skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you heard what these people have to say about “the poor”?

It isn’t good. And it isn’t ambiguous.

Why would a bunch of VCs deserve to have absolute domain and “experiment with governance”.

These are lives, not data points. They are venture capitalists, not scientists, not priests, not gods, not even experts in any domain. They are responsible for the most wasteful, inefficient business ventures of all time. How much money and energy do they demand for useless ventures that serve nobody? Seemingly an endless amount.

What do they even know about what is right for people? By what authority? And they seek to usurp that land and authority from people who already live in those regions.
I wish those departments tasked with busywork would be able to build skunkworks inside these dysfunctional molochs and be able to keep what they create. Fired into becoming a startup.. a man can dream.
All the pain to get echo working was 100% worth it! What a great release
For me it is pretty clear that there was work-before-I-started-raising-a-young-family and work after.

To be clear, it wasn't over-night. After all, it took me quite a bit of time to adjust to my new role in life as "father". But once it started to embrace me (or, you know, vice-versa) the importance of work and its rewards diminished significantly.

In short, I was soon content to put in the work that got the job done, but I had few aspirations of climbing any kind of career ladder. "Dad" was my new and dominant identity. The paycheck was how I could take the girls on vacations, get them bicycles, fix up the house we lived in, etc.
The language server has been improving at such a fast pace it's hard to keep up! Soon I'll be out of code actions to implement
Nah I've been in meetings before where it was asked "if we can find these ten million in cloud costs and licenses, can we retain staff?" and the answer was "no, because those are different buckets."

Regarding "managers try to amass staff," I've seen some of that for sure, but it's not universal and acting like it's some kind of iron rule of organizations is an op.

Most managers are evaluated based on the impact their organization is having, not the size of it, unless the firm is incredibly poorly run.

What does happen, and where these layoff edicts come from, is that the executives fear the management is more loyal to their directs than they are to leadership. They feel that if they want to inflict something on the workforce they have to "force" management's hand, because otherwise management will resist.
Jar Jar was intensely polarizing. Kids loved him for being fun, adults hated him for being goofy. People get too invested in their feelings to ever look at things in a wider context - to the point where George Lucas "made major changes to the story arc".

It's actually a pretty similar thing to kayfabe - acting so outrageously polarizing as to make the audience suspend disbelief/critical thinking.

And then you look at how politicians like George W, Trump and Boris Johnson etc act...
Why do you lose 10% of your top performers?
Some of us remember ”no-code” and its promise to reduce manual code. The trick is it reduced it in the beginning, at the expense of long term maintenance.

Time and time again, there are people who go all-in on the latest hype. In the deepest forms of blind faith, you find ”unfalsifiability”: when the tech encounters obvious and glaring problems, you try to fix those issues with more of the same, not less. Or, you blame yourself or others for using it incorrectly whenever the outcome is bad.
Nice, I did not know about polygonToCellsExperimental.

As for DuckDB & rtree, it's alas not a replacement of postgis yet and the indices cannot be used (yet) in joins. In fact, I even have workflows where I iterate over rows in python and run duckdb queries one after the other rather than joining in just one query because of this very issue.
> A lot of people treat economics as though damage didn't happen unless someone acknowledges it.

This is what I call the TV effect. People are trained from an early age, by consuming media, to only construct what is "real" by what is announced. And it's not just economics, but all sorts of aspects of life.
I’ve used Marp a lot and it’s great. Column layouts and code highlighting are two features Presenterm offers that I don’t think are available in Marp.
His goal of spontaneous order depends on several things. Apparently, the most difficult for Americans are:

1. Initially, the currency is promised to be convertible to a basket of goods and services. That promise begins the reputation of the issuing institution.

2. Fraud would still be illegal, reputation-damaging, and not “it’s called being smart”
I love the internet. didn't know about Gina until now
Advertising Personalization: Good for You?
> I'll decide where I'm going when I get to the next stop light

Surprisingly, this type of iteration can actually work; but the caveat is that the people behind the wheel, and reading the maps, need to be very good, and also, experienced enough to make sound decisions. If mediocre (or inexperienced) people try it, it’s a disaster.

From what I can see, the entire tech industry has been institutionalizing mediocrity, so this type of approach is not really available.
Wildlife declined 70% in the last 50 years thanks to our "progress" and now we bring back mammoths for shit and giggles, it never cease to amaze me how clever yet dumb we are as a specie
Tangentially, this means there's an entirely non-niche market for AI-based uh ... nonautonomous aids.

With closed-book pen & paper exams (e.g. in India), not so much.
Thankfully, Russia doesn't really have 5th Gen either. Europe has a lot of solid 4+ gen planes: Rafale, Eurofighter, maybe Gripen. And I'm willing to guess that, especially with better trained pilots, these are potentially better than Russia's assortment.

