skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> She has some of my highest levels of trust attainable

I like to think of these ambiguities of "trust" as something like:

1. Trusting their identity

2. Trusting their intentions

3. Trusting their judgement about what to do

4. Trusting their competence to execute the task
Bear in mind that a mass of water moving with enough energy to form a cohesive whole won't always present as a breaking wave. It's when it collides with something it builds up into a breaker. That something can be another mass of water. Typically it's rising land to the beach or cliff. Or a contained body of water. Some of the truly huge tsunami waves were compressed by the landscape.

If you look at videos of the fukashima tsunami it's not "great wave off Kanagawa" as much as an unavoidable rising mass of water, inexorably pushing all and everything it confronts ahead of it, or subsuming it into the body.

(Not a hydrologist)
I always tell my guys to take a whole day if they are paged at night.
This will get much, much worse. Better strap in.
Discussion (122 points, 21 hours ago, 127 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667243
That sounds like a conspiracy and the penalties for conspiracy are much more severe than just illegal advertising.
First paragraph: yes, exactly.

> OTs take an event..

This is how the early Jupiter OT works, yes. And most OT systems work like this. But there are also some papers on more recent OT systems which can work with more than 2 peers. Unfortunately, many of these systems have turned out to have convergence bugs and/or they are O(n^2). For our paper one of our example datasets takes tens of milliseconds to replay with CRDTs and egwalker but an hour of time with OT!

> the data structure is capable of representing two different versions…

With egwalker it’s important to distinguish between two different data structures. There’s a grow only set of original editing events. This is persisted to disk and replicated over the network. Then while actually replaying events or merging, we generate a second, temporary, in memory data structure which resembles a normal CRDT. (Except with an extra state field on each item like you said). This crdt state object isn’t persisted. It’s usually discarded as soon as the merge (transform) operation is complete. One big advantage of this approach is that this data structure does not need to represent all items ever inserted. Just the concurrent items, back to the most recent common branch. So it’s usually tiny. And that allows history to be pruned - which CRDTs typically don’t allow.

But yes, everything else is right!
Well, at least they now know what better not to do and what to watch out for, no?
If by "we" you mean Fly, can you tell me if Fly happens to be implementing OIDC (or reusing a third-party implementation) in Elixir, Ruby, or another language? I'm curious about what Fly in particular is using because I know that Fly has invested pretty substantially in Elixir and Phoenix in particular, and I've got a Phoenix app where I want to implement OIDC. We previously implemented SAML by literally using Shibboleth SP. Thanks.
Well, my data is over 10 years old, but I know this policy because I had to pay for it out of my budget at a former employer: 1) Off-hours pager duty rotated among the team. 2) If you were on the pager, you needed to be able to get to the server room, clean and sober, within 30 minutes, although remoting in to solve the problem was perfectly fine if you didn't need hands on the hardware. 3) If you were on the pager, you got paid 25% of your normal hourly the entire time you were on the pager because your personal life was limited -- fresh snow in Tahoe? It sucks that it is more than 30 minutes from the server room -- swell party? Make mine cranberry juice. 4) From the time the pager went off, until you cleared the problem, you got your regular hourly + overtime + applicable shift premium + applicable holiday premium.

My philosophy is that if an employer is infringing on your personal life, they need to compensate you for that.
Plant roots don’t need gravity to draw water! Plants use evaporation and the tensile strength of water (yes, really!) to draw water up against gravity.
Also...

Some TV operating system manufacturers give away their OS to TV manufacturers, and in some cases they even pay TV manufacturers to use their software.

Some streaming service companies pay the TV manufacturers to have a shortcut/launch button on the physical remote.
> And then other scientists can pick those up and try to replicate them.

unless there are grants specifically for that purpose, then it's not going to happen; and it's hard to apply for a grant just to replicate someone else's results verbatim. (usually you're testing the theory but with a different experiment and set of data which is much more interesting than simply repeating what they did with their data; in fact replicating it with a different set of data is important in order to see if the results weren't cherry-picked to fit the original dataset).
As a Westerner, the gov blaming things on Russia is like a school kid saying their dog ate their homework... Even if it's true, ts so cliche at this point I just don't believe it
Unfortunately, benefit to society seems to very rarely be the goal anymore.

Cynically, as time goes on, it feels more and more as though we exist to be maximally extracted from, rather than to enjoy any intended benefit (where the benefit is not a happy byproduct that exists only because it is massively subsidized by aforementioned extraction).
Paywall / archive: <https://archive.is/CNDba>
This is probably dependent on the size of your org... yes, we have a primary and secondary, but that is for each team... my current midsize company has 10-15 teams that each have their own on call schedule. So the escalation is like "ok, we need the network team for this one, please page the on call for net"

It isn't about calling in everyone on the same team.
By default, yes. But it probably makes sense to let people whitelist specific crates in their dependency tree. Crates like std and tokio, or blas libraries that make heavy use of simd. Stuff like that.
> How are people to learn about products and services that are available?

