skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen QA/QE greatness and it was similar to how you describe. A different chain of command for deciding if releases are certified for production. Different incentive structures as well.

Not to mention, at one recent employer, the QE team wrote an enormous amount of code to perform their tests - It was more LOC than the modules being tested/certified.
They are all artists though regardless. They are actually doing the work and doing the actual painting and require painting skills. What they are painting it itself or where they got the idea from is irrelevant. They painted it, as in the physical work and talent to achieve the result.

In the case of AI Art, there is no point in the process where you are participating in the creation of the actual initial image unless the actual source/model is based of your own artwork that you created. What you are really doing with AI art is generating a concept based on a request you make (the prompt), and then modifying the result with other tools until you get what you want (inpainting masks, animate it, etc.).

The equivalent of this would be something of like a patron/commissioner and something like a sound engineer. You aren't creating the source material, but you can ask an AI art generator to create something based on your request, and then modify and tune it afterwards to your liking. It is more of like a producer/sound engineer/post-production role.
Why should we make that assumption? We all have phones that are expensive and it happened in short order.
Maybe it's time to give it another try, then. It was about two years ago that I gave it a test ride.
Methane can be detected by optical spectrometry. Since methane is not only a pollutant but also a very potent green house gas (30x stronger than CO2), efforts are made to map the sources from the air and space [0-2].

Edit: I found the FLIR camera shown in the video. It is made for gas emission analysis: https://www.flir.com/products/flir-g-series/

[0]https://www.optica-opn.org/home/newsroom/2022/february/mappi...

[1]https://www.methanesat.org

[2]https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mission-excels-at-spottin...
Agreed. An example of 2 is colchicine, thought to be the oldest drug still in use. It's an ancient Greek flower remedy, and the standard treatment for gout flares. It has long been known to be very effective, and also toxic. It was only in the past couple of decades that a formal trial was done in the USA, based on some legislation which gave the company a monopoly on the drug - which is now fantastically expensive in the USA. Elsewhere it costs pennies.
If they didn't know about it they do now. Also, Lynel hooves most likely.
It's also possible that they updated the code but didn't push the changes to the repo, which I guess is better than running 15 month old code, but also is kinda suspicious because they're not honoring their commitment to open source.
Which somehow makes it even worse for me, now I suspect it's some sort of honeypot.
My fantasy league moved from sleeper to espn, but espn didn't offer the same weekly accolades, so I made my own using ESPNs api. https://fantasy.chubb.dev
i never felt that devops and qa were at odds the way that this article suggests they are. in my experience nobody wants to or knows how to do run QA correctly so the org shoots themselves in the foot and does one of two things:

1. hire a contractor who just has no idea about anything.
2. hire someone and place them outside the engineering org (on the support team as a "support engineer" seems pretty popular) where they have little to no interaction with either engineering _or_ customers and expect them to work miracles.
That assumption derives from the assumption that capital is the only resource worth fighting for, and also assumptions about what forms capital can take.

This article is an example of land capital (prime fishing spots) being useful for a non-agricultural society.
A good QA person is to a software developer as a good editor is to a writer. Both take a look at your hard work and critique it ruthlessly. Annoying as hell when it's happening, but in my experience well worth it because the end result is much higher quality.

I might just be too old, but I remember when QA people didn't typically write tests, they manually tested your code and did all those weird things you were really hoping users wouldn't do. They found issues and bugs that would be hard to universally catch with tests.

Now we hoist QA on the user.

Working with younger devs I find that the very concept of QA is something that is increasingly foreign to them. It's astounding how often I've seen bugs get to prod and ask "how did it work when you play around with it locally?" only to get strange looks: it passed the type checker, why not ship it?

Programmer efficiency these days is measured in PRs/minute, so introducing bugs is not only not a problem, but great because it means you have another PR you can push in a few days once someone else notices it in prod! QA would have ruined this.
Which LLMs have you tried?
Postfix 25 years old today
Target audience: Beginners who have some familiarity of Tekken and have already chosen a character to specialize in.

It's not meant for high levels of play. We have to start somewhere. I think it is perfectly a suitable to help beginners think about +/- frames or other situational info before getting into matchup specific strats.

I always go at it roughly like this: Figure out what buttons to use in what situations, get executions of special moves down first, learn a few bnbs/block strings (and other offensive strategies), oki situations, then once I really master the character do I worry about match up specifics, mind games, etc.
data is an expense then, with this logic...
The first article I saw on this noted that the local authorities had to yell at people to stop picking up dead fish to take home and eat.
> At least, I hope they were satellites!

Could be both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...
Looks kind of inactive.

https://github.com/predibase/lorax

Does a similar thing and seems more active.
Nice! Now add about:config to stable releases
> Not saying it’s not likely the two are linked

Of course they are unlikely to be linked. The water that's being released is monitored and safe to drink.
> Non-gig contract workers charge more and so are expected to pay that all by themselves. Often they do not, but usually they are at level where they should be able to do it.

