skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read through the article hoping to join the comments with several hot takes, but alas I'm disappointed. Well written and largely accurate. My primary disagreement is working into nights and weekends. If that's your thing then so be it, but I avoid it like the plague and my career has progressed quite well. I've remarkably committed during the work day and I don't fuck off - I just get my stuff done.

Amongst the biggest risks that comes along with being a senior developer is that, at some point, your skillset adapts specifically to what THE EMPLOYER needs it to be. The trade-off we make is reduced risk of losing job (as the author called out). Even if you avoid layoff, at some point you will want to change jobs. Entering the job search after having an entrenched position that you grew into is like being married for 5-10 years and then entering the dating scene ... the new suitors (employers) want a mate (employee) with abs and a flashy sports car instead you're showing off a dad bod and well maintained minivan. It's a fine decision to make either way, just know the game you're playing.
It could help your hunting group not be ambushed by a surprise attack from a tiger or another hunting group.

While the other group members are looking around the ADHD group member could be more sensitive to noticing random sounds and therefore notice things like that. Therefore hunting groups with at least 1 ADHD dude would be at an advantage.
I did look it up. It’s a 1-person project with many caveats about installation and functionality. It looks impressive for what is, but not an alternative to AppleTV, certainly not if I expect anyone else in my house to use it. I’d put Kodi as a lot closer.
Quite a few Japanese malls and department stores have very intricate clocks.
Making projects supportable is good. Not distinguishing between objectively bad code, and code that you just don't understand right away because you didn't write it yourself and you do not yet have enough training to skim and understand other's codebases yet is not.
A coder's point of view: The optimal home office
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Steamrolling is arguably all that matters
While the web provides a viable alternative, it may not fully address all the concerns. There are still challenges related to monetization, discoverability, and platform integration that need to be addressed.
SpaceX May Be Withholding Internet for US Troops in Taiwan, Congressman Contends
I must admit, I have trouble making any sense of your argument. Are you saying it is not possible to store value? If so, I would disagree. If you wish to go back to Roman times, perhaps look at the history of Roman coinage. One way people used to combat the Roman currency devaluation was to hoard the older coins. Were you to sumble upon a chest of gold from Roman times, you would be rich today, just as the person that buried it. Gold has evidently maintained value over thousands of years, whereas currency from 100 years ago has lost 99% of its purchasing power. In the long term, we are all dead.
Why do you lead projects if you don't enjoy doing it?
The note clearly says "please do not fold this note" though :)
Building houses out of wood isn't necessarily a bad thing. It may be a bad thing in Florida due to termites and the fact that reinforced concrete can better resist hurricane force winds, but in California it's a good thing because wood can flex in a potential earthquake.
My understand is that twitch pulled out of korea because the lack of net neutrality lead to them being extorted by ISPs. They were being charged massive delivery fees and decided it wasnt worth it. I dont think afreeca is owned by an ISP so maybe they had the government negotiate a better rate or maybe the ISPs just did them a solid.
Lmao nVidia explicitly wrote that Huawei is a competitor in AI space.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/23/busi...
The bottom of the sea is very interesting there, because it is densely populated but the abundant species are very different from other seas and more similar to what can be found in other places only at much higher depths.

Instead of abundant crabs and other crustaceans and mollusks, "Under Antarctica" the most abundant big animals on the bottom are echinoderms, sea spiders and nemertean worms.
Asocial people care about other people, we just find it exhausting to interact with them.
Parasite infection is associated with entrepreneurship (2020)
> As a junior one often worries whether they have enough skill, as a senior you know you do and whatever you don't know, you'll learn it.

Heh, basically becoming senior means overcoming impostor syndrome? Aligns pretty well with my experience.
Not much new in this article. It would be interesting to see how age-old building techniques from the global south can be adapted to the increased urban density, as well as combined with the sun-angle difference as the average heat creeps up in the global north.
I usually just start with the comments. If I see an archive link I'll use that (assuming I've determined that the source article is worth reading at all).
> the centralization is never monopolistic (e.g., you cannot completely reject transactions even if you control most of the miners)

Why not? If you control 51%+ of the mining power, you can decide not to accept any mined block that would contain a banned transaction, and ignore it in your own blocks. Your fork would just be that for a while, but since you have more mining power, you'd catch up and end up with the longest chain eventually.

Over time, the other miners would have to follow your rules if they still want to be able to mine profitably, so they wouldn't even try to mine such a banned transaction.
I would think the old async stuff is slower because it intrinsically requires much more memory allocation as you need to create objects and store state for everything. If you used Virtual Threads under the hood, those problems would not just disappear.
Well, I’ll take the other end of it, and feel free to ignore me as well because the pessimistic take is depressing.

