skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 50+ years I've learned one thing.

When you have a kid. Drop EVERYTHING in your life, take off (completely) from work and spend your days with them. For at least a month or two.
Make breakfast, watch little kid shows, all that.

Yeah money, but you have decades to earn money. Those couple months you won't get back.
Protect Remote is a cyber security product that can be integrated with different platforms and makes these platforms secure. As a working principle, instead of preventing cyber attacks, it completely isolates the integrated platform from the internet and makes it accessible only to authorized devices.
This game is so silly it makes me laugh. It works great on Windows 10. I don't have that fancy trimmed chrome titlebar just the regular box style.

It reminds me of a program my brother wrote in high school that would spawn invading spaceships (Java Triangles) onto your desktop and they would bonk your mouse around.

Meanwhile, I was in the corner of the lab playing Starcraft.
It's a gold rush right now. Business models don't matter to investors because they want to fund 100 startups with the hope that maybe a couple will hit it big. The goal isn't for all 100 startups to be successful. If these aren't VC funded, maybe just cool side projects and no need for revenue model?

Just like during the peak crypto hype, people were doing things that clearly had no obvious business model. Some figured it out, maybe pivoted a few times, and are successful. Most silently disappeared.

The AI space is really hard to have a long term business model strategy because the market is evolving insanely fast. Your long term business plan could easily be killed by 1 feature release from OpenAI without notice. Perhaps that's anothe reason people are focussing more on use adoption rather than revenue.

The reality is user adoption in AI has WAY more value than revenue growth. You can always monetize later. But first you need users. Most companies prioritize user adoption and worry about revenue later (that's what VCs want from early seed stage AI startups... users are gold, revenue is just a cherry on top).

Obviously thats not sustainable. But that's ok... most companies don't fail because they didn't generate enough revenue. They fail most commonly because they couldn't build a product that could attract enough users (which made it impossible to generate revenue). So it kind of makes sense to stress out about user adoption, because if you can't get that, your business model doesn't matter.
There is no reason to believe (evidence) that any meaning ascribed to an LLM's utterances comes from the LLM rather than being pareidolia.

If you've found some, please let everyone know.
Google to pay Canada's "link tax," drops threat of removing news from search
And visuals!

https://lucas.bourneuf.net/blog/uess.html
Stephen Fry on How to use AI as a force for good [video]
I'm assuming you're on Apple Silicon? Please follow https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/issues/11 which is tracking this. We've received multiple reports even though I personally haven't figured out how to reproduce it yet.
> Also if it's fine why is most of the cargo moved by diesel semi?

I don't know, but I'd guess its the same reason most cargo is moved that way in Europe too.

If you compare by ton-mileage, rail has a higher percent of the total in the US (27%) than the EU (20ish%) or China (16%) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_freight_transport
How to ripen and store avocados
True. I still want screenshots though!

>This program was originally written for blind users, but many sighted users have taken advantage of the unique scripting capabilities of this program

Not sure a Braille book is a suitable metaphor here. A Braille book that is readable by people who don't know Braille, and also (to some degree) markets itself to sighted people?
It's not a dichotomy. Both parties are responsible for traveling safely. The argument you're trying to put forth is disingenuous, because controlling drivers as a pedestrian is obviously a ridiculous idea; that's why we have laws.

It's arguing in bad faith to pretend there is nothing to be done about unsafe drivers or vehicles, or to pretend that only pedestrians are responsible for their own safety.
That seems like a pretty huge stretch to me. I don't think it's valid to count the effort in developing and training AI as part of the effort to produce the art.
I'm sure there would be challenges. In a lot of ways, they seem like the same challenges that have always faced OPEC.

It does seem like a scenario where you don't really want the efficiencies markets discover, which is why I mentioned the nationalization option. Not to suggest that option should be taken casually, or wouldn't come with its own set of challenges.
A cat is a very narrow form of intelligence.
Just as important, they won't get them back either. If they live to be an average age of 80 or so, the time spent as an infant thru the end of (small) childhood in a state of constant neural growth, novelty of discovery and wonder impossible to reproduce at any later time, is less than one 10th of their life.
the slowness could be explained by many things unrelated to their own bureaucracy
I guess that I just rely on MacOS layout, however random and not great, and use Moom with some hotkeys to handle the exceptions where I want 2 or 3 windows in a specific state.

I did try Yabai and Amethyst for a bit, but the overhead was a bit too much to handle.

What am I missing?
This Stunning City Was Bombed...And Rebuilt [video]
Why did "Case study in Medicine" get stripped from the submitted title? It's way more clickbaity now.
I don't understand what you mean. The 4-6% URA target is for continually managing out low performing employees. It may not be the most effective way, but that is the intent. It has nothing to do with resourcing departments properly; that's a totally different process and conversation.

