skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like a common institutional problem is the people who push more of their identity into the institution get disproportionately rewarded over time for their (sometimes ill-considered) sacrifice, which causes them to seek out other people like them, which causes the org to select for that over time. And other people see this, respond with, “I don’t want that,” and put up boundaries like you see discussed here.

Orgs love to say they like results, and they do — to a certain extent. There’s a ceiling on it that isn’t there if you are coded by other people as One Of Us. This is wholly different from being a yes-man, of course. It can’t be too obvious you’re playing this game or people don’t like it…probably because it reminds some people of the gamble they’re making there. I’ll wager that some people are honest enough to say, “well how else should we treat loyalty?” And others would say, “well that’s what they chose for their life, so they should be rewarded.” Both answers really just serve to entrench no-life-ism, though.

IMO, hovering on the border of engagement/disengagement is not a problem. People tend to oscillate back and forth there naturally. Work is fundamentally a transactional relationship that can sometimes confer meaning, intellectual stimulation, social connections, and structure. And sometimes it fails at some or all of those.

Expecting it to always provide those things is delusional. Keeping the transactional nature in mind without being a jerk keeps expectations grounded. We should be far more suspicious of those who are constantly parading their love of work on social media.
Yep. I have a few seashells poking out of my bathroom tile. It’s not (ugly) travertine though.
or why not both?
This proof is interesting, and the article is also great in explaining what it's doing, and how.

Is there any link to how the algorithm actually works, rather than why? (i.e. can I see some code somewhere).

I read the article, and skimmed the paper, but didn't immediately see it.

ok, I went back and reskimmed the paper, turns out "algorithm A1" is in the appendices, I guess that's it? I haven't dug into it much yet. Can anyone confirm? (And can anyone link to an equivalent written in an actual programming language, which I'd find easier to parse)
All models are wrong, some are useful.

-George Box

I'd go further and say that many "theories of everything" that try to remove context from the models, in fact obscure the fundamentally useful approximations. Unless you really need that complicated model for the last fractional percent accuracy, leave it out! Also, knowing (or controlling) the context withing the model is being used is often critical to making something work well for a reasonable cost in a reasonable time.
Every ex-empire country is now in the market. Pakistan, NK and India must be swamped by offers for nuclear participation, by khazakstan, Vietnam, etc.

Trump did it.. He bankrupted the US alliance concept.
> The Claude 3 models also offer a huge 200K token context window. Cody doesn’t use this entire context window today; we limit Cody’s context window to roughly 7K tokens.

in their discord they mentioned they are supposedly working on increasing the context window but provided no eta. 7k is not enough.
I don't think a fresh boot is the best benchmark for this. I do use plasma and in my experience memory usage tends to go quite a bit higher with use, even if you close everything. I don't think they have leaks and it's probably just memory some data structures and the allocator hold onto for various reasons.
Are video games coming for the novel?
Is this ready to use? No. But I'd like to point out what may be novel UX ideas here that are worth improving on.

* raise your hand in front of device to activate the projection
* move hand to increment/decrement a number
* close hand to tap

With image recognition, other gestures with the projection hand like tapping fingers or touching the image with the off hand would allow other interactive inputs.
Banks are guilty of worse, but they're difficult to switch. And how do you know that the next one will be any better? Smaller banks in particular seem to be using some whitebox software title to do their online banking, so you might go to all the trouble only to discover the exact same. How many times can you switch up your direct deposit before HR/payroll gets annoyed with you?
The usual solution is: have your frontend use different URLs for the assets (example: put a hash of the content in the asset's URL) or add a build number to the asset's URL in a query parameter (example: a hash of the built frontend file, e.g. /static/chunk.min.js?v=1235abcde)
I live in Blueberry country, we not only shill them here, we chill them, too.
Saying google is scam similar to theranos/FTX dilutes the word scam.
This is honestly either shitty workmanship or bad luck. They should have noticed this and swapped it for another tile during construction. Either the installer wasn’t looking at what they were doing (apathy) or there were other tiles with more obvious “flaws” and they ran out of spares.

But then I don’t think I want limestone in my bathroom in the first place.
Big blueberries tend to taste worse than regular ones. I think there's a standard amount of blueberry flavor per volume so smaller ones have a more concentrated/better flavor.
Thanks for sharing. The gcloud cli archives are 1200-2000 MB when installed. This ends up having a huge impact on your bill and launch times.

gcloud cli is a hard dependency for doing work in gcp. It’s used for running db queries, managing instances, managing files.

