skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spend way too much time thinking back on how many things like this I've left around
>ninety percent of the country lives within 58 miles (about an hours drive)

An hour's drive :-) I'm closer than that to Logan in Boston and planning for 2 hours in the morning is not unreasonable at all. (And basically the car company I use won't let me plan for a lot less than that because they don't want to be on the hook if I miss my flight.)
Real Engineering always gets access to companies because he presents everybody in an overly positive light. He never actually does the negative stuff, except for company he doesn't get invited into.
My dad switched into IT in the late 80’s, via community college. So being a community college, they still had a machine that ran on card readers.

As I recall they had a machine that took the “scantron” cards and spit out punched ones.

And I don’t remember if they had it or I just read about it later, but someone did eventually invent a punchcard sorter. You had to number the cards, and then you could stuff a dropped deck into the machine and it would save your bacon.
Good post. Have found that active listening like this is extremely important within the context of feedback. Both parties need to be active listeners. It's vital for the recipient of feedback to repeat back what the giver is saying to make sure everyone is on the same page. Minor step, but has a massive impact on how feedback is perceived and acted on between parties.
Not surprised.

Both Google Research and Google DeepMind have had hiring freezes / soft layoffs for the past 3-4 months.
We're talking about nations though. Calling it assault doesn't win you anything. It just means you got yourself assaulted when you could have not, and there's no authority that's going to make it right for you.
> I've tried to follow people on medium, twitter, bluesky, mastodon, blog RSS feeds, youtube, etc and there is typically just too much off topic noise.

Yeah totally agree that it produces a lot of noise. I too do checkout sites like HN, subreddits like r/cpp, r/webdev, etc periodically to discover stuff, and it really filters a lot of stuff.

Also sorting RSS feeds into multiple folders in a tree like fashion has helped me so far. I started using RSS faily recently (like 2 months), got do know of it in January when on Mastodon people were remembering of Aaron Swartz. Loved the idea of RSS and instantly got addicted to it. So yeah, might end up with a unusable feed soon since I am quite new to this thing. Let's see what happens.

> 'm hoping that following hashtags or similar will eventually work out.

Following hashtags too produces a lot of noise for me, especially on the Fediverse, subreddits work much better. Also you can just follow subreddits using RSS, which is also a nice thing to have IMO.
Tell me you can't beat the market average, without telling me you can't beat the market average.
In aviation specifically the standards and practices for the industry are widely available (start with the public domain retrospectives from Project Apollo).

I'm going to note that SpaceX does not seem to be struggling beyond what I would expect to develop a new heavy lift system. Yes, lots of RUD moments, but not an unexpected amount.

I actually agree with you in broad terms, we do have too much hard to follow regulation - but Aviation isn't one of those cases - every rule we have in that sector was paid for in lives.
The overall argument that Rust's use in embedded has a long way to go is fairly accurate. A foundational crate like embedded-hal reached 1.0 only 2 months ago, 8 years after Rust 1.0. On the other hand, this crate reaching 1.0 means the rest of the ecosystem can now mature alongside it.

The paper could use a few minor corrections and improvements. For example, they go through thousands of crates in crates.io to give the impression of completeness, but it would have been better to go though a more curated source like https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust. It doesn't matter if the quality of random one off crates that someone hacked over a weekend is poor, it does matter if the crates recommended by the community are poor. But I suppose their analysis would look impressive then.

The other nit is that they think that the existence of even one instance of unsafe is a problem. This is a mistake that people unfamiliar with Rust make.
JWST confirms: The tiniest galaxies made the cosmos visible
My calculation of kv cache gives 1GB per 3000 tokens for fp16. I am surprised openAI competitors haven't done this. This kind of features have not so niche uses, where prefix data could be cached.
yes, I know, I didn't invent anything but it could be good if it were widespread.
Snowflake CEO Steps Down from Post Richer Than Tim Cook or Satya Nadella
I used these when studying in the library for the CPA exam, and they were remarkably effective. The joke with my friends was if the library had caught on fire and the fire alarms had gone off, I wouldn’t have been aware and would have remained in my seat while everyone else evacuated.
Yes. Canada and USA. If you read your employment contract with Th a large corporation there'll wording on intellectual property rights while employed. Chances are also good you'll have to review a document or training on yearly basis - not specific to this one thing but on various policies (security, ip rights, corruption, harassment, competition, social presence, etc).

Many people don't know it's there, for various reasons. But it typically is - after all, that's just corporations learning from history.
Firstly, do you enjoy tech? As in do you code and build things outside of what's required for education and work?

