skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And sometimes security or IT just play it excessively, and never allow anything just to make sure they can't be blamed for anything:

"No, you can't improve the situation with the Linux servers that hasn't been updated since 2013 because those servers don't exist in our roadmap, and therefore there's no policy document that we can lean on to make any decisions. So the servers stay in their miserable state until we can phase over all customers that use those servers to some other product eventually. In a few years. Hopefully."

Note that the above isn't fiction, but exactly what happened a few months ago. Luckily I managed to transfer to a team that didn't have to deal with those servers.
This just sounds like a dime a dozen Libertarian attitude
Just means you're doing it properly :-)

It's kinda nuts how many capital-A Agile processes (and consultants!) produce situations that are diametrically opposed to the original ideas. Notably, Scrum is often processes and tools over individuals and interactions.
Is your fridge on GH? Mine is outdated and I'd like to download a newer one.
Forbes, seriously?
What’s interesting about this conversation is the different perspectives on the material, not necessarily the material itself. Nothing I read in the document reads like “use hyperbole all the time” or “extreme and borderline misanthropic interpersonal interaction”. Instead most of it reads like the sort of things you’d expect to see in any high paced, high competition industry, just written for the sort of people that grew up in and would work at a YouTube company vs folks that grew up in and would work for a major manufacturer. Every company, whether explicitly said or not distinguishes between employees who are excited to be there and excited to be working on the company goals and the ones who are just there to punch a clock. And at every company the clock punchers have always been held in lower regard than the excited employees. We can worry about how that tendency can lead to worker exploitation (see also the game development industry), but the reality is any time you get a group of people together, the folks who have a vision and a mission are going to be more drawn to and get along better with the people who share a passion for that vision and mission.
So either the US military will seize Starlink as a military asset or they'll order "blackouts" to prevent use in theater. Of course, the blackout will be the leading indicator that an attack is incoming, so...
Not copiers, but the ice cream machines in mcdonalds resturants were kept unreliable because mcdonalds made money on the constant repairs. It didn't matter to them that the franchisee was losing money. When 3rd party companies jumped in to fix the machines the manufacturer and mcdonalds acted to stop that happening. There was a court case brought by the third party companies, which they recently lost.
On one hand, you can't expect a small outfit like Framework to offer cheap worldwide shipping.

On the other hand, you have a great point about "DIY serviceability" being useless if you can't get parts for a reasonable price.
Depends on what type of realism you are talking about. The details are very scant on for example how Shire is politically set up and how the farming in general work and supply lines and all such things.
I never want to hear again that a public CEO is a leader

There’s nothing leadership here. This is pure investor avarice laundered through a psychopath who had the highest ability to debase himself and the employees with a smile and mealy mouthed public statements that protect the investor class

How many cycles of investors hire a CEO to find ways to cut labor costs at all cost with no thought to the benefit of the workforce are we going to continue to accept?

Oh sorry I forgot, he’s working towards that platonic source of all value: the stock price which just happens to have been smuggled into the working person’s “employer matched Blue Chip 401K” - that way we’re all exposed to this risk

Unreal. Meanwhile the mouth breathers voting for fascists will claim this was all a govt plot (instead of understanding regulatory capture)
I read the entire document and I don't understand where you saw bad culture or micromanaging.

Some people may not like the fact that they pull all nighters, but that's a matter of opinion. Clearly some people do like the terms of employment, otherwise they wouldn't work there.
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form Developer Relations Foundation
Horribly, lol. I think 6-7 out of 10? I have no idea what these classifications mean though.
But if the total “drain” is, for example, 1%, especially when other budget categories are much larger slices of the pie, then it is effectively a non-issue. And you also have to factor in the economic contributions of immigrants, many of whom presumably have jobs and pay taxes. So having the actual numbers on hand is very important. (Even if we’re assuming that Germany’s declining infrastructure is due to lack of money, which seems suspect to me. More likely to simply be a lack of political will.)
What philosophical truths?

