skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe less so New York, but around the country there is a huge amount of extremely overpriced commercial real estate/leases. Owners are going to want to bleed everything they can out of their existing long term renters who are going to have a hard time exiting because nobody is going to be particularly eager to pick up their overpriced leases.

It's a bit strange to be in an economy where businesses are empty and failing because their prices are too high to accommodate for rent which is too high. I just had breakfast in an entirely empty restaurant. It was excellent and I was the only person there. There are tons of just empty storefronts that nobody can make use of because the overhead is too high. I had lunch on Saturday at noon in an empty restaurant with one group sitting outside.

There are just a lot of commercial real estate owners which need to go bankrupt. Then cities need to implement and enforce severe tax penalties for commercial vacancy to incentivize rent reductions.
Heroism is a good thing I believe, as long as it is not applied systematically.

Example 1: A client has a deadline and a malfunction or unpredictable limitation of our product is in their critical path. A few people put in collaborate effort, meaning working extra hours a few days, to help them out. Later the customer is happy and the boss throws a celebration drink.

Example 2 : an ICT member got a message that could indicate a security breach over the weekend. He logs in and sees more suspicious activity. He takes first actions (disable all logins/access of certain criteria) and calls head of ICT.
Depends on who they're talking to.

For press release or to investors, the percent is the number that matters.

To the internal communication to the employee losing their jobs or those that have to keep the torch going, the number is usually better.

With that said, seems like it's part of a larger downsizing plan: "That number has been guesstimated at around ten percent of the workforce – about 12,500 people – as part of an effort to get the overall workforce from 120,000 to below 100,000."
>What really matters is average proximity to shootings

Social proximity. Less than 10% of homicides are from strangers [1]

[1]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Discussion including from RSC himself (734 points, 5 days ago, 365 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132669
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That's .... pretty damn good, actually.

2 months is already way above "average" and adding weeks per year is ... nice.
What the heck are reverse mapped types?
The first 3 give severance, the last two do not.

There is an enormous difference.
I can only name one example where Bing gives better results, but it's only because Google intentionally doesn't: 123movies
Yes -- it is very difficult to get a customer to pay for "AI summaries" for movies/shows especially if they are not bundled with anything else. I tried it about 6 months ago at recapflix.com (it's not perfect and we got 1 paying customer over like 3 months haha).
> Pharmacy companies are seeking to cut their losses by shuttering unprofitable stores that have high labor costs, Mr. Hill said, but in most cases they are obligated to continue paying the rent long after the store closes, or goes dark.

> Most of the pharmacies that have closed in recent years were signed to 10-, 15- or even 20-year leases, at rents that often exceed today’s rates, brokers said.

> In these cases, a landlord has almost no incentive to seek a new tenant, allowing the store to sit empty for months or years, said Aric Trakhtenberg, an associate director at Newmark, a real estate firm.

This seems odd to me. Sure they're stuck paying rent but I imagine they could buy out their lease to some mutually agreed upon sum or sublease it. I just don't buy it that this is the reason. I'm waiting for the NY real estate guy to reply how this article is completely backwards and reference Gell-Mann amnesia [0] .

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Interestingly, AUTOSAR C++14 Guidance (https://www.autosar.org/fileadmin/standards/R22-11/AP/AUTOSA...) had a "Rule A15-4-4 (required, implementation, automated) A declaration of non-throwing function shall contain noexcept specification." which was thankfully removed in MISRA C++2023 (the latest guidance for C++17, can't give a link, it's a paid document), - it mandates it only for a few special functions (destructors, move constructors/assignments and a few more).
don't think 2 months is generous
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Those are Ukraine numbers, but they are repeatedly confirmed by ISW and others. There are of course errors, uncertainties. But they seem not to be inflated. Often they instead seem to be somewhat conservative compared to other sources.
Apple makes fancy five-course dinners for the wealthy. Google throws half-cooked ramen at the wall for the masses. It's not terrible, but you have to finish eating it before it falls off. Your favorite flavor won't be there next time, and they might be serving burritos instead, but at least your loyalty card still works.
China's Abandoned Building Sites Are Killing Oil Demand
https://archive.today/dUn1q
Python is so much worse with it's runtime dynamism though.

