skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey awesome work! How are you thinking about convincing CTOs/Heads of engineering to get their companies using this? I'm assuming those are the people you're talking to since devs can't just pick up and use this at work - lmk if I'm wrong.

Is it start with read-only, become SOC2 compliant and add more functionality from there or is it more nuanced than that?
This code golfing always boils down to “it depends”. Senior engineers by definition nod sagely and everyone else looks around nervously. It’s a tough break. Both approaches are correct and wrong. It depends.
As a Xoogler that once worked in Cloud, I was going to reply with the same comments.

Changing the definitions of "GA" and "Beta" etc in the context of GCP is a pretty big deal, and I am guessing some product manager, and others, are playing this game to to be able to claim that they launched this to "GA" for Promo/OKRs/etc.

Now let's see if they have anything to say about their deprecation policy...
You got a good point about code evolution. Has anyone taken a look at it from a biological perspective? Seems like such problems can occur in genetics and nature might have come up with some tricks we can use
> My journal became, not only the repository of my secret confidences, but the ideal friend who would hear and understand me, who would listen – and answer.

YMMV, but I also find journaling an excellent way to get perspective on things that happen. It often helps me to spell out the subtle thoughts and hidden feelings, because that provides a way to acknowledge, confront and answer them.
Nothing personal here, either. I just prefer reading interesting content, and promoting Twitter drama is the opposite of that.
Yannic Kilcher explores LLaMA2’s open source licenses and medical applications
That sounds like a good use case for an insta-hot tap. No filing anything, always ready to go.
I find with electric kettle that I use the right amount of water since there are markings for volume. It also heats up to the right temp for coffee instead of to boiling. Both mean that electric kettle is faster than on stove. I like that it will maintain right temp for the second pour for coffee.
I didn't read very far, but: Is this actively maintained? I really enjoyed Clipper and FoxPro back when, but would prefer sqlite or postgresql storage over .dbf files now. Wait, I see postgres mentioned in the README (off documents menu), but Harbour doesn't seem like an active project..? (More for curiosity than actual likely use, as I am working to learn & use Rust.)
FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure
I feel like the todo list in looking for is a couple years before existing. I don't want a web app, much less a mobile app, I don't want to _switch focus to some app_ to see what i gotta do.

I need my todo list to talk directly to me when it is necessary, just beam my tasks straight onto my mind, ping my mind every 5 minutes so I actually get a sense of time.

I don't know if I'm just crazy but I'd like a personal assistant that actually is just like a second part of my brain.
Which is commonly deployed via password authentication
Apple Announces 'Wonderlust' Event Expected to Feature iPhone 15 and More
Currently the implementation is not written yet (and it is supposed to be possible that multiple implementations can be made, including ones that can run on other operating systems as well as by itself); currently they are the design ideas. I have written some stuff about it on comp.os.misc, although a few of the ideas have changed a bit since then and I have another message with some additional ideas, which I have not sent yet. Hopefully if other people also will comment then we can make the improvement, and then write the actual specifications (there are both low-level and high-level specifications) and can be made. I have essentially the ideas of the working of most of the low-level stuff already, and once it can be made the actual specification then the kernel could be implemented even though the high-level system might not be made yet.
Now that I have a 5kw induction cooktop I can boil water incredibly fast. However I’m not sure it’s that useful since it’s not like I’m standing there watching it, so whether it’s 1 min or 5 min doesn’t matter.
Can you expand on the 'do a better job' part? Is that a 'we need to do a better job driving big trucks around for pointless reasons' or 'do a better job of flying jets around more efficiently'?

It's very obvious that you think everyone around you is an idiot, so can you please expand on your ideas for those of us too dim to understand?
A pattern I've noticed is that in languages with garbage collection, the garbage collection aspect is never finished. It is always a pain point and people are constantly waiting for promised future features and refinements.
As do the oxen.
I personally would have been surprised to learn that such a thing existed! As a C# and rust developer who has hacked on llvm before, I have to admit that these two languages (and their underlying techs/stacks) are absolutely worlds apart and there is so little overlap between their communities.

I’d have been less surprised if there were a llvm backend for C#, but that wouldn’t exist without an IL LLVM target (because you’d be limited to the language without any (standard) library support.

The first-pass Roslyn compiler is really naive when it comes to optimizations; I constantly marvel at how little optimizations are performed in its first stages compared to what llvm does (the jit is amazingly well-tuned, however). An LLVM backend for C# would make for very interesting learning and research opportunities!
Semi-related: Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of...
This seems like an argument against defense in depth? I suppose encouraging security researchers to find vulnerabilities is a good thing and obfuscation hinders that.
People have been making similar predictions longer than either of us has been alive. Remember Cobol? Basically that. 5th generation languages? Same thing, with a different definition of "describe". Ultimately, those all turned out to be dead ends while the "antiquated" languages kept improving and innovating, albeit usually by (re-)inventing things that already existed elsewhere.
Something to realize is that different models require different prompting styles. You can't prompt non-gpt4 models with GPT4 tuned stylistic ticks and expect similar results.

