skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Chicago

Remote: Remote preferred, hybrid acceptable

Willing to relocate: Not immediately, but by the end of the year I could

Technologies: MediaWiki, Lua, Python, React/TS, CSS/Tailwindcss.

Website/blog: https://river.me/

Email: in my bio

I'm interested in Developer Advocate or similar positions. My background in ten years of working with MediaWiki software has been at the intersection of writing code, providing dev support for my APIs/code, writing documentation, teaching basic coding to new users, and in general improving developer/user experience for a diverse set of backgrounds.

I'm most happy working in interdisciplinary roles where writing documentation and other content and working with users is just as important as writing code.

Interested in either full-time or contract work.
There's a "Download" button for their open models literally two clicks away from the homepage.

Click "Learn more" under the big "Committing to open models" heading on the homepage. Then, because their deeplinking is bad, click "Open" in the toggle at the top. There's your download link.
>one of which had a big computational focus on historical change:

Is this by any chance the 'clock' of phonetic change in a language, and its use in predicting what an ancient language may have sounded like? I.e. Proto Indo-European? I'm a total linguistics amateur but fascinated by the field and bits of knowledge I pick up.
Location: FL, USA
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: Absolutely.
Technologies: JavaScript & Friends (Node, React, Vue), HTML, CSS, MongoDB, TSQL, C#
Email: matt (at) javascripttoday.com

Hello. I'm Matt. waves.

I've been programming since 2012, and have worked with various technologies (I didn't list everything above, as I'm not completely strong with everything). I'm currently employed full-time as primarily a front-end developer (but work with the entire stack) at a marketing company, and also run the JavaScript Today websites. I'd love to see what's out there.

P.S. Will send resume if anyone reaches out.
What would be a good way to ascertain if GPT 4 is AGI?
>If the tech really is dangerous then being more closed arguably is in the public's best interest, and this is certainly the reason OpenAI have previously given.

Tell about a technology you think but dangerous, and I'll give you fifty way to kill someone with it.

Plastic bag for example, are not only potentially dangerous, they make a significant contribution to the current mass extinction of biodiversity.
> Show me a robot that can snake out a plugged toilet.

Astounding that you would make such strong claims while only able to focus on the rapidly changing present and such a small picture detail. Try approaching the AGI claim from a big picture perspective, I assure you, snaking a drain is the most trivial of implementation details for what we're facing.
Chinese maglev hyperloop train hits 387 MPH
Ask HN: How much time does the manager of my manager work?
Or how much time do Principal Engineers work? I’m asking because unless they do all their work in secret (secret meetings no one is aware of, secret slack channels, secret projects, etc.), it seems to me they work very little (I’m not talking about outcome, but about actual hours worked). I’m not complaining (to each their own), I’m just really curious. I’m not gonna lie, I’m an employee and my contract says 40h/week… but I rather work around 30h/week or so, and it’s quite enough to get things done. So perhaps other people work even less than I do and get things done?
Everyone always praises SQLite

> As of version 3.42.0 (2023-05-16), the SQLite library consists of approximately 155.8 KSLOC of C code [...] the project has 590 times as much test code and test scripts - 92053.1 KSLOC.

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
It frustrates me to see people in my neighborhood complain about minor things on local social media, but do nothing about it or even go out of their way to make things worse (like complaining about trash on the sidewalk on an especially windy day, or walking their dog on the high school football field instead of the dog park, which is two blocks (!!) further, for example). It feels like it is hard to get people to to extend common courtesy towards their neighbors, let alone do something good for someone they think they'll never run into.
No, not really. It smells pleasant, like mint gum.

I've never been brave enough to chew one up, though.
See “no longer” in my original comment. They just announced their new slate of models, none of which are open weights. The models linked to download are the “before Microsoft $$$, Azure deal, and free supercomputers” ones.
Even better example is IKEA.
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Email:salmanasif36@gmail.com
> Go is a language written by very good software developers but very bad language designers

That's exactly why I love it so much
https://medium.com/@victor.ronin/hn-inherited-the-worst-code...
I had a similar thing happen with a mediawiki site that I run. There was some “shrinkwrap” software behind the abuse, though, and a trivial capcha on account creation was sufficient to turn the abuse from a flood into a manageable trickle (I haven’t had to deal with spam since December, and when I do get spamming, it’s typically happening no more than once a month).
One of the best teams on the planet!
While "honeypot" was mentioned in the title, there seems to be no useful outcome from caught bad actors, like reporting malicious websites, so browsers could block them.
Yeah that stood out to me too. What the heck is dropping all this stuff?

