skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that employees shouldn't do certain things if they really don't like a company. Don't buy their products. Post opinions publically. Actually go on strike at your own employer.

I'm saying I don't think that refusing individual service to a customer is a good idea. It seems highly prone to groupthink and as it comes at zero cost to the striking party, prone to misuse as well. Actual striking is moderately balanced because it's limited and comes at a cost to both parties.

It seems simpler to just not work for the company. My understanding is they aren't treating their employees unfairly; they just aren't entering into the union merry-go-round. Their current employees all agreed to employment under the current situation, and now seem to be changing their minds once they've secured employment. But I could be wrong on that last part - perhaps this was promised and that was withdrawn.
NixOS has seamless ZFS integration -- it's the problem of the package manager/distro, not of the tool
Ok but reality doesn’t care much for your feelings.
Are they online?
Fire them fast. However, I wouldn't go that far to say Company is a goner. That depends on quickly the founders and management team fixes the mistakes. The thing is that company may not die (mine didn't) but it wont grow fast if you dont have the right team at the minimum.

You mentioned you are not the founder or have decision making power. In that case, you need to see what the founder(s) feel. If they are ok with mediocrity, it will creep in further. I always say that the team's urgency by default is always 0.5x of the founders. So if the founders themselves are relaxed, it will get worse.
I'd fully expect other car makers to move to an exclusive 48V setup at some point. They just do it gradually: For the new model a part is replaced by its next-gen successor that is incompatible anyway? Put it on the 48V bus. Repeat until the 12V system is done away with - or force the issue when there are only a few components left, or downstep the 48V to 12V right in front of them, once that's cheaper than keeping the remaining 12V system.
You'll have to link to how they mention its fine for the employer to force sign you without your consent, and to sign you up for expensive insurance again without your consent.
Nitter instances work: https://nitter.net/laurenancona/status/1731900441800155459
Time crystals are neat! A normal crystal is one that has a definite repeating pattern in space. A time crystal is similar, but instead of repeating in space, it repeats in time.

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

Here's a gratutious example thanks to ChatGPT:

"Imagine a line of atoms that flip their spins periodically, creating a pattern that repeats not only in space (like the atoms are arranged in a regular grid) but also in time (like the atoms flip their spins at regular intervals). This repeating pattern in time, which occurs without continuously adding energy, is what makes time crystals so intriguing and different from other states of matter."
Thats a bummer. Napoleon is many things, but bland and passive, are not him. The British hated him so perhaps Scott's choices were intentional :)
Seriously, what is Meta's strategy here?

LLMs will be important for Meta's AR/VR tech.

So perhaps they are using open source crowd to perfect their LLM tech?

They have all the data they need to train the LLM on, and hardware capacity to spare.

So perhaps this is their first foray into selling LLM as a PaaS?
>Sitting on it makes sense when something could go up in price long-term.

It could make sense in some very specific situations, but that really depends on the details.
> Well, its wikipedia

What does that mean?
I so wish I could contradict you, but in my own experience good coding skills, even after years of experience, seem to be a rare gift.
Came here to say this. I have really been enjoying this channel since it popped up about a month ago.
Then they should indicate that! Putting me off from considering an AMD card for purchase is very detrimental to building a userbase.
the public (open?) internet is dying

i wonder if there are any nuances between public and open
Very good, funny.

Most science articles read like this to me. I wish this was the exception.
This is a bit of a naive viewpoint considering the massive amount of damage that modern agricultural practices have done to the environment.
Commodity prices fluctuate wildly. Fundamentals have very little to do with it.
Did you try viewing it in a mirror? Sometimes that helps.
Considering the massive increase in obesity, diabetes cancer, metabolic disorder over the last 40 years…

Maybe this isn’t the best defence?
As a super minor grammar point for the author, "ubiquitous" is a rare example of a word that starts with a vowel but should be proceeded by "a" instead of "an".
Yes, it does matter. PGP is by far the most common standard for signatures used in software distribution (Git tags, RPM packages, Yum repos, Deb repos, ad-hoc signature schemes, etc.), and nothing else is particularly close in terms of number of signatures verified per day. While the absolute number of verifications is a lot lower than it could be, there is still substantial inertia behind these current standards, including US government standards.

I am also aware that you are actively involved in moving ecosystems away from PGP and towards solutions in the Sigstore ecosystem, so this is definitely not news to you. I understand you want the situation to change, but for now it's disingenuous to pretend like GPG in particular doesn't have the super majority of "market" share around signatures and that drama like this wouldn't have potential impact to a lot of folks.
The more interesting security issue, to me, is the LLM analog to cross-site scripting attacks that Simon Willison has written so much about. If we have an LLM based tool that can process text that might come from anywhere and email a summary (meaning that the input might be tainted and it can send email), someone can embed something in the text that the LLM will interpret as a command, which might override the user's intent and send someone else confidential information. We have no analog to quotes, there's one token stream.
Regular people, that already do pirate software a lot, see open source as free beer, and won't pay for any kind of support, rather have family members as usual.

