skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the time they spent on mocks easily outstripped the time a good build engineer would have spent creating a fast reusable test framework

This goes back to team size and skills. Not all teams have build engineers. And not all mocks are so complicated that they take up that much time.

Again, it depends on the scope and the resources. The article goes too far by calling mocking an anti-pattern. It simply isn't.
True. Though the last time Stonebraker tried this (VoltDB) they did lean on Java for DB side custom logic.

I wasn't really making a comment on that though but rather on overall popularity of TS vs Java, which is mostly just about the influence of the echo chamber and how that distorts peoples perception of what is out there.
Anyone can attempt political change, but it all comes down to EV.

I live in the US. I can openly speak my mind with relative safety. And I mean relative. My physical safety will likely not be risked, nor the physical safety of my family. But we are very much at a stage where any dissent is accompanied by internet mobs and unemployment.

Do I think that I can convince > 50% of voters in my county to rescind a 1% tax on my household income over $200k? Unlikely. Near zero probability. And my guess is that that probability is certainly less than the probability I am called a racist, transphobe, white supremacist. And that may reduce my income to $0. The EV play doesn't make sense when I have children to raise.

I imagine the above weighted by an openly corrupt gov willing to imprision and kill further diminishes the EV for an individual.
Well I loved A Deepness in the Sky and Blindsight so now I'm adding Children of Time to my ever growing list.
This reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1dhx449/deepsee...

links to two GGUFs:

https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Inst...

https://huggingface.co/LoneStriker/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-In...

Apparently both require disabling flash attention.
Are these explanations actually relevant? Perhaps your boss offers them because you have different approaches about some basic topics?

Can you give an example?
> Generally in the community people theorize all kinds of things about diet and some are lucky to reach and stay in remission by eating a narrow diet that agrees with them - but what exactly that is varies wildly across individuals. I've never found a common thread.

It also really looks like a methodology problem on the medical science side to me, statistics easily nullify important data when variables are difficult to control.
If culture is a random walk around a center of mass but without a strong negative feedback mechanism to keep that center of mass where we (we who?) want it, then it could easily go in any direction and keep going. However when you add our ability to collectively enjoy hedonistic culture more than intellectual culture, then it makes sense that there is just one direction that this random walk is going to take. Moreover, over time that preference of "culture" to move in one direction will be amplified by each generation, thus the trend should accelerate.
As an engineer that relies on plastics in my product design, I’ve been wondering more and more if we’re creating the next global environmental disaster after climate change with our use of plastics.

I recently saw a video of someone restoring a 100 year old vegetable shredder, and with some rust removal and fresh paint the thing was good as new. Of course it was all metal. Then I looked at Amazon for vegetable shredders and they’re almost all plastic.

We could make our products out of more metal or all metal. Even so-called exotic metals like titanium are relatively abundant, and new manufacturing processes are lowering the cost of those parts.

But we use so many plastic films that get used once and can’t be recycled, as have so many plastic products that fall apart and get sent to landfills because recycling is kind of a lie anyway. If you go to a big box store like Target, right at the entrance you see shelves of cheap plastic junk meant as some sort of novelty to be used once or twice and then forgotten and thrown out. Companies like Shien sell the cheapes polyester clothing possible which falls apart in to pieces which quickly become microplastics. EVs are supposed to save us from climate change but in doing so they’re delivering us faster wearing tires releasing more microparticles in to our environment.

And I suspect that if we look at production, it’s accelerating.

So just like when atmospheric carbon passed 300ppm and we said “what happens at 400ppm and higher”, what happens when ambient microplastics double, triple, or quadruple current levels?

What would it look like to cut plastic production today? How could we even prepare to do that?
Why shouldn't Micron get a pop then though?
I wonder if there are legal reasons for this that could help explain it?
It sounds like neither of you are being very effective communicators.

Your boss should be a better gauge of your skill level and adjust his language accordingly.

On the other hand it's on you to tell him that the level he is communicating at isn't right for you and he can skip the explanatory stuff if he's doing it for you.
> Russian airplanes are

The simpler answer is that Russia is not directing the sabotaging signals into their domestic flight paths.
Carbon capture is like focusing on the third R- recycling- instead of the first- reduce.

We don't have to focus as much on carbon capture if those billions of us who use the most resources reduce our usage.

I don't fly on airplanes anymore. I avoid long trips in general, and accept that I will miss out on in-person family gatherings and seeing friends as often as I'd like. I've flown enough in my life, enough to know firsthand how similar people are all over the earth.
You can reduce your footprint, too, and promote regulation that makes the most polluting behaviors better-reflect their actual long-term costs. I increasingly have less confidence that our current elected officials will do anything bold enough, so it might really boil down to us acting individually together.

