skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About Salient

Salient is an applied AI company focussing on auto finance.

Our mission at Salient is to automate loan servicing for the largest auto lenders in America. We already conduct over 100k calls per day for payment collection, fraud detection, and dispute resolution, all without human intervention.

Our platform leverages more than 10 in-house LLMs and speech diffusion models, combined with a unique architecture, to deliver low-latency, human-like conversations that comply with CFPB and SEC regulations.

Our founding team hails from institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Columbia, and brings a decade of experience from leading companies like Tesla, Airtable, Goldman Sachs, and Dropbox. We've secured a $4M seed round from Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, and General Catalyst, as well as executives at Tesla, Stripe, Brex, and more.

We launched in late 2023, currently have seven-figure revenue, and are profitable. We also have a waitlist of customers looking to onboard.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our founding engineering team. You will work on the cutting edge of AI research in a highly regulated industry. This is an exciting opportunity to shape our company culture and take ownership of brand-new products.

As a key member of our team, you will:

- Develop greenfield, tech-heavy products for the finance industry
- Collaborate closely with co-founders and customers to shape our product roadmap
- Contribute to various areas of our startup, pitching in wherever necessary
- Take ownership of key projects, ensuring they are completed on time and meet our high-quality standards
- Participate in code reviews to maintain a high-quality codebase
- Work closely with our product and design teams to create an intuitive and innovative user experience
- Help to recruit, mentor, and develop a team of exceptional engineers

Requirements

- Proven ability to work independently and take initiative in a dynamic environment
- A passion for startups and building products from the ground up
- Proficiency in Python
- At least 2 years of work experience in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
- Familiarity with modern software development practices and tools
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Preferred: Experience with AI or machine learning technologies
- Preferred: Experience in the finance industry or working with consumer data
I suspect most rewarding careers will always feel challenging; it's the converse of feeling boring.
Glad I wasn't alone.
I don't give a shit about what memes Russian apologists have about Western posters. Flat-earthers have memes about globeheads, that doesn't mean they're right about anything. If Russian posters are tired of hearing those things, they can stop making the same stupid comparisons in every thread and stop blanket-denying anything Russia does wrong.
This podcast explains the history pretty well.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/visa
> totally immoral tools

Is grammarly immoral? Or spell checks? Or googling “good text responses to a hinge match?”

I don’t like the idea of chatting with an ai on behalf of a human, but I don’t know if it’s immoral.

I expect that we’ll just do more FaceTimes and rely on Apple to cut out ai layers of video.

Not sure if it makes online dating better or worse.
ADHD Traits May Have Evolved to Provide Foraging Advantages, Study Says
> The fact that biolabs haven't been regulated at all (in fact, even the notion of investigating biolab safety has become some sort of partisan issue) should be a huge clue that the COVID response has been a political operation.

???

They were already heavily regulated before, and still are now. And that includes in China, where we don't get to talk much about "partisan" issues owing their government treating any discussion of their own imperfection as some kind of foreign dissent attempt.
Perhaps this was the point of your comparison, but it's funny because "safe" deposit boxes aren't safe[0]

https://archive.is/63xoB
Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of Crude Oil in SPR (Thousand Barrels)
When I worked at Sun Microsystems, they had a clever launcher shell script dealie for things like StarOffice documents that did usage tracking, portability fixes (usually setting obscure environment vars), and of course downloading and opening the actual document. Then they started sending those shell scripts as email attachments. One day they sent out an email telling people to not open executable email attachments: the full memo was a SO document wrapped in one of these scripts.

To their credit, after the inevitable replies to that email they never used that wrapper again (they moved the launchers to the centralized NFS install where they always should have been)
These won't be smaller I guess. Given we keep the number of parameters same.

Pre LLM era (let's say 2020), the hardware used to look decently powerful for most use cases (disks in hundreds of GBs, dozen or two of RAM and quad or hex core processors) but with the advent of LLMs, even disk drives start to look pretty small let alone compute and memory.
To me it's more readily phrased as a question of:

> Why would we want that?

Like, "AI" can make visually complex patterns of moving pixels now? Great! I like making my own patterns of pixels though. I like seeing other patterns of pixels because they're made by other people; art is just a communication medium. And I don't like being unable to trust anything I see, because the cost of fabricating fake videos is effectively zero, and the mass proliferation of doing so dilutes the pool of meaning, experience, and information with empty spam lacking substance.

Congrats! You solved a very challenging technical problem. Now, why is this a good thing exactly? How does this align with what most people actually want to get out of life?
I'm just amazed how they got all of these nurses in on the conspiracy!

https://old.reddit.com/r/nursing/search?q=covid+overflow&sor...
I imagine the folks over at NSA must be rubbing their hands over the possibilities this will open up for querying the data they have been diligently storing over the years.
Thanks for releasing this! What is your use case for this rather than llama.cpp? For the on-device AI stuff I mostly do, llama.cpp is better because of GPU/metal offloading.
A collection of anecdotal evidence and a nearly in-explainable increase in "trivial" software middle-ware tasks that had been dormant until GPT arrived.

