skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying there is not only one "standard" use of the word "standard"?
> Germany in 2023 installed 1GW of wind power per month

I think you're confusing wind and solar. So far this year, 2.8 GW of wind power and 13.3 GW of solar have been installed.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-strompreis-gas...
Prettiness or usability or sustainability?
Yes, but it's more of an anti spam measure.
The quality of the IP that they sold off w/ eOne, both on the music side in their 2021 sale and the tv/movie side with this recent one, is staggering.

Notably, the entire Death Row Records catalog, Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, international distribution for The Walking Dead, etc.
If society doesn’t exist in 5000 years, who cares who finds it?

That’s like asking us now if we care there were human sacrifices 5000 years ago. Yeah, ok that’s awful but I don’t really care.

Similarly if all society collapses, I do not give a shit if somebody digs hundreds of meters into a cave clearly labeled “do not go here” in pictograms that can be understood by the most rudimentary thinkers, and dies of radiation poisoning.

We used to have GAMES where we watched people get ripped apart by lions, FOR SPORT. When did this BS “we must never potentially maybe damage some random human 5000 years into the future” stuff come from?
The first two.
Caveman burnt up all coal minting NFTs on the Blockchain!
This is an extreme example, but:

Like the crime of wanting to save your own life? [1]

Edit: forgot to add how abortion is related to location data: after the "Christian" Talibans made abortion illegal, location data became subpeonable to see if someone visited an abortion clinic, if you tracked your periods on an app, this data too, because if you stopped having periods and a few months later it resumed, is that enough proof for a criminal conviction?

Funny to think how the tech companies are slowly realizing, maybe even their 50 domestic markets have regimes that are not liberal democracies, and can abuse laws...

For a more elaborate answer, watch this video: [2], TL;DW your democracy might not last and despots could take over and actually abuse the data they have on you. MAGA 2024, anyone? I mean the whole red states/Taliban-esque "we own women's body" laws is already plenty of steps in that direction...

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/texas-woman-sought-c...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9_PjdU3Mpo
Meanwhile PC users, plug a new disk into their desktop, or replace the hard disk on their laptop (plenty of options still available where disk, memory and battery can be exchanged).
Just what we need, another way to waste energy
I block ads and stuff but you're right that I don't use VPNs or Tor.

A lot of bots also use VPNs and Tor so captchas being a pain in the ass is probably working as intended, that way most people won't bother using services like that? This is different from regular internet users, there is no reason to make their life more difficult than necessary.
I bet you'll find something.

It's really easy to assume that "bay area" means places like Meta, Apple, etc.. But there are others.

I'll take the opportunity to plug that at Stanford, we've got a small pile of open IT positions (42, per https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/search/12458736), covering technologies as plain as Python & Java, to as weird as Oracle. Some positions are fixed-term, if you just want to 'get your feet wet'.

Another set of companies that folks often miss are the auto companies. For example, Ford has a posting for a Senior Simulation Software Engineer, job ID 20901, which wants someone with experience in C++ and Python. The job's location says Michigan, but if you dig in it also lists Ford's office in Palo Alto (in the Stanford Research Park) I know Toyota Research Institute is in Los Altos, though I don't know their open positions. And besides Tesla, there's also Rivian and Zoox.

The map at the bottom of https://stanfordresearchpark.com/community/ gives you a good overview of the types of companies in one chunk of Palo Alto. And there are many other places besides that!
Well, if you accept their notions of "preventable" and the categorizations that result. A vehicular death from DUI is still preventable in the vehicular category? Are we suggesting the vehicle was the primary cause or the alcohol? Are we trying to make vehicles safe enough for drunks to drive? If not, then this scheme is a little out of whack for what I was trying to get at. Or what anyone who doesn't have an prejudiced agenda against vehicles would want to know.

Those statistics also include pedestrians who got hit, and motorcyclists who met the end of their road. Those two together are 32% of the total. Again, is the vehicle at fault here, or risky behavior? Which are we trying to measure?

At face value, you are right, though; however, it's still pretty close and the rate of change suggests a crossing. In either case, I know which hazard I would consider more pertinent to avoid in my own daily life. You can drive defensively and just not drink, you can't exactly climb a ladder defensively no matter how sober you are.
One thing that's worth mentioning about llama.cpp wrappers like ollama, LM Studio and Faraday is that they don't yet support[1] sliding window attention, and instead use vanilla causal attention from llama2. As noted in the Mistral 7B paper[2], SWA has some benefits in terms of attention span over regular causal attention.

Disclaimer: I have a competing universal macOS/iOS app[3] that does support SWA with Mistral models (using mlc-llm).

[1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/3377

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825

[3]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/private-llm/id6448106860
But is it worth billions? You just need to increase the cost 1000 fold and pay it back after a holding period to implement that.

