skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds fine? The Pivotal process is equally rigid about the backlog order.

But the important distinction - and if you've never worked with a Pivotal team you might not realize it - is that the pointed stories in the backlog are all customer-facing. They represent business priorities. The PM absolutely defines the business priorities.

Pointed stories are not created in a vacuum; the PM works with the tech leads to define reasonable features. And pointing is done by the engineers.

Also, nothing stops the eng team from adding (unpointed) chores to the backlog and working on them! But there's a velocity cost and that can affect delivery dates. There's negotiation involved.

If the PM is micromanaging engineering tasks, you're doing it wrong. The process requires a good PM.
Show HN: Research, Optimize and Secure Your Prompts
The complexity of the types you see in traditional nodejs web servers is there because all of them tried to work as a god-function multitool. The type of a router handler literally incorporates the types of all constituents of a generic request-reponse process and additional server-specific data, all packed into (req, res). This only happens in ultra-generic code that is basically web servers only.

Iow, don't go to the definition of a web request handler. Go here: https://fastify.dev/docs/latest/Reference/TypeScript/

Other languages (libraries really) separate these parts, e.g. Spring Boot seems to hide routing away into a method decorator which infers the body type from a target signature and the server is somehow implied(? through a controller?..). Anyway, it's all there, just not in one place. It has nothing to do with Typescript, it's a js library legacy issue.
Probably because the DEA would find a reason to shoot their dog almost immediately haha
> At the end of the day web browser is just bunch of parsers and compilers working together, and some video/audio

That's... an interesting reduction :) I guess it's about as true as saying that the Linux Kernel is a bunch of I/O and a scheduler?
Worth noting that banks are, on average, a LOT bigger than they used to be.

The popular conception of a bank, even when I was a kid, was a place that was based in your town and had maybe a few branches and took in people’s deposits and wrote mortgages and business loans.
There are some capabilities of controlling the weather, like cloud seeding, but not nearly to the extent that people are claiming.
High effort is just a sorting algorithm to see which resumes to look at first. It’s basically an improvement over random selection. We still do interviews, etc
There’s no such thing as stateless, and there’s no such thing as serverless.

The universe is a stateful organism in constant flux.

Put another way: brushing-it-under-the-rug as a service.
You hit the nail on the head, it's about responsibility and trust, and this is often lacking in various ways when tech feels like they need permission from product to spend time on anything.
Supabase RLS(Row Level Security) Alternative
unbelievable tbh this had to have been an insane amount of work
We have come a long <EXPLETIVE DELETED> way from ancient Greece.

Here's what we should be doing: free hospitals.

> Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences aims to provide free medical care to the sick and ailing with the dedication, commitment, love and the best of skills, so that they will be cured in body, mind and spirit.

https://sssihms.org/
> anyone who starts a website allowing public posting needs to hire moderators fluent in the hundreds of languages that will be used there?

In the EU, that's how it goes. I think there's a minimum amount of visits/users though
Maybe I suffer from brain damage due to knowing C++ since 1993, starting with Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, however Rust is indeed getting into C++'s complexity.

Lets not forget people tend to compare 40 year old language complexity, ampered by backwards compatibility and large scale industry deployment, with one that is around 10 years old, with lots of features still only available on nightly.

The Unstable Book has an endless list of features that might land on Rust.
That just seems to be the market where search engines have the most obvious business case, Elasticsearch positioned themselves in the same way. But both are general-purpose full-text search engines perfectly capable of any serious search use-case.

Their original breakout demo was on Common Crawl: https://common-crawl.quickwit.io/

But thanks for pointing it out, I hadn't looked at it in a few months, it looks like they significantly changed their pitch in the last year. I assume they got VC money and they need to deliver now.
Easy Ways to Add Version Flag in Go
I don't like the AI generated art for the hero image. If you have the ability to write something like this, you probably have enough money to pay an artist $20 to draw something for it.
Ask the Greeks how that turned out.
In a Man in Full in the scene where the bankers are grilling the guy who owes them money, they are worried because he owes them so much they have a problem - of course they do their best not to let on that such is the case and he evidently doesn't pick up on it either. I'm not sure the amount he owed in the book, published in 1998, but I believe it was 600 million dollars.
Designing a Fast Concurrent Hash Table
> Those two statements are equivalent. Or do you think the capitalist business owner is going to pay is employees more out of the kindness of his own hard, if only they couldn't strike?

The capitalist business owner will pay the minimum wage to get the employees they need. This isn't a bad thing.

You don't need a strike, you need a strong labor market.

> Software engineers have been the beneficiaries of some really cushy market conditions over the last couple decades, which are pretty much guaranteed not to last.

