skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah the whole "but you need to do maintainance" aspect of using a real server is overblown

OS' are pretty stable these days, and you can containerize on your server to keep environments separate, and duplicate

I guess it just comes with experience, but at the same time, the devops skillsets necessary for dealing with serverless stuff is also totally out of this world. most places I've worked at, marketing hasn't even launched a campaign, there is no product validation about how much traffic you'll get, and you're optimizing for all this scale that's never going to happen
Can one of the authors explain what this actually means from the post?

hertz-vae: a 1.8 billion parameter transformer decoder which acts as a learned prior for the audio VAE. The model uses a context of 8192 sampled latent representations (17 minutes) and predicts the next encoded audio frame as a mixture of gaussians. 15 bits of quantized information from the next token act as semantic scaffolding to steer the generation in a streamable manner.
oh derp, i missed that. thanks. >.<
Not op but i assume he is referring to change data capture.
The Chess Analogy or How Important Is Trust?
As a kid, I used to play chess with my dad and later with my grandfather. Starting from third grade, I even joined chess clubs. Initially, I would lose every game to my dad, but later on, he would let me win—though I didn’t realize it then. This taught me that even if you lose ten times, you can eventually win with enough effort.
> being rated below 4.90 is like being rated into negative stars, the way the current system works.

I do not believe this at all. Even if were to be true today, it will cease to be true once the ratings are more spread out.
> What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?

Nothing. I'd be too busy celebrating.

(Even though I'd likely be out of work.)
Grindr Illegally Used RTO to Thwart Union, Forced Out 1/2 of Staff, NLRB Alleges
Original title "Grindr Illegally Used RTO to Thwart Union, Forcing Out Half of Staff, US Labor Board Alleges" summarized to stay within title limits.

https://archive.today/F3gMp
I'm not part of their team, but lived with them for a couple months. They've been working on it for ~5 months, and their background is 16-20 year olds who are too smart for university.
Like in the cases of US courts defining obscenity or fair use, there isn't necessarily a set of metrics which can be used to perfectly taxonomize something.

Imagine I sent a manuscript to a publishing house and they rejected it for being bad. I wouldn't expect they got to that conclusion by comparing it to a set of metrics, I would assume they have people in authority whose judgement is the decider on whether something is "good" or "bad".
What is a fact without expression? It's not clear under what interpretation might be necessary to get the quoted sentiment to be considered sensical.
This sounds to me more like an inlining problem than an ABI problem. If the calls take as much time than the running, perhaps you just need a better language that doesn’t arbitrarily prevent inlining due to compilation boundaries (eg. basically any modern language that isn’t in the C/C++ family, before LTO)
They have a union. They don't have to "move on." They get to negotiate. That's why they have a union. If more companies had unions, then more companies would be forced to treat their employees like people.

There's no data to support the idea that they have a massively bloated headcount. Just because you don't know the extent of what they do doesn't mean that they aren't doing it anyway.
I wonder if there is causality between "over"-regulation and life expectancy and quality of life too.

What good is a growing economy when your country's people are living shorter, unhappier lives?
> Does it turn into unmaintainable spaghetti code after a while?

I say this genuinely enjoying JavaScript programming, but my mind immediately jumped to "as opposed to immediately, like most JS frameworks?"
I admitted no such thing. Read again.

- in a thriving environment, lots of companies are hiring

- some people quit or get fired, and it takes a couple of months to get a new job. This is no biggie in a country where the median individual has a net worth of 192k. [0] (yet another argument in favour of a thriving business environment).

- so some % of people will always be temporarily unemployed.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/average-americans-net-worth-871....
> am I truly out of touch here?

Yes, you are absolutely out of touch. drawkward gave you three incredibly specific examples but you just kept on sticking with your hunch.

A paper that is the "epitome of progressivism" probably isn't going to have multiple conservative opinion columnists heavily featured and isn't going to have recurring problems with fawning interviews of white supremacists over barbecue.

I suppose if you're any further than center-right, a paper that is narrowly center-left is going to appear to be the "epitome of progressivism", but many years of critique would probably suggest otherwise. politely, i don't think this would be something you'd get tripped up on if you'd paid attention for a few years longer than a singular skim of the podcasts recently.
Hello - former NYT employee here, who would have been part of the Guild union if I worked there still.

The story is written by a reporter, Katie Robertson, who is also part of their own union (Times Guild).

The Times has been pretty good at covering itself imho.
Indeed and most liberal-minded people think it was a good change.
> I've been interviewing people that have gotten laid off and almost 75% of the time I'm thinking that they were probably chosen for layoffs due to low performance

The people interviewing with you might be a biased subset of those that were laid off. I don’t mean anything about your company, which could be great or terrible, I have no idea. But I would expect the best performers to get new positions quickly through their networks and connections. You would not see these people replying to random offers, but it does not mean that they were not high-performers who were laid off.
Front end Architecture Pitfalls in Startups [video]
>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.

