skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just exited the toilet following 2.5 hours of back-to-back meetings, and was looking forward to actually getting some work done when the product owner grabbed me for a conversation about priorities for the sprint planning session that's scheduled in a couple of hours.

In this week so far (first week back from Christmas / New Year leave) I've spent maybe half a day total on work that could be classified as "progress". The rest of the time has been meetings and the required meeting follow-up work.

There's no point in Sprint Planning or considering adding priorities to the current plate. It's full. But nobody has time to eat things off the plate because we're always in meetings to work out how we can eat off the plate more efficiently.

/rant

I've come back from holidays angry. Things gotta change.
Oh my…I’ll have to ask, I bet they did. Unreal.
Oh. My. God.

I had no idea that there was a term for my awful handwriting; I think I have dysgraphia, at least based on the Wikipedia-level reading I just did after reading your post. My handwriting isn't quite as inconsistent as the example on Wikipedia, but it's pretty close.

In fourth grade, my teacher called me aside and told me that I need to improve my handwriting or it would really hurt my career prospects. She wasn't being mean, her heart was in the right place, but no matter how hard I tried I was never able to significantly improve my handwriting.

Fortunately my fourth grade teacher was wrong, and I learned how to touch-type when I was fourteen, and I type pretty fast now, to a point where, outside of signing forms, I am not sure the last time I actually wrote something with a pen and paper...2021 I think?

> My school spent a lot of effort teaching me WordPerfect because that is what industry used.

I'm not sure which version of WordPerfect you used, but at least from the mid-90's and onward, a lot of those skills would transfer relatively well to Microsoft Word wouldn't they? I remembered WordPerfect being pretty similar to Office 2003.
> Google doesn't send your pictures to their servers without your explicit consent.

The parents Google tried to get arrested in the story above do not agree.

> When Mark’s and Cassio’s photos were automatically uploaded from their phones to Google’s servers, this technology flagged them. Jon Callas of the E.F.F. called the scanning intrusive, saying a family photo album on someone’s personal device should be a “private sphere.” (A Google spokeswoman said the company scans only when an “affirmative action” is taken by a user; that includes when the user’s phone backs up photos to the company’s cloud.)

Google not only automatically uploaded their images to their server, it analyzed those images and reported the users to the police for kiddie porn based on a single false positive.
IIRC they went fully open source because they couldn't make it as a for profit company.
>Europe is an ally

Was? Isn't a threat of invasion of Nato territory something that ended that situation.

Sure "it's Trump being an insane dickhead", but y'all elected him, then suspended rule of law for him.

Europe is sitting waiting to be shafted if we don't assume Trump will continue to do the absolute worst, most hostile things. We should be taking the threats of invasion seriously despite them appearing to be a way to, for example, invade Panama and not look as insane as was expected.
"Presentation of food" is not "nothing useful". People who see basically eat with eyes. Like plate/food ratio can make you overeat. Or some food can be totally fine, but if it is just made to look bad for example rotten/expired it can be vomit inducing. Just like if someone says you just ate something bad, if you think what you eat is harmful the body will react

If there is no food coloring at all would we eat better? I bet yes. But we can't get there now. It will not pass any vote
The best account on TikTok is that old man who champions his cause of stopping circumcision. One must ask oneself why it's not considered on the same plane as genital mutilation in our so called modern civilized society.
While I couldn’t find a better document: https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/search-engines/google-is... describes how non-Google search engines cannot get new results from Reddit.
>Take autonomous driving for example - a driver of a car sees a person attempting to cross a street in front of them. A human can decide to slam the brake or the gas depending on the context - is the person crossing the car some old granny on a walker or a soccer player? Or a human sees a ball being kicked into the air on the sidewalk behind some cars, with no humans visible. The human can infer "whoops, there might be children playing here, better slow down and be prepared for a child to suddenly step out onto the street from between the cars"

These are just post-hoc rationalizations. No-one making those split-second decisions under those circumstances has those chains-of-thoughts. The brain doesn't 'think' that fast.

