skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I’ve used it like that. It’s great.

But at other companies I’ve been at, it’s not a productivity tool. It’s a management too.

Estimates for planning. Which is fine. Until pointless rules appear. We’ll use standard story points. But not 1, that’s too small. So things start at 2. But after a while that’s too small. So they start at 3. But you can’t go over 8, past that they have to be split. And you shouldn’t probably use 8 anyway. Pretty soon everything will be 5s. No matter how big or small. Good thing we point.

And of course the whole point of pointing is to put things in sprints. That’s fine. But then the rules come. You can’t go over your capacity. You can’t go below your capacity. You have to roll over everything you didn’t do. You can’t roll things over. We committed to finish by Junetober 37th even if we’re not ready so it has to go in the sprint now. So now you put things into the sprint after the sprint started and remove things before it’s over so that the magic numbers look correct even though they are complete BS.

But luckily you can track things.

Except every team is forced to use the same workflow even if they don’t work the same way. Because otherwise it would be “complicated“. So the IT tickets have to look like software development tickets. And the planning tickets have to look like software development tickets. It’s important to have tickets to plan your future plans so you know what tickets to make. After all, if you don’t schedule everything 18 months in advance to the day, are you really doing agile sprints?

But you can link tickets. For example you can choose requires, or needs, or is dependent upon, or can’t be done without, or is waiting on. Wouldn’t one thing do for all of that? No one actually knows. It’s an unanswerable question.

Did I mention there’s Kanban support? You’re not allowed to use that. Because.

And all this gets so complicated you need people whose job it is to wrangle Jira full-time. Make reports, add more fields, etc.

Of course those fields don’t make sense in a lot of cases. But sometimes they required. And other teams want them required but aren’t allowed to because everyone has to work the same way.

So the ZRX team invents their own email gateway to put issues into Jira their way. You didn’t know about that right? Because if you add the issue directly they’ll ignore it. Productivity!

I don’t know if it’s fair to call the thing I used at those companies “Jira”. That’s a bit like calling a battery made out of a box full of potatoes a “vegetable medley”. I mean it’s sort of true but that’s not the point anymore is it?

I like actual Jira. It’s a good product. Too bad almost no company will let you use it, only corruptions. It doesn’t exist to do its real job but to instead generate management reports. Which they don’t read.

Poor Jira.
Note that Cargo is a bit more strict than semver because Cargo consider that 0.1.2 must be compatible with 0.1.1 (for instance) but semver says that for any x and y, 0.x.y anything goes. However, 0.0.1 is not compatible with 0.0.2 (like semver)

I couldn't find documentation on that but here's a reddit thread about it https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/n4ni2d/arent_many_rus...
Not sure what your context is here, but I delete comments from time to time. It works fine as long as you get to it reasonably quickly and nobody has replied yet.

From the FAQ:

"What does [deleted] mean?

The author deleted the post outright, or asked us to. Unlike dead posts, these remain deleted even when showdead is turned on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[edit: formatting]
I'm frequently disappointed by broken bells on those scooters, because I love to use it. It's essential to safety. Those things are silent but deadly: they go up to 17mph, and I am confident that 95% of the people on the road are thankful that they can hear me coming because of that bell.

Let me tell you, as a pedestrian, I am eternally thankful to every cyclist who announces his presence behind me with something like "passing on your left", although a bell is much easier to use :-)
Your spam (~60 identical off-topic comments in ~10 minutes) seems far worse than whatever bizarre slight or injustice you are hinting at.

Did you even try to e-mail the admins to get your account erased?
Why not? Incredible claims should have equal amount of scrutiny. I am glad that HN has a default skeptical bias - we don't want to be swept up in frenzies. If anything, HN is still relatively prone to these frenzies from time to time.
Sure, but where are you going to find the combination of trust as well as the momentum of powerful interests combined upside risk appetite?

