skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be able to generate a better language than what we have.
The incident happened in the early 2000s and the car was Buick LeSabre from the 80s. I am no expert, so maybe it was some other steering assist technology, but it definitely wasn't easy to finish the turn without it.
"Trust the experts" is always "trust my experts". If you ask them to trust other people with the same (or similar) degree, but a different opinion, they don't. It's just an appeal to authority rather than a real philosophy.
An interesting choice of words. "I don't have the data to back it up" seems to want to imply "we don't have the data at all". But I don't buy that Amazon, of all companies, doesn't have the data. I assume they have it, and it doesn't back what they're trying to push.
That depends on whether you accept the risk of having to find another line of work. Depending on the place, you can do almost anything you want even at PhD level. I've been on a chain of grants, doing quite freely what I want, for over a decade. But I accept it may break at any point and then I'll just go do something else.

After PhD there will be nobody telling, and often not even caring, what to do. But that may mean that you don't get your PhD or you don't get another grant to live on. If you get a tenure it almost literally means that you can't be fired even if you do nothing at all. What is surprising is that almost all with tenure keep running the rat race even though they don't really get anything at least material out of it.

(Nitpick: I think serious research is the fun one. The one churned to get another grant is neither serious nor fun.)
Onyx, a new programming language powered by WebAssembly
The Hare programming language now supports OpenBSD
I think the issue is that they tried to separate the input into a list of tokens, like ["5", "nine"], and work from there, which doesn't work on something like "oneight".
The top trim was originally announced with 500 mile range. That's changed as if yesterday with no real announcement AFAIK.
I work in this industry and the rate of fraud from bcom bookings is massively higher than other channels.
Hi, I work on seamless. What this refers to is added toxicity mitigation. We try to detect the level of toxicity in the input and make sure that the output toxicity level is not higher. This protects the model from doing egregious errors in the translation.

There are more details in the paper if you want and the mitigation code is all open source if you want to check what it actually does.
> Spending $100k to defeat a $500 drone

Source on $500 drones being a threat to modern militaries? (Russia doesn’t have a modern, i.e. manoeuvre-based, military.)
in the ruby's ticket page that is linked in the article, one guy (who seems to be a respectable gentleman, I must add), this feature adds more cognitive load, requires all ides to support this syntax, and encouraging less readable code. coming from other programming language, I don't think that this feature is adding more cognitive load. especially when I believe any Ruby off Rails developer is also write js code. nor I do believe that it encourages less readable code, even though I don't deep dive into ruby's traditions, I believe stupid long one liners are the enemy of "happy developers".
Steve Jobs started out working on arcade games with Woz. Despite that, I got the impression he didn't care at all for video games.

From what I've heard, the person who was originally in charge of the iOS App Store completely dismissed videogames altogether. He believed music was the only art form worthy of Apple. Rumor has it he actively sabotaged the effort to make Apple TV into a market-competitive game console. When he was moved to the iTunes team, iOS suddenly appreciated games.

Between the two of them, Apple has been actively steered into not being a platform for games. Maybe that's finally (very slowly) changing.
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It's not the electric field; it's the magnetic field. There is still a potential, but the potential is a vector.

My ability to picture what is going on has never extended to the magnetic vector potential, so I have no intuition about how that plays in here...
How do those resources compare to the cost of maintaining offices, the costs to workers of commutes and being more or less forced into expensive and crowded urban centers, and the environmental cost of the commute and the property maintenance?
No. The answer isn’t nights and weekends. It is much easier to simply document interruptions. This also means that during planning you can now actually plan appropriately for your time.

Please don’t accept the narrative that exempt means unpaid overtime is ok.
Apple‘s secret sauce is not mach binaries but Cocoa. And tons of resources. And clear leadership.

We have decades-old projects like GNOME, KDE and GNUstep and none of them come close to macOS in terms of „finesse“. Despite some of them having corporate backing.

So I just don’t see that happening for a project with a small team working on it in their free time. Far too ambitious, I‘ve seen projects like this fail too often in the last two decades.
It because of this exact technical challenge that ads nowadays appear between paragraphs in the middle content column, instead of in the right column where they belong.
Well that was spectacularly bad. Failed to translate a single word from english->spanish. Admittedly I was using George Carlins favorites, but if you're trying to have an expressive language translator that refuses to translate "fuck" then what you've got is bullshit.
Much like the threat that food workers will be replaced with robots if minimum wage increases, this is a threat without much bite. If companies thought they could get equal workers by outsourcing and reducing salaries, they already would have. Either being in office is a competitive advantage, or it isn't. We'll find out in the coming years, but I'm pretty sure the answer will be "it depends". And most people will readily accept a pay cut for lower salary if they can live in a lower cost of living area.
It will absolutely replace high-end talent. Anything that a human can do will be able to be done 10x better by a model -- especially in such a narrow and well defined domain.
I've been filling up with e85 gasoline for $2.99 a gallon in California. not sure how common vehicles are that can run on e85, but mine is a 2007 model.
No, only standard paragraphs.

