skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The higher up you go in the corporate ladder, the easier your job is. Less stress, more respect, less hours. Decisions you make are hard to tie back to incompetence

Curious how far you've gotten and where because this doesn't track with my experience at all.

Was L7 at FAANG and ~250 employee startup CTO, you are basically on-call 24/7, no such thing as "not my job/responsibility" as everything below you bubbles up to you eventually. Constantly have to juggle priorities and make difficult decisions with limited data. If VP/director needs a report by Monday AM your weekend is gone. If production database goes down at 2am you're awake and have to facilitate communication between stressed engineers fixing the problem and angry upper management/customers.

You have lots of authority and get plenty of respect and compensation to match, but low-stress or fewer hours? that's reddit-brained /r/antiwork BS from a clueless 2x-year-old who watches TV and thinks CEOs just go golfing all day.
haha, for sure Sandy can go on some rants about things he knows less about, but he's epic when it comes to his expertise

his videos on the gigapress and the battery packs are pretty great, and less rant iirc
You are missing a lot of technical detail.

Yes, the controller does (stop between moves), it doesn't have a way of knowing.

Also, with the larger motion commands like arc, some controllers do what's called read ahead and they change what they're doing now based on what they're doing next. If what they're doing now and next are just tiny little vectors that doesn't help, but if they're big moves then it helps a ton.

It's like the difference between a .iges or parasolid file and a .stl file.
every time the two systems disagree, it's an opportunity to learn something. both kinds of models can be improved with new information, done through real-world experiments
LSTM is common for this.

also https://facebook.github.io/prophet/
Great way to catch forgeries
> We want children to enjoy life online. But for too long, their experiences have been blighted by seriously harmful content which they can’t avoid or control. Many parents share feelings of frustration and worry about how to keep their children safe. That must change.

Yes, stop letting kids stare at screens all day. Yes, you are a bad/lazy parent letting the firehose of the Internet pipe into their heads.
Wow, that's an impressive number of goal post moves in a single post. I'm talking about the last 25 years, or at least post industrial revolution.

If you want to debate this in a neutral place, I'm happy to do so, but this isn't exactly a level playing field here on hacker news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoWibRxD_pY
What is the actual source of the main claim in this? "Librarians are mounting a fierce state-by-state battle against the high prices they pay to provide patrons with e-books" ... they're referring to something but never link to it, or it's hard to find it in all the randomly linked words. Feel like there's an actual report out here or article they're responding to but never clearly credit.

This I suppose?

After Fierce Debate In House, Digital Books Bill Is Tabled

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2024/05/01/after-fierce-debate-in-h...
Anyone who works at FAANG could agree with this, not sure why this is flagged.
Is this basically a restatement of the old cliche that only 50% of advertising works, but it's almost impossible to know which 50%.

He says "The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade" - are these just the missed bets - the projects which if they had succeeded would have added billions and billions to the bottom line, but for any of a number of reasons, failed.
Training isnt a problem for government run operations which is their context
How about spaceship parts ? https://www.nasa.gov/technology/goddard-tech/nasa-turns-to-a...
Sadly, it may already be too late. https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshit...

Nearly 90-95% of library e-book systems are controlled by KKR-owned Libby/Overdrive.
Given that he optimized his training for swimming and not cycling I think he might do better with fins. His top speed of 7.2 - 9.6 km/h is freestyling without fins. He reached somewhere around 13 km/h using a Lunocet monofin.
At the end of the day, if training or doing inference on the ML model is massively more costly in time or compute, you'll iterate much less with it.

I also think it's a dead end to try to have foundation models for "time series" - it's a class of data! Like when people tried to have foundation models for any general graph type.

You could make foundation models for data within that type - eg. meteorological time series, or social network graphs. But for the abstract class type it seems like a dead end.
He was a guy who had absolutely mastered the art of the post. Will be missed on and probably in multiple dimensions.
Isn't this really the inexorable Pareto principal in action?

20% of folks do 80% of the productive work,
Of that 20%, a 20% subset create 80% of the impact?

But an organization is an ecosystem, and it probably wouldn't function if you stripped it back to that 20% of 20%.
https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=p...
You don't understand. Next year, for sure, Tesla will have over 1 million rob taxis on the road. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/Ucp0TTmvqOE?si=am1dDx9ZfnnUIjjc...
There are a lot of activities on the CS Unplugged website: https://www.csunplugged.org/en/

https://classic.csunplugged.org/activities/

I also like the self-paced courses on Code.org: https://code.org/student/elementary

My kindergartner has access to Tynker through school. Maybe your school district has a license to something similar?

Good luck!
Maybe 75 years ago, in the golden age of SF, you could have found a publisher willing to pair you with an editor to help you get your story out.

