skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good work management tooling (including some smart algorithms) can allow individual managers to handle a lot more people and larger projects.

At the extreme end of this, you have places like ride share and amazon delivery drivers where there may not be an actual manager!
Just to show that these bets are not without risk, the Sears bet failed bigtime. Lampert lost a ton of money.
How to Retrieve WiFi Password on Windows
For society to continue existing, which let’s say is axiomatically desirable, on average each person must reproduce themselves. Those kids, moreover, must be raised and socialized into the rules of the society, which requires labor. By having kids, therefore, you’re performing a function that enables society to keep existing. It’s a contribution to society in kind, similar to how taxes are a contribution to society in money. Someone who doesn’t play their part in that is selfish, in the same way as someone who doesn’t pay taxes or perform other obligations that enable society to exist.
> Some UUID implementations, such as those found in Python and Microsoft, will output UUID with the string format, including dashes, enclosed in curly braces.

No … Python doesn't emit them enclosed in curly braces?

>>> str(uuid.uuid4())
'593a2ffb-eafc-484a-9a90-93bc91805651'
Live now,

OpenAI Spring Update (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40343950
...but you repeat yourself
(I was just highlighting how ambiguous "opposite" is there)
https://archive.ph/h2U63
Yes, but... if existing holders don't believe in the valuation they are free to become marginal sellers.

(N.b. I'm personally staying away from meme stocks)
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend you incentivize people to meet with you unless you know they are your target (i.e. you have defined ICPs).
Influence implies causation, and hence the opposite of randomness. I see randomness vs. determinism similar to a parallelogram of forces. Every behavior can be divided into a deterministic component and a randomness component. But that’s the only two components there are. And free will doesn’t fare better with the randomness component than with the deterministic component. Randomness means you are subject to an arbitrary choice. Influence is a causation arrow from you to the thing you influence (like a choice you make). But it says nothing about the arrows pointing to you.
> UUIDv7 features a time-ordered value field derived from the widely implemented and well-known Unix Epoch timestamp source, the number of milliseconds since midnight 1 Jan 1970 UTC, leap seconds excluded.

That seems like a rather vague way of addressing leap seconds for UUIDv7. For positive leap seconds, an 'exclusion' of that second would suggest that the millisecond counter is halted until the leap second is over, which doesn't seem ideal for monotonicity. And an 'exclusion' of a negative leap second hardly makes any conventional sense at all, with regard to the millisecond counter.

Contrast with the timestamp of UUIDv1/v6, where positive leap seconds can just be handled by incrementing the clock sequence.
I think that’s called a “cruise missile”.
Sure, that’s why I called it out as human preference data. But I still think the leaderboard is one of the best ways to compare models that we currently have.

If you know of better benchmark-based leaderboards where the data hasn’t polluted the training datasets, I’d love to see them, but just giving up on everything isn’t a good option.

The leaderboard is a good starting point to find models worth testing, which can then be painstakingly tested for a particular use case.
Clothes still exist that are adjustable, I buy them often.

You just won't find them in Primark for £6.

You could never get good quality clothes for less than an hour of working class wages, it doesn't make sense because they take more than an hour's labour to produce.
Wow, what a different in perspective. I've met maybe a few people period that have at least mentioned that they've ever used AI tools (ever) in their personal lives, frequency be damned. Maybe you're just a lot more insistent in weaving in questions about using AI tools in daily conversation.

At work setting in a tech company, there seems to be a handful that are very in love with AI, a bunch that use it here or there, and a large majority that (at least publically) don't even use it. It's be interesting to see what company enforced spyware would say about ai uptake though for real.
DDR5x isn't a thing. LPDDR memories and DDR memories have a significant differences in how the interface works; LPDDR isn't just a low-voltage version of DDR, and it's mostly coincidental that the generation numbering lines up (as opposed to DDR vs GDDR generation numbering).
Yeah, I had to drop out of school and work fulltime from 15 to support my family.

