skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to research, it always costs a substantial amount to accomplish anything at all.

So the cost is always prominent, and the return is difficult to fully attribute.

Forces at work that can lead to undue cuts.

Engineering companies need to be run by engineering/businesspeople selected internally from a deep bench of capable candidates. As succession occurs technical leadership can better maintain continuity of what made the company competitive to begin with.

For the bean counters it can be impossible to realize potential in many ways, not just research. Concrete costs will always be ripe for quantitative elimination without consideration of the crippling effect on upside outcome that can not be recovered in less than a few years (or generations) after overcompensating funding has been restored.

Which could happen . . . right?

No conincidence how many different kinds of hard technology are referred to in "generations" of advancement.

Bean counters are supposed to be good at math but they're usually no engineers.

When these start to come into leadership positions of an engineering company it can be a very bad sign.

It could be worse.

Some of the top financial operators are not even bean counters, or leadership material of any kind. More like social climbers who've moved up a corporate ladder without much distraction from any effort other than the social climbing itself. Even worse when the only reason they're financial is greed.

Look what happened to Boeing when the engineering culture no longer extended all the way to the top.

Still an engineering company, with some of the world's most outstanding engineers doing very advanced things very successfully. Just not as much as it once was. And not as much as it could be.

Well acccounting companies should be run by accounting/businesspeople which does seem to work, and bean counters shine until generations later at a place like Arthur Andersen where it looks like they were replaced by social climbers at the top and oh, well.
I am unable to drink milk.

I used to love milk. Used to drink milk all the time. All different kinds of milk. But one single time someone made me a bowl of cereal with spoiled milk. One single taste of spoiled milk and it was over.

Well, my ability to drink milk. Was over. Now all milk tastes and smells spoiled. All milk. No matter how fresh it is. No matter where it came from. I can't drink it. It's so strongly rancid even though absolutely nobody else can tell what it is I'm tasting.

I don't understand this. I can put any flavoring like vanilla or strawberry in the milk and it'll be perfectly fine. But for some reason, perfectly fresh, healthy milk just... tastes spoiled. Always. And it always will.

Why? I loved milk. I love milk. There's no reason for it all to taste so terrible. I know what I'm tasting isn't the milk. I know milk is supposed to taste fresh and nice. I even know exactly what I'm supposed to taste, because it's what I taste if I mix anything else with the milk.

But milk by itself is just undrinkable.

:(
If that's something you feel that you need, you can get it as a supplement. Or also from cow tears, apparently.
I’ve got a random question for the terminal folk: I’m often testing a web server hosted on a remote server that hot reloads, but I have to wait for it to finish compiling.

I can tell it’s done if I have a tab open looking at the logs, but ideally I’d like some kind of icon that’s yellow when compiling, green when compiled, etc.

What could I use for that?
is this a gpt wrapper
I'm using Windows 11 with WSL 2, so in principle I can run Linux CUDA docker images.

While I have 64 GB of memory and an okay NVIDIA GPU, what I would like is a Docker image I can experiment with locally, but run on a cloud-hosted "spot" instance if I want to do something heavyweight, without having to run through the install process from scratch each time.

Similarly, with the quantisation process, for some reason few such files are being published. It apparently takes lots of CPU and RAM to produce the 4-bit versions. With a container image, I could do this in the cloud, then download the result to run on a more constrained device, etc...
I think the idea is that you tell your spouse first.
> You seem to be arguing the US is somehow distinctive in this regard, when it isn’t.

I’m not arguing that at all. If you look closely I actually guessed that India was likely federalized as well.

My point was more that it’s not useful either way to look at this as a US issue when in reality, you have some states like Texas with very high rates of execution and others like Washington with none at all. My point is about how you’re framing the issue in the first place, in other words.

> I mean, when the Australian state of Victoria carried out Australia’s last execution in 1967, the death penalty had already been abolished in Queensland for over 40 years

I would say that Australian national death penalty statistics from the 1950’s aren’t particularly meaningful either.

> We can speak of two different criminal law models in a federation - the Canada/India model and the US/Australia model. In each case, we have one country with that model retaining the death penalty and one abolishing it, suggesting to me that the difference between these models has little to do with the retention or abolition of the death penalty.

That is a mile beside any point I was making.
Source? Looking at this real-life test, an M1 Pro laptop exports and manipulates video faster than a beefy RTX 3080 laptop: https://ymcinema.com/2021/11/02/whatre-the-ideal-laptops-for.... This is the first comparison of apple silicon to PC that I saw when checking your claim

From what I heard all the time, new Apple hardware is on par for multimedia work now. The only thing you don't get is gaming compatibility/performance, so if you reuse your hardware for that then yeah.
Sure. Some may even hold multiple jobs (Overemployed movement).
Just to add a data point, I have the opposite experience based on just a few bulbs of different brands I disassembled over the years.
Wow! Great video. That is a really practical approach with a micro-controller.
While it's certainly possible for that to be true, it isn't in reality. The average holding period of a stock is 5.5 months.

