skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like if you work for Google, and I work for Google, you can fathom, well I can look at code you've written for Google.

wait how does that work in the context of an interview though? You're by definition interviewing somewhere where you don't currently work

> you're going to have to screen share a "diff" here or there, and show people concretely what the hell you've been doing for a year at BigCo or UnicornCo. I cannot predict the future and I cannot generalize, but in my experience, the likelihood of criminal, civil or even the far more realistic reputational and cultural repurcussion is extremely small

Ah, nvm

No thanks, I'm not gonna do that
Imo, the idea that this is about selling advertising and maintaining market share is being used as a false justification. This is not about being able to drive users to ads.

The bigger picture is that Google et al are actually part of the control structure. The governance system wants deanonymised Internet. Corporate interests are how this is being promoted - government legislation would be a harder pill for the masses to accept.

But all the recent mega changes tell us (Elon buying twitter, etc) tell us that this is on the way. Apparent anonymous internet will be sandboxed. Knowing everything about everyone all the time, and having that data being crunched by ai's is an amazing, audacious goal, that seems close to being achieved.
They probably do have teams to retrieve crashed aircraft/drones/missiles etc being tested. Its not like they are going to broadcast to everyone what is crashing and how often, just cuz random people see things they cant explain.
Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight
People I know who grew up in NYC - most of whom were in primary school 30-40 years ago - mostly took the bus or the subway to school, yes, unless it was close enough to walk.
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> That's fine, not everybody is the same in this respect.

Which is incongruent with:

> the quality has absolutely cratered

You have no measure of music quality and everyone's views on quality are different, e.g. "not everybody is same in this respect".
Left or right, anarchic or authoritarian, theocratic (of any flavour) or atheist, populist or technocratic, radical or conservative, Apollonian or Dionysian.

There's more ways to be outside the Overton window, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
I actually feel like under-stimulation has caused me to lose the ability to daydream somewhat. I used to have moments in my imagination and I loved it, and then around ~17 or so it all went away. I've been trying to get it back ever since, but I haven't been able to pin down the how or why.

At this point I feel my imagination is very untrained, and since it is like a muscle, I need to practice somehow. But I believe the patterns I've instilled in my day-to-day, along with my anxieties around life have forced my imagination into a standstill. Unengaging forms of consumption, ADHD causing me to avoid stimulating tasks, anxiety guiding nearly all of my thoughts all come together to make me have no time or willingness to daydream anymore.
Aslo go to rateyourmusic (RYM).
I think it's in the light of this incident: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir...
rewind.ai feels like a super power.
Interesting idea in principle.

A note to anyone who decides to use this. I didnt analyze it completely, but this has a method for going between two disparate networks, by use of a "proxy" that appears to be hosted on the internet by OP, and any data you pass across networks is likely to pass through OPs instance. This value is hardcoded. I wont go into the obvious concerns about that.

To OP: this should be configurable, and, there is absolutely no mention of this functionality in your readme.
> I remember a Jon Chesterfield pointing out to me that people mistake inlining to be solely about call-overhead and not specialization

I recall multiple mentions over the years that inlining is the most important optimisation because of how many further optimisations it unlocks. I guess having some experience with Rust helps there, as the inlining itself is only a small fraction of all the work required to achieve "zero-cost abstraction". It’s very much load-bearing, but it’s the start if the work, not the end.
Maybe we should just use this as an opportunity for a self-organized meetup?

OP, tell us when you'll be here, and maybe we all just agree on a time and location?
The world is as full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings (R L Stevenson)
> Spectre is a bug in the processor, not in the software.

It's a bug in the processor that causes a bug in the software. It's not a bug in your idealized mathematical model, but try telling that to the people who paid you not to leak private keys.

I see my job as an engineer to be to create a product that satisfies the user's expectations (which in this case are eminently reasonable). It matters not one bit that I can point the finger to the chipmakers. I'm still selling something that I now learned doesn't do what I said it would. It's still on me to fix it the best I can. If I care about the product quality, that is.
What twitter posts are those? Ones from the FBI saying "We never asked Twitter to remove posts." Where are those?
"Actors vs Netflix", a 2024 epic drama series by Apple AI TV
The definition of unethical seems to have been incredibly weakened if a dick move is unethical.

Lets say I tip 0% instead of the expected 15% for normal service at a restaurant, would that be considered unethical? I expect generally Americans would consider it a dick move. Is anything that could be possibly construed as negative be considered unethical?
A team I was on hired someone because I dug up an emulator he had written in the past (I think it was of some Nintendo console). I took a quick look at it, showed it to the other devs on the team, asked the candidate about it to check he really built it and understood it, and then we told the manager to hire him, if he passed the personality assessment. He hadn't even mentioned it on his CV as he worried it would look unprofessional.

