skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said before but I'll repeat:

Agile™ was born from web development consultancies as a defensive process for managing bad clients.

A lot of the process will make sense if you think about it in terms of business stakeholders eventually suing you. You want to make sure every decision is documented, never commit to a firm timeline, produce artifacts of work at a super granular cadence, and make sure to give stakeholders the illusion of control.

It's not a good way to make software but it is a consistent way to make software.

This makes it attractive to large non-tech businesses because it means that they can effectively reason about and plan software development at a high level. They'll never be super fast in delivering that product but for most of these companies that doesn't matter. Their moat isn't their technology - it's something else and they just need the software to work well enough to facilitate the actual business processes that are their moat.
With a shell such as fish, one can "git commit --fixup <tab>" and a list of commits will be displayed.
Exactly. It makes a DC fast charge session (on a reasonably spec'd charger) take 20 minutes, not an hour like on competing EVs that peak at 150kW.

EV companies haven't quite figured out that the only two things consumers care about are range and charge rate (well, and cost, but there's an untapped market of people willing to pay if the featureset is there). Everyone has settled on 300mi range, which in my opinion is a little low but workable (at 80mph you'd have to stop every 3.5 hours), but for some reason nobody can get their act together on charge rate. Consumers need to purchase a car for their 99th percentile use case, which for much of America includes at least one road trip per year. The DC fast charge experience is basically the whole story there.
Hot take: The entire goal of the gambling industry is to act as a one-way function for money (ie, laundering).

Thus, your proposal might actually work, except what's in it for the rubes?
You wouldn't XOR-combine, you would hash them together. Something like:

SHA256(32B from HWRNG-A || 32B from HWRNG-B)

still guarantees you 32 bytes of entropy if either HWRNG-A or HWRNG-B is compromised, and if HWRNG-A and HWRNG-B are both partially compromised you also get 32 bytes of entropy. XOR has weird failure modes (eg if HWRNG-A and HWRNG-B are correlated).
Universities with Premier League teams attract more undergraduates, study says
The legal system has a great sense of self preservation. They will surely fight anything that possibly encroaches on their domain, especially things that give non lawyers the tools to defend themselves without feeding the machine.
I really enjoy using Doppler. https://doppler.com
>Note that the data for 2024 is extrapolated to the full year (represented as 36, but currently at 27 after the September security bulletin).

The reduction of memory safety bugs to a projected 36 in 2024 for Android is extremely impressive.
How does one pass a lambda to a CLI tool? Outside of using a regex or equivalent pattern syntax, I'm struggling to understand what you are proposing here.
Woah, the pompous eccentric billionaire(?) is actually not altruistic, never heard this story before!

/s
This is the only comment on here about fb that makes sense. Meta is fully capable and willing to make products that protect user privacy, and they have in the form of WhatsApp and others. But what they definitely aren’t capable of is building things you aren’t addicted to use in order to generate them revenue constantly.

Maybe as they transition to hardware they’ll spend more time making their products worthy of chronic upgrades rather than chronic addictive usage.
Intel rolls out 'final' microcode fix for Raptor Lake CPUs
Copyright law is whatever we agree it is. At some point there will have to be either a law or a court case that comes up with rules for AI training data. Right now it's sort of unknown.

I do not have confidence in the Supreme Court in general, and I think there's a real risk that in deciding on AI training they upend copyright of digital materials in a way that makes it worse for everyone.
It doesn't maintain constant altitude over sealevel! You can't give it a compass bearing and have it follow that in a perfectly straight line!
Did they help regular people defend themselves while saving on legal costs or not?

Most of these cases wouldn't be defended at all otherwise.
This is a bit of a hot take.

> The anti-AI stance is what is baffling to me

I don't see s lot of anti AI but instead I see a concern for how it's just being managed and controlled by the larger companies with resources that no start up could dream. Open AI was to release it's models and be well.. Open but fine they're not. But their behaviour of how things are proceeding are questionable and unnecessarily aggravating.
The octopuses I spoke to strenuously deny the fish abuse accusations.

"It's true that our innovative management technique - Continuous Tactile Feedback - can look a little rough to the untrained eye, but our Food Collection Engineers are actually very well treated."
> And finally the GEM that is database projects, you can program your DB changes declaratively, there is nothing like this in the market and again, no one is even trying

Automatic migration tools have essentially been doing this for a while (e.g. Django migrations). But I agree it would be nice if Postgres had better support built in.
The easiest fix for this is the "WHERE 1=1" or "WHERE true"
I'm so confused at so many people calling out racism on this site. I just do not see it and no one has yet provided a single example of the so called racism. Can someone show me what you're talking about?

[0] Freak_NL says: "OpenStreetMap meets 4chan"

What? Have you ever visited 4chan? It's WAY more offensive than anything here.

