skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diner coffee is something I appreciate as a separate category, you can consume several refills of without feeling it much. I don't love it like e.g. local medium roasted coffee, but it's pleasant.
Just think what kind of psychopath you'd have to be to demand everyone cancel their Christmas holidays. I honestly think at that point they should have all just quit, and let the project fail to shine a light on the utter failure of the CTO.
Bait shop on one side, sushi shop on the other! As a friend likes to say.
> we can all aspire to work in a company where people wouldn't be outright lying, nor feel that they needed to.

I think you should consider this might be antithetical to the very concept of a company - although don't misunderstand me to mean I think all companies are "dishonest" (even if many are).

"Working" in a "company" implying making some profit, usually implies something proprietary, which implies some secret, or with-holding of information/resources. So then, most, if not all companies, function off of scarcity-of-information/resources, and probably wouldn't be successful without.

Withholding of information or resources, is awfully close to the next step i.e. "lying". In fact, it is frequently requisite to "lie" i.e. tell half-truths in order to conceal/confuse/distort whereabouts, processes, etc. So while the stated goal of many companies may be transparency, this is actually incompatible with their own goals in many ways. And so this can be seen repeated internally, where "resources" usually imply "promotions", "sales leads", "job responsibilities".

This may explain why nearly every company seems to slowly become worse over time...
> Mismatched brackets seems like a lower-level job - better done by a linter, not an LLM.

Mismatched brackets is not any /job/. And /matched/ brackets are part of the job this LMM claimed to do. Writing runnable code.
Even if you take "neighbor" literally as adjacent and so do not care to include Yemen or Sudan, then consider the death rate of Syria. 300 thousand civilians dead and counting. 3,000 Palestinians massacred in the Yarmouk Camp Siege. Ugly, that.

You will no doubt be relieved to know that Israel is not the #1 killer of Muslims by any measure, neither now nor in the past. Armed with this new information, you will no doubt become a prominent anti-Assad and -ISIL activist, organizing marches through the streets, calling for a ceasefire?
Underrated is ordering SLS parts from a printer, like on CraftCloud. You can get small functional nylon parts made for $2 + shipping.

Modeling things has always been the biggest friction point. Not easy to make CAD interfaces easier. Part files from the manufacturer would be nice.
I propose a different metric, version points: subtract version number of the currently used library from the version number of the latest version. Translate to semver first if possible. Also, a release addressing a CVE adds extra ten million points.
Yeah I know, we just don't use Java 21 at work yet. I'm super excited for that update, and it actually looks like we will be transitioning to that by the end of the year, but I haven't had a chance to play with it just yet.

I do find it a little annoying that it's taken so long for Java to get a feature that, in my opinion, was so clearly useful; it feels like they were about a decade later on this than they should have been, but I'll take whatever victories I can get.
That might have been my misunderstanding. I had a (PhD) friend doing research for BT in the mid 90s in DSL technology (which hadn't been invented then, it was ISDN only) at Lancaster University UK, and he told me it was using shielding. Perhaps I've got it confused with a competing technology he was looking at at the time.
One issue with confusing laws with ethics: We forget that lines are best drawn between doing harm and not.
This is a beautifully done art project, but it's curious how relevant comparisons made are to reality. The handle could be easily made of tubes for massive weight reduction and potentially improved rigidity, for example.

It seems the idea is to take an existing umbrella, reproduce it faithfully in different materials, and then comparing results: like right-clicking an umbrella_object displayed on a 3D modeling tool and changing texture bitmaps. I suppose justification to that is it has to be apples to apples comparison.

But that's not how objects are manufactured in the real world: Parts are designed for specific materials and means of fabrication.
Replicating existing man-made object with a manufacturing method the object was not intended to be manufactured with leads to subpar results. If I'm making something out of carbon fiber, I'd try to minimize numbers of screw holes. If it's to be made of aluminum, I'd avoid repeated stresses, but if it's to be made of steel, flexure joints becomes an option. If I'm 3D printing something, I'd try to minimize overhangs below 45 degrees. If I'm designing for injection molding, I'd avoid wide flat surfaces and abrupt changes in cross sections. If I'm milling something, I'd repeatedly check for tool clearances, try to minimize amounts removed(which may result in thicker walls), and avoid complex curves as I design it.

