skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, what mainstream media outlet did this?

Second, recall:
1. There was basically (and as far as I know, still is) no evidence to support this being the case. There was a suspicion at most, and it was basically a conspiracy theory in 2020.

2. This conspiracy theory had a deep root in anti-China / anti-Asian racism. Anti-Asian hate crimes rose 150% in 2020 [1]. So I think it's pretty understandable that mainstream media outlets felt a responsibility to quell interest in conspiracy theories resulting in real-world harm.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-c...
The desire of fastener tension is clamping force or fastener stretch in some cases, not fastener torque. I think what the parent is saying is that a perfectly torqued fastener is only about 30% accurate in terms of clamping force.
The gold standard is immersion, everyone agrees on that. Most people can't have that, so a mix of language instruction, conversation with native speakers, and exposure to appropriately challenging texts with memorization tools like Duolingo or Anki as a _supplement_ is the next best thing.
No one on either side is going to see opposition investigations, prosecutions, and tactics as legitimate. They only make a candidate "flawed" in the eyes of those who already viewed them as flawed. For everyone else, its even a net gain because it reinforces authenticity. Which may be the hottest commodity in Washington. If anything is the opposite of "flawed" in the world of politics, it is "authentic".

And if there are going to be these extreme tactics, they have to work the first time to work at all. Politically speaking. In order to not look extremely inauthentic.

Maybe the RNC and DNC shouldn't have gone so hard in the paint starting in 2015, if they wanted anything done now to not have the oppposite intended effect.

It doesn't matter if he lost once. There isn't an authentic candidate to take his place. Many on the Right would rather see Joe Biden or even Hillary Clinton in office than Nikki Haley. Because at least they wouldn't be ruling inauthentically in the name of conservative voters.
increasing growth most places in world

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1743028102446408026

heres a total feature map of what was released in 2023:

https://twitter.com/enriquebrgn/status/1740950767325024387

I think thats definitely a signal that the B and C teams werent needed, considering they cut 90% of staff LOL.

As for the bots, AI is making it easier than ever to bypass those systems. CogVLM is just sitting there menacingly on github https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM
No, it’s not. He’s continuously lied about a democratic election, refusing to admit that he lost it and attempting to get people to falsify votes to cancel out his loss. None of that is a political opinion any more than any other statement of fact. You can still say you like him, but you can’t get away from reality by saying it’s an opinion.
I presume his point is that you are measuring torque (potentially very accurately) but what you actually care about is tension. It's the variable factors affecting the relationship between torque and tension that results in most of the +/- 30% accuracy in tension, not the measurement of the torque.
anybody's head range increases by holding anything to it...101 physics
Would you please stop posting these cross-examination comments? You've been doing it endlessly, it seems, and perpetuating flamewars in the process. This is not what HN is for.

I realize it's not your intent to troll, but that is the effect you've been having, and we have to moderate by effects, not intent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

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Flight 714 was also a Tintin book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_714_to_Sydney
Personally, this is my favorite:
https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/qgbvah/furry_it_sector...
Oh, and another important difference is memory layout. The dataframe implementations mostly (or all) use column-major format. Whereas most conventional SQL implementations use row-major format, I believe.
What is your IP policy regarding these generated images? The reason I ask is my intention would be to use them for laser engraving items that I would in turn ,sell on marketplaces such as Etsy.
I am concerned with my competitors falsreporting me for copyright infringement and would need to have a Record of my purchase and the generation of SVG in order to combat such accusations.
To someone in Minnesota umd means university of Minnesota Duluth campus.
> I don't know if the "coliving" thing has hit SF yet

There was a startup for just this a few years ago. Home share is what it was called.
top gear (UK) demonstrating this in practice (potato video quality) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jACSPipPSE
Because the comment I was replying to

>> Because the pilots should have been trained to unplug the computer to stop it from crashing the plane?

Yes.

The fault lies with the airlines because I don't for a second believe they didn't put pressure on Boeing to get the MAX certified without mandating retraining.

And then once that was done, didn't dig into the details too hard about what changes were made.

I have a low tolerance for 'I set up all the conditions and incentives to encourage you to break the law... but you should take all the blame when it explodes.'

At some point, the customer has to take some responsibility for what they asked for.
Yep. The immune system is watching for that and killing you off, if you’re being a social reject. That works for any social animal. Plus for humans there’s also a suicide trick.
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar pre-IPO. Of course you’d want to act quickly.
You were right that the page is written for those that know what they are looking for, which is just fine. If you are getting started in DS/ML/etc and you have used numpy, pandas, etc. polars is useful in some cases. A simple one, it loads dataframes faster (from experience with a team I help) than pandas.

I haven't played enough to know all it's benefits, but yes it's the next logical step if you are in the space using the above mentioned libraries, it's something one will find.
I’ve found it helps to hold my key with both hands.
They should just bump it to a day, like in Europe. Easy to justify if you can see it working well elsewhere.
Yes, it means you have to sign only once. Maybe for signing this doesn't matter, but sometimes these authenticity operations you are doing can be more expensive. Maybe you're adding hashes to a blockchain or something.

Plus the size of signatures can really add up depending on the number of files and algo.
Definitely seems like leadership sees this (breach of trust and ensuing PR fuck up) as an existential threat to the business. Wow.
This is the best response, but remember it's a response to getting caught. They didn't grow a conscience or replace leadership.

My company is still taking our business away from Carta, and I don't think anyone's plans should change because they repented after being caught. Things might be different if the CEO stepped down, but he hasn't yet.
Crypto is a scourge.
Something I advocate for in the UK is that we should actively suppress wages of industries like healthcare and agricultural with cheap foreign labour, while providing access to good and affordable education so that native workers maximally benefit from the migrant labour underclass. Specifically I think we should bring foreign workers here on mass to work in specific industries then deport them if they're unable to find work. We should ensure they're not allowed to work in other industries to reduce labour competition with natives working in sectors for which we don't want to suppress wages.

That said, some people disagree with the ethics of importing a migrant underclass which we're knowingly underpaying, but I'd agree with you that the current system benefits us, although it could be better with more immigration and labour controls.
LOL - made me chuckle
That's a habit I may have done way too much in the recent years working from home. It indeed helps organizing thinking, but that come with some disadvantages. Once you get too accustomed, it can... slip out at inappropriate times.

Now I believe that being able to structuring your thinking before speaking (or typing) helps in a multitude of situations. Sort of a different 'brain muscle' being trained.
Does that go for Carta Marketplace also? Asking because it seems to be a separate business.
I dont think the nyt needs a use. It's their stuff. A lot of these stupid billionaire lawsuits people can't be interested in hinge on legal foundations you otherwise freak put over. Imagine having to give random nobodies a valid reason to not use your car.
I’d also note a lot of regulation is not enforced at court, but by the regulator. They get to decide. You can appeal it to a court, but courts also grant the regulators pretty good latitude to interpret behavior as willful non compliance even when it’s done literally compliant but to the extent it enables and facilitates the specific outcome the regulation is intended to prevent. Technologists always have a hard time accepting the idea laws and regulations aren’t absolute or formulaic. Judgement and common sense can also be used and often is in situations where there is an intentional evasiveness.
Samsung warns fourth-quarter profit could plunge 35%, misses expectations
not enough for what? you'd have to show numbers of either unemployed new grads or retiring tech folks over the last few years to be able to say anything at all.
Is polars not parallelizing some ops on the GPU?
> How else are you going to achieve that?

People already thought about that problem when the World Wide Web was invented and they came up with Server Side Includes [0], a scripting standard that predates the Apache HTTP Server.

Looks like this inside the HTML document:

<!--#include file="header.html" -->

<!--#include file="footer.html" -->

Not many people use this anymore, but it is easy to share common markup and very accessible for people with just basic HTML knowledge. Major web servers of today still support it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes.
Wasn’t this what was released at the end of last year?
I suggest making satisfied equations green (and maybe unsatisfied ones red) as you go, rather than just at the end. There are a lot of equations that are ×1 or ÷1, which is less interesting than it could be. Fractions could be fun.

I got a puzzle with one equation already solved, and only intersecting with one other, so it wasn't actually doing anything. I can't see an identifier to specify which one it is, but it has 11 - 7 = 4 vertically on the left side.

The difficulty seems to plateau pretty quickly.
The author is publishing on a VPN company website; probably on the Proton AG payroll and performing her job. Sell VPN services.

It's really obvious. It's like reading something about companies fined for performing illegal disposal of carcinogens that potentially contaminate drinking water on a water purification company's website. It does not take a genuis to figure out the connection.

What is less obvious and decisively more deceptive, IMO, are Big Tech blog communications. There is no small amount of material about computer software and hardware, and various projects, but not all that much on programmatic advertising and its great utility to mankind.

Big Tech might sell some software and hardware, not nearly enough to pay these fines, but its "axe to grind" is data collection, surveillance and delivery of advertising services. The hardware and software are a Trojan Horse to support an online ad services business. Most of what is being discussed on these blogs is not for sale. They are not pitching advertising services, they are trying to attract audiences that will, knowingly or unknowingly, be targets for or otherwise support their efforts to conduct surveillance.

VPN companies do not seem nearly as conniving.
How can software engineers grow during a tech downturn?
Seems like tech industry is going through a downturn(transformation?). In every down turn, there are people who continue to progress/grow in their careers. If you’re one of these people, what are some tips, which have helped you, that you can share with fellow software engineers.
Title deserves a skosh of editorializing, perhaps "Activist Investor Elliott Takes 1B Stake in Match".
TBH I mainly just like it because the configuration file is a single line. It also never even occured to me for sudo or doas to log anything, so there's that.

Also, I don't have sudo installed at all on my system, and everything seems to work fine with doas. YMMV.
Excellent question. Thank you for asking.

This might sound strange, but the most salient lesson I've gotten is that value lies 10% in the software and 90% in understanding the problem domain. My customers don't usually care about _how_ we solve a problem for them, they just want a solution. They're often willing to discuss nitty-gritty details, but their ability to just get on with the stuff they're good at scales directly with our ability to simply remove a problem from their life.

Much miscommunication and incidental complexity stems from inverting that relationship, IMHO. Treating the product, i.e. the software, as the valuable asset and curating it thusly encourages us to focus on issues that are less relevant. It's harder to freely explore the problem domain and update our understanding when the landscape changes.

How this boils down in my day-to-day is that I have started giving my devs much more agency, allowing them to make bigger mistakes and learn harder-earned lessons, as long as it's clear that they're engaging directly with the core problem. In nitty-gritty discussions, I make sure that the discussion never loses sight of the core business problem and try to makes sure we stay aligned on that core aspect.

It's a bit strange that simply writing a YAML parser could connect so directly with business management-level sentiments, but I went into the project knowing that the problem itself isn't information theoretically massive and that APL should let me converge on some "set of equations" that distilled out its essential nature.

The process involved many rounds of completely throwing away my entire codebase and starting from scratch. Each time I found myself thinking about details not endemic to the problem, I would throw out the code and try again. It's psychologically easier to do that with 100 lines of APL than with the 10,000 line equivalent Python or C. Now everything is at a point where pretty much every character in the implementation externalizes some important piece of my understanding about YAML parsing.

That process contrasted starkly with the habits and culture at my work and got me to think about how much time, energy, and emotion is spent on potential irrelevancies, which then lead to thinking about where my company's true value lies and how we can keep that at the forefront.
I agree that CR editorialized a bit - apparently they're not immune to the increasingly emotionally charged journalism in this day and age.

However, I think that they did a better job than, e.g. the NYT would have done - and they actually did lab tests themselves!

I'm hoping that I can convince some friends and family to not just get a CR membership, but also write to them and ask them to editorialize less, change the way they review certain products (like cars), etc.
* in the USA
Yeah I've noticed a distinct reduction in linkedin spam too.
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The puzzles get easy again for a bit when two-digit numbers are introduced, but one unknown and one given number is a bit pointless.
BenchSci trims headcount, laying off 17%
Just dont use Azure....
/proc/self/mem is the moral equivalent of `unsafe`. Of course you can do arbitrary things with it. Why would anyone be surprised? You could use https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/process_vm_readv.2.htm.... You could fork and ptrace. You can do any number of weird things.

Every day that goes by is a day I think we should make a beeline to CHERI even when we have "safe" languages.
My exposure to bigco is they aren’t hiring anywhere.
I wonder how many “unfilled” roles are ghost jobs. I keep seeing the same roles re-posted or just never filled.
> days Turkey actually has quite cozy relations with Russia

It's a frenemy relationship, similar to China-India in the 2012-2019 time period or Saudi and Qatar.

Aside from the S-400 purchase, which was probably done in order to build a domestic clone similar to how TAI is attempting to build the Kaan, Russia-Turkey relations are largely economic in nature. At the NatSec or defense level, they clash directly.

For example, Turkish intelligence has supported Crimean Turkish rebel groups, has supplied Ukraine with offensive UAVs for almost a decade, has shot down Russian planes (and vice versa), and directly vies with Russia in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans.

When shit hits the fan like in 2015, the US came in to mediate, though the US-Turkey relationship isn't as strong due to the Trump admin's missteps with supporting the YPG. That said, it's still a fairly strong strategic relationship, especially when compared to similar countries the US previously supported like Thailand or Malaysia, or even Greece+Cyprus and their heavy dependence on Russian weaponry (the only country in the NATO to actively buy Russian weapons until the Ukraine-Russia conflict in 2022 started).

If Incirlik was shut down, then it would absolutely be a major pivot away from the US, but the military relationship has started to recover. For example, the Turkish Air Force has been integrated under a single command with American Air Force deployments in the Middle East since 2023.
Boeing also reduced the size of the manual trim wheels, which let them become impossible to turn sooner than on previous 737s.
The model itself was, but was the writeup? This submission is from yesterday.

I've not been following their releases too well but it seemed they were very much on the side of releasing models asap.
Here's a stupid question: How do you know your process is good unless you inspect it?

"Hey Bob I know you're a competent engineer, but don't worry about specifying a certain type of bolt or loctite, the untrained assembly personnel will figure it out. I'm sure they won't let 200 people die in a plane crash."
Funnily enough the main-stream media keep making fake news, but somehow we're suppose to believe in them and not question things ourselves.
> Airliner safety is insanely good.

Because I dug it up for another comment, commercial carriers operating under Part 121 (roughly: scheduled passenger and cargo operation) had 4 fatal incidents in the last 10 years. [0]

Totalling 6 deaths.

In 10 years of US commercial carrier aviation.

One of those was literally 'the engine exploded and threw part of the turbine into the cabin (and also shredded some of the wing)'!!

Which resulted in 1 person dying and a successful landing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38921664
It also works holding it near your torso, don't have to use your head.

Although, the joke you tell your friends is that it only works if they open their mouth and stick out their tongue like a satellite dish.

The fact that it works next to your torso made me think it was just a matter of bouncing half the radio emissions towards the vehicle, thus doubling the signal. Just like someone holding an omni-directional campaign lamp close to their body increases the light headed in a certain directions.
I may be dumb but is the second derivative of a job sector declining that disastrous? Is that not just normal ebb and flow?

Also I think the HN title is wrong; IT employment's yearly growth increase by just 700 jobs/year in 2023.
I had maybe 3 emails from recruiters in the last year. Used to be a couple every other day. I'm between West coast and Midwest of the US and it seems like hiring is picking up quite a bit in Midwest. Or maybe it's just less competitive and jobs aren't flying off the market like they do on the coasts. With that said I still know a good number of people who have been looking for months and are getting desperate.
In bicycle applications it is common to elide explicit instruction to use grease. Nevertheless it should be used.
Apple shares new Vision Pro ad with Star Wars, Back to the Future clips and more
ByteDance in talks with Tencent, others to sell gaming assets
Really? How much value would you put on that actually? How would you price that if you were selling it? Would I get a little refund for each mistake I find and have to correct?
Meanwhile, my co-worker, cross threading, over torquing and stripping a bolt.

"Can't you see that is crooked?"

"You can't see it from my house."
They sound like a classic machiavellian, deflecting at the first sign of criticism.
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Very good overview and easy to read. In recent years I‘ve encountered more and more businesses that use or want to use Postgres instead of other proprietary or NoSQL databases, so this post is very useful.
Hey Matt,

Go is so easy to jump in compared to almost any other programming language.
As you're already familiar with Java/C# I'd say just start some side projects. Might be beneficial to read a little about how the go packages work etc.. but beside that just start :)

go run main.go

and start adding things to main that you'd want.
If you want more info about Go, just book a meeting with martinbaun.com/book
Not looking to hire currently, but I'd gladly help in the right direction
You’re not including all the taxes that need to be paid and that employment bonds are far more difficult to break.

But yeah, EU engineers are very good in my experience.
not exactly an ecommerce site, but ebay?
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> Ideally we’d always have good software teams, but in the real world sometimes you have to build software with bad teams.

Here's a real, perhaps unexpected counterpoint. Say you have a good software team. How do they build good software with bad management?
If I understand correctly, Pandas original scope was indexed in-memory data frames for use in high frequency trading, making use of the numpy library under the hood. At the time it was written you had JPMC's Athena, GS's platform, and several HFT internal systems (C++ my friends in that space have mentioned). Pandas just is so darn useful! I've been using it since maybe version 0.10, even got to contribute a tiny bit for the sas7bdat handling.
Marketing is a skill that needs to be learned. You have to put yourself in the shoes of a person who knows nothing about your product. This does not come naturally to the engineers who make these products and are used to talking to other specialists like themselves.