skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person making the decision is very like the superintendent of the school system, likely informed by someone from IT and maybe someone representing the teachers somehow.

They might listen to me if I bring in a coalition of other parents, but there's two reasons why I'm probably not going to do this:

1. They're likely locked into at least a year-long contract, if not more

2. Doing this is a huge amount of work for me. I'd have to find a significant number of parents who are _also_ as peeved as me, and then get them to take action - even if it's signing something - and then I'd have to bring the petition up to the school board, etc., etc., etc.

It's much easier to just mute the notifications on the app, and go through them once a week. 99% of them are just wildly inactionable anyway - things like reminding me that school is out, or that a student interest group that's irrelevant to me is having a meeting two Thursdays from now.

If I was annoyed enough to take action, I'd rather just offer to build them a replacement app - shorten that feedback loop, ya know?
> Selective amplification is editorialization

Editorialisation as in the press?
> fear mongering around the notion of "the government is getting rid of your insurance

But that’s literally what the bill said.

Why is it “fear mongering” to state the effects of a bill? People truly didn’t like this idea.
> The state functions purely ...

any sentence that starts this way is just walking straight into its own falsity.

No human system as complex as "the state" ever functions "purely" to do anything. Instead, it's a venue in which different interests and power levels sometimes compete and sometimes cooperate, sometimes achieving goals and often not.
The most productive eras corresponded to when the economies were most free market.
Similarly the CPA shouldn't be able to pass off blame to their team.
Note that they shared part two recently: https://samsja.github.io/blogs/rig/part_2/

For those talking about breakeven points and cheap cloud compute, you need to factor in the mental difference it makes running a test locally (which feels free) vs setting up a server and knowing you're paying per hour it's running. Even if the cost is low, I do different kinds of experiments knowing I'm not 'wasting money' every minute the GPU sits idle. Once something is working, then sure scaling up on cheap cloud compute makes sense. But it's really, really nice having local compute to get to that state.
> They'd much rather have affordable healthcare and housing.

The "wars" for affordable healthcare and housing will also drag on and on. Because guess what, there are opposing sides fighting against each other on those issues too, and neither side will magically disappear or give up when one side wins a temporary victory.

It's truly bizarre that you think longstanding social issues can just be "solved" once and for all (if you truly believe that and aren't just trolling).

"If Christian evangelists did their job, then the whole world should be Christian." Doesn't that sound silly? It turns out that there are a whole lot of non-Christians in the world who don't want to be Christians, and they're going to do their "job" too.
While true they might not have been given out at the same rate. I expect only mcdonalds knows the true year over year average price people are paying in a particular market.
It’s hard to tell who actually screens resumes vs who just uses a bot.A custom resume is a waste for many jobs but is required for others
Private companies, I think, have some limits. Governments can always raise taxes or print more money to sustain their otherwise insolvent organization.

In other words they can be wasteful and top heavy without having to periodically pare things down through layoffs.

And definitely organizations that teach their initial goals will reinvent themselves to milk more money.
I've also seen plenty of devs who can recite them and then blatantly ignore them when writing code.
that why the comment was about "Glass recycling"
And all of South America. They could do a concert in almost any big city in Brazil and fill up the place. And also not sing, as people would sing every single song for them.
The batteries and motors that could help electric planes take off
The current events are just the latest series of issues brought on by the Peron government of the 50s.

The crisis really started in the 50s, when Frondizi attempted "shock therapy" of the Argentinian economy. The government accepted massive loans from the IMF in a standby agreement that stipulated large changes to the country's domestic policies.

These IMF required changes were not politically popular and finally led to the resurgence in Peronism in the 70s (taken advantage of by Operation Condor). Between the 50s and 80s, Argentina would be unable to pay previous administration's debts, leading to further IMF loans with terms unacceptable to the populous, which then gave way to strikes and economic instability. The instability exacerbated the balance of payments problems of the economy, rinse, repeat.

Of course at least one administration tried to stop taking the IMF's "help," but due to the massive debt taken on by Frondizi, and the IMFs control of other international investment; trying to back away from the IMF after getting in bed with them would have destroyed the Argentinian economy just the same.

In the 80s this cycle gave way to neo-liberalism. Basically Menem (another Peronist) started allowing multinational corporations to snatch up the limited natural resources of Argentina. The deregulation of industry and international trade helped the economy in the short term; but didn't provide a long term revenue stream for the country (you can only sell natural resources once).

The 2000s were a brief respite to this economic crisis started decades before, driven by the IMF's unprecedented offer to restructure Argentina's debt and offer 70% discounts on their bonds. But sadly Argentina still has billions in foreign debt it owes, and so recovery would be slow. This led to multiple single term presidents in the 2010s. Finally leading to another Peronist being elected in 2019 (from the Justicialist Party, the largest faction within the Peronists) right before covid.

