skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trusting the ABI is not a thing when you don't have an ABI(Because you're not doing a compiled language) and any or all of your dependencies could make breaking changes (either accidentally or just for fun because devs like to tweak function names) at any moment.

Package management is great(For development, for release and distribution I greatly prefer static linking or things like snap packages or APKs that trust the OS and bring everything else included), but only because you can pin stuff.

Pinning is basically the same concept as checking everything in, except the repo doesn't physically hold the data, and you can update with automated tools.
Axolotl's aren't just in Mexico, too!

https://www.blm.gov/visit/axolotl-lakes

I remember doing a report on them some 40 years ago after visiting those lakes with my family. I wonder how those lakes are doing now...
From your perspective, which fun parts are at risk here? For me that's certainly not Sports Illustrated and their kin.

This is not entirely new, it has existed since the dawn of mass media and the culture industry. It's hyperreality in its full form.
For what it's worth, I've been into hardware and software synthesizers for a while and in the many many discussions I've seen around MIDI controllers and keyboards, I can't recall latency ever coming up. As far as I can tell, basically all MIDI hardware is fast enough that musicians don't seem to notice or complain.
>Why would the US _government_ retaliate against the Swedish _government_ for a dispute between the Swedish unions and a company?

If you want to go down a fun rabbit hole, look into conspiracy theories about how many things Tesla's (and Amazon's and Apple's and Microsoft's and-) stock price is propping up.
That's an example of a body of scientists changing its recommendations when there's data available to support it, which is what GP was trying to argue wouldn't happen because it'd make them look bad.

I'm not advocating for any kind of diet, though. I'm advocating for trusting the consensus opinion of multiple independent groups of scientists to determine what the data does and does not say about what's healthy.
> This means employees get let go with legal bare minimum compensation and have little (if any) legal position to fight back.

I don't know what country you're posting this from, but in the US none of this matters, and it does not apply. When someone is let go there is no "legal bare minimum compensation." There are some notice requirements (e.g. the WARN act), and many companies will pay out compensation in lieu of notice if the WARN act applies, but an acquisition makes no difference to these notice requirements.
> But when they hit a roadblock or need to adapt an algorithm many engineers will stumble.

My experience is the other way around.

People underestimate how powerful building systems is and how most of the problems worth solving are boring and require out-of-the-box techniques.

During the last decade, I was in some teams and I noticed the same pattern: The company has some extra budget and "believes" that their problem is exceptional.

Then goes and hires some PhDs Data scientists with some publications but only know R and are fresh from some Python bootcamps.

After 3 months, or this new team no much was done, tons of Jupyter notebooks around but no code in production, and some of them did not even have an environment to do experimentation.

The business problem is still not solved. The company realizes that having a lot of Data Scientists not not so many Data/ML Enginers means that they are (a) blocked to do pushing something to production or (b) are creating a death star of data pipelines + algorithms + infra (spending 70% more of resources due to lack of knowledge on Python).

The project gets delayed. Some people become impatient.

Now you have a solid USD 2.5 million/year team that is not capable of delivering a proof of concept due to the fact that people cannot do the serving via Batch or via REST API.

The company lost momentum, competitors moved fast. They released an imperfect solution, but a solution ahead, and they have users on it and they are enhancing.

Frustration kicks in, and PMs and Eng Managers fight about accountability. VP of Product and Engineering wants heads in a silver plate.

Some PhDs get fired and go to be teachers in some local university.

Fin.
Can you please follow the site guidelines when posting here? They include:

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Slow execution of pure python code - this is the ONLY area where you are perhaps correct... but compared to what?

Compared to… basically everything? Python’s performance is unacceptable, especially given that single threaded processor performance isn’t really improving any longer.
Originally filed October 24, 2023

Employee names are still redacted. Despite the company's attack on internet users' privacy, it appears its employees want to remain anonymous.
One relevant piece of information to put this into context is the number of dual-income households in the US has doubled in the time period we're talking about. Yet the percentage of household income spent on housing, transportation, energy, etc. has increased.

The problem we're having now is they've running out of rabbits to pull out of their hat. The US government has been on a spending spree for the past 40+ years and running up a huge tab, and US households are now dual-income households and have just about maxed out their employment options. Then what?
You're not confused. As the OP indicated, he was once a VMWare engineer, so he gets his own questions wrong.
> I wonder what the internet would be like if there was some sort of "if you don't use it, you lose it" rule

I think about this a lot, too! I think the current system was a bit of a mistake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> In any case, a reasonable second-hand market should only help right?

That's the goal! A friendly, reasonably priced marketplace with the idea of letting others use the domains you're accidentally hoarding

> Also, the site looks good!

