skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "self-directed" aspect is difficult to coach. Perhaps it is impossible as the title of the article suggests. Natural curiosity and self-motivation seems to get built in at a young age, well before employment.
> given that the AI is tasked with improving the standard of living of the population as a whole, rather than maximizing the accumulation of capital for the benefit of a small ruling class.

The minute its discovered that the AI is running to the benefit of anyone except the billionaire class that AI will be unplugged.
It’s probably a risk reward choice not a moral choice.
I thought "pie-eyed" was specifically where there's a triangular "shine"/cutout from the black pupil, like a pie with one slice removed. Your first example has solid black eyes.
I'm at the Pizza Yurt, I'm at the Taco Bill
> Sure, not everyone is an adventurer, but level 1 adventurers probably aren't particularly rare in the world.

How often do you meet other adventuring groups when you play D&D?

Post-scarcity magic utopia is one solution, but it's certainly not the setting of most D&D campaigns.

> Fundamentally, my response to the article is that D&D's just a collection of systems meant to generate fun, not be an accurate model of a particular time and place in history.

Sure, but more realistic medieval fantasy can be just as fun and more interesting (cause your players' unconscious assumptions about how any world has to work are broken).
This was my undergraduate "thesis" project. We built a GDB plugin that would generate a puredata audio structure to help with debugging. Eg. it would play snoring during a sleep() call, each breakpoint could be set to a different frequency, etc. It was actually pretty interesting for multi-threaded code, though pausing to play the audio could change the runtime profile.
Seems like a buying opportunity. Recall means drop in short term profit. Long term fundamentals should be the same. The value before the recall should be the value after the recall passes.
Unless there are other fundamental problems unrelated to the recall.
It refers to the partnership between Netscape and Sun, per the beginning of that paragraph.
The issue isn't current electricity use—it's current power use and most power used isn't electricity (by a factor of 4-5x).
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I wish that discussions of Waterfall, "Agile," etc, and systems/software development methodologies would spend more time considering the motivations and rational reasons for why the process approach was created. The practice of systems and software engineering has existed longer than many of us have been professionals, and in many cases longer than many of us have been alive.

The "Waterfall" systems (or software) development model was developed to reduce the likelihood and impact of requirements or specification changes over its development lifecycle. Likelihood and impact are elements of "risk," and the process can be seen as part of risk management. Rephrased, the Waterfall development methodology as a process was intended to help ensure that the system being developed (and delivered) was the correct solution (i.e. "valid") for the problems considered, and that the process of getting there would have the best known and acceptable costs.

With any instance of a development process, there are risks of: Not getting the requirements or specifications correct (i.e. Failing to understand or solve the actual problem), Completion delays due to time spent on re-design or re-implementation from revisions to requirements or specifications, Completion cost overruns (i.e. delays) due to re-design or re-implementation, etc.

The Waterfall process approach was eventually codified into things like MIL-STD-498 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498) for software development. Waterfall is not specific to software development, and some lessons ingrained in the process came from disciplines where the cost of misunderstood requirements, changing requirements, or incorrect specifications are higher. Examples could include the design of a bridge, building, space launch vehicle, network communications systems, etc. In these cases, the further you go into development, the more costly ambiguity and/or errors in understanding the problem become.

Unfortunately, as seen with many "processes," strict adherence to process or ritual without understanding or sanity checking what is being practiced against the rationale or purpose for those processes leads to poor outcomes. This is what the authors of the Agile Manifesto were responding to, and ironically the negative pattern of adherence to process without understanding why has replicated itself with modern practice of "agile" -- That is a human behavior and organizational culture problem.
> We as people pick the winners with our money, we don't really want nice things.

I do, and I reject being branded as part of "we" here; most people and orgs just have bad taste. ("Taste" at an organizational level obviously being an emergent property rather than literally the same as the homonymous trait in individuals.)
And the no-go zones were just fox news right-wing propaganda. Well, my Swedish friend drove me through one (daytime) two years ago.

Pretty significant cultural changes, like now in their hometown, there are separate swimming days for the sexes at the public pool. When I started going to Sweden 30 years ago, all the beaches were top-ional.

Things like, I think he called them the "bearded babies", which was a group of thousands of refugees who were obviously up to 30 years old, claiming they were 17, so they didn't need to provide any information and received preferential treatment.

It was enough to lead my die-hard liberal punk rock guitarist friend to start voting SD in last few elections. They were the only ones who would talk about the problems.
It's the best company I've ever worked at so far. The fact that mostly everyone was in their 20s to early 30s meant we had an awesome cohesive culture.

