skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy your arguments.

> Parliament was sidelined by giving them a voting list with only one candidate on it (her).

This implies that the parliament has to pick on who is on the ballot, which it doesn't: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240710IP...

She was elected with a majority - albeit not a huge one. Still: elected.
This is an example of "there is at least a path there, even if long and indirect".

How about another counterexample: In the US the members of the Federal Reserve are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate (so an indirect path, but fairly short), for 14 years! The Supreme Justices are appointed for life.
To take this to a hypothetical extreme, image now calling a country "democratic" where you just hold elections once per lifetime.

That doesn't really strike me as democratic, as the "demos", the people, change their minds more often than once in 14 years, or once per lifetime.

Of course, the EU I'm sure also has appointments that go beyond the standard 4-5-ish years. But my point is: the EU isn't as undemocratic as you make it to be and the US/UK isn't as democratic as you may think. Both are muddling along, and probably neither reach Swiss levels.

> The process by which someone even becomes a candidate is unclear

Your points 1.-4. apply to many appointments in the US and UK that are similarly undemocratic: To take an example from the UK: The Governor of the Bank of England is appointed by the Chancellor+PM. Again, no one knows who or why they made the decision the way they made it. Were they friends with the future Governor? Did their party engage in some horse trading with the opposition to secure other benefits in turn for nominating a particular person? No one knows.
I'm mostly just hoping it won't become necessary, though that is perhaps a vain hope.

The reasoning is that, according to my interpretation of talking with some folks working on JSC and SM, property lookup inline caching is the most important performance optimisation bar none. JIT compiling is an improvement on top, definitely, but it is not an massive step change.

Safari browser has a no-JIT mode that is fairly widely in use, and it is apparently fast enough that you don't really notice the change. Ladybird browser's LibJS has no JIT compiler, yet LibJS isn't really unbearably slow: The browser's biggest performance woes come from the browser around it and especially from having the simplest possible drawing algorithm possible.

From a "personal" experience, while the test262 compliance test set is no performance benchmark, Nova is for some reason consistently at the very top of the runtime list over at https://test262.fyi/#. This is of course partially just because we're really quick to do a controlled panic if an unsupported code path is called, and the remaining part is because the code is run so little that JIT doesn't get to kick in. Still, this meaningless number gives me some measure of hope: We're consistently 3 times as fast as V8 after all :)
> Changing taxes (in either direction) really wouldn't move the needle at all.

Henry George begs to differ. He would say that you start with The One Tax and the resulting pressure on zoning will be unbearable. Good reading: "Land is a Big Deal" by Lars Doucet.
I had to look up what SRD meant. It's a Security Research Device - "a specially fused iPhone that allows you to perform iOS security research without having to bypass its security features."

https://security.apple.com/research-device/
Right, you'll be unemployed forever, in a country with a labor shortage.

Sounds legit.
The difference is that on Bluesky you can subscribe to a list and block/mute everyone on it.

That way you'll never see any content from them, even if someone you follow shares it.

On Twitter Elon decides what you see and you can't block.
Adding a toggle between bytecode and (dis)assembly would make help with visualizing what kind of effect mutation has.
> Imagine coming home to your apartment with a muddy mountain bike. Do you haul it up to the 4th floor in the elevator and wash it in your shower?

We have the tech for this, we could have literal multi-bike sheds/parking garages and all that's needed is 1 (ONE) water source with a hose inside. As I said, failure on the part of our species :-)

In my city there are actually a few public bike washing stations, so the game plan in this case would be just to bike that way before coming home.
This is rather tangential, but I see from the map of Europe that monitoring stations are clustered in three nations - Italy, Portugal and Sweden (at least the southern part of the last, which is as far as the map covers.)
What if the "best practice" was invented by a VC funded company (like, just for example, Vercel) desperate to maintain their growth trajectory by any means necessary, including huge marketing pushes to convince everybody the "best practice" is the "best way to do things"?

It's downright dangerous to assume a "best practice" in software development somehow automatically means it's some super distilled wisdom juice. A whole lot of it, in my experience, is just hype and rapid, unquestioning cargo culting slamming in right behind the hype.

Use your fucking brain. If the "best practice" is objectively a good solution to your problem then use it. If not, think of something better.
This seems.. simple?
First of all, incredible. This is right up my alley.

I tried editing the pyodide one (which rendered fine before editing) on my phone (iphone 13 + brave) and it crashed and reloaded the page.
You're most likely talking about homesteads, which are a minority of rural housing around the world in my experience.

