skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This is the argument against allowing private ownership of utilities.

Utilities lend themselves to monopoly well.

The economy of scale allows one company to efficiently become the only source of that utility for an region.

Meanwhile, the customers of the utility are subject to the dark side of monopoly. Unjustified rate increases or cutting off service for any reason whatsoever.

It makes no sense.

This setup only works well for Power companies, airlines, water, waste, etc. when there are robust regulation around them.

Could you imagine if the power company could cut you off because of your political leanings? or the water company?

It is no different for monopolies on the internet.
My understanding is that it's not the data center that's the problem, it's the energy required to run them. This is especially demanding with us rubbing AI over everything and using insane amounts of energy in the process.

Ie: making a new data center is easy. Making new power plants quickly - not so much. But hey, at least there's some renewed political will, better than nothing.
Sorry. I consider CGI to be sort of a “failed experiment of the past,” sort of like Server-Side Includes (shtml). What CGI does, is let anything that can write to a pipe, publish on the Web (you could write a web app with Bash).

I think that anything that will interact with remote browsers, should go through a Webserver. Many utilities actually have their own built-in webservers (not sure that’s always a good thing).
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> The people on the Iraqi cards are military targets in an ongoing war. The rules are different for civilians.

It's violence either way, you just find it a more acceptable violence.
Rounding up somebody and detaining them is not violence.
The complicated business of selling the NYPD logo
> I don't think you're going to find an LLM with a large enough context window to have a meaningfully involving story spanning multiple sessions.

First, you don't need much of any context window because you can finetune the LLM. Don't mistake specific engineering choices and tradeoffs and deployment convenience for intrinsic limitations of the technology.

Second, LLMs like Gemini now have context windows of millions of tokens, corresponding to millions of words. Seems like enough for 'multiple sessions'.

> An LLM isn't going to craft a story element tailored to a character, or more importantly, an individual player. It's not going to understand Sam couldn't make last week's session. An LLM also doesn't really understand the game rules and isn't going to be able to adjudicate house rules based on fun factor.

An LLM can do all of that, and you definitely do not know that they can't.

> They'll be no better a game master than a MadLibs book.

They've been better than a Madlibs book since AI Dungeon 1 which was like 6 years ago.
Or before that, yuppies. YUP simply stood for the very neutral "Young Urban Professional" but "yuppies" somehow became a slur and nobody wanted to self-identify.
It seems like there have been a number of security stories lately that essentially amount to. "no tech companies ever does cleanup" Which everyone on HN with a couple years or more experience should know is the norm. I expect a lot more of this to keep happening since companies will never really care about security without consequences ie a $10 fine for making $100 literally incentivies lack of security.
So well put, thank you
Did you confuse LANL for LLNL?
I agree in general, but equipment mainly due to lead times and not permit/etc times.

Remember it's federal land, so they can't be held to state permitting or building codes, etc, only what they choose to (IE if their agency adopted it explicitly)

Having seen lots of datacenters constructed over the years - it's tractable in terms of the bureaucracy parts if they want it to be - because they can mostly ignore them.

So for me it breaks down like:

Building construction, it could be done.

Power provision - hard to say without knowing the sites. some would be clear yes, some would be clear no. Probably more nos than yeses.

Filling it with AI related anything at a useful scale - no, the chips don't exist unless you steal them from someoene else, or you are putting older surplus stuff in.
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Oops, forgot about Arizona.
That's their problem to deal with. And as we have seen repeatedly demonstrated in recent years, calling a male "she" is more likely to encourage him to violate women's boundaries and to give this an air of acceptability. This is why it's important not to accede to "preferred pronoun" requests, as it becomes a slippery slope to the erosion of women's rights.
YouTube has been doing this exact thing for years. Background play is a YouTube Premium feature.
What I've always wondered was, how is it possible to do this process (or well, the less advanced version of it, for smaller/older chips) cheaply/at massive scale, for those ICs that cost a few cents in bulk?

Like, scaling wafer (die?) production to insanely low costs makes intuitive sense. The input is sand, the process itself is just easily-parallellizable chemistry and optics, and the output is a tiny little piece of material.

But packaging sounds as though it requires intricate mechanical work to be done to every single output chip, and I just can't wrap my head around how you scale that to the point where they cost a few cents...
Gov of Canada, famously, has some of the most braindead slow hiring practices in the country. Their HR teams are incredibly bad at their jobs. It's genuinely astounding. Last I checked the time from application to starting your job could be anywhere from 9 to 18 months. Everyone, including the employees, know it, so everyone gets "Bridged In" through an internship or hires internally. The rules are totally different with internal postings and you can get hired in a week if you're a good candidate.
> The backs of the Iraqi cards are just a WANTED stamp.

