skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As in any similar problem: you can sample a reasonably representative set of accounts, review them thoroughly by manual means, and see how these manual results compare to the automatic ones.

They don't need to know what the total is, if they knew the problem would be solved.

96% represents the probability of a correct prediction, not a fraction of the total.
I think we're coming at it the same way, but I'm being more terse in my question line.

I am interested in how they arrive in those decisions and do revenue generation features / fixes get weighted differently than non, or are those types of tasks separate from their revenue potential or retention?

I think I'm just leaning on the OP for this context, but I should have added it.
Couldn't agree more top-level.

The other thing that this misses is that the deployments to the cloud are only half the battle. CI/CD pipelines, Dev environments, and other SDLC phases like planning and testing are just as important as terraform. Making the infra as code better and more reusable is a great step in the right direction but only part of the puzzle to making software development workflows better in the big picture.
Whether they exist or not, the fact that the normal working population don't have to see or deal with it sounds like a significant upgrade.
Nope, it's not just you! Happens reliably a little bit after page load for me, using Chrome on Android, too!
europe's cookie fiasco is so idiotic - why don't you just disable them in your browser if you care?
In a fairly related note -- if there's an available editor here that knows anime style and pacing, please let me know where I can see your stuff
rite of passage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_passage

edit: fixed
> then the only rational thing to do (assuming you don't care all that much where you live) is to find the cheapest house, far from your office

I don't know what you mean by "rational" but it sounds like there's a hidden assumption that the only thing with value in life is cash. If your life is completely devoid of anything outside of work, then, sure, I guess that makes sense. But I have hobbies, I have a child, I have a spouse, and time spent outside of work is extremely valuable. If I commute 2 hours each way, I get less sleep, I don't have time to cook so I eat drive-through garbage, I barely see my spouse, I leave home before my child is awake and return after bedtime. If you're still only focused on the cash, I'll note that my mental and physical health will degrade quite rapidly under this condition, which will impact my work performance, which will eventually cost me my job. To me, "rational" is not a synonym of "short-sighted profit-seeking," but that's how you're using it.
"Nabla is currently only supported in Chrome."

Oh yay, another Google invention for the web that others now have to support or be accused of holding the web back. Is it Thursday already?
Hi loceng, thanks for taking a look.

I've introduced it to a few people who mostly have mentioned features that would make it more usable for them, but haven't received feedback on the copy.

I've added the "why" paragraph to the top of the welcome page per your suggestion. What do you think?
The problem is that a whole lot of people are driving who shouldn't be (distracted or otherwise), along with wide swathes of "culture" having decided that the road belongs to them and their needs only instead of to everyone on the road. Every little bit helps, I guess, but making us more visible isn't really the issue. Just observe how people around you drive when you aren't operating a motorcycle.
No they couldn't. If you replace a .txt file with random html data bad things are going to happen.

Tell me, how does CF put a 'Checking your browser' page in my `wget https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt`
All of these are good, I'd also suggest looking at videos from Grant Abbott on youtube, he's got a lot of blender videos that are both beginner friendly but non-trivial and good, clear explanations.
> I don't think even Microsoft/Github actually believes this to be the case because they choose to train on public Github repos and did not include their own proprietary codebase.

There are good reasons they would not include proprietary codebases aside from this, so I don't see this as a smoking gun. Large codebases often involve elements that don't make sense outside of their immediate environment. Projects the size of Linux have this same issue, but large open source projects tend to have significant cross-pollination with the broader community so it's less of an issue.

For example, one large corporate codebase I worked in had a library of ~20, strangely named, short utility functions that were called from many thousands of places. People in the broader community would not find such ubiquitous use of these functions idiomatic at all, but it formed a "dialect" within the company that was often useful given that everyone knew it. These functions caused a lot of signatures/code to be structured in ways that assumed their existence - they were painful to extract when we open sourced internal things. There also tends to be a lot of business logic in corporate code (e.g., `max_space = 100 if has_excel_license else 10`) that would make zero sense in other codebases.

A real example in this case... I'd bet that many millions of lines of Microsoft's internal code still use Hungarian notation. Few users would want Copilot generating such names. I could see interest in a version of Copilot that augments the standard Copilot model with your own codebase if you have millions of lines of code in your GitHub Enterprise account.
Florida has strict building codes due to the extreme winds that are especially important for Roofers. Being and expert roofer in Texas is different than being an expert roofer in Florida and the way that you can proof you know the codes is by getting licensed in the state.

There is plenty of work to be done here so we'd appreciate help from other states... but you will need to get licensed in order to prove that you can do the work that will stand up to future storms.
Depending on exact specifications that is like $10k of hardware, so 4 days of rent pays the machine in full.

