skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've come to appreciate that it is beyond most people

I had the same experience. Before, my company tried several times and failed to implement enterprise dashboards and reporting. I was able to champion Tableau and get it off the ground and even the board of directors peruse the dashboards. I thought I had a huge win. I could not believe the amount of negativity I since received.

That is I believe enterprise reporting is essentially a people problem. The people who looks bad because of the metrics will always blame the tool. They won't be happy until they can manipulate the tool and massage the data until the metric becomes meaningless. In other words, it is convenient to blame the reporting if their report card shows they are failing.
Fair. I guess the promise of a GA-based physics engine is in the implementation as development velocity and how much work it takes to get decent performance, but that wouldn't necessarily translate to users.
In those countries the taxman will come out anyway because it will say that it was not a donation and you are trying to avoid paying taxes. It would be better to speak with an accountant beforehand in either case
Over my last few programming jobs I've felt that building software these days usually amounts to drudgery in the short term and burnout in the long-term. I'm building a product [0] to fix that. It helps engineering leaders gather candid feedback to identify and improve quality of life problems in their teams.

Think employee pulse surveys, but purpose-built for dev teams.

It's cool not because the tech is interesting (it isn't) but because the product helps improve the working lives of actual human beings. Working on a company that's calm, deliberate, and fully independent has been a breath of fresh air for my career in tech.

[0] https://workdna.com
I wonder why so few BI software support Pi databases. They are pervasive and mission critical in commodity industries, but there only seems to be proprietary options available.
It's a best practice yes, but in practice when you produce any data mart you end up getting questions to power deep dives and that's where custom SQL ends up coming from. There's usually a right way to answer the question, and a fast way with custom SQL, and with ad-hocs the fast way wins every time.

Here's an example, you do a customers rollup and an orders rollup, but a user asks for average order value of return customers buying product X. In SQL, that's a semi join of order line items, on your orders table and an inner join on daily customers to determine if they're a new customer. But no BI tool I've ever used has semi joins, so when you join in the tool your order values are multiplied and you're back to custom SQL to fix it.

It's that or build a whole new mart to answer this one question.
It's totally solved, first class is just too expensive for most people. The future is not evenly distributed.
You can also run into the opposite problem, where they license a commercial version of a dependency, and instead of paying ten grand or whatever, they pay a senior (way over six figures) to re-implement the same functionality, which wont be maintained anywhere as well, and it takes them over a year to reach parity. Totally never happened anywhere I worked.

It astounds me that companies would rather waste hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of just throwing a few thousand that will benefit them in the long haul.

I genuinely believe more companies should adopt a policy of just letting devs work half a day on fridays on whatever they want, whether it be technical debt, or even open source projects the company depends on. Maybe that would be more feasible, but even then lots of places would still not understand the value.
Why the US border remains 'a place of terror' for Chinese researchers
> The point of the marketplace metaphor

The marketplace metaphor implies there are buyers and sellers. The sellers are the ones fighting to make their case for the ideas they are 'selling.' The 'buyers' are the audience, those as yet undecided. Once a buyer has 'bought' an idea he either becomes a seller or leaves the market.

Generally the sellers aren't the ones changing their mind - you only care enough to 'sell' an idea if you believe in it strongly.

The metaphor involves people entering the market undecided and being convinced of one idea or another. Generally people who've already made up their mind don't enter the market - unless they're motivated enough to become sellers.

That's how the metaphor works.

As to your 2nd - what's the point here? Both of us know why people support the football teams they support. What's the dumb act about?
What fraction of the population lives with -40 degree winters? That's the only reason they might not be viable, in that they require customization that is only useful to a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the population.
> They’re about politicians ensuring that a favored constituency has access to someone else’s megaphone to spread a message

I think this is an inaccurate characterization. Over the past 20 years content creators were encouraged to use and invest in building an audience on these platforms based on the tacit understanding that they would behave like content neutral common carriers. If the platform's willingness to abuse this power had been apparent from the start they would never have become so powerful.

People created their own "megaphones" over many years only for the platform to start dictating to them how they can communicate with the audiences they've built, often based on naked political animus. It was a bait and switch - a fraud.

That said, having listened to most of the oral arguments I think SCOTUS will strike down these laws.

The fundamental problem is that the Internet centralizes power in a small number of corporations which then become ripe for capture by powerful interests, whether political, ideological, or commercial.

