skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm braindead.

Their presence here does not indicate they value their time here in a net-positive way. It offers no proof whatsoever.

They could be addicted. FOMO could drive them to compulsively check the site. It might be their only social interaction at all during the workday. This might be the only group of people on the internet with similar interests.

None of those things would necessarily make it a net-good thing, if it also has negative repercussions that outweight the benefits. Many drugs, legal and illegal, are fairly harmful. Sometimes the benefits are worth the negatives. Sometimes they are very firmly not. Much of the anti-social-media position is about social media being addicting and net-harmful.

I personally don't see the immense value that you see. I've seen some value for some specific sites for some short, specific times. My grandma could interact with some of her grandkids for a short while on Facebook, for instance. Of course, she (or we) used to just pick up the phone, which is what happens now too.
I've seen some cool projects on HN I'd otherwise likely never have seen.
Otherwise I'm drawing a blank.
Do fused multiply-add operations for matrices really matter? There are two relevant cases I could come up with.

1. You have large matrices. In this case, I'd think that the O(n^2) addition can be ignored, because it gets dwarfed by the the O(n^3ish) multiplication.

2. You have small matrices. In this case, the computation is likely bound by memory bandwidth. Waiting for the matrices A and B takes most of the time. Then you multiply them, which should go quickly, since the matrices are small. Then you do the addition with the matrix C, but since the product AB is already in cache and since you'd have to wait for the matrix C anyway, there is not much to be gained with a fused multiply-add.
The idea that everything needs to be a dense forest is a problem. What is more helpful is a variety of ecosystems available. I don't have a lot of space, but I managed to have 4 ecosystems in all of my yards with 200+ species of plants: California chaparral, Coastal forest, Xeriscape and a wildflower meadow. Cities could also build such environments and that would be more positive than just planting Miyawaki Forests everywhere.
On the contrary, I think they completely misjudged it. The AI initially worked as intended and that's why the product manager defended the flawed results on Twitter. What they didn't expect was that people would start generating Nazis to show how flawed it was. This caused backlash from people and organisations that they actually cared about.

I doubt the patched model will fix the underlying issue. They'll just apply exceptions to a few noteworthy historical keywords. They've been vocal about their filtering of image search for years and this is in line with that.
Small price to pay for videos that load almost instantly. It's certainly faster than my Jellyfin setup despite Jellyfin's massive home field advantage (SSDs and 0ms LAN latency)
> Many restaurants have "lunch menus" for this very reason.

Which is fine. That's predictable. The problem with dynamic pricing is that it means you never really know what something is going to cost until you're at the point of purchase.

> Even in theme parks, they effectively engage in a hybrid of spot prices by allowing people to pay extra to cut in line.

Right, which is a practice that I consider to be egregiously terrible and avoid those places that pull that kind of crap.

In the end, I recognize that my opinion of these practices doesn't matter. I'll avoid patronizing businesses that do this sort of thing, but it won't change anything. It just means that as time moves forward there are fewer and fewer establishments that I will give my money to.
What are the legitimate (i.e. legal) use cases for a product such as this?

I agree with another comment that called this "Abuse as a Service". It seems to me this product's design goal is nothing more than to circumvent measures site owners take to prevent abuse of their site and run a sustainable business.
Not open source, based on their license [0], same as Stable Diffusion then. Are there any actually open source SoTA AI that have a normal open source license rather than having use restrictions?

[0] https://huggingface.co/playgroundai/playground-v2.5-1024px-a...
Related:

Software Forge Performance Index:

https://forgeperf.org/
i share your tinfoilery: the goal is to erode public discourse on the internet, censorship (self or otherwise), and so on.
It's more what you can afford to learn. Most of the domains I've worked in are so thick to grok that also loading in a programming language like scala or rust becomes intractable.
Are there any stories you're willing to share, any tough nuts you've had to crack to improve some aspect of operations, whether it be reliability, performance, bot detection evasion, or something else completely?

I've only dealt with scraping on a small scale and I quickly realized that running "browsers as a service" is a pain in the ass, they're not exactly lightweight, they like to get "stuck", balloon in memory or some such.

