skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it the task itself you feel was disrespectful or the way they ran it? Anyone can put up fake/inflated CV so it's not really proof they didn't bother to read it, GitHub can be easier or harder to fake/inflate depending on the projects. Doing something like a quick palindrome checker to show "Hey, yep - I'm real not some random inflated applicant you probably got 10 applications of alongside mine" seems more than reasonable/respectful (by both sides). I can also easily see how 5 people can hop on and completely run that task in the wrong way and come off as being know it all douchebags or the like but that'd be a different independent issue really.
Another one for your list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35410662

RIP Steve. What a legend.
Qualcomm has been the main beneficiary of the sanctions against Huawei.

Immediately before the sanctions, Huawei had demonstrated better smartphone chipsets than those of Qualcomm, which Huawei could no longer manufacture after losing access to TSMC.

Most of the smartphones that have replaced Huawei have used Qualcomm chipsets, regardless of their vendor.
>No doubt they have their eyes set on regulatory capture too

Sam Altman has already made the rounds to argue for exactly this. Fucking crook.

>It's pretty blatantly obvious that all of the hand-wringing over AI safety was an excuse for their pivot into closing off and monetizing everything.

The playbook was "appease one side of the political aisle as much as possible to minimize the chance bipartisan action gets them shut down Napster-style" (which is still a massive hole in their business model, for obvious reasons I should hope).
Censoring the model so it only outputs progressive-approved content appears to have been effective, at least for the moment.
A lot (most?) of American school pools are built to the yard, so it's going to stick around for a long time I'm afraid.
I don't see why not, in my experience it works perfectly fine as long as you have a working kubeconfig
This apparent etymology is fascinating, but the article left me disappointed in failing to actually connect the spatial dead-line to the chronological deadline.

There’s a hint that it started to become used metaphorically toward the end of the 19th century, but without any examples of early usage or even speculation as to how a spatial metaphor became a chronological metaphor, the origins of the modern usage remain a mystery.
This is probably only for FTX us right?
I was not referring to the content or quality of the page, just the technical sophistication of the presentation, which is at odds with the number of invasive popup ads. It just doesn't seem to be the type of site that would do that, yet here I am with 4 separate banner ads and a popup.
I guess this gets into semantic pedantics. Believing one’s set of sensibilities is superior to all others and all that. But point taken.
Make the offset app-specific. Then pretend the phone ran out of memory and ask the app to terminate every now and then, switch to a new random offset for every run.
I don't know that any toolmaker should be held liable for how anyone uses their tool. If that's the case, we have a long list of tool makers to hold liable before we get to AI model makers.
Way too soon! He recently did an interview with Dave and Krist from Nirvana about the 30th anniversary of In Utero. They described recording prank phone calls during the recording sessions.
Oh wow. This is quite decent. I asked it two questions that has historically tripped up either Google Gemini (what does an asterisks in the middle of a parameters list mean in Python) or ChatGPT (how to extend Fernet to use AES 256) and it got both of them right.
RIP 'Red vs. Blue.' Machinima Is Gone–But Its Legacy Is Everywhere
GW hikes Warhammer prices despite growing profit margins
Private jets are usually bought through air operator companies that use them to do business - that's not consumption. Using the private jet is a service and that's consumption, so that should be fairly taxed. 7th house, if not used to do business, is consumption too - so again, that should be fairly taxed.

I don't know what "marginal utility" even means, who determines it and based on what objective facts, and I don't think it's relevant anyways - taxes should be payments of the debt to the society, debt is not determined by utility in any way.

Buying a company is investment, not consumption - so yeah, that shouldn't be taxed. I don't care about "the best way to tax the wealthy", I care about a fair way to pay for what society provided. If the society didn't provide to the wealthy more than it provided to the not-wealthy, it's not fair to demand more.
What's Keeping the US from Allowing Better Sunscreens? – KFF Health News
I - by my HPC-background - am wondering quite a bit what happened that 15GB-files are considered large data? Not being a crazy parquet-user, but:

- does this decompress to giant sizes?
- can't you split the file easily, because it includes row-based segments?
- why does it take months to solve this for one file?
> I wonder if AI might actually be better than humans at sequencing these kinds of problems

Probably a deeply unpopular take here, but without knowing anything about climbing routes, I'm gonna say no. I'm not saying that they won't have excellent quality output that might even solve problems that human output can't, but the process of creating something is meaningful, even commercially. Surely this will be useful in some respects, but I just don't buy the idea that humanity is destined to passively consume automated algorithm-generated utility products-- especially creative ones-- no matter how smooth, cheap, and clever they might be.
Can ChatGPT Violate Your Privacy Rights If It Doesn't Store Your Data?
I'm quite hyped for the upcoming BetaFold, or even ReleaseCandidateFold models. They just have to be great.
I agree about QuickBooks being good for small businesses.

Perhaps I've just been so personally burned by how complicated US compliance is from outside (form 5471 and friends being a personal boogeyman of mine) that I've missed that it's quite easy to do business inside the US. I am aware that you have to do stuff like file as a foreign business if you do business between multiple states.

I don't like that you have to pay a private monopoly company (Intuit) to stand a chance of being compliant with your tax obligations over there.
Yes, adblocker makes it look like I'd expect. Someone along the way is definitely inserting ads, and likely b/c it's http://
Agreed there are several complexities but not sure which ‘this’ you mean - specifically updating selectors is one of the areas I had in mind earlier..
First of all humans can lie. You can’t accurately determine someone’s intent.