Again, I think you are confusing layoffs, which are a reduction in headcount for a department/team, with attrition, where the people themselves are let go but the headcount remains so you can hire to replace them.
Doesn't it depend on the state?
If I'm not mistaken, something like 90% of the K8s market is in the public cloud at this point (mostly not using VMware or openshift) so there's a bit of a a biased sample there if you look at the on-prem software orchestration customers as the sample. But maybe I'm exaggerating things
Saw the Pogues play about 10 years. Shane was offstage most of the time and was brought on to stage in a wheelchair for a couple of songs to just sort of sit there and wave. It was sad and I thought he had days to live at the time.
I did a DiSC (corporate Myers-Briggs-esque personality test) assessment and dominance was listed as one of the core motivators for people. I'm not sure I actually believe that; it feels like that was retconned into truth so it'd get past the decision-makers who may actually have that tendency. But maybe it is!

However, on the bright side, it is kind of nice that FAANG attracts the type of people who actually think this sort of constant stack ranking arena fighting is okay. Think about it: if they really hated it, they'd leave. Obviously the pay is a huge motivator, but if it was as distasteful as it was to many others, they wouldn't hang around.
I agree with this 100% WRT you and excluding everyone else.
So does Google search. There was a whole Supreme Court case about this which said Google showing small excerpts from books in the search results was fair use.
Lol, you beat me to commenting this. Nice to see SteamOS finally got its day in sun.
Spotify would totally collapse if they were only earning $1 per user for unlimited streaming. I have no idea how I could make that profitable on any platform or with any hardware I know of. It’s not as though Spotify is practically free to run.
Author here: this is a pretty obscure circuit, but hopefully it is interesting. I figured I'd start with the simple parts of the 386. Only 285,000 more transistors to go :-)
Gorse: An open-source recommender system service written in Go
> He has mentioned that he is fine with running Twitter at cost.

Cursing at your customers also doesn't help with that.
Is this a joke comment? Those people work twice as hard as me and get paid half of what I do.
> requests are sent to a single AT&T analyst located in Atlanta, Georgia

Just one poor sap with an ODBC to a DB2 database and a panache for Excel stands between law enforcement and state mass surveillance...
I think managers in tech companies are very often just really untalented as leaders. Good leaders create more leaders. Growing talent and getting the best out of people should be the goal for any leader, and I've seen so little of that from the ones I worked with.

After a point it just becomes part of the landscape, a pervasive culture of not recognizing what good leadership looks like, and people filtering out of the industry because they're over it.
Show HN: Unsloth – finetune Llama 2x faster 50% less memory on your GPU
No, the problem is this Shrödinger’s unsafety.

If the environment is safe, don’t expose it, functions that expose it are unsafe and should be documented as unsafe and unavailable in production.

If the functions are normal, the environment is unsafe, don’t store secrets there.

You have to make a choice, it can’t be half of both. That is the real issue.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475745 / https://github.com/tmc/langchaingo for a closer-to-langchain alternative.
This feels like the tech version of the temporarily embarrassed millionaire meme: it's something people need to be true so they can justify their ambitions of making it. So they repeat it, and say it enough to believe it.

FAANG employees are no different from you and I in the aggregate. That's not a dig, that's just statistics.
This looks like a capitulation for the Canadian government to save face. The goal was to provide continuous money for Canadian media (based on clicks not a 100 mill lump sum to an organization representing all media) and more importantly to give legacy media clicks - privilege their content over other content.

Google and facebook refused, and I think this is Canada's government and their media lobbyists bowing to a watered down money payment to save face after not getting what they actually sought for
And the compilers. Do software engineers even write code anymore? It all gets compiled so why do we pay these people so much?
PIPs would do that if the process was valid, but as pointed out, they are not. So if they defend against a claim of racism, sexism, castism, or ableism, with “but PIP!”, then it helps if we can show that PIPs are bullshit.
ChatGPT Birthday
I don’t actually think capitalism can work under this paradigm shift.

Unfortunately for me, that is a bleeding edge understanding of reality that hasn’t propagated to the billions of people who live under capitalism.

That’s the tragedy. AI is a dystopian technology under current economics.

If you change the economics AI is utopian.

But we’re electing neoliberal governments, for the most part, in the West. Million $ question: what’s to be done ?
I once got some very very vintage Lego bricks which didn't survive the dishwasher! I wish I had thought twice about that because they were clearly pre-ABS.
I think they could have actually blown up the whole thing and remained in charge of a greatly-diminished but also re-aligned non-profit organization. A lot of people (like me) would have thought, holy crap, that was insanely bold and unprecedented, I can't believe they actually did that, but it was admirably principled.

