skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked into this because I was excited, but everything feels like it's missing the mark for me. And, that pricing. Woof. That's steep for being a fancy changelog interpreter.

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My biggest pain isn't with the plan. It's with the actual upgrade process. Things _always_ break. Every single time we do a major upgrade, there's this long tail of things we need to fix. Even worse is the undocumented changes that break. This gives me nightmares.

The problem with your product is four parts:

* It needs to solve much more of the problem. It's not really valuable to know that I need to change stuff. I can figure that out by running my package managers update tool and seeing what breaks.

* When things break, it's unbelievably time consuming to fix them. Even worse is the person tasked with doing the upgrade is likely not the subject matter expert on broken code.

* I need to know what's broken that wasn't documented. This is by far the hardest part of our upgrade cycles. It keeps me up at night knowing a major upgrade could break things that aren't covered by unit tests.

* Because dependency upgrades are so hard, we tend to do them in large swoops. We set aside a week or two of pain and power through them. Given you're charging $60/m, this suggests:

* Your model is more aligned with small, continuous upgrades. Once you're "close" to the most recent version, it tends to be easier to upgrade.

* Your model needs a better way to "gain pace" with the latest releases. If I can incrementally upgrade one package on every PR until I'm up to date, that'd be amazing.

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I think this tool would be extremely value to me (likely $60/m/repo) if it:

* It ran the repo's test suite against progressively newer versions of dependencies. Showing when and where unit tests fail.

* Provide some means of "intelligent E2E" testing. Fire up our API/application. Tell us what changes when dependencies are upgraded.

* Fan out broken code to the subject matter expert. If an upgrade from X to Y is broken, look at the `git blame` to figure out who knows how to fix the code. Ping them asking them for help.
Author here, happy to answer any questions. While some of the underlying functionality is based on Encore’s static analysis the approach is quite general and can be adapted to lots of situations.
> No state DOT is turning down a lane widening project, or a new highway build, or a "smart lane" because their jobs depend on it, even if it comes at the expense of us all. They really are not departments of transportation but just departments of highways and cars.

I think states DOTs differ pretty widely. In Texas and I imagine Ohio, yeah they're very car oriented. But where I live, a lane widening project was just rejected because of how expensive it would be and instead they are using funding towards improving other transportation solutions that don't involve cars.

In the past CDOT has been heavily car and highway oriented, but that seems to be changing slowly. Maybe other states are also considering different options to cars.

https://coloradosun.com/2022/05/16/i-25-no-expansion-central...
No we’re not we are staring at a glowing screen and typing stuff.
Hear, hear!

Personally, I favor WFH for scores of reasons. That said, I am aware of the pluses (and the minuses that often cannot be clearly delineated) of having people together in locations. A fair amount of the benefits are subtle, and fairly unquantifiable. These factors balance off against often similarly subtle drawbacks. Most of this comes out of human psychology and social traits / elements of social cohesion.

To provide at least a little specificity, some examples that spring to mind:

On the plus side, you have little bits of useful information, quick answers / responses, knowing who knows something like 'where to find X', ... even being able to SEE how people look day-to-day - that colleagues seem healthy and well, and to ask them in person how they are... lots of little cues, small semi-random interactions of these types.

Of course, these can also be minuses to some / to some degree. I.e., the interruptions that come with semi-random interactions, digressions in conversations (of overly substantial length) about current events &/ recreational activities etc., the "talking behind the backs of others" gossip, ...

It's a very mixed bag.

Now, as always, people are constantly changing too. Generations replace generations. And, those who have grown up with text messages and all sorts of other channels for keeping in touch, ... well, it's another factor in how useful / important "physical presence" may or may not be.

Ultimately, though, for me, WFH has been substantially more efficient and productive most of the time. I didn't even have a long commute or some of the other hassles of many, but, cutting out the commute, transitioning between environments time, random interactions and potential for distractions (ADHD being a factor), etc., has been beneficial to all parties. I agree with your points to a very large degree ... the objective advantages to (substantially) reduced "company office presence" are generally quite clear, and are mostly to be contrasted with more subtle human / social factors including the needs of some "managers" to feel like they are "in control" and are "the employers".

The "MBAs" may have won the "round" starting in the 70s and 80s of decimating unions, but, the environment has changed yet again - including in terms of demographics in as basic a way as sheer quantity of workers available (vs. roles to be filled).

I look forward to more power returning to labor, so-to-speak, even as someone who is involved in running several businesses and operations.
November?! How hard could it be to supply the station with fresh food once a month?
Bard gets it right but relies on python to get the answer

https://i.imgur.com/pyyhW0n.png
TLDR; participants with cocaine history were administered caffeine IV. At high doses (300mg) they reported some mild euphoria, and a strange taste and/or smell.

