skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not technically plagiarized, because it attributes many of the direct quotes to Business Insider. But it's an example of repackaging content produced by other sources, a practice sometimes called "churnalism."

This type of appropriation of content has been happening for well over a century. See this Supreme Court case from 1918: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._...
Residual Quantization with Implicit Neural Codebooks
t's an architectural style with many examples that don't appeal to a lot of people. It also literally often doesn't age well from a materials standpoint. When the Boston Public did a renovation a number of years back to the brutalist wing, I'd argue it still doesn't compare well to the original McKim Building but was a lot more attractive externally and much more welcoming internally.
> In that case, it's illegal to look in the phone book for names starting with "john" because that's not a specific user.

Only if everyone in the phone book has a privacy interest requiring a warrant to breach in the fact that their name was in the phone book. They don't.

But imagine for a second they did. Then your search for "John" in the phone book would have involved flipping through the phone books pages looking for the "John" section, in the process violating the privacy rights of everyones names you looked at to figure out if you where before or after the Johns section. Of course that would be unconstitutional. It would be like trying to figure out where John lived by searching every apartment until you found the apartment with John's diary in it.
I found it here: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/nasas-m...
Ask HN: Has anyone been able to contact Cloudflare Support in the last 5 days?
This is a follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41198074 - since then I've learned from their status page that it seems Cloudflare has had an outage since August 2nd of their support services for Business and Pro customers!
https://cloudflarestatus.com

Does anyone know what's going on over there and when it will be fixed? I am being asked for updates on issues I can only fix with their help and I have nothing to pass on to my team.

I appreciate anyone who has insight into this chiming in or if anyone has a recommendation on who/how to contact them outside of their support portal I'd really be thankful.
Nobody is debating whether art pieces like that can exist, in general.

These are not mere art pieces that one experiences at their leisure. These are environments that people must live and work in and around, often with little choice in the matter.

I submit that deliberately making the environment inhospitable for the people living there requires more justification than “I decree this discomfort is artistic, and will be good for you”.
> Content means absolutely fuck all if it can't reach its audience

Obviously no, or YouTube wouldn't be where it is today...

> Youtube hosts, encodes, streams, distributes, and circulates the content and has recommendation algorithms to increase the productivity of every public video published on the platform

Nothing of this is in any way special. Nobody would care if they wouldn't already have their quasi monopoly. The algorithm is a topic for itself. Enforcing hate, misinformation, etc. but in the end always working in such a way as to maximize YT profits and not recommend useful content to the user. What are you trying to sell here? The way the algorithm got terrible is a meme by ow. What is it even supposed to justify?

> but a massive user base means fuck all if you can't deliver a product that they want to use...

The fact that the algorithm was much better before and works perfectly on other pages who actually care about what you wrote more then about the artificial limits YT forces on their content providers shows that this approach at justification is ridiculous.

If there would be even one competitor out there with the same amount of luck and YT would work exactly as it does now while the other would actually care about their content providers, YT would go broke.
Situation is quite ridiculous. People are working jobs they don't like and being low-performers on projects they have little control over while working on side projects that they like (for free) and not able to monetize their high performance on those projects. But no matter how good their side projects become, they cannot monetize them due to monopolizing forces. Earning money nowadays is all about having access to money which comes out of a safe money printer.

Yes, I could be doing all this useful stuff which makes 100x better use of my skills than my day job but those things don't pay because I won't be able to find any users for it. I don't have much time for it. I could find users but not users who are hooked to a money printer and can afford to pay. I'm sure most users would love it if they spent 20 minutes trying my side project, however, this is too high of a barrier.

The company I work for is already well hooked into a money printer and already has its own users but, unfortunately, I cannot produce my best engineering work there because there is too much legacy code and, understandably, my colleagues are as beaten down as I am over this industry so the will to innovate is severely limited. The best we can provide is stability.

I've (unfortunately) learned to perceive software complexity as a friend; in the same way as security consultants perceive hackers, as pharma companies perceive chronic illness and as those who build mouse traps perceive mice.

I already got burned badly for innovating at a previous company and experienced politics getting in the way in a mind-bendingly disturbing way so I'm not keen to experience that again!

