skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. They should.. but Bksy is bouncing between 15 to 133 new users per second at the moment, and they are on bare metal. There is major service degradation at the moment. Pour one out for their team.
Gotta collect 'em all: New Pokemon trading card game becomes big hit
I think it is slowing down, almost undeniably slowing down. Hitting a wall? I don't think that's fair but slowing down for sure. Which follows the tech hype process, an engineer(s) make great progress on a problem, an "idea" guy hypes it to the moon and sells it for as much money as possible by promising the moon, and then the tech "fails" to deliver the moon. Even the tech was never meant to deliver said moon.
The outcome is only uncertain because they are blatantly ignoring the laws.
I was actually genuinely interested in what you might have to say.
Programmers unsurprisingly want programmability.

Users want a toaster.

Input stuff, turn a knob, push something, -> output
I can't imagine a more valid use for defamation laws than to prevent someone from knowingly and repeatedly causing death threats and other harassment to be directed at parents whose children have been murdered. After being sued, Jones completely failed to defend himself in any meaningful way and lost the suit by default. I honestly have no idea which part of this chain of events you object to. People should be free to send mobs after parents grieving an unimaginable tragedy? Morons who get sued should win by default?
NeXTstep was all about revolutionizing the programming experience. For the time, it was dramatically more powerful and far easier than the completion. We are basically still using that app environment today ( on macOS and iOS ).
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I assume the fourth point is for billing clients for a high fee while paying a quarter to the associates. But some law firms will use the more efficient tools to take on more cases for the partners to bill on their higher rates. Competition will force the firms to use more efficient tools.
What does that have to do with anything? You don't become an economic super power by letting poorer countries tax your richest companies.
The H1B system is so rife with corruption at every level and needs to be stopped.
Same experience, but I think it's going to change. As models get better, their context window keeps growing while mine stays the same.

To be clear, our context window can be really huge if you are living the project. But not if you are new to it or even getting back to it after a few years.
My observation as well. Going remote makes it harder to switch jobs because of loosing the personal connections and networks that get developed working on site. Going through the front door when applying for opportunities is usually more difficult than the back door. Back door as in getting introduced via your network. As a result, I've learned that a good recruiter is now a necessity because they have those relationships with hiring managers which can put you to the front of the line and also prep you better for the process.
Having dealt with O2's support line, I wouldn't be surprised to discover they'd deployed a time-wasting AI there too.
Nah, at that point, just let mom call.
Most culturally-recognized "great art" was not recognized as such until long after the artist had passed.
The issue is "people who view themselves as good with computers" self-select into jobs in the technology industry. This means we don't have any ambassadors for technological process improvements in the average business.
It depends on your audience. If you're catering to academics, use "indices." If you're catering to the general person, "indices" comes off as pompous.
Of course, the scammers have created their own AI to call people and scam them so it's just playing catchup.

It's like corporate avatars for hiring or cold call bots for sales.

I'd say stick to white listed numbers, but pro phones can't do that, and they are the most prone to spam.
nfts, crypto, low poly trucks etc.
> If your feed was utter garbage, would you be able to tell?

Lol. Same way as you or anyone else calling it utter garbage.

As another comment on this thread points out, this is exactly what the Community Notes feature is for, and it's the real reason why the Guardian has been having such a rough time on X.
It looks like Everytown for Gun Safety is now getting ads on The Onion, too - of course The Onion is still out of money, but what the hell at least there’s a serious part to this.
I wish they would have a number I can cal to speak to her. That would be fun
I get frustrating reminders of how inefficient those organizations can be every time I end up on a gov contract. My last one was the worst. Perhaps entropy is the unavoidable result of complex organizations? If that's true, then what will prevent DOGE from succumbing to the same fate?

So many of the "cyber" orgs exist to perform "outreach" with talking heads paid too much to basically say "hacking bad, security good." I'm not sure what's worse: a world where such marginal things are provided in exchange for value, or a world where such marginal things are actually valued. The pattern exists across the US federal space.

The leadership of DOGE will need to be focused on actual results. It won't be effective if their existence is justified by how many powerpoints they present. It won't be effective if it's just a bunch of SESers "working together" with other SESers "towards efficiency." The fundamental incentives of US gov orgs will have to change in ways likely to be resisted.
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even analytics or dashboards are likely still too abstract

you are selling them reduced costs, or ideally more income, based on said analytics. Are they going to be able to make sense of the dashboards to make business decisions? I suspect this is where the gap is

Brick and mortar are more concerned with the day-to-day and prefer to outsource secondary operations they are not experts in. They are generally tech shy, so selling them a analytics solution is difficult
We're experimenting with advertising
Infowars was a supplements business. their business model was to brainwash people with conspiracy theories and sell supplements that solve the problems they made up
Eeesh.

