skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I had a boss who, in a moment, threw a chair at me. (this is much less dramatic than it sounds).

I would work for that man again in a heart beat. Because for as much as he was apt to yell, or dress me down, he was also willing to give good advice, to elevate, to teach.

The office is not a safe space. You seem to know what's wrong, IM sure you have asked nicely. I am sure you offered the carrot, but does your team know you have a stick?

> The same people leave detailed comments on others' merge requests

Call these people out, in public, for doing good work. Tell everyone they are setting the bar and others are not living up to it.

> People blindly accept suggestions

Coaching, lots of one on one coaching about finding and having a voice. Lots of "team building" where you level out the playing field with the strong vs weak voices. Figure out what those quiet ones excel at and do a fun activity around that. Let them find legs...

> People send their MRs to side channels or other teams

Stick. Harshly worded emails. Down dressing in public. Telling your team that in no uncertain terms that "this is unacceptable behavior"

As for the chair thrower... He was always fair, he always had his team first, I grew as a person, a manager and an engineer working for him. Its not growing happy go lucky good times while I get a pay check, its Growing pains, spreading that (pain) around is part of your job.
I would love to see some work on duality i.e. code to neural network back and forth. Reason being - I can't debug a neural network but if it can be linearized into a if-else case with help of the token information => I can validate what it's doing -> fix it and then move it back to it's compressed neural representation.

Just another thought experiment -> sometimes I imagine neural networks as a zip of the training data where compression algorithm is backpropagation. Just like we have programs which let us see what files inside the zip are -> I imagine there can be programs which will let us select certain inference path of the neural net and then see what data affected that => then we edit that data to fix our issues or add more data there => and we have live neural network debugging and reprogramming in the same way we edit compressed zips
SoCs run linux everywhere. Good luck serving a configuration page over wifi from an atmega.
> People won't stop using Chrome as long as they keep up the current pace of glomming on more complex APIs and syntax. No other team can compete.

I don't have any delusions of Ladybird ever touching Chrome's market dominance, but I disagree that no competition is possible if the goal is building an usable browser. Sure, web standards are blown up out of proportion and keep on growing, but how much of those standards are actually used on a daily basis? How many websites can't work without the GravitySensor or HighlightRegistry APIs [1][2], just to name a couple? How many new standards become absolutely indispensable vs being just bloat never touched by 99.9% of the web?

Ladybird, Servo and others don't need to catch up to Chrome in terms of features to be useful, they just need to cover the metaphorical 20% of the specs to support the 80% of the web. In the case of Ladybird at least that seems to be the principle guiding its development, with devs dogfooding it and implementing specs to scratch their own needs.

But I understand I'm probably arguing a different point than you were.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GravitySens...

2: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HighlightRe...
My main issues with git are all about version control of branches.

Which branches were commits originally created on.

What commit was branch X on 2 weeks in the past?

(My personal biggest issue) -- there is no way to delete a branch in a version-controlled way (that is, let me un-delete it later). 'reflogs' don't count, I want to be able to version-control my branch deletions.

And if people (I'm not accusing you, person I'm replying to, but I get this a lot) say "git isn't for that", well then it's really annoying that git has become "the version control system for everything".
Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?
I really like the content on this forum but I find the features and UI lacking. I was going to make another website dedicated to tech news and discussion but with a better user exp. Would anyone be interested in trying the product when I finish it?
Nah, automated testing cover basic functionality. For most PRs, a senior familiar with the code wouldn’t need to check it out and manually test anything, that’s not what “code review” is most of the time. If you need them to look at the code in a running state, that should be part of the CI process, not a manual task for the developer.

A good reviewer can call out bad strategic coding decisions or misinterpretations of the requirements. QA is another layer of review entirely.
The last word of the title: enclaves is rather important. Maybe: "Secure your application and protect your sensitive data with VBS enclaves"?
Again, this is less of a concern for him now that he will have sycophants in his orbit now that he's run out of people that will say no to him.

As an aside, I also have doubts that a chimpanzee would be able to successfully disable the safety an AK47. But it would be idiotic to leave that to chance and give one a loaded AK47 anyway.
I don't know what kind of evidence you're thinking. My argument is based on the straightforward policy positions of the parties, and especially how the times have changed yet many positions have not, with some policies even changing in the opposite direction of social changes. Other core policies have been outright rebuked - can you imagine Reagan appeasing Russia by shunning countries desperately wanting to be our allies?!?

