skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to call out this person multiple times, will you acknowledge that the other commenters are also haranguing them? They were responding here to a comment deliberately twisting their words. They were responding elsewhere to a comment that accused them of supporting murder. You even replied to that one, without identifying it as "uncivil."

I agree this conversation has gone off the rails, but you're putting it all on one person quite unfairly.

If you're unwilling to call people out in an even handed way, I think it's better to just send the link to dang and let him do it. Otherwise it creates the appearance of abusing civility to silence just one particular party when everyone is throwing mud. (I don't think that's your intention, to be clear. Just that it creates the appearance.)
I haven't read a lot of primary sources from the period, but "the internet and social media provide a force multiplier for speech that, due to the priorities and incentives of algorithms, prioritizes speech many might consider harmful and dangerous" and "limiting the scope and velocity by which they can spread their message and recruit has proven effective in slowing their influence" aren't things I'd expect to hear from a catholic pope in any century.
In my own experience, post-facto automated testing just locks in the codebase to behave exactly as it did before the tests. The benefit is preventing the introduction of new regressions unless they performed significant refactors along the way. And 59k tests is an average of 32 new tests added every single day of the week for 5 years straight. While it's easy to hit a couple dozen a day as an IC on the first month of an effort like this, the long tail is the hard part. Adding 32 new and valuable tests in a single day in year three of this effort sounds hard.

I'd be curious to hear about the manpower and logistical requirements behind this post. How many LoC was the original codebase? What's the current coverage at 59k? How many people were involved? How did they convince upper management to suddenly allocate this much opex spend for 5 years running, or what were they doing before this increase in testing expenditure?
Ask HN: Should open data sets be behind 'token walls' (paid access AI analysis)
Assuming that an AI company, such as OpenAI, be able to charge money for inquiring insights to that data?

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Assume that AI companies may receive public subsidies (such as twitter did for 'reinvigorating Market Street (forget about the chopped up body in the alley, or the crack videos of 5am, or the closure of all the shops within ten blocks)

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Should an AI company be able to charge for their parsing of government data, such as budgets, if they are going to profit off access/insights?

Shouldnt any company thats able to ingest all the open-data be required to provide searching insights based on that data for free - its open data?

Or should they be only able to charge for looking through their "lens" at the data, and if so - should such insights only be public insights - or not a commercial insight such that one cannot explicitely charge for access to insights on public .gov/open data?

Who owns the insights to open data? Does one own the "prompt" - Does own own the "engine" for parsing the "prompt" - Does one own the 'monetizable' output of the 'prompt'?
But I'm on HN and on 4chan, for different reasons. While I find no joy in the tone on 4chan, I love how more open minded a lot of people there are on certain topics (that aren't related to politics).
Here's my experience of spending a part of a day with each:

Fish:

- customizing or debugging Fish's completion was utter torture; the defaults are horrible like "carTAB" completes to "blkdiscard" when I don't have cargo in PATH

- nothing in Fish seems to have a useful `--help`, no useful summaries & quick refreshers, just punt the user to a big verbose man page

Nushell:

- no job control, no background jobs

- error handling is utterly broken

- control-C breaks unexpected things, what gets aborted seems up to luck (e.g. aborts the prompt building)

- globs inside quotes, `ls "*"`

- lots of weird parsing errors & bad edge case behavior
11pm is a social construct (one that changes twice a year in many states at that), not biological fact.
Just pop your SIM card into a serial interface attached over the internet to a US-based phone’s SIM card slot every night (or one night a week?)

Surely they won’t notice you teleporting around?

Hopefully the phone doesn’t mind the latency when talking to its SIM that’s supposed to be 3cm away.
Why would I be jealous of someone missing an experience to do less good thing?
> Nothing worse than someone on a Facetime call on their way up Half Dome

Is it so different from two hikers conversing?
I think you're being a bit dishonest with these replies. By any definition of the word "system", you're implying that they act in concert as a single unit. The entire point of a botnet is that none of the endpoints are individually distinguishable from the rest.
I am speaking of the OPs implementation of RAG, not in general.

The retrieval part can be expensive if an LLM is used to confirm that it is sufficient, and if it's decided to continue searching if it's not.

OpenAIs retrieval is a perfect example. It works, but it's very expensive
> OneWeb has over 600 satellites in orbit right now, with paying customers.

OneWeb is B2B only. I assume, but don't know that it's because they can't get the cost of their user terminals low enough.

> Amazon's Kuiper constellation is planned to have over 3000 satellites; they've got regulatory approval and launch contracts signed, and their pockets are deep. Once those come online properly, it'll be hard for Starlink to charge anything like proper monopoly rents.

