skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't even know how you start a conversation like "aws works fine for us, but let's switch for political reasons" (whether the political reason is good or bad is out of topic.)

Someone relatively senior sees an article, blog, whitepaper etc and mentions it. Staff at any level who agree with the politics can then push a little to make it happen — even just by keeping it as a lunchtime discussion topic.

My employer moved away from American-hosted products due to privacy concerns, except for Office 365. The relatively senior people read about legal risks, asked a local lawyer, and made it a moderate priority to get done. For Office 365 we have the standard assurance from Microsoft that our data is in Ireland, but I could see that being reviewed.
And tariffs on intellectual property licenses are not on the table right now, as far as I’m aware. Right?
Long ago I sometimes played the organ. There is nothing more amazing than being alone in a large dark church, playing a pipe organ at full volume, feeling the vibrations. It's the original heavy metal. No other instrument can duplicate that feeling.
This is a fundamental misalignment between a business and their customers. The business doesn’t care if the customer can actually afford the product and they’re happy to push off that responsibility to credit card companies or Klarna in this case, but it’s so shortsighted because anyone with two braincells knows that if your customer cannot afford a <$50 purchase without debt, that they can’t afford that thing at all.

In the long run, customers who should have been blocked from purchasing due to lack of funds will instead write bad reviews about their experience being sent to a collector over a cheeseburger and they’ll bounce off your platform.

“Short term profits ruin everything” for 200 Alex!
I use the built-in ‘look up’ and ‘translate’ pop-ups in iOS every day.

Related to this, before I completely dumped Amazon, I used to have some English<->German dictionaries installed in kindle which let me look up German words while reading German-language books (American living in German-speaking part of Europe for awhile now). That integration along with whisper sync were very useful for learning a language.
Parent comment is coming from an ethical person and ethical people often have a hard time imagining how unethical people operate.

Even I think I'm nowhere near unethical enough to maliciously use this dataset, but who would have thought that a social media platform where you scroll posts from your friends and family could be used as a political tool?
> Nobody in the trenches seemed to use old-style auto in the last decades.

To the beat of my knowledge, there was no case where "auto" wasn't redundant. See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/2192761

This makes me feel better about repurposing it, but I still hate the shitty use it's been put to.
Tesla is actually an example of relying too much on human domain knowledge.

Wayno is brute forcing the problem with hardware. They use Lidar.

Elon Musk's argument against Lidar is that humans only need two eyes and therefore stereoscopic vision is enough.

"Human drivers use two eyes, therefore self driving cars need two eyes." is exactly the type of thing the bitter lesson is warning against if you stretch the analogy to hardware.
Someone at the company read my blog, asked me if I was interested in a job on their team, and initiated the hiring process if I said yes.
Remember when Elmo predicted Tesla will have Full Self-Driving in 2017, then 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024?

Good times.
> Technical progress would be fantastic if the benefits didn't go mainly to the top

They don't. You live better than Henry VIII in almost all ways (other than you can't establish a new state religion). You have access to painkillers, dentistry, sight correction, and information on a daily basis, along with more chicken than he did. The fact that that's true for hundreds of millions of people is incredible.
> you'd obviously aim for one integrated process.

And that integrated process in a world where you ahve multiple providers (Steam, PSN, Xbox) is likely your CI provider. As long as the token generation is correct, and you treat the vdf files like any other build secrets, it's no worse than GHA being able to deploy to AWS and having 2FA on your AWS console access.
I've just got a self hosted piped.video instance running this weekend. But sadly YouTube seems to be brutal nowadays with blocking these alternative interfaces and the experience was pretty bad. I'll watch how this develops and maybe also give Invidious a try.
Agree re chicken wings but there are plenty of reasonable and responsible credit options for spreading payments for a relatively unusual purchase - at least, not a daily or weekly necessity - like a TV
There was this "end of history" idea where Europe, elites or not, believed that democracy would follow globalization and free trade. This turned out to be very naive but still common belief. Now Europe will have to fend for it self. In the long run I think this will benefit both US and Europe, but short term it will hurt both. Also I don´t think Europe will pivot away from US, we still understand that at least half of US shares our values, but US can´t be trusted to stand up for these values anymore. Same as Hungary, Turkey. I personally see it as a good opportunity to get some action going in Europe, as I discuss here in the context of building digital infrastructure: https://lnkd.in/dRNSYPWC
Good way to have your knowledge fed into an LLM.
In the UK, if the government banned this, they would get accused of being a 'nanny state' and taking candy from babies.