With commercial desktop software at least there is the shadow of the law, thus some companies do survive despite piracy.

Hence why digital stores are so beloved by companies selling desktop like applications.

I bet there is hardly any company sustaining their business from sales on F-Droid.
GPUs are great for things that are parallelizable, but a lot of things aren't.

Technologies like GPUDirect are interesting in that vein. Theoretically you can DMA data directly from an NVMe drive on another machine, across an Infiniband link, and into VRAM without the data ever touching the CPU.
>They'll bring back company towns if you let them.

In fairness, I'm not actually against company towns, in theory. I'm sure company towns existed in Scandinavia the same way they did here. However, following WWII, when they adopted their current economic model, that same town's residents inherited rights from the larger collective bargaining agreement, allowing them to bargain in good faith with the company that basically owns that town.

You see how their model of basically having cascading collective bargaining agreements that start from the top and empower everyone under it make me less opposed to company towns? However, it works better in countries where most people aren't brainwashed into thinking they'll all be billionaires one day and should look out for the interests of billionaires first.
Not just in Sweden, but also the massive Norwegian and Maersk shipping businesses. I assume they already have it on many of the ships.

https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2023/10/12/maersk-signs...
You're not better of buying individual stocks compared to global index funds, that almost always ends up with you underperforming while taking more risk.
Meta has an amazing FOSS track record. I'm no fan of their consumer products. But their contributions to open source are great and many.
I see it as more than a semantic problem, but the problem does boil down to the membership. If they are the lawful structure I'll abide by their decisions, I just don't want to be forced to join.
Yes, but there are only 10M people there (and only 25M people in the nordic countries).

To put it in perspective, the total number of Teslas sold over the entire history of Tesla in all of the Nordic countries is less than half of how many Teslas were sold in the US in 2023 alone.
It isn't crumbling when Steam/Proton is emulating Windows games, it is being reinforced as what game studios should care about.

Apparently the lessons from OS/2 weren't learned in due time.
> * How Meta AI strategy makes money for Meta

Tech stocks trade at mad p/e ratios compared to other companies because investors are imagining a future where the company's revenue keeps going up and up.

One of the CEO's many jobs is to ensure investors keep fantasising. There doesn't have to be revenue today, you've just got to be at the forefront of the next big thing.

So I assume the strategy here is basically: Release models -> Lots of buzz in tech circles because unlike google's stuff people can actually use the things -> Investors see Facebook is at the forefront of the hottest current trend -> Stock price goes up.

At the same time, maybe they get a model that's good at content moderation. And maybe it helps them hire the top ML experts, and you can put 60% of them onto maximising ad revenue.

And assuming FB was training the model anyway, and isn't planning to become a cloud services provider selling the model - giving it away doesn't really cost them all that much.

> * How Meta AI strategy funnels devs/customers into its Meta-verse

The metaverse has failed to excite investors, it's dead. But in a great bit of luck for Zuck, something much better has shown up at just the right time - cutting edge ML results.
Which region is locked? That might give a clue.
Three Decades of HTML
Thank you! The original Connections is one of my favorite series of all time, and I had no idea there was a reboot.
Non-sequitor [1]. AMD not having a fab doesn't mean a EE can run a fab out of their garage.

It may be relatively easier for people to make new chips without needing AMD/Intel (see all of fang company making their own). But it's still companies with lots of money making new chips and not people in their garage.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Non_sequitur_(fal...
What a great way to recruit! The ending pitch to join Tristan at Anthropic, if I were competent enough in this area, is very alluring! Tristan does a great job covering the content about the types of things one would be working on.

p.s. I think the blog post could use more screengrabs of the traces. Great first pass at it though, and screengrabs can be added over time!
why is it called "data stack" rather than "app stack" if it is "he Fastest way to build apps in python"?
Yep, sorry. You look the size of a football pitch, but your mass is only the size of a pea!
The relevant part of the article:

> The administration did not immediately release details about how the process will work and how it will deem a drug costly enough to act. White House officials would not name drugs that might potentially be targeted.

> There will be a 60-day public comment period. If the plan is enacted, drugmakers are almost certain to challenge it in court.

It isn't even the role of the executive branch to address this area. It's the job of the legislative branch (ie actual patent reform). Thus, this announcement is election year posturing which will not result in meaningful change. It's not even a real threat toward pharma corps because they already know it's toothless and it's dishonest from the white house because they know the pharmas know this.

