skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it difficult? Is it predicting the amount of rain that is difficult? Or the terrain that will cause x amount of rain to cause problems? Or something else?
> I expect this to become a compatibility nightmare in the long run, as new Python versions and library versions come and go.

I wonder if Microsoft may eventually EEE CPython by creating their own competing implementation running on top of Excel.
Agile is meant to be a collaborative process with a user or customer to discover the truly desired objective. Baked into agile is the notion of changing courses. A business that wants a deliverable by a certain date wants a contract - not Agile. How can a route be predictable look with a process that explicitly seeks to regularly change course.

We could also get into the theory of whether it is actually possible to say how long software will take at all. Business might bevroutineky asking for the impossible using the wrong methodology for what they think they want
>Inflation has outpaced everything

True, while tech salaries may seem great, when you factor in inflation, well the earnings are not much. Needless to say people in the non-tech sectors have it terrible. The 'middle' class is a rapidly thinning.
It's not interesting, it's preposterous to think that you can make that money and just kick your feet up every day and twiddle your thumbs. Yeah, there is going to be fucking stress. That's why the pay is so high. My non-FAANG job is 100% constant stress day-in and day-out and I don't make even half of these comps.
Plus Denver was constrained in x86 compatibility by Intel patents.
It is still 90 seconds to midnight
As it has been mentioned numerous times in the past, we are not the average user. I don't know anyone outside our bubble who would bother running a local LLM, or going into all the trouble building an x8 GPU rig to run one of the biggest models.
Why is it mutually exclusive? There are tyrants in all aspects of life, rich or poor. Privilege has nothing to do with it.
> tech is some sort of utopia of meritocracy

It was in a sense, although this is changing. Rising costs of education started to ensure that degrees are just another tool of class warfare, in the sense that you can only make money if you have money. Any well-paying and non military job category that bypasses this, caring more about talent than certification is probably getting us closer to a utopian meritocracy.

But of course, this was never a credit to the management class or the industry leadership, just an accident of timing during a growth phase plus some peculiar aspects of computing itself vs domains like say, medicine or structural engineering. Maybe it does come down to scale.

Anyway, even if the world hasn’t overproduced SWEs and info workers, the AI we’re all building works for management. So eventually AI engineers won’t be able to find AI jobs not because the AI is doing their job, but because AI filtered them out of the applicant funnel early for ranking high as mercenary, or low on conformity, dependability, or desperation, without even looking at certification count. Imagine how easy it is to flag applicants as not-desperate-enough yet to be lowballed on the offer, especially after there are only a few ways to apply for anything, and after indeed and linked in etc all decide they work for employers more than job seekers. Everyone who is talking about whether they can be replaced in their job should be much more worried about being filtered, because from the employers perspective, there’s always some reason you’re not the best hire.
FRACTRAN interpreter in FRACTRAN, explaining how to write programs in FRACTRAN.

http://lomont.org/posts/2017/fractran/
The software equivalent of a The Onion article..
When I liked in Panama, they had Sidney's which were basically a direct copy of the Disney store fill with knockoff merchandise.
> ruin your reputation

How would this happen, exactly?
lol, me reading the comments still on Monterey. Seems like I'm never updating from the looks of it.
You could check out Helios, which is inspired by L4 [0]

[0] https://ares-os.org/docs/helios/
First of all, if that's all you need then by all means, keep doing that. If you need any of the following, maybe consider a library:

- First-class TypeScript support (not bolted-on)

- Wraps and extends the entire standard API

- A convenient chainable API

- Log Listeners for capturing log data

- Middleware support for plugins and transporting logs

- Log annotations such as namespaces, labels, and other meta data

- Four formats supported out of the box:

- Pretty - Human readable logs that are easy on the eyes

- JSON - Machine readable logs that are compatible with the Bunyan CLI

- Standard - Human readable stdout logs

- Common - Logs that adhere to the Common Log Format

- Everything is customizable and configurable

- Tools for caching, filtering, and recalling logs

- Support for creating log threads to track data across multiple scopes

- Convenient child logger API's

If you look at the readme you'll see adze is 8kb bundled and gzipped. It's ESM so it has tree-shaking support. It's tiny. The Vue dependency is for the docs.

https://bundlephobia.com/package/adze@2.0.10
> If they aren’t it’s 100% their problem.

It's your problem too if you stop for a yellow and they don't. They may be 100% at fault, but you're delayed at best, at worst may be injured and may not have a driveable car, and they may not carry insurance, so you may have a large, uncompensated loss.