It's an absolutely devastating burden. I am currently in the top 1% of my socioeconomic cohort but I'd trade all that hard work, effort and application of intelligence over 20 years to have started in a slightly better cohort.

I've mostly untangled myself from that period of life but it's taken far more work, self discipline, sacrifice and willingness to live in degradation and homelessness just to sidle up to an easy peasy upper middle class peer group.
"It is possible that the "50+ hours" is not accurately counted." Furthermore, what do those hours entail and how is 'care' quantified? It could drastically change how those hours are tallied.

Are we talking strictly changing sheets, assisting with a bed-pan, medication administration? Or 'softer' tasks like enrichment/entertainment and quality family time.

Do those hours also include emotional toll it takes on a person to constantly straddle the line between family member and caregiver? It's like secondary school coursework: for every hour spent draining catheter bags, suctioning tracheotomy tubes, or administering nutrients through a feeding tube (Jevity Plus smells like death, ask me how I know), there thrice that many hours spent toiling and dealing with the emotional fallout of "protecting your protector".

All that to say, as meaningful as it is to try and collect this data, I would posit that there is no true way to quantify the full breadth of the reality that many people live day in and day out. I, for one, have been forever impacted by my upbringing that included immense amount of caregiving.
At the end of my post, I specifically said:

> I don’t believe Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in the West Bank.

And any charges of Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is for conduct after oct 7.

> What army on earth gives their enemy advance warning before attacking?

I don’t know, probably most. But that is no excuse for a genocide. There is no exemptions for international humanitarian laws if you issue a warning before committing the crime.

> You can't attack a solider with a lethal weapon and not expect them to attack back.

Molotov cocktails are lethal the same way tear gas is lethal. Against a soldier in full riot gear, it is hardly lethal at all. But in fact, I would expect most solders not to kill a teenager throwing a Molotov at them. If a kid throws a Molotov cocktail at a soldier and that soldier reacted by killing that teenager, I would expect that soldier to be charged for a crime and go to prison for killing a non-combatant.
A new "flagship" model with no improvement of intelligence, very disappointed. Maybe this is a strategy for them to mass collect "live" data before they're left behind by Google/Twitter live data...
Can you please make your app available in the UK for Android? I'm blocked from installing it from the Play Store.
High G is one limitation of human pilots. The added mass and aerodynamic compromises needed for human operation are another. Pilot fatigue is yet another. Training cost is probably the greatest problem. Pilot shortages has to be in the list somewhere as well. This solves a lot of problems.
You make a good point.

BTW: For all this "damage" to the code to have happened and only being spotted after the dev left... How was this able to occur?

(I assume no code reviews? Lots of solo programming?)
Space Junk Removal Is Not Going Smoothly (2021)
> Spammers probably aren't going to update their tools to take into account every possible way every site obfuscates their email addresses

But this is also sort of a security through obscurity approach, if enough people adopt one of these methods of obfuscation then the spammers absolutely will change their tools.
Here’s something most cars can do: if the power is cut off, I can still open the car door without having to pry off a speaker from the door and fish for an unlabeled release cord. There’s just a handle on the door, the same one I use to open the door normally.

Another thing I can do is switch between reverse and drive with two distinct physical buttons that are pushed in different directions, instead of a touchscreen.

This extra engineering to make cars “more sleek” (i.e. cheaper for Tesla to manufacture) make it more dangerous for everyone inside the car.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_jo/GUID-AAD769C...

[2] https://nypost.com/2024/03/09/us-news/angela-chao-made-panic...
OpenAI launches new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT
Back in the day, the Aztec C development environment provided a "shell" experience for development.

Essentially, you coded in vi, you used make, had the basic shell commands (notably ls, cat, mv, cp). I can't speak to it much deeper than that. I used it for some time, but I had no Unix experience, so I can't say what was missing.

I'm sure, today, if I tried to work on it like a would a normal Unix environment, even a limited one, I would run smack into some deficiency. For example, I doubt you can shell out in vi, something that is bread and butter in my toolbox and workflow.

