skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of shipping is more than made up for in the cost of labor and capital that goes into the products. Which is why most other countries use China as their number 1 trading partner. There is also nothing critical manufacured by the U.S. for Cuban agriculture that is not available elsewhere. They are a tropical island with one of the most ideal climates on planet Earth, food grows virtually all year there, nevermind the abundance in the ocean itself.
These days, in the US, you get 1 vote per each US Dollar in your portfolio.

>the wealthy few move policy, while the average American has little power.

This is fully true, especially since Citizens United.
Not to be too dismissive, but is there a worthwhile direction of research to pursue that is not LLM’s in NLP?

If we add linguistics to NLP I can see an argument but if we define NLP as the research of enabling a computer process language then it seems to me that LLM’s/ Generative AI is the only research that an NLP practitioner should focus on and everything else is moot. Is there any other paradigm that we think can enable a computer understand language other than training a large deep learning model on a lot of data?
Nothing they said was a lie though. Yes, everyone spies on each other, but what matters is the level of aggression. Israel ranks up there with China and Russia, and that's an issue.

And it's absolutely true that they did not sign the nuclear non proliferation treaty, and then went on to do nuclear tests off the coast of South Africa in the 1979 Vela incident. And that provided a huge motivation for Israel's enemies (which are absolutely anti-US) to seek nuclear weapons, which caused huge regional instability since then and threatened US national security.

Yes, you can talk about how it's hypocritical that the US gets to do these things and nobody else does. And in a sense it is, but the fact is that at the moment, the US effectively rules the world for better or worse. And it is a fact that Israel's behavior is causing instability that threatens themselves and the US.
Having a common platform for postal vehicles makes things like maintenance easier.
I’m a young(-ish) dev who used to care a lot about open source but never managed to break into a community. In recent years my view of the whole thing has soured a lot. There seems to be few compelling incentives to actually develop or participate in open-source software.

Open source first felt to me like a way to give power back to ordinary people, and it still is, but it seems like those who get the most benefit from free labor are large corporations. Open source feels increasingly corporate and companies like Microsoft dominate and reap enormous benefits. I’ll work for Joe Neighbor for free but not Sataya Nadella.

Open source was always political but in 2010 (around when I started getting into Linux) it felt like dumb arguments over things like programming languages or “the UNIX philosophy”. Now it feels like a vicious Red vs Blue culture war where not picking a side is just as bad as picking the other side.

Contributing to open source is a thankless job and even if your project is really good, most people won’t care and the few that do might still treat you like crap. I’ve submitted a handful of pull requests and I’ve already run into the classic “Your patch works and provides a feature some people might like, but I don’t like it, go away.”

I’ve donated plenty to organizations like Mozilla, Wikipedia, and GNOME. I then email them with my opinions on what they’re doing. In nearly every case not only am I ignored completely, I see those projects (Mozilla especially) continue to drift in a direction that I disagree with. So, I stopped donating.

For me, the Linux kernel is probably one of the few big open source projects where 1) the project is technically interesting enough that I would learn a lot by contributing, 2) It seems like politics and infighting is kept under control, 3) it actually seems possible to get a patch in while having a 9-5, 4) I use the product myself every day and enjoy it, and 5) the technical direction feels positive in that it is getting regular features & bug fixes that I like
As soon as they feel like TPM isn't pushing enough HW upgrade purchases...
Performing Impossible Feats with Isograph (GraphQL conf presentation) [video]
What San Francisco looks like
Yeah this person is just making things up, the majority are not H1Bs. Also, there's this popular idea (usually on places like reddit) that H1Bs at big tech are paid "slave labor wages" because "They can't leave". This is just not true, they get the same salary and stock ranges as everyone else.

Source: was H1B (worked at a couple of big N, but not Amazon) until I got my green card (and then citizenship).
I have taught in those programs and have also provided resources and equipment. Frankly that's all pretty darn good stuff! I'll bet you're having a pretty good ride too.

I will just say what you and others are doing is not enough.

Meta:

I was nice the whole time. There are no words of mine here to fret over. That is deliberate intent too. Some style choices are aimed at passersby and to provoke thought. Nothing more. Others may not be so nice. I get that.

Whether you answer me or not has no impact on my choices.

To be 1,000 percent clear, you were never trolled by me. Frankly I could probably do it and not even get under your radar. That sounds something I choose to do. The single most likely reason you answer is my speech here is compelling enough to warrant an answer.
"...The hot takes on Amazon's new strict return-to-office policy are wrong."
The ratio of domestic sales and domestic production has widened over the same period. In 1970 the ratio of domestic production to domestic sales was .933, in 2019 that ratio is .796.

