skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of percentage of veterans in different government positions. I'd imagine they are all fairly similar levels since it's most likely just a transition from military to government rather than specifically military to TSA. In any case, I certainly wouldn't call TSA "a welfare program for veterans" as the parent comment suggests.
I wonder what do you think about the usage of such training. I have had such trainings for diet control and distraction control but I felt unless one manages to gain a long term control the whole time is kinda worthless.

For example I can lose 10 pounds in 2 months with diet control and a bit of discipline. But it comes back quickly once the self control goes away. What is the point? Practicing such self control does not give me better self control next time but only brings down self confidence a bit every time.

I guess the ultimate reason is that I do not really enjoy the targets I set. How can I enjoy something I do not but inherently good for me?
Did you pay the bill or fight it? I would think that if no services were rendered, it would be fraud to charge someone.
Just point CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE at a folder or cpio archive
I recommend you read the following.

https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/mistake-vs-failure
I've been working on this for the last year or so: https://github.com/desultory/ugrd

It's mostly made to work with Gentoo (uses pax-utils for finding dependencies), but should work with any distro. It does most of the initramfs creation process rootless. The main consideration is that you need privileges to make device nodes, but I just create them synthetically within the cpio image.

On most systems, this tool still requires root to copy the mount binary.
High speed trains in Japan have no screening at all. I imagine a well-placed bomb going off could have a similar number of casualties.
That is complete BS.

You could start be removing all tracking code from your site and code sharing with 3rd parties.

Boom, compliant (in that part) and not even a need for a consent form in the first place.

The you may add a feature to track and share with 3rds, but opt in. The you need the consent but can get it in a privacy friendly way.

Oh, but you “cannot” do this because the ads won’t work and you’ll loose profit? What you dont seem to realise is that this decision is already made for you by EU: with GDPR the eu made the decision that privacy is more important than your profit. You just have to face facts and stop trying to figure a way around it. Yes that means rethinking business models, but I would wager that had people known fully how they were tracked and profiled, they would not have done business with you in the first place thus your ad/tracking based business model was only valid through deception.
> Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive’s conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned.

Rightfully so. Name me the big tech company who wouldn't fire such an employee instantly.
I'm not saying it would be uncontroversial but it'd be a hell of a lot better than doing the exact opposite of explicit instructions.
Something I really like about some pub/sub systems is Push subscriptions. For example in GCP pub/sub you can have a "subscriber" that is not pulling events off the queue but instead is an http endpoint where events are pushed to.

The nice thing about this is that you can use a runtime like cloud run or lambda and allow that runtime to scale based on http requests and also scale to zero.

Setting up autoscaling for workers can be a little bit more finicky, e.g. in kubernetes you might set up KEDA autoscaling based on some queue depth metrics but these might need to be exported from rabbit.

I suppose you could have a setup where your daemon worker is making http requests and in that sense "push" to the place where jobs are actually running but this adds another level of complexity.

Is there any plan to support a push model where you can push jobs into http and some daemons that are holding the http connections opened?
New York State Deploys National Guard to NYC Subways to Fight Crime (Bloomberg)
I still don't understand why one should be considered theft and the other creativity, unless you're just agreeing with me.
It seems unlikely that Google could do anything but fire a person who called his company out during an external PR event.
During a keynote speech, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.” The Google Cloud engineer was subsequently fired, CNBC has learned, marking another dark moment for Google

In grade school, it was universally known that if you use violence before attempting to run away, you're getting in trouble. I don't know why companies haven't made an equally clear universal rule that "if you say something publicly before running it by us, you're getting fired".
> Persistence is Orthogonal to the Data Model, ...

I have some experience with a custom data runtime where the persistence is orthogonal to the data model, with silhouettes reminiscent of the described solutions in many of the features of my system, including multiple orthogonal/model-agnostic persistence backends, automatic data synchronisation, persistable executions, automatable schema changes, automatic reactivity.

This direction can indeed bring about great savings in various parts of development; however, it seems to me that more subtlety than indicated in the post is required.

The programmer must be provided with ergonomic means to give denotations for things like when and where to persist, in order to reduce data movement, and to keep the system performant (this does not violate orthogonality; we may specify e.g. to persist at the logical location, say, in the cloud, without having to specify the physical persistence). For instance, considering the case of schema changes, unless the system bundles its language inside the database, for performance sake, to perform such changes in an "Orthogonal Persistence" system external to the database would take an completely disproportionate amount of time relative to using SQL in the database. The data runtime I work with uses the idea of lenses (where valid lenses would necessarily be reversible) to allow for coherent, undoable schema changes, but I still resort to SQL for regular (eager) migrations (the lenses system for schema changes can still be useful for migrations applied lazily).
Why is employee dissent such a problem in google and not a problem in other companies?
It's very similar - I used Temporal at a previous company to run a couple million workflows per month. The gRPC networking with workers is the most similar component, I especially liked that I only had to worry about an http2 connection with mTLS instead of a different broker protocol.

