skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would that really be worse than North Korea? As dumb as it is, mutually assured destruction has worked so far.
In any discussion on this site or others about Agile, you will find a flurry of PM's rigorously defending it with the typical line of reasoning -

If you tried agile and it failed, it wasn't actually agile.
When you show how it was actually agile, you didn't do it right.
When you show you did it right - go back to argument 1. It's a really circular no true scotsman style of argument.

Obviously this "study" is not good or even really a study, but I think the general arguments it makes aren't tremendously out of line. I have been an IC on agile teams, an IC on more traditional teams that I guess would be called "waterfall," and I've been tasked with implementing a scrum process both as a team leader and as a PM in my career - I've personally never seen it work on Ops/Infrastructure teams. In fact, I'm convinced it can't. It's far too difficult to determine the scope of work, far too interrupt driven, far too difficult to measure actual velocity, way too easy for engineers and managers to bullshit the system.

All the arguments I see in favor of it over the years strike me as pretty dogmatic. The way I like to manage projects these days is a kind of kanban system with a task queue, and 1-2x a week brief cadence meetings to discuss priority/alignment and any blockers.

edit: should probably clarify I'm using agile == scrum here, which I know isn't technically correct, but that's how I've seen it implemented in 99% of cases so far in my career.
I don’t think MS has any idea about how to make Windows better. So they are bolting on extra crap and services. Re-invent the UI again.

Maybe nobody wants to work on hard and boring kernel stuff?
To the Moon. 1.6 km/s is the orbital speed for the low Moon orbit.
Reminds me of the silent takeover of the Stylish browser extension that was sold to some analytics company and then reported your complete browsing history to said company. No information to the users until someone noticed what what going on.

Similar things seemed to have happened to the ModHeader extension, newer versions now inject ads.
>I attended a clowning course

A WHAT now?

Would you say you are now fit to run a tech company?
The Computer as a Communication Device (2019)
Show HN: Discord Music Link Conversion Bot
Just wanted to show off a Discord music link conversion bot I've been working on every once and awhile. The problem being solved here is that users' in my Discord frequently share music links, but we don't all use the same streaming platforms. This solves that problem for us! That's it :D
I wonder what those numbers would be for HackerNews! I doubt most content removed from here breaks laws either.
> While the Big Mac doesn't use chicken

At least in the UK, they've sold a "Chicken Big Mac" as a special menu item twice now
Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech on the Covid-19 vaccines and the future of RNA
>> Why could you not join with the audit table and find historical billing information from the old CPRs?

1) complexity and 2) what is actually tying the CPRs together? We're not going to have a CPR table per-customer, so all the CPRs of every customer are in the same table. Presumably the CPR table has a unique key for the customer that can be used to associate multiple CPRs with that person, so we have come full circle - just use that unique key in the audit table.
Note that in the paper, all the numbers used were under 10.

> AIW Variation 1, N=3,M=6,C=7

> AIW Variation 2, N=4,M=2,C=3

> AIW Variation 3, N=1,M=4,C=5

> AIW Variation 4, N=4,M=1,C=2.

Also note that the resricted prompt is only one of the prompt variations tested by the paper. It also explores common techinques to get LLMs to perform better, including "thinking out loud". Even with these methods the models still fail to produce a correct answer.

> Model prompt types. It is well known that so-called prompt engineering can heavily influence the model behavior and model response quality [26, 27, 28]. To account for the response variations due to various prompt forms, we created 3 distinct prompt types asking for the solution to the AIW problem: STANDARD, THINKING, and RESTRICTED. The STANDARD prompt type asks to solve the posed problem and output the final answer in the format as described above. This does not put any specific requirements on model behavior. The THINKING prompt type extends STANDARD with the request to think carefully and double check the solution for any mistakes. This should encourage model to invest more computation into obtaining the solution. In contrast to this, the RESTRICTED prompt urges the model to output only the final answer without any further text. This is supposed to restrict compute invested in producing output. We observe substantially shorter outputs across tested models compared to STANDARD and THINKING for this prompt type (Suppl. Fig. 13).
I’ve never seen that standard applied to acting. Particularly voice acting. Midler v. Ford was a dispute between a singer and a company that used a sound-alike singer, singing a cover of a Bette Midler song in a commercial, to falsely imply a sponsorship that didn’t exist. Totally different case.
> My most probable explanation for them was that they were designed by a mole Jeff Bezos had gotten into the Azure org to work on behalf of AWS.

