skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you mostly worked for younger tech companies or were they "traditional" businesses who had to be forced to adopt technology? The places I've seen with the biggest challenges are all large old and well established companies. Think insurance, transportation, agriculture or healthcare. Places where the people who managed the entire system out of file cabinets a decade ago now manage the document repositories they don't understand and they are still bitter about it.

The insurance company was known for hiring contractors and keeping them on the bench for months to years just in case they needed them. I also remember while working there a particular Big Three consultant kept showing up in people's meetings and never speaking up. No one could figure out what he did or why he was there, but the agency was billing $500 / hour for his time and no one could figure out how to get rid of him. It was a complete shit show. This doesn't even touch on some of the major technical blunders they made throughout the years. Just a few small personal anecdotes.

The transportation company was even worse. Literally the worst company I've ever spent time at. It only employees around 15k people, so it's quite a bit smaller than the above insurance company. All signs indicate that this company was well run by the founder. But not by his sons who inherited it. They had a driver turnover rate of over 100%. If they needed 100 drivers for the year, they would have to hire 105 drivers throughout the year. They just constantly churn through brand new drivers, train them up and lose them to other companies through incompetence. One of the consequences of constantly burning through brand new CDL drivers is you have higher accident rates. The project I was brought in to consult on was a driver monitoring system. So if the driver braked too hard or swerved too fast it would create an incident and the driver would have to talk to someone after their route to explain what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future. I can't imagine why they had turnover problems! Their entire IT org was run in a similar dysfunctional way.
If it’s such a taboo, why not just go to the essential point and state clearly what you’re talking about since this is an Internet forum.

The coy “I’m not allowed to talk about this, ooh” act is tiresome.
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Also see Richard Rush's movie The Stuntmam (1980) which deals with the themes of PKD entirely within the realm of modern movie construction !
As far as I know the plan has always been to use the martian regolith and water as primary radiation shielding -- same as the moon.

Here is a recent (2022) paper[1] on the concept, but you can easily find scholarly work on this going back many decades...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00320...
It's most helpful when a GitHub/Linear issue is linked because the "why" is extracted, and also for larger PR's
> Hamas had Ethernet cables leading from their data center, up a hole to UNRWA's switches

Let's not echo this as fact, considering there is quite literally no evidence for this provided. We see a power cable and a PBX setup, and the IDF has refused to provide further proof. When these things are investigated with the limited information available, they end up with contrary conclusions[0] to what the IDF claims.

[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/scrolly/1758548577893396578
It's true that Linux has a stable-ish syscall table. What is funny is that this caused a whole series of Samsung Android phones to reboot randomly with some apps because Samsung added a syscall at the same position someone else did in upstream linux and folks staticly linking their own libc to avoid boionc libc were rebooting phones when calling certain functions because the Samsung syscall causing kernel panics when called wrong. Goes back to it being a bad idea to subvert your system libc. Now, distro vendors do give out multiple versions of a libc that all work with your kernel. This generally works. When we had to fix ABI issues this happened a few times. But I wouldn't trust building our libc and assuming that libc is portable to any linux machine to copy it to.
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Cars are bad for urban environments, independent of their impact on CO2/energy production--they result in traffic, too-wide streets, pedestrian danger, and generally less pleasant cities.
Even if the reporting was not public, people in Congress that are suppose to oversee this should see the reports. I have not seen them mention anything.
Manufacturing an EV requires 14 ton CO2e, whereas an ICE requires 10 ton CO2e. A gallon of gas emits 9 kg of CO2 (most of the weight is air oxygen). So equivalence is hit once you burn 450 gallons of gas. IOW, not very long.

(This ignores the carbon cost of electricity generation which varies widely. But it also ignores the carbon cost to create & transport the gasoline, which adds about 50% to the CO2 per gallon).
Sure it is not casual. War is serious business!
No doubt that current train service is better than bus, but that is including hundreds(?) of dollars of subsidy per ticket. A bus with that type of subsidy would be a luxury coach.
This is so cool. Much respect. I am curious what tech stack you are writing this with? Is it electron or maybe lower level?

It might also be cool if it could automatically import sheets or google docs if I were to drag a csv or .txt file in and just magically open the project up. I hate having to upload via google drive
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Nearly all languages are supported, but some perform better than others.

JS/TS, Python, Java, C++, Ruby are highly supported.
The relationship is likely bidirectional as opposed to a one way street.
Location: Texas, United States

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, Haskell

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abel-sen/

Email: AbelSenFP@gmail.com

My primary proficiency is with C++ and Haskell, but I would be more than willing to work in adjacent/similar languages like Scala, Rust, PureScript, Clojure or Erlang.
Technology by and large accelerates and concentrates.

