skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit annoyed :-). We're building a platform (https://hivekit.io/) that lets you visualize, coordinate and automate operations in the physical world (on mines, construction sites, cities etc.).

When I first started talking and writing about it, I described what we did as spatial computing because - well - its computing stuff in a spatial sense. I even went further, suggesting that the patterns that emerge from entities operating in a physical space resemble the mechanics of other "thinking systems" like Neural Nets. (see https://hivekit.io/blog/building-ai-without-a-neural-network...)

I felt, the term spatial computing was super applicable for that - and I still feel that way. But with the release of the vision pro, we had to surrender the term to Apple and go with the less pompous "workforce orchestration" instead.
I meant not just US comps but Spotify/Booking/etc...
Was asking because was reading some comments in the past that the pay is not that competitive
After, if we assume from Apple sales, everybody got a mobile phone, AI could be what makes it non-stagnant again. Just companies ordering GPUs and servers, plus more and more similar features being shipped to consumer hardware could make a difference.

I do not have any data though, just thinking out loud.
>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.

Not exactly how "spectrum" works. It's about the variation of type and severity, not merely the variation of severity.

And there's no 1% or 50% autistic per the DSM. It's just autistic (or non-autistic), and autistic comes at 3 levels, which is not 33% 66% and 100% autistic, but autistic with low, mid, and high support needs.

If you're diagnosed as autistic you're not 5% autistic or 30% autistic, you're autistic, period. Your support needs just vary (and the 3 levels is a crude, but "good enough", breakdown for policy decision making).
It’s a tool for personal productivity, just like spreadsheets and python scripts. I use it as a super dictionary, to write text and code or just satisfy my curiosity. It’s useful when I am knowledgeable enough to verify the output. It’s a technology that augments my abilities, which is what technology should do.

But I never let it speak for me, and I find it rude to make someone take 5 minutes to read something I “wrote” in 5 seconds. Technology should make us better humans. It should amplify our best traits, and our ability for bullshitting isn’t one of them.
Alas, our spatial computing journey seems to have taken many steps back. Our OSs treat icons on our desktops as theirs to do with as they please, rather than ours to keep where we want them. Window positions are forgotten, new windows are created pretty much at random anywhere the OS pleases. We can't arrange our files spatially. Instead, the OS talks to us through those dreaded "file open" dialogs, using abstractions of tables rather than spatial arrangements.

We can't even arrange icons on our iOS home screens as we please — we have to stick to a predefined grid with predefined sizes and use a terrible interface to move them around.

I do hope this will change in the future: our brains are wired for spatial memory and we should be making things easier for us by building software that is subservient to our needs, not the other way around.
So what could be some use cases for this apart from as a toy or for faking photos/art?
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What's the point of all of this?

ChatGPT (or local/hosted LLMs) should be tools available at workplace nowadays.

Interview while using LLMs, wikipedia, google, SO, o'reilly or whatnot should be not only allowed but encouraged.

Just have conversation/pair programming like session with gpts open and shared - just how you'd work with that person.

That's how they'll work for/with you.

Mission. Fucking. Accomplished. [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/810
> and they're just mathematical systems

Obvious question: can Prolog do reasoning?

If your definition of reasoning excludes Prolog, then... I'm not sure what to say!
And almost unreadable on mobile.
That's not the point I was making. The full quote is:

>Anyone can ace and interview and then slack off once they have to job.

In that a person can pass an interview, get hired, and then not do the job. An interview will never tell you if you will get poor job performance with 100% accuracy.
well, looking at the other comment in this thread, looks like the pay is kinda smaller compared to say Spoti/Booking/similars and not comparable with big tech
Depends on how you look at it I guess. If it's really too expensive and overly slow to run for end users but is able to say, generate perfect synthetic datasets over time which can then be used to train smaller and faster models which pay back for that original cost then it is cost effective, just in a different application.
Wow… this can’t possibly be how you write tests in Golang?!

Code: https://hastebin.com/share/puciyelayi.go

This is just insane, the ceremony is twice the length of the actual testing code. I seriously hope this is not representative of the language as a whole.

In Java I get the outcome with the Annotation @ParameterizedTest.
Eat lutein supplements and get as much sunlight and barefoot grounding
Yeah, I think it at least means abandoning any idea of changing the API of any of the standard tools. Whether you silently replace them in a custom shell or provide alternative named replacement.

I'm halfway tempted to replace my shell with one that is more integrated with my terminal and do something like the last bit you suggested, given it can be very trivial[1] if you explicitly make the choice that for any scripting you'll use a "regular" shell.

[1] there is, in fact, a tiny single-file Ruby shell that I might be tempted to extend.
Yeah sorry I didn't mean to be rude other than to josh you about
mysterious "doings".

You made it sound like they were somehow special, like, I dunno,
particle physics that could only run on a custom quantum computer.

Now you're specific, looks like those are all perfectly normal and
ordinary things, right?

I also had to use a very specialist CAD system. In those days the only
things it would run on were Sun Microsystems and HP Unix boxen.

Other than Microsoft's monopoly grip, and your need to interface with
other use ^H^H^Hvictims of that monopoly, is there any reason you
wouldn't try a friendlier, more socially conscious solution?
And no tipping !

It's hard to really compare between the countries, but I feel like one should almost x2 an EU salary, to get an US equivalent, in terms of quality of life offered.
We have a FUSE mount in Peergos[0][1] (built on IPFS). It lets you mount any folder read or write (within your access).

[0] https://github.com/peergos/peergos
[1] https://peergos.org
YouTube channel got hacked: how, investigation, timeline, and recovery. [video]
OpenAI's GPT-4 safety systems broken by Scots Gaelic
"EU is becoming an open air museum" lol
For USA debts, it is falling. The last 3 years Fed need to buy the left over new bills unsold. In the past, 100% being sold to public and sovereign. But the last 3 years spooked US Treasury as routinely only half sold. Janet even had to fly over to China to "kowtow" to Xi to not sell but buy. It wasn't reported much in the west, but widely in the east and exceedingly humiliating if you able to read the chinese reporting. Essentially now, Fed is directly printing money to American public without going through hoops. Coincidentally the last 3 years inflation exceed way higher than 2% even though interest has been increased from 0% to 4+%.
And one of the biggest

We gonna find ourselves looking very much like Russias army
It’s a fundamentally different problem because you’re not, from either side really, worried about the classic Kickstarter “funds raised but we can’t keep our promises” issue. You probably already have a working relationship with a print house, print ready source files, and on the financial side you probably know exactly what all your cost basis is, e.g. setup costs of $x, $y printing costs per copy and fulfillment costs of $z. Kickstarter’s fees aren’t nothing.
Oh dear... Sandy Hook + Cereal Killer = Adam Lanza
With super-intelligence beyond human maximum levels, singularity could be any scifi scenario you could possible think about.

But to make it feasible to be presented to authorities which have a serious lack of understanding of the current level of the AI technology, the best path could be to show the risks using the most probable scenarios - even if they aren't the worst - say, what if an "runaway" AI has taken over some important human network to make it its home, could be the Maerks global IT network, a big bank network, some transportation infrastructure, you name it.

Then you need to step in and clean that network, working against a seemingly impossible to erradicate adversary, which at any blink of an eye could just jump using whatever connectivity means available to the hacked network.

Add this: the AI has taken over the network, it is using its resources, but it keeps it working as intended, then it threats to just blow it out before jump, if you make any attempts to erradicate its presence from the infrastructure.

I.E. singularity has just arrived to the planet

What would you do?
>"Neurotypical" always rubs me the wrong way, because I feel I've never met this person with a typical mind and I'm not sure they exist.

The variation of "traits over a very high dimensional space" doesn't really prevent the distinction.

"A distribution over a very high dimensional space" can still have clustered groups on one side of the high dimentional space vs the other side, based on a set of X traits.

And neurotypicals are clustered away from neurodivergent people of various types, on the relevant traits.

(Plus, of course, traits that are equally variable within both groups are neutral as far as the classification is concerned).
I’m all for a sound industrial policy, but comparing market cap to GDP isn’t helpful. Better to compare corporate revenue which is typically 5% or less of market cap for FAANG.
I built a recipe database (for home cooks) and a food business planning tool
I built a website and app called Kitchenese that helps you reduce food waste by keeping a record of inventory and giving you a nice visual indicator of which recipes are accessible to you. You can also search by ingredients to use up meat/produce that is close to spoiling. I plan on writing better algorithms for matching as well as introducing shopping and diet constraint features. It also has some great tools for converting measurements from metric system to US measurement system. There are currently 130 delicious recipes.

Another part of Kitchenese is a food business planning tool that helps current and aspiring restaurateurs financially plan out a business by setting variables such as labor, menus, recipes, ingredient costs, projected sales, as well as rent/equipment and other expenses.

There is a good video demonstration here: https://kitchenese.io/about/

If you enjoy cooking or want to learn how to cook I think you should check it out!
Interesting, I always though Acrobat was the reference implementation of PDF.
That’s a bit silly of a thought experiment, because nothing survives it, since everything has its niche. If we had started with smartphones, computers coming along with their big screens and external input devices, people would be flooding to them. Even the timeline we have doesn’t survive—when smartphones came out it turned out people love having computing accessible from their pocket.
This isnt some 50ppl startup

There are long ass supply chains
How I understand it:
VR is an entirely artificial environment.
Augmented Reality is a mix between real world and artificial elements, in any proportion.
Mixed Reality is Microsoft's term for AR.
Spatial Computing is Apple's term for AR.
Technouveau
In production you'd need enough GPUs to load the entire thing so it serves fast enough, so it makes sense to go with AWQ or EXL2 instead since they're optimized for that, but I think they were sending it out for people to just test and evaluate, probably on less capable machines, in which case GGUF is king.
Ah, taking manufacturer-provided TDP numbers at face value. So much for all the pretending you know anything about CPUs.

Your very own source gives the M1 a 75 vs 59 score on power efficiency. They don't seem to provide a benchmark for it, but it should have been a clue regardless.

Here's the first result on M1 power efficiency I found https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc... :

"In single-threaded workloads, Apple’s showcases massive performance and power advantages against Intel’s best CPU. In CineBench, it’s one of the rare workloads where Apple’s cores lose out in performance for some reason, but this further widens the gap in terms of power usage, whereas the M1 Max only uses 8.7W, while a comparable figure on the 11980HK is 43.5W.

In other ST workloads, the M1 Max is more ahead in performance, or at least in a similar range. The performance/W difference here is around 2.5x to 3x in favour of Apple’s silicon.

In multi-threaded tests, the 11980HK is clearly allowed to go to much higher power levels than the M1 Max, reaching package power levels of 80W, for 105-110W active wall power, significantly more than what the MacBook Pro here is drawing. The performance levels of the M1 Max are significantly higher than the Intel chip here, due to the much better scalability of the cores. The perf/W differences here are 4-6x in favour of the M1 Max, all whilst posting significantly better performance, meaning the perf/W at ISO-perf would be even higher than this."

(as if we all didn't already know this)
yeah.. most interview procedures/ways in recent ~10+years do not check if interviewees can think. Only if they can "remember". Which is akin to education's problem of last few decades.. there are plenty of machines for remembering now. But dumb-grinding is still the expected way in schools..

While, wait, thinking...

So all this "cheating" is maybe a (bit delayed) response to the above trend..
Maybe the author does not like the idea of CGI in their movies?

> What you actually don't like is bad poop. Cooked well enough to be undetectable, you can never object to it.
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"Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should."

--Ian Malcolm in the original Jurassic Park film
I did a live coding interview a while back where I was sharing my screen. I just pointed out that I'd been testing Copilot and offered to disable it in my IDE. The engineer just waved it off and said I should keep it on. Trying to hide it didn't even cross my mind - either they want to see how I work in a realistic environment with available tooling or they want to see what I can do in a "blind" setup. The company's approach here is actually a potentially good piece of information for the candidate's evaluation of the company as well. Either way, doesn't seem like something worth hiding.
Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells
Basically open sourced Zendesk. It is IT ticketing not for internal but for customers.
The premise of my comment was: if a person passes an interview using some tool and then uses that same tool to do the job, then didn't the interview work?

You found a person (+ tool combo) that can do the job. If that person (+ tool combo) then proceeds to do the job adequately, is there a problem?

If you present a scenario in which a person passes the interview and then doesn't do the job, the you are answering a question I didn't ask.

To you scenario I would respond: the interview wasn't good enough to do its job, the whole point of the interview process is to find people (+ tool combos, if you allow) that can do the job.
Runc process.cwd and leaked fds container breakout (CVE-2024-21626)
A lot of things that (especially progressive) Americans love about Europe are at least in part financed by those lower salaries.
It aged quite well, it's just the name that didn't age well, because in 2024 you can't say males have more of X trait and women have more Y trait for political reasons.
Of course they did, when the aeroplane was invented lots of countries made their own aeroplanes. They still buy them from Boeing, but they could make their own if they had to.

This is how governments protect their countries, they have a back up plan. If access to MS Office, Oracle, AWS etc was restricted by the US government, or began to be priced unreasonably high, effective replacements are ready to go live. Until then it makes sense to stick with the ones everyone else is using
Right, in particular objects (in the general sense, not the OOP sense) have lifetimes and so the provenance of a pointer to or into that object is restricted to the lifetime.

If I make a Box<Goose> some heap is allocated and my Goose is in there, and I can get myself a pointer to that Goose, but the pointer must not be used either before I made the Box<Goose> or after it's dropped.
> There’s plenty of successful businesses chugging along growing at about the rate of inflation.

Even outpacing inflation by 1.2 - 2 times. It's not insane growth, but it is consistent. Better yet is that they tend to have a decent number of assets too.

> It’s really hard to grow a business at 10 or 500 times that rate.

How often is 10 to 500 times growth seen in reality? I think most start-ups fail before the second year.

> Why would it be surprising to value the latter kind of business higher than the former?

Highly stable and proven growth as opposed to highly unstable and unreliable growth.
> In stead they will just handover €30 billion of public money to multinational corporations with market caps larger than the yearly GDP of some EU countries.

Those GDPs varies from about €18 billion (Malta) to about €4 trillion (Germany).
Oh, you found that, thank you!

That talk gives a good high level overview of the platform we created on the observatory and that is now being used as a basis for the regional centres (where the data will be moved into and made accessible).

It's a nice talk from a more scientifically oriented point of view, but I think this one here describes better the platform we created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEpa9ltz3Xg
Generating memes to friends sparing search time. Describing sketches have them on the fly sharing with teams?
Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less
I think the point is that if e.g. v7 removes a certain method, but the replacement is already available in v6, you can simply keep using v6 while updating your code to use the new method. By doing all this work on top of v6, upgrading to v7 becomes as simple as 'flipping the switch', and reverting it if issues do arise also becomes trivial.

But yes, I can definitely imagine cases where trying to apply this method leads to a chicken-and-egg problem.
It seems to be a combination of how many times it's been merged, and how long it is. I think sometimes the LLM just decides a word is a 'final' word and won't merge it. I've gotten final words that are just a couple characters, and ones that are 10+ words.
Taxing revenue is very useful with multinationals who use cunning tricks to move profits back to their home countries. So yes it remains a valid tax
The aristocrats are bawling for their imaginary friend to beat up the internet for stealing their megaphone.
I really hope this ends up killing LeetCode interviews with fire.

The negative assessment of one of the interviewers about a candidate how “he hadn’t prepared to solve even the most basic LeetCode problems” is especially telling.

Maybe the candidate had really honed their sudoku solving skills instead.
Something like Star Treks subspace?
Death by Specificity (2015) [video]
They sort of are already, no?
Hilarious comment. The one that's clearly ignorant is you.

The 3.5k is entry-level.

Once you've upgraded it and added the required accessories you end up around 5k.
Which of my points do either of those refute? The suddenly one certainly not. And the other? That the company itself projected hitting almost all the milestones in just a couple years? Not that one either.
Isnt cron inherently easy to horizontally scale?

As in, if you have 500 cron scripts and you think you're reaching capacity of that box, just distribute the 500 scripts in one cron tab file to two boxes with 250 each?

If one cares more about the reliability of things, you can keep tab on the cron scripts starting at their times, and if they dont, then bring the box down and start a new box with the same cron tab?
I haven’t done it, but I have known some who are good at what they do to go contracting 3 days a week (or however many) making higher day rates and spend their spare days building their startup.. would that help you ramp up quicker without taking on debt?
If I had to guess, one group came up with (reasonable) requirements for this connector to handle certain currents and voltages, be reliable, be nice-looking, and be proprietary for the purpose of not dealing with RMAs related to people connecting shitty usb-c batteries directly to the headset. And another group realized "hey, we have all kinds of documentation, test results and tooling, we can make a wider lightning cable with low risk and low cost. Sure, we are moving away from lightning but since this is internal to 2 apple products it doesn't matter."
But as a currency it’s still mostly useless.
I'm curious what education system you are talking about. One of the trends of modern (read post 1900) education was a move to emphasise higher-order skills (such as analysis or critical thinking) over lower-order skills (like memorisation). In some systems this has gotten to the point where kids seem unusually happy about going to school but don't actually learn almost anything while there...
In the corporate world we’ll see all that shit before it stops. We’re in the peak of the hype cycle.

Don’t worry when this one fades a new one will come right along…
Yes, but we typically think of the EU as advanced economies, and the notion of a company having a market cap larger than some advanced economies definitely hurts when subsidies from that bloc are increasing profits.

Which is what the parent is directly addressing.

anyway: GDP is more closely related to revenue than it is market cap.
For one's own sake, use the approach that will lead to self-actualization.