skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. People are not posting data into Netlix. Netflix is mostly read-only. That is huge complexity reducer.
If you want to some actual examples of how optimization based on data can be harmful, I suggest reading Seeing Like a State. If more people that made decisions based on data read this book, the world would be a better place.

The TL;DR is that data about a system does not reflect the underlying system perfectly, and thus is a distortion of the real system. Decisions based on this distorted data can be equally distorted, sometimes dangerously so.

For software telemetry for instance, telemetry only gives the "what", not "how"

eg. feature X is not used.

Possible explanations:

- Not useful to users -> Probably should be removed.

- Not discoverable -> Probably should be kept and made more discoverable.

- Difficult to use -> Probably should be kept and made easier to use.

Most times (I'm looking at you here Mozilla and every commercial software provider ever) people take the shortcut of assuming the first explanation and removing it prematurely.
Clues to Windows Intelligence found in Windows 11 builds
Not sure why you're getting down voted, but you're absolutely right. Cool project though.
Minix ran on 8086/8088 computers, from firsthand past experience.
It's an analogy, try to think about what makes the two situations similar even though they are not exactly the same.
Why am I creating a new code editor?
>The article you linked doesn't say anything about 100 petabytes

Excerpt from the article: >[...] Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. [...]

Your comment did make me pause and sanity check the math: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22100+million+gigabytes%22

In any case, a lot of people translated "100 million gigabytes" to "100 petabytes" based on that blog : https://www.google.com/search?q=google+search+index+estimate...

What's the current best estimate of its size now in 2024?
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Those people can ask their users what they actually need instead of using statistics to validate their own prior assumptions.
My CTO is quite adamant that he hates shadow IT. Especially those with mac, full of... well software used by those artsy employees. Or with strange software not validated by the IT.

Well.

Other departments ask for equipment, but only hear no back. Management product like Monday? No. Dedicated solution for jobs they don't understand? Hell no!

It's tough to be part of this. I know security is hard. Budget limit stuff. But we can, and should do better.
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cartes.app looks sharp!
_Whose_ permission is needed? You're their parent , that's all the "permissions" needed.
Thank goodness I'm neither trying to disengage from the world nor trying to be brave! Do you often go around making irrelevant comments at parties?
And how big were hominoids 20k years ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxh2X6NjuhY
> YouTube is trying hard to juice discovery, to make it easier for people to find new and interesting stuff to watch

Maybe they could do that by not recommending videos I've already watched, channels I've said no to many times, and not hyperfocusing on a topic just because I watched one video on it.
Office netblocker flagged this as pornography. Of course.
I had trouble finding exactly what MDD collects, but my assumption is that it collects data about the hardware in use and what packages are installed, at a minimum.
>Why does it matter where I'm observing this from?

Because the processes that are happening in Ukraine has nothing to do with democracy, human rights, religious freedoms, rights for private property, courts independence etc. And yes, I'm well aware that EU propaganda tells beautiful stories of how all of the above prospers in Ukraine, but reality on the ground is total opposite.

>But now it's my turn to guess... you're observing Ukraine from the Russian side, and you think you know the process better than the Ukrainian... and the EU... while not living in a democracy or knowing what it takes to make a democracy work properly.

Man, I have relatives living in Odessa since Soviet times. I have multiple friends in Ukraine that I studied in University with, that are living in Kiev and Kharkov. I've been in Ukraine many times over the 43 years of my life, and while I haven't been there since 2022 for obvious reasons, I have a good clue of how life there looks like if you're actually there, not listening to your local propaganda. What's going on there has nothing to do with democracy or human rights, and it's a pain for me for every day this war keep going.
Interesting side point: I know for a fact of at least one nuclear power station where the control systems are all 286s. They spend a fortune getting replacement parts. Sometimes nostalgia for some retro computing has a potentially useful, practical customer use case.
A lot of those flights in Europe are pretty short. You can get pretty cheap flights from Boston to Washington, DC, or from Houston to Denver, too. (Texas is about the size of France, so Houston to Denver would be roughly equivalent to Paris to mid-Europe)
This tool confirms it visually: May is mostly a "month off" in France, with three bank holidays in three weeks.
And they provide disproportionate value compared to their competitors. Which is why people want Musk to be the "efficiency czar".
"Material Reality" is not so, that's simply your opinion, and a rather anti-science one. We've known about the divide of gender and sex for a while, and our notions of gender are almost entirely socially constructed. That's why some people are able to live their life, convincingly and without suspicion, as the other gender.

