skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
without further context, i think the original version is the better code.
Thanks! The kind of work I do is about making an existing operating system issue reproducible packages, to the point that you can install a system with reproducible-only packages. This assumes "trusted source code and compiler", but no more tampering by the build server, which is already quite the improvement from what we have right now.

To solve the need for trusted compilers (aka bootstrap from binary seeds) you're probably interested in https://bootstrappable.org/ and https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex.

To solve the need for trusted source code there isn't really any solution besides "have people publicly document the source code they have read", like https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev does. Often people ask "how do I know whose reviews to trust", but in reality there's a scarcity of reviews even if you're willing to trust literally anybody. There aren't really any incentives for people to make them, capitalism is failing us on that front and big companies don't want to publicly talk about the source code they have and haven't read either.
I’ll probably get down voted to oblivion, but this is really silly. I do not see any value proposition. To each their own, I guess.
That's what 49.8% of the voters voted for. So not really "most" for any reasonable meaning of the term "most".
There are no C equivalents for the drivers I’m talking about.
You're seemingly presenting this as an option between two binary cases.

paraphrasing my impression of the vibe of your comment into the two distinct options:

> Your collective opinions about how we work as a team matter

> You're only here to work on things that are considered a priority

In reality, there is always some nuance/middle ground available

> Your opinions about how we work here matter. If this is something that requires a full rewrite it's probably going to be a no. But if it's not a major change causing a lot of work, we can possibly take a look at it.

If you've set up CI/CD properly, changing the name of the default branch can be done in less than an hour. Source: I did it at $last_company for circa 10x repos in about an hour. This was not related to inclusivity, but it did involve a discussion about whether we should switch or not: why; how; pros; cons.

Having a conversation about changing due to inclusivity is just a different meeting with a different why, how, pros, cons. One of the why/pros arguments might be -- that's now the accepted general default for most (external) repositories so keeping it as master would be kinda weird and might end up needing some explanation during onboarding -- i.e. more work somewhere else later on.
So who was the engineer?
Just the cutting of everything USAID shows how little he understands of politics, the soft power that such organization earns for the country cannot be overstated, but in the business context Musk knows best there is really not equivalent, so he thinks such spending counts as "inefficiency", turns out countries are not companies and Musk and friends are in for a rude awakening and the country is the one who will suffer because of it as it increasingly alienates it's allies.
Maybe the administration should start another meme coin.
USASpending.gov
TRUSK
https://docs.rs/txtar/latest/txtar/
A fascinating story is Middle Percy Island [0] off the coast of Far North Queensland. A family friend knew the man that acquired the island in 2001 for $10, under murky circumstances to say the least [1]. I believe the family of the original caretaker successfully got a court to intervene, but I'm not sure what the state of any of it is today. Most of the saga is chronicled here [2].

Everything else aside, seems like owning an island is _hard_.

[0] -21.659825, 150.263186

[1] https://www.thecoastalpassage.com/Andy%27s_storytcp6.html

[2] https://www.thecoastalpassage.com/thepercystory.html
That's a fun read. Also the first time I've heard of the company Aerojet Rocketdyne. Did they come up with that one while playing beer pong?

Smarter Every Day gave a talk directly to NASA that raises some of the same issues. It's a good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU
"It deploys about 100 tons"

What's the cost per ton? Make sure to include failure rate.
Tangential question: is there a Rust equivalent for the book “The Design and Evolution of C++”?
Oh, ok. Thanks, but curious why that link instead of so many others which talk explicitly about that law
What an incredible opportunity for regulatory capture and graft. I can see why the "Let's just delete every regulation, and rediscover why we have them all via a lot of blood" people would be eager to push it into government.

Who owns the models, what are they trained on, how are they vetted, how do we confirm that they don't have backdoors? If we're relying on "Trust me bro, I would tell you if I was doing a conflict of interest" then we've already lost.
Senate Launch System, huh?
It explains the viewpoint of the people making the decision
Sounds like the left's version of Doge?
Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
FWIW, Safari on iOS allows extensions. Same manifest-v3-like limitations as desktop Safari (only allowlist-based blocking), but otherwise it implements a decent chunk of webextension APIs.

Also on iOS, Orion supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions.
I was once taking a real analysis class and there was a very gifted student in my class. She pulled out her notebook one day at a study session and I noticed it was kind of unusual - the pages were very large, and made of a somewhat thicker material, with a slightly rougher texture. Ink also seems to set onto its surface slightly nicer, and it doesn't really bleed through onto the other side either.

She explained to me that it was actually a kind of notebook specifically for artists, and that she much preferred it to the normal plain paper notebooks you typically get.

