skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree! But somehow they have 90% of the mindshare when the rest of California is more like Fresno... The depiction of California focuses on cities along the 101, not the 5/99.
Not if you always charge more than it costs to run.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Poland
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Scala, open to learning something new, e.g. about AI, ML, LLMs
Résumé/CV: https://djedr.github.io/resume.html
Portfolio: https://djedr.github.io/projects.html
Email: darius.j.chuck (gmail)

4+ years of professional experience, last 3+ years independently exploring original ideas, e.g.:

* https://jevko.org/ -- Jevko (jeff-ko /ˈd͡ʒef.kəʊ/) is a versatile minimal syntax for encoding tree-structured information as human- and machine-friendly text.

* https://xtao.org/last.html -- two extremely minimal programming languages I have created, which are both minimal versions of Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus, inspired by John Tromp’s Binary Lambda Calculus (BLC).

Also looking for research funding, e.g. https://jevko.org/activitypub.html
The assumption is that the group behind this attack had sock puppets that were rude to Lasse Collin, to wear him down, and then Jia Tan swept in as the savior.
Location: Poland
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Scala, open to learning something new, e.g. about AI, ML, LLMs
Résumé/CV: https://djedr.github.io/resume.html
Portfolio: https://djedr.github.io/projects.html
Email: darius.j.chuck (gmail)

4+ years of professional experience, last 3+ years independently exploring original ideas, e.g.:

* https://jevko.org/ -- Jevko (jeff-ko /ˈd͡ʒef.kəʊ/) is a versatile minimal syntax for encoding tree-structured information as human- and machine-friendly text.

* https://xtao.org/last.html -- two extremely minimal programming languages I have created, which are both minimal versions of Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus, inspired by John Tromp’s Binary Lambda Calculus (BLC).

Also looking for research funding, e.g. https://jevko.org/activitypub.html
Heh, but not exactly. If I blocked the sun, the receiver still would have been picking up the real beam. I would have had to block the sun _and_ make the shot with a pinball at the same instant... which is just playing the game normally with extra steps.
Afaict they are in fact waiting for CI to do the big rebuild on staging, in part because the Nixpkgs builds of 5.6.x never pulled down the malicious m4 scripts that inject the backdoor into the output binary (as they never used the release tarball directly from upstream but built from GitHub sources).

See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300055

and: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/300028

It's also worth noting that Guix is different here, as the grafts mechanism is well-established, so they can get a security patch in for xz without waiting for the mass rebuild, even if it's also in their stdenv or equivalent.
So how do you think these folks got ultra rich in the first place? You need to move the chess pieces in your favor. They didn’t just get that way through pure meritocracy. Your analogy doesn’t hold.
Let's look at the economics.

In the US or Western Europe, a human worker would cost you about $12-$15 per hour (depending on the actual city and whether they're paying their taxes).

You're looking at roughly 4 hours of work per 100 square meters (the average housing size[1]) per week to get the listed activities done, plus some general cleaning.

So let's call it $60 per week or $3,000 per year. If we estimate the average useful lifetime of such a robot at 5 years, they'd need to cost less than $15k (unadjusted for inflation) to make sense.

This does not take into account that the house owner also would be paying for a small portion of the societal cost of this additional unemployed houseworker. If we assume that there are roughly 1 maid per 500 citizens[2] and that each unemployed worker costs roughly $20,000 to the State per year[3] then our back-of-the-napkin math says the robot worker is generating a socialized cost of $400 per year per household member (2.17 members on average).

So... we need a ~$14,132 fully-automatic, solar-charging bot before your dream can break even.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8073340/
[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1087472/number-maids-hou...
[3]: https://blogs.alternatives-economiques.fr/gadrey/2016/06/19/...
expensive and totally weird pricing structures make it hard to predict costs
I do hope they make something great. I'm not hoping for their demise. More competition will push other browsers to be better and challenge their market share.

I just am weary of the sustainability of these business models long term and how they'll live up to such lofty goals and expectations. Too often we've seen great things become less great overtime as other revenue extraction means are introduced to the overall detriment of what make that thing so great.
He's supporting a dictator that launched a full scale war in Europe. Hard no for me.
Post this to HN…
At some point you'll want to switch from sales-led development to establishing product though, otherwise your product will simply be a hodge-podge of feature requests meant to satisfy individual clients with no real cohesion, especially if you want to go self-serve.

Unless your startup is intended to be more of a boutique consultancy and not some kind of SaaS.
Of course it is possible. What would stop it? An alien is not going to fly down from space to put a stop to it. Nothing can stop it other than people, and those people are the democracy. They are not going to stop themselves.

