skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember having to write an IBM 650 emulator using IBM 360 assembler language in 1978/1979 as an assignment at the University of Iowa. We had to account for the drum rotation speed and where instructions were placed on the drum for efficiency.
At that time, they did not yet offer a degree in computer science, so my major was mathematics with a minor in computer science. I took every available computer science class and had to take a “filler class” in COBOL from the college of Business.
I went onto my first job after graduating in 1970 to write Assembler language code for one of the first online transaction processing systems in CICS for a hospital patient registration system. It was an amazing time and experience.
Horrifying, does the video cut suddenly because what happens next is too fast for the brain to comprehend before being destroyed?
Glad to know this isn't just me. I thought I was going crazy.
wrong thread, you want the "who wants to be hired" thread, not who is hiring
Yes!

But who is better at it than the USA ?
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Human-in-the-loop is not a magic spell
In my experience, there's a time limit on how long these kinds of people can be good managers from the perspective of accurately assessing a) which ICs are contributing what and b) how long it it'll take to implement something. The fact of the matter is that an engineering manager who can't or won't write code will never know as much about his team or indeed the product as one who does.

It's a shame that the "maturation" of the tech industry has resulted in these non-coding eng managers whose main skillset is often bullshitting, managing up, or both.
Yes, that's all true. Even so, vibe coding empowers anyone who can write clear instructions to build software, but the limits of the technology get hit pretty quickly by non-developers and they have little recourse. This blog post https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-70-problem-hard-truths-abou... is a great overview.

The tech will get better and better (I couldn't imagine we'd be doing this a year ago) but to be truly useful it has to reliably produce reasonably well engineered code, and effective debugging is a key piece of that.
I am asking what the core purpose and rationale for USA involvement is, and saying that this should be the center of discussion, whatever it is. It seems like nobody can agree or articulate what this is in a coherent way.

Everything else is a sideshow and distraction.

I don't see how Europe spending 650 billion answers this question either. The US spending money because Europe is with no deeper logic elementary school thought.
>I know so many people in my life that can afford the better quality version of something, but instead opt for the cheaper, shittier version. When the shitty one dies, they get a new shitty one.

Where I once lived in the midwest this was called the 'Kame-apart mentality'.

But I don't why this toaster can't cost more or less the same, and it comes with that non-purchasable accessory, bragging rights.
Only those who can change. In work in embedded systems - we still have to talk to machines that were built with exportable encryption in the 90's (read if it isn't broken that is only because nobody who has a clue has bothered to try). They can't be upgraded anymore so I have to keep those algorithms building just in case someone wants to mix new with old. (fortunately the old machines are never internet connected so vulnerability requires local access - but the vulnerability is in safety critical functions so I don't rest too easy)
I don't see why you need to be writing code to understand all of this. It can help, but almost everything you said is ascertained from daily syncs
> this is obviously a joke

Sorry. Even here, Poe's law is very much a thing when it comes to this topic.

> Living 8 km away from an nuclear plant makes me quite sensitive to this aspect, obviously

Living near a coal plant has a much bigger impact on your health, all things considered. We're just bad at estimating risk with things like this, especially with how media covers things.

The odds of a nuclear accident are far lower than most people believe, and the risks from coal far greater.
They provide land access to Kaliningrad for once
My school had Windows NT and the experience was similar. Any workstation looked the same and had my data.

Later I saw some Citrix setups which would load the applications from the server. That also worked pretty OK.

With Windows you definitely had all the options to make this work in the late 90s.
People enjoy learning about old software. Fabien Slangard who wrote this article built a whole website and wrote several books based on that.
Also (3) there are panics that can't be safely caught, such as stack overflow.
Hanging out with the Russians and getting investment from them isn't actually illegal.
Thanks for sharing / working on tracklab. Would be cool to see VidFormer implemented.
You’re an extremist. This may be news to you.
I thought when the cuttlefish starts blinking, it essentially becomes invisible to the crab
No because its a projection, but in a month well get to see the actual data that they are making projections about here:
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth
$10K/year is not that bad, you won't die from hunger and can buy all necessary things. Also, it is more than in previous years (cannot believe, but it was somewhere around $1K/year in 2000 when Putin came into power).
In many cases, for nothing at all! Fabricated charges are extremely common in the American southeast.
There's a third option that's missing from that dichotomy: people who are OK individual contributors but who are actually really good at managing people.