But, it was a very early (1985) "Unix on Mac" experience.
For hash functions, maybe not anymore, given the birthday paradox/pigeon-hole principle and other math problems in bucketing inputs versus the attack patterns for breaking hash functions and causing intentional collisions. For mostly purely random entropy in uses like UUID (and IPv6) the classic answer is that it is still more overall space than "atoms in the visible universe".
I think it's in reference to delegation 'wingman' and availability 'loyal'. I like the Russian word Sputnik for 'fellow traveller' but obviously that would not be appropriate for US weapons.
I'm not discounting what you do, but having to support a household as a child is materially different to what you do for your parents. It sounds like if you don't chip in - no one will go to bed hungry, and bills will still be paid.
There will not be any leap seconds after 2035, and very likely there will never be any negative leap seconds.
Roaring Kitty is back and so are meme stocks. GameStop and AMC surge like 2021
Freetrade, Britain's answer to Robinhood, says its CEO is stepping down
Adam Dodds, co-founder and long-serving CEO of British stock brokerage Freetrade, has resigned and will be succeeded by Viktor Nebehaj, the current COO, pending regulatory approval.

Dodds led Freetrade from its early startup phase to becoming an established player in the wealth management sector, boasting 1.4 million users.

Despite facing numerous challenges, including having to lay off 15% of its workforce in 2022 due to economic pressures, Freetrade recently reported its first profitable quarter. Dodds remains the largest individual shareholder with about a 12% stake and plans to continue supporting Freetrade externally.

Nebehaj, set to take over, is optimistic about the company's future, highlighting its first quarter of profit and a strong, sustainable business model.
We've rooted for that for years, but looking at what AMD does and doesn't do, I've lost hope for this. ĀMD don't seem to want to do what it takes; it's not that they're trying and failing, but they're simply not even committing to attempt to do the same things that nVidia does for their software infrastructure.
Depends on your problem domain. You can be Twitter/Discord sized and get away with 64 bits. When you start dedicating parts of your UUID to a timestamp the possibility of collisions does go way up since now a significant chunk of the UUID will be the same for everyone. But when you deploy this variant you aren't trying to make globally unique ids anymore, you're trying to make application unique ids. You are sill very unlikely to not also have a globally unique id because 128 bits gives a lot of room to play around.
Crazy how these days even the native Texan palm tree is in trouble.
What’s the reason for doing that? Can’t you host a static page for 5 dollars basically everywhere?

Even on expensive AWS it’s 5 dollars: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
That's already happened, look at how many have a pusher prop configuration to balance out all the electronics and sensor equipment going where the cockpit used to be.
No change in my hometown of Corvallis OR but plenty of change in the areas surrounding the Willamette Valley.
Not really. Buildout in less-developed areas tends to be done with newer equipment. (E.g., some areas in Africa never got a POTS network, but went straight to wireless.)
Assuming someone would take your word as gospel your amateur medical knowledge is probably worth more than most of your knowledge of engineering which just requires too much of a tech tree.

Maybe if you’re a gunsmith on the side or something.
Why would it not be good for society as a whole?
I interpreted it to mean the timer is monotonic and ignores leap seconds completely. It does make it easy to implement wrong if your most convenient time API does implement leap seconds. (I don’t see why this would have anything to do with the millisecond timer? Leap seconds happen on the second.)
Having been badly bitten by the timestamp equivalent of eating gum you scraped off the bottom of a desk just let me add that there is an implicit "if your time source is good/non-adversarial" assumption here.

Friends don't let friends use malicious clocks!
Tell HN: YC startups asks to work 6 days a week
Exhibit 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40225546

"Autotab (YC S23) | Founding Engineer | NYC | 6 days a week in the office"

"If you just want a job that pays the bills, I respect your decision, but you should not apply.
The hardest and most important problems won't be solved working 9-5, 5 days a week.