People have proposed to not give people voting power as shareholders until they've held the stock for a period, because there is this huge population of investors that care nothing for the long term viability of thr company.
WTF is a KDF?
Elon Musk caves, gives blue checks back to Twitter’s biggest celebrities
I can count to ten in Japanese in my sleep because that's how we drilled when I was a child learning judo, but were you ask me to say "six" in Japanese, I'd have to start counting.

To learn a language, I think you really have to create a simulacrum of lived experience in that target language culture. Drilling morphology and vocabulary will never hurt, but it is not sufficient.
Here we are in the current year and we still i/o source as raw form text. Personally, I’ve always hoped for standardized AST formats with comprehensive tooling, including source control. Many more problems vanish than are created with source as AST. For instance, this discussion.
Vectorized Mandelbrot Rendering in Matlab
Yet people on this site are desperate to defend SV and put it on a pedestal, which is the problem. It wasn't flamebate at all, I'm not rationalizing bad behavior. What I said was 100% fine, except the part about getting flagged.

I just said they were entitled. I did call them jerkoffs, but they consider themselves the "most impactful people on the planet", so that's fair.

Even if that poster isn't from SV, this is a common attitude you hear from people in the area, on a site about the area. It doesn't matter that most commenters aren't from SV. This in no way degrades discussion.

Your response is filled with fallacies. Do both of us a favor and save your chastising. If you want to ban me for arguing with you go ahead. I don't really post comments like this very often and you can ban if you don't like what I say in the future.

There's no need to talk down to me. This is wasted energy.
US embassy staff in Sudan successfully evacuated
Sometimes I get weirdly self-conscious because I can't tell the difference between merely perceiving entropy and having "visual show".

I can still see everything perfectly clearly. I can just also see entropy. Does that make it visual snow? Can I even describe the experience of "entropy" in a way that properly allows someone to tell whether what I'm describing counts as visual snow?

Hm.
This is good for bitcoin (/s since apparently that wasn’t obvious)
Is it? Are you legally culpable in the case that your software kills or maims somebody? Because a civil engineer is, if the bridge they built falls down. Is there a license you need to practice writing software, that can be revoked and prevent you from writing more software if you're caught writing software with gross negligence, leading to it getting hacked? Because other engineering disciplines are held to those kinds of standards.

Words mean things, and if we want to consider "software engineer" as anything more than title inflation, it should mean more than just a programmer who's full of themselves.

If I shit out a webapp that's crashes if you look at it funny, that shouldn't be considered software engineering because it's a pile of shit that barely works.

If I make a webapp that actually gives useful error messages to users and is robust in the face of failure and is maintainable and someone else would want to touch my code, then we're starting to get somewhere.
Functional programming is the next big thing. Ideas from functional programming have gone mainstream, and are found in almost all major languages: lambdas, higher order functions, and immutability / purity. Monads have made some minor inroads (although they get bastardized by OO people, see Java and Javascript).
I think you missed the point of the article. I actually don’t do TDD at all. I’m actually personally not a fan. So feels a little weird that you thought this was an article trying to justify TDD use.
I know some retired CEOs, and they are not very busy.
Just watching all this flailing is exhausting. Imagine working for that restless adderall monkey.
It’s very difficult to just up and move a company. When the employees are unionized, the company is not able to leverage the knowledge of some workers to facilitate the transition.

If the reason not to unionize is that the company will just move, how much job security do you have without the union? As soon as it’s cheaper to do your job elsewhere, your job will be gone. At least with a union, you have a hope of protecting your livelihood.
As far as I know, this is not done anymore, because in most case you have to file a weekly benefits claim by phone or online.
You think resources are unlimited? Why would you think that?
If you know the author is an expert in a certain field, you can use that as a heuristic for deciding whether reading the entire book is worth your time.
I think a typical video editor has to use some software that doesn't run on Linux (there's more to the process than just Resolve)...
This shows that our mind comes from a spiritual source, not just from our brain. Because if it was only from our brain then it wouldn't explain why we got only a slightly bigger monkey brain but also got powers of language and introspection and consciousness. It's not reasonable to think that such a small brain gap would bless us with such amazing emergent capabilities.
I don't think that will happen, because I expect Apple will do something along the lines of "unless an iDevice is signed in with an account with a verified EU credit card, and/or has been in the EU for more than 50% of the time over the last year, disable the ability to sideload and wipe all existing sideloaded apps".
> compass implants that give you some innate ability to know which way is north.

This is one of the most fascinating things to me, just giving the brain extra senses by sending it signals that it just learns how to process. I love this. I want to do this.