But there remains a question of quantity and determination.
Under this thesis, then SLOP would win, except I don’t yet see how it can be composed by the user, which MCP is supposed to have moved the composability into?

https://i-love-slop.com/
It is as if you were on your phone
I don't doubt it, unfortunately design by committee has its constraints.

For example, had C kept under control by its authors, maybe even the security story would have been sorted out by now, who knows.
Isn't that just bad science though?

People shouldn't be trying to publish before they know how to properly define a study and analyze the results. Publications also shouldn't be willing to publish work that does a poor job at following the fundamentals of the scientific method.

Wishful thinking and assuming good intent isn't a bad idea here, but that leaves us with a scientific (or academic) industry that is completely inept at doing what it is meant to do - science.
Yes, I agree. There was a view that Trump is at least transactional - that so long as you pay (NATO defense spending target, US weapons etc) he'll have your back,.in a subscription basis. Likewise outside defense I guess.

But that's going up in smoke rather quickly.
This could easily turn into a witch hunt [0], especially given how problematic certain fields have been, but I can't shake the feeling that it is still an interesting application and like the top comment said a step in the right direction.

[0] - Imagine a public ranking system for institutions or specific individuals who have been flagged by a system like this, no verification or human in the loop, just a "shit list"
because they see the company struggles and is not loyal, as top performers have plenty of options they will be more likely to take a better offer when it comes along. Top performers will not leave the same day but bleed out over a bit longer timeframe. The most popular example is woz hesitating so much to leave HP because HP was loyal to employees and woz was loyal to HP. Imagine the same situation when HP had just let go 10% of employees, he would not have thought about it twice.
Spiritual crises are incredibly powerful. Especially nowadays, where the outrageous meaninglessness of pretty much everything in mainstream culture can be something which just creates an unpleasant gut feeling at first, maybe goes along with health problems, but all pointing towards what a heavily unbalanced media and politics are selling to us. A life trapped in routines, with the crushing thoughts of "but objectively, everything is fine in my life, so why am I crying?".

Also as the current mainstream education systems are incredibly dehumanizing and plainly soul-crushing. Students repeating completely pointless knowledge regurgitated by incompetent, unreflected teachers. But the teachers are not to blame, they are just followers as well.

Humans are animals striving for the Divine. Not as in the Christian God, or Muslim Allah or any other personified figure purely invented for mass control and mass manipulation. I mean what Rudolf Otto called "the Holy", the subjective religious experience and, eventually, in the context of the "enlightenment", the concept of meaning.

The Divine and "meaning" are identical. There is no meaning in anything, except for when you believe in it. Belief in the meaning of life is nothing objective, it's an active decision you make. If you get rid of this drive to consistently manifest the belief in meaning, you break down.

The transition from finding meaning in external things (e.g. Gods from institutionalized religions, money, work, validation from others etc.) to generating meaning from within is the most powerful transition in one's life. It is deeply vulnerable, a bit like a little birdie jumping out of the nest where it grew up for the first time. It means that you're getting wings, that you're freeing yourself from the control others have over you, because you stop believing that anything or anyone else can give you meaning. It's like a new language to learn, a way of being where you question everything, except for one single thing which you forbid yourself from questioning: meaning itself.
I don't think this is about expecting AI to successfully fact-check observations, let alone do its own research.

I think it is more about using AI to analyze research papers 'as written', focusing on the methodology of experiments, the soundness of any math or source code used for data analysis, cited sources, and the validity of the argumentation supporting the final conclusions.

I think that responsible use of AI in this way could be very valuable during research as well as peer review.
Sure if you have a way to guarantee reducing "useless meetings" we should definitely be doing that.

You don't though.
Truer words...
Nebula did it.
Will America ever be trusted again?

Also, stop flagging news articles simply because they are slightly anti-Trump.
Oh, mon frère... there are many reasons.

Hexagons. Are the bestagons.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
Where are you getting this from? There certainly has been some exaggeration online and in the media about the capabilities of western military hardware, especially tanks. But that doesn't mean they were bad, just that they are far from invulnerable. And there are quite a few examples where they saved the soldiers inside when a Russian tank would have tossed their turret.

Patriot works in Ukraine, they even got a few Khinzal. But of course any air defense is limited by available ammo and you need enough of the right kind of air defense in the right places for this to work well. The Ukraine is really limited by the number of available systems and ammunition. And for something like the Shahed drones you need other ways to defend yourself to avoid exhausting your precious ammunition for advanced air defense systems.

Russia also was shown to be nearly unable to intercept Storm Shadow/SCALP EG at the beginning. So the somewhat aging European cruise missiles were able to easily penetrate current Russian air defenses.
I wasn't sure where to say it but your comment seems appropriate. It must impact install numbers when companies(ones I've been at) only want you to use chrome. Wasn't really an option for our regular staff. I was able to get away with using ff.