I like the framing that technology is obligate. It doesn't matter whether you've built a machine that will transform the world into paperclips, sowing misery on its path and decimating the community of life. Even if you refuse to use it, someone will, because it gives short term benefits.

As you say, the root issue lies in the framework of co-habitation that we are currently practicing. I think one important step has to be decoupling the concept of wealth from growth.
I really don't know anything about ivermectin, and I really don't have much of an opinion on it. My only opinion is that I don't think getting a vaccine helped my dad, even if it helped others, and that in the best of times, my trust in our government institutions is incredibly low, and in the case of a public health emergency, that trust dissolves to literally 0, as the health of the public is prioritised over my family's.

Whether ivermectin works or not, I don't know; I just know from experience that, for some, the vaccine simply makes them worse, and it's not worth rolling a 20-sided die if 19 faces mean you're fine, but 1 face means your health is taken from you.
Thanks, I guess I missed the links.

For reference, here's one that answers some of what I'm asking:

https://theicct.org/publication/a-global-comparison-of-the-l...
Letters and discussions we can dismiss outright. This is always a selective argument based on your leanings, and these are inevitably used to twist what are otherwise fairly clear wordings even in the language of the day. A lot of people said a lot of things, but what matters is what is enshrined in law.

What state constitutions of the day say something different than what is written in the federal constitution? I am interested in looking into it at least.

ETA: I looked into it. Your argument only seems to have Pennsylvania as a leg to stand on, through the participation of Ben Franklin, and even that is flawed according to historians:

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/download/59337/59064/0
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It's even worse than that now: they need to demonstrate how much value they bring compared to llama in terms of worker productivity.

While I've no doubt GPT-4 is a more capable model then llama3, I don't get any benefit using it compared to llama3 70B, from the real use benchmark I ran in a personal project last week: they both give solid response the majority of times, and make stupid mistakes often enough so I can't trust them blindly, with no flagrant difference in accuracy between those two.

And if I want to use hosted service, groq makes Llama70 run much faster than GPT-4 so there's less frustration of waiting for the answer (I don't think it matters to much in terms of productivity though, as this time is pretty negligible in reality, but it does affect the UX quite a bit).
Hmm... probably, send me an email.
SCTP has hearbeats to detect that.
If the arrays of objects can conform to a single schema (across all scalar attributes), then make a second table to hold the objects in the arrays.

Now you have a two table schema with (at most) one join in a given query.

Check out Vertica. It does a great job at various forms of compression.
In addition, DuckDB is an easy way to get started with efficient OLAP queries.
I listed rankings, not percentage
Absolutely, so you try to seal it in hermetically, only talk to it over a special message bus or something.

Sometimes the upgrade path from 6 onwards isn't as nice as it usually is from 8 up, especially if you built with some old undead libraries that require an heroic effort to understand well enough to reimplement. Takes a very special organisation to divert some person-years to pull it off, and as some middle or other manager it's highly unlikely to catch you a new, better job even if it goes well.
I don't think those are typical inventory. The Cybertrucks are on backorder, yet the huge Tesla lot I drive by daily (in Northwest Houston) has many on the lot.
How is what you're describing not just Nagle's algorithm?

If you mean TCP_NODELAY, you should use it with TCP_CORK, which prevents partial frames. TCP_CORK the socket, do your writes to the kernel via send, and then once you have an application level "message" ready to send out — i.e., once you're at the point where you're going to go to sleep and wait for the other end to respond, unset TCP_CORK & then go back to your event loop & sleep. The "uncork" at the end + nodelay sends the final partial frame, if there is one.
Maybe the species that create advanced AI use it to extinct themselves before the AI is fully autonomous and self-sustaining? Presumably "help an ~average intelligence but crazy person make a bioweapon" would come before AI capable of self-sustaining and colonizing the galaxy?
If the App Store is meant to have some sort of quality control to justify it’s existence, then yes, they should reject apps this buggy.

They want to have health as a major feature of their platforms. To do that, they have an interest in making sure the most important health apps aren’t garbage.
this was the inspiration behind my medieval content farm: https://tidings.potato.horse/about
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They don't require more than a rover if you accept them doing their work far slower than their normal earth equivalents. Hence sending them years in advance to dig out a some holes that would only take a few days for excavators on Earth.
That's really really hard. For a full, guaranteed way to do this we'd need circuit switching (or circuit switching emulation). It's pretty expensive to do in packet networks - each flow would need to be tracked by each middle box, so a lot more RAM at every hop, and probably a lot more processing power. If we go with circuit establishment, its also kind of expensive and breaks the whole "distributed, decentralized, self-healing network" property of the Internet.