Though we are making more total cars, were making a smaller percentage of all cars sold.

As another commenter pointed out, the cars we make today are amalgamation of parts and design work done overseas. That isn't necessarily a bad thing if you view globalization favorably, but it is another factor when considering the value created in the US with regards to vehicle production.
Also I always think it's a littly sad that Jupyter was one of the best shots for Julia to get more mainstream attention, and instead the notebooks people write are basically exclusively python
As a comparison of unlike but related units:

> For example, the data rate used from Jupiter was about 115,000 bits per second

And I think it affects the calculation slightly that Voyager's downlink transmits at about 8.4 GHz (X-band).

Good stuff here: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-annive...
How do they confirm where the requestor is?
So I have an idea...

Why not let the computer science students take a crack at building some of those systems? Maybe not the an HR system, but why not a course registration system? Maybe not for the whole university, but maybe for just the computer science department?

The university would get work for free and the students would get real-world practice with building production code.

I get that there would be risk, but if it was under the supervision of professors (who hopefully are good at building, not just lecturing theory), I think there is an opportunity there.
>heavily sanctioned by the US

Cuba is an island nation that has full political and trade relations with industrialized countries around the world. Plenty of other island nations have no trouble in their agriculture sector. Cuba's inability to make their economy work has everything to do with their lack of democracy and excess of Marxism, and nothing to do with their neighbor, the US. We have seen food shortages after Marxist takeovers pretty much everywhere that has suffered that fate.
Facebook actually doesn't use git, they use mercurial (https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git).

That decision is also illustrative of why they end up forking most things - Facebook's usage patterns at the far extreme end for almost any tool, and things thats are non-issues with fewer engineers or a smaller codebase become complete blockers.
Hanlon's razor is significantly dulled by the presence of Larry Ellison.
Plus one on this. I've almost never seen a 9 figure deal in my life, and the only ones I've seen are massive core infra level deals by mega-corps. I absolutely cannot imagine CUNY spending more than most F50s spend on HRMs.

Edit:

I did some digging into the Tender [0] and it looks like it was $300M total across all 25 universities and colleges in the CUNY system along with the CUNY administrative portion itself and it was a full bundle of HRM, ERP, On-Prem Compute Resources, and headcount (PS and internal) over a 10 year period, so $30M per year across all 26 institutions.

This came out to around $1.25M ACV per organization (10 year contract, 26 organizations).

In reality, some of the larger colleges (eg. CCNY) will have spent much more than the smaller ones (eg. Bronx CC).

In addition, each of the large CUNY colleges had budgets in the $150M range in the early 2010s [1] along with a separate $2B budget for CUNY's central organization (as mentioned above)

What seems to have happened is the above page treated overall TCV as part of a single budget, when in reality, each individual constituent org with it's own budget spent out of their own pocket for ERP, HRM, Headcounr (PS and internal), and Compute (on-prem)

This isn't egregious for the size of organizations that each of the constituent colleges and CCs in CUNY are.

The big question is, if you used the PSC's (imo flawed) methodology, what would it give for CSUs, UCs, and SUNY (all of whom have a similar structure and student size). I'd expect a similar amount.

[0] - https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/...

[1] - https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/finance/upload...
Decentralized inferencing perhaps, but the training is very much centralized around Metas continued willingness to burn obscene amounts of money. The open source community simply can't afford to pick up the torch if Meta stops releasing free models.
I think you underestimate the power of your government and the impact of economic sanctions.

At the end of the day, I don't understand why those countries aren't allowed to be independant.
This sounds like a good idea. I do wonder if enough people would sign up for it to be a worthy venture because I think the main issue with ads is I think once you add any price at all dramatically reduces participation even if it’s not about cost some people just see the payment and immediately disengage.!
That sentence stood out to me too, very powerful. Felt it right in the feels.
The nth good example why we need mandatory open hardware and FLOSS from the first line on any commercial project. Remember such attacks are perfectly possible from any country to another...

Oh, and imaging a supply chain attack against drugs, something that does not act so quickly...
> typically end up being tit-for-tat and relatively zero-sum.

That pretty much sums up all economic policy honestly. It will always be tit for tat since one aide can only respond to the other and doesn't directly control their economy.
likely used by vendor as sales strategy to upgrade device:

we will give you patch for this EOL 0day, but this will be the last one. Please buy new version and btw here is 20% discount code, you are welcome
I know absolutely nothing about this act, but I was put off by the EFF’s tone of righteousness here. As a rule of thumb I worry when I hear something described in absolute or moralistic terms: rarely do complicated things happen just out of pure villainy.

