skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes things somewhat easier if your app is smallish and your workflow is something like e.g. Github Actions automatically deploying all commits on main to Fly or Render.
Yes. The ecosystem is the problem, and it’s a chicken/egg or network-effect problem. There’s no reason we can’t use the same source and compiler to target both Vulkan shaders and OpenCL kernels and now DX12 shaders, but in practice the fact that these all supposedly use the same standard IR doesn’t actually get us the promised utility of implementing that standard, because in practice they do use different variations of the standard.

Therefore this news is less than useless unless it does something to defeat this problem.
They only do it because they have to. Not because they are that consumer friendly. And now? Another arse move, were you have to pay for not that cheap special apple-tools.consumer milking at it's best.
What really torpedoed the peace process was that Israeli steps towards peace, including the Oslo process that founded the PA and gave them semi-control over the land, was met with the second intifada's terror attacks. Israelis saw steps towards peace being met with more violence, not less.

Oh c'mon -- you're not giving Bibi his fair share of the credit, here:

“They asked me before the election if I’d honor [the Oslo accords],” Netanyahu said. “I said I would, but … I’m going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the ’67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I’m concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue.”*

Smiling, Netanyahu then recalled how he forced former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher to agree to let Israel alone determine which parts of the West Bank were to be defined as military zones. “They didn’t want to give me that letter,” Netanyahu said, “so I didn’t give them the Hebron agreement [the agreement giving Hebron back to the Palestinians]. I cut the cabinet meeting short and said, ‘I’m not signing.’ Only when the letter came, during that meeting, to me and to Arafat, did I ratify the Hebron agreement. Why is this important? Because from that moment on, I de facto put an end to the Oslo accords.”*

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/fibi-netany...
Nothing wrong with paying for good software.
monkey paw curls Your AGPL code now only runs on amazon lambda functions.

Stallman et. al. have not worked in big corp since the 80s so they don't understand how misaligned incentives are now. The AGPL is a solution to the issues we were having in the 00s. The issues of the 20s are solved by source available licenses. Or my preferred solution, any open source license which can only be used by a natural person, corporations need not apply.
We did blame KIA for their shitty car locks.

And your example is a bad one, because you would blame the engineer if sells it as cyanide proof.

Software vendors claim their software is safe that only high sophisticated criminals could break their software.

In reality it's often just script kiddies.
This is a good suggestion, but keep in mind that you can accidentally run a command in the wrong directory. I've certainly done that too, with painful results.
> (upper) middle class people

It reflects a great change in Western society, which really began to flourish first in the Netherlands, where the merchant and industrial classes began to be dominant, and were growing sick of pretending it wasn't true.

Mostly in Britain these days, we see the final pretenses of the nobility on display.
You've just made the same mistake as the OP.
Yep, terrible:

I will show how Make hits every one of your complaints:

(sarcasm on)

in file hello.c:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int ac, char **av) { printf("hello\n"); return 0; }

How to compile and run this? We need a build system! Download and install GNU Make.

When that step is complete:

Type in

make hello

and its done. Now, run via ./hello

See, Too much magic (didn't even have a makefile or Makefile), no standard library, Too constricting, cryptic, too basic. And, because you had to install Make, too complicated. Hits every one of your objections.

(sarcasm off)
Do you need to run all experts at once?
Summary: It's cheaper, safer for handling sensitive data, easier to reproduce results (only way to be 100% sure it's reproduce even, as "external" models can change anytime), higher degree of customization, no internet connectivity requirements, more efficient, more flexible.
Add to that narrative collapse where a ton of past narratives just are refuted by reported facts and thus all romantic ideas just self destruct. The weak are not nobled by suffering . The anti imperialists are just wannabe empires. The centre does not hold.
Not saying it is perfect, but modern landfills are sealed on the bottom.

> Modern landfills are completely sealed to reduce contamination of the nearby groundwater. First, the ground is lined with clay. A thin layer of flexible plastic is placed on top of the clay layer. That allows the collection of leachate, the liquid that passes through the landfill and may draw out toxins from the trash. The leachate is collected though a drainage system that passes this contaminated water through pipes to a pool where it can be treated to remove the toxins before being released back into the environment.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/landfills/...
I'm not sure how you can expect an answer or even meaningful discussion when you don't specify any parameters on what anything you're asking about means.

