skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, the majestic human goal of paving the way for whatever comes next.

I suppose Singularitarians have that goal, but I don't think they see pushing the environment away from human beneficial conditions as meaningful progress.
that's a nice start, maybe does 99% of the job, but to be 100% sure, you still need additional (manual?) checks.
There is a chance that 1) he actually believes it and removed it because someone pointed out how bad the optics are for it or 2) it was a joke and was removed for the same reason.

Here's my point: at least with characters like Musk and Trump you know where you stand. Zuck recently only admitted to the shady actions during the last election cycle, Jack was proven to have been shadow-banning when Elon took over.

IMO none of them are exemplars of character and righteousness, one group is just much more covert about it than the other.
Servers can return something like:

Link: </foo>; rel="alternate" type="application/json"

You could return multiple of these as a response to a HEAD request for example.

You could also use the Accept header in response to a HTTP OPTIONS request, or as part of a 415 error response.

Accept: application/json, text/html

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.accept (yes Accept can be used in responses)

.well-known is not a good place for this kind of thing. That discovery mechanism should only be used in situations where only a domainname is known, and a feature or endpoint needs to be discovered for a full domain. In most cases you want a link.

The building blocks for most of this stuff is certainly there. There's a lot of wheels being reinvented all the time.
How big is the jazz band? If you have a small jazz band, that's fine. If you have a big band, you need someone to organize logistics. Somebody to book events. And if you're trying to make a profit, you might even need to adapt your style or respond to customer needs, such as a particular attire for different events. You might even have someone in that particular role. If there is a tour, it might even be a full time role.
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Well, it's worth pointing out that the only thing factory kanban has in common with software development kanban is the existence of some artifact called "kanban". What was probably a publicity stunt to use the hype of the other kind, kinda like Java and JavaScript.
Sure, in a world with an excess of carbon-free energy, air-conditioning is not harmful to the planet.

In the current reality, where global CO2 emissions continue to rise, yes it is harmful.

The ideological framing of ostriches is all around us.
No, you should brake.

It sounds like people defending their terrible driving.
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Josef Pieper moment - good reminder to read "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" again.
Well, I guess you can put it like that but I personally wouldn't call it "basic input validation", that would be something on the level "does this field really contains an integer?"

I don't think the problem is even the Get-ItemProperty itself, even though you'd probably want to use Select-Object instead wherever you can, but the fact that deserializer allows ridiculous PSPath values in the nested objects/properties; why does it do it? Is there no actual schema for e.g. Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey type?
They're nearly there.
Totally off topic HN implementation observation, as of this writing:

This post:

> 417 points by in_memoriam 17 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 69 comments

in_memoriam's karma (just this post, no comments):

> karma: 83

Apparently the karma credit for posts is points/5.
Mayo with fries would be a German likeness. Very odd in the States.
One rather fabulous example I encountered had speakers rigged up to the wallboard that displayed pipeline info, and when someone broke the build, a clip of "Father Jack" from Father Ted profusely swearing was broadcast out across the dev room.
Yep. They were already dead by that point (again, due to standard corporate raider tactics) -- a zombie just awaiting its coup de grâce.

There was a time before that when they had a better web presence for selling regular hardgoods than Amazon (which was still mostly known as just an online book store), and the Sears Parts website was the very first place to look online for manuals, diagrams, parts, and standard accessories for any random household thing (including shop vac attachments).

They also co-founded the Prodigy network back in the 80s when home computers were still very novel and people weren't broadly sure if the concept would ever catch on.
I am always looking for definitions of "reasoning". My theory is that if we find a good definition - then it will turn out that we can build systems that would combine fuzzy llm thinking with classical algorithms to solve "reasoning".

All the problems with llm not reasoning (like planning, counting letters or deductive inference) are easy for classical algos. There needs to be a way to split the thinking process into two parts and then execute each part on the appropriate model.
My philosophy towards writing is remembering how I wrote the multitude of bullshit papers I was assigned in college classes and then doing the exact opposite.

The vast majority of things that I was told to write about were objectively uninteresting and SHOULD have been summarized in a paragraph or two. So I padded those babies out with long words, meandering and passive phrasing, tangents, definitions, and so forth. I don't think any teacher or professor ever directly called me out for obviously sacrificing quality for correctness. But in hindsight, I rather wish they had.

(There's probably a deeper story in here about how some parts of college actively prevent students from succeeding in real life.)
> Very very few of these people exist.

