skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like "Read this 50-page employee handbook and send us your signature acknowledging it. You must do this every year." (It is the mostly identical to last year's version but with the employee monitoring added to a clause, and we aren't mentioning what's changed)
This one [1]? That tracks two distinct versions (0613 vs. 0314).

Also, IMO, the tasks they evaluate aren't useful (I rarely want my LLM to tell me whether 17077 is a prime number), and there's room for cherrypicking/survivorship bias. My guess is that OpenAI did something between 0314 and 0613 that shifted focus away from maths to other subjects.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.09009.pdf
https://archive.is/Xdml7
Ask HN: Potentially destroyed my career. Now what?
I have about 20 years of experience, with 11 of them spent in two solid companies and the rest spent kind of job hopping - always for better scope and compensation. Took a job as Sr. SDM at a FAANG company and, although not liking the job, had a good performance over about two years. Received an insane (40%+) offer to join another company, and, attracted by working in a faster environment with more (all cash) comp, jumped ship (after a little less than two years).

Relocated with family and now I am deeply regretful. New place is rich but a total clusterfuck, complete with one-liner people evaluations ("Low throughput", PIP), SDEs getting sick due to stress, a reorg on my first week cutting 80% of my team (now I'm down to KTLO subsistence budget and having to jump in as SDE as well), and there's more but if I elaborate, I will be identified, probably.

I did thorough research before joining, going as far as interviewing other joiners who assured me it was an immature but responsible company. The org chart presented to me was entirely false (impossible for me to know beforehand) and the way of working was also misrepresented grossly (again, can't elaborate because it's very specific to this company).

Now I am at a strange place with family and down on my luck. Yes, I am well paid but with this kind of leadership, it's bound to be short-lived as well. I would be laughing at myself few years back, would take it on the chin and move on, but with family, I can't.

My options are: to suck it up - in which case I probably blew up my career since I'm learning nothing and they refuse to believe their way of working is wrong, even with developers hitting hospitals and asking for leave of absence; change teams (though I heard most teams are like this anyway); resign at the end of probation (90 days) and try to relocate back - I'd have to pay back all relocation benefits, and I doubt any company would take me seriously leaving FAANG to join a company for 90 days then applying again - as I said above about 50% of my career is 2 year tenure (startups, exits, bankruptcies, etc.) so doing this ultra-short tenure will definitely hurt my ability to get another job.

Apologies for not elaborating more or using a "stream-of-consciousness" writing style - I guess it conveys adequately my state of mind after having made this massive unforced error. I can give more details for good advice in return.
I haven’t really worked in closure for a while, but luminus was my go to web framework in the past.

https://luminusweb.com/
How the Car Came to LA
Thanks for your feedback! I’m not sure I’m following, but it’s always interesting to hear perspectives from people with different life experiences. Take care :)
Totally agree. “No great discoveries can be done by one man anymore,” seems like demoralization propaganda and it’s impossible to prove regardless.
Dark matter is not one theory, but a class of theories. The point of superfluid dark matter proposals is that it reproduces MOND dynamics, therefore it would explain these observations.
A few of tools you may find useful to aid in your searches [1][2][3] if you did not already have them.

[1] - https://bgp.he.net/ [click on the AS then the IPv4/IPv6 prefixes]

[2] - https://bgp.tools/

[3] - https://www.robtex.com/
The FLIP was a novelty, and there's really not a need to switch orientation now that ROVs are common. It lived and died as an outlier. Rest in peace, RP FLIP.
OK, but if someone's looking at you because of performance or whatever then having Netflix or YouTube open all day is not a good look.
Isn't this exactly what net neutrality laws are supposed to ban?
How do they know how much you scroll? Does this mean you get penalized in search results if you don't use Google Analytics?
No issues with FF for me. Probably the HN effect maybe?
Erling Haaland is younger than Mbappe.
> We cannot prevent it from being used for training, so the next logical step is to protect it the same way as we protect technology with patents.

Why not? Just say that using for training is considered derivative work, and that's it. Now copyright owners just have to update their license to allow for training if they want to, and that's solved. Of course, Big Tech makes less money from that scenario.

> I am certain that trying to ban LLMs, or dictating what and how is not the answer.

I wouldn't ban LLMs because of copyright issues, though I would let authors choose whether their IP can be used for training or not.

However, copyright is only one issue with LLMs. All the black hat use-cases are a whole other category of issues. And I am of the opinion that technology is not neutral: IMO, it is perfectly fine for a society to ban a technology if it believes that it is globally doing more harm than good.
I honestly thought that the CURIE was such a ridiculous idea in game I was shocked to find the FLIP really existed.
I had to go through this for my Mom an ex-pat in Israel. The account I was using was a joint-schwab account we had shared for 2 decades.

