skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Modus is a continuous workforce management platform that makes headcount planning and reconciliation easy. The platform analyzes thousands of bits of data across the organization to help leaders optimize their workforce and increase forecast accuracy. With the help of AI, Modus synthesizes insights from HRIS, ATS, expense and finance systems so leaders can visualize and execute workforce plans, grow efficiently and compliantly, and unlock high performing teams in one unified workflow.

While we are just at the beginning, both founders have extensive experience in the industry. One of the co-founders was early Google engineer and built multiple companies in the past, writing significant amount of code at each company. The other cofounder has scaled from 100 to 2500+, through to IPO and beyond. Joining as our first engineer and designer means you have will have an outsized influence on the tech and design choices.

We are currently only looking for very senior colleagues to help us move much faster:

- Staff level frontend engineer - At least 5 years of staff level frontend development experience with Svelte, React, Next.js, Vue (strong preference for Svelte)
- Principal Product Designer - Preferably designer with strong rapid prototyping skills, 10+ years of experience with designing B2B software, especially complex dashboards with a lots of data (strong preference for either Fintech or HR tech experience)

All candidates must be physically located in the US. No exceptions. Bonus for being located in CA and even better, San Diego.

Interview process: phone call, interview with each founder separately, reference checks, and offer (can be done in less than a week).

If interested, please reach out to hire@himodus.com.
exactly. have you ever tried to watch youtube without adblock? I started reporting them when they temporarily were able to get around adblock because they were obvious scams, but thats 90% of the ads on there. google/facebook ads are barely above pornsite advertisements as of 2024.

the only people clicking on them are extremely low info olds
Because in India it's his friends that are censoring people, and in Brazil it's the opposite. (Also, in Brazil the accounts were blocked by Justice orders, not the government, and following the legal process stablished by law, not the whims of the President.)
Their advice wasn’t wrong. He never enjoyed any of the success or fame he has now. Not even a fraction of it.

The world was lucky to have Van Gogh, but Van Gogh was very unlucky to have this world.
So is Twitter, and every other social network. They just don't give you the tools to clearly delineate boundaries.
And the text of
posts/conversations in Facebook groups, and the reactions to them, public and private, a dataset that no one has access to.
I haven't finished reading the paper closely, but it is disturbing that this is the only real reference to accuracy and relevance I could find:

> Barriers to adoption include draft message voice and/or tone, content relevance (8 positive, 1 neutral, and 9 negative), and accuracy (4 positive and 5 negative).

That's it! Outside of that it looks like almost all the metrics are about how this makes life easier for doctors. Maybe there is more in the supplement, I have not read closely.

Look: I am not a policymaker or a physician. It's quite plausible that a few LLM hallucinations is an acceptable price to mitigate the serious threat of physician overwork and sleep deprivation. And GPT-4 is pretty good these days, so maybe the accuracy issues were minor and had little impact on patient care.

What's not acceptable is motivated reasoning about productivity leading people to treat the accuracy and reliability of software as an afterthought.
You might find this helpful: “Share your health and fitness data in XML format”, https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-your-health-dat...
no but the end product is very clear and the only buyer in town knows exactly what they want. sure there are inflated billing/poor efficiencies but at the end of the day, its national security we are talking about here, there's more tolerance there.
One other note on this, I wouldn't focus so much on the concept of "I am making more money than I've ever made in my life".

Focus more on the concept of "I am building a product that customers want to pay for."

You'll end up happier and more motivated the moment when sales happen to decrease. Which they will. It is normal.
> and good luck getting an appointment in Berlin

It's our failed state, so what do you expect?
Humans get great pleasure out of creating music themselves whether it be playing musical instruments or singing. That can't be replaced by AI
This is the entire text of the linked Bluesky post (which is part of several threads):

> Looks like it a few domains, including thehandbasket.co, were mistakenly classified as a phishing site, which has since been corrected as Andy mentioned. Unfortunately, at our scale, we get false positives on safety measures all the time. Apologies for the trouble.

False positive that was already corrected at the time is was posted on Bluesky and corrected long before it was posted here on HN.

This all happened and was fixed days ago, but people are still trying to post headlines that imply something more nefarious is still happening.

There is no story here, just journalists trying to stir up controversy and imply malice. Unfortunately this is a valid tactic for driving attention to small substacks and similar outlets who wouldn’t otherwise be noteworthy. Getting “banned” by Facebook is the most effective thing they could ask for to gain more exposure, as evidenced by the way this has shot to number 1 on Hacker News despite having been corrected days ago.
UK had some of the most restrictive housing policy in the world. It’s not really multi-faceted, is it. It’s just a supply shortage. People want to live there but the UK doesn’t build enough homes.
Canadian government "investments" like this end up just sucking all the oxygen out of the ecosystem and incentivizing everyone to work to get government money instead of actually working on something industrially relevant. This will be a net loss for the country and a gain for a few well connected groups.
Bringing in IT is a form of optimization. Optimization needs to speed up hot spots. If you make something 1000X faster, but it only took 1% of the overall time in the system, then the gain is around 1%.

