skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software has an unusually fat long tail, to an even worse extent than real engineering. The probability of something unexpected popping up and inflating the time something takes by an order of magnitude is much, much higher than the likelihood of the same happening while cooking.

This ends up coupled with the fact that practitioners (of anything productive) tend to think in terms of 50-ish percentile estimates (i.e., there's a 50% chance this project is done in this amount of time), whereas business people care about 90th-99th percentile estimates. In software, the difference between between a 50th percentile estimate and 90th percentile estimate can be more than an order of magnitude in time spent.
The most negative argument about GPT-like AI for me is that it has summed up all world's information into only one "correct" opinion. Bing chat for example terminates the conversation and offers you to apologize when you reply that it's incorrect and you don't like its biases. With the old search engines, at least, in theory, you could get links to websites with different points of view.
This is what's done with sufficiently academic books in the hard sciences. They are so modular, that books are simply topics with each chapter written by a chosen author, and those authors will treat the chapters they've written similarly to papers they've had published.

I think if you dive deeper in to more rigorous nonfiction books you'll find that less time is spent on the 'pop' side of popsci literature. Which might be where you're encountering that fluff.
I think requiring a reason/explanation probably discourages voting simply based on agreement and disagreement and improves the signal a numeric score provides. I find that missing from Reddit-alikes now.

+1 insightful
Dunno about Spain, but in France, a relative in a ?9 story building basically gutted their place.

Unlike North American condos, in France they own their windows and can replace them.

They also built out a “frame” to install noise insulation on top of the shared walls, losing a bit of interior space (and a huge free bonus to the neighbours). Can’t remember if they did the ceiling too.

Unfortunately, no flooring standards are an issue. In my Canadian condo, if you redo the floors, there’s some noise insulating requirement for your choice of flooring as it’s against concrete.
The unions and the employer organizations both ensure we have strong businesses in Sweden.

The unions doesn’t always try to get the most out of the companies in the short term but rather plays the long game and helps out in ensuring the company are healthy as well.

In times of economic trouble they can eg collectively negotiate solutions that minimize the amount of job cuts by temporarily worsen the policies for the employees.

The collective bargains applies to both members and non-members at the work place though.
The time you spend on projects is, according to what the PM tells sales, two weeks for a feature and three weeks for bare minimum requirements new product. Outside of that your own company will guilt you into some feeling of inverse wage theft where you make up for it by donating your free time. Realistically, three months to build an app you can demo is tight but those are competitive timelines and you want to be competitive don’t you? AI I’m sure has skewed this towards less effort to meet those timelines (I hope). Another hard to swallow truth is that sometimes you are just given a project there is no optimal solution for because you were meant to fail at it. Usually it’s a problem client or impossible task. The more skilled you are the more likely it gets assigned to you. Developers that get to cherry-pick all of their assignments are also the ones that get to lie about their time allocations on projects (to add insult to injury). If you are a new hire you will be doing a lot of their work for them so climbing up the ladder takes a lot of humility. Most devs super concerned about other people’s mistakes usually cause a ton of problems themselves and this concern is directly related to all the things they are actually hiding/covering up in reality. It’s not uncommon to find that the Super Saiyan coder is actually keeping a proverbial building from falling down with a toothpick but they are very concerned about the formatting of everybody’s code. Younger developers think, by default, everything is crap but they don’t even bother to hide any of their screwups and they have the energy to keep screwing up for a long time and at an accelerated pace. This, ironically, does mean more money for the company so hiring a lot of young developers is good for the bottom line and makes customers seem very engaged.
Veritable, though infrequently used today, is, in its origins, synonymous with true.
It's your perspective and your perspective is not universal truth even if it may be shared with 90% of the world. That's the argument, I believe.

It does hold some weight really. Especially when you consider change over time. Perhaps, your observations have become obsolete, so to say.

I'm not saying I love this argument because it means the end of the argument but maybe that's just the lesson to be learned here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_syndrome
Ironwail can download some popular add-ons in game. Not as robust as injector, but is extremely accessible.
The unfortunate part about a centralized CSAM list is that now you need a committee to review every CSAM addition (not just the hashes but the source material to confirm it's CSAM and not political) and the committee has to have enough people to make sure the committee isn't all in kahoots
Since you noted it, it’s actually very much part of my point. Tesla engages in price segmentation for replacement key fobs because they have key control. Perhaps even more aggressively than most other automakers short of VW Group. When done well it’s invisible to the user. I suspect by your (polite) comment that you may not be aware that’s going on here.

Premium users pay $300 to replace the fob on their Model S / Model X. Mid users pay $175 to replace the fob on the Model 3 / Model Y. And an entry level option exists for the cards. Plus programming fee. Handling fee. Local taxes. Processing fee. Etc :-)

Without control of their PKI anyone could self program a replacement for a few dollars as is the case with the garage door market.