I still eat meat, but sparingly, maybe one to three servings a week, primarily SMASH fish (sardines, mackerel, anchovies, salmon, herring). Most of my protein is from nuts and sprouted legumes.

I stopped drinking coffee long ago, and along with reducing my carbon footprint, I sleep better.

I'm only buying chocolate opportunistically, when it's on sale. I really like chocolate, so this will be one of the last luxuries I give up. I understand 1kg of chocolate is near the top of the charts for GHG cost, second to 1kg beef (a wonky comparison, to be fair; as much as I love chocolate and have been known to down a 100g bar in one go, I can conservatively claim to have never eaten 500g of chocolate in a day, while I having eaten a pound of beef in a day, several times).

I stopped drinking alcohol in 2020, except for a few times a year for special occasions. A lot of energy and land use goes into making alcohol.

I forage for food in my yard; so much is edible, you just need to eat the "bland" stuff first or mix it with more intense flavors, like dandelion + sardines + apple.

We keep the house near 60F in winter and high 70s in summer (PNW, so it's not too difficult anyway, though the heat dome a couple years ago was momentarily rough).

I take a cold shower for less than two minutes, sometimes skipping a day or two if I haven't gotten sweaty or stinky, and rarely use hot water (I save that for shaving days, maybe once a week).

There's more but in the weeds, and I feel like my quality of life has improved, perhaps in part by feeling a sense of purpose. Of course, no one has to do anything different, we just do what we choose with the time available to us. (paraphrasing Gandalf, paraphrasing someone Tolkien knew or read?)

Useful reference for prioritization:

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
Yeah, MVC (and MVVM for that matter), seem like architectural approaches that are great in theory, but with the reality of constraints, requirements, timelines, and ultimately many engineers' misunderstanding of things (frankly I'm probably included in that group as well), it just leads to a mess of interdependency and tight coupling among functionalities.

Now granted, this is pretty much a given for any architecture (nothing is perfect): so maybe my expectations of what things should be needs to be reeled in a bit.
Well TBH svelte works just fine with vanilla javascript libraries, so you could argue that the ecosystem is not as small as you think. Almost every other library/framework in this space requires a wrapper around the vanilla javascript library.
>Many indie works suffer from the same formulaic failings as popular works, so that doesn't seem like a solution either

I think the indie scene for a lot of media is a lot less 'independent' than we might think. This became obvious to me when I noticed the absolutely insane fights that happened on Twitter surrounding young adult literature. (Eg https://reason.com/2019/05/05/teen-fiction-twitter-is-eating...)

Science fiction and fantasy seem to be doing something a bit similar.

I think if you want more independent writers you'll have to go to places like Royalroad or /r/hfy or scribblehub.
If we're talking blue hydrogen then you'd be better just using methane for most things. At least then we're not kidding ourselves. Stick a carbon fee on it and focus the engineering and business talents on rolling out the stuff we already know works really well and can actually save money (EVs, renewables, heat pumps, batteries etc.) even faster, saving more money and buying us more time for the hard stuff.
I'm not a professional designer but I do quite a bit of design, photo, and typography work these days.

The Affinity suite of programs (Photo, Designer, and Publisher) have been the perfect alternative for someone like me who does casual work, isn't locked into the Adobe ecosystem, and doesn't want to spend $60+/month on a subscription.

Their programs are full-featured, blazing fast, integrate with one another, and are - most importantly - pay once per license. Funnily, they're doing a 50% sale right now, which brings the entire line of products to a one-time payment of $83. Likely to capitalize on the Adobe's bad press cycle.

The value of this package is undeniable. I'm a very happy user.

The only caveat is that they don't yet have all of the cutting-edge high-end features that Adobe offers (AI integration, etc). But the nuts and bolts functionality is rock solid and they are adding more and more features each day. I find the lack of bloat and a massive codebase really help to streamline the performance. It's been flawless for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Xl4PcB73A
https://htmx.org/extensions/head-support/

is returning 404.
My feeling is this logic only holds if your product is being pirated because it’s the best. Windows was certainly better than Linux, but ultimately when a consumer can afford it they’d rather buy a Mac.
I just ordered a butcher block counter from a local company. I've also ordered butcher block from a different company. At a rather larger scale there's Andersen Windows and Doors. None of these are or ever going to be--or presumably have ambitions to be--Home Depot.
> So how do you
> ...
> - maintain this, eg have good, representative testing data lying around?

This one can be very easy, depending on the kind of data you're working with. Many places shall simply dump a part (or the whole if it's not too big) of the production DB into dev and pre-prod environments.