Thank you very much :)
The difference is, I was expecting literally what was on the title :-)
The headline folks from Heptio are gone but the products and staff are still there. They’ve gotten a lot of internal transfers from other parts of VMware.
I wonder how many journalists are already using AI without us (or their employer) realizing it.
Of course you can fire someone. You then can be challenged, you have to show cause and what actions you took to build your case and there is a process to deal with that. And in the end if you got it wrong as the employer you have to pay up. But it's definitely possible to fire someone.

Not like in the US though, without any controls or oversight. Sweden is in that sense probably one of the better countries to be an employee in.

> This still doesn't make sense. The law is the law, and breaking it is just as bad with or without union discussion, no?

Yes. But the problem with these allegations is that you need to prove them and that isn't all that easy.

> Like if the law says you need to give your employees X, Y, Z and you haven't , the that's breaking the saw and the state should immediately intervine.

I agree with you, but in practice that's not how I have found the world to work. For the state to intervene someone has to make a formal complaint first. Otherwise the authorities will not make a move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
Netherlands: https://treinposities.nl/ , and for buses https://busposities.nl/kaart (zoom in).
I have a bunch of citations below refuting his claim, but it's currently almost dead due to downvotes. Bummer some people would rather keep spreading falsehoods.
Every week? You're being very generous to them
Yeah, implementation-wise, Rust's version of this idea is a little better, since at least you can convert their strings to a bag-of-bytes/OsStr-style representation almost for free. (And to their credit, Rust's docs for the chars() string method discuss why it's not very useful.)

I do think the basic motivation of Unicode codepoints somehow being a better / more correct way to interact with strings is the same in both languages, though. Certainly a lot of people, including the grandparent comment, defend Rust strings using exactly the same arguments as Python 3 strings.
Was it a mistake? They already won a preliminary injuction that the government must let them pick up the license plates

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/27/sweden-sides-with-tesla-sa...
> a modern car is way more reliable and way less work to repair than your MG Midget

Modern cars are often more work to repair. They're not particularly modular, and to the extent that they are, they often bury one module under several layers of others. It requires you to disconnect and move working parts and assemblies to uncover the broken one.

Modern cars also use replaceable assemblies to speed up repairs, but it also means that even for small problems like a damaged wire in a harness, you often have to rip out the entire system it is "inside" of and replace it completely. The manufacturer has tons of ways of requiring you to "over replace" parts like this on a modern vehicle.

> but why should they be?

That's not an excuse to make them as disposable as they've become. You can't use "the climate" to blindly turn this into a black and white issue.
In other countries, bike messengers, motorcycles, and rikishas deliver food around the area.

In London, Pret used to semi-ghost resupply sandwiches to their tiny stores from catering-like hubs via hand carts.
Crimping is quick and easy. My recommendation is crimp and solder, not just solder. Solder by itself isn't mechanically strong enough.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "really complex solution"? It is well-written/designed, but over-engineered? Or is it poorly done and subsequently hard to read + maintain? Or is it moreso an issue of documentation?
> I know the UN is effectively a dog without teeth

UN exists as the forum for discussing in order to prevent WW3. That's why countries with the ability to destroy the world have veto power.

People just make it out to be more than it actually is.

As an example, UN's human right council composition (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and etc.) is a huge joke.
So they're starting the Bene Tleilax order then?
They are now producing a product that isn't even worth minimal effort to steal.
My Apple maps consistently has me 90° off from where I'm actually pointed.
Does this include a “with vs from” distinction?
For zlib compatible workloads, there are cloudflare patches and chromium forks, intel forks, and zlib-ng which are compatible but >50% faster. (I think the cloudflare patches eventually made it into upstream zlib, but you may not see that in your distro for a decade).

lz4 and zstd have both been very popular since their release, they're similar and by the same author, though zstd has had more thorough testing and fuzzing, and is more featureful. lz4 maintains an extremely fast decompression speed.

Snappy also performs very well, with zstd and snappy having very close performance with tuning to achieve comparable compression levels.

In recent years Zstd has started to make heavy inroads in broader usage in OSS with a number of distro package managers moving to it and observing substantial benefits. There are HTTP extensions to make it available which Chrome originally resisted but I believe it's now finally coming there too (https://chromestatus.com/feature/6186023867908096).

In gaming circles there's also Oodle and friends from RAD tools which are now available in Unreal engine as builtin compression offerings (since 4.27+). You could see the effects of this in for example Ark Survival Evolved (250GB) -> Ark Survival Ascended (75GB, with richer models & textures), and associated improved load times.
My setup extends on this: the pulumi stack creates ECR repo, IAM user+access token, adds credentials and ECR details to GitHub actions secrets, and GitHub actions builds tags and pushes the images to ECR when a release is (automatically) tagged.