There will be some other winners out there for sure, but how do you pick 'em? And even if you fully believe America has peaked and is now in structural decline, where do you place your long-term bets? The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, as the saying goes.
Sorry, they are blaming ONE GUY?

No one checked his plans? How does one guy get so much power?

Oh, forgot it was the 21st century.
It is not that simple:

1. I endorse freedom of speech, even if I disagree with what you have to say. (This also means anyone can criticize what someone else (or themself) writes; if they cannot, then it is not real free speech.)

2. Even if an instance allows such a thing and some people support Trump or other stuff, this does not necessarily mean that everyone does; an entire instance is not a single person.

3. Blocking and downscoring at the user level may be possible, independently from instances.

4. You do not have to display all of the messages on the instance. You might view only those by a specific user account for a person or project, or only individual messages being linked to; not everything.

5. Nevertheless, excessive flooding may be a reason to block the federation (e.g. if they send too many millions of large data which is meaningless in less than a nanosecond, which would clearly overload the computer).

6. I don't know if there is possibility of federation but blocking certain types of messages, e.g. if you only want text and not video. Although this seems to be supported by the ActivityPub protocol (there is a Video object, so you can easily filter that), I don't know if the software supports it.
I get your point, but I absolutely do prefer to hear older recordings where they have been able to in some way improve the quality over what was initially released. An extreme case would be some of the old 78rpm records that recent innovations have been able to clean up substantially. While the hip-hop records I'm talking about are not nearly that bad, the releases were often made in 128kbps with whatever encoder was available. Some may even have been transcoded.
1.4% in TIPS auction from today.
brew install --cask modern-csv
Politicians kill far more people through corruption with 0 consequence though.
already done.
I think the Beam website should be a lot clearer about how things work[0], but I think Beam is offering to bill you for your actual usage, in a serverless fashion. So, unless you're continuously running computations for the entire month, it won't cost $1200/mo.

If it works the way I think it does, it sounds appealing, but the GPUs also feel a bit small. The A10G only has 24GB of VRAM. They say they're planning to add an A100 option, but... only the 40GB model? Nvidia has offered an 80GB A100 for several years now, which seems like it would be far more useful for pushing the limits of today's 70B+ parameter models. Quantization can get a 70B parameter model running on less VRAM, but it's definitely a trade-off, and I'm not sure how the training side of things works with regards to quantized models.

Beam's focus on Python apps makes a lot of sense, but what if I want to run `llama.cpp`?

Anyways, Beam is obviously a very small team, so they can't solve every problem for every person.

[0]: what is the "time to idle" for serverless functions? is it instant? "Pay for what you use, down to the second" sounds good in theory, but AWS also uses per-second billing on tons of stuff... EC2 instances don't just stop billing you when they go idle, though, you have to manually shut them down and start them up. So, making the lifecycle clearer would be great. Even a quick example of how you would be billed might be helpful.
Also we also have pEng which means professional engineer. Most of the Software Engineers in Canada (even though with actually engineering degrees) are not professional engineers.
import pulumi
from pulumi_gcp import storage

bucket = "hof-io--develop-internal"
name = "pulumi/hack/condition.txt"

cond = False
msg = "running"
cnt = 0
while not cond:
cnt += 1
key = storage.get_bucket_object_content(name=name, bucket=bucket)
print(cnt, key.content)
if key.content == "exit":
msg = "hallo!"
break

pulumi.export('msg', msg)
pulumi.export('cnt', cnt)

---

769 exit
770 exit
771 exit
772 exit
773 exit
774 exit
775 exit

Outputs:
cnt: 775
msg: "hallo!"

Resources:
+ 1 to create

info: There are no resources in your stack (other than the stack resource).

Do you want to perform this update? [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
yes
> no
details

----

Of note, all but the last exit had a newline, until I `echo -n` the file I copied up

---

ooo...

348 what?!?!
349 what?!?!
350 what?!?!
351 what?!?!
352 what?!?!
353 what?!?!
354 what?!?!
355 what?!?!
356 what?!?!
357 what?!?!
358 what?!?!
359 exit

Outputs:
cnt: 359
msg: "hallo!"