Well, yeah, that's why they're considered good. Why they get a special title not given to everyone else. It would be nonsensical for "good dev" to refer to everyone who touches software development. "dev" would already communicate everything you need to know. The addition of “good” implies being set apart from what is typical.
You would need distilled water I assume. Seems like it would introduce complexity for not much gain.
I think the quote at the beginning and the author are saying the same thing.
I know what science is, I’m a scientist and I’ve studied the philosophy of science extensively as well. You’re talking about formal science. Therapy and much of the things that take place in psychology aren’t formal.

Informal science the lambo show has a question, hypothesis and actual test. It’s just not academic, but the results form legit qualitative data that can be used in a formal presentation if one should so choose.

I can read between the lines but choose not to.

I have not misread you are the one making comparisons to rape and using examples like “concentration camp” and torture. It is entirely true to say your language is over the top.

I’m glad you’re done. But I don’t agree with your accusations at all.
When agile first started it was developer centric and brought in the ideas of continuous improvement, inspect and adapt, eliminating waste (handoffs, extra communication etc). One of the core ideas was to look at what was working/not working - if it's not working you drop it. Then we got the scrum cult. Ironically it has led to a huge amount of wasted time and effort, as well as stressed devs. In a lot of cases these extra processes get added by well meaning people who don't look at the whole system of work. If you can't drop what is not working then it's not agile.
Stable around 1.6m.

https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
How then did the Plioocene megafauna grow so large if the plants they consumed were 'faster, bigger [...] with less nutrient density'?

https://www.rmets.org/event/pliocene-last-time-earth-had-400...

The last time carbon dioxide was so plentiful in our planet's atmosphere was in the Pliocene era, around 3 million years ago. Life on Earth was dominated by giant mammals; humans and chimps had shared their last common ancestor. Although the sun's force was about the same, the sea levels were 15 metres higher and Arctic summer temperatures were 14 degrees higher than the present day.

No, this is not yet another 'climate change' thing no matter how much you want to pull that concept into the discussion. It is a large-scale 'industrial' agriculture thing with crops which have been bred for fast growth on relatively mineral-poor soil using simple nitrogen fertiliser instead of manure from pasture-raised livestock.
See this all the time - for example, zealous dev "if I had production DB read/write I could get things done so much faster."

Sure, but the production DB has an incredible amount of PII and we are audited out the wazoo, but even if that weren't the case and it was totally fine, all it takes is you being careless with your credentials one time and the company's hosed or we have a massive breach, or some rogue employee encrypts the data with ransomware. So, yes, it would make you faster, and no, you can't have it. It's insane how often I have this type of conversation and insane how often I am the bad guy in it.
I've had better experience reading Go docs than Rust.

Though it's been a year since I was dabbling with Rust, I had a hard time finding specific functions/methods in different crate docs. For example tokio_tungstenite::accept_async returns a WebSocketStream<S> and a lot of the code snippet examples show use of a split() method, but I couldn't find it in the docs or any examples.

Go shows prominent examples for almost all things in stdlib, but couldn't say the same for Rust.
They discuss this desire in the draft:

>A server MAY create or locate a resource that identifies the query operation for future use. If the server does so, the URI of the resource can be included in the Location header field of the response (see Section 10.2.2 of [HTTP]). This represents a claim that a client can send a GET request to the indicated URI to repeat the query operation just performed without resending the query parameters.
Burning Earth: conquest, carnage decimated landscapes worldwide (book review)
I've read and reread this several times, and I'm still not entirely sure what the author is trying to convey. Having been on both sides, I can say that engineers always benefit from business experience, particularly meeting customers. Product team members should have a deep understanding of how their products work and the resources required to build them. This alignment ensures everyone is working toward the same goal instead of ping-ponging back and forth with ill-defined work items. It also encourages useful creativity on both teams. Know how the other side works and occasionally immerse yourself in that world.
It is one of the reasons I appreciate masto.host as the owner has made it clear that signups are gated in part by how much of the fediverse it collectively hosts, because they don't want to be a central point of failure, they do want to encourage competition, and they also don't want the headaches of running that big of an instance population.
Cultural context with YouTube as the primary source? Are you smoking something? Give me some if so.
You made up god may turn out to be an arch-fey who got a little in over his head.
I grew up in a rather medium sized town in Eastern Europe.

Since I was maybe 5 or 6, my daily scheduled involved waking up, going outside with a gang of people of various ages (honestly it was all the way to college level at some points, they were the actual adults in the "room") and just having fun the entire day.

Around mid-day, if we were near our communist blocks you might hear our parents shout from the windows that it's time to eat, we'd sprint up and eat real fast and then go back down to continue mucking about.

We explored old forts, jumped with our bikes in the river, played hide & seek, climbed all sorts of buildings and trees etc. We sometimes hurt ourselves but were back on the street in record time.

