skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't engineering require more creativity than QA testing, which is mostly just repetitive and mundane.

I think this is a disservice to good QA testers, who can often creatively find bugs the devs don't even think to test for.

Sure, writing a bunch of tests can be repetitive and mundane, but so can writing code. But the thought and design behind either doesn't have to be...

Partially depends on your org layout and how much autonomy is left to coders and QA vs mid management. If all the specs are dictated to you beforehand and you just have to follow them, there's little room for creativity for either role.
Effects of genetic&modifiable risk factors on brain regions vulnerable to ageing
Like a lot of language we use when discussing things at the universe scale, the word “expanding” operates as a placeholder with analogs in day to day life but isn’t a perfect representation of what we mean.

The “universe” itself is space and time. When we say “expanding” we simple mean that galaxies are observed to be moving farther away from each other. That does not at all imply some kind of “expansion into another space” - space itself is exhibiting this property and we are observing it. That’s all.

The “balloon” analogy and the usage of the word “expand” in this context are both imperfect metaphors for physical phenomena we are observing.

It is a bit like trying to discuss what happened “before” the Big Bang - there is no “before” - time was created.

There are many phrases you can construct which may seem like they “make sense” but are actually combining a set of word concepts in ways that are self-contradictory.

“What is space expanding into?”

“What happened before time was created?”

Etc.
I don't think it's not possible, I just find it surprising based on the layman understanding that gravity is a dominant force at long distances, leading me to believe that expansion should be slowing.

I also have the layman awareness of some kind of missing mass sometimes explained by "dark matter." But I did not see the additional explanation that this "dark matter" also acts as a repulsive force to accelerate the expansion. Maybe large scale structures manage to create propulsive forces that happen to point away from the center? Anyhow I would love to know what the mechanism is there.
Another point to note is that you aren't stuck with a single character to encode a column of Doom as text. You could also do something like a letter to represent the content, followed by a number to represent the distance.

I think the only weird part about that is that certain letter-number pairs may be a single token with some other semantics in the model, and other letter-number pairs would be a pair of tokens. I think that could impact the performance of the model (but probably not by a huge amount).
The Indian education system is such a mess that the ones who come out of that system are unusable.

I had some folks from IIT (their premier tech institute) apply for jobs at my companies and they were worse than a random person from a random university in the US.

The trick though is to hire someone from India who has done things outside of the education system and is self taught. It is so hard to think originally in India that anyone who has done it is almost guaranteed to be really good.
> I think that the 'universe' is an arbitrary border

I don't think that the scientific definition of the universe matches this. It's a physical thing, not a construct we made up. It's not an imaginary line between two countries.

The universe is full of things which have mass. Those things are rapidly expanding outward. What are those masses expanding into as they "blow up the ballon" and push the boundaries of the universe outward? It can't be nothing, it's physically impossible.

EDIT: might as well quote people smarter than I

> The universe is all of space and time[a] and their contents.[10] It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of energy and matter, and the structures they form, from sub-atomic particles to entire galaxies. Space and time, according to the prevailing cosmological theory of the Big Bang, emerged together 13.787±0.020 billion years ago,[11] and the universe has been expanding ever since. Today the universe has expanded into an age and size that is physically only in parts observable as the observable universe, which is approximately 93 billion light-years in diameter at the present day, while the spatial size, if any, of the entire universe is unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
Not sure if this is related to this tech, but I think it is worthwhile: The Beatles - Now And Then - The Last Beatles Song (Short Film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJAQoSCwuA
So every novel is a movie soon by the author itself using Sora and with Audio buys from all the suitable actors
Getting rid of it likely would mean moving some of the cost to insurance and increasing the shipping rates. Slowing down both imports and exports. So from certain viewpoint such law makes sense.
In this thread there's a bunch of "non-evil" responses, and your replies are all "I'm skeptical" or just dismissing them outright.

It appears from the outside that you've decided this is Officially Bad technology and aren't genuinely seeking evidence otherwise.
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Movie [video]
Really disappointing to note that podcasts.google.com is shutting down on Tuesday, April 2nd. It was a simple service that was convenient and free (as in beer), and it worked across the web and the mobile app. Presumably when they launched the service there was some intention of being able to benefit from analyzing trends and habits and so on, but they've now decided it's not worth it.

I think the current intent is to fold podcasts into YouTube or something, but the underlying message is very clear: Do not rely on Google services.
The article notes that both the school district's Superintendent, and the school's Principal, approved the "undercover in high school" journalism.

Apples != Oranges
It's really this. I was a "good" student so I got pretty far in college math; and none of it has stuck with me without a real life application. At ALL.

