skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well looks like none is doing what FSF does or then what's the point to keep attacking Stallmann? Let the old man alone, doing his own little thing alone, right? Looks like it's more about power than open source and looks like you didn't understand the difference between open source and free software: "The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement."[1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Many, but definitely not all. And Google and other big tech companies usually have “at-will” employment on both sides. Just know that it very well might be an option for you.
well, it is easy for. open source. you just defer the semantics of your program. to. the implementation.

then you will never have bugs.
The "business reasons" by Google are probably completely fake, but we have some pointers from OP who give us the real reason :

- OP is russian

- OP was working at Yandex (who had an history of "strange" relationships with the russian government)

- in December 2022 Vladimir Poutine take over the russian subsidiaries of Yandex (through Alexeï Koudrine) -> more "strange" relationships

- OP received an official offer in December 2022

- Russia invade Ukraine in february 2023

- OP was terminated by Google in the following days in march

I am not Google, but i also would have avoided to hire a russian, just after the start of the war. I bet than all russian potential hire had been terminated the same way during the same period.

Too much red flags to take the risk to hire a potential FSB agent.
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I have done this before with wasm and other libs too, but the issues is that you still have to load the image into the dom in somecases this can become an issue for large images. Given the size of images on phones now a days and then trying to run something like this on the mobile browser and you will quickly find out way this is not optimal. I would rather the browser did more heavy lifting via simpler JS apis. AS3 still has better graphical api compared to JS today. Canvas just does not cut it.
heh, funny you should bring that up as I grew up in Germany. I hadn't realized the Berufsschule system has become so discarded. But what you point out would (and does) plague a military as well if it wasn't A) a fully-funded state enterprise and B) traditionally required to be large and self-sustaining enough to have jobs that even the duds would be useful at. Needless to say a Google would not be able to squirrel the duds away so easily.
If you work for a big company you need to play a little bad cop with companies like this. They usually only understand pain.

Have the sales team fly in and kick them out, etc. Try to get the highest level people possible engaged, then get unreasonable. All of these folks will report some crazy deal opportunity and their chief sales guy will be at their throats back at home. You’ll get the concession you need. Best advice is to just avoid suppliers like this.
Linus Groh of LibJS is an Invited Expert in TC39: https://linus.dev/posts/road-to-working-on-serenityos-and-la...

ECMAScript conformance test results looking good, 87-88% passing at the moment: https://libjs.dev/test262/

I see weekly summary articles about Ladybird development are now being published: https://linus.dev/posts
Last time I tried FreeBSD, hoping to use it for my NAS server, I stumbled upon this bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173541

I didn’t get much confidence to trust it with my data if something as basic as the system load counter is broken for 10 years and engineers think it’s not worth fixing.

(Note that the bug is closed as fixed, but it’s not fixed and the problem is still there)

Edit: who downvotes this for just linking to a bug in FreeBSD?! :-/
Generally the response is to drop a few hundred on a lawyer to write them a stern letter about bad faith and failure to execute the contract. Your specific legal remedies vary so much country to country that it's hard to generalize, but I have been shocked by how quickly nonsense becomes sense when formal letters requesting negotiation and arbitration enter the scene.

A labor lawyer generally knows what regulatory remedies exist and can send the letter in a way that it gets attention outside of the HR or and Hiring managers desk.
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> The problem is that there is no perfect treatment for severe mental illness. We cannot cure it. Many of these drugs have major and serious side effects, which is why so many people stop taking them.

> So the only question then is what will you do with these people? Do you let them continue to deteriorate under their own agency to the point where they become violent? That's not humane to their (inevitable) victims. Do you commit them involuntarily? That's not humane to the patient themselves.

> Unfortunately, someone's human rights are going to be trampled in this scenario, the only question is whose.

It's true that we don't have perfect cures for many mental illnesses, but as a society we aren't even treating mental illnesses close to the best of our abilities. I'm not ready to give up treating mental illnesses and start trampling human rights when we haven't even tried giving people effective and affordable healthcare.

There's a narrative that we're trying to help people and they're not accepting help, and that's possibly true in a minority of cases, but in the vast majority of cases our society is just not doing anything for people that could reasonably be expected to work, and then we're blaming them for it.
I started with ggerganov’s llama.cpp GitHub repo, and went from there. But then again, I know some programming, statistics and machine learning, so it may not be for you, I cannot judge that.

