skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it normal to have to hope for employees to help here?

What exactly are you asking? Does it happen frequently? Yes, somewhat. Should it happen frequently? No, I don’t think so.

Some companies only understand the language of bad press. Apple is another example—but far from the only one—often dragging their feet on issues until someone calls them out publicly and the complaint gains traction. If you’re not an “influencer” with a large following, your chances are considerably lower.

I fear it will only get worse. Online (and increasingly offline) outrage is so fleeting that you can disconnect for a few days and never become aware of otherwise major scandals. Eventually companies won’t even have time to make something right before everyone has forgotten about it and moved on.
You should feel jealous. STEM PhD candidates get a bad deal. They’re already skilled enough to earn a good living, and they provide labor for their managers to the benefit of their employers as any other employees do.

In any other job, on-the-job-training is compensated as work, even if it takes a while to complete, even if the employer provides training or seminars to clients as part of its business. (Yes, a school is a business. If one wants to say that it isn’t, it should stop charging money for its services first.)

Job applicants in other sectors are warned that it’s the red flag of a scam to pay an employer for a chance at an offer or promotion. By normal standards, an employee paying their employer is bonkers.

Your scenario is enlightening. If paying a student’s tuition benefits the university and the student’s manager more than the student, what access or benefit might the corporate sponsor be able to derive from inducing a favorable bias in the teacher or school? Could we end up with a situation where Java, of all things, is taught to impressionable undergraduate students across the country? An obvious answer would be to secure a recruiting channel. The things researchers write can also be important to industry sponsors, and the opportunity to bias those exists as well.
Consider yourself lucky - in Germany we're talking 20 EUR/month for a constant 45W load.

On the other hand, if you can, please consider using a more energy efficient alternative (and/or ensure you're getting the electricity from green sources) - the planet will warm up regardless of whether the electricity was cheap or expensive.
As a former customer, what great brand name and good will?

I still remember having to work 20 hours _on fucking Christmas Day_ because they had no meaningful DDoS protection in place.

Thankfully I had been working for the past 3 months on a DR strategy and the 20 hours of work was an extended switch-flipping operation because I was prepared. That was the last day we were a Linode customer.
I'm assuming OP meant income tax. Those who say "taxation is theft" (Ron Paul's tribe) are referring to the Federal income tax exclusively. It's a catchy phrase that isn't descriptive enough. But too be fair, "federal income taxation is theft" isn't going to make a nice t-shirt.

Also, "half" doesn't matter and I shouldn't have mentioned it. What matters is OP made a serious statement and then the comment I replied to dismissed it out of hand. Regardless of total percent, its a view which you will encounter at a level high enough that this sort of dismissal has effectively shut you off to a very large group of people.
'You can create emails on the fly. ntflx@ disney@ gh@ cf@...'

Face-palm moment, I've been creating custom account email addresses for ages - never thought of doing it via catch-all.
That's a little harsh, there's a lot of industries/niches that Walmart has stake and/or operate in that would require "good talent".
"board games"

ie. Chess and Go. Go a couple of thousand years old, and Chess in particular a core element of AI research history.

Language model research is cool, but you should perhaps consider expanding your horizons beyond the latest headlines in AI.
RSU taxes are paid at time of vest: there is no alternative that I'm aware of to that. This comment is wrong

The link above confirms this "Taxation of RSUs
The taxation of RSUs is a bit simpler than for standard restricted stock plans. Because there is no actual stock issued at grant, no Section 83(b) election is permitted. This means that there is only one date in the life of the plan on which the value of the stock can be declared. The amount reported will equal the fair market value of the stock on the date of vesting, which is also the date of delivery in this case. Therefore, the value of the stock is reported as ordinary income in the year the stock becomes vested."
Maybe the ideal is to exist in a superposition where you are a normal unresponsive scaled-up tech company to your boring ordinary customers, but still project a startup image to cutting-edge users who might bring in substantial new business.

