skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good news is that GDP is positively correlated with greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Lower GDP, lower temp. I mean the famines will certainly "help"... I don't think the Senate will let it get that far, though. Only takes a few Rs in the House to impeach. 67 senators is a hard climb but 0% YoY GDP decline could do it... Or it could give Trump the stimulus he so badly craves.
Although the implications for independent open source developers in the EU are pretty bad, the real problem here is actually the impact it will have on European software companies, or in fact, any company that wants to sell software in the EU, even if they are foreign. The EU already suffers from a severe lack of tech industry given its size, and the author just casually brushes off the fact that this will make it much much harder.

Most likely it will mean that European software suppliers must pay for very expensive outsourcing of liability protection or liability insurance, yielding higher prices for European customers, and many other companies will simply give up on selling their software in the EU at all. The fact that shipping faulty software is a strict liability crime there means that you can't even solve the problem by using high quality processes and standards, which is presumably the goal, because it literally doesn't matter how much effort you made in good faith to reduce the fault rate. This changes the economic equation for selling software in Europe quite considerably. Hopefully, the UK does not make the same problems when it attempts to draft a similar law, or better, it simply doesn't draft such a law at all.

It says a lot about the cultural problems in Europe, and I say that as someone who is born and lives there, that the author simply blows this problem off as only affecting "mega corporations".
Her numbers are top .001% of all creators. Plus she published a #7 new york times best seller.
To pull out the years of weed growth in the garden sometimes some flowers are going to be disturbed (tongue in cheek)
The American right has (always?) been anti-government overreach traditionally. I don't actually think Trump or Musk are particularly conservative or right wing (they'll say and do what gets them the support) but on this topic they are actually very much in line with political tradition.

I think they're overshooting here and will need to correct, but I get the impression as an outsider that the American people who voted Trump in are sick and tired of a social structure that isn't benefiting them and seems to give them no "out" or way forward. They will take the wild and crazy antics/experiments because hey, it wasn't exactly working before anyway, was it?
Do you mean something like defense or banking?
Safer to put 50 interns each working on their own version of the code and the have it run 50 times in parallel and choose the answer that most of them agree to. No need for standards then. Probably also more robust to radiation bit flips.
I'll never forgive Al for renaming it eGore.
It's corporate doublespeak.

But to be fair, corporations need to say every single thing in a positive light or else media would savagely quote them. See what happens when somebody big admits openly making a mistake. They get punished. This stupidity destroys an honest society. Media and social media are evil forces.
Isn‘t this old news? There is research that says that if x percent of a group moves in one direction, the rest will predictably follow. Swarm study reveals this. And this can be observerd in human crowds as well.

I was wondering if Crypto whales use this insight to create FOMO and make them buy shitcoins in their pump and dump schemes.
so in practice climate change is de-facto off limits
"People watch YouTube for the people generally.
You can't just sell your channel if you are well liked (generally)"

Those are contradictory.
I think this is the main thing. Because you have billions of people competing, the people that make it do EVERYTHING themselves (until you get to 2-3+ million subscribers). This is why pretty much everyone burns out. It is probably the single most competitive market in the world, so unless your cost structure is 0 AND you're incredibly talented, it doesn't really pencil out.
Yes, someone definitely could. But also, you have to assess who your potential adversaries are. If you're very worried you would have to be very careful and could publish almost nothing online. You need to think about that balance for yourself and your case.

This is perhaps only a little more useful information than what you could get from someones LinkedIn page. However, there you could possibly also get a network of contacts which would be more valuable. If someone would target you and you specifically for something fraudulent, they would probably start by looking for you on LinkedIn.

I would say this website, if not posted here, would probably be less discoverable than the persons LinkedIn profile.
Congratulations. But when i open the website, I can not enter anything in the input url field.
https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/why-the-algorithm...
You aren't coming off very well here.
[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061481
I have seen it before. This is the “Coffee is for closers” scene from Glengarry Glen Ross:
https://youtu.be/elrnAl6ygeM
Combination of using the latest TSMC processes, a very wide design, very deep speculation pipelines, a weaker memory model than Intel, and lots of clever tricks of the usual sort for fast cpus, also a very high memory bandwidth.