So, no the economic conditions of Argentina today aren't recent. The wiki page you linked even points out that the 2018 crisis started because of an inability to pay old debts, the problem didn't just start then.

It makes sense they'd elect a "minarchist" after having been failed repeatedly by their government (which was controlled by the IMF and US's respective foreign policies). Sadly I don't think Milei's shock therapy will work and better than Frondizi's, but time will tell.

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

https://www.jstor.org/stable/762284

https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/reports/argentina/2018-repor...
Fine if you have a couple of cash accounts with one bank. What if you have other assets like stocks/shares, property etc.? What if you want to track shared expenses with friends/family and settle up at the end of each month? You can do this kind of thing with ledger.
We need a fake spot for job listings. Figure out if the listing is unique or copy pasta
It is if the object can't be meaningfully cast to the type. I'd expect to get an exception. That's why they exist.

For example, consider explicitly casting the string "abc" to an int. Python throws a ValueError. Ruby silently ignores the problem and gives 0. I consider the Ruby behavior to be a gotcha.
Like receipts, include the prompt too. Unlike returns, the latter can be tweaked (and may show the level of effort).
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. The recent changes are all in the wrong direction, but for a short period of time, they will make a lot of money. I would call that pissing in the pool. But it’s recent.
> What does "no more racism" look like?

If we can take a cue from Gemini, "no more racism" looks like "all people have skin color in the exact same shade of brown".
This plagues most enterprise software. Decisions are made by people who will most likely never actually use the software. So the decisions are made by cost and ease of dealing with the vendor. Usability is way down the list of priorities.
Why do you need x16 pcie slots if you can use nvlink?
That might be true for b2b, but totally wrong for consumer products. Have you never seen someone polish their car on a beautiful sunday, when they could be doing anything else?

Consumers buy most things because they want to, not because they need to. They desperately want to love your product. Unfortunately most products don't deserve to be loved which a whole other matter.
There are also other way, such as bitemporal tables.

- https://aiven.io/blog/two-dimensional-time-with-bitemporal-d...

- https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal

4 timestamps and some ugly queries.
Do not say that your software does something that in fact, it does not do.
Pardon, I should have said "vaporizedware".
Depends on what you mean by “peanuts”. Eng for oil generally puts you in top 5% of incomes in the US, it just has a crap location.
I have found my people. I watched this show like 6 times haha
It does seem that the incentives are pretty aligned with keeping the organization in place and thus not solving the problem. The incentive structure would have to change to fundamentally fix the issue.
Most people don't think of storage costs and network bandwidth. I have about 2tb of local models. What's the cost of storing this in the cloud? If I decide not to store them in the cloud, I have to transfer them in anytime I want to run experiments. Build your own rig so you can run experiments daily. This is a budget rig and you can even build cheaper.
Thanks, in many regards, Nix is already much better than Conda/Homebrew/Flatpak ... and we (the Nix community) are working very hard to improve the remaining weaknesses.
>LLMs, currently hyped as (among other things) near-term replacements for human workers in all sorts of professions and positions

No well-informed sources are saying that. If you're saying that mainstream reporting and other non-tech folks are wrong about what the possibilities are then... obviously.
I just found this. I'm sorry.
Back in the 1800's and early 1900's medicine was a very new science (in a modern sense), and snake oil salesmen abounded. Laymen had very little information to discern legitimate medical advice from quacks hocking piss and ink as a cure all.

We have the same problem now with software systems, although at the least we are advancing beyond the primitive stages and the charlatans are becoming more apparent.
What's missing are transparency laws. Every business should give a breakdown on where cost for a service went. If that breakdown does not cover compensation to the employees then it should be illegal.

I was even more surprised to find out that delivery services don't pay tip to drivers on top of the agreed upon rate for their service. Instead the rate they're are paid is adjusted as per the tip provided so that the total amount of money they make remains the same per delivery.
MP3 players were already a thing. I couldn't actually tell you at this point why I first bought an iPod (my first Apple purchase) with I think the 4th gen click wheel. Presumably it was at a technology point where I felt I should probably get one of these things and Apple seemed the best choice.
It's just a petulant rant against authority figures. Ignore stuff like that.
I lead a team of about 10 engineers, and have also interviewed hundreds of candidates over the last few years. I can tell you with certainty that the same candidates who say they don't know what SOLID, KISS, and DRY are, are the same candidates who are poor problem solvers and communicators in the more technical portion of the interview.
Modular Monolith: Is This the Trend in Software Architecture?
That doesn’t seem like an entirely bad thing, though. Once you have an organization built up to solve a problem, shifting those resources into solving another problem is a reasonable next step. This is not the same as TFA, which talks about organizations preventing the problem from being solved.
The end result is almost the same as an audit table except there's much more work to do at read time, and some queries simply cannot scale as they need to with this approach.

