skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a long tail of obscure packages that are rarely used, and almost certainly a power law in terms of which packages are common. Reproducibility often requires coordination between both the packagers and the developers, and achieving that for each and every package is optimistic.

If they just started quarantining the long tail of obscure packages, then people would get upset. And failing to be 100% reproducible will make a subset of users upset. Lose-lose proposition there, given that intelligent users could just consciously avoid packages that aren't passing reproducibility tests.

100% reproducibility is a good goal, but as long as the ubiquitous packages are reproducible then that is probably going to cover most. Would be interesting to provide an easy way to disallow non-reproducible packages.

I'm sure one day they will be able to make it a requirement for inclusion into the official repos.
It seems that The Philippines is the real “AI hub”…
My local music format public radio station provides song links to: Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon.

https://www.kcrw.com/playlists
Do these places ever discuss receiving feedback? Genuinely actioning feedback like this requires an extremely high level of trust, and expecting that level of trust in a short time window is borderline predatory.

For example, I would never provide critical feedback within the first 6 months (minimum) of a new hire starting (similar window I apply to providing feedback on codebase issues etc).
Lol so yeah, you're not comparing it to private insurance which is what TAXPAYERS actually pay themselves. You're just a right-wing hack.

"Medicare is BAD because it costs money and is cheaper than private insurance. Private insurance is GOOD because it costs even more money than we'd pay with Medicare!!"

Your position is "medicare is too expensive" but expensive compared to what??
On this topic: My absolute favorite Common Lisp special operator is `(the`. Usage, `(the value-type form`, as in `(the integer (do-a-bunch-of-math))`.

At first glance, it looks like your strong-typing tool. And it can be. You can build a static analyzer that will match, as best it can, the type of the form to the value-type and throw errors if they don't match. It can also be a runtime check; the runtime is allowed to treat `the` as an assert and throw an error if there's a mismatch.

But what the spec actually says is that it's a special operator that does nothing but return the evaluation of the form if the form's value is of the right type and the behavior is undefined otherwise. So relative to, say, C++, it's a clean entrypoint for undefined behavior; it signals to a Lisp compiler or interpreter "Hey, the programmer allows you to do shenanigans here to make the code go faster. Throw away the runtime type identifier, re-represent the data in a faster bit-pattern, slam this value into functions without runtime checks, assume particular optimizations will succeed, paint it red to make it go fasta... Just, go nuts."
| For example, one time while working on my kernel module, I accidentally put --i instead of ++i in the iterator of my for loop. I inserted that module into my kernel to test it, and my mouse cursor disappeared, and my music stopped playing … and then it was time to reboot my computer

Id recommend using QEmu for the type of work the author is doing. It makes iteration much faster.
I invoice $100 an update. I could do it for free, it's the gossip about you that counts.
Thank you for the links. Going through them.

Looks like this might ultimately a mental illness or two (like Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)), some need that wasn't fulfilled and/or drug-addled (ketamine or what not) disassociation from reality, empathy and in general what makes the rest of us all human.
Yep. Mobile version of reddit is basically unusable on my se2. Page hangs and doesn’t finish loading, only shows like 1 or 2 comments and no child replies vs the whole thread. Old.reddit.com loads instantly of course, except if I am coming from a mobile reddit link then it will hang and require a browser restart as closing the tab and using a new one isn’t even enough.

Remind me their valuation again to produce a junk product and ride on the coattails of an otherwise simple and reliable website that they’d rather not exist again?
No other currently distro whether it be debian, fedora, or arch, or opensuse seems to want to switch up their design to match nix's approach.

They have too many people familiar with the current approaches.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Netflix would probably be better if it learned a few lessons from gyms.

I have to go wash my mouth out now. Brb.

Some of these companies are trying to go for status now as well. They’re trying to strengthen their brands by picking up epic storylines and making them into the show everyone is watching. Only Netflix is chickenshit and they haven’t figured out that nobody watches the first season of a Netflix show until the second is announced because they know Netflix cancels shows all the fucking time. Which means Netflix cancels more shows because the numbers are terrible.

What they should be doing is test audiences. If those people hate it, then yes cancel. And be patient with everything else.
You guys are way too optimistic, they’re just going to pass these contracts to trump, musk and Peter theil buddies. Charge more money and also introduce some nepharious bullshit like AI data scraping
>But imagine trying to start HN today...

