skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I'm actually the author and a Flox engineer. I don't use anything else for my personal projects these days, no plain Nix and no containers.

One of the posts that I link the article describes an environment used to make proctrace (https://github.com/zmitchell/proctrace), which includes both Rust and `bpftrace` for the tool itself, and some Node stuff for the documentation site.

For Rust development specifically it's a little more setup than without Flox because a typical `rustup` install gives you everything by default, whereas the Rust packages are distributed individually in the Flox Catalog (e.g. install `cargo` and `rustc` separately). That's due to how Nixpkgs packages Rust tools, and we'll probably provide a more ergonomic situation in the future. The only other real downside for Rust development is if you need to compile for a different target than the host machine e.g. wasm. You would need to write a flake that provides those toolchains and add that flake to your manifest.

That sounds like a lot of caveats and extra work, but that's because I’m long winded and have nothing else to really complain about. I have a Rust environment that I pushed to FloxHub, and then I pull a copy of it into each new project. I only needed to set it up once (which was easy) for it to work everywhere since it's reproducible and cross-platform by default.
I think this CoC nonsense makes me far less likely to contribute to the kernel. CoC's should be nothing more than "Don't be a jerk, and keep it constructive". Kent's interaction in that one instance was jerk-ish for sure. But the last thing we need is some big brother committee bringing down the hammer of shame on key maintainers. Let them have their heated technical arguments. How about we try and not be so easily offended by everything?
Not saying you are wrong, but let's not dismiss the need for good argumentation when you say something out of the norm. Dissidence with arguments does a great service to everyone involved.

Having said that, people here do downvote based on opinion allignment, which is very hurtful. I've seen perfectly legit comments (with sources) that are out of the norm being downvoted because people just don"t agree with them
Just watched this recent video - quite moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ua6IUZKN58
Personally I think the iPhone was the turning point for much of the dystopian era.

Technically, the iphone is very good and should have made things better.

But what it actually did was to set an example of control over the user that propagated throughout all of computing. People no longer had control over their own device.

People who bought an iPhone were unable to install their own software without permission from apple. And apple didn't give permission, destroying general computing.

Additionally, apple DID give permission to app creators and advertisers to do things on the phone. More than the person who owned the phone could, in fact against their interests. We've never recovered.
Anybody have experience with pulling/running a docker image after many years?

I'd like to see the consensus on most durable software packaging method.
Crypto has been one of the largest wealth transfers ever seen. With the level of criminality e.g insider trading, rug pulling, money laundering being unprecedented for a new technology i.e.

https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-crypto-money-launderin...

AI has seen the less well-off parts of society e.g. artists, customer service lose work in favour of making productivity higher for knowledge workers etc.
Pretty simple really, I just asked their "Rufus" AI shopping assistant how to get help and got this:

"To access Amazon's customer support chat, you can visit the Your Orders section or scroll to the bottom of any page and select Customer Service. From there, choose the appropriate option that addresses your question or issue, and follow the prompts to initiate the chat."

To get help, select Customer Service ." (which is a button in the chat window)

Should work fine....
but for obvious legal reasons I need

to use a lawyer...because there are obvious legal reasons.
> statistically, yes. We've been falling in rankings for K-12 for decades now. Schools have been gettting less funding, especially teachers that are starting to leave for other careers like a starbucks barista due to pay.

My bad, I'm not looking to contest that part, there are definitely serious issues with the school system. I just don't think very much if any of it boils down to "there was a time being smart was considered good and to be admired. Now, stupid people and bullies are heroes" as if the kids are intentionally being dumb because it's cool / peer pressure. It's easy to be dumb - especially when we have so many distractions available to us - but I wouldn't call it cool or pin it on some kind of peer pressure thing.