Now that the means, motive, and opportunity are there, combined with the a general uneasiness regarding employment opportunities, gains have definitely been on a sharp uptick.

Whether that's a first-order effect of people using generative models or a second-order effect of people believing they will be replaced by those who do; either way, the pressure is real, and the gains are material.

It may take a larger timespan and more samples, but I have little doubt middleware and other glueware is being rapidly "no-coded" by GPT models on the private computers of contractors.
I got some unattractive results easily:

https://fastsdxl.ai/share/dfxtkr3r0w3z

https://fastsdxl.ai/share/e70xgiudn8j0

But when I switched the prompt to include "portrait", yeah it produces women who are too attractive, like an actress wearing makeup to appear ugly for a role.
New to ycombinator not sure how my links or posts dont show up.
Benchmarking of Tesla Cybertruck Battery pack
Slow news day sensationalist article.
I don't think it'd be a privacy nightmare if it used private databases created by the user. Like a personal CRM, something like Monica, but with a real-time touch.
I think the commenter was asking if OAI's customers are profitable.
What's been alarming me the most about this kerfuffle is that people (including a lot of tech people) seem to think that generative AI is some kind of authoritative, canonical source of historical information.
Next step, feed this text into into some nlp/llm and search the web for a match to find who Satoshi is
Thank you! I appreciate it.

I submitted it a few hours ago to two upvotes - I think it might be because I didn't include the link directly, and apparently that downranks it in the algorithm. I've emailed dang to see if it's OK to repost it.
Power density is not a problem usually as you don't care for the size and weight, and lead-acid give best bang for buck.
I learned this first-hand when I entered the profession with a master's degree. Much of the work required me to know how to munge tabular data and do some stats with R.

My impression is that many hiring managers desire candidates with a PhD because they are perceived to be more capable of working independently. Then again, the field isn't very standardized so every company has varying expectations of what they expect out of this role.
Dave Taht´s 2024 predictions for the Tech Industry
Assuming that emergence of life, and intelligent life, is common, how different would it be to emerge and start looking at the sky from one of the stars in this black hole's trail? Few other stars, no surrounding galaxy creating a band of light in the sky on dark nights... and once they start measuring distances (also much harder to bootstrap with few neighborhood stars to even figure out eh Main Sequence...), being in a much more potentially lonely situation
Foundation AI Models for Product Analytics
If you do you shopping around getting clear sine output does not increase the price usually, or maybe a few percent.
> That is a conclusion so, that is not supported by spurce material or facts.

I don't know which bit you're making that specific complaint about, but at this point I don't care.
isn't it's obvious ? because they are un and those are experts who saying it /s
What's the issue? I don't know Python,are these features uncommon?
How does docker swarm coordinate that an container needs to be started 5 times and how does it balance the load?
Some places in the US outsource not only payment processing, but the entire tax collection process to the private sector. I've heard stories of people living in Pennsylvania who have gone years without filing their local tax return because they thought the tax form was spam. Nope, that sketchy looking mail from some random business, with the .com address is the legally designated tax collector.
Wow, I thought this was a great post, and I'm just dumbfounded about how egregiously bad that first SMS was - FedEx might as well tell the recipient they want to customs duties wired to a Nigerian prince.

But I also disagree with the general push of Troy Hunt's recommendations. That is, we should just take the base assumption that humans, generally, can't distinguish between real and phishing inbound messages. That's only going to become more true with AI. Relying on those distinguishing characteristics in the first case is an absolute fatal flaw.

Instead (and, in fairness, Troy Hunt did do this) you should never depend on an outbound link or phone number in a message you received. You should log in to whatever service you think sent it based on looking up the address or phone number yourself. This "hang up, look up, call back" advice should be an absolute mantra. I think responsible organizations should just start by saying they will never put links or phone numbers in text/emails/calls, and their notification messages should say something like "Log in to your dashboard to see details."
So the user would have to submit the form and be met with 10s of errors? I'd rather tell them immediately.
I'm going to add: in a place where they have the bandwidth to be honest and intelligent. Sometimes good people are in bad situations. It's important to recognize this.
Alexander Hamilton
If programming ever gets easy it means you're not seeking out new challenges.

On top of that there are all of the other professional skills you need to develop to be a really effective software engineer: communication, writing, planning, navigating organizations, figuring out the best thing to build and how to effectively make the case for it.

The thing I like most about this career is the amount of depth it has - there's always a new area to dig into.
I’m think that you’re not supposed to have more than 1 person working on the same stack.

I used the stacking workflow years ago when I was working at Facebook. As I recall no one rebases their work on top of someone else’s unmerged stack. I haven’t used Graphite though so I can’t be 100% sure how they intend it to be used or how they advertise the stacking workflow.

You mentioned that you started stacking commits before trying out Graphite. What made you begin stacking in the first place? Did someone on your team use stacking before? I recall the one of the Graphite founders saying that they got a lot of their early customers because of ex-Facebook or ex-Google engineers who missed their stacking workflow.
There ought to be a law, I tell you
GNU awk has internet/socket support so you can write a gopher/irc/finger client in few lines.
If you're interested in some of these concepts (i.e. smaller, more incremental PRs and stacked branches) but don't want to jump whole-hog into using a new product or tool, I highly recommend taking a look at `git rebase --update-refs`[0] to grease the wheels so to speak of implementing a similar approach with stock tooling. There's a great write-up on the feature and how it can help you here[1].

[0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#Documentation/git-rebase...

[1]: https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/10/15/how-to-rebase-stacked-git-b...
Sure, you do you. I spent 10 years working with jQuery and am very thankful to leave that very far behind me.

BTW: jQuery is 85.1 kB minified and 29.7 kB gzipped. Preact (same API/dev experience as React, minimal performance impact) is 11.4 kB minified and 4.5 kB gzipped. Who has the smaller JS bundle now?
I think we're just talking about two different things.

The implication I got was that techies are more left than normal, and it's the opposite. If I meet someone in my city and they're in tech they tend to be less progressive than the people I meet who are not. The people in this thread are fairly representative of what I see in real life and its not particularly inspiring.
Maybe should coat it in epoxy at the end
Although I am being snarky as heck in this blog post, I am genuinely curious as to what, for example, people project as consumer bandwidth growth in 2024. Will we see more bittorrent used more, for example? How often will new AI models be released?
It's a statistic that's easy to calculate and provides no information whatsoever whether to buy or sell.
I have a 550ES, works fine. Some models will require apcd instead of nut, but I have configs for using Proxmox with both here: https://github.com/rcarmo/ground-init/tree/main/samples
So... llamafile release?

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
And yet no one is rewriting either Android (outside kernel services) or Kubernetes in C++/Rust.

Apparently after the whole WinRT/UWP mess, C++ is now left for writing low level stuff, with everything else on WinUI 3.0/WinAPPSDK being done in C#.

Devil May Cry 5 on PlayStation 5 seems to be doing quite alright with Campcon's in-house fork from .NET.

So in the end, other than some corner cases where no kind of automated memory management is at all allowed, people will rather take a regular car instead of a F1.
*EDIT*: Nevermind, llamafile hasn't been updated in a full month and gemma support was only added to llama.cpp on the 21st of this month. Disregard this post for now and come back when mozilla updates llamafile.

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llama.cpp has integrated gemma support. So you can use llamafile for this. It is a standalone executable that is portable across most popular OSes.

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases

So, download the executable from the releases page under assets. You want either just main and server and llava. Don't get the huge ones with the model inlined in the file. The executable is about 30MB in size,

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/download/...
This reinforces the need for "mutual trust security" that I've been calling for now for years.

All of the significant authentication schemes are built to validate the customer, and none validate the vendor.

When your bank or mobile provider gives you a call : how do you know it's them? They start asking you for personal data right away, but you have no idea who you are sharing information with.

We need "mutual authentication" including better identity, trust, challenge-response and more. Customers should be able to validate who they are talking to before even sharing their own credentials.
I did end up forwarding the email to another IT service address (one that I knew was legit). They thanked me for the feedback and said they would improve the message.
Since when is Berlin in France? Also, not all foreigners are equal, if you get the drift. Also, you, like a lot of people, ignore the connection between crime, poverty, economic stability and ethnicity. And your conclusion is, well, racist.
I think they will just learn to code.
That's the big problem? A bug made it into prod at ChatGPT and Google didn't have a good set of safety rails (does anyone, yet?)?
I clicked the link to read this article because last week I received a paper letter from FedEx I initially thought was scammy.

It asked me to pay duty/taxes for my $799 Prusa 3D print order that arrived just last week.

So now I know Troy Hunt also bought a Mk4 assemble-yourself kit from Prusa.

Enjoy, Troy! Mine took 8 hours to build and it works like a charm! Fantastic little machine.
Holy shit. This entire book is interesting. Particularly interesting is Chapter 42 - Three-Dimensional Methods

In 1935 they cut out wooden sections to be plane-slices of a 3D volume plot and stacked them together and photographed it!!

https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich/page/...
For your convenience, here is the list of NP-complete problems where "AI" works better than the state of the art in the worst case:.
My favorite FedEx facepalm was when they kept trying and failing to deliver a package to themselves...