What's in the `request` object for this view? Whatever the fuck you want, your IDE won't help you, and even the documentation can't provide the full answer because half your stack stuffed things into there that you couldn't even guess.
LLMs can write a polite email but it can't write a good novel. It can create art or music (by mushing together things it has seen before) but not art that excites. It's the same with code. I use LLMs daily and I've seen videos of other people using tools like Cursor and so far it looks like these LLMs can only help in those situations where it is pretty obvious (to the programmer) what the right answer looks like.
>>>Russian planning for the invasion began around the time of the retreat.

Do you have a source for that? I'd love to read any insight into that process.

My personal, totally unsubstantiated, opinion is that Russia began planning an invasion in 2019 after Poroshenko signed a Constitutional Amendment pledging Ukraine to seek NATO membership, which was followed up by Zelensky promising a NATO referendum the same year.[1][2]

I suspect Putin initiated planning but was unprepared for anything prior to mid-2020....and then invasion planning was derailed by COVID. Forces couldn't be postured until they got that mess under control, and then you also need a big annual exercise as pretext for moving that much combat power into their assembly areas. Hmmmm....I need to go back and take a hard look at the early force flows, as well as Russian rhetoric in response to the 2019 political decisions by Ukraine.

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-president-signs-constitution...

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-president-promises-nato-refe...
Generate code for your AWS console actions using Console-to-Code
I'd love something like this but with the option to bring in my own model(s). In my case I need to run BLIP2 to generate the kinds of embeddings I care about.

Ideally I'd love to be able to run arbitrary Python code in a node together with custom pip scripts to install the libraries I care about. We do some image processing steps and looks like this is not something you support.

The bias here is clearly towards text processing but I think more and more companies like this one should start thinking about multimodal pipelines.

One last point, I did not get far enough in my tests to see if I can publish a public API point secured by an API key. That's absolutely a must as having to mess around with a gateway myself to access this would nullify most of the benefits of this platform.
Right, because no one buys them anymore as the feature is baked into their televisions already. They were popular originally but don't have a home. If it's just the hardware device you're talking about, sure. It's obscure now, which is why it's being cancelled.

What's frustrating in this thread is how many people are conflating the weird dongle product with the extremely successful streaming control protocol. Only the weird thing is being cancelled!
>Don't look at the hundreds of thousands of tech employees fired in the past 2 years.

I can't tell whether this is satire. What you're describing is exactly how economy-wide metrics are supposed to work. People quoting them aren't claiming that it's sunshine and rainbows for everyone, just that for the entire economy as a whole (ie. for the average worker), things are going pretty well right now.
No, it sounds like I don't want my neighbor feeding the wildlife. It sounds like I don't want the HOA to feel emboldened to set out poison traps to deal with the consequences of feeding wildlife.

FWIW I said raptors, not hawks. So yeah. Owls, vultures, hawks, osprey, falcons, we get them all out here. When they eat a poisoned rodent they'll likely die. Scavengers that eat the dead birds will also get sick. It's bad all around. Deer are already overpopulated. None of what this person is setting out is particularly good for any of the animals. These are wild animals that are perfectly capable of finding their own, healthier, safer food.

It's like with the monarchs. Folks should be careful about where they plant milkweed in part because of the disastrous effects it can have on their migration. The same thing can happen with vertebrates like migratory birds.

