skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single country on earth, except China, that has a more robust and profitable machine tool sector than the US has unions strong enough to make a social media libertarian shit their pants.

Indeed, the three countries listed in the report as being better than the US all have EXTREMELY strong machinist/metalworking unions.

Japan: JAM

Italy: FIOM

And Germany, with probably the most powerful union in the entire world: IGM

The problem isn't unions.

The problem is the parasite MBA class, shuffling memos and spreadsheets around to make it look like they're doing something.
Yep, invented in 1979 and also the core data structure of crypto block chains
Which one was it? A rug pull or the North Koreans?
>healthy middle ground

I think it's worthwhile to point that if you're using "panopticon" in the literal sense (rather than shorthand for "boy that feels too far to me") then any surveillance that relies on 3rd parties [1] and gag orders to avoid making the target aware is, in fact, already the full panopticon scenario.

In that case the bounds on your middle ground make what is between obvious: information is obtained by warrants served directly to one or more participants in the communication.

[1] In the "3rd party doctrine" sense
Why would they prefer the older methods that do more land damage and kill even more animals?
Lots of good recommendations in replies.

Calling it out only because I don’t see it mentioned - until last year, Bartender was one of the popular go-to tools to manage menu bar items, but it fell from favor after quietly changing owners, changing certs, general shadiness https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/psa-bartender-mac-app-u...

A specific and relevant reminder why open source is so important for system utilities.
> there will be no error output, you won't know why it failed

That's probably why the -x is there. (Well, that and if something like curl or sudo fails it tends to output something to stderr...)

> Pipefail also doesn't prevent more complex error states ... A corrupt executable is left on-disk (which will be attempted to run if your step had failure-skipping enabled)

If I'm reading right it seems like you're suggesting is that the case pipefail doesn't handle is if you explicitly ignore the exit code. That doesn't exactly seem like the most concerning catch 22, to be honest.
It is cool stuff. I got plenty of exposure. My father worked on airline, bank, and credit card systems. and now does work for the IRS on the tax processing mainframes. He's literally "old man yells at cloud".
Many apps offer hiding their menubar icon as an option. I'm always looking for that option and I managed to get a super clean menubar[1] — without sacrificing features or apps I need. The “11m” icon is from a little gem called Aware[2].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/0AFL1rU.png
[2] https://awaremac.com/
I don't even know what it is, to my shame. I do know that when you run a container it will be calling into the CPU ins directly, unless it concerns something like Rosetta 2 - but even then I don't know whether, say, the AVX2 instructions are emulated.
Target is switch/steam deck, and I have hard profiling numbers on fully decked scenes, so your suspicions are inaccurate.
> It was an honest question

Sorry if I misunderstood you, but just as tip, make it clear in your question. Probably the downvotes are from people who are tired of having Brazil being associated with drugs, crime, corruption and sex while it is a giant country with so many things to offer, and with so many hard working people doing their best.

But answering: just like any other country. Cash, jewels, money laundering, etc. Pix is not a replacement (at least so far) for cash, is just a modern option. And I really question if it will be someday a full replacement. Pix is amazing, but for a daily use (in restaurants, physical stores, etc) it is still more practical to pay using cards as Pix takes a little time to grab the phone, opening the bank app, scanning the QR code, typing the PIN and hoping that the internet connection is good enough for that
A Lack of Intelligence, Not Training, May Be Why People Struggle with Computers
With the Great Mussel Die-Off, Scientists Scramble for Answers
I don't believe there's anything even remotely competitive in the electric world to Top Fuel dragsters. You could also make the same argument about F1 vs E1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel

> Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 338.94 miles per hour (545.5 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.641 seconds.
More impressed that it's a Westinghouse escalator - which means it's not been updated since at least 1989.
Although I think "pure" is alright to use in this context, I would probably have gone with "beautifully simple".
I doubt that. "Which movie does the slop belong to?" "Oh none of them? Ok" Is a pretty easy search term
Sculptor: Catch and fix issues as you code
I really don't think it will help to have more parties.

In the end somebody gets elected President. Everyone else loses.

You can have transferrable votes, but I'm really not convinced that will help as much as you hope. You walk into the chamber, you tick off your favorite candidate (from among hundreds or thousands). Do you throw your second choice as the Democrat/Republican you can tolerate best? If they win, will you really feel like your voice was heard?