Resources:
+ 1 created

Duration: 27s

---

I uploaded a different file while waiting to be asked to continue, and then proceeded to get different outputs

Note, while I can get the contents of a bucket in TF, I cannot build a loop around it as I have above

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...

TF might be susceptible to the same file contents manipulation between plan & apply as well, but then again, you can save a plan to a file and then run it later, so maybe not? Another experiment seems to be in order
https://www.wisnerbaum.com/aviation-accident/boeing-plane-cr...

I didn't read the whole thing but it doesn't look like software modifications were the main issue.
I appreciate the suggestion, but unfortunately my experience on HN has been the opposite.

Heck, even my question, above is currently rated (at most) -2, for reasons I can't fathom.
I assumed this is just marketing, so it addressed the risks by never operating a public instance.
It's not 100% perfect but I still get butterflies when I see a Cruise vehicle driving around on its own.
It could be a plug-in. But anecdotally I’ve also heard the cloud version is much worse than on-prem, which if true could explain the big differences too.
> They're not "... apparently special costs".

Yes, they are.

> They're taxes that local governments are charging their residents, using Comcast as a bill collector.

Uh huh. But that's effectively the same as just charging the ISP per subscriber, the difference is all perception and inconvenience to the subscriber. Why don't we get line items for the property tax that businesses pay on every bill?
Not for long!!!!!
And what are the inflation adjusted returns of Stocks over the last year or two?
It was already working. The extension had been functioning for months already.

My entire point is that if you're a huge organisation like google. And if you offer a critical feature that users then integrate deeply into their product.

This least you could do with your enormous wealth is send a note out giving a heads up about this damaging change.

What's so hard to understand here?
management fees plus the fact that a fund has a single risk utility function applied across the pool of all investors in the fund, where the investor's wealth is absent from the state variable. the investing math is different if current wealth is taken into account or not.
That would do nothing if so called engineers are not given the "power" to refuse to implement something when they are ordered to by their PM.
It also is not quite obvious which stock market is better. The Chinese economy has been strong but generally that has not reflected in the major indexes (Shanghai Composite, Hang Seng) and they whipsaw a lot.
That’s the gig with becoming a PE: you get a stamp and you can stamp drawings with your approval. You get paid for stamping things, but you incur liability because if they’re not actually safe then it’s on you.
Fair point. Maybe us programmers are just a class above professional engineers.

Should've been a politician.
I am sad not seeing other countries like Vietnam (with high presence of consulting companies), Thailand etc..
Why do people always forget the government is made up of people and people create things.
If we wanted to do this properly, we would have to look at opportunity costs, and see what that money / resources could have done otherwise.

To give a related example: war often leads to innovation. In our current universe, the second world war lead to digital computers.

However, IBM (and others) were already hard at work improving their computing devices and would have landed at electronic, digital computers sooner or later, too. Without spending something like ~50% of world GDP nor killings tens of millions of people.

For another really egregious example: have a look at manned space exploration. Specifically the International Space Station. Google said its total costs were about 150 billion USD. Compare '20 Breakthroughs from 20 Years of Science aboard the International Space Station' https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/iss...

That least is pretty meagre. They even have to cite spending money by itself as a 'breakthrough'. Almost all of their 'breakthroughs' could have been done for cheaper with unmanned space flight (and most of them are useless and irrelevant anyway.)

They could have left those 150 billion USD with the taxpayer, and private industry would have surely used them better.
https://archive.is/4JcXa
System failed a long time ago. No point in having this discussion. Adjust the prices, and stop marketing it as a future.

At scale this has been a failure through and through.

Shoutout out the ultimate technical school of all, MIT.

How? Who knows. Guess they know the right people.

——-

From my own experience, I will add that educational requirements are almost financial. You need it to be free, educationally. The same way you need money to be free.