I bought one myself, and I had to agree with her - it was a much 'nicer' experience to write on it - diagrams could be way less cramped, branch out without hitting the edges. The tactile feedback due to the thickness of the paper was also nice - in a way, it felt like the "mechanical keyboard" of paper notebooks.

Never switched back again after that, and many people I work with have found it curious and nice to work with too.

Part of me feels that there may be more than just a gimmick to this. In the way that it's been shown that pen and paper help for understanding versus typing, I wonder if "the niceness of the pen and paper experience" would have an additional tangible positive effect, too
The Sims re-release shows what's wrong with big publishers and single-player
Maybe looking at North Korea through the eyes of western propaganda is the issue. Not that North Korea isn’t explainable.
Your screensaver should be running as an unprivileged user.
Java has had shit backwards compatibility for as long as I have had to deal with it. Maybe it's better now, but I have not forgotten the days of "you have to use exactly Java 1.4.15 or this app won't work"... with four different apps that each need their own different version of the JRE or they break. The only thing that finally made Java apps tolerable to support was the rise of app virtualization solutions. Before that, it was a nightmare and Java was justly known as "the devil's software" to everyone who had to support it.
I agree! The people elected Trump to do this exact audit!
North Korea functions fine for the constraints it is in. The people (rightfully imo) don’t view their government the way western propaganda states.
I didn't think of it like that. Interesting thought.
The structure of the files an app uses internally is undocumented and not intended to be a user-facing API. Who wants to be responsible for handling every insane thing the users decide to do to those files?
and cities can build roads and highways too?
Except for all the details . . .

eg: The six month performance review that sought input from all workers and their suggestions for savings, etc.
Nope. To think to is create. I want more people to think. Trying to make a masterpiece with this is not the point.
Chance of botulism is very low because of the salt (and acidity resulting from the fermentation), but yes, there should be live fermented veggies for purchase in NYC.

There are only about 200 cases per year of botulism in the US and most of it is infants (about 70% of the ~200 cases).
U.S. pauses de minimis repeal as packages pile up at US customs
Bold. Do we have sufficient confidence in AI led anything at scale, for extended durations and across crises of different kinds, to feel comfortable with how this goes?

Personally, I doubt it. PRK (purely as an example) had a 4 year lag from FDA approval (1995) to acceptance in the USAF (1999) -So a single functional change which itself underwent MASSIVE testing at scale, across cohorts to get FDA approval had a delay to adoption inside a government strategic interest.

We haven't even begun to do anything remotely like FDA pre-acceptance trials for AI assisted government. This isn't a space to do "move fast and break things" and I would think there is no mandate for this, nor even a legal basis to do this, and abrogate functional responsibility this way.

I scent many fine lawsuits. I suggest that even the current SCOTUS would be wary of machine generated outcomes applied to the state: After all, their own existence depends on the criterion of choice they display, interpreting laws and the constitution. I would be surprised if they really felt the AI interpretations of law exceeded theirs, purely on selfish grounds.

One might as well suggest the senate and house could be replaced by AI. Or, Musk himself.
As someone whose been sort of "up and down" the role ladder, and is very intentionally closer to the bottom than the top for right now, I think I am disproportionately perceiving the wisdom in that jira comment.

I don't think it's the _only_ important thing, but I think I do agree with the sentiment that it may be the most important.

Personally I'm all about diversity of perspectives when it comes to building a team. I would be thrilled to have both a principal who loves jira, and one who doesn't. Someone who tries to straddle both just strikes me as neutered.

When it comes to roles, I always end up back to the Ron Swanson quote "never half ass two things; whole ass one thing."

I do agree with you though, one-size fits all definitions are almost all laughably based on "vibes."

Then again, isn't management pretty much just vibe cultivation?
It's important to remember that USA cannot fly men to the Moon.

USA had that ability some 50 years ago. Since then companies changed, technologies were replaced, knowledge transformed and people got interested with other things, not to mention that risk threshold grew a lot. As a result, right now USA can't fly men to the Moon.

US government, however, doesn't want to give China the ability to say "yes, we're on the Moon - and we're the only nation which can do it today". And because of that, we have a rather similar conditions today as we had some 60 years ago - US government can't really allow China to fly men to the Moon without showing that Americans are also doing that, at the very same time.

