skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We need to know what 'done' looks like."

As much hate as Agile gets here at HN because of its wrong usage by many people, one thing that Agile recommends is setting up a 'Definition of Done' within your team before even starting your very first sprint.
In these arguments it's always very notable that not only do people not benchmark LLMs against people, but several I've discussed with have argued very strongly for not doing so unless they're benchmarked against above average people. While arguing that these same tests prove LLMs can reason. It never seems to land with them that their standards for "reason" would exclude large portions of the human population to some state of lesser being without the ability to reason.
Copy and paste of the results reported on that twitter thread:

- 1,100 randomized households making under $29,900 were given $1,000 per month for three years. Essentially, their income increased by 40%. The UBI participants lived in urban, suburban and rural towns in Texas and Illinois.

- Result 1: UBI participants ended up earning $1,500 less despite being given $12,000 more annually. For every one dollar received, total household income dropped by at least 21 cents.

- Result 2: UBI participants stayed unemployed for an extra month compared to those unemployed in the control group.

- Result 3: UBI participants worked less and there were no substantive changes in quality of employment. UBI participants did little to improve their education or training to improve their income.

- Result 4: UBI participants self-reported increased rates of disability to limit the work they can do.

Extracting that was a little harder than I thought it would be. Javascript made copy & paste impossible. If you disable Javascript on the page once it's stable using the firefox debugger, it replaces the page with a "you have disabled javascript" banner. At first I thought that had to be the result of a <noscript> and there is indeed a <nopscript> element who purpose seems to be that banner page, but it still happens if you delete that DOM node prior to disabling javascript. Oh well, that's a puzzle for another day.
The US being huge has no bearing on the requirement that I have to own a car to get to work every day, or to go to the grocery store, or to take kids to school. I live in a more suburban area than I used to and having to pilot a huge deadly vehicle everywhere is vastly more stressful than just walking to handle my groceries.

Note that the study you link to there is from 1994 and only controlled for the following criteria: sex, age, social class, marital status, unemployment, chronic illness and region of residence. Those aren't the things that put folks on edge about cities in 1994 or in the preceding years. 30 years on from 1994 and now in a different world, many of us are wondering why we're locked out of some of the benefits of a bit more density.

No ones saying we abandon all beyond our city walls to nature, instead they'll be farmland or productive rural activities like we already use them for. But we don't need every city of 500k people to mean that there's a 15 mile radius circle of strip malls in every direction.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41304691
Prior discussion of context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41304695
Prior discussion of context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010
Euripping Yarns.
You could use something like the PARA Method.

I don't but I follow another pattern: https://alexandremjacques.com/why-i-dont-use-the-para-system...

I just dump this sctructure inside my Documents folder and iCloud does its sync stuuf. Switch iCloud with your tool of choice and you're good to go.

Another option: https://johnnydecimal.com/

Also, there's a ton of applications that can automate organizing files based on rules. Just look around.
People got into carpooling because of the oil crises. Then the oil glut happened, things got cheap again, those carpool groups broke up, and it became uncommon again.
Only cruise missile have tercom. Himars and Excalibur do not have any camera or terrain matching system
I’m on my sixth bank password at east because almost every time I go to reset it, I get the “can’t use current password” error despite trying all of my algorithmic passwords
> Make good decisions people! I got some sun when the UV was 2 early in the early morning. Now it’s 9 at midday. All sun is not equal.

I observed a group of people going into a theme park at 5 PM and slopping on a thick layer of sunscreen. Sundown was ~8 PM. Local UV index is essentially 0 at that time of the day.

Mental models of UV exposure are not always intuitive.
We once planned an international trip with my dad to new york around visiting b&h to buy electronics about a decade ago.

Best memory was walking in there and seeing all the conveyer belts above me shooting packages across.
Reposting an old Reddit comment of mine that I think agrees with much of this article:

I'm in my 40s and for most of my life I had an unending series of unfinished projects that I felt guilty about. Today, I am able to finish some stuff, including some pretty large, hard projects. Better, I don't feel guilty about the stuff I don't finish.

The trick for me is to be deliberate and mindful about why I'm embarking on a particular project.

If it's because I want to feel good by:

* Sharing something with others.

* Accomplishing a difficult, challenging task.

* Proving to myself that I can do something.

* Getting the social cachet of being a creative, productive person. (Maybe this is shallow, but who doesn't like to feel impressive in the eyes of their peers?)