I'm not going to take an J-shaped umbrella grip and instruct a factory worker to EDM it out of pre-tempered glass block. Even if I managed to have it done, and if it ended up weighing as much as a steel handle, that won't tell much about viability of glass-framed umbrella in general.
>Those who punished you for no reason and for ill-will will receive their reward, even if you never see it happen.

Your comment sounds very nice.

However, when that punishment you receive is losing your job and you have to feed and house yourself (and maybe a family!), there is no solace to be had in they hypothetical divine justice you speak of.
> This might be a controversial opinion, but to me it seems kinda petty to remove your answers from SO to stop open-ai from improving their models.

It’s reminiscent of Reddit moderators trying to shut down their subreddits in protest recently.

At the time they thought they were doing what everybody wanted, forcing Reddit executives to bend to their will, and taking control of the platform.

In reality, the only people who were inconvenienced were the users who couldn’t get info they needed for a few weeks. The vast majority of people didn’t care about the issue because they didn’t use 3rd party clients (especially those who were casual users, unlike the power mods). A few months later the protests are all but forgotten and the sentiment has shifted so far that Reddit mods are viewed as the villains most of the time.

Six months from now, I bet this protest will also be forgotten. When people click on Google links to Stack Overflow and find the key answer missing, the villain will be the SO user who threw a tantrum and deleted their post, with the original drama being long forgotten.
The encapsulate direct access to those resource and therefore allow a properly controlled lifecycle because usage is then local and cleanup in case of errors is automatic. The caller pretty much can't do anything wrong. No linear types or indexed monads needed actually.
Is this equal to Azure Durable Functions?
First wild animal seen using medicinal plant
More choice in hardware. More flexibility in hardware. UI preferences. You can't get a Mac 2 in 1 or a Mac foldable or a Mac gaming notebook or a Mac that weighs less than a kilogram. You can't get a Mac with an OLED screen or a numpad. Some people just prefer the Windows UI too. I usually use Linux but between MacOS and Windows, I prefer the latter.
Eurovision 2024
+1, and I imagine Apple does not care to regulate the interactions of an app with a physical device.
The carrier argument is bogus because other companies, e.g. Samsung, also sell unlocked phones.
The Dell Outlet was where I bought my refurbished laptop. I'm not weighing in about relative merits of specific models, just that refurbished is a good way to go because it's cheaper and reduces demand for rip-the-stickers-off-myself new models.
Kind of surprises me that something this easy to replicate and this pervasive (200+ instances is a lot of instances when you consider the size of the user pool) got through the testing. Would be interested to see what the FDA makes them do as corrective action and a breakdown of how this got into production code.
Cool project but please delete it. You’re taking the fun part out from bouldering and just leaving us the labour ;)

Edit: apprently I wasnt the first to make this joke. I emphasise that this is Really a cool project. Great job!
They're tracking different related things. I run a startup in this space and we track: aggregate libyear of your direct dependencies; total # of direct dependencies with libyear > 2; # of direct dependencies at least one major version behind; dependencies that have been abandoned by the maintainer.

I think the top-line aggregate libyear number is helpful to monitor over time to get a general sense of the slope of your technical debt. If the number is trending upwards then your situation is getting worse and you're increasing the chance you find yourself in an emergency (i.e., a CVE comes out and you're on an unsupported release line and need to go up major versions to take the patch).