It'll certainly be interesting to see how that goes. They went with the "hire everyone but SpaceX" launch strategy, which means that none of the rockets they've signed with are operational yet. And they have a looming FCC/ITU deadline. There's widespread belief that if they make a good effort, they can get a variance, but it's certainly not guaranteed.

In general, I agree with you, though. There's not much evidence that SpaceX is trying to squeeze customers. In part because there are often plenty of competing options, and in part because Elons companies tend to keep prices low even when they do have a defacto monopoly (like right now with space launch).
I'm not a parent per se, but I routinely see my own childhood self in my nibling¹. It makes me always say a silent "I'm sorry, Mom" for all the same grief I caused her when I was a child.

I figure this is why parents (and moms, in particular, since historically they've been the one to rear children) are so revered: they put up with all that crap, and now we all feel guilty for it.

(¹https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nibling)
>Supported cooperative multitasking won in the end.

Is this the same as coroutines as in Knuth's TAOCP volume 1?

Sorry, my knowledge is weak in this area.
Good catch - thank you!
I guess it depends how much you like paperbacks but they were fairly good at getting me to buy hardcovers because I wanted something right when it came out and didn't want to wait for a paperback. At $40/hardcover $400 is less than a book a month. A KU subscription is less money flowing into the system than someone buying 1 hardcover per quarter.
It may depend on jurisdiction, but often assault is a threat, assault and battery is violence.
> to automatically accept the cookie banners

Do you mean it agrees to all the tracking or declines it?
Check out AST Space Mobile. They are actually ahead of Starlink at this point.
I don't know my Apple password, it's in 1password. I don't use it on my watch though, I have a PIN there.
I think most people here nailed it.

School has become a place where children stay so that their parents can work. While there is nothing inherently bad about trying to solve two problems with only one solution, for the specific case of the educational system, conceptualizing schools as places for taking care of kids instead of a place for learning is very problematic in so many aspects that it's hard to even start.
Surely this is an expansion of the previous administration forcing $35 insulin?

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/president-trump-...
(Throwaway)

Defending yourself against a group of 5 assailants who assault you and appear intent on causing you great bodily harm, even if battery to you is stopped, no one was injured, and you use no force in excess of defense, in the current political environment, it will result in a maliciously prosecuted assault charge if they happen to be PoC and you happen to be a white man leading to:

- Stress and uncertainty for months to years

- Legal costs between $15k and $50k

- Loss of rental housing

- Moving costs, say $6k

- An inability to be hired by a major corporation because of background checks until after the charge is expunged (another $5k in legal costs and many more months of uncertainty)

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I hold the Scandinavian view, that after 20 years, a person can be very different, especially if they had a rough childhood. The US is organized around punitive prosecution and maximizing carceral suffering, has a net average problem with over-prosecuting PoC, a very high incarceration rate, over-prosecuting some crimes that aren't there, and not prosecuting thieves and vandals enough. There also isn't enough community engagement, de-escalation intervention, counseling, and diversion from the school-to-prison pipeline to care about people on a troubled path.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Porsche Open Source Platform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244149 - Nov 2023 (144 comments)
Sysadmins have great tooling to deal with the registry (Group Policy, Local Group Policy for non-domain machines). The tooling for INI files isn't very good.
they mention servers, so possibly not jbods, but R740xd2 (or newer R760xd2). The former are 26x3.5" so would match what they describe.
The challenge here is your choice of specialism. Security is fundamentally a trust-based business and the industry is pretty wary of anyone with a perceived black mark against them. The reasons for this are mainly liability ("if this guy does something wrong and he already has a record, how will we look?") and reputation ("what will our government customers think about us if we hire this person?").

Could/would you consider a sideways step to something less directly security based? For instance there might be data engineering roles that might suit.
Very interesting. As replied here [1], I do eventually want to investigate "slimming down" the Linux distro below FrameOS.

However for now, the RPi imager, with its built in "enter your wifi credentials and SSH key" dialog was the best and easiest way to get started.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38859572
11 p.m. also seems oddly specific given how different 11 p.m. can be depending on what extremity of a timezone you're in or whether it's DST.

When I was a teenager the TV shows I wanted to watch usually dictated when I went to bed.
Sundar Pichai was a Materials Scientist at Applied Materials before he did his MBA.

He did his MS in Materials Science at Stanford.

Also, plenty of STEM background people join McK later in their careers (especially in the electronics space) because there is plenty of demand for Strategy and Management Consulting in the industrial world, as LDPs aren't as popular anymore
Concrete is rarely used nowadays (at least in Germany).

Usually the metal profiles are just rammed into the ground, if the ground is too loose they are screwed in and gabions are used if they just need some weight. If none of those are possible then concrete is used.
I agree, and particularly the phrase "ignore the science".

It presumes that this single thing is the one we should all build our lives around and there are no other priorities to balance.

All of us in our lives "ignore the science" in some form or other.
It's moving in more and more.

