skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used WebEx a lot at Apple. It was pretty terrible when I first started with a really bizarre client, but when it was updated to the more modern one in ~2019/2020, I didn't think it was so bad, more or less like every other VoIP program.

I still kind of viscerally hate it because I associate it with the boring and useless meetings that the middle-managers at Apple loved to schedule to justify their existence in the company, but that's not really WebEx's fault.
Would have been at one of their AI days in the last few years
Attorney General Reaches $700M Settlement Against Johnson and Johnson
Did you miss the study I posted upthread which clearly says it's routine? "Should not" and "does" are not mutually exclusive.
So I’ll start by prefacing that my comments here aren’t comprehensive solutions. I can’t fully explain some things here. The legal systems many of us live with have been iterated on for centuries and include who knows how many written words. I haven’t even studied them very much. I’m just a citizen that’s familiar with their ways and have a feel for what is acceptable justice and also for when things go wrong and something feels unjust. That’s what this whole thing feels like.

That said, there’s plenty of room for grey area of “proof”. People get convicted all the time on circumstantial evidence. But usually it compounds. Like, the accused lied to police, changed their story, can’t explain their whereabouts, or is evasive. Even with some so called evidence, I could ask “is that really proof?” If hair is found at a murder scene and DNA identifies the source, does that actually prove they murdered someone? You could argue it just proves the hair is that persons and found its way some how to the murder scene. Maybe it fell off in the grocery store and stuck to someone’s shoe or the wind blew it. Who knows but point being this very well may not be enough to convict someone alone. But with some other facts like unable to produce an alibi and oh it turns out the victim is having an affair with suspect’s spouse… and most reasonable people start to feel comfortable putting this person in prison for life based on the entirety of the facts

> Stopped a mile up the road from a hit-and-run, weaving drunkenly at excess speed? No worries they'll need to prove the speed camera can't be wrong, and prove that all the alcohol technology is entirely reliable and couldn't be mistaken. The guy who arrested you can say you weren't driving well, but chances are your lawyer can trick him into asserting you were drunk, which is inadmissible since machines aren't perfect, that means it's a mistrial, you walk.

So, no I don’t think you’d walk. Hit and run is a felony and pretty easy to determine. Did they stop and render aide or alert a first responder? It’s pretty binary and Doesn’t matter if they were drunk. The drunk think increases the charges if the test was positive, but they fled so likely the cops caught up to them well after it happened and alcohol was metabolized. I’ll ignore that though, and assume they were present and got tested. The reliability and accuracy of the machine has seen many orders of magnitude more testing and “peer review” such that if maintenance has been documented and machine has no record of malfunctions it’s clear it’s probably trustworthy. It’s not one guy who built the machine saying “trust me”. The police would likely also take this driver to get a blood sample collected as supporting evidence. If that was done so timely enough to explain any variance in results, then it’s even more solid of a case. If the variance of results can’t be reasonably explained, the field testing machine results would or should be seen as unreliable. (I think most jury’s would see this however there’s a lot of other factors that could weigh in like a past history or alcohol related crime).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Indonesians
Official post: https://www.etched.com/announcing-etched
Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein Opens at Imperial College London
Prove that. Because last time I checked in there wasn't a self-driving system in play that wouldn't faceplant into wet cement, blow through crosswalks, or find itself trapped in a cleverly deployed ring of salt. Additionally, by their own admission Waymo is nowhere near level 5 autonomy, which means they still haven't reached parity with what a mediocre human driver is capable of.
> Source: I worked at a South Korean startup. Fair warning to other foreigners, you will have to make _a lot_ of sacrifices.

