skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ had a page titled "Projects" that listed "death camps" as the first item, you would assume they're up to something, right?
The person who made this post is likely not an engineer and is more focused on content and public perception than load times.
Manim – animation engine for explanatory math videos
There were winamp3 / modern 5.x skins which were freeform in nature so could be all sorts of shapes or not depending on what the skinner wanted it to be like. With 5.x still supporting the fixed form classic / 2.x skins as webamp & its skin museum support.
can you explain what you mean by ev architecture?
The long-term memory storage seems like a privacy mess. This makes me glad that there are services like DuckDuckGo AI which allow for epheremal chats. Although running locally is best for privacy, as long as the AI isn't hooked up to code.

More related to the article main topic, these LLM chat histories are like if a web app used SQL injection by design to function. I doubt they can be prevented from malicious behavior if accessing untrusted data. And then there is the model itself. AI vacuums continue to scrape the web. Newer models could theoretically be tainted.
The End of the Cheap Burger
https://archive.today/i4BDP
SQLFluff is a linter formatter written in Python https://sqlfluff.com/

Heard there is a faster one called sqruff, but I have not tried it

https://www.quary.dev/blog/sqruff-launch

Might also be able to cajole sqlglot into being a formatter but it's designed for forgiving dialect conversion, not formatting

https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot
Sponsored by maptiler, yet is lacking required[1] OpenStreetMap attribution.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
I wonder if we'll ever hit a critical mass of technical literacy where this kind of misunderstanding largely disappears. Ten years ago I would have said yes. Now I think the advances in UX/UIs and the appification of everything have insulated the median person from the details. That's good as far as individual products go, but in aggregate might lead to unrealistic expectations. I've heard younger folks ask questions about "why doesn't x just do y" that I previously could only have imagined my very non-technical parents' cohort asking.

At least in the 80s, when computers roughly equalled magic for much of the population (looking at you Wargames!), most people didn't really have to interact with it. Their expectations about computers were roughly as important as my expectations about alien life. But I'm afraid that magical thinking about tech will be of greater consequence both individually and societally.
So basically you saying manager need to see people in order to know there stuff is working.
If someone pretend to work at home he will pretend to work at work.
Indeed, the headline is… technically accurate but seems clearly designed to mislead. The article body is a bit more clear:

> The Manchester Evening News reported that passengers accessing the wifi at Piccadilly station were directed to a webpage titled “we love you, Europe”, which contained Islamophobic messages and details of several terrorist attacks that have taken place in the UK and in Europe.

I think "[Stations] among those targeted with Islamophobic message" would have been a more informative wording.
Toronto area is mostly accurate and funny. it's been multicultural so long that having to pretend we don't notice our differences creates resentment that wasn't there before and the complainers it mollifies don't really have much to offer in return. this is hilarious, I will use it often.
No, it happens in state run industries. Government will drop regulations to make it easier for themselves any time.

Truck drivers have similarly high responsibilities. But it is private industry, and there are strict regulations to prevent tiredness.

If trucking would be state operated, we would get 30 hour driving shifts again!
It is definitely an improvement on multiple `JSONB_TO_RECORDSET` and `JSONB_TO_RECORD` calls for flattening nested json.
I don't think its comparable. phone cameras are assumed to be off, its pretty obvious when someone is recording a video, because he has to hold the phone in a very uncomfortable position.

Unless someone is actively pointing their phone at you, you can reasonably assume you're not being filmed.

this thing, on the other hand, is supposed to be on all the time. So having your head pointed in someone's general direction is going to be interpreted as "actively filming that person".

This could easily lead to getting punched in the face.
Not an accountant but there are different kinds of nonprofits, OpenAI is a 501c3 (religious/charitable/educational) whereas the NFL was a 501c6 (trade association).

Obviously we all think of the NFL as a big money organisation, but it basically just organises the fixtures and the referees. The teams make all the money.
LLM idiosyncrasy maybe? I can totally imagine an interaction with a LLM making choices like this.
Agile is not dying a slow, painful death. It's won. Iterative development is the order of the day in software.
My understanding is that “memory model” is definitionaly about what happens when you add parallelism and/or concurrency.

Regardless, this isn’t a slight against C. Most languages don’t have an explicit memory model at all.
If most of your expenses are software devs, that's not true any more.
fyi, there is a difference between casual communication style and a mistake or gap in one's knowledge
The company will end up with a pile of bugs and technical debt that was "overloooked" by engineers chasing their per-feature bonus. In some companies, that might be allright (some startups are ok with horrible code), but it's a recipe for disaster in most cases.
If you have a law that stops certain kinds of private agreements, and then you repeal this law, it is logical to see those kinds of private agreements increase.
Less waste literally means making things faster. See the problem with agile? All the jargon and stories that the agile tribesman like to build upon simple things.
I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing for. Current AI models can still get a lot better, sure. I'm not in the AGI in 3 years camp.

