skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean is that there are multiple structures that are equivalently "4". 1,3 or 2,2, etc. 1 AND 3 depicts two distinct ovjects (or one object split into 2 parts) and is fundamentally a different idea than the structure represented by 4. However in all the math Ive seen this are simply reduced and we just care about the end result.

I am saying this equivalence isnt a fundamental property, but one merely useful toward a purpose. I am interested in mathemathics where one can reason about and do operations on ordered sets of discrete numbers or booleans.

I suppose matrices, boolean algebra or category theory is the closest to what I am thinking of, but I need to learn more about that.

I am aware of vector spaces but keep in my mind by 1,1 or 1,3 I am not talking about points in a multidimensional coordinate space.
I've experienced some strange behavior with pm2 on my projects where a reboot would completely wipe the configs and I'd have to rebuild the processes (even after a pm2 save)

If it happens again I'll likely look into doing it the old fashioned way with systemd.

Skill issue? Most certainly. It still sucks to think I've figured it out (to the point of testing with manual reboots) only to one day have nothing running and have no clue why.
It's 100% about being able to patch. COD doesn't even ship multiplayer on the disk anymore.
Hyperbolic 29 sliding puzzle [video]
Mixture of Finetuned and GPT4 Model
The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020)
Ask HN: What comes after social media?
More and more people I know are just fed up with the whole idea of social media and walking away from it.

We’re approaching 20 years since social media as we know it today started to play a major role in society. Seems like we’re ripe of a major paradigm shift, but I’m not sure what that would look like.

Anyone aware of anything in its infancy that might one day replace social media?
I feel like, very generally speaking, the quality of software (meaning the efficiency, security, and such) has gone way up. It’s a wide range though, with some pretty extreme cases in both directions.

The issue I have is what developers are being asked to work on. A technically pretty good product (Edge, say) is saddled with “special offers” and telemetry and other MBA bait. A corollary is a technically excellent product being overproduced and trying to do too much, like Evernote or Plex. We are at the far sales end of the engineer-sales pendulum. I’m hoping things like Boeing’s troubles will give the initiative back to the engineers for a while.
To be pedantic, the argument is that violence is necessary to maintain the fiction of property.

The violence is abstracted now that capitalism has matured so we only see it as numbers but death is most definitely zero-sum.
I largely agree with you, but worry that this is poor evidence? Could both be worse now than a decade ago, and as much worse from two decades ago.
I remember investing in Palm thinking that they'd eventually be the ones to build something like the iphone. Sadly, they didn't and when apple did that was it for them.
I think the article is an unsupported pile of red herrings even though I think apparently the software "quality" has indeed gone down, non-uniformly.

The simple explanation for that is that you, the user, are not the customer. A lot of software today simply does not need to cater to the needs of the user because the user has no choice in using the software or not.
This is either because of network effects, monopolies, DRM or simply not having the decision power within a hierarchy. Even if software development practices are better than ever, the software developers are less aligned with software users than ever. It is an increasingly adversarial relationship.

It is not quality that has gone down, it is an alignment problem.
WDDM 1.0 (Windows Display Driver Model) introduced with Vista, indeed came with TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) function for the video adapter, enabling a soft reset when possible.

A lot of BSOD were also caused by generic and low quality DRAM sticks, unstable individually (failed addresses) or becoming unstable when paired in dual channel setup, especially with 2 pairs of dual rank, dual sided sticks. Had very often this issue with Corsair Value sticks, or with a XMP (Intel spec) RAM kit used with 1/2/3th gen Ryzen, manually setup to match the 1.35V XMP profile (for DDR4). EXPO does this much better now.

Diag tools like Quicktech Pro then Memtest86+ from Passmark Software and the free one were born on this 'lost era'.
Undoubtedly this is what the product manager was thinking.

