skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just used it again today when some service asked me to use one of these generic 2FA OTP token apps. It first recommended the Microsoft one but that one literally wouldn't work unless you accept transmitting usage data, for a kind of app that is both calculator-levels of complexity and uniquely ill suited to transmitting any data. Found something simple and perfectly good working on FDroid.
The policy solution to men's unrealistic standards for women was to educate them about realistic standards, not to mold women into TV supermodels. With that in mind, is it reasonable to expect the entire population of young men to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to gain several additional inches of height, a high status job, and the magnetic personality of a late night talk show host?
I've never seen it at sit-down restaurants, and I'm not sure how they'd even do it, since frequently the cash register is someplace where customers can't even go. With fast-food, it's easy of course, since you have to stop at the cash register to pay, so the tap reader is right there.

In Japan, it's the same as American fast food (even at sit-down restaurants): you have to go to the register to pay, usually next to the door. In Europe, however, my experience has been that most restaurants have a portable payment terminal they bring to the table for you.
But you learned how to build things so….
And they will be happy to have one, because unions are great to workers/s.
So there are no solutions?
There are no competitive unionized business?
Why not?
Maybe if all the Business need to be unionized, so there will be no advantage one over the other?
Not mentioned here, but in this Techcrunch article, is Ford’s expensive flip-flopping on AV:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/02/ford-forms-automated-drivi...

> Argo AI burst on the scene in 2017 stacked with a $1 billion investment from Ford — and Iater an investment from VW. The startup shuttered suddenly in October 2022 after Ford and VW determined they would no longer pursue AV technology, at least not under the Argo umbrella. Ford said, at the time, it was making a strategic decision to shift its resources to developing advanced driver assistance systems, and not autonomous vehicle technology that can be applied to robotaxis. The company said it recorded a $2.7 billion non-cash, pretax impairment on its investment in Argo AI.
(Mathesar core team member here)

My previous job was in a biggish e-commerce company and the business teams would send spreadsheets with corrections to the data (like updating descriptions, changes in pricing etc.,) almost every day, and the developers had to make those changes in production.

We ended up building an inhouse application to let the product team edit production data directly, with some restrictions. One of Mathesar's goals is to solve collaboration issues like these.

Mathesar allows setting up users with different access levels[1], so it's easier to create users with limited access. As part of our roadmap[2], we also intend to allow configuring permissions at a more granular level, such as row & column level access to tables. So, developers could breathe freely when providing business teams access to the underlying database.

[1] https://docs.mathesar.org/product/users/
[2] https://mathesar.org/roadmap.html
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Mine was quick because I'm boring and got lucky, but I've heard of it taking months.
Hmm, I know that at least some hash map implementations look for hash functions with an is_avalanching trait and otherwise add an explicit combination step; I'd assume that std::unordered_map implementations do the explicit combination all the time as std::hash was pretty much introduced just to work with such containers
Some kids also sleep a lot, but in shorter intervals.
Did some research and seems there’s no reliable diarization method right now. They all have error rates around like 20%.
If you have a look at the top selling vehicles, you’ve basically got it right:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-car...
I have a relative who works on very secretive stuff for big companies as a chemist.

His interviews are humorous. Those leading the interviews can't tell him what he'll be working on, and he can't tell them what he's done in the past.

The questions tend to be very theoretical, instead.
Fair enough- however this analysis specifically addresses

“Critical technologies [which] can be defined as current and emerging technologies with the capacity to significantly enhance, or pose risk to, a country’s national interests, including a nation’s economic prosperity, social cohesion, and national security”

So a level of consideration for the geopolitical implications seems warranted - after all, I’m not sure anyone really invests in hypersonic nuclear capable ballistic technology for the general advancement of humanity.

The benefits of a multi polar world are another topic of course.
The flaw in this argument is assuming that you could do a good job of diagramming a system without describing the use cases of the system. My web dev skills are not proprietary, but the processes and systems I have worked on are.
That sounds discriminatory.
Haha, yes!

We also intend to release our Svelte component-library as a separate package and considering if we should establish a GalaxyQuest theme when naming it, perhaps Laliari.

Here's the discussion: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/discussions/833
In my experience young kids stay up all night, and I work when they’re in school.

I am not joking.