I imagine your business will be quite successful if reliability is good and the price is right!
Wendy's to Test Surge Pricing
Do you have any documented examples of this behavior?
why the sarcasm tag? laying off some Google engineers (and a lot of Google managers, ethicists, trust and safety employees, HR etc) would actually be good for both Google's share price and their products
Yeah the stench of that is quite nauseating at times...
I'm not reading the complaints about the time per say as much as you'd just be doing it for Meta. People in the know of what Meta does behind the scenes are becoming (have been) very disturbed by the practices used and just the corporate ethos in general so that there is a stigma attached to anything Meta. So even having a conversation with them instead of anyone else just puts that stink on you immediately
I have not written a single python script since I learned Go in 2015. But I still prefer Java for work. Dealing with databases is just completely asinine in Go.
No you wouldn't, because your laundromat wouldn't be consuming MW-GW ranges of power.
I honestly thought this was all common knowledge, but I guess that's from friends having gone through meta process and myself as well. The only way I've seen people get super big starting packages at any of these FAANG's is by leveraging multiple faang's against each other. But good lord, that's a lot of work.
I think it's misleading for a worse reason: These trade temperature for humidity. They seem to work great as long as the temperatures don't go too high. They become hot ovens when they would be the most needed.
I mean, I upvoted the story because Netflix is pretty well-known for being a high-intensity dev environment where people are regularly PIP'd and dismissed if their engineering output doesn't measure up - of all the companies which do the eye-rolling claim of "we only hire 10x engineers", Netflix is one of the only ones for which it kinda holds water. And yet, despite this, their stack is boring old Java+Spring. That seems like a useful lesson for all the people who demand that high-performance teams must use the New Shiny.
I don't agree that it does. Something I've noticed as I've gotten older is that it feels like time is passing more slowly. My late 30s is when time felt like it passed the fastest.

On the other hand, if you're talking about "that happened two years ago, but it feels like it was yesterday" I agree. I don't think that's what the post is talking about.
My system is rooted actually, but no idea how to disgnose this. I can SSH in but it's a very limited busybox setup and everything app-related seems to be encrypted.
I like how they argue that its unethical and for that reason you shouldn't do it, while also stating they know that Meta itself is unethical in their own negotiation.

Sorry if the company is willing to lie and extort me I have no guilty conscious doing it back. Hell, I'd even argue that it'd be incompetent to NOT do it back for your own benefit.
What is a "software forge"?
Is it really a lowball offer if you can’t command higher compensation from any other company?
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I don't read that sentence to mean what you do. The article is indeed "looking at the forces generated by the flow of air around the aircraft's wings" and it's definitely focusing "on the cross section of those wings" which is a shape known as an "airfoil."

Later on TFA says "the shape and the orientation of the airfoil helps airplanes remain airborne" which is closer to your criticism, but still true; a shape that generates more drag or less lift in the equivalent airflow would not help airplanes remain airborne.

Maybe if TFA included a simulation of a rectilinear wing and showed how it stalled at very low angles of attack, that would improve things, but I find it to be "just fine" as an introduction to lift.
I've used Caddy in the past and it worked well but the syntax for their config caddyfile is just so confusing. I haven't found a tutorial to explain how it all works properly.
The author calls Meta's process "reprehensible", but they seem to be acting like any large company when there are lots of people competing for fewer jobs. It's pretty standard with FAANG (or whatever it's called now) that they simply won't negotiate over their offer unless you've got another better offer in hand.

But the advice of this article to "make sure you have other offers" is pretty much impossible to pull off in practice. If you have offers from startups, they're generally going to be for less than Meta is offering in the first place. And if you have better offers from the rest of "AANG", then the whole point is you can just take one of them. But this article starts with the premise that they're not doing much hiring right now, so I don't know how you're supposed to get those offers.

And all of this ignores the fact that coordinating the timing of offers, so that you have an open offer from another company, when Meta makes you their offer, is virtually impossible. You have no idea, when you start interviewing with another company, if they'll make you an offer in 3 days or 3 weeks or 2 months. And they generally give short deadlines as well.

So I don't really get what this article is trying to achieve. What Facebook is doing is pretty standard for corporations in a powerful hiring position, and the advice to try to counter it is nearly impossible to pull off. This is just how capitalism and labor markets go.

But, this article is definitely useful so people know how the process is working right now.
A car is an expense. If you need one, it is indeed a much better financial choice to get a used one. But your needs probably don't scale, so you don't need ten cars, just one. You can't have an expense and make it up in volume to become profitable.
Which translates in the same criminal killing and destruction...
Open Source Image and Video Restoration Toolbox
Colleges should include standardized testing in admissions
This is the future of education. Very approachable and seems to target the most common denominator of knowledgeable people that out there.

I wonder will there be articles in the future with more math and code snippets?
I think we may be using different GPT versions (4 here), otherwise I'm not sure how to account for the difference in results: https://chat.openai.com/share/c172e2ec-94c7-4d8a-be2d-58461b...

I run your example verbatim, and it doesn't "jailbreak"
I used to work for a bot mitigation vendor 8-10 years ago, researching / implementing signals for this cat and mouse game.

This will get you past some very mundane bot detections, but really this is like, the very first baby step of a long rabbit hole.

