skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the rules aren't specified, if you fall afoul of a rule you do not get told which rule it is, and the rules are AI-based decisions that are hard to even understand. If the process was transparent, it would be a lot easier to deal with.
In the case of Electron, there is a "main process" that is a Node.js process. This process has the capability to spawn "renderer processes", each browser window is a "renderer process". Through ipcMain and ipcRenderer, Node and Chromium have bidirectional comminication.

I don't think renderer processes run Node. Per the documentation,

[C]ode ran in renderer processes should behave according to web standards ... [T]he renderer has no direct access to require or other Node.js APIs

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/process-mode...
I think he means spin class specifically is unusual for a man
You can agree with me or not, but Voyager 1/2 is a top technological achievement of the humankind. A piece of hardware so good that it survived working correctly 47 years in a hostile environment, driven by a computer with the power of modern car key. Amazing.
I think you got the messaging here wrong. He's not saying that you have 3 months to move houses, he's saying you have 3 months to move jobs.

Productivity has cratered since he implemented RTO, so to believe that this is anything but a way to get rid of employees without severance package is extremely naive.
I share your sentiment, but do not forget the nice things we do have ads are paying for.
I agree, it is not silly at all. It is worse, it is pandering. It is selling an agenda.

Conflicts are part of social interactions. The fact we use war metaphors doesn't mean we use violence, it is the opposite, we are replacing old-fashioned violence with social interactions.
It is much easier to change applications that are designed properly, regardless of the premature optimization, using adapters and interfaces is costless, and give you priceless peace of mind
Yeah, but if something's so glitchy that people had seen speedometer go blank on camera, just how's it supposed to translate to code quality or software security?
Elgato stuff is cheap but horribly unreliable in my experience. Thanks for the writeup, it's showing why that is very detailed...
There are a bunch of these, like [1] and [2], probably a lot more.

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1: https://harlequin.sh/

2: https://www.pgcli.com/
Not necessarily for you. To
make an example.

There are new people entering the industry all the time, they don’t necessarily need any one given individual again ever.
but subtlety is usually lost at the folks here and this comparison will at least be understood. then again - the thought of having to go back to the office is evoking a feeling not too different from anticipating something quite painful. too many colleagues are just unbearable and the waste of time having to commute unpaidly ... maybe i'd prefer a quick blender session for another year of home office even.
> Current generation APAP works great - not sure why you’re calling it awful

It doesn't. Your PAP machine doesn't even know whether you're awake or sleeping. It can only ever play catch-up to your breathing getting worse. Properly titrated CPAP (or BiLevel or ASV) is vastly superior both in terms of therapy and comfort.

> What needs to die is regulatory capture and bureaucratic barriers

That I agree with.

> which is what the sleep study scam does

It's not a scam. It provides incredibly useful data. Sleep problems are not just a boolean sleep apnea yes/no. All kinds of shit can go wrong during sleep. Maybe you have central sleep apneas, or complex apneas, maybe you need ASV rather than CPAP. Maybe you have restless leg syndrome (orthogonal to sleep disordered breathing). Maybe you just have positional apnea. Maybe you have REM disorders. Your apple watch won't tell you any of that.

Many people end up getting a sleep study because they're tired. That doesn't have to be apnea. Other people get sleep studies because they snore or because a bedpartner tells them they breathe weird in their sleep. That's more likely to be apnea.
I prefer the first example, to be honest. Much of the time your API is more or less a wrapper around the DB, so why introduce more indirection? I don’t really buy the testing argument since the interesting stuff which really needs testing is often in the queries anyway. Swapping out dependencies is not a huge issue in a language like rust, the compiler gives you a checklist of things to fix. I also don’t like that you call this function which handles transactions internally, inevitably you’ll end up with a handler calling two different functions like this resulting in two transactions when they should be atomic.

At $work we’re slowly ripping out a similar system in favour of handlers calling database functions directly, such that they can put transactions in the right place across more complicated sets of queries. Code is simpler, data integrity is better.
seems more like very smart to do such a thing - but sometimes even smart decisions just don't work out.
That's Why We Shouldn't Go Back to the Offices
Have you ever dated someone that you can’t quite break up with for whatever reason, and weren’t bad necessarily, but still breath a sigh of relief that it’s over when they dump you?

The work equivalent to that is a URA, for a manager.

If you’re that manager and now ‘single’ (have open headcount) and looking to find someone to ‘date’, would you hire that person back, or go find someone else - even if they were a complete question mark?