Instead it was a confusing shambles that just left them looking like idiots with no plan.
So no leetcode if you join AWS Professional Services?
security - i have no idea if an executable will not be a malicious actor to my system. Dockerizing it, and removing access to system files - is the reason.

I am not trusting that a tradition virus / etc scanner will find stuff hidden in executable models.
-t is useful but -g doesn't require lookup in help first. Maybe the worse is better principle?
Does it still refuse to answer basic history facts (e.g. "What happened in 1989 on Tiananmen square?") like other LLMs from China?
Depends on the form of computation the ball possessed and at what scale. If it had sufficient computation for agency then I would call it choice. Choice is an emergent property. Just like the ability to freeze is an emergent phenomena of a set amount of particles.
Hardly anyone makes a living as a poet, unless you count a few songwriters. American academia has employed a lot of poets. Otherwise: T.S. Eliot spent much of his life working for a publisher, Faber & Faber; William Carlos Williams was a physician; Philip Larkin was a librarian at an English university; St. John Perse was a diplomat; I think Walt Whitman worked as a printer for a while.
Based on my personal experience, interviewing for senior roles in technology feels much more difficult than the interviews I did for a junior or mid level roles. Interviewing in general, is like a Venn diagram where your experience and the interviewer's experience are the circles and you need to find a way to ensure that the questions being asked end up in the intersection where you both know well enough to showcase your skills.

As the role one is applying for more gets more senior, the larger the circles on both sides become, and it sometimes ends up being too hard to get to that intersection in the short duration of an interview.

That being said, I would recommend to to start applying for jobs, since the interview experience itself would be helpful to understand where you might need to improve.
>Contemporary research in artificial life has validated Lem’s insight that swarms of artificial beings require only a few simple rules to manifest complex behaviors and hence each member needs to carry only a little cognitive power onboard.

Sounds like Conway's Game of Life
Well said, and fully agree. If you horse race two approaches, you can of course arbitrarily arrive at a winner based solely on the version of each approach you choose. You need a deeper look if you want to generalize.
Original Ukrainian source: https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2023/11/29/7430924/
Covid quarantine showed us that extremes should be avoided. You can get quality time without destroying your career.

Yes, spend time with your kids, but try not to smother them, and ensure they have a diverse set of interactions with a range of people.
besides the fact that you’re essentially running on a platform of “make crime illegal”, you run into the obvious problem of who decides what a lie is? who decides whether a lie has taken place?
You can always fine tune a generalist model to get better results
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_genetics#R...

: Mitochondrial replication is controlled by nuclear genes and is specifically suited to make as many mitochondria as that particular cell needs at the time.

: Each human cell contains approximately 100 mitochondria

: The amount of mitochondria per cell also varies by cell type

: Egg cell: Mature metaphase II egg cells can contain 100,000 mitochondria

(so when it comes to passing down mitochondria to descendants, eukaryotes don't fool around)
That would surprise me. WhatsApp lags behind, in many ways now. (but I actually have Telegram only on the desktop as it is too distracting on the mobile)
Canadian here, many Canadians oppose this law and have a negative view of the CTRC. Many did not agree with the level of control over online news content that the Canadian government sought with this bill.
The entire mindset of the industry has shifted to one of maximal monetary extraction rather than producing quality, useful products.

Everywhere I look, I see our industry engaging in practices that abuse others for profit. This applies to how we treat our customers, how we treat society, and even how we treat developers.

For a microcosm of the problem, look at how often comments here focus on being a developer in order to get rich rather than being a developer in order to do great things.
We have an issue here tracking this: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/issues/14 Please follow that issue for updates.
There's an element of that, but I think design tools tend to be ignored by designers as well. It took well over a year to get my last design team to even consider looking at Figma seriously. I've worked with several that have big gaps in understanding their day to day software. To some degree the issue can be lock in, but people also just seem to want get in and bang something out, even if the process is sub-optimal (and that can be valid.)

I've used several tools over the years and am not afraid to jump into a new UI or workflow, but have come to believe that's an exception and probably driven by the dev part of my brain.
In combination with go simplicity, you can have a sophisticated agent running in like 150 lines of code. I've actually started building an AI driven platform with langchain-go, still in heavy beta phase, but the LLM integration and adding new agents is fun and short, as all fun stuff are :D, take a look: https://asai.astrosynapse.ai/
Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements on Ampere Altra Max
> In contrast, the current payout system favors the Big Labels at the expense of independents.

Is there an actual statistic around this? The linked article you provided doesn't have it. I'm curious:

1a) What is the average per-stream rate for a song from one of the Big Labels?

1b) What is the average per-stream rate for a song from one of the Big Labels, that is then passed along to the artist after the label takes their own cut?