There's a reason why feeding wildlife is pretty much universally condemned: it's bad for the animals.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/idkt_feedingwildlife.htm

https://www.audubon.org/news/to-feed-or-not-feed

https://dec.ny.gov/nature/wildlife-health/do-not-feed-wildli...

https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/revealed-the-d...

https://www.fws.gov/story/feed-or-not-feed-wild-birds
Meanwhile, the CEO is estimated to be worth 90B.
It's so weird how there's absolutely no information about these new Chinese products in the US --- there's no link, and not even sample videos or screenshots.

For the curious, here's the actual link to the app: https://jimeng.jianying.com/

Looks quite polished.
> I think "psuedo-open-source" and Fair Source convey something vastly different.

Yes, that was my point: someone who doesn't know anything about "Fair Source" might have reasonable value associations about the word "Fair" that aren't actually present in the terms of the FSL. In particular, being constrained from making any sort of modification that could potentially be a competitive risk for the original author is both a massive poison pill and is not consistent with what OSS people typically consider to be "fair" (or compatible with received notions of software freedom).

The basic version of my argument is this: if it was named the "Eventually Open Source But Currently Not License," there would be no value judgment to be concerned about here. But the use of "Fair" is clearly meant to communicate a normative position that, in reality, muddies the waters and dilutes the benefit to the commons by maintaining the author's interests. And this is fine (IMO), as long as it isn't obscured by words like "fair."
Scientists pinpoint new drug target for RSV
Total junk. Don't blame the "hero" for their behavior, blame the management for not thinking ahead and making sure the problems didn't fester, blister, boil over to the point in which babysitting the systems over the weekend became necessary.

No "hero" ever does this work without trying to plan for it ahead of time. "Heroics" are necessary when the system let them down and stop letting long term thinking and planning account for problems.
> And that can run games on par with last-gen consoles (below PS4, but significantly above Switch level in terms of raw GFLOPs)!

It also supports a wide variety of wireless gaming controllers (including PS and xbox ones). The games aren't as good as a Switch or PS4, though.
Agreed. My initial guess was that the Google TV Streaming name had something to do with a Twitch-like streaming platform.
Real title is (capitalisation theirs):

> read these 5 books to break into quant trading as a software engineer

“quant” being short for “quantitative”.

It’s 9 minutes from someone calling themselves “Coding Jesus” with 88K subscribers talking to a camera with tons of background noise.
Not that I know of, but we did a long interview with him about it:

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/06/24/mdowd/
Programming with AI: Autonomous Agents vs. Our Dream
It’s the early days of AI autonomously working as a software engineer. But what do we want to see in a Useful AI Agent for Developers? We've analyzed the SWE-bench threats, a tradeoff of the interactive vs. long-thinking agents, and shared our vision from the tech perspective.
Spreadsite: Gen UI for your data
This varies a lot between cultures and jurisdictions obviously. But not even half of Dells emplyees are in the US, so presumably a large chunk of these layoffs will be elsewhere.
Its like saying Opensource dosen't mean your code needs to readble for everyone . Doesn't make sense.
Disney raises streaming prices for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+
This is far from just affecting tech. Good luck getting a job with any other STEM or finance/admin degree.
I think that's the point of:

> one that will be very visible next to a TV, and not out of sight behind it like its predecessor.

You're now advertising to anyone who visits your home.
What you're describing isn't at all what the linked page is discussing.
That's actually pretty good and how it's calculated in France when you're fired (beside the "notice" period, which would more or less match the two months here in Dell annoncement): https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F987 , and similar to what other countries here are doing.

1/4 of a month per year served up to 10 years, and 1/3 of a month per year served after the first 10 years

I'm of course ignoring the whole cause of layoff, which in France is very different and can lead to majoration or to straight up remove the severance, and also here unless you're someone with years on the job the paid holidays severance is usually the largest part of the amount you get and I don't think the US has an equivalent.
I've been hearing this for the last 2 years. How many more layoffs until we touch the baseline?
I prefer going out into the world in person to ecommerce. What's with all the main character syndrome where people declare their subjective preference as universal?
It's really interesting how different the job market is across countries. Unemployment in Denmark is still really low (2.9% [1]) of the top of my head I can't think of a single industry that isn't still hiring, except there's no one to hire.

