skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not the parent, but I'm curious what you place the odds at. It's a 50/50 coin toss from where I'm standing, and your bet should include you losing if those screenshots are sent one-shot "by mistake" or because of some random minor update. Given the Microsoft related shit-show that happened last month, it's a weird approach to risk if the odds of it happening were even less than 50%, as it would be a low probability but high impact event for those who cared.

I'm curious if you yourself would view the event as a big deal if your data had been sent or if you would simply take the "life is short, who gives a shit?" scenic route.

If you read the article, you would see that the earliest release date for standard Windows versions is planned for early 2025, so you're even kinda baiting the parent from a position of cowardice -- a good faith opening bet would suggest Feb 2026 for the date at the least:)
Every year or so I have my fun with Quake 3 and UT99 with bots. They might not be as smart as a human opponent but playing on Nightmare and Godlike difficulty brings back that twitchy adrenaline infused moments I enjoy so much from those games :)
I disagree really, actually, because the tool offers large-scale mechanization and uniformization of human activity with relatively low cost, which is the proto form of more advanced AI.
Exactly. I stop reading any article as soon as I see an AI image.
The Justice Department is being soft on corporate crime here. This is a willful Sherman Act violation. The Sherman Act has criminal penalties, but Justice is only filing a civil case. All that the complaint asks for is an injunction and costs. There's no disgorgement. No breakup of large landlords. No shutdown of RealPage.

This is worth publicizing during election season. Rents are going up due to collusion.
Yes. They are tools to manage the user side of packaging (i.e. installing, managing versions, locking, environments) but can't do anything to fix the problematic ecosystem. That is a much harder problem to solve.
> by kqr, published 2024-11-19

It's from the future! ;)
>but the probability that the study is crap is lower than the probability that it is not

BASED ON WHAT!!!!?!?!?!
Does https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-volumes... not work for you? Is it the updates that need to be available quickly to all the readers?
A week can be a long time, even 2 days might. If you want to respond sooner that's great, they will likely be pleasantly surprised. However, for those times when you're offline for the weekend or on holiday for a week - the messaging helps you out with no extra effort to update it. Always better to under promise and over deliver in my book.

I also think expectations are relayed based on the price and scale of your business. Being transparent about your operations is helpful. If you're running your business as a one person side project but pretending to be a large multinational corporation (which is common) or charging a larger sum of money for service then perhaps it's expected. Also if you're providing some mission critical application, then probably expected. The author is talking about a charting plugin to a trading app that he charges peanuts for and has no intention of continuing development on. I think most people's "businesses" fall into this camp, even if mildly revenue generating. In any case, it's mostly about setting and managing expectations. It helps if you are transparent if you are not actively making improvements or it's just a hobby/solo/side hustle thing for you. At the end of the day, they can decide if they want to discontinue using your thing or not and if your optimizing for "least amount of time invested" then you also just need to come to accept that some churn is the price of it. Obviously, if you can charge more or have a huge amount of users, that churn becomes negative ROI versus providing more attentive support and that would likely justify a change of strategy - for some.
My concern with this is that it fundamentally undermines competition, which is a promise of the markets. Being more efficient means delivering products more cheaply than your competitors, which is good for the market. This sort of collusion completely undermines that and holds back innovation in the market.

How would real estate developers feel if construction companies / subcontractors had a similar product for pricing their labor? Or how would any company feel if employees worked together to set the price of their labor? That sounds kind of familiar, and doesn't sound like something most companies would be happy about.
I prefer a stock image as well. At least it was crafted by a human being behind a camera. And as a pro photographer, and someone who takes thousands of photos a month and views thousands more, there is something indescribably human about human works that are lacking in AI.
Just use God Mode: https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-enable-god-mode-in-w...
garbage collectors and crossing guard are out there in traffic all day, and don't have the benefit of being near something people are afraid of (a police car). If that is your standard to cite it isn't very safe. Let me know how it compares to a more generic office worker.
> being the child of and raised by terrorists (and other evil people) should automatically disqualify you from certain jobs

Wat.
A close friend of mine was doing her PhD in nutrition (in Germany). She asked me to have a look at the math (statistics) and it was a monstrosity.

I told her that I cannot read that further because she either won't get her PhD or I will be morally wounded.

She asked me for some examples of errors and to each of them she was saying, with evidence, that this is what "everyone does".

This was nutrition, something that is at least to some extend innate so there won't be disasters (I hope). The same thing with pharma is a disaster hanging by a thread.
That was a great app to have when my employers company preferred browser was still Internet Explorer, but since most applications were upgraded to be compatible with Edgium now Firefox can handle them as well. So the browser the company doesn’t recommend is now my daily driver.
Nano is claiming insanely better performance over spdlog, which confuses me
Competitive markets keep things within a tolerance, imo. If the average is $4.10 then you can expect the price to vary up and down by some amount depending on location and other things provided.