As a foreigner living in Seoul, working for US startups, and eyeing creating a US-styled startup in Seoul in the future, what are the sacrifices you have in mind?
What's an example of a better country? For people, not corporations.
Sure, but htmx doesn't have any opinion that those types should be statically checked. Anyone diligent enough can try to enforce it with enough work, but the juice may not be worth the squeeze.
Warp: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies
Well, the confederacy believed in subsidiarity.
I don't know your life circumstances, but as I am slightly beyond 25 YOE, it has been over two decades since I found myself job shopping, just job choosing. There's no way I'd be working my current job and also doing whatever weird contract-to-hire gig some company that can't vet employees would ask.

For most senior people, a new job is leaving an existing cushy job. We're not going to do that for some nonsense like this.
I don't see how that undermines my point. Everything needs maintenance and upkeep. You have to re-paint the bridge and check it for cracks and do testing on it. But that's measured in days/weeks/months/years vs. a steam engine going off the rails in seconds/minutes/hours.

In my comment I stated:

> a bridge needs some maintenance and upkeep, yes,

Is there a way I could have stated that to emphasize that bridges will fail if they're not maintained?
My whole point is it's a worse deal at anything less than 3x pay. Three to six months of 1.5x pay just to have to look for a job again and you probably haven't done any meaningful work in the last three to six months?

My brother used to contract-to-hire in the 90s-00s for banks and not even getting issued a laptop for the first few months of a contract happened nearly 100% of the time. Literally months of sitting around writing emails going "I can't do the work you're paying me for because you haven't issued me equipment yet" and that was routine. Or if it wasn't working equipment, it was company accounts/logins. I even did a year of this once with a hedge fund in the early 00s. Once and never again.

Contractors don't get meaningful responsibilities and meaningful responsibilities are how I justify myself (and my price) to my next job. No thanks.
My argument is based on theory. We know that a lot of the learning is facing unusual situations (trucks delivering traffic lights, etc) that can happen in many places. And we have some idea of how long the mapping takes.
Apple Sued for Monopolizing Smartphone Markets
The probability that they are actually a EU resident and move to the US because of app bundling is close to zero. And yes, that would be completely ridiculous.
Or, maybe.. when the Waymo cars return to the depot periodically during the day.

https://youtu.be/3QZ3e7mWD9E?si=CbP063vAtrnOTihp
The problem with contributing Glasskube to the CNCF atm would be that we would also need to contribute our Logo and trade mark. Something which we currently not willing to do. We look as Grafana as a successful example that did not contribute their core product to the CNCF and is still widely adopted.
It's hard for me to tease apart the differences between Rye "first class context", deprecated JS "with" statement, Scala/Idris/Agda implicit arguments, and I guess also just effect systems generally?

it feels like there're all features for ergonomic dependency injection, but maybe that's a lot of programming
Well maybe more people would book taxi rides if they added translation..
I've recently taken a simpler approach to handling secrets in .env files. Since I use autoenv and conda venvs for everything, I persist secrets outside all projects in appropriately-named files, so including them in a .env becomes similar to `source $HOME/.secrets/work__aws_access`. Also makes them easier to manage across projects.
I'm a bit sad that HyperCard was before my time, because if I had known about it as a kid I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have done anything else. I've played with it in emulators and it's pretty fun. I love early attempts at making programming accessible to people.

To a much lesser extent, I feel like Flash (the animation program, not the player) kind of gave me that feeling the first time I used it. Flash was so immediately approachable compared to trying to figure out something like C++ with OpenGL or SDL or something, and it was just downright fun to create things with it.

I've really not found anything since Flash that I've had as much fun developing in. Gamemaker is cool and still pretty fun, but I still don't feel like it's quite as streamlined and it doesn't give me the same "anything is possible" feeling Flash did. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Pointing AI crawlers to 10 GB speed test files
You'd think printing companies would address it.

VCs will steer far away from things like this, yet it's too expensive for most people to tackle on their own. It's a problem above the level of LinkedIn or Asana, where the founders had the funds after selling PayPal. Printers are more expensive than to do than software and more entrenched.
Not sure what you are getting at, but Line is deeply penetrated into South East Asia as well
I’m quite confident in it and personally ride it monthly. Happy to bet it will turn out to be no more than twice as dangerous as the median driver today, ie, as dangerous as driving in the 1980s. In the long term it will be vastly safer, obviously.
I can see why nobody's really discussing this.

