skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latacora's primary infrastructure auditing tool is called payne, after Cecilia. It takes "snapshots" of infrastructure: e.g. an entire AWS resource graph, and then makes that available via fast queries. It figures out what your cloud is made of by looking at API responses (which kind of are like emission spectra I guess?) :)
> That said the neodymium mining and the melting involved are things you cannot make easily with electricity.

I don't know why you believe this. Doing this kind of thing electrically isn't new — a friend of mine did his PhD in metalysis (and IIRC funded by the company of the same name) about 15 years ago, and that was investigating the details in one specific metal rather than inventing the process itself.
Same here, you came out and claimed there is no forced membership in NBA and SAG, which I took in good faith and did some research. It appears that no, you really cannot play in NBA or Hollywood without being a member in some sense (paying dues, obeying regulations but not having the right to vote). Now you are trying to present this as if union is completely voluntarily and not being a member having grave consequences is just some coincidence and my bad faith...
How to build an AI data assistant that works
There has to be someone to filter through the noise. You'd probably call those people maladjusted freaks tho.

Judgmental ass.
You sound like you'd fit in perfectly.
>This reads more like humanizing the language of the post then any legitimate surprise from the author.

Lol Sure

>I am pushing back on people conflating the innate complexity of a high dimensional polynomial with a misplaced reverence of incomprehensibility.

We don't know what the models learn and what they employ to aid in predictions. That is fact. Going on a grad descent rant is funny but ultimately meaninglessness. It doesn't tell you anything about the meaning of the computations.

There is no misplaced incomprehensibility because the internals and how they meaningfully shape predictions is incomprehensible.

>Mathematically proven to be able to do something is about as far from surprise as one can get.

Magic the gathering is turing complete. I'm sorry but "therotically turing complete" is about as meaningless as it gets. Transformers aren't even turing complete.
Thank you, that's a good idea. I want to formalize my opinion on copyright sometime in the future.
I've purchased thousands of dollars of music through Bandcamp, and every purchase is a FLAC file I download. Bandcamp has no control of or connection to the music I've purchaed after the download is complete.
>I am sorry but you can not work in the company or build a company in the country and avoid taxes.

Literally all billionaires and big companies are doing it.
I think magical thinking gets too bad a rap these days.

When systems get complex enough, data or logic driven decisions aren't really any more reliable than gut feeling. They're just easier to rationalise.

Either this will work, and the companies that resisted Return To Office will be at a competitive disadvantage, or it won't and the companies who advocated for Return to Office will be behind.

Either way, Darwin will punish whoever is wrong.
Hilariously, C# used to have a framework named NancyFX which was inspired by Sinatra. The entire reason it existed was to get away from the ASP.NET MVC mess.

Thankfully it looks like even ASP.NET Core is no longer using this kind of syntax. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/r...
Not to me it doesn't, no. Never heard of that convention before, and I've been online since 1985, but hey.

I did not refer to that Wikipedia page, or any Wikipedia page.

I can't argue with something I never said or meant. I don't see the relevance. I did not mention typing speed at all.
Any time my office got chilly, I'd `make -j` the Linux kernel a few times.
Same. Had a friend recommend a show to me and I binged the 3 seasons. I don’t binge watch anything. Ever. I’ve tried several other shows because Netflix and Amazon suggested them based on my previous viewing. They all mostly sucked. I don’t think algorithms can detect good acting yet…
"It's just transactional"

"I don't owe anybody anything"

"You're just naive"

These are the rationalizations used to justify antisocial behavior. It's nihilistic and destructive to society.

I've heard people espouse this kind of logic even when talking about employees who have worked for them for 20 years. They exchanged labor for pay and therefore nobody owes anybody anything. Yeah, right.
That’s one way to look at it. Or, it could just be that, during the covid boom years they overhired to support growth that never materialized, and now they’re stuck with a bunch of overpaid freeloaders (sitting at the top of each salary band) who are neither experts in the business nor uniquely talented/useful/needed.
Almost all infrastructure spending is a no-brainer that puts more into the economy than it takes out, but the USA is completely allergic to it anyways. This part of infrastructure is not unique in that regard.
Not accurate as worded. Python caches module imports in `sys.modules`, so all imports get the same one. A `reload()` will reuse the same dict object that was being used as the module's namespace, so everything with a reference to the module object will see the same namespace and get the updates.
'Survival of the fittest' may also apply to the nonliving, report finds
We've had good success with Blazor. The abstractions haven't been leaky. I haven't used it, but supposedly Kotlin-to-JS is excellent as well (and gives you access to a stunning amount of the JVM ecosystem at the same time). People on HN rave about Elm, too.
Any recommendations for where to get water tested for uncommon contaminants?
Honest question, how are roundabouts better for pedestrians than intersections? At a light-controlled intersection, the traffic is forced stop for a period of time, allowing for safe passage.
They had a very plausible explanation: gravitational binding energy. It's the wrong one for the sun, but it's the correct one for non-fusing brown dwarfs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_mecha... ("Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism")
Also YT Music quality is shit. I bought a new pair of headphones and though they were defective until I played some songs encoded by yours truly as opus files.
Sweet spot is houses go up by wage inflation. Paying the mortgage off being a big source of the benefit.
It wasn't the data itself that was questionable. Search history has been commonly used as evidence for a while now. The difference is that usually you identify a suspect and then pull up their history, while in this case it was the reverse.

