skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops, that's what I get for mathing before coffee-- mixed up the formula for \sum (1+r)^n vs. \sum r^n
> problems we seem unable to solve

The biggest problem is people saying this, that we're unable to succeed. They are serving our enemies - spreading despair is so obviously a bad idea that it's a fundamental of psyops (not that the parent is doing psyops; my point is that it's what an enemy would do).

And it's false; it's transparently false if we examine the evidence for a moment. History is filled with people sacrificing themselves, widely, for the greater good. The simple example is warfare, but lots of people have low-paying or lower-paying jobs because they want to do good, contribute to the world.

It's good news - the news is actually good (I know that totally violates social norms to say!): The good people far outnumber the bad, they have the power, the ability; human nature is on their side; they just need to wake up and get going - stop sitting around pop-theorizing about despair - and many of the worst problems will be solved.
Not trying to be anonymous, the app is digitally signed and verified by Apple.
My understanding is that while wild and vicious, cheetahs and anything smaller doesn't try to attack / eat people.
No need to be condescending.

ES and ED architectures have good use-cases. And CRUD has good use-cases, and RDMSes and time series and document databases. Non will ever fit perfectly and non are a silver bullet.

Choosing the right architecture is an an art. Experience helps. And being able to look into the future even more.

Point being: a silly parameter as "wether you need the response to a request to have the data" is certainly not the only metric to base architectural choices on. It's not even a significant metric.

It's at most a technical requirements. And one that can be fulfilled with many architectures. Like event sourced architectures even.
After humans are gone it will be a cats world.
> This "accountability" exercise seems here to be viewed as: 'fix the blame in advance'.

That's not what "accountability" means. "Accountability" means "who has the ultimate say on what counts as success". In other words, the accountable person has to be a final decision maker: someone who has the authority to say "yes, the task is done" or "no, the task is not done".

That's why it doesn't make sense to put a 3rd party as accountable: they can't possibly be a final decision maker for your company. Someone in your company has to be the one to say whether the task is done or not.

In other words, the article's point is that viewing "accountability" as "who we'll blame if the task fails"--and thus being fine with saying "this 3rd party", as in "we'll just blame this 3rd party if the task fails"--is a bug, not a feature.
There are dogs smaller than my cats, technically.
It is true that particular interpretations of Aristotle have led to the construction of our modern world, and that the text is constantly in tension with the material it is grounded in, and vica versa--like Heidegger's notion of World and Earth in "The Origin of the Work of Art" (a great introduction to Heidegger, if you're curious).
The UK is more resistant to change than even we Americans are (except for units of measurement).

Just because something has been one way for a long time doesn’t mean it’s good. Cats kill lots of native wild animals, and whether those animal populations would be similar without them is entirely beside the point. In the same way it is inhumane to have dogs rip foxes apart for sport, it is inhumane to allow pet cats to do so too.

That said, good luck stopping it. Feral breeding cat populations would be at best difficult to entirely eradicate.
Listen to audio books? Podcasts?
The largest money-printing UI element ever made
Build an LLM from Scratch
just think of Robert’); DROP TABLE candidates;
Thanks for the feedback! I'll do some more research and see what a better default might be.

Ah thank you for finding that. I must have missed that when I was cloning the landing page for retros.
I’m not advocating for another extreme. But the things he told me could be certainly improved a lot without breaking things. In fact things are breaking already. I’m taking even basic things like tools. He tells me many devs have no intellisense of any sort which leads to slow dev pace and bugs. Poor CI setups. Papering over old languages with codegen but not doing it properly thru AST. But literally just string concat in Python. Leads to lots of hard to track bugs. Lots of examples like this.
When you say we don't store symbols (in memory slots), would you also disagree that we store symbols at all?

I've never been a fan of symbolic AI. It always felt like the fuzziness of neural nets and pattern matching were a better fit for how we seem to process information, at one level. But it seems like we also perform symbolic logic, typically on demand, possibly as a layer on top of or overlapping the NN foundation.
Cal Newport, the author of 'Deep Work'[1] releases frequent content on Youtube [2] that attempts to address the kind of challenges expressed by the author.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25744928

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@CalNewportMedia
> at the moment, every dollar spent on fusion is a dollar not spent on building more solar panels and wind turbines

You are of course technically correct ("the best way to be correct"), but let's be honest: figuring out the optimal allocation of resources between solar/wind/geothermal and fusion research is unsolved problem. It's probably outright unsolvable.

It's also not a problem of one or the other. We will need both.