This is one example of many where the cli install takes 10 minutes to un-archive and setup before use on a fresh instance

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/issues/1732
The funny thing is that many Russian people thinking exactly the same about western countries. Putin underlined multiple times, how European leaders fooled him, again and again, signing contracts and making promises just to break them next day. And this narrative basically everywhere. I don't think that Russians will hate Europeans in general, but they certainly will not trust European politicians for a long way to come.

So this will be mutual.

China and some other countries, on the other hand, are considered trustworthy partners who play by rules.
could be an excellent complementary tech to supply energy when solar panels and wind turbines dip in production.
Ask HN: What is it like working for Mozilla Labs these days?
After all the layoffs, and Firefox not really gaining much traction - How is the current culture? I am seeing a few open positions and wonder if people left and they have to hire new ones, or what is it like still being there? Would you recommend Mozilla?
The introduction of the shadow DOM API changed the semantics of the link element. If the link element is placed inside of the shadow DOM, then it's not render blocking and you will experience a flash of unstyled content. That's what the lit docs are referring to. I've mentioned this because you originally joined this comment chain with a comment about putting link elements inside the shadow DOM.

If you place the link element inside the head of your document, then it is render blocking, which means the browser has to make two round trips to the server if the CSS file isn't in the cache before it can render (one to download the HTML file, and then another after it discovers your link element, and has to download the corresponding CSS file).

> The best from both worlds is to embed a lightweight basic CSS stylesheet inline and the rest in cache-able external CSS files.

This is the absolute optimal way of doing it. You would have to analyze your styles to see which styles are applied to elements above the fold, then extract them and put them in an inline style tag. The rest of the styles would have to be downloaded via a link tag, but you'd have to place the link tag at the very end of the HTML body tag to prevent the browser from blocking as soon as it encounters the link element or alternatively use JavaScript to add the link element after the page has been rendered. There are tools to automate this for static sites [1], but doing this for dynamically generated HTML is kind of a pain, and I've found that browsers parse CSS so quickly that the overhead of just inlining it all is very low in many cases.

[1] https://github.com/addyosmani/critical
I'm not expert and struggled to read Bostrom's Super Intelligence, but my interpretation was it started with a lot of broad, hand-wavy factors & historical interpetations, layered on some pretty tenious projections as inevitable and wanked off with deep thought experiments. I get this sort of open-ended exploration has value, but I'm not sold on it's "prioritized value" when compared with other areas and directions.
His work is often quietly cited by a handful of moral philosophers. In particular, The Discarded Image, anytime someone is writing about medieval philosophy.

Anyway, being a philosopher simply isn't what the guy did and academics are fairly dismissive without consideration anytime religion (and specifically Christian apologetics) gets in the mix.
Who the hell needs to pay anyone to shill butter? Butter is widely known to be absolutely delicious, to the point that people go out of their way to tell us to eat less butter for the sake of our health. I can't think of anything which needs promotion less than butter does.
You're not the target market, the CTO, CIO, or business development representatives are. So many developers say they won't ever buy "call for pricing" software, like, yeah, they know you won't, in fact that's what they bank on.
This is a grad-level physics lecture dating back to 2007. Pretty ordinary stuff for a physics prof to have on their webpage.
> I’ll be you ten bucks they got rid of people who bring up bad news and kept the yes-men

I’m pretty cynical and assumed this was how layoffs worked but at least in faang and even smaller (maybe 500 people) SV companies, I actually don’t think this is the case anymore. Most I’ve seen have been extremely random – it seems like they cut teams/orgs very differently but on an individual level it seems random. I got the impression it’s some lawsuit thing, because they never leak the info beforehand so managers and other seniors can chime in, so it appears they’re cutting blindly from the exec level. There’s probably some politics going on in the higher echelons and maybe they force individuals out but with managers (including decorated ones) and regular employees it has not looked like a surgical political - not performance - play. From what I’ve seen.
> so in effect only viable to create small companies with this tech

I assume stability wants to be in the role of building AI models not applications, so if you provide a clear and nontrivial value add beyond their API you should be fine. If you build a tool that allows architects to make their building renderings more lifelike by adding realistic crowds, vegetation, storefronts etc right from the comfort of their existing tooling it's in Stability's interest that you are successful. If you only resell their API but in green they might not be as invested in your success.
this mindset only makes sense when the mission of the company is noble and appreciated by the greater community. otherwise you are a fool for having this attitude
Yeah, that video infamously had mistakes of it telling him the wrong location to view the eclipse, as well as saying a handful of almonds had WAY more protein than it should have.
Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made (2018)
Yeah, this seems more likely than Berliner's political explanation. There are so many podcasts now vying for your auditory attention.
My local grocery store has red marble flooring and one of the tiles has a ~1m diameter perfect ammonite fossil in it. It's huge and I pray they renovate the store one day cause I want to get that tile from the constructors.
There’s no guarantee that giving him $50 billion won’t still end up in him losing interest anyhow. This approach seems like giving a hostage taker a ransom.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16844423 - April 2018 (16 comments)
Apple Notes in iOS 18 looks to up the ante with Microsoft OneNote
For whatever reason there’s a fringe, but somewhat common, tendency in the U.S. to insist that “democracy” means “direct democracy” and that “republic” means what everyone else calls “representative democracy”. This is then used to derail people complaining about the U.S. being undemocratic, as you can see here.