People in this industry tend to be very passionate about what they do and the industry moves very quickly. It's not a great industry for someone who just wants to spend 3 years learning then wants to go on to land a nice job. It's really requires having a love for building things and continuing to learn as new technologies emerge.

I know a lot of people who got a CS degree thinking working in tech would be fun, but just didn't have the passion for it to compete professionally. And as you're seeing it's even harder today.

If you're passionate and you're able to commit your spare time to learning, then I'd suggest you first get a job with some vague tech focus. Maybe work in an Apple store or a computer repair shop or something... This will look better on your profile than doing nothing or something entirely unrelated to tech.

Then while you're earning an income you should be applying to tech roles, and ideally asking people if they'd be willing to take you on for minimum wage. Even if it's just the odd project for a bit of cash, that's still very useful experience.

After a couple of years of this crap you'll be in a much better place to land a role, but you need to appreciate there's loads of people with junior coding skills out there. You need to set yourself apart and that largely requires doing what other people will not because you care enough about working in tech.

If you don't care about working in tech but just want to make decent money, become a truck driver or something. It will probably be much easier.
Yeah, the current line from the PG&E shills is that the rate hikes are justified because rural (and green) power is so expensive. It just beggars belief that anyone can say that with a straight face.
I know both countries, and in Algeria the Law No. 18-07, effective since August 10, 2023, establishes personal data protection requirements with severe penalties. The text is somewhat more strict than Tunisia.
how would that work? Would dirty containers be washed or recycled?
Yes, it seems that AI in form of LLMs is just an idea whose time has come. We now have the compute, the data, and the architecture (transformer) to do it.

As far as different groups leapfrogging each other for supremacy in various benchmarks, there might be a bit of a "4 minute mile" effect here too - once you know that something is possible then you can focus on replicating/exceeding it without having to worry are you hitting up against some hard limit.

I think the transformer still doesn't get the credit due for enabling this LLM-as-AI revolution. We've had the compute and data for a while, but this breakthough - shared via a public paper - was what has enabled it and made it essentially a level playing field for anyone with the few $B etc the approach requires.

I've never seen any claim by any of the transformer paper ("attention is all you need") authors that they understood/anticipated the true power of this model they created (esp. when applied at scale), which as the title suggests was basically regarded an incremental advance over other seq2seq approaches of the time. It seems like one of history's great accidental discoveries. I believe there is something very specific about the key-value matching "attention" mechanism of the transformer (perhaps roughly equivalent to some similar process used in our cortex?) that gives it it's power.
my takeaways:

1. https://arewertosyet.com/ to track rust RTOSes and their status

2. there are tools to convert c to rust (I dont know if I'd trust this..)

3. "Out of 43 different MCU families, peripheral crates are currently available for only 16 (37%). Most of these crates are generated using svd2rust utility"

4. developers considered but rejected rust because: "Lack of Support for MCUs (36%) ; Difficulty Integrating with Existing codebase (32%) ; Organization constraints and certification requirements (30%)"

5. "The second major (26%) issue is debugging, which is expected because, as explained in Section 2, embedded systems follow an asynchronous and event-driven design. This results in frequent cross-language domain interactions and makes debugging hard."

I would adopt rust if it were easy to get up and running just while(1) loop applications.
These are great ideas for me to add!
- know the direction of the cloud coverage throughout the night to be able to compare it with where the object you’re shooting will be
- I also like to know the brightness (magnitude) of each object to help with planning
- The last thing would be to get a list of recommendations rather than using lists of favorites. “What deep sky object do I not know about that today would be perfect for shooting?”
10gb Ethernet is known to be power hungry. The latest wifi standards can achieve faster than 1gb speeds (at least on paper, I suspect none in the real world can do that). If you have outbuildings you want to network (or perhaps even just a outdoor access point) then fiber is much safer from lightening and so would be worth it. If you have two NAS systems you will probably want the speed of fiber between them to make for faster backups. Only the outdoor application seems compelling of the above though, and most homes don't have that.

That said, this article looks more like an office or apartment building than a home. In both of those applications fiber is much better than CAT cables for the longer lines.
I don't think they meant extreme as in repetitive use.

I think they meant when you've drank enough to be drunk.

e.g it's not very effective as a truth serum if you've only had a little.
Has anyone tried a controller for cooling that is dependent on processor current consumption? Temperature measurements lag, but the current used by the processor is instantaneous and directly converted to heat (P = VI). In theory, it should be possible to reduce temperature spikes.
Hah yea that's fair.

