skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What other kind of option is there?

Placing value based on the work assigned? Obviously insanely easier said than done. But I think we should embrace the fuzziness a bit. Your manager should have a very good idea of this. If they don't, then they're the ones that should be let go because this is a significant aspect of their job. (may be learned through indirect methods)

> That doesn’t seem a little insane to you?

Honestly, a lot of business practices and economics sounds insane to me. Similarly a lot of alternative suggestions (especially the latter) since they tend to not address the underlying issues but be bandaids. The ones that don't sound insane are often boring and very reasonable, but I think we've established that that's considered undesirable when you're evaluated by visibility. I think this is probably a significant part of the negative feedback loop.
In your footer you have a lot of links like "kitchenaid price tracker" and "best buy price tracker". Have these helped links helped?
> Your product is software, so that could be viewed as COGS

the production of the software could be either the copying of the bits, rather than the writing of the code.

For example, in the case of the novelist, is the cost of sale of a book the cost of printing and distribution? the writing of the book is not a COGS cost.
Considering uBlock Origin was the first extension to work (and, from what I understand, they worked extra hard to ensure it works), I doubt that's the reason.
Hah, that's true. Good strategic timing on Beeper's part I suppose.
Sometimes this just happens by mistake. The literature is vast and people rediscover things fairly frequently that they honestly didn’t know existed. The related work section is a good faith effort to contextualize your work in the space of extant works. You will not know every work even seminal ones (it happens, especially if it came out a few decades beforehand), and you don’t have space to include everyone. Sometimes you’re coming from an adjacent field that doesn’t literature from other sources. I study a lot of control theory, and optimal control theory is something that shows up in engineering and economics. An economist writing on the topic may not be familiar with all the engineering literature. Recently, with the machine learning explosion, I’ve come across reinforcement learning papers from time to time where they rediscovered something from optimal control and are proposing it as a whole new thing because, well, they don’t know a lot about the control theory literature. Personally, I don’t think it’s a large problem because it brings the idea to a new audience and it’s impossible to know everything.

Another aspect that makes it difficult is that different people even in the same field use different terms for the same thing. As an example, engineering optimal control folks like to optimize cost functions, economists might refer to that as the utility instead, and RL folks like to use rewards (which is just a negative of a cost and functionally equivalent). That makes it difficult to run a search. I’ve come across a whole slew of new papers to read on topics just by changing out key terms for synonyms.

A reviewer may suggest other works to include in your discussion. Sometimes the recommendations are appropriate, other times it’s a backhanded way to fish for citations and the works suggested aren’t actually relevant. I would say harping over not including one is poor form unless it is so similar that is important for you to explain the novel aspect in your paper.
What buyer of traditional American sedans are we talking about here? There don't seem to be any. The Malibu is the last gasoline-powered American big 3 sedan on sale, period. The rest are all discontinued. All of them.

Nobody is in the market for this type of vehicle, that's my point.

For one thing, you're on a different planet if you think the split bench is highly desired. Nobody wants a middle seat and when you can get an entire third row in a vehicle that is shorter than a Vic. What parents actually want their child sitting in between them in the front seat?

The closest thing to a family sedan or SUV where you can get a split bench is the F-150, and the only reason it has that option is because of its heritage as a work truck.

By the way, every other vehicle on sale takes regular unleaded, has parts available, has an engine that lasts hundreds of thousands of miles (especially Camrys, Accords, RAV4s). That's not a unique feature to the Crown Vic.

I chose a big Kia SUV as a comparison but, man, if you choose some of the most well-regarded top sellers that are in a more similar sedan or mid-size SUV type of market like a Toyota RAV4, Camry, or Accord, the gulf between those vehicels and the Vic gets even wider.

For example, a modern Accord is a big sedan, and you say that people who like big sedans want a lot of low-end torque...I mean, hello, have you heard of hybrids? The current Accord hybrid is a huge sedan and gets over double the MPG of a Crown Vic (41/46 MPG), and you don't get much more low-end torque than an electric motor.

Fun fact: The Mercury Marauder, the "muscle car" version of the Crown Vic, was actually SLOWER than the V6 Honda Accord when it launched. Yes, even the V6 Accord that was sold back then.

Another example: The Toyota Sienna, has so close to double the MPG of the Crown Vic (36 combined), is basically a cargo ship inside, 7 adult passengers plus a massive amount of cargo comfortably. If I have a family of 5 or 6, why am I getting a Crown Vic over that?