TL;DR: "infra" product trades off availability for convenience instead of letting their customers decide

> any unavailability of Aurora in the primary hub region would prevent customers from creating new clusters in all regions, but existing clusters would continue working just fine. We felt like this was an acceptable trade off.

Ok. At least you're upfront about it.
> Tesla lacks the ability to resim counterfactuals with confidence since they don't have HD ground truth.

Tesla does have HD ground truth data for verification generated by their own LIDAR-equipped vehicles. However, according to a recent tweet by Elon Musk [1], they don't need LIDAR for that anymore.

[1]: https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk/status/1788064109633875999
Gotta keep up with the jank, this recall is old, currently it's the wiper motor grounding sales.
Could the code be open sourced? I care about whiskey much more.
You mean this one? https://two-wrongs.com/it-takes-long-to-become-gaussian.html
Yes they’ve been testing them with drivers for a while. We were discussing the actual operating envelope of the deployed pay service.
Assuming you can find someone who wants to buy a one-off carton of foreign smokes for full price from some stranger
The site is about 10 packs.
These types of explanations are the reason I dislike school. This is such a stuffy and contrived way to explain things.

I’m so glad I have ChatGPT now, I always ask for applied examples and ask it to explain things intuitively. I would’ve been a 4.0 student if I would’ve had ChatGPT as my personal tutor when I was in school.
There is a world of difference between the Microsoft you do business with as an enterprise customer and the Microsoft you do business with as a private citizen or a small organisation. When you’re a big enough customer (and this can be with 5000 employees) you’ll get calls directly from Seattle with updates on major incidents on half-hourly basis. Meaning your CTO can tell your organisation that they know there are issues but that Microsoft a keeping them updated. You’ll also get different prices on things in Azure and the 365 platform, bundle licences, access to have changes made in core Microsoft products (if it’s not unreasonable), get compliance product owners who’ll try to get your local legislation to go through and so on.

With Google there is no difference if you’re spending $100 or a hundred million a year. You still get to talk to the same chatbot. Except for Google education which is ok.

Not that it really matters that much as Google likely wouldn’t be a realistic choice for anything because of how tough the EU legislation is on keeping data within the EU. I think AWS is still the only giant US tech company which is compliant with only having EU citizens work support on the infrastructure of EU customers. Well, Microsoft has probably caught up, but if they have it’s taken them a long time to do so.

Personally I think it’s a little sad Google can’t seem to get it right for EU enterprise because their education suite is actually very affordable and easy to use for EU schools. But despite it being the one area of Google where they seemed to understand how to actually sell it to EU enterprise, it’s still having major issues over privacy concerns as the advertisement part of their company just can’t stay away.
I agree, those are some cons to a otherwise great product. Everyone has to choose for themself, if those outweigh the cons of plastic bags.
If the source was around somewhere, maybe. But I don’t think the author ever released it.
I assume it's for people who smoke.
How to Navigate the Command Line
Jack Dorsey says we won't know what is real anymore in the next 5-10 years
Some Open Source Software Licences Are Only 'Open-Ish,' Says Thoughtworks
Brilliant!

I wonder if there are other goods with similarly high gaps in price.
Looks like they were accepted into the CNCF Landscape at least https://glasskube.dev/blog/cncf-landscape/
Why does a submission like this get flagged. One can only guess. Maybe HN users with flagging privileges do not like the conclusions of paper published or summarised in Nature so they flag it in an attmept to stop others from discussing the submission.
It's stolen. It's a content farm.

It will crawl tech articles from other places, use LLM to copy one, and use gitcode url to replace github url.