I've read this five times now, and each time I read it I flip on whether it's a joke or some kind of (semi-)anonymous tip being leaked to a journalist through a pre-arranged drop site.
They seem to be making a big deal out of nothing. These are all cases where someone did something, it was reported/discovered, and it was investigated and handled by security/global investigations.
Stuff like that makes me appreciate Time Machine on my Mac. I have hourly snapshots of everything that changes. I don't even use VCS software when I'm writing code any more unless I have to collaborate with someone else.

Also there are serious problems with OneDrive version history. In numerous occasions, files have failed to restore or the UI is broken and unusable.
I decided not to fully type out "obviously the security/privacy concerns are the most important thing here and should not be ignored... but aside from that, does anyone know if..."
It might not be a trademark violation, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. There are other legal avenues McDonald’s could use. The absence of a registered TM doesn’t mean you can’t do anything about someone blatantly passing off [0] their product as yours (or as being officially associated with you), for example. I’m not a lawyer but I doubt you’d have a quiet life if you called your restaurant Big Mac.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off
Everyone was excited for the one last time and I was around for that, I didn't even realize it was happening today. I just assumed it'd be delayed for another long period again.
Yes Hanlon's Razor is sort of the opposite side of the coin here, almost like Clarks Third law except:

"Any sufficiently bureaucratic system is indistinguishable from a cabal of enemies"
Val Town is a social website to write and deploy TypeScript
If GitHub Gists could run
And AWS Lambda was fun
Val Town is a social website to write and deploy TypeScript. Build APIs and schedule functions from your browser.
How to understand this quote? I've recently started seeing bureaucratic organisations as a simple one-/few-cellular organisms. I.e. one person is smart and intelligent with 90 billion neurones contributing to its behaviour, but bureaucratic organisation with 1000 people is like an organism with 1000 neurons (or less).
Seems like an interesting thing for Apple to do. Collect locations for phones that are marked stolen and look for dense clusters. Then work with local authorities to identify the perps. Would be a fun project for a small team!
In conclusion: nobody learned anything from all the "crypto" bankruptcies and fiascos.
> I'm genuinely confused as to how McDonald's could have lost this.

Interesting. The purpose of the trademark rules is to prevent confusion. Owning marks serves no other purpose except to enable customers to correctly correlate this mark to this company. You can see how this evolves in England's "Passing Off" which is broader than just trademark protection.

So, if the other side can afford lawyers (and so you can't just win by default) you need to persuade a court that it would be confusing for customers if they could do the thing you want to forbid, are you still genuinely confused ?

The court was not persuaded that a "Mighty Mac" is confusing and people might think it's a Big Mac, nor that "Supermac" is confusing and people might think it's McDonalds. Seems reasonable.
> One of Strassmans patients years ago said on DMT that these entities could share more with us if we learn to make extended contact.

If you want to hear some really wild stories read Ayahuasca In My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming. Such as ayahuasca curing a man who received a bushmaster bite or entities revealing an herbal cure for a woman's liver failure.
Eh. Charles Stross went off the rocker long ago. Not worth reading.
Better to say wherever there's an AI lab, there's zero privacy. Surprisingly, startups are more private than big tech.
what I would like to see is a parameterized class of prompts which can never be solved by the LLMs even when a finite number of them are manually added to the dataset.
I'd love to know how they are doing this! Are they running an on-device CLIP embedding model of some sort? Could they even be shipping a multi-modal LLM like Phi-3 Vision?
> Microsoft is pushing this feature into the latest update of Windows 11 for all compatible hardware and making it impossible to remove or disable

They lost me there. This is false, you can definitely disable it.

Also, all these articles talking about how the SQLite database is "plain text"; if someone would want this feature to exist, how would they want the database to be "encrypted"? (assuming they'd still want to access it to search)
> Have you bought a computer recently, or, like, ever?

A non-Mac computer you mean? I bought a desktop in parts, which I assembled myself and installed Linux on it. I don't doubt there may be some hidden Microsoft tax somewhere in the stack but I certainly didn't pay any Windows license nor any other Microsoft software.
> It isn’t guaranteed his successor would be less of a warmonger.

In fact, from what I heard from leaders in Kyiv on a journalism trip I took in 2022, the common thought is if something happened to Putin his successor would likely be a _larger warmonger_.

The guy is _very_ smart, and easily figured out it would be unwise for his personal well being to surround himself with Peace and Western Loving capable lieutenants.

