skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought haggis were mammals. Don't they give birth to live young?
Have the doomsayers prevent anything significant from going forwards ?
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There really doesn't seem to be much to say about the "onboarding" ... unless I'm missing something, it just dumped me into an empty interface and invites me to create my own space or enter an invite code. Lacking an invite code there doesn't seem to be any way to join a demo space in order to get a feel for how it even works.

Quite anticlimactic, IMO.
Is there any evidence that would be worse than the way we're doing it now??
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I agree w 100% what you said. Unfortunately it’s unwinnable argument in this age.
> but the person that did that one task had 20 other tasks beyond that single one that were not yet automated, so the job remained.

I used to be an innovation analyst at a bank and we looked at automating tasks quite frequently and found that many could be automated. But you are right on the money for why it did not happen.

Tasks are straightforward to automate. Entire job roles are not. If you want to save headcount, you need to automate some tasks and then rethink one, if not several, job roles. That is a lot messier to do.

In most cases, we decided not to bother as we didn't think there would be a net savings.
> But those compensation packages are disconnected from the value generated by the engineers and eclipses it in almost every business and division, so it's not sustainable.

Thats incorrect. Statistics show that those who take most share out of the economic value that they generate are the higher paid tiers of engineers in Silicon Valley. And even they get at most a 10% of the actual economic value they generate.

This means that not only those engineers are already being paid WAY less than the actual economic value they generate, but also the majority of the population receive only a pittance from the economic value they generate.
I really struggle with unikernels.

Great idea, and love the security context, but I feel like you loose so much.

Logging for example, is it all syslog? How do you manage them? What if you need them in splunk, how does that work?

I love the idea, but can’t figure out how to use them in practice.
Someone should test whether insults are actually easier to remember than non-insults.
They work longer days than most people and also have the privilege of working with increasingly shitty kids and their awful parents, in large class sizes. The long vacation is frankly not worth it.
We're also working in the space and just open sourced Skyvern

https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern
Maybe I'd pick on an auditor as an example. They need to think about whether people are doing what they say they do. They don't need to care about what they are doing.

To me, caring means expecting work to be done to your standards instead of an independent standard.
> but frankly do not have a need for technical advice by itself.

Then it sounds like you made the correct decision.
Sand is actually pretty bad. Gravel is a little better, clay is best.

Sand is really only useful here because that much clay is usually significantly more expensive and would take forever to dry out.

Source: researched the shit out of and have built a rocket stove.
Would love a AWS deployment guide!
So do many software development companies -- outsource and have no idea what they're doing.
A lot of Boeing's recent issues haven't been in design, but assembly (missing bolts, etc).

That being said, planes malfunction all the time, often due to poor maintenance. Boeing's incidents make the headlines because of increased media scrutiny.
If you ever incorporate a town, you could choose to attract citizens with robust transparency laws and mandated regular elections.
Here you go: https://docs.ops.city/ops/aws .
> What is the hold up? Why isn't this happening?

One of the problems, and arguably one of its strengths, with the modern web is that there's no single "entity" that owns everything.

A large part of why this isn't happening is that there are too many parties involved in the web - browser implementers, standards maintainers, and web developers. If you want to introduce a new feature to the web standard, it's not enough to convince one browser implementer to add it - web devs can't use a feature that only one browser supports! You need to convince the standards body to adopt it, and to convince browser implementers (plural) to support it, and this takes a lot of time and coordination effort.

In the case of Visual Basic, you just need to get some PM in Microsoft to add it, and it'll be added.
Structure determines behavior. If a technology structurally encourages shooting oneself in the foot, people will shoot themselves in the feet.

The author seems to be arguing the the core problem is behavior — if only developers would stop building flimsy things! But what about a structural view? Is there a certain structure that lends HTML, CSS, and JS to creating frustrating experiences?

The structural heart of this problem is so big it's hard to see — it's the ground we stand on. The designed-by-committee dissonance between "the Web should be a simple document engine" and "the Web should be a game-engine-like interactive graphical runtime" leaves us with a bloated tech stack that doesn't excel at either.

WebAssembly and WebGPU give us a way out. Fork HTML. Employ a better language for authoring documents; employ a better language for authoring apps & games. It is a matter of time.
No argument against your company's WFH productivity! But:

> 2020-21 and then we went back to the office in 2022 and our profits and stock price dropped

The broad stock index rallied like crazy 2020-21 with ZIRP, then all of 2022 was a bear market that followed rate hikes. The S&P 500 rose almost 50% from January 2020 to December 2021, then lost about 20% in 2022. So it's not unreasonable that your company's stock price followed that trajectory.
If someone wants high personal standards then ok, that'll be good for them in the long term. But if we're talking about colleagues that care then that is just a cover for bad management. And fair enough bad management is endemic in the software industry so teams pick up the slack.

