skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted that the Waymo and Cruise experiments in their cities are laughably unprepared for actual chaotic traffic, often fail in completely unpredictable ways and are universally hated by locals. Autonomous buses and trams are much more successful because the problem is much easier too.
Looks like some of the AI doom regulatory capture panels I’ve seen.
I was expecting these to be shoddily built (like the Sudden Valley show home on Arrested Development) but not so:

> “Well built but not overbuilt” is how former resident Zac Matthews describes them. “Janes actually used good materials like oversized redwood rafters,”
Anatomy of a Profitable Open-Source Project
Regular expressions are pretty tricky. You can be an expert and it can still take time to tweak. I've been using regular expressions for decades, and now find myself using GPT as a kind of pre-compiler. I'll test regular expressions with GPT and it gets really close or the final result.
Be thankful: most homes in Texas have all of the architectural design sense of Microsoft c. 1985.

The core issue is the permitting processes are missing design and aesthetics reviews and approvals. Instead, they're intent on keeping people like Bill Maher from using solar power.
The interviewer is expecting the interviewer to violate standard interview protocol? While the interviewee is perhaps desperate for a job? And the interviewer is - in his/her mind - thumping their chest about what a great and experienced interviewer they are?

I can't see how that's a success-minded plan for anyone involved.
It's a completely acceptable explanation. Much more so than "it didn't exist at all" which requires enemies with thousands of nukes pointed at each other to conspire for 50+ years.

The issues are pretty straightforward, when the SaturnV and lunar lander were being built, almost all of the design was done by hand, all of the parts were made by hand and the engineers made all sorts of little undocumented adjustments to the designs in the process.

On top of that, the flight computers of the era were extremely primitive, large and heavy, and the design was done with this in mind.

Finally, NASA's safety standards were much more lax at the time. Saturn V would be considered way too dangerous to fly crew on nowadays.

Modern engineering methods are just too different to just recreate a Saturn V without effectively redesigning it from scratch, at which point it might as well be a much more capable vehicle like Starship.
Mindhackers..
But it is though?
I'm not talking about everything facebook provides, but main content page is just a list of posts with with discussion underneath them. Sure, you can embed some media into the it, but still. There is nothing inherently different about structure of facebook post compared to a post on a forum.

And yet, despite everything facebook is doing, the most (and only) reliable way to load new comments under the post is to force refresh entire site.
Except it's not easy anymore, because facebook tries to be SPA.

So we gave up simple and reliable solutions in favour of over engineering that doesn't even work. And all that for no good reason, other then being trendy and having an SPA
Yeah, each!
If I buy something surely I own it and can make that decision myself?
I have no idea why someone thought to post the blog of Dr Thomas Prosser, Reader in European Social Policy at Cardiff Business School.

https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/prossertj

It's a terse dot point summary of some observations on recent surveys.

What I do know, however, is that a table of correlations does not identify "What drives social justice ideology". Not in the slightest.

It's not age that drives an outlook in the UK - that comes from particular issues and circumstances that are mainly affecting the young.

Similarly it's not being female that drives an outlook in the US, it's specific issues that predominately affect women, eg: abortion.

Dr Prosser might have the technical chops to cover his subject but his blog post title could use some work.

EDIT: Oh, of course it's entirely possible that 'ContrarianBrit' is Dr Prosser: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ContrarianBrit
I can relate a lot. Having the momentum on your side is the main force that pushes such a project forward. Especially if you have family duties that ususally consume most of your free time.

As long as children are smaller even things like scheduling time for your projects don't work very well. Usually because unexpected things happen that need to be handled. Sickness, children waking up early or taking longer to go to sleep, etc..
Mindshitters. Attention dynamics is about creating addiction.
Knowledge transfer requires practice. They haven't built one for 50 years, so there hasn't been knowledge transfer.
Private messages won't be scanned for now, but what about the certificates in web browsers that could be swapped at will by any certificate in the control of some EU apparel so that "encrypted" web traffic could be sniffed and MITMed?

Which moreover came with a fineprint specifying that it'd be illegal for browsers to warn users about certificate being swapped?

Is that out of the window for now too?
The proliferation of corporate/business language is a hint - no one actually wants to "create content". They want to create art, music, writing etc. Advertising however usually needs something to ship it with, to draw attention, and so we have broad, hollow terms like "content" and "creator".
But did you at least upgrade it to support USB-C?
>Isn't this a slight over-generalization from web dev? If you learned programming in the pre-web era then you weren't able to learn how programs work by studying the shipped artifacts, but the craft wasn't waning, far from it.

people understand the waxing and waning of the craft based on their experience. Someone can be an old greybeard now and have only done "web programming" starting at a young age·

