skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure Boeing's problems are entirely due to the bureaucratic horse trading that infests many government acquisition programs. That issue shouldn't have affected their commercial airplanes, which seems to suffer from similar quality issues.

It actually seems to be a systemic issue that has been affecting many American companies and slowly grown worse over the last 50 years. The management views themselves as increasingly indispensable and the lower ranks of workers as commodities subject to arbitrage, where 10 years experience at this company is somehow just as valuable as 10 years somewhere else - despite not having the same institutional knowledge and connections. We've seen this with traditional "American" companies, such as Ford and GM, and even with the more established companies in the tech sector.

This is fundamentally caused by a shift how management has operated. The emphasis on market performance over dividends and increasingly public role of business leadership. With that, executive compensation becomes another signal of a company's confidence as a tool to drive market price. Businesses compete over lavish executive perks not to find the best talent, but as conspicuous consumption to signal their value to investors.

At the same time, human resources have worked to standardize and measure workers. Trying to turn them into interchangeable cogs, because it seems cheaper to think that way. But people are not cogs and reducing people to keywords on a resume loses valuable data. This is true when apples to oranges comparisons are made between the current employees and prospective employees. The precise nature of experience and how it maps to their company is lost so current employees are undervalued in the comparison. Likewise the value of proximity and relationships between management and workers and even local governments. This has lead to many off-shoring decisions that led to unexpected losses in the medium term, some of which were ultimately rolled back.
A similar tool that's actively developed was posted a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41327735

> Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better

https://github.com/beac0n/ruroco
This list of things that "only appear once or twice on the internet" makes no sense to me. Many are things that don't exist at all, depending on how you define it. A guess the best defense of Claude is that the question is a bit ill-defined.
Let's not confuse correlation with causation.

Is the organizational pressure that seeks conformity filtering out tattoos based on tattoos or the lack of conformity? It's tough to understand whether you're saying more about self-perpetuating hierarchies or tattoos.

I'm aligned with your base point. I'm not seeking to extend my rational to anyone other than people who make their opinions well known.
My ex-ca coworker's cousin is a mountie. Often as he's stuffing some miscreant into a squad car the guy will say "Hey, you didn't read me my rights."
They'll do that regardless. Who cares?
> I can't imagine Canada adopting economic, military or cultural policies that favor US enemies without being strong-armed out of it by the US.

I'd say Cuba is the exception that proves this rule
I don’t think that’s clear at all, and I’m not involving the political flavor of people making a “judgment” - I’m saying his particular brand of establishment democrat politics all tend to have the same tendency.
Threads is in the growth phase and not in the milking userbase for all its worth phase. It will get there.
I play music on it every day. It’s connected to my Apple Music account
Yes, this is achieved through a meta process

> By sampling multiple responses from the LLM and considering the one with the highest confidence score, we can additionally obtain more accurate responses from the same LLM, without any extra training steps

> Our proposed LLM uncertainty quantification technique, BSDetector, calls the LLM API multiple times with varying prompts and sampling temperature values (see Figure 1). We expend extra computation in order to quantify how trustworthy the original LLM response is

The data is there, but not directly accessible to the transformer. The meta process enables us to extract it
Yes. Is there anything in their summary you would dispute? At least in my book, buying into the "US orchestrated 9/11" story is pretty cut-and-dried; not much room for debate on whether that makes one a conspiracy theorist.
"legal concerns" is not the same as philosophy differences.
This is the same video that got me hooked! I love Posy. It always feels magical to know that there are so many other curious people in the world. HN feels like a natural gathering point for that crowd as well.
It was really good 15 years ago, but in those 15 years (and I'd say especially the last 5 or so) the community has become more hostile to new contributions. Once I've been told a few times my contribution is not wanted, I stop participating in that community (assuming that on reflection I'm not being an asshole).

In a significant way, that's probably due to how incredibly toxic the managing company has become. An aim for profit eventually ruins everything, including what used to be one of the best knowledge sharing sites around.
I think you're onto something! I'm still on-device because I joke that I'm allergic to paper (seriously, I actively dislike the experience of using pen & paper…just a me thing I guess), but I've basically taken a similar route lately of just having a very small collection of Markdown files and I simply jot stuff down in them, check things off, and then delete bits that aren't relevant. Sync via Dropbox and away you go.

Plain text is enormously useful, as it turns out, and the fewer bells & whistles, the better!
Also worth remembering that Metformin has an even higher GI distress side effect rate than GLP-1 drugs. Like, probably most people that take it get some bad GI side effects. It's not a great replacement for GLP-1 drugs.
It's likely relatively poor entropy.

https://www.science.org/content/article/lightning-has-long-d...

> SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA--The jury may still be out on whether lightning can strike the same place twice, but a new study gives the public another riddle to ponder: Can distant lightning bolts talk to each other? Evidence gathered from space shuttle recordings indicates that, rather than being randomly distributed, lightning flashes appear to be coordinated, even when they're far apart.

> Coordinated lightning behavior has been observed before, but only over short distances. Over the past 30 years, however, astronauts who watched thunderstorms from space reported believing that lightning strikes influence each other even when hundreds of kilometers apart, a phenomenon astronaut Edward Gibson called "sympathetic lightning bolts."

... and knowing the name for that now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lightning_phenomena#

> Sympathetic lightning is the tendency of lightning to be loosely coordinated across long distances. Discharges can appear in clusters when viewed from space.[22][23][24]

Which leads to https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/GL009i01... and
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13646...

> From observation of lightning activity in severe storms with VHF radar the echoes from lightning discharges following one another within a time interval typical for a multistroke cloud-to-ground flash and spaced in range by several km are designated "associated discharges". The hypothesis of association between lightning flashes is tested against an alternative hypothesis of independence between them by using methods of statistical analysis for series of events. The hypothesis of independence is rejected at a level of significance of 5%. The probability for lightning flashes in multicell storms to be associated increases when time intervals between flashes are very short (<100 ms for the investigated storm).
> the young shopkeeper responded: "On ne parle pas Anglais ici" (one does not speak English here)

A point of translation nuance here: in American English “one does not speak {language} here” carries with it an overt sense of pretense or unpleasantness, whereas in French “on”/one is very commonly used as an alternative to “we” in informal conversation, and does not carry any of the same tone as using “one” does in English. While the translation is correct at a literal level, idiomatically it’d just be “we don’t speak English here”.
I think more than the specific prompts, I would be interested in how they came up with them.

Are these system prompts being continuously refined and improved via some rigorous engineering process with a huge set of test cases, or is this still more of a trial-and-error / seat-of-your-pants approach to figure out what the best prompt is going to be?
Awwww snaaaaap, decentralized skyneeet here we goooooo! Kidding of course, but very exciting breakthrough if this pans out.
The moderation sucks there. They keep closing the really useful questions/answers in favor of some super rigid idea that they have (but which no user understands or cares about). It went from useful discussions to fighting the mods and junior mods all the damned time...
I've been using alibris.com
aka a solution in search of a problem
"but if it involves NATO, I would expect that’s being employed"

Why would that be your expectation?
Been using taskwarrior (and the really great TUI interface https://github.com/kdheepak/taskwarrior-tui) for about 6 months now. My favorite things:

- really fast day-to-day navigation using vim-like controls in the TUI

- automatic sorting using due date, task dependencies (A must be done for B to start), age, etc.

- task dependencies. This is really helpful for me

- decent enough cross-device sync with syncthing (I already had it up and running)

- ability to produce reports. E.g. what tasks did I complete for project X last month?

- whole system has a good set of hooks into it, making it relatively hackable

Downsides:
- was slightly intimidating at first. If you're starting out, definitely start on the simple end, and slowly add complexity to your setup (creating tasks -> due dates -> using projects -> creating task dependencies -> using contexts for work/play/study -> ... -> ...)
You've been a refreshing change of the typical mindset on Hacker News
Great answer @nullc, thank you for the context details. I always felt like having a subnetwork that was super fast optimized for sending transactions around the mempool would be really useful.

The optimizer is a fascinating knapsack problem to me. A lot of work in ETH land went on with this, especially with the work on Flashbots/MEV. But we hear less and less about it in the public these days.

Cheers
Gamma radiate the ink to fix.
>Perhaps we should nationalize and shut down Google because Gemini hasn't turned out to be that great.

I think you meant that sarcastically, in which case - Welcome to Hacker News!

And as for the military side of thing, you wouldn't believe the stories I've heard about that. Between the hanger queens they sold and Cold War superiority stuff they're still trying to sell...If they weren't notionally an "American" company then I doubt they'd still be in business.
I’d also note this isn’t confidence in the answer but in the token prediction. As LLMs have no conceptual “understanding,” they likewise have no computable confidence in accuracy of the correctness of their answers as we understand correctness. While certainly token confidence can be a proxy it’s not a substitute.
There was also a GTK package for Xamarin Forms which I've used
https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pkgs/nuget/Xamarin....

BUT
That's now officially unsupported as all of Xamarin Forms is no longer supported and the MAUI replacement doesn't cover Linux nor does that look likely (MAUI is mired deep in problems due over-ambition, failure to resource and it seems a significant push in MS to use MAUI Hybrid aka web UIs within native apps).
[dupe]
More discussion on blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41369705
I used to use lots of port knocking setups to hide my ssh port. That was, until I discovered Tailscale's SSH setup. Now my SSH is run over wireguard which is very stealthy.
BallerToDo is pretty nifty if you want something simple and web-based that uses the Eisenhower Matrix: https://ballertodo.com/
Honestly, the new, high quality Amazon is shopify.

