skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employees are rarely a JIT component of a strong, healthy business. Good businesses have a little fat so that they can expand or react to changing market conditions. Make the teams too lean and then you're at constant risk of losing a key member and watching all that institutional knowledge walk out the door.

And that's if you treat employees well. Treat them like expendable cogs in the machine and your churn will be higher than industry average and you'll end up being less efficient.

Think of why the body has tons of leukocytes roaming around, just looking for viruses to whack. If your body had to wait for an infection before creating leukocytes, you'd die pretty quickly.
AFAIK, this doesn't solve the SSH agent problem - the problem is the agent has access to all of those keys regardless of the host you connect to.

So forwarding your SSH agent means an administrator of the system you're connected to could use any of those host keys loaded in the agent to connect to their associated machine.
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I dislike complaining about titles, but I really wish articles, especially a national laboratory, would be more honest about titles. This makes it sound like this is the new "smoking gun" that Mars was so-called Earth-like early on. However, it was my understanding that this was already known. The largest known waterfall was already previously known to be on Mars at one point, and it was already known that Mars had oceans and rivers. Again to my knowledge, I thought it was already basically understood that Mars was a little mini-Earth the first 400 million or so years of its life until its core cooled off.
No, it’s just a general theme of Windows releases for the past 20 years. They make big, sweeping changes in one release that people don’t like, then spend multiple years addressing criticism until they come up with something that people like again.

Quibble as you may about exact version numbers, but the pattern is not really deniable.
> It's a loud silence when someone circles around the topic without mentioning it

It's a unique feature of American/Western historiography that would incline you to believe this. I find it interesting we don't have to tack on similar disclaimers when it comes to any other similarly horrible group throughout history; the brutality of the Caesars, the Chinese emperors, the Comanche -- forget about it: we can speak of them dispassionately, as non-temporal observers. But mere broaching of the subject of the Nazis requires confession that, let's repeat it in unison, they were evil.
Wyden once again shows he is the single politician who cares about how technology affects our daily lives.
It’s available via ssh and https

That shots from my parents balcony in Bermuda
Wow, those RedHat guys in the gitlab tickets and commit descriptions related to this are insufferable. Is this what happens when you get paid for open source work?
The idea of which makes it even more bizarre that we're trying to leave a literally perfect planet for us for a dead one.
On the common sense. And definitions of the term and the methods for obtaining the stats.

Especially if you know anything about Japanese.
> To me it seems like the probability could have been anything.

The point is that we do know some things about the universe and, given what we do know, we think the probability is high. So we're obviously missing something but we don't know what.

The thing that makes the Fermi Paradox so interesting is that every resolution is either interesting or implies something interesting.
> Yes, and the result was a billions of billions of combinations of those updates.

I was recently talking to a colleague about this, and it was remarkable to me how "quickly" they had forgotten the hell of having Windows Update filled with 1 billion 10kb updates.
Pretty sure that a good techie (not even someone in AI) has most of their basic needs taken care of. Working for a psychopath who can't control his impulses does a killer number on the other levels of Maslow's needs...
I agree it’s equivalent, and that’s a great way to think about it.

But… I wouldn’t be surprised if humans answered closer to the LLM results than 80:20. I’d actually be surprised if humans converged very close to the right result.

Would be a fun mechanical Turk experiment to run.
IIRC this change was announced after the application deadlines, so couldn't have affected this year's crop of applications. It will likely affect next year's crop at Harvard, and the many other universities that have/will revert to their prior policy regarding standardized tests.
This is sweet!! Organizing source docs manually is so tedious
Neural Networks have been studied for a long time. We learned this in 1990.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230764
This is far beyond what is expected from a 16 year old. Great Job!

I see some comments giving you suggestions that I don't agree with. I suggest you keep going.
I loved the early experiments with interactive laserdiscs. Murder Anyone? is a title from 1982 with some recognizable actors that has some complicated track navigation:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084376/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEEwZkbSmEU
> and wildly unrealistic promises in front of shareholders

His signature move.
Judge in Seattle sentences Changpeng Zhao, crypto mogul, to 4 months in prison
"Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, was sentenced in Seattle on Tuesday to four months in prison for failing to prevent money laundering on the exchange."
Hmm. another Boeing-related whistleblower expired
Personally I like A-Z listings to browse. I don't always know what is available and I don't want to have to depend on someone else to show me a small subset of options based on what they want me to see or even what they think I want to see (recommendations). If I'm paying for a service I want to see all the options that I'm getting in exchange for my money and then I will choose for myself what I want to watch.