Agree as well - I still end up mostly using Google search, tho half the time when I don't get any decent results I realize it wasn't that important anyways. Interesting side effect of poor search results.
> invest that time where you're sure to derive meaning from it.

all my time is taken up with doing work, chores at home and childcare.

I feel fucking depressed.
Are these people in remote regions?

Didn't starlink just solve those logistics?
We are a small team in big company, and management that made wrong decisions is still somewhere there but not my direct management, still getting same paycheck, car, cards and benefits but new managers (that accepted to take over and got brand new car for 100k€, cards and bonuses, bells and whistles) started to layoff workers so we know this is the end for my team, and of course they will do whatever it takes to "save the product", but not fix the the real issue... lack of good developers to fix terrible bugs in our product.
Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections
> potential threats

What threats specifically? This should be very easy to answer, but no one ever does.

NATO has had missiles at Russia’s border for 70 years, in Turkey, but that never resulted in a US special military operation to Moscow.
Yeah I was skeptical too but it makes so much more sense. Now I'm constantly thinking "this is dumb" when using other languages with the "normal" syntax.

I wish they'd got it right for (de)referencing too though.
Really interesting, I wonder how fast this parser is.

What are the contexts where I need a MISRA C package for parsing JSON? Just embedded systems or can you see a wider usecase?
It's not at all unintuitive of nonsensical. You're just really used to *p because it what C uses.
The issue that I have with this type of article and why they never resonate with me is that they seem to assume you’ll be able to find a job with a similar salary if not a higher one, by snapping your fingers.

I’ll tell you my experience: I’ve been working for 21 years, and I’ve only worked for two companies in that time period (there was a short stint at a third one, but I didn’t fully quit one of the other two so I never really “left”).

At my current job, where I’ve been for 14 of those 21 years, I feel simultaneously underappreciated and overpayed. They pay me too well, to the extent of considering myself lucky if I was able to find a job where I could get 50% of the pay. Yet it bothers me that in 21 years, my only promotion was from junior to senior dev. I’ve seen a few people that I don’t consider better than me, neither from a technical point of view nor a soft skills one, being promoted several times and manage a bunch of people, and that bothers me. The reasons behind it are a mix of being the last member of the “old guard” before a new CTO came about and turned the tables from a technology perspective, and also working remotely. However I’ve always worked hard, created few new issues and solved a bunch of old ones, so they kept giving me unsolicited pay rises.

I’m not crazy about getting into management, however with the rise of AI I think there’s a decent chance of my job being replaced by a machine in the next 5 to 10 years, if not sooner. And even before AI, not many companies are crazy about old tech people without managerial experience.

I’m not good enough to land a job at a FAANG, esp. with my background, and being from a southern European country and as a nearly 45yo with a 3yo child it just won’t happen. But mostly because I’m just not good enough.

We have a saying in my country: would you rather be the tail of a lion or the head of a mouse? I feel like the tail of a mouse, but the job pays too well, so I’m stuck and feeling miserable every day.
All humans die, and IMO it's just a knowledge issue. We probably have sufficiently advanced tech to implement a solution.
For me almost all conventional search is dead now. Sure, perhaps useful for “what going on tomorrow where I live” but for everything else I now rely on LLMs.
Right

If you’re copying this approach from someone who copied it, after hiring an agile coach and reading the phoenix project, you are likely definitionally mediocre.

Also it’s not a one size fits all solution even for the competent. Requires a more direct interface and two way dialogue with users than most devs actually face.
There's plenty of meaning up for grabs in parts of life that don't have anything to do with money.

nicely said, but the most significant (time-wise) portion of our lives is earning means to do other parts. if I am miserable for 8-9-10 hours per day chances are I will he fairly miserable the rest of the time as well…
This is like the advantage of using 6 mile hexes in a tabletop rpg map.[0]

Each hex can be divided into smaller hexes until you get to the level of feet/meters as opposed to miles/kilometers.

[0]: https://steamtunnel.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-6-mile...
I've been creating slides with markdown and revealjs for my day job as an instructor for several years. I've also used obsidian and quarto for markdown->slide creation for a handful of meetups / conferences. This month I tried writing a kubecon talk using presenterm and had to throw in the towl after a couple hours of struggling.

It's super cool and I want to love it, but I find it too fiddly to get the layout the way I want it. For me it might be easier to just page through a plain text file of ascii art style diagrams or something.

I've always been just absolutely dog shit at design stuff. I can't center a div to save my life and I don't understand columns. I need it to be absolutely idiot proof because I'm an absolute idiot when it comes to these things.

I guess this is my attempt at encouragement for folks to keep working on these tools because I love the aesthetic but I just can't grok the interface. I will continue to watch this project with interest!
It's just a vacuum with an HEPA filter, correct ?