I've gotten great performance from llama2 derivatives. Out of the box performance is not near GPT4 but it is still very strong in its own right. And, if you are able to break down your problem so precise logit control coupled with guidance from forward or backwards chaining on knowledge graphs is applicable, you can easily exceed gpt4's reasoning ability for your domain. No fine-tuning necessary either.

I've been getting useful things out of LLMs since the days of roberta and raw T5, when Large stood for hundreds of millions of parameters. I am flabbergasted when people say a 7B parameter model is no good for them.
As far as enforcement goes, I think that "raising the retirement age" would basically be "raising the age where you can draw on government benefits."

So it's not that you would be ""forced"" to work an extra year, but you won't have benefits for an extra year. Which, y'know, is still pretty bad depending on your situation.
You can melt aluminum in a camp fire. Go outside more often.
I'm a seasoned Java and Node developer, but have never touched Elixir/Erlang. Could you spell out for me the benefits Elixir provides over Java concurrent code? Is it actually a performance gain, or simply a nicer syntax? I am a bit confused by the claims of this post and of the earlier comment. Thanks a lot
I’ve been on sabbatical for 18 months now so my son wouldn’t have to go to daycare and so that I could also tackle some large remodeling projects around the house and re-invent myself as a web developer.

The value added to my home and the time spent with my son was far more than I would have earned during those 18 months.

However, now that I’m ready to go back to work, I’m finding it difficult to land an entry level web development job. We are fine financially but I need to find something with benefits or else I’ll have to keeping spending $1700 per month to insure my family.
I’m reading a book on Soviet vs US relations that was mentioning this exact thing, meaning defense contractors/companies over-charging the US Government. The book was written at the end of the ‘80s and was presenting facts that had been happening just before that, meaning the early to mid-‘80s, so it looks like nothing much has changed since then.

Maybe the powers that be should really think about nationalizing this type of companies, if you’re getting the great majority of the your revenues from the Government that looks like a better way to keep things under more direct control.
Is it not true? Not everything needs to be secure, just the right parts. The test is whether you can jailbreak the devices and not be detected by their RA scheme. As far as I know, there's no (public) way to do this.

BTW, this tech isn't new. In practice if you are vertically integrating, it's possible to make things secure enough. Games consoles have been doing this for years. Even in the Xbox 360 era, the use of local exploits was detectable the moment you connected to Xbox Live, and AFAIK Xbox One remains completely unmoddable/unjailbroken even after a decade into its lifespan.

There's a tech talk here by a member of the Xbox team who talk about how they secured it against physical attack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

But bear in mind, RA was never the weak point even of the 360.

Making remote attestation secure is a well studied problem in the industry. It's been done several times. You have to be a competent tech firm producing your own hardware/software combos, and you need a competent security team, but there are several companies that meet that criteria and Apple is definitely one of them.
I'm sorry, are you actually suggesting that the Democratic Party blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline? Or that they fly on private jets more than Republicans?

At the end of the day, they passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the largest piece of green legislation ever passed in this country. It's not perfect, but it's better than anyone else in this country has ever done. I don't care if you're still annoyed that Al Gore sounded like a scold, that's at least some heading in the right direction, while the current GOP platform is for defunding all green energy and funding more oil.

The two parties are not the same on this issue.
> You're saying ... refactor the codebase to de-abstract and re-duplicate, undoing the work we did in the name of DRY in the first place.

That's the exact opposite of what I'm advocating for, but perhaps I didn't express myself well.

> Sooner or later we have a frankenfunction that's hundreds of lines long and branches a bazillion ways and might as well be a turing machine in itself.

Yeah, that's not a good abstraction, and not at all what I meant.
Here are the motor loads for a typical residence:

-1/2 to 3/4 HP furnace fan
- 3 to 5 ton AC unit

Neither of these benefit from a 3-phase motor aside from not having to swap out $10 start/run capacitors, the conductors would be #8 for 3p and #6 for split phase.

You can easily power a three-phase motor on a split-phase service with a VFD.

You can get three-phase power in certain locations at a residence, but you pay a monthly connection charge and commercial rates.
> If it were a biochemical phenomenon you would expect to see it happening everywhere.

You actually do see it happening everywhere.
> “over”-reliance on cheap Russian gas was rational, but alas incompatible with US hegemony.

