skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take Buddha seriously, because he said "This is my truth, look if it is true for you." ie zero dogma.

Buddhism is for me the religion people worshipping him created.

Now i get it! Thank you for explaining it that way!
I worked in a company who measured productivity by attributing a score based on the Fibonacci scale. But they were doing this when the feature was done.

By doing that, it was fairly easy to give a relevant score to each feature.

Engineering team was doing this to measure solely engineering productivity, but product team could do this as well to measure added value to the company.

By tracking the start/end date as well for each feature, you can then measure productivity at any time scale you want.
About LK-99 Papers
Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway
> The best way to handle cases that will be almost the same but may diverge over time is to create a functional mini DSL that describes the domain behavior, and create a template implementation that can be used if desired. Then everything is using a common language, and a non-template implementation indicates the presence of non-standard logic.

I mean yeah, I'm a big fan of DSLs. The problem occurs when someone writes the DSL, doesn't document it and leaves. Then it becomes super, super painful to maintain and extend.

Basically I'm coming round to the conclusion that (assuming reasonably competent colleagues), the least experienced person should be able to maintain and extend the code if it's to have any hope of remaining useful over time.

And good tests, for gods sake test the crap out of anything complicated with well-chosen names so that people can read the tests and understand how the code should be used.
It always dissonates with me when people talk about animals being destructive. I don't really think it is our's to judge.

I do, however, understand why it makes sense to keep some animals out of ones home.
Oh gosh. That’s extremely bad and hard to read.

I can’t decide what’s more distressing: some millionaire GP wrote that and thought he was being super profound, or the firm actually paid someone to write that for them.

Stripe commissions good writers to write interesting pieces. Even that SBF hagiography that one of the VC firms commissioned was more of an interesting failure than this. I can’t understand why anyone would put out this kind of anodyne prose and think they’re going to appeal to, well, anyone.
> It's an issue of incentives

Please do not just oversimplfy a challenging problem into just "incentives".

Some people lack resilience, and they will collapse under the pressures of professional and personal life. Some people lack ambition and drive, they don't want to exceed their level of productivity no matter what you do.

It's not just a matter of incentives. If you offer the right incentives and opportunites to the wrong people, you will not get results.

The right approach here is to avoid hiring these peoples (not a perfect science). In absence of that, provide feedback expetations to provide a resaonable opportuntiy to change their behavior, then move them to other projects or terminate them.

And there are organization where non of this is possible - like government and many corporate IT.
https://twitter.com/iris_IGB for those looking for the account.

I'm watching all of this unfold as an unknowledgeable bystander. I'm at a loss for half of the technical terms and have no clue how many of those people are just LARPing.

But the positive energy of this all is very refreshing. This is what the internet was made for and I'm glad I can take part of it even if only by contributing moral support.
We found a genius way to revive a poisoned river [video]
You don't get it. Regulation is always bad and dumb people falling for scams... that's just their problem :-)
To me the payoff of failed projects is in what I learned. As long as that's the case I can carry my optimism over into new projects.
I think the Windows philosophy for UX is just "good enough so enterprise don't ditch Windows", which given its enterprise monopoly and very strong lock-in and almost complete lack of viable alternatives means they can do almost whatever (and looking at Windows 11, seems they do make use of that freedom). They don't have strong incentives to make their OS fun, as long as it sort of does the job. And even if they did try to fix trackpads, at the price point lots of corporate drone Windows laptops sell at, could they possibly include decent trackpad hardware?

Linux is kind of puzzling though, this has been a super glaring issue for what is now decades. Are the people who could fix this just set up to never ever leave the home row? Is it actually too hard for an open source endeavour like Desktop Linux?
Except I choose it, then moved on later in life ;-)
An optimal-stopping quant riddle
Japan and their thoughts on prostitution [video]
I don't think it's okay to generalize the entire population off one video; however, I just asked my wife about this, and she said the same thing as the interviewees: "Paying for sex isn't cheating".

"Why?"
"There's no love involved"

What is HN's take?
I've got a similar discontent growing. For me it's this feeling that I'm working for the machine when I should be working against it. The anti-human tendencies of that machine aren't so directly unlivable for me, they're just evidence that I'm on the wrong side.

I have a slow transition plan for getting to something more meaningful:

1. Take classes part time (doing this)

2. Pay off house, switch to fill time focus on skillet transition, part time work

3. Go be a novice who codes well in a separate field

Maybe you should have a similar slow transition plan. For me just having the plan feels better.

For instance, there are remote positions that hire from all over the globe. With a job like that you could relocate anywhere without a salary change. Perhaps something like that should be your goal.
True we don't agree, but that was not required to unify society on authorized facts.

It is very clear what the facts are socially when the State media declares them via TV, newspaper and authority figures. The internet gave endless niches, virality and influence to disagreement.