By 'unlikely to stop', I really mean 'unlikely to stop without striking your vehicle if you were to stop', so things like following too closely, clearly not paying attention (which is hard to tell in a quick glance, but maybe you noticed their lack of attention before and haven't had time or space to make space), has a large vehicle that needs more room to stop, etc. I likely wouldn't stop on a fresh yellow if there was a trash truck following me closely, for example. Even at the extreme where I end up running a fresh red, it's more likely a better result than getting rear ended by a vehicle that's around 10x the weight of mine.
Paul Lockhart's "A Mathematician's Lament" [1] is the work that inspired his book, "Measurement" [2], which this video covers. I've always enjoyed it as a portrayal of the yin and yang of mathematics, calculating equations vs. proving them. The American education system overindexes on calculations, which, as Lockhart points out, tend to drown out the deeper joy that comes with mathematics. It's fascinating to see the battle between rote calculation and discovery play out at all levels, from students who feel that they "don't get math", to former olympiad medalists who struggle in graduate school.

[1] https://www.ams.org/notices/201304/rnoti-p461.pdf

[2] A preview: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/PDF/9780674067349_sam...
Still waiting on `pipe2` as well!
I've been remote for 10 of my 13 years of experience. Even when I didn't get stock, I was still invested in the company and product.

Life is too short to not give a damn.
Disclaimer is very relevant because TFA seems to be very specifically discussing the original DnD, which is not what 90+% of people will think of when reading "D&D", which I think is confusing some of the discussion here. I think other settings like the ones you mentioned have a more developed society that in most cases does not necessarily fit "American dream fantasy" and is inspired by something more medieval or something else, although I still get the impression some of the things said still apply: "Most of D&D’s thousands of imitators, in game and fiction, preserve the game’s democratic bones (cash economy, guns for hire, rags to riches stories) while overlaying a medieval-European skin."
This can happen regardless, it's worse than Detroit, which ar least had 3 big companies supporting it.

Seattle needs to hedge.
Looks like they have until January to change to fully on-site. That isn't much time to make life changes that allow using 2+ hours extra per day that was typically remote.

> The decision marks a significant shift from Amazon’s earlier return-to-work stance, which required corporate workers to be in the office at least three days a week. Now, the company is giving employees until Jan. 2 to start adhering to the new policy.

So on top of all the hustle of end of year, everyone will need to frantically prepare for return to office one day into the new year. Just seems a bit heartless.

Remote jobs just allow a team to be more robust and dynamic to life changes. I just don't understand the need to force RTO so drastically.
I don't think so. They need the offshore sites to maintain the size of their empires without spending too much, and they need the Tier 1 US sites to keep the wheels on.
This script doesn't do search, but it generates keywords for images and places them in the image metadata. You can then search for keywords using something like Diffractor. I will warn though that any AI solution not geared towards NSFW will not give good information on NSFW images, though it may give a keyword such as 'intimate' or 'adult content' which is all you need.

* https://github.com/jabberjabberjabber/LLavaImageTagger/
Discussing AMDs Zen 5 at Hot Chips 2024
> When a teammate asks for help find creative ways to make them look bad.

Yep, lots of idea-snatching, not crediting each other, teaming up to not including a particular team member to try to ensure that team member is the one that gets PIP
The startup playbook. All the basics: https://playbook.samaltman.com/

The Startup Owner's Manual: https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/09...

Nobody seems to recommend this because nobody has finished reading it, but it's meant to be acted on, not finished. There are literally checklists. It's also hard to get a soft copy, but th soft copies are useful for printing out the checklists. Paul Graham has changed the definition of a startup, but I still love the one from here - the goal of a startup is to have a scalable and repeatable business model.

Startup=Growth, by Paul Graham https://paulgraham.com/growth.html

I'd recommend the whole site, and many do. But start here. Many don't understand that startups are about growing assets, not revenue. And exponential is a funny word for "very slow". If you wanted to grow to a million dollars, do anything but a startup and don't raise VC money. But this shows how the math works.

High Growth Handbook: https://growth.eladgil.com/

And this is what you read after you get past 10 employees. Who to hire next, how to manage. There are tons of people who talk about how to get Product Market Fit, but few who talk about how to build an engine to turn PMF to money. There's tons of podcasts but consider this book a collection of the best ones.
referring from memory to little paper-bound books and dice sold in Berkeley, California.. yes there were kings and monarchy and Feudalism in the games. Granted the emphasis was on playing one or more characters that started at a "low level" and worked their way up, in many many ways, per their character type and other factors. Lots of changes from those versions but.. city characters might even pay taxes? A different thread comment says something about the Dungeon Master being the real core imagination factory and this is correct. Spelled out quest dungeons were few and carefully done -- the bulk of the printed content was rules and guidelines for the DM and players to use in a turn-based game of essentially their own stories with their own names of places and characters.
Obligatory reference to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's album "Flying Microtonal Banana"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Microtonal_Banana

Excerpt:
"the album is recorded in quarter tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones; it was originally conceived to play on a baglama, so the band members used instruments specifically modified for microtonal tuning, as well as other Middle-Eastern instruments like the zurna."

