skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Hello Internet, CGP Grey's old podcast, he complained about Londoners complaining about heat waves. The heat waves seemed to come every year, right around the same time.

Saying something is a disaster is totally different from saying it falls under the purview of FEMA. Like cold snaps, heat waves are reliable, predictable weeks in advance, and a disaster only if our public infrastructure is already a failure. I realize the same could be said of something like Hurricane Katrina, but the greater scale and lesser frequency of such failures put them in a different class. I don't support stretching FEMA's already paper-thin resources even thinner.
"Each of these has outlined a range of specialist educational and training programmes that needs to be developed or delivered for the international financial services industry, including programmes in sustainable finance regulation and master’s-level programmes in blockchain, fintech, and compliance, among others."

I don't work in finance, but my gut feeling is that most of growth in a country like Ireland is due to EU and international compliance with anti money laundering legislation.
> at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks

Do they though? If the Challenger launch had been pushed back what major effects would there have been?

I do get your general point but in this specific example it seems the urgency to launch wasn’t particularly warranted.
* State of mind is rooted in brain health, finds study.
Honestly? I recommend a VMC. Simply because monitoring allow to let you know something you can already know enough from your feelings, a VMC allow to breathe more oxygenated air.
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> Everyone at university not doing an Imposter degree should have had it taught.

My grad school had "seminar" classes, which were only 1 hour per week over the semester, but the "back of the envelope estimation" seminar was one of the more interesting ones that I took.
I think copyright claims are questionable at best, since copyright only protects the expression and not the ideas and LLM's can change the stylistic details commonly associated with expression. But I think there is a good argument for trademark dilution because the LLM is taking Forbes' high-quality journalism and associating it with a third-party product that could indeed be inferior (e.g. the LLM could have introduced inaccuracies). This was not an issue with search snippets where it could be argued that quotations were exact and faithful representations. The solution is not to kill AI companies but to make them worthless - would you trust news from a shady website with a reputation for not doing any fact checking?
It started off as a direct Bombjack arcade hardware replacement, it then grew way beyond what the arcade was capable of.
MAME is software, this is hardware, no relation. :) Although interestingly the first version of the hardware did allow me to find a bug in the MAME implementation.
Well... if you don't use the data from shot spotter in an actionable way and the mal-incentives for murder / illicit firearm possession don't change... yeah a tool meant to observe and record instances of gun violence probably won't prevent it.

This isn't about politics it's about understanding what a functioning society looks like.
I appreciate that you're taking feedback seriously, and it sounds like you're making some good changes.

But frankly, all my goodwill was burnt up in the days I spent trying to make LangChain work, and the number of posts I've seen like this one make it clear I'm not the only one. The changes you've made might be awesome, but it also means NEW abstractions to learn, and "fool me once..." comes to mind.

But if you're sure it's in a much better place now, then for marketing purposes you might be better off relaunching as LangChain2, intentionally distancing the project from earlier versions.
It's almost always worth spending the time to either fix all warnings or, after determining it's a false positive, suppressing it with a #pragma.

Once things are relatively clean, it's easy to see if new code/changes trip a warning. Often unexpected warnings are a sign of subtle bugs or at least use of undefined behaviors. Sorting those out when they come up is a heck of a lot easier than tracing a bug report back to the same warming.
That's a really low bar, but perhaps not unexpected from the "fake it til you make it" HN crowd.
[dupe] enough with the TechDirt

Actual article: https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707084
Out of curiosity, did you leave those companies because the company's core business was unethical (or veered that direction over time), because leadership was generally unethical, or because specific incidents that forced your hand?

At a previous job I saw unethical choices made by my boss, but the company as a whole wasn't doing anything wrong. One of my coworkers was asked to do something unethical and he refused, but he wasn't punished and wasn't forced to choose between his ethics and the job.
I've never seen this written down, but I've definitely seen it in action.

Experienced leaders try to avoid deluding themselves at step 1, and work to prevent things transitioning from step 2 to step 3.

But sometimes it's impossible (or I'm not experienced enough!). Some employees really do start off strong and then fade out, even if the incentive structures are "good" / "above market" / etc.