What's kind of killing me now, as my kids go through algebra et al, is that now we have a VERY OBVIOUS way to make this interesting and we're severely underutilizing it, which is video games. "Draw a rainbow in Minecraft" or "Figure out the trajectory of that frag grenade" seems just gobsmackingly obvious as a path here.
#5 being exclusionary to people with different/better ideas/practices is not an pillar worth preserving.
It shocks the conscience to read this, and even though I think I "know" what happened, I always double check.

After spending 10 minutes with the court complaint, a large group of people were funded to spend a very long time posing as doctors, using fake IDs and signing NDAs, to, among many things, attend abortion doctor professional conferences, get access to a list of members of an abortion doctor federation, access clinician-only areas and databases inside planned parenthood locations, and all in service of proving Planned Parenthood was an industrial operation focused on "infant organ trafficking."

When they couldn't show that after months and 100s of hours of footage, they retconned life-saving fetal tissue donation into "infant organ trafficking" through video chopping.

(Note: I grew up in Buffalo, the reason why the roster stuff is scary and they signed the NDA with the fake names, is abortion doctors are regularly targeted, ex. two classmates lost their father, he was shot in their kitchen)
Now make it downvote comments from people that have low ranking.

oh wait..
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not. But are you actually generalizing over an entire group of people who are currently undergoing a Genocide, and using that to justify their killings?
it's too bad FM radio is dying. my car trips are usually 10-20 minutes. that's not long enough to faff with my phone or carplay. I greatly prefer to have preset radio stations. luckily i'm in a big metro area but I've lost a few over the years and the quality of the others has declined in line with revenue.
https://archive.is/Ikgw8
Even if the accident pilot had intended a stop-and-go and assuming reports of a bounce are accurate, it was too late. Trying to force a landing risks porpoising. Going around after a bad bounce is the safer choice — but a high workload event: full power, first notch of flaps, nose forward, and the all-important right rudder.
Says everyone. That's how words work.
Closest I've seen was shared here yesterday (though not really an LLM that I've seen). It did give me a view of what an LLM based game could look like.

https://playedgar.netlify.app/
You sure this is a good time to do it, with layoffs continuing and AI on the horizon? What services would you offer and who would your clients be?
Gptscript-AI/gptscript: Natural Language Programming
I spent about a decade doing performance work, Ie: app crashes, can't handle the load, can't scale up to what we need, etc. I think there are at least parts to answering your question:

1) Get good at testing and profiling applications so that you can identify specific bottlenecks and then find architectural solutions to those pain points.

2) Get good at looking at an architectural model and identifying those pain points even before you've built a system. BUT - sometimes the problem is that you have incomplete information about the demands on a system and/or in other cases someone will want to over-architect from the beginning - which in some cases even becomes the bottleneck.

I guess I'd add perhaps a third option based on your specific question: Learn what it means to scale software. Sometimes that means low level things in software. Sometimes that means architecture. And sometimes it's just throwing a shit-ton of hardware at a problem. So in your desire to scale software, you need to know what technical solutions are available to you and make the tradeoffs depending on the resources (time, money, people, etc) available.

So how do you learn this stuff? Well, short of companies paying you like they did in my case, maybe consider some problem you want to explore, build a prototype, and consider introducing different types of both load and errors into the system so you can see how the system performs. A few years back I was asked to build a system to ingest what the client thought might be 10,000 images a day and run through a series of steps with those images. Well, the client effed up and I discovered that the real demand was more like 10,000,000 images a day that needed to be processed. So I had to modify the architecture. Point being - you could come up with some scenario like that, build yourself a little prototype lab experiment, and start playing with what happens as you modify parts of the architecture.
hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn
We run Talos in production at Turnkey, including using it to schedule Nitro Enclaves so our most critical workloads can survive even if the whole cluster is compromised.

As others have mentioned, you do need a bit of DIY boootstrapping for PKI. Hopefully we can make our setup portable enough to open source soon.
please indulge me in my making a completely unfounded statement (with which Occam's Razor comes to mind notwithstanding): it has to be related to plastic.
Nim is also great on embedded devices, both Linux, RTOS, and barebone! Though ML on embedded would require the "Lazer" pure Nim backend the author has been working on. Well unless you can compile Blas for the embedded device.
I see reports like this and think of my dad when we first came to America. He had a degree from IIT in India (like getting one from Stanford or MIT) and it meant nothing when he looked for a job here those initial years. (In the US we basically don’t even recognize international degrees for jobs which is why you so often find the stereotypical immigrant taxi driver that has a degree in chemical engineering or something).

So he always used to make the distinction between looking for a job and looking for work.

Looking for a job is what you do with a degree. You look for a steady 9-5 job usually with one paycheck.