Isn't this just a sign of bad management? If employees are capable of doing the work when their job is on the line, it isn't a question of skill or ability. It is a failure of the company to properly motivate, challenge, and reward them for their work.
Rails still gets the job done. That's what you get paid to do -- the job!
Could AI make data science obsolete?
Kind of. Solo creative work can only go so far.

A bigger goal would be to achieve independence and then get people help you pursue your creative goals! In which case you likely want a system to assess how much those helpers are helping…
Rails is having a comeback
You missed out the bit I liked:

> But you know who sings and plays just like Hendrix?

> Who?

> Paul Allen

[The Microsoft co-founder and multibillionaire has a collection of yachts and guitars to rival the world’s finest, both of which he apparently makes good use of...]

> Stop it. The Microsoft guy?

> Yeah, man. I went on a trip on his yacht, and he had David Crosby, Joe Walsh, Sean Lennon — all those crazy motherfuckers. Then on the last two days, Stevie Wonder came on with his band and made Paul come up and play with him — he’s good, man.
I agree they are completely different. I don't think either are remotely qualified. I have been struggling with whether I'll vote for president at all. I cannot in good conscience endorse either candidate, on the other hand those are the choices I have. I guess I could do a symbolic write-in. I have never been less motivated for a presidential election in my life.
Measuring keyboard-to-photon latency with a light sensor (2023)
So.. journalism? We're in a meta space for that.
Would you prefer neutral coverage from a third party news outlet with a unionized workforce or one without a unionized workforce?
It's ironic that you reference a paper by Turing here but not one by Church himself.
Yeah it’s very strange that all three links are bad! Here’s a source selling them for $99 with the POE module, heat sink, and case:

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtcURKu
Yup, that's why they were such useful devices! Even if you were ending up with inefficient storage (punching ASCII vs. binary, or expanded BASIC source vs. tokens), it was built-in.
The BOOX Palma is an e-ink Android device (not a phone) that I run the Kindle app on. It has physical page buttons, and is better than any of the Kindle devices I've used. Also tunable ink speed and color temperature.
Perhaps but they do serve their blog at scale, including video and interactive widgets. They’re the most popular of the news blogs.

It’s not rocket engineering but it’s not nothing.
The size of the economy very directly impacts people's quality of life.
The sftp binary actually can run over alternate transports.

Google still remembers my demonstration of sftp decoupled from ssh, and attached instead to stunnel to run over TLS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19520422
It's not black and white. It's a sliding scale. Society already does a ton to look out for the individual worker. It's more a question of where things should fall on that scale.

Coddling workers by expecting corporations to basically act as their family, their parents, their financial planners, their healthcare providers, etc., is terrible.

We should not be telling people to expect any particular corporation to provide them a livelihood indefinitely, when it's a simple fact that corporations cannot do that. They can afford to pay you when it's profitable for them to do so, and that's it. That's the deal. Period.

I'm all for taking care of people. That's what our government should do itself. We should not be placing that role on corporations. And we should not be telling people to expect that their jobs will last forever and they can't be fired. We should instead tell people to maintain their skillsets, maintain their savings, and live within their means, so they can weather inevitable job changes. That's what caring for people actually looks like.
GFCI outlets also seem to wear out eventually, whether they trip a bunch or not. Lately everyone I know that's sold a house has had to replace one or more of them due to them failing to work during inspections.

Part of the issue with "not terribly common" is that no one ever retrofits these things into older houses and new houses only get them where code requires it since it's an increased cost.
yep, 2 days ago.

I'd love to read more discussion about though.

So I'm cheering for this one to stay up as well.
Newer Subarus are more full touchscreen. Either 2020+ Outbacks, or 2024+ Foresters. And they have pretty ugly UIs and poor usage of the screen real-estate as well. It looks like the backup camera or Google Maps only use 7" of screen.
The first people who got their hands on iPads, I recall did test them in this way.
I thank my lucky stars I was able to get something like a 2.5% mortgage locked in in a few years ago
Most of the anti-union tech workers I've encountered over my career have vastly overestimated their abilities and value to the workforce. Their willingness to suffer abuse from employers (while taking pride in their refusal to establish boundaries) makes working conditions worse for all of us.
There's no evidence that "adding more friction to firings also makes teams less performant". Your statement relies on two assumptions: (1) employers are reliable at determining "underperforming", (2) employers are making choices based of performance. There's no evidence that it makes "finding a job more difficult". There are entire swaths of this earth that have the framework that we're talking about and their job markets are just fine.