The entire point of patents is to create a limited-time monopoly which increases profits. The key to less costly drugs is real patent reform that increases free market price competition paired with streamlining onerous FDA regulations making it faster, less costly and less uncertain to develop new drugs. Pharmas are by far the largest political lobbyists/donors. They wouldn't keep spending all that money in Washington if it didn't work, thus the lack of any meaningful political lobbying reform is an upstream enabler of this problem. Legislative term limits would also help.
It’s so much easier if you state the rules before someone breaks them.
New Zealand is locked out. (Normally we get first dibs on things being a small test market)
No, the unions. That's definitely the case in Sweden but it's no longer quite the case in Denmark.

The interests of the people and the interests of the union don't overlap much.
I guess I should stock up on my meds.
yup, one of my favorite forums had a system that was open to view but had a five dollar invite fee to upgrade your account to post things, plus any penalties for infractions made by an invited member beyond a certain 'egregiousness' traversed up the invite tree
It's just one company that doesn't play ball so a full strike wouldn't be appropriate reaction, especially as employers' organization apparently isn't a participant here. Say, striking dockworkers can paralyze the whole economy, all sectors. It's not a step to be taken lightly.
Speech to Birdsong Conversion (2021)
Note that you need to "Log On" to Facebook/Meta/WhateverTheyCallThemselvesNow to try it. Kind of curious, but not curious enough to create yet another burner Facebook account.

[edit: still learning to spell]
That's a bummer. It's prob the only movie I've looked forward to in a long time. Oh well.
Obviously the English Channel separates the continental mainland and the UK. Geographically the UK is part of the British and Irish Isles. The UK is generally not considered as part of "continental Europe", but some definitions of Europe also include the UK geographically. It is debatable but I draw a line where the Atlantic Ocean clearly separates it from the mainland.
Wintry blast in Europe has brought record snow and bitter cold
Some trust is indeed refreshing. But don't be naive.

With Zuckerberg's and FB's track record, their business decisions ought not to be trusted.
Differences in outcomes across race and sex are not indications of bias. There are cultural and historical differences between groups that explain different average performance. Anyone suggesting that these differences are proof of racial superiority are ignorant and racist.

And the suggestion that coding interviews are biased is insane. Everyone has access to leetcode. Virtually everyone can buy a copy of Cracking the Coding Interview. It's the one portion of the interview that doesn't rely on having the right history or circumstances. If you work hard or are naturally gifted then you can succeed on the coding interview.

Regardless, the author's point stands. It doesn't matter whether you think coding interviews matter. As long as they exist, you'll have to play along to get certain jobs. Selfishly I should stop trying to convince potential competition to embrace them.
Using Llama Guard as a first pass screen and then passing on material needing more comprehensive review to a more capable model (or human reviewer, or a mix) seems more likely ti be useful and efficient than using a heavyweight model as the primary moderation tool.
To my knowledge, healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente of California haven't burned any buildings down or had a brawl in the middle of the parking lot. The Starbucks workers strike was also non-violent. The most recent Writers guild of America strike didn't seem violent to me, but maybe that's Hollywood. The Oakland teachers union strike also didn't result in bloodshed as far as I know, but also it's Oakland.
> reality is still asymetric in the temporal dimension

That's an interesting claim. Do you have any evidence of it?

Oh, wait. Do you actually believe time passes? You're going to need to start by proving we're not in a block universe, then.

As far as I know, there is no such thing as an experiment that can disprove either assertion. As such, they're more claims of faith than claims about reality.
The people here honestly, genuinely believe that they will be the next Musk if they just code hard enough.
> And for things like the ringer (is that what you call it? the orange ball thing at the bottom of the bell that strikes the bell to make the sound)

The "clapper".

I am still on the steep end of the SVG learning curve, but also generally start in Illustrator and then export, clean up, and hand-code the details.
For sure walk away if the company asks you to something ilegal. Not worth the jail time even if you cant afford having no job.
Wow. The "offense" of calling a site that uses the domain "twitter.com" Twitter is just as bad as refusing to call a person by their preferred name? This is "an eye for an eye"?
Wow, I might be interested. Do you have any recommendations in USA?
Almost all of the research for these drugs was funded by taxpayer dollars. Taxpayer dollars are increasingly used to pay for early rounds of safety trials. Private capital now only pays for the late-round efficacy trials, which is the last step before commercial sales.

So we'll still get the drugs. We'd just have fewer rich pharma bros with multiple condos and yachts.
> The employment rate in the USA is usually somewhere around ~5% depending on what subset of the workforce you're looking at.