Sad for the people of Ukraine, and hope sooner rather than later peace comes for their sake.
The build dependencies are the problem. The build process downloads them from hardcoded internet URLs and they are cached for 30 days. By backing up the cache, I can (probably) rummage around it later to find anything that's been deleted from the internet.
Can someone please enlighten me on the claim that the share of Intel processors is rapidly shrinking?

I don't know enough to believe or doubt it. Apple moving to ARM processors seems like an important enough event for something like this to happen. But from cursory reading, I felt that Apple's M processors are so good because of their SoC nature where there are coprocessing units specialised for common tasks. I just thought that something like this could be achieved by Intel with their processors too but it doesn't look like that's the case.

I am rambling but I hope someone can shed some light here regardless.
The author seems to suggest that the choice is between natural and surrogate key.

In fact, the choice is between natural and natural+surrogate key.

- If you have a natural key, you have to enforce it, otherwise you risk data corruption. The question is do you also need a surrogate key? Sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t.

- If you don’t have an obvious natural key, then your surrogate becomes meaningful. You have to use something to distinguish between two “equal but not identical” rows, so you end-up showing the surrogate in the UI etc. In other words, it is no longer “pure” surrogate.
I hope this exchange is less politically biased, given NASDAQ is imposing discriminatory diversity quotas on listed companies through a forced disclosure process:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/nasdaqs-board-diversity-wi...

You can see the politicization and cultural rot from the outside clearly, considering NASDAQ has a DEI page:
https://www.nasdaq.com/about/diversity-equity-inclusion
Well, perhaps I'm being unfair talking about distros plural: I'm mainly thinking of how the latest Ubuntu has disabled unprivileged user namespaces by default [0], seeing them as too big an attack surface to let everything use them.

It looks like Debian used to have them disabled, but then re-enabled them for the sake of web browsers [1]; I'm sure they'd re-disable them if they found some solution similar to Ubuntu's AppArmor one. For other distros, it's difficult to find up-to-date information on whether they enable or disable unprivileged user namespaces, since many have flipped back and forth over the last decade.

All that is to say that unless your program is given privileges itself (e.g., Docker), or can wheedle user-namespace permissions out of the packagers, there's no chance you'll be able to distribute namespace-using code and have it work consistently for most users.

[0] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat...

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/a3819178...
I largely agree with you, but when it comes to evaluating competing methodologies, what you refer to as “agile in spirit” turns quickly into No True Scotsman. “If you project failed you mustn’t have been doing agile correctly.”
Agree on the Apple strengths, disagree that MS is scared. PCs just aren't where they make most of their money anymore.

Enterprise is extremely lucrative for them, and their headstart in the AI space may be just what they need to close the gap with AWS.
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- Learn about the client-server architecture of the web.
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- Learn about responsive web design principles and techniques.
- Understand the importance of creating mobile-friendly user interfaces.
- Explore CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Bulma to simplify responsive design.

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- Study techniques to optimize the loading speed and performance of web pages.
- Learn about web optimization metrics like Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, and Core Web Vitals.
- Implement best practices for optimizing images, scripts, and other assets.

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- Understand the importance of making web applications accessible to users with disabilities.
- Learn about WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and how to implement them.
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- Create simple web pages and gradually build more complex projects.
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Ok, then Recall just increases the amount of juicy stuff attackers might find on your machine once they have found the credentials by other means. Forget browsing in private mode, Recall sees and remembers everything!
Thanks, this has much more content than the blog repost submitted above.
What Justifies Dimensional Analysis?
I wasn't saying it wasn't possible for Texas to be self-sufficient in a vacuum, I'm saying that I don't think Texas is uniquely qualified to be self-sufficient. I think there are several other states that are comparably qualified (e.g. California) if they wanted to be self-sufficient.

I mostly think Texas would not be able to win a civil war against the US, and so splitting off would be impossible. If they were somehow able to convince the federal government to let them secede, I think they'd probably survive, though I also think it would be a downgrade to Texas citizens.

ETA: Rereading your comment, I actually don't think we really disagree on anything here, I just chose some poor wording making what I said ambiguous.
WTF?!?! The one bit of data I let Google track, because that map is so insanely useful and cool. Seeing where I was standing on a given day of my Europe tour, and being able to trace my steps on that day where I remember "I started at the market and walked west and found that cute cafe".

Somehow this is the first product shutdown by Google I'm affected by. Good thing they're letting us export this data in an open format /s.
Please note that CSAM is categorized as a "legally permissible expression of general opinion" as defined by this study. I'm not sure we can draw too many conclusions about the reason for deletion here.
I'm not as familiar with foil resistors, but if you apply the same rules as thin film I would expect that you could trim this with a normal meter (the ± is 0.1 ohms) and the major cost driver is laser trim time and the space cost of some extra geometry on the resistor to support the tight tolerance (i.e. more fine trim features than standard).