I've known people that 'do nothing'. The modern day equivalent of that is the pot head. It's a lot easier to do nothing when you're stoned. The other alternative is the basement dweller kid of a well to do couple that just spends his day playing video games. Due to his parent's hard work (or luck), he can probably afford to do so for the rest of his life. But still seems depressing to me to think about.
How would the proposed solution work with this code?

void foo() {
char *p = malloc(...);
defer free(p);
...
{
FILE *p = fopen(...);
defer fclose(p);
...
}
return;
}

Would it run both deferred statements, each with the correct argument?
Internet friend… please talk to someone. Use the 988 line. Mental health is only different from physical health because of societal norms. I don’t know you but please know your short description here stoked compassion in a stranger. Your life has value and meaning and impact. Thank you for sharing.
If you really want a Dyson, a better firmware: https://github.com/tinfever/FU-Dyson-BMS

If you are OK on alternatives, YouTube channel ProjectFarm has some vacuum reviews.
The way I think is it is like a pattern trying to maintain itself. Pattern is the ghost in the machine. But the pattern isn't significant in itself in that apart from continuing its existence there is no other requirement. It's just that intelligence either individual or collective helps in continuing the pattern further. Self in that sense is like a soliton on a water surface.
> It's not Scrum's fault that people have hijacked its name for something completely different. It happens often.

Scrum contains so many pitfalls that it's inevitable to get it wrong. Oh, the Sprint Review is NOT a report to management? Please do tell me where this then happens instead. If a manager can attend a 1 hour meeting to summarize the 2-3 weeks that the sprint was about, it will be abused.
> burn-down / velocity charts

You need some coarse odometer to know where the finish line is. Burn-up charts are a reasonable input to that and can be very low effort. Just knowing where you hit the inflection point between new-issues added to a milestone vs. issues resolved is useful. If you can replace a burn up chart with tangible test results matrix or similar - even better.

> retrospectives

I have never found per-sprint retros useful, either. I guide teams to do a retro when the issues raised in the previous retro are resolved. WIP control FTW.

> poker sessions

In my experience, planning sessions are one of the most impactful parts of the stereotypical scrum process for three reasons: (a) Planning creates a consensus within the team about what the story actually means; (b) Planning often leads to someone proposing a good 80/20 trade-off or raising an important point that avoids future re-work or unexpected tech debt. (c) Breaking big tasks into actionable, independently useful, small tasks is one of the hardest things for junior developers to learn. A lot of mentorship and teaching happens in good planning meetings. I encourage teams to try planning for the benefits of the process and not worry at all about fine grained points - "trivial", "medium", "unknown" is typically enough. Lots of mature teams will plan ad-hoc as they are ready for new work. This is my personal preference. But teaching teams how to plan effectively in a weekly planning meeting is often a good starting point.

> daily stand-ups

Standups that are control points for managers and expensive status gathering shortcuts are horrible. standups that are self-organizing, especially for teams that have ops + dev responsibilities, can be really useful. Nothing wrong with making a plan for the day - it should just take 10m.

> user stories and related tickets (eg in JIRA)

You should write down what you want to do somewhere and a few checklists go a long ways towards improving quality management.

I have never found scrum to be a good process (like the article, I find it very grinding) and I strongly agree with the posted article. But a good dev process likely includes all of these elements in some shape.
Your base assumption here is that the 'crap' is actually 'junk'. Let's look at the easy one here, languages. Talk to someone that speaks multiple languages and they'll have examples of concepts in one language that are difficult to express in another. The multilingual person, or someone who just speaks a different language than you, will think differently[1].

Does the LLM take advantage of this? I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me if it did, and if it doesn't now I'd bet it will in the future. Either way though, throwing away those other languages could make the model dumber. As you allude to, there's a balance between intelligence and knowledge.

