skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Re the falsifying working hours, wouldn’t these boffins be able to automate Git commits at certain times or even pass instructions to another team who is working the late night shift to post these changes etc.

Is it possible? Definitely. But that's extremely rare, especially if you want to keep a relatively natural pattern for the commits and replies.

You'd basically have to have a team of devs working at really odd times and a queuing system that automatically queues all emails, github interactions, commits, etc to dispatch them at correctly distributed timestamps.

And you'd need a source pattern to base your distribution on, which is hard to correctly model as well.

e.g., if someone slept badly one night, the next morning their interactions shift slightly back and are more sparse in the morning. Their lunch break will also shift due to that. Such changes usually are most prominent in the days surrounding DST changes.
Another worthy mention in the "most deployed software modules" has to be cURL/libcurl
Fair enough. I don't think anyone is really arguing to keep it any more than they're arguing `master` is a better name than `main`. Just debating the reason for getting rid of it.

If it really offends women then I think it's fine to retire it for that reason (in addition to the technical reasons).
Honestly, I loathe that attitude. Maybe OpenBSD has such a limited audience that the overlap between "people who discover problems" and "people who can fix problems" is perfect, but generally it's not.
There is a similar thing to this which I use for side projects all the time:

https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve...
True that. But the whole potential is leveraging that huge dormant volcano under the water.
You said there was significant response, I have commented on that to say that response has been anything but.

As I already said, personally I am afraid that we're beyond the point where any non-military response would be proportionate, but that is not what my initial comment was about.
The Magic of FPGAs
Gpt4all and Simon Willison's llm python tool are a nice way to get started; even on a modest laptop. A modest 14" mac book pro with 16GB goes a long way with most of the 7B models. Anything larger you need more ram.
That's why Halliburton is based in Dubai, to escape the claws of the taxman. VP (and former Halliburton CEO) Dick Cheney awarded them those Iraq contracts fair and square!
Looking for unicorn candidates at low prices basically. This happened a lot post 2008.

We just hired a guy as a senior PM who has an MBA, credentials out the @$$, and worked as a former executive. He took a massive pay cut (like 350k to 125k). His reason was, "I want to stop traveling so I can be close to my mom." However he moved apartments to a place closer to our office so I get the impression it was something else.
It's also nice to get raw peanuts and roast them in the oven before blending.
I don't think it was specific effort to exclude others, they took efforts to ensure it happened at packaging time, to reduce chances of detection. So eg other xz devs didn't notice it when compiling it, and so on.
I hosed an iBook G4 repairing a hard drive back in the day. Oops
I've been building a game in Compose Multiplatform and have been learning how to integrate new UI features across WASM, Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows. It's great new tech with a lot of promise even though it's still early.
Generally speaking, Edginary pulls data from various sources like databases, data lakes, and data warehouses using Change Data Capture (CDC) or periodic polling mechanisms. This ensures up-to-date data ingestion in real-time or near-real-time.

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Taking this tangent and riding it: it's well-known that undiagnosed celiac disease in children stunts growth. After diagnosis and transition to a gluten-free diet, there is usually a period of catch-up growth (which unfortunately does not close the gap fully, usually). If there are a bunch of these silent sources of malnutrition, it could - alongside things like poor perinatal care for mothers and children, as well as the various sequelae of America's high level of economic inequality among developed nations - be one piece of the puzzle for why the adult height of Americans has stalled when compared to Europe (which would be an empirical finding and not just gussied-up scientific racism).
In 2011 almost 1k people died after heavy rains in Brazil that caused a whole valley to be flooded (surrounding mountain ranges canalized massive amounts of rainfall into it).
On Street View it is possible to see how high the water went, by looking at the stains in the walls https://www.google.com/maps/@-22.3974509,-43.0875373,3a,26.2...
Sadly the region is repopulated again - a mix of people building houses to rent to unaware folks, people unwilling to leave behind decades of work, and general faith that they will survive if that's God's will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2011_Rio_de_Janeiro_fl...
> This, each company needs to take some amount of responsibility for the stack that they use. A company that I worked for, sponsored upstream maintainers, sometimes for implementing specific functionality, sometimes without any specific goal. If more companies did this for their open source stacks, open source development would be much better funded.