IMO the ultimate solution is a decentralized Internet like https://freenet.org/ that doesn't require creators to hand over control of their voices to powerful third parties.
I was poking through my Thermostat's App a couple of weeks ago, and found a setting that said "Use Gas", "Use Heat Pump", and "Let system decide". I had thought our furnance was running the heat pump automatically... for the last 5 years. I switched, and now the display says "Heating with Heat Pump" and I'm a little upset that it wasn't more obvious before now.
I guess I never want my personal blog/site to be successful. Can't trust that I will wake up to a huge bill from EC2 or my CDN provider. Feels like health insurance in that even when you have insurance, you are never 100% confident you will not get some huge hospital bill. The pessimistic part of me says this is all deliberate to prevent the "little guy" from competing these days.
Before they were acquired by Google, looker had a bunch of really engaged community support people, and the docs were great for what the product did. There were learning paths for different types of users and tutorials linked to references in a way that made sense. I learned a lot about effective documentation (and looker!) from going through what they had.

Google laid off their US-based community support team (https://www.reddit.com/r/Looker/comments/t5jpwk/google_cloud...) and in the time since, those docs links have rotted/disconnected.

Even if 100 US-based community support folks were making $300K in total comp, why would you not spend $30MM to keep your $2.6B acquisition humming along? A bit mystifying.
They do have a significant effect. Trees scoop up rain from the soil, lift it through their trunks and up into the leaves where little mouths (stomata) in the leaves deposit that water back into the air in a process called transpiration.

It is actually in this way that places deep inland can still receive rainfall. Without this process clouds wouldn't be able to make it far inland.
Yemen is an incredibly wretched place (Gulf state with very little of either oil or water), but this is a very Iranian slogan. They're still mad about the US-backed revolution in the way that Miami Cubans are still mad about the Communist revolution in Cuba.
That kind of clause doesn’t fly in either the UK or US, since it is disguised employment. The definition of a contractor is someone who sets their own rate and hours, and works under their own direction.
Went down a similar path, but d3 is way too hard. I think we used chart.js?
> I was reading a story about the decisions made by miners in UP Michigan in 1912. You know what they did when shit sucked? They walked and did something else for 2 years. They let the equipment rot with intent going

Jesus, or what the miners in the Appalachians did in 1912. After the mining company refused to deal with a unionized workforce, they were replaced by armed guards. The miners got kicked out of there housing, etc. So in response, the miners formed a militia and went to war with the company, like literal war with guns. They got steamrolled by the state guard. But eventually that got them to negotiate a 9 hour workday.

Then they did it again 10 years later, except that time they got steamrolled by the US military, and then the feds threw hundreds in prison for treason.
And, what, undo capitalism? The motivating forces here are profit, plain and simple. I've come to think that it's not only probable, but _inevitable_ that any growth-oriented, profit-motivated company (read: any company) will reach a point that their only remaining growth path is to undermine quality.
I'm not sure. I live in London, 51 degrees north. We have a lot of parks in London, but the bus stops near them still have deep grooves of melted asphalt from recent heatwaves.
I've proposed a workaround for bringing back PWA support to iOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39454792
"static site" doesn't necessarily mean "small". It would be easy to go way over 1Mb with a couple of pictures.
OK OK, let's get serious. My personal favorite : Lamy 2000 fine nib inked with Rohrer & Klinger Dokumentus. Most times to complement it there's at least one Parker 51 as a quick note taking pen / highlighter (puts out way more ink, so some cheaper papers don't really work with it) and one or two Montblancs (mostly inked with Rohrers Salix) just for the fun of it.

I haven't quite settled down on paper though. Rhodia wire-bound dotted A5 has the best quality paper, but I sorely miss the flexibility of free leaf notes. Latest discovery - Muji's A5 binder. It's a Japanese 20-holes-per-A5 spacing, so fairly rare in the EU. Also, the Muji's default paper isn't great for some wetter fountain pens... but hopefully I'll figure some way to make it work.
No, they do have independent agendas. The ownership in an S corp is spread out over many thousands of people, and they are ineffective at exerting their own agenda onto the company. Even those who believe themselves effective at doing so. I think it was Charlie Stross who first said that corporations are actual AIs whose code executes on wetware of its employees. In the execution of that AI code, new agendas are developed that were never communicated or even imagined by anyone who could reasonably be called an owner.
Python is great but typed python is awful. But getting type hints and type checking would be great. That and pythons package management chaos that is somehow even worse than npm are the main pain points imo.
Wow, didn't expect this tool to be on Hacker News six years after publication! Herbgrind author here, ask me any questions you like! Also, if you're interested in this stuff, the Herbie project (which I also worked on) for numerical program synthesis is also really helpful for writing numerical code, and has had a lot of development over the years.
So by using ChatGPT at all you can be considered as hacking at OpenAI's discretion? You can't make this kind of absurdity up. Were OpenAI hacking when they scraped the whole internet?
What you say is true only in an idealized fantasy world. We might sometimes get close to that ideal in small communities such as a classroom. But in the real world, moderators on large online platforms constantly abuse their power to push preferred narratives and suppress dissent rather than facilitating meaningful conversations.
As someone who switched four years ago to a heat pump plus conventional furnace, I can state from experience that my thermostat takes electricity cost per kWh and gas cost per therm (other units are available, these are just the ones that match my utility bills) and efficiency of both the heat pump and furnace and runs whichever is cheaper.