The universe in the 1990s was actually the universe when Toyota and Honda started eating the big 3's lunch. Today's universe is one where the Big 3's marketshare is being whittled down further by EV startups, Korean brands, next on the block will be Chinese brands. All the big 3 seem to be able to do is discontinue their cars and double down on chicken tax money printing machines.

I think in 2005 or so you could make that argument that the Crown Vic held its own for a certain use case. Sure, it was easy to work on, and parts were all over the place, and at that time it wasn't really so abnormal to barely get 20MPG in a large car. But today, the Crown Vic is like a foreign object on the road, more similar to classic cars from 50 years ago than the type of car a typical person is looking to buy today.
Office and x86 are both things I like because 3rd parties can create compatible ware.
> “I love this guy,” he said of the Fox News host. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’”
While this is technically true, using an index for either lookup makes the lookup happen in O(log n)-ish time, so neither is slow, even if you have a large number of active sessions.
I’ve read that drilling down to reach a potential liquid ocean to search for life would be a very difficult process and runs the risk of contaminating the environment.

I wonder if we could eventually send down a robotic probe to the service to look for signs of life ejected by one of those plumes. It seems like the plumes would transport materials and maybe even microbes from deeper down. Before landing a sampler mission, we might start with a flyby that captures samples of the plume and looks for signs of life.
Then why isn’t the CEO, the person with the power do so, putting his money where his mouth is?
One of my favorite tech legends is that apparently Voyager 1 launched with a Viterbi encoder, even though there was no computer on Earth at the time fast enough to decode it. After a number of years Moore's Law caught up and they remotely switched over to Viterbi for more efficient transmissions.
That makes sense as far as explaining another situation where you would see a similar pattern, but it doesn't really explain why. What's the equivalent of the land surrounding the cove here? The sun's gravity well? But that's a gradual drop-off, are we looking at the distance where the gravitational pull on particles is canceled out by some other force?
That's not a real processor name though.
When you get an iMessage from a new contact, there's a "report junk" option; I'm assuming Apple does some kind of spam detection with that (ie if a particular Apple ID gets enough reports, it gets blocked). I've never seen any public documentation of it though.
I can definitely see why StackOverflow is suffering. Why would you ask questions there, when 98% of the time your question will be duped to an unrelated question or some overbearing fuckwit with half a million karma will undermine the premise of your question as though you don't know what you are doing? With chatbots you can query a free, compressed representation of StackOverflow, without the terrible attitude.
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Is there a bookmark export extension? Strangely this basic browser functionality is missing from Firefox on Android.
Subaru (it's a BRZ)
My point is mostly the agenda. I can see a machine having an agenda - even if that agenda is not human or not even understandable. You can call it reward function but that's giving a lot of credit to programmers - which most likely are too far removed from the agenda. Is the machine just answering questions? Well no. If it has cycles to talk to itself (or to two buddies) in the course or pursuing scientific research then perhaps this becomes the agenda (to the expense of other things). That's part of the point: IF the machine develops an agenda then what?

But "knowing best" could be a problem anyway.

And I expect that if we spend a few more minutes we can think of other ways for the situation to go "oops". Oh here is one: two humans / human entities conflicting on giving instructions. Machine soon enough "on its own".

So that I don't think "more specific alignment" can cut it - if we posit a super-human AGI with ways to act on the world. It would have to be more fundamental. Because of the issue that - at some point - one oops is not recoverable. Three laws or something? Heh.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3988270
I used C for a many years and generally liked it. I then spent the following 10 years using C++ and had mixed feelings about it. I now use Rust and I'm not sure I could ever in good faith write a new project in C or C++ again. Anyway, we're both members of the same church! :)
Well they didn't cut off Beeper in the way that would block access to older Apple devices. It seems likely that they found a pattern of access performed (or looked at the identifying information provided) by Beeper in order to target it specifically from the server side.

Those were not protocol changes. The iMessage protocol remains unchanged as far as I know. What I'm referring to above is changing the protocol and updating all clients to use the new protocol so that Beeper is left catching up. This could involve adding new DRM mechanisms or even adding cryptographic remote attestation requirements.
My godfather is an academic that does some arcane nonsense (I mean that in the nicest way possible) involving topology and number theory. He told me a story about how he and his coauthor had a paper in review for 3 years because the reviewer insisted on adding citations to what they assumed were his own work because they were not particularly relevant. My godfather after a round or two didn’t have the patience for it and said whatever let’s just put them in by his coauthor refused hence the three years of back and forth.
Apple Chipmaker Discusses Highly Advanced 1.4nm Chips for First Time
In the UK, if you own a TV but do not watch broadcast/cable television, you specifically do not owe the fee. There are plenty of stories from the early days of the Internet before widespread adoption of streaming services, where saying you don't watch TV programmes would get funny looks and insistent claims that you couldn't possibly have another use for a TV, but the fee was in fact tied to BBC, not to the ownership of a TV.
> Also I don't understand how you could screw these things up repeatedly for so many features.

