skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leap seconds were accepted only because they were better than the previous solution (the "rubber second") and not enough people complained. It's just that we finally got enough complaints that they are being abolished. AND the end result is TAI being universally accepted, with a fixed offset due to the historical reason though :-p
Dude you are not convincing anyone with your childish comments. People like you don't last long here, so adios. (reported)
This article hits all the bingo spots.

> regime change

> colored revolution

> putting disinformation in quote marks

> fascists in scare quotes

yeah OK I think she is fine
does gas flaring produce methane? i always thought it was done to prevent methane emissions
I've occasionally enjoyed working on an enterprise app, but it really depends on the team.
Closed-source. I'm not sure why this is interesting. ML API companies hoping to hit it rich are a dime a dozen.

With the exception of a few like OpenAI, I can't imagine much success over open source models.

If it can genuinely predict stocks, start a hedge fund.
There weren't any plants, let alone animals, a billion years ago.
Even jeans, t-shirts and flannel shirts will get you through the better part of a century.
Ouch, thanks! Will fix asap
Why do you think that cloud computing would lend to the cleanliness or efficiency of their operations in a way that reduces the environmental burden? What stops them from using such services to extract oil more efficiently in the sense that they just produce more externalities faster?
Indeed, it's hard to me to imagine such an expression without any of the following qualities:

- immediately converges to zero
- immediately heads to infinity
- is dominated by only a few terms (thus obviating the needs for the other X million terms)
If you have a blog, add an RSS feed :)
But that was also always allowed under Stack Overflow’s terms. That’s why there are so many Stack Overflow clones.

It ironic that Stack Overflow went with very open and permissive licenses, which have normally been very popular with the community, yet people are outraged when the data is actually being used openly.
Standards, methodologies, protocols, oh my - MRV for durable CDR
Wow. This was decades ago and I'm not even sure some of the companies are around, but I looked up current paper companies and the only one that seems to register is Hammermill which looks like was absorbed into International Paper Company and maybe Strathmore?

To be honest, I was young and most likely came into contact with brands of paper rather than the manufacturers and the rise of personal computing basically annihilated a lot of the industry.

I wish I even knew what the book type was called, they sat somewhere in between swatch books and manufacturer trade magazines. They'd come out once or twice a year, have a variety of paper styles bound together in books of all kinds of sizes, and usually had beautiful somewhat non-sequitur photography or graphic art throughout to demonstrate what printed material would look like on the paper, often with a smattering of very high quality text. The sort of bizarre juxtaposition of these paper products and this beautiful graphic design was an appeal to itself.

My favorite book was one that featured photographs of ancient and vintage childrens toys and games (I was a kid) and some informational text about each.

edit I found these two examples

a modern example (at least the cover, I don't know what's inside) https://www.friesens.com/blog/new-colour-printing-paper-samp...

and this one from the early 1900s (samples start on page 33 of the book) - https://archive.org/details/directadvertisin1921pape/page/n8...

The contents of the older one has the DNA of the books I remember. The same kind of rambling text, then the paper samples with the state of the art printing and graphic design. By the 1980s these had taken on a more pop art style that was a bit like a more serious and toned down early Wired magazine house style.
Alphabet Progressing in Talks to Buy HubSpot, Sources Say
Perhaps being under water makes it harder to “cheat”.
Why would you quote a site promoting ineffective COVID treatments?
He would still have to call out to the C++ function.
Or, for about twenty quid, you can get a semiconductor cooler https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/gadget-review-usb-c-powered...

I have one. Rather effective at chilling my blood. No app needed.
I dared! I dared!

And came up with this:

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/mis...

> Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA for the treatment of any viral infection, including COVID-19

Please stop spreading misinformation about COVID.
It used to be a feature of some manufacturers/sellers -- Tupperware, Cutco, Land's End (or was it LL Bean), you could return damaged items even decades later and have them replaced.
> It will either improve productivity

This is only a good thing if you benefit from overall increases in productivity. Most of us don't benefit at an individual level

The general population has been receiving very diminishing returns from widespread increases in productivity, the ownership class has been capturing a majority of the benefit for far too long

Until you can convince me that this will be fixed, I don't see why I should be embracing anything that "improves productivity"
> You are locked in a cell with a kitten. You must punch the kitten in the face every day or else you will not be fed.

in my head, i already died the moment i became locked in a cell

everything I do after that just determines where i'm going next

i guess dont hang around people who have the habit of keeping jail cells and kittens around?
If you want less rainforest torn down to grow soybeans, eat more soybeans.
InstructLab: An open source project for enhancing LLMs
So that's the 'small government' I see so many folks talking about online.
No, I think that is exactly what happened. They wanted to merge their Android and iOS teams. I described one major bug (the alert stacking).

