skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this applies to most human endeavours, not just sport.

I used to produce electronic music on my own, as a side gig; it felt very solitary and I am thankful to be now part of a band where I can interact with other musicians who became also good friends; money-wise it is worse but it's not my main income so I'm fine with that.

As a software developer, I have worked for a few years as a solo freelancer, it felt in some ways like what the author describes in the OP, moving to a "traditional" 9-to-5 dev job actually felt like a breath of fresh air, despite all the shortcomings of that type of job.
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>But fundamentally, how is this different than what the Supreme Court does? The Supreme Court interprets the constitution and its meaning as it relates to whether or not a law is constitutional. The overturning of Roe v Wade is the direct result of the current court saying 'actually, the way we previously interpreted the constitution was wrong'.

That's sort of the point, because congress has abdicated their responsibility for so long, many of the "laws" and "rights" that exist in our legal framework are mere shadows of actual legislation. They're executive whims or judicial policies, both of which are inherently fragile and subject to sudden change. Roe v. Wade was the "law of the land" only to the extent that the courts continued to interpret an ambiguity in the law the same way as they always had. Congress had decades to shore up a case that even the jurist who were part of it said was extremely weak. Everyone knew it was fragile and the DNC cashed in on that fragility every election.

Or consider medical marijuana, which is currently only un-prosecuted at the federal level because the president told the DEA to chill out for a bit. The fact that in November the next president could change their mind and conduct federal raids of dispensaries across the country is not a good thing. You might argue that they couldn't do that because the medical marijuana industries and laws are crafted to avoid crossing state lines, but that depends on A) ignoring decades of Wickard (which admittedly the current SCOTUS might be willing to do, but boy if you think this decision or Roe was controversial, that would be a doozy) and B) ignore the very obvious fact that some of that legal supply is leaking across state lines illegally.

The fact that Net Neutrality is on again/off-again is another example of this. Major legal decisions are being left to the whims of two octogenarians who it's a miracle manage to get through the day without shitting their pants, and a judicial system that is inconsistent at the best of times. The courts have always been political, but if they are uniquely so at this time, it's because the folks interested in politics have figured out its easier to get what they want via executive fiat and judicial wrangling, and congress has learned their jobs and income are more secure when they don't have to take the blame for those things.
It is very important for a compiler to be deterministic. Otherwise you can't validate the integrity of binaries! We already have issues with reproducibility without adding this shit in the mix.
>> "discovered" that troubleshooting Kubernetes was a bit like Warhammer 40k Adeptus Mechanicus waving incense in front of machines they didn't understand in the hopes that it would make the problem go away

I'm not familiar with the reference but logs, events and metrics seem pretty useful. Port forward, shell into containers, view logs, etc. I don't see what is so bad about it.
This is a social network :) I would like to see idea going further. It would be interesting to see in what layers the ideas start to diverge and my "feed" starts to get fed with ideas I don't agree with. Sounds more fun than an algorithmic feed.
US OTA prime time is largely low budget unscripted nowadays. Game shows and "reality" shows dominate. For the few scripted series, they're largely spinoffs of established series. CSI:Lodi[0] or Law & Order:Parking Enforcement have probably been pitched at this point.

It's circling the drain as viewership evaporates with the disappearance of rooftop aerials.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfQNB5WXmY
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That's not true, negative procedure SIs do not need to be approved. They can only be rejected. Most SIs are negatives, not the positives that you described.
Its not.

The whole ecosystem around it is an example of Conways law and and a Google product.

None of the people using it are google.

Google, also, runs its own hardware.

Shockingly it is a great product if you rent hardware, autoscaling is autospending. No one knows what a feature costs any more because its all just a big bucket your pouring money into for amazon to have 30 percent margin on.

We need operations people again, we need to stop using containers as bags for shitty "software" ... Do actual engineering.
Good luck getting planning permission anywhere
It works significantly like every other graphics app. I do hope you'll stay away and quit wasting others time with exaggerated statements.
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In Wirtinger calculus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtinger_derivatives) you consider a complex variable and its conjugate as independent. This simplifies a lot of things e.g. Cauchy Riemann becomes just df/dz* = 0.

TensorFlow works this way, jax instead differentiates real and imaginary parts.

I wonder if there is a version for quaternions now.
Question I've always wondered: Does Google's monorepo provide all its engineers access to ALL its code?

If yes, given the sheer number of developers, why haven't we seen a leak of Google code in the past (disgruntled employee, accidental button, stolen laptop, etc)?

