skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but I think the logic thread goes something like: Through taxes, we pay the government to exercise various protective functions, such as equipping the law enforcement and the military to identify and respond to existential threats. However, they completely miss or ignore bad behavior on the part of some domestic actors, such as healthcare profiteers.
Or you make your own meals.
It's not in the post but when this was rolled out internally at Google there was a corresponding builder struct to initialize from.
I searched the comments and nobody's mentioned that none of the bicycle riders looked like pelicans. Seriously, a Pelican looks a certain way, ... more than his belly can and all that.
If the plan is to defend authoritarianism, I might just observe that "well they're targeting the right groups this time" is not a line that is going to get much traction with me. The problem here is not a group of people you've decided to dehumanise to the point where their basic rights aren't a factor. The problem is authoritarian tactics being visibly and enthusiastically used by people who's role is to uphold the opposite values.

If you put people in charge who only believe in using one bad tool, they eventually use it on everyone because they don't understand how to do things in a morally reasonable way.
It felt really odd that the author neglected to mention the reason the stunt should have fallen flat was that he was using it to mock Harris for actually having worked at McDonalds, not cosplaying at it.
American here; our kids pore over their Tintin books. I suspect we’re part of a trend; unsure how large. I vaguely knew about Tintin growing up but never had the opportunity to read more than a few pages, and no friend ever brought them up.
All senior engineers were junior engineers at one point.

I worry where we will get the next generation of senior engineers.
It's always played out like this in software, by the way. Famously, animation shops hoped to save money on production by switching over to computer rendered cartoons. What happened instead is that a whole new industry took shape, and brought along with it entire cottage industries of support workers. Server farms required IT, renders required more advanced chips, some kinds of animation required entirely new rendering techniques in the software, etc.

A few hundred animators turned into a few thousand computer animators & their new support crew, in most shops. And new, smaller shops took form! But the shops didn't go away, at least not the ones who changed.

It basically boils down to this: some shops will act with haste and purge their experts in order to replace them with LLMs, and others will adopt the LLMs, bring on the new support staff they need, and find a way to synthesize a new process that involves experts and LLMs.

Shops who've abandoned their experts will immediately begin to stagnate and produce more and more mediocre slop (we're seeing it already!) and the shops who metamorphose into the new model you're speculating at will, meanwhile, create a whole new era of process and production. Right now, you really want to be in that second camp - the synthesizers. Eventually the incumbents will have no choice but to buy up those new players in order to coup their process.
It wasn't exactly like that. It was cliquey but it wasn't like the crisps and bloods or anything.The windows people were typically either baffled by the Linux people or curious about them. There was a bit more attitude from the Linux side I think, but we're talking more about being sarcastic and mocking rather than hostile. These are late 90s CS students we're talking about here, they were a polite bunch generally.
The best software is made by people who are using it. So I figure we should all go learn something that interests us which could use some more software expertise. Stop being SWE's and start being _____'s with a coding superpower.

AI aside, we probably should have done this a long time ago. Software for software's sake tends build things that treat the users poorly. Focusing on sectors that could benefit forum software and not treating software itself like a sector seems to me like a better way.

I know that sounds like giving up, but look around and ask how much of the software we work on is actually helping anybody. Let's all go get real jobs. And if you take an honest look at your job and think it's plenty real, well congrats, but I'd wager you're in the minority.
I don't want to sound like a prick, but this is generally what people mean when they say "things are moving very fast due to amount of investments". 6 months old beliefs can be scrapped due to new models, research and etc.
A memorial service is a very good thing to do, for those left behind.

The body does not need to be present for a memorial, as it is for a funeral. That makes it a somewhat easier event to arrange.
Even o1 just floored me. I can put in heaps of c++ code and some segfault stacktraces and it gave me an actual cause and fix.

I gave it 1000s lines of C++ and it did point the problem.
You may enjoy Nonstandard Mcodonads: https://x.com/nonstandardmcd

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/04/1028769806/one-mans-journey-t...
After spending a huge chunk of my time growing up in rhythm sections as the bass player, not only can I follow time like nobody's business, but I've grown to develop a penchant for weird time. Give me a time signature beyond 3/4 or 4/4 (15/8, anyone!?), or more importantly, give me a musician who will play some heavily syncopated rhythms and polyrhythms (looking at you, Chris Dave) and just do their best to stretch, bend, re-shape, and - pardon my french - fuck time. That's my jam.

Ask me to do anything beyond add/subtract/divide (forget algebra entirely lol), though, and my brain shits itself. Even at a certain point, division becomes complicated for me. But I will hit that pocket and never, ever lose the beat every single time, and that's always been interesting to me.
> You want to change energy policies based on the price of power during a few days a year? That is rather short sighted.