Reddit is a good example of what a monetized version could look like. It's a shell of its former self. NFT avatar customization, engagement achievements, ads in feed and comments, layers of friction to simplify the experience. Such a mess.
The problem isn't their specific practices, but more that they're in general one of the companies profiting from our slopcore future.
I think when you're a startup, you have to invest in all of these things - you want to hire some experts early on because they'll have insights that help you design a better product, and if your product appeals to experts it will be a PR win. But of course your goal is scale and distribution so you have to respect a certain lowest common denominator as well lest you become too niche.

Once you become a bloated monopolist like the three companies you just mentioned, your distribution strategy is solved in other ways (like, you've done some bundling and some acquisitions, maybe pressured a few companies into exclusivity agreements and are probably breaking some anti-trust law or other but you have lawyers). Then you don't care about the experts, PR or niches anymore, and you serve up slop. When the analytics recommend slop you go with the analytics, when they don't you ignore them.

None of this is to discount your insightful comment, just saying once you're big enough, your strategy is just doing tricky distribution deals, really (a fact no record executive would dispute).
> Cutting it all at once with no other plan can have disastrous consequences.

I think this part is overestimated. It will get fixed.
Violence = actual illegal physical violence or (legal) credible threat of illegal physical violence by individuals, or legal state-authorized physical violence or seizure of assets (policy).

> Is publicly mocking people for having a different culture violence?
no

> Is calling for harm upon them?
maybe

> Is, through policy, causing harm to them violence?
maybe

> Is it violence if it's through willful inaction?
no
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To me, Spotify's UI is super counterintuitive.
> And it is so powerful that even in the face of repression and limitations to freedom of speech that clearly go to its advantage, you don't dare to point your finger at it but claim that it's just an excuse for something different.

It is not that this force does not exist. It is that it is means to end, not the end itself.
Haha, yes! I've been (slowly) reading that book. :)
From the article:

> The contracts "represent non-essential spending on third party consultants" for services Pentagon employees can perform
I suppose you used an AI to write this, but how do you know that lead doesn't belong in the same category as thimerosal, fluoride, or 5G and Wi-Fi?
Looking back at what my best managers (I have two) had in common:

* Cared deeply about my personal progress. Not just at work but in life. Am I feeling okay? How are things going? What are your interests? Are you doing what is interesting to you? Both of them became actual friends outside of work once I left one of the companies, and the other manager left the company I was at during that time.

* Treated me as an equal and used their power in my favor. Bad project? Moved me off it. Salary problems? Fought for a raise. Needed to skill up? Got me what I needed whether it was books, or classes, or whatever.

* Didn't bother much about using 1:1s for "business". It was my time, and they made sure I used it how I wanted. If I wanted to wax poetic about my hobby project for 30 minutes I could.

Importantly both of them understood that what I was doing for the company was a JOB and there were no qualms about that. "Careers" do not exist anymore. This refreshing reality and human feel is something pinhead middle managers I've had since seem to miss.
> Public health research is good.

This is basically a tautology. The question is what’s actually being funded in the name of public health. Wasting money in pursuit of public health which doesn’t help the public is bad actually,
How can you be bullish after all of that? Tariffs are still on for China, and the administration has been caught manipulating the market. You're either in cash or holding the bag while they tank the market.
Edit: It has a name! https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11171
But its after the last trains now so not much to see.
No he's saying go is designed for people like you. You're obviously joking about COQ, but I'm not joking about you. This is literally what he's talking about. Take a step back out of your sarcasm and look at reality. You are the demographic Pike is talking about. And we both know Pike is not even referring to coq.
My guess is that he wants to be compensated for the time he spent. There's a lot of content on that site, and making a bit of money is a good motivation to keep updating the site
IIRC, Win2K would wait for most / all service startups to complete before showing the login prompt. XP and later would allow login to occur while many services were still starting up.

It's a tradeoff. A Win2K system was pretty responsive when you log in after a reboot/startup, but you've got to wait for that experience. In the days of spinning disks and single core CPUs, you had to fight those still-starting services for resources, making the first several minutes of XP usage painful.
I don't see much difference between a native app and web app, in the end is what the developer decided to do with that.

See autocad for web for example, is kinda the same. Or Photopea, photoshop's clone.
> They do not.

