skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an idea recently that some of the agile rituals we engage in are actually spiritual rituals. Like, they are these weird kind of shared prayers.

The thought came as a result of a YouTube video of monks I happened to watch. The day of some monasteries is strictly regimented, often starting at 4am. There are designated times to pray individually, pray as a group, sing as a group, eat and work. Every monk is required to attend and failing to regularly attend the communal prayers, meals or songs can be grounds for the monk to be asked to leave the monastery.

It made me think about how rituals are valuable as a recurring communal activity, even more so than their content. That is, just the monks all congregating in the chapel together may be more important than the prayers they say. I mean, it must suck to show up at 5am to chant some hymns but then you look around and see all of your brothers dutifully there and it may have some kind of psychological affect.

I'm a proponent of remote work but I often wonder if I am being selfish. Monasteries are notoriously ridiculously productive and I wonder how much those rituals play into their success.
TCAS works with Mode-C (same as military Mode 3).
returns the below error for me

504: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT
Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT
ID: sfo1::wbxtz-1738433876750-c60282d412b9

edit: working now
Another thing I don't like about this paper is how it wraps real, interesting questions in the larger framework of "existential risk" (which I don't... really think exists)

For example:

> "Instead of merely(!) aligning a single, powerful AI system, we need to align one or several complex systems that are at risk of collectively drifting away from human interests. This drift can occur even while each individual AI system successfully follows the local specification of its goals"

Well yes, making systems and incentives is a hard problem. But maybe we can specify a specific instance of this, instead of "what if one day it goes rogue!"

In our society, there are already many superhuman AI systems (in the form of companies) - and somehow, they successfully contribute to our wellbeing! In fact life is amazing (even for dumb people in society, who have equal rights). And the reason is, we have categorized the ways it goes rogue (monopoly, extortion, etc) and responded adequately.

So the "extinction by industrial dehumanization" reads a lot like "extinction by cotton mills" - i mean, look on the bright side!
Souvenirs- get your piece of starship now
Part of your question is answered by
Algorithms on Strings, by Crochemore, Hancard and Lecroq:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Strings-Maxime-Crochemore/...

In addition, I would recommend any thick book on Digital Signal Processing.
It is a budget problem, not a hiring problem: https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/4617992-buttig...
Claude is still better in my opinion.

There's a suite of code-related tasks -- covering a diversity of areas, including dev ops, media manipulation etc., derived from issues I have faced over the years -- I perform for every new release. No model has solved the set of issues solved in one go but Claude still remains the best.

An example of the sort of problems in the suite:

> I have a special problematically encoded mp4 file with a subtle issue (something I ran into a couple of years ago while fixing a bug in a computer vision pipeline). In the question prompt I also pass the output of ffprobe and ask for the ffmpeg command that'll fix it. Only Claude has figured the real underlying issue out (after 4 interactions).
Sales are a different breed of people.

Sales is hard. For some it comes naturally, others have had to work at it. A good sales person is valuable, and a good relationship with a sales person is very valuable, especially to those of us of the engineering breed.

Give them the time, build the relationships, could be worth the effort.
It is a budget problem.

https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/4617992-buttig...
"Normies" don't actually think it's a good moral justification, they just understand that disobedience to power has consequences.

A lot of typical and atypical people have fought and died side-by-side to fight tyrannical abuses of power.
Teams and Zoom is the worst of both worlds. Delivers most of the disadvantages of not being face-to-face, and most of the disadvantages of RTO.

These platforms made remote work during the pandemic possible for orgs that didn't know how to work remotely already. But they are not ideal, far from it.
Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby all improve so substantially in 3 years time, I can’t square the advantages of using a distro package for any of them versus using at least the latest LTS from upstream. What is so great about the distro package versus upstream, that it is worth being 2-3 years behind?

Mostly I hear “stability”, but I have encountered far more frustrations dealing with 3 year old software as a developer, than I ever have dealing with 6 month old software. If I have good test coverage, a way to deterministically reproduce my build environment, reliable CI, and a way to release packages and bugfixes to my users quickly, it seems the risk & blast radius of a 6 month old toolchain is quite limited.

Python is by some measures the most popular programming language, its first release was in 1991, and over the last 3 years performance improved significantly, see https://lost.co.nz/articles/sixteen-years-of-python-performa...

I imagine the only case I want an ancient toolchain is if I’m building libraries or software predominantly consumed by Debian stable or RHEL users / system package ecosystem, or I am doing some kind of high-assurance thing involving formal verification where I’m probably using a non-distro verified toolchain instead. I’ve never been too interested in either of those domains though.
This is just like the other weird American units, it works much better in the specific case it was designed around, but fail really fast and really bad in other contexts.

