No, that's actually not what I mean. Note that I'm not taking issue with any GOP policies, because I don't have a problem with GOP policies. I have a problem with stated goals of simply obstructing the people they are supposed to be collaborating with, thus I am directly quoting statements made that explicitly state their goal of obstructing their collaborators.

Again, citing someone's own words cannot possibly be considered "propaganda" against them, lol. They said it, and to my knowledge they weren't even held at gunpoint!

I mean you haven't even given me an analogous example of the problem I'm pointing out, so I'm not sure what "clear hypocrisy" I'm exhibiting. Give me an example case and I'll tell you what I think and then you can decide whether I'm hypocritical.
It's probably similar to the difference between doing "proper" squats in a squat rack vs. using a cheater frame. The muscle movement is more varied and not as linear as doing a single left/right up/down exercise. But that's just a guess.
Yeah. I gave money to a Democrat years ago and I still keep getting spam from other Democratic candidates even though I always unsubscribe from them. Some of them are so crazy strident that I've thought about writing to the campaign and saying I'm getting these emails that I'm afraid are fake. For me donor fatigue is very real, at least for politics.

(To be fair I get spam phone calls from a group that claims to represent the Republicans for reasons I can't understand where I'll interrupt the guy in his script and say something like "I can see some people would agree with you about many of these issues, but I can't support a party that is still supporting Jan 6" he will switch to another script that goes "Can I count on you just to make a small donation of $X" and then when I continue in broken record style he says "I know things are hard now, can I could on you to make a small donation of $X/2")
The situation here is slightly different, though. Meta's AI in their various products is explicitly marketed as an LLM chatbot, not as a customer support channel.

Whether they've been diligent enough in making that distinction (and whether that's even possible) will very likely be determined in court at some point.
https://www.commitasync.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-ob...

Well that sounds great position.

Salary is a little low though, hopefully we could negotiate!
The US Government operates at a massive deficit, so clearly the purpose of it is not to turn a profit.
Personal assistant without the effort of vetting / preventing identity fraud / theft would go a long way.
I have no idea but I remember the Sopranos episode where Christopher's father in law owns a hardware store and sells fenced goods out of it.

It's not hard, but the owner can get done for it of course.
Yeah, trying to decide if this is a fight between two companies or a real thing.
>Bento

A trip down memory lane:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)
Fun for the win! I suspect most of the other suggestions, even if possible, wouldn't have generated this level of interest. Well done on your Rube Goldberg method!
Yeah I'd imagine the problem is not verifying the output against retrieved documents. If it just hallucinates it would ignore the given context, something that can absolutely be verified by another LLM.
Funny, in Europe that's absolutely not the case.

I watched some government sale and they posted a PDF vehicles for sale that were forfeited.

The VINs where there but parts of it where blacked out.

It was a PDF. I copy-pasted the text behind the black box and got the full VIN.
I keep an old USB-to-SCSI adapter cable handy for this sort of challenge. In general, I hoard any USB-to-X adapters that I come across (RS232, parallel printer port, USB floppy drive, USB optical drive). Of course if you don't have the right SCSI cable that may not be worth the effort in this case.
So literally ? Hard to, however there are many records of continuous invasions of Persia by Greeks of the era that are well substantiated and many torched cities that were rebuilt frequently. It might be more pertinent to say which events of over 20-30 major campaigns inspired the texts of the Iliad.
AFAIK current CPUs power usage for calculations is in pJ ( pico joule ) and that's why we are doing speculative execution because that's almost free

the issue is that moving that data even to anything outside the core is cost about 100x that so the main every consumption for CPU is not in doing actual computation but in moving data around
The crime was very cut and dry. What might confusing is that the felony level escalation could be triggered by any one of several crimes and those don’t have to be committed by the same person: it could have been related to the tax evasion or attempted election influence but since Michael Cohen had already plead guilty to violating campaign finance laws as well as tax fraud, all prosecutors had to do was show that this crime was committed in part to cover up Cohen’s uncontested crimes. I doubt they’d have had trouble getting an additional conviction on election interference since it’s so clear that was his concern (c.f. Trump’s stated fears about alienating women voters) but a prosecutor is almost always going to take a given rather than having to risk something going wrong.
There seems to be a semi-infinite market for garbage software sold to landlords. At my current place I need an account to unlock my door, a different account to open the garage door (because the garage is managed by a third party), an account to reserve the elevator for move in day (which tried to up sell me moving services), an account to get sent my water bill which charges me $15 a month for the privilege (I don't pay me bill though this service, just have it emailed to me) , an account to pay rent and and an account to submit maintenance requests. Part of the trick seems to be to offload the costs onto the tenets who have no choice, but I'm sure our landlord is paying a good chunk for some of these.