I got another person hired as I found a Android game she had written and pushed to the Play store. Again, I don't think she mentioned it on her CV. After looking at it and talking to her about it, I told management to hire her, if they found no issues in her as a person.

In both cases they were outstanding at their job, relative to their level of seniority and pay. Both are very high up the list of people I'd happily work with again.

It might not be fair to the candidates that didn't have projects (or had ones that I couldn't find), but it was a very effective way of getting amazing people. Which makes sense as examples of work are probably better than CVs and interviews for judging someones ability to do the job.
Striking is also legal. Now what?
The Official U.S. Temperature Record Potential Areas for Improvement [pdf]
Tangential question: is Oxide using HBM in their racks? My understanding is that part of their value proposition is making hardware tech that's usually built for the hyperscalers available to on-prem datacenters; this seems like the kind of technology they might be referring to.
So firefighters are lacking in technology to deal with this problem.

I wonder how hard it would be to engulf a vehicle with something like a fire retardant expanding foam to contain it?

I guess we could practice on our dead mobile phones for a scaled mock up of the problem? At least that would also help deal with the e-waste problem and is something any individual could do in their own garden shed!
Dupe.

Substantial discussion yesterday (294 comments): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319>
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It's new territory, and if it plays out in Netflix's disfavor, Netflix can still use AI to generate characters not based on existing actors' likenesses.

Additionally, AI could always be more improved for the script-writing use case.
I feel the same way but it's not one guy. A significant portion of the planet shares much of the same ignorant worldview.

I do blame the people who have actual power though for failing to educate themselves and move towards alternatives to global war.
Clang-tidy has similar checks, e.g.:

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/performance/f...

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/performance/u...

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/performance/u...
Sourcehut is not free, but they public financial reports and have details about their economic model which seems very sustainable. As for being "alpha", it only shows how much the team cares about not making false promises which seems a lot better than relying on companies promising everything and unicorns delivered to your door.

As for other services i've mentioned, they're not "free" either. They're usually free price (donation based) or ask for a fixed membership fee. Running things has a cost, but by going with a non-profit host you usually have better durability. sdf.org or marsnet.org have been running for over 20 years, can you say the same about any free offering by a startup ?
I don't see how that fixes the problem.
But if you can give people the virus whether vaccinated or not, there is functionally no difference in how much you were endangering people.

How does hospitals collapsing change that?
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This makes the Saudis look weak. At some point, it won't be just for the money.
The sunk cost fallacy is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone makes a decision based on previously invested time, effort, or money.

If you're an American police officer, you probably don't continue arresting a person because you previously invested so much time and effort in beating the shit out of him.

You continue arresting him to teach him a lesson, or because you think he's a dirtbag, or to fabricate a crime to deter him from filing a complaint against you.

You continue arresting him because you hope to cover up your own crimes. This is not an example of the sunk cost fallacy.
I don't know if the charts presented in the link are misleading or not, but I did notice a visible reduction in quality of answers (during a period of 5-6 years) as I can't find relatable questions to issues I'm facing.
> network with people working on llms / ml ops

Those people aren't in SF. They're in the valley.
And somehow this barely registers on HN, there have been over thousand comments on WEI this week, this was mentioned maybe in 5 (few of them mine - yes I'm repeating this point because it is important).

Attestation bad. Chrome is just catching up to what Safari is already doing, with in fairness more open standard.

We need to kill both.
Show HN: Experiment with Hugging Face models in a single notebook interface
On a ferry? Of course they are transported with gasoline. The owners drive them on, then drive them off at the other side.
So basically the entirety of research on paleolithic infanticide is wrong because... Nazis?

On the other hand, the modern trend is to make stuff up about yourself and your ancestors who brought a lot of this world from misery of the stone age to prosperity, including for the colonized and genocided.
Not sure how exactly ad fraud works but why this WEI supposed to even prevent it? There are many tools that allow to control your mouse and keyboard programatically like pyautogui [0].

Will OS check if such python lib is installed or script running in the background? Then those that doing ad fraud will move to programmable board as BLE keyboard/mouse/hid. Even microbit can can be programmed as BLE HID device [1]. Add external camera on unattested device that will stare at attested device screen and you can automate lots of thing. Sure this is more complicated to pull off but will probably eventually happen anyway if this is a lucrative business.

In the end WEI wouldn't prevent ad fraud / fakes but would end up used for restricting other things.

