skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m surprised by this and curious at the “team thinks” framing. What advantages do you see here?

I think I would much rather own the critique myself than say “the team thinks x.”

For context, I’d probably start with “what happened with that deployment that was rolled back?” and let them self-diagnose and share their perspective. By listening, I might learn there were extenuating issues, or I may see they are already aware of the issue.

If they’re able to critique their own work, I can agree and reinforce the whys. There’s no hostility and we can talk about what ideas we have for what we can do going forward.

If not, and I think we must do better, I can talk about my concerns, my expectations, and the consequences that I am worried about or frustrated by, and propose more prescriptive remedies.
There are a few seemingly minor details missing from the conversation above:
- his support seems to have come exclusively from externally coordinated online campaigns
- his support increased dramatically within the last 2 weeks before the election

Supporting point 1, remember that he declared zero campaign expenses and never explained how he ran his campaign

Regarding the second point, the urgency under which his campaign took off and the proximity to the elections allowed him to elude mass-media scrutiny. A lot of shady details were unveiled since he became popular, which arguably would've made him unpalatable for a lot of his voters

ISW has a fairly good synopsis of the findings from the Romanian secret services here: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/likely-kremlin...

If you want a comparison to the US political situation, this is not your "Twitter did something shady which bumped Trump's result by 2 percentage points"

A better translation is: Chase Oliver wins the White House! (If you wonder who that guy is, Google him - that's what Romanians had to do with CG after the election night; he was on the ballot and you didn't even know it). All while declaring zero expenses. NSA and CIA suspect foreign interference. His only campaign was on TikTok. Looked eerily similar to Ukraine, Georgia (the country) and Moldova's Russian influence campaigns. He eluded TikTok's swarming detection algorithms. He was unknown until late October - the campaign started in earnest 2 weeks before Halloween. Oh, and he actually looks like RFK jr., talks like RFK jr., just didn't have the same notoriety going into the election
What if you survive nuclear fallout? I don't think this has enough protections...
It was and is still common to have non experts design databases. And in many cases, normal form doesn't make sense. Tables with hundreds or thousands of columns are commonly the best solution.

What is rarely stressed about NF is that update logic must exist someplace and if you don't express the update rules in a database schema, it must be in the application code. Subtle errors are more likely in that case.

In the 1990s I was a certified Novell networking instructor. Every month their database mysteriously delist me. The problem was never found but would have been prevented if their db was in normal form. (Instead I was given the VP of education's direct phone number and he kept my records on his desk. As soon as I saw that I was delist, I would call him and he had someone reenter my data.)

Adding fields to tables and trying to update all the application code seems cheaper than redesigning the schema. At first. Later, you just need to normalize tables that have evolved "organically", so teaching the procedures for that is reasonable even in 2024.
Yandex Browser. Has full extension support on mobile too, which Brave does not.
Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders
Man if you think Bash doesn't need an upgrade, more power to you, but every time I use it for anything slightly complicated I regret it, so I'm firmly in the "dear Lord, let's find a smooth upgrade from Bash" camp and I'm excited about Oils
s/elite/elitist/
At least you’re not a fugitive from a chain gang.
Carmakers have been tending towards SUV and crossover designs because they make more money on them. The ID.4 is a crossover, basically an SUV on a car frame rather than a truck frame. I too wish they made more compact cars, but it seems that they would rather produce what is more profitable for them rather than what customers want.
She was careful online, but this Toronto teen was targeted with deepfake porn
We agree, but those examples while valid are also inconsequential.

More dangerous examples is things like inventing new PTO policies, trialing unproven HR policies (e.g. “we work 6 hour days instead of 8 hours”), and incorporating a c-corp in any state other than Delaware.

It’s a major red flag when I see companies doing things like this. It tells me the founder’s attention is scattered and not focused solely on ensuring the startup’s success, and not customer focused.
Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
Researchers have developed a web plug-in to help make better/informed online decisions
I think it's not exactly like that. There was a virus database that was taken offline a while before the outbreak and that they refuse to share to this day. After the outbreak the Chinese government asked for the destruction of covid samples. More recently Daszak said Shi Zhengli had a personal virus database but had deleted it.

Overall they have not been very cooperative with data. But it seems the lab does covert military bioweapons type research so they may have reason to be secretive about everything without actually having caused covid.
This is an incredibly important topic that is hugely underserved because it can be seen as sexist, as well as because it deviates from the narrative that non-commercially exploitative work is not valuable to society.

To be clear, being a homemaker is a gender-agnostic career, and there is even data that implies than men may be more ideal homemakers, with statistically superior social outcomes.

Especially when children are involved, I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that homemakers perform one of the most important and critical jobs in society, with a social value on par with or higher than firefighters, police, doctors, and the like.

