skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CDC never had the trust of many people to start with, but their repeated failures at communication didn't do them any favors. They also repeatedly allowed themselves to be bullied and manipulated. For example, they changed the recommendation to stay home 5 days after testing positive, but that change wasn't based on any new evidence that would contradict their old recommendation.
Technical founder sold a company (where I currently work) to a big corp. Big corp sends here regularly directors with MBA to fix things, but things are worse and worse every year. People ask me why I joined a company in free fall every week. The thing is that technical understanding of MBAs is close to zero. Result will not improve throwing away 15% of the employees (the guy before current director did this). It’s obvious to me as an engineer with experience in operations - the products are not designed for easy production and manual testing takes too long and has bad error coverage. I have experience to fix obvious technical problems. No MBA will see them in first place. No MBA with their arrogance will listen to an engineer. Let’s wait for recession to end and look for new jobs.
>>>The best middle ground is some kind of solution that allows the security team to "manage" personal devices in some way.

No thanks. I'm not compromising the security of my personal devices to save my employer a couple hundred bucks a year.
Quantify it, show us the numbers.
I think one of OPs points is that it is more of a boost for juniors and a "tax" for seniors. The senior engineer wouldn't open a PR without cleaning up the code; the junior can't tell the difference.
Stephen Wolfram's New Theory of Time [video]
Populist left and right at least indifferent, if not cheering on murder. An insurance company able to extract $500 billion in value from Americans' healthcare. I really dislike all of it. This country has seen better days.
> Management is all about delegation.

yes, but a manager who has no idea about his products, is a bad manager. Sometimes the teams below compensate and this is not visible, but, when the shit hits the fun, it becomes obvious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_%28political_term%29

its recent for the UK (and I find it weird) but it's quite old in the USA
You use PIM: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-governance/privil...

Basically you are eligible for your admin roles but you have to activate them first. Usually there are additional checks + notifications to other admins. These permissions are also only available for a set amount of time and then you will need to re request them :)
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in December 2024
> The best middle ground is some kind of solution that allows the security team to "manage" personal devices in some way.

Oh that is the "best" "middle" ground, is it? Are you sure?

Why should anyone bring their personal device just because the company is to cheap to buy a few phones and then have them basically owned by their IT anyways? Do you realize how crazy that is?

You might want to think about that one again.

Every SMB can afford a few cheap phones for its employees, MFA apps dont need flagship hardware. If a company can't, maybe it shouldn't be in business anyway.
That's security theater. Some decision makers want to "see" it's secure, so that's what some "security" people sell. If I was doing consultation for your employer, I'd tell them that's insane and that they will only push people to circumvent security instead of embracing it.

Others made good points, a decent SSO is the way to go.

(Ironically we also have an internal system that's equally degenerate and mostly a shitload of useless theater; it's secure of course, but there are a few pointless layers stacked on top of what makes it actually secure)
I'd like to share a particular case showing the necessity of verifying AI's work.

Yesterday I asked o1-preview (the "best" reasoning AI on the market) how could I safely execute untrusted JavaScript code submitted by the user.

AI suggested a library called vm2, and gave me fully working code example. It's so good at programming that the code runs without any modifications from me.

However, then I looked up vm2's repository. It turns out to be an outdated project, abandoned due to security issues. The successor is isolated-vm.

The code AI gave me is 100% runnable. Had I not googled it, no amount of unit tests can tell me that vm2 is not the correct solution.
Yep, every actually efficient logging system does it that way. It is the only way you can log fast enough to saturate memory bandwidth or output billions of logs per core-second.

You can see a fairly general explanation of the concept here: https://messagetemplates.org/
Well if OS2 had succeeded we would have PC's controlled by the OG evil tech monopoly which have had their business dealings in far worse things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) than microsoft ever did.
I dont think people are actually against PWA or React per se. In those examples above yes 80% of them should be using React. What most people have problems with are things like SeekingAlpha which doesn't need to be with React at all but is using it anyway. While I dont visit "SeekingAlpha" but most of the time these site will have one or two problems that makes it feel not a web page but a web apps.
Famously, Jira.
True, finding one solution is easy but finding all the solutions can be a fun little optimization challenge.

I made a repo many years ago with a bunch of grab bag solutions for comparisons [1]; from dumb brute force to DLX (Knuth's Dancing Links) and a multithreaded bitwise backtracking algorithm. And one where I just hardcoded the answers because all the counts up to 27 are known.

So I'm all for just jumping to the existing known solutions, but it seems like the OP is having fun while they learn a little bit. They seem to just be a college freshman.

[1] - https://github.com/arcuru/nqueens
SPA hate is mainly from backend developers who don't want to learn the intricacies of ui development. I get it, at least from their POV, but that doesn't make it justified.