But, it would require putting in the work to make happen. Which they don't want to do. People, and therefore democracies, don't like to put in work unless they absolutely have to. And in this case, why would they have to? There is really no good reason to put in the work. The people that could be recalled are there because the democracy wants them to be. Recalling them for no reason would be kind of silly.
That's probably what I'll use. I thought they only had their own podcasts.
Location: Latvia, Riga.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No, but open for business trips.

Technologies: Mostly Flutter and Native Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) during the past ~5 years. Regularly doing backend work as well (Go, JavaScript, Java). Software engineer - generalist with over 12 years of experience.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tair-rzayev

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Natural Language Ontology
I doubt it. Most places hiring want hands on experience with tech stacks; PyTorch, opencv, training, fine tuning models… concrete skills

Make reference implementations from a couple recent papers, publish them on GitHub. Fine tune a demo model to show off during an interview.

Thats shows you lean into the work, not memorization of academias circumlocution
Google News, but with more content and some social integration baked in. A bit more personalized than Google News, but the quality was hit or miss (and a lot of news that was days or weeks out of date) and a lot of redundant/duplicative articles that was hard to reduce. Their algorithm favored political news over science based, no matter how hard I tried to push it in a less politicized focus.
> [2013] Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) recently announced its acquisition of Summly, a news app for which Yahoo paid $30 million according to AllThingsD.[0]

> Summly was created by 17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio and launched for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone. The app works as a news condenser i.e. it narrows down a full-length article or news to 350-400 words thus making it easier for readers to grasp the gist of the news.[0]

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquires-summly-app-150...

we are stuck in a loop. is this peak AI signal?
> Will a masters in ML give me an advantage when applying

A master's will almost certainly do one or more of 1) Getting you past the resume screener and the posting's absurdly high education requirements 2) Showing that you are not dumb 3) Showing that you are willing to put in work 4) Communicating that you might actually know how to do stuff 5) Letting the hiring manager brag about hiring someone with a master's in ML instead of a bachelor's.
Why not: keep most weight off the arm by using a fan/compressor installed in the base and routing a conduit to the arm? Then it will only have to move the conduit, not the heavy motor.
Apple are becoming a joke? I must have missed that memo. That was certainly a possibility when Jobs died but you have to hand it to Tim Cook, Apple has drifted far less from its Jobs-era culture and style than many people predicted. It's been nearly a decade and a half since Cook took over, but Apple are still doing tremendously well. The Apple Vision Pro might not be the right category of product to go mass market, but none of the reviews suggest it is anything less than Jobsian in its attention to detail and overall approach.

Compare that to the level of change between Ballmer-Nadella or Schmidt-Pichai. Apple has displayed remarkable constancy.
"Lot of smart people who see where this is going"...uh huh.

The smart people left years ago and started working at Lucid and elsewhere. All the people who had talent got sick of Musk's shit, saw the company stagnating, and left for functional, non-toxic workplaces.

Tesla has spent the last ~5 years resting on its laurels, aside from (eventually) producing a pavement-queen meme vehicle that breaks down on even the simplest off-roading tests and gets stuck on beaches. Oh, and slightly tweaking the Model 3's looks, I guess that's...something.

Your cars have completely stagnant styling, terrible reliability (matched with even worse parts availability!), the worst interiors in their class, the worst build quality, and they're no longer kings in anything - not efficiency, range, performance, or charging speed.

Your company was at the forefront of removing physical switches and moving to screen-based and capacitive-touch controls, both reviled by the public and coming under increasing scrutiny by regulators.

Your cars have the highest crash rate of any automaker.

Tesla's "autopilot" has been surpassed by several manufacturers whose systems don't randomly slam on the brakes (or, for that matter, into the backs of police cruisers.)

Here's a 2008 blog post about V2G: https://www.tesla.com/blog/smarter-charging ...and sixteen years later your cars still can't do it. Hyundais and Kias can...

Your cars are still stuck on 400V (sorry, "480") architecture while years ago other companies went to 800v. VW/Audi/Porsche, Hyundai/Kia, GM, and Lucid are all on 800v. And while "V4" stations have been deployed, they're all still 400v 'under the hood'. 800v CCS has been slow to roll out, but it's actually been

If you're all so smart, why are your cars on fire sale and still selling like dogshit?
My takeaways:

First from the article itself:

>"At this point Lasse seems to have started working even more closely with Jia Tan. Evan Boehs observes that Jigar Kumar and Dennis Ens both had nameNNN@mailhost email addresses that never appeared elsewhere on the internet, nor again in xz-devel."

That is an important observation!

Takeaway: Most non-agenda driven actual people on the Internet, leave a trail -- an actual trail of social media and other posts (and connected friends) that could be independently verified by system/social media/website administrators via voice or video calls (as opposed to CAPTCHA or other computer-based "Is it a human?" tests, which can be gamed) for stronger confidences in the identity / trustworthiness of the remote individual at the other end of a given account...