I have no idea where this meme comes from, because for 99% of people “republic” just means not governed by a monarch or traditional aristocracy and is orthogonal to democracy. For example, Canada is democratic but not a republic, North Korea is a republic but not democratic, Saudi Arabia is neither, and France is both.
Novelists as Schoolmasters
This is great; the less long-lived credentials the better!

Now developers just need to make sure they secure their code at the pipeline level. Pipeline compromise = package compromise.
> maybe 1/4 of the human population could be counted as very smart

That’s a very generous assessment. To me someone who’s “brilliant” is more like 1/1000.
China has successfully built many reactors in as little as 5 years[0] though construction times vary for others. Historically, other countries have been able to rapidly build out nuclear capacity with similar or better construction times. We're just dragging our feet and getting in our own way. Even if it must take 15 years the right choice is to begin new construction now and to plan new projects to start on a regular schedule so that they continue to come online in rapid succession.

[0] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
Honestly, fresh, frozen, store bought, and and all blueberries. They all taste like crunchy water to me.

We had a blueberry farm less than 5 miles from our house. My family just raves about how good the fresh blueberries are.

Crunchy water. They all taste like crunchy water. I wonder what's wrong with my taste capacity that there is an absolute absence of detection of blueberry.
Oh yeah, agreed; I quit the moment it happened. What I mean is now I'm sort of wary of the same situation re-occurring at the next place I work.
He was doing fraud, but the rest are mentally masturbating about problems that are about as relevant to the world as the number of angels that can fit on the head of a pin.
https://archive.ph/MvPbo
Invert all edge weights.
Lol I'm so not surprised.

PS: When it was shot down a few months ago, I told everyone it was only temporary and they will keep trying again and again but people downvoted me for not celebrating :/
Would it be better for billions of tons of it to just sit locked away in the Earth and never see the light of day?
Is this because there are people walking around today with a substantial amount of Neanderthal DNA and were being cautious not to denigrate them?
I'm not sure what you think about my comments is flame bait. I'm having a discussion about whether or not these comments are racist, since someone brought them up.

This is not pulling out the "race card". I made absolutely no "low-blows". Stating that calling black people lower IQ than whites is very much racist is not an unreasonable thing to say. I have no problem with anyone bringing up context. I just think implying that anything about the statement is "accurate" is racist. I'm not sure what is so contraversial about stating that saying white people are inherently smarter than other races is a white supremacist talking point.

And its not just me, anyone saying absolutely anything in support of the idea that what this guy said was bad is being downvoted. No matter how restrained their comment.

I would also much rather people replied to me rather than just downvote. That would be a discussion.
"It's an MVP! We're just establishing product-market fit; then we'll sort out the engineering details using the money we raised."
What I heard from an accountant is professional athletes income is the only thing worth pusuing on this front: the taxes are high, the work being taxed (games) are televised so there's no denying the location etc.

Jane IT, working at remote client site for a day is exactly the same but enforcing it would cost too much.
There is plenty of evidence that Pacific Islanders were able to navigate from island to island, for example in the book I cited above. Here's more [1]. What's your evidence for them not being able to?

Honestly, this sounds like some crap spread by people who can't bring themselves to believe that non-Western "primitive people" could have highly developed skills.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation
I sat behind a department head of theirs on a plane once. He was ranting to the flight attendant about how inefficient their baggage storage solution was because of how he had to check his carry-on. The flight attendant very calmly said "That's an interesting idea, sir." as he was mid diatribe about the lack of integrated sensor technology in overhead bins. He ended with a "I'm going to Tweet about this, this is totally ----ing unacceptable." A few minutes later he stood up to take pictures of the overhead bins and the flight attendant made sure he had a good clear view. "Let me help you, gotta get a good pic for the gram". Mr. Humane, with all the indignant condescension he could muster, said "Uh, it's for Twitter, not Instagram." Flight attendant responded "Ooh, Twitter, my apologies." I found the tweet while waiting for take off. I wonder if he ever got around to disrupting the space.