SPAs might be a good idea even for simple / low traffic apps, if you don't want to write and maintain a backend. SPAs are easy to statically host on a CDN. They don't technically "run" 24/7, they can't "go down" unless the CDN does. They can use a serverless platform API like Firebase and Supabase. They can be hosted for free at low traffic. Compare with rolling, monitoring and maintaining your own server, ssh-ing if it goes down, dealing with auth, containers, VMs etc. If you want to prototype, it makes much more sense to write a SPA.
Oh I disagree. Like the GP, I’ve been round the block too. And there’s entire areas of computing that we take for granted as being code free now but that used to require technical expertise.
You got... entirely the wrong message.

The answer to "this thing is horrendously inefficient because of misaligned incentives" isn't to be frugal with the thing, but to make it efficient, ideally by aligning incentives.

Open source monitoring software will eventually blow the proprietary products out of the water because when you're running something yourself, the cost per gigabyte is now just your own cost and not a profit centre line item for someone else.
Interesting take, but wouldn't also have the chance to attract the exactly right people too? Renegades, outcasts who dreamed too big for Nvidia or never got the opportunity at TSMC maybe?

There are many comeback stories, Apple being a particularly great one.
How much care costs can be attributed to providers needing and paying for departments to deal with insurance companies? How much care costs can be attributed to providers needing to spend x% of time merely documenting to ensure insurance will not deny claims/services? We can deal with going after provider fraud separately.
I don't see how this refutes the idea of the diamond industry being a scam. The only purpose for diamonds in jewelry is aesthetics, and if it's literally impossible for even an expert to tell the difference between natural and lab-grown without using special equipment, it sounds like the lab-grown ones are perfect at what they're actually being used for, so why wouldn't it be better to get the cheaper ones that are sourced ethically?
Yes that was exactly my point. For AI to get there ? Sure. But how do they throw out a specific time prediction ? 2-3 years is specific. I mean it’s so specific that companies could make strategic decisions to incorporate it faster and there is a huge price to pay if it reveals itself not to be as trustworthy and bug free as much as we hoped and that could be a huge problem for the economy, for companies needlessly dealing with problems that cost money and time to solve. If people said « it’s amazing now and in the next decade it will be production ready and could be used with trust » then it casts a different outlook and different strategies will be taken. But because of the specific and close estimates everything changes even if every 3 years for the next 10 years they say it again. So yeah eventually we’ll get there one day
I'm pretty sure these sections are put in as deliberate marketing, much like all the "leaks" from ex-OpenAI employees.

Sam Altman is completely aware that making ChatGPT seem potentially dangerous makes it seem powerful.
Coming from Mr. Worldcoin, are you really surprised? Pretty much everything this company does is a grift, and the CEO-types are eating it up as you can see from this thread
Most of my time isn't spent coding. It's spent designing, discussing, documenting, and debugging. If AI wrote 90% of my code for me I'd still be busy all day.
Thanks for pointing out. Yes, english is not my first language.

When I was reviewing my comment. I also found my comment missing something in it.

But honestly I really didn't know that "blows me" was something different.
Eeeeeasy, here is the whole journey for you:

0. People are coming to React after doing X years of that other thing, which was was not necessary related to user interfaces at all, was not procedural or reactive

1. People are super confused by something reactive and procedural, it feels too "complex" and something messy usually comes out of their fingertips

2. People think what if they sign for React, they automatically sign for react-router react-video-player react-redux react-custom-div-tag react-img and so on, bringing a ton of unnecessary dependencies to the project and crying out loud that this "whole React framework" is too complicated and nuanced

3. People don't bother going through official react handbook thoroughly and understanding that react is nothing more than a handful of hooks, which can solve every user interface problem in an effective way. Instead they watch 10-minute video on 2x speed which tells them to npm react-router, react-redux and react-custom-div-tag

4. People end up with a monster, which makes them cringe every time they are looking at it, and they can never ship it

5. People go and produce a big rant post to spread the hate with the title "How/Why I quit React and went back to Laravel, then finally shipped", sharing it here on HN
I am using o1 Pro in that chat
As an experiment, at my work I've stopped using all AI tools and went back to my pre-ai workflows. It was kind of weird at difficult at first, like maybe having to drive without GPS navigation, but I feel like I'm essentially at pre-AI usage speed.

This experiment made me think, maybe most of the benefit from AI comes from this mental workload shift that our minds subconsciously crave. It's not that we achieve astronomical levels of productivity but rather our minds are free from large programming tasks (which may have downstream effects of course).
Death penalty if done in Singapore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pe...
Good article. A very relevant paper worth reading is Programming as Theory Building: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf.