Though at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. The brass I mean. Finding brass or not finding brass doesn't exactly help catch or prosecute someone shooting a gun illegally. The whole point was to more quickly catch crimes in progress, and it doesn't seem like that's working.
Apologies for the bad experience.

I appreciate the feedback especially the detailed description of your interaction with the site. This is helpful for me so I can create a better experience for new users.
No, the exact reverse: Hide away the brain-damaging GIT database system behind a proxy, so that I can (again!) concentrate on my job as developer.
Instead I have to spend at least one day every week as "version managment administrator" just to keep GIT from falling apart because of weird internal errors.
I will never understand why a plain user must deal with internal data structures (like db-indieces) of some tool on a day to day basis.
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
You don't really need PID, just a decent fan curve with https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases
I’m not sure why you think we’re not hiring. Can you explain why you think that?

We are, in fact, looking for people and like many tech companies we have been for a long time. We’re a growing company, and we’ve found that most applicants who find us on HN are substantially more likely to be a good fit than the applicants we get from other places. So we’re a pretty big fan of this thread, to the point that much a of the time we only advertise our positions on HN’s “who’s hiring” threads, and not on other job boards and the likes.

Note that we’re not the kind of company that “fills a vacancy”. Instead, we look for a particular kind of proactive, self-propelled generalist engineer that fits our company culture well. The only reason we have words like “full stack”, “elixir” etc in the job ad at all is that people tend to cmd-f for those sorts of things. We actually only have one open position, “good programmer”.

Once we find an engineer like that, we’re likely to keep recruiting for similar people, which is why we post a similar job ad here quite often.

If I may ask, can you explain what triggered you in this case? We’re definitely not the only company that posts on many HN Hiring threads, right? Thanks!
Can confirm this feels better than GPT-4 in terms of speaking my native language (Lithuanian). And GPT-4 was upper intermediate level already.
How many uses do you get per day of Opus with the pro subscription?
Can you recommend any resources to learn more about this link?
Someone will attempt a Mozart-themed binary sort. It will cause them to either have profound insight into Mozart, or profound insight into programming. Possibly both. Paving the way for the next SoundCloud. You never know. Not everything seems as useless on the surface.
Commission fines Apple over €1.8B over abusive App store rules
I worked on a project that used SourceSafe for several years. Never recall any corruption.

What was really different from today though is that most developers did NOT run the application locally or in an individual environment. They all worked together in a common dev environment. It was either too difficult or impossible to run copies of the application locally. So that is why file locking was used. You had an entire team of developers simultaneously working on the same set of files.
That extremely depends on details of your contract, understanding with clients, level of honesty, risk appetite, and legal advice.

There are any amount of large companies where being employed by multiple entities is either frowned upon to expressly verboten. Of course, there are also any number of companies that do no care as long as you deliver, and many that actively encourage / expect nerds to nerd out in our spare time :)
How organizing a competition and involving the public improves the development of medical AI algorithms.
Not an all-purpose solution, but I've never had a problem with this sort of thing because I:

* Tend to frequent a few nice places repeatedly, so the staff gets to know me.

* Treat the staff nicely. Not very difficult, but...you should see some people. :0

* Tip well.

If I call and need a large reservation, or some other sort of accommodation (often, as one in my party is occasionally wheelchair bound) it's no problem. If you're good to folks, they'll remember and be good to you.
> you have one single customer

Who has no credit limit and is willing to spend like their life depends on it. That's what makes war profiteering so profitable.
and they're licensing it for LLM training purposes. It'll only make the LLM output even less trustworthy.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/02/reddit-has-already-booked...
> global warming, which baked the region in a years-long megadrought and has now flooded it with rain.

I really don’t like the decision by some climate activists to attribute every weather or climate related event to global warming. This really plays into the idea that climate change itself is just fear mongering. There is scant evidence that local climatic changes are due to the global warming. The climate changes without human effects and removing anthropogenic greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere is not going to permanently stabilize the climate the way it is now everywhere. If you want to do that you need to support some kind of climate engineering, and these same people will oppose that on emotional and not practical grounds.
Acre-foot is not an obsolete unit - it is frequently used in American when measuring large amounts of water for agriculture and reservoirs. It's about 325,000 gallons.
Let me have enough first and I’ll find out for myself, thanks.

Also, this kind of pablum is obvious class warfare psyop. “You don’t have money, but you’re so happy!” say the billionaires with their own private space launch facilities while the middle class collapses.