If you are a farmer with 26 acres of field that need to be irrigated the equivalence of 1 foot of water every 2 weeks throughout the dry season which is expected to last 3 months, it is easy to calculate that you need 26 × 6 acre feet of water for that. But ones you use volume for literally anything else the flaws of the unit become very apparent.
Thanks for that link to the examples repo. I had just started looking into embedded Swift for an rp2350 project a couple days ago, but (being a novice in embedded hardware/microcontrollers) I got the impression from the Swift website that the device wasn't supported yet and I'd need an rp2040 instead. It looks like there's an example project for the rp2350 in that repo though, so I'm going to be playing with this tonight!
I agree with your assessment - “okay boomer” - and I’m 50 and started my career programming on mainframes. I went full remote in 2020 and have no trouble leading projects remotely. Occasionally I’ll do a business trip during the initial kickoff or handover.

Half of my job is sales adjacent and the other half is leading implementations. If I can adjust to working remotely anyone can
> Like pretty much any parameter in any language? That's abstraction.

This is only an issue in languages with duck-typing though. You're not really abstracting something if you need to go look how it's used to understand what to pass.
Yeah zero percent chance I switch to Apple anything. Their insistence on vendor lock in or making cross platform anything super annoying is a complete non starter for me...

Most of my family is European so Android devices all around, no one has Apple anything.
why is it a link to lightning.ai?
You’re concerned about your phone keeping data on your phone, that it derived from data on your phone? At that point I think you are so far outside of the norm as to be considered a fringe use case.
I have not found any censorship running it on my local computer.

https://imgur.com/xanNjun
Would you say handling air traffic control is easier than setting up a LAMP server?
I’m quite curious what you consider innovation (and not)?
After downsizing trends, many teams are now fullstack and do not collab anyway. Each feature is worked by single dev for the most part.
Not my experience - https://imgur.com/xanNjun just ran this moments ago.
We've been pretending for a while, now. We pretended Facebook was acceptable for democracy even after the fallout of Cambridge Analytica. We pretended Google wasn't abusing us with AdSense because none of us users saw the harm. We pretended Microsoft and Apple wouldn't sell us out to politicians and sycophants at the nearest opportunity, and assumed TikTok wasn't a trojan horse despite American market access in China being curtailed for years.

Authoritarianism just seems like the next natural step. It's obvious that Americans don't intend to regulate or boycott harmful businesses, so now what? Money takes control.
Monasteries are notoriously ridiculously productive?
I agree with a lot of this, except for the part about de-risking deployments. That should not be a reason why to adopt a feature flag platform - that is a symptom of a bad deployment pipeline that should be fixed which is a whole other story.
Doesn’t it usually have to be queried with a bunch of the training material anyway? It’s a pretty foolish sounding argument that one is being harmed if it boils down to “when I type in the first half of my article into GPT it can sometimes complete a few more paragraphs of it”

(That’s what the NYT tried to argue/show. I’m not sure if that case is ongoing or settled.)
Not sure but https://angband.live/ lets you play Angband (a purely terminal game) in the browser, or watch other people play it live, which is kind of neat
At best you would get a few random people from each company to strike with less of an impact to workforce participation than the seasonal flu.
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

― George Orwell, 1984
Maybe it is just my subjective experiences in life and who I happened to meet, but people most would classify as "seekers and misfits" tend to have smiles on their faces more often than people who look just like everyone else.
> derived from data on your phone

By violating the application sandbox!!!

Some E2EE messenger apps have "data at rest" encryption of local messages. How is Apple protecting the spidered app data?

Dec 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-officials-urge-amer...

> Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers. The hacking campaign, nicknamed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history, and it has not yet been fully remediated.
Redneck problem solving. I saw it growing up in Georgia too. People with 6th grade educations just knowing intuitively how to accomplish things without actually knowing the science behind it.
This release was planned well before the Deepseek hype. When they demoed o3, they said they were planning on releasing o3-mini at the end of January.
Exactly for having such systems, after Speccy, my group was split between a few folks getting Amigas, using MS-DOS 3.3 on school labs on PC1512, and a couple of years later getting hold of 386 with help of my parents, that I don't appreciate the TUI revival.

We used to dream of better systems, the Xerox dream.
there are other options, though. most choose not to take the hard path of choosing them
Correct. I was indeed.

