skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many policies on the left, it’s easier to go with the vibes than actually look at the results and see if it’s a good idea. Rent control never works. It has been played out on every continent save Antarctica and it always leads to worse outcomes.
pg_upgrade is a bit manual at the moment. If the database could just be pointed to a data directory and update it automatically on startup, that would be great.
Yeah Jira is just a ticket tracking system. Everything to do with the fields that need to be filled in, the workflow steps you need to move tickets through, and the granularity of tickets are entirely an organization specific thing.
Those quotes are not by Randall. They are by Simon.
> ... once OpenAI has archived AGI, he will keep it to himself in the sense that it will only be able to do what he wants us to be able to do with it, and to shape it so that it benefits him and only him.

Once? Let's first worry about "if" rather than "when".

But if it does... the thing about AGI is that it will decide for itself what it wants to do. It won't be controlled like that by Altman or anyone else.
Anything in relative mode is going to be way slower, though I’ll grant it can be more accurate.
I really enjoyed the previous iteration of this (https://blog.jgc.org/2022/10/pimping-my-casio-with-oddly-spe...) and I'm backing this one. These are fun upgrades to an iconic watch.
> I'm a huge fan of FDW's

Do you have any recommendations on how to manage credentials for `CREATE USER MAPPING ` within the context of cloud hosted dbs?
It is always an implementation issue and never a design issue. If a design leads to easy foot-guns then it is a bad design.
> When the parties are present for cross examination it's not hearsay.

That's exactly what I just said.
The problem with waveguides are the manufacturing defects are on the micron level, and you need to get those channels perfect - then produce the same pattern a few more times for other colors, and hope they all perfectly line up.

I don’t see 3D printing being a solution here for a very very long time
It’s not a personal attack; all I am saying is that we, as a group, as consumers, all too often buy whatever is peddled to us.

“Dumb fucks”, while certainly not a compliment, is what Zuck called Facebook users who trusted the company and shared personal details of their lives.
The goal is fine-grained alignment with your customers or stakeholders. In the long-run this should make product development more effective, though it's probably not going to be the fastest way to accomplish any individual task.
Blind wants to be 4chan for some reason.
DoNotPay predates GPT by quite a bit -- it used to be pretty positively received on HN e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13822289
Basically that's exactly the problem, a serious lack of leadership in nearly every organization. Very little adult behaviour.

Rather than discuss how specific features can and will solve business objectives and how exactly they will be measured, it's all a bunch of hand-waving and arbitrary deadlines.
This is not correct, new contracts are not arbitrary. They are determined by the "bruksvärdeshyra". (https://www.hyresgastforeningen.se/stod-och-rad/hyra/vad-ar-...)
> all newly built units are uncontrolled

Controlling them after few years later they are controlled, just with less harsh terms. The issue is supply, we are not building enough housing. Controlling after few years means the viability of projects goes down, which is meaningful with the absurdly high costs of regulation, land, and construction.
Ah yeah. Arizona sunshine is the only game that made me want to puke. I only tried it once tho and I heard you can get VR legs by doing short sessions first. My own experience was mostly with static games (beat saber) and with teleporting games. I think there's a lot of experiences that. Don't involve movements like that.
Conversely, SOTA models have actually become good enough at translation that they consistently beat the shittier human takes on it (which are unfortunately pretty common because companies seek to "optimize" when hiring humans, as well).
Agile is an iterative methodology, but all iterative methodologies are not agile.

That said, The combination of lean, scrum, iterative development, and infrastructure as code and cloud replacing dedicated operations teams "won." That's currently called "agile" but is a subset of the original vision.
Agile was meant to be "agile in change", not following tickets blindly.
It was meant to foster collaboration between people rather than putting every detail in tickets by whatever manager/PM. So people know why they are doing stuff, and can make change accordingly.
Agile was meant for making things that people actually use. Not about how many features were developed in last sprint.

