skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I don't see a valid point in any of these salary arguments. In fact, they're down right insulting and ignorant.

I did strenuous manual labor for next to nothing once upon a time. After about 8 years of that, on top of regular 60 hour work weeks, I spent almost every waking moment of 4-5 years to learn and better myself with about every sacrifice you could imagine short of divorce. I'm now making significantly more and working much less with an extremely happy family.

I'm not some trust fund kid. I have a high school education. My father worked 3-5 jobs to provide for my family growing up. So if you haven't picked it up, I know what the other side looks like.

I work in tech now, I wouldn't even reply to a recruiter presenting a 190k job offer if it meant living in New York. I can get more working remote. It's not because I'm spoiled, it's not because I make bad financial decisions, it's because I know my value and won't compromise and I sure won't reduce my family's quality of life because some multi million dollar company wants to short change me.

I get paid fairly for my experience and what I bring to the table, I make sure of that. If my employer isn't matching what I know I can get on the market, I will first negotiate (which is right where the NYT Tech workers are at), then leave for greener pastures if that falls through. I can do that because I worked hard to bring more value to myself in an in demand field.

I'm sorry if you're making a lower salary, but that doesn't mean everyone should just take what they're given. That's how people are exploited.

These arguments aren't just wrong. They are backwards and self limiting.
"these programs are unrelated" ok, enough feeding the systemd troll. Good luck with all of whatever that is.
Yeah indeed no trace of the term 'lambda'.

But this https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2007/spring/3200... mentions "THE CALCULI OF LAMBDA-CONVERSION" linked here https://compcalc.github.io/public/church/church_calculi_1941...
> That means it had been a year since the apples he bought were actually picked

I've been saying for a while that instead of focusing on "best by" dates, food suppliers should be forced to put on the harvest or manufactured date.

"Fresh" Apples being sold after a year is nothing compared to how old some of the food you by in the freezer, or boxed section.

Manufacturers and store owners are the ones that benefit the most from keeping food on the shelves longer.

> If you walk into a booth and that vendor is selling over 5 types of produce, there's no way they all ripened at the same time. They may not even all be grown by them.

I noticed this also when i was buying a "farmers box" that promised to deliver fresh produce from a local farm. Upon closer inspection almost all of the organic farmers market type produce delivery services buy from other suppliers and sell as if they grew them themselves.
The real question is would anything else also be able to do 99.9999% of the job with less code and better semantics.

People seem to think it is.
> There is a big difference between divinely inspired, and divinely dictated

Isaac Asimov had an amusing very short story about the practicalities of divine dictation [1].

[1] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2011/12/how-it-ha...
To clarify, it's 94x the performance of the naive C implementation in just one type of filter. On the same filter, the table posted to twitter shows SSSE3 at 40x and AVX2 at 67x. So maybe just a case where most users were using AVX/SSE and there was no reason to optimize the C.

But this is just one feature of FFmpeg. Usually the heaviest CPU user is encode and decode, which is not affected by this improvement.

It's interesting and good work, but the "94x" statement is misleading.
I'm pretty sure the wider harm of the NYT halting operations for an entire week—which isn't remotely what's happening—would be effectively zero, even during the week of a presidential election. What's the problem?

Teachers and health care workers try to be more careful because a bunch of vulnerable people (children, patients) with little to no say in anything about how their respective institutions run are heavily dependent on them. A single newspaper, even the NYT, isn't comparable.
It's much easier to replace OpenAudio with other engines—fmod, notably, is better in almost every way.
There's a standalone version of Debezium nowadays which can publish directly to a NATS queue. No Kafka required anymore.
Related :/

Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/04/perplexity-ceo-offers-to-r...
Don’t forget about capslock: https://github.com/google/capslock

Assess your 3P modules for dangerous capabilities
Is everyone on earth working on the same project?
You too can write a book
> Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election.

This doesn't read to me as it's interpreted in the headline. Perplexity is not an AI software engineer product, it's an AI powered search engine with an election monitoring page[1]. To me it sounds like he's offering Perplexity's homepage as a platform for NYT to cover the election on, not that he's offering to replace NYT workers with AI. That's a bit of a stretch.

1. https://www.perplexity.ai/elections/2024-11-05/us/voting
They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out.
Ask HN: How do you manage feature flags?
I'm trying to learn how other people manage feature flags & rollouts. Basically:

What do you do?
Do you use a platform?
Why do you like that solution?

Thanks!
> The researchers took samples from brains of humans and rhesus macaque monkeys, separated individual cells and sequenced their RNA. This shows which genes are active (being expressed) in a particular cell and allows researchers to sort them into groups based on gene expression.