As an aside, I find the fob useful for booting the car up prior to getting in, rather than waiting 40 seconds before the fly-by-wire shifter starts responding to commands to put it in gear.
Can agree with what you write.
You see how this isn't useful right? A signifier is only useful if the audience understands what it signifies.
In V8 engine, Math.random is implemented using xorshift128, which is a completely linear PRNG with 128 bits of state. Since you can recover 1 bit from each output, 128 outputs should be enoguh for you to setup a GF(2) linear system and solve for the state. Once you have the state, all you need is to simulate how V8 output future random values from state.

There are a series of challenges called "fastrology" from PlaidCTF 2023, which is about predicting Math.random() given some partial output (e.g. Math.floor(Math.random() * k)) with several variants. You can try to find writeups for that challenges, those solvers should be easy to adapt to predicting Math.random()>0.5 .
Congratulations on finding your greater fools.
Why does Hamas feel the need to stage so much of it then?
App Defense Industry sounds like the tip of the bloody spear in the war against General Purpose computing & user agency. This sounds like people who make Android Play Integrity API nee SafetyNet Attestation API. https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity

It's going to be a year or so before native apps have a much worse much nastier version of Web Environment Integrity to make sure users absolutely cannot take their own stross around the walled garden.

Defend against malware abuster abuse, by making sure whatever the software secure against users. This is the infernal compromise, the jailing of the user inside a prison of computing.
Building a business in Generative AI [video]
you probably know you don't have to use a root user. You can create a user with minimum authorizations
Nietzsche had that right - "I am walking a lot, through the forest, and having tremendous conversations with myself." Guess he forgot the bit about back pain though...

Awesome to hear you've found that this works! How did you figure this out? What else did you try?
Perfectly happy with haven given you this impression.
My experience with how corporations use data indicates capitalism is one giant sunk cost fallacy.
The audience chooses by looking at which of the accounts they follow (and consider either in-group or out-group) have the blue or red badge.
GitHub Universe 23
In Java there's just Math.random(), and it's been broken, with WONTFIX, since 1998.

Java's random number generator returns exceptionally non-random values, but Sun, er, Oracle, won't fix it because of the most insane of reasons: unlike in any reasonable language, Java's PRNG essentially has a contract to be deterministic. There's seemingly a worry that someone, somewhere, is actually relying on java.util.Random to always produce the same random number sequence for a given seed from Java version to version.
> even have a train passing by outside I can't hear with the windows closed.

My wife and I lived in a top floor flat in Drammen for two years. We swore we would never, ever, live that close to neighbours again. In the summer it's nice to have the windows open until your divorcée neighbour downstairs comes home and argues with her umpteenth boyfriend and her sulky teenage daughter and then the three of them each try to drown out the others with loud music and television.

It didn't matter that I couldn't hear them through the floor.
That was exactly my point ... What you put is what you get.
[dupe]

More discussion over here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38179277
It's not the accessibility tools that do that, it's the default browser behaviour.
The major difference between the 2 is how they're being adopted by customers and the tangible value they return.

AI/ML barrier to entry is far simpler and vastly user friendly compared to crypto. Instant value return or gratification from ML products (GTPs and rest) is far more mainstream friendly.

Another view is the "loss" factor. Nobody, thus far, has has had their funds stolen or lost using ML products. I understand content creators and those who, unwillingly, contributed knowledge to learning systems did get circumvented but i'm talking about users/customers. Compare that to the negative stigma of crypto frauds and stereotypical association to illegal transactions.

Apples vs. rotten oranges in my opinion!
>The proposed European Constitution went a long way to fix this

Uhh... what?

Firstly, it was rejected by more than just the French and the Dutch. Secondly, the reason it was rejected is precisely because, for lack of democratic process, it structurally favors this kind of authoritarian opacity.

The proposed constitution doesn't even begin to fix this; it is instead the very cause.
Oh god, "gas stoves" again.

No, nobody understood gas stoves were dangerous. We were all rubes. Nobody had heard about people "sticking their head in an oven" or about houses exploding because an unignited burner had been left on, or "fumes" from the "stove" needing "ventilation". We were all so innocent and naive.

Houses from more than a couple of decades ago literally all had ventilation in the kitchen, via windows or outward-venting fans, to mitigate the fumes. Literally all of us knew about the risks. Anyone with half a brain understands that we were all opening flame in our homes, which is clearly an issue.

Just stop. Please. Yes, induction ranges from the past decade are better than gas. But we all lived with gas - or hell, wood-fired! - stovetops for literally centuries because they were all better than the absolutely terrible resistance-electric ranges. Induction ranges are a recent invention.

