skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously the deaf get on fine without spoken language.

Why the introduction of "spoken?" Sign languages are just as expressive as spoken language, and could easily be written. Writing is a sign.

> But if you want to discuss the themes present in Proust, you're going to be hard pressed to do so without something resembling language. This is self-evident.

And it's also a bad example. Of course you can't discuss the use of language without the use of language. You can't discuss the backstroke without any awareness of water or swimming, either. You can certainly do it without language though, just by waving your arms and jumping around.

> Language's purpose is thought

Is it, though? Did you make that case in the preceding paragraphs? I'm not going to go out on a limb here and alternatively suggest that language's purpose is communication, just like the purpose of laughing, crying, hugging, or smiling. This is why we normally do it loudly, or write it down where other people can see it.
I wonder if someone has feed this entire "problem" into the latest Chat GPT-01 (the new model with reasoning capability), and just fed it in all the code for a Multilayer Perceptron and then given it the task/prompt of finding ways to implement the same network using only integer operations.

Surely even the OpenAI devs must have done this like the minute they got done training that model, right? I wonder if they'd even admit it was an AI that came up with the solution rather than just publishing it, and taking credit. haha.
Interesting. You never had the need of doing social media marketing? I often wonder how would healthy relationship with social media look like if that kind of marketing is needed.
The userscript idea is great, I could think of some uses for this, such as text-to-speech for live comments. Do you know of any examples of projects already doing this?
Yeah, it got buried and forgotten beneath three layers of pig lipstick and a candy crush ad.
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"The believer is not supposed to be unquestioning of the world and treat everything as a miracle"

Surely this is jest. I like the sentiment, but I don't find many Christians doing much questioning. At least not modern 21 century Christians. Old School Catholics or Jesuits used to be a bit more open to science. Even Evangelicals were more open to questioning and even allowed abortions. It was only in recent decades it seems religion took a more 'old testament, brimstone, fundamentalist' bent.
Surely you can understand why “magic” and “fully self driving” have different levels of plausibility?

In 2024 if you tell me a car is “fully self driving” it’s pretty reasonable of me to think it’s a fully self driving car given the current state of vehicle technology. They didn’t say “magic steering” or something clearly ridiculous to take at face value. It sounds like what it should be able to do. Especially with “full” in the name. Just call it “assisted driving” or hell “self driving.” The inclusion of “fully” makes this impossible to debate in good faith.
Airbus of the ones listed.

However, Northrop Grumman could also buy out Boeing's large aircraft bits and (re)enter the commercial airliner market.

I doubt Lockheed Martin would be interested, they're into smaller aircraft these days.
See also local news from last week

"Bird flu overwhelming Tulare County, photos show dead cattle" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41820347
>Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

Do they still exist?

Then, yes.
Bosch is a huge company, and attitudes vary across divisions. I've been spending more time than I care about talking with their hydraulics division - Bosch/Rexroth, earlier known as Mannesmann/Rexroth.

Their manic attention to detail is only surpassed by an almost fanatical devotion to documentation and standardization.

They still make replacement parts for 30+ year old designs, and sounded almost apologetic when explaining to me (very patiently) that a critical component for an embedded device manufactured in Western Germany was no longer available, so I had to upgrade the control to the next generation (introduced way back in 2012 or so...).

No sweat - the replacement device could be configured as a drop-in replacement.

I wish more companies were like that.
There is a school of thought about management by intent that tries to address this, following the ideas born out of the Prussian army in the early 1800s.

But many of our current problems are more directly related to Taylorism and an intentional separation of design from production.

GMs failure to learn from Toyota at the NUMMI plant is a well documented modern example, with Japan intentionally targeting the limits of Taylorism to basically destroy the US industrial market is another.

The centralized command and control model also ignored the finite congitive ability and assumed the relational omniscient actors.

The funny thing is that multiple Nobel prizes have been awarded related to some of the above, and we know that Taylor faked some of his research and most business tasks are not equivalent to loading pig iron onto train cars anyway.

Even TOGAF and ITIL recently made changes after the Feds changed the Klinger act, moving away from this model and every modern military uses mission command vs C2, but management is still teaching the pseudo scientific management school of thought and not addressing the needs modern situations.

The incentive models are largely a reason for this and recent developments like 'impact' scores push things back even more.

You can still have a principal-agent relationship, but delegate and focus on intent and avoid this trap, but it requires trust and bidirectional communication.

Really IMHO, or comes down to plans being safe feeling, high effort and compatible with incentives.

Those plans never survive the real world, because of the actors bounded rationality and knowledge.

A book that is potentially a useful lens into this is 'The art of action', but it is just a lens.

Organization 'goals' are often poorly communicated and useless because 'planning' is insufficient and not durable enough.