Video killed the print star.
what's wrong w/ Rails on M chips? I don't recall having had much trouble with it (except w/ nokogiri bindings right when the M1 was first available, but that's a given for any new release of OSX)
What you claim is clearly incorrect. First, major news outlets all over the world are still linking to twitter posts daily, not least because most of the worlds journalists are still actively using twitter, so obviously this feature still works. Also, there has never been more product development on Twitter/X than since the Musk takeover. Examples include community notes, creator revenue sharing and the features tied to the purchased blue checkmark (eg. Posts longer than 280 chars).

The major handicapping of the platform compared to earlier is that only the post linked to is now visible to non-users, whereas the whole thread it was part of was previously visible.
What is tha Fast option and Agent option?
Google became Google with far fewer people. It was already dominant by 2004 or so. Now it seems bloated.
They gamble in the startups casino.
The main use of capacitors in circuits (if we go by capacity) are bypass capacitors. These are essentially small buffers of electricity that can charge and discharge quickly when a jolt of power is needed downstream.

Without bypass capacitors every sudden draw of power would pull the supply voltage of the whole system down, especially if your power source (battery) can't react that quickly or has limited discharge rates.

Without having looked into the plans here, I'd expect a super-capacitor solution to look like this:

1. You charge your cars of super-capacitors super quickly at special charging spots and drive away

2. The stored charge is then partly used for driving, partly used to charge the cars actual battery and partly used to act as a bypass capacitor to smooth out the load for the battery

3. Eventually the capacitors are empty, but you had a short charging process that filled part of your batteries
I don't interpret them into something else, I explain in simpler words because you appeared to be having trouble understanding.

Lets make an analogy: Right now you have the the right to freedom of speech, if someone would threaten to sew your mouth shut, there is now a plausible risk of harm to your right to free speech. Has your right been taken away yet? No, you are still able to speak freely, but if they were to act on that threat and accomplish their goal now that risk is realized.

It's not a perfect analogy, but so too here, the ICJ ruling didn't state that a genocide is plausibly happening, rather that due to the power imbalance it would be difficult to prevent a genocide from happening, should Israel attempt it.
Neat! I wonder if both airpods could be used more like paddles for dot/dash, rather than one click for dot and two clicks for dash.
Thank you for this website. I tried so many time learning Morse and often failed. With this site, I picked up half the alphabet in 20 mins. All I can see now are "Tape", "Submarine", "Hippo" etc.
Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT
Hi HN,

I built this out of frustration of the evergrowing list of AI models and features to try and to fit my workflow.

The visual approach clicks for me so i went with it, it provides more freedom and control of the outcome, because predictable results and increased productivity is what I’m after when using conversational AI.

The app is packed with features, my most used are prompt library, voice input and text search, narration is useful too.

The app is local-first and works right in the browser, no sign up needed and it's absolutely free to try.

BYOAK – bring your own API Keys.

Let me know what you think, any feedback is appreciated!
Nice concise summary. The fundamental problem with all of these proposed "AI" "safety" regulations is that they adopt the corporate version of safety where LLMs refuse to talk about things that sound scary, mean, or even just controversial, while completely ignoring that these systems will be used to harm people at scale by turning gradually creeping corporate-individual power imbalances up to 11.
> But if we could build an uninterpretable machine learning model that beats any hand-built traditional ‘physics’ model, would it really be physics?

At that point I wonder if it would be possible to feed that uninterpretable model back into another model that makes sense of it all and outputs sets of equations that humans could understand.
> Jobs that are inherently BS — whatever the modern equivalents of telephone sanitisers are

Remind me what killed the Golgafrinchans.
My memory is fuzzy but I think the Australian SAS or SBS made raids on the Japanese using paddle boards in the Second World War.

It’s described in the H I Sutton book, from the website above, but I think it’s out of print now
IDEs and Macros and Rust. (2021)
This is close. But I believe an attacker could use the signature to tie it back to a user if the gain access to the trusted authority information. There's no way to do it truly anonymously. Even the article recognized its pseudonymous.
Related:

Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39724045
Hard to overstate Albini's influence, both as a musician and producer. Big Black? No one was doing stuff like that in the mid-80s. His production on PJ Harvey's Rid of Me took her compositions to a new level. He also produced a lot of very fine albums in the 80s and 90s by the Pixies (Surfer Rosa), Nirvana (In Utero) and various albums by The Jesus Lizard, Superchunk, and others.

Yes, he was cantankerous. Marched to the beat of his own drum, and didn't give a FF about what other people thought. Loved this quote from Tape Op:

"It seemed like most of the music I liked was coming from San Francisco. I don't remember one fucking thing coming out of L.A. that I cared about. And skateboarding. What did that have to do with punk music? What's next, yo-yo tricks?"

https://tapeop.com/interviews/87/steve-albini-Nirvana-Pixies...

