skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mentioned New York Times article that "that brought open source on the radar of the CEO".

Sharing Software, IBM to Release Mail Program Blueprint. John Markoff. December 14, 1998.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/...
> Town officials in Hakodate urged local people not to consume the stranded fish amid reports that some were gathering quantities to sell or eat.

A sign of the times compared to Japan’s days of excess peaking in the 80s. If you talk to older Japanese people, those who were in their 20s-30s during the 80s, it’s pretty common to hear about them visiting or even living in LA and NYC. Nowadays, only a third of Japanese people even have passports and Japan ranks lower in English literacy then developing countries like Vietnam.
You got downvoted and now you're original comment is greyed out. Now you're mocking people and calling them "sensitive".

The fact news about Firefox gets upvoted clearly indicates it is newsworthy. You don't get to decide. The users of HN and their votes do.
Organic Maps is offline until it needs to download updated map information from Open Maps data.

https://organicmaps.app/

Search just finds whatever matches sorted by distance so it may not fit one's needs.
Realistically the build will fail, but since QAs used some action capturing thing, devs will have to either recapture the same flow or delegate it back to QA. Now you have the pipeline blocked, QAs most likely working on some other stuff so they need to reprioritize, devs are also annoyed as their build is not going through.

I completely understand there are pros and cons to every set up, but if higher velocity is more important than complete correctness, such set up might be detrimental.
I ran 130,000 RX470-580 cards, so I know them quite well. Those cards aren't going to do anything useful with AI/ML. That technology is just too old and things are moving too quickly. It isn't just the card, but the mobo, disks, ram, networking...
While the Scythians did range into Siberia, Amnya is north of the steppe by something like 1500km, and I don't think even the Andronovo horizon ever extended that far north. Also, you're off by a few millenia: Indo-Europeans didn't emerge from the Pontic-Caspian steppe until the 4th millenium BCE.
I saw the writing on the wall when they started sending ads via their notification system with no way to turn it off. I'm on pCloud now, but its not looking like it's not much better, They recently started spamming my mobile app with thanks giving ads to upgrade to a different tier of their product even though I had offer notifications turned off.

I had some words with their support department, here is what they said:

>Hello,

>Thank you for contacting pCloud's Technical Support.

>This is a pCloud banner for Black Friday and it's not a notification. Unfortunately, you won't be able to remove it manually and you should wait until the end of the Black Friday promo - 30.11.2023.

>Should you require any further assistance, do not hesitate to contact us.

>Regards,

>George Lewis

>pCloud's Technical Support

Like it matters that its not a notification. You still need my consent regardless of what kind of ad it is.
I can vouch that this is true in some cases.

I worked for a multinational bank headquartered in the U.S., whose corporate team came up with a sexy program to snatch up recent Computer Science graduates. The program offered them a "fair" market rate for an entry-level jobs in industry, and let the graduates try two to three different teams and/or departments in their first year. At the end, if the company still liked them, the candidate got to pick their permanent team for a full-time position. This position, however, did not see a bump in pay, and by that time the program effectively filtered out candidates that weren't performing at an accelerated level.

The results were great for the business: young programmers that were often more proficient in COBOL than their new peers were costing them $60k-$70k a year. The senior, or "tenured," peers were in the $200k-$400k range in some cases.
A charlatan.
> QA is almost always seen as a 'cost center' by the business and upper management

Well everything involved in making a product is seen as a cost, that includes the entire development team - QA, Developers, Devops, PM ....
The first step to regaining trust is to stop abusing trust. Our industry overall is incredibly abusive to trust, and I've seen no sign that is going to change anytime soon.
> Taxpayers spent $600 million to create 4,000 jobs

Taxpayers spent $0. They gave up the potential to make $600 million. And that was only if Orion created the full 4,000 jobs. So they potentially only forwent ~$135 million based on the actual amount of people hired.

But it's ridiculous to frame it this way. If a store gave you a coupon for $20 off your order, no one in their right mind would say the store "spent $20 on a subsidy". Especially if I never even cashed the coupon!

If you don't think corporations should get tax breaks that's totally fine. But framing it as an outlay is misleading.
You do get deniability though. Given their line is "this is malicious code that was put on the train. Physical security is the responsibility of the train companies”, they would argue the fact their binaries are different is proof of malicious actors.

Essentially, if they're going to do this, a good route is for them to be the malicious actors. Just before shipping, someone trusted surreptitiously switches the binaries to the modded versions.
Point and score.
>At best, this is regulatory capture for the current tech giants, at worst, basically ability to hand pick who gets to see what sites.

It hasn't happened with any other censorship bill Canada has passed.