An A-Z listing of all titles is something people have been asking Netflix for since day one, but they refuse to provide it. It's partly now because they are embarrassed about the quality/quantity of what they offer. That's not all though. They want to decide what you will watch. They want to be able to promote certain content over other content. This is why you see the same titles over and over again in multiple categories. They don't want their new shows to have to compete for views with all of their older shows so they basically hide most of their catalog behind a search box. It's easier for Netflix when subscribers watch their new/promoted content right away. It makes it faster for them to figure out how audiences like their new content. It helps them maximize ad spending and control/manage social media conversations about their new shows. They have their reasons for inconveniencing us, I just don't care about them.

Every once in a while I'll go into Netflix and search for randomish three letter combinations then scroll through what they have. Eventually, as you keep scrolling, they start ignoring what you searched for and just shove whatever they are promoting in the list. It takes ages, but every time I do it, I never fail to find things I'm interested in but had no idea were on the platform because netflix wouldn't show them to me.
One solution is to tape a pi to your iPad case. :)

No internet connection required.

This should work for node but not compiled languages. I think that the compilation would happen on the slower Pi but maybe someone can figure out a way to compile but not run on the iPad.

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/connect-raspberry-pi-...
Founder here. Could you point us to an application where we didn't respond? You can DM me an email on x.com/justjake and I'm happy to check what happened

Ian is our recruiter, I checked AshBy, and basically everyone's getting at least a "Sorry you're not a fit" email (save for people spamming the inbox multiple times)

As for why we've posted the same job many times. We're an early stage infrastructure company, and it's surprisingly hard to find people who go really deep (Example: We've built our own orchestrator, so we're looking for people who would build kubernetes instead of use it)
A very, very right-wing coworker once said to me: "There is no such thing as society. There is no such thing as common good. These are fictions created to control you."

I was happy he had identified our fundamental disagreement so that we didn't have to argue further.
It's true, they execute people for their Tweets[1] and for saying anything sort of close to "the people should rule instead of the King"

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/saudi-arabia-...

Unfortunately I think they are succeeding in diversifying their economy away from oil, and amongst businessmen these criminals are readily accepted.
A billion tiny updates seems to work reasonably well for most major Linux distros.
Adding a covenant to a deed is a property right, I think wanting to know invalidate them is anti-property rights.
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Slack preview link shows up weird. It shows as follows

> wip: terminal (initial commit)
It's just a regular ass-dryer. It has a way to detect moisture (and therefore will run until clothes are dry, whatever that takes), but AFAIK that's pretty common and has been for a long number of decades. (I've never really had an issue with a clothes drier unless things had become broken or clogged -- they've all worked fine until they don't, and then they get fixed or replaced.)

But you should be jealous of my toilet: The American Standard Champion 4. It just flushes shit. There's no long-winded swirling water display to make a spectacle of dancing turds. Instead, it is fast and to the point: Push lever, SPLASH, gurgle, and the shit has disappeared. Every single time, without fail.

It scares children.
It’s not like 100% of the group was going on hunts, though. Maybe running laps was hard for many of the early human males too.
wiped windows from my home PC and installed Ubuntu 24.04 last week

zero regrets, tired of Microsoft's terrible quality, terrible security, terrible ads - good riddance
That's why reading before commenting is preferred...there's even a synopsis outlying what the report is though at the link and the second page of the report outlines it as well. So even a cursory glance before commenting would have worked here...
Me too. But this might be even better. While I really like Fusion 360, it is proprietary. I've tried FreeCAD, but as much as I want to love it, it's painful to use.

Thrilled to have another option to check out.
> We need Skunk Works team quality

You mean the kind where plane literally leaks fuel mid flight? I think they're already there
I know that's the messaging, but the real link to reality is very tenuous. This was a great example from the last couple days:

https://twitter.com/colin_fraser/status/1785132544482226679

I just tried a similar question now with ChatGPT4:

"If a man and a goat are on one side of a river, what is the minimum amount of trips required to get the man and goat to the other side in a boat. Assume the boat can hold at most one animal and one human."