How do you extract RNA from monkeys without activating the RNA that expresses fear?
How the occult gave birth to science
These were on a micro-benchmark, a single function got 94x faster compared to raw C.

This is similar to this other improvement that was also on a micro-benchmark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42007695
Thanks to the rotation of the earth and antenna fixed in one direction sees a bunch of the sky over an evening.
Comparing to other "news organizations" might not make sense if we're including Wirecutter and the games division (e.g. Wordle) on the NYT side. They should be compared to other types of media orgs.

Not that NYT hasn't done some interesting innovative technical stuff within their journalism.
The subtext of that comment cuts against the argument you're trying to make here: a panic following a missed error check is always fail-closed, but exception recovery is not.
That looks fine and will generally work, except when the current branch is one of the ones to be deleted.

The script in OP handles that edge case by switching to the main branch before deleting. That may or may not be intuitive but I think it's a reasonable response. The script also prints error messages for various other bad inputs. Once you strip all that out it's only a few lines long.
They aren't assuming that, and it's weird that you would claim they are. Where do you get this? Those in the field of textual criticism are well aware of the existence of "variant texts"—those "textual witnesses" (documents) that differ for various reasons from the sources they were copied from.
The article doesn't say those minerals degrade, however it also fails to reiterate the linked paper's reason:

> The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5–8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years

> Increasing demand for food has caused modern farming modern farming techniques to impact the soil’s ability to restore natural minerals such as magnesium. techniques to impact the soil’s ability to restore natural minerals such as magnesium. In addition, the use of phosphate-based fertilizers has resulted in the production of aqueously insoluble use of phosphate-based fertilizers has resulted in the production of aqueously insoluble magnesium phosphate complexes, for example, further depriving the soil of both components
The rankings are but the ratings aren't.
Isn't the conclusion of this aticle that it's a bad idea, ie. Rust API?
oh oh, it's getting closer. It kind of feels like a horror movie.
I tried that with someone once, I got an enormous list of complaints about all the wrong things everyone else was doing wrong.

And utterly zero awareness of what they themselves were doing wrong.

Attempting to explain it to them was a complete failure.
NYT has had two years to make a contract and they dragged their feet. Good on the union for hitting them where it hurts.
No one really means everyone when they say “if everyone could just”. There is always an implied scope. The problem is only when scope is too large. Reduce it and everyone could literally just.
I've noticed that LLMs have a hard time remembering all the constraints of 8-bit programming. Like sometimes it assumes that 6502 registers can have a value above 255, or in C it assumes that ints have 32/64 bits.
Political bias can subvert your rational thinking [video]
I was referring specifically to security footguns like having a string eval. While one can construct code in which that is the critical error that led to a security vulnerability, that can be said about any confusing bit of code in any language, and I would not judge that to especially lead to security issues.
Your actual product is really slick. Even just with some basic tests I can see that it produces designs with a much higher degree of polish than regular LLM models, and with much more of a design bent. I'll definitely use this for some prototyping this week!

I wonder what changes you've made from standard LLMS to get here? I could imagine trying to put things on guard rails, giving it some components to build off, or just fine tuning based on a really nice corpus of good websites (maybe generated with this tool).
This is not OP, but my experience with releasing apps on android is awful. It needs 20 testers who need to test the app for 14 days before it can be released to production. Its a major bottleneck for individual developers. Hope OP isn’t stuck with it.
If they didn't like their contract, the responsible thing to do would have been to go on strike earlier or quit. Waiting till the moment of maximal pain is just spiteful and done in bad faith.

Ultimately, labor unions exist to extract additional compensation from employers. Imo in cases where the employer can afford it and the employees in question are being unfairly treated, I think it's reasonable for them to quit or strike in good faith, but I don't think many of those things are true here.

Newspapers are barely surviving these days. These people took jobs at the nytimes knowing they wouldn't make big tech salaries, and most companies have ended WFH policies. If they can force the NYTimes to give them concessions by holding them hostage during one of the most contentious moments in US history, I won't admire them one bit.

Lastly, thanks for drawing that better comparison. It still wouldn't be right for the firefighters to let someone's house burn down in that case.
yeah exactly. Would you be down to beta test the product once available?
> I've only ever heard of managers getting in trouble if at least 3 people under them leave.

That seems reasonable to me? One is a fluke, two is a coincidence, and three is maybe a pattern, as the saying goes.
I think, at one point in time, it was also completely legal to break into computer networks because there were no laws against it.
Typo in title: "shape" should be "shapes". Otherwise it's just a string of nouns.
> DataChain has no assumptions about metadata format.

Could your metadata come from something like a Postgres sql statement? Or an iceberg view?
Regarding RTO:

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4747313-remote-work-b...

