skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Not literally of course, but it can be deleted/decommissioned, which is even more effective than temporary imprisonment (it's equivalent to death penalty but without the moral component obviously).
I liked this article a lot - it made me think about the ways large companies operate from a different viewpoint.

At the same time, though, I think it's a mistake to leave out the fact that, in many ways, modern society is just so fundamentally complex that we (as a society at large) deliberately forego demanding accountability because we believe the system is so complex that it's impossible to assign blame to a single person.

For example, given this is HN and many of us are software developers, how many times have we collectively supported "blameless cultures" when it comes to identifying and fixing software defects. We do this because we believe that software is so complex, and "to err is human", that it would be a disservice to assign blame to an individual - we say instead that the process should assume mistakes are inevitable, and then improve the process to find those mistakes earlier in the software lifecycle.

But while I believe a "blameless culture" is valuable, I think a lot of times you can identify who was at fault. I mean, somebody at CrowdStrike decided to push a data update, without verifying it first, that bluescreened a good portion of the world's Windows machines and caused billions in damages.

I just think that if you believe "accountability sinks" are always a bad thing, don't forget the flip side: would things always be better if we could always assign "root cause blame" to a specific individual?
This may be spicy, but I wonder if autism has a higher rate of occurrence in upper middle class homes which is why it has got so much more attention and funding than more serious illnesses as you say.
How long ago was this? Our VoIP stack is completely custom and has taken a while to build. We've been putting significant work into it and lately it's better.

We've also specifically avoided adding many additional features while the calling and texting was brought up, so you aren't wrong on the philosophy, maybe you just bought yours before the work was done.

You can enable logging errors to a serial console. We don't add that by default because it slows down the OS. My email is in my profile if you'd like me to walk you through how to enable that.
Not meaningful enough.
I feel like the article, or perhaps just the example, is missing the point.

>> a higher up at a hospitality company decides to reduce the size of its cleaning staff, because it improves the numbers on a balance sheet somewhere. Later, you are trying to check into a room, but it’s not ready and the clerk can’t tell you when it will be; they can offer a voucher, but what you need is a room.

This reads from the perspective of a person checking in. But it should read from the perspective of the person who made the decision.

The decision was made like this;
On most days we have too many cleaners. If we reduce the cleaners we reduce expenses by x.

On some days some customers will need to wait to check-in. Let's move checkin time from 1pm to 2pm (now in some cases to 4pm) to compensate. n% of customers arrive after 4pm anyway. We start cleaning early, so chances are we can accommodate early checkin where necessary.

Where there's no room available before 4pm, some % will complain. Most of those will be placated with a voucher [1] which cost us nothing.

Some small fraction will declare "they'll never use us again". Some will (for reasons) but we'll lose a few.

But the savings outweigh the lost business. Put some of the savings into marketing and sales will go up. Costs remain lower. More profit.

There is perfect accountability of this plan - the board watches to see if profits go up. They don't care about an individual guest with individual problems. The goal of the business is not to "make everyone happy". It's to "make enough people happy" to keep profits.

[1] the existance of the voucher proves this possibility was accounted for.

So accountability in this case is working - except for the customer who didn't get what they want. The customer feels frustrated, so from their perspective there's a failure. But there are other perspectives in play. And they are working as designed.
" ... where they change the code to disable ... "

This is blatantly untrue. WPEngine have repeatedly said they launch WordPress code that is bit for bit identical to the zip file published on wordpress.org. That's a claim that could _very_ easily be disproven if it were not true.

I don't think WPEngine are entirely blameless with regard to the WooCommerce Stripe plugin stuff. But I have two thoughts about that, firstly I think it's sleazy of Matt/Automattic to have slipped in referral monetisation codes into a payment plugin in the first place, and secondly the GPL explicitly allows WPEngine to change the code however they choose anyway. And the "nuclear war" Matt's declared and is fighting is all around WordPress trademarks, not WooCommerce or the Stripe plugin code anyway. Both sides come out looking sleazy over Stripe commisions here though.

The ElasticSearch/Redis/MongoDB vs AWS things are quite different in my opinion. They weren't purely relying on trademarks to "Al Capone" Amazon into handing over money they're not entitled to. Instead they all relicensed their code using something the OSF no longer considers "Open Source" using instead things like "Business Source Licenses", which they could do because they owned all the copyright to all the code, either having written it themselves or having contributors assign copyright to them. Matt/WordPress/Automattic _cannot_ do this, because they do not own copyright in all the code. WordPress itself was a fork of previously existing B2 code who's authors still own copyright but granted anybody (including WordPress) a license to use it under GPL2+ terms. I am almost certain (but do not know for sure) that WordPress does not have a copyright assignment agreement from everybody that's written new code that's made it's way into WP core (and that wouldn't have helped anyway since it was all built on "viral" GPL code so any changes also needed to be GPL2+). I'm 100% certain WordPress have no copyright ownership over almost all of the 60 thousand odd plugins on wordpress.org.
I've been using it for over a year I think. I don't often feed it tasks with comments so much as go about things the same as usual and let it autocomplete. The time and cognitive load saved adds up massively. I've had to go without it for a bit while my workplace gets its license in order for the corporate version and the personal version has an issue with the proxy, and it's been agonizing going without it again. I almost forgot how much it sucks having to jump to google every other minute, and it was easy to start to take for granted how much context copilot was letting me not have to hold onto in my head. It really lets me work on the problem as opposed to being mired in immaterial details. It feels like I'm at least 2x slower overall without it.
You might want to look up the word “approach” in a dictionary.