In general for most apps you'd rather have 2 writes (write to table and write to audit table) than 1 write to the event log and hard to scale reads.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-compute...
You're not wrong but the tech job market is a dumpster fire right now, too, and, on top of that, I've got 3 young kids (twins are 4, singleton is 2) and a partially disabled spouse. I make good money and have amazing benefits, some of the best in the entire tech industry. And I've been through shitty situations like this before, so I'm hanging on for now... At least until my personal life chills out a bit.
I think cars are a poor example. Cheaping out on quality can cost companies 6 years of 12 developers' salaries, market share, reputation, customers and bankruptcy procedures instead of... 3 years of 9 developers' salaries.

I've seen it firsthand: Major update to our only software product. Years of work. Everything is moving too slow. Managers hire more people. Performance tanks due to training the new folks. Our publicly available software is abandonware, all hands on the major update to get it done. A few customers switch to competitors, but hype is high for the new update.

After 5 total rewrites, they cut their losses and launch the half-baked current iteration. Launch feels earth shatteringly disappointing and insulting to all stakeholders, even including the developers of the major update. Developers receive death threats. Many developers leave the company. Remaining customers flee to competitors.

Lessons learned: Don't cheap out on quality. It can quite literally cost you your company. Nobody needs absolute quality, and that's impossible to achieve, but at least try to care about quality.
If the problem is that slices are somewhat complex, allowing aliasing sure.

But then it's a problem of understanding what slices are so it does help in practice.

I am more concerned by the difficulty of mutating a slice (deleting and appending element) while iterating over it for instance.
Done it and that's more difficult, ceremonious.
I already stated he isn't like his books personally.

But outside of Tu quoque fallacies, van you explain why this is a bad idea.

"A module should be responsible to one, and only one, actor."
> throw debris into the engines

Good luck with throwing debris into a 400 mph wind at -30F while passing out from lack of oxygen.
> People wonder why the OS uses up all available memory

This is really no excuse to have Windows eating 12GB of RAM with an Edge (with 2 static tabs), excel some antivirus and Teams running.
This (12GB) is just sick.
Addl note on the phase change: administration might also be thought of as capital ownership in a economic or capitalist context where an inefficiency is protection or "administration" of large pools of existing wealth and profits becoming more important than the continued building of the creation of value and identification and solving of social problems through economic activity.
> it's better than ever

As a product, I think you're in the minority if you think that. As a business, you are delusional if you think that.
Those are facts, like it or not.

A) python was designed as a scripting language available to advanced users (something far away from professional work)

B) whatever definition you take today - it’s obviously far away from whatever was considered a professional work back in late 80s: different types of challenges, different magnitudes of complexity, different standards and business environment.
Gower Gulch
a globally accessible, replicated database that should be writeable by anybody and which contains autoritative data about which number (IP) maps to which name?

seems like a use case for a blockchain???? runs for cover
Monopolies and regulatory capture sustains insolvent organizations.. see Boeing.

This really isn't a private enterprise vs govt split. It's the system in place of how decisions get made, how resources are allocated. Our current system of the world has elements split in both private enterprise and gov't that as a system, exhibit Pournelles law.

This theory of division between private enterprise and gov't doesn't in practice limit the negative effects - in fact in think we live in a modern world where we should recognize that there are many many examples of this split failing to administer a solution to meet the needs of society & humans.
It took a second for me because I'm accustomed to people talking about Assets and Liabilities to describe the picture, so the equation in my head is the inverted one:

Capital = Assets - Liabilities.

I can imagine GP had a similar confusion.
ElectroBOOM: Getting in Shape by Sketchy Treadmill over 1 Year
> I also think that an average duck is happier than an average human.

Perhaps being able to think doesn't help much when it comes to happiness. Thinking is useful practically but it's as if you have to suppress it in order to experience happiness.
So start your own company. Then you get to keep all the money.
Because adding the word "diverse" to the text of to their output is a lot easier than retraining their model? They're always going to try for the easy fix first.

Have you never tried tweaking the error text first before giving up and redesigning your form that's confusing users?
"a) list of thousands of child molesters or b )would endorse killing children by giving fake medical advice to their parents"

I do neither associate with Jehovah's witnesses. Would you be willing to share some details?
We'll see what comes out later, but I give it 90:10 odds that this behavior was seen in testing and accepted by developers/DEI commissars - the failure was in not forseeing the reaction of the non-DEI-extremist public.