Programming is not just about producing a program, it's about developing a mental model of the problem domain and how all the components interact. You don't get that when Claude is writing all your code, so unless the LLM is flawless (which it likely never be on novel problems), you won't understand the problem enough to know how to fix things when they go wrong.
The problem is not what ai can do rather most people in the workforce don't how to use the current generation of Ai. As the children that grew up with using chat gpt etc get into the workforce then only will we see the real benefits of AI.
Why cant the world mandate every new built home to have a safe battery installed.
It might not be a whole-eye transplant but a section of it? The first whole eye transplant operation was only done last year.
There is a an observation I had about economically depressed areas. "If it (the housing) is too cheap, chances are you can't afford it." It goes beyond want at this point into not being suitable for living. Most people work for a living and if there aren't jobs in the area, then the housing is good only for retirees, disabled, or other beneficiaries of passive incomes. And even that is far from ideal as the previous two tend to need advanced services like hospitals in order to survive.
Some time ago I found a YouTuber whose taste in games matches with mine with 90+% accuracy.
This one: https://youtube.com/@splattercatgaming
With similar goals (but Postgres-only): https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
> I was a new grad who didn’t know Java working in a Java team

All the more reason not to use ChatGPT then.
Yes, we hope that the YAMLs will provide a clear separation between configuration and code allowing easier deploys of many apps from same codebase and principled experiments.

Thanks for the hint, we'll do a large summary of all options.
I have the same phenomena - loud sharp noise is like a flashbulb goes off. Reading another commenter mention EHS and looking it up, I don’t think that’s it either. Have had multiple RD surgeries myself. Hope your vision is otherwise stable!
Discrepancy between what's in GitHub and what's been published to PyPI
This has to be related to the removal of that additive from cargo ship fuel, no? It was theorized it was causing a huge amount of cloud formation.
Those discussions I consider part of the job educating users is very important.
Is it sarcasm? Due to mistake in my comment "blows me" ?
> I asked that to prove convolution of two gaussian is gaussian. [The solution] is correct but not elegant.

The goalposts are moving at the speed of light.

A few years ago if someone told us that you could ask a computer to compose a poem, critique a painting, write a professional 360 performance review based on notes, design a website based on a napkin sketch, prove convolution theorems, ... they would say that's a stretch even for sci-fi.

Now we have a single LLM that can do all of that, at some level of quality. Yet, the solutions are not elegant enough, the code not completely correct, the design is not inspired and the poem is "slop".
They're also making a sound economic decision when business class is 3-10x the cost as you often do not get a matching level of service
You don’t work in IT.

Unless you’re paying for Okta and Office365 and Workspace, you’re only getting maybe 70% of systems _you know about_.

And don’t get me started on automated provisioning or deprovisioning.
My comment sounds overly cynical but I fully agree with you, there’s been so much progress in getting people out of poverty world wide. Yes there’s a big gap in wealth but it’s probably the smallest it has ever been on average, and way more people have their basic needs met than ever before.
This is a good point that I cannot disagree with. One more round in
the magazine of the Intel footgun. Lack of openness and engagement
with customers cuts both ways. The ME tech is great for a market
segment of industrial datacentres. If those buyers chose to prioritise
energy and management over security, then hurrah to whatever works for
them.

But as you say, Intel hid it away. Like a guilty secret. They somehow
forgot to tell even their most Evil™ customers about the Evil Inside™.
Which is jolly suspicious. And they've hidden away other "features"
that trash security. It may be the number of people who "actually care
about Intel Management Engine is extremely small", but those who do
matter and they make decisions. Yes performance is important but
security factors are going to be gaining more and more influence now.

So Intel were told time and time again that people want legible, well
documented products with no surprises, and they ignored that.
MCP Servers store is released
Gitlab is worth $10B on the public market right now without an acquisition premium. You're very far.
My impression is that going from a very simple case like this to a moderately fast solver involves bringing in a fair number of intuitive improvements like memoization of anti-patterns and heuristic reordering of the search.

But getting a really fast solver requires multiple strategies that don't work well together (so they have to work semi-independently). This leads to other problems related to managing shared resources like how much you should let different strategies cache information at the expense of how much other strategies can cache information. Tuning all of these trade-offs is exceedingly difficult to do well since it depends a lot on the types of problems that you need to solve.
My favorite is when I gave chatgpt a serializer function that calls a bunch of "is enabled" functions and asked to implement those according to the spec, then hit enter before adding the actual spec to the prompt.

And it happily wrote something. When I proceeded to add an actual spec he happily wrote something reasonable which couldn't work, because it assumed all 'is_something' functions can be used as guard statements. Ah oh.
I haven't tried it but a local demo is said to be like a mkdir and a docker run incantation: https://trailbase.io/getting-started/starting-up
> If you need to do CSR, use Solid or Vue, but don't do React.

Easier said than done.

There're still many high quality libs for React that are not available for vanilla JS or other frameworks. E.g. https://reactflow.dev/ (yes, they have a Svelte version, but not as feature rich).