Now if there are sensitive, non-encrypted, data that even the devs cannot see, than it can get tricky (but then arguably they cannot see the logs in the clear either, etc.).

But yeah: a recent dump of the prod DB is good, representative data.

I've worked at places where pre-prod had a daily dump of the prod DB. Simple.
F(T) != F(T+1)

I, for one, am glad to see people working to innovate along well-trodden paths.
I don't understand what he's on about either. They're hardly even making any money from it. I signed the guest book and there were only like one or two visitors every couple of days (or week). The woman who gives tours of the museum can't read or write, she's probably in her 80s. Only elderly people live in the town nowadays, all of the youth left. It can't be more than 30-50 people living there. I don't even remember paying anything to enter, and if I did, it couldn't have been more than a couple of dollars.
Yeah currently "niche optimization" is performed when the compiler can infer that some values of the structure are illegal.

This can be currently done when a type declares the range of an integer to not be complete with the

rustc_layout_scalar_valid_range_start or _end attribute (requires #![feature(rustc_attrs)])

In your example it works for String, because String contains a Vec<U8> which inside contains a capacity field of type struct Cap(usize) but the usize is effectively constrained to contain values from 0..=max_isize

The only way for you to know that is to effectively be the rustc compiler or be able to consume it's output
It's really interesting topic to discuss
I know. The idea was to make people think what happens after the rush but apparently that fell flat.
The rise in crime, housing costs, payments to illegal migrants, welfare abuse by migrants probably far out weighs 30 billion out of the huge german budget over how many years?
I promise you German people notice the change from millions of illegal migrants that refuse to assimilate far more than some 1% change in tax revenue.
So the link shows in 2001 nuclear generated 482.92 TWh; in 2022 wind plus solar generated 485.12 TWh. Granted coal was down in that time but gas was pretty much flat (except for 2022 when there were extenuating circumstances).
Did they get paid 2M in USD, or did they get paid 2M in magic-bean tokens, where is so little market depth that selling 30k of it would tank the market, so they will have to bleed it out slowly and hope the price doesn't tank before they exit
bottom of this page: https://htmx.org/migration-guide-htmx-1/
> decentralized digital scarcity, which is a useful property

Complete loss of control over your game's ecosystem is, in fact, not a useful property.
Weird response, like read the "room."

We're not here talking philosophy and meaning of language GENERALLY, we're talking about potentially misleading descriptors of very real things that do exist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/z98ubk/comment/iyf...
I am investigating this issue on my own as well, and data-oriented programming looks to be the most promising: https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming
Affinity software is exceptionally good.
50% off right now, btw...
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
They can usually sell the debt for companies, which are very good at collection debts.

One reason to not do chargeback unless absolutely sure that it is valid.
> My guess is not for a long while.

Toyota and Idemitsu Kosan (part of the same METI grant that TDK got for SSB development 20 years ago) are going to commercialize Solid-State Batteries for EVs by 2028 [0][1]

The new Toyota Battery factory in NC is part of that push [2]

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...
It's worse than lead. Our planet has irreversiblely been polluted at so many levels of the food chain that it will be a wonder how future humans will figure out how to clean it all up. I'm convinced that at this point we have signed every lifeform up for an evolutionary pressure, and future generations will likely be selected for their resistance to whatever collection of illnesses are ultimately linked to microplastics.
As duties and trade restrictions were dropped in the late 70s and 80s, the mantra was that by doing so, the West would "uplift" poorer countries such as China. The goals to improve quality of life, transform the third world from agrarian to mass production, with a hope of spreading democratic principles as well.

And yes, over and over this was the desireded goal, I remember the election campaigns, the speeches, the white papers, the think tanks.

This has mostly been a success, looking at many such countries. The standard of living has gone up, for example China now has a "middle class" of sorts.

Environmental concerns were not on the radar at the time, not 50 years ago, not like today.

The intentions were reasonably positive and well founded. Of course, I agree reassessment is necessary, and it really should always be.
For whom it seems surprising, that's actually rather small, considering hacks can end up in an irreversible $100M+ transfer to the malicious party.

You can check Immunefi's Bounty-Board for reference, currently paying up to $15M per find.

Another good source is rekt.news, creating post-mortems about all the DEFI-hacks and an own leaderboard, $624M for #1.
Most technology has a limit like this (for instance CPU transistor size in the past). However once this is a proven technology, money will be invested in solving these issues.
> It's completely stupid HTML, by default, doesn't have basic controls found in EVERY UI toolkit since circa 1980. The standard examples being ListView and TreeView.