These are the best managers, because they have the disposition/skills to be a good manager, but also aren't going to make dumb engineering decisions.

IC's who become reluctant managers are generally terrible managers because it's not what they're good at and not what they enjoy.
> Ukraine now has domestic laser weapons for taking down Russian drones

Source?
i have this:

https://github.com/svilendobrev/svd_bin/blob/master/vcs/vcs....

covering ~10 most-used operations , for 5 diff. vcs - git, bzr, mercurial, svn, ... - guessing which one according to .git/.bzr/.. etc

$ v u ... does update
$ v s ... does status
$ v i -m fixx ... does commit AND push
$ v a ... does adding
$ v d ... does diff
.. etc

some have subvariants.. depends on vcs
Here's where it all started: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
The West absolutely has more means at its disposal, by arming Ukraine to the teeth.

The slow drip of arms has been really effective at degrading Russia (just look at the golf cart brigades and North Korean wave attacks), but an increase in long range capability is what's needed to finish the job.
Coding agents are increasingly moving to have the human after the loop instead of somewhere in it. That's a good thing, because being in the middle of something else's thought process basically turns you into a tool without any real agency. Using tools like Windsurf have that effect when they ask for permission a lot, turbo mode is really liberating in that way.

We've got an OSS autonomous agent at Bosun called Kwaak that works in parallel to the developer (it spawns workspaces in docker containers), basically pulling the human all the way outside the loop. Right now it'll get many basic things right but sometimes it's flaky and it basically makes you carefully read its merge requests. I wonder if at some point the agents become so good that they only rarely make mistakes, making the reviewing of their merge requests ever more tedious as their mistakes become harder to spot and farther apart.
> But if the architecture is wrong, it's better to fix before than after.

Although this is true; if the manager is thinking about and getting involved in architecture after the PR is written it does suggest something has gone wrong. If there are architectural considerations then it is good to discuss them with the coder before they start developing.

PR review is a great time to pick up subtle bugs, do last-line sanity checks or get used to someone's style but if they are a bad arena for combating most code issues. If they are picking up design problems there is probably a process flaw to be corrected.
What would be feed stock for this?
I’m doing all my Zig editing in Zed and it works great.

For version management I use mise (or scoop on Windows).
Hahaha. Yes, from each according to their ability to each according to their lack of ability.
Yeah... I said it was a "flaming pos" I felt bad about that. But he won't let me add tests so idk whatever. (we prototype software so speed is the main goal but yeah, stuff starts breaking, backtracking, hey... tests)
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So do you support Trump's demand for ceasefire?

> Russia will keep the war going with or without us

Actually, Ukraine and Russia were close to signing a deal in Istanbul, but were pushed not to by US/UK - allegedly. but logically, without US(and EU) support, Ukraine would have been more inclined to sign the deal which would have avoided hundred of thousands of lost lives.
It’s sad It felt like this one started out bipartisan and eventually devolved like everything else into the culture war.

Not to get all conspiracy-y, but it does t feel like there’s a good reason to do this if you’re not trying to inflame tensions / further divide America.
But wait... you don't dare suggest that we stop propping up Israel's apartheid regime and occupation of other people's land!
Another important feature: HEVC playback on Mac OS X. An increasing amount of video content, especially content recorded on mobile phones, uses HEVC. Inconsistent playback support represents a real barrier to HEVC adoption (among other things), and Firefox support goes a long ways toward making HEVC more widespread.
Where did they imply they were from the US? And why would that be relevant here?
Speaking of Carmack, can you (or someone) elaborate on this quote?

>DOOM cycles between three display pages. If only two were used, it would have to sync to the VBL to avoid possible display flicker.

