skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suffering in order to maximize income is, for me, a bad deal. You can enjoy life and make very good money even if it's not technically the most money you can possibly make.

You know, if you put it like this, it sounds pretty alarming. Thanks for the perspective.

> you're setting yourself up for a career disaster later on.

Exactly what I'm most afraid of I think.
I have passed the one year mark already, but that still feels like a "short stint" somehow.
They are, but nobody cares about that standard, not even government agencies.
That seems optimistic
> Whatever happened to Boeing's "Engineering Excellence" ?

Management by accounting ... cost of paying death settlement is cheaper than building a proper airplane.
Though admittedly I haven't played with phi-2 much, smaller models are hurt much more by quantization. I'd try 8 bits or so, at least.
Very clever solution! Would be cool to add a color coding of the time, maybe same way as Apple does sun position in the weather app. So when you scroll time you can see where of all these places the sun is still up.
The problem with inheritance is that no one seems to know where to use it best. Everyone just goes by feel and feelings frequently turn out to be wrong.

Composition is nice because it’s very simple and we can understand it mathematically. If you’re trying to understand inheritance mathematically then you’re basically left with using it only for algebraic structures (groups and rings and fields and vector spaces). But then you don’t really need inheritance there if you just have plain types and operator overloading.
Weird use case, but some places use 12hr, some use 24hr time. You could likely infer that by timezone name itself?

I know if I get meeting at noon or midnight - I need to triple check everything…
No loans and enough savings already for a year - that's the big perk of working here I guess.

Time to reevaluate then :)
Cost is paid during development and maintenance. Value is reaped during usable life. The two periods overlap. Then subtract value from cost and integrate. Maximize that number.

Easily leads to conclusions of "you don't need this to scale" vs "build this to scale" and "you need to make this extensible" vs "just ship the hacky thing".

Just need to know what your params are and place uncertainty on it.

Once I wrote a program in a day. Did a kind of pricing. Hacky af. Just tech demo. Over time people start depending on it. One year later it breaks. Too many products priced, internal ring buffer only has few slots. Pricing stalls for all products.

"This is a company-killing issue!" Everyone yells. Sure, my mistake. I let thing get depended on without productifying but original choice was fine since it allowed iteration on something else that made money. Just when situation changes you gotta adapt.

No rules about that except just short loop on quality required and time spent.
Hackers use binary! Must be a hacking site.
In the erstwhile third-world countries the moniker "Boeing" was synonymous with all Aeroplanes and a symbol of American Technological Might. Every kid knew of "The Jumbo Jet" and families would make weekend picnic trips to the Airport to see one up close and if allowed, enter the cabin for a tour. You were "somebody" if you had traveled in a Airplane and bazillion times more-so if it was on a "Jumbo Jet".

It seems Boeing is now set on destroying all reputation and goodwill earned over decades and by extension making American Technology and Management a laughing stock in the World.
Sadly this does not seem like hyperbole[0]. I wish it was not true.

[0]https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1625378887617363968
Aviation safety is part of the FAA's mission.

I'm open to evidence of their regulations being substantially driven by airline unions, but I've never heard of this.

edit I think I just found exactly that. From page 23 of this 2014 MSc thesis [0]

> Airline labor unions have fought to increase on the job safety for their members through litigation, supporting regulations, and member education. Labor unions were instrumentals in pushing for the adoption of safety measures such as TCAS and the anti-fatigue rest rules of FAR117.

[0] https://commons.und.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1398&con...
In-flight video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaONLEa8LFE
OP is using a strawman caricature of a programmer to make his point. While such bad (often junior) programmers exist, there also exist many reasonable ones who won’t commit all these over the top abstractions while also not falling into the "scientific" programming pathologies.
> Park praised three aircraft types in particular: the Airbus A380, the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350.

> The 787 and A350 nudge the humidity up to approximately 25% — an incremental upgrade, to be sure, but an upgrade nonetheless. That's because their composite-materials fuselages won't rust like metal ones would under increased humidity.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/the-healthiest-planes-in-the-a...

Haven't been on an A350 but definitely enjoyed the other two for long-haul. There's a noticeable difference when you spend enough time in that tube, Sydney to London is 24hr's straight with a short time off the plane halfway in the middle of the night. Long-haul is the default for Australians travelling internationally.
The GP probably does, but it is kind of funny that they chose a really bad example of an expert. In light of the replication crisis, "Thinking - fast and slow" has been heavily criticised, and rightfully so.

In my opinion, it belongs more in the pop-sci category more usually written by non-experts.
>If people find their app, like what they see, and are willing to pay the price, what is your objection exactly?

My more general objection to your question is that I don't consider individual preference, or individual choice, or individual action beyond criticism, just because the individual is "fine with it".

