skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [Milei] ... thinks climate change is a lie, characterizes sex education as a ploy to destroy the family, believes the sale of human organs should be legal and wants to make it easier to own handguns.

Yes, all very moderate views in 2023
Damn you made my day with the Mass Effect reference. Just happens I bought the legendary edition over the weekend to ahem get my kids into it too!
Off-topic for this thread, but one of the most poignant quips I remember about Google culture was that the performance-review process was really good at rewarding hard, challenging work that didn't produce much value and not very good at recognizing work that produced lots of value but was not astoundingly difficult. I think you were the one who first noted this.
You’re misunderstanding my point, and your history is off. Rent control did not follow NYC to its housing crisis, NYC went through an extremely dark period of underinvestment and crime from the 1970s to the early 1990s, independent of housing. And in fact, during that time, we went from 2 million rent controlled units to 22,000 today. And I never proposed “complete public financing for virtually all new housing,” that is a bad faith way of debating me, to put words in my mouth. I said the government should be an available lender to ensure to incentivize the building of new units, and to encourage private investment. Which exists right now with governmental companies like NYC HPD. If you had any domain expertise at all, you’d know that, instead of making strawman arguments.
Also includes people that are/were alcoholics and so _now_ don't drink.
Unfortunately that trend is going international as I see other countries also starting to buy up huuuuge SUVs etc.

My childhood in NZ was like, medium sized perfectly reasonable Japanese cars on the road, some small-ish (by American standards) utes where people needed to haul a month's worth of groceries back to the farm. Now everyone & their Mum is driving an SUV in the UK (where I'm living now) and this is made even more obscene by the narrow, historic roads here.

And you look at the inside of these plush, rounded range rovers designed not for crawling up a mountain but the urban commute and if you're lucky enough to spot one not being driven by a single occupant (also common), expecting ridiculous cargo and passenger space and...no, they've just somehow managed to fill the space with more nothing. 2-2.5 tonnes of nothing. A >3L engine to move your nothing around.

Even American friends of mine here agree & laugh at "oh v6/v8 is common and they're 3-7L and yet aren't really that efficient at making power".
Seems to me this might be plain old intimidation. The folks involved, which includes the Police Chef, see that somebody is leaking information to the press and a trying very hard to find they leak(s). Since they can't figure out who, and the press isn't publishing anything they are cranking up the heat.

In both cases he says that they are investigating allegations. In fact, at one point it is said, they turned over information to the police because they thought it might be related to a civil matter (somebody's divorce). They don't feel they have enough information to make the allegations public.

Something never change but the semantics, police are trying to find the leak, IMHO.
See: priority

Something being a problem for someone doesn't mean it's a priority.

Poor people will never prioritize global warming. They will always have more urgent priorities. This is one reason why environmentalism under capitalism is absolutely doomed.
It is not about oxygen, it is about catecholamine depletion via a decrease in BH4

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ham.2015.29000.stg
I was speaking from anectodal evidence because I've been feeling my 1080p streams look worse than before the new option showed up.

But it seems I'm mistaken [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/23/23612647/youtube-1080p-pr...
Hmm, is AR's Migration framework not a migration manager?
Yep. The upcoming Veilid Chat app is in Flutter.
Presumably one of those Data Scientist instances is meant to be Data Engineer?
I don't think we can expect businesses to solve problems without any business upside. I don't hold that against any company. That means needing some amount of scale in order to justify the work and opportunity cost.
I agree we should strive to see originals in person.

Other than this, I think a book is almost better educational than the alternative at the museum. Usually, the object is sitting there with a tiny text explaining nothing (mixed medium, untitled).

Audio-guides are usually horrible. Multimedia explanations are very often as interactive as a powerpoint; many interactive, if present, elements are broken.

Only good guided tours (not constantly available) seem to provide good educational value. Other than this I either: knew exactly what I was going to see; I saw some objects/painting, and only later, reading in books, I appreciated why they were interesting.
Software that does not run in the browser can do even worse things (that are not possible in a browser): it could access (and upload) arbitrary files other than just the PDF file(s) you gave it access to, it could set up things that stay running even after you close it (like a virus or keylogger), etc — so you need to verify/trust the developer or run it inside a sandbox, and the same is true for in-browser software. At least with a browser, the tools needed for monitoring and disabling network access (dev tools) are built-in to the browser (e.g. don't have to separately install Little Snitch).