Process 665: 874477 leaks for 2686387600 total leaked bytes.
> Or is this in the UK different?

A bit; mostly as you say, but also it's a kingdom and has the House of Lords whose seats are partially heritable, partially religious appointments from the state religion with the monarch at the top, in addition to those appointed by the elected government.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_Temporal
He did and I did feel very angry about it and it hurt our professional relationship irreparably.

But above I'm only discussing my experience of criticism as an aside, unrelated to Gwern. To be clear, my original comment was not meant as constructive criticism. Like I think my colleague was at the time, I am out to get Gwern because I think, like I say, that he is a clueless AI influencer, a cheer-leader of deep learning who is piggy-backing on the excitement about AI that he had nothing to do with creating. I wouldn't find it so annoying if he, like many others who engage in the same parasitism, did not sound so cock-sure that he knows what he's talking about.

I do not under any circumstances claim that my original comment is meant to be nice.

Btw, I remember now that Gwern has in other times accused me , here on HN, of being confidently wrong about things I don't know as well as I think I do (deep learning stuff). I think it was in a comment about Mu Zero (the DeepMind system). I don't think Gwern likes me much, either. But, then, he's a famous influencer and I'm not and I bet he finds solace in that so my criticism is not going to hurt him in the end.
If you people only valued salary you'd all be in sales :)
I suspected some of that, and your explanation looks more general and good.

Or, for a joke, LLMs plagiarize!
If the labor market test yields a candidate, the petition isn't filed. So there is formally no rejection from the USCIS. But application processes fail at this step all the time.
Regarding point 4 --

Sometimes you automate something because you want to do it faster / cheaper. Sometimes you automate something because you need it to be done _correctly_.

I would much rather my critical but menial $900/hr task be done by someone double-checking automated work than the same amount of time being spent doing the menial work.

You could even introduce flaws (in the review step) to catch if you're concerned about the human getting bored and just automatically mashing the "merge" button...

There was a freakonomics[1] podcast about mechanical support of human activities...

[1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/new-technologies-always-sca...
Who can trust a company whose name contradicts its presence.
> In your scenario, Alice already decided not to buy anything from AcmeShop.

Not really, that's exactly what "remarketing" ads are for — companies track people's interest and remind them of their products. However, in this case, Facebook is double dipping by taking money from their paying customer (AcmeShop), and then using data they obtained whilst serving their paying customer to frontrun the customer.

If you or I tried something like that with Facebook — say, taking salary from Facebook and also using data we accessed through our role to undermine Facebook's business — it'd clearly be both illegal and immoral. Somehow, with enough layers of indirection, for a lot of people the same play is acceptable when Facebook does it.
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Surprised there aren't any comments whining about this because the scammers are bigger victims. Usually there's at least one.
They're all "verified" (paid) accounts too, which is why Twitter is such a cesspool. They sort paid accounts to the top.
I guess that's a good way to think of it. Despite not being very useful (currently, anyway) for certain types of complicated or novel work - they still are very useful for other types of work and can help reduce development toil.
Fellow anglophiles or British - is your Alex Jones a household name?
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Newsflash: the Pentagon has literally _millions_ of bureaucrats.

None elected.

Unelected people are tasked with defending the free world. how about that?
I'd agree to that. People get stirred up and angry about the Twitter topic. You just see the other side on Reddit or hacker News.

When I think of hate speech, I think of unveiled threats of death of violence. In the US at least, the definition usually requires a racial or minority component.
coding since the ‘90’s - do not have a github account at all that I ever used for anything. of the top say 10 people I have ever worked with not a single one has a github account.

there is an entire industry of devs who work on meaningful projects, independently or for an employer who solve amazing problems and do amazing sh*t none of which is public or will ever be public.

