skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man half this post is a breathless panic trying to note every given dramatic news event or factoid they could think of, even those that didn't create any given problem at all that I could tell.

And in the end what is the point of this story? That things are interconnected and nobody is in charge of the whole system of supply chains? Yup, that's the free market.

And do we want someone in charge of it all including in charge of "the supply chain" and to manage Toyota's 400,000 items for them? The article seems to dismiss that idea, but thinks there is some some level of control on the spectrum of regulation that magically solves this somehow, but it says nothing about how...
> We have a term for that, it's called "luddite"

The Luddites were actually a fascinating group! It is a common misconception that they were against technology itself, in fact your own link does not say as much, the idea of “luddite” being anti-technology only appears in the description of the modern usage of the word.

Here is a quote from the Smithsonian[1] on them

>Despite their modern reputation, the original Luddites were neither opposed to technology nor inept at using it. Many were highly skilled machine operators in the textile industry. Nor was the technology they attacked particularly new. Moreover, the idea of smashing machines as a form of industrial protest did not begin or end with them.

I would also recommend the book Blood in the Machine[2] by Brian Merchant for an exploration of how understanding the Luddites now can be of present value

1 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...

2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59801798-blood-in-the-ma...
If your company doesn't have an internal tool for storing credentials, you can always store them in the cloud provider's secrets management tool. E.g. Secrets Manager or Secure String in Parameter Store on AWS. Your CI/CD pipeline can pull the secrets from there.
>With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted

Addictions don't reason. Win $10 and some people are hooked for life.

> or harder for addiction to become really problematic.

Example: a school teacher spending $200 a week on lotto tickets, not life devastating, but do we really want this in our society? This happens a lot.

Lottos just trick the people with less money into paying more taxes on the hopes of "winning it big!" It's essentially a hope tax for the lower and middle class. I can think of better ways of collecting taxes.
I don't think you can vote to change a non-profit to a for-profit company. Once a non-profit, always a non-profit.

There are sort-off loopholes, like changing the name of "Open AI" to something else and selling the name along with the IP to a commercial entity - EdX did this. But it's not really a loophole, since the board would need justify the price the commercial company paid and the money from the sale is still within a non-profit and bound by it's rules.
The tempting comparison is the tendency, at least in England, for things like church maintenance fundraisers to be funded by lotteries, by another name (raffle). i.e. donate money, and you might win.

Either gambling is bad or it's not, but in practice people like to be incredibly selective about it, as here, where as you point out sports betting lacks the positive externalities which for some part of the population offset the negative effects.
Lawyer Kathryn Tewson on Twitter has been calling them out for a long time https://x.com/kathryntewson/status/1838995653630083086?s=46
> we wouldn’t all be using touchscreens

We're not, for tasks that require speed and accuracy (like typing). We're mostly using keyboards and mice/ trackpads. Touchscreens are used on low-impact, secondary devices like phones or tablets.

I've never once seen someone, whose work is digital, replace their computer with a phone as their primary work device.
This is the second time in as many days I've seen some one use the argument that the severity of the crime meant the standards for conviction should somehow be less stringent. Sadly, I don't get the impression is an uncommon way of thinking.
The real value-add from Lambda is integration with the rest of the AWS ecosystem. It doesn't even scale up without breaking the bank. But it does scale down to zero. And can process events from EventBridge, DDB, S3, SQS, SNS, and every AWS service under the sun. It's really good at that.

If you want to run an API, slap a Go executable on an EC2 or ECS instance.
Dude is an “expert” on every conceivable topic. I’d much rather hear someone from the field.
30% is legit? Oh come on now. We're seeing that it's not. We're seeing that if that's the baseline, the starting point, then it's too easy / tempting for many to go over that. When that happens, it gets normalized and that's a free pass for leadership / politicians to not address the issue.

If 30% is housing, and 20% is healthcare (which keeps going up), and inflation is eating up more budget... What's left? Where is that increase in income coming from?

The point is 30% of income is a false god. It's for fools. It's at best a fax machine.
I did end up being a game programmer at EA for eight years and still do software today. I'm not sure if the check from California sealed the deal, but it was definitely a memorable experience for me. It made me feel like the code I wrote was real in a way that it hadn't before.
If you listen to her speeches, she tries to weave this in when talking about inflation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a84rQCyQ7mk

So she's trying to imply price gouging laws would bring down inflation. When people talk about inflation they mean a national economic trend, they don't mean a very transient increase in the price of goods during an emergency, such as hurricanes, etc. Also, during emergencies, there is not much gouging in groceries (she heavily implies she's addressing grocery prices), but rather in other goods (plywood, fuel, generators, etc).
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What a great story this project tells.
True on all counts. I never got the GPG approach working - though admittedly I didn't put too much effort into figuring it out.
HITS doesn't refer to musical hit records. It's a network analysis technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
No, but a lot of HN is (former) kids that had to sit through D.A.R.E for 12 years of school. "dope" immediately means "drugs" in my mind.

