skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't tend towards expressing personal comparisons "in public" since they seem both inevitable regardless of the situation and disrespectful to bring up as a topic of interest—not to mention potentially exposing you as incompetent yourself. I guess not everyone else feels the same way.

Hell, I'm free now! Everyone I've ever worked with sucks donkey-dick for not coding how I do!
I live on the other side of the river in Windsor. I came here to say exactly that.

I don't know how it is in Detroit but on this side Manuel Moroun is (was) reviled because he bought up a lot of residential property near the bridge, presumably for planned expansions (I don't know the details) which never happened so all of those houses are just boarded up and rotting. Crime and decay in that area is very high and this is surrounding a major port of entry into Canada. Not only is it so wasteful and destructive, but it's also not a great way to welcome people to our country.

From what I gather, Manuel was kind of a "fuck you I'll do what I want" personality and never really wanted to work with municipalities to find mutually beneficial solutions.

So the planned replacement has been in the works for quite a long time and is planned to complete and open soon.
I think you have to pay for it and I work for a small business.
That's what happens when you legalize corruption and call it lobbying and PACs.
it seems like we are devolving as a civilization, when was the last time we air dropped wild animals? some are even beginning to wonder if we still have the capability.
Show HN: Cumulus – Threat Modeling the Clouds
Hi HN!
I am excited to share OWASP Cumulus, a threat modeling card game for IT security in DevOps and cloud projects. Taking strong inspiration from the well-known card games "Elevation of Privilege" and "OWASP Cornucopia" we created a game for threat modeling specifically the Ops part of DevOps projects.

It targets DevOps engineering teams, site reliability engineers and security professionals and gives a lightweight start into threat modeling and security by design.

Please check it out at https://owasp.org/www-project-cumulus/ and contribute via https://github.com/OWASP/cumulus. Let's make this a community project!
But there's nothing preventing from building more and more houses if not zoning. Zoning is the problem enabling this.
Another european developer here. Europe is a contintent full of old boring people and the IT sector is solid, but rather unexciting. You want to be where the action and the excitement is.
Do yourself a favour and study in the States.
I think it was DOS he killed. But I get what you mean. When Microsoft was completely dominating the IT landscape during the 2000's command lines was often sneered at by "Microsoft Certified Professionals"
"Agile" (little agile) was certainly designed by developers for developers.

Your first sentence became correct after managers and MBAs co-opted the term and turned it into "AGILE" which has almost nothing to do with "agile".

Maybe we should call it !AGILE ;-)
We use ganeti and I'm ridiculously happy with it.

When I came on board we were using ganeti for dev/stg and VMWare for production. But the difficulty of monitoring VMWare (we were moving away from SAN to local storage, and doing a RAID array monitor was a PITA) and administering (via Windows GUI, which I had to run via a VM on my Linux workstations), plus the licensing weirdness (clusters of size 5 were a sweet spot, any more shifted the price dramatically).

So I eventually shifted our production to ganeti as well, because it had been so solid in dev/stg. It's all manageable from the Linux CLI, and it works really, really well. It's basically a management layer on top of kvm+qemu+drbd+ceph. https://ganeti.org/

The other popular option, which I ran in my previous work, is Proxmox. It is probably a more comfortable analog to VMWare users.
https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-virtual-environment/overv...
Lots of people do say that about industry as a whole or about specific sectors of industry.
DSPy and ColBERT with Omar Khattab
I am beyond excited to publish our first Weaviate Podcast interview in-person at the NeurIPS conference with Omar Khattab from Stanford University!

I am beyond grateful to have met Omar! I believe strongly that he is at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence technology, especially with the latest developments in Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Vector Databases!

Omar is a prolific scientist who has published many groundbreaking works, the latest of which being DSPy! DSPy is also an open-source software project on GitHub, achieving roughly 5,000 stars at the time of this writing! I think this is just scratching the surface of where DSPy will go. I think to reach this potential, the next step is developer advocacy and evangelism work. I will be the first to admit that it took me a couple tries to understand the abstractions of DSPy. The framework marries the concepts of pipeline design (really well explained by the abstractions in LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, or Weaviate modules), with prompt and model tuning. I think Omar did an amazing job of explaining this further in the podcast, so I will stop writing this and encourage you to check out the podcast below haha!

Omar also touched on ColBERT and multi-vector retrieval methods. These techniques aim to achieve the benefits of the contextual interaction in cross-encoders, directly in a vector index, without the slow inference of applying a cross encoder of a query and millions of documents. Omar again does an incredible job explaining such a complex topic, stay tuned for more updates from Weaviate on multi-vector support!