Temporal is a powerful system but we were getting to the point where it took a full-time engineer to build an observability layer around Temporal. Integrating workflows in an intuitive way with OpenTelemetry and logging was surprisingly non-arbitrary. We wanted to build more of a Vercel-like experience for managing workflows.

We have a section on the docs page for durable execution [1], also see the comment on HN [2]. Like I mention in that comment, we still have a long way to go before users can write a full workflow in code in the same style as a Temporal workflow, users either define the execution path ahead of time or invoke a child workflow from an existing workflow. This is also something that requires customization for each SDK - like Temporal's custom asyncio event loop in their Python SDK [3]. We don't want to roll this out until we can be sure about compatibility with the way most people write their functions.

[1] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/features/durable-execution

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643881

[3] https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-python
This Twitter account, and the DC scene reaction to it, is actually a condemnation of our current state of American national politics and government.

People are acting like this guy is some sort of savant. But we're talking about knowledge that a 20 year old UK college student picked up in his spare time by watching TV and reading a few books. It's not rocket science! Congressional procedure is not even remotely as complex as what you need to know to build an average office building, something that is being done all over the U.S. every day to a very high level of competence.

The commentary on this Twitter account (including this article) says way more about the people commenting on it. Specifically it reveals how few national politicians, consultants, staffers, reporters, etc. in DC want to do boring-seeming work like reading a procedural manual and some history. All of which is freely available to anyone.
Always bring a bomb with you on the plane - the chance there are two bombs on the plane is almost infinitely small!
What's the catch? (Given they tried to destroy PWAs in their last tantrum.)
Or as a compromise, you can buy strips of appropriately spaced/sized square-punched metal angle; before I moved I built a shelf unit designed so that the depth of the shelf was correct (19" between posts plus a bit for the sheet metal thickness) for a rack, I had access to the side so I had a combination shelf & rack. People do similarly with Ikea tables ('lack rack'). Nice thing about the shelves was that I could buy a short strip (it was maybe 12U) and if I'd outgrown it I could've just removed a shelf and added another strip.
Thanks to that one idiot, we have to take off our shoes as part of the screening process.
> Or, TikTok has been banned in India since 202

Exactly. I'm surprised that tiktok has been able to maintain its top spot for so long.

The biggest headscratcher is why india didn't ban facebook, instagram, youtube, etc along with tiktok. My hope was india would build up their own tech giants. Instead india just handed their social media environment to zuckerburg. What's the long term plan there? Give zuckerburg's properties ( facebook, instagram, whatsapp, etc ) monopoly over india? Are there any competent leaders in india? I simply don't get it.
It ends when Apple learns to balance the interests of their shareholders and the interests of their customers better. I would go as far as saying that the way Apple banned even any mention of alternative payment methods for in-app services was clearly abusive and faudulent.
I went for a covid and strep test during the tail end of the pandemic, and happened to pick the closest clinic, cuz you know, I felt like shit and didn't want to go far. This costed me $240, which seemed slightly fucking insane, so I called. Because the place was understaffed, I had to be seen by a doctor instead of a nurse, which for added fun was an out of network doctor. I didn't even KNOW he was a doctor at all, and never bothered to check the network status of the clinic because, again, it was a fucking covid and strep test. The strep test costed me about $20, the covid test was free, and the doctor who spent about 60 seconds reading me the results on the page was $220.

Fucking. Ridiculous.
This seems pretty reasonable as falling under the “unprofessional behavior” intelligent behavior.

In my org, if I disrupted someone’s presentation over any topic I’d be fired. Or maybe severely reprimanded.

This behavior surprises me because these are private orgs. So doing unprofessional things will result in firings or whatnot.

It seems odd to me that people think it’s appropriate to protest within a company. If you don’t want to “build technology that powers genocide” (kind of comical considering how huge and pervasive google is) then quit. Similarly if I don’t want to make bombs, I shouldn’t work for a bomb company.

Finally, it just seems stupid to think this would change corporate decision making. What kind of reasoning and logic ends up with “disrupt a meeting -> google changes business policy regarding Israel?”
It was better for the tourist.
Immigration is the natural effect of people moving to where the market price of labor “demands” they move. Doesn’t seem that artificial.
I've had good luck making environments in a qemu user chroot, then you can more or less just copy the whole filesystem to a SD card and boot it, considering the boot partition of course.
> I tried installing TikTok on a blank developer phone, and the content was vastly different from what I was used to. Absolutely appalling content, the worst that humanity has to offer

I've had similar experiences with new TikTok installs. One thing I've noticed is that I get lower quality content with new installs using mobile network shared IP addresses, while better content with residential IP addresses.
I just realized it’s the same in German - lukewarm is _lauwarm_, and there is no antonym for it.
Yeah, no, you're definitely either under 24 or over 80.
First time I have heard the term (and I have done quite a bit of llm benchmarking) but I love it! Similar to the xkcd "wtfs per minute" measure of code quality measure I guess.

Everyone I know who plays with LLMs says things like

- it didn't answer my special secret benchmark question better than previous models

- it surprised me by being able to give a satisfying answer for x that I wasn't expecting

- it always seems to give answers that are [Some negative quality]

Obviously these things are super subjective but still important and useful in a way that "answers 5th grade maths questions more accurately than previous models" sometimes isn't
because the company pitched itself as "socially responsible" and attracted a large number of people who believed they could work there and change the world to look like what they wanted it, and then google sort of changed directions for business purposes that aren't compatible.
TSA emerged in the aftermath of 9/11; TSA is USA specific. But why has every other country has adopted this useless security protocol. I don't understand that.
If opposition to AirBNB in Montreal is mainly coming from locals being upset about the excess of tourists rather than the deficiency of rental vacancies, then I stand corrected.
I mean I think the answer is that good doctors do form employee-owned co-ops, which are often very successful and establish a great deal of trust in their community, but then when the time comes for them to retire they very understandably cash out and sell to the private organizations that proceed to run them for profit first.

I've been playing with the idea for a while that any time a company uses its name, it has to disclose its ownership (first the company at the top of the chain, then the ownership structure of that company). So like for example the company name "Gerber" would have to always be coupled with "owned by Nestle, a publicly traded company.", and "Dave Franklin, a Dentist in your Community You can Trust" would have to be coupled with "Owned by Private Equity Incorporated, mostly owned by pension funds".

This would make it easier to keep track of if the same company is just screwing you over and over again with different faces, while still allowing some value to remain to brands that are consistently good for customers.
>“This behavior is not okay,
_regardless of the issue,_ and the employee was terminated for violating our policies.”

There are some issues that are worth speaking up about. There are some issues that are worth being fired over.
Don’t they though? People pretty consistently get fired over this.

I had to go through training that said what happens if I do something like this.
Do you mean technology changes, life for tech workers, or life for the average American (or non-American)?

In tech, the growth of remote work is big: I just changed jobs, and I live in South Bend IN. In 2019, finding work would have been really hard—I'd estimate fewer than 10% of dev roles were remote at the time (and roughly 0% in South Bend). Today, I feel like we're probably over 50% of all dev jobs fully remote. That's a huge change.

Tech-wise, LLMs are significant, but otherwise, yeah, not a lot.

For normal people...again, LLMs. Unemployment is down a fair bit, and real wages are up, especially for the bottom quartile, so those are both good news. It's a marginal change, of course, but a big deal for a lot of people. Dobbs is a big deal for many, many people.

But compare 2014->2019: what big changes were there? Everyone switching to React? Trump?

2009->2014 does stand out a bit for smartphones going from relatively rare to ubiquitous, and tech-wise we had big growth in cloud hosting.
>what exactly a home lab

Its murky because there is a bit of backstory. There used to be a homeserver subreddit. The people running commercial heavy rack servers got fed up with the peasants and created homelab sub. Then overall quality & vibe in homeserver sub dipped so everyone migrated over to homelab. So now you've got everything under the sun that is at home and switched on 24/7 being called a "homelab". Leading understandably to people being confused about the term

>What is the point of a home lab

People do it for different reasons - "own your own data", learning (IaC/docker/kubernetes/networking). It's also quite empowering for experimentation. Most of these setups are running hypervisors. So creating a VM is a 20 second affair. That sort of blank slate is useful to me for dev work. Local gitlab server, local CI runners, local kubernetes cluster, postgres server. It's all there, free, fast, accessible and ignoring initial layout effectively free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailm...

It could almost certainly be extremely deadly if it happens. Man, these were the two main ones I recall - Spain has had some bad luck.
It's a bit of an industry in-joke. The problem with LLM benchmarks is that they don't really help you get a "feel" for what it's like using them.

