skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But writing the test first means it will always fail once

Right, exactly.

> in my mind that doesn't count. It's like pretending.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It demonstrates that your test is actually testing something and that your code is having an impact on that something, which in most contexts is probably not high value but is not of zero value.

Pretending is when your team has agreed to TDD but you write the passing tests after the code just so no one can accuse you of not doing TDD when they weren't looking, which does seem to be what "we do TDD" sometimes turns into in practice... and even in that case, the tests may have communicative value that may be worth the weight of the test, your odds are just getting awfully low.
I've yet to see a single person who thinks these models are sentient demonstrate an actual understanding of how they work. They're called transformers and they're based on this research: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

How do you square the lack of durable memory and the massive matrices of "attention" values with the ways that memory and attention are understood by neuroscientists to work in a natural brain? These models have no neuromodulators to approximate anything that could be understood as emotion. Humans can be sentient without language. Indeed; some humans are tragically raised in isolation and struggle mightily with language after being saved. A transformer is nothing without language.

I realize sentience is a slippery concept that can be defined however somebody wants, but try to recognize how fundamentally different these models are from humans.
The proverbial 'pat on the back' goes a long way, whether that's shown with financial rewards or other ways.
A corporation is like a legal superhuman person (even potentially immortal) and we control those with competition.

When AMZN Prime shipping went to 5 days in my location instead of 2 days I started buying from retailers that shipped faster than AMZN (like Ebay stores from Japan) and let my Prime subscription lapse.

The government is even catching on and realizing it was a mistake to let Facebook buy Instagram and Whatsapp.
Reading between the lines I’m sure he meant that they could study those arts in addition to those fundamental studies listed prior.

A nation devoted to poetry and porcelain isn’t sustainable.

And certainly he must have been aware of how cyclical history is versus a linear march towards artistic pursuits. The US since it’s inception has been involved in a significant war in nearly every decade. Post-Vietnam through the 1st Iraq war was one of the rare periods where a US citizen could have been of military age without a major hot war. Although the Cold War certainly brought it’s own level of fear.
Repos and reporting cars as stolen are two different things.
>The economy sucks

Are you talking about the US economy? Because it is doing extremely well right now, click-bait headlines notwithstanding.
I was the same, really pissed off when they made the change. Luckily, it's android, so you can install a custom launcher. I remember I had to play around with adb a bit, but after that, it's smooth sailing. I use FLauncher[0], but there might be something better out there.

[0] https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher
The median communicator is a very poor communicator most of the time. Communication takes active focus and effort and the default is zoning out or making assumptions about what the other is saying.
"The Signal and the Noise" is a great book and it definitely impacted some of the most important choices I made around my career. I think that's part of the reason I'm so annoyed that Nate Silver has gone so far down the punditry rabbit hole.
Depends like everything in computing.

Clever ones are even multiple layers, with cache between runs and PGO metadata, or use a JIT server even.

Java and .NET runtimes across various implementations is where you will find these techniques.
What kind of ads? I see recommendations for movies that I would have to purchase but not general ads in my Chromecast.
Makes me think of The Money Pit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO9nxRjIv2A
Interesting that no one's trying to argue against humanities being a bad choice in a poor economy. Instead you're trying to argue that the economy isn't doing too badly. Even the OP made the point that enrolling in these courses is something you do due to your own interests rather than for an economic reason.

So now take the uncertainty you acknowledge combined with the reality that yourself and OP acknowledge (even if implicitly) that humanities is not something you do for economic reasons and you have your answer.

If humanities could make a case that it's a good idea financially that might help enrollment but no on in this thread is even trying to make such a case. Instead the case being made is that you should do it out of passion, not for economic reasons. Such an argument won't win you any enrollments when things such as housing are unaffordable.
You are missing the "now" in the parent comment.

They are talking about actions in the last year or so.

Meta's open source projects that they own are maintained now by eager volunteers, not staff.

Anybody could see how Facebook is floundering, Instagram can see the iceberg approaching, and changing anything major in Whatsapp will piss off literally billions of people.

They've cornered themselves, so now they're reaching for literally anything that could save them. That seems reasonable as a failing company, except when every action they make affects entire markets and legitimizes trends on a very shaky basis.
My understanding is that they detect the changes and then implement the “reverse” on the published image.
Thanks! The find (https://www.crul.com/docs/commands/find) command works really well if you are trying to construct a filter expression and just want to quickly look for results containing a particular string so you can see the defining attributes/column+row values.

There's a short writeup of this pattern here: https://www.crul.com/docs/examples/how-to-find-filters
you have to do something like the guy on a mug
The actual amount was was probably in the tens or so of milligrams. "A milligram" is a slightly hyperbolic way of saying "a very small amount", down in the small-fractions-of-a-gram level.