I present to you sibling comment posted slightly before yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655093

They do.
The point is that yourself can pick and choose which instance you create an account on, therefore you can be somewhere where the people in charge share your views. Or, you can start your own instance and be entirely responsible for everything...
That carcinisation convergent evolution effect is real. But so is the reality that outside of network dependent companies like the Netflix example in the post, those faster horses do still exist, just in niches. In Kevin Kelly's book What Technology Wants he writes about going through a 100-year old catalog and then finding that there are people today who still make all the items (some now obscure) that were popularly sold back then. But the difference is that if you're talking about individual companies like Netflix, YouTube, LinkedIn, Substack in the post, you won't see that.
That's, in my experience, mostly Debian Stable.
I hope senior government staff face hostility exactly proportionate to the salaries and budgets they've extracted from the US populace through taxation and inflation, alongside the foreign influence far too many of them are responsible for peddling. The government is not a jobs program, and they owe the people, not the other way around.
How are we supposed to give a reproducible example with a non-deterministic tool?
But the comment is about languages that prevent mistakes that humans make.
Back when I was in the army the objective when doing individual land nav was: go hide in the woods until around the time to go back. Of course there was a bit of walking because we never started and ended at the same place so you had to have some familiarity with finding your way in the woods. Once in a while they would go out and change the point numbers around, usually when it was an actual test, so you had to know actual land navigation skills if you didn't want remedial training on the weekends.

The last land nav course I ever did was in the reserves and in the mountains. Instead of traipsing through the underbrush I just followed the fire breaks and occasionally took azimuths off surrounding mountain peaks and only missed one point because I didn't feel like hiking up the steep hill it was on top of.

Not too sure I see the value in online land nav but I also learned it before GPS was really a thing.
your link is broken now
> I don't see why...

People need a trillion-dollar company for even simpler tasks like exchanging messages with their friends and families.

Why? Because the UX and reliability of that option is superior to anything else. Which of course means Billions of users flock to that service. Which brings insane revenue and economies of scale. Which can be invested into improving the UX and reliability further than the competitors. Now the company has a big moat around its business and a Trillion dollar valuation.
The classical answer of why more hardware resources are needed for the same tasks is that the new system allows for way much more flexibility. A problem domain can be thoroughly optimized for a single purpose, but then it can only be used for that purpose alone.

This is quite true for LLMs. They can do basic arithmetic, but they can also read problem statements in many diverse mathematical areas and describe what they're about, or make (right or wrong) suggestions on how they can be solved.

Classic AIs suffered the Frame problem, where some common-sense reasoning depended on facts not stated in the system logic.

Now, LLMs have largely solved the Frame problem. It turns out the solution was to compress large swathes of human knowledge in a way that can be accessed fast, so that the relevant parts of all that knowledge are activated when needed. Of course, this approach to flexibility will need lots of resources.
This is an important point. Readers should remember that what's obvious to them is not necessarily something "everyone knows" until it's pointed out. Personally I will say that when I first starting consuming movies at around age 20 I was not conscious of this dynamic, until I read about product placement in movies and then suddenly I started noticing it. Especially when a car chase scene goes into slow motion at just the moment that the camera gets a closeup of the tires and you can read the brand name...
you cant call out a bias when you are doing the exact same thing.
Windows users have low expectations. I still have PTSD from all the problems 9x caused me.
Theoretically, there's some sort of arbitrage happening.

There is some department in the government that's very unsexy and has a very real problem that could be solved by a smart finance MBA student diligently working on it. But there's no way that diligent young employee would want that job. Nor no way if he had it that anyone would take him seriously and put his changes in place.

He doesn't want to work for that unsexy department. The people at that unsexy department do not want to work for him.

Put a consulting company in the middle and he has a job title that sounds cool and that organization gets their problem solved.

( This is how someone explained business consulting to me. )
Steve Jobs was not a marketing guy. If anything, he was a designer. His technical knowledge was also way beyond most CEOs. He designed his presentations with a high attention to detail just like he designed his products, product ranges and companies. If you watch any one of the many interviews he gave you'll see that he can talk off-the-cuff, in depth on all kinds of subjects. And, unlike many modern CEOs, he pauses to think before opening his mouth.
People smart enough to read and write it are rare.
Are LMMs Dyslexic?
The unique mix of strengths and weaknesses of current Multimodal LLMs have parallels to dyslexia in humans.
For their pricing and subscription practices alone, they deserve far more backlash than they get.
This was fantastic find. I've added:

container_cpu_usage_seconds_total: total CPU time used

container_cpu_cfs_throttled_periods_total: how often a container gets throttled

To our Datadog Charts. And I'm adding

import _ "go.uber.org/automaxprocs"

right now.
> It's going from raw materials to finished goods at our facility.

