skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's crazy looking back and seeing how different everything was.

Yeah, that struck me as well. For some reason, I expected their tooling to be much more modern, but then you see them running Windows XP, and I have this visceral reaction like, "Oh no! You can't be running that!"

They also go to a "trade show" which you find out is actually a ColdFusion conference. But even at the time, that was pretty dated, and the interns admit they're not sure what ColdFusion is.

I was impressed reading Joel's functional spec at how well it holds up. I don't think it's a very popular way of designing software anymore, but I still prefer big design up front (BDUF), and I suspect Joel probably still works that way. The only thing that felt dated to me about the functional spec was 1) the emphasis on code conventions, which he admitted at the time didn't belong in the spec, and 2) how it focused a lot on what would happen in v2 rather than aggressively keeping scope to the MVP.
If anything, I’m surprised it wasn’t there already.
Square says it has resolved day-long outage
Congratulations for the release.
What do they do to require 178 people to function? I have never used their app, but I have absolutely no idea what 178 full time, 40h/wk workers do at a niche dating app company.

Not picking on them in particular, you can ask the same question to pretty much any tech company. How many time do you need to rewrite your UI, your backend and redesign the logo to keep them busy day in and day out?
"Defunding" has unfortunately become a vague word that means different things to different activists. To me, it means removing the "military tools" that OP mentions, removing their incentives to escalate to violence and otherwise violate people's rights (or providing financial disincentives), and ideally, ultimately disarming them. Stop the money flow from taxpayers that encourages, enables, and results in all the bad behavior.
> Rust isn't that hard to learn on the job, it's maybe hard for some people to learn in isolation.

I have to disagree with that. I've learned Rust but it was one of the most challenging languages I've picked up. Stuff like lifetimes are very difficult to learn on the job without already doing a lot of reading.
If the device isn't internet-connected, it's not an IoT device. That's what the I stands for.

If what you're getting at is that most networked devices sit behind a consumer firewall, and that's probably good enough -- well, I mostly agree.
That's perfectly fine Haskell, but I wouldn't say that using Applicative is much of a Lean idiom. Especially in the mathlib, people prefer using custom notation that looks like math notation or using the underlying functions directly rather than by using generic point-free notations. For example, you'll see `⨆ i, s i` for a supremum across the values of `s`, vs a point-free version.
I think you have forgotten the effect that Liz Truss had on the electorate.
>Is this really a crime?

Looks like it is:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/224
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal
Mozilla has disabled privacy controls in the past without informing users. For example, they removed the “prompt when setting a cookie” (so that you could reject/accept/accept for this session only) without a replacement. Newer versions just accepted all cookies as persistent, non-session cookies automatically. There are other examples like this.

It's difficult to deal with because as the code evolves, so do the configuration settings. The rate of change is high, and it's not always obvious what is relevant to users (and whether a new feature increases or decreases privacy!), so it's hard to communicate this in release notes.
this is literally 2nd question I have asked
1) Have you looked at the team
2) Based on your postulate that I should not be making claims wanted to see an example of claim I should not make. As I don't think I actually made any claims.
I am not sure why this is tedious
1) is pretty much yes or no
2) is just copy paste of a "claim"
Oh. Actually got released today .. so we also did https://platform.sh/blog/bun-support-is-here/
Nice projection, you’re just spitting word for word political nonsense which is unrelated to a single thing I said. CNN saying that there is proof this is the hottest day in 120,000 years isn’t scientific and linking to them doing so isn’t an act of engaging in science. I think maybe it’s you who has gotten so caught up in a political fight you’re convinced you aren’t taking part it one.
I wouldn´t require disclosure, I think that's simply not realistic, for the reasons you describe, and also because people may just forget.

I was wondering if I should declare that I did _not_ use any text analysis or generation tools in analyses I produce for clients. I'd wager people declaring that are less likely to lie about it than those using such tools are to not mention it. And someone reading that might find it helpful knowing that they can go over it with less (obviously still a healthy amount of) scrutiny. Declaring it proactively vs requiring disclosure seems like the reverse of the effect opt-out vs opt-in has on user behaviour.

My answer was, by the way, yes. This particular document was in German, but roughly translated I wrote in the first section (where I clarified how I understood the assignment and what goals I set myself):

"Aside from automated spell checking, the analysis behind this document as well as the act of drafting and writing it did not involve - at any stage - tools for automated text analysis or text generation."

