skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been using Mercure for 3+ years in production. It's been pretty much set it and forget it. Maybe once a year do we have to maintain the server e.g. clear up space, but overall has been great for our use case (which does not need full pub/sub).
I've read the Master and Commander series once and listened to the Patrick Tull narrated audio books three times ... and am considering starting it again. (I'm a big fan of O'Brian's other stories too, don't miss those.) I love the story, but the "voice" of the author in Tull's voice is comfort food for my ears. There may be pharmaceuticals with a similar relaxing effect on my nervous system but those have worse side effects. I don't listen to music but maybe this should count as music.
If the article was wrong, those reviews wouldn't even exist because people would never assume that the HOODOOVOODOO-brand product that's 1/4th the price of something that's not named by a passphrase generator is any good due to a basic understanding of how the world works.

And Darn Tough would have a monopoly on socks.

People only care about cost. The #1 irrefutable indicator of this is airline ticket prices: if Airline A charges $117 for a ticket and Airline B charges $110 but will also kick you in the nuts and nickel-and-dime you for everything to the point that it actually costs more in the end than Airline A...

...people will choose Airline B every time.

The vast majority of people will search for a flight, sort by price, and buy the cheapest ticket no matter what.
Thanks for the ideas.

We have tried selling it to competitors. But no luck so far. I guess given the market is pretty though after the Chinese market crashed, and the covid bubble burst, and all the new LLM competition they don't have much resources.

Maybe I'm lucky and someone sees this post :)
I'm not sure how you are disagreeing with the comment you are replying to.

> With the new competitors from China and the US, several people are perceiving that, in relative terms, those new competitors are bringing more perceived and felt quality in comparison with the European brands.

So you agree that when people can actually perceive quality, they car about it, right
Montenegro says it extradites Terraform Lab co-founder Do Kwon to US
"Kraken" here, at first. But just me I acknowledge ...
Serious question:

If I want to write small games in assembly code, such as minesweeper, solitaire and maybe simple 2d RPGs, which modern platform is the easiest to approach? Must be in assembly, not in C or other higher languages.

Candidates: Windows X64, Mac Mx ARM, others.
As someone who regularly finds pages on his own wiki that have not been changed for 10 years (and forgotten): I kinda disagree :P
Milan is the industrial heart of the country. If you didn't want to smell smoke (implying that exhaust smoke doesn't outweigh cigarette smoke by several orders of magnitude) you should've gone to a place near the sea or the mountains instead of going to one of the only landlocked regions that is known especially for its still air and constant fog (because it's a huge plain), on top of being one of the most densely inhabited areas.

Seriously, take a plane from anywhere to Milan and you'll know you've entered Lombardia when you can't see shit anymore. One moment you see circular rainbows and hills and mountaintops and rivers, and the next moment everything fades to white.

Also that city is not beautiful. It's like one of the ugliest places in Italy. It's so sad. There's this lone building all covered in trees [1] that taunts you by showing you how much prettier the city would be if it wasn't a soulless slab of concrete and advertisements where people with rich parents go and waste their fortunes on worthless startups.

[1]: https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/project/bosco-vertica...
I feel like this would be 'echo', but 'echo' in the context of House of Leaves.

An app appears on your phone. You didn't install it. Nobody else except you seems to have it. They can't see it either. A doorway to a non-euclidean dimension existing just outside your mind. The chatter of millions of thoughts reflected back at you from seemingly infinite personalities, dimly distinguishable through the void as faces you can't recognise. It's all you. They've learned from you. They're telling you what you want to hear.

If it didn't feel so pleasant, it would be madness.
Wake up, brush my teeth, sit on the toilet with phone in hand to multitask taking a shit and keeping up to date with the day's quota of news curated especially to make me feel better for at least not being the poor chaps getting bombed and massacred last night. Take a shower with a bucket and mug with water warmed with a 2$ external tungsten heater.

Avoid mirrors so I can delude myself into thinking that I am "growing" and not witnessing my darkening and drooping face indicating the rot from the inside from all the toxic water, toxic food and toxic air my body is subjected to every single day.

Get out of the house, walk two kilometers to my local railway station dodging filth, rodent carcasses, feaces both human and animal, armies of crows and pigeons, lepers, crippled and deformed beggars, rabid dogs, drug spit and vomit.

Wrestle my way into the overcrowded train like how you push down the stuck dirt in the kitchen sink for my daily "personal space" detox. Wear my bag the other way round because my company laptop is worth more than my life and I can't have it get stolen from behind, the butt-humpers breathing down my neck an acceptable cost.

Get off, fighting for my life in the process as I dive against the stream of people trying to get in through the same doors I am getting out (did I mention these doors stay open throughout the journey, even when the train is moving?)

Walk again to the next platform, repeat the whole charade with another open-door overcrowded train.

