skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - although I came to the same sorts of realisations through Guix, the fundaments of the projects are the same (as I presume and hope you and other Nix people know). So the answer is Nix and its spiritual sibling, Guix, and any other project that attempts to implement the meat of that thesis there (which I hadn't seen actually - thank you!).

I feel there's a surprisingly strong standoffishness between the two communities of users, but that's a side point.

On topic though, for example, https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/reproducible-computations-..., and there are other excellent posts on the Guix blog going in to great detail on the topic of reproducibility and the efforts they are putting in there.
I heard this once from a finance guy:

If you want to convert someone into a cut-all-government right winger or libertarian, send them to work in government for a few years.

If you want to convert someone into a communist, send them to Wall Street for a few years.

Any sane person exposed to any human institution will typically walk away thinking "burn it all to the f'ing ground."

All human institutions tend to be loaded with self dealing, perverse incentives, and incompetence. We are not good at this.

The only thing that checks it is companies going out of business or the government analog, which is struggle between agencies for funding and accolades. But as others have said large companies can muddle on for a long time and large anything can amass a lot of political and cultural cache and become too big to fail.
They need to become mainstream before they really take off — i.e. affordable.
One might argue there is no such thing as an efficient large company. They're just somewhat structured chaos, the larger, the more chaotic.
Why the Art of Invention Is Always Being Reinvented
We don't even produce enough electricity for EVs, and now we are trying to power AI data centers poised to take even more power. It's not just a distribution problem, or a charging facility problem. It is an electricity production problem. The problem of producing power and distributing it alone will likely take 10-20 years to solve. Charging infrastructure is a different beast because it generates huge loads on the power grid in short bursts. Many big charging stations run massive diesel generators and/or have HUGE batteries on site to handle this load. Then there is the fire hazards, toxic mining for batteries, chemical pollution from batteries, and the long charge times. A lot of people live in apartments where home charging will never be feasible. On top of all of this, smart chargers are being designed to "handle" grid issues by turning off charging or even sending your electricity back into the grid which will leave you wondering "Why can't I use my car? It's been on the charger a stupid amount of time now..."

In summary, I won't be hopping on the EV bandwagon. The Toyota CEO is right. They have nothing against EVs and would make them if it made sense. Trying to ram EVs down people's throats will waste a lot of money and cause lots of problems. A hybrid is something that actually does work for many people. Hydrogen would also be superior, if they can get the kinks out. Toyota is a pioneer in hydrogen power too.
One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI
Five Eyes launch Secure Innovation to protect tech sector
The ballot printout is not discarded, is it? If not, then the ballot-barcode consistency in the sample can be verified as part of the audit.
Runes prove Elfdalian is distinct ancient Nordic language, say researchers
The references to Land Rover and Doctor Who make me think the author is British. In British English, "scheme" does not usually have negative connotations.
Shrinking all the while, until they go out of business.
Increasing the Supply of Very High-IQ Workers
thank you for explanation, yes I later encountered your answer and upvoted it.

> I had to leave out specific applications as "an exercise for the reader"
this is very unfortunate. would be very interesting to hear some intel :)
Why would this be an advantage to Astral’s uv?
Sure, agreeing would be a fireable offence "And anyone who wants to build a system where it is, is not working for us."

But the non-PIM teams agree, and they are a few orders of magnitude bigger and more important.
Any idea what that compile time might look like for each of the M4 configurations? Also, how often do you have to compile a codebase of that size from scratch and why?
>The internet discourse gets further and further from reality in a lot of areas

This is an intended feature, and it's exclusively a feature of one political party. The elections are always rigged, this one is rigged, the voting process is rigged, just don't ask me to present evidence in a court of law...
The really interesting thing was that Bush likely would have won following Gore’s recount of only undervotes but lost if they’d recounted both under and over votes:

https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-elect...

