skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When you layer all of these facts, it's really hard to sign up to be a hard worker. It feels more like punishment once you learn how easy the rich people have it."

Play the game, get rewarded. I've been a hard worker my whole life, but I now limit my total output, so my employers don't expect me to over-work myself 100% of the time. Life becomes much easier after this.

It also helps that I'm an hourly consultant. When the shit hits the fan and a company tries to force me to work nights and weekends to make a deadline that was a result of their incompetence/mis-management, they now have to think twice about it because it directly affect the budget.
That's true regardless if the wheel squeaks or not. <insert won't get promoted to wheel drive pun here>
Nobody actually has to comply with robots.txt.
The solution is not publicly sharing your code if you do not want it being used.

Yes, you can spin up a whole debate about monetization etc pp but generative ai is the future of development too and will make it more accessible in a way that we can hardly imagine right now. So just stop with these arbitrary red lines of voluntarily published sources.
what is the unique value of an autonomous bicycle?
I can't stand these air fresheners, they make my nose and throat itch...
Does anyone actually have reliable success with this as a single coder model? Seems like the HFT firms would have already taken all the profit opportunity for this.
> The guidelines define “interesting” as “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” Surely a real contribution to the OSS sustainability crisis counts?

Arguing about whether the submission meets the guidelines is pointless when it ignores that users downvote what isn't interesting in their own opinion. The moderators are never going to artificially keep a submission active after users have downvoted it just because it meets a definition in the guidelines.
Yes, I'm sure a community without doctors or nurses or social workers or public defenders would be glad about all that retained value.
Then you might be surprised how many people get less exercise than 22 minutes of walking per day, even healthy young ones. I was one and it took effort to change. If you only walk from screen to fridge to screen to bathroom to screen to car to screen to bed, it's just a few minutes of body weight movement per day.

That's enough writing for me, time to go out and stack firewood.
Well, you sort of demonstrate my point.

The writers the OSI Model wrote a specific blueprint, not an "observation of natural laws". When they said "session", they didn't mean the same things you conceive of. Instead, they meant a very specific problem of connecting dumb terminals to simplex links.

What you now call "sessions" is what OSI called "associations", and OSI defined them to be part of the "Application Layer".

I'm not sure you've even read the OSI Model. For example, the "Presentation Layer" is not defined to do the data format translation, but only to NEGOTIATE a common represenation. The actual data translation is still done in the Application.

This is the problem. People have not read and understood the entire model. They've not heard of "associations" and believe the OSI's use of "sessions" means anything they might call "session". They believe OSI was written as theory when it was not. They believe anything OSI terms they don't understand mean something else, mean some sort of timeless theory.

They are seduced by their own ignorance of the model.
I agree. Those numbers are just harder to come by.
I don't think we need to learn in the next collapse. I think we can learn now :)

The question of 'Are we wise enough?' is meant as a wake up question: we should, we have to be wise enough to survive. We deserve wisdom and we deserve survival; we deserve good lives. I think in reality most people can wake up to appreciate that, and then other realizations come as a consequence.
It's also important to note that pre-seed/seed start-ups tend to have far more severe funding problems than, say, the Googles or Microsofts of the world (or really any billion dollar, fully operating tech company). They typically can't afford to offer highly competitive outrageous traditional compensation.

They're not always trying to offer as little as they can, sometimes it's all they have to offer and so that's what they put on the table. Rather than as little as they can, in that scenario it's in fact closer to the sane maximum that they can offer (without giving every employee 1/4 of the company, which is impossible).

Microsoft won't be bankrupted by paying its next 500 employees a million dollars per year. Your little pre-seed/seed company will instantly vaporize if you try to compete on the basis of salary-based compensation with already successful tech companies.

Hey look we've got $150,000 in the bank, we're still building our first product, and I'm offering you $500,000 per year in salary. What's the problem?
I wanna emphasize the part about the actors having fun. That in some sense is a tricky thing since actors profession and main task is to conceal what they are and take on whatever role—or at the very least, to sublimate their personal qualities into their subject. Having said that, I feel like even a famous and highly-skilled actor is not going to be able to perform at their best if they are really just in contract-fullfillment mode for a money-grubbing production...