The drawback is it gets a lot more complex when using a token, because of the additional state, communication, costs and security.

A one shot proof of work can be very simple, but probably not effective enough, given that mobile users likely do not want to wait what may have to be many minutes and drain their battery.

Freezing a cent or a dollar for days seems like a better option. Might very well be that VISA/MasterCard figures this out before the crypto bros build anything usable. It will be far easier to do without decentralization and would also be great to spy on and control people.
A highly intelligent jerk is still a jerk. No surprise there.
Interesting, but maybe not the whole story. A relative has one of these and tells me its efficiency is godawful, which I put down at least in part to its bulky uprightness (I have a longer estate/station wagon which does nearly twice the mpg).
Nope. The wind farm wasn't wasting space. However, the coal companies had gotten mining rights for that area long ago and now exercise them for profit. Coal power generation is on an all-time low in Germany. There is also no energy shortage in Germany.

When Russia started the war and cut off gas deliveries, of course the energy markets spiked, but prices are down again to pre-war levels. They are - beyond that spike - not strangling the economy. But it certainly wouldn't have hurt, if the previous government had not slowed down the ramping up of renewables.
Thanks! Of course, the silverbacks! No offense.
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I am in search of good forums in TOR, so please tell me what sites are available, thanks in advance;)
Windows uses some weird install process where it needs two partitions for the install media. Basically the whole installation is too big for FAT32 so IIRC the way to have it work is to split the ISO in two having the bootable part on one partition and a lot of the installation content on another.

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB
But if you can keep the bots off your bandwidth you don't necessarily need a business model, depending on what you intend to share online.
When I was a software engineer, I used to think I was the smartest person in the room, and derided the work of product managers, delivery managers and to some extent engineering managers. I've had experience of engineering roles up to Principal and Hands-on CTO and felt that we didn't need the non-engineering backgrounds at all.

Today, I find myself in a senior TPM role for a FAANG who also has "product manager" in his customer-facing job role.

I cringe at my behaviour 15 years ago. I shake my head as a I hear software engineers using the same arguments I did. "We know how to do product management, you're just slowing us down".

In recent years, on a few internal projects I step back and watch projects with no product or project management resource - just engineers - and the same pattern emerges over and over again: no clear customer-facing objectives, not enough time spent listening to customers, not enough work in the ramp up to design, not enough work in figuring out the long-term operational factors of owning a product, poor customer communication (no, they'd don't understand your technical documents, sorry, and they've told you that, and you don't know what to do about it, but huh, isn't this tricky?), and more often than not, misaligned internal objectives and politics meaning the product has "camps", driven by individual preferences and career/promotion objectives.

It's a mess. Every time.

You might not need product managers, but you need product management, and most engineers are atrocious at it. They want to focus on the technical work and are not prepared to commit to the work that comes with product management. It's often wise to just hire product managers.

You might not need project managers, but you need project management, and engineers are often poor at it. You probably should have project managers. Product managers often have better organisational skills - and the attuned level of empathy needed to listen to all stakeholders which is needed in project management - to be able to do project management too.

If you're still not convinced look at OSS. Most of it is only accessibly to other engineers, until one of two things happen: a project starts to ape product design decisions made by commercial projects, which has happened with a lot of office and graphics programs; or, somebody with real product management expertise gets involved and is able to influence the project.

I know many people will disagree. They'll insist they know better. I expect downvotes because some people will feel affronted.

I know this, because 15 years ago I felt the same. I was wrong. You're wrong if you feel that way too, and you'll realise it over time, particularly if you're asked to do it for a while. Product management is a real skill.

And yes, most teams could do it better. And project management skills - particularly agile skills - are awful in the industry. But please, stop thinking the answer is more engineers.
You mean like pyramids? Heh look at what few thousands of years caused to them, and its not even very challenging environment (very low humidity, mostly sand abrasion). In fact, go to mountains and actually try to look around a bit from geological perspective - they are constantly being weathered, all types of rock, by mostly rain and elements. Elements cut through stone like through butter.

Just because something doesn't visibly keep disappearing in front of your eyes doesn't mean its some ultra stable form to last for a billion years.

Also, one proper earthquake and your fine stone structure is a big pile of rubble. Now do it 100x.
On way to deal with this is to hash it again. For demonstration purposes I used CRC8, but a longer hash is probably less prone against further collisions):

307e0e71a409d2bf67e76c676d81bd0ff87ee228cd8f991714589d0564e6ea9a = 0x7B

307e0e71a4098e7fb7d72c86cd041a006181c6d8e29882b581d69d0564e6ea9a = 0xFC
Oh sure, I still remember getting my first 1/4” tape of the GNU tools source code through the post. This is why it’s so hilarious to me when the kids nowadays complain that MacOS has different command line tools to Linux. “Why can’t they just use GNU?”.