What RealPage does is distinct because it assures prices are always above and by orders of magnitude what they should be. It also achieves that through private communication which I think is generally accepted as a problem.
> The one I notice the most is the filesystem.

This is due to the extensible file system filter model in place; I'm not aware of another OS that implements this feature and is primarily used for antivirus, but can be used by any developer for any purpose.

It applies to all file systems on Windows.

DevDrive[0] is Microsoft's current solution to this.

> Meanwhile Win10 Explorer opens after a noticeable delay

This could be, again, largely due to 3rd party hooks (or 1st party software that doesn't ship with Windows) into Explorer.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/
A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked with Studios, – But She Never Existed
I believe that's called a reserved instance.
Obviously you aware, but let me still say it: openrouter is for me a trivially easy way to create dedicated keys with max limit https://openrouter.ai/credits or am I missing something?
This is a bit like saying program counters don't exist because a program's control flow can be changed by interrupts.
The 7600X did average 19 W higher in Phoronix's benchmark but that's certainly not the explanation for the 45% performance gain and benchmarks matching the 9x00X parts to the wattage levels of the 7x00X parts don't show perf/watt improvements, though it is nice to see saner default limits rather than eking that last 5% of perf instead.

82.9% in two generations/4 years is decent but few are disappointed with the performance gains of getting off Zen 3, they're disappointed with the performance gains of Zen 5 itself.
Images are the usual use case.
Well they probably figure if you bought a used peloton, you did so because you’ve decided to subscribe, in which case they don’t need to convince you of anything. It does seem scummy but I get the financial logic behind it
You think that the children of dictators, mass murderers and terrorists should be allowed to be politicians?

Here's a question for you, would you vote for the child of a KKK member?
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41330587
If you're the average landlord, you hire people to maintain the building and deal with the tenants. Rich people constantly try to convince everyone that owning things is a job. If buying a business forces you to work operating it, it's because you couldn't afford the business outright, so instead you're paying it off with sweat equity.

Certainly nothing wrong with buying a job, it's positively Jeffersonian, but the reason you're working there is because you couldn't afford anyone else.

Being a landlord is just feudalism. Most of the terminology is still the same.
At this point what makes us think all major contributors are not on a payroll of one or the other state agency? The attack surface of the whole SW supply chain is huge.
Because datasets like the BAN exist to document how actual people and places are to be addressed. People and places don't exist to be addressed by the BAN.
I worked at my current job for 3 months before I met a coworker in person. That might slightly help at a legacy butts-in-seats factory, but doesn't do a lot for remote jobs. I could be proxying in from Romania for all they'd know.
It is in my opinion because it has that extremely generic feel, even more than clip art because at least the clip art had some character from the artist.
Ironically, the same company showed how to perfectly execute a settings page in Visual Studio Code: It's searchable, has a consistent and intuitive grouping, a simple way to get help for each individual setting and an import/export functionality. But I suppose, it's from a different department...
Thanks for the link.

Watching the second one is almost depressing, because there's some good jokes in there that are just ruined by the scene dragging out for way too long. Several of them got a smirk out of me but then it's like, "Oh...we're still going, are we?"

If they had just had a decent editor who could've shortened them to have the punch of a Family Guy cutaway gag, I think they would've worked better. Larson's comics certainly had that punch--I just don't think he was quite prepared for how to translate it successfully to the animation medium.
>, a gas station isn't going to look at a competitor selling gas at $4.15 and decide to raise their price to $4.45. They would lower their price to match the competition, otherwise they'd lose sales and make less money.

But the airlines are also doing the opposite of your scenario: they also raise prices instead of lower them via legal "price signaling" via publicized fares[1] in the global reservations system.

Competitors can converge on a higher price instead of a lower price. It's not just one direction. They just need to do it via public price signaling to stay out of legal trouble.

In 2022, Apple Music raised their subscription from $9.99 to $10.99. Spotify then followed them and also raised their price to $10.99. By 2023, they both converged on $10.99. I think right now in 2024, Spotify is $1 higher at $11.99. Nobody should be surprised if Apple Music also raises its to $11.99.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=It+is+now+common+for+an+airl....
I have a lot of respect for great lawyers/judges. While they're saying what is essentially gibberish to me, and they're asking "open' questions, that build on the responses, all along they're slowly backing their opponent further and further into a trap until a dramatic finish when all is revealed.

Example here

The Chancellor interrupted to ask whether he could cite any case that permitted common law ratification of “an adjudicated breach of the duty of loyalty.” Ross danced around the question, insisting that Defendants were not arguing that the vote changed the Court’s adjudication “with respect to conduct.” Blah blah blah, skip a bit...