In reality, people on long term sick benefits would use this service to order strong alcohol to be delivered to their door at 11 in the morning on a Monday, with them being three weeks away from their next benefits payout.

Food typically ordered with these services has no nutritional value with money from the local community going to venture capitalists and multinational companies, to keep poor people poor.

There is so much degeneracy to purge and no will in government to do it.
Essentially it's like paying with a credit card, right?
The fewer wars America and Europe are involved with together, the better. Europe has the economic and industrial capacity to defend itself, and America certainly doesn't need Europe's help with whatever new retarded military adventurism our politicians are plotting. The reason America invoked Article 5 was to give an air of international legitimacy to the invasion of Afghanistan, and if doing something like that again isn't on the table then maybe American politicians will be slightly less likely to think that a new war will pay off politically.

We're both better off if Europe can comfortably cut America loose. Europe building up their domestic defense capabilities is essential for this and will bring about a greater chance for long term peace.
Make it about the current US administration's digital bonfire destroying decades of critical records across all fields of history, science, technology, and medicine.
There's climate reanalysis, which combines historical observations with weather models to get clean data of past weather conditions, which is then used by researchers for various purposes. Most notably is ERA5 by ECMWF.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMWF_re-analysis
Isn’t this more a problem with Apple’s application security than the CPU architecture? You’d be jumping through the same hoops to run unsigned software if it was still Intel.
[...] by searching for the names of ancient Persian kings in the parallel inscriptions [...] the names would have been pronounced approximately the same way in Old Persian and Akkadian.

Compare also how Old Persian had been deciphered by Grotefend using a similar method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich_Grotefend#Deci...

(An uncharitable reading of the story in the article is that the "Rawlinson method" consists of claiming credit for discoveries made by Hincks.)
Aye. It's been neglected for decades, and their procurement system is as bad (maybe worse) than Canada's.

Odd, though, that when the phrase "the Germans are rearming" pops up the French and British are notably calm.
there is also a cli:

https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli
If Tesla had focused on being an auto company rather than a shiny new object company and if Elon Musk had focused on being a business leader rather than whatever he's been doing the past few years, we'd be having a completely different discussion. As it is, Elon Musk has lost his mojo, people are finally realizing he's been lying for years, and Tesla has never had the opportunity to establish operational excellence. None of this is good for business and their sales numbers are reflecting that.
They're probably one of those people who tries to take a photo across a busy sidewalk and gets annoyed when people keep walking through the shot.
It's a tough one. To what extent do we need to go to protect people from their own stupidity?

I remember doing something similar about 15 years ago. A pizza place accepted PayPal including a 'pay after delivery' option. This actually resulted in the payment being taken about 7 days after the order was placed and it was a handy way to get some food when I was broke right before pay day (they didn't check your balance before placing the order).
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Is it a bad idea to order takeout on credit - yeah usually it is. But if people want to do it why should we stop them? There are certainly legitimate use cases (e.g. placing a very large order for a group/party and having time to collect from everyone instead of having to front the cash yourself).
That is exactly what I do.

As far as I remember my podman installations on both fedora and ubuntu came with a podman.socket service that I could enable as easily as running:
`systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket`

Then I installed the standalone version of docker-compose:
https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/standalone/

I don't remember having to do more to get a working `docker-compose` command.
I think it's safe to say she learned 3D art in the early 2000s and has not updated her PC since.
This right here... finance 101
Wouldn't count on that sticking around, I remember when these apps used to market "no tipping" as a feature. Now there's a giant tip screen front and center in the UI for completed orders.
The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA need to go.
The most interesting part of the short agreement is that there was exactly _one_ objection to the settlement. I guess most people don't care or there wasn't enough of an argument for them being compensated in this particular case.

Also, the complaints about lawyers enriching themselves seem exaggerated since their reported fees are $750k, which seems like not much to be honest.
An interest free one so typically even better than a credit card (provided you make the payments).
Yes, that's the middle-school civics ideal.

Then we learn about the perils of "majority rules" setups, of lobbying, of trying to evaluate thousands of different decisions across hundreds or thousands of legislators, etc. and it becomes a lot less simple.
> Imperialist Russia is in its final throws prior to becoming "a normal country," like the rest of Europe. From the European point of view, keeping those insane throws to a minimum is worth every penny, both in human and economic costs.

That is about as likely as "they're not going to invade" -- the guys picking up the piece after Putin look to be as, maybe even more, hardline and aggressive.