Whole bunch of "captured + executed/died in prison" on that list. The goal wasn't to give them a hug.

> The people on the Iraqi cards are military targets in an ongoing war.

Prime Minister, President, Head of Tribal Affairs, Governor of Basra... would we consider these legitimate military targets if someone hit our equivalents?
Reminds me of Go being released without a package manager because at Google they didn't need it lol
What codebase size do you have?
https://salaryaftertax.com/de/salary-calculator says you'd keep £57,705, £10k less.
> I don't see the problem with the comment that you responded to. It's not surprising to me.

The problem is that you provide other examples and then extrapolate from there that the original comment could be true. However, whether or not you believe it could be true is not serious evidence that it is.

Yes, offering alternative wording to offensive language is a real thing. But notice that the OP is asserting that a facially silly example is real without any support beyond a claim of personal experience. What should matter to you is whether it is real or not as opposed to whether it is surprising or not.

Fake silly examples like this are meant to sit on the line between believable and absurd specifically to make certain ideas seem ridiculous. Making up silly examples of real things is a specific technique to undermine them. It is a propaganda tool not a good faith attempt at dialogue.

C.f., people making up stories about litter boxes in schools to try and undermine efforts to protect the rights of gender non-conforming children (https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/01/30/how-furries-got-swept...)
Does Calibre not work with reMarkable? It has a feature that simulates a newspaper. You create a recipe for a website (e.g. NY Times), and have it run once a day. Based on how you created the recipe, it will pick all the articles in the last day and package it into an ePub (with TOC).

I used it a lot over a decade ago. The feature is still there.
You can not stay clear of "corporate control" outside of the internet either, probably even way less so.

So either be a hermit or teach/learn how not deal with it.
"A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg."
The back of the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards showed desert camouflage. They were issued to US troops to aid in the identification and capture of prominent enemy leaders in an armed conflict.
What does Android do better?
I wholeheartedly disagree. Nowhere do these cards actually call for violence. This is clearly a case of billionaires protecting their egos and keeping the masses in line. If Trump can get away with Jan 6 then this is peanuts.
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Do you take issue with Baldur's Gate 3? Video games in general? Why not?
This is a misunderstanding of the problem. See my comment downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701912

"hd" is Google's solution to this problem, and "hd" is also the source of this vulnerability.
Billionaire-Proofing the Internet
Do you think the electric company should be able to shut off your electricity if you say something they don't like?

The problem is that, due to lack of anti-trust enforcement, we have quasi-utility companies that run commerce. If they have the market position of a utility, they need to be regulated as such.
You think all businesses should just spread awareness by word of mouth? Can you put a sign on your store or is that an ad? What if you don't have a store? Yes, advertising can be really awful but that doesn't meaning all advertising is "cancer." If you have a good business that creates actual value for people, advertising it can actually be seen as a good thing.
By now this seems to be a serious problem. It's too easy to apply for a job. Disincentive all around: it's too easy to be lazy and over-specify or mis-describe a job offer. Then it's too easy for randos to apply because it's just a few clicks at most. Then it's too easy to dismiss with a broad comb because of all the randos. etc, etc. At this point the "job posting to job application" pipeline is completely broken and anyone who cares should rather leverage their network. Both to hire and apply, or use deliberately more obscure pathways such as professional society meetings or company web sites only, or job fairs, etc.
It reminded me of the old Vonnegut novel "Mother Night". The refrain from that work was "You are what you pretend to be."
I think that's obviously a major part of it but it ignores other stuff like lax environmental and safety standards.

It would be interesting to see how much of the economic advantage of off-shoring is due to lower wages due intrinsic to lower cost of living vs stuff like ignoring/bribing foreign officials or non-existent environmenta/safety standards that objectively should exist.
The chips still need to fly back to Taiwan to be packaged as packaging partner Amkor's facility in Arizona won't be ready until 2027*. I'm not sure the cause of the delta but it could be in part because Fab 21 got back on schedule rather impressively following earlier delays.

* updated to reflect newer article that Amkor's facility is delayed beyond late-2025
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700134
If, when you logged into Slack via Google Oauth with the email address user@company.com, Slack checked with company.com

How would they check that?
> There's one screen that loads up 40,000 rows (crazy you say?) worth of data that performs fine on Chrome and is laggy on Firefox

Firefox's performance engineers are eager for bug reports! You can record a performance profile [1] and file a performance bug report in Bugzilla [2]. It helps if the slow page is accessible to Firefox engineers for testing, but your performance profile is a big head start.