Stripe seems to be doing a pretty good job at that.
I'm saying it now, tapping into randomness randomly is how this whole universe works. All the complexity you see around you; life itself, emerges out of an infinitely random space. This shouldn't surprise anyone, the right answer to explaining intelligence is not about finding the right answer but the wrong one, sometimes, and then feeding back on itself until it is coherent. Also, this goes much deeper than just the superficial, information coalesces as a result of this, reality is fundamentally defined by this. The observer, you, your consciousness, emerges from that random infinite space of interconnectivity, you tune into that space as a source of shared but bounded information (like a pianist reciting a complex piece from "memory", who doesn't have enough information density in her neurons to encapsulate that knowledge). This prediction machine of 'what comes next' is present, until your cells can no longer co-ordinate, at which point it is over.
Neither of those paraphrasings seem to line up with their source material
AIUI the problems with LBR are two-fold. It only works on newish CPUs, and it only handles a limited number of stack frames (I heard 8, but maybe more on recent CPUs).
Taking your message in good faith:

I won't deny it's pattern matching, but it has less to do with what C did, and more with what history has been. I've come to distrust too much centralization on important things.

Take Node.js as an example. It started controlled by a single company, then thanks to the community a Node.js Foundation was formed with an open governance model. But now that Node.js Foundation no longer exists, instead it's controlled by the OpenJS foundation, which is basically controlled by big corp.

I don't want something similar to happen to Rust.

That said, I don't mind Rust as it is today for user applications. And I happily use languages that have a BDFL, that are even less sound as Rust, so the problem is not Rust's success (this can't be denied).

But I honestly think that if Rust wants to replace C (or even SPARK) on critical systems, and even make universities eager to teach it, it would be easier to play by the industry's rules, than to offer a "black box" ("what this compiler accepts"), for the lack of a better term.

Also, as I pointed out in a different message (you might have missed it), I'm aware of gccrs, and I'm looking forward to it reaching feature parity with rustc; and I also appreciate the effort being put by the Ferrocene[1] people, because I think it with Rust getting wider adoption in the industry.

[1]: https://github.com/ferrocene
> If you like to encapsulate and reuse queries

This is what I always thought was the main benefit.

You are able to much easier raise your level of abstraction, by building up a vocabulary of definitions, and model your further queries (or definitions) using them.
your VPS will have a shared CPU with hundreds of other customers... So will probably be using far less power (for you) than your home server.

In Europe at least, most industrial users were paying more for electricity than residential users over the winter (gas shortage). Governments subsidized residential users more than most businesses.
Experimental and numerical investigation of beer foam
What is interesting is that current state of the art comes from another place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiently_updatable_neural...

Lc0 is based on AlphaZero ideas and is significantly weaker than NNUE based modern Stockfish.
Almost literally everything is called 'ritual' or done for 'religious reasons'.

If you have a gnome garden ornament on your shelf, no-one would seriously think you worship it, just that it looks nice. But this entire profession will call it a 'mysterious religious figure' etc.

Same with tattoos, ask any girl why they have a tramp stamp they'll say it looks 'cute' or something, these guys will call it 'symbolic'.

It's embarrassing.
I am also thinking about starting some sort of software consultancy, formerly for extra pay and then to become more job-indepentent. What I'm noticing is that, just by chatting with people, it's relatively easy to find some companies that need a simple, quick, and cheap SW product, the kind of things a solo developer can do quite easily. So my suggestion would be: just talk with people about your interest, someone may get back to you with interesting projects to start with.

The only thing that is blocking me right now is that having a client is like having another boss, and it's probably gonna be angrier if anything doesn't fit well. I would prefer like "you pay me for X hours and I bring your SW from here to there" kind of stuff, it would probably be much easier to start with while maintaining my main job.
This is indeed a very important point, and I care deeply about that.

