skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For real, that was my first thought.

Tangentially, what's up with everyone having "student driver" bumper sticker now?
Almost all of my problems can be immediately solved with large amounts of money. Those that cannot will certainly be made more bearable by the simple fact that I have a lot less to worry about, and that I will have more mental and emotional resources available to deal with them.

Money will _absolutely_ buy happiness. Whoever tells you otherwise is fooling you.
The jobs that AI will automate away?
Arguably, we all benefit when companies that break the law face consequences for breaking the law.

There are other pedometers, heart rate sensors, fall sensors, etc. There is no reason people who were in the market for such products have to buy Apple Watches. They can get other brands. If you think that it's a tragedy that Apple couldn't maximally capitalize on the New Years resolution surge in interest in health, take heart that other companies that did not apparently flagrantly violate the law are picking up the slack.

I have one of the infringing devices, and the blood oxygen feature is not a useful one for me. It adds nothing to my life, despite my zeal for quantifying everything. This is due partly to the inaccuracy of the sensor and partly because I don't have a relevant health condition. For someone who has a medical condition that could use such monitoring, there are probably better solutions that are actually fit for purpose. I'll keep wearing the watch for its other functions, but I hope that by the time I want a new revision of smart watch, Apple has changed their behavior and goes back to being a better corporate citizen that doesn't infringe patents and poach employees just because they don't like the deal that Masimo put on the table (or whatever their justification was). Otherwise, I'll just buy the competition or do without.
For chemical engineering internships it was customary and expected for the employer to provide housing as well as some relocation money, in addition to wages.

I think lack of housing assistance is generally true of the sciences (biology, chemistry, etc) but less true for engineering. Computer science internships seem to be highly variable and not have any established industry-wide norms for internships.
> Who cares what the size of the "little guys" is? The size is not the point.

See the comment they were replying to for why they said that. The size is exactly the point if they're being characterised by size.
Friends, and it's paywalled.
It's a numbers game. Apply to everything. Lower your standards. I think it's here to stay and will only get worse as the offshoring continues.

Saying your 15 years and published books seem slide maybe you need to seek out a lower paying position. Companies seem to be avoiding more expensive hires right now.
Not saying you're wrong, but I really think you've overlooked the cultural shift towards individualism.

Maybe not so much in the 1920s, but in WW1 men would lie about their age so they'd have the opportunity to fight for the empire. Family, nation and duty came before self-actualisation and security.
sorrownding: neat
Patents on things that can exist but don't work well are valid. If they're unsafe, inaccurate, unreliable, etc, that's a problem for commercial viability, but not an issue for getting a patent.
Ackman said he plans to use the data he collected by going after every MIT professor to expand it to the larger academic population. So, he's already planning this.
It is interesting how the creations we cherish as a society become separate from the creator. Not even a creator's misconduct can reappropriate the art from society.
I don't agree, and the analogy is poor. One can do the things he lists with a trained model. Having the data is basically a red herring. I wish this got more attention. Open/free software is about exercising freedoms, and they all can be exercised if you've got the model weights and code.

https://www.marble.onl/posts/considerations_for_copyrighting...
> thought this was STEAM now?

What's the A?

EDIT: It's the arts [1]. It looks like a classical education.

[1] https://theconversation.com/explainer-whats-the-difference-b...
A very simple small note: the article observe some "issues" like "inferior equipment at home, distraction, difficult communication etc who actually exists BUT they are not a part of remote working but a part of being unprepared to do so.

Once established that WFH meaning having a closed room, well equipped, well connected etc, such issues disappear; once people understand how to relate with others from remote another issue is gone.

So to say: so far they have not observed nor boost nor degradation in productivity BECAUSE there are some issues about WFH organization and habits, resolving them will likely boost productivity as well.

Beside that: the push against WFH have two reasons:

- at small sale remote workers are easy to fire, but ALSO have from a whole country to the whole world of potential job market, not just the market in a close proximity of facing relocations costs. So to say, remote workers are LESS EASIER exploited beyond their signed contracts than in person workers;

- al large scale working from remote en mass means a population that start to spread, this means many modern services going down. We have no reasons to Uber when we live in a spread place where parking is never an issue and all have their own cars. We have no reasons to JustEat if we have few restaurants nearby and we normally eat at our home. We have no room for drone delivery of small packages since there are no long-range drones. We have no room for keep visiting shopping malls buying small things that sum up to a significant amount of money for the shop since we live in a large and calm place. Essentially at large scale remote work help small and medium enterprises cutting market slice to the modern giants, avoiding the "sharing economy" and the "not owning anything, use services instead" scenarios.
This is a great comment. Good search is really hard. RAG is much harder. At least with search user can pick the best result manually or refine their search. With RAG you pass topK to the LLM and assume its good results. The assumption is that its "semantic search" with vectors so it will just work... wrong.
Can you write down this logically valid argument, including its axioms?
I think the GP's point was it's different rules for big co vs individuals breaching the same idea.
The fact that its a painful realization for Apple fans, when they wake up to "this company is not my fren", is further support for the thesis that Apple is a cult.

