skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It does not allow Congress to delegate anything that involves making laws.

Can you cite that article?

> That just means other countries also have too many laws.

Yeah. And only free-market fundamentalists know better. And when somebody points out the consequences of their actions, they always tell that the consequences are caused by "the government". And that it was not a true free market, because the True Free Market is (by definition!) always perfect.

Examples: historical USA, China during 2000-2020-s, Africa right now.

> Food safety and construction standards are examples of ideology and failed social policy.

Yeah. No.

> We have a construction industry full of outdated building techniques and with costs much higher than they need to be because of government regulations that favor builders over their customers and discourage innovations.

You know, here's an anecdote for you. Wood-frame houses in Russia are almost impossible to sell, even though they are cheaper and better than houses constructed from concrete blocks. Do you know why?

Because you can't easily inspect the quality of construction, as all the critical elements are hidden inside the walls. And there are no mandatory state inspections of houses in Russia, so anyone can build houses however they want. And wood-frame houses are often built by companies that are straightforwardly incompetent and/or cut corners during the construction.

The end result? People are spending more money to be sure that their house does not rot in 3 years due to incorrectly installed insulation.
LLMs can be whatever labels people choose to attribute to the system executing the instructions to generate "answers". It is fundamentally a category error to attribute any meaning to whatever arithmetic operations the hardware is executing because neither the hardware in the data center nor the software have any personal characteristics other than what people erroneously attribute to them because of confused ontologies and metaphysics about computers and software.
Running a binary in userspace is quite different from giving a third party unconstrained root access to your system though.

To be fair though, with the lack of security and isolation on Linux a malicious binary can already do a huge amount of damage.
You don't really need a LLM for OCR. Hell, I suppose they just run a python script in its VM and rephrase the output.

At least that's what I would do. Perhaps the script would be a "specialist model" in a sense.
Anecdotal: 8 years ago, Tesla would be at the top of my list if I was looking to buy a luxury or electric car. It had, and to some extent still has, a nice buzz to it. It was the Apple of the car industry. Today, I would feel downright ashamed to buy a Tesla, knowing that my money will be directly fueling Elon's wallet and ego. I've never seen someone burn their reputation as quickly as he did with his twitter acquisition.
In addition to what the sibling comment said, I am referring to academic mathematics.
A lot of that fat was in areas like trust and safety.

Which is now coming to bite them as EU is expected to announce the final warning to Twitter about the spread of toxic content before they impose a 6% fine of total revenue. All whilst advertising revenue has plummeted and continues to drop.

No matter where you look Elon is not showing a lot of business acumen.
Goodbye Manual Prompting, Hello Programming with DSPy
>Three-letter variable names.

You're giving me flashbacks to all the SAS code I inherited. The tables had three-letter names like "AAA" and "BBB", and all the columns had single-letter names. Wasn't long before I completely rewrote the entire thing (a couple times, because I wrote junk, too).
So how do candidates get by with promising tougher border controls, if that would end up cutting off the supply of cheap workers that these other businesses rely on?
How would you rate yourself on a scale, from 1 to 10, on C++ knowledge? 1 being you know C, 10 being you are Bjarne Stroustrup or Bruce Eckle? Personally, I was a 4 back in 1996, and have monotonically fallen since then.
2.1M views on Twitter, thousands of comments on Reddit, a couple hundred comments on HN.

yeah sure, no Google PMs are seeing this /s
History's Footnotes
Show HN: A Whisper-powered app that bleeps out chosen words in YouTube videos
Inspired by a podcast that humorously censored guests with bleep sounds, I thought it would be fun to make an app to let me do the same to any YouTube or uploaded video.

The app transcribes your upload, bleeps out your chosen words, and stitches the bleeped audio and video back together. Can be run locally without GPU access.
Jeff Bezos can call customer service and get someone on the phone.

To be fair, this is early days and he was pointing out to the board that the data they were collecting about wait times on the phone was not good data. It was something they needed to fix. Getting rid of the phone customer service worked. Now no one is waiting on hold.
Etcd-await-election: The Ideological Successor to K8s-await-election
etcd-await-election enables leader election across multiple nodes using the distributed storage system etcd.

This project conceptually continues the idea of k8s-await-election, ensuring the exclusive execution of a user-defined process only after elections have been held. Unlike its predecessor, it does not require Kubernetes and operates directly with etcd.
So, I'm a bit of a to-do app collector. Any chance this will ever make its way to Android? I saw that it's written in Swift, so not holding my breath, but the idea is novel enough that I'd love to try it out.
Excel must be such an incredible codebase. The amount of spaghetti + spaghetti to keep legacy spaghetti behaviour must really be a sight to behold.
Having the freedom to take away freedom does not make a society more free.