The article reminded me of this, and I think it was an awesome way to grow up. And to link it back to the article. I don't get the diverse conclusion. I don't resonate with it at all. We were all relatively poor, of the same race and had very similar upbringings and possible futures. We were similar in more ways than different, and that was great.
I mean, you can run open weights on your own hardware. But very few businesses/websites are just going to let you inference for free.
When writing code with others, in existing code bases, I will follow house style. (More faithfully than almost anyone else, because I pay attention to these things, both to see what the style is, and to match it.)

When writing code personally, I’ll omit things like </p>, </li>, </head>, </body>, </html>, <head> (which should never have attributes), and attributeless <html> and <body>.

When writing code with others, if I’m in charge, I’ll frequently retain </p> for others’ sensibilities, but I will still often choose to omit </li> (depending on the type of code, definitely).

I specifically dislike </li> because I’ve seen far more problems caused by its presence than by its absence—incorrect nesting and the likes. Also I reckon it’s good that you end up with no whitespace node between your list items (since any whitespace goes into the previous list item), mostly because of old-style `display: inline-block` and such.
If a guy making odious jokes on his large social media account is enough to constitute a "danger to democracy" why are we even bothering with such a rotten structure? If the institutions of the US are in such a condition, when does someone who believe that decide it's time to give up the ghost?
"Smartphones are substitutes for a lot of things: playing football with a friend; human ad-hoc conversation at a bus stop; playing Candy Crush instead of reading newspapers on your morning commute; entertaining yourself and your date at a romantic dinner."

It's a treacherous slide from Visceral to vicarious, to finally virtual.
You can implement an acceptable defer with the standard preprocessor and some switch abuse.

The only annoying part is needing to use "defer_return" and such instead of the proper keywords.

Unlike most defer implementations for C this doesn't need a function-scope fixed sized block, it's all properly scoped, the switch effectively models a state machine. Similar tricks can be used to implement yield and such.
Had a really fun time reading the 8.0rc1 notes a couple weeks back, and diving into the PRs. The PRs on these performance improvements were excellent: very nicely written up PRs, and a logical sequence of work. Of course now there's a great higher level blog post to the topic too. https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/pull/861 https://valkey.io/blog/unlock-one-million-rps-part2/

There's also a very early RDMA transport, which sounds extremely fun for those so blessed as to be able to try it! https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/pull/477

I'm impressed with the whole team so much, firing on all cylinders. Great communication in code review, great fast review cycles, smart use of the blog to share updates. Kind of wild seeing smart players from big tech companies collaborating so actively together in public.
I was able to determine what this is, and I’m not a specialized scientist. I merely exercised the discipline to read the post before reacting and commenting.
> You may not find it appealing, but the truth is that most major successes are driven by obsession.

Great, don't force it on your employees. I am not working for you for anything other than a paycheck and flexible working conditions and stimulating work.
I mean, I don't think the author is claiming that you should; they're just saying that it's not medieval.
Is product fetishism really better than light entertainment? The MKBHD slop is just branded with that same vibe of the products he likes to cover, namely the self-satisfactions of luxury goods that people mistake for high quality. That gives the false signal it provides more value than Mr. Beast. Yes, MKBHD technically covers products, but so did Top Gear. The content is neither necessary nor sufficient to make an informed purchase decision.
There is such a sci-fi plot. Unfortunately, I don't recall the story's title or the author. What I do recall was the use of gravitational lensing (a neutron star) to observe an alien world in the years just before the alien's home star went nova.
That doesn't look right... if the rings were around the Equator, why are they perpendicular to the surface in a picture of the US Capitol?!
OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company
This is probably one of the things that you can and should take a lot of time with. Being suicidal is not an entirely rational place, so you cannot completely rely on your own thoughts and feelings, that's why it can be so difficult to deal with. If you are a "better version of yourself" today than yesterday, or improving other people's lives even if it's just one more person's overall, you are already making a positive difference!
Except of course they're related: AC uses energy and much of our current energy generation releases carbon.

I don't agree with the degrowth framing at all. The article's intro actually suggests growth is expected and desirable:

> By one estimate, the number of room-cooling ACs could nearly triple between now and 2050.

> These additional units will save lives, make cities liveable and stave off losses in economic productivity.

Your framing is interesting too! Is there a name for discussing technology only in the abstract, ignoring it's connection to the real world? Ideological pedantry?
I don't think your expectations are correct.

Most sedans made today, the average max carry weight of a sedan is 900lb. And even at 900lb you fuel economy and performance is far less than "just fine."