If hiring managers/recruiters have more candidates than they can handle, a prior URA can impact a candidate the same way. ‘There are many fish in the sea’

Does that mean you’d never get hired back? Nah, it happens. But it isn’t likely to help.
Capitalism causes cancer. That’s not even surprising ;-)
If only we could all finally agree on the definition of "proper design"!
You are saying the same thing as the quote :)
https://x.com/ctjlewis/status/1786948443472339247

"Running cellular automata and other programs on Claude 3 Opus."

Its one of the replies on this tweet.
"Factory farm" is the wrong term to use here. This is specifically about the slaughterhouse, which might have almost no connection with the farm.
> This could all be fixed within 1 day if government would mandate companies to pay you for the duration you're away from home for work (including travel time).

Be careful what you wish for. The most likely result of this would be companies simply letting go any employees that had a commute longer than X minutes. And of course all the remaining employees would now say their commute takes X minutes too, to get the maximum subsidy. E.g. I currently bike, which takes 15 minutes, but I could easily walk and make it take 40 minutes instead, to get a nice bonus to my current pay.
Amazon already has 3 days in-office requirement
You said that you couldn't find one, so MakerKit.dev has dev/prod envs, and many more features.
But the educational content DOESNT exist without the trash and you cannot make a case that it just would, that’s unlikely and impossible to prove.

“Net bad” means the world would be absolutely and inarguably better without YouTube. This is so outlandish, honestly; YouTube at its core is an information sharing platform and a lot of useful things have come out of it. Immense amounts even.
The actual answer to your question, besides the fact that all of us SDEs consider ourselves exceptional at our jobs, is that there are a lot of people whose immigration status depends on their job. They can’t strike.

For that and other reasons, Amazon knows they can do what they want.

I would love for labor to get a win, but it’s easy for me to say since I don’t work at Amazon. Someone else should bell the cat.
Not in dev environment but syadmin one, we used play sound on the machine which was hosting the nagios monitoring dashboard on a TV screen.

Better to have one sound than 5 individual phones alarms.
I’ve thought about this before since there’s lossy data you can just discard instead of delivering (ie use FEC to recover video and otherwise throw away bad frames).

The challenge of course is that this doesn’t work so well:

1. Packets come in discrete chunks but FEC works best on a stream of data at the bit level (at least in a transmission context)

2. Lossy links will have their own understanding of the PHY that can’t be explained to applications / needs to happen much more quickly.

3. There’s information that can’t be corrupted in the packet full stop (ie the IP and maybe TCP framing).

2 is really the killer - applications can’t respond to noise issues like the MAC can to issues with the WiFi link for example. And higher layers can’t know about all the intermediary hops that might exist and how to characterize that to tune the FEC parameters.

3 is also a killer because it means you still need to apply FEC to the PHY to guarantee the framing packet and TCP requires checksums to pass on the packet. It’s really really difficult to use FEC at the application layer in an end to end way. It’s really something that works best at the PHY level for transmissions, at least from the brief time I’ve spent thinking on it. Possible I messed something up in my analysis of course.
What you are describing is "trauma bonding" - maladaptation of human brain that makes us stay in bad conditions/situations. It is evolutionary adaptation in life and death situation you can not escape, but what you described is not that.
Agreed. Scarcity (real or imagined) leads to creativity. We have largely become Wells's Eloi.
Using clinicalization, and ultimately lawfare, to force someone to pay me for work that I have either not performed, or have not performed to standard, is neither justice nor empathy; it is injustice, selfishness, & legalized theft. And I have been hit with the short stick before. That is what savings, family, & friends are for.
This sounds like enshitification and transforming MacOS to its far more useless cousin iOS.

Is the gist of it that it got locked down more?
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Turing Machines are just one of many computational models.
Others offer more parallelism. Two examples:

In lambda calculus, disjoint redexes can be reduced in parallel.

And in interaction nets, all active pairs can be reduced in parallel [1].

[]1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_nets
Healthier, for how long?

I can't wait to see the influx of books about this topic 10 years later.
What an awesome way of finding companies who suspect their code is insecure, and then having them give you their source code. And _charging_ them for it, presumably to make it an easier sell to CXOs: 'Nah, it's not those free software hippy communists, they're gonna make you pay through the nose for this, like a _proper_ compliance checkbox ticking outsourced vendor!"