Note I said mostly. Of course there were older people, but they were in their 40s and early 50s. They were few and far between, and they were the "adults" in the room when needed. It worked really well.
Never really occurred to me why Mr. Beast content doesn’t appeal to me (nor have I thought about it much)… their sole purpose is CTR. Makes sense. Lame.
"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

Oracle gets no real benefit from the trademark, and getting everyone to stop calling it JavaScript is basically impossible. It would be better for everyone for Oracle to just abandon the trademark.

I don't expect Oracle to actively release the trademark, but it would be better if they did.
I worked for a woman who had the Microsoft helper (like Clippy) but chose the cat avatar, and it would meow ALL day. It was funny for about 2 hours and unbearable beyond that!
While UML/Nocode tools were (and remain) a mistake, I don't think NoSQL was one. I might dislike some solutions in general but stuff like Redis, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Parquet and many others have produced a renaissance in databases that we would not have seen if it was all in the hards of the relational database vendors.

MongoDB easy (in a way) replication put every single database vendor on watch and led even PostgreSQL to improve, i think we live in a different environment right now due to all the experiments the NoSQL folks made. It might not have all panned out but I think the whole thing was a huge positive for the market, people stated to experiment and try new stuff again instead of "oh it doesn't look like a relational model, it sucks".
You don't consider an LLM fragile? Also bold to send your banking information to Anthropic.
you'll have trouble simulating the grid, but for energy data you might want to look at (or get in touch with) these people: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

They're a cool little team based in Copenhagen. Would be useful, for example, to look at the correlation between your weather data and regional energy production (solar and wind). Next level would be models to predict national hydro storage, but that is a lot more complex.

My advice is to drop the grid itself to the bottom of the list, and I say this as someone who worked at a national grid operator as the primary grid analyst. You'll never get access to sufficient data, and your model will never be correct. You're better off starting from a national 'adequacy' level and working your way down based on information made available via market operators.
lol coding does feel like an RTS sometimes.

Oh shit something broke over there!

Crap I forgot to built something over here!

Bah I knew I should have tested that!

The deadline is approaching!
Do you think this can be applied to HTML fragments? I think it's relatively common (or at least not uncommon) to embed HTML in another language as a string. Would be cool to get LSP functionality in those strings. I'm thinking specifically with something like this:

https://github.com/alfonsogarciacaro/vscode-template-fsharp-...
>There weren't 8 billion people to feed 3 million years ago, and back then they lived right alongside their food.

sorta. there was more fauna/megafauna biomass then than now. the nutrient requirements were likely even greater.
I would argue it’s even better role play if players don’t know things though. If you meet some followers of Bane, a player who knows the lore will probably deem them to be a bad guy. If they have no idea, they will roll knowledge to see if their character would know. The DM providing information based on character knowledge checks is generally a great source of fun.

The DM saying “yeah I know you know Bane is a bad guy but I made your roll for it and you failed so you need to pretend you don’t know that” is never very good even if the players try to obey the spirit of things.
Work goes to where it can get done.
What is the purpose of the 34k? Why not just put them on a plane back to their country of origin?

Are they not able to be found?
I love realizing that I'm old enough that people think that practices that were the norm at the start of my career don't seem credible even a decade ago.
We are extremely energy-efficient. My lunch was one fruit, had no breakfast, a bit hungry but can still type in the sequence of word you're reading right now. Compare this with the wattage of OpenAI, from what I can find 2.9 Watt-hours for one query, so 2.4 kcal, ie. the whole daily-maintenance food need for an average man...
> Common Lisp doesn't come with the ability to tap into the JVM

ABCL -> https://abcl.org

The Java interface for LispWorks : https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw80/lw/lw-java-ug.h...
It's rendering at 1080p docked vs 720p handheld.
hledger-ui
There's actually a staggering amount of thought and detail in the logistics of Middle Earth, but you have to dig into a wide variety of sources to access it. These details informed his story but didn't make it into the plot of LOTR, for obvious reasons. "In Deep Geek" is one youtube channel I enjoy for learning about
things like Aragorn's tax policy or the economics of the Shire, if you have a an interest but lack the time/obsession to piece it together yourself.
This reminds me of the conlang "solresol" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol)
> Changing your chances of contracting terminal cancer in the next 5 years from 1% to 0.5% is still significant.

Short of quitting smoking, there's almost no way to do that, because you don't know what the factors are or how they're weighed & influenced by individual genetic, immune, and metabolic factors.

> "How much do the controllable factors actually change the odds?"

Not only does nobody know, nobody has the foggiest notion. I've never seen a relevant population-wide observational study that wasn't so full of methodological flaws that you could spend hours picking apart its defects.