If you have minimal to zero scruples, this seems to be an easy market to make a start up in. Landlords will buy anything!
Happy to find this website, nice to have soo much philosophy in 1 place.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?page=1&tags%5B0%5D=philoso...

I just hate trying to google search to get an epub.
Ask HN: How do you handle the stress of impacting users?
I'm in my mid twenties, I work as an engineer writing software for a product that is used by dozens of huge multibillion multinational companies. I'm not even working on something that big compared to a lot of unicorns/FAANGs. I'm responsible for a few major features and work +/- on every part of the product.

The product itself is not critical to most of our clients but every mistake I make, has the potential of angering thousands of people, ruin some people's day and making the company loose a lot of money.

As we grow and take on more big clients my stress levels are skyrocketing.

How do you handle this kind of stress?

Sometimes I just want to give up and go live in the woods.
> replace finder, to replace the dock with a taskbar, and to rebind the keys, so that everything acted like linux/windows

What apps did you use to accomplish this?
Having to audit every commit in what was a FOSS project to make sure the parts I care about weren't relicensed out from under me sounds like a lot of work.

I use Emacs. If the FSF suddenly started pulling parts of it out, I would not sit there and hope that they didn't come after the bits I need. If someone forked it with strong assurances that I could keep using all of Emacs, I'd probably switch to that work. "Just fork the bits that get taken away" would not be an option I'd consider.
Your instinct is correct. The major legal research providers (Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis) both provide “citators”, which are human annotations of which cases and statutes have been overruled, upheld, criticized, etc. One of the issues the paper describes is the fairly ham-handed way this gets integrated into these systems, causing even more trouble.
Yeah, having been an engineer, tech lead and manager in various forms over the last 25 years, I have to saw I appreciate the thoughtfulness and nuance that Will Larson is trying to bring. The problem is nuance on its own doesn't really grab anyone's attention and it doesn't challenge assumptions, so things need to be spiced up a bit. But as soon as you do that people have knee-jerk reactions, usually based on specific lived experience and context that is far from universal.

Ultimately the problem with management advice is that everything is contextual. A bad manager can abuse any advice, and a great manager can find a counter example to any advice. The right answer is pretty much always "it depends". On the internet though, there's generally not enough time or depth of connection to wade through the details that matter, and even when it's attempted, the vast majority don't have the experience and expertise to draw the right lessons from deep case studies anyway. Instead, what is successful are blanket statements and platitudes that reflexively resonate with some large group of people. The problem with that kind of content is that it gives a dopamine hit but is absolutely worthless in terms of actually developing expertise.

Building large scale software systems is hard, managing teams of talented engineers to build those systems in a constantly changing business environment is even harder. Anyone who says different is naive or selling something.
There was oodles of collaboration during the Trump Administration - how did I ever forget how willing to compromise and collaborate Democrats were back then! It was an amazing time for our Congress - so much collaboration was done that we got sick and tired of collaborating!
The Debian maintainer switched to building it with the default configuration!
The default build is networking OFF. Same for Yubikey, browser integration, etc.

-DWITH_XC_NETWORKING=[ON|OFF] Enable/Disable Networking support (e.g., favicon downloading) (default: OFF)

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/develop/INS...
LOL `papichulo`? Que tigre!?
Academic Departments
Might be better to make some kind of official statement instead of posting on Xitter where anonymous readers can't read past the top level Xit.
>My (texas) city comes and picks them up at no charge, and I don't feel that's an unusual situation.

That IS pretty unusual, and in a positive way.

I live in one of EU's richest socialist countries (Austria) and here YOU have bare the cost of transporting your old fridge or washing machine to the city's recycling depot, which is a huge expense for your average joe as that means owning or renting a car plus renting a trailer plus having a gym-bro with a strong back and equipment to lift the damn thing from your place and carry it downstairs (many older buildings don't have elevators). And once you get to the recycling center on your own dime, you have to pay 6 Euros on top if you're a resident of the city, or 33 Euros if not.

Your only "free" workaround is buying a new fridge or washing machine from a retailer who also has a promo on picking up your old one for free with the delivery of the replacement.

So many people just dump them in the basement of the apartment building or on the side of the road. #environment #green But hey, at least we've banned nuclear energy in the constitution because it's bad for the environment.

