skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason is supposedly that my throughput is too low and inconsistent (stories completed per sprint).

Spend some work hours optimizing for the metrics that the managers measure. The goal is not to make a good job, it's to optimize your metrics (i.e. screw the system). The more points you get, the less work you have to do.

Make smaller stories, smaller tasks, overestimate the tasks, quickly contact the manager whenever a task is looking like it has been under-estimated and ask them to act on it (e.g. by splitting the task or modifying the estimate).

And don't feel bad about it: your manager optimizes for their metrics as well. The goal is not to make a good product, it is to optimize the metrics that people who feel clever put in place. If your company ever realizes that employees abuse the metrics, the solution will be to fire managers, and that's not you.

At the same time, actively look for another job.
Try "=((0.1+0.2)-0.3)*1e80" -- your test can be fooled by pretty standard rounding for display.
>" better criminalize violations of accepted ethical norms"

What a load of BS. Wat's next ? Burning witches? I think we are way over our heads with criminalization already and have created big underclass of people who have no second chance because of that. So no fuck you.

P.S. Sure I'd like to see many of our masters in jail for fucking up with people's lives but that will not happen
The leaks in question are on the service module of the Starliner spacecraft. This is a separate part of the spacecraft that is jettisoned before the main spacecraft reenters the atmosphere. Therefore, the service module, where all the leaks are that they want to understand better, would burn up in the atmosphere, and be destroyed.
For the free communities I'm a part of, this is not a bad thing. Social conversations disappearing after 90d is a good thing, and I'm glad they're purging that data as well.
There's a big difference: when the "wheels start falling off" Google stuff, plane-loads of people don't crash and burn to death.

It would be unfortunate if YouTube and Google Maps broke down and became unusable, of course, but no one's going to get killed by it.
> How do you measure beauty?

Using the beholder's eye, of course.
and the trick is that you can connect the heaters in series instead of doing it all in parallel and pumping out a ton of amps at a very low voltage.

Yes, this is what a lot of tube equipment did, as they are naturally high-voltage, low-current devices; here is one notable example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Five
I would encourage you to read this if you haven’t: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

There are exceptions to every rule, re-writing old software because it’s old needs a rare exception indeed.
However, in emergency situations, the Dragon capsule can seat up to, I believe, four extra astronauts, and there are only two on Starliner.
Pre-baked grain is not handled with those standards
Ok but a “plants only” diet is not a sustainable or natural diet for humans. Humans are not currently enmasse eating a carnivore diet either.

So you are putting forward the argument and problem - that we are currently omnivores and we should not be eating meat , due to environmental concerns and because it lowers the quantity of food we can produce overall.

You are saying it would be better if we all became vegans, so that higher quantities of food could be produced.

You think this is the solution.

The problem with going to an extreme position like you have done is that people will overall get sick from this unnatural diet.

We see thousands of people on Reddit have cured their “incurable auto immune” diseases by going carnivore and not ingesting any plants. After they previously ate too much plants and damaging their intestinal lining resulting in natural plant toxins created by plants to stop insects eating them , pesticides , fungicides, herbicides , glysophate etc leaking from the gut into their blood causing the cykotine response by the immune system and a build up of these toxins around the body (joints mostly with specifically it being the knees for rheumatoid arthritis and such).

Meat is clean of toxins as like in our own body , the animals bodies keep the blood clean of it , any toxins in the blood would cause the animal itself to get sick.

This is not the case at all regarding plants which are full of an assortment of toxins.

We have proof from thousands of individual case reports and published medical papers now that plants are making people sick. The medical establishment simply has not yet put all the findings together or discussed it properly.

Have some common sense. Vegans are sickly, weak and over time they turn into cucks (our personality
Is just a manifestation of our physical state). Carnivores are strong, fit predators.

You’re talking about marketing problems , that’s a real marketing problem for you. Try selling this vegan and bugs diet to the masses. These are secondary problems (marketing) that don’t really have a place in our discussion.
https://huggingface.co/bartowski/gemma-2-27b-it-GGUF
You sneak up at night, maybe with a few key people paid off ahead of time.
That’s been my problem with any non-MS vscode distribution. Missing Remote-SSH and devcontainers. Both of which I tend to use a lot — especially remote ssh with large datasets that exist on remote servers.

Otherwise, I’d be all in for this!
Alas, it's a little worse than "nothing" that since:

1. Perpetrators like Ryan Walters will benefit by getting/keeping political appointments under Republican governors like Kevin Stitt.

2. Perpetrators will personally benefit by getting more votes in the next Republican primary they run in.

3. Their supporters will be pleased because the cruelty is the point.
Lol. "it takes 9 minutes to do a full 16 bit arithmetic shift left."

