skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, "gut instinct" is just another phrase for "unconscious bias". Sometimes those biases are helpful, some less so. And some can result in hiring results that are unfair enough to invite lawsuits.

I know plenty of smaller, less corporate companies that still use careful hiring processes with thoughtful rubrics. They do that not because of risk avoidance; they are generally still ok firing people who don't work out. They do it because they want to run a fair process while maximizing ROI.
Still waiting to hear what punishment is befitting a person of non-belief.

Really, just say it. Say the quiet part out loud.
Just German bullies being bullies, and their legal bullies are one of the worst. How they ended up being so insolent and impudent?
The lack of famine, is definitely the achievement of the Chinese people and companies. Covid lockdowns showed that even with tremendous wealth a missmanaged government can create starvation..
the next leap in developer productivity won’t arrive from reducing the drudgery of typing. that wasn’t ever the problem, nor source of bugs or damper on productivity. so long as we still evaluate code in our heads (or pay the expensive compile-run-observe cost) we’re generations behind what architecture has achieved with computers. so long as i can’t evaluate the consequences of any line of code as i write it, dumping lines in industrial quantities is searching under the streetlight.
My first mentor in Linux was a sysadmin at the hometown ISP, and my initiation was compiling Gentoo from Stage 1 (the "hard mode" install) on a dual socket P3 700mHz system. I've never done it ever again, but that foundational experience helped me immensely.
> what the weight of emacs was on you

What I've noticed about emacs lovers is that they all customize it heavily - I didn't want to do that, since to me the point of using a plain text editor is that it's always available in exactly the same form wherever I happen to be. I did start to looking into all the ways to customize it, but at that point, I couldn't really see much benefit over just using an IDE.

But that's just me.
> 282 hours of configuration! If we subtract the weekends from that 916 days, that's an average of about 45 mins a day

It's 0.43 hours a day, which is 26 minutes, not 45. (Hint: 0.5 hours is 30 minutes.)
Does Apple's Remote Desktop work across in the internet (i.e., between two computers not on the same local network)?
In grad school in the 80’s I used Emacs. At home around 1984 I got my first PC running MSDOS. For years I used a commercial product that used Emacs keybindings (Epsilon) because Emacs wouldn’t run on my PC.

When I went to work at IBM I was disappointed that concerns over the Gnu license forced me to use vi for a few years, but I discovered it to be great an editor for me.

I eventually was drawn back to Emacs and now, many years later, I enjoy playing with my config file every week. There is always something new to be added.

It’s org mode and magit that make it impossible to leave Emacs. (Right now I’m experimenting with a configuration where I’ve installed the top 600 most popular add on packages at once. I’m kind of using the wisdom of crowds approach to picking packages this time. Next week it will be something else.)
The whole Enlightenment idea that begat modernity was that man could learn from the universe. We could use science to learn, improve, grow & progress. And that is what we expanded the future with, jointly, with Royal Academies of Science & newly begat intellectual peerships.

AI defies these roots we have sprung from. Mankind will not have access to this artificially created universe. The future now happening is safeguarded deep inside corporate keeps. Answers will be shared but understanding will be withheld. We will not be able to study or learn about this universe.

When we say this is The Dark Timeline, it's very much because the light from this era will not expand. The progress made here is not shared, is not free to spread, and will inevitably be lost, likely replaced with newer also corporate controlled automated-answering-machines. This is an entirely asymmetric future, a springboard into the dark, replacing humans and human knowledge with insubstantial easily manipulated highly controlled unobservable non-participating un-democratic artifice. If you care about humanity & the human cause, you should fear what's happening here & detest it.
Ah, apparently it was a strangulation rather than a stabbing! I'll refrain from repeating the accused's name here because I see now that the charges were dropped -- but it was on HN before and left an impression on me: maybe I'm old fashioned but I usually expect the number of assaults, attempted murders, or murders connected with a project team to be zero.
They have been exceptionally soft on TikTok till very recently.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/30/tiktok-in-europes-crosshairs...

> “There is no political demand for investigation into Chinese entities,” Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, the director of think tank the European Centre for International Political Economy, said in an interview in December.

> “The user base of TikTok is a lot bigger than a lot of people in Europe think,” he said. But, he added, “you’re not going to look very closely if they don’t steal too much from your ad revenue.”
Your approach may have been more cautious but out of principle, I probably would have asked him to release his grip, followed by shoving him away if necessary. Normalizing those kinds of intimidation tactics is not in the interest of anyone. If more individuals were to stand up for themselves, it's likely that the person in question would reconsider employing such tactics.
I also grew up in the south. Interestingly, I always got more harassment for that sort of phrasing from other southerners. Most folks just don't give a shit, oddly. And those that do are often holding themselves back by trying to hold down others.