I really hope you enjoy the podcast! I am beyond grateful to have attended the NeurIPS conference and met so many amazing people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDung1LnLbY
If it's the issue I've been trying to workaround (to no practical success), it's something to do with how VirtualBox does 3D acceleration. I've found turning that off renders Windows 11 fine, though obviously with a significant performance penalty.
Japan tried it against the US in WWII. When I learned about this a few years back I was pretty shocked that it was such an obscure factoid that even killed a few people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
Yeah there are literally Reddit megathreads with hundreds of people sharing their code.
Where would studying in the EU be free? Not only do you have to live somehow, but most universities have tuition fees, and they are higher for non-EU-residents.
For quick flowchart I use https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
Advent of Code: The Lingual Odyssey
I'd say do US.

I'm a naturalized citizen of US from Turkey, and nothing beats us when it comes to opportunities.

Not. Even. Close.

Even if you choose EU job, look for ways to come to US.
Berlin startup sounds more fun if you ask me. But it depends on what you want I guess. Both seem like a good step forward
>For me, apt updates have always been super reliable - and error messages have mostly been quite specific and easy to google.

Lmao, come on now.

"Error: unmet dependencies"
> I find it hard to imagine that there was no use to the miltitary.

There is a long history of all kind of military ballooning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_military_ballooning

> An attacking army was able to setup hundreds of balloons on the deck of the boat, and then float over the city walls and drop flaming "bombs" from a height they leaves them untouchable.

If you can park a boat near a city you can destroy it/harass it much easier with just cannons. It is not enough to show that a thing can achieve an effect, but you also have to show that no other thing can achieve a comparable or better effect.

> they could breach the walls of the city by floating over it and landing somewhere inside.

They can, but that sounds like a recipe to be cut off from your friends and be easy prey to the enemy. And that's if they are lucky and do not drift off target. Not sure if that is a good idea.

> attacker could setup rows of tethered balloons

I think you are under estimating the amount of support required per balloon. The French Aerostatic Corps during the battle of the Fleurus had one balloon, and they needed 20 man to carry it to position.

> And if one built fins, and the winds were low enough, one could actually create direction by flapping

Balloons are huge, and they act kind of like a sail. Even in dead calm air, which itself is very rare, you would not get anywhere by human powered flapping because you would need to overpower all the air resistance. You are worse even in the slightest breeze.
I gave up on Raspberry Pi and have just started buying refurbished small form factor ThinkCentre models with i7 processors, adding my own SSD. They’re cheap for what you get, easily serviced, and _everything_ is available on x86-64 anyway. I haven’t been able to find a Raspberry Pi to purchase in years. There obviously have been, but never from a retailer I trust when I need one.
You say that we tend to have a more government friendly position, but if you look at the actual management of e.g. toll roads in Ontario vs the US it's entirely the opposite. Canada is riddled with private-public partnerships that have led to private monopolies enriching themself off the public dime, starting in the Mulroney era and it's never let up since.

The toll system on the New York interstates is a dream compared to what we have here on things like the 407.

Even our much lauded "socialist" single payer healthcare system actually consists mostly of many private entities (doctors) billing the government. Public pays, private profits -- just has the advantage (vs the US) of cutting out the parasitical insurance companies in-between.

Telco sector (split into a 3 parasites, mainly), wine/beer/liquor (special distribution and retail privileges just for Andrew Peller and Vincorp in Ontario, no inter-provincial trade, monopoly private Beer Stores), the list goes on. And we're getting new ones, e.g. Shoppers Drug Mart exclusive contract for COVID vaccine deliveries. Moving Service Ontario facilities into Staples stores. Likely based on whoever attended Doug Ford's daughter's Stag & Doe, etc.

Been that way since the Hudson's Bay Company. The most "successful" way to do business in Canada is via regulatory capture.
Flutter suffer, badly, to be tied to a specific lang.

If it where an API directly usable by any lang, then it could fly further.
They can be perfectly correct, and also not helpful at all in answering the question. Like right now.
Best Dev Methodology?

What do people consider as the current best dev methodology?
Yeah this…the conclusion I would have drawn is not that the gold star took between 2-5 on average, but rather, 85% of people who self-select as enjoying a programming challenge where not able to finish more than half the tasks. Not that that's bad — seems slightly above par for the leaderboards I was involved in — just that the conclusion is really misleading.
What about spotify? Their model should be strong if the others don't count streams.
Diamonds that erupt from Earth's center reveals the history of supercontinents
Agreed with your comments...

So we are saying it is a problem of perception? If we didn't know about the top 5's wealth, and the bottom was rising in wealth (Maybe lower rate than the top, but we don't know). There would be no problem?
I am someone with a computational physics background who is coupled with someone who is training to be a surgeon. We lived together during much of her medical school, and thus, are constantly around medical professionals.

I would absolutely trust a physicist (who has done actual empirical lab work) who has deeply studied a problem in the nutrition space over someone conventionally trained in nutrition.

