skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The full context in the article says that this only applies to the specific task of analysing a screenshot and answering a user prompt based on the information in the screenshot (and some other things). It is fair to say that a small model that can run on the iPhone won't have the world knowledge to compete against GPT4 but it can be better for something like this specific task.
This makes sense as an answer but seems like an incredible indictment of venture capitalism, right? If they can't bring about a better, safer, healthier, science fiction future because it's less profitable than crypto, who can? If that essay had been a mea culpa, I'd like it a lot more
I completed the ML specialization for Georgia Tech's online CS MS program (https://omscs.gatech.edu/) a few year ago and found it tremendously valuable. I can't say that it changed the trajectory of my career, but I learned a lot, met some great people, and (in hindsight) had a ton of fun.

Keep in mind that most machine learning fundamentals haven't changed for decades. While new architectures/trends are always emerging, the lessons that you will take away from an academic program like OMSCS will be relevant for the rest of your career.
Each funding round and new hire brings dilution.

The company issues new shares for the investors and new hires.

So, you might start with 100,000 shares and 10% of the company, but by IPO, there could be 100,000,000 shares, giving you 0.1% of the company.

(These numbers are completely made up, though if the company ipo’s for $1B, that’s $10/share which is a plausible price per share. Companies often grant additional shares to early employees.)
Because PhDs aren’t fast to acquire. It could take 5-10y to complete. And you usually can’t do a PhD part-time and continue to work.
I built www.letselectrify.org as a side project to make it easier for people in multifamily buildings (condos, apartments, and HOAs) to get their own dedicated EV chargers.

In multifamily buildings, such as my 85-unit condo, there isn’t any at-home charging. At best, there is one shared charger for the community to use.

This sucks for several reasons: 1. You have to remember to move your car when it’s done charging, 2. The HOA is stuck paying the bill for all the electricity, and 3. As more and more people get electric cars, shared chargers don’t scale.

The most common Homeowner Association (HOA) objections to adding more charging: 1. It costs too much, and 2. Nobody wants this.

HOAs are generally risk-averse and don’t want to spend money on discretionary things like EV charging. This means that the only way for residents to conveniently own an electric car is to pay out of pocket (sometimes up to $20k) to install a single charger, which usually also requires the HOA to approve on a case-by-case basis.

Instead of all these one-off installs, letselectrify.org combines everyone that wants a charger into one campaign and lets them split the cost of installation, which ends up being much cheaper.
I think you've misunderstood my suggestion. I said the job has two responsibilities. No more. You added a bunch of other responsibilities, I'm saying those wouldn't be allowed. It would be in the employment agreement that is purely payment for doing the maintainership tasks they were already doing. It would be a culture expectation that the company not apply pressure on maintainers.

> but if they just employ 'open source maintainers' scattering their attention over all kinds of random projects they have no prior experience with

They would pay the people who are doing the work now. Under this hypothetical, one of the Big Companies would have hired Lasse as the xz maintainer, for example. His job responsibilities are to maintain xz as he had been doing, and identify a successor when he's ready to move on. Nothing else.

> So it's a sinecure position, doing nothing is the safest thing?

No. Not doing the maintenance tasks would make everyone mad, violating one of the two job responsibilities.

> How could Lasse Collin have named a more suitable replacement than someone who seemed technically capable, interested in the project, and motivated to work on [it]

Lasse would suggest Tan as a suitable replacement. Big Company's hiring pipeline would approach Tan and start the hiring process (in person interviews, tax docs, etc etc). At some point they would realize Tan isn't a real person and not hire him. Or, the adversary would have to put up "a body" behind the profile to keep up the act, which is a much higher bar to clear than what actually happened.
in first-year 'Contracts,' 1L's study that the 'fair market value' of any good or service is defined by Black's Law Dictionary, amongst elsewhere, as "[t]he price that a seller is willing to accept and a buyer is willing to pay on the open market and in an arm's-length transaction [ . . . ]"

this definition captures the actual sale price of almost any transaction imaginable quite comprehensively—which is what most people are really asking when curious about the 'value' of a good, like a precious gemstone, or a service.