For slightly more detailed perspective into what proponents might be thinking, CSIS suggests that the status quo effectively allows large companies with armies of lawyers to steal IP from small firms at will, and that PERA seeks to remedy a category of iffy gotcha kind of challenges; the conservative Federalist society claims that PERA would remove a threshold challenge to patent validity but would not disrupt more substantial analyses and tests later in the process.

I still have no opinion personally, but maybe a couple of contrasting opinions might be helpful for folks here.

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/new-efforts-promote-us-innovat...

[1] https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/the-patent-eligibi...
Honestly, how can you patent a human gene? What happens if I'm born with that gene? I have to pay a company for the right to be alive?
Yeah, I'm sure that Israel is just so good that every single device didn't end up being owned by any one else.

I mean Israel is really really good at avoiding collateral damage (according to Israel), so everyone who's on the receiving end of this was Hezbollah (according to Mossad). I mean, they do have the most humanitarian army in the world after all (according to the IDF casualty reports)
Biggest problem at the moment is async support, I guess

https://github.com/exaloop/codon/issues/71
1. Be willing to spend 5 and 6 figures (unreimbursed) responding to lengthy RFPs.
2. Work with an established Systems Integrator (who will take a large percentage.)
they could offer to send you a $15 grubhub gift card for your trouble
The future of everything you depend on is open source and decentralized.

Because all indications are that the powers over you cannot abide your freedoms of association, communication and commerce.

So, if it’s something your family needs to survive - it has better be distributed and cryptographically secured against interference.

This includes interference in the training dataset of whatever AIs you use; this has become a potent influence on the formation of beliefs, and thus extremely valuable.
> They are on some of the most fertile ground on planet earth.

Wheat simply does not grow in the tropics (though as I pointed out elsewhere, the Brasilians are developing this).
Its not out of the realm of possibility something like that happened. In other countries, organized crime have been taken down using tactics somewhat like that (i.e. convince the person responsible for procurement in the gang to buy bulk cell phones from some black market dealer that was actually a cop and put listening devices in the phones)
Money is just a proxy for time spent, so yes there is a fixed amount because we all have only so much time.

You can make gains by new technology(printing press vs handwritten), cutting quality(cheaper inputs/materials) or improving efficiency(work cell design).

Looking at it from a view of consumerism paints a bleak picture, if you look at if from a view of social stability without a functioning economy everyone will starve since the fertilizer, DEF fluid, John Deere tractor code and everything that ties all those together are so far spread out that is has become like a spider web facing a hurricane.
It's worth remembering that Oracle bought Cerner, a major EMR vendor, and that they plan to rewrite Cerner Millennium (the EMR) using AI.

Enjoy your hospital stay.
Meta doesn't use git. It uses mercurial. It does fork it because they have a huge monorepo. They created a concept of stacked commits which is a way of not having branches. Each commit is in a stack and then merged into master. Lots of things built for scaling.
Went to Wikipedia to confirm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_revolt#Digg :

> In 2007 in the AACS encryption key controversy

> When Digg redesigned their website in 2010 the community revolted and used the platform to advertise a user migration to competitor Reddit

So while both seems to be classified as "user revolt", the redesign seems to be acknowledged as causing the migration to reddit. Of course, not 100% sure how accurate that is, but seems to match my own memory at least.
This still feels a long way off. I have yet to encounter a charger, not made by Tesla, that has an NACS plug.
Do you have a link to NotJustBikes' thoughts on the topic? I can think of a few reasons it wouldn't work for them but I'm curious what they hit.
I'm going to interpret your comment as "Venezuela is starving because of US sanctions"

We actually have a really nice unintentional experiment. The Biden administration removed sanctions from Venezuela, they still had starvation after sanctions were removed.

The dictator managed to get food while the country was starving however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDebIITJ1x0
That's got to be a reason why the attacks are staggered.

Separating them definitely increased the chances that somebody would check their radios - but taking out the pagers drove people to the radios. Now taking out the radios is making people worry what else might be compromised. Your enemy refusing to use their communication equipment is a definite win.

The pagers and radios were supposedly due to the worry that the phone system was compromised - but I'm guessing more people will be using it tomorrow.
Direct or indirect, it doesn't matter. It is a strong form of control.
> Aren't there valid reasons for people not to conceal or anonymize their communications, such as whistleblowers, journalists, or people needing to hide their communications from oppressive governments?

Keeping logs doesn't help other goverments. Other governments cannot access your logs. Your government can access your logs. You are protecting them from your government. You may claim that your government is oppressive. But that doesn't change that you are hindering the enforcement of their (oppressive) laws.

Regarding the moral question: I agree that there are cases where hindering your own government's law enforcement may make sense.