His essays and observations have been discussed here from time to time. Here are a few:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30892081

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37132320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935526
JavaScript Execution Contexts Explained [video]
I truly don't understand how you got that from what I wrote. I want the interviewee to succeed, so I'm a jerk?
I have used SteerMouse for years after giving up on the dumpster fire that is Logitech's G-HUB for macOS for my G600, which has 12 side buttons + a the G-Shift button which when held acts a modifier for additional macros.

My issue with SteerMouse is that when creating chord macros, it forces the original macro to only work when depressed, rather than activating upon press.

I haven't been able to find a suitable replacement. Curious if anyone here on HN has worked around this in any way?
> The European economic model is set up for stability, not massive accrual of wealth.

The American system is set up for transfer of wealth not accrual. You can FIRE with a couple millions dollars and it takes just one or two events to take all of that from you without you having a choice. How many thirtysomethings in Europe are buried under hundreds of thousands of Euros in medical and student loan debt?

I think I'd rather pay of my half million mortgage while being protected in many many ways than facing complete wipeout just because "muh freedom".
Not really, since there are always conditions like keeping your account in a good state, with a minimum balance, having paycheck deposits etc. And even then it takes a few months for the bonus to be paid out. And only a handful of large banks offer such deals. You could maybe make a couple thousand dollars total in the span of a year or longer (assuming you have no existing bank accounts), which is hardly worth it.
I think capping copyright at 20 years would do wonders.

After 20 years everyone's gotten paid and can move onto other projects.

I can never imagine this happening though. It's too profitable to keep milking the rare hit IP for decades. For example, Harry Potter has already made JK Rolling a billionaire. She'd be fine if the books went public domain.

So many works will be lost since they're no longer available legally. All that artistic effort, gone.
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I literally mentioned five-level paging in my comment.

But it's an opt-in extension, you need the kernel to support it, and then you need to ask the kernel to enable it on your behalf. So it's not much of an issue, you just have to not to use this sort of extensions (it's not the only one, ARM64 also has a similar one though it only goes up to 52 bit address spaces) with 16~19 bits of tagging.
Does it make sense to compare a capacitor to a battery? It is a bit like comparing SRAM to Flash imo.

I think some of the areas of a car to be potentially improved with this kind of advancement are: regen braking efficiency, size and weight, battery health.
> Also a 'white' older male is the least preferred even if he is smarter compared to all females and the minorities that are being interviewed as long as they are not terrible. Biases galore.

I will agree that ageism is a thing, but 90% of all of my coworkers (who were software engineers) have been white males, so I cannot at all agree with this take otherwise.
In some countries "engineer" is a regulated title, e.g. in Germany. You can't name yourself an engineer if you don't have an engineering or related degree. Depending on the industry that title has more or less meaning, I can call myself an engineer, but that was never relevant to any of my tasks.

I think it comes from the same desire to call yourself "tech company", it is a signifier about how you see yourself. The difference between an X and an X engineer is that the X engineer sees himself as approaching the world in a rational and technical way. In some sense it is just an euphemism, to make something mundane sound more professional.
>We can't ask teachers to work 5 days when the rest of the world doesn't.

Why not?
I cannot read this comment without hearing "Playing in the Band". Now that part is stuck in my head all day, thanks.
Tradeoffs with the Four Patterns of Data Loading
Who gets to decide which specific sorts of evasion of law enforcement are acceptable?

Should we consult your personal moral preferences for that, as applied to each of the 200+ countries on the planet? Why do your preferences overrule those jurisdictions' decisions?
Some machine learning models might be more interpretable than others. I think the recent "KAN" model might be a step forward.
Disability and Normal, or "Normal"
a big limitation for using capacitors for energy storage over any period of time

Who is saying that's the point of this capacitor?
AI Safety for Fleshy Humans
I don't see the shape of the holds being a big problem. With some help from indoor companies and hold makers, figuring out which hold model is on the wall should be possible.

As for the usefullness of the software, I'm sceptical too as it don't really solve a problem. But maybe I'm not seeing it and it could be good for beginners :) A good improvement would be adding a comparison between you and the model in term of body position and fluidity of movements.
I was waiting for the mathematical abstraction or software analogy; obviously, there's some composition going on.
What do you mean by “observability”?
Correct, and this gets at the heart of the matter as to why I believe engineering colleges shouldn't be conferring degrees in computer science. Degrees in computer science should be conferred by the college of arts and sciences, typically by something such as the department of mathematical sciences.

I'd be down with the creation of the role of software engineer, a bona fide engineering degree, having licensure similar to the PE. In fact, given how much software is running our lives, I'd say such licensure is long overdue.
Keep an eye out for the "Jump to Recipe" button found on most sites.
(It's still terrible UX IMO, but figured I'd share the above tip as it's saved me some frustration)
Still not sure if I get it. I have several "hourly" contract jobs, so it's 10 hours a day/4 days a week, instead of 8 hours/5 days a week?

