skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"An analytics system without tests that generated incorrect results silently."

I've noticed that test coverage and quality is largely a people (budget) problem. They want the system now. They want that value delivered number going up and the cycle time going down. Tests are some of the first cuts.
Yes, that is true.

But as detailed recently in Going Infinite, Jane Street's losses around the 2016 election were because they didn't know outcome was worth the example $50 and which was $100.
This intrigued me as I am working on a project using Next and learning it on the fly. The design is catchy. Great work on detailing out the course contents too.

Can also link your name to your twitter profile. Also how can I join waitlist without subscribing to the newsletter ?
You mean you thought tejohnso believes the US is a direct democracy, because of that post?
While I agree with the sentiment, comparing to a navy ship reactor isn't useful, they don't have to turn a profit, nuclear is used to make the ships less dependent on refuelling.
Also if it wasn't obvious all the dominoes started to fall with Russia and for a country that didn't even have a shot at joining the EU. It is incredible how much US foreign policy has failed.
I can't help thinking there's a huge opportunity for discussing this side of AI in a more principled way. When something (i.e. AI) is this viscerally annoying, it's tempting to slip into this style of discussion, I get it. But it's......hard to read even when you agree and smile along the way.

"The brief bio read: A little girl with blue eyes and blonde hair leads her friends on a healthy eating mission, culminating in the creation of a neighborhood farmer’s market. Okay. Sort of Triumph of the Will: Bedtime Story for Kids and Adults." (for context, Triumph of the Will is the name of a famous Nazi Germany-produced propaganda documentary)

To flesh it out a bit more with examples, to make it clear it's not cherry-picking:

- "What generative models are being used? What kinds of prompts are generating these texts? I don’t know. I’m not a virgin. As I said, I have a child." (virgin really is a complete non-sequitor here, unless the idea is only virgins use ChatGPT?)

- "But I did want to read about my nice Nazi Youth friend and her farmer’s market journey"

- "More importantly, what is a bedtime story for kids and adults? I am an adult. A bedtime story for an adult is just a real book. I read real books. Or at least, I used to? Basically, did Kindle think I was stupid now?"
Well, yes, but the article is about a disposable nfc ticket.
With 20% ROI collected in a few months, after all duties, it's a good deal, even if you pay with a credit card. (You can certainly get a cheaper loan if you're the kind of person to be invited to a bag-dispensing event.)
Chef Keith Sarasin has a wonderful video on the origins of the word "Curry". Do give it a watch in your free time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8AyelJo4Fo
Entering the phone number "555.555.5555" works well enough to get the discount.
The thing that astounds me about this post is he doesn’t really say a lot, or present a unique vision for hiring at his company, other than “leaning into the culture war is the most important thing I can do to set my company apart for prospective employees”.

Which is good information to have, I guess.
A (hopefully) new compression algorithm that uses binomials
I was initially surprised to find that the size of multinomials is less than the entropy predicted by the Shannon source coding theorem, which is generally accepted as a lower bound. Not sure if this encoder is new, but hopefully others find it interesting. Step by step math here https://github.com/Peter-Ebert/Valli-Encoding/blob/main/the-...
When I saw the photo in the article I thought, oh this is already available in my city in Romania.
I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be done. It's that we don't have anything like a state military manufacturing industry currently, so it would be a new and significant undertaking to nationalize a company like Boeing.
> It’s as much our business as Hitler was. We didn’t go into WWII to stop the Holocaust, we went into stop Hitler.

Hitler plausibly threatened American security. I don’t see any indication that Russia could do the same. Realistically, Russia can’t even take over Western Europe.

Look, we know where playing world police—treating every border aggression like it’s literally Hitler—takes us. For the last 80 years we have pissed away trillions of dollars and countless American lives defending borders few Americans could find on a map. It’s not worth it, and most of the world (except Europe who gets to free-ride on the security we provide) hates us for it.

> Ohio is an industrial and agricultural export powerhouse. 17% of its exports go to Europe, $1.1bn of which to France

If we stopped dicking around being the world police, why would a Russian-controlled France stop buying stuff from Ohio?

As to NATO—it’s obsolete.
2024: just use Claude 3.5 Sonnet
> Mathematicians are very much in davis/hersh "what is mathematics anyway"

This reminds me of getting my CS degree in the early 2000s, then slowly realizing that my comp-sci program had taught me lots of interesting things about how computers and programs work, and essentially nothing about how to write code for a living.

Also reminds me of playing Dominion (the card game) with another student, me saying "Okay, I've got 1 and 2 and 2 and 3, that's 8..." and him gasping "Wow! How did you do that so fast?"