I believe Vishay's ±0.2ppm/°C TCR is a materials science process specific to one of the companies they own, so that is also a reason they can charge quite high prices.

If you don't need that kind of TCR (i.e. your part is not going to space) the price should go down considerably for a thin film NiCr resistor (5 ppm - 25 ppm). There is actually a lot more direct sales and custom design volume than I would have expected when I started in this industry, so what you see on Digi-Key is not the entire market.
Meta's Trillion Parameter Recommendation System
> I like that this discourages usage of tray icons, which is a good thing. Your app doesn't need a tray icon, almost all apps don't

Well clearly that's not working because every app has a tray icon.

It's time to catch up with Windows XP and let users control which ones are important and which ones get hidden. And the hidden ones should still be accessible.

Bartender really nailed all that and it's sad that a 3rd party has to come in and fix this.
It was an app that was heavily focused on business processes, like routing items between different groups. We had spreadsheets and process maps for each business process. This means the business actually had to think about the possible routes it could take and the data required on each step. So the spreadsheet would tell us all the possible data exposed on the step including how it was treated (R, RW, required, formats/types, etc). It was magical.

Once a process was created the business would have to sell any process changes to the product owner by either showing it was a regulatory/legal issue, or using a cost study to show it would save money. So not back and forth or superfluous changes.
Ok, apparently I just don't use the camera very often on my Mac. It looks like an app using the camera triggers a discrete LED in the notch, but an app using only the microphone triggers an indicator in the menu bar (which becomes a green dot of pixels in the corner of the screen when in a full-screen app where the menu bar is hidden).
Phrasing it as "doing it wrong" misses the mark.

They want the name (scrum, agile ...) without paying for it through the reorganization the would be necessary.
Microsoft’s signature Incompetence™ Enterprise Edition no less. Overcomplicating things the enterprise way is exactly what I expect from them.
Annotate all the time and have not hit this issue.
Rather than bartender, use ICE - open source, similar feature set
> This assumes that Microsofts future IS windows.

Is Microsoft's future a smartphone OS that'll rival the iPhone or Android phones?
This is fun! I'd like to be able to drag the notes around the circle to align the beat as needed, or a snap to grid with resolution options - but does the thing as described, very nice!
Exactly. Windows is almost a loss leader at this point.
Whenever you hold down a key in Linux, it always repeats, and there is no GUI to turn this into an accented character selector. Or any other means because there is no such selector to be had. Not a big knock on Linux though, because it has a working compose key instead.

Also, you don't need to reboot after toggling ApplePressAndHoldEnabled, but you do need to restart apps.
I agree with you completely and what you said brings to mind something I wrote on my blog a few days ago:

> I posit that if I showed the Agile Manifesto bullet points (without the title) to a group of people with cringe-worthy titles like Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Manager, Agile Coach, or Head of Agile Delivery, and asked them “Is this agile?” almost all of them would say it isn’t. I can only imagine the effect that revealing the title and explaining that, actually, this really is the agile, would have on their Jira-addled brains.
"HotCI: An automated tool for reliable software upgrade/downgrade in Erlang OTP" [pdf]
fwiw, Texas won mathcounts this year!
And last year!!
In fact, Texas won in 5 of the past 10 years, which is absolutely astounding!!!

Last time California showed up on the list of winners was way back in 2014.

https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/MathCounts_hi...
Azure is bad. Google is the one that's going to leverage AI to catch up with AWS, GCP is actually good and they've already partnered with Huggingface.
That's the most conservative interpretation of Chesterton's Fence I have ever seen. Each rule is critical because it is included in a set of rules which are intended to help, and removing any means breaking the whole fence?

I guess you could get even more conservative and assume that the absence of a law is also intentional and we should maintain the status quo forever. I'd argue that even that would be preferable to a system where you can only add restrictions.
(via https://x.com/PeterLodewijk/status/1798313632285204810)
It seems that until 2020, Debian used to block them as well [0]. So perhaps some of my perceptions are out of date. In any case, it means namespaces are unreliable to use for the typical Linux program.

[0] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/a3819178...
DuckDuckGo started embedding AI answers in search results
I just tried it with intermediate steps, via the total amount of children Alices mother has, and it worked. So, it seems that an intermediate logical step is too much for these models at the moment, at least in this puzzle where Alice is outside the number given in the description.