skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maine has no billboards for several decades now, and miraculously our state has not suffered existence failure, and we still build and sell a bunch of nice stuff.

Never believe a marketer telling you that you NEED marketing. Life will go on even with very limited marketing. You and your neighbors do not need it. Capitalism does not fall apart if it gets more expensive to force someone to learn about your product when they do not want to.
Seconded. "This list of specific things are Russian lies" would be a useful data point. We could clean up our own internal mental databases somewhat, and we could adjust our priors as to which information sources were telling it straight.
The implicit argument you are making is that something has to be measurable to be worth saving. The most important things in the world you cant measure.
I am not sure but I think my body couldn't generate enough of a specific hormone and then the body's reaction was as if I was starving because that hormone is controlling the metabolism inside the organes. So, probably nothing was missing in my food but because my metabolism was low it was like I was starving but I wasn't.
> To be honest forcing your employees into the office looks really desperate.

To some of us, but not everyone. It may look less desperate than layoffs. It can be postured as happening for any number of strong-handed reasons and be called an act of powerful leadership, even if it's just desperate and stupid. Besides, other huge companies have done it already.
Fair point, but still.. :)

Thanks!
Lucky you. IT / Tech sector is at 6% unemployment and the worst its been since the dotcom bubble burst. Remote work would be awesome. Operations, even Dev-Ops and Business Development level is hard to find for remote, and the market is pretty bad. Haven't seen or noticed what its like for the return to office culture, but, I'm not driving from one computer spending my gas to sit down in front of another computer. Preposterous.

I turned the consulting just to keep my schedule; it's ..an interesting change of pace. I think people are lucky to be having remote work at this moment.
Amazon's current answer.

Companies or their managers sometimes get a reality check after some confident answer like this. Not as often as we employees would like, but still. Remember those people who tought there was a worldwide market for about 5 computers? Or those who invested with SBF, because playing computer games during high level meetings is proof of... something?
They are not the same resource. Every resource is uniquely identified by its URI (normalized, ignoring the fragment), and so https://example.com/index.html and https://example.com/index.json are therefore not the same resource.

Perhaps what you are thinking of is content negotiation. I can request https://example.com/index.html and (despite the name) get JSON back, either because the server is cheeky or because I said "Accept: application/json" or similarly expressed a preference for JSON over HTML. Assuming both JSON and HTML exist at the same URI, these would be two representations of the same resource (accessed from the same URI, but with different headers). Broadly speaking, however, this mechanism is not often used outside of certain specialized protocols, and so it generally doesn't matter: changing the HTML bytes of index.html changes the resource because HTML is the only representation. Per the contract that specifies method idempotence and safety, GET index.html should therefore never cause the HTML content I receive back to change. However, the HTML content can change between requests for other reasons.

Whether changing only one representation of a resource is the same as changing the "whole" resource somehow is a bit moot, because the specific representation is what's consumed by the client and stored by caches. The ETag and cache parameters are tied to the specific representation as well, and can't be "smeared" across all representations. Practically speaking, the resource is inseparable from its representation, and thus two different representations are treated by well behaved HTTP clients and caches the same as two different resources, even if a higher-level protocol (SOAP, WebDAV, etc.) might treat them as semantically equivalent.

This is my read of RFCs 9110 and 9111; if you have strong evidence otherwise, I'm open to it.
So given the context, why is Hezbollah not responsible for the current escalation?

Hezbollah was founded to drive Israel out of Lebanon, and Israel is no longer in Lebanon, so not sure how that context makes any difference to who started and is to blame for the current round of escalation.
Probably this is being posted because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567573, which some initially assumed to be the result of a Stuxnet-like cyberattack by a state actor. Others quickly pointed out it's far more likely a hardware-based supply chain attack; so not really anything like Stuxnet at all.
Yes, there are blurbs about it if you know where to look and are already familiar with the situation. But a small blurb once about Israel being attacked is drowned out by the literally thousands of articles about Israeli actions, which mention time and again every small detail or infringement.
I can do better.