More lies from Mr. Weaver... I'm sorry but an imx5 SoC is not a raw material.
Generally the expectation is that with a map, compass, and protractor a member of the Army should be able to navigate a land nav course(the simulation is very similar to the real courses). In practice, it's much more likely that a combat arms soldier would know how to use this than someone that works in something like cyber operations.

In my time in the Infantry we spent a significant amount of time working on honing landnav skills, both theory, and practice.

*Edit*
Also, there is already a manual for everything you do in the military.
In addition they use their government work to increase private sector profits, either implicitly "we work with your government" or explicitly (PWC offering briefings on tax policy they were helping with to the targets of the tax policy)
There were people who only had HBO subscriptions to watch the new season of Westworld. Given they merged with Cinemax I’m not sure if that worked out for them. But there were also Apple+ subscriptions just to watch Ted Lasso. And I begrudgingly got Prime to watch the Expanse.

But when I bought the full seasons it was from Apple. I’m sure Bezos still ended up with most of that money but at least some of it went to Apple instead.
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I think the harsh practical reality is that a lot of end-user computing needs have been met for a long time: word processing, media playback, communications, etc. Unless you need live collaboration or some specialized package, most things you can do in modern Google Sheets you can do just as well in LibreOffice Calc or Excel 97.

How does one build or maintain a viable software business in a world where most people's software needs have been met? It's to pivot away from delivering value towards extracting value. Hence all the push towards cloud-based services instead of stadalone local programs. Online connectivity allows the developer to arbitrarily change the balance of value between them and the user, which is where the gross adversarial feeling of modern computing comes from. The computer is no longer serving you exclusively.
Gell-Mann amnesia in action.
Yes. Pointing out that strengths and weaknesses are the two sides of the same coin, as above. And then proceeding to talk about your strengths while identifying when they can turn into weaknesses, and how you mitigate those situations.
The average user wants to watch what they want right now. Netflix wants to surface shows that will keep you subscribed after you watch what you want to watch .
Yeah sadly I have a similar experience from my school. People going into consultancy were either people that just did software engineering to quickly move into a management position and make more money, or people that were not passionate about the domain or the students that under performed. We’d have consultancy agencies come advertise basically saying “don’t worry we have LOTS of positions open”.
Satire gets under their skin real fast.
Even then, a VM can get you really far.

If you need direct hardware access (like for gaming) then you can run a passthrough VM. You can do that even on a single video card system.
I'm not sure that follows from this article. In fact, I think the logical conclusion of the article is that, by trying to grow (address weaknesses and turn them into strengths) you're actually creating strengths, which in turn creates a weakness.

I think it's possible to grow in positive outcomes of behaviors, but I also think this article is trying to get at something intrinsic within each one of us. Identifying where our personality quirks lead to strengths and weaknesses, and accepting that, is related but not quite the same as identifying concrete positive and negative outcomes of behavior, and trying to change our behaviors to align more to the positive outcomes.

Not sure if the link I'm trying to make here will be clear, but... I had an interesting conversation with my wife the other day. She conceives of who she is largely through the behaviors she expresses, a kind of de facto self-definition. I tend to have a self-conception that's a little bit more abstract and rooted as much in my feelings, thoughts, with some aspirational quality, that my behaviors sometimes live up to, and other times don't.
To the gloriously mansplaining sibling commenters: Do you really think a question has been asked in the parent comment? If you do, why?
The Helene strip from FL to WV is very interesting. I would not buy a home in the south without having significant backup power to survive the new normal of continuous onslaught of weather disasters.
> Deliberate choices to avoid being addictive is exactly why I use Mastodon.

The posts I see on BlueSky make it not addictive for me. Everything there seems unnatural, unorganized and performative. It gets old after a few scrolls
We keep saying this and forget that videogames started being sold digital, which saves about 30% on their retail cost, and avoids second market entirely, removing that "cost" too.
So of course videogames haven't gone up in price, companies started saving an enormous amount of money on videogames.