People can "find a product, like what they see, and be willing to pay the price", and the purchase could still be stupid and deserved to be called as such, and the price could still be highway robbery and be deserved to be called as such, and the product could still be subpar/average/bad and be deserved to be called as such.
Other than no funding and a team size of 1? ;-)

Slightly different vision and approach but both are publishing platforms. There’s plenty of room for competition in this space, I think.

Monetisation: Seedling uses direct tipping instead of NFTs. Plans for paid subscriptions to private content. Crowdsourcing will offer share of tips for investment.

Architecture: Seedling is primarily a discovery service and will allow content to be hosted on different platforms. Seedling has no backend server to deliver content.
> I was directed to park across the street and told even though the signs said "no parking" that they had a "deal with the city".

He said he didn’t have a car a few paragraphs before. Has he earned enough by then?
Yes, they were.
They got stuck with ice and they disagreed in the air speed sent.
Because of this the autopilot was disabled and the flight controls were switched in alternate law 2.
The pilot that was flying failed to realise that this meant that his inputs had a much bigger effect compared to normal flight and he panicked and he also failed to relinquish control to the much more experienced pilot (on that model) multiple times.
How are the pitot tubes not the root cause?
In my experience, it's great at its size, but obviously worse than mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2. Currently mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1 is the lowest inference cost model at similar performance level of GPT-3.5.
Prototyping a Flying Umbrella
He then proceeds to specify that it was a borrowed one
Probably true but if you have several popular short stories done in a certain style or genre then it’s a good bet that a novel in the same will be more popular. They’re good practice too, the article mentions that a lot of the respondents have only published a single book.
Wow! That's one of my most loved now. Great job!
Yes, they have. They haven't announced much in the way of concrete products/features, but they have announced an effort to stuff iOS full of unspecified generative AI ”stuff”, much centered on Apple’s own in-house LLM, and put lots of resources behind it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-22/what-i...
> What is a contract for it can be broken with "no-fault"?

Plenty of contracts end when one party wants out for whatever reason. A contract is just setting the rules. One of the rules can be that it can be dissolved at the demand of any party.
Mmm. Maybe lets stop and address the question of "what are the key properties of inheritance?". Because I haven't seen a single use for it in maybe a decade or so and I'm not sure what it is you think you're defending.

Usually what people want is an interface; ie, a somewhat generic way of saying "this thing knows how to draw itself", "this thing supports printing" or "this thing can fizzle wuzzles like all the other wuzzle fizzlers". That is essential to coding.

But Java style inheritance carries a lot of baggage in excess of that; and some of it is just bad news. In practice it is a brittle assumption that a Foo is also and always a precise superset of Bar. And usually when that is true the relationship is so shallow having a dedicated concept of inheritance is wasteful, it may as well be an interface and a shared file of code.

TLDR; Inheritance is too many ideas mixed together; most useful and a couple bad. It is a better idea to present the different facets of inheritance to be selected a la carte. Mumble mumble Rich Hickey talks.
Depends on the shell. Murex, for example, follows order of precedence correctly
> but it also isn’t the job of the government to make your products good

A century of progress in domestic automotive sector would disagree with your opinion, here.

If it wasn't for the gub'ment infringing on the liberties of the little guys (corporations), we'd still be driving cars without airbags, seatbelts, and proper fuel tank safety regulations.
The master and commander books by Patrick O'Brian are great also, well researched descriptions of naval warfare during Napoleon's wars.
The best historical fiction I've ever read, and the audiobooks by Patrick Tull are also really good.
Please note that, despite the misleading title, TFA is about the precedence of bitwise operators & and | with respect to the comparison operators (== and all the others). In particular it was asked to Ritchie why the former are weaker than the latter in C, a rule generally considered a mistake because it makes it impossible to write common expressions like

if (addr & mask == 0)

without adding extra parentheses:

if ((addr & mask) == 0)

TFA is not about the relative precedence between & and | (which is well understood, although disputed, and has mathematical basis), or between && and || (which mimics & and |). And TFA is not even about the precedence of the logical operators && and || vs. the comparison operators.

I'm writing this because I've seen a lot of comments that, while interesting in themselves, completely misunderstood the premise.
> I have yet to see anything substantial that serves as evidence that Apple is intentionally

Like what? What do you need here, additional to what is already happening? A letter signed by the CEO? Seriously? The evidence is right before us all. It is happening. People are being bullied because of this. Why should they have to write it down? For people to leak and make them liable?

They do it this way and it works automatically. At least in the US.

> As it stands now, this anti-social behavior seems wholly driven by the culture of people in general, or more so the culture in the US if we’re being specific.