> Only a photon can move with the speed of light.

Any massless particle must move at the speed of light. Gluons, the carrier of the strong force, are another example.
Now that’s a horse of a different color! I’m already opining this alt reality. Middle-boxes and everyone touching them ruined the internet.
Tom Schelling's 'The Strategy of Conflict' touches on similar themes, but mostly in a more positive light.

One of his examples is that you should make yourself unavailable for contact, when you suspect someone is trying to blackmail you.

That's exactly the same severing of a link as described in the article.
VR is tech in search of a problem. The iPod and iPhone had clear applications and user frustration being solved. I’m still unconvinced VR will have mass market appeal.
This is your second comment saying the exact same thing.
Bollocks and hallucinatory nonsense. The trademark page had made it abundantly clear that use of "WP" was not protected by trademark and only made it an issue ex-post-facto when Matt decided one day that he didn't like the competition. The trademark claims are bollocks, nonsense, bogus — entirely without merit.

If you don't like your open source work being used by others to do for-profit things then don't license it as GPL or don't open source it to begin with. You can't retroactively come out and complain after the fact once you've already given all your IP away and made it abundantly clear that "WP" isn't a trademark, and BY THE WAY the jurisprudence on trademark law makes it difficult to even try to claim a trademark or servicemark from two letters put together!
> 'The data raises a concern for those people who already have an elevated risk of osteoporosis or fractures, such as those with obesity or type 2 diabetes.'

Seems they were already at risk, perhaps malnutrition broke the camels back.
Is the point revenge or fixing the problem? Fixing the algorithm to never do that again is easy. Or is the point to instill fear?
This is great, can't believe I haven't heard it before.
> As a random tangent, whilst memcpy in the general case is going to be O(n) given that in this program the n is a fixed size the operation in context is always going to be O(1).

Well, with a fixed n, every operation trivially becomes O(1).

> This isn't really trying to emulate copy-on-write though. It's intentionally making a copy temporarily to mutate it further whilst keeping the original ready to be mutated on the next tick. They share superficial similarity but that's about it.

Having to copy everything is exactly what you need to achieve this effect, when you don't have copy-on-write. You need to make a copy somewhere. (Or otherwise, explicitly roll-back any changes you made.)
It's true by definition because MBTI splits people into two groups, four times in a row. Everyone is going to fall into one bucket or another, just as the last 4 bits of any integer is going to be one of 16. The question is whether the distinction has any practical uses.

My guess as to why MBTI is more popular than other equally valid personality tests is that the splits are defined in such a way as to capture a few traits that people find the most irksome in their everyday relationships. You want to take a rational approach, but your SO gets all emotional? Well, that's a T vs. F thing. It might not be medically meaningful, but IMO it does help us appreciate that other people's minds might be wired differently. Not wrong, just different.

Business idea: AI companions with custom personality out of the box. Choose the MBTI type you want!
Ask HN: When Social Network?
Hey!

Been a big fan of this website since around 2014 & it’s obviously really great / probs actual realistically fav website on the planet

And know some aspect of it wouldn’t be the same — but there’s such a community here — why don’t dang & team at least whip-up / offer a HN SM App ??

Super appreciate the lowkey nature of this hypertext, and tbh get sick amidst more than 30 seconds on twitter X but it’s Saturday Night & this question has been on/off in the back of my mind for going on 5 years & just curious
I wish we had many more “salesmen” like him in other industries.
Well this comment is about the article not LLMs so I doubt it will have much in the way of legs, but this work has already been covered extensively and to a fascinating depth by Jaak Panksepp [1].

His work explores the neuropsychology of emotions WAIT DON'T GO they are actually the substrate of consciousness,
NOT the other way around.

We have 7 primary affective processes (measurable hardware level emotions) and they are not what you think[2]. They are considered primary because they are sublinguistic. For instance, witnessing the color red is a primary experience, you cannot explain in words the color red to someone who has not ever seen it before.

His work is a really fascinating read if you ever want to take a break from puters for a minute and learn how people work.