My workflow still takes manual tweaking. When I find floated figures with captions, the lines get intertwingled and need to be unintertwingled. So I'm not surprised it didn't work for you.

Good luck, report back if you find what you're looking for. I'm always on the lookout for a better way.
What is a good place to keep up with new LLM model releases?
The Backblaze stats are nothing short of amazing, transparency-wise, and if anyone on the team making these available is reading this, many thanks to you!

That being said, truly bad series of HDDs have been extremely uncommon in the past decade. Of course, everyone is on NVMe Flash now for storage that actually matters, but I think the last epic "enterprise scale" nearline-class mess-up were the Seagate Barracude 1(.5)TB drives, introduced in 2013 and last sold in 2016?

Anyway, I've been very happy recently with some huge arrays running 14/15/18TB Western Digital SAS drives. The only (but pretty foreseeable) issue is that RAID6 arrays, once a drive in the set goes bad, simply can't be rebuilt in an acceptable timeframe.

So, standard procedure now is to have one empty RAID6-backed volume on standby at all times, so data can be migrated there from a degraded volume, after which the latter (after drive replacement) can be rebuilt from scratch.

Not an approach that would work at huge scale, but for simple-old-me, it's sufficient...
> If the product quality depends on you maintaining a flow state for extended periods

I think you've conflated quality and productivity; you started talking about one then switched to the other. They are related but not the same.

Certain dev tasks require deep flow for good results/quality. Robust refactorings, abstraction design and prototyping. Basically anything where you have to preserve invariants under code transformations. This isn't all dev work, and isn't necessarily frequent either, but when flow state is required it's usually important work that's core to a program's operation, so product quality definitely depends on flow.

If you're working on such a task, an interruption requires a return to that flow state to ensure good quality, and that takes time and will definitely impact productivity.

Other tasks do not require going very deep though and so achieving comparable quality doesn't require much depth in your flow. Interruptions won't affect productivity much in such cases.

My two cents.
Ah yes, the great fun of bug-hunting.
Probably most people in working IT have some stories to tell about this.

One thing that comes to my mind happened in a company where they used a simple software to create medical reports.
One clerk suddenly started creating "broken" PDF files.
I debugged this for hours and could not find anything.
At some point, I just copied the full raw text content that the clerk had written into one of those files out of the database into Sublime Text and I suddenly saw a small box appear between two characters of one word.
It turned out that this clerk had created a Word document with text templates.
Some of those texts were copied (at least partially) from other documents or websites.
Apparently, either something went wrong while copying some text, or there was some control-character embedded for whatever reason in that text.
I don't even remember what we did to prevent this from happening anymore, but one single "invisible" character can really cause a lot of trouble.

Another point is of course if you have strange side-effects just by combining specific software.
Back in the day when Crysis 1 was new and popular, I was a little involved in the modding-scene.
At some point, my CryEngine editor would refuse to start up.
I reinstalled it and tried to debug it, but I could not find anything myself.
So I turned to the forums and found a thread where a small group of people had the exact same problem. We all shared our setups and - basically by accident - found out that we all had Wacom tablets plugged-in to our computers.
I don't remember if it was enough to unplug the devices or if we also had to uninstall the Wacom drivers, but one of those things fixed the issue and we could all continue to build beautiful maps in the CryEngine.

Btw, I am now suddenly constantly aware of my Grammarly plugin ...
Honestly, given the crappy direction that windows is taking, I'm ready to abandon it the minute apple can run games seamlessly. And I doubt I'm the only one.
I feel like naming something "seamless" is not dissimilar to calling the Titanic unsinkable.
How do people who don't want anybody to "trust the experts" plan to live in a world without experts?

To be a bit less snarky, basic education on philosophy and science should make it clear what are the disclaimers implicitly assumed when trusting the experts.
You have your facts wrong. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/myste...
Galaxies themselves aren't expanding, they're gravitationally bound. Galaxies are moving apart from one another, however.

The issue is that not all galaxies are moving away from us. The ones that are closer to us have a lot of peculiar velocity [1]. This means they can be moving toward us or moving tangentially to us or any other direction. If we want to characterize the expansion of the universe as a whole, we need to account for this in our models. It turns out to be a lot more complicated than we previously thought.

