skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather someone over does it then under does it.

The issue is that most things are obvious when you write the code, but that it's often not clear what's not obvious in the future.

So if you just get in the habit of explain every function it will lead to a more understandable codebase.
All this website does is show a popup that prevents me from reading the article until I signup for a newsletter
I'm a cynic but even so I've been surprised by how the tone of confident dismissal of x-risk as "nonsense" has been completely unaffected by the change in messenger from LW weirdos to Turning Award winners. Like people don't even feel the need to gesture at an argument, it's just supposed to be obvious. What's really going on is good open source vs evil corporate control, a lot of commenters are sure, and the government is just out-of-touch geriatric puppets—even as the "open source vs Micro$oft" narrative has been ported straight from the 90s to a world where the concrete policy question is "should Meta bear any responsibility for the consequences of their software releases."
Shows where my brain was at yesterday - that was a pretty ill-formed comment. I regret including the term without a fuller understanding of what I was saying, however I reject the notion of being associated with racist populism for making a criticism of the oil-based economy.
While the Linear, No Threshold model is relatively widely used by regulatory and safety bodies, evidence for it (or any other competing mode of low dose exposure) is quite weak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
Whoever put it there isn't answering any questions, and neither are the people who made it load-bearing later, if they're not alive anymore. No, the question is for you. If you owned this property, would you want to know about the work done by the people who came later and made it load-bearing, or would you rather remain unaware as you go about your renovations?
The entire "Agile Manifesto" is less than 10 lines, and it's right here for free: https://agilemanifesto.org/

If you want the longer and more detailed treatment, that's right here too, and it fits in 1 screen: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

That's the whole thing. All of the "sprint" and "scrum" stuff was invented as a way to pretend that software-engineering is like factory work. You'll hear these people talk about things like "holding engineers accountable" and "making estimates more accurate," which is an instant giveaway that they don't understand the fundamentally organic and ever-evolving nature of software-engineering.

The only thing that actually needs to be done is to write down clearly the business problem to be solved, the reason it matters, the proposed technical solution steps in order, and the rationale for the solution. Then, meet regularly to talk about it and update it based on reality.

But most companies can't handle that level of rigor in their business thinking — or the idea that engineers should have this kind of autonomy to solve business problems.
Some of the irony of this is that the actual PM should be more like a mechanic shop manager rather than the customer. One of our current issues is that we got a new PM who is, well, as you explained above. The hardest part is for them to even write sensical tickets. They can't figure out what is BE or FE work so their tickets mix multiple items while the company bans sub-tasks that devs make.

All that said, I'm 80% sure the comment you made about sprint making it feel rushed is directly noted in Basecamp's Shape Up, which honestly is a great way to run small projects where results are more important than metrics.
no. cold noodles with a light sauce are often eaten on hot days all over asia by billions of people.

sounds weird, right? except the western equivalent is a pasta salad which you probably eat all the time.

think harder about food.
I have a Roborock too. It has an app that shows you the map, collected by the vacuum's lidar, so that you can point the vacuum to a specific area on this map and stuff like that. I absolutely hate that I don't have control over what's actually being sent to the cloud. Though at the time of purchase there were no models with lidar that didn't require the Internet connection. Not sure if that's still the case. I would be happy to replace the damn thing with something that doesn't call home.
I like https://github.com/goauthentik It has Helm charts and a Terraform provider.
Thoughts are not crimes in free countries. What someone "might" do is irrelevant.
I'm skeptical. If you're out working in the yard and your buddy steps on a rake it's reasonable to put the rake away instead of stepping on it yourself later in the day.
yeah that's an issue, but the much easier to update a comment then an extensive suite of unit tests. And in my experience the payoff of good comments is about the same, minus the cost.
I only follow a few subreddits total. The mods of two of my favorite subreddits decided to implement silly rules that only memes could be posted from here on out as a protest.

They ruined the subreddit as a form of protest. Users are upset and unsupportive of the protest, but they don’t care because they can delete those posts.

I think this protest is less popular with actual Reddit users than all of the journalists are trying to suggest.
> I don’t know what’s wrong with Gene Forney

Yeah, we don't have a copy of the email that was sent to him but the response indicates that he mistook it for some kind of argument. Very strange.
This actually seems semi decent for a first go?

140 million in funding for seven more research labs (might be a different order but still neat).

Commitments for cybersecurity funding (probably already happening anyways), independent auditing, and some testing.

The most interesting part was the watermarking. I'm interested to see how that works out, but it's a neat concept, something I hadn't thought of.

I like the focus on reducing bias, that seems like a good effort and of course the focus on helping to cure cancer which I'm always a fan of Biden being such a champion of.