NB: 'value' is defined by the same as "1. The significance, desirability, or utility of something" or "2. The monetary worth or price of something; the amount of goods, services, or money that something commands in exchange." 'markup' as "[a]n amount added to an item's cost to determine its selling price."
This is awesome, I'm happy that Cloudflare is adding more attention into running Python via WebAssembly at the Edge.

I'll try to summarize on how they got it running and what are the drawbacks that they have from their current approach (note: I have deep context on running Python with WebAssembly at the Edge as part of my work in Wasmer).

Cloudflare Workers are enabling Python at the Edge by using Pyodide [1] (Python compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten).
They bundled Pyodide into Workerd [2], and then use V8 snapshots [3] to try to accelerate startup times.

On their best case, cold starts of Python in Cloudflare Workers are about 1 second.

While this release is great as it allows them to measure the interest of running Python at the Edge, it has some drawbacks. So, what are those?

* Being tied to use only one version of Python/Pyodide (the one that Workerd embeds)
* Package resolution is quite hacky and tied to workerd. Only precompiled "native packages" will be allowed to be used at runtime (eg. using a specific version of numpy will turn to be challenging)
* Architecturally tied to the JS/v8 world, which may show some challenges as they aim to reduce cold start times (in my opinion, it will be quite hard for them to achieve <100ms startup time with their current architecture).

In any case, I welcome this initiative with my open hands and look forward all the cool apps that people will now build with this!

[1] https://pyodide.org/

[2] https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/blob/main/docs/pyodide...

[3] https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/pull/1875

Edit: updated wording from "proof of concept" to "release" to reflect the clarification from the Cloudflare team
Production constraints could be a regional problem. Model 3 highland only recently started showing up in inventory in the US and for now, it's only the standard range models and there are no inventory discounts. No long-range models are showing up in inventory (for me at least?). Plenty of Y are in inventory. I'd have bought one in Q1 but I don't qualify for the tax credit, so I went used.
> Seems like just less processed is the best.

See how you made assumptions (not downing ribs) and watered down the analogy (oh it’s just not-SAD) in order to reach a different conclusion.

The “seems like” is a totally unrelated conclusion to the N=1 that GP was talking about.
Maybe we're going backwards. Time to build a new social bookmarking site for the inevitable acquisition.
This variation on the Vader meme still makes me laugh

https://vaderfortune.ytmnd.com
Lots of talk about how Musk's controversies are hurting the company (agree!) but I think a bigger problem may be his tendency to hyper-focus on things. Many tesla models have not received significant updates or styling changes in years. Tesla is no longer brand new, the oldest production Model S'es are ~12 years old. Many of their changes have been along the line of company-wide changes or upgrades (which are also good) but people like having their new car look new, not like one from a decade ago. It feels like Musks companies suffer from hyperfocus, probably because effort is directed by the his attention, but car companies can't work like that.
All I want in my Apple product is to be able to choose my provider for AI services.
My experience with non-technical cofounders is: "We already have a CTO. However he/she is too busy/important/senior/all-of-these to build an MVP. What we need is someone to take our CTO's design and code it up, then become employee #1 for, all for 0.5% of the company."
That's a great first step, but ready your pitchforks for this next take, because the next step is to completely eliminate Turing-complete languages and arbitrary I/O access from standard build systems. 99.9% of all projects have the capability to be built with trivial declarative rulesets.
Yeah, a "small enough to kick out of your way" autonomous driving project is a one or two semester student project (if you're starting from nothing, Sebastian Thrun's old Udacity course was a good way to bootstrap through the algorithmic parts, then maybe watch James Bruton for "everything you could possibly imagine doing with wheels, motors, and an infinite supply of 3d printer filament")
Your background is above average, I would think you have the right contacts to do well
This isn't a view, I would consider it more of a fringe theory without evidence. Nor am I optimistic.