I'd really like to know why there's such a huge different between e.g. the US, UK and Denmark. It may have to do with declining population in Denmark. Or maybe US companies over-hired, because they could, but those people would have had to go somewhere else.

[1] https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/arbejde-og-indkomst/be...
I've been seeing these types of things a lot lately. There's been some work done recently to prevent this concept of instructional overrides though, so I don't think they're nearly as effective as they used to be.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13208
Just because Ollama and friends copied the API doesn't mean that they're not competitive. They've all done this just the same as others copying the S3 API - ease of integration and lower barrier to entry during a switching event, should one arise.

> Plus these LLMs don't have any kind of interface moat.

The interface really has very little influence. Nobody in the enterprise world cares about the ChatGPT interface because they're all building features into their own products. The UI for ChatGPT has been copied ad nauseam - so if anyone really wanted something to look and feel the same it's already out there. Chat and visual modals are already there, so I'm curious how you think ChatGPT has an "interface moat"?

> Local private models are not a threat to openai.

There are lots of threats to AI. One of them being local models. Because if the OpenAI approach is to continue at their burn rate and hope that they will be the one and only I think they're very wrong. Small, targeted models provide for many more use cases than a bloated, expensive, generalized model. I would gather long term OpenAI either becomes a replacement for Google search or they, ultimately, fail. When I look around me I don't see many great implementations of any of this - mostly because many of them look and feel like bolt-ons to a foundational model that tries to do something slightly product specific. But even in those cases the confidence with which I'd put in these products today is of relatively low quality.
They're not idiots if they're paid by the hour.
Grading exit packages on a curve instead of what workers deserve only carries water for Dell and sets an ever lower bar for every subsequent round of layoffs.
It's well-established that, before 1989, anything copyrightable required a copyright notice when first presented to the public or it immediately and irrevocably went into the public domain.

A classic case is a Picasso sculpture purchased by the city of Chicago in 1967. Prior to installation of the sculpture, city officials presented a model to the public. A copyright notice was put on a placard nearby, but not on the model. A lawsuit established that since there was no notice on the model, the design was in the public domain, and people could make postcards and posters of the sculpture freely, much to the city's dismay.

So yes, much of the fine art produced in the USA before 1989 is in the public domain.
s/absolutists/when convenient/
It did. Doesn't make Mozilla less of a Chrome copycat.
a perfect answer, thank you!
> The "AI answer" industry might become 10 times bigger than the search industry.

Whenever I see people saying things like this it just makes me think we are at, or very near, the top.
The only “google” thing in my home is a nest. That’s only because G acquired the company years back. Only thing they added was forcing users to migrate Nest account to G.

Honestly might disconnect the nest from the network. But only keep it connected and segmented from rest of network for remotely changing the temp from my phone.

One of these days I’ll “hack” (explore) the device so it doesn’t rely on Nest/Google APIs. There’s absolutely no reason why I need a Google auth token to access the Nest other than for Google to collect whatever data and feed to their beast
Most major vendors add it themselves because google refuses to put it in stock. Samsung calls it smart view, for instance. My phone calls it screencast.

I use it every day and the experience is decent. Google just didnt like the competition from an open standard i guess. but, they dont control what vendors do.

I dont want a proprietary content aware equivalent. There is no beauty to sending metadata separately. There is beauty in having a dead simple way of mirroring whats on my phone that will play any kind of video.
All that is true, but it’s also getting better. And 16mpg over shorter routes (a 100nm flight vs 200 mile drive is not unusual) makes it harder to compare apples to oranges.

We don’t really have hybrid planes yet, which will likely help in the most inefficient parts of flying (climb).