He ended up just looking for work, like pizza delivery, was a car salesman, bus driver, etc. He had trouble finding a job but never had trouble finding work. Some of it required putting aside your ego and thinking “I have to support my family by any means” rather than saying “im an IIT grad, I won’t do work beneath me” - something I only appreciated about what he did when I was older. (When I was young I also appreciated that he worked hard but thought he was just making things harder for himself)

I suspect some of this high rate discrepancy is that people with degrees look only for jobs because they can qualify, but those are harder to find now.

But people that are illiterate or without college degrees are just not even qualified for most “jobs” but they constantly find “work” instead and find it more easily.
> I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but the Hubble tension could also be explained if we live in a particularly large under dense region of the universe.

That would be the proposed Local Hole.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBC_Void
Overclocking muddies waters for Nvidia's redesigned RTX 4090 and U.S. sanctions
> The sad part is that it was impossible to get anybody else working on it and I had to rewrite it in Java (and destroy performance in the process).

Java has a CFFI and while it ain't pretty, I don't see where the performance impact would come from, when machine code is to be injected and the critical path is in machine code / C.

> extremely low level (like understand what the CPU does when it gets an instruction) as well as the highest level (complex abstractions with Lisp macros, etc.)

Those skills don't seem all that far apart. I'd rather think it'll be difficult to find someone willing/able to encode and maintain financial / legal safety limits in machine code :-}
Too Few Americans Are Eating Breadfruit
Are you...upset at nature preservation?
Small Press Distribution ceases operations effective immediately
The Rust community matures with JetBrains' RustRover IDE
I had this same problem too, and then I isolated it. It's the number of people speaking. I can't follow a podcast with two or more speakers. One speaker is fine. Radio news and talk radio is most often one person so it behaves that way.

It's a really different dynamic with one person compared to two or more. One person will speak continuously and stay on topic. Multiple people will stumble over each other or have delays between them, or waste time laughing or congratulating each other ("wow that's a great story" etc). It's surprising how much non-content noise there is between two people once you notice it.

There's also technical concerns: inevitably one person has a better and louder microphone and the other has scratchy lousy remote voice quality, and it's extremely jarring to bounce back and forth between those. I can only listen to podcasts where it's only one person speaking.
UK project looks for lost Apple varieties to protect fruit in climate crisis
Ideally you’d both remedy the current situation but also start building for the future.

The best time to start a business was five years ago, the second best time is now.
Scoop: Walmart, 7-11, Chick-fil-A pilot new drone delivery tech
It really makes you consider. “I want to do this job or this job is the most realistic one for me to get” instead of just buying tons of lotto tickets to get a google interview
This argument is just.... wrong. For a video describing how wrong it is, refer to Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ

For text and numbers: Shenzhen urban area is 1,748 km2. Atlanta is 353.04km2. Los Angeles City is 1,299 km2 (yes the metro area is quite larger, but so is Shenzhen's).

The average length of a trip in the US is 19.63 km.

This is simple basic stuff. There is absolutely nothing that makes Americans uniquely need tank-sized vehicles with 1000km range, even with the uniquely terrible urban design that most American cities have.
Simon was one of the first people I met in the Postgres community, perhaps in 2007 at the first PGCon that I attended. We've attended many of the same conferences in places around the world, and I've occasionally had the chance to explore those places with him. He was always kind to me and helped me immensely. I was proud to have the chance to co-author a major feature with him. The last time I saw him was this past December.

Very sad.
The article actually doesn't mention plastic, but NSAIDs, proton pumps, antibiotics, and psychiatric medications.
It has a few clauses and language in there that generally scare corporate lawyers. There are two main groups of people advocating the use of this license.

1) companies that sell non oss commercial licenses for their AGPLed software that they own the copyright to and want you to buy those. A lot of those companies are now starting to prefer shared source type licenses.

2) open source advocates that don't like any commercial usage of their software and will actively want to prevent any form of intermingling of closed source and open source components like is common in many commercial projects. This is nominally to protect their freedom. But of course it has consequences in the context of commercial projects that don't want to opensource their proprietary stuff. Whether that is actually true or not for any particular use requires a bit of careful legal scrutiny.

Some places that do license audits (e.g. most banks, insurers, and other large companies that need to be alert to potential legal pitfals) would probably flag anything under this license. Three reasons for this: these licenses are only fine under very specific circumstances and certain combinations of licenses are not compatible. And finally of course these audits and lawyers are expensive. So, the easiest way to stay safe would be a blanket ban on anything with this license. Which is my general attitude towards this license.