“So,” asked the Chancellor, “this has never been done before?” After a bit more rhetorical contortion, Ross finally admitted that, “Yes,” this has never been done before.

Thus, with these questions, the Chancellor established that for her to rule in Defendants’ favor, her Court of Chancery, which is subordinate to the Delaware Supreme Court, would be placed in the position of establishing a completely new legal doctrine.

It's like a brilliant magic trick, if you can follow along.
How does Vega compare to Observable Plot?

I'm going to be needing a JS/TS rendering option shortly at my job, and I'm comparing tins.
true

it's an annoying precedent besides the tech-support labor of folks like us trying to fix it.
I too share the dream of transpiling everything/WebAssembly/everything can run everywhere, but we're pretty far.

For a lot of ML/AI workloads and tasks, Python is just a binding for underlying C/C++.

It's already a nightmare to try to reproduce any ML/AI paper, pip breaks 3 times, incompatible peer deps, some obscure library emits an obscure CLANG error that means I need to brew install some libwhatever, etc...

I don't think the WebAssembly toolchain is quite ready for plug and play "pip install" time yet. I hope it eventually will be though.
Both of these can be true, and it’s far more likely to be self reinforcing. Because it’s such an unimpeachable monopoly, the competition that doesn’t put forth billions are doomed to fail.

People talk about feature parity, but that’s irrelevant when slashing Valves cut by 1% is enough to get the vast majority of publishers and developers to stay on board.

They are such an unimpeachable monopoly that Microsoft, makers of the OS that Steam predominantly relies on for consumer spend, also bows to them. After all they’re large enough to get a new cut from the normal distribution terms.
To be clear, is the National Address Gazetteer open? As far as I can tell, it isn't, but I don't know if that's because they're trying to obfuscate it.
How does that save lives? Think it will change consumer choice?

Get lots of victims? That hasn’t worked for gun control.
It's still an insinuation even if its true. You should consider rephrasing your comment and not starting it with "did you forget to say...". Presumably they did not forget to mention this.
Juniper had a backdoor in their firmware in 2015 which gave ssh access, inserted by hackers: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/22/on-junip...

There were some updates: https://www.zdnet.com/article/congress-asks-juniper-for-the-... and according to https://www.reuters.com/article/world/spy-agency-ducks-quest... China was behind it (but without evidence).
Ut2k4 is so fantastic, I still have a scar on my forehead from the first time I played the demo on a CRT sitting on a chair and my friend tackled me into it to "save me from a sniper". I would get up at 4am because I had a bedtime but no wakeup time and play 4 hours of CTF-Face instagib before school. Q3DM17 also holds a special place in my heart, I'm getting a tattoo of the "Impressive" emblem in a few weeks!

Not a day goes by that I don't pine for turn of the century FPS gameplay. (and maybe my turn of the century reflexes)
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2650/
Yes. That was the point of my original post: abstractions generate problems.

But abstractions are also useful. You can't just not abstract anything at all.

I took a look at my company's metrics this morning. Approximately 30% of the candidates we send to clients (and who have not ended up out of the process for reasons outside of quality, e.g. the company hired someone else) have ended up getting an offer. That's an important piece of information: it tells me that my company does not have a problem with failing to screen out weak candidates.

Is that leaving out some important details? Yeah, of course! One of our candidates failed an interview because he was too aggressive in questioning his interviewer about their company's prospects. That's a useful piece of information, too; it was (along with a couple other anecdotes) a clue that we should try to do more basic coaching for candidates before interviews.

The data tells me how common the problem is, and suggests which problems are most critical to solve first. The anecdotes can tell me in detail about the nature of the problems, and suggest to me possible interventions. Both of those things matter.
It's not "despite" lower population. The thing that drives the costs up isn't evil landlords or the dreaded "profit motive". It's just demand massively outstripping supply, and high wages.
> It is optimizing for a certain lifestyle.

What kind of lifestyle?
Assumptions in the software.

Jemalloc is infamous for this: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/5244
> the public has low appetite for high speed pursuits

Police officers should be training in high speed pursuits. This training exists and means they never happen (there are a number of things that if the police know mean there are no high speed chases - but they need a lot of training)
You have microplastic in your balls (if you have them). They're in your brain [0] - 0.5% by mass, which is 50% more than 8 years ago.

They're in the Mariana Trench, and Everest, and the rain.

And production is still rising.

0 - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/health/plastics-in-brain-...
> They should first fix their search.

#1: Stop re-running a file search on sort.
they've been slowly adding things to 11's settings menus and I understand why people might think the new one is more user friendly, but things like easily accessing wifi networks properties is more convoluted.
Competition only matters for new contracts. Once you have picked a provider and made a big enough infrastructure investment, there's no realistic path to switch to someone else.
TagStudio: A User-Focused Document Management System
This is a semantic debate, but "science" is the process of finding those rules. If we find an "ultimate" rule, we're still using science. (Assuming science is capable of finding that ground truth rule.)
germany had really nice internet until a few years ago

but yea, it's very annoying
I'm not sure I could direct my mother around that...
First time round, everyone thought slavery was going to be an intractable question.