Even the original waterfall model empahsized on feedback, feedback of design, feedback of usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model#/media/File:19...
That feels a lot like where I've come to as well.

I think it's not an uncommon opinion. And of course, Adam Savage is always great.
JIRA is a little overbuilt and overconfigurable, and I think that leads to it often being used in confusing ways. I don’t think it’s a bad product or anything, but my experiences on teams that use something simpler like Linear because the tool kind of guides you toward sane behaviors instead of letting you go nuts.

Kind of a convention over configuration thing.
But why when I did the same with Edge seconds after it showed my city?
In priority,

1. Stop using API keys. Configure SSO integration for developers and OIDC for automation. For example, this is very easy to setup with AWS.

2. If the above is not possible, then store credentials encrypted at rest. Decrypt them only at runtime. For example, SOPS to store encrypted credentials into the repo, then AWS KMS holds the decryption key. The SOPS Readme is very helpful.
'Order Your 4 Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests'
> True. How long should that process take? A month? A year? Two years?

If you want a feature that everyone complains about, like Pin or async rust, yes, that is how long that process should take.

If you don't want a feature that everyone uses as their stock example for why language designers are drooling morons, and the feature has any amount of complexity to it, then the process should probably take over a decade.

There's a commonality to the features you're complaining about, and it's things where the desire to push a MVP that satisfied some, but not all, use cases overrode the time necessary to fully understand the consequences of decisions not just to implement the feature but its necessary interactions with other features, present and future.

I do appreciate the irony, though, of you starting about complaining about Rust moving too slowly before launching into detailed criticism of a feature that most agree is (at least in part) the result of Rust moving too quickly.
Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen Desktop Instability Root Cause Update
It's not that the law allowed excessively high rents. But makes no mention of price. How would you even enforce a law that prohibits "high" prices.
> Steve Jobs would just say "figure it out".

Give me the budget that Steve Jobs gave to his engineers, and I'll figure it out too.

The difficulty in what my clients are asking for is often not the feasibility but rather the time, monetary, and opportunity cost for ignoring other features.
Cozystack Open Source Platform: Opencost, Log Collection, Bridge Binding in VM's
I'm not sure I understand the metrics we could use to force companies to make things repairable. I certainly don't think it will be beneficial to make companies offer to repair _everything_ and if it's not everything, what criteria would be used to determine what is legally something the have to repair?

I've not thought about this problem very long, but at a glance it seems like something very difficult to get right and I don't trust my government to get even the easy things right most of the time.
If you click the link under his message that says 'parent', you can see the comment he is replying to. I don't think there's a way to see both at once very easily because of the number of replies the parent comment has.
Project Cloudberry: how to teach an LLM to count
Large Language Models are amazing tools for text processing and generation. Yet people keep complaining that LLMs can't count the number of r's in the word 'strawberry' and make mistakes in math calculations.

So, instead of explaining tokenizers for the nth time, I decided to build a system that can both give you a soup recipe and multiply 74398 by 94673.

Solved:
- Counting letters in a word/words in a sentence.
- Accurately performing calculations.

Limitations:
- The system lacks spatial reasoning.
- Some tokenizer-related challenges still persist (e.g. producing an output containing x number of words).
- The number of application instances and inference speed are limited: this is a research project, and I didn't build it to be scalable and handle high load.

This is just a thought experiment that has been on my mind for a long time.

I'll be happy to hear your feedback or collaborate on the next iteration of the project!
You're describing HTML.
I suppose some pragmatic measure of quality could be a part of what it means to complete the project. An equity component with minimum holding time could lengthen the time horizon that is considered. Lighting a fire under everyone's asses also doesn't help quality.
You worry about your own problems, and they'll worry about theirs.
A List of Introspective Descriptions
Yeah, it’s the same in Vancouver. That being said, they removed yearly increase cap in Toronto in all the new builds since 2018, and it’s still about the same price as here. Or in Calgary where they don’t have it at all, and from what I’ve looked up, rent has increased 14% YoY.