>but an object detection/classification lacks that ability to even recognize the ball as being a potentially relevant piece of context.

We're talking about LLMs right ? They can make these sort of inferences.

https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
No one doubts Hamas’s numbers. Israel doesn’t really contest them and they’ve been accurate in the past. https://www.vice.com/en/article/israeli-intelligence-health-...

> Israeli intelligence services have studied civilian casualty figures released by the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza and concluded the figures were generally accurate, despite earlier public claims by U.S. and Israeli officials that the ministry’s statistics are manipulated.

Looking at photos of the area makes it pretty clear, too. You don’t raze that many buildings bloodlessly.

If anything, it may be an undercount. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna187100
The QUP is indeed what allows to quantize continuous equations with h, and once they have been turned into integers like this we can then meaningfully calculate our lack of information (aka 'entropy').
https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
I guess you didn’t notice when Hamas sowed a whole fresh generation of "I will sacrifice everything to wipe out Hamas" Israeli youth.
Yup, it's not good enough that you're already a paying customer- they have to try their best to manipulate and coerce you into spending even more. It's insulting, abusive and honestly pathetic. These thirsty lamers have to try every trick in the book to eke a few more cents out of me? Embarrassing. Modern tech/business does not have a shred of pride or dignity, as per TFA.
Nvidia/cosmos: Physics-aware Text2Video
I have a blog still, which I've maintained since 2001. But I have no interest in having "personal brand", whatever it is, I just enjoy it. I also read a number of technical blogs. Most of them I found by word of mouth - somebody referenced it somewhere, the content was good, I got interested, browsed the other entries and decided this is something I want to be reading on the ongoing basis.
On a tangent: has anyone built an active cooling system which operates in a partial vacuum? At half atmospheric pressure, water boils at around 80 C, which i believe is roughly the operating temperature for a hard-working chip. You could pump water onto the chip, have it vapourise, taking away all that heat, then take the vapour away and condense it at the fan end.

This is how heat pipes work, i believe, but heat pipes aren't pumped, they rely entirely on heat-driven flow. I would have thought there were pumped heat pipes. Are they called something else?

It's also not a refrigerator, because those use a pump to pressurise the coolant in its gas phase, whereas here you would only be pumping the water.
It's all a matter of degree. Even in deterministic systems, bit flipping happens. Rarely, but it does. You don't throw out computers as a whole because of this phenomena, do you? You just assess the risk and determine if the scenario you care about sits above or below the threshold.
Not pro Hamas here- but the IDF has done Far Far Far Far more than you say.

They have deliberately targeted hospitals without evidence, destroyed 2/3rds !! Of all buildings, residential or not, displaced nearly the entire population, block much of the incoming aid, have a terrible record with regard to torture and abuse of the hostages they take, have killed clearly marked journalists, have permanently settled Palestinian land and so on and so on. To the point that Holocaust Scholars and Humanitarian Organizations are willing to call the entire thing a Genocide.

Do you remember when the IDF shot their own hostages, unarmed, carrying a white flag, because they thought they were Palestinian? They do not care about civilian lives any more than militant ones.
It's true: Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?
> We don't have a new US President until next week.

You do realize that this war happened under this existing president and since November, Trump will be the "new US President"? Both Hamas and Israel both also knew this.

Even with this existing president (Biden), only until he lost the election this deal was reached and it started under his term and he prolonged to fund and waste money on Israel in this war even when the first ceasefire deal was rejected with an excessive amount of lives lost.

So why wasn't this stopped earlier with the first deal? Why did Biden (the existing president) wait until the very end to reach a deal when the first was rejected?

Can you not answer the above instead of dodging the question(s)?
Trump needed some way to counter the "Zion Don" counter-programming that 4chan tried and failed to get into the hearts of the anti-zionists that have become the norm among Zoomers. That's why he acts like this.
>from which they might glean the nature of your thoughts, and privacy is something we all value.