How does triple buffering eliminate VBL waits, exactly? There was no VBL interrupt on a standard VGA, was there?
> Would that make in-context learning a superset or a subset of pretraining?

I guess a superset. But it doesn't really matter either way. Ultimately, there's no useful distinction between pretraining and in-context learning. They're just an artifact of the current technology.
I was reading "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage and decide to build a proof of concept of an online telegraph.
Late 1950s concept cars. GM's Firebirds.[1] Turbine powered and self driving in 1960!

A few locomotives. The GG-1 is considered one of the best of the streamlined designs.[2]
The driver visibility is terrible, for no good reason. Steam locomotives had
a visibility problem because the boiler was in the way. This is an electric;
the cab and driver can be anywhere.

The Juicero Press.

1960s Olivetti calculators.

All those comic and SF spaceships that had rocket propulsion out the back but somehow achieved level flight without wings. This guy liked that kind of vehicle. Doesn't work.

The Corliss Triumph steam engine.[1] Obsolete when built. There were other more compact steam engines of higher power at the same exhibition.

All of steampunk, of course.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9_sLcgQ9LM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_GG...

[3] https://energyhistory.yale.edu/william-dean-howells-describe...
I would assume that's the Microsoft part actually.
> not aware of any language that provides this out-of-the-box, unfortunately.

ActionScript 3 had it :D
> ARC-AGI, introduced in 2019, is an artificial intelligence benchmark designed to test a system’s ability to infer and generalize abstract rules from minimal examples. The dataset consists of IQ-test-like puzzles, where each puzzle provides several example images that demonstrate an underlying rule, along with a test image that requires completing or applying that rule. While some have suggested that solving ARC-AGI might signal the advent of artificial general intelligence (AGI), its true purpose is to spotlight the current challenges hindering progress toward AGI

Well they kind of define intelligence as the ability to compress information into a set of rules, so yes, compression does that…
Exactly. That's basically the problem with a lot of the current paradigm, they don't allow true generalisation. That's why some people say there won't be any AGI anytime soon: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-no-agi-openai
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The movie pretty explicitly has Lawrence trying to deal with these split loyalties and has him specifically aware that the result of his actions as a British officer end up screwing over his Arab allies.

Not to mention the scene where he tries to pass as an actual Arab, the results of which aren't those of a stereotypical "white savior" story.

I can't really say it's not a "white savior" story but it's a subversive enough take on it that I'd recommend it to people who are turned off by white savior stories. The movie has much more depth than that.
It's been a long time since I worked in flight simulation (full flight simulators and simpler pilot training devices, including simulating TCAS), but I believe at that time TCAS would be switched to a mode in which it only alerts of "Traffic" instead of providing avoidance instructions precisely _when_ entering busier airspace -- e.g. airport proximity. In that environment it was undesirable for TCAS to be giving instructions. That seems like the environment in which Enhanced Radar's (future) product(s) could be of most interest.

(By the way, I believe EGPWS would take priority over TCAS anyway.)
Would like to know that as well. At least GPT doesn't recognize it. Maybe it's a custom build, too?
Fewer or shorter daily syncs is a plus
"as possible" means an incomplete system that still relies on assumed axioms.
There are two significant points to make about instances like this.

Finding someone who meets Criteria X is a long way from finding either a Majority or even just enough of a minority to make a difference.

When people believe their action will not make a difference, they pay less heed to the consequences of their actions. People will take money to do things if they don't think it will change much.

There are probably plenty of gun runners who sell guns to rebels that would should they succeed in their rebellion it would be detrimental to the gun-running business. Nevertheless they would happily sell them guns to them while they think the rebellion is doomed.

It's not always that simple though. Significant strategic decisions can involve projecting ineffectiveness to obtain the support of those who do not want you to be effective. Because of this, people have committed betrayals that have turned out to be far more significant than they imagined. I suspect this happens more often in fiction than real life, but fiction more frequently focuses on the significant. Real life produces the significant by having millions with the one in a million chance of being significant.
I think a good usecase for recover is in gRPC services for example. One wouldn't want to kill the entire service if some path gets hit leading to a panic while handling one request.
> If you elected a businessman or a lawyer, he/she'd tell you that Canadian exports to the US are 2x the imports from the US,

An honest one wouldn't, because it's categorically untrue.