The funny thing is we now have an extremely excellent way to dispense money. It should be possible for me to unlock my phone, enter the amount of cash I want, be directed to the nearest ATM, and just tap that phone on the ATM when I get there and the money comes flying out instantly. We now have technology way beyond what anyone could have imagined in the 1960s, but we aren't exploiting it. The closest we've got is using a mobile phone as a tap card on an ATM, then you continue with the ATM's terrible UI, which is like using 1% of the abilities of the platform.
The store will be fine.
What? If anything, we have a "do-it-right" mentality :) The Clojure library ecosystem is very rich with new libraries coming out every week. We also reuse the rich Java library ecosystem to a large degree.
I'm with Clojure for 10+ years and I don't "often end up writing custom code for a generic feature". Its quite the opposite. Clojure is a language that has hundreds of extremely well composing generic functions built in, that operate on a very rich set of first class immutable datastructures.
Whatever Clojure you base your impressions on is very different from the one I know and use...
If insurance can predict when losses will occur accurately and price accordingly, even this arguable temporal-cost-spreading benefit is lost.
I think people should learn how to configure their network in the first place.

- Don't get a cloud router (ever!)

- learn about vlans and use them.

- never hook a critical device like a NAS to the wider internet
I think what makes it worse is that, although there was plenty of bad software 10 years ago, everyone was striving to make it better and could recognize what that meant. Also, most companies were using quality tools and they weren't all using the same silver bullet tools.

Although a lot of people at the time in the web space were complaining about there being too many different frameworks, this was actually a good thing because each company used the framework that made the most sense of them.

For example, there was a framework called SpoutCore which provided a lot of ready-made components. It would probably not have been suitable for making websites since all the components looked and behaved a certain rigid way but it would have been ideal to build (at the time) an internal dashboard or admin app, for example.

Most companies carefully researched and considered what frameworks to use on both the front end and back end. Popularity was just one criterion and it was often the least important one.

Nowadays, popularity feels like the only factor being considered when choosing a framework or tool. Companies won't even acknowledge that there are nuances in their projects which might warrant considering different tools. Everything is treated as a silver bullet. One size fits many.

Feels like communist-era nonsense where there is only one thing of each kind and big tech has taken the role of the state to decide which one is the correct one.
You're ignoring the teleport out portion.
D-Link has an exceptionally poor security history. Back in 2019 they had a settlement with the FTC regarding security issues in their routers and cameras. Sadly, people don't recognize that D-Link devices should never be exposed to the public internet. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
Scipy 1.13
Many US air carriers outsource maintenance to MROs in El Salvador, Mexico, or other low labor cost geographies.

https://elsalvadorinenglish.com/2024/02/19/el-salvadors-aero...

https://aviationweek.com/mro/safety-ops-regulation/new-bill-...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90384118/disaster-waiting-to-hap...

https://arsa.org/samsa/
“Supply and demand” coupled with “market pressures” coupled with “this isn’t a science or discipline where lessons learned or knowledge gained is actually carried forward”.

It’s a real thing that is actually happening, but a large number of people enjoy convincing themselves that there isn’t anything unique or unusual about present declines. Like so: https://youtu.be/ee6-sI9rdtA
Mixture of fine-tuned and closed source models
Fine-tuned models, while effective for common scenarios, are brittle and break with less frequent use cases or when input format varies from training data.
Imagine a fine-tuned model complemented by another model when it requires knowledge out of its scope.

The Leeroo Math 7B model exemplifies this architecture. When it doesn't know how to solve a problem, it calls GPT4.
https://huggingface.co/leeroo/LeerooDedicated-Math-7b
I thought this was a Kubernetes joke, but nope, the first release was nine years ago.
I think of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as an art project. I never got the impression that we were supposed to start using these words. It's interesting and entertaining, like when I learned the Czech word "litost" from "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera. "Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery."

Part five of this book is about Litost, a kind of misery-induced torment only known to the Czech people. You could see it is a Slavic thing.

https://fictionbeast.com/milan-kundera-the-unbearable-ligthn...