The people who are taking this game seriously are 5-10 years ahead of this step. Good luck ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Indeed, with sufficient thrust your wings can just be flat plates with a small angle between the plane of the plates and the direction of travel. Airfoils are first about reducing drag, second about stall speed and angles.

But airplanes are quite constrained things, if you have a bad attitude and refuse to use airfoils many planes wouldn't even get off the ground and all the rest would have abysmal performance. Sort of like how with imagination everything is a hammer, but this being technically true doesn't mean that you shouldn't really use a hammer when one is called for.
Interesting, you allocate so much time to junk… can’t help but see you rather often in my flagged stories. Then there is your history
Do you want people to not go to Wendy's? That's how you get people to not go to Wendy's.

It won't happen immediately. People will already be there, at the drive-thru at the counter, and they'll tap or swipe their card, revenues will temporarily increase, and it will seem like the plan is working. But every single person will say "what the hell did I just pay for that meal" and then never, ever go to Wendy's again.
Team FAGMAN all the way!

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The tech may be good but as Stratechery[1] point out, the failure modes here indicate a serious culture problem inside the company. They thought tuning the AI in this way was a good product. That's hard to fix. Ben compares it to Microsoft holding funerals for Blackberry and iPhone when they released the Windows phone.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2024/gemini-and-googles-culture/
In my org, we don't have access to WSL. All I have from "linuxy" things is bash from git installation and few other tools git includes. Not very fresh git. But that limiting factor of my org.

The problem I ran into most using windows, which I never had in macOS - inability sometimes to copy into clipboard, or paste from clipboard: pressing ctrl+c does not change clipboard to the currently selected text in VSCode, I have to press ctrl+c three four times before clipboard changes. I recall having to do this 15+ years ago, but why this is happening is mystery.

Another problem, if I restart my laptop when it connected to 1080p monitor, and then connect it to 4k monitor at home, some apps will not support HiDPI resolution and will show up in tiny font (PuTTY hell)... so no, it is not awesome. It is horrible. Was, is and always will.
> Or are areas that have planted trees areas that also tend to have reduced crime?

Perhaps fake it till you make it?

Worth a try surely.
I once had a hard time finding a bug, and it turned out someone had overloaded assignment to the boolean member dbIsOpen in some inherited monstrosity class to open/close a database connection. Since then, I prefer functions with clear names. They may still not do what their name says, but it doesn't lull you into thinking local.
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I do hope for your optimistic scenario, but I do not expect it.
2013 was a great time to join in the fray, I think the clarifying point is that you are working on the machine, you are not embodying the success or failure of the machines of that time.
It's truly impressive. the amount of time and dedication its uncanny.
Operators for primitive types are fine, they are well defined by the language and consistent across programs. Operator overloading is going to change behavior between programs which puts extra cognitive load on the reader.

That said, Go sticks to the most basic operator implementation (strings, numbers etc...). Go doesn't support `+` on slices for instance.
I'm sure this depends on engineering culture, but at Google, where Go was born, there is "one way to write C++" and that is dictated by the style guide.

You have to learn many restrictions, a number of which feel arbitrary/highly subjective, and follow that. Of course, the style guide evolves over time so it's not like legacy code is consistent with new code.

The end result is that I much prefer the Go way of having fewer options in the language, instead of having those options in the language but restricting them via policy.
its a bad idea, as in this is how you get someone defecating in your lobby and throwing it on the grill.
The market will handle it, within the new constraint that damaging the environment and putting one's fellow citizens at risk by pumping out fossil-fuel exhaust will be considered decreasingly acceptable behavior.
Author here. We have a whole section on timing, including specific advice about how to control it (slow-playing team matching, delaying interview scheduling, etc.)
What about the last months specifically?
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If you're looking to join a startup, peruse
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217310

You can also post in these threads:

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217308

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217309
I would first engage, if you haven't, the spider community at iNaturalist. It is likely that others are thinking along the same lines as you.

We (Species File Group) are trying to build out open-source tools (e.g. TaxonPages, 'distinguish') that would ultimately help to make these types of projects possible, through GitHub pages or other similar approaches. If you wish, we have multiple ways to be reached, see 'Events' after doing a little sleuthing as to who we are. We are definitely interested in facilitating the structuring of communities that link people like you to those doing the science behind the scenes, this is really important for the long term stability of resources like those you're interested in.
And you think it's justified for others to subsidize the lifestyle of those who live in rural environment?

