skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest advice, probably to Kurt rather than you, is you need better processes, accountability and (probably) communication in your company. The tone of your reply (and other communications from fly.io) is reflective of the lack of those things given the public sentiment regarding fly.io. At 60+ employees and so many issues that tone goes from humanly endearing to indicative of a non-scaling business. Other replies indicate you don't want the things (process, oversight, etc.) that a growing B2B business needs to really succeed which is not a good sign. Sure there's a cost to that corporate-ness and you want to minimize that cost but it's also a necessary evil for the business you're in at the scale you're at.

If something breaks once it's an accident, if it breaks twice it's bad luck but if it breaks down three times it's broken processes. Based on the comment here things break at fly.io a lot more often than three times.
Thank you? Yes, thank you. I think.
Hard to say. “so” is probably and offshore business that sends hard currency home and won’t be affected directly by the chaos. The danger is that some faction which is strongly ideological gets well organized and decides to implement some bold policy (say, “no domain names for haram businesses”)

There was a time I was into typo domains and was amused that the three deletions of “.com” were all troubled countries with less developed name authorities.
I can't find any mention of "mean things" in the proposal, what section are you referring to?
AI System Detects Social Norm Violations
So in other words, "cognitive behavioral manipulation" won't actually be banned. It will only be banned if conditions A, B, C, D, E, and F are also met. Otherwise, it's full steam ahead, for example for the purposes of advertising.
I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Smartphones are pretty darn useful. I use mine to watch videos, listen to music, browse the web, do network diagnostics, track my gym workouts, read my mail. I rarely actually use it as a phone, it's more of a very portable computer.

For social media, we're on sort of a social media right now. We're talking. That's social.

AI is pretty neat. I like the picture generation, it's fun to play with, and I don't see it going away.
I see you have consused what it legal with what is moral or ethical

Is Amazon legally mandated to give their customers Due process? no and I never claimed they were.

The Comment I was responding to also did not make a legal claim or statement, they did not say "Amazon had the legal right to terminate their account" they claimed "Amazon made the entirely correct action" Which I disagree with, as I believe all companies even if they are not legally required to do so should apply common sense principles in their business dealings one of those being due process, and evidence based approaches before they choose to terminate business relationships

It is sad to live in a society where every action, every interaction, is guided by what is "legal" it is even sadder when people look to legislative bodies for their moral and ethical guidance

Do better.
How would you measure harm? Any normal software system will occasionally hurt people who don’t fit the world model written into the system, so zero hurt isn’t reasonable.

How then? Probably by using some statistical measure, like “less than X% of human users are negatively affected by the system”. Ok, sounds good. But if X is 1 and your system hews that number by negatively affecting 20% of a specific group your system is ostensibly not targeting, that’s still a problem. That’s why specific protected groups are called out.
Yess I am willing to trade off developer friendliness. Have you personally used stax or any of these archaic platforms?
Really useful for lots of projects. What is the next step for this project?
Well this is the sort of thing that I'd share with friends. Great work
Musescrore 4 is nominated for UX Design Awards, add in your vote if you love the redesign.

https://ux-design-awards.com/winners/2023-2-musescore-4
Claiming that the object was not a gift to the influencer has more value than shipping back.

The influencer could be mandated to give it to the local board game club.
IndoMie Mie Goreng are my favourite, highly recommend if you can get hold of them
Great learning project, I'm glad the author is having fun. Implementing a VM from scratch is a blast, and I have learned so much in the past doing that kind of thing.

If they're interested in bolting on a GC, it couldn't hurt to look at MMtk. (https://www.mmtk.io/) Some high quality collection algorithms, written to be pluggable to various VMs, and written in Rust.
Dependence on many drugs, including nicotine, is indeed very physical: https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-n...
Totally agree. Moreover, there could be people living in the same house who are not involved in the racism incident in any way but are still affected by Amazon's decision.
This debate has popped up in France since Henri Poincaré was also working on these topics.. what I got out of it is that Einstein was the only one who could integrate all the bits into a coherent physical model, regardless of the genius of the other scientists involved.
CLT doesn't say that distributions become Gaussian, it says that if you take sets of samples from a distribution, the distribution of means of those sets of samples is often Gaussian (under certain assumptions) even if the underlying distribution is not Gaussian. It's incredible how often people get this wrong.