You may be stunned to see how little numerical sense so many in the medical field have. And as someone who grows medicinal plants and follows that literature closely, I read tons of papers in that space. It is full of experimental design flaws and dubious correlations.

I have worked on a medical device that went through clinical trials.
Even Climate Scientists Weren't Ready for 2023, and That's a Worry
The problem is that, in the software world, it’s very easy to disguise an amateur-quality treehouse as a high-stakes engineering project.
Consider for a moment the possibility that TFA is wrong
Software engineer, see profile.

Also might make a small platform for matching technical people with other technical people because of the other post[1]. You can message about that too, if you want to either participate in that as a regular user looking for a cofounder, or do programming to make that platform as a contributor or cofounder.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255692
> The Windows Registry is far better than the the INI Hell(tm) that preceded it or the chaos that is assorted text files on Linux.

What excuse is there for the registry? Why are we stuck with 1980s solutions for 2024 problems? Why is there not simply some directory devoted per-app for configuration? How is this any better than "chaos that is assorted text files on Linux"? Of note—you can edit the linux configuration files with any editor you give a shit about, not just a one-off proprietary tool that obviously sucks ass.
At the consultancy company i worked for in the past they would rent out dev teams in sprints time periods xD. As a way to get a foothold at a new client. First design do orientating talks about the full product. Start shaving away features for the MVP and sell the MVP as the first shot.

I found it quiet genius move from their sales teams. Because usually customer went well actually i could also use feature x, y and z that didn't made the MVP product.
Scientists find a 'cool solution' for preventing animal extinction
Very curious what ROI was on ownership of this asset. Apparently he won a bidding war vs Buffet & Munger.
Of course, there are no guarantees that a startup will be successful. But it wasn't just luck. Myself and others worked hard to create something valuable. If I wanted the safety of a paycheck while working just the minimum hours, I would not have made the leap.

My criticism was of those who join a startup for the chance at a payout but don't want to put in the effort to help make that a likelihood.
Do carbon credits help communities that keep forests standing?
'It hasn't delivered': the failure of self-checkout technology
We lived in the US midwest. My in-laws live in a New England state, but on the end farthest from the coast, i.e. closest to us. That was a 15 hour drive, not counting meal and gas stops.

One time a group of friends and I drove from San Diego to Denver and back. It took 38 hours, and that was averaging 60.0 miles per hour according to hours_total/miles_total. We never left the western 1/3 of the US.

The US is large.
Flip a coin in the air, heads is US tails is EU.
Catch it, before you look ask yourself which one you are hoping it will be.
This is honest an American centric attitude.

to flip it on it's head. If you get ill or injured in the us you could be more than the $20K in debt for hospital bills. Whereas Europe has healthcare that will not take away everything you have. Also there is the fact that America is extremely anti-immigration at the moment.
Given Objective C is modelled after this I think, would that be a better choice today (ignore Swift as that is not dynamic?)?
I would absolutely get the qualification - especially under the circumstances you describe. You can get by without it, but it will close off many great opportunities if you don’t have it.

It positions you inside the US and may make it easier to work here initially. Salaries here are much higher than EU, and opportunities much better imho. You can always move to EU later, and be in a much stronger position.

Background: from Ireland, moved to US. No college degree.
> This bridge is far from a natural monopoly, as the border is considerably long.

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_River is a total of 24 miles long, and both sides have been populated since at least 11,000 years ago. Good luck.
> And how exactly does it do that?

By seeking a monopoly on resources

> Offering Eastern European countries too much freedom and prosperity

TOO MUCH LOOOL
I don't know the extent of this practice, and maybe someone from Italy can provide more info, but last summer there was a news item on Dutch TV how residents in a south-Italian town on the coast could only afford to seek solace from the heat wave by swimming in the polluted harbour area, because all of the beaches were privately-owned and charging beyond their means. And it was suggested in the news item that that holds true for large chunks of the Italian coastline.
You can overuse useEffect() for sure. But I don't know how else you'd react e.g. to the page query string parameters or component properties changing, when the rendered content depends on them.
What would the LLM be trained on?
Sorry for repeating myself across a few threads on the YT ads issue the past days, I posted here[1] and here[2] the reasoning I'm pasting below, I will repeat it because I believe it's a core issue on how YT is treating their customers even when they were willing to pay:

I was willing to pay for "no ads", YouTube had the perfect product for me, Premium Lite, which I gladly paid for 2 years until I got an email in October:

> Subject: Your Premium Lite membership will be discontinued

> Thank you for being one of our first Premium Lite members.

> We’re writing to let you know that after October 25, 2023, we will no longer offer your version of Premium Lite. While we understand this may be disappointing news, we continue to work on different versions of Premium Lite as we incorporate feedback from our users, creators, and partners. [emphasis mine on the bullshit]

> To show our appreciation, we’re offering a 1 - month trial of Premium (even if you’ve had a trial before). With Premium, you can watch videos ad - free, offline, and in the background. Plus, stream music ad - free in the YouTube Music app.

