skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who works in a very diversified company, and frequently hires candidates of all cultures and creeds, the entire "DEI" discussion is deeply cringe-worthy to me, especially the comments under this article.

A company that is homogenous in race and culture turns out products that don't support, they turn out ads that get called out for racial and cultural insensitivity, and actually exclude people that aren't reflected by the population making it's products. Running a company that excludes non-majority race and cultured employees is a deeply political statement that caters to old-world ideals that are dying fast, just like the politicians pushing them.

There is deep rooted bias around the entire world, to act like it doesn't exist is simply coddling the classic narratives of racial superiority propped up for ages by people who are creating a cultural advantage for themselves. We battle the ideal of immigration for some cultures, while other cultures can travel anywhere they want freely, and it highlights a willful ignorance and mentality that is deep rooted, but also contradictory to progress and innovation. It may feel comfortable to only be surrounded by people with the same cultural norms and upbringing as yourself, but if you only live in that bubble, you're part of the problem. Life is far better when we open up to new experiences and people, and that's exactly what diversity represents...

There is a far more fair way to interview candidates, where bias can be eliminated, but most companies foist untrained, unskilled, and politically biased leaders into leadership positions all the time without any sort of accountability. So many companies completely miss the mark on why diversity is necessary, even governments miss the plot completely. There are still so many racially homogenous countries out there build on ideals of racial and cultural superiority that it infects the world deeply in some of the most disguised ways possible.

On the inverse, as Bill Burr cited numerous times [Language Warning] (e.g. -- https://youtu.be/O1xgXJ5_Q34?si=n5XZ2MqPhHHgvSdu&t=195), Diversity and inclusion programs often are frequently led and geared towards the advancement of already privileged Caucasian women, which although rightfully under-represented, rank far above racial minority women and often above racial minority men in terms of pay and responsibility.

They can fight all the political wars they want over this issue, but in my long history of work, I have never seen a culturally homogenous business succeed in the long term, without differences in experience and culture, ideas are stale and tone deaf. It works in all ways too of course, but these days, the biggest indication of flawed leadership is a company or agency leadership photo where the majority percentage of the people in it are all the same skin tone.
>The point of outsourcing is because people don’t want to be held accountable.

Having worked on the public sector (Air Force), there's enormous pressure on groups like NASA to outsource because voters perceive government work as wasteful and expensive, and contracted work as efficient because free market.
If you have 100 services in your org, I don't have to have 100 running at the same time in your local dev machine. I only run the 5 I need for the feature I'm working on.
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I upvoted this comment because, though the number is wrong, it proves the point. The fact that the correct number proves the point even more, is a reason _not_ to downvote the comment.
What's your use case for persisting the annotations but new screenshots?

Excalidraw.com does exactly this but their arrows just aren't as in-your-face as Skitch's.
Right, dev boxes do not need to do double duty as a personal computer plus development target, which allows them to more closely resemble the machine your code will actually run on. They also can be replaced easily, which can be helpful if you ever suspect something is wrong with the box itself - if the new one acts the same way, it wasn't the dev box.

I don't recall latency being a big problem in practice. In an organization like this, it's best to keep branches up to date with respect to master anyway, so the diffs from switching between branches should be small. There was a lot of work done to make all this quite performant and nice to use. The slowest part was always CI.
You would be rewriting history if we changed that now. It has been referred to K&R style C since the ANSI standard. The second edition of the C Programming Language was ANSI. My copy of the second edition has "based on the draft-proposed ANSI C" on the cover, but later ones just have "ANSI C". I think mine is almost identical to the ANSI version.

Every copy of K&R that uses ANSI has ANSI written somewhere on the cover. I've seen the first edition, and the content is pretty similar if not identical, save for the ANSI changes. But it is all in the K&R style.
Don't take it too personally. Downvoting/flagging it makes it clear to people who come across it in the future that it's wrong.
Discussed at length here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278203
I was only there in 2022, but at that point there were in fact three or more monorepos (forked roughly based on toolchain - go and scala in one, primarily Ruby in the one detailed here, and there was one for the client stripe api libs that was JS only. There may have been more.
LLMs are really disrupting the market for Mckinsey junior analysts meeting with clients.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always took RTBF to mean you have the right to be forgotten by any specific service provider: that you can request they delete the data they have that relates to you, and that they forward the request to any subprocessors. That's fairly reasonable and doable, it is enforced by GDPR and a number of other wide-reaching laws already, and it is a relatively common practice nowadays to allow users to make such requests with certain guarantees.

It never meant that you have the right to ask "the Internet" as a whole to scrub you from all possible records, that's indeed ludicrous. And if someone took it to mean that and they were pushing for it, they were just confused, no serious law ever proposed that.
A 4 part series on how JavaScript broke Us public services
Good conversations have emergent properties
Isn't uber is profitable these days with no qualifications?
No true Scotsman. I guess people using Rust for low level development are also wrong.
> I will give all my 7 figure net worth, no questions asked, transferred immediately to any account of their choice, to anyone here who has not ever made a typo in their life.