This includes laws on pronoun use:

Canada’s gender identity rights Bill C-16 explained

>through a process that would start with a complaint and progress to a proceeding before a human rights tribunal. If the tribunal rules that harassment or discrimination took place, there would typically be an order for monetary and non-monetary remedies. A non-monetary remedy may include sensitivity training, issuing an apology, or even a publication ban, he says.

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/canadas-gender-identi...
I’m personally excited by this paradigm. A few years back I had success using a similar architecture for polynomial root finding. I think it’s entirely possible to be really ambitious and reverse engineer new and useful generalized functions.
> Those who order by Dec. 17 will receive a golden ticket in the mail before Christmas

To any parents considering this: A golden ticket in a box on christmas morning WILL make your child cry.
> The Navy didn't actually do away with all-caps until 2013.

And aviation still is full with it. For better or, in my opinion, worse... but aviation is so stuck of outdated and inconsistent crap in general...
it might be possible that you also lose the benefits, in which case that's a terrible customer experience
I think he ment Hunchback of Notredame only, it has long long chapters describing how the architecture of the Cathedral evolved over centuries, and many other highly entertaining digressive chapters from the main plot.
Anyone determined can already do that. A quick google search pulled up examples - most of the first page results were folks breaking into mental health facilities data. Which makes sense: Why would you sift through loads of mundane police footage when you can just look at the care center's records?

The risk would remain about the same. Most folks aren't gonna do this, and those that want to already can.

And we could lessen it by being more accepting and forgiving and not making things like mental health struggles a source of shame.
> Its a developer darling

While this is undoubtedly true, I still don't comprehend why.

The development workflow on linux is an order of magnitude better than on OSX. Package management is built into the distro, the directory structure is sane, LUKS is (probably) less likely to be backdoored by the NSA than FileVault, you can use keyboard-centric window managers, tiling window managers, etc, far more of the system is available/configurable via scripting or terminal, you don't get grey screens of death regularly, it doesn't send tons of telemetry back to the mothership, and you don't have to reset the PRAM and SMC every goddamn week just to get the thing to boot.

OSX is probably only a "good" comparative developer experience if you're forced to use XCode for something. Otherwise, it's a disaster.
At the start of my career (late 70s), I worked at IBM (Hursley Park) in Product Assurance (their version of QA). We wrote code and built hardware to test the product that was our area of responsibility (it was a word processing system). We wrote test cases that our code would drive against the system under test. Any issues we would describe in general terms to the development team -- we didn't want them to figure out our testcases -- we wanted them to fix the bugs. Of course, this meant that we would find (say) three bugs in linewrapping of hyphenated words and the use of backspace to delete characters, and then the development team would fix four bugs in that area but only two of the actual bugs that we had found. This meant that you could use fancy statistics to estimate the actual number of bugs left.

When I've worked for organizations without QA teams, I introduce the concept of "sniff tests". This is a short (typically 1 hour) test session where anybody in the company / department is encouraged to come and bash on the new feature. The feature is supposed to be complete, but it always turns out that the edge cases just don't work. I've been in these test session where we have generated 100 bug tickets in an hour (many are duplicates). I like putting "" into every field and pressing submit. I like trying to just use the keyboard to navigate the UI. I run my system with larger fonts by default. I sometime run my browser at 110% zoom. It used to be surprising how often these simple tests would lead to problems. I'm not surprised any more!
Firefox paradox strikes again. User brings up an unrelated thing, even if valid, to lessen something positive.

You seen this pattern again and again in Firefox news threads.
I do in general like all the nice improvements they've been making to Java over time (as someone who loved Scala back in 2015 or so). But this is silly; they should introduce a sealed `Try` type like Scala has (or, well, just steal the version from the Java "vavr" library), with `Success`/`Failure` record implementations, and then you can destructure in the switch statement. So something like https://java.godbolt.org/z/dh5ebPfeq

The benefit there is that it doesn't require any changes to language or syntax. Hell, you can even use vavr's `Try` and achieve the same effect, though I guess you can't destructure in the same way as it doesn't use record.
I wish these stories would describe in more detail whether cash was spent up front (and if it was handed to the company or spent on projects), or if it was e.g. an abatement, that doesn't have an opportunity cost and won't make the company money.
> Is it escalating?

I think so, yes.

Obama's first election didn't have much - just some non-politician named Trump shooting off his mouth. 2016 had actual politicians saying that it was illegitimate. Then came 2020, and Jan 6, and it wasn't just talk anymore. So yes, it seems to be escalating.

2000 was different. The vote was close enough in one state that that there was legitimate doubt about what the actual result was. It wasn't "illegitimate because I don't like the results" the way more recent ones have been.
> Not only that, they are impacting the actual languages people use. Why use some new / esoteric language that an LLM doesn't know much about, when you can get the same job done much faster using a language that the LLM knows well and can debug?