I think some experiments have managed to create the experience of extra senses just by using things like a grid of electrodes on the back. And of course there is the "bio-hacking" phenomenon of implanting a tiny magnet in your fingertip, and suddenly you can learn to read electromagnetic fields. It's amazing.
XLSX. I'd guess around 80% of the world's code is inside XML.
That doesn’t even cover a month in Austin! I’m not going to share the exact amount, but it’s a (low) double-digit multiple of that.
If you mean to mix in GUI, on macOS, there is BitBar and another one (forgot the name) that just puts a big coloured dot in the menubar that you can curl to change its color. Something along that line would work.
For those scratching their head on some of the acronyms/terms used:

- CDC => Change Data Capture

- Oops recovery (a colloquial term) => Fixing consequences of accidental changes
Argument from incredulity is a fallacy in informal logic that asserts that a proposition must be false (or true) because it contradicts one's personal expectations, beliefs, or imagination
2022: "How dare the Establishment receive these blue checkmarks!"

2023: "Hey, Establishment, you are going to get the blue checkmarks, and you are going to like it!"
>This may go a long way towards explaining why the Russian campaign in Ukraine has been so leisurely. The Russians have no reason to hurry. They know that time is not on the side of the US.

He mostly had me interested until here. Framing the inabilty of the Russian campaign in the Ukraine to advance as a win against the US shows the author's bias much greater than the rest of his rehtoric, such as "US Empire" and "US vs Humanity," and more importantly is a blatant factual error.
tmux. If a bell, or ctrl-g, is output on the terminal, the tmux status line will indicate this fact if you are viewing a different terminal. It will stay indicating until you switch back to that terminal.

tmux will also show you the name of the command that's currently running, so if it's a make file or other script that finishes, you can observe that on it's own, but if you add an `echo -e "\007"` to the end of your script, you'll get the indicator.
I remember when it was released as a new feature (~1995).
Sounds like they automated something that would have cost $15k to do by other (probably manual human centric) work
>was only a conduit

If something was a conduit for knowledge wouldn't it make sense that it would have at some point contained the knowledge? The knowledge is stored into it by one human and extracted by another human.
Artificial intelligence breakthrough lets humans ‘talk’ with bats and bees
I like json better but if I'm really honest about it, there isn't really that much difference.
Sergey Levine: Reinforcement Learning Pretraining for RL Finetuning
Contractor blames red tape for Tacoma light-rail project delay
If I understand correctly, you have a remote server with a logfile, and some markers in this log file tells you whether the build is in process or finished.

I would suggest you keep it simple and simply poll the logfile for the latest occurrence of either "Build started" or "Build finished" and display a pop-up for each case.

Very roughly that would look like:

while true
do
MATCH=$(ssh remote@host 'cat /logfile' | grep -P 'started|finished' | tail -1)
case "$MATCH" in
*started*)
notify-send "Build started"
;;
*finished*)
notify-send "Build finished"
;;
esac
sleep 1s
done

That's dirty bash written in an HN comment on my phone, but the idea is here. It's a bit wasteful to initiate ssh sessions so often, so you could improve it with a single "ssh remote@host tail -f /logfile", pipe that to "grep", then to a while read, but I left that as an exercise.

There is some option to notify-send so that pop-ups replace one another instead of creating new ones.
1 million on 1.36T (Google’s market cap) is 0.00007%. Let’s say Google has 25,000 engineers and they each own 1 million. That’s less than 2% of the company. And obviously 1 million is unlikely to be the average engineer ownership stake.

You’re conflating two things: earning a decent salary and having power with management. Current Google engineers have good salaries, but they hold no power with management. Their positions could eliminated without them having a say.

I highly recommend you look at other industries. How many people are earning 500K? Not many. Do you really believe software engineers are so special? No. We existed in a specific period of time: explosive economic growth, coupled with low interest rates, coupled with low supply of software engineers. The industry is maturing. Money is no longer free. Tens of thousands of software engineers are pumped out of universities every year. The writing is on the wall. The lifestyle software engineers have come to enjoy is under threat. Why will software look any different than any other professional industry?

Probably you’ll answer with something like: “software has 0 marginal cost so software engineers have extreme productivity numbers.” That’s true, but your wage, absent a union or scarcity of skill, is not tied to your productivity. Take construction nail production. Nails used to be made by hand. Now someone with some rolls of steel wire and a machine can make hundreds of thousands of nails in the time it took to make a few by hand. Yet the person making nails probably earns less than the person who made them by hand. The surplus value is captured by the owner of the machine.