My greatest typo was saying "I Do" when it should have been "I Go".
> It's less about the games being high-quality, and more the games being community-created and user-driven.

There's also the socialization part. My kid's friends are all on Roblox. They don't get together IRL because a lot of them moved away when their parents had to move, and others just live way across town and "meeting at the park" is so 1980s. When new kids come to school, they share their Roblox and Fortnite usernames and that's where they hang out after school to socialize.
> I see nothing impossible about combining the images. Why do you deem it impossible? Further, what does size have to do with it? If I gather 1 metre wide of light from 1000 lenses, and mesh them, is that not better than Hubbles meager, tiny size? Well, I don't know yet. But I do know that I can launch 1000 satellites for under $1M, so maybe it's worth a test.

Does this work for non-radio telescopy? My understanding was that this sort of thing works great for intereferometry at certain wavelengths, and basically not-at-all with others.
The paper i linked is not addressed by the paper you linked. The paper you linked attempts to give LLMs the same benchmarks in a format they aren't best suited for. I don't know how you can call that "addressed".

>They clearly show that they fake reasoning

Sure and planes are fake flying. The illusive "fake reasoning" that is so apparently obvious and yet does not seem to have a testable definition that excludes humans.

You've still not explained how writing the same program in different languages doesn't require reasoning or how we can test your "correct" version of reasoning which requires "concepts".
"correlation does not imply causation is wrong"

That's a specific instance of a more general problem in the "logical fallacies", which is that most of them are written to be true in an absolutist, Aristotelian frame. It is true that if two things are correlated you can not therefore infer a rigidly 100% chance that there is a causative relationship there. And that's how Aristotelian logic works; everything is either True or False and if there is anything else it is as most "Indeterminate" and there is absolutely, positively, no in betweens or probabilities or anything else.

However, consider the canonical "logical fallacy":

1. A -> B.
2. B
3. Therefore, A.

It is absolutely a logical fallacy in the Aristotelian sense. Just because B is there does not mean A is. However, probabilistically, if you are uncertain about A, the presence of B can be used to update your expected probability of A. After all, this is exactly what Bayes' rule is for!

Many of the "fallacies" can be rewritten to be useful probabilistically, and aren't quite as fallacious as their many internet devotees fancy.

It is certainly reasonable to be "suspicious" about correlations. There often is a "there" there. Of course, whether you can ever figure out what the "there" is is quite a different question; https://gwern.net/everything really gets in your way. (I also recommend https://gwern.net/causality ).

The upshot is basically 1. the glib dismissal that correlation != causation is, well, too glib and throws away too many things but 2. it is still true you still generally can't assume it either. The reality of the situation is exceedingly complicated.
Cool tool that I will have to try and fit into my belt. Probably my loudest "old man" gripe on dealing with data, is that XPath was actually quite nice. I always reach for whatever equivalent I can get for dealing with data in any project I'm working on.
The "next" killer app? You mean after crime?
Back in 2006 there were multiple 1tb collections of textbooks as torrents. I imagine the size and number has only grown since then.
There are products like armored fiber you can use as well

https://www.fibersavvy.com/collections/armored-fiber-cable?s...
In my case we had pictures of random people, we assumed "accomplices", with no statement. Dates and timestamps where there was lots of activity, then nothing for 2-3 weeks and then lots of activity. We determined in the jury room the prosecution was hiding evidence from us probably because some of it wasn't legally obtained.

We were 51% certain the guy was guilty but everything else left too much doubt.
The knock knock joke (no. 5) was a decent attempt.
A genuine missed opportunity in not including one of the most infamous examples of GNU code quality / needless complexity,

https://drewdevault.com/2020/09/25/A-story-of-two-libcs.html
What's the easiest way of sharing things like protobuf definitions across multiple separate repos and making sure things are always in sync?
Beginning to see how they aren’t profitable…
The Macy's link only has the "snap circuits" line which is not exactly the same thing. Might be better for all I know. Here is the kind of kit we're talking about:
https://www.amazon.com/Elenco-Electronic-Playground-Learning...
Not an answer, just got me thinking about my _subjective_ measures of “bad music quality”. It’s not as trivial as “there is clipping”, because some elements clip on purpose, but if a vocal part clips it’s an instant turn off for me, it sounds horrible. That’s not a data issue though, it’s a production issue… unless the data is exceptionally bad.
But what about the ludes?
As for productivity, right now they have an extra couple hands that are well experienced in ISS operations.
Try Phoenix Slides for this. That app is so fast!
Some names

- Celery (massive and heavy)

- Dramatiq

- APScheduler

- Huey

Today, Redis queues, unless stricly a single process, seem to be most pain free for small scale use.
JMESPath works on anything you can parse into a dictionary with python, right?

