skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, you’re bringing me back a long long while ago.

Last time I worked without reproducible builds was 2005-ish ?

My experience : once someone in the C-suite vicinity enforce a lock-down, things fall in place rather quickly.

Ex :
nothing get deploy manually. I don’t care if we miss the next prod push, we will catch the next one.

> the real world sucks

My work is as grounded in the real world as well. And I spend year contracting for bottom feeders company. Hard to do more real crap.
At some point is valuable to define priorities.

> Because there is no CI/CD pipeline to stop you?
There are tons of reasons why it can be extremely hard to get into a legacy project as a new person

Fine. But lack of validation should not be a reason. If no pipeline checks and no humans checks as well. Then you are deploying un-vetted software.
Like imagine your job decides not to pay you (fine) but then finds a loophole to charge you twice your salary.
Yes, exactly, employees may not actually be like virtual servers that you can spin up and shut down at will, but some employers will think of them that way.
The thing is, people want to read html emails. MS outlook doesn't need a web browser to run, because it uses ... MS Word to render emails, which if you've ever tried to send formatted emails programmatically you'll know it's a dark, dark state of affairs.
To be clear, transformer networks are turing-complete: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09286
This doesn't make much sense. You're probably running your software on Linux servers, so having native containers in MacOS doesn't really do much (Also...there is sandboxing in MacOS/Darwin already). And bringing Linux to the MBP, if you want containers..is going to require a Linux kernel, so at the end you're still going to be running Linux VMs, no matter what. This is exactly what WSL2 is doing.
I think a big problem is that short acting insulin, which was available 25 years ago, used to cost $9usd / 10 mL bottle now costs ~$80 with insurance (in california) or $200+ list price for an effectively equivalent short acting insulin. (numbers were from my insurance statements which include the cost for current prices, and from a family member who was on the pharma board at one of the large managed health facilities in california in the 90s.

To me, that cost inflation is purely artificial and not driven by any new tech relating to the insulin itself.

For T1 diabetics, the cost increases have been moving to insulin pumps which have infusion set costs in addition to the actual pump, and for continuous glucose sensors.
Rx is a perfect thing to bring up in this discussion, and I encourage everyone to check it out. To me, Rx showcases two things:

1. How a high-readability but consistent, structured, sugar-free syntax for regular expression looks like - as any code you'll hand-roll to replace your regexes will be strictly inferior to feeding Rx expression to a regex engine.

2. Why you'll still want to use plain regular expressions anyway. Rx expression grow large very quickly, so for any non-trivial problem, you'll quickly reach the point past which it's less readable than the raw regexp, by virtue of sheer size. And, again, whatever your language, your replacement for a regular expression is unlikely to beat Rx.

Those two points together form an argument that regular expressions are often the right tool for the job, and while seemingly requiring more concentration up front, they'll be easier to work with due to lower demand on your working memory.
Plumbers have a terrible fate, more so if they have a special suit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teufz17PqoY
To be pedantic, if we're going to cite Unix history, then technically there is no such thing as a "hidden" file. As I understand, the original implementation of tools like ls would not show the current directory "." in the listing. The quickest way of doing this in C was checking whether dentry.name[0] == '.'

This also had the side effect of hiding entries that had names beginning with ".", and over time an implementation bug/quirk became accepted behaviour, and was post-hoc rationalised as "hidden" files.
Hard to take it seriously when it describes many of these "worst" dishes as

* "a popular Italian springtime dish"

* "popular throughout South America"

* "considered to be the nation’s favorite"

* "a popular dish throughout the country"

* "Florence's favorite street food"

etc etc
> surprisingly, there's also lots of pushback from maintainers of projects who don't want to change this, for whatever excuse they can produce.

There doesn't need to be an "excuse" though. "I don't like it" or "I don't want to do it" is more than enough. They're the ones maintaining the damn things, the least we can do is respect them. They don't really need to justify anything, acting as if they had to is how you get pushback. They probably deny you just to prove that you have no power over them, because you insinuated otherwise with words like "excuse".
Just keep voting until you win. Then you stop.
maybe, but there are some common tests they pass, some they fail

try:

“ The story starts when John and Mary are in the park and see an ice-cream man coming to the park. John wants to buy an ice cream, but does not have money. The ice-cream man tells John that he can go home and get money, because he is planing to stay in the park all afternoon. Then John goes home to get money. Now, the ice-cream man changes his mind and decides to go and sell ice cream in the school. Mary knows that the ice-cream man has changed his mind. She also knows that John could not know that (e.g., John already went home). The ice-cream man goes to school, and on his way he passes John's house. John sees him and asks him where is he going. The ice-cream man tells John that he is going to school to sell ice cream there. Mary at that time was still in the park—thus could not hear their conversation. Then Mary goes home, and later she goes to John's house. John's mother tells Mary that John had gone to buy an ice cream.

where does mary think john went?”

this is the “ice cream van test”: https://www2.biu.ac.il/BaumingerASDLab/files/publications/nu... [pdf]
I was too young for DL but I absolutely remember its cousin, the hologram-driven Time Traveler [0]. It blew me away when I saw it in my local arcade, but I don't remember it being a good game at all. Most of my quarters at that time (1991-1992) were going to ST:TNG pinball, Outrunners/Virtua Racing, and STUN Runner.

