skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brawndo is coming- it's got electrolytes and IT'S WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!

Life imitates art indeed.

I am sympathetic to wanting to automate complex workflows. Hell, I'm sympathetic to wanting to automate simple workflows. In fact, I bitch about the stupidity of the things I do at least once a week (no, you see, I take the numbers that show on this monitor, and I type them into a box on that monitor; why no cut & paste? faster to re-type the numbers; sigh).

But people provide context. Sure, an AI might tell you utility costs were up last quarter, but they won't know it was because of a water leak that went unnoticed and tripled the bill. Or it will tell you that wages were up, but not that it was because Bill from Operations had hernia surgery and we had to bring on a temp for 2 months. And it certainly won't tell you that Jim's back on the sauce, so we should probably begin putting out feelers for a new salesman.

So much of what business does is tracking metrics, yes, but the numbers never tell the whole story. There's always a backstory. Things that just can't be captured in raw data and hence can't be summarized by an AI. And AIs can't keep the ship sailing. Every small business has the guy/girl that does all the little things for everyone that absolutely holds the whole damn thing together. I'm not a BigCorp guy, but I imagine most departments are similar.

How about customer feedback? How can a model distill valuable (actionable) meaning from disparate communication mediums other than superficial high-level conclusions?

Expectations are just not realistic right now. There's going to be a lot of disappointment.
> So what number is between .999 repeating and 1?

That's easy. It's (1-0.999…)
Yes, but if we’re discussing solutions, maybe it would be relevant to understand where the problem stems from
Don’t work for Apple but some bugs just take a lot of work to identify.

I work on a well trafficked consumer product and even though I have a full latitude to fix bugs at my job, I will wait weeks for the right report to come in to make it easily reproducible. I will pull the ticket out of backlog and it will take only an hour to fix it rather than frustrating me and wasting an entire day tracing a bug only to fail at reproducing it anyway. It’s constant triage.
LLM limited by public knowledge.

> Unless, of course, the information that matters is not on the Internet. This is why I am not sharing the Deep Research report that provoked this insight: I happen to know some things about the industry in question — which is not related to tech, to be clear — because I have a friend who works in it, and it is suddenly clear to me how much future economic value is wrapped up in information not being public. In this case the entity in question is privately held, so there aren’t stock market filings, public reports, barely even a webpage! And so AI is blind.
So there's three problems with the argument for TSA:
1. We did a lot of things in response to 9/11 (e.g. locking cockpit doors, TSA, increasing awareness). It's unclear whether TSA was a component that helped.

2. In the modern world, it's unclear whether hijacking is a severe risk to planes (compared to drones or missiles which are way more acquirable by terrorists and civilians than they were 25 years ago)

3. TSA has a documented and repeated ~80% failure rate at detecting threats. To the extent security theater is effective, you would expect that that effectiveness would disappear once everyone knew that they most likely wouldn't stop the attack.
> I spent a lot of time figuring out how to render 200k+ lines of log output without crashing. This led to optimizations deep in our virtual terminal rendering library...

Interesting. I have two wildly different takes on this.

1) Dagger is such an interesting company that they let developers do whatever they want, as long as it works and works well. A good mix of pragmatism and fun.

2) Holy crap, it's a real company with real customers. Why would they attempt something like this in one of their key products, where are the adults?!
Stallman's principles should be directional - an orientation, aspirational, not something to cling to with bitter insistence. It's the equivalent of screaming "why can't we all just get along" into the Matrix.

Copyleft isn't how the world works. MIT and Apache and liberal licenses liberate ideas for reuse and practical application in the real world. If you want your project to be a quirky curiosity visited and abandoned by people searching for some better solution for their problem, use copyleft.

If you want your idea to make the world a better place, use permissive, liberal licensing and move on.

Forking something from MIT to GPLv3 is disappointing, from this standpoint.
It sounds like people having fun, which means they would care more and ship faster if it works out. If it doesn't work out, they will do something boring.

Why hate on people actually enjoying the thing at times when everyone with the boring stack is one round of layoff away from the door?
Apple music web player loads >8MB of resources. Spotify loads >12MB. Sure this is including some images etc. not just the code bundle, but it's not like other examples of SPA's are small.

IMO the end solution for this bundle size issue is for browser vendors/wasm designers to work with languages to setup cross site caching for these large language runtimes, built and distributed from trusted upstream builds instead of individual websites. Let me inform browser to link my wasm go app against a specific well known version of the go runtime built as wasm.