My main takeaway is that this was within the margin of error so we shouldn’t go crazy trying to play what-if scenarios and getting distracted from blaming Florida for having a bad system which produced high error rates. Once you’re in the noise like that, you’ve guaranteed that someone will be unhappy.
Rice cookers are still a bit of a novelty in Western countries but in Asia they are ubiquitous.
It's like microwaves: expensive in the 80s now they are mass produced and sold for 80 dollars.
Pip caches downloads, but in the sort of filesystem database that git uses. You can't even directly pull .whl files (nor unzipped folders) out of it. Every virtual environment gets its own, unzipped copy of the wheels represented in that database. So yes, it's only "saving repeated downloads". (And it will still talk to PyPI by default to see if there's a newer version. There's an outstanding issue to add a proper "offline mode": https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8057)

It doesn't need to work like that. A lot of libraries would work fine directly from the wheel, because they're essentially renamed zip files and Python knows how to import from the archive contents directly. But this doesn't work if the package is supposed to come with any mutable data, nor if it tries to use ordinary file I/O for its immutable data (you're supposed to use a standard library helper for that, but awareness is poor and it's a hassle anyway). Long ago, the "egg" format expected you to set a "zip-safe" flag (via Setuptools, back when it was your actual packaging tool rather than just a behind-the-scenes helper wrapped in multiple backwards-compatibility layers) so that installers could choose to leave the archive zipped. But I don't know that Pip ever actually used that information, and it was easy to get wrong.

But more importantly, the contents of the virtual environment could be referenced from a cache that contained actual wheels (packed or unpacked) by hard links, `.pth` files (with a slight performance hit) or symlinks (I'm pretty sure; haven't tested).
Your rant is several years out of date. You can use ES imports natively in Node and the browser. I have been very happy doing so.

Besides, if you’re working with a codebase of non-zero complexity you need imports/require/whatever anyway.
The author has a few blog posts covering the tee, split, which, and cat commands [1].

[1] https://www.anardil.net/tag/coreutils.html
Priorities, set in very early childhood. Nothing supports that, and that situation will not change.
Scale and inertia matters. It can take a very long time for a large companies inefficiencies to be exploited by others.
Does gcp have the worst networking for gpu training though?
I did that already when I linked an external definition and explained exactly how it applied.
Do you have proof of concept? If it would be exploitable from the browser, it would be huge.
Famously Poor Security? :)
"On Windows - Symlinking doesn't appear to change the name reported by System.Environment.getProgName, so you'll need to create copies of the binary with different names."

I have not found this to be the case with "mklink /h".
No need to quit immediately, just apply for jobs on the side.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Social media is not unique. It is just a specific example of a much older and larger issue.
The resources to prevent Intel from failing no longer exist. The only option will be to redefine failure.
> Symlinking doesn't appear to change the name reported by System.Environment.getProgName, so you'll need to create copies of the binary with different names

Would hardlinks help (would avoid multiple copies)?
Someone in Long Beach did.
For management in companies, the key resume drivers are team sizes and budgets to show how “experienced” they are. There are definitely adverse incentives. A lot of empire building goes on as managers try and grow how much they oversee to move up.
I created a free data engineering email course
I made a free email data engineering course.

In 26 emails, you will build a pipeline to:

1. Pull data from SpaceX.

2. Model the data.

3. Analyse rocket launches.

You will:

- Learn some Python, pandas, and SQL basics.

- Learn what Singer and dbt are and how to use them.

- Learn Snowflake and advanced SQL.

Oh, and you only need to spend 3 minutes a day.

What's the catch? You need to subscribe to my newsletter, too. But don't worry. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter and still receive the course.

I'd appreciate any feedback.
Show HN: Open-Source Alternative for GitHub Copilot
After many months of effort, trying to build an open source alternative for GitHub Copilot, while still retaining the same native user experience it offers, we're happy to ship Flexpilot. (https://flexpilot.ai/)

You can try the VS Code extension here - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=flexpilo...

Flexpilot requires VS Code 1.95 or higher.

While we loved GitHub copilot and the experience it offered, we wanted to use other LLM's to code effectively using VS Code and not just OpenAI. Also, there are lots of concerns around privacy and security at enterprises to send their codebases to the cloud. Several other coding assistants did not have the same native experience as GitHub Copilot and were only web views and we wanted to try and build something that will give us the best of both worlds - flexibility to choose LLM's (Cloud or on-prem) and native user experience, all within VS Code.

Flexpilot offers you the ability to choose from a variety of LLM providers such as OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, Gemini, AzureOpenAI, Groq or even other OpenAI compatible API providers. For instance, you can run Llama 3.2 or CodeLlama using Ollama on your local machine and inference it on VS Code using Flexpilot.

Not only in panel chat or inline chat, Flexpilot allows you to choose any LLM of choice in Panel, Inline, Code completions, quick chat, commit messages, Chat summaries etc.

Our repo is open source and you can find the details here - https://github.com/flexpilot-ai/vscode-extension

Happy to answer any questions on tech stack, comparisons with other coding assistants, etc.

