skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"these companies can fire 10% of their workforce and they just keep on chugging without a hitch"

That's not always true though. I've been on both sides of layoffs: laid off and remained. Sometimes the people who remain are asked to do more with less. I was even asked to do more with less pay at one point.
This is probably a bit too cynical; it's not just "politicians who want to be seen doing something"; the public often wants something done as well. And "we didn't do anything after that incident from ten years ago and now it happened again" is not a good look. Complex stories about trade-offs and the cure being worse than the disease often don't "play well" in the media, especially not with the opposition demanding that "something could have been done!" And corporations tend to be pathologically risk-averse.

Politicians, the media, corporations, and the public all have a part in this.
The floors are always clean, so we don't need janitors...
“We don’t understand why neural networks work” is a myth. It’s not a miracle, it’s just code, and you can step through it to debug it the same way you would any other program.
…in the US. Other countries don't have fair use.
The article doesn’t seem to indicate who is behind the attack. Russians? The Chinese? North Koreans? Rogue Norwegians with tacit approval from their government? Canary Island separatists? Who, dammit?
I'm sure I'm not the only one that can't wait for the 2038 problem to get closer. bank accounts gonna be jumping like a 3-peat Micheal Jordan when those consultation fee checks start rolling in.. provided the Boston Dynamics dogs haven't taken over yet
I've had this for some years but it seems to be getting a bit better for some unknown reason.

The worst part is not the fatigue but the PEM, or post exertional malaise.

Took me years to figure out my lifting made me feel like absolute garbage, almost suicidal if i went hard enough, but not right after, felt great the following day, but then, super crash and extreme doom and gloom 48 hours afterwards, so unfair and bizarre.

These days i workout in moderation. Such a weird condition, and i would love to know what goes on chemically as it feels very, very physical, like some hormone/mineral or whatever suddenly runs out and.

Tried all kinds of supplements but have a feeling it's related to the gut biome, inflammation levels and general stress / cortisol also pseudo scientifically known as adrenal fatigue.
Yes.

Companies exist at the allowance of a nation-state for the benefit of the people.

If the benefit is attenuated, the people, via government, can sanction the corporations.

If the corporation is succeeding and paying more into the public till by providing fake jobs, what's the problem? They're not succeeding hard enough?

I think the error you've made is that you've mistakenly projected your sense of "fairness" on corporations.

Corporations aren't people my friend.
I'm pretty confident they haven't until at least 6 months ago when they freaked out about api usage.

It's possible they've sold it and we haven't heard about it since then. I would think they'd want to brag about it publicly though.
I'm a human and I don't have the slightest idea what you're asking for.
I hate Electronification, WebNonsensification, Discordification, ... as much as the next guy, but median user age incrementing every year for past 10+ years -> fail to me.
That gives me a great idea: If you self-host your PDS you can have video but moochers don't get it.
For what exactly? Doing something you don't like?
And it's weird you choose such a confrontational tone instead of one that would cause someone to explain something, thanks for your contribution.
The Evolution of a Data Stack
For companies, contributing to open source projects is generally around 10x slower than just forking and doing it all internally. So it may be primarily just because it's easier for them.

The main reason I've been pushing really hard to get the code I work on upstreamed is to reduce merge conflicts when I pull from upstream! But it's a real slog.
That feels reductive. Are the people left working 80 hours a week now, maybe? Are they sacrificing long-term goals to keep short-term productivity in place? Etc.
You ALMOST get it, but then entirely missed the point.

You need to demonstrate that the test is consistent with a business necessity. If you have a large enough people who have taken the test, and enough data on how they perform, you can make that demonstration. You've got the data, and it is enough to cover the military despite people like you who think that it "doesn't actually test intelligence or problem-solving abilities." Because, whatever it actually tests, it predicts real world performance well enough to pass legal muster.