You, as an engineer, are not special. You have no moat. From this conversation, I get the impression you’re not even particularly intelligent. Get over yourself.
AGI is the false presumption that we must re-make us completely with silicon and software, and that somehow, it will feel pain, have emotions, and will be viewed as a special being with the same rights as a human. It's a religious-adjacent fool's errand.
The Grand Finale simulation of Cassini falling into Saturn is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen on the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68vxYRAony8
What a shitshow!
But isn't the exactly point he is making that the scientific consensus hasn't produced any verifiable results and it's seemingly impossible to challenge this consensus? How useful is this exercise then?
I'm french, and both "se débrouiller" and "se démerder" mean exactly the same thing. "se démerder" is just more familiar/foul.
I don’t get all the hate for Duo. It’s fun, a better use of my screen time than a lot of other things I could be doing, and even if it doesn’t get me fluency, it has given me enough exposure in less than a year of training to speak with native speakers and be understood for basic things. It makes me more excited for travel opportunities too. I don’t need to be mistaken for a native but at least I’ll be a tourist who’s _trying_.
Uncompressed 2x 8k by 8k 24bpp 24FPS video. Comes at about 500GB per hour.
I've never once in my life been able to have a hallucination or truly imagine what something would really feel like.

Even taking psychedelics doesn't seem to help. I just don't hallucinate, I don't get psychosis, and I don't get any symptoms of schizophrenia, despite having a long family history of it.

Yes, those are not necessarily nice things to live with. But it feels terrible and suffocating to have never had a taste of any of it. To be so stuck in this reality that I can't create any reality of my own.

Sure, technically the reality that I see is just part of my mind. But it never gets extended, never gets modified or anything. Not even if I stay up for 4 days straight do I ever see or hear anything atypical.

I've never had sleep paralysis. Never had a lucid dream. Never even had a lucid daydream. What infrequent daydreams I do have, I get stuck inside because I think they're real and forget all about actual reality. Because it's so difficult and so infrequent for me to ever experience anything else with my senses, my brain has been wired to believe my senses as the one and only source of truth.

It feels so claustrophobic. I'm so jealous...
> Scientific outposts would be fine, but much like Antarctica, no one ought to be in a position where they have to live in caves or cans their entire life

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy changed my mind on this. There is natural beauty there that is worth trying to preserve and experience. Yes, we should terraform. But slowly and deliberately. A good way to check this is to have humans on the surface while terraforming takes place.
How about... an Amiga-themed pinball machine?
IDK. All my colleagues leave after 2-3 weeks, sometimes less. It's just how things are done. My last employer moved my end date so the could claw back several hundred to a thousand off my last pay check, after I stayed a bit longer.

I know now I might have been able to fight this, and may have done that knowing what I know now. On the other hand it might not be worth the effort.

If you're wondering how, I think I didn't "earn" vacation until the end of the month, and was technically using "borrowed vacation". I stayed with that company for 7 years... I can't think of any other reason for them to end my employment two days early, right before the end of the month.
Look through their real time bid request format to see what's actually sent. They have examples: https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/request-...

Do note though, that they can pull in additional data (from outside Google) through cookie matching: https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/cookie-g...
Yeah, you had to do that then also, but how do they know you really need the money? Long ago there was no on-line option, but there was an in-person option:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2RYhNhBdw
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sells 7% of his stake
I think true REST APIs should be called a HATEOS APIs these days to disambiguate. REST just means GET/POST json at this point.
PCCP was just announced on 3 April. And really, PCCP just establishes that there can be a path. They really need folks like radiologists and pathologists to figure out the metrics. Take a look at ONEST as a way to evaluate the compressibility of your ground truth. It's a damn yield curve for subjective tests.
Just lie, but you don't normally have to really lie. Is there ever one single reason for leaving? You don't have to tell them the worst version of your decision.
The 4.12 release contains support for some of the more popular redis modules including RedisJSON, RediSearch & RedisGraph.
Noting that I attempted to link to relevant research and cite the source for fluidic corollaries but was prevented from contributing. https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-35661155
I was in your place as an opinion a few months ago. I thought this was a short thing, but models will just get easier to use, like many other tools. And that won't stop someone from having to use them with prompt engineering, even if it seems pretty trivial.

It's like the Community Manager, social networks and a creating a community seem to be something very easy to do, but still, someone need to do that.
> This is with syncing over USB btw.

Nevermind it is not worth the trouble, vs handing in anonymized data with a temp email
I don't think you are smart enough to understand that what you're saying and what he tried are equivalent.

Reminder for what you said:

> One catch they also kill more than half a million people every year. A small price to pay you say? I say burn all of mosquitos every single one to ashes.

What Mao did:

> The "Four Pests" campaign was introduced in 1958 as a hygiene campaign aimed to eradicate the pests responsible for the transmission of pestilence and disease:

> - the mosquitos responsible for malaria

> - the rodents that spread the plague

> - the pervasive airborne flies

> - the sparrows—specifically the Eurasian tree sparrow—which ate grain seed and fruit

I believe your position on mosquitos is directly equivalent to Mao's position, in every way. Don't tell other people they don't understand you when they clearly do, much better than yourself apparently.