Remember that fusion research is not just about fusion. The materials technology advances are almost certainly going to show up elsewhere in various forms. To top it off, the nature of the technology itself requires that a non-trivial fraction of the funds are directed towards fundamental research. We can not know, or even guesstimate where those results end up being used outside of fusion research tracks.

I will not be surprised at all if/when some research done for advancing fusion will be used to improve solar and wind technologies.
I thought trolling wasn't welcome on HN
I think it had already been going downhill before the acquisition
cats is basically the only predator in all those places where until humans came a range of predators had been. The Nature is a cruel machine where everybody becomes old and ill and at that stage majority falls prey to predator (or somebody needs to take care of the carcass otherwise). Like billions of birds end their lifecycle in a year. Human civilization disturbs or breaks the ecosystems, decimating or completely eliminating species, pushes predators out. Humans also bring rats with them (beside many other things rats raid the bird nests for eggs decimating the bird population). In that picture I see the cats as corrective factor, controlling rats and carrying the role of predators pushed out by civilization.
I recently read _One of Ours_ for the first time and I recommend it.

I’m struck by how authentic her writing of male characters - even their interiority - is.

It stands as a stark counter to the notion that one cannot write - or “appropriate” - the experience of others that are different from one’s self.
> the damage these animals do to the environment is so large I don't think I can truly fathom

Industrial farming just entered the chat.

> Animal companionship is of course the exception but this comes with issues

This is, I think, a significant point, especially for people who are lonely, depressed, disabled, antisocial, etc. Its far more improtant than enjoyment of eating a burger.
Your car is running a hell of a lot more software than what you've just described. The ECU manages the engine; the BCM manages lights, wipers, airbags, and seatbelt pre-tensioners; you'll also have ABS (anti-lock brakes, so you can steer while braking instead of plowing straight ahead regardless of the orientation of your wheels) and either Traction Control or Electronic Stability Control. Every single one of these things is safety-critical, whose failure could cause a crash before you can react to it. It's this software that's written to the MISRA standards.
To retain muscle consider turkey meat and/or soy products. https://scienmag.com/major-research-initiative-explores-how-...
Clang has its own limitations. And it takes more effort than just writing the checkers. We open sourced our previously proprietary static analyzer (mostly based on Clang but also integrated other useful tools) but the commercial/enterprise edition still has its own value in stability, quality assurance, and technical support. It's more like building a Linux distro (e.g. RHEL) from various FOSS components.
Sounds like the lesson is to be a go-to person (for knowledge, not doing work for others) but don’t be irreplaceable. Seek to train others so you can scale your influence and you can be promoted without leaving a team or system in a bad place.
Spelljammer combat? You have any links to that my wife is running a Spelljammer campaign right now and those might be useful to her.

Over all yes the whole thing came across as very weak and half hearted but of course it's freaking Spelljamming so it still sold very well despite being a weak product.
They are called tigers
This is a huge problem across the board; industry and congress have been steadily stripping federal agencies of staff/budget, authority, etc.

Congress long figured out how to kill off regulation that is publicly popular: strangle the agency budget-wise, not appoint new department leaders, etc. Adding ever-increasing paperwork is also popular.

OSHA has the lowest number of inspectors in ~45 years. The agency is about 50 years old. https://www.nelp.org/news-releases/number-federal-workplace-...

It has one inspector for every 77,000 workers and its budget amounts to $4/worker: https://www.afge.org/article/aflcio-osha-budget-amounts-to-3...

The EPA's inspections have fallen to half the number of ten years ago https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/02/0...

The number of ATF inspections has been falling for decades and the ATF apparently is allowing gun shops even with multiple violations to go unpunished https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2021/0...

The poultry industry pushed and got greater self-regulation around 2013 to increase line speeds: https://awionline.org/awi-quarterly/2013-fall/usda-refuses-d...

The Trump administration passed widespread overhauls of the meat packing industry letting them self-regulate to increase production https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/03/federal-pork-insp...

In ten years the number of food inspections the FDA conducts have fallen to one fifth the rate in 2010: https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2022/05/fda-food-safe...

Foreign drug manufacturing site inspections plummeted with the pandemic and have yet to recover, too.

The IRS budget has been slashed, mostly for auditing - despite audits of the 0.1% wealthiest resulting in an average of $90,000 per audit recovered: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/irs...

The de minimis for shipments into the US was raised from $200 to $800 in 2016 which has allowed for a massive increase in goods to be imported that are not subject to any inspection or taxes https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/de-minim...
Cats roamed free for hundreds and hundreds years now. It is not like their presence was a new change.
> you’re begging to be exploited

A “yes, and” pivot: you’re going to be exploited, you should be begging for a union.