What does "good" mean? What does "productivity" "speed" and "performance" mean? If you're talking about building an operating system from scratch, probably not. If you're talking about building a hobby website for existing PHP developers, maybe?
How much of the decline in testosterone among young men may be attributed to the plastics?

https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...
I think NSA and CISA have different objectives.
Though you are right about the pollution, plastic isn’t all bad.

It’s much more efficient than other materials in many ways.

If every single-use plastic container/wrapper had to be replaced by some kind of paper or waxed paper doing the same job, we’d need dramatically more of that material than plastic (barring clever inventions).

That comes with its own side-effects. More dead trees if it’s paper vs plastic, more metal mining if it’s metal vs plastic, more weight being shipped around, in many cases more energy being used to produce the alternative packaging in the first place. And all that to have packaging that’s functionally worse than plastic.
The "5 Years Required" Is Killing Tech Innovation
I always find it fascinating! Much like it is important in a museum of natural history to note "science isn't finished, some of these things are still under research" it's important to contextualize the painting you see today.

The painting today is different than it was fifty years ago or a hundred years ago or from the day it was completed.

It's common for paintings to be modified after completion, either by the creator or by the current owner. Whose version are you seeing? What are the possible versions?

Anyway, the best part of a museum is you don't have to look at the things that bore you
Well? Did you find it?
How to manage oncall as an engineering manager?
As a relatively new engineering manager, I oversee a team handling a moderate volume of on-call issues (typically 4-5 per week). In addition to managing production incidents, our on-call responsibilities extend to monitoring application and infrastructure alerts.

The challenge I’m currently facing is ensuring that our on-call engineers don't have sufficient time to focus on system improvements, particularly enhancing operational experience (Opex). Often, the on-call engineers are pulled into working on production features or long-term fixes from previous issues, leaving little bandwidth for proactive system improvements.

I am looking for a framework that will allow me to:

Clearly define on-call priorities, balancing immediate production needs with Opex improvements.
Manage long-term fixes related to past on-call issues without overwhelming current on-call engineers.
Create a structured approach that ensures ongoing focus on improving operational experience over time.
I went to a talk by Jacques Cousteau at UCLA in the 1970s in which he predicted the oceans would be dead by the year 2000.
The point is to lock the user into a contract with the carrier. By binding the phone to there service they make it unlikely that a user will switch providers as that would need a new phone while still paying off the old phone.

That's why they'll offer these phones at low or no interest plans, so they can pull in the $50/month subscription for the years that the phone is being paid off.
Indeed. A friend who is more plugged into such things me told me 4-5 years ago they laid off most of the senior Intel network driver team. Basically the only edge they had. I can’t imagine things are any better these days.

Inertia is a hell of a thing, but you are starting to see the cracks form. I just don’t know if there is an alternative.
And Sony doesn't ?
Fairwork AI
Wow! Thank you for that comprehensive and considerate answer.
Almost all of the waste plastic comes from the offering of cheap wrappings by cheap companies (i.e. super conglomerates) used by cheap people who simply do not care. Make it expensive and all these people will complain you are impinging on their freedoms.

The oil industries will complain
The single use plastic purveyers will complain and the lazy consumers will complain, yet exactly like Germany, it must be done.

Some people think it's cool to burn money, while others purchase unneeded AI farms.

We, companies who make, companies who sell, and consumers who use as well as permissive governments all dilute responsibility, and a vast majority of plastics I pickup are simply the tops of plastic food containers.

How many are sealing reusable containers? Zero. how many straws? Thousands.

Make plastic straws the gold standard for recycling. worst offenders? The top fast food venders in food deserts. Cheap companies serving cheap lazy customers.

The poster is absolutely right.
What’s the difference between getting more power out of a given quantity of fuel, versus using less fuel to achieve a given power output?
It's basically the same technique. Same as Google Maps too
I've done that one too, cca 7 years ago. A bit harder variant - 3 passes trek, where EBC is a side hike. Amazing place and whole region too, can't get enough of that country. Other valleys are much more remote seeing only fraction of the main EBC route traffic.

If you are not part of organized group (I went solo), without prior booking it may be tricky to find accommodation in Gorak Shep, sort of bottleneck since everybody goes to EBC for morning views on the top of the world and its the closest place. I ended up convincing one of owners of guest house there to let me sleep with them in dining room, it was -10C outside and my sleeping bag would not be up to that, even in dining room it was just above freezing.

Wishing you good weather for nice views from Kala Patthar and on Ama Dablam!
What about negative externalities? If we were to force all actors to pay for their emissions and toxic by-products, factoring the entire lifecycle into the cost, what would it look like then? If, even with that in mind, solar looses to nuclear, that would be a fairly interesting result.
Since when does an honorary PhD requires original research?
Yes.