Under this "concept", we are actually being held back and robbed. The exact reason this is undesirable won't be the clearest. Also, the exact mechanism would be a bit mysterious. If I could explain and prove it, it wouldn't be a fringe theory.

It's a way of reasoning that looks only at behaviors through a cynical lens. Purely, just looking at how business has responded compared to eg. self driving cars, data security, ect.

Does it not feel like there's some extra care here that doesn't really make sense compared to how industry handled similar issues?

The bigger counterpoint would be if the money and effort that IS there. (there is, it's a huge flaw in this theory)

Getting to the hypothetical reasons it could go this way:
1. With more people out of work there will be more discussion and organizing about why some people get so much stuff, while others are destitute. People will no longer be too tired from work and instead either a) [good] living lives of leisure OR b) [bad] out of work, desperate, and pissed off.

In any case, with so many people of leisure, it will actually become clearer that we're all the same. Who cares who your daddy is? Why do we need gorgeous empty properties, while we cannot provide basic housing to the population. Look at the extreme and disgusting wastefulness from the "elite" in society.

With everyone working and fighting for limited resources, you can hide this. While we all may go down to the office and sit at the desk for similar time, some are able to inflate their contributions... sometimes correctly, but who cares? Usually it's not the most dedicated, impactful workers, but the various princes and kings fighting over the loot. However, it looks like some people so much more valuable. When no ones doing anything, it looks different.

2. Without labor being a factor for eg. ~40-80% of people out of work, there won't be money flowing to pay the capitalists. This could result in economic collapse, hurting us all. However, perhaps we could see changes in the economic system that only hurt the wealthiest.

3. Human resources are actually and extremely common technical moat. If you've worked on technical projects you've probably realized that while one person can get a shocking amount done, the work can also easily become impractical for a single person or a small team.

Now it will be harder for corporations to lean on their intellectual property. When the tech doesn't do what people want, they'll just create one that does. Today this can prove absurdly impractical, but it might be much easier in the future. Currently, many companies rely on the fact that customers are likely locked in; they don't have options because it's a multi-billion dollar investment to make the product, so they're forced to accept what the company wants.
Off-topic: Your platform looks like a really interesting tool for rapid-prototyping. How do you see in growing with the needs of the app?

Also, what is the obsession with a single file? Before I get to 1,000 LOC, I'm going to be looking to split it up into logical pieces—one for the DB setup, one for the UI, etc.—just to maintain sanity.
If you want to do something privately, the first thing you do should not be to make calls to hundreds of strangers you've never met. That is, don't use a web browser.
Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Yes (have managed multiple cross-geo teams)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, React, Node.js, Go (Golang), Kubernetes, AWS

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O9GGufbsnj8bGsIYxUeCUG_uV5u...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davewmurphy/

GitHub: https://github.com/davemurphysf

Email: dave [dot] w [dot] murphy [at] gmail [dot] com

I've been an Engineering Manager for the last 4+ years leading full-stack teams at places such as Uber and AWS.
Because tech moves fast. For instance, about 10 years ago, cloud was big (and it still somewhat is). I assume a lot of students dug deep and got their masters and PhDs in it. Now, there’s a lot less jobs or a lot more competition compared to then.
Show HN: HyperDX Local – Open-source Datadog alternative for local debugging/dev
Hi HN, Mike and Warren here! We’ve been building an open source local-dev-friendly mode for HyperDX (hyperdx.io). It's a single Docker container that lets you view logs, metrics, and traces for local development in a similar way you can use them for production (live tail, filter/correlate logs & spans, build charts, flamegraph, etc.) Basically, imagine you can run Datadog in a single container for local development. We does this by spinning up an OpenTelemetry collector, Clickhouse DB and HyperDX UI all in a single container - it only takes a few seconds to start and lets you start live tailing your local logs and traces immediately (and graph metrics of course).

