skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, you know your Civ addiction is bad when you hear the 4am birds. And good luck getting to sleep through them.
So it is a confirmed leak and they are just doing damage control?
> I have no idea why the recruiter was willing to put this in writing

You passed on a juicy class action lawsuit.
>> But, he said, less than 5% of cicadas are infected with the fungus and researchers have yet to observe any impact on other wildlife.
Pulumi is open source, and committed to Apache 2.0!

We liken our model to git and GitHub, building the best service for the Pulumi engine and related tools.

https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pulumi-hearts-opensource/
Ask HN: Favorite Substacks?
I really enjoy following a good substack. I personally follow Construction Physics by Brian Potter ( https://www.construction-physics.com/ ) and The Elysian by Elle Griffin ( https://www.elysian.press/ ). I really enjoy the topics and appreciate learning different things from each
So, how does that work? If they don't want to cooperate in good faith, can they "accidentally on purpose" trash their assets before the handoff? Much like a disgruntled homeowner burning their house before a foreclosure? What would the punishment even be? At that point there's nothing left to hurt them with.
I'd be pretty upset if details about my career were documented so soon afterwards, probably while I was still in work. This seems like a really poor show to me. Describing someone as a "class traitor"? Seriously, what the heck?
I have one wired and one wireless vehicle. I will absolutely pay more for integrated wireless. It just works flawlessly.

We've upgraded the wired one with one of those dongles. It mostly works, but has some quirks. The three most annoying:

* Phone calls result in a feedback loop for the other end. Essentially, they break the in-car noise cancellation and playback the caller audio to the caller.

* When my wife pulls in the garage, my phone will connect - even though it should have been connected to her phone.

* The USB port that connects to the head unit remains power for a period of time after the vehicle is off. Annoying when I'm in the kitchen (next to the garage) and my phone keeps trying to CarPlay.

EDIT: I'm also realizing that I believe the car with Wireless has associated each of our keys with our phones. Despite them both being paired, it will prioritize the phone last used with the key. That's pretty handy for not having to fight with pairing.
These are good indicators, but for me the key indicator is related to how open minded they are to new ideas.

Technology is moving so fast, but the underlying patterns haven't changed too much at all.

Having an open mind to evolving technology and ways of doing things is one of the best indicators of how they will fit into a team, especially if innovation is required.
Pretty funny that Apple engineers use Homebrew too.
Democratic Republic of Congo – The Genocide That Implicates Us All
Few things are as big a win as ensuring your customers are never quite sure they really understand your product line up. Because they actually never really understand your product line up.

I can understand this kind of thinking in a here-and-gone used car lot.
Writing the pronunciation above a character is normal when the character is rare or has an unexpected pronunciation. For example recently 龘 was often written with the pinyin above.

Writing a different pronunciation with a different sense is also often seen on WeChat or in adverts. Often with a positive meaning in characters and a negative meaning in pinyin.
Yes. He is a software engineer in Seattle.
Do it. A gothic late summer early night pines setting sounds interesting.
Toronto and Vancouver build housing at a much higher pace than any similarly sized American city. At one point Toronto had as many skyscraper construction cranes as all American cities put together. But they're growing even faster than housing is built.
What metric do you want to use for smart versus dumb?

CCTV dates back a hundred years. The vast majority of dumb phones have had cameras since before the advent of the smart phone.
Nevermind, I see from your profile, you do have Amazon equity.

"I used to run reddit.com's servers, then I ran Site Reliability at Netflix, then I worked on making Alexa faster and smarter."

Real astroturf hours here. Please keep your Amazon apologia to yourself.
Why is it funny? Homebrew is the de facto standard terminal packaging tool for macOS.
US breaks ground on its first-ever high-speed rail
I agree with you but on the other hand if companies lobbies politicians isn’t then the feedback loop broken, in a sort of tragedy of the commons way?
I don’t know man. Never underestimate Apple’s marketing. If it’s a good implementation, all they would need is 1 automaker to do it the others will have to. I wouldn’t consider a new car without AA/CarPlay and many others are in the same boat. Automakers had to start offering upgrades to their old cars to support AA/CarPlay. There is no way automakers could invest as much into software development as Apple or Google. I hear people like their Tesla infotainment systems, but I don’t have a Tesla nor plan on buying one. Also don’t see how they could match the AppStore/Play Store.
Also fine on "modern display" on firefox on linux. 27" 2560x1440, framework laptop 13" 2256x1504. Desktop at native resolution.
I'm sure their attempt to ban music with a given nominal feature will be a total success with no complications then.