I am on cold #3 in 3 weeks, each one introduced by our youngest and ripped through each family member one by one. Life is misery for the next month or so.
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As you're kind of implying, both 'intent' and 'design' are ideas that sort of revolve around the 'mind', which makes this whole discussion prone to being metaphysics. If for example you think that the designer doesn't have a mind, then intent isn't something that people do but rather something that sort of happens to things. It could be the case that the designer made the can opener exclusively for right-handed people and doesn't even know about it. We can still say the can opener is intended only for right-handed people, but the origin of that intent is much more ephemeral- it's the intent of a predominantly right-handed society or whatever.
Some suppliers are paid a premium. Some get absolutely squeezed. Just depends. I'm glad you were on the premium side.
Yes, and eventually you start computing another hash of the buffer of the concatenated members. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just comparing it with recursive memberwise comparison.
I really couldn't think of what other careers for me to pursue other than writing code. Simply transitioning to other domains/specializations in software engineering is already challenging enough for me, could really use some advice from someone who had a successful transition. (Im a mobile dev now but looking to potentially transition to computer graphics)
i feel that way about everything that has been showcased as state of the art AI
I’m more interested in text models. So much potential there. I was fascinated by the person who hooked up a Siri shortcut to one of the openai models, asking it to return a json response. I think with a little imagination the potential applications are just as compelling as image models like SD.

Just one example, using these in games to generate unique conversations, actions, and events.
There you go and OpenAI is likely going to get the same share of outages - Like GitHub.

Just don't 'centralize everything to GitHub' like someone else said before since we now know that with this foresight made years ago [0], it is a very bad idea in the long term.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
Kotlin has also suffered from this. It gained its credibility due to Google annointing it as the primary language for Android development but, being so close to Java, aspired to replace Java on the server. Sadly, Kotlin's main framework - Ktor - is a joke. The default, Gradle-based Ktor project within IntelliJ doesn't even work and the docs are useless. So Kotlin's server-side aspirations shifted to Spring Boot where it is supposed to be a first-class citizen. In practice there are numerous gotchas for the unwary and if you fled to Kotlin in reaction against Java's archaic practices such as escaping regex metacharacters you'll be disappointed to discover that Spring Boot validation relies on Java-based annotations which means you have to use Java regex patterns. So much for being a first class citizen.
It's humane to enable remote work and employ people without regard for their physical proximity to your office, but it's inhumane to terminate that relationship in the same way?

I cannot agree. If you have a regular in-person presence then I agree, but if your typical form of working is remote then it's not inhumane to have that conversation remotely.
I thought is was about this: https://bellard.org/otcc/otcc.c (a tiny, obfuscated C compiler, winner of the 2001 IOCCC). It has led to TinyCC (https://bellard.org/tcc/), not as tiny, but also more complete, not obfuscated and actually useful.

It turns out the compiler in the article is the opposite of that. It it a simple toy transpiler and the code is very clear and mostly made of comments. The former is a feat of optimization, the latter is a tutorial.
I'm not huge into finance, can you tell me what it's supposed to give me an idea about? It seems like he's talking about his early career in the context of possible advice for people starting out.

Some of it is career advice that would be applicable to other fields too -- talking about education, building connections and networks, getting your foot in the door at a company, etc.
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Back in the day my Intro To Programming course taught the CLU programming language. I remember one cool feature of the compiler; when it hit a syntax error, it would show the error, skip a few lines until it found a stable place to resume parsing, and then continue compiling in order to catch more syntax errors. Pretty neat!
Dozens of HTTP 500s and so forth each week. I have built us quite a large library of actions with transient retry due to this. I'm out of options for the remaining daily failures, so the "automatic retry failed actions" sledgehammer is up next.

Keep the f$!# away from it. I have suggested moving away from GH entirely, but my peers aren't too keen on migrating to a different CI system yet again.

Consider self-hosting everything.
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> I may not know a ton about AWS or another cloud provider but I can put the document together that describes how it will be looking when it's done. That is architecture. Somewhere between UML and word documents.

> What these interviews are checking, and the one you are describing, is whether or not I can parrot the correct code-words. Lambda, elastic cache, all this other nonsense.

Maybe we've just had very different architecture interviews. All the ones I've given or received were the way you'd want. I've never specified a cloud product in these. At most might say "let's use something like Postgres." Amazon for instance didn't care that I couldn't name any of their products.