I personally do think that "give me a list of everyone who searched for XYZ in this time frame" is a clear case of a search warrant being unconstitutionally broad, but then this is generally where surveillance is going so it's futile to think it won't just continue to get worse.
Definitely a good idea to filter drinking water in the US, make sure to get a filter that will filter out other toxic chemicals such as fluoride.
Well, I think that's the point of that article. It says that we need to communicate in terms people can relate to better (than just some average temperature over the whole planet).

So no, we weren't talking like that 10 years ago, but we had identified that we needed better messaging. But we did nothing about that.
That’s rather an exception in my experience. For unit-tests it starts hallucinating hard once you have functions imported from other files. This is probably the reason most unit tests in their marketing materials are things like fibonacci…
I think the loudest people are the ones talking about their bad experience. I've been on SO for, I think, 13 years. I've rarely had questions closed as duplicates and if one was it truly was a duplicate and I found my answer on the referenced question.

I don't see how all the people complaining about moderation don't look at all the low quality questions and see why moderation is what it is.
> conrete paths MUST TAKE PRECEDENCE over patterns.

And indeed they do.
Is fluoride in drinking water toxic? I thought they added it on purpose to help our teeth or something
Tactical Privacy (2020)
One of the challenges with this is that the phonology of English as spoken varies quite a bit -- even among nearby regions -- particularly with vowels, but sometimes with consonants especially medial ones.

https://youtu.be/sa3Tl3t88Mc
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/82GgaT0Sx1o
Make orange cats perhaps?

They have lower survivability in the wild and better in captivity. Now the one could be a factor of camouflage, but doesn’t explain the other.

The current theory is that there’s some correlation between orange genes and outgoing/risk taking genes.

Being impulsively friendly as a pet is a plus, being impulsive as a feral gets you killed.
That is what you get when you combine the peak of a hype cycle with the existence of shockingly stupid people.
The section about housing being an investment in your comment can't be stressed enough.

We were turned down for a mortgage at the first bank we tried because we refused to finance enough to improve the landscaping. The bank wanted to see what the ROI on the home was. We were buying a forever home. Increase in value is someone else's problem after I'm dead.

It was. Well. Fascinating.
The US spends very high amounts of money on infrastructure ... but like in many other areas gets a very poor return on that investment. We underinvest relative the both the current need and potential benefits, but it isn't because there isn't a willingness to spend.
I'm working on https://hackerli.st to do exactly that, rolling out jobs this week.
This fundamentally misses the problem. Investors are only able to speculate because there is a shortage of housing. They are betting that in the future even more people will want that housing, and they are probably right. The only real solution is to crash the housing market by building more houses in places that people want them. Banning speculation won't solve the problem, and it might actually make the problem worse because we will have even less development that people need. We need to heavily update construction regulations to be more sensible like Tokyo, and we probably need massive amount of direct and indirect public housing investments.
I haven’t tried doing this, although I’ve thought of it to solve a similar problem, which I ultimately solved by not bothering and just letting GitHub render the docs. (Purely internal technical use cases, so not an issue.)

I haven’t experimented, but my first attack would be to query the GH Pages service directly and specify the host header. Bypass Cloudflare entirely.

GitHub Pages supports SSO with the enterprise cloud plan, of course.
> the liability is rent.

Yeah, the words "monthly commitment" are the key there, which describe the upper limit to your exposure. There's value (which has a cost) to the limited liability.

Conversely, you're not entering into a long-term debt relationship, nor do you have the obligation to fund or perform ad-hoc maintenance. As a renter, you are abstracted from those additional and significant risks, but you do pay for the privilege. You get to simply throw money at the problem, not concern yourself with where to find a new zone valve at 11pm or whether you should tie up cash to keep inventory on hand.

There's a sizeable market of people who prefer not to buy - young people who aren't settled down to one place; older people who don't want to do maintenance work; middle-aged people who don't want commitment (because reasons).

There are also people who would prefer to buy but can't qualify. There are also people who merely think they would prefer to buy (but do nothing to structure their lives around it, or even comprehend the obligations it entails).

It seems you're talking earnestly about the people who prefer to buy but can't qualify.

