skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this comment really highlights the costs and culture around RTO. You're essentially admitting that going RTO can easily be the equivalent of a 50%+ reduction in Salary.

I've found that typically RTO proponents are not very honest about the true cost of their position. Not the cost of driving, the cost of lost time, and especially not the cost of high COL areas that offices are typically in. I think some of this dishonesty stems from self-preservation. As in if they admit the cost, they have to admit they're getting shorted, and nobody wants that for themselves.

If moving "to the sticks" was such a viable cost saving strategy, it seems to me you're burning Salary for the sweet, sweet opportunity to join a Teams call in the office. If anything, these types of comments illuminate the potential hard benefits of a WFH job.
We're doing better. Just have to keep grinding.
This is what I believe as well. Also throw in some Functional Programming (isolating pure functions and side-effecting functions) for extra benefits.
The US embargo is more to blame for this, but you guys keep ignoring the criminal actions taken by the guys and women in DC.
2000s, but yes, I miss having that. Though Raycast is a million years ahead of this product, and allows you to do a search that searches gmail on web etc, or if you email client supports apple script that can do there as well, and of course lots of chatgpt integrations and gemini for searching outlook, gmail etc.
Nothing needed on the Slack side. Login with your Slack credentials through the OAUTH flow, grant access to your workspace and it'll start crawling. Drop me a mail on adityaATwasudeo.com or discord (https://discord.com/invite/RbYYU6mU) in case you run into any problems.
I could say the same thing about NSQ which is a distributed message queue with very simple semantics and a great HTTP API for message publishing and control actions. What it doesn't offer natively is HA though.
No, many people working in clinical units wouldn't. Because of what might happen on false alarms. What GP said: more meds, more interventions. It's not clear at all whether such systems would help with current workflows and current technology. One of the most famous books about medicine says that good medicine is doing nothing as much as possible. It's still very true in 2024, and probably for a long time still.
If it doesn't work, we can always go back to the pre-finance retirement model - raise lots of kids and live with them during a 'retirement' in which you continue to work as much as possible.
I would focus your messaging a bit, feels like a CRM + mailer. This doesn't cover all of marketing, but it's a good start
- Venezuela

- North Korea

- Cuba

Three communist and socialist countries with starving populations.

North Korea trades freely and shares a border with China. Venezuela has no sanctions applied to it by the US.

We can now easily rule out sanctions as the cause of their woes so what is the other common factor between these countries?
Public schools successfully teach most Americans to read and do basic math. Being able to read and do math is all you need to navigate the greater part of modern society. Putting 15 year olds into a personal finance or home economics class can be productive, but we can't expect high school to teach you what to do in every possible scenario you'll encounter in life. At some point you're going to have to read and do a little bit of math.
It probably works, but it probably doesn’t work any better than using water or some other pH neutral liquid.

There’s a good chance all it’s doing is rinsing away or diluting existing acid.
That was quick. Means a lot for the tiny startup. Thank you. <3
> Unlike dnsmasq or busybox, it is not in cut-down fashion

check out for systemd networking, the resolver, timesyncd, etc...

for example timesyncd IS cut-down and brute-force:

"does not bother with the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to it"

ntp is complex, but it does many things in safe and effective ways.

etc.
When?

For some of us, it was 1994, the eternal September.

For some of us, it was when Aaron Swartz left us.

For some of us, it was when Google killed Google Reader (in hindsight, the turning point of Google becoming evil).

For some others, like the author of this post, it's when twitter and reddit closed their previously open APIs.
It wouldn't be terribly surprising. Forking everything provides a liiiitle bit of protection against things like the 'left pad' incident.
Maybe it's a real person from Mechanical Turk who had a bad day?
To me, Twitter is by far the most toxic social network. It has the power to turn the most interesting and smartest people into bitter trolls. Maybe some people get value from it, but it requires serious self discipline to not get dragged into stupid arguments.
Patently false. Cuba's top trade partners also include: Spain, Germany, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Netherlands, Italy, Vietnam.
I legitimately still have my HD-DVD writers(HP dvd630) in my tower right now. It hasnt been plugged in for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

But this censorship simply provoked people to analyze the censorship and it was way beyond. They were censoring all kinds of things silently. Shadow banning wasnt quite understood yet.
I have been negative on Oracle since the ‘90s, when I had to work with an installer CD for Oracle software —- an official Oracle CD —- that:

1. Had multiple installer applications on it, with no indication which was “the” installer application.
2. On opening the installer, asked me to select the install file to act on, again with no clear direction.
3. Had “help” files on the disc, in HTML format, which contained broken links to other files on the disc.

At the same time my coworkers, experienced Oracle DBAs and developers, with full paid-for support from Oracle, spent an entire summer trying to install an Oracle development environment, and failed.