Yeah, it is easy to blame it on the people. The fact remains that they could do something about it, and pretty easy. They don't and there is no sane reason to not do it. Meanwhile, the pressure for Android users to switch remains and the whole practice is even being promoted and defended by their own customers for them. Here you go with your anti-social Win-win.
Adversarial ML: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations [pdf]
The Unintended Complexity of a VR Fighting Game [video]
We should not underestimate the engineering talent of clowns. After all, how do so many of them fit into such a small car?
Well in some things it totally can be to some extent, yes. You can almost certainly get a Mistral 7B fine tuned for a specific thing (e.g. coding) and it will likely be about as good as 3.5 in that specific thing (not a super high bar in objective terms). For all the other areas it may suffer in performance relative to its original self, but for some applications that's fine. As for GPT-4 it's about 120 ELO points [0] above Mixtral, and that's even the distilled turbo version. Not even close imo, especially when Mixtral is far less censored.

Both 3.5 and 4 have changed drastically over the past year with continued fine tuning, quantization, etc. so what some people consider their level is not exactly a fixed point either.

[0] The actual leaderboard I'm referencing, it has its biases but it's the most generally indicative thing available right now: https://chat.lmsys.org
No, it’s not just that people write C++ like it’s C. Another example: there is no simple syntax for broadcasting a function over a collection. Anonymous functions have syntax that is all parentheses and brackets. They’re this way because adding them to the language itself would be breaking. You can’t easily improve the syntax of these things yourself for your subset of code because the meta programming systems C++ has just aren’t great compared to Lisp and Lispy languages like Julia. Further, even if you do add a bunch of cool stuff yourself like a GC or some other syntax magic, it rarely composes well with other libraries. Core to this is that inheritance never really panned out as hoped, and templates are cumbersome. C++ has come a long way, but all of that is due to the overall design of the language itself, not just how it is used.

Can you write something as fast as BLAS in JavaScript? As far as I know, the answer is no.

Python’s dynamism makes it so that a compiler often times can’t do anything to infer what some function calls will do. No investment will completely fix it without breaking changes to the language itself.
I’d like to be able to save :)
Nice one, given that this probably went down to the diff level it would be interesting to see it weighted by LOC changed, e.g. 10 lines in file A and 1 line in file B would mean file A gets 1/11th of the money assigned because it was the majority of the bug.?

Or perhaps a LOC changed / file LOC based distribution. That would be how buggy each file is, with a $$$ tag.
Yeah. This is one of those hammer cases. If you’ve got a fancy IDE then the temptation is to use it. Similar to the issue of game programmers being given top of the line gaming PCs with frequent upgrades. They then struggle to understand why the game they just released runs like crap on most people’s modest computers.
Nothing to worry about.

Market will fix it after lots of people die and people return to using buses and boats for long-distance travels.
Sounds like this

* pushes the problem one level down ("why are cells conscious?")

* adds the problem of explaining how consciousness of a person relates to consciousness of its cells.

What would this model help explain?
He provides no evidence of the "rising" part. Listing a bunch of events does not demonstrate "rising."
@strawberr.vy/elizabethle videos on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaONLEa8LFE

Note: different cuts from the above TikTok video, it is not exactly the same edit.

( From related
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774 )
The fact that your dad (and our all moms and dads) get spam, and we don't (or less) doesn't have anything to do with the messenger. Just google "spam on imessage". It is because your dad has people in their contacts who are not careful with their phone number. Or your dad is.
America invented cloud.
I want to know that any airplane I fly on was designed and built by the most diverse group of people possible, the patriarchy be damned!
You're thinking too much.

People crave confort. Be it a god, a church, the state or a feudal lord who promises everything will be alright.
A family member of a senator or congressman must perish in an accident before any legislation will occur.
Yeah, totally-- I roll with it tactfully IRL, I'm usually like well Sweden had the most effective government, Brazil had unbelievable natural beauty, etc. I'm just using this opportunity to whine about a pet peeve :-)
Part of me wants to never get on any of the Max variants, on the other hand, so many have been ordered around the world that it's impossible to avoid the plane.
What are some other projects you've been excited by? Love seeing what people are capable of by indulging their passion.
- great anekdotes

- excellent writing

- small observations that imply a ton

loved this writeup
Previous related(?):

- Yesterday (Friday 2024-01-05): "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air" (417 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882358
There’s a reason why new accounts are labeled green; just flag the incendiary comment and move on.
> USD dept is at an all time high

It's been every year at a all time high since 1970... and it's been decades already that we know it won't get repaid.

> Our government and judicial systems are now governed by money.

Weren't they always or did you believe in fables before?

> Collapse is inevitable

Collapse it inevitable if other countries lose trust in the US and its economy. We are not there yet because many other options are still worse. Everything is measured relatively to other things.
Yeah, just got to that part.
Extremely exciting.
Related:

- Today - "Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout" (47 comments, so far): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774
Yeah but unfortunately it is very compatible with social conservatives and certain extreme christians who want to make it as hard as possible for adults to access porn as well, ideally banning it.