ChatGPT: 3 trips

That is very much closer to "trying to predict next word from examples" than "billion-dollar model with internal reasoning".
Not just the student accounts - some of the corporate accounts have same. Had one with a $50 limit at my previous employer.

The simple truth is it's good for their earnings report if they have unrestricted access to your wallet
Or, even simpler, be responsible and don't use substances if you'll be driving.
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> he said (I'm paraphrasing) most people are either builders or maintainers, and rarely both.

What a great comment, and it applies to so many things and situations I’ve been in.
This comes off as a bit naive to me. The Stanford grad with parents who paid $25M for admission is not applying for a programming job, and certainly not cold just on the strength of their resume. They will move in their parents’ network, which now has a graph edge with the Stanford network and vice versa. This sort of thing is more about power networks than it is about education.
A VPN can be required to access internal network(s) without implying a lack of further roadblocks/restrictions/authorization checks/etc.
Check out Japan zoning laws, pal. I’m not some rugged individual, but I still believe in reasonable freedoms. Japan doesn’t have issues with nuisances with their zoning system. Far from it.
Hey friend, just noticed your linkedin link didn't work!
> Maybe there was life on Mars, but the main motivation to believe that right now is that many people have read about it in fantasy books.

Life effectively began on Earth around 400 million years after it formed, and that's about the time that Mars' core cooled off and atmosphere got blown away. It seems that there was just enough time for life to start on Mars before it got snuffed out by the planetary geology of Mars and loss of its magnetosphere. If we ever find life on Mars, it's most certainly likely to be single-celled organisms.
Yeah, I wanted really badly to love Gemini but it is really just mediocre. At this point I just want a voice command line. Teach me the magic words because it seems a lot easier for me to learn them than for the LLM to learn English well enough to understand me.

Now a ChatGPT-based Google Assistant would be damn tempting.
A cultural preference for new-build is not woo-woo. Americans will pay more for a lower-quality "new" car than a higher-quality "used" one, do you consider that woo-woo?
same. been on EndeavourOS/KDE/Plasma exclusively for almost 4 years.

tried Mint and Manjaro before that. if i had to use a ubuntu derivative, i'd probably try Pop!_OS.
> The model takes the prompt. The first following output token it chooses, for this specfic model, happens to be 'Left'. They shut down the prompt and prompt again. Of course the next output will be 'Left'.

I think what you say is correct, but isn’t this exactly the point the author is trying to make? You explain why it happens, but ultimately the result is still that the LLMs can’t do probability. At least not in the way the author presents it.

What I’m more interested in is what sort of consequences these debates and different understandings/views of LLMs will have on us in general. We monitor the usage of co-pilot in our organisation and it’s been interesting to watch how a lot of employees have started promoting the same task to multiple “agents” simultaneously. One person tends to always run at least five at once. So naturally we dug a little into why people were doing it, and, they are doing it because “it’s the fastest way to get something useful”. Which is probably not too surprising to a lot of you, but it was sort of hilarious to follow along and see how two promoted “agents” gave completely conflicting answers.

I know LLMs will probably get better at being lucky, but some of these tasks… honestly we had a couple of our juniors who were very you’re of always going GPT of co-pilot first, simply look at the official documentation and we timed them, and it was so much faster for them to not use LLMs. This isn’t me saying LLMs suck, we deliberately did it to make sure the juniors in question had an “oh” moment. But it’s interesting to see how quickly our employees have adopted LLMs.
How do we know the probability of chained events required to start life in any given planet with potentially suitable environment?

How do we know that the probability isn't something like 0.01 to the power of some very large number, far higher than amount of total planets etc?