It seems pretty obviously they are using a cross-platform framework, the buttons and the way alerts are displayed is non-standard. Given that I've never seen a native app struggle so much with it's notifications, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that not dealing with bog-standard native APIs because they are running through a framework might be the problem.

Honestly, I kinda think Apple has some responsibility here too. They should reject these apps, or help the companies figure out what is going wrong.
The largest fancy math object I know is probably the proof of the following theorem:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-51074-9_...

The proof is 200Gb large. I am quiet sure now even larger proof exists, in particular thet exhaust some combinatorial property on graphs.
I’d argue that the regulation for ‘alternative control enabled’ (ACE) pumps [1] is too vague. These devices should be ‘designed to reliably and securely communicate with external devices’. These incidents were caused by the app crashing, resulting in the connection re-establishing itself frequently enough to drain the batteries [2]. How reliable should it be? Shouldn’t it include some stability measures?

Manufacturers should have to submit their devices and software for certification of the technology before itself. Bluetooth and coding standards are mature enough at this point, and it’s time customers start demanding this from their products.

[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPCD/cla...

[2]
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRES/res...
Every, and I mean every aspect of the economy has "ties to oil". Oil companies sell to willing buyers, many of whom turn around and point the finger at the oil company. It's an extreme level of cognitive dissonance that never stops surprising me. I believe in climate change for the record, and do believe we need to switch to sustainable energy, but the attitude of a lot of climate activists really rubs me the wrong way sometimes.
also curious of this. ive seen some api's out there for pronuncaition help. maybe they are using that?
"predicting the next token well means that you understand the underlying reality that led to the creation of that token"

People on the AI-hype side of things tend to believe this, but I really fundamentally don't.

It's become a philosophical debate at this point (what does it mean to "understand" something, etc.)
Maybe you found a great company from the get go, those exist as well !

My pay bumps went something like: 1.5x, 1.5x, 2x, 2x, 1.5x, 1.5x, 2x (note that I changed countries twice so some of the bumps of 2x were also for a more expensive cost of life )

In only one of the companies I stayed more than 2y and was pretty great, I went from senior to senior manager within 4y. Now I’m at 2y again at my current company and am pretty happy, unlikely that I will change again.

The healthy part described by the parent post was along the lines of healthy work environment, not pay. Apart from my current company I’ve never worked somewhere that would give more then 5-10% increases per year, they were more like 0-5
French AI Startup Mistral Taking on Silicon Valley Is Set to Stuff Its War Chest
https://archive.is/niSwe
You're correct. The OPs father has long-COVID. It is unrelated to any vaccine.
> not due to their technical qualities

AFAIK Pascal is C and Algol 68 is C++

people used Pascal because the compiler was blazing fast, it was easier to implement and learn and the features it lacked against Algol did not really matter most of the time (at the time)

More features doesn't automatically means "better"

Also Pascal had quite strong technical qualities, not very common among other contemporary languages

edit: can I ask the reason for the downvote? I would really like to hear an opinion on what Pascal did wrong, having used it extensively in the late 80s until the end of the 90s and why my comment was awarded with a negative score.
tags and filtering
Well, that's exactly what I mean. They should make sure their tools cannot be used to do that!
Would you trust the CryoEM structures more?
The iPad Pro is no longer the future, so what's next?
I think I recall reading a paper a while back on free divers that showed there was damage being done to the brain even though it wasn't immediately apparent. Similar to how lots of small brain impacts add up in football players.
It takes them longer to write the wrong code than it takes me to look at it and tell them where it's wrong.

And yes, reviewing code is part of my job. And the reason it's part of my job is that people who get hired as programmers are often very bad at not making obvious mistakes.
So the way I do seems to stop before the bitter notes.

Thanks for the correction. Nice chart too
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Yup, I pasted in the wrong link!

https://chatgpt.com/share/e92bf633-4815-45bc-8ae9-9068fe257d...
> And you end up left with only mediocre devs who just want to take the salary and be home by 5pm because they care far more about their family/hobbies/life more than the quality of the app they're building at work.

