skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off-shoring is already very prevalent in US tech work. So there certainly needs to be a balance in workers rights and business interest if those jobs are going to stay domestic. In general I agree with your perspective. But there is a harsh alternative reality that we're going to continue to face in the tech workforce.
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I guess technically you could write a dynamic policy that... I guess you'd give it a list of files that the program can access exactly once? But that seems difficult and brittle. Is anyone actually doing that?
Sometimes it's like a half fridge and a two burner electric stove. Maybe you have an air fryer. Maybe you just microwave a lot of stuff. Or do like I do, eat a lot of simple uncooked meals, like fresh fruits and veggies, nuts, smoked fish, cheese, etc. I'm constantly amazed at how so many people assume everyone must eat exactly like they do.
I'm less bothered by international spies monitoring me than by corporations or my own government monitoring me (especially corporations). International spies aren't interested in me, but corporations and my own government are.
Have you ever done knowledge work with offshore contributors?

It’s challenging to say the least. Even when working between first-world countries speaking English, there’s a host of serious problems. Cultural differences; different expectations; time zone differences.
I want to believe you, but my hunch is your reply is similar to someone suggesting "Well, you see, you forgot all the pro liberal coverage that Fox News has been doing all year".

Does NYT not have a reputation or am I truly out of touch here? I went through some of their podcasts recently and it's all quite one-sided, for example.
md5sum /etc/fstab

might be viable too, for GPT systems that contain randomised volume IDs (don't think mine's changed since install). Although then there's a chance it could persist between installs if someone decides to re-use their existing partitions, which would be creepy.
It is said that every major, still living COBOL program contains a bespoke, (sometimes poorly optimized) database engine with no standard query language, the only query tool was more program code. Perhaps the longevity of Mainframes points to there was some wizardry/safety lost in standardizing databases, giving people the impression that data itself was standard and too many tools to footgun data into foot pain, that we lost when databases were defined entirely as COBOL internals?

(Not that we haven't gained a lot from modern database tools, just something to think about that maybe the data siloes were good sometimes, too.)
> If the employer normally isn't firing people without a good reason

Isn't this the default state of affairs for american private enterprise? This is why PIPs are so wildly popular—it's trivial to fabricate performance reasoning regardless of the actual motivations for firing.

Granted, I don't see how you could negotiate your way out of this. We need federal labor protections to make serious movement on this.
The Debian project would patch that out if it were ever implemented.

Here's a list of package telemetries they couldn't, or wouldn't, disable:

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues#Privacy_issues_in_Debi... ("Privacy issues in Debian packages")
Interpretable Online Log Analysis Using LLMs with Prompt Strategies
I like how you are replying to me with my own website.

Here is some interesting comment from a telco staff https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=76&topicid=315...

What I meant is, interoperability between iOS RCS and Android RCS won't work until telcos deploy their own servers and Google fallback to those.
>"Why would anybody trust a NYT article about internal drama at the NYT? Does HN not understand bias?"

>links to a blog post from the union
Uses for a USB3 port:

- An LTE dongle as a fallback for the wired upstream connection.

- An SSD for quick onsite backup / mirror of the most important files.

Nothing critical, and can work via USB2 at 480 Mbps, but USB3 would be nicer.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/07/18/acelink-sm81-mediate...

says it has 1x USB 3
I spend a lot of time each year evaluating frameworks for our clients and their projects, and I keep on coming back to rails.

> Does it turn into unmaintainable spaghetti code after a while? Only if you let it. It's typically caused by developers, not programming languages or frameworks.

After running a number of rails applications in production for going on a decade, this is really hard, and I find it to be one place where rails (really ruby) doesn't help much.

Of all the languages we work in (and it's quite a few), ruby has the worst support for modern language tools: the LSP implementations are weak, and don't play well with containerized development environments. Typing efforts are fractured, and the official way is... well.. it's bad. This is exacerbated by ruby's tendencies towards "fluent" interfaces, which is actually code for lots of methods that take undocumented hashes of arguments --- and hash access with strings and symbols? nightmare fuel.

But I still come back to rails. It's productive, it's fast enough, it scales just fine, and perhaps most importantly there's a "right" way to do just about everything your web application will ever need to do: background jobs, websockets, read-only database replicas.

