skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparison, Apple's stock about 20x'd during Ballmer's tenure and that was after atrocious AAPL performance from 2000-2003.

Balmer's biggest failures were mirrored by Apple's enormous success. The two areas this article calls out as Balmer's missteps were the exact areas Apple flourished in -- hardware innovation and operating system.

I don't see how you can "underrate" Ballmer as CEO given his mistakes allowed a nearly-dead rival to grow to be larger than Microsoft. The opportunity for Microsoft to capture a significant chunk of that was completed squandered.
I believe they will eventually. But first, the spec needs to be finalized (in progress), implemented in all the libraries that need to support it (some in progress, some unaware this is coming), and deployed by all federation managers and members worldwide (planning in progress). I'm excited for OpenID multilateral federation, but it's going to coexist alongside SAML for an excruciatingly long time. Probably not as long as IPv4 or Python 2, but the better part of a decade seems plausible.
The difference between technician and programmer isn't about predictability, it's about novelty.

The technician has to know the system well enough to respond correctly (or even proactively with preventive maintenance, etc.) to unpredictable problems that are "in the book".

The programmer by definition solves novel problems.

- - - -

edit to add: Beware folks who look down on technicians. It's a kind of "code smell" of the mind.
This is essentially F1. Every highly-specific rules question is one team torpedoing another team's rule-bending innovation. Fascinating stuff.
> I hate the game, not the player.

Games only exist while someone plays them, so every player is complicit in its existence.

“A lot of other companies are unethical so I am too” is not an excuse.
You can say it (and if you use language persuasively, and repeat it often enough, you can even cause it to appear to be true [1], the effects of which can usually be seen in any thread like this), but you cannot say it soundly (known to be necessarily conclusive):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency

Plus, there are identifiable differences (disproving the "just as"): LLM's can reliably acknowledge epistemic unsoundness in their prior claims without aversion and rhetoric.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
I think you should link the YouTune video!
Last 3 years I traveled extensively and had limited and flakey bandwidth.

You should have a low bandwidth setting that also uses new codecs.

Like 64kbit stereo opus is to my ears almost imperceptible to CD audio. I think listening tests by professionals recommend using between 64kbit to 96kbit for perfect audio.

Anything beyond is a waste unless we are talking about more than stereo.

Also if you want, you can use mpeg dash to stream video. Here you encode video into small series of chunks/files. When player can't handle high bandwidth, it can switch to lower bandwidth automatically, and vice versa. This is what YouTube and any professional places do. This will also help prevent users from easily downloading complete video. The trick is that you will need to ensure all videos are split on same key frame, so either use two pass encoding, or define that every ?3? seconds exactly is a new video file.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/learning/video/what-is-mpeg...
am i just a little stupid today or does this story have nothing to do with dea or tsa?
You need money to do that
The financialization (profit-making) is the only reason anyone with any power bothers to keep any of it running.
You aren't going to create a job at some company, so you have to work as a freelancer or found a company. Both of these are very risky and seem very non-advisable if you lack the skills to even find work at some company.
Notes on Taylor and Maclaurin Series
I automated my first job in a similar way.

Re-encode video files to web-friendly formats and upload them (prior to YouTube).

There was a guy whose full-time job was to sit and do that with a Windows GUI.

First approximation was an AutoIt script. Second approximation was with bash and ffmpeg.
Thank you, somehow I missed the part of the history! Yes indeed, chroot() starts in 1979 patches ontop of V7 kernel. Plan9 namespaces probably evolved from there as Research Unix V8 was BSD based.
> and you learning from the correct code

Yeah, except is it the correct code? I had answers with the correct code but also answers with code that looked correct but had no connection to what I wanted.
A Season of AI Conferences (Part 1): Content Curation at SW2Con
> Apple would like a word

Apple's success is a form of survivorship bias.

Multiple previously massive B2C vendors like Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, HP, Dell, RiM, etc either died trying to compete in the B2C space or pivoted out as a result.

Google, Huawei, and Samsung are only able to compete against Apple because they are subsidizing their B2C ventures with their B2B product lines.

MS in the 2000s could have joined that dustbin of history as well because the old school "Windows" division was very B2C and Consumer oriented at the expense of Enterprise.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/

Do 20 experiments with a p<5% criterion, and it’s likely that one will be a false positive. Only publish positive results, and someone will eventually publish a false positive result without fraud.
What makes you believe it is wrong? Can you construct an argument which does not require the existence of a supernatural "divine"?

If you presuppose such things exist, of course we reach different conclusions.
That's what that European cyber security directive tried to do, right? The one that everyone was mad about until they carved out an exception for FOSS?
I am willing to make a LongBet of $10k to a charity of the winner's choice on this prediction we are arguing over. Please let me know if you would like to take the other side of the bet. You win if protests occur and stops deployment of facial recognition technology for identity proofing travelers at security checkpoints within the US, I win if protests are simply annoying and deployment in the US moves ahead without issue. Timeline is within the next five years.

Let me know and we'll spin it up so we're accountable for our predictions: https://longbets.org/
What a weird thing to care about
I didn't realize Amica is especially picky.

But I guess it makes sense. Their customer service and claims handling has been outstanding. That's probably easier with a more trustworthy (or less risky) clientele.
I had a discover card for a long time. It had amazing cash-back benefits, low interest rate, and no annual fee.

Bad for business, but really great card!

We went to Amex exclusively for the flight rewards with Delta, even copping the annual fee b/c it paid back in travel rewards (we travel often for work / fun).
This seems like a tough problem to solve, but given the article states 75% of researchers are _willing_ to publish the null results at least that's something to build on. Making publishing compulsory could lead to other, worse problems given humans are involved.

I realize as I'm writing this that I don't really understand what "publishing" means. It's more than just making the paper available, right? Is there a formal definition, or just a colloquial one in science?
It's actually an interesting case study. As a consumer, I'm basically no longer a Microsoft customer at all. It's not an ideological position. It just is.

But they're obviously doing pretty well. And, if I were an exec at a large business, I'd at least be talking to them.
Discover also doesn't come with all the "perks" that Amex does.

Airport lounges, concierge, exclusive books on Michelin star restaurants (also via Tock acquisition), etc.
So, what's the name of the toothpaste?
To add to this as well, this can be disabled, but it's on by default for new applicants. They can put a limit on the charge cards as well, so it can be almost an ambiguously limited credit card now. That said, I don't think being given a set limit is very common, or very impactful for the average person unless you're a large spender.
Langchain. You use it, find how bad it is to use a framework and do it yourself. There isnt much mystery
Working on it!

The ego is the biggest stumbling block! So are bad habits!

Anyone can do it, and increasingly I believe creating a company is actually really, really easy. The monster difficulty is the battle with the self to not procrastinate, to dream big, to be courageous, to take risks, to avoid giving up when encountering difficulties.
I've lived low-carb as a T1 and my blood sugar was very stable. I would still take sugar to stabilize levels when dipping low. A completely ketogenic diet would be very hard for a T1 and not a sensible goal. Insulin management was simpler, but still required. On many days I would just do the one injection of long-lasting insulin.

While the scantly researched health risks associated with a ketogenic diet remain, the diet is very effective to keep blood sugar stable. A low-carb diet protects most people from T2, and people with T1 profit from simplified insulin management.

For a T2, eating ketogenic could be healthier than eating carbohydrates. Depending on progression, they would recover quickly and not be a T2 anymore.
classic :D since Zig first appeared ~8 years ago (wikipedia), if that question reflects his abilities at the time he really soared in ability quickly :D
Not all charges can be PoT'd, though. In general you still have to pay the entire statement balance each billing cycle (it's a good habit to have when using credit cards anyway).
I feel a bit bait and switched considering this title was posted after the original poster self proclaimed they found it to be misleading. At least some initial comments here aren't catching that follow up either.
Sorry I said "Boss", I meant "CEO".

Yes. Yes he was. He felt that a half-sized ikea desk was too much space for people and needed to sardeen people into a room as tightly as possible.
The main reason is because in the US if someone skims your card at a gas station and charges money to your account, it is next to impossible to get your money back from the bank. A credit card company is more likely to refund the transaction on the other hand.
CachyOS is especially interesting because it uses the BORE (well, EEVDF-BORE) scheduler.

Here is a nice little graph, done on a Ryzen 5800X: https://imgur.com/a/ByXpvuW

It is fairly clear to see that the EEVDF scheduler is pretty terrible under load, making it a bad choice for desktop work. Hell, the original BORE scheduler (CFS-BORE) is even better in that regard, sacrificing a tiny bit of extra fairness for much better loaded responsiveness.
Not sure what "tech" would constitute here.
I've never ran a company before, but I would assume creating a company has a massive barrier to entry compared to working in tech. There are employees, legal, payroll, HR, and other such hurdles before you can even think about starting a tech company, not to mention the personal toll it'll take.
A friend once told me that if you are consulting, you are actually doing three jobs:

* finding the work

* doing the work

* getting paid for the work

Most folks in tech focus on "doing the work" but fail to realize that there is just as much nuance, skill, and specialization in steps 1 and 3.

I have consulted/contracted for about 1/2 my career. Highly recommend it to anyone to appreciate what a stable job at an employer is worth, as well as for education and upskilling. (Wrote more here on the value of contracting: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2018/11/12/try-contractin... )

But go into this adventure with your eyes wide open about the difficulties of running business, as well as the prize for winning--to simplify, it is more and more sales, less and less coding.
It's also subject to significantly more hallucination when the knowledge is baked into the model, vs being injected into the context at runtime.
The title is a bit misleading and readers might think he didn't know how to open files in C++. This is not the case, see https://x.com/Deor/status/1815563936671867315
> This is a lot like schemaless databases. The flexibility of not having to fully specify the full schema does not mean that you don't benefit from specifying parts of it? Indeed, if you are indexing things, you have to specify those parts. But it is hard to argue with a straight face that schemaless tools don't have some strong benefits.

Let me put on my straightest face.

Schemaless tools have no benefits.*

As soon as you start _doing_ anything with your data, it has a schema. You may not have declared it to your data store, to a specific piece of code, etc, but your application logic almost definitely makes assumptions about the shape of the data--what fields are and aren't present, the types of values in those fields, and what those values mean.

Every piece of your system must either accept undefined behaviour in the face of data which doesn't fit this implicit schema (there are very few non-trivial problems where you can define a meaningful, valid output for all possible inputs), or essentially treat the schemaless parts as hostile and assert its assumptions before every action.

The only thing you've done by going "schemaless" is distributing your schema across your systems and pushed the schema validation out to each thing interacting with the schemaless components instead of centralizing it.

* Yes, literally storing raw, unstructured data. But as soon as you need to _do_ anything with the data besides regurgitate it you're back to it having some sort of schema.
What Is the Recommended Number of Hours to Work in a Week?
Yep. Not helping my impostor syndrome! :-D
For the curious, it is Unbinilium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbinilium
Misleading.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/goodbye-twitter-reddit.html

> I enthusiastically participated in the launch of Stack Overflow, including asking basic questions such as "How do you open a file in C++?" in order to farm karma points.
wow, i sure didn't have to wait long; in this case it's someone who's harassed me repeatedly and who uses the site mostly for political flamewars: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41056718
Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way
It would actually be interesting to see how much faster dash is than everything else.
Machine Exposes Privacy Violations
In reality, there are few things a GP can do better than a nurse or some technician with an LLM, and the sooner that shift happens, the better for society.
It's not about "later" it's about "now". You don't inspect standing stockpiles and delivery mechanisms to say "See? We will never have the capability to nuke you", you do so to show that you're not currently building and are not currently sitting on a pile of nukes.

As mentioned probably two posts up, any ramp up would be obvious to adversaries, have some lead time, and would take away from other production efforts.
Really depends on the app type. Usually single digit % https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf/2
But if you have some math heavy code which doesn't use simd intrinsics, you may get way better results. Lto/pgo are magic in some situations.
I had a quick look and it seems to have recovered nominally today - 2% at most. If you look at the 5D and 30D view it seems to have taken a beating and is now flat.
CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence
This was... 2018. They'd also take an office meant for 1 person and convert it into a 3-person room, with a lack of airflow.

It was bad.
Maintaining a fine-tuned model for every one of your users - even with techniques like LoRA - sounds complicated and expensive to me!
A preprint will still give less value to the negative result. No peer review (being a broken system or not) and not being published in a "proper" journal will make it less likely that the results will be recognised / accepted.
The whole point is, that a negative result can have as much value as a positive one...
IMO, Discover's web and mobile application is better than AMEX.
Either the symptoms got less bad or the girls learned how to mask their autism, which isn't actually very helpful for them. The test they did to determine if they were still autistic was a pen and paper test, not something like an MRI which would let you see if anything had actually changed brain-wise
And that's the vast majority of devices that are used to watch videos. "Vertical video is never fine" stems from the good old days of PCs with monitors. In these phone days, according to the same logic, horizontal video is never fine.
> Meta could change the license of future releases of Llama and kill your business built on it.

If you built a business on Llama 3.1, you're not going to suddenly go down in flames because you can't upgrade to Llama 4.

Even saying you really needed to upgrade, Llama 4 would be a new model that you'd have to adapt your prompts for anyway, you can't just version bump and call it good. If you're going to update prompts anyway, at that point you can just switch to any other competitor model. Updating models isn't urgent, you have time to do it slowly and right.

> If the training data was openly available, even if you can't afford to res train a new version, a competitor like Amazon could do it for you

If Llama 4 changed the license then presumably you wouldn't have access to its training data even if you did have access to Llama 3.1's. So now you have access to Llama 3.1's training data... now what? You want to recreate the Llama 3.1 weights in response to the Llama 4 release?
* Further testing of the file was skipped because of "trust in the checks performed in the Content Validator" and successful tests of previous versions

that's crazy. How costly can it be to test the file fully in a CI job? I fail to see how this wasn't implemented already.
You can charge back on a debit card, but the money doesn't get back into your account right away, and of course until you realize what is up your bank account is down that money (or even negative) and you thus don't have that money to spend. If your account is negative you are charged bank fees - I'm not sure if they will refund them, but at the very least until the investigation completes you are out that money as well.

which is to say if there is fraud a debit card will eventually fix you, but while things work through the system you have no money for day to day life. With a credit card you don't pay that part of the bill and so your money is still there for day to day life.
Seems to be about this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxBhoaBc6I
I'm sorry that you work at a dysfunctional company.
London's not really "the UK". It's so different from the rest of the country, it's like its own little city-state.
Reducing luck is bad, how?

There are scales of it, reducing luck in the sense that you don't require a perfect course. That a speck of dust ruins your run etc. is, within reason, part of the game. But flying blind into a maze and just randomizing your way through it isn't particularly challenging. Just enter the game with a 100 identical robots and you'll have a better chance at winning.

Multiple mazes isn't a bad idea, but a massive endeavor just increasing the barrier for these competitions to take place.

>... the less worthy ...

Why? The most noble sport is a lottery then? Because that is essentially what you would turn this competition into.
I don't get it. 15 years is quite a while, if I think back what my own experience was then compared to now it's also quite a significant improvement. Also `std::ifstream` and `operator<<` is, in my humble opinion, stupid. If you make a story out of the fact that this lead to something in Andrew's philosophy, it might be an interesting post, but this I find just silly and borderline creepy.

EDIT: ah misleading title and post altogether, makes it even worse. Should farm some karma here so I can downvote
And it doesn't even need to be in the "can kill people" bracket to cause serious harm cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

(Obviously the blame for this issue isn't solely on the software side)
You're right. This does make the whole thing look very scammy. And the complete lack of any pricing information anywhere makes it all that much worse.
Plain Jane Defender also has a kernel component. The point is to not have to trust any additional vendor. You can't avoid trusting your OS vendor with writing and updating kernel code but you can avoid trusting CrowdStrike.

> Sort of. There are a lot of controls (MDM and sandboxing and such) that go into that. I'd guess most orgs would just slap EDR on the phones if they could. Again, same result with fewer skillsets and products if so. You need a pretty severe risk to outweigh that and I'm not sure a one-time incident and the slight risk of an actual hostile compromise of an EDR vendor get there. Maybe if there are more like this.

There's nothing wrong with MDM and group policy in and of itself.

If orgs could slap EDRs into their mobile devices, the mobile devices would have to become less secure to begin with. The EDR seems to be a marginal risk, but the problem is in the architecture change that's needed to accomodate such an invasive product as an EDR that is a huge risk.
For posterity:

401 = Do I know you?

403 = I can't let you do that, Dave.
From 0 to creating programming langs in around 7 years?

Seems not crazy
Most folks aren't the type to create companies.

That's fine. That makes them "normal."

Not everyone that can successfully (and success is actually rare, there) create and run a company is healthy.
So it's just the name of the position? Somebody with a title of "chief nutritional officer" has to live for the employer and somebody doing the same job with the title of "associate project manager" doing the same job of ordering lunches can have a life?

I mean, nothing stops you from making it into job requirements in your company, but, apparently, this is not a requirement at Tesla...
This is pure cancer for the web we know.
The TL;DR is that AmEx targets ultra high spenders and corporations, while Discover is generally considered low end (and has the highest delinquency rates to show for it).
We will all die. But if a historic event can be captured on film, the event can be studied in greater detail. I'm all for people choosing to place their very lives at risk in order to further our scientific understanding of the universe.
Eventually you end up writing your own framework
Because the old and the new processes have exactly the same name and parameter. But we only want to kill the old processes and only after the new ones have started.
Remind me the % of startups that fail pls
That's just a temporary name (un-bi-nil-ium, meaning one-two-zero-ium) and will be assigned a new name once it's actually discovered and verified.
Yup, Rust as an ecosystem feels very similar to JS.

Part of this might be because some core Rust facilities are lacking. For example, many projects use the "anyhow" library for error handling. It could also be because having a good package manager makes it so easy to add dependencies, and that reduced friction just naturally makes people tend to add many dependencies.
I think arcade games worked like that. Looked it up and oscilloscopes do, too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor
Buckminster Fuller Tells the World "Everything He Knows" (1975)
Certainly, Apple could have basically died at various times.

I could also name a ton of massive B2B software (to say nothing of hardware) vendors that died over time.

Yes, Microsoft basically transformed themselves from a B2C vendor (where they're now increasingly irrelevant) to a mostly exclusively B2B vendor. They're basically Azure at this point plus Office365 for their base. I wouldn't bet on the future of Xbox at this point.