Pulumi is (mostly) a bliss!
> Every single one of those F1000’s has a highly competent CTO office team

I agree

> effectively unlimited hc and budget

I disagree.

A company like Google or FB can build in-house tooling simply because they have entire dedicated teams of engineers to manage their environments in house to meet niche needs. A F10 like ExxonMobil or UnitedHealth cannot justify a FB size engineering footprint when their margins are much lower.

> find a competitive alternative platform to ESX

Yep. The issue is ESX is actually pretty good at getting the job done. Your alternatives from a supportability standpoint are HyperV from Microsoft (which will probably eat up the smaller ESX customers), Citrix Hypervisor (owned and operated by ex-Broadcom leadership), and IBM RedHat's KVM (which requires you to work with IBM for Professional Services).

At the end of the day, you as a CTO or Platform team don't want to be fully OSS. Not because OSS is crap software (anything but), but because a pure OSS play doesn't provide you a dedicated support engineering team if shit hits the fan nor SLAs and monetary compensation if shit breaks.

This is why most OSS core companies max out revenue via a Professional Services play. RedHat is a notable example of this.
You say decades, but we don’t know whether it works over decades. For all I know, France is famous for strikes and we’ve lost all manufacturing. Almost all of Europe lost that, and it’s not like we’re good at startups either, we make some (heavily public-funded) and not even appear near the top #100 startups.

I don’t even remember meeting a single factory worker for the last ten years. Even ports: All of Marseille went on hard-core strikes, now it’s all done in Rotterdam. France is famous for the Saint Congés Payés in 1936, well, if we didn’t dance that much, maybe the Germans wouldn’t have invaded us like a walk in a park.

We can’t say that works over decades when all industries have fled (and I say fled, like one flees a socialist country, when factory managers were subdued into a cave and beaten up until they signed personnel agreements in the 1990).
The Bible, the Catechism, various works by Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Aquinas, to name a few, and the liturgical prayers of the Church to name just a few sources. I assume the Eva reference is meant to be mocking, but the Japanese artists who created it were very much intrigued and influenced by western theological and spiritual thought. Much like how many westerners are intrigued and influenced by eastern theological and spiritual thought.

In short, instrumentality deals with the how of God achieving His will. God, the incarnation excepted, is pure spirit, so in order to achieve His will materially He created and then used physical laws, among other things. The Big Bang is the greatest billiard break in cosmic history. So, for the well-formed Catholic, the possibility and apparent likelihood that God achieved the creation of Man using, among other instruments, evolution from lower life forms, isn't at all a problem.
This is the real reason for them using cars. In NYC, those delivery guys on e-bikes and scooters live within a reasonable distance (via bike or public transit) of where they’re delivering.
I don't think the law works like that in any country. The law isn't a omnipresent Santa Claus. It's a slow bureaucracy, the unions can force the issue before the workers die of old age.
Dang, you're right. Sorry about that.

I remembered that reactions irked me for some reason, but I had incorrectly tied it to the MS acquisition. The real issue was this: it took Github an extremely long amount of time to add a feature as simple as reactions. Github was founded in '08, and didn't add reactions for another eight years! But I distinctly remember once MS acquired them, they started shipping features left and right, and features much larger than simple emoji reactions.
Politics are playing politics. Also, the EU is pretty liberal and US big tech company are lobbying a lot against FOSS.

Politics don't understand free software, and the people who should be teaching it (GAFAM) don't, because it's not in their interest. As a liberal, free software worth nothing. Big tech worth a lot. They don't understand that's about tools and know-how, not about human resources and money.
Yes, agreed.

But that's a lot of smoke already, those reps would likely not say that if it wasn't something they could back up.
> it's that good.

For what it's worth, being "that good" is relatively easy for a DX7 compared to other synthesizers since it's a purely digital design and the algorithms (in the software, not FM sense) are pretty straightforward. It's not like emulating, say, an Ensoniq SQ-80, where you have to emulate analog filters which always involves a level of compromise and approximation.
I have a two year old. He loves planes too. I don't get it :-)
They can't. It's a comfortable lie, nothing more.
I suppose this is about the physical license plates, that can't be held at postnord - maybe very specific for being license plates.

The next step will be at transportstyrelsen they will just strike and refuse to issue the license plates.

No license plates issued, none to be delivered
I have multiple Samsung Qualcomm smartphones which to this day do not have an unlocked bootloader. Ironically one reason to choose the otherwise terrible Exynos.

And even on the ones which do, you lose access to some hardware features -- the very definition of tivoization...
Only off by a factor of 1000
>As with any language, developers who use SQL a lot do memorize it.

If you're hiring for a SQL developer I guess it makes sense, buit I use SQL about once every 6-12 months or so, so if you hit me with SQL queries on the spot I'll fail your interview for sure.

