skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key point to add is that (at least) 2 points must be true for this positive side of market to show:

1) There should be "forces" counterbalancing the move toward monopolies

2) It should be okay for the service to fail/die and/or it should degrade gracefully.

For example book publishing is a wonderful field that can gain from free market dynamics while prison management is a terrible field for free market dynamics.

While a dying publishing enterprise might print less books at a lower quality with deceptive marketing (and that is sorta okay) a dying prison management enterprise will squeeze every ounce of dignity/health/safety out of its wards.

Market dynamics for the economy are analogous to natural selection for evolution: both can produce wonderful things but they will require many more to die horribly.

This is not a statement against markets but I am calling for this tradeoff to be considered along with many other.
Yeah, I got the punchline off by a factor of two.

I wouldn't call it that vague, from what I've seen it's one of the most re-shared xkcd comics.
You‘re definitely right on one count: you are an even older fart than me. ;-)

Just kidding, but I’ve actively encouraged my 8yr old daughter to learn how to code (using Scratch) and beginning to think that might be a dead-end… hope she will enjoy math!
on $10/day max spend you'll get 1-2 people that will visit the page, and you can put a "coming soon, leave an email and we'll let you know" then you can email them when it is deployed as well to recoup the adspend. If they're looking for a feature you don't have they're not really your customer today anyway. If they're looking for a feature that doesn't exist anywhere then they have no choice but to wait for it to be built.
Couldn't agree more. Also look into Alan Weiss's books. Avoiding the hourly billing trap via fixed fee pricing (preferably with value-based pricing) will the best decision you make both for your quality of life and wallet.
> younger people hold more liberal views.

Except for those who don't; but that wouldn't advance the argument for the "liberal" views.
If they were the most productive meetings of the week… sounds not bad at all ^_^
Would not be surprised if this is AI generated garbage...
EU's tough new moderation rules are about to cover a lot more of the internet
The fallacy here is one of equating smokers with corporations who pump out 1000s of times more damaging chemicals than smokers do.

Smokers should be considerate, that's a given, but you're arguing a false premise with hyperbole.
I think meetings are almost always unnecessary. They are something that project managers and managers like to have because it gives them work to appear to be doing. They can say they have done meetings to justify themselves. There is another reason to have meetings which is basically to spy on employees. To me a stand up meeting feels more like management attempting to assess the workforce's compliance more so than trying to learn what is going on. A slack message could have done it all for less.
Oops, you're right, I'll edit that.
> I think you did well saying you cross the street, but then suggested that I solve your problem for you, how entitled, you are annoyed by smoking and I have to go in the cage, I could say, if you are annoyed by people smoking wear a mask or stay at home

Cigarette smokers, they never to stop amazing me how arrogant and self-centered many of them are when talking about actual topics.

Its btw a great way to find out who you are really dealing with - anybody can produce sweet talk on demand if they have a clear goal. Stub their toe with say some hard addiction of theirs and personalities surface very quickly
Come on, can't you help but be impressed by this amazing AI tech? That gives us sci-fi tools like ... a less-accurate, incomplete, stochastic, un-debuggable, slower, electricity-guzzling version of `file`.
> Old people aren't usually starting revolutions.

Social security covers way more stuff than pention plans, at least in civilized countries. It covers stuff like unemployment benefits, medical leaves, parental leaves, etc.

I think that in some countries it also covers some healthcare.
Leaders have a responsibility to ensure their teams deliver. When the teams agree to async communication --and the channels remain silent-- where is the accountability when there is no deliverable and no visibility into the scenario that led to no output? To be clear, this doesn't mean 100% sync. But a 10 minute daily sync can ensure the team is focused on producing something of business value. Maximal autonomy within some guardrails keeps the ICs and management at their best.
You're 100% right, I use it daily like I said and I really have NO idea what all the other options are. I tested a plugin or two and it caused problems with something so I disabled it.

I need to dig more into how much more I can do.
If you're paying 400 EUR for public healthcare, shouldn't you receive good healthcare for that? Why is private healthcare even in the discussion? Why does the public option suck?
In a previous role I was responsible for developing architecture that supported a bunch of different teams, so I started being pulled into a lot of meetings as the easy option for them was asking me. I ended up having 6-8 hours of meetings a day on top of my actual workload.

My solution was to not accept meetings and have a PM go grab me if they really needed me, that was enough friction to allow me time to get work done. As in your case, this created a bunch of mystique as I was now that guy that showed up in the middle of a meeting, said a bunch of smart things (hopefully!) and then left.

