skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nuremberg Trials were backed by the most force the world had ever known! And even then, the Allies wiped their ass with the rules (that they mostly made up ex post facto) and grabbed any Nazis that were useful and plenty that were not. Even putting aside all the Paperclip scientists, who absolutely knew what they were involved with, the US took plenty of SS officers - Otto von Bolschwing, Klaus Barbie, Alois Brunner, etc. Everyone violated their own “rules” left and right and occasionally, if they could be bothered, made up justifications later. This is not a controversial view: in fact the contemporary British opinion was that you can’t make up laws ex post facto and the Nazis should just be executed. The Soviets anticipated a show trial and their “judges” did nothing before phoning Moscow first. The Nuremberg trials were the 1940s legal equivalent of Calvinball.

To the mediators, I’m unsure why that would be an example. We’ve had mediators for a very long time and UN mediation is only the latest flavor of that.
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Your contempt fails to bolster your argument. I would propose that both crimes should be investigated - the fact that J6 litigation consumed so many resources is unfortunate. But it was also well underway when this particular scheme collapsed.

I do fear that the new administration stated aims of reducing regulations and oversight remaining in this space will make it even harder for the DOJ to pursue financial crimes (or even to be inclined to.)
Presumably some snapshot id number also gets sent to the client and is what gets acked?
'Thirsty' ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought
This doesn't even really appear to be a flaw in the Promise.race implementation [1], but rather a natural result of the fact that native promises don't have any notion of manual unsubscription. Every time you call the then method on a promise and pass in a callback, the JS engine appends the callback to the list of "reactions" [2]. This isn't too dissimilar to registering a ton of event listeners and never calling `removeEventListener`. Unfortunately, unlike events, promises don't have any manual unsubscription primitive (e.g. a hypothetical `removePromiseListener`), and instead rely on automatic unsubscription when the underlying promise resolves or rejects. You can of course polyfill this missing behavior if you're in the habit of consistently waiting on infinitely non-settling promises, but I would definitely like to see TC39 standardize this [3].

[1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/42213031#comment5

[2] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/17469#issuecomment-349...

[3] https://github.com/cefn/watchable/tree/main/packages/unpromi...
Highly selective STEM schools are both coed and close to 50/50 for undergrads!

* MIT is 49/51 female/male

* Harvey Mudd is 50/50

* Caltech is 43/57 (the exception, I guess)

* Olin is 52/48

Of course, these schools are not feasible options for most people but it is still a relevant counterexample.
Because at way too many places there are seven junior eng and one senior eng. If they’re lucky.

I’ve been that senior eng and you spend 130% of your time trying to find terrible decisions about to be made before it’s too late and reviewing 1,400-line PRs only to discover (and try to teach) that it could have been 40 lines. Enough junior devs without sufficient supervision can literally crank out endless quantities of negative-value work. And it’s a battle you’re constantly losing.
Isn't SDL itself is quite minimal already? I mean, it is definitely not high-level in any sense of the word.
You mean Yanukovich spent most of his presidency hyping and promoting joining the EU and then reneged at the very last moment because he was given 3 billion Euro by Russia.
Reproducibility of research made by actual humans today is already abysmal, I don't think that putting more garbage on the top will make it significantly worse.
Oh yes how opportunistic. Now that Ukraine had been weakened let’s push thru some “reforms” to make it easier to pillage legally.
I've done both. I embedded VBScript/JScript in an app via Microsoft's Active Scripting[1] interfaces and wrote a template language that grew to contain typical programming language constructs.

Looking back it was the VBScript/JScript functionality that caused me the most problems. Especially when I migrated the whole app from C++ to .Net.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Scripting
No they should not do this. They are trying to create generalized artificial intelligence not a specific one. Let the cursor, zed, codeium or some smaller company focus on that.
I built 2 popular extensions:

1. Notion Boost: 80K downloads with $10k in revenue

I wrote about my whole journey here: https://gourav.io/blog/notion-boost

2. ChatGPT Writer (https://chatgptwriter.ai) : 700K downloads with $20K MRR

This one I shared on reddit and it grew from there. I will write a post about it soon as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWhlrkfJrCQ He has quite a few of these.
In no way is it clear, there's no evidence.
I love that they point out the massive added benefit of using your own products.

Dealing with software you kind of always see if the software is actually used by developers.

Too many times I'm pained with request that take for ever, asset management tools that just don't click or just mondboggling APIs that need 3 other APIs to function properly.

