skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So?
Let's think of a story, say there are 2 companies that make Orange juice A and B, and we have evidence that in some of company A juice some rat excrement was found a few years back , they promised to fix it but this month again we found evidence in a bottle of rat excrement.

And your reply sounds like, the chance of you dying from this is lover then if you eat a delicious hamburger so you should continue buying from company A even if you know that they do not took the rat problem serious and probably if we would check all the bottles of juice from A and do deep scan we would find much more problems.

If you continue to give money to A why would they hire back the QA people they fired before so they can get giant bonuses.

IMO it is proven that Boeing does not care about your safety, they just asked for an exception for a safety requirement, putting the passanger safety responsibility on pilots training and memory because fixing the issue the proper way would cost time and money and that is more important then safety. https://simpleflying.com/boeing-requests-boeing-737-max-7-ce...
Reminds me of https://www.theturfwarzone.com/newoffensive/shitwigshtmlvers...
I'm not suggesting "live and let live", I am suggesting we approach the topic seriously - and if one is serious, one takes into consideration causality (that which causes things to happen as they do, which is sometimes other than how it seems).

Everyone likes to privilege their ingroup's form of unseriousness, but that doesn't make the consequences vanish.
The reason why this misunderstanding is so pervasive is probably because joins are effectively function application (or function composition, bit of the same thing really).

I also wrote about this ;-) https://pragmathics.nl/2023/10/24/putting-the-relational-bac...
What does "aggressively manage their careers" mean?
Buy2fix Is a Scam Website
Hmmm. I'm sympathetic to this perspective, I've sketched ideas for social media that was more "friends of friends" oriented (specifically I want to have a platform based around collections of media - I create a collection, upload some pdfs and videos and markdown files etc, and start serving those via torrent. Peers that happen to place the same file in their own collections suddenly become co-seeders. I want to see "what other collections does this file appear in" and make friends that way. I feel like limewire used to work like this, you find someone with a grateful dead bootleg and wonder, what other files are they serving? I also use ebay kinda like this, find an interesting item and look at "sellers others items")

Anyway, I agree that a social graph has the potential to offer human-scale and $5-VPS-scale discoverability. The problem is probably with user expectation and network effect. How do you get people to use the thing when no one is using it yet, to bootstrap to the point where you might actually bump into someone with the same niche interest as you. Still, it could start with small communities same way telegram group chats and discord servers do. You just have to bring the people to you instead of just trying to index the firehose of global content.
LLMs can hide arbitrary undetectable information in their responses
ChatGPT could encode usernames, timestamps and other session context into its responses in a way that would only be retrievable by OpenAI and provably invisible to everyone else
> We’re planning to release it as open source once the code base matures,

If it's not open source, I'm not touching this. The one thing Git has over all these alternatives its that GitHub dies, Git is still around and is GPL.

If you really want to be taken seriously, please make sure its open source with a copyleft license.
>> People love to work.

> Maybe software folks are a different breed (perhaps because code and computers are like Adult Legos) but I can’t agree more.

This is worth a read: "Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun" (https://www.fastcompany.com/90965361/why-did-the-metaverse-d...):

> The problems begin with the way Silicon Valley looks at the value of time. This is something I explored as part of the research project I run, called Components. In mid-2022, I analyzed seven years of Product Hunt, the popular clearinghouse for new tech products that has been described as “a must-read website in the VC world,” and a site that investors have come to use “as a sourcing mechanism.” ...

> First, throughout the seven-year period studied, apps tagged with “productivity” gradually dominated the field, going from a minor attribute in the beginning to more than 40 percent of all new products launched by the end....

> ...These apps didn’t metastasize out of nowhere—they reflected the value system of their funders and creators. ... In other words, Wajcman learned, these productivity tools were used to facilitate the creation of more productivity tools. ...

> This leads to the third, and most crucial, finding: Those promoting productivity apps on Product Hunt and those promoting games did not simply tend to be different people—they were the least likely to be the same people among any pair of the 120 most common categories on the site. ...

> In Bataille’s framing, then, what separates the two opposite groups in our Product Hunt analysis is how they understand waste, and means and ends. The gamers assign meaning to wasted time by viewing it as an end in itself to which other means are directed, and naturally orienting all activities toward the maximization of that waste. The productivity app cohort forces itself into an infinite cycle of waste minimization, in which surplus time must be continuously reinvested for further saving, and the means become the ends themselves. The perfectly ordered Google calendar does not facilitate other goals — it is the goal.

> ...