MIT takes freedom away from end users at the expense of the developer's freedom.
In that case it looks like they want to conduct personal/other business on company computer, which in itself is a no no.
>I can hear every scrum master course leader crying but I like it.

This is a feature not a bug. Small teams don't need a leader just like how small bands don't need a conductor. If you want to add admin give them a secretary so they don't waste their time on administrivia.
Looks cool. Would be really nice if you could automatically generate the yaml files from an openapi.json file like the kind that are automatically generated by FastAPI.
AMD vs. Nvidia Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance on Linux with Breaking Limit
but it was never lupus anyway. mostly.
Tortured analogy.
>My ideal team is 10-20 engineers

This is _not_ a small team. This is the size of a team that can serve the world, see whatsapp. A small team is >5 engineers working on a well defined business task, like writing Unix.
Thanks, that clears up my understanding. I'd suspected it was something along those lines.
Bicycles aren't remotely as efficient as trains, which should be obvious really. Trains can carry a ton of people (literally, more like many, many tons! :-) ), at fairly high speed (talking about city trains/subways here, not bullet trains). At crowded times, people can be packed in quite densely, almost shoulder-to-shoulder. And this can all be done quite safely, with injuries and deaths astronomically uncommon if the train is operated and maintained properly.

Cycling has far less density, and far greater danger. It's easy to fall off a bike, or run into someone (pedestrian or cyclist), and it's even worse if there's cars around. Bikes are also quite slow compared to trains.

The advantages bikes have are:

1. flexibility: you can go most places by bicycle if the city doesn't hinder this too much by being too car-oriented. Trains only take you between far-apart stations, but a bike can take you the door of your destination. In places with good public transit and good bicycle support, it's very common for people to ride a bike to or from the train/subway station, and use the bicycle for the "last mile" instead of walking which is much slower.

2. small size: compared to cars, bikes take little space and so they don't need huge, wide roads, or even worse, giant parking lots. Here in Tokyo, lots of places have bicycle parking lots or garages, and it's staggering how many bicycles can fit into a space that only a handful of cars would be able to park in. And in places with no designated parking, it's common for people to just park their bike on the edge of the sidewalk, in a side alley, etc., things you can't do with a car.

So back to your 6500 bikes/hour figure: the problem with this kind of comparison is that it neglects parking. If everyone is driving in a car on a highway, they need a place to park, and putting parking for cars everywhere means everything must be spaced out much, much farther, which means everyone needs a car to get around. If no one has a car and everyone has a bicycle, then you don't need any car parking and bicycle parking takes very little space, so everything is now much closer together and you don't have to go nearly as far in the first place.

Of course, this doesn't even get into quality-of-life things like lack of pollution and noise, being able to actually see people's faces as you're out and about, etc.
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data
I'm always amazed at how those big rocket engines, with all that heat, pressure, vibration, etc. do not just blow up but are actually light enough to fly. I see the bells on the Saturn V engines glowing yellow and orange and how in hell does that hang together!

I don't know how I could design such a thing, because my spidey sense says "it'll never fly!"

As for being an astronaut, nope. I quote Gimli, the first astronaut: "Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?"

I remember at the time of the Challenger disaster, some of the other teacher candidates said "but they told us it was safe!" Come on, how could that giant flaming bomb ever be considered safe by a sane person.

My favorite technical book on rockets starts out saying "things that burn and explode" which in my mind is exactly what rockets are.
I think the conclusion of the paper is far more mundane. It's curious that VLM can recognize complex novel objects in a trained category, but cannot perform basic visual tasks that human toddlers can perform (e.g. recognizing when two lines intersect or when two circles overlap). Nevertheless I'm sure these models can explain in great detail what intersecting lines are, and even what they look like. So while LLMs might have image processing capabilities, they clearly do not see the way humans see. That, I think, would be a more apt title for their abstract.
#1 and #3 are related. They make scalping easy so they get all of their money immediately and can pay event organizers ahead of time. I personally think scalping should be straight-up illegal but business schools loove it and consider it an excellent example of helping with liquidity in a system and finding the true "willingness to pay" price of something.
There are things you could charge money for even if it is FOSS, such as:

- Priority support (or even, any support at all, if you prefer to not offer any free support at all)

- Preinstalled hosted instances of the software (in case the user does not want to set it up themself on their own computer)

- Physical media, e.g. CDs and DVDs

- Printed documentation

- Customized software solutions (if the user does not wish to modify it by themself)

- Precompiled binaries (possibly, only when using commercial "app stores" e.g. in iPhone/iPad)

- An explicit license to use it in case your company requires an explicit license (this is how it is done with SQLite, which is public domain, but charges money for a "Warranty of Title" in case you need that)

- Computer hardware designed to work with the software

You can combine multiples of the above. (Which are appropriate would depend on what your business is; some are not appropriate for some kinds of products/services.) (In some cases, I might even be willing to pay for some of the above, e.g. for some software, I might like to purchase printed documentaion if it is available, even if I can also access it for free on the computer.)