Sadly, I think there is enough evidence that the game plan is to build classes of people that are constantly holding each other down. That is literally the point. :(
> were both gay men

Bob wasn’t gay. (EDIT: Never mind!) A man can have hooked up with guys and not be gay as much as a gay man can have hooked up with women and not be straight or bi.

More importantly, we don’t have any evidence they were lovers.
wow this is terrifying lmao
Show HN: Liveform, the easiest way to create and deploy intelligent agents
Hey HN -

I'm excited to introduce Liveform, a tool that enables you to create and deploy AI agents with ease. With it, you can:

1) Initialize a chat agent with a specific objective and context

2) Generate a share link or embed

3) Review and export user interactions

Here are some example use cases:

- Product managers / user researchers: conducting user interviews

- Educators: student tutoring and/or assignments (e.g., a high school class is assigned to interview Abraham Lincoln)

- Recruiters: conducting candidate screens

- Sales teams: qualifying + prepping for leads before pitch meetings

- ??: ones you think up!

Eager to see what y'all think and think up!
Unique subdomain. Unclear how many TLDs they're using last I looked.
I don't know if anyone remembers this detail of the book Ender's Game, but this is exactly how their "internet" was setup.

Trusted networks where you had to identify yourself, and public networks where you could be anonymous.

When I first read it, it really impacted me and I knew this is the likely future of our internet.
> Poverty and crime are not married.

They 100% are.

The plural of anecdote is not data. Your story is nice, but the reality is poverty is heavily correlated with crime. And social nets address both at once.

letting poor people suffer because some poor people can improve their station in life through luck, hard work and a number of other extrenous factors is unethical.
Traffic accident is causing so much death. Let's kill every car manufacturer thus there will be no traffic accident anymore.
It’s a fair argument but ultimately not one I subscribe to. Time and time again global charities become vehicles for corruption, exploitation, and power-seeking [0]. They become critical infrastructure replacing things that should be provided by democratic institutions. No one elected Bill Gates as head of global health and yet here we are allowing him to make life or death decisions for the entire earth because he owns all of the infrastructure[1]. The last thing I want is for the EA movement and orgs like givewell to be elevated into a similar position. While I believe they have good intentions, I don’t believe they listen to their beneficiaries or have an accurate view of the effects of their work, nor do I believe they are immune to corruption. For one thing, neither givewell nor the AMF give testimonials from their beneficiaries on their website.

I’m a big believer in trust and feedback loops in charitable giving and the tough truth is that that’s really tough to maintain in global orgs with complicated missions. There are certain orgs that do a great job at this. Givedirectly (one of givewell’s recommended charities) actually does a great job at this, partially because their mission is pretty simple. I can look at their recipient stories page[2] and know for sure my money goes to exactly what I expect.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56670162

[1] - https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandem...

[2] - https://www.givedirectly.org/covid-19/us/recipient-stories/
I think you're using the term "inhabitants" loosely here. The US doesn't have much of a social safety net, which means that any city that attempts to build one may suddenly find that "its inhabitants" include the 330 million people living in other parts of the country who need help. Or who would just like some money and an opportunity to do meth and fentanyl and shoplift and commit property crime in a place with very little law enforcement. I personally would include that in the definition of "needing help." Any version of "help" that will help in SF will have to be coercive, which is another thing SF's political culture is having tremendous difficulty accepting.

But really, if you took Stockholm out of Sweden and plunked it down into the middle of the US, how long do you think the social safety net would last before it went bankrupt? And this is assuming you retain the european willingness to be coercive about mandatory rehab and confinement (something US based progressives are reluctant to note is a feature of the european social safety programs they otherwise praise).
When I was growing up there were 3 rules about the internet

1. Never believe anything you see, hear or read on the internet.

2. Never give out personal information of any kind.

3. Every girl that wanted to meet you on the internet was an FBI agent.

It seems like almost every problem we've had with the internet comes from breaking one of those three rules.

I wish/hope we could/can go back.
My understanding is limited, but I'm guessing it's to do with the algebraic properties of the embedding vectors. I'm familiar with embeddings that you can add and subtract, which may reveal concepts existing as linear directions within the embedding space.

Here, they're talking about multiplying, dividing and permuting vectors. Multiplying combines concepts, adding creates a superposition.

They also mention randomly selecting embeddings for the concepts in mind. So my guess is that instead of one-hot encoding the classifier, they instead use random encodings on the output, and are working to give those encodings desirable properties.

I would also hazard a guess that the random vectors they choose are close to zero in most components.
I find its syntax & idiomatic style incredibly difficult to follow, in a way nearly no other languages have been for me, including some functional languages (OCaml doesn't seem nearly as bad to me, for instance).