Sounds like we should levy that as a tax on all contract workers rather than only reclassifying certain types of contractors.
The type of testing QA should be doing is different from the type of testing that devs should be doing. One doesn't substitute for the other.
not saying this is you, but i get so tired of feedback about ai-generated images along the lines of "you're taking money away from local artists"

it's not one or the other. in my experience it's a decision of "no images" vs "ai images".

in this case, probably "no images" would've been better for the reading experience. but there was never any illustrator getting paid
I hired a great QA Developer a few months ago. They are building out integration, performance and end to end tests; finding bugs, speeding up releases and generally making things better.

I get asked, every week, if they are contributing and what are they contributing.

It's exhausting, so I can't imagine what it feels like to actually BE in QA.
> a failure to understand the constraints of the medium & the artists' accommodations to them as itself part of the art. "We sharpened Monet's paintings into full detail" type of thing

re-doing a prior work using newer technology is itself a kind of art :)
FunSearch is more along the lines of how I wanted AI to evolve over the last 20 years or so, after reading Genetic Programming III by John Koza:

https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Programming-III-Darwinian-Inv...

I wanted to use genetic algorithms (GAs) to come up with random programs run against unit tests that specify expected behavior. It sounds like they are doing something similar, finding potential solutions with neural nets (NNs)/LLMs and grading them against an "evaluator" (wish they added more details about how it works).

What the article didn't mention is that above a certain level of complexity, this method begins to pull away from human supervisors to create and verify programs faster than we can review them. When they were playing with Lisp GAs back in the 1990s on Beowulf clusters, they found that the technique works extremely well, but it's difficult to tune GA parameters to evolve the best solutions reliably in the fastest time. So volume III was about re-running those experiments multiple times on clusters about 1000 times faster in the 2000s, to find correlations between parameters and outcomes. Something similar was also needed to understand how tuning NN parameters affects outcomes, but I haven't seen a good paper on whether that relationship is understood any better today.

Also GPU/SIMD hardware isn't good for GAs, since video cards are designed to run one wide algorithm instead of thousands or millions of narrow ones with subtle differences like on a cluster of CPUs. So I feel that progress on that front has been hindered for about 25 years, since I first started looking at programming FPGAs to run thousands of MIPS cores (probably ARM or RISC-V today). In other words, the perpetual AI winter we've been in for 50 years is more about poor hardware decisions and socioeconomic factors than technical challenges with the algorithms.

So I'm certain now that some combination of these old approaches will deliver AGI within 10 years. I'm just frustrated with myself that I never got to participate, since I spent all of those years writing CRUD apps or otherwise hustling in the struggle to make rent, with nothing to show for it except a roof over my head. And I'm disappointed in the wealthy for hoarding their money and not seeing the potential of the countless millions of other people as smart as they are who are trapped in wage slavery. IMHO this is the great problem of our time (explained by the pumping gas scene in Fight Club), although since AGI is the last problem in computer science, we might even see wealth inequality defeated sometime in the 2030s. Either that or we become Borg!
Unattractive funds managers outperform funds with attractive managers by over 2%
This tweet is wrong. You can still deduct R&D, you just have to amortize "R&D costs over five years, instead of deducting them immediately each year" [1][2]. It's a reduction of the deduction's benefit, not an elimination. And it happened last year.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/research-deve...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-23-11.pdf
SYCL isn't based on OpenCL.

SYCL (SYCL-2020 spec) supports multiple backends, including Nvidia's CUDA, AMD's HIP, OpenCL, Intel's Level-zero, and also running on the host CPU. This can either be done with Intel's DPC++ w/ Codeplay's plugins, or using AdaptiveCpp (aka. hipSYCL, aka openSYCL). OpenCL is just another backend.

It is also a very long way from OpenCL C++. The code is a single C++ file, and you don't need to write any special kernel language. The vast majority of SYCL is just C++, so -if you avoid a couple of features- you can use SYCL in library-only form without even any special compiler! This is possible for instance with AdaptiveCpp.
The maintainers of OpnSense are able to make their own determination about the severity of the issue and the method of the fix. They gently reminded the user of their process. Ubiquiti, as a provider of a paid security product, has a much larger, immediate, and different responsibility to fix the issue and communicate clearly with their clients.

I think that everyone is entitled their own intentions, but they are also responsible to communicate those intentions effectively. If the intention was to not be "some Karen complaining" it wasn't clearly communicated that way.
It's not just pollution on data side, but it is also messing with actual usage.

I was making decent progress on Rust and enjoying that, but have reverted back to more python since that is the lingua franca of AI.