[0] https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui

[1] https://github.com/bsiever/microbit-pxt-blehid
> Now, it's pretty obvious why the author's methodology for supporting the statement is so silly.

i also found this odd. the target matters.

when i did more sophisticated dual tracking (js interaction and http logs), the js interaction detected 2x-3x the bots vs pure logs from just UA strings and ip ranges.
What an HN comment.

"Is this song good?"

"One sec, let me check how complex it is"
Probably true. It could also just as easily be the other way around (trying to cover up UFO news..unsuccessfully)
Of course. It's one dude's personal board now.
What is good rest? I get 80 minutes or more a night of deep sleep regardless of my morning caffeine intake. I almost always wake up well rested and still drink ~300mg of caffeine over the course of a day.

I didn't read the book, but from his interviews it sounds like all he did was gather N=1 over sufficient time to show it effects him. This is one case where I am going to have to appeal to authority. I have yet to see evidence your morning coffee is destroying your cognitive function. I have not experienced it either. Given my data is just as valid as his I would like to see actual controlled studies on this. In particular on the absolutely outlandish claim that 1/8th to 1/16th of the dose of caffeine remaining in your body does anything if you're consuming it only in the mornings.
The lede is that 2 orders of magnitude more of injury exists than previously detected. 1 in 35 showed signs of heart damage.
Why limit yourself to Tom Hanks when the AI can soon create better expression, with quirks and all. The recognizability advantage will fade away as new audiences come along, as long as the quality is very good.
Others have posted good advice, so I'll just add that if you need any human poop or hypodermic needles, you can find plenty of both all over the ground. And it's all free!
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/

>Using Alpine can make Python Docker builds 50× slower

Musl is a dire mistake.
I disagree that the context post is almost useless. I bet there were a lot of people reading that who didn't know that myocarditis is a possible side-effect of Covid itself without the community pointing it out to them right there.
> It sounds like fire fighters are still scared today. Perhaps it is because there is not only a risk of fire, but also electrocution.

Yes, as mentioned there's not enough training happening. Every firefighter should be trained for handling fires in electrical installations.

If you can't shut it off, there are safety distances you'll have to maintain, these are even defined in industrial standards.

For "low voltage" (up to 1.500 V DC) the safety distance is 1 meter for a wide beam of water and 5 meters for a narrow beam of water. This can be well kept (don't lay down in the water, though) with appropriate tactics.
> natural sciences do not concern themselves at all with non-falsifiable theories about whether free will exists.

All natural sciences rely on the fact that "This follows from That" everywhere in the universe and that thoughts are manifestations of This following from That in the brain. In order to have a thought that doesn't follow from That, This must not follow from That in some cases because the brain magically willed that Something Else follow from That. With your theories, you are engaging in denying physics, whether you realize it or not.
Since you're not required to listen to pop music, the average entropy is utterly irrelevant. If you prefer more complex music there is a huge amount out there, probably more than you can listen to.

Average artwork has always been garbage throughout human history. But I still found a few good paintings to hang on my walls. As long as you can get what you want it doesn't really matter what else is out there.
Good idea. What do you suggest for your "start here" concepts?
Thanks, I re-submitted to HN to specify "Mixed Boolean Arithmetic Expressions" in the title
I caught them on my porch through my doorbell camera looking menacing. Fortunately, the door was locked so they left.
I see what you're saying, but in my experience children do not have this response unless there's a hyper-addictive product such as modern TV/video or sugary/processed food, which bypasses the normal social circuitry in young brains. I have never experienced/witnessed this kind of meltdown over pre-modern experiences, and almost always if the toddler is redirected to a socially-positive response, it works.
Also, https://xkcd.com/2572/
Makes me sad to think how locked-down modern computing is becoming. Between app stores, DRM, TPM, and proposals like WEI future generations of hackers will have a very different experience of what you can and can't do with a computer than I did.
It is never about how much one makes it is always a matter of how much one spends.
> Nobody said anything about "exfiltrating."

Copying work code to a non-work device to show during an interview is exfiltrating code. Well staffed security orgs at large companies have insider threat teams that look for this type of thing, in addition to monitoring for exfiltration of company documents and other materials to personal devices.
Hiroshi Lockheimer once confirmed that Fuchsia at this stage (to be exact, 4 years ago) is more of testbed for OS technologies that cannot be readily integrated into Android. It is quite absurd to say that Fuchsia is a competitor against Android. It is more close to Midori with a slightly clearer path to productization.
I've realized that I don't want an abstraction layer. I want a guardrail layer.

Previously, much of my draw to things like Expo has been the reduction in mental load for handling multiple different platforms. In theory, they're built by people who know the different "gotchas" and can help me avoid them.