Perhaps I'm wrong but I have seen this argument multiple times so I believe it is nonetheless a belief about the waning of the craft prevalent among some people.
Tereshkova was one of the first people in space in the time when nothing was clear about long-term effects on human body. The decision to send a female cosmonaut came from Vladimir Yazdovsky, the pioneer of biomedicine in spaceflight, not from the party cogs or someone else.
Fair enough, I googled and used the first reputable source I could find. But sure, including the two other PACs, this is still IMO small change. I thought we were talking hundreds of millions or even billions regarding the NRA.
Trump's SPAC was entirely a grift from start to finish, and Truth Social was just one attempt at legitimizing it.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/spac-returns-remaining...
> Let's not pretend that a slick lobbyist hired by vested interests to talk to representatives with no money changing hands is comparable to the stuff that goes down in high corruption countries, where there's literally briefcases full of cash given to politicians.

That's just a make-up, parfumerie on top of the same exact concept: use money in some way to corrupt decision making.

Just because in some countries it's done with a veneer of legitimacy, in a way that doesn't look as dirty and disgusting as "those other over there with their dirty hands full of bags of money", it's just corruption with a façade of high-class. It's still the same thing, just has more layers of indirection and make-up on top.
It's about relationships - soft power - more than money. Speaking fees, revolving door/sinecure jobs, and donations to your charities will be there for you should you need it, so there's no need to ask for things up front.
the main problem with RAG IMHO is that. What if the note(s) they passed you have nothing to do with the answer you’re trying to respond to.

Getting RAG to work right depending on the context is tricky. I like RAG fusion approach with rerankers.
https://xkcd.com/1172/

No need to break existing software. "use strict" was a great idea. Let's do "use sane"!
What.

> The GNOME Foundation works to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is composed entirely of free software. It was founded on 5 March 2001 by Compaq, Eazel, Helix Code, IBM, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and VA Linux Systems.

Also here is Red Had boasting about how much they pay for Gnome https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/gnome-desktop...
MSR stands for Molten Salt Reactor. It's a type of reactor that can use either Thorium or Uranium or Plutonium. For some reason a lot of people equate it with Thorium.

MSRE specifically refers to the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment [1], which was a reactor that burned only Uranium, never Thorium.

By the way, the Department of Energy is collaborating with the private industry on a number of advanced reactor designs [2]. There is only one molten salt reactor and that one uses Uranium or Plutonium, not Thorium (see [3], slide 3).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment

[2] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/infographic-advanced-reac...

[3] https://www.nationalacademies.org/documents/embed/link/LF225...
> There are products (Nexus Firewall) that can check dependencies for vulnerabilities and either block them from entering the network or fail CI pipelines.

Once they're known. I suppose nexus firewall let log4j pass.
It's getting far more regulated though, and that's a good thing - big Pharma pushing drugs to doctors is one of the most sickening parts of capitalism.
Quitting the full-time poker scene
AI in strategy design: redefining tactics and strategy
Yeah. The part that gives me goosebumps with that proposal is: as an author of some not very popular packages, what do I do? Is it my job to package and promote my packages on Debian, redhat, homebrew, and all the others? Do I need usage before they’ll pick it up? Sounds like a chicken and egg problem. And doing all that packaging work sounds like a boring, time consuming job that I don’t want.

It’s also quite common for me to pull out bits of code I’ve written that I want to share as a dependency between different programs I write. I have dozens of packages in npm along these lines - and it’s quite elegant. I factor out the code, package it independently, write a readme and some tests and publish it. My other packages can then just depend on the brand new package directly. In this brave new world the author is proposing - what? I make a .deb, argue for it on some mailing lists I’m not on, wait who knows how long, eventually gain permission to depend on my own code, then realise I can’t install it on my Mac laptop and do the same dance in homebrew? Oh - there’s a bug. Better manually update all the package repositories? Sounds like a complete nightmare to me.

I’m sympathetic to the problem. Supply chain attacks are way too easy. But maintaining up to date packages on every single Linux distribution, homebrew, ports, and whatever windows does sounds like a full time job. A boring full time job. And it would still not work as well for my users, because when a new feature is released in one of my upstream dependencies I can’t use it until all of those package repositories ship the new version of my upstream dependency too. I’d rather eat sand.

“It works for C/C++” by making developers working in those languages pay in blood for every dependency they pull in. You can tell by looking at just how few dependencies the average C program uses. It’s like that because of how painful it is. Anything under a certain size tends to get either reinvented every time, badly (hash table libraries in C) or vendored (eg json parsers). Common libraries like rust’s rand don’t exist in C because it’s just too much effort to pull in dependencies. So everyone rolls their own crappy version instead. Ask GTA5 how well that went for them. And that’s not the developer ecosystem I want to work in. It’s frankly a terrible proposal.
Yes, everything is open-source except for the actual app that lets you manage flags
Kinda. Something got dumped with very few updates since the first month. The last few commits specifically mention open source which would indicate there's a private version somewhere with more changes.
> is your point that GPT-4 will become overwhelmingly popular with further refinement?

