skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some growth team probably has goal to move a metric. This promotion is one of their experiments. If they move the metric, they can cite that in their performance review. If the promotion causes bad PR (see this thread) and none of the pre-launch reviews flagged it, they can then share what they learned with others in the company. They will say something like “lead a cross functional team to develop best practices for use of AI-generated pictures of a user in promotions” in their pronounce review.

Either way, we get experimented on like lab rates and they get their bonus.
> Finland is also just about the most ethnically, religiously, demographically and linguistically homogenous nation you could pick from.

Considering it has pretty much had effectively two primary languages for the past several hundreds years that seems like a stretch? Two of the most famous Finns of all time like Linus Torvalds or Mannerheim didn't even speak Finnish as their first language. Not exactly a sign of "linguistic homogeneity"..
I live my life a quarter century at a time
NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker
What is your opinion of Kraft Dinner?

Is KD unhealthy slop or delicious, and how do you feel about adding hot dogs or other toppings?
In my country, they did set up with the help of the gov a "local" search engine which was supposed to become 100% independent of bing after some while... but the "independent" part was sabotaged to a point that most search requests were redirected to bing... hence, in the end, to the microsoft advertisement company... the beans were spilled in the press... the microsoft "double agent" did end up in front a judge... because while sabotaging the "independent"/local part of the search engine, he was making miserable the life of the employees working on this very part...

This is the type of scheme you have to expect from Big Tech in general.
absolutely everybody in software was talking about the internet in 1995, and for the most part already on the internet, and companies were already pivoting to the internet left and right. It made me realize how discretionary is all the work we do in these large industries, because whatever we were working on in 1993 and 1994 no longer mattered, we were now working on enabling whatever assets we had to be compatible with the internet.
Neal.. screw you. Youve robbed me of 15 mins. So far....
Please edit swipes out of your HN posts, as the guidelines request: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be fine without that first sentence.
Sounds like we need to shorten the work week
Distributed DBs and traditional RDBMS serve different purposes. Most – by which I mean the overwhelming majority – companies do not need a distributed DB, they need better schema and queries.

My fear is companies without in-house RDBMS expertise see these products as a way to continue to avoid getting that expertise.
I was very surprised the first time I saw JSX when working on React code. It really felt like a bastardization of what my gut felt were good software engineering practices.

But I concluded that surely these devs and Facebook are smarter than me. Or at least, different than me. I have built plenty of interactive web applications during my career using traditional approaches. So it's not like they were able to do things with these new tools I was previously not able to do.

It's hard to convince yourself that the masses may not have all the answers (cough Docker, Kubernetes cough). So I have found that ignoring the noise until I can't do something I need is the most productive approach. Continues to work for me 20+ year into building products.
how to get rich by felix dennis is a banger for me
would be nice to see some punishment or compensation. apologizing and retracting the claim doesn't make the victim whole again.
maybe you can send me to the right tutorial. I'm a backend, distributed systems engineer. I have worked on eye-watering scale. React is anything but simple to me.

I tried create-react-app, the thing built and downloaded for several minutes, and then there was a nest of file relationships that I didn't grok. It seemed like any change required three files to be updated. Lots of ancillary things like bundlers, packers, tree shakers, lions, tigers, and bears, oh my. After an hour, I didn't get what I was doing. Somehow, altering this function over here made this other thing over there go "moo."

I used to do web development back in like 2001. I understand the web, http, css, html, and basic js. I'm not up on all the latest, but I have a very firm base.

I got htmx working and pretty much fully digested in the same amount of time I wasted on React and have produced a working prototype. I find htmx to be like how the web used to be. It makes sense.
Isn't cookie clicker one of the earliest?

https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
Sounds highly unreliable to me. I would be very surprised if ChatGPT was ever confrontational enough to give out a lower grade like D or F. It also wouldn't surprise me if the grade-letter it chooses tends to be off by one or more grade-letters just due to natural variance/subjectivity of grading and hallucinations.
Last night, a packed AHA Business Meeting voted 428-88 in favor of our Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza.
Here's four potential model numbers/names.

Latitude 6420

Latitude 5540

Inspiron 5555

2011 Dell Pro 14"

2024 Dell Pro 15"

2024 Dell Pro Max 15"

Which ones are the recent bigger laptops? Which is the older smaller laptop? Which is better, Inspiron or Latitude? Which is better, the Dell Pro or the Dell Pro Max? Which naming scheme makes these things way more obvious?
It's been along time since I read it, but IIRC Jennifer Government has that. Fast food chains lobbing missiles at each other.
Mate your shitty app is sending tripled up email barrages. That is absolutely not ok and is illegal in many places.
As other threads have pointed out, Google's copyright violation system is a process that's private. It's before the DMCA laws get involved.

So maybe it's a ToS violation?