Also reaching out to key allies to work together seems positive.

I dunno, all in all, it seems kind of neat. Call me a wild eyed optimist or something.
Maybe it's a planet that had its atmosphere ignited?

Because a white dwarf is about 250,000 times as dense as a planet, with the associated higher gravity, which you can measure at distance. And the magnetic field looks to be a couple of orders of magnitude higher than you could get from a 'normal matter' iron core, no matter how fast you spin it. And the hydrogen and helium are fusing, not burning, and planets don't seem to support that (try as we might here on earth). So...pretty clear it's not a planet.
Its not like paid software is immune from unlicensed use.
I find sprints to be just a useful tool in the toolbox. It helps you plan, but you also need to be careful that it doesn’t consume your team.

But ultimately what matters is if your team can recognize what works and what doesn’t and be able to think of a solution. You end up with your own custom hybrid solution.

You know how there’s people who don’t really understand code and just copy from Stack Overflow? Well, learning about agile (or any methodology) and directly implementing it as-is is the equivalent for a planner. All they can do is repeat what someone else figured out without any understanding about planning.
I would be on the edge of my seat for all four hours of Stuxnet! The Musical. Sounded like a really fun class.
Branding is real.
I mean, automatically converting posts to a podcast format is a neat feature. Seems like RSS feeds from the service are also up and running, and there are some other neat AI-powered features such as auto-TL;DRs and "writing assistant." Given that there's even a free tier, I really don't get what you're complaining about.
*(ceteris paribas; and assuming that the argument is valid...)

the problem is that ALL the powerful kids are concentrated in select few universities, mostly in the Ivy League, NorthEast US.

If Legacy admissions are eliminated, then the powerful kids will be spread about, IMHO, and the network effects will be spread about.

right now the NorthEast US unduly benefits heavily with the concentration of powerful kids, and the network thereof.

____

BTW, right across Harvard is MIT, and I believe they do not factor legacy admissions. Harvard's loss is MIT's gain, so I doubt there is anything to be unduly concerned about. (not to mention the 7 or so other world class research universities a stone's throw from Harvard Yard.)

Harvard will have to just pull itself together by its bootstraps.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087442 (2 months ago, 79 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134691 (1 year ago, 96 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18249755 (5 years ago, 208 comments)
I disagree.

WHY: Using _______ sort because at time of writing code, the anticipated sets are ... and given this programming language and environment ... this tends to be more performant (or this code was easiest and quickest to write and understand).

This way when someone later come along and says WTF?! They know why or at least some of the original developers reasoning for choosing that code implementation.
I graduated in CS in Italy. I had to take two mandatory physics courses in the late 80s. Those courses were equations-first with basically no real world examples. The teachers were from the Physics department and the courses for us were watered down versions of what they were teaching to their students there. Those courses were boring as hell, all math and nothing else. Luckily I knew what those equations were about thanks to the physics courses at high school: more watered down but firmly grounded in the real world. Probably the aim of those courses, in the first two years of the degree path, was to make people drop out. The statistics were one graduated every three freshmen. The goal of university was to make new scientists and everybody else, please go away we don't have time for you. That changed later on.
Your use of semicolon hurts my soul
This incredible! I've worked with WordPress for a long time and have been tinkering with Svelte recently.

This is what I was looking for! Mad props to you for putting the effort into building this.
I like Copilot and will use it forever unless something better comes along. It rarely provides solutions to me, but very often it predicts what I’m already going to type and saves me from having to actually type it. These little “auto completes” add up and it definitely saves me a significant amount of time over the course of a month, easily enough where it’s worth the cost!
Thank you for your efforts. It's unsung heroes like you and all the other researchers behind the scenes that improve the lives of countless individuals.
Do you think this is an unsolvable problem for AI? In a world where humans are already being tricked by AI-generated deepfakes and robots can play ping pong and soccer, just to gesture at a couple of possible approaches it might take?
These studies also don't take into account the fact that humans have an immune system that helps protect and repair against cell damage.
Sebastian Lague's Tiny Chess Bot Tournament [video]
https://github.com/SebLague/Chess-Challenge

> Welcome to the chess coding challenge! This is a friendly competition in which your goal is to create a small chess bot (in C#) using the framework provided in this repository. Once submissions close, these bots will battle it out to discover which bot is best!

> I will then create a video exploring the implementations of the best and most unique/interesting bots. I also plan to make a small game that features these most interesting/challenging entries, so that everyone can try playing against them.
When I was a kid (about 10, 11, or so) I read up a lot on planes and aviation because I wanted to be a pilot someday. Also logged plenty of hours on Microsoft Flight Simulator. So I knew how airfoils worked and the physics principles involved, and decided to apply that knowledge to design my own paper airplanes.