This is good but I don’t think it’s enough to cover stuff like this which is deep in the stack and probably doesn’t have enough demand to warrant the trouble of direct funding (thinking of how many organizations make it easier to buy a $50k support contract than a $50 open source donation). I’ve been wondering if you could get companies to pay to something like the Linux Foundation, Apache, etc. for a general maintainer group tasked with basically taking something like Debian’s popcon and going down the list of things which aren’t well-established projects to pick up maintenance work.
Non-cancer link: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ (though that won't work on VPNs now)

(I just got a little emotional because these are things we used to say on reddit and now we say them about reddit. How the mighty have fallen)
> Third, the deadline effect is real. Most of the work in college happens at midnight before the project is due. The industry isn’t that different. So simulating class assignments turns out to be a very effective way to ship quickly. You need a discrete chunk of work, with an arbitrary deadline2, and a binary outcome. You get this with headlines– a headline has either shipped by a given timestamp or it hasn’t.

Please no. I keep working at places where management gets this idea that all developers work better under pressure, and make arbitrary deadlines because of that. It's an awful way to work, especially for an extended period of time.
I work on FX trading applications with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Full fat desktop application replacements. Good luck not using a framework. 20-30 developers with multiple clients with their own devs.
> Most of the work in college happens at midnight before the project is due. The industry isn’t that different.

LOL, no.
Not sure why an LLM would be better than existing static analysis tools. Many projects I have worked on run static vulnerability analysis on PRs.
Haha, sourcecode routinely doesn't exist to be scrutinized (despite company policy). Just modify the code in prod who's going to go poking around after you there?
Having been subjected to every Microsoft chat application since 2000, I can assure you that each one started worse than AIM and got progressively worse.

The only exception was driven by my employer, who opted to embed Cisco Call Manager crap into Microsoft OCS (the circa 2010 chat client). I would rather communicate via requisition notes in peoplesoft than use that shit. Whatever replaced it (iirc Lync for Enterprise Business Extreme Edition) was better.
So maybe a professional can speak to this, but it looks to me like the point of this website is to show that we are having two extremely suddenly outlier years in a row.

Is this the case? Does this suggest that our models are wrong or that climate change could be accelerating?
If you cannot simply articulate the actual need met by whatever you've shipped, you have failed to understand that need and probably even what you shipped.
I implemented this in my server (https://substrata.info/). Works great. Results in smaller files than zlib/deflate.
One thing to watch out for - compression levels >= 20 aren't handled by chrome clients.
Hard to know without getting information from people at Pixar really.

Not sure how much sense it would make for Pixar to spend a lot of engineering hours for things they wouldn't touch in their own rendering pipeline. As far as I know, most of the feature development comes from their own rendering requirements rather than from outside customers.
Antithesis announces Artificial General 8-bit Intelligence (AG8I)
In my experience, this part:

> pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline

From the way I've seen this done, the headline is too big (despite the article calling out a realistic example) and the timeline is too aggressive (not addressed at all). Maybe it's fine for a startup or small org where things can be ignored, but I've got lights to keep on and users to support, and "work like hell on this and only this" doesn't really fly, or if it's the actual expectation, is awful.
That's what I do when writing libraries, now I have a name for it.
Russia: microwaving embassies since 1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Signal

Not that the modern caring sharing Russians who tried to bring peace to Bucha and got awards for it would do such a thing.
That depends on the model, you can run stuff in parallel and sometimes keep everything timely. You shouldn't be waiting till the last second to start running rag, you can be pre-emptively building context based on the current chat (like a human does) so that you've already got stuff summarized and ready to fire off when the final prompt does come.

Think about how a human will draw out a conversation around answering a question and use delaying words and phrases to let them continue answering when they don't have the solution fully formulated. LLMs can use the same tactic.
Song lyrics are getting simpler, more repetitive: Study
Installing additional LLMs is a single command. I am currently loving Dolphin.
i think you have it backwards. giant teams == big risks, esp. if there isn`t strict and formal processes to eval the new contributors

3 people are easy to evaluate, have been on the project forever, and presumably know what they`re doing.

C shouldn`t be a problem per se -- again, it`s been around a lot, and while it makes it easy to bork pointers, it`s not a meme language that we don`t know much about
>There were no ancient computers

You haven't seen my storage unit . . .
Any long-lasting solution requiring continuous investments is going to require more impact on the people side than the technical side. Hiring maybe one or two technical wizard asshats at a company may work for a bit but can’t scale in that eventually asshats will either drive away enough potential contributors or clash with another asshat. Any company actually needing said asshats to conduct business has a form of organizational tech debt in that they’ll need to spend a lot of resources managing around said persons in the end while said person’s ego continues to grow convinced they’re primarily responsible for successes.
> "It takes about three generations for people to forget. Those that experience the disaster themselves pass it to their children and their grandchildren, but then the memory fades,"

Some similarities to lessons from the 1918 flu epidemic that we relearned in 2020. We should build some "COVID stones" so we don't forget.
This is not true even as a rule of thumb, because it neglects that aggregate wages can increase at the expense of returns to capital (i.e. profits).