The web didn’t exist, but then neither did social media, which apparently is driving record teenage depression and anxiety (and I’d guess it isn’t limited to teenagers either). You could actually disconnect from your work since you didn’t have PagerDuty ever ready to call you in. I loved the web of the 90’s to mid 00’s as well, but what we have today is not that.

People don’t just marry later, they marry less (and as we’ve noted, have fewer children). You can choose to see this how you wish, but generally the pro-natalists see it as a bad thing; another sign of increased social fragmentation.

Houses are bigger yes, but that means less affordable; homelessness is rising.

The real kicker for me though is the falling life expectancy in the US. It’s literally been attributed to “deaths of despair”; drug overdoses, suicide, and other misadventure. That’s despite the advances in medicine.

Cancer rates are increasing (I literally found out yesterday that my sister has a growth that may be cancerous; she’s got a biopsy scheduled, and a woman who I dated died of cancer before she turned 40). Reasons are unclear but record rates of obesity can’t help. On that one at least we may have turned the corner with some really revolutionary drugs that are quite expensive now but I do believe will come down in price.

I don’t really want to do the pollution/CO2 thing because I’ve had enough already. Suffice it to say it’s hard for me to be an optimist.
I guess this depends on the GPU, and I should have probably mentioned using SR-IOV for this and not actually pass through.
https://archive.ph/FUcCY
Read through some lyrics by these bands and see if your theory holds up:

Dragonforce (of course)
Brocas Helm
Manowar
You can use JS to write application that can be used across all major platforms without any changes. On top of that, a lot of modern languages can compile to JS or WASM.

You call that tyrannical?
So just for context the one's I've used are WPF, UIKit, Electron, and Qt. And using Electron was easiest to develop on for me because the tooling just worked, everything updates instantly in a real running browser environment, and layout was predictable and easy to get it to work exactly how I wanted on actual devices. Is that cause I have more experience with the browser platform? Maybe it is, but that is probably the other main reason people use it. Personally I think the dom and css makes total sense. A tree of nodes where you can address nodes with selectors to style them. Seems pretty ideal, I don't know what I would do differently.
Yeah I don't think it will ever make sense to think about Transformer models as 'understanding' something. The approach that I suggested would replace that with rather simple logic like answer_variance > arbitrary_threshold ? return 'I don't know' : return $original_answer

It's not a fundamental fix, it doesn't even change the model itself, but the output might be more useful. And then there was just some speculation how you could try to train a new AI mimicking the more useful output. I'm sure smarter people than me can come up with way smarter approaches. But it wouldn't have to do with understanding - when I said the tool should return 'I don't know' above, I literally meant it should return that string (maybe augmented a bit by some pre-defined prompt), like a meaningless symbol, not any result of anything resembling introspection.
Show HN: Zig-budoux: Wrap that Japanese and Chinese text properly
Do not work over time.
> but the written part is just talking into a void and hoping someone notices.

The Web crawlers for LLM trainers definitely notice.
NodeJS is a framework. It adds to base JavaScript API’s for working on the system side. It’s an abstraction (albeit, additions) that give you more functions.
I’d imagine compensation comes into play. Why do so many software engineers go into management?
One of my first tasks at Equipmentshare was automating invoice generation, and we did a lot of that basically pair programming with one of the back office specialists that did that work manually - it was super, super fun, we made really good friends, and now, ten years or something later, she’s a manager overseeing whatever systems replaced what we built.

But it was driven by both sides being made clear from the beginning: nobody is losing any jobs here, the goal is to 10x the number of accounts we could do per back office person; their new jobs will be overseeing the software and dealing with edge cases.

I’m not sure this would’ve been possible to do in such a way if the company wasn’t rapidly growing though.

Makes me wonder: what are things that are easier like this in orgs that aren’t in growth phases?
Can control vectors replace RAG?

i.e. if I want the model to give me a summary of the news today, and the model was trained before today, can control vectors help?
Python + JS is a killer combo for exploratory work.
Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality [pdf]
Long time huge fan of JS. I appreciate your calling out the multi-paradigm aspect; having these first class functions & prototype based inheritance has been so flexible.

TC39 has done a great job shaping the language over the years. New capabilities are usually well thought out & integrate well. Async await has been amazing.