Seems like a generic bug in the settings system which is fairly complex. Pretty easy to see how something like that could happen.
I consider it good practice to run anything from itch within a VM. That's just good digital hygiene.
I'm reading fmajid as meaning that decentralization is antithetical to the control that companies require - so it must grow elsewhere.

By "dominant social practices" I think you mean cathedral as opposed to bazaar? (esr)

So it looks to me like: internet adoption made decentralization possible; a decentralization practice arose, exemplified by linus and publicised by esr, thus creating decentralization-tool demand; and then, all the technical progress you mention was harnessed, including application of ideas from other fields, like merkle trees that were originally for encryption, created decentralizatiom supply.
I am desperately looking for an extension that takes over godawful js video players and gives something standard. Some have click to pause, some forward backward, all don't have volume control.
What? I pay for iMessage. You’re just arguing for the right to use products for free, and in Beeper’s case to create monetized products that use others’ products for free.
"Mission control on Earth receives that data in binary code, or a series of ones and zeroes."

That's a relief.
There are reports of kids being bullied (this [1] is an example from a Tell HN post), but I have anecdotally heard similar cases because they were "different" for having a "non-blue bubble" phone.

When there is broad agreement that apps like Tiktok and Instagram are toxic for teenagers, I have no idea why this aspect of Apple's lock-in hasn't received as much attention. It's way more serious than just some users wanting blue bubbles when your applications are common enough that they can cause social isolation and bullying in schools.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35014499
I worked with a framework like that inside Google in Java. Was okay. You’d write a bunch of methods and the framework would wire up annotated method parameters and return types. The main benefit was improved tail latency since the framework would traverse the graph and run the methods with optimal concurrency.

Same downsides as runtime dependency injection frameworks like Guice—the framework would explode if it couldn’t connect the graph.

Some other upsides: you could decorate methods with all sorts of distributed goodness like retries and hedging. The approach also enable reusable methods that you snap into your server.
Great works!
They didn’t buy hardware to make Beeper Mini work. They are using an exploit in the protocols to make this work.

Be honest, if Apple was the party taking someone else’s property without permission, and then selling it for their own gain, would you still be defending this? I wager you wouldn’t.
Actually no, the end to end encryption on iMessage is envelopes inside the push notifications. The message content is not readable, even if you intercept APNs messages.
I really wish Intel would offer competition to ARM and stop worrying about CUDA for now.
Honestly, I see how it hooks adults too in a way much worse than smoking or drinking.

We just haven’t caught up to its addictive abilities.

I too don’t know what the solution is, but we’ve tried no regulation and it isn’t working. Time to try some regulation.
> I'm ok with losing a text or two

That’s the whole point. You’re using it for non-critical things.
Maybe it's gone beyond the reach of space-time!
I taught COBOL while at grad school at UCONN. Methinks I'm getting old.
I recently got an OS update on my Macbook Pro and after reboot it forced me to change my password because "you can't have the same password on your laptop as in your icloud account". It's amazing how much apple feels the device I bought actually belongs to them :/
The composer deserves no credit for this symphony! Only the orchestra members who "do the work" should be acknowledged!

/s
i believe that thus far it's a win for apple - all they need to do is introduce the perception that beeper is not 100% reliable, which is the kiss of death for something as potentially important as a messaging service.
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There's every possibility that neither Voyager will ever arrive anywhere ever again. If they do, it's going to be after our galaxy collides with another, and the place they arrive at may not even exist yet.

https://www.space.com/predicting-voyager-golden-records-dist...
Any attempt at real communism is real communism.

Lenin Stalin and Mao were some of the best read scholars of their era who made genuine efforts to make communism happen.

They couldn't, not because they did not understand communism, but because communism didn't understand the world it was trying to be a solution for.

Humans are hedonistic and insecure beings for whom status games lie at the core of their existence. In the absence of inequality, there are no humans. For the potential difference is what makes sure the blood, sweat and tears flow in a certain direction.

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There in lies a great equivalence between fans of communism and agile.