Then the goal of the project is the product it and I focus my attention and discipline on it. I try to have as few of these as possible—like only one at a time—so that my willpower is not diluted.

If it's because I want to feel good by:

* Improving a skill.

* Exploring an unfamiliar domain or learning something new.

* Relaxing by tinkering on something I like.

Then the goal of the project is the process and I don't feel bad about not finishing. The real treasure is all the stuff I learned and did along the way and there is no real destination. I can have as many of these as I want because there's no real failure mode here. They're all recreation.

Once I got more honest and clear with myself about my goals for each project, I started to be able to finish the ones where that mattered and stopped feeling bad about the ones where it doesn't.
They choose the journals because if they don't, their career doesn't advance.

It's a classic collective-action problem: you need a large portion of researchers to more or less simultaneously stop doing it. Good luck with that.

The journal system/cartel is an effective oligopoly.
Anybody have a non-paywalled link? I'm not making a monthly membership so I can keep reading past the 2nd paragraph...
Maybe we should create Artificial Stupidity (A.S.) to make it even?
The “human cost” of SSO is definitely the hardest part.

At WorkOS we solved this by shipping the whole config workflow in the form of an admin portal. It checks things like SAML certificate, signatures/assertions, attribute mapping, etc. and a zillion other edge cases across dozens of identity systems.

It’s pretty much “Stripe Checkout" for setting up SAML. Live demo here (click “Configure”) https://explore.workos.com/app/settings
Artificial intelligence will not replace human stupidity. That's a job for natural selection :-)
There are plenty of folks who setup SSO with open source projects without a support contract. Why should they have to pay for it with other software?
Software engineer for multiple decades here. None of the AI assistants have made any major change to my job. They are useful tools when it's time to write code like many useful tools before them. But the hard work of being a senior+ software engineer comes before you start typing.
N=1 software and the unreasonable effectiveness of Excel
I'm going to disagree and see what other people say.

I don't think that reduction of size is of any relevance. I admit my own refractors tend to make things smaller but it's only a tendency. Most definitely some increase the size overall. I'm currently refactoring a code base – for each item there used to be one class. Each object was examined after creation then a runtime flag was set: Rejected or Accepted. As the code crew I found I was wasting a lot of time around this Accepted/Rejected stuff. Now I'm refactoring so I have two classes for each item, one for when it's Accepted and one for when it's Rejected. The amount of boilerplate has definitely bulked up the code but it will be worth it.

As for complexity, I don't know.

The only thing I refactor for is human comprehensibility. That is the final goal. What other goal can there be?
... I don't think I'm seeing the point you're trying to make.

I'm saying that there is a massive power imbalance in freelancing that is not at all the same as the power imbalance with working a 9-to-5
> They don't need to work with any formal publisher. LaTeX and the Internet make it easier than ever. Nobody needs any of the publishers to get their work out.

That's not how academia works, though. It would be great if it did, but it doesn't.
Why not use more oral exams? It'd be quite difficult for me to cheat on an algorithms examination if you and I were talking back and forth in real time. I understand time is probably a factor, but I still think such assessments could be conducted. I had foreign-language assessments and musical assessments conducted in such a manner at the university level.

Not to mention, when those students apply for many of the jobs out there, they might have gained some useful skills for interviewing, conversing with team members, etc..

I'm not opposed to some writing, but it seems like our education system believes it to be the only medium that matters.
I would have thought that exercise was the primary contributing factor, but the study isolated the effects of UV exposure by using independent UV measures, adjusting for confounders like exercise, employing a negative control outcome, and using directed acyclic graphs to identify and account for potential confounders.
I don't plan much, first I set a goal and then break it down into manageable steps. Designs without goals rarely turn out well from my experience.
I think we treat dogs wrong. Dogs are capable of resolving out most situations on their own, unless they're leashed. The leash changes everything and makes dogs more aggressive. Probably because they're scared about being attached to something when encountering a stressful situation like meeting other dogs.

The only reason we emphasize the leash is because any idiot is allowed to get a dog and mistreat it. So we leash them for the owner's sake really, not for any inherent fault of the dog.

So I can't argue with the rules to keep dogs leashed, I just refuse to do it.

Mine is tiny, it flies in the cabin on planes even because it's under 8kg.

But I've seen people with huge belgian malonois off leash, and they make a point of showing everyone around them how well trained it is. It walks next to them the whole time, they regularly give it commands to follow on their walk. So you have a responsibility with a big dog, because it can do more damage, and I think it's a good idea to demonstrate to any doubters around you that you can control it.

