skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These people aren't being hired to pick their nose [1]. Nor is it like the US where they only place such adverts to justify H1Bs.

There has been an entire scandal about Line's data having been hosted in Korea all this time for more than a decade, after which the servers finally got moved to Japan. You're hardly going to place all physical servers in country A and then do all backend and infra development in country B.

[1] https://careers.linecorp.com/ko/jobs?ca=Engineering&ci=Bunda...
> We always took special care to never include anything personally identifiable

Sure, but that's not really the point. First, in every company I've worked at that has dealt with PII, their definition of "PII" excludes quite a lot of data that should count.

But even if all PII is properly excluded and everything is actually anonymized, that still doesn't address the point. The point is all about consent. Consent seems like it should be table stakes, no?
Bluesky crosses the 15M user mark
Fine, they are fighting like dogs over scraps. Is that a better idiom? Either way the system is broken.
One theory is the climate shifted around that time (coincident with the last gracial period) so that the relative abundance of resources available to hunter-gatherers declined, basically necessitating agriculture.
My experience has been that the vast majority of systems could tolerate a few minutes offline per month for upgrades. Many could tolerate a couple hours per month. No or negligible actual business harm done, enormous cost savings and higher development velocity from not adding the complexity needed for ultra-high uptime and zero-downtime upgrades.

What's vital is being able to roll back a recent update, recover from backups, and deploy from scratch, all quickly. Those are usually (not always) far easier to achieve than ultra-high-uptime architecture (which also needs those things, but makes them all more complicated) and can be simple enough that they can be operated purely over ssh with a handful of ordinary shell commands documented in runbooks, but skipping them is how you cheap out in a bad way and end up with a system down for multiple days, or one that you're afraid to modify or update.
Tesla is recalling 2,431 Cybertrucks, and this time there's no software fix
I propose Japanese ATMs as a example of truly awful software. Most ATMs in Europe or the US have software that is merely bad, the Japanese ones are in another level.
The line that says "let's stretch your time off from X days to Y days" is actually misleading, because algorithm optimises for longer consecutive vacations, not for larger amount of vacation days.

Following your strategy the Y will be 3 for any PTO day taken, with public holidays total would easily hit 60+ days.
I have seen that part myself (infinite loops), also I have quite extensive experience with CHM (and HashMap).

Overall such a mistake alone undermines the effort/article.
Benchmarking Vision, Language, and Action Models on Robotic Learning Tasks
Of course, and there are bad actors in every area. I haven't stopped grocery shopping in my city just because I know Lidl and Billa treat their employees terribly.

If you don't want to provide telemetry information to the devs of the software you are using, that's your right -- do it, prevent it.

I simply don't think that "opt-out by default" is such a heinous crime. Some devs really do land in situations where they are lost on which features are worth improving or winding down (or even removing). A lot of teams have limited dev time / energy budgets so it pays off for them to know where to pay attention IMO.
Hum... As soon as it's optional¹, the odds of you never getting statistically significant data becomes quite large.

What is probably a reason for not collecting anything that you'll use for statistical analysis. Bug reports is an example of something that don't need statistics, things like those can still be useful.

1 - Doesn't even matter if opt-in or opt-out, or even if it's "optional" due to firewalls or a site somewhere explaining how to hack your software.
Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
And you completely ignored the rest of my comment, where I specified that not all Trump has said he will do with the military.

I'm paraphrasing Trump and his own ideology and policy. If that offends you, feel free to vote for someone who better matches your ideology.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Meaning, you can't support Trump and simultaneously say he's lying, or he's just joking, or he's not really going to do that. You voted with the intention and belief he IS going to do that.

Who the fuck votes for someone under the pretenses they hope their policies fall through or are blocked? That makes zero sense.

Trump supporters have entered an era of such supreme shame that even telling them Trump's plans is "misinformation". I can't even ask Trump supporters for his policies, because they won't dare repeat them. I mean, it's absolutely crazy. I have to either listen to Trump directly or ask leftists, because Trump supporters are "know nothing" dishonest people.

I don't know, does that not concern you? That you won't even utter the policy and speech of the guy you voted for? Do you think that's normal? You should be very concerned about that. You should better understand what, and who, you're voting for.
hmmm, I don't feel too skeptical about it - I think it just sounds more impressive in hindsight where it can be described in full clarity (and probably underestimating how much was picked up in the months/years afterward). I was writing HyperTalk around the age of 9, after learning the "secret" command of "set userlevel to 5" [0], although it was kinda difficult without any documentation (I just opened other existing Stacks to see how stuff was done). If you grew up around computers and had a knack for it, well, a youthful brain just soaks up everything it's exposed to, really.

This actually reminds me of how valuable it can be to expose kids to complex/depthful things from an early age -- some will dive right in and embrace it, and potentially enjoy a rewarding experience with the particular subject.. For me it was computers, and at the time I really couldn't get enough.

