skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe a role where you can make use of your design skills as well would be a good fit as well?

Yes, I also consider this, but so far didn't see a job offer

> How many applications did you send out so far?

Around 20 or more
txtai 6.3: One-line LLM inference, API Authorization and RAG improvements
Solving this problem to optimality (for whatever constraints and objective function one is interested in -- a precise formulation was not given by the O.P.) is presumably NP-hard indeed, meaning that the computational cost grows exponentially with the size of the problem (in practice: the number of invitees).

However,

1. This is only an asymptotic argument. For "small" size, these problems can be tackled. People routinely solve this type of problem (namely: mixed-integer optimization problems), with up to hundreds of thousands of variables, to proven optimality, in a matter of minutes (see [1]). In this case, it looks like an assignment problem in which the number of variables would be (number of invitees) times (number of tables), so for up to 1000 invitees and 100 tables, there is a chance the problem can be solved optimally.

2. The O.P. is most likely looking heuristically for good solutions, not optimal ones. And I can't really blame them for that. Do we really care about optimality here?

[1] https://plato.asu.edu/ftp/milp.html
> People are leaving in droves

I was chatting with someone recently who is still on Xitter and he was wondering why so many of his followers had recently been "suspended". I got to wondering: if a lot of people are leaving and X doesn't want that to be something the remaining people focus on are they just calling people who have deleted their accounts "suspended"?
Ken Silverman, creator of the BUILD Engine, made MP3PC.exe that's still hosted on his Utilities page. I'm pretty sure I used this on a 486 years ago and was surprised at how well it worked, though it apparently is picky about MP3 encodings. From the description:

> MP3PC.EXE (73,483 bytes): Got no sound card? MP3PC plays MP3 files through your PC speaker! For some reason I like to make programs work through the PC speaker. Some people still don't know that it's possible to play real sounds through it. Unfortunately, you must run this in pure DOS mode for it to work.

His Utilities page can be found at: http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm
Thanks for explaining. Wondered how non-ferro coins were handled.

TD Bank in Canada had coin counting machines for customers for a while. I dumped a few hundred $ in and was very happy when it kicked back some silver coins to me.

How nice of them!
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Email: See Résumé

Looking for part-time to full-time work in the Elixir and/or DevOps space. I have many years of experience building high-traffic and mission-critical Phoenix and LiveView applications in AWS and Digital Ocean, and am hoping to continue working with those technologies.
Location: Austin, TX
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Full stack web (LAMP), specialized in testing, java, selenium, junit, jmeter, devops, aws, jenkins.
Résumé/CV: http://rossradford.com/RossRadford.pdf
Email: ross@rossradford.com

I'm in advanced interview process with a few companies already, so get me while you can!
There is a difference between criticism and discouragement. The first is incredibly valuable.

The problem is that it's very difficult to articulate that difference. This is a failure of language (and social norms), and it has to be recognized by both the speaker and the listener before it can be accommodated.
Aren't that great?

Making Windows work across the diversity of hardware it does, in basically every language, is impressive to me. Azure seems to work pretty impressively at scale, Xbox is no slouch, and Bing is the only credible alternative to Google.

Office is everywhere, Email is done at scale, OneDrive is simple and effective, again at scale.

Or we can look at the deep levels of Enterprise integrations (Active Directory, SQL Server, Group Policies et al)

Or what about development tools like Visual Studio, languages like C++ or C#, or a bunch of other stuff in that lin

I get the "Microsoft is evil" mantra from the Open Source community, and thats certainly well deserved. They're far from perfect, their business practices in the past have been down right bad, but I'm not sure their Engineering is the area I'd fault them for.
None of my actual jobs were through linkedin, but that's just luck. I've done several onsites as a result of either applying through linkedin, or because someone messaged me.
He's also neglecting to mention what a mammoth hydroelectric powerhouse Quebec is, because of that, they have a giant surplus of electricity that makes their utility bills extremely cheap relative to anywhere else in North America, helps manufacturing businesses and gives them the ability to export power, to boot.

Meanwhile Alberta burns (and leaks) natural gas and coal and gripes because the rest of the country is punishing them for it, and complains to high heaven that we're not making new markets for them (or others) to burn and leak more of it.

Quebec and Ontario have prioritized manufacturing over resource extraction, and that benefits their population.
> Does curl provide financial incentives for filing CVEs?