The crisis in cosmology (aka the Hubble tension [2]) is that our two means of characterizing the expansion of the universe, models of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and measurements on the cosmic distance ladder using standard candles (Cepheid variables [3] for up-close measurements, Type Ia supernovae [4] for more distant measurements) disagree with one another, and that disagreement is getting worse, not converging.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peculiar_velocity#Cosmology

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law#Hubble_tension

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_Ia_supernova
can you provide sources?
Drupal is a great CMS framework. With Drupal and a capable development team, you can use Drupal to build an awesome CMS, and if you want to, also an awesome website on top of the CMS.

Drupal is not a great piece of software to try to use out of the box as both a CMS and a website front-end. Drupal doesn't have the same kind of ecosystem as WordPress. Many of the best themes and modules are really there to assist your development of your own features, as opposed to being plug-and-play solutions.
The numbers are so crazy that it's easier to understand the insane daily slaughter numbers which are in the millions: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-...

Another mind blowing stat is that of all the mammals in the world, wild mammals only make up 4% of the mammal biomass, humans 34%, and livestock (farmed animals) 62%. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
I don't want to waste a significant portion of my day commuting in a car, and I don't want to pay out the nose to live close to work.

People would be more amenable to offices if they were driving to downtowns that aren't paved over car-hells with 30% of the land being taken up for car storage.

We built our cities wrong. People have had enough.
Electric is not hard. A few people in the village become an electrician and just do it. I learned watching my dad doing various things in the house, and now my kids are learning watching me. My dad learned from his dad, who just read some books on the subject. (I also read books on the subject). Sure electric can get complex, but what happens in a house is covered by a few charts (what size wire to use, how many wires fit in a box...) and some logical thinking.
> The tight integration of hardware and software is not only better for the products and consumer experience, it also means higher margins for the company

And yet they feel like they need to price gouge and charge a shit load of money and on top of it do basically the absolute minimum software testing and constantly with almost every update release a TON of new bugs they should have gotten rid of during testing.

You have too much respect for a company that USED to make great products and takes advantage of customers. Apple and Timmy are probably laughing at you.
500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)
This article is from January 2023 but saw this excerpt making the rounds on twitter about computer scientists trying to teach cops binary search

> Bike 8 was stolen from a station cycle rack, where I had parked it directly beneath a camera. This time, I thought, we have them. Triumphantly I went to the police. “Look!” I said. “You will be able to see them.” They refused to look at the footage unless I could narrow it down to a window shorter than a few hours. This is, I discovered, a common response.

> Afterwards I found a chatroom thread among Cambridge computer scientists, one of whom had also been told that unless he could pin down the moment of theft no one would look at the footage. He said he had tried to explain sorting algorithms to police — he was a computer scientist, after all.

> You don’t watch the whole thing, he said. You use a binary search. You fast forward to halfway, see if the bike is there and, if it is, zoom to three quarters of the way through. But if it wasn’t there at the halfway mark, you rewind to a quarter of the way through. It’s very quick. In fact, he had pointed out, if the CCTV footage stretched back to the dawn of humanity it would probably have only taken an hour to find the moment of theft. This argument didn’t go down well.

> I made a (slightly more diplomatic) nuisance of myself and they eventually looked at the footage. The policewoman I dealt with was lovely about it, but in the end the image wasn’t clear. Maybe they were right not to bother.
Powell calls talk of cutting rates 'premature' and says more hikes could happen
Maduro (Venezuela) sees what Putin is doing, and how the West is maybe half supporting Ukraine, and sees an opportunity to do the same to their neighbor (Guyana), expecting the West will probably do nothing. It's remarkably similar in "justification" because "we want this land we owned 100s of years ago back, forget about the prior agreements and the borders that have long been in place.

tl;dr it's really about the oil, which does make it different from Putin trying to feel like a big man
I would resepectfully disagree. I think this depends on the engineers you are working with.

I have been remote since 2014, so far before the pandemic changed all of this. I also have 25+ years of experience.

I am able to handle architecting a major enterprise project fully remotely. The entire tech stack, writing code, handling pull requests, highly complex issues requiring communication between myself and other people to ensure everything goes smoothly.

It does.

We release updates on a weekly cadance and everything thus far (2 years with this current project) has been smooth sailing. And the number of issues, new features, and requests addressed in each update is significant.

It can be done remotely, without issue. I spent over a decade in the office, with an hour commute each way.

I am never doing that again.
the site makes it pretty clear in multiple places that they're talking about "added" or "hallucinated" toxicity. maybe your culture war outrage is misplaced?
Yes as well as some BMW’s, McLarens, at least some of the electric Hyundai/Kias and I’m sure a bunch of others I’m not as familiar with.