Still. Slick tooling. (No compile though, just an assembler.)
Having allergies in the USA is already hell thanks to the media, so many people will think you're full of it but no really i'll be bed ridden for a day with nausea and a migraine, which means i just never go out to eat now due to the awkwardness of explaining it all.
Is it not? The amount of media created and circulated every day today is far greater than at any time in the past.
Yes absolutely. SpaceX Dragon is cleared to seat up to, I believe, four extra astronauts in an emergency.
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

— Sinclair Lewis
Mostly for boilerplate things like assigning a bunch of thing to a dictionary, it usually knows what I am thinking.
Same. I tried 27B and found it to be not even close to llama3-70b.

Even llama-8b did better in some of my tests than Gemma 27b.
Not only that, some of the problem with addiction were directly caused by the dosage guidelines for oxycontin. They really wanted it to be a 12h drug, but it really isn't and it wears off after about 8 hours. Rather than admitting this and giving a smaller dosage more frequently they doubled down by using a larger dose and trying to keep with the 12h schedule.

This combination or larger dose followed by mild withdrawal then results in a higher likelihood to become addicted to opioids. So not only they marketed it heavily and got more people on opioids than necessary, they did it in a way that maximizes the likelihood of addiction.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
You don't have to be an engineer to appreciate the value of engineering. Also, a lawyer is more likely to think about risk and liability first and "shareholder value" later.
I thought it only failed to apply when the crime was done by one partner to the other? (I'm only a lawyer on TV)
If both lat and lon are required, you don't need to throw an exception for lat=0. If you want lat=null lon=0.0 to mean something like "latitude is unknown but longitude is known to be 0.0," yeah you need optional or wrapped primitives.

Edit: If a client doesn't fill out the LatLng message, that's different from lat and/or lon being null or 0. The whole LatLng message itself will be null. Proto3 always supported that too. But it's usually overkill to check the message being null, unless you added it later and need to specially deal with clients predating that change. If the client just has a bug preventing it from filling out LatLng, that's the client's problem.

The confusing part here is that even if the LatLng message is null, LatLng.lat will return 0 in some proto libraries, depending on the language. You have to specifically check if the message is null if you care. But there are enough cases where you have tons of nested protos and the 0-default behavior is actually way more convenient.
It’s odd how we glorify religion in this country, and then are immediately horrified when it rears its head in certain places. We seem conflicted. Is it a good thing, or a bad thing? Or maybe just the “right one” is a good thing?

Full disclosure: I consider it a good thing.
That's the dystopian situation which Richard Stallman envisioned in "Right to Read". Do not want. I'd rather have these periodic gaffs than the alternative.
So many scammers use TeamViewer that I'm surprised they are still in the App Store
I am not sure which is why I think its a confusing spot. From the article...

- "FDA officials indicated that allergen labeling is a “not a substitute” for preventing cross-contamination in factories."

- "some companies began adding small amounts of sesame..FDA officials said that violated the spirit, but not the letter, of federal regulations"

Hence my open ended question, how do you legally and with the spirit of the law not serve the allergy market? If you allergen labeling is not a substitute for preventing cross-contamination...what if I as a baker/factory don't care about cross contamination?
I'm not splitting hairs. The difference between L4 and L5 autonomy is enormous. I submit that you cannot get enhanced safety outcomes out of a system that cannot perform the task at hand at least as well as a mediocre human, and realistically not until you're routinely out-performing the bulk of human operators. And if you think not crashing into random shit in a perfectly chaotic environment is an easily solved problem please explain to me why store PoS tech (orders of magnitude smaller problem space) has been a roiling dumpster fire for decades now. Software doesn't have an amazing track record at solving problems. It has proven to be absolutely phenomenal at shifting problem spaces in weird ways and introducing spectacularly stupid unplanned side effects however.
I don't know that the system is all that great. I've known people with multiple warrants fly around and in/out of the country multiple times before finally getting stopped.
I understand you see value in it. But that may differ. I know I would have hated being forced to read the bible as a child. Even though I was baptized I very quickly became a student of science and I rejected religion as soon as I could talk. I was very opinionated in my school days. Luckily nobody tried to teach it to me or it would have been war >:]

In fact my school tried to put me in the optional Latin class because I was a really good student and "important people know Latin" and I made myself completely impossible there because I didn't see the point in learning a dead language. I look to the future not the past.