My comment is to add more information to the discussion to consider many aspects, not to make claims that it’s a fuel-sensible method of travel. I am excited for innovation here, just like I am excited for the continued improvements in hybrid and electric cars.
Yet this will remain funny for a long long time.
I imagine a conversation with this individual as team lead would go something like this:

"So, you worked overtime to save systems across the planet from crashing due to a botched update?"

"Yes, sir. We're 'Site Reliability Engineering', after all."

"And people in airports don't have to sleep on the floors because airlines can actually schedule flights?"

"Yes, sir. Site Reliability Engineering, at its finest, sir!"

"No, you played the hero. That's bad for the team and normally for you, really. You should have let it break."

"But our team...is 'Site Reliability Engineering'?"

"You should have let it break."

"But, Site...Reliability?"

"You're fired."
The Origins of Email
Dungeons and Dragons turns 50: how it all began
The government has typically abdicated payments to various proprietary networks and big banks in the US. Try getting your hands on the NACHA spec for our glacial "direct" deposit standard.

We also have no standard way of letting users authenticate to their bank to download transactions. Once you get logged in there is usually a way to get OFX (QFX) files but the process is manual. I happened on the European open banking documentation the other day...jealous.
The hassle is a bunch of things:

1. The knowledge of how to deal with hydraulics across the industry is slowly accumulating. We've been fixing bikes with bowden cables for a hundred years give or take a bit. We've been dealing with hydraulics for 25 years give or take a few, and it's a really recent development that they've trickled down to the low end of the market and penetrated the road market at all. The knowledge of how to fix them is not as widespread as you'd think.

2. Compounding the above, we have two competing systems (naturally). SRAM runs DOT fluid and Shimano runs mineral oil. The bleeding procedures are different (naturally). Surprisingly, the hygroscopic nature of DOT fluid is a non-issue. Both systems run hard for a year are basically due for a fluid change.

2.5. Some of the bleed procedures are consistent within a manufacturer's line over time. Often times they are not. Step one of a bleed is usually RTFM because the brakes you're looking at are probably different from the last three sets you've done.

3. Everything is small. The entire master cylinder assembly has to fit inside the brake lever. On a road bike, your hand wraps around all of that, plus the shift mechanism. Access to the reservoir cap, which is also the bleed port is about as good as they can make it, but it's still one more damn thing to peel back the rubber hood.

4. The calipers are similarly small, leaving less room for sealing, etc.

5. There's little room for manufacturing variation in the mounts as well. In theory this would affect mechanical disc brakes as well. In practice, they hold up better when the caliper is mounted cockeyed. Park Tool makes an extremely elaborate facing kit to rectify problems with mounts. The shop I work at part-time has one, and I've had to use it. The fact that the rotor is non-rigid does buy you some tolerance back, but sometimes it isn't enough.

All of the above adds up to a lot more hassle than mechanical disc brakes not because it's insurmountably hard to do the work. The major factor is that a good set of mechanicals is so damn simple and reliable. The set on my mountain bike has 7000 miles of touring, plus mountain biking, and I doubt I've spent cumulatively 3 hours working on them.
Ceanothus and the mophead relative Hydrangea serrata can attract Butterflies in summer or spring, but Buddleja is still wonderful in this sense. The hunt for the elusive sterile Buddleja stills keeps going. Lots of promises in that sense with very complex hybrids, but they still didn't stuck with the market or didn't deserved the hype.

Gorse in a small garden can be complicated to manage. Too spiny and it reseeds itself. Rosmary or Leptospermum can take that job.
Paris 2024 Scheduling Algorithm
The Olympic games have gone smoothly, events going as expected, no clashes nor confusion. Which algorithm did/are they using for scheduling?
US corporations have become so large, they have started to function internally not unlike the fully fledged managed economies of the USSR. A bunch of MBAs acting as petty dictators hiring and firing at will, driven by nothing more than a few financial indicators and their intuition, i.e. they are making it up as they go, just like Stalin and Mao were doing back then.