But back on point, don’t add swindlers collecting a check on that trek, certainly not on loan, certainly not beyond affordability.

——

You make this money and you are free to spend how you spend. You learn this, and you are free to learn how you learn.

Psychosocial.
See also PermaPeople.org

The thing to look for in this sort of thing is open DB schema and protocols.
I thought the root causes of 737 Max failure is (1) marketing’s choice to make a new plane that pilots with existing 737 certificate can fly with little or no training (2) the lack of a third sensor.

Why is this the software engineers’ fault?
As part of my undergraduate engineering course work we had more seperate threads and more exams than almost every other degree on campus including law and medicine.

Part of that was civil, part electrical, part electronic, part mechanical, part drawing, part on site saftey, part drawing, etc.

Another key part, critical to passing, was ethics, civil responsibility and a roll call of great engineering screw ups that killed people as case studies of how badly things can go wrong.

If Software Engineering were to become an equivilant then a study of when software goes fatal would be mandatory.
This is what everyone on HN wants for the tech industry, right? Personal accountability for vulnerabilities, leaks, and downtime? Facebook publishes misinformation? Fire some moderators. Google violates privacy? Fine the SWEs.
I am assuming here that the ISP is who would get in trouble for not sending the money to the locality, not the N individual customers. I'm also assuming that if I sent my ISP money for the internet cost, minus the passthrough costs, the ISP would act as if I owe them money.

I get what you're saying about the fee being for the consumer. It's just like... OK then, well tell the consumer how much they are going to pay. You mentioned that the lobbying is to get rid of these locality's taxes, and I'm not pro-federalism so hey why not.

But all of these places have to collect the money anyways, so there is _a_ logic to how much to charge. Many places in the world, the price of internet is "type your zip code into a box and then we tell you". This seems eminently reasonable. This precludes a nationwide campaign to say exactly how much the service costs (unless ISPs just decided to eat the costs themselves!). But wouldn't it be good for people to know how much something costs?
Circle is irrelevant because it's closed source. It's been out there since 2019(?) and never gained any adoption or mind share among C++ developers. I've looked at it back when it first appeared, and it seemed interesting, but why would I spend any time on it when the creator of the language can lose interest tomorrow and shut down the project for good? There is no reason to devote any time or effort to a closed source project when plenty of interesting open source projects exist.
> I’ve also replicated the work in OpenMPI...

Oh cool! How did it perform?

I wonder if this would be an exciting test for Amazon's SRD protocol which appears to be built for HPC. I'm looking for an excuse to play with it...
Why are u so upset
Nukes to prevent future world wars.
Doesn't matter if you have multiple large customers and "other customers" are rounding error at best. Case in point: Palantir.
What was the cause of the plane incident you cited?
I'm not sure how other people use Copilot, but the only way I use it is "Really good autocomplete". Like if I'm typing out 3 repetitive lines, the fact that it figures out the next one for me is amazing. I don't have it writing entire unit test suites for me or designing approaches like with ChatGPT - so I wouldn't even call them in the same league in terms of comparison.
That's literally how responsibility and the buck stops here works.

If you were an Engineer (P.Eng.) you'd be aware of that.
Gave up in PHP long time ago. Laravel is useable as it is, all tools are enshtified.
Building private roads is (almost) illegal in most of the world, so you'll mostly see criminals do it.

See also https://www.accessmagazine.org/spring-1993/private-toll-road...

Financing roads from tolls is fairly straightforward.
The metric to measure how expensive equity is sounds flawed. Expected earnings divided by share price is not indicative of actual equity returns - especially over 1 year?
Article does not in fact contain satellite pictures of other satellites.
TLDR: The owner's complaint isn't so much about crime/homelessness, but he's angry the government isn't spending tax-dollars to make more people commute to work in places near his storefront.
Seriously?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02445-y

Here are the plurals….