If the government can't make coherent laws, that is the government's problem.
Being able to simply leave it in my pocket is really nice. Particularly nice when running errands around town (in and out frequently)

Prior to switching to Apple, I was running into major issues with USB-C ports being hyper sensitive to physical positioning. Charge would always work, but Android Auto would simply drop out seemingly randomly. Didn't matter on cable. It was just something that would happen.
The Publicly Funded Defense Contractor Revolving Door
The internet had a better class of crazy back in those days.
> Implicates Us All

We do not have to read the article in order to push back against any such narrative.
Watercraft in this case.
The quora ranking has to be one of the most morally bankrupt deals in modern history.
You double the BPM, and double the length of each note. Done.
Context: Like the US, Canada allows international students to work. Unlike the US, Canada allows those students to work off campus, up to 40 hours a week. This has caused the rise of an entire industry, in which so-called institutions of higher learning (Lambton, Confederation, and the example the article uses, Conestoga) have 99% Indian "students" that work off campus, destroying the local job and housing markets.

The above influx has further stressed an already rickety healthcare system. An amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor <https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...>. In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one <https://web.archive.org/web/20190226051406/https://www.thete...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too.
We will roll out a newer version of robot cat around July.
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> it doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t find it degrading or demeaning.

What about second hand? I like travel, but one downside, is the memories of pain. The woman with the thousand-yard stare as her genitals are groped. The stressed-out pregnant woman being "persuaded" with same to use the ramshackle backscatter X-ray, her young child freaked beside her. Turn your back and walk away. There are many places in the world, where when random people are being hurt, you just do not get involved. But it's a hit.
Pretty soon the pedals will be a subscription or pay per use.
Ah yeah, nice! I used DrPetter's sfxr (and cfxr) for a couple game jams. Very useful for quick sound synthesis, great starting point even to use as extra awesomeness to layer on top of other sounds (like hastily-recorded foley audio) :)
What hardware would one need to have for the CoreNet to train efficiently?
> And in my next newsletter, I'm going to walk you through how a very specific kind of managerial mindset has poisoned Silicon Valley, making career failures unfathomably rich while your favorite tech products decay.

I look forward to this one as somebody with a personally vested interest!

More seriously, Ed Zitron's podcast Better Offline is great for those who enjoyed this article. I love his opinionated perspective even when I don't wholesale agree (though in this case I do), and I find him a breath of fresh air in tech journalism. I work in a ... similar company and find his perspective to be spot on about growth hacking degrading product health over time, and the baffling track record of many an SVP.
Try living in a forest that has howler monkeys. You really can't sleep through it.
Full Disclosure: Prabhakar Raghavan was my skip-level manager at Yahoo! and I'd known of him well before that, from my days at IBM Research.

The author says very few people knew who Raghavan was. Clearly he isn't a computer scientist. It is more an indication of the ignorance of the writer than anything else.

Raghavan's contributions to Computer Science and, Search in particular, which were made long before he joined Yahoo!, were word-class. That is the reason he was so sought after by search engine companies. His text book on Randomised Algorithms is a classic.

Calling Raghavan a 'McKinsey' consultant is just a pure ad-hominem attack. The purpose seems to be to vilify him by association. Which is utterly ironic considering that he never worked for them or was ever a 'consultant'

As for his contributions at Yahoo!, I don't think he had any significant influence on the management direction that company took. In my opinion, absolutely no one at Yahoo!, CEO downwards, had much control over their destiny.

Yahoo! was a clusterfck all around, with the primary problem being its utterly dysfunctional board, and unfortunate share ownership structure that made it beholden to the demands of Wall St, resulting in a parade of CEOs. Personnel churn was at such a high volume, that I, an individual contributor usually seven levels below the board, calculated that the average tenure of my leadership chain to the board changed once every fifteen days.

So blaming Raghavan for what happened at Yahoo! is just stupid.

I have never worked for Google, but as an outsider, I don't disagree with the assessment, that Google Search was 'getting too close to money.' But to assign blame in this manner smells like a hit piece.

Managers, take their marching order from their bosses, ultimately this is the board of the company. If the board feels the need for revenue growth, no manager, CEO included has the power to resist too much. They advise against it, but in the end they will either need to to their biding or be fired.

Edited for typos and grammatical errors.
Legend. Tipped my VTR250 around there. :-/
There are two cases in the Supreme Court right now that are expected to rule on this, overturning the ability for regulatory authorities to make rules covering things not explicitly stated in law.
It’s the citizens’ problem until enough of them can make it the government’s problem.
New non-competes will not exist for anyone, including senior executives. Existing non-competes will only exist for senior executives. Both statements are true.