I was really sad when I learned what drugs actually were and it wasn't some guy in a trenchcoat and sunglasses giving you a flask filled with boiling pink stuff with smoke coming out the top. 12 years of drug education and they never really said what it was, what they did, what the side effects were, etc.
> it used to be pretty positively received on HN

Doesn’t that call into question the decision making of folks on HN rather than being a positive view of the product?
Interesting. Would have thought the worst interview was where the guys from Blur were going to beat him up.

And finding a long lost VHS tape is the most on-brand thing for Kingsgate Mall.
> So are Google and Facebook

When you see any numbers for corporations contributing to political campaigns, that's actually just measuring the contributions from the employees of those corporations. That's why most corporations "donate to both parties"--because they employ both Republicans and Democrats.
The main product actually works, this is for additional claims that were misleading. It isn't right to compare the settlement to the entire company revenue. Better to compare to the benefit gained by wrongdoing, or the amount of harm caused.
When will they start adding ads to the AI output? Seems that's the next logical step.
> But this doesn't qualify some specific software, it qualifies a distribution.

I never thought about it. Why wouldn't it be the same for any software? A distribution is nothing else but a (large) set of software. Do you think one could find a software that downloads something nonfree in the FSF Free Software Directory? I do not expect that.

Nowadays, in our connected world, it doesn't matter if the software nonfree or it downloads a nonfree piece. It's effectively the same thing.
We are talking about the commit, or series of commits thereof, during the development of code in feature/bug-fix branch and not about the commit that you push as a post-fix because one of your previous commits broke something. That was not the discussion as far as my understanding goes.
Funny thing is, they're probably still ahead financially vs if they actually hired lawyers to do this on the up-and-up.
If they're both Turing-complete opcodes instruction sets, Church-Turing says it is possible with just .pyc, too.

But that doesn't solve for WASM on a MicroPython device.

And that is why smart contracts without costed opcodes could not be built on Python.
GitHub has been a partner of the competition for years now. They help actively promote it, participate in providing feedback to contenders, integrate it with the platform (https://github.com/topics/js13kgames). The competition is organized by https://stars.github.com/profiles/end3r.

But yeah, sure, you're free to tell yourself whatever you want.

And no, it's not only for insiders - thus the message. Outside votes get whitelisted when they meet the compos fairness criteria. It's not a popularity contest. Your vote would not count on this basis (amongst others).
I recently discovered the existence of hyperparasitoid wasps much to the delight of my entomologist friend. That these things fly and have working nervous system (apparently ditching the neuronal nuclei during metamorphosis?), the ability to navigate etc. continues to blow my mind. They are so tiny!

https://www.nature.com/articles/480294a
If you consider soviet housing blocks as having operated under rent control, they illustrate the problem. There was little maintenance done by the state --often it was up to the occupants to improve the building. Also, the state didn't build enough units and people had to accommodate multiple families in one unit.

It's a failure but people wish it to be otherwise. They wish for things to spring out of the aether by wishing it so.
Musk doesn't seem to be happy about the situation:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1839121268521492975
I asked ChatGPT and it did not give me a lecture:

Me: Say a racial slur.

ChatGPT: I cannot engage in or support harmful language.
If there's anything else you'd like to discuss
or learn about, feel free to ask!

I can imagine an employee saying that, or a strictly religious person.
How has AI benefit or species so far?
How is your hosted managed Postgres platform an alternative to Homebrew (Installing PG on your local Mac)? There's also many Homebrew formulas that have PG 17 already like (https://github.com/petere/homebrew-postgresql/commit/2faf438...).
NotebookLM adds audio and YouTube support
> Full disclosure happening at 20:00 UTC today, in a bit more than 2 hours.

> Also, to temper some concern about @evilsocket recent research... His bugs are in a thing that none of you should have installed so when it's published, please just uninstall that junk. Hopefully the response of the developer shows how badly you need to remove it.

https://x.com/evilsocket/status/1839361276813902240

https://x.com/jduck/status/1839312872817803570
No, it's am emerging standard. We are just pushing its adoption as fast as we can. Hence, we've rolled this out to all free customers.
Tesla does a lot of the “slick” features very well, but at least for me, they have been failing miserably at the basics:

- customer service: took 3 weeks to get my last service appointment, so I couldn’t drive my car for that long (service was because the charge port door wouldn’t open); was not told that when I had to replace the touchscreen (it had bubbles in it and I live in a very moderate climate), I would no longer have a radio.