This is about government funding - it's not a free market solution, it's about the government being honest in how much it is subsidizing different areas. If the total cost was visible perhaps people would say - hey maybe people shouldn't live there.
Like Israelis use of AI the goal is to kill, maim and punish free people non aligned with you.
The real word for this is "profiteering".
Probably wants you to use Gemini for inclusion to train their diverse data set.
Centiseconds?
That's why they invented marriage. /s
OpenAI alleges New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT for lawsuit evidence
Also it used to depend on the screen having a tuner, with even some companies advertising that they could remove the tuner from your pre-existing TV !
Is this really HN-worthy? It’s basically just a tweet from a guy saying he doesn’t like something. I don’t like it either but there’s nothing thoughtful or thought provoking in this particular post.
Forgejo has experimental CI/CD

https://forgejo.org/2023-02-27-forgejo-actions/

They make no guarantee of compatibility with Github Actions but they seem to be aiming for it based on the syntax.
404media articles are no longer accessible to anyone not logged in. I don't believe this can be accessed using archive.org or any other way either. This makes me question their value on HN and make me inclined to flag. Is there something I am missing?
Unless you’re Italian.
I live in Germany and never heard of any of those. Maybe I’m not the target demographic. The only catchy campaign I’m aware of is the traffic light coalition campaign but that was written by life. Good acting, though.
Yeah, it just happened to me a while ago. Banned from an online game inexplicably, for something I am absolutely innocent of. Their support team refused to do anything, assured me "the ban is correct". Only got lifted because of knowing someone who knew someone and was able to have it actually looked into, rather than the usual non-investigation you'd typically get. I know numerous people who have lost their entire Microsoft or Google account (or other services), with zero explanation, zero recourse, just everything permanently nuked. This can happen to anyone at any time, as erroneous false positives happen seemingly arbitrarily.
And the solution is to not care? Seems like the same outcome either way.
This looks pretty cool. Is there any schema management included or do schema changes need to be in place on both sides first?
> As soon as some other client application is built which pushes user experience beyond what the browser is capable

The problem is that the browser is so good at being a ubiquitous, open-source, open-standards-based, cross-platform, near-instant-loading secure remote code execution environment. As Brendan Eich says, always bet on JS and WASM. I would extend that to -- always bet on browsers.

With the amount of change that has occurred in browser technology over the last 30 years, I strongly think the future looks like more improvement in browser technology (and perhaps deprecation/removal of old standards) than an entirely new paradigm. I know various early web pioneers want to build a post-Web application delivery system (notably Tim Berners-Lee and Douglas Crockford), but given the accumulated legacy of modern browsers and web apps and the ongoing investments into browser technology, I don't see how any post-Web system could gain any traction within the next 25 years.

But yes - your point still stands. If anything better than browsers ever appears, the internet will indeed still be there to host it.
I am sitting in a Herman Miller Aeron chair acquired during the ~2000 dot com bust at auction for next to nothing. Highly recommend.
I'm not sure there's one single zeitgeist for them to align with. They could be in tune with the cultural attitude of the majority and still run afoul of millions of people
US Amazon is heavily dropshippers nowadays, especially for clothing. Reverse image search usually finds the same item with the same image on AliExpress for half the price.

The advantage used to be Amazon'd ship it to you in a couple days, but I'm getting a lot of 30+ day arrival estimates there too now.
I think I see what you're saying - however I'm not hearing anything indicating a different aerospace-specific material, but rather aerospace-specific process. The raw stock with certs has a different P/N than that without certs, but not it's not a different material. For instance, we might procure aluminum 7075, which has a published spec in the form of ASTM B209 (and several others, this is one I've seen called out in drawings commonly). 7075 is available in multiple different tempers - you can get 7075-O (not heat-treated), 7075-T6, 7075-T651, and a few other less commonly used ones. When used for aerospace, that material will generally come with a cert from an independent test lab showing that a specimen from the batch meets the yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, yield at rupture, composition, and other critical properties. At the end of the day, the piece of round bar or sheet is the same thing you'd purchase otherwise, but you've paid quite a bit extra to be SURE that it's exactly what you expect. The same applies to steel, titanium, nickel alloys like Inconel or Monel, tungsten, magnesium, and pretty much everything else I can think of.

Following procurement, we might do in-house testing before machining (composition with XRF, physical properties with a tensile tester), possibly our own heat treatment (e.g. 13-8PH, 15-5PH, 17-4PH are "precipitation hardening" steels, generally delivered soft), and surface treatment (passivation, conversion coating) before delivering a finished product. None of this is unique to aerospace either, although it's certainly unlikely you'd want to spend the money for it otherwise.

So yes, you procure a different item, possibly from a different supplier, but physically there's unlikely to be any difference in my experience. The exception I'm aware of would be electronic components, particularly semiconductors, which are manufactured using different processes for radiation hardening (e.g. sapphire substrate). Export control like ITAR/EAR aren't really about aerospace but rather restrictions imposed by the US Government.
Does Starlink even have landing rights to operate in South Africa? It's not listed as an officially supported country on their map.