skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a fair question. I would never not hire someone over not knowing that particular flow though.

Also, I've never had any developers I've hired not be able to learn it quickly. The fact that they don't know it does tell you that they're either not rebasing or not using the cli. The discussion around those process topics are more interesting to me than them not knowing it to begin with. For example, "well what is your process around git usage in general?" etc, "how well do you know the cli?" etc. Interviews are all about conversations.

I would tell them they'll learn the cli git if they join my team. Maybe that's not something they're into? I guess that's part of the "fit" of a team.

At one point there was lots of discussion regarding rebasing in general on our team and another shop. This blog post came out of that. I know many people who feel differently of course. I do expect seniors to have an opinion on the matter either way I guess.

https://blog.carbonfive.com/always-squash-and-rebase-your-gi...
> In addition to a $16.5 million fine, the FTC’s proposed order prevents Avast from misrepresenting what it does with the data it collects.

Shouldn't that be the, uh, baseline for operating a business?
While I wouldn't really call myself an audiophile, I would say that I've had exposure to excellent hifi systems and have been producing and working with audio/music since I was a teenager.

I've also never been able to reliably pick out between lossy and lossless formats, especially at the fidelity that streaming services generally stream at (not the data saver version). If I listen extremely closely and repeatedly to the same section of music, I usually can hear a difference, but it's only under those conditions where that's the case. Even then, I've gotten some of those wrong.

So when I see articles like this, I just can't help but roll my eyes a bit. It seems asinine to give up the actual killer feature he cares about in the music suggestions for something that is likely imperceptible, even to a self proclaimed audio nerd.
I have better idea that will save me $3500+299.
I know I've seen videos of animals where I thought "damn, this one must be above the bell curve."

And you know, there are individual humans vastly smarter than us so I figure there gotta be the same in the animal kingdom too.
Totally anecdotal, but I got slightly better speakers and could instantly tell the difference between a Spotify stream and Bandcamp-sourced FLACs or mp3s

The rumor I've heard is that often artists upload tracks to Spotify with a lossy codec, and then Spotify re-encodes as ogg for transport imposing a second loss on the encoding.

I don't know if it's psychosomatic or not, but with a decent amplifier and speakers the difference was actually pretty shocking. I am not an audiophile and I was not trying to do a comparison -- I merely bought an album on Bandcamp and listened to it and thought "huh, my Spotify streams sound kind of muddy compared to this"

Take that with a grain of salt, I guess
That's very cool. I have almost no experience with robotics, so excuse the silly questions:

- How does it know what objects are? Does it use some sort of realtime object classifier neural net? What limitations are there here?

- Does the robot know when it can't perform a request? I.e. if you ask it to move a large box or very heavy kettlebell?

- How well does it do if the object is hidden or obscured? Does it go looking for it? What if it must move another object to get access to the requested one?
The fine, or the payout, should also be equivalent to all of the money they made selling this data as well.
It is opensource but still costs nearly 25k dollar. why is it that expensive ?
https://xkcd.com/1217/

Lots of things destroy lots of other things. That doesn't mean they are also a reasonable treatment.

>> used an electron beam accelerator at the laboratory for their testing.

Yup. I'm sure that most any organic chemical won't last long when put in front of an accelerator. Crank the voltage up enough and even the water molecules might have issues.
> In other words, do years of private prep school have no advantage with regard to performance on standardized tests?

I would say that standardized tests is where years of private prep school makes the least difference. My wife and I are both public school kids, and our kids go to an expensive private school, and as far as I can tell there’s nothing magic about what’s taught or how it’s taught. Our motivation for private schooling is that they can counsel-out disruptive boys (so they can’t interfere with the learning of our orderly girl) and so our kids get used to socializing and dating within the right social class. I don’t think it’ll affect our kid’s SAT scores one bit.
I agree, learning admissible heuristics will retain worst case performance, which has always been the measuring stick for these algorithms. It's not at all uncommon to find faster solutions for the average or even p99 cases that cannot provide guarantees on the worst case.
even if there's a new model, I'm not seeing how these models provide any reliability metric.

if you figure out a money making software/service, you're gonna be tied to that model to some significant degree.
Isn't a great part of even green power converted to heat while consumed?
Isn't that also additional energy which heats the atmosphere or is the amount too low for any effects?
I don't care about lossless, but I find the Atmos mixes are usually exceptional. I don't know if it's that they are producing a more "audiophile" mix, or if it's the format, or something else entirely, but it's night and day for me.
I teach as an adjunct at a local community college online. It pays about $1k a month. Just basic HTML, CSS and Python. It is about 2 hrs of work per week.
> Thirty years later, Cisco still exists but absolutely nobody is excited about them.

What is the lesson you take from this, though?

