skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean. The DMCA is big piece of crap, but it does have penalties if someone files a DMCA claim regarding content they know isn't theirs to manage.

Alas, it does not extent to penalizing the (duly-authorized) filers who make claims they know are frivolous bullshit, but that's a 'nother can of worms.
You gotta think like a gamer. Microsoft will make Call of Duty free on gamepass. Meanwhile, Nintendo graphics suck and they hate mods. and Sony is too greedy in buying exclusives and keeping them off PC. MS wins by default with this mindset. Their backwards compatibility and PC support is indeed the best out of the 3, but that only helps out PC players (who seem to dominate a lot of this discussion).

Seeing the reactions on Reddit or Twitter really show how either young or ignorant the average video game commenter is on how the industry works. just instant gratification at any cost, and if it's denied it's war. Just look at how ballistic they went for needing an extra account for Helldivers, then read up on the news for these layoffs for a game they loved and see the slight murmur in comparison.

HN has some of that too, but there's at least some professionals here that will sympathize with the developers.
> I don't think there's a way to make intelligence safe without crippling it.

Not without reading the questioner’s mind. Or maybe if the AI had access to your social credit score, it could decide what information you should be privy to.
</sarc>

Seriously though, it’s all about who gets to decide what “safe” means. It seemed widely understood letting censors be the arbiters for “safe” was a slippery slope, but here we are two generations later as if nothing was learned.

Turns out most are happy to censor as long as they believe they are the ones in charge.
Poor psychoanalyzing since I’m more often surrounded by the types who would knee jerk agree with you. I’m more likely (and do) to get shit on for dare questioning how truly awful big cities are, so I’d love some of that “high status” you think I’m feeling. Still, I’d rather poke hills in peoples’ poor kneejerk understanding of the world with investigating what the data tells us is actually going on, regardless of whether the opinion is popular. And it’s not, evidenced by the many people here, even on a more urban intellectual environment.
Show HN: Written in Rust – Self hosted and fast GeoIP service with auto updates
Looks interesting. I'm working on an LLM client myself.

Video: https://files.catbox.moe/zy4tbr.mp4

Repo: https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown
I remember Kurt Vonnegut being interviewed and clearly saying that he did not have any hidden meanings in his writings. Yet, I remember how my English teacher would go on about x passage as a metaphor for y. I think we were discussing a short story of his. We would spend hours finding the hidden meanings in authors' writings. I'm sure that's the case for many of the books we read in school. I'm sure many authors are more philosophical than others but definitely not all of them. True, overanalyzing authors' writings is a thing. It's a shame because reading becomes a chore rather than a joy.
I don’t understand the confidence that leads to such misuse. I’m NOT a db guy by any means, and yet when I need one I’m carefully looking up things like “what’s the space complexity of compound indices”, at a development stage. Defensive and paranoid. I guess there are a lot of cowboys out there.
It's aspirational, and people who aspire will achieve it to varying degrees.

For starters, we can all aspire to work in a company where people wouldn't be outright lying, nor feel that they needed to.
If you are considering jumping ship anyway and you are "young and enthusiastic craving the rock star ego payout"; why not do it and see what happens?
I share the author's opinion that xlib is harder to grok than the X11 protocol, because it's the X11 protocol plus a queuing system where you will sometimes receive out-of-band messages, plus a large number of seldom-used utilities.
Does anyone support this sort of optimization for AWS Redshift?

I built some lambdas that looked at Queuelength and turned off Redshift Concurrency Scaling for WLM queues to mitigate costs for less critical afternoon workloads but it was always cruder than I wanted.
https://archive.today/PjcjV
We do think. And we do read propaganda on both sides. And then we make up our mind.

Or would you rather ban us like the EU banned RT and Zelenskyy the opposition parties?

Think different.
Suppose I walk up to a tent at a festival that has a big sign that says "FREE BEER", and I ask a person there for a beer. They hand me a beer, and I go on my way. Was the beer free? I think was free.