A model might score off the charts but not be particularly useful for your personal style of promoting.
Yikes I hate that Thierry is using "#freefortnite". You can be completely on board with the DMA but still see Epic's behavior as entirely profit motivated and "freeing Fortnite" should not be any official's priority. Epic is not some oppressed minority that needs saving.
Why does the first example need 10GB of RAM?
Great post as usual! Thank you! I was wondering about this though:

> I use these models a lot

I have very few uses of AI myself, that mostly center around writing scripts in languages I'm unfamiliar with so that I don't have to spend time looking up the specific syntax. But that would not count as "a lot".

Beyond curiosity and model testing, what do people really use AI for?
>This is no worse than anything else billing-related in healthcare.

I don't think I've ever seen a lower bar.
It's a tautology. Self-control is about controlling your self, which is made of thoughts and desires. Either you control them, or they control you.
I'm in the US; we're not into the whole Marxist class-struggle thing. Technically, over half of us are in the "owner class" simply by contributing to a 401(k).

One thing that people who log onto HN and advocate a class war never seem to understand is that they have far more to lose in such a "struggle" than they could ever gain. Our chains rest pretty lightly on our shoulders, all things considered.
Is you were Epic, would you trust Apple to honor this at all? Develop games, pour years of work into building your iOS platform out, and they might just nuke it all on a whim
Why would a big tech company be hosting an event with a state committing genocide? That (and working with said regime) is the problem, not people protesting.

It's not possible to be a consumer brand and support Israel. The world is too divided and it's not getting any less so.
"Do no evil" went out the backdoor a long time ago
Yeah that wouldn't be a good outcome. How would you feel if the doctor were messaging you through a platform that had extensive predictive text features, possibly trained on that particular doctor's past messages, and allowed her to send a message in 30 seconds that would have taken 10 minutes to type out? If you used that system for years and paid for it happily, would you be upset to learn that the doctor was spending so little time?
A machine can exist.
Dang, I saw the name and hoped it was a map-based app that showed you ownership of things around you (further intriguing me because I don't believe such data exists at a local scale anyway).

Great project though! Opening up these sort of semi-encumbered datasets is what keeps humans well informed

I'm from MI as well and always wondered about deeper datasets for watching money and influence change hands
Microsoft customers targeted as secrets, source code stolen
How much is "huge"? My HP Proliant idles around 175W, and even running Folding@Home it only peaks at around 300W. Considering that I used lots of incandescent light bulbs throughout my house, each about 60W, 175W doesn't really seem that bad to me.

Granted, this is one server. If you have a bunch of them running at high load all at once then of course that can get pretty pricey power-wise.
I should have done some research before writing opinions in American corporate law. You are correct, it is not a legal obligation but a combination of hedge fund activism and CEO compensation structures that conspire for the maximization of profit and maximization of short term stock price.

Thank you for pointing that out.
Automation is not in service of the owning class, it's in service of the consumer class - which includes both you and me.

The primary beneficiary of machine looms is the people who can now afford to own 20 shirts instead of just one.
The engineer refused to be directly complicit in Genocide and we punish him?

Irony is we applaud those whom resisted Nazism. Rightly.

I invite everyone to read Norman Finelstein whos father was a resistor to Nazism explain the similarities to concentration camps and Gaza.

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/norman-finkelstein-gaza-...
Whalewisdom and gurufocus have similar offerings. Not sure if they are 100% free.
I think it completely make sense. Google is private company and it was private event. No matter how important your message, you cannot go to any event stop people from doing business.
All power to that engineer. From an HR standpoint, Google might be right, in the same way that VW would have been right to fire an employee who disrupted meetings when they built cars for the Nazi regime.
I for one can attest to this. I saw great gains in power, and the power people perceived in me once I prioritized and stuck to a strict exercise regime.

Once I started doing 100 pushups, 100 situps, 100 air squats, and a 10-km run every day, I found greater strength and focus in my life. I felt I could easily take on just about any task with ease and immediately conquer it!

Eventually, I got into training which used higher-than-normal gravity to maximize resistance and further build strength.

After a while I measured my power, and it was well over 9000!
> Don’t blame Airbnb when you refuse to build enough housing, the markets going to figure out how to market.

Sure, but I can definitely blame Airbnb for enabling owners to skirt local regulations.
What do you make of the DDC trying to demolish the mosque in Delhi currently then?
There are many situations in the ordinary course of life where, if not strictly required, an attorney is at least strongly advised. Things like immigration, adoption, divorce, disputes with your landlord, probate, personal bankruptcy, seeking power of attorney for a family member with dementia, etc.

You're correct that I'm in the privileged position of being able to afford my lawyer. (And my doctor and health insurance provider.) I'd just point out that not everything that involves a lawyer is about making money.

But you raise a fair point, and I apologize if my somewhat flip comment came across as insensitive.