It would seem that no matter how well they were technically perceived, it would slip through somehow and thus violate my condition that the actors are mostly having fun and voluntarily performing, particularly if its with a group of their actor friends that appear in each others' films. I don't worry about the money-grubbing so much cuz chances are the actors are in on it and to some degree inclined to do well and make it enjoyable for themselves and their audience.
I see what you're saying and I very well may have a father who fits the archetype you're describing but it's hard to generalize or stereotype because there's so many family dynamics at play when we grow up. Not denying your experience, I'm sure the "alpha male, hard worker" father figure (or parent figure) has had a net negative in some families but in my specific instance, it's brought passion and ownership into other parts of my life (marriage, kids, etc).

It's also made me realize that yes, I want to be there for my kids more than my dad did, but I also have personal goals related to work that I want to accomplish in my life, more macro-level goals. It's also made me more involved in my community because I want more ownership in what's going on around me. It's definitely a balance and you need the self-awareness and time management to finese it.
Curiosity rover finds new evidence of ancient Mars rivers, a key signal for life
Really good point as goals have become more important... I consider goals to be future, capturing memories/entries as the past. But also the process of talking to it is therapeutic and I consider that the present.

I want to capture this in its mission statement, so thanks for the feedback. Best of luck with your app.
I'm fine with it notifying the driver it thinks you might be speeding, but I don't like the idea of actually limiting the speed of the car. I've used several cars which had a lot of cases where it didn't track the speed right. Driving near but not in a construction zone. Driving in an express lane which has a faster posted speed than the main highway. School zones. I've seen cars routinely get these things wrong. A few months ago I was on an 85 MPH highway and Google Maps suddenly thought I was on the 45 MPH feeder. Add 20%, that's 54 MPH max speed. So what, my car would have quickly enforced the 30 MPH drop and slam on the brakes to get it into compliance?

I'd greatly prefer just automatic enforcement of speeding laws rather than doing things to try and prevent people from speeding.
Why does everyone want to take away anyone else's ability to accept risk these days?
Your best bet is to pass the maximum supported number for count to the call (SSIZE_MAX in POSIX, 0x7ffff000 on Linux, and hope that the call returns all bytes.

And then just hope your read buffer doesn’t overrun? Because 2GB is a lot of buffer to allocate for a read…
Internet Artifact Museum
Delighted to see it. Fuck AI art.
To add to your point, this erodes trust in science too. Public perception of complex topics is very, very important. People effectively have to "trust" science. When it's corrupted there are ripples of distrust sown through the populace. Vaccine deniers, climate deniers, etcetc - distrust is just one of the fuels that fan these flames.
We sabotage our transit. The Rail Runner doesn't go all the way to terminals at ABQ. That's insane! Were the Santa Fe airport people against it? What gives?
It's not regardless of the vaccine, though. You'd expect child mortality to go down year by year because of things like that. There used to be malaria in the UK, I'm sure child mortality dropped when it died off here too.
Treadmill and a TV?
It looks like it does sliding window on tokens? That works well, you don't slice it in the middle of sentences?
Which big players? There are some big players with an interest in facilitating the pervasion of AI, sure, but as far as I can tell there are are least as many big players who stand to lose from the widespread erosion of intellectual property rights that comes with it.
Red tape, including GDPR, makes it harder to spin up competitors.

Banking is one of the most regulated industries, hence the 'notoriously weak' competition.
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- Developing various agent skills and scaling up their reasoning abilities.
- Adding support for more runtimes and dataset formats.
- Creating new environments to capture ground truth feedback.
- Testing and improving the core software, examples, and docs.

We can’t wait to see what you will build!
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That's true, those are merely popular examples of how engineering is done in med device, and not specific to the software side, though there are standards and guidance documents for specific fields. I didn't want to get too off in the weeds. But to be a 13485-compliant device developer, you need to have a competent requirements-driven, verified and validated development cycle, release process, and a complete design history with traceability all throughout, so you can immediately link problems to the actual components that caused them.

As an analogy, it takes the bill-of-materials approach done by popular package managers and makes it a whole lot more rigorous.
The lifting heavy weights just ensures you retain muscle during weight loss, doesn't it?

While weight loss is mostly diet, if you did want to use exercise to burn additional calories, cardio would do more than weight training. I burn up to 1000 calories in an hour of very strenuous cycling (from normal weight), which I doubt I could ever do lifting dumbbells and barbells.

I've always used weight training during weight loss to try and tell my body to retain muscle and target fat primarily.
Ask vs. Guess Culture and Nonviolent Communication
Could they have studied a more obvious thing? Doesn’t this result completely fit intuition?

When I think about loyalty I immediately think about people who would do things for me that are uncomfortable.