(in case you hadn't thought of it, those 'tools' can also be other LLMs with more specialized knowledge in a particular field. For example a 'translator' model)

Other 'facts' could also have more merit than it would first appear. Sure, one particular person's shoe size might not be needed, but if you were to filter out shoe sizes in general then the model might not be able to suggest how to find properly fitting footwear, or might not suggest that your back pain could be related to your shoes.

> That would be a worthwile endeavor and maybe even possible without boiling the oceans.

I think it's important to keep in mind that we're very early in the AI journey. Look at the power requirements of early computers versus the ones we use today. I'm all for keeping energy usage in mind, but I'd be careful with hyperbolic language as things are changing so quickly. Tasks that would have taken multiple GPUs can now run on my laptop CPU.

[1] https://www.edge.org/conversation/lera_boroditsky-how-does-o...
Are gifted children just like children who have early growth spurts? They end up average but for a while they were towering above their peers.
TamaGo Allows Executing Go Language Code Bare Metal on ARM/RISC-V SoCs
And the "best YOUTUBE videos possible" are... toxic, useless brainrot? (with occasional for-views philanthropy)

These videos are certainly the best in terms of what money they can make... but are they any good for their consumers?
Right, but I don't think that it necessarily needs to be a twist.

The first two Pillars of Eternity games leaned hard into this trope, but it was never really "revealed" as a plot point -- it was just background that you uncovered as you progressed stepwise through the game. The Gods as literal hiveminds, chained to or unbound from their original core functions to varying degrees; a fallen hyper-technological society; stuff like that...
That animated background really makes the site hard to read :(
Companies try prescribing X, but as developers have no reason to care X doesn't happen without strict oversight by management, thus leading to !X to keep them in line.

Is the gun with a 180º bend in the barrel, with a caution label that says "WARNING: Don't shoot yourself in the face", that sees everyone who tries using it shoot themselves in the face the user's fault, or could we say that the product is faulty?

If a product relies on weasel words to try and pass its flaws off as being the user's fault, at what point is the product to blame? If one person uses it wrong, perhaps you can say that one person was doing something out of the ordinary, but when every person uses it wrong...?
Eh, even on this example, most of the gains come from simply removing the comments (something that can easily be done with `cpp -E -P <in.css >out_cpp.css` or regexps since CSS doesn't allow comment nesting) on most UNIXes.

Here's a more complete result adding brotli and the aforementioned cpp version:

$ gdu -b *.css *.css.gz *.css.br | awk '{if (NR % 3 == 1) {ref = $1; print} else print $0, "(" $1 - ref ")"}'
623 in.css
197 out.css (-426)
355 out_cpp.css (-268)
345 in.css.gz
185 out.css.gz (-160)
235 out_cpp.css.gz (-110)
284 in.css.br
141 out.css.br (-143)
177 out_cpp.css.br (-107)
I got the same e-mail and also declined to move off the lifetime plan. I would have considered it to support the site but I could see where the owner's attention was going to be focused. Politics is a hell of a drug.
Vulnerability Lookup 1.6.0 released – Open-source vulnerability database
Fast food aren't worth much nutritionally so they aren't much different.
I'd say that (1) there's a lot more to the medieval period than just the high middle ages in England and France and (2) a world with orcs, owlbears, etc is going to tend to be more thinly populated than similar historical analogues, meaning finding unclaimed land becomes more plausible.
Having a decent mobile experience is a big reason why I started to use Anki, it's the perfect way to spend time while traveling.
I mean, this is like saying "because DND has magic, and the real medieval age didn't have magic, that means DND is anti-medieval". It can be accurately described as "medieval" without replicating every element of actual medieval society. And there are enough medieval like elements in there that it strikes as a sufficiently resonant descriptor for me.
I went down the vacuum rabbit hole a few years ago. I decided on Sebo. These are more or less big ugly machines with a cord, but you can buy every part online no matter how small (screws, gaskets,etc) or big (motors, control boards, etc).
There's a long history of visual art being created in the service of god worship. Musical art too. Much of Bach's oeuvre is in service to the god of the Protestant church.
In thinking a bit more, I think the biggest pain point for me is one with plain text in general: it supports no attachments. I have my own system to refer to specific files and built a Mac app that lets me drop a file on a transaction, then it copies that file into a specific folder and adds a tag to the transaction. This could be done so much easier if the data would be sqlite, but then you obviously lose the ability to edit it directly in your text editor.
iPhone 16 Pro Demand Has Been Lower Than Expected, Analyst Says
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw “dark age” in the post. If you want to get a historian spun up, start talking about dark ages and prepare to be educated.
this is incorrect.