They have an option to have your package held at a FedEx store. It's great for when the package requires signature and you're not able to wait at home all day for it.

Recently I used it. Unbeknownst to me, the FedEx store changed its physical location while the package was in transit, to a different strip mall across the highway. So for several days in a row, I was notified that FedEx attempted to deliver, but that the business was closed. Every call to customer service yielded understanding and sympathetic employees who had no idea how to fix the issue.

After about 5 days, something clicked, and my package showed up at the new FedEx location.
If someone could make an AI that interviews people and then goes out and finds them matches, that would be a god send.

Right now the hardest part of online dating is just getting a conversation going. Women have far too many choices and men have none.

Women need AI to show them who they would best get along with. Men need AI to get women to talk to them.
Code testing is a big one for me. I'm currently using in-memory sqlite for tests and I'm often running into differences between sqlite and postgres (default values, JSON handling, etc). This could allow me to use the real thing without running a full Docker instance.
Though if you're running AP then I sure hope you have a reconciliation system, and a good reconciliation system can handle that kind of ID conflict. (Maybe you still want to avoid it to speed that process up but that really gets into the weeds.)
> In November, Dell reported Q3 fiscal 2024 revenue of $22.3 billion – down ten percent year-over-year. Profits were healthy, however, at over $1 billion for the quarter, a 317 percent year on year rise.
The solution is very simple: Everything on a computer or network needs to be transparent to the user. Not one byte can be hidden from the user.

The problem is that the instant a Microsoft Windows PC comes online, it transmits a much of obfuscated packets, some of which relate to Windows licensing authentication.
There’s an implied consent. I know that creating a Gmail account means that Google has access to all my emails. By using Gmail, I’m relatively aware that they’re building an ad profile on me, and I implicitly consent to that.

But if I found out they’re collecting the bloodwork pdfs my doctor sends and selling them to insurance companies, that would be objectively beyond any reasonable consent.

If you’re selling me M&Ms, I have a very very low tolerance for what I consider appropriate data collection.
Liberals are beset by their own internal divisions.

The American left believes that the center-left is far too conservative, and they often say that there's no difference between the Democrats and Republicans. It's widely said that the party insiders control the process to exclude them.

Democrats occasionally fall in love with a charismatic leader like Obama or Bill Clinton, but if they don't they have a hard time winning a national election.

By contrast, Republicans nearly always fall in line. One might naively expect that moderates would have trouble getting behind a multiply-convicted candidate beset with hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, but he's likely to be the next nominee, and there's no sign that significant numbers will be deterred.

Nationalism has the enormous advantage that people pull together against their enemy. I know of nothing that liberals can do to counteract that pull. They don't have another ultra-charismatic type waiting in the wings. No argumentation is ever going to pull away people devoted to nationalism.

The best liberals can hope for is to at least agree that the nationalist party is going to cause them tremendous harm. They failed badly to do that in 2016, and I don't really think they've learned any lessons.
>Trump is on record - in the 2016 presidential debates, no less - claiming that gaming the system (by not paying his fair share of taxes) makes him smart.

This is in reference to using the same legal loopholes that other rich people use, including rich liberal celebrities and politicians. He's not wrong, he was being honest about what rich people do. Liberals don't even admit they're filthy rich most of the time. What is "fair"? That is an opinion. We don't have to pay according to any random person's idea of fairness. We have to pay according to the law.

The bank here had no complaints, and they would have if there was an actual problem. I don't care what some TDS having judge says about that, and neither should you.
> E.g. in Britain plenty of people cycle despite the terrible infrastructure and hills.

Of course it's not the full story! I'm not claiming that zero cycling happens here in Britain.

> Besides, now we have electric bikes and e-scooters so hills shouldn't really be a barrier.

Now, yes. But cultural development takes a while, and those options are just much more expensive anyway. The Netherlands has about the ideal case for cycling, and - awesomely - they took advantage of that 50 years ago, so if it works anywhere it should work there today, after 50 years of planning and development and culture. Suddenly introducing e-bikes in 2024 isn't going to do much compared to flat country and 50 years of development.
My friend doesn't want porn to show up in the address bar, that's why she uses a different profile for it. Incognito mode is not good, since it actually forgets history and bookmarks.
"barely make a living" is what a normal business aims for.
Happily, you don’t have to trust what some UN experts (listed at the bottom) are saying about Israel in this article; IDF’s own casualty numbers are the only evidence needed for the thrust of this article to be true.
I cannot believe how many extremely smart and capable people spend a large portion of their day opining about "woke."
> > The dating giant says it long term plan is to squeeze artificial intelligence into “literally everything” in its apps.

Classic symptom of tech hype. Remember when companies were trying to squeeze "the blockchain" into literally everything?