I'm sure it would need some work on the language side (go specifically statically links against the runtime at build time) but I'm sure it can be made to work.
They are when the only reason they are flagged as security updates is because some a single group deems a very rare, obscure edge case as a HIGH severity vuln when in practice it rarely is => this leads to having to upgrade a minor version of a library that ends up causing breaking changes.

This is the recent thread I'm down. Pandas 2.2 broke SQLalchemy backwards compatibility: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38332787/pandas-to-sql-t... + https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/57049#issuecomme...
They do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/18y2hxa/lpt_if...
Is Shiro a taboo name? Seen an ad for a big corp not printing 4 out of deference to the Japanese, since its the word for death.

Or do people associate it with white?
Russia's war wounded are recovering in North Korea
Bought a 10 years old clio with 80k km, which needed like 500€ service when bought.

Now at 15 years and 200k km still running strong, with less than 300€ service costs yearly.
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> I'm mostly curious about the whole "a verb with prefix structure can be a whole sentence" thing, that sounds like a pretty cool language feature!

That's a fairly common language feature; such languages are generally called "agglutinating".

Prominent examples of agglutinating languages are the Eskimo languages, Turkic languages, and Finnish.

https://archive.is/QQnB6

There should be no shortage of resources available if you want to learn Turkish or Finnish.
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Going by the article and not having had a look at the code I assume you replaced React but not all JavaScript. In that light, did the fact that WASM can't access the DOM directly pose any obstacles?
That would be a good trick considering the EU does not own Denmark.
Swap California and Greenland. Clothing optional beaches make more sense in California.
The explanation is better if it allows you to explain a large number of similar words arising from a common source by a systematic process.

If you have to make up a new just-so story for every pair of words, of course you're not gaining much, but if the same story works for many words at the same time, positing a common origin isn't too far-fetched.
Cost. To take it to an extreme, you could render everything on the back end and stream video, like GeForce Now or Stadia, but in doing so, the backend needs to be quite beefy. As clients these days usually have some modicum of processing power, doing it on the front end so you're not also playing for an extra fleet of VMs on the backend saves money and increases revenue. At a high level, you want the line for revenue to have a higher slope than the line for costs. Not a huge deal from 0-1 customers or 1-10, but does become an issue at scale.
Well, generally speaking all big chains have better quality of food in Japan, even McD (I don't eat that personally but numerous acquaintances confirm it).

It likely has nothing to do with production but rather with sourcing - shitty components are not readily available in Japan as they are in the US.
Especially for shitty landlocked states that produce nothing and have poor education infrastructure
> CFPB is simply not delivering on its purpose, but wasting $700 milly per year just for some bureacrats to sit on their asses and do nothing

In Europe, we call that an unemployment mitigation programme. Well, we don't call it that, but that's what it is.
Go is not the best for ML and scientific applications in my experience. Orchestration is fine but the libraries just aren’t there, Gonum alone is way behind NumPy/SciPy
To be fair to Google, they are simply following a policy they've had since 2008. There is a similar issue with the Sea of Japan/East Sea.
One of the important things about employing full stack engineers at small companies is that the skillsets of frontend and backend don't always meet the needs of the work they're doing.

Consider two examples: sending an email, which requires typical frontend skills but is by nature in the backend code; and configuring invisible backoff and retries in the frontend, which is the opposite.

I call myself a full stack engineer even though my ability to do design-adjacent work is pretty bad because I've spent a lot of time working in this middle ground. When you want to e.g. move PDF generation from the server to the client, or you want to untangle the horrible Redux caching layer that doesn't invalidate things properly, that's a specific blend of skills that's neither fully one nor fully the other. This is less about cost and more about a niche between the two fields.

Consider also data engineers, or teams with a technical lead rather than an EM, or any other role that sits between worlds.
Should the most recent settlers to it have a stronger claim, instead?

Should they have an equal claim?

Can I put in a claim to ownership of wherever you live?
I think it’s not so much that the Rigveda by itself gives us a direct insight into Proto-Indo-European culture, but rather that if we compare it to Western texts it can help us reconstruct elements of a shared ancestral culture, or at least a shared ancestral language (from which we can perhaps infer something about culture).
> People that call themselves "full stack"are a backend developer that dabbles in frontend or a front end developer that can dabble on the backend. Almost never have a met a person who was equally good at both.

Full stack developer here who disagrees. Most web apps are not that complicated and if there are the term 'backend developer' will be replaced with something more specialised as well.