[1] amsterdorn says: "Yep, I don't like it. Amplifies racist and ignorant voices."

AFAIK there is no mechanism to artificially favor any particular view. There is only the thumbs up/down mechanism meaning what you see is what the userbase finds useful or amusing.

I am genuinely not seeing what the problem is. Can someone please explain? If you're going to say something like "Black people live here" is racist then I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree. Observations are not racist, and if the labeling is inaccurate _then give it a thumbs down_. Not every site on the internet has to be a sterile, advertiser-friendly, corpo walled garden. Ever heard of having fun? I'm trying really hard to not pass judgement but it honestly seems like so many people commenting here have a stick up their ass.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656327

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656395
To nit pick even more: LLMs democratize search. They’re a threat to Google because they may allow anyone to do search as well as Google. Or better, since Google is incentivized to do search in a way that benefits them wereas prevalent LLM search may bypass that.

On the flip, for all the resources they’ve poured into their models all they’ve come up with is good models, not better search. So they’re not dead in the water yet but everyone suspects LLMs will eat search.
I have a friend who is part of a timeshare in Colorado. He actually gets good value out of it. The difference is, it's a private timeshare he split with longtime family friends. He didn't buy it from a timeshare re-seller.

Basically, his family and about 5 or 6 other families formed an LLC, bought a property under the LLC and then basically meet once or twice a year to divvy up who's going to use the unit and when. They split the property taxes evenly and then split the upkeep/maintenance costs proportionately relative to how much time each member spends at the property. There's no corporate overlord involved, just a split between longtime friends. Originally, there was one more family involved, and when they wanted out, the group just bought back the family's "shares" in the LLC at the current valuation of the property. My friend said there was no bad blood, everything was by the books, nothing shady.

If things were done this way, all good. But when you get "Always Be Closing" scam artists on the case, well, things just tend to go south.
I'm literally sitting at a station with 3 monitors 2 high DPI and 1 low DPI wherein UI elements of a window moved from one monitor to the other are identically sized and this was the case when all 3 monitors were different sizes and DPI as well.

In this case the UI is scaled up by an integer factor on all screens so as to look nice on the highest DPI screen. It is scaled down from the higher resolution by a decimal factor that could be but needn't be an integer. If the factor is proportional to the difference in DPI the result is UI elements being sized precisely the same size across different size and dpi monitors.

All monitors share a singular scaling factor and DPI. Apps thus need to support high DPI but needn't do anything smart to support scaling because it happens outside of the apps remit.

This can be achieved again with xrandr --scale OR in the nvidia-settings GUI by setting viewport in to a higher resolution than viewport out. No the result isn't blurry.
The thing is you can keep your money and spend it on going anywhere you want on vacation later on. It makes no sense.
> [...] airpods even though those look really stupid

speaking /as/ a teenager, that's presumption. maybe it's an Apple-sponsored mindhack, but I actually think wireless earbuds (incl. AirPods) look quite a bit better than their dangly wired counterparts.
In American history books we just call it Zyklon B.
You can also set `EDITOR=true` for that `git commit --amend` if you forget about `--no-edit`.
Yes I think you are right about that. Someone else called it "mad libs" and that is very much what it felt like back in 2017/18.

Idk why they needed to have a lawyer involved though. Many processes in life just need an "official" sounding response: to get to the next phase, or open the gate to talk to a real human, or even to close the issue with a positive result.

Many people are not able to conjure up an "official" sounding response from nothing, so these chatbot/ChatGPTs are great ways for them to generate a response to use for their IRL need (parking ticket, letter to landlord, etc).
I mean, just because he is not doing this as a perfectly altruistic gesture does not mean the broader ecosystem does not benefit from him doing it
This was probably the influential topic I had in English class in HS (ads work on everyone, perhaps even especially on those who think they have no effect).

I took it to heart and consume extremely little media with ads, because they are so insidious.
To be fair, that post wasn't wrong. To this day I still carry a USB thumb drive, most people I know have/use them, and they're still selling very well. Linux users are still fully capable of moving files around themselves.
The nonprofit is controlled by trustees and bound by its charter, not shareholders. Any profit a nonprofit organization makes is retained within the organization for its benefit and mission, not paid out to shareholders.
yes, and also yes
unfortunately in the current system it mostly takes money to move the needle of change and if you don't have money how do you move the needle?
He is not required, but absent an explanation, a jury might think him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. After all, if your husband comes home late at night with lipstick all over him in a drunken stupor and unzipped pants, and then, as you threaten divorce and kick him out of the house, he offers no explanation, you too might think him guilty. Whereas, if he claims to have been assaulted by a very large woman you might listen to him. The 5th amendment protects you from being called as a witness against yourself. That doesn't mean you should not offer the jury testimony in defense of yourself.

