skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thread a few months ago ~about a risk associated with getting habituated to automatic dependency-update PRs and looking at them less critically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680443
Working, but so boring.
For some of us it's nice to build needles stuff instead of using a better (but boring) solution ;)
I like the needles stuff, you like the mechanical 'easy' solution
All 3.8MB of the cover image are appreciated by me :)
I went to Chico State, and HP took interns and new hires out of there in droves.

That was rather a long time ago (like when HP existed), so I don't know what's happening now.
how can a law apply globally? Ignore the idea that EU can fine you, under what basis do laws of a country apply to actions outside the country?
Kagi CEO here.

I'd concede that it was a bad choice of words but also the screenshot was taken out of context. What I meant to say is that anonymity and privacy are two different things and that most people really need just their privacy respected, not be truly anonymous in life.

I also had a narrow view back then of what people considered by anonymity (for example considering VPNs as something giving them anonymity online).
If I asked me Echo to close my curtains, it would respond that it doesn’t know about a device with that name. If I then ask it what devices it does know about, it won’t give me an answer.

Will the Google Home tell you the device names it can see?
MLM web app. I created a membership referral system that works so well it led to hundreds of new members. I was getting paid peanuts, I stopped providing support. Threw a wrench to their biz model. Costed me money but I have better peace of mind now.
Paper is just so reliable.

The last time I attempted to use a mobile boarding pass, the app failed to load the pass¹. I later figured out why: the airport's WiFi was MitM'ing the connection, and instead of letting an AJAX request for the boarding pass through, it wanted to serve ads. A paper boarding pass won't try to transmute itself into an ad at the moment of "Papers please."

Nobody wants to be doing that in TSA, of all places.

And if you're checking baggage at all, then you more or less get the paper pass for free.

¹…you can screenshot the pass to work around this. But now we're getting a bit closer to what the guy in the OP did!
The FSI guidelines are shared a lot, but they are really bad because they are hardly applicable to anyone that is not an US diplomat.

Check https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/1..., it will give you a way better picture.
I don't know for sports, but sex indeed. And just like any other art form, some are absolute virtuosos and some draw cheap logos and are about to be replaced by AI.
Voldemort is fictional and so are bumbling wizard apprentices. Toy-level, not-yet-harmful AIs on the other hand are real. And so are efforts to make them more powerful. So the proposition that more powerful AIs will exist in the future is far more likely than an evil super wizard coming into existence.

And I don't think literal 5-word-magic-incantation mind control is essential for an AI to be dangerous. More subtle or elaborate manipulation will be sufficient. Employees already have been duped into financial transactions by faked video calls with what they assumed to be their CEOs[0], and this didn't require superhuman general intelligence, only one single superhuman capability (realtime video manipulation).

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-ho...
Former contract worker, US State Government - 100% similar stuff happens.

But it can be a much finer line.

Example: Approved effort for call center expansion to meet the growing demand of the public. Includes improvements to the backend business software to improve cycle time for the call center to meet goal of addressing public demand. Those backend software improvements - which were real, and did help the call center cycle time - just happened to be the same improvements requested by mobile field workers for 5+ years, which were never approved.

Did a leader see the opportunity to make the 5+ year requests happen and pull it into the budget ask? Absolutely. Were the changes necessary to accomplish the call center project with the resource / staffing levels in the budget proposal? Yep.

I view the prior example as the same. Sexy projects don't work unless the foundation is operational; allocating funds under Sexy project to shore up foundations is surprisingly common.

The real learning for me is the vicious circle. New upstairs leader sees everyone say don't need to spend on sustain, so doesn't spend on sustain, but nods to higher-than-actual costs for New Cool Thing, and the layers below upstairs work the game to get key sustain tied into New Cool Thing projects... which then supports upstairs view that don't need higher sustain costs. Tough to break this.
Thanks! Niantec started as a startup within Google's startup incubator and thus used Google Maps in the very beginning. However, they got 'spun out' and when the price became to expensive, they switched to OSM anno 2017.

(I'm not sure about the details, but I think the spawn points were OSM based long before the map rendering was OSM based to). In either case, read their Wikipedia page for more details (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.) and our OSM-wikipage (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go)
It’s called sex. There’s no way to mass produce it, but it’s not called the art of seduction for nothing. Massage also qualifies in my book.
It seems that you didn't read the article.
I'll help you with the fraud part:

> When I was at USCIS," explained Law, "you would have registrations or petitions with very common names. The belief from some of the fraud folks was that some of the common names were inserted in there and then these businesses, after they won the lottery, would then go out and actually find somebody [with that name] as opposed to having a real candidate in place."

> One form of H-1B fraud involves companies colluding to file multiple petitions on behalf of the same foreign worker. This serves to give the IT consultancies involved in trying to bring this worker to the US a greater chance of having their applicant selected, and of collecting a commission. As above, that's supposed to be more difficult under the new system.
> The clock will go from 12 to 13… and we have to see how this will go. I don’t think they’re going to say yes so we haven’t thought about all the details.

I wonder how this'll check out on https://qntm.org/calendar ?

(I'd like to think this is someone's snarky response to all the recent press releases about lawsuits filed in jurisdictions without standing?)
I think he might be referring to the words themselves - 'rabbit' and 'pork' - in that, despite not rhyming, together they are nonetheless described as rhyming slang.
> and instead use other methods to either measure current or implement switching.

Yeah, I keep meaning to look at clamp style measurement. That doesn't give you control, of course, but I'm mostly interested in finding out how much power larger appliances are actually using (my dryer is pure electric).
Does anyone know of a way to contact someone directly?

Yes, Hacker News
Drawing
https://www.drawright.com/

Native American basketweaving
https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/woven-legacies-basketr...

Renaissance sculpture
https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/collezione/scul...

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

Pottery
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/master-potter...

Textiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile

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

Etc. Anything you make with your body, really, so also typing and literature :)

Two books I like about art:

The Hand - How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank R. Wilson
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/191866/the-hand-by-...

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. This one speaks about how anything you do can be considered a form of art. A book with positive vibes.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717356/the-creative...
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I'll be here all day (with a few breaks). As usual, there are many possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with or interested in. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons since I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll do the same. Thank you!

Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.

Edit: Good evening. I'm signing off now. I tried to get through most of the questions but I know that I haven't answered them all and for that, I am very sorry. Please feel free to email me directly (email in profile) if you have any questions. Thank you for participating in this AMA. The questions and comments were great and as always, I learned a lot myself.
Would be nice if you allowed users to define their own puzzle. I had to set a break point at the right location and call startNew([..my array]) to do so.
So the reason we do this - and I should have mentioned this in the post - is that we explicitly do not want to dog food here. Because JSR is the package registry, if it goes down, and we can not pull packages from the registry during deployment of a new version of the registry (that fixes the reason it is down), that would be very bad. So we don't put anything that depends on the registry in the path of deployment of the registry :)

Also, a lot of the work that the registry does (parsing source code, analyzing dependencies, enforcing rules on the code, etc) are pieces of code that are shared with the Deno CLI, which implements this in Rust. The reason for this is that this work has to happen in Rust, because JavaScript, for the most part, can not "self-host" itself (ie you can not implement a JavaScript runtime on a JavaScript host if you want your runtime to provide more system bindings than the host runtime).

Finally, we do use Deno for many pieces of the registry where the "circular dependency" problem is not relevant. Namely the entire frontend uses Deno and Fresh :)
If a sector has increasing unemployment or sub-inflationary total comp growth, no H1-B's for that sector.
Show Your Work with Confidence: Confidence Bands for Tuning Curves
Was does "explicit ref" and "named dep" mean?
Hey hey, post author here - happy to answer your questions!
Errors are hard. But (my bug bear) this was an unforced cuteness:

You are in 'detached HEAD' state.

I’ve checked out some tag or something which made me leave the branch: I’m checked out directly on a commit. They could have said that I am not on branch: branchless mode. But they chose to call it this (cutesy) name instead?
Because many commercial applications are using it to keep costs down, and its mature, works and easy to support. I have dozens of commercial apps that use postgres, easy to upgrade and support.
I love this parody https://www.theonion.com/struggling-museum-now-allowing-patr...
This is very interesting.

I can't afford two mortgages though ,so for me it will have to just stay as something interesting :)
Culinary arts -> consumable.

Touching artworks can -typically does, albeit slowly- destroy them, thus touchable art is also a consumable.

All forms of art consumed through vision are not consumables -- they don't wear out from use. Well, some types of media, such as paper books and film do wear out from use, but not the actual contents.

Artists who want to make a durable impact on the world will -probably?- prefer to appeal to senses where the media can be non-consumable or slowly-consumable.
Before the H1B really started to ramp up, you used to see foreigners working in IT that truly were some of the best and the brightest because there was a lot of competition and very few spots. These days, that is the exception, not the rule, because it was primarily designed to drive down wages so that CEO's can make larger salaries. The fact that they were able to convince people that reducing your own earning potential by giving the jobs to foreigners is the right thing to do morally shows how gullible/naive many in our industry are.
There are some exercises that can help with carpal tunnel if you aren't too far gone yet. Get help from the physiotherapist or whatever it's called.
Ask HN: Node vs. .NET Core (2024 edition)
This same question was asked back when .NET Core was released in 2016.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13034904

How are things looking now after 8 years?
I mean encrypting email was what PGP was created for. It's my understanding that uploading keys was a sign that you wanted your emails to be encrypted as much as possible. Not a mere "I'll accept encrypted emails, even if begrudgingly."