Repeatedly in my career, I have seen the low-performers and outright saboteurs being promoted and the innovators being suppressed so my goal now is to emulate those people and engage in political bs. It's the only way. I'm a little bit older, I have to think about my finances now. I know how money flows through the economy and I just go straight for the jugular straight out of a money printer... Printing leafy, digital monetary goodness straight into my bank account. Oh that feels nice.
Sounds like we will have OAuth around the end of the month

(oauth for apps built on bsky/atproto)
I actually haven't had any problems with Bluetooth in a long while. It mostly just works at this point.
That abstract approach tends to be how mathematicians view the tensor product (there is also a categorical construction), but I don't find it very helpful for understanding what tensors do, or why they are useful in physics. With the "multilinear map" definition, taking the tensor product T of tensors U and V just means evaluating U and V respectively on the arguments of T and multiplying their outputs. Extend this definition by linearity and you have the tensor product of spaces of tensors.
> Kenneth Teague, a coastal ecologist based outside of Austin, evaluated the 483-page SpaceX permit application. Teague, who has more than three decades of water quality and coastal planning experience, told CNBC the application was full of holes, missing basic details about water discharge volumes, the temperature of the effluent and outfall locations.

> Teague said he's especially concerned about the concentration of mercury in the wastewater from the SpaceX water deluge system. The levels disclosed in the document represent "very large exceedances of the mercury water quality criteria," Teague said. (source: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/spacex-repeatedly-polluted-w...)

If you'd like, you can read through the 483 page permit application here: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/permitting/wastewater/t...

I'm not going to read it all though. Until I hear otherwise from someone qualified who isn't paid by SpaceX I'll just trust the guy with the 30+ years of water quality and coastal planning experience when he says the documented levels are too high and that a lot important data is missing.
> Taiwan, Mexico, Russia, and Brazil now have higher gross output than the UK.

It would be interesting to see Russia to have more manufacturing output than the UK...
This is the most basic environmental law there is (don't dump toxins into the river), it's fantasy to construe that as a political hit job.
Totally. If the movement was called geometrizism or edge-ist would we have this discussion? No one likes to be brutalized but we want to have an edge. I have a Pinterest board full of brutalist architecture. I love it.
I am not sure I agree with that conclusion. In this particular example, it is almost certainly more important to consider frequency and sample size? Could have been the exact same pitchers, per se.
Why Friday Production Deployments?
Could anyone explain the reason behind making production deployments on a Friday?

I cannot understand the logic behind it.

Why not a Monday, where all company is available to intervene if required?
The more features, the lamer the product. Keep HN clean!
The reason it works against deer is that they can only get rid of a certain amount of heat; once they reach their maximum temperature they are not able to continue moving.

The Rock, being human is able to exhaust at least as much heat as you, taking away from your advantage.
Layoffs are still happening in tech (Cisco, Intel, Intuit to name a few in the last couple of months) and companies that are hiring, have very few roles or are very selective in their hiring process.

And beyond hiring, internally, the companies are being hyper focused on performance. People are being let go despite working hard and going above and beyond.

The comparison really is: Do I leave my current job which may pay less but won’t fire me or do I go to a new company, risk performance based firing and then be unemployed for months before I find the next job.
So basically just lots of different versions of OpenWrt then!
> When it comes to gross production, China’s share is three times the US’ share

Hmm, and also China is four times bigger than US by population. So per capita US is still ahead, interesting...
I think the point above is that in physics tensor is usually overloaded, and those practicing physicists when they speak of tensors are more often referring to tensor fields, and most often this is in a context with more geometric structure than is required by a tensor space in reference to a vector vector bundle. Typically they (physicists) are dealing with domains where the tensor space is in reference to the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold, with the prototypical example being the metric tensor(field) of space time in general relativity. Another prominent example may include tensor fields defined in reference to the tangent bundle of a group of gauge transformations, as in quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics, etc.

Obviously these things are not just useful to physics, but are indispensable, and so I think the assertion that only the definition of tensor that is useful to physics is the definition tensor=multilinear map is somewhat out of step. Perhaps it would be better to assert that the concept of multilinear map is essential to every useful definition of tensors in physics.
Your barber has more licensing requirements than a senior software engineer.

Regulations have not caught up with developers (yet).
Vegas is a fantastic bang/buck proposition if you can stay away from gambling. It isn't that vegas has the absolute best of everything, it's that the average in vegas bests everyone else's mid-high end options.

Also understand that, the conference, no matter which conference mind, is half the draw, the other half is being in vegas itself. Move it elsewhere and it'll be much, much smaller for that reason alone.
It's completely irrelevant: You need to file a permit where you demonstrate that; because not-contaminating water is essential not only for drinking but also all our food sources its integrity doesn't work on a "trust me bro" system.

But given that he has already illegally released toxins for years (at Fremont paint factory), doesn't really give the impression he cares about complying with regulations, presumably didn't do the work necessary for the permitting process, and has a general disregard for process/safety/etc it would be pretty surprising if there weren't illegal levels of substance discharge.
“NASA considering sending FlossX to extract moss from teeth”
Hmmm... yeah that's a good point. Though I would contend that the fact that languages do not do this is indicative of... something.
What is "taking a step back" exactly? Leaving a job that you don't like for one that you do like but pays less?
> what motive would they have that is so important that they insist on spending money on low skill headcount to enter thousands of rooms per day?