From the article "For existing noncompetes, the final rule adopts a different approach for senior executives than for other workers. For senior executives, existing noncompetes can remain in force. Existing noncompetes with workers other than senior executives are not enforceable after the effective date."
They only experimented with different cosine learning rate decay schedules, but found results consistent across these, as well as across two different types of experiment where they either varied number of training tokens for a given model size, or varied model size for a given number of training FLOPs.
<cries in MacPorts>
I don't believe this is true, and the reason I don't is that this question nerdsniped me and I looked up every state and found that they all, every one of them, including the ones that made me click into PDFs to verify the fact, accept passports as identification in order to obtain Real ID drivers licenses.

(Also I have writers block).
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden's desk
None of these are copyright concerns.
Preview of autonomous ride-hailing via Tesla app
Interesting that 42 will become a bit like the actual Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Seems like the AI feature is optional, and it defines a workflow. So the user has a chance to review and debug the workflow before using it, similar to if they had created it manually.
Generally, I never found myself needing the feature as a whole. For a given problem I'm solving, I usually provide (or re-provide) all the context needed, so I never felt the need for ChatGPT to remember anything for future chats.

That said, it does exactly what it does. It does a good (and somewhat "aggressive") job of weaving in any details (that I told it to remember) into answers that make sense in the context of the chat.

Just my experience.
Built on top of pytorch.
Now that persistent filesystem permissions have landed the domain of apps that really need to be native desktop apps is narrower than ever:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/persistent-permissions-for...
I strongly doubt that.

Cars simply have bigger, more power antennas because they don't have to be packaged in a phone.

One of our cars has a wireless modem that can be used for a hotspot. I've driven to plenty of areas where my phone has no service (think remote and hilly terrain), but the car still has two or three bars.
> It’s knowing what to write, and AI may be a multiplier there

unless you think neuralink or similar is replacing your hands in a hurry, your wpm won’t be able to compete with tpm for long, no matter how fast you type, no matter where you run your models.

> , but that knowledge isn’t obtained from asking AI the right questions.

not for someone that already has it. nor for someone that lacks the words to ask.
Does anyone know which (if any) serverless providers support LoRA? It should be possible to serve community models like Llama3-70B and dynamically load an adapter on request, to greatly reduce the “cold start” problem.
How fast is Goblins? I've been considering using it for a project, but I'm worried that it would be too slow. Would it, e.g., be fast enough to serve as a database?
The “bring your whole/authentic self to work” is a terrible thing to tell people. Precisely because companies have cultural values they are giving you at the same time. They are literally telling you who you should be at work and then telling you to be your “authentic self” out of the other side of their mouth. Those of us who are older know what they mean. We know they don’t want us to actually be ourselves. But I think younger folks actually believe this and I feel like they are basically being setup to get fired this way.
If he's an entrepreneurial type with a circle of entrepreneurial connections, no legal boundary stops him from kicking off another venture when he leaves prison. Wouldn't be the first felon to do just that and pull it off with a bang either. For example, finance is full of former felons going right back to the top.

For more ordinary people with regular white collar formal employment, different story of course. Their scarlet letters are often indelible unless they really adapt in new ways and adopt new habits.
Robert’s thesis is that there are smart people (like Lisa and himself) that agree that outcomes — no matter how specific or documented — should never be used to criticize managers, and hopelessly stupid people (like Homer) that do not take that position by default.

He could have said “perhaps there is a disconnection here” but rather opted to volunteer that he is in fact Very Smart and others are Very Dumb. With a position like that any writing that’s meant to convince the reader is pointless as there exists only ontological truths (things that he already agrees with) and pointless ramblings of cartoon buffoons (things that he does not already agree with)
As a thought exercise, how would one even begin to try to pollute a curl with ads? Would it print out suggested websites after every get request?
> only two irregular verbs

This is what textbooks often say, but it's kind of a soft lie. Besides the typical する and 来る (which are strongly irregular), there's:

ある → ない (negative form)

行く → 行って instead of expected 行いて

くれる → くれ (imperative form) instead of expected くれろ

And a number of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_irregular_verbs
>avoided in favor of bigger loops

At this point at google, I wouldn't be surprised if they were selling your route to advertizers to "optimize your driving experience."
My best guess: if you want to switch jobs and you are under a non-compete, you have to wait for a period of time before starting a new job at a competitor (typically 6-12 months, fairly common in finance). During that in-between period while you are waiting for the non-compete to expire, you aren’t covered by health insurance. And not being covered by health insurance usually increases healthcare costs.
As a final note to this, in my experience most average or poor programmers start programming at university, for their Computer Science course. Most good programmers started programming long before, and the degree was just a natural continuation of their hobby. If your potential programmer didn’t do any programming before university, and all his experience starts when she got her first job, she’s probably not a good programmer.