Ask HN: aside from caffeine, what is the drug of choice around here?
Note: I’m the author of this article.

I’m fairly certain that these users didn’t leave it at reviews. There is a “Report abuse” form which one can use and which was certainly used here. If only someone were actually looking at these submissions…
I don't think too many people would be upset if this meant wealthier people (who can't afford the $20) would be less likely to vote.
I don't think this is the right way to frame this.

To me, this is a problem that needs broad solutions and some of those solutions are available immediately and some require broader changes, i.e. there are some things I can control and some things I can't.

Living your life in a way that is conscious of these risks and minimizes them when possible makes the avoidance of plastic an ongoing concern, and increases awareness of the issue in public consciousness.

I don't see how broader changes are possible without growing awareness, and often the best place to start is in one's own life.

If you were to examine the decision in a vacuum and discard all downstream effects, I think it's rational not to invest effort if it won't make a difference.

But I think this overly constrains the possible effects of making the changes that we can, and underestimates the value of instilling ideas in public consciousness.
Cloud backups do help with disaster recovery. If your house burns or floods, you can recover your data anywhere without sifting ashes/fishing for your external drive.
Live coverage (EDIT - cancelled): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxaBMALE7LQ

EDIT: Due to the problems with the air quality in New York, the channel now apparently won't include live coverage
There was some amount of "standardization" of checksum methods to help with debugging typos. For example, Nibble magazine used a couple of programs-- the one I remember using was Key Perfect-- that would scan your program in memory after you typed it in, and report a series of short hex checksums, one for each reasonably small chunk of program (bytes for machine language, or lines of BASIC code). The magazine article would include the correct Key Perfect checksums for the program; compare against the generated report, and a difference meant you "only" had to scan a dozen lines of source instead of hundreds.
Agreed. Is there a community process for proposing changes and enhancements to the tooling?
By good ol' days I meant that everything I've read about them tells me that set of problems and frustrations is better than what we have today, and software was actually made better by those circumstances.

Of course, I can fire up DOS, NeXTStep, or Windows XP and get to doing it on my own, or hack on open sourced codebases from the time, but the key component is the teams of people doing it, and the common wisdom that they had.

Rather than thinking it was heaven, it's a hell I'd prefer over our current one, so to speak.
If I was running some event that had some safety rule, and someone was blatantly ignoring the rule, I'd have them removed by security or police.

If an event has safety rules and doesn't follow them, a couple concerns: (1) that's irresponsible towards people relying on the rules being followed, potentially exposing them to harm, and others to liability; (2) if the event as a whole doesn't have integrity about safety rules, what else don't they have integrity about, and maybe you should have the books checked for fraud, investigate for vendor kickbacks, consider maybe a higher probability of harassment going on, etc.
It's a subreddit where people count. There are a lot of comments, and unfortunately the tokenizer was trained on this subreddit, which is why these weird tokens.
Does that mean they binned the design they did on a 386?
Sell the invoice and move on to a new client?
I had heard that there's a community of people who insufflate caffeine on Reddit, but this one is news to me.

Seems a little funny to go through all the trouble and extreme stigma of injecting yourself with an IV drug, only to pick ground up coffee beans as your poison of choice (!)

The study is interesting mostly for the fact that someone tried it, but ultimately the results don't show a very strong effect. I wouldn't put too much confidence in how well it would replicate either, these kind of studies can have a lot of variation.

>Every drug seems to have a “right” way to take it. You [...] booty bump ecstasy

That is not really typical. People normally eat it as ecstasy pills, or as MDMA powder.

Most recreational drugs can be taken rectally, that usually makes for a higher bio-availability and a faster peak plasma concentration. Some people do that a lot, with everything. It is not specific to ecstasy, that I know of.
A Conversation with Animal Liberation Author Peter Singer
> most people I've talked about it with disagree. It's polarizing.

Doesn't a topic need two poles to be polarizing? ;)
"Commuting alone absolutely destroys that for most people."

Commuting is not equal. Short vs Long commutes, commuting where you have to drive, commuting where you physically exert yourself, commuting where you meander through a park or market on the way to the office and leisurely have breakfast on the way... these are all commutes but they might not all be experienced by everyone the same. Some people hate driving to work, other people have a sports car and love it, and some people might not mind sitting in rush hour traffic with some good music and a bong in their lap.

Personally I love a 15-25 minute bike ride to work. Nothing like it to wake up, clear your mind and get energized for the work day, and the ride home can be a furious workout to destress, or slow and blissful. But that is me.

A) Not all commutes are bad
B) Cities should probably be designed to make commuting better (but that may require less cars and more public transportation and better urban planning)
C) Some commutes can be good.
D) Long term consequences of decreased activity and social interaction may not be apparent yet.
The list is too long.
Lyft's Green Efforts Take a Backseat in Push to Keep Up with Uber
It’s changed a good bit since last year. Since your talking about boarded up buildings I assume you were near Pioneer Square? They’ve taken that down (including the crazy dystopian metal grate around the Apple Store).

