skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Air Force scraps $12B Sentinel systems integration contract
> But many jobs are not like that. Imagine an AI nurse giving bad health advice on phone. Somebody might die.

This problem is not unique to AI and you see this problem with human medical professionals. Regularly people are misdiagnosed or aren’t diagnosed at all. At least with AI you could compare the results of different models pretty instantly and get confirmation. An AI Dr also wouldn’t miss information on a chart like a human can.

> So, nearly all use cases I can think of now will still require a human in the loop, simply because of the unreliability. That way it can be a productivity booster, but not a replacement.

This is exactly what your parent said, but yet you replied seemingly disagreeing. AI tools are here to stay and they do increase productivity. Be it coding, writing papers, strategizing. Those that continue to think of AI as not useful will be left behind.
> cost of acquiring a customer > cost of serving a customer

For a successful and popular product the cost of acquiring a customer is low. Heavy investments in advertising are needed for unpopular, overpriced products that naturally have a low demand.

For example, almost everything that I buy I bought not because of advertising but based on the comparison of product price and quality.
So, in the US all such "unpacking" is done by lawyers at $500+ per hour. You just showed that in absence of non-compete hiring someone from a competitor could turn into a multi-million lawsuit. This is why such a legal climate is an effective indefinite non-compete without pay: why would anybody hire somebody from competition when just deciding who is a client and who is a customer requires discovery? Hopefully you can see yourself how non-competes make it possible for people to switch jobs and simplify life for everyone.
Trying to do clever stuff with threads tends to lead from brow beating, wailing, and gnashing of teeth by various folks who insist to just trust the threadpool.
Also prefer Xcode. As long as you stay away from XIBs and Storyboards it’s more responsive than Android Studio.

And yeah, if you let a project lapse on gradle and library updates for any length of time at all be prepared for a fight to get it all brought back up to speed. Swift Package Manager is generally less of a headache.

Some of AS’ “smart” features are also more of a hindrance than a help at times, and don’t even get me started on ProGuard (which has no Apple ecosystem equivalent).
I see what you are trying to say, but I'm not quite sure why Norway's sovereign fund would collapse just because the Norwegians would stop adding more money to the fund? And why would the companies they invest in collapse?

The companies in the S&P500 don't collapse, when I stop making regular new payments into my retirement fund.
In the winter I have a driveway and 300 feet of sidewalk I have to clear, sometimes twice a day. Assuming any products on the market can even handle the job, I wouldn't want to have to manage the charging situation for my use case. Pouring in more gas is so much easier than realizing you forgot to charge the backup battery. And I don't even want to know what that would cost.
On the one hand, it is a clear indication that citizen's wishes are ignored. On the other, US is supposed to be a republic and politicians are supposed to be smarter than to give in to the mob, who will always vote itself whatever it currently wants.

The problem is that while 84% ( I am taking that number at face value for the time being ) say they want stronger privacy laws in aggregate, as individuals they differ on what that actually means. While this is happening, corporations and interests that are opposed to that know exactly what they want and coordinate appropriately.

Privacy needs lobbyists too , I suppose?

I am not sure at what point it breaks. Ellison famously quipped that privacy is long dead anyway.
I love this as a story, but I can't find anything backing up the source as true.
Excellent example. In general, people's "revealed preferences" often contradict their stated preferences.
I've heard this before. It sounds good, but where to start?
The move is now to sample it and make new music!
Do you think this will finally be the year of the Linux desktop?
Somewhat meta, but this feels like the kind of story I’m going to see tomorrow in my The Hustle email. Then it will be highlighted on Apple News, then probably in wired, and finally as a shirt segment on the Today Show. This seems to be a trend that certain topics are going oddly viral in a not-quite-viral way.
This isn't an alternative, that's the argument
Ironically, this version of the header published in 1980 is what we still use to this day.

IMHO Ethernet is one of the of great examples of backwards compatibility in the computing world. Even the wireless standards present frames to the upper layers like they're Ethernet. It's also a counterexample to the bureaucracy of standards bodies --- the standard that actually became widely used was the one that got released first. The other example that comes to mind is OSI vs DoD(TCP/IP).
84% spend all day yakking online posting under their real names
This is very typical, you observe that the expressions are slightly different linguistically, and then make a leap from that and posit that this makes it pejorative.

It's a bit similar to how some people just posit that "The Ukraine" or "The Congo" is somehow pejorative just because most countries don't have a definite article.
Snowblowers are 4 stroke engines today, I'm not even sure anyone makes a 2-stroke machine. And they certainly aren't obsolete. An electric one is fine if you have a bit of light powder but no good if you're moving a lot of deep, heavy snow off a decent amount of square footage. And don't buy a gas blower than isn't at least 2 stages.