I’d be okay if they removed the caps in my city as well, if we didn’t have enormous amount of red tape and barriers to entry to construction. Otherwise the supply goes up slower than the population increase, so percentage of apartments for rent keeps decreasing.
"In 2021, Browder reported that DoNotPay had 250K subscribers; in May 2023, Browder said that DoNotPay had “well over 200,000 subscribers”.

To date, DoNotPay has resolved over 2 million cases and offers over 200 use cases on its website. Though DoNotPay has not disclosed its revenue, it charges $36 every two months. Given this, it can be estimated that DoNotPay is generating $54 million in annual revenue, assuming that all 250K users subscribe for 1 year."[1]

$193K seems like a pittance compared to the money they're making off of this.

[1]: https://research.contrary.com/company/donotpay
>When you are at work, you can't avoid it

lol, as if! People fuck about on reddit as much in the office as they do at home, probably more so.

If anything, its easier to avoid work in the office: when everyone is working from home there is a renewed interest in metrics and productivity monitoring, in the office you can just hop around the office catching up with people on endless water cooler chats.
https://www.freedium.cfd/https://ehandbook.com/the-slow-pain...
Pietro Schirano – Advanced Voice in ChatGPT tunes my guitar
I've been wanting to buy a sensor watch for a while now. I'm actually really glad I waited to back this now!

I would love an SPL meter on my watch with weighting filters! Don't know much about piezo buzzers but I wonder if it could be used as a microphone for this purpose.
At least both of these databases support clustered indexes. For decades.
Freakonomics had an episode on rent control a few years ago that I found interesting.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-rent-control-doesnt-wor...
I love the quote they included in their ads, purportedly from the Los Angeles Time but "actually from a high-schooler’s opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider":

> "what this robot lawyer can do is astonishingly similar—if not more—to what human lawyers do."
The fine was about false advertising, not dangerousness. Three of the commissioners signed on to concurring statements emphasizing that they are not opposed in principle to the use of AI in law. (https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/p...) (https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/p...)
If you are going to talk about statistics then please cite the accident statistics of people using things like FSD vs. not...

From the horse's mouth it appears using things like FSD is considerably safer than not[0]. While an independent statistic would be nice, I couldn't find one. Would appreciate seeing your source

[0]: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
Intel Core Ultra 7 Processor 258V
Another "IF" product like Stadia. It would be really great for the company IF there was a market for this, but nobody wants it.

Big Tech seems determined to strap a live network-connected HD video feed with sound to everyone's head.
A lack of critical thought which causes our society to become more unequal and impoverished. People want billions not understanding (even while this was known thousands of years ago already) that having billions makes other people have nothing.

As it's already been known for such a long period of time, it might be easy to say it's on purpose, simply 'greed', but rather I think most people are simply unaware and easily distracted.

It's much simpler to chose negativity over positivity, violence over peace etc. - and so also when thinking about these topics and the 'why' one should be careful not to fall into negative thought. It's often the easy conclusion, not always the correct one.

I hope by personal agency people can slowly change this. It's a very slow process though due to various factors.

1. information wasn't always so available to people, so it's been really slow going getting good information to everyone. This is now somewhat solved, though its still hard to sift through the pile of information at peoples disposal to the good information.

2. Most behavioral patterns in humans are learned in year 0-5 of their lives, especially emotional patterns. And despite what most people believe of themselves, their emotions basically rules their behavior (it makes sense, as it's the larger part of what exists.). Due to this, as people between 0-5 are unaware of the importance of their learning, and the patterns that get conditioned onto them, there is a slow progress from generation to generation that can make improvements to this cycle of 'bad behavior'. it's hard to watch, but really the better future is for our kid's kids. "Rome wasn't built in a day".
And the enshittification process begins.
> Agile is about eliminating management in favour of self-organizing teams.