That didn't last long and after that I was a teacher's pet again, they just had to learn their lesson that no means no. Heheh

Ps they were right in the end and Latin would have been handy because now I struggle with Latin based languages. But oh well. Standing up for what you think is right is important and I would do it again :)
That is great to know. I work in an academic environment and would gladly give feedback on this from the perspective of teaching post grads. Feel free to contact, email in hn profile.
And it does, because it uses LaunchDarkly SDKs: https://docs.launchdarkly.com/sdk/openfeature

... though there are only three officially-supported OpenFeature adapters so far (Java, NodeJS, .NET)
The wild part is how the justices were split: Gorsuch wrote for the majority, joined by Thomas, Alito, Barrett and Jackson. You won't often see these 5 seeing eye to eye in a split decision.

This ruling breaks my usual test that the conservative majority will nearly always side with corporate intersts because this decision definitely isn't pro-corporate.

The settlement would essentially shield the Sacklers from all liability and allow them to keep the proceeds of their crimes while paying a fine over a long period of time essentially from future earnings on thse ill-gotten gains.

The dissent seemed to say this was bad for 100,000 opioid victims. That's not a reason to legally shield the crooks who profited from their death and suffering. I'm shocked that Kagan and Sotomayor, in particular, went for that line of reasoning.

In a just world, the Sacklers would die pennieless in a 6x8 cell. Fines are just the cost of doing business. Intentionally addicting hundreds of thousands (if not millions) to opioids for profit, knowingly, should lead the loss to both your freedom and every dollar you earned from that endeavour.
I'm not sure how to separate this mindset from one that would have commercial buildings not be required to include elevators and wheelchair ramps. Do you also think that's an unfair burden to put on the roughly-90% of people who are not mobility-impaired? (Not implying any judgement either way, just curious if this is a consistent viewpoint).
Wasn't Netflix going to open a bunch of movie theaters? What happened to that.
I did the same, but started writing Fudge, to keep it clean. I got to FU and someone finished it with CK. It made me laugh much harder than it should have.
That's not quite it. Hospitals would make every code cost $1M or some other ridiculous number if that were the only thing going on.

The provider has a list of prices called the chargemaster. The insurance (and Medicare) have lists of prices they'll pay. For private insurance, there will often be negotiations to set prices for patients with the insurer getting treatment at the provider, called the network agreement. These fall between the two lists, generally.

If you're out of network, the provider bills their chargemaster, the insurer tries to pay their price depending on the terms of the insurance. In network, the provider bills the negotiated rate and the insurer (probably) pays it.

Now what happens if the patient doesn't have insurance? The provider bills their chargemaster and the patient (rarely) pays it. If they do, confetti. If they don't, the provider graciously takes a percentage off and offers a repayment plan. They collect on a meaningful percentage of these.

The patient pays more if the chargemaster is higher.
I've owned that book. I think that's the NOLO one? It's definitely not a bad intro to criminal defense, but it is no way likely to get you out from under this weight of charges.

These days if you can get someone on the phone with access to an AI you can definitely get some pretty decent motions written, just watch for hallucinated citations.
They aren't, but that's what the customers want. They don't care about all this generative stuff, what they really care about is getting answers to questions. This is the expectation and whoever cracks this reliably will be the next Google.
I can think of at least a few scenarios where Search or Maps not working right could (indirectly) kill people.
I guess we should repeal the Americans with Disabilities Act then?
It's becoming ever more silly & pointless to say as the travesty & ridiculous overreach (of these extremist theocratic/un-democratic) radicals keeps spreading, but like, low key thank you for showing us who you are, for so visibly not caring at all about anyone but yourselves & your particular & strange delusions.

I hope some day we survive (as a free society) to calmer chiller times, and look back & reflect. It feels like theres a total lack of moderation, that this extremism has been growing, and I hope we can survive & not be corralled into a top-down overbearing government that forces a select peoples chosen way of life on everyone.
I agree. If I am allergic to sesame, then I would also rather play it safe, rather than try a risk.

By the way, Molitor 5901 is the phone number used by the Jackal to know if he could move, in "The Day of the Jackal", if I remember right.
Yes I agree, I forgot about dev containers.

If I am doing ML most of the time I am using a server GPU with a large dataset. This is one of the use cases that made me use VSCode more than RStudio.

When I have really wanted to use RStudio I use the web version, but its less pleasant than a simple ssh remote.
> I don't understand people who think the Sacklers are villains who destroyed lives, but Purdue should continue operating more-or-less as-is

I’ve got a friend that’s the same in Afghanistan - he thinks it was right to go in, and it was right to abandon it - which to me sounds like moral myopia. Surely it was either wrong to begin with, or you have to stick around.
Here's the thing though: The Constitution and amendments thereof are (re)written and ratified by the States at the States' pleasure, which answer to the Peoples of the States respectively. The Federal government cannot modify the Constitution by itself, it's at the mercy of the States and their Peoples.

Thus the pecking order: People > States > Federal.