Haven’t they seen the documentary “Pulp Fiction?”
And there's already laws and regulations that punish those issues.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11sqkh9/gl...

Apparently this is the same team and they claim that the previous one was only intended to prevent training on an artist's style.
I've kept journals before and found them to be really beneficial. But first, a caveat:

A bit ago, someone else on HN wrote that he had kept lab style notebooks for work projects. All was fine until someone sued the company and his notebooks were subpoenaed. After that, he changed his note taking and made sure he destroyed them when the project was over. (IIRC)

Have an abusive or vindictive ex-spouse or partner? Even personal journals and diaries can be subpoenaed by a court. At the same time, a daily journal is a great tool to track that abuse.

I used common "single subject" 70 page spiral notebooks with a modified bullet journal style: the first page was a TOC; ~60 of the right-hand pages were each used for a single calendar date, so the notebook covered two months; a few of the back pages were used for a yearly calendar, persistent info or recurring lists; left-hand pages were reserved for monthly and weekly calendars, overflow from single day pages, or specific projects.

Because spiral notebooks are cheap, I never felt bad about "wasting" pages by leaving them empty or just writing one or two things. I also liked the larger page size compared to pocket size notebooks.

YMMV and such, but I think written journals are under-appreciated among "tech" folks, who are more likely to use an electronic journal.
Most game programmers are quite young, or at least the ones on Unity making their own indy game (or the loudest ones online). Essentially I reckon most of them still had that proselytizing mindset that newbie programmers get for their first tool (religious obnoxious-ness). And Unity just pulled a "preacher sleeping with your mom" moment on that community.
>not a shortcoming of pledge itself

I was never trying to imply that pledge had shortcomings.

I don't think we're disagreeing on anything here anyway.

The point I was making is that if you've got a large and complicated piece of software, which you didn't write yourself, which wasn't written with the intention of someone implementing a syscall filter for it, you will have a bad time. It's not quite as bad as if you have the code but it's always going to be pretty bad regardless.

I think pledge is great, and the rollout was really good (I use OpenBSD for my home router and for some other infrastructure). The OpenBSD developers were in the beneficial position that they are already familiar with the source code for their base userland, they already regularly audit and maintain security improvements for it. Also noteworthy is the fact that most of the OpenBSD base is (intentionally) not formed of extremely complex software.
"lymphomas (Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin), multiple myeloma, and most types of leukemia start in immune system blood cells" - Google

I guess OP is commenting in a vague manner that those 1.8T cells might not be defending the body
I didn't really need to lose any weight, but found I just naturally did when I started swimming once and then later twice a week (for about 40 minutes to an hour/2km to 2.5km per session). I basically didn't change my diet (although I had started eating generally healthier six months or so before just because I thought it was a good idea), and after a while I found I was getting lighter than I wanted to be and actually had to consciously eat more to maintain my weight.
Traditional print magazines like Analog are at a huge disadvantage in popularity contest awards like the Hugos because they are only available to subscribers.

Hugo winners usually come from magazines that make their stories available for free online.
I wonder how many restaurants in NYC make it onto this list lol. Some of the best restaurants in the world only survive 2-3 years here. The number of RIPs is astounding.
I normally get run-of-the-mill vehicle warranty and fake charity scammers. Only once was I bestowed with the poisonous species of loot-your-bank-account scammer, and I only got 5-10 minutes with him. He had very elaborate countermeasures. I lost him when he called me back and asked me to repeat my SSN, and I couldn't remember what I had told him. I recently lost a rather benign life insurance scammer because he asked my age , and then my dob and I couldn't think fast enough. Next time, Gadget, Next Time!
Which web components, the ones that were deprecated and no browser implements anymore? Ah wait no, you mean the new ones that virtually no one uses, right? While the point of view that ESM and DOM APIs live long-term is pretty good, the specific example is maybe the most infamous for how not true this has been and many call web components Dead On Arrival.

Newer technology on the web does break more often than old JS (maybe, Flash?), for example I have a project that for security reasons doesn't work anymore, Cookies famously also had a big change for security like that, fetch() defaults changed, and AFAIK even performance.now() was capped for Spectre.
Everything under the sun, yesteryear's discarded technology will be re-tried under the guise of AI until a new buzzword catches attention.
Maybe, but while I love UI components, I really dislike that "web components" conflate and combine multiple things like custom elements, and shadow DOM, etc.