[0] https://hypercard.center/HyperTalkReference/Set-the-user-lev...
All that came to my mind is making sure to physically bond it to the floor. But then you still need to have something that moves relative to the magnet and then I got confused again.

What do seismographs do? People also use acoustic pings to measure soil and rock density underground. What are those devices using for their “microphone”?

And yeah, would an accelerometer work? I don’t know what the temporal resolution is on your standard Amazon / AliExpress accelerometer is but it’s probably pretty decent?
How an artificial neuron learns*
I consider that a great goal. Each day I waste about an hour driving. You add in time to get ready etc, it is probably 1.5 hours. hmmm gas, insurance ... maybe I need to do a new spreadsheet and evaluate what the break even point for working from home.
Good read. There was also a book about this. But I have not read it - maybe I will now!
I don't read X, but in the last few days I get the impression Youtube Shorts are becoming Elon's personal propaganda machine.

About 1 in 20 shorts in my feed are clips of Elon saying something stupid yet appealing, basically meme videos of Elon-the-saviour, with thousands of thrilled we-love-Elon-he's-brilliant and this-is-much-better-than-corporate-media (spot the irony...) comments below.

The comments seem AI generated or paid for to me because I can't imagine so many people thrilled in such a uniform and bland way, and similar style, with virtually no intelligent responses or discussion about any of the issues. Given the obvious politics and consequences of Elon's policies, I'd expect to see something in the comments if they were real people.

I understand the feed and comment promotion algorithm might promote uniformly similar comments to create a misleading bubble, though.
:-D True, but imagine how proud Thag Simmons would be...
This will simply be an opportunity to further their political aims by de-funding things they don’t like:
FBI investigated trump for illegally retaining secret records. I guarantee there will be a review of their funding.
EPA gets in elons way by requiring that he not poison wildlife and people. That agency will be axed or gutted or beheaded.

Starve the beast has been a republican strategy for decades. It doesn’t mean lower spending or financial prudence. It means starve the government programs you don’t like because they conflict with your ideology.

Note that trillions of dollars of spending on weapon systems is off the table.
Things like the Abrams tanks the army doesn’t want or need.
The trillion dollar boondoggle of the f35
1.7 trillion to upgrade nuclear weapon systems (the only purpose of which is to eliminate all human life)

This will be the biggest shit-show our country has ever seen. It’ll be an austerity program run by insane ideologues. We’ll be luck if it’s just a joke. But it’ll probably lead to a recession by July of 2025.
The best way to stop SEO is to build a bot which detects commercial activity on the page (and/or availability of cart/payment controls), and commercial language in the text of the page (does the content look like an ad or product/sales page). Also combine with number of hops to a commercial page (with cart, prices, advertising material, etc), and create a distance metric. Offer the user a commercial activity slider. Sliding to zero commercial activity should result in zero product pages or SEO spam.

Also important are user provided blacklists and whitelists of domains. Experts-Exchange was a site that called for this on search engines like Google, as Experts-Exchange was universally a cash sticky-trap waiting for searchers in pain to pony up. No, and constantly pasting -site:xyz each time is unacceptable.

ADDENDUM COPY&PASTE:

One blind spot I missed: advertising and telemetry activity are to count strongly in the commercial score.

When I slide the Commercial slider to zero, only web pages which there are no obvious detectable ways for the host or author to make money from showing me the page should be returned.

Bad behavior stems from the drive to make money. Make a search where it is impossible to make money by being a result in the search (especially if a Commercial slider is slid to low or zero).
> X has become the news source that is hard to ignore.

Haven't been using it for 5 years now. What am I missing? "Free speech"?
Yeah while the solution they implemented is very interesting it doesn't actually "predict your location in a subway tunnel using your phone’s vibration signature"
Uniquely amongst space elevator designs that don't rely on an external power supply, an orbital ring could feasibly be built with current technology, at current industrial and economic output.

In fact, I guess a minimum proof-of-concept could be done with only a small startup budget for bunch of cubesat launches and 2 suborbital station launches. The cubesat "ring" bounces between the two non-orbiting stations, which hold themselves aloft by magnetically deflecting the cubesats back and forth to each other.
A Gantt chart for a single recipe may make some sense, but doesn’t really add value. A Gantt chart for a whole dinner — I’m making these six dishes, figure out what I have to do when — is much more interesting. But for this to be passive, the edges on your DAG need to carry metadata about how long the action can/must/should be delayed (no active work), and the nodes (tasks) must carry metadata on how long the task takes. For example, after a whipping my egg whites, they can’t just sit there for two hours; and boiling my pasta water may take at least 12 minutes, but I’d rather not leave it on the boil for another 30.
I don't precisely know - that's the beauty of it! More than I used to take when I had to cautiously ration each precious day out from a limited supply, each time asking "is this really important enough to spend a PTO day on, and will I be leaving enough days in reserve in case something more important comes up later?" Now I just go when I feel like going, and there's no stress about it.
This is so self-contradicting, it feels like division by zero
How many nuclear states have been invaded in the past 80 years? Aside from Ukraine invading Russia's Kursk oblast last summer, the answer is a big fat zero.