Now, suppose I walk up to a Budweiser-branded tent at a Budweiser festival that has a big sign with a Budweiser logo on it that says "FREE BEER", and I ask a person there who is wearing a Budweiser polo shirt, a Budweiser lanyard, and a Budweiser hat for a beer. They hand me a beer in a Budweiser-branded cup, and I go on my way. Was the beer free?

I think that both of these beers were free.
They are in that institution because they didn't respond to the threat of penalties.

Even if the penalty were death, a new inmate would be coerced to grab the package under threat of a worse death.
Hey that was my package too, and sadly it was my best package.

Company #1, nothing.

Company #2, this.

Company #3, 1 month (TBF I was only there a year, so I guess it was as good as #2).

#2 only wins out because I had partially vested stock. But otherwise, my severance history is paltry.
NIO signs agreement with GAC to co-develop battery standards, charging, swaps
and did the author eventually tell the CEO that they replaced the CTO's preferred vendors stack / work with their own solution?
This story is all fake, right? I mean, I've worked at multiple Fortune 500 companies, nothing works like this story says it does.

>. Keep in mind that early in my career,

And the CTO is calling you directly? The CTO of a Fortune 500 company? The 'review process' for a vendor pitch is the CTO asking his immediate staff?

The system that needs 3 people a few months to build is being handled by the CTO???
Back in 1998 I wrote a code generator to make JNI stubs for LAPACK. It’s the kind of programming that goes that way.
OMG I wanted one of these so bad back when. I was a poor student, however, so that was a no go. I also remember there having been a "Two Page Display".
Any web archiving tool will have backups. Pre 2000 may not be as common since it’s over 20 years old but trying a few different archiving tools should yield some results.
I'm not so sure about "all publicity is good publicity" - it's true that it works if nobody has heard of your product. Sales-wise, it's better that a million people hear about it and 70% have a negative view of your advertising while 20% don't care and 10% like it, than it is to have 10,000 people hear of it and every one of them like it.

But when you're at Apple's level? Probably 95% of the US population knows what an iPad is and probably 80% have used one at some point. At that level you have to be more concerned about brand management. If people start getting a negative association with your brand then you open up the door to competitors. Look at Twitter, Tesla, etc. - tons of press, very controversial, but it doesn't seem to help at their level.
Yes, they were asking you a question. Do you not understand question marks?
He might know it is important, but if you look at his CV, it's mostly non-user facing issues.

And that's not to diminish what he's done. I don't expect everyone to be an expert in all fields. I wouldn't get someone who only wrote microcontrollers to redesign my frontend. And I wouldn't get a CS professor to write my microcontroller software.

I wouldn't go to GP for cancer and I wouldn't go to a Oncologist for physical therapy.
>I am thankful we have LLMs so we don't have to deal with SO. Ideally, as little as possible. SO can be a pretty toxic place filled with elitism and care for procedure over actually helping people

There needs to be a term for this. Perhaps "The Wikipedia Effect."
The Little Dutch Boy Who Saved Holland
"The all cause mortality rate among participants in the lowest and highest quarter was 1472 and 1536 per 100 000 person years, respectively"

That sounds like a vanishingly tiny difference between the highest and the lowest quartile.

What am I missing?
The proof of concept was writing to a JSON file. Someone said "but we need to use a real database."

A couple JIRA tickets later...
Steam works because they are acting nicely toward users. The moment Gabe is out of there, the mess will begin, sadly.

And it's hard to capture for normal people, but the pain of digital ownership is pretty evident to every person I know. Granted that's still a very small sample.