All in all, its still my recommendation for new web projects going into 2025.
Manjaro has been a trash arch fork for some time. https://endeavouros.com would be a better choice these days.
I got as far as finding this: https://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2011/01/crumb-and-blues.html
Am reminded of Bruges in Belgium.
I don’t know if you’ve worked in a large corporate environment but usually your success depends on others. If you’re a a tech lead, you rely on other individuals to deliver. If the whole project fails, nobody gets their promotions or bonuses anyway. So it’s rather a collective effort to get the teams in a well executing state.
(1.) Since this is a javascript environment, the types are pretty minimal and just one of each top level type (unlike languages like java or C, which, for example, clould have int, float, double, etc. for just one `number` top-level type). These, here, in javascript, are: number, string, boolean, object, null/undefined.

(2.) Then I use `typeof` operator for each field to determine appropriate javascript type.

(3.) Then, I map these javascript types to sqlite types using this mapping:::

const typeMapping = {
'number': 'REAL',
'string': 'TEXT',
'boolean': 'INTEGER',
'object': 'TEXT',
'undefined': 'TEXT'
};

(4.) Then, I generate create table sql's fields declaration part. This also handles an edge case where if first 1000 rows (used for schema generation) of a particular field are all null/undefined, I default to using sqlite's TEXT type using this:::

const columns = fields.map(field => `'${field}' ${typeMapping[columnTypes[field]] || 'TEXT'}`);

(5.) Finally, I create sqlite table:::

const createTableSQL = `CREATE TABLE data (${columns.join(', ')});`;

db = new SQL.Database();

db.run(createTableSQL);

Thanks..
https://archive.is/IxouT
Imagine consultants had to cite sources and pay-out every time they referenced knowledge gained from reading a research paper at working at a formal employer.

I can understand the need to prevent verbatim copying of data. But that is a problem solved on the output side of LLM's, not on the data input for training.

It is completely legal for someone to pay me to summarize the news for them every morning. I can't help but feel that knee-jerk regulation is going to be ultimately bad for everyone.
Is this the program?

R. Crumb's Sweet Shellac - Early French Jazz Before Django:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHsqAK_kJ2o

You can find track list from here:
https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/71710-r-crumbs-sweet...
I think measuring intelligence in isolation is misguided, it should always be measured in context. Both the social context and the problem context. This removes a lot of mystique and unfortunately doesn't make for heated debates.

In its essentialist form it's impossible to define, but in context it is nothing but skilled search for solutions. And because most problems are more than one can handle, it's a social process.

Can you measure the value of a word in isolation from language? In the same way you can't meaningfully measure intelligence in a vacuum. You get a very narrow representation of it.
Also, Yello.

They're pretty much only known for "Oh Yeah" which was used in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", but their albums are full of fabulous stereophonic productions.

For example "The Race" from 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C62NSn-3hU

This entire album called "Flag" kicks ass. It's a weird ride of thrilling electro and comedic bathos. Every song is different.
>I don't quite understand how cruise ships can be that bad.

Many many reasons. Cruise ships use some of the worst, most polluting fuel in general. They are barely a step above floating coal power plants. They also have significantly fewer systems to "filter" the exhaust compared to a power plant. Despite that, they have insane energy needs.

Medium cruise ships are capable of over 50 Megawatts of power generation. They usually have about 10 megawatts of constant "hotel" load. These ships are air conditioning a huge volume, extremely leaky in terms of insulation, and are constantly in the hot and humid tropics. They also have to "generate", ie boil and condense, tens of gallons of water per person, per day. 10 Megawatts for about 3500 people is not great. A megawatt can conservatively power 500 homes. They also rarely use power hookups in port, so they will be running that 10 megawatts of diesel output even in port.

Cruise ships also do not steam for efficiency the way most merchant vessels do, but rather to meet a strict timetable like an airline. The same medium cruise ship will spend about 30 megawatts to go 25 knots from port to port.
> The LAN port being only 1 gigabit (especially with a 2.5G WAN) makes it a pass for me.

I think the intended use is the other way around - 1 Gbit WAN, 2.5 Gbit LAN.
somehow doesn't work on my Ubuntu Firefox 131.0.3 but works on my Arch 132.0.
Cascade: A fast, automated, multi-turn LLM jailbreaking method
Help me out here. Are you suggesting that I’m having an irrational response to Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric? Should trans people - for example - not be afraid of a Trump presidency?
https://archive.is/9VLCM
Who wrote the article? What's their interest in the issue?
The answer is "other users". The value of a social media rises with the square of the number of users. If none of your friends are on it, you probably won't join.

The technology is easily replicated, so there are lots of alternatives. But no one alternative is overwhelmingly obvious, so the number of users on each is small. Even if half of Twitter's users fled, the sum of other sites' values will still be much smaller than the remaining half.