Makes for using independent store fronts a breeze because almost every checkout experience through shopify shares a common login and CC info.
i have a tattoo of a cloaked klingon bird of prey
Integer Generic Parameters
maybe there needs to be a gopher protocol refresh. some 2024 approach of the same idea.
The evidence shows that a disproportionate amount of funding went to urban areas in key swing states, which generally lean Democrat. Never saw a single ballot drop box out near a corn field. The money helped fund those sorts of initiatives.
Israel is clearly the moral side of this conflict. This conflict began only because Hamas attacked and captured hostages. And it only continues because Hamas refuses to let them go.

I think people in other countries have trouble believing this motivation because they don't see how a country care this much about a regular citizen. But today, IDF recovered Farhan al-Qadi, and the whole country celebrates it. Can you imagine random people in US celebrating that Evan Gershkovich got release in the recent exchange with Russia? I doubt most american citizens even heard this name.

This whole thing will be over when hostages are back. Whoever captured and holds them is the devil who made all of this happen.
I just recently (today) started using Bruno, seems pretty good so far. I like that it has a flat file structure that can be included in a git repo.
Don't worry, there's arguments against every system of health care, including the American health care and insurance industry. Doesn't mean there aren't productive reforms that can be done.
Honestly this is such an interesting question. Conventional wisdom would definitely say C#, but I’ve always wondered if that’s because imperative programming is easier than functional for a beginner, or because basically everyone starts with imperative. I’d be curious to see what would happen if someone started functional first.

All that said, probably C#.
Nice work. Love the arena allocators. Show those Rust weenies that memory management doesn't need all that ceremony.
what's the thing with scroll bars? (curious)
Hey, I agree with you.

On eager vs lazy evaluation -- pytorch defaulting to eager seemed to be part of the reason it was popular. Adding optional lazy evaluation to improve performance later seems to have worked for them.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41374630
Is it even possible to steal truly massive sums of money?

The largest assets are not liquid, and laundering requires an even larger sum of loosely monitored funds to mix with.
I think this is a case of both. For example my parents did a remodel of a 19th century house and found a bag of glass catseye marbles in the ceiling.
> Your info stream probably told you that people were gobbling horse goo and aquarium cleaner and dying by the droves

Which news stream was this?
What exactly is there to protect children against? Instagram forbids nudity and regularly cracks down on it by banning accounts. I don't recall seeing any advertisements for prostitution on Instagram either. And of course, young women have been recruited into sex work long before social media or the internet.
So many problems here, it's tough to know where to start. Lets ignore the tax incentives investment properties and everything else and focus on purely supply + demand:

- Immigration at 659,000 people[0]

- Natural Births at 315,705[1]

- Housing + Unit construction at 180,000[2]

Assuming number of births is roughly consistent with number of people wanting to move out(I suppose there's about a 20 year gap, so lets say 250k, thats how many babies born in 2004), then there's roughly 909,000 additional people each year requiring housing, and 180,000 units of housing being constructed each year.

Then you have to wonder how long this deficit has carried on for, and just how much longer it can go on.

Something has to give eventually. I just hope we don't end up voting for nutjobs who capitalize on the fact the two main parties seem to not care about this at all because they all personally benefit from this situation.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/21/migra...

[1] https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mothers-babies/australias-mo...

[2] https://hia.com.au/our-industry/newsroom/economic-research-a...
The unit of reproduction, and thus the unit of Darwinian evolution!
Yeah, I can't imagine an argument where this was the compromise was a particularly bitter one.
Does it? The article I linked says

> But election officials have said there is no indication of favoritism in how the money was distributed, according to previous AP reports. The board of the Center for Tech and Civic Life also includes Pam Anderson, a Republican and former elected clerk of a suburban Denver-area county. Republican election officials have also vouched for the program’s impartiality, including Brian Mead, a Republican election director in Licking County, Ohio.

But even if it was true that urban election offices received disproportionately more funding (obviously they received more in general since more people live there), that's still not the same as "putting $450m into Biden's campaign", which is what was claimed.
That was definitely a thing during the Iraq war.
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/14/amds-ryzen-9950x-zen-5... is a pretty good overview of the microarchitecture. I don't think they say how they get there, because trade secrets.
I’m not the writer of the paper, but I do remember STARTTLS being called out as an issue when I was previously working on setting up an ldap directory.
Yes.

His most important point though is that things will not get better until a sufficient mass of public political pressure is brought to bear on the issue.
Offering loans to people that couldn't otherwise get one increases the pool of buyers, driving demand and increasing prices. I don't raise that as a reason not to have the program, but you are missing second order effects if you consider there to be no cost to the broader public.