(This isn't defending the person issuing copyright strikes. Their behavior, right or wrong, just isn't perjury. I think. Good thing I'm not anyone's lawyer.)
Why does it have to be a separate language? You can serve templates with javascript, thus it works just fine with HTMX. I think you have some fundamental misunderstanding.
I'd just use an old game (for a really hard test). Like Quake maybe: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeOfficialArchive
Or the server for easy mode.

Let us know how it went. ;)
Dupe (16 points, 15 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608470
It's worth noting that a lot of parents forced to go through with unplanned pregnancies are uninterested. They didn't want their children, and they will do the bare minimum necessary to keep them alive until 18.
> 3. Outsourcing has exploded since the pandemic, and this is a long term change that is definitely not going away. The remote work trend is a double edged sword.

I have been warning about this over and over and over since the beginning.

If your job can be done remotely, you are effectively unessential in the grand scheme of your company.

Those who went back to the office understood the political landscape well.
They claimed they successfully onboarded a customer with 1 PB of data at KubeCon NA.

I have strong doubts about distributed DBs in general, but I also can’t see them blatantly lying in a talk.
What's ironic is that when Imgur was first created, it branded itself as the image host that doesn't suck.

The enshittification was inevitable. Being an image host, especially one that allows direct linking, is expensive.

Side note: RIP Gfycat. They join the ranks of ImageShack and Photobucket of causing millions of links on the Internet to suddenly become dead. Imgur did a purge of porn, which now means a whole bunch of images on the porn subreddits are now dead.
>everything seems either identical or has massive overlaps

Whenever I find marketing copy like this, I use it to filter out the whole company's product lines. This heuristic never fails, because I don't even know what I am missing out on.
When I saw the original link on bluesky, I didn't have time to look into it, I had assumed it was something like a post where a sponsor had paid meta to show a user a picture of said user in one of their adverts. Ie meta was being paid to whore out your likeness.

> Do you know what an advert's definition is?

according to this: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/advertisement its not.

Look, I don't like meta any more than you do. But this is a service that is provided by them. Its not an advert, meta aren't making money from generating that user's likeness, or any other.

I don't like GenAI, its going to ruin an industry I love, one I wanted to return to. When the bubble pops, its probably going to make me loose my job too. But this isn't an advert.
This is technically true, these are advertisements. But not what first come to mind when reading the title "Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me", which would be third-party ads, so this is my point. The title is sensational, a play on this misunderstanding, rather than being substantial.
it boggles my mind this is still being written over and over here on HN. like an echochamber everyone like fears AI will replace them or some BS like that. I cannot even begin to tell you how much AI has been useful to me, to my entire team, to my wife, to my daughter and to most of my friends that are in various industries that I personally guided towards using it. on my end, roughly 50% of things that I used to have to do are now fully automated (some agents, some using my help along the way)…

in every thread here on HN there will be X number of people posting exactly what you wrote and Y (where Y is much smaller than X) number of people posting “look, this shit is fucking amazing, I do amazing shit with it.” if I was in group X I would stop and think long and hard what I need to do in order to get myself into group Y…
I hear through the grapevine they’ve got a bunch of companies using it. I think Airbnb migrated to it.
> But I don’t see a byline on this

The Economist doesn't use bylines for their articles: https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-...
The timing, if you ask most Canadians, is months late.
Post 9/11 made everything shitty. I feel bad for people who didn't know life before it; now it's the normal.

I would imagine other milestones for new and improved shittiness is the drug war, 1993 crime bill, prohibition, Woodrow Wilson and WWI, etc.
Everyone with standards has considered Musk to be low-class trash since 2018 when he called Vernon Unsworth a "pedo guy" and "child rapist".
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615892
It's comparable in the way described in sentence #2:

> An individual company having specific needs isn't at odds with a general statement being broadly true.

Google needs certain things more than reduced carbon emissions, and Jane Street needs certain things more than whatever else they could spend that dev time on.
I’ve been bitten so many times with the app/page router thinking I was looking at docs for one but I was actually looking at them for the other. So annoying.
No, C is not perl. They do have BEGIN blocks, but these are constexpr.
I was sucked in it for 1 hour
agreed: htmx is good for "swap out this one element and its children". It is not good for "and these other related elements need to update"
FFmpeg-Kit Retires
I mean, yes, it doesn't say much.

But it is perhaps nice to read a simple sentiment, wishing well.

I wasn't posting for upvotes, just expressing a feeling.
Doing that was a lot easier before though, with funding being more available, and big-tech has been happy to let others take the risk/dump VC funding into subsidizing their business models/... and then gobble up or copy the successful ones.

