skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a fine tuning and embedding on a large LLM that is based on 50 years of daily journal entries, extensive daily notebooks usually measuring in the hundreds to thousands of words per day, and personal writings across a half-dozen different blogs and websites and various social media feeds. Social media posts and comments (including this one) are also put into my notebooks with a snippet of context about why I posted that.

In my journal and daily notebooks I write out some pretty deep and dark thoughts too. It's about as close to a snapshot of my inner thoughts as you can imagine.

And the LLM digested all of that. It took quite a while.

It has provided some interesting insight into who I am as a person, and also how I see myself.
No, at least not without spinning up your own MVNO, registering it, and getting the phone numbers you care about ported over to it.

The provider information isn't encoded in the calls themselves, there's essentially a (number of) centralized databases that can be queried to get provider information, out of band.
I don't believe there was any special handling for corruption, but there was probably hash checking when syncing new data every few minutes. The data stored in there was not user data, so the failure modes are not as severe. Sparkey is also never the source of truth, it's a local cache for each service instance.
I've tried all kinds of portable physical keyboards but for programming on android you can't beat Hackers Keyboard https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard

I've got a fork working with Android 14
>NSA

>Wi-Fi

No.
Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64
> those pesky humans out of the loop completely

I don't know why you have such a bad outlook about this.

I have wanted to direct epic fantasy films my entire life, and this is the first tangible shot I have at making something that might look like a "blockbuster". My chances of doing that without GenAI were slim to none. Hollywood is a steep pyramid.

I don't know how you can't be excited. This is the dreams-come-true timeline.
Why doesn't my code compile when I change a shared_ptr<T>(p) to a make_shared<T>
And what exactly where their responsibilities that they failed to understand?
I like this paragraph from the article. Sort of first principles approach to the whole thing :)

"The basis for the whole system is the A0 format which has an area of one square meter. With an aspect ratio equal to the square root of two, a sheet of A0 paper ends up being 841 × 1189 millimeters. Figuring out the dimensions of the subsequent paper sizes does not require any real mathematical strain since each ensuing size can be created by simply folding the paper in half with the crease parallel to the shortest sides. If you do this with an A0 sheet of paper, the resulting dimensions will be 594 × 841 millimeters, or the A1 format. Take note that the height of A1 is equal to the width of A0"
It's probably sufficient to just interact as much as you can and save your data. It's going to get "uploaded" to a LLM eventually. I saved about 17 years worth of my messages.

Looking at my messages I think I don't need to train the model to generate that text, but rather identify the personality traits and emotional stance of the author, and be aware of personal facts. So probably something like RLHF would work better than SFT.

Assuming I have such a model I can further collect preference data to align it to my personality. Over time it might get good enough and I can officially bless it, if it ever gets to that level.

Getting our social account providers to export all our data without restrictions might become a new right we have to have. I know some of them are locking up since 2023 (reddit and twitter).
Wardrivers with sufficient randomization to avoid any denylist you implement will get very annoying if you let those notifications interrupt you. Maybe only receive such requests while you expect guests.
This is a nice exercise!

There is also a very different “write SIMD assembly in Python” approach available through the PeachPy library, one of the least known gems between Python and HPC worlds: https://github.com/Maratyszcza/PeachPy

This is what a dot-product would look like in PeachPy: https://unum-cloud.github.io/usearch/python/index.html#id4

PS: Cppyy and Numba are also fun to use in such projects :)
And none of the current crisis is illegal or “illegal”. If we have a “border crisis” then it cannot be illegal because they are being stopped and processed at the border. The “crisis” is purely legal and of America’s making.
> They're not google employees in name only. They work on google equipment, have google badges, and go into google offices. If google doesn't like them, they're fired. Google controls every aspect of their work. These employees aren't allowed to seek other customers either.

All of these classifications are required for a contracting position to exist. Access control mechanisms existing isn't a good argument. And another commentor[0] actually pointed out that they go to a non-Google facility.

> These employees aren't allowed to seek other customers either.

Presumably they can indeed seek other customers. If Cognizant doesn't let them, I don't see how that's on Google unless Google's agreement with them prohibits shuffling workers (most likely Google requires they give them some advanced notice, but it's still on Cognizant if they just don't allow the contractors to withdraw from said position or threaten the contractor with loss of any work if they try to withdraw from Google).

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38874465
> What laws, if repealed, would encourage Google to hire the employees directly?

Do you mean: what prevents Google hiring short-term workers directly? (instead of via Cognizant, etc)

Or do you mean: why doesn't Google hire permanent workers with lower-benefits*?

Or do you simply mean: why does Google hire contracts at all?
I think we have different understanding what an ELI5 explanation is.
> Or did you think they keep all of these employees at arms length out of the goodness of their hearts?

That is hardly fair; this is business. Nobody is there out of the goodness of their hearts. It isn't like Google is made up of people who have a deep personal belief that the best thing they can be doing on weekdays is working out how to funnel more people into the big advertising network.

The law gives contractors a big financial advantage over FTEs. Google hires contractors over FTEs. They're obviously toeing the line as closely as they can because they'd rather have FTEs at the price of a contractor, and they've overstepped it here, but they're just working under the regulations they're given.

This mania for trying to push situations away from the market equilibrium really needs to settle down. My guess is if pushed much further, it'll get outsourced to a different company in a different country. It is nigh impossible to convince a market to pay substantially more than the market value of something.
I’ll take the other other side and bet that they’re in their room gooning right now.
That they should have offered (and enforced) 2FA from day #1 because users will re-use passwords because they are utterly unaware of the implications of doing that. A company the size of 23andme in charge of a very large amount of medical data and PII should be aware of those implications. To blame the users here is beyond stupid and irresponsible.

You don't engineer a service like 23andme without doing some risk assessment and one of the risks they should have identified and mitigated is password re-use by Joe Average because Joe Average (and his mom) were exactly the demographic that they targeted. Anybody that was somewhat sensitive to the privacy risks wouldn't have used the service in the first place.
AFAIK Australia Teslas use CCS2 - I think ABRP just doesn't handle non-NACS charging for Tesla vehicles, at least on desktop.
From what I understand, the hack was due to a large number of people re-using passwords and the company doing nothing to prevent or detect this.

Security practices and their ludicrously bad response aside, I cannot fathom why someone would send their literal DNA to a company and then take no steps to secure that information. Is technical literacy really this poor amongst the general population? Even my retiree dad who can't reliably turn on his TV on knows about MFA.
I know. But 90% of articles call specific arbitrary subsets "5G" and it gets annoying to have the details skipped. By 5G does an article mean the incremental improvements, the expansion in mid-range frequencies, or the mmwave stuff? It's a crapshoot.

Let alone more subtle but important information like whether it's 5G in both directions.
> Yea, ADDITIONAL breaks, you also have to take short breaks at gas stations

My mid-size sedan (Kia K5) gets about 400 miles on a full tank, which is larger than the range of most (all?) EVs, which means that I will be stopping less often for less time than an EV driver.

> You're proving my point here by saying your just find one when you have to. My car just takes me to the ideal one automatically.

Gas stations literally line highways. They're naturally on the way to wherever I am going, I don't need to route to them. Charging stations are not.
I am currently a contractor for a large tech company. I am emphatically not an employee. I don't want to be an employee.

I don't have to do corporate training. I don't have to use a corporate laptop with corporate spyware; I use my own laptop. I work on side projects that are none of the company's business. I don't get told how I should work; I get evaluated based on results. Numerous employee policies simply don't apply to me. I work, and I submit invoices, and I get paid for the hours I work.

This may well not be the policy at every company. There are certainly cases where companies use contractors where they should be using employees, and for that matter vice versa. There are cases where companies treat their contractors badly, and for that matter treat their employees badly. There are also cases where contractors are a better choice (e.g. variable/uncertain needs over time, employees of third-party companies that don't want to be employees of the company in question, contractors who prefer being contractors).

Some people prefer to work as contractors. Some people prefer to work as employees. I very much wish that everyone has the option to work in the model they prefer.
I’m in the same boat. Outside of a professional setting atw style is the only way I write code. I find code easier to manage when I can see more of it at once. I like to use this style in JavaScript as well.
> Does this do any analysis of the sample files themselves or just auto-tagging and searching based on the sample file name?

The site suggests the latter: "Kicks Pro figures instrument names, genres, BPM, scales and more from sample names." The lack of subscription pricing is also a signal that they're not using a paid API.

The privacy policy is not helpful in this regard. It's effectively, "We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your information to outside parties, except when we do". https://www.kickspro.app/privacy-policy
Value Capture [pdf]
I’m a doctor professor, sounds better than engineer.
> That’s great, none of that is “package management”.

Tight coupling matters.

> Could that piece be made generic?

Semver has different meanings to different languages based on compiler versions.

Some languages want 100% build reproducibility and hermeticity, and some languages will never get there.

Some languages permit yanking.

Some languages allow binary distributions.

...

These decisions go very deep to the fundamental ethos of the languages themselves. I don't think we'd find any agreement.
Sorry to see them go. I used them with students and they were always very helpful.
Corporations with shareholders must list specific accounts as disclosure accounts; because otherwise sharing insider business related information is unfair insider advantage.

When you list a social media account as a disclosure account for a business, it should then be clear that there's liability to all such communications through such account.
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But they had Medicare Advantage plans, they weren't free-riding.

They were, perhaps, deceived by the Medicare Advantage insurers.
How do you think that blacklist would work that can’t be trivially rotated around by changing client identities?
These works work at Google, for Google. They must respect Google's workplace policies and conditions in order to perform their job. Their union is allowed to bargain over working conditions, which Google sets.

You could argue that they need to bargain with Cognizant, and Cognizant in turns needs to bargain with Google, but the NLRB has (rightfully) determined that it's ultimately Google setting the working conditions, and therefore the union should be bargaining directly with Google.
I made a little project called Concurrency Runner a while ago to attempt to test these kinds of scenarios: https://github.com/weinberg/concurrencyRunner. It does so by running multiple copies of your process in debug mode with breakpoints set to allow specific interleaved execution paths to be explored. This allows you to trigger concurrency scenarios which are difficult to analyze because they otherwise would rely on random timing. That repo has examples which demonstrate "read skew", "write skew" and "read modify write" concurrency scenarios. I was hoping I could make it into something you could run in CI to actively test for these things. Ultimately it was more of a research project than anything else but maybe someone will find it useful or interesting.
Yeah, this isn't at all necessary. It might work for you but it's not how we accomplish the same thing. See my original comment for what we do.
Related: my post about this: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-ml-models/

I recommend trying out TCC, which compiles C very fast.
One thing that have not been mentioned why i still do not have an EV. Recovery form loss of the power grid. My cost to store diesel for extended period compared to electricity is an insignificant fraction. For diesel I only need a tank, stabilizer, and a hand crank pump.

Can keep it for years. If I make the vehicle propane, I can do it for decades. No additional cost over time. This is not so for electric.

EV is excellent for short, in town trips for now. And, this is not a USA thing as noone likes to be stuck on the side of the road, no matter of the country.
Common sense tells you that if you set up a service for the gullible to send you their DNA that none of your customers are going to be security and privacy conscious. You need to engineer your service accordingly.
Go interfaces are unique in that they are implicit. Duck typed, if you will. That is not present in Haskell.
Pay walled but I assume it's "somethingsomething parents actually like watching it too." Since that seems to be everyone's reaction, including mine.

My 20 something sister with no kid watches it.
> I wonder if there are any tech giants that are not in one way or another committing crimes. I somewhat doubt it.

Said like that, isn't it just the corporate equivalent of "three felonies a day"? I think you're getting at something important, but "crime or not" no longer captures it.
Oh that's cool, and makes sense. Is it possible to perform type widening on enums? Or must they match precisely? For example, what happens if I attempt the below?

```
enum Option<T> {Some(T), Nothing};

let opt1 = enum {Some(Int)} of Some(5);

let opt2: Option<Int> = opt1;
```
Relatedly:

- Layoff to hopefully bump stock price prior to M&A negotiations

- Layoff to "streamline" before new CTO start date whether or not the CTO was expected to change directions and before incoming CTO even evaluated the existing teams. Further simplified: layoff to hopefully bump stock price due to speculation about CTO transfer being theoretically messy on paper.

There's definitely a common thread in my layoffs of some dull ideas to please some form of stock investor's short-term, single Quarter thinking, maybe influenced by actual stock investors. That's also something that there seems to be some data on in 2022/2023 layoff cycles in general how much of them have been "activist" shareholder lead, as much or more than board strategy (though the Venn Diagrams between boards and "activist" shareholders is sometimes quite close to a circle, go figure).
What's your intent by assuming what these hypothetical employers would think? They stated in the article that the intent was to raise awareness, not to troll. People are just assuming they're lying about their intent, but I don't see much point in trying to uncover a grand conspiracy here, fix the problem with npm.
There are probably a dozen articles on the issues in that pique news paper spanning a decade. Lots of finger pointing between the parties responsible for the design, installation and maintenance. The Vocal group of owners got bailed out by the local government at one point but it didn’t resolve the ongoing issues.

Not to say the technology is hopeless, just in this instance it wasn’t done properly so maybe it isn’t as easy as people think.
Depends if you want to QA every single shipment to ensure they don't revert back to cheaping out like they've done with other markets in the past.
Android's had a number of attempts at that, the biggest one being Samsung DeX, but it's just not a mass market product, like mini cellphones or unsmart TVs.
Because the rule of law democratic processes are being tossed aside to accommodate said bad actors hence the apt moniker.
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Back in the Olden Days, I worked at Boeing as a salaried engineer. We worked alongside a small army of contractors. The contractors didn't get any benefits, and could be let go with no notice, but had 50% higher pay than the directs. (It turns out that the value of the benefits package was about 50% of the pay.)

The directs were happy to be directs, and the contractors were happy to be contractors. I don't know why people have been so eager to upset this reasonable arrangement.
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Lots more discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856412
IMO it's cost saving.
What domains are those? It seems to mostly be an alternative to what people have use(d) Java or C# for.
They want to switch from Medicare Advantage to Medigap plans, which also cover the 20% co-insurance.

The problem seems to be that the law that forbids insurance companies from considering pre-existing conditions doesn't apply to them.
Usually, you do that when:

- you want to get a readily available trained workforce

- you want a temporary workforce

- you want to be able to swap vendors

- you want to maintain agility in the rest of the org, I.e. not depending on this workforce existing

Classic example is events (you don’t want to hire ushers, you want them present fully capable; you aren’t keeping them on forever; you’ll change your events people if you’re unhappy)
The original Go announcement spells it all out pretty nicely.
I’d agree if we all lived in a vacuum.

Workers can’t hold out. They (we) need food and housing. Individuals can’t hold out hoping wages go up.

From a group standpoint, unions have been weakened to such a degree in the US (where I live) that it’s hard to put together an action.

Now if unions were strengthened and grew to a point that the minimum wage had no bearing on real life. Sure, get the government out. It’s probably better that way. But you can’t strike down group power and force people to eat crap.
Riiight. Then, I call dibs on the developer tooling for local singularity. Let other deal with the consequences. Should be safe enough?
Wikipedia says I can drink gasoline. Neat.
Anyone who's run an open source project is used to getting feature requests or complaints from groups like:

* people who are merely interested but have no plans to use your project

* people with strong opinions not backed by actual experience

* people with a specific interest (like a new API or feature) who want to integrate it into as many projects as possible

From a naive perspective, it makes sense to treat a request like 'we need monotonic time' as something that doesn't necessarily have any merit. The Go team are very experienced and opinionated, and it seems like it was a request that ran against their own instincts. The design complication probably was distasteful as well.

The problem is, the only reason they never needed monotonic time in the past was that many of them spent all their time working in special environments that didn't need it (Google doesn't do leap seconds). In practice other people shipping software in the wider world do need it, and that's why they were asking for it. Their expertise was loudly disregarded even though the requests came with justification and problem scenarios.
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Can you explain why you think this is a Chinese supply chain attack?

The chip isn't fabricated in China. The fab doesn't have access to the HDL source code so no one can just code in malicious registers. They'd need modify something like the chip mask precursor I think. I'm not a chip fabricator so I don't know enough to say this is impossible.