The one major miss that makes me so sad and frustrated is modules; js has gotten better everywhere except it's near requirement for build tooling. Being able to throw some scripts on a page and go is still an unparalleled experience in the world, is so direct & tactile an experience. EcmaScript Modules was supposed to improve things, help get us back, but imports using url specifiers made the whole thing non-modular, was a miss. We're still tangled & torn. Import-maps has finally fixed but it's no where near as straightforward, and it still doesn't work in workers, which leaves us infuriatingly shirt of where the past was. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2
If, as commenters here have pointed out, the grid interconnect is the valuable part of a solar site, it might pencil out to relocate the solar hardware to some less convenient location for a non-grid-tied smelting operation or similar. Or build a very large bulk compute cluster bringing in decommissioned servers. If power is free, all the hardware is available for better than free, and the plan is to run until failure and then recycle, I wonder how the math works out.
i appreciate your comment, i'm glad that industry is developing mitigations, even if they are profit driven. i haven't looked at solar contracts in a few years (hence "were" in op), but i'm sure recent improvements make them significantly more attractive. like a sibling commentor given the massive information assimetry i would prefer significant regulatory scrutiny, specifically standartization, mandatory disclosure of known externalities, perhaps established by cfpb.

the op link though is about solar installations approaching their lifetime, which means contracts from 10-20 years ago. i'd like to point out that you started with a very strong statement ("in practice not true"), which was then variously hedged. more importantly the fact that in practice the mitigations have manifested ("repowering is a windfall") doesn't after the fact negate that the initial contracts were exploitative. in my experience simply verbalizing and pricing various hidden factors (i used Shannon L. Ferrell's "understanding solar energy agreements" as starting point), decomissioning being one of them but other points in ferrell also played a role, or even just developing a rudimentary payments schedule, ended up strongly discouraging land owners (and smh als the solar representatives). i'm glad that we're having this dialogue though, because i'm sure there was no malicious intent behind those omittions, and solar industry has become significantly more transparent since.
Loudest thing online is people complaining about minorities existing in TV shows. A much bigger, real problem, is when they regularly cast 3 characters with almost exactly the same skin tone, skin texture, hair color, hair length, hair style, eye color, clothing style, face shape, voice, body type. Then the character's name is given once (if given) and you see several scenes without the character. Several scenes with the clones. Sudden scene with 2 clones in the same scene. You really couldn't give these three white people a different hair style? Make one wear glasses?
> I don't think recovering 97% vs 95% of 8% of the material is going to change the economics of battery recyling.

Not yet but as more and more EVs reach end of life and these rare earth metals become rarer then it starts make a difference.
> Science communication must be at an all-time low.

It's arxiv, not a press release. :)
GAMMA or MAGMA?
Could you expand on why you disagree?
Uncovering drone intentions using control physics informed machine learning
Remain to be seen whether complete supply chain is possible for semiconductors. However should they success this mean that Chinese supercomputer makers will not be hesitating to supply those to countries in US blacklist.

Imagine Russia and Iran having access to hundreds Petaflops computers or even exascale! Maybe it's pricier even with less margin than US offerings and more difficult to use, but that'd least of their concern.
I generally counter this by not being motivated to begin with. Once you share your goals you then just kind of have to push through out of pride or simply to keep your job.
No. I never said we figured out cognition.

The LLM is still a black box feed forward network. It is the intricacies of how signals interact with each other in this network that we don't fully understand.

Word prediction and curve fitting are high level concepts we used to build an intelligence we don't fully understand.

Also belief and understanding are orthogonal concepts. I can believe something I don't understand and I can understand something I don't belief.

My claim here is that LLMs understand things from a certain aspect because LLMs can produce output indistinguishable from understanding.

Also because both the human brain and the LLM are black boxes there is no other metric we can use to gauge the level of understanding an LLM has other than comparing it's inputs and outputs to the human brain.
Screenshots anywhere?
> Reality: It’s fine, I’ll finish the work on Saturday.

At no point have I ever worked outside of contracted hours, and at no point will I ever do so. Sorry, no, once I did and it lead to me leaving the job..!

And it's harmfully perpetuating the idea that you're expected to do so when you're not paid for the labour.
Depending on the country / culture / job description, "making stuff up" is sometimes a viable option for "adjust accordingly", on all levels of expertise.
Inattentiveness kicks in for me at work (software developer) constantly, but physical activity puts me into hyper-focus. Even first-person shooter games kick me into hyper-focus. I think it all comes down to personal stimulation thresholds. I find work boring and uninteresting, but even the most mundane tasks like picking weeds is like heroin for my ADHD because I find it enjoyable and feel I'm making progress.
Neither the paper title nor the abstract leads with “Seaborn.” The decision to start the submission with “Seaborn bug…” is purely an HN artifact, and nothing to do with science communication.