Kafka example sounds awful. I'm sorry, but on the other hand, sounds like you dodged a bullet.
Same. I was standing outside my dorm room on the phone with my shirt off (back when that would garner more than a few long glances from some), and my future wife was breaking school regs and shortcutting unescorted through the males-only dorm (we still had those). As she went by she kept a looong glance going... we met again randomly at an event a couple of days later and laughed about it. Nearing 50 years later we still laugh about it.
The public supports regulating AI for safety
My wife grew up in a small town. I met her in university and before the summer break I asked for her address to write to her (this was in the 90s and although I had email by then, she didn't). She assured me that her first name and the town was enough, since all the mail for the town went to the shop across the road from her house and everyone knew her.
There’s a very specific intellectual clique that has distracted itself with apocalyptic worries about AI for around a decade now, and I have not seen any evidence as to why anyone should believe they’re right about anything.
I'll take the physicist at his word that he worked it out. I wish they would have mentioned friction - sure the thing was going fast when it left the ground, but the drag from the atmosphere would be ridiculous at that speed and the object not propelled. I'd like to know how much speed it lost by the time it got out of the atmosphere
This could be one of those big-corporate situations:

1. Someone pays a lot of money for something.

2. It turns out to be the wrong thing (either for new needs, or because they didn't consult or listen to the people who could've told them that in time).

3. Someone wants to avoid the political backlash of admitting they bought the wrong thing.

4. The org incurs much more costs than actually fixing the situation would cost, as people have to use the wrong thing and/or can't use the right thing. (Costs from lost productivity, lower quality/uptime, damaged morale, etc.)

(But what I really want to know is... Why did "The Division 2" not build upon "The Division", but instead make you start a new character, and then be more of a selling-brightly-colored hats game? Also, TD1's gritty survival mode was the most compelling gameplay of the franchise, IMHO.)
Amazon also pays much less than the other top tier tech companies. Maybe that's changed in the last 6 months but that was yet another reason why top talent didn't go there.
This person is already putting sets inside vectors, so I don't think they are worried about storage.

But yes, you either need to stop occasionally and remove the duplicates or use a set, if the storage is prohibitive.

Otherwise in terms of performance, sorting and unique is much faster than inserting one element at a time in a set.
"we are expanding the distribution of our Apex Legends testing team"

Goodbye US employees, welcome Asian and Eastern European employees. It's definitely not about costs though (wink)

"They will be provided 60 days severance, though that won’t cover the length of many people’s contracts, sources said."

This I don't get: if you have a fixed term contract and they don't honour it surely you can get all your cash in court?
Shopify's salaries are pretty competitive. They aren't "Bay Area" levels, but you can also live wherever you want, so your after-housing take home pay works out better.

Amazon Toronto doesn't pay much better than Shopify- I can say first hand.
I mentioned in the other thread about Costa Rican addresses that I met the Vatican priest/Latin grammarian/Latin magazine editor Cleto Pavanetto (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleto_Pavanetto) around 2008 at a spoken Latin event. (Latin was the only language we had in common!)

He told me that he could get successfully receive mail addressed to

Cletus
Vatican

I was pretty impressed!
Big problem is that all the satellite services need ground stations that need power and likely depend on the internet. It would be good if they worked without internet but that would take work that won’t be done without incentives.

Ham radio would be fallback. The problem is that the technology is old and the bandwidth is limited. Long distance radio is in HF band, and the whole band is slightly bigger than Wifi channel. It also isn’t reliable cause depends on the ionosphere. It would be like going back 30 years.
Sorta doubt it in already HCOL areas. Many of these grandchildren do not own a home. They will move in. There will be random 'old people' communities in Arizona that will get totally wrecked in value, but the expensive areas will stay expensive.

If they sold those homes they would never be able to buy back in. Nobody is going to sell a South Bay area home they inherited from their boomer parents. They will rent it out or move in. A massive windfall for them.
Well, yes and no. The MA plan is privately operated, but funded in part by public dollars.

To the article's point, the problem arises when private insurers arbitrage the services those public dollars are supposed to be going toward.
I don't want to be too cynical, but OpenAI used to be more open too until they decided releasing weights was too dangerous (/not profitable enough?), what guarantee is there that Eleuther doesn't also close their doors at some point?
I’d believe you if we hadn’t just gone through 2 years of covid disinformation spread by those organizations - whatever vetting process they are using clearly didn’t work.
For false positives (tests fail on working program), the testers test themselves. Thus happens naturally - a failed test might mean app failure or a test failure.

For false negatives (tests pass on broken program), no simple automated detection is possible, after all user cam always write "return true" in check function. Code coverage can help, but it is hard to setup and it's not panacea either. The most practical solution is false negatives are deteced by next level of tests: integration tests or manual tests or bug reports from the field. A few places I have worked on had a rule "every bugfix should be accompanied by the test for it" and it was working pretty well if code reviewrs ate attentive.
Some compilers tokenize while parsing, but for a different reason: it's faster and uses less memory to generate the AST (and sometimes even do analyses) while you're reading the input than to allocate and store a giant list of tokens and then parse that.