One thing that seems worse with software-on-a-webpage is the risk of malicious behaviour getting added later (this is also possible with non-browser software with automatic "updates"): you could mitigate it, if you trust or have verified one particular version of such a webpage, by saving the HTML file (put it in a Dropbox folder say) and opening the file (maybe with network disabled), whenever you need to use it. But then you lose the advantage of "don't have to install anything"; it's a trade-off.
You are right. Those not killed within a week's time were sent to to concentration camps. Many were forced labor (slave) and then moved to death camps.when they could no longer work. My apologies for being unclear.
If you compare the Android from 2008 and the Android from 2023 then you'd soon agree that within these 15 years, the whole thing was re-invented multiple times.

And I'm not talking the UX, which has already changed substantially, but I mean the underpinnings.
You witnessed the crash? Care to elaborate on that? Sounds very interesting!
I can show you the assembly language for a loop and a function call in a dozen instructions. What is the assembly language for a monad?

our hypothetical Blub programmer

This is all patronizing rationalization to believe that people aren't picking someone else's favorite language because they "just aren't smart enough to get it".

Programming is hard enough without constantly trying to make languages themselves a silver bullet. Fancy macros, fance meta programming, 'pure mathematics' etc. never equals productivity over the long term. Library writers can get away with it, but simplicity wins overall because people can focus on making programs and making tools surrounding the language.

Lisp and Haskell were influential, but that doesn't make them good tools by modern standards. They had ideas that made it into other programming languages and that's enough. They did their jobs. Haskell has major programs with controlling order of execution because it pretends it can be abstracted away.

"The Secret Weapon" behind the success of Viaweb

Haskell users always talk about the same handful of programs that no one would have heard about if they weren't made in haskell.

Meanwhile 90% of software that people actually use is basically made in C++, python and javascript. The languages aren't perfect, but when people sit down to program they can move past the language and actually write software.
“a secret police with extrajudicial powers”

Ever hear of how the IRS targeted certain political groups?
That's a good heads up, thanks! Additionally, If I recall correctly, there was a 30 days deadline involved. So, time is of the essence. (disclosure, I'm NOT a legal expert)
Android ignores any IPv4 DNS address it gets if it gets an IPv6 address. Instead it falls back to Google's own DNS servers. So if you got Android devices in your house, you need to configure a IPv6 DNS server. AFAIK a IPv4 DHCP server can't hand out a IPv6 DNS address.
I can't see how making that statement undermines the rest of the argument. It would help if you could clarify that relationship.

And I'm not sure I understand why, if you can't distinguish them, the distinction is unimportant. It's hard to distinguish an edible mushroom from a poisonous one and yet making that distinction makes a huge difference.

Interviews are definitely a limited tool to do so btw, this is only something that you realize over time. It's also very easy to play an interviewer if the interviewee's soft skills are better than the interviewer's (which happens often in this industry).
With Louie.ai, there is a lot of work on specialization for the job, and I expect the same for others. We help with data analysis, so connecting enterprise & common data sources & DBs, hooking up data tools (GPU visuals, integrated code interpreter, ...), security controls, and the like, which is different from say a ChatGPT for lawyers or a straight up ChatGPT UI clone.

Technically, as soon as the goal is to move beyond just text2gpt2screen, like multistep data wrangling & viz in the middle of a conversation, most tools technically struggle. Query quality also comes up, whether quality of the RAG, the fine tune, prompts, etc: each solves different problems.
Amazon famously mandated such internal services at one point:

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

This was rather a long time ago now so I wouldn't be surprised if things have changed since then, though having never worked at Amazon I wouldn't know one way or the other.
Everyone has been that demon at one point or other (even Apple -- the "look and feel" lawsuits that are a bit before your time).

I was thinking the other day about how sure I was that MySQL was toast as soon as Oracle acquired Berkeley DB and InnoDB, and then how sure I was it would be hobbled when they acquired Sun and got the whole shebang.

What happened, actually, is that MySQL got better and better, with only a few annoying Oracley missteps along the way (permissions structure changes in a minor release for example).

But what matters in that story is that Oracle vs (big bad) Google was substantially decided for Google, despite what Oracle (and Microsoft) wanted. Because it limits Oracle's power to use the MySQL APIs against competitors in the same way as it limits their ability to use them against Java competitors.

This is what I mean: these are big competing interests. We are small interchangeable customers and consumers. It's worth avoiding investing belief in any of them.
You're in a pretty good position, actually. Don't blow it. Make sure that you don't lose your partner and keep trying - you'll eventually succeed. Make some demo project (but don't get sucked into it - set a hard deadline) and keep applying to junior positions - you'll work your way up.
>eating disorders, self-harm, illegal firearms and drugs like fentanyl. Lawmakers are trying to combat online child sex abuse material too

Eating disorders: No. It's not illegal.