ETA: For those who don’t click through, the paper title is “Dataset Artefacts are the Hidden Drivers of the Declining Disruptiveness in Science.” The first few sentences of the abstract are:

“Park et al. [1] reported a decline in the disruptiveness of scientific and technological knowledge over time. Their main finding is based on the computation of CD indices, a measure of disruption in citation networks [2], across almost 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents. Due to a factual plotting mistake, database entries with zero references were omitted in the CD index distributions, hiding a large number of outliers with a maximum CD index of one, while keeping them in the analysis [1].”
It’s also the base layer for Sophos’ EDR platform.
Frankly, when I started reading the article, I was actually expecting far more direct, practical applications, rather than pseudo-shame that I don't trust corrupt officials to have.

Stuff like:

If you have to pay, then paying a portion in Zero Notes so the total money is reduced.

Hiding fake money in the real money, so it will be obvious it was bribe money.

Allow you to tip off police, while mostly looking innocent if you're caught "I thought it was a real ruppee!"

Filling suitcases full of fake money, because they can't check before you leave (if you meet in public).

Making them with electronics, so the bribers can be followed (has other creepy issues though).

Making them with ink, that ruins other bribe money.

I dunno, like every con movie trick that Hollywood's used in money capers.
I believe the sweet spot is a balance between coordination and autonomy. When I'm all alone with my decisions I trust them much less than after having gone through advertising them to peers, perhaps even refining them in the process.

The rubber duck may be wise, for a duck at least, but there are limits to how much you can trust its opinion. In fact even the rubber duck appears more confident when it might at any time ally with co-workers.
If it is actually a simple bit of inline code, then sure. I mean not more than 2 commands maximum. Any more than that should be inside a <script> tag where it's far easier to write and format the code, debug, abstract, and reason about. The huge amount of code in the example on the HTMJS "blog" is just the worst way to write js code into a webpage because it is not a simple function, it's difficult to read, it won't have syntax highlighting because it's treated as a string.
Both.

As a developer you can tap into endless pit of resources for web development.

As a user, you can access same program on all platforms without any changes and continue where you left off, what’s not to like?
He knew how O-rings behaved, they fail to make a seal at those low temperatures. You don't need to have multiple failed launches to reach the conclusion he reached.
ok well this is why quality sucks in software, you dont have to theorize, you have an example right in front of you that you personally are involved in. same with me and everyone else who writes code. i have stuff i know i should fix but it would lead me down a rabbit hole so i dont. so where is this experience in our theoretical framework?
That's not how I read that. Absence of guilt removes the programmed automatic response enabling a person to make a decision based on logic or truth. It doesn't mean that they will, that depends on their motivations.
I feel 2012 PHP is the perfect description for JS reputation today and I've been working in companies where they do node.js as main backend tech since 2011 and react since 2015.

I think it's the result of a mix of clunky tooling (started with transpiling), OSS maintainers who stopped caring and left a broken mess everywhere and lack of static typing (+ dissatisfaction with TS, despite it being the only sensible option for types), the diffusion of JS in uncool corporate workplaces.

I still think both PHP (which I've used extensively between 2006-2011) and JS are fine languages with a few defects.
A new home for the African diaspora in Ghana stirs tensions
Per that definition, there are no unregulated industries. This seems contrary the the argument that regulated industry is a "very narrow" term, and the regulations on twitch in SK obviously don't count
What is your goal with this question? What are you trying to accomplish? Are you confused about the existence or nature of climate collapse or its action-ability? Are you unhappy about Greta’s contribution to the conversation and hoping to discredit her? Could you clarify your intentions?

What I feel from your contribution is simply interference and pulling the conversation in an unproductive direction. There’s enough of that I think.

What I’m more curious about is - what are some leverage points to shift toward solutions. Denialism is not an acceptable solution from where I stand.
you get what you sow. don't put stupid comments out there.
Yeah whatever, https://youtu.be/UGFWf1lWVP4?si=7L6QoIXsPDdUVn8Q just Subscribe and less texting, thanks
Working extra can be a good way to differentiate yourself from others and more easily earn a promotion or additional compensation.
It's an "implies" arrow not a causal relationship.
I vaguely recalled something like this but I forget the URL/haven't had the chance to check it out further yet! Thank you for sharing this/reminding me to check it out :)

And yeah haha, I know how to be positive but thank you for the reminder. part of the reason I'm under a random name is because I needed a place to vent that is more or less not linked to who I am. I do understand how important appearances can be/how what you say can impact how you're perceived.
Yeah. Some of them are a bit rough still, but that's the general idea. Instead of trying to guess what sort of content the user wants, it seems like it makes sense to just give them the option to express that.

The recipe filter is approaching something I'd want to explore further, to be able to provide contextual information outside of the search query.

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=cookie+recipe
$something is dead, long live $something