Dude was a math grad student. I narrowly restrained myself from saying "Well, you see, I finished the 3rd grade..."
I think the point is that bias happens in all human behavior, but with AI it's more visible than in the general population. Which I'd say is a positive, but I don't believe if it offsets the downsides.
Why did you move the goalposts? Pumped-storage like Ludington are the most economical long term storage solution, they've existed for decades and unlike hydro generation, are not limited by suitable locations.
> Ferraris have to be serviced by licensed mechanics.

If you’re talking about special ones like La Ferrari or some others, i can tell you that there are lots of 458 italia and California and Cali T that have been in no-name shops and still being sold without any problem.
> and has competitive electrity prices

By passing the true costs to the tax payer and the next generations.
This is one case of royally fucked up logic.
There's Nijiya Market, the Japanese grocery chain. The SF bay area has several locations. Good for bento boxes. They also have the good Pocky, from Japan, not the version made in Thailand for the US market.

(US bento boxes are amusing. There's a chain restaurant near me which offers them, but they're super-sized, the size of a cafeteria tray.)
Looking forward toward somebody hooking together Python in APE [0], something like pex [1]/shiv[2]/pyinstaller[3], and the pants build system [4] to have a toolchain which spits out single-file python executables with baked-in venv and portable across mainstream OSes with native (or close enough) performance.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40040342

1 - https://docs.pex-tool.org/

2 - https://shiv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

3 - https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/

4 - https://www.pantsbuild.org/
That link is, itself, an I iceberg article.

Click on the “body” link in the footer to see the full expansion…

"Network Slug", which I sometimes discuss on HN, is also an iceberg article:

https://www.kozubik.com/pub/NetworkSlug/tip.html
My family is from Iran, and I always appreciate that stores like H-Mart and Lotte stock hard-to-find ingredients outside of Korean cooking staples. They are our go-to for large quantities of fresh mint/parsley/cilantro/tarragon, fresh fenugreek, fresh fava beans in the pod, cardamom, yellow split peas, and more. A dedicated persian grocery store can be hard to find, and many don't carry certain fresh ingredients.

It's also a joy to wander around and discover new foods from all over the world - fresh lychee, frozen puffed tofu, salted puffed mung beans, and soursop juice are all things I only got to try because of H-Mart or Lotte. Their seafood selection is also incredible.
> gaming consoles

To my knowledge none of the big three consoles allow you to install anything you want on them. They're "walled gardens" just as badly as Apple's ecosystem.
Actually it did get used. Linux and Windows used the x86 TSS for process context-switching for years.

During that time, Linux had a limit on the number of processes, which was due the maximum number of TSS entries that fit in the x86 GDT.

Eventually the Linux kernel was changed to the more versatile context-switch method it uses today. Among other things, this change was important for thread performance, as thread context switches can skip the TLB flush. Same for kernel mode tasks. Software task switching also greatly increased the number of processes and threads that can be launched, from about 8000 (across all CPU cores) to millions.
Busy Beaver, the current BB(5) conjecture and bbchallenge.org
If it isn't cheaper than batteries and solar in Australia, it is dead on arrival, someone has to pay for it. As of this comment, Australia has 18.4GW of coal fired generation capacity and 20GW of solar [1] (very roughly, lots of behind the meter solar that is hard to suss out, ends up being reduced demand as seen by the grid operator). Even if you assume worst case capacity factor, the last of their fossil generation will be gone before any nuclear sees first kwh to grid (global solar deployment is on track for ~660GW this year, and rapidly approaching 1TW/pa [2]). Germany is routinely pumping out 40GW of solar [3] (with ~81GW of total capacity), and Australia has far more solar potential [4] (along with appetite to lean into batteries [5]).

[1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/AU?wind=false&solar=fal... ("ElectricityMaps: Australia")

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727619 ("HN: Global PV installations may hit 660 GW in 2024")

[3] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE?wind=false&solar=fal... ("ElectricityMaps: Germany")

[4] https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/energy/resources/oth... ("Australia receives an average of 58 million PJ of solar radiation per year, approximately 10,000 times larger than its total energy consumption. However, Australia's current use of solar energy is low with solar energy accounting for only about 0.1 per cent of Australia's total primary energy consumption.")

[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/end-of-co... | https://archive.today/2owbd ("Australia’s rapid shift from coal-fired power to cleaner alternatives is underwriting a boom in battery projects able to store solar and wind energy. The country has at least 250 planned battery developments with a potential capacity of almost 130,000 megawatt-hours, a pipeline that’s second only to China, data compiled by BloombergNEF show. While Australia still relies on coal for more than half of its electricity generation, many major plants are set to close in the next decade.")
Too little too late given that there will be no programmers left in three years due to AI
When interest rates were 2.5% guaranteed for 30 years and the govt was running a 3.1 trillion deficit on 3.6 trillion of revenue, hell yeah we went into debt! 2020 was a good time to be able to calculate.
Is there also a rule specifically against making "this isn't reddit" comparisons too though?
Likewise, for shows that are on more than one service, or available on e.g. Paramount+ on Prime in addition to just on Paramount+, torrenting groups pick the highest bitrate/quality sources.
> This week’s edition is a guest post about spooky Kindle A.I. slop from Leah Beckmann, an L.A.-based screenwriter and journalist and Chief Kindle Bullshit Correspondent for Read Max.