A core problem is that it's now clear most apps have hundreds or thousands of little tasks going, increasingly bound by network, IO, and similar. Async gives nice semantics for implementing cooperative multitasking, without introducing nearly as many thread coherency issues as preemptive.

I can do things atomically. Yay! Code literally cooperates better. I don't have the messy semantics of a Windows 3.1 event loop. I suspect it will take over more and more into all walks of code.

Other models are better for either:

- Highly parallel compute-bound code (where SIMD/MIMD/CUDA-style models are king)

- Highly independent code, such as separate apps, where there are no issues around cooperation. Here, putting each task on a core, and then preemptive, obviously wins.

What's interesting is all three are widely used on my system. My tongue-in-cheek comment about cooperative multitasking winning was only a little bit wrong. It didn't quite win in the sense of taking over other models, but it's in widespread use now. If code needs to cooperate, async sure beats semaphores, mutexes, and all that jazz.
Being upfront won’t do you any favours.
Laylo (YC S20) is hiring a live events and music account executive
Asian Arowana: The most expensive pet fish
In addition to therapist, as others state, I'd also suggest just being more open with your friends (I also get that it can be intimidating to see a therapist and it's easy to justify not going, especially if you're in a good mood). Maybe grab some beers or something to create a scapegoat/plausible deniability if needed. I've long suffered from depression and this has been one of the most impactful moves for me, especially around identifying latent issues that appear more ethereal. It can be hard, especially in our general gender norms (I'm male) where some people will think it is a weakness (men and women), but to me strength is doing the hard things. YMMV, but I think it is important to have friends and/or partner(s) that you can be open with and just have the ability to vent. Fuck, sometimes I don't even know what I'm upset about until I let off a little steam first, and often just an outside opinion helps.

I can also suggest small internet communities as these can be places to form friendships while having some PII type of anonymity and at least for me helped me be more open before I was ready to open up to friends. Places like HN and reddit are probably too large, but hey, I'll put this out in general to anyone, feel free to reach out over email[0]. You can also get something similar by just talking to random people at a bar.

Whatever works best for you, but it all is a noisy process. But at the end of the day I think what's most critical is that you find some means of just opening up. You don't have to stick to one group either, and if you need to start at one place to build up to another, there's no problem with that. Take it as a journey, not a destination. But I will say having at least a one or two core friends (and ideally a partner) is going to be one of the most helpful things you can do for your mental health. A therapist will never be enough but you should think of them as a very useful and different tool (because you do want advice not coming from those who want to protect you. Outside opinions are invaluable and a good therapist will do their best, but consider they can only work with the context you give and what they can get from you).

[0] In my profile. And if anyone has a suggestion for a better anonymous email, let me know. I'm kinda annoyed at proton's ads.
> But I never understood how people could so under-appreciate the tooling and structure that Rails provides.

12 years ago Rails was just as hyped as React is now. In a few years junior devs will be pooh-poohing React the same way as they are doing to Rails.
This would be illegal in Germany, where it is legally required that there are 11 hours of resting period between work days, or work and school. So students and workers can not work later than 9pm if they start at 8pm on the next day.
You're focusing on electricity and omitting heating, transport, industry and farming.
Or give us feedback. When I'm on the site for the first time...
Yep. Their FY starts Jan 1
That issue, while valid, has one of the highest ratios of "talked about on the forums divided by frequency of occurrence". If I had a 1997-2005 affected engine, I don't think I'd do the preventative maintenance work proactively until it came time to replace a clutch anyway.
Yeah I guess the issue is that there is a huge gap between notable bad, good, and what seems to come from trad publishing.

I dont think most of the covers are that BAD. They just stick out and its clear this book is self published.
It sounds pretty nice but also exhausting to be honest, I don't think a lot of people would be able to have that lifestyle.
Cellphones are UHF which follows a line-of-sight propagation pattern. It transmits much better through an empty sky than across the ground where there are obstacles.

The Voyager spacecraft are billions of miles away and use 23 watt radios. The video streamed from the moon landing used a 20 watt radio to transmit a quarter-million miles.

Starlink is just a couple hundred miles up.
People underestimate how easily they can travel and how it’s really just a privilege.

You end up on a no fly list or become a convicted felon and that’s it, your life of travel is snuffed out.

I really feel for the OP.
The quality control is a good question, and one that can probably be addressed using evaluation as taught by some of the deeplearning.ai short courses (1).

I made an interactive resume ai bot on my personal website and there is an instance where I can ask it "tell me about your intel experience" and it added in C++ as one of the languages, but that is untrue. I had done C++ at a different company.