Of course we know that there's a set of factors associated with the development of cancer -- like, e.g., long-term exposure to polonium in drinking water -- but there's also a large set of factors that nobody is aware of or which can never be controlled for. To use only the first set -- the set of what we know and can control for -- to accurately estimate the odds of contracting cancer within the next five years is impossible.
We're swimming in a dominant ideology which barely recognizes the existence of "society" (the Margaret Thatcher "there's no such thing as society" vibe) and frames most of reality in terms of individualism, individuals, and the self.

It should come as no surprise how little understanding there is of the social framing of technology and tools.

From chipping flint to writing code, it's a huge mass of inherited and circulated technique-knowledge.
Really did not in the first year or two.
This is such a weirdly contrarian take. You’re basically saying that everything in context is terrible, and somehow at the same time, on the same basis, that it’s wrong to critique anything because everything is terrible.

That’s certainly a logically consistent position, but it isn’t one that allows much room for anything to improve… or even become a productive discussion.
Makes me think of movie/TV computers that beep and bop, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsP-kWvl1ds

An out of place beep would probably be noticable.
The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration
I assume you'd prefer to use "/" or "÷" instead?

">" is not a division, it's a rewrite operator, and in the page, it's only used with symbolic representation. I would not call "y div1 /" better than "y div1 >", it's special notation either way. And having special symbol makes it easier to understand when are we talking about regular math vs rewrite rules.

(Alternatively, if you meant "why not some other Unicode symbol": I am guessing author wants something easy to type, I can relate)
All project management is terrible when you are following it blindly and have no understanding of what it takes to succeed.

Waterfall works when it's done right in the right environment. It's a nightmare when it's not. Agile works when it's done right in the right environment. It's a nightmare when it's not.

Having a good project manager who understands what it takes to succeed from a management/executive perspective and who understands how to keep engineers both productive and happy is priceless.

During the waterfall days, you would run into managers who would gannt everything and harass people into meeting deadlines for whatever would solve the 8 word description of the item on the chart. These days, you run into managers who are happy to distribute a jira ticket to resolve anyones gripe.

And then there are the thoughtful ones who understand priorities, factors for success, and how to set reasonable expectations on both sides of the table (for the techies and non-techies)

In the end, it's not the process you follow, it's the results that matter.
There are probably business ethics in the cartels as well. They have different core values and risk profiles than conventional businesses but there are likely business operating guidelines and operational ground rules that we can ethics.
The anti nitpicking attitude is the core point of the parent commenter's post. I agree with sensible prioritization as exemplified in the linked article, as should everyone. But the author of the comment I'm responding to is expressing discomfort with a culture that identifies holes in their reasoning. They're so uncomfortable with having details of their arguments challenged that they aren't saying what they really want to say.

I know an "anti nitpicker" who is entirely opposite to that attitude when it comes to their social appearance and perception. One hair on their tie is catastrophic. One publicly searchable webpage that shows a decades old picture of them is an extreme problem that warrants hiring a company to clean up. It's interesting how, in matters that are important to some of these people, seemingly inconsequential and irrelevant details suddenly matter to an extraordinary degree.

The anti nitpicking stance is a byproduct of the extreme overvaluation of social perception. Often these people do not like to look like they have made a mistake. And thus they avoid conflict or paint it as irrelevant in belief that it will save their appearance.
Presumably there is a generator function that maps key IDs into actual keys that can be re-computed at will.
Why not Apple Watch 8?

Surely it’s not a technical reason, more a business one.
Guys, this is (currently) not true. Please check for yourselves.
I truly believe that someone writing such a comment is deeply unhappy with his life and can’t value humanity as it should be
Because "lowest common denominator slop" is a culturally contextual judgement of media, and varies from place to place, time to time and culture to culture. Fine French Dining fans would call a pizza parlor "lowest common denominator slop", but no one would be offended if the employee handbook for a pizza place said "You're here to make the BEST TASTING PIZZA. Not the best looking pizza. Not a pizza made from the most expensive artesian ingredients. Not the fanciest pizza. Not a pizza lovingly hand crafted with dough that was hand massaged by virgins under the light of a full moon. If it's not making the BEST TASTING PIZZA, it's not your job."
Waterfall concepts were codified into MIL-STD-498 (1994) which was the basis for DoD (and NASA)'s Systems Engineering processes.
Yes. My computer can't even make a sound even if it wants to (no speakers connected). My phone has the same settings -- all sounds off, the exception is for turn-by-turn nav if I'm in a dense area, otherwise I just follow the blue line.
We learn that they operate on a culture of radical accountability. They are also a pressure cooker organization that micro manages hard and expects employees to pull all nighters
Mars Central Radio
AI powered radio of the fictional Mars colony in 2048. (Still in early stage , but contains pilots of programs and Mars/Space related songs) All generated by AI.
Direct streaming: https://marscentralradio.com/listen/mcr/mcr128mp3
I hope you find it's funny.
Thanks.
Recently tested compressing picocss, one version was 80k or something. gzipd to 16k, +min, 13k. Brotli 13k, +min 10k.