Models can be found on huggingface.co, and I’d start with eachadea/ggml-vicuna-13b-4bit, but it needs 10G of cpu-ram. It is very friendly to any prompt though.

I read on my way (on reddit, when I recall correctly), that there must be some really good intro videos on YouTube.
I always thought this was insane, but now I wonder if "SSO Pricing"/tax is just the "real price" and the "Base pricing" is really the new free trial?
Of course the SSO/real pricing is too high, and everyone negotiates it down, but the point is I suspect the "base pricing" is just a trial teaser that's probably not sustainable for many vendors in terms of margins.
I'm just guessing here, maybe someone with some inside insight from one of these vendors can advise.
>”Freedom that’s a living hell isn’t freedom, it’s just freedom from responsibility for caring.”

The problem is that the latter is far too attractive and convenient for a large percentage of this country. Then simply move out of a city center, get some guns, put up some fences, and it’s no longer a problem that you’re directly personally affected by.
The problem with the witchcraft practitioners is not that they are calling themselves engineers - it’s that they are practicing witchcraft.

Or rather… that they are peddling their ‘knowledge’ of witchcraft as having granted them the power to make an LLM perform useful work.

When what they have is a half-baked set of herbal remedies and magic words handed down (“Greg Rutkowski”) that, if they are any more effective than just placebo, it’s purely because of luck.
Like it or not, there is a whole world of art and music outside of your pop world that doesn't rest on naive ideas of talent==good, of which Yoko is a highly regarded individual. She was an original member of Fluxus for god sakes! She studied under John Cage! Her art is displayed at MoMA and surely countless other place. You may think it's idiotic, but all that shows is your somewhat narrow idea of what art and music can be. I wonder what you'd think of some of George's solo ventures, something like "Wonderwall Music" is probably just as idiotic to you.
Have you ever accomplished this?
good to know google isn't evil but totally ok being the anti-schindler when google-hirable guys are getting drafted to ukraine
An ounce of prevention is also worth a pound of cure. More important than investing resources into helping those with mental illness is preventing people from developing mental illness in the first place.

Traumatic experiences like you mentioned can be reduced by better education about what to look for in healthy relationships, or providing accessible resources to catch issues early before they become major issues. Other, more subtle, issues like neglect, poor home life (often due ti poverty, difficult family situation, etc.) would require more pervasive changes to address, but if prevent issues in society on the back end due to reduced incidence of mental illness, not to mention the improvement in quality of life for those affected, we should seriously consider those options.
shellfish -> New wife?
GPT for instance doesn’t understand how to measure utility of things for different contexts. It doesn’t know.
Probably once context lengths get really long it might be better to use ANN rather than exact attention at inference time. I would imagine this would only pay off with ~100,000 token contexts, and even then it would only work if only a few tokens meaningfully contribute to each attention head.
I think it was a bad move by Elon to ban (and good move to reverse, though some damage already done), but I see why he was pissed: it's a straight-up Twitter clone.
Why not? Could insert an ad into the email. Personalized for each recipient even.
> Get them sedated

Kind of tough to get them to that first step willingly. Got any other ideas?
Well, you're convinced they were wrong, so maybe you didn't read them well. DPaint did bring palette cycling to the masses, showing hardware tricks that allowed drawing something cool that could not be done without hardware acceleration at that time. It sure made it clear to me (and many game devs in those days) that, along with other hardware tricks (scrolling hacks, sprintes, etc) that hardware acceleration would be necessary for a lot of the graphics stuff we wanted.

DPaint's sister, DPAnimator, used even more hardware tricks to enable many of the features. When a PC/Amiga/?? didn't have hardware support, you simply lost the feature.
I did something similar when I relocated. I made plans with the company to be remote for the first month, though I was coming into the office on odd weeks. They understood I'd be out for a day or two here and there as I tried to find a new residence. That allowed time to find housing and move the family and I didn't have to terminate my lease until I already had a new house lined up.
is there a difference in the quality of llm one would be able to train or run on a gpu with 8, 12, 16, all the way up to 24gb?

I'm trying to decide whether it's worth while to splurge on a more expensive 4090 vs a 4070 or whatever.
3. Any offer revoked before the agreed start date implies mandatory payment of 6 months of salary, automatically, without exception.
> But I doubt they will cause meaningful sea rise unless somebody can calculate otherwise?