If you want to point me at other conservative principles I skipped over but seem overridingly relevant to you, please do. But even for the social issue of religion, which seems to be the defining aspect for many people, the figureheads are churchgoing Biden versus philandering Trump.
The abstract already speculates that this effect might be modulated via economic well-being.

Now I wonder if they also addressed correlation-vs-causation? Perhaps economic growth causes both fewer suicides and more broadband internet?
> Resy, which is owned by American Express, keeps certain tables open for the Platinum crowd, and leapfrogs such cardholders to the front of waiting lists.

The cynical framing that comes to mind is "Anti-competitive practices via vertical integration."
I am not sure why this comment was downvoted. I just discovered The Diplomat thanks to this and I paid the 80 bucks for the full sub. Haha, thank you.
There's another way to write GUI apps for Windows
After seen this and comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839208 , I have somethings to say.
Now days people like to use Electron or Qt, but there's another way, use the Chrome.

After wrote the Webd (a less than 90KB file web sharing/managing server https://webd.cf/webd/ ).
I thought I could use this way to write other apps, a webserver run locally, all UI things in browser.
And it give one more benefit, remote controllable(by other PCs or mobile devices).

That's all.
Sure.

* Bush fabricated evidence to start a war and never got prosecuted.

* Obama's administration literally sold guns to a Mexican drug cartel for no apparent reason.

* Reagan had iran/contra

* various different "collateral damage" fuckups under every administration during my lifetime where dozens of civilians are killed but nobody cared because they're poor, brown, and not American

* Kennedy authorized the CIA to raise a private army and launch an invasion of a country we weren't at war with.

And many more, this is but a small sample of the crimes presidents have committed.

But nobody ever gets held personally accountable for anything until Doritos Hitler comes along and commits a series of crimes which, while unconscionable, are comparatively minor next to the above listed. This ruling hasn't actually changed anything. It just codified something that has obviously been true for at least 80 years, and it prevented one party from selectively applying the law to a political opponent in a way which it almost never gets applied.

So my defense isn't that the president should be above the law (he shouldn't), but that he obviously already has been above the law for a very long time and pretending otherwise is just lying to yourself and the american people.
There was a push from the government itself to buy open source but not to require companies to publish or make their sources available. Not sure if this was what the OP was talking about.

It was later undone because providing support for these alternatives sucked (open office and the like), people didn't want to use tools they had no experience with and corruption, as the big players could just bribe people to buy closed source software.
In circles then draped over a clothes hangar
> Where Dorsia symbolizes the obsession with status and elitism.

Well, you were interested enough to read the article.
If there is a more likely single “tipping point”, solving for that one may be easier and therefore more likely to have an impact.
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Ok… so looking from the outside in Australia… a country with mandatory voting that always happens on weekends to make it incredibly easy for people to do their civic duty, thus allowing us to levy a fine against anyone who doesn’t vote… with electoral divisions and regional boundaries managed by a specific government department that has been structured so as to prevent politicians doing any gerrymandering…

In the USA it’s clear that voter suppression and gerrymandering have allowed for partisan groups of elites with both progressive and conservative views to hold onto power for decades as the voting public they represent feels more and more like their vote does not matter, or that they are unable to vote due to their financial situation (no time off, no money for transit, no money for required identification, required identification needs a fixed address and their homeless, etc)… it’s pretty dire… and I have always been kind of shocked how it’s managed to limp along with such statically low voter turnout for decades… money is speech (citizens united) and media are allowed to treat made up news as entertainment with no need to distinguish really from fiction (FCC vs Fox News)…

I don’t see any way the situation doesn’t eventually lead to demagoguery… because at some point your public is just so disenfranchised that a demagogue doesn’t have much work to do beyond “I’m not them, get the fuck out and vote for me so I can change things”…

But the problem with a demagogue is that even if they don’t turn dictator, they are by nature of their rise to power, going to be very dictator like, it’s their choice, their charisma, their force of will that motivated the voting public… the only problem is that the checks and balances to prevent the demagogue from becoming a dictator, have only been barely tested, first with FDR, then with Nixon, one who died before the change to the system was relevant, the other begrudgingly bowed out before the system had to fully engage with the issue...

How would you do it better?
In WW1, they called it "shell shock" for soldiers incapacitated without obvious injury. In WW2 it was called "battle fatigue", and now TBI.