I’ve been musing on what an open source (users/creators) union would look like. The best of us write software in this “no matter what” category. How could we collectively support them while they support us and we support each other?
Death sentence is probably a bit much, but if management takes actions that they know will kill or maim I don't see a reason why punishment shouldn't be the same as if you went out and hit someone with a hammer.

In this case, force 3M to pay for everything, if they refuse or can't the government sells of the company to pay for the cost. I'm not a fan of the death sentence, but I have no problem killing of evil companies.

What I don't get is how people can make these decisions. You're informed that your product is dangerous, but you really like money so screw it.... What kind of person does that? That has to be a mental problem.
I work for a very large company, with lots of different software products, and our group specifically looks at cutting edge stuff. So it's not uncommon that we may be trying to hack a shiny new square peg into a decades old round hole, plus a few triangle holes, so that we can demo a potential feature. We try to make good choices where we can, but having a flexible and consistent set of utilities to draw from is definitely helpful.
There are many courses on Youtube, Coursera, Udemy where each lesson is shorter than 10 minutes, and you can even speed them up further.
AMD has always been a terrible steward of ATI.

They're fundamentally a hardware company (as per Lisa Su's CV) which didn't cotton on to the fact that Cuda was the killer. I remember how @Bridgman kept playing a rearguard action on Phoronix, his job being to keep devs on board. Losing battle.

I kinda understand it because [80/90]s era hardware people intrinsically think hardware is the top dog in the stack, and that's where all AMD management come from including Su.

Kodura understood that Nvidia was killing AMD because the consumer cards could run CUDA. So he pushed through, against Lisa Su, the Radeon VII, which until very recently, and for many years, was the only consumer card that ROCm supported. He was basically fired shortly thereafter, and the RVII, which was a fantastic card, was shutdown sharpish. Then they brought in Wang who crystallised the consumer/pro segmentation.

Now they're furiously trying to backpedal, and it's too late. There are multiple attempting competitors, but basically the only one worth talking about is AAPL and Metal.

AMD lost the window.
As sad as it might be I don't think being just is a KPI any army in the world cares much about.
Warren Buffett invests based on the fundamentals of a company / stock. Buffett’s point is that he considers Tesla a gamble not an investment because the fundamentals are not there to support the high valuation.

At one point Tesla was valued more than Toyota. Will Tesla sell as many cars as Toyota any time soon? No? Then the valuation is incorrect and will theoretically self correct in time.
I think the fascist sells the idea that our feelings of weakness can be hardened into solid, rational, scientific, truths. This almost seems like… a horrible promise to a wounded man, that he could be a machine-man, and that’s the best he could ever be, and that will give him strength.

Maybe the fascist must appeal to mechanical-ism because his philosophy is fundamentally emotion-driven.

The transparent, meritocratic democracy is naturally pretty rational in the first place. The pitch is that we’re already part of a machine, and we can bend it to serve us.

World war 2 was very much not over, when he gave this speech…
Yeah, you can beat the whole thing in a few turns. The enemies in the courtyard and ascent to final boss were a bit better, but still akin to any number of fights in DOS2 (vs. a climax).
Well I suppose you're making your own point.
If you have an established career in software, for heaven’s sake don’t leave unless you actually want to.

Even if you have been away from work for a bit, you’ve still got marketable skills. And people go on sabbatical all the time. 10 months really isn’t a big deal (IMO), though I don’t doubt that it feels like it.

Don’t give up. You’ll find another position. If you search for a bit and aren’t finding what you want, frame shift a bit (different compensation, different location, environment, etc)
Is this an argument in good faith? This is HN so I'll answer it in good faith and without fighting. I mean:

- Passing the Turing test (for some measure of that) is a huge achievement - Poopoo-ing it is unuseful.

- Moving the bar from chat-bot Turing test to wwwaaayyy over there at super-human intelligence is unuseful. There are lots of valuable steps in between.

- There are many valuable steps before super-human intelligence.

- Most humans are nowhere near super-human intelligence. They are still "intelligent" enough for significant effects on the world as well as day-to-day grind.

- You can get plenty of sci-fi-level results without super-human intelligence

- We have already achieved AGI - Artificial General Intelligence because plenty of humans operate "just fine" in the world with bog-standard intelligence and for the ones limited to a keyboard roughly equivalently to an LLM-based chatbot. Top of the line AGI OR top of the line intelligence is not necessary to massively change the world.

- Incremental and bonus goals are a great thing! You are right!

- Many humans will fight hard to reserve the term intelligence to wet stuff. That's unuseful.

