skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is decidely a feature and not a bug. CBTC systems work by continually updating track leases to the last known position. this allows for high throughput while safely avoiding collisions in case of catastrophe.

highway separation is unacceptable for anything other than trams (which are slow and have track brakes). the path to safely increasing throughput is to increase braking performance and minimize dwell time. existing systems eg paris line 14 and the tokaido shinkansen have very high throughput.

transit projects would look even better compared to highways if they had to be safe too!
I feel like this fails on the premise that the models can be improved to the point where they are reliable. I don't know that holds true. It is extremely uncommon that making a system more complex makes it more reliable.

In the rare cases where more complexity produces a more reliable system, that complexity is always incremental, not sudden.

With our current approach to deep neural networks and LLMs, we missed the incremental step and jumped to rodent brain levels of complexity. Now, we are hoping that we can improve our way to stability.

I don't know of any examples where that has happened - so I am not optimistic about the chances here.
Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers
I guess what beats suffixes is infixes. :D

Fun story: I worked with a DBA who used nearly random table and field names - nonstandard abbreviations, unnatural reordering, weirds prefixes and suffixes. He didn't do it for security purposes though - he wanted us devs to always depend on him to decode those newly-added tables and fields. Although he wasn't busy (you can always see him browse eBay for Oakley sunglasses and investing in expensive Costco wines he would later sell when the price peaks - he wasn't a drinker himself), when we wanted to ask him about a field or table or beg him to write a stored procedure, he would start checking his calendar and schedule a 30-minute or 1-hour meeting at least a week in the future, often 2 or 3, and he managed to discipline us to stop asking why so further in the future by making scenes regarding how busy he is! He also persuaded our CEO to buy the super expensive ERwin (an ERD modeler), and we were getting rejecting on Visio and other products at the same time. The early 2000s were fun times!
Statisticians are working less with managers than developers. Developers are supposed to be constantly fed back from the product users, and in practice, it means they interact with a bigger surface than statisticians. They may find ways to avoid interactions, but it is not "because developer is not people-related", it's because they want themselves to not be people-related.

So, no, computer science is not less people-oriented than statistics. You may personally interact less with people, but it is just because you are personally less people-oriented, not because your job is fundamentally less people-oriented.
Wasn't there a point at which AMD was actually looking at buying nvidia but Jensen wanted to be something like CEO. Jensen actually worked at AMD so there was already a connection there.

Instead AMD bought ATI which if I remember was barely hanging on. Not saying it was a bad purchase, just interesting that a bet on ATI (always had buggy drivers in my experience) which hadn't really demonstrated success ... how decisions ripple for a while.
I'll somewhat disagree about our ability to create new work. Our creativity can jump to different levels of perspective and observation, and we can transfer novel concepts across different domains. The complexity of this is truly astounding and yields new art and science all the time. Yes, it's it always based on something from the past, because generally that's our only way to understand and even perceive what is new, but the advancement of ideas applied to new domains is always new frontier.
Those are genuinely hard problems you describe, so don't feel bad about struggling with them.

Personally I am very focused on refactoring. When in doubt, if I can improve the code, I will! I don't know that that's "right", but it's how I live.
The only reason why I dropped (and Im not alone) using Zed is the arcaic UI sublime-like search functionality. Please revisit that part because I really want to use ZED.
Taken literally: no.

Security is a cat-and-mouse game while compliance checklists were defined years or decades ago. Some of the things in such checklists will be helpful for security but not all. Still, whether or not most are helpful will depend on various factors, e.g., threat model.
We sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
You may use CDN build of UnoCSS (16k GH stars) https://unocss.dev/integrations/runtime which generates styles on the fly for 80% of benefits with 0% build steps (even with regular HTML)

It does have quirks compared to build variant, so if you use a framework, using it in a build step may be better, it'll still be much lighter then tailwind
But then you need to deal with the complexity and maintenance involved in using a private tracker. Easier to pay for a provider or two and an indexer and be done with it.

Of course, private trackers are superior when it comes to older content and general availability (no DMCA or NTD to worry about).
One could easily reply an equally snarky answer of “Use a real OS, not MSFT spyware. We got to have some standards, don’t you think?”
I just don’t think that a particular measure of value, is necessary something for which “hitting the target” is a good analogy.

Going beyond what has been done before, even in qualitatively novel ways, can be favored by/within a fixed notion of what is valuable.

One can explore wild new ideas and actions whole still in pursuit of one fixed way of evaluating what is valuable.

Now, if your claim is something like, “We can never (or at least not in the near future) adequately describe what we really value, and focusing too tightly on achieving those approximations to it which we know how to express, leads to worse outcomes.”, then yeah, I suppose I agree.
> Even on the desktop, my "note-taking" app is just notepad on Windows, kwrite in KDE, and a very bare-bones text editor on my phone.