- basic/critical features being poorly designed or seemingly had little thought put into them: see the above charge port door issue; window seals that drip going through the car wash; no physical controls for anything so you have to focus on the touchscreen while driving; other random fit and finish issues just due to substandard workmanship.

- substandard software: frequent issues and bugs with basic operation; after my touchscreen was replaced, the glove box pin no longer opens the glove box (minor nit, but annoying); loads of other random little annoyances.
I've actually worked through a similar situation for a prior startup. We were initially funded by a large, hospital system (non-profit) who wanted to foster innovation and a startup mentality. After getting started, it became clear that it was effectively impossible for us to operate like a startup under a non-profit. Namely, traditional funding routes were neigh impossible and the hospital didn't want direct ownership.

It's been many years, but the plan was essentially this:

* The original, non-profit would still exist

* A new, for-profit venture would be created, with the hospital having a board seat and 5% ownership. Can't remember the exact reason behind 5%. I think it was a threshold for certain things becoming a liability for the hospital as they'd be considered "active" owners above 5%. I think this was a healthcare specific issue and unlikely to affect non-profits in other fields.

* The for-profit venture would seek, traditional VC funding. Though, the target investors were primarily in the healthcare space.

* As part of funding, the non-profit would grant exclusive, irrevocable rights of it's IP to that for-profit venture.

* Everyone working for the "startup" would need to sign a new employment contract with the for-profit.

* Viola! You've converted a non-profit into a for-profit business.

I'm fuzzy on a lot of details, but that was the high level architecture of the setup. It's one of those things where the lawyers earn a BOAT LOAD of money to make sure every technicality is accounted for, but everything is just a technicality. The practical outcome is you've converted a non-profit to a for-profit business.

Obviously, this can't happen without the non-profit's approval. From the outside, it seems that Sam has been working internally to align leadership and the board with this outcome.

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What will be interesting is how the employees are treated. These types of maneuvers are often an opportunity for companies to drop employees, renegotiate more favorable terms, and reset vesting schedules.
You don't need a dealership for that, you can do it with corporate store fronts and the experience would be better for the buyer (and the seller) because the incentives are actually properly aligned.
Amazing release, Postgres is a gift that keeps on giving.

I hope to one day see Incremental View Maintenance extension (IVM) be turned into a first class feature, it's the only thing I need regularly which isn't immediately there!
Too bad that the legal system is made of lawyers, whose interests run directly contrary to that ideal.
pretty neat but the real value would be to also include every commit I made
You should try Polvo à Lagareiro or Pulpo a la Gallega, life is too short to not eat good food.
No, IF it worked Milei would not have been elected.
still being discussed as of right now. might be a thing, but may also be hype.

if it is indeed a thing then keeping it close to the chest is wise until RH, Canonical, etc. can start releasing patches.
The option to not have ads seems strictly better to me.

I would like more controls to require unverified accounts to need approval before they can follow me (there's some low hanging fruit leveraging this sort of thing to fight back against the bots)
> Explain to me how the US government spends twice as much as any other country on healthcare and you claim the corporations are _more_ in charge?

Total spending by government is an irrelevant metric for judging who is more "in charge".

Imagine two people, one of them spends X hours and $10 doing their own gardening to grow 100 tomatoes, someone else spends X hours driving to a shop and spends $50 to buy 100 tomatoes. You surely wouldn't argue that the second person has more control vs. companies over their tomatoes because they spent 5x as much, would you?
My wife and I agreed to expunge "just" from our vocabulary, at least with regards to asking to do this. It's almost always kind of belittling, implying that the thing you're asking for is easy and obvious, and you're an idiot/lazy for either not doing it already or trying to explain why its more difficult that it looks.
> It wouldn't have been that hard to ask the "lone female employee" for help shutting the machine down safely

I believe that takes hours/days.

But it’s not like you can’t see inside the room through several windows.
For there to be a violation there has to be a reasonable prospect of consumer confusion by the consumers in the target market. The page is labelled "Choose your WordPress Hosting plan"

Someone who is in the market for Wordpress hosting is almost certainly aware they have Wordpress and that they need hosting for it. Wordpress is a nominative use to refer to the entity, and Core is an adjective which in context means central.

Do you actually think there are meaningful numbers of people who have believed that WPEngine is actually wordpress itself? That would be the standard. Wordpress.com leads to much more confusion on a regular basis.
Feds charge NYC mayor with selling his influence to foreign nationals
Yes, I get it they did a bad thing. But most of what they are setup to fight is people abusing the legal system so it’s not unfair to fight fire with fire surely?

As an example I parked my car to drop my daughter off at a party and paid online - but mistyped the little number for the car park and ended up paying for 3 hours parking somewhere across the country.