I believe the only way to get rid of the core problem is to fundamentally re-think representative democracy, and probably the whole structure of government. Which would be great, but it's not an easy task. You won't get there just by wishing away the two lead parties.
This is not an adequate way to look at nuclear. If you check the stats of established constructions and not first of a kind prototypes (check Barakah instead Hinkley), the construction time is closer to 10 years, often less.

With transmutation and the option for recycling it altogether, waste is not an issue. Only the low fission parts of the spent fuel is low-grade active for longer than 1000 years, but this is such a low level of radiation, it is comparable to natural uranium formations and not an issue. The high radiation part of the fuel has lost the dangerous level of radiation in less than 1000 years and can be recycled before. The arenic compounds and other substances as byproduct of copper etc production for the mass of renewables have a much longer shelf life of toxitity. Also, you need more of them.
This whole line of reasoning is so similar to consumers picking up chicken breast in a grocery store and not realizing that it comes from chickens somehow.

The US manufacturing base is extremely broad, deep, and strong. The onus is on you to try to prove otherwise.
I'd also ask if this isn't somewhat accurate for how people would do things? We have specific rules that we have internalized on what side of a road to drive on. But, absent those rules, it isn't uncommon to just drive down the center of the road. Largely expected on many surface streets that don't have brightly painted lanes and large shoulders.

To that end, you could always encode the rule of what side of a window to aim for? Something you probably want to do if you are going to be aiming for bidirectional agents going through them?
because nuclear fission are big central energy sources, where the consumers are at the direct mercy of the owners.

Decentralized clean solar power, which can be generated on a regional and even private level, makes people independent. Which is a huge treat if you want them dependent.
If I had to compare computers based on one number it would be the amount of RAM. The 360 had a 24 bit address space which could fit 16MB of RAM although only the largest installations, like the one at NASA, were that big. iPhone 16s have 8GB of RAM so you're talking 512 times the memory capacity, never mind that my desktop PCs are all loaded with 4-8x times that of the phone and you can definitely get a big server with a few TB.

An IBM 360/20 on the small side, however, ranged from 4kB to 32kB which was similar to home computers circa 1980, before it is routine to have a complete 64kB address space.

Where the 360 crushed home computers was in mass storage, 9-track tapes could store 80MB contrasted to floppy disks that stored less than 200kB. Large storage compared to memory meant a lot of focus on external memory algorithms, also there was already a culture of data processing on punched cards that translated to the 360 (e.g. terminals have 80 columns because punched cards had 80 columns)
The best kind, ofc
Those are the use cases for Crypto :-)
What would be the reason that birds did not develop language? There are birds that have an amazing range of vocalizations, such as the Lyre Birds, and there are examples of birds that have shown the ability to associate human speech with abstract concepts. So, why did some bird specie develop a language and a culture heritage. The developed in parallel with mammals. Birds too spend some considerable effort in feeding there offspring, just like mammals. There are enough examples of young birds with almost the size of there parents still following their parents around to beg for food.

How would the worlds have looked if some birds would have developed language and being able to transmit knowledge to sibling and children? Or was it the fact that we have hands that we evolved further? It is sometimes argued that language developed as part of mate selection. Bird vocalizations definitely play that role with birds.
Huh. This is making me realize that perhaps my situation is more bizarre and unstable than I realize...

How uncommon is it for someone with no highschool diploma (GED), or college diploma to get a job as a software engineer at a Fortune 500 company? Am I completely fucked if I ever lose this job? It's my second SE job...

Like OP may have been hinting at, I had a really fucked up family situation and this path was the only one that I could take- should I plan on going back to school just for future job market security?
I don't know that the prior situation was sustainable and would have lasted much longer anyway. Using China for manufacturing is like using Amazon for sales. You are required to give them everything they need to take your business away.
It is still rare for a company to explicitly decide to devalue quality and mid/long term costs, and typically it is a side effect of incentives.

Obviously 'fake Agile' is an industry wide problem here. But if teams cannot control their capacity expectations, it will always devolve to this

'slack' was a poor term to use IMHO, but it is here.

In companies that care about med/long term survival and success can fix this over time.

Selling it as derisking on strategic and initiative time scales is one way that can help.
Thank you for sharing this link!

I was about to slog through AI search results looking for an alternative.
Sorry, you're right lol. I'm just accustomed to other major lab gazillions of hours of training.
> Are they organized enough to have good oversight and fire people who aren't keeping up with their work?