README (w/ demo gif): https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/blob/main/LOCAL.md

We started building local mode as it became one of our most loved [1] community issue after sharing HyperDX. It made sense - as we constantly use HyperDX to debug our own issues locally, and have found it to be a huge productivity boost for things like…

1. Tailing multiple container logs (and grepping/isolating them) without a ton of different terminal splits open at the same time.

2. Be able to sensibly view structured logs and correlated traces to debug local issues (because you’re using structured logging and tracing right?) instead of adding ad-hoc console statements that print out exactly what I could’ve gotten from tracing.

3. Testing telemetry are actually emitting/correlating as expected, before shipping it all the way out to prod and realizing I accidentally created a very expensive high-cardinality metric or a span that has the wrong properties.

We spent some time packaging & tuning our existing OSS stack to run in a single container with less memory/space requirements by staring at `dive` to slim down the image and applied incantations from documentation until memory usage improved. Additionally we removed a few non-local-friendly things like authentication requirements and extraneous services.

It still has all the goodness you’d want - so you can full text search your logs/traces, live tail all your events, view spans correlated with logs (and vice versa), create dashboards based on logs, metrics, traces, and is fully OpenTelemetry compatible - just point your Otel SDK/collector to http://localhost:4318 (or 4317 for the grpc folks) and you’re already good to go.

I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on and would love to hear your feedback and opinions!

Spin up the container yourself to try it out:

docker run -p 8000:8000 -p 4318:4318 -p 4317:4317 -p 8080:8080 -p 8002:8002 hyperdx/hyperdx-local

Main Open Source Repo: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

Hosted Demo (in case you want to play around in a cloud sandbox instead): https://api.hyperdx.io/login/demo

HyperDX Landing Page: https://hyperdx.io

[1]: https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/issues/7
Ah :)

Seems it was also submitted 1st of April: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=liw.fi

I guess someone else posted it again, and the spam-filter ignored the previous entry as it didn't get any traction then.
Where is the BOD? The amount of self-dealing and conflicts of interest that everyone allows is just absurd.
Hi,

Do you have email address to reach out to in regards to this position? Thanks
Multiple kids, you give them lightsabers.

If you need to create a rift in the family, a drum set.
> Evan Boehs observes that Jigar Kumar and Dennis Ens both had nameNNN@mailhost email addresses

This is the second time I've read this "observation", but this observation is just wrong? Jigar's email is "${name}${number}@${host}", yes, but Dennis's is just "${name}@${host}" — there's not a suffixed number. (There's a 3, but it's just a "leetcode" substitution for the E, i.e., it's semantically a letter.)

(They could still both be sockpuppets, of course. This doesn't prove or disprove anything. But … let's check our facts?)
Every aspect of modern life, from business transactions to personal interactions, hinges upon the seamless functioning of these intricate systems. However, when these networks falter, the repercussions reverberate far beyond mere technical glitches. The consequences can be profound, causing widespread disruption across industries, impairing essential services, and inflicting significant financial losses on businesses and individuals alike. In light of these challenges, this article embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the world’s most impactful network outages. By delving into the root causes, examining the cascading effects on businesses and individuals, and shedding light on the staggering financial tolls they leave behind, we aim to illuminate the critical importance of network reliability and resilience in an increasingly interconnected global landscape.
> very few people know how to manage ML projects and if you learned something about that it could be highly valuable.

Thanks for highlighting this!

As someone starting to wade into the ML project management space, would you be able to share any resources on the topic that you think would be helpful?
Mullvad Browser is Tor Browser without the Tor network, so it should dramatically decrease your fingerprint-ability yes.
Byteboard launches CodeCollab, collaborate IDE for technical interivews
We're working on Joyfill — A developer-friendly embeddable form builder that accommodates document-style complex form scenarios inside web and mobile apps.
And you'll be able to get any provider in this paradise as long as it's Siri
I have a model: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/is-source-available-really-t... .