Climate catastrophe for one.

Inability to see the point of life when you can’t even afford to move out.

Etc. there’s hundreds of theories.
3 years from now they'll have invented their own AWS. NIH syndrome in full swing.
Not only the games industry, we seem to be on a fluffy world where any kind of negativity has direct impact on job evaluation, and can even lead to losing the job.

A couple of years ago I worked on such good vibes project, uff.
Right. So a useless number when it comes to energy storage discussions. It simply extends the duck curve an hour or three before you need use someone else’s power.

Thanks for the correction on GW vs MW. Not a great typo.
I think stoic ideas are from an era where their circumstances made them have those principles. We don't live in that era. It is possible to affect others and the associated cascading effect that can bring about a change in others action which were affecting you negatively. If Naval's idea of "individuals having leverage holds water" directly implies that you can change others, albiet slowly. If your reach becomes big enough that it becomes a threat that "other actors" need to curtail that reach through "algorithms" is another evidence that you were indeed having effects that they didn't like.
Most online discussion boils down to:

- A few people report they’ve had issues opting out

- Most people report they have no issues at all

Personally, I’d feel like I’m perpetuating the problem (of privacy violation/overreach) by not opting out. Even if most people don’t care, it seems critical to have at least some portion of the population holding back the tide somewhat.

If nothing else, a consistent stream of people opting out helps us understand how big the problem has become, i.e. if discussions about this flip over time and most people are getting hassled.
What do agents allow you to do that if, else, for and while statements with a database of LLM responses don't out of interest?
People ditching Teslas because they don't like Elon is political though. If you want to nut-pick between the two sides, we are going to be here a long time.
You can always buy some servers to handle your base load, and then get extra cloud instances when needed.

If you're running an ecommerce store for example, you could buy some extra capacity from AWS for Christmas and Black Friday, and rely on your own servers exclusively for the rest of the year.
The users choice affects third parties, so it's not that simple.

I bet you won't recommend to install your software on essential systems.

>No ma'am Doom or Second Reality would not have been possible with this attitude.

Same is true for many kinds of malware.
I wonder if the your argument holds true for organic food as well.

The farmers have to fight off the same pests and weeds, just with “natural” compounds instead of strong, tailor-made artificial ones.

But surely the natural spray and the artificial spray has to have either the same active ingredient, or ingredients that are chemically very similar? And if it doesn’t work as well, the farmer will surely end up using even more of “natural” compounds than he would’ve if he just went with RoundUp?
Depends on what you mean by good. In Maslow's pyramid, the lowest levels are being optimised for while the highest are suffering greatly. By what are approximate proxies for high level metrics like self fulfilment and satisfaction, things are getting worse (especially in young people). Rates of suicide, depression, mental illness, self harm, addictions (drugs and alcohol), obesity, levels of social interaction, stress etc are all getting worse. Our children will live longer and be more well fed (they're very likely to be overweight), but by every upper metric they are predicted to suffer.

The spiritual/philosophical progress of humanity has stagnated. Those sci-fi stories of higher life with both vast technology and purpose - like the Forerunners (Halo) - is a pipe dream. We're not even heading in the direction The Culture - a post scarcity society that's like a rich old lady trying to find charities to work with. We're heading towards (at best) a Brave New World society - pacified, materially sound but vacuous and empty.
Looking for something like this right now. How does it compare to rclone [1]?

[1] https://rclone.org/sftp/
According to Tom's (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-pushes-r...), those are supposed to be laptop CPUs, which makes me wonder what AMD has planned for us desktop users.
> I specifically made my comment about wind and solar

You said "Suppose you have a devastating earthquake that wrecks renewable power sources in an area" - hydropower is considered renewable. I also did address a similar risk of solar (barely anything compared to fossil fuels, but same applies to nuclear).
> So, why hasn't any other tax haven replicated what they have?

Luxembourg, Switzerland?
European leadership change means new adversaries for Big Tech
"unlocking" in this context means sim locking (ie. making the phone only work with SIM cards from a particular network), not bootloader or any other sort of locking.
> Not this again :)

The problem with this logic is that phones are complicated and have a lot of constraints. Phone design inherently involves numerous tradeoffs.

So... of course it's possible for manufacturers like Apple and Samsung to create a thin, waterproof phone with no-tool battery replacement.

But at a cost to other features.