One of the difference about the new Zoom-centric world is that it's zero effort to add an somebody to a meeting "just in case". I push my leads to decline meetings where there is no clear agenda and/or clear idea of the value they can provide. It's ok that your default isn't to hit "accept", it's the meeting organizer's job to convince you that it's worth attending over other priorities.
> Amazon in a filing made with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Thursday said it plans to argue that the agency's unique structure violates the company's right to a jury trial.

I wonder if the founders intended that the bill of rights be extended to legal entities?
> If the agenda makes it clear that this can be answered via email, I answer it and decline.

You're one of the good ones.

The retort to "This meeting could have been an E-mail" is "But, do you respond to your E-mail?" Sometimes we really do need an answer/decision/action, and not everyone has good E-mail hygiene. I have worked with a non-trivial number of people who don't read their E-mail and/or don't respond to it. And when you don't respond, I have no idea whether you even read it, so I have to assume you didn't. When I need someone to do/say something, I will reach for E-mail as a first try, but if you don't respond, I have to put on my Disappointed Face and schedule a meeting :(
Can you move to Brazil full time and keep that income going?
I am not a doomer. Fossil fuels may run out but innovation will continue. Nobody knows what the future holds but I sit on the positive lens that the human race will figure this out. That might not work out but until there is conclusive evidence, I will keep my head up.
Thanks for the kind words.

That’s good feedback on the docs. The tool has evolved pretty dramatically from where it started and we should revisit those diagrams.

Evidence is a static site generator.

Queries against your sources happen at build time and save to parquet.

Queries against the built in DuckDB web assembly instance happen at runtime.

Sources (snowflake, Postgres, csv files etc.) run at build time.

Pages in evidence are defined as markdown files. You write markdown, components, and code fences.

SQL code fences in pages run in the built in duck db wasm instance which can query across the results from all of your sources. These queries run in the client. We call this feature universal SQL, and it’s quite new.

You can read about universal SQL here if it’s of interest. https://evidence.dev/blog/why-we-built-usql/

You can template those SQL queries to accept input from input components. This enables you to build extremely performant client side interactions.

Under the hood, Evidence is built on svelte and compiles to a svelte kit application, and you can extend your project with custom svelte components.

Hope that’s helpful — we’re very active in our slack if you ever want to say hi!
This is nonsense, people give credit to their influences all the time.
Illuminating insights: harnessing NASA's Black Marble with R and Python
The IoT team is reshuffled every few years. They made it a bit longer than most. I accepted a job offer to join the IoT team out of college. I finished my last semester and four months later when I joined, that team no longer existed.
Meta Continues Working on BOLT'ing the Linux Kernel for Greater Performance
No internal monologue? Sounds like zen heaven!
This has to be it. Vinyl costs like 20$ per, and $8m is like 400k vinyl sales (users often buy more than 1 vinyl so it's a lot less users) which seems too low globally. At 1.2b, it is more like 60m sales which seems more reasonable.
Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables
I totally agree that joint failures by the British and Spanish government shouldn't be paid for by the victim. I'm just saying that there isn't any evidence that British intelligence asked for any restitution. I think they screwed up, know it, and are keeping quiet.

The Spanish prosecutors, on the other hand... shame on them for having the nerve to continue prosecution, particularly after Spanish law enforcement subjected the victim to time in jail.
It's weird to be building an Emacs clone nowadays. It's fairly clear that Vim and Emacs _both_ lost the editor wars, and VSCode has come out on top. That's not to say either Vim or Emacs are dead or will disappear, but building a clone of a niche editor is risking dooming the project to being a niche within a niche.

If it's just because hacking is fun, then by all means have a blast. But if the goal is to compete with Emacs, consider instead setting the target at something with far greater popularity than Emacs.
It depends on the meeting, I had serious issues at a previous company where the non-engineers were “planning ahead” and wanting discussion, details and estimates for work we were not thinking of or looking at. I’m big on: when in doubt, prototype, investigate, etc. This was very disruptive to our current work trying to do this in parallel.
Problem is nicotine isn't the only active and addictive substance in tobacco smoke. There are also MAOIs. I've tried every nicotine replacement therapy there is(yes, even vaping). And both approved smoking cessation meds(bupropion and varenicline). And smokefree tobacco like snus, chewing tobacco, even snuff; they all make me throw up. And cold turkey of course.

At this point I think I'm more addicted to the harmaline than the actual nicotine.
Aren't corporations incorporated on the state level? Unless I am missing something at least one state would not include this in their terms and companies would flock to that state if they wanted trials.
A whole article that ultimately boils down to "the majority of normies are using LLM systems with low temperature settings".