For Compose for Web, there has been I think a lot of debate to decide if the Web rendering should be Canvas or DOM based. At least for now, it seems the official support is focusing on Canvas rendering for pixel-perfect rendering, and it already works with Koltin/Wasm, see https://twitter.com/bashorov/status/1625437131706363904. This choice is probably driven by Kotlin current mobile app main use case.

But via community-driven project like https://github.com/varabyte/kobweb or https://github.com/mpetuska/kmdc, Compose for Web can also be a good Web citizen and perform DOM based rendering.
You've pretty much described gmail / most webmail providers.

You can use whatever+tag@gmail.com for labels, and set up rules for tagging, folders, etc.
Ukrainian civil war started by a trump style coup of a democratically elected president in Kiev who was elected largely because he was very popular in the East and South of Ukraine.

Western propaganda pretends that the East and South of Ukraine had zero agency or will to decide its own future. This is why they called the crimean referendum a sham despite trustworthy western polls validating painfully clearly that it was accurate.

The Minsk agreements gave limited independence to the Donbass. Apparently the regimes in Kiev couldn't handle that which is why they signed the agreements and then broke them.
That’s strange, I thought the point of React was to make websites slow and laggy so you can save on server costs by just serving json after the initial payload.
I made an open-source tool to build, test, and deploy algotrading strategies
Hi everyone,

TL;DR: Check out the tool at https://github.com/Finned-Digital-Solutions/hft-ext! Feel free to drop a ! Or just join the Discord: (see repo Discord badge on GitHub for link), your choice.

I'm Finn - a Pythonista, part-time algotrader, and open-source enthusiast. Recently, I've built an open-source tool which allows anyone to get started algotrading on a paper or live account for free. The tool includes everything you need to get started with aggregating and analyzing data through the Yahoo Finance and Alpaca APIs, and on top of that is completely free! It supports new strategies in an easily extensible way, meaning that you can get your own strategies up, running, and tested in just minutes.

My goal was initially to test out some high frequency trading strategies that I came up with, but along the way I realized that I could add methods on to support any custom strategy. Now that I feel confident with the documentation I've written, the code, and the GUI, I want to
share it with all of you.

Some cool features that I haven't mentioned already are:
- realtime: monitors stocks by the minute to buy, sell, and hold based on a strategy.
- oh, and the stocks it monitors are completely configurable: currently, the defaults are about 500 of the largest companies by market cap.
- comes out of the box with an ARIMA strategy: basically determines the probability of increase or decrease to influence actions.
- growing community on Discord.
- free, open-source, and non-tracking. Other tools are expensive, log your data and/or strategies, or just are a black-box for extensibility.

I'd really appreciate your support on this, either through suggesting features in Discord or starring the repo. I plan to enter talks with a venture capital firm where I'd pitch this tool to fund continued development; So the larger the community I can show, the better!
> Legislation was passed under President Obama that made it a legal requirement for trains carrying hazardous flammable materials to have ECP brakes, but this was rescinded in 2017 by the Trump administration.

> The National Transportation Safety Board, a federal agency responsible for investigating rail accidents, told The Lever that the Ohio train that derailed was not fitted with ECP brakes.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-blame-ohio-train-derai...
Would you prefer that the people in charge of this rail line operate a nuclear power plant?
Everytime parking (or how cities transit should be) is mentioned, the US is (rightfully) shown as a bad example, and usually compared with Europe.

So I feel like I could give an example about other parts of the world, just for perspective. In summary -- man, I wish my city is half this good so I can actually park in peace.

I live in China, a relatively large size city (pop around 8M to 10M, not too special within China) and we have what I would say "good" public transit system (hundreds of bus lines, 8 metro lines and increasing), not to mention millions of people just commute in e-bikes.

But the thing is, people still need to drive from time to time. (So traffic is as bad). How do we solve the parking issue without building enough parking places? Well, we kinda of don't. For most of public places, you just park everywhere that you can squeeze in. On Roads, on sidewalks, you name it. You better be instantly good at parallel parking and reversing, otherwise you won't survive.