But more to the point, it neglects elasticities of demand.
A few decades back, Texas law specified that traffic lights must be wired in relays to not allow 2 perpendicular directions to be green at once. I hope this has not changed.
Enquiring minds want to know, where did your first-hand knowledge come from, and what is your native language?
Wouldn't it be more efficient to convert waste proteins into fertiliser for plants? Plus, while the article makes much of the python's ability to withstand periods of scarcity, I would think storing grains/beans would be even better... for example, properly stored grains/beans aren't vulnerable to respiratory infections..
Why would it make porting harder ?
We've had tools for generating code for a long time. They're mostly used for initial project setup and XML configured Java applications, and macro stuff at the fringes of software development.

If "AI" built an application, who is liable when there's damage?
Pony has a concept of Object Capabilities[1]. Basically it lets you whitelist capabilities like network access or more granular access like specific protocol access. In the docs it states "If the library is asking for more authority than it needs, do not use the library."

This doesn't solve the problem of people pulling in huge dependencies that they can't reasonably scan, or so many dependencies that they can't scan, but surely it's a step in the right direction.

[1]: https://tutorial.ponylang.io/object-capabilities/object-capa...
I wonder how far this de-bundling should be taken.

Should actually there be complete ban for bundling more than single program in one solution. Like you could not have email and calendar in one, or something like Word and Excel. Cleary offering email+office suite in one is too far. And what about someone like Adobe, surely each of their softwares should be split up to own subscriptions and there should be no discounts for getting multiple at one time.
Weird article: angry tone, anti-history, goes out of its way to dunk on Computer Science in order to uplift the Zuse Z3. Why was this necessary?
Maybe its a dumb question, but isn't something like OpenCL meant to solve this problem?
I think the fact that it happened pretty much by chance means he's not more of a threat to any state actor now than before. It's not like he's suddenly the anti-chinese-backdoor guy because of this. Or maybe he is, but more in a funny infosec hall of fame kinda way. It won't be him saving us next time.
If political candidates can’t get small donations then that shifts more power to large donations 1 wealthy companies, people, and unions (maybe not the last in the US)
How do you remember routes? If someone stops you on the street and asks for directions what exactly happens in your mind? It seems to me almost impossible to be able to navigate effectively without the power of visualisation, but it’s likely my own intuition is failing me here.
Antitrust, Meta, Apple and More
Unfortunately, for video, nothing I've seen yet has matched the quality of Topaz Labs' (paid) tool. Clarity and consistency always seem to be an issue with other implementations. If love to be proven wrong because I have a project that's stalled due to the low quality/resolution of the source.
Does anybody have experience training/finetuning Real-ESRGAN models? I downloaded one of their datasets to see what they are working with, and it has 800 images at ~3Mp resolution. I am curious if others have results based on higher resolutions + more/fewer images in the dataset? I would like to use it for fine art paintings by period / style, etc.
> I view this recursion as more of a strength than weakness

Sure, it's a strength given that transformers are currently limited by compute budget, but theoretically, if we were to have a way to overcome this, it seems obvious to me that transformer's 'one-shot' ability makes them better.

That being said the recursive aspect you're referencing can be built into a transformer as well. This is a sampling and training problem.
The Roman Pilum was unmatched as a ranged weapon (2020) [video]
And after 30 years of blogging, it made me finally realize the stark difference of writing for yourself vs writing for an audience. This is a great example of the former.
And now try to do task which should be as trivial as add 1 format character: output number in hexadecimal and leave stream in same state that was before your code.

It becomes cumbersome very fast.
> "It is an "electron" app"

No, it isn't. It moved away from electron to WebView2 for better performance: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
I am the author of Msty [1]. My goal is to make it as straightforward as possible with just one click (once you download the app). If you try it, let me know what you think.

1: https://msty.app
> 8. This sucks to say, but code reviews and handing off maintainership, at the moment, need to take into account geopolitical considerations.