And, to be clear, the vast majority of rape is performed by heterosexual men who are not trans. Trans people are an incredibly small amount of the population. They're merely a scapegoat, because they're "weird" or "gross" or "perverted". It's nothing new, it's the same things people said about homosexuals.

There's no forcefield around women's restrooms, for instance. One does not need to take 5 years of hormone therapy and surgery to walk into the women's restroom and sexually assault someone. Men already do that, right now, and in MUCH greater numbers.

Also, as a sidenote, these TERFy articles and such should be taken with a massive grain of salt. Typically, when attacking minorities the strategy is to take aim at vulnerable populations, usually women and children. When homosexuality was breaking the mainstream, the main concern was pedophilia, because that's how you harm minorities. Naturally, any aim at transgender people will do it from the lense of "protecting women". Never mind that trans women are already at high-risk of sexual assault.

None of this means I think people AMAB should be allowed in women's prisons. But you have to understand, for people who are transgender women, if they go to men's prisons, they WILL be raped. Without a doubt and with no exceptions.

The problem isn't as simple as conservative pundits would like you to believe. Women don't want burly, masculine trans men in their restrooms either, for example, which would be the end result of a lot of conservative policy.
Exactly this. At their Korean equivalent its the norm that to get a promotion above a certain (middle management-ish) level, there's a hard requirement to get a certain grade on an English speaking test. This is taken seriously to the extent that some people who particularly struggle with English will take a several-month sabbatical just to get up to that level. I've never seen this kind of thing at Japanese companies except for very limited cases where the job inherently required near-daily communication with foreign businesses, definitely not as an org-wide policy. Sure, such English tests are always gamed and not super reflective of actual proficiency, but they're still indicative.
> Our industry hasn't exactly behaved in a way that encourages trust.

This is true for big companies and absolutely false for everybody else. There is a worrying lack of nuance in your comments.
> "to keep the company operations running despite IT efforts to ensure it doesn't"

Love this!
> You don't need tons of complexity. You can make any system infinitely complex, but this is a choice. A billing system with -- and I quote -- "160000 combinations" is too complicated for customer support to understand, too complicated to explain to consumers, and will inevitably result in people getting billed incorrectly.

I think the author is just referring to a configurable promo's and deals type of engine, which is pretty common.

It just gives the business the ability to configure as opposed to hard code. For example, maybe the business wants to run a buy one get one free type promotion, this can just be configured into a generalized engine that allows for qty hurdles (or amount hurdles) that trigger some discount on some set of items.
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My website stores your IP address in its access logs. Am I breaking into your home and stealing stuff? The details matter.
I hear they tried, many times, and less than 0.1% of users responded.

I personally don't think it's such a monster move to send some anonymous usage data, especially if you present a box with a choice once the program starts for the first time. (Granted that's not what Manjaro is doing here.)
Nominally left-leaning news organisation getting hardly any impressions on a far-right extremist social network? I wonder why.
Same. It's the one old game I always wanted to be properly packaged that I could buy.
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For reference, there is declassified footage (very clear images, even with some original voice over) of the RDS-4 bomb[0] ("only" 1.5 Megatons) detonating at the infamous Semipalatinsk Test Site[1] (now Kazakhstan).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHRLEMTsLyA

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site
Your take is much different than mine. The issue was a practical one of sparing people from working too much over one weekend since the bug would have to wait until Monday, and the author willingly described the solution as the worst.
My wording was incorrect. My apologies. I meant open generics (List<T>)
This makes it real hard to determine the total amount of flour needed. Maybe add another column to the left, that sums up all the ingredients, in the format you might get it at the store. Then the second column becomes the mise en plas step, where the base ingredients are divided and prepared/chopped/grated etc.

Problem is column 1 and 2 wont necesarily have ingredients on the same row...
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Bluesky hit 15M this morning, and it is also the top free app in the US App Store.

Does anyone know if it is the first time that a truly open source app has hit that top spot?
Thanks GPT but OP was talking about something different.
I meant open generics. My wording was incomplete.
I see the value in using xml for simple markup and standardized entities/references but the flexibility makes navigating whole documents more cumbersome. I think that using it inline is a good idea, but above the paragraph level I don’t see the benefit of using it at all. Even in the supremely consistent world of open doc xml, parsing is a bear of a task. For something like this requiring a fraction the complexity, it should either force more internal structure— XML markup in json fields representing ingredients lists, etc— or just decide it’s for presentation only and go with HTML or rtf.

I probably also have a different perspective on both of these topics than most. I’ve dove a lot of automated document work, and also was a chef so I’ve got a more structured, less prosaic approach to recipes.
I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted so heavily for this comment.