Search. Easier said than done, thanks to SEO and business models like Google. So maybe I should say "paid search". We get what we pay for.
The biggest thing that keeps me from using Julia rather than Python for math prototypes is that it uses one-based indexing. I go back and forth between these prototypes and my C++ codebase, and the mental gymnastics to switch from 0-based to 1-based makes Julia a non-starter for me. I prefer Julia over Python other than that one issue, and the lower availability of tutorials, etc. for Julia.
>It just looks like 90% of the other review pages on the internet.

90% of websites are not in the top 10% of mainstream media big budget brand reputation... so if the top 10% look like the other 90%, that says something, and it's not good.
> * Add --enable-jemalloc to build with jemalloc memory allocator (since glibc
malloc is so poor).

Somebody with the knowledge care to explain?
> Having to page someone on vacation is a very very broken organization.

I agree, I'd like to see enough written down that no outage ever has a bus number of one. But I haven't been seeing that anywhere. I've resorted to this one time ever, and the super senior founding teammate was very engaged and assured me that it was the right call.

> pay for follow-the-sun

This seems likely to create a huge team of devs who are seen as interchangeable, no longer paid amazingly well, and don't have enough to do every day.
Near Germany, but, it's in Switzerland.
Yes, true. But as others have said, there’s probably still some value in making authors of malicious code jump through hoops, even if it will take some time to fix all these bugs.

And the bugs should simply get fixed.
Cheaper for the cloud company. But that doesn’t always translate to cheaper for the end user. Maybe they cost more to run or maybe there’s fewer of them so they’re more expensive to book?
I did on-call in the 90's. I wouldn't do it today on a regular basis, I need my sleep more than I need any job.

I was a DBA back then. The author of the posts talks about calling for "back-up", back then they would page me (still just pagers then) and say the database was down. Most of the time the database wasn't down, and there was no real evidence the database was down, they were just calling for "back-up".

I've worked at many jobs since then, including at startups, never did an on-call rotation at any of them since the DBA job. If it's important, you should probably have fully awake people scheduled to deal with it.

To me that's different than supporting a release of code that you wrote. I mean if we really have to do this release at 9 PM and I'm the guy who wrote it, I'll probably show up, after I slept all day. But I'm no longer your database buddy that you commiserate with during the night when everything goes to shit since no one else will answer the pager.
If there is something that you would like to do in your own time that you can’t do because of a work requirement, your work should be compensating you back in time or money. Can’t go drinking / see a movie / go travelling for the weekend? They should pay you for the inconvenience. Actively working on a production issue due to catching a call? They should be paying you a multiple of your hourly rate. If they’re not a charity, you shouldn’t be donating your time and energy.
Misrepresentations of California's AI safety bill
I believe that people against it are either incredibly annoying idealists (who fail to understand that perfect is the enemy of good) or full-on barbarian who rejoices at the idea of wasting someone's life in a much worse way than just killing him.

I believe long-term imprisonment is much worse than death, especially since there is no real life possible after so much time in prison. It is truly worse than death from a humanity point of view.

I don't believe the nonsense about potentially innocent people, if justice isn't completely certain, then they can put them in prison awaiting more evidence.

But I think it is actually pretty rare, the problem is mostly lack of evidence; you don't get trouble with justice when you are a good citizen and juste mind your own business.
Government regulation that results in the government having less money is truly incredible.
There used to be a seperate job for this and they dumped it on startup engineers (otherwise failing businesses) and now they dump it on all engineers.
I'll list three kinds of ethnical advertising:

1. If I have an interest in a field (say, electronics) and then I attend a conference or gathering that's relevant to that field (say, CES), and then you buy a booth at that conference in order to hawk your wares, that's A-OK. The crucial difference is that I willingly understand the context--I'm going to be going to a place that's all about having people sell me things--and that advertisers are not running roughshod over a space where they don't belong. Consider this "pull-based" advertising rather than the "push-based" advertising where ads get shoved in your face every second of the day everywhere you go, even when you're just trying to live your life.

2. Organic word-of-mouth referrals. In an online, AI-infested world, the "organic" part is increasingly hard to come by, but if someone that I trusts tells me that a product is good, that's great and welcome. Crucially, their reputation with me is on the line if they turn out to be wrong or financially compromised.