The distribution of means of samples is not always Gaussian (eg CLT doesn't hold if the underlying is a Cauchy distribution for example) and the underlying distribution won't magically "become Gaussian" even if you wait a long time unless it was Gaussian to start with.
Context: A history professor wants her (presumably history) students to build web sites to explain history research to the public. If good-enough-for-that-job visual programming tools are available, then teaching them javascript and SQL would, at best, be a time-sucking side quest.
I think it's possible that services like Google, which occasionally rotate their caches but uses collected data for training networks, no longer have the necessary information.

For companies that haven't thrown out their datasets yet, they should either save their datasets now or collect the necessary information before the law goes into effect.

Of course companies won't, and they'll pretend to be completely surprised by the law, but when this goes into effect in a few years they'll have no credible defence.
Well, politicking is mostly a waste of time, but here we have a rare chance to dialog with someone brainwashed by a truly corrupt and malignant ruling party with absolute power, and show them what free-thinking is all about. Personally, I would have taken the shot. The whole point of opening up to trade with China was the hope that the exposure would have influence on their people and that democratic ideas would win out in the end. I don't think we should shy away from this kind of confrontation.
And they play nicely with sort ordering in popular databases like postgres!

They’re not in tree yet but there are a bunch of awesome pg extensions that provide access to uuidv7 (outside of just using it at the application level)
I think op meant "String literals". For those the spec seems to require interning:

> Moreover, a string literal always refers to the same instance of class String. This is because string literals - or, more generally, strings that are the values of constant expressions (§15.28) - are "interned" so as to share unique instances, using the method String.intern.

And later:

> Literal strings within different classes in different packages likewise represent references to the same String object.

Source: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-3.html...

But that does - as far as I can see - say nothing for non-literal strings.

[edit]: formatting
https://archive.ph/fYquB
Awww, man!
https://archive.ph/4krA6
Great, finally working on getting rid of the scam companies.
If it's a single, acute exposure sure.

I'm no doctor or microbiologist or anything, but there definitely seems to be a strong connection between "things that cause cellular damage" and "increased risk of cancer with long term exposure".
The only time I've seen a cheque in the decade since I moved to UK has been from DVLA. They send refund as a cheque, and for relatively small amounts likely expect a significant fraction of people to never cash it in because handling the bloody things is just annoying.

My bank's mobile app supports cashing them in via camera. Niche use case, but nice to have it for this attempt at government agency nickle-and-diming the populace.
> - 1 can mushroom soup

I hope you don't mean a creme soup?
A few sheets of letter-size paper were like Legos for me when I was a young boy. Thanks mom for sneaking some typing paper home from your secretary job when you were raising my sister and I.
It is your own biases making you misinterpret my words. I did not say Elon singly handedly achieved anything. But it's undeniable that he did put in effort with Tesla, and that helped bring electric cars to market, helping to start the transition away from ICE.

I don't think Elon is a saint, there's plenty not to like. But I think that you're so angered by him (probably drinking an alternative brand coolaid) that you're willing to discount any positive contribution, action, or utterance from Elon. Usually people aren't all good or all bad, as much as we'd like the world to be that simple.
What makes us so confident that our database implements ACID correctly, the RAM stores bins correctly, and the disk drivers store the data correctly?

In the end we have to make some assumptions about the correctness of (some of the) components.
Oh, I forgot this major case. That's indeed the case of seemingly crazy ideas.
I've moved onto refrigerated udon noodles.

- 1 pack of udon noodles

- a bunch of broccoli rabe or kale sauteed with garlic

- 1 egg

- chili crisp

- sesame oil

Sautee the veg while boiling the water, cook the noodles, drop in a beaten egg and the udon seasoning stuff, stir and add the cooked veg, pour into a big bowl and adorn with sesame oil and chili crisp.

Sodium for days, but delicious.
What's your use case for the docking station? The ports are swappable so get a type-C or type-A port and then use a dock from Pluggable or someone.

The beauty is they are selling a motherboard case for their older product. Even if you upgrade to the latest generation, your old components still live on!
Please tell me what's the examples
A quick Google search suggests there are about 65 million millionaires on earth so it's not nothing. Granted 1,000,000 my be to little I don't know.
Thank you! Another applet I made that I personally think is neat, although I see why it's not something many would care about, is the MouseTray[0] utility that gives me a quick "volume popup" but for mouse cursor speeds, it makes it quite easy for me to switch between using a mouse normally and drawing precisely without needing to reaching for my tablet.

Although it didn't get as much attention as my other utility, it's actually the app that I'm most happy about having made.

[0] https://github.com/esporttoys/mousetray
Anglo font. In an Anglo language. That is discussing the nuances of an Anglo typeface.

Ya think?
As well they should. A subdivision of 2000 square ft lots with 1900 square ft homes is an abomination.