All of which to say, yeah — $600 million sounds about right, as long as it turns out the software was never successfully implemented.
With that money, Larry begged Jensen to take it and deliver him the GPUs. Onto the new grift. In yesteryears it was database and now it is AI. Benedict Evans always compared AI to databases. Oracle of AI is THE Oracle of Databases.
Have you ever priced avfgas (100LL)? At $6+ per gallon, I don't know of many pilots who would spray their fuel around airports. If they are going to waste their avgas dollar, it would be flying aimlessly around the sky for the sheer joy of it.
2 American state flags depict people holding guns as well. I won't mention which two lest it lead to an outbreak of hostilities. And wait until you hear about the symbology of the US flag, or listen to the US national anthem!

More seriously, quite a few other countries have guns on the flag, reflecting a turbulent recent history. As I mentioned, Hezbollah was formed in response to the invasion and occupation of Lebanon just over 40 years ago, which was not a violence-free event. Let's not even get into swords on flags.

There's a tendency among some people to draw their conclusion first and then summon reasons for it afterwards, reasons which often lack consistency. Our violent history is glorious; theirs is deplorable. Consider, for example, the Irish Republican Army; like Hezbollah, it's considered a terrorist organization by US, UK, and many other jurisdictions. But due to the huge number of Irish American people and the subsidence of that political conflict in the last few decades, lots of Americans think the IRA is cool, while reflexively lumping Hezbollah in with other Islamic groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS.

In short, I think things like 'their flag has a gun on it' are the opposite of helpful or insightful.
The ice requirement has nothing to do with California standards, which only applies to cars bought in California, which USPS doesn’t do.

Some postal routes are in cold climates with harsh winters where EVs would be impractical.
I think thats because it's based on an open source project
Apparently they see that as preferable to becoming an American colony.
They can buy whatever they want from China and most of the "global south" our sanctions are not followed by them. They are on some of the most fertile ground on planet earth. It's just late stage communism doing its thing.
This article is about the ingredients for bread. If you can't get water and flour without "access to the best of the world and the benefits of specialization", that's on you.

Of course they can't make competitive CPUs. That's perfectly understandable. But provide ingredients for bread?
I think we're on the same page then if I understand you. My preference would be for old rule sets and not in person roleplay heavy. i.e. play styles that more mirror the norm of the older days. Thanks!
Pretty ironic the USA won't trade with Cuba because they're communist, but their biggest trade partner is also communist.
I would not. High false alarm rates are a problem in all sorts of industry when it comes to warnings and alerts. Too many alerts, or too many false positive alerts cause operators (or nurses in this example) to start ignoring such warnings.
Bribery isn't control. It's just bribery.
Because they have elections aswell and they love their form of goverment. But apparently, when you love national sovereignty, you are a dictator and when you sell your own country to powerful oligarchs, you are a democrat.
Certainly has an impact, but the embargo is also used by the government as a scapegoat to cover up poor policies, corruption, etc.

I have heard from some Cubans they would love to see the embargo lifted just to expose how many of the problems are created by the government/army.
But Israel and Hezbollah are at war, and these are (reportedly) devices used by Hezbollah operatives.

A war Hezbollah declared, btw.
I'm an academic at a large state university (not SUNY). Faculty, staff, and students generally have very little direct say in IT-related matters. These decisions often come down from central admin, through a process that is just as mysterious (and sometimes infuriating) to us.
Or CUNY could hire developers at silicon valley salary and build this in-house.

As other posts have pointed out, it is unclear the 600M figure is accurate.
I lost a lot of respect for the RabbitMQ maintainers when they refused to honor the semantic versioning scheme in package managers like nuget/maven/etc. "Safely upgrading" was impossible. 3.5 => 3.6 saw the removal of an argument.

They didn't lose my respect for the removal of the argument, however, they lost my respect for whatabouting the conversation calling SemVer a "no true scotsman" fallacy, then trying to claim that removing a redundant argument is not a breaking change, and other reality-warping nonsense, before blocking myself and other complainants from their issues - and even deleting some of their own comments to mop up some of their own terrible reasoning.

I'm sure there is no love lost on their side, either. Personal rant over.
> But can the manufacturer sue? do they have any chance of winning?

For Gold Apollo the dilemma here is either to sue the Israel Government (and try to survive the experience as company), or to take the piss and be sued for the families of the people mutilated by "their" product. They are in a difficult position.

It depends on how deep are their pockets and what they think will do less damage to the brand. Also if it has Taiwanese government support or not (unlikely as they probably depend on Israel technology for defense); and if Taiwan companies team with them or not. If the "made in Taiwan" sector want to keep selling radios and pagers to the rest of the planet they need to assure that this can't happen again.