The answer is Israel was subject to a full-scale invasion in 1973, despite having nuclear weapons since 1966. There have been regular border skirmishes between India and Pakistan since long after they both went nuclear. We also have Argentina's seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1982.
>> From what you wrote none of the factors seem to be specific to software/CS. But then Japan is quite well known when it comes to physical products. So I wonder what’s it about software the Japanese culture inhibits.

> Physical products: you are buying them for their software. That’s why you choose an iPhone over an Android phone. They’re all rectangles with screens.

> ...

> So “well known when it comes to physical products,” that may be, but all products are software products.

You're just plain wrong. Most physical products have no software, so you're not addressing the very real question (which is basically "Why does Japan produce such perfect physical products, but suck so bad at software? Why hasn't the attention to detail transferred?").

As an aside, it's actually really interesting to be how you could so wrong in this particular way. It kind of dovetails with a vague pet theory of mine that (roughly, very roughly) software engineers are sometimes so enamored with computers they can have a weird cognitive distortion where they see computers as everything (so a computer is the solution to every problem, and they're an expert at everything because everything's a computer or should be).

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As my contribution to answering about physical products. I met a woman once, while I was traveling, who spent a couple months in Japan. She said that Japanese cosmetics are very good and relative cheap because Japanese consumers are very picky and have very high standards. Maybe the reason is Japanese consumers just have higher expectations for physical products, but someone got enured to badly designed software.
Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy
Except the completion of the preparation of various nodes may have to be synchronized to that of other nodes - i.e. the steps can not be parallelized in the general case. Some nodes expire, experience changes in temperature or moisture distribution and so on. In that sense, there is additional context that your model doesn't account for that may preclude certain nodes from being combined.
shrug I have a degree in physics and have always heard people define brown dwarfs by size (and occasionally composition) rather than formation mechanism.
GPS itself is one hell of a dependency. What the military (and pretty much everyone else) wants right now is redundancy.
The NYC train drivers union continue to fight against one person train operation and automation, to them the subway is more of a jobs program than transportation
> In my experience, I just never asked for permission when I was going to work around an annoying policy.

Same here, though I've never been in a significantly restrictive place with no authority (in current long-term DayJob I have some involvement in decisions wrt what restrictions are appropriate, and what exceptions to them are appropriate).

If someone is in a truly restrictive environment, they should take care. A deliberate breach of policy could be a job terminating excuse, or at least further justification, if someone wants them out of the way for any other reason, and in such circumstances a workaround and a breach will be seen in the same light.
> Your hardware specs are secret information? How many times you clicked on i3wm's settings panel is secret information?

Yes it is, until I choose to share it. That is the point of consent - I decide what I want to share, not you.
They were being imported and paid for.
It's funny that this is being considered as "help".
Because it’s the design of the product? Every product is designed with a specific usage in mind. This is designed to be wireless, hence all of the ways in which it enforces and enables that. The battery lasts a very long time, so even in your work bag it should be fine (although are you then plugging into many different computers to associate it?)

If you want a corded mouse (and it sounds like that’s a better fit), there are plenty of options on the market.
Now do the same with google search results.
The problem is that right now I only know about this in the first place because I just happened to open hacker news at this hour of the day. You seem to agree that it is totally fine if I don't want my data collected, but how could I even prevent it if I don't know about it (since it is opt-out only)?
They have to call it the HomePad, right?
> 1. This is a familiar problem and it is where I spend the majority of time. If a bank provides a unique transaction ID the it would be a simple matter of code; however, none of mine do.

This is an annoying problem I've had to deal with also (banks have some unique ID somewhere, why not provide it?).

I create my own unique ID to the extent that it's possible. Some txns have the exact same info but are 2 sep txns, requires a bit of messy logic.
It looks like the day of the week is off by one. Jan 1 2025 is a Wednesday, labeled Tuesday. Fridays is labeled as the weekend, for all weeks.

Other than that, this looks cool. Wish you could turn off public holidays though, some of us don't get those.
I’m not sure that I see the connection that you are making here. Can you elaborate?

Also note that in contrast to Bash, Junction is a type.