But, people in this thread are making philosophically very poor points about why that is supposedly so.

It's not "just" sequence prediction, because sequence prediction is the very essence of what the human brain does.

Your points on learning and memory are similarly weak word play. Memory means holding some quantity constant over time in the internal state of a model. Learning means being able to update those quantities. LLMs obviously do both.

You're probably going to be thinking of all sorts of obvious ways in which LLMs and humans are different.

But no one's claiming there's an artificial human. What does exist is increasingly powerful data processing software that progressively encroaches on domains previously thought to be that of humans only.

And there may be all sorts of limitations to that, but those (sequences, learning, memory) aren't them.
Would be awesome if PostgreSQL would finally add support for seamless major version upgrade…
When you put it that way it seems like a pretty easy job.
>JIRA sucks.

i used to think the same until i had to use azure devops.

i legitimately miss JIRA nowadays.
Non-profits can make as much profit as they want, in fact they're encouraged to. The part they left out was "tasked with turning a profit (for already extremely wealthy individuals)"
I appreciate how you added an extra letter to "bloat". It's like visual onomatopoeia.
I find it strange how there's been so much digital ink spilled over agile and Jira, yet they keep being used everywhere. The author talks about how folks he "routinely interfaces with, including upper management on both the business and tech side, at startups and Fortune 500 companies alike, are done or close-to-done with Agile", but I'll believe that when I see it.

The author also notes how one sign of tech bloat is talking to customers repeatedly without becoming an expert on customer behavior. One of the reasons for this is that the people who talk to the customers are often times PMs/POs who aren't subject matter experts, and their "talking" is simply asking users if they want a new feature instead of doing discovery as to what users need. This is a UX issue first and foremost, but alas, companies are laying off UX researchers and UX people in general.
Because it turns it into a four-syllable word with three consecutive unstressed syllables. It has bad meter and ruins the meter of almost any sentence constructed around it.
Ok, well, would you expect a shredded book to be indistinguishable from a shredded bowl of jello, or a shredded pot of coffee, or a shredded parcel of ionized plasma?
Or that rent control benefits the insiders and hurts everybody else, including the children of said insiders who won’t be able to find housing.
This is a silly take. AR games are perfectly possible. Games don't need to look photo real to be immersive and a holographic animal with enough grounding in physical space still feels real, anyhow.

Additive displays do make it hard to port existing games but that was true for mobiles and touchscreen. If the platform is popular, it will have games.
In my opinion a lot of commenters are focusing on current LLM and computer vision capabilities, but missing the point of that particular xkcd.

It wasn't "computer vision is really hard!".

The point was: for laypeople, it's hard to understand why a particular problem is hard or easy for computers. Some things that seem hard are actually easy (people in comments here mention "standing on the shoulders of giants", but I find that's also missing the point) and some things that seem easy are hard. And it's sometimes difficult to explain to laypeople why something can be done in a couple of hours while other tasks would require a 5-year long research project, when to the external observer both tasks are roughly equally complex.

Really, that's it. That's the point of the joke/observation. It wasn't truly an observation about the status of computer vision.
Exactly. PMs motto seems to be: You will have more features and you _will_ like it!
My point is to demonstrate that a minority can be consistently oppressed by a majority. Thereby negating the vote of the minority. This is how people feel in northern California, eastern Oregon, and many other places.

My point is that appointments and elections are almost the same thing, nearly a distinction without a difference. Don't like the appointments, then vote for a different person. Bit of a distinction of representative democracy vs direct. Not necessarily that different. Almost entirely equally broken IMO.

> situation where one of the 10 people gets to pick the prosecutor!

That is not at all the simplification. We could change it that the 10 people are voting for someone to do the appointment of a prosecutor. Or we could flip it to a real world example where someone is in eastern oregon voting conservative, or someone lives in 1930s rural south as a minority.

The majority rule can lead to a bad path. Notably authoritarian regimes where the prosecutor promises to go after the minorities. Which has its examples historically throughout the world, including the US
WW1 munitions production operations research demonstrated there was a 60 hour max. Quoting https://docs.iza.org/dp8129.pdf

> From the evidence brought to their attention, in January 1916, the HMWC recommended shorter
working hours: for men, hours of no more than 65-67 per week (13-14 hours daily) on average and for boys, for girls, and for women a maximum of 60 weekly hours. It is not always clear whether these recommendations referred to scheduled hours or actual hours worked. 12 The basis for these recommendations was not because shorter hours would yield higher average product or higher marginal product, but because total output would be unchanged.
> We have an obesity epidemic and now rather than addressing the root problems that lead to the obesity epidemic we have an expensive highly profitable pharmaceutical solution.