Isn't it ironic where one of US's most conservative states with low taxes, does things better than one of EU's most socialist "green" states where taxes are through the roof?

I think it's similar in other EU countries like the Netherlands.
If this is possible without any further APIs needed in Android, you should develop the next generation of the eye-fi type of concept which does what OP wants. You'll make a killing, and I agree, it's the kind of thing which theoretically could force Apple to at minimum steal your idea for their platform, or maybe if they're feeling generous provide an API for developers.
Second question. Are there any other naive millennials who legitimately believed like me that Gmail, Maps etc was just corporate altruism back in the mid-late 00's?

Looking back I feel so stupid lol. But I really thought these technology companies were doing something alien to how corporations behaved in the "dark ages". Gullible.
Such 4 K cryostats have about a 30 W cooling power.
It's better... in the same way that it's better to lose half of your life savings in a casino than losing it all. If I were to bet, most runners don't drink booze before a run.
I know many who have had hugely successful exits to vista. They are extremely good at what they do - but perhaps what they do doesn’t align with your morals
Most (good) laws did not originate from statute. Laws against murder originated in the courts (in the common law tradition). Torts originated in the courts. The claim of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress was invented / discovered within the past 50-or-so years. You’re fundamentally backwards on the assumption that laws generally originate from statutes. The most important, cornerstone laws of western society were merely “codified” in recent years as an attempt to undermine the judiciary… which under prevailing jurisprudence means they are mostly nullities.
SnakeViz: A browser based graphical viewer for the output of Python's cProfile
Sparse Maximal Update Parameterization
This sounds suspiciously like Matrix. Does is required buy-in from user agents or will it benefit existing browsers once implemented?
Unless you invent a new field of mathematics, how can you know that whatever you come up with is "new reasoning"?
I want that on a shirt
For Bioengineering it definetly is, but a lot of Medicine is still locked behind high impact Wiley and Sage publications, and for a lot of that research it's fairly easy to pay the $3-4k to make the article open access.
To be clear: I agree it was hacking. I'm saying that aside from the IP theft angle, this kind of hacking doesn't usually get heavy handed consequences for individuals. AFAIK, the individual involved was not prosecuted criminally.

I used to work at Ticketmaster. I don't anymore and I didn't at the time of the incident, so it didn't seem relevant to the discussion.
Copper coin PCBs – efficiency and reliability in thermal PCB management
Interesting because in Sweden there is a turnover limit of around 284k USD/year for using their simplified tool for financial statements.

Which covers most sole-proprietors who have 1-2 contracts, like myself.
Apple still designs better phones and laptops than any Chinese, Taiwanese or Korean company. Italy and France still make better clothes. Japan still makes better kitchen utensils, gaming consoles and games. I could go on.

Of course, quality of Chinese goods increases over time, it's stupid to deny that. However, it appears that in many industries and product categories there's an upper limit that Chinese products just can't breach.
> But to the LLM, the token with the highest probability will be the most likely correct answer

This is precisely what people are identifying as problematic
Private real estate property satisfaction and attainability for the common man hasn't improved much if at all since suffocating regulations and active committees really ramped up 50 years ago.
The OP is the original creator of Ballista, so he's well aware of the project.

Ballista is much less mature than Spark and needs a lot of work. It's awesome they're making Spark faster with Comet.
De-googling, so far
Do I? Hell no, I'm a model citizen. The trouble, you see, is with all these other assholes...

You are positing an individualist solution (don't be a "gaping asshole" by some vague standard) to a society-level problem (people disagree on behavioral norms, and even if they agreed not everyone would comply). This doesn't work and is tantamount to just pretending the problem doesn't exist - a pretty common failure mode in the conservative mindset. See also: gun control is unnecessary because all you have to do is not shoot people...
Newer doesn't usually mean more power, though. You can just have a power limit, it's fine. And I don't expect PCIe to get faster with a CPU upgrade anyway.

The flash space was pretty forseeable and they dealt with it, more of an excuse than anything.
> Snowflake internal staff do not have access to read customer data

By default, no. But it is standard operating procedure for sales engineers to request and be given access to customer data so they can build demos.
GlassDoor and Ziprecruiter are grossly out of date.

https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/san-fra...
Those are the equivalent to prompt engineer artists, they use the new tool to create new art. Still removed most of the jobs, there isn't nearly as much need for photographers as there were need for painters.
You're lucky if it's only 2 and the approval process takes less than months.
Breaking and entering requires the use of force. Absent that, it is trespass.