The research backs up all the good things that have come out of remote working since at least the pandemic started. Everything is great, employees do better work and the employer gets better work done.
Which was never in doubt if you look at research and metrics.

The kerfuffle about remote being bad only has the stated negative of something about "culture" according to every company that is forcing people off of remote work.

What they don't tell you is

1: the company wants to shift their tax burden to workers from local governments.

2: It is impacting the Commercial Real-estate that the leadership team and board members are getting paid for, on the back end, for leasing office spaces back to the company.

Further:

3: The company is already or will be soon opening a remote team office in Hydrabad, so they are already going to lose #1 and #2 and still not have a decent culture.
Just listened to Vogue on my headphones, and I'm unable to notice anything unique about the soundscape of this song. What do you folks hear and when do you hear it? At what point in the song?
> How does it not make sense when you seem to have the same opinion of it?

Well, what remains of Rails or of ActiveRecord once you remove the part that's done outside the database? It just seemed like a very shallow view of what rails is.
Manufactured drama.
That conclusion does not explain your arguments. The place is over 100 years old and surely have HR processes. This is more likely about the union trying to prevent layoffs
The Novo Nordisk scientist behind Ozempic, Wegovy weight loss research [video]
I've always understood synoptic to mean "see together", that is, the synoptic gospels are meant to be seen together, since they are so similar.
It's definitely a thing that happens. I believe it comes from the phrase "assembler language" that IBM manuals used instead of "assembly".
If you want something a bit more robust and cross-platform, including support for the undocumented TypedStream-stored text data, you can use my open source software: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
Some people die by cancer, other overcome the cancer, and a small amount don't stand the treatment and die by the chemotherapy. Sometimes by genetics, and can't always be known before. It also depends on how much advanced and aggressive is the tumor.
Usually they don't like someone because they are poor performers. As a person who has owned a business with employees, you naturally like the ones that are making you money. In fact, I'd put up with a whole lot of things I don't like if they make money for me.

As a manager, I'd naturally want to retain the people who made me look good to my manager, regardless of my personal feelings.

Having a personal vendetta against particular employees has never happened in my experience, though it's been alleged a lot.
I guess, it involves splitting a file into smaller document snippets, getting page numbers and such, and calculating embeddings for each snippet—that’s the usual approach. Specific signals vary by use case.

Hopefully, @jerednel can add more details.
> The point is that foreign fabs are a very real multi-national security risk.

Yes, I agree. I was joking that nobody wants the hard work of actually fabricating the chips though.
Better article: Questioning Q

https://jimmyakin.com/2014/08/questioning-q.html
Yes, you can use your own editor. It's not generally _offered_ for the first (pre "onsite") interview but is an option if you ask. It's made clear (recommended, even) for the onsite that you have that option.
Ref also https://www.twz.com/air/did-a-new-mini-sword-bomb-just-get-u...
Rota's reminiscence (not just the part about Church but the entire webpage, namely "Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties") is, as the asterisked footnote alludes to, a chapter of his book Indiscrete Thoughts. The whole book is great reading.
"Based on your historical documents, wouldn't it make sense that your gospels came from the Q Continuum?" - the Thermians
Europe knows their money is being used for war in their own backyard when they buy oil from India.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-oil-e...

Why isn't Europe an accomplice?
Nope, I'm saying that them being part of an unrelated union does not change the fact that they have a conflict of interest in reporting here.
Well that quote appears to contradict the article's claim that speed to market is the most important factor.

Now I don't know what to think..
For some reason I thought I had read that Horizons was faster and would eventually eclipse it, odd.

Anyway I'm still curious if V1 outlasts New Horizons
Tbf those are development deps rather than production server deps, and the vuln will be something like "DOS possible if you let users craft their own regex string as input to lib.foo(re) in a server ctx" rather than "by using this in development to build your static js app, people get remote access to your dev machine."
Do you think interviewers at a company this size are deciding how interviews are run? They're basically just following a script.
Elon Musk lawyer says $1M voter giveaway winners are not random
It does mention those reasons and others, however all those reasons directly contradict the article's next point "If all you care about is nutrient content, SPEED is the only factor that matters". Seems like all these other factors should matter too! Surely not every farm is equal in these respects...
I feel like it’s only good by collective agreement rather than any underlying merit. I wonder how many people would like it if they were told it was an idea a junior PM had put together as a holding pattern for a never-released Google product. Would it get the same level of adoration?
I think the NYT should take him up on that offer. Those striking can probably pull off a 404media business model instead while they watch NYT turn into USA Today, except worse.
Absolutely, that's a common scenario!

Just connect from your Python code (like the lambda in the example) to DB and extract the necessary data.
The ones that can hold onto them.
This does not seem correct. There was a vision of using M-expressions, (Metalanguage) but it never happened.