Round here if you put any sizeable metal (like a radiator or something) out front of your house someone will collect it to take for scrap. So if there were that amount of metal on the roads they would be keen to attach magnets to their vans. Although if it needs a large number of high quality magnets to do the job, it might not be economic for them.
No power is provided until negotiation using the signalling authorises the power transfer.
GPT 4 is not AGI. Else OpenAI would have used it to fix their UI.
And yet, still safer than everyone having nukes...

It's unfortunate that the AGI debate still hasn't made it's way very far into these parts. Still have people going, "well this would be bad too." Yes! That is the existential problem a lot of people are grappling with. There is currently and likely, no good way out of this. Too much "Don't Look Up" going on.
I’m glad that global trends are proving Malthusian arguments about population growth wrong. I do think it is true that people (as a population) will have as many children as they can easily support. But what Malthus missed IMO is that with education and technology the baseline for what people think of as an acceptable life for their children is increasing.

In 1850 you might have a few more kids, thinking they could farm more and through hard labor your family could break even on resources. Your family of 8 all shares a single bedroom and you only send the smartest kid to high school (begrudgingly).

In 2024 people are putting off children because they won’t be able to afford a nanny, because the price of globally-sourced instantly-available groceries are too high, or because they are feeling their life already has enough richness and direction. If I cared for my children in the way we used to during population explosion they would be taken by CPS.

The inflection point where our global population levels out will be Interesting Times, but I’m optimistic for the long term sustainable culture that may result.
> if I wanted the bus to stop I had to pull a wire (yes, a wire!) to notify the busdriver that he/she should stop on the next bus stop. That's just one of the issues,

How else do you signal the bus driver to stop? And why is this an issue?

The NYC MTA years ago used these rubber push strips held in an extruded aluminum profile. They were all over the interior next to each window and ran along the edges of the ceiling for standing passengers. They were frequently broken, cut or pulled from their bases by bored school children. This lead to the button circuit being stuck closed preventing more presses from triggering the bell and annunciator lamp at the front of the bus to notify the driver. People would then miss their stops and start yelling or walk to the driver to ask them to stop. The pull cords are old school but insanely easy to fix and maintain.
I'm still convinced they don't want to sell Beyond Zero of these things.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, React, NextJS, NodeJS, ExpressJS, No/SQL, Git, Docker
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My letter carrier is fantastic. We stop and catch up for a bit when he's delivering. I see so much mail for previous residents in my Informed Delivery email that never arrives because he knows who lives here and returns to sender for us.
FWIW, Musk's named lead counsel Morgan Chu is an extremely high-powered lawyer, one of the best-regarded IP trial lawyers around. (Decades ago we had a client in common.) One of his brothers is Dr. Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in physics and former Secretary of Energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Chu
At least a few active DP → HDMI 2.0 are okay at 4kp60. For example, these[1][2] do 4:4:4/RGB 4kp60 fine, though they're limited by HDMI 2.0 to 8 bits per color channel at 4kp60 (higher bit depths work fine at lower resolutions and frequencies, or with chroma subsampling).

In my testing (several years ago), at least half a dozen other similarly-priced DP → HDMI 2.0 adapters purchased from Amazon were limited to chroma subsampled output (4:2:2 or 4:2:0) at 4kp60, which is obviously unacceptable for desktop use, so I do see your point.

I've used the linked adapters successfully now for several years with both a 2013 Mac Pro and a pair of DP-only AMD GPUs (WX 3200 and WX 4100), all connected to a 2019 LG TV, and, while testing, confirmed all claimed signal outputs using an HDFury Vertex.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0BWR2K

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0C7QO8
I don't think South Korea or Japan will population death spiral. I think Cold War 2.0 will cause a fertility bump
>include VRR/FreeSync?