Something akin to how I felt trapped in my own drama
>It just goes to show how well engineered these are

What an absolutely wild statement
That doesn't have to imply lower quality though.

Apple phones are made in ultra low wage China but quality control is not an issue.
> If you dispense with insurance entirely, how do you deal with catastrophic expenses?

If insurance can accurately predict losses that will occur and price accordingly, you are paying exactly the same amount plus overhead, on a similar schedule for insurance as directly paying for losses yourself without insurance.

The cost spreading effect (both over time and over individuals) is a direct consequence of the inability to accurately predict losses and the resulting inability to price accurately.
Why is everyone saying ellipsis instead of eclipse?
Root beer is another one of those flavours you either love or hate, and Bundaberg's is particularly excellent. Sadly it's the only one I've found that contains liquorice, making all others seem lacking by comparison.

Slightly surprised to find Bundaberg is actually drunk by Aussie's - cynical me always assumed it was marketing like Fosters.

For people who like that sort of thing, it might be worth looking at Euthymol toothpaste. It tastes like a mix of root beer, jagermeister, germolene antiseptic and pink.
The fact that you wrote "everyone hates billionaires" rather than "everyone fears billionaires" moves the needle towards the envy hypothesis.
Hard to answer in absolutes. Depends on use case.
>>> In my experience, this problem is really prevalent among the youngest people. I had the pleasure to work with brilliant people that are part of the Gen Z bracket, but most of the ones I worked with can’t get anything done. It’s not lack of experience, it’s because they are constantly defaulting to their phones, watching endless videos or even playing games while they are supposed to deliver.

As a genx'r Ill tell you this is not true.

The desperate need to have assess in seats + money brought a lot of folks to software who arent INTO it. The nerds of ye olden days were different, you were into computers cause you were a geek.

GenZ still has geeks (probably fewer of them, computer labs, and computing teachers went away like shop class for this generation). They are just as good as the geeks of previous eras. In fact I would say that the gen z geeks are better off for their age.

THe mark the author did miss is that we have decades of tooling. The in it for the money group just adds packages till things work, and that set has been around since 2000 (gen x). Its just that in 2000 they were writing HTML and today they are downloading leftpad (and its decendents). Its only worse because we supercharged their productivity (destructivity).
NZ Marmite ftw!

I had to tell my mum off for having Vegemite in her pantry the other day, but she had a decent enough excuse that made me giggle. "I buy vegemite because it comes in glass jars and I can reuse them!"

oh... I guess that's... practical, Mum!
There is one big improvement - now ATMs force you to remove your card before they dispense cash. The problem of people forgetting cards in ATMs was completely eliminated due to improved UX design.
These types of tools should exclude all files and directories in the .gitignore as standard operating procedure, unless those files are specifically included. Not just because of secrets, but also because these files are not considered to be part of the repository source code and it would be unusual to need to access them for most tasks.
Think of it like an edge flow matrix
My phone as well.
>It's slightly weird that some of the companies doing this are VC-backed startups with no obvious business model, but that's hardly the only way to create them.

If you are a multi hundred-millionaire, do you privately train a model for fun to release for bragging rights and possibly expose yourself directly to some eyewateringly stupid high statutory damage liability? Or do you get a few friends together, funnel your fun money into a protective vehicle that can be sued instead of you, and go to town having fun and maybe making something of it?
It doesn't have to, but until proven otherwise, it is safe to assume corners are being cut and there is no accountability. If you meet developed world standards, prove it. If you're unwilling to prove it, we should not trust you.

> Apple phones are made in ultra low wage China but quality control is not an issue.

I don't fly in an iPhone at ~500MPH and 36k feet MSL. I want my government to have "a throat to choke" when people die due to corporate cost savings using this arbitrage. The 737 MAX killed 346 people, and the recourse was...not impressive.