Honestly, I've seen the roots of this in myself too, in classes, jobs, relationships: initial enthusiasm wanes and at some point it's time to make a different decision. Personally I prefer to move on instead of stagnate, but some people are perfectly happy to ride the suboptimal until a decision is made for them!
Isn’t this based on WebKit so it’s not really a new browser?
I went for a PhD at the age of 37, learned quite a lot. Raw science is something that AI still struggles with, and expected to do so for some time.
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Save up and invest. Become independently rich. Doing boring, pointless, mind-numbing projects like those you described, is the best way to do it because you can charge top dollar, as most smart guys won't do it, they want to do sexy things, so your average competition is quite dumb, and those projects make clients a lot so they are willing to pay for not-quite-dumb developers. And you can do many of them because they aren't too tiring. Then even if you never achieve professional self-fulfilment, your kids will never need to work and that alone can give a whole damn lot of self-fulfilment to you.
I appreciate you, and thanks for the "You're not that important" reminder for the average reader of this comment. However I must state I personally really am in need of an answer. Hypothetically, what if I am that important? What if I am not yet a target but think there's a decent chance that I will be targeted by nation-states, the most capable being US one day? You seem pretty knowledgeable. In the age of ML-assisted mass data scanning and ISP data collection & correlation, what would the lifestyle changes I must undergo to remain truly pseudonymous on the internet look like?
I can imagine. While sophisticated for the time, the Infocom parsers were often sort of an exercise in figuring out the right incantation. (Sort of like Alexa :-/ Low blow I know.) Especially with LLMs and voice recognition, there's a huge amount of potential present and future for a lot more fluid interactions. Not that I expect it to ever be a really mainstream genre.
> people who actually have crunched the numbers come to different conclusions.

Do they? Because so far I still have to find a complete analysis witch show to be something different than interested PRs...

Also I observe that some countries, like the Nederland, with a very high population density are among the biggest producer of meat and co in EU, while 81.3% of the population live in single-family homes...
Haha running into this at 30 and it seems like I should just jump to something other than tech.

I'm unsure if the employment number for aggregate total SWE headcount is accurate (the one pointing to less engineers being employed now than in 2018) but it seems like unless you're in the top 1-3% of talent now - it's going to be slow going or just time to exit.
Yes MA, but closer to RI, which is fairly different in some ways. The closest famous example is Emeril Lagasse, who most people assume is from New York. One big factor is the short O pronunciation being a lot rounder. Coffee is cawfee, like it is closer to NYC.
> Hertz rented a ton of EVs to people who were only used to the acceleration curve of ICE cars.

Maybe, but I am not as sure. I've not ridden in a private 3, but in a Y and S, and I had a Hertz Model 3 for a week.

I don't know if there was a firmware difference or such, or just my individual model, but the acceleration on it was garbage. I'd stop, put my foot all the way to the floor, and wait half a second or more for ANY movement, and when it did move, it accelerated like my girlfriend's A4, if not slower.

(Or, perhaps, things happened as you described, and as a result, they nerfed the acceleration - this was last year).
This all feels really general—precipitated on the idea that there’s one Right Way for everyone to use these drugs, about which the doctors and public health professionals recommending doxyPEP are somehow uninformed.

Suppose you’re immunocompromised. Wouldn’t it be worth the diarrhea to avoid infections your body couldn’t fight off?

Suppose you’re in a situation where you’re having lots of opportunities for infection. Whether you can or can’t control that situation, the end result is the same: you know your body is going to be challenged by infectious disease frequently in a way that most people’s bodies aren’t. Isn’t it plausible that the infectious agent may have less opportunity to evolve if you didn’t contract it as frequently?

Different forms of therapy might be both individually and collectively optimal for people in different situations. What’s right for a person who isn’t at risk isn’t the same as what’s right for a person who is at risk.
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The typical library folks use is called MPFR: https://mpfr.org

It's fast, high quality, and very complete.
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I think French is notoriously difficult to understand from speaking language because they tie together so many words and sounds. Contrasted with a language such as Finnish, which is hard to learn, but relatively easy to understand and write because both pronunciation and spelling are just what you'd expect.
Ugh, not OP but I'm kinda in a similar position as him/her. I want a Miata too.
My understanding that the problems occur during (ultra) endurance running style events where proper care isn't taken to keep up with hydration and dietary needs (electrolytes, etc.). Blood can thicken to such a point that the heart starts to get damaged, muscle acidity rises to the point where heart muscle damage occurs, etc.

A fit individual going for a 12 mile or less run probably won't have these problems unless they're in an extreme environment.

To your point, I'm sure you could do similar types of damage from other activities done for long periods of time if the proper hydration isn't followed.
Yeah, not only this article doesn't mention whether he slings around his own library or uses a less insane JS blob like jquery, alpine, htmx or hyperscript, he laments essentially that foundations for big webapps and cookie-cutter shit turnkey products are sold for small operations and static websites. In a lot of parts of this rant I couldn't abstain myself from thinking that he wants a web for documents and the web for applications swung around a lot of very bad habits and useless complexity in the field while waiting for wasm, aka "New Applet" to be production-ready.
> Saying "no" is easy and safe

Not in my experience. Saying no to something major when others don’t see a problem can easily be career-ending.
A personal pet-peeve of mine is "movies that feature an airplane flying away and turning left off into the sunset..."