I have been looking for a display port -> hdmi adapter with vrr support for a while.AFAIK, nothing on the market currently supports it, including the cable from cablemod mentioned by OP
It's an image generator, so relying on it for any "factual" images is misguided.
Amusingly, I thought this website was broken in a myriad of weird ways - I kept getting incomplete response errors and bad SSL errors.

As it turns out, my ISP was simply doing a rubbish job at blocking the site. After a few 10s of tries it eventually managed to redirect me to their warning page and prompted me to turn off settings in my account config. Thanks Virgin Media.
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Venice tries to fight back overtourism
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Rygen has a product-focused team that enjoys building out tools that fundamentally move the logistics industry forward. The team is made up of talented individuals from both technology companies and traditional logistics companies.

We're looking to add an additional senior software engineer to the team. The job posting is here https://www.linkedin.com/company/rygentech/jobs/

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This article is wrong, or at least the headline and intro is wrong.

You don't need a precise time source to make power grids possible. You don't need any time source at all, as generator operators simply synchronise with the grid's current frequency (and phase) before throwing the switch that electrically connects the generator to the grid. And once the generators are connected, they are automatically locked to the exact same frequency and phase. It's not possible for them to fall out of phase without the electrical connection being broken (If you try to force a generator out of phase, it will draw more current trying to get back in phase and will eventually blow a fuse)

For engineering reasons, it's useful to keep the frequency within a few percent of a standard, but for most purposes, it doesn't matter if the grid is running at 58Hz, 60Hz or 62Hz and you can achieve way more accuracy with crude mechanical governor. Many simpler backup generators use nothing more than a mechanical governor to maintain their frequency.

The primary reason why power grids used accurate master clocks is actually the secondary reason that this article mentions: Automated time synchronisation.

This predates the days of modern quartz clocks. It was possible to make very precise mechanical clocks (especially for navigation use), but they were impractical and too expensive for every day use. The average clock or pocket watch would gain or lose several minutes per day and required constant manual adjustment. Loud bells ringing each hour would allow a town or small city to keep the same time, but different towns would be out of sync with each other.

There were various competing solutions at this time. Clocks would be synchronized over long distances with time signals transmitted over telegraph or radio. Paris actually had a network of pneumatic tubes that drove synchronised clocks driven with a pulse of air every minute: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/02/the-pneumatic-clocks-o...

But the power grid neatly solved this problem.

Not only did it distribute power, but it distributed a synchronised time signal across the entire nation. Your complicated mechanical wall clock could be replaced by a simple electric synchronous motor that drove the clock hands and it would keep perfect sync with every other clock on the same power grid.

All you needed to make this useful was a single master clock that kept the power grid running at exactly 60Hz (well, it actually drifts as load varies, but they deliberately vary it so there are exactly 5184000 pulses per day).

This time keeping service that power companies supplied as a secondary effect of their primary purpose was typically mandated by government regulations, as cheap and accurate synchronized time is a boost to the economy.
I misrecalled. While the Google patent is a lot more general than the Microsoft one, it doesn't apply to most uses of ANS.
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Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Fullstack JS, Any lisp/scheme, many years of experience in Python & PHP too. Also DevOps — cloud, bare metal, K8, docker, μVM you name it.

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Looking for IC (individual contributor) role or blending management + coding. I've had multiple stints as CTO, start up experience as well as enterprise.
So what is the term for actual AI now? ASI?
Huh, humans live for centuries in caves also just fine. I don't know why cities, streets and bicycles are needed.
Very cool. I'd love to know what technique they used to build the dialogs with the simulated chat, with the text animation sequences filling out the "DMARC Results" area -- what does the source for this UI look like?

Edit: Just found the `terminal.analyze` function: very cool. That `terminal.echo` is so clever.
Loved the video. I was getting some Katamari Damacy vibes from all those bolts and such glomming onto his magnets.
"Europe" is not a homogenous working mass.
Reminds me of the repeated calls my parents received to refinance their mortgage under some government program. It took them months to realize it was legit.
Appeal to authority.

Also note that none of Wirth's Oberon variants have achieved any commercial success.