You cannot create a productivity system for knowledge work if you do not understand knowledge work.

Agile starts with trying to solve a problem that it assumes exists, without ever questioning if its central assumptions have any validity at all.
I hope you realize that you have given a link to an encyclopedia to show the definition of a word. The fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published in 2011, already gave a second definition of brownshirt:

>A racist, especially a violent, right-wing one.[0]

Oxford Dictionary has an even broader definition[1]

As noted by other users, "brownshirt" is also used to describe "anyone in authority."[2]

I actually debated writing "pedantism nazi" instead of "grammar nazi" because I knew you would make that exact argument that grammar is not relevant. I also considered "semantics nazi" but decided against it as semantics is "the study of meanings"[3], but it is clear that you are actually more concerned with creating records of fault and "ignorance",[4] while you allow yourself to define GP's transgression in vague terms like "equate" meaning anything from regarding as equal or equivalent to "comparable"[5]. You claim that the meaning is unambiguous yet this nonexistent second meaning is so prevalent that GP had never heard of the first one.

[0] https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Brownshirt

[1] https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Brown...

[2] https://urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20Brownshirt...

[3] https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semantics

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38650782

[5] https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equating
> it should be possible to generate random, correct python functions conforming to a given type signature without an LLM

The state space of viable programs is far, far larger than useful ones. You need more than monkeys and typewriters. The point of using Palm2 here is that you don’t want your candidates to be random, you want them to be plausible so you’re not wasting time on nonsensical programs.

Further, a genetic algorithm with random program generation will have a massive cold start problem. You’re not going to make any progress in the beginning, and probably ever, if the fitness of all of your candidates is zero.
I work at Ubicloud.

The general plan is: write a SPDK module. We spent some of the last year getting used to using SPDK, for cryptography and workaday disk access, and the first copy-on-access custom bdev (a unit of abstraction in SPDK) is working its way into production now.

https://github.com/ubicloud/bdev_ubi

This copy-on-access happens to use files as the input, but sometime after that, it will be usable for demand-paging images hosted via HTTPS as well.

Some of those code paths will likely learn flavor(s) of replication after that.
Inbound links from HN blocked I think, but Tom Macwright's proclamation that typing is not the problem has long stuck with me. https://macwright.com/2015/01/19/typing-is-not-the-problem

These optimizations for some perceived ergonomic win almost always make terrible tradeoffs versus using a good well established data format. And especially systems which favor human consumption but create extreme difficulties for machine handling, those are the worst!

Yaml being such a non-Context Free Grammar is a huge pain. There's so much state in the parser. It only gets worse from there. Yaml has all kinds of wild crazy capabilities. References, a variety of inline content blocks, and weird ways to invoke stuff?? GitHub yesterday did a code review of Frigate, an enormously popular surveillance video analysis tool that's heavily downloaded, and found, oh yes, a huge glaring yaml bug allowing remote execution, because executing arbitrary code is just built right in to yaml amid 3000 other crazy hacks & who would have known to go look for & disable that capability?! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38630295 https://github.blog/2023-12-13-securing-our-home-labs-frigat...

Typing is not the problem (even though I see so many people just terrible beyond words at navigating project structures or the command line... Improve! Some day!).
We're getting to the point that that footnote is superfluous. Google is a real problem.
This is the nicest monospace font I've seen in ages!
Sorry but you're still wrong. You're assuming the spacecraft isn't receiving the commands. You don't know that. Nobody really does. All that is necessary for this to be "communication" is for the transmitter to send and the receiver to receive, and the receiver may well be working but the transmitter on the spacecraft may not be working, making that scenario one-way communication. It takes far less power to receive than it does to transmit, so it would be no wonder if the spacecraft were still receiving commands but unable to send responses.

If the spacecraft is known to not be receiving, I think the term "broadcasting" would apply.
With the universal approximation theorem, we can use artificial neutral networks with ReLUs to accurately approximate a function. But we just get weights out of it at the end. This approach feels similar, but provides code in the end.
I really was trying to give him a pass until one day he told a guest he was tripping on mushrooms and was not joking.

Now, I've done my share of drugs but this just seemed very disrespectful and his guest clearly was not impressed with his stoner bro questions.
Oh, in the future, if and when I use the word it will be with a capital B, and it will definitely be a Nazi reference.

When I don't intend a Nazi reference, I will pick a different color of shirt, like green or blue.
The foundations of attachment theory are well replicated though the early experiments probably wouldn’t pass contemporary ethics standards.