I found my peace with this now, but still curious if (and how!) others do this.
‘Weird’ Dinosaur Prompts Rethink of Bird Evolution
I find this paper "neat", but struggle to understand why (beyond academic curiosity) one would use LLMs to solve optimization problems. The authors note:

"We would like to note that OPRO is designed for neither outperforming the state- of-the-art gradient-based optimization algorithms for continuous mathematical optimization, nor surpassing the performance of specialized solvers for classical combinatorial optimization problems such as TSP. Instead, the goal is to demonstrate that LLMs are able to optimize different kinds of objective functions simply through prompting, and reach the global optimum for some small- scale problems."

I would also add that, unlike gradient-based optimization algorithms and (many) specialized solvers for combinatorial optimization problems, I don't think it can be proven that an LLM will reach the global optimum. Proving global optimality is kind of the whole point of optimization (or at least, reliably finding what you believe to be darn close).

Another note: the paper seems most interested in the number of steps needed to solve a given problem, and even says that "Interestingly, on small-scale traveling salesman problems, OPRO performs on par with some hand-crafted heuristic algorithms."

I would like to understand which metric they are using to say that it performs on par. I will guarantee that it is not seconds. Rather, it seems like they are focused on the number of steps, which is great, but an LLM's language-based step surely takes longer to compute than a math-based step in a traditional solver. 100 steps at 10 seconds/step is much worse than 100 steps at 0.1 seconds/step.

Still, fun to explore! I think the next big step in this arena is fine tuning an LLM to take business logic objective and constraint prompts, formulate them with a traditional modeling language, hook up to a data feed, and solve using Gurobi or similar (as in, don't use the LLM to actually solve). Reliably doing this costs a few hundred thousand dollars from most consultancies.
Not at all surprising by this point
“The Linux kernel, an enormous open-source project, used a proprietary VCS called BitKeeper. However, due to a conflict between the community and the company behind BitKeeper, the free-of-charge status was revoked.”

The details about that conflict are worthy of an article in and of themselves :)

https://lwn.net/Articles/130746/
Discussed yesterday (250+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421241
I am coming around to this line if thinking much more lately. Especially if you work at a big company in a fungible role. The power imbalance is such that it costs the company essentially 0% of their assets to abruptly terminate you, but for most people it would start a countdown to financial ruin measured in weeks to months. The only snag is that I would feel remorseful for the former coworkers I would be saddling with undue additional workload.
The options are either return to the office or leave with severance benefits. The company probably wants to limit the grounds on which the National Labor Relations Board might get involved - especially if, as is widely suspected, this is covertly a union-busting move.
Doesn't change the fact clerks don't always bother to add the tax. Hell, I suspect increasing the tax would make them add it even less
He did share. He submitted this article :)
Wrote a TOS that requires sites opting out of scraping to pay you for non-scraped link
Hey! We're currently hosting the product ourselves, but will be releasing a desktop app in the next couple of weeks. We've got plans to open-source some elements of our platform (video-to-text, basic media editing, etc.) down the road.

Anything specific you're curious about seeing?
SourceSafe was nice with its built in tools integration when everyone else at the time was non existent. It was really meant for a 2-5 person team. Anything bigger and the thing would die on its own database updates. But if you are still using that thing today you should move away from it. It is terrible for usage today. I got to the point I was doing backups every 6 hours and keeping rotating backups on hand for when it decided to corrupt itself. Then I as subjected to clearcase and sourcesafe was amazing compared to the complexity that thing brought. I knew it was bad when they had to send out a consultant just to show us how to get it installed correctly and make branches.
US has outsourced national security to the poor countries?
Why wouldn't you go with Home Assistant? When I was researching, there basically seemed to be no other competent solution that worked across devices. The only other reliable solutions seemed to force you to lock yourself into Apple or Google's ecosystem
> 'Be Nice to Spiders' was my first introduction to counter-culture. When everyone else is afraid or uncomfortable or angry about something, you don't have to be.

As a spider enthusiast and photographer, this makes me happy. Thank you for showing these creatures respect :)
Thanks everyone for the advice.

No one has chimed in about some "magic words/phrasing" I need to use.

Like I mentioned, it seems like the rep will escalate it to another refund department if I say something in a particular way.
Really interesting article. I don't live in the Bay Area but I would seriously consider moving there if I knew, for example, that the transit plan mentioned in the article were being adopted:

https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/vision-map

I'd love to hear peoples' thoughts who actually live or have lived in the Bay Area.
Well, in the US at least, you're not obligated to give notice, but yes you could (and will) burn bridges.
Agreed. There are legitimate reasons to have enforcement. The problem is the peace officer part has been divorced from the role. Getting rid of the role of a peace officer is not a good idea.
And now Flexport is a smoking crater no one wants to work at.
> Some users' profiles are set to private

I'm describing issue with public accounts.

