skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tldr;

AI is making even more established companies behave like early startups. shifting deadlines, building things to appease investors and fight for funding, learn how to fly the plane while building the engine, having to set your own boundaries, etc.

It’s always strange for me to hear anecdotes from “not-early-startup” folks complaining about not knowing how to set boundaries or needing learning to be spoonfed to them when they’re exposed to an early-startup-like environment.

I always wonder if they’re in the majority or I am.
You can't legally practice as a primary care physician without one year of internship, after which you get unrestricted licensed. If you're unmatched, no internship. Is that not correct?
That woman isn't owed a world where puritanism isn't on a steady centuries-long decline. She's owed tolerance to live the way she wants, and she owes others tolerance to live the way they want. She can prefer whatever she wants.
In our future, someone is going to do a study that attempts to measure what I'm going to call the "AI shame index." This will be a measure of the delta between a person's stated usage of AI and the person's actual usage of AI.

Basically I think that there are all kinds of use cases for AI that people are discovering but are unwilling to say out loud because of a perceived cloud of problems associated with AI (e.g., hallucinations, privacy, etc.).

As use of AI becomes normalized, this index will shrink. But for now, I suspect that there quite a lot of closeted AI users. And I doubt that it's just limited to non-native speakers.
Add in all of these to those 60+ comments. Discussion is over there. 17 hours ago.
boilermate site stack itself is not right. It says gitlab, but links to GitHub and there is nothing there except a readme.
True perhaps, but if the electric side has a problem, I can still drive the car.

https://vehiclefreak.com/if-a-hybrid-battery-dies-can-you-st...
> Over time, global values are becoming more aligned, particularly around ideals like free thought, free speech, and the open exchange of ideas and goods. Yet, this trend towards universal values...

Kind of just sounds like a romanticized justification for modern western imperialism.
There’s a Bible story about this
It’s unclear to me from the article if these volumes had never been discovered before or if the editions of these volumes are unique? Meaning are there wholly unique stories that have been discovered?
Hear hear! The catastrophizing in some of the comments is a bit much.

However, there are plenty of gotchas in installing a EV charger, even a commercial off the shelf one. The regulations are generally pretty tight and are intended to protect from fairly unlikely scenarios. Getting earthing arrangement right etc.
It's important to distinguish between Common Lisp and Scheme. The two approaches have diverged considerably, with different emphasis. The aspects you describe in your third paragraph there are more Scheme than Common Lisp.
It was (I think it’s finally starting to wane now that reality is becoming impossible to ignore) regarded as nigh-fact by the neoliberal consensus that has driven Washington since the early ‘80s. Like they’d just dismiss anyone who questioned it as clearly an idiot.
I hope this is genuine. It’s the kind of low stakes anthropology that I like. Nothing major, nothing to fight over, just “how fucked up were these guys’ stories”
I never understood this sentiment. It seems to me that the communication is broken, when a developer has problems with delays. It’s not their decision, and it’s not their risk. If developers report uncertainties properly, even during development, when a previously unknown unknown appears, or a known unknown takes longer than it was estimated, it’s not their fault. If this doesn’t happen, it’s obviously difficult to explain. Otherwise, I never had problems with even delays 4x the original estimation, because every party knew even from the start, that we had no idea how the end result would look like.
Have you tried disabling "mobile data always active" in developer options?
> It's great that people are experimenting in this space. It's less great that people are getting multiple millions in funding and selling a phone and web service as an "AI device."

This is the best two-sentence summary I've seen so far. People tend to forget just how many wacky flip phones and PDA-type devices had to come and go before the touchscreen smartphone as we know it came into being. Which is what these new AI gadgets remind me of.

However, the difference I see now versus 20 years ago is that companies today are just trying to get the most cash and deliver the cheapest product (and pocket the difference), rather than stick with their product and reinvest into R&D.
Yes, it is close, although it is completely homebrewn and lacks a lot of functionality of common lisp. Think of it as taking the syntax from lisp, some basic lisp functions, and then adding functionality for programming your database.
I'm saying getting close to perfection is truly dangerous territory, because everyone gets very complacent at that point.

As a concrete example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pilots-fall-asleep-mid-flight-1...
Thank you for the well considered response
> we, as a VPN service provider are not regarded as an electronic communications network nor an electronic communications service

haha
Globalization is just a step on the path of capitalizing and commodifying humanity. The wholesale subjugation of most people to toil m so the fruits of their labor can be accumulated by people whose only claim to these spoils is from circumstance, charitably speaking, is an indictment of the very people responsible for this status quo.
I'm one of those creative types. I have woodworking shop, I'm a musician, my wife and I are part-time performing magicians.

I've only ever worked for small start-ups. Including my own which paid the bills for 15 years.

Working for start-ups does not solve the problem for me.