I mean you let them into your house, privacy kinda goes out the window when you do that. You can always put books you don't want people to know you read in your bedroom or something.
Companies who signup for these plans on behalf of their employees are finally getting on onboard that PBMs are hiding these markups and making backdoor deals with the drug companies. The best thing you can do is put pressure on your employer if you run into this.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/industry-voices-why-...

>This past year saw a wave of mid-sized employers, unions, and health plans exploring alternatives to the Big Three, a trend that will only continue to gain momentum in 2025. In fact, a recent report found that 52% of employers are considering changing their PBM in the next 1-3 years. While 72% of employers still primarily contract with a Big Three PBM, 12% have already embraced a transparent PBM.
Cool but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process
If Israel wanted Gaza, they wouldn’t have given it up twenty years ago.
As with Trump, one is amused with Musk, but also mildly concerned.

How many of these world-historical figures have done the Full Solomon without stating to believe their own press releases?

Conservatives have been moaning (perhaps with some basis) about Soros for these years. Are we swapping one Eminence Grise for another?

Decentralize this mess.
I have 5000+ unread items.

I've skimmed maybe 50% of them, but not enough to consider them "read". It's 99% bullshit. Even legitimate email is spam these days.

I'm too busy with other fake work to need to additional fake work managing pointless email comms.
That site is broken on FF Android.
Okay, we had a partial meltdown in prod, and released some radioactive iodine-131, so that goes on the sad face side of of the retro board.

But on the good side, we _didn't_ have a hydrogen explosion due to some late-night troubleshooting, great work Carl!

But we learned a lot, our alerts were confusing, and our metrics didn't surface coolant level or the relief valve that was stuck open.

So next sprint, let's focus on monitoring and cross-team knowledge transfer! 3 points, right?
They’re similar, but DuckDb is more of a batteries-included database whereas DataFusion is an embeddable query engine. You can use DuckDb in embedded-ish scenarios, but it’s not primarily targeting that use case. To put it another way, DataFusion is sometimes described as “the LLVM of databases.”

Another difference is that DuckDb is written in C++ whereas DataFusion is in Rust, so all the usual memory-safety and performance arguments apply. In fact DataFusion has recently overtaken DuckDb in Clickbench results after a community push last year to optimize its performance.
As the software archeologist on call for literally anything going wrong with anything IT operations related for a large publishing house that unfortunately had an IT department since the 80s and a web presence since the 90s, I'd like to extend a generous "fuck you" to all the people who have not cared to document a single thing in the past 30 years.

Point being, this isn't new.
Funny, that is indeed true, didn't know that.
Of note here is the reason it's "important" is it will make a shit-ton of money.
Probably means nothing, but all the people I know who went to OpenAI and are still there are all the people who made very poor business decisions and were hated at multiple companies I worked for.

High doubt any of them will be good stewards of anything but selfishness.

As for the others, they were all smart, passionate, dedicated folks who knew Sam was a complete narcissist and left to start their own AI startups.

(sorry mods, I’m upset and I’m annoyed OpenAI is getting away with murder of society in plain view)
I want to confirm that it's a religion for me. I'm not a spandex-wearing hobbyist; I ride my bike or take public transit because it is practical and inexpensive. I do not bike for fun.

The structure of the built environment which accommodates automobiles is hostile to human life. It has been—in the short run—convenient for the growth of a certain type of economy which is also hostile—in the long run—to human life.

As Ben Franklin might say, we have paid too dearly in blood, turf, and CO2 for this strip mall whistle.

If anything is worth the reverence of worship—and perhaps nothing, in your philosophy, is—few candidates can compete with the human life, community, and sustainable industry which a car-centric environment precludes.