Yes, yes, when my gas range dies, I'll get an induction range. Fine. But what is up with this media blitz about something we've literally all known for decades?
Huge! Congrats to the team.
I’m not negative towards AI, but I know how hype cycles work - even for genuinely good tech. I’m not looking forward to the coming waves of scammers and grifters and snake oil salesmen in this space.
#TIL that this is the full photo on the cover of IV. Mind blown. I guess it would have been back + front of the LP?

https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/1...
It's not your animal, so leave it alone. Would you do the same to hungry africans for example? Same problem isn't it? Lots of people going hungry and exploding population, should they be neutered for their own sake?

People and animals are different, I get that but how is it kindess when it is an animal but cruelty when it is people? Instead of mutilating them, feed them.
> I feel like the value of crypto going up is backed by solid economics. There is only ever going to be so much of it so losing your money to inflation isn't a risk.

This is solid economics iff you assume that crypto has a utility for which there is no substitute which does not share the same supply constraint feature, and even then its not solid economics for a current investment unless you also assume that that utility is the entire basis for its current valuation. Because even if it has a nonsubstitutable utility, if that's not the basis of its current value, then the "solid economics" is that there is some price it could reach from which further value drop because of supply (of substitutes) will not erode value, but there is no guarantee of what that level is.
The status quo is working out so well for them that they are planning to expand capacity and make even more profits.
Would be interesting to compare with overall sentiment on HN over time. I feel like it has gotten more and more bitter and negative over the time I've been here.
Yeah, that's... awful. The real problem isn't that you do this, per se, but that you're not incentivized to improve the business. You should want to hop on this and deliver it in a couple of hours; it's up to the business to make that something you directly benefit from.
Pedantic: a corporation is controlled by its Board of Directors. Shareholders ostensibly elect the directors but they do not control them.
These folks didn't read https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html and they're going to suffer for it.

(It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808115 )
At 13,000mi/yr (average US mileage), 30MPG, $4/gal, that's $1,733.33/yr.

Same mileage, 3.5mi/kWh, $0.12/kWh, that's $445.71/yr.
All the time, naturally.

Which context do you think re-frames that particular exchange such that it stops serving its purpose of deflating lazy certainty about "obvious" moral pronouncements?
Your notion that any philosophers write books that have complete philosophical justifications from metaphysics to politics in a single book is a strange one. As I told the other person not familiar with her writings, she has an incredible amount of books and essays. The most important being her book on epistemology.
They also don't have a max load or tow rating. People frequently tow campers with them in "FFR" mode
The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models
Vector Databases: From Embeddings to Applications
I've purchased some of my favorite games multiple times — both to support the developer, and because I prefer the newer platform and don't want to have to deal with playing the game on the old platform.

But often, after the secondary purchase, I won't actually play the game again. I didn't feel like playing it again in that moment where I purchased it again. I know I will want to replay it one day, which is why I re-bought it. But until I actually do, that second copy will seem to be have been purchased by someone who has never played the game at all.
I'm in that demographic. Started playing Q2 online in 97/98 before switching to Q3A in 99. Lately I've been playing Q2 Enhanced. What I miss the most is the OSP tourney mod.
You omit the masses of working poor immigrants that do a lot of the manual labour North Americans do not want to do -- predominantly in agriculture, construction, small manufacturing, and healthcare. They're the de-facto essential workers.

Europe's struggles seem to be caused more by a culture clash. Immigrants will always bring their way of life with them, and group together - it's a constant of human nature, this is how we preserve identity. Moving to a different country is a traumatic experience when done voluntarily; imagine having to permanently leave home under duress and on short notice.

As an immigrant myself, what always struck me as paradoxical is the nationalist / cultural pride that a lot of immigrants tend to display. I'd sum up my knee-jerk reaction to it as "Bro, if X is so great, why did you leave?" -- again, this is spoken as a person who left their homeland, with first-hand experience of some of the complex issues that surround all that. I still don't quite understand what drives that "flag-waving", but I hope to one day.

Having said all that, I would encourage my adoptive country to be proactive in their immigration policies. Putting it harshly, "get the good ones before they go somewhere else". The geopolitics of the world will only become more chaotic as the impacts of climate change cause hardship in the less habitable areas of the planet -- big migrations are inevitable. If you want your country to arrive in the 22nd century while preserving most of your way of life, you can't be clinging to outmoded ideas.
Realistically speaking, defending against an active attack from your OS distributor targeting you specifically is an exceptionally tall order. It ultimately comes down to obtaining a known safe compiler, building something like a Gentoo stage 1 installation, then manually audit the source of each and every every security patch you apply, knowing that any minor update might actually hide some kind of remotely exploitable back door.