It is a tragic poverty that homemakers have been systematically and in many cases intentionally undervalued for their critical and life changing work.
Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents
I fear that we might be in the twilight of the software development job market:

https://www.hnhiringtrends.com/

Everybody got used to continuous growth, but I fear that for most people the music has stopped.
Erm, he wrote the article with “you” to invoke the feeling of the reader thinking about their own use case, which I did

Different because I ran without good practices before, got more and more messed up over time, grinded to a halt, and it was all terrible. Then worked for 10 years, doing TDD for most of it, as well as pairing and other good practices, everything was better, started condemning people that don’t do it similar to uncle bob. Kept moving forward, entered an environment where everything was “wrong” but still somehow worked very well. Now I’m mature enough that I can have both: skip “good practices” and still not break things

Finally, yes of course the types fucking matter
I think even for a white dwarf the Roche limit is well inside the inner edge of the habitable range. So a planet that gets torn apart by gravity would already have been uninhabitably close.
Yeah, you put it better than I did - I'm not secretly raining an LLM lol.

I'm not really interested in changing my information diet to help me follow the news, but I feel like I'm missing out on the high-quality and original writing that I'm sure must exist _somewhere_ in much larger quantities than I can find through my current sources, and that there must be a way to easily aggregate them all so that I don't miss out on the sources that publish less frequently.
You can get HA via leader election through Patroni.

https://github.com/patroni/patroni
Mostly this, but also 10 is old enough to find GameCopyWorld https://web.archive.org/web/*/gamecopyworld.com

Source: was once 10
https://x.com/iampaulgrewal/status/1865036008989106594
A simpler intro to Mathics is here:
https://mathics.org/
I built something similar a couple of years back. Glad to see I wasn't alone in my itches

https://github.com/shikaan/shmux
> Oracle

> you can't win

Is there anything good about Oracle in 2024? Their business model seems to be make products that require expensive consultants and are difficult to migrate-out.

I still have some optimism in me and think that you can win - if you use the correct technologies.

Every now and then there are multiple blog posts here about "choosing boring technology". For example the blog about 7 databases in 7 weeks linked to this version: https://boringtechnology.club/
I have a Hyperion tattoo! The tree ship yggdrasil takes up almost all of my calf and thigh.

Good recommendation but I'm way ahead of you on that one!
I suspect the wall is more about the amount of power an AC needs vs a cellphone/battery powered lights etc.

A ~200$ UPS may only have minutes of batteries, but it got all the electronics for inverting 1.5KW and safely connecting to the grid which would let you run an AC.

I’d expect there to be a market for a cheap box where you can just plug into a wall outlet run in some DC lines from a PV, and then keep an AC running when either the grid or solar panels are supplying power no need for batteries or a knowledgeable electrician. Even just leaning solar panels on the side of your house and running a cord in through the window would work.
agree, a lot of honey growers feed sugar syrup to the bees to maximize honey production.

it is sort of cheating
Cheers! What a nice & civil disagreement :)
See their partnership with Cambridge Analytics.

Also, is manipulating elections and contributing to third world genocidal riots enough for you? I'm surprised you know so little about this stuff.
Reading the ALGOL 68 spec[1] today, it feels like complexity is mainly about the unusual verbiage used (which, as I understand, was equally unusual at the time, being introduced specifically for it). The language itself is pretty mundane by modern standards.

[1] http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/algol68/a68rr.html
It depends on what sort of model you're implementing.

There's a big implementation (and result quality) difference from direct string searching (fixed pattern matching) and probabilistic methods (everything from simple profile methods to hidden markov models). Finding direct matches is the same as the "string.find()" method, while probabilistic methods usually involve dynamic programming, heuristic approximations, floating point matrices, etc.

But more importantly, techniques like Nucleotide Transformers are much less supervised than existing search techniques. Previously people had to do a fair amount of labelling and QC work to identify patterns that underlying general sequence categories, these methods spontaneously learn them from the data. I could imagine building an entire transformer model in COBOL although it would be cumbersome; building one with a wordperfect macro would be extremely challenging if not impossible. Even a profile-based method would be painful (I don't know if WP macros are turing complete/general purpose programming).

I don't think it's particularly fair or nice to imply that the work being done here is the same sort of work that was being done with a promoter search algorithm; I'm an expert in this area and you're being unnecessarily dismissive. The field has come a long way.
--always-make/-B is more in line, but yeah. Make has grown imperative models within its vast declarative morass.
I have the void trilogy to read next. I just finished the Commonwealth saga. It's close but it just doesn't quite hit as well as the culture. I'm honestly not sure why. I have hopes for the void series.
How do you handle minor upgrades with 100% availability?
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll try them out.
The whole idea of unsupervised learning is to find patterns in the data that people wouldn't have easily found by manually looking for categories/labels. So far most of the categories we've identified and manually clustered (to build statistical models that find more of them) have taken extensive discovery biology and curation efforts.
Startups aren't magically different.