Billabong Valley live at KEXP: https://youtu.be/bvtF2Ie90m0
Agreed on Markdown. It illustrated there was an unfilled niche in mark-up between Unix plain-text, HTML, and RTF. I use it nearly every day.

I adore that CommonMark exists too: https://commonmark.org/ .
London NHS Drone Delivery
Levels.fyi puts L6 at Amazon at over $400k. That’s not worth it?
I interviewed there a couple of years ago. It felt like I was being interviewed by robots to be a robot. It was openly hostile towards my background and experience, and to be frank, my interviewers didn't really seem to know all that much themselves. One person asked me to solve a dumb and poorly specified game of life thing, and he kept interrupting me while I was proposing a solution with his own thoughts on some premature optimization that my solution supposedly didn't handle, which is the complete opposite of how you should do engineering. It was a complete waste of time, and you have to study and speak to their "principles" as if you're taking a Scientology test. There wasn't a single ounce of humility or curiosity during the interview process on Amazon's part.
Look up the Seattle Rust meetup. Its still around.

The whole Seattle scene imploded in 2020.
Wife is gifted and ACE 8, at age 33 with years of therapy and support she's finally able to go to community college this year and explore a field she's interested in. It takes a long time but it can get better.
Your post puts a tremendous amount of weight on how you personally feel about using it across load balancers that you don't control and whatnot, but you also still acknowledge that it doesn't violate the spec.

> It’s true that undefined behavior means that you as a server developer can define it

Good. Agreed. Done.

Someone else complying with the spec in an incompatible way doesn't make your compliance wrong. It just reduces the circumstances where it will work. But those circumstances are...well... circumstantial. And I think it's important to establish that there's a meaningful difference between "won't work as expected in certain common but not universal circumstances" and "not allowed to at all".
Happened has you with Universal Control.

I'm ok with this. I'd rather they get the core right rather than scrambling to deliver all these nice-to-haves in time, and botching it up.
Scrum (or agile) done wrong is a unimaginable nightmare (I actually do have first-hand experience with that). But, overwhelmingly, my experience with scrum has been nothing but sweetness and light. When it is done right, all the stress melts away. Seriously. Just an absolute joy.

Are those who have toxic experiences with scrum actually a majority, or are they just a vocal minority? I'm curious if there's any data on that.
You do not understand the process of cogent thought. Ethics are a consideration even during the context of hypotheticals.
So how many years of cooling does blowing up the moon give us?
> Genode is based on a recursive system structure. Each program runs in a dedicated sandbox and gets granted only those access rights and resources that are needed for its specific purpose. Programs can create and manage sub-sandboxes out of their own resources, thereby forming hierarchies where policies can be applied at each level.

Damn, I've been hoping someone would create something like this for quite some time!
On the other than people working at home frequent their neighborhood businesses more leading to broader economic activity. Downtown can take care of itself and can become relevant for a better reason than people are forced against their will to be there. I shed no tears over this - cities evolve over time as we as humans change in structural ways. It’s time to move on.
At the point of use
> To many scholars in the US racism requires institutional power to codify it.

Yes, that's because many scholars in the US are intellectually dishonest and wish to redefine "racism" in ways that benefit their arguments.
Spent 5 years there, I definitely know the experience varies wildly between teams and orgs so take all of this as just my personal opinion.

I was part of the Amazon Luna team and Devices org.

Yes oncall is super rough, yes people are very demanding. Internal documentation sucked.

But overall I had a really great experience, there was a strong sense of “ownership” on the stuff we built due to how teams are expected to be run. We owned all the infrastructure ourselves, costs, QA, deployments, technical decisions, you name it.

As long as you could justify the customer value managers and execs were pretty open to experimentation and trying out new approaches.

I also was lucky enough to have a very technical oriented manager, he had a great long term vision of where he thought we needed to go and the technical chops to guide us there.

The approach is definitely not for everybody nor the only one that can work in a company like Amazon but I think it did fit with my own values (if that makes any sense).

Some other random things I miss not in any particular order:

- Strong document oriented culture, it is expected of you to dive deep into certain areas while at the same time communicating them effectively

- smithy

- While CDK started out clunky pretty amazing high level constructs were available later.

- Full access to AWS, pretty easy for you to experiment and prototype.

- Both internal FF tooling and the AWS options were quite good.
> An important non-obvious detail for AMD is that they (at least in the past, I assume for this as well) have kept the instruction timings similar from generation to generation of consoles.