I mentioned to Schwab that she had passed and they froze the account until I could prove the estate was less than $14 Million. Needless to say this was a disaster as I was in a foreign country writing checks left and right.

The issue was that it was foreign addressed account of a US domiciled bank. The IRS places the liability of the taxes on the bank if the estate is over $12 Million. Schwab would recognise a letter from the IRS stating that or any US probate court. My Mom's estate with no US assets has no US based probate court access. The IRS rule was enacted after our joint-account was opened and blew up our estate plan.

Needless to say in 30 years I only had one problem with Schwab (which I had praised as the best bank ever until that moment). I have been unwinding all of my families Schwab accounts.
This is insightful. My father died 2 1/2 years ago, leaving my siblings and me with 6 houses and 3 commercial properties, all full--basement to ceiling--with junk (except one of the commercial properties, which was rented). "They are not interested in anyone else have [sic] a say in the matter," is exactly right. My dad wouldn't even have a conversation about it. He didn't get angry or anything, he just passively refused to engage. It's a gigantic mess for us to clean up now.

It was coupled, for my dad, with extreme frugality. He seemingly willfully deprived himself (and his family) of any fun or comfort by acquiring cheap versions of everything, or rigging up odd simulacrums of things, like the whole-house "air conditioner" he made from a cleaning bucket and some coffee cans. He bought a boat, then put such an underpowered motor on it that it was a joke. We had water skis, but they were rotted and just sat sadly against the wall, unusable.

Oh, my time's up? See you next week, doctor.
I understand your need to maintain profitability. However this pricing is structured for corporate. BYOVM home enthusiasts expect a flat fee that's easy to understand. Pricing based on hardware scaling isn't really acceptable for that market.
> how does one go about setting up this sort of system of cloud desktop?

Check out Windows 365 Enterprise. We have it configured for multiple regions in order to minimize latency. One AD security group per US state. Then, we set up an intune provisioning profile per region to map them through.

You can push custom images or take the default 10/11 builds. It seems to be working out really well for us. I run a heavy VS2022 workload all day and have no issues (4vCPU, 16gb, 128gb). Build times are definitely slower than my 32 core battleship, but that's to be expected.

I just checked my RTT stats in MS endpoint management and I am seeing ~18ms between my desktop and the actual desktop. The worst case we have right now is S Florida to N Virginia (US East) @ ~60ms, but they are adding a new region soon so hopefully we will have every employee well under 50ms over time.
Absolutely! I started using LunarVim packages+configs on top of neovim), looks like a couple of years ago according to my work notes, and the LSP has been a huge improvement in my editing.
82-88c is the right temperature after a short cool down since it's best brewed at around 93c. Unfortunately common sense does not apply in the US (law system).
Try opening this file with it

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
I have experienced all of these things as well, it's not luck that changed it but time and effort. Except meetups, never seen a real friendship come out of those.
Not that a big a deal, honestly.
A long time ago I dated someone whose Dad worked with nuclear weapons before the nuclear test ban was in place and at the height of the Cold War. At the time there was a saying that it would take less than a dozen nuclear weapons to destroy life on earth if detonated in the right location. Her Dad had told her that the number was more than a dozen but less than a hundred and was pleased to be one of the few that knew the exact number.

As for people dumb enough to make the weapons in large numbers (https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-doomsday-status-6-nucl...)
I literally did exactly this for the five best years of my life in my late 30s, early 40s. It was absolutely soul-destroying.
I hate when you click a search result and it doesn't even have the keyword(s) you searched...
Yes, if vim were unmaintained I would switch, that would be a reason to change. But it's not, or at very least hasn't been, so I haven't, that hasn't been a reason to.
Given that they live in the US/UK and not in Russia, yes.

As I understand it, the claim is not that the US/UK are as evil as Russia, or even more or less morally equivalent. The claim is that the US/UK hoover up online information just like Russia (maybe even more), and that they are more exposed to what the US/UK governments do than they are to what Russia does.

Without minimizing the misdeeds of Russia, without resorting to (false) moral equivalence, it's still a defensible point. (Mind you, I'm not sure I agree with it. But it's defensible.)
If you'd be willing I'd be interested to know more about how you did this.
Not those of us who gvim/MacVim.

Give a real alternative to those instead of the many quarter-implemented GUI shells that are really no better than running Electron, and the switch might be able to happen.
I think this is off. I bench 100kg x5 reps. I'm 39 and 105kg. Apparently that's a novice number despite putting me equal to guys in the 20s and well ahead of anyone else in my office. So I'd hope to be at least intermediate...
I never realized a tool I use every day was still being actively maintained. An endless amount of thanks to Bram Moolenaar, the many others that have contributed to it, and those that are now helping in the transition.

—-

As an aside, browsing this website on an iPad is terrible. It doesn’t respect my request to increase the font size, and when I zoom in, it starts moving and wrapping the text defeating the purpose of the zoom. That being said, the quote formatting and response is fantastic and how online communication should be.
Cool but doesn't fit minifigs? That seems like an odd choice of scale.
One of my all time favorite :-) Countless hours with a PS1 to get all gold medals (university years). I'd like to try the latest Wipeout Omega collection on PS4, pity they didn't create a version for PS5.

You can try it online from: https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/
Got an error trying to run upiano after installing FluidSynth via brew (brew install fluidsynth)

Had to use this technique to make it work: https://stackoverflow.com/a/75339618/5017391

Worked beautifully after.
General relativity is more fundamental than gravity. If general relativity breaks down, it completely redefines what we think gravity is. And much, much more -- practically everything beyond our solar system has to be reconsidered.
I don't think a short tenure at a job that's bad will hurt you.
I'd like to point out there's a time management / estimating angle to this as well.

Being excessively optimistic about how useful things will be, and how quickly they can be put to use, lead me to buy a lot of components at Radio Shack when I was a kid, for projects I never finished. I threw a lot of them away recently, along with many other purchases of stuff I never got around to. This scales to full on life disasters, or down to the boxes of parts.
That dude is probably quite wealthy.
Well, no, but it can speed up loading by reducing transfer.
The original video from the authors of inception runs on a zen4. But, the authors also claim that zen2 is vulnerable to the exploit.

However, in zen2, KASLR cannot be broken by inception, in a reasonable time. So, the authors proposed to install a kernel module to get the kernel address. Then, pass this address to the exploit:
https://github.com/comsec-group/inception/tree/master/incept...

From the practical point of view, it does not make sense to require the installation of a kernel module to get some information needed by the exploit. It's kind of a cheat. If I can install a kernel module, it means that I already have root access.

So, in my opinion, from the practical point of view KASLR is enough to mitigate inception in zen1,2. The authors claim that this architectures can be exploited it's an overstatement.
I think this is the real tragedy at the moment- it makes sense for content producers to switch to the highest bidder, and it makes sense for platforms like spotify to offer exclusive contracts. The end result is we all act rational and it still winds up worse for users- I don't really know what it would take for the incentives to change for the better?
Michel Lotito is in the Guinness World Records for having eaten 18 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, seven TV sets, six chandeliers, two beds, a pair of skis, a Cessna light aircraft and a computer.
Ain't it the truth. But does anyone care? Not those who spread the debt over 10 or 20 years, not those who are heavily subsidized by grants, artificially low interest, or debt forgiven. Not those who can't understand the obtuse college bills. Not those who have no choice when low entry jobs require college degrees because high schools graduate illiterates. No end user cost shopping leads to spending like there's no tomorrow. At one state school campus I heard one student dean state matter of factly that she had thousands of employees reporting just to her. These were simply managers of various student group extracurriculars. What ???!
I have a dumb question. People often talk about low unemployment as though it means a recession is less likely. But a) unemployment is a lagging indicator and b) a local minimum is what happens before an increase. So by the latter logic I guess we should be looking at the first and second derivative of the unemployment rate, although the signal is too noisy to say anything in real time. Or if we had some idea of what the unemployment rate would bottom out, that could mark the beginning of a recession (nowhere to go but up).

We can only guess at that, though the current unemployment rate of 3.5 is as low as its been in 50 years (give or take 0.2%). So to me that seems like a recession is likely going to happen this year or next. Plus the yield curve has been inverted for awhile. The only major objection I can think of is that COVID has just had a very strong impact and economic indicators may still be out of whack.

So what's wrong with my thinking?
It's where the content is
The problem with that attitude is what you do with the information that at least one out of 20 million (US) healthcare workers has committed a privacy infraction.

Yes, it was wrong for that one person to do that. Yes, they should face appropriate consequences in order to attempt to make the victim whole, to change their own behavior, and to serve as a warning/deterrent to reduce the probability that their peers will make the same mistake.

But one infraction does not mean that people should stop going to the doctor; that harm is a negligible, infinitesimal fraction of the benefit that medical professionals provide to our society. A news article warning about "Doctors on TikTok" will, at the margins, cause some people to not seek care they need, and can cause far more harm than one instance of this behavior.
You can share all the true examples you want. But 19th century France and 20th century America have completely different economic models. So we can't understand that purely by studying French literature.
> you believe they justify the outrage for this particular project.

No, I believe it explains it.

> it will make the dismissiveness you predict a self-fulfilling prophecy.

That's the thing: both parties need to listen to each other. The problem here is not this particular project, but the fact that we are not addressing the bigger concern which is LLMs.