But it is management's job to decide on software quality standards and provide feedback to devs. Expecting the developers to be responsible for quality as a baseline is just a path to burnout for those devs; because then they are going to go mad because everyone on the team has different personal standards. The person with the highest standards on the team will never be satisfied.

You can't reasonably expect teammates to cover for bad managers, it is much cleverer to learn to identify good managers and try to work for them. Or become one.
Fuel-oil (Kerosene).
> An employee familiar with G.M.’s Smart Driver said the company’s annual revenue from the program is in the low millions of dollars.

i would have guessed that this is making more money. Does anyone know why this is the case?
Not physics but switching to software out of a PhD program tripled my salary, which has since doubled. Academia is a scam.
> TikTok isn't a mysterious product

False. It is mysterious.

Where is TikTok's source? Is TikTok recommendation model open sourced?

> Stop removing agency from folks

Welcome to living in a society with a govt. that has to think of the greater society's welfare in the future.

> realize that TikTok would disappear tomorrow if a better product hit the market.

Are we ignoring how better products failed due to stealing by CCP companies (e.g., Huawei stealing from Nortel Networks and Cisco)?
How OpenAI's text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society
We do encourage prod deployments to export logging that they care about over syslog (https://docs.ops.city/ops/klibs#syslog) or something else (https://docs.ops.city/ops/klibs#cloudwatch-logging) yes. Any non-trivial large deployment is going to be exporting to some other source anyways.
Maybe because not all of China supports the CCP's goals, means, and ideology? Substantial numbers of people disagree with some or all of those, and nobody gets to influence the CCP so it hardly represents anyone besides Party members. (And even some of those have serious disagreements.)
Despite all the complaints I made in the original Fortran Discourse post, I must stress that nagfor is surely one of the best Fortran compilers (top 3) in all aspects (bug-free, responsiveness of tech support, support of the standard, clarity of debugging information, documentation ....).

A great compiler, but needs some modernization of its accessibility.
>...Now liberals want to water down or eliminate qualified immunity, but they've lost all power on the court.

Which liberals on the Supreme Court want to water down or eliminate qualified immunity?
New legislation will trump court rulings, and I can't see this one lasting long with Right to Repair legislation happening. Right to Repair requires making compatible versions of software.
You just justified legalizing all drugs, even harmful ones. And of course let me guess you want harmful drugs to be legal only in the US.
Having played counter-strike on dial-up '99 and not having unlimited internet time, the bots - Botman, PODbot, NNBot and many others using neural nets was ground breaking then.

The goals of those niche bots were certainly different but in some ways the recent hype doesn't surprise me as much having experienced that period too.

I reflect that the limited internet then drove innovation in offline play that had really stagnanted till recently, I'm looking forward to the first game that really pushes the limit with their NPCs using some of this new tech
Do mutable things inside your function. Have an immutable public interface.
Also, split state so that it's not shared mutably among threads, and share immutable views when you need other threads to see it.

There are more ways to not expose mutation.
My definition of cool is something that changes how you see the world.

I will never look at a piece of paper the same way again.

And as an added bonus, the issue about asking questions and guessing is outstanding.
I know a lot of people who has zero trouble getting hired for a whole career suddenly start having trouble in their 40s.

In my 40s I started getting turned down (for the first time ever!) for the weirdest reasons. "Wouldn't be able to handle working with uncooperative teams within the company." (Whaaa...? Dodged a bullet there.) "Not passionate about programming." (Did you not look at my resume? My books I wrote to give away?) Are these _really_ the reasons?

And you do notice it when everyone interviewing you is under 30. Not that being under 30 is bad, but a diverse workplace is a plus in my mind.

A friend of mine started dyeing his hair and landed a job soon thereafter, after over a year of looking. If I were going on the hunt again, I'd definitely do that. My face looks younger than it is. But what a bullshit thing to have to do. (I can hear all the women here saying, "oh you poor thing how will you survive". Yes, yes, I know. It's bullshit all around.)