In that case, you're stuck renting and invariably are going to hate the landlord/super (they always suck), the place will seem rattier every month, you obsess over visions of what you would do with the place if you just had ownership incentive to invest in the asset. Been there.

The only way out of that is to structure your life financially towards the goal. That can include voting with your feet to live somewhere not as expensive to buy (and taking the trade-offs in location), it can mean disciplined spending to reduce expenses, ambitious career advancement to increase revenue, and maybe partnering with someone highly trusted to go halvsies. This can be an outcome (though not a sole motivation) for marriage, or may look like an LLC with a friend with an operating agreement that clearly details the terms of dissolution, buy-out, inheritance, etc.

But at the end of the day it's important to recognize that mortgages are money-making endeavors for banks who are greatly incentivized to set them up (sometimes too much, e.g. see 2008 CDOs), but through a combination of regulation and their own risk-management need you to meet a certain risk profile (e.g. are you "stable", do you make more money that you owe, are you gainfully employed, etc.). They would no more lend to a bad profile than you would. Any you're not even family. ;)
Now try the US. It’s found almost everywhere and it’s in foods. A dumb human moment.
@dang perhaps it would be useful to change the link to the original NiemanReports page, which he links to?

I realize that would render some of the threads about Cory and his feelings about Elon off-topic, but the headline here is about NPR, and Cory's post is not the original (and is mostly not about NPR).
Making a list of each year's CPI basket would require price data collection for each year's basket.
Many cities already have such centralized traffic light control systems in place. This tool is just optimizing what already exists.
Neither of those are effective for the vast majority of workers.
>Is fluoride in drinking water toxic? I thought they added it on purpose to help our teeth or something

No, not toxic; you are correct.
Have you tried Levels.fyi? https://www.levels.fyi/jobs

Lmk if you have any feedback as well!
I've definitely experienced convenient light timing walking through San Francisco.
I developed a program to help with this — it's called "gitprof", since it helps with Git profiles. It's not completely flawless but it works fine, and I find it very helpful.

https://github.com/CabbageDevelopment/gitprof
Sure, now that he's entrenched after sucking on the government teat, shut that stuff down so competitors can't benefit.
I don't really know what you're talking about, TBH.

You are bringing GPU programming into it, which I never mentioned at all.

Again: saying "X is not big" is not a relative claim. Saying "X is the biggest" is a relative claim but nobody's saying that.

"Low level" means "close to the metal". The way C is often described is as "a portable assembly language". The article is saying that is not true. That the model of computation, of processor operation, that C represents is a 1970s model of how computers work and it barely fits onto modern machines at all.

I can't name anything closer to the metal or lower level, but it doesn't matter; it is irrelevant to the discussion.
It’s still great for finding roles and that’s it. I never update my profile. Only use it when I’m on the hunt for a new role.
The vibes are off though
I'll take your advice and watch 6 hours of TikTok every day for the next 12 months and then confirm to you whether or not you're right about it being scary. Thanks for the suggestion! Looking forward to what I learn.
IaaC

Do they mean "Infrastructure as as Code"?
Consumers would avoid products that contain chemical they consider to be toxic, and am I correct in assuming that national governments can impose regulations more stringent than the EU?
People build kit planes in their backyards :/
I suppose if you have the OS and web browser running natively on ARM, it's tolerable to run non-CPU-intensive software through a translation layer.

And yeah it's pretty good, I was able to run some creaky old VB6 program on Windows for ARM64.
Here's an interesting, and I think relevant, comparison:

From 1964 to 1981 (17 years), the US stock market went nowhere. From 1981 to 1998 (the next 17 years), it went up ~10x:

Date DJIA
12/31/1964 874
12/31/1981 875
12/31/1998 9,181

During the first 17 years, US GDP went up almost 5x. During the second 17 years, GDP went up less than 3x.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mr-buffett-stock-market-fortu...
> This is why I'm a huge supporter of a radical English spelling reform.

That has already happened, which is part of how we got into this mess.

See isle vs island.

IMHO The only real solution is to invent a time machine and keep England from getting conquered again and again and again. If you keep mashing languages together you are bound to get a mess.
Struct tags is the most notorious example.

They’re convenient but error-prone. I think everyone who wrote a decent amount of Go had that malformed, misspelled, or misnamed (“db” vs “sql”) tag at some point.
Changes are sometimes added to the release notes doc (in the master branch) during the dev cycle, but your best bet is watching the commit stream. The release notes are much more shaped up by the time RC rolls around (see https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle)
... yeah? I know? "In practice though the only way to "fix" DNS that would've worked in the 80s would've probably been to require the request be padded to larger than the response..."

It's not as complex as some "mutual authentication" scheme though lmao
Hope they keep Scene Report (0). I don't visit it too often, but when I do - it's such a good way to discover new styles.