What? The Jaguar-based CPU in the PS4 has both a much lower clock and substantially lower IPC than the Zen 2 based one in the PS5. The timings are not remotely the same and the micro-architectures are quite different. Jaguar was an evolution of the Bobcat core which was AMD's answer to the Intel Atom at the time (i.e. low cost and low-power, though it was at least an out-of-order core unlike contemporary Atoms).

Going from GCN to RDNA on the GPU side is also a pretty significant architectural change, though definitely much less than the going from AMD to Intel would be.
The only thing I can think of is the states that have legalized Marijuana. It's federally illegal, but the states simply have chosen to not prosecute.

That being said, if you are pulled over by a federal agent in a legal state, if you meet the federal requirements you can still be prosecuted for possession of marijuana at the felony level, that being said, unless you were doing something super sketchy like having a full pound of weed split into little baggies or something, that is unlikely to stick.
Search harder--maybe even do a few string literals. I know you can do it.
>Maybe in a couple more major versions we'll have a re-re-designed system prefs app that actually looks like a desktop app again!

And it will only take a few dozen seconds to load! Can't wait!
That's not the case anymore. There are teams that run badge tracking systems to make sure you're badging in every day, for enough hours and ping your manager if you've not been in enough.

If you continue to not come in enough, your manager gets assigned a task to have a conversation about firing you or getting you in the office regularly.

If you continue to not come in enough, you're fired and it doesn't look good for your manager.
IIR by the time AD&D 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide was published, there were already a bunch of blooming competing systems, with different dynamics between explicit and implicit, not to mention the combat systems. Those alternates include the Arduin Grimoires for example! Not everyone read or stuck with AD&D 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide but some did.
Well I've decided not to renew 1password. I have very basic use cases, and am happing to stay within Apple eco system. So, to me, 1password is just too much money.
Nice. Although, it bothers me that the shorter lines are lower pitched than the longer lines. Don’t know why, but intuitively I feel like the pitch should go down as the line gets longer.
> Core d&d is lord of the rings and the hobbit, with much more powerful magic.

Originally it was much more Conan the Barbarian & other such pulp fantasy stories than LOTR.
Google backs privately funded satellite constellation for wildfire detection
I love crypto, not dunking on it.

The FranciscoTheBomber admin of BitGrail should have served prison time over the entire thing. He got off basically with zero consequences.

Nano will never be in the top 100 of crypto projects ever again. That's just a fact.
What's the misunderstanding? The hallucinations I've seen from AI tend to not be that dissimilar to when humans are guessing. They will guess that a function like that exists. The difference being that humans are capable of checking their work and see if this actually is true by referencing some existing source of truth.
There was once a VSCode extension that would make typewriter sounds as you typed, including a nice "ping" when you hit enter. A quick search shows a few extensions like this, but I tried installing one and no joy. But it was really nice to get a little audible feedback.

I do think this is a great idea. I notice that I get super engaged with video games in part because the constant noise meshes well with ADHD, and so I'd love to see a VSCode extension of some sort that can do this.
I actually think this is worse in countries with socialized medicine, because now you're not just "openly mockable" but you're also "taxing the system" with your "vice"

Cruel indeed.
I've never been truly impressed with an Amazon product. Is Amazon's engineering culture really that strong?
> See George Hotz's short stint at Twitter

Do you have any more information about this, or could provide a link?
Outsourcing core engineering faculties went great for companies like... checks notes ... Boeing.

In all seriousness, is there anything more to a move like this than bookkeeping?
>Genuine question for the folks over at Amazon: What is the value of working at Amazon (or even just AWS) these days?

I've interviewed with them three times, all before 2020. It seemed like a cult held together by the sunk cost fallacy.
Isn't that how delegation works? CEO says full time is now 40 hours on-site unless the management layer below me says otherwise. The SVP would then say the same. Eventually, your manager is given discretion and you have a discussion.

We likely won't see SVPs publicly sharing their internal policy, but it feels strange to assume that SVPs would be involved in the individualized scheduling of all the employees who report up to them. They have better things to do.
> It isn't an open development,

It is literally open development. There isn't a CLA and they accept patches/PRs from the community. The "least open" aspect is their contribution guidelines which are essentially just "the maintainer is not required to waste time on low quality PRs and reserves a right to veto PRs that move counter to the vision they have for the project".

If that's not open development then neither is Linux or Git.

> it isn't open data.

And how is it not open data? The data is literally self-hostable, the relays and API servers are self hostable. And you can choose between an in-progress ID standard and a DNS based DID standard.

There is literally no part of the data that isn't open.
Compared to what, exactly? I can't imagine you could say anything like that if you had experience with any of the heavy development processes that preceded scrum/agile methodologies.
Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the "thoughts" of OpenAI's latest model