This conference is also east side at the convention center, I highly recommend checking out all the awesome restaurants on Williams and Broadway (Eater has lists for both).
I guess he's one of today's unlucky 10,000.
And in that case, why ec2, why not a more affordable provider?
They'd make their containers out of pickled baby faces, set up their factory next to a nuclear waste disposal site, and whip children who nod off during their 18 hour shifts if it saved one goddamn cent per bottle.
> If I was in their position, I would just restrict 3rd party app access to Reddit gold subscribers

I'm a Relay user, and was gold until I cancelled yesterday... will not be re-subscribing if things continue on their current trajectory
I wonder what companies will do now, probably embed the tracking information within the URL without using parameters, like dynamic URLs that are unique to a particular user/cookie?
All Systems Go 2023 Call for Proposals
Many tech start ups post there. Those are the jobs I’m referring to. A bubble sure, but one I’ve explicitly selected.
IMO, being good at searching is a skill that's only really useful when you have some idea what kind of question you're looking for an answer to.

I don't think we're actually talking specifically about binary. I am treating the reference to binary as a stand-in for the mathematical fundamentals of computing, rather than a narrow comment on understanding binary and bitwise operations.
Stack overflow has very modest requirements considering it's one of the most visited sites on the net.
https://stackexchange.com/performance
These seem very distinct from the non-existent URL or citation kind of “hallucination”.

The academic community should come up with better terminology.
The actual link to Forbes, linked to from Twitter:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2023/06/06/apple-tv-...
I wonder why they didn't update their product order page if they moved away from exoskeleton.

https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck
meth and adderall
My concern is primarily power draw. For a device with only a 2 hour battery, every erg matters.
No, I think eating glass leads to internal bleeding and could be very bad for you.
Generally correct, especially if it's too subtle for the varied age groupings and interests - everyone's hair-triggered to get butthurt about some triviality. Eventually the adults will show up in most threads and will occasionally be bothered to correct the karma injustice.
I don't think I ever considered drinking from cans healthy, it is just a desperate move if no better option is present. Same beer tastes significantly worse compared to glass (but if you drink cheapest crap you probably don't notice nor care).
Many state changes are not as reversible as one might think. Even chdir() can be non-reversible if the mountpoint has since changed. And if the locale has not been set, and then a library sets it, AFAIK you can’t “unset” it, only set it to something else.
Because we'd be indirectly subsidizing any competitor who puts out biodegradeable solutions, without directly picking winners and losers, just making it more costly to produce non-biodegradeable stuff. The alternatives can come out of the same department (e.g. of DuPont chemicals) and they wouldn't be hit with the same tax, so they'd be more competitive over time. The money is redistributed to the working class because otherwise you get this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests
I think the issue is that electric cars need to be very efficient to get reasonable range, while they benefit greatly from electric motors and regen braking, trucks just are not aerodynamic. At the end of the day, with current battery tech, you can only carry the equivalent of few gallons of gas (I just looked cyber truck has 200kWH battery which is huge so more like 5-6 gallons of gas equiv.) See ford truck reviews where it is fine until you try to tow, then the range is abysmal.
Ever since trying to get it to reverse palindromic sentences, I've given up on getting the thing to understand strings as I understand them...

https://chat.openai.com/share/1572139f-97da-4a19-a78e-bc7099...
Same. I went to Portland in 2022 for Railsconf. Me and my wife both went thinking to visit the city a bit before/after the conference. It was awful. Downtown was mostly boarded up and did not feel safe at all. Chicago, Philly, Baltimore, Detroit, any of these "violent" cities unironically feel safer and I would rather be in that portland.
This is not the same as the Vision Pro's display. This paper describes tracking a single other person and displaying a perspective-correct rendering for them, but the Vision Pro displays a perspective-correct rendering for many viewpoints at once using a lenticular screen.

Apple's solution works for >1 people at the same time and doesn't require any external tracking (though it's already doing the external tracking regardless), at the cost of lower resolution and only being correct in one dimension vs two.
While Guix is the Guileverse's biggest and most successful project, a lot of the compiler/VM work that happens in Guile happens pretty independently because Andy Wingo just likes to hack on Guile. Guile would still be here, but the community would be smaller.
Okay yeah, totally agree. I already know it's hard to install. If they gave me a path they were confident would work in terms of deps/versions to upgrade to, that I would pay for if it worked well.
The only other car that checks the utility boxes for me is the F150 lightning.

But the Ford software is abysmal, and I think the car looks pretty ugly.
Tesla is much better at software and, to me, the Cybertruck looks way cooler.