95% of these rooms are being cleaned anyway by low-wage staff. The added 5% is such a small percentage.

But the shooting excuse is an excuse because they're not even liable for this. Any idiot can do the same from their private apartment. A mass shooter has no survival expectancy anyway. They can just rent a private flat and do it. Or they can just rent a room, bring their guns in and start shooting during the first day. It doesn't actually solve the problem at all. Only 24/7 video surveillance would do that which is obviously untenable in a hotel. Or strict gun controls which is why this isn't a problem in Europe but the US just can't get that into their heads.

The other reason I consider it an excuse is that in this case they are not causing hassle about firearms but about technical devices. Nothing to do with shootings at all. If the motive was purely looking for guns they wouldn't be harrassing unarmed defcon visitors.

I don't think they actually care about shootings but that it's dumb security theater to make customers feel safer which they probably see as a monetary benefit.

Knowing this now I definitely will refuse to visit Vegas even if my company tries to send me there on a business trip. Although to be fair I kinda have this policy already for the entire US because I'm not willing to give up my devices or my social media accounts to border patrol either.
Have you found 802.11ah hardware? I'm also interested in it but haven't found hardware to play with.
I don't think it's necessarily so black and white. Both parties fell for something, if that's still there, maybe it can be found again. Maybe.

If not, sure I agree with you. I don't think it's advisable to stay in an absolutely unhappy AND unfixable relationship. But I do think it's worth trying to fight for it.

I'm in a 15 year long relationship, and it's not been smooth sailing. Some experiences require knowing each other very deeply.

This is a very powerful experience IMO.
Consulting has a Gen Z problem
* last July -> July, 2023
This has been said before, but it’s my favorite sci-fi story lol
Off topic: this was really entertaining to read, thanks
Men need to see that novels aren't for losers
> This is a bit of a surprise given how the prevalence of smoking and drinking in the younger generations is steadily declining.

Yes, I'm shocked that cancer (17 types) in young people is increasing as niche causes like smoking (lung) and drinking (liver, esophageal) is declining. I wonder what's happening to the #1 cause of cancer (all)?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-child-17-18/obe...

Oh. Well, there it is.

> apparently obesity is a huge contributing factor

"Apparently". Ding ding ding.

If you're fat post-adolescence, put down the fork.

If you're fat because your parents/caregivers let you get that way and it's difficult to change, you're unarguably the victim of child abuse and you should cut those monsters out of your life and seek help to change the habits they instilled in you. It will be difficult, but it's possible. Look into GLP-1 agonists for a kickstart.
A nice video commentary on this by Philip Sloss: https://youtu.be/XDsxdrIL_Cs
> If someone else makes a mistake, even if I'm paying them, I can for whatever reason tolerate that with less frustration than when I screw up myself.

By contrast, I take the position that I can fuck up just about anything myself for free, and if I'm paying somebody, they'd better do it right and do it right the first time.
Your bet would be wrong - they stopped allowing that a little while back. It's annoying.
So wait, if I donate $1000 to a creator via iOS app, Apple takes $300? That can't be right, can it? Seems like literally robbery.
This is kind of the crux of the matter to me. Apple, in this instance, is basically a credit card with a 30% transaction fee, and it's using its dominance in the mobile phone market to force everyone who uses their phone (via their app store policies) to use their credit cards instead of ones with 3% transaction fees, which is pretty classic behavior outlawed by antitrust legislation.
You could say the same about a physical library, yet most people wouldn't prefer a library of uniform books with 'boring' uniform spines.

This is not an argument, just a thought.
Things I Remember Off the Top of My Head
In the first one it was a very small office so it was taken care of immediately.

In the second one that's exactly what I took away from it - I escalated immediately, saying this was a concrete example of two separate communication failures. It didn't turn out particularly well and I wish it had been handled better (it was lost in a culture war between two execs, which was the cause of the original communication gap in the first place) but I feel like I did my part and no gorillas were spanked, just left feeling upset.
P.S.: To give a napkin-math example to show that it lands in the right order of magnitude...

Suppose Joe Exampleson has a 30 mile round-trip, taking 1 hour because company "core hours" match when congestion occurs. His car manages 30 miles per gallon and gas is $5/gallon, and we assume other car-costs are things he'd bear anyway even without the job. He normally earns ~$30/hr while working but here he has to act as a driver.

That's ~14.6% of his pre-tax income, or $8,750/year.

_______

Now, I know somebody will think: "That's too high because his real job is harder or more important and driving is easy, plus he can enjoy listening to the radio or whatever."