Yes, and unions are not gonna fix that. Machinists and factory workers are unionized and their jobs still kind of suck - simply because it is not possible to run a globally competitive company if you have to pay your machinists a ton.
Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Tenno is a web app that lets you create Markdown documents that can include computational cells.
You can think of it as a mix of Word and Excel, some sort of "literate programming" environment.

This is still an early version but I wanted to get some feedback from HN on what could be nice features to add.

Check out the Docs and examples page, it has a ton
of (in my humble opinion) cool stuff!

Why did I build this?
I was building some estimation for cloud costs in Google Sheets and I quickly ended up with a mess. I realized that if I wanted to analyze how a certain thing changes wrt to multiple variables by plotting it, I had to create a bunch of copies of data and copy my formulas everywhere... a SWE nightmare!

Tenno simplifies this because you can essentially define a function you are interested in, and only the analyzing it using plots that explore various dimensions.

BTW, you can also use Tenno to build dashboards by pulling data from APIs, checkout the weather data example.
And if you're really wanting to be stringent, clippy exists for more subjective or more expensive lints. And it's also very good.
Does the framework matter if the UI is snappy?
I think this is backwards. A calculator app should be a simple thing. There's nothing undefined or novel about a calculator app. You can buy a much more capable physical calculator from Texas Instruments for less than $100 and I'm pretty sure the CPU in one of those is just an ant with some pen and paper.

You and I only think it's complex because we've become accustomed to everything being complex when it comes to writing software. That's my point. The mathematical operations are not hard (even the "fancy" ones like the trig functions). Formatting a number to be displayed is also not hard (again, those $100 calculators do it just fine). So, why is it so hard to write the world's 100,000th calculator app that the world's highest paid developers can't get it 100% perfect? There's something super wrong with our situation that it's even possible to have a race condition between the graphical effects and the actual math code that causes the calculator to display the wrong results.

If we weren't forced to build a skyscraper with Lego bricks, we might stand a better chance.
Go's New Iterators Smell (A Little) Funny, but It's Probably OK
As it turns out, lidocaine causes a lot of nerve damage. It even has long-lasting cognitive effects, in some patients.
We're just gonna disagree on this, I think.
Sure, and there would probably be some value in a tool which can walk them through the easy stuff before they show a real human code which it turns out just wasn't tested with release optimisations or whatever.

Still, as I understand it CTRE means if you just "use" the same expression over and over in your inner loop in C++ (with CTRE) it doesn't matter, because the regular expression compilation happened in compilation as part of the type system, your expression got turned into machine code once for the same reason Rust will emit machine code for name.contains(char::is_lowercase) once not somehow re-calculate that each time it's reached - so there is no runtime step to repeat.

This is a long way down my "want to have" list, it's below BalancedI8 and the Pattern Types, it's below compile-time for loops, it's below stabilizing Pattern, for an example closer to heart. But it does remind us what's conceivable.
This annotation would be useless, because it would infect ~99% of your codebase. All IO is implemented as unsafe FFI calls or unsafe inline assembly somewhere down the stack. And even "pure" types like Box, Option, Vec have a lot of unsafe in their implementations. At some point these standard implementations just have to talk to an allocator which is implemented unsafely (obviously), or they have to construct a slice [1], etc. Would you make an exception for the standard library and why? I think, this just doesn't make sense. It's all unsafe somewhere down the stack.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/slice/fn.from_raw_parts.html
Might be interesting to make a library that competes with https://github.com/samber/lo?
Yeah, I'm not sure what people are really expecting from these "platforms".

At the scale of Instagram you're basically expecting them to act as a censor for billions of people. It's like imagining an agent on every street corner preventing people from discussing what they like in the pub. You might be able to influence the direction, and you might be able to use models to blanket ban certain things, but real moderation? You'd need to employ hundreds of millions.
Gmail's +tag (and the .) is nice in theory, but terrible in practice. It's super easy for malicious actors to just drop them and there are a few services out there that simply are not able to work with the +tag, potentially getting you locked you out of your own account. Not gmail's fault, but I would recommend against using it.
Even if the distance of the right hand to the heart (on the left) is just 10% more than if it was located on the right side, that small difference for 50 million years might be significant enough for a right hand trait to be established in the population.

Any scientist who wants to verify this hypothesis (or the-just-so story) is welcomed, and this explanation might be upgraded to totally valid scientific theory or serve as a warning to the general public about unproven scientific falsehoods.
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Where do I buy it for my med kit?
Whenever you see one of these "it's product" or "it's engineers" all I can think of is "someone has more business context or knowledge than the others"

The best teams I've ever worked on as a product manager/owner is where we have shared context. These problems described here are minimal. In those teams I could provide technical input to engineers, and engineers gave me "consumer facing" suggestions on features.