There are other possibilities, but I think that many of them will be unethical and should be avoided.

You do not have to force everyone to pay; someone who does it by themself will do so, and might refuse to pay anyways even if you do change the license (might instead prefer to no longer use it, or write their own, etc).
I am wondering if someone will fork FreeBSD before its integration with Rust.
I think they mean that the description of the episode should have a list of books (and maybe other resources) that were mentioned in the episode itself.
Maybe if one more painfully unfunny person repeats this tired joke that we see every time lupus is mentioned, it'll finally be funny. Let's find out!
Is it not possible to reline these lead pipes in situ? It seems that would be nearly as good at a fraction of the cost.
>As a company scales output, at some point in this graph the output per person from the large team should overtake the small team, otherwise why do we even have large teams in the first place?

Asymptotic growth. The net contribution of each new member approaches zero but never quite reaches it. For any small team a larger team can out produce them because they throw more bodies at the problem.
That is truly awful customer service.
Kind of strikes me as fighting over crumbs at this point. It is extremely rare to make money writing books, let alone a living. That’s just a basic consequence of people not reading books as much anymore. (People read more than before, but usually shorter-form content.) And the distribution of books people do read tends to be highly concentrated.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’ve ever looked at NYT bestseller or any other listicle to find a book. I don’t tend to like the books that “book” people like. Usually I buy a book because someone has specifically recommended it to me, or it is mentioned around a topic I’m interested in.
I have the same concern, but usually insist on being able to make simple regular downloads of my data, ready to port to the next similar service.

I'm fine paying a subscription for thestorygraph and bitwarden, for instance knowing if they fold or suddenly charge triple, I've got my data. Keeps them honest, too.
The NYT is notable for having transitioned to very successful online subscriptions business model.

This has lead to a subtle but noticeable shift in tone and content to satisfy that subscriber base. One can hardly blame them.

The quality of their reporting still remains generally quite high, but you often have to read 20 paragraphs in before they get around to facts many of their subscribers might be put off by.
Oh yeah, that’s a good idea. We’ll have to do that. We’ve been debating setting up Amazon affiliate links to the books in the episode descriptions. We were going to wait until we were a little bigger, but after today we might have to speed up those conversations, haha.
That makes sense, thanks for contextualizing
If you want more than 2 kids it’s rarely feasible in USA, but not an issue for Europe.

No kids, USA hands down.

One kid, comparable.

Two kids, Europe looks better but USA is still possible.

Three kids, you need free childcare somewhere to make it work.

Remember that it is 50 to 100k in after expenses, so at highest tax bracket you need to make almost double that to pay for childcare.

Finally, work culture in Europe is way more relaxed and stable, so you won’t have to worry about missing out on your children’s lives because of work.
That doesn't implement a trainable network on hardware, it's just creating a "reservoir" of associations between the inputs.
We did look very unfavorably at candidates who had an unrealistically high opinion of themselves.

But we didn't ask dick C++ questions. Like list all 200 ways you can initialize a variable in C++. And, once somebody has told you they are 4/10 in C++, you can't ding them if they don't know your favorite C++ feature, or if they haven't memorized the next version of the standard.

IMHO, interview questions should not be about what the candidate knows. At all. When I went to Intel, I knew nothing about chip design or EDA software.

Which was OK, because chip design methodologies were all obsoleted by Moores law, and the techniques needed to fix it hadn't even been invented yet.

What is important is what you can learn and how fast can you learn it.
Consumer court imposes penalty on Uber after driver refuses to complete trip
I read the Elements of Programming Style and the Practice of Programming around the same time and they became completely mixed up in my mind. I'll often remember something from one of those books but be completely unable to remember which one it was from.

Both good books, and both were co-authored by Kernighan. I think they complement each other well.
Yeah, 5ms is the threshold for noticeability as far as latency in pro-audio. Its like frame-rate for pro-gamers. The problem is your target user is highly specialized out side the the norms by a large margin. What makes audio even more difficult is that sub ms issues can cause phase and frequency distortion that can become even more noticeable than latency alone.
To be fair, House's plots usually reiterated, "It's never Lupus."

(And the one time it actually was had a rather disappointing reveal, IMO)
Rockstars expect rockstar compensation.