[1] https://profiler.firefox.com/

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp...
The fact that you think the CPUC is over-regulating PG&E while they rake in sky-high profits and do fuck all to modernize their infrastructure only further demonstrates my point. Google “PG&E Profit 2024” and get back to me.
Have you ever had a stack for 100 resumes and had to figure out who to interview for the one position? You need to get rid of at least 80% quickly before it is worth your while to read them in more detail - that still leaves 20 to read, but that is way too much, now you are just looking for people who can probably do the job or meets any diversity requirements HR might have (and would be better, but you will interview anyone who lets you prove to HR you tried before hiring whoever comes out on top).
NI is poorly paid. the UK as a whole is poorly paid outside of London and maybe Oxford/Cambridge and a couple of other industry specific areas.

I suspect Ireland also has the same problem, with the higher salaries being Dublin only.
Amusingly enough, the main direction Shepherd is exploring right now is integrating Spritely Goblins (the folks that are also writing Hoot), so that it would have a distributed, capability-based process manager. I wouldn't say running Shepherd with Hoot is a direct goal of this, but it may fall out naturally from it.

Shepherd may actually work in Hoot right now -- I know the Spritely team were working on getting Guile's fibers library to work in WASM, and that's probably the biggest lift.
Great, give away more BLM land to Unaccountable corps to pollute who are going to use it to run facial recognition, surveillance, and randomly delete accounts. Fantastic. What a beautifully anti-human future we have in store.
Since you are persisting, OK, point by point.

> It came from a genuine interest in seeing you grow as a person, despite what you might think

This is your mistake here, to think I need to grow further. I did. I got to the other end you were scared to explore. I understood that kindness will only get you killed in a back-alley if you kept practicing it.

Purely mathematically, it's a function with a limit. This is the part you refuse to see.

You are the one who both needs to grow as a person and sharpen his analytical skills.

This is what I meant by saying you use roundabout ways of insulting.

> The way I read your post is that you, yourself, are effectively insulting people close to me, including friends and family. It's hard for me not to perceive it as naive dehumanism.

Fair to see it that way. I do not mean offense in particular, I simply don't mince words. To me you are hopelessly idealistic and don't live in the real world. Seeing homeless people struggling to make ends meet? Witnessing soup kitchens?

Brother, I've seen much worse than this but unlike you I didn't quickly get to parade it in the hopes of coming across as kinder than your discussion partner. I'll save the gross details of everything I witnessed for myself. Was not the topic here anyway.

So OK, I don't object to you thinking I am insulting. Was not the original intent but I am aware it does come across aggressive. I am simply old enough to stop caring and write like ChatGPT, that's all.

...Plus I am not from the USA. Here's one strong clue why we are so much... not alike.

> People warm up to genuine curiosity and I think you'll find that there's so much more love out there than you give humanity credit for.

That I never denied and never will. I was talking about the scum; the people who don't want to fight their way out of the dump. They love the dump, and they see you and me as free money, free clothes, free phones, and will never change. Yes, they never will change, you read that right. I've been among those people. Lived around them.

So maybe you are the one who got sidetracked and believed I am some stupido who loves to generalize. That's on you however, not on me.

I know there are people who genuinely want to come back to society and, here is the part where you will not believe me and will be convinced I am only saying it to "win" -- I helped three of them do it. The gratitude I got was that they became even better off than me and spat on me. :)

So yeah, cheers indeed. I'll go drink a glass of wine for humanity's inevitable downfall. Shame I won't live long enough to witness it, I'd laugh and even help accelerate it if I could.
> the company would backfill those roles

So, if they are just going to hire more to make up for this, then it's not actually a layoff. That implies these folks would not be eligible for unemployment benefits. In other words, they are being fired.
No it has not! It is very scary. I have family members that grew up not caring anything about technology, never owning a computer, being indifferent and criticizing the younger generation for being so tech-addicted. Now they bring their ipad to bed every night, crow about their reddit comments, and generally act as if the internet is essential to their happiness, or is letting them make their mark on the world.

I think that if you grew up using technology pre-2000, or are generally tech-savvy you can easily see the problems and they scare you because you understand the ways that things have changed so drastically. Windows 11 (for one example) doesn't even allow you to set up your computer without being connected to the internet? That's an objectively bad decision as far as a computer product goes; the ONLY benefit is to Microsoft and their data-collection business! But if its normal to you, it's "not a big deal." "Why are you complaining?"

I can be very persuasive, ive been told. But people today are addicted. There is no doubt. You can see the fear in their faces as they try to come up with reasons why "they" are the exception, as if they are different from every other person.
The Open Home Foundation (Home Assistant, ESPHome, etc) is a similar contemporary example. It's organized as a Stiftung in Switzerland, which as I understand it is somewhat analogous to a US 501(c)(3) private foundation, in so far as it is an independent legal entity that can't solicit donations directly from the public and isn't necessarily run democratically like an e.V.