No, I want energy policies that account for the need to support a reliable base load in all circumstances. The prices are an expression that got fucked up. And that baseload specifically includes heavy industry, which has limited ability to rely on batteries alone.

Simply, "most of the time" is insufficient. That means we need an answer for what happens until we reached the "next few decades" state.

This is not advocacy to replace renewables with nuclear, but to a) do the baseload thing, now, and b) cut the LNG cord, which is a very tenuous tether to hang yourself off.

I don't think you and I are disagreeing much about the long term (though questions around battery sustainability need answering for the long term baseload case). But there's need for fairly immediate action. Germany is massively deindustrializing right now, and it's due to energy supply issues, at least in part.
US government wasn't very supportive of the Arab Spring. Also, what FB does may at times may be in line with its government interests but that doesn't mean they are being compelled, just they are like-minded.

There is some influence of course but it's not like their existence is at the blessing of the President.
Why? Most books you read in lit class aren't part of a textbook. You just buy the Dover Thrift edition of some book for $2.99 and read that. Or a used copy, or the Gutenberg e-text. Nobody at the school makes any money on it.
Yeah, I got that. It is just that I think it is now pointless. Like, he/she is dead.
The EU is great for science and research, but terrible for actually building anything.

The UK (although no longer part of the EU) is the homeplace of trains yet can no longer build train tracks.
No need to be sorry, I think you're letting your priors overwhelm your understanding of what I'm writing. What if I don't think that these methods are irredeemable or useless or epistemologically bankrupt, and STILL think that a bunch of disciplines in the social sciences over use them and could benefit from a course correction?

Does that resolve what I think you are perceiving to be a contradiction, but that I do not see as a contradiction?

Where I think you and I have a fundamental disagreement is in the nature of e.g. qualitative research methods such as case studies and whether a case study is generalizable. This feature was taught to me by... qualitative researchers. If you truly believe a case study is a generalizable research method, then either you are defining generalizability in a different way than is typical, or you hold a minority viewpoint not shared by mainline qualitative researchers.

Not all research methods need to be generalizable to have some scholarship value, and I'm not using the concept of generalizability as a colloquial stand-in for ~"bad"

BUT, I still think social sciences could use fewer qualitative studies and pure theory grounded scholarship (i.e. "a correction is warranted"). It's what I said from the start, it's what I mean now, and unless I someone provides me a compelling rationale to change my mind or the world changes, it'll probably be what I believe going forward.

It seems important to you to attribute to me a total rejection / disparagement of these methods. I am just not saying this. I do not reject these methods, just as I do not reject apple pie. I just don't think that a steady diet of apple pie is good. And I don't think the research methodology diet of many social sciences is healthy either. A correction is warranted.
> there are amazing companies which have fully outsourced all of their development.

I completely agree...

> this trend is on the rise and might hit $1T market cap in this decade…

It's this thinking that got everybody in trouble last time. A trend doesn't write your program. There was a certain "you get what you pay for" reflected on the quality of code many businesses received from outsourcing. Putting in the work and developing relationships with your remote contractors, and paying them well, makes for great partners that deliver high quality software. It's the penny-wise-pound-foolish manager that drank too much of the hype koolaid that found themselves with piles of terrible barely working code.

Outsourcing, like LLMs, are a relationship and not a shortcut. Keep your expectations realistic and grounded, and it can work just fine.
Opinion: WaPo Editorial Board Misleadingly Attacks Care of Trans Youth
Funerals aren't for the one who passed they're for the ones left behind. Be there for the ones left behind and remember you are one of the ones left behind.
You went too far in your pushback though.

"part of what’s going on in this post is an arrogant guy who thinks he knows better than everyone, coming to snap conclusions that other people’s work is broken"

He's probably wrong about why it was broken, but it was broken.

And it's not exactly "arrogance" to give the best explanation you have, in a blog post about something else, while not mentioning the company name.
The general risk of being sued is always there regardless of the various things laws say.

I think there’s a pretty decent argument being made here that OP is reading too far in the new rules and letting the worst case scenario get in the way of something they’re passionate about.

I wonder if they consulted with a lawyer before making this decision? That’s what I would be doing.
This is the accurate scenario unfortunately.

I'd give you 100 upvotes if I could.
Actually probably not, you can't use your position in one market to benefit your position in another. But antitrust law is hardly enforced so yeah probably.
They keep lowering the standards for acceptance into the military, because young people are becoming less and less fit.

Just one link out of many (this is well known): https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/28/new-pentagon-...
Is there an affinity between a Java virtual thread and a CPU core?
I believe (perhaps erroneously) that the OS keep a certain affinity between a native thread and a core, just to avoid cpu cache line trashing, or conversely to increase cache line hits.

When a few carrier threads are jumping all over (well, under..) thousands of virtual threads, I fear there was a complete disregard towards cpu cache. But I hope I'm wrong.