It's possible to do better than TCP these days, bandwidth is much much less constrained than it was when TCP was designed, but it's still a hard problem to do detection of pipe disconnected for any reason other than timeouts (which we already have).
Thank you to share about your personal experience. Will a cochlear implant help for your condition?
If they do a bad job, the stock price drops and they get replaced.

You also are not laying out exhaustive and conclusive evidence that laws are needed for this.

I think your Elon example isn’t good and has more to do with politics than business/economics.
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The history of 'OK' (2023)
> significantly reduce the amount of C code but I'm not sure you could eliminate it entirely

Theseus is a research OS written in Rust that seems to include C purely to show how to support programs written in C (libc and a demo app).

https://github.com/theseus-os/Theseus

It contains some 1000+ lines of ASM for the early boot from BIOS, that look like they originate from https://os.phil-opp.com/minimal-rust-kernel/ -- I think UEFI boot would have been doable in pure Rust (https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs).
Confirmed. I asked both Gemini and GPT4 to assist with a proto3 rpc service I'm working on. The initial prompt was well specified. Both provided nearly exactly the same proto file, which was correct and idiomatic.

However, I then asked both, "Update the resource.spec.model field to represent any valid JSON object."

Gemini told me to use a google.protobuf.Any type.

GPT4 told me to use a google.protobuf.Struct type.

Both are valid, but the Struct is more correct and avoids a ton of issues with middle boxes.

Anyway, sample size of 1 but it does seem like GPT4 is better, even for as well-specified prompts as I can muster.
Video describing practices does not translate to AI performing those practices. Creating a community of knowledge progresses that knowledge. Sitting on it only benefits few and removes the market. Without people sharing their work on YouTube their own market would be far less.
> Anecdotally, I think anyone who reads HN for a while will realize it to be a negative, cynical place.

I don't think this is particularly unique to HN. Anonymous forums tend to attract contrarian assholes. Perhaps this place is more, erm, poorly socially-adapted to the general population, but I don't see it as very far outside the norm outside of the average wealth of the posters.
It's similar to what google would have done (paying for placement in search results) if they didn't have the whole dont be evil thing.

OpenAI doesn't realize that while it brings in revenue it opens door for a competitor who returns the results users asked for instead of what you get paid for.
Folks who are reacting with

> ugh I hate ads. Bye ChatGPT subscription!

I would recommend reading the article in full.

The gist is all of these efforts are in exchange for realtime browsing. In other words: if you ask it "who won this weekend's f1 race?" It can browse ESPN for the answer, then tell you "here's what ESPN says."

Exactly like you'd see on Google. Or, you know, ESPN.com.

Certainly a better experience than "I'm sorry, as of my knowledge cutoff date..."

To conflate that experience with heavy product placement and non-useful assistant answers, it just tells me that you didn't read the article.
I’m about your age, but holy hell, if I had been an admissions officer, that would have sold me on you.

I’m an anesthesiologist, though, so “likes to play god” sort of goes with the territory. It’s not common, but there are surgeries where you go on heart-lung bypass, chill the patient down to 30 C, and then stop the pumps. No blood flow. The surgeon does the critical part, you turn the pumps back on and warm them up, and then the body takes over again.

It is absolutely magic.
oh good grief. There are ways to test the app without being a "shadow FDA".
Zubrin gave a great talk in 2011 on VASIMR, another drawing-board nuclear magneto-plasma propulsion technology [1]. It's not only untested and unnecessary, but gets used by opponents of space exploration as a convenient reason to delay funding until the magic kit is ready.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myYs4DCCZts
I don't know about CSound, but Faust works well on microcontrollers, in fact that's one of its main use cases. Note that Faust focuses more on DSP, synthesis and effects, not so much on sequencing and higher-level music organization. I've found combining Faust (for low level) with any general-purpose language (for high level) works well for a lot of things.

https://faustdoc.grame.fr/tutorials/esp32/
Leap seconds should be first-class instead.

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/make-the-leap-second-first-c...
It gets even worse - routing changes causing traffic to blackhole would still be undetectable without a timeout mechanism, since probes and responses would be lost.
Interesting. Could you point me to where it is compared against SPC? I didn't find it from a cursory read.
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> How much would you pay for that?