> There are plenty of exceptions to this whole rubric, of course. Any gamer who has had to contend with the petty coerciveness of large studios like Rockstar or Activision Blizzard knows that accountability in the games industry only goes so far. But unlike the bulk of what Silicon Valley has produced over its nearly 15-year bull run, the metaverse had to actually work as advertised, and what it advertised was freeform play. Not only is the Silicon Valley ecosystem not really interested in playing games, but fails to understand why anyone else would either. As London School of Economics professor Wajcman put it, “Calendars will never ask us what we want to save time for,” and neither will any of the other productivity tools. They might be able to help us save time, but they can’t help us waste it.
I think you're right, but a lot of these things are dependent on how large of a project it is. The highest order bit is some sort of open, democratic-ish (at least nominally) governance and/or acceptance of patches from outside of the team, I think. It starts with "public issue tracker and responsive, professional developers" and then grows from there.
I go back and forth on this kind of thing; if the better option really is EOL, is it better to keep using it until it actually breaks, or is it better to take the pain up front? I don't have an actual answer in the general case, but on the bright side Xorg is still not dead even though the pro-Wayland crowd says so at every single opportunity; it has a nonzero number of maintainers, gets commits on a slow but regular cadence, and appears likely to continue working for the forseeable future. If we assume for a moment that the X server will really actually die when Red Hat stops maintaining it (questionable; the BSDs appear more attached to it than RH), that merely gives us until the end of RHEL 9 around 2032, which is far enough away that I feel comfortable not worrying about it.

Also, as sibling comment points out, a simple solution exists in the form of rootful xwayland; we can keep a working X11 environment and just swap out the actual rendering layer.

Or put differently: "Given that X11 is going away, the server (except for Xwayland) is unmaintained," just isn't true, and even if it was it wouldn't necessarily justify the claims you make on that basis.
I have to say the image associated with the text "With the power of shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS, we can generate high-quality, aesthetically pleasing UI code." made me laugh, because it not only doesn't look particularly good to me (but that's personal style as much as anything) but seems to be one of those layouts that results in an optical illusion. I keep seeing gray circles at the intersections of the gaps between rows and columns that aren't actually there.

Looks interesting as a proof of concept, I'm curious about the quality of the code it generates.
I agree and as a person working full time in Rust there are a lot of things in Zig I'm jealous of. I'm now at the "somewhat disillusioned" phase of working in Rust and if I wasn't so heavily buried in Rust projects (both personally and professionally) I'd consider starting a project in Zig. Well, mostly Cargo and Crates.io are my complaints around Rust. But also the lack of progress on allocator-api, and portable SIMD.

I would, however, really miss ADTs/pattern-matching if I made the switch to Zig.
Optimisation isn't necessarily handwritten assembly, sometimes you just need to squeeze a little extra juice out of your current setup whether that happens to be a python application or some c code.
> the headline really smells like it's trying to make the "people are getting dumber" case.

It's from Big Think, so it's likely clickbait.

There's so much clickbait on HN lately that I've started checking the domain name before clicking through.
Shareholder capitalism is mystification: even if I and 51% (or even higher percentage) of other General Motors shareholders walked into the Renaissance Center in Detroit with signed affidavits demanding some course of action, the law is such that the management doesn't have to do it, and we can't really do anything about it.

The reality is that widely-held public companies offer this deal: We (the executive class) get to do whatever we want, and you can come along for the ride or you can get off. There is no room for your input in any capacity other than as a consumer.

Unions, on the other hand, can have their leaders show up and actually get a meeting. I hope activists shareholder gambits like this can move the needle in some way, maybe even build into a movement and surprise me, but the most practical way ordinary people can change corporate behavior is probably still labor organizing, as unsexy as that is.
I mean they probably filter for the kind of people that can tolerate and go through this stuff because their positions are also requiring brainless man-machines
1. Of course you have some control, like in driving. You can put on the seat belt, and not remove it until landing. When driving you have no control over other actors. In plane you have two professional pilots.

2. Traffic accidents with injuries happen daily, but very few of them are reported. That doesn't make ground transportation less risky.
> Licensing: just choice a good safe default: apache2.0 or mpl2.0

No, this is how you get seriously annoying divergences in products like this. GPL2/3 would be 10/10. It would also protect the company too.
This serves the purpose of cross-platform file sharing. Great job.
I don't disagree with you. Your competing definition is a welcome addition to the conversation.
Depends entirely how you approach it. You can build relationships that last a day and still learn a lot.
Yeah, you have a point. For security, implementation goes like this: the keys are generated once for a page load and are not recorded (for obvious reason - security), keys are gone after closing the browser tab, so, as far as tool is concerned keys are ephemeral. To generate new keys simply reload the page.
At idle? I didn’t think they consumed anything at all really at rest.
HPV was "cured" (cleared) by the human body itself within 2 months in 5% of the control subjects (n=20) and in 88% of the test group (n=41).

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1615/intjmedmushrooms.v16.i5.80
One place where I prefer dict() is where dicts are used as "nested kwargs", e.g. in Django's ORM for passing default values.