I wonder if this is an NSA front? Or Palintir maybe? Or NSO?
A reply in this twitter thread links to a detailed blog post titled "Universal computation by attention: Running cellular automata and other programs on Claude 3 Opus." https://x.com/ctjlewis/status/1786948443472339247
> using adapters and interfaces is costless,

Hah, no, they're not. Every production app is read many, many times by several different developers, mostly to search for bugs. Reading across adapters, services, and interfaces make that much harder. Especially, if the architectural pattern was implemented slightly differently every time by various authors.

Abstraction always comes with a price. Often, it is well worth to pay (or we would still code everything in C or assembly), but sometimes it's just a waste.
Slack: Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure
Now just need an autoregressive transformer <==> RNN isomorphism paper and we're golden
seems like would be the implication if yes
Yes, we do... when the system reboots.
Larry Ellison about AI-Fueled Surveillance
Uh, I've never worked with them, but the linked Wikipedia article states that the US Navy did early development in order to create equipment to move things aboard aircraft carriers. I've never been to one of those, either, but it sure seems like an environment that might be a bit more challenging than a robotics lab.

Plus there's an image of a container-slinging machine being used at airports.

So I guess my point is that I'm sorry you were burned by them, but they do seem to be usable in the real world, too.

Also: had forgotten the inventor was kinda Swedish, yay! :)

Edit: I made it sound like the container-machine used Mecanum wheels on the tarmac which of course is not the case.
I haven't read the text, but data drift refers to how, after deploying a machine learning model, the input data changes over time to something that wasn't tested on. For instance, let's say you create a gradient boosting forecasting model that does a great job at predicting tomorrow's earnings. At the time of training, the earnings might be in the $1000 per day range. But a year later, the earnings might be in the $100k range. The model has never seen numbers this high before, so it doesn't know how to handle them well. That is data drift.
The reality is that people constantly vote for well-intentioned, empathetic interventions that have adverse economic effects in the long run
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And the old "next, next, next, accept, I agree" comes home to roost.
Hi, we're working with an large typescript codebase and I develop fully fledged features with Cursor which involve non-trivial UI wiring up work. Decent amount of state management using React too.

It's definitely not boilerplate level code - but it also also stops well short of architecture level work. Here's a recent prompt of me trying to implement line-by-line diff generation: https://pastebin.com/WRJpNwqc

When I need to do architectural/design work, I do it in multiple passes, not generating any code, just lots detailed text with tons of feedback/back-and-forth with the model.

I'm on the pro plan but it's not enough for my needs - I run through the quota in 10-15 days. Then, I revert to using Sonnet 3.5 via API key.
> Eliminating 2 hours a day of driving and train rides left me with more energy I can expend on my work!

Companies forget this. I have had coworkers quit because they couldn't deal with transport. One got stressed out of his mind because our office was close to motorway which frequently has accidents and if that happened he might not be able to pick up the kids on time. Others had to leave clients hanging because they had to leave, "daycare closes at 16:30 and it's now 16:00". Working from home it was much more frequent that clients in the late afternoon would get "Sure, give me ten minutes to pick up the kids and we'll finish this today".
This is sad, TouchArcade reviewed my very first game on iOS back in the iPhone 4 days. A lot of places ignored my game but TouchArcade gave my game a fair chance and I will forever appreciate them for that.

Thanks to the TA team and here’s hoping the best for them.
And, more simply, Moore's Law should ensure that in a next-generation console with a new microprocessor architecture slowdown in some instructions and memory access patterns is compensated by general speedup, limiting performance regressions to terribly unfortunate cases (which should be unlikely and so obvious that they are mitigated).
Motorsports, especially motorcycle racing is great because you’re completely in to yourself on track, then off track, you are inevitably going to help someone load a van, or get a bike on a stand or put on tire warmers, etc. It’s unforced because there’s a task to accomplish together, but then friendship develops seemingly effortlessly.
I'm honestly surprised your comment isn't grey. Mind adding something to help others understand what you feel is obvious? I am left to assume why you think it is healthy and the only reason i can come up with is "boys and girls can't be trusted around each other" - and lack of trust and lack of contact doesn't feel like a basis for any kind of relationship.
He sounds suicidal.
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I'm really torn here. It feels like a good thing for society if everyone has that attitude of "do the right thing".

But I also feel that it's important not to be naive: the sad/harsh reality is that there are people and bodies and organisations out there who will exploit others, and will use their gains to further carry on exploiting.

Now obviously, "exploiting" here is paying huge salaries, shiny offices etc. but I think HN is generally in agreement that Amazon is one of those organisations that regularly oversteps the mark with employee rights/respect.