I know that an online form makes it easy to just position yourself as correct, but you're arguing against reality.
But the company si.inc (Standard Intelligence) was founded many months before ssi.inc (Safe Superintelligence), so they likely just didn't want their domain name to get taken.
Interesting article, but the title is a bit off. "Assembler" actually refers to the tool that converts assembly language into machine code, not the language itself. So "writing 6502 assembler" would technically mean writing the assembler software, not writing assembly code for the 6502 processor.

It's a small distinction, but surprising to see this mix up as assembly language enthusiasts tend to be sticklers for these details!
> bought a Mazda because ... everything can be done with physical controls

Apparently, I will buy a used Mazda someday.
That’s only for external identifiers (the one the linker sees), and it’s only six characters. This limit comes from FORTRAN, and in turn comes from the world of 36-bit word mainframes. Those machines didn’t have bytes, only words. Words could represent numbers, or up to 6 characters (in a 6-bit character set, no lowercase letters).

Internal identifiers and macro names had a lower limit of 31 significant characters in C.

The more relevant original reason for short identifiers is that code completion wasn’t a thing, and to a lesser extent that screens were at most 80 characters wide.
> who is also part of their own union (Times Guild).

This doesn't remove the conflict of interest because it's not the same union. Those in the other unions may well be more sympathetic to the company than to the strikers, especially given the timing of the strike.

It's likely interfering with their jobs right now in pursuit of a negotiation that they don't stand to gain from.
"Western values" is too broad, IMO. The US and Europe are fundamentally different civilizations despite a shared cultural root (centuries ago).
I think the bulk of the pro-trans movement would consider themselves progressive. I think that the bulk of progressives would consider themselves pro-trans.

I don't consider myself a progressive for just this reason. I would be considered a TERF by the trans community, not because I think trans people don't exist or arent worth of love, employment, and respect, but rather because there are some hot issues (bathroom access, sports access, how to handle children permanently transitioning, replacing cisgendered terminology in medical textbooks) that I believe merit more study or nuanced approaches.

At the end of the day, it comes down to the question of who has the right to define what labels, and I think most progressives would not call you a progressive if you don't 100% accept trans rights. Of course, this demands lockstep ideological behavior, which is rarely a good thing for long. Could you be progressive on some issues and not others? Certainly! But which mix defines you as "progressive" or not is not up to me.
Video Game or Videogame? (2022)
the extensive use of method_missing doesn't help either.
Does go have a bad security reputation?

I get that anything can be insecure and its a constant battle as this article suggests, but i thought it was quite secure and stable generally (say on a par with .net or any other tool you may use to make a web app at least?)
This is why life expectancy has gone up, while longevity has mostly remained unchanged (for at least thousands of years). Longevity represents the best we can do, and life expectancy can’t exceed longevity. Life expectancy will asymptotically approach longevity as medicine improves.
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull.

According to the NY Times article, this was outlined and agreed to by the union on September 10th. So this is the poison pill because the agreement wasn't finished over the last 2 months.
That is really weird.
I agree with you on all your points but I came to the conclusion that I would _not_ start a new app in Rails for those reasons.

I've spent my whole career on Rails and I think it's amazing when starting small but mature applications are a nightmare to refactor. Every monolith Rails app feels like it hits tech bankruptcy after ~5 years.
That's a link-local address range (like 169.254/16 in IPv4). You'd need to specify which local link to use in order to connect to it (e.g. http://[fe80::aa:bb:cc:dd%eth0]/) and it wouldn't traverse past a router so wouldn't work if you have your own router between you and your modem.

The closest analog would be something in fc00::/8 (which belongs to fc00::/7 which is the IPv6 analog to 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16), but good luck getting cable modem firmware vendors to all agree on which random address to use within that and then actually implement web administration and diagnostics on it. That's what I was getting at by saying there's no IPv6 equivalent; they haven't done that.
Oddly, the NYT itself would agree with this gem of a source:

https://nypost.com/2024/09/17/media/ny-times-tech-unions-biz...
Maybe because it is an orthographic projection and not a perspective one.
Claude 3.5 Haiku is now available
> So you couldn't spare around 1Mb of compressed flash or 2Mb of uncompressed flash for systemd?

Absolutely not.

> That hasn't been the case in quite some while

These routers and APs still exist and are in use. Yes, they are 10+ years old, but they're still out there. One of the main goals of OpenWRT is to support legacy networking hardware that vendors abandoned.
Open Letter to Amazon – October-2024
The point is that you’re not going to learn about the world by averaging religious texts with flat Eartherism. Only once you have a foundation can you start measuring how each side is describing events.
Hmm, I have Flag, should give it another listen. I liked Stella better.
Looking at the curves published here[1], no breaker should trip with a current draw under its rating, the tolerance goes the other way. For example, after 1h, at 30°C, a breaker should not trip if the current is less than 113% of its rating, and it should trip if it is more than 145%.