So working with them in real apps, you get a mess of opinions and assumptions like completely isolated styles (no I don't want this! let me use my site's Bootstrap theme!), etc.

Also dealing with string-based attributes/props is a pain. I greatly prefer React/Svelte/Vue for not having to deal with all this.
Well at least they aren't wasting their time on HN like us.
Nextjs and Vercel destroyed React turning it into PHP, but that was the only way they could make VC-worthy money. Great move for them, terrible for the ecosystem. React makes no sense anymore and is painful to use.
Me and Dwight Schrute are on the same page:

"Would I ever leave this company? Look, I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most."
No, at least not for me. As my other comment[1] mentions, there's enough friction with ubers that it's not an enjoyable experience. I'll use them in a pinch, but i avoid them if possible.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012649
Fair but Unequal
In other news, water is wet.

I am an exceptionally loyal worker, but it's been very important to enforce my boundaries.

Part of being loyal, is finding a company worth being loyal to.

Not so simple.
Project's main author and founder of HumanSignal here! We've been observing the development of AI Agents and wanted to create a framework that emphasizes building more reliable agents focused on data processing, rather than attempting to create a general-purpose agent. Adala is the results of that. I'm here to answer all your questions about the project as well as to discuss thoughts, feedback, and curiosities.
They will also require a cobbled together list of dependencies to make useful, and those dependencies will probably not be maintained as well as React.

I worked in a shop that followed this philosophy. Every single UI component was a web component with its own npm package to install. It worked fine. There was zero benefit. There's still zero benefit today 6 years later. You're optimizing for a future which will most likely never come.
Just walking around is much better for calories burned vs. exertion. It's just worse from a time standpoint. Running has been shown to induce hunger, so erasing the caloric benefit of it with a snack is very easy. Walking, since it's so much lower impact, doesn't really have the same issue, and you can sustain it for much longer periods (especially if you're untrained) than you can with running.
:o no way
The car.
People in power who are aware of this and still make these decisions are the worst. I’ve seen abject examples in my career.

And what happens when you complain about burnout, repeatedly?

- “Yeah it happens. Why not take a vacation?”, but dropping last minute work on you or calling you when traveling

- “Yeah but we’re all under so much pressure. It’s a team effort and we need to all pull through”, and again dropping more work on you when teammates who don’t care don’t have to work half as hard

- “Oh yeah? Maybe you should focus more on your work life balance” and then calling you in the weekend for that “super important customer call on Monday we need to prepare for”

I came to realize 1-1 meetings with management are designed to manipulate and keep you under control, just how HR’s real objective is to protect the company. This and other instances left a lot of scars and tainted my perspective about salaried work.

I can’t drink the Kool-Aid anymore and even as a founder this is among my top priorities in how I treat people working with me.
Okay, but imagine another Director of Engineering who

- Is responsible for managing large multi-year projects across multiple timezones and basically offloads all of his responsibilities to his direct reports and just asks for status reports now and then

- Is not just not filtering the shit from above but is also a source of shit from above

- diffuses blame downwards instead of taking any for himself, cuts people under him and is never disciplined when projects fail.

He makes as much or more than the guy you report to.

Who holds him accountable? His other buddies in upper management? Maybe eventually, but let's be real here. If he ever does get fired he gets a golden parachute and worms his way in at another company in no time.

Maybe this isn't true at the middle manager-y layer, but it's definitely a pattern we've seen plenty of examples of with executives and other upper management types.
The thing it would have to reconfigure to get to its destination faster is its drive and fuel. These are not things that at it can likely change during the trip. You can't digitally transmit antimatter or a different fusion fuel mixture, nor could you reconfigure the reactor or engine chamber to burn something that it wasn't designed to burn, even if you could supply different fuel.

Pretty much all scenarios for accelerating to cruise speed and decelerating at the other end involve very high density fuels produced using a significant fraction of the energy of the Sun. You're not going to be able to stop in the middle of empty space where there is absolutely nothing in order to reconfigure and refuel.
Imagine I had a little dial I could move, and it would somehow magically change the population of an area. What would you think of me if I took the only remaining area in the world that still struggles to feed their population, and started cranking it up? At the same time imagine I took that same dial, and start sending it lower and lower in the richest and most bountiful places that could afford to support vastly larger populations?

What would you think of me?
And jQuery will likely outlive both.
It's the way forward though. AI won't stop like this, psychotherapy will be next in the coming years (look at Pi, it has a therapy mode now even). Just accept that AI will affect all aspects of life in 10 years