skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram wants to push onus of protection on to parents/platform owners. Rather than safeguarding their own platform to protect abusive content, this will allow them to blame parents - "Hey, you installed the app, so it's your fault."
I think I don't mind the license change but I'm never contributing code or money to anything with a cla.

I have been burned in the past and I have zero interest in contributing anything that will end up in proprietary code.
Ask HN: Printing at home blows. What's your pitch for a better alternative?
Printing at home blows.
- Hidden Costs: Those tiny cartridges hold liquid gold, seemingly designed to deplete at the most inopportune moment. The ink itself often outlasts the printer, a cruel reminder of planned obsolescence.

- Subscription Scams: Ink "subscriptions" lure you in with convenience, but often lock you into overpriced ink and wasteful deliveries.

- Third-Party Roulette: Alternative cartridges can be cheaper, but quality and reliability are a gamble.

- Paper Jam Jenga: Every printer owner knows the ritualistic dance of coaxing stubborn sheets through the path of least resistance. Paper jams are the gremlins of the machine world.
Image of person pulling on a piece of paper stuck in a printer
Driver Delusions: Printer drivers, those enigmatic programs, seem to exist in a parallel universe where logic defies explanation. Updates rarely bring peace, often introducing new quirks.

-Connectivity Chaos: Wi-Fi connections drop, cables mysteriously disconnect, and printing from your phone often feels like navigating a labyrinth blindfolded.

What's your pitch for a better alternative?
You really hate javascript that much?
What's wrong with matplotlib? I might be living under a rock...
> We may need to design new kinds of interview questions and methods for humans augmented by AI.

Yes, definitely! That's how a lot of work is done now, so of course your interview process needs to be robust to it.
You boycott Brave browser because the CEO? The CEO invented JavaScript, do you boycott JavaScript and all websites that use JavaScript?
Copilot has such a narrow input space, that it is not going to help in this case.
Here, just saved you $$
Vega-Altair is pretty great as well. It uses a grammar of graphics that’s slightly different from ggplot, but has most of the same advantages.

https://altair-viz.github.io/
It says "First Discovery" under it.
Yes, and any number of other things you hadn't thought of. The beauty of randomization is that, whatever it is, it will put some of those people in each group.

But even with a random variable, this still only gives you an average result for the group. And the more diverse the group is, the less likely that it's useful in predicting whether it works for you.
Or a fleet? Some of the problems up-thread feel organizational rather than tooling.
Lame? It’s a bare minimum demonstration of ability.

The number of experienced candidates I’ve interviewed just in the past few months who have trouble writing a for-loop in the language they’re “experienced” in might astound you.

Welders sometimes (always?) have to go to a certification center to demonstrate that they can actually perform the types of welds the job they’re applying for requires.

https://www.aws.org/Certification-and-Education/Professional...
I tried to get the advertised “10G” internet when it was first announced. Their website said it was available, so I called to have it set up. They “put in a ticket for [me]” and I didn’t hear back for a month. I called, they said they’d route it to the right department. A month passes. I called again. They said they can do it they just need a deposit. I agreed. They said they’d call me back. A month passes. I called again, they said they’d need to run a line to my house, but no one was available to do it that week so they’d put in a ticket. Also that it was going to cost more and they’d call me back. At this point I thought they were just bullshitting me, so I agreed. You guessed it, a month goes by. I called again, they said it would $20,000 to do the installation. I put myself on mute and laughed out loud. I agreed, and asked how I could write the check. And, wouldn’t you know it, Comcast admitted that my area wasn’t covered and that the website was inaccurate.
On mobile you don't have to drag, just click one and then the other.
It's great in theory until you have to pierce through several organizational boundaries to actually leverage it. Too sclerotic for it to happen regularly at scale.
We don't know the future.

That glass that you have in the border of the table may never fall, may not break if fall, even if a lot of people walk by its side not noticing it. But watching it may be obvious that the entire situation is fragile, odds are high that someone will bump that glass, it will fall, and it will break if everything continue as it is going, and even worse with trends pushing to make the situation even more unstable.

Things may change, or that risk somewhat never materializes. But someone that made a career showing up patterns of fragility in several kinds of systems think that the trend points to some kind of crash.
Yes, for sure. But it's "bunk" (to use the parent's term) for the interviewers to specify that.
His history of designing JavaScript, co-founding and CTO-ing the Mozilla project and being a general expert in coding and the web? Yeah screw this guy. No way he'll ever be able to develop a successful browser.