They work well and have a good safety profile. For many people they are the only thing that works. Seems like a good thing that we have them.
Irenology is something i'd hope more people take a keen interest in. It's a relatively new paradigm in peace studies which reflects exactly what the problem is, and how to build towards solving it.

I'd recommend anyone working in this space to reflect on the concept of imperfect peace, and stop trying to get to utopian peace. Unlike computers, perfect solutions rarely exist in social sciences. This should not undermine efforts to work towards improvements though.

There are many ways to 'build peace' and we can all be peacebuilders in our personal lives, to reach a better state for everyone on this planet. You don't need to do any big things. If you do, that's great, but each little step helps.

Personally, I try to encourage this type of thought in those around me, and make them reflect on their actions and how they work towards more peace, or more violence, so they might adjust their beliefs and actions towards more peace (this is really difficult!).
Also, my wife studies peace and works there, so I try to support her in any way I can to help increase her agency in this sphere.

No one can solve all problems, but everyone together can easily do it. Rather than telling people who are stressed out about these big issues to 'care less' or say 'fuck it' like some books and people recommend, I hope someday everyone cares even a little more, so the ones who do care aren't so burdened and cursed by their caring.

Peace lives within all of us, and it's time to let it out!
At some point, I need to learn what Jira is exactly. I only used it once, at an org, for a couple of years. It tracked tasks and bugs and such, and integrated with the source control. It seemed… fine?

I had no idea it was specifically linked with “agile”, that org wasn’t doing agile. Is Jira “fine”? Is it really the Agile process that people are hating on?
Agile peaked with Extreme Programming and paper story cards, since then all that seems to have happened is the adoption of more tools/process that missed the whole point of it. The most productive project I ever worked on followed that method - but it's very hard to scale up.

I worked somewhere where we dumped our (very complicated) 'agile' tracking tool and went back to cards, and productivity increased, people actually communicated. We did eventually add in JIRA, to support remote team members but banned 'customization', 'workflows' and all the things that actually get in the way of being an Agile team.
Just because you found something worse it doesn't mean the first thing doesn't suck.

CVS isn't good because Visual Source Safe exists.
So basically, the effects are mainly due to deficiencies with the previous law, and probably can't be generalized to rent control in general (though I'm sure many will try).

For instance, I don't think I've ever heard of a rent control law that allowed setting "excessively high rents" to try to preemptively counter it. I think it's a lot more typical to take the current market prices and limit the rate of future increases.
ADO is not worse than JIRA... it's just a different kind of worse.
If the "Mann jager fire genier" ever catches them, he could follow the example of the "Kindlifresser"?
I really don't get the Jira hate. I need a place to read about the problem/project, comment/question it and know what work was completed and what remains to be done, which it all does well enough. It also integrates directly with GitHub.

I guess if GH had its own version that would be slightly easier. I think most people dislike Jira for how their orgs use it, with sprints and points and as a management/overseer tool. I feel like 90% of engs hating anything is due to management using something as a shortcut metric to battle royale their team with BS efficiency stats (tickets closed! PRs pushed!)
As a libertarian, analyzing the information flow of the political parties in reverse of how it's normally assumed is illuminating - how good is each party at building support for the policies that their sponsors have bought? In this sense on the national stage, the republican party does a much better job convincing its members that the party's policies are their own interests. Whereas democrats are more likely to begrudgingly but pragmatically vote for their party's candidates while actually disliking their policies. See also the quick about-face dynamic of "I never thought the leopard would eat MY face" when the larger cognitive dissonance ends up collapsing in a very personal way.
Some people are hard workers, some are not. Some are even slackers. I believe this might largely be immutable. I.e. you can make a slacker work hard, but they'll become deeply unhappy, because it's against their nature, and burn out or quit.

That's why companies pay so much attention when hiring, and are so picky. Managers understand that indiviual output between engineers vary wildly, and try to decide if the person in front of them will actually work hard.
DoorDash is trying a new way of making deliveries without gig workers
I'm writing lecture notes about graphics programming, mostly focused on the math behind, if you like this kind of material, they should be ready by December ;)
Can we stop calling it stolen? It wasn't stolen. Copyright infringement is never stealing and it's not even well established infringement is happening.
Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake
Yes, WordPress.org and WordPress.com are mixed up all the time, so much so that /r/WordPress on Reddit has had a sticky for years linking to a page on WordPress.org that explains the difference. According to WordPress.org itself:

> People are often confused about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org because they sure sound similar. This workshop highlights the key differences between .Org and .Com.