I've believed for a long time that lack of business/use context drives a lot of these issues.

Take for instance I currently work at an IoT company, and if I'm working with engineers who have no idea what a thermostat does/how it works other than "makes it hotter or colder" then we have much more difficulty building shared understanding of a feature request.

I also know this because 10 years ago that was my simple understanding of a thermostat... so it was much harder for me to understand why we were doing certain things.
It's psychoactive, but not euphoric. Promoting wakefulness is a psychoactive property.
Banks are bigger now, I assume.
Something is going on with the site such that whenever I scroll with my iPad it jumps all around the page. Genuinely made it very difficult to try and read.
The underlying problem is how this essay uses the word "own", which is as dictation. In almost any context, ownership should primarily about responsibility for the outcome, with the minimum authority necessary to coordinate work towards that outcome. People who are good at owning things will push most decisions to people closer to each sub-problem, while giving an overall framework that keeps everyone rowing in the same direction. For Product, that manifests as a roadmap with high level prioritization, but plenty of room for engineers to tweak scope or ordering to take on targets of opportunity.
I feel this. The situation would be more obvious if it was framed as "how to make the organization give a shit about the organization's architectural proposals"
How does the enclosed sphere's radius changes with the number of dimensions, if the enclosing spheres are the following:

2D: 3 mutually touching 2-spheres (circles)

3D: 4 mutually touching 3-spheres (or spheres)

...

This variation of the problem doesn't rely on an artificial construct of a hypercube, I wonder if this yields a similarly unintuitive result.
Some dock workers literally get paid for hours not worked.

This is a hard statement for me to agree with.
CSV-App with Change Tracking
How do you know what countries' actors are attacking your honeypot in face of IP address obfuscation (VPNs, jumpservers rented in a different country, etc.)?
Is the usage of "your banker" vs "the bank" a difference between British English and American English or a difference between 1940s English and modern English?
I have frequently said to myself, "you know what Fandom needs? More ads"

If I'm looking for a specific piece of info that ends up being on a fandom wiki, it's quite a turn off.
Code editor and then paste.
It’s a signal to give their application a look. Nothing more.

A lot of applicants won’t even have their CV looked at, simply because we will hire someone before we have time to get through them all.
Study: https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/advance-article-abstra...
> Most software businesses don’t need a bunch of Picassos, they need house painters with spray guns and buckets of off-white.

This doesn't add anything to the rest of the comment, does it? It insults the developers with the implication that they think they're so good when they aren't. When the problem being discussed has nothing to do with how good they are in the first place.
The first one seems obvious to me, that's like blocking the terms "murder", "rape", "piracy", "theft" ... etc. Normal discussion involves using those terms.
Finally, a true digital exam.
In this blog, I'll walk you through a CSV app that tracks changes and share my insights. Try out the demo https://csv-n2qj.onrender.com/
Pure vegetarian maybe but eating chicken or fish once or twice a month is still pretty much vegetarian and that’s the vast majority of the population.
This strike is about automation, not pay.

US ports are some of the least efficient in the world because of these unions and how effectively they've opposed automation.

If dock workers strike for higher pay? Fine. Pay them and then automate their jobs.

If they strike for automation? They get no sympathy from me. The costs of NOT automating the docks are paid for by all of us.
Well, it is more complicated than that.

First of all compilers disagree on many interpretations and consequences of
abstract machine rules. Also compilers have bugs.

So a proficient C/C++ programmer does have to learn what compilers actually do in practice and what they guarantee beyond the standard (or how they differ from it).

> C/C++ isn't a language.

It isn't, but it is a family of languages that share a lot of syntax and semantics.
Coca tea is very underrated. Too bad its probably impossible to legally buy outside of south America
At least for me, it's hard to get that insight, I tried to read articles and watch videos, and none of them gave me say: "oh! now I get it"
This sounds more like a complaint about broken communication in a team. While I'm not crazy about Scrum, this doesn't seem to be its systemic failure.
Myself and the other Admins all asked for reviews(I found out that not all banned creators and admins were given that option). But we were told our review was unsuccessful and that we could not ask for another review, that we could only take fb to court.
What we have found out is, that every one was accused of the same thing, which was 'fraud and deception'.
Some people who have been affected by this, have found an email address to contact fb, but not heard a response.
I reached out to the media in my local area and state about it, but have not heard anything back yet.

I am thinking about reaching out to my local member's, as Queensland has a state election coming up in the next few weeks.