The People can demand their respective States to modify the Constitution as desired to (re)define the powers delegated from the People to the State and Federal governments.
I've had phishing served to me through google ads a few times, so this hardly surprises.
unironically. would love to have those berkeley lectures back online
>"you know what it means, I know what it means"

It is somewhat humorous when humans have ontological objections to the neologisms used to describe a system whose entire function is to relate the meanings of words. It is almost as if the complaint is itself a repressed philosophical rejection of the underlying LLM process, only being wrapped in the apparent misalignment of the term hallucination.

The complaint may as well be a defensive clinging "nuh uh, you can't decide what words mean, only I can"

Perhaps the term "gas lighting" is also an appropriate replacement of "hallucination," one which is not predicated on some form of truthiness standard, but rather THIS neologism focuses on the manipulative expression of the lie.
Have you ever stopped to consider why you are writing code like that, and if it is necessary in the first place?

I think if you are spamming a lot of code that looks like:

thing = params.get('thing')
thong = params.get('thong')
...
thunk = params.get('thonk')

then you probably aren't delivering a lot of value with your code.

In fact that overly verbose code could be a liability because it has to be reviewed (possibly multiple times as people look over the code to see how values are getting assigned).
Google has a title called TLM which is tech lead + manager which is meant to straddle the divide. In practice you have twice the expectations which are themselves conflicting with only the one salary. It is often used for ICs to try out management before making the decision which ladder to stay on. Most TLMs are at the staff level so kind of fits that staff engineer who is a junior manager that you describe.
Europe also had a populist surge around the same time.
Again? The last ransomware issue was like in the beginning of this year:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hackers-target-teamvi...

Not surprising, if Teamviewer lets other people control your machine by design.
In your opinion. I think those owed restitution would feel differently about the primary purpose.
There's "right to code" and then "right to read," and these are different. Engineers have these sorts of licencing requirements because we don't want bridges to collapse. Doesn't stop people from tinkering with engineering on their own or even working as engineers in certain roles.

When it comes to handling private data like medical records, driver's licences, etc. -- yeah, I'd be in favour that companies over a certain threshold have to hire licensed coders for these tasks. It may be a loss of freedom for a few specific coders, but it'd be a benefit to everyone else's privacy.
Does drpc meet your needs?

https://storj.github.io/drpc/
So we can look at the software they produce and see if it's better. From what I can see they suck at it. There was that error where Citibank sent hundreds of millions to the wrong guys and that was totally due to software designed like a monkey did it.

Freaking nightmare with this licensing crap. But if you'll let me run a licensing company and make mine the compulsory one that everyone has to use I'm good for it.

I'll call it Certified Software Engineer LLC.
i got put on a pip because i raised my voice at our tech lead who didn't know what an "api" was. they promoted her to tech lead instead of dev manager. I made it through, but I eventually got fired 6 months later.

Just keep working maybe communicate more when you close something...I don't know if you sail at all but right before you turn the boat where the boom swings across the stern you're supposed to yell "COMING ABOUT!!!!!" just do that. "INCOMING PULL REQUEST!!!!" anytime you do anything in all major slack channels.

BUt yeah you probably will need to get another job sooner or later.
At my Catholic private school religion courses which were required were essentially surveys of all religions. As an atheist I appreciated it.
>both edits are not in our comment chain

The first edit I mentioned is in this comment chain and the second one was in response to my post in a different chain.

>Nobody forced anyone to get vaccinated

Really? This is trivially false. For example vaccination was extensively mandated in several countries by law, for example some provinces in China.[0] In the US certain states require proof of vaccination for certain activities. For example in New York vaccination is required to go to school.[1] Perhaps you meant "not all people were forced to get vaccinated?" That is not being debated here. In any case I never even made an argument about this point until now. And in any case I don't feel too strongly about whether "force" is the right word to describe vaccine mandates. My only points were that if your boss tells you you'll lose your job if you don't have sex with him he has forced you to quit (assuming you cannot get him fired, for example if you have no proof he said that and will continue harassing you) and secondly that "forced to trust" is not complete nonsense.

>You seem to have another agenda here

You're the one that tried to say that a boss extorting sex isn't considered forcing you to quit your job in order to maintain your position. My point was actually fairly clear and not even about vaccination.

>One is rather clear and the other one is nitpicking to get an agenda across.

I would agree except you're not even nitpicking you're just claiming that whatever you decide "force" means is the one that OP must hold by as opposed to "throwing dictionaries" at the problem.

[0] https://doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S336434

[1] https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/immunization/schools/sc...
Sounds like a great reason to include cleanup as part of the initial work.
I remember that post and I’ve read it a few times, thank you for it! I was already working on River at the time but it was refreshing to see the case made so strongly by another person who gets it.

- Blake, co-author of riverqueue.com / https://github.com/riverqueue/river :)
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