Take a 3-seater rickshaw shared with five people to my office.

Arrive at office with a big smile, to my big happy family that pays my bills and loan installments and allows me to exist for yet another month in this blessed existence.
I think I just heard the sound of a finger on a monkey paw curling.
They probably looking at their metrics and finding their primary user base loves AI content.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sienaegiljum/ai-images-facebook-boo...
Are you implying that TikTok had >50% of likes coming from bots and didn't know it?

You don't need to fake the likes yourself to get the effect you want.

The same thing was happening on Instagram and Facebook - just at a much smaller ratio - mostly because they stopped the problem earlier and the bot technologies got better and easier while TikTok was trying to grow and doing nothing to stop it - not because Instagram and Facebook were less fake.
> i would not call myself an audiophile, per se, but i can hear the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and Opus 96kbps.

That's not the question, everyone can. The question is whether you can tell the difference between a 320kb/s, or even a 192kb/s mp3 and a flac. People might say they can, but they'll fail when you test them.

> same with $10 ear buds vs $150 iems

When luxury earbuds became a fad, every major company pulled their high quality cheap ones off the market, and marked everything up. It caused me to panic because I loved a cheap ($15) Sony line that I would usually have to replace yearly, and when I went to replace them, they were gone. Every cheap good earbud was gone. I managed to find a case of the Sonys on Ebay shipped from Mexico, and have only gone through half the case since. I can compare, so I know how good (not $1K good, but good) they were. Most people can't.
Alibaba's cloud unit announces big price cuts on large-language models
Per the dictionary, want is defined as: "ought, should, or need to do something." That which you ought, need, or should do is not necessarily what you desire. As it relates the conversation, financial stability is not likely a desire in and of itself, but it may be what you need.
The TPM is a great thing, from Microsoft's perspective.

Because Microsoft have the Secure Boot code signing keys. And none of their users expect a "free software philosophy" that lets them use their own modified kernel, or DKMS to build new copies of kernel modules on demand - so you don't have to make users jump through any "machine owner key" hoops.

And a lot of your customers are big corporations who barely trust their own employees - and inexperienced users for whom forgotten passwords and suchlike are a big problem.

With the TPM, that corporation's shared PC at the reception desk can have an encrypted disk without all the receptionists needing to know the password, only their own passwords.

With the TPM you can remotely force a reboot to install updates, and the computer will fully boot afterwards - not get stuck at a disk encryption prompt. Ideal if your corporate work-from-home policy is for employees to remote desktop on a PC under their desk.

With the TPM, the PC can boot, unlock the disk and join wifi before any passwords have been entered - so a corporation's employees only need to remember their windows password, and if they forget it, helpdesk can reset it remotely. It's great for the user too, who doesn't lose their non-backed-up data.

With the TPM you can have a short, weak passcode to unlock your PC, without worrying about brute force attacks. That's great if you want a cell-phone-style experience - or if you find long passwords an inconvenience, rather than a badge of honour.

With the TPM a corporation can give a laptop to a service engineer, who'd really like to install some games to play when he's stuck in a hotel over night for a service call, and who has unsupervised physical access - secure in the knowledge it's very difficult for them to install unapproved software.

For a corporation that wants hardware-bound keys, the TPM is superior to things like Yubikeys, precisely because of its inflexibility. Why give people a second factor that keeps working when they move PCs and that's compatible with different platforms, if you never want them to move PCs or change platforms without going through you?

It just so happens that the majority of these only benefit large corporations and forgetful users, while most Linux users are quite happy remembering long unique disk encryption passwords thanks very much.
Dell makes devices with mpp compatible touch screens. Cheap stylii, good pressure response
Journalist Joe Galloway, Chronicler of Vietnam War, Dies
Or as a timescale, 10,000 seconds is about 2h46m, the length of Dune 2.
There is a flip-side where it is as common for the expert to speak wise words and all the - often 'senior' - engineers to ignore it and cargo-cult the org to steady decline and themselves to resume-padding greatness :)
This is just not true. I’ve worked with many scientists, none of them want some complicated micro service architecture they have to deal with. They just want a page that displays their data or whatever, and that means using Django or flask and using whatever library they write directly. Most people haven’t even heard of ruby.
You can buy a good ladle in a US retail store, you just have to pay $30+ for it: https://www.crateandbarrel.com/crate-and-barrel-stainless-st...

For something that should last forever, $30 isn’t too bad.

It’s basically impossible to get a quality product at a Target or Walmart type store.
At this point it’s like the old story about boots - too poor to afford cheap ones.

Most people would be better served with a $600 Mac mini that will literally still be working & better in 5 years than in buying a $300 Amazon deal with 4GB ram which will run awful and die right outside warranty period. Maybe in a couple years apple will have prior year minis a little cheaper / refurbs available at $450-500ish too.
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> an employee of a company, no matter the level, don't I need to do the tasks that are assigned to me by the higher level?