Although this particular round fell somewhere inbetween "passport mughots at Snappy Snaps" and a full "subject all dolled up" session. IIRC the photo session was about 20 minutes and a week later I paid (IIRC) 25€ for each processed photo I eventually wanted to buy. She burned the selected high-res JPEGs on a CD while I waited.

I'd be happy to pay £120 to £150 for a fresh set these days, assuming they'd serve me for a decade again.

[Funnily enough, we ended up going to her studio for our official wedding photos a couple of years later.]
I don't understand what a dedicated "completely open source offering" provides or what your "five nines feature flag system" provides. If you're running on a simple system architecture, then you can sync some text files around, and if you have a more scalable distributed architecture, then you're probably already handling some kind of slowly-changing, centrally-managed system state at runtime (e.g. authentication/authorization, or in-app news updates, ...) where you can easily add another slowly-changing, centrally-managed bit of data to be synchronised. How do you measure the nines on a feature flag system, if you're not just listing the nines on your system as a whole?
> It defaults to Apple Intelligence "on", which they had already declined in the last update. So, turned it off in settings. Then discovered they had to turn it off in each app that uses it individually.

Same with Siri, by the way. It's especially fun because, even if it's turned off already for every app, it still defaults to turned on for new apps, so you have to remember what additional steps to go through for every new app.
It could be useful for, for instance, sharing photos with family, meeting notes, etc. Doesn't have to be piracy.
It’s not a low level management decision. I am all for remote work. But I won’t work for a company remotely if it isn’t a “remote first” culture where everyone is remote. It puts you at a real disadvantage.
I don't get why they'd do shadow layoffs this way. The ones who can get jobs elsewhere will, so you bleed talent.

I understand why they're doing it at the federal level; they believe they have a mandate to eliminate federal employees entirely. But a corporation is supposed to focus on the bottom line.
Are you referring to the climate and ecological crisis, or the many cascading problems resulting from overextraction of limited resources?

There won't be any tech on a dead planet.
100% agree.

A lot of people were probably staying on and regularly using Twitter out of momentum. And when Musk came along, their interactions probably decreased drastically because so many people dropped out, or they just themselves decided this was a good forcing function to largely leave. None of the alternatives were especially good. So the whole format is a shadow of its former self--at least in the tech space (and I avoid the politics).
When michael jordan can't make the pros in baseball, you know it's a different thing.
This is the funniest thing of all: it's just a shitfest all around.

Here's an article about the air-controller shortage, from 2014: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/15/blame-the-faa-for-air-traffi...

Here's more! from 2008: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22917202

Here's a substack post from last year, talking about a legal case spanning back a decade and how, what do you know, DEI is actually involved in this whole fiasco to a tiny degree: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...

It's impossible, completely impossible to in good faith blame any one actor on this issue, this goes way too far back.
This has indeed been a sad revelation.
Ah management needs to prove to everyone that they are doing something usefull once again because they inherently produce nothing.

It's just power move.
SwiftPM has always supported building GUI apps.
Awesome! Are there any thick books on Digital Signal Processing that are dear to your heart?
The whole point is to reduce the risk of the deployments by easily managing the flags - often without the need for a developer. Also, using services like Azure App Configuration gives you the possibility to have different distribution based on users, groups, country etc, which is a really useful.

A bit surprised people rolls their own implementation when this is easily available, and not that expensive. At least in Azure.
The line about Mao was a sarcasm about more situation of now days. English is not my native.
Cool! Thank you so much!
"fidelity believes"
"The FOSDEM 2025 live streaming box" - https://youtu.be/UcOWAD8b12g
If: (conjunction) in case that; granting or supposing that; on condition that:
It's ok, we remote workers still partake in the rituals at the appointed times.
I am not gonna pretend to have one true definition but there are hopefully components of reasoning we can agree on:

- The ability to hold a collection of beliefs/statements and perform operations on them such as noticing one contradicts the others. Claude in my example clearly failed this.

- The ability to make logical inferences. Since logical steps can be represented by text, current LLMs seem to simulate this on the token stream and seem to have decent results most of the time. True inferences would be representing statements in some abstract form and being able to perform operations on them according to rules. The key here is that once it has a collection of statements and is given ("decides to use") an operation to perform, then it can do this correctly 100% of the time (ignoring hardware errors).
Twitter had no choice. It was either that or shut down the company within a few weeks. Bankruptcy.

Jack Dorsey apologized for over hiring and accepted responsibility. Before the sale to Elon Musk, he had doubled the number of employees since 2017.