This is, frankly, a crock of shit and mostly nerd phallometrics. I can think of no other professional whose childhood experiences I would care about. I don't ask lawyers whether they read case briefs as children, for example. Are you useful, passionate about technology, and willing to improve, right now?
Am also in the tropics. For about two weeks in late Jan we have whistling cicadas - both loud and shrill. Regular cicadas no longer bother me, but the whistlers are straight out of a deep circle of hell.
IBM nearing deal for cloud software provider HashiCorp
Yeah, that was a weird one. I could speculate but that claim feels enough like a non-sequitur that I would expect a justification in line even in a quick summary like this.
Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool
It's a programmable robot dog that you can program in C++/Python/block-based coding.
You can check the application links on the side bar menu at https://docs.petoi.com/
Being able to weed out LLM responses is becoming more and more important for me when I hire for data entry and online research tasks from Upwork. Lots of the contractors on the platform now automatically submit a response to anything you post using some sort of LLM that takes your requirements and confidently asserts that it can complete the task. The AIs are pretty good at jumping through the traditional hoops that one used to put up to make sure someone was paying attention to the task!

As a stopgap, I've started requiring that applicants demonstrate proof of life through a simple question like 'what is the headline on the frontpage of the new york times today', since many LLMs can't live search yet.
I wonder how much grammar interferes with comedy. It seems like there would be certain jokes which would be ruined depending on how a sentence is structured. Revealing a surprising punchline before the set up for example.
> Google isn't a plucky startup with just a few dedicated engineers.

They made great long term corporate value and customer relationship decisions then, for their context.

When big corporations full of talent get sloppy, it is usually either a very competent emphasis on short term financial growth or value multiple growth. Or the result of multiple competent actors infighting or working at cross purposes, due to a lack of strong internal alignment. The latter jungle case saves a CEO from having to deep dive, they can just see what happens and select winners.

Either way, by competent I mean someone is accomplishing exactly what they intend. Optimizing their net worth given the company's incentive and power structures, in the absence of a CEO who cares more about the long than the short term.

It only takes that one difference at the very top to trickle down. The greater the talent, the greater the effect.
Could it be caused by expunged tokens like SolidGoldMagikarp?
Flamethrowing Robot Dog
the quality isn't great. They also have my money though because who else is there?
As someone who worked in rules-based ML before the recent transformers (and unsupervised learning in general) hype, rules-based approaches were laughably bad. Only now are nondeterministic approaches to ML surpassing human level tasks, something which would not have been feasible, perhaps not even possible in a finite amount of human development time, via human-created rules.
For a very long time, BMW's cars were intentionally driver-centric - if you got a BMW, you were getting a car that was luxurious and well built, sure, but more than that, was just sublime to drive in a way the spec sheets don't capture. The handling, steering, suspension feel, engine and transmission, everything combined for something that was engaging and genuinely fun to drive, but didn't sacrifice actual daily usability. That was their sales pitch: Want luxury? Grab a Benz. Care about the actual driving experience? Here's your car.

I really don't know what happened after 2005, and it wasn't overnight, but the general driving experience of the cars has declined every generation since then - steering's gotten a bit more numb, suspension's not quite as communicative, engine noises are more muffled, and they just seemed to lose the thread over the years. I'm not sure if some of it was leaning into technology at the expense of the driving experience, but aside from the one or two models per generation that still have some of the old soul, they really don't seem to know what their sales pitch is anymore.
Ironically, the nav unit I used on a rental car circa 2007-08 (birth of touchscreen smartphones) was exactly like the GP describes, a separate unit that had a mount like the modern smartphone variants.
Discussion: [0](138 points, 8 hours ago, 147 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135303
As does Ghidra or Binary Ninja.
US Senate approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells
Probably. That's basically how npm ads work.
Chips and Cheese reviewed it quite favourably, worth a read: https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/03/13/loongson-3a6000-a-star...
But Google seems to be doing decently well compared to blekko and Watson?
Discussion: [0](20 points, 9 hours ago, 11 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134674
relevant to the grandparent’s point: I am demoing FSD in my Tesla and what I find really annoying is that the old Autopilot allowed you to select a maximum speed that the car will drive. Well, on “FSD” apparently you have no choice but to hand full longitudinal control over to the model.

I am probably the 0.01% of Tesla drivers who have the computer chime when I exceed the speed limit by some offset. Very regularly, even when FSD is in “chill” mode, the model will speed by +7-9 mph on most roads. (I gotta think that the young 20 somethings who make up Tesla's audience also contributed their poor driving habits to Tesla's training data set) This results in constant beeps, even as the FSD software violates my own criteria for speed warning.

So somehow the FSD feature becomes "more capable" while becoming much less legible to the human controller. I think this is a bad thing generally but it seems to be the fad today.