I don't need nor want the other features, just no ads, and paid for it for 2 years. Then YouTube decided to fuck me over and force me into a more expensive subscription tier, fuck them, I'll use ad blockers for as long as they work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38989006

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38966790
In general though, accessing nature from even those cities that are relatively well-situated to nice natural areas mostly requires either leaning on friends who do have cars or belonging to college outing clubs that organize trips.
That seems like a problem with the governments, not the private company.

If I ask the government for something unreasonable and they give it to me, you should blame the government and not me. I'm within my rights to ask for whatever I want.
TBF they may have stopped - I do the same thing with unique emails, and just checked my email history - I actually wrote to Home Depot's privacy line in January 2021 to complain about that practice, and AFAIK haven't noticed any of their marketing emails since. (Though I had manually unsubscribed as well.)
> Where will you choose to go if you don't survive 1 more year?

If you live every day like it’s your last you’re going to be wrong a lot.

You’re not in complete control of your future but if you ignore the effects of your decisions today, you’re doing your future self a big disservice.
Oh lawdy. I can't say that surprises me.
I view it as ragebait for nerds...

And I yet I still get baited everytime
Review: Mitigation measures to reduce tire and road wear particles
This isn't a loophole. This is by design. AWS wants you to use specific services in specific ways, so they make it really cheap to do so. Using an endpoint for S3 is one of the ways they want you to use the S3 service.

Another example is using CloudFront. AWS wants you to use CloudFront, so they make CloudFront cheaper than other types of data egress.
Yes, as long as you consider everything being in the same database and thus being able to be corrupted all at once and not being human editable as features.
Code refactoring with unit tests is fine when it is within the unit test units, but when it crosses unit boundaries the tests often must be re-written, doubling the effort required.
British Library begins restoring digital services after cyber-attack
WhatsApp Integration: Communicate at Scale
Used worldwide for communication, WhatsApp is a great tool for businesses. Let's talk about some ways that integrating it with web services can provide new avenues of growth and automation for businesses.
Oh, I absolutely agree that the field isn't stationary. It's moving at a breakneck pace, in fact!

But synthetic training data has its problems. Oh, it's great if you want a limitless supply of templated high school math problems. In other fields, though? If GPT-whatever is a bit unclear on whether Magnus Hirschfeld was a Nazi or a victim of the Nazis, and you use it to generate synthetic training data - you can't expect the student model to know better than the teacher model does.
He may not have consciously written them to confuse LLMs but even without using any he probably knows they get more confused on reasoning tasks stated in not very clear text. At least for a few problem descriptions I couldn't help feeling that the statement was a lot more complex than it could have been and not only because of the story woven around it. Of course it could have been there to confuse the humans :)
I’m very tired of people using clinical-sounding terms to describe their felt, first-person, lived experiences when it adds no preciseness—which should be the whole point of using such terminology.
We have progressed!

https://www.theonion.com/wildlife-officials-restock-lake-by-...
You’re welcome. I get the impression that it’s more a matter of Vint Cerf being behind it and Google just letting his curiosity drive him wherever. He started it with a team of scientists at JPL, I think. Google’s ROI is probably the prestige of having their brand next to whatever Vint does.
I started my career back in the mid-80's and so I've lived with the process being described here. Kent Beck was a breath of fresh air and we all thought yes, this is what we've actually been doing! Mostly.

Here's the thing: in some ways I think what we were doing back then was better. I just noted XP was essentially what we were doing anyway. Different teams and projects essentially chose their own internal methodology depending on what worked best for the project. Waterfall was what was presented to the project stakeholders.

What does that mean? Paradoxically, we actually had more flexibility back then! Thanks to the tooling, which more or less standardizes the methodology, and all the Agile Coaches which have been trained on that tooling and standardized methodology - Agile today isn't very, well, agile - at least not from a development perspective.

People point out that Agile allows for the requirements to change. No it doesn't. That's not a magic wand. Requirement changes still have project delivery impacts. Agile doesn't make that go away. It just provides for smaller iterations which facilitate the management of requirement changes. Know what? Iterative Waterfall, which we had been doing since the 80's (actual Waterfall is an artifact from the 70') also allowed for that.

Now I live in a world of WaterScrumFall, which is absolutely the worst of all worlds.
American Fighter Downs Houthi Missile Heading Toward USS Laboon
Well the map seems to suggest we're mostly dealing with US centric companies in this

Annoyingly the removal company with most coverage seems to require minimum 1 year subscription. So hit & run for a single month isn't possible with them
I'm not an expert on monk lifestyle but I'm pretty confident they lead a less stressful life than most here
This was a great read. Like a more noble version of the bat bombs employed during the war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb