skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

The second of those is huge. Unfortunately, it's well-founded prejudice too; a lot of people who are jobless are jobless for a reason. Many "layoffs" are a euphemism for being fired, and interviews are imperfect to say the least. If I don't catch the reason you're unemployable, there are two possibilities:

(1) You don't have a reason, and you're perfectly employable

(2) You do, and it slipped past the interview process.

The longer you're jobless, the less employable you are. Employable people will snatch up new jobs very quickly. If you've sent 10,000 resumes and flunked 100 interviews, and pass mine, odds aren't that you've magically improved, but that you got lucky. If you've been unemployed for the past two years without good reason, you're very likely in that bin, so for most hiring managers, the longer you've been unemployed, the harder it is to pass an interview screen.

On the other hand, shit work 9-5 looks the same on a resume or in an interview as real work. A hiring manager won't know any better.

As a footnote, leverage is a real issue, but is easier to manage. Many companies will try to take advantage. However, at least as often:

- The hiring manager (personally) doesn't care about how much you cost. They want a good team, and it's not their money.

- The employer has fixed salary grades. There's little room to negotiate. If you do negotiate, the impact is generally transitory (if you're hired at the top of your salary grade, you can expect to have no raises for a few years without a promotion).

- The company compensates fairly, since they don't want a revolving door of people.

I'm not going to argue whether that's a majority or minority of companies, but it's manageable. At that kind of employer, you might get a few thousand extra with leverage than without, but it won't be a difference of tens of thousands of dollars, and nowhere near "being taken advantage of."
Signs of things to come at a broader level in 2024.
> "an off-putting nerd named Elon Musk won’t stop talking about an “everything app” called X that will help him manifest his extremist views"

> Twitter’s slide into irrelevance and extremism as it decays into X has hastened the explosive growth of a whole host of newer social networks. There’s the nerdy vibes of the noncommercial Mastodon communities (each one with its own set of Dungeons and Dragons rules to play by), the raucous hedonism of Bluesky (like your old Tumblr timeline at its most scandalous), and the at-least-it’s-not-LinkedIn noisiness of Threads, brought to you by Instagram, meaning Facebook, meaning Meta.

A completely unserious take. It's fine if you hate Musk, you can hate anyone you want, but to slop praise on tiny little social media sites like Bluesky while demonizing new Twitter/X shows me you are completely prepared to lie and distort reality to fit your political agenda.
The top prize winners so far are neural networks (but smaller ones).
No big surprise, is it? I guess Reuters will get "nuclear" law suite by Tesla for this...
> a monitor will be appointed to oversee Aylo and its compliance efforts for three years.
ColdFusion was a great product for its time. My employer in the early 2000s had it as our default preferred language though if a client had a different language preference, we'd use that instead. Today most of my exposure to CF is through finding untouched old code still chugging along decades after it was first written. Unfortunately, injection vulnerabilities were pervasive in CF coding practices of the era and now it's very common to find old CF programs with thousands of vulnerabilities and no one to fix them. Any documentation on the business rules in them have long been forgotten. We have web application firewalls and other monitors in place to try to catch any vulnerable code being exploited and hope someday that the departments behind the programs decide they need a major overhaul that necessitates a greenfield rewrite. I did push for us to hire someone to either correct the vulnerable code or do a transliteration conversion to a contemporary tech stack but no one wants to allocate money for it, especially since the problem is spread around many different departments.

That the ColdFusion programs have been silently doing their thing for a long time without failing is a testament to the strength and durability of the platform. It also says something about what a sleepy, mundane employer I'm with now, but sometimes it's nice to not have to deal with everything around you being a moving part constantly changing its path.
Absolutely. I mentioned this in another comment, but the fact that every language doesn’t have a version of cfquery (including query of queries) is criminal. It makes me sick when I have to work with sql in any other language because I always think how much easier it would be with cfquery. People should copy the best ideas and cfquery is one of the very best ideas ever to come out of programming languages. Everyone should be copying it.
Also, passports become useless once your government actively turns against you, see the current fate of adult Ukrainian men still residing in Ukraine.