One can argue they turned out to be right; but it took ~50 years for the bubble to pop.
I'm not sure if its about "small rewrites" so much as slowly changing so that there's less all at once rejection and pushback. It's change management.
That what I meant by "I can see what they were trying to do". It's would have been correct if the "+x" was inside the braces, even in context. He did in fact want to check if the variable was unset and error out, and that's what hurts so much.

There was a real and correct analysis that, hey, I want to make sure the variable is set here. Only to then drop it because you get told the syntax is wrong. The response I'm looking for when I say "This syntax won't do what you're looking to do" would be something like "what am I trying to do? and why wont this do it?" not "well it's just some AI code, I'll just remove it".
> If you already have a smartphone, that's good enough.

Sure, but I don't think nearly enough people are sufficiently critical of their need for a smartphone either; I tend to think of it like cars, we've just allowed ourselves to let these devices service so much our day-to-day tasks that they seem like necessary appendages. If it goes away, we panic and buy another one, never stopping to sit with that absence. If my mac had a built-in cellular modem, I'd leave the phone at home most days. It's not useless, but it is completely incidental to my life in terms of what I actually would need it for. Likewise, if people didn't have cars, they wouldn't likely have a life that's only palatable because they have one.
When I read these kinds of stories, and the comments on them, I feel it would vastly more useful for people to document positive interactions with financial services.

Am I shilling for banks? I hope not. It just seems that at this point anyone who imagines the banks are going to work for you, the customer, has not been paying attention and/or is delusional.

Finding out that SolarFlower Bank in Hometown, Your State has provided exceptional banking services is massively more useful than hearing, once again that BigBankCorp are terrible.
I wonder if this will end up hurting EVs disproportionately as my understanding is that they're usually a bit heavier than comparable ICE vehicles?
Totally misunderstood the headline, LOL!

I read it like, yeah, nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week, so why are companies mandating return to office?

Little did I know that Nothing is the name of the company!
Stanford Reverses Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's with Brain Metabolism Drug
Automating Screenshots: Relishing Making One's Own Tools
RHEL tried that in that past with 64KB on AARCH64, it led to MANY bugs all across the software stack, and they eventually reverted it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513209.

I'm impressed by the effort on Google's side, yet I'll be surprised if this effort will pay off.
The logical thing to do is require drivers of large/high vehicles to have more stringent commercial driver’s licenses as well as liability coverage, just like a dump truck driver or whatever is expected to have.

The next thing would be to increase fossil fuel taxes so that fewer people can afford to waste money on vanity and prioritizing their own safety over others’. Side benefit is it helps the environment. Keep increasing the tax until you see non commercial use of large/high vehicles drop to acceptable levels.
Sorry, you're confusing the hell out of me, is this a way that you feel or not? Pretending to care about something in order to score points is bad behavior.
I support price regulation when called for. Your hyperbole is...not congruent with reality, considering the incredible agriculture subsidies provided and automobile tariffs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/economists...

https://www.ncsl.org/financial-services/price-gouging-state-...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

From a paid Matt Stoller BIG (https://thebignewsletter.com/) piece on monopoly pricing:

> Something real is going on. In individual markets, CEOs have been bragging publicly that they are restraining production to increase prices. Profit margins in the food industry jumped during Covid and haven’t come back down. Or take rent. There’s a company called RealPage that works with the biggest corporate landlords to hold apartments empty so they can increase prices, which jumped up 11% in 2022. There’s some evidence of conspiracy around pricing in virtually every industry. Turkey, poultry, and pork. Frozen french fries. PVC pipe. Anesthesiology. Oil. Ammunition. Pharmaceuticals. K-Pop. Credit bureaus and FICO, Verisign, industrial gasses, architectural software, locks, entertainment data. Homebuilders. Garden chemicals. Defense and aerospace. Ticketing. Estate Sales. Gaming. Drug wholesaling. Work ID information. Seeds and chemicals.

Laws to crack down on this behavior has popular support, so I won't spend additional time defending the idea in this forum, as it is unnecessary.

https://blueprint2024.com/polling/inflation-poll-06-25/

https://blueprint2024.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screens...

> The most popular policies are calling on all states to suspend taxes on groceries (68% selected), cracking down on overcharging by hospitals (66%), starting a congressional committee to hold hearings on and investigate price gouging and overcharging by corporations (63%), requiring public utilities to cut rates for electricity (63%), reducing the deficit by cutting spending (62%), and prosecuting price gougers (61%).