Here's a snippet from the PGP FAQ last updated in 1998:

> Public Key Servers exist for the purpose of making your public key available in a common database where everybody can have access to it for the purpose of encrypting messages to you. Anyone who wants to write you a message, or to check a signature on a message from you, can get your key from the keyserver, so he doesn't have to bother you with it.

https://www.pgp.net/pgp-faq/faq.html#8.1

Of course, the writing was on the wall for PGP in email when I created my first keys a decade ago. But it was still touted as a tool for encrypting emails even then during the height of the Snowden disclosures. The complete loss of interest in using it for email is a relatively new phenomenon.
A simple search of the 'net will answer the question far better than this attack on Shellenberger. It will show that rare earth minerals can be used in PV panels as doping elements. Interestingly enough it is especially Perovskite PV cells which seem to benefit from the use of these additives [1,2]:

(1) Recently, use of rare earth (RE) ions doped nanomaterials in PSCs, has been identified as an effective means to address the aforementioned issues by expanding the range of absorption spectra minimizing the non-absorption loss of solar photons, enhancing light scattering and improving operational stability.

(2) Rare earth ion doped nanomaterials can be used in perovskite solar cell to expand the range of absorption spectra and improve the stability due to its up conversion and down conversion effect. This article reviews recently progress in using rare earth ion doped nanomaterials in mesoporous electrodes, perovskite active layers, and as an external function layer of perovskite solar cell.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10020...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13877...
Except, I am not getting 653% more service. Traffic is worse, roads are worse (except the brand new ones), crime is higher, schools are more crowded. No public water for me. It is admittedly the price of growth in the area (recently rural area). I understand that government and taxes are good, up to a point. The extra taxes are bringing more people in but not helping those who are already here.
It is not 10. It is lifetime.
so whats stopping from somebody buying a ton of GPUs that are cheap and wiring it up via P2P like we saw with crypto mining
> Those countries are only afloat because of immigration.

According to who? You? One of the countries you specifically just listed has just tamped down on some immigration efforts [1].

[1] https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/government-responds-unsu...
One of my top students at our state school got $400k+ to start as a dev.

When you're good, you're good.
This is a tough one, honestly. For one, being at the early adoption curve also has you on the low side of efficiency. If things aren't being done at scale, they are likely fairly low on that score.

More, though, moving to something that gets you a more climate controlled home in the name of efficiency is odd. You could almost certainly use smaller scale solutions to get more comfortable living that does not involve such a drastic change to the home. Clothing and lifestyle changes are things you can do, for one. For two, though, if the place was so drafty you could feel a breeze, it almost certainly did not have active heating/cooling to the level that they built up to. Such that is seems odd to justify how efficient you could do something that was just not getting done before?

No reason not to do it, of course. But insulation is an expensive thing to add to a house. Not just in raw costs, mind. Most insulation materials are of dubious carbon neutrality. And nothing lasts forever, least of all housing.
https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
All the things that surveys do but where surveys would be really slow, repetitive, and suffer sub-population sampling biases; and all the things that censuses do but with better temporal resolution.
Ok, now let's see some data denominated by number of flight hours.
If you love podcasts, dump Spotify
Notes from YC W21 to W24, with Love
Is it not just the output of some "laundry room in the style of Van Gogh" prompt? Looks great, just not sure that's an indication of effort these days. Several non-sensical sections aren't cleaned up for example.
I hope at least these uneducated and unambitious populations manage to keep people who think like this out of their countries
A nice watch. Luxury fabric. Quality objects: cutlery, handles on your doors and cars, your pots and pans. These make the entirety feel cheap or expensive.
Both/either. They're both widely used at scale. It doesn't really matter.
The Chappe telegraph supported 98 possible signals with 6 of those being reserved for service purposes (like signalling end of message), so 92 possible message signals. If you could get that to 96 then you could transmit ASCII characters using one signal from Decimal 32 to Decimal 126, and use one signal to enter the original "two signals per symbol" mode for the rest of ASCII and other symbols. Then automate it with machine vision and we'll have an 1800's style steampunk Internet.
I think it gets used a lot here because it’s a compact way to say “the world works in the way that it does because we have set it up to reward certain things and punish other things. This isn’t a static feature of reality, but something we are choosing as a society and can change.”