Nobody feels like they "have to" come in on Saturdays - we find purpose in our work, and see it as the main way we can have a meaningful impact. We enjoy working, learning and spending time together.

We would much rather spend 70 hours a week doing great work than clocking in for 40 hours a week.

Plus we do take Sundays off."

Exhibit 2: I worked in a YC startup for some time. At the end of the process, they said they work 6 days. I averaged 70-80 hours every week before leaving.

Exhibit 3: Another friend also worked in the exact same experience in another YC startup.

I think we should discourage these practices. Thoughts?
very recently, within a day of publishing an email on a footer of a page i got a phishing email that was not filtered by spam and looked very genuine
Good, Kind, Caring People Became the Bad Guys
That seems even better, it has all the negative connotations I wanted, while remaining punchy and alliterative.
The demoscene was an interesting social phenomenon where "street credit" from the graffiti scene was applied to math dorks. This created a competitive atmosphere that made you stay up late, reading CGPP, PC Intern, and Ferraro.
> But at what cost? How much should we sacrifice so that blueberries exist year round?

Look at the price tag on the blueberries. That is the cost.

The opportunity cost is that the money could have neen spent on something else.

The great thing about a free market is that if you think resources should be allocated elsewhere, you can do that. Your labor is your resource.

I find greenhouses to be wonderfully environmentally friendly, and do not understand why someone would object to them.
The F-16 was original meant to be cheap, not even having a radar. But by the time it reached production it had far more equipment and weight, for better or worse.

It's original designers thought we should have 10x the aircraft in the sky for the same price. This would result in more fighter pilot deaths, but, as callous as this sounds, maybe that's okay? I mean, it's funny how much expense will go towards saving the life of a fighter pilot while soldiers on the ground can't get proper armor on their vehicles.
Yep, was thinking the same thing. Climate change is also (at least partially) responsible for instability in the polar vortexes that shoot south more often now. Between Winter Storm Uri in Feb 2021 and "icemageddon" in Feb 2023 we lost a ton of plants and trees. We have a retaining wall in the back of our property and had a couple giant, cascading rosemary bushes that completely covered the wall - they were so pretty and always smelled amazing. I still get sad thinking about how Uri took those beauties out...
Drones already look different.

The basic design of wings sticking out from a pointy cylinder isn't going to change, because of aerodynamics.

But in the case of the Predator drone, for example, it didn't reduce the volume of the "cockpit" -- it expanded it into a big bulge to fit the satellite antenna and all of the sensors.
> It's not unique to GameStop, we also have a European chain called GAME which is the same.

I was interested, because I’ve never heard of them, yet I know of GAME in South Africa.

Looks [0] like GAME in UK is a UK-only chain, and GAME in SA is an eventually-owned-by-Walmart SA-only chain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_(disambiguation)#Brands_a...
Previous post about the version 1 of Agents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35889743

We've done a complete revamp of the package since then, with two goals in mind:
- clarity through simplicity: as few abstractions as possible, accessible prompts
- modularity: let you free to use any building block you want

We also added very performant ReAct agents, which allows to get a good rank on the GAIA Leaderboard, and even to beat GPT-4 based agents with a Llama-3-70B agent!

Agents 2.0 is compatible with LangChain tools out of the box, which should make it easy to insert in most agentic workflows.
Yes and no. In principle you could engineer something to support higher Gs but that is not a critical part of the performance envelope in modern combat and it comes at the cost of heavier weight and reduced weapons capacity. Since modern aerial combat is sensor-driven, you'd be better off with a lighter and less maneuverable airframe and larger weapon capacity. You can see this with the recent evolution of combat aircraft being converted into "missile trucks" with massive weapon stores that unavoidably hamper agility.
Missiles, which are essentially single use "unmanned combat air vehicles" don't hesitate to destroy whatever target they are shot at.