Regarding tor, I mostly take issue with the concept of onion services. If you want to publish USA government secrets, you can publish them on Russian servers. If you want to publish Russian government secrets, you can publish them on American servers, etc. The sole purpose of onion services is to publish content which is illegal in every country on earth. I can't think of many good things that are ollegal in every country on earth.
And about society's willingness to tolerate such a man.
To clarify, Yellow has ~$2.1B in assets and ~$2.6B in debts. The Teamsters Union claims Yellow owes the pension fund ~ $6.5 billion (which works out to about $300k for each Teamster who worked at Yellow when it shut down). But the actual numbers here are mostly made up and don't matter.

> The funds asked Goldblatt to rule that billions of dollars in federal grant money they received from the US last year should be ignored when that liability is calculated.

The wording here is unclear. But the grant money mentioned here is the relief provided by the American Rescue Plan - the federal government dumped nearly a trillion dollars in guarantees that all qualifying pensions are going to pay out at 100%. So what the pensions lawyers are are arguing is that it doesn't matter that the pension is funded or not, they still have a senior claim on the debt.

> The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which regulates retirements funds like those set up for Yellow’s union workers, argued that other companies with traditional pension plans would have an incentive to cancel their retirement benefits if Yellow won since shareholders wouldnt be forced to pay a hefty penalty.

More specifically, if every company made the same argument, they would all dump their pension funds and now they would all be the government's problem. It would not be a great precedent.
Include me in that minority as well. I grew up in a small rural town and the massacre was covered in our history books. This was in HS in the mid 90s.
I think you are mistaking your emotional reflexes for objective truth. Weapons on flags historically connote a message of 'don't mess with us'. The IDF's logo is a sword and an olive branch, and is more or less the same as the logo of the Haganah...a pre-independence paramilitary organization that was considered terroristic at the time when Palestine was still a British possession, and which killed hundreds of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah
Show HN: An app for job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers to curb ghosting
Hello HN! I posted a year ago [0] about a free job application tracker I built and got very positive response with some fantastic feedback. One problem I wanted to tackle with Rolepad since the beginning is ghosting - dropped communications by one of the sides during the interview process. It impacts both the job seekers as well as the hiring teams. Rolepad stats bear this out - out of thousands of opportunities tracked, 36% are closed with a “no reply” status.

Nobody sets out to stop replying intentionally, but the overwhelming volumes of applications sent and received, life events, priority changes, staff turnover, etc. can make even well-intentioned processes stall. We can do better. Rolepad explores the idea of connecting all of the players in the application process - candidate, hiring manager, recruiters (internal and external), and team members as needed. It balances the need for transparency (via shared application stages) with the need for privacy (e.g. sensitive notes and data not pertaining to current application).

There are separate applications for candidates (https://rolepad.com) and hiring teams (https://rolepad.com/hiring). Both support guest account access with some test data so you can try it out without signing in.

This is not intended to replace existing Applicant Tracking Systems, but rather live side-by-side (and eventually integrate with them). An ATS typically focuses on supporting internal recruiting efforts, whereas Rolepad’s goal is specifically to improve the communications between the various parties, reduce ghosting, and create a better candidate experience. For job seekers there is a fully-featured job tracker, and the additional value is unlocked once they have a recruiter/manager contact.

Happy to answer any questions. I’m not aware of unified solutions that tackle similar problems, so very interested in feedback. The tech stack is still the same as outlined in last year’s post, always happy to chat about it as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792507
If you use jupyterlite, you're using the same thing. Bento is just the internal Meta version and the only potential benefits is the internal integration.
how else can you build empire as Engineering Manager and get promo?

fork open source, then demand resources to maintian this monster.

easiest promotion + job security.

its even called "Platform Engineering" these days
American healthcare spending 80% more than Canada on a per-capita basis for worse or equal outcomes.[1]

Our system has major problems, but we spend less money and have a healthier population. That definitionally means we're more efficient.

> The same motivations and outcomes occur.

Our hospitals don't have shareholders that capture excess revenue as profit. Efficiency gains in a non-profit hospital typically get reinvested into the mission of providing healthcare. Efficiency gains in a for-profit hospital often go to the owners.

"Efficiency" is also measured differently in a non-profit context. A business measures monetary return on investment. A non-profit organization measures the monetary cost of achieving its mission.

Many for-profit hospitals in the United States offer free mental health clinics. These clinics have been accused of baiting patients into saying something suicidal as a tactic to involuntarily commit said patients.[2] Because appeals of an emergency mental health order are difficult, this is an extremely efficient way of making money (the hospital gets to bill the patient for their stay).

I don't believe this could happen in Canada. The goal is to get people out of the hospital because there aren't enough beds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_s...

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake
How many people in the startup?