I've done this years ago in my .bashrc and use it almost daily:

alias todo='vim ~/.todo'

I suppose I should change `~/.todo` to `/.todo.md` for syntax highlighting, but the list is already quite large and I'm not adding in anything that isn't absolutely required.
> is an embarrassing failure of the humans more than anything about the models

No, it's a failure of the companies who are advertising them as capable of doing something which they are not (assisting people with low vision)
Having worked with Girls Who Code and been in many DEI discussions with faculty, industry, and current/prospective students, a lot of the disparities in supposed interest comes down to women feeling like they don't fit into the CS culture — they often feel especially alienated in the introductory courses [1].

Basically, students who were previously exposed to CS education in high school excel in the introductory courses and often downplay the difficulty of the concepts. This is a very male-oriented perspective to take.

That's why programs like Girls Who Code try to address the gap earlier in the pipeline, since it's hard to fundamentally change the attitudes experienced individuals have in early CS courses. Other approaches some schools have tried include separating intro CS courses by prior experience.

Interestingly, studies have shown that women who stick with the CS curriculum perform as well their male counterparts in higher-level CS courses regardless of their initial exposure to CS, though women often think more poorly of their own abilities [2].

[1]: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/cracking-the-code:-why-are...
[2]: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3017771
true but the problem here is how the programs are perceived.

even if i had to pass a higher bar to get into university, when i realize that the bar is lowered to get a job, then how i got into university doesn't really matter anymore to me or to my new colleagues. so all the problems that come with the bar being lowered still do apply
One Productivity Tip to Rule Them All
I will not condone illegal action, but I appreciate those gay furry hackers.
Jeff Bezos called customer service for Amazon in the middle of a meeting
Sadly, I have seen organizations follow this rule. And wind up with more "managers" than actual ICs. It's insane.
ST4 is my go-to for quickly viewing and editing individual files. It really is instant compared to VSC.

I don't really run ST with any complex plugins though and leave cases where I want those for VSC. The ones I have installed right now are just extra syntax highlighting and Filter Lines (which I find very handy for progressively filtering down logs)
you can call Amazon customer service and get someone on the phone???
`unshare --user --net zed ~/file-to-edit.txt` seems to work fine. it just shows an "auto update failed" warning in the bottom, but seems otherwise functional. does that work for you?
Mountain View-based Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorg
We converged on a system that makes copying illegal because that system was invented in an era when the only people who could copy were those with specialized equipment (e.g. printing presses). In that world, those who might do the copying were often larger than those whose works were being copied, and copyright had more potential to be "protective".

That system hasn't been updated for a world in which everyone can make perfect-fidelity copies or modifications at the touch of a key; on the contrary, it's been made stricter. And worse, per the story we're commenting on here, the much larger players who are mass-copying works largely by individuals or smaller entities have become effectively exempt from copyright, while copyright continues to restrict individuals and smaller entities, and the systems designed by those large players and trained on all those copied works are crowding individuals out of art and other creative endeavors.

I don't think the current system deserves valorizing, nor can it be credited as being intentionally designed to bring about most of the effects it currently serves.

I'm not suggesting that deleting copyright overnight will produce a perfect system, nor am I suggesting that it has zero positive effects. I'm suggesting that it's doing substantial harm and needs a massive overhaul, not minor tweaks.
It’s a minor inconvenience, sure, I use python myself, but it’s definitely a chronic one. It annoys me every single time I code in python.
Give a shot to my note-taking app! https://www.get-plume.com

It stays hidden in the background, and you can summon it immediately using a shortcut key like control + N on macOS/Windows key + Shift + N on Windows.

It also starts very fast from scratch since it's a Qt C++ app, not Electron.
>My car is simple

No, it isn't. It is extremely complicated, containing two different mechanisms for propulsions, complex mechanical linkages for those propulsion mechanisms and steering, a deep web of electrical components including large software projects, augmenting the driving characteristics and providing essential safety features and much, much more.

It was painstakingly designed by thousands of engineers, who tried to take everything into account and to present to you something which to you "feels right", although you have zero idea about why it does.

Calling such a thing simple is completely ridiculous. As if the thousands of engineers were just superfluous and you could design a car by slapping together some components and have it work flawlessly. This is a highly integrated system, where a change to any single one component can influence all other components in very strange ways. That it is reliable, is not because it is simple, it is reliable because someone else has dealt with that complexity for you and spent an enormous amount of effort to get it right.

To be honest the arrogance of software developers is astounding. Looking at an enormously complicated project, which had to take into account a vast array of requirements and had to deal with all the complexity of mechanical, electrical and software systems working together and then going "that is simple, we should do simple things like they do", because the engineers working on it managed to hide all of that from you, speaks of so much arrogance. Just open up the hood and look at it. Look at it.
Thanks for listening! Which book was it that you found?