Being way past any horizon that can be planned for, actionable concepts of shared intentions and purpose are not communicated.

Toyota gave teams concrete goals to obtain, allowed them to self organize and choose how to deliver.

GM meticulously copied what those teams had done and forced Detroit teams to follow those procedures and it failed.

It was allowing the teams, which understood the context and constraints of their bounded problems that worked, not the procedures themselves.

Amazon's API mandate resulted in a product mindset and scaled better than almost everyone until culture erosion killed that.

Delegating works, but centralized process needs to be restricted to the minimum necessary.

Unfortunately the negative aspects of bureaucracy seem artificially successful in the short term, but the negative aspects of setting things in concrete are long tailed.

The growing disengagement problem is one of those long tails IMHO.
Imagine: You enter laborforce today. What skills do you need before starting?
Hello HN! I am expected to graduate law school next year but I'm jealous of the skillset of people in different fields. It feels much more useful and specific than law!

To answer the title:

Example: Imagine I want to work on WallStreet... What skills do you need? Be specific what 5 skills you need on a daily basis to succeed at the job and get hired.

Maybe you are an entrepreneur? What did you know before starting? How did you start? Share all your stories in the comments!
Some more background https://larrymasinter.net/stefik-loops.pdf and https://www.markstefik.com/?page_id=334

I think LOOPS was limited by only being available on Interlisp-D related systems. Common LOOPS was supposed to be portable, but I remember it only in the context of the CLOS development as a stepping stone, but not as a product or environment like LOOPS.
It sort of makes sense. Like, I’m very bothered by this spyware-industrial system and put a high value on my privacy. But, objectively, I am extremely boring and seeing what I’m looking at is actually worth much less than $15.

It is actually really weird how popular this business model has become (I guess it is a thing because people don’t read the fine print). Invasion of privacy is, I think, extremely asymmetric, so the business model of spying on people is a huge destroyer of value.
By definition, another "future I wanted" can only arrive "later" than now, so those two options actually kinda make sense. :P
I believe they're fine with losing auto steering capabilities, based on the tone of their comment.
I configured timesync (using NTP) for the GWR office networks many years ago. Some years later I used theirs to act as a stable source for Scotrail's office network too.

As I'm sure we all know here: The four horsemen of the IT apocalypse are NTP, DNS and BGP.
How is this not a supply chain attack? Mattomatic literally took over a plugin that WPE owns/maintains by co-opting its plugin URL/slug. They renamed the plugin but took control over the URL that everyone’s plugin points to for updates. Literal MITM attack.
Is there any svelte components or better a full boilerplate/template to save the time building front-ends?
Tesla officially renamed it to “Full Self Driving (supervised)” a few months ago, previously it was “Full Self Driving (beta)”

Both names are ridiculous, for different reasons. Nothing called a “beta” should be tested on public roads without a trained employee supervising it (i.e. being paid to pay attention). And of course it was not “full”, it always required supervision.

And “Full Self Driving (supervised)” is an absurd oxymoron. Given the deaths and crashes that we’ve already seen, I’m skeptical of the entire concept of a system that works 98% of the time, but also needs to be closely supervised for the 2% of the time when it tries to kill you or others (with no alerts).

It’s an abdication of duty that NHTSA has let this continue for so long, they’ve picked up the pace recently and I wouldn’t be surprised if they come down hard on Tesla (unless Trump wins, in which case Elon will be put in charge of NHTSA, the SEC, and FAA)
It seems to me that the blogosphere was not a ZIRP but rather a young Internet phenomenon. Which could exists, like usenet before it, when mere access to it was a filtering mechanism.

Once you have seven billion people with virtually no access control, you can't have a public blogosphere, and groups retreat to the cozyweb.

Either way, I enjoyed it while it lasted. Thanks for the Office series!

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
The "light bad" argument I think misses the point. It's not about heating, the idea is that an electromagnetic field might excite electrical systems in the body, and that we have evolved to tolerate some baseline level of that but maybe could experience adverse effects from sustained exposure above that baseline.

I'm not saying that is or isn't true, but at least argue against the right thing.
Shout out to Forest M Mims III, the OG 555 circuit guru.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims
Replicate.com? Has a good variety of models
Hi all! I've been working remotely for many years. First as a customer support rep, then as a UX/UI Designer. I was frustrated with the landscape of remote job boards for people who live in Europe. Sometimes you find a great job opportunity only to discover that its geographical or time-zone restrictions exclude you.

This was a huge waste of time, so I decided to do something about it and created this job board. After posting jobs into the abyss for a while, I decided to focus on SEO and getting backlinks. The website now gets about 3,000 unique visitors per month and has 350 newsletter subscribers.It's not much, but I'm happy to solve a problem that I had.