Get off my lawn!
;)
Funny, when I’ve been laid off, I’ve been relieved that there’s no kid depending on me for food and health insurance and no spouse to divorce me. I think I’d have a breakdown if that were the case, but I guess we’re all different.
Oh man, all those years back I made a choice between antminer and butterfly labs. I backed the wrong horse.

BFL mined with customer hardware and basically didn't ship units to customers until there was no profit in running one.

Crypto ASICs are a super weird edge case IMHO in chips, strictly speaking it's not rational to sell them if they are very profitable. It only makes sense if the customer has a different risk profile than you; or the customer can somehow get power more cheaply than you; or you have some kind of scam going on; or you couldn't get capital except by presales and are unusually honest.

Note that an additional profit-making option for crypto ASIC producers is to secretly over-produce and compete with your customers and you are unlikely to get caught doing this.
I've managed that without a VPN - although I do have poor sight.

It also does not help that the shown busses, water hydrants, pavements look totally unfamiliar to me. (Why aren't captures taken from all over the world Indian busses would be fun - London ones would be too boring)
It may not have worked in the comic book industry but the same tactic has proved an enormous boon to the sports card industry in the last decade and that's absolutely booming.
"U.S. Officials have stated that Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin is preparing to Announce a Major Multinational Mission named “Operation Prosperity Guardian” during his Visit to the Middle East this coming week, with the Goal of the Operation being to Counter the ongoing Drone and Missile Threat by the Houthi Terrorist Group against Commercial Shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden."

This is just another deepening crack. Ukraine, Gaza, Myanmar, Sudan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Guyana, Armenia, Taiwan.

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1736141595026538795
I worked at Meta in a dysfunctional department where this was the case. There was an IC8 who refused to engage, was "too important" and "too busy", and refused to concede any point, but was quick to insert FUD, bikeshed on edge-cases, and shutdown discussion if it distracted from them talking about their projects. Total asshat. There were also several other strong (asshole) personalities on my immediate team who refused to explain themselves, refused to listen to others, and refused to consider any one else's viewpoint. It was most a competition of who was advancing their particular service and their code, while slowing everyone else down by refusing to sign-off commits until round-after-round of trivial revisions and delay.
Nothing sacred or secret, its under the menu where you manage your storage.
Product managers own the "Why?" and the "What?". Project managers own the "When?". Engineering managers own the "Who?". Engineers own the "How?".

When people try treading on other patches, it always ends in disaster. That works both ways: engineers are lousy at the "Why?" and the "What?" because they think too much in terms of "How?"; and yes, product managers need to step away from the "How?" unless it's to clarify the "What?" or the "Why?".
Yes, 0.01 crowns are still used for bills in Sweden.

The sender can elect to round them to the nearest crown, but that is optional.
Have they tried with puzzles used by Rockstar Games or HBO Max to reset a password? They are impossible to solve, asking to solve 17 questions and more and still failing you to retry with higher count. Even the audio version is quite innovative
I have not read much Aristotle, but I can empathize.

He tried to get to the bottom of things and pursued various paths.

I think his mainstream metaphysics (Genus, Species, Difference, ...) is somewhat different from his Hylemorphism and was more successful.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/index.htm...
A bit whiny tbh. I was put off The Strokes during their day precisely because of the hype and the association with models and their apparently monied background. How could a group of people so shallow and privileged make decent music?

I was wrong.

Is This It? is one of the great soulful and original rock albums and you are denying yourself a great experience - as was I - with your suspicion and cynicism.
It’s safety trained to not solve captchas.
As best as I can tell this study explores many facets of how humans solve captchas. I couldn't find anything about AIs outperforming humans in the study. Can someone give me a section reference?

Solving reCAPTCHA v2/v3 requires more than just clicking the box and an image puzzle. If that was all it was we would be overrun by now.

Lots of folks commenting that the title's statement makes sense because CAPTCHAs are meant to train AIs. While this is broadly true, that's a nice side effect. The way modern CAPTCHAs like reCaptcha V2+ work, is they monitor behavioral analytics-- from things like your browsing history to how your mouse moves on the page. This is why most of the time, most people only need to click a box. I'm not sure there's a LMM out there that includes mouse movement as a modality.

The kinds of AIs that are designed to beat CAPTCHAs also don't have the data from Google et al to use to train, unless we're concerned Google is training it's own bots to bypass CAPTCHAs, I suppose it's not inconceivable?
Instead of leetcode, I would try doing actual small jobs on upwork.com

First, it will earn you some additional money. But much more importantly, after a while you can confidently state that you have experience solving issues that companies are willing to pay for. And that's what hiring managers like to see/hear.

Just keep in mind that the non-US competition on most of those remote job sites is pretty fierce. Expect to be slightly underpaid. That said, once you get the hang of it, applying to an actual in-office job is probably easier than negotiating a well-paid fully remote Upwork project. So it will be great training for your written negotiation skills.
I can't even conceive what evidence maths could provide!
This article and many people attempting to analyze this topic (and many others) are missing a key element: "incentives"!