Other people will have to decide whether it is a better model.
On the other hand, the technical founder might find you when he/she gets bored to do marketing or sales job.

Ideas are cheap, I can have 10 great ideas in an afternoon, and I can change some of them tomorrow, execution is what it all matters.
And they are constantly badgered to not gain that understanding.
Thanks for the reply.

Is there a better mechanism than financial incentives? I am afraid that is the best working mechanism we have.

Planned economies generally have not fared well in history, not only from economic value added perspective, but also from the fascist political systems they produce as a by product. They may get some narrow domains correct, but by and large they are net negative.
Impractical, but here are my kitchen use-cases:
- Hold a hot pan and drip bacon grease into a jar
- Hold "almost empty" bottles like olive oil upside down to drain them
- Making dishes that require constant stirring over a long period (tapioca, risotto, etc)
Oh, i get it. I misread it as:

> but you've got an entirely different problem that you could be out of the workforce in between 5-10 years
Location: Toronto area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, a bit of Python - open to whatever.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbelangercanada/

Email: matt.belanger@hey.com

Over a decade of leadership experience - looking for a startup or small/medium size eng team, and happy to lead a team, department or anything in between
> Another point relevant on the timeline is when downstream starts using binaries instead of source.

No downstream was using binaries instead of source. Debian and Fedora rebuild everything from source, they don't use the binaries supplied by the maintainer. The backdoor was inserted into the build system.
Or Shakeyourbed, Makeyourbed and Uptobedyougo, according to some children's classes...
Are these the same roles from last year? Maybe your practical interviews are not working if you can't find someone for a year.
Hi, creator here. Some of the issues I had with other sites were bad/old data, slow interface, and difficulty with search/filtering. I'm still working on improving the search/filtering process - I'm currently prototyping whether I can do this with a small parameter LLM or classifier.

I also don't like that many sites require logins to view openings. I made this one login-free, plus you can export any jobs you're interested in to CSV.
Forget the content of what Musk says, the fact that he's on Twitter so much seems like a bad sign if you're a Tesla shareholder. His attention is already split between 3-4 companies, if he's tweeting all day on top of that how much attention is Tesla and its problems/opportunities getting?
Location: Spain

Remote: Yes, please!

Willing to relocate: Not at the moment

Technologies: Project & Service Manager w/Cybersecurity experience, Jira, Trello, Notion. Operational models, change management. I've worn many hats and can comfortably navigate various roles and responsibilities.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nfuentes/

Email: contacta (at) nfuentes (dot) es
The article mentions - "You can now view and delete passkeys saved for your favorite apps/websites from Windows settings" - so I am not sure how is this a lock in approach?
As a data scientist, I would advise against moving from software engineering to ML. There is an enormous glut of junior DS/ML people. The boot camps and masters programs capitalized on the hype, and now there are way more than the market can absorb. Anecdotally, my recruiter spam has gone way down over the past couple years.

The only worthwhile related masters degree, IMO, would be in large AI from a top-tier university.
What? You're more than welcome to download an app, or use any company's website.
I recently noticed Apple stock is struggling quite a bit, and then I see things like this pop up more often recently, where the company (or "someone") talks about what's going to happen and what they're working on internally, rather than actual releases and demonstration of work "done". Would love to see a bit more "walk the walk" from Apple.
I'm not sure if anyone uses Base36 any more (or its more obscure sister, Base32), but it uses [0-9, A-Z] as its alphabet. It is URL safe and also smaller than base 10 in character count for each number, and is the smallest standard URL-safe encoding that works with alphanumeric QR codes.

I sort of assumed this was common knowledge, but I guess not.
Why is the English copy on the page so bad?
I have to imagine that ReBCO magnets being made in bulk will substantially change the economics of MRI machines. It's likely that new business models or market segments now become feasible.