the only thing that does not work is generating the css class like:

var x = 'hase-';

var t = x + 'danger'

which is an antipattern. (it can even happen inside java, c#, whatever language you use and it is still an antipattern)
Why not hitting two birds with one stone if the opportunity's there?

The EU is a dead end for him as Von der Leyen has been reappointed so now is a good time to quit because he has another opportunity in France (my guess).
Never watched one video either, but it seems to just be "Ow, my balls!"

Just useless brain rot.
For me it was not controversial, just imperfect. The perfect diagnostic would learn in one pass what the student has already mastered and not leave them with study material they can already answer at 100%.

I didn't think anything was seriously wrong, just wrong enough to be annoying for the first few days because I wasn't learning much and the system is rigid and zero trust — I have no way to tell it I understand except by hard proof.

It's also a balancing act, though. Under-estimating a student's ability on purpose might frustrate them a little but offer a small confidence boost while they're still learning the system and finding a daily rhythm. Over-estimating could make them feel stupid and intimidated and drive them to drop out early.
I think its more about, regardless of how smart he was, just the fact he tried, was enough for it to work due to odd mysterious circumstances perhaps.

I dont know tbh
Easy! Future AI is going to read these, sigh ;)
Sometimes, I miss paper-based magazines, and when I have an opportunity to stay and look through newsstands in supermarkets or bookstores, I do, and sometimes buy. Harvard Business Review is good one. Wired is sucks, one of the worst.

Does anyone know good magazines about tech/programming/engineering?

I found CODE Magazine [*], which looks promising, but it is primarily about C#/.NET.

[*] https://www.codemag.com/magazine/
True, I'm not sure I would say these are source-available, but I'm a bit out of touch regarding the jargon around these clauses that guard against cloud competition.

There's a big difference between 'you can look at the source but not use this product in the way it is intended if you make money by doing so' (production use), and 'you can use the source in any way you like, also for production, but not to compete with us'. I've always understood 'source-available' to mean the former because it used to be like that, and the latter to be a slightly restrictive version of open source. Historically, the latter variant also emerged out of competition with the big clouds (mostly AWS), from projects that used to be truly open source, whereas a lot of what I think are source-available licenses come from vendors that were fully closed before or would be if there was no demand to see the source (for example, for security purposes).
The poetry I like is by nature beautiful. Beauty is not created by taking a thesaurus and shaking it upside-down over your keyboard.

Are you morose? Perhaps you are sad, very sad in fact, but find that you are neither glum nor morose, not disheartened nor heartbroken, not anguished nor stricken, not unsure of how you will go on nor distressed, and neither grieved nor aggrieved nor yet maddened with grief. Perhaps your feelings of sadness are to be expressed quietly and without intruding.
Evcc – Connects Your EV Charger with Your PV System
You rest at all the meetings.
> I had to buy goddamn chocolate bars at Walmart because of him.

No you didn't. You chose to do so.
The Cultural Characteristics of Fast-Paced, High-Performance Teams
What is required is frank conversation with the stakeholder/customer, because there are so many trade offs decision to make. Devs don’t like to estimate tasks because there’s an exploration phase (which cost time an energy) to have the solution and the cost of time and energy for the implementation. And it’s recursive. Agile was basically saying, let the devs do their thing, but have a conversation every once in a while to discuss new directions to the projects based on new evidence found. And unless the team have already built the same project (with the same people involved), it will always be a bet. No amount of tracking or insight will remedy that.
Have you actually been returning an unusual amount of stuff?
Hahahahah i LOL'ed
First metal part 3D printed in space
It is non-trivial. Every corporate bank usually provides some type of treasury services, which is how companies programmatically move money.