Edit. I apologize that I said it like that. I didn't put the effort that you put to share with us. At the same time, I went a step ahead on how to replicate anything in computing and chose to do where it requires my effort than the computing power.
> However, some disgruntled proffesionals have suggested that the new policy is designed to reduce its current 1.5 million-plus headcount.

1.5 million people work at Amazon?!
They are also scrapping hot desking.
My thoughts exactly, we actually _maintain_ a website, not create one!

Jokes aside, I work at Amazon and complexity varies between teams.. but there are few things that can’t be done remotely. Imo the hybrid model works best.
I wouldn't even shoot a nail gun the opposite direction without safety glasses. People are gonna be blinded or vision impaired by the shrapnel just from happening to shop nearby someone with one of these pagers.
Like George Carlin said, “you don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge”

There are other governments who also benefit from war in the region that most likely have a hand in encouraging, directly or indirectly, for continued conflict.
can we run our applets back again?
I don't see any contradication here.
I skimmed to the part about "We host it in our WeWork office" and thought WTF?
I've been working since I was 12, and working from home since I was 19 (32 now). I can't imagine ever going back to an office, especially now that my wife is pregnant. I'd rather learn a new profession than doing that.
Amazon already sounded like the worst FAANG to work for due to the way they sculpt reviews to avoid options vesting, combined with lower salaries than the other FAANGs. But with this? Yup, 100%. I don't see why someone would consider Amazon unless they have no other options.
Hobbies. Groups. Classes, MMA/Self Defense classes, computer clubs, local singles groups. you want to not be isolated.. trust me.
You could always take the time you save by not commuting and go outside for walks or a drink at a bar or what not. I make a point of walking to the local farmers' market a couple times a week now to spend some time around people, get a meal, etc.
The family member would not necessarily need to be carrying the pager, just near it. Picture a child standing next to adult, pager on hip would be next to the kids head. Pagers are not always worn too, could be on top of a table, etc..
Interesting that so called great photographs are often the result of simple emotional tricks - pulling his cigar from his mouth in Churchill's case and for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor being told a story about a dog that had died to get their famous melancholy expression.
Are there jurisdictions that allow this? In my jurisdiction, that would be considered a constructive dismissal and legally treated the same way as a layoff with the same employer obligations.
Violence has been probably the biggest driver of innovation for us as a species. I would categorize thousands of weapons as "cool" viewed dispassionately. Aircraft carriers, Fighter Jets, Cruise missiles. They are all definitely cool when viewed from afar.
I’m pretty pro WFH. It’s undeniably great from an employee’s perspective.

However I’m pretty annoyed and disappointed by the lack of honesty around its costs. There’s significant costs and benefits to remote work.

COVID was a little bit of a cheat code for WFH. We all built up relationships and repertoires during office work which made the transition to remote much much easier.

Remote work is particularly difficult for onboarding new members and especially for juniors. Slack and Zoom are vastly inferior to face-to-face.

Remote work is great for talented seniors. But there is an undeniable cost to the team.

Of course there are spectacular benefits to remote work. For example being able to hire people you couldn’t otherwise hire!

I’m not anti-WFH. But I am annoyed at all the internet threads that act like remote work is all roses with zero costs. And especially annoyed at folks who only look at how impacts themselves and not the team. It’s totally reasonable for WFH to be net benefit in some cases and net negative in others.

I expect downvotes for this. But that’s super lame. Would rather people engage thoughtfully. Alas.
RTO mandates are a way to cut the best talent. In a previous job, team was delivering on initiatives and running smoothly. Then came the soft RTO policies and then mandated RTO policies.

Best/good people on the team dropped. Myself included after 3 on-shore devs self “retired”. Team then consisted of soldiers, and a couple of off shore devs that did the bare minimum (ie, on shore fixed many of their mistakes, releases taking much longer than usual). Velocity of team sharply dropped. Organization and team turn over increased greatly.

Occasionally, get a ping from hiring manager to see if I’m interested in rejoining. But, RTO is still in effect so I decline any further discussion
if someone next to you in a supermarket was wounded from an explosive like the video shows, do you think perplexed and completely unharmed would be a good description for your experience? Maybe we saw different videos, but it's pretty hard to make such a generalized statement from a few seconds of video.
oh shit no, its the other way around: run wasm in the jvm
my freshman year roommate smoked weed every day instead of going to class. He wasn’t invited back for sophomore year.
> It’s a mistake not to acknowledge civilian casualties, and not to feel sorrow and even anger.

I agree with you 100%, it's important to acknowledge civilian casualties. Many uninvolved Lebanese people don't want a war with Israel, and they don't deserve any of this. I truly feel very sorry for those people and I wish they would never have had to go through this.

But at the same time, we can't let emotions alone dictate everything.

There's a murderous paramilitary death cult operating from within the Lebanese territory that uses Lebanon for all its territory and resources to kill as many Jewish people (and non-Jews, as demonstrated recently with the missile attack that killed 10 Druze children in a football game) as possible and erase Israel. They don't care about your feelings, or who their victims are. They'll gladly kidnap and murder civilians, children, elderly - as long as they are an Israeli. It's truly tragic, but there really aren't too many ways out of this.
I appreciate the detailed response - than you!
If there is anything combined inside the resulting event horizon it doesn't matter what it was: as far as GR is concerned it has been reduced to the effect of its mass, charge and spin. But we already know that GR isn't the whole story when it comes to BHs. See "soft hair" black holes.
If the identities of the parties were reversed it would absolutely be labeled as terrorism.
They lost double digit percentages of their fighting forces, with several thousand additional casualties in non-Hezbollah Lebanese military and paramilitary forces. I'm sure they can duct tape drones together or whatnot, but there are reasons Hezbollah has --- quite notably at this point! lots of stories written! --- not escalated in the south even as the conflict between Iran and Israel heats up.
Well they can create a cloud to work remotely… /s
> commuting 90 minutes through hellish traffic

I used to commute 90 minutes each way to and from work, back in the 1990's. One day I added up all that time I was spending sitting in traffic and it totaled an entire month of my life just sitting in traffic. My year was essentially 11 months long, not 12. I told my boss "In two weeks I'm not coming in to the office anymore". He said I could work from home, back when 56k modems were the fastest available. The company went out of business about 6 months later, so maybe he knew about that or maybe not, but those 6 months were amazing. I found another job that was a 15 minute bus ride away, and went back to an office but it was a far better situation. Oh, I also gave up driving completely, the city actually towed away my shitty car because it hadn't been driven in 6 months. Good riddance! I didn't drive for about 20 years, until I met my wife who had a car. I got a license so I could drive her around. I still don't own my own car, and now I've been working at home for almost 5 years. I'm never going back to an office if I can avoid it at all.
The trick is to save and avoid being caught up in a precarious position

Surely not everybody can do it, but a lot are caught in lifestyle inflation
I've seen high mouse polling rates cause genuine performance problems in real games. It was a surprise to me too, but I ended up dropping my polling rate from 4000 to 500 to fix it.
I guess what makes Python interesting right now is the integration with ML toolchains, CUDA, Metal/MLX, pytorch, tensorflow, LLM encoders/decoders, etc. more than Python the language. But can GraalVM run those codes meaningfully when Python is merely used for glue code with the important bits implemented in native code?
I read about an Amazon SWE that was trying do as little as possible to not get fired or just get a severance. I wonder if this is the most effective way to weed out all those.

With 300K employees they likely have thousands of zombie wfh employees.
I got c(c(c))(c).

My steps:

c(g): (f) => (x) => g(f(x))
c(c): (f) => (x) => c(f(x)) = (g) => (y) => f(x)(g(y)), or
(f) => (x) => (g) => (y) => f(x)(g(y))
c(c)(c): (x) => c(c(x)) = (f) => (y) => c(x)(f(y)) = (z) => x(f(y)(z)), or
(x) => (f) => (y) => (z) => x(f(y)(z)) # close!
c(c(c)): (f) => (x) => c(c)(f(x)) = (y) => c(f(x)(y)) = (g) => (z) => f(x)(y)(g(z)), or
(f) => (x) => (y) => (g) => (z) => f(x)(y)(g(z)) # We just need to substitute f with c
c(c(c))(c): (h) => c(c)(c(h)) = (g) => c(c(h)(g)) = (f) => (x) => c(h)(g)(f(x)) = h(g(f(x)), or
(h) => (g) => (f) => (x) => h(g(f(x)))
With a pager you can be pretty sure the target will be holding it with one hand and looking at the screen. Reports indicate the pagers beeped shortly before they went boom. So if the blast is focused in the plane normal to the screen that would focus it into the hand and face of the target. No idea whether that's actually a good idea or not.
It's funny how we tolerate Winrar doing that but on the phone it seems more annoying.
The answer is pretty straight forward in the sense that the current round of war was initiated (proudly) by Hezbollah, and that while if Hezbollah stops shooting Israel would have no business with Lebanon, if Israel stops shooting into Lebanon Hezbollah has no intention of stopping too. Hezbollah wants to destroy Israel (they say that, not me), while Israel has no desire to destroy Lebanon. Hinting at some kind of symmetry here seems weird.

Israel invading into Lebanon in the late 1970 was a response to an attack originating there [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Road_massacre#Israeli_...
Startups should host LLMs on their own GPUs
We do this and we aren't huge; and we did it for two reasons: world-class UX for our customers and world-class unit economics for ourselves.
So that Israel couldn't track their locations via cell networks. Sure you could use Signal or w/e but it's the cell IDs and knowing where people are that was the issue. The pagers do far less, if any, two way communication so it's not likely to give away location data.
That is an excellent point! And one that is often not factored into economic models.
https://www.stardog.com/blog/skathe-is-a-private-gpu-cloud/
Do you think that any military action with civilian impact constitutes terrorism?

no war has ever been waged without collateral damage.
Exploring the UI is a perfectly valid method of discovering functionality. What’s the alternative? The phone interrupting you every 2 steps saying hey by the way, you can also do this and this from here?
That doesn't change anything. Whether or not it ever ships doesn't mean it shouldn't be documented. There's zero cost to documenting it. Just because you don't like it and it didn't make it past the proposal stage doesn't mean it shouldn't be on MDN. That's not how MDN works.
The accounts may be serious (even accurate!) but whoever chose the numbers was not being serious in their choice of number. Or it's quite the coincidence.
>imagine if the pizzagate conspiracy theorists had had access to an un-censored sound-and-video GenAI tool

They didn't but a huge number of other conspiracy theorists still running their own ideas do have access to all that with today's AI, and we don't see a vast watershed of billions of people being brainwashed into believing complete nonsense to any degree greater than has already been the case for a long, long time before AI came along.

People do have a certain level of discernment, even when absolutely bombarded with propaganda and fakery. Usually, it seems to take, finally, coercion to make them simply swallow too much of something obviously absurd. This too was the case before AI and, simultaneously now, widespread access to information sources that let you verify the veracity of nearly anything you like in minutes as long as it's not grossly complex to untangle.

Even the Nazis of the 1930s and the bolsheviks earlier, despite all their mass efforts at convincing through propaganda and misinformation (applied to people with less ability than today to find contrary sources of information) ultimately didn't convince as many as they'd have liked voluntarily. They had to coerce them into just never openly disagreeing.

I don't think we're in danger of AI by itself doing anything major to suddenly make billions of people behave much differently in their beliefs from how they already have for centuries at least.
How to Install and Run Auraflow Image Generator Locally
IIRC, dragonriders always elide part of their name, and indicate the gap with an apostrophe. It's consistent and explained in the text at some point.
RansomHub Releases 487GB of Kawasaki Motors Europe Data
This is 8 years old, and as far as I can tell, has never been cited by anyone other than the author.
I get 0.371s on my M2 mac mini, which is right in the neighborhood of that, so that makes sense. Now on my i9-12900K, I get 0.096ms.