There is a reason someone tried to assassinate Dugin.
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Very similar at the end of the day, but this is in 4 interest-free installments.
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That correspondence doesn't automatically mean you get a useful compiler from proofs. Rather, that's the exception instead of the rule.
> Once 23andMe gets sold, all of that data belongs to whoever owns it and they can sell it to whoever they want.

Why would a company being sold mean that the data can be used for a purpose it previously couldn't?
Can someone ELI5 what is Cloud Native ?
Better but not quite as good as Chrome's gif player which lets you seek and pause etc.
Somewhat related:

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/gloria-allred-sex-abuse-cele...

I just started to realize that law firms are businesses, and what they care about the most, above everything else, is making a profit. Are these lawyers warriors for women's rights? Maybe. But what I know for sure is that they want to make money more than they want to be warriors. Which explains why they can directly talk to the other party's lawyers and get you a decent settlement, instead of actually going through litigation, at all.
> You mean the 2-week delivery cycle into an automated CI/CD? Good lord I hope they don't have a useless scrum master too.

If you can automation that job good for you. However some people work in a regulated industry where not getting FDA/FAA and their equivalent for every other country in the world before shipping software means someone will go to prison.

> I'm curious what input the manager has into this besides reading through a list of engineer curated items.

They better have a lot. You might call it product owner (in scrumm), or some other title. Every project I've never worked on has more great ideas than they can invest in today and so you need to figure out what the priority is. It better not be only engineering that has input to this - marketing (a very different skill from engineering) needs to have input, as does finance...

> Tim seems to be handling that. [training]

It is normal to handle more than one management task. I doubt Tim is handling harassment training. This is the main job of HR (not making sure people are paid as you seem to think)

> Hey Tim can you id the asshole? How comfortable are you hiring/firing?

probably not. As one manager of mine told me, he always knew long before the team if someone would work out. The team is close, knows that person is nice (most people are nice), and seems to be smart. If you are the first to notice someone isn't getting up to speed quick enough you are the "asshole" that needs to be removed from the team, an outside manager will be much quicker because they are removed from personal contact with the person in question.
Not really disagreeing, but history and technology are both messy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_airplane_f...
I mean…goofy, sure.

But is this any different than every person who has credit card debt ordering a pizza?
Ah, that's more specific.

Alex was developed when VoiceOver (the screen reader) was the primary use case for text to speech. Consequently, it was optimized for low latency and robustness under rate changes.

The Siri voices sound much more natural at 1x and have a higher signal quality, but rate changes were a lower priority for this use case.

Fun fact: when we worked on Alex, many VoiceOver users stubbornly hung on to Fred (which is mostly using late 1970s technology). Screen reader users are not fond of switching voices; it appears their hearing locks in to a particular voice, so switching is costly.
I’ve wondered what the business model is here since klarna always advertises “interest free” loans. That option does exist, but from the actual announcement there’s another loan option - which of course is just a payday loan:

> Pay in Full allows customers to pay for what they love right away using Klarna’s seamless payments experience.

> Pay in 4 allows customers to pay in four equal interest-free installments

> Pay Later allows customers to defer payments to a more convenient time, such as a date that aligns with their paycheck schedules

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-partners-with...

Edit: I’m understanding now they’re also betting on missed payments just like credit cards. The payday option maybe also be “interest free” - unclear from the press release imo.
There is a gigantic market of vendors choose from, and sometimes it’s easiest to just say “We’re going to avoid vendor X because they create risk for us.”

The above poster didn’t say he’s banning HPE, either. Just HP. I doubt anyone will really suffer from banning HP products.

We have a policy of only buying Brother, Epson, and Canon desktop/office printers with an exception for Lexmarks that are laser printers and have specific built in features. It means a lot less drama supporting them and getting supplies (even though we only use OEM supplies, or else get service and supplies through a click charge maintenance contract).

There’s still a fleet of ancient HP printers, including a workhorse 20-year-old LaserJet still printing 11x17 sheets.
Whether you like it or not, brand perception goes across business units, lol.
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There are some settings where it's good for a guitar player to be able to sight read. If you're playing for random bands, or playing classical, it can be a big help.
"why do you think the 40+ hours of work you do for your employer every week isn't also helping to improve your skills?"

You're 100% correct here. I'm definitely learning and improving just by doing my normal work. I suppose I worry about how much of that learning will transfer to another job.

"Stick with the industry long enough and you will: (a) get laid off, and (b) watch better engineers get laid off while you don't."