If you make your technical decisions based on, as far as I can tell from Wikipedia, 1 minor political disagreement with the project lead then you'll be as limited as Stallman when it comes to using a computer. That is an extreme position.
First I discovered Slaughterhouse Five. Then Slaughterhouse Ten. Then Slaughterhouse Fifteen…

Kinda got tired at Slaughterhouse One Hundred Thousand.
House passes $78B tax bill in rare bipartisan vote
That’s because BMW (and their dealers) want to sell every car twice. Once new and then again in a few years as a certified pre-owned car that has retained quite a bit of value. Makes them more money than just selling new cars.
Build the UI or API for the report, so you can ad-hoc from there. Cron uses that interface. You don't custom the cron, you cron the custom.
> On the world stage, I would argue that the most left-leaning of European countries define the left end of the window (given that they have enacted left policies), and the most right-leaning countries (e.g. Singapore) define the right end of the window

Is Singapore really among "the most right-leaning countries"?

In 2022, Singapore decriminalised male-male sex. In over 60 countries worldwide it is still a crime, and in over 10 of those it has the death penalty (at least in theory).

While it has been criticised on religious freedom (for banning certain controversial groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishnas and the Unification Church) – it still is greatly ahead in this area of countries such as Iran or Saudi Arabia. The government is officially neutral between the major religions, and there is no capital punishment for essentially religious offences such as apostasy, blasphemy, or heresy.

Economically, Singapore deviates in a number of ways from right-wing economic orthodoxy – state-owned enterprises play a major role in its economy, close to 80% of its population lives in government-owned public housing, the government runs a universal public health system.
At their scale, staggering script start times over a 60 second window likely wouldn’t have much of an impact if they are experiencing a thundering herd, imo. If it did help, it would be a bandaid and ticking time bomb before someone has to actually solve the load problem that staggering start times kicked down the road
Starlab commercial space station to launch on Starship
This audience is likely most interested in this tidbit:

> The package would restore immediate deductions for business research and development costs that were cut back by the Republicans’ 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Small businesses that under current rules have to spread them out over five years have widely reported having to cut back on R&D investments and lay off employees as a result.
Interviews shouldn't be "testing", they should be approximations of work samples. And this absolutely is how working works, for many people.

If you think your interview process is the SAT, you're doing it wrong.
Obviously, YC is not a "respectable organization", since they picked this fruitcake as their leader. This also explains why a portion of the readership of this site is so obviously unhinged.
Okay, that does make the position more understandable but I still don’t quite get it. Perhaps more accurately, I see these assumptions which others don’t necessarily share. The people claiming cheater have different opinions from the supposed cheaters.

I recall a Starcraft 2 match[0] involving a person with an apparently psychosomatic wrist injury that was only painful while they’re playing on stage. Their opponent was seeming to draw out a game they were losing in an attempt to trigger the pain; it was a viable strategy given the “best of” series they were playing. That’s certainly not going to be accounted for in the rules and one might believe that it’s an underhanded way to win. But both players are in the top echelons of game knowledge, experience, and skill; that’s the only reason either player made it to this particular match-up. The player with the wrist injury ultimately had it act up and lost the series.

Did the winner deserve to win? Should the other player be considered the better player? The assumptions of the game rules and what’s “fair” might be different per player; who’s right, who’s wrong, and why? What about when prize money is involved; that guy who won by the written rules just doesn’t deserve it because of unspoken rules? These questions don’t seem to have obvious answers, so of course I challenge assumptions.

0: I’m looking for the VOD I watched. Edit: I believe it was here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS2XIyNDlSA
Close. We pay money to use other people's times _and_ resources (capital) and outputs (widgets). Take Netflix. You watching a whole lot of Netflix for $400 a month (or whatever they are charging these days) doesn't make people work any differently than paying for it and not watching it, or, truth be told, not paying for it (as an individual), or, in the rare case, watching it without paying for it. Thanks to the magic of capital! You're paying Netflix for Video Content and Delivery systems, but their system exists and would probably work for a long time if they reduced staff significantly. (I'm not advocating Netflix fire people).

In short, we pay people both for their time, purchasing of objects, and for use of their assets (without commenting how how fair or unfair their capital acquisition practice was to this point).
This is half the reason why P2P died in the late 2000s. Mobile clients need to leech off a server to function.

The other reason why it died is privacy. Participating in a P2P network reveals your IP address, which can be used to get a subscriber address via DMCA subpoenas, which is how the RIAA, MPAA, and later Prenda Law attacked the shit out of Gnutella and BitTorrent. Centralized systems don't usually expose their users to legal risk like P2P does.

I have to wonder: how does IPFS protect people from learning what websites I've been on, or have pinned, without compromising the security of the network?
I’m grateful for our local “community telcos” that deliver far faster connectivity and far lower prices, and with generally great service. I have toyed with the idea of starting one for my current neighborhood (low density residential, so no hope of any “traditional telco” investing in upgrades).