Now I'm in academia for semi-retirement, which is what I really love anyway, where experience has value that remains undiminished by age. :)
The big question is what counts as a city. American urban / metro areas around a central city are often large, because there are no other major cities nearby. A similar area in Europe may contain several independent cities. For example, if you take Atlanta with wide enough borders to get the population to 5+ million and drop it in the Netherlands, it will probably cover Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht.
Hard disagree. China and India are adding massive amounts of renewable energy in the form of solar, wind and nuclear energy every year. Electric cars are basically selling like crazy in Europe and Asia and to a reasonable extent in the US. Our challenge in the US is simple. Destroy the oil lobby. This should be followed by large scale renewable energy installations and nuclear power plants. Use natural gas as a transitional energy source or in peaker plants to back up the renewables. You having one less room contributes almost nothing to the solution. A cruise ship is going to offset a 100 of your “hardship” gains in about 10 minutes of emissions.
> So many resumes are fake

Its a classic vicious circle: if your resume gets auto-dinged if it doesn't have the right keywords, applicants are highly motivated do lard up their resumes with keywords.

And then the companies observe they are getting tons of bogus resumes, and they think they can fix it by making the filters even harder to get through....

Everybody is incentivized to race to the bottom.
The insurance company would argue that you drive in an area with wildlife crossings. That makes you a higher risk even if you managed to avoid this deer. You are more likely than average to encounter another one in the future and may not be as fortunate.
I kind of just YX'd myself in a way. I read all the comments without reading the article first. My brain autocorrected "YX" to "XY" and I kept thinking, "What the heck are all these people on about?? They seem to talking about Y when they mean X(Y)..."
Many European countries have Starbucks but also have their own language, film/literature industries and most importantly multi-party political systems.
> However, the net gains, in my humble opinion, could be phenomenal.

And historically, have always been phenomenal.

If 100 years ago, you told people that only 1.5% of people in USA/Canada would work in agriculture, politicians would have been horrified and in fear of mass unemployment. They would have been similarly horrified if you told them that virtually nobody would work in textile manufacturing in the Western World.

But in reality, the jobs in the former are considered so dismal that they are heavily staffed by desperate people who have no other legal work options and migrant workers from poor countries and jobs in the latter pay so poorly globally that you would be better off running a lemonade stand in a Western country.

We are far better off for the combine harvester freeing us from harvesting wheat by hand. We are far better off for the sewing machine.
The IRC link doesn't go anywhere except back to the homepage. Is the IRC channel hosted on libera/oftc/efnet?
This would be a compelling complaint if the rest of the world didn't exist.

Every complaint about apartments stems from American inner city dilapidation. My first culture shock when arriving in the US was the sorry state of American apartments.

We know how to build apartments that are insulated to sound. Common building courtyards give kids safe play-areas within walking distance while supervised. Balconies can be built large and large common areas give people all the space they need.

Back in India, urban army cantonments used to be one of the best places to live. Funnily enough, they were simply gated colonies with large apartment complexes, and the recovered space was used for community activities and sports. That's all we're talking about.

Take the same surface area. You can choose to build in 2d (SFH) or in 3d (buildings). No where does this imply stuffing people like sardines. All they're saying is that if you optimize for your priorities in 3d it is unlikely that the 2d edge case will be most effective outcome.
This week

https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/texas-man-sentenced-to...

Lmfao
I'm no expert, but I think it's fair to call a boiler failure an explosion. you're going to have a ton of steam pressure in a confined space. Not like a gasoline or dinamite explosion, but still a hell of a boom.

although maybe it did have a special emergency release valve that was sealed with a weaker metal or something so it couldn't get enough pressure to catastrophically fail.

I'm skeptical of this claim at face value "impossible for it to blow up" but people are smart. it's probably true in a bunch of contexts.
Sorry, I might have misinterpreted your argument.

I thought you were arguing that a collection of facts can't be copyrighted, full stop. Hence me getting very confused about why you were refusing to accept Feist as case law that collections of facts could be copyright in some situations.

But now I see that you are actually arguing that the wordle wordlist simply don't count as an arrangement of facts. I kind of just assumed it was obvious that the wordlist counts an arrangement.

We aren't talking about a partially complex arrangement. It's simply a list of 12,972 words that have been split into groups. The group of 2,315 words that might be possible solutions and the group of 10,657 words that will also be accepted as guesses.

The Feist decision points out any arrangement can be copyrighted as long as it meets the criteria of originality, and it sets a pretty low bar for originality. I'm of the opinion that the method used to author the wordle wordlist far exceeds the criteria. Feist states "Originality requires only that the author make the selection or arrangement independently (i. e., without copying that selection or arrangement from another work), and that it display some minimal level of creativity."
s/obsessively/pragmatically/
On the flip side, when none of the kids know C any longer, you can hire me out of retirement at phenomenal expense to help maintain your legacy code. :)
I don't believe that is as fixed as we think it is.

