skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're wrong about the left and right being in bubbles. I read commentary, thinkpieces, and yellow rubbish from both. This isn't the first time I've seen mention of that hiring goal, but I will note that comments like yours are typically the setup for a motte & bailey. But let's assume good faith.

Tell me. Of the targeted disabilities you have listed, which do you think employers should discriminate against, when it does not interfere with a qualified candidate's bona fide job requirements?
I'm the exact opposite of a Apple fanboy, but can you enlighten me with what they are supposed to do here?

EU says "you must allow XYZ in our jurisdiction" so Apple allows XYZ in their jurisdiction.

Right?

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Tbh, this just seems like unintended consequences of policy. But explain what I'm missing.
CVE-2019-11730:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11730
The part at the beginning about how critical software is to our world reminds me of the time (or so I've heard, it was before my time) when there was a push to make software engineering a licensed field. A "real" engineering. I'm very happy that didn't happen.
I find it odd that anything in this space can be considered a solved problem. Let’s not abandon new ideas just because we can glue together something.
What's an 'enterprise company' lol? Many big banks have hundreds, if not thousands of nodejs-based backend services. Is Netflix[0] an 'enterprise company'? What about Walmart[1] ?

[0] https://www.bellcorpstudio.com/blog/how-netflix-is-using-nod...
[1] https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/migrating-large-enterpr...

> As for cloud service SDKs, are you saying that many node backends rely on cloud SDKs?

Almost anything that uses a cloud service like DynamoDB is going to 'rely on cloud SDKs'... the language is irrelevant.
No need to fine tune; if you are running a local model just change the system prompt.

* https://imgur.com/jHlcd2D.jpg

Warning, link is NSFW, though all it is is a screenshot of my terminal showing the prompt and the output when I loaded mistral-7b and asked it to write an erotic story.
Supposedly it's incoming, just had to work out licensing deals.
If someone offered tuition at half the cost without those services, I bet plenty would vote for that with their wallets. Unfortunately, bureaucrats don't typically have that kind of courage.
[dupe]

More discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618193
Fasting-mimicking diet causes markers indicating reduced age and disease risk
You could simulate this using WebGL and some directional light sources. Then you don’t need to leave the house and it can be brought up on any screen.

https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-shadows.ht...
Do banks in the US not support IBANs? I thought they were supposed to be international/universal. I use them even for domestic (even same bank) transfers because it's just a single number I can paste/type into my online banking page.

Didn't even know they had checksums until earlier this year, when I was going to yes-and someone complaining about needing to enter them by hand from written forms and looked up if I was correct.
“The uncontrolled disposal of the pallet, however, was not part of the original plan. It was made necessary by a disrupted spacewalking schedule following the failed launch of a Soyuz rocket in 2018, which forced NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to make an emergency landing in the Kazakh steppe. This event led to a backlog in the disposal of such equipment. Normally, old batteries would be placed inside an HTV and jettisoned from the ISS to burn up on re-entry.”

https://gizmodo.com/massive-iss-cargo-pallet-reentry-earth-m...
The law generally frowns on "dead hand control" of real and personal property that's been passed on to successors. Society is believed to be better off if living people actually own what they own.

The classic legal example is the Rule Against Perpetuities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities), which limits how much control a will or trust instrument can exert over real property. You wouldn't believe the lengths people have historically gone to make sure their notion of "the right thing" happens for many years after they die.

As a sibling commenter said, if you don't want people to truly own your personal property when you die, then you should destroy it. Or consider giving it to someone else.
36 Methods of Mathematical Proof
New hydrogen producing method is simpler and safer
You'd probably also have to disable the cellular modem. If Apple are "smart" about this, they'll use location from cell towers.
I read the post, and discarding the fact that it's generally impolite to suggest otherwise, I disagree with what's written.

It's not all about TAM. There are many problems out there with massive TAMs that can't reasonably support a profitable functioning venture.

Enterprise in the most traditional sense is a game about huge deals with eye-watering cheques being signed. It's very much alive. It's perfectly fine to target just the top 500. You could even potentially close just the top 5 and retire in comfort.

TFA's title, literally, is "Enterprise is Dead" -- it's anything but. The thinking in TFA isn't necessarily wrong but it is a sweeping generalization that I would even consider dangerous.

You can absolutely enjoy massive success running a traditional sales pipeline and catering to the world's largest and most successful businesses. I'd rather have 50 customers each paying me $1MM/y than a million customers paying me $50/y.
My immediate assumption was the marketing team has defined a “conversation” session time very broadly - “time tab was open” etc
> deterministic

I would use the word "consistent."

