skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the agency included a detailed description of the high quality thinking process (assuming they had one, no current sites do) that led to the conclusion, in turn teaching people how to think?

This comment section, in this smarter than usual community, is chock full of lazy, heuristic thinking. We can't even try to not make errors on certain/most subjects, it is our nature, suggesting we do not is socially punished.
the story goes, we let people run amok in markets because they're "self-correcting". the reality is, we continue to ignore the effect of delayed corrections and what damage might be incurred in the interim.
Show HN: I Launched an AI-Based Pokemon Fusion Game
The title is not very fitting.
Most of my jobs until recently have been using Java 11, so I didn’t get to use these things.
p.s., app embedded makes network attacks almost impossible as you no longer have a listening port on the underlay network, well described here - https://blog.openziti.io/go-is-amazing-for-zero-trust
Presumably this comes as a surprise to someone, but I have no idea who that person might be.
I do not understand why ubiquity or baselines should be required in order to use CPU features :)

Since many years, performance-critical libraries have used runtime/dynamic dispatch.

Our github.com/google/highway intrinsics even automate this. You can write your code once and it is compiled for each instruction set, and the best codepath is selected at runtime.
Please tell it to Modi, who proposed your country to be called Bharat in other languages.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/6/india-or-bharat-what...

What I think stayed his hand was Pakistani nationalists saying they would rename Pakistan to India, if India renamed itself to Bharat.

https://www.indy100.com/news/india-name-change-bharat-pakist...
I can't think of one. The most determined brands sometimes buy themselves back from PE - a recent example is Wahoo
I would very much pay to see F1 cars being controlled by computers beyond the limits of humans. Especially if they removed many of the limitations intended to keep the drivers safe.
In case if there are no physical apartment yet, but the floor plan is exist, this tool might be useful.
Ask HN: What software dev skill has helped you the most?
No surprise there. Providing quality care is in direct contradiction with optimizing for profit. I think hospitals should only be allowed to operate as non-profits. With maybe some carve outs, but fundamentally be non-profits.

Another problem is the large hospital conglomerates that end up owning all local hospitals in some areas. Large corporate structures always end up disconnected from reality and optimizing for the wrong things.
> There are other technologies for this, such as DTrace. The kernel's choice isn't eBPF or nothing, it's eBPF or something else like it.

To add on this point: I successfully used SystemTap a few years ago to debug an issue i was having.

Before going further: keep in mind that my point of view (at the time) was the one of somebody working as a devops engineer, debugging some annoyances with containers (managed by Kubernetes) going OOM. I'm no kernel developer and I have a basic-good understanding of the C language based on first-years university course and geekyness/nerdyness. So in this context I'm a glorified hobbyist.

Learning SystemTap is easier in my opinion. I followed a tutorial by RedHat to get the hang of the manual parts but after that I remember being fairly easy:

1. Try to reproduce the issue you're having (fairly easy for me)

2. Skim the source code of the linux about the part that you think might be relevant (for me it was the oom killer)

3. Add probes in there, see if they fire when you reproduce the issue

4. Look back at the source code of the kernel and see what chain of data structures and fields you can follow to reach the piece of information you need

5. Improve your probes

6. If successful, you're done

7. Goto 4

I think it took like one or two days between following the tutorial and getting a working probe.

It was a pleasant couple of days.
If you want to get serious on this, get good quality color chart[1] and use that to compare different light sources etc. Just eyeballing resulting colors from random photos and guesstimating the various spectral curves gets you only so far.

[1] e.g. https://www.silverfast.com/products-overview-products-compan...
Forgetting about pay, are those jobs intellectually stimulating? Do straight conventional E commerce compared to testing infrastructure for video conferencing software? A lot of the appeal of a FAANG is the interesting work you can do at one. The only thing better would be a less secure startup working on something really novel.
Some books that changed me: R. W. Emerson's Essays, The Bastiat Collection (the why of free trade), Boortz's Fairtax books.
> then the person writing the spec is the actual software engineer

Sounds like this work would involve asking questions to collaborators, guess some missing answers, write specs and repeat. Not that far ahead of the current sota of AI...
How to Context Switch Effectively
I recently found myself struggling with context switching, so I googled around a bit. This article sounded kinda smart but I would love to hear the options/experiences of other (more experienced than me) developers.
Maybe it's totally different for PMs than it is for devs?
Yes that is what 10000 times more often than M3 means because 10000 is 10 to the power (7-3)
This is really cool...

https://github.com/vpand/icpp-qt

Ok now things are getting interesting. I think this could be used to add easily shareable/hackable plugins to existing C++ projects.
One of the resonant political messages now is that Americans are too poor to afford basic necessities.
> The input data is still human produced

So are rules for the game of go or chess ? Specifying code that satisfies (or doesn't satisfy) is a problem statement - evaluation is automatic.