It seems the WW1 doctors got it right the first time.
So them being vindictive over losing elections made them pliable enough to reject democracy and it's our fault so we should apologize? No. There's no excuse. At some point you have just admit that some people have bad intentions.
Is it actually a competitor? Anyone can make an LLM, he never said that was impossible. But are there going to actually be people who use this instead of ChatGPT or Claude or LLaMA?
>> ...sacrificed our oil independence on the alter of climate change?

That's just counter to the facts.

The US is now producing oil at greater rates than ever, is a net exporter, and now produces more crude oil than any country, EVER [0]. The US is also exporting Natural Gas, which had not been done before the Biden admin.

Yes renewables have advanced faster, but no one is "sacrificing" fossil fuel production, and our energy independence has only grown since 2021.

Providing facts rather than false rhetoric might have people digging in their heels less.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545
What this is showing me is that we are better understanding what actually is happening inside these LLM models. That we are peeling back the curtain and seeing how the trick is performed. This might be a requirement, to comprehend this "unreasonable effectiveness", if we are to take the next step toward actual "intelligence", if that makes sense at all.
This is not misinformation. I look forward to you providing a source that outlines the "legal" way he did it.
Apple's $50M butterfly keyboard lawsuit gets final approval
It doesn’t need to be formal or very long. I personally enjoy a PR meeting where we can poke at the code and understand it over someone dumping 2,000 lines of code in my lap at lunch time and hoping to get their spaghetti to prod by dinner
The problem here is not that developers are too busy, but that code reviews are considered second class citizens to churning out new code. It's like saying "many devs are super busy working on feature A so they just write quick and dirty code for feature B". If reviews are integral part of feature production pipeline, there should be no issue to sit down and spend a day reviewing code. For bigger, more complex things it could be a few rounds of reviews.

There is an approximate non linear relationship between time it takes to produce the first PR and time it takes to go through all rounds of review. This time can be pretty reliably calculated and taken into account.
Multivariate problems can often fail to have a “primary cause”.

It can be the case that two easily treatable conditions combine to make a condition that is very hard to treat.
build it with llms
Do you want to the default to be "reply all"?
If so, why?
How would it improve email for you?
Low testosterone in adult men causes pretty severe fatigue and depression that resolves quickly with treatment. You become almost unable to experience joy or desire, so you go through the motions of life with as little effort as possible.
Loved this write up. Of course the usual caveats with this level of optimization apply, and in general we should be aiming to optimize for human readability. But if nothing else I think it’s a good thing to get a better internal understanding of how the interpreter works.

With that in mind, it’d be interesting to see the relative costs of each deoptimization to the others. For example, is a monomorphic->polymorphic deopt an order of magnitude worse than an unnecessary string mutation? In nanoseconds, what’s the actual cost of each of these? Because there are certainly going to be some optimizations that matter much more than others.
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Ghost in the Shell, definitely, both manga and anime (but avoid the live action movie and the weird recent CGI show set in the US). 'The Diamond Age', perhaps, if you still count that as cyberpunk. 'Snowcrash', though I have some reservations about some parts of it. 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' is pretty good, too. There's some good cyber-punk-ish games like 'System Shock' and others.

Don't see this as a comprehensive list. It's just what I had at the top of my head, so no guarantees it's even what _I_ think is best, just what I could remember quickly.
My day job is auditing cryptography. I'd probably be slower to find the root cause of a CSS bug than most of the folks that read HN. :3
ITER fusion energy project marks completion of its most complex magnet system
The US approach is probably better. People have a very strong urge to centralise all power and knowledge in one centralised body but that is bad strategy. (1) Powerful centralised bodies usually end in disaster. If they get strong enough, they revert to groupthink and start breaking things. (2) Governments don't have enough bandwidth to deal with all this stuff. If the government is handling 10 critical services badly, voters can only reliably vote on 1 per election and it is a struggle to work out what the priority is. And (3) the office doesn't force reality to be simple, it just bulldozers over inherent complexity in the real world.

Pushing as much of the process as possible into the courts and private sphere is better strategy than having a blessed database. It gives people more opportunities to sort things out quickly and in parallel with other issues.
Or moving trains in a circle
They say in the paper: “We find that increased access to broadband internet in a county leads to a reduction in
poverty, and an increase in income, employment, and the number of employees and
establishments by zip code.”

However, I can’t find the part of the paper that actually justifies that claim. That doesn’t mean it’s not there, I just couldn’t find it in a quick skim.
> My point specifically speaks to training it.