No. Disgusting. Don’t carry their water for them.
This isn't party conversation. It's about observing, with both parties agreeing about the context
https://archive.is/OVpXh
Right, lots of things can map onto models of computation described in typical theory of computation textbook, and that gives you your one to one comparison to transistors. You can also find equivalences between board games, lego, conways game of life etc. etc.

But what I'm saying is, there is a layer (or layers) of organic function that is abstracted away in machine learning/AI. While the field does borrow ideas liberally from brain architecture (as it well should), you nevertheless have neurons doing things like chemical signalling, metabolic regulation, unique site-specific structural organization, and processes for dynamic reorganization of structure as needed.

That is, not just in the informational representation, which can be sufficiently abstract to model practically anything, but in the hardware itself upon which the information rests. It's there that I suspect there are efficiencies gained by brains over transistors.
As the maintainer for Windows in-box bsdtar/libarchive, I'd love to learn more!

How are the tarballs you get out of it invalid? Do you have a sample file I could take a look at?

FWIW, since it is bsdtar it supports a few additional options[1] to control the format. You can pass --format=gnutar, --format=zip, --format=ustar, --format=7zip, ... for a bit more flexibility and to create archives in other formats.

[1]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdtar&sektion=1&f...
(bureaux is the plural form)

I can barely comprehend a build-test-compile cycle that involved standing in line to use a machine. Sending them through the postal service is mind boggling. I don’t think anywhere near this many neurodivergent people could have worked in IT back then. It would have been too much.
This is not mutually exclusive with what I have said. The risk is greater in the first infection. It does not mean risk goes away with subsequent infections.
That's level 1, making it about yourself :)
Blue Origin is getting serious about developing a human spacecraft
Yes but Spotify gets only 70% of that cut while apple gets 100%. Without the apple tax Spotify might be able to either go down in price or increase quality/breadth/payouts to creators/other offerings/... The market is distorted and you pay more and get less if one monopoly takes all others for a ride.
Looks nice!

Where does the weather forecast data come from? I've used Clear Sky Charts (https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/) in the past.

Edit: scratch this question, it was addressed below:
Also, is there a way to manually enter lat/lon/elevation? I poked around but it seems to want device location.
Yes, exactly right. My examples were pretty bad at conveying that but it's crucial
That's fair re: use of neoliberal. Surrealism's aim was to develop liberatory modes of thinking/being, in contrast to dogmas of rationality, capitalism, commodity culture, etc. SI = Situationist International
I mean the tone of their initial press release anouncing "compliance" was borderline unprofessional (in global company PR speak terms) and sounded at time like a pertulent teenager fuming about that "unfair" teacher.

I'm sure it was all calucated and discussed a million times but if their goal was to appeal to emotions, I think it mostly failed (outside a very small nieche of Apple groupies). Their leverage in the EU is weak (thanks to few jobs and tax avoidance (even if that's legal))

Once they notice they will revert to lawywers and silent compliance.
I don't know, this article is explicitly about the problem of trying to link to something you find valuable but its supposedly durable url has been taken offline.

The DOI is supposed to ensure a copy can be found, if it fails to do that in 30% of the cases it's not a very useful, regardless of if a copy exists somewhere online.
This is a much better breakdown than my poor examples.
I've been using perforce continuously since 2000. It is rare to lock files. The only case I'm aware of are things that are binary blobs to perforce, eg, if you open a windows .doc file to edit it. But 99.9% of the time I'm operating on text files of one kind or another and perforce doesn't lock it; it is the usual merge and then sync/resolve if anyone has changed the file since you opened it.
Umm, how to break it to you...
Show HN: Box CLI Maker
That link (https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain) just times out for me, might be yet another American site that just geoblocks all European IP addresses. Here's an archive copy for those who need it: https://archive.is/oZodo
High. The only benchmark I look at is LMSys Chatbot Arena. Lets see how it perform on that

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Mercifully, Apple gave certified developers half off for those printers. I remember getting a bank loan for the $3500 printer. It cost more than my car. :0
I think to truly compete on the user side of things, Anthropic needs to develop mobile apps to use their models. I use the ChatGPT app on iOS (which is buggy as hell, by the way) for at least half the interactions I do. I won't sign up for any premium AI service that I can't use on the go or when my computer dies.
One might ask the same question about the entire internet.
Apple's stance is that your iPhone is not your, but still Apple's, and you're only renting it under strict conditions.
How's a GPT not rules-following?
In the 90’s some French coders were claiming that American coders were being made complacent by the instant gratification of workstation class computers and that our code quality was suffering.

It was definitely suffering, and I found that thesis interesting, but I don’t think I ever agreed with it. It was a mismanagement problem not a workflow one.