So in this service the actual cost of the hardware is a rounding error. It also needs power, cooling, a roof and some maintenance crew, but that still doesn't come close to the rental price. So what are customers actually paying for?
All the money: “What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good? ^Käthe”
> no apparent way to make slow-moving neutrinos

Adiabatic cooling of relic neutrinos (the cosmic neutrino background, CvB).

CvB formed before the cosmic microwave background and so is cooler than the CMB. Massless bosons like CMB photons have their wavelengths stretched through the history of the metric expansion of space; massive (even if the masses are small) fermions (like CvB neutrinos) instead see their speeds drop. The drop is about 161(1+z)/m with m being the neutrino mass and z the redshift; at present times CvB neutrinos are moving nonrelativistically (a couple thousand km/s) and so are certainly cold dark matter.

CvB neutrinos are incredibly abundant and do form a small fraction of CDM in the standard cosmology.

I don't think it's fair to call them WIMPs, though -- one wants invariant masses in the GeV range to gather up sufficient energy-density to drive galaxy cluster dynamics (cf. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_dark_matter>). CvB neutrinos are several orders of magnitude too light (invariant masses of 50-100 meV, kinetic masses of about 250 µeV).
Steam Sale: Roguelike Celebration 2022
My game (Transcendence) is on sale in the Roguelike Celebration sale.

I'm trying to cross the streams between my indie game world and my software engineering world!
We're growing up!
You can choose between one of two problems:

If you don't have strong incentives to fire low performers (aka stack ranking), end up with a slowly deteriorating engineering culture as more capable people end up carrying the weight of worse hires that don't get managed out. Those devs enjoy their jobs less and leave for better pastures (because they're options are good), while worse devs stick around longer (because their options aren't as good).

If you do have strong incentives to fire people, you end up breaking up high performance teams, and create a culture of hire-to-fire and "mercenary" devs. This impacts your culture and forces out "good enough" employees and causes higher recruiting costs.

I don't fully understand if either of those are right in this situation, but I understand how people who felt they were with one type of company can be upset if that company changes its "culture" without a lot of heads up.
A synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2: What we know, and what we don't
The WARN act only applies for "mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees at a single site of employment."

I'm honestly not sure how this would apply for a remote workforce. Consult your friendly HR or legal team counterpart. :)
You don't need to be a developer, the average computer enthusiast is capable of googling the matter figuring it out. It may not be appropriate for the "colloquial grandmother" sort of user, but you certainly don't need to be a computer programmer to figure it out. There's a lot of ground in-between those.

My dad is a retired accountant and a computer enthusiast since the 80s. Never a programmer, but he does this kind of stuff. Has managed his own linux installations for about 15 years.
Buzz: Transcribe audio from your microphones in real-time using OpenAI's Whisper
> For example, the lidar sensor foreshadows that the iPad has an important part in Apple's mixed reality plans.

The LIDAR is there to serve as a playground for the app developers, including in-house. A glorified dev board. I doubt iPads themselves will be a part of Apple's XR plans.
daringfireball has 30 tweets in the last 10 days. It's also a 15 year old account with 100k followers. It seems unlikely that any remotely competent spam detection algorithm or human review process would suspect it of being spam.
But isn't this the norm in many other fields? The engineers who design automobiles, aircraft, kitchen blenders, etc. aren't expected to maintain and repair the cars, planes, blenders. etc. after they're put into use. They go on to design other products. Architects and construction/civil-engineering firms design and build large structures and then hand them off to others to maintain. Authors generally write a book and then go on to write the next book rather than dedicating themselves to carefully curating a list of errata for a single book. There are academic authors who do play a part in churning out new, slightly modified editions of major textbooks every few years but they're not on-call and being woken up in the middle of the night to fix a punctuation error on page 982 of the physics text they co-authored.
It looks like the tweet was deleted.
It only takes a single sentence sometimes.
Measuring soccer ball possession with AI and video analytics
A weak executive would seem to reduce representation in government though?

As each member of parliament must necessarily represent the biggest groups in their constituencies.

So a decent size group scattered across many dozens of constituencies into relatively tiny groups would simply never get taken seriously without a strong executive.
Will MacAskill underestimates risk of misaligned AI takeover
You also couldn't use JS of that time to build anything remotely like modern SPAs. Unlike some Silicon Valley unicorns, we're using SPAs only where they fit, to replace legacy desktop applications. (It's boring intranet stuff, but they make a lot of sense there.) I was a skeptic initially, but it grew on me.
That is what happens when you play with divergent series… Fun stuff but not easy to explain (if at all).
"Hiding the poor" versus "letting the poor suffer in plain sight" doesn't seem to matter, then. If it was true that oblivious poverty resulted in more action being taken to help those in need, we wouldn't have a homelessness problem in San Francisco. Clearly that is not the case, so I'd much rather live in a place where it is hidden.
In the images, they're showing gestation sacks, where the fetus is housed. I'm not sure what the point of showing an empty sack is [5]. It would be like showing 10 weeks of chicken development with pictures of broken egg shells.