I don't think it's anything to do with patents although I'm sure they have plenty.
Are Expensive TVs Worth It?
It's still your property. Through the "polluter pays" principle you (the developer) may have to pay for the archaeological dig (which is, by it's nature destructive).

In many cases if the archaeological finds are mobile (eg coins, shields etc) you may be compensated for them by a government fund.

But digging down in that part of London you're always going to hit something Tudor, Medieval, Saxon or Roman. It would be priced in as part of the development.
From what I read elsewhere, resignation letters were sent via corporate email. Once "escorted out" of the building, naturally their corporate accounts were cancelled.

This article says:

Attempting to reach the workers, the email, which was sent to current employees, said: "Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people's personal contact emails."

(FYI, your != you are. use you're for this)
The author admits they "kinda stopped reading this paper" after noticing that they only used one hyperparameter configuration, which I agree is a flaw in the paper, but that's not an excuse for sloppy treatment of the rest of the paper. (It would however, be an excuse to ignore it entirely.)

In particular, the assumption that |a_k| ≈ 0 initially is incorrect, since in the original paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01628 the a_k are distances from one vector to multiple other vectors, and they're unlikely to be initialized in such a way that the distance is anywhere close to zero. So while the gradient divergence near 0 could certainly be a problem, it doesn't have to be as fatal as the author seems to think it is.
If we fired 25% of the federal govt workforce, it would save 1% from the federal budget.

This has nothing to do with trimming waste and everything to do with replacing the government with loyalists from top to bottom. What comes after that isn't going to be pretty.
I was briefly diagnosed with "99.9% sure it's cancer" before it turned out to be benign. Say about 2-3 weeks.

In those few weeks my main regrets were a) not having done many of the things on my bucket list, and b) not having children or not going to be live long enough to see them grow up.

I'm someone with recurring nightmare about career goals and such. However at that time, work only crossed my mind briefly and was easily dismissed.
I think you hit the nail on the head.

The president is a con man who larps as the richest person on the planet and his biggest accomplishment last term was a giant tax cut for the rich. The "actual" president is the richest man on earth and has a vested interest in destroying anything that can tax him or hold him / his businessess accountable in any way.

Awfully convenient that the richest people in the world think that the proper way to balance the budget isn't by raising taxes, but by burning the whole government to the ground. They have the resources to live in a walled garden for the rest of their lives and they don't care who else gets hurt.
I just tried it and the result was pretty bad.

"How to do X combining Y and Z" (in a long detailed paragraph, my prompt-fu is decent). The sources it picked were reasonable but not the best. The answer was along the lines of "You do X with Y and Z", basically repeating the prompt with more words but not actually how to address the problem, and never mind how to implement it.
> 3. from what I understand, shell syntax is available only at REPL top level. Once you switch to Lisp syntax with `(`, you can return to shell syntax only with `)`. Thus means you cannot embed shell syntax inside Lisp syntax, i.e. you cannot do `(define j {find -type f | less})`

It's possible I misunderstand what you mean because I'm not sure what piping to less is supposed to accomplish here, but this is not true. The following program works just fine:

#lang rash

(require racket/port
racket/string)

(define (echo!!! message)
(define output {echo $message |> port->string |> string-trim})
(string-append output "!!!"))

(echo!!! "Hello")
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Aren't Volvos the cars that are (or were) so rigid that collision shocks were transmitted rather too directly to passengers ?
Holy clickbait. The title implies that Sri Lanka is totally out of power like Haiti, but that's far from the truth.

>Ninety-minute power cuts were implemented on Monday and Tuesday to manage demand. An investigation into the outage was being conducted by the energy ministry.

This is the extent of the "outage". It's more of a capacity reduction than a grid failure.
I am slightly older and I don't really remember very much from around when I started work after graduating. It's kind of sad that works consume a lot of my time but I have no memory to show for it.
> To be fair, usage has likely dropped commensurate with staffing!

The profit, which is what actually matters is up.

> I'm not sure a few 19 year olds are going to do better than this organization. It's hard work.