I assume that the consequences for Israel will be indirect, limited and approved by USA, or none.
> Venezuela has no sanctions applied to it by the US

Actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_during_the_Venezuela...
A Large Language Model + A Large Earth-data Model merged into one. Like an image model mixed with a language model. It just needs a way to understand the pattern of Life like they appear to condense the patterns of language and thought.
I teach a lot using Jupyter. It is certainly possible to use SWE worst practices in Jupyter easily.

I am often in front of folks who "aren't computer programmers" but need to use Python tools to be successful. One of my covert goals is to teach SWE best practices inside of notebooks. It requires a little more typing but eases the use of notebooks, refactoring, testing, moving to scripts, and using tooling like Papermill.
I've wondered about whether the handling of the recycling container ends up with significant amounts of broken glass. According to this page (echoed on other pages) you are on the right track with the safety issue, but also they aren't equipped to separate the glass fragments from other recycling.

https://recyclecoach.com/blog/is-broken-glass-recyclable/
What does Jetstream lack wrt queues/persistence?
Yes, very good news, but

I wonder if this can and will be appealed. If it hits the US Supreme Court, we can guess what will happen :(
The IPs you access the site from.
This is not a war between sovereign states.
Agree. I don't even use the 'for you' feed, and even when I check occasionally I've been able to cater my algorithm so it's purely related to the domain I'm interested in which is rust, startups, and tech news.

But my personal follow feed has all the interesting topics that I follow so it's easy to just stick to that.
I don't notice a political change -- in part because I'm not political at all on Twitter. But there's a LOT of noise on everything. Half the time I can't tell if I'm in the replies to a given post or somewhere else, because so many of the replies are non-sensical.

TikTok has become my "random browsing" feed. But I will go to Twitter and YouTube to get full-length unedited content when I need specific content.
Generally speaking, when the Israelis mutually recognize Arab nations, they respect the terms of the agreement. Jordan and Egypt are examples. So long as the other party says "you get to exist" and doesn't actively tolerate anti-Israeli militant activity within their borders, Israel won't use its military against them.

There are probably some exceptions to this rule, and yes, their occupation of the West Bank violates international law, but attacking just no longer works. Gaza lies in ruins and the IDF conducts operations in the area at will. There are currently thousands of people wrapping their electronics in aluminum foil in Lebanon. Disarming and sitting down to talk in brokered negotiations is probably more effective at this point.
Defined benefit plans mostly work OK (with some bankruptcy exceptions modulo various legal protections) for people working a decade or two for a firm. Probably not great benefits but I know I wasn't even thinking about my pension early career. So now it's essentially free money from mental accounting perspective.

401ks require deliberate action which a lot of people won't do or at least put off and they may make poor investment decisions--like invest everything in their own company's stock if that's an option.
"my retirement is safe and secure, I've invested with Crypto401K"
You seem to be of the opinion that people cannot learn from mistakes and cannot change and should not be given second (third? fourth?) chances to rehabilitate themselves and recover from bad decisions or habits?
I agree with you.

and so does the author, kind of...

"And so, here is a gentle introduction to self-hosting that is not "true self-hosting", but whatever. Sue me."

:)
True, we should change bankruptcy law so hedge funds get priority over employees who worked their whole lives for a company. This will benefit all workers with pensions that invest in hedge funds.
To be charitable I hope the author refers to the S3 API here, of which there are several competitors and open source implementations.

Many companies offer "object storage" which is compatible with the S3 API

And there are some open source projects such as Minio which offer the same (and I forget what are the others?)
Garbage overpriced systems that everyone hates, and which substantially hurt the organization... How do you land those sales? (Joke: "Asking for a friend.")

Some bad ways that big-ticket purchasing decisions are made:

* Committee of people who don't know what they're doing, and/or who can't coordinate to arrive at a good holistic decision/solution.

* Person who wants this done for good reasons, but doesn't know what they're doing.

* Person who wants this as an accomplishment credited to them, but doesn't know what they're doing.

* Person who is mainly thinking "nobody ever got fired for buying [old big-name vendor]", and everything else is secondary.

* Person who is bribed by vendor (e.g., immediate cash, quasi dates with attractive salesperson, career rotating door with vendor).

Other ways?

(I haven't directly seen the bribery way, though heard of it in news stories. I've definitely seen all the other bad ways happen.)
You can't escape politics because most domain experts can't resist to engaging in sterile debates. And if you manage to find those who don't, you can't tune your feed to not show you some garbage.
> every minute, it's harder to distinguish AI output from actual output unless you're approaching expertise in the subject being written about.

So, then what really is the problem with just including LLM-generated text in wordfreq?

If quirky word distributions will remain a "problem", then I'd bet that human distributions for those words will follow shortly after (people are very quick to change their speech based on their environment, it's why language can change so quickly).