Related, 33 states [1] allow abortions before 24 weeks [2]. 7 Allow abortions the day before birth [3].

61% people think there should be some restrictions, 31% think there should be none [4].

1. https://www.axios.com/2022/05/14/abortion-state-laws-bans-ro...

2. 24 week fetus, outside of womb (SFW). 1 day less wouldn't look much different: https://ep-bliss.imgix.net/images/Stories/Paul-and-Daltons-s...

3. 39 weeks fetus, outside of womb (SFW): https://www.mamadoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/baby-...

4. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abo...

5. I’ll leave 10 week pictures to the reader, since some may not believe cartoons. NSFW if you go searching.
I've noticed a pattern: many people who are fiercely against abortion are also strong supporters of pointless aggressive medical treatment (only God... yadda yadda...) but also death penalty.
In other words, they care more for those not yet born or already dead, but apparently not so much for those who are actually living.
Managing complexity should be job 1 for technical leadership. We've failed utterly when it comes to DevOps. The model should be Heroku-like deploys for 99% of apps/companies. Instead we have an army of DevOps experts for k8s, helm, terraform, etc. Changing an environment variable now requires a DevOps person and/or a PR in your GitOps setup. The feedback loop for troubleshooting issues in these environments is too long.

This is me right now: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/019/304/old...
> To everyone reading this - we live in a free country. Nothing stops you from creating a new business as a co-op or employee owned collective or whatever.

That freedom is a two-way street, and it's equally true that nothing stops labour from coming together to bargain collectively. In fact, in the US and many other countries, that freedom is explicitly enshrined in law.
Yes, how about a completely demolished roof and $10k less in your pocket.
> Labour governments of 1997 to 2010

Ahh yeah the “WMD” Iraq war and introduction of University top up fees.
I have wondered about fake profiles on LinkedIn. Seems like people believe that someone is real and their credentials are real just because they have a profile. But it would be easy to set up an account with a fake photo, make up an educational and employment history, and current employer. None of this is verified, AFAICT. Then you just start following/connecting to recruiters and others who are Very Online on LinkedIn, to make the profile look legit.
That’s a lot of poetic words to poorly explain why 4x as many Canadians choose to immigrate to the US than US to Canada…
Right. It just seems like a matter of time before MS strikes / takes down someone's original code for "infringing" upon Copilot output.

Seems like above a certain size, stealing becomes a great business strategy.
Would love to see development for accountants so everytime marketing needs a new tool integrated to run a report they can see the time it takes to provision, implement, test, release, and then audit it.
> There's no need (or, morally, any possibility) of banning them from forming a group of their coworkers to organize this process.

In fact, in the US (and many other countries), it's illegal to do so.
Non-determinism in the context of zkSNARKs refers not to randomness, but rather to NP-style non-determinism. I.e., zkSNARKs support statements of the form "There exists a witness w such that f(x, w) = true", where f is a predicate, and x is a publicly known value.

This allows cool things. For example, if you wanted to use a zkSNARK to check if something was sorted, you don't have to implement a sorting algorithm in the zkSNARK language (this would take time nlogn). Instead, you can just implement an algorithm that takes as input a list, and checks that it is in ascending order (which takes time O(n)). In this case, the witness is the sorted list, and the actual sorting happens outside the zkSNARK. This enables the zkSNARK impl to be more efficient.
Ask HN: Do you develop niche software?
About two years ago I started consulting on the side for a laboratory, automating the creation of complex compliance reports resulting from the chemical analysis of building materials. It is a world I didn’t know existed, and it has been a very rewarding experience. Two highlights are:

* Because the domain is so specific, there is little code out there that I can reuse, which means there is more room for crafting abstractions. For the first time, for instance, I was able to put my compiler-writing experience to good use in a commercial project, by developing a DSL to define regulations, and creating an editor that allows domain experts to modify them. This is definitely more interesting than other applications that I have built in the past.

* Because the problem is so concrete and I am close to the users, I get to see their joy when the software does exactly what they need, removing friction and sources of frustration from their daily tasks. I also have their trust to direct the project however I see fit, and I feel like I am being successful at involving them in the software development process, allowing them to understand the trade-offs and to prioritize when there are multiple courses of action.

A while ago I came across this comment [1], talking about the advantages of low-volume / niche software. The thoughts very much resonated with my own experience. Since then, I have been asking myself: how many of us are out there, developing this kind of software? Please share! And feel free to get in touch (email is in my profile), since I would love to exchange experiences ;)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31024822
The Ubuntu Pro ads and this release have all come at an interesting time...