Those observations aren't wrong, but it risks a certain kind of... economic hypocrisy. Why would those aspects matter now but not for Joe's regular pay? It is safe to assume Joe's employer does not pay him based on how difficult or painful his job is, or even how important it is for the work to occur! No, they're paying based on the marginal cost of replacing him with somebody else.
Agree. There needs to be a rule about the smallest increment you can win by. Maybe 1/100 of a second.
Instead of saying what not to do, pick something that works. Use something to manage your migrations.
Yeah, I think this leads to some of the misconceptions about Brutalism. People think of the violent and aggressive connotations of the word, when it really just means "raw" like unpainted, or more accurately as opposed to the sculpted concrete of Art Deco. Being associated with Soviet and low-income apartment buildings, and urban decay in general, didn't help though.
This reminds me, syntactically and conceptually, of the philosophy of parkour I was introduced to when I began practising it during uni.

"Être et durer" - to be and to endure. Train for the future, sustainably, without ruining your body.

And, "être fort pour être utile" - be strong to be useful. Parkour (as opposed to freerunning) emphasizes the goal, movement, reaching or escaping.
I find it a lot more fun. Are the psychological benefits taken into account? My attention is always better after running.
Interesting constrast with the Las Vegas room searches.
nobody is going to take VSCode so soon. But I'm starting to feel the VSCode fatigue in the air. Kinda like with React. I was looking for another editor to use or maybe get back to emacs. Funny enough, as I have a lot of free time right now, I decided to code my own editor. It is very fun!
I wish I could double upvote this suggestion!
I don't know which is a better illustration of America's decline during my baby boomer lifetime - California High Speed Rail vs The Interstate Highway System or Artemis vs Apollo.
Just give the whole contract to SpaceX already
US manufacturing dominance was one of the main reasons the Allies beat the Axis powers in WW2. This is a very, very bad situation we’re in. Frankly, it should keep you up at night.
I don't think that's reasonable at all. I ride and trail run regularly, and the amount of time that it subtracts from my nerd hobbies is *immense*. Other poster is right, the 99th percentile regular non-professional shredded athletes I know do one thing consistently.
All bombs contain matter, yet "matter" managed to escape the list. Perhaps there is a flaw in this logic?
I think you may have accidentally misread my post, or maybe I didn't word it carefully enough (in which case I apologize for the confusion). I don't prefer Steam. As a consumer, on principle in most cases I refuse to buy from it.

Steam effectively punishes creators for not steering users towards their monopoly, and they have a ton of tools for user lock-in: Steam Input, Steam Workshop, etc... They may not be as egregious as Apple, but they are often pretty egregious in their own right.

In a normal market, having a diverse set of users across multiple platforms would be a good thing as a creator, it would give you security and give each platform less power over you. Steam uses their review system to punish smaller creators who have a diverse userbase, and it uses their response to cement its market dominance even more and to give itself more power over those creators and their players. I would argue this is bad for the market.

My bigger point here is that Apple advocates will sometimes point to Steam and say "they charge high fees too, what's the problem?" There's are multiple reasons that Steam is able to charge higher fees than most of its PC competitors and remain the dominant platform for PC games, some of them due to the way that it methodically weaponizes incentives for both players and creators against alternatives. Comparing Apple to Steam does not make me like Apple more.
> just tools that build HTML/CSS for you

1. not Figma or Flash: it's not practical or performant to manipulate HTML/CSS to achieve the creative freedom of a vector design tool[0]

2. the rest of these that build on HTML: not a single one of them exposes that code for manual editing, so they're not developer tools and their "alternate layouts" are proprietary + locked away.

The root issue: HTML was not designed to be a substrate for design.

[0] I don't claim this casually; I spent several years seeking to do exactly this with github.com/famous/famous and https://www.haikuanimator.com/
> Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres

Without horizontal scaling it's more like a hosted/queryable Lucene.
There was a warrant in this case. That type of warrant is now deficient and electronic data holders like Google with easily refute future attempts to get data with a clearly deficient warrant. Parallel construction typically means a warrant was not given on the first pass.
250 comments as a Hacker News discovers interior design.
> During a visit to Michoud in 2023, for example, inspectors discovered that welding on a component of the SLS Core Stage 3 did not meet NASA standards. Per the report, unsatisfactory welding performed on a set of fuel tanks led directly to a seven-month delay in EUS completion.

> “According to NASA officials, the welding issues arose due to Boeing’s inexperienced technicians and inadequate work order planning and supervision,” the OIG says. [...]

Welders are highly qualified and well-paid craftsmen. Wouldn’t surprise me if they’d been hit particularly hard by management that doesn’t value tenured, expensive employees.
Has SpaceX even been outside low earth orbit with anything meaningful?