User.objects.get_or_create(
username="bob",
defaults=dict(
email="bob@example.com",
)

this makes it easy to move fields between `defaults` and `kwargs`. Granted, you could achieve the same isomorphism with ** operator, but less readably IMO.
Code runs on computers, and cloud is just a single word for "someone else's computer". Great, you've outsourced hardware provisioning, maybe even OS patches - that's smart, this is not your core business, just like toilet plumbing isn't. But you still need to hire someone to carry a pager, and when the plumbing fails, that person needs to understand what exactly went wrong - sometimes at 3AM on a Sunday. Engineering and operations is not just layering abstractions, we've had Lisp 60 years ago and yet it didn't solve everything.
There are some spatial tracks that are extraordinarily good, and others that seem worse than the stereo version.

Apple Music doesn't let you easily choose spatial vs non-spatial from the Now Playing screen. They have a single on/off toggle for everything. So it's much easier to simply have Spatial Audio turned off for everything.
Python's popularity is more tragedy than success story.
Might also be worth scanning,
Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the landscape of diverse self-correction strategies

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03188
Wrong kind of disruption. If your profit margins are 0.5% then a tiny dip in demand, 2% spike in interest rates, or spike in steel costs etc can be devastating.

If you’re a software company with profit margins over 40% then you don’t care much about rent etc.
Or more pointedly for phone service - the entire existence of MVNO carriers (though less extreme than the space launch area, where SpaceX is so much cheaper).
Every company that uses the MBA reductionist framework inevitably ends up scamming the customers, the employees, society, taxpayers, the environment, politics, and everything that exists.

It is a virus that eats reality and turns it into money.

If humanity is to survive, MBAs have to be outlawed and banished from any form of administration.

Draining everyone, that is what they exist for. Tax evasion, rampant corruption, loss of privacy, mass surveillance, ecocide, regular mass layoffs, low wages, perpetual war, greedflation, etc. Behind every problem, a MBA.

Without MBAs, we would be living on Mars. Instead, MBAs are marsforming earth.
Accidental vs. Essential Complexity
I think the future is some BEAM-like VM abstraction for cloud environments. I worked at a 100% AWS serverless place and the current tooling is terrible. Now I'm working in Elixir and it offers so many of the tools I wish I had when working there.
If that's British concept of freedom I'm most definitely mocking it.

You can't see that you're forcing people to act in some way when you film them.

The kind of freedom you defend here is the one of reducing other people's freedom (by a larger amount than what you sacrifice by not filming).
Hey, I had a meeting with your sales dept in November and have been in talks around feature suggestions and requirements before and after that. I've replied to the email I got regarding my pro plan getting bumped to a scale plan (which in itself is reasonable, it's the pricing model itself i find questionable) and I'll consider scheduling a call via the link too.

I love what you guys are doing technically, I'm just a bit anxious about the path that this seems to take you away from the pay-for-what-you-use model.
What is the value add of using AI assistance here as opposed to something deterministic, like Snyk?
>If you're relying on your competitor to enable your business model then you're not competing with them.

The 6502 was one of the two dominant 8-bit computer CPUs ... and was manufactured by Commodore, which was happy to sell CPUs to Apple, Atari, Acorn, and anyone else.

Specifically in telecom, in the US there are many MVNOs that resell mobile phone service from the big three carriers. Somehow both the MVNOs and the national carriers make money.
Steam is actually a rather poor propellant for externally heated rockets (nuclear or solar). Methanol or ammonia are much better, since they can be decomposed to make the average molecular weight of the gases considerably smaller.
That still requires resources to support. For a platform with an uncertain number of users.
You can do most of this in git via custom diff-driver and smudge/clean filters.

For example git can already convert line-endings on the fly for windows. This is special-cased, but can just as well be implemented via smudge/clean.

Oh and git-lfs is done via smudge/clean too.
Algorithm for two people sharing any food:

1st person cuts, 2nd person chooses which of the pieces to take.
This is an example of how attention from the media causes us to vastly overweight the significance of a negative event.

The 737-900 has never had an incident. We found some loose bolts on a door plug that shares a design with the 737 MAX-9, which has had two major incidents.

This is out of something like ~5 million flight cycles for these aircraft types.

I don't necessarily mean to defend Boeing. In the case of the door plug, it seems they chose an inferior door plug design (which plugs from the outside, resisting pressure, rather than from the inside, being pressed closed by it) in order to save a revenue seat and a common fuselage.

Nevertheless, it's just not anything you need to personally worry over.
That's fair, but highly improbable!
He says it was an in-joke with his friends about the way he looked.

From that I would like to abduce the fact that the friends the message was addressed to were not in the airport (at least not all of them) otherwise he wouldn't be informing them he's going to his flight.