Non-determinism implies randomness.
Why allow pages to disable copy & paste at all?
That's basically a function, and it might work out if one typical line didn't end up taking up so much space. Expressions still end up more clear and more condensed by such a huge margin it makes nodes look silly in general cases. Houdini is able to make it work but it's all data flow, there are no branches or loops.

This gets in to another problem I didn't mention - branches and loops (not to mention class declarations).

Feeding a function result into another function argument is great, but that was never difficult for expressions anyway. Once you get into branches and loops you have another problem that is a huge problem for nodes.

Ultimately programs don't map to data flow nodes, they are imperative. Certain parts of certain programs will end up mapping very well, but when looking for silver bullets in something that isn't 1:1, you end up hacking it up and forcing a square peg in a round hole to make the dream work.
"Decoupled supercapacitive electrolyzer for membrane-free water splitting" (2024)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi3180 :

> Abstract: Green hydrogen production via water splitting is vital for decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries. Its integration with renewable energy sources remains to be a challenge, due to the susceptibility to hazardous gas mixture during electrolysis. Here, we report a hybrid membrane-free cell based on earth-abundant materials for decoupled hydrogen production in either acidic or alkaline medium. The design combines the electrocatalytic reactions of an electrolyzer with a capacitive storage mechanism, leading to spatial/temporal separation of hydrogen and oxygen gases. An energy efficiency of 69% lower heating value (48 kWh/kg) at 10 mA/cm2 (5 cm–by–5 cm cell) was achieved using cobalt-iron phosphide bifunctional catalyst with 99% faradaic efficiency at 100 mA/cm2. Stable operation over 20 hours in alkaline medium shows no apparent electrode degradation. Moreover, the cell voltage breakdown reveals that substantial improvements can be achieved by tunning the activity of the bifunctional catalyst and improving the electrodes conductivity. The cell design offers increased flexibility and robustness for hydrogen production.
Another consideration: Even if it's slightly more expensive, that can be OK if you care about inference speed. I'd pay 50% more for GPT-4 if it could deliver results that quick.
Yeah, these all seem like parallel or inspired developments of the same thing in git. But they're relatively recent and when you use this stuff git basically ceases to be a DVCS system (though the modern git + GitHub workflow mostly works like centralized version control already)
India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer
Yeah, if I was a betting man I would bet that they're using location from cell tower pings. Good luck with that.
in other words, for those of us who remember, they used the equivalent of a slide rule
Believe it or not, a lot of people like FAANG products and use them daily.

Imagine taking away your toddler's favorite toy. Forever.
Maybe 2190 days.
Billionaires spend a lot of time and effort in managing their money from beyond the grave.
I almost cancelled my JetBrains subscription when I saw that shit. Very bad move on their part.
> I don’t understand what you are saying here. How many months does one need to stay to hover up the trade secrets / IP?

Presumably the more valuable the IP, the harder it is to access.
Why doesn't it sit right? Providing a higher level of service reward for those who support provides an incentive, yet those who do not support are no worse off than they already were.

What surprises me is the need for fast downloads. Books are small. 20 fast small downloads doesn't seem much of a reward.
"if you don't want people to truly own your personal property when you die, then you should destroy it. "

If I want to use something while I'm alive but don't want others to have/see/use/know about it, what's the best way to handle this? The problem here is that no one knows when they're going to die, or if they'll be lucid enough when they're close to take care of things like that.
Interesting. Yeah, I also found Prisma to be a bit heavyweight. Postgraphile is nice, though. I wish it went beyond postgres.
"Visual" in Visual Studio was a reference to RAD. Basically, visual form and report designers.
Aloe vera:

> This type of supercapacitor formed within living plants acts as a form of electronic plant (e-plant) by using its tissue fluid electrolyte, which surprisingly presents a satisfying electrical capacitance of 182.5 mF cm−2,

Hemp bast fiber:

>> "Hemp Carbon Makes Supercapacitors Superfast" (2013) https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/hemp... :

>> Hemp fiber waste was pressure-cooked (hydrothermal synthesis) at 180 °C for 24 hours. The resulting carbonized material was treated with potassium hydroxide and then heated to temperatures as high as 800 °C, resulting in the formation of uniquely structured nanosheets. Testing of this material revealed that it discharged 49 kW of power per kg of material—nearly triple what standard commercial electrodes supply, 17 kW/kg

TMK there's not yet an aerogel electrode; but aerogels are porous.

/? Hemp aerogel
https://www.google.com/search?q=hemp+aerogel :

"Superelastic and Ultralight Aerogel Assembled from Hemp Microfibers" (2023)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202300...