I don't doubt the future will make them comparable and lower in cost but I wouldn't buy one today.
Hmm. I have three snowblowers. The smallest is electric, and it's the largest electric snowblower I could find. I use it to move snow off our wooden decks and to be honest it works extremely well for that purpose. It's light (when batteries removed) so can be lifted easily between deck sections, and it's sufficiently powerful to throw snow 10ft or so off the deck.

The larger ones don't yet have an electric option available.
AI was absolutely not the basis for the layoffs at Intel, they are doing bad full stop. I don't know enough about IBM, but I strongly suspect that one is more influenced by macroeconomic conditions and general slowing down of the economy than anything else and AI is the convenient excuse to point to.

> If AI makes programmers more productive, and everyone is getting it, they will need everyone to keep up with the competition.

This assumes that there's competition. When money is expensive to borrow, companies stop throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks, they start being more conservative with where they expend their capital. Efficiency will absolutely be the name of the game for 2-3 of the next 5 years. I don't really see AI being a huge part of it. Writing code doesn't take up the majority of my time as a senior engineer.
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Executives are the type of workers that have seen the increased productivity - it helps them write emails faster and summarize and digest long, mostly LLM-written, emails faster than before. Therefore, they think, it translates to everything else; writing code is just writing a foreign language for them, so, they figure, LLMs will do it, too.
US federal tax receipts have been remarkably consistent
Very cool, thanks. I'd switch to a Ruby WM in a heartbeat if it worked on Wayland.
id like to emphasize i didnt say anything about the skill levels of german engineers. ive worked with really talented ones, and poor ones. but for me its impossible to land a job there, having no education and certs. definitely feel u. a lot of people u meet in corporate arent the hackers you expect. like anywhere, most people do the minimum not to get fired. and some people do all the work and suffer burnouts :D. wonderful world!
That's not how I use "inherent", maybe they should just say "default" then?

But that's like... C is also single threaded by default, what isn't?
Genuine question, whats the difference between your startup and just calling the below code with a different model on a cloud machine, other than some ML/Dev OP's engineer not knowing what they are doing...?

model = get_model(\*model_config)
state_dict = torch.load(model_path, weights_only=True)
new_state_dict = {k.replace('_orig_mod.', ''): v for k, v in state_dict.items()}
model.load_state_dict(new_state_dict)
model.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
output = model(torch.FloatTensor(X))
probabilities = torch.softmax(output, dim=X)
return probabilities.numpy()
I have some vague shadows of memories relating to PPC BeOS.
I'm surprised it took you this long to realize how deeply the propaganda machine runs
CPUs have shortcuts in the pipeline to provide the results to the dependent operation in time
That is just some fancy wording I went with, it looks at the past velocity (work completed / time taken) on the project to compute the total time required to complete the remaining work. Basic math tbh, but can get "rocket-sciencey" when story points, epics, dates are involved (at least for me lol).
God that error is nearly useless even to the developer. Last couple of times I've gotten it, I've dropped the DLL that the error originates from into Binary Ninja and run the debugger to figure out which parameter failed a check.
programs call apis.
Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much software engineers report making
To me names are important. I have to find a good name for a project or business before I start. Or at least good-enough. This is a great naming idea. I love it.
Maybe they're letting the big corps get fatter ready for a big EU-style lawsuit.
I use a corded snowblower and lawnmower. While not the best user experience over batteries, I know they always work and require little maintenance.
Interesting, it seems to be a statement that's spread around, but the sources do seem to be lacking, e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/vp2e7p/us...

RE: MacBook Pro dying close to a year right after it's warranty it over --> well now you're just trolling. My iPhone 15 pro battery still maintains 100% battery health a year after its manufacturing date. It obviously won't need replacing in 1-2 more years even if I "really really push it and are OK with constantly charging". I used an iPhone XS until last year after it was about 5 years old, 5x longer than your supposed device-dead date. I don't think this is unusual.
If you took abstract algebra (which presumably you did as a math major), you certainly encountered these at least in the exercises as groups of the form ax + b where x is some irrational number (or imaginary) and a and b are integers are a staple of chapter 1–2 proofs. Gaussian integers (ai + b) are a special case that are loads of fun to play with it. They are not unique factorization domains like the integers (e.g., 5 can be expressed as both 1∙5 and (1 - 2i)² where 1, 5 and 1 - 2i are all irreducible).
> The real truth is that strong privacy laws would cause economic harm to flagship corporations.