When you bring in IT, there are inefficiencies. Things that were done without IT have to be done with IT, so there are steps to prepare the input for the machines, and manage the information, and keep backups and all the rest. Some of those activities are new, not replacing another process. Or not replacing it with something less time consuming.

A clerk armed with a room full of filing cabinets won't necessarily be able to handle that many more requests in a day, if that is replaced by a terminal and database. Suppose that during the average request, he has to spend 7 minutes talking with someone on the phone, of which one minute is spent with the filing cabinets. If we replace that minute with 30 seconds of working with the terminal and database, maybe that will go to 6.5 minutes. Or not. If the cabinet or database shuffling is done in parallel with chatting on the phone, it may make hardly any difference at all to the duration of the service episode.

You will not get anywhere near the theoretical gains from technology, with its blinding speed, until all the human steps are replaced. If there is a "for each request x do ..." loop in the operation, and each iterations has steps done by a human, you will not speed it up until you get rid of those steps. But at that point, the efficiency gain will no longer be attributed to a working human as productivity increase.

For instance, there is no question that the web has greatly increased the productivity of corporations in many customer service areas. The farm of servers works unattended, serving up all sorts of information to the users. Thousands of concurrent users. It does something that was impossible prior to the advent of the internet. Because no humans are actually sitting there serving the web requests, there is no human productivity measure.
They do. And Trump will build the wall for them. The desire to exclude the other is deep and heartfelt and it is insufficient to many to not sell their homes; they must make sure others can’t sell theirs either.

That insular parochialism is often necessary to retain one’s wealth: faced with overwhelming economy force, rent-seeking requires overwhelming political force.

So it goes in coastal California and so it goes everywhere around the world. The Average American strides the rest of the world like a colossus while petty men walk in his wake and peep about. Faced with that, what choice do you have but to constrain your neighbour? If he slackens and sells, enriching himself in the process, the Average American arrives: powerful and destructive. Force Majeure.
Congratulations: All your products are now made with chemicals designed and manufactured in China.
Who says it will be 10 new jobs? Why not a thousand? Or a million?

Did the world end when weavers lost their jobs because of automated looms or elevator operators lost their job because of buttons? Just like all the times before, we will figure it out. The only thing that will make the outcome worse is forced government action based on a few loud voices and populist demands.
Cool! My bad assuming without checking.
The solution is easy: Create a small company to own the property. That company can be sold much more easily than the property itself. It also avoids the tax on propery purchase.
> I learnt that they're required in quantum mechanics to explain any physical behaviour at all.

You can do QM without complex numbers as people are used to use them.

But it gets really awkward really fast.
It's hard to say if the Grand Duchy of Muscovy was shaped more by Mongol politics or by Byzantian ones, to be honest, but they certainly imitated Constantinople (or how they perceived it, anyway) more so than Sarai.
Doctors would also have more time for real questions if they told fat people to exercise and quit eating so many pop-tarts instead of giving them shots with a host of risky side-effects that then have to be managed.
Thanks! I remembered the announcement but not the fine grained details. Mac was a very different world in the late 90s.
Interesting fact about Bulgaria and Amazon, first order on Amazon.com was from Bulgaria.
Complex numbers are also useful to describe rotations on the plane, and conformal transformations more generally.
They shouldn't be underhanded about it then, misrepresenting as phishing just make them even more spineless.

If they had been clear about it, posting a warning "we consider this post detrimental to our business" go ahead and censor it, being underhanded just made it stink much, much more.
It uses a VM on Macs, it's usually slow and requires too much thinkering to get it to work decently. I gave up development with Linux tools on Macs, very annoying and not worth the hassle. I think it even works better in Windows since WSL.

I'm using runit instead of pm2. Systemd should also do fine. It's over engineered.
Oh, and less food waste and global inequality definitely cures hunger better than room temparature superconductors.
Efficient/sustainable podcasting would be good too!

WIP: my (mis)adventures so far...

https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html
> Unfortunately, at our scale, we get false positives on safety measures all the time.

At this point, the “at our scale …” argument is such an arrogant excuse for doing damage all over the world. If I can’t ensure people are treated fairly, don’t get harassed, etc, maybe it’s not a viable business then. Stop offloading all kinds of externalities onto the public.
If your housing prices went up you have a supply shortage. If your city is near a larger city your demand may be auxiliary in which case it’s potentially related to the bigger city’s supply shortage, which in the US is predominantly caused by zoning and code.
What if I want something that isn't an echo-chamber?
correction: 25% of the yearly profit
I'm a big Twiglet fan. My partner thinks I'm playing some long-winded joke on her and pretending to like them. But they really are awesome!

I need to try Marmite or Vegemite.
Ask HN: Relevance of Recipes in AI inference and training?
With attention and transformers laying some of ground work for computations in NN land. Is there a possible extension of Numerical Recipes that can bolster AI with the increasing availability of computation power.
I built an webapp for my kids that was supposed to run on a raspberry pi plugged to a 4k tv. Having these blurred tiles that swoosh on the screen looks amazing on my laptop.

Running this on the RP4 was less than 1fps. Turned off the blur it works great, even the animation is great.

Tested blur on a static element, the entire page crawls. These effects looks great, but are performance hogs.
M396F-Replika – Replica of a 386SX Mainboard
Do you know of a good source on the history of this stuff, such as the relationship with cauchy? Or is it just something you pick up?
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With LOAC by his side, come hot from hell,
Shall in these air zones, with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc!' and let fly the CCAs,

see also Watts, "Malak" (2010), as well as Blindsight

(the latter relevant to: '...F-22 pilots in such experiments demonstrated they can comfortably manage “up to six” CCAs...')
I remember keeping an eye on the VAIO PCG-505 as I was really into ultrabooks at the time. At first when I saw the picture I thought I might have owned one (memory's a bit fuzzy). I did have a Toshiba 320CT and 3110CT which were great machines too. It wasn't until the ThinkPad x-series or MacBook Air that we had these again.
how does 7b match up to Mistral 8x7B?

coming from chatgpt4 it was a huge breath of fresh air to not deal with the judeo-christian biased censorship.

i think this is the ideal localllama setup--uncensored, unbiased, unlimited (only by hardware) LLM+RAG
Kudos to the author for trying this. My approach would be to ignore the junk recipes online and see if there are any patents that describe the process. I'll have a look when I have time.

My guess would be that there's some industrial process that completely separates any yeast from anything else so as to remove any potential hop bitterness. And that there's also likely been some updates to the process over the years. It may have started out as boiling things down in the 1920s, but may have moved on to an enzyme catalyzed process these days?

On the idea of using a stout: you will end up with even more bitterness than the version you made, more than likely. Stouts (especially higher alcohol stouts) tend to be fairly generously hopped compared to a standard light lager, in order to balance the sweetness of the added malt. You just don't taste them as being super hoppy because a) the hops are added early in the boil for bittering and most of the volatile aromas boil off, and b) because, well, they're doing their job of balancing the sweet malts to make the beer not taste sickly sweet.
Are you really trying to blame obesity on doctors? Impressive.
Just solder a wire in there somewhere.
Even if you knew absolutely nothing about electronics, 50 trial and error solder points sounds like less work.
That's how you maintain backwards compatibility while improving security. I'm not sure lamenting the imperfection is valuable, but it is a worthwhile lesson for those designing new protocols.

If it becomes popular enough you will certainly face future security challenges you failed to even imagine. Leave some room for that.

Otherwise, this is great work.
I'd include locusts as well, I cannot fathom the experience of being in the path of a insects swarm extending for hundreds to thousands of kilometres.
Five year old bug is a testament to the diminishing Firefox interest
Whenever I say that I use Chrome on my android phone, some smart troll retorts with "But why not Firefox?"

The truth is that I tried to use Firefox many times on Android. It is these little things like this nagging bug[1] that push me back towards Chrome.

This is a five years old bug, you can see my own comment [2]. Firefox still doesn't have even as basic a feature as spell check on the text editors in the browser window! There are two options apparently, they can either use Hunspell package (which increases the app's download size a bit) or the Android's built-in spell checker. In all these five years, Mozilla is still unable to decide which of these two methods to use and the bug remains unresolved as of now (face palm!).

I hope this (and other similar nagging issues) get resolved soon and Firefox becomes usable on mobile. Next time, please don't ask why I use Chrome!

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541697
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541697#c8
Rpgp is great (we're currently using it for a better git signer with smartcards) but I wonder why is it trending right now at HN? Maybe because it's currently #1 in the test suite? https://tests.sequoia-pgp.org/
Wrong, first they blocked the Kansas Reflector but when they fixed that the “offending” column was still blocked. That column was reposted by someone else and their whole website was also blocked.