I think it's amazing that in your mind this is a negative thing.
Yep. It's genuinely shocking to me that people lack the critical thinking ability to recognize that oil extraction is a function of society as a whole. Oil companies are the ones who get their hands dirty, but society as a whole benefits and encourages the oil extraction. Take factory farming as another example - you can blame the factory farms, but good luck telling the average American they'll have to pay 3x as much for chicken and hamburgers because the animals were treated well.
Ironically, this article highlights multiple times how successful Microsoft has been at boosting efficiency within the oil and gas industry that it's nearly an advertisement for Microsoft.
It's a term that is commonly used in computer science education to refer to any data type independent of its concrete implementation (so, basically, its interface.) I don't think it's just restricted to Modula-2?
Generally, it was "personality fit."

Being self-centered, dishonest, not taking responsibility, blaming others, etc.

Each person had to be very reliable, and that included admitting challenges, and asking for help, as long as it wasn't asking all the time.

Selfishness, where they would not compromise for the team, was a dealbreaker.

I gave each of my engineers a great deal of agency, and expected them to deliver, as opposed to having to ride them. They were grown-ups, and I needed them to act as if they were.

Personal Integrity and Honesty was a big deal for me, as was a sense of accountability.

Most managers "cop out," and only hire people that "fit the culture."

The problem is that homogeneity breeds mediocrity. If you want good, innovative stuff, you need to hire and manage people that don't "fit the mold." That's a challenge.

Everyone seems to get caught up on technical merit, but a good tech can generally be trained to do anything. During my tenure (almost 27 years, 25, as a manager), we went through many iterations of technology, programming languages, etc.

When we want a good, heterogeneous team, we need to hire for team cohesiveness, as well as technical merit. Almost no one we hired was able to just do the job, out of the starting gate. The tech was too specialized. We needed people that could be trained, and that would stay around (When they rolled up my team, the person with the least tenure had a decade).
my apartment used to have a second bedroom, when it was 'opened up' into the living room, we used a sofa extending 'out' from the wall to separate the room

the hardest part was finding a sofa where the back wasn't just a void or some scrap fabrics
> Doesn't seem to be a problem

I'm almost certain any amount of oxygen deprivation is damaging to the brain. If there were studies that showed conclusions to the contrary, I'd be very curious to read them.
Good lord no. If that were the case, my emergency contacts would be getting called at least once a week on my drive to work. However, seems reasonable to have that as an option.

Unfortunately, like many people have already mentioned, the software coming out for these things is usually trash and who knows how well an autocall feature would even work. I actually ran into this exact bug and wound up disabling the phone connection to preserve the battery.
OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography
Pick Two.

A. A day is divided into a fixed number of smaller units.
B. Each smaller time unit is of a fixed physical duration.
C. The day cycle corresponds to the cycle of the solar day on Earth.

TAI picks A and B, allowing the solar cycle to drift from the time.

UTC picks B and C, adding leap seconds to keep track with Earth's solar day cycle.

UT1 picks A and C, redefining the "second" to the changing rate of earth's solar day cycle.
@goggins would agree
Something about this makes me cringe. Not sure exactly what. I think it's the idea of "iterate fast and build awesome software" as it pertains to high integrity systems.

You don't iterate fast or slow when dealing with this shit. You do it at the exact speed you need to to fully understand the domain, failure modes, validation processes, etc. Similarly, you don't write "awesome software", you write exactly what is needed -- nothing more, nothing less, and what is there needs to go bang every time.

There is no reason to believe an enthusiastic day-tripper who starts getting bored when the grueling FMEA, design validation, etc. starts to kick in is a better choice than the salaryman who's prepared to do what needs to be done for the next 10+ years of the product lifecycle.

I say this as somebody that worked on an unreleased product that was on the cusp of safety critical and am glad that it didn't go to production in hindsight. It desperately needed less "awesome" software and a lot more "paperwork".
Maybe my point didn't come across properly. Me personally, I prefer to keep the org complexity down and externalize some headcaches if I can. Having to also manage hardware, people that manage this hardware and not being able to keep other people liable for a given SLA. It's just yet another thing that other companies are really good at and for me it's just not worth it to do on our own. If I don't really need it, why would I? And again, there are more costs associated with this approach than just infra vs hardware + people costs.

Granted, I'm never using edge/runner stuff and choosing the stack from the get go as something performant. I'm also talking about headcount < 100, which I also prefer to stay that way.

In short: it's not the background (I'm not the one directly managing hardware anyway!), but the upside is not enough for the risk, costs and headaches in general. You need to have a real good use case to do CoLo/DC. If you build web software, you probably don't need it.
I don't know why people don't know this, but you can just use GObject.
I beg to differ, after Modula-2 and Object Pascal (Apple designed it with Wirth's feedback).