Thanks for checking!
It’s the wrong question usually. The right question is how many more features and what revenue growth would you get by using cloud? How many less people would you need to employ? Would you need to manage facilities - worry about hardware, power, diesel generators, etc.?

Cloud is more expensive. But you’re not stuck with capacity and sysadmin tickets.
Now, I’ll probably ask Siri. “How can I scan a document with native iOS functionality?” Hopefully I get the right answer back from the LLM!

(Admittedly, I have never read the manual for any iPhone I’ve owned; mea culpa)
I've been working remotely since 2015 essentially and here's my perspective on overcoming the feeling of isolation. In order from highest to lowest impact:

- Not commuting gave me more time to do physical activities socially. Tennis with neighbors / friends in my town. A group spin class.

- More time to embrace serendipitous hobbies in person with friends (or excuse to meet strangers in my town). New Nepalese restaurant with promising reviews? Randomly go with a friend on a Wednesday. New coffee shop? Try out their pourover to see if they know what they're doing!

- Try working from near home. Coworking space, coffee shop, etc. Workbar offered pretty affordable part-time coworking rates last I checked? Cal calls this "work from near home" - https://calnewport.com/thinking-outside-the-home/

- Meet a life partner who also works from home 1-2 days a week! We've enjoyed random 3 PM walks, making breakfast together, etc.

- Remote work works best with results oriented work environment / culture. So feel free to do a tea tasting or go watch a movie in the middle of the day - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/09/want-to-boost-your-productiv...

- Do 1 completely casual Zoom meeting with a coworker every week, even if you don't directly work together.

The 9-5 commuting lifestyle makes it easy to "bundle together" lots of habits that solve for isolation, time to wind down / prep for the day, and for many a workout routine (workout before or after work in a nearby gym).

When you work from home, these are all "unbundled" so you have to re-assemble the things that matter to you yourself. More freedom but more responsibility :)
> How do we quit being suckers?

Learn the history of uncomfortable things. I’m reading The Wages of Destruction. It details the economic incompetence of the Nazis.

That was surprising! The Nazis (and fascists generally) are portrayed as competent to the point of ruthless roboticness. But that’s their propaganda, not reality.

Jingoism, isolationism (military and economic), racial scapegoating…these are used by extremists to consolidate power. In the medium run, they almost always fail. They rise because of dissatisfaction, almost always the fault of the elites. But at that moment of dissatisfaction, the polis has a choice: confront the problems head on, or distract with one of the above. When a society chooses the latter, it tends to fall.

Historically the nonsense leading up to all that weakens the state and prompts “integration” into a neighbour. (Conquest.) That both kept people rational and solved the problem when they weren’t. Modern warfare means that is no longer an option. So the stupidity runs longer, potentially for a lifetime, without resolution while the society rots.
Hezbollah's Deadly Exploding Pagers – Experts suggest supply chain compromise
New public IP charges and Kubernetes base pricing both doubled my bill.

Spot pricing is kind of a black box, and it also makes no sense.
>I get an excellent salary but would be happy with 50% of it if asked to RTO.

Same. No amount of perks or camraderie will ever make up for getting 25% of my waking life back from commutes.
Does it have to be run in a GraalVM, or any JVM implementation is fine?
Yes, but it's moved to apps. The PBS Kids and PBS Kids Games apps are full of high quality edutainment shows and movies. Some vintage, some new.

Not a shill, just a dad with a 5yo who enjoys that I can give my kid a tablet with those apps and not have to worry about what they're watching :)
Not sure if this is too political...
Social dissonance and alienation is what creates an attractive environment for propaganda to take hold.

Going after specific groups fails to treat the root cause. If we lived in a country where you were free to disagree without being alienated and we wouldn't have nearly as many free-radicals.

"you believe <X>, therefore you're just a typical demonic <Y>" is a great way to turn a radical idea into a radical person. Let ideas be radical so that people don't have to be
It seems like such an approach would cause the most skilled and in demand workers to leave first. The ones that stay would be the ones that are unable to find a job elsewhere.
Right. Yes. That's more than plausible. I have no reason to dispute the accounts of bystander casualties.