Nobody can convince you, but you can't claim the opposite too
Many fly back to the pilot if disconected which could be interesting.
I write system tests like this with the REPL often. I just change the Capybara driver from its usual headless_chrome to chrome and put a debugger (or pry) breakpoint in the RSpec example. From there I just "drive" from the REPL, testing my finders/matchers and building up the test example as I go. As you suggest, being able to use dev tools directly in the browser being driven by Capybara is massively helpful during this stage.
> Marx’s famous introduction to the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte—that history happens twice, first as tragedy, then as a farce—has become something of a leitmotif in the works of artists, cultural critics and journalists grappling with the absurd elements of political agitation in the 21st century. Notably, Hal Foster poses the question “What comes after farce?” in his 2020 book of the same name; a book cataloguing contemporary art responses to existence in the Trump era. However, with its renewed appeal, and with support from numerous textual and visual examples, a new addendum has emerged: LARP comes after farce.

> The notion that LARP historically emerges after farce is incapsulated in a quote found within A.M Gittlitz’s biography of Homero Cristalli, better known as J. Posadas.

>> “What we on the Left flatter ourselves in calling our political and even our revolutionary work is in fact nothing of the sort. It is more akin to religious ritual. Mass rallies, newspaper sales, endless meetings, electoral campaigning, street fighting, writing articles that no one will ever read and books absolutely no one will ever get any practical use out of … In another time, in another place, these rituals may have had a relationship to a broader movement, a broader strategy, and such stirrings have always accompanied revolutionary moments. And so, having no real conception of the thing itself, we try to grasp at revolution by playing out its inessential weirdnesses ad nauseam. This is what comes after farce. This is LARP.”

LARP Politics and Hyperreality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279820
Rapeman was a completely ironic and funny name because the band was these scrawny, autistic, nerdy dudes that were the antithesis of rapey culture, at least superficially. And he did regret it for a variety of reasons which I believe he was bullied into but w/e as it wasn’t that important.
Right. I wrote that.

What I am saying: SBF should not be able to get his sentence reduced because he made good investments with ill-gotten funds. Whether he is capable of that or not is immaterial.

The market continued to rise after he ceased to be involved with those investments. Why should he reap the benefit of good fortune (indirectly, in reducing his sentence) because of that rise? It had nothing to do with his intent for that money - his intent was generally to enrich himself, family and friends, and if others got the leftovers, lucky for them. Hence the three private jets he owned. Saying "well, he made some good decisions so there's more to pay people back with, so he should get less jailtime" is BS, to me.
All of the bad stuff in the article is a consequence of the CTO not being able to call technical bullshit and encouraging a culture of yes-reports.

If you ever find yourself in a company like this, start looking for a new job.

It's impossible to fix rot that bad at the top, and they're not going to make you CTO.
Ehh, this is just good ol' PR, ChatGPT was trained off of non-answers like this.

I sure do wish they would just say "DEI isn't profitable anymore. Number must go up", though. Saves me a bit of brainpower.
Open Source Is at a Crossroads
Plenty of anti-drone companies around. Mostly defense focused. One off the top of my head is Drone Shield.
That might be the best we can practically achieve with technology, but the point stands. If positional evaluation says one thing but an exhaustive analysis of lines finds a solution 60 moves deep, that one is going to win.
Not an answer to this question. Is there a Postgres.app equivalent for mysql on MacOs?
> it's about avoiding being the party responsible

When you wander the world, and see something odd, out of place, it’s often caused by an ancient mystical force known as liability.
And with Google App Scripts, you can augment your Google spreadsheets with JavaScript to write custom functions that can call remote services (and be called back as a service!).
Pod by The Breeders imo.
There is a ballmer peak for pontificating.

As an aside but relevant to your point, my entire introduction to DNA and protein analysis was based on Chomsky grammars. My undergrad thesis advisor David Haussler handed me a copy of an article by David Searls "The Linguistics of DNA" (https://www.scribd.com/document/461974005/The-Linguistics-of...) . At the time, Haussler was in the middle of applying HMMs and other probabilistic graphical models to sequence analysis, and I knew all about DNA as a molecule, but not how to analyze it.