My point is that people have a tendency to come up with really sketchy insults (blame the user that he uses the product in a wrong way) to people who find and can expound legitimate points of criticism of a product.
My grandfather was a WWII, Korea, and Vietnam vet with the GI Bill. In 1968, there was no housing discount, only low interest loans. Their house cost $10k then and sold for $2.1m in 2018. I have the original copies of the deeds and of their loan.
From what? Contracts?
It is way "easier" to be productive as a developer today vs 20 years ago. I can easily build web apps fast that would have taken a big team to build if even possible. Yet, more devs today than 20 years ago. If every dev is suddenly 20 times more productive (however that would be measured) means that some projects that in the past would not be "profitable"/"worth it" are now no brainers and companies will invest in doing those projects.
People get paid for posting on Twitter? That explains a lot.
> As someone who has worked in a big corporate their entire career this statement is bizarre. This has been solved for Java for over a decade.

> Builds don't access the internet directly. You host a proxy on-premise (Nexus/Artifactory/etc) and access that. If the internet location is down, you continue as normal.

Right now I'm using Sonatype Nexus (the free version) for my personal needs: https://www.sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository

And I do mean most things: apt packages, Docker images, Helm charts, as well as packages for Go, Java, .NET, Node, Python and Ruby, maybe even more in the future. I'm very glad that it is possible to do something like that, but honestly it's hard to do and I can easily see why most wouldn't bother: even though the configuration UI is okay and you can create users with appropriate permissions, you'll still need to have plenty of storage, manage updates and backups, setup automated cleanup tasks (especially for Docker images), in addition to the whole process on the developer's side sometimes being a nuisance.

With npm you get --registry which is one of the simpler approaches, Ruby Gems needed some CLI commands along the lines of "bundle config mirror" and other stuff, Maven needs an XML file with the configuration, in addition to publishing your own packages to those also needing more configuration. Sadly, it seems like this fragmentation of approaches is unavoidable and complexity increases with the amount of languages you use.

On the bright side, I keep control over my data, as well as have really good download/upload speeds, even on a cheap VPS. Plus you learn some vaguely useful things the more you explore if you want to go further, like how I also start with Debian/Ubuntu base container images and provision whatever tools or runtimes I need for more specialized images (e.g. my own JDK, .NET, Node etc. images).
>no one actually wants to "create content"

Plenty of entertainers want to create "content" instead of what you label "art".
Eh, price scalping sucks. This is the lesser of two evils.
Shame that an extra 30 EUR must be paid for French users to use the non-legacy AZERTY+ (NF Z71-300) keyboard layout. I believe the only one proposed is the old AZERTY layout.
I think it is unreasonable. A remote deactivation of your car if you sell what you paid full price for? I think at least they should be willing to buy it back from the customer.
This isnt new; I got a Mercedes van this year and had a 1-year no-sale clause in my purchase contract.
How does programming have self-play? I'm not sure I understand. Are you going to generate leetcode questions with one AI, have another answer them, and have a third determine whether the answer is correct?

I'm struggling to understand how an LLM is meant to answer the questions that come up in day-to-day software engineering, like "Why is the blahblah service occasionally timing out? Here are ten bug reports, most of which are wrong or misleading" or "The foo team and bar team want to be able to configure access to a Project based on the sensitivity_rating field using our access control system, so go and talk to them about implementing ABAC". The discipline of programming might be just a subset of broader software engineering, but it arguably still contains debugging, architecture, and questions which need more context than you can feed into an LLM now. Can't really self-play those things without interacting with the real world.
I don't know, I feel like it is a bit of a tradeoff.

You can totally say "here is my code, it's open source, and the build system will look for those dependencies on the system" and let the users (who are developers) handle the dependencies the way they want. This way the user gets to choose if they trust the dependencies or not. Ideally the distro ships with those dependencies, and the user can just install them (better: write a package that depends on those dependencies and install that).

It seems like developers don't really know how to do that anymore, and language package managers allow them to not learn about it. But at the cost of control: they don't know anymore what dependencies they are pulling, or even how many they are pulling.

The modern way seems to be mostly about productivity, and therefore devs don't want to learn anything about dependencies, they want everything to "just work". But that is arguably bad for security.
No citation needed. If the statement was false we wouldn’t get advertising based on conversations that happen in what’s app.
This is how we end up with https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/.
Companies seem to disagree that you own something if you buy it.
Why would you ask panamax to mirror everything though? You are maintaining a manifest of all your organizations dependencies right? Why would I mirror ancient versionsbof clap and that crate that checks your aol mail? Also, nexus doesn't have a functioning cargo plugin, it is community made and stagnant. Artifactory does support it. And I'm guessing artifactory is what most people are using for a private registry too given the state of the others.
Ah, maybe the difference is that I disabled web search completely so it's limited to locally-installed stuff. If it's suggesting web results, I wonder if that's a deliberately-bad result for advertising reasons
Yes, the reentry corridor is near Hawaii.