I know most people here are americans, but I thought I would post just in case someone plans to move or travel to Europe :D
I wanted to find a reputable source to back up this claim but instead I found a link from the atlantic. I did not read it, its behind a paywall and its not peer reviewed. The general concensus is that smart = subsidized by adware

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/smart...
Google Cloud Storage is good enough to implement locks all by itself: https://reddit.com/r/golang/comments/t52d4f/gmutex_a_global_...

Doesn't S3 provide primitives to do the same? At least since moving to strong read-after-write consistency?

PS: I wrote the above package. Happy to answer questions about it.
I think it's important to clarify who these lists are really for. They're not meant for people simply looking to "learn distributed systems," in my opinion. These might help those pushing the envelope or looking for new approaches.

For the rest of us, imagine asking how to solve quadratic equations and getting 100 papers on category theory.

> See also https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html, which mentions the OP list.

Fred Herbert’s list, more up-to-date than OP’s, isn't even complete according to him. He mentions "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" as essential but suggests something like: "you need to read a bunch of papers first to _really_ get it." (My paraphrasing :-). It can feel like gatekeeping when lists like these are framed as prerequisites for understanding.

Thanks to decades of others' work, we don’t need to read 100 nanokernel papers to be effective Linux users. And while building a good production ready OS from scratch is still hard, 99% of us don’t need to—we just need to get proficient with the tools that already exist. The same goes for distributed systems—it’s does not have to be that hard unless you're trying to push the envelope.

Here are some ideas for SWEs looking to get practical experience rather than diving deep into the research:

* Build something with NATS [1] or YugaByte [2].

* Try a hands-on tutorial like [3].

* Read Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Some books get better with each re-read, and this is one of them. So go ahead and read it, even if you haven't read 100 papers yet. When you hit sections you don’t understand, ask questions and get help. Feel free to skip the massive reading lists. :-). (to be fair Herbert recommends this approach too, at the very end of his post).

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1: https://nats.io/

2: https://www.yugabyte.com/

3: https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g...
Agreed, sadly comment OP is in dreamland about why an E-commerce company would ever even consider doing anything to stop people from buying things, regardless of quality or any other external factor.
Non technical project managers. I thought this was obvious.
From the comments:

>These aircraft were designed with slide rules plus 20 percent for structure components.
Both companies are doing pretty well. Why don't you think AMD is viable?
I bought stuff from Bandcamp and I don’t have an active PayPal account, they must have added some options.
it's really good for re-organizing schemas from for example Notion collections to a simple flat CSV / Google Sheets schema and Airtable

It's really bad at creating deeply nested schemas though, (eg from CSV -> Notion you'll get trouble). It's also limited in things like renaming keys, splitting values into multiple keys (eg a csv string into an array) and those sorts of things
These "works for me!" comments are exhausting. Nobody believes you "rarely intervene", otherwise Tesla themselves would be promoting the heck out of the technology.

Bring on the videos of you in the passenger seat on FSD for any amount of time.
Merging autism with asperger went the exact opposite direction of where it needed to.
I’m surprised. One of my companies cracked the top 100.
Svelte is getting a new website soon too. It's in preview mode here: https://svelte-omnisite.vercel.app/. Tutorial is not completely converted yet.

(edit) Sorry, for previous users the preview site might be better: https://svelte-5-preview.vercel.app/docs/introduction
In my experience no research paper ever gets rejected, at least for reasons that have anything to do with their content. If your paper gets rejected, it is almost always because you failed to put the appropriate markings on the paper, or filled the form out wrong, and then you missed the conference deadline so the whole thing was OBE.

There is indeed a list of rejected papers. The system logs all of them. Generally they're recycled, updated, and published elsewhere.
I don’t make a sound or word in my mind but I definitely keep track of the number. My thinking is definitely structured and there are things in my thoughts but there is no words or voice. I also can’t see images in my mind either. I’ve no idea what an inner monologue or the minds eye is like. I have however over the years found ways to produce these experiences in a way of my own. I found for instance some rough visualization was helpful in doing multi variate calculus but it’s very difficult and took a lot of practice. I’ve also been able to simulate language in my mind to help me practice difficult conversations but it’s really difficult and not distinct.

I would note though I have a really difficult time with arithmetic and mechanical tasks like counting. Mostly I just lose attention. Perhaps an inner voice would help if it became something that kept a continuity of thought.
A couple of years ago I was lucky to teach a compiler class with Roberto Ierusalimschy from PUC-Rio, where we used a PEG parser for Lua called LPEG. That semester we spoke a lot about LPEG's implementation and that was very important for me to understand the original motivations for SNOBOL. I'm glad to see more examples of proper SNOBOL code in action. Thanks for the post.
No.