So maybe another thirty percent, probably from removing comments etc, not just whitespace.
They're clinging to it because of the "java" part, not the "script" part.

And they'll hold on to that tightly.

The most manifest example of this is simply what they made the Eclipse org jump through when they dropped, now, "Jakarta" EE. That was not a small rock in the Java pond at the time when we had to go through the Great Renaming.

But they did it anyway because the packages used to be named "javax", and Oracle was not going to let that go.
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Where I live it's a full time job to keep the deer from eating a garden.
> Regardless, JavaScript is now much larger than Java

Curious, but in what way? Java still drive lots of enterprise and banks, and I cant' say I've seen any Node.js in the backend at any of these places.
Thank you - I hadn't heard of it before. It seems to have parallels with LLMs - our most general intelligent systems have come from producing a workable architecture for what seems to be the bare minimum for communicating intelligence while also having plenty of training data (language), then simply scaling up.

I thought this was a good quote:

> We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered.
Meditation and "thinking about nothing" are glamorized self-centeredness. Try thinking about "nothing" and you'll come to realize that you are just thinking about yourself, your feelings, your anxiety (and attempts to alleviate it), your need to escape from others, etc.

What brought you to meditation in the first place? Stress, anxiety, resentment, insecurity. Instead of reconciliation, meditation brings more isolation and brooding.

Meditation is narcissistic.
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You're missing the point of the car section. The point isn't that cars were a dangerous technology.

The point is that just as the car replaced the horse, programs on computers are set to replace the human mind. Right now, we see only the beginnings of the trend; inventions which look interesting but limited. But eventually, and perhaps sooner than many believe, the replacement of human cognition will radically transform the world in unprecedented ways.
Slow Mo Muzzle Exit Compilation – Ballistic High-Speed
Another serious advantage of a tree search is parallelism.
One time, I was contracting on a large project, which had a pair of outside niche domain experts on-site, coming from some complex-systems-that-must-work institution.

One of the pair of experts was very technical, possibly nervous/uncomfortable, and not projecting any charisma by default. Though warmed up when you had an intelligent question, and not in a I-know-something-you-don't way, but an I'm-glad-to-be-talking-with-a-fellow-techie way.

And the other of the pair was immediately charming and gracious to everyone. Maybe the kind of person you'd want in the C-suite or boardroom, and also doing management by walking around the shop floor, and talking with the line workers.

So, on a project email list or similar, one of the employees (who I was supplementing as a contractor) for some reason was dissing the expert pair as "troglodytes" or something like that. I think probably simultaneously dissing the initial manner of the one very-technical person, and also the old-school tradition they came from.

Knowing my place as a mere contractor, but rejecting my place (per usual), I spoke up, and said that I'd actually met with them, and they were charming. And they had essential knowledge that no one else had.

The higher-poise person of that pair of experts was maybe also serving a bit of a party host role. Though, when they can't be selective of all the party introductions that must be made, the introductions also depend on all the guests also being reasonably gracious. Calling a fellow guest a troglodyte wouldn't sound nice, nor lend itself to an "effective" party.
From Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap#:~:text=In%20....

> In the United States, for example, the non-adjusted average woman's annual salary is 79–83% of the average man's salary, compared to 95–99% for the adjusted average salary

It's the same in essentially every western developed country. Discrimination on the basis of gender is no longer accepted, the disparities that persist are due to different choices.

If women were paid less for the same work companies would benefit from staffing mostly women.
Linus Torvalds needs the merge operation as an integrator.

Considering the email workflow of the kernel I can’t really make sense of “intended way to do it”. For individual commits people send out patches. I’ve never seen an email thread where some merge topology is recorded: it’s just a list of patches. A straight line.

I’m pretty sure that people used patch queues before Git (and even now with quilt). Restacking a bunch of commits on top of the mainline is the same operation as a rebase.

I’ve certainly seen Linus get mad at another maintainer for allowing a back-merge into his history (merge main back into feature branch).
How could this work with less than 1 bit of data per key?

Assuming there are no duplicates, which is a sensible assumption, you’d need a minimum of 100,000,000 bits to store 100,000,000 unique entries larger than 1 bit with even a perfect hash function.