But yes I agree with you, the school system has its troubles (the stats obviously speak for themselves). Funding and teacher pay are probably the biggest factor, though I'd also include classroom distractions (phones, basically), a lack of ability to enforce order in the classroom, and probably parental support as well, off the top of my head.
And yet not all pieces of paper are believed to be equal. Some pieces of paper will buy you a loaf of bread and others will buy you a tank full of gas. The difference lies in the magic squiggles printed on the pieces of paper. In other words, the belief that a certain number value equals a fair exchange for a physical good or service. This is a consensual belief. If an extra 0 appeared magically overnight on every piece of paper, what has changed? People will believe they have “more” than they did before. If instead of magic, the government announced a policy of reissuing recycled bits of paper that have had an extra zero printed on them, would people believe they had “more”?
look at where democracy got us - maybe time to try something else? :)
This is deeply fascinating. 1400 commits a month is pretty crazy. There's what 22 productive days in a month? That's 63 commits a day. Almost 8 commits an hour for 8 hours straight.

Either this includes automated commits or I am way less productive than I thought I should be.... Maybe I should stop rebasing and start merging.
Why on earth would someone deserve to be fired based on mere "feedback"? As long as it's not an outright offensive rant, it should be handled sensibly. But even if it is an offensive rant, firing should be a last resort. The amount of toxic subordination that's assumed to be normal is sickening.
im going to try and have this attitude
Show HN: AI Photobooth
Create a cool photobooth-style strip using artificial intelligence.
Try sending a demand letter to their legal department.

Put the words "demand letter" in gold and underlined in large font at the top.

CC your state attorney general (like, print two copies, send to both, and put CC: My AG, MY Age address at the top). You can specifically state that if they do not respond to you that you will file suit in small claims court. Consider sending certified mail. Note that you are reaching out this way because you have no other channel.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
if you turn showdead on in your profile, you'll see a lot of absolute crap that should be dead. But I've also started to notice more and more comments that don't deserve to be flagged dead. Just comments against the hivemind, which sucks. I asked dang if he'd be willing to give an endpoint that just surfaces dead items but he refused.
Twice a century, the humanity gets a push: an influx of ideas and visionaries, both good and evil, who give the people enough energy to roll for another 50 years. This was the case in late 70s and will be the case again in late 20s, that is now.

The Internet was among many things that came with the latest wave. Idealists believed they were so clever to snatch back their freedom. Govs believed they are so clever to pervert the Internet to their own ends. But it's a poison pill that takes a century to act.

It's not a secret that there's a joint effort from all sides to unite the humanity. Some of the powerful want to create a tyranny we cannot escape, others want to create a paradise. But in one thing they agree: the wars must end. The state structures disagree, of course, as wars is their lifeblood, and right now they believe they can prevent this united humanity utopia. So the states were given this shiny new thing - the Internet - generously peppered with the magic powder of survelliance, and the states, unable to resist the urge, swallowed this shiny thing and they are still busy chewing it. In the meantime, the Internet slowly grows inside them, driven by its spirit of connecting everything together.

The coming wave will radically empower the Internet and at the end of this half-century cycle the states will realise what the Internet really was.
Of course they are, they make the money, a lot of it.
Even before the internet there were many of the problems he list.

Radio "shock jocks" etc.
They have a chat.

From top nav bar -> Account and Lists -> Customer Service -> Digital Services and Device Support -> Click "Contact Us" at the bottom of the page under Start a Chat Now.

It is hard to find but its there. You start with a bot but they pop you to customer service pretty quickly.
What makes you think he is flaunting his wealth? Maybe he is just showing this implementation to help people with ideas.