PS the reason this sort of research isn't more widely known is because the behaviorist school was so incredibly dominant since the 1970s they made it completely taboo to discuss subjective experience in the realm of scientific discourse. In fact the emotions we are usually taught are not based on emotional states but on muscle contractions in the face! Not being allowed to talk about emotions in psychological studies or the inner process of the mind is kinda crazy when you think about it. So only recently with neuroimaging has it suddenly become ok to acknowledge that things happen in the brain independent of externally observable behavior.

[1] https://a.co/d/6EYULdP

[2]
- seeking
- fear
- anxiety and grief
- rage
- lust
- play!!!
- caring

[3] if this sounds familiar at all it's because Jordan Peterson cites Jaak Panksep all the time. Well 50% of the time, the other 50% is CG Jung and the final
50% is the book of Exodus for some reason.
Yo dog - what is up with your obsession with making so many weird and judgemental comments about diet. Nothing you have said is backed in science or is particularly useful.
> where do you go for your discount space suits

Boeing is selling a few right now - discounted price. Contact your nearest Boeing executive.
But your tools can't do the "performance" job right now, it's just that there is enough "friction" in the management/decision chain that it may not be decided on by "the business".

Though the desire to improve without external pressure could be considered ideological
Does anyone even build SCTP support directly into the kernel? Looks like Debian builds it as a module, which I'm sure I never have and never will load. Security risk seems pretty minimal there.

(And if someone can somehow coerce me into loading it, I have bigger problems.)
Wow, what a surprisingly easy opt-out link. Thank you!
Essentially: Welchification (from the CEO of GE's name) being:

* the focus on short term shareholder returns over long-term shareholder value, typified by giving executives short term options as incentives

* causing a myopia that can lead a company to bad patterns like deprioritizing R&D or focusing on financial engineering over product improvement
I really wish per use pricing was normalized. I would gladly pay a few cents per use, and I'd use it a few times a month.

But a $7 subscription is far more than the utility I'd get from it.
Making an asynchronous task into a synchronous task is easy in exactly one scenario: when there is no pre-existing event loop you need to integrate with, so the actual thing the synchronous task needs to do is create the event loop, spin it until it's empty, and then continue on its merry way. Fall off this happy path, and everything is, as you say, utterly painful.

In the opposite direction, it's... always easy (if not entirely trivial). Spin a new thread for the synchronous task, and when it's done, post the task into the event loop. As long as the event loop is capable of handling off-thread task posting, it's easy. The complaint in the article that oh no, the task you offload has to be Send is... confusing to me, since in practice, you need that to be true of asynchronous tasks anyways on most of the common async runtimes.
I'm not an expert by any definition of the term, but a book on programming for the Raspberry Pi Pico with Micropython recommends the MCP3008 ADC.
How is mobx complex, its literally plain class for reactive data and wrapping components with observer()
When I was there NBNCo hadn't really moved into the inner city yet. We did have some kind of financial agreement with the building developer/management to install our VDSL DSLAMs in their comms room. It wouldn't surprise me if those payments got shadier and more aggressive as the NBN coverage increased.
AI Medical Imagery Model Offers Fast, Cost-Efficient Expert Analysis
Oh and the black guy that was in hackers was ton tin in the crow. So what he "learned" was essentially bird flu. And milk makes you sick because birds don't drink milk. Did I mention there are swarms of crowd flying all over the city. Also someone put a rusty spring in the bathroom and so now I'm wondering if the headaches are caused by iron filings in my food that respond to radiation that end up in my brain.

Anyway. I'll keep writing this all out because A) based on this stupid fucking movie there may or may not be bird flu in San Francisco B) I don't like being poisoned and stalked across the city by idiots re enacting every type of media they can think of (oh look this "crow"/phylactery is the way you kill people good fucking job) C) it encourages people to stay the fuck out of San Francisco which is a dangerous hell hole D) no one is helping me and everyone actively is attempting to harm me F) it's the right fucking thing to do and if I can encourage as many people as I possibly can not to come here I will E) yes they did in fact say alphabetical order when they killed tin tin. Did I mention there a stupid fucking wizard of Oz play and security company?

I just don't want to be sick. I'm going to write all this shit out so long as I'm ill and hurting.

So. Bird flu. Fucking wonderful. It's probably nothing, the hundreds of crows on the embarcadero are just there for no reason. Is someone going to give me rabies? Are my kidneys going to fail now? When I write shit people don't like do they hack the free phone I have to fuck with the iron filings in my head?