The US military is the only organization that I'm aware of which has an IQ test with enough data that they can pass legal muster. Very specifically I'm talking about the AFQT, which is the core of the ASVAB. See https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/asvab details on the ASVP. And see https://asvabmilitarytest.com/asvab-compared-other-iq-tests to see that it really is an IQ test to tell if you're smart enough to be in the military. And not just whether you can join, but which jobs inside of the military they will allow you to pursue.

The military has documented that this is an effective way to find people who can do things like fill out paperwork properly, and follow orders in the field. The reason why other businesses can't do the same is not because the test is useless, but because they don't have the data to demonstrate how useful the test actually is.
Related tweet: https://twitter.com/JohnLu0x/status/1760066875583816003
New SSH-Snake malware steals SSH keys to spread across the network
I have in fact gotten a nude out of Stable Cascade. And that's just with text prompting, the proper way to use these is with multimodal prompting. I'm sure it can do it with an example image.
Well it took the World Health Organisation, a few hundred medical
doctors and PhDs two years to come to the same conclusion. Maybe, I
dunno... science?
My advice looking back over the past 25 years . . . stay in the bunker.
Discussion of the S-1 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472782
Wow, the snake eating its own tail!

Good thing Harvard has a $50bn endowment to carry them into the future. /s
Huh? I thought the issue before ringattention is the memory requirement of the softmax layer, since you have to load the whole matrix in at once? It's O(s^2) no?

Also hi horace.
> Okay, but at the point you're refining your own Uranium and building your own breeder reactor, you're also at the point you're likely making your own intermediate (or even intercontinental) range ballistic missiles no?

Gosh no. Rocket science is legitimately hard to the point that it's a cliche. Getting some elements to do physics together when you don't care about regulatory requirements is pretty much just a matter of putting them near each other and hoping you used enough shielding that it won't kill you.

> So why are they not only still there, but have caused a lot of damage since? And made a lot of money?

Because other people watched them, of course. Everyone has to do their part by turning off the fear-mongering talking heads. You can't stop other people from doing it, but you can stop doing it yourself, and so could they.

> And if you refuse to use a tool against someone who will not hesitate to use it against you, guess what tool they'll eventually end up using all the time?

The one that makes everyone hate them.

It is not possible to defeat evil by doing evil. You only become that which is to be defeated.
Does prep work have that big of an effect? I don’t think it can make an average student beat a gifted one unless the gifted one completely phones it in.
the readiness paradox:

If you are prepared, nothing interesting happens, life moves on, people opened a notebook and pressed a few buttons.

If you are not prepared, the texas grid freezes, people die, people lose their savings, and "nobody could have imagined it would be this bad".
Connect anywhere: Introducing the M-Series
Any ideas that make you uncomfortable are an "agenda" now.
Feature requests opened since 2023-07-24:

GIF support: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1047

Audio/video support: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1052
Huh, I just checked now and WSB does have more CCUs than I expected. (WSB has 38.0k CCUs, /r/pics has 36.3k CCUs)

That makes zero intuitive sense.
While having two tycoons controlling the whole industry is soooo much better :D
> I am so confused by your position

If you read with a little less haste and hostility, and a little more humility--rather than just jumping in and getting personal, you will see that I am being perfectly clear.

I am saying that this battle already played-out, 15-20 years ago. The people who need primo hardware already have things like zseries, which 0xide is in no position to compete with. The people who are competing against Azure and AWS have to make their own hardware--partly to distinguish themselves in the marketplace, partly because they'd end up sharecropping for their vendor if they did otherwise. The rest is in the commodity band, where interchangeability is key. An okay server that I can swap-out with any other vendor is an asset. A fantastic server, with custom components & bespoke tooling, that I can only get from one supplier, is a liability. All of their open sourcing makes no difference if it only runs on their equipment.
The US might have less incentive to support Taiwan though. They've never really committed to defending it.
Honestly Reddit has never been that great for me. In my experience a lot of content even in niche hobby subreddits is regurgitated opinions presented as authorative facts or baseless speculation disguised as professional insight.