It may be that a Bluesky or Threads or some such will eventually reach a threshold -- especially if they can be inter-connected and benefit from the increased size. But that only happens of X is really unpleasant -- which apparently, it is.
This sounds good, but in my experience bad employees were known to everyone. It was difficult to pinpoint exactly why they were bad or toxic, but pretty much everyone agreed. If you gave them some benchmark they would need to hit (e.g. close tickets, be on call, etc), they would be able to do so. So creating a documentation trail is difficult, especially if its based on people saying they don't think he does good work or people don't want to work with him.

This is where I break with the "pro worker" dialog you hear online a lot. In my experience, competent employees are incredible difficult to come by. Recruiters are paid a few months salary just to get someone through the door. To think that employers are just randomly firing people for no reason has never struck me as being even remotely true. I'd prefer the quick to hire, quick to fire economy. Especially since employers would be much less likely to take a chance if they know there are a lot of hoops they'd have to jump through if it didn't work out
Why would you bother updating unless you hit a specific limitation or got a make discount.
Why is that extreme? If you own a company, why shouldn't you be able to fire someone at any time? If you work a job, why shouldn't you be able to quit at any time?

I don't think it's great that our society tries to treat work like it's family, and jobs like they're some guaranteed long-term relationship. It sets people up with the wrong expectations.

Your company will lay you off or fire you once they run out of money to pay you or reason to keep you on board. That's how it works. Just as you will quit your job and take a new one if you interview and get a better offer elsewhere.

These are business contracts.
Torch.load flipping default to weights_only=True
Python is 30 – Python Workshop 1-3 November 1994
> > distinct IP addresses

> NAT would like to laugh at you

Not just NAT. On many ISPs, power cycling the CPE changes the IP address.
Looks like it is. The Apple HRTF should be much more accurate than QSound -- QSound was designed to work without any analysis.
Im case of a catastrophe, wouldn’t be better to rely on non-tech storage of information? Like books, for example? And if so, what printed books would be better for this purpose? Encyclopedias?
That might by what YOU want or what you hallucinate the demand is but most reasonable interpretation of what we know is that they in fact want to prevent being fired for low performance.

if you can be fired "only for misconduct" and low performance doesn't count as misconduct means that you cannot be fired for low performance.

Granted, the actual demand might be more nuanced but going only by what was reported, they don't want to be fired for low performance.
USB 3.1 brings this new connector, usb-c. Many newer devices use that connector these days and customers may wish for a port with that connector. If you have a laptop with such a port, you'd be able to use a usb-c to usb-c cable to connect it to the router, perhaps for debugging, without needing a usb-c to Ethernet dongle, plus Ethernet cable. Plus not needing to disconnect the single LAN port.
The Global Fusion Race Is On
Sounds like there were three major stakeholders in your work at Company B.
"Who knows, maybe...."

Indicates a joke frame.
How long until I can buy a car with tactile controls again?
I would have thought they'd find details on different architectures or specific chips of more interest. Personally, I don't mind allowing telemetry to open source projects, but it should always by opt-in rather than by default.
Descriptions from both sides are now included, what did you want here?
And bribing people to vote is already illegal in the first place. Do things being illegal stop the behavior or not? You're arguing both sides of the coin at this point.

Most people aren't going to try too hard to undermine or outsmart the gangster. Which is why, again, the perpetrator doesn't even need validation of how people actually voted. Vague threats will work just fine. In fact the gangster will still beat up a random sampling of the voters anyway.
If you live in the UK and have recently got FTTP, this box is capable of giving you pretty much close to the ISP advertised speeds (with SQM enabled in OpenWRT). It should be good for symmetric gigabit connections, which is very cool!

Imagine running PiHole and WireGuard on your router… exceptional stuff.
This is the morally correct thing to do but it does result in selection bias for any statistics gathered. It's hard to figure out a way to get good data but users rights must be respected.
Wouldn't that be stuffed in the prompt anyways? No reason for the LLM to learn that.
Writing secure Go code
yes mostly, i worked with many lazy idiots, who undeservedly made millions while our clients and customers suffered
Why wouldn't it be? Businesses doing pro-business things are the main reason well paying jobs exist. And people love well paying jobs rather than poor paying jobs.
Is there anywhere a collected writeup of performance review practices of different large employers? I feel like things are somewhat homogenized but by no means is it exactly the same process everywhere...
> but there are plenty of reasons this data could help them make Majaro better

Then they should ask for a permission first.

> Telemetry could help find performance issues though

You don't need to have telemetry enabled for everyone, just find volunteers who are interested in contributing data, or make a performance test app and let users submit the report.

Also, as I understand, they don't collect framerate in current version.
I don't know, probably the lowest common denominator is paying more attention but most everyone i know is desperately trying to shove their heads anywhere that is quiet and calm. The fervor and anger with which all common media explodes during election month is unbearable.
Again, offshoring normally implies that there are workers still in an "onshore" office. This has traditionally failed because the workers in the "onshore" office didn't know how to bridge the gap with the workers in the "offshore" office.

But that's not the case anymore. The "onshore" workers are (or at least did for several years, giving the needed experience) also working remotely, so there is no longer an office barrier between the "onshore" business and the workers abroad.

Whether or not the workers "offshore" work together in an office or independently at coffee shops really makes no difference and has nothing to do with the conversation. If you mean the parent misinterpreted what we're talking about – that is likely true. But we're not going to change the subject just because he is confused.
Data collection from users used to drive decisions like UI/UX and product development. Because companies were actually interested in how people were using their products.

These days, however, I don't trust any telemetry even from the most trusted companies.
DataChain: DBT for Unstructured Data
Well, my reading is that the corrective action was less "add redundant safeties" and more "have sufficient process controls in place to ensure you don't break the feedback loop during pipeline work".

One potential problem with a pressure relief valve as a safety is that it could turn into a flare/blowtorch if there is an ignition source nearby, which constrains where it can be located (and requires ongoing maintenance to ensure vegetation/etc., doesn't build up where it could get torched).
Companies that are using CDNs to load commonly used libraries aren't actually interested in page load speed scores. They're pursuing a tech trick that was always somewhat of a red herring, and frankly a bit risky. We've experimented with CDNs and they have actually added stuff to the libraries that shouldn't be there. Trusting a 3rd party to load library code from isn't great for security.
Financial institutions told to get their house in order before next CrowdStrike
True title: Financial institutions told to get their house in order before the next CrowdStrike strikes

"Soon, many financial institutions in the UK will be forced by the FCA to become resilient to these kinds of events. The regulator's rules (PS21/3) governing third-party events like CrowdStrike's, requiring in-scope organizations to implement robust business continuity measures that mitigate the worst impacts of incidents like IT outages, came into force in March 2022. The deadline to become compliant – March 2025 – is fast approaching."
The clean, dense, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable.

Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute.

The government will not allow the technology companies to "hog" existing reactors. Not without a fight.

Presumably this will force the technology companies to build their own reactors. Good.

I'll end with a quote from Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce
gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.

Basically, next to nuclear power plants.

The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
long-distance distribution infrastructure.

Note: Yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1837875035270263014
Cool, looks like this is trained on 16 million hours of audio (500B tokens at ~.11 seconds per token).

Even the large open source TTS models (see F5 TTS, Mask GCT) are mostly trained on very small audio datasets (say 100k hours) relative to the amount of audio available on the internet, so it's cool to see an open source effort to scale up training significantly.
And it's their software, not yours. They are free to require telemetry if they choose to do so. You're also free not to use their software if you don't like it.

FWIW, I think it should be opt-in by default, but I think it's reasonable (aside from adhering to necessary privacy laws) for a project to choose the policy they want.
I had a feeling someone would dredge up a basic calculator and make this argument.

The problem with your retort is it ignores the very context I outlined above. The present rate of inflation appears more manageable, but because most of it is driven by absurd inflation in shelter and transport costs (homes and cars), those two areas are starkly higher than inflation overall - as much as 50% or more, in some metros.

So while your napkin math makes for a good soundbite, the reality is that it just hides the complex truth of inflation. So yes, while $45k might be inflation-equivalent to $73k today, that purchasing power is significantly different. $43k in the 2000s could buy you a starter home in most states, albeit not in most metros; nowadays, $73k can’t even cover basic necessities in many states and all metros, not without significant sacrifices.

So my point still stands.
There's nothing stopping someone from performing well at interviews then stop performing once they get hired and have the job secured.
This is basically the outcome of not having fulfilled this: https://ntietz.com/blog/rust-needs-a-web-framework-for-lazy-...

I am unapologetic about despising Ruby - Rails is pretty darn good, though. The Rails and Djangos of the programming worlds are critical for many teams that shouldn't be building their own frameworks from scratch (for any number of reasons).

Attempts are being made (https://loco.rs/) and time will tell if Rust can put together a compelling story for this use case.
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