Residential locations are much better nowadays since most new communities now build with parking in mind, but public locations are still a nightmare (an exception is large malls, which usually have underground parking). Everytime I want to go somewhere the first thing I need to do is to plan how to park once I were there. It's awful.

Anyway, my point isn't that "the US is fine as soon as other places are worse", just that "it's complicated" I guess. I lived in the US for years including some large cities. While I really wish there is better public transit (especially when I were traveling), at least parking is bearable thanks to enforced parking lot requirement.
'I feel like if my job were just to cut wood in the forest all day, then I'd be golden.'

I imagine there is a guy cutting wood somewhere right now, thinking the exact opposite?
Please no "on average" or margins. If it says 16GB, it has to be able to store at least 16GB.
Given a pair of hole cards and a hash from a server for everything else, you can do this. But a fair poker hand is dealt from a truly randomized deck. Some central server needs to be the arbiter of randomness (not to mention being the actual escrow service for the money in the pot -- which is the other service provided by prediction markets besides deciding how to resolve bets). Those things - randomness, arbitration and escrow - still can't be completely devolved to client-side processing, or at least not without recourse to ludicrous hacks like public ledgers (aka blockchains) which still run the risk of 51% attacks.

Encrypt the whole VM and all i/o on each client though, so that the machine state itself is encrypted at all times, and you can trust their generation of the hole cards (as far as you can trust a PRNG).

Under this new paradigm, though, the power over the systems probably goes to some new certificate authority that doubles as a routing (signaling) service.
Mac OS' preinstalled screenshot tool saves in PNG, same with Android screenshots. Not sure about Windows' Snipping Tool but it would surprise me if it was different there.
> I can't help but wonder when this stuff happens that the devs (or the leads) are worried about being let go, so they open source their stuff to be able to take it elsewhere.

Open-sourcing isn't a dev-level decision - it is a business leadership decision.
Tax collectors are really good at estimating how much a business should be bringing in. Tax evasion by cash only businesses isn’t as rampant as many people think. Especially if the business sells things that require inventory. A cash only service business is more likely to be laundering money (and paying lots of taxes) than evading.
How big does a program need to be in order to stop counting as a microbenchmark?
For example…?
I would love to see a Svelte-like frontend framework natively designed for Kotlin/Wasm, not necessarily another Kotlin to JavaScript binding that feels like a second class citizen.
For my personal curiosity, roughly which decade were you born?

Am I getting old?

It was (obviously) previously possible to visit Disneyland without this sort of antics, so I don't think the problem lies with the author.

It's more like the author is demonstrating to what ends you need to go to maintain a modicum of privacy.
Long live emacs!
Sure, anyone can create a project, but what's the point if nobody will hear about it and nobody will use it regardless of how good it is?

This is the reality for many projects; they may have added massive value but we don't know that they exist. It doesn't make sense to compare modern open source projects with projects from a previous era. More new open source projects are created each day than used to be created each year but we hardly ever hear about any of these new projects. We only hear about corporate sponsored 'open source' projects... Which, for the most part are terrible; people would realize how terrible they are if only they could see what else is out there, but they don't.

Even with my skeptical mindset (actively trying to find indie/underdog projects), I only know about a tiny fraction of open source projects which would interest me (if I could know about their existence). I can't even dream of using indie projects during my day job... Every single employer has been brainwashed into using only 'approved' big-tech OSS projects and this effect is getting worse each year.
That's not transacting on the Bitcoin blockchain though.

Once you have access to Bitcoin on-chain and have other people willing to transact directly through Bitcoin, with no fiat intermediaries like exchanges... yeah, there's literally nothing anyone can do to stop the transaction from going through (eventually).

The end goal with Bitcoin is to bypass all the permissioned fiat rails eventually.
I'd kinda like all machines to do this all the time...

