skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: flexible, London or Paris (France)

Remote: flexible, I'm very much office friendly but I like some remote blocks in summer and December

Willing to relocate: yes to Paris, France

Technologies: Python, Clojure, Java, AWS, Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, React, Avro, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-yuxuan/

GitHub: https://github.com/piotr-yuxuan

Email: hn-hired@2bst.fr

My dream position:

- Business impact: always a business case to improve things with lower latency, higher availability, better scalability, lower operational costs. What some businesses really need is just a static webpage in Cloudfront: I want more.

- Corporate structure: a result-driven company that welcomes innovation. I'm happy with either large enterprises that move slowly or small nimble start-up, each has different strengths :-)

- Technical mindset: bottom-up tech design, right tool for the right job. Client-oriented design. Revenue-oriented & business-focused, it should matter from day 0. No abstraction is better than bad abstraction. Let free patterns emerge from organic growth.

- Technical landscape: data-intensive systems that can be relied upon, with strong business-relevant needs for performance, reliability, durability, and resilience.

- Team dynamics: engineers have and share areas of responsibility. No echo chamber or ivory-tower architect. All of us are collectively accountable for systems maintenance and architecture.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740425
Try again with "authentic." Several matches in the summary alone. Granted, OP should not have put "authenticity" in quotes.
Fair enough, still a single household solution.
This is a prisoner dilemma situation.

Both Microsoft and Google abuse their position, they could shut up about it, but instead it looks like Microsoft is defecting. I wonder if Google intends to counterattack. What Google does with Android, Microsoft does it with Windows, but worse.
> the first lesson they drive home is to talk to users and ship product. Build tech isn’t on that list.

That's the perennial mystery of Y :) - how is it even possible to ship product before building the tech?
Which state governments are reimplementing Jim Crow and how?
I’m “semi” retired via the FIRE path after a decade of FAANG. It was always my plan to retire early after reading Cryptonomicon in college and learning about the concept of “fuck you money”. I’ve been spending my time learning random topics and still writing code. I’m thinking about going back to work again because things are ramping up in the AI and VR space but it’s hard to find a job at a company working on bleeding edge technology that will not require me to work 40+ hours a week.

I fully support the idea of early retirement via FIRE. Even if a person doesn’t decide to actually retire, having the freedom to do so is an amazing feeling. Similarly, the current freedom I have to continue being semi-retired, go back to work, or just sit around playing video games feels amazing. It makes the insane amount of effort that I put in for a decade worth it.
Good idea. What happens when math uncovers something in the social sciences that you don't like or people will find offensive?
I hope this has been tested by now, but not sure:

Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU
I was wondering whether or not this would go "mainstream". Kind of wild to see the Times pick up this story.
No I am not confused about getting testimony from competitors. I am very interested in hearing from companies that probably have legitimate grievances: DDG, Kagi, Brave, etc. MS is not among those companies.
One doesn't usually opt for AWS when their goal is to reduce transfer costs.
The video component does not always know how long a video is.
We assessed the accuracy of predictive policing software
Land value taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Also, get rid of 1031 exchange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_section_...
From the analysis I saw in Sweden, the conclusions was that the wast majority of deaths were caused by failures in the elderly care. The pandemic spread like wildfire by the overworked personal who did not get protective gear or time to keep health standards. Some did not even have time to wash their hands between patients. The wast majority of housing for elderly is also located near the capital, similar to Copenhagen in Denmark, resulting in major hot spots for the virus. The government body responsible for supervision and control over healthcare also came to the conclusion that care for the elderly had critical flaws during the pandemic, with only half of patients meeting a doctor in person and as high as 1/5 of patients never even got to talk to a doctor.

None of the international discussions about restrictions has been about restrictions around elderly care. Sweden did actually issue some, which some described as prison-like for those impacted, but that was about a year into the pandemic. It was also seen as too late, with vaccine and proper staff/gear/protocols being more effective tools.
> with which a lot of people play games (i want to build a secure home, i want to get the best items)

By your rubric, “I want to build a home” isn’t a game either, since you can’t win it. You just eventually stop, or move on to something else.

> Also, rules of games can be defined not only by the creator of a game. There are also social rules

Sure, but that makes your argument weaker—“game” vs “toy” is not just a statement about the thing itself anymore, but a combination of the thing, and the social environment it is played in, if a toy can become a game in a specific social environment, or a game can become a toy.

Basically, I don’t think that the distinction you’re making is well defined or meaningful.
> The best way I've found to kill them is to use an inverted air-duster spray, where the cold liquid propellant instantly freezes them before they release their malodorous oil.

This also works instantaneously on all sorts of household pests, including roaches.
Archaeologists Uncover 9,500-Year-Old Woven Baskets and Europe’s Oldest Sandals
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I agree that would feel pretty artificial, if we understand it the utilitarian way.

But Wilhelm Reich doesn't really follow a utilitarian calculus. I.e., for him pleasure is not the equal yet opposite of unpleasure. Rather, the calculus is one of material tension and release, or intensity, which I think you get at quite well in your example.

And yeah, if Marx, Bataille, and Spinoza are called philosophers, I guess we can call this a philosophical thought as well. Though it certainly reaches beyond the bounds of philosophy into psychoanalysis, biology, and cybernetics.
Innovation Modeling Grid
I think of it more as a "right to rewrite history".

"He who controls the past controls the present, and he who controls the present controls the future."
Why is it normal in the Typescript community to rely on a lot of other SaaS providers to build a simple application?

This project relies on 4 different paid services. Why?

Why do you need a SaaS to handle your auth, mailing, database, and logging?

Aren't there libraries for these things in Typescript? Why pay for them?
In an antitrust trial your competitors are by definition victims of the monopolistic behavior that is being alleged. Yes, there will be a conflict of interest in their testimony that needs to be accounted for, but it's not unreasonable for the victim in a court case to testify of the manner in which they feel victimized.

Regarding your analogy, it would be more like if you're accused of stealing from your arch rival. Should they be barred from testifying against you on the grounds that there's bad blood between you? Certainly not! It's up to your lawyer to demonstrate their bias and persuade the jury to ignore their testimony.
That is pretty horrible. For comparison purposes......

Top 10 Countries with the Lowest Infant Mortality Rate (UNICEF 2020 - deaths per 1,000 live births):

Iceland — 1.54

San Marino — 1.56

Estonia — 1.65

Slovenia — 1.76

Norway — 1.79

Japan — 1.82

Singapore — 1.85

Finland — 1.88

Montenegro — 1.95

Sweden — 2.15

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/infant-mo...
That feels like a rather misleading analogy, as learning to read sheet music is the cornerstone of music pedagogy.
If you want to do that, I have a model trained specifically on a dataset of building recursive summaries. Some of my training documents are 40-50k tokens.

https://huggingface.co/Tostino/Inkbot-13B-8k-0.2

Just chunk your document up, and pass in the prior summary along with this chunk of text, you can mention that it is chunk X of Y if you want (which can help with how it starts the summary often).
Same lol
Fair few that make living as musicians and not entertainers.
In my opinion, the issue here lies entirely with the Australian government. International airlines including Qatar have been trying to buy additional slots into major Australian airports, but have been turned down with some pretty questionable reasoning around “protecting the Australian aviation industry” (see: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/qantas-qatar-airways-... )

Meanwhile Qantas - a private company, who took over a billion AUD in government support during Covid are expected to pay the outgoing CEO over 20 million AUD in bonuses.

Having flown several times between Qatar and Australia in the last couple years, I don’t think I’ve had a single flight that wasn’t completely booked out. In comparison to the following legs to Europe which have been more like 75% full.

There is a real need for additional capacity on these routes (for those outside of Australia, the gulf countries, Hong Kong and Singapore are the most popular layover countries for Australians travelling to Europe, Africa and Asia due to their location) and the way I see it is that Qatar acknowledge that, tried to buy additional capacity and failing that have had to come up with some creative solutions to work around a government that values a sub-standard flag carriers profits over what’s best for the Australian consumer.
> The thief used the proceeds to finance a luxurious lifestyle, the judge said…and ordered him to repay the roughly $63,000 he got from the sale.

So on an average, he stole $31,500 a year to finance his “luxurious” lifestyle.
You can turn on end to end encryption without scanning. Apple did. And Apple's modified key escrow ruled out end to end encryption. End to end means end to end. Not end to back door.

Known CSAM hashes is incorrect. The sources of the hashes are known to contain false positives. And true positives are not limited to depictions of sexual abuse.
This was a great write up! But the gut-wrenching moment was seeing the old iOS interface in all its skeuomorphic glory. Jesus, how much I hate John Ive!
Some standard for storing or otherwise representing the keyboard layout in hardware would be nice. Or at least some kind of identifier that says what kind of keyboard it is enough to build a table of the most common layouts.

Hell, while we're dreaming here, it'd be nice to have OS-level support for telling which devices keypresses come from so you can have a different layout on every connected keyboard or even turn extra keyboards into macro pads. (I've seen some setups like this, each with varying levels of jank.)
I can buy this argument for Apple, but Google? To me it seems like there is an intuitive split between Search+Ads, GSuite, YouTube, and Android. Why do you believe breaking these up would adversely affect the US economy?
Sirch

A new AI search engine that's democratic.

Some opinions:
- Most queries don't require a list of links. Some do.
- Most lists of links should be curated by trusted experts.
- There should be a way to flip between the results.
- A good mission statement for a filing cabinet is "organize the world's information".
- The correct mission statement is solve the need.
- The only way to do this is democratically. Can't do this alone.
- One company in this space is crazy.

josh@sirch.org
The top comment there is somewhat vacuous? Rephrased, "if we want the absolute best education, we will either pay for after school efforts, move to a wealthier place, or send to an expensive private school." That... is the same as it has been for a long long time.

Would we like better? I mean... yeah. Hard to say no to that one. What is "better," though? So much of education discussion is dominated by talk of things that "used to work," only, they probably didn't actually work that well.
To give the benefit of the doubt to the court, it might be justifiable on the grounds that the big tech giants form an oligopoly, i.e. that they aren't really competing businesses so much as a half-formal conglomerate of corporations whose separateness is a legal fiction to ward off antitrust.

But I share your confusion. The case for Microsoft and Google being part of an oligopoly together doesn't really hold water, considering that Google appears to be competing with Microsoft in the consumer market for web browsers, operating systems, office productivity software, and machine learning.
Why shouldn't MS be in that group? Google pay far above the mark to be default search in FF, and own the most popular web browser.
Should presumably be possible to support bcachefs too?
Grails test isn't for somatic mutations but cancer specific DNA methylation patterns. DNA methylation is slightly more challenging to work with due to how the methylation is identified from sequencing data. There's a chemical of enzymatic step to convert unmethylated bases to another base. In humans it's usually unmethylated cytosines to thymines. The analysis is also more complicated but mostly standard now. Nonetheless, DNA methylation has proven to be very useful for liquid biopsies.
Ah yes, just like the New Math.
Well stated. And my point is only that day-to-day computing changes in character when your primary computing device is a consumption device. This was a big shift from desktops/laptops to smartphones as primary computation devices, but Blackberry showed a "working prototype" of a form factor that might not have guaranteed such a shift.
I'm remembering the first year there all these red wings at the bottom of a tree near the local school. Then I saw the praying mantis on the tree.

Anyway, agreed there are far fewer of them in my suburban neighborhood now ... the forests (and most of the deer) are a few blocks away.
Syncthing uses block syncing, so I imagine it would work well, although I haven't tried.
Yeah, all that is bad, but those consequences are already here aren't they? Restricting further research just means it will be done in clandestine government labs like chemical or biological weapons except with equipment costs orders of magnitude lower. I can imagine policies that would save the jobs of voice actors, but none that would prevent the wave of deepfake propaganda that is coming.
Interesting. I've actually been thinking of that issue lately, since it seems an unavoidable problem (to my limited perspective on this field) - how do you avoid those test questions being spread around the internet and making their way into training data? Do you come up with new questions every time? Can you look for such data before training and remove it?