Taxpayers, of course, are and were different - somebody doesn't care, somebody else cares a lot. I doubt US government want to assume those who care aren't that important.
We already have plenty of those, including some that use the exact same SoC.
Sort by descending total... Tons of police officers making a quarter of a million dollars a year. This is why we need Doge - accountability in government!
Small discussion (21 points, 1 day ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976861
Based on Stamen Design's Splatter https://stamen.com/splatter-now-re-available-for-download-15... https://github.com/stamen/splatter
This behavior likely stems from RLHF training - at least for the part after the images of the scatter plot are given to the models. Models were probably heavily penalized during training for pattern-matching that could lead to problematic racial misclassifications, similar to the issues Google faced with their image recognition systems in 2015. The tendency to be overly cautious about recognizing primate shapes, even in abstract data visualizations, could be an emergent behavior from these training constraints.
> I went to the CBP website and you went to twitter

I went to Google and the twitter post from the official account of the CBP chief came up in search results. You claimed that reports from January from CBP weren't posted so I "have no idea what is actually happening.". You are wrong. Based on numbers from the CBP chief himself, I do have an idea of what is happening.

You also posited "More likely is that Trump destablised the west and caused a net increase in illegal migration attempts." when actually, based on the CBP numbers, the opposite has happened under Trump's leadership.

> You've spent the entire thread making unsubstantiated claims about trans people based on right wing propaganda

If you you actually go through this thread again, you'll see I mostly discussed tariffs and immigration. Out of this entire thread, I've written one phrase about the transgender issue:

> "allowing biological men to destroy women in sports, not being willing to define what a woman is"

And both of those claims have been well documented. They are facts, not propaganda. E.g. high school volleyball play Payton McNabb who sustained life long head injuries when a trans gender player spiked a ball in her face. E.g. at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing she was asked if she could define what a woman is and her reply was "I can't --".

Again, you are not operating in truth.

> ad hominem attacks downthread is all you are good for, why would I waste actual effort on you?

You are part of the "smug left"[0]. It's no wonder Joe Klein says this about the Democratic party ""The intellectual corrosion is comprehensive; it is only matched by the self-righteous arrogance.". I'm not sure about the first part, I avoid calling people stupid, but the latter point about the arrogance of the left is spot on.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberal...
There is not.

I have often thought about writing something vaguely similar. We’ll see if I ever do. It wouldn’t be the same because I don’t hold the same position Bjarne did in the early days, but I am very interested in Rust history, and want to preserve it. It wouldn’t be from my perspective rather than from the creator’s perspective.

I did give a talk one time on Rust’s history. It was originally at FOSDEM, but there was an issue with the recording. The ACM graciously asked me to do it again to get it down on video https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2959689.2960081
Agreed. I did a pure math degree where most of my classes involved copying down 2-3 pages of axioms/proof per lecture, and I settled on mead letter size college ruled spiral notebooks, and yellow note pads for scratch work. Wide ruled led to too much wasted space, graph paper was visually busy and led to awkwardly spaced letters, dot paper just didn't really work. Smaller paper sizes didn't end up holding enough information per page, spiral binding was best for being able to rip out and toss pages, the perforation was nice for the occasional hand in sheet, and I had no need for a nicer quality paper.

Also I always kept Pentel Twist Erase III mechanical pencils with 0.5 mm lead, Hagoromo chalk, and a 4 color set of chunky expo markers in my bag.
> Bribing local officials to overlook the gay founder is sensible corporate practices

What does that mean? Who is the gay founder? Of Apple?
if your needs are fairly basic, sure. As soon as you add modernity, solar and storage for every house/region is cost-prohibitive.
I got that - that's why I added the parenthetical. My point was the second sentence. Anyway, thanks for the input about the drivers.

And for what it's worth, I expect Rust would offer significant improvements.
I do not personally no anybody using VS Code that hasn't also used vim. Granted there's some huge selection bias since so many people in my personal sphere use vim, but there you go.
I'm also fascinated by remote islands. Tristan da Cunha is one of my favorites.
C++ doesn't allow you to express low level systems constructs concisely and safely though. You usually get neither.

Look at the first example in the article, where the increment can overflow and cause UB despite that overflow having completely defined semantics at the hardware level. Fixing it requires either a custom addition function or C++26, another include, and add_sat(). I wouldn't consider either concise in a program that doesn't include all of std.
But these are not safety features
> I don't disagree that software engineering is not as rigorous as it was.

Such an utter BS. Modern run-of-the-mill software would run stadiums around the software of 80-s or 90-s.

Version tracking, continuous integration, and even _bug_ tracking was not at all common in 90-s.

Testing? That's so far ahead of the state-of-the-art of even 2000-s that it's not even funny. Even the basic unit testing was a huge step ahead in 2000-s. And fuzz testing, ubiquitous sanitizers, time-travel debugging are all novel to the mainstream development.