> but they don't directly imply the correctness of a test.

I'd be willing to bet that if you start with an existing coding model and continue training it with coverage/lint metrics and evaluation as feedback you'd get better at generating tests. Would be slow and figuring out how to build a problem dataset from existing codebases would be the hard part.
Do they get a different salary when they are up?
> I'm guessing that Duralex uses a thermal tempering process

Yes: https://eu.duralex.com/en/pages/le-verre-duralex
It's difficult for me to completely deprive myself of the news agenda of the world. But sometimes I do a sort of detox for a month from world news and focus more on articles in scientific journals, for example. My friend likes to go to the forest for a week every six months where he has no connection at all to the outside world
> death is the only thing that makes life precious.

No. Living is what makes life precious. Good memories, good food, good friends, good lovers, good music… if it’d be possible to continue living forever, until you decide you want to take your chances on the existence of an afterlife, it’ll be no less precious than it is now, when nature just takes life from you against your will.
I don't think it is replicating have position, it is just the convenient way to shape the hand so it (sort of) stretches from mouth to ear.

It is common to cartoons and TV shows so some people will have learned it from there, but I'd guess the mine predates those shows. Maybe it when predates TV being common in people's homes.
Socialism is inevitable. And that's fine
That’s interesting, thank you. Reminds the Taiwan subjective scale too. Know what that’s called?

Would not be surprised if that was influenced by Japanese, given their colonial history.
This is super cool! Curious how you got the data, web scraping I assume?
Of course, Google would never give this data to a government that engages in targeted killing, Meta would never help out a junta repress their population, etc.

The extent of the data collected and systemic consolidation between different sources is the problem, because we've seen again and again any data collection is dangerous regardless of the original intent.
The Stock Market Game: Connect to the global economy with virtual investing
So now instead of "I need to do it for my family to survive", it's "I enjoy building panopticons"?
So you know at all times what everyone in your team does? Do you chat constantly with everyone on your team? Nobody just hunkers down and does stuff for a few days?

It's these cases where the standard checkup time (daily standup) comes in handy. It's not for "the middle management", it's for the team to know how everyone is progressing.

--

How do you manage releases with Kanban? Do you have a release train and release whatever happens to be complete at the time it leaves the stateion or something else?

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So Developers take the time to arrange a meeting with the customer, talk with them about their problem, write down the features etc? And this is fine, but spending a Monday morning every two weeks planning a sprint is anathema?

Nobody in the team is an introvert who considers root canal without anaesthesia more enticing than spending a full day talking with non-technical customers about project requirements?

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You clearly have the cojones and corporate political power to tell business types and middle managers to fuck off. Many MANY other developers do not, if they tell the sales lead to fuck off with his "urgent" requests mid sprint, they'll be looking for a new job the next morning.
Virtual apartments are mostly static 3D models =)
That feels completely like an excuse used after the fact to justify keeping Boeing around rather than a principled stance, considering that NASA and Congress were pretty set on just giving Boeing the sole source contract for crew transport to the station.

It's pretty well documented by Lori Garver, one of the people involved in pushing Commercial Crew, how strong the opposition was from both NASA and Congress.
In Germany, public (öffentlich-rechtlich) media are generously financed with a household tax. Unfortunately, the quality of reporting is still poor. Most of the money is spent on stupid entertainment and sports reporting.

The reduction of direct state/party influence (2014) has also achieved little.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundfunkrat
Sure happy to chat. I will send you an email.
> “We’ll also be taking additional action to reinforce with sales representatives that they must not help advertisers or agencies run campaigns attempting to work around our policies.”

Useful would be a chronology of when:

* Individuals learned/knew about the rule violations.

* Individuals were arguably rewarded.

* Individuals were disciplined.

That might give a sense of how bad the infection is, and whether their immune system is on top of it.
The bigger ones do more out of the box! Most obviously, they include render functionality, which Ornament does not — you get to pick and choose your building blocks yourself.
Google search is still the best for most people

If anything Google will be more profitable now because any choice that Apple gives its users will inevitably end up with 99% of them choosing Google but now it costs them nothing
Microsoft's curation techniques for the Phi models remain proprietary. So we can't really criticize or praise their methods, because we don't know what they are. It might be GPT-4. It might be Artificial Artificial Intelligence (a warehouse in Pakistan). But the results speak for themselves.

The models are a bit janky in my testing (especially prone to leaking test materials, and highly specialized on a narrow domain), but fantastic for their size.

Intentional "under-generalization" seems like a fairly self-evident approach to making optimal (and economical, on the training side) use of smaller models.