— https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/what-is-the-difference-...
If "speaks faster, doesn't mind being interrupted, and still will happily spout bullshit in multiple languages" is what defines advanced voice mode, then that must mean humanity's advanced voice mode is "being from New York".
That's a strange assertion to make considering that in the medical field nearly every hospital and practice is privately owned. And the payer in most cases is private insurance. Why do you think that being overworked and burned out is only a product of publicly-owned enterprises when the medical field in the US is a perfect example of overwork and burnout in a private enterprise?

The reason pilots in the US have very stringent well-followed rules around flight hours and fatigue has more to do with federal regulations being enforced stringently by the FAA. Which is pretty strong evidence that your assertion is baseless. If trucking had a regulator half as strong as the FAA you'd see similar rules around fatigue.

Part of the problem with trucking is more a race to the bottom in the commodity service of moving something from point A to point B. When your pay is directly tied to mileage or to shipment contracts then of course working longer hours produces more mileage or more contracts. Federal regulation actually counteracts this perverse incentive.

If anything medicine in the US needs more regulation of insurance companies and private equity owners of hospital systems. Those are the people who don't want to spend the money to hire enough nurses and hospital staff for every shift. If they raised wages for nursing staff and opened up more nursing schools the shortages would go away.
Wow, that's quite some chip on your shoulder. You're managing to project things on to my post that I didn't say, at all.

Literally all I said was I thought they were large and goofy looking. I didn't say anything about people wearing, or not wearing them, or anything about whether they were fashionable or not. You've taken my post, read things I didn't say, made up stuff, and then judged me for it.
I am not aware of state-run hospitals, at least in my country. Also all those regulations you mentioned are coming from the push of the unions, not from the magic hand of private companies.
Less waste means less waste.

You can carve a guitar neck out of a single large piece of wood, but 60% of that piece of wood turns into waste.

Or you can glue three much smaller pieces of wood together, and 5% of that wood turns to waste.

It takes longer to make less waste.
Build a No-Fuss Particle Detector
I remember MS Project. Those were the days...
Huawei 'will take over everything', head of China Computer Federation warns
Sops is probably ideal for lowest ceremony possible. Combine this with direnv for a seamless experience.

If you don't want to commit/share secrets you could avoid sops and put this in your direnv envrc: `[ -e ~/.local/secrets/myproj.env ] && source ~/.local/secrets/myproj.env`
Has anybody used dope to mean drugs since the early 90s? Even then it could weirdly mean heroine or marijuana, which I'm guessing why it fell out of use.
Oh man, wait till you hear what humans do to each other.
This. Also, the world isn't black and white. Good and Evil are overly simplistic categories that aren't constructive. Just because one person does something wrong, it doesn't have to define them or negate the good they do in other areas.
I used to do plug-ins because it scratched an itch to code & provide things that'd be of use to others which when you've got a job to pay for that free time then it's less of an issue. Also the time of winamp & the plug-in / skin community of the time were somewhat reflective of how interested people were in tech vs how commoditised it's now become & generically boring imho. And I'm probably guilty of the change in behaviours with how I'm trying to fund wacup but 2 decades on is a long time & most of those early creatives have bills to pay.
As someone who signed contract to rent recently, "rent falling" is beyond bullshit. Listing increase is true, doesn't mean they're "good" listings though.
Although Jira is mentioned in the title, it's never really discussed.

Also, I don't fancy the term 'Tech Bloat' because it doesn't seem to cover at all what the issue at hand really is.

To me, the real problem is that:

- People don't like to think about process because it's hard and not fun

- People don't take responsibility for a process or don't want to due to risk and little reward

- People add tasks steps because a minor thing went wrong once, years ago (and nobody involved is still around)

- People NEVER remove tasks because they only see risk no reward

- People don't seem to understand that processes should be as minimal as possible

- People don't seem to understand that you need to hire people that need minimal process and still understand what needs to be done (like asking questions instead of making assumptions)

What you end up with is an organisation that has a ton of complaints and gossip, but nothing changes.
Olympic Athletes Turn ADHD into a Superpower
I've been waiting for "incremental view maintenance" (i.e. incremental updates for materialized views) but it looks like it's still a few years out.
If you want to know what peace is - it is no longer defined as simply the absence of war or the 3 types of violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace - it is very interesting to realize that peace itself is a thing, not the lack of another thing.

If we take away violence, but do not build peace or learn how to build peace, the void left will just fill again with new violence. Hence it's important for everyone to learn to build peace, so when violence is taken away, we can fill the gaps with peace.

The issues described by OP are results of types of violence inherent in our systems. - this post is not about the current wars but the OPs stated issues - despite the wars also fitting in this category when abstracting like this.