Private accounts out of scope here.
Some games are genre-defying, and so fall through the cracks of classification schemes based on how good the game is to appealing to fans of particular genres (e.g. does Undertale appeal to fans of bullet-hell shooters?) while still being otherwise agreed-upon as "good." One of the purposes of a general, non-genre-specific "Hidden Gems" game list would be to help you discover such games.
Yes, it happens to all profiles I visit and I can rule out the pins/highlights feature. There's a weatherman in Texas who is a prolific tweeter and his page shows a random assortment of years old retweets (~2015), some tweets from last month, and no current weather forecasts. They don't change between page visits and none of them are in chronological order. What do you see when you visit https://twitter.com/wfaaweather ?
Not a seasoned users, mostly played with Deno. To me Deno seems more oriented to be an alternative Node runtime with security as first principle and built-in support for Typescript, JSX with some tooling like linter. It's also based on V8. My best guess it's what Ryan Dahl wanted Node to be as an afterthought. Bun, technically speaking is based on Webkit, but can't really say why, seems a better all-in-on tool(also remember rome?) and not only a runtime. Also with compatibility with current frameworks out of box, Deno wasn't npm compatible some time ago and I wonder if it ever meant to be and not a pivotal change on the run
i have used cvs, subversion, and git, and to a much lesser extent, darcs and hg. i would have to agree with both the article that this (d)vcs is a breath of fresh air compared to cvs and svn and also with your post and this tweet https://twitter.com/markrussinovich/status/15784512452490526... .

i believe that i notice some nice changes have been coming to git over the years. and i believe i'm largely comfortable with the toolset it offers and occasionally i advance my knowledge of it. i mostly use: git diff, git status, git commit, git rebase, git pull, git log, occasionally git merge or once in a rare while git reflog or whatever else comes up when i try to look up "how do i get back commits from a stash i popped and then checked out" (losing the changes within the stash). i actually did that again the other day and i think i may have tried git reflog and git fsck for the first time on my Windows Subsystem Linux Ubuntu machine (no idea if that is relevant) and i could not find my lost stash at all, and just ended up recreating the changes.

git is nice in the distributed sense, it is fast for my use, git lfs has been quite a pain for me in the past (but maybe it has improved). but i do find the commands quite arcane and it was very hard for me to get used to it. i am all in now and i appreciate the ux changes the project has made (and likely will make) over the years - the git command output often seems to give a short education message about what command to execute in replacement of some arcane thing i've been using for some years and there are often good blog posts describing how to use new commands, but i spent a lot of time figuring out what the hell i was doing that it would be nice if i could have spent another way.
> a much more high-information look into US politics than anything that could be considered mainstream in the early 2000s

I think, given Joe Rogan's popularity these days, he is the mainstream.
Create a Clone of Yourself with a Fine-Tuned LLM
Part II made the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426080

A comment there makes what I think is a very good point about "the lack of consolidation of computer algebra efforts": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37430437

I don't know what might drive or foster such consolidation. Maybe Category Theory? Bridging syntax?
IRS Deploys Artificial Intelligence to Target Rich Partnerships
The only gripe I have about this is a super implementation detail (perhaps on our instances only): the “thank you” hands emoji is :pray:. There is also a :thank: that is the same emoji, but it’s weirdly lower res.
I haven't talked to a delivery driver since the pandemic started, they just leave food at my door and leave. That said, I don't order delivery that much.
Oh, good luck with that. I'd make the bet you'll see a post from them by the end of the year.

Didn't they remove commenting on those posts a year or so ago? I used to remember being able to comment on them, but I don't think you can anymore...
I definitely would, but it would be under a subcontract with protective clauses. I think this is the prudent approach.

Entrepreneurs are itchy to do their own thing. That’s great-but it would not be at my expense if I’m the general contractor.
I could almost get my front-end and back-end to talk together despite CORS.
How?

1-2 years ago they used to automatically suspend new accounts without a phone number within 1h after registration; after that you had to go through a manual account recovery process. Did something change here?
Can you elaborate on the cloudflare thing?
I find it ironic that at the end he asks for my email address.
> Pro-tip: we'll automatiically pre-pend 'A TOK emoji of a' to your prompt.

What if I write "cat, except give me a real photo"?
How are they not relevant. They suck data from you for money.