I wouldn't expect it to survive the re-entry regime, as there are a lot of tiles missing, but honestly, if it makes it to atmospheric entry on target, it'll be a wild success.
Excuse me sir, you are interrupting our Thinkpad circletrek, begone with your Dell heresy.

I absolutely love my cute little Thinkpad X230T, but finding a battery for that fits the T variant is a pain in the butt in my country, I tried like a 6-7 in the shop but they were all old and dead, very little market for them so they stayed unused and died out, I am limping along on my 15-minute battery for now.

I believe Lenovo could have designed the laptop a bit better to fit the more common battery found in the X220/X230, which I can find very easily, but Lenovo had a weird mindset at the time, a bit like Nokia, come to think of it.

Lenovo has had some missteps too, but I think their brand name is(was?) famous for a reason. In my country Lenovo/Dell/HP laptops from old American office discards are rather common, and I have had better luck with Lenovo than the other two, though it could just be my family's experience.

I am in the lookout for a reasonably priced T480, because soon windows 11 will become inevitable and I would like to be ready. Stupid TPM 2.0 requirements will cause a lot of good laptops to go bunk.
Let's not forget that reduced cotton prices (because of a technological improvement) did make cotton more affordable, lots of new clothes at reduced prices, increased demand, but it didn't turn out that great for the slaves.
It's also worth mentioning that Ferrari also asks you to simply call them first, before selling it (within that first year). I've never bought a ferrari but it seems like you have some options depending on your needs/situation/etc.
Oh yes. Strong industry lobby groups from the US, a handful of useful idiots from the EU. Amazing power balance.
You realize that submarine was only meant to last 20 years and instead they spent 3 years rebuilding it to serve a different role? It is also closer to 40 years than 50 and is decades younger than the rockets in question. I'd also hazard that the lifetime maintenance costs of that submarine far dwarf it's initial construction costs.

Part of the reason why the SLS took so long and cost so much is because they DID try to re-use all the old resources and technology rather than building from scratch.
Lack of substantial concrete examples is an issue with many of these anti-react technologies. Even svelte doesn’t seem to have many (any?) examples of large scale commercial projects using it.

In the last 10 years the only new web tech I’ve seen get traction outside of tech communities - so actual job postings etc - is vue.
Oh man, I didn't read the remote deactivation part - that really is crazy!

Preventing resale isn't so unusual, but having your property violated definitely is.
Ausin PD also runs drones around the East side for unknown reasons, but only in the early morning between 1 and 4am.
The only Tiktok I see is what gets shared elsewhere, and that seems to be mostly people expanding on other people's music, which is pretty awesome.
It would if I was the interviewer. But expect that the followup question would be how the SQL engine implements the query.
I think you've found a good analogy there in the concept of moral vs legal. We defined a fixed system to measure against (rule of law) to reduce ambiguity.

Moral code varies with time, place, and individual person. It is a decimal scale of gray rather than a binary true/false.

Places historically that didn't have rule of law left their citizens to the moral interpretation whim of whoever was in charge. The state could impose different punishments on different people for different reasons at different times.

AI models I find a similar fixed&defined vs unlimited&ambiguous issue in ADAS in cars.

German cars with ADAS are limited&defined, have a list of features they perform well, but that is all.

Tesla advertises their system as an all knowing, all seeing system with no defined limits. Of course every time there is an incident they'll let slip certain limits "well it can't really see kids shorter than 3ft" or "well it can't really detect cross traffic in this scenario" etc.
Also it has to do with wink wink nudge nudge "Come see us if the election doesn't work out."

Knowing you are losing an election and getting dumped into a $350k/yr easy-mode job takes the edge off.
I'm in favor of consumer protection, but it should be a broad law, not a "EULA".

However, in this case: what's against a bit of price jacking? Do we need to feel sorry for people who want to buy a Cybertruck?
I fear for the future of Red Hat products.

IBM isn't exactly the most trustworthy steward.
So cool. I look into this
Exactly! You put that very elegantly. (I call that proposed flag "use sane")

I always thought JS needed static types to fix the insanity until I tried Python and realized that almost all the insane BS I get in JS are all runtime errors in Python.

There's a very good case to be made for reducing runtime errors, but it's a hell of a good start to at least have them!

Rather than what we have now, which is "assume the programmer is a beginner, who also never makes mistakes", and "given nonsensical commands, just do nonsense, and propagate garbage data throughout the entire program".
PSA - the HN article submitter ("Tomte") is not Placemark's author (Tom MacWright) despite the three matching letters.
But without the upsides of leasing.