Found a tweet: https://x.com/yihong0618/status/1776783712954581173/photo/1
Attack of the Masturbating Zombies is one of my all time favourite SNL sketches. RIP Phil.
I like the disclaimer:

HN Disclaimer:
WarpStream sells a drop-in replacement
for Apache Kafka built directly on-top
of object storage.

It only appears when you click through from news.ycombinator.com.
This is also easily done by design with flask or quart, and probably several other frameworks.
I'm using LLMs to basically build "junior analysts" that monitor very niche types of companies -- think, junior mining companies, or very specific commodities futures... A lot of these spaces have tons of terrible companies and there's a lot of noise, so if you use a framework that is concrete enough, you can have LLM agents do various types of research for you, fill in the framework, and sift through the noise for you.

Case in point, my framework for mining companies is here: https://emergingtrajectories.com/a/pub/mining_company_risk_f... You can see the scores here: https://emergingtrajectories.com/c/copper_mining_companies

"Long term" -- we'll see, I expect to hold positions for 12-24 months.

For those interested, my work above is influenced by two important books: "You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You're Not Too Smart" by Joel Greenblatt and "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction" by Philip Tetlock. The idea from Joel's writing is to look for less liquid or less popular asset classes (or ones that structurally can't be invested in by the pros who are smarter/better-resourced than you), and Tetlock really drills process and research for long-term forecasting.
This was one of my favorite Google products. It worked exactly as advertised, no frills. Since its release, I haven't once needed to pull out my old Brother document scanner.

The maintenance burden for Stack cannot have been significant, and yet I guess I am unsurprised to see Google add another good app to their graveyard.

What do others use for this purpose?
> I would try to drop the “d*ck move” narrative from my thinking if I was you.

This is a great advice! Thank you!
I politely asked the contributor to rebase and translate the Chinese bits.
This ex-OpenAI engineer’s recent essay makes the case that LLMs are progressing at 5x the rate of Moore’s Law across a number of dimensions: compute, efficiency, and capability: https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to-agi/
Those first four seasons of the show were some of the best TV made.
Cigarette smuggling has a few aspects and each state while give it different priority based on its own economic incentives. But for a glimpse at the federal level, the ATF says [1] their justification is interested in enforcement (among other things) of:

"Illegal possession and/or transportation and distribution of more than 10,000 unstamped (non-state tax-paid) cigarettes."

This is mostly a tax revenue issue. Some other interesting info at the state level can be found at https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/cigarette-taxes-cig...

tldr; it will almost certainly take more than transporting "a few packs" for personal consumption to get in trouble in the "land of the free" at the federal level, however each state will he more or less aggressive depending on its own priorities

1. https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/fact-sheet/fact-sheet-to...
Thanks for the tip and the link. I added a section to the README about commit messages conventional with a link to the website you provided.
It depends on what you value. For rugged individualism, it's still the US :-)
> I feel like the real problem is not helm, nor argocd ... What was really annoying was the constant moving and changing the yaml that kubernetes wanted.

That to me sounds like you're angry at helm and argocd, but don't realize it.

The kubernetes apiserver publishes all the resources it supports, including custom-resource-definitions, including typed specifications that can be used to validate what you're submitting client-side.

If helm weren't a dumb layer of yaml templating, it could tell you locally, like compiling a typed programming language, "this helm chart won't work on your cluster because you have the beta version of this CRD and need the alpha version", or it could even transform things into the correct version.