ThEy NeVeR AniMaTe The FlAps!!

It's like you'd have an animated motorcycle scene and they don't turn the handlebars or make the bike lean when going around a corner. Like, the graphics are _soooo_ good but then they make the danged plane turn and immersion breaks (for me).
I resubmitted this link, originally submitted by user bgc at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738713 , because it’s a big deal being reported everywhere and this remains the best article I’ve seen.
Well, the short answer is that I wanted to look cool.

The long answer is that "looking cool" is a social signaling mechanism. I now attract friendly strangers who recognize the specific symbols on my skin.

For a fixed cost, I have forever increased the chance of meeting people with common interests and actually realizing that we have common interests.

The downside, of course, is that some friendly strangers (and employers) may avoid me because of my tattoos.

I think, so far, that it's been a net positive experience for me. I'll likely get more when I have more expendable time and income.
you need to establish which complaints can delay a launch. The parent comment is arguing that you need to set some kind of threshold on that. In practice, airplanes fly a little bit broken all the time. We have excellent data and theory and failsafes which allow that to be the case, but it's written in blood.
Reminds me of "modern control systems" courses and books I had in graduate school that contained material developed in the 60's. I think a lot of engineering research developed in the Apollo program era has been called "modern" for some reason.
This is Clearly an effort on Meta's part to weaken the meaning of "made with AI" labeling. As Syndrome said, if everyone is a Super, nobody is.

A weak, universally applicable label allows Slop everywhere.
> Reddit can just undelete it.

Not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure if you undelete it without the user's permission then it's just _your_ content then and no longer liable for 230 protection.
You took a low-reward, low-risk path. There will always be a need for web application plumbers, and the work will never be glamorous. But it will be there.

The flip side to a high-reward path is high risk. ML Ops is cool now, but ten years ago blockchain was cool. That hasn't really played out the way a lot of people thought it would, and those who went all-in may have wasted their time.

Then there are passion areas that are intrinsically cool, and the number of people willing to do this work will always exceed the number of jobs. Think video games.

You say you have kids, and in that case a low-reward, low-risk career was probably the prudent path to take. When people depend on you, the risk of failure is magnified, a lot.

The "correct" reaction to a midlife crisis is almost a trope now: you have it pretty good, don't rock the boat, don't screw things up.

If you have free time (I don't know how old your kids are) you can use that to explore new areas of technology. Just remember the grass is only greener when it's fertilized with BS, every passion eventually becomes just a job, and work does not define you.
They can break, so multiple protective elements is better.
This feels like a distraction, though.

If car tyres cause unrecoverable pollution then we don't need to reduce that by half or something, we need to almost eliminate it.

That means that we need a type of car tyre which does not cause this pollution.
I'm not sure you've got that right. We know almost nothing about the historical Pythagoras and none of his actual writings survived. We only know of him through the Pythagorean brotherhood and other people (eg Plato) who he influenced.

While the Pythagoreans did come up with many things (eg the first rigorously documented scientific experiments) my understanding was that it is known for certain that they definitely were not responsible for Pythagoras’ theorem (or this rationality corolary you're talking about), and that the earliest formulation of it that is currently known is from Babylon where it's documented to do with sizing of farm plots[1] about a thousand years before Pythagoras. The proof of the irrationality of the square root of two was so terrifying to the Pythagoreans that the legend has it they threw the dude who produced it off a boat into the sea to drown because it was such a heresy (although I believe that is also known not to be true and the pythagoreans knew that root 2 was irrational).

In that sense it's like Euler's number (first documented by Napier), Lambert's W function (Invented by Euler to solve a family of equations Lambert couldn't solve), Lagrange's notation for calculus (used by Lagrange yes but first also invented by Euler) etc etc.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222892801_Methods_a...
America has a spending problem not a taxation problem.

That said, it's insane how many 501(c)(3)'s somehow manage to operate as legal or ethical organizations.

OpenAI is the best example haha.
> If the Challenger launch had been pushed back what major effects would there have been?

An administrator would’ve missed a promotion.
Agree with your first point, but I think most if not all politics boils down to defining what a functioning society looks like.
Does the app require any clouds to work?
I fully agree with the sentiment, as I immediately get discouraged of doing anything as soon as it requires the approval from someone in another organization, which in large companies will often take weeks, if it happens at all.