Hemp bast fiber is cheap:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hemp+bast+fiber ?tbm=isch

"Self-cleaning superhydrophobic aerogels from waste hemp noil for ultrafast oil absorption and highly efficient PM removal" (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13835... : superhydrophobic and porous
I don't know anything about Gab AI so I looked it up. It's created by Gab Media, an American far-right organization. So perhaps not that silly to think that using it says something about you.
News you love to see when you're flying out of SFO in a couple weeks.
I’ve said it once and j in I’ll say it again, cost per a token is still part of the equation. Why throw money away by stuffing the context with unneeded tokens?
That is more than year old now...
simdjson can parse JSON files at ~2.5-3GB/s: https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
Wait...is it "almost 15 years" or "only 15 years"? Is node old and established or is it still the plucky upstart?
Repositories are rarely worth much.

Sure, some algorithms there might save you some time, but its often the design and the data where the money lies (what this guy focused on).

Clone google's repo and you'll likely struggle forever to get anything of substance running on a rando vm/docker/etc. not to mention about spinning the entire stack with interconnected services, certificates, shitty code, and layers upon layers of hacking that can only be resolved by relying on the tribal knowledge on whomever built the darn thing.

Compared to that - detailed design docs, a team of motivated Chinese dudes/ettes with some monetary support from the local party, and you can have a close-enough copy running natively on the Alibaba cloud in a few months.
From the FAQ, https://annas-archive.org/donation_faq

>If you don’t like how we operate our project, go run your own shadow library! All our code and data are open source, so nothing is stopping you. ;)

Or be more specific what doesn't sit right with you.
Should AI Be Open-Source? Behind the Tweetstorm over Its Dangers
Among the variations the author does recognize, I do wonder how does number of workers influence all of these combinations too: I am convinced just varying them over sync/async category is not sufficient.

I am assuming they did not test for each and every combination and came with exactly the same number, but that they tested one or two configurations to come up with the number.

Another thing to note for real applications, with sync frameworks you are increasing memory demands and memory pressure in a highly loaded system. That probably depends on whether you are hitting memory limits or not (swapping), but it's hard to test for with toy examples.

And yet another is ORM object serialization time: for bulk queries, that can be the most of the response time with Django ORM, SqlAlchemy, SQLObject...
I'll always know him as the author of Postmodern, an impressive CL library for PostgreSQL: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/
I'm more surprised at how openly he did this kind of stuff. They even have Goole office in China, how he was not worried about getting pinged randomly!
Just hire Chinese engineers who were born/raised here. It would meet the DEI quota and decrease the chance of industrial espionage. No guarantees, but I think this would help.
> Paper book will take a while longer.

According to the author, Marijn Haverbeke.

https://mastodon.social/@marijn/112020092273623390
Is it prohibitively expensive to just boost them into the sun or elsewhere, while in low orbit?
I still don’t know the difference between “upstream” and “downstream!”

Envoy uses the opposite definitions from what I’m used to. And has a perfectly cromulent explanation for why; I’m convinced. But now I don’t know why I started calling them the opposite.
> wonder how they would remake the battery chemistry if they were to use all the latest advancements

“While the energy density is only around one third as that of a lithium battery, the distinctive virtue of the nickel–hydrogen battery is its long life: the cells handle more than 20,000 charge cycles with 85% energy efficiency and 100% faradaic efficiency” [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93hydrogen_batt...
It seems it might be against the terms of use, emphasis mine:

> You must not use any Output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them.

https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use

Article on bias:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636532
Some more discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617531
An enterprise company is a large company that's not a tech company: banks, health care, finance, manufacturing, retail, etc. The proverbial "FAANG" companies are not enterprise.

Netflix is not enterprise. Walmart is.

As for DynamoDB, is that database more common, or less common, than relational databases like Oracle and MSSQL?
A huge thanks for making me aware of this. permissions.default.shortcuts firmly set to 2.
SFO is where United’s main maintenance facility is, so statistically I would think this is where the most issues will occur
I’m a big believer in inline code. Headerdoc kind of stuff encourages just about the correct density of comments.

I’ve learned to unwind the typical spaghetti that passes for code, these days, but every time I do, it reinforces my own posture of leaving a legacy.

Here’s my take on code documentation: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
For one thing, they can't show ads in third-party clients. (I think they currently only do that in "stories" in their own client at the moment, but without competing clients, they always have the option to expand that.)

On the other hand, I could imagine their business messaging ambitions to be threatened by third-party clients: There's nothing stopping the vendors of these clients from undercutting Meta on business messaging rates.

And this is all assuming that third-party services couldn't provide their own business messaging services to first-party WhatsApp client users without paying Meta their list price. I don't know whether the DMA allows that, or if normal rates would still apply in that case.
Consider a print server. clients connect to it, pictures come out. a display server is the same. clients connect to it to print pictures and get user input.
No. Embassies and consulates are not considered the territory of that country. They have certain special properties and immunities.
This is from the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. This agreement says the premises of embassies to be inviolable, meaning the host country cannot enter them without permission from the embassy's country. This makes it seem like embassies are like islands of their home country within a foreign nation.