Has anyone ever read/heard/found that a carrier thread could be scheduled preferably on the core where the virtual thread was last ran, to spare the cpu cache from trashing?
I understand the other three, but can you explain trial lawyers? What's their role?
People have been saying this as long as smart TVs have existed and it still hasn't happened.
Obviously yak shaving is a hazard in that it can result in the original project getting abandoned or deadlines being missed, but often the tools you develop along the way are more (economically) valuable than the original project. They're often more widely applicable and narrower in scope, so they're more likely to get done and more likely to find an audience.

An example that comes to my mind is the Rust library mio. The Metal database for which it was the I/O component never materialized. But mio is a core component in the Rust ecosystem.

Similarly, many applications could benefit from a font that's legible at tiny sizes, not just the one that it was developed for. (Though obviously in most work cultures, this would be considered inappropriate, and for good reasons. My remarks apply mostly to greenfield research/personal projects where deadlines are loose.)
For those less confident:

U.S. (and German) automakers were absolutely sure that the Japanese would never be able to touch them. Then Koreans. Now Chinese. Now there are tariffs and more coming to save jobs.

Betting against AI (or increasing automation, really) is a bet against not against robots, but against human ingenuity. Humans are the ones making progress, and we can work with toothpicks as levers. LLM's are our current building blocks, and people are doing crazy things with them.

I've got almost 30 years experience but I'm a bit rusty in e.g. web. But I've used LLM's to build maybe 10 apps that I had no business building, from one-off kids games to learn math, to building a soccer team generator that uses Google's OR tools to optimise across various axes, to spinning up four different test apps with Replit's agent to try multiple approaches to a task I'm working on. All the while skilling up in React and friends.

I don't really have time for those side-quests but LLM's make them possible. Easy, even. The amount of time and energy I'd need pre-LLM's to do this makes this a million miles away from "a waste of time".

And even if LLM's get no better, we're good at finding the parts that work well and using that as leverage. I'm using it to build and check datasets, because it's really good at extraction. I can throw a human in the loop, but in a startup setting this is 80/20 and that's enough. When I need enterprise level code, I brainstorm 10 approaches with it and then take the reins. How is this not valuable?
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Also something of an exercise in my experience of how bad sandwich franchises can be.
Why not consider a smart phone that has good hardware, supports VoLTE and doesn't use Android or Apple? I've been daily driving a Furi FLX1 for over a month now. You can make it as smart or dumb as you like and you can even use it to charge another phone!
Android Native Linux Terminal App pKVM VM in QPR2 Beta2
screenshots: https://x.com/mishaalrahman/status/1868798147989844270
>> By the time I was 16, I had been to five or six funerals.

> Is it just me or does this actually seem kind of low?

Not for someone who's young and mostly disconnected from their grandparents' generation. In my case, my family lived far away from pretty much all my relatives, which meant I'm not very close to any of them and going to a funeral meant lots of short-notice plane tickets.

I think I've only gone to two funerals in my life: one grandparent who died geographically close to use when I was a kid, and the father (who I never met) of a friend of mine.

I think it would have been better if it had been different, and I had gone to more funerals, because now my lack of exposure adds a whole extra layer of awkwardness onto dealing with death.
I’ve been using Kling a lot recently and been really impressed, especially by 1.5.

I was so excited to see Sora out - only to see it has most of the same problems. And Kling seems to do better in a lot of benchmarks.

I can’t quite make sense of it - what OpenAI were showing when they first launched Sora was so amazing. Was it cherry picked? Or was it using loads more compute than what they’ve release?
You can retire from tech and select another profession that’s more proof against bubbles than tech eng. In five years I’ll be able to seek work as a forensic auditor with decades of tech experience to help me uncover the truth, which is worth my weight in gold to the compliance and enforcement professions.
Exactly. It's already bad, with seniors being pushed to 100% with 0% slack to train up the next generation. No time for that. LLMs will make this worse.
Household incomes predict outcomes better than neighbourhood deprivation
I don’t really get it. Prefill saturates compute and decode saturates memory bandwidth. Why are you not doing mixed batch?
> I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for everyone, but it certainly worked well for me.

Exactly! Home schooling isn't the answer to education, but one of the many answers.
for what it's worth, I have not seen this at any McDonald's beyond the expected service of preparing the food.
Documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
I don't even consume it often enough to digest it very well any more, but I was a pork lover and saw this message when the topic was "dead" so I vouched for it to bring it back.

This is the way to do it though, although I hope no varmints can get into your bacon grease out on the porch ;)

I've mentioned this before but I've boarded a number of chemical tankers and I got the idea that some of these Mates were not going to clean our petrochemicals out of the tanks as well as they could when they got done unloading in South America.