More importantly, how exactly is an undocumented immigrant paying taxes? Do they somehow have a tax ID or SSN without documentation? Or are you just referring to things like sales and fuel taxes?
I think I prefer monospaced. I certainly prefer the white-on-black colour scheme.

I definitely prefer this to the "beautiful" pages that try to capture the feel of old print magazines.
Taskwarrior officially provides bash/zsh/fish completion scripts.

If you're a PowerShell or nushell user and need autocompletion for Taskwarrior, try https://github.com/sigoden/argc-completions.

Argc-completions provides multi-shell completions for over 1000 commands, including Taskwarrior.
yeah but it will be marketed towards the consuming masses as "no added sugar" when it may in fact have more sugar in it than the previous method where sugar was added.

this world is exhausting at times.
> Its existing capabilities are still free (at least for now).

They've yanked at least one set of features, Alexa Guard. Its replacement, Alexa Emergency Assist, is the same thing but paid.

https://www.safewise.com/news/alexa-guard-no-longer-supporte...
The stock purchase occurred in 2015. Hoeft wasn't CIO until 2021 it seems:

https://www.dodgeandcox.com/financial-professional/us/en/new...
This might be the most British thing I've ever heard of
Its a distraction from how stupid minimum wages are and from how chain restaurants probably abuse geographic labor oligopolies to push down wages making minimum wage a less bad policy than the correct policy of no wage controls. We meed to fix both.
Just cross the border for medicine like millions of Canadians do.
actually i think the organizational pressure is not about what people in the company think about those with a tattoo, but what they think how it will make their company look in public. to customers, business partners, investors, etc.
I've been researching CRDTs for a reference manager that I'm building (https://getcahier.com), and thought that some hybrid of automatic and user-operated conflict resolution would be ideal, as you described. But current efforts are mostly directed to automatic resolution.
I work as a freelancer with a few clients who are tech-adjacent but not "the tech industry". I'm a programmer and web designer going on 30 years by now.

I loathe the tech industry. I despise the inhumanity and the hypocrisy. The very companies which grew out of a lofty movement which claimed it was going to change the world, revolutionize business, and do away with all the bad stuff in pre-computer-age corporate America…ended up simply replicating one new horror after another.

I've resigned myself to the idea I'm unemployable in tech—even though that's exactly where my skillset lies. I simply refuse to deal with this crap. I would rage quit the first interview where someone pulled shit like this and never look back.

I can't imagine I'm the only one. Companies are literally losing out on solid talent because their hiring practices are byzantine. Shame.
The US has a lot more people than it did 100 years ago. A lot of rules and regulations are a direct result of that.

Things change as we scale, for better or worse.
I think if you read my other posts, it's clearly "do as I do".
Do you have a github for this process. I am learning how to do this kind of stuff. Would be cool to see how pros doing it.
Oral Peloton
Are startups trying to find lawyers?
I am working on a platform to connect startups with lawyers. I am looking to interview startups and startup lawyers. If you have any insights into this idea, please I am in dire need of them.
They're only dead because they got to be born first. It's not like modern agriculture reached out and killed them on purpose.

Richer mothers are better able to plan their families and tend to restrict it to a number of kids they can feed. The answer is, and always will be, exponential growth.
Fused multiply add applies equally to scalar and vectorized code (and C actually allows compilers to fuse them; there's -ffp-contract=off / the FP_CONTRACT pragma to turn that off); the compiler/autovectorizer can trivially just leave multiply & add as separate if so requested (slower than having them fused? perhaps. But no impact at all on scalar vs vector given that both have the same fma applicability).

For <math.h> errno, there's -fno-math-errno; indeed included in -ffast-math, but you don't need the entirety of that mess for this.

Loops with a float accumulator is I believe the only case where -ffast-math is actually required for autovectorizability (and even then iirc there are some sub-flags such that you can get the associativity-assuming optimizations while still allowing NaN/inf).
It seems like Hamas knew they could trigger an overwhelming response from Israel, and so they sacrificed innocent Palestinians to do it. They were correct, yeah? They wanted to make Israel look bad in the eyes of the world. And now we get pictures of dead Palestinian children. Israel may equate Palestinians with Hamas, but I don't think that is a universally held opinion in the rest of the world.
The Slow Death of Scientific Innovation [video]
i think this is related to Xbox soon launching a handheld gaming device like the switch/steam deck. anything that directly refutes this hunch?
aka a solution in search of a problem.

very common in our industry of software.

then the hypemeisters (vcs and marketers) pick up a likely candidate for hyping, and give it all the boost they can.

sometimes, by sheer luck, and of course by the old boys' network, it works.

I mean the profitability part, not the usefulness part.

llms are a case in point.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-a...
You are not alone. It’s not a well defined problem, hence lawsuits. API is also such a broad term, it’s hard to establish borders.