Thats not possible to do, so they go and attack it with fake outrage (and it are all fake, children are not actually interested in sex nor do they spontainously combust if they see naked adults).

Same with exedus cry, which is not about "saving adult performers" but about making it harder and harder to run a porn site.
Apparently, this is a good starting point... Good Luck!

Donut Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MK...
The list of TZs should sort naturally, not on order of TZ addition.
It has always been strange to me that for an industry that claims to be engineering and data focused stops when it comes to our own processes.

One Lazy google search searching for a paper, and not a blog:

https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia....

In 1999, a controlled experiment run by the
second author at the University of Utah
investigated the economics of pair programming.
Advanced undergraduates in a Software
Engineering course participated in the
experiment. One third of the class coded class
projects as they had for years – by themselves.

The rest of the class completed their projects with
a collaborative partner. The results of how much
time the students spent on the assignments are
shown below in Figure 1. After the initial
adjustment period in the first program (the
“jelling” assignment), together the pairs only
spent about 15% more time on the program than
the individuals [4]. Development costs certainly
do not double with pair programming!

Significantly, the resulting code has about 15%
fewer defects [4]. (These results are statistically
significant.) Figure 2 shows the postdevelopment
test cases the students passed for
each program – essentially the percentage of the
instructor’s test cases passed.

The initial 15% increase in code development
expense is recovered in the reduction in defects,
as the following example illustrates...

So the from this paper is the initial work is more costly, anyone that tells you it is not is probably wrong, but not double. But they are producing different work at a different quality level, at a different speed.

Sure there could be problems with the methodology, it might apply to students and not professionals (a classic psyche 101 bias). But it is something, certainly not a scam.
Very true; exactly what happened in the aftermath of the two 737 MAX disasters.

And they have the temerity to call those societies which still practice "Blood Money restitution" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_money_(restitution)) as "savage, backward and uncivilized".
No fault divorce allows egregious “breach of contract” with no consequences.
> They could just phone Apple

That's the thing. Once they realise that they have to put effort in it, the threats stop.
Can the rest of the world step up for once and produce something worthwhile? It’s entirely pathetic that 8 billion people have so little to show that we have to constantly be in this situation.
In computer science, for some reason - people struggle to distinguish between an engineer and a scientist.
As can Oxygen.
Interesting. What would be the point of a contract written as such?

So a contract can be, I pay you $100 then you do the work, but either party can walk away with "no-fault" at anytime. So I pay, then you walk away without doing anything? What would be the point?
Even funnier because Boeing tried being cute with the Canadian aerospace industry, and instead shot themselves in the foot with a shotgun.

Boeing tried to screw Canada's Bombardier out of the C series aircraft by getting the US Gov to throw on tariffs for an aircraft they had no competitor for. Everything was already done AFAIK that point too; certifications, and everything, the plane was entering into production to fufill US airline orders. It cost $1.3 billion Canadian to develop the plane.

I suspect Boeing thought that'd be the end of it. Airbus had other ideas. They got the whole Bombardier C series aircraft for about $550 million and opened an assembly plant in Alabama in Mobile, about 350 miles from Boeing's assembly plant in Huntsville. Along with the orders from US airlines (I think for 130 aircraft). No more tariffs because these planes are now US made.

As a Canadian it stings a little, but I can't help but cackle at the fact that Boeing execs handed their one major competitor several billion in revenue on a silver platter. And Boeing will need years if not decades to come up with a competitor.

So from Canada: Get fucked sideways Boeing.
So laughable that Rust was only just removing the green thread runtime [1] more than two years after Go had hit 1.0 [2], yet is still fine?

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0230-remo...

[2]: https://go.dev/blog/go1
On the flip side, there are also cases where some changes to the language make things more obvious and simple. As a non-native English speaker, allowlist/denylist make more sense to me than whitelist/blacklist, since allow/deny describe the purpose well, as opposed to white/black.

As for having a "main" branch or other things like that, I don't really mind the change much. Admittedly, both the claims about implications surrounding slavery and counter-arguments regarding names like having a "master record" seem overblown to me (on one side, why care about some obscure software term instead of trying to effect actual change? on the other, why push back against a trivial change so much, it's not like using a different term is so hard if it pleases a lot of people?), although perhaps due to me not having the heritage of the people in the US, so I just quiet down and do the sensible thing.
Not what I was expecting haha. Interesting implementation! Seems super helpful and +100 for the great domain name too.
Somehow it feels less error prone to service an extra door than to replace the whole element from time to time. At least to my armchair viewpoint
If you want something more involved you could also automate the run time and ditch the notebook environment.