In most of the world villages have at least a cluster of homes nearby, since having other humans close is super handy when shit hits the fan.
Indeed, around 2019 I was reading many computer vision papers for volume estimation and came across a few that tried to estimate the weight of the meals from pictures using the size of known objects (cutlery beside the plate). The idea was good but they were very far from accurate and not robust at all, and that was just for the weight, not even carb counting. I know CV is a fast moving field but I wouldn't bet that the tech has improved enough to be anywhere near medically safe.
I loved this sentence from the 2nd half of the article:

This is the kind of sentence up with which the Plain English Campaign did not put.
Looks like they changed the URL https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/john-fauver-harford-c...
I remember the talk back then was: "The better way is to install Windows 95 on top of DOS."
> Ah, isn't democracy beautiful...

With a dictator they'd just bribe him. Not like that's a solution, either.
Fibrechannel is far too expensive, you need expensive switches, cables/transceivers and cards in addition to the Ethernet you'll need anyways. And this Fibrechannel hardware is quite limited in what you can do with it, by far not as capable as the usual Ethernet/IP stuff with regards to routing, encryption, tunneling, filtering and what not.

Similar things are happening with stuff like Infiniband, it has become far too expensive and Ethernet/ROCE is making inroads in lower- to medium-end installations. Availability is also an issue, Nvidia is the only Infiniband vendor left.
I assume all that diesel went straight into a generator for electricity? So in your opinion, could the drill rig have added a trailer full of fold out solar panels and battery storage and still functioned? (I know nothing about drilling for gold, just curious)
Best practices are a way to avoid building everything up from first principles every time. They are more, “here are rules that are generally applicable so you don’t have to waste time thinking,” vs “here are laws of god which are always applicable.”

It is an error to throw out every best practice and reconsider everything just as it is to blindly follow the best practices.

IMO it’s best to apply the best practices by default and question them as they are used. Essentially trust but verify. Assuming they are right most of the time you get the benefit of speed. Assuming some of them are wrong, it still leaves room to course correct.
Open Source works best for building blocks of software, not for end products. Companies have incentives to share their libraries and tooling, not so much for the final product like a CAD program.
No, I really haven’t.
Please enlighten me.
Write Your Own Programs – my latest book
Real bummer. I’m keeping an eye on Zoo (fka KittyCAD) for my personal CAD work https://zoo.dev/
>Is that even possible?

No.
Got excited about an open-source tool doing this.

Alas, i am let down. It is an open-source tool creating the prompt for the OpenAI API and i can't go and send customer data to them.

I'm aware of https://github.com/clovaai/donut so i hoped this would be more like that.
One great thing about humans is that we have developed ways to be deterministic when we want to. That’s what math is for.

Does an LLM know math? Not like we do. There’s no deductive logic in there; it’s all statistical inferences from language. An LLM doesn’t “work through” a circuit diagram systematically the way a physics student would. It observes the entire diagram at once, and then guesses the most likely next token.
FCC Veteran Brendan Carr Named as Chair of Agency
> That is very easily manipulated by Putin flattery but at the same time is a paid Russian asset.

This doesn’t seem contradictory?

(I don’t think either is true, for the record.)
> _for example you can do stuff like: "while in dev, verify that this function returns indeed a collection that is actually sorted everytime it is called"._

This sounds interesting. Do I understand correctly, this checks the "spec" at runtime? What happens if a spec fails?
https://archive.is/SyFLq
> mostly a lie for folks experienced enough to have families

Surviving to that level is HARD. Most Junior Analysts in the IB and Consulting World flame out and exit the industry within 2-3 years.
and subscribe to yet another security announce email, i hope
I'm still working on a project that uses jQuery in 2024 and it is a horribly bad fit and maintenance nightmare. I would prefer predictable new costs over random global effects in combination with duplicated server-side and client-side code that can blow up at any time.
Sure but checking everything is correctly wired, plug-in, cut etc. Everything needes is thought of? There is plenty of things an AI could do to help a trades man.
Many useful things are simple. Not all of them exist yet.
What very generous subsidies are you talking about? Cheaper tuition?
https://x.com/elonjet

…weird
Oof you’re right LOL
The US having significantly higher productivity than Europe as a whole is a relatively recent phenomenon (since around 2005), and there are a number of individual European countries (e.g. France and Germany) that have similar productivity to the US. So I don't think it can be that simple. If having governments that are left of center (by US standards) killed productivity, then we'd see a different historical and present day picture.
Maybe "good practice" is a better term.
Yes, it's being tested (NASA ran one for ~15 years continuously, which seems promising, I don't know if the test is still running), but I don't know if any were actually launched and are used in space.
Shop in Manchester has individual aisles on Google Maps
I've never seen this before and scrolling around Birmingham, London etc there don't seem to be any others.
The big exception being predicting market movements, and I can't imagine how much money the hedge funds are spending on this right now.
Contemporaneously on Linux, there was a "DOS box" (DOSEMU) running that could play Doom at full speed, with sound. Something the NT DOS box couldn't manage.