- Just because "it's done" doesn't mean all of a sudden
that Turing test was not a good test.
Physicist Discovers 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible
all things considered: I actually miss the feeling of invoking a command and hearing your computer start grinding it's disks in a flurry of passion for doing what you asked.

I felt so powerful and it was so tactile that I can definitely imagine it was what provoked a life-long love of computers for a kid that felt that a life of obsequence was on the cards.

I have a synology and it's not the same, it's just annoying- the background processes of things these days makes the noise floor of such a thing (as listening to drive access) really high.
Original Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc
Trump Fans Harass Biden Bus in Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWjK_Eu8uME

The FBI is investigating an incident of alleged harassment by Trump supporters of a Biden campaign bus in Texas, the Texas Tribune reported, citing a local law enforcement official.

The campaign bus was en route from San Antonio to Austin on Interstate 35 on Friday when a caravan of vehicles with Trump signs and flags veered close to the bus and yelled profanities.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, were not on the bus and no one was hurt, although local law enforcement was called to help the bus get to its destination. The campaign scrapped an event scheduled in Austin for Friday after the incident.

President Donald Trump tweeted a video of the incident on Saturday night with the comment, “I LOVE TEXAS,” and briefly mentioned it during a campaign rally in Michigan on Sunday.

Tariq Thowfeek, Texas communications director for the Biden campaign, said the Trump fans “decided to put our staff, surrogates, supporters, and others in harm’s way” rather to engage in a conversation about the candidates’ different visions.

Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said Sunday she hadn’t seen the whole video and couldn’t comment on the part where one of the cars appears to almost crash into the bus.

“Certainly we don’t want harm and we shouldn’t be hurting other people. The president would not endorse that,” McDaniel said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

The White House and Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son, appeared in a video on Twitter last week encouraging supporters of the president to show up for one of Harris’s events in Texas.

“It’d be great if you guys would all get together, head down to McAllen and give Kamala Harris a nice Trump Train welcome,” Trump Jr said.
> I'm literally saying we could optionally be spending the money we currently spend on fusion on solar panels instead. This isn't a statement that needs data.

We can’t. Who is picking between fusion research and 7% IRR solar projects? Two totally different risk profiles.

> We would have saved more tons of CO2 by making more solar panels.

If that’s your sole metric it’s probably worth thinking a little broader towards a solution. I don’t think Mohammed bin Salman is going to cap Ghawar Field because we put up a bunch of solar panels over here. He’s going to sell to somebody else.

I think it’s better to let the market work towards solutions that compete across all dimensions—density included—and let that drive the energy transition.
They are large enough to eat small kids. You might be safe from them on a hike but you wouldn't want those playing in the same park as your kids.
A great cover of the original Ennio Morricone song for this movie by John Zorn with Mike Patton on vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJGQ0OVFYNE
As with all estimates, there's a degree of error. Even when factoring in death by other means, cats are murdering machines that should be locked up.
That one always makes me sad – imagine how different our world would have been if, say, they’d gone to Carter and offered to go public with the data in exchange for help decarbonizing. He’d have gotten his French-style civilian nuclear power program, they’d probably have been able to successfully shift into emerging green industries with their enormous resources, and we wouldn’t have an expensively cultivated anti-science political movement causing problems in other areas.
NaiveSystems Analyze – FOSS static analyzer for MISRA C/C++, AUTOSAR C++14, etc.
If you’re only sellable skill is making music, and you have to put food on the table, that isn’t begging to be exploited; it’s grit
Tax based on citizenship is a concept unique to the United States and one African country. It is unheard of in the rest of the world’s tax systems.
Well the APU does, there are compute intrinsics and even a small guide by AMD on how to use them:

https://gpuopen.com/learn/wmma_on_rdna3/
It's 50 times more dangerous than driving per hour: https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-lo...
We need regulation of the regulations! /s
I once heard a joke that the reason academia is so hostile is because the stakes are so low.
https://www.c-span.org/amp/video/?c5098439

He was talking about illegal immigrants. You can disagree with that of course, but why leave that out?
Wow, is this really the case? They could go build a novel reactor without any regulatory oversight? I guess I'll look into this but honestly doesn't seem like it would be true for the US
Excuse me what propaganda? This is informed opinion.
It's absolutely straightforward to uphold Democratic principles over Fascistic enterprises. People who get this wrong are simply wrong, and it's likely emotional and psychological forces that got them there, not rational, historiographic, or empirical ones.

The current headwinds are a result of ill-equiped individuals being manipulated by other ill-equiped individuals.
Buy a textbook and do the exercises at the end of chapters…
This is false. The executives were not harmed. Even the article you posted states that.