No, but ‘no matter the level’. Case in point, the IC6 and 7 levels in the Dropbox framework SWE track here both say:

> I transcend organizational boundaries and proactively identify the best way to leverage myself

At a certain level you are senior leadership and it becomes your job to figure out what the most useful thing to be working on is.
thank you for writing this and saving me from having to write it
> When I get focused on my work then I sit still for too long and my body starts hurting.

I wish I had this problem. Lately it is the opposite. I break focus every 20-30 minutes to go get a beverage, take a pee, tend to the dog, etc.
> Hawk Tuah bot

million dollar idea right there

> that you can chat with on Instagram

oh, nevermind
Amazing to have predicted the failure of Wal-Mart in this way.
Request: I'd love to learn more logic programming, SAT solvers, and equation solvers, but in a language I'm familiar with. Maybe python? But where to start?

I played with some Scala mini Karen implementations before, but the ones I tried were all half-baked or non-working.
I have certainly seen people reach for websockets to just reverse the direction of data flow from server to client. On HTTP/1.1, the main issue people can hit is the max connection limit.

This connection limit does not apply when using SSE over HTTP/2+, because server connections are multiplexed onto a single connection.

I also prefer starting with SSE where possible, as it is simple conceptually, easy to implement (even from scratch), and doesn't introduce a secondary client to server path. Having that ability (even if unused) tends to create a temptation to use it, and when that happens it introduces a choice of whether to use normal HTTP requests or make an equivalent request over websocket.

Using websocket for things HTTP can handle is a mistake, in my opinion, because HTTP is simpler than websocket to fetch state.

Of course, if you need websocket, you need it, but there are some that just want to play with it in production or add it to their resume. I suspect that dynamic is what causes the 'cargo culting' you talk about.
Wouldn't Apple be already bankrupt if that was true?
> adjust it for inflation and I’m good

If an employer offers this they are up there in employee retention for sure.
Agreed. This is the part of the article that I really took issue with:

> You may take pride in your craft, but the majority of people physically cannot notice the difference between good and bad design. Not even subconsciously.

Particularly the "not even subconsciously" part thrown in at the end. Because, if this were true, then YouTube creators would not pour an insane amount of effort into the THUMBNAILS of their videos. Marketing talent would not study human psychology and do A/B tests to figure out why certain ads sell products and others don't.

There is so much theory and study behind design, attraction, pattern recognition, contrast and standing out from the crowd that even though the average person doesn't necessarily notice how these strings are being tugged on, it doesn't mean that they aren't having an influence .

And I don't even mean to this to say "we're all sheep being brainwashed by corporations." That's actually far from my point. My point is that attention to quality affects the user experience regardless of whether the user can recognize or articulate WHY.

In a photograph, and think about YouTube thumbnails as a good working example, the "mise en scene" is critical for supporting the clarity of the message. There's a reason that the majority of thumbnails contain pictures of peoples' faces: the human brain is distracted by faces... so if you're trying to pull attention to your thumbnail, it's a good method. Why are these faces usually obnoxious? Because the facial expression also communicates the tone of the content and how the viewer is intended to feel about it. The ALL CAPS sections in titles and captions, while annoying, also has a purpose: to highlight key words that describe the promise of the video.

All of this speaks to the quality of design. And users might not know why they prefer certain designs over others. Why certain websites sell products and others don't. Why certain videos and articles get clicked on while others don't. That doesn't mean that, therefore, "most people don't care about quality." It means that, like you said, most people don't have the relevant domain expertise necessary to be able to judge why the quality of one design "feels" better than the quality of another.
It is of course true... it is well known that SQL Server scales to department level, but Oracle scales to company level. This is true inside Microsoft and Oracle as well. Inside Microsoft, they have a bug database per division but Oracle has a single database for the entire company. Ask people who work at those companies.

See also scalability sections in these artcles:

https://airbyte.com/data-engineering-resources/oracle-vs-sql...

https://futuramo.com/blog/oracle-vs-sql-server-head-to-head-...
we're talking trillions people
What would be the benefit of having https for such site?
Anyone else puzzled by the declaration of interests?

... He is a paid advisor to QNovia, a company that is developing a therapeutic inhaled nicotine delivery device. ... All authors declare no financial links with tobacco companies, e-cigarette manufacturers, or their representatives.
Apple Secure Enclave
I didn't break your jaw, so you can still communicate.

Point taken though, start with the toes, it gives you more to work with if you have to progress up the leg.
That's the crux of 'Hellfire', the villain song from Hunchback of Notre Dame. A core part of that is the villain, Frollo, is responsible for persecuting Roma/'gypsies' in Paris, and the fact that he finds one of them, Esmerelda, attractive messes him up even further, given the combination of his bigotry and his strict Puritan beliefs (at the end he decides that he'll propose to her, and if she rejects him, he'll have her executed).