Before they started loading the fancy tallow for the return voyage.

Sometimes you could even smell it :(

Sometimes not, lots of times there's too much chemical smell coming from other vessel compartments :\
I saw your recent post on running Llama 3.3 70B on a m2 pro 64 gb. Do the many variants of apple silicon alternatives with varying numbers of cpus, gpus, and neural engines matter that much for how fast these llms can generate tokens, answer questions? More hw is always better, but what can we say how performance scales with the many different choices?

64gb ram is crucial, after that, need 1+ tb storage, and then?
Hopefully you guys can somehow fight this, Have you contacted any big news sites about this? Also I think its likely there going to be alot of Judicial reviews and legal challenges to this. I don't see how this will hold up under the ECHR.
Yeah, I have a Roborock S7 MaxV I bought about two years ago and was hoping I could put open source firmware on it but after some searching I learned that Roborock makes a lot of similar but different flavors within a generation like S7 and they can be quite different. Unfortunately, it appears my MaxV flavor of the S7 isn't rootable.

For those interested: This Reddit post had more info https://www.reddit.com/r/Roborock/comments/vlvep2/roborock_s... and a sub-post there linked to this Defcon presentation on rooting Roborock vacs https://dontvacuum.me/talks/DEFCON29/DEFCON29-vacuum-robots.....
That's a strange view because I've never seen a fruit pie with meat in it. I've seen meat pies with fruit in them though. Also the way you caramelize fruit sugars when baking a pie are quite a bit different than the way you need to caramelize the sugars in pineapple on top of a pizza without also burning the pizza.

Bologna has myrtle berries in it, so I suppose in your way of viewing things it's some sort of fruit loaf.
If you liked this you might enjoy this series of video interviews with George Daniels, inventor of the coaxial escapement; he also made watches by hand:

https://www.webofstories.com/play/george.daniels/1
This is the easiest part. Our bodies are not good for this task, so only frozen gametes should travel to be "assembled" on destination. End of the problem
LLM is to software engineering as a tractor was to farming.

They're tools that can make you more efficient, but they still need a human to function and guide them.
No, term limits aren't really a thing in the UK for elected officials in general and the longest-serving MPs today have been there since the early '80s. Even Prime Ministers can stay in their position for as long as they have the support of their party and can command the confidence of the House of Commons which in some cases will be for over a decade, although it's normal practice in the UK for a governing party to change their leader and therefore the Prime Minister mid term.

Some appointed positions have term limits (some 'machinery of government' kind of functions, some quangos and public bodies etc) but a few are for life or retirement such as members of the House of Lords.
You are reading too fast:)
Thiel isn't a techno-feudalist, he's a libertarian.
Was the provider in or out of your health plan's network? If the procedure was performed by a network provider then it's likely they made a billing error and submitted a claim in excess of the negotiated rate. But it does suck that patients are caught in the middle.
Ask HN: LLM agent to firewall vulnerable FOSS libs?
As software providers, we use several FOSS libraries. These libraries require periodical security bug fixing, which requires shipping a new release. We are building an LLM agent that can block these security bugs at runtime (like a firewall so to speak) and prevent attackers from exploiting security bugs in vulnerable libraries. Are there any pitfalls that we must avoid? Your feedback is welcome.
Live coding session? Biased against people who don't perform well under pressure.

No, it's biased against people who perform perfectly well (sometimes exceptionally well) under real, actual pressure. But who do not take kindly to the bullshit / theatrical pressure typical of the standard interview context, these days. And to companies that just can't tell the difference (or are under the delusion that performance in the latter category is in some way predictive of performance in the former).

Take home project? It's too much work to do for free.

It's more that the companies simply abuse the process in various callous and careless ways -- either by assigning projects with inadequate specification and/or unknown goalposts (or plainly unrealistic expectations of the actual time required, given these ambiguities); or simply assigning scores of these assignments (often automatically to every candidate who applies) when in fact they have no intention of even looking at the vast majority of the submissions.

Easily ameliorated by simply paying people for their time.
Not yet. I plan to see if we can offer value for technical analysis. We specialize in fundamental analysis.
That's like saying that your brain doesn't understand anything, it just analyzes the visual data coming in via your eyes and predicts the next step of reality
And that was good. Workers being replaced by tools is good for society, although temporarily disruptive.
It's worth noting that each country has a different approach to GDPR enforcement (which arguably defeats the point of it but that's another discussion).

The UK tends to be a lot more (IMO) reasonable in its approach than some other European countries. Italy tends to be one of the strictest, and likes to hand out fines, even to private individuals for things like having a doorbell camera. The UK has only fined one person on that basis, and it was more of a harassment case rather than just simply that they had a camera.

ICO and Ofcom aren't generally in the business of dishing out fines unless it's quite obviously warranted.