Thank you for the perspective here. I'm probably better off thinking about how I will navigate a lay off, instead of praying it doesn't happen.
The thing I always loved about C was its simplicity, but in practice it's actually very complex with tons of nuance. Are there any low level languages like C that actually are simple, through and through? I looked into Zig and it seems to approach that simplicity, but I have reservations that I can't quite put my finger on...
I think you have a great point about the merit of America defending the defense of Europe against Russia in light of European attitudes towards America becoming clear on the internet. This wasn't really a problem during the Cold War when casual communication across the Atlantic wasn't a thing most Americans had access to, but times have changed and the general American public now perceives a lot of contempt for America coming from Europeans. Clearly they're capable of paying for their own defense, since they love to gloat about their expensive social policies so much, so let them shoulder the responsibility they have for their own defense.
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This is one of those things where it makes people feel very smart to dunk on it, but if you think critically for a minute, the behaviors this enables are already available in objectively more harmful ways: credit cards and payday loans.

This makes things better, not worse.

Obviously people wouldn't be doing this ideally, but that's the world we live in, and this isn't some new phenomenon or some sign of the times.
Seems to me the meta version of this is there exist entire jobs and careers to support technologies that are over complex, badly written, poorly documented, need constant security updates, patches etc, keep changing the way they work, need an enormous amount of effort to keep running, vendor gets bought out or does a pointless redesign, while something simple written by you or I just carries on working quietly and gets no attention. This is a tragedy of tech. I fully believe in the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle. The world could spend way less on tech if we all followed that. Its not even just tech - e:g Henry vacuum cleaners are used on filthy construction sites and seem to last forever while more expensive fashionable ones break in 5 mins. Simplicity being the key difference.
Trump's poor handling of the pandemic was poor regardless of origin. People need to be continually reminded that Trump's ineptitude resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
> It’s absolutely fantastic at filtering the lower 95% of applicants because they will _never_ be able to pass.

This is the part I disagree with. It hasn't been true for years. Anyone with the free version of ChatGPT can pass a hacker rank today.

> but that doesn’t matter to the outcome of your company

It does for mine, because we've hired all of the good developers that get through the process you're describing and it isn't enough. We actively moved away from what you're describing and turned the interview into a 2-3 hour pair programming session where the person completes a mini version of a ticket.

This has much more predictive power than what you're describing.
HR generally gets a secondary job of checking with other companies are paying someone for similar work. The primary job is protecting the company as you noted. (though paying someone a competitive wage protects the company from people leaving for too little, or the from paying more than they must)
Since we're already dealing in absurds here, what if one were to Doordash 50 servings of wings as a emergency/backup catering option for a banquet or wedding? That could easily top $500-800. I sure some consumers—including financially secure ones—would appreciate an interest free loan option on that.

Obviously there is also the opposite dark and pessimistic take here, but there are potentially good things as well?
Palestinians do not have distinctive DNA that sets them apart from other populations in the Middle East. I'm not aware of movements that target levantine ancestry in general.
>This is a fundamental misalignment between a business and their customers. The business doesn’t care if the customer can actually afford the product and they’re happy to push off that responsibility to credit card companies or Klarna in this case, but it’s so shortsighted because anyone with two braincells knows that if your customer cannot afford a <$50 purchase without debt, that they can’t afford that thing at all.

Accepting credit cards theoretically allows businesses to sell to customers that don't have the money. Is this bad, and should we chastise businesses for not limiting themselves to debit payments only?
The only thing more wild than thinking 10x devs is more than corporate speak is thinking that LLMs could be 10x devs.
>> Food typically ordered with these services has no nutritional value

This is complete nonsense. These services have a huge variety of restaurants and grocery stores. They're really useful for people with limited mobility who need groceries but don't have time to wait for a delivery from a large supermarket. Regardless, if someone wants to order cigarettes and alcohol on them they should be free to without having to account for your personal ethics.
I agree this is where things seem to be going in the 5-10year frame. Spinning wheel didn't obsolete weavers completely, it just allowed for more workers and more throughput at less skill. I think entry junior devs will be out of jobs, but unless these AIs can start coming up with coherent high level designs, higher level architects seem to be okay in that time frame at least
Surely they ship [components of] the syrup because otherwise they have to ship the raw coca leaves? Is the global supply of coca extract processed by the Stepan company in USA?

Profits move the other way through IP payments at least.
You get points with the credit card and pay no interest if you pay off the statement balance every month.
That was my first thought as well.

Supposing this project gets off the ground, maybe even somehow surpasses linkedin, some investor will come along, flash a big pile of cash at the owner and bam, through various monetization strategies to make back that money, you end up back at linkedin.

Linkedin isn't the way it is because they didn't know how to make good UI.