Honestly, I find interviews that revolve around memorizing and regurgitating some programing language syntax trivia a bit shit.

Wouldn't it be better testing for critical thinking and problem solving skills instead of shit people google anyway?
This is true. What works in Bangkok can't necessarily work in Los Angeles. It's usually American cities that lack the critical density by design for the automobile that results in an inability to support efficient local logistics.
It's called “civil disobedience” and sometimes it's the only way for people to leverage some sort of power.
You could make one that doesn't have an air hole. Put a membrane between the air and the ink. Consider a standard reverse osmosis water tank--inside there's basically a big bag, pressurized air on the outside, water on the inside. The outside should stay dry, the inside shouldn't contact the air.

You still have the problem at the print head, though.
I'd be shocked if this was anywhere near reality. Covid hasn't been an issue any of the hospitals that I work at to the point that many doctors and nurses don't even bother with N95 masks when seeing covid patients.

It's more likely this is people dying with covid and not from covid. If someone covid positive has a stroke or heart attack which column is that being written in?

I have had to write my share of death certificates, and most docs will write the easiest thing that gets the corner off their back. These statistics may be broadly true

medicine is unlike technology in that it has a much much higher level of human error in data points (intentional or not).
I believe electricity flows in water through ions instead of bare electrons. So that’s another example.

Did you know pure water is an insulator?
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/27/sweden-sides-with-tesla-sa...

"Norrköping district court said the agency must find a way to get the plates to Tesla within seven days or pay a fine of 1 million Swedish crowns (~$96,000)."
Move where exactly? Bitbucket and GitLab aren't that great either.

I'm affected by GitHub outages maybe once every 2 months for a couple of hours. Sure, various parts go down but it's never something super impactful to my workflow.

It's not great but, IMHO, not outrage worthy.
They died of covid. Any other questions we can answer for you?
Kind of underwhelming. Superb work, but the average distance between trains is, like, at least 500 miles? This is what the opposite of public transportation looks like, unfortunately.

What would that map look like if even 5% of the annual military budget of the US would be invested in trains?
In the UK we do have some protections depending on length of time with the company. There is some framework for redundancy payments.

The US culture of "at will employment" (i.e fire you on the spot for little reason) gives me anxiety and I don't even live there!
Bit of a tangent, but I always come back to this read:

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
This is a very mediocre understanding of deep learning :)
If you want your refrigerator and freezer to save energy then make sure there is as little empty space in them as is possible. It makes the entire system more efficient, stable, and reduces the impact of opening the door.
I didn't say it was privately run; I was just making my statement as general as possible.
Just ask them how to make a pipe bomb. 100% accurate CAPTCHA!
Which do you feel is the most viable long-term and with regard to the political aspects of various platforms' creators or whatever that seems to be being implied is "baked in"?
There are situations where that statistic/categorization is meaningful, but not in this context of trying to rank different causative diseases and public health risks.

For example, imagine that 99% of all the euthanized are people who chose it after a diagnosis of the "Insane Agony Virus."

Obviously we would want all those mortal data-points to get counted as reasons to fight IAV, even if only a tiny number of people died because the virus finally turned their brain to mush after weeks of thrashing about on a table in mind-breaking pain.
Has anyone built a list tracking when each manufacturer reached its peak before starting the decline of enshittification?
Ask HN: Artificial Intelligence resources/path from beginner to advance
The AI field is incredibly dynamic and often challenging to keep up with. I'm currently exploring ways to define "the best" learning path that helps someone from a beginner level to an advanced stage. This path ideally covers the spectrum from creating production-ready applications to engaging in research.

I understand that the concept of the "best path" is inherently subjective. However, I believe that seasoned researchers and developers could suggest a streamlined approach, along with top-notch resources like courses, books, and more.

The huge amount of research and resources available can be overwhelming. I'm reaching out to for recommendations on exceptional resources that teach AI from first principles up to very advanced topics. The goal is to help not just myself but also others who are keen to advance from beginners to what might be considered an advanced level in AI.

Any insights or advice you can share would be greatly appreciated.
What is the distinction in your mind?
Once you have a receiver, you can use a raspberry pi image like https://adsb.im/home to easily feed data to more than 20 different networks. FlightAware, FlightRadar24, ADS-B Exchange, airplanes.live, TheAirTraffic, etc. Most of the networks give extra privileges to people who feed them data.
Imagine when the big brands find out what is going on with Instagram. That place is WILD now if you doomscroll.
My first thought was similar, but in the opposite direction: the data collected by a non-local camera in a refrigerator (coupled with WiFi network details for location info) is something that Walmart and friends would pay a lot of money for.