Most compilers try not to fail when they encounter a syntax error, they try to "recover" and parse the remaining document, usually starting from the next valid statement or declaration. This lets them report more syntax errors and moreover, is very important for good IDE support (if you've ever used an IDE/language combo where you only get completion after you've written the code, you know why). Although if the syntax error messes up tokenization (e.g. missing quote or end comment) it usually screws up the rest of the document anyways.
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That's why rsync is still the winner.
You are correct. Sorry if I am being pedantic. I was also trying to suggest it could be a b-tree but others have pointed out that it doesn't quite fit the spec.
Oh, so it's your fault!
Strange. Almost all sit-down restaurants here have a portable POS (like you describe for Europe), they just bring it to your table and you can either chip or tap. A lot of Chinese restaurants use QR menus instead, you can pay by your table number at the website it opens.

At fast food restaurants, you just pay at the terminal you ordered your food at. At places that don't have that, like Dick's, you just pay at the terminal they have at the register.

The non-chain places usually have Stripe or Square, they all support tap or chip.

I can't remember the last time I gave my card to someone.
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I think it’s more regional.

I know in my city visitors find it weird when local strangers just start including them in conversations. I know I’d frequent places a line and be fine striking up conversations with whoever was also there.

But me visiting other cities and trying the same, I’d be met with wired looks and asked why I’m talking to them.
I have been hearing about this chamber for years? Do we not have the technology to drill a small hole to it and stick some kind of endoscope like robot in?
Almost all work contracts that I have signed have clauses to break the contract with a two week notice.
> This could be one of those big-corporate situations

Nothing specifically “big” here. Can happen in a corporation of any size. We were not very big, when we bought Siebel software…
Translation. Our wonderful capitalism can no longer support normal salary so that people can retire at reasonable age. So prepare to work till you drop dead so that those few that own half of the Earth can own a little more of it.
So it does succeed but just not enough?

What if the success rate for currently available devices is 0 percent?

Should we not make available something which succeeds in some fraction of cases?

What is the magnitude of benefit in cases that do succeed?
I haven’t watched a single second of live TV, because of ads like that.
Ford owned Argo in a partnership with VW and recently divested of it with some serious losses, causing Argo to go under. This is a (separate) subsidiary being formed under Ford, but neither an acquisition nor individual hiring.
> Some compilers tokenize while parsing, but for a different reason: it's faster and uses less memory to generate the AST

And some don't even generate an AST. :) Just read in and emit or interpret.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210814.html
Yes. The Consistency property means that at the end of every transaction, the resulting data state in the DB will be consistent with the schema definition, including any constraints, triggers, etc. In other words, no transaction will result in invalid data with respect to the schema definition.

This is similar to soundness in programming languages.
Since I helped design them, I take some issue with that :). Certainly we never expected they would completely solve problems for the database, but they were definitely intended to provide guarantees that simplify normal consensus operations and prevent accidental confusion with non perfect databases.

If a specific primary must start first, that’s partially what ordinals were intended to allow (0 is your primary, the others are always 1-N, and kube is responsible for ensuring the primary is never reassigned). I’d love to take feedback about places where the primitives are unusable, or ways they can be improved, because there are always new tools to add.
Obviously we disagree on this and JavaScript (as I mentioned in the post), but wholeheartedly agree about c/c++. Trying to figure out how to share a C library, for example, is a huge mess.
I'm crushing all you people with my 4d column spreadsheet. rows on rows on rows on rows. Boom!
Seems we're learning every day that 'Junk-DNA' isn't.

I've often said that Junk-DNA is like the 'data' section. And the 'real-DNA' is the 'executing code' section. Just like any other complex program.
The concept of AGI is so poorly defined it’s hard for me to even take it seriously. And yet some people have leapfrogged over that and went directly for existential doom. Part of me thinks it’s a result of shifting conversations about real, known X-risk like climate change for which the solutions are hard but entirely possible, to conversations where not only is the solution unknown, it is unknowable because the problem is not defined.

It can be helpful to replace “AI” with automated systems, because that is a more circumscribed concept. There are plenty of practical concerns about automated systems. The primary X-risk would be automation eviscerating the economy. Another highly salient issue is automation exacerbating existing inequality. A third would be corporatism and the widening gap between our regulatory capabilities and corporate power due to corporate capture and technological progress.

But these are passé issues to the AGI crowd. It’s not cool to talk about that. They’d rather talk about, let’s face it, science fiction that demands it be taken seriously.