Also cargo weight distribution is far different than people, with the lion share of packages being placed in the rear have of the vehicle and not evenly distributed amongst the front and rear axle.

1000lb of cargo is a lot to ask from any sedan and expect it to do it 8 hours a day, 6 days a week for 20+ years, isn't something I think you would find possible.
I’m also super interested in this kind of question. The late Soviet Union and their cybernetics research were really into simulating this kind of stuff to improve the planned economy. But I’m curious if something like this can be done on a more local scale, to improve things like a single company output.
Yeah I could have phrased that better. The clutch plate engaging the compressor would have been more specific, I assumed it was implied. Apologies.
Why is that not good? JavaScript is full of layers of unnecessary abstraction often for completely superficial reasons and sometimes even irrationally applied at great cost in defiance of evidence and simplicity. So, what makes this specific example less good than all the other countless examples of abstractions most JavaScript developers would happily die to defend?
It is corporate noise. But I think it's a great way to find, and talk to, people with similar professional backgrounds. Or to stay in touch with people that you've worked with.
Years ago, I had an interview question that was essentially "model a restful query API." I'm not sure if it was the gotcha or that it was a bad question, but rest isn't a good fit. GET lacking a request body doesn't help, and except for long-running queries, modeling things as resources doesn't work. You can either design an API that isn't very restful or do confusing things to squeeze it into that box.
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It seems impossible to reach great success without someone trying to tear you down.
Cool! Do you do other things to hardend the servers like Knockerd?
Perhaps each key is not a different brand, but given that the puzzle had only 66 known bits, it seems equivalent to knowing what some of the cuts are on a physical key.
>But you need to search for them

Oh the horror
I think that software engineering is about two things: building things the right way and building the right things.

The second one is more important than the first one. If you don't build the right product, it doesn't matter how well it scales or how it has amazing test coverage or wonderful documentation. To that end, I think that too many managers (and companies) do too much shielding of engineers from customers. If you are just given a figma mockup and told "build this", it's easy to get bogged down for a week with the details of building a search bar at the bottom of the page only to realize that the stakeholders would have been OK with a dropdown select. Better to understand the problem you are solving and the only way to really do this is to have some kind of interaction with customers. As an engineering manager, I try to encourage engineers to get on sales calls and see product demos. When you see it from a high level, you a) almost always notice things that need fixing or can be improved and b) see where the piece that you are working on fits into the larger picture.

That said, I find that many engineers don't want to get on customer calls, and usually there's room for those engineers in an organization as well. For example, "build a new video conferencing service for artists to collaborate" would be a very challenging problem (I think) that is not well defined and therefore requires deep customer understanding. "Make Google searches run with 10% fewer CPU milliseconds" is arguably a much harder problem to solve, but it's so well defined that it really doesn't need customer understanding (setting aside the initial decision about whether it makes sense to work on).
They being the third party repair companies. Johnny Harris did a long piece on the whole story [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
that article is 10 years old, carry weights have increased, but only by about 50 pounds or so.
Elves were more imps than tall, eternal sages. See Santa’s elves.
> This alone, without any training, is sufficient to achieve ~70% accuracy on the Strawberry problem (n=10, "How many Rs are in strawberry?"). Without prompting, Llama-3.1-70b had 0% accuracy and ChatGPT-4o had 30% accuracy.

I think this class of problem might be better solved by allowing the LLM to 'zoom in' and view the input differently. Rather like you might peer closer for more detail if someone asked you about the print quality of something you were reading.

'zoom in' could input the same text letter by letter, or even in image form (rasterize the text) to help answer questions like "How many letters in the word strawberry contain straight lines?"
The most secure company is, of course, the company that doesn't exist. Bankrupting your org is certainly the most effective way to keep it secure.

Yes, their role is defense, but not insofar as to remove the profitability of the organization. In several orgs now I've seen the legal team blow contracts and the security team break the product and the IT team break development in the name of performing their role "correctly".

Brainless box checking is not part of defense, you must be willing to critically think about how to fit your role to your product or organization's profit motive.
Lord of the Rings, at least, isn't even _trying_ to be medieval, is it? Like, the shire seems vaguely 18th/19th century England, Gondor seems suspiciously Roman/Byzantine... I don't think Tolkien was going for "this is [whatever period], only with dragons", and even if he was, that period certainly wasn't medieval.
You could just eat a carrot... Carrots are better than lettuce anyway, in my humble but objectively correct opinion.
well it's human nature to struggle with collective action when the risks are unclear, vague and not shared. stakeholders are juggling immediate, tangible concerns, like climate change, economic stability, and political issues, making it tough to justify moving AI up the priority list.