skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presented an event which is a list of facts - there is no opinion on it. Did you read it? I suspect not.

The ideology in this thread is only willfull ignorance - showing someone something easy to grasp, yet they refuse to believe it.

You illustrate my point precisely. Mass (and often willful) ignorance leads humanity to make bad decisions.

> I said I won't argue with you

Yet you continue to reply after you already said you won't.....
The problem isn't how good overseas talent is (I worked with Avanade developers from Poland and they are excellent, need zero ramp up time) but rather is our own management good enough to work with them if management can't even work with remote people in the same time zone.

Remember, Europe culture is very different. There are laws there and you can't "manage by crisis" when your team has multiple people in Europe. Basically, this forces management to actually do its job instead of relying on Venkat (who is on an H1B visa and can't fight back) to be unofficially on call 24/7.
I never have trouble telling it what street I'm going to.

And no. I never go into the menus for the AC. I do it though voice.
NDAs are for keeping the company's trade secrets in the company. They aren't so you can treat your employees badly and expect that to stay secret.
I hope we never get a movie, to be honest.

I love the Hyperion books, but it would hurt me even more to see the depth butchered for a mediocre Hollywood audience in a cinema than it did with Dune.

A mini-series would be nice, but I feel that an animated series would be even better.
Here's a one time donation. The project looks interesting, I'll give it a spin next time I need something like that. If it's embeddable as a library that's even better!
REDUCE is here: https://reduce-algebra.sourceforge.io

The first published paper about REDUCE is from 1967, work on REDUCE started slightly earlier: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2402536.2402544

The first expressions of its Lisp implementation were written roughly 60 years ago.
I really enjoyed reading Hyperion. I bought it in a second hand book store before a flight back from NZ to Europe. However, the crude writing of this particular passage stayed with me:

"Sissipriss Harris had been one of my first conquests as a satyr – and one of my most enthusiastic – a beautiful girl, long blond hair too soft to be real, a fresh-picked-peach complexion too virginal to dream of touching, a beauty too perfect to believe: precisely the sort that even the most timid male dreams of violating"
> also turns out that CV with mainly software development is not all that useful for lot of things outside software dev :-/

No shit sherlock!

> I really hate to Jimmy Wales people about this and it's rather embarrassing.

But the Jimmy Wales ref made me laugh so much i've just sent xx quid.
That would suggest that to get value, you would already have a network of folks that has good synergies with you, right?
Are the vouches private between the parties or is that information socialised on the feed? There might be value in this type of transparency.
Prysk
I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.
A lot of details on the interoperability also in the recent talk "Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" at Strange Loop 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQc9-seU-5k
There are plenty of things to complain about. But the ones you mentioned are literally not problems. You just didn't know how to use the car if you needed phone interactions to open the car, or didn't have seat memory working, or didn't set up your steering buttons. That's not a matter of opinion, those are facts.
https://archive.is/Qxtvy
HLTV Award Show 2023: how to watch the Counter-Strike event
Tim Daly here...

There were quite a few challenges before Axiom could be open sourced.

NAG released the Axiom sources to me around that time. I gave an
invited talk in Paris.

There were many issues to solve. The primary one was that you needed
a running Axiom to build Axiom. I was not allowed to distribute the
NAG version of a running Axiom. It took a long time to restructure the
system so it could be built from sources.

Portions of the NAG version were never distributed to me and I had
to recreate some from scratch.

GNU hosting and Sourceforge hosting were new technologies I had to master.
I also struggled to understand how to create and lead an open source effort.
Obviously in hindsight I'm very bad at management.

The NAG version of the system removed the Common Lisp version of AKCL,
(of which I'm a minor author). AKCL is now GNU GCL under Camm.
IBM Research sponsored the creation of AKCL under contract
which was developed by Bill Schelter. Bill and I were in constant
contact and he used my office on his site visits. I had to re-host
Axiom on AKCL from the NAG version but Bill was dead by then.

Back then I was working at City College of New York in the CAISS effort
involving Infinite Group Theory (Magnus). I maintained, modified, and extended
that effort and made it open source. Axiom was not part of my job
effort until the last few months of my time there. Axiom was all
after-hours / off-the-clock work. (I see my name has been "scrubbed"
from the CAISS/Magnus work. They even mention Axiom but not me. Sigh.)