Next takeaway from the linked article: (https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...):

>"AndresFreundTec
@AndresFreundTec@mastodon.social writes:

Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc. Profiled sshd,

showing lots of cpu time in liblzma, with perf unable to attribute it to a symbol.

Got suspicious. Recalled that I had seen an odd valgrind complaint in automated testing of postgres, a few weeks earlier, after package updates."

Takeaway: We could always use more observability of where exactly CPU time is spent in given programs...

Binaries without symbol tables (which is the majority of programs on computers today) make this task challenging, if not downright impossible, or at least very impractical -- too complex for the average user...

Future OS designers should consider including symbol tables for all binaries they ship -- as this could open up the capability for flame graphs / detailed CPU usage profiling (and the subsequent ability to set system policies/logging around these) -- for mere mortal average users...
Typo: __detitem__ should be __delitem__

Also, you described "s.rstrip" twice
As long as you do not distribute your code to users, you can abide by the GPL. That means you can write your MVP before having to give The Qt Company a dime.

The Qt Company also has small business pricing: https://www.qt.io/pricing/qt-for-small-business.
> It revolutionized the world.

Hmm...no it didn't.

I suppose using switched-mode PSU in the Apple II was revolutionary to me at the time, but someone else would have figured that out pretty quick. They were already in TVs.
I thought I'd seen this film before
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39905441
Are you running linux-libre?
Amending the way you amend the constitution, unsurprisingly would also require a constitutional amendment.

The legislature cannot, currently, legally override the constitution.
This kind of sounds like a use case where 2nd hand enterprise SSD's (Ebay, etc) might be appropriate.

Those things fairly commonly still have a shed load of endurance left, though it is a luck of the draw thing.
Microtransactions ruined the experience of the current crop of games. Also DRM and shenanigans like not allowing an offline mode.
> carnivores like me tend to disagree that it’s unhealthy

Why don’t you think it’s unhealthy? Would you argue the reverse - that saturated fats are healthy?
Makes you wonder ... how to break in if you have a master's in AI, but from 2007 (before the mild AI winter ~2006-2008) and have been doing systems engineering since.

So how do you get a job in AI without dropping to an intern's wage?
> Does having the right public (but unadvertised) URL count as being unlocked or as having the key to unlock a locked door?

It depends on what you call public. URLs sometimes contain keys, for example Nextcloud shares or CryptPad documents. Or Jitsi Meet rooms (and virtually all videoconferencing system for that matter).

> I guess this is why we have judges, though. To make judgments.

Absolutely. I also think that we should not really try to view this stuff in technical terms, but rather in terms of intent. Is the thing we are considering obviously not supposed to be public?

Now, regarding Aaron Swartz, I do think civil disobedience is an important thing, and that public research should be public. It sounds so tautological it almost feels stupid to say it.
This is an interesting problem. I'm not an audiologist, but am sure that any noise above 75dB is harmful to an _adult's_ hearing. If the case can be made that infants and toddlers hearing is more sensitive and should be accounted for, then by leaving the toys so loud we're choosing function over the potential well-being of the toddler's hearing.
The market doesn't knock $30bn off the value of your company at the open if your results were "unsurprising".
also https://piaggiofastforward.com/ "gita" (I'm not sure what the market is for fashionable luggage-robots, but they're definitely going after it...)
> they're becoming a joke again

Are they? I don’t see it. They’re more profitable than ever and are still extremely competitive in multiple markets.

The arguments against this have been the same for decades: Apple is overpriced, Apple’s product are inferior to competition, and yet here we are with large chunks of the market share and larger chunks of market gains.

Some products are stupid, but it’s not like Steve hasn’t pushed dead products out before.
"TikTok for text" is the best description of it, yes
One big take away for me is that we should stop tolerating inscrutable code in our systems. M4 has got to go! Inscrutable shell script have got to go!

Its time to stop accepting that the way we've done this in the past is the way we will continue doing it ad infinitum.
Cool article but should put the date 2019 since it's a bit old
Bad URL.

https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/world-premiere-living-...

Or for French speaking people:

https://www.cea.fr/Pages/actualites/sante-sciences-du-vivant...
Bosnia Herzegovina is so tiny and has all the trouble that comes with the Republica Serbska and all the historical baggage of the region. From a poorly practical POV it honestly doesn't seem worth the trouble at all, especially given how EU decision making works
> It sounds like there’s also a good chance that Yahoo’s apps might get a bit of Artifact’s speed and polish over time, too.

If their current app is slow and unpolished, I don't know why buying an unrelated app for its recommendation algorithm is going to help them.

I never really got the hype with Artifact to begin with. I tried it when it launched, and it seemed like... any other news reader? Recommendation algorithms are not a hot new capability of AI, we've had them forever. I'm not convinced Artifact has any special sauce that Yahoo couldn't have reproduced themselves. Is this acquisition just for PR?
Travel to Distant Worlds: Karl Gilzin
Some of the differences are:

Grafana started as visualization tool and has now decoupled multiple products for observability - LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). You need to configure and maintain multiple sub-products for a full-stack observability setup.