I think using your own products and iteration over internal feedback early and often is the way to a brilliant product and such cost efficiencies are a nice byproduct.
It's worth noting that cash held in a Fidelity brokerage account is handled the same way, by being "swept" into a bank account held by Fidelity at an actual bank so Fidelity can claim it's FDIC insured. I guess if Fidelity folds there would be bigger problems than where the cash balance is, though...
I think the FDIC insurance is per account at a bank with a banking charter. Fintechs are typically given one account by a real bank
and so funds are commingled but also it is a single account so only 85k insuran ce even though the account might have 1000s customer funds commingled.
But users never really saw Synapse. They saw Yotta, which was a YC backed fintech working with Evolve, a real FDIC bank.

I really don’t understand what purpose any of these companies had for savings accounts — why not just bank at Evolve?? That’s where I’m confused. This doesn’t even seem like high rates or other perks?
I am so sorry for your loss. I’m sadly a CS guy living in a biology world and don’t have the foresight to predict anything like that.
I've had great luck with HandbrakeCLI for scripted encoding tasks.
I have only seen this problem in elder devs. Some people simply seem to believe they are selected by god to hand out their frameworks for poor juniors to be forced to work inside. Sometimes they are just a founding engineer, they were the only devs in a startup, or one of five.

These senior devs often quit or are fired and leave the rest of the developers with their “good ideas”.

I have never seen a junior taking on something new that is inherently huge and complex. I have seen them go overboard with refactoring, because someone tricked them into thinking the Boy Scout rule is good, or that DRY is important, or that they need to think ahead and abstract/generalize for the future. Inevitably that is something they were “taught” by senior colleagues or teachers.

A corollary to this is the pandemic of phobia for NIH. A lot of developers really seem to prefer janky, undermaintained third party libraries with huge APIs over a quick home made hack to solve exactly the problem your team has, and you can maintain and test and just know everything there is to know about. Building your own stuff is good. It is the business we are in.
> a proper package manager

Those are a thing? Wasn't aware.
> On long roads where every other country would give right of way to the long road because it works together with the natural psychology of driving on a long continuous road, in the Netherlands they will give right of way to small side streets.

Where was this? In my experience, this only applies to 'access roads', smaller roads not intended for through traffic. Roads intended to move traffic over longer distances do generally prioritize through traffic by giving right of way.
I'm a developer not a compiler
Why Can't 100B-Parameter AI Models Create a Simple Puzzle?
They had their own startup sounds, too (at least the machines I have). And it wasn't just the machines; peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor) had this nice looking texture on them as well. They were definitely cool back in the days!
Your grandchildren will judge you for cooking the planet "because it would have been too inconvenient to drive an economic car"
you start with the notion that Kubernetes is too complicated. so you build your own deploy and hosting system, add features to it as they come up, and soon you've reinvented Kubernetes poorly
Could not agree more, any company I've worked at with an on-call rotation has always ensured that staff are not scheduled when they have holiday booked. The only time an employee needed to find their own cover is if something unexpected came up during their on-call period and they needed a few hours out (like an emergency visit to the doctor with a child etc).

At my current job we have an automated scheduler which uses our gcal to ensure that it never schedules if people have an AFK entry. It also schedules fairly based on how long since the person was last on-call, not putting them on on a weekend if they were on last weekend etc (we do 24hr shifts).
Too easy, I recommend life in prison working as slave labour to pay off all damages with interest set to reasonable rate, say prevailing rate +10%. And this should also apply to all stock holders. Clearly it is time to do away with limited liability.
Put 20 men in a room and they can come up with a pretty comprehensive manual of life.
I took the article as being aimed at domain specific languages. Kmett's lens library is just such a DSL
I must be missing it. How is anthropic worth so much when open source is closing in so fast? What value will anthropic have if competitors can be mostly free?
> For one, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct rarely suggests illegal moves, even in the late game. This requires “understanding” chess. If this doesn’t convince youI encourage you to write a program that can take strings like 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 and then say if the last move was legal.

This alone should put to rest all the arguments that LLMs lack a world model, that they're just manipulating words, that they're just spitting probabilistic answers, and so on.
> bad interest rate

That link shows 2.7% in Sept., 2023. It should have been more like 5%.

The yellow flag should have been the sketchy "win prizes" part of their offering that the article didn't really mention. What's this pseudo bank's innovation? A raffle?