Anyway, don't take your advice from random commenters (including me) on hacker news and consult a lawyer when in doubt. Yes that costs money. Alternatively, save some money and just steer clear of this mess.
No, US-American tourists
use Arbonum, it does not take any hidden commissions, but immediately shows how much the commission will be. Usually from 3%.

It's also fast, easy to understand and the technical support works 24/7
Is any part of the existing ecosystem that expects Scope usable in a new world without Scope?
thank god reputable journalists never put out deceptive videos
There's also a user I follow on Mastodon who has done some very believable mockups

https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/111761697339047308

https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/111722274256144766

EDIT: Oh they're the same person as mentioned in the article! How about that.
The billion-dollar love affair between the founder of Stability AI
I don't get this at all.

LLMs can't write a book, not even close, why would you want that to write a text game?

LLM's have no proper memory/state. I don't get why you'd want to use them.... I guess on the old muds there was not a lot of state, but it's not the 90's and LLMs seem worse.

How much of Infinite Craft is exploring AI vs a game? https://www.reddit.com/r/infinitecraft/top/?t=all To me it's just a clicker game once you get past "AI made a game in 2024 lets explore that" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game

Even looking ahead if LLMs become good enough, evidence tends towards they probably never will, but lets say they do. What's the point of playing one of these these thousands/millions/billions/trillions of text games created? It's nihilism. There will be tricks like the "official GoT LLM text game". But with a million others on offer it will de-value the original.
I still didn't have a single use-case to use JSON columns yet. Sometimes I feel that JSON columns are made for people who don't want to properly design their domain model. Big mistake.
Awesome-Linux-Minimalism
Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
>1?

My hunch says less than that. Door handles have more physical moving parts which are going to increase costs and we know Tesla loves to do anything they can to keep those down.
That sounds incredibly unlikely to be true
Yes, this seems likely since there is almost no way that an announcement from Microsoft would happen so quickly. There were months of back and forth of licensing meetings prior to this with Redis Labs and Microsoft.

Microsoft would never just announce something like this on a whim.
A Canticle for Lebowitz has many of the themes you mentioned.
No, your exercpt is not complete and correct.

"So, the introduction to a math paper should set the scene as simply as possible"

The introduction is not the whole paper.
The balloon analogy is a 2 dimensional example. If you are on the surface of the balloon, there is no "edge". You can go forever in any direction. If the balloon is inflated, it doesn't expand into something (remember we're in a 2D space, it's not a 3D balloon), it "expands into itself".

If you drew two dots on the surface of that balloon, those dots would get further apart as it inflated. What did those dots expand into? Well, nothing right? They just got further apart from each other on the balloon.

So, if you translate this into 3D space, that's what's going on. It's hard to visualize. It's not that the universe is expanding into something, it's that the space between every "point" in the universe is getting further apart.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-universe-expand...
It doesn’t expand into anything. It has no edge. It expands within itself, like it’s distorting itself. Alternatively, you can picture it as groups of gravitationally bound objects (= galaxy clusters) moving away from each other everywhere in the universe. It’s a bit like raisins in a cake being carried away from each other by the dough expanding in the oven. Where the cake already fills all space infinitely in all directions, from the very start. Space is the cake dough. There is no “outer” space that space expands into. The geometry of space itself expands.

Still alternatively, imagine an infinitely extended graph paper whose grid size slowly and continuously increases, carrying with it the dots already drawn on it. Since the grid has infinite size from the start, it doesn’t expand into anything. It just expands.
You ruined a witty reference to The Graduate.
There is also a heat penalty.
Kind of an odd take. News and talk radio is incentivized to give you the smallest amount of news possible so they can get back to the advertisers. Podcasts can actually go deep on a story over an extended period of time and number of episodes.
I'd really like to make some video content (on-screen graphics + voice), but the thought of doing dozens of voice takes and learning to use editing software is really putting me off from it. I'd really rather just write a transcript, polish it until I'm satisfied with it, and then have the computer make the audio for me.

I'll probably end up just using OpenAI TTS since it's good enough, but if it could be my actual voice, I'd prefer that.
I'm curious why they are looking to make new concrete fixes. Would using microplastics and bacteria in the current existing concrete possibly help fix the current breakdowns of old crumbling concrete? It could be a quicker and less bloated fix to the current infrastructure issues.
Maybe for somebody who doesn't make him go to the office when sick?
In 2010-2011 time frame the mongo team sponsored an effort inside of Twitter to replace MySQL with mongo. There was a group of us that worked to migrate the tweet store to Cassandra that were able to talk with leadership and get that initiative killed. Turns out migrating HIGHLY structured data into mongo was never a good idea, especially at that scale.
More is not always better: the paradoxical effects of repetition
Huh, I didn't realize database performance correlates so strongly with stock price. Are there Prometheus metrics for this?