In the few hobby subreddits that I frequented, non-mainstream opinions or new ideas were often drowned out by the hivemind and people with less experience or knowledge. In short, a real discussion rarely came up or was even possible.

And in the case of questions I realized that so many people have no clue but still feel compelled to answer.

I'll omit my rant on career advice subreddits here.

For my hobbies specifically, I've reverted back to forums. You can have a relaxed discussion over the span of weeks, and interesting threads might remain active for months. You can get to know the users by their signatures, and the average age of users is also higher. Some of the users might even be professionals instead of just hobbyists, where I feel that was rare on Reddit.
The Canadians are working hard to push the free healthcare agenda
Note that I'm not medically trained nor a dietician... so this is pure layman poorly founded speculation...

I am inclined to believe that genetic changes within the Inuit reduce vitamin D needs, the modern Scandinavian diet differs from a historical one, the oceanic climate of Scandinavia is warmer than the inland climate of North America (compare Yellowknife 62° N with Rana at 66° N and Tromsø at 69° N https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subarctic_climate ) so that more skin can be non-fatally exposed...

And the combination of this had more skin exposed for better vitamin D production in Scandinavia and so the pressure was for lighter skin while the diet of the Inuit meant that that pressure for skin tone wasn't selected for.

... And I'll 100% defer to someone else with a better understanding of the genetics and dietitian aspects.
https://tenor.com/view/woody-harrelson-crying-money-wipe-tea...
I disagree. We aren't telling kids "With your parents' socio-economic background and skin color you cannot become whatever you want.", after all.
Reddit is going public and inviting power users to invest
Amazing. It used to be a free BigQuery dataset. Apparently it was worth $60M.
I'm getting a lot of "tweets aren't loading right now" type errors. The app keeps jumping to the top when I'm scrolling into someones timeline. Sometimes i see my replies twice. Sometimes things just don't load. It's seems like death by a thousand paper cuts. That said, I'm sure the technical issues can be fixed eventually.

I'm also getting a lot of garden variety "West/Christianity vs East/Islam" type race baiters and stupid 9gag type memes despite actively trying to indicate to the algorithm that I'm not interested. I think they've skewed it towards controversy to increase engagement but it's just boring.
Congratulations to GIMP team!

The 3.0 series represents several thousand hours of work over more than one decade. Soon that is over the finish line :)
In the link it says "Phind-70B", how do we know if it switched to 34B?
worth noting that without cell service, GPS can reliably give you time, lat, long and elevation. So if previously you had no actual map downloaded, or an old or out of date map, you'd just get a pretty accurate dot on an inaccurate map, or just raw coordinates.
Apple Pkl
From the original paper with this technique:

We introduce Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), a simple transformer-based backbone for diffusion models that outperforms prior U-Net models and inherits the excellent scaling properties of the transformer model class. Given the promising scaling results in this paper, future work should continue to scale DiTs to larger models and token counts. DiT could also be explored as a drop-in backbone for text-to-image models like DALL E 2 and Stable Diffusion.

Afaict the answer is that combining transformers with diffusers in this way means that the models can (feasibly) operate in a much larger, more linguistically-complex space. So it’s better at spatial relationships simply because it has more computational “time” or “energy” or “attention” to focus on them.

Any actual experts want to tell me if I’m close?
CLISP uses READLINE, and it's "form" based, so if you have a multi-line form, an up-arrow, you get the entire form.

SBCL doesn't have anything that I'm aware off, neither does CCL.

I've seen mentioned of wrapping SBCL in a readline wrapper. There's a program that essentially gives readline behavior to anything that reads stdin, a readline interface. It may be name something clever like "readline", I've forgotten. I've never used it.

The terminal experience is weak on those Lisps simply because of the dominance emacs has in this space. Wrap SBCL or CCL in Slime and you get readline and more. There's simply little demand for a more functional CLI when the emacs/slime combo is so powerful and useful.