The problem for me is that I need to give a shit about WHAT I'm creating. And I find that after 25 years of working in the tech industry professionally, as an end user the older I get the less interest in modern technology I have.

It's hard for me to not see the negatives. I want a car that I can maintain myself and that does not talk to a network for critical functions. I want a fridge that just cools my food and doesn't come with an app or "smart" features. I have zero interest in AI. I love writing code, and I'm already over-burdened by poor code quality that I've inherited and that was written by inexperienced devs. I don't need AI generating code for me that I then need to review and refactor. It's faster and more fulfilling for me to write it myself. I never got on the smart phone bandwagon. Yes, I own one, but I often forget where I left it and when I find it the battery is usually dead because I haven't touched it in days. I don't want a "smart home." I'm not a gamer.

So in my off hours, I find that I spend my time doing things that don't touch modern tech at all.

So yeah, I find myself constantly planning my exit strategy from the industry. I enjoy coding, making things and solving problems but I don't enjoy modern technology the way that I used to. And making products that I wouldn't use myself is what I find soul crushing.
If you look at per capita who is dominant but the West? AFAIK it's by far the most prosperous if we ignore tiny countries that are either tax havens or oil countries which has been the case for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
> I think you needed to get down to underwear in the thing

Yes, you had to be in nothing but underwear, which was funny because when my dad tried it, we were in the middle of a massive convention centre.
Sales down, share buyback, next step is a "realignment of resources" within 6-ish months, i.e. layoffs.
The developer of PRIMA here.

If you use method "cobyla" from scipy.optimize.minimize, then answer is now. PRIMA already performs far better (in terms of the number of function evaluations). See the comparison at https://github.com/libprima/prima#improvements .

The bugs are indeed only a secondary reason: they can only be triggered under special situations. They may not affect your usage at all (when it does affect you, the consequence is catastrophophic).
The solution: unions.

A single person saying “no” just means they will find the next person to do it. In return, person that said “no” will face consequences. Impossible to complete work. Slightly more hostile work environment. “Evidence” the management will use to create PIP. PIP will probably be work that cannot be completed within timeline.

Shit like this wouldn’t fly in a union.

Personally, I wouldn’t give 2 shits. I would love to see the face of the douchebag that asked me this and I just left that person on unread.

In this market, AI engineers get hired easily. With recent ruling on non-compete clauses, this makes it much more easier to move between firms.
I do this too. I have a Gemini gemlog with an http proxy in front, and I write up a little summary of my posts each quarter and email it to a group of ~30 people I like to keep in touch with. I do this in place of having social media.
An Australian mate of mine told a humorous anecdote about some people in Australia talking about their Right To Privacy.

Australia does not have the constitutional right to privacy like the US does...
> As an extreme example, imagine trying to find a stable husband and raise a family in a world in which every other woman treated sex as being valueless and beautiful women wandered the streets naked and giving it up to passers by.

Sounds easy enough as long as you consider men may have some motivation other than to have as much sex as possible.
> The point being that something small might have significance to one person but not the other.

Yeah, that's totally fair. I think conversations can be had with such cases, and I think that trying to effectively eliminate the conversation is a bad thing, which relates closely to my overall objection. Ironically, it ends up in conversation anyway unless a developer is always a good little goober and never marches out of sync.

Maybe my mindset would be different if I saw great software around me, but I see mostly crappy and user-hostile software these days. I'm not sure whether strict formatting "standards" is of meaningful benefit for the users.

> If you were to do woodworking where you craft one piece of a bigger thing (say a part of some larger furniture), you would also have to produce very homogenic and precise output. And it probably would not be very fun and fulfilling.

Yeah, I guess you've identified where my thought in response to woodworking falls apart. haha If it were one's employment, it could indeed be as confining as being a programmer at BigCo.
Unfortunately most hiring managers aren't old school programmers.

The non native phrasing isn't terrible, but at least spell Bachelor's correctly.
I read the title and thought "I bet it's deliberate maliciousness from the Chinese government," and then read the article hoping I'd be wrong, but nope.
You can very practically make this viewable in normal web browsers if you give it an XSLT stylesheet, and preferably use <content type="xhtml"> instead of <content type="html"> so that you don’t even need any JavaScript to unescape things (grumble grumble, disable-output-escaping, grumble grumble, messy unmaintained XML pipelines with ancient feature support, grumble grumble).

Here’s a sample, having taken this feed.xml, switched it to <content type="xhtml">, and added my own stylesheet: https://temp.chrismorgan.info/2024-05-04-hn-40246841.xml

There’s all kinds of fun stuff you can then add, such as pagination as you get more entries, rather than just deleting old ones. I’d suggest adding actual links using the fragment and xml:id attribute (mapped to HTML id in the stylesheet), but that wouldn’t play nicely with pagination shifting entries.