It's sometimes implied that those who trip over Haskell just aren't big-brained enough to understand various important concepts related to it, but I've found they're usually very easy to grasp, provided the explanation's not using Haskell examples. If all programming were Haskell, I probably never would have become a programmer in the first place. Would have taken me too long to figure any of it out, probably would have concluded I wasn't smart enough to be a programmer.

I do wonder if there are some shared experiences or common patterns to who tends to love Haskell, and those who don't. I also feel nigh-dyslexic trying to read math formulas. Human language and broadly C-family programming languages, on the other hand, seemed easy and natural to me, almost effortless to pick up. Wonder if there's a "mathy"-person versus "languagey"-person divide on finding Haskell legible.

I'm not sure it's the whole thing, but I think I've also figured out that I find algorithm-type reasoning far easier to follow and work with than equations or proofs. Like, the only way I can begin to get traction with an unfamiliar equation is to break down what each term and operation "does" to something "moving through" it—it's tedious as hell. Might be something there.
If you live in the Sunset you most likely have a car.
The people making the claims about the laptop are the ones that need to provide evidence. To date, nothing of substance has been released from the laptop (which has supposedly been in the possession of the parties making the claims for at least 3 years) that validates any of the claims that have been made about the laptop, Hunter Biden, or Joe Biden.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
I'm struggling to understand your use case here, but here are some thoughts that may be helpful.

You can use one Supabase Auth project to do all of your user management. You can use the JWTs issued by this project across any other system. You need to configure those systems to "trust" those JWTs, usually by sharing the signing key (JWT secret) with them. They can then base their allow / deny decisions on the JWT.

You can even do this with as many Supabase projects you want. You don't have to use Supabase Auth with all of them. Do note that once you use physically different machines, you need to sync them up and that's quite a big can of worms.
There's a very good reason for it. I spend about an hour every month. It sharpens your tool and pays back massively over time.

When we need to quickly debug or carry out a complex operation at work? People gather around my machine. Once you're set up with things like org-mode, magit, lsp your productivity goes up a lot.
A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
Note: it's probably not just iOS/MacOS apps. Android apps are equally vulnerable to this if you're brazen enough to dump your key in any .xml file. Or in your code if you just run strings on it.
As long as it is not owned by a centralized authority (government/corporation/etc) and is open source, I would be game. But this does not look like that.
Pageant and spelling bee contestants aside..
Do you think Haskell recognizes the physical reality of the machine more than C does? If so, how specifically does it do so?
Solana's crypto phone Saga launches
Person of interest? There is a difference between that and having a warrant out. He is wanted for arrest - he's the alleged killer, not just a POI.

> We are told that police today were dispatched to Emeryville with a warrant to arrest a man named Nima Momeni.
This seems to me to be the most likely case, but waiting to hear facts first. Random homeless person killing seems less plausible.
One of the more surprising aspects of GHC Haskell is that it is possible to write a very high level code with performance matching or exceeding code written in a low level language, thus honoring the machine. Stream fusion for an example. Not sure if there is any other language with higher abstraction/performance ratio.
looks like they took the defenition of intelligence from "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" [0] which is concerning.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intell...
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Would a guy in his position even have access to these documents? I'm thinking that there has to be someone who shared them or at least shared a way to gain access to them. I'm sure the FBI will be following the trail of bread crumbs to the original source. Now if it turns out he is the original source, we're in huge trouble. Because a 21 year old kid working night shift in some remote Cape Cod office for the Massachusetts Air National Guard shouldn't have this type of access.
Right, it's an extension of your life right. Some people find it fulfilling to kit out there house with exactly what they think they desire. Its just a matter of processing the stuff that makes you happy while providing _internal_ development.
The ideological stupidities were motivated by the goal of economic development. Stalin thought kulaks' economic interests were holding back the centralizing industrialization of agriculture through collectivization. Mao wanted to move from a peasant-based economy to industrial-based through the great leap. (The cultural revolution was a populist cudgel to make the Western educated intellectuals adapt and submit to the local Chinese conditions.)

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I wouldn't lean on wartime subsidies too much because they are extraordinary circumstances. The USSR focused on self-sufficiency to the point of foreign trade only being 4% of GDP in 1985. China started opening up after Nixon normalized relations.
Wave was what Slack became years later. They had tons of runway to transform it into an actual product before any competition caught up.
> I'm in the US, but the owner of the company I work for lives in Europe and refuses to use anything other than WhatsApp to communicate

I feel your pain. It doesn't even make that much sense anymore: So many people in Europe have Signal these days…
Hey all, this is Tyler. I am one of the Vylo founders. We've looked at news and news apps as quite stale for a minute now. It's quite boring.