Self-harm: No. It's not illegal.

Illegal firearms: Ok.

Fentanyl: Ok if it's illegally produced.

Child sex abuse: Ok.

Just follow existing laws.
Fun fact, she wasn't even elected. My understanding is that she was an appointee to an open seat.
I used sqitch to have very explicit tests for procedures, written in PL/pgSQL. Worked great though writing that code was a little weird due to lack of IDE support I'm used to in any other language. Could take it even further with pgTAP.
Yeah and I think an issue is how engineers think vs other people. What maybe seen as rude or negative is just an engineer optimizing for efficiency or technical correctness. Other people then tend to take things personally and attach emotion to situations where they are having to be corrected.

I have this play out repeatedly in my personal life. I've found I have to simply let people do the wrong things or fail a little bit and gently guide solutions. Otherwise there will be emotional pushback that entrenches their position.
Betteridge's Law. First!

The big social media depend on free speech and publisher immunity, change that and you change what social media is at a fundamental level.
LOL
Zoom will soon start coworking spaces in order to enable people to make meetings. And they will say this is innovation!
Most of that is in their equity comp which is quite weird in how it works. So those numbers are highly inflated. The equity is valuable only if you sell it or if OpenAI makes a profit. Selling it might be harder given they're not a public company. On top of that, the profit is capped so there is a limit to how much money can be made from it. So while it's 900k on paper, in reality, it might not be as good as that.
https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
I think they hit pretty hard. I remember some hardcore arguments with buddies that work at google when I told them that based on google's behavior layoffs are going to happen (this was 3-6 months before google did their first layoffs in history). I was brushed off with "google would not do that" and "our culture us different". It was heartbreaking to hear how their view on google transformed after layoffs did happen.
Yes and just like all tech companies.. Google steals from smaller companies to the dreamers they inspired to invent and create.

Sonos: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739273/google-sonos-sma...

A MIT student: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929

I met them (they were horribly unprofessional) in 2013 around time Sonos did to discuss my audio syncing tech. Best to steal tech then bother investing into R&D. Quickest way to make more money .. steal .. spend less and make more.
This is not a big data problem. This isn’t even a small data problem.

Bus routes can be figured out with a paper and pencil in a few hours. I can’t possibly understand the level of incompetence required to get this wrong.

Bus drivers don’t need to “practice routes”. Even if they get a turn wrong, the worst is a few minute delay.
As someone else said, it's the inequality that matters. People don't die by suicide from being poor, they do it because of the low self-esteem poverty causes when you're around many people doing better than you. Many very poor countries have suicide rates much lower than the US.

Mountain towns have about the biggest class dichotomy that I've seen anywhere between the wealthy and the "help." Unlike many other places, they're all in close proximity.
>real human labour to replace the AI

ah yes, AAI (Artificial-AI) AKA I (Intelligence), or "Crowdsourcing" if you're looking to use an older buzzword. I do think there's a few models trained on sponsorblock already, but they're not great.
Apologies - fair enough. I can't quite tell if that is a genuine set of three alternatives or not[0], but I sort of see your point. Couple of unsure places:

> Think ACID. Most systems don't do this because it's expensive/complicated.

Is this true? A lot of systems are built on databases.

> Accurate: Whatever you do has no corrupted state

How does accuracy work if the system is distributed and there's a partition, and two node get different data? Presumably it's reliable if they're different, as accuracy is a different item?

> Fast: You can do whatever you want quickly. Think UDP, or filesystems that don't commit their log journal frequently. Tends not to be reliable or accurate.

Why wouldn't this be reliable?
I don't know if it is normal or not, but it certainly shouldn't be.
> Apple has undergone a similar ossification.

> I think it's just something that happens to companies that get a certain size. The Process becomes more important than the Product.

Why change it if it's working well? Keep doing what you are good at, keep being the best in the world/market at this, and the customers will reward you.

I seriously don't understand the common theme here in these threads saying that Google is basically stagnating. Why do they need to churn out a major new product every other year to stay relevant? They continuously re-vamp their entire stack, their data centers, their networks. Nothing ever stays as it is. As a user I actually find that things change too much. (But I'm not what counts, it's ad revenue that counts..)
It is so frustrating that people have such a hard time that our mood can be effected by anything other than emotional inputs.

It has nothing to do with isolation, it has to to how living in a place that does not match our genetics effects us as biologically animals.