As for whether it works for a general purpose model, my intuition says that it does (i.e. cutting off the "long tail of knowledge" in favour of a better handling of the mainstream, by the limited neurons available).

As for whether that tech exists, I reckon a simple tf-idf would get you 80% of those wins, but that might be ignorance/arrogance on my part.
Modeling Earth systems at a quintillion calculations per second
The rumour is he kept his ears open and got enough information to advance using what he knows...
>> You're never going to have any language with the kind of dynamism that Python/Ruby/JS have while also having performant number crunching

> Wrong

Can you give examples of languages that achieve both? Or is this all just on a spectrum? Like if we say C# is performant, it’s still the case that (eventually) the way to make it faster is “stop writing C#”.
You could try asking a virologist if they think it's possible for the HIV-1 provirus to ever be in a state where it could theoretically be infectious given the right DNA fragmentation.
AI Reaches Silver-Medal Level at This Year's Math Olympiad
Build an end-to-end RAG solution using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock
Computer energy efficiency is not as constrained as minimum feature size, it's still doubling every 2.6 years or so.

Even if they were, a human-quality AI that runs at human-speed for x10 our body's calorie requirements in electricity, would still (at electricity prices of USD 0.1/kWh) undercut workers earning the UN abject poverty threshold.
Cosmos Magazine publishes AI-generated articles, journalists criticises
You make some excellent points about focusing on the scientific aspects. However, I don't think we should discourage intellectual philosophical debates, as many of us here are genuinely interested in philosophy. These discussions provide a valuable counterbalance to purely technical conversations.
By the way, the study mentioning 15,000 steps is already outdated. Recent research suggests that even 10,000 steps may not be necessary for health benefits.
> To where?

Not sure. Maybe to something that doesn't even exist yet.
That title wasn't really 'editorialized' (at least, in spirit). The other comment explains the removal of clickbaity stuff but another HN title convention is putting the title of the book in book review articles which probably drives most of the changes here since there's also a length limit.
It just occurred to me that my grandfather used to watch the news only once a week, and the program was called something like "Weekly News." I think it's a good approach.
Interplay does not have the rights anymore. They actually had some kind of deal with Bethesda back when Interplay were in dire straits that allowed them to make a Fallout MMO type of experience after selling the Fallout IP for a couple million dollars to Bethesda. However, they had to do it on a rather compressed schedule, which they naturally didn't meet on their end. Therefore, they lost everything post 2009.

Interplay also did a Fallout classics retail release which included Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. But Bethesda told them they no longer had the rights and Interplay had to get it pulled off store shelves. This was also around 2009 or thereabouts.
CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdown
Thinking about it differently by focusing on individuals as opposed to teams/projects...interesting! Gave me some fun insights on my git... will try to connect my other systems.
> Except this LLM would have a real shot of beating humans in open-domain problem solving.

At some point we need to start recognizing LLMs for what they are and stop making outlandish claims like this. A moment of reflection ought to reveal that “open domain problem solving” is not what an LLM does.

An LLM, could not, for example, definitively come up with the three laws of planetary motion like Kepler did (he looked at the data), in the absence of a prior formulation of these laws in the training set.

TFA describes a need for scoring, at scale, qualitative results to human queries. Certainly that’s important (it’s what Google is built upon), but we don’t need to make outlandish claims about LLM capabilities to achieve it.

Or maybe we do if our next round of funding depends upon it.
Yes, it's Three.js. I guess I will have to make a showcase post on their forum with some of the technical details.
The harms, in my opinion, is that hyper-consumerism is an addiction. These methods are intended as a way to get impressionable and vulnerable groups hooked on various products, for the benefit of the manufacturer.

Children cannot make good decisions (generally) and they often have poor impulse control. Building the habit of spending money on random sparkly shit they don't need ensure that, as adults, they will be good consumers. And by that I mean materialistic and poorer than they have to be.

It's no surprise that these ads play into the most intrinsic human emotions for manipulation. They target social status, perception of self, pleasure. I see it as no different than sparkling lights on a slot machine. A way to manipulate the mind and build a money-burning addiction.
We will consider it in the future. The important property in sharding should be the ability to go up and down in the number of shards. Each shard will increase write throughput and we should allow to go from 1 shard (default) to N to M and back to 1. This way we don't have an "upgrade" problem that Citus has.
define more control, define more scalability and also define more customization
If I switch back to a wired mouse, does that mean that all my games are running from my mouse firmware? What about if I tape a trackball to the top of my case?
That's really begging the question. I don't believe they would as they have consistently over engineered solutions in the past.
That’s a good point. Living forever before we eradicate poverty (and inequality) is a big issue that would, doubtlessly, create a lot of social upheaval.
Some of the most popular nostalgic shows were outright blatant toy advertisements (see: Transformers). This is absolutely not a new problem and its sad to see it hasn't really been addressed.
Maybe my understanding is wrong, you’re telling me researchers keep the rights to patents they develop under the employment of pharmaceutical companies, and profit off of licensing? If that’s the case I was wrong.