I still agree that weren't actual signs of sloppy accounting customers should have seen, and as it really does look like customer funds were supposed to get deposited in an actual bank.
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> Establishing AWS identity outside of AWS is a headache, and often comes with a chicken-and-egg problem of needing to possess a secret to show you are allowed to get a secret.

> For most stuff here, we can rely on the fact that every connection over Tailscale is encrypted and authenticated to an identity

Mm, okay, but you still have the chicken and egg problem of distributing the creds to join your tailnet.

Isn’t it not that different than distributing aws creds to access secrets manager?
I don't want to go out of my way to defend their incompetence, but you have to prove what happened. It's not fair to send a CEO to prison because a different insider independently embezzled funds and they lost the records.
Decades of deregulation.
More to come.
yeah, I wonder if there's room for a different networking abstraction that could address most of complex orgs networking issues, I, for sure, don't think that we should still think about cidr range limitations when making networks, for ex.

that said, I'm not sure the tailscale approach scales well in typical modern corporate environments, where you've got a small army of junior devops often overlooking security or cost implications (don't forget about egress costs!).

the traditional, meticulous approach of segmenting networks into VPCs, subnets, etc., with careful planning of auth, firewall rules and routes, helps limit the blast radius of mistakes.

tailscale's networking & security model feels simple and flat, which is great for usability, but it lacks the comforting "defense in depth" that will be asked in most big corps.
Here's the raw data of the top 10 models involved in fatal accidents according to the study.

1 Hyundai Venue
2 Chevrolet Corvette
3 Mitsubishi Mirage
4 Porsche 911
5 Honda CR-V Hybrid
6 Tesla Model Y
7 Mitsubishi Mirage G4
8 Buick Encore GX
9 Kia Forte
10 Buick Envision

This looks like the sort of data you'd expect to see if there was absolutely no correlation whatsoever between the class of vehicle and accident rates. And then the data was massaged to put Tesla in the headline because clickbait — and even after that massaging, Tesla was pretty much tied with Kia. So what have we learned from this data? Nothing. It's meaningless data. Might as well be random.
Heh, in real dystopia, terrorist groups pay the family of suicide bombers for their "sacrifice". In your dystopia, boards of failing/lying companies will employ suicide CEOs just before they get caught...
The Alice of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" Dies at 83
Aftershock II
As I've worked with more different languages over my career, I've become less and less able to answer those syntax / standard-library questions, simply because there are so many half conflicting memories of other ways to do it.

If the interviewer is any good--big if--they'll mainly be concerned about whether the candidate is making plausible code, regardless of whether it is String.split(s1,s2) or s1.split(s2) or StringUtil.split(s2,s1) ...
Rules don't stop all fraud, justike laws don't stop all crime.
Could you expand on why is it easily prosecutable?

I sense that it has something to do with lying in documents.

But hypothetically: if I write “no”. Proof of lying requires proof of terrorism. (At which point you did all the job of proving terorism, despite the document)
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Brilliant game! I know it probably won't happen, but I would loove to see the source for this.
This is a strong positive imhe:

"- Step 1: handling it

- Step 2: making sure it doesn’t happen again

So when a major issue happens over the weekend only Step 1 happens during the weekend. Step 2 involves following up with other teams, creating new alarms and updating the runbook. And all that usually happen during the week. The oncall is going to spend at minimum their Monday doing that so it’s better if the schedule reflects that."
Is it just me or is the answer quality rapidly decreasing for the public models anyway (o-mini and whatever it degrades to)

I am shopping things for a bigger DIY project for a few months now and recently it started to hallucinate products with the specifications I need.

In fact it returns mainly broken code, hallucinates functions that never existed (zero Google results) and so on.

Not sure if I am using it more, or it just got much more useless.
I’d expect that the oligarchs who own US corporations love that cheap labor pool in China, India, Vietnam etc. remember they created the rust belt and the destruction of American manufacturing to cut labor costs.

The Chinese now build world class EV, cutting edge infrastructure the show the US as a 3rd world country.

Citizens of other nations don’t like the US CIA & military destabilizing their economies, and the US military destroying their infrastructure and people.

China is returning the favor, and if you think they EVER forgot the opium wars with the western powers to force opium into their country…well you have another think coming.

Look at all the countries in South America we have destabilized for corporations to loot their natural resources & wealth.

US corporations taught the Chinese industry all their know how, and they kept at it and have been flexing their technological capabilities.

They are mirroring what this country has done globally, just as we learned from the British.
I don't have more context than what's in the article but what it sounds like is they've lost access to the database that says $2000 from this pile of $10MM belong to John Doe, because the company that hired the devs who understood this stuff is bankrupt, and the involved parties can't seem to reach an arrangement to bring in a cleanup crew. I don't think any money is actually missing.

Ultimately a modern bank is just a software system pushing around the proverbial proto between some databases and other financial software systems.
Ahh, never encountered Poe’s Law, thanks for that. I like it, however I’m not entirely sure that mock bewilderment at the implication that SS-Sturmbannführer Werner von Braun (PBUH) kicked puppies represents an extreme view.
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Literally no reason to believe any of this. Might be true, but doesn't matter if it's used as propaganda like this.
Forget bpftune, the real headliner here is Flox. Seems like a very cool and accessible wrapper around Nix. At first glance, it appears to be similar to Fleek, but not so clunky and broken, at least per my initial testing. I also like that it's written in Rust.

Anyone here using it for any of your projects? Would be keen to know how you're all using it and if you've run into any issues. Personally, (outside of dev environments), I'm thinking of using this to make my all my favorite CLI tools instantly available in any new environments (fish, bat, fd, rd, dua, yazi etc). I tend to distro-hop a lot, and having all my favorite utilities at hand would be a huge timesaver.
If it's the same, what is the blog posts problem then?
> I'm curious how much of this is really measuring JSON [de]serialization performance.

Well, they did use the standard library for that, so quite a bit, I suppose. That thing is slow. I've got no idea how fast those functions are in other languages, but you're right that it would ruin the idea behind the benchmark.
To me there are three requirements for me to be comfortable with a team culture of print-debugging.

1. If a breakpoint debugger exists for the stack, it should still be convenient and configured, and the programmer should have some experience using it. It's a skill/capability that needs to be in reserve.

2. The project has automatic protections against leftover statements being inadvertently merged into a major branch.

3. The dev environment allows loading in new code modules without restarting the whole application. Without that, someone can easily get stuck in rather long test iterations, especially if #1 is not satisfied and "it's too much work" to use another approach.
Student-Built Rocket Breaks Multiple 20-Year Spaceflight Records
If Israel wants a live terrorist to face ICC justice, why do they keep killing the candidates?

Are you sure this isn't just indignity at being the subject of a warrant?
Less a scandal than the predictable outcome of a massive wartime trade account deficit, and faltering state revenues, that have to be made up via the sale of Ukrainian assets in the capital account paying out to the state? I am a socialist, but Ukraine is in a war of survival under extreme economic duress, and could lose US backing under Trump. It has to do whatever is necessary at this point. Not surprising it would favour the UK given that it's one of its leading geopolitical backers and the City of London. Happy to be told otherwise if anyone knows more about the Ukrainian economy and any alternative lifelines open to it.
There are also a lot of macroeconomic changes making hiring contractors (or anyone, really) a less attractive option at least in the US.
A lot of people think pedophiles are at the bottom of the moral spectrum, that is hard for there to be anything worse, oh boy, if they knew its not even close to the bottom.
Show HN: Better Auth v1.0 is here
This is individual cars and in particular mostly heavy SUVs. But if you group this data by car brand, Hyundai has many smaller cars. But all Tesla’s are heavy (and fast!). So stop buying heavy/fast vehicles if you care about fatalities.
Yeah, keep downvoting, twats.
"Mixin?" What is that supposed to mean?
I'm not sure how you interpreted this as a scandal for Ukraine. It's a scandal for the UK. Nobody cares if the Ukraine government is corrupt, it was notoriously referred to before the war as the most corrupt country in Europe.
the offending message seems to say:

> Michal, if you think crashing processes is an acceptable alternative to error handling _you have no business writing kernel code_.

> You have been stridently arguing for one bad idea after another, and it's an insult to those of us who do give a shit about writing reliable software.

> You're arguing against basic precepts of kernel programming.

> Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.
"If they're the owners, do they get all the profit?" When you know you're not gonna work somewhere, might as well have fun raising eyebrows.

Cooperatives really should be more common.
Oh, cool!

I used a purple Indigo 2 as my desktop for a few years.

When there were some issues with the local hot and cold running power for a few weeks, sometimes I'd get home to my study after being out and about and see 'brownout detected' on my console xterm.

That was my cue to add "coax the x86 kit in the rack back to life" to my task list once I'd had a coffee and settled in.

(later it got rehomed to DrHyde's place in London where it served honourably as a CPAN testers machine until finally passing away of old age)