This is no different than the video where an exec is asked to drink the glass of water if fracking fluids are safe [1]. Is it safe? Okay, prove that it is, and maybe regulators allow it to continue. High level, I am of the opinion we are at a point where there is no trust of corporate decisions when life safety is involved.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0HL4L6Pa-4
I've been on the other side of this. Big company was under the impression they could ultimately save money by switching from an enterprise ERP solution that costed them hundres of thousands of dollars in licences with an inhouse one. The only problem was the ERP was carrying 90% of the company on it's shoulders and this would've been a horribly large task. I worked on it for 2 years with incompentent managers and slow progress. After I left the company they continued for another 2 and then quit that endevour. Wasting a shitload of money (think 10 devs + managers for 4 years...).
I should have added that it depends on the model. MiniLM didn’t exhibit this behavior, but it unfortunately didn’t perform as well on recall or ranking as other models that did.

GTE comes to mind. You can try the demo widget on HuggingFace and see this: https://huggingface.co/thenlper/gte-large

As an example, against “Chocolate chip cookies”, “Oreos” has a cosine similarity of .808, while “Bubonic plague” is at .709.
maintenance issue with airline or yet another manufacturing defect from the worst airplane manufacturer?

Honestly, hard to say at this point. Maybe open up short positions on both.
Your jab at reading comprehension seems misplaced.

https://imgur.com/a/07GLcb9

If you run a search for a domain such as readingcomprehension.com:

Namecheap does show renewal prices; they also interchange it in the readingcomprehension.io with a "Retails at" price, which does not mean renew. Those are the prices that can change.

It's an easy miss.. before diagnosing a 'comprehension' critique and feeling entitled to the labour of others to convince you otherwise - double-checking the page (below the fold) might save you from the irony.

Clarity matters, both in web design and in critiques. I was hoping you might go do a search and read below the fold.
Thanks for the tip, that does look like it might be enough for me to get over the hump.

For anyone else looking, it is "Gui for JJ" https://github.com/gulbanana/gg
Also of interest: CloudpilotEmu - Palm emulator in your browser

https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/

When I installed it and could play Vexed again... ahh, the happiness!
This is not a USA perspective. This is a conspiracy theory perspective from spending too much time in liberal/progressive echo-chambers that repeat fearful, hateful myths about their political opponents.
About half the processes I was driving myself crazy trying to get adopted fifteen, twenty years ago are more or less standard now.
It looks like a windowing function. Used to turn continuous data into segments of data for FFT processing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function
I would assume they use some sort of terminal emulator if that counts. There's probably legacy systems emulators that they use. Your definition of hobbyist and professional is strange. Just because a company hired people and paid them to develop an emulator in the broad sense of what an emulator is doesn't make it more professional... I mean you have to think about also all of the things that come with defense industry. Simulating board layout chip logic and all of that could be emulation if you think about it and that is more niche than just professional.
What makes it seem like, from this piece anyway, that he is from an affluent family? (I don’t know the author/artist whatsoever.) Describe to me the phone call you think ought to take place.
10% former, 90% latter.
I am not suggesting that we ban all chemicals not properly studied, but we can do a lot to at least get a sense of what X chemical may be capable of doing to us if ingested.

I don’t think it would’ve been incredibly difficult or burdensome to think that a chemical that can with stand 900+ degrees celsius won’t be metabolized and broken down very well inside the body, the next obvious supposition would be well is the body going to be able to eliminate it in some way or will it just stay there? What happens if it stays there, that doesn’t sound very good? These are all basic questions 3M chemists could’ve asked themselves before they created this mess, or may be they did and no one paid attention.
I think you are arguing against a strawman of the worst interpretation of what I said. Which means we’d have to have a cross-examination type debate that I ain’t got the energy for.