Instead of giving two smaller airlines a chance to work together and compete against the "Big Four", denying the JetBlue merger all but guaranteed that Spirit would have to file for bankruptcy.

The company's assets are worth more than the company itself so I wouldn't be surprised if it simply liquidates with the result being no fares (because no Spirit airlines), no seats (because no Spirit airlines), and millions of customers with less of a choice (because no Spirit airlines).
That does match the definition of an echo chamber. An echo chamber doesn't need to be enforced staunchly - people can willingly form an echo chamber. It's still an echo chamber.

Also, Twitter is very much still censored. In addition, almost all of Elon's tweets are just straight up disinformation. Like... blatant lies.

If you prefer living away from reality, then Twitter is a perfect place to be.

The reality is censorship can, and does, have value. For example, this forum you're on right now is censored. And that's why we're not battling trolls who spout the n-word. On Twitter, everyone is battling trolls who say the n-word. That's why you and I are here, and not on Twitter.
It's more common with big companies, but it's not at all unique to them.
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The artist's site is

https://makinaro.com/
This sounds like a techno-cultural issue that would require nearly infinite patience to try to improve.

Phew… I got dizzy just reading your comment.
The Negro Motorist Green Book ... created a kind of parallel universe
Early in their careers, even exceptional people face obstacles from gate-keepers. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there have been Germans of similar temperament, credentials and talent as Carmack or Luckey but who struggled much longer to stand out to a sufficient degree that they could get great job opportunities or funding in a that much more credentialist environment.

I like to imagine that such people would have found a way to emigrate and make their impact abroad. Either way, the cost to Germany itself (and Europe generally) has been immense.
Code: https://github.com/neptyneco/neptyne-spreadsheet

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@neptynehq

Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818706 ("Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable spreadsheet that runs Python")
Their build quality means a secondhand Miele lasts longer than brand new other brands for the same price.
I am sorry for your loss, but does this explain dubstep?
It's interesting that the pieces don't get moved, only rotated.
Presuming human and LLM error to be equivalent assumes that the risk of committing errors by an LLM has the same distribution that human errors do. But they don't. LLMs make thunderously insane errors in ways that no human would do -- like casually revealing top secret info that no human would do, or inventing nonsense that no human would.

Until we can get LLMs to fail more predictably, we have no business entrusting them to any sensitive data. And that applies to their use in non-military spaces like medicine and sensitive personal data of all kinds. Rushing to hand LLMs the keys to the kingdom is the exact opposite of intelligent.
> I've always understood docker-compose to be a development or personal tool, not for production. Is that not usually the case?

Tons of sites are launched manually and have been for years in production.

Docker compose is a huge step up from that, so why wouldn't it be?
Beside licensing issues I'm not sure the solution should be to link Poppler (which has a multiple CVE's every year on average) into the database server, especially if you process untrusted data.
Seems to be a great way to gain access to the database server.

Functionally it looks useful, but if those kind of 'helpers' catch on there really should be a way to sandbox these 'parser' processes.
That's totally fine and they have an opt-out mechanism for people who feel like that. I don't think anyone is behaving badly here. They want to collect data to make their software better; opt-in has significant downsides; and you have an option to turn off the data collection. What are we complaining about?
Just use k8s for prod. Docker compose is great for local dev, i would never dream of deploying to prod with compose.
Some are even proud of their ignorance and belittle Erlang and Elixir.
Rizz skibidi bro
BSP is a technique for optimizing visibility calculations on convex level geometry. You're still making a 3D model and that's exactly what's stored as part of a .bsp file. So the point isn't BSP being outdated.

Just Trenchbroom and tools like it have more of a Minecraft creative mode simplicity to them, with click and drag snap to grid rapid prototyping of basic level geometry, and even more advanced geometry and details (including creating slopes and cylindrical structures, rafters, vents, general architectural details), than Blender's out of box generic UX presentation intended for all use cases of 3D design.
I increasingly don't travel with a dedicated camera. In fact, I suspect in the next year or two I'll purchase a new phone sooner than I otherwise would to have a backup camera when traveling especially given a backup phone has other uses.

I have a couple of good cameras and glass but they're getting old and I really can't imagine upgrading at this point.

Adobe (sorry, subscription haters) made up for a lot of defects in the manufacturers' PC software for downloading etc. But I totally get frustrated by the lack of GPS metadata at this point because I hate entering that sort of thing which geo data makes irrelevant in many cases.
Nah, Win 11 introduced secure boot enforcement and forces you to use a Microsoft account. That is a new magnitude of enshitification. Even in corporate environments people get nervous.