Many developers are more passionate about technology itself – coding, solving complex technical problems, and creating efficient solutions. Their formal rewards (like promotions, bonuses, and recognition) are often tied to technical achievements. If a developer spends 40 hours on customer research, this effort might not be as formally recognized or rewarded as much as a technical achievement like developing a new authentication solution that benefits the entire team.

Shifting this dynamic is not just about encouraging developers to spend more time on product management. It requires a systemic change in how organizations value and reward.

Changing the incentive structure to be more user-centric and less technically focused would significantly impact middle and upper management roles. A shift would challenge the very foundations of their roles and responsibilities, potentially leading to a loss of control and influence.

It's likely that such changes would face subtle yet strong resistance from middle and upper management. These individuals often have significant political power within an organization and a vested interest.
There is one constantly happening thing that wipes the slate clean - tectonic plates movement. You can be lucky with a spot that doesn't disappear into Earth's mantle, there are few spots like that on Earth, but its not granted.
A Guide to Types of Outsourcing
Monkeys at the wheel is probably the solution for self driving cars.
I'm also wondering this. I don't think it has anything to do with AI solves.
Just to commiserate, I also had a health issue years ago that really threw my career off track. I managed to land a steady job after some long and stressful months and eventually got some treatment that got me back to 95% health-wise, but the job is way below what I think I'm capable of and it's really hard to get back out there and interview for something better. Unfortunately mentioning any kind of health issue during the interview process (typically when the associated resume gap comes up) seems to be a kiss of death, even with supposedly "enlightened" companies that rattle on about their great culture and acceptance. I recommend not mentioning health issues during the interview process at all if you can help it.

If anyone has a different viewpoint on this or has discovered some better way to approach this touchy topic while job hunting, I am quite open to input.
Initially I was kind of disappointed of how AOT evolved on Android verus Windows Phone, then I came to realise Google was actually right.

Whereas Windows Phone would use Windows Store to AOT compile the application, Android would AOT on device.

Thus initially, it felt like using the tiny phones for that would be a bad decision, and it was, as the JIT was reintroduced 2 versions later (Android 7).

However, it was a mix and match of all modes, interpreter hand written in Assembly for quick startup, a JIT with PGO data gathering, AOT compiler with feedback loop from PGO data, latter on, sharing PGO data across devices via Play Store services.

This mix of JIT/AOT with PGO sharing across everyone, brings the optimal execution flow that a given application will ever get, allows reflection and dynamic loading to still be supported, and AOT compiler toolchain can have all time of the world to compile on the background.
>Best PMs that I worked with had a technical background.

Best PMs I worked with just figured out what users wanted and organized the team to build it through good communication. That's it.

Sometimes the technical PMs can be an issue because they care too much about the how and not enough of the why and what.

If your product is selling devtools to developers, then yes, it helps to have a technical PM. Case by case.
Good devs with good communication == Better then PM

Dev + Business = speed and customer centric

Dev + PM + Business = one more layer, i.e. slow, i.e. some loss of customer voice

I worked at Amazon as dev for 10 yrs. In early days 2001+. Amazon did not hire PMs then. Best of Amazon exp came out in that period. I was part of that myself. Pm is needed for things like building amazon prime. If at all.
Wage increases don't drive inflation. The data now clearly show this to be a myth.

I think we can agree that profits being too high is a root cause of driving inflation, but disagree on how to address that. You want to redistribute profits into lower prices, I want to redistribute it to salaries and allow people to save more rather than borrow, because ultimately its borrowing money (which is in essence creating new money), that drives inflation.
I can't stand the ESR view on hacker-supposed media, music or martial arts. And I say this as a former Shotokan branch graded Karate alumnus. On music I can shift from psychodelic rock to Tangerine Dream to hard rock to electronic avant-garde jazz.

On sci-fi, OFC I like it, but the mistery genre it's really fine as it's pretty close to debugging a problem but with real life issues.

On tech, Unix philosophy and Emacs are polarly opposite. Unix it's focused on multiprocessing parallel tools doing the work for you (preferabily scripted) where the less code your run, the better; while Emacs wants you to reuse Elisp functions everywhere, with an always-loaded philosophy and not lightweight at all if you have tons of modules in memory. Also, Emacs it's single threaded, so Emacs is very prone to be I/O locked, while Unix will spawn background subprocesses like nothing not affecting your main task at all.
Depends on the use case.

If the captcha is to prevent overuse of a free trial, then nobody will operate a lot of devices just to get more free trials if the paid version is cheaper than those devices.

If the use case is to improve democracy, then it gets more complicated.
Sounds like DRM - pirates do not care, legitimate users are bothered.