skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hobby is model engineering and it's quite stressful when you're hours or days into a part and every new operation risks ruining it. Not only have you wasted that time and effort but also the material, and if you stuff it up you get to do it all again for no benefit at all - it's all cost and loss. Read a drawing wrong? Another chunk of time & metal wasted. It's a frustrating and expensive hobby.

That's what I think is so great about software - almost nothing is irretrievable and even if it is it's not that big a deal to redo, other than for whoever paid you to make those mistakes!

But software is also ephemeral and for all but a few of us it's hard to point to something and say 'I made that, it's works, and it's really cool' and have other people get it. When you drive off on the steam loco you just finished it has a bit more impact! Even my teenage son said "it's pretty cool to build something that moves under its own power".
Modern websites are simply enormous and slow.
Highly province dependent

Quebec has 20%+ of its population with no family doctor while Ontario has 10%

Here in metro Vancouver it is recently very easy to get a doctor, but on Vancouver Island (same province) it is very hard
It's encouraging to see the milestone achieved of being able to buy a strong desktop computer based on RISC-V as an off-the-shelf product. Maybe there is a future for FOSS-based CPUs :-)

Anyway, I like their cheese grater idea:

https://milkv.io/assets/images/workstation-425fa8f62d1320fdf...
I have been WFH for over a decade now.

Before that I survived the first dot com bubble, 2008 housing crisis. I have been through rounds of layoffs and all sorts of outsourcing projects.

At some point it all boils down to numbers. Why hire a Bay Area resource when a Kansas one is cheaper? Why hire a Kansas one when someone globally is cheaper?

I think that the only reason we haven't seen deeper cuts and more tech layoffs and outsourcing is that everyone is skittish about sending work to Eastern Europe. With that venue cut off the remaining tech markets remain higher priced and look a lot less appealing.

There are reasons to be in an office sometimes. Planing, team building, those exchanges around the coffee pot. The random engineer who prarridogs and spouts an answer to the problem you're discussing with someone else. Pick your poison, a week every month, a month every quarter get that team building and face time in, pick up the value it has and then go back to WFH and zero commute... The answer isn't no office its "hot desk when it matters"!
Article by the same author as the submitted one on this: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fields-of-fortune-the-cr...
No, I mean if you order from most to least popular it's always the same. Did they pick a random artist then sort the artist's tracks by popularity?
Now, if employees were to be paid 1.5x (+vacation) to work on weekends, then company would prioritize the quality and resiliency enough that Friday deployments won't become an issue

Yet here we are, ignoring the elephant in the room.
>My friend / boxing coach lives in the favelas in Rio, he has a home. There’s no one sleeping on the streets / tent cities like in Vancouver.

Not surprised about there being fewer tent cities in Rio. From the news articles I've read, it looks like the police are very active in raiding them and dismantling them, using tear gas and riot based tactics.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-police-evict-h...

I was in Dubai and they have basically no homelessness, but you don't want to know how they accomplish it.
Many shoes have hard, sharp parts that could damage the slide, even to the point of complete deflation. There is no time to assess whose shoes would be safe and whose not, so the blanket rule is "no shoes".
Hey, your recent submissions look totally dominated by political/ideological/flamewar topics. That's not what HN is for, so could you please stop? We have to rate-limit accounts that do this, and/or take away their submission privileges.

An occasional submission on such topics is fine, especially if the article provides a basis for substantive discussion. But it shouldn't be anywhere close to the majority of what you're posting.