I had the same experience, it just occurred to me that I could vaccum the mattress with the for-textile head and was really surprised with the amount of dust and its texture (transparent dust holder is satisfying hehe)
Russia/USSR been pretty hostile to nations who don't want to join their peaceful and strong brotherhood. Hey they even invaded other communist nations just cause they decide to keep some independence.

If those "unfaithful" countries join NATO this creates problems for Russia to force them to give up their freedom.

And USSR/Russia started a fuss that NATO is a threat for them.
autonomous ai managers will always be hard, because every company is different, thus you can't easily re-sell it as an enterprise solution.

above I described the case where you want to monetize it, but I guess you're only interested to implement this in your own company? there's no reason it won't work. think from the first principles: as long as you have the time and resources for it, with code you can practically create anything, these things could even be done before ai, because you create an infallible process with cheap-human-in-the-loop-that-no-matter-how-stupid-cannot-mess-up, lots of great companies have incredibly fool-proof processes so they can pay cheap hourly wages.

my take is yes, there's no reason this won't work if it's for a single company, personalized for some specific processes with some well-defined feedback loops. will it be costly/annoying? of course. will the ROI be worth it? I can't know without seeing your specifics
Less productive and dumber for having missed an opportunity to produce and learn.
Exactly, who doesn’t know this fact, which is one of first things you learn about selection in consumed plants. And especially Guardian journalist specialising in this topic.
LLVM has optimization not consistent with TS 6010 or any consistent model and this should affect Rust as well.
Somebody here said programming is about designing and reusing libraries rather than coding from scratch like LLMs. But that choice has always been a tradeoff between abstraction and bloat vs performance and debuggability. Writing 50 lines of intentional code is often preferable to adapting a 50000 line library. The trick to using LLMs is to not ask for too much. Claude 3.5 could reliably code tasks that would have taken 5-10 min by hand. Claude 3.7 is noticeably better and can handle 10-30 min tasks without error. If you push those limits you will lose instead of save time.
If that’s the case that “NATO as has existed is already over” then maybe it is wise for the USA to pull out. Maybe that’s the endgame for Europe? Europe defends Europe (or gets taken over by Russia I guess), and USA isn’t on the hook for its defense anymore.
Reality television plus cooking show, exactly.
By giving these things to random people, we don't do a very good job of evaluating their effects. If something works on 10% of the population, randomly selecting participants in an experiment will never give a significant result. If something is generally safe, it seems better to experiment on yourself.

The problem this solves is that some things work on some people. Neurotransmitters are blunt instruments that do many things- and are subject to adaptation effects where you get an effect for a while then the system adjusts to the new baseline. Maybe someone out there has a deficiency and adding more helps them for a bit, other people don't have a deficiency and get no results. Other people have a deficiency, something works for a little bit, then the brain adjusts to the new levels and the effect slowly disappears.

Until we can measure the level of the physiological effect we are targeting, the n=1 experiment seems like the only real way to see what group you fall into.
> according to your definition, humans do not reason

Some do.

> whether you genuinely think LLMs should output code for most problems, or whether you were using that as a reductio against my initial statement

No, they should not. But proper reasoning is related to procedural operations like code.
My wire transfers approach the ease of lightning, but with humans along the way. Those humans add error correction at the cost of opacity.
You don't know what you're talking about. People are fired when they can't add enough value to justify being employed. Sweeping industry-wide layoffs are different. Eg the "damage was done" to the aviation industry in 2001 due to plummeting demand, due (obviously) to new fears and hassle inhibiting travel; the damage currently being done to companies in the economy is from interest rates, inflation, trade uncertainty, stock manipulation, ...
Security through obscurity is a tool not a solution to security.

Use it as the last thing to do, not the 1st. If I run SSH on say 42531 it will be found, absolutely.... But 99%+ of automated scans will never see it: benefit me. But that is after all the sshd_config, PAM stuff, patching, misc hardening, etc is done 1st.

That's a worn out example, and just a point (I run on 22)... The benefit was to me that most skiddy scanners will never see it, and if I avoid the one actor out there that's looking to mass exploit an unpublished 0day, then if it's the last thing I did, I may have bought some extra time, cause they're going for 22.
The article lists down why layoffs don't work, but companies keep doing it, so it must be working for them.

I hate layoffs (from both perspectives), but the article sounds like whining "we shouldn't break up".

The alternative of furlough only works if everyone else is doing it. If everyone else fires left right and center, the people being furloughed will still have low morale.

I think it's better to avoid it in the first place, by not over hiring, as others have pointed out.
Not in academia— I’m curious but not invested.

> “I formed the opinion that I shouldn’t use this paper as a building block in my research. […] However, my advisor had a different view…”

> “…scientific criticism of a published paper had no place in a dissertation…”

Are these dissertation catechism?

Or clash of personalities?
Trump probably is planning to cash in by raping the country of its mineral and oil wealth.