The same thing risks happening with this government-approved online identity, I mean, how will the EU bureaucrats “handle” people like me that are openly against the West’s take in Ukraine? Will we get our accounts banned from posting pro-Russia content online?
I would go one step further. retrain without any NYT data and any references to the NYT. As afar as any LLM user is concerned, NYT would not exist.
Did you try out 'gamescope'? This is something you find on the Deck but not 'for free' with Steam on other Linux.

I find it helps with pacing. It also supports VRR with a commandline argument, '--adaptive-sync'.

VRR may need support in the environment to work, I'm not sure. Sway/wlroots does it fine. Presumably KDE does/can too since that's what the Deck uses in 'desktop' mode (otherwise, gamescope).

edit: I see in another post - you have! Agreed on KDE being scattershot. I hope the Gnome people clear things up for you. I wouldn't go so far as to suggest i3/Sway, even though I'm happy with them
What else are you going to buy? A Chevy?
> Wireless headphones and Bluetooth earpieces existed

Afaik you had either full headphones with a headband, in-ears with the battery hanging off a cable between them and the one-ear standalone things that were good only for calls.

Also the little charging box that you could keep in your pocket was nowhere to be seen.

So yes, airpods were a lot more convenient when launched. Has little to do with branding. Everyone is cloning it now :)
In that situation, you just move it.
In addition to the project you mentioned, there is quite an ecosystem for Emacs working with API-based LLM:

https://github.com/emacs-openai/chatgpt

https://github.com/stuhlmueller/gpt.el

https://github.com/rksm/org-ai

https://github.com/joshcho/ChatGPT.el

https://github.com/rksm/gptel
Tell that all SSL cert holders lol
I wonder what the average number of children male politicians have is?
That’s surprising to hear. I have zero DB experience, not am I a developer, and my default assumption is that some UUID maps to object / entry containing email address (and all other attributes).
Is it an actual linear scale?
https://archive.is/7lhOw
This case seems difficult. On the one hand, maybe the restraint order should have been enough? On the other hand, it’s at least somewhat understandable that the car manufacturer would be hesitant to cut the owner off from access to their property.

The broader issue is that if a couple has turned on all sorts of data and account sharing it’s easy to see how information leaks can easily happen in spite of efforts to plug them by one
party.
> the technical superiority is on our side

Getting some Betamax vibes here ;)

But I also don’t really see the superiority versus Core Audio or ASIO-based systems to be honest.
What about iCloud? I guess in theory they can ban your account, but at least with apple I feel like you generally have some recourse and can talk to a human.
Actually no, most cars don't have suspension failures...
Long ago the libraries I wrote in Turbo Pascal were a sort of jig. The way I wrote comments was another.

12/31/2023 - MAW - Added example

I think of a lot of conventions and practices that I always did, no matter what as something like a foundation.

The pkZip archives on floppy disk, got replaced with Git eventually. It's a new, better jig. Or maybe better yet is the .ignore file I always copy into a new repo.
And indeed decades ago when i used CF, some developers would move to files that had all CF logic and no HTML, for an MVC-kind of setup where only the V was HTML with embeds. Similar to the trend in PHP.

(I stopped using it nearly 20 years ago and don't know what has happened since).

I would agree that PHP and CF (at least CF of 20 years ago) are pretty similar conceptually.
I think there is a pretty terrible bug. I just bought some credits to try it out but they are not showing up at all.
The money was deducted from my balance though.
By the mainstream media press sure. But are customers really following their bullshit? Tesla sales are still outpacing the entire BEV market except for BYD in China.
You could get them though now with USB 4 ports.
I mean, are you denying that “make a barely-workable prototype, sell it, hope to improve it later” is a big startup-world thing? Like, you could argue it’s not, I suppose, but probably not… super-credibly?