So how do we rank that? Rust because of technical merit or python because real world? That's a distinct you won't catch via stack overflow scraping
+1 to this. My whole career has been spent with QA teams that behave this way.

I worked at a place with a 10 year old legacy product and a 10,000 test case spreadsheet of each manual action a QA tester must perform on that product to greenlight any individual change. Obviously this lead to huge wait times to get anything deployed. Also was pretty amusing to catch all the bugs in production that their exhaustive spreadsheet totally overlooked. Almost as though it did not have value in the first place.
I think that's a compensation problem more than anything else. I've known some QA folks who enjoyed QA and would have stayed in that role if they could have justified the massive differential in comp between QA and SWE or product development. If we valued QA and compensated it at the same level we do those other roles then there would be a lot less difficulty retaining good QA folks.
Not just that. When the general public uses LLMs more, this will calcify markets for Everything. Try bootstrapping any new product, store, idea, art - you name it.
Why does progress on one goal need be mutually exclusive towards progressing others?
"As with so much in AI, people are left with nothing more than “vibes” to go on. And the vibes are bad."

word
Tesla Model Y, according to website, starts at 70k CAD.

Toyota RAV4, according to website, starts at 36K CAD.

So that's plus or minus twice the price :-/

Other way of looking at it - even if it were "Only $15k USD difference" in USA, that is an entire car worth of difference (not only in pre-COVID times, when you could buy a new car for $10k! We just bought a $17k Kia Rio 5. Tesla Y is four time the price, and ~2.5 times the price of Corolla or Civic, which again I wouldn't think of as "marginally more expensive". (Edit: And this does not include the money one would presumably need to spend to install chargers etc at home).

Please don't take this the wrong way, but it's a somewhat Hacker-News specific perspective that Tesla isn't luxury, or that $15k USD difference isn't much. Acura RDX starts at $57K CAD, which is 12K CAD less than the Tesla Y, and I'd certainly consider that a luxury car.
Other people might not! But that underscores my point that for high earners, "luxury" and "rich" creeps up. (same for me too! I used to think $100k a year was "rich" until I got there and then I conveniently moved up my own personal definition. I don't consider our Honda Odyssey a luxury internally - I consider it a "necessity" or a "practical choice" until I have a "whoa" moment and remember that my parents took five people around in a little Citroen AX and Zastava 101, and that vast majority of people cannot afford a $55k CAD family car - and even we got it used from a 2 year lease because $55k CAD for a car is just a lot lot lot of money)
I'm using HN on Firefox for Android right now and it looks totally normal. What are you talking about?
Dust is the simplest example.

Once you shut off the dust extraction, you may just end up with too much dust collected in the equipment to make it utterly useless.
Care to expand a bit?

I've been daily driving FF Android for a few years now and I've had the opposite experience: the vast majority of pages work and render fine (including HN) and it's an extremely rare occasion that I switch to Chrome to use a website. Even then, I often find that Chrome isn't any better and the underlying issue was the website's mobile handling in general (e.g. touch events working differently than mouse events, or just a completely broken mobile-only component swaps)
Obviously not. If you get inside your child's mind and manipulate their thoughts directly, that would be mind control.
Not sure what “userspace emulators” you're speaking of, but the apps I tried, for running a programming language (for education purposes) are rubbish due to limitations (you can only interpret, you can't compile). And the restrictions are mostly in place; otherwise, for example, there would be apps that allowed you to download torrents, or do other forbidden activities.

Even if what you're saying is true, businesses that can't afford a ban from the App Store, can't afford to bend the rules. If Mozilla developed Firefox for iOS, with its engine, and Apple banned it from the App Store, the consequence would be millions of dollars going down the drain. And Mozilla would let their current users down, too, since the current Firefox for iOS is somewhat useful.
This was, I thought, the most interesting choice Nintendo made in the recent Switch remaster of Links Awakening. The Dungeons are still room-based but the overworld free-scrolls in a similar fashion to this experiment, and that leads to awkward things like seeing hidden/inaccessible parts of the overworld earlier than you would in the original even though you couldn't zoom out like you can here. I think it was interesting but not necessarily good...
I've sworn for years that Hostess changed the Twinkie ingredients but no one
seems to believe me. They tell me that my tastes have probably changed.
> I did some research to confirm my understanding and I did not find any way to do syndication across all podcast apps that did not use RSS.

K. And?

> This source even says “If your hosting provider won’t offer an RSS feed, you should find a new host because they clearly don’t have much experience with podcasts”

So?
I've been wanting to learn Rust for years but the learning curve was too steep, I think LLMs are what will finally do it for me.
Uh oh. Nintendo has already sent the team in.
You and I share the same exact journey as to how we got there. I've had random conversations over the years with other developers in my age bracket and many of them cite Hackers as the reason that piqued their interest in computing. What this movie lacks in authenticity it makes up for it with an amazing cast, good score and lots of fun.
Almost every modern framework is implicitly modeled as a DAG? It just rarely used that nomenclature. Heck with Elm a whole language exists for that principle.