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2019&q=immune+syst...
Serious question - Why? Assuming no actual CP was used in the training of the model who is being harmed? Ickiness should not imply illegality unless the ickiness is at the expense of someone else. Swing your fist as much as you want so long as you avoid my nose, and all.
Paying another organisation in exchange for use of their infrastructure isn't a tax, and doesn't become one just because that organisation happens to be a governmental body. Should these ISPs be able to "pass through" their upstream transit costs as a fee on top of their advertised prices too? Or maybe their peering fees with government-operated ISPs but not with privately owned ISPs?
What an obnoxious website without the actual content "advertised". Where's the report button at?
I feel like people just don't know how to deal with trollish people like elon or trump, best you can do is ignore them and they lose the one thing they live for: attention.
All at will employees have the power to refuse to implement something when ordered to by their PM. Quit. “I was just following orders” doesn’t even fly for situations where refusal can get you strung up for treason.
when does "it's a public square" apply?
(Stupid question) how does someone, who is not risk averse, go about executing the strategy you’re advocating for?

Are Barclays bonds available for purchase via a consumer brokerage account?
Why is a single person hired to design a bridge? Wouldn't you hire an engineering firm for that? Seems rather obvious hiring only one person for such a critical job is the wrong thing to do?
I'll just start a company of satellite taking pictures of satellite taking pictures of satellite and I'll make bank!
Trademarks require enforcement (as others have noted), copyrights do not.

There is the doctrine of laches which might be applied in general to an excessive delay in asserting an equitable right, but there is no failure-of-defence loss of copyright under US or generally Berne Convention statutes globally. I've most frequently seen laches raised in the context of patent enforcement. <https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/laches>

This is rampantly false and misleading information.
Oh yes. Software engineers are drones that are unable to refuse to do things they believe are unsafe.
Not a bot. I just missed the memo. Might be a good idea to go ahead and create one though, because I never would have agreed to this had I known.
Well you're not wrong

As for your question about how many times this is going to be allowed to repeat itself, don't hold your breath. A million people in this country died through coronavirus and yet science denial is a growth industry.
Yes, this is along the lines of what I'm suspicious of too, as an also-gamedev that has done some ECS.

It's too easy to study an existing system and, given the resources, create a perfect demo for how to dramatically improve it in certain ways. You can go on to ship the demo, but the demo wasn't made by the same kind of organization, with the same kinds of goals, as the original system builders. The extreme example of this is, of course, the demoscene and its hardware-bending tricks that achieve the impossible through a significant modification to the design of a "production" equivalent.

So it's better by performance metrics, better by codesize, but unknown on other metrics. Like, "do I know how to start building new things with this?"
This is subjective, but for me here a small fraction would be a few orders of magnitude less than that - few ten-millionths or less.
I would say it makes me roughly 4x as productive as a software engineer. It's all about knowing how to use it. I do agree with the sibling comment that it helps a lot if you are already senior since you can immediately tell what is wrong/garbage that it is outputting.
I don't necessarily agree with the parent's implication, but the point they are making is that a lot of people defend some speech-controlling-but-not-illegal practices of social media sites using the exact same reasoning you are using in your post, and there was a lot of hype around Elon potentially being an opponent of that.
I think you've got this a bit turned around. KW, Re/Max, etc, they don't WANT the MLS out of the way. They ARE the MLS. The MLS is the database of the Realtor association. It's just a tool that the Realtors and Brokers use to market the properties to other Realtors and Brokers, and sometimes to the public as well.

Zillow makes money by selling placement on the listings to other agents. Many Realtors really dislike Zillow because of this ("This is MY listing and they are putting someone else's name on it, taking 3% away from me.").
I did. They refused to delete my comments.
Ok so keep that behind a gate and open up the rest. That’s a flimsy excuse. We are software engineers, we know how easy it would be to expose a subset of the data. It’s job security plain and simple. Same reason you can’t buy a car direct from the manufacturer and have to pay thousands in markup to some dealership that adds zero value.
Sorry, it got buried.