While grafana stack is great, OneUptime has all of these in one platform and makes it really simple to use.

We also are built natively on OpenTelmetry, use clickhouse for logs / metrics / traces storage - so queries are really fast.
https://iceskatinguphill.ytmnd.com
> but you've got an entirely different problem that you could be out of the workforce between 5-10 years

Do you mean because of automation?
We still have a need to romanticize standing up against the powerful when they misbehave--even when it's illegal to do so. Hacking real computers is still a means to that end.
> though it hyper-specialized a bit too much

That seems to be the state of the industry everywhere.

YouTube does this on a extreme level as well. Just the other day I watched 3 videos in a row about the WRC Kenya stage after never watching anything related to rally or cars on my YouTube/Google account, an account I've had for almost 2 decades by now.

But, after watching those 3 videos, Google now thinks I'm all about cars, and 80% of all my recommendations are now WRC, F1 or other car-related videos. My other interests that they knew since before, are almost completely gone.

How can they screw up something so basic? Does anyone actually like things to work like this? Am I missing something super obvious?
Dark Matter Induced Power in Quantum Devices
> Reasons you might want to pay for a developer [...] You get far less scrutiny

Why wouldn't you want a cofounder "keeping you honest" about the startup?
Upvoted. The OP is specifically asking about a masters in ML. Many of the other immediate replies don't seem to have taken this into account.
The unique architecture of our runtime is what enables most of our competitive advantages. It's what lets us run your application in hundreds of locations around the world while also charging less than competing serverless platforms. If we used a full Node runtime, we would need to charge a lot more money, or only run your app in a couple central locations, or both.

So, no, we can't just offer full Node.

However, we are always expanding our Node API compatibility: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/nodej...

(I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)
You seem not American.

To Americans, being born to a different nationality doesn't preclude you from being considered a full and true American. First generation immigrants and naturalized citizens tend to be completely accepted as equals by natural born citizens, so long as they are productive and not criminally destructive.

I do understand that this tends to not be the case in many other countries, where even second generation immigrants may not be fully accepted because ethnic identity is so deeply entwined in nationality in most countries.
If you feel like you have decent math chops, i would use that time and money on online training, hardware, develop a portfolio of projects that demonstrate your new skills, and make contributions to open source ML libs to pad your resume. But also, many of the new AI startups are just using ML as a service where expertise is not necessarily needed.
I don't think public mass transit will take over in the US in my lifetime, outside major cities. We're just too spread out, and a lot of us, especially people with kids, like it that way. Mass transit absolutely, positively does not work in the US if you have at least one child.
WTF is _this_
Oddly enough, this is why we started OneUptime in the first place. We were burned by the DataDog bill and wanted an open source observability platform ourselves.
Stability Releases Code Instruct 3B
How can a local attacker see your past incognito content?
I always make going through our docs a part of new-hire onboarding. They learn the product, and you learn what in your docs is so confusing that a person who you hired for their supposed ability to help you MAKE your product, can't even figure out ABOUT your product.

But also, I did work on a project once where a test would scrape code snippets from documentation and make sure they still worked as expected. It's bad enough to break compatibility in your CLI, etc. but sometimes you need to do it. It's really bad when you have tutorials, recipes, etc. and they bit rot.
Great work! How to test it out quickly on Windows?
There are trusted copies of historic releases from third-party sources (at least Linux distributions, but there's probably other sources as well), it's pretty easy to check whether the tags in the git repository match those. (This can be done as the tarballs are a superset of the files in the git repository, the other way around doesn't work).
Sorry but this article feels overwhelmingly too theological for my liking.
You dont have to host it if you dont want to, we have a SaaS service as well at https://oneuptime.com
It'd be naive to assume that nation state actors are not trying to penetrate the supply chain at all levels, as it just takes a single weak link in the chain. That weak link could be behind corporate doors or in the open.

The main issue is that this attack shows how a relatively unknown component, as part of a much larger and more critical infrastructure, is susceptible to pressure as a result of "this is a hobby project, lend a hand".

At what point do these components become seen as a utility and in some way adopted into a more mainline, secure, well-funded approach to maintenance? That maintenance can, and probably should, happen in the open, but with the requisite level of scrutiny and oversight worthy of a critical component.

We got very lucky, _this time_.
> So this whole 'we are the best in Africa and need to help out our neighbours' take is kind of ironic.

I don't know if they are the best in Africa, but they are near the top. Which is a sad take on how bad the world has looted and still is looting Africa. Who is looting has changed over the years of course, but there are still major players both external and internal looting the countries to their own benefit.