What I came up with involved construction paper taped to a bendy straw. The main wing was folded (but not creased) into an airfoil shape and attached to the long bit of the bendy straw. The short bit had paper elevators and rudder attached. By bending the straw I could set the plane to fly straight when thrown, or to turn, climb, or dive. It all worked pretty much according to plan and was one of my prouder childhood play moments. My wife laughed when I told her this and said it sounded like something her brother might do (a high compliment, as her brother is brilliant).
I had a copy of the Tusk double LP. Each disc came in its own inner sleeve, giving eight full surfaces of art, and they used it to the fullest.
Seems like this really doesn't have a whole lot to do with vertical farming, but rather just startups being startups and vc money coming with the strings that it does. Which is good, because vertical farming will only ever become more important (unless population size and density start trending downwards, which doesn't seem likely).

They'll figure it out eventually. Local, space efficient, variable controlled agriculture has so many upsides for dense, urban areas that I doubt the idea will fail.
By 2028 there must be fast chargers every 60 km on the EU’s key motorways
A CSS-like language for IaC is literally the last thing I would have expected someone to suggest.

It’s an interesting idea. My initial reaction was “you can take my HCL from my cold dead hands” but I can’t seriously argue that Terraform is perfect and that I enjoy writing so much boilerplate.
> The longer you keep at doing "stupid kid things" the greater the chances that you will eventually strike gold.

This is somewhat the key to success as a man, and what they're evolved to do.

Men don't get to live a life staying safe in the cave. Men are the species' tool for throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. That's why the bell curve for male success/failure is much flatter than it is for women. More extreme successes and more extreme failures. Men are the element of the human tribe that take on huge risks to discover new and valuable things. When it works, the success can be massive and disproportionate. When it fails, it fails hard, often in death. And usually, there's no (or little) safety net for men. There's a reason why 75% of the homeless are men.

This does seem like a necessary outcome of the harsh reality of supply and demand of sexual reproduction, that eggs and wombs are scarce and valuable while sperm is abundant and cheap.
There was some hope at one point that something like the LHC might produce black holes, but not the type you're thinking of as massive gravity wells that form when stars collapse. It has been postulated that the early universe in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang may have contained primordial black holes, and any that were large enough to still exist today might be a possible source of dark matter. Any formed in a particle collider would be particle mass, not star mass, and have the gravitational attraction of particles, and evaporate almost instantly due to Hawking radiation. They'd have been harmless, but if it had been possible, it would at least confirm they actually can exist and observing the decay would have been our only realistic hope of observing Hawking radiation likely at least in this century.
They are basically non-productive marketing expenses. You hire them to avoid a hassle/send them to deal with the hassle, but if there are budgetary limits, the hassle is worth dealing with.
And after analyzing the data, they've found that the average Roblox developer is a married woman in her mid 30s. Weird.

Edit: Seriously though, this seems like a bigger deal because it seems as if Roblox kind of just has a big ol bucket of data. Purchasing from the Roblox store is no different than being a Roblox developer from the standpoint of the data.
Vertical farming is just a concept that makes no sense. It requires a lot of electricity in practice because there is not enough incident sun, building costs, and then there's the soil. Why not just build a greenhouse, or just a regular farm?

I think it's telling that everyone interested in vertical farming is from the tech industry, not agriculture.
RDTSC is directly influenced by frequency scaling. So while monotonic, its clock interval is neither constant, nor deterministic on modern systems.

Here's a small online visualization of RDTSC average and standard deviation I just hacked together: https://gist.github.com/datenwolf/151486f6d73c9b25ac701bdbde...

On a system with frequency scaling you can see that under higher load the difference between RDTSC in subsequent iterations of a tight loop that does nothing else than reading that register will drop. Here's how it looks on the system I'm currently using: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKKjSJ1JZ78
As a customer of this auto shop, I insist that there will now be mandatory 15-minute standup meetings every morning where the mechanics must provide me detailed updates on what exactly they did the previous workday and what they plan to accomplish today. I better hear more than just "worked on car brakes" - I want specifics!