Tracking total # of major versions behind gets at the same thing but it's less informative. If you're on v1 of some package that has a v2 but is actively releasing patches for the v1 line that should be a lower priority upgrade than some other package where your v1 line hasn't had a release in 5 years.
Graph Neural Network Approach to Semantic Type Detection in Tables
Oh, THAT's pretty? I give you the Manument: https://manument.com/en/manument-leva-machine

Well. Not GIVE. It's $20K.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-163-157-141...
They do exist, temporarily, in the space of 10 to 50 employees, and are often led by people who have been burnt in the past.
Fundamental Math for Game Developers
I use a Dexcom Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor that pairs with this pump (I don't use the pump). And honestly, this is not surprising. The software quality in this space seems really low. I don't understand why some single-developer Mastodon client app can absolutely reliably get notifications to my watch but Dexcom can't. Even on the phone, the app cannot get alerts right at all, sometimes stacking them over an hour or more, but getting the current value for the alert, so you can get like five in a row (ALERT YOUR BLOOD SUGAR IS IN RANGE).

It's kinda terrifying to be honest.
So basically they’re saying their new young users don’t have money because the economy is screwing them over, so they can only reduce prices.
Well... If you have to monitor the workers physical location, then you can't measure productivity, right?

So, you want people in offices for side city-business (human animal intensive farming) but since you know they work equally from remote or in an office you have to check their compliance because your target are urban side business not work productivity, right?

It's perfectly legit, only... You need to find people who agree being farmed like cattle, otherwise you'll get more and more desperate mediocre workers and well, some competitors will eat you a step at a time.
Food for Fish
A parens is a token, last time I looked.

And even Wikipedia agrees.
This is great! I'm also a knitter, and I really like putting together little programs to help me design or write out patterns. My favourite so far has been an Elixir Livebook notebook I made to design a scarf for my partner. It outputs row counts and an image of what the end result will look like: https://put.bo0tzz.me/s/30iu0n2k.png
The (messy) livebook code is here for whoever is interested: https://gist.github.com/bo0tzz/eb7818f7db3542ec540965252a344...

Another program I made (and unfortunately lost) was one to generate bespoke sock sizings (and corresponding pattern instructions) from measurements I put in.
DiffMOT: Real-Time Diffusion-Based Multiple Object Tracker
You could broadcast a leap minute with a decade to prepare for it and most software would still be developed, used, and die off in the 90 years in between. It's better for 15% of relevant software to have to worry about something so consequentially minor than 100%.
I know about nanoimprint lithography, but it's not a viable alternative for most commercial uses, at least not yet. Maybe one day...
I use apps for CGMs and I've gotta say, I'm not sure they are tested on anyone before they are release. They are absolute garbage.
Show HN: API for Human Motion Capture
Hey, we have an iphone app [1] that turns video into 3d motion data. We're now launching an API that does the same. The API makes it suitable for integration into apps / platforms - we'd love to hear about your use cases so feel free to get in touch. Details and quickstart are at the url. More demos / details etc. on our web site. [2]

We're not quite ready for full self serve, but you can request an API key via this form. [3]

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/move-one/id6448635527
[2] https://www.move.ai/
[3] https://www.move.ai/api
Has Generative AI Already Peaked? [video]
Yeah, when I first learned Haskell a million years ago, and Erlang slightly less than a million years ago, the pattern matching was so plainly obviously the "correct" way to do things; it just felt like it was exactly how I thought about problems, and all the constructs with if/switch/enums had been an attempt to force my brain thinking into something that executes.

It honestly does annoy me that a lot of mainstream languages still haven't really adopted ADTs; when Java 8 added a lot of (well-needed) new syntax, it felt like that was an ideal opportunity to add ADTs and pattern matching (though I'm sure that was easier said than done).
We had a family of muskrat come live in our pond a number of years ago. It took a while to realize they were there: "wtf is that thing swimming around in the pond that's not a duck or a bear?" They dug a pretty serious hole in the bank that was risking draining the pond. Haven't seen one since though.
I've never written Swift, but it seems like they have it too https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

I also would love a future where ADTs are more common in imperative languages
"My predecessors did it" is not moral reasoning.
> Because empathy being applied to other species is an evolutionary bug, not a feature