I don't see how this is anything new. Similar tension has always existed slowing adoption of new technology. I've resisted picking up new languages because I could implement something faster/better in languages I already know. I've been skeptical about some because the ecosystem just isn't there yet. You said "a language that the LLM knows well and can debug" when sometimes the resistance is that the new language does have as good of tooling/debugging support.

There is nothing new here and if anything LLMs could help. I've noticed the community seems pretty understanding/accepting of low quality outputs of some of these LLMs. The small corpus of a new/esoteric would mean even lower quality, but I don't think that'd be a deal breaker for some folks.
Explain how this is censorship.
Some Indo-European cultures (e.g. Andronovo) did extend into forested and mountainous regions of Siberia, but not that far north AFAIK.
As a carrier of another autoimmune disease, I will be tempted to flip that switch should it become available. Since I participate in pretty much all studies they offer me, I would consider joining that one too. It might be the last one they'd ask me in for!

On the other hand, the disease is not debilitating for me. I'll also consider waiting and let a few fellow diabetics try first :-)
A video that explains a diagram to see yourself in the world
> $66.1 million in site readiness

This sounds like cashs spent up front. But you're correct, I don't think it went to GM.
> If these banks and other institutions actually did write fat paychecks to young mainframe programmers the demographic problem they're facing might not be so bad.

When I first started work I was involved in banking/insurance mainframe stuff, and it was honestly a pretty terrible working environment for reasons that spanned from the mundane (like dress codes) to the esoteric (like the horrible crufty legacy codebase). I would have put up with it if it paid well, but it didn't. In fact, it paid significantly worse than the job I'd had before which was installing physical cable plant (fiber optics and copper ethernet), the reason I took it was at least the office had air conditioning, but it certainly wasn't something I wanted to turn into a career.

As a mid-level windows sysadmin doing customer-facing phone support at a cloud provider, I made nearly 30% more than I had as a junior mainframe guy at a bank/insurance company. The difference in the skillsets and their commonality was massive, yet the pay was significantly worse for the mainframe work despite it being a rare skillset in a high value industry. I remembered when I was in this job that guys who worked on trading desk backend code were far better compensated while working in easier development environments on less esoteric codebases, the mainframe folks were the lowest paid of the developers at that company, at every level of seniority. The only person we worked with who was well compensated was an independent contractor who'd worked there previously for 30 years before retiring.
Great! Now I can finally install an extension to autodelete cookies for certain domains. This feature is available on stock Firefox Desktop but not Mobile.
They didn't.

Arlington assembly was converted to the SWB GMT-400 trucks in '96, followed by other fullsize. The plant tooling was already setup for RWD body-on-frame production, so the workers there could just...build those.

Had GM not shut down Ypsilanti in '90? ...91? (the old bomber plant), they might've been able to continue producing large sedans there, in addition to trucks in TX.
Beeper CEO, from the article: "If there's enough pressure on Apple, they will have to quit messing with us." "Us," he clarified, meant both Apple's customers using iMessage and Android users trying to chat securely with iPhone friends.

"That's who they're penalizing," he wrote. "It's not a Beeper vs. Apple fight, it's Apple versus customers."

Not really sure how this is anti-customer. Apple customers have ample access to iMessage, after all. And as has been noted many, many times, there are many means of accessing secure cross-platform messaging.
Their best reported results are a hybrid effort though, here is one of the authors of the paper describing how they used programs generated by the LLM to extract their own insights that then refined future iterations of their workflow: https://x.com/matejbalog/status/1735331210140819938?s=20

It can work by itself too but it is unclear at a glance how well since the main focus of the paper is the new mathematical benchmarks they achieved, i.e. their best results. Will have to read the paper more closely to say anything with high confidence, but based on their summary I'd guess the human in the loop part was pretty important here.
From my intuition (and experience) with LLMs, they make more of what is in the context. If you use a language that is often used for business CRUD software, the assistant will be great it giving you business CRUD software, of typical business CRUD software quality. Using copilot for work, my experience is that it will happily offer ugly but context-plausible solutions (that often don't even work), but if you stop and ask "maybe there's a better way to do this", it often will suggest good simplifications. Especially if you give it a hint ("Maybe it's worth trying...")

I haven't really used copilot with, say, Rust or Haskell, but if the average quality of code is better in those languages, maybe it will take less coaxing to actually suggest good code?

Either way, LLMs are great at generalizing between human languages, so I expect they transfer a lot between programming languages too. I think your language has to be pretty weird for copilot to not get a grip on it with enough context.
In this sense, I liked the book: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Certainly, it explains that if we look at previous civilisations that have been annihilated, it seems that slow decay is a feasible path.