I'm sick and I hurt. 555 Beule street San Francisco.
I'm wondering about the "non-verbal language" that scientists use to communicate with people affected by aphasia. What makes a brain with aphasia understand it? Do brains have dedicated circuitry to process words? (as opposed to, say, sounds which are a more general concept)
Linguistics is not living! Language does not capture reality! So no matter how much you solve you're no closer to AGI
We will see. You can say it's bollocks, but I'm betting you are not an IP lawyer. Silverlake, the PE firm that acquired WP-Engine has a gaggle of IP lawyers that assessed the risk before the investment. Were they right or wrong? Like any sporting event, everyone has a strong opinion before the game. But it's only the final score that matters. I'm wishing Automatic the best of luck.
Fascinating comment and I’m glad I caught it! Thank you!
Then why isn't it everywhere, it's been practical for over 40 years now.
Why should it be obvious that the moral component is absent? Removing an algorithm is like reducing the set of choices available to society… roughly equivalent to a law or regulation, or worse, a destructive act of coercion. There are moral implications of laws even though laws are not human
I have no idea what a master gardener is (a US thing I guess?) or why I would care if they endorse an app. But I have tried a couple of the top rated apps for this on Android and found them utterly terrible. I remember one result, I took a very clear photo of a bunch of bananas growing on a tree and got some kind of ferns as the answer. If this app can do better I expect there's a place in the world for it.
I was using a 2018 MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i7 processor and 32 GB RAM as my daily-driving laptop at work from early 2019 until this summer when I resigned and thus turned in the laptop. I had no performance issues with the laptop at all, and I still wouldn't have an issue using it as my daily driver today.

The more pressing matter is the amount of RAM the laptop has, especially given that many laptops have soldered RAM. I have a Surface 7 Pro (released in late 2019) with a Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM that performs quite fine for Web browsing, Microsoft Office, and some programming. I don't do anything heavy-duty on my Surface Pro, though; I have more powerful machines with much more RAM for that.
It's available now but you have to request permission from Apple.

But once you do you can access the camera feed, compress and stream across the world.
> All LLM runs under the complexity of
O(n), where n
is the length of the output.

Wouldn't n be the length of the complete sequence including input?
Svelte noob here: can someone more experienced explain why runes are getting people excited? My untrained eye starting reading the Svelte runes documentation and it just made me go "well I guess Svelte is getting React Hooks?"
My best guess is because the bar set low enough gets to people who don't install software at all, so ubuntu has a good default package.

Once you get to a higher bar where people do need to install software, Ubuntu loses that audience (because they wouldn't find the software they expect to)
Child-parent estrangement surprisingly common in America
That's in the article on Minkowski space. It's actually a good summary, with a hyperlink to manifold.

Here's the introduction to the "spacetime" page:

> In physics, spacetime, also called the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime diagrams are useful in visualizing and understanding relativistic effects, such as how different observers perceive where and when events occur.
I disagree. Quality has certainly varied over the years, but HN is still miles above Reddit. I'm not a heavy Reddit user, but every time someone or something links me to Reddit for something I might find interesting, the comments are mostly garbage. The same tired memes and jokes, over and over and over, tons of low-effort comments, not much substantial, curiosity-piquing discussion.

Sure, maybe there are some subs that are better, but I doubt I'd be convinced to spend more time on Reddit and less on HN. Certainly there are useful places on Reddit; I've gotten a lot of mileage out of searching for product reviews or general customer support questions on Reddit, but that's kinda a "single purpose" visit, not something for general curiosity.

I feel like there are some long-time HNers (your account was only created two years ago, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you've changed accounts or have just been a super long time lurker) feel like quality has gone down; that's almost a meme of its own. Hell, the HN guidelines even has a blurb about how tired it is to suggest HN is turning into Reddit.

But I think it's a lot more accurate to say that quality ebbs and flows, and varies between articles and topics. And yes, sometimes the focus of the site (based on what submissions get voted to the front page, and what kind of discussion happens) shifts in ways that make my interest wane a bit, though always only temporarily. But that's not the same thing as quality.
If you particularly want to use a raw spool, then yes that's an annoying cost. If you buy premade cables for an extra $5 each then it's fine.
Right, DVC caches data for consistency and reproducibility.

If caching is not needed and streaming required, we've created a sister tool DataChain. It's even supports WebDataset and can stream from tar archives and filter images by metadata.

WebDataset example: https://github.com/iterative/datachain/blob/main/examples/mu...
I didn’t say it wasn’t a firearm.
Sick of AI hype? I have some bad news
I am not a professional in either strategic planning or risk management, nor wargaming. Nor for that matter operations research. Some of what you wrote felt optimistic and I believe in risk management the triplet of risk, consequence and likelihood come together all the time.

If LEO sats can be augmented to perform real-time tracking and if the Chinese have a fleet of LEO at starlink density then a significant component of MAD operational practice ceases to exist. The deterrent threat of subs depends on inability to perform timely exact tracking. So that speaks to consequence.

Likelihood is where I think you may be optimistic.

An analogy here, is EMF protection. Nobody can afford to protect for all conceivable EMF pulses. So they defend for the worst they can afford. Uncertainty here MAY be enhancing of the protection. Likewise to sub and stealth visibility.