3. Simple indication of presence. If you have a shop, you're allowed to have a sign on the front with the name of your shop... within reason. Don't push it. Billboards should be banned.
That’s a challenging hypothetical.

I think it would feel hollowed out, disingenuous.

It feels too close to being a rat with a dopamine button, meaningless hedonism.

I haven’t thought it through particularly thoroughly though, I’d been interested in hearing other opinions. These philosophical questions quickly approach unanswerable.
I’ve seen a lot of non-profit journalism outfits coming out of the woodwork.
> It's worth noting that Tesla claims FSD is still in "beta," so it's incomplete

When a broken tail light is considered a safety issue, how is a half-baked "full self-driving" system that's in perpetual beta and has never delivered on Tesla's self imposed deadlines for true self-driving allowed on the road at all?
> Then as between large companies, they all need each others' patents and just end up cross licensing everything. All the effort is for nothing because it just cancels out.

As you explain in the next paragraph, that creates a moat the protects the large companies from the small ones.

They compete against each other but they also collectively defend their own kind.
Relatively new to on-call (10 months) and it has ruined my sleep quite a few times, plus a bit of fear during my weeks (every other).
Adhd is executive distinction, that’s where attorneys will tell you gambling addiction isn’t real, but they’re brain is malformed and need a stimulant, yes, because they don’t understand what normal is and will hyper focus on money and won’t be able to budget, and won’t able to raise money due to fear of rejection. Most people that raise money don’t care they ask a million people some say yes some say no. For people like that, the casino isn’t great for them they’ll get there felling hurt…that doesn’t mean it should be banned attorneys think it’s funny I think you guys miss the point on certain things.
Thanks for the suggestion! Yes, we should do this. I've been seeing more and more people use Cuttle for 3D printing (exporting a DXF, then bringing that into another program to extrude and output a STL).
These are the same sites that platform the doom-mongers warning us of the dangers of "disinformation" and appealing for censorship. The viewers may merely be victims of the propaganda. Those disseminating the propaganda should be held to a higher standard.
If its only about teletext you dont need whole 6 hours. Teletext loops whole content in around a minute max. It would probably suffice to capture until vhs-teletext confirms full decode, minutes per tape instead of hours. You will only miss live changes - I think there was chat and sport results.
Does it export to Excel?
Stimulants are scientifically shown to cure adhd symptoms, so cigarettes can help too…they just tend to be dirty
They also lose data. Especially large files you rarely touch, like family videos. Bit rot on SSDs is real. I backup to HDDs now.
Yeah that is fair. And I’d put that under paging someone who is already on another on call shift.

What I meant was like, paging a subject matter expert on your own team.
A few years ago I went online and looked at the articles my local paper was putting out in the 1800s.

There weren’t any.

Instead they had little blurbs, online they’d be called “tweets” or “posts” mostly submitted by readers.

That was journalism in a midwestern city in the 1800s.
Empathy is great but you need to understand cognition otherwise the empathy will be misplaced.

How is this code going to appear or show up for someone whose boss is breathing down their neck, or who is fixing a production problem at 2 am? You don’t know how valuable that answer is until you actually need the answer, and then you’ll pay a lot for it. If you can find someone who knows how to do it. Few people do.
From whose perspective and what are we considering right and left? The Democratic party is left of center on social issues, even compared to Europe.
There’s a difference between science, computer science, and engineering. A lot of people miss out on that too that’s the point of “non-logic” and the left side of your brain
> A reminder that the existence of the advertising industry is a tax that drives up the cost of everything that you buy, because every dollar spent on advertising is a dollar that does not actually improve the product in any way, and yet must be recouped by increasing the price of the product

I am not going to try to argue that advertising is good or anything, but I don't think your economic argument is accurate.

If a company didn't have to spend anything on advertising, they wouldn't use that money to improve their product or to reduce the price; the money would go towards profit.

So many people seem to think that prices are set at "expense + fixed profit margin = price" but that is not how any company sets their prices. The ONLY reason a business is going to lower prices is because they think that is the way to increase their profit. They aren't going to lower prices just because some cost goes away.
On the one hand, sure, I like nice things. On the other, there is legislation to cover this, but you're exempted if you're making typical software engineer salaries (this varies state to state I think, it's not federal, but is fairly common).