Thankfully, our mods didn't lose their accounts and can keep us posted on what is being said on fb.

We created a Whatsapp group for the banned fb Admins to keep in contact and we chat daily on there.
If the programmers have a proper degree, they surely have used them, additionally they probably have done it inderectly, depending on what languages they use.
I think the idea is that you can tell people "hey, if you're suffering from abuse, you can check a websites footer for this icon to get help"
This has nothing to do with their value as human beings and everything to do with how they are blocking automation to keep shipping expensive.
is it? isn’t a coffee cup equivalent to a torus? which is not equivalent to a mobius strip
> A very cool technology to produce products that nobody wants.

creative power without control is like a rocket with no navigation—sure, you'll launch, but who knows where you'll crash!
The WordPress vs. WPengine drama explained
The bleak reality is that most Americans trust private corporations more than their own government. Government-sponsored search is literally 1984. If it's just a competitor, we've seen that unless there is an external force driving the initiatives, government ventures are often just less successful than unfettered private corporations (e.g. NASA post Space Race).
One of the best pieces on here recently (and didn’t realize it was by Sinofsky!)

Anyway, one other insight I would add is that the issues tend to come up at the interface between the systems. Your automation has to get some input and send some output and both those are pain points. That’s why we sometimes prefer imperfect monolith software.
> I also feel that Julia managed to achieve "forward interoperability" between libraries that is almost unparalleled in my experience: It is often possible to just pass data structures across library boundarie

Never coded in Julia, how does this work?
That was a smokescreen to bailout (a second time) indebted French and German banks:

https://www.corpwatch.org/article/eurozone-profiteers-how-ge...

Also, economist Mark Blyth has written extensively about this.
I guess this confirms almost no one understood your original question. There's a phrase that got more popular in the past 5-10 years, but I guess still has pretty limited spread (I don't see it even on urban dictionary):

They're trying to "meme it into existence".
Moving all our Python code to a monorepo
We are working on a dedicated pricing page with all relevant information. Pricing in docs is just temporary. With that being said, new users get free credits to try out the platform without spending anything.

We've built the platform primarily for companies that serve LLMs in production, so even if we allowed you to fine-tune on device, sooner or later you will find yourself in a position where you want to deploy the model.

We want to streamline this whole process, end-to-end.

With that being said, I do agree that we shouldn't store everything on the cloud, this is what we're doing about it:

1. Any data in FinetuneDB like evals, logs, datasets etc. can be exported or deleted.

2. Fine-tuned model weights for OS models can be downloaded.

3. Using our inference stack is not a requirement. Many users are happy with only the dataset manager (which is 100% free).

4. We are exploring options to integrate external databases and storage providers with FinetuneDB, allowing datasets to be stored off our servers
Yes, it turns out there's more to creating good art than simulating the mechanics and technique of good artists. The human factor actually matters, and that factor can't be extrapolated from the data in the model itself. In essence it's a lossy compression problem.

It is technically interesting, and a lot of what it creates does have its own aesthetic appeal just because of how uncanny it can get, particularly in a photorealistic format. It's like looking at the product of an alien mind, or an alternate reality. But as an expression of actual human creative potential and directed intent I think it will always fall short of the tools we already have. They require skilled human beings who require paychecks and sustenance and sleep and toilets, and sometimes form unions, and unfortunately that's the problem AI is being deployed to solve in the hope that "extruded AI art product" is good enough to make a profit from.
The word vodka is apparently derived from the Slavic word for water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka#Etymology
The statement is correct. Wasm cannot mark memory as executable. It's effectively a Harvard Architecture. The code and memory are split. Furthermore you cannot jump to arbitrary points in code. There isn't even a jump instruction.

> I'm quite convinced the alleged security argument is bull. You can hot reload JS (or even do wilder things like codegen) at runtime without compromising security.

JIT here is referring to compiling native code at runtime and executing it. This would be a huge security compromise in the browser or in a wasm sandbox.

> I don't see any technical reason why this couldn't be possible. If this were a security measure, it could be trivially bypassed.

It's not because it's baked into the design and instruction set. You can read some more about how it works here: https://webassembly.org/docs/security/

> Also, WASM bytecode is very similar conceptually to .NET IL, Java bytecode etc., things designed for JIT compilation.

Yes, and like with Wasm, the engine is responsible for JITting. But giving the user the power to escape the runtime and emit native code and jump to it is dangerous.
It does. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme here in Australia is a lever that the government pulls to negotiate lower drug prices

https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/pharmaceutical-pri...

It also pays an additional $5B p.a. in drug subsidies.