We will also have two-week sprints with clear repair commitments that get tracked on a big visual board. If everything isn't completed by the end of the sprint, the mechanics will need to stay late and explain to me why not during an excruciating one-hour retrospective meeting.
I don't care if these nonstop status reports, sprint planning sessions, standups and retrospectives frantically disrupt the mechanics' workflow. As the customer, I deserve to know what work is happening to my car at all times!
Sure, my neurotic Agile mandates may cut actual wrench time in half while accomplishing nothing. But I can't blindly trust these mechanics' expertise - they need to recognize this agonizing process is for their own good, even if they hate it. I'm the customer so we'll do Agile repairs my way, no matter how much it impedes progress!
"Fine default" indeed, as the alternative for a Scrum-inspired process is often nothing. I expect a lot of people hating on it come from big corps, where bureaucracy is already stifling. In a startup, Scrum may be your best way to protect an inexperienced development team from unmeasurable stakeholder expectations.
People definitely use this idea of choosing boring technology to justify the use of visual languages and/or domain-specific tools when building systems, instead of general-purpose programming. Lots of people might say go for FileMaker or Access over writing your own lower-level JS & SQL, if you want to generate a site or use a database to generate any kind of automated report or output.
It’s tabloid gotcha/clickbait techniques metastasizing into everything.

People have innate ability but achieve different outcomes based on where when and how they come of age. The problem with these trains of thought is he wasn’t born in 1980 or 1580. At that time, Einstein was the guy who was able to figure out how to connect a bunch of dots and communicate those ideas and concepts to the world.

Oppenheimer may or may not have had the physics genius of Einstein - but he was certainly able to build a massive project team, execute on his project and release a new force. I’d venture to guess Einstein wouldn’t be suited to that work.
First good decision we made at our old startup was use what was old and real talent was easily available instead of choosing a new tech stack.

Second was proven self suffiency on capital via revenue rather than funding.

Third was people, you hire people who chime with you and let them do it. I guess that is what matters on the long run when things go downhill.

Edit: typo
Optimizing for unit economics vs. top-line growth are opposites in building a company. In the years of free investor money (2020, 1999, etc), companies choose growth over unit cost because their boards and investors are trying to drive huge valuations. This is true in software, farming, and many industries.
Apologies; how may I fix it?

;p
> slight sense of urgency

This is my biggest beef with agile. The urgency is false, stressful, and unnecessary.

If you're always in a "sprint" you're never actually sprinting. No one can sprint forever.
The selling point of "use your paycheck immediately" could appeal to customers.
Robert Miles is a much more effective communicator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLKbhY0ji0
Can you explain the second half of that quote any further? It's not obvious to me how feminism fits that description in the way that patriarchy does. The intended irony of the statement is clear, but I fail to recognize how the second half of the statement bears any resemblance to feminism in theory or practice.
It's not that i disagree with the science... it's just.... what do i do with this knowledge? I feel helpless in the fight against Microplastics.
> people who stand to profit from "AI"

Some of them, sure, but that doesn't seem to be true of plenty of signatures to the open letter.

> the contents of this press release focus mostly on actual problems

Given that this is a set of entirely voluntary commitments made by the companies who you had thought were hyping x-risk in order to distract from actual problems... maybe it's worth updating your assessment of what the x-risk thing is about?
Thanks so much! Would love to hear how it works for you & help where I can. Lots still to come :)
I don't think we need exhaustive studies to know that using reactive chemicals that aren't found in nature for literally everything is a bad idea. if it's not been harvested with something with DNA, it's probably not a good idea by default
C? Rarely an issue, libraries are as come with the OS so just

apt-get install libfoo-dev

Most C libraries are pretty stable, if there are version differences then an #if or two will work around that.
LWR coolant is not that bad. They keep the water very clean with ion exchange resins because otherwise you can have problems with corrosion. Workers sometimes float in the water during refueling where they flood the area about the reactor and spent fuel pond and open the lid of the reactor vessel.

Leaks in liquid metal fast reactors are much more obnoxious but still manageable. Sodium catching on fire when it hits air frequently isn't as bad as it sounds (a "pool fire" isn't particularly hot or dangerous but a "spray fire" can be) but it is important to catch sodium leaks quickly without false alarms and many development projects had trouble with that.
> use the language code for languages

This is the practice that I followed when I needed to add a regional-language pack for one of our SCCM packages. I put a "DEU" in the icon, not a German flag.
Some climate scientists have been somewhat transparent about this, saying "if we told you how bad we think it's going to be, you wouldn't believe us, and if you did, you'd panic." So they've publicized the most conservative possible predictions, with the hope that if people see the problem as approachable, they'll have enough optimism to try. It seems that gambit has failed, as the clathrate gun roars to life, the peatlands in Canada dry to tinder, and so much more.

And still the denialists look back 120kya, saying "it was this hot back then and we did fine."
VP9 Codec: The Complete Guide to Google’s Open Source Video Codec
Just tried this out and it looks like it works better than SmolAI. Nice Work!
In this case, the relevant aspect was not stringification, but serialization. It would have worked just as fine had they used a binary encoding like CBOR instead of JSON.
Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became ‘Destroyer of Worlds’