Right now you can ignore any facts I bring up and continue to spread flat earth as a fact (not saying that's your view), when before that behaviour would have been ostracized socially.

Now I have to adhere to literal meanings or conquer with sophistry to find agreement on factual grounding.

For culture wars, I don't care, do whatever you want. Say the earth is flat.

But for collboration, understanding and finding boundaries, it makes things very difficult and worse than the past.
There are distinct advantages of client-side rendering, but it depends on usage patterns.

One case is you're something like Reddit, Facebook or Twitter: the transformation logic (i.e. JSON-to-HTML) is cheap in bandwidth to send once and have the client re-use it countless times. Bonus point, you can re-use the backend code for various frontends (web app, native iOS/Android/... app, Electron app).

The second case is anything that has a large number of one-time visitors: delivery of the transformation logic can be done using a cheap (and visitor-local) CDN, and you only need to scale the backend servers according to load - and you only need to pay for this task, as the computational cost is outsourced to the visitors.

The case where server-side rendering shines however is infrequently visited sites or ones that don't have external or internal interfaces, like a company's or personal blog or homepage: there, the effort required to maintain complex logic on both server and client is greater than just throwing up Wordpress.
Do you mean lobbying for BTC? Because if you do, as I said, they sabotaged it into uselessness for its original purpose as a peer to peer transaction medium that disintermediates traditional centralised finance from the loop in other to maintain their position.

If you meant something else, I don't understand your question.
Good motivation to build or support platforms where this can't even be a possibility, i.e. without phone number authentication or other identity revealing steps as part of authentication.
It tells me that the world is going to completely suck in 50 years. It already does. You have about a 5-10% chance of speaking to an actual human for issues today, but everyday they are replaced more and more with "AI" driven automation systems. Now, we're trying to bring the "success" of that model to cars and the roads.

For automated driving, I still ask why? What is even the point?
Yes! I forgot to mention, but this is one of the tools I use to check if the CSS is breaking the site.
> your average python dev can just ignore it if they want to.

Oh, so naive... All the mutation code in Python which "worked" because Python didn't really have any real concurrency. Add to it -- there's no real plan about what to do with Python concurrency. Removing GIL is only one "half" of the problem, you need to give developers some sort of a framework to use to deal with concurrency. Python's threads are extremely underdeveloped and dangerous to use. Python doesn't even have anything like "synchronized" from the Java world. So, all synchronization requires dealing with locks, mutexes, condition variables...

Most Python programs today didn't bother to deal with threads because they didn't confer enough benefits to be worth using. So, "automatically" parallelizing Python code, as in allowing it to run in actual threads is going to bring about lots and lots of bugs in trivial code written by people with no clue about concurrency.
The image in the main page doesn't inspire all that confidence... as it gets bits of Italian wrong:

- The chatbot ("Bianca") starts off with "grazie per chiedere!" which is a literal translation of "thanks for asking!" but not how you would say that in Italian. E.g. Google translating "thanks for asking!" to Italian gets it right at "grazie per avermelo chiesto!", which literally would be "thanks for having asked that!". Though really most often in Italian you'd just say "grazie!", for "thanks!".

- "voi siete" as plural or formal is not wrong but... weird. Using second person plural for formal form (which is how you'd do that in French), in Italian is quite rare. Currently it's only used in some regions or in very formal bureaucratic lingo. In most circumstances, you would say "lei è" (i.e. same as third person singular, feminine) - this has been the standard for a long time, Mussolini fought it back to introduce the "voi siete" again (which I guess it's why it's still there in formal lingo, which hasn't changed much since Fascism), but well, for most people that experiment ended 80 years ago?

- When the user asks "E "voi siete", "noi siamo", corretto?" (which is not great Italian, but that's fine, the user isn't supposed to be fluent; though it's weird to ask literally something which the bot stated exactly the line above), somehow the bot gets overly sheepish and apologises for an error where there was none, just to repeat the very same thing it said (because, well, indeed it was already correct).
With all due respect, it seems to me like your simple explanation explains very little.

There is no way (besides kids having fun) that a human driver would intentionally hit a cardboard box found in the middle of the road, full or empty as it might be, and as well an automated system will brake or avoid the cardboard box.

But the point is that even when there is no cardboard box anywhere (nor pedestrians, nor cars, nor anything) these "phantom breakings" happen, example:

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-auto...