Is there any reason to believe this issue is more inherent to Mistral, other than because Meta and the like have a larger reputation? Has Meta released the relevant information about their training data and evaluation?
Don’t get crazy now. If we go down this route we might start expecting working programmers to achieve basic mastery of the predicate calculus.
My go to orange juice question is pulp or no pulp
Location: Bali, Indonesia

Remote: Yes (US or EU time zone)

Willing to relocate: No

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Is the typography really that beautiful? The kerning on "Windows" looks really off to me.
A couple of thoughts: Brave started out with crypto, Kagi uses Google's API for results. Brave Search is at least independent and not reliant on Google.
Nice. Straightforward article with clear numbers. Really rooting for Kagi.
That number must be a typo in the original article. The total from 3 sales adds up to €81,495.
Who Tracks the Trackers? Circumventing Apple's Anti-Tracking Alerts (2021)
It's a statement of fact and science versus psychology.
Can you talk a little about why you replaced Haskell as your language of choice?
If you mean being trapped in a job, that's not an issue often because the pay is bad

no i mean the risk for the employer spending money on training and then loosing the employee before they can recoup the investment.
Kagi as been taking 2+ seconds over the past week and has felt at bit laggy for me (currently on the trial)

It was very fast earlier this month though!
The aspect ratio is the problem. If it was steel it wouldn't be an issue but it's all reinforced concrete, flexing away in the wind on its spindly superstructure. In 50 years I'd expect it to be condemned.
I've tried voice to text in various forms over the years. I agree that it has come a long way but still hasn't nearly matched my thinking or typing speed. The best implementation I have seen is in the Descript paid app. I also occasionally record voice memos with Google Recorder but find the transcripts are only good for jumping to a specific point in the audio, not for an error-free text document.
Do you mean https://app.anything.world/animation-rigging ? Please feel free to try it and let us know what you think of it!
Curious if the carbon part is meaningful to anyone?
This is an antitrust case. Google's competitors are victims of the alleged monopolistic behavior. If you're going to make the analogy right, then the alleged crime needs to be that you defrauded your neighbor's business. I can't imagine a court barring your neighbor from testifying that you defrauded him just because he'd benefit financially from a ruling against you.
Any of the big labs I guess. At least as long as the leaderboard didn't become something so important that even the big labs would be incentivized to cheat on it. In that case, I don't know.
Looking through that list, Windows XP logo has the perfect balance of:

- Simple solid modern colors, no halo/vignette effect like the Vista/7 logos

- Multiple colors, not just one single boring blue color like the newer logos

- The S-curve lines are just soft enough, yet not overly complicated, but also not boring straight lines
Existentialism is hardly anti-reality, and for that matter, neither is Marxism. It kinda sounds like you're just repeating things you've heard without reading the sources.
This is great...How hard would it be to port a model to Godot....just getting started with hobby game development and this might solve one of my issues
I don't follow, fully remote employees don't care how their coworkers are working by and large so your point is lost on me.
Location: New York, NY

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Well, after years on the wait-list, I got ahead of general availability by six weeks. Nice.

And now it'll be oversold, likely.

Edit: I'm still totally thrilled to have it, don't let my crankiness override that. It beats the snot out of DSL, which I was already lucky to have!
If you give parents vouchers then all schools are just going to turn into IMG Academy because American parents only care about things like football. Inner city parents, football. Suburban parents, football. Its the only thing that unites the country actually; the farfetched notion that their kids will be pro football players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMG_Academy
I just took a photo with my phone, so I don't have a link.
Reminds me when, as I recall, Kansas was going to start teaching creationism/intelligent design as being on par with evolution in terms of credibility. Sure the driving ideologies are very different, but being ideologically driven is the same. At this point I've resigned myself to having to teach my kid (SFUSD) if he going to get any sort of decent education.
Feels slow to me actually this week (also on trial). I wondered if it could be because I'm in Asia and if its faster from the US?
killing them, at least like this on a one off basis does nothing of value except reinforcing your deadly aggression. live and let live!
Scientists use Age of Empires computer game to simulate ant warfare
To be fair, if you are already paying all your bills and necessities from your normal salary, an extra 30K/year can buy quite some luxury.

The difference between 60K and 90K may only be x1.5, but if you have 50K in necessities then your luxury money goes from 10K to 40K, which is 4x.
Possibly to corporations that have to perform carbon reporting or individuals who it’s important to.

Several tech companies (Google, for example) use ElectricityMaps data and models [1] to orchestrate their workloads around carbon intensity, for example.

[1] https://www.electricitymaps.com/
Most "misinformation" was pro-vaccine -- that vaccinated people either could not get sick or could not transmit covid or that natural immunity was inferior to vaccines or altogether irrelevant.

"A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else, it cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people." -- Rachel Maddow

"When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health ... in other words, you become a dead end to the virus." -- Fauci

"If you have had COVID-19 before, please still get vaccinated" -- Rochelle Walensky