> the backend story for me is still weaker than using Python or elixir, etc simply serving an API

That is a very odd statement, Python has a lot of issues that NodeJS never had, in terms of developer experience I believe NodeJS is superior just based on the fact that I don't need to know what a virtual environment is and I don't need to choose between different incompatible package managers before I even write my first line of code.

> if you are building a company, 9 times out of 10 you are going to have to have an API anyways. I like to have the boundary of that API explicit.

If the only consumer of the API is your frontend, why would you want to have such a strong boundary?

> the only exception to the above is if you aren't building a company and instead working on a small personal or group project.

This statement can easily be hard countered by the rise of full stack frameworks like NextJS and the fact that the whole backend-frontend separation didn't always exist, it mainly happened because of SPAs.
Except, no part of Central nor South America touches the Gulf of Mexico. The only three countries which coasts on the Gulf are the US, Mexico, and Cuba. All of these are in North America, and I'm pretty the latter two are not going to go along with the idea.
All these monopolies? Apple, Microsoft, and Google are competitors: ChromeOS, Windows, MacOS. Then you have the flavors of Linux.. I might be confused as to the new definition of monopoly.
that specific part, file a complaint and get escalated to company's management:

1. could be automated completely, removing the need for human cost in the process

2. should be created for all other industries as well, not only finance consumers
I count my lucky stars that I'm fortunate enough to not have to make such a choice. But you're suggesting this person move away from their friends and family (not to mention taking a spouse and kids) to an inhospitable place to work on an oil rig? You know, to do a (famously) astronomically taxing job (when you'd most need that love, comradery, and support)...alone?

I've got those city-slicker wanderlust glasses on, and could, for a time, probably enjoy working on an oil rig. But alone? I'd honestly rather live in my parent's/friend's basement and be a walmart greeter.
https://www.howtogeek.com/you-dont-need-apple-intelligence-a...
While I favor BSD and MIT licenses myself that's all I will use, obviously we've had very successful software that is copylefted.

There are people who won't contribute to your program if it's BSD or MIT. There are those who won't contribute to your program if it's GPL.

A program with any license is at risk of being abandoned as a quirky curiosity, if it, doh, is a quirky curiosity.
Your mind produced a wonderful list of rabbitholes there! Lovely job.
>That someone, somewhere might sometimes get a gun through TSA security is one thing...

I think you might be misunderstanding the scope of the issue. In testing, guns get through screening more often than they get stopped.
It's a nice article (upvoted) but I found it a little unpersuasive.

"Management Methodology A is good; Management Methodology B is bad. We know this because of Case Study A and Case Study B."

Sure, but those case studies only represent two data points. We can't be confident we are interpreting those case studies correctly.

We'd ideally like to have more data points, or stronger theoretical arguments for why Methodology A beats Methodology B.

If an organization is under-performing dramatically, why isn't dramatic change appropriate? What if cost-cutting is the primary objective, and we aren't aiming to improve capabilities? Given that capitalist countries are generally nicer to live in than socialist ones (see e.g. North vs South Korea), what's so bad about making the government more capitalist? I didn't see persuasive answers to these questions; I got the sense the author was assuming the answers based on their ideological bias.
I guess this depends a bit on the project but pretty often yes. I currently maintain Typescript SPA with PHP backend and the split between languages is very frustrating, it induces a ton of pointless busywork. If the backend language was something stronger, than I'd be willing to accept that split to get those benefits, but having two different scripting languages seems quite pointless.
the page itself uses low-contrast pink text on a pink background, which is hard to read

Well, the author does say about herself that she loves making things pink so I guess this is a feature.
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In the New Testament, the governor actually asks the crowd "do you want a pardon for Yeshua or Yeshua Bar Abbas", Bar Abbas meaning son of Abbas, a common naming convention. The text officially goes "do you want a pardon for Jesus or Barabbas?"
The adults would make a quarterly plan, schedule 16 hours of meeting each week, 4x the head count and put everyone into a silo. And then nothing gets done except next quarter.
Ok, you seem to be implying that just the use of GPL software necessitates the open sourcing of anything you build on it or with it. If that were the case, then all of AWS would be open sourced and all of the server backends built on Ubuntu clusters would have to be open sourced.

As far as I understand, its only "derivative" works that must be open sourced. Not merely building a software program or hardware device on top of a Debian OS. Tesla's control console is hardly a derivative work.
US taxpayers feel very sick from learning about all these taxpayer funded cushy jobs for DC lawyers and clerks and aides who just push paper and get fat paycheck without any accountability, while the private industry deals with layoffs, performance improvements, at-will employment, and general uncertainty
Walter Isaacson said something similar about Einstein and Steve Jobs. Sometimes you need to reject commonly held assumptions to make progress. Einstein rejected the idea of ether. According to Isaacson this was probably because Einstein was working outside of university. Inside university, professors would likely have pushed Einstein to stick to the idea of ether.
..or a career.