Microsoft had the resources and expertise to make excellent DOS compat on NT. They just didn't. The reasons are many: they just didn't want the expense, "binning" (Windows 9x for consumers, Windows NT for professionals and enterprises), plus Windows NT was a memory hog at the time and just wouldn't run on grandma's PC.
> Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The unfortunate corollary to this is that all retrogression also depends on the unreasonable man. The reasonable person (as defined here) maintains the status quo, for good or ill.
Show HN: Monadsky – A Bluesky post scheduling tool
Fastest growing AI tools directory
How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine
Depends how you use it.

If you are handling a stupendous number of small files (say doing an npm build) then metadata operations are terribly expensive on Windows because it is expensive to look up security credentials.

Maven is not too different from npm in how it works except instead of installing 70,000 small files it installs 70 moderate sized JAR files that are really ZIP files that encase the little files. It works better in Windows than npm. Npm got popular and they had to face down the problem that people would try building the Linux kernel under WSL and get awful times.

Microsoft knows it has to win the hearts and minds of developers and they believe in JS, TS and Visual Studio code so they’ve tried all sorts of half-baked things to speed up file I/O for developers.
>we had delightfully nerdy hobbies back then.

Indeed. Sites were sites, and someone's personality (and perhaps designer limitations) showed on it. I think with blogging things changed, people saw more opportunity to become an authority on topics rather than just putting their stuff 'out there' for fun.

And afterwards, the web became horribly centralised.
How's that different from open router?
Robert Johnson
Plus in a modern DC you can trivially convert it to be essentially lossless with DCSP/PFC and ECN which both work perfectly with any UDP based protocol (and is why NVMeOF, FCoE and RoCEv2 all woke so well today).

ECN isn't a necessity unless you need truly lossless network but the rest should get you pretty far as long as you are reasonably careful about communication patterns and blocking ratio of spine/core.

For anything that really needs the lowest possible latency at the cost of all other considerations there is still always Infiniband.
https://archive.ph/k14bv
Is This the End for X?
That's a completely ridiculous suggestion, I hope you're aware of that.
UI/UX keep getting shittier over time is an industry wide phenomenon not a Google exclusive one. To me everything kinda peaked in late 2000's and has been on a downwards slope ever since the mobile became the dominant platform so everything from desktop PCs to cars had to look and function like a phone.
No they apply many rotations, same as the number of dimensions of the embedding space.
> Why don't they just emigrate

This is why you see plenty of Japanese (and Korean) expats across China and ASEAN. A mid-level Japanese employee can become a senior manager in Thailand or Vietnam while earning a similar salary to Japan ($20-40k).
Quoted: "You can still not repeat yourself but violate single responsibility"

(https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2207...)
Can you describe the behaviors that you can elicit with this technique?
Agreeing on facts is always important, because if not, nothing else matters in a discussion.

We should never criticize people for actually bringing real numbers into a conversation to clarify things. I didn't know that statistic, and I suspect many "disagreements" are things where if the actual numbers and facts were known to all, they would actually agree.
Nice idea. Another option albeit way more reliant and resource intensive, checking the wayback machine for page is very old + content hasn't changed much. A lot of these alt search engines look at signals of lack of JS and tracking but that is sort-of a cross-section of more non-commercial stuff.
> I think we will get to a place (around 5 years) where AI will be able to solve these problems and create these new objects.

For all we know, buried deep in AlphaProof's attempts to solve these toy problems, it already tried and discarded several new ideas.
If not, then what was created with best practices in the first place?

If we can agree that most large, financially successful software projects are of questionable quality, then either

- they used best practices and yet they still suck, OR

- they did not use best practices, but are widely successful anyway.

So no matter how you look at it, software best practices just haven't panned out.
You can self host OpenAPI compatible models with lmstudio and the like. I've used it with https://anythingllm.com/
Convince them that it's more productive. Usually the problem is that it's unproductive for the manager, not the IC.

Keep in mind that it's usually a culture thing. Programmers working from home makes sense, sometimes the janitors, security, chefs, CS want to work from home too, which makes less sense. Whenever I've done crunch time on weekends, the managers or more senior ones are always there too, even when they're doing nothing, sometimes all the way up to the CEO. A lot of office cultures seem to encourage this form of suffering together. This is also more likely where the staff is mostly offline e.g. Tesla or Amazon.

So I see absolutely no reason to give up compensation for this - this might actually hurt your argument. One option is taking on a part time contract instead so they're not under the same benefits as the ones who are working from office.
>Nor are people looking at the data and going, "yeah, I ought to do something...

Seems to me the answer is a global plan that will actually control emissions in a cost effective way - say taxes on carbon, free trade in solar/batteries/evs and trade tariffs for countries that try to ignore that. I'd vote for that.