The shock over it on HN is just because of how few people here work in automotive.
Turbo Pascal had a large influence on me back in the late 1980s. It was, to me, the premier way of writing DOS applications.

I also liked JPI Modula 2: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/TopSpeed_Modula-2

However, Turbo-C rocked and allowed me to write code for DOS and Macintosh (MPW).
You should check out Draw Things on macOS. It works well enough for SDXL on 8GiB macOS devices.
We didn't put another one together this year. But I'm hoping to do another data game sometime in Q1--ideas are brewing.
keep jerking off to cartoons weirdo
that's interesting.

my example data did include the edge case that caught me out in part two, but didn't include it in a way that broke my first pass at a solution.

funny piece is it didn't click until i submitted a wrong answer, read my code for a few minutes, added a bunch of logging, and then saw the trick. i looked back at the given example and it was right there the whole time, just not called out explicitly.
VMWare has the best virtual graphics performance IMHO. Hyper-V or Virtualbox is just painful in comparison. Until graphic vendors support partitioning GPU resources to allow sharing the main GPU to a VM using passthrough, it will likely remain one of the best options for many.
It requires quite a bit of preprocessing. I've only tried GCP's solution which it's better in my experience
> China gets 36% of its food source from this region.

Doubtful on that one.
I'm not taking issue with the other recommendations, they're excellent, just adding this one, from the non-humorous hard sci-fi side of Lem: The Invincible. Really short, really tight, some very hard sci-fi concepts being explored, still works as a story. A bit spooky.
>Even if you wanted to use logarithmic scaling, half of 4.4 * 10^26 would 4.4 * 10^13

That's the geometric mean of 4.4 * 10^26 and 1. He took the geometric mean of the radius of the observable universe and the Planck length. That's a reasonable way to define "halfway" across orders of magnitude
Everything questioning Israel is getting flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475473
> Run your code on the example input.

> Seriously -- make extra super 100% sure your code works on the example input. Write some boilerplate code to make it easy to switch between your input and the example input.

> Test your code as you go. Printing the output of intermediate steps to the console is a great way of catching bugs.

Honestly, just set up whatever you need to be able to write unit tests in your lang of choice. These problems are _so_ amenable to a piecewise approach driven by tests. I'm not like a big TDD advocate or anything, but these problems are great practice for that style of coding - it's just so damn useful to know each of your small pieces of code work.

Parameterized tests are amazing for AoC, because you can get a handful of test cases basically for free from the puzzle description. If your code doesn't work once you've got all the samples working, you either have some weird edge case that you didn't consider, or you've got one of the brute-force killer puzzles.

Even for today's, I wound up with 43 different test cases. The vast majority of those are from the puzzle text, and adding them didn't really make the puzzle take that much longer. (Obviously, if you're optimizing for solve speed, you probably wouldn't bother with this approach, but I'm not).

https://github.com/epiccoleman/advent_of_code_ex/blob/master...

Another thing of note is that every puzzle basically operates on a list of strings, so it's pretty easy to genericize certain parts of the work of solving puzzles. I have a script which generates a module for the solution in my repo, with separate functions for each part that receive the input, and a test file that has tests for part 1 and part 2. The tests read the input file and pass it as a list of strings (lines) to the part_1 and part_2 functions, so that all the boilerplate is already done, and I get to just focus on writing the guts of the part_1 and part_2 functions (which usually get broken down into several other functions, which can also be tested individually).
People who went with posh tools like regexpen were stumped, people with an C64 BASIC inspired for loop had little difficulty. The problem was optimized for the unga bunga
This does vary across countries, and fields. In UK I was a bit surprised that you're not expected to publish at all before post-doc.

In Finland usually at least 3 peer reviewed (first author) papers are required for a PhD in my field (cognitive science). In some fields (e.g. many engineering fields) even more. And PhD grants are typically for three to four years.

It is ridiculous and the paper quality is what you'd expect.
Yeah, Fooocus is much better if you are going for the best local generated result. Lvmin puts all his energy into making beautiful pictures. Also it is GPL licensed, which is a + in my book.
I'd say if no one can afford to, or knows how to replicate the thing you did. What point is there in it? And only because such an approach has downsides it's not clear it means the overall benefit of lessening the replication crisis and forcing scientists to provide enough information their work can be replicated at all would be a huge win. Based on people like https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience experience, 9 out of 10 times there is some crucial information missing in the papers they are trying to replicate.
Those are fair critiques. Thanks for the response.