Europe seems to prefer US hegemony over Russian bullying. See how Finland and Sweden wanted to get into NATO without anyone forcing them to do so.
Spotlight'll search inside files, too

As does Windows search

I'm all for great new tools ... but I still don't see what you're adding over native functionality?
I have had a bit of a forced mid-life (37) retirement for the last 6 months due to being laid off.

It's actually been really nice because I'm lucky enough to have enough savings accessable, so it's been a nice low-stress time to recover from working at a start up.

What's absurd to me is much of the money I've saved is in a traditional IRA that I reasonably can't touch without penalty until I'm 65 without doing some advanced financial planning like a Roth ladder which requires planning at least 5 years in advance. Hard to plan for being laid off....

My parents died at 68. That they paid social security for their entire careers and got so little is absurd.

It's such a shame to me that culturally we emphasize career over life experiences and expect people to wait until their life is ending to enjoy it.
Bard has certainly become better over the past few months, and while as a product it is worse in some ways (seems to have a purposefully low understanding of the previous context in a chat) it is up to date with somewhat current information, unlike GPT where you need to pay money to access its web browsing capabilities.
I see—you are saying gamers don’t really care about whether an asset is sellable; but the same is true of most things we purchase. When we buy a book or a vinyl record, we don’t think about its market value, until the day we stop needing/wanting it and realize selling could provide us some return. In those moments, it’s nice that there is no company that can block you from selling on the open market. Many gamers would appreciate this (and do, when they are given the ability to refund digital purchases they no longer want/use).
In India the biggest source of air pollution is people burning wood for cooking and the like, mainly in the poorer countryside. Previous poster is talking rubbish.
Being gated behind a waitlist is much closer to a closed-beta than "generally available"
- Mom, can I have payments?

- We have payments at home
You might be dead before 60.
Previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148898
According to the European Fire Safety Alliance:

The total number of fires of electrical origin in the EU is estimated to be 273,000 per year.

According to the US National Fire Protection Assocation:

Fire departments responded to an estimated average of 46,700 home fires involving electrical failure or malfunction each year in 2015–2019.

Stats aside, which do you think will cause a bigger spark, 110 or 220?

https://www.europeanfiresafetyalliance.org/publications/whit...

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-too...
In the US, you can have electric receptacles in bathrooms. In fact, code requires it. You can plug in 120V electronics and appliances no big deal.

In the UK, this is not allowed because 240V is not a good idea in bathrooms.
After I realized the Base M3 was just the M3LR with a software locked battery, that settled it. So if you buy a base M3 you're just hauling around 20-30% of that battery weight for literally no reason.
This "terminate and retry" behaviour is specified in RFC7606
Do you have any programming experience? If so, you really shouldn’t have to “learn” python in any serious sense of the word. It shouldn’t take much more than a solid afternoon to be able to use much of the language.
What are you talking about?

I said that Elon does not have his hands on the wheel. You then retorted saying that it will not let you drive without both hands on the wheel, implying that what I said is impossible.

I then provided 3 independent techniques available to Elon Musk that would allow him to drive without his hands on the wheel and pointed at direct video evidence proving your baseless assertion and implication are false.

As to your second point, Ford’s system is explicitly designed, advertised, and declared to be safe to operate hands free with attention being determined through a camera driver monitoring system (DMS). Tesla explicitly declares in the legal fine print that their system should only be used by a attentive driver with their hands on the wheel.

If you think it is unfair to hold Tesla to their own standards for what is safe usage then take that up with Tesla. If they just take liability for hands-free operation like Ford then Tesla can remove that requirement and there would be nothing to complain about if Tesla shows hands-free operation because that would be a legally supported mode. Until they do so they are absolutely guilty of demonstrating unsafe and unsupported operation in official, sanctioned, advertising.
>Older, more experienced people don’t have this tailwind of ignorance.

No, older people have a tailwind of experience that can ignore most failure paths
The answer, as always, is "sometimes".

Sometimes duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction.

And

Sometimes it's better to abstract away a duplication rather than let it lie.

And that's the mark of becoming a master at the craft. Being able to recognize all of these various slight permutations of state and what to do about them.
> And how do you really enforce something like that?

Retirement age refers to when you're eligible for government retirement benefits.

The proposal is to let people draw their retirement benefits early, basically.

Practically speaking, drawing 3 months of expenses at age 35 might be equivalent to something like drawing 1 year of expenses at age 65, assuming the money is invested. You'd have to do the math to see the real numbers, but that's essentially what the author is proposing.