But if you just let a pittie go and then stare at your phone, you shouldn't be allowed to handle an animal.

But yeah this is a very hot topic because why should responsible people and good dogs be punished collectively because there are morons? I want more regulations in getting an animal. I see sooo many of them mistreated, neglected, when a child is born for example, now they're just being dragged along after the pram. Common human condition to be short sighted and get a dog as a fun item, but it lives for maybe 15 years. It's a huge commitment.
> I don't find coding assistants to be very useful.

I've come to notice a correlation between contemporary AI optimism and having effectively made the jump to coding with AI assistants.
Careful what you wish for. You have to wish the whole wish otherwise the monkey's paw will get you. Wishing for higher density without also pushing for better zoning policies overall will just make the traffic another level of pain, which is something seen in a number of cities. Sure, we'll then just build massive apartment complexes, one right next to the other. Where's the grocery store though? Where do these people work? Oops.

I see so many new residential projects with small lots or apartments. That's great! But still the zoning forces just housing, so its just homes on homes on homes for miles.
There's a lot of discussion here in the comments on whether this can meaningfully be called a vulnerability if you can only "see the temperature of your server".

Setting aside that the vulnerability doesn't actually allow that, isn't this potentially a Spectre / Meltdown vulnerability? This is an unprotected endpoint that conditionally executes code taken from user input. If the branch predictor can be trained to speculatively execute arbitrary code from the input, information could be extracted via endpoint timing using a similar methodology to Spectre or Meltdown, right?
OpenAI docs say they also improve latency with caching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41302358
Myth #2: Organic Foods are Healthier

Some people believe that by not using manufactured chemicals or genetically modified organisms, organic farming produces more nutritious food.

I don't know anyone who believes this. The only time I see it mentioned is in blog posts like this. It's as if they're arguing against something that isn't there in order to will it into existence.

Organic might not be perfect, but I'll take my chances (over conventional factory farming).
It doesn't in USB4. USB4 adds Thunderbolt compatible signalling for DisplayPort and PCIe tunneling. It also adds some faster data modes. Thunderbolt 4 is separate, but USB4 products can be Thunderbolt 4 with all the features presumably including Thunderbolt 3 compatibility.
Oh cool! We have pretty much the same thing
Not Firefox?
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They did? Is there any alternative nowadays?
Just today, I received a note from a gas technician, part handwritten, for the life of me I couldn't make out what he was saying, I asked ChatGPT and it surprisingly understood, rereading the original note I'm very sure it was correct.
I read this with great interest. Although it feels like it's just sound bites of strange travel anecdotes, it somehow captures very well the complicated and self-contradictory relations between Poles and Jews. It does a good job of calling out quite a few of the pain points, somehow without overtly taking sides. All the more impressive since the author is not from a "third" nation (as I understand from the article, she is Jewish).