Vylo represents community and being able to dive into interesting news and news reactions in video format from different people and creators around the world. Our aim is to push the needle forward on news and social - both existing connectedly. We invite you in - take off your coat and stay a while :)
> They've not reduced waste, they're just producing less waste than they were before.

This is quite a sentence.
> effective

That's what we call a "patch". A systemic patch, in this case.
Dang, can we get an updated title for this submission?
Or a high-dimensional word-to-vec that can represent compound / complex objects?
It is very common for production data to live in multiple places; one for transactions, one for analytics, one for serving, one for ETL. The company I worked at rolled its own similarity search engine before these vector databases were a thing.
Yep, just more proof that San Fransisco is overrun with the criminal wealthy...
SpaceX has taken massively more US gov funding than NPR. and many Tesla car buyers were persuaded to make the leap due to US gov tax incentives on EVs

I do miss the old Elon Musk, the one I could respect and appreciate without reservation. feels like something "broke" in his personality a few years ago
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar hell. Your comment was great until the last paragraph, which swerved dramatically for the worse and basically drove the subthread off a cliff.

Comments demonizing other people and/or other groups of people are the scourge of internet forums. If you make it "y'all", that's worse yet, as now the demonized group gets to select itself and feel personally attacked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, hoping to do something along these lines for a future update! I'm not sure if it would be individual notes/chords per motion, or something based on samples and a looper. If anyone knows of related projects, I'd love to get some ideas for inspiration.
Is the "Expand IT, Inc" on the LinkedIn profile the only evidence that the "alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew."

There's comments is this thread of amazing journalism but the LLC shows as inactive on the Division of CA website (entity 201008110204) and the Expand IT website itself is dead. For all we know, this is a Lyft or Uber driver. Unless I'm missing some SFPD statement known to the journalist?

EDIT: got an old filling; see njstraub608's comment. My mistake
I agree. He claimed to have been working inside a SCIF on a regular basis. I'm sure the National Guard would have or have access to such a facility, and have the necessary clearances. But I don't see how an inactive or active-for-training guardsman could have a need to access that much information.
People talk about its slowness, but I've got mine pretty damn kitted out and it's still faster than VSCode, VStudio, and JetBrains products. It's not as fast as vim, I'll admit, though.
This entire situtation was caused entirely by Trump's decision to abruptly shut down all visa processing in 2020, and he is 100% to blame for it.
1. Org mode - I will admit that I'm not a fan of org mode and find it to be oversold and another time waster for people who are already wasting time configuring their editors. I personally use vimwiki, there is a vim plugin for org mode.

2. Magit - Tim Pope is the pope of Vim plugins and fugitive is easily as good or better than Magit. I have never had any issue doing any sort of complex task in git or fixing conflicting using fugitive.

3. Wdired - Tim Pope again has vim-vinegar to improve netrw. Never had a problem or thought about manipulating directories inside of Vim.

4. Again, if you believe in the Unix philosophy then you have to admit that Emacs is simply bloated and trying to do too much and therefore is not really the best at anything. And more importantly, if there's something that Emacs can't do you've screwed yourself because you haven't built an environment around many distinct tools on the command line and it's going to be awkward to integrate.
> Maybe surprisingly, junior candidates sometimes rank better at this problem because their Data Structure & Algorithms knowledge is more fresh.

Not surprising. This sort of interview is selecting for people who have exactly this kind of academic knowledge.
Oh, thank you!

I always thought it was a sailing reference to moorings.
There are still periodic reminders about this but, to the parent's point, it's still the case that nobody gets fired for erring on the side of prudence. You might get a few stern words from someone senior to you, but won't get wrapped up in a criminal investigation.

What I've seen in busy headquarters, dealing with a mix of classified and unclassified material, is also something like decision fatigue. Like there are multiple required drop-down menu selections and free text fields for classification and caveats every time someone sends an email in Outlook, and most people are kind of guessing about what's really SECRET vs. CUI vs. whatever else, never mind caveats for specific allies and partners. So what prevails are simple rules-of-thumbs like "just send all email on SIPRNet, marked SECRET, but not NOFORN because that will piss off the Australian deputy commander" until someone more senior says otherwise.
> is to have your app only communicate with a backend you own and call the openAI from there.

I'm a bit baffled anyone puts anything secret on software people are using. This service needs to be online anyway.

Anyway, seems like a lazy programmer thing.
Oddly, I haven't customized mine heavily. I'd assert that there really isn't a single "crowd" that are computer users. All the more true for stuff as customizable as emacs.

Even more amusing, I'm fairly certain I had more customization in vim before I decided I wanted to learn lisp. What ultimately killed my customization in all things, was I felt like I was customizing on top of a very shaky foundation. Emacs/vim are stable enough, of course. But building/packaging software is basically a giant playground.