The problem was never technical. Ever tried to get stuff done in a bloated corporation full of incompetent people that just want to keep their jobs and don't want you to expose how relatively incompetent they are, especially the management? Things that a competent engineer in a startup could do in a day, are impossible to do. And in a government it's probably 1000-fold so.

Dumping some data from legacy system to a modern one is not a problem. The problem is firing people that can't deal with change. "You don't know what you're doing. Everything is sooo complex. You're going to break it. I've been doing it for 50 years, I know what's right."
> It’s interesting how the seat belt comment sets the time this was written.

I was surprised by this comment, as the PDF version that I read was undated.

During my search, I found there is a whole Wiki page dedicated to this paper! Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...

That Wiki page says 2006.
Sprints should give natural points to present to the end-user. Presenting to the end user is essential to getting feedback, and getting feedback is essential to building something the end user will actually use.

You can get feedback without sprints. But they make it easier, and encourage getting something in front of a user fast.
Someone hasnt heard about parasites and predators. Worth noting, they have existed as long as life has existed.

The universe allows all sorts of ways of being.
You have the option to set an alphanumeric pin. I just gave the old password, so i don't have to remember two passwords for an account.
The claim was that playoffs don't exist at all outside the US.

The UEFA CL is a league-then-playoff championship system. There are other examples, as you yourself acknowledge.

Bad faith argument? How dare you.
Youtube rewards content that gets interactions more than anything else. Likes, subscribes, comments, shares, pauses, rewinds and replays all hold incredible sway over what gets promoted by the algorithm.
Exciting to be trying something new!

Curious what drove the switch? You say macOS had been very frustrating lately, anything that made it particularly so?
> code works or it doesn't

It seems you're deliberately confusing "works" with "runs". They're different things.
I think this email was from a troll, and she is too deep in it to realise it.
Isn't that typical the modern ways. Pressure and control. We'll. Now it's even easier to choose.. I will just stay with win10. . Until September. Hopefully there will be some enlightenment around there.
same and difficult to stop thinking about this
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That was an incidental but very useful feature!
We’ve demonstrated how that doesn’t actually happen though. You’re the one refusing to accept the evidence.

And my point about your police force is saying perhaps you should spend more energy addressing your own country’s problems before making incorrect judgments about others.
If it were called Primoz I’d be wary of how often it might crash
> I wonder if companies would do that today without heavy incentives.

Didn't Tesla give away all of their patents at some point?
'nginx -t' exists as a general syntax checker, would be neat to expand it further to include these in depth checks.
> This works fine if the difficult part of your software is in nicely abstracted boxes, but in my experience the content of the boxes is usually fairly trivial: you can write a huge number of tests for them, but they're rarely where problems occur.

That's perfectly fine. It's also the basis of the whole test pyramid concept.

One of the main reasons why you have some problems caught in integration tests instead of unit tests is that developers introduced bugs by failing to characterize how some components actually work and thus fail to design both the units of code and the tests that go along with them.

This is not a problem caused by unit tests. This is a problem caused by developers failing to design and implement components, which consequently means they failed to add relevant tests.

> The integration and interaction are where you get by far the most value out of testing (...)

It's perfectly fine to think like that. The test pyramid concept exists for a reason. However, when looking at failures you need to understand their root causes. If a fault is triggered with an integration test but not with a unit test, that tells you two things:

- one or more unit of code is broken,

- your unit tests fail to cover a very predictable failure mode.

Each of these items by themselves reflect a fundamental failure in the way developers implemented their test strategy.

> Unit tests are the last tests that should be added to any system (...)

This take is fundamentally wrong, to the point that your software design process needs to be completely and fundamentally broken to believe it's reasonable that unit tests can be added post-facto after skipping the whole design process.
All key personnel were immigrants? Why did the others come back? Also, since the H1B were key to operations and therefore smart, couldn't at least some of them have found a new employer? 61% of the H1B population switched jobs that year, so why did all key H1B come back?

I think key personnel came back because they wanted to. It's the simplest explanation.
> Also, even if we stopped using all fossil fuels today, cold Turkey, lots of damage is already done.