0: https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/
No, stocks are not tanking, but there has been a correction in consumer staples. For example, Vanguard Consumer Staples (VDC) is down over 10% from its high. Investors generally buy into consumer staples as a defensive move in the business cycle. But risk free money markets are paying over 5%...
But what even was the point of being ahead?
Always nice to see Monsanto making the rounds again, or whatever german multinational actually holding their rotten bag.
Epilepsy warning! The video linked by OP contains bright high frequency flashing images that are continuously displayed for multiple seconds.

Mods, can we get a warning added before the YouTube URL?
I don't think it's necessarily that it makes you worse; it's that it defeats the purpose of the exercise.

Like, I'm sure there are some professional CNC operators who are also very, very good at doing things by hand. But they didn't get good at doing things by hand by using a CNC machine to do everything that can be done on a CNC machine. And, based on what I observed growing up in a down-and-out manufacturing town, the people who decided that CNC is the way of the future and went all in on just being very, very good CNC operators are the ones who got hit hardest by the growth of industrial automation in the 1990s and 2000s.

I have similar concerns about Copilot. In the short term, yes, it lets you get relatively straightforward tasks done more quickly. But I suspect that people who make heavy use of Copilot risk plateauing at a lower skill level and ultimately being the people whose jobs are most vulnerable to the growth of technologies like Copilot.
I also appreciate the irony layers of the companies that chose Atlassian's cloud products because "worst case we can install on-prem" but also picked the cloud products because they tried to install on-prem at least once and it was horrifying and they didn't want the stress of maintaining it.
Serbo-Croatian goes too far with phonetics.

For example, "free of charge" is "besplatno". However, the first syllable is actually "bez-", with /z/ devoiced to /s/ by the last consonant of the cluster. The prefix "bez-" will appear undisturbed in other words, where the root starts with a vowel or a voiced consonant.

This is also done with loanwords, like "apsolutno" (absolute).

However, it comes from a general pronunciation pattern for consonant clusters, something that could be defined outside of the actual spelling. Why obscure the internal structure of a word like that?

It also exists in the opposite direction, by the way. Compare Serbo-Croatian "udžbenik" with the more elegant Slovenian "učbenik" (although Slovenian spelling has other, more serious problems than Serbo-Croatian, regarding some of the vowels).
Interesting point. But I can be sure that your idea has big chance to be uncorrect. Because we already have a country without patent esp for software: China. Do you know any invention or great product from China?
> Python started-off as a toy-like language

It did not. It started as a language do system administration for the Amoeba operating system.

Here's part of the README for the first public release (0.9p1, available from python.org):

"This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax."

"Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write prototypes of real applications, or as an extension language of large systems, you name it."
In the end, the physics of it, for a consumer vehicle, just doesn't work out. No matter how much you'd like it, you can't fight the physics. The best you could do, with a vehicle that has an entire roof of solar panels, is a vehicle that you'd need to leave outside and wait for a couple weeks for it to recharge. That's still useful to a lot of people, but it's not this revolutionary "solar powered vehicle drives hundreds of miles a day" story.

Conveniently, the article leaves out every piece of data that you'd need access to to be able to actually judge what they built. The article is just a typical corporate puff piece to advertise for a company that wants to sucker in investment money.
it's doubly stupid because you can eat dandelions which are one of the many "weeds" people kill with this shit to protect their useless-at-best lawns.

kill your lawn. plant native shit.
> Am I being unfair, biased, uncharitable, judgmental?

Yes, you are.

> But do you really think the average employer or customer is any better than me?

In my area, yes. My area has more people that would not see my profile as a problem. I'm not in Silicon Valley.

And if I'm not hired because I won't put work first, good.

> Second, and more importantly, your LLC’s front page tells visitors, “I probably have ODD and am a gender discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.”

You read that wrong. I am saying that I use those words in writing my blog posts, something that would have been normal 10-20 years ago. If that's a gender discrimination lawsuit, well, I just don't belong in this world anyway.

And I don't have ODD. I just don't conform.
Journalist here -- you're missing a lot of the point. There are bunches of reasons. Basically it's near impossible to have a journalism career without being on Twitter. For network/sources building, the ease of access to peers (ever try to find a journalist's unlisted email address?), and it acts as a way to show your "brand" that can make intros much easier (reputation is built on trust, so Twitter can be useful to convey that a person is relatively trustworthy and quickly). A lot of journalists will also share information that got cut out during editing (not many alternatives to host that sort of side-narrative and docs stuff). Also, there's a lot of proximity to orgs (eg nonprofits) who themselves have eyes and ears outside of Twitter.

That said, my experience is in local municipal stuff and a lot of this is no longer true because of musk shit.
I'd like to push back against the anti-medication sentiment in this comment because depression is not the most clearly understood mental condition and for many people, medication can be a life-saving intervention.