Fedora and the stock Gnome eco-system are getting better and better... Debian voting to include non-free software. Google is using Debian for things these days, Steam switching to Arch...

For myself, I'm now using OpenSUSE MicroOS (immutable root OS, everything else is containerized with Flatpak or Toolbox/Podman, repos based on Tumbleweed) and it really feels like the future (Fedora Silverblue is very similar). I thought that would be the direction Ubuntu takes but now it feels like Ubuntu is in some weird zone where lots of things are snaps, lots aren't, they're pushing Pro services with ads, it's getting more enterprise-y but they're also pushing containerized Steam, etc...

That being said Ubuntu's always been a good experience so I'm sure it'll be fine but the direction they're taking is rather curious...
Wasn't this the biggest wealth transfer in current history?
Quoth They Might Giants, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)":

Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Why did Constantinople get the works?

That's nobody's business but the Turks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8
Hmmm it’s as if those in power aren’t looking out for us, but only their wallets.

On both the left and the right…
"DevOps is broken"

Said the 4th article on the subject this month.
I wonder the point of bringing this up on HN.

> “They’re expecting to see a little fetus with hands – a developed, miniature baby.” Often, she says, “they feel they’ve been deceived.”

If the goal is drawing a line between tissue and nascent embryo based on size and visual identification, a lot of people are gonna feel they've been deceived no matter which way we go.
Why did the relevant Ministers, such as the lord Chancellor, Chancellor of the Exchequer, etc., sign off on it too?
As far as I know, buying a kitchen table is so rare that the unlikely possibility that you return it, it breaks, or you are a "serial mover" that rents homes for small times can be enough to make the odds of somebody that just brought a table buying another higher than some random person.

Unless you have some aggregated market data, you don't know either. Up to very recently, nobody knew if the likelihood increased or not. Nowadays a few people are able to discover it, but it doesn't look like they bothered to.
The experience of doing a postgraduate degree is so far away from the experience of studying at Oxford as an undergraduate that they may as well be different universities. Different demographic makeup (much fewer private school kids, much more international students), different teaching methods (no training in 'blagging' a 1:1 tutorial with minimal reading, a very transferable skill to politics) and no time to hack around at the Union or make a name in one of the political clubs.

Honestly, the problem isn't even with all Oxford undergraduate degrees, just a slice of PPE and adjacent students who are vastly overrepresented in politics.

(My background: Leeds BA, Oxford MSc/DPhil. Don't like Starmer, though, despite our similar university choices...)
Believing this is a normal/typical way of using twitter is one of the most neurotic things I’ve read on this forum
What is tailscale?

I don't like the world where every time someone launches a feature on their product they get to top of HN by calling it "generally available".
At this point it's pretty much common knowledge that legislators engage in insider trading using nonpublic, oftentimes classified information and intelligence gathered on the taxpayer dime routinely and with no fear of political or legal repercussions. They're not particularly motivated to close this loophole either, for reasons which should be obvious.

This should be a much bigger issue, IMO. We the People need to make them understand this blatant self dealing will not be tolerated.
Weird, I asked our TS admin to disable "override local DNS" and he claimed the option was disabled out, seemingly due to magic DNS being enabled or something. I'll see if I can get access myself to try and change it. Thank you for the reply!
Tweet was deleted, it quoted https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1583119981134286849 which still exists.
Data-Sync Resources for Offline-First Mobile Apps
> We had 2 devs, and one devops guy building out Kubernetes, Docker, running on Aws. Had to constantly spend me time with him troubleshooting why this or that thing wasn't working rather than writing application code. We had like a 100 concurrent users.

I'm glad you said this. 2-dev shop here and we've used Heroku the last five years. We spend all our time developing and supporting our application and almost never worry about infrastructure. I keep getting tempted to move to K8s; Heroku is expensive for what we get and seems to have suffered some serious brain-drain. I've dabbled with K8s in side-projects and I can geek out on all the terraform and yaml stuff for days. But its probably not a great idea to inflict it on a 2-dev shop.
Most of the useful insights in the Devops movement can be derived from knowing Conway's law and thinking about organizational patterns holistically. As usual the success stories get cargo culted by others without understanding the principles and thought processes that led there, and usually fail because every organization is different and has different needs. Change is hard. This will happen with every shiny new movement like Devops or Agile.

I'm sure we're due for a new one soon which will follow the same path, since people seem to be admitting that Devops has problems on here more and more. Will that cause deeper reflection? Probably not for many orgs, because soon some consultants will dream up a new brand of silver bullet to slay the immortal monster of organizational dysfunction and that's much more exciting.
Shaming people for purchasing/selling S&P 500 mutual funds is really dumb. Expected better from the WSJ.

But yeah, trading individual stocks is highly suspect and should be illegal.