>In computer programming, M-expressions (or meta-expressions) were an early proposed syntax for the Lisp programming language, inspired by contemporary languages such as Fortran and ALGOL. The notation was never implemented into the language and, as such, it was never finalized
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression
Did he actually say that?

Because in the article, there's only a tweet of him saying that Perplexity is "on standby to help", of which "offering to replace striking staff with AI" seems a pretty strong mischaracterization.

Update: The headline (but not the URL) was just changed to "Perplexity CEO offers AI company’s services to replace striking NYT staff" (emphasis mine).
Simply put, voting itself creates a bias. Once you commit to a decision (e.g., vote) you are *less* likely to change your mind, change your perspective, etc. Yes, it can happen. But it's less likely.
LLMs generally do not make mistakes of this sort.
Apparently I'm an incredibly healthy individual - just had a physical that stated that. I do have a good genetic base but in general I don't live a particularly healthy lifestyle, my activity is pretty much the same as everyone else - except my diet.

I'm a vegetarian and a celiac (no gluten) so I don't eat a lot of processed food. Rice, oatmeal, corn tortillas, black beans, cheese, hemp hearts, flax seeds, chia seeds, Sriracha, coffee w/honey and hazelnut creamer - all that is easily 90%+ of my diet. I also drink a protein drink called OWYN daily.

About once a week I'll have a little to eat in the morning and then I just won't really get hungry again til really late and I'll often just not eat then and go to bed. Intermittent fasting is great. A few times a year I'll go a few days without really eating - there are so many benefits to the process. The primary being autophagy - that I sus is the reason I look so much younger than people my age.

The science of sleep radically disagrees with the next thing I'm about to say.

The process with food and the body is very similar to the process of sleep and the brain.

Occasionally pulling an all nighter playing video games (can't be a stressful all nighter) is actually good for you - it resets some stuff in your head. This can be particularly effective for dealing with certain states of depression or melancholia.
Aft – a fast file transferring program
Hey everyone! I have shown this program before, but it has changed ALOT since then.

I would really love to hear your feedback, suggestions and questions.

Source code: https://github.com/dd-dreams/aft

P.S. Here is a quick config file:
```

verbose=3

identifier=coolhnuser

```
Mmm, that's fair. I tend to forget about it because it's not something I personally struggle with but that doesn't mean it's not a problem.

I'd still rate it well below a string eval or a default shell interface that takes strings and treats them like shell does. You assert down below that you've seen this lead to a critical vulnerability and I believe you, but in general what happens if you forget to check errors is that sooner or later you get a panic or something else that goes so far off the rails that your program crashes, not that you get privs you shouldn't. As I say in another comment, any sort of confusing bit of code in any language could be the linchpin of some specific security vulnerability, but there are still capabilities that lead to more security issues than some other capabilities. Compared to what I've seen in languages like Perl this is still only "medium-grade" at best.

And I'm not trying to "defend" Go, which is part of why I gave the laundry list of issues it still has. It's just a matter of perspective; even missing the odd error check here or there is just not the same caliber problem as an environment where people casually blast user-sourced input out to shell because the language makes it easier than doing it right.

(Independent of language I consider code that looks like

operation = determineOperation()
if !canIDoOperation(operation) {
// handle failures
}
doOperation(operation)

architecturally broken anyhow. It seems natural code to write, but this is a form of default allow. If you forget to check the operation in one place, or even perhaps forget to write a return in the if clause, the operation proceeds anyhow. You need to write some structure where operations can't be reached without a positive affirmation that it is allowed. I'd bet the code that was broken due to failing to check an error amounted to this in the end. (Edit: Oh, I see you did say that.) And, like I said, this is independent of Go; other than the capabilities-based languages this code can be written in pretty much anything.)
Love the idea! I think the biggest barrier would be neighbors who do not want parties in their neighborhoods.

If you could find a way around that, that neighborhood would be a hit with millennials and gen z.
Somewhat related, I learned a surprising fact recently: Go is not actually memory safe. In particular because atomicity is only guaranteed for word size values, double word values(interface pointers, slices) can introduce memory unsafety in the presence of concurrency[0].

It's one of those things that feels obvious when you see it.

0: https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression

It was never implemented.

It was M-expressions which users were to interact with, and S-expressions were what the machine would use.
Bug or intentional? macOS 15.1 removes ability to launch unsigned applications
1. i am not sure if the helm chart can be used for the oss version?
2. if a helm chart needs sh files, it’s already an absolut no-go since it won’t work with gitops that well.
if you don't pull in 50 jars to replace the "new" keyword (aka spring DI), then this ceases to be a problem