I have signed more NDAs in my career than I have commits in public repos :)
The SpaceX case was centered around ITAR regulations. ITAR jobs do not necessarily require security clearance. As the person you responded to mentioned, you have to be a citizen to get security clearance and related jobs. Asylum seekers and refugees can't get clearance.
Not uncommon for in-house recruiters to keep sourcing new candidates and making them jump through all interviewing hoops even if they know the reqs aren’t open or till the morning they all get fired in a layoff that they know is coming. Agencies probably less so because they get paid commission.
burning libraries probably doesn't help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom#Destruction_by...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Burning_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_mahavihara#Destruction...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries#Hu...
but you can become an economic super power by avoiding tax smaller companies pay?
Not to mention that most neurotransmitters are produced / collected from the gut. Many seem to be produced / used as signalling molecules by gut microbiota.
> Let it be art, not propaganda

You cannot “explain what you do believe under the cover of pretending to dismiss it” without blurring the line between propaganda and art. That is true of both the best art and propaganda. If someone disagrees with the message, or coöpts it, it’s propaganda.
It's one thing if your domain is hard, and another if you can't be bothered to fix a core problem in your service for ten months. Why would I trust you with my security if that's how long you leave vulnerabilities open after knowing about them?
The 'anti-competitive' practices make the product better. It keeps you in their ecosystem that is more trust worthy than third parties. For instance, I avoid the third party crap on Amazon that's not managed by them because they're usually awful, weird pricing almost like they're hoping someone accidentally buys it and shipping takes long.

Is it 'anti-competitive' that Amazon pushes their stuff? I don't really care, its just a better product for Amazon. If I wanted the third party crap, I'd go to eBay.

So a lot of these regulations that are supposed to promote competition actually make the product worse.
Exactly. The part where I used Excel was because Word didn't really scale for more than 2-3 sets of changes like that.

So my "copying current version changes" to Excel was kind of like git merging to the main branch.

People from outside the craft usually get super confused and frustrated by how many hours those contracts could take ("it is just a Word document!"), but that used to be a huge reason why.
If that is happening widely, surely there will be some data to support that right?

Authorities do enforce H1B provisions proactively.

https://www.uscis.gov/scams-fraud-and-misconduct/report-frau...

https://cis.org/North/Apple-Hit-25-Million-Penalty-Favoring-...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/11/06/h-1b-visa-fraud-leads...

> absence of consistent heroic efforts

Will that apply to every law in society or just to H1B laws?

Despite absence of consistent heroic efforts, we don't see widespread criminal activities.
> Lawyers want this all to work in Word.docx

You've got some bleeding edge lawyers if they're using Microsoft Word. The legal industry is one of the main reasons that WordPerfect continues to exist.
The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management
The user experience of major cloud providers is surprisingly poor, especially when it comes to basic VM/instance management. Here are some major pain points I've encountered:

1. Complex Regional Segregation (AWS)
- Instances are strictly segregated by regions
- No unified view to manage instances across all regions by default (Need specific queries just to get a global view)
- Sometimes you lose track of which region your instances are in

2. Instance Metadata Management is Unnecessarily Difficult
- Can't easily rename instances (Google Cloud requires shutdown and restart)
- No automatic tracking of which IAM account created the instance
- Limited ability to add notes or tags for running services
- When an instance runs multiple services (e.g., "service-A" actually running A, B, and C), there's no easy way to update its name or add proper documentation
- Have to maintain external documentation to track what's running where
- Need to SSH and check screen/tmux sessions to see what's actually running

3. SSH Key Management Issues (especially Google Cloud)
- Can't properly manage SSH public keys
- No ability to add descriptions to keys
- Can only see a list of root public keys without context
- No tracking of who added which key
- No "last used" timestamp (unlike GitHub which handles this well)

I do use serverless solutions like Lambda/Cloud Functions and Firebase, but there are always cases where you need ECS/VMs. These basic UX issues make daily operations unnecessarily complicated.

What's your experience with cloud providers' UI/UX? Have you found any good solutions to these problems?
Who Timewastes the Timewaster?
I'm with @belval on this one, it's ok to prioritize github, but people that want the standard to implement an alternative should not feel like they are doing something that may not be supported.

It kinda feels like that right now.
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Evergreen: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Machine learning is the high interest credit card of technical debt.
Yep, I usually average more deep sleep (10-15m) during times of regular workouts. I typically fall asleep much faster as well, though I don't typically have issues with that.
- Project Timber Sycamore

- The Douma Gas hoax

Fun times.
It has everything to do with Consumer protection. Meta tied its online classified ad business to its social network, automatically exposing Facebook users to Marketplace without any question of consent.

It then exacerbated this by imposing unfair trading conditions with a terms of service that authorised the company to use ad-related data — generated from competitors who advertise on Facebook or Instagram — to benefit Marketplace.

The reason the use EEA legislation is presumably because Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are EEA but not EU states, but fall under scope here.
Stop looking upwards!

An income of $100,000 puts you in the top 20%. Guess what? 20% doesnt win elections.

Here's some data about wealth by quintile:

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-this-chart-explains-americ...