This is what I get for connecting in San Francisco. The flight attendant did give me a dozen packs of those little ginger-snap cookies, though, so I may be biased.
Is `no-cache` necessary if using `must-revalidate`?
Any experiences on using Ampere as a development machine?
This post is an introduction to the idea and then as a Part 2 for actions to take. For anyone who hasn't continued into Part 2, it goes into first steps on listening to different performers in your company and basically doing research on what makes everyone tick. There will be a follow-up Part 3. Just want to say that's an interesting way to blog, but a little unsatisfying since I'm not sure if I'll keep coming back for new updates every week.

Interesting topic though! I consider myself both self-motivated and a little lazy at heart so I think I fall into the skilled pragmatist. For me personally it was that realization that I wasn't going to be the 4.0 student, but that I could still get a great 3.5 by doing a lot less work. Sometimes I crank out tons of extra work that helps various people by the simple virtue that its interesting to me. So I think this is hitting a chord with me somewhere.

I find myself in management these days, and the people I manage are all great and talented and as far as I can tell no one is upset with my laissez-faire management style. But I'm always wanting to find how to make the job more interesting for them. The roadmap can often be kind of boring work. When we have interesting projects the work just flies by and you can see the satisfaction on everyone's faces. Would love to just have more of that.
https://archive.ph/Ouf3s

https://web.archive.org/web/20240417001318/https://www.techn...
EA tend to be a bunch of intellectual windbags, by and large, and overestimate their impact on the world at every level it's possible to do so. Just because they collectively gasped and claimed responsibility doesn't mean their interpretation has anything to do with reality.

The reality is SBF was a con man, and however complex his motivations and personality and psychological issues, whatever his ultimate intent, he willfully scammed a lot of money from a lot of people. EA might have been an influence, but SBF is a human with complex agency whose actions can't and shouldn't be reduced to membership or association with a community.

Going from "here's a set of good ideas about how to effectively give to charity, since we see a lot of corruption and inefficiency in charities" to "we have a moral duty to ensure that we only associate with good people" is how you go from a good idea to a pompous internet cult.
I parsed it right but still assumed Google was involved somehow.
JSON-editor: generate forms and edit JSON documents using JSON schema
Mozila is not a political organization but someone in a position of power took an action that hurt some big donors. Those donors are well withing their right to stop donating after that.

But since they believe in the foundation mission, despite the actions from the leadership, they looked for an compromise that Eich accepted (apologizing) and then refused to fulfill his end (the real big problem).

At this point there was no more compromise, either Eich is out or the donors are and Mozilla does not have the luxury of losing donors, most of their money may come from Google but for then every penny counts.

This was not political activism by Mozilla, it was choosing between a rock and a hard place, either losing a big chunk of money or loosing the CEO and making some irrelevant people unhappy, the best decision is very clear to me, CEO is easy to find a replacement, money not so much and 99% of the people complaining are not either.

This was political activism by the donors and they are totally within their right to do it with their money.
The quote is from their "Final Report, which is the first link in the submitted article.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince buys local paper, feuds over mansion build
When the cost of drilling oil and converting to gasoline outweighs the cost of manufacturing hydrogen, the current oil giants will pivot.

This will drive (current) costs down.

They’re not going to allow their businesses to fail.
Imo, all documentation entry points like this link or a README should have the contents of this link's Introduction + Getting Started + Tutorial merged into the entry point page.

It's always so jarring when you land on a page like this, read the quick blurb, and then have to look around to see where you need to click to read more entry-level content but without clicking too deeply into API docs.
XMPP app (Monal) banned from Chinese iOS appstore
Tom-select: vanilla JavaScript select control
This is entirely unrelated to Boeing
Food is something that matters. It's one of life's great joys.
Out of curiosity, what specific protocol are you taking about? I’m very familiar with a couple of these protocols, and the issue has nothing to do with wanting to know the history of the data — the issue is that they use what is, in effect, an ad-hoc delta encoding, and you can’t reliably reconstruct the complete current state if you’re missing a packet. On top of this, sometimes the packet sequence numbering is designed creatively, to be polite about it, so you don’t necessarily find out that you missed a packet as soon as you would like to be able to.
Knowing how to code is the most trivial part of a software engineer's job. Making sense of vague (or even conflicting) requirements, knowing when and how to make the right trade-offs, communicating effectively up/down/with peers/cross-functionally, etc etc are what separate an experienced engineer from someone who just learned the language. My 14-year-old can code in several languages, but I don't think he's ready to be hired just yet. The job, at the end of the day, is about delivering business value, not lines of code. Writing less code to deliver more value is something that only comes from experience.
My small team has me (Israeli), CTO (Iranian), QA (Pakistan) and a Russian. We’re doing just fine and never talk about politics.
I suppose we could also say IQ highly correlates with social ineptitude. Who could've known people wouldn't like you if you made repugnant statements... surely not 'smart' people!