The kubernetes API provides everything that's needed to statically verify what Groups/Kinds/Versions exist, and tooling like helm is just too dumb to work with it.
Outside of luxury goods, I suspect the best arbitrage is found in items with high taxes. For which governments are usually not too keen on allowing untaxed imports.
I would be even fine with dead-code deletion when it carries a warning. But currently all dangerous UB decisions are totally silent, which is a nightmare
What's an example use case where heterogeneous lists turn out to be fine but can't be modelled with eg the OCaml difflist technique, eg https://github.com/yawaramin/re-web/blob/0d6c62fb432f85cc437... ?
this isn’t a residential neighborhood, this is industrial zoning with ONE apartment building that got an exception. Probably due to the generally horrible housing situation over there. Nonetheless, it’s actually not that uncommon to find semiconductor labs in suburban areas, mostly low vol or R&D of course, but it’s far from unheard of.
And it worked mainly because they were a drop-in for Intel processors. Which was and is an amazing feat. I and most people could and can run anything compiled (but avx512 stuff back then on zen1 and 2 ?) without a hitch. And it was still a huge uphill battle and Intel let it happen, what with their bungling of the 10nm process.

I don't see how the same can work here. HIP isn't it right now (every time I try, anyway).
People die. Not going to hide inside my house or really care all that much. I mean... I'm sorry if you lost someone, we all did. People getting sick is no reason to suspend daily life.
Do you know of anyone who has created a US style startup in Seoul? Only two people I can think of are Matthew Shampine and Jason Boutte. Jason Boutte is literally the only foreigner I know who pulled it off, I've lived in Seoul doing startup stuff for 5 years till recently.
Why can't "black people" mean black people? Yeah, they're not African Americans. They're people in Brazil who are black. Would a Brazilian and an American agree on the exact skin tones which count - probably not. But two Americans wouldn't have 100% agreement either. It doesn't detract from the concept of a black person.
I use kuse in Windows, it is a lovely interface, very simple to use, I try to generate images with text, can specify different styles until I am satisfied, it is amazing.
If a cell is a submarine, the mitochondrials is its crew.
No, I'm getting a smile out of the optimism. Six data points, each derived quite subjectively itself, that could just as easily fit a line or some other curve.

That said, quadratic is a more conservative interpretation than a linear fit.
> Three to six months of 1.5x pay just to have to look for a job again and you probably haven't done any meaningful work in the last three to six months?

Hard disagree. They're not really looking to extend full employment to people like you, but may from time to time. If you're really that good you have nothing to worry about. I'm speaking from experience working on both ends of the contract-to-hire process.
Technically Netspace wasnt a startup, they IPOd early and were bought by AOL for 4 billion in 98. They were real large scale contenders where such a dynamic could really be do or die.

There's degrees to market manipulation and market position where this sort of explanation would hold water as being the root cause of death knell.
I'd agree that whether a specific culture is worth preserving or not is another question. Change by itself is not necessarily good or bad.

But my point of how internal culture gradually changes is in effect an exportation from another culture to this one. If the toxic practices you are describing were to begin to become relentlessly exported to the environment around you, remaining defensive dosen't work long term. You'd need to push back.
A small correction: KakaoTalk is not an "all in one" app like WeChat. The main chat app does contain anciliary features such as gifting that enabled this exploit, but you can't call a taxi on KakaoTalk, you do that on Kakao T, a mobility app that also offers rental scooters, e-bikes, and train and flight booking. Similarly, even though the messenger app does have integration with its payment platform (cleverly named KakaoPay), the service itself lives in a dedicated app. It's like Google on Android where you could access bunch of services with one central ID, which I presume is why their apps have so many access points: they need it for themselves.
Faces made of living skin make robots smile
UK Projected to See Highest Millionaire Loss on Record
When buying a supercomputer, you negotiate support contracts so it doesn't matter if AMD leaves the day after they sign the contract, you've still got your supercomputer and support for it.
Casually writing code and writing code that securely handles customer data and maintains availability for something you're selling are two different things.
You can diagram AAVE just as easily as standard american english; it just uses a slightly different ruleset.
Every single successful Google product except Search, Gmail and Chrome was an acquisition. The last two almost didn't even get released and the third relied on poaching a bunch of Firefox engineers.

Google can't build anything, only buy.
Nope, still consumer. It is simple. Google (Chrome) is an Ad company, Apple (Safari) is not. And any consumer knows that web standards define user's privacy and security.
Further reading

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