Mostly it captures well the multi-faceted nature of the relationship, without funneling the reader back to the one dimensional question of "who's the goodie".
This is a good economics lesson but fails to address the actual issue people have with the SSO tax. It isn't about the concept of price discrimination, but price discrimination when it comes to security. You can charge extra for convenience features or other value-add features, sure, but the choice of login provider is something that should be table stakes for every person and every organization regardless of how big they are or how much they can pay. An even worse example – plenty of apps gate two-factor auth behind a paid tier as well.
Talk about kinicism.
Connecting a Macintosh SE to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi (2020)
What are you talking about? What autonomy? Try the latest Gemini Pro 1.5 and ask it for the list of ten places to visit in Spain. Then ask it for the Google Maps URLs for those places. It will make up URLs that point to nowhere. This os of zero value for personal or business use. I have dozens of examples of such crappy outcomes from all "latest", "most powerful" products. AI is smoke and mirrors. It is being sold as a very expensive solution to a non-existent problem and is not getting any better in the future. Some wish AI had someone like Steve Jobs to properly market it, but even Steve Jobs could not make a crappy product sell. The whole premise of AI goes against what generations of users were told--computers always give correct answers and given the same input parameters return the same output. By extension, we were also taught that GIGO (Garbage-In, Garbage-Out) is what we can blame when we are not happy with the results computers generate. AI peddlers want us to believe in and pay for VIGO (Value-In, Garbage-Out) and I'm sorry but there is not a valid business model where such tools are required.
Your argument is a variant of the object–relational impedance mismatch problem[1]. It's easier for us to reason about objects (or functions and types) than it is to think in terms of SQL tables, so it is much easier to develop complex logic or domain models in general purpose programming languages. Yet data storage and retrieval is much, much more efficient with relational databases, and it is generally a good practice to logically separate the data storage layer from the rest of the system anyway. But implementing that layer to translate from the relational model to the object model frequently involves tons of finicky, manually crafted SQL statements embedded in general purpose code where the linting/type checking/static analysis tooling often isn't great for the embedded SQL. The only other alternatives are using an ORM that automagically handles most if not all of the relational-object mapping or a NoSQL solution like Mongo that avoids the mismatch altogether. Both those alternatives typically involve sacrificing performance and scalability, however, and the limitations and quirks of each frequently contribute to bugs (e.g., schema drift in document DBs, or implementation details of the ORM that make it hard to map nested relationships).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impe...
It also seems gameable: for every big question of societal importance that people care about for its own sake, have a thousand random little questions where the outcome is dead obvious and can be predicted trivially. Would you know anything talking about weighing questions to account for this?
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This is just an artefact of tokenisation though. The model simply isn’t ever shown the letters that make up words, unless they are spelled out explicitly. It sees tokens representing groups of words. This is a little like saying a human isn’t intelligent because they couldn’t answer your question that you asked in an ultrasonic wavelength. If you’d like to learn more this video is a great resource: https://youtu.be/zduSFxRajkE?si=LvpXbeSyJRFBJFuj
How is this a change in job description? It may be a failure of imagination on my part, but it sounds like you're still doing what you have always done - you've changed the how.
This reminds me of when several years ago I was a pretty early enterprise Vault user - I poc'd out a pretty simple implementation with the OSS version that at that time included SSO support with Okta. Management was like "great we don't have to pay for any of this then, let's use OSS then" and I argued that there was zero chance they were going to leave that as a OSS feature, sure enough, some months later they rug pulled it. It was pretty much the only additional feature outside of core functionality we absolutely "needed," everything else was pretty fluff.
I don't know anything about neuroscience, but is there anything in the brain even remotely like the transformer architecture? It can do a lot of things, but I don't think that it's capable of emulating human intelligence.
People have forgotten we had this back in 1997 with MS Access.

I built a whole ERP system with it, single handedly including the hardware, software, networking and the workstation deployments without really breaking a sweat. We have gone off the rails somewhere.
Simon Peyton Jones said interesting things about Excel and FP.

What we dislike about Excel is summed up in the memes. "No, that number is not a date" problems are just inexcusable.

But in terms of computing power, it's awesome.

My personal preference is a sweet spot to use Python with xlsxwriter or openpyxl to read (and write) worksheets where I can't do it inside Excel due to my lack of competency. Then I can produce Excel charts (even directed by the Python) which are indistinguishable from what others do, in style terms. I guess if somebody writes a graphics output engine which is 1:1 congruent with data uplift to Powepoint, I'd stop.

(the thing I find hardest is to select cell contents into a new array, not to compute a map/reduce over them but simply to populate a table in a new specified location as an XFILTER over some other nominated cells. COUNTIF is fine. But thats a map/reduce solution. I want the literal subset under some criteria, so I can do other things with it, and I want to see it not just have it a computed state off-workbook. The evidence is strong you have to write VBSCRIPT solutions to iterate, and none of them are well documented that I can find)
Poor people should not have to buy a car as it is a massive drain on finances to keep it running. There are better solutions
probably has something to do with the products that go beyond accepting credit cards listed on https://docs.stripe.com/products, though I suspect operating just the credit card accepting part is harder than you imagine.
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Hm, that seems like a misrepresentation of what I'm saying.

I specifically meant that the previous commenter made me think of mandates.

I run a company that makes SAML SSO software. I've thought quite extensively about SAML SSO. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036982

Addendum: I have a very strongly vested interest in more people using SSO. I literally spend my time trying to convince developers to set it up!
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What the document is called in the end is secondary. The important point in my opinion is that MIT sat together and discussed and also wrote down what they want, how they want it and likely (as an outcome of their discussion) also have an understanding where there are areas to negotiate/compromise on are.
Or in other words, they prepared themselves for the negotiations so they know when to be firm or angry.
Sure, but most SaaS support “SSO at home” in lower tiers via either Google idp or GitHub. So yes you’re locked into those vendors which kind of sucks but it’s not necessarily true that you have to give up security without forking over the “SSO tax”