There is controversy and malice
The incentives and interests are hugely different. A for-profit business is controlled by shareholders who directly own claims to its revenue. A non-profit is not. Harvard has no shareholders and the members of its primary governing board are not compensated.
France is much more digitalized compared to Germany, you can't really put them in the same basket.

The issue on the French side is more that they put the exact same excruciating procedures they had in paper online and didn't simplify too much in the process.
My understanding is that a meme spreads through memetics similar to how a gene spreads through genetics. Ideas will spread that are fit for reproduction, i.e. communication.

Oftentimes memes are powerful at reproducing, but in science we don't want ideas that are likely to spread. We want ideas that are truthful
Hmm, I write nix too, but never write shell within nix. Do you use it for custom builders?

How is using (nix?) standard library something that you don't want?
The trick is understanding that many Apple users like that tradeoff. You’re seeing people as helpless and they’re just not. It’s a great curated closed ecosystem.

Now, maybe people shouldn’t be allowed to make those tradeoffs, for their own good. But Apple owners are willing participants in a deal.
My funniest instance was reporting an obvious crypto scam as potential SPAM or fraud to LinkedIn. It featured Wayne Gretzky promoting a can't-miss investment of lifetime.

It took less than 10 minutes for the Safety and Security team to thank me for the report, but that the ad was determined to be legit
Van Gogh wasn't Van Gogh. If by "Van Gogh" you mean "had the rare combination of skill and luck to be a successful artist within his lifetime".
Also remember when Geoffrey Hinton famously predicted all radiologists would be out of a job by now in 2016? That also didn't happen. So yeah, I would take these predictions with a massive grain of salt. So far the employment numbers in the US are looking extremely good.
The quote in my post was verbatim copy and paste of the linked BlueSky post.

If you have different information, perhaps post a valid source here rather than saying “wrong” and then injecting something else. I literally just copy and pasted the linked post text.

The linked post is halfway through a BlueSky thread that has a screenshot of a part of a Twitter thread about a link to something else that I can’t click. Nothing screams “social media ragebait mill” like a long chain of unclickable screenshots to some ragebait take about some story that happened elsewhere.
In the real world, by the time this reaches the news it's already priced in.
Related:

https://github.com/skiselev/mb386sx-rc2016

https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/386_Chipsets

https://hackaday.com/2015/11/17/a-modern-386-development-boa... (FPGA emulating a 386 chipset on a 386 motherboard)
This is also directly available from MIT Press as Open Access: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5598/Balkan-Cyberi...
You could convince me with a React agent in a shared environment.

Do you have any models that you find compelling? Maybe a domain model that you like or have wanted to try.

Don't get me wrong, I still use LLMs, but they just really need that extra augmentation for any non-trivial task.
For whom? The locals who like their way of life selfishly don't want things to change. And unfortunately, the people who already live there are the ones who control whether or not new construction is allowed.
I don’t really understand your point? If you build density around transit hubs everyone will be able to afford to live closer to the city and within walking distance of transit and thus not need a car.
An external loop really isn't any different to "think step by step" - you're giving the model a chance to see it's own prior output and carry on from that.

Also, even without "think step by step", or an external loop, the generation process is already providing looping allowing the model to see it's entire output-so-far as input to generate each next word! The model itself just takes an input sequence and predicts one next word each time it is run; it's the generative process that then takes each generated word, appends it to the input and runs the model again to generate the next-next word, etc, only stopping when the model predicts the end-of-sequence token.

So, these models already have a chance to catch their own errors, if they are capable, without any additional looping beyond what is already occurring. However, I've never seen an LLM do this ("watermelons are blue, err, I mean green") since whatever caused it to predict "blue" the first time it saw "watermelons are" will likely cause it to predict "blue" on subsequent times (when it's seeing it's own output) too, so it won't realize there's been an error and predict a correction.

Even if a person points out a mistake, these models only have limited in-context learning to be able to use that to correct their built-in (pre-trained weights) behavior. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I tried multiple times providing feedback and suggestions to Claude on how to fix it's mistakes on this string replacement task, and was never successful.

Some types of external scaffolding (i.e. modified generative process) might be helpful, such as "tree of thoughts" which would let the scaffolding pick the best output the model is capable of, but of course sometimes your best is still not good enough!
Love the link, thanks!
Thanks a lot for the list! I will see what's available in my country since I am not from USA but cursory search looks promising.
Companies are the legal ownership equivalents of shipping containers, and enabled a revolution in humanity despite being so simple, much like shipping containers. There is something up with your laws if that is not what they effectively act as to need collateral like that.
Any is better than none is such a bleak standard. It's fine though, just upzone the inner streets around transit hubs too, and we'll still be allowing more than none