And yes, some aspects were better in older windows versions. MS itself decided they won't remove the control panel as advertised, because the settings app is just shitty or dysfunctional.

This is beyond the level of shittyness that was Vista or Windows 8.
I've struggled finding work that is other than 40 hour a week body shops. Where do you look for these magical clients that will take variable time engagements?
In Phoenix, you can use the Uber or Uber Lite apps per https://www.uber.com/newsroom/waymo-on-uber/

Uber Lite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubercab.ub...

Next year you will be able to use this in Austin and Atlanta: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/09/waymo-and-uber-expand-partner...
"when user expertise level is medium to high, and task complexity is low to medium" – this reminds me of Python itself. Python isn't the best at anything, it's slow, sometimes vague in its formalisms, etc. But it keeps being super popular because most work is low to medium complexity. In everyone's work, from a simple webdev to an AI researcher, there are moments of complexity in the work but most of the work is getting through the relatively simple stuff.

Or maybe in general we can say that to do something really hard and complex you must and should put a lot of effort into getting all the not-hard not-complex pieces in place, making yourself comfortable with them so they don't distract, and setting the stage for that hard part. And when you look back you'll find it odd how the hard part wasn't where you spent most of the time, and yet that's how we actually do hard stuff. Like we have to spend time knolling our code to be ready for the creative part.
So far the announced appointments are not as bad as I expected, i.e. letting a bunch of loonies like MTG or Gaetz run things. This still perhaps feels like a regression but to the level of e.g. Kissinger or McCarthy.
Mostly the diffs were related to running against the on-prem MySQL instances smoothly: stuff like changes to split tooling or how you boot up the pieces. We have had unique vindexes or query planning changes in the past but we either deprecated or upstreamed them prior to migration.
Okay. So you can't explain how you are harmed by this data collection, and you have an opt-out mechanism you can use to disable it anyway. What are we complaining about?
Not in dollars, no, but a surprisingly large number of tenure decisions boil down to "does this researcher have a lot of citations to their work?" as a measure of the quality of their research.
I wrote my own tool to solve this:

https://harbormaster.readthedocs.io

It's a very thin layer over Compose, basically just auto-pulls git repos and restarts containers if they have any new changes.
Don't use more than 3x a day, and not longer than 7 days. At least those are the recommendations over here.
Orwell was on to something.
> X has become the news source that is hard to ignore.

Much the opposite for me, had an account since early 2007, my handle was even my name + last name. Mostly lurked there to get breaking news, some art, and threads of relevance to whatever was up in tech.

Completely erased my account a few months ago after getting fed up with absolutely irrelevant posts on my feed since 2 years ago, it only got worse over time with Nazi jokes popping up increasingly more, bullshit American politics infighting, edgy assholes sharing hateful hot takes on some minority, etc. Even though I strictly followed only bigger news institutions, some tech folks, a few independent musicians/photographers.

I deleted the account because there was simply no value anymore to even glance at my feed, it was full of crap, barely any of the breaking news or interesting stuff I was used to 10+ years ago.

It's been much easier to ignore than I expected, even more the past 6-10 months with viable alternatives for the type of content I used to see there without the edgy Nazi jokes or promoted Elon tweet.
I highly recommend hooking your kid up with pico-8.

It's a simple little 'fantasy' console with tons of tools to make gamedev streamlined. It's really caught on fire with the gamedev community and you can tell there was a lot of pent up creativity out there that was sick of the complexity of modern gamedev and just wanted a tight little environment to make simple indie games with. I'm not doing a good enough job describing it, but the website is below and check out the youtube overview.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXveyqOYB5w
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I'd assume they would have some opt in, or allowance for either federated learning or sharing of anonymized sensor data.

Google is a huge advantage here, they have both the spatio-temporal intent of the user as well as the physical flow feed. There is so much position data flowing off android phones, that they are able to see the whole topology.
RSS Is (Not) Dead (Yet)
I thought about the complexity in terms of compute, but I guess if there's no input then there's no compute possible, as all functions are idempotent and static. At the very least their results are cacheable, or the input is centralized (admins/show producers)
It's a large car the size of a small car.
Nuance and critical thought is difficult in the current media environment. For those primed to outrage, Hyakuta preceded the entire comment with this quote "Im not saying this is a good solution- I mean, it really isnt good." [1]. It seems like the primary complaint amounts to people not wanting to imagine or think about distasteful topics.

I wonder what kind of headlines Jonathan Swift's modest proposal would generate in the modern clickbait era. "Irish influencer apologies for abhorrent suggestion that the poor feed their children to the rich."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uterus-removal-for-women-at-...
Is async Django ready for prime time?