Literally just set the damn temperature higher and allow for sampling from deeper down in the distribution (so relax top_p, top_k or equiv parameters) and suddenly you get creativity, and also more unhinged behavior.
> Scaling Inference We additionally scale our inference code to support million-length sequences by implementing RingAttention for decoding. Inference for such long sequences requires a minimum of v4-128 with a TPU mesh sharding of 32 tensor parallelism, and 4 sequence parallelism (ring dimension). We perform inference in pure single precision, where additional improvements can be made through techniques in scalability such as quantization.
What is the MIME type of a .tar file; and what are the MIME types of the constituent concatenated files within an archive format like e.g. tar?

hachoir/subfile/main.py:
https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir/blob/main/hachoir/subfil...

File signature:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_signature

PhotoRec:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec

"File Format Gallery for Kaitai Struct"; 185+ binary file format specifications:
https://formats.kaitai.io/

Table of ':
https://formats.kaitai.io/xref.html

AntiVirus software >
Identification methods > Signature-based detection, Heuristics, and ML/AI data mining:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software#Identificat...

Executable compression; packer/loader:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression

Shellcode database > MSF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode_database

sigtool.c:
https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/blob/main/sigtool/sigt...

clamav sigtool: https://www.google.com/search?q=clamav+sigtool

https://blog.didierstevens.com/2017/07/14/clamav-sigtool-dec... :

sigtool –-find-sigs "$name" | sigtool –-decode-sigs

List of file signatures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures

And then also clusterfuzz/oss-fuzz scans .txt source files with (sandboxed) Static and Dynamic Analysis tools, and `debsums`/`rpm -Va` verify that files on disk have the same (GPG signed) checksums as the package they are supposed to have been installed from, and a file-based HIDS builds a database of file hashes and compares what's on disk in a later scan with what was presumed good, and ~gdesktop LLM tools scan every file,
and there are extended filesystem attributes for label-based MAC systems like SELinux, oh and NTFS ADS.

A sufficient cryptographic hash function yields random bits with uniform probability.
DRBG Deterministic Random Bit Generators need high entropy random bits in order to continuously re-seed the RNG random number generator.
Is it safe to assume that hashing (1) every file on disk, or (2) any given file on disk at random, will yield random bits with uniform probability; and (3) why Argon2 instead of e.g. only two rounds of SHA256?

https://github.com/google/osv.dev/blob/master/README.md#usin... :

> We provide a Go based tool that will scan your dependencies, and check them against the OSV database for known vulnerabilities via the OSV API. ... With package metadata, not (a file hash, package) database that could be generated from OSV and the actual package files instead of their manifest of already-calculated checksums.

Might as well be heating a pool on the roof with all of this waste heat from hashing binaries build from code of unknown static and dynamic quality.

Add'l useful formats:

> Currently it is able to scan various lockfiles, debian docker containers, SPDX and CycloneDB SBOMs, and git repositories

Things like bittorrent magnet URIs, Named Data Networking, and IPFS are (file-hash based) "Content addressable storage": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
Quality aside, there's a reason producers pay millions for A-list stars instead of any of the millions of really good aspiring actors in LA that they could hire for pennies. People will pay to see the new Matt Damon flick but wouldn't give it a second glance if some no-name was playing the part.

If you can't replace Matt Damon with another equivalently skilled human, CGI won't be any different.

Granted, maybe that's less true today, given Marvell and such are more about the action than the acting. But if that's the future of the industry anyway, then acting as a worthwhile profession is already on its way out, CGI or no.
They’re a convenient term for “freedom we care about a lot”. They’re good as a propaganda (neutral sense) tool.

Folks getting hung up on “well that’s a right and this other thing can’t be because technically…” are definitely missing the last 200ish years of thought in that area, though. As are the ones who think rights are actually better-protected than other freedoms (aside from the PR boost of the name! And maybe “popular” rights are better-enshrined in law, but that’s not inherent in their being a right—we could so-protect anything)

There’s no set list that’s definitely correct and they also don’t “exist” in any meaningful sense if they can’t be exercised (any more than Tinkerbell exists). It’s just a nice label. Which isn’t nothing! But they’re not “real” in the sense some people suppose they are, even philosophically.

I think a lot of this confusion stems from focus in US schools on the political philosophy state-of-the-art c. 1776 as an underpinning of a kind of US Civil Religion. Most of that stuff’s kinda crap. Go read the famously influential Second Treatise, it’s actually a pretty easy read and not that long. It’s plainly (to a modern reader) not strong.
The thing is this is already way worse on UNIX than it is on Python
I watched that many years ago, but still see a difference here. Everything was a remix made by humans that put in their unique selves into the remixing process.