Edit: Oh, except maybe the natural world it threatens.
Discussion on the source (93 points, 10 months ago, 96 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39874490
Threatend a real one, like pakistan-belotschistan or isis-jesidi or egypt-copt or saudi-houti or russian-chechnya or turkey-armenian or sudan-darfuri or Aserbaidschan-karabacho where the minority just vanishes and is never talked about again except as some dropped away column on a Wikipedia minority statistics site?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Middle_E...

Or that fake one where they permanently threaten israel with one, claim to experience one by israel, every ten years try tomake one happen with rockets while safe knowing the "soft west" will not decimate and colonize and terrorise like they do?Breath taking hipocrcassy . Right this moment - a real one is prepared for in syria vs the kurds, druse and alewites and israel might be surrounded by minority protection buffer stateletts to the north soon.. but yeah, im supposed to cheer for the heart-lung machine of western-left anti colonial ideology where there is only one evil.
Yes, Gaia slowly spins to that the stars move across its CCD array.
SEC Sues Musk
I know someone who lost their home in the Palisades fires. This is what he said about this spreadsheet:

"I’ve already started spreading the word about the spreadsheet, it’s a great resource."
and that's also completely and totally irrelevant to the problem at hand.

Proofs don't apply in biology. Nothing in biology is a truly logical system that can be proved or disproved. That's true for chemistry and physics too- the only system where anything can be proved is math.

In science, instead we gather evidence and evaluate it, and often come to the conclusion that it is so unlikely something is dangerous (given the data) that we presume it's safe. People use the term "scientific proof", but I'm not aware of any in biology that would truly be classified as proof.
Not really sure why you brought your job into this, other than to inject corporatism into social problems.

Good enough = human shit in the street in USA.

This reads more like a death by a thousand tiny cuts, much like people that do not return their shopping carts.

As for solutions, it won't happen in our life time in USA.

Shame has a function in society, USA as a whole is shameless, that's all there is to it.
Musk, is a representative of Trump's government, right?

A senior member of Trump's government is trying to mess with our political system - how is this not catastrophic for diplomatic relations, coming on top of the threats to our NATO allies?
Is this a decision to avoid litigation? I’ve seen people post analyses that disprove Hindenburg’s claims. And recently Supermicro’s independent auditors didn’t find the same issues Hindenburg claimed. Is it possible they’ve basically got rich from misleading attacks on stocks and are now shutting down to avoid something bad? Basically cashing out on their short positions?

EDIT: since I am rate limited, here’s my reply to the child comment from peepeepoopoo100

When EY resigned, it was because there was a long list of things that the independent review said needed investigating. But none of the issues had been actually investigated yet. Since then, my recollection is that there have been at least two independent reviews that have been fully completed and confirmed that the financial reporting of the company was accurate. And nothing had to be restated to the SEC, nor has the SEC asked for any changes.

Basically the big 4 auditor jumped off the ship, based on allegations and potential issues and nothing concrete, and they did not stick around to do the actual work they should’ve done. Instead of seeking answers, they made a vague accusation that the company might not be acting with integrity and ethics and left.
Of interest and relevance: This past semester, Andy Pavlo's DB seminar at CMU explored a number of projects under the heading 'Database Building Blocks', starting with DataFusion and several of its applications. Take a listen!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjZc2AdXq_Lc...
I set up a weekly auto-buy for a stock about a year ago with Cashapp.

I noticed the stock was way up today so I logged in to sell. Well, turns out the auto-buy has just... Not been firing... For a solid year. I have two purchases and then it stopped. It still says I have a weekly auto-buy set up, but I have not been charged.

In a just society, I would be owed my potential winnings for these unprocessed purchases, but having dealt with Cashapp support in the past I know damn well there's no way they're going to agree to that. I would be lucky to even catch the ear of a human being. It's sure as hell not worth taking them to court over a loss of maybe a couple hundred dollars at most.

The opaque and useless support of modern companies is literally in my eyes the worst part about the modern world. They quite literally do not care.
I’m currently using a tiny11 modified installation of win11, I had to go through some extra steps to debloat the OS properly, after that it’s more usable. But last month, despite of all my efforts to not have windows update checked and applied, it booted with latest “upates”. With copilot and reinstalled edge as default browser.