Yeah . . . no. The biggest mistake the Agile movement ever made was sidelining management and claiming they were irrelevant. You can't do any kind of work at scale without some layer of management and coordination. OK, sure, there's the pie-in-the-sky dream that every company will be able to swarm on problems and self-organize at every level. But that's not feasible in the majority of cases.

The correct answer is to manage correctly by recognizing the professional expertise of people doing the work and giving them latitude to come up with creative solutions as opposed to dictating everything. But companies have CEOs and boards to set the overall direction of the organization, and that's reality as opposed to some anarcho-capitalistic pie in the sky.
As graphic designer I'm able to work on 106-120 PPI displays. Anything higher means upscaling which is problematic for UI design, especially on web.
I don't know the details of this device or the manufacturer, but someone with more time on their hands should check that the company is meeting the quality system requirements of this device. A $100k exoskeleton probably has service requirements as an approved medical device from the FDA.

the relevant regulation is here, but you would need to find the requirements for the particular device: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
> When speaking with law enforcement, the jailhouse informant provided information about the crime that was not publicly available, yet consistent with crime scene evidence and Williams’ involvement.

This is hard to fake and seems like pretty compelling evidence that the informant is telling the truth.

https://governor.mo.gov/press-releases/archive/state-carry-o...
SSIS is for integrations, and pandas is definitely not. I’m not sure what you’re trying to do with SSIS that you’re also doing with pandas, but it’s probably wrong. SSIS is far more geared to data warehousing integrations, while pandas would be reading a data warehouse and doing stuff with it. SSIS isn’t really meant for processing incoming data, even if you can kind of hack it together to do that.

I will say that when we want “real time” integrations, SSIS is phenomenally bad. But that’s not entirely unexpected for what it is.
Some awesome quality-of-life improvements here as well. The random function now takes min, max parameters

SELECT random(1, 10) AS random_number;
You sound like you could use a vacation, or just a walk in the forest, or maybe some free time, or being blunt, oral attention from another.
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Sounds like a good fit for a Crohn's job.
I used your metrics -- a few (let's say 3) interventions over 600 miles.

Tesla doesn't publish the relevant stats, probably because they're so outrageously good and strong and perfect that the public can't handle how amazing FSD works in reality.

Edit in response to your edit: You're showing me Autopilot data which 1) is a different system and 2) is only useful on highways, so even if it did nothing at all you'd expect to see a massive reduction in frequency of accidents when it was "using Autopilot." Given that Autopilot is mostly ADS features, you'd also expect a large reduction. The better comparison point is "United States recent luxury model highway miles." Distance sensors, lane assist, auto-braking, etc all very obviously improve safety.
Didn't he already refuse the shares offered to him?
TBF, while the Agile Manifesto really truck a cord, it wasn't saying anything concrete (talk to each other, collaborate, be flexible, react to reality etc.), that of course by design.

So any actual working system can be stamped as "not agile" as surely there will be some aspect that is not perfect.

My favorite was "Customer collaboration over contract negotiation": a contract is there to protect both parties, so of course it will be central to a project and people will preferably stick to it, even adjust it when it doesn't fit the bill anymore. So in any case where things go wrong for whatever reason, we can inevitably say more collaboration was needed and that Agile principle wasn't respected.

That probably comes from the same sentiment as parents telling their kid to not fall from their bike, it's in human nature.
Oh, got it. Thank you!
You are quoting Simon Wilson (his blog) not Randall Munroe.
In other news, dollar is cheaper than it was in February, national oil company just announced that the gas prices will be going down, and dollar deposits in banks have also gone up 40%.
I suppose that _could_ happen, but I don't see it as very likely. Maintainers are absolutely free to decline low-quality patches or ignore with contributors who expect an unreasonable amount of hand-holding. This is completely independent of whether the code was generated by an LLM or human.