I find that pretty much all managers balk at the idea of paying someone more than they get paid, but are happy for total payroll to be stratospheric. Until we deal with this mental illness we will always have expensive shit software written by huge teams.
If you used the list of years in the test and the mathematical expression in the impl (or vice versa), then you know you didn't make the same mistake in both.
Do you remember WordArt[1]?

> does it really cheapen it to have an obvious AI thumbnail?

> Does it say "trying too hard"?

If the article isn't about AI images, they often signal one more of the things WordArt used to:

1. Cluelessness (using $HOT_NEW_THING out of FOMO)

2. Sales pitches (trying to sell you something)

3. Irrelevance (lead-ins for B2B sales to 1 and 2)

4. Hard social & technical problems

The last case is the worst:

1. They're about to discuss font rendering problems

2. Consider leaving before someone assigns you the ticket(s) for them[2]

[1]: https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.com/api/images...

[2]: https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/
Maybe it’s because I willingly pay for quality content and services that I enjoy like news and YT premium, but I don’t think things are that bad. LLMs mess up but they’re new and still have growing pains. My main IDE is great, Windows sucks but the mythical year of the Linux Desktop feels like it’s kind of here and quite usable, games are (much) worse and more predatory, as are most social media platforms but I just avoid those aspects. Privacy and rights over data isn’t great, but the GDPR is pretty good. Incredible resources like sci-hub have come about.

Idk, I felt like this a few years ago but things feel like they’ve got better. I miss the internet of yore just like everyone else (and particularly miss the decentralisation) but a lot is much better.
I thought this idea was folks moved to saudi arabia, lived apart from the general population, and left later with basically all their salaries banked.

Of course that's the life plan for most folks who move for work.
Official announcement: https://www.intuit.com/blog/news-social/investing-in-our-fut...
Ah yes, thanks for the detailed explanation! By "typical application" I mean those applications where there are far more (mostly idle) threads than available cores. I guess I shouldn't have used the phrase "typical application" since this differs so much by people's experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqmOSMAtadc

Related video from Practical Engineering video on rail thermal expansion
This exactly, yes, thank you. Sorry for being vague.
What is AI? Everyone thinks they know but no one can agree. And that's a problem
Unless we’re talking about solar’s cost per watt, then line go down. Down down down.
> Have you used MUI before?

No, React-specific? Keep in mind Tailwind is not bound to a specific component engine and works fantastic in e.g. Svelte which I'm using.

That said, it looks good I guess? But I fail to see what's so unique. Tailwind is just a lower level preprocessor that can be used with unstyled components (which is definitely not unique - there's lots of traction outside the React ecosystem as well..) From what I can see, it looks like MUI also has a utility class type of approach, or is it baseUI?

In either case, my point is that plain CSS with class selectors is not great, and that very often it makes more sense to bundle markup and styles. Well-thought-out interactions between the component- and style/theming systems is also an important part, and Tailwind clearly plays well with different component systems in the ecosystem. Other than that I don't have any interest in dying on some Tailwind-specific hill. I'm happy to see it improve or be superseded, should that be necessary.

> Tailwind [...] has its place when used correctly, but I’ve never seen a single TW codebase implemented properly.

Yes but ironically that's not necessarily a bad thing. That's the expected result of tech that is flexible enough to let you do what you need, including painting yourself into a corner. The most common mistake in framework design I've seen is "one to rule them all" - where you have to play according to restrictive rules within, or suffer greatly to break out. Tailwind is a la carte, incremental, and plays nice with other paradigms, which isn't to be underestimated.
BTW, there's no reason I can see that the condition couldn't work in both cases, but apparently this is up to the API/service to implement. The condition for CreateTags is:

Condition:
StringLike:
aws:userid: "*:${ec2:InstanceID}"

Documented (sorta) across four(!) pages:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_p...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_p...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-poli...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/service-authorization/latest/ref...
Making of the TR-1, first-sold transistor radio, 1954
Yeesh, that was a long one.

> there are still some basic principles of reviewing: reviews should in some way let readers know whether or not they should buy or borrow the book ... Most of all, a review should deliver an opinion.

I think this is usually interpreted as saying the reviewer should tell me whether a book is bad or good, but I don't want reviewers to do that. Ignore the bad books; let them sink into obscurity on their own.

My ideal book review outlet would only showcase books the reviewers personally thought were worthwhile, and the reviews would focus on what the reviewer themselves liked about the book, or (if not liked) at least thought was significant enough to present in their publication. Instead offer me what you think is best, make your case for it it with specifics, and entertain me with your own wit and insight if you can.

That's what I want, but I recognize it's probably not what most people look for.
This was so heartwarming
You dropped an /s I hope
Wow. Makes me want to break out my archived installer for Microplanet Gravity, assuming it even works on Windows 10 or 11.