This is one of my greatest frustrations with the web as a platform. These controls are so basic they should just be there, eliminating the need to sift through dozens of third-party implementations all with wildly varying feature sets, performance profiles, framework compatibility, levels of upkeep, etc to find one that works for your project.
Article covers that: upsells in retail and advertising
Have you told him you feel this way?

One of my biggest annoyances with devs is that they rarely give "upward feedback". They expect their manager to just magically know how to manage them, and they complain if their boss gets it wrong. You can just tell people though - say "I'd like to give you some feedback that will help us work better together..." and explain what it is that you find annoying. If your boss isn't a dick they'll take this onboard and change.

Everyone should learn to give better feedback. It's one of the things that separates a mediocre team from an awesome one - people actually trying to work together better.
Hmm, it's hard to check without access to the prompts used in the paper, but I'm skeptical that the distributions seen in e.g. Figure 2 are so different that you would have crank up the temperature very much to bridge the gap. It looks to me like the entries that are 1-in-100 in the base model are just falling off the top-p cliff and getting set to 0.
100% agree. I've found no theory as to what correlates with my particular issues: hives and elevated heart rate when consuming processed food/gluten/I don't know what over a long period and also difficulty sleeping. If I go pure low-carb, I'm fine, even if I consume large amounts of sugar. However, stress can also induce it even if I am eating properly. Additionally, evaporation of sweat also causes it in certain cases.

Nobody seems to have any idea what the issue is, but I've learned to manage it by controlling diet and stress basically. I'm still not 100% why/how it happens.

I've learned that these sorts of issues may be something science will never figure out for me since they focus on populations rather than the individual. I expect in 10 years some studies at some point will start isolating some
of these triggers as they become more prevalent. I've talked with a few people who've had similar issues.
Show HN: Prompts to Reduce LLM Political Bias
Each LLM possesses a unique as sometimes transient political bias, which is problematic for many business applications. Here are prompts I've had success with in reducing this bias.
https://github.com/Shane-Burns-Dot-US/Unspun/blob/main/readm...
Do you think the people who performed the studies didn't think of that?
From "Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)":

https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-s...

>There are several tightly coupled parts of a simulation game that must be designed closely together: the simulation model, the game play, the user interface, and the user’s model.

>In order for a game to be realizable, all of those different parts must be tractable. There are games that might have a great user interface, be fun to play, easy to understand, but involve processes that are currently impossible to simulate on a computer.

>There are also games that are possible to simulate, fun to play, easy to understand, but that don’t afford a useable interface: Will has designed a great game called “Sim Thunder Storm”, but he hasn’t been able to think of a user interface that would make any sense.

He also wanted to do SimTapeWorm, but just could not talk the marketing department into that. And I imagine the user interface would be quite slippery.
"African" isn't a language. But it does mean "from Africa". So saying Japanese words sound African is a perfectly sensible thing to say.

Source: am African. I too am not a language.
HTMX + static site generators is DOPE. If we had just these two things back in the 90's...
These docs don’t fill me with confidence. That’s… weird given who’s behind the project. What gives?

> Workflows provide the following reliability guaranteees:

> 1. They always run to completion.

You can’t guarantee that.

> 2 […] Regardless of what failures occur during a workflow's execution, it executes each of its transactions once and only once.

“Executed” is the wrong word here, if the database goes down half way through a transaction it’s neither executed zero times nor once.

> 3. Communicators execute at least once but are never re-executed after they successfully complete. If a failure occurs inside a communicator, the communicator may be retried

That’s not what at-least-once means? In 2. “execute” means “run to completion” but here the logic only works if it means “try”.

> Workflows must be deterministic: if called multiple times with the same inputs, they should always do the same thing.

Deterministic is the wrong word here, the correct word is idempotent. e.g. A simple counting function is deterministic but not idempotent.
From Wikipedia [1]:

> The GEN IV Forum reframes the reactor safety paradigm, from accepting that nuclear accidents can occur and should be mastered, to eliminating the physical possibility of an accident. Active and passive safety systems would be at least as effective as those of Generation III systems and render the most severe accidents physically impossible.

> Relative to Gen II-III, advantages of Gen IV reactors include:

> * Nuclear waste that remains radioactive for a few centuries instead of millennia

> * 100–300x energy yield from the same amount of nuclear fuel

> * Broader range of fuels, including unencapsulated raw fuels (non-pebble MSR, LFTR).

> * Potential to burn existing nuclear waste and produce electricity: a closed fuel cycle.

> * Improved safety via features such as ambient pressure operation, automatic passive reactor shutdown, and alternate coolants.

Gen IV reactors represent six different technology paths that represent the future of the nuclear industry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
I'm currently doing tiny bits of way too many projects, so I'm as reliable as Trumpet Winsock sadly. But we could encourage each other to stop procrastinating!