In that there exists a CEO, CTO, and a manager above me who all can get reports from my peers? Yes. Do they care about the project or my role in it? No they have bigger fishes to fry. PM and project leader couldn't care less about my satisfaction but they sure as hell won't like it when they ask my team to provide statements that make no sense or technical decisions which we know are senseless but that will make their life easier. Can we refuse to comply? No.

> Why not? Who's stopping you and what's the consequence of doing this?

PM that asks me to do A in way X is sure as hell not going to like me doing B as Y, and it doesn't matter whether B>A in terms of quality/performance/whatever or Y>X in terms of efficiency/scalability/whatever, because they had A|X in mind and need to check some boxes.

Mind you everyone in my team is aware of that; they simply can't do otherwise, because ownership of these kind of decisions is discouraged and when it isn't, everything is thrown to the gutter for the nth time that PM changes and requirements have to be remade from scratch.
It was Germany’s gift to the world. They stopped it just in time to kill their industry too, giving another gift to china
For CI action: pre-build docker image with dependencies, then run your tests using this image as single GitHub action command.
If dependencies change, rebuild image.

Do not rely on gh caching, installs, multiple steps, etc.

Otherwise there will be a moment when tests pass locally, but not on gh, and debugging will be super hard. In this case you just debug in the same image.
Earth Observability with the Help of Vectors
None of them are decreasing globally, that's the point
Can't tell you wo a profile, but I assume your content was as complex as a full byzantine shooter map. I've also got large enemy squads, so there's an M×N issue.
YouTube kids does not have Minecraft building channels, at least not ones that my kids watch.
That's why I created this.
I open sourced my side project and no one cared
I’ve been running a side project for a bit over 1 year. Shortly after launching I posted a ShowHN thread to showcase it. While the feedback was positive, the main complaint was that the tool is not open source.

For months I was on the edge wether I should open source it or not, my main concern being that someone would “steal” the code and sell it under their own brand.

Eventually I caved and decided to risk it. If someone takes the code and builds a better business out of it so be it.

Super excited about it, I started spreading the word that the tool is going open source and … radio silence. It got some stars and a couple of forks, but I don’t think anyone actually browsed the code or anything.

It made me wonder: this whole “I’m not using this tool unless it’s open source” is nothing more than hypocrisy? Because I don’t think those people actually go through the source code to make sure it’s safe or anything.

For me, the only benefit I see in a tool being open source is that I could build it and run it myself for free. Other than that, I couldn’t care less.
And yet sometimes I wonder. In the Uk you need most of your energy in the cold dark winter. So if you require enough non solar renewables to get you through the winter with net zero and those renewables are still available in the summer time are large scale solar not a bit redundant? Sunnier countries that have high electricity demand for air conditioning during the sunny periods would seem to have a better match mind.
Went to work this day and saw this error. Looks like I won't be using Cursor today :/
Wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/Nightshift_Galaxy...
Zwingli and Calvin had this same idea back in the 1500s.
The rules do change, but as a meritocracy as society simply decides to move on or not. There will be no cabal of artists who define how the rules will change. It will be organic. Like moving on from cave paintings to impressionism.
I’m still trying to understand this. Could it be that these are much larger codebases than I’m used to? I actually haven’t seen software analysis of codebases provide much value
How is Tailscale going to achieve at least $1B in annual revenue? That’s the kind of promise that would have to be made to investors in order to raise funding of this magnitude.
>We thought we were on the same side, the side of democracy, freedom, and free trade.

To some it might seem that side was the side of leftism, progresism, wokeism and globalization.
Hunter S. Thompson loved it, too, and it shows up in his work:

https://www.vincent-hrd.co.uk/hst.html

> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1970)
> [At the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, planning to cover the Mint 400 Desert Race in Las Vegas]

---

"Well," he said, "as your attorney I advise you to buy a motorcycle. How else can you cover a thing like this righteously?"

"No way," I said. "Where can we get hold of a Vincent Black Shadow?"

"Whats that?"

"A fantastic bike," I said. "The new model is something like two thousand cubic inches, developing two hundred brake-horsepower at four thousand revolutions per minute on a magnesium frame with two styrofoam seats and a total curb weight of exactly two hundred pounds."

...

"It is," I assured him. "The fucker's not much for turning, but it's pure hell on the straightaway. It'll outrun the F-111 until takeoff."