You are assuming that there is a single thing called downtime (not a scale of slightly bad to outrageous) and a single set of considerations as to whether to move.
>But today, the version being built at a shipyard in Wisconsin shares only 15 percent commonality with the original design

How is this in any way acceptable? The procurement strategy was to buy an existing design in order to speed up the process. I would bet tradeoffs were made doing it that way instead of a clean sheet design. Now, after the fact they throw away the design and make something new? The Navy is likely to get the worst of both approaches doing it the way they are.
One wonders what fascism could have done had it not alienated intellectuals. But one also wonders if that alienation is core to fascism, even definitive. Fascism is notoriously hard to define, but "alienates the best thinkers" seems like a good litmus test.
In third world countries, if you're wealthy (by local standards), you can grease the wheels with bribes, or better yet, cheaply outsource tasks to "consultants" who know exactly how to navigate the system and pay the bribes on your behalf, giving you plausible denialability. Need an Indonesian multi-year business visa? $200 to the right "visa consultant" and it's yours in days.

As far as I can tell, this is not an option in Germany, certainly not cheaply. Healy, one of the global companies that does this kind of thing, wants €14000 to create a GmBH for you, and I'm pretty sure that doesn't speed up things, it just makes it somebody else's headache.
> AI is going to quickly surpass the quality of medical diagnosis by doctors

High doubts. We're still talking about GPTs? The 'transformer' part will be an issue. I use it the enterprise version _a lot_, but one thing you really can't use it for is finding a bug, and considering how Transformers work, that's not a surprise.
How does SSH authentication provide the same guarantees as signing commits?
I really like skimfeed. It’d be perfect with a more mobile-friendly interface.
You still need to put up with various levels of KYC.
Another site's coverage. Facts are thin right now. https://avherald.com/h?article=51721379&opt=0
Ah yes, it's the young people who are to blame for the perceived industry wide drop in quality. Yeah right.
https://archive.is/sU37m
Exactly! Humor dies when exposed to inflation levels above 2.5%.
No, all Americans who make money abroad have to file taxes. Yes, there is the Credit and the Exclusion, which will often reduce your burden to often zero but still requires all the paperwork.

Try owning a stake in a foreign company (CFC) though, that's a nightmare with often unavoidable significant taxes.
The literate programming story is great in Clojure. Clay (https://github.com/scicloj/clay) is also a great option and supports rendering to quarto notebooks, which are IMO one of the best publishing options out there for technical books etc.
> I do not think people remember how bad software was over a decade ago

Or how good it was.

Pro24 and then Cubase on the Atari ST ran for months without
crashing. Desktop publishing on the Amiga (PageFactory? - I forget
now) producing LaTeX/Postscript like output, faultlessly. Those were
in 1993. Before that I used VLSI software I ran on a Sun 380
workstation and designed whole microprocessors on software that simply
never crashed - even when it ran out of memory or was given
'impossible' routing tasks it auto-saved in a recoverable state - in
1989!

There's always been the same spread of software quality. Some amazing
stuff written by diligent, competent engineers who actually use and
test their wares. Some absolute rubbish written by fly-by-night spivs
and opportunists who want to make money fast.

Sadly the latter gained the upper hand after about 2000. Mostly led by
companies like Microsoft whose products are notoriously shite - a
total disgrace to computing. They got away with it simply by pumping
vast amounts of money in to marketing and perception management. They
simply drowned out the competition, creating a normalised very low
standard of software by sheer force and dominance.

Two problems lie beneath this. Firstly, software quality metrics have
never really matured. It's too complex a product a gauge. The author
mentions functionality, usability, reliability and security as if they
were orthogonal. But in reality they are not. For instance, security
is mainly a quality issue relating to visibility and control and is
inversely proportional to complexity. And aren't ease of installation,
accessibility and ease of development also quality factors?

Secondly, I don't think the average persons has much rational
expectation around software quality. Again Microsoft and then Google
proved that. Many people are pleased by eye-candy and UX fluff, or by
the social aspects of software, but they disregard actual
functionality. Ask random people whether software got better or worse
this last decade and I think you'll get a lot of confusing, scattered
responses,