You've been a good HN contributor over the years, so I wanted to let you know.
Fantastic write up, and amazing testament to the engineering in the A380. It’s extremely impressive that the pilots were able to safely land the plane with such extensive damage to so many separate systems.
I don’t think this take is complete unless you include complexity and the risk of unintended consequences. We pretty much understand roofing, but software doesn’t struggle with the chains of the physical world and the base case can be significantly more complex.
Call me a techno-pessimist, but we humans have a way of building imperfect machines regardless of theoretical perfectibility. Boeing 737 max?
Good luck using AI to generate images from the brains of people who don’t have a “minds eye” AKA aphantasia
Starling LM 7B Alpha Surpasses Claude 2, Nears Parity with GPT-4 Turbo
Absolutely, but one is a trifling concern compared to the other. Yet the trifling concern gets the media attention.
"Everyone: remain calm. Our mobile cockroach nest has just arrived and we'll be sending in the swarm, just as soon we can get them geared up and briefed. On the off-chance anyone isn't pinned and can still move their legs, please don't step on them!"
"still(s) of the mind"
They did blow up 2 Shuttles out of 5, both crewed, so maybe they didn't get the all the kinks worked out in the first place.

Plenty of rockets did blow up on the launchpad or at various stages.

For example, the Titan I failed 17 launches, the Titan 2 failed 10 (and one exploded in the silo, while attached to a nuclear warhead), and the Atlas E/F failed 9. Even more recently, into the 90s and 00s, the Atlas I lost 3 and every Ariane variant has lost at least one.

I'm hardly a Musk fan, but although SpaceX seems particularly gung-ho about testing things they know aren't finished in order to iterate the design faster, the results after that are pretty good so far: Falcon 9 is 281 "real" flights for 2 failures, plus that one that went bang on the launchpad.

It's not 100% success rate like the Saturns, but out of 21 launches between the 1B and V, there were several near misses there. And probably quite a few A-4/V2s were harmed in the making of them and their predecessors too!
And not leaving as fast as they are entering, a number that increases every year. That's just a non-news based on some random variations that's on a topic that can make some people emotional so they click...
>"At least in my personal experience it's stabilized"

It has stabilized at the level the average Joe could never afford. Having a house was once relatively easy attainable goal. So we fucked it up.
I bought from these guys before. I upgraded a couple of classic iPods with new batteries and flash memory. So nice to have 500 gigs of storage and the ability to listen to true stereo sound. Would recommend buying from these people.
> Just another reminder of the absolutely terrible state of our industry. Imagine anyone in any other industry taking this ridiculous stand. "Oh we don't fit roofs on Fridays, in case our roof leaks and we need to bring the roofer back in on the weekend"

Agreed, the industry operates on a much more janky level than many other industries, but this syndrome is by no means limited to the field of software development.

If your roof is functioning perfectly well, fixing a non-critical problem on a Friday is less safe than fixing it on a weekday because if something goes wrong the next day, it's better that the "next day" be a day when the roofers are available. All other things being equal, I'd say fix your roof on a Monday so you have the next four days to call the roofers back if things go wrong.

It's the same reason you're safer booking an early flight, or scheduling surgery early in the day: if something goes wrong, at least you will get bumped to later in the day. If your originally scheduled flight or surgery was later, and something goes wrong, you will likely get bumped to the next day.

Obviously this rule doesn't apply to emergency fixes: if your roof has a bad leak, and it's a Friday, and you know it's going to rain on Saturday, you're still better off having it fixed on Friday.
Not just high heels, but also many boots have sharp protrusions (e.g. lace hooks on some hiking boots and work boots, metal decorations on goth and cowboy boots)
The problem with EGS isn’t really the lack of features (though it does lack many), it’s that the interface is poorly designed as well as being sluggish and miserable to use.
I was countering the idea that just because it's value fluctuates in the short/medium-term (natural for anything growing in value) doesn't prevent it from being an escape hatch from the continuous devaluation of fiat across the world. It absolutely is, _providing_ you are willing to store your wealth for at least 4 years (i.e. across a full halving cycle).

I said nothing about it being a viable currency.
But every innate characteristic encoded into our DNA is a social construct, and if you disagree you’re a nazi! Checkmate?
Lol, you do realize that Palestinians also migrated to that area, no one magically appeared there - humanity didn't start there.