---
Yeah sucks and that's why I'm so reluctant to risk staying, because in the worst case I'll be having to stay a full year where I would have otherwise just stayed 6 months and a day
I beg to differ. This picture of Emile Leray, who disassembled his own broken car in the desert and built a motorcycle out of it is profoundly better.

https://thekneeslider.com/images/2022/01/leray-citroen-motor...
for that you need distribution, Pakistan’s power distribution is awful, which is likely what led to the solar revolution in the first place
That's the original recipe, but not the one that was known as Irn Bru immediately before the sugar tax -- it's got no caffeine in it. I've not tried it.

Any changes made before I started drinking it are merely historical baggage, but any changes made after I started drinking it have a fundamental effect on whether I consider it the same product. See also: "New Coke".

(Also, I can taste Aspartame -- so while many people might say that the low sugar variant is sufficiently similar in taste, I really don't enjoy it. Although, as I posted above, this is probably a good thing.)
Why do they never find ancient keys to houses?
20 tattoos hundreds of hours? Lol.
Putting solar panels over a grassland is a lot better for the environment than using the same area for agriculture. It's not like we have a lot of meadows just lying around unused that are used for solar projects. It's also a lot cheaper than installing panels on roofs.

However we should normalize panels over parking lots. Parking lots are just concrete wastelands, and while lifting the panels up over the cars requires a bit more material it is otherwise basically free real estate in areas with high electricity use (great to minimize grid losses)
12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
I've been building AI agents for a while. After trying every framework out there and talking to many founders building with AI, I've noticed something interesting: most "AI Agents" that make it to production aren't actually that agentic. The best ones are mostly just well-engineered software with LLMs sprinkled in at key points.

So I set out to document what I've learned about building production-grade AI systems: https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents. It's a set of principles for building LLM-powered software that's reliable enough to put in the hands of production customers.

In the spirit of Heroku's 12 Factor Apps (https://12factor.net/), these principles focus on the engineering practices that make LLM applications more reliable, scalable, and maintainable. Even as models get exponentially more powerful, these core techniques will remain valuable.

I've seen many SaaS builders try to pivot towards AI by building greenfield new projects on agent frameworks, only to find that they couldn't get things past the 70-80% reliability bar with out-of-the-box tools. The ones that did succeed tended to take small, modular concepts from agent building, and incorporate them into their existing product, rather than starting from scratch.

The full guide goes into detail on each principle with examples and patterns to follow. I've seen these practices work well in production systems handling real user traffic.

I'm sharing this as a starting point—the field is moving quickly so these principles will evolve. I welcome your feedback and contributions to help figure out what "production grade" means for AI systems!
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This was so fun; thank you! Congrats on getting it licensed!
Phenomenal game. Great job. In response to those complaining about the intermediate stages, it'd be too easy to complete the entire puzzle otherwise.
how confident are we that they don’t? I hear a song sparrow and I can’t help but think their calls sound like compressed data, almost like a modem
I think the belief is that they think that knowing some framework/language/tool etc. is harmful, i.e a candidate not knowing that would be better, has some better habits, and so on. I've saw that come up a few times
It's not that I'm worried about, it's the fact malicious files can be crafted for a particular hash that could replace the original.
In the UK (and broadly under the UK GDPR and PECR – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), yes, you generally do need to get consent before setting non-essential cookies, even if it's just for rudimentary analytics like a unique visitor count.

Here's the key distinction:

Strictly necessary cookies: No consent needed. These are required for the site to function properly (e.g., shopping cart cookies, login sessions).

Analytics cookies (including the case with a unique ID for tracking visitors): Not strictly necessary, so consent is required.

Even if the data is anonymous or pseudonymous (like a randomly generated unique ID), if the purpose is analytics and it involves storing or accessing data on the user’s device (like setting a cookie), you must ask for consent.
Also swap needles and use some cream, people really overestimate how hard tattooing is
Fatal Accident at Universal Stainless Leads Steelworkers to Flag Safety Failures
I mean, it didn't go great for Snowden, and that was even before government by vindictive man-baby. No-one is going to go on the record on this sort of thing under current conditions.
You could donate to your chosen homeless assistance charity and just carry cards that explain how to get assistance from the same org.
The image annotated to explain why no elephants are possible is very amusing.

To me, this kind of image generation isn't very interesting for creating final products, but is extremely useful for communicating design intent to other people when collaborating on large creative projects. Previously I used crude "ms paint" sketches for this, which was much more tedious and less effective.
Excellent email address.