In general, if you have an alternative explanation for the circumstances which have led to your suspicion, you should offer them up readily.
Legalizing things only for rich people is truly awful government.
If you haven't pushed then you want to eventually push clean history. That's what rebasing is about.
The tech company that got Donald Trump elected, and helped make all of our grandparents into lunatics?

That Facebook?
Like other here I think 13 miles may be generous for city driving but pretty reasonable for highway.

With that said, it works MUCH better for me than it did a couple years ago and I find most of the time I disengage it is not because it actually needed human intervention but because it wasn't aware of the social norms at certain intersections.

For example, I have an intersection near my house that requires you to inch out and essentially floor it first chance you get if you want any hope whatsoever of taking a left hand turn, but FSD will (understandably, I think) not do that.
You need to quantize 70b to run it on that kind of hardware as well, since even float16 wouldn't fit. But 405b:IQ1_M seems to be smarter than 70b:Q4_K_M in my experiments (admittedly very limited because it's so slow).

Note that IQ1_M quants are not really "1-bit" despite the name. It's somewhere around 1.8bpw, which just happens to be enough to fit the model into 128Gb with some room for inference.
> I was absolutely blown away.

All my acquaintances who have Teslas and FSD were insisting on the same. But every time I hitched a ride as a passenger, most of the times with the explicit goal of seeing this miracle in action, I mainly got a long string of "that shouldn't have happened, usually it's a lot better".

I'll happily take the blame on me and assume I'm a jinx but it's more likely that Tesla owners get really enthusiastic about their purchase and prop it up by committing the good experiences to anyone that will have them, and the "oh God my life flashed before my eyes" moments to /dev/null. Nobody likes the discomfort of post-decision dissonance.
Buy a house, put it on airBnB through a management company, go to other AirBnB’s using rental income from first AirBnB. Or you could not try and run a business and simply invest nominally while paying market rate for a rental.

Sharing informally between friends and family when people have vacation properties in desirable locations works better but the barriers to entry are really high.
Yes. When doing `git bisect`, for example.
When I think of “budget” in this context, I’m thinking about what is available to the engineers in terms of tools, resources, and time.

Where I work, it doesn’t really matter what I’m paid, we don’t have a budget to go get what we need. If I think a certain tool would help get a job done faster, too bad, I have to cobble together what I can with the tools I’ve been provided. If I think something will take a year, too bad, it’s due in a month and we’ll have an hour long meeting every day to ask why it isn’t done yet.

In this context, employee pay is largely irrelevant.
> To get Pin stuff out of the way: it is indeed more complicated than it could be (because reverse compatibility etc), but when was the last time you needed to write a poll implementation manually?

Often. Pin and Poll contribute to the problem of having a two-tiered ecosystem: people who can use async and people who can contribute to async internals. That's a problem I'd love to see fixed.

This is one of the reasons we've spent such a long time working on things like async-function-in-trait (AFIT), so that traits like AsyncRead/AsyncBufRead/AsyncWrite/etc can use that rather than needing Pin/Poll. (And if you need to bridge to things using Poll, it's always possible to use Poll inside an async fn; see things like https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/future/fn.poll_fn.html .)
That's not true. You can check out chapter 32 in Misner's Gravitation for a detailed discussion of a free falling observer's worldline into a black hole.
Big fan of your music :)
If you're working on a branch cooperatively, then yes, don't rewrite history. But maybe you do rewrite history before merging to main to clean it up, depending.

And this is also why workflow questions are hard. Because "working on branches co-operatively" was previously unstated. It's not universal. I rarely work on branches co-operatively in a long term sort of way. Sometimes I might "take over" a branch to get it merged or similar, but rewriting history in that context is still fine.

It is always the case, even among so-called purists, that you don't rewrite history that you're sharing with others. (Unless you've both agreed to it. But even then, it better be short-lived because it's annoying.)
They do transfer to the next owner if you sell it, unless you sell it/trade it in to Tesla. In that case they remove it and charge for it again (or sometimes to boost sales they'll include FSD in used cars)
I've gotten to the point where I now see the word "just" as profanity in our profession.
I must have missed the people "frothing". Are you sure it wasn't people who were dying?
There's a difference, though. Law and medicine are fields with very strong gatekeeping. You also need a licence for many construction engineering roles, and in fact both stakes and accountability there are much higher than in the former two (in fact, it is a bit appalling, how little lawyers and doctors are hold accountable for stupid shit they do, if they follow the playbook), and realistically you need to learn as much if not more to be a good construction engineer (but most construction engineers are not especially good, just as most lawyers and doctors aren't very good), but you don't see so much reverence towards construction engineers, and there are much fewer artificial borders for one to learn construction engineering.
I don't know why I even bothered to try to push back, beyond the fact that these kind of "philosophers" plague the anime community. The pattern is very predictable. Tons and tons of ink spilled to try to explain why they're not a pedophile while not doing anything more than distracting from the original point and dithering endlessly. And nobody wants to push back because of it, so they take silence as complicit assent.
This is exactly the right question.