I'd think I'd burnout quicker with the longer hours
No way to know for sure, but I'd guess the number of employed developers writing blogs and having personal projects is in the single digits. For developers with more than 20 years experience, I'd be surprised if it's even 1%. I've got more experience than that, which means I have an extensive network of former colleagues at a similar experience level and I don't know one single person who blogs about tech or works on personal projects. We all have busy family lives and plenty of money so absolutely no need to spend any personal time doing work related stuff.
I agree with you but the inevitable counter argument is that not letting kids have unfettered access to screens and the internet is impractical to the point of comedy. I personally do not buy this argument, and although I do not have a child, my sister has kept my nephew screen-free so far and he's well at the age where kids start to use them independently. What does he do instead? He reads, he plays games (he's allowed some supervised access to video games), he plays sports. Stuff kids used to do and were totally fine.

The other argument is that this makes kids socially isolated from their peers, because they all have and use these devices. If that truly is the case there definitely still is a way to monitor your kids device and internet consumption without giving them free-reign. There are internet safety settings for parents on every device out there. Kids are perfectly capable of communicating with each other through a variety of mediums, they don't need tiktok (or whatever app is the trendy one of the decade).

The last argument, when you present the former argument, is that kids are clever and will find a way to get around controls. Yea, no shit, that's what kids do. Your role as a parent is to monitor that and teach/correct them.
If you live somewhere with currents, it could be good to be able to swim at all.
Yep still much lower than Li-ion batteries but within punching distance for sure. I also don't think this is intended to compete with traditional battery tech as much as making it even better in applications where supercapacitors currently excel at.
Could you please consider adding a volume control button on the website?
Yes, because that's going to stop competitors.. it's why they didn't release code I guess.

This is yet another large part of a biotech related Gutenberg moment.
Your dramatically overestimating Twitter's revenue. In 2021 it was about $5 billion in total. [1] Probably more like $100k per employee so around $650 million in labor cost reductions, and then around $1 billion loss in revenue. They are expected to become profitable sometime this year, so these numbers are probably roughly in the right ballpark.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/274568/quarterly-revenue...
It's quite obvious that Twitter/Google/Facebook/whoever do not have algorithms that scale where they can genuinely curate their content. Seems that obvious since Google bought YouTube.

Isn't it quite obvious that it's never been their prerogative. Nor protecting copyright.
Unsurprisingly we've now reached the perennial "is premature optimization actually premature" of it all :)

Would it have been better for the person who originally wrote that just-iterate-the-list implementation to have been thinking about data structures and algorithms that would perform better? Opinions on this vary, but I tend to come down on the side of: Optimize for human productivity (for both the writer and the many future readers) first, then profile, then optimize any bottlenecks.

My assumption when I come across something that turns out to be a performance bottleneck that is easy to fix with a better data structure or algorithm, is that the person who wrote that was consciously doing a simple implementation to start, in lieu of profiling to see where the actual bottlenecks are.

But I also understand the perspective of "just do simple performance enhancements up front and you won't have to spend so much time profiling to find bottlenecks down the line". I think both philosophies are valid. (But from time to time I do come across unnecessarily complicated implementations of things in code paths that have absolutely no performance implications, and wish people wouldn't have done that.)
Are you an editor or reviewer?
Then don’t use special edition joycons if you’re concerned about not having them
Thanks for this informative video summary. As a layperson, with a BS in Chemistry, it was quite helpful in understanding main bulletpoints of this accomplishment.
We (https://www.definite.app/) were also working on AI for SQL generation. I can see why you pivoted, it doesn't really work! Or at least well enough to displace existing BI solutions.

edit: context below is mostly irrelevant to snowflake cost optimization, but relevant if you're interested in the AI for SQL idea...

I'm pretty hard headed though, so we kept going with it and the solution we've found is to run the entire data stack for our customers. We do ETL, spin up a warehouse (duckdb), a semantic layer (cube.dev) and BI (dashboards / reports).

Since we run the ETL, we know exactly what all the data means (e.g. we know what each column coming from Stripe really means). All this metadata flows into our semantic layer.

LLM's aren't great at writing SQL, but they're really good at writing semantic layer queries. This is for a couple reasons:

1. better defined problem space (you're not feeding the LLM irrelevant context from a sea of tables)

2. the query format is JSON, so we can better control the LLM's output

3. the context is richer (e.g. instead of table and column names, we can provide rich, structured metadata)

This also solves the Snowflake cost issue from a different angle... we don't use it. DuckDB has the performance of Snowflake for a fraction of the cost. It may not scale as well, but 99% of companies don't need the sort of scale Snowflake pitches.