Most of his languages ended up losing, because they weren't being shipped with a free beer OS, coupled with a free beer compiler.
> If the general population started eating hunted meat, vast agricultural areas would be returned to nature, giving a slight offset to that problem.

I don't think the math works here. There isn't enough agricultural area on the planet to sustainably generate enough hunted Calories for the general population.
One should avoid this. It damages the brain. Better is just pure meditation where you can reach bliss states pretty fast once you can get access concentration.
There is also a fedora-bootc

registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bootc:latest
I remember seeing this on HN a few months ago! Looks pretty badass. I plan to play around with it when I get some time. I love Ruby, and have long loved the idea of a WM/desktop in Ruby. A friend of mine is diehard Xmonad user and the power of being able to write code to extend the WM is fascinating.

Also just wanted to let you know that I sent you an email. Don't feel obligated to respond or anything, just wanted to let you know because I sometimes get emails from people on HN but they go to an inbox I don't often check so I often don't see them until long after unless they tell me in a comment that they emailed me.
Insulation plus the power of endothermy can do a lot.
I know causation isn't correlation but all you have to do is look around and see that given more opportunities? people take advantage of others.

AKA: more "criminals".

"the only reason you're not killing your neighbor" thats a bit extreme but... yes.

"you can't pretend it's logical rational" Of course I can.

One, it is logical/rational - it's the same reason why people smoke less when you raise taxes on cigs. If it costs more? people will do it less. That cost might be taxes... or possible repercussions. Public shunning. Jailtime. Death penalty. You can pick your topic and if we look at push back against "bad" then the result is less bad.

Two, who says humans are logical/rational? We aren't that far out of the animal stage... we can pretend that we aren't driven by base emotions and the like. Humans are more often than not illogical and irrational. Making stupid decisions. IE: Gambling, drinking, drugs, cheating, etc.

So it's absolute defensible that more police (or, at a baser level, more consequences and more visibility of those consequences for bad decisions) results in less crime (or bad decisions). It's also absolutely defensible that humans are not rational/logical.
The back of the neck and the wrists are the points where you get a bigger cool down effect if you put them under a cold water stream in summer. I think every runner or cyclist know that. A good amount of blood circulates close to the skin there so it's easy to cool. Blood circulation does the rest of the job.
Absolutely. But I can pay someone else to do one specific part very good, so I don't need to manage and hire for that department. I really don't see a use case to do CoLo or DC. Even at ahrefs scale, they probably have a lot more they can optimize before you start going down that avenue.
Yeah, but the annoying part of Java is that people stick with old versions for a long time. Java 21 looks pretty great but most companies are still using Java 17, or even Java 11 still.
Apple has had long review times for all sorts of reasons with all types of apps, from games to this app. This isn't unusual for them.
Context for the article: https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.html#dont-...

"We believe developers and users should have the flexibility to use our services as they see fit, so long as they comply with our usage policies. We're exploring whether we can responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts through the API and ChatGPT. We look forward to better understanding user and societal expectations of model behavior in this area."
- i'd argue that a tool like this could become indispensable by enhancing the productivity of internet users who spend significant amounts of time completing online tasks (remote workers), and browsing for information, such as researchers, journalists, or academics

- the tool has the potential to act as a single point of interaction that enhances other online tools and services

- and it's pretty cool and convenient having your own "Jarvis" on the browser

- Regarding monetization, adopting a hybrid model could indeed be beneficial. Starting with a freemium model to build user trust and demonstrate value, followed by premium features for power users, could be a strategic approach

I'll look into giving out free licenses in my next post

btw love the feedback, much appreciated
In politics and law speech is not spoken words only. You seemed to understand this when you brought up written words.

The statute making visual child pornography extra illegal was limited to visual media. The reasons the statute held up in court were not.

There is precedent for Australia limiting written and spoken words.
I _REALLY_ enjoyed reading this. Great story. Please write more stuff GrumpyOldDev!
Indeed, however CLU and Modula-2 were the ones used mostly for practical teaching purposes, until ML became widespread enough for ADT to gain yet another meaning.
IBM is not the government. And those circumstances are fairly narrow, reserved for situation where a company explicitly discriminated against applicants in the immediate past. And not the "systemic" kind of discrimination, like requiring a college degree. But explicitly refusing to hire people of a particular group.