In practice, something always requires you to dive into the underlying layers. At which point, you're just fighting with bug-filled abstractions.
I think the increasingly-impossible long slog is actually a mathematical certainty.

It’s actually a mistake of the goal, in nearly every field, because it’s intrinsically contradictory.

“I want to be at the top, but I don’t want to make the stuff that isn’t to my taste that the current people at the top make”

There will be very few winners as the participation increases, the “winners” don’t scale nearly as aggressively as the amount of people fighting to be one do.

OnlyFans, YouTube, Twitch, Music, Acting. They’re all headed to the same place. Look how intuitive it is when you apply it to something like Crypto then ask why the same logic doesn’t apply virtually everywhere.
Twitter Scammers Stole $1k from My Friend–So I Hunted Them Down
There’s a theoretical, but impractical, way: for a given model, each possible set of weight/bias values yields a specific loss value when ran against the full corpus. There’s at least one set of weight values which minimizes it, for which the idealized bit-per-byte entropy can be computed.

That can be compared to what OpenAI’s scaling law paper[0] calls the “entropy of natural language”, which they estimate at about 0.57 bits per byte, based on the differing power law for data vs. compute. In my mind, that highlights more the imprecision of the approach than the information-theoretic content of language semantics: an omniscient being would predict things better, so the closest thing to true entropy should be computed from the list of matching text prefixes among all texts ever.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361
It's not hard to imagine legislation around a user right to ownership of their device. For example, it could be made illegal for a website to attest that a user is not running specific software.

Legislation around device ownership rights are already present, especially in the EU.
Would you trust Nissan for trying to kick off a person who owns nissan.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comp...
Like any public utility, there's a huge cost to get the infrastructure in place because there is... well... a CITY in the way. The immense capital outlay is generally worth it for the first to enter the market in a given area, because they stand to collect 100% of the demand for the service they offer. In contrast, a second competing entity incurs the same capital outlay, but can only count on as much of it's competitors business as it can wrest away. Unless their offering is of substantially better value, the most they can realistically hope for is 50%. In cases like local rail service, the initial outlay is so immense that there's little chance that anyone could make a compelling business case for it.
Support includes things like "I paid and my account doesn't work". In addition, you simply can't provide a good service without support. Being able to answer questions like "I'm trying to do X with your tool, how do I do it?" leads to better customer engagement and retention. It's part of the cost of doing business. The marginal benefit of doing that to microrevenue customers is not worth it financially, and as a result, you will never get as good of engagement nor retention from them.

One of the strengths of small business over a big co like Google is your support is NOT automated and you take the time and care to talk to and answer your customer's questions. You can't do that when you charge 10 cents a customer

On top of that, you still need to market/advertise to those users.

It's less time consuming, causes less friction, and is more profitable to just charge $10 dollars instead
>> Literally none of that has been shown at all. Instead, what’s been shown is that Twitter had a competent trust & safety team that debated tough questions around how to apply policies for users on their platform and did not seem at all politically motivated in their decisions.

...with the FBI providing unsolicited guidance along the way.
How is this being downvoted enough to be greyed out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi...
OpenAI is headquartered in SF?
Exactly. And why the phones are sold with preinstalled with all the Google software and services and it is difficult to remove them if not via adb cli ?
If they are the best in the World as someone else has stated, the people will flock to install them on a "vanilla" phone, right ?
All your SMS, contacts, emails, location positions, photos ... One time my mother was at a funeral at a cemetry, nearby is a cafè. 20 minutes later she got a notification from Google : "How was your experience at the cafè ?" What have this to do with their own products, their free tier levels, the freedom to not watch Youtube or use Gmail ?
Yes. Software is a low-capital business and many people in tech don't want to believe it.

A few offices, macbooks, and data center space is very cheap compared to building a manufacturing plant.

On the other side, what tech people understand that the general public does not... is that software has a healthy dose of maintenance and operational costs when it scales. Not a massive cost, but higher than zero - which is what most MBAs think the maintenance cost is.
More reasons why the batteries should be removeable
One of the things that led to Google's current dominance is folks like us (certainly me, at least) pushing folks to replace their default IE installation with Chrome as soon as they set up a new computer.

I hope, pragmatically, something similar might happen with this: say that Brave (my daily driver) disables WEI in their Chromium build, and a new Chromium-derived browser surges in popularity... like judo, using their own power against them.
I’m not a big self-publisher myself, but as a hiring manager, I am definitely attracted to candidates who have a robust public portfolio. That said, in hindsight, I’m not sure I’ve noticed any correlation between the strength of the public portfolio and job performance.