I've always said that they build their tools to guide their user thinking, limit the possibilities of information technology, etc. Long rant if you get me going. People say "but they make good hardware!" and that's often true... But the fact that a scourge is well crafted is not a good thing when it is being used on you.
They aren't alone - here's a college student who also commute by commercial flights to avoid high local rents:

https://onemileatatime.com/news/college-student-flies-classe...
So could you run DB2 on DB1 backed by R2?
I've used self checkout at a variety of stores since they very first turned up almost a decade ago. I always used them over a human since day one.

I don't know if people are just really dumb or I'm really lucky, but I very rarely have issues with self checkout.
110MHz is not bad for quake. I remember playing with my Pentium 100 back in the day. It looked so realistic like today's RTX with some imagination.
What a nightmare. This guy needs to get a remote job or at least move to someplace like Stamford
> Funny how HN tries to save face for Apple at all costs.

It doesn't. It's not you vs Big HN. Stop talking like it. It's just some people with different opinions.
Conservative justices seem poised to weaken power of federal agencies
I mean putting aside the culture war issues, do conservatives just want to enslave the population to corporate overlords and billionaires? They're creating a hellish world for everyone.
The public doesn't have the resources to train the largest state-of-the-art LLMs, but training useful LLMs seems doable. Maybe not for most individuals but certainly for a range of nonprofits, research teams and companies.
Alternatively, it blows my mind that the pulse-ox tech we’ve had in doctors’ offices since the mid 1970s is still that locked up in patents.

I’m on Apple’s side on this. If it were a company other than Apple, I’d also be in that company’s side on this. Masimo isn’t a patent troll, but I don’t see how that $6B company can claim to own tech that’s been in wide use for several decades.
Completely unfounded fear, fortunately. AI will enable more people to be creative than ever before. People won't stop telling stories because of capitalism, they'll just continue the tradition of storytelling that predates capitalism by many millenia.
Very cool. This is the architecture that inevitably results from when you start with boxed, native, desktop software and incrementally move towards cloud based storage and collaboration. You have to be really good at doing schema changes and version migrations, because they're happening at fantastic scale without administrator intervention: not when you launch, but when each individual customer chooses to use the next version.

Quite different from a SaaS-first approach where it actually makes sense to do "customer id column"-based multi-tenancy and one-migration-at-a-time schema changes that I think most of us at less-than-Apple scales are familiar with.
"I understand Apple broke the law"

This is not actually the case whatsoever. There has been 0 ruling on the merits of the patent case. There has been a report from the US ITC that the courts have used as the basis of the bans.

But we do not know if apple will prevail in court. Until that happens, "apple broke the law" is your opinion not a fact.
derivations are build plans. derivation outputs you mean.

derivations are always content-addressed.

derivations outputs can be input-addressed or content-addressed, but the latter is still an experimental feature.
The K language seems to be limited to CPU only. Yes, it can call out to GPU (https://code.kx.com/q/interfaces/gpus/) but K only runs on the CPU. This strikes me as odd for an array language.
Especially since the company has to pay for it one way or another, so they might as well have it as a line item in their budget so they can control and expect the costs instead of just building it into salary.
I don't see any issue with it in Russia. Almost all local stores (only the top 10 major companies though) now have self-checkout with a digital receipt. Since last year, I can self-checkout in a 24/7 store in a village of 10000 people at the sea. It's pretty wild, even though cashier's salaries are like $6000/year, they should've been saving a lot of money with these machines.
An asinine addition to an already asinine acronym.
DRAM init as little to do with UEFI or BIOS and Intel probably ships x86 components for more exotic or even allow custom bootloaders. At least at a time they did. I don't know the current situation but when I played with all of that, I saw one of their "Memory Reference Code" in particular the parts in charge of calibration of the memory controller timing, and that was a quite short piece of x86 assembly completely independent from the UEFI architecture insanities. Well because it was written in assembly it had an obvious bug, but that's another story.
These are on the way toward what I mean for sure. They're still missing the element of, "Your last meeting was with Alice and Bob, who are in Marketing. You have half an hour before you have to leave to get to a client meeting, so you can probably knock out this marketing-related task because you're in that headspace, but this equally involved task planning the details of an event in a week might require too much of a context shift to get done right now."

Those are the types of little time blocks I lose all the time because I can't switch fast enough, whereas if a tool could figure out my contexts well, it might really be able to surface things when I'm already in the right headspace.

It's not going to be perfect. Maybe Alice and Bob are part of the event for the next week too, because they're also on the company softball team with me and the tool wouldn't necessarily know we were actually meeting about the event, but even switching to the task of "review task list to choose a task I might be able to get done now" is one context shift too many when I have a short gap.
No monetization goal here. I needed it myself for another project, so built it and open sourced it. Hopefully folks find it useful; if it drives a bit of traffic to the sponsor project (https://criticalmoments.io), all the better. I'll keep maintaining it just because I'm maintaining it for myself anyways.
Vertical Flight Society Event to Include Electric VTOL Symposium
ZS EV 2022 in my case, I have to switch to "eco mode" to do precise parking, otherwise, specially in a little steep roads it accelerate too much, no matter how soft I can be on the pedal...
I had this experience. Got a degree in physics and heard throughout my time about how awful this STEM shortage was. Went to graduate and couldn't get a job in my field at all (granted, I don't think I knew how to market myself nor was I well educated on how to do so). Ended up working towards a CS degree instead and getting a job in that field. All of my friend group in high school ended up with a diverse range of STEM degrees, but every one of us ended up in some sort of software work in the end.
The o2 sensor on the apple watch is a net win for the wider society. And never forget: patents exist to benefit society as a whole. Not particular companies.
Thanks.

I didn't realise the guy went in with a gun. Still, it's fascinating how absolutely he turned around once he didn't find anything. He clearly wasn't delusional, since delusional people are not affected by incontrovertible*, evidence against their delusions. The delusion simply morphs to accomodate new evidence, or the evidence is hallucinated/confabulated away.

*It has to be truly incontrovertible, though. E.g someone who continues to believe they can fly despite numerous failed attempts.
What statements about properties of randomly generated code snippets would be useful for coding LLMs? You would need to generate text explaining what each snippet does, but that would require an existing coding LLM, so any IP concerns would persist.
The whole industry has a burnout problem...
I can't imagine the pressure with something as visible and complex as rust compiler and tool chain.

The authors is pointing the best remedy, encourage and promote health work habits.
Not search.
OP here. If any historians would like to see details from any other parts of this set, just ask.
You’d never put your whole nut into treasuries unless you wanted to get killed by inflation. You’re looking at a 50 year retirement if you’re in your 30s.

“4%” (Trinity study style I mean) is the pop culture number that accommodates down markets and inflation over 50 years, to a first approximation.
On the other hand it is not 1995. Time has moved on. I wrote a Simple RSS feed, that also serves as search engine for bookmarks.

I am able to run it in attick on raspberry pi. We do not have to rely so heavily on google.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

It is true that it does not serve me as google, or kagi replacement. It is a very nice addition though.

With a little bit off determination I do not have to be so dependent on google.

Here is also a dump of known domains. Some are personal.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

...and my bookmarks

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

Some more years, and google can go to hell.
Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784609
Unless you’re microwaving your food in direct contact with the inside surfaces of the microwave - which is nearly impossible and would make an incredible mess - how could BPA in your microwave ever matter at all?

Oh, and unless you’re drinking directly from your garden hose (which is a terrible idea and will likely make you very sick), it really doesn’t matter if your garden hose nozzle is ‘lead free’ (which still has lead btw!) or not.
Everybody preferred to be in the snowstorm rather than Hawaii?

As Obelix said, "These humans are crazy!"[1]

Yes, I get it, work, etc, commitments... is Obelix any more wrong?

[1] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/295/458/1a9...
Most non-trivial databases run on what is essentially their own purpose-built file system, bypassing many (or all) of the OS file services. Doing so is both higher performance and simpler than just going through the OS file system. Normal OS file systems are messy and complex because they are serving several unrelated and conflicting purposes simultaneously. A database file system has a fairly singular purpose and focused mission, and also doesn't have the massive legacy baggage of general purpose file systems, so there are fewer tradeoffs and edge cases to deal with.

The more sophisticated the database kernel, the more the OS is treated like little more than a device driver.
I must be really lucky. I work at a smaller engineering company, working for engineering clients, making software that analyses engineering data, and I get to use the languages and tools I want. I must be a unicorn at this point given how miserable most programmers seem to be.
I apologize, I never wanted to imply somebody I don't know is unhappy, guess it kind of came off wrong. Wish you anyway all the best and thanks for a very clear blog post.
Yeah I was just looking into this and apparently you can even patent things that don't work at all, but may be asked for a working model at some point in the future. Thats surprising, because I could easily see the sense in patenting slightly futuristic ideas with a plausible mechanism and then scrambling to create a model if and when it becomes economically enticing.
I fail to see how being a software developer in a financial sector or in healthcare is not a STEM career?

Equally, having many STEM professionals move to management doesn't mean that a STEM degree is oversold. There are a lot of STEM management positions where a STEM education and industrial experience are a mandatory job requirement.
Yeah it’s nice but it’s way less than DINKs in NYC or SF might spend. Like I said it’s more about how and where you want to live. Also I would not want to live on the “edge” of affordable myself.
Edward Said Libraries Donation – brookline booksmith
Now HERE'S a good local Chicago story that grew into a monster for no good reason:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/chicago-rat-hole.html
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2013/acs/acs-23...
Well then be consistent and apply the carbon tax to all forms of powered transportation, not just air travel, so that way we can reverse the unnecessary RTO for jobs that don’t really need it.
> STEM reality: we got you to confuse an ad for a search result 0.5% more often.

It wasn't that bad when we ended up working for large banks, but a lot of we are asked to do these days is plain evil and a disservice to humanity.
So you think the classes are much easier? Might it be related to your life experience and focus you have now? Or are there things that simply aren't are rigorous as it used to be?
> GP's point was it's different rules for big co vs individuals breaching the same idea

My point is it isn't. Individual copyright infringement is virtually unenforced today. To the extent it was in the last decade, the penalty was a fine. Meanwhile, OpenAI is being sued by the New York Times [1] and various writers [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-t...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/more-writers-sue-openai-c...
source? (I am challenging you :) ).

The quote "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" is a fairly robust heuristic for determing what skillsets are valued today by Big Tech. I'm sure there are exceptions (there always are to every heuristic), but overall, probably a fair assumption.
Never once used it with Databricks.
Sounds fine to me, just if the AI abides.
Also "Why is the best path to a lot of non-STEM jobs to get an unrelated STEM degree, why don't jobs the primary duties of which are well covered by liberal arts (reading, writing, interpersonal communication) hire for liberal arts degrees?"
I worked with a guy in a data center who had a degree in geology. Computers paid better I guess, so he transitioned over.
Copying is safer but bad performance, so I'm not sure how that helps here?
See https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/issues/838 for making content-addressed derivations supported by hydra.nixos.org. At that point, we can actually try out the XP feature at scale.

Also see https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8919 for this accepted RFC

Once those things are done, we can get back to merging in the IPFS code.

Now that there is an Nix team and I am on it, there is much, much less of an issue of these experiments being caught in limbo :).
But one of the four freedoms is being able to modify/tweek things, including the model. If all you have is the model weights, then you can't easily tweak the model. The model weights is hardly the preferred form for making changes to update the model.

The equivalent would be someone which gives you only the binary to Libreoffice. That's perfectly fine for editing documents and spreadsheets, but suppose you want to fix a bug in Libreoffice? Just having the binary is going to make it quite difficult to fix things.

Simiarly, suppose you find that the model has a bias in terms of labeling African Americans as criminals; or women as lousy computer programmers. If all you have is the model weights of the trained model, how easily can you fix the model? And how does that compare with running emacs on the Libreoffice binary?
This is a perennial issue with Oauth2, but it’s way better than what we had to live with before (pretty much just handing the third party your login).

I get exactly why apps ask for the moon when they’re asking for oauth scopes: to reduce friction. They judge (probably rightly) that if they first ask for a minimal set which accounts for 90% of usage and then later have to ask the user for more permissions later when they want to do a 10% task, that some proportion of users will not “convert” / won’t finish granting the extra permission, even if it means they can’t do the task they were trying to do.

So, they ask for the superset of all permissions their app currently needs (and some permissions that are still just planned functionality), and hope (again, probably rightly) that users won’t really care and will just click through. This creates nightmare issues for infosec teams.

Some sites/apps will ask for the kitchen sink omnibus scope buffet, and then if you click the “oh no thank you, cancel” button on that scopes screen, will actually present you with a reduced set of scopes. They do this without explaining what’s happening or why.

Mobile platforms are getting better about allowing very fine-grained access to permissions. At least on ios, apps that want to access your photos can be given access to only a subset of them. You can pick and choose when to provide location data, etc.

I wish there were an Oauth2 proxy service or something, which let you give apps whatever scopes they ask for, but which would then either fail API requests that use scopes that you’re not actually okay with, or else give valid but not 100% true API responses.
With 1 CPU and 128 MB of RAM. Sure, it's a small system, but it's enough to be useful for some purposes -- more useful than medical discoveries in mice, at least.
Lots in Northern Nassau (Gold Coast), like Muttontown, Old Brookville, Locust Valley, etc.

New money is out East. Old money is nearer the city.