I'm really not sure what's supposed to be different here. As is evident from the repository you obviously know about React and Vue, so maybe try to contrast it to them, or how it fits in in relation to them? To me it looks like you are building a system-in-a-system, where you are rebuilding the primitives that already come with React (or any of its peers).
https://archive.is/2023.12.14-195852/https://www.economist.c...
> Maybe this assertion of yours didn't help? Are you willing to consider this?

I'll consider anything if it's mentioned. If you just said "Ah - I see what happened here. What I actually meant was ..." about 3 comments ago, we'd have had a regular conversation. I honestly don't understand this approach - even here you don't just say what you mean. You ask whether an assertion didn't help as though you aren't sure yourself.

I have much more success just talking plainly. Makes it much more fun and productive to talk about this stuff.
After getting $824M in state aid, GM to cut 900 jobs at Orion Assembly
Correct, FSD is baked into the future success of Tesla. It is the hype engine that has helped keep the company alive all these years. However you notice they are starting to pull back from all there promises of robotaxi's and now Musk is calling it "supervised" FSD.
You're just listing the ones that didn't knock it out of the park.

TCP/IP completely displaced IPX to the point that most people don't even remember what it was. Nobody uses WINS anymore, even Microsoft uses DNS. It's rare to find an operating system that doesn't implement the POSIX API.

The past is littered with the corpses of proprietary technologies displaced by open standards. Because customers don't actually want vendor-locked technology. They tolerate it when it's the only viable alternative, but make the open option good and the proprietary one will be on its way out.
> I did some research to confirm my understanding and I did not find any way to do syndication across all podcast apps that did not use RSS.

K. And?

> This source even says “If your hosting provider won’t offer an RSS feed, you should find a new host because they clearly don’t have much experience with podcasts”

True statement. So?
the 1st professional programmer I knew was a woman who did COBOL for a bank

its struck me as interesting ever since. because over the course of my life and career since its seemed that 99%+ of the programmers I knew of were male.

I don't think there is any one right/ideal breakdown by gender, so I just like to have best sense for facts on the ground
Show HN: Programming with Pure Lambda Calculus
Economist: Deep Data Analysis on Journalism Bias
Microsoft used to test this way, at least in the team I worked with. SDEs still wrote unit tests. But SDETs wrote a lot of automated tests and whatever random test tools that ended up being needed. The idea was to free up more SDE time to focus on the actual product.

I think that era is over after the great SDET layoffs of 2014/2015? Now I guess some SDE teams are tasked with this kind of dev work.
Intel's CEO should look into adversarial compatibility. The way you defeat a bigger/stronger enemy is not by attempting to be bigger and stronger than them but by using their strength (CUDA+great drivers) against them.
Colloidal silver is not a homeopathic medicine. It was briefly in vogue in the days before sulphanilamide and antibiotics, and some wound dressings contain silver. It works by giving bacteria heavy metal poisoning.

Some people make the stuff themselves and drink it, which over time can give one argyria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria). Definitely not a good idea to do that, but I suspect for putting on minor wounds this might be more a case of "there are better solutions".
Open Networking Foundation Merging with Linux Foundation
Probably one of the biggest waste of tax payers money by the police.

Unused cars disintegrate. Literally.
The interest that that parked money could have paid for dozens, if not hundreds of more cars.
They could have just bought newer, better cars when needed.
Don't even get me started on the bad MPG.

Oh the stupidity.
Anecdotally, from my time on Windows Vista I remember an old-school tester who didn't write any code, just clicked on stuff. From what I could tell, in terms of finding serious bugs he was probably more valuable than any of the SDETs who did write code. His ability to find UI bugs was just amazing (partly due to familiarizing himself with the feature specs, I think, and partly due to some mysterious natural ability).
What gives you this impression? I think all recent advances have been very expressive while keeping readability high and syntax complexity low.
This is the same NPM that made a change causing the `integrity` field to go silently missing from `package-lock.json` [0][1] when installing packages, and then also not complaining at any other time in the future.

[0] https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4460

[1] https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4263
Some ISPs make it really hard to know what the 'up-front' price is after all the bs fees and taxes that get added
Tl;dr in my words after a skim: this is a method for using LLMs to find new, SOTA (or at least very good?) heuristic algorithms for NP hard combinatorial optimization problems. They achieve this not by making the LLM itself smarter but by finding a way to keep only its best ideas. (Haven't had a chance to read carefully yet so caveat lector.)

Pretty impressive, but don't panic--we're not at the singularity yet.