Also some of the big tech companies have been quite ruthless with firing people even when they could afford not to, which doesn't match that theory.
Some Cloudflare bullshit in front of a paywall. Unreadable.
Yes, in my mind, just saying "ads" are more for like Nike or Hyundai, than for a service provider upselling its own products. But this point is technically valid, these are advertisements as well. Just not what I, or others, first think of when they read "Instagram is using my face on ads".
I'm having a play on the PPC640 with a Gotek running Flashfloppy with fd720-fat.img

It's erroring after the mount with
panic:No init or sh found
SYSTEM HALTED.
BOOT:

The computer is unreponsive at the boot: prompt.

I've tried a few different settings in the ff.cfg, but no joy.
Could it be a Gotek issue?
I stand corrected that it Sloly was the 2nd police chief during the protest, not sure how or when I warped that in my mind to thinking that he was the 2nd resignation.

My point still stands though and as you say: he was pressured to resign because he wouldn't do what the politicians were demanding of him - which is in line with your "failure to perform" claim.

The actions then done under the Emergencies Act to "clear" the Freedom Convoy from downtown were found to have been illegally invoked.

And you know crime in Ottawa went down during the Freedom Convoy too, right?

Have you put your shoes in the Freedom Convoy participants at all I wonder to balance your perspective? Do you care about the RCMP horses trampling and breaking bones of an elder disabled indigenous woman, who just moments before was basically preaching about love and peace?

I can find that video for you if you'd like, if you haven't seen it.

Otherwise it's not worth it to put anymore of my time to debate this one on one, when I'm responding to someone who tries to support their argument with "when most sources agree" without citing any sources, and where I can predict which sources you'll cite.
Usually what happens when a party is not in power is that the leader will resign and an interim leader will be appointed until a new leader is elected through a leadership election. When a party is in power however, that interim leader would be an "interim Prime Minister" and is avoided because it's a lot of responsibility to give to an interim with no mandate from voters or the party.
Funny you should say that because I just read his Wikipedia page and a couple of articles about him. He and Gates are successful salesmen and managers who dabbled in coding when they were young. I don't expect any insight from them about the effect of technologies on society or anything like that. The idea that they are intellectuals or scholars is laughable.
I didn't know that nestle and shell had AI departments.

Look, I'm not +1 the EU here, but having some level of legal protection against marauding corporations is good. Sure EU based companies are evil, but they can't be as abusive to normal people because they are constrained by a semi-functional legal system.

The US used to have that as well, along with a functioning legislature.
https://archive.ph/UjSu8
Just go into developer mode and just break on a line like so:

r.sps && r.purchased && this.addStimulation(r.sps \* n, r.id)

and run

this.addStimulation(10000000000,r.id)

and resume.
You got into a good large company. In huge old companies (e.g. gov) there's often the opposite problem -- no one wants to take anything. They know that if they do something at least once -- it becomes their problem forever. With some amount of job security fiefdoms of course.
I guess it is more along the lines of trusting that he is in on the right path in terms of seeing things we don’t see. It’s a feeling. It’s hard to describe it as a solid argument by ”qualifying”, but I bet that most of us ”feel” something’s wrong. There are agendas, there are destructive powers at play. He might be one of them himself, so nobody should trust him blindly – if at all. But something large is at play. I don’t know… I guess it’s time to sleep.
> How often do you 'vet' authors of non-fiction books prior to reading the book?

I misread the question as 'How' rather than 'How often', but I'll repeat Jerry Weinberg's heuristic. He'd wait until three people he trusted recommended a book before reading it, as a way to filter for quality. He used it as a way to manage his limited time ("24 hours, maybe 60 good years" - Jimmy Buffett), but it also works to weed out books not worth mentioning.

In terms of 'how often', pretty often.
defer-based cleanup also has the problem that, if the function plans to return a value it has to make sure to *not* defer its cleanup, and the caller then has to remember to clean it up. Destructor-based cleanup avoids these problems, but of course it's reasonable for languages (existing ones like C and even newer ones like Zig) to not want destructors, so defer is the next best thing.

Note that C++ destructors are also not ideal because they run solely based on scope. Unless RVO happens, returning a value from a function involves returning a new value (created via copy ctor or move ctor) and the dtor still runs on the value in the function scope. If the new value was created via copy ctor, that means it unnecessarily had to create a copy and then destroy the original instead of just using the original. If the new value was created via move ctor, that means the type has to be designed in such a way that a "moved-out" value is still valid to run the dtor on. It works much better in Rust where moving is not only the default but also does not leave "moved-out" husks behind, so your type does not need to encode a "moved-out" state or implement a copy ctor if it doesn't want to, and the dtor will run the fewest number of times it needs to.
Tying NDP support to their leader's pension is silly/lazy.

As part of their deal with the Liberals, the NDP had some real power to implement legislation. If an election happened tomorrow the NDP would lose that power.