The burden for Slime and emacs (for this use case) is actually quite low. Both are pretty easy to install, modern emacs out of the box works with simple mouse gestures and arrow keys, so you don't need to be an emacs wonk to use it. And Slime has its own dropdown menu for most tasks.

Readline in CLISP is useful, it makes CLISP orders of magnitude more useable than raw SBCL. Cutting and pasting S-Exprs is just not a great experience for routine work, IMHO. One advantage of readline over the emacs buffers is that when you up-arrow, you get the form. In the buffer, if you up-arrow you go up one line. Mildly annoying when your last form spat out a 1000 lines. (That's why you search instead, but, nit noted.) With readline your REPL experience is more like the shells.

And that may all work with the readline wrapper, but the wrapper may well not be aware of S-exprs, so if you enter a multi line expression and up-arrow you may get just the last line of your last expression. Kind of worst of both world. But, I'm just supposing here, I've not used it.

I'm quite content with CLISP (which does not have a lot of modern activity on it), I just wish I could get it with SSL. This seems to be some grand challenge I have not found a top-of-first-page "SSL in Clisp" solution for on google.

Anyway, enough rambling.

Install emacs and slime.
Thanks for the response. It will likely be a few days before I get a chance to reply.
I feel like there's an ulterior motive for these politicians speaking on this topic right now. Maybe something like trying to drum up support for a bill like this?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-chang...
You can fire half the commercial pilots, and planes will continue to fly without a hitch. Why have two pilots, when one will do. Trucks have one driver and work just fine.

Eventually some planes will crash, but it's ok as long as it happens after effective management gets their bonus and moves on to optimise another company.
> We love the open-source community and will be releasing the weights for the latest Phind-34B model in the coming weeks. We intend to release the weights for Phind-70B in time as well.

I don't understand the utility of this comment?
I’m not sure how satirical that article is meant to be but Paramount Global is doing dreadfully by just about every financial metric (apart from great Super Bowl ratings!). They’re even rumoured to be looking for a buyer for Paramount+
I don't post a lot and I also find Twitter really annoying these days. I am used to getting pinged only by my friends to talk niche tech stuff, now I get porn/crypto bot spam... Trying to follow technologists I like, but their discussions are also mired in dumb blue checkmark takes and bots... OK maybe those blue checkmarks are speaking honestly but I'd rather have intelligent speech over honest speech at this point
But that's not talking about suitability to architect solutions or write code, it's talking about the surrounding process infrastructure and making it more approachable to people so that people who are suited to software engineering have a space where they can deliver on it.

When businessses moved towards open offices, this infrastructure change made SWE roles more approachable for extroverts and opened the doors of the trade to people not suited to the solitude of private offices. Extroverts and verbally collaborative people love open offices and often thrive in them.

That doesn't imply that extroverts weren't suited to writing software. It just affirms the obvious fact that some enviornments are more inviting to certain people, and that being considerate of those things can make more work available to more people.
I thought that's really cheap too. Tacking on "wiki" and "reddit" probably accounts for ~50+% of my google searches now. From that perspective $60M annually feels really low-- reddit search is probably a quarter of the value that google search offers me as a consumer.
> I do have my doubts about a physiological etiology.

I hope whatever is afflicting your mom gets sorted out, but please don't generalize your N=1 experience of your mom to the entire population of ME/CFS sufferers. It only breeds contempt for the condition.

As a N=1 counter example to yours, my wife has suffered from it for 20 years and she is still suffering from it, with the same hallmarks the entire time. She also suffers from EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome), which actually came first. Statistically, people with EDS are far more likely to have ME/CFS. If ME/CFS doesn't have a physiological basis, how would explain this -- perhaps that people with EDS tend to develop the same health delusion?
Generative AI for Healthcare
I didn't expect this to "just work", but it does for me. I don't remember getting java installed. I'm running firefox nightly on windows.
Typically the convention is to introduce a new scope with let. You can, if you really want to, declare the names at the top and then assign values later, similar to old C, though this is not idiomatic:

(let (foo bar baz)
(setf foo 2)
(other-code)
(setf bar (expt foo 2))
(more-code)
(setf baz 5))
Oh my god, critiquing pure reason is so 300 years ago.
Delphi = Make Pascal Great Again!
I know, the heads of Gemini are white men, but they're constantly doing virtue signalling on twitter about systemic racism, inclusivity, etc. Well, what about hiring black women instead of firing them like Timnit Gebru, you fucking hypocrites? These people make me sick.
That's because they have human evaluators read user prompts to decide where to make quality improvements.
I've seen it done for consultants before - in fact was working for mega financial services company in the years heading up to the 2008 crash. When it hit, they told all the consultants from the big consulting firms (i.e. Anderson etc) they needed to take a 50% cut if they wanted to stay on - almost all accepted the new rate.

Months later, when things continue to go really bad in the economy, they told them same firms, they needed to take another 50% cut (so now down 75%), most took that as well, but not all. Those that didn't take it largely found themselves unemployed for a very long time.

Just goes to show you how bloated those rates were to begin with.
Yeah.. Reddit shouldn't be relying on community moderators for larger subreddits.

They need paid people.
That will be an interesting task to deal with solving the location of multiple events that may overlap.

Over 7km, you will have delays of 10s or so which makes it quite possible that multiple explosions within that window will need disambiguation in the sound record. There should be a parsimony principle that would apply.

Very cool project and fun things to work on related to it.
Monopoly rents happen at the expense of other economic participants. For every tombstone on that page, I wonder how many mom & pop diners died due to CAC math.
Anatomy of a Large-Scale Search Engine – Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page (1998)
"... we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."
If you could just go home for the day, thad would be grrrreat.
So you ignored a bunch of doctors and feel vindicated?

Doesn't pass the sniff test.

Don't ignore doctors, people.

That said, mental illness can be very debilitating and is very real.
As the plaform matures so will the blocklist ecosystem. Hopefully blocklists with good appeal mechanisms will win mindshare.
Was this after running tests that turned up nothing or did they just say "no, we don't believe you" from the start?
The allergies angle is interesting. I am doing allergy immunotherapy shots right now, and the first few weeks of doing them, I had the worst fatigue of my life. I just had no energy and low desire to do things. Once my immune system adjusted, the shots got a lot easier each week.
Users are not entitled to the dissemination of their opinions. Either you let users block other users or you will turn your site into a cesspit.
Think Week
> Twitter is a conservative cesspool

Interesting. I see it as the de-facto journalist platform, which to me (as a non american) make it very left leaning. But then again, I don't use X.
What the hell are you talking about? Is this some sort of covid ventilation confusion? The primary function of ac is not ventilation.
>the closures were part of a broader set of cost-cutting measures
Show HN: A Hacker News reader with good design
There are some suspicious entries, at least regarding cyanoacrylate. “Plastic” is too generic, CA won’t glue polyethylene at all. And I’m surprised by CA recommendation for rubber to rubber, guess I should try, always thought contact glue was best here.
Contrary to many other models I've tried, this one works really well for Swedish as well. Nice!
I don't know what you are comparing to, but Delphi this year and age is far from polished either.
> There's no absolute lean at all it's all subjective, and sadly multidimensional which is hard for normal people to appreciate, so sure.

I guess "absolute" is the wrong word. Lean isn't really a measurable thing, which is sorta my point. The GP claimed that there was, my claim was that all we have are people's feelings, and people don't feel in absolute terms, they just notice when there's a change so the linked data on peoples feelings probably doesn't support the claim.
the only thing that has been stopped me watching youtube is stopping my premium sub and seeing all those ads every 5s, drives me crazy enough to stop watching all together