[1] https://www.tekdok.dk/files/CA908024E_Trip_curve_2021.pdf
Same. Love calculators and used to flirt with the idea of buying an old HP graphing but the app scratches that itch. Once you learn RPN it just feels so natural.
The insights gained from artificial intelligence about neural networks can help explain why facts often fail to change our minds. Repeated exposure to certain messages strengthens the neural connections that support them, embedding these ideas deeply in our memory and influencing our perceptions and beliefs. As a result, when we encounter facts that contradict these established beliefs, the brain is less likely to integrate the new information. Instead, it relies on the well-worn pathways created by repeated messages, making it challenging to replace old beliefs with new facts. This process shows how repetition can entrench ideas, creating mental resistance to changing perspectives even when presented with solid evidence.
The only way that is possible is if the tables exist on the same database server. Otherwise, you are right back at distributed transaction problems.
But you have data privacy, social net there. You win some you lose some.
If you want to go further, ASAN and Valgrind both have APIs for integrating custom allocators. So you basically do what ASAN does with malloc in the first place—allocate (a bit more) memory, poison it, then pad all user allocations on both ends and only unpoison the actually requested part.
"Mantis Framework" poisons, traps hackers' AI agents in a tarpit
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044096
Just saying, if it's built acceptably well, it shouldn't require engineers putting out fires constantly to not go down. But I'm sure you're right that I'm underestimating the complexity of the system as it's been constructed.

And I guess it's not the case that no one is touching anything, it's being updated constantly.
Even as a bonafide activerecord hater, this sentiment doesn't make much sense to me. The ORM is like 70% of what makes rails fast to develop with, which is the entire reason to use rails in the first place. Everything from routes to rendering to form validation is tightly integrated around object lifecycles. If you get rid of that there's not much benefit to use rails (or in fact ruby) at all.
I remember a contemporary technology, Aureal's A3D, experiencing the magic of having one of their sound-cards and playing Counter Strike 1.x. Enemy footsteps felt almost as good as seeing them. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I never quite recaptured that sense with other hardware/games.

Another search-able term to drop in here is "Head-Related Transfer Functions" (HRTF), where the inputs are a sound and a given relative location, and the problem is how to subtly adjust that sound for each "ear", giving your brain the kinds of cues normally imparted by the shape of your ears and the different materials in your skull, etc.

Aureal suffered from a set of legal battles with a then-not-so-huge company named Creative, which eventually bought out the bankrupt remains.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureal_Semiconductor
Hundred percent. Yet, it's also reality, today, that the power asymmetry between individuals and corporations are huge. Anybody trying to bootstrap an independent business is heavily punished, simply because corporations want you to be an employee, just because they can. Unless the system balances the power dynamics, it's futile to tell people that they shouldn't ask for more rights from corporations.
Employers employ many people at once. The risk of a bad employee is divided by the entire workforce.

Employees, on the other hand, put all their eggs into one basket at a time. Many (most?) employers specifically forbid moonlighting and working multiple full-time jobs at once, so employees are forced to depend on a single job at a time. The risk of having a bad employer is shouldered 100% by the employee.

It's this power dynamic that justifies different standards for employers and employees.
Please be specific. What threats has Trump made against trans people?
As a front-end dev with very limited backend+db knowledge, would I be able to use this?

(Maybe not Series A and millions of users, but def. in production for a side project.)
Not really. I just came off night shift and was thrown right back on it. We work 12 hour shifts, they alternate between forced overtime and disallowed overtime at their whims.

When I brought up I have yet to get my float (4x10s considered the 'easy' shift) I was told there was nothing they could do. All I could think was well how will you handle it when I leave?

Management really is that dense.

They care not one whit about objections nor people leaving.

Imho it's merely a matter of time but the younger guys all hold out hope. I've none left.
Future Music was a rare buy for me. It was always $15-$20, which is a lot to spend for a magazine that was 70% advertising in one form or another, 29% beginner how-tos, and 1% "we figured out something that might be useful to you"

Sure, the sample/vst dvds are nice enough, but if the magazine cost $8, the way it should, I wouldn't have bought the dvds for $12 separately.
Here's how this works in practice:

* Corporate says "here are the buckets. They should match at the VP level since that's a large pile of people"

* VPs tell their Directors to match these buckets, who recurse further

* L1/2 Manager Alice says "my team is too small, this isn't how statistics work, I want an exception"

* Problem #1: the teams with actual low performers will often make similar claims

* If the claim actually gets escalated all the way to the VP, the VP says "tough, fit the buckets".

* Alice is now a troublemaker in VP/Director's eyes

* If Alice and everyone who feels the same way quits in protest, nothing changes except that the org is full of yes men, none of whom are even trying to push for changes in the system any more.