Don’t see it as reductionist, more like a callout that we’re dealing with a social feature, not some physical law.
Thanks for the feedback, we have adjusted the pricing to $1 and have apple pay built in. Also applied a few of your other suggestions. Thanks
E2E LLM finetuning on a single 24GB GPU
I have experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) during my tenure at my previous company. However, one aspect I didn't get the opportunity to explore there was fine-tuning my own LLM, so I decided to experiment.

While there are many pieces of documentation available on this topic scattered across the Internet, putting them all together is not obvious. Therefore, in this repository, I present the full training code, from scrapping, to generating the dataset to the finetuning itself.

The whole thing takes a few days to complete, and it does work on my AMD GPU!
All music used to disappear on consumption.
I understand that these products has market demands from paranoid but not IP networking related businesses, but I never quite understood the fundamental basic premise of Palo Alto, F5 Networks, Fortinet, etc. brands of "MITM TLS firewall" products.

These firewall boxes are on-prem white hat Mallory, reverse-reverse-proxying all TLS traffic. And of course the Linux stack it uses has tons of RCEs and misconfigurations.

Isn't that just insecure???
There is no valid use case I've ever seen where inheritance was better than composition (that does not mean a use case does not exist, but evidence is mounting against it). I would say it's used because every language made a poor decision by building that in as the way to encapsulate reusable logic. i.e., a mistake.

Some APIs may expose themselves as requiring you extend a base class, and in that case you might as well do what the library author said. But overall? Yes, some things can work well with inheritance (eg. classical UI frameworks), but these are often equally good with a composition based API.

One job I was at I added a lint rule to flag `extends` as an error. You would need to add a comment to justify why you were using inheritance - it went over more favourably than I expected. I think I would suggest this for any new projects using a language that supports inheritance - discourage it with automation, but allow really good reasoning to prevail in review. It is the worse solution at least 99% of the time because it requires you predict a future that is painful to change.
OpenAI: Simple-Evals
Nice. It does let me make the same integer twice though.
I've been dumbfounded that GH hasn't invested in the space. There's tons of obvious surface area still available for automation.

A one-off project of mine tries to improve supply-chain license management for projects [1]. I got bit once by an MIT licensed project that accidentally took a GPL dependency a couple versions later. That was a pain to notice without analyzing transitive dependencies. Never again.

[1] https://github.com/ralexander-phi/license_approval
consider Twitch Plays Pokemon but for a human life
100% agree. Our electricity costs are fairly low, and its a very low carbon source (mostly hydro electric + nuclear), so for us it makes a huge amount of sense. If you're in Alberta, where most of the electricity comes from coal...theres no logic in switching to electricity.

I'd argue that's politically motivated and very deliberate however...
What about China's Overcapacity?
Would you be as salty if it was free clipart or stock photos?
> Toy-level, not-yet-harmful AIs on the other hand are real.

A computer that can cause harm is much different than the absurd claims that I am disagreeing with.

The extraordinary claims that are equivalent to saying that the imperious curse exists would be the magic computers that create diamond nanobots and mind control humans.

> that more powerful AIs will exist in the future

Bad argument.

Non safe Boxes exist in real life. People are trying to make more and better boxes.

Therefore it is rational to be worried about Pandora's box being created and ending the world.

That is the equivalent argument to what you just made.

And it is absurd when talking about world ending box technology, even though Yes dangerous boxes exist, just as much as it is absurd to claim that world ending AI could exist.
I've got a suspicion that there is going to be a lot of waste, regardless. There are a vast number of models, colors, and sizes. The odds that somebody else wants this specific shoe seem low.

At best, they'd need a steep discount. "You want a size 9 right Nike Pegasus in green. We will sell you that for 75% of the cost of the pair. But it turns out we have a single size 9 right Nike Pegasus in red. We'll sell you that for 50% of the pair cost."

At Nike's scale they might be able to make that work. I suspect they'll still have a lot of unsold single shoes, but they'll at least get some goodwill and positive buzz from Paralympians saying nice things about the program.
If you'd extend touch to sensor input for gravity and acceleration, I suppose theme parks and carnivals provide the art form you are looking for.

Making this kind of categorization leads to a question to which the answer probably says more about the categorization, than about the individual items. I guess it is exactly due to these kinds of categorizations that there are institutions and/or art prizes that cover only a single sensor. Personally, I don't mind mixing culinary arts and music with contemporary art, but tastes differ.
Great, then this isn't a problem.

There is no "central coordination" required to set up URL redirects, by the way.