The desire for privacy is a reflection of a society failing to provide.

I wrote this about if the situation was reversed: https://gist.github.com/numtel/28ffb7181ad1a296a077db76c474b...
Does this also support running WASI? Or spin only?
Your car is spying on you and driving your insurance rates up: report
How is this compared to Obsidian? Currently Obsidian is by far the best Markdown editor I've used. The inline preview mode is amazing, and I appreciate how easy it is to embed math equations and diagrams. Speaking of this, shame on Google. The editor of Google Docs is so awful that I can't it is built by Google.
Anyway to get this to run inside of a lambda or in another server less framework?
after weighing them, I'm fine with those losers being losers. It'd be different if there were no way for US consumers to get a Toyota truck, or if they were outside the reach of anyone but the extremely wealthy, but that isn't the case. While the costs to US consumers might be higher, we're still buying them.

Non-US automakers have no problem making money selling their trucks in the US market, even if they don't dominate here. If too many people in the US were being priced out of them, it wouldn't be worth it to the companies to sell their trucks here, and they wouldn't still be doing it. I don't deny that they could be making more money, and that some US consumers could be spending less.

There's certainly a philosophical argument to be made that idealistically there should be an even playing field for every automaker with no preference given to US companies, but I feel that realistically we'd be losing more than we'd gain by making that happen.
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An amusing example of this is the character Bascule in Banks' Feersum Endjinn, who narrates like so:

> Woak up. Got dresd. Had brekfast. Spoke wif Egrates the ant who sed itz juss been wurk wurk wurk 4 u lately master Bascule, Y dont u 1/2 a holiday? & I agreed & that woz how we decided we otter go 2 c Mr Zoliparia in thi I-ball ov thi gargoyle Rosbrith.

I personally enjoyed it and never had much trouble figuring it out, but know people who found it unpleasant and incomprehensible.
In the precedent the U.S. government was clearly trying to find the names of Americans interested in foreign propaganda. Here the U.S. government is trying to stop ownership by foreign adversaries of social media operating in the U.S. That's clearly a significant distinction.
What browser do you use? You can test `input type="date"` here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in... -- I've tested every up-to-date browser I have on my laptop and phone and they all display a proper calendar-style date picker.
Are you talking about the cursor?
> I see potential for this to take some jobs, particularly those involving menial/repetitive work on a computer

Robotic process automation has been on the scene for a number of years doing exactly this, and is quite a bit more mature.

I agree that this kind of tool has the potential to take more jobs, but companies looking to do this kind of thing have had a number of options available for awhile now. New tech like this will accelerate the trend.
> If yes, then raise problem and refuse to implement / avoid killing people.

Often, software engineers are pipped, written up, berated, stack ranked - and churned via various management processes for doing exactly as asked for.

Until the culture of the company aka ALL levels of management changes to full accountability without blaming the actual engineers, nothing will change. The current corporate structure just isn't set up to incentivize good work.
On mobile chatgpt if you press the headphones you can voice chat with that voice already
Write for others but mostly for yourself (2022)
Republicans have blocked any attempt at reforming immigration, going back to Bush Jr's proposed bill in 2005. They have blocked bills with the exact terms they demanded just the day before. They are factually the bad guys here.
Why would I drive? Like some kind of jerk.
The hilarious bit is how confident they all are about people wanting SFH development, yet refuse to legalize everything else.

Imagine banning every android device from the US, while also proclaiming that no one would've purchased android anyway, because Apple is so popular. Apple is good because they compete and then win.

If SFH demand is so high, surely legalizing vertical development would be no big deal, just like android still struggles to gain adoption in the US.
The project is focused on supporting Spin. But Spin supports a large amount of the WASI API surface and is headed in the direction of using WASI in place of Spin specific APIs wherever possible.
This website is now like 30% about this probability based autocomplete nonsense. Feels like all those bitcoin hypes and "running everything on blockchain" fad of few years ago. Now it's running everything through "large autocomplete" model.

I really hope this will fade and focus will turn back to highlighting some broader actual human ingenuity in IT, rather than constant stream of "we used autocomplete for this new thing" or "we build this new API for this glorified autocomplete".

Boring.
In highschool my statistics teacher got me to key my Snake game into her graphing calculator instead of having to do the lesson, lol.