And saying you won't check responses to your comment is pure arrogance. Unlike the original poster who seems a nice guy.
I really don't understand why people are impressed by posts like this. The author spends way too much time talking about literal chainsaws and really mostly just asserts its a relevant metaphor. Mostly an LLM is like a chainsaw in that most people don't need either one. There are a million things I don;t need, for example, spinny hubcaps. Is an LLM really more like a chainsaw than it is like spinny hubcaps? Because it seems more like spinny hubcaps to me.
We never even tried email marketing at my current company. At my previous one we had a lot of issues (boss didn't believe that spamassassin would block our efforts, he was wrong (we weren't initially using an email marketing platform)). Now I am using Waalaxy, which does linkedin and email prospecting (I only use Linkedin). Since I rarely accept unexpected connection requests myself, I was quite surprised at the effectiveness of Waalaxy, about 10% of connections requests accepted out of 1000 sent, several meetings booked, now doing phone followup on the remainder of connections.
You'll want to get your daughter to start using Math Academy for at least 30 minutes per day [0].

New solutions exist for old problems.

[0] https://www.justinmath.com/books/#the-math-academy-way
People have always thought this about new tech.

https://pessimistsarchive.org/list/computer "Technology is making us uncivil", 1990

https://pessimistsarchive.org/list/television "Television addiction", 1977

https://pessimistsarchive.org/list/recorded-sound "A profit without honor", 1930 (https://external-preview.redd.it/Js-HSYL7H4FuXSQ-ZmSDXZ6uYZq...)
I assumed it was the result of the "bubbling" that they describe in the video that also accounts for the grainy appearance of the surface; presumably the bubbling would be visible like this side on?
From top nav bar -> Account and Lists -> Customer Service -> Digital Services and Device Support -> Click "Contact Us" at the bottom of the page under Start a Chat Now.
You can self rep and do it yourself, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Sure, but it's a hassle because you've got to go to the post office and fill out a return receipt requested form, otherwise the letter could just go into a black hole. Plus, who knows how many weeks it would take to get a response?
I’m curious to see how the moderated feeds work out.

Twitter, because it doesn’t host conversations but salvos of rhetoric, can get away with just having user-to-user blocking.

The walls on Reddit are artificial, but they do solve the problem of having a “community” in the sense that most people can see most comments, and it can still be moderated, but the moderation can be tailored to the community.
If you can find some way to message the CEO (email address etc) most large e-commerce sites have an "office of the president" that have experienced customer service reps that deal with such correspondance.
Macro and Microphenomenology
I don't think this actually has anything to do with tech itself. Society in general is in a more pessimistic mood than a decade ago, driven on by all sorts of institutions pumping out content that everything is bad, so you should upend the world in their vision.

Maybe I was just too young and inattentive 16 years ago, but before the GFC and Occupy, I don't think there was such a pessimistic narrative overall, and it only got worse over time.
An amazon driver hit and run our car parked on the street in front of our house and did a lot of damage. we figured it from neighbor’s ring camera.

we messaged Amazon chat support. It was all very easy and procedural. Clearly this happens all the time because we were just moved through a process that took a few weeks, and we were fully reimbursed.

I’m not saying not to document everything, but our strategy was just to take extensive notes every day in case it ended up in a lawsuit. But the reality was they didn’t challenge anything and just moved us through a property damage pipeline.
That was addressed to those that do not deny climate change.
If you’re not on a visa and don’t have kids I’d recommend simply not caring if you get fired by insecure leadership. You’re better off elsewhere if they would do that.
So much this. I joined the web in ’97 and back then we had this optimism that the Internet would make the world a better place because it would act as fertilizer for ideas and critical thinking. Some three decades later it’s obvious that this didn’t happen and I’d dare say that social media made the world a worse place. And it’s something that I’m thinking quite frequently the last years trying to figure out what went wrong or if we were just naïve.
I really enjoy Graphic Audio's audiobooks (full voice cast, music, SFX, high quality production). Their titles can all be bought outright, which is great as I spend a lot of time on a plane or away from a cell signal or internet capable of streaming even audio. It's a great approach, but I'm sure there are not a ton of folks who end up buying episodes, it's an expensive way to approach media, certainly.
Hey! I run the museum, and these stories of people finding things they created and thought had not survived, are so fun to read. Also, your skin is… incredible.
"Stop giving them your money, time and data as much as possible for you."