I forget that not everyone on the Internet is aware of English idiom.
What if an administration didn't want to show us pictures of seahorses, but, say, no anti-war opinions? How hard would they have to try to ensure we all saw stories of our valiant friends and allies in need of our aid against a ruthless, despicable enemy?

How difficult would it be to prevent, suppress, or undermine journalistic scrutiny of a contentious military conflict?

Do we already know?
> Seems unlikely that each step is actually updated by the workers themselves. I’d put money on an algorithm.

Orders are automatically added to the "prep" stage, and again to the post-oven "quality check" stage. But they aren't automatically moved from the prep stage to the oven stage; I know this because I've had domino orders that get stuck in the prep stage for half an hour and when I show up to pick up my pizza anyway, they admit they haven't started making it yet. The pizza getting added to the oven stage means the workers actually did put the pizza in the oven, or at least told the computer they did so.
This is a fascinating quote in part because you can see John Adams's thought process in the bits that are scratched out. He starts by saying that he needs to study politics and war so that his sons can study "painting and poetry", but then he scratches that out and replaces it with "mathematics and philosophy". The next sentence suggests that he realized while writing that it would take more than one generation to get to the leisure state he desires—that once his generation has won the war, his children will need to establish the nation, and only then will his grandchildren have enough leisure time to study the humanities.
Buy a school sounding domain, copy existing school web site -> get an education plan.
Check your inbox. :)
I think the only way we could allow this is through some sort of UBI or other government/state/community backed right to your needs being met.

Maybe that's what you mean by genuinely affluent society, and I'd agree one of those societies would not only allow people to pursue but reap the benefits of its populace pursuing those things.

However I don't think it's possible with the current incentives in place. While being educated and pursuing your interests are allowed and in some circles lauded, your basic needs being met far outweighs any other incentive any actor has.

Maybe we should focus on allowing building that society but I don't think that means in the current society we can even begin to pretend people are encouraged to pursue their interests at the costs of their basic needs being met.
The greatest thing about this thread is that I realize I'm not alone in my nostalgia for coffeescript.
Probably some internal process monitors them, or they're trying to get noticed. I assume being top comment on a popular post gets lots of profile clicks.

You see similar activity on LinkedIn.
Funny since in my experience, germans are usually a lot "faker" than americans. Like, by a huge margin. Americans are overly positive, but they aren't necessarily deceptive.
European program funding a University team, no?
What do you think that says, and in what dialect?

If the intended dialect and meaning are what I think, the definition of 'finna' and the overall usage are wrong.
Ask HN: SaaS customer control panels for the container age?
Hi! I support a SaaS business. Our core product is a single-tenant enterprise application, so each customer is deployed in its own environment. Deployments are completely automated (Ansible, Kubernetes, etc), and now we'd like to take the next step and allow customers to self-manage by exposing a customer "control panel" that integrates our existing automation and payments with a UI that they can operate. Think: "single click apps" on DigitalOcean.

I'm looking for recommendations for FOSS products that fit somewhere between customer and infrastructure; something intended to be more customer-facing than, say, Portainer or Yacht.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34962145.
I don't use it. Not everything has to be wireless. I also read somewhere that since BT is essentially radio, it decreases the quality of music when using earbuds or headphones. Got to love a wired connection listening to some FLAC music file.
But you do spend a half decade practicing writing convincing essays regarding said thinking and that too has value. There's no use being able to say something is wrong if you can't get others to agree.
This is mostly a Tesla problem. Almost every other car produced today supports CarPlay and Android Auto. It is a regular source of frustration for me when I'm driving our Model 3, sending/receiving text messages using the Tesla voice interface is an exercise in frustration.
Even if it succeeds they have to study it.

There are very few examples of countries that have survived without a military.
lol, you seem angry and have devolved to personal attacks. I'll stop responding, don't want to upset you anymore. Sorry for hurting your feelings. Hope the rest of your day is better. Cheers.
An implementation of this clearly requires at least level 4 autonomy

Not if you want to have a quiet chat with the person who's been missing their payments..
I do get your point, and I agree.

My thought process was that the inherent evils were already being discussed, so I figured I would point out something that I saw in the article which I thought was interesting but not already being discussed.
> I still respect his models, but I think the rest is the kind of stuff you’re expected to do as part of a media organization.

Exactly. His models are still outstanding. Ironically, I think the signal from his models gets lost in all the noise around the filler content on his site.
> DevOps engineer

So LastPass, a security company, has people who are tasked with both delivering features as fast as possible using a variety of development tools (dev) and administer their production systems where critical data lies (ops). On the same machine, from home.