Based on that, I have a hunch the message was "intercepted" by one of his friends' parents who freaked out and told the cops who raised the alarm. That would be the easiest way to explain how the message was "picked up" in the first place.
>Note that the games I most enjoy playing with friends are co-op, not vs.

Yes and that was basically my point. Capitalism is inherently about competition. It is a versus game. You can find niche games that were specifically designed to elicit different behavior or play with friends who will have some investment in your enjoyment/wellbeing, but those would get you even further from a simulation of the real world in which most people you interact with on a capitalistic basis are indifferent to you.
> A 2x speed improvement is very significant if it happens to be in the critical loop of your code. You want a 5000% difference? Just find 6 tweaks like these and you might just get there.

Optimizations don't compound like this.
> We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later.
cue the grandchildren
For assets no, definitely. At least until they get Starlinks :D
I did commit into our code repo from an airplane though.
Is this a cultural difference? Do we have any data on this?

Where I'm from (southern Europe) my experience is this is far from true. Most people work as a means to an end, and often look for ways to skimp on it.

Sure, people might say "I like my job", with the implicit concession that they indeed need a job to live. If they could keep the same lifestyle without a job, I doubt most of them would keep doing what they do.
Safari continues to hold everyone else up yet again.
> Unlike many here I think touchscreens in a car are fine if done well (like Tesla)

Ouch. Yes you're a minority. I will never buy a Tesla because of the touch screen only interface. I don't want to die adjusting the a/c on the touch screen.
I recently changed my work desktop environment to Linux, however the transition has been a bit rough. The University I work for uses Microsoft OneDrive for file storage and sharing, but won't authorize the 3rd party Linux onedrive app. I want the files locally, so the clunky web interface is a no go. I don't have a spare wINDOWS LICENSE.

There is however an official Android OneDrive app. So I installed an virtual android instance on my Linux workstation and logged in with the Onedrive app...but boom. The Ondrive app will store files locally, but not in the way of the Desktop app. Each file is named something random which is indexed by some database file, and the directory structure is not maintained at all. Making it pretty much unusable without some fix.

Its infuriating. A smart programmer might be able to make an interface that translates their directory system to the real one, but ugh.
It's very interesting to me that Apple's willing to push spatial audio mastering this hard.

Because on the one hand, listening to spatial audio on headphones is fantastic -- I will absolutely never go back to regular stereo-through-headphones playback that sounds like comes from inside your head. Spatial audio feels like it comes from outside your head, and totally eliminates the "headphones fatigue" the inside-your-head sensation creates. And you can literally hear more detail in the music because there's more separation in the instruments.

But on the other hand, it's not super clear that spatial audio recordings are all that necessary for music, because the "Spatialize Stereo" setting works pretty well on its own. You don't need Dolby mastering -- my iPhone spatializes any stereo track already, doing whatever magic processing it does based on the relative volumes and delays of the same frequencies on the L/R channels.

I've tried listening to the same tracks using Apple Music's spatial masters, and in Spotify with the spatialized stereo version. The Apple Music versions feel maybe twice as "wide" with more separation between some instruments (and sounds are usually placed a bit differently). But on the other hand, it's not clear to me that that's actually a good thing. Because when I'm watching movies with my AirPods, I do want sounds from the left to feel like they're coming all the way from the left. But when I'm listening to music on the train or on a bus, too much spatial separation feels like it might be more distracting than desired. Spatialized stereo feels good enough to me -- I don't really see a huge benefit in remastering music in surround say, the way there has been a huge benefit in remastering movie audio from previous decades in surround.

But I guess we'll see. Especially with new speakers like the Sonos Era 300 [1] that are actually built to project spatial audio into a room -- so it's not just something for headphones anymore.

[1] https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/era-300
To give this a slightly different spin:

--> "The best optimization is simply not spinning things up!"

At least for local development and testing, as made possible by LocalStack (https://localstack.cloud), among other local testing solutions and emulators.

We've seen so many teams fall into the trap of "someone forgot to shut down dev resource X for a week and now we've racked up a $$$ bill on AWS".

What is everyone's strategy to avoid this kind of situation? Tools like `aws-nuke` (https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke) are awesome (!) to clean up unused resources, but frankly they should not be necessary in the first place...
Interesting to see the obvious difference in coverage. Anything that has anything at all to do with Boeing would have Boeing in the title, the first sentence, plastered all over your eyeballs every chance they could get. But when it's not Boeing there's no mention of Airbus in the title and you have to read into the article for five paragraphs to see the first name drop of Airbus.

But hey, to be fair, a negative story about Airbus actually made it onto a prominent position on HN, so that's good at least. Usually it would just be completely ignored and not mentioned.