Modula-2, which had enums, on the other hand did enjoy a limited success, across UNIX, PC and Amiga, and is nowadays even available as standard GCC fronted.

Go would have been a failure if the authors weren't Google employees, like it happened with their Limbo.
What the fuck. If they're investing that much then why don't they just go straight to formal verification. This is what things like frama-c (or whatever's popular now) are for.
> Dr. Rajendra Badve, a senior cancer surgeon at Tata Memorial Hospital, stated that the tablet has been tested on rats for its effect on side effects and prevention, with promising results. However, human trials are yet to be completed, which could take about five years. The tablet is awaiting approval from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and is expected to be available in the market by June-July.

I'm quite confused by that. It says human trials will take about five years to complete, but that the tablet is expected to be in the market by June-July.

I would expect that approval for marketing for human use would not be approved until after human trials complete. Is that not the case in India? Or are they talking about some other market, say for use in animals?
Companies comply with those regulations because, on balance, the incentives still make it logical to. That doesn't mean an unbalanced regulation that misunderstands the target's incentives would result in the outcome the regulator wants.
Lossless WebP is also stuck with a low axis limit of 16383.

It is a good format when you can use it, but JPEG XL almost always compresses better anyway, and lacks color space and dimension limits.
Most people aren't good programmers. And most also don't make a concerted effort to improve.

Sorry to say, but that's the simplest truth. Many go years and years in this industry with little improvement to quality/succinctness/readability. If you cared, and tried, you would.

Programming skill is uniquely distinct from domain knowledge, by the way. e.g. all of the research code written by domain experts that is full on spaghetti.
They never released a v1. I feel like they could supplement their "red-teaming" efforts by allowing the "professionals" to have a go.
this video showed up in a recent thread about Second Reality and I had never seen it, so this audience may enjoy that, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIBRr31DIU ("Making of Second Reality / Future Crew")
The word protect here makes no sense:
Order to Monopolize American data.
We only want the companies paying american taxes to track, spy on, sell, and abuse peoples private data against them.
Palestinian childs do not equal terrorists.

And neither the idea that "people associate in their mind Palestinian childs with terrorists" is "the truth", for the loudest, most hateful voices do not speak for all of us.
It was the Philippines. Wirecard hired a Philippine lawyer Tolentino (who was also a government minister) to make up a fake trust that held the fake money

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1441886/ex-dotr-exec-others-fa...

“The NBI said Arellano, an employee at the BPI branch in Malate, Manila, had admitted to receiving P10 million for issuing bogus bank certification documents that Tolentino and his law office needed as the supposed local trustee of Wirecard.”

I guess it goes to show that if you are dealing with enough cash to bribe third world governments then all kinds of new fraud schemes become possible.
A big problem that came up at the domain level was what I'd call
a _trustworthy domain with untrustworthy subdomains_, specifically
where those subdomains represent user-generated content.

The Public Suffix List (PSL) [1] to the rescue! It can help with this kind of disambiguation.

Paraphrasing, it's a list of domains where subdomains should be treated as separate sites (e.g. for cookie purposes). So `blogger.com` on the list means `*.blogger.com` are separate "sites".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List
I know change is scary, but this seems like a change whose time has come. The economists chant "numbers must go up" but the earth is already vastly overtaxed by our species. Our impact continues to grow worse every year as living standards improve globally, so a peaceful reduction in population to compensate seems like a best case scenario.
They just need to read mr money moustache.
Return-to-office initiatives or stealth layoffs? Why not both?
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Why would anyone want to leave Kalispell? :-)
I've watched trash just blow off of trash trucks, bounce out of trailers.

You'd think there would be better enforcement of having to have a tarp, etc. for open trailers that are carrying junk.
More likely helpful with perspiration and heat management.
> sane error handling?

Golang _has_ sane error handling. It just considers errors a normal and expected situation.

When you perform a http request, and the result is successful you expect the result to be assigned a variable, right?
Then why would you expect non-successful outcome to be returned in a different way? Why is it different? Why do you unwind the stack? Something terrible happened? Definitely not, it's as real life as 200 OK.

For unrecoverable things golang has panics, and if you don't like the idiomatic way of handling errors, you can just throw them like exceptions.