But they are the same as anywhere else in a very different way than described here.

At almost any place (other than a company that only writes moon lander code, or similar) you will probably encounter many different situations over your career.

Sometimes quality is crucial and it's better to be late than buggy or wrong.

Sometimes timeline in crucial and your users are willing to be more in the "beta tester" role as long as they get that first version quickly.

Sometimes the product shape isn't quite clear yet so timeline (to iterate with real users) and future extensiblity/adaptability are both super important.

Sometimes you can only afford the 6 month effort, financially. Having less tech debt won't help you if you ship nothing and make no money.

Sometimes you won't need to add many more features in the future, so certain kinds of "tech debt" are fine.

But there's no one-size-fits-all approach to software engineering across all these situations. Heck, it's often hard to tell with full certainty which situation you're in - predicting the future is hard.

However, any approach that doesn't start with "what do we need, and what do we think the right set of tradeoffs are" is likely to let you down. Since there's no freebies here - "discipline" in the "follow the checklist 100% every time every where" sense is not free.

Funny thing about the harping on TDD is that one of the real tricks is that if you don't know the situation, you can't even write the right tests. If the features/functionality is gonna churn, you need to be careful how you write your tests so you aren't constantly rewriting them by testing volatile boundaries of functionality. But that's very different from "TDD good, slow good, fast bad."
Thanks!

1) Yes. My plan is to continue iterating on this approach and publish more data later, including projects and some other inputs (PyPI, etc.)

2) Maybe. I prefer the full transparency and have planned to publish the code too, but some comments suggest that it might not be ideal. Need to think more about this.
Can you talk or trick this AI to unlock its vault?
If you can, there is a $100 bounty.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PromptEngineering/comments/1h8wsa9/...
Lest we forget, Pascal itself was an evolution of Algol-W, which was basically Algol with pointers and records. So in that sense, Pascal and the entire family of languages that it spawned are all direct descendants.

Algol 68 doesn't really have anything in common with Algol 60 apart from name. The syntax is completely different, as is the overall feel of the language.
> I would honestly prefer that compared to the usual childhood experience you get nowadays, which is sitting around watching youtube brainrot right after being subjected to public school brainrot for 8 hours.

There are more alternatives than the extreme you're describing.
I guess my question was geared more towards the CEO and company. Either they didn't notice the BS, which isn't great, or the did and chose not to do anything about it, which might be worse.
From the linked article:

of course one of the disciplines I’m talking about is TDD. Anybody who thinks they can go faster by not writing tests is smoking some pretty serious shit

That is not some made up stuff - smoking shit - is literally saying one is a disgrace if he is not doing TDD.
"Expat" is mostly an English (British) thing, much less US. I'd have called it by name, e.g. US exceptionalism/centrism, if that was the case. ("Expat" use rose during the British empire)

In the hypothetical case of a Romanian working in the US, "immigrant" would be a correct term (unless they obtain the green card and become a citizen)

Expat and immigrant are effectively the same thing under most jurisdictions... yet expat carries less stigma and people would prefer to call themselves that way.
That sounds like a VW Passat B5...
John Carmack imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs
> Gasoline has 100x more energy density per kg than Lithium batteries.

This is true and also misleading since much more of the energy stored in gasoline is unavailable for conversion to work relative to an electrical battery. Additionally, an electrical battery can absorb some of the vehicle's kinetic energy, which a vehicle with only an ICE cannot do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent
It’s funny that you mention that the era of the music. Gen X–Millennials in Japan are likely to associate it with fun but extremely unhip* cafes and restaurants that started disappearing circa 2010 as the women running them hit retirement age.

*The cafes themselves were fine, but their chain smoking, 50-60+ clientele were not the kind of people your average young adult would want to hang out with. There’s only so many times you can get praised for your youth, asked about school or college or your job or when you’re getting married without going crazy. lol
> enforcing consumer protection rights

I can imagine how that would be a problem in a few countries, but he was asking about the US. Pretty much everyone here pays with a credit card. If AliExpress doesn't refund you, you can just open the bank app/website and click "dispute" next to the transaction. The bank will immediately reverse the transaction and ask the seller's bank for proof that the seller did what they promised.

> package never arrived, despite tracking showing that it had arrived

That one is tricky. A lot of US companies will also refuse to refund you just like AliExpress. You'd have to go through the bank. Or paypal I guess, tho there are no laws forcing paypal to refund you. The package was likely stolen by a porch pirate.
Thanks, we are familiar with (and were initially a bit concerned by) that SpaceX example. However their situation is slightly different.