Edit: errant “so so”
Ask why you need so much paper in the first place. I rarely need anything printed, haven’t owned a printer for years. When I do I use a print shop or hotel business center.
10G was a brand name they slapped on all speed tiers, so if you thought you were getting 10gbps you were misled
Yeah it did

But to your point its not as impressive as it was sold: glorified reverse phone tree. But it is what it was sold as, and it is available.
Download the app “Mimi Hearing Test”. It allows you to do a quick test using your AirPods. And the results you can upload in your iPhone’s accessibility settings. So the phone will increase frequencies you don’t hear well. You can also set a general amplification.

So, yes, I’d very much think AirPods can be of benefit here.
The memory game is more enjoyable and less challenging than it may initially appear. https://shifthappens.site/#test-keyboard-layout-knowledge
I largely agree, except that choosing a denominator of 8 billion is really dubious. The number of people for whom this study will result in them getting a hearing aid when they otherwise wouldn't is unknown, but unlikely to be nearly that high.

You can't actually do that math. Or rather, you can but the inputs to your spreadsheet are whatever you made up.
Would you also say that, "as an interviewer, if a candidate can use their buddy to give a better answer than other candidates, I'm not going to mark them down for using their buddy"?

Even if you don't mind that situation, shouldn't you get buddy's contact information and offer him the job?
Mixtral looks interesting, but I haven't dabbled in locally hosted LLMs.

Would you mind linking to a concise text which could lead me through setting up Mixtral on my own machine?
Brave does right?
I also don't remember this particular game but did play 13 Ghosts on the TRS-80. Both the TRS-80 and the COCO-64 were one of the few good memories I have about my high school experience. These two gadgets got me interested in programming, with BASIC and Assembly Language. I actually got the COCO, an external floppy as well as a cassette recorder for loading and saving the programs I'd experimented with. I had purchased the Editor Assembler cartridge for the COCO. Can't believe I lost that machine when I moved across the country :(
It's important to remember that "not cost-effective" is not the same as "not useful", though.
Off topic, but related: The art you see on Fly posts? It's made by the inimitable Annie Rugyt: https://annieruygtillustration.com/ She's wonderful, and has a knack for making brands come alive with illustration.

Remember the RethinkDB mascot? That was her too!
Emily Oster has a widely well-regarded substack, Parent Data, and book series. She touches on early childhood education in several places.
And the providers take great advantage of this ignorance by advertising the “fastest wireless” among their competitors (which may be true when you compare the router/AP lease offerings), but says little about how their internet upload/download speeds compare.
The reverse is also true, people have a lot in common with who they were 10 years ago. It’s common for people to like many of the same songs at 60 that they did at 16.

I may be more skilled, better informed, and care a great deal about people who didn’t exist back then, but I think my basic personality is shockingly close to 10 year old me.
Yeah, he sounds very smart and pieces a lot of things together, but in a very assertive way. For example he goes on to talk about how gas is used only in the butadien petrochemical vertical but could displace oil verticals and have competitive advantage over other countries. That's cool as a theory, but really isn't a commoditized market a more likely scenario in a capitalist global economy? If I'm Mr. Gas I'm going to sell my LNG at a higher price abroad instead of selling it for the same in the US for others to make a profit instead
Europe regulates its way to _1st place_ on quality of life with respect to the regulated issues
I just wanted to say thanks, this is something I use regularly when looking at unknown firmware blobs or file formats, to look for compressed/encrypted data or other structures
He’s not. What does rap lyric aficionado even means? Tupac is not even that lyrical or rhyme elite.
Get a laser printer. None of the things you mentioned apply to my Brother laser printer, it works beautifully, over WiFi, and with 3rd party toners and I never had a paper jam or signed up for a subscription.
As we now know, GPT-3.5 was essentially an early preview of the "move fast, break things" variety - GPT-4 was already well underway by then.
No, patching binaries is not really similar at all, because it's viewed as an inferior method to having the source code and modifying that.

With these large models, the weights really are quite useful objects in themselves, the very starting points of future modifications, and importantly the desired points of modifications

Practioners in the field call these models "open source" and write open source software to run them and use them to power open source software.
Thanks for this! I ended up hitting refresh because of how long my list eventually got, I wish I'd seen this comment 10 minutes sooner!

Oh well, I guess now I'm forced to sink in another half-hour this evening! ;)
> But at what point does it become financially irresponsible to not run baremetal?

At the point where hosting is part of your value proposition, to the point that you can do significantly better than commodity managed hosting (either because there is something about your use case that allows vertically integrated hosting to outperform, or you're becoming a hosting company). 1.3M of off-the-shelf hosting sounds a fair way short of that to me.
Graham, in one of the few things he's said that I liked, pointed out,

* Lobbyists have out gunned them

* Ergo legislation hasn't moved

While true, he told on himself and the Congress:

* By admitting this, the CEOs 20ft away know their strategy worked and thus are motivated to stay the course. The CEOs hear explicit payoff through Congress' capitulation

* Graham admits Congress has chosen to not act

* But he forgot to say why; rather why they put up with lobbyist BS

Good lord, pass the damn act and let the cards fall. Who needs Zuckerberg's OK? I mean, c'mon!
Being the Boss Is Hazardous to Your Health
I recently evaluated Dagster, Prefect, and Flyte for a data pipeliney workflow and ended up going with Temporal.