Axiom is now exploring new research ideas combining computer algebra
and proof theory (aka computational mathematics). The computer algebra
people don't do proofs and the proof people don't do computer algebra
algorithms. In fact, of the few hundred papers I reviewed only James
Davenport made the bibliography section in both areas. I'm not expecting
any enthusiasm for this research. If I fail no one will notice. If I
succeed ... no one will notice :-) But I'm having fun.
A lot of these are very pleasant to look at.. yes, it's easy to spam them so it can get old very fast. But I'm in Midjourney socials and not gonna lie, everyday I see something that stands out and amazes me. Should I feel bad because I'm looking at a flashy AI fake?
> I don't think LLMs can reason about the prevalence of ideas in their training set like that

Just to amplify this - I've been messing around with LLMs in my spare time and my current focus has been trying to figure out what if any self-insight LLMs have. As best I can tell, the answer is zero. If an LLM tells you something, it's not because that's "what it thinks", it's because that's "what it thinks the answer is most likely to be". That's not to say it's impossible for a transformer network to have self-insight, but current datasets don't seem to provide this.
Software Emulators vs. FPGAs [video]
The Far Side.

THAT ought to make the results more interesting.
RAD Debugger
Spent three of those months in training, and the one month out of training was December, holiday season. I don't know about you but everywhere I've worked, most work grinds to a halt in December, for very good reasons.

Also, if it's performance related there should be some kind of paper trail, discussions with her manager, emails, something. Her boss would've had a talk with her and maybe put on a pip. There would be evidence. Her manager should be the one relaying the news. Why two HR goons who can't say anything except "your fault" if they have evidence of performance problems.

Smells a lot like execs and management over hired (as has happened over and over and over again through recent history) realized they fucked up and decided to cut people. But, they don't wanna call it a lay off cause that spooks investors, and then they have to give all kinds of extra assurances to the person laid off. So they send out pairs of HR goons trained to say as little as possible except "your fault" to do the firing instead of the managers who caused the problem in the first place, they "save face", and most importantly (to them) save money.

I don't know about you but i wouldn't count a single month out of training during holiday season as a true test of performance. If it was bad, put on a PIP and fire next month once you can cite actual evidence. And for gods sake, make the person who hired her have to fire her. Give her some god damn dignity and teach those sociopaths some actual respect and care for their own hiring process so this doesn't happen constantly, forever.
I live in Iceland, and I can assure you this is not the case. However it has got this bad only in the last year or two
Even Chinese panels in Canada have a energy payback of less than 2 years

PDF link to a study comparing different installation countries:
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/quotes/

DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city.

DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin' round here!

Nicholas Angel: Like who?

DS Andy Wainwright: Farmers.

Nicholas Angel: Who else?

DS Andy Cartwright: Farmers' mums.
We use a component library written in pure JS in React apps and it works perfectly fine.

JS + HTML is more powerful than you think.
> 3 months is a long time to be unproductive.

I mean yes.. but depending on company policy on training/Co thats expected...
It's unfortunately not FOSS, but I quite like https://wormhole.app/ - It's client side encrypted and P2P when possible
This doesn't work with dimensionless numbers, as they would need to have e.g. the type `(0, 0, 0)` for multiplication but `(-1, 2, 0)` or `(0, 1 -1)` for addition.

Edit: I've just realised that that's actually correct ;)
Exactly yeah, so for instance you can see people who recommend you + the people they recommend to expand your network. I totally get the transparency thing (coveted contacts and all) but I think its more about helping people out in their career, so its gotta be public
Building a Twitter clone using Node.js, but without any dependencies
If you have a year long weekend
That's really sad, the enjoyed opening the app sometimes.

I wish Artifact didn't have the infinite scroll of news. I would have preferred just seeing the latest news and then stop, not allow me to see news from 2 months ago.

Some categories were also lacking and consisted of mostly low-effort articles. I thought the Ai would have gotten rid of those based on my effort of blocking them, or marking them as not interesting, but the Ai was still pushing them into my view.

Adding streaks was a misstake in my opinion, as someone else mentioned, Artifact sometimes went against their purpose of the app.

Otherwise, I thought the app had a lot of potential. Had they only integrated more local news, I would have used it a lot more!
That's mostly intuitive.

An accurate answer is often driven by a concrete and highly confident fact in the training dataset (e.g. structured data fact, like a birth date from Wikipedia etc.).

The hallucinations are derived facts of (hopefully) low confidence. Nondeterminism is more common if you have low scores. Only a few facts can take high score (in a usable system), while many can take a low score -- then numeric instability can make a mess.

I'm not very familiar with LLMs, but I do have experience with the traditional ML models and content understanding production system. But, LLMs are not far from them.
It's an open-source [0] metasearch engine using [1] the following:

Scopia

Yahoo

Bing

Mojeek

Yandex

Brave

Also images from Bing and Pixabay, and news from OneNewspage, Bing and Brave, and academic science from base-search.net

[0] https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer

[1] From https://metager.org/search-engine
_highly_ likely this posting is a backfill from folks who left said region
I was sponsoring this guy on github for some time. Then I wasn’t seeing any updates, for like a year or so and stopped sponsorship. Now using umami for analytics.
Last I heard, everyone was struggling to fine tune SDXL on furry art too. The only community fine tunes that seem to have succeeded are ones aimed at taking things it was already designed to generate and trained on and making it actually good at those, or improving the aesthetics of its output.
Philly cheesesteak has never been about Philly grown meat and Philly grown cheese though. French also won't be fighting to have "Paris-Brest" region protected for instance.

Champagne is not about a recipe or concept, the grapes are grown and made to wine in the actual place.
Facebook obviously did a great job in handling so much traffic but things have always been crap. Notifications on the Web and when they tried to get into mobile spring to mind.
This type of technological solution makes society worse. If we are so anonymized by technology that we need even more technology to try and refine recommendations, we are heading down the wrong path in my opinion.

The entire problem with this is that we have created a system where we have become anonymous cogs, where machines are more and more deciding on where we go and how people get to know us.

Soon we will have a system where AI machines analyze us and communicate with other AI machines on whether we fit well with being a drone in some large corporation.

This sort of development is sick.
I posted a letter in their post office, prince leanord acting as postmaster. It never arrived.
I work with screenwriters on early stage film development in production capacity and this is sort of like looking at someone’s MVP prototype git commits or meeting notes.

You can glean a lot about what was going on at some point in time, but I wouldn’t project ideas that this was anything more than random quick notes. Directors, screenwriters, producers generate a huge output in the process.
So the problem is with lack of documentation and unstable UI, not with the lack of discoverablility per se.

Identifying the problem is often the first step in fixing it.
And, still, she hasn't sold anything in four months.

"Thinking that as a salesman you have to sell things is an archaic take on sales."
Hi Tim,

So first of all thank you Axiom and all the work you have put in the system over the years. Second, the integration with LEAN seems like an amazing step forward. Is there anything on the internet I can read more about this? How would it work? Would it be beneficial for education purposes or mainly for research?
Third, I am otherwise engaged in other projects these days, but a long life dream of mine is to build a CAS from scratch. That said, I wouldn't mind start collaborating with a team improving an existing one like Axiom. The "How to participate" link is just "TODO", is there any way I can get in touch with the development team?
This is only partly correct. It’s generally encouraged to use value types (or the up coming move only types) unless you actually want the reference semantics or you are interoping with objc apis on Darwin.

If you ever watch talks from folks like Dave A. Who wrote the stdlib, he says he only ever uses arc types as a mechanism to enforce COW for the stdlib types and containers.
Seems hyperbolic, but if AGI really is arriving in 2025, what would you build?

Would it be worth building anything? AGI will be able to build it far cheaper, and in any case, who's going to use a travel-booking website or whatever, if they can just tell an AGI to 'book me a holiday', etc.

The only thing that makes sense is a lunge for patents, trademarks, etc, ie ownership.
Interesting, but it's just an argument between a smart eloquent white racist and a stupid black, non-racist. Not sure that shows anything at all except racists can have great debating skills.
Doesn't seem to be available in my region :/
$50M at $5.50 per trip means over 17 trips per minute every minute of the year. That’s pretty wild.
tl;dr Big marginal gains for small marginal effort likely make it worthwhile.

The payoff can be enormous. The investment can be illegible on the front end—it depends on the skills and concepts you already have.

Open an Emacs buffer, switch to Org mode, and start typing an outline. The benefit is immediate, provided those paradigms (plain text, outline hierarchy) appeal to you.

There are many features of Org mode that complement each other powerfully but that are district enough that you can climb one learning curve at a time.

I vividly remember the manual, years ago, overwhelming me! But today there are so many good tutorials the barrier to entry is quite low. Best of luck!

Highly recommend: David Wilson's System Crafters channel, Mike Zamansky's channel, Protesilaos Stavrou's channel. There's an amazing community on Mastodon.
Brittany Pietsch's post about getting fired from Cloudflare
@dang

This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38977794
Yeah, a web version would increase my usage a lot.
You can also see a comment from Matthew Prince on this video: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501?t=...
> Soon we will have a system where AI machines analyze us and communicate with other AI machines on whether we fit well with being a drone in some large corporation.

it could be argued that group-think is an artificial intelligence in itself, nevertheless what you describe seems common
The History of Windows ME
It’s awfully strange, in my experience, that her manager wouldn’t be there.

Makes me wonder if he hadn’t been let go too?
Glad this film wasn't made. It would've been less accurate to Herbert's vision than Starship Troopers was to Heinlein's.
Well, the character speaking was an utterly degenerate asshole, so there's that...
Problems 1 and 2 can be solved by using a virtualev/venv per project.

3 is solved by the workflow of manually adding requirements and not including dependencies. It may not work for everyone. Something like pipreqs might work for many people.

I do not understand why 4 is such a problem. Can you explain further?
This is a genuine question. Why would I risk joining big tech at this point ?
Onerousness defence can be defeated by anti-severability clauses, if that clause is written to require full reversal of performance in case of termination.
The moment they dropped FreeBSD support - and had to find out by asking why images were not being updated - I understood that Clues were Leaving the Company and promptly moved the critical stuff elsewhere.
You can also see a comment from Matthew Prince on this video: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501?t=...

Edit:
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969065
And I heard a cat being slowly murdered by a bird on the roof, this stuff you can't unhear...

Remember that this goes both ways. Birds are probably the deadliest predator for outdoor cats. This is why cats tend to have instinctive acute reaction to big flying objects.

I'm not a cat owner, I like both cats and birds
We are!

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Yes like that.

Also notable, the airlines pay for the gates and the landing slots and so on.

It’s a transportation hub. The various forms of transportation that use it pay a fee.
When I first added analytics to my website, I couldn't afford to pay for his then plan (There was a plan for opt-in pay for personal use and paid plan for commercial use. Or something of that sort IIRC). But when I move to a new gig, I wanted to pay for [name redacted] monthly plan but he stopped it in favour of github sponsors for some reason.

I highly recommend and wish he moved back to the old pricing where he was allowing people to use it for personal use but was charging for commercial use. And it was super flexible since if you couldn't afford it, he mentioned you can email. Many more would pay for sure.
Reminds me a lot of the boat I'm in - based on his CV it looks like he's self-taught and started around the same time I did. This market right now is killing us, and I've got to wonder if AI tools are filtering out self-taught devs more aggressively than they used to. In the worst case scenario, I have family I can move in with, but I don't know how to function in any other role after dedicating myself to this since childhood. Just going to keep refining skills and hope things turn around soon.
really enjoyed this writeup, love the style
International Material Data System: automobile industry's material data system
Never looked at it like that haha – hopefully it won't only be recommendations to be a corporate cog
> I really hate to Jimmy Wales people about this

Thanks for making me laugh, I think that's worth a few bucks.

I donated every year to Wikipedia until I learned that (1) they have a huge chest of money, (2) their expenses could be much lower if they were not a 500-man SF company.
China doesn’t need to go to war with the US. They just need to keep building, and waiting.

The trend lines for the growth of the superpowers are clear.

Your great grandchildren will be native speakers of Mandarin.
You're not buying a house with your yet-to-vest stock.
you can get paid 300-400k in London and average house price is probably half that of Cupertino.

Still tight though.
A few decades from now, I think Lynch's Dune will be looked upon more favorably than the recent films. They simply have more character and vastly more interesting set design, whereas the recent ones are visually indistinguishable from most other sci-fi films made at the same time.
Practice being skeptical.
PairDrop works:

https://pairdrop.net/

https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop

Other alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915909
Sales people generally (in sensible firms) aren’t expected to sell anything in their first quarter while they learn the ropes, the product, etc.

It’s also not expected to make any real enterprise sales during Q4 or the beginning of Q1 - those are usually dead times of year.

Unless your sales org is a puppy mill/boiler room… which many are.

Also, in this case they cut a huge amount of the sales org, this seems more like a “shit we over hired and need to lay people off without it being a layoff, let’s use performance…” shenanigans.
Here is a list of various artist/style cheat sheets available for SD 1.5 and SD XL. There may be other sheets for MidJourney but I have been into SD for a while and that's why I have collected these. https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/218e602d508e891a123929ce...
> I really hate to Jimmy Wales people about this

Have a case of beer on me, mate.
What is crude with that? Are you trying to project some type of moral by suggesting that a woman's features influence her perceived desirability? Or that traditional European features are suddenly no longer considered attractive to people of European descent (as the author was)? Or that people of one sex should not lust for people of the opposite sex? Or that sometimes lust as felt by young and healthy people could never be a purely physical drive?
The location does impact the taste of the wine (soil sun etc.) this doesn’t apply to the Philly cheesesteak does it?
Storing WebAuthn challenge values without a database in Elixir
I understand your point. But reality is different.

Most employee NDAs will include a non disparage clause in the agreement. Its standard.

This is Why we have glassdoor forums. So you can disparage anonymously.

Or maybe she didnt sign the NDA and if so disparage away just dont expect other emoloyers to come running to you.
In English, champagne isn't wine from a specific location, it's a specific type of wine. People aren't going to call red wine grown from the place champagne.

It's like saying you can't call them brazil nuts unless they were grown in Brazil.
> are we talking about the ASi taking twice as long or are we talking orders of magnitude?

I'm not aware of any benchmarks comparing Apple Silicon to datacenter-class chips, unfortunately.
Generally in the US, you don’t get unemployment if you are fired for cause.

Cloudfare is trying to make it seems like it’s termination for cause instead of a layoff.
Tachiyomi Manga Reader: Threats Motivate Pirates and Boost Engagement
Blender is a tool that gives you a lot of options and some of those would be "wrong", so it is partly up to the user to know what is correct. The defaults have been "correct" for a long time already though, at least regarding linear vs gamma space.