Regarding their utility, at their most useful level (in my experience), junctions provide for things like:

$string ~~ “this”|”that”|”other”

This is the same as writing

$string eq “this” || $string eq “that” || $string eq “other”

They have many other uses but that’s the most common one that I tend to see in practice.
The Honda software is mediocre as well but I suspect any sensible automaker realizes that most consumers are using Car Play or Google Play so they put some junior engineers on a checklist item and call it a day.
How is this different from an iPad.
The most puzzling one for me is AirAsia. Like I’m going to use an airline app to order food to my home. At least use a separate brand!
Bluesky picked up AOC and Mark Cuban in the past couple of days, amid their million-new-users-in-a-week influx, so I think the successor has been chosen and the writing is on the wall for anyone looking for an out.

Twitter has still got sports and sports betting, so I imagine it will do quite a bit better than the limping along myspace did after facebook came along. But, based on the stats I track for social impressions, I think twitter is already down to a rounding error as far as return on investment, so it's not surprising to me, in the least, that companies will be focusing their material on instagram, threads, and bluesky.
I contribute street images to Mapillary and Google Street View. Mostly in nature /trails where the cars don't reach, with my goal of making it easier for people to plan their journeys and get outside. I've never quite understood how to contribute to Panoramax, though?

No shared instance for uploading images for Norway as I see it, and feels weird having to set up my own federated instance if all I want to do is offload all my pictures for others to use? I know the one on the page you linked says "OSM World wide", but reading at the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Panoramax it says not to use it for things outside france, and I also can't understand how I contribute to MapComplete.

(here's the tooling I've built for myself btw https://github.com/Matsemann/matsemanns-streetview-tools/ )
Modern Sleep
> Consent seems like it should be table stakes, no?

I agreed for most of my career but not anymore. Truth is, everywhere I worked, the voluntary user surveys had extremely low engagement rate -- which was frustrating for the dev team who wanted to make sure their users like the product. Sometimes that means deprecating / removing parts of the software.

I get your idea and I don't generally disagree. It's just that practice has shown that collecting anonymous telemetry is the only really viable way of getting information of what's being used, how much, does it perform well (I used telemetry stats to optimize a hot code path on a number of occasions) both in terms of hardware efficiency and business terms, and others.

It's one of those things that I solved for myself by trusting or not trusting each piece of software individually. That's why I am currently slowly migrating back to Linux (from macOS); Apple overdid the telemetry to downright complete spying and sometimes censorship so I am no longer okay with them.
doh! thanks for the heads up :-(. Fixed to be https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins
> Should free software also display a copy of their license at first start and ask their users to click "I agree"?

No, because people don't have to agree with free licenses for using free software.

(And yes, free software installers that make the user agree with them are bad.)
For a counterpoint - I like it! "Jam" reminds me of jam sessions and FigJam, both pleasant experiences.
CTO buy-in, measuring sentiment, and customer focus
The presence of affiliate links should be the biggest indicator that the information provided is going to be heavily financially incentivized (ie. bad).

Would be much simpler to calculate and detect. I would be super surprised if Google's algorithm doesn't already know how to detect affiliate links.
I have not and am not seeing this problem, and I have been posting on mobile

Alternatively, you could just search the name that was provided instead of demanding to be spoonfed
>it's apparent he believes he's rebuilding the Soviet Union

Russia has nothing in common (as a state) with the Soviet Union.
Reminds me of the "Learn X the Hard Way" series, distributed as PDF I think, on the idea that if there's code samples you should transcribe them by hand because the act of transcribing matters.

Maybe that's an argument for simpler chat modalities over shared codepads, as forcing the human to assemble bits of code provided by the LLM helps keep the human in the driver's seat.
No. That’s not what wikipedia says, and I feel confident asserting that an Earth-mass object forming on its own would not be considered a brown dwarf by the vast majority of astronomers. (Maybe it would also not be considered a “planet”, due to some Pluto-adjacent technicalities, but then what do people call it? I’m betting they use “rogue planet” in practice.)
No, you are not breaking into my home and stealing stuff. Nevertheless, an analogy can be made between breaking into my home and stealing stuff, and taking my data without consent. "Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share." - try again to think what the third element could be in this case - I'm sure you can do it!
I do agree and I also prefer electric vehicles, but this massive usage of personal cars should absolutely be reduced. I live in a country with fantastic public transport and regularly travel 150km+ one way(daily, for weeks). To do this in a car would be insane. To do this in comfort on a train is amazing. Don't conflate "electric vehicle" with "personal carriage".

My colleagues wonder how I can spend so much time commuting and don't stay in a hotel like they do. That's because they think like car people. Because 3 hours in car is torture. Being away from your family 5 days a week is preferable to them. Sure, traveling so much is not ideal, but my point is that trains can be far, far superior to cars. Cars only make sense last mile and in rural areas, in my opinion.

- Electric Trains
- Electric Trams
- Electric buses
- Electric cars
- Electric Airplanes

... etc ...