It’s definitely a breadth over depth kind of podcast, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. We wanted it to feel like hearing two coworkers discuss a book over lunch. We don’t provide comprehensive reviews, but rather just highlight what we found the most interesting, while trying to keep it substantive.
> arcaic UI sublime-like search functionality.

I've never used Zed, but Sublime is my primary editor specifically because of the incredible search functionality.

What do you use that's better?
> All choices involve sacrifices.
> If she wanted to work or they wanted to hire someone to come in to help take care of the house/kids

This comment is perfect illustration of sexism. You don’t even consider the option of father taking parental leave while the mother works. Why is it woman who must do the sacrifices? And of course the idea of hiring someone to come: this is not efficient and not scalable, so not a solution for entire population that would empower women.
I think it's useful to impose a social cost for using plagarism machines to make slop.
Thanks, which step in particular could need some guidance: creation, voting, or results?
You need to start thinking outside the box with ram. These new chips have a unified bus and so swapping to disk is not nearly as costly as it is on normal machines.

Yes, it will suffer compared to an M1/2/3 with 16+ GB of ram but again for 649 you will be running circles around a comparative x86 PC even if it has more memory. Asahi Linux is a huge perk, too. Battery life and chassis strength are also things that should not be discounted. This is a chromebook on steroids.
I have as well, but I'm more of a cynic.
Usually you can trace requirements back to either DEI dependent funding or government contract requirements.
Less common is an attempt to market or build positive brand association by making a public commitment.
With the occasional case where one individual uses their position in a company to sneak their personal agenda in.

Mostly the behaviour is determined by tangible external benefits rather than any kind of real belief that gender ratios should be acknowledged.
Redbox will shut down, corporate parent is being liquidated
IMO for a graphical program that's fine, but in general I really hate hard requirements for a GPU which I've seen in the wild multiple times. Just simulate the darn thing in software, I don't care if it takes 10x longer, I have all the time in the world.
From what I've seen, total output (usually) continues increasing, but at a certain point, the curse of scale is bureaucracy.
Yep. I think this is right on. The anthropomorphization in their behavior and problem descriptions is flawed.

It's precisely that analogy we learned early in our study of neural networks: the layers analyze the curves, straight segments, edges, size, shape, etc. But, when we look at the activation patterns, we see they are not doing anything remotely like that. They look like stochastic correlations, and the activation pattern was almost entirely random.

The same thing is happening here, but at incomprehensible scales and with fortunes being sunk into hope.
From Wikipedia:

> August 25 – Hurricane Katrina moved ashore southeastern Florida as a minimal hurricane, producing a peak wind gust of 97 mph (156 km/h) at Homestead General Aviation Airport. Heavy rainfall accompanied the hurricane, peaking at 16.43 in (417 mm) in Perrine, which caused flooding in the Miami metro area. About 1.4 million people lost power during the storm. Later, when Katrina made its devastating landfall along the northern gulf coast, its large circulation produced high tides, light rainfall, and gusty winds along the western Florida panhandle. The hurricane killed 14 people across the state, and damage was estimated at $623 million.[54][55][56][57]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes_(...

Category 1 storm knocked out power for 1.4 million Floridians.
I wonder if any of these findings help us better understand me/cfs.
I have used Sublime Text my entire pro programming career. Before that I used emacs for a while.

I love it and will not switch it for anything. It is maybe one of the best pieces of software ever made. A lot of the things such as multiple cursors, command palette etc where first popularized by ST.

Today, I use it to write Rust, Go, web stuff and with LSP I get all the autocomplete I need. I also use Kitty as a separate terminal (never liked the terminal in editor thing).

Things like Cmd-R and Cmd-Shift-R to show symbols in file and symbols in project work better, faster and more reliably than many LSP symbol completions.
To me it doesn't need to be a solution-to-a-problem so much as a different paradigm for using a familiar tool that is more pleasant to use.
> Poisoning the air, water, and customers is bad for business.

Since when?
"if you have to ask the price, then you can't afford it"
Posthuman Intelligence is Inevitable

This is where one's world view leads to different conclusions. If you are a materialist, then this follows. If one claims that there must be something that transcends the material world, then this does not necessarily follow. Currently we have no idea how the material universe came into existence, nor do we know the details of how life came from non-life, nor do we know where conscientiousness emerged from. Therefore, the inevitability of AGI is not a foregone conclusion.
Clever idea! Well done.
Using salaries in Italy, Spain, and Hungary as means of comparison and pretending they are be representative of the "European market" reeks of dishonesty. Salaries in Germany, France and UK for those same roles are 2x or sometimes 3x higher than those mentioned in the article. This is certainly a factor for migration within Europe
...are you sure that's right? At first blush, it feels like it break the viral nature of the GPL.