If these "loyal wingmen" only shoot when ordered to by a human, these can be seen as reusable missiles more than actual human wingmen.
The zucchini in the photograph are huge. I can understand that the farmers want them to grow large like that because they earn money by weight of their product.

If you pick them when they are half that size or smaller, they are way easier to cook with, require less work in the kitchen, and you have less food waste.

At that large size, the skin is very thick and not palatable, and the insides are filled with hundreds of large seeds that are also not enjoyable to deal with. Smaller zuchinni, picked not long after the skin has turned the dark green, have a thin skin and the seeds haven't really developed yet. You can eat the entire vegetable (except the stem) - just chop it up or slice it and use it in your cooking.

You have to wonder if Bangladeshi farmers could sell smaller zucchini as a premium product for a higher price and earn more money. Bangladesh may not be wealthy enough for that to work.
> it supposedly having been a proxy for an ideological battle

More than anything, it was a proxy for developing ICBMs and other space capabilities (e.g. satellites) for fighting the cold war.
Red Delicious are my least favorite. The skin is chewy and the fruit is mushy/mealy. I've never liked them.
I'm guessing what might really be happening is that functional code can be slow in Python. And Hy tends to encourage functional code where vanilla Python mostly discourages it.
It’s like a huge if in statement:

Forward-looking statements often contain words such as "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "aims," "plan," "believe," "could," "seek," "see," "will," "may," "would," "might," "considered," "potential," "estimate," "continue," "likely," "expect," "target"
The Art of Writing (1914)
Yes, that is the core PE playbook.

1. Acquire loan to buy company

2. Take money that was being spent on growth and use it to make the payments on the debt

3. Try to decrease operating costs while maintaining revenue or increase revenue while maintaining operating costs (or some combination)

4. Sell the company for more than you paid based on the improved profit margins

The key is finding a company who's still spending on growth but isn't really growing. If the company is actually still growing then you're going to have trouble making your money back if you cut growth activities (because your initial price would be higher due to implied growth in the future).

The challenge is in step three. Can you increase revenue or decrease operating costs without sacrificing too much goodwill? If you do too much to scare away suppliers or customers then step 4 is hard and the whole thing blows up.
A Wooden Map of North Carolina. (2015)
> UUIDv7 features a time-ordered value field derived from the widely implemented and well-known Unix Epoch timestamp source, the number of milliseconds

This just seems to be a way of creating a huge class of subtle bugs. Now, when two things happen to be created in the same millisecond, they may or may not be monotonically increasing.

Plenty of systems will end up accidentally depending on the ordering of the UUID's being the same order the UUID's were generated in. And that will hold true till the system hits production and suddenly there is enough load for that not to be true for a handful of records and the whole system fails.
GameStop soars after flag bearer 'Roaring Kitty' resurfaces
It's deceptive because the title is being used in a way that you would not guess without reading the article and suggests highly that it is referring to something completely different. "Mediocre success" is not a synonym for "ambiguous result" and in context most would assume it is referring to financial success.

The updated title is much better.
For real... My dad's still got his '97 Ranger (that I learned to drive on) and I told him that if he ever decides to sell it, I'll fly out and drive it back instead.
Which is it, things have always been the same amount of bad so it's not worth discussion, or things have been much worse and could again be much worse so preventing another bad period isn't worth discussion?
Is that whole site just LLM-generated crap? About the only thing that link has to do with "splinter-free toilet paper" is that those words exist in the post, and yet telling me nothing about the topic. I cross-checked another post (because everyone has a bad writing day), and yup, more of the same.
That whole community is really pathetic and depressing at this point. People with their entire life savings holding -80% bags that will never recover, spending their days obsessing over tea leaf divinations of their pending salvation. Please don't encourage this.
Was at the garden centre yesterday and on some plants over top the regular labels the store had put their own stickers on top:

“Not winter hardy in our new climate”

Kind of a “buyer beware” type thing for long time customers used to buying these plants that while previously dependable perennials now might not be.

Really disturbing stuff to see.