The real truth is that flagship corporations think this will happen. They seem to believe that tracking users is the only way to deliver ads efficiently. It's not, and there are other ways to do that, such as displaying tags in environments devoted to a given topic. But this would imply a change, and why change if you can bribe congresspeople?
I heard this anecdote of theirs in a clip of whatever podcast they said it on, either on youtube or instagram, now I see it in a headline here, and as you say, going to be propagated out through all the different streams flowing to the grand ocean of readers.
Your logic is flawed.
Tailwind didn't make something so complicated that it needs an "AI".
The author decided to use Tailwind, probably because of the same reason other LLM-based code generators use it - it's verbose and close to the markup, increasing the chances of getting it right.
This is a silly shallow dismissal. Noyb raised complaints about parts of governments and won before. For example https://noyb.eu/en/project/data-transfers/c035
Mitnick was the most notorious “hacker” for decades and I don’t believe he was ever known for touching code.

His hacks were largely social engineering and manipulation of phone systems to enable more social engineering

https://ju.acm.org/magazine/articles/kevin-mitnick.html
The vector width stuff is overblown. There are in practice 3 widths for all desktop architectures (128-bit, 256-bit, 512-bit) and the 95th percentile of all desktops are squarely in the first two buckets, or alternatively you're targeting a specific SKU which you can optimize for. You'll have to write uarch specific code for absolute peak performance anyway. It's annoying but hardly a deal breaker for this specific task.

The bigger problem is most modern ISAs just aren't very nice to program in. Modern takes like SVE/RVV/AVX-512 are all way better here and much easier to write and think about because their instructions are much more general and have fewer edge cases.

> And it also takes a lot of space on your cpu die. Like, A LOT.

No, it doesn't (what would even be the "right" amount of die space?) But even if it did that would not make it a waste of space. Using up some amount of die space may result in huge performance gains for some subset of floating-point tasks that can't be achieved in any other way. For example software cryptography massively relies on these units, because the benefit is like multiple orders of magnitude; even if that's taking up 10% of die space for only 0.1% of software, that software has disproportionate impact -- if you took away that functional unit, then you may have a huge net decrease in efficiency overall, meaning you need more overall processors to handle the same workload from before.
> The real truth is that strong privacy laws would cause economic harm to flagship corporations.

Won’t somebody please think of the ~~children~~ corporations!

> That would have a ripple effect on the economy as those corporations are responsible for thousands of high-paying jobs.

Bullshit. This is the argument for “trickle-down economics” and if there’s anything the past decades have proven is that when the people at the top get more money, they keep more of it for themselves.
what would be the goal of this specific propodanda?
> When asked by O’Brien if this was common for all gold record plaques, Ad-Rock replied, “I don’t know about anybody else...” while Mike D speculated that major stars like Barbra Streisand or Donna Summer probably received plaques with their actual records.

This is what I'm most interested in. Is this a one-off or does it happen to other artists? Is there some master record they use and nobody gets their own gold album? If so, how'd they pick the track list? There's gotta be an interesting history here. If Beastie Boys were somehow treated as lesser, they ought to fight for their right to parity.
fair point again. i dont think this is the way to go in either case. of your api is easy to clearly document its good. if you struggle with that, a programmer trying to call it will also. regardless of what an LLM makes of it.

it seems like trying to facilitate bad things. make good things instead.
"person of colour" is especially funny since that's the polite term, but the near identical "colored people" is deeply offensive. Why? Because it's associated with the evil old viewpoints, and really no other reason.
Curious why people feel the need for tools like this. I think git benefits massively from a graphical tool but I don't really see the point for docker, docker compose or even kubernetes. I do find CLI completions essential, though.
This looks interesting. I've been thinking a lot about project management recently as there are a large number of factors that make it really tricky to build and maintain roadmaps. I have a few questions that I couldn't see answered in the FAQs. Sorry for the dump but I really feel like there's a niche for something clever in this space.

* How does this handle concurrent distribution of work? For example, my team has an upcoming epic which would take 3 weeks if done sequentially by one person. But what if the team has 2 devs, or 4 devs? Does it assume a linear decrease in work with increase in number of devs?

* Does it handle task dependencies? For example, there may be a sequential chain of dependencies in my epic that mean it will never be done faster than 2 weeks no matter how many people work on it.

* Does it maintain the roadmap in response to ongoing delays or changes to scope? For example, if a task is delayed by 1 week, does it go through and figure out the new ETA? This may be quite complex as it may be efficient to re-assign devs to different tasks.

* Does it handle annual leave and varied working weeks? For example, if the end of the project is pushed back into a week where lots of people have annual leave, can it factor this into its estimate?
I too hate propaganda from Big Anti-Gold Record industry.