This effect is revealing the fact that people ho were genetically adapted to live ate low altitudes should not live at high altitudes.
For the sake of transparency it was explained to me that the title was too "link baity" and that the comment section was a bit too heated. I appreciate the explanation and I agree this kind of moderation is, unfortunately, required to keep things civil and constructive.
The default for `convert.py` is F32. This is just SIMD CPU comparison.

Jlama uses the vector api in java20 but also better thread scheduling with work stealing and zero allocation.
Yes, I work for Fortanix. I have added my email in my account. Please let me know if anything else is needed. I could not update my comment... Otherwise, I am happy to update my original comment as well.
The Streisand Effect is a real bitch, ain't it...

Traumatizing a 98yo woman to death also doesn't help the police's image.
Okay, so you need to set up some scaffolding/bookkeep some metadata. Still not impossible.
Are Denver and SLC considered remote? My own city is about at sea level, but by car the next closest cities are 3 hours to the north, 6 hours to the east, and 9 hours to the south. I’d say we are more remote, despite being at a much lower elevation.
>> If Tesla makes a mistake in their autopilot software, people might die.

In this case, a good "Testing on Production" rule would be to not let customers test your software, period.

There's plenty of land and resources to construct towns and cities that simulate real-life commute very accurately.

In the case of self-driving (or even autopilot), you're not really testing a feature, you're researching a new product, they difference is vast.
I stopped reading on this:

"On the federal level, the Democrats have found endless resources to bail out the banks and fund their plans for World War III against Russia and China."

Really? I hate all politicians equally, but IIRC, the first big bank bailout was by Republicans, and the next big bank bailout will be by whichever party is in power. Both of them pander to banks.
The quality of what exactly?

Google's massive internal processes and systems are the result of having already been huge for many years. Google needed the time and resources to build them up. They're not the cause of Google's becoming huge in the first place.

Of course the quality of Google's external search results helped Google achieve a monopoly. Ironically, many people say that Google's search results have been getting worse, and I'd have to agree with that sentiment.

See also the list of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
This aligns with my similar theory (lack of O2 leads to depression) that was born from observations of yoga, meditation and walking all forced people to breath more air through breath work, exercises or going outside, lead to better mental health outcomes.

I am going to assume that in urban vs rural areas that is a similar effect from air pollution.

But all my doctors have been inclined to give me pills for depression, and aren't interesting in exploring the relationship with O2.
C++: Just write Assembly
Show HN: Netflix Recommendation Ignore Extension
An extension that hides your watched videos from the Netflix recommendation algorithm
The percentage of time spent at home would vary too much from person to person anyway, whereas percentage of time spent in the county of one's home is much more homogenous.
I would really like to see what Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, the original creators of Stack Overflow, have to say about the current state of affairs. Their business model was recruiting by identifying people with specific skills, and it was effective. I hired and was hired that way.

(They sold it years ago to a South African private equity venture and made the pile of money they deserved.)
There's garbage collection algorithms that do one, the other, or a combination. It depends mostly on what constraints you have, though yes, high-performance GC mostly looks for the reachable set.
The way it's supposed to work is that acquired teams get lots of support on integration, including readability. This helps your team get integrated into writing Google-style code. Not sure why that didn't work out in this case?

(Left Google a year ago)
I'm curious if they controlled for sunlight then. I'm in a mountainous area and many areas (like where my house is) have mountains blocking sunlight for multiple hours in a day. Couple that with being in a wooded area and even some summer days can feel dark and gloomy. But in my case, being surrounded by nature far outweighs the lack of light in terms of depression.
Do you mind reflecting a bit on your use of Copilot? I've been trying it out, but I haven't found it to be particularly helpful.

I really find it to be more annoying than helpful. The mental burden of figuring out what the code is actually doing when a large chunk appears is exhausting, and it leaves me with a false level of understanding similar to the feeling of competency you get when you type out a tutorial's examples.

Underwhelming is how I'd describe my experience with ChatGPT too. There are so many people making claims of ridiculously improved efficiency, that I'm really unsure if it's me or not.
True, except for the every-kid part. The market was pretty fragmented back then.

Nonetheless, I was referring to the sales pitch. And Jobs never let facts get in the way of a good story. :-)
Acerbic insight. However, what did you mean precisely by the community being a “scientific” one?
As a desktop user I dislike Flutter apps because they have high input latency (at least in Firefox), and their UI is always mobile-first so it strongly clashes with expectations and capabilities of a desktop.
https://archive.is/xfXSv
I know Paypal receives a lot of hate but for these type of things is great. You can start a suscription with Paypal and then disable it from Paypal very easily.
It makes me sad because MuseScore is actually a good software (at least for learning music notation). I was tempted to pay them but I read horror stories here and there.