That won't help. There's no evidence that Jia Tan is a real name, or even a real person for that matter. If projects stop accepting contributions from asian-sounding names, the next attack will just use Richard Jones as a name.
Dystopias are so 2020. Meet the new protopias that show a hopeful future
Scotland's new hate crime law comes into force
I am surprised all major browsers hadn't implemented this years ago. Zstd is way better than gzip and brotli.
> Justine Tunney appears to enjoy extreme superstar status here

This is true, and for sure pretty much all humans can benefit from increased skepticism (though not cynicism), but that superstar status is achieved from numerous impressive works. Cosmopolitan C and Actually Portable Executable were some of the things in the past that alone were worthy of significant respect, and for many people (like myself) these were our first introduction.

Speaking only for myself, I have a high opinion of Justine on technical merits. I'm sure she makes mistakes like all humans. I can tell she gets excited by discoveries and the chase, and that probably does sometimes cause premature celebration (this is something I struggle with so it's recognizable to me haha), but being wrong sometimes doesn't erase when you're right, and she has been spectacularly right a lot more times than most people I know.

There have been some personality clashes between Justine and others at times, and unfortunately it's situations where only part (sometimes a small part) of it was public, meaning we can only take people's word for what happened. Given my ignorance, I choose to withhold judgment here, but even if I didn't (and assumed she was guilty) it doesn't change the technical merits and it certainly wouldn't dissuade me from seeing what she's working on now.

So when I see stuff from Justine come out like this, it gets my attention. Would it get my attention if the same thing were posted by somebody whose name I don't recognize? Likely not, but I think that is (unfortunately) part of being a human. We aren't capable (yet!) of evaluating everything on technical merit alone because the shear volume of material far exceeds our time. Therefore we use other (less reliable to be true) signalling mechanisms as a way to quickly decide what is worthy of our time investment and what may not be. Reputation/name recognition is a much imperfect, but better than random chance, indicator.
Zstd because Facebook is looking out for our best interests.
Truth. That's definitely the Google effect.

Microsoft is a little different as they never really rebuild. Outlook is basically the same as it was in 1995, including non-functional search. :)
Good to hear you found it solved!

> It's better, in greenfield to use framework/tooling that is ready for it.

I don't really agree. Tooling, and even more so, Frameworks, come with giant trade-offs. Some are "paint-in-a-corner" trade-offs. So I would caution against pulling in a framework just to solve potential future issues. So much so, that I think it is one of the top10 things that will cause your project or startup to fail or get into serious trouble. It's really a form of "premature optimization".
What are the lessons from COVID?
The face of the author, if this isn’t a joke and commenters in the thread are categorically affirming it is.

Honestly, I don’t see why a variation of this wouldn’t work. It’s like a headline is a sprint goal or an epic or whatever agile artifact you choose… You can still apply good engineering practices from there on: splitting the work into smaller bills, working against a solid definition-of-done, testing rigorously, etc.
Another point where I appreciate the Rust compiler:

warning: the usage of Script Group `Cyrillic` in this crate consists solely of mixed script confusables
--> src/lib.rs:1:4
|
1 | fn SYS_landloсk_create_ruleset() {
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
= note: the usage includes 'с' (U+0441)
= note: please recheck to make sure their usages are indeed what you want
= note: `#[warn(mixed_script_confusables)]` on by default

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Did we just discover a new halting problem?
This is my experience.

Another aspect is that I don't want software development to be too fast, the result is better if there's some friction and time to mull over optimisations in architecture and overall design.
ICQ was a magical program for sure.
I am the author of Msty [1]. My goal is to make it as straightforward as possible with just one click (once you download the app). If you end up trying it, I would love to hear your feedback.

1: https://msty.app
Many replies are so busy finding reasons to reject an entirely sound premise that they deliberately overlook "Don’t work on anything that doesn’t help you ship the headline", which clearly implies that you do work on the things which actually help ship the headline, ie: all of the "but what abouts" in the torrent of picked nits.
> Assuming you have a bad actor among the employees

What if the entire company is a bad actor?
That and capitalism, airplanes, industrial messes cause cancer and more, cars, alcohol, guns, war, famine, poverty, all maim kill, ruin lives and we keep all these things we invented through history.

But ooo man the moral panic over plants nature provides

It all just screams fake moral outrage to keep people buying man-made vices
I experimented with this model and vLLM around a month ago. The long context length is attractive, but it was incredibly slow on a g5.12xlarge (4 NVIDIA A10G GPUs). I actually could not get it to respond for single examples longer than 50K tokens.
No, I did not. I barely ever use Google services of any kind.

My "domain reputation" should mean something like "the consensus of multiple reputation services", where those reputation services are reasonably open about how they score. It shouldn't mean "the completely opaque opinion of a single, hyper-dominant, secretive provider with all kinds of conflicts of interest".