Smaller lots should be laid out in a more grid-like pattern with local services. Aka a town or a city.
I think what you’re touching on is that the burden to shut someone out of essential services that in most developed countries are referred to as utilities (water, electricity, natural gas, Telecommunications) should be much higher than say the local bowling alley denying you service. And then, on top of that there are probably some large services that should be re-defined as utilities given their increasing reliance in a modern era. In particular large tech (google, Apple, Amazon, meta) and airlines.
I expect far higher levels of fraud in these professions.
Looks like the companies all agreed to do what they were doing already. Nothing about training data transparency , nothing about a common definition of risk or standards for compliance.

The public have all heard “AI is going to destroy humanity” but those statements have been short on specifics.

I have been asked by many people to explain how AI could kill us all.
How about some clarity for common people.
Hours of Power in North Italy via Blitzortung
Not entirely correct, last I checked string interning was ONLY guaranteed for those strings defined in source and read in during class loading, strings created via the String constructor (f.ex. via StringBuilder) CAN duplicate those strings that you hardcoded in your sources, to get the "canonical" string in those cases you have to invoke String.intern() if memory serves me correct.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base...()

Also interning strings to optimize equality checks to be able to use pointer comparison is dangerous for external inputs since iirc at some point interned strings could permanently be stored (unless implemented by a WeakSet) and attackers could fill up your heap (or cause other GC issues since the entire interning functionality is a cache) by filling up your interning lists with crap.
Can't wait to try that browser.
One bellwether for a bad film that the studio knows is bad: not released to critics in pre-screenings.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotScreenedForCr...
>I think what it took was not a super-genius, but someone smart who was willing to embrace the weirdness and take these ideas together to their logical conclusion.

Who says that doesn't take super-genius?
I think the point is that defining authorship of intellectual products is a bit like putting authorship on words (even common ones). They are always part of a larger shared discourse. That is not to remove merit from individuals but to acknowledge that merit is not quantitative and could be stretched to fit political motives.
Isn't it possible that you may not understand the CTO's priorities? Security is clearly essential to him, and performance is essential to you. I don't doubt there are other ways to satisfy both criteria, but frankly, it just doesn't sound like the CTO cared about those milliseconds.
> The way to avoid this mess when applying for jobs is to build up a network and lean on it for new positions. I wonder if dating may have a similar alternative approach.

The analogue would be court colleagues/coworkers. But today it may be considered harassment.
What role do you see AI playing in the future of product development?
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How often will this post be reposted on HN ?

Recent posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735344 - 6 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36717967 - 7 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36710803 - 7 days ago (OP)

Btw. nice project!
It's easier to get started with flowcharts. Sometimes the biggest obstacle is getting started itself.
Overstaffed, overinflated and inefficient Silicon Valley startup vs. organically-grown, well-adjusted, efficient German company.
The amount of materials science knowledge so casually on display is amazing.
Only a few, but they are very important.
There's an asterisk there since those are meant to be drained, not soup. But yes, they're amazing. Had a bowl just yesterday with some fried carrots and an egg.
How is that different from a clustered index?
I’m so curious as to the answer here. My intuition says you’re right, but my second-questioning brain says “maybe the people who run a site about nothing but paper planes got it right the first time”.

Is there something about the aerodynamics of paper planes that I don’t understand? Probably!
He is not deflective. Your comments are rather dense. The orthodoxy of ‘changing frame’ and ‘putting it in a language they understand’ is layman drivel. It is not always possible to do so and it is overwhelmingly untractable if you eskew the fundamental reasons in a discussion with a non-expert that insists on technical justification and just doesn’t take your cookie-cutter time/money/competitive advantage talking points and can’t provide you with specifics that can be quantified.
I think the point is they already had those components or familiarity with them in their system hooked into existing data. You could add semantic search with text vectors 3 years ago within 1 hour and so the need for a service isn't there.

They didn't need a simultaneous second DB for records just matching by a foreign ID key based on a new service.

I have seen it too (as somebody who studied Information Retrieval and these systems and implemented aspects in production at 2 startups, including more recently these semantic search approaches) - you can store vectors (floats) of length 384, 512, 768 or 2048 like most of the current ones easily alongside existing data without typically making a dent in overall data storage, and load into memory for semantic search according to your needs (for example, for big data you can use more bucketing approaches with don't guarantee the nearest neighbour, but one of the roughly closest ones, which is often a trade off worth making).

