skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, most IT departments operate on a multi-tier service model to keep users from directly annoying your engineers.

1. Call center support desk with documented support issues, and most recent successful resolutions.

2. Junior level technology folks dispatched for basic troubleshooting, documented repair procedures, and testing upper support level solutions

3. Specialists that understand the core systems, process tier 2 bug reports, and feed back repairs/features into the chain

4. Bipedal lab critters involved in research projects... if your are very quiet, you may see them scurry behind the rack-servers back into the shadows.

Managers tend to fail when asking talent to triple/quadruple wield roles at a firm.

No App is going to fix how inexperienced coordinators burn out staff. =3
I'll take a look. Thanks for reporting.
Google’s and OpenAI often answered far-left, Progressive, and atheist. Google’s was censoring white people at one point. Facebook seems to espouse similar values. They’ve funded work to increase those values. Many mention topics relevant to these things in their papers in the bias or alignment sections.

These political systems don’t represent the majority of the world. They might not even represent half the U.S.. People relying on these A.I.’s might want to know if the A.I.’s are being intentionally trained to promote their creators’ views and/or suppress dissenters’ views. Also, people from multiple sides of the political spectrum should review such data to make sure it’s balanced.
If you want to prove to me you are arguing in good faith, you can download Loom (or one of the many open source alternatives) and do proper user test, and I will be happy to take the time to address your points. Many examples on BuilderNews (https://news.pub/) to learn from.
Do they actually provide applications the ability to access raw camera data? They don't allow that on the Occulus.

They can only rely on 3p devs if they allow access to the hardware.
VP Research Barret Zoph and Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew also announced their departures this evening.
According to JCB?

you might be more interested in torsion, though..

Ps: i think edwardian eras are a transitional period where, to stand apart from the previous era fetishizing wisdom (& the payment of dues), intellectuals began to focus their attention on the (often full of youth & signaling sprezzatura) acolytes of truth (& no taxes)
Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
The laptop being in the car came from the ex-girlfriend. "the only evidence connecting Mr. Williams to the crime was a witness who said Mr. Williams sold him a laptop taken from Ms. Gayle’s home, but the jury did not learn that Mr. Williams told the witness he had received the laptop from Laura Asaro."

> You (and The Innocence Project) apparently think that DNA must be found at the crime scene in order to convict.

Why exactly do you think this given the more than half dozen points outlined which illustrate the weak case?
So there's a C program. There's a bunch of sub-par programmers, who don't use the old, well documented, stable, memory-safe functions and techniques. And they write code with memory safety bugs.

They are eventually forced to transition to a new language, which makes the memory safety bugs moot. Without addressing the fact that they're still sub-par, or why they were to begin with, why they didn't use the memory safe functions, why we let them ship code to begin with.

They go on to make more sub-par code, with more avoidable security errors. They're just not memory safety related anymore. And the hackers shift their focus to attack a different way.

Meanwhile, nobody talks about the pink elephant in the room. That we were, and still are, completely fine with people writing code that is shitty. That we allow people to continuously use the wrong methods, which lead to completely avoidable security holes. Security holes like the injection attacks, which make up 40% of all CVEs now, when memory safety only makes up 25%.

Could we have focused on a default solution for the bigger class of security holes? Yes. Did we? No. Why? Because none of this is about security. Programmers just like new toys to play with. Security is a red herring being used to justify the continuation of allowing people to write shitty code, and play with new toys.

Security will continue to be bad, because we are not addressing the way we write software. Rather than this one big class of bugs, we will just have the million smaller ones to deal with. And it'll actually get harder to deal with it all, because we won't have the "memory safety" bogey man to point at anymore.
State executions are literally, by definition, not murder.
This sounds very useful, I frequently reset soft and recommit in batches of related changes before PR and this sounds like it streamlines integrating updates quite nicely
"The next day, the police searched the Buick LeSabre and found the Post-Dispatch ruler and calculator belonging to Gayle. The police also recovered the laptop computer from Glenn Roberts. The laptop was identified as the one stolen from Gayle's residence."

https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2003/sc-...
For other resources that don't have a simulator provided by AWS (e.g. an EC2 instance) how do you ensure that your simulation is accurate? How do you keep the simulations up to date?
It should be noted that Objective-C code is presumably a lot less prone to memory safety issues than C code on average, especially since Apple introduced Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). For example:

• Use-after-frees are avoided by ARC

• Null pointer dereferences are usually safe (sending a message to nil returns nil)

• Objective-C has a great standard library (Foundation) with safe collections among many other things; most of C's dangerous parts are easily avoided in idiomatic Objective-C code that isn't performance-critical