There's an argument to be made for bureaucracy: once you reach a certain scale (of complexity and/or size), the law of large numbers makes that you're prone to more risks than when you're a startup. It's "fine" for a startup to not be aware of the latest development of privacy policies in Finland, and if you provision a couple resources in the cloud everything's fine because when looking at the bill, you can simply ask around "who owns that thing?". At enterprise size, you're much more prone to be audited by governments, to be attacked by hackers, to be the target of lawsuits, to have runaway costs that get hard to diagnose ; and the complexity of your systems (wet or hard) doesn't increase linearly. I don't think you can avoid having some processes to control that.

The problem is when the enterprise gets into a vicious cycle in which the only fix to any process issue is to slap on more process rather than rethink the existing ones. Such as illustrated in that post, where the solution to a lack of innovation is the creation of innovation heroes to incentivize the behaviour. I've been in three enterprise organizations, two of them have policies where you need to ask for permission, the other grants permission by default but reviews what's been done. That second policy is much better, as the level was quite high, people tend to respect the rule, and get caught if they don't. That allows for faster work.

But then there's also the matter of recruitment. As a startup you can handpick people, create a team that's functional and with an edge. In an enterprise, recruiting is done at an industrial scale, where your inbound fresh flesh exposes you to the simple truth that, by definition, half of humanity is below the mean.
>Saying "no" is easy and safe, but at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks, otherwise nothing would be done.

True, but that is for cases where you take the risk yourself. If the challenger crew knew the risk and were - fuck it - it's worth it it would have been different than a bureaucrat chasing a promotion.
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Here is a 28 min video on different type of carabiners, incase you were curious what each type does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ojYSq_NFY
Some orgs of Fortune 500 caliber have innovation units that help to process ideas and changes. To be efficient, these units must have buy in on senior leadership level and high level of exec sponsorship, ideally they would also have C-level representation in a form of dedicated “innovation officer” or similar role.

It is definitely not a new area, and author is on point with one key idea: organisations where heroes are praised as miracles generally don’t give a damn about continuous improvement, innovation units just never happen there. Praising individuals who swam against the flow for a year is pure virtue signalling in these orgs. In 2024 “running things smoothly” is almost a synonym for “continuous improvement”; building latter requires intent, not miracles.
My argument isn't that corporations are people. My point is that the government should never have been given the power to redistribute wealth the way it does today. It has not always had this power. And had the constitution been slightly clearer, it would not have this power today. No amount of lobbying would change that.

I am looking at reality, namely the reality of the US before the aforementioned decision giving the government broad power over the "general welfare". Society more resembled a liberal ecosystem. People were individually responsible to negotiate for their own prosperity.

It is my fundamental liberty that is being violated by forcing me to contribute to the maintenance of strangers. I would like the freedom to opt out of this mandatory insurance scheme.

It's not compassionate to force your view of compassion on others. It's tyrannical. In the vein of "If you're against gay marriage, don't get gay married": if you want to help people, contribute to charity. Don't force your views on others.
That sounds funny, but being a perfectionist IS actually a problem. You'll often waste time and effort making something perfect when "good enough" is all that's required.
Why do people keep making their own special licenses?

https://github.com/buaacyw/MeshAnything/blob/main/LICENSE.tx...
Tao... What can I say... Always great work.

Haven't read a single bad contribution from him. And I've read quite a bit...
Here's a real world example of a custom RAG pipeline built with Langchain

https://zackproser.com/chat

I did a full tutorial with source code that's linked at the top of that page ^

Fwiw I think it's a good idea to build with and without Langchain for deeper understanding.
… because people are assholes.
2 cents from personal experience in life, crisis and industry:

1. Nothing wrong with shuffling jsons around or developing yet another REST API.

Domain expertise often matters and pays more. There are only so many DB developers, but experts in gRPC APIs for insurance (put here your industry) are always useful for all insurance companies.

2. Your feelings and attitudes ("can't say I am a successful engineer") is likely not related to your professional life per se. Low level CUDA experts have same issues around same age. They can push you to grow your career and can be a valuable resource, but don't expect it to fix a root cause.
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> That’s it’s by far the best fixed-size approximation to real number arithmetic we have (*)

* for some use cases (**)

** conditions apply
> I feel urgency to be an expert in area and go deeper

I'd take a couple of weeks to dig into that, why do you feel that way, what influences you to think that way, is it really what you want or what your area of work expects from you, &c. The grass is always greener...