Unhitching from Trudeau at this moment is a good move for the NDP, they want to distance themselves from Trudeau's unpopularity before the next election. That Trudeau is now leaving benefits them even more, they could conceivably continue to support the government now that it's missing its most unpopular member, or they could pull the plug right away if they think they can steal away some Liberal votes during a snap election
SF is a multi billion dollar company.

If you think you can replicate one of their core products by yourself or with a small team good luck.

Say AI enough times and your might even have a VC throw money at you.

Of course realistically your not beating SF, but your free to try.
I read all the negative/neutral GoodReads comments of the book (and author's other books if I'm not familiar with the author, and maybe Wikipedia if I want to dig deeper).

99% of books I learn about from recommendations (HN, blogs, other books), and the pattern I see is that the source/recommender are usually at the similar "popsci" level.

I sometimes get it wrong. In most cases I just waste a few hours. The worst mistake was taking Why We Sleep to heart before I read the rebuttal. I still think it's fine, but more on a Gladwell level.

Im Suleyman's case, I recognize the name from Inflection shenanigans, so already have a bias against the book to start with.
Is he recommending the book because MS hired Suleyman?
> But even if the actual case fatality rate were 10 times lower – about 5% – it would still be a serious virus to contend with. The case fatality rate for the ancestral strain of Covid-19 was estimated to be around 2.6%, for example.

Ugh. The news media never learns [1]:

1) The IFR for Covid-19 was not 2.6%. Less than a tenth of that, actually (yes, even for the ancestral strains).

2) "CFR" is a made up number, because it depends on what cases you count. If you count only a sample of people in the ICU, you can make the CFR look horrible for pretty much any illness. We made this mistake during covid!

3) You can see the same mistake in progress here, because you can't just take this sample of deaths you looked for, divide it by the cases you know about, scale it down by a random factor (that you pulled out of your butt), and then panic about the result [2].

[1] or more likely: never wants to learn, because fear drives clicks.

[2] for those who wonder: the right way to do this is random sampling -- you at least have to sample the population randomly to estimate seroprevalence correctly.
anecdote is actually data tho lol
The Soul of a New Machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
> how people write informally is generally indicative of their overall writing ability

I don't think that's true... I personally change writing styles often depending on who I am talking to. It's effectively code switching but on the internet. Not to say that this redditor isn't like that - but there are more objective cues from the content of their post than from the spelling/grammar of their post (like how they choose to watch their sibling develop bad learning habits and rather than doing something about it, they make dramatic complaints about how her whole generation is screwed on Reddit).
>I actually think strong measures like the freezing of bank accounts would be warranted and supported by most Canadians.

Typically such measures are mandated by court order, not executive fiat.
You probably could make lots of money from human cloning, if it weren't illegal?
And for negative numbers it's CEIL()!

And in SQL Server, ROUND() with a nonzero number for the third parameter for truncate, and CELING() for ceiling.
I think it would be closer to Handmaid's Tale than Highcastle since it's a modern day than a twist WWII ending
Do we also invert back to homework at home after a few years?
But this leads to the question if the province is not doing it's job, what do you do as the feds?

Not saying they did right, but curious.
> Not sure what's Max or Pro about it though.

Secure processor, shadow stacks, secure boot, hardware asset trackability. Enterprise stuff.
https://archive.ph/KZoRr
Longitude is a great book, I thought this was cool too re. one of the clocks Harrison designed - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/19/clockmaker-j...
I feel like advertisements are on a spectrum, and that (let's call them) "first party" advertisements are not what come to people's minds, when they read a title like "Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me". I'd like to prove this point by the following image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=instagram+ads&iax=images&ia... . The top results all relate to advertise something on Instagram that is not Meta-related - so, third party ads.
`extern "C"` functions coded in C++ should really not throw! I would say that they MUST NOT throw.
No one said third-party ads, the description is perfectly accurate to what is happening. The knee jerk reaction to call it sensationalist is odd to me.
Hey there, good question! Probably worth reading both sections 6 and 7 for context, but I answer this question specifically in section 7.2: https://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/form-http-methods#ad-ho...
because you want someone who won't ask for a raise.
Is there a large non-worried population posting from somewhere without access to, uh, the sky?
Computers have inundated life so thoroughly now that it feels less clean to be writing software. If people enjoy a 30 min TV show you made that feels great, but if they are watching 10 hours of tv a day then it feels more problematic.

My personal relationship with phones/computers/tv has degraded in the past 20 years as well, its hard to feel good about building software when I am trying to cut computer/phone usage out of my own life.
I went back to try without an account. I guess there's heavy load / traffic right now because loading a painting takes 60+ seconds
My ick levels are about the same whether it’s used by third parties or just Meta. It’s a mega corporation using my likeness to manipulate my behavior for their own ends.