I had to reread this a couple times before understanding that the guest post - not the A.I. slop - was from Leah Beckmann.
Discussion (54 points, 2 days ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763025
Or that have very limited land, or don't have much sunlight. Australia is not the place I would try them, but they may or may not work somewhere else.
The H-Mart in our area (Burlington Mass) is no longer the bargain that it once was in certain product areas. We noticed some of the chilled Korean cooked food was subdivided into smaller packages even as prices have risen. Seafood such as uncut sushi fish and fish roe as well as whole fish are also a lot more pricey.

Fortunately, we have alternatives, including really good Vietnamese markets in Dorchester and the Patel Bros in Waltham Mass -- still very old school, very cheap for produce, and lots of really special things you can't get elsewhere.
I'm not sure it would make a difference on a Steam Deck, as E and P cores are an Intel thing
This isn't just folk wisdom either. There's an active subfield of cognitive science that focuses on working memory/cognitive load and math instruction. Broadly speaking, it's hard for students to successfully transition to even basic algebra if they don't have basic calculations down.
It's thriving in my PNW window. Grew it from seeds and just needs water every few days.
It can be done, the economics of it are questionable.
Storage has enabled California to almost flatten its infamous duck curve:

https://cleantechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Califor...
The big chains that do this in Europe are very clear that prices never go up during the day, and generally everything bulk updates at night. Baked goods get cheaper towards the end of the day, for example. The linked Planet Money episode in the article covers it nicely.

But sure, once you enable the capability, it won't be long before we are living in the inevitable grim meathook future.
That's just marketing blabber from whoever bought this article. Everything on the shelf already has a UPC code. If a retailer wanted to build this, they could do it today without needing any new hardware, by letting your phone camera scan UPC codes.
The profit maximizing price after a 30% cut `q(price) * (price - 30%price)` is not the same as the profit maximizing price without that cut `q(price) price`.

As long as the demand curve is downward sloping, there will be some pass through of Apple's cut to customers, though the fraction that is passed through will depend on price elasticity.
This is always how Rolex has worked. Supply is limited, and prices are fixed, so they have to pick and choose who gets the rarer and more desirable watches, and who better to offer them to than the people who are your best customers (or have enough clout to be free advertising?).

Ferrari works the same way.
> It's an unfortunate mix up - curry leaves and curry powder/paste are different things.

Reminds me of buying "chili powder" from an Asian grocery and getting powdered chiles instead. The resulting pot of chili was very bland and way too hot at the same time.
Sure, maybe it ought to be denoted in academic terms that in a particular geographical area that a particular linguistic form is reflective of certain socio-economic attributes of the speaker.

The comment I was responding to was deriving moral law from a "standard form" and shaming those who were grown or educated in an alternative form. In fact not just shaming, but proclaiming the righteousness of discrimination based upon one's dialect.

A linguist or sociologist would describe that some form does get used and discrimination happens because of it. But they would not be prescriptive in either, and especially not the latter.
A fanpage for notebooks: https://wonger.dev/unlisted/notetaking

Need to revisit the copywriting and CSS. Also collecting pictures of people's notebook pages.
i think thats too simple. i'm older, and when i go into shops its not that everyone realizes they need testing and it got cut, its that no one even has any notion that testing is useful or interesting. an entire generation of developers propping up systems without any real systemic validation that they do what they are supposed to.

organizations spend a huge amount of resource keeping 'cicd' propped up, but when you look at whats inside - its a build, and some random unit tests and mocks.

to be fair, testing in an environment where everything is internal and external services laced together with json isn't easy. what i find really odd is just that no one is willing to acknowledge it as a real problem.
Stepping Down as Co-Chair of the NISO Controlled Digital Lending Working Group
Peter Dutton is not about to support wind and solar though. Yuck.
The hugo theme I use has this built in, and the sidenodes change to footnotes if the width is too small. https://github.com/capnfabs/paperesque
Thanks. It's rwieruch on Twitter. However, I have to admit that I've gotten pretty bad at communicating on social media tbh. But for the launch I have to tweet I guess!

Fortunately, I wrote bullet points for each content piece when I implemented the software that I want to teach in the course. I know all too well what it means to put together all the marketing material at the last minute when you have no energy left.
I'm getting more and more convinced that tech people are living in a dangerous bubble re: the generative AI boom. I've been talking to people outside this bubble, and the unanimous response to all the "exciting" AI developments of the last ~3 years has been that their experience of generative AI has been purely negative with no upsides whatsoever. All they see is the content slop, the shitty search results, degraded experiences in e.g. customer service, and so on.