Plus, it being made in Texas is a nice bonus.
A paramedic friend advised that if you ever end up in the hospital in a lot of pain, always opt for the suppository.
I was not expecting the last egg to look like that.
Who cares? The question is 'what is the difference' and I gave one. Continue your crusade somewhere else.
Again, I'm not blaming the people. If I were in their shoes I'd probably do the same thing. I'm blaming immigration policy. You shouldn't have politicians acting like they care about the price of housing while opposing doing anything to stem the tide of uncontrolled immigration.
Rereading, I think you're right. I should read up on this case more, never had heard of it.
This looks fantastic, exactly what I needed last time I worked with DBs and could not find. Hope to be using it soon.
They require to provide all the details of how the code was minified/bundled so that they probably try to reproduce the resulting code on their side, and if there is a mismatch you will not pass review.
It solves that problem but adds it's own. I guess its overall a positive.
I basically agree and wouldn't want things to be changed in general. That being said, the choice of words in a novel should generally be governed by the artistic intent of the author rather than the desire to teach people stuff.

But here's an example that's worth thinking through. This movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110428/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 was called "The Madness of King George". It's based on a play called "The Madness of George III". They changed the name when producing the movie because of the difference between Britain and the US.

In Britain pretty much everyone would know that George III refers to King George III. However when they first started discussing this project in the US, a common reaction was "I haven't seen "The Madness of George 1 and 2". Now the differences between the titles wasn't that important and clearly this was just an impediment to understanding with no benefit.

Now you could say "Well the people could go on wikipedia and find out that there was a King George and a King George II and then this guy, George III" and that's true but the problem is negative self-selection. People who don't know that don't realise that's what's at play here and so won't do that search so nobody learns anything.
Implementing Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline for Terraform
AI hype
> The other is pro-people in seats, pro-commercial real estate, pro-commuting, pro-certain type of manager, pro-one type of extrovert who can’t find friends outside of work.

I think it's great if everyone can work where they prefer. I miss the days when I could see my colleagues in person in the office. But on days when I work from home, I can totally see why they prefer it.

I do think that newer employees can benefit from being in an office with experienced team members. However, if this is the new way of things, then I suppose they will need to adjust.
There's a footnote below on ecstasy
Shouldn't Pickups be Hybrids?
Depends on the role. When it's a highly complex system where it will take 6 months for the person to become a productive contributing member of a team, I have most definitely heard and been part of conversations where we considered if the person will stay around long enough to be worth the effort of training. On the other hand, for roles where it's a series of 1-2 month projects to make fairly straightforward changes to network protocol implementations, time to turnover for a new employee hasn't been a concern.

Of course a reasonable explanation for why a person has turned over jobs so many times can negate the concern. It really depends on the candidate. My point is that someone early in their career needs to recognize that there are both upsides and downsides to switching jobs frequently.
I know that. Also magnetic drum memories behaved similarly (as do spinning disks, BTW) and were “main storage” on many machines from the past.
The people who think seed oils are unhealthy and cause inflammation are up there with the most ignorant folks in nutrition.
From https://tallgrassontario.org/wp-site/carbon-sequestration/

> Various studies of the potential for tallgrass prairie carbon storage have shown that the storage rates vary between .30 and 1.7 metric tons per acre per year. This storage ability is cumulative over time

> Ironically and sadly, because they produce the best, deepest and richest soils, grasslands have been their own worst enemy as they have been rapidly converted to agriculture.

Pretty much at odds with your whole point of converting to farmland being net neutral.
Was the footnote there when you wrote this comment?

>Most people consume ecstasy by mouth, but I’ve heard from many that anal ecstasy is a more satisfying experience.

I think the author was being a little facetious.
There is more than enough info out there on how LLMs work. Suggesting to remove tokenization is like suggesting to not use neural nets anymore. Why do we need all these weights and all this training? What would be the technical hurdles to just create a library that does all of the above?
What number of sales counts as success here? The annual 375k predicted (which seems to be middle of the 250-500k range Elon gave)?

Tesla having sold 750k 2 years from now seems quite aggressively optimistic.
I also think "hallucination" is generally an actively terrible term for AI output that isn't factually correct. It's misleading, at the very least.
Doesn't rubber come from rubber trees? What does that have to do with PFAS?

Teflon is not rubber, as far as I know PTFE are petro- flourochemicals
Is this tokenization basically the same process as what was done in word2vec?
EU Approves €8B State Subsidies for Chip Research
So, a plastic then?

Edit after light scolding by commenter below:

BPA is a form of plastic, both in the pedantic sense (it's formed ... plastically... into its product shape) but more importantly in the colloquial sense, "synthetic, plasticky material" and in this general thread "synthetic material with harmful effects on health, probably through hormonal disruption".

So, yes, BPA is a resin, it's also a plastic, and it's also probably pretty bad, healthwise.