The market has shown repeatedly that few consumers value no-tool battery replacements, relative to various other features they'd have to give up to get it. People are voting with their wallets and it doesn't make sense for Apple, Samsung, etc., to build phones people don't really want.
Would love to know if you found it's a real key or a fake one.
It's really not. You don't have to like everything someone does to support them or accept their support. Purity tests are toxic, and it is a large problem on the left side of the aisle.
You think Marcus Aurelius was unable to affect other peoples' actions? That's not the idea. The point is that you can't directly make someone else think or feel a certain way, only act on them externally.
bin/ directory.
Lina Kahn has been the best part of the Biden administration, by far. I wish she'd run for president.
I support this move as hopefully it will kill off the practice of carrier specific OSes.

The last carrier phone I bought was a Samsung Galaxy 4 from T-Mobile. I got a total of 0 os updates out of it because T-Mobile never released a new version of the OS (even though Samsung did). They just abandoned the phone.

At this point the most important quality of a phone to me is active security updates, so I'll never buy one where a carrier can get in the way of protecting myself from zero day exploits.
Physical analogs do not apply to computer security because the burglar usually does not live in a place where the judicial system can punish them. How are you going to bring some random hackers from Russia, China, India, etc to justice if those countries will not extradite them for their crimes?

When the judiciary is no longer effective the only option is to design secure systems or balkanize the internet so only those who can be punished under the judiciary can access the computer system (which is nearly impossible with proxies).
You have it wrong.

First, think about from which viewpoint your above comment comes from.

Each sentence above could be amended to add "... , from the companies standpoint".

From the employees standpoint it's better on each account. If you understand that companies, and their performance, is just an aggregate of thr employees and their performance. Empower the employees, that's the only company culture worth pursuing.

Your points:

- "Companies still have to pay for real estate" - they need this anyway. If you do it properly you don't have extra space, you have twice as many hybrid people working out of the same space you had half as many full time on site folks. This is the choice of management in how they efficiently use their space. Even explicitly remote first companies I know of have offices and meet regularly in person. This is a red herring.

- "cant recruit from neighboring cities" - Being hybrid actually helps with this, no? I personally know lots of people who work further from the office than they would if they didn't have a hybrid schedule.

- your last point is exactly why people want hybrid or remote positions. I don't see an argument for your point there, only one against it.

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> The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...

>There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%20...
The iPhone is not waterproof, it's IP68 rated meaning it's water resistant. Swimming with your phone is absolutely not recommended and I don't know a single person that does this (unless we count people using special waterproof cases for filming).

So no, the average smartphone buyer does not swim with their phone. Manufacturers had other incentives to make changing the batteries harder and there was no pressure from customers to increase the IP rating. In fact all you hear is people ranting how much it sucks that batteries are so hard to change these days.
I can't speak for all republicans, because we are a diverse group. But if you care to understand why I am not bending backwards at every turn to try and fix global warming, it's very simple. I believe God created this world for His children, and that He will return to it in due time. That's it. I understand that may appear as though I don't care, but that's not true. I certainly don't go out of my way to pollute the earth. I always leave a campsite cleaner than when I found it, etc... this rhetoric that Republicans only care about number one couldn't be further from the truth though.
That's odd. I'm one of the 'younger people', I assume (Gen Z can't be considered old already, right?) but would prefer to own things, for the simple reason that I can barely manage library books (luckily mine has no late fees). If it autorenews, I'll probably forget to cancel a bunch of them; if it doesn't, I'll probably forget to renew a bunch of them. Easier to keep the number down.

Plus, you know, all the concerns that come with subscriptions and not really owning things.
IMO allowing OTA updates to go through through the mobile provider was Android's biggest mistake. Their reputation and platform integrity has been irreparably damaged because of it.
CVSS is not not really meant to measure risk, it primarily measures the severity of technical vulnerabilities. It should be used in conjunction with other factors such as system exposure and threat sources to determine the probability of exploitation. This should then be combined with impact and costing data to fully assess the risk.

Regulatory requirements also need to be contextualized similarly. If they become burdensome, efforts should focus on reducing the exposure of your systems to those risks.

That said, patch and configuration management should be second nature and performed continuously so that when a real issue arises, you're prepared and not worried about your environment falling over because you're unsure how it will respond to an update, or whether your backups will restore properly - which are risks as well.

I saw more than a few organizations struggle with log4j because they only patched server systems when a vulnerability was publicly exposed, and a Metasploit exploit was available.
Why not just use shell scripts? Why additional complexity?