You can even do things like publish an Atom entry document for each entry, so they have their own paths, but that that URL is still an Atom document. Basically, if you want to, you can completely realistically have a full blog where everything is in Atom containers instead of HTML containers.
Should carbon capture should be worked in secret because mentioning it delivers false hope?
Yeah, it's absurd. Current market pricing is more like $4.50 for hourly on-demand and around $2 for long term reservations.
Hopes for ecumenical Easter date could spell end to longest-running culture war
Europe has become pretty bad on free speech recently, and I don't think it can be explained that way. If anything, it gets justified by the fight against nationalism.
This has been confirmed through the legal process in Sweden. What are you laughing about?
People said I wouldn't be able to use ride sharing apps or banking apps on GrapheneOS but so far I've been able to.

Pager duty won't open though, which is a shame because having separate work/personal profiles on the same device was kind of the point.
It's funny how some people scream "imperialism" against anything. Just because "the west" is the poster child for human rights, medicine, industrialization, etc, doesn't mean it's bad. This meme of "western == bad" has got people very confused.
The Doomsday Equation (2023)
Tools that unlike local apps will go offline when the vendors' web site will go offline at some point. And then the user will have a stupid brick instead of a device. I understand the convenience of using a web-based application, but it has numerous disadvantages that should also be taken in account.
Made a Top Down Shooter Template for Godot 4
Ah the old 'we were forced to use this free thing'. Sure.

> Pulse has been replaced with the pipewire as soon as it arrived

Pipewire combines alsa, pulse and jack. They all have different strength.

And Pulse was started by Lennard but he hasn't been involved for a very long time.
I have a similar American accent despite being Malaysian. Missionary schools do a lot of good there but a side effect is the gradual phasing out of the local culture/language. The older folks (30+) tend to complain about the fact that “kids these days” don’t speak Chinese or Malay and don’t respect whatever semi-religious practices they carry out anymore. I do think making English a sort of universal language is pretty good though. Now that I’m in the UK, it’s extremely refreshing to be able to talk to anyone of any age and be able to communicate
+1 for the article hero image - perfectly captures the spirit of Musk
Well Disney's got some new films in the pipe now I guess.
I wondered the same.

They mention the prints are unique and presumably the footnotes they found are ... but I agree, the question of content is surprisingly not mentioned at all.
> You have no obligation to work weekends unless you're getting some direct monetary benefit from it.
That's not how you create great things anyway

It shouldn’t be systematically. But when I did a start-up, this was an opening that let us displace—in one case, put out of business—the competition: identifying the moments where working unconventionally creates asymmetric value.

Also, we’re talking about AI engineers. If you’re being paid seven figures and refusing to ever work weekends you should seek out a lifestyle role. (And to be clear, I have a tonne of respect for people who make that choice. You’re just not going to command a multi-million dollar comp package.)
There are plenty of big tech or big tech adjacent public traded company jobs paying far better that are still majority coding and with a lot less speed pressure than an early stage startup, among other things allowi Ng for an earlier retirement.

Will take one of those instead, any day.
Why do you think they'd accept an offer? They openly said it's not for sale: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/9/16/ownership-and-future-m...

Not everyone's in it for the money. Assuming they're not operating at a loss, even less so.
The second part isn’t a dependent clause, just as a matter of grammar. The second amendment doesn’t say: “within a well organized militia, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.”

It’s a prefatory clause and an operative clause. The first explains the purpose, the second gives the rule. So you can certainly argue that the rule must be considered in the context of the purpose.

But that still doesn’t get you where you’re going. Because personal firearms ownership certainly facilitates raising a militia if you need one.
I am a Starlink customer. I don't love or hate Musk particularly, but when he makes bold claims that foreign leaders are helpless to stop LEO internet I hope he's ready to back that up. In light of recent developments[0] I don't think it's appropriate to assume all adversaries are helpless, and terrorism or not I'd assume Russia feels they have casus belli on Starlink after Musk's clashes with Russian governance and cooperation with NATO allies.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pentagon-official-warns-r...
True, but if a huge company is willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars and sell off it's EV fleet, that's gotta be a sign of things to come. (just how much does it cost to replace those batteries and how often? Ask Hertz.)
I'm sure the folks at Disney are at the edges of their seats in anticipation of new source material.

The fact that these volumes were "lost" suggests to me that there are "new" tales in these pages.
This would be a major concern for me.

The one time I used AI meeting notes, some important details were wrong. And beyond that, the notes were just terrible. A literal transcription can be useful. A summary of the substance of the meeting can be useful. This was neither. A human would know that a tangent talking about the weather is not important, but AI notes are just as likely to fill the document with "Chris mentioned it had rained yesterday but he was hoping to cook hamburgers when the sun comes out. Alice and Bob expressed opinions about side dishes, with the consensus being that fries are more appropriate than potato salad." as it was to miss a nuanced point that a human would have recorded because they understood the purpose of the meeting. And then it'd give me an action item to buy corn.
Selection bias, no?