But a good part of Apple's Objective-C code is probably there for implementing the underlying runtime, and that's difficult to get right.
> There's a huge amount of circuitry between the input and the output of the model

Yeah - but it's just a stack of transformer layers. No looping, no memory, no self-modification (learning). Also, no magic.
Californian Cities Facing $50K Monthly Fines for Blocking New Homes
Bill Number: SB-1037

Author: Senator Wiener

Status: Passed by Governor

California just passed a law that hits cities hard if they drag their feet on approving housing developments. If local governments fail to comply with state housing requirements, they could face massive fines of up to $50,000 per month. The money collected will be used to boost affordable housing in the same area. The law also empowers courts to intercept public funds if cities refuse to pay—meaning there’s no escape for housing rule violators!
The size and scale of the number of people in the state government / democratic party that have been indicated are something out of accounts of the old Tammany / Tweed days. Things never change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_York_(state)_poli...

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5099466/aide-to-ny-stat...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-new-york-city-de...

Amazingly enough, he is the first sitting mayor to be indicted.
I don't see their inner thoughts detailed in this article I am reading. Are you their pastor or something?

They didn't report it, because (A) they were themselves involved in illegal activity, and they knew it and/or (B) the drug cartel element, even if they were in Canada, may threaten them with imminent violence or great harm. (Although the three-nation cluster** nature of this crime makes that seem unlikely)

If you meet a new gentleman and he steals your purse on the first date, you may contact police. If you hired a prostitute, and wake up without your wallet, you may let that one slide.

Consider the drug buyer who calls the police because his dealer cheated him, or the trafficker who shows up at the impound facility to claim his wares, or the embezzler who reports the stolen income on his taxes... a rare breed indeed!
I don't disagree with anything in the post... I'm curious though if docs really do improve developer velocity as much as people who advocate for robust documentation claim.

My experience tells me that very few devs read the docs. In-editor hints and early feedback seem to much more effective.

I suppose the counter claim would be, "but when they don't read the docs and ask, you can shoot them a link to some required reading." That's a decent positive feedback loop.

Docs are great. But are they THAT GREAT? I don't know.
I'm currently fighting with a fastapi python app deployed to render. It's interesting because I'm struggling to see how I encode the image and send it using curl. Their example sends directly from the browser and uses a data uri.

But, this is relevant because I'm curious how this new model allows image inputs. Do you paste a base64 image into the prompt?

It feels like these models can start not only providing the text generation backend, but start to replace the infrastructure for the API as well.

Can you input images without something in front of it like openwebui?
According to The Phoenix Project [0], if you can form a model of how work flows in, through, and out of your team then you can identify its problems, prioritize them in order of criticality, and form plans for addressing them. The story's premise sounds eerily similar to what you're facing.

At the very least it's a fun read!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...
I’m honestly less worried about ads that I am pay for preferential treatment
OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company
Yes, but the trucks still deliver the goods. Instead of brick-and-mortar stores, we have web stores.
He's lost his mind! Customising the admin dashboard has been something WordPress multisite hosts have been doing for 15+ years! There are tons of plugins on WordPress.org that provide this specific feature. And if you don't want a plugin, you can develop it yourself using supported WordPress-provided dashboard hooks: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_dashboard...

Same with post revisions - you can download plugins to customise this, or you can do it yourself with WordPress-supported functionality: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/revisions/

Where is the contract that WP Engine signed, that says they must display posts from their competitors calling them a cancer in their customer's websites? I'm really lost for words - I have no explanation for what's going on in Matt's head.
Yes they should have done it in 09 then or one of the many other times. It's been half a century since roe they've had opportunity if it had been important to them.
Porn is at least enjoyable
Unraveling SloppyLemming's Operations Across South Asia
> The press release says "unmistakably a pair of glasses".

They look like what army personnel used to call “birth control glasses”. Only extra thick for added protection.
If it got them financial stability for themselves and family, then it seems like it worked.
The llm CLI is much more unixy, letting you pipe data in and out easily. It can use hosted and local models, including ollama.
Marketing AI has the chance of testing campaigns across a slew of otherwise unrecognizable demos/keywords…

I see AI consistently eliminating rational judgments from middle management seat fillers…MDs and scientists inclusive.
It's probably because of the poorly-designed "flamewar detector" that censors posts if they are upvoted/downvoted too quickly. @dang explained it to me a few weeks ago[1] on another YC-related post that conveniently got scrubbed from the front page.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41510285
I've been casually keeping track of this - I wasn't sure that it would last. But perhaps it's time for me to take another look at this.
Talk to Meta AI on WhatsApp
I wish Common Lisp had integrated type declarations with TYPEP and CHECK-TYPE, instead of punting with "consequences are undefined if the value of the declared variable is not of the declared type," i.e., sucks to be you.
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Huh, that’s a good trick! I figured it was like the AirTag speakers.