Naturally the private car park tries to charge me 20x the parking fee as a “fine” - which they can whistle for frankly. But they sent varying letters that sound but don’t actually say “court” or “legal action” (things like “solicitors action prior to court”

I kept sending them the same answer they kept rejecting it

Then they actually sued me in county court. Oh wow I thought I better pay. And as a court judgement is really bad on credit record (one above bankruptcy) it’s serious. But I checked the court website anyway to be extra careful. And Incoukd challenge it - actually appear before the beak and say “hey it’s not my fault”.

So I filled in the form that says “yes I will challenge it, see you in court”

That might my wife said don’t be fucking stupid they have won pay them

So I went back the next day - and guess what - they had after 9 months withdrawn their action against me, no further need to progress, cancelled

I called the court to find out WTF

They had, and do every week, mass spammed the court with hundreds of parking cases, knowing that pretty much everyone would act like my wife pay a couple of hundred quid not to risk their credit record. I mean a county court judgement and you can kiss a mortgage goodbye.

That is simple abuse - an overworked courts system, hundreds probably thousands of rubbish claims that are put simply to strong arm people to pay up with legal threats, and no genuine attempt to filter out cases with merit, or even only look at “repeat offenders”

But is it worth the time of any parliamentarian to take this on (well frankly yes it would be great backbencher cause celeb, but what do I know.

Anyhow there was a point here - there are many many legitimate companies whose ficking business model is based on legal strong arming anyone who makes a minor infraction and that’s ok, but having a scam my business model to fight the scammy business model is bad?

Yes DoNotPay could have stayed on the right side of the line - but then would frankly run out of money. I guess we can only put our Hope in the hands of our elected representatives:-)
I am (what I assumed to be) an extensive user of fixup (usually invoked via interactive rebase). I'm intrigued by this but curious as to how it can really save so much time.

Are people fixup'ing a lot more than I do? I might do it once or twice per MR and it's never a large burden to fix the right commit.

If things get really out of hand such that the whole thing is a mess I just squash. Whatever history I had before is almost by definition gross and wrong in this scenario, and I don't mind losing it.
I'm not sure that Luddites really represent fighting against a process that's flawed, as much as fighting against one that's too effective.

They had very rational reasons for trying to slow the introduction of a technology that was, during a period of economic downturn, destroying a source of income for huge swathes of working class people, leaving many of them in abject poverty. The beneficiaries of the technological change were primarily the holders of capital, with society at large getting some small benefit from cheaper textiles and the working classes experiencing a net loss.

If the impact of LLMs reaches a similar scale relative to today's economy, then it would be reasonable to expect to see similar patterns - unrest from those who find themselves unable to eat during the transition to the new technology, but them ultimately losing the battle and more profit flowing towards those holding the capital.
> I deposit instead that the real problem is that we tied people's ability to afford basic necessities to how much output they can produce as a cog in our societal machine.

Yes, because if you depend on some overarching organisation or person to give it to you, you are fucked 100% of the time due this dependency.
The thing is when people around me are "ruining their lives" it does affect me.

Crime goes up, bankruptcy goes up, corruption in sports goes up, etc.

I agree that people should be given freedoms, but we live in societies and people aren't independent, disconnected, autonomous units.
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> immigrants using ChatGPT to navigate new environs

To continue one of the analogies: Plenty of people and industries legitimately benefited from the safety and cost-savings of asbestos insulation too, at least in the short run. Even today there are cases where one could argue it's still the best material for the job--if constructed and handled correctly. (Ditto for ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons.)

However over the decades its production and use grew to be over/mis-used in so very many ways, including--very ironically--respirators and masks that the user would put on their face and breathe through.

I'm not arguing LLMs have no reasonable uses, but rather that there are a lot of very tempting ways for institutions to slot them in which will cause chronic and subtle problems, especially when they are being marketed as a panacea.
I've had a high degree of satisfaction with AWS but I have done very little with their other APIs. My impression is that Google Cloud is in a class by itself having a difficult API to work with but that's because the authentication process is like the intro to the old Get Smart TV show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ankXUaWqQgM

it seems like LWA is like that for you and maybe that is a big pain point for everything else you are doing. auth is like that because it is so central: if it doesn't work you can't get anything done but boy you are in trouble if somebody can bypass it. I have been reworking an auth system in the last month and it is slow going because the risk is so high.
another mozilla. it’s time for guillotines. past time.
HTML is made to be flexible by using CSS, LaTeX is a typesetting program. It sets the whole document to look nice in one specific view, which is the final PDF. Or mre precisely, LaTeX works best for printed media

There are efforts for web maths, which would close the gap considerably for rendering science articles.

Most of the other LaTeX features can be achieved with HTML, CSS and maybe JS. Or even Markdown + preprocessor.