What percent of the population do you think you would be running across in the particular VR chat area you were in, and how would those people have decided to be there?
> Many countries forbid most satellite equipment, even big ones like India.

Do you have a source for this?
Benchmarking for this project is a bit weird, since 1) only linear scans are supported, and 2) it's an "embeddable" vector search tool, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to benchmark against "server" vector databases like qdrant or pinecone.

That being said, ~generally~ I'd say it's faster than using numpy and tools like txtai/chromadb. Faiss and hnswlib (bruteforce) are faster because they store everything in memory and use multiple threads. But for smaller vector indexes, I don't think you'd notice much of a difference. sqlite-vec has some support for SIMD operations, which speeds things up quite a bit, but Faiss still takes the cake.
Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
Yeah. One application that I’ve heard is retrofitting indoor animal farms to capture methane and reduce methane emissions.
At some point isn't it natural for people to just hold on to the phones they already have ?

I probably average a new phone ever 18 months or so, but I'm a tech enthusiast. No normal person needs a new phone that often. At a point you saturate your market.
Why install drivers? Webserial is about serial ports. If you need a driver to actually see your serial port, you need to install it anyway to use webserial.
I work for a digital services consultancy handling large gov't contracts. It has all the problems of every large organization, public or private, but it's not overly demanding. The work is more challenging from a people perspective than a technical one.

But, as in my last big project, I'm building something well that makes a concrete difference in people's lives, internally and externally. In my previous project, the software we delivered saved hours a day for clerks who were typically very overworked, and we received grateful emails telling us that they'd been able to sit down for lunch for the first time in years. In the current project we're bringing GIS capabilities and full accessibility to a gov't online service--we have a mandate to ensure it works properly with screen readers, and we're actually doing new work on making map features accessible to the visually impaired.

So much of the motivation for geeks is technical satisfaction that we can miss many other forms of fulfillment in our technical jobs. Having worked on the web since the late 1900s, through multiple hype waves and "oh, we're doing this again" moments, I find the non-tech, more people-oriented rewards much more satisfying.

Also, I'm building out the wood shop I want. :)
Yup, that's the first big question, also I didn't mean to put an absolute on them, it was more the emphasis switched. Then I think the answer becomes: slowly. That's also why it's hard to think about, it's such a different reality, where would we be today technologically, and where would we be socially? Maybe it's a pointless thought experiment, but personally I find it somewhat interesting.
> A number of their works were considered to be permanently lost following World War 2. However, recent research at the Adam Mickiewicz University Library led to an unexpected discovery — specialists managed to find 27 original volumes with rare prints and unique editions.

lots of people mention the advancements and technologies gained from war, but how can we possibly remember what it caused us to lose?

it's gone
> Why do they give a damn if people are subscribing in the US and using their product in Africa?

A government gets to decide what their citizens can have.

Think about it the other way around.

Let's say there is a brand new vehicle for sale in China with no airbags, no abs, no emissions controls of any kind, etc.

People in the US are absolutely NOT allowed to purchase that because the government of the US have decided it goes against the public interest (safety, pollution, etc.).

Just because one country thinks people should be able to conceal carry handguns, that doesn't mean other countries have to allow it.
would you care about data privacy when you're dead?
The H100 prices seem wrong based on today's prices. I'm looking at our data on H100 prices across ten cloud providers and the H100 on-demand prices range between $3-6 hr, the average being $3.83 USD.

The p5.48xlarge with 8 H100s is indeed $12.29 per GPU-hour as the article states, but their claim that the blended hourly rental price for H100s could be $9.40 USD over the next 4 years appears ludicrous.
> This attitude, btw, is killing me in US politics — why the f.. do you judge politicians by how nice/jerks they are. Instead of by how good they are doing their job?

Because if they are terrible people they are most likely terrible at their jobs as well. I'm sick of everything related to US politics, everyone is so childish and everything is so broken.
Xochimilco is one of the wonders of Mexico, it's worth a visit.
Intel Core Ultra now powers more than 500 AI models, the company says
Users aren't presented with a "barrage" of consent dialogs. There's not even that many of them, and being able to access a serial port is a niche case where it does make sense -- just like accessing a web cam or microphone. It's certainly less annoying than the one for allowing push notifications.

Unless, of course, the site is malicious/spammy. It's possible to do all kinds of annoying things, from triggering consent dialogs, to opening new windows, to playing sounds.. and you can even do them in a loop. Adding (or not) a consent dialog for webserial doesn't change that.