Please try Flexpilot and let us know your thoughts!
> Like much common wisdom, the idea that companies are efficient (and specifically more efficient than government) is a myth.

The claim as I've understood it is more that a private company puts control over efficiency more directly into the hands of the people whose money is being wasted.

A government entity is typically nominally accountable to the taxpayer, but that accountability is through so many layers of indirection that it doesn't actually do anything. A privately owned company with a small number of owners will in theory be more responsive to monetary pressures. I think where this breaks down is with ridiculously large publicly traded companies where stock price has more to do with shareholders betting on the irrational behavior of other shareholders than it does with the actual performance of the company.

When the owners of the company make money when the company makes money, it will typically straighten out its inefficiencies. When the owners of the company make money by buying and selling abstract financial instruments, not so much.
It does not make sense. It never made sense. It is patently stupid and it should only take five minutes to realize why.

If I go to the store today and buy groceries, it’ll cost X. If I go tomorrow as well, it’ll cost Y. The two numbers are barely related to each other. And only because I don’t need the things I bought yesterday.

And yes, that’s day to day. What about year to year?

Last year, I did not need any repairs to my house. This year I do. A few years ago, I needed a new roof. Three different year, three radically different home repair budgets.

The entire exercise is a refusal to due diligence of any sort. If you say $X/yr, then you don’t have to ask why. You don’t have to scrutinize reasons. Then everything becomes about adjusting this number without ever asking what it is being used for.
Large companies start to become indistinguishable from government. At a certain size it’s bureaucracy all the way down.
TCP/UDP access is behind explicit prompt and it's basically the same as executing downloaded application, so I don't think that it's anything bad. Basically you either install software to your local system which does not have any restrictions or you use web application which still is pretty restricted and contained.
Check out Electric Classic Cars on YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ElectricClassicCars

Most of their conversions are sports cars but many aren't.
Oh, I'm definitely less sharp than I was ten years ago. I struggle with learning new info now. Unfortunately, $10 a month to sleep is affordable. I will look at CBN but CBD doesn't really move the needle much for other issues. I'll check it out all the same. Anything I can do to be rid of them would be great. I've got a prescription for sleep aids but without a job I don't have health insurance and thus cannot afford it. I don't qualify for low income programs, either, so I'm just screwed. Mess with my brain so I can function or be a zombie over half of my waking period.
I think nowadays people lack expression skills and adding swear words is a cheap way to look edgy
Modern operating systems are bad and they are not going to be fixed. So Browser is another attempt at creating better operating system.

Why modern operating systems are bad:

1. Desktop OS allow installation of unrestricted applications. And actually most applications are unrestricted. While there are attempts at creating containerised applications, those attempts are weak and not popular. When I'm installing World of Warcraft, its installer silently adds trusted root certificate into my computer.

2. Mobile OS are walled gardens. You can't just run anything, you need to jump through many hoops at best or live in certain countries at worst.

3. There's no common ground for every operating system. Every operating system is different, has completely different APIs. While there are frameworks which try to abstract those things, those frameworks adds their own pile of issues.

Browser just fixes everything. It provides secure sandbox which is trusted by billions of users. It does not restrict user in any way, there's no "Website Store" or something like that, you can open everything and you can bring your app online within few minutes. It provides an uniform API which is enough to create many kinds of applications and it'll run everywhere: iPhone, Pixel, Macbook, Surface, Thinkpad.
I'm rooting for Edison but after watching some recent videos on this kit I don't have high hopes. There are only a few people working on this project.
Umm no it didn't. The game streaming is still there and I use it literally every day to access my windows PCs from my macs.
You are nitpicking. I was referring to "code" in the traditional sense of C, C++, Javascript, etc contained in what are otherwise plain text files. I thought that my reference was ok given the HN audience but apparently not.

Excel supporting VBA macros blurs the lines but given that auditors spend so much time in Excel, they get to know that too. Now that Excel, has official support for Python, I suppose they'll need to have to come up to speed on that as well.
This is cool. Any pointers on how you built this?
Camper vans are already a big problem for some rural areas. And they don’t tend to contribute much to the local economy. You phrased it like that was a gotcha, but it’s not really. Camper-vans and cruises are both high-impact low benefit forms of tourism.

I wouldn’t put bike tourists in that group - because they are incredibly low impact in comparison, and in my experience most bike tourists are spending money as they go - either on accommodation or food.
If I already have a postgres operator setup on Kubernetes - what additional benefits is this getting me?