If we don't know the exact mechanism for all we know the odds could be infinitely low, even so low that even after billions of big bangs only 1 would have had life occurring anywhere at all and lower than that. Because maybe the first life form literally had to appear spontaneously from bruteforce chemical reactions with such low odds of ocurring.
"Dive into the rich taste of Nil, our delicious semi-sweet coffee with notes of chocolate, peanut butter, and a hint of fig" and "medium roast"
Note that "in Seattle" is just the geography, not the jurisdiction. It's a federal court case for a violation of federal law.
> "Buhler told the website The Debrief that they’ve created a drive powered by a 'New Force' outside our current known laws of physics"

> "space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies says it has achieved a major breakthrough by stumbling upon a new force of nature"

> "He says his team...investigated propellant-less drives for decades before arriving at electrostatics."

I am already lost. Electrostatic forces can be found in an introductory physics textbook.

I am curious whether this is simply a big scam, or maybe just the delusions of an engineer who got hyped over some experimental errors.
There are of course other possibilities of something interesting happening with the experiments, but the claims of a new fundamental force of nature are not exactly believable without more evidence than mentioned in the article (which is zero).
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the emergence of a number of image generative AIs, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, which automatically generate creative and engaging images based on text prompts entered by the user. In this article, we'll walk you through the prompts for different AI image generators.

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Generate DALL-E image prompts for image titles, image descriptions, and more. To generate high quality images and avoid creating bad images, a Negative prompt is generated alongside.

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That is the core of it, the spirit of the communication made it out as thought this was entirely the work of Sora.
Details? (I'm about to go look, but mobile providers are about as transparent as residential ISPs)
Ask HN: Ideas for LLM-Based Games
What are your wildest LLM-based game ideas? Have you built any LLM games lately? Share it below! Would love to see what people are building in this space!
or better yet, don't use ssh for this purpose, it's not good for it.

letsencrypt is free, you might hate the browser for many fair reasons, but PKI and the CA/B forum are actually effective.
> By the standards of the Nuremberg trials, he probably should have been tried and convicted. But he was never even accused, because the US wanted his rocket expertise--by the time of the Nuremberg trials, he was already working for the US Army.

Absurd. For starters, by the standards of the nuremberg trials, there's no way in hell he would be convicted. For comparison, among the men actually acquitted by the nuremburg trials were Franz von Papen, Hitler's vice chancellor from 1933 to 1934 and the man who pressured Hindenburg to appoint Hitler to power, and Hans Fritzsche, a high ranking propagandist who was in the Fuhrerbunker in the last days of the war and after his acquittal took part in a cabal attempting to re-nazify West Germany.

The nuremberg trials targetted only the very highest level Nazis - only the top 5 highest ranking officers in the entire german military were indicted. Even if von Braun had been an enthusiastic Nazi (and there's quite a bit of evidence he wasn't), he was way too low level to have been tried nonetheless convicted by the Nuremberg trials.
> Then there's a 50% chance that the payment terminal won't work.

where is this? In CA, almost all payment terminals seem to work in retail for me. Businesses would not stay in business easily if their payment accepting device was broken.

(And for McD's, it's not too difficult IMO to select & checkout via their native iOS app.)
I'm jealous of all your household appliances. My last dryer had the same problem. I bought it new.
IBM Just Made a Weird Acquisition [video]
When I see a city with organic development, I feel cozier than with the cities that all look the same and were built all the same. I think the American idea of “unity” in these matters is a bit insane and very exclusionary.
Judging people is wrong. This isn't a controversial statement.
Just a curious question, is Earth's core cooling off like Mars?
> Not having access to something does not grant you rights to it.

> You probably know a lot of things I don't, and some things that I can never know. That does not allow me to compel you to tell them to me.

This is such a obtuse way to frame the comment you were responding to. It's obvious they were just talking about the right to know about labor demand price ranges. Do you really think they were advocating for the right to know everything about everything?
I tried this, but the CAPTCHAs make browsing nearly impossible and (I think) are what breaks many of the devices on my network, and when it's on the whole home network from the router, it's a lot harder to turn it off when I just need to get something done. I'll probably end up spinning up an exit node on Linode or something, but I tried that on certain machines and it had some significant performance implications (though I'm not geographically near a datacenter so it probably wouldn't be the same problem for most people).
You might find SpacetimeDB interesting.

https://spacetimedb.com/
I know people who do/did work for a professional team. The justification is there is a huge line of people who want to “work in sports” so they can underpay the front office staff, and it is true. I knew a few people who stayed interns for multiple years in the hope that they would get converted into full time roles at some point.