Why not just own the fact that LLMs are going to be affecting our speech?
Obviously on an objective scale HN isn’t good, but nobody is doing a good job here.

I’ve worked on the government side of this stuff and find it disheartening.
Would you use NATS over Redis PubSub or Postgres Notify/Listen? Postgres's option I'm wary of for reasons I've discussed here before but Redis PubSub seems fairly simple to use and likewise not as uber-scalable as Kafka and other more heavyweight message broker systems.
A bit off-topic, but my problem with any notebook type of tool (ie you create a document that mixes code, the output of that code, and text/media) is that they always feel like they're meant to be these quick, off the cuff ways to present data. But when I try to use them they just feel awkward and slow. (I tried doing a jupyter notebook with the vscode plugin, and while everything was very polished, it feld like I was ponderously coding in Word or something. The same was true for R-notebooks in rstudio. Maybe it's a better experience if you have a decently fast laptop)
That's awesome. The original discussion of bitnet made it seem like you needed to train a model from scratch but its neat they were able to adapt an existing model. This is quite exciting.
Yep. Short-sighted companies don't realize that API was a truce, to save money and increase security (e.g. giving user/pass to third-party clients -> OAuth) on both sides. But anything that can be displayed, can be scraped... https://www.eff.org/issues/analog-hole
> I don't see why you'd want to run ssh on port 22.

I run ssh on port 22 because I like wasting the time of those script kiddies. Also I like to brag about half a million "hacker attacks" on my server per month.
That's like $0.50/day in aws costs. Absolutely no reason to switch if it's working.
When you see how badly most business administrators are at actually running things from a business standpoint it no surprise the business sector is in such a mess at the moment.
You should look into what US sanctions actually do. they effectively lock the country/people out of the international finance system
Quite a few trolls here.

If you actually read the article, this is about Cuba slashing its rations, aka, its government food assistance to people, during a time when incomes don't allow many individuals to buy enough on their own without assistance.

Look in the mirror. This is the same "austerity" behavior that western capitalist countries have been doing for years to the cheers of right wing supporters.
Assuming arguendo that apple did want to do that kind of messing with DNS though - what's there to stop them from changing getaddrinfo() in the same way? As someone pointed out upthread, if you don't trust your OS vendor to do DNS lookups correctly, your only option is to not usre your OS vendor for DNS lookups, which is in the realm of Byzantine faults.

(And further, assuming arguendo that there was DNS meddling happening but somehow getaddrinfo() was exempt - now the user has one app that behaves differently to all their others, which is worse in every practical sense.)
Shareholders are owners by virtue of having a seat at the board table and controlling the C-Suite.

Bond holders and pension employees don't have a seat to control power.

This, shareholders are true owners of the company. But laws prevent them taking other stakeholders for a ride.
The problem they face is a shortage of wheat flour, not bread-making technology. Wheat doesn't grow in tropical climates (though the Brasilians are working on this). There are 10 million people on the island of Cuba. There weren't 10 million people living there and baking bread thousands of years ago.
Any curation mechanism that depends on passion and/or the goodwill of volunteers is unsustainable.
This is one of the vanguards warning of the changes coming in the post-AI world.

>> Generative AI has polluted the data

Just like low-background steel marks the break in history from before and after the nuclear age, these types of data mark the distinction from before and after AI.

Future models will begin to continue to amplify certain statistical properties from their training, that amplified data will continue to pollute the public space from which future training data is drawn. Meanwhile certain low-frequency data will be selected by these models less and less and will become suppressed and possibly eliminated. We know from classic NLP techniques that low frequency words are often among the highest in information content and descriptive power.

Bitrot will continue to act as the agent of Entropy further reducing pre-AI datasets.

These feedback loops will persist, language will be ground down, neologisms will be prevented and...society, no longer with the mental tools to describe changing circumstances; new thoughts unable to be realized, will cease to advance and then regress.

Soon there will be no new low frequency ideas being removed from the data, only old low frequency ideas. Language's descriptive power is further eliminated and only the AIs seem able to produce anything that might represent the shadow of novelty. But it ends when the machines can only produce unintelligible pages of particles and articles, language is lost, civilization is lost when we no longer know what to call its downfall.

The glimmer of hope is that humanity figured out how to rise from the dreamstate of the world of animals once. Future humans will be able to climb from the ashes again. There used to be a word, the name of a bird, that encoded this ability to die and return again, but that name is already lost to the machines that will take our tongues.
Which cases? Tailscale has eliminated all my fears I had about self hosting and I've been using it a ton. The only issue I've run in to has been a single service (Withings) that uses a web hook to trigger updates for my sleep mat. Their server isn't on my tablet so I would need to expose atleast one service to the wider Internet.