The shared feature between Temporal and those three is the workflow orchestration piece. All 3 can manage a dependency graph of jobs, handle retries, start from checkpoints, etc.

At a high level the big reason they’re different is Temporal is entirely focused on the orchestration piece, and the others are much more focused on the data piece, which comes out in a lot of the different features. Temporal has SDKs in most languages, and has a queuing system that allows you to run different workflows or even activities (tasks within a workflow) in different workers, manage concurrency, etc. You can write a parent workflow that orchestrates sub-workflows that could live in 5 other services. It’s just really composable and fits much more nicely into the critical path of your app.

Prefect is probably the closest of your list to temporal, in that it’s less opinionated than others about the workflows being “data oriented”, but it’s still only in python, and it deosn't have queueing. In short this means that your workflows are kinda supposed to run in one box running python somewhere. Temporal will let you define a 10 part workflow where two parts run on a python service running with a GPU, and the remaining parts are running in the same node.js process as your main server.

Dagster’s feature set is even more focused on data-workflows, as your workflows are meant to produce data “assets” which can be materialized/cached, etc.

They’re pretty much all designed for a data engineering team to manage many individual pipelines that are external from your application code, whereas temporal is designed to be a system that manages workflow complexity for code that (more often) runs in your application.
Well the nature of autism being a "spectrum disorder" (per the DSM, the officialest psychology book) inherently means that there will be people who are 1%, 2%, 5%, 50% autistic. So boolean labels/diagnoses don't really apply very well in all cases.

I think that fact doesn't sit well with some people and that's worth exploring. Perhaps wanting bucket people to be "neurotypical" or "neurodivergent" (rather than on a normal distribution) may reflect an underlying desire to have an ingroup or outgrop, for example.

Interestingly Simon Baron-Cohen (Yes, Borat's Brother!) proposed the theory that a ton of intelligent people in professional fields and/or academia called "systemizers" carry a slight predisposition toward autism and mate with each other [1]. I haven't followed up how well his theories have held up in the last 5 years.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen
>My kids know 3x what I did when I was their same age.

This makes it sound like kids across the board are getting smarter and more knowledgeable. Then why are so many headlines saying the opposite? "U.S. reading and math scores drop to lowest level in decades" or "Children's IQs are getting lower, US study finds" etc etc. Even if it's clickbait, I'm not seeing any "kids are getting smarter" clickbait.
Even then it's still a lucrative proposition, since you only need to generate the dataset once, and then it can be reused.

This kind of pricing would also make it much less compelling for other users. 100k tokens is nothing when you're doing summarization of large docs, for example.
Overview of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
Things are far better than they were before the government intervention. The consolidation had started happening before the ACA was passed (e.g. Bill Frist and Rick Scott both became rich enough to be senators thanks to hospital consolidation in the 1980's and 1990's), and now that there are regulations the individual insurance market is passable rather than the continuous death spiral that it was in before.

And of course as I didn't say in that message but is obviously true, the ACA has led to far more people carrying health coverage than before. It's just that instead of the exchanges, it's the Medicaid expansion that has led to this. Even with Robert's unprincipled last minute rewrite and the 10 states that are still allowing their rural hospital system to be utterly gutted rather than giving Democrats the win, a higher percentage of people have health coverage than at any point in American history before the ACA, and that is entirely because of Obamacare. So that is why reinforcing the successful part (government insurance) and abandoning the failed part ("market reform") is so attractive.

The problem is that the health care market isn't a truly free market. Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton economist, wrote a lot about how it was a broken market, which is why every other developed country (including fairly libertarian states like Singapore and Chile) has significantly more government intervention than the US does- since it's not really much like a free market, unless you are willing to accept many, many more deaths for people like my mother, which I am not.
Can we add caffeine as a cause? It was introduced in england around 1650 and then a few decades of people getting high from that and voila, steam power!
What if it's Grey Poupon?
I think crypto is inherently a scam - a distributed pyramid scheme. Am I now "people" with "opinions"?
Given how much control Musk exerted over the process it's less that the board represented shareholder interests and more that the shareholders happened to benefit despite not being represented and not being fully informed on how the compensation package was put together. Perhaps a subtle distinction, but important in the eyes of the law.
“Midvale School for the Gifted”
Upsettingly, I've been in that situation. Sigh. LMAO.
Reminds me of this PDF I created more than a decade ago from a Postscript implementation of the game of life. Seems it still works, but causes MacOS preview to crash. https://andrewcutler.net/docs/joke/life.pdf