Since then I have blocked windows update related on DNS/Router and on device firewall.

Security? It’s just a fancy game console.
> Hamas are the good guys

The group that kidnapped, murdered, and tortured a bunch of kids at a music festival? That Hamas? The “good guys”?!
You're free to ignore the context of a person saying "the CEO must die" after years railing against capitalism. I'm just going to call you out for it.
honestly, one thing I like about this conflict is that euphamistic comments like this don't get you banned anymore.

the ostracizing has been diluted so much that its become even counterproductive. everyone can laugh about something as benign as that, as the real frictions have been laid bare for all to see.
Have you considered setting more meetings with various stakeholders to discuss how to prioritize time for the next 2 weeks? And then follow up check in meetings every 2 days to change direction in an agile way?
Yo like- I know Trump is going to be worse here: he supports West Bank settlers illegally taking land and gave away Jerusalem.

But Biden did not get that ceasefire. He's been a disaster
I just installed tiktok for the first time on my Android device and it asked for no permissions and even let me use it without creating an account. How is it getting photos and videos on my device?
That doesn't make it a myth. There are plenty of screen readers that break directly because of shitty use of javascript.
This is a lot of buzzwords but no content.

The background behind the current conflict goes something like this:

Muslims, Christians and Jews all lived in Palestine during the Ottoman era. Jews discovered Europe was pretty hostile, Zionism was born. Many move to Palestine, buy land and settle down. The Ottomans lose WWI, lose Palestine to the British. The British Empire started fracturing, they realised they couldn't hold it together, they decide they'll leave Palestine and create a plan to partition it. The Jews abide by the plan, declare Israel when the British mandate ends. The Arabs invite all the nations around them to attack the Jews with them. They lose. The Jews gain more territory. The Arab parts of Palestine get annexed into Jordan and Egypt.

Then, when all the Arab states fought Israel again, Jordan loses the west bank, Egypt loses Gaza and all of Sinai (!!). Israel gave Sinai back for peace, eventually both Egypt and Jordan renounced their claim on Gaza and the West Bank. And that's how we ended up here, more or less.

Now, as for the colonialism part, Jews have always lived in the area. Even during the Ottoman Era. In fact, Zionism started during the Ottoman Era. Also relatively few people lived in Palestine, less than a million total in 1922. And the Jews who did move to Israel after it's establishment, largely moved there as a result of persecution by Arabs (plenty of Jews lived all over the middle east).
That's poppycock. A library that doesn't require several dozen unrelated libraries to use is a good thing and something we should actually hold up as good engineering.

I'm also confident that recursivedoubts wouldn't like you calling his library not modern. That's just insulting.
One thing that rarely mentioned in Japanese 7-11 efficiency is the "employment ice age" problem that contributed to it: there was a massive job crisis around 1993-2005 and major STEM university graduates were dime a dozen. A McDonald's but with only clones of Gordon Freeman as employees tends to become a bit different place than a regular hamburger shop.
Feels a little bit like the Chinpokomon episode of South Park - innocent kids being brainwashed and whatnot. (I know the target in that ep is Japan, but still)
Is Google One the same as just having extra storage for my Google Photos? I have that but just went onto Gemini and Advanced will cost me $33 pm.
Sorry, who did they rip off?

All their investors stand to profit handsomely (if they live).
Art is inherent and exclusive to human beings, and exams irrespective of the subject are gauges of rote ability.

We don’t need graphs and charts to discern this.

Robot art is what you get if Hitler was born in 2002 and learned how to paint watching Snapchat stories.

> "[Prosaic], utterly devoid of rhythm, color, feeling, or spiritual imagination. They are architect's sketches: painful and precise draftsmanship; nothing more.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings_by_Adolf_Hitler#Cr...