Well based on the number of friends I have that work multiple jobs and can't afford anything more than a room and basic necessities, that's not a very useful perspective.
If people looked at a graph of their real income and wealth over time, they'd be delighted, not frustrated
> The instrument beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away – the farthest-ever demonstration of optical communications

I find that amazing!
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Well, not always

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...
He denies any genocide that inconveniences the reputation of the left or socialists. Really?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial
That’s standard or a little bit low for a staff engineer at FAANG and top tier tech.

See https://www.levels.fyi/blog/2023-mid-year-report.html
How long do they last? Normal lithium ion powered smoked detectors will last 10 years between battery changes.
Your argument might have made sense if excess consumption of carbohydrate, saturated fat, and other nutrition deficient foods did not skyrocket over the same time frame.
I joined a community college concert band playing trombone. I’ve since started playing in other groups as a result of that
There's a plethora of devices ranging from $25 to thousands for playing exclusively music. The iPod was a nice piece of hardware, but for sports, I would just buy a cheap one and put my playlist on it.
Yes, I am reducing unions to economic concerns, but I should mention that most people's "moral" objection to unions is conditioned by parties whose interest is solely economic. When the Koch foundation buys airtime on news programs (effectively) to spread the idea that unions are evil and striking is immoral, it's not because they actually care about morals, it's because unions shift the economic playing field in a way that they don't like.
Windows does listen to you. So does Android.
> Counterpoint: if something pretty much works without a law being in place, why write a law?

Well, I'll see that and raise you:

If remuneration packages at Tesla (including in Scandinavia) "pretty much works" (in the sense that Tesla are able to attract and retain talent, which they apparently are), why write a collective bargaining agreement?
How, exactly, would this (waves around at current drama) impact a lot of folks? Can you be specific about it?
System State Challenges Widen
Yes and no. Some SNES games (as an example, since were talking Mario RPG) would receive 50Hz "ports", but they were often quite lazy, such as only adjusting level timers but not character movememt. Some games originating in PAL regions, such as Donkey Kong Country, would have more work put into getting them to run right at 50Hz.

But the vast majority would just run around at 5/6ths the correct speed and have huge black borders at the top and bottom. This was standard up until the PS2/Gamecube era, when gamers started catching on and demanding better ports or 60Hz modes. Then the shift to HD rendered the whole thing moot.

Mario RPG and other SNES RPGs not receiving PAL releases or receiving them very late probably had more to do with translation of such text-heavy games. I believe Nintendo at the time had a policy that all (big-name?) PAL releases would have to be translated into several major European languages. This was an issue around the PAL version of the Gamecube Animal Crossing game that was reported at the time, although that eventually did receive a release IIRC.
You’re arguing against the utility of the Second Amendment here which already puts you out of step with the entirety of American custom and political culture. Good luck trying to apply logic or reason against entrenched tradition and identity.

> smashing the criminal element within has been good for America

That’s good, sounds like organized labor is now free to exist without any crime issues.
If you can charge at home, it's cheap. If you have solar it's free.
GateLoop: Data-Controlled Linear Recurrence for Sequence Modeling
Let us reframe the question: Is it possible to land a job at Burger Emperor after getting fired from the well-known MC Daniels ?
Yes. I have seen successful teams with one manager having 20-30 reports.

It does not happen by accident. Both the manager and the reports are usually top notch for the team to be successful. The manager knows how to effectively delegate responsibility (not tasks) and the reports are intelligent, self-driven, reliable and know how to use their network for help and report back to manager when they are stuck.

Best test if the manager is able to have more reports is if he/she can go for 2 week vacation and the team is still delivering. If the manager hoards operational responsibilities then this is probably not going to work well and he/she is not ready to have more reports. To have 20-30 reports you need to delegate all operational responsibilities so that you are not in critical path of any ongoing project.
I like to think that it was this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hat

Maybe some ancient folk memory!!
Only if it happened to be trained on a dataset that included enough references/explanations of the meme. It won't be able to understand the next meme I probably, we'll see.
Can team velocity be measured?
Can team velocity / work estimates really be measured accurately? If yes, to what degree?

I read an article recently (can't find it at the moment) around how story points can be improperly used as a measure of time which turns into a way of non-technical leadership imposing unrealistic timelines upon engineers.

It's a story as old as the industry itself: non-technical management not fully understanding the nature of the work at hand, which leads to distrust, overly-optimistic estimates, and burn out.

How should story points and velocity be used?
How do you deal with this aspect of agile development with your leadership?
Book recommendations?
It wouldn't take 15 minutes to investigate. That's just how long the auto_deny_appeal task took to work its way through some overloaded job queue.