Up to $10,000 according to their HackerOne page.

I could also see this being a misguided attempt at being helpful, given the submitter clearly cannot read C. Though I'm not sure where you'd lie in the computer competency spectrum if you can use an LLM to find code bugs withoug realising they'll probably be hallucinated.
Many censored people are coming back to Twitter/X

Twitter/X seems to have good engagement and there are active Geopolitics, Israeli/Zionist, Palestinian/Muslim, Russian, Ukrainian (NAFO), Covid, anti-MSM, anti-Disinfo, populist, Crypto/NFT, Black American, sports, and many Indian and African spaces on an ongoing regular basis, several running concurrently at many times of the day. I like that I can go into multiple spaces at different times and hear radically different perspectives unfiltered. This is why the platform appears to be getting much more sticky.

The Spaces bug where you can't hear people is the most annoying thing about it, other than the link interception.

I'm bothered by the 3 levels of subscription - the basic, premium and premium+. The premium still has ads everywhere, and the + does not, but costs more. I think both should be ad-free. I hate ads particularly when I am already paying for the service!
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-premium#tbpricing-byco...
Given that Premium users are supposed to see 50% less ads, I cannot imagine what kind of ad hellscape it would be if I was not at premium level. I block every ad X account I see.

It is a good place for breaking news and unfiltered data. There is still weaponization of the CommunityNotes, and active shilling and astroturfing by intelligence agencies doing propaganda online.

I have not used Grok at all so I cannot comment there
The mainstream version of this post is called subtree-merge and supported by recent Git versions ootb
When money becomes a target, it fails to be a good money?
Does it use two sets of lift tape? https://fixmyblinds.com/collections/cellular-honeycomb-pleat...
'Good cholesterol' and dementia: Researchers chart a correlation
https://archive.ph/6a30u
Which is mincemeat of an answer. Plenty of hate speech is banned on university campuses even when not targeted at an indi vidual.
I first thought this was a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904047, but turns out it's a different LLM-generated bogus vulnerability report about curl on hackerone.
Yes, it's meant satirical (mostly). Simply because its rust and people say rust is "blazingly fast".

It still is quite fast though I would say (I have not compared it to anything else though).

While moving a 1000Hz polling rate mouse, the cpu usage is about 2% of a single core on my machine (according to htop).
It also uses udp to get the lowest possible latency (which e.g. barrier / input-leap does not afaik).
Not just that, but in many jurisdictions it is already "fair use" (TDM exceptions). EU, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. If the US bans it, it's only going to hurt itself.
I disagree, I think those types of things need to be said and in more places than they currently are. It’s the only way to build momentum to achieve change. Sure, it might be uncomfortable but that’s a part of growth.
The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon
A woman, not that it matters
Because this is about two repos with unrelated histories
Yes Curl offers a Bug Bounty - https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-f...
Can you point to the ruling? It looks like Google searches don't uncover any useful writing about a specific legal ruling allowing direct calls to violence against a group, but as usual, I am always best convinced by specific links to articles referencing case decisions.
It is curious as to why Fidelity is owning X shares. Is this on behalf of some sort of Fidelity mutual fund that invests in private companies? Or is some sort of alternative investment fund targeted at accredited investors only?

Or do they invest the Fidelity customer cash balances in some sort of David Swenson style diversified portfolio?
I would suggest sending out way more. It's a numbers game. Starting out fresh for myself took 500+ applications before landing a job.
I installed it, and upon adding the weather plugin, it stopped, and the icon disappeared from the bar.

I have raised a bug with more details #400
Um, it wasn’t until 2011 before the first person achieved level 30, as the video mentions fairly early on
It was common, especially in the later days of the 2600, for cartridges to include helper circuitry including RAM and even sound chips.
I believe that nextpnr has integrated both a simulated annealing placer and an analytical placer (based on this publication from 2019: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10407) (see here for the work the analytical placer is based on: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6339278). I think they are also working on electrostatic placement but I'm not sure what the current status of that is.
An important lesson they taught us in high school was how to tell the difference between elegantly-stated falsehoods and inelegantly-stated truths.

... but it can be difficult. People tend to use proper grammar and style as a first-pass filter for intelligent discourse, and getting the shape of language right is something that LLMs are very, very good at.
LinkedIn seems to have been at Stage 2 of Doctorow's enshittification pattern for years now: blatantly hostile to its users, but (as far as I know) doing right by advertisers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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Interesting, but this aspect makes me double-take: "We demonstrate that Mistral-7B, when fine-tuned solely on synthetic data, attains competitive
performance on the BEIR [ 40 ] and MTEB [27] benchmarks".

E5/BGE large are an order of magnitude smaller than Mistral-7B. So is this just "bigger model wins" in disguise?

I need to read the whole paper carefully, but this jumped out at me.
Really appreciate all the info about making blinds safer for kids organized into one place. Good link for sending to parents.
People on LinkedIn are real. If you use it like a communication tool, it can be very effective at locating opportunities or helping others do the same. I have thousands of loose connections on LinkedIn, many of whom I would/could never email/text/call directly looking for work. But with a single LinkedIn post, I am likely to get many responses / offers of help. I wouldn't bank on this being my only avenue to finding work, but it definitely is AN avenue if you use it right.

In parallel, many LinkedIn "influencers" are spamming garbage. You just need to ignore it, similar to how you might ignore garbage accounts on Twitter.
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My dog clearly is interested about visuals of other dogs but her mirror image doesn't impress her at all. The test you proposed would be interesting.
It's probably an optimization problem with multiple parameters so you're never looking for an exact solution.

But as the NP-hardness of that problem goes: Say you have 400 guests on 50 tables and you probably expect multiple solutions, you're looking at maybe 20K variables in a SAT encoding. That's an industrial scale SAT problem but very much not untractable.

The question is, whether we would usually expect a number of solutions in the thousands or whether we expect just a handful. I'd guess its the former, as many people on the "cheap tables" are really interchangeable and not subject to many constraints. So usually you'd looking at just a handful of tables and guests that are difficult to place. That begs the question whether the problem OP's trying to solve is really a problem people have difficulties solving (or isn't easily solved by adding a table or two).
The statistics are also available as "per passenger-hour", which eliminates the speed factor. An 8 hour road trip is reasonable. An 8 hour flight is on the longer side.
Which are lawyer things. We're talking about fixer things. He did all the lawyer things, AND fixer things.
SEEKING WORK - remote

Location: West coast Canada. Remote: Yes.

Technologies: Machine learning, Python, Tensorflow/Keras/pytorch, spark, Scala, AWS, kafka, HDFS, etc. A whole host of technologies over 20 year career.

email in profile.

I'm an experienced Data scientist, who's worked on a bunch of interesting projects. With Covid I've come to realize I need to work in public more often. So an ideal fit would be a small/medium company with hair on fire problems that need solving.

What sort of problems do I like?

A Taxi company in latam hired me to built a fleet maintenance system. It predicted and scheduled preventative maintenance to reduce wear and tear and avoid breakdowns. We also identified the leading cause of wear - leadfoot drivers. So we built a system that would identify aggressive driving.

Another example was a speculative sports highlights annotation system I built with a consultancy. It ingested sports video and identified predetermined highlights in baseball - diving catches in our case. The ML pipeline was a CNN model which fed into an RNN. Given a bunch of video clips of diving catches as training data, it could later identify those diving catches and automatically annotate the video feeds.

Who shouldn't contact me.

If your market is Ads or gambling I'm not interested. Sure there's lot of money, but I'd rather sleep at night. Thanks.

Also, perl.

Things I'd love to work on:

ML security and safety. Can your DS process be made to give up its internal workings? Can I subvert it to cause unsafe conditions? Almost no one is thinking about these questions, and I'd like the chance to. I'd love to work on LLM safety, but despite the hype about it I suspect it's a bit too early for serious work there.
Cryptocurrency is so wildly different from normal money in so many ways, that any attempt to look at just the "open API" aspect of it is futile.

Or do you see any conclusions about "money APIs" that can be reasonably made from crypto?
interesting DoS! consuming the valuable time of the analyst. this could become a real problem.
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We are a seed stage startup backed by some of the most respected climate investors on the planet (True Ventures, Jetstream, Village Global, Looking Glass, Keiki Capital, Greensoil PropTech Ventures, and others); you would be the fourth engineer and eighth team member. We are open to any applicant who lives in the US - you should be comfortable working in a fully distributed, remote-first company.

Data Engineer: We are looking for someone to help with the development of the ETL pipeline for the ingestion of electricity meter data and an array of other diverse datasets used in the measurement and verification of decarbonization programs. We are looking for help building out a pipeline that ingests and computes models using hourly meter data on the scale of millions of meters. Our ideal applicant is a python-first programmer who is also experienced in pandas. Work will also entail supporting data science related to measurement and verification. Previous experience with energy data is a plus.

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Sources on this? As far as I know, no jurisdiction has yet ruled on AI fair use policy.
It sounds like a nice alternative to engaging with a broken currency but it creates all these headaches/problems. How do we stop employers from leveraging the quality and quantity of these goods in such a way that employees are still provided and equivalent benefit as before? Even with refrigeration, food spoils, so if you give your employee their salary in perishables that institutes an effective top salary, set to the cost in USD to acquire (2k calories * number of days in the pay period * number of dependents). Everything after that is extra that you can't consume and will go bad. And if you try to trade the extra to get some hard currency, well everyone else in your boat will be doing the same, which will lead to increased inflation for these raw goods.

Alternatively employers could give all of the necessities of life in raw form (housing, medical treatment, food, water, internet, clothing, etc) but that doesn't scale well and is vastly more inefficient than just providing the currency required to procure those goods individually. Not to mention the leverage that gives employers into how you live your personal life which is a huge concern too.

It's hard for me to see a return to barter as anything other than a collapse in the economic complexity of a country.
I felt the same every time I tried to get some help in a subject matter where my knowledge was quite advanced and/or when the subject matter was obscure/niche.

Whenever I tried it on something more common and/on in some stuff I had absolutely zero familiarity it did help me bootstrap quicker than reading some documentation would have

That tells a lot about how hard it is to write/find documentation that is tailored exactly to you and your needs
It would be terrifying for any bank to give people 30 thirty year loans at historically low interest rates (because of the interest rate risk - rates have nowhere to go but up, and the bank could easily be upside down for most of the loan), so the U.S. government subsidizes/backs most mortgages (fannie and freddie). This tends to increase the cost of housing while taxpayers are taking on the interest rate risk instead of the banks.

The U.S. is an anomaly with these loans. Most countries don't do this 30 year fixed low rate mortgages like the U.S. It simply doesn't make sense for lenders to underwrite long loans at low rates.
0. Don't tell your manager/customer that you first did it or there will be no do it right and do it better!
We’d have at least as many SchemeScript frameworks as we have JavaScript frameworks now.

Or maybe Flash with ActionScript would have won. ;)
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There are options to paying the custom broker, but none of them are really great.

He is allowed to do the custom clearance himself instead of using the shipper's broker. He just needs to get the paperwork and take them physically into his local CBSA office, then get the CBSA paperwork back to the shipping company.

He could also have the item sent to a mailbox in the US and then pick it up from there.

Of course, the person has a business to run, so it probably would make more sense to just pay the broker ($20 + percentage of the Tax for fronting the money) to do rather than to spend an hour on handling paperwork and lining up at the office on one item or drive to the US and back.
Well, it's not uncommon for apparently useful patch sets to be posted to lkml and just be ignored, even if they come from large companies and are posted many times. Given that kernel development seems to suffer from throughput bottlenecks, it makes sense that researchers ignore it.
Size-optimized, RAM-only mods. Sounds interesting...
Yeah but if something stays in Electron 10 years later then either it’s not successful enough to warrant the cost of a rewrite or the payoff of the rewrite isn’t a good trade off.

In both cases if originally building in Electron was a substantial productivity boost then it sounds like it was the right choice.
There's nothing so far indicating that they have, at this point. Though I doubt predictive algorithms would work - there are all kinds of situations, all slightly different, and lots of them about understanding what someone else might be thinking. As I mentioned, I think we'll need general artificial intelligence to do this properly.
Unfortunately, the territory has already been marked when it comes to the political slapfight. Florida for example has been waging a battle on all forms of education so that they can funnel the money towards religious initiatives and schools (See: New College of Florida). The goal is to find any flaws they can in universities or schooling then twist the knife until they can take it over.

Expecting people to be consistent when it comes to treating organizations the same way is a fools gambit.
The design is beautiful. It's like an old paper map came to life.
> Twitter/X seems to have good engagement

Perhaps. But not for the audiences that matter to advertisers.
Yes, thanks!
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