Props to Facebook for making it less circumventable.
This is not correct. I just created this free site on WordPress.com and the stats work as expected:

https://imgur.com/a/UtvUUPq
Android has a surprising amount of core OS functionality in boring managed Java code. ART/Dalvik are quite impressive combined with a few other clever tricks to make a system that ran in a pretty small footprint.
Perhaps they are even considering carbon to be memory safe
Do you have reason to also claim that any of the points raised in the article are incorrect? If not, that would seem to contradict your claim that they are just a stop-the-death-penalfy advocacy group.
Here's a demo of what it's like in action:

https://x.com/Ahmad_Al_Dahle/status/1839025866011193367?t=uq...
Cloudflare Zero Trust DNS is down
Circumstantial. There are a 1000 different ways he could have obtained those items without committing a murder. Prove that having them is proof positive he killed someone.
Past efforts leds to today's products. We need to wait to see the real imapct on the ability to ship.
The fact that OpenAI created and released o1 doesn't mean they won't also scale models upwards or don't think it's their best hope. There's been plenty said implying that they are.

I definitely agree that AGI isn't just a matter of scaling transformers, and also as you say that they "may not be the best" for such tasks. (Vanilla transformers are extremely inefficient.) But the really important point is that transformers can do things such as abstract, reason, form world models and theories of minds, etc, to a significant degree (a much greater degree than virtually anyone would have predicted 5-10 years ago), all learnt automatically. It shows these problems are actually tractable for connectionist machine learning, without a paradigm shift as you and many others allege. That is the part I disagree with. But more breakthroughs needed.
Odd, the article claims to be about consistent hashing, but spends all its words on plain-old hash quality topics.
I use lazygit for this. Keyboard driven TUI which lets you easily re-order/squash commits with minimum fuss. Being able to see them all laid out means no futzing with identifying the right ids.
The moat is in the sheer cost of training models.

At most you’ll have like 5 major players.
In what world is reading someone's public posts online equivalent to abuse worthy of a restraining order?

That's what the hangup is with respect to twitter's implementation of blocking, and others like it. Denying specific people read access to your otherwise public content is a bad feature, and conflating this with blocking unsolicited communications from said people (an actually good feature) is worse.
I am personally willing to allow some e-waste to make theft not worthwhile, which is mostly just a difference in our values. But maybe there’s a variation that would allow for both.
Reasonable implication, find someone with many prior convictions, accuse them of any crime, present past convictions, and then they are guilty? This seems to defy the very concept of innocent until proven guilty.
I believe most timeshare owners are contractually bound only to sell to individuals, not to LLCs or some other legal entity for this exact purpose.
As a frequent user of fixups, this feels like a solution for already broken workflows.

> Instead of manually finding commit SHAs for git commit --fixup

Assuming you are using fixups, is this actually a problem?

I could see this being a possibility if you are:
A. not practicing atomic commits
or B. have so many commits in your branch that this is a chore.

A. seems unlikely if you are already using fixups and B. seems like a problem worth solving properly rather than going around.

To sum up, I'm not convinced by the elevator pitch. However, I am keenly aware that the workflows of developers differ vastly across industry, company size, technology etc. I'd be interested to understand what problems this or similar tools solve?
In this zone, don't forget Andalé Mono:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalé_Mono
Gimme a hot take —this is perfectly lukewarm! Just kidding…

> are they THAT GREAT?

98%!

> very few devs read the docs

You sure about that? We all have anecdotal evidence about the squeaky-wheel devs who make their lack of reading obvious. Using them as evidence for “devs dont read” is eerily close to (if not precisely) argumentum ad ignorantiam.

I 100% do not buy the “they don’t read“ trope.

I similarly bring anecdotal evidence only.
von Neumann algebras are operator algebras. They are algebras whose elements are operators on some Hilbert space. They also satisfy some other conditions. What I just said is not meant as a definition.
You could have things overlaid on top of real life content in order to provide you assistance, hands free. For example, think about GPS turn by turn navigation while walking or having a recipe displayed while cooking it.
Maybe there is a vast dark matter of uncompromising super rigorous science happening that is invisible to us because it is too rigorous to meet its own standard so never publishes anything. But they know things.
If meta keeps giving the model away, wondering how that impacts their valuation
Oh Lenire. I can't believe the FDA approved them with such terrible methodology. More promising IMO is what Auricle/UMich is up to. They have actual controls in their studies for one.
Open Access Developer Ecosystems for Software Safety
Good for you, but you (and, apparently, everyone in your last 10 years of working with) would have a problem if I was the one reviewing your commits. I mean, to be fair, I often did let it slide (for political/social/practical reasons) and use autosquash, but I always actively discouraged it, so if you are a junior or a new hire with uncertain usefulness status, I'd at least talk to you about that and ask you to fix it. This is not an ok practice, it's only acceptable because too many people don't have a habit of making their own bed and much bigger kinds of technical debt get ignored because in the end it's about shipping stuff, so you just sigh and say "oh, whatever".
https://archive.is/McpGn
They do way more than correcting grammar, but tbf, they did make something like 10,000 submissions to the math Olympiad to get that score.