However, the land on which an embassy is situated remains under the sovereignty of the host country, not the country that the embassy represents. The host country retains ultimate control over the land, although it must respect the embassy's independence and immunities. Diplomatic premises are subject to the laws of the host country to a certain extent, but with significant exceptions that allow the embassy to function as a representation of its home country's government.

The answer to your question is no.
> prohibitively expensive to just boost them into the sun or elsewhere, while in low orbit?

It’s easier to exit the Solar System than it is to boost mass into the Sun from any Earth orbit [1][2]. The atmosphere providing braking for “free” is a huge propellant saver.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_system_delta_v_ma...

[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3612/calculating-s...
I dare say it's the first truly genuine, malleable ratchet I've encountered in my entire software career.
Reminds me of the time I quit my job at a large corp and my boss advised me to not do any large downloads in the days just before I left because "IT has tools to scan for that and they might think you're trying to take secrets with you."

Guess this guy didn't get the memo.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617531
> For sure -- but these are surely special or assignable causes of variation.

Well, for starters they are process changes. The team is working in a different way to normal and, as expected, getting a different result. So it is special variance, but because management has decided that the team should adopt different processes with different statistical characteristics. These aren't one-offs, this is routine for how a well managed software team should perform. Priorities ought to change as the situation develops. And regardless, regular variations are what indicates that a process that isn't under control. If a process is under control, variances should be remarkably rare.

Every month in software engineering is out of the ordinary. That is why SPC doesn't work; there isn't a repeatable process to model. There are lots of different processes chained together as vague specifications are continuously translated into logically formal specifications in an environment of continuous renegotiation. It might be possible to make a software team work in a controlled way, but it is pretty stupid - either the team won't fix some bugs to make the metrics look good, or they have to fake bugs from time to time to make the metrics look reasonable. Both are inferior to non-statistical controls of prioritising bugs with reference to how challenging the fix seems likely to be.

Say we're going to implement an application. The bugs aren't going to appear as a stable process, there'll be some sort of big wave up front, then successive waves as new features are identified. Eventually the application will be more or less finished and the engineering team will clean up the long tail of bugs. The mean and standard deviation of the work aren't predictable in advance and aren't in control as far as SPC is concerned, because those tools assume steady state. Smoothing that curve from a hill-shape to a flat line is not value-additive; it is bad management in its own right. Resources should be reallocated to fix bugs after a big release and then moved back to dev work.

Now there are going to be some situations where SPC isn't crazy, but it is still a bad management tool for software because the SPC teams aren't going to be agile in the face of change, because all their tools will scream blue murder at them for no reason.
How is it a great question? The answer is no.
People lost their minds when Meta went down for like an hour the other day...
I can confirm it works now! Thank you so much :)
The assumption being that if SE was a licensed field that it wouldn’t have the same outsized impact on people’s lives?
It's cheaper than that, if you're in the US. There's plenty of EU countries' land on the west side of the Atlantic. All over the world, in fact.
Western values is a dog whistle commonly used to mean non-white.

Israel shares a lot of values with Apartheid South Africa or (to a lesser extent) pre civil rights USA. It does not offer equal status to all its subjects, it maintains a prolonged occupation, it is highly militaristic (more so then 1950s USA), etc. If you think apartheid South Africa had more western values then modern day South Africa, then I get your point. The point being that the country must have a white ruling class.
Actually pretty much everyone implements double precision sin/cos using the same (IIRC) pair of 6th order polynomials. The same SunPro code exists unchnaged in essentially every C library everywehre. It's just a fitted curve, no fancy series definition beyond what appears in the output coefficients. One for the "mostly linear" segment where the line crosses the origin and another for the "mostly parabolic" peak of the curve.
The article says 400 milliwatt power draw.

Wolfram Alpha says thats roughly equivalent to cell phone power draw when sleeping.
Same as Safari in that regard, albeit with a much smaller team (we inherit upstream patches from the WebKit team and publish them regularly, sometimes even before Safari like in the case of patching iLeakage vulnerability).
I had a 21 year old neighbor who (as a research project) tailored an outlandishly fake resume for a job offer with many fake years of experience, many fake letters of recommendation and fake phone numbers from friends who would praise him into the sky. While he would have fitted perfectly (they said) he didn't get the job because the other applicant had more experience and was younger. He was baffled someone lied even more.
I love the idea of Nix, but every time I go back to it I've forgotten the syntax. So it feels much more of a lever. I think something built on the same ideas but with a more standard configuration language (which I guess is what Guix was meant to be?) could be a great ratchet.
Even worse, it's a form of lossy expansion.