It's pretty well understood that non-GPL software cannot link to GPL-licensed libraries, which is why the LGPL exists. This is true even though most software doesn't need to vendor or otherwise modify upstream libraries.

Or does AGPL have a special carve out for this, different from the GPL?
How would a paper have a h-index?
I believe VsCode has told me several times that the file i want to
open is too big.
Show HN: Settling merge or rebase? with Kafka and JavaScript <3
Hi HN!

I recently created a website that displays your votes on classically debated questions like 'tabs or spaces?'?

One of my favorite things about it is that if you leave the result progress bars up, and someone else votes, you can see the results change in real time.

I used the confluent-kafka-javascript(https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-javascript) client which is currently in early access.

Votes are sent to a Kafka topic deployed in Confluent Cloud, and the code for the frontend is on Amplify while the code creating the route and Kafka clients is on EC2.

I put a version of the code here(https://github.com/confluentinc/demo-scene/tree/master/confl...) so you can follow along and deploy a similar project for yourself. I'm hoping it makes a fun way for you to learn this Kafka JavaScript client.

In the future, I'd like to implement features like allowing you to change your vote, or a board summarizing votes like "30% of developers who voted for X voted for Y".

Enjoy! Looking forward to your feedback.
1 in 6 hiring managers were told to not hire white men. https://www.wsaz.com/2022/11/08/1-6-hiring-managers-have-bee....

Google getting sued for that. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi...

Same accusation against Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/19/18508013/microsoft-pro-di...

Disney doing it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/watch-disney-exec-...
Subscriptions segment the market away from potential one time customers and toward potential repeat customers. Repeat customers are usually better because their incentives tend include your business staying in business so that the product remains available.
Maybe this particular product isn’t for you. Or maybe it’s not ideal for you but still good enough. Or not. Everything isn’t for everyone.
Chrome extensions can access CPU and GPU statistics via a public API that any extension developer can use. Google Chrome comes bundled with a hidden "Hangouts Services" extension, which has permissions for *.google.com (that extension's ID is the 'nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome' referenced in the examples). That extension has a function that will return those stats when called from JavaScript running on a webpage. As a result, any JavaScript running on *.google.com can get the current CPU and GPU utilization.
An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
> could have been avoided

Hard to know if that's true or not. Some code goes on for literally decades before being touched by another person. Often times, the parts of the code that are high touch end up justifying more gardening to make future touches less painful/faster.

Knowing when code will be cumbersome is really difficult when writing fresh.
@sama was hyping 3B on podcasts ~2016-2018. I thought it would've had an iota of integrity because he put his name out there with it, so I gave it a go not expecting much. I've interviewed ~100 candidates, have been on the other side of the table ~300x lifetime, and been a client-facing consultant with basic sales experience. I've seen and heard pointless shit, crazy shit, and illegal shit in hiring process but thankfully these situations revealed themselves early enough in process so I could bounce before getting too involved in less professional shops.
HN has a higher quality community than many other places... which is why I asked here.
It's IBM, according to the wikipedia page.
What’s interesting about this? Yeah you can nap on the Yamanote line. But it’s just a train.
The corporate transparency act doesn't apply outside the country. Anyone in the world can legally buy US securities.

Obscuring ownership and control can be done perfectly legal.
Editors and publishers, not researchers. Researchers aren't the ones handling metadata
That's a very first world view. Vote fraud occurs on a massive scale in some countries. It's not just fake votes. Two name two others types of fraud there is also vote buying and coercing people to vote a certain way. An example of the latter in patriarchal societies is the husband handling all worldly matters for his wife, including voting.

What protects Germany and Norway isn't your voting system. As Elon says it's poor. It's the other institutions and social mores you have. In countries without those safety nets, mail-in voting is truly an open invitation to by-pass the democratic process.

So lets turn the question on it's head. If you consider the integrity of the voting system to be critical to maintaining a democracy, why would you risk not having a robust voting system - even if it looks like you don't need it now?

My definition for a good voting system is it makes it impossible to buy a vote. Clearly mail in votes don't meet that. Drop boxes need some pretty good voting place security to prevent the "I give you a filled in ballot slip on your way it, you give me a blank ballot slip on the way out, and then I pay you" caper. Computerised vote casting can make that impossible.
> “NASA had developed a peculiar kind of attitude: if one of the seals leaks a little and the flight is successful, the problem isn’t so serious.

this quote is also feels pertinent to the Starliner decision to launch. They knew there was helium, but they just decided there was more helium for the mission than was leaking. so the acceptable risk bar seems to be pretty low.