But as for your other point, yes, researchers are different from people in other industries because of the high barrier of entry into the field through years of schooling, and the uncertainty of the work. Anyone that’s motivated primarily by money wouldn’t go into pharma research, they’d go into CS or finance straight off university.

Of course, that doesn’t mean they don’t want money. If you can do a job you love and get rich off it that’s the dream. And there’s no reason the public sector can’t pay enough to motivate researchers.
Soyuz MS-22 had to be ditched last year due to its coolant failure.
Maybe Barnes and Noble?

https://www.theverge.com/23642104/barnes-and-noble-amazon-bo...

At least according to that interview, it was going well at the time about a year ago.
I spend some time working in a nursing home for the elderly. I never heard that.
It felt like the alarm was announcing the end times, but we couldn't feel the quake at all. It was a 5.x but far away
I don't think it's a software skill specifically, but for me it was learning more formal methods for deconstructing and analyzing problems.
That's literally the opposite of focusing.
I like the channel by Benjamin Keep https://www.youtube.com/@benjaminkeep
Which is exactly my point in all of this: Are we there yet? not even close. Will people try to make living forever a reality regardless? i think so.

Nothing says that we are unable to do these projects at the same time. The people who could work on anti-aging medicine aren't interchangable with the people who are working on various aspect of moving society toward an environmentally sustainable society. Otherwise this is the same argument being made against NASA and research into rocketry and spaceflight.

Not dying due to cancer at 20 and living to be 400 years old isn't quite what i would consider in the same realm of justification, but your opinion might differs.

Really? Someone's going to cry when their loved one die. The older an individual is, the greater their network of connections, knowledge, skills, and lived experience. All of which are valuable to societies.
In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things
Migrating from Istio to Linkerd
The biggest benefits from artificial gestation are mass and life support.

It's a helluva lot easier to accelerate and provide life support to frozen embryos than it is an adult human.

Without radical propulsion breakthroughs, there are severe mass limits on what we'd be able to send to nearby star systems in a reasonable amount of time.

Artificial gestation technology changes that.
Overall, I agree with you, but, as a fan of the Highlander TV series, I find this fun to think about sometimes.

People would still die, just not from natural causes (right?). Even today, dictators have more fear of a coup than cancer. Long lived species tend to have fewer offspring as well & would have to confront the issue of limited resources head on, instead of kicking the can to the next generation. I think a society that grows up around humans with unlimited life expectancy would probably look different than ours does, maybe in ways we can't imagine (even today, ritualistic suicide like Sallekhana is hard to imagine...). This would be different from a situation where people living today suddenly make this switch.
multiprocessing.shared_memory.ShareableList can be useful in some circumstances, even if you don’t intend on sharing it across processes. It allows direct access to the data, elements are mutable (to an extent; you can’t increase the size of either the overall list or its elements once built), and since the underlying shm is exposed, you can get memoryviews for zero-copy.

The downside is they’re on the more esoteric side of Python, so people may not be as familiar with them as other structures.
Jepsen: Jetcd 0.8.2
A millisecond is an eternity in HFT.
What makes this "discussion" even more suspicious is how the (arguably justified) fear that this could lead to a Nix-style takeover is answered each time with "no problem here, just The Nix Community^tm doing what's right".

Of course, your interpretation will vary with your ideology.
To me, it's quite interesting and thought-provoking to see the words "may" and "could" being used prominently in the reasoning.
All those in favor of eventually dying are welcome to do so at their own convenience, after a long and fulfilling life.

To the rest of us, the stars, please.
Do you need to check the national news every day? Twice a day? Term time a day, like many people do?

Once can form an opinion by catching up on major events once a week or less.
How did governments create pharmaceutical monopolies? And, if they did, why does that make the companies killing people by charging exorbitant amounts for drugs free of guilt?
Windows has a private heap system where you can disable code execution from the pages allocated to `HeapCreate`, if you don't* set that flag:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/heapapi/...

> HEAP_CREATE_ENABLE_EXECUTE

> 0x00040000

> All memory blocks that are allocated from this heap allow code execution, if the hardware enforces data execution prevention. Use this flag heap in applications that run code from the heap. If HEAP_CREATE_ENABLE_EXECUTE is not specified and an application attempts to run code from a protected page, the application receives an exception with the status code STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION.

I think POSIX has equivalent memory protection calls, but no equivalent to HeapCreate