And btw
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891 - Jews are not any less indigenous than Palestinians.

Palestinians as a people and identity only started to exist in the 1900s - please learn your history, these are basic facts.
In the past they’ve not hesitated to reduce customizability when doing so was perceived to bring some benefit to ease of development.

Aside from that I just think it’s a good idea to push for implementation of basic functionality like hiding bars that don’t pair nicely with popular vertical tab extensions. I shouldn’t need to resort to usercss mods to do something that simple.
> To be clear, this company paid me an absurd amount of money to come in and help them reorganize. They paid me so much that afterwards I was able to take a one year vacation, to sit out the rest of the pandemic and focus on personal projects.

The real problem here is that the CEO and CTO were unable to marshal the resources of the company to address core business problems and they consequently wasted a lot of money on an outside consultant.

That's low competence. The CEO and the CTO should both be sacked.
Unlikely with unemployment this low
US and Canada have a different PISA selection methodology. Canada excludes First Nation/Native heavy provinces, territories, and schools in their PISA assessment [0], while the US equivalent tries to take a cross sample across all races and social classes [1].

It's useless doing a national level comparison of PISA scores when each countries uses a different methodology to select students.

[0] - https://www.cmec.ca/251/Programme_for_International_Student_...

[1] - https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/2018technotes.asp
John Casey, Alasdair MacIntyre, and others famously claim that “pagan” classical Greek ethical thought recognises no virtue of humility.

The claim is true in the lexical sense that the pagan Greeks’ lists of virtues did not include a single virtue whose name is correctly translatable by the English word “humility”.

However, their ethical world was richly charged with what we today have no difficulty recognising as humility-thoughts and humility-motivations, even if these were not collected together under a single virtue, but distributed instead among at least three other virtues—sophrosyne, dikaiosyne, and hosiotes.

Humility among the ancient Greeks in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/97813511...

Our two most important sources for pagan Greek ethics are of course Plato and Aristotle.

But we can and should look beyond them, to Homer, Aeschylus, and Sophocles for example, to get the full picture of the importance to the pagan Greeks of ethical thoughts about the smallness of humans like us in a big and alien world, and the consequent need for restraint and pity, and for the avoidance of hybris (outrage against the natural order of the world).
The intelligent design crowd knows it needs more than Ark Encounter to sell religion by using science against itself to "find" the ghost in the machine.
This looks cool and seems about on par with Tcl/Tk w.r.t. rapid GUI prototyping.
The effect is so strong that 3 of those songs become my top 5 listened despite me not actually wanting to listen to those songs THAT much
There seems to be more focus on accessibility in Microsoft products since Satya took over as CEO. For instance, now there's a section dubbed "Accessibility" in the bottom bar in MS Office.
inb4 Cockroaches aren't real

(Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insectothopter)
I've been a manager for quite some time. This person shouldn't be in software management.

This is just how a lot of software engineers talk. They are factual, direct, and speak their mind from their perspective with no regards to your feelings. If you can't handle this, you shouldn't work on the industry in any function required to work with SWEs
1. Remember that "bad" GPU dies are still usable; they disable the defective cores.

2. If CoWoS is the bottleneck the rest doesn't matter as much.
I don't buy it. Quantum fields aren't magical, they follow rules the same as EM fields and chemical interactions. If N physical domains aren't sufficient to explain qualia, how will N+1 change things?
I don't think Bitmanip is special but pretty much required for reaching feature-parity with ARM and x86 so that you could start comparing them. RISC-V is otherwise quite spartan, which might be desirable for embedded MCUs, but for application-class processors you'd want more.
For example, an indexed load which on ARM and x86 is one instruction could on RISC-V require four dependent instructions without Bitmanip and two with.

The vector extension is RISC-V's closest counterpart to SSE/AVX, although it is not used for scalar floating-point.