Sarcasm aside, what reason does which 'propaganda machine' have for considering this story relevant to anything they might care about?
Lobbyists are there to maximize the profits of whoever hires them, not to care about general population. Nobody will care about general population except for themselves.
I'd like you to demonstrate your approach with this jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/nbdowrcm/

As you can see, the middle element is not centered.
Not just flagship corporations either. Our modern economies rely heavily on luxury consumerism which is heavily driven by advertising and marketing.
I just mean it's physically possible, it's not like we as humans are physically unable to and require a drug to do it for us. But most people aren't willing to grind through the beginning phase that is physically and emotionally difficult to get to the part where training becomes beautiful. I've had moments on psychedelics where I've just cried from gratitude that I found my practices and disciplined myself to root out the deep fears and insecurities that held me back. I didn't want to live with them anymore and wanted to see what this body is capable of in this lifetime. It's ridiculous what out bodies are capable of. It's like getting handed a lambo and instead we keep it parked in our garage all the time. But those first 6 months were extremely difficult, literally bloody from injuries, and required a commitment that every week I'd go train 5 times, no excuses.

I think pretty much anyone can find 5-6 hours in a week to go train something, it's really not much time at all.
Power is expensive for a few reasons.

1. Aging base load generation

2. Housing stock from cheap fuel times facing globalised energy prices.

3. Network assets being corporatised and partially privatised and there having been incentives for these monopolies to invest in unproductive assets for which they are permitted to recover their costs.

4. Costs of competition in the retail sector.

5. Government policy creating uncertainty in investment decisions for renewable assets.

6. The vast majority of consumption is early evening, so not much Sun.
It's not just the helmet.

I will maintain that Star Wars was quite possibly the best WWII movie of all time, although purely as an allegorical and referential work. In the timeless tradition of tailoring your story to your audience, the whole film is packed with references and ideas from other WWII movies, people, and events. Although, it also borrows from just about everything else - a true artifact of its era. For the Boomer post-WWII era, I believe drawing from familiar material like this is one of the keys to its success.

After all, a story about "a young hero and laser swords" doesn't hold a candle to "a bunch of underdogs blow up a gigantic space station filled with space Nazis." I don't know about you, but I know which of those I'm going to see 10 times.

> The attack on the Death Star in the climax of the film A New Hope is similar in many respects to the strategy of Operation Chastise from the 1954 British film, The Dam Busters. Rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and drop a single special weapon at a precise distance from the target to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails another run must be made by a different pilot. Some scenes from the A New Hope climax are similar to those in The Dam Busters and some of the dialogue is nearly identical in the two films. These scenes are also heavily influenced by the action scenes from the fictional wartime film 633 Squadron. That film's finale shows the squadron's planes flying down a deep fjord while being fired at along the way by anti-aircraft guns lining its sides. George Lucas has stated in interviews that this sequence inspired the 'trench run' sequence in Star Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sources_and_analogue...

> The stormtroopers from the movies share a name with the Imperial German stormtroopers and the Nazi German Sturmabteilung (lit. Stormtrooper). Imperial officers' uniforms also resemble some historical German Army uniforms and the political and security officers of the Empire resemble the black clad SS down to the imitation silver death's head insignia on their officer's caps (although the uniforms technically had more basis with the German Uhlans within the Prussian Empire[71]). World War II terms were used for names in Star Wars; examples include the planets Kessel (a term that refers to a group of encircled forces) and Hoth (Hermann Hoth was a German general who served on the snow-laden Eastern Front).[61] Lucas himself has drawn parallels between Palpatine and his rise to power to historical dictators such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler, saying the films exist as an examination of how democracies allow themselves to become dictatorships.[72] The space battles in A New Hope were based on filmed World War I and World War II dogfights.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sources_and_analogue...
This shit is all lies dude. In measurements like this, they constrain mutable structures to the same memory layouts and ideas as immutable ones and say “see! Sometimes kinda close!”

But this is just bog standard FP community lies.
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Ask HN: How to increase conversion on SaaS tool or website?
I have significant experience in getting conversions on Freelance sites, but how do increase conversion rate, if I cannot talk to user?

Current user conversion over last 30 days is 10% . Out of which I have personally initiated contact with 7% and received a reply from 3% only
I Followed a Dopamine Detox for 6 Days: Here's What Happened
Do you provide support when they ran into issues? IMO there are a lot of variables here that boil down to Windows (and macOS) having the benefit of familiarity, widespread use, and more consistency.

Your experience with Linux will heavily depend on your experience with computers, distro, hardware (e.g. due to obscure driver issues), and workload.

Your experience with macOS/Windows will be fairly consistent. There are still driver issues with Windows, but they're less common than Linux.
Value chains – A method for creating faucet-and-drain game economies
> Breaking a fast carries more health benefits than the fasting itself, a study in mice shows1. After mice had abstained from food, stem cells surged to repair damage in their intestines — but only when the mice were tucking into their chow again, the study found

Literally the first paragraph
The surprise is that the benefit isn’t gained until you start eating again. It’s not during the fast that good things happen, apparently.
tldr; positively impacts stem cells making them more effective at repairing damage