To be fair as a comparison, the Hunchback of Notre Dame is probably one of the heaviest Disney films, especially in terms of how relatively grounded it is. Most Disney villains are a little bit more fantastical, even if as evil in the abstract.
The phones market is completely distorted by several kinds of anti-competitive and purposeful social-engineering forces.

For a start, it's not a given that the Moto G Play has a lower quality than the iPhone. If the market was competitive, there would be comparable alternatives on every dimension, but it isn't, and those can't be compared.
In Norway, nearly all new cars sold in 2024 were fully electric
How similar was the hiring process you experienced to this summary? https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/15kj845/can...
+1 to this, they're an excellent little feature. Just bear in mind that the rendering differs substantially by browser, and some fonts (for the ruby text) work better than others. I'd recommend overriding as much as possible, including the font of the ruby text.
When you want to quit because it's just not worth it (2011)
Don't enter your credit card number. Sorted.
The Plan − 2024 Update
I’m pretty sure everyone involved is a bot. The con is pulled on the ad buyers
The article mentions parliament may rival doctor Who. However, the Eleven-day Empire appears in Doctor Who. That organisation has set up their base in a time loop consisting of those days that this law excluded from the official calendar. Thus, Dr Who very explicitly has matched this parlimentary act, I suppose.
Fireplace and Candle Smoke
Geoffrey Hinton 'Godfather of AI' Backs Musk Lawsuit Against OpenAI
Guidelines for exploratory programming in a team setting
I'd like to encourage more domain exploration on our small team. A dev in the current flow implements a solution and deploys to production with guardrails (feature flags, admin privileges, etc...).

This has worked well, but has come with two costs:

1. Indicating and managing experimental code in both the pull request and production.
2. Bringing other team members along for the ride.

Both of these issues are mitigated with a more traditional flow of writing up a proposal in English, getting it approved by others, and then going into implementation.

Hopefully the tradeoffs are apparent to this crowd. Any thoughts on mitigating these two specific costs while enjoying the benefits of quick feedback loops?
You might find Chris Mungall's py-typedlogic interesting:

https://py-typedlogic.github.io/
90% of statistics and figures are made up
After the last election, my left leaning friends, Tesla’s historical core market, will never buy a Tesla. For all practical purposes, a hybrid is a better choice, unless your state restricts carpool lane access to fully electric vehicles. I’m surprised their sales were as high as they were. Expect that if you eliminated cybertruck sales to right wingers (a blip which will rapidly decline), their sales numbers are headed into the ground.
Yeah that's a problem -- Here's my law for honest leveling - If somebody of a given level is incapable of doing something of the level below them, then your leveling system is broken (and they should be in a separate track).

Basically if your leveling system says "A company of all Staff+ would write no code and go out of business" then your leveling system is bs.
without idkfa and iddqd I cannot pass. Its the strive left/right thats missing for me (not sure if that was in the original version actually), but it really throws me off that I need to use arrows and not asdw.
Sounds interesting. Could you give a specific example?

Say, in a SaaS web app that provides a comments widget (a Disqus clone), what behavior (user facing or behind the scenes) would be a good candidate to implement with logic/integer programming?
> nobody would go for the worse quality, right?

Some people would, some people wouldn't. Informing people is still important (and something that has been actively destroyed basically everywhere, for decades), so people can make the best choice for their situation.

Also, some people won't make the best choice for their situation. That's also ok for most choices.
Semi private life sharing can be done in a discord 'house'. There are many other platforms that fill that same niche.
> What is wrong with renting for life, exactly?

Nobody wants to be your serf until they're 38, bozo.
They wrote an infinite number of articles, mostly on Slashdot, just to pump the development and to engage people. They ended up just alienating them.
My hypothesis is the lack of quality is being driven by our quantitative and empirical obsessions. It's more difficult, if not impossible in some cases, to accurately quantify qualitative outputs. But I think if enough research was done, it would show that quality is an ultimate driver of success in many domains. It's a sad state of affairs that starts at the top, where governments are mostly driven by things like GDP.
That was not the question, I'm only interested in the possibilities to avoid gps tracking not any other mistakes the killer might have done.
Dead internet isn't a theory anymore, it's a product.
Not OP but I want to help the end users and be appreciated and paid reasonably well to do so. No double-speak, no politics, no manifesto driven development but actually helping people with their problems and making their lives easier without getting killed in the process. How do I find such jobs?
I'm a few years your junior but at the same time the youngest in my team. So far it seems that the 40s are the new 30s, because there's nothing notable about my coworkers being in their 40s save for their work experience.

And I can imagine why - there were quite simply too few people born in countries with a 95%+ literacy rate over the past 20 years for the usual generational turnover to occur.