There are non-profit associations in the US (notably 501(c)(6) business leagues) but I don't know enough about them or about e.V. to speak about the differences.
> Maybe we should stop with the gut feel managerial apologies and think about what we’re doing and how it affects company morale, no?

Maybe you can devise a methodology that reduces bad hiring to below 5% across the entire S&P 500 and then share it with us?
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AIUI almost all salaried employees are exempt from overtime pay in the US.
Oh ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds those things idiotic, not fun and not useful
How do updates work with postgres?
That's irrelevant.

A self-updating hardware/software combination from Google can never be a long term solution. Reliance on old units from eBay (or not!) cannot make that situation any better nor any worse.
What if that isn't a bool?
Given that they were made immediately after and in response to the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO, it requires some fairly lithe mental gymnastics to not interpret them as an effective call for murder.
That's a totally false dichotomy and indicative of the attitude I'm talking about. You can have a social circle that isn't subject to surveillance (let alone control) by the corporation that owns the platform you are speaking on, because REAL LIFE is not a platform!
Our nomenclature for servos in machine controls is a little different, for example a traditional 3phase servo with a 3phase hall sensor is still called "servo" even if it doesn't have an optical encoder. With this setup you can commutate the motor and get smooth motion and variable speed control but not precise position control. We then add on a optical shaft encoder or a optical linear encoder for position control.

In the video he has what looks like a magnetic absolute encoder, I have honestly never seen that in industrial applications although I have seen "absolute" optical encoders that have a backup battery to store the home point, kind of weird imo.

I was surprised when I first encountered servos with just magnetic hall effect sensors but there are actually lots of applications where you want speed control but not accurate position control.
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Author here, happy to answer any questions.

I am building a SaaS startup in stealth mode (probably will apply YC)—finding it challenging to balance time between the startup and open-source projects. Ironically, it felt easier at my previous job as employee in a startup: work during office hours, open-source on the side.

Now I spend my free time playing my Fender and exploring ways to combine music with programming, maybe using LLMs for copilot performances.
They aren't obstructing Congress. That has been ongoing since 1994 when rational negotiation by civic minded leaders was replaced with hostage taking to suit an ideology without regard for public benefit.
This was also done in the late 90s against abortion clinics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Horsley#The_%22Nuremberg_...
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I'm not very optimistic about the technical direction of Mastodon.

Mastodon had a minimal HTML-only interface before, you could read posts and replies of each profile.

They removed it some time ago, now you just see a blank page if you don't have JS, and I think it's a huge mistake; it was a clear albeit small advantage over mainstream social networks.
Ask HN: Learning from Experienced Engineers
I'm an electrical engineer and have been in the workforce a few years. The correlation between how talented an engineer is and how well they are able to communicate their work is not as strong as I expected it to be. Some of the most talented engineers are really bad at explaining what they do or how things work. Other less talented engineers are really good at explaining how things work, but don't get as many "results". (The same goes for academics. Some of the best research professors are really terrible teachers, and some of the best teachers aren't great researchers.)

Do you have any advice on how to learn from those talented engineers who aren't good teachers? As a young engineer, I recognize that these engineers have so many valuable ideas in their heads, but extracting those ideas can be painful. Sometimes they spew too much jargon, making any explanations incomprehensible. Sometimes they don't seem to answer my questions even if I think I've explained the problem very well. Sometimes they get so lost in the complexity of a problem that I can't see the forest through the trees. Any advice on how to learn from these engineers would be greatly appreciated.
Agreed. I've also seen "The Fine Article"
I'm glad the founders have found a way out. This is key when launching a product that never really took off. However, I never understood why this product existed in the first place. I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion, but to me, it represents exactly the type of software people from Silicon Valley would release: products disconnected from the needs of real companies, not the fancy unicorns. This is represented by this sentence on the marketing website: "The new standard for...". For future companies: before claiming to be the new standard, please be the new standard in the first place.

That being said, for educational purposes, making the code publicly available is a nice gesture and I see a lot of values. I wish more companies would do that so the industry as a whole learn from the talents of others - because yes, these people are incredibly talented.
What I Learn from Work – Chapter Two
I'm surprised that there aren't already greater integrations between Copilot and Github pull reviews - pulling into the prompt context for completions, for instance, the data set of pull review comments that address any prior attempt to break patterns and modify architecture. Any mature codebase will have had many a senior engineer swatting away these attempts, in writing. Either way, this seems to me to be a context engineering challenge (and privacy-at-scale challenge) more than anything else, and that means that this will all improve over time!