I have seen maintainers who, after a few rounds of code review on a PR that's not making any progress, close the PR and say, "I appreciate your efforts but this is taking up too much time. Please address the remaining issues independently and submit a new PR once you believe you have addressed them all."

The other possibility is that the LLM-generated patch is actually fine. If it looks okay and passes the automated tests, then I can't see why it shouldn't be merged. (Assuming Debian doesn't or hasn't enacted a blanket-ban on LLM-generated code.)
I highly doubt it. People are people and don't change much. Teenagers especially are all about personal fashion/appearance, and outside of a short-lived fad don't seem likely to want to wear a computer on their face, regardless of how fashionable you are able to make them look. You may as well build the battery pack into a baseball cap and say you have to wear that too.
yes, almost a random music game
I enjoyed the Cape Town categories. At least in my experience the :

'Students', 'Drunk student', 'Poor students', 'Karens on community whatsapp groups', 'newly weds and almost deads', 'Spoiled rich kids' are all pretty amusing and have a at least a hint of accuracy to them
Even if this were a perfect product, I wouldn't ever buy something like this from Meta because the business model is still "learn everything about you and sell you ads".

Except now, it's on my face, seeing and hearing everything I'm seeing and hearing. That's a hard no, and always would be in my home and in my life.
Absolutely false! It’s a common perspective, but certainly not the only lens to look at it from.

Computer programs are hoards electric voltages changing to discrete levels at fixed intervals to create interesting and coordinated effects on surrounding devices.

Computer programs are 0-N statements of expressions to evaluate.

Theres 2 perspectives completely devoid of “if.”
Also, intervention !== accident. Not sure where you made that conclusion
I've taken hundreds of Waymo rides in SF, LA and Phoenix and the car only needed assistance one time when it got stuck in the middle of a protest.
> not that you're trying to posit a solution that actually functions

Give me an example of a "solution that actually functions," to any problem you know a lot about, during a period of high inflation.
My hate for it is based on their UI. Lots of clicks, lots of panes opening everywhere. Scrolling to see everything, having to expand various thigns to see all fields. Navigating to new tickets sometimes takes you full-page, sometimes open yet another panel. And it all is slooooowwwwwww.

You can make Jira functional for the team. But you can't make the UX performant.
I recently took a CS101 class that used ZyBooks for the textbook and absolutely hated it for this very reason [1].

The "reading" was basically a bunch of mandatory checkbox exercises that turn into a slog through a bunch of slow-loading prompts that were just "Click Next" to receive confirmation that I had read the info in the prompts.

Absolutely miserable experience all around.

[1] https://www.zybooks.com/
I would be cautious about using San Francisco about an example where things could be improved by repealing rent control.

The tl;dr of this article is this line - it increased supply:

> But after the repeal, Buenos Aires saw a doubling of available rental units, and rental prices have stabilized.

That would not happen in SF.

One issue is rent control. Another, separate, issue is housing/rental supply.

Getting apartments built in SF is notoriously difficult. It's not realistic to think you can double the supply of available rental units here imho.

That is a political ask that people have been trying to do for ages, and which other people, homeowners, have been successfully blocking for the same amount of time. While there's an ongoing effort to push against that, I would expect the blocking to continue, successfully as it has been until now.
looking at the package.json infestation of this thing makes me want to just go plain vim WITHOUT any plugins.

Ok, what's that , you want AI sir, guess what b:tch, you can :split out a :terminal window and run a llama-cli conversation right inside vim too. Ctrl + w N and you even get line numbers from whatever contraption of code you got out of that 7b coder model.
My experience with rent control in San Jose, CA was that it only applied to lots where there were at least three units, built before 1979.

If it'a a duplex, no rent control. If it's built in 1979 or newer, no rent control.

If the renter leaves, a new renter's rent is not limited based on past rent.

Regular annual increase is capped at 5%, but there's the usual exceptions available.