Searls paper basically walks through Chomsky's hierarchy, and how to apply it, using linguistic techniques to "parse" DNA. It was mind-bending and mind-expanding for me (it takes me a long time to read papers, for example I think I read this paper over several months, learning to deal with parsing along the way). To this day I am astounded at how much those approaches (linguistics, parsing, and grammars) have evolved- and yet not much has changed! People were talking about generative models in the 90s (and earlier) in much the same way we treat LLMs today. While much of Chomsky's thinking on how to make real-world language models isn't particuarly relevant, we still are very deeply dependent on his ideas for grammar...

Anyway, back to your point. While CFGs may be O(n*3) I would say that there is a implicit, latent O(n) parseable grammar underlying human linguistics, and our brains can map that latent space to its own internal representation in O(1) time, where the n roughly correlates to the complexity of the idea being transferred. It does not seem even remotely surprising that we can make multi-language models that develop their own compact internal representation that is presumably equidistant from each source language.
US Gasoline, Diesel Demand Hit Seasonal Low Not Seen Since Covid
They probably didn't pick devs that they trusted, they picked the ones they thought were the cheapest.
Rather than intercept them a solution that triangulates the pilot seems a better idea. Let it make the delivery.
Beirut Explosion Angles
A minority of the Muslim world and regularly isn't the word I'd use.
Microsoft Screws Intel and AMD over AI PCs
Arguing with programmers is oftentimes pointless these days. Pragmatism is out of the equation.

I can see why, though. First, there was so much money flowing into IT since 20-ish years that cost was not a consideration both on infra and salary side. Second, connecting all the piping gives an illusion of doing work and feeling "important". You know, we need to be scalable because Google does, and they're successful, right?
So you want to pollute the commons just as the people filling the web with SEO-focused AI-generated schlock? Do you feel justified in polluting the commons to serve the ends you desire?
And so again failed at their jobs.
Pandas is probably in Debian and it can read parquet files. Polars is fairly new and under active development. It's a python library, I install those in $HOME/.local, as opposed to system wide. One can also install it in a venv. With pip you can also uninstall packages and keep things fairly tidy.
Because google will a/b test(maybe unintentionally) products and eventually kill or merge them, great example now is using voice to have google help you vs gemini essentially both voice helpers.
For those who aren't aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellard%27s_formula
(yes, that Fabrice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard)
I feel like the criminals would kill the eagle pretty quickly
Watts per pixel probably did something close for a long time for screens.

Same for Watts per bit.

There's just a lot more pixels and bits.
Bertrand forgot demographic decline. That's a real blocker to doing anything about the other problems.
The problem with hiring good developers is that you need good developers and a solid corporate tech culture to hire them.

If you don't have anyone you can trust to interview technical folks, how will you avoid hiring bad developers?

And similarly, if you hire good developers but your corporate culture is bad, they'll leave, and eventually the only remaining developers will be bad ones.

It's very hard for non-tech companies to hire and retain quality talent.
P.S.: In contrast, consider the OECD stats for "Employment in general government as a percentage of total employment" [0], where the USA ranked somewhere like *squints* ~22nd in 2019, below the OECD average.

[0] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/75f92d89-en/index.html?i... , graph 3.1
The only other timeseries paper I am aware of is TimeGPT

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37874891
If management has no visibility into the project progress, that seems like a pretty major problem.

It absolutely shouldn't be "binary." Any year-long project should have tractable progress metrics. Upper management doesn't need to be technical, but someone in the chain absolutely should be capable of translating progress into a digestible format.
How things change - I remember when the university I'd previously worked at finally managed to kick IBM out and replace the universally reviled Lotus Learning Space with... Blackboard! I guess it metastasized over the years and is now the big bad one that gets replaced by something else.
Many of the top companies you know were that healthy company once. You basically need to be one at that magical inflection point where the growth will crush you if your engineering is not empowered and on point. Especially back when clouds didn't exist, or were far less featureful, so turning dollars into horizontal growth was not a thing.