After years of experience I question everything ;-)
> Krapivin made this breakthrough by being unaware of Yao's conjecture.

I don't think there's any evidence of this. Yao's conjecture is not exactly standard undergraduate material (although it might be—this is a commentary on detail rather than difficulty. But i certainly didn't encounter this conjecture in school). If not knowing this conjecture was the key, millions and millions of students failed to see what Krapivin did. I imagine you'd have to ask him what the key to his insight is.

Hashing is a pretty unintuitive sort of computation. I'm not surprised that there are still surprises.
We can resettle the two million acres of Ted Turner land then?
Where did you get the salary figure and headcount? Neither seem to be correct.
>Informing potential customers of products that might be useful to them

1920 called, they want their argument back!
> Since there is no bug database that can be read outside Apple, we can‘t +1 the most annoying ones.

Some Apple Radar bugs are tracked publicly on OpenRadar, but there's no (yet?) voting mechanism:

https://openradar.appspot.com/

https://github.com/timburks/openradar/issues

> Bugs also need to somewhat fit into the „theme of the year“ to get prioritized.

User-defined themes for Apple bug annotation could be ranked by annoyance and compared to annual themes.
All Bluetooth technology is licensed, no? Then it's still the fault of Bluetooth if not only is their protocol so difficult for many or most manufacturers to get right, and their qualification process doesn't enforce correctness.

But yeah I mean Bluetooth sucks, everyone has had the experience of trying to connect to a device repeatedly that keeps trying to autoconnect to some other random device that was used before. My usual interaction with Bluetooth is to always enter pairing mode and just be done with it, but hardly feels futuristic to manually hold down a button press every time you want to use a device.

> except in a less popular and less broadly adopted protocol

Isn't the usual way this problem is solved that the big players (Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) come together and create a consortium for a new technology? So you get widespread support in all new devices and within 5-10 years most people are using it over the old one. If a better protocol is possible I don't think this would be the bottleneck.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43001730 (only 1 comment)
There are two other countries which have coastlines on the Gulf of Mexico. They are Cuba and Mexico. Neither of them call it the Gulf of America. The name is not inclusive, even when you leave out Trump's intentions.
It's tricky because property rights are legitimately the foundation of a peaceful and prosperous society. It's bad to incentivize violent conquest and theft. But it's also bad to incentivize a society where the way to become wealthy is to tell the best sob story about stuff that happened to your ancestors generations and generations ago.
Well, the "Gulf of America" nonsense is also shown here, in brackets after "Gulf of Mexico." So it seems like they're not content with just keeping it to the US as originally stated.
budget from the attached report, headcount from the title of post, you can ask chatgpt also
It seems like a motivation for creating it was to centralize enforcement

> Backers of the idea argued that because several federal agencies were regulating the consumer banking system, there were gaps in oversight that left consumers vulnerable or confused. The new agency would consolidate those regulatory responsibilities in one place.

I assume they have something equivalent. I also know consumer banking at least works differently in Africa and Europe then it does in the US. IIRC bank accounts are protected and accessed differently

Your other posts on this thread seem emotional, angry and aggressive, so I'm just not going to bother engaging anymore
Prior to the discovery of the Hittite language, linguists had compared the various Indo-European languages they knew of and did much of the work of reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European language based on comparative linguistics. This work was highly conjectural, but it provided something akin to a falsifiable theory that could be tested by the discovery of another written Indo-European language. Such a language was Hittite, and the Hittite language fits the model of Indo-European languages that had been constructed prior to its discovery.
Non-profit project that gives away expensive stuff to multibillion/trillion dollar companies, for free? I didn't even know that this is a thing. Where can I donate my kidneys?
> Are you saying that simulating a brain is analogous to simulating an airplane?

Am I taking crazy pills? You brought up airplanes as an apt comparison and I said well airplanes are in fact simulated. But now airplanes aren't analogous?

Do you like have a single material fact regarding brains and/or AI to substantiate your arguments or is it all only conjecture and metaphor?
But competitors are already here and as others have stated Tesla sales are free falling outside the US, at best that’ll only work for the US. Even in that best case I don’t think that market alone justify the stock valuation. But even in the US I don’t get what will be the Tesla mass demographics anymore.