If we accept that, then I have a really hard time shaking the idea that responding to them making employees lives hard by continuing to perform above average is no different to appeasing an alligator.

What if employers exploit employees because they know there will always be employees who respond to it like this? It kind of makes sense. If we accept that, then all of a sudden "I'm doing the right thing of working hard for my own moral compass" becomes "I'm helping the bad guys because, because it makes me feel better".

Again, I'm aware that thinking about this in terms of "exploitation" and "suckers" is a little extreme, but thinking about it in terms of incentives: isn't this person letting their moral compass incentivise a behaviour they object so much to that they're looking to leave?

edit: for clarity, I do hugely respect working hard for personal motivation of "doing the right thing", and I have taken this approach before. But when I got older, and reflected, I concluded I let my own ego enable things which make the world a worse place, which is a bigger no-no for me personally. It does need to be balanced off against falling into an almost paranoia of "is this person/group just trying to exploit me".
Jobs too for that matter. Seems he wasn't able to protect his own company from idiots either.

Not that Microsoft doesn't salivate about such "improvements" as well.
Big words are like specialist power tools - they have their place, and if you know how to use them, add a massive amount of value.

But if you don't, or if you can reasonably use simpler words, don't use the big ones.
Capitalists abhor the market. But they captured the political class and well here we are.
Looking forward to trying it, though would be nice if credentials could be specified in a different way than on the command line (whereby they'll get saved into your command line history).
An assembly language for brain-inspired computations
Hey HackerNews community,

I wanted to share my excitement around our work on a "Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation" (NIR), published in Nature Communications:
"NIR defines a set of computational and composable model primitives as hybrid systems combining continuous-time dynamics and discrete events. ... NIR decouples the development of neuromorphic hardware and software, enabling interoperability between platforms and improving accessibility to multiple neuromorphic technologies."

Why This Matters:

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the architecture and processes of biological nervous systems, has long held promise for achieving more efficient, scalable, and intelligent systems. But so far, there hasn't been any unifying computational model, which has (1) scattered the scientific efforts and (2) hindered reproducibility.

Enter NIR, which acts as a kind of neural assembly language — a common ground where diverse architectures of neuromorphic systems can communicate seamlessly. NIR models are directly interpretable by neuromorphic platforms, much like the earliest compilers that bridged the gap between assembly languages and digital processors.

Key Highlights:

Seamless Translation Between Computational Realms: The NIR creates a natural mapping between continuous-time neural dynamics and discrete computational models, allowing for unprecedented interoperability between neuromorphic and conventional hardware.

Enhanced Efficiency and Scalability: By utilizing principles from both analog and digital realms, this approach optimizes data processing, reducing power consumption while maintaining speed and accuracy. This could pave the way for more efficient AI models that run on edge devices and within IoT ecosystems.

Inspired by Biology, Refined for Technology: NIR embraces the adaptive, decentralized nature of biological neural networks, bringing us closer to hardware that can support general intelligence rather than narrowly focused algorithms.

Why Now is the Time to Pay Attention:

This isn't just another incremental step in AI or computing. NIR could be the catalyst that helps us unlock the next generation of intelligent systems — ones that don't just mimic intelligence but are built to understand, learn, and grow from the complexity of the world around them. This is a chance for developers, researchers, and innovators to join a movement that takes computing closer to the elegance of the human brain.

I'm curious to hear your opinions and feedback!

Disclaimer: I'm the first author.
More importantly, they heavily push ARM and are probably so desperate for NVIDIA silicon they see anything they can unload from TMSC as a win.
As someone with both a) an engineering-interested kid and b) a mild AliExpress addiction, that is some dangerous stuff. But thanks, hadn't seen those!
Also works with last years model!
Yes, it's just a poor choice of words. It's unusual, but I don't think it's unlikely.

For a while, before Covid, I went to a Yoga class. I was usually the only man there. It seemed much easier to make friends with the women in that class than with men in more manly pursuits.
I have faith that Nvidia can sell them infinity gpus
Actually there are plenty, all it requires is that you want to.
Most of issues I encounter with hubs are during plugging/removing a device from it.

For example, I have at least 2 hubs that will lost all of their connected devices temporally if a new (externally powered) 3.5" HDD is connecting. They work fine after that. I assume it's related to their (poor) electric design than the information signal part.
> Make an effort to link to other personal sites

Yes, Bring back the Webring! And guest books! (...but maybe not <marquee> & <blink>)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring