skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This company in a company idea reminds me of the classic "The Front Fell Off" sketch (3 minutes you won't regret on YouTube if you haven't seen). The oil executive explains that the leaking oil tanker is no longer in the environment--"It's been towed outside the environment."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290456
I was asked this question by (I believe) a very Christian burger company from Austin (Mighty Fine) at the start of my career interviewing for some sort of IT admin job with them. I think I was 22-25.

He asked "So what extra curricular hobbies did you have in high school?" And I'll never forget that it was such a weird gross question to ask someone. What are you doing, judging whether I was in wrestling or theater? Judging if I didn't do any at all because I had to work after school? Judging if I took night classes and worked during the day? Judging if I'm not at christian school after class?

Are you just being chatty and friendly? Weird question. I couldn't even remember. I DID play hockey and wrestle but I was so shocked by the question I didn't even think of those IIRC. Not sure what I said. Maybe I did say those and I'm misremembering because I'm not sure what else I would've said other than "no hobbies."
Not necessarily. If people are differentially biased to report higher cup counts when their actual caffeine strength is lower (because, for instance, they drink 6 cups of instant coffee), then that will have large implications on the study. Controlling for caffeine content is extremely important.
> That isnt everyone.

> Some folks had a lot of adversity in their lives and are OK with talking about how they delt with it. Some people pay others to listen to this and call it therapy.

Sure. But is "willing to talk about dealing with trauma" really a valid filter to sort potential employees by?
The distribution pipeline is invisible because of the open, distributed ecosystem.

As soon as a podcast announces it is going platform-exclusive, the pipeline becomes extremely visible for everyone except those already subscribing via that platform.
`with` is more widely used, i think, but there's also `Kernel.then/2`:

data
|> call_service
|> then(fn {:ok, decode} -> decode_file(decode) end)
|> then(fn {:ok, file} -> store_file(file) end)

your solution also works if you define the function headers with a pattern match against the tuple, but then you have this extra function hanging around. Feels like a style thing more than anything else.
Anecdotally the solo knit is much more comfortable on my head than the dual loop. The dual loop seems designed for people with more elongated heads.
personally, I found Anathem to be fun the whole way through, but Baroque Cycle has like only one enjoyable part at the end of book two
This[1] has improved the situation considerably!

```

[log] SQLite: 100000 embeddings inserted in 2635 ms

[log] SQLite: 100000 embeddings retrieved in 561 ms

```

Isar is still ~2x faster, but there's room for optimization.

Thanks a bunch for sharing this, I will update the post.

[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/edge-db-benchmarks/commit/51ec496...
This helps, but the sites I ran never comingled revenue goals with content moderation and they still enshittified.
I have a large gap in my resume from a bout of depression that left me basically incapacitated for nearly 10 months.

I get asked about it all the time in interviews.

I just respond “I’m under NDA”.

I also get asked about GitHub profiles. I have a pseudonym on GitHub, and maintain a few projects. I dont divulge that information either.

“I’m under NDA” or “I only work in proprietary code with many trade secrets involved so I can’t”

I’ve probably been screened out of plenty of processes just for that, but I don’t care. I’ve been doing pretty good for myself without making my life an open book.
We should have a simple law in the US:

Advertising may ever only be related to the surrounding content. It's the (traditional) TV model. Saturday morning cartoons shows you cereal commercials.

For the web this would translate to seeing funeral ads if you're on a website for cancer. But if this follows you later, then we should simply get the death penalty involved for the company that follows you.

From a simple sense, all AI and logic created to track people goes away - ad companies need to simply focus on determining the BEST ads to display on the web pages the ad is pinned to.
aider
The article also claims it's the ideal size because it minimizes reverts and ends up with PRs getting more thoroughly reviewed (based on # of comments). I think that makes for a more compelling case.
Easiest way to hire a bunch of young, smart, ambitious people is to work at a place where young, smart ambitious people want to work. Anyone who's worked at such a place will tell you it's easy in that environment and difficult outside it. The deck is so stacked in your favor at the right place.

It's much harder to keep the organization mildly functional so that such people want to stay. The number of highly capable, motivated people leaving orgs because "this place is a disaster" is astronomical.
The DLP/LCD chips inside 4K video projectors have about the same pixel density.
There has never been a one-hour window over the last 30 years where it hasn't been sunny or windy somewhere in Europe.

Obviously having all of Europe's electricity being generated on a single corner of Spain isn't feasible. But nobody is talking about 100% wind & solar. Hydro, storage, geothermal & nuclear can all add diversity and reliability. This can be modelled. We cannot get to 100% reliability but nothing can; local distribution SPOF bottlenecks limit reliability 99.99% regardless. And 99.99% is possible.
Z doesn't really have files or databases, but rather an emulation of variable-length records contained within a relatively fixed allocation on disk. Mainframe DASDs also have a much richer interface than just read/write a given block; for example, you can scan for records within a track that have a given prefix
I've tried texting them and no response and they hang up if I call :p
I don't think anyone is going to come to Taiwan's aid if a major invasion comes up. There will be material and intelligence support, for sure, but sending troops? Not so sure.

I agree that Xi probably wants some legacy coined to him, but he is only 70 and looks pretty healthy (as far as I see) so I guess he can still wait it out.

I still don't believe there is going to be an invasion of Taiwan happening in the next few years, but if it does, I think it's going to be a lot bigger than just Taiwan. From this perspective, it is scary.
Karl Guttag has a history of getting a lot of excruciatingly difficult details right, and missing the literal big picture right in front of him. I think he makes great technical contributions to the field (at least from my perspective as a layman), but every one of his analyses that I have read ends with something to the effect of "and this is why it is physically impossible for AR/VR to ever work", which is far beyond skepticism. It makes it hard to take the rest of his analysis seriously because it shows an irrational bias against the technology.
You'd think this was true, but I've seen some crazy shit in interviews, even at companies that were big enough and had a robust enough legal team, where you'd think they'd have their shit together.

I once interviewed at a medium sized, name brand Silicon Valley darling everyone on HN has heard of, where an interviewer outright asked me if I was married and if I had kids! Like, holy shit, just read your interview training manual! The very first sentence is probably "Do not ask any questions where the answer would even imply information about things that would get us in trouble discrimination-wise." Yet this person overtly asked! Here I was in the stairwell walking down to the second floor and she hits me up with one of the few totally forbidden questions! I thought about saying "What would HR think of that question?" but the asker was the HR manager! Totally bonkers.
It also impacts only dTPM use that does not set up encrypted session first. No idea why Bitlocker doesn't use encrypted session.
Alternate headline: Stipe disciplines dominatrixes.
Where I am, it can unfortunately end up being a pretty serious legal accusation to say someone's making diagnoses, or prescribing medications.
Replace the subject matter with that of your own job, or pretend you are living inside the article and respond directly to the author if that feels right to you. Whatever gets you to seeing my point.
For sure, one of the points of doing Geppetto was to speed up the link between Slack and LLMs or other interfaces.

I am sure that everyone capable can do a similar project but the concern is that developers and organizations want to lower the learning curve.
> School budgets for student laptops cap out around $300 and they get cheaper if they're able to. It's a challenge to build a quality device at that price point, even more of a challenge to actually make money doing so.

I know. Schools already tend to be under-funded in a lot of countries (on average, obviously there are local variations, as you say). But at the same time shoddy computers are not very useful either. I don’t have an easy solution.
Yeah I was about to say this. "Tell me the story of your career" is a lot more appropriate.

You're probably still going to get a lot of irrelevant dreamy passion bullshit with that question though when in reality 95% of candidates are just looking for exchanging skills for income and you as an employer need to accept that that's how the world works.
I agree 100%, I think the potential is in a future Vision device which is smaller, lighter, and cheaper, while having an even better display.
...and didn't bother much describing the world his story takes place in because he expected you to know Gibson's Cyberpunk already.
> without trying to rein in Google's influence

That's the problem. They should go after Google too. Honestly all of these megacorporations should be broken up.
Advertisement Campaigns are based on Returns on Investments not on accuracy. For example, lets say a "Pet Insurance" company makes on average $400 profit for each customer they obtain.

It makes sense for them to spend $200 to acquire each new customer. You could send out around 300 bulk letters for $200. So it makes sense to cast a wide net including mailing people who just made their first purchase at a pet store. Obviously some of those people only bought a $4 gold fish and will laugh at the pet insurance quote.
Stumbling on Innovation
We need to shift our view of what constitutes valuable innovation in healthcare, from pursuing ‘optimal improvement’ regardless of its costs to an increased awareness of driving down costs.
Yes, this[1] did the job, thank you!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291411
> The philosopher G. H. Lewes coined the term "emergent" in 1875, distinguishing it from the merely "resultant"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

The word is 150 years old; the concept is older than we can determine.
The unlikely 3M electric toothbrush DDoS attack
How is degrowth murder? Is it murder if the entire planets worth of women aren't constantly pregnant because not embracing any and all potential for human life is murder?

Are you trying to say that saying only a % of people can have children is murder in regards to those that don't get to? Aren't we already doing this by imposing financial circumstances/classes on people rather than evenly distributing wealth as much as possible?
Would she be pissed off at A) The bank? B) The browser? C) The computer? D) Her internet provider?

People can change browser more easily than changing banks. They can even have multiple different browsers on their machine, and one for only doing banking.
What happened in HK left a sour taste in the mouth of a lot of people. I’m all for China rising but all I see is a country still closed to the world.
Dual loop hurt. Once you figure out the solo knit needs to be worn higher up it’s way better.
Radium!
No worries. I keep forgetting how old I am, and that the DOS underpinnings of early Windows may be completely unknown even to those of my successors who work in computing. An entire generation has been born, grown up, graduated college and entered the workforce without having ever seen a DOS-based Windows.
HVAC companies bid as if they're entitled to $4K of labor/profit for a half-day of on-site work. It's maddening.
Do an IQ test and a work sample test, everything else is cruft.
> It’s crazy to me that you haven’t see more divestments in China from Taiwanese companies.

There is a ton of divestment, what do you mean?

New investments in China by Taiwanese companies declined 10.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of the year (2023) to US$758 million...That follows an almost 14 percent decrease in such investment last year.https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/04/21/2...

According to a survey conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, over a quarter of surveyed Taiwanese firms with operations in China had already moved some of their production or sourcing out of China, while another third were considering doing so in the near-term. https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=3573

Apple Aims to Make a Quarter of the World’s iPhones in India. Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-aims-to-make-a-quarter-of-the...
You'll turn my head sir. I'm privileged enough to have an English Degree, a passion for Science Fiction, and a debating background. I'm also composed almost entirely of strongly held, and often contrary, convictions, so revel in the thrust and parry of online debate. Particularly during office hours.

Re: ChatGPT - I'm guessing it would be more easily detected than you think. It's a paradigm leap from Markov chains and the like, but I'd imagine it would still hallucinate a quote or reference some non-existent book in making a comparison at some point.

If it ever gets adept at literary criticism or critical theory as opposed to just cargo-culting its way past the lower threshold of readers I'll probably be in despair. Let's keep it trained on JIRA rather than JSTOR just to be safe, lest something like Roald Dahl's 'The Great Automatic Grammatizator' come to fruition.
I'm not familiar at all with this kind of low-level knowledge so probably a stupid question but: does that require the device to be connected when the user types their password to actually retrieve the key, or is it an actual "crack" as in it can unlock BitLocker without key nor password ever being inputted on the device?
It was a voluntary recall on an extremely low production vehicle (at least at the time), a total of 260 cars with a potential issue.

Compare that to the tens of thousands of ACTUAL INCIDENTS identified by Reuters through Tesla internal documents and Tesla's refusal to even cover the repairs, let alone proactively recall all potentially affected vehicles. Much of what was covered by Reuter's occurred AFTER China forced a recall for the exact same issues.

https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-is-conducting-a-safety-r...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...
With current approach, i will only look at first few items and pick my ratings from there.
Wow, kudos for actually implementing the proposed fix and documenting it here so quickly!
If Apple and Google can’t even find all the vulnerabilities in their libs, how on earth would a scrappy team of a few devs, especially since media decode isn’t the sole thing they’re focused on?

> Otherwise how would new/better stuff ever get built?!

The problem here is that people are salivating to use this as their daily driver. When WireGuard was still in development, everyone got told in very strong terms to not use it in any setting that required actual security.

Browsing the web at large is sort-of hostile by default.

Ladybird is a great project, and I hope it keeps developing, but any user that thinks their media decode libraries will be bulletproof libs free of vulnerabilities are nuts.
Also, there is a list for apps and services that supports The Podcast index [1].

[1] https://podcastindex.org/apps
In a world where chat gpt exists I think even work samples are untrustworthy sources of excellence unfortunately.
It would seem one has to either watch the process or devise unique and difficult to game tests.
Not very diverse or inclusive.
Get some inspiration from something like https://www.haiku-os.org/ https://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ https://9front.org/ or even https://vmssoftware.com/ and consider how one might re-imagine compute provisioning to scale across hardware but also provide services for workstation use.

https://osdev.org/ is an excellent starting point, and if you start to write code to sketch out the components, it's surprising how many features are required. (Not as monumental as writing a database, but nevertheless surprising.)

Going in other directions, consider how Smalltalk, and the Lively Kernel do things.

Gaze in wonder at the power of inertia, and network effects.

Other operating systems are available.
Perhaps In-Q-Tel will mysteriously get $20b in new AUM.
Might not be directly related,

but messing with the nervous system using alcohol can often damage digestion, damaging nutrition, damaging mental health.

This can indeed happen acutely/be experienced in less than a day.
The Chinese labor force has been reaching parity recently. Hence pushes into Vietnam & India for manufacturing.
The people posting on Reddit would disprove your point. Likely because they do not tell you about that upfront and say it is a small thing.
I prefer the solo band over the dual loop. I've used it since launch with the solo band. It should sit slightly high on the back of your head.
I hear people say that a lot but I don't get it. I experienced it as a hopeless, depressing slog, where things just got worse and worse. But fortunately I wasn't attached to the characters so it wasn't so bad watching them all suffer.
Author Admits she Used AI to Write 5% of Her Award-Winning Novel
Pretty sure it's a logical fallacy to group the current argument with widely agreed and totally unrelated bads.
https://www.osdev.org
FWIW this is the #1 best use case I've found for ChatGPT. I recently started learning golang and as an experiment decided to use nothing but ChatGPT for reference/documentation. So far, ChatGPT has satisfied roughly 100% of my questions. A lot of the questions were like "what's the go equivalent of X in JS/TS?".

The returns seem to be diminishing after ~6 weeks, but the first 2-3 weeks were the least friction I've ever encountered learning basically any new topic. It was kind of wild, I don't remember getting stuck even a single time, it was just super high-density progress, non-stop.

More generally, the situation where "I have a good amount of generic knowledge, so I know what I want, but I don't have the specific knowledge I need" seems to be a sweet spot for ChatGPT.
I take issue with the assertion that there was a period where all people could agree on a world view. Most of the 20th century was defined by sharp disagreement between world views and all of their constituent parts. Perhaps if you limit the scope to all citizens of a nation then the statement would be more truthful but there are large disagreements there as well.
Large and small PRs aren't the only options.

For a large PR, I usually regroup my changes into smaller unit commits which can be reviewed commit by commit.

For an even larger (or more complex) PR, I'll make a set of stacked PRs which can be reviewed in pieces, each with a good description of what/why/how stuff is happening in that piece. Once all PRs have been approved, the lot of them can be deployed together.

I've at times had 3 PRs for a total of 3 line changes, because they were for a single table's schema migration picking new indexes and each had many factors to consider. The PR descriptions were of course much longer.
Show HN: LLM Benchmarks Leaderboard with 60 model and API host combinations
Work samples aren't all straight coding; in fact, only a small subset of ours are.

Later

I want to add: I fully believe LLMs can reliably knock out the code for most programming challenges, but a good coding work sample is as much about what you choose to code as it is about the code itself.

If you're asking people to invert binaries trees or whatever, that's not a work-sample test, it's a coding quiz. Work-sample tests mirror the actual work you're doing; that's what makes them predictive. Writing a function to do X, Y, or Z is usually the easy part about building software; the hard part is deciding which X, which Y, and which Z, and how they fit together.

We didn't deliberately set out to design work samples where the decisions we're grading are things LLMs don't just do for you; we do a lot of systems programming work and those kinds of decisions just dominate systems programming.
Yeah that's the asking price, it doesn't tell you how many they sell nor what the median car on the road costs

Most new cars are bought by companies or older people too, the populace mostly runs on shitboxes from early 2010s

https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000052...
“Reputational harm”?

If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

I think it’s reasonable to assume that an ex president doesn’t have immunity from attempting to overthrow our democracy.
I thought Sony makes the display (and cameras for that matter). It's odd that there are two critical pieces of tech that need a lot of R&D for the Vision Pro to keep progressing, and Apple has nothing to do with them. The screens need to get brighter and have higher resolution. The cameras need to work faster in low light and capture more accurate colors.
I hated this idea at the time, but have come around to it. Im fairly libertarian, but understand that competition is difficult for the power distribution network.

As much as I think the state is inefficient, a cost plus regulated monopoly is even worse. Municipal power companies in CA run $0.10-0.20 per kwh, while PG&E is $0.40-0.50 cents, and going up.
I exclusively use Firefox, and I probably browse more websites than most. I very rarely run into websites that don't work on Firefox, and I can't recall the last time I ran into a page that didn't work on Firefox when serving a Chrome UserAgent (btw, if you're a web developer and you're accessing your user's UA, you're doing something horribly wrong. Stop).
I agree, but there are questions in my head.

If the "private" information is that you killed 500 people (you're basically a Dexter), what do we do with that private information?
I agree with the article, but was thinking along the same lines.

What if a business actually takes a long-term view: investing in standards and fostering it's ecosystem instead of trying to outmaneuver competitors using any short-term tricks available? What if a company makes a great dishwasher and only change it when they can improve it? Will they inevitably be driven into extinction or bought up by more short-term profit-hungry enterprises? Maybe... but is that really inevitable?
I prefer the beginning of Anathem. Once the plot stuff happens I'm less interested
How close is mandarin to Cantonese?
Reuters has been linked to covert government influence operations regarding Russia and Syria. Their "trust principles" facade is just that. They are no more reliable than any other serious news outlet, from China, Russia, or America. They publish things that their owners find acceptable.
Sounds a bit like Hermit [0]

[0] https://cashapp.github.io/hermit/