BTW, the RISC-V foundation has published official Application Profiles for application-class processors. Those are probably going to be baseline for binary distributions in the future — they include Bitmanip and more. The RVA23 profile has Vector.
Google's requirements for Android (with Google services) will also include vector cryptography.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a 'strong desktop'—it has many limitations, and is more geared towards those working on RISC-V enablement, or hackers/tinkerers who want to learn more about RISC-V on a decent little workstation.

It's performance is abysmal compared to even tiny low power desktops, and it does have a good deal of IO, but a lot of it is severely constricted by the slow-ish CPU cores, and lackluster (so far) software support.

This is a machine that's more meant to get more people into the ecosystem, to help so future hardware can be that 'strong' RISC-V desktop.

Linus Tech Tips recently did a video on this box (I think last week?), and it has a lot of good demonstrations.
Israel expanded in 1948 after a defensive war, which makes the conquest legal (same as 1967)

I agree about the west bank, I think Israel should remove the settlements.

I don't see what Muslim history in the are has to do with anything. Jews are indigenous to the area, border fights exist, and the current situation exist. Israel was founded and expanded after a few successful defensive wars - you just need to accept that as a fact.

Now we can be pragmatic and try a two state solution or we can continue arguing about history.

Palestinians can fight for what they view as justice for generations and get nowhere except more suffering, or they can decide that the west bank and Gaza are enough. It's their call. I know what I would decide
Creating regulations for hypothetical scenarios and possibilities you can invent in your head is silly.

Give me real examples of IRL harm. And most importantly give me real examples of how exactly state intervention directly solves those problems.

Otherwise this is just a philosophical debate mixed with prepper type fear of what could happen.
This story neglects to mention one of the biggest factors likely driving productivity: remote work expands the labor pool available to employers, thus making it easier for employers to find the right match for the job at the right price.

Before the pandemic, employers were mainly limited to employing workers within approximately an hour commute. With this restriction loosened, they can now more easily found workers better suited (i.e more productive) for a role than the previously available local options.

Over time, this will work to increase aggregate wages, as productivity increases are the main driver of wages.
High-speed rail projects get $6B in federal funding
Are you seriously accusing Admiral Cloudberg of writing articles with ChatGPT?
From the article:

> Nvidia needs 65% more 5nm wafers to produce the same number of GPUs. Basically all else being equal and scaled, AMD has 65% more capacity than Nvidia, when it comes to the most critical part of the production.

> 5nm dies are the most expensive part of the whole solution, meaning there is also a 65% pricing advantage (though some of this advantage is offset by more complex packaging and other cheaper dies that go into mi300x as well as more HBM chips).
When you control the devices to which you're deploying to, there is little reason why you wouldn't deploy as often as you can. It helps a great deal in isolating bugs to keep your changesets small, and you can either do that by slowing down the product iterations (and getting poor feedback from each), or releasing more often. This is ubiquitous with web development.

Weekly releases (or slower) is appropriate when you rely on users to update their software or firmware. Most mobile app development does this.
Perfluorohexyloctane: Do we need a PFAS for treatment of Dry Eye Disease?
two cents: any situation involving billions/trillions of variables looks pretty pseudo-sciency because you can't reduce it down or isolate components very well. People can do studies, add things and take things out, and sort of hint at things and explain things sort of. It is what it is.
I am homeless. America didn’t cause my homelessness, people did. You didn’t cause my homelessness, well, maybe you didn’t or probably you didn’t.

You see, I judge people, not religions, or philosophies or ways of life. Because a religion can hold a varying type of people, even people who can act in ways that are 180° Different from what a religion states.

Christians follow Christ. To follow Christ to act like Christ. It’s that simple.
given your impeccable taste, what are your top artists/albums of 2023?
>What GPT3.5 does is not quite playing chess but creating realistic chess moves that a human might make.