Plenty of people have, in fact, calculated otherwise.

Roughly half of the current, ongoing sea level rise is from expansion of water. The effect is small, but there is a lot of water that is expanding.
"Rocky and Bullwinkle" was an incredibly smart cartoon, at least on the level of Looney Tunes, with a sophisticated level of satire that the Warner Brothers cartoons generally didn't do.

The new R&B shows on Amazon do a pretty good job of capturing the spirit of the original, which was a pleasant surprise for something coming out in the late 2010s.

Another more modern cartoon that does similar stuff is "Animaniacs", which was also a kiddie show that was surprisingly smart and often sophisticated, something that can be appreciated by adults as well as kids
Blades age out because degradation of the laminate weakens the blade, and leading edge erosion...
0 day notice and no severance is unusual, at least for skilled professional jobs in the US. It does happen, but usually only for some unusual circumstance, like some kind of employee misbehavior or a sudden financial calamity for the company. Two weeks notice by the employee or severance by the employer is the most common case on both sides, probably for roughly 80% or so of professional jobs including all of my own. Of course it does suck to be in the outlying 20%, and the anecdotes will trend towards reporting that case, but is the minority. Most actors on both sides behave well, even if there is a substantial minority of problems.

(Edit since some replies seem to have the wrong idea - termination effective immediately without notice is common, but usually there is severance pay except in cases of misconduct or disaster.)
Functional doesn’t like state. That’s the whole point. Functions that can be run in isolation with well defined input is much easier to debug.
His papers present things to look for in the current cosmic microwave background that would be evidence. In other words, data we have access to.

He's made some claims that these "circles" have been found, as some colleagues of his are working on making such observations. Those "circles" have not been independently verified, however, nor is it yet possible to rule out process error in the data, or the observations calculated from the data.

The CMB should show cold spots from evaporated black holes that have expanded to several arc-seconds in diameter. It requires very sensitive survey data, though.
The (fairly short) comment history doesn't really indicate flaming, IMHO. Having strong opinions while having the word "fanaticism" on their profile doesn't seem like a rule violation.

If I may, I'd ask you to refrain from such bans until the poster proves a chronic flamer. At least give them a warning first (unless you already did, and they continued, in which case please ignore this comment).
> One is that the ocean is warming, and it needs more space and expands.

That doesn’t sound right. I think it is common knowledge that water expands as it freezes (hence, burst pipes), not when it warms up.
Fair enough. It's hard to imagine a worse DMV, but anything is possible!
It was never possible to keep this technology secret for any length of time.
Well, this ensures a non-zero price.

It's very unlikely that it happens to be the optimal price.
Not always, Look at Instagram, there's a really big reason the web page support is not the same as the mobile client. It much easier to deal with these types of issues natively than in some web agent. There is a huge cost to uploading all those images into memory and scaling server side vs the savings letting the clients do the work. Also having access to the source is not exclusive to the client doing the work vs the server.
Request pre-processing using JavaScript is amazing! Will I be able to deploy an Astro app on supabase edge functions? I'm building a multi-tenant B2B2C product on supabase that's deployed on a customer's sub-domain, so writing reverse proxy logic in js would be a boon.
How is the real world WASM story for typical server side languages like python, ruby, etc. these days? Last I looked at it WASM seemed to have a lot of warts and complications (and limited real world language support) vs. just spinning up a native process in a container. Can you go from for example python flask API source file to serving requests in WASM with minimal fuss or loss of functionality vs. native CPython?
Honestly if either one is remote, just keep them both for a little while
Fascinating; thanks.

Question: How does the salinity and pressure of deep sea water affect that 4C point?
Really beautiful work. Though not as detailed, This Old Tony has an amazing pulse TIG welding video, for those who want to see it in action https://youtu.be/a6fUCApr03g
YUP!

This happened to me and a good friend of mine who is an Eng Manager at Netflix now...

But we both went through a three month long panel interview and I was told I did "very well" on all my interviews and to expect an offer letter in the morning.

The next day they called and told me that they wouldnt be making me an offer.

The issue was that Brin was still the final sign off...