Gas cost has varied a bunch over the years I’ve had it, electricity less so. But the furnace has only run a few days per year and only when when it’s been (depending on gas cost) below 10 to -5 degrees Fahrenheit.

My heat pump (trane xv19) kicks ass and if I were doing the hvac upgrade again I’d skip the furnace entirely and let the heat pump work a little harder/longer on the coldest days.

It’s damned near always more cost-efficient to run the heat pump. And my shiny new high efficiency furnace will never, ever pay itself off saving me a few bucks a day the three or four days per year that the math works in its favor.
It's not just the NTSB, it's part of things like the Toyota Production System. There's ample evidence to show both that punishment discourages safety and that lack of punishment encourages safety, across multiple industries.
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And sometimes a side project doesn't want to be a side hustle; dealing with payments and tax implications is time not being spent on the core project. It's an individual choice as to whether the time cost of accepting payment is worth it.
Well, some of the materials used are special: aluminium alloys, titanoum alloyw, heat treatment, carbon fibers...
OnlySwitch
More accurate title: "The New York Times Paid Someone To Use Weird Prompts In Our Product"

Oh no! Anyway...
"Open" AI and "hack".
Object permanence in newborn chicks is robust against opposing evidence
Synthetic benchmarks should be retired. Build a real app, measure real impact. Unless your users insert 1000 rows, of course.

Other than that, I agree with the general premise of React becoming the new IBM, that's totally fair.
Snowflake purchased Streamlit. When Snowflake has all the kinks worked out, I would create Streamlit applications directly in Snowflake and be done with it.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/streamlit/limi...
I wouldn't put it past Boeing management to try to move more production to South Carolina. In fact they put the 787 there thinking that the 787 would be the future of Boeing. It isn't, and it can't be, because of the problems in developing and building the 787. So their move to a anti-union state ended up being a dead end.

In the 787 project they pushed outsourcing of design to their suppliers so they could reduce dependence on their own engineers. That was a disaster. They spun out Spirit Aerosystems to fragment their unionized manufacturing workers. The same Jack Welch influence via Harry Stonecipher sets the management tone even today. It's the wrong culture.

They need to move headquarters and production of their next plane back to the Pacific Northwest, and they need to develop the next plane not in the way that they developed the 787 which was which was designed to be a thumb in the eye of the union and their engineers. It's a cultural problem. Look at the word cultural throughout the FAA report. The culture that Boeing had doesn't work, and they need to change it root and branch.
Comments that say HOW commonly useless, as that is almost always self-evident (i.e. "just read the code."). Comments that explain WHY are worth their weight in gold, and not something AI could ever create.

For example:

// How: This filters records by MyType of J and if they have children
// Why: We want Jobs (J) when those Jobs have Children. Otherwise, we'll get JobGroups or Jobs without any Children we need to process below.
.Where(T => T.MyType == "J" && T.Child.Count() > 0);

WHY are, by their very nature, business rules or explaining a thought process. If the original developer of the code moves on or is unavailable, that information can sometimes not be found elsewhere.
Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use
Really started when Congress decided they were supporting too many aerospace companies and some asshat got the idea that forcing some of them to merge would be a good idea.

Spreading manufacturing all over the US is also more to do with getting kore congressional districts “pregnant” than with national defense. In war you want multiple, as in redundant, supply lines so if one is cut, you can source matériel from somewhere else. What we have is multiple, as in single point of failure, supply lines. Lose one and everything collapses.
It's big and extremely invasive, and asks questions that are none of the government's business, and definitely none of that agency's business.

The form claims it should only take 30 minutes to complete. Laughable. It's 26 pages, and it's not simple, and it begins with a threat that being incorrect is a criminal offense.
It’s just a static site and stateless backend.

That’s my biggest struggle atm, both for technical and non technical folks.

Would putting the code on GitHub help here ?

Still can’t verify what’s deployed on the backend…
How about just fix the pricing formula to account for massive surges.

Instead of forcing user to set a low cost limit and missing a viral opportunity or the platform writing off the massive bill the customer can't afford... just put the billing mode into a reduced price mode or have some more nuanced configurations. Sometimes is just asking the question the right way. Instead of "max spend limit" or similar "If your site goes viral, how many requests do you want to serve before going offline? 1M=$20, 10M=$100, etc" at this point, I feel like bandwidth consumption is a bad metric for billing; just use requests/visits/actions and price for those.

This is not prescriptive just illustrative. The point is make a better pricing formula to account for these massively unexpected events. Couple it with an aggressive notification policy when this traffic event gets triggered. The user should know the traffic pattern has changed and a high traffic event is happening. They can login and change the configs and decide if they want to keep it going or not.
I recently had a Mitsubishi hyper heat installed to replace my natural gas furnace. The air handler is connected to the ducts so it was an easy transition. I live in Chicago so I also had 10kW resistive heat strips installed as a backup. This winter they never needed to come on, and I was able to keep the house at 70 degrees F even when we hit around 0 degrees F outside.

I haven't crunched all the numbers but so far my electricity bill has gone up by about as much as my gas bill has gone down, so there really isn't much savings there which is too bad. I mainly did this though for the environmental benefits, as I want to slowly phase out all natural gas in my home. Next step will be to replace my gas range with an induction cooker, and the last will be a heat pump water heater.
Or not thinking that an O-ring might experience temperatures below freezing in Florida https://priceonomics.com/the-space-shuttle-challenger-explos...
You assume it entered the stock market and didn't go elsewhere. There's no way to know where that money went.
Aren't there 1000s of people on Twitter doing this for free, so they can do a screencap and share it?
How to address unexpected clock drift when building on AWS Nitro Enclaves
The cloud is so expensive for most companies that I think that a solution architect's insistence on setting up in the cloud by default is actually a corporate welfare program where VC funds are redirected to Amazon and Google.

That said, it's still not as trivial as using managed SaaS but it's still easier than ever to basically spin up your own cloud of sorts, using the wealth of open source tech out there. K3S on Hetzner can do a pretty solid job for cheap. In that sense, the ecosystem around running your own cloud is only improving.
We used to hang road kill up in our pawpaw trees to get the flies to come to them.
Migrate to FedCM
Well, if the Judge agrees with this there goes the rule of law in the USA. Their thesis is that it's illegal to investigate criminal behaviour. That seems like a very bad sort of thing to accept to me.
The word "largely" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It's nowhere close to consensus in any literature I'm familiar with. I do find it interesting that even among the people who are vocally supportive of the subspecies classification almost never use the terminology for it. In any case what I said is true regardless of the taxonomy.
Empirically, it extends a tiny bit past the green area.

When I go for walks in summer in my city, it's noticeable how the temperature drops while on the sidewalk when I walk past a green area as opposed to past a building.
a) nobody has tested my testosterone or my great grandpas to my knowledge

b) Both of those are taking drops over a certain period and then you're extrapolating back to my great grandad and assuming certain results, which is a bit tenuous. No to mention also assuming the cause.

Quite a long way away from a "non-controversial established fact."
I think the main point of the article is that they had to do some serious prompt engineering to get the results they wanted. It probably means that with normal usage it doesn't produce any quotes from copyrighted materials.
Don’t forget about all the dihydrogen monoxide in everything these days.

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"Hack" is defined as "using deceptive prompts" which is a very misleading use of the word - using creative prompts is absolutely how people use ChatGPT, even if it isn't "expected behaviour". There is zero evidence that AI isn't leaky and that there will always be a way of returning the original corpus. Even if it takes a thousand tries, that means one out of thousand users would get it. This is probably the only good point in their rebuttal: that NYT "had to feed the tool portions of the very articles they sought to elicit verbatim passages".

That being said, this is probably the first case that will determine the future of AI so staking a strong, extreme rebuttal is how the system should work, and the courts will decide the truth. It's going to be very interesting to see how this case progresses.

Preemptive Edit: "Truth" might not be the best word, but rather how this should be seen in context of copyright law. It's very unclear how AI will legally be allowed to operate since corpuses commonly include copyrighted material - this is a question, due to how US law is structured, that HAS to be litigated in court for a clear answer. Just because you don't like OpenAIs argument, and I don't, this is how the legal system is designed to work.

Edit 2: I feel many people are missing the point here (which I buried in the second paragraph, my bad) - This isn't some catty PR fight between NYT and OpenAI - this is the first major case about how LLMs/deep learning/etc fits in relation to copyright. This isn't about what is morally right, this is about do LLMs violate copyright law. NYT has made a strong case that it does violate copyright. OpenAI has some good and bad arguments (IMO 1 very good argument and the rest weak or bad) but they should be throwing their best arguments at the wall since that is how law works in the US. This won't be the last, but this is probably the first important case in the future of LLMs.
This looks pretty cool! What was the hardest part about building this?