The claim was that individuals suffer bigger consequences than people. The person involved was not fined $10 million. AFAIK, they were not prosecuted criminally.
Meebo was sick. I remember they never made any money though as an IM webapp, and eventually fully pivoted to some kind of on-page ad toolbar that site owners would add to their sites...for some reason.
Back when Google search was good this query would have returned no results. As it should do. Now it desperately tries to dig up anything it can find just so the number of results is not zero. Somebody at Google wanted to the increase search 'hit rate' KPI and this is the result.
Linear Clock (2021)
Texas Well-Plugging Program
> Effort your citizens put into tax collection is 'dead weight', and doesn't contribute to exports etc.

Hot take: a lot of tax revenue does contribute to exports etc. The government is spending a lot of money re-digging that shipping channel in Baltimore after the bridge collapsed. Just one recent example, but pretty much every bridge and port and road in the world has a lot to do with taxes.

The government is also spending lots of money on social programs people like too much for even the Republicans to try to repeal, yet the government is not taxing enough to cover them. Letting rules slide for certain people means more debt for everyone else, and is what a lot of economists would call "arbitrary redistribution", which is bad.
Exploratory Data Analysis (Pearson Modern Classic) by John W. Tukey
Title: Texas Has ‘the Most Aggressive’ Well-Plugging Program in the U.S. So Why Is Its To-Do List So Long?
parent was referring to the era when gmail appeared. GBs of storage was entirely unheard-of
Santander claims:

"Following an investigation, we have now confirmed that certain information relating to customers of Santander Chile, Spain and Uruguay, as well as all current and some former Santander employees of the group had been accessed. Customer data in all other Santander markets and businesses are not affected."

https://www.santander.com/en/stories/statement
Of course I own it. I also utilize all of the public infrastructure around my land and enjoy the fact that I don't have to resort to armed patrols to protect it from roving bands of raiders, so yeah, taxes.
From the actual paper:

"Our hypothetical date for the Trojan War (1300–1200 BC) was needed to enable estimates of the environmental conditions (temperature, day-night cycle, etc.) but should not be considered as a contribution to the continuing discussions about the date of the War. Moreover, the Trojan War cannot be taken as a historical event, at least in the form described in the Homeric epics [...]. There is no way to know whether it reflects a single event or a period of turmoil that was triggered during an alleged migration from Greece to the eastern Aegean, a narrative that has been also put into question [...]"

Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
HN Disscusions [0](186 points, 23 days ago, 44 comments) [1] (128 points, 22 days ago, 32 comments) [2] (50 points, 20 days ago, 19 comments) [3](86 points, 18 days ago, 13 comments) [4] (117 points, 16 days ago, 42 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313171

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327951

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347118

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366867
the company isn't gone. vista is likely getting wiped out and the lenders will own the business.
Lots of Spark workloads are executed with the C++ Photon engine on the Databricks platform, so we ironically have partially moved back to C++. Disclosure: I work for Databricks.
> We need a moved-permanently redirect for emails :-/

Most mail providers have an automatic forward system, and/or an automatic reply. There is more than enough for most of the biggest names.
That was a very interesting case. The chatbot in question was not LLM based (the incident was pre-chatGPT in any case) and was simply parroting an out of date or incorrect policy that it had been explicitly programmed to do. It seemed to gain a lot more traction in the press because of LLMs. "Air Canada forced to honor terms and conditions on their website" is a whole lot less interesting.

This FB thing is a case of an LLM simply hallucinating without direct human intervention.

Very different cases from a computer science perspective. My hope is that legally, they don't get viewed differently.

If you outsource functions of your business to a third party contractor you are still responsible for what they do and say. I don't think we should allow companies to weasel out of their obligations because they were dumb enough to let a sentence generator loose in a way that it could make commitments.
My (Not) Twitter Account Got Hacked
A16Z-backed ZeroMark wants to give soldiers guns that don't miss against drones
After that we've got to work on the 3-day work week, and the 2-day work week, the 1-day work week, and 0-day work week.

The AI Legacy Code - an AI-UBI inherited collectively by all humans - can make that happen.

Let's work to end work!!!
Another impressive ebook site is Global Grey: https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/
Indeed. It was so nice to have a native app for work chat, since we could add Google Talk (XMPP) to Adium.

A pox on Slack.
This, or you could switch to an outdoors-themed wallpaper.
As someone who has spent more on lawyers than most people, I agree with you that there is a significant element of craft to it.

There are many parts of the job that are somewhat mechanical, but there is already a significant amount of automation for the mechanical parts.