And that's not all. We're now not just talking about formal methods, but applying them in practice (see: WUFFS). And we now have safety-oriented low-level languages like Rust (that's just basically 10 years old).
There's something about these isometric views that is vey satisfying. The Sims wasnt exactly pixel art though, but it reminds me of childhood games that I only saw in magazines.
Yep, the only approach I've ever seen to quality from the top is hot air.
It's not just detecting malicious actions, binary reproducability helps solve "works on my machine" bugs because you'll get a different hash if you, say, link against a library you didn't think was being selected.
Zotero can sort of work like this. It's designed as a reference management tool but you can use it to save more or less any web page. It can also save actual snapshots of the page which makes it nice for "really saving" a page in case it disappears (although these days a lot of sites have junk that makes it not work that well). It is a little awkward having it as a separate app though.
Mh fair point. I guess the terminology / actual use of the words will evolve over time as AI becomes ever more prevalent. I'll probably have the deepfake - image/video connotation for some time.
This feels unnecessarily harsh - I can understand thinking Pollock shouldn't be as decorated or recognized, but "not worth doing to begin with" seems to cast a judgement on him having created something that feels mean-sprited. It's not as if Pollock was causing harm to others by making his pieces. I have plenty of friends who work out their stresses and needs to create by making things that will never be in a museum or sell for money. They may not even qualify for your approval as "art". Many are equally non-representational - just a mix of colors that struck their mood that day on a canvas. That doesn't mean they're not worth doing for them or maybe for those who care about them and received a piece of their work. I find some of them beautiful for reasons I can't explain.

The critique of if Pollock should be canonized as "a great artist" is and should be a different discussion. As far as I know, he wasn't out there trying to get his works in museums. Dismissing something he clearly cared about and had passion for as a complete waste of his life is insane to me. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, he was decidedly capable of other works that were more representational, but decided that he wanted to express himself in this way. This wasn't some hack with no other skills who got lucky.
I never took a real chem or bio class, but more than half my degree involved classes where 0 and ∅ were extremely frequently used. Thankfully no math or CS professor is stupid enough to use the letter o as a symbol or variable name.
From the article:

"We are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels."
I find it clearer to write dot products using inner product notation 〈,〉rather than \cdot .
How do we guarantee "T3 submitted at T+300ns" reads the rows that are committed by T1 and T2 at T+100ns and T+200ns? I guess the answer is that the minimum transaction time for consistency is 5 minutes? At that point, don't you lose a lot of the scalability and usefulness?

It feels very much like the "read" in the "read-after-write consistency" is usually forgotten, hand-waved away with "eventual consistency", or is actually just a single node handling the coordination somewhere, leading us to not having nearly as scalable a system as we are promised by the database.
Supposedly, the former Senator from Alabama personally intervened on a continous basis to stomp any NASA efforts towards in-orbit refueling.
Because you said it started in 2015. It started in 2012.
> Presumably, it's possible for errors to slip through, but human labelers can similarly make errors.

That's often an argument for AI systems: Is it better than humans (than avoiding car accidents, reading text, reading x-rays, etc.). But in science we need observable evidence.
The GDPR could have worked, though they chickened out in the last moment and designated the US as "safe"(the whole point was to keep the data local), they also allowed countries to interpret the GDPR in such an extreme way that it's now impossible to install security cameras in certain countries like Hungary.

The cookie law made me think that most people in the EU who make these laws need help turning on their computer.

I actually agree with parts of the Digital Markets Act, I should have the freedom to install whatever software I want on my iPad which is crippled by the App Store limitation, it makes my blood boil when I think about the fact that my iPad has a better CPU then my developer laptop, yet I can't run anything on it, because nanny Apple doesn't want me to. We'll see if it will work out though, I don't have high hopes.

I always say that the EU should look at parts of the US that are successful with an open mind and try to understand what's missing, because we have the talent that's not the issue, there is also money in Europe but for some reason I don't feel like I'm going to be building the next Google here. London got pretty close, but the UK decided to Brexit.

I agree that the EU should not try to create innovation, they should just create the conditions necessary for it.

The US also has bureaucracy issues, but it seems that there is so much investor money out there that you can just throw it at the problems to make them go away.
that's just hindsight. You can also argue the same for the dvorak keyboard vs qwerty. And yet, qwerty stood the test of time.

Momentum and legacy is hard to displace, when the new fangled thing attemping to be an improvement is not proven, and has unknown unknowns.
I have always had issues with this on my Lenovo X1 series laptops. Why is that?
McLane Company
never knew about the em dash thing, I was just using an AI writing assistant to help fix my shitty grammar and formatting. I think in future ill stick with bad formatting
I prefer the nitter.net instance, it doesn't have any JS-only captchas.
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Why the app has to be scrubbed from memory immediately after you close the last window? We are not in the times with 512kb of RAM memory. This is not something that the user should have to worry about today.

This is the simplest caching scenario I can think of.