To me, the lesson is that "Predicting the future is hard." No matter how well you're doing, you still need to make some sort of prediction of the future to stay on top.

If you get $2 billion and want to stay a billionaire, you can bury it underground and predict that inflation will be minimal, or you can invest it and predict that investments will be profitable. Either prediction could be wrong. (But they're not equally likely.)

In that same vein, even though Cisco was printing money, the world changed. The world will always change. It's not necessarily a failure that they couldn't predict and invent the next money printer.
[Created an account to comment here in the hopes that a Spotify employee will see this]

Please for the love of music, figure out a better solution to your audible watermarking. I hear what sounds like a tenth of a second cut out of the track with the track glued back together. It sounds like shit. This creates conditions where the only way to hear an unmolested track is to download it illegally as there is a lot of stuff not available on a new CD anymore.
They don't understand how lossy compression works.
> > so I dont really remember the commands nor see the value in putting effort into it

> curiosity? knowing everything you can about the world around you?

There is far more out there to learn than I have time and energy to learn. "Here's something you can learn" does not even begin to reach the bar of "I should learn this".

> having used what is possibly the most critical piece of software for working with other people that you encountered some rare exception to common workflows that required you to learn more about the plumbing?

With one exception, everywhere I have worked has not used git. The one exception used it for one or two years. I know more about four other version control systems than I do about git.

And, since you're talking about learning to use the most critical piece of software for working with other people, and chewing out the GP for not wanting to invest the time... why don't you begin your sentences with capital letters? Written English is one of the most critical pieces of, not software exactly, but at least "tech", for working with other people.
I think "overclock" implies that the end-user is doing something that's out-of-spec for the thing they're operating.

This "I can run a core at a faster speed" is a documented feature so not really overclocking.
Two things:

1. The entire article is about a (surprisingly) legit FedEx SMS looking totally spammy. My point is that we should take "looking totally scammy" completely out of our vocabulary, and pointing out similarities or differences in scam vs real notifications only furthers the notion that they're distinguishable in the first place. Again, to emphasize, I still think this overall was a great article highlighting the ineptitude of FedEx sending such egregiously bad notifications in the first place

2. Hunt says exactly this in the article "But if I were to take a guess, they've merely blocked the tip of the iceberg. This is why in addition to technical controls, we reply [sic] on human controls which means helping people identify the patterns of a scam: requests for money, a sense of urgency, grammar and casing that's a bit off, add [sic] looking URLs." My point is we should stop "helping people identify patterns of a scam". We should instead just teach people to treat all incoming notifications as suspect and to never follow a link/phone number from an incoming message.
Dark sarcasm take: there's a large volume of early bitcoin that may or may not be lost forever. The risk of addresses that have gone dark a long time ago lighting up again must have a big influence of any bitcoin evaluation that is at least in part based on reason. Fossilized coins could hugely change the supply/demand dynamic. The documented death of a person believed to be Satoshi would significantly shift that risk assessment. Nobody would know wether the person took meaningful keys to their grave or not, but the risk equation would contain one scenario less than before in the category of old coin flood.
A selection of 20 beautiful algebra problems
You should have 50/50 odds. If you don't, you're dropping the overall bar on each hire.
Interesting my dogs have had the same lifestyle. My current dog I'm sure is a genius but we let him be a dog. He has an amazing vocabulary and after watching a Nova show regarding dog language we performed similar tests on him and he was able to complete the tasks.

He is a good boy.
I'm looking forward to that: Let's link our ChatGPT chat histories with Tinder, have the LLMs impersonate us, simulate all the pre-date conversations, talk about basics, discuss fundamental life ideas, let them ghost each other etc and find out which conversation in theory survives the longest. With these few people, after receiving a tailored date / relationship / expectations briefing you can then meet up. No more time wasted in endless texting / boring job interview dates in cafes. Texting would only last for coordination.
What will happen to the codebase and amazing product they have built?
It’s blurred when the state owns so many companies
I don’t have any kids, but this is a great idea for a D&D puzzle!
That's a new breed I could support. Just throw together a bunch of different breeds of smart dogs. They'll be much mror healthy than most breeds of dog.
> ISP’s 185 watt router

Wait, what?

Does it also heat your room? How can it be so power-hungry?
Does anyone have a Show HN link for this?

Is there a pricing page?
The Eagle Obsession – Space: 1999 documentary
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"THE EAGLE OBSESSION is a visually stunning feature-length documentary that follows sci-fi creator Jeffrey Morris as he investigates the origins of the iconic vessel and the ongoing global impact of a unique moment in human history—when people walked on the Moon."