The school that i went to in the early-mid 90s was "Mesmer Animation Labs" in seattle... one of only five animation schools at the time (because of the cost of all the SGIs)

It was later bought and merged with UW to basically become the animation dept at UW the year after I graduated...

and Mesmer no longer existed... so I put down UW on my resume because there was no Mesmer to confirm that I had gone there any longer...

So because I called Mesmer "UW" I got kicked in the financial balls by Brin/Goog as I had opened my mouth any was told I got an offer to my then employer, Lockheed...

Yeah - never tell anyone about a verbal offer.
> inclusion

So a "Ferris and Firearms" meetup is simply not allowed to occur. That sounds extremely inclusive.

This also implies that organizers would have to go through the effort AND cost (because you are only allowed to collect fees for food and drinks) of doing entry control or a meetup.
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At this point, feces on the sidewalk /is/ part of the SF aesthetic, so in a way, by refusing to allow anything more than two or three stories to be built in many neighborhoods, they’re correct in that they’re preserving it.

Then again, it’s not like the high rises ever end up including a significant amount of affordable housing anyway, so that doesn’t even make a dent in the issue.
So interesting how you can already tell that is a 3 week old epiphany
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New blog out. Would love to get feedback!
This is way too conspiratorial thinking and it’s more than likely Google did exactly what they said instead. Are Americans who work at large corporations with government contracts also all likely CIA agents to you?
The big thing for me and many others is the ability to use the tool without sending NDA data to a 3rd party.

The potential amplifying power of that is enormous.
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230323-01.en.html

The FSFE has already explained to them why the liability should be shifted to the company shipping the actual product.
I already have a custom browser plugin that calls out to GPT (gpt-3.5-turbo is cheap and good enough for this) to classify and filter out low-effort, overly negative, or intellectually dishonest HN comments. It significantly improves the experience on this site.

Bonus points: I had never written a browser plugin, but GPT4 helped me do it in under half an hour.
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A more detailed spec might have more concrete definitions but it also means more actual code for someone to write. An under-detailed spec you might have a case switch with a couple defined values and an undefined catch all. A super detailed spec just adds case statements and requires more code to handle them. The detail in the spec makes for lower cognitive load but the code still needs to be written and ideally tests written.
That doesn't work if your field is super weird and niche. You end up giving the same elevator pitch over, and over, and over... I suppose it's a "nice problem to have".
A discussion of 4 seminal image generation papers
Great work!

I've been dabbling with deno for a couple years now, one of the most powerful features I'm excited about is BroadcastChannel[1] support, which works with --unstable in Deno Deploy.

One of the challenges I've run into is debugging timeouts in deno deploy, so I'm curious--

1. is BroadcastChannel supported in supabase self-hosted edge functions?
2. is there more tooling available to supabase edge functions to debug than currently in deno deploy?

[1]: https://deno.com/deploy/docs/runtime-broadcast-channel

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if curious of specifics, this is my work in progress proof of concept, exploring using pathnames for channels, to get anyone on the same url path connected across regions through sockets and broadcast channel: https://github.com/tylerchilds/kickstart/blob/869506c9dae1e1...
Sensible defaults go a long way, yes! Although in the case of this YouTube thing, I think the sensible default is to have it disabled regardless of the capabilities of the machine.
Been using this for the past few weeks. I find the ability to speak in a free-form way quite liberating.

I feel like it opens up a new, more creative mode of thinking, different to internal monologue or writing. The LLM based summarisation leaves me with the core arguments + conclusions from the lengthy monologue & enables me to repeat myself or pause for lengthy periods to think.
Ask HN: How to weigh the equity component of a job offer
I've recently been fortunate enough to land an offer with a pretty cool company! Unfortunately, I also love my current job, so it's a close call. My question for HN is how to weigh the equity component of a job, and what information should I be trying to get from the company to get the full picture on the total compensation?

The company is Series A/B and they've already raised $150m. When I asked what the current valuation was they said they weren't able to let me know but gave a ballpark of $300m-$500m, so I'm not sure they will give me the 409a. They're offering about 20,000 options at a strike price of $0.36. Obviously this is monopoly money until proven otherwise, but I'm an optimist and think such a dramatic Series A probably bodes well.
As a non-religious person, it is hard to grasp the mindset where one can denounce the abuse in words, but in actions support the institution which perpetrated the abuse and protected the abusers. But I understand faith is not rational.