Also how do they handle "Skunkworks" stlye top-secret projects that need to fly under the radar until product launch?
One item the DevOps mindset missed was reproducibility.
Fast feedback loops in spirit tell to have a way to know what’s wrong but it doesn’t tell how to reproduce it as you have layers and layers where your code is run. So, you are in a spot of I kinda know what’s going on but I have no way to reproduce it because:

- the application has hardcoded paths.

- the service discovery isn’t dynamic

- the branching strategy doesn’t account for edge cases.

- the build process doesn’t account for edge cases.

- and many other things that are related to bad practices.

I recall an old boss saying he wanted stable dev environments which sounded an oximoron. I’ve always aimed to have an environment where I can reproduce a desired behavior wether is a faulty or not.
DevOps, in my experience, has often been unfortunately misused to mean "no ops": developers are doing operations, and there is no dedicated ops staff. For some engineers, this works. For others, they are out of their element and it leads to outages and chaos.
Sometimes they get it wrong.
As noted in the trademark

> The English translation of "POMODORO" in the mark is "tomato" or "tomato plant".

https://trademarks.justia.com/857/90/pomodoro-85790837.html
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Motivation

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We spent months setting up our LLM application backend and integrating it into our frontend, but it ended up not being accurate enough to be useful in production.

We, engineers, tend to approach LLM development as an engineering problem, as we do with most traditional software applications. This means we focus on wiring up a bunch of components together such as the OpenAI API, Vector DB, backend, frontend, auth, security, scalability, etc., and expect the application will just work. However with LLM development, there’s a second piece of the puzzle that comes after the engineering — making the application accurate. This part is often glossed over and not explored until after initial development is complete. As a result, teams end up spending 3-6 months on LLM development, just to realize what they’ve built is not useful for production. This is typically when they begin trial and erroring through accuracy improvements, using “vibe-checks” with little success.

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Accuracy is the most important part of LLM development -- without an accurate application, the product is useless. The best way to improve accuracy is to systematically run numerous experiments, empirically testing the impact of changes to your LLM stack on your output. For example, how does adding a new paragraph to my prompt affect the overall accuracy of my application? We are working on a Framework that takes an accuracy-first approach from the beginning of your LLM Development journey. We do this by structuring your LLM development for rapid experimentation, providing you with all the tools needed to manage and evaluate experiments at scale, and helping you deploy your application to production.

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> Just like congress can legislate abortion laws

That might violate the 10th Amendment since it wasn't explicitly delegated to the federal government.
Speaking of Ladino, here’s the Sephardic Jewish French singer Francoise Atlan singing a famous song in that language: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHLr9d_db0g. If you speak Spanish you can check how much of it you can understand.
Here are the lyrics with English translation: https://sephardicsongs.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/dos-amantes-...

There’s a large group of Ladino speakers in Turkey.
Roe v Wade and gun control are pretty classical cultural war stuff from the 60s and 70s. I’m not sure where you’re getting it but the left being pro choice and the right being pro life are classical left/right distinctions in America since at least Roe v Wade or shortly thereafter. Similarly, gun control also became a classical left/right distinction once the left decided that gun ownership was a public safety problem and the right decided that personal gun ownership is enshrined in the Constitution.

Can you clarify how these aren’t left/right distinctions?
There is a big difference between seeing someone 1:1 vs in a crowd, as well as the corporate culture of an environment.

If everyone is rushed and miserable, they aren't going to be throwing out pleasantries as they rush through the halls.
The game-changing cannon giving the Army's new Ajax its tactical punch [video]
I don’t know. As someone who has tried to introduce the simple concept of version control to various sysadmin orgs over the years, I am fine with many of those types of sysadmins going away

A lot of those guys just couldn’t handle a reality where they couldn’t name all their systems with cute Dr Who hostnames and do all their work as local root with riced out bash prompts

Devops at least forced them to the same table with the dev org, and if they ended up getting replaced in the transition then I shed zero tears
In theory sure. I think in practice it is very common that a Hindi or Urdu speaker will talk to someone else speaking "the other language" and not even realize it.
They could start by changing their rules so that one side can't refuse to legislate. Congress decides how Congress operates, and for some reason despite everyone being awful mad about it, Congress has never decided to make it harder for congress to be obstructed by Congress. They have from time to time made it easier (see filibuster-less filibustering), seems like they could undo that any time they'd like to get back to work.
Edit - I guess there hasn't been zero leaks: https://searchengineland.com/google-search-document-leak-ran...
It pretty much was "without check" unless the action was facially against the text of the governing statute for the agency.