It is missing a good "search" ability, though. If you don't know the full path down to the data, good luck.
> buying hardware that requires an app is basically a requirement.

It's not even close to being a requirement. What it is, though, is the most convenient option. That convenience comes at a pretty steep price, though.
Can an LLM provide the sort of psychological buffer that McKinsey Junior Analysts (some random person picked up off the street in a college town and handed a clipboard, a frequent flier card, and a six figure salary) provide to senior managers against the scrutiny of their board and chief executive?

If I want to close the paper division, and my boss wants to close the paper division, does the LLM whisper sweet nothings in our ear and show soothing Powerpoint decks about how in the eyes of an objective observer, the paper division is unprofitable and there would be no career risk in closing it?

It's not a sexual thing I swear, it's a sort of comforting intimacy that needs to be injected into the business process in order to cope with the pressures executives feel. I don't know that anybody has trained an LLM to do that yet.
NB. What the article describes isn't a developer environment in the cloud. It's testing in the cloud. The editor in their model lives on the programmers' laptops, the editing happens there as well and so on. The code is deployed to cloud infrastructure for testing.
What's the deal with setuptools, setup.py, pyproject.toml and wheels?
What's even the point of such an awful one?
I really like the emergence of simple queuing tools for robust database management systems. Keep things simple and remove infrastructure complexity. Definitely a +1 from me!

For handling straightforward asynchronous tasks like sending opt-in emails, we've developed a similar library at All Quiet for C# and MongoDB: https://allquiet.app/open-source/mongo-queueing

In this context:

LISTEN/NOTIFY in PostgreSQL is comparable to MongoDB's change streams.
SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED in PostgreSQL can be likened to MongoDB's atomic read/update operations.
It really depends on the case. Some folks use the left-pad library for aligning, which can be done in 10 minutes. In C++, we have header libraries for thread pools, etc. I don't think implementing a fully functional thread pool with waiting and other features is an easy task. In conclusion, it really depends on the situation.
All data is a graph, and so graph query languages work well for this. SPARQL is my tool of choice but cypher and maybe GQL (though that's new).
What's amazing to me is that it doesn't seem like Boeing did tests with a fully integrated capsule until after the CFT test was in progress.

They did test firings of individual thrusters, and even did some with multiple thrusters, but with many of the systems in the doghouse missing and the insulation taken off.

Having read a good amount about their methods, it really seems like Boeing has relied heavily on component level tests and analysis rather than integrated tests. And it has bitten them many times so far.
Maybe Walter thought you were smart enough to fill in the gaps and think for yourself. Guess he was wrong.
My understanding is that they've basically figured out how to make regular glass fibers that are basically as good.
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It is not unintelligible, it is exceedingly simple. If you are not knowledgeable about your system at this level, then sure, it is quite chaotic. But that’s a different problem and why are you at this level anyway?

Also, a substantial amount of this problem is just systemd. Don’t shit on df, which looks fine on, say, BSD.

This is not for the “average user” IMO.
> Harder to write sci-fi because we're living in a sci-fi world

That makes no sense to me at all, and the full quote didn't clarify it. Cameron must be using a different and far more narrow definition of "science fiction" than I am.
Show HN: Semantic Image Rabbit Hole
I guess he thought you were smart enough to not need everything spelled out for you. His mistake.
Here's a brief technical writeup on how we built it: https://learn.mixpeek.com/ai-image-discovery/
Sure, I don't disagree with that at all. I'd love to see that happen. I was just pointing out that most of the industry is far worse than what I have seen with Roblox personally.
Ive been playing with https://www.aryn.ai/ for Partitioning. Curious if anyone has tried these tools for better data extraction from PDFs. Any other suggestions?

(I'm a bit disappointed that most of the discussion is about estimating the size of PDFs on the internet, I'd love to hear more about different approaches to extracting better data from the PDFs.)
RTBF isn't about having your information wiped from the internet. Its a safe assumption any public information about you is completely out of your control as soon as its public.

RTBF is about getting companies to get rid of any trace of you so they cannot use that data, not removing all traces about you across the internet.
You can. Your investors won't. They'll use conservative to median estimates. Doing otherwise is negligent or misleading.
To me it's the overall atmosphere, the cinematography, the sound design and the mix between gruesome horror and grotesque comedy that make "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" a truely outstanding movie. As others have mentioned, there is surprisingly little graphical violence, yet it manages to maintain an unrelenting atmosphere of madness and terror.
Elementary, My Dear Watson!

(yes, I know it's not a real quote)
Yes, FlowVision exactly has.
Maybe. But they explicitly mention: “this results in programs like df. or mount.”