The OS should go to sleep, and give the network hardware enough info to respond to simple requests (ie. maybe ARP requests, mDNS, and keeping a DHCP lease alive). Anything that comes in addressed to the machine that can't be handled by the network hardware should wake the machine, leaving the packet in a buffer for the machine to handle and then go back to sleep.
There's more going on here: the read and write times have also changed. This looks like a completely new hardware spin. And I'd bet it's got TLC flash now instead of MLC, or something of that sort.

I hate TLC. But at least it's not QLC.
You are entirely correct, and the person you are responding to is wrong. But the author does themselves no favour by including this incorrect tidbit in the article:

> [...] Operating Systems define 1 GB as 1,073,741,824 BYTES.

Mac OS, iOS, Ubuntu, and Debian operating systems at the very least all use base 10 for representing disk and storage space.
As mentioned by other commenter in this thread, GPT-3 can solve theory of mind problems similar to 9 year old kids.
He got eggs-actly what he deserved
I buy phones, computers for what's inside them. For the outside they have to be good enough. They sure need have a high quality display. But that's it.

I bought my current phone (pixel) and the previous one (pixel) very cheap from ebay, both with a cracks on screen, current one has broken corner. No protective casing. These don't hinder me in any way. Cracks are barely visible when phone is on. In early days of phones, I use to have a phone with a tape around it because back cover was loose and battery use to fall of.

Only I consider buying new electronic items like these is the uncertainty of if it will work well and how much life they might have left in them.
Aparatus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRuIRL3CJEk

(size of the context window)
To be fair Stripe support is pretty helpful. I chatted with them tonight to clear up trouble I was having with the API.
Right, so the 64 Probes are able to look at OthelloGTPs internals and are trained using the known board-state-to-OthelloGPT-internals data. The article says

It turns out that the error rates of these probes are reduced from 26.2% on a randomly-initialized Othello-GPT to only 1.7% on a trained Othello-GPT. This suggests that there exists a world model in the internal representation of a trained Othello-GPT.

I take that to mean that the 64 trained Probes are then shown other OthelloGTP internals and can tell us what what the state of their particular 'square' is 98.3% of the time. (we know what the board would look like, but the probes dont)

As you say "Again, not a practitioner but once you are indirecting internal state through a 2 layer MLP it gets less obvious to me that the world model is really there."

But then they go back and actually mess around with OthelloGTPs internal state (using the Probes to work out how), changing black counters to white and so on, and then this directly affects the next move OthelloGTP makes. They even do this for impossible board states (e.g. two unlinked sets of discs) and OthelloGTP still comes up with correct next moves.

So surely this proves that the Probes were actually pointing to an internal model? Because when you mess with the model in a way to affect the next move, it changes OthelloGTPs behaviour in the expected way?
I agree. I too am scared by the idea of some random person playing around with genetics.

We don’t allow anyone and everyone to play around with nuclear technology. I wish no one had ever played with nuclear technology. We would have avoided a lot of harm already caused. And a lot of harm that is surely yet to come, because ‘yet’ is a very long time. Infinite even.

And maybe nuclear genetics will nonetheless develop in the hands of power seeking governments. But it’s still better than Steve from 2 streets over accidentally unleashing a strain of resistant bacteria on the neighborhood.
Isn't it actually the biggest?
Cloudflare is popular because they have that crazy free tier, but Akamai has the biggest CDN network.
I had a look at your website.

How is it obvious that you don't sell academic work and/or a paid tool to write essays for kids? It looked like 'have GPT-3 write stuff in Google Docs, but more so' to me.

What are people going to be doing, journaling?

The Stripe thing is a separate issue, I'm calling out your 'I obviously don't sell academic work'. Oh come on. Really? Who's gonna pay for this?
There are several ways to obfuscate transaction history on origins, such as coinjoins or simply opening a few private Lightning Network channels and pushing sats a couple of hops through them to unidentified end addresses.