"U.S. exports were $441 billion, while imports were $482 billion, resulting in a United States $41 billion trade deficit with Canada."

This doesn't even count the multinational tech corporations providing services in Canada through a local subsidiary, something that is not counted in balance of payments.
Miners on CI/CD pipelines for Drone/Gitlab servers with open registrations
If China seizes Taiwan, we're going to do exactly squat about it. The best thing the USA can do in regard to that situation is stay quiet, and let the status remain unchanged without goading China into doing something to save face.

And that means no more moronic field trips by grandstanding senators.
I tend to agree but, playing devil's advocate, is this true for other roles? Does a movie director need to know how to build sets? How to sew costumes? How to use Blender/Maya/Houdini? My manager can code, used to code, sometimes does code, but they aren't familiar with their team's current work.

Like imagine you were a coding manager 10 years ago with AI experience. Sometime over the last 10 years your team does AI infra. You, as a manager and as an IC, have zero AI experience (you've never trained a model, never used a trained model, never using any of the various AI frameworks). Are you still okay to manage this team or should you be replaced with someone who does have that experience?
> Makes more sense than any other explaination.

Makes sense that this was posted moments after it hit 5pm on the east coast.
Yeah. KL-KDP, Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky DDOS Protection

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the flood!
Sorry, I didn't mean to belittle your experience, or the guy's demise.

I was making a bit of a heartless pun of sorts on Stevie Smith's poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-...
Why was the solution to optimize the animation instead of... using a static asset?
Of course not. But that’s right change the nimby or indeed banana viewpoint
Text that is written in Natural Language is open to interpretation. There are many formal statements that can be said to interpret a given Natural Language text. Can we determine which formal representation is correct? What about most useful?

The obvious answer to these questions is, "no". There is no such thing as a conclusive interpretation. If there was, then Natural Language wouldn't be ambiguous in the first place!

So we're all doomed to constantly misinterpret each other forever, right? No? We humans use Natural Language all the time, and usually figure out what the other person actually means!? How do we do it? Are we all just really good at guessing?

No, we have something better: context.

Context exists both in and around Natural Language text. Context determines which formal meaning is used to interpret the text. If we don't know which context is appropriate, there may be clues in the text itself that help us construct one that is useful or correct.

---

I've been trying to work out an approach to language processing that interprets text into logical formalisms (arbitrary meaning). I call them "Stories". A Story is an arbitrary interpretation of text. A Story is never conclusive: instead it is used as arbitrary context to interpret the next text. I call this process "Backstory".

We could even do the process backwards, and "write" an arbitrary formalism (meaning) in the same language/style/voice as a previously interpreted Story.

Given enough example instances of Story, we should be able to read and write to each other through explicitly shared context. I call this process "Empathizing". I call my idea the Story Empathizer.

I'm definitely out of my depth when it comes to the details, though...
Yeah, this is where I'm at. Nothing sticks to him, and anything he does seems to get excused, so what kind of kompromat could even be severe enough to influence him?
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In most multimodal archiectures, images and text is fed as input and they live in same latent space, however major difference is most networks are trained to decode latent vector into text but never an image (Atleast in same network). This makes the network more biased towards text I feel and treats image embeddings as second class citizen?
Yeah, the source is here: https://github.com/replayio/nut.new

We'll continue to keep it open source as we develop it.
Trudeau does a lot of silly things. And maybe he's injected a little bit of extra drama here.

But Canada has absolutely tried negotiating. There's been a continuous stream of Canadian politicians visiting DC and trying to talk to someone - anyone. If all the provincial premiers and the minister of foreign affairs show up and the best you can offer is your assistant chief of staff of personnel or whatever, then clearly you weren't in the mood to chat/negotiate.
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This is surprisingly spot-on. Related: http://n-gate.com
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