It's because it's a succession play (series of users, each plays one in game year before handing it to the next.)

So the various mechanisms set up for drawbridges, flood control etc by player 2-3.... aren't labeled / clear to player 7...
If we were able to know when a neural net is failing to categorize something, wouldn’t we get AGI for free?
When I said “cultural issues with their workforce” I didn’t mean general “company culture” but the “union culture” specifically. Is that still a responsibility of management? Sure, for some aspects. But unions remove a lot of the control and tools management usually has to deal with some problems effectively.
Mostly agree, though I prefer pulling latest from main over rebasing as the latter messes up the “New changes” markers for reviewers in GH.

Also we always squash merge so I don’t bother squashing my commits. Don’t review commit by commit.
S3 recently got conditional writes and you can use do locking entirely in S3 - I don't think they are using this though. Must be too recent an addition.
This is something I was trying to implement myself. I am surprised it can be done with just an s3 bucket. I was messing with API Gateways, Lambda functions and DynamoDB tables to support the s3 bucket. It didn't occur to me to implement it client side.
I might have stuck a bit too much to the lfs test server implementation. https://github.com/git-lfs/lfs-test-server
Tailored advice to improve your agile development practices with immediate effect.
No, they're at a discount period. They're sold for less money.
What model year? I'm guessing it's an older one?

My Hyundai is a 2021 and I have to turn on the steering assist every time which I find annoying. My guess is that you had an earlier model where the steering assist was more liability than asset.

It's understandable that earlier versions of this kind of thing wouldn't function as well, but it is very strange that they would have it on by default.
> I didn't understand how this connects to the first paragraph at first, but I think you're saying this playthrough is an analog to someone making such documentation, thus saving DF from such a fate?

(Not OP) Possibly, but one of the repeated themes in Boatmurdered is a number of fortress defenses (some with considerable collateral damage) attached to a variety of scattered and unmarked levers.

Does pulling this lever lower the drawbridge, irrigate the fields, or douse the world in cleansing magma? Only one way to tell!
Garbage collection always needs to be paid for -- in working set size and CPU time. That's why you never see production kernels, databases, video codecs, or high performance games written in GC languages.
You’re right, it still has to go to vote. But union representatives in the negotiating position have approved of the deal. On the other hand they approved of the initial Boeing offer that got nearly universally rejected. So who knows what will happen. I suspect this vote will not be nearly as skewed.
Airplane autopilots follow a lateral & sometimes vertical path through the sky prescribed by the pilot(s). They are good at doing that. This does increase safety, because it frees up the pilot(s) from having to carefully maintain a straight 3d line through the sky for hours at a time.

But they do not listen to ATC. They do not know where other planes are. They do not keep themselves away from other planes. Or the ground. Or a flock of birds. They do not handle emergencies. They make only the most basic control-loop decisions about the control surface and power (if even autothrottle equipped, otherwise that's still the meatbag's job) changes needed to follow the magenta line drawn by the pilot given a very small set of input data (position, airspeed, current control positions, etc).

The next nearest airplane is typically at least 3 miles laterally and/or 500' vertically away, because the errors allowed with all these components are measured in hundreds of feet.

None of this is even remotely comparable to a car using a dozen cameras (or lidar) to make real-time decisions to drive itself around imperfect public streets full of erratic drivers and other pedestrians a few feet away.

What it is a lot like is what Tesla actually sells (despite the marketing name). Yes it's "flying" the plane, but you're still responsible for making sure it's doing the right thing, the right way, and not and not going to hit anything or kill anybody.
What does it offer over MultiMC?
The liability for killing someone can include prison time.
The expression you quoted is completely agreeing with you! It’s a play on the expected idiomatic ending “then you have met everyone with autism”, pointing out that the diagnosis is broad and everyone is different
The economical benefits were already laid out by another commenter, so I will lay out the cultural benefits.

Namely, seeing an American darling like Boeing go under could finally destroy the idea of American Exceptionalism(tm). Like it or not, the country as a whole is stagnant and losing its grip on the title of Superpower with fierce competition from China.

America was great and it can be great again, but we will continue to fall into irrelevance if we can't first accept that we aren't the same America that won World War II, took mankind to the Moon, and created the internet. Boeing going under could finally force Americans to accept our current place in the world.
Again, imagine Jack Dorsey doing this. Imagine the reaction Musk and co would have had to that. Just staggering levels of hypocrisy.
> Once you have seven billion people with virtually no access control, you can't have a public blogosphere, and groups retreat to the cozyweb.

Why can’t you? There’s a logical leap in this statement I don’t follow.
if the data files are all just text files, what are the differences between DVC and using plain git?
I thought only HDMI is problematic, and DP is quite open?
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