The documentary will include interviews with Barbara Bain, Nick Tate (Captain Alan Carter) and special effects supervisor Brian Johnson.
Scientists isolated for six months in Antarctica developed their own accent
I'd tend to lean this way. Keller is someone who could generally call any chip company in the world, and have a top job tomorrow. Not some scrappy dreamer who's just trying to steal customers from a big player.
So this is Yahoo with ad spending but with the added extra of hardware development that increases costs and reduces manoeuvrability?
I saw an ad by some AI as a service (AaaS) company I'd never heard of on YouTube the other day. In the ad people were racing around trying to figure out an AI strategy - the solution? Just let us do it for you.

There's so much money being thrown at anything with "AI" in it at this point - definitely FOMO fever. While I think Nvidia will do just fine (as the primary maker of picks in a gold rush) it seems like they're going to need to go after yet other markets - the trajectory so far has been gaming -> crypto -> AI. What's coming after that?
How do I schedule 2-3 hours right away after you send me a task?

I tell people to do it over the weekend and don’t really count the time.

Code solution can be bad and if someone returns bad code after he was able to pick his time. Well.

Some people refuse to do 1-2hr take home task, I also thank them for the time. Some people take 2 weeks and then I usually have someone who did task last weekend so I pick one that did it earlier.

Some people do it right away after getting task I schedule 2nd round also asap for them.

You see I don’t have to limit time just pick candidates that are interested enough to do the task.

Also sometimes most productive employees are worst. We had a guy that was so productive refactoring BS in code that he took down month or two months of work of the team.
I heard recently that the "text to vote" for American Idol was actually a marketing push from cell carriers to get kids to text. Before that it apparently wasn't very popular, and it's one of those "If you get them to do it once, they'll do it again" tech thresholds.
> Should I go public with the story about the time I was told I can’t be promoted for being a white man?

> Fuck it, This happened at Google That company is an absolute trash can dumpster fire

That is the whole thing?! I HAD to assume there was more. There is no context. Its an irate outcry. I stand by my flag. There is nothing here to discuss as there is no information provided besides someone saying "I didn't get promoted because I am white". That may or may not be true, but this is too vague to talk about here.
Dogs can pick up on a lot of human things that aren't spoken; they're actually very good at body language. That and their ability to eat starch/more omnivorous diets are probably the biggest differences between them and wolves.
imo Apple Music's codec actually sounds really good. Tidal's lack of songs was the dealbreaker for me.
I just use VLC on android with wired headphones. Bluetooth is not a high fidelity connection.
Yeah, expanding and making prompts specific via LLMs is a good idea. I would like to be able to see and fight better against the outer prompt in some situations, though. Dalle-3 can be really persistent in certain cases.

The whole alleged theoretical reason for this doesn't work. There is no proposed way to even implement a globally fair representation plan. So it just feels hacky that very USA-21st century-specific grievance groups show up in all global images from the USA to India to Rome to the Mongolian steppe.
Can they? If it's possible, I don't think it's the rule.
> but as a value to be instilled and maintained in a society.

I think __criticism__ (not complaining) is a critical component of democracies. Part of it is acting (at least to me) like a scientist. You have optimism that drives you and critique steers you. We can always do better and we'll never be perfect because nothing is static. We too have to change.

I think it is also important to have a normalish distribution of ideas and beliefs. We can get value from looking at the extremes, but too much extreme is crippling (and especially if it is bimodal or multimodal with only extremes). In any democracy you want a few communists, fascists, anarchists, socialists, and so on to poke holes in your system. They're highly motivated to disrupt it, but that doesn't mean turn to them, that tells you what to patch.
Hmmm, I could think of using it to update a DDPM with a conditioning input as the dataset expands from an RL/online process, without ruining the conditioning mechanism that's only trainable through the actual RL itself.

I.e., self-supervised training is done to produce semantically sensical results, and the RL-trained conditioning input steers to contextually useful results.

(Btw., if anyone has tips on how to not wreck the RL training's effort when updating the base model with the recently encountered semantically-valid training samples that can be used self-supervised, please tell. I'd hate to throw away the RL effort expended to aquire that much taking data for good self-supervised operation. It's already looking fairly expensive...)
If GPT4 is 220B/8 experts, that would be in-line with 3.5 Turbo being a 20B model, and GPT4 being a 55B activation out of a total 220B parameters.

It is ultimately all speculation, until Deepseek releases their own 145B MoE model, and then we can compare the activations/results
Some comment I read here the other day made me realize it feels like Spotify gets an unusually high share of negative news coverage. Despite this, I personally think it's a really great product and service.

Which makes me wonder: Could there be an ulterior motive driving this coverage?
After having tried several brands, I like CyberPower for the combination of price/performance.

Things may have changed, the APC UPS systems I've used required you to power off to replace the batteries. the CyberPower units I've used allow for replacing the batteries hot.

I've had terrible results with Tripp Lite UPS systems - where they fail for no reason at all, and will not auto power up after a power failure.

At a very large size of 30KVA, I've used Eaton UPS systems and they have been rock solid.
The owner of the aircraft has ultimate responsibility for its maintenance.
It's a reasonably easy bet that Together is doing or will do a serious pretraining run with Mamba, where if that's a success other players might start considering it more.
If you haven't seen "What About Bunny" on YouTube, I highly recommend it. The dog has learned to use buttons to communicate her thoughts quite effectively. My favorite is "Why bunny dog?"
My, what a bad chain of analogies.

>Think about time invested in the purchase of an automobile or a house, relative to the cash outlay.

That's the time invested by ther party paying the money. They can spend all the time in the world on that (and they are usually the ones that do).

Where the owners spend their time is making the property attractive to the buyer.

The owners aren't doing labor for customers.

And you surely don't get to borrow a car for the weekend from the dealership, or live in a house that you want to buy for a bit.

>For a new job from the individual's point of view, think of the life-event risk they're taking on by betting on this new firm.

The life-event risk of being able to pay rent/mortgage/bills? Oh my.

Employment contracts aren't binding either way. Employees can quit at any time and can be fired at any time.

Lateral promotion is a more likely scenario than in-company promotion. Think about how that factors into opportunity cost.

>Finally, think about the time spent dating before people move in together, not even get married.

That's called having a relationship, something that's a two sided thing.

The game isn't one side doing labor for the other, and so the comparison is unjustified.

(If yours does, you're not having a relationship, you're being used. Run.)

>On a time per commitment cost / risk-adjusted basis, extensive job interviews may still be underinvesting.

On the employer's side, perhaps. Many of them aren't doing due diligence.

You'd think that spending multiple days on an interview process would involve someone at a FAANG-level company asking a question like Do we actually have any projects that utilize the skills that make this candidate attractive to us?, but in my experience, this is not always the case, by far.

>All that said, a majority of candidates can be filtered out within 15 minutes. As could, if you care, a majority of workplaces.

Applicants usually have no problem filtering out the workplaces. Selecting between multiple job offers is a good problem to have.

Without an offer, there's nothing to filter.

>See also “information asymmetry” and “adverse selection” resulting in disproportionate number of lemons on the market as discussed in “The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

The whole thing is premised on buyers (employers, in our case) being uninformed and having no clue about what they're paying money for.

Which is exactly the problem here.

And tech interviews getting out of control is a symptom of the problem, not a solution.
It's super obvious from his writing his first language is English. Most likely Hal Finney.
I feel that “privacy” is a wrong way of framing the problem. Sure, we may have end-to-end channel encryption, iPhone security lockouts and GDPR regulation.

Still, everytime you shoot a photo with your mobile phone, an impersonified algorithm identifies the faces on the photo and knows how you and your children looked years ago. Most online services you use have built a psychological profile based on your behaviour. They offer you stuff that puts you in unease. Human actors with questionable motivation tune these algorithms.
https://archive.is/yubtQ
The fun part is that there are at least two different, non standard, DB9 serial configurations.
Ask HN: What's the best forum-based community you've been a part of, and why?
The article suggests that we already have, as all of the found clever dogs are (at least part) a (formerly) working breed. One suspects nurture has a significant role, though, as it also does with human language development. Were we actually to pursue a program like this we’d need also and perhaps more importantly research dog pedagogy (skylogogy? dogagogy?).
what about someone claiming it was written on 4chan, but it was actually made up
for hn. smh can't trust anyone
"Wow, you just freed up 5% of my day."

Got a good chuckle out of that one! You will need that 5% to review the code AI wrote!
I've noticed that Microsoft themselves aren't helping this right now. M365 seems to default to using random-tenant-guid.onmicrosoft.com for a lot of these transactional emails like password changes even though the official account.microsoft.com is fully multi-tenant aware and most Microsoft guidance tells you to always go directly to account.microsoft.com. These transactional email mistakes seem like another case of Microsoft accidentally exposing problems in their org chart to external customers. I imagine it has something to do with the wild rewrites from old Azure AD to new "exciting brand" Entra ID and other such shenanigans combined with Microsoft's willingness to bend over backwards to bad IT administrators and letting them set bad defaults (such as "just us the .onmicrosoft.com GUID instead of a real domain"), because companies love to pay them good money for the "control" to do stupid things in Group Policies and corporate configuration.

Combined with the fact that the largest single source of spam I'm seeing right now is also coming from random tenant GUIDs .onmicrosoft.com (is Azure really missing that much SMTP security for random M365 tenants?) and this sort of corporate anti-training users to follow bad transactional email links, it certainly feels like we are in a perfect storm of M365 phishing.
Deploy Gemma 7B with TensorRT-LLM and achieve > 500 tok/s