And it's starting to alarm me that nobody in tech appears to care about this and is just going "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead". That kind of arrogant dismissal of popular mood and forcing unwanted change on people is how resentment and revolution happen.
AI was a mistake
In Seattle and Portland (Beaverton, actually) there's Uwajimaya. Nice Japanese bookstore inside their markets as well.
Discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40762298
> I don't know why Apple should feel entitled to own the relationship with a businesses customers because they also use an iPhone when it's an ancillary part of the product.

Apple provides a custom operating system (frameworks, drivers, security updates, backwards compatibility, etc) to make that business's app function, and continue to function, at all.

You can write and maintain a website instead of an app to avoid that.
I currently have Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky working. Sadly, it seems Twitter downranks bot-generated threads.
Breaking Vac
Because a computer isn’t embedded in our heads yet, wait we have one, why not use it.
There must be ruggedized calculators out there, so that argument doesn't seem very compelling. People use their phones at construction sites, and you can run whatever type of calculator you want on a cell phone.
>Costco

Picked up an 8 pack of these huge boneless pork chops and a 4lb tray of really good Mac 'n Cheese there last week for $25 total. Fed our family of 4 twice, so a little over $3 per meal. Meanwhile, burgers/fries/drinks X 4 at Shake Shack is $80, over $100 if you actually get shakes too.
We do a simple offline idiot test to see if they know how to rub two variables together (10 minutes of effort for a junior, say), then we go into a face-to-face interview where we give them a laptop with a blank project (no frameworks, no extra packages), and we all work through a moderately difficult logic problem (30-40 mins) together on a big screen. This gives us far more insight into their problem-solving skills, their ability to work with others, their knowledge of comp-sci and language fundamentals (the ones that count, no implementing a B-tree from scratch or some such nonsense). They still have access to online resources such as stack overflow, because that's part of problem solving and most programmers' workflow. we have had good results, and have employed some bad-on-paper candidates who have turned out to be great programmers, and turned away some candidates who had great CVs, but turned out to be not great problem solvers or team players.

We've found that large take-home tasks disadvantage certain candidates who don't have time or patience (tech interview fatigue, for example). They also don't really weed out candidates who will hack around on a 4 hour task for 20 hours until they cobble together something passable, or - as in your case - feed the whole assignment to an LLM. There's no substitute for hands-on experience with the candidate, but you need to be willing to put senior resources with them for that hour or two.
Their definitions of OOP and FP are rather restrictive - it's basically FP = ADTs (data) and OOP = interfaces (codata). Many modern languages support both (e.g. Haskell has typeclasses, Java has records and sealed interfaces).
Yup. I always use Set and Map over objects. They just contain way fewer surprises and the APIs actually work as you would expect. I only use Objects for "struct" like objects with a known set of keys that are used by name. It is also nice because it conveys more intent to the reader.
Early in the pandemic my partner and I decided that, since we couldn't actually travel anywhere interesting any more, we'd instead do our weekly shop at a different international supermarket every week.

We live in the San Francisco Bay Area so there are a LOT of international supermarkets!

We found Indian, Mexican, South American, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Middle Eastern - but my favourite ended up being the Korean Kukje supermarket in Daly City.

Eventually we realized that the trick is to go with at least one recipe in mind, which turns it into a more structured effort to find those ingredients (and then impulse buy lots of other interesting things).
As a chemist who has actually done micro fabrication work, this reads to me like a classic case of a non-chemistry company trying to do chemistry R&D and finding out it’s a lot more complicated to follow all the rules than they thought it would be.

Robust chemical safety systems (both equipment, procedures, and employees) are expensive to implement and maintain, and they don’t scale downward easily. Companies doing small-scale production or R&D tend to have the worst practices.

That said, the findings in this EPA report don’t seem terrible, just indicative of a sloppy small-scale operation. Finding labeling issues is the lowest of low hanging fruit for any sort of chemical inspector, and Apple not being able to manage even that is just sad.
> More energy in the atmosphere means more energetic weather.

Although that's tautologically true, please be aware that "accumulated cyclone energy" (i.e. storm energy) is a tracked metric and hasn't moved since records began 50 years ago:

https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?arch...

In practice the climate is quite complex and datasets often don't neatly fall into line with each other. If you want to argue that there's a problem with energetic weather some other metric would be needed. Watch out though for economic indexes that don't control for population growth or apply deflators correctly.
It reseeds itself every year in my PNW garden.
"viable" probably means some else then just "technically possible".

I would also see as requirements: It must be cost effective, it must be scalable in several dimensions: fast to plan and approve, fast to build, able to be build in massive numbers, able to be financed in large numbers, able to be operated in large numbers, able to cool in large numbers, able to operate in a secure environment, ...