It's not only not a hassle to do that, but overall superior to using the vector DB online tools for developer experience too. I suspect at 3 million+ rows you begin to have struggles, but barely any services will get there. And if you do, you may try other techniques (dimensionality reduction to 3x smaller often only loses a tiny portion of the data accuracy, but saves 2/3rds on costs), or employ cutting edge embedding techniques like Custom Matrix Optimisation, multi modal alignment, and others that these services don't necessarily offer.

Sure it's good for the beginner/a tutorial website, but it doesn't solve a problem for developers in information retrieval imo.
> First, no one would have coached you on "how to interview at Oxide" because that's not where the process starts

I was using “interview” as a generic term for applying to a company, not literally referring to your internal process.

I didn’t interview with or even pursue Oxide after the conversation (and never said I did)

This all came up because I asked the person what the equity compensation was like. Not an unreasonable question when talking about a startup. That’s when they started advising me that I shouldn’t bring it up and it’s not something they talk about. After that I got uncomfortable about pursuing a company that discourages any conversation about compensation to the extent that someone felt necessary to warn me about it when I hadn’t even applied.

> no one at Oxide would tell you to "not bring it up" because everyone at Oxide knows that it is a subject dealt with early in the process.

They were trying to tell me that it was important that I avoid giving the impression that I cared about compensation, as that would be a negative if I talked to anyone else at the company. Just repeating what I was told.

> And finally, this is all assuming that you were talking to someone before March 2021, when we published our blog post on it.[1]

No, they told me to look up the blog post, but I had not read the company blog before taking to this person.

> After the blog post, compensation simply doesn't come up: everyone has seen it -- and indeed, our approach to compensation is part of what attracted them to the company!

Or maybe your approach to compensation is what filters people out of the application pipeline? I don’t think it’s realistic to think that this compensation strategy is what attracts people to the company rather than pre-selecting people out.

I read the blog post, but I feel like I’m missing the equity portion of the conversation still.

Regardless, is it so hard to believe that compensation “simply doesn’t come up” because potential candidates (like me) are sometimes coached to not bring it up? Or that the company’s stance appears to discourage bringing it up? This feels like some circular logic: Nobody brings it up because we discourage people from bringing it up.
I'm currently reading through a book that pretty thoroughly eviscerates that last point as a myth. Part of the argument is that he was resistant to efforts to bring classical concepts into the new domain, thinking that something entirely new may be needed to explain reality. He also spent a lot of time (naturally) trying to square it with GR, something we're still working on today.

He kept up with the math and the experiments, but took a contrary view on the interpretation. As an interesting side note, the Copenhagen interpretation which was emerging around that time is now disfavored by the wider physics community (except as a calculation tool).
What was I supposed to reply to your factless baseless anecdote with?

Millions of dollars in spend from products predicated on the API not randomly changing?
It seems that as a companies size, breadth of product, market, share, and reliance by the general population increases, that the burden of proof, and its ability to turn off its services on a whim should decrease, and customer protections should increase.
One of my former coworkers is objectively very, very handsome. He looks like a blond 6’4” model. On top of that he’s young, very smart and a genuinely nice guy too.

Whenever we went for lunch together, it was like I entered another world and it was fascinating to me. Girls would walk up to him and say “hi”, stand around and make awkward conversation and then leave. This happened ALL THE TIME. I can say that this has never happened to me not even once in my life. I’m the type of guy where a girl will ask me where I work, and I’ve been working with her for a year. It doesn’t bother me one bit but I’m also in my 50s.

I’m not particularly handsome so sitting with him felt like I was gaining a secret pass to the lifestyles of the beautiful. When we were in line, I would look around and see girls just staring at him without him noticing.

The complete contrast between his life and mine in terms of how women treat him was really fascinating to me, especially since he’s a good guy and a rising star because he’s smart and hard working.
Yeah sure, but in the context of my argument (it is sad that there are aoftware developers who don't believe the product of their craft can ever be good) it doesn't actually matter. Sure, maybe that just means coders have impossible standards that cannot be reached, ever. Or it could mean that typical projects tend to be manages in a way that leads to code that those who wrote it don't consider good (to such a degree where they don't believe good code is actually possible).

Personally I believe good code is an reliable, maintainable, transparent and well designed solution for a problem (or a set of problems). And that means for a small problem aome ad hoc script can be good, while for a big complicated set of problems an elaborate well coded project with a build system can be good code.

But what I believe is that there are ideal solutions from an engineering standpoint, and there are ideal solutions from an business standpoint. And those sometimes don't align with each other. E.g. when you solve a core problem that should really be dealt with properly with a quick fix that might be a cheap way to reach the short term business goals, but it could shape a lot of engineering decisions in the future in a bad way and maybe even become a business problem in the long term.