If you want to call out design shit then just call it what it is: systemd. Leave df out of it, the poor fellow. Mount also has nothing to do with it.
Is there a resource that shows what tech stacks are running on a particular car model? Android vs QNX? Integrated vs separate instrument cluster and infotainment? Google/Apple Car Play vs whatever?
It isn't like you get that wet either. I don't know how big or hairy your butthole is, but it isn't like I'm getting a giant part of my body soaking wet.

It is just a couple drops of water after you shake off. If you're wearing underwear, it isn't that big of a deal if a couple drops of water get on there. You probably sweat more than that into your clothes each day.

People make a big deal out of something that really isn't.
there's a difference between 'If you want internet-accessible surveillance cameras that you can view when you're not home' and 'if a two-dimensional gender stereotype wants internet-accessible surveillance cameras that they can view when they're not at home'

my friend ann was always pretty annoyed when people applied that stereotype to her, unaware that she'd written a commercially successful operating system in assembly language. and most of the things on the list are things my wife does in order to set up gaming servers on our residential cable modem connection
Care to make it publicly available? Or is that not permitted on your dataset? Certainly, there’s a lot more PDFs out there than 8TB. I bet there’s a lot of redundancy in yours, but doesn’t dedup well because of all the images.
Minecraft Bedrock (iOS and all mobile/console versions) do support assets and executable code as well.

They are called "Behavior Packs": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/document...
> For overwhelming majority of programming projects out there they fit on a programmer's laptop just fine.

What? No. You live in a very sheltered world, my friend.
If anyone has any TWs they work on in public, please post your links. I'd like to read them.
Tip: The Internet Archive's advanced search can return results as an RSS feed, ready to import into your podcast app! Here's a feed of The Famous Computer Cafe episodes. You will need to rename it after adding it.

1. https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=creator%3A%22The+Fa...
There is a whole business sector for ”Online reputation fixers”

https://www.mycleanslate.co.uk/

What they usually do

- Spam Google with the name to bury content

- Send legal threads and use GDPR

They have legit use cases, but are often used by convicted or shady businessmen, politicians, and scammers to hide their earlier misdeeds.
Hi! I work at Stripe on this. What're you curious about?
They were going to undo at least the inside-US portion of the Section 174 amendment.

It’s made it past the House but not the senate yet. [0]

What’s strange is “Effectively, this rule change [initial Section 174 amendment] was designed to encourage enterprises to shift software development activities and the related expenses to the US due to the more favorable tax treatment.” [1]

But seems outsourcing to outside-US has only increased?

[0]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7024

[1]: https://www.corumgroup.com/insights/major-tax-changes-us-sof...
>>Aren't the Copenhagen interpretation and Heisenberg uncertainty principle an immediate indication that Quantum systems can only be chaotic?

Quantum systems are not chaotic but intrinsically indeterminate, insofar as the initial conditions of a system have no relation to the observed state. Chaotic systems are deterministic, and therefore classical. Quantum chaos tools attempt to bridge the gap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chaos
That's, like, just your opinion, man.

Scheme and/or Lisp is literally the worst language choice for this problem domain.
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Srcbook (”source-book”) is an open-source TypeScript notebook that runs locally, powered by Node.js. It shines for rapid prototyping, code exploration, and collaborating on ideas. It’s inspired by Python’s Jupyter and Elixir’s Livebook.

Key features:

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- AI-assisted coding (OpenAI, Anthropic, or local models), it can iterate on the cells for you with a code diff UX that you accept/reject for a given code cell, generate entire Srcbooks, fix compilation issues, etc…

- Exports to valid markdown for easy sharing and version control

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Examples Srcbooks to explore: https://hub.srcbook.com

We built this because we needed a Jupyter-like environment for TypeScript, we hope others like it as much as we do! Feedback and contributions are super appreciated.

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> Do we more or less know how many days worth of supplies they have to keep both up there if needed?

Not sure, but a Cygnus resupply mission (NG-21) launched on the 4th of August, so I'm sure they have plenty of supplies.
On a slightly unrelated note, why is that webpage so slow to load? I'm used to the wayback machine being slow, thats fair enough, but their blog?

I've not seen images load a couple columns at a time in quite a while.
Games in general have been a target of hate base voice chat.

You get these people everywhere.
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I’ve been working on Kadugu, a lightweight and decentralized(libp2p-rust) VPN designed for self-hosting on a VPS or setting up between friends. Key Features:

Optimized for Performance: Kadugu uses the QUIC protocol along with a split connection approach (QUIC+TCP) to handle unstable networks. This results in faster speeds and more reliable connections, especially when dealing with variable network conditions.

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Transforming AWS architecture into an Open source One
This is how every other job in the world works, you work for money.