Boycott is a start, it's an easy demand to put forward. I doubt it's enough, so I'd suggest adding two classics once you've recruited and become regulars with some boycotters: mutual aid and direct action.
The Humor Is Almost Lost on Us – Resisting the Decline into Snark
Sorry for the poor grammar, I meant could and not would and I hope you took my comment as good intended (it was). I value your contribution a lot. Reading you just reminds me of myself when I had postponed time off far too long at a previous job. I hope you don’t take it too badly and see the occasion as a good time to take a step back and rest even if it’s not your choice.
I'm an erstwhile techno-optimist who was disabused of his Panglossian views by the Utah Data Center, drone warfare (now advanced to the point of remotely piloted rifles gunning people down on the streets of Gaza), crypto ponzis, AI enclosing and monetizing decades of humanity's collective mental efforts, and the general indifference or even embrace by most of the tech community of all of the above. Technology has liberatory potential, but not in the hands currently wielding it.
I get your point, though to me, there's way too many babies per cubic meter of that bathwater of yours.

My own general explanation of why everything sucks is more like this: we don't know how to stop. The market can't stop itself from over-optimizing, over-exploiting.

The evolution of any product, service, company or technology, can be to a first approximation plotted as a bell curve:

total value provided to society
^
| ....
| .. ..
| ... ...
| .... ....
| ..... .....
------------------------------------> time

(Total value includes not just direct benefit to customers/users, but also how it enables others to build new products/science/businesses/etc. on it.)

The market always goes all the way to the right. What it should do, what we need it to do, is to stop at the peak of the bell curve. Alas, there is no mechanism that would get people to say, "yeah, this is the best it could be, let's go do something else"; the market demands they move to the right, all the way to diminishing returns.
I'm thinking maybe we should be more careful in general with who we give these kinds of responsibilities to.
In math classrooms filled with 30 students on average for 12 years? With usually all 30 of those students having mathematically illiterate parents who can't help with their homework?

Every student hears it enough for it to be a widespread sentiment. It spreads like an infection.
Creating a plasma isn't hard, keeping it is: containment and breeding will be expensive. And absorbing electricity from it will be too.

Charged plate conversion system require the plate spacing be lower than the Debye radius of the plasma. So it's out for most tech (especially pulsed fusion)

And a lead-lithium blancket (the only mature tech to capture neutrons rn) is unwieldly, only capture neutrons (so already between 20 and 25% losses, let's say 20), and will loose more energy via reaction (creating deuterium-tritium, so not useless, but still, lost energy, 25% losses). Then between the heat exchangers and the steam engine, let's say 65% losses (and i think i'm generous). So you'll get at best 21% of the generated energy as electricity (and i'm being _Very_ generous. imho if you have more than 15% it's a success).

With that, you'll have to contain and breed the plasma. Good luck.
They list a postal address in the Conditions of Use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
I just found these videos by the Solar Orbiter, insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00J3hZCdFs
just setup intellij or whatever editor you use to auto-commit on every (auto) save - problem solved :)

what a garbage clickbait article. not to say that there aren’t X amount of SWEs doing not much but my 11-year old kid would call BS on the method of arriving to these findings
I'd bet that a large amount of them are not "compliant, meek little sheep", but are balancing risk-taking with providing for their families. Does that make them cowards?
Twitter is very small compared to the likes of Google though, so not very big. It doesn't make sense to break up such a small company that basically just does one thing.
I think you’re ignoring the “without getting fired” part. The implication is that you’re in a situation where management is stubborn or even hostile to feedback.