It is obvious that something went wrong in the sensors, in the tramission/processing of the data or somewhere there is a bug in the algorithms, but (AFAIK) nothing specific (and reproducible) has been found, in this sense "The cause of such events is still a mistery." seems to me correct.
How is "people steal it therefore it isn't worth anything" a legitimate argument?
It seems to be closer to pythran than Nuitka. Mainly in that Lpython only supports a subset of python and focuses on performance of numeric code. Nuitka focuses primarily on being able to compile all of python, and has performance only as a secondary goal.
You can filter out broadcast, multicast and other kind of link local nastyness. Also a single tunnel obscures traffic if one’s super secretive.
There's anonymity on Facebook? Don't they have a real name policy still?
C# is getting that sweet spot of how a modern version of Modula-3 should look like.

I also expect the same for Java, if Valhala ever makes it.

So even though Remedy Games had some experience with D, it is C# that gets all the attention as C++ alternative in tooling and graphics engine scripting, while everything that isn't performance critical in Android (no GC at all), gets written in Java/Kotlin.

These are two good examples of how D lost a potencial market, by always re-inventing itself for the next wave of developers that will finally get D and leave everything behind to adopt it, instead of focusing on having something to make it special for adoption.
or just use Django:

* Update your BlogPostModel, to add a ManyToMany(CategoryModel) field

* Update your .html template with a for loop over blog_post.categories.

* `django-admin makemigrations && django-admin migrate`

Your life can be so simple. All you need to do is to reject Javascript.
This doesn't work for anything that runs a `<div id="root" style="display:none">` style hider, and in most cases it messes up the layout completely because it renders all images without explicit height/width attribute at full native resolution.
Given the share of forestation, droughts and pesticide use in agri sector i do not think leaving them to their fate is not a good idea.
Building with Carbon-Fiber Tube (2022)
Sidenote, I love how clean and readible this site is. No popups, just clean and well written text in the middle.
I'm against euphemisms in general and don't think we should be changing this word either.

As I see it, an IC is anyone whose main contribution is through artifacts or other actions they perform directly, and a manager is someone whose main contribution is through coordinating the actions of others. As such, I'm absolutely ok with "project manager" and "product manager" even if people don't report to them directly.

If you have a better term, do go ahead and propose it, but let's not throw out this useful term just yet.
That list is only really useful for major styles that are well known/tagged, early SD versions knew a list of artists _much_ longer and more relevant than that. (some of the styles on that list are not related to 2d images). If you consider the list a reasonable substitute for artist names, I'd ask you for a prompt that replicates the common Rutkowski + Mucha style using just the styles listed.

>> It's almost as if artists develop their own styles that are just as uniquely theirs

Hard disagree on this. Styles do not and should not have ownership, legally or otherwise. Not in painting, music, film, games, or any other kind of art. Anything else kneecaps derivative styles and erects a massive barrier to the advancement of culture. Straight copies are mostly avoided because they add nothing over the original.

You're also misunderstanding the typical use of Rutkowski and other names. Most prompts I've seen and used use multiple artists for a unique blend of styles (including the much maligned and overused Rutkowski + Mucha), not just straight copies. While asking for Rutkowski indeed asks for a very specific style (as well as any themes etc common to his work), its usually in combination with other equally specific and somewhat contradictory styles, each guiding the result in some direction and adding elements but none of them being exactly the desired end result. Just asking for straight up Rutkowski was a short lived cargo cult and is now more of a meme than anything else.
Not really relevant to the conversation. Zuck now probably half the planet's details

> I've never once believed that Meta would honor / fight for anonymous accounts of any kind on their platform.

The way I see it is that they are honoring anonymity and they are being compelled by the court to release personal information after initially refusing to do so.

The problem is with the courts, not with Meta. Ideally they should just eat the 100K fine.
This was true about Tesla. But at this point, with Twitter, it's not equivalent to billions of dollars of free advertising, because everyone knows who Musk is and what Twitter is and at this point he's only accruing negative points.

In fact "Elon Musk" is the top reason cited among Tesla owners about why they've sold their Tesla and not getting another one, in the last year.
Cloud Environments for AI Agents
> One is a threat to the actual dominance of the present global financial system, one very loudly pretends to be but is in fact hijacked by said global financial system in order to implement their policy goals with a populist cover story.

Quick, how do I:

1. Pay for groceries with crypto? Is the transaction cost higher or lower than with current systems?

2. Take out a loan to buy a car with crypto?

3. Get a mortgage for a house?

4. Get a huge loan to buy a container ship for my company?

Do you even <<know>> what the "global financial system" does, besides work with currencies (which is more or less the only angle covered by cryptocurrencies)?
There are two categories of devices worth considering:

- Those controllable (only) through the manufacturer's server and requiring an Internet connection: put them on the guest network that only has a (NATed) route to the Internet and nothing else (ideally, of course, don't buy them);

- Those controllable over LAN and not requiring an Internet connection: put them on a jail network that has a route to the main network and is firewalled away from the Internet (and perhaps from initiating connections to the main network as well).
I emailed dang, the account was shadowbanned for flamebait, and he manually unkilled a lot of their comments.
In fairness it sounds like, at least from the FT article, that they are saying "stop or we're suing".