Vue comes very close, though.
I may be biased, but one of the reasons probably is that it's not Microsoft.
Oh hey, which Linden were you? I wonder if we met.

I used to be quite active over there. Memory is fuzzy at this point but I recall that people reverse-engineered the protocol, so I'm curious how this all fits together.
Slight correction - there were some Borland tools for OS/2, but after the split MS stopped putting out new tools; but IBM did have some interesting compiler stuff too.
One of the things I appreciate about pocketbase is GG's attention to detail with respect to security.

Is the string interpolation straight into the sql from the query string in your getting started docs (https://trailbase.io/getting-started/first-ui-app) safe? It smells a bit.

From a quick look (on mobile) I can see that the function takes parameters, but you're not using that.
Interesting idea. I have been using a SPECIFICATION.md and TODO.md to keep my models on track. What kind of stuff do you put in LESSONS.md that can't just live in the system prompting?
Yeah, but most LLMs are barely functional after 16k tokens, even if it says 128k on the tin. Sure, they will have recall, but the in-context reasoning ability drops dramatically.

LLMs just aren't smart enough to take over the world. They suck at backtracking, they're pretty bad at world models, they struggle to learn new information, etc. o1, QwQ, and CoT models marginally improve this but if you play with them they still kinda suck
I'd definitely rather stand than using most airlines (economy) seats... Allowing to sit on a floor might be even better...
at 1k/mo I suspect people would get quite upset if the product doesn’t deliver all the time. and for something as vague as an LLM, it will fuck up enough at some point.

$200/mo is enough to make decision makers feel powerful and remain a little bit lenient on widdle 'ol ChatGPT
Yeah, with the catch being that junior devs then become senior devs to review the code as the accumulate feedback given by the reward function.
We're supposed to dislike PHP? Have you tried it in the last 5-6 years?
Until you get into an accident and your face is covered in bandages or something and the computer wont let you in.
Don't worry, Ryanair CEO lies awake considering that question every night
They didn't say it should be desired. They said it exists, and it is not clear that all users would want to hide all of it.
Blind from berth here. Would not want!

I am blind and blind is me.
All though I am now 42 years old so learning to use a new set of eyes would be hard if not impossible.

Having to take a bunch of pills for the rest of your life to stop your body from casting your eyes out of your face is not for me!

This could be a grate thing for young kids that have had eye trauma or cancer.

Your brain does not learn to use your eyes until the age of about 7 anyway so that could help in the brain learning to use the new eyes.
I found the Trailbase documentation did a very poor job of describing what this is. It solely describes Trailbase in terms of differences from Pocketbase and Supabase (and that's even the first entry in the FAQ), which assumes the reader knows what Pocketbase and Supabase are. In contrast, the Pocketbase documentation got to the point very quickly.
By the time OS/2 came out, IBM wasn't a serious competitor for most OEMs -- they were high end, so were mostly competing with the likes of Compaq.

The big issue that no one is mentioning is that OS/2 needed 8MB of RAM to run decently, preferably more, but this was when most machines were 2-4MB and extra RAM was still a big cost.
Most systems _do_ compress request payloads on the wire, because the cost-per-byte in transit over those wires is almost always frictional and externalized.

Weird perspective, yours.
At least the bread making machine is predictable. But you now have shitty bread, and a technician that has no knowledge of whether or not the bread is acceptable or not. Exactly like LLMs, we're throwing away the past and forget why it was this way.
>AI is a fabulous tool that is way more flexible than previous attempts because I can just talk to it in English

In an era when UIs become ever more Hieroglyphic(tm), Aesthetical(tm), and Nouveau(tm), "AI" revolutionizing and redefining the whole concept of interacting with computers as "Just speak Human." is a wild breath of fresh air.
> He turned "same form" into "homoiconic" with the help of Greek/Latin.

«same form» in Greek would rather be «homomorphic». (Or in latin «eademforma», which could maybe be turned to «idoform» in english)

«Homoiconic» could also have been named «monomorphic» (single form), similar to to «polymorphic» (many forms).

«Homoiconic» in Greek means «same-likeness» or «self-similarity» in English.
Such a quality written article on satellite networking technology, kudos to APNIC.

This makes me wonder perhaps TCP is not really suitable or optimized for satellite network.

John Ousterhout (of TCL/TK fame) has recently proposed a new Homa transport protocol as an alternative for TCP in data center [1]. Perhaps a new more suitable transport protocol for satellite or NTN is also needed. That's the beauty of the Internet, the transport protocol is expendable but not network protocol or IP. The fact that IPv6 still a fringe rather than becoming mainstream although it's arguably better than IPv4.

[1] Homa, a transport protocol to replace TCP for low-latency RPC in data centers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204808
Oh, now you made me remember the dedicated phone holder! That is another accessory that just went the way of the dodo. I guess the size of today's phones is to blame.