They were able to hire Permanent Residents, but failed to mention in their ads that they could also hire a narrow subset of asylees and refugees who are considered US Persons despite not being Permanent Residents. (EDIT: I think the definition of "protected individual" at https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M... is the relevant one.)

Our jobs are in a different category that is limited to US citizens.
Still, if OP was warning an American to not go to Eastern Europe because of malaria, if it's both places, anyway, their point is moot.
Wow. Reading all the comments; makes me feel the grey on my beard.

I'm obviously the target market for this; I touched PureBasic in 2002 and was super-impressed by its performance in 2D graphics on the MAC. So it touches my nostalgia to see the simplicity of its command set in producing multi-window GUI apps in the browser.

It's so interesting to see fellows on here that have no idea what they are looking at, or why it's cool. It's a very niche market I think, and this is what makes it a pity. Back in the day we had BASIC on power up on 8-bit home computers, that's what many of us greybeards learned to code on when we were 10 years old. (And a source of shame in the mid-90's - basic programmers were lamers, ASM coders were cool)... It's nice that you young folk never had to learn assembly to be elite ;-)
A major message in VW America's marketing at the time was that Diesel Cars were greener than gas cars [0][1].

The persona that purchased VW cars in America was also the same persona that tended to care about the environment.

[0] - https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/autos/1001/gallery.gree...

[1] - https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1037084_driven-2010-vol...
I was/am paycheck to paycheck, if I didn't have so much debt I could get by. I was working at AmazonFC, then driving uber eats (Uber makes more) and donating plasma. I was able to make $5-6K/mo granted I was working a lot eg. up to 80 hrs, at least 1 job everyday and I was not paying taxes yet on the side income. I do pay taxes by year.

Edit: thankfully after a year I got a new job, contract role. I have experience but no degree so harder for me.
I expect Starlink and other satellite providers can do QOS and prioritise critical traffic so it wouldn't have to compete with the 99.99% of streaming services in an emergency.. But I may be wrong.
You're not wrong that intentional bad actors can spoil institutions, I don't see the institution as the problem there though
you don't need to wager substantial amounts of money, just buy honey, eat it, and you'll be able to tell if it's the real thing, enjoy if it is; return it if you're dissatisfied.

Be sure to tell the authors of this article and the officials at these judging conventions that you don't know what they're on about.
You wouldn't use GNU Make (the thing that comes for "default" on Linux) with Python either.

What a weird way to converse.
Crossovers in that zone are a pretty reasonable compromise of cost, handling, safety, and ergonomics. They have essentially replaced station wagons and are mostly built the same way, just a little taller.
I’ve had a similar vague sense of AI worry as many others, but recently had to change home insurance carriers and “met” one of these things. Due to totally unexplainable new and expensive weather patterns in my area of the US, insurance carriers are fleeing the area, and anyone with a mortgage needs to find a new one. The insurance carrier requires a “virtual inspection”, which turns out to be fairly comprehensive video documentation of my home interior, exterior and property, via an app named Flyreel which is owned by LexisNexis. It uses “AI” to predict risk. The AI predicted a lot of risks in my home, including some stupid ones like “excess vegetation” (my flowering vines trellis) that it decided must be removed within 15 days. If I don’t have insurance by Jan 1 the bank will do even worse things to us. The apps ToS - which you must agree to to do the inspection - was what you might expect: limitation of liability, perpetual nontransferrable content rights, etc.

I’ve not only given my privacy up, but TO LEXIS-NEXIS (sorry for yelling), and an algorithm has determined what I am forced to do next and assigned the due date of Christmas. I am powerless to do anything about it, and now ai have a much more acute sense of worry for our future.

Life insurance renewal is going to be fun. Does Lexis do EHRs?
He could probably do 12b (Nemo) up to 14b (Qwen 2.5) at 4bpw with exllamav2
Assuming we're talking about Algol 60, it really depends on what kind of source code. When you look at the more creative applications of call-by-name, for example, it looks utterly alien. Or stuff like label arguments and switches.

OTOH if you disregard those, the rest is simple to understand because there isn't much of it. E.g. there's a grand total of three types: integer, real, and Boolean. There are no structs, pointers, or really any derived types (it has arrays, but they aren't technically types but rather an orthogonal property of variables).

But, for the same reason, it's not particularly useful. The lack of pointers especially limits what you can do with it, even if you use it for its original primary purpose (reference implementations of algorithms).
If you take a minute and go through the settings one time, I think you could figure out how to disable what you don't like and enable what you do like. I use several browsers but with Brave I haven't seen anything like what you're describing probably just because I disabled it in the settings
Arctic uses a fan to cool another fan
Why would England declare war on Germany for invading Poland? Because security and deterrence involves a lot more than just 'is Russia invading us right now'.