The training part by itself is irrelevant to copyright since nothing is published. But of course nobody just lets trained LLMs sit in private; they are used to produce output, and the output is published so it has to meet the requirements of copyright law.

> the information issued to help the AI model obtain a model of the world

No, it isn't. LLMs don't have a model of the world. They have a model of words and word frequencies. That's it. That's all they get from their training data.

> You will have an extremely tough time trying to find a neutral AI expert who would give a definition that in anyway says the whole point of a multi-billion parameter AI model is to harm the existing market of original copyright as this is not true.

Sorry, not buying it. The way Microsoft expects to make money with their AI is by having it replace humans at generating content. The reason for training the AI on existing copyrighted content is so that the AI can generate content that can replace the original copyrighted content. Sure, Microsoft itself might not be doing that, but the customers who buy their AI are.
Sorry to disappoint, but no LLMs were used (or harmed?) in the making of my comment above.

I had some thoughts about the authors proposal, and looking back on it I found myself in "peer review" mode. In my field and current line of work, one typically does a "deep summarization" of a text or proposal to indicate that you have read it and aren't just, for example, responding to the headline. If it reads as dry, well, that's part of the training one receives in grad school.

If you want to compare, I loaded the blog post in to Chat-GPT4o and asked it to summarize the contents as well as make "an insightful hacker news comment."

------ LLM Output Below ---

LLM Prompt:

Can you summarize this blog post and write a good hacker news comment that a) starts with the summary, and b) provides some insightful analysis? [... Rest of blog post...]

LLM Output:

Hacker News Comment

> Summary: Terra Vance's article identifies two communication styles within the neurodivergent community: Concluders, who aim to make a point, and Weavers, who build interconnected conversational tapestries without a fixed endpoint. This distinction can cause misunderstandings and conflicts but recognizing and accommodating these differences can enhance mutual understanding and relationships.

> Insightful Analysis: This distinction between Concluders and Weavers is a fascinating lens through which to view communication breakdowns, especially within neurodivergent communities. It underscores the importance of neurodiversity and the need for broader societal understanding and accommodation of different communication styles. This could have profound implications not just for personal relationships but also in professional settings, where miscommunications can lead to significant consequences. Moreover, it challenges the conventional view of communication effectiveness, suggesting that what is often seen as a lack of social skills may simply be a different, equally valid way of interacting. This perspective could foster more inclusive environments and help reduce the stigma faced by neurodivergent individuals.
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-c...
I love the Metal Slug series, they are the only arcade games that I can actually complete in a real arcade xD

Crazy story, one time at Taito Hey (highly recommended retro arcade in Akihabara) I saw a dude completing Metal Slug X with two characters at once, one which each hand, with zero deaths o_O
Huh? You are hallucinating even more now, it seems.

Who said it's not 'literature'? I just said it's not good, but I never claimed it ain't literature. And I didn't complain about the unexplained techno-babble, that's actually part of its charm.

(You seem to be under the impression that I dislike 'genre-fiction', and that I am a 'literary snob' or something? Far from it! Btw, just because we disagree with literary snobs, doesn't mean that all their critiques are always all wrong.

To give a crass analogy: did you know that the Nazis passed some of the first animal protection laws and were some of the first administrations to take the health risks of smoking serious? We can see those two things as good, without agreeing with the National Socialists in general.

I don't think your average 'literary fiction' is any better than Neuromancer, either.)

> I even specified objective over subjective reasoning to avoid the whole goalpost shift of it being a matter of 'taste', and your best retort was to call me triggered and tell me to DYOR?

What's DYOR? Where do you see any trigger? I'm not sure how you can measure literature 'objectively'. You suggested more subjective criteria, like judging the 'Thematic Motif'. (Subjective criteria are fine by me!)

It's fine for you to like Neuromancer.
> I suppose I am assuming that the event horizon is always large enough to conceal a sufficiently massive object of extreme or arbitrary density

No, it isn't. It is impossible for a stable compact object made of ordinary matter that is smaller than the event horizon size for its mass to exist. In fact it is impossible for a stable compact object made of ordinary matter that is smaller than 9/8 of its event horizon size to exist. This result is known as Buchdahl's Theorem.
No, because you're not _in charge of_ the executive branch.
Correction: I was the security officer for FreeBSD... about a dozen years ago. I'm now the release engineering lead.