Time value of money.
Not sure we needed the author to use that many words to say that they have a high school level understanding of human reproduction. I know I’m probably feeding the trolls here, but lets maybe leave the nonscientific hate rambles to every other social media site.
That $1T giants care more about a $10b real estate portfolio than 2% productivity of their workforce is the biggest QAnon level conspiracy that HN supports which makes no sense.
Lignin separation method could make renewable material profitable
As someone who has spent way too much time fine-tuning model parameters, I am grateful for this service!
This is huge. Yesterday The Register published an article [1] mentioning that Qakbot was responsible for 30% of recorded intrusion attempts since the start of 2023.

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/28/top_malware_loaders/
Its actually hilarious that in another comment you say 'Today is the greatest time in the history of our species to be alive', but yet you can't overcome the fear of sending your kids out in public.
Great read! As someone who has spent a good chunk of time looking at FairPlay code in the past, it was interesting to follow someone else’s chain of thought :)
I can assure you that eating and drinking yourself to death is entirely possible in France too :-)
Duet is apparently the new Clippy for Google.

They are also going to release it for GCP later this year???
In both the review itself and in V's documentation, from which the example came, it states that autofree is still WIP. It's arguably disingenuous to pretend otherwise or present unintended usage.

The normal "day-to-day" situation would be to have the GC on or as fallback, and to do otherwise (like -gc none or -prealloc), one should know what they are doing or be prepared to deal with such issues.

Those parts of the review, considered relevant in normal usage were resolved:

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14803

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14787

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14786

But even beyond that, the intent of the so-called review was arguably malevolent. It was not done in good faith, to be helpful to the developers or community, but done to spur on drama (thus adding the vaporware link and spamming it) and knowingly looking for ways to bash an alpha version of the language.
iPhone 15 Series will be like:
Same design (as always),
New colours,
Type C Port
> Russia is such a shitty country.

Maybe you should rephase that and say the majority of leadership in Russia. Otherwise, it sounds like all individuals in Russia are directly responsible.
Dear Sir - a "a properly implemented remote attestation and security architecture" is one aspect of computing, but ironically, Apple Computer built its empire on "personal computers" not military style ID checking.

constant "papers, please" to run My Own Computer is not what I purchased hardware to do.. signed -US Citizen
If the kind of value you want to receive is not coming to you I'd think in two ways:

1. Reflecting in what would be missing on how are you selling yourself so you can reposition the product of you as frontend software engineer. Are you making it easy enough to perceive that is a great opportunity to have you in an engineering team? What do you have in your control right now that can make that perception more overt?

2. Be the CTO of a x10 product (niche would be easier), raise a seed round with a co-founder and show the kind of value you were always talking about.

Both paths needs you resisting to become resentful (making neuroticism go up) because people will sense the negative vibe from miles away and intuitively reject being close to you even if they don't understand the details of why (just general impression).

PS: I'm a fullstack with more time spent in backends, and when I have to show a portfolio it's almost always the frontend that can be displayed to cause some kind of quick fast good impression. Backend stuff is always harder to show/prove.
Or those hiring are just suspicious of people who don't make the same mistakes they do.
It is unfortunate that the modern retirement, in the US, is "work until you're incapable of working", then survive your last lingering years using up whatever savings you managed to stash away.

Yes, it was always thus for the poor, but the poor is now almost all of us. Whatever happened to the middle class?
setuptools, pip, pip-tools, pipenv, poetry, PDM, rye... I love Python and will never stop using it, but it's refreshing to find Python's philosophy of "there should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it" actually enacted in other languages, like Rust and Go, when it comes to dependency management.
For individual people, this policy sounds fantastic. For the macroeconomy, this sounds kind of disastrous.

A policy that encourages less prime-age employment in a society that is already falling off the demographic cliff [1] seems really bad if your goal is to allow more people to spend more time using government benefits.

Poland is already going to struggle to support an aging population, and encouraging 35-year-olds to periodically remove themselves from the workforce feels like it will just accelerate the issue.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/poland/2020/
All governments in the world are capable of ordering the likes of Twitter and YouTube to censor or remove content if they wish to operate in their jurisdiction. This is nothing new.
> Don’t become entangled in needing to work to survive

If you need to work to get food, you need to work to survive
Ah, so we're submitting hateful transphobic screeds to HN, now?
Hmm, I haven’t heard anyone say that team assignment was required to be random with this strategy.
I suppose you have never seen, ever, in your professional career, the "C" suits making business deals and thus decisions on what's to be acquired, with big network/server/storage/database/software vendors, over the head and against the advice of those then called to support crap in production.
But as it cools the gasses reintegrate. So I'm not sure the science backs this up. Water at the same temp should have the same amount of dissolved gas regardless of how it got to that temp (given enough time for the gas to reintegrate).