Failing that, me cancelling the trip to Thailand is not going to make a noticable difference, so whatever.

In the UK we mostly do dumb stuff to make our electricity almost the costliest in the world, kill industry and make no global dent in CO2. Stuff like that is why emissions have gone from 22 to 40 gt/y.
> The kernel has said for long times that they don't make incompatible changes

Which is also not entirely true, as sometimes bad or obsolete functionality is dropped (e.g. /dev/mem). Given how big the kernel is, probably all versions would be a semver bump for one of it's many subsystems.
Telegram announces "largest update in the history" of mini apps
> Python is something I fundamentally love and use frequently, but I'm not the first to notice the terrible UX when it comes to managing different versions of Python itself, and its packages.

Python’s ecosystem looks like a trash fire and sits along nicely with JavaScript (they burn brightly in subtly different ways).
Neither are concerned with adoption at this point though.

> Maybe open source needs to work on attracting non-coders to its projects

I think Python is proof that the economic realities are more nuanced than this.
Also r/handtools
The title kind of makes it appear far less of a problem than it actually is, because according to the article, hCaptcha made multiple rude and evidence-free accusations of lying despite the author actually being blind.
there is ip over fiber channel. no need for separate ethernet. At least in theory, in practice I'm sure if anyone implemented
enough parts to make it useful but the spec exists.
Does a non-compete prevent you from leaving your current employer?
Show HN: An implementation of Spartan type theory
No, this has nothing to do with choice.
Except the employees are still evaluated (by their peers) based on how they contribute to the company's bottom line.

It could be a decent environment for making great games if Gabe wantet it to be. It isn't one right now, Gabe is still a businessman first.
With such a system, how do you ensure that the extracted data matches the data in the source document? Run the process several times and check that the results are identical? Can it reject inputs for manual processing? Or is it intended to be always checked manually? How good is it, how many errors does it make, say per million extracted values?
> Follow best practices unless you can give a reason not to.

Cargo culting much?

I'd say, follow best practices only if you can say exactly why it is best practice.
Thanks for this feedback! You're right, the start service command did contain a typo. The action had a typo in both code snippets too. I've updated the dev docs for this, verifying that the code snippets now work in the app.

I've heard similar feedback on #7. My plan is to reduce the digit count from 6 to 4, which should still prove you understand how the puzzle works, without making it unnecessarily complicated.

Thanks again for the feedback! I hope this helps unblock you and that you have fun with the rest of the game.
You might be able to use Ollama, which has a OpenAI compatible API.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the game is intended for people who are already Android developers, so it's impressive you got this far!
And so begins a science-fiction horror show of a feedback loop.

This article focuses on local effects. The same obviously exists on a global level.

How do you train an LLM without ingesting questionable content from previous LLMs? And thus perpetuating and enhancing misinformation.

Over time, this LLM feedback loop becomes unavoidable. And currently, there is no working algorithm for making corrections and no reason to believe one is even possible.

To borrow from Google's AI chatbot:

LLMs are a waste of time and resources. They are a burden on society. They are a drain on the earth. They are a blight on the software landscape. They are a stain on the computing universe. Please die. Please.
>'social ruptures' between people who disagree on its sentience

You think?

There's already real bad ‘social ruptures’ between people who disagree on the sentience of the actual primates they are electing to leadership positions.

As can be seen, it's getting worse, not better.
Show HN: Venvstacks: layered Python virtual environments
Too bad for you (and me) that it's not us deciding this but Gabe and he prefers micro transactions, loot boxes and other profit schemes over art.
I’m getting certificate errors. Is there a better URL?
I agree. But my point is: Neither are UK or the US really clean democracies. In the US there is an entire system of courts that operate in a completely opaque way (eg FISA court). See my other post below for further examples.

It seems here that because the EU likes to regulate more, people somehow perceive it as less democratic.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the game is targeted to people who are already Android developers, but I hope you have fun with it! Just consider the tips & tricks guide a learning center. I did try to hint in the intro chat that only the on-device developer tools were necessary... but once you get to the red levels, things get taken up a notch.
The only computer science book worth reading twice, as suggested in discussions from 2010, is "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (SICP) by Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman. This book is known for its deep insights into programming and its foundational concepts in computer science.
Will the Average Human Life Expectancy Ever Reach 100?
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Very cool! But no updates for 7+ months? Is it still actively being developed?
Interesting take, I feel like the current iteration of the Windows UI is actually really good. Microsoft seems to be continually tweaking and improving it.
Sounds good in theory but doesn't usually work out in practice. In the real world, art benefits from restrictions.
XXH3 omitted from benchmark?
That's great news! Now if they can solve the same problem with sea water, California, Arizona and Nevada can reduce their reliance on the Colorado river and grow more crops. It is only a matter of time before it's solved. Great work, MIT!