Yes, the definition of wealthy elite could be reasonably set at 100k/year, according to this data.
I really hope you're right because I am 1000000% rooting for you. You just need two counterparties (could be two people in the same firm in the same practice!!) to use it to get some value somewhere in the whole process. As a humble software optimist, I believe there's room for this. I told him his critiques also apply to typewriters -> any old word processor -> MS Word, or fax -> email and those still happened so don't go taking an overpaid millenial's skepticism as normative for the whole thing. If Graeber taught me anything, it's that work is a gas and efficiency will not make the firms bill less.
Open source has a lot of issues:

- The anchoring principal. Once you have set the that the software is free, humans expect it to be free forever and all related things are judged off the initial impressions' price bucket. Humans will never want to pay for it later. It's judged worthless.

Open-core and closed-source addons and support models have misaligned principles. The community wants things to be easy to use and opinionated, while the OSS company wants to include as many customers as possible who need or want your help with their niche choices.

- Sustainability is awful. If you start an open source project you're either going to burn yourself and the community out, or require funding to do it as a day job. So, if you want the project not to stop early, you need money to pay for developers to make software better.

- Larger companies want something opinionated but rarely what's good for most of the community. So eventually when big tech/big industry is paying for developers to work on the project, there's a point where the large company will want their cake and the community is hostage. Do that enough times and the large company forks internally and the community fractures or withers out.

Source: I was at Cloudera while the Big Data craze took off. Then, I did open source for large tech.
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I am working on refactoring a system which I feel does some frequently encountered flows across organisations. Collects raw event streams, grabs unique URLs, crawls, extracts, creates vectors, uses these output in some downstream analysis and objects.

I have many different solutions which “work” but I am not sure which is optimal.

I find both the internet and LLMs to be a very poor resource for this type of work.

So where does one learn about how others have implemented such systems? Happy to reads books, blogs, repos!
Glancing at this article you have posted, I am genuinely intrigued and look forward to reading it today or tomorrow.

The thing about the IgG4 topic overall, is it's not just a small handful of papers that are discussing it, along with other immune issues that have resulted from the mRNA shots.

> It would be good to point out William Makis is a disgraced

Can you give us a solid citation on exactly how? I would like to see this.

> He worked at a cancer center as a radiologist but continues to misrepresent his expertise as an oncologist.

This means he had a front row seat to how cancer develops in patients, how cancer is successfully neutralized (or not) in patients, and also the internal politics and realpolitik imperatives of such a place. Given that cancer is a multi-hundred billion dollar industry, and a patient cured or prevented from having the disease in the first place is not profitable, unironically his work history could provide insight into how institutions that employ fleets of oncologists actually operate.
That sounds a little like having your cake and eating it too. 'Giving a fuck' is not really a boolean value but more of a broad spectrum.

Of course, anyone who writes any software cared a little bit about it at one point, or they wouldn't have written it. But warranty is about whether they care enough to cater specifically to you when you have a problem in the future.

Maybe many of these projects do care enough to give general updates to the community as a whole on a best effort basis, but that's a lower level of assurance and more voluntary than what you'd get in a legal warranty.
Hey hey, objc_msgsend’s no longer C ABI compatible, [1] so make that the famous memory safety of assembly now…

[1] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...
I have a suspicion that your experience is representative of a general attitude in embedded engineering compared to other software disciplines. Embedded engineers usually still keep to proper part numbering, testing before shipping and working with greater platform limitations, all virtuous activities that are harder to find in other fields. I like to think this culture bleeds into other parts of the business such as implementing reasonable hiring processes!
I don't think it's entirely accurate. "Modern idiomatic C++" was a thing already before C++11 - that would be the kind of code that heavily used the standard library and especially STL containers, iterators etc (but also stuff like auto_ptr etc; and yes, for all its flaws, it was actually used).

And don't forget that C++03 TR1 also added a bunch of very useful stuff - most notably, std::shared_ptr and std::function. And, of course, Boost has been a thing long before C++11, filling many gaps for "modern C++" projects of the time.

"classic C++" from that perspective is C++ written more or less Java-style.
You need to rely on one of the four trusted publishers. You can't do it yourself: https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/adding-a-publisher/
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I'm not talking about party policy; I'm talking about party composition.
Tell me you're a gringo without telling me you're a gringo.
1. No it's not just me, nobody cared. It was feigned outrage. The GOP has been much more focused on Hunter Biden's large penis and crack addition. It's media fodder, nothing more.

2. You're not aware of Trump? I have next to no patience for those who intentionally play stupid.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/ivermectin-an...

My mistake, I've gotten ivermectin and ketamine mixed up. It's a horse dewormer, not a horse tranquilizer.