As far as I know, this is an international phenomenon. Keep in mind this is corporate banking, not consumer banking.

I'd happy answer any other questions you have @ https://cal.com/woodside/iso20022js
SDL GPU won't support Android due to poor GPU drivers
> The biggest thing is that in D&D most of population lives in towns & cities, and there are very few if any villages.

In my experience most D&D settlements have to fit onto a two-page spread in a letter/legal sized book. So they've got space for an inn, a store, and maybe one or two places with things to advance the plot.

A realistic town might need 300 houses for each inn, but there just ain't the space on the page.
But most of the time, we as engineers don't pick the winners. Some C-Suite executive or middle manager, who isn't very technically inclined, picks the winners, and we as engineers are forced to make it work.

As I don't think a engineer has ever had the chance to choose a company's CRM, the CRM with better marketing would always win over the CRM with better engineering.
There is nothing wrong with burndown charts but story points and team velocity are poison.

The way you get good at estimating is looking at your database of experience. “I did a task similar to this in 8 days”. Calendar time is real and punchclock time is real, either can be measured. Story points are not real and not measurable and they leave you lost at sea thinking that estimation is impossible, a scam, etc.

See also

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

Which is also a kind of development “funny money” but which have a somewhat rigorous method to arrive at estimates.
I read it. I'm so sorry for what you went through, and that times are hard. Sending hugs your way.

Late 40s - you have so much of your life ahead of you! Are you medicated (with e.g. actual antidepressants)? Please explore that avenue as thoroughly as you can before doing anything drastic.
6.

I only live because I've failed at killing myself every time I've tried. I just need to wait it out. in the meantime I've got a good job that pays for shelter/food/entertainment. I have no ambition, no real drive towards anything. just serving out my time.
What larger prices (or prizes) do you mean?

I just think maybe public key crypto is not broken so far because there is no motivation for enough people to work on that. What whould one get, without endangering himself, if he breaks integer factorization?
They mention reinforcement learning, so I guess they used some sort of Monte Carlo tree search (the same algorithm used for AlphaGo).

In this case, the model would explore several chain of thoughts during training, but only output a single chain during inference (as the sibling comment suggests).
>and Donaldson makes content for entertainment that literally tortures people in the sense of being a violation of the geneva convention

What specific acts are we talking about? "violation of the geneva convention" could mean literally anything between "putting red cross symbols on soldiers" and "summarily executing civilians", so it doesn't really narrow things down. If they're being put in uncomfortable positions, but they're not risking long term harm and it's voluntary, I don't see what the issue is.
I sat next to someone who had a similar set up, except a robot voice also read out a summary of the failures.

I moved desk within a few hrs.
> 2023-04-16: somebody (maybe the owner) increased the unsolved puzzles prizes again by x10. Now the puzzle #66 prize is 6.6 BTC, #67 is 6.7 BTC and so on... puzzle #160 prize is 16 BTC.

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/12f34b5...

Bitcoin was not cheap in 2023, this is someone with $50m to spare!
Thank you for your kind and empathetic words. I’ll probably be ok. I’m medicated and my therapist and psychiatrist are aware of my ideation. I have a very supportive spouse. I live an upper middle class life. When my ideation moves into active planning is when I reach out for additional help. Honestly, I feel very fortunate.
You'll figure it out, sometimes doing nothing is exactly what is needed.

Look around you, lack of direction and medication/distraction is everywhere, and unfortunately suicide.

I would never judge anyone for wanting an easy out.

But I do feel its missing the point of the experience.

What is your passion? What makes you excited/happy?
Do you have a write up of how you did this?