An AI model has no "unique self" to add to creation, at least not as we've understood so far.
I'd read it as if you had your leg broken, but would be complaining and trying to solve an itch on your arm, I understand people want to be healthy, but starting from the least dangerous, if you're exposed to chemicals 24 hrs without doing anything, why do you get so Robespierre when it comes to smokers
Why should a company be assumed to be eventually sold? What the heck is that kind of perspective. The vast majority of small/medium companies are not sold - instead they provide regular income to their owners.

This sounds to me like typical toxic silicon valley startup mindset.
It's not that difficult a problem to solve. Just curate your follows to known humans who publish high-quality content, then select the "Following" tab at the top (not "For You"). Voila, now you only see content from your curated follows in your timeline.
Ecclesiastes 1 is also very relevant here:

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?

Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.

The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.

All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.

All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.

No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.

What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Wake me when I can get access without handing over my texts and contacts. I opened the Gemini app on Android and that onerous privacy policy was the first experience. Worse, I didn't seem able to move past accepting giving Google the ability to hoover up my data to disable that in the settings so I just gave up and went back to ChatGPT where I at least generally have control over the data I give it.
From the paper[1]:

> We additionally scale our inference code to support million-length sequences by implementing RingAttention for decoding. Inference for such long sequences requires a minimum of v4-128 with a TPU mesh sharding of 32 tensor parallelism, and 4 sequence parallelism (ring dimension).

Each TPU-v4 has 32 GiB of HBM memory, so about 4 TiB (128 x 32GiB) of memory in fp16, without quantization.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08268
I'm waiting for these sorts of unilateral "we have updated our terms of service, by doing nothing, you agree to these new terms" contractual edicts get eliminated as a whole class of behavior. I'm not a lawyer so I'm not sure if it stops when enough of them get invalidated in court, or ifwhen the legislature steps in.

It's insane that it's accepted as normal that someone can send you an email with notice of a contract being altered (without even including those changes in the email) and you are deemed to have agreed to this new contract without even seeing it or taking any action whatsoever.

Companies that do this are shitty, and the people that run them are shitty people.
> Minimise as much as possible the different interfaces necessary and reuse them.

Very very strongly agree. As a corollary a small number of too simple interfaces is better than a larger number of more sophisticate interfaces.

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures."

- Alan Perlis' Epigrams on Programming (1982).
Friend, you're not going to get anywhere in life by being a disciple of Whataboutism, I promise you that.
> They yearn for socialism and this is how they express it.

Socialism is not the bogeyman you think it is. Some of us who were fortunate enough to benefit from living in countries in western Europe can tell you that basic rights such as 10 weeks of paid parental leave including for the father is a very nice thing to have.
Home screen shortcuts have larger sandbox. JIT is a large attack surface because of how JIT works.

When there is only browser - Apple can easily push an emergency patch. With 3rd party browsers this isn't possible.
This is a weird comparison written to make things appear only good for GH200.

There are a bunch of tradeoffs that aren't considered and some of the comparisons don't make sense since GH200 is a cpu+gpu, so comparing against a gpu only, is weird.

There is no such thing as a 4x MI300 chassis, they are all 8x.
For a relatively high level look at CS history and core concepts, the YouTube Crash Course series is very well done and watchable. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6...
Its a great way to stiffle innovation, though... Lots of ideas start out as dumb, and then get refined... We have also been using AI, meeting recordings, and summarization to some extent, but I dont see it being used "for all meetings", it will just be very counter productive IMO.
I do. At a previous company, we had 1 meeting per week max. Your manager was a more senior engineer. There were no standups, no 1:1's or other extra bull. If you had a question or concern, you just walked into their office and discussed it like an adult. Most of my early career was like this actually. It wasn't until we hit 2010 or so that agile/scrum took over.
"Software Engineer" is a pretty commonly used title for programmers
Jon Stewart Returns to an Older, Smaller Audience
I don't, I just seem to have this moment of "oh, him as well" regularly.

And I get it, I went to the valley as well for some times, the money is better, the taxes are lower, you get more opportunities, meet more talented people and projects are way cooler.
The program he uses as an ODBC tool to access the mainframe (StarSQL for Windows) still exists and as of 2020 even got an update [1]

[1] https://docs.stelodata.com/Products/starsql/readme.html
It might even fit in a max-sized macbook pro.
Goldman Boosts CEO Solomon's Pay 24% After Firm's Profit Slumps 24%
Google's origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
Nous.
So is the only thing you watch on TV, unedited documentary footage?

Also - ironic choice of username considering this comment!