I hope our eventual AI overlords do not feel similarly.
New UUID formats have been approved
Forgive me, I struggle with reading (attention) so I tend to skim… but from what I picked up, this vaguely sounds similar to a situation that lost Title Source a $700M lawsuit over intellectual property. Became intimately familiar with the vendor product, and used the same team to re-write a competing (replacement) product that was then sold to the client? Is that right? I wonder what kind of stipulations for use / re-work existed in that contract.
Smartphones provide a very easy and reliable way to have people interface with such devices. It can be done right, but you have to be careful. I'd rather that medical device manufacturers use well-known frameworks and technologies with almost two decades of engineering and UX improvements behind them than the alternative, which is them using some sort of slapdash in-house solution that will almost certainly be worse.
Arbitrary Recursion TicTacToe [video]
I think it's def possible to recover. It's at the very least worth trying, research high-dose niacin (gram dosages) and Dmitry Kats.
In the workflow example, is ` Purchaser.purchase` supposed to be `do_purchase`?
>a lack of cruelty

But doesn't this depend upon your definition of cruelty? I've seen vegans who define raising an animal for the purpose of eating it to be inherently cruel, even if it doesn't suffer any negative treatment until the day it is killed to be eaten.

Even this is just going with common enough definitions found in modern society. If we expand our scope of what ethics and what views of cruelty are allowed, there is no end to what results we see.
`the previous tokens are absolutely needed before predicting the next token'

Maybe this is the key contribution of this paper: demonstrating that LLMs can predict the next n-tokens even if there are incorrect guesses in previous tokens through consistency training?

On the other hand, while mathematically it is true that p(x_t|x_1,...,x_t-1) depends on all x_1 to x_t-1, in practice, it is possible that predicting x_t only requires x_1 to x_t-2, and the attention to x_t-1 is minimal. Thus, predicting x_t with x_1 to x_t-2 and inaccurate x_t-1 is possible.
> The drift (a second every ~1.5 years) is so small the accumulation is irrelevant to biological processes.

It is irrelevant until it is not: just ask Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII.

> Beyond "what people millennia ago used to do at 7 we do at when the clock says 8" not being a problem […]

The difference of an hour does make a difference, as sleep researchers and chronobiologists keep pointing out every time a discussion on DST comes up (it is not just about the sudden time jump, but also about the actual time):

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

* https://sleepresearchsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/...

* https://srbr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SRBR-Statement-o...

* http://www.chronobiocanada.com/official-statements
AMD's product pages say yes with motherboard support or no.[1]

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/product/12741
I would be fine with it if the ‚AI’ in question was free and bonus if open source.

However it is a product of a next monolithic behemoth company that earns money on it and I suspect has nefarious motives to make profit.

That’s the whole key thing for me that makes me feel scammed. That and not asking for permission.

Future true AI would be potentially bigger than nuclear fission with all the consequences. Handling this in a petty capitalistic way makes me think the outcome will be close to fallout games that were supposed to be only an exaggeration.

Those companies must stop behaving like thieves. In fact it is a literal theft.
Sentry on Sentry: How Metrics saved us $160K
Yeah, seriously, the in-house solution would just be an old android phone with a 500% markup rate anyway,
> The claim I've heard is that you're essentially feeding your own knowledge for free into a proprietary system that can be used to generate cash for whatever corporation owns that system

Which is exactly how Stack Overflow has operated from day 1: You feed your knowledge into a system owned by someone else.

Also, it’s ridiculous to think that the answers haven’t already been scraped and cataloged every which way for AI training purposes.

The only people who suffer at this point are the people trying to use Stack Overflow. Deleting posts now is an own goal. People will see the information missing from Stack Overflow and switch to asking ChatGPT.
I took zero offense from his comment; its spirit was clear. I agree with him: it is ridiculous that were are frolicking in this rotted carcass of a thread.
The symptoms sound exactly the same as my mid-30s unvaxed long-COVID friend.
Bitsquatting – DNS Hijacking without Exploitation [pdf]
Is C# generally faster or more efficient here?