Of a piece with 'Google more or less explicitly said I won't be promoted because I'm White' stories.
A Blind Guardian concert in Latin America might have been the closest thing I've ever had to a religious experience, now that I think about it.
are you still accumulating at these prices?
I've always assumed that vaccination requirements were just intelligence tests in disguise.
- Governments can always raise taxes or print more money.

Fiat money basically cripple the free market. We need decentralised currency for healthy free market that has limits in commodity.
I agree if it is known that the value can only be Hash or nil. But to_h often makes sense when you need a Hash, and there are other possible values too.
Start your own tech company. Let us know how it goes.
Well, almost. GPUs have not be depreciating. The cost of 3090's and 4090's have gone up. Folks are selling it for what they paid for or even more. With the recent 40's SUPER series from Nvidia, I'm not expecting any new releases in a year. AMD & Intel still have ways to go before major adoption. Startups are buying up consumer cards. So I sadly expect prices to stay more or less the same.
Actually, an old friend of mine works on long term archival of computing environments, and they still use a patched version of qemu 2.0 (iirc) for older systems for these reasons.
How would you prove or enforce such a thing?
Fair observations but, doesn't this assume that disposal and containment are truly our only options now and forever?

Even so, you think there would be no worthy efficiency gains for pure sorting or materials mining in using machines that can identify known objects effectively, and hands that will go where humans will not?
> Oops! Something went wrong...
> We seem to be having some technical difficulties. Hang tight.
Yes but many other countries do this same service with private companies for much less money.
Dora the Infra Exploder
The EU is (implicitly) mandating EU financial institutions to implement a hybrid-cloud infra. This should bring about the era of the commodity cloud and shared, scaled consistency
I've forgotten if 'address of' ( & ) is signed or unsigned. Worse, in a quick search online I can't seem to find anyplace that mentions what the return type of address of is, just a bunch of basic working with pointers pages.

The pointer math line should still be legal, even if it would be 'unsafe' in some popular other languages. Useful for determining where to write to memory mapped files or IO. Not so useful in the above case.

The warnings/errors I'd expect would be: *p = 7; // out of known bounds write
What makes this a "release" compared to the release of non-Google models?
https://archive.is/LzFN0
While trying to get reviews, I posted on a forum a few times (I think it was this one). Got a little traction, got great advice and updated the patches. Sadly I hit the forum’s new user posting limits and was unable to get the reviews to give the final approval. So I’ve had some patches accepted and others that have been sitting there for months/years.

It has meant that after a burst of packaging, I’ve stopped submitting. I’d love to be able to get reviews even if it takes months. Any suggestions are welcome.
Your comment is involuntarily funny in the sense that 1999 style OOP Java is a serial offender of SOLID, not a prime example of it. It's mainly the Liskov Substitution and dependency inversion principles. If you have deep class inheritance hierarchies, you are not doing SOLID, sorry.
I've never forgiven them for shutting down Google Reader. Never again. Self-hosted open source software for life.
In 2015, Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) talked about the same concept in an interview he gave about the graphic novel he was making as a sequel to Fight Club[1]

> my dream, or idea was that Project Mayhem and the whole organization would work to create empowered individuals who would go off to create their own visions. And that the organization itself would disappear. People weren’t meant to stay in it; the organization wasn’t meant to sustain its own power. Which was my experience with doing [Werner H. Erhard’s self-improvement training] EST. A lot of people who had a vision, who were empowered by EST — including myself — then went off to become the person they dreamed of being. That’s how I started writing. But a lot of people who didn’t really have a vision became part of EST. They really couldn’t bridge out of it. They just kind of perpetuated the power of the organization, because they didn’t have their own personal vision. And so what we’re seeing in Fight Club 2 is that Project Mayhem has crossed the line where it’s no longer about empowering people. It’s about maintaining its own power in the world.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/27/8660881/fight-club-sequel...
I don't know what "musk approach" is, presumably referring to Elon Musk?

> interesting that bill joy did use a similar way, but i assume that an incomplete text editor is a lot less critical than a failing compiler :)

I think it's very common. GitHub is probably full of projects that do this to some degree. But most people also don't pay attention to these projects.

I'm not saying the V people are without blame or couldn't have be better, but there's definitely a lot of toxic feedback looping going on here.
I mean, if by cloud-dependent software you mean software usually running in the cloud, then it's a non issue since most software also runs on single nodes. If you mean SaaS stuff - well, the problem isn't 40 years from now. It's when the company sunsets product X or if they go bankrupt.
Normally "quadratic equation" means "over the complex numbers" (and the mention of "complex roots" in the post I responded to bears out that interpretation).

But yes, different mathematical models can give different answers for things like "number of roots of an equation". But that doesn't mean math depends on "private thoughts". It just means you need to specify which mathematical model you are talking about.