Your example about pollution in the air and in the water is actually close to a good one: The EPA decided recently that they had power over CO2 emissions because of some very mild toxicity, even though that's not the reason why anyone wants to control CO2 emissions. They could easily have argued in your scenario that toxin dumped in the water evaporates and ends up in the air, so it's in their purview, and it might not be wrong under Chevron.
That certainly makes sense. But Disney+ has a desktop app, and I tried downloading and using that, but still never got resolution greater than 720p. I wish they would at least fix their app so PC users could stream in HD without feeling the need to rely on piracy.
The black hole “photo” was constructed using machine learning. I don’t know how it can reasonably be called a “photo.” And although I’m sure their work was reviewed, knowing the nature of computers and data, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were all sorts of errors in the construction of the model that produced that output. What makes the output correct anyway, the fact that it looks like what we expected?
Amiga 500 "Topaz" font updated for the 21st century
Yeah, and nixpkgs also, last time I checked, does patch GCC/ clang to ensure determinism. Many compilers and toolchain by default want to, e.g., embed build information that may leak from the build env in a non-deterministic/ non-reprodicible manner.
You might find this interesting -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n33aurhg788
Information Sector Jobs Vanish as Publishing, Film and TV, Telecoms Take Hits
At a company I worked for years ago, I was the "onboarding buddy" for a new hire. My job was to welcome him and help him learn the ropes.

He was very respectful and appreciative of my assistance.

After the onboarding period I learned that he was hired to be the manager of our team.

Everything changed. Now it was "I am the boss, you are the worker. I will assign you tasks and expect you to complete them. And don't question my decisions!"
Post author here, if you look at MFU, then the wider layers win out, and init takes much longer the more you add layer
vocab size if like 56, not doing much
> and expect the judicial branch to inject their own favor when interpreting that vagueness. The judicial branch will once again do what it should have been doing all along: simply interpret the law.

No, with Chevron deference, they expected the executive branch agencies to interpret unspecified parts of certain laws, because they were the ones supposed to implement them, e.g., the definition of "source of air pollution" in the Clean Air Act of 1963. The judicial branch actually is "injecting its own behavior" in that this means they will interpret more laws than they otherwise would have.
I work at Google on database systems and would still pick the VMware codebase (specifically the virtual machine monitor component).

It was by far the most impressive piece of software engineering I’ve ever had privilege of perusing.
As one of the early Netscape employees he should have made pretty good money. He didn't make founder money because he wasn't a founder.

As for his personality, I get the impression he was always like that.
There are plenty of GUIs for Neovim [1].

[1]: https://github.com/topics/neovim-guis
Where's all the good operations people at nowadays?

Have worked with numerous cloud native engineers that do not have good foundational knowledge.
Imagine a small mini golf course getting sued by Monster Cable for using the word "monster."

https://www.techdirt.com/2008/12/03/monster-mini-golf-using-...
> There is no moral hazard, only an economic one.

Er... No? If you take someone's money in exchange for goods and services, you have a moral duty to give them what you said you would. Not a broken version of it– what they bought. If you explicitly state they're getting an unstable product, then sure. If you actually do your best within reason and your service is broken, shit happens. Nobody is perfect, but you made a good faith effort to deliver on your promise. But if you don't, and deliberately don't bother checking if it actually works while happily pocketing people's cash, that's unambiguously negligent. Ripping off small groups of customers is no morally different than ripping off all of your customers— it's the same immorality at a smaller scale so you're more likely to get away with it.
What I mean is that at some point Go was Rob Pike’s side project inside of Google and even Google wasn’t really using it. Back then it was an even more painful language to use. People outside of Google who latched on were imposing that choice on a lot of future maintainers.
> When incompetence is rewarded by reduced work loads, incompetence is amplified.

What? When incompetence has more responsibility, the effect of incompetence is amplified.
Nah, they just have to do more work to ensure the law is clear enough to not attract too many challenges.

Letting a government decide in the face of ambiguous, poorly written laws is so obviously a wrong thing, that you wonder why the original Chevron decision was made.

It really is the other side of the coin to "ignorance of the law is no defence".
It is incumbent on the govt to make the law as clear as is reasonably possible.
This does not neuter federal agencies. They can still make rules, and they still have deference on fact questions. The only difference is that on questions of law, they no longer have deference.
Perhaps it's the versioning? Like in the way that libraries for Elm 0.18 are often (mostly? always?) incompatible with 0.19.