Trouble is, as an approach it works a lot better with CRUD apps than with cars.
It's like saying if you drive tomorrow you're going to get in a fatal accident, no one in their right mind would drive in that case.

The only way it can work is if you make the prediction and don't tell those that are affected. But generally in any larger market attempting to capitalize on the future state of the market changes the market and the predicted position.
> Getting input into LLM various ways (region, buffer, file, inline prompt), and then outputting the result various ways (append at point, overwrite region, put in new buffer, etc).

gptel is designed to do this. It also tries to provide the same interface to local LLMs (via ollama, GPT4All etc) and remote services (ChatGPT, Gemini, Kagi, etc).
Some more discussion about the reddit thread mentioned in the article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38817550
The hypothesis I want to test is that image/live development has a much higher ceiling of productivity than what we're used to, we just haven't tried hard enough. The failure of Smalltalk are known and easily found, my issue with it is that we've abandoned research on this "fancy and new" aspect from the 80s because of its failures and returned to the mainframe style of the 60s, which is still the model today. It is incredible how many advanced ideas are starting to pop in our languages today, that were active areas of research in the 50+ years ago. Some papers from that era still read like science fiction today.

So there is this unknown field of research that can only be explored with the most malleable of environments, where you can switch between Self-like prototyping and Smalltalk-like rigid class model at runtime. Or turn it into an imperative language, why not. That is the beauty of COLA as a research ground to me.

That said, thanks for the reading list and food for thought :)
While I think there's some truth to this idea, modern companies and the software industry in particular has taken it to the absolute extreme. We're not just no longer asking people what they want, we're ignoring the existence of anything that a person could want aside from a momentary dopamine boost.

It's also really pretentious. Go read Shit User Stories for some particularly amusing/egregious examples.
Show HN: hodo.graphics – Mobile first meteorology models
I haven’t worked at Ford, but I have at Chrysler and GM.

Slobs, no. Specialized to a degree you can’t imagine, yes.

Tesla hires PHDs, normal OEs will hire kids out of a few MI or IL schools, train them, and then put them in 200 person teams.

There is a guy that does nothing but dog light mounting on 4 models of vehicles.

That is not how Tesla works.
Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime
Because in order to pee you have to expose your genitalia. I suppose the laws were made so that anyone exposing genitalia could be charged for it.

That being said, it is completely stupid that people are actually made to register as sex offenders when they really were just peeing. Doubly so when they did so without anyone other than themselves seeing their private parts.
Also skipping the dealership salesman
Tom Wilkinson, Actor in 'The Full Monty,' Dies at 75
That's the expected response. What else would they say?
The temperature in Cupertino is currently 50F. That probably doesn't meet your definition of cold though.
https://archive.ph/enqtf
Wall Street this past year began crushing non-profitable companies.

i.e. people stopped buying shares in non-profitable companies..
would you want stock in non-profitable companies in your retirement account? I wouldn't
"In conclusion, Duolingo’s decision to replace human translators with AI is a significant development in the era of AI takeover. While it may lead to job losses in the short term, it could also pave the way for new opportunities in the future. As we navigate this new landscape, it’s crucial for individuals and businesses alike to stay informed and adapt accordingly."

Was this written by ChatGPT?
The "attempt to save critical data" is a pretty major difference.
> I have a gadget that will, with some probability, steal your life's savings.