Did they provide value to the user? Yes, nearly any situation in life involving money can be improved with a top lawyer on retainer, but that isn't always viable or economical
"Humanity vs. OpenAI" would look good on a docket.
If it’s Facebook for sure. I’m still waiting to see if Microsoft has actually changed or is just doing a very long PR stunt. A lot of Balmer execs are still there. Putting a new head on the fish doesn’t necessarily prevent the rot.
>Did they help regular people defend themselves while saving on legal costs or not?

Do you get a free pass to do shitty things as long as you do some good things too?

I am totally onboard with the concept of the business, just not this particular implementation of it.
Man I really want to read a book about all of this drama
"Just" is a word I've been trying to avoid using.

In some cases, it's diminishing or trivializing the work. "I just need to do X" trivializes the amount of work that X takes and in some cases implies that the person I am talking to is not competent / capable of doing it themselves (often implying that they should be).

Likewise, "they just did X" trivializes the work that the other person does.

Its a word I ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ don't believe adds value to a sentence.
that was fun at some point?
I guarantee it’s going to be impossible to compete as a lawyer in most fields without doing most of the work with LLMs, probably within a few years.

I expect the benefits of increased efficiency will be seen as temporarily zeroed inflation for legal services (prices actually going down? LOL) and a bunch of rents, forever (more or less, from the perspective of a human lifetime) to whichever one or two companies monopolize the relevant feature sets (see also: the situation with digital access to legal documents). Lawyers will be more productive but I expect comp will stay about the same.

And I think that as someone fairly pessimistic about the whole AI thing.
Not only my point stands, I still remember a world almost without narcissists, people traveling for fun, not to take a photo to brag, times where people listened to doctors not some people recommending horse dewormer, UK not suffering due to Brexit consequences ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8425058/ ), people actually bonding in person,...

Or in words of Umberto Eco ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco ):

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”

You are underestimating the horror that Facebook did to human society. I am accusing them of crime against humanity. And all that, just for selling ads - where you will be able to see the comparison with IG Farben, do whatever it takes, to earn money.

I accept the argument, that if they wouldn't, someone else would, but nevertheless THEY did it or we would be talking about someone else.
We can refine and optimize granular tasks. So we start subdividing careers this way as well, with the assumption that nothing is lost along the way. It's profitable, so companies keep doing it. Then you have the situation described in the article: nobody knows why something is going wrong and nobody can help you. The world starts feeling bureaucratic, inefficient, and impersonal.

Of course, the delivery driver isn't going to have any idea why your package is four months late. It's not his responsibility. Depending on how you look at it, that may not be a bad thing.

What's the incentive to correct this? Are there examples of companies which have these faults at large scales, but are still somehow profitable enough to not be pressured to make changes? I mean it's difficult to even describe the problem.
VR headsets are barely adult sized! Putting them on little necks is barbaric.
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy. Many organizations that purport to be helping the little guy are actually just exploiting them for profit.
Is "brave" a euphemism for stupid.
In 2024, the internet could see the biggest reshuffling of power in 25 years
Ask HN: What are the questions that companies run long inference sessions for?
Actually, I think they are the opposite of contradictory. This tech is dumb, funny, new, and maybe it has potential in the right (low-stakes) applications.

Meanwhile, I dunno, I have some begrudging admiration for the folks getting rich selling premium GEMMs, but eventually they are going to piss off all their investors and cause a giant mess. Like good luck guys, get that money, but please don’t take us all down with you.
"The Return of the Weird Internet" - https://www.techmeme.com/231230/p11#a231230p11
I enjoy driving
That is how functioning markets need to work. If demand goes up, then the market price goes up. If the price goes up and tech workers want their kids to go to school, they need to pay teachers more.

Right now, there are crappy 100 duct tape fixes. Maybe some teachers are in rent controlled places paying 25% market price, and some are paying full market. Some teachers are in City owned housing that only teachers qualify for.

In short, it isnt a functioning market. For it to be a functioning market, you have to let the taxpayers confront the question of if they would rather pay for schools or not have them.
By the barrage of exits following Mira's resignation, it does look like Sam fired her, the team got the wind of this and are now quitting in droves. This is the thing about lying and being polite. You can't hide the truth for long.

Mira's latest one liner tweet 'OpenAI is nothing without it's people" speaks volumes.
Tip is never mandatory, a service charge has to be clear up front to be valid.