Right now super fast start times aren't really needed since it's a database that I expect to be running for a while - ms vs 30s is fine. It's easier to setup a test database on the same machine I'm running automated tests so that may not be a good usecase either.

I'm glad that they've made improvements to startup speed and size of the containers which would be good if it's open sourced, but I don't know if this is good as a paid service if you already have an easy way of setting up new clusters in k8s.
Worst is defense industry Cost Plus contracts with guaranteed profit

https://www.smalltofeds.com/2014/09/fixed-price-versus-cost-...

No matter how bad you are, you end up making profit. Combines worst of socialism and capitalism.
Because the races are close and both candidates have access to the same technology, which also drives them closer, they attack the process.

It can be difficult to get on the list of eligible voters; different places count different things as a proper ID. If you are poor or marginalized in other ways, getting a proper ID can be a challenge. The US has a long history of trying to prevent substantial populations from voting; it’s even designed into the Constitution.

Just this week, the Supreme Court ruled that votes in Pennsylvania that don’t have the date written on them (properly) but were mailed in don’t have to be counted. That has nothing to do with the intent of the voter, but political factions think it affects their chances one way or the other. In some states, you can’t give water to people while they wait in line to vote.
> The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

- Adam Smith
I don't agree, though I guess it depends on how long long is. There are certainly some examples I can think of but I would argue most of them are actually natural monopolies in disguise, usually benefitting from network effects

I 100% grant that large organizations by their nature are less efficient than small organizations due to lossy communication. And some companies have a minimum size due to the nature of their work, which places inherent limits on their efficiency. But they're still subject to competitive pricing from other, similarly large companies.
> in a private company you get a bonus for being efficient and saving the company money

haha, good joke

every time I've saved company money and made them more efficient my reward was: more work for the same salary.
I had the same question, and this article definitely could have discussed other potential engineering approaches and why they didn't work to provide the full context. To be honest, I learned very little from the article -- I already know how rice cookers work, so I want to learn much more when I decided to read the article
I would argue the pruning function becomes way more important (and way less used) the bigger a company gets and so there are very few large companies that are efficient, not none. Twitter comes to mind since they just had 70% plus of their workforce pruned as a likely efficient company (at least at serving social media pages, not at making money so far).

I also think this is why government is the most dangerous power structure (they almost never prune anything and they have theoretical claim to 100% of the country's GDP through taxation. It would be better for us all if they were heavily restricted or just figured out how to prune effectively instead of just raising taxes all the time to support inefficient program spending)
Sure. Right click the timeline/bars strip above notes to set start and end point and also enable looped playing before pressing play.
This competing offer thing is relatively new and restricted to the top internet and wall street kind of companies. Where there is too much money and they just want people at the top of the ladder all the time, even if they don't need them.

This kind of requires companies winning above and beyond anybody else. Those are rare.

Every where else, its work as usual and people as usual. Nobody is important. People join and leave all the time. They could care less about whatever other offers you have.
It’s not lower case, you should be using snake_case
Thanks for applying scepticism to the claim! Yes, cruise ships are bad for all sorts of reasons - but from an absolute energy consumption point of view there’s no way they’re as bad as people are making out.

Just as high density apartment living is the most efficient way to live on land, there must be similar benefits in a ship. I’d be surprised if the energy consumption per person was much higher than that of a land based resort.

The ships engine will be less efficient than a modern power station, and there’s no zero carbon generation on a ship. That might account for 4x CO2 per kWh. Anything more seems suspect.
Governments have to do things business won't touch because those things are too inefficient.
60% labor costs with all their claimed automation seems high.
I stopped playing LoL and most individualist PVP games in general when I came to the realization they ultimately peddled entertainment at the expense of someone's misery. Like you say: All that ultimately matters is whether you win, the game actually means jack fucking squat.

Once I wisened up and lost the illusion of "fun", I just haven't found any appeal in such games anymore. What kind of a human being am I if my entertainment of all things is drawn from misery? Fuck that, there's enough misery in life without fucking games making it worse.

Team and group PVP games are great because winning (or losing) is just a matter-of-fact consequence, we're there for the experience of playing together as a team and it's hell of a lot of fun for both winners and losers.
You're literally posting on social media right now. You had time to write a comment, but not even a quick Google search before running your keyboard.
Aluminum foil is the rosin, in this recipe (to get even closer you could steam the foil wrapped potatoes instead of bake)