Employees were posting on TikTok about their typical work day. Most of them were doing nothing. Dead weight.
You know what I would find worse than telling my customers that they can't access the application they paid for and works because I farmed my auth out to a 3rd party that is having an outage?

Telling them that my auth provider isn't out, but the thing I use to show them a blue button vs a red button is.

Oof.
Myself I'm fine with gay marriage. If you can pass, use whatever bathroom you want, just don't show me anything I don't want to see. (e.g. if you want to be a man, man up!) I think it is up to sports leagues to decide who plays: I don't want the state to mandate it either way. (A man I know was one of the charter players on the Sirens, a women's hockey team, because they didn't have enough players to make a quorum and he wasn't particularly big or dangerous.)
Add a share button on the home page
I hope you realize you're doing an experiment with your health. We don't have studies on the long-term effects of this degree of isolation from everyday pathogens. It could go either way, but so much human adaptation is use it or lose it that my money's on worse long-term outcomes.
And you could also run your own archive bot (x86 only). I've got one running in a docker container, it downloads a webpage and auto-uploads it to archive.org

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/

Edit to add:

docker_compose.yml example:

services:

archiveteam:

image: atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile

ports:

- '8101:8001'

mem_limit: 4G

cpus: 3

dns:
- 9.9.9.10
- 8.8.8.8

labels:
- com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
container_name: archiveteam-warrior
environment:
- DOWNLOADER=asdf # Change this to your nickname
- SELECTED_PROJECT=auto # Change this to your project of preference or let the archiveteam decide with 'auto'
- CONCURRENT_ITEMS=6 # Change this to the amount of concurrent download threads you can handle

watchtower:
command: '--label-enable --include-restarting --cleanup --interval 3600'
cpu_shares: 128
mem_limit: 1G
cpus: 1

image: containrrr/watchtower
volumes:
- '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'

container_name: watchtower
Communal prayers is kinda what they do though. It is core to their thing.

I think the programmer equivalent social endouver would be whining about something with comrades over a coke or beer after a 5h DnD session.

Not an agile meeting...
I remember the lecturer commenting on what sort of sick and twisted mind could come up with such a ridiculous convoluted notion when I was taught it at university.
The system was already authoritarian, if less blatant to most people. Any meaningful resistance to the power structure gets crushed, and everyone tacitly accepts that arrangement.
Humanity was fine living in an environment much closer to what our bodies evolved for. But now tempting things are evolving faster than our biological countermeasures so we need sociological or chemical ones. What is the alternative? Coordinate so that everyone slows down making things and information people really, really like?
Humans have no intrinsic value except to convert food to carbon dioxide, most of which are completely useless to the Reich. AI is cheap to train ( only a few million dollars per model ), and cheap to run:

Data centers will soon outstrip all other uses of electrical power, as for an AI calling in sick, no it needs full power 24/7. AI has no creativity, no initiative, no conscious, and absolutely zero ethics.

"In a middle-ground scenario, by 2027 new AI servers sold that year alone could use between 85 to 134 terawatt hours (Twh) annually."
I don't doubt that some quotas exist somewhere. I just don't know where and have never encountered them in any of my jobs and they're probably illegal.

Our DEI training at my current work is "always hire the most qualified person for the job". And that's what it was at my previous job, as well.
The 978 prefix was added to convert from ISBN-10 to ISBN-13:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN#ISBN-10_to_ISBN-13_conver...
And now will real time collaboration tools it doesn't even need to be an email chain
If you look at the blinking LED sample, it's pulling in the freertos header:

#include "freertos/FreeRTOS.h"

So presumably yes?
Thanks. I had to read it a number of times before I understand where the Musk Reference was coming from. I got mixed up with where the HQ of a company and where they are incorporated. In DropBox case their HQ is in California.

TL;DR ( Correct me if I am wrong ): Most companies incorporate in Delaware. Also a standard for YC as well. There was recently a case where Delaware's court rejected Musk's pay package which was overwhelmingly passed by Tesla shareholders. And if that is not ridiculous enough. The Moelis case mentioned above is far worst. Someone might as well be a minority shareholder in every single Fortune 500 companies and start playing the system.

From a high level view. It seems the centuries of Delaware reputation is being destroyed in only a few months.

I wonder if YC has a position or backup as to where they suggest to reincorporate.

Edit: And now I just read They are trying to stop companies from leaving because The Chancery Court is saying it could be a breach of fiduciary duty to leave in the TripAdvisor litigation. Holy.....
How do I tell Instagram "Memorialize" feature is not working?
It's not recognizing any valid Instagram link.
Facebook's version of this worked.