Exactly what Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon do too.
True, but walking has additional physical-health benefits.
This happened with me for Evernote. Incredibly frustrating. I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised with how well the latest versions of Microsoft Office still support most non x formats (eg .doc, .xls).
Same as javascript?
I mean, let's be serious for a second, MS PowerApps, an Enterprise tool every CIO knows by now is potentially cheaper than Retool's unknown Enterprise price: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

There is not much to talk about, I don't see it, maybe Retool is targeting a different ICP. I don't see how a CIO would go for Retool when they can reach for PowerApps which is also potentially cheaper. PowerApps also integrates with the rest of the MS stack.

I am not saying I like it, I prefer Slack over MS Teams too, but Retool is a very hard pitch right now for Enterprise, and I don't see AI driving any points in that discussion.
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ACAB stems from the police's tendency to always back each other, regardless of their behavior. If they would start policing their own coworkers' conduct, stopping their own from behaving badly, and testifying against each other when appropriate, the ACAB meme would die.
I've drawn a line between learning Rust at a company and learning Rust in isolation. When you learn Rust at a company you have the full support of the others on your team, who already know Rust. I have experienced this at multiple companies now - picking up Rust when you are on a team of Rust developers is much easier than picking it up in isolation at home.
How long ago was that?

It's very different right now. Every team is starved for headcount. Job openings don't grow on trees these days — not even in FAANG-land.
What happens if I click connect?
Slavs had walls surrounding settlement excluding side connected to river..
it depends what trading system your culture prefers.. how open or closed is.
Goths in Spain completely banned commerce outside of one designated spot. I'm not sure if they came up with this because of local... circumstances or brought it with them. Anyway it didn't help them much, quite opposite...
Hey thanks for checking it out. We've been open-sourcing one-off tools to help folks who work with video files regularly and want to build basic LLM applications in Javascript.

If you have any questions or thoughts about what you'd like to see us open-source, happy to bounce around ideas.
It is the same function with different clauses using pattern matching. It is a powerful way of handling different cases. There is no overload at all. The concept does not exist in the language. And if the arity differs, then they are completely different functions even if the name is the same.
Is this the same flexport.com that if you go to RIGHT NOW they have 107 job openings???
Dude same. We should start a consultancy.
Why do you need to pipe it through a VPN?
heh, i browsed the tag history on github to see if i could track it down, but github gave me a 500 error on this link: https://github.com/git/git/releases/tag/v0.99
I think everyone else is puzzled why you're asking a question about the scientific method here when clearly the topic at hand is whether Pingliangtai proves or disproves your favorite political ideology.
"If you want to stop supporting it before 10 years, open source everything including getting the new firmware onto device (so all the keys etc)"

So keep supporting it or give away how your stuff works underneath and allow someone else to. Bricking device into a landfill should not be decision corporation is allowed to take on most (all?) customer devices.
Sure, not everyone wants to go remote, but many people do. Those of us who like remote work want to preserve it as an option.

There's already resistance from companies with leases and cities with "empty" downtowns. I'm hopefully the change will stick despite that.
But the president of the US doesn't have the power to make treaties with another nation. See the league of nations for an important example of that. So that treaty is also worthless when it comes to the US.

So if a verbal agreement is worthless & a treaty is worthless, how does one negotiate with the US?

I'm unsure how France's presidential system works and what authority he may have.
To be clear, I don't think it was a conspiracy. Intentionality when applied to an organization on the scale of Amazon is weird. "Amazon" is not one thing, it's a million people each acting in their own self-interest and what they see being in the interest of the collective. The collective can respond to threats without explicit coordination, and destroy competitors completely incidentally.

I'm trying to think of a better word than "coup". Maybe it's just collateral damage.
Ironic that the last slide asks me to subscribe to a newsletter with my Google account.
When did git become self-hosting?
> At Berkeley, a faculty committee rejected 75 percent of applicants in life sciences and environmental sciences and management purely on diversity statements, according to a new academic paper by Steven Brint, a professor of public policy at U.C. Riverside, and Komi Frey, a researcher for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which has opposed diversity statements.

75% of applicants are rejected because of their statements. That's a very impactful section of the application.
Now that this is working it's very cool. The background removal is a little intense, it keeps cutting off people's hair:

https://replicate.delivery/pbxt/EKWIccdjCTrcEdJYFN1kxo9fF5JY...

Some of these are extremely good, I hope you add some kind of curated "best of" gallary at some point.
Awesome slides, but then I tried to subscribe to growth.design newsletter using a Firefox Relay email, but mozmail email masks are rejected. So much for privacy.
Did not know that. I'd say it's not top of mind when people think of "big tech", but that might be my bubble. :)
Agreed. Admittedly, 37 Signals does have a great history of actually delivering on its announcements, but I'll withhold judgement until I actually see some real software.
Order some washable metal straws and keep them in your car. You only have to remember to replinish the car