skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A BERT-based summarization system for financial earnings calls. It can take a 60-minute transcripts of such meetings can compress the contents down into 5 bullet points.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28238-6_...

Financial earnings calls are important events in investment managements: CEOs and CFOs present the results of the recent quarter, and a few invited analysts ask them questions at the end in a Q&A block.

Because this is very different prose from news, traditional summarization methods fail. So we pre-trained a transformer from scratch with a ton of high-quality (REUTERS only) finance news and then fine-tuned with a large (100k sentences) self-curated corpus of expert-created summaries.

We also implemented a range of other systems for comparison.
We would also need to find a way to slow down.
They do: https://about.gitea.com/pricing/
I bought the Apple Vision Pro and even though the tech is amazing I returned it
I loathe air pods/wireless ear buds more than phones...
Company culture is a top-down sort of thing.

Take a simpler thing: if a new CEO sets an example of taking a decent amount of time off and promoting that as what people should be doing, because they value mental health, then that will gradually trickle down into upper and middle management, and down to the rank-and-file.

Management types who resist that will be replaced or marginalized, because this aspect of culture matters to the CEO and this is something they want to promote. It won't happen overnight, but ultimately management will be filled with people who are taking solid amounts of vacation and push their reports to do the same.

A CEO that wants to push an engineering-first/safety-first culture will be firing executives and management types that try to hide problems or push through things that don't meet the quality bar that the CEO is looking for. This sort of shift will not happen overnight. It can take years. Whether or not a company like Boeing can survive this sort of change, and if they even have years left to make that change, is another question, of course.

But I argue the opposite: the CEO (critically, with the unwavering support of the board, which requires the support of shareholders) is the only person who can make this sort of shift.
I can't tell if you're being ironic, but Git is already federated. Like, GitHub should be just another remote, and which remote happens to be the source of truth is a policy decision. The sticky part are the value-add, non-Git parts like GitHub actions, the issue tracker, wiki, static hosting, access management etc. But most of those are orthogonal and federating them (perhaps as git repos themselves) seems like a good idea.

(disclaimer: work for MS, not on GitHub, also hi again superkuh)
> China is too big to rely solely on a single chip architecture.

This doesn’t really make sense. Prior to the current ARM revolution, the entire world was on x86.

> I saw another attempt to develop a new chip architecture in China, called Loongson64

Without using a common chip arch, you go at it alone. That is a competitive disadvantage.
It is a problem with funding when you need to break it down into smaller pieces because some very expensive things that are used by less patients now do not have support of budget for a larger area, and become an extra drain on the administrative region - because you still need to maintain neurosurgery units etc.

Suddenly there's less money for smaller, cheaper things.

And what is the alternative? For-profit systems?
> AI maybe eats software when people learn to fully specify requirements

The thing is: natural languages are for humans, and they are ambiguous by construction. Programming languages are for machines, and must be unambiguous in order to work. The role of a software developer is to translate the "human requirements" into unambiguous code.

Now say you manage to specify a program in a natural language in an unambiguous manner, then you have just invented a new programming language. And people will have to learn it, because it won't be a natural language anymore. It will just be a programming language that somehow looks like a natural language.

IMHO, that is fundamental: there will always be a need to translate between the natural language and the programming language, and that is the role of a human who actually understands the natural language (as opposed to an IA that interpolates between data points it was trained on).
An article complaining about a 2-second clip of an all electric SUV driving out of a creek that is too muddy[1] for trout to actually live in..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout#Habitat
Here's a term you need to start saying to management of your company: "software supply chain risk".

github just became a business risk and a software supply chain risk.

I recently worked for a very large company that was 100% all in on github.

And now its clear that in an instant and single developer or perhaps the entire organisation can be finished as far as github goes.

Any CTO would now be negligent to have an organisational dependency/risk on github.

The future has to be companies getting out of the cloud, getting out of vendors who can inflict major business damage in an instant with no recourse on the basis of entirely unknowable decisions.
Fine tune an ai on the docs and you've got a new company of AI generated circuit boards
> Handling with physical goods doesn't mean one knwos before hand the number of customers

Sure it does? You can resell them, but if you produce X items, there'll be X items. You can't be sued into oblivion after producing one and then learning that it was used by a billion people and 100 of them got cancer.
Celebrity Tattoo Artist Created a Tattoo You Can Turn on and Off at Will (2022)
This is great. The pragmatic bit that makes it a bit more challenging (or, perhaps, a bit more of a search optimization problem than analytical) is that most of the cost functions are step functions. Once you need better than 10% tolerance on a resistor, you might as well step down to 1% -- available tolerances are discrete, and 5% and 2% tolerance parts are rarely cheaper than 1%. Similarly going to 0.1%. So once it's clear that preferred_tolerance_N is not going to solve, you can assume preferred_tolerance_N+1, and then push that through -- and hopefully push a few marginal parts up a bucket. There's also a similar step-function cost for adding a new BOM line, especially for hobby-scale projects; this is a project-global optimization, where I might change a 10 kΩ / 2.2 kΩ resistor ladder to 6.8 kΩ / 1.5 kΩ if I already have 1.5 kΩ, 6.8 kΩ, and 10 kΩ in my BOM but would otherwise need to add 2.2 kΩ (assuming everything else still solves, of course; more likely than not, since we usually don't care much about the total resistance of a ladder, as long as it's stiff enough, and doesn't leak too much).
The rest of you also don't need database cursors or non-random keys to have keyset pagination.
Erased is how types in Haskell work. Type classes are compiled as "dictionaries": structs of methods. Sometimes they can specialize them (just pull the thing out of the dictionary statically), but in general they become that extra parameters at run time.
Google is once again accused of snubbing the JPEG XL image format
I've met an awful lot of programmers who either don't know how to have fun, or keep it a closely guarded secret.

Some writers claim that they have to write some of their ideas down so they can get them out of their heads and get some peace. It's an exorcism. I have a very strong suspicion and circumstantial evidence that a lot of open source is much the same. Exorcism, or catharsis.

Sometimes we write code to settle arguments as well. And sometimes we write open source code because we don't want to have to write this code the nth time when we go to a new job. It gets really boring, and if you can convince your boss it's for the Greater Good to put it out there, then you get to reuse it.
It should produce a schematic as one of its output products.. maybe use graphviz, see:

https://observablehq.com/@nturley/netlistsvg-how-to-draw-a-b...

HDL tools all do this.
Yeah, trying to learn KiCad is worse than learning Blender. If JLCPcb made a simple online editor that sourced from available parts and integrated directly with their store they'd be running out of banks to put their money into.
I had it roast itself… Only got 2.5/5…

Those who can’t do, roast…
I actually work in the Data/AI space and SQL has been of limited use to me.

Whilst Snowflake is pretty popular the days of elaborately modelled EDWs are long gone.

And so typically I find I am doing queries, transformations etc in some abstraction layer e.g. Spark on a data lake, ORM for web applications etc.
As much as I love doing things myself, the reality is that I spend wayyyy more time doing things myself than I save, and time is my main constraint. Getting booted off of GitHub would be a pretty minor inconvenience compared to the time sink of doing it myself, especially if I botch something and lose data.

> Git is flexible. I'm kind of surprised at how ubiquitous GitHub is given how easy it is to host your own repositories and set up a mailing list to accept patches and discussion on.

The UX you're proposing is far worse than what GitHub provides for less effort, and anyway GitHub isn't just "repo hosting + code review", you also get web hooks, CI, user/org management, code search (such as it is), a web interface (as well as mobile app), etc. And you don't have to teach people how to use it effectively.
I use several devices, oftentimes don't keep cookies, and now that 2FA has been mandated for all accounts (even ones whose sole value is a ticket to source code search), logging in takes a flow-breaking context switch. In fact, it takes more time to access github search than it does to clone the repo and grep locally. Although I am aware of the passkey workaround, I am not a huge fan of installing browser extensions with access to my credentials, and I don't want to have the equivalent of my_passwords.txt on every single one of my devices.
This right here. Any state assigned attorney is going to say "Take the plea". Simply put, most of the suspects do not have the money to present the case as needed in front of the courtroom, and the lawyer states, taking the plea is less apt to bankrupt you.
RCL: A Reasonable Configuration Language
Clicked all the links on today's front page? Just go here for more.
you forgot

0. Cofound github

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Kinda feeling in an contra-Haidt mood, so I'll argue that social media educates children in a way that makes them realize they're being abused.

Who hasn't arrived later in life and realized some of the shit that happened to them wasn't right? Social media short-circuits that realization process and makes kids realize much earlier that: stuff happening to them isn't right, caregivers treat them like property, and they have no power to change it. It can suck being a kid, and they're just realizing it sooner.
I stopped reading at "I have 800+ repos on GitHub". DUDE, it's time to back up your account to some other service. Anything can happen.
The pill was not readily available (absent a reason pregnancy may be harmful to the mother) in the UK until 1967, and not to unmarried women until 1974.
Because both the CEO and the board recognize that he might need to be the designated scapegoat in a future failure.
I was happy on my basic plan from 2013. We only watch on one screen (my laptop) and never need 4k content or multiple screens. We watch one show, maybe two, a night as the entirety of our television consumption.

Then Netflix and T-Mobile pushed me to "sign up for Netflix via T-Mobile" and I thought, well, I guess since you both said it'd be amazing. That cancels your old (grandfathered) plan, by the way.

Then they decided that T-mobile would only pay for basic with ads.

Now I cancelled Netflix via t-mobile since the one show I was making my way through (House of Cards) is no longer available on this plan that Netflix and t-mobile thought I should be on.

This comes after cancelling Prime because it doesn't work where I live, and Prime Video wasn't all that compelling plus they managed to make the worst video player I've used in my life. Though the x-ray feature was super helpful.
I was pointing out to the GP that the IRS cannot know the final amount due because of the potential for some very common types of deductions.

I wasn't disagreeing with the idea of pre-filling tax return data.
How does consumer protection === higher prices? And anyway I would rather that nobody be scammed out of money instead of a select few with the means to play the game (who could afford to pay more anyway) coming out on top.
I want Aristotle's treatise on Comedy, and if I'm allowed to be terribly greedy, just one more play by Aeschylus.

This is the most exciting thing in the world to me right now, these scrolls, along with the thought that there might be literally thousands more still in the ground.
The problem is that you are both right, and in a way that can't be meaningfully predicted. The stakes are incredibly high, too.
"Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser Pushed Lightsails"

https://ia600704.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...

"A one-way interstellar flyby probe mission uses a 1000 kg (1-metric-ton), 3.6-km-diam. lightsail accelerated at 0.36 m/s2 by a 65-GW laser system to 11% of the speed of light (0.11 c), flying by a Centauri after 40 years of travel. "

"...The third mission uses a three-stage sail for a roundtrip manned exploration of e Eridani at 10.8 light years distance."
https://www.askaway.bot/

AI concierge for my parents’ vacation rental. Mostly just pulling info from the guest binder, but I’ve also started using some local guides to give better suggestions. Built with NextJs and deployed on Vercel (was really easy and they have a generous free tier).
If replacing all of middle management to effect an essential change will destroy a company, then that company maybe needs to be destroyed.

Because that's how the CEO makes big change happen: management -- from the C-suite down to line managers -- needs to get on board with that change. If they refuse, they get fired and are replaced by people who will carry out the change. If this process will take too long to save the company, then... again, maybe the company needs to fail.
I disagree that it's not hurting.

The massive feature set of the JDK bloats the size of every container shipping with the JVM. It pumps up the requirements for metaspace. And it negatively impacts JVM startup time.

I'm not saying the JVM needs to remove every dated API. But things like JNDI, for example, are not only dangerous to use (that was the root cause of log4j2's big vulnerability), they are massive feature sets that pretty much nobody wants to use.

Java was designed in an era where we thought having thinish clients streaming jars/classes from central network servers was probably a good idea. When we thought the JVM could be more than just a language VM, it could be an operating system. A lot of those concepts simply don't apply to modern jvm dev or even jvm dev that's happened in the last 20 years.

And, to be clear, the JDK was not wrong in bringing along all these libraries. After all, in the 90s it's not like we really had a great story around community package development. That was an era where devs routinely downloaded their dependencies manually. Clever devs even had curl scripts wired into ant or make to do that job.
I have offered pagination over large tables, without database cursors or non-random keys, without offsets, while keeping performance in mind, with little effort.
~850 years of ship time at max acceleration and the universe is 10^30 years old.

At this point, only white dwarfs, neutron stars, and various stellar remnants remain. Galaxies have dissipated, and stars like our Sun are a distant memory. (If any still exist to remember them. Which is, I'll add, not out of the question. Life can cling to structures built around black holes, white dwarfs, etc., and extract energy from those bodies for a very long time.) We're a long, long way from "heat death" -- from the Universe becoming an undifferentiated entropic sea of particles -- but it is already a very different place.

Puts things in perspective.
The performance of ChatGPT (4) changes frequently. Lately it has been crazy good. I fed it a non-trivial but naïvely written (and thus slow) numerical algorithm written in Python yesterday. I then told it to vectorize, which worked and was both correct and several orders of magnitude faster. Then parallelize. Faster yet, and still correct. Pretty amazing.

Just an anecdote.
You don't need that much charisma. YC expects charts to do most of the speaking for demo day. I find that many investors are also experienced enough to go through a bad pitch and find out the details of what you meant to say.

Impressing people with a pitch is more about having the right slides in the right order, rather than making some joke. I've pitched to dozens of people, and it's never like it is on Shark Tank... most investors are already rooting for you by the time you meet them.

There's plenty of resources for this, but the easiest is to just join an accelerator. They're very beginner friendly. Many aren't that good, but they should help you to at least learn to pitch.
Wild? Wait until you read about people actually eating mummies and corpses

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eat...
I thought Loongsoon was just rebranded MIPS?
If we built things that way, it would have huge improvements with the environment, resource usage, and other problems that plague us and seem intractable.

Would our economy shrink? Probably, since our economy is based on ever-expanding growth. The better question, in my view, is "would that be a bad thing?"
> Does the CEO need to know these things? I would argue no. What needs to happen is the CEO needs to listen and trust the technical people that report to him.

He should probably know enough to sense if the people who report to him are talking nonsense or not, and to properly weigh what they say.

I mean, what's going to happen if two technical leaders have a disagreement, and all he knows is how to count beans? How could someone with that background make an effective decision in that context?

People also tend to fall back on what they know in unfamiliar circumstances, and I don't think you want an aircraft-manufacturer CEO falling back on picking the "cheapest option" and accepting am unappreciated safety risk in the process.
Well, a fix in glibc fixed it across the whole system and for all already compiled programs.

Can you say the same for Rust?
Pascal can also do this.
I think that's the observation you are both making. Society has broken down right at that limit.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. This was a pre-existing Postgres db in production.

I’m sure there’s a way to get it to work with integer ids but it would have been a pain. With UUID’s it was very simple to generate.
Snowballs grow linearly or maybe quadratically.

This article is...truthy.
Were there any salespeople on the team?
Since they raised $61 million (source https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/05/cloud-native-container-man...) they probably had way more team than $10 million could support. Since they raised the VC money I guess that downsizing to a team that the business can sustain is not an option.
For fun I did have a play with GPTs doing a little fine tuning on some ato code. Definitely not my domain, but pretty amazing how quickly it kinndaa worked. Our focus at the moment is building out the layer that designers (human or otherwise) can operate on. I do think that we need some pretty solid testing infrastructure for us to get to a place where we would ship 'black box' pcbs. Maybe one day.
`Zig Cc`: A Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)
Tell me more, that is interesting. Even my bank (a big one) is unable to categorize the transactions correctly.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update – January
there was a ui, and they fumbled their flux -> flux2
Lightning already has its own configuration parsing and CLI facilities, what does hydra add?
... and what would he think of us, 2000 years later thought has led us to amazing advances in technology that would be inconceivable to him. But the sort of things the people of his day thought about, virtue, happiness, how to live the right way, not a lot of progress has been made. He might be surprised by that. In his time at the dawn of written thought-for-thoughts sake, they might have reasonably expected that soon people might think their way to a golden age of happiness and contentment. But 2000 years later we have learnt that you dont seem to be able to think your way to happiness.
It's easier to forgive a human than a robot
Unsavory but true, it's nice in a way that ip addrs have a cost. Kinda like phone numbers.

The naive suggestion for ipv6 in that article is what I first thought, block a /64, but since that might still be too cheap, it also quotes a more robust algo of dynamically expanding the blocking scope.
Oh, and I phrased that badly, but he didn't drink a ton of tea at the hospital. The hot water for tea comes in limited amounts from those samovar type things, and he didn't want to use too much of it, so he only drank 2-3 cups per day.

We were all burningly curious whether the liver failure would come back if he resumed his normal green tea consumption, especially him (very "try everything, you only live once" type of personality; see also, consumption of mysterious Peruvian rain forest drugs), thus proving whether the tea was the culprit or not, but for ethical reasons I had to caution him against experimenting on the only liver he had, and he reluctantly agreed he wasn't THAT curious. Therefore, the cause of his liver failure will never be fully and conclusively proven to be green tea.
The automatization of moderation is legitimately one of the scariest problems with modern internet, but because it's abuse and mistakes inherently affect tiny minority, nobody cares.
And obviously companies will fallback to automated tools rather then pay for human reviewers.

I don't really know how this should be dealt with.

...or maybe it shouldn't.
And we should just accept that random minority will have their livelihoods destroyed.
After all, it wouldn't be the first time when society disregarded injustice of few for the convenience of the many
What are you talking about? The literal NHS disagrees with your statement.
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