(N.B. 0.19 has been the latest version for almost six years.)
I haven't contributed to it yet, but one of my personal projects involves hacking NetBSD. Absolutely, legendarily good code base, so thoroughly documented you can actually begin kernel hacking just by reading the man pages. The code itself is really consistent and easy to read; it's pretty clear the NetBSD team enforces a consistent style as well as high standards for thorough documentation. NetBSD is how C code should be done.

The other code base I really liked was QRes, ITA Software's airline reservation system written in Common Lisp. I contracted at Google a few years ago doing maintenance on this code base before it was shuttered for good. Aside from being just high-quality Lisp code, it had its own testing language that allowed new tests to be written in just a few lines or so -- tests that sent XML queries with generated data to the running system and checked for specific results in specific XPath paths. Because the system was Lisp, implementing and extending this testing language was relatively easy. Using it even more so. Truly the only system I was happy to write tests for, rather than seeing it as a necessary chore.
I wonder if this was just the doings of some eccentric in an act of euergetism (the wealthy supporting their cities through public works and the like) who thought that iron was just the thing. It was a resort city that attracted a lot of rich folk. It seems possible that rather than giving us insight into how the Romans maintained their cities it is just unveiling some small interesting idea someone brought into reality.

It is unlikely we'll ever know for sure. But it is interesting to contemplate how much of what we think we know about the past could be just way off and we've invested too much into artifacts of odd occurrences that just happened to survive while the more mundane and "real" are lost to time.
> congestion pricing certainly didn’t align with the needs of my relatives who live in the old neighborhood

No doubt, but the question is to what degree the preferences of people who live in Queens should override the preferences of the people who live in Manhattan when it comes to deciding how to manage the streets of Manhattan.

> Greater Boston is a suburban hellscape. If traffic is your Kryptonite, beantown is worse in some dimensions.

For drivers, sure, it seems nearly as bad as NYC. I recall it being congested and confusing the few times I drove through Boston. Though it is nice that they buried some of the highways so you don't have to hear or see as much traffic downtown. But in general my concern is less about the impact on drivers than the impact on neighborhood residents, pedestrians, and cyclists. In some ways the Greater Boston area seems ahead of NYC in that regard.
Thanks, that makes sense I guess. Wish the article had spelled that out. Saying "the law was changed in 2012 but this aspect of it hadn't been tested before, though similar language in other laws and other contexts had been" seems like a key bit of explanation that is missing.
This works for me every single time:

Talk to me like a homeless beggar who has bubonic plague.
And I suppose that soldiers who are in the middle of combat shouldn't be able to choose where to point their rifles without congressional approval? Do we need a bill for each new weapons system, since their procurement and use won't have been specifically called for in statute? Etc.
> I imagine the problem with that is that Obsidian by default stops dealing with Wikilinks inside fenced code

Exactly. Interestingly enough autocomplete is still triggered by [[ inside of a code block which is kind of funny. So writing code blocks works fine, it's just that they won't display with links.

> A different direction to explore might be to explore proportional font coding techniques that rely less on whitespace.

I'm definitely open to proportional font coding techniques being interesting, but in this case with all leading indentation unusable I doubt they'd be enough to get a normal experience. Unless you only write assembly so you can stick to the left margin <taps forehead>.
I think it's simply a matter of cost.
From the mouth of John Roberts himself: "courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority." This is not going to end well.
You don't need any, but they're very useful when used responsibly.

A person could theoretically go through their whole life (in the U.S.) and not need any form of credit, but that usually requires having money or capital upfront.

If you end up wanting to do something that requires a card (and cash, check etc isn't accepted as with most online payments), then it's better to use a credit card than a debit card as you have better protections in case something goes wrong or your card is skimmed.
What human problem am I solving with technology? I’m just saying we should have public data about turbulence so that we can understand changes to the jet stream. I’m not talking about making planes safer or solving human errors. I’m not sure how this data could possibly be used against pilots. I’m not talking about recording the cockpit; just the sensor data about what the plane is doing and experiencing.

> You should ask instead why it is so expensive.

That is literally my question. I’m highlighting that 100k seems really high to make a system that opportunistically transmits data we are already capturing locally. Rather than a flippant “airplanes should be expensive”, why not ask what is the cheapest retrofit we can do that doesn’t change the safety profile. As I said, this system should not be in the critical path and shouldn’t be a required other than the airplanes should generally be maintaining it to be functional (i.e. the SLA can be 75-90% and still provide tremendous value instead of the 100% SLA target for flight critical components which is what that 100k price tag sounds like).

That this is something highlighted by crash investigators as something that would help in corner cases like incidents over the ocean is just gravy.