Most organizations don’t practice “highly effective communication”. It’s often a nightmare riddled with politics and ego.
One improvement though is using Starlark, instead of directly Python, since it offers a lot of advantages for a more lightweight runtime and parallelism.
Here's a nice article exploring some of the ways tech is visibly negative: https://blog.avas.space/tech-utopia-fantasy/
If you go that route, I’ll remind readers that they can use small claims court to avoid large legal fees or maybe even a lawyer. It’s still a good idea to consult with a lawyer before going into any kind of court. You might be able to do that in your jurisdiction too.
That's beautiful whahaha
Great work!
I just sent this to a friend of mine who is currently learning to program, who was asking for something like this? Do you have any revenue sources from Gradienty?

As a legal geek, I feel the need to point out that you haven’t linked to any terms of service or similar documents (at least on the website). I only see a privacy policie imho looks very generall. Is that something you’ve thought about?

In the early stages you’re in, you’ll probably be fine, but you wouldn’t want to risk getting sued for something so simple down the line (like me hahah).

I’m the creator of a tool called Legalfast (legalfast.app), so I’d obviously recommend it. And hey… if the early adopter pricing feels too steep, let me know!

Wishing you all the best,
// Sebbe
The advice isn't backwards, but some senior leaders are in the sense that they don't take feedback well. In this case, this advice is sound.

Sure, in an ideal world you wouldn't have to fluff it, but I'm guessing many of us aren't in that world.
There's a lot of 6-figure salaries in tech outside of the Bay Area, and even outside the US.
Define neoliberalism.
Relevant question for this thread is if let say those coal mines promoted Utopia.
It looks like their new app fixes that problem!
"Let Me Google That For You" was rude 20 years ago. "Here's what ChatGPT said" has almost identical vibes.
The deep irony is that your critique of AI is exactly Trump’s critique of globalization, just with different people impacted.
That’s okay, I hardly have one, anyway.
Tech in early 2000s..

Let's all build Internet services on open standards and join all sorts of things together.

Tech in 2024:

Guess what suckers!
A meta comment: This paper gives an example of a "teaser abstract". It says what was done, but does not say anything about the actual results. This style is relatively common, but I find it very annoying. There was certainly enough room in the abstract to provide a concise summary of the actual results, which would both inform the reader and perhaps encourage more people to read the entire paper.
I am one of those people who got into tech as a teen in the late 90s when Microsoft was the capitalist bad guy, Google was the underdog, and Linux was socialism. Things were largely contained to the tech ecosystem.

What I find interesting is as tech has grown and people enter it who are not that interested in tech is you see tech’s influence seems to have gone further and further away from our industry niche.

Do I think VCs should be making decisions for millions of Americans so they can get more rich? No. Do I think tech workers should push a progressive narrative that the rest of the country should ascribe to? No.

Tech has an undue influence on the world on both the left and right. All of us mistakenly ascribe our unique situation as how the world should work. Maybe we should just focus on what we are good at?
> I think you’re ignoring the “without getting fired” part.

The "start polishing your resume" bit was quite explicit.
I remember people could email Jeff Bezos to escalate issues. Is there such a thing for Andy Jassy?
Ah, I feel dirty for writing this, but — not everyone should’ve gotten a voice in the internet. Unfortunately, it’s a “loudest and proudest wins” scenario, which halts gradual progress. And yes, maybe I shouldn’t have gotten a venue to speak either.
Per https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/amazon/ you can email cs-escalations@amazon.com or an exec listed there.
In my experience, Americans are much more likely to see criticism as a threat or an insult than in most European business cultures, where blunt feedback is common. I’ve seen many teams in different companies led by Americans where simply pointing out that a plan will fail in a public forum is tantamount to spitting in their face. It’s absurd, and it destroys teams.
That’s incredible!!

Btw, how did you started making a creative tech studio? That’s something I want to do but I’m kinda lost on the selling part. How do you sell to a business that earned media is worth it?
It is completely legitimate to argue about the use of taxpayer money.

It is not legitimate to launch death threats against a woman who (a) had no involvement in the discussion and (b) was not responsible for the role existing.