IMHO, it is completely useless to try to solve this particular case, because it will happen over and over again. We need to address the LLM issue.
> The server at www.randomhacks.net works, but the server at randomhacks.net, on the other hand (and which is not the same as www.randomhacks.net), is for whatever reason failing to respond to the HTTP request. Reasonable guess: it's not a Web server.

Yes, the entire setup is ancient. The www site is a static using CloudFlare, which (IIRC) needed a CNAME at the time, and CNAMEs did not work nicely with "bare" domains. The bare domain pointed to an actual server which did stuff, including serving a redirect on port 443. But that server is gone now.

I could fix this but it's way down the list after several major home projects. Besides, I come from an era where it was assumed that the www host was a dedicated machine. ;-)
> these are not 'normal' rentals and imo should be excluded from stats

At least, they should use the median rather than the average.
Every time I've tried it, something was missing or broken. Currently it's at least :! which breaks apparently because it tries to do something ‘clever’ and complicated, whereas vi and vim just run the command.

(I can live without cscope, since I no longer do significant C and mlcscope has been dead for aeons, though it's shocking that LSPs are still less capable in some respects.)
Understandable; the reason I said "thousands for RAM" was because when I made that sentence, I put the theoretical RAM and GPU prices together. Oh well.
Its inter silo-warfare, the microsoft antivirus regularly detects and reports the operating system spyware?
It may be free to use... that's not the same as "in the public domain".

And I did not fabricate it. It was directly from your link, without so much as scrolling. They have a 4 point list of ways for things to be in the public domain (and it's bad... like "wasn't renewed" is identical to "letting copyright expire", just because the law previously allowed renewal doesn't make that a special category).

> Sometimes an author deliberately chooses not to protect a work

Which isn't public domain. It's something else entirely.

When a work is in the public domain, the author can't choose to protect it. Only the government can do this, and they made no provision for authors to choose to put works in the public domain.

If the author can change his mind (or his descendants), then it is not and never was in the public domain. It is an important distinction, one which failure to understand it has the potential to cause grief.
I don't know if it counts as hoarding, but my great grandfather fought for Germany on the Western Front in WWI and then lived through WWII in southern Germany. In 1950 my grandparents were able to get him to NY where he lived with them until he died. When he died they cleaned out his room (which he kept very tidy) and found food hidden in various places -- cans underneath clothes in dressers and behind books on shelves, Hershey bars under the mattress, etc. I guess he had lived through some stuff and wasn't going to be caught out ever again.
If the CIA/NSA spies on you what would a plausible bad outcome look like?

If the Chinese government spies on you and finds some behavior it finds unacceptable your social credit tanks and you cant travel, send your children to a good school....
This is my biggest hurdle as well. The UI not being part of the core is a non-starter for me and I have tried several of the neovim ones.
I’m a minor hoarder of stuff. Mainly because of a few reasons:

- “Never know when I might need it”.

- Selling things sucks. The market is really unpleasant. Even donating things is a challenge, find an interested recipient, and arranging transportation. And then throwing things away is morally corrupt.

- It’s a sign of failure. A failure to fully utilise an object, a failure to pursue a hobby, an interest, a commitment. So I just keep it, because I haven’t yet failed if I still have the potential.
We are quite a few anesthesiologists on HN it seems.
Tangential to a serious hoarding disorder, but relevant to the audience: I think it would be interesting to have a discussion here about tech-specific hoarding. Personally, every time I dig through a box in the garage and find that cable that I don't need to buy and wait for, the volume goes up on the voice saying not to ditch the next thing. Or when I use an old laptop to play with a new distro or set up a server.

But, there is a cost to all of that stuff. Monetarily because I have paid for moving and storing all those boxes over the years, but more so the mental tax of "I should really use these 5 extra laptops that aren't worth enough to bother ebaying but I can't just throw them out because someone else (that I don't know and have no easy way of getting in contact with) could use them and darnit I spent lots of money on this crap."

The best solution for me was taking the time to reduce all of those boxes of cables/parts/etc down to one well organized box. It was actually much easier than I thought. So much of it was old tech that I would never realistically use like SCSI/parallel/serial cables, etc. For everything I kept, I grouped like items together and put them into ziplock bags so I could easily see inside. Now, instead of dreading the box dig, I find it gratifying. The laptops and old phones are still a problem and I keep thinking that I'd run into some techie kid who would use them, but I think that techie kids these days are into different stuff...
Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?
The US based financial industry is a make work project for bankers as far as I can tell. The US creates all sorts of classification of money causing the need for at least 3 retirement account types, a college savings account per Child per contributor.

I'm only scratching the surface of the number and types of accounts an American can have. It is also useful to have different banks for different services.