I feel like unionization would be a better route to this sort of benefit than trying to get a legislature to pass a bill for a group of people that are already very privileged.
There is a pub called The Ranelagh in Bounds Green, North London which is near to what used to be a Middlesex Polytechnic site where the computer centre was located (DEC 10, two IBM 4381s, several VAXen and a couple of Primes) and where I worked in the mid to late 1980s. It was a hole then (still there, but I haven't been in for many years), but that didn't stop us programmers drinking there.
Calling Prime a journalist even by implication is hysterically funny.
North Korea's Four Dark Years
The "response" to those is discrete GPUs that have been available all along.
Desert land is already cheap, energy storage prices will come down, its just a question of how much. Grid storage can take weight penalties that typical battery users cant
The trend has been for power to become more concentrated in the central, Federal government. A more decentralized approach would offer more competition and checks on abuse.
So, it's better to potentially completely ruin the life of an innocent instead of killing him.
From a humanity standpoint the first option is much more barbaric.

Besides, what is the chance an innocent gets out if he was convicted in the first place?

I believe it's so low that the mistake is not giving a decent out (and avoiding large costs to society) to problematic peoples on the off chance that you might get an innocent released 10 years earlier.
If he was truly innocent, his life is ruined already, he would have to live with the consequences for the rest of his life...
I think he was referring to Kernighan when he said that.
My phone has a bottom panel... a left 'menu' touch screen area, a right 'back' area, and in the middle is a home button. Galaxy S6! Before that I used a droid and it had a nice optical joystick/center button.

I die inside a little when I have to use gestures to 'go back' whenever I must borrow an iphone.

I don't see the point in the entire front of a phone needing to be a screen also.

And audio jacks are just gone now from phones. Horrible designs and impractical decisions forced upon comsumers.

The fact that buttons reappearing on phones is now noteworthy is just hot garbage, it is all nonsense trends.
> A claim I've heard is that the for-profit company has the exclusive commercial license (along with the right to grant sub-licenses).

That sounds about right, and is what's written on the WordPress Foundation's trademark page [1]:

> If you would like to use the WordPress trademark commercially, please contact Automattic, they have the exclusive license. Their only sub-licensee is Newfold.

I read something different [2] while reading up on this whole debacle:

> The WordPress Foundation was launched in January 2010. Automattic transferred the trademarks later that year in September. As part of the transfer, Automattic was granted use of WordPress for WordPress.com, but not for any future domains. Matt was granted a license for WordPress.org and WordPress.net.

I wonder if something changed along the way.

[1] https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/

[2] https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/the-wordpress-foundation/
I am not a fan of this endless proliferation. I thought it was a cool idea when I was younger, about several decades later I view the sheer abundance of governing bodies, in a perversion of Justice Brandeis' famous phrase, as meth labs of democracy.
Indeed, six years later, the AlphaZero algorithm is not the best performing algorithm for chess. LCZero (uses AlphaZero algorithm) won some TCECs after it came out but for the past few years Stockfish (does not use AlphaZero algorithm) has been winning consistently.

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

So perhaps the critics had a point there.
I would argue that aggregated, anonymous viewership data is a net positive to society, as it helps content creators better cater to demand
It's like paid clergy of old, except we now call them scientists. Sometimes they reveal truths. Most of the time, and most of them are kind of useless. It's self serving bullshit, served by ever growing bureaucracy.
> Marvel and DC have cited their marks in opposing dozens of superhero-related trademark applications at the USPTO, according to the office's records.

It's not like they haven't been using them, they just knew that at this point they'd have lost if they tried to actually fight it. Most previous groups probably folded immediately under pressure from the giants.
HVDC advantages pertain irrespective of environment.

HVDC only needs one copper conductor. HVDC has no reactive power loss. HVDC has less corona effect and self-inductance to overcome so conductors can be smaller. HVDC is not subject to grid phase problems.

In addition, since HVDC cabling can be cheaper at a given voltage, the voltage can be increased which minimizes resistive losses (Ptrans = IV while Ploss =I^2R--if you double V you halve I which reduces your losses by a factor or 4).
> The sad thing is that there are a lot of things AR glasses could be useful for in my everyday life

Can you give some examples, because I honestly can't think of any. I certainly can imagine these in specific, mostly niche professional contexts, but as "the next computing computing platform", no thanks.

To be clear, I'm fine if this is "just me", but take this quote from the article:

> You can take a hands-free video call to catch up with friends and family in real time, and you can stay connected on WhatsApp and Messenger to view and send messages. No need to pull out your phone, unlock it, find the right app and let your friend know you’re running late for dinner – you can do it all through your glasses.

Even under their own description, the phone experience is better for me in every way. I don't want something strapped to my face - I want to perform a task and then put my device away.
Time to fire all those obscenely expensive CEOs.
In addition to making everything you buy cost more, it also leads to lots of people buying a lot of things they don't really need (or want, after the rush of buying another piece of crap wears off)