2) What is the per-stream rate if you self-publish your song via DistroKid instead (that then publishes it to Spotify), that goes directly to the artist?

It's not obvious to me that 1b) is larger than 2). Maybe it is -- but are there actual numbers here? Especially for "average" or "median" artists at a label, not Taylor Swift.
LightGaussian: Unbounded 3D Gaussian Compression with 15x Reduction and 200 FPS
> what the Komoglorov complexity of "NSFW GLSL Content" is

can you explain what you mean by above?
I think Ryan Dahl (creator of Deno and Node before that) is trying to make it stand out from Node which has a very small standard library. So they are including common things that used to be in many separate modules.
People bring this up a lot on Hacker News, but AEB (Automated Emergency Braking) is essentially standard at this point [0] on new vehicles (technically NHTSA just makes recommendations on this right now, but as a practical matter OEM's comply because someday soon it'll be mandatory without an explicit waiver).

Between the forward-facing camera (usually running some version of Mobileye EyeQ) and forward-facing radar, the odds of running over a pedestrian directly like you're thinking on a 2023+ vehicle is quite low. Even cross-traffic/bicycle/cutoff scenarios are pretty extensively covered if you read up on Mobileye's website.

Personally, I'd be more concerned with older cars without AEB hitting pedestrians than the "let's make it more enjoyable when pedestrians do get hit" sentiment that seems so common in these discussions here.

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/automatic-emergency-bra...
You're expressing it in USD, while European economies use the Euro.

In the timeframe you mention the USD/EUR exchange rate went from $1.50 per €1 to $1.09 per €1.

This alone accounts for most of the difference. You should look at GDP PPP for a better idea of actual economic impact.

There will still be a difference as the US is simply a more competitive economy. But it isn't nearly as big as in these numbers.
Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union
> It's so much better to work for 1/2 as long for 3x the salary than twice as long for 1/3 of the salary.

Not necessarily. It's not better if your work is making your life 3x worse, for instance.
I don't, even for the surgeon thing, they probably shouldn't be skipping ranks. If the MOS needs a specific level of pay, they should address it by changes to that duty pay and revamping the retirement system to look at that pay too. The automotive executive is a little different since you do what them to oversee everything since they are an industry expert, not just a individual contributor or midlevel manager.

Funny thing about the surgeon part. I know a surgeon who served and had a unique specialty with aerospace occupational preventative medicine. They didn't fight too hard to keep them other than offering a promotion. Even at O6, they could have been making 3x the money if they were a civilian. Bringing people in at a higher rank isn't going fix the pay issue and isn't necessarily going to place them in the right level of authority. They need to make some changes to how that's managed to ensure the right people are at the right levels. I'm sure there are career guys who would not be happy to have someone with limited experience come in over their rank and pay if they're doing the same job.
I work for Amazon, vests are at least spread over two per year if not more.
That's the idea in the long run. Currently, the MVP allows you to leverage only computers that are logged in using your credentials. So only your machines and your friend's if they trust you. The main challenge for leveraging other people's machines is the economy. Need to estimate how much computation time is worth given differences in hardware, reliability, location and connection speed to make the system fair for all paricipants. Privacy and safety is another typical concern, but I believe modern sandboxing technologies give enough protection. Any browser is running the code from the internet in the end. An interesting problem to solve.
Agreed, I took off 3 months when our second was born, then 3 months part time. Looking back, now in my late 50s, I realize work life is so long and toddlerhood so short. If I could go back I'd try to take a leave of absence for maybe a year.

All of this is of course is luxurious thinking for people with wealth and skills that stay in demand.
I never worked at Amazon, but I did work at other companies known for toughness and "places you can get fired from" - most notably Bridgewater (from where I did get fired...)

These places are not for everyone, but there are very good reasons why people consciously join a place with an "elevated risk of a PIP."

Most notably, these places execute very well. Amazon is crushing it in vastly unrelated fields from Retail to Cloud. That seems to suggest that their philosophy on performance is more helpful vs hurtful to them in contrast to what others do. Doesn't mean it's perfect, but that perhaps the imperfections are worth it.

Since no system is perfect, a company has to either run the risk of letting good people go, or bad people stay. Amazon has chosen which risk to run and it seems to work for them.

As an employee, there's risk both ways. If you want to grow your skills and comp, your best bet is a place that errs towards strength. In the long run, it might be worth the small risk of let go, to be surrounded by strong performers.

On the flip side, if you are really worried about underperforming and getting fired, Amazon is probably fine with you self-selecting to not apply.

Personally, I took the risk of working at Bridgewater. While I did eventually get fired, those couple of years made me for sure a stronger performer (and person overall) so I am grateful for it. It was the right call but not for everyone.