I would pay $TAXES for that. The United States collectively pays over $800 billion a year for public education (https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...).
> Take a look at this PR for example: https://github.com/julep-ai/julep/pull/311

I am still confused if vector size should be 1024 or 728 lol.
Nation states or terrorists planning attacks on the US mainland (either physically or in cyberspace) are external threats that are investigated by the FBI and have been charged by the DOJ.
IMO, it is most valuable when you are looking for ways of reducing complexity. For a lot of projects, if you're already running Postgres then it is maybe not worth the added complexity of bringing in another technology.
It takes a lot of energy to displace sand/dirt/rocks to build anything underground. Human-powered shovels require a lot of food and water, and machinery requires combustion and a lot of hydrocarbons.
Yea, I'm also a fan of epic fantasy! I largely find myself moving to audiobooks to get around carrying books everywhere.

Do you have experience with devices that aren't kindle? Not super thrilled about the Amazon ecosystem, though I know it's not terribly difficult to jailbreak them.
Ultimately, I think that it depends entirely on the type of product and how it's used.

If you take an aluminum can from 17g to 12g, that may represent some cost savings in manufacturing and transport, but the average soda drinker won't notice a difference.

But if you take an umbrella from 1700g to 1200g, that's the difference between something that's entirely unusable, to something that has practical utility -- if only barely. 500g would be much better. All else being equal the optimal weight for an umbrella is probably around 100g. Enough to know it's there, but not enough that extended use by the fifth-percentile human would be difficult or metabolically demanding.

If a human has to wear or carry it, and if there's a meaningful weight/comfort threshold associated with the product's use, every gram counts. Duct tape and aluminum cans don't fall into this category -- but, at the same time, this is why hiking and camping equipment tends to be extremely light, and why the athletic shoe companies keep researching lighter and better foams.

The problem is heightened in aerospace and automotive engineering, where fuel economy mandates tend to impose hard weight caps -- and getting a design in at well under the cap is a real engineering accomplishment. Offhand, I recall hearing that there was once a program where ~$15M dollars were spent on efforts to make a commercial airplane lighter. This resulted in about 20kg shaved off the aircraft's weight. That doesn't sound like much of a value, but the program was considered a great success.
We're required to have code review as part of our SOC2 process, and I assume automated agents wouldn't count.

The other end of the spectrum is linting and tests, which catch errors before review.

Does Ellipsis have a role between these two? If so, what is the role?
I think we're spending more time analyzing the thread than was intended by its author, but the thread is pretty explicit about its reasoning.
I can’t tell from the documentation on GitHub: does the API expose the flagged/dead posts? It would be interesting to see statistics on what’s been censored lately.
Do not attempt to hide behind the HN rules here, if it's not insulting another member and it's relevant to the discussion it is permitted to share bigoted quotes. Sharing Miller's statements to substantiate your claims that he's a bigot is totally within the rules.

I have searched him and did not find any bigoted quotes. Even his SPLC page only has quotes of him wanting to restrict immigration, which is a common and mainstream opinion and quite the stretch to use as an example of bigotry.
If Apple Vision Pro crashes, the passthrough doesn't go dark
Many countries have committed to zero-carbon electricity by 2035. Any car you buy today will likely still be on the road then. The EV's emissions will have dropped to essentially 0 per mile whereas the Prius hybrid will still be at current levels.
Not sure if the author is around here or not but I might have something interesting for them in the next few weeks: an ESP32 implementation of AppleMIDI/rtp-midi for sending and receiving MIDI over Ethernet. I’ve put a reminder in my calendar to reach out once I’m ready to release it.
Isn't this obvious? It is very obvious to me
Not of the entire system, I don't think.

https://www.businessinsider.com/engineers-turn-to-voyager-de...

> During the first 12 years of the Voyager mission, thousands of engineers worked on the project, Dodd said. "As they retired in the '70s and '80s, there wasn't a big push to have a project document library. People would take their boxes home to their garage," Dodd added. In modern missions, NASA keeps more robust records of documentation.

Nowadays we've learned to make a duplicate.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-readies-perseverance-mars...

Back when the Spirit rover got trapped, they used its twin to pre-game possible approaches in similar soil.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mars-and-earth-activities-aim-...
Computers (and those who programme them) are there to serve humans (with a biology regulated by the Earth), not the other way around!
How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
Do not do this. This is a trap. Research and higher academics are in effect a scam in modern day. At one point they were useful, but now everything done is overwhelmingly private R&D. In academia you will scrounge for scraps and never pay off the loans.
It's surprising or meaningful because the parts of the economy that don't get more productive get more expensive as a fraction of overall costs as other things grow.

It's surprising because intuitively you'd think those things would be devalued.