You would need NSA-level of resources to pull this off, I doubt the apk signing by Google changes things significantly for Android users.
You’ve glossed over the most complicated part of this: “give it to Amazon”. There are so many things involved in that portion of the process that an internet enabled garage door solves, most importantly: not having a single code that can be used by anybody at any point in time until I manually go back and remove it.
I didn't think they made any language extensions for rust? Thought it was just for Ada.
> With a pattern of violations, a civil case for damages emerges.

Agreed, although this is predicated on being willing to put up with arrest. In effect, the cost is asymmetric: to have my civil rights enshrined here, I'd have to be willing to go to jail a handful of times, miss work, suffer physical and verbal abuse at the hands of an agency that rapes detainees[1], etc. All for a judge to potentially grant me damages.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima
This really isn't true. There are references hidden around Wikipedia which link to a report for proof, but the report was actually linking to the Wiki page to begin with. It becomes circular proof, and it's pretty tough to spot.
FDA approves Mounjaro for weight loss
With the newer iterations, you can. I bought a series 5 used off ebay and plan to try using it independently. It's obviously not going to give you the full functionality of a full-sized phone, but if we're talking minimalist phones I don't think that's the point anyway. Maps + (very) basic texting + phone calls.
Amazon's FireTV experience is pretty bad. Even as someone who pays for Prime, it's hard to escape the "ad carousel" interface when you just want to watch TV.

That being said, I still use mine regularly for one reason; sideloading. You can install YouTube clients with SponsorBlock and ad-skipping built in. You can download Steam's streaming client and connect a controller, or load up Kodi with SFTP streaming from your local network. The quality of third-party apps is so good that I just ignore the FireTV experience as a whole and skip straight to the apps.

Hopefully someone makes/has made a launcher app that bypasses Amazon's stuff. The underlying hardware is perfect for my needs; the first-party software is the crutch.

Edit: prayers answered? https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher
Gold does not require much infrastructure or utility to keep existing, and it is operable by anyone with hands or less.
Does this mean because we've become accustomed to ignoring the petty crime treason, when the treason with a giant neon sign and an alert popup that says "THIS IS TREASON" shows up, we're too numb to take action on it?
I remember experiencing that outage, but the entire internet wasn't down. Sometimes some Chinese providers also do weird BGP stuff. BGP failures tend to be isolated to certain networks and not the entirity of the internet.
Cake, donuts, ice cream, etc derive their extreme calorie density and negative satiety from cream, sugar, and frying, not some recent invention by a "scientist in a lab".
I remember a time in my career when I looked at some code and I was truly impressed by whoever had written it. It was different from the code I was used to finding in the company's codebase. The intent was clear, it was efficient, etc. I looked into the source code history to see who wrote it. I was surprised to find that I had written it, but I'd entirely forgotten writing it. I got a good laugh out of that... but I was mildly disappointed that I couldn't praise someone else.

Of course this is the exception rather than the rule. I've done a lot of revision on my code. If you don't look back on your code and think of ways it can improve then there's a good chance you're not learning.
Can't wait for the day semaglutide and tirzepatide are available as generics
Can you add some normalisation topic (or combination / average of several topics) like "linux" or "javascript" or something that's been around for a long time and hasn't really had a hype cycle recently?

It's interesting to see how AI/Crypto relate to each other, but e.g. for sentiment analysis we would need to check if maybe HN got more negative _overall_ or if it's actually dependent on the two topics you chose
That's a maladaptive approach to the problem, is the point. You should have the communication skills to do additional work when you can and firmly say no when you can't. That's how an adult handles that situation rather than through deception and avoidance.

Of course, there are external reasons that may make this more difficult, but IMO 2/3rds of the reasons people cite for doing things like this are solvable with proper communication. 1/3rd isn't, though.
The housing market is starting to crack – Sellers are cutting prices
There is a lot of negativity about the way it is used I think.

Most people will agree that LLMs are pretty neat, but now instead of every startup being "like Uber but for ..." they are "like chatGPT but for ...".

Everyone is trying to chuck AI into their products and most of the time there is no need, or the product is just a thin fine-tune over an existing LLM model that adds essentially near-zero value. HN is fairly negative on that sort of thing I think (rightly so IMO)
txtai 6.2: Adds binary quantization, bind parameters for multimedia vector SQL
Japanese companies were making objectively better cars than the US and UK from the 1970s until pretty recently. I'm not sure how much sharing of designs between companies had to do with that; they were using better quality materials and manufacturing as well as iterating faster.
Exactly. People, average everyday people, are using and getting value out of AI right now. Are we to ignore that?