It’s not like it’ll do it consistently.

Just a marketing stunt.
> The company is considering becoming a public benefit corporation, tasked with turning a profit and also helping society.

What a joke.
FWIW, my tinnitus has always felt strongly linked to my neck. If I sleep with my neck in a bad position, my tinnitus is raging when I wake up.
1) Identify on-call issues that aren't engineering issues or for which there's a workaround. Maybe institutional knowledge needs to be aggregated and shared.

2) Automate application monitoring by alerting at thresholds. Tweak alerts until they're correct and resolve items that trigger false positives.

3) If issues are coming from a system someone who is still there designed, they should handle those calls.

4) You mention long-term fixes for on-call issues. First focus on short-term fixes.

5) Set a new expectation that on-call issues are an unexpected exceptions. If they occur, the root cause should be resolved. But see point 4.

6) On-call issues become so rare that there's an ordered list of people to call in the event of an issue. The team informally ensures someone is always available. But if something happens, everyone else who's available is happy to jump on a call to help understand what's going on and if conditions permit, permanently resolve the next business day.
The full quote from the article in justia.com states the following: "In November of 1999, University City police approached Asaro to speak with her about the murder. Asaro told the police that Williams admitted to her that he had killed Gayle. The next day, the police searched the Buick LeSabre and found the Post-Dispatch ruler and calculator belonging to Gayle. The police also recovered the laptop computer from Glenn Roberts. The laptop was identified as the one stolen from Gayle's residence."

The only thing linking the laptop to Williams was the testimony of a witness. Even if the witness is telling the truth, he has no way of knowing how Williams obtained the laptop.

By any reasonable standard, all this is extremely flimsy evidence: More than a year after the murder, the police found a "Post-Dispatch ruler and calculator" in the suspect's car that belonged to the victim? And someone testified that Williams had the victim's laptop. And it is on the basis of this pitifully weak evidence that you would justify the execution of Williams, the suspect? Even though, as the Innocence Project correctly observes, there is no direct physical evidence linking Williams to the crime scene, and the DNA recovered from the crime scene does not match Williams?

https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2003/sc-...
Heh, TIL.
Every team is free to choose what works best for them, but IMO always squashing PRs is not a good strategy. Sometimes you do want to preserve the change history, particularly if the PR does more than a single atomic change, which in practice is very common. There shouldn't be a static merge type preference at all, and this should be chosen on a case-by-case basis.

At the risk of sounding judgemental, I think this preference for always squashing PRs comes from a place of either not understanding atomic commits, not caring about the benefits of them, or just choosing to be lazy. In any case, the loss of history inevitably comes at a cost of making reverting and cherry-picking changes more difficult later, making `git bisect` pretty much worthless, and losing the context of why a change was made.
I'd like to see him go back to congress and explain his previous angelic story of not profiting by one penny from OpenAI.

Current OpenAI raise is rumored to be at $150B, so 7% is over $10B.
"contentrepanation" - bore a hole into your skull via content.
Isn’t their training subsidized by Microsoft? Sounds like Microsoft has the moat.
No, this just isn't how it works. You'll find business logic, domain-specific, and systems programming security errors on every platform, but you don't find them with the density and the automatic severity you do memory safety issues. This is not about "language hipsters".
“Savage Ventures” has such a similar name to “Red Ventures”, the company that swooped in and helped ruin CNET, that I feel uneasy about trusting this version of Vice to be of good quality. Therefore, the comparison to The Onion’s recent print newspaper doesn’t seem like an honest comparison to me. I hope that I’m wrong, though.
Interesting points. The full details of the evidence was not presented to the jury. In that way, it did change. It is more, "the jury was not told the full story."

I think this re-raises the "trap door" question.
I mean Musk wouldn't do it for that, why would Altman?
Microsoft owns 50%, other investors own 20-30% presumably(?), 10% employee pool, that means all the other OpenAI founders/etc basically get nothing compared to Altman...
What’s the value of me doing that, when the case has been prosecuted and was argued in all instances of appellate court literally to death? You can read court opinions, they are plentiful in information, and do not suffer from elementary logic errors.