It seems that this breach is not really an accident and more a logical conclusion.
China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report
-filter_complex specifies a series of filters that accept inputs and return outputs. Any value contained in brackets ([]), is a value that can be input or output by a filter. [0:v],[0:a],[1:v],[1:a] are values supplied by ffmpeg representing the video and audio streams of the 1st and 2nd inputs, in this case input1.mp4 and input2.mp4.

The first filter, concat, takes in a set of synchronized audio and video segments, concatenates them, and returns the resulting audio and video clips. n specifies the number of segments, v specifies the number of output video clips, and a specifies the number of output audio clips. The results are saved to the values of [v] and [a] for video and audio respectively.

The eq filter then takes the [v] video returned by concat, and adjusts the value to a brightness of 0.3. For reference, 0 represent no change to the brightness.

This [v] value is then mapped to the output video using -map.

That being said, this filter isn't correct, as the [a] value is never used or mapped, so the filter would fail. The correct way to write the filter, if the intended use is to discard the audio, would be:

-filter_complex "[0:v][1:v]concat[v];[v]eq=brightness=0.3[outv]"

I omitted the n,v, and a values in the concat filter, as they are by default 2,1, and 0 respectively.

Another way to visualize this filter in an imperative style would look like this:

def filter(input0, input1) {
v = concat(input0.v,input1.v);
outv = eq(v,brightness=0.3);
return outv;
}
Looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34962145 was first, so we merged the threads thither.
Lowering the cost of repossession lowers the risk/cost to lending to low income. It's good for the poor.
Thanks for adding these points :)
Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022
I think people fail to recognize how much of everything now is an internet connected computer. This was true at McDonald’s 15 years ago. A bunch of Windows XP embedded machines at various stations(Fries, Salads, Sandwiches, Desserts) getting routed their individual components.

In more recent years it’s gone WAY WAY past that level of complexity. Dual lane drive thrus? They have cameras and track which car is which to try and keep orders straight. All of this data feeds into a system so management has a clearer and clearer idea of what’s actually happening in the stores.

In a smaller operation like a Dominos it’s super easy to cheat and bump everything off, but once you have any real volume it becomes unmanageable.
I love Org Mode too, but I still haven't pried myself entirely away from OneNote. There is still just too much stuff in my OneNote silo, and Office Lens is too convenient for capturing paper-bound information. I've settled into a hybrid workflow which keeps my vast Org Mode database at the center but retains use of OneNote.

I'll also upvote the mention of BrainTool. It's so damned good!
Just to throw a wrench into this conversation - I applaud Tutanota on this (I was curious where Signal sees the line between Iran and the UK). However:

> (CP obviously)

Are there options on the table for dealing with this in a freedom-respecting way? Even if freedom were your only priority, the worse the problem gets, the more political capital the politicians have to shut it down. If it gets worse and worse, it strikes me as inevitable that encryption will be curbed, even in the United States.

Alternately, is there a really compelling argument that CP is not a real problem? Mind you that whatever arguments are out there, I'm going to be looking out for motivated reasoning. It seems like so long as freedom-enhancing technology increases, bad actors doing worse things is inevitably going to be a problem. I'm concerned about this, because (in addition to CP being bad) if it's true, proponents of encryption would be shooting themselves in the foot by being in denial.
I can see how that can be useful at times, but they are not going to trick me to switch from old.reddit.com (on desktop) or i.reddit.com (on mobile).
From the mefiwiki:

> He wrote that he makes contrarian predictions as calculated bets that in the unlikely event they pan out, he would get credit.

Doesn’t care about being right or wrong, but getting credit for the appearance of being right. Poisoning the well for his own amusement.

To clever to be caught but when it happens it’s because it was all part of the master plan
Until, bound by the same broken reasoning, and senseless logic and push for change, they do it all over again?

For no real beneficial reason?
Why would Apple try to break it? It poses zero risk to their product line, and in fact might help a little. You still have to buy an iOS device to do iMessage.
The problem with local dev, across a large developer org, is that it is local to each developer's machine. Which means that if there's some problem with it, that each developer has to spend time fixing it, or eventually end up going to IT or other devs and ask for help. And devs hate asking for help.

The benefit of remote dev, along with standardizing on an editor, is that the company and IT department can say "here is a thing that works, use this one", instead of debugging weird issues on individual developer laptops.

If you're IT and someone comes to you and says their mouse doesn't work, do you break out the screwdriver and open it up to try and fix their mouse, or do you just give them a new one that you know works, so they can get back to work while you look into the problem later.

Local dev is great when you're at a small company and just starting out, no support, but once you're a software dev working alongside other software devs, most of whom are smarter than you, and then there's a whole other team of devs dedicated to your experience as a developer; local dev feels like a little folksy hometown sort of endeavor.