No it's playing games. And if you're not at about the level I spoke of, you will lose repeatedly over whatever number or stretch of games you imagine.

https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_gpt_eval

3.5 Instruct (different model from regular 3.5 that can't play) can play chess. There's no trick. Any other framing seems like a meaningless distinction.

The goal is to model the chess games and there's no better way to do that than to learn to play the game.

>all it needs is grounding (by feeding it the current board state)

The Model is already constructing a board state to play the game.

https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability/othell...

>agency (RF to reward the model for winning games)

Predict the next token loss is already rewarding models for winning when the side they are predicting wins.

And when the preceeding text says x side wins and it's playing as x side then the loss is rewarding it to do everything it can to win.

I agree different goals and primary rewards led to this ability to play and with it , slight manifestations(GPT can probably modulate level of play better than any other machine or human) but it is nonetheless playing.
It's box-ticking accessibility, not truely increasing accessibility. Ask yourself how much of the MS site is usable in a text-only browser, or even one that merely has JS turned off.
I am an Australian citizen actually. Moved from Australia to Canada few years back.

Australia has too many drawback and none of them are weather or socioeconomic.
I think Factorio is a better example; items still exist when you don't see them on the map, and assuming you have a somewhat optimized base the performance is very acceptable until you are around 383k items/s being created and destroyed (50kSPM in the in-game parlance).
What LLM is best for giving it your entire code base and database structure and then using it to help with your project?
> which later contributed to the modern concept of separation of church and state

I call this "jumping to conclusions". And I find this idea quite uneducated in history, frankly.

There's a time lapse of almost 1200 years between the fall of Rome and the formulation of separation of church and state.

More to the point, prior to this concept there was the Reformation and the savage and brutal religious wars in Europe during 16th and 17th century.

Separation of church and state came to solve a practical political problem: insane wars.

Yes, there were wars in the Muslim world too. Even some religious ones (Shia vs. Sunis). But, unlike the Europeans, Muslins never cared to create a philosophical theory of the state (perhaps because Gutenberg wasn't Muslim).
Baserow – Open-source Airtable Alternative
Thank you for bringing your expertise here. I was wondering if you could give some insight on something that occurred to me while reading this: at first sight, transferring fuel to the leaking tanks might seem to be a substitute for the failure of the fuel jettison system, while also doing something about the increasing lateral imbalance.
You’re mixing up two different things.

The question we were talking about above is: What caused the Arabs to attack Israel the day after the UN Declaration? Note: it was not just Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, it was Arabs in Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, and Iraq. All of them attacked Israel. Why? It wasn’t Arabs in Palestine being forced to leave their land. That wasn’t part of the partition plan, and hadn’t happened yet. The Israeli Declaration of Independence specifically asks Arabs to stay and become equal citizens.

As to why Israel hasn’t allowed Arabs who fled to return, I suspect it’s because the Arab countries tried to kill Israel in its crib, and then expelled a million Jews from their own lands.
Huh. That sounded wrong so I googled it. I thought it was all shoes.

You’re right. What I said above used to be true. That seems to have been questioned in the 90s and in 2000 the FAA finalized a rule changing it.

The current recommendation (https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_safe/information) say you can keep your shoes on but to remove high heels, as you said.

A bit of googling says it was changed because of passengers injuring their feet on the terrain/debris after crashes. Additionally modern slides are much tougher than they used to be and won’t tear from shoes and probably even high heels.

But I bet high heels are probably not a smart thing to be wearing on possibly uneven debris covered terrain in an emergency when you need to move fast and safely.

Learn something new every day.
Signing firmware is step 1 in raising the bar for attackers, since most flash drives have unsigned firmware which presents little barrier to attacks.

If you could recommend other commercial flash drives with signed firmware, they could be compared for security vulnerabilities.

Some models have FIPS-certified encryption, so they may have customers who are high-value targets, motivating attacks/testing for security vulnerabilities.
Towards the end of the Roman Empire, the highest paid people were gladiators