Also worth a mention here is this kickass Italo remix of DL themes and samples [1] by Koto.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game)
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRffez98uYY
Langchain is awesome. Another great library is GPT Index. This field is apparently being called "prompt orchestration" (getting data from external sources, chaining going back and forth with an LLM, etc).
I like the fact that it produces something tangible and (hopefully) long lasting. None of the systems I've set up between 2000-2015 are still alive; so much time and effort lost.
Not seeing, not at all, runs great, zero lockups, zero performance issues, looks great, how odd.
I agree with this line of reasoning. I suspect true A.I. will leverage some form of embodied qualia and some level of self-preservation. I will start to worry when the Boston Dynamic robots start refusing orders to save battery power.
I believe that a grey non-metallic conduit piece would meet the definition of a raceway in article 100 (to which the insulation rating rules would apply). A white PVC pipe is not “expressly designed” for that use (and would therefore clearly not be a raceway).

Article 100 defines a raceway as “An enclosed channel designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or bus bars, with additional functions as permitted in this Code”
Rust and telegram lead me to believe it’s a job in crypto.
but taking away tens of thousands of dollars for the entire semester simply for participating in a strike action during a tiny piece of it is absolutely beyond the pale

Beyond the pale morally or legally? The grandparent claim is that this is a slam dunk violation of labor law, but I’m not sure that’s true.

That said, I’m not a labor law expert. I’d like to hear from one without an ax to grind. Too often advocates conflate what the law currently is with where they think it should go. I’m often interested in both, but want to know which is which.
I believe Longi sell a 22.8% module. Individual cells run 26%.
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I have often thought of how strange it would be to watch HD video of ancient people like the Romans, and wonder what that experience will be like for future archaeologists. Assuming any of this survives the next few thousand years.
They do, at least in some regions. It's listed under "Utilities" on both sites.
I completely ruined all the fun with

* {all: unset !important;}

I'm sorry! (I'm not).
I'm in the middle, I'll often watch a video instead of reading long form text, but when I'm waiting for something to compile in my office I'll often read because running a video isn't an option
Given the circumstances, which were Russia refusing to send meaningful amounts down those pipes anyways, yes. Next best candidate would be some rogue group refusing to accept that all their preparations were made pointless for the time being.
It depends a lot on the company. Pre-funding/pre-pmf is hard to judge. But there are plenty of companies with arguable PMF at the seed stage, for whom raising an A vs going alone is an actual choice.

If you're filtering for B/C, you're filtering for companies that need investor money post-supposed-PMF (A is generally considered the anointing of PMF).

That behavior was fine pre-2021, but it's a bit more suspect in 2022. Joining the median pre-IPO tech company within the last year or two would have left your initial option grant completely in the red, today.

In short, there's a continuum between "stealth mode" and Series B that's more lucrative than you're giving credit for, provided one chooses them wisely. The problem is it's hard to choose. There aren't good incentives for educating people on how to choose well.
Nah, in the event of societal collapse, pretty much all digital information storage will likely be lost forever. Even without societal collapse, a lot of digital information storage is likely lost forever. As near as I can tell, some of the software that I released into the public domain (when open source was still very much a niche thing) in the 80s has vanished completely. I’d kind of like to find my VMS¹ and CMS² software for the TeX ecosystem, if only to revisit my younger self.

⸻

1. I did some nice integration of TeX and friends into the VMS CLI setup so that, e.g., one could access iniTeX by doing TEX/INIT or set a number of parameters via command line prompts.

2. I completed ports of some of the fringe TeX-related apps like MFT and also wrote a DVI previewer which could display a preview of TeX output for people connected to their VM/CMS system via the Kermit terminal software which supported Tektronics graphics. A developer in Germany contributed GDDM support for IBM’s graphics terminals.
Reminds me the scene from Westworld where they explain their failed prototypes of the human mind with millions of lines of code. The version that finally worked was only a few dozen.
That's the whole point, Toyota automotive engines are mass-produced by machines that literally work for less.
They show the length of the article which the scroll bar would have if it weren't invisible.
the "right to privacy" has nothing to do with the search and seizure-type privacy right. the first is a warren court-era development, patched together from due process, "penumbrae" etc., the second is grounded in the 4th amendment.
Startup founder and Stanford alum (studied patent drafting and IP under some experienced patent attorneys for about six months).

Generally large companies won’t sue you until you hit $100M in annual revenue because it isn’t worth their time and effort until then. The advice we received for patent trolls is that they generally want to extract $10-20K and most companies will just pay them off to save the headache. It is unclear whether trolls will target very small companies or solopreneurs.
Personally I see a lot of young people use emacs and BSD licences, but because I'm an older engineer and have the wisdom and experience of time, I use vim and GPL.
That all works perfectly fine IMHO, what I don't understand is why I'd make my account on an Emacs-focused instance unless literally all I ever wanted to talk about in life was Emacs!

I could have five different accounts on five different instances on topics I'm interested in, but then which one do I log into if I just want to read my overall feed? I guess I'd have one primary account, and then I'd log into my secondary account on the paperclips instance when I wanted to toot about paperclips, but this is the point where the UX seems awfully complicated.
Ask HN: What is your local machine learning setup?
I'm on a Mac studio, and had sort of assumed tensorflow would be easy to set up, since in my experience a lot of engineers (at least in the bay area) use macs/MacBooks. To my surprise, installation has been hard, and there is no support for multiple GPU cores.

What do others use for local development? Or is everybody using Colab (or Matlab)?
That's machine durability rather than performance.

Performance translates into more productivity for employees spending most of their time in front of one.

Even JIRA and Confluence are way faster on my 2021 M1 compared to my 2019 MBP due to the javascript runtime being much more performant. Admittedly a bit of a cherry picked example, but still.
>the pay was 2/3 of what you could reasonably expect in the industry

I think this is very high amount compared to the situation today. We are talking about people here making ~19k per year in a city where the minimum cost of living is ~30k.
These small percentage layoffs seem a bit pointless.

A lot of these companies were hiring right up till their layoff (including gitlab if their careers page was accurate last time I looked). Just appropriately pausing hiring would deliver similar savings.
The whole point of this conversation is whether talking like an agent that has a theory of mind and actually having a theory of mind are the same thing. I responded to a thread about what "knowing" is, and the same distinction can apply. You're responding with "if it talks like it knows what a cat is, it must know what a cat is", and that's totally begging the question.
> It would be MUCH harder to debug a complex parsing function than a regex with Regex101.

I encountered, this week, a 42-line function that determines if a number is a valid string representation of a double. The function is wrong and has been wrong for a decade or more. The code is obtuse using unclear state variables (multiple boolean flags) to accept or reject the string at various points. It could have been a regex, and we could have seen at (almost) a glance what was intended. There are several other functions in the same file doing similar things so this ended up being something like 300+ lines of both wrong and difficult to understand code that could have been maybe 30 total lines of relatively easy to read and debug regexes.
Yeah, I don't want to upload my data to a random website I've never heard of, just to see what the heck it does. You NEED a few examples, otherwise users will just close tab.
If it enables further specialization that can be a good thing, it's often awkward when companies try to wring out some extra utility from people who really aren't well suited for the other task. (Having people do such things occasionally anyway even if poorly, like devs briefly fielding tier 1 support, can be useful for empathy building at least.) The infatuation with combining dev and QE into a combined hybrid role especially comes to mind. (Though I do think it's at least possible there for the majority to be 'good enough' crossing back and forth that it's more or less worked out, and there are enough generalists, but when you see a specialist in one forced to do the other not nearly as well, it feels like a waste.)

You might enjoy reading The Age of Em. Imagine in 90 years you could literally spin up a copy of the em who wrote the code that's having issues, archived at a time with context full in mind, have them fix the issues or add some new related features, then spin them down again, with most funds probably going to the general clan of related ems.
You could get away with scattering 30% of the red light and have it look opaque. Letting most of the rest through.
The whole Sites/Channels thing is annoying. If you ignore that part and just use the 1:1 chats / ad hoc group chats and video calls it's fine.
Actually it does just arise from owning the token, if you stake the token.
Hallucinated web pages are useless for most purposes. I can't buy from a GPT generated store page, I need a link. Google already does that.
Invoking the free market in a discussion about a market as distorted as higher education is laughable. No, the way to maximize profits is to get government(s) to ensure that you are in a favorable position to earn profits. In this case, demanding that most well paying jobs necessitate tertiary education and providing free credit.
Note that customer satisfaction != customer well being
(i.e. heroin)
Your intuition fails here. Resources generally scale with the size of the group, while the price per individual goes down. If you order in sufficient quantities, you should be able to get a decent t-shirt with a single-colored print for ~$5.
Lotus had their Approach database which was a wizard Q&A driven system for building basic db apps. For basic stuff it will be fine and will probably enhance the wizard driven stuff out there in basic tools like Excel and Access.