According to their argumentation, there is a balance of 4 common environmental problems in previous cases:

I. Destruction/loss of natural resources.
II. Ceilings on natural resources.
III. Harmful things.
IV. Human population.
How often did you release?
your mind also conjectures many unreasonable and illogical solutions to things. then separately your mind has an "evaluator" to deduce a set of solutions down to things that make sense.

Is anyone saying LLMs in isolation and without contextual tooling are miraculous? Even the text box for chatGPT is a form of wrapping LLM in a UX that is incrementally more miraculous.
reddit is a big no no for children. its full of porn, politically charged topics, and predators. you can also use wildcards in a dns sinkhole to target keywords perhaps.
UK spy agency GCHQ reveals its challenge for children. Can you solve it
The puzzles are contained within GCHQ’s Christmas card, available to download.
I was told my submission is pending approval - anxiously waiting.
Assuming they don't manage to consolidate everything they need for a request into 1 query, one less query is still one less query. They might be cutting their db load in ~half if they had one auth query and one query for the action.
Sonic Visualiser – Visualisation, analysis, and annotation of audio recordings
S.F. surpasses deadliest year for drug overdoses
What about leukemias?
I don't know, once upon a time I would have agreed with you, but recently I'm optimistic that MS is genuinely trying to break out of that behavior. Time will tell.
it's not about revenue, it's about investment. It is closely related to future profit. Not so much to current revenue ...
Mark Seemann's book "Code That Fits in Your Head" has many practical ideas about how to manage code complexity with examples.
MSN Messenger played a similar cat-and-mouse game with AOL Instant Messenger long time ago. Unlike MSN Messenger which used this publicity to grow their own market share, I am not sure what's the end game for Beeper.
Catastrophic IT story of Migration to the Sabadell Proteo banking platform
RX570 is going to do ML faster than a typical desktop CPU. That's all you need for the person who has one to want to use it for Llama or Stable Diffusion, and then want to improve the software for the thing they're now using.

Not everything is a huge datacenter.
What's this in reference to? WhatsApp, Signal, and many others are in the App Store.
''How to Tell a True War Story'' (1990) by Tim O'Brien [pdf]
Of his several versions, such as found in ''The Things They Carried'' and his Esquire magazine contribution, this one is my favourite. To use O'Brien's line: ''This one wakes me up.''
China launches secret space plane on 3rd-ever mission
TFA is trying to smear in any way it can: it even has a line likening Coinbase to FTX.

Coinbase is a HN unicorn, created in the US, where the names of all the executives are known. While SBF was running a ponzi.

It's dishonest writing.
Last time I checked DMV of SC pays $50K salary with no remote work option for COBOL position. And requires 2 years of experience. Granted, it’s a state job, I get it, but still.
If this is an AI response, it's one I approve. Wordy, yet entertaining. Opinionated, but sharing my opinions.
The basic format is an open standard (ISO 32000), and many editors & viewers implement the basic functionality.

However, PDF also has a bunch of different versions and substandards, and different editors and viewers will support different features: forms, accessibility, encryption, Javascript, layers, embedded Adobe Illustrator data, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#Additional_features

Acrobat probably supports the most features out-of-the-box, and only Illustrator can open Illustrator-in-PDFs, I think. For example, many government forms won't work right in third-party viewers. Like this worker's comp form: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/owcp/regs/compliance/... will have working fields in the Chrome viewer or macOS Preview, but the Print/Save/Reset form buttons at the bottom do nothing unless you open it in Acrobat. Or GeoPDFs, a third-party extension (https://terragotech.com/resources/sample-geopdfs/) that don't work right at all outside of Acrobat, even though they're used by the USGS (https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-geopdfr).

It's kinda like the Word doc situation of the 2000s... third-party utilities can usually open them and get the basic document and formatting, but not perfectly, and some features just won't work.
If business en mass stagnate because what llms offer calcifies then there will be opportunities to outcompete them via knowledge not offered by llms.
Sumer! I translated a printout of Sumer my buddy acquired somewhere into the BASIC for RT-11 and played it quite a lot back in the late '70's. Almost nobody I know has ever heard of it.
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
> or is this just a vague "i'll know it when i see it" assertion

No, it's actually exceptionally easy to quantify. Take a look at the current leaderboard for LLM reasoning capabilities: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
It's not bad for the entire nation, though, right? Wasn't the change made to compensate for the Trump tax cuts? Someone somewhere else did benefit, mainly the top bracket, especially folks in states not really affected by SALT, and some in the bottom brackets (due to a higher standard deduction). Unless I'm misremembering or missing something.

Another change in recent years that mostly affected some tech companies was making free employee meals taxable.