Forgive my ignorance, but I always figured Python just doesn't scale well for this use case.
> A leap minute every few centuries makes much more sense than a leap second every few years. We have until our great-great-grandchildren to prepare.

People can't get the regular changes of DST and February 29 correct, and you want them to get a one-off change right?

I'd rather 'inflict' change (semi-)regularly so people at least try to get things right and get some practice, as opposed to a Hail Mary pass/change in some distance future.
The Value of Nothing: Capital versus Growth (2021)
> slapdash in-house solution that will almost certainly be worse.

Truly libelous shilling for the app store.
You tried the very first iteration of an LLM-based chat assistant, were unsatisfied with it because it couldn't match Lisp parentheses, and went on to form an opinion about the value of these tools and implicitly the intelligence of the people who use them. That speaks more to your preconceptions than it does to the state of better tools like Copilot or GPT-4.

You didn't label it (which, btw, is a faux pas), but it's obvious from your replies that this wasn't an Ask HN, it was a Tell HN. You have absolutely no interest in what the rest of us have to say.

Nevertheless, I'll try once more for luck: Basing your opinions about LLMs on your experience with GPT-3.5 is a mistake. If you don't want to use LLMs at all because you have preconceptions, that's fine, but don't pretend that you've sampled LLMs and found them lacking for professional coding when you haven't tried the professional tools.
Not necessarily "equal" but the basic premise is the same, yes, and there is a common lineage. Azure Durable Functions sits on Azure Durable Task Framework which was created by the co-founder of Temporal (https://temporal.io/about).

(disclaimer, I'm the author of the post)
Opinions-
My tolerance for ads in streaming stops after PBS, with their 30s spot promoting PBS content- I'm fine with that. The PBS series Nature is wonderful.
Watching TV is a luxury I am generally happy without, and when I do want to watch something I get it from the public library, or I ride out the wave of desire until it subsides.
This is yet another reason to not subscribe to or otherwise buy stuff from Amazon. Ads are fine, as a way to pay for all the costs associated with making and distributing media, I get it. It's just not for me, and if anything my point is that it's okay to go without all the things we want.
NnScaler converts models designed for one GPU to run concurrently on multiple
I am using moonshot ai they cliamed to have a 2m context window
The corrective action is the software fix (it's already out as 2.7.1).

It's the preventative action that would be interesting, but we probably won't see that.

The specific recall action in the FDA database is here: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRES/res...

It simply says "Software Design Change" as FDA determined root cause... so super vague.

EDIT: Although the root cause might be software, it's possible that they did detect the crashing during testing, but did not characterize it fully, and/or missed a step in their risk assessment analysis to determine that it may impact battery life and therefore have risk of harm to life.
Malloy: An Experimental Language for Data [video]
Waiting for the PRs renaming any `deadline` variable because it's potentially triggering to some "concerned parties"
Thanks.

My prompt followed all the best practice offered there. However that practice appears to assume program generation not translation.
Can we just agree to let people input any number of digits with a mandatory '+' prefix? I feel like this should eliminate the vast majority of mistakes.
Is anyone surprised that part of the problem was MongoDB? (Or that replacing it wasn’t hard?)
This site promotes ivermectin. It is a site for cranks and frauds. Stay away from the right wing crazy, folks.
Cause storms do?
Does anyone remember the "Personal Cooling System" sold in the Sharper Image catalogue in the late 90s / early 00s?
That's what it currently is. Omnipod used to/still provides some kind of rebadged Android device.

Zoll was shipping various Android handsets with the bootloader unlocked and a custom APK built to take over the device to act as a 'hotspot' for their defibrillator vests to provide remote telemetry.

https://www.maxx.ca/Event/LotDetails/412535278/ZOLL-LIFE-VES... (photo's buried in the listing -- that's a Moto G4 Play. If anyone's curious, the APK was called... com.lifevest.zuul. I was amused.)
I'm going to make a new religion with remote work being a key tenet