The dark secret is that being a healthy company is just a moment, not something a company is at all times. Staying a healthy company as you grown when you are actually successful is very hard, and once the health is gone, good luck regaining it, because now you have a lot of people that thrive in unhealthy environments.
Most people who use an index wrong dont understand space and time tradeoffs at all, how to measure if there is a problem, or how to identify what a thing should be in the first place.

Most people who at least think a bit get pretty far before the vendor specific gotchas start biting.
Reminiscent of the scene in one of the later episodes of Band of Brothers: In the last weeks of the European war, Major Dick Winters is ordered to send a patrol to cross the Rhine, in rubber boats, during the night — for the second night in a row. The patrol's quite-dangerous mission would be a repeat of what the same soldiers had done the previous night: to capture German prisoners and bring them back for interrogation. Winters concludes that the repeat mission would be a pointless risk of his men's lives. So he disobeys his orders: he tells his people to get a good night's sleep and report to him in the morning that they did the repeat mission but were unable to find any additional German soldiers to capture. Winters's soldiers were visibly relieved.
What if someone took your answers, put them in a book, claimed they wrote everything themselves, and then sold the book for money?
I wrote that I have personally observed it. One cannot debunk a factual data point.

Even if one could, the article you linked does not even attempt to do that:

> Hänig found that there was some variation around the tongue in how much stimulus it took for a taste to register. <…> Hänig’s hypothesis generally holds up. Different parts of the tongue do have a lower threshold for perceiving certain tastes, but these differences are rather minute.

Within the category of “coffee”, all differences are minute. The whole point of coffee hipstertude is enhancing individual sensitivity to those minute differences in taste in order to pointlessly argue and express sophisticated preferences about such.

(It took me years of drinking single origin hand drip to just start noticing a difference between light and dark roast, and believe it or not there are people who have much more narrowly defined tastes.)
This whole "AI safety" culture is an annoyance at best and a severe hindrance to progress at worst. Anyone who takes it seriously has the same vibe as those who take Web3 seriously -- they know it's not a real concern or a threat, and the whole game is essentially "kayfabe" to convince those in power (marks) to limit the spread of AI research and availability to maintain industry monopoly.
Thunderscan? There's some neat history behind that project.

https://www.folklore.org/Thunderscan.html
> might have to offer very different suggestions based on the current programming-language and on what variable or method names exist within a given scope

I guess you could make it part of an application that embeds (a browser for) VS Code, with which the keyboard code can communicate and receive this information from.

You could almost build it on top of a generic English swipe keyboard if you treat a swipe to shift (for camelCase) or `_` for snake_case as word separators, to match them in isolation to a generic English dictionary, and once the user presses space, you can try to match the fullIdentifierWithAllWords against a dictionary from the editor/LSP.
That's a really odd mistranslation, given the Italian words for lightweight and light source are as different as in french (leggero/a vs luce). Looks like it was translated directly
from the English content.
What works is enhanced weathering of olivine minerals. Even powered by coal (for the powder mills) and diesel (for the mining and sea operations).
Boredom is mind damaging too. Drugs could be alleviating a prisoners mental suffering by allowing a mental escape. And preserving their mental health in the long run. Something worth preserving assuming the person will reintegrate to society. But that probably depends on the person's propensity to get addicted.

If they will allow prisoners to MAID themselves, why is it worse to let them use drugs to reduce their suffering?

The bigger issue, IMHO (more damaging to society) is government corruption (looting, no bid contracts, bribes, over budget, under delivery services, and just comically bad ideas being funded). Billions of dollars have been misappropriated. And it's all legal. Or near legal, as white collar crime is rarely punished. And it can eventually turn into inflation and a declining standard of living.
I would not want to work with anyone at either the Fortune 500 company or the vendor. Extremely dysfunctional and unhealthy work environment. Lying to the boss, secret projects using 360 hours of engineering time- not even including all the nights and weekends mentioned. This is not good. This is not right.