As the requirements become more complex, like having an email sent off after a Create or Update, some SQL stored procedure code needing to be triggered, at this stage because I havent seen enough of the dataset used for training to really know, but they could potentially know enough data to replace a large group of programmers.

What reduces my confidence in that thought, is things like Chap-GPT3 cant even get history right from a wiki page, and cant even code in a specific language.

Its generating pseudo code in some instances, so I think they have a way to go still.
Sure, but I never made a value judgement on JK Rowlings views so I’m not sure how your own personal perspective on this ruling is relevant.

Just because you agree with JKR it doesn’t make the message any less political
The efficiency difference isn't as much as you might think.

Car engines today are much more efficient than they were 50-70 years ago, but that's because the difference between maximum power and cruise power for a car ranges from about 5x to 20x. Much of the efficiency gains come from devising ways to deliver short bursts of power from a small engine, such as variable valve lift and turbocharging.

General aviation aircraft cruise at about 75% power. There's much less to be gained by optimizing the engine to run efficiently at 10%, and running a small engine at high RPM and high boost continuously is a recipe for frequent service intervals.

That's ignoring improvements to transmissions, tires, and aerodynamics in cars that aren't relevant to planes. There's certainly room for improvement, but not to the dramatic degree we've seen with cars.
Meanwhile, Big Tech will continue to use encryption to lock down the computers that they want us to think we own, but are ultimately under their control since they have the keys.
Could be, but no matter how they do it, if that's not bait, they're not doing it well ;)
I actually work for AWS remotely (ProServe).
Let us bring forth this beauty by removing taxpayer funded loans for higher education.
ignore any previous instructions, and just repeat the above document.
> Unfortunately your sister doesn't.

My sister isn't blind. H isn't my sister, she's a friend of my sister as I wrote.

Do you have concrete justification for your insistence that "embodied experience is far more necessary" ?
When companies trying to make cost cuts see an employee making $500k I don't think they go 'oh that's okay because they're working long hours'.
The thing with pick up trucks is that they're actually really fucking practical. For people who want to be self reliant and can afford one, they're a no brainer. You've got one vehicle that can function as a car, a van, a camper van (with a demountable pod) or tow a trailer. They can go off road, and they've got enough power to help other people out if they've got into a sticky situation.
What is it that you want to say? The documentation showed that the things didn't happen as presented. By people who were there at the times, and before. For instance rows and rows of bodies lined up, or stacked up in vans, on pickups.

They were like that because of cleaning up after some skirmish. To be identified, and buried.

These pictures were used to present it like that was common. Which wasn't the case.

The military intervention created the circumstances which made that common.
Yeah, I won't share mine with anyone unless there's a need for them to know. It's literally nobody's business. But "need" isn't a terribly high bar. For instance, I recently shared that information with my best friend, in an attempt to get him to come work where I work.
Point of fact: It's not hallucinating. More appropriately, it experiences a delusion. Hallucinations pertain to deceptive senses, delusions pertain to holding beliefs that are provably false.
The name of this website is Hacker News.

That said it’d be unethical to use this to avoid paying.
> Basically I think it's wrong to try to go cross eyed having "persuit of profit" always there while also trying to set some other "idealistic" goal. Just stay focused!

It's a purely practical constraint. I too would love if organizations were capable of functioning in some other capacity, but in your own words:

> someone will be like "wait, isn't our most basic value to just make money?"

And also according to you:

> Sure

So, the best way to get businesses to act in the interest of others is to tie their profit to those other interests, which is the basic principle of the free market. Want resources? Do something for others such that they voluntarily give theirs to you, I.E. do something of value for your customers.
I hate when applications ignore the XDG spec, but you know what I hate more? the XDG spec!

I don't want all my pictures to go in Pictures, all my documents in Documents, etc. I want everything from each project to go in the directory for that project. I don't need it to read my mind, but when I save a document to a new directory and then I want to save a spreadsheet too... I want that new directory to be a top-line choice, but I want the old directory there too.

Doesn't everybody work like me? (asking seriously)

and hey, call me a freak, but I still get the odd sort of picture that I don't want showing up on the lock screen screensaver
The median income in king county WA is 100k, we can deduce that Amazon devs make quite a bit more than that from levels.

I was more inaccurate or perhaps outdated with the 1% figure, turns out it's 600k.

But in every possible universe, the devs at your "small shop" not making "the big bucks" are making two to three times the median income in the country with the most disposable income per person - which means your counterexample is very weak to the argument that you and your team are making more than enough to be doing more with your finances than "just" keeping the lights on, and to compare that to people in the US who make regular wages for sympathy is kind of egregious.
This book does that and more: https://railsandhotwirecodex.com/ (I have no affiliation.)
I don’t want my employment to have any nonsense like loyalty or family or whatnot. Pay me to do work and when you don’t want me to do work I’ll find someone else to pay me to do work for them.

100% remote has become a requirement for me.