Don't get me wrong, local dev has its place, and some things like writing firmware will always want that, but the industry's moving past it for big picture reasons.
You're 100% sure they didn't already ship the code and have the ability to flip a flag to enable message interception per user?

Or the ability to execute arbitrary external code?
> and you probably don't care how long it takes for your possessed car to make it back to your show room.

But you probably do care that your self-repossessed car is now impounded for driving dangerously slowly on public roads.
I am failing to understand how your post relates in any way to my comment. Was this meant for somewhere else perhaps?
You can add `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]` to your codebase to avoid any unsafe Rust, which should prevent buffer overflows. Obviously it may make writing a codebase somewhat harder.
For PostgreSQL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-flight-sql-postgresql

Context: https://lists.apache.org/thread/sdxr8b0lj82zd0ql7zhk9472opq3...

Also see ADBC, which aims to provide a unified API on top of various Arrow-native and non-Arrow-native database APIs: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/01/05/introducing-arrow-a...

(I am an Arrow contributor.)
Go is pretty much a better-in-every-way replacement to that entire cluster of developer-friendly languages like Ruby, Python, Node.js etc. A startup in 2023 would need to have pretty good reasons to not start in Go.
The Geometric Deep Learning theory developed by Bronstein ea. is also a very nice unifying theory for deep learning, using Graph Neural Networks. Did you study the interactions with these?
What Is This Singularity?
But Apple products are premium products, with status attached. As my kid will attest to, though not directly.
I agree to an extent - Musk was only able to say the emperor had no clothes because he owns the company.

No public company wants to be the first (or the last) to make a move, so even at public companies that don’t NEED layoffs - especially indiscriminate ones that decimate a talent pipeline - will initiate downsizing.

It’s all to appease the street - they expect blood, mgmt gives them blood, share prices goes up, mgmt hits bonus targets.

Long term impacts don’t matter because they won’t be there to endure the pain - pass that off to another poor sucker and hope you have a chair when the music stops. Pubco 101.
https://mrshll.uk/2021/10/12/thick-description-pizzas/

More in-depth presentation of the same subject matter.
Yeah I agree - while I think Mark is showing some pretty knee jerk decision making lately (copying twitter subscription, chasing AI), I think the massive investment in VR shows a vision - if it will pay off or not is up for debate. And this is from someone who severely doesn't like him, there's plenty to good reasons to dislike him but I think the VR move is more strategic than people give it credit for.
If you are not a good communicator, you will build the wrong thing. You will not fully understand what matters in what you building or be building something that is a lower priority. If you are still a good listener, which is 80+% of the way to being a good communicator, you will end up being the right thing but you effort will not be used to their full extent. People will now know about the improvements or align with what you are doing.
Do you have sources that describes some of the specifics with how weakening encryption endangers children?

I've been emailing back and forth with proponents of this law (working on getting access to someone who has mild influence in Parliament). They've been asking for sources that aren't just my own knowledge and experience, and framing how this bill also harms children would be extremely helpful
I agreed with you until I stopped and wondered...why? If Windows Phone were still around, this would make sense. Since it's not, I don't see Microsoft's incentive to get bogged down in litigation on messaging.
> ..but again, the Right will happily use this tiny point to drive the wedge to say "TRANS IS BAD ALL THE TIME."

I have no doubt that folks on the right will exploit that, but I'd also argue that supporting irreversible transition procedures on children, often against the wishes of the parents, is not a tiny point as you callously put it. It's THE point.
Try it today :)
The Chartreuse cocktail I've had the most of is the Industry Sour:

1 part Green Chartreuse
1 part Fernet
1 part simple syrup
1 part lime juice

It was big when I lived in Athens, GA
What's wrong with system administrator? IT specialist? Cloud engineer? Reliability expert?

There are many options that don't tack "dev" into your non-dev job titles.
That’s not a US-specific phenomenon, though.
Well it just so happens that most of the things people replied with (in fact, all of the things except PyTorch) have nothing to do with AI innovations, so great we can all agree to call them real innovations. Which is what they all are. And what you claimed Facebook doesn’t do.

The fact that you’re continuing to double down is astounding.
how can you be sure you're not a markov chain outputting meaningless rng
dang, you need a better clustering engine for duplicates. Try LLM and DBSCAN!
> understanding based on principles is no longer required

It very much still is if you care about getting the right answer. If you only care about getting convincing sounding bullshit you just ask the "AI".
There's also SQL, when paired with optimized column-store databases that can run embedded or local (duckdb or clickhouse), you can avoid the extra hop into python libraries entirely.
> Buy AMD cards if you run Linux).

Experience shows that in practice they also aren't much better than Nvidia in regards to Linux.
Didn't people give up on this approach years ago? The "solution" to the paradox is that there is no solution.