1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
Sure but there are laws designed to prevent how far back they are able to look to find thaat information. And the laws aren't even being followed-- the lawyers should be telling them to follow them ... and yet.
- in Gambit History works on lines not S-Expressions like in LIPS

- With LIPS you don't need any new syntax to integrate with JavaScript you just use JavaScript directly (let ((msg "hello") (console.log msg)) SIX syntax doesn't look like Scheme.

- Help popup documentation, with LIPS you have documentation directly in the REPL (when you hover over the symbol) and you can access docstring as strings and assign them to values.

- You can create new syntax similar to scheme vectors and make representation the same as code

- You can manipulate almost everything in the language like environments that you can modify

- LIPS show stack trace not one line which gives an error that makes it easier to find where the error happens.

- The Bookmarks allow to run the REPL on every page even PDF files with R7RS spec.

- You can actually run the code that uses quotes (’ The apostrophe symbol) from the spec if you use syntax extension to add new syntax.
If that is the case then the children could simply stay at home and leave later.
minor quibble: dr. wirth had a doctorate from berkeley
The most interesting thing here is the discussion about using vendor hardware instead of their own bespoke stuff.

My takeaway is that it's still essentially impossible to negotiate anywhere close to a fair price with commodity server vendors until you are buying hundreds of machines, and then only if you are capable of demonstrating that you are willing to design and build them yourself. And yet despite this, it's still cheaper than cloud even paying advertised prices.

Where do regular people buy servers without insane markup if you need say 10-20? Used to be I could actually buy supermicro barebones, but that ended a really long time ago.
Makes /bin/, /usr/bin/ and /opt/ seem simple
The RF power from Starlink satellites that hits the outside of your body when you are outside is very very tiny.

It is estimated at 0.000000294 watts per square meter.

That amount of energy is much smaller than the 1000 watts per square meter of terahertz radiation, sunlight, that would hit you when stand outside in your swimming trunks on a bright cloudless summers day.

If you climb on the roof of a building and stand ten feet from a cellphone base station antenna there might be a few watts per square meter hitting your body.

It is not uncommon for a microwave oven to leak a couple of watts.

In a typical town the power level from starlink satellites is weaker than TV stations and 88-108MHz FM stations by a factor of at least tens of thousands.
RawJS library author here.

What I meant was that it's a small library with a relatively small surface area for bugs, and it's been under pressure from a few different projects for some time now, and it's been quite a while since we have discovered any behaviour I would consider to be buggy.

I'm sorry you took this as a "brag". This wasn't the intention.
It's the other way around, that they work on humans is suspect to it working on LLMs. These LLMs are trained on predicting what the human training data would say next. Since these kind of things often result in the following responses in the data being different it results in the model learning that difference in what comes next as well.
Yet they instinctively understand that they should delete certain files and prepare their computers for repair. We've had many who would walk in asking "hey, my computer is doing X is this fixable?" we would have no idea of course. We'd always ask can we see it, and they would say "I just don't wanna have to get it ready for repair if it wasn't possible"

This is why I totally understand when Apple or MS go overzealous with encryption or T2 or secure boot. Despite "people like us" complaining about it.
They might regulate the number that's okay for the person serving me, but they definitely don't regulate the amount I'm personally okay with.
I'm a little curious which is lower. But only a little.
A performance car doesn't magically get reliable just because you drive it slow- usually the opposite actually, you get carbon buildup issues, timing chain wear issues, etc. if a motor engineered for high RPM reliability is driven gently, or worse, lugged frequently at low RPMs.

I mentioned IMS issues elsewhere in this thread, but I think you're also being disingenuous with the Cayenne.

The Cayenne is a pretty darn impressive vehicle- a full sized SUV that handles well enough to be fun on a race track, and yet also does incredible offroad. It has a lot of engine options, and while some of the earlier high performance V8 engine options had issues, most of them are very reliable. It does pay for all of that performance and capability by being pretty complex, but it's also very well built. As the older Cayennes have become cheap, there's a big following now of people doing serious offroading in them, and the suspension, body, and interiors really hold up well to hard offroad use.

I would say Porsche engines tend to have new design flaws when they do a ground up engine redesign cycle, because they are really pushing the limits with new ideas and tech, and they get reliable again after a few years. Most other car companies pretty much avoid doing that, or doing it as often, because they aren't trying to extract as much performance.
Schools in my area start elementary schools way too late for that, unless you're paying for pre-care and not using the bus.

They do this so high school—and nb many high schoolers can get themselves to school in the morning, so parents don't necessarily have to be home for that—can start earlier (no district has so many buses they can start all schools around the same time—they have to stagger them), to leave more time after school for sports practice and other extracurriculars (but really, for sports).

> If it started later, that time would be replaced with pre-school care/activities.

Even without ours being the way it is, that would still just mean more time in (typically paid) after-school care. The hours absolutely do not overlap well enough to provide convenience, only relief from part of the cost of childcare.