Which at least is a reasonable thing for a regulator to say.

I'm not precluding who is right and wrong here, just that the form of the request is not crazy.
This seems like one of the first things they would check for though, right?
Isn't it time to disband the TSA? So the security theater?
"... no more intrusive or intensive than necessary..."
I would say waiting on lines for hours, even being required to show up hours before is more intrusive than necessary.
Destroying $50B+ can't ever be a "plan".

Saudis can do little as he has controlling interest in the company.
I don’t think you can objectively say Tolstoy was a worse literary artist than Dostoyevsky.

For me it’s absolutely the other way around. Dostoyevsky saw into men’s souls in a way no other writer perhaps barring Shakespeare could. Tolstoy for me is more mechanically or technically good, but Dostoyevsky was a true artist and saw through life and humanity at another level.
Node is essentially a single-threaded API to a very capable multithreaded engine.

https://youtu.be/ztspvPYybIY
Because the SEC does not make laws, it only enforces them. Congress makes laws, the court system interprets and establishes precedent.
Assuming LK99 is legitimate, my hope is that the principles that make it work are more broadly applicable - and with that, refined production processes or newer alloys can be found. Simply knowing that it's possible would lead to a huge amount of research immediately focusing on this kind of thing.

There's nothing more revolutionary than a discovery of a new class of materials. After all, we often name eras throughout our history after them :) (Stone age, etc)
Ask the Experts: Understanding the API Context Maturity Model – Level 0
That's how it has always been done.

During the 1989 cold fusion fiasco, the findings were announced in a press conference, pre-prints were circulated in the community, and many groups attempted to reproduce the results.

The first publication came weeks later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
AND then the HR sociopaths filter out anyone not neurotypical who wouldn't have any issues doing the job, but is otherwise weird.
> absolutely nothing in the taxi system to enforce transparency or accountability.

Not sure about the jurisdiction GP took the taxi in, but in most places I’ve taken a cab there is a large plaque identifying the cab and driver, including contact data of the regulator to whom you can trivially submit complaints.
Note that the original table has been more recently updated: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-tempe...
I think the current CEO is very relevant to a company. Leadership comes from the top.

"Ideally they should just eat the 100K fine." , I don't see that happening with their current leadership; a half-fought court battle for PR sake seems on brand though.
Contrast that to today, when you have editors like Sublime Text which will reliably keep your editor tabs (or "buffers") around for as long as you need them, even if you never save them (yourself - of course the editor does that behind the scenes).
> decentralized and free

There is no such thing as a free lunch/currency/...

Human society is hierarchical because otherwise we have chaos. Or worse, completely self-appointed, unaccountable hierarchies.

Human society abhors vacuum.
And as a bonus it supports RSS
> If it doesn't work as I expect it so it should be banned.

Well yes that's a very reasonable expectation. In most fields, when you sell something that doesn't work, it's called fraud. But in fields where it actually matter for safety, regulations are most stringent, such as in mechanics or medicine. If a car had 1% chance of blowing up killing everyone inside, would it be legal to sell it? Why is it ok for OpenAI to sell a chatbot that has 1% chance to convince you of utter bullshit when you ask it a serious question?

I believe education and communication to be critical to society's wellbeing, so i would hold companies in this field to greater standards.

> Also NLP can be used to protect vulnerable groups from online abuse.

Automated filters do not understand sarcasm, quotation, criticism... Sure that avoids the scunthorpe problem, but for example, auto-moderation bots trying to prevent racist abuse often censor black people calling one another the n word, which is completely ok. Nothing can replace moderation.

> It helps people find related content (which they enjoy).

Maybe, but i doubt it. I've yet to see advertisement/recommendations for content i actually enjoy, or to meet people who have such experiences. I've only ever heard that from advertisers, but maybe you have better experience than i do?

> Don't blame technology for the bad actions of companies. Their intentions would have corrupted whatever technology is available.

Good point! But technology that makes it easier and cheaper to be evil should probably not be encouraged and widely available. At least here in France, i cannot go out and buy a gun or dynamite. Also, bad results of AI are not necessarily a result of malice, but rather a complete misapprehension of the technology which is just completely stupid math and not actual intelligence.

If you're curious I recommend watching James Mickens' USENIX talk on what he calls technological manifest destiny, where he expands on these topics: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k
We really need a separate digital wilderness for single men to blow off steam.

Making the old online hitching posts (like facebook, google, video games, ect) family friendly, or else! then a lot of disaffected young men are going to be venting their lack of financial/dating success somewhere else.

Are we just going to dump these people out onto the streets and hope it all works out politically?