That’s an understatement. Billions would perish in the name of “the greater good”
From "The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007013 :

>> The MISRA guidelines for Rust are expected to be released soon but at the earliest at Embedded World 2025. This guideline will not be a list of Do’s and Don’ts for Rust code but rather a comparison with the C guidelines and if/how they are applicable to Rust

/? Misra rust guidelines:

- This is a different MISRA C for Rust project:
https://github.com/PolySync/misra-rust

- "Bringing Rust to Safety-Critical Systems in Space" (2024)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18135v1

...

> minimum of two assertions per function.

Which guidelines say "you must do runtime type and value checking" of every argument at the top of every function?

The SEI CERT C Guidelines are far more comprehensive than the OT 10 rules TBH:

"SEI CERT C Coding Standard"
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...

"CWE CATEGORY: SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Guidelines 08. Memory Management (MEM)"
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1162.html
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For me too. TFA is, I think, the first coding standard I came across that made sense to me. Except for the "2+ assertions per function" rule. 2 is arbitrary for one thing, and secondly your top priority, in the context of mildly mission critical embedded code, is to do what it takes to keep your system alive and sane (as fault tolerance people put it). Then log the issue if you can. Downtime caused by a program abort followed by a watchdog reboot should be a last resort for things that you really couldn't possibly expect and therefore cannot handle properly - there's no such thing as an "unexpected error".

Also before that, design things so that errors cannot happen; for instance use C's type system, as weak and clunky as it is, to make it is hardly possible to pass out-of-range parameters. There's a trend these days to bash-at-will C for its "unsafe" nature, but a significant part of the issues are "between the keyboard and the chair", that is not doing the right thing because it is tedious - that's probably the main defect of C.
The private health companies need to hire these folks en masse to a jointly owned company and provide a contract disease surveillance service to CDC. But they probably make more money if people get sick. The whole reason for public health spending right there.
Environmentalism really is just a slippery slope ideology. We have electric cars that don’t pollute and are an amazing experience… but oopsy woopsy they have tires so I guess we need to ban them too. Might as well just keep people burning diesel because the electric cars aren’t ideologically pure enough.

How about we just solve the actual problem first? The planet is burning. People used to burn coal indoors for heating, that’s way more fucking harmful than 1 micron of brake dust.
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I'm sure I've seen a sandstone culvert in an otherwise boring wall around the strand or Lincoln's Inn which is a Roman water supply. Can't find it on the wub, but.
Grover Norquist, 2001:

> I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
This, Kennedy, attacks on Obamacare: the 1% culling the herd ? Certainly the monied class will in any scenario retain access to decent, science-based health care.
Ah yes, sold Feb 15 2025[1]...right as the CEO took over running the US government and raided the US treasury department.

I'm sure this is a completely above board sale that definitely does not represent a legal-if-you-don't-look-at-it way to bribe the de facto head of the US government / the expectation of massive corruption (ala: Tesla's stock price rising on the news Elon Musk was running DOGE - weird right? The CEO is apparently going to be too busy to run the company because he's now running the government so the stock price goes up...to be fair, technically that's not a bad bet)

Because we know the new administration definitely wouldn't take bribes in the form of financial instruments[2]. Definitely no history of it[3].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/banks-sell-down-mor...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/trumps-meme-coin-...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/tru...
That’s like saying you want a 60HP engine that you can hot swap for a 300HP engine. They’re built into the hulls!
In this case I would think people would prefer to just have the SDR version which will look good on all displays rather than the HDR version that will look better on a HDR display but will look horrible on a SDR display. It's down to personal preference of course, but I can't imagine someone caring about having HDR videos while simultaneously putting up with the bad results of automatic HDR-to-SDR.

Just as an example since I didn't include one before: Which of the two below images using different algorithms is correctly tone-mapped? Do we care more about showing the details of the car and the driver or do we care more about the rest of the scene? It's simply not possible to decide which of these is better without context, which an algorithm will never have. A human watching the scene can make that decision, or pick something completely different.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41094733/105145848...

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41094733/105145851...