I can think of 2 instances of that machine already. the finance industry fees and an ex-wife.
Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/18sx06i/big_layof...
LTT found out the hard way, their attacker had a session token for an employee and changing everyone’s passwords didn’t lock the attacker out.
You were so busy thinking if can build such deeply disturbing piece of software that forgot to stop for a second and think about you wether should...
While HN was rather _late_ to figure out that Naughty Old Mr Car was full of shit (people defended him for the Thailand diver thing!) it does finally seem to have figured it out. HN’s hive mind tends to be rather slow on the uptake, but gets there eventually; see also Bitcoin (the savior of the world on this website until 2019 or so).
This is silly, most people aren't going to pay for ChatGPT, just like they won't pay for Google or DDG. So using 3.5 in this case is perfectly acceptable when we're talking about free software.
I fully believe it can get you to A1 reading and writing, but it totally falls down for speaking and listening. Which may very well be ok/useful for certain uses, but it's disappointing for people (like me) who mainly wanted to use it to talk to people. I thought I was making a ton of progress that I just wasn't until I started doing something else.
Ask HN: Why are mathematical standards so low? (And what should they be?)
As a control theorist, I'm privileged to have received rigorous training in applied mathematics. In my experience, most real life systems, organizations, and even psychological patterns can be effectively and practically understood in terms of dynamical systems, feedback loops, optimization, etc., to the extent that I strongly feel all people could benefit dramatically from receiving training in applied mathematics, control, and systems theory.

Unfortunately, truly grokking these topics requires significant mathematical maturity (which is often the byproduct of graduate-level mathematics courses). My question is this:
Can you imagine a hypothetical education system where students leave secondary school with an advanced-undergraduate level of mathematical maturity? Why or why not? What would such a system have to look like?
Very recognizable.. I've done a few projects at large-scale government and retail where me and team have been brought in after-the fact to fix "performance" and tech-debt issues with these things. In particular these platforms: "Be Informed" and "MuleSoft AnyPoint".

The story is exactly like the fine article mentions. Heavy reliance on proprietary stuff making the organization heavily reliant on very expensive consultants to get stuff done, no way to sanely version things..

I now go out of my way to avoid working rescue jobs like these, unless the client is actively migrating away from them.
Late Obituary: Steve Bristow Designed the Atari Joystick, Tank, Breakout (2015)
This makes no sense to me and is probably why we're so far away from a good solution - I pay my ISP for bandwidth to "the network", which includes other devices on "the network". This is the problem, not everything has to go through a "server" which then needs "bandwidth".
It’s a very common recall area. You should really do some research.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/jee...

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/honda-crv-recall-2023-rust-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1264789
> built on Arch, a bad call IMHO.

I'd be curious to hear why. Arch deserves it's reputation for poor stability, but for Valve's application with OSTree and immutable root should work fine. For users who don't want to tinker, they can receive a quality first-party experience with smooth upgrades. Users that do want to tinker are largely funneled into using Flatpak or AppImage, which are much more stable than AUR packages.
Exploring why the Plumbus is broken
While the HDSPe MADI FX is certainly RME’s PCIe flagship, it’s not that uncommon, so why not?

It could also be a HDSPe AES (32 channels) or RayDAT (72 channels). These cards are quite widely in use.

Also the fact that the card supports 96 channels doesn’t mean you need to have as many A/D inputs necessarily.
A simple theory of cancel culture
Thanks for sharing. Very enjoyable.
Do you have more info about the issues with Matrix?
It seems like you haven't looked into it much since it's was feasible for last 7-8 years..

Linux hosts had GPU passthrough working well before commercial software had such options. Nowadays it's just work out-of-box with Virt-Manager that just run QEMU under KVM.

It's been working for years for 99.9% of games excluding some invasive anti-cheats that ban you for VMs, but there literally only a few games that have issue with virtualization.
Why not just run the compilation though emacs/slime, and let emacs figure out the line numbers for you?

See e.g. https://github.com/jasom/geany-lisp for a plug-in for a different editor that does this.
Not every HN comment needs to be argumentative.
The thing is, we typically have three parts of a compression scheme: the data, the model (dictionary, Huffman tree, etc), and the program. The model is typically learned from the data at compression time.

The program itself is general, however, and as far as I know, doesn't count against the total. Ie, the size of the gzip binary isn't part of the total for the purposes of the contest.

So if an LLM is genuinely useful without fine tuning on the target data, you should make it part of the program.

The data-specific model could be a self-prompt produced from reading and summarizing the data, which would help with the initial context-free predictions...

{Edit} Ha, looking at the competition, it does indeed include the full size of the gzip binary in the metric. Weird.
Hi sorry about this. It should be fixed.
Solution: tune it right out of the shop and never bring it to your dealer for scheduled maintenance. Would love to finally see the hacking community pay some attention to infotainment systems.

Cars are becoming like PCs or phones, pre-bundled with a bunch of shit that you'd want to selectively purge upon acquisition but somehow car manufacturers don't have to give you the option.
I also suspect as much, but obviously can't know for sure. IMHO it's intellectually lazy if not dishonest to benchmark against 3.5 and not make that fact clearly known upfront

A better benchmark would have had two entries for ChatGPT, showing both 3.5 and 4 results
Lovely paper, thanks!
Hah! I was just referencing this paper the other day when mucking with the linker for an unrelated reason. I probably should have chosen a better name for my article - I am trying to cover the cases of "you have Linux command execution, how do you run native code?" as opposed to your approach which as I understand is more: "you are running native code, how can you load a separate ELF in-process?"

Agreed about institutional memory; zines/blogs are very important; but at the end of the day I usually end up just asking in some corner of IRC.
* depending on the anti-cheat or DRM

This is true for at least EAC/EasyAntiCheat. This covers a lot, sure, but not everything!
What Happened in 2023?
Ask HN: Did YC Startup School Discontinue "Exclusive Deals"?
Hi guys,

I just signed up for YC Startup School.

I wanted to apply for some of the exclusive Deals but I was unfortunately met with an Error 404 page via https://www.startupschool.org/deals

What could be the problem? Was the program for "exclusive deals" discontinued?

If it wasn't how can I still apply for these deals?
> Better screen

I disagree. I own two M2 MB pros: 14" and 16" and a T14 gen2 with a 4K display.
T4 display is definitely better, for starter it's matte.

Only place where MB shines is battery life. Even track-pads on newer Lenovos are decent.
Got it, all those automotive engineering PhDs were unemployed before Tesla showed up. And given bad Tesla's buold quality is, maybe Tesla should have all thise specialized teams as well.

But yes, this hyperspecialization is the main reason I didn't fo to automotive. Benefit of mounting the same light so, the guy doesn't mount it in a way that doesn't light the intended area or causes cable fires.
Can you share your strategy for learning languages? I want to get more serious about Japanese, and I'm pretty interested in input-based methods.
10 Patients die from nurse injecting tap water instead of Fentanyl at hospital
While there are trade offs do you actually think there aren’t good reasons for emergency notification systems? You might be happy to do without personally but that won’t be everyone’s informed choice. And location sharing between individuals has advantages as well at least on a temporary basis.

Comments like yours are the sort of low effort kneejerk reaction that pollute so many discussions. Just stop.
There was no effort behind countering my words.

First you tried to pretend that software is somehow different because it "doesn't do any physical harm".

I addressed that directly with a very specific example of physical harm.

(Besides, there are many more concerns beyond just physical harm, and my example of food poisoning was just an example that you must follow safety regulations even if you're a "one-person" company)

So your next counter-claim was a non-sequitur that "since it was recalled it means that there are regulations" which doesn't make sense even logically, which I addressed as well.

And the rest is just unsubstantiated claims that the law is redundant at best and bad at worst which is pure FUD.

How's that for good faith argument?

With this, I remove myself from this discussion. Adieu.
It would be both awesome and horrible at the same time. Only if they included older versions.

Awesome because I could then run Windows 2000 server forever. It was peak Windows for me. I'd strip out every bit of .NET crap.

Horrible because we'd never move on to a Capability Based Secure OS. It would doom us to the current insanity of computers we just can't trust, ever.

It doesn't have to be this way. Computers can be as secure as the dual floppy IBM PC/XT was, booted from a write protected diskette. It's a shame that was the high water mark for secure general purpose computing.
Excellent work—thanks!

Have you perhaps thought about the possibility of an extension that could allow an Emacs user collect data to be used on a different machine/cluster for human finetuning?