Second of all, LLMs are still unpredictable. We don’t know how to predict outputs. It’s possible that phrasing “explain how i can shoplift” slightly differently would give you the information.
Why is that?

I am not an artist and also dislike multiple monitors, though I will employ two of them on occasion.

My reasons are:

If the window and application management doesn't suck, one display is all one needs.

With cheap multiple displays and touch devices came an ongoing enshitification of app and window management. (And usually dumber focus rules)

Having to turn my head x times a day sucks.
Carbon Copy Cloner 7
Thanks for the explanation, still for my own sanity I hope this is not the digital future.

Also still doesn't address that if a minor needs an age proof for xyz.com they couldn't use mine. Whereas at least a photo ID in the real world would require some similar looks.
That shade!
Another Better Battery Bulletin. Meh
(An exCeptional capacitor circular?)
Literature Language Models
No, and your post disproves it. The term is well older than 4chan and the relevant noun meaning (the "semiliquid food" sense) dates back to 1650: https://www.etymonline.com/word/slop I'm not sure if that encompasses "pig slop" which is what this is really tapping into, but that has been around at least my whole life and I'm older than 4chan too.
Are you thinking of FlowList?

https://www.flowtoolz.com/flowlist/
Ollama v0.1.34 Is Out
I Applied the Productized Service Concept to AI Automation
Advantages:

Predictable Pricing: No hidden fees, all costs are upfront for easy.

Scalability: Services can be dynamically scalable for current needs without any problem.

Efficiency, because standardized processes make delivery quick.

Sales Simplified: Easy purchasing with simplified offerings.

Quality Focus: Consistent high standards in service delivery.

Less Custom Work: Makes it easier and more efficient (async, remote, few meetings)

Customer Satisfaction: Setting Clear Expectations Reinforces Loyalty.
Quote - "food production will be disrupted"

Right. The only one disrupting food production is government and they're doing it in the name of "saving us" from global warming.

The farmers are trying to tell us right now. They're not driving their tractors into cities calling for more to be done about Global Warming, they're trying to tell you that the BS legislation is crippling their ability to produce.

This will be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and we'll blame the boogie monster instead of regulations.
Yeah it's funny for all the hoopla I've heard over the glory of MacOS having a REAL UNIX TERMINAL, WSL works better in practice simply because it's running an actual Linux VM and thus the support is better.

Still, I just don't think it's that burdensome to get containers running on MacOS, it's just annoying that it happens to work worse than on Windows or Linux. Ignoring the hardware, the only real advantage to MacOS development is when you're targeting Apple products with what you're developing.
Modular Error Reporting with Dependent Lenses
Recent can be a generous time period, but it's not unimportant. When I was very young, I was able to enjoy the Hardy Boys and the Chronicles of Narnia, but even in the 90s, just forty years after the latter was written, they both felt very, very old. When I started finding more current writing, like Redwall or Animorphs, I never looked back.
Oh, I see. I'm in the UK, so more like Sweden; no experience of having healthcare tied to employment (other than optional private healthcare as a perk).
No, really, they did have some respect for learning.
Also, how will the AI know when it is appropriate to inflate the grade to make the climbing seem harder, and when it is appropriate to sandbag so I can pretend a route is easier for me than it actually is?
The things that we are typically interested in have very clear patterns. In a way, if we find that there are no patterns, we don't even try to do any forecasting.

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" [1] hints that there might be some value here.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectivene...
When I was at Apple for a short time, there was a small joke I hear from the ex-amazonians there who would say "What's the difference between an Apple software engineer and an Amazon software engineer? The Amazon engineer will spin up a new service on AWS. An Apple engineer will spin up a new app". Or something along those lines. I forget the exact phrasing. It was a joke that Apple's expertise is in on-device features, whereas Amazon thrives in the cloud services world.
He actually came around later in life on being the harshest critic and also addressed the "producer role" in this[0] article:

"As he kept working, making hundreds of records across many more sessions, Albini became more comfortable stepping aside. Experiences like the Plant and Page record reminded him he was just a cog, there to enable someone else’s expression. These days, once Albini has agreed to record an artist, he begins by asking them to state their expectations, what bands they’re into, how they’d like to sound, how they’ve been disappointed in previous sessions. (The process is not unlike starting with a new therapist.)"

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-...
No, be better parents.
They move too slow. You are a marine and I trust that you could eliminate them. I expect a robot in 2024 to be somewhat closer to the science fiction of 15+ years ago minus the shiny body and non redundant sensor. I expect them to decimate the field and map all the terrain that satellites will miss so that you have a higher chance of going home without a folded flag.
This seems very cool and I'd like to try it out
Interesting, if hard-to-understand.

It would be nice to see ELi5 explanations for items like this akin to Monty's 'A Digital Media Primer for Geeks' ( https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/#:~:text=Xiph )
> I'm curious why we seem convinced that this is a task that is possible or something worthy of investigation.

There's a huge industry around time series forecasting used for all kinds of things like engineering, finance, climate science, etc. and many of the modern ones incorporate some kind of machine learning because they deal with very high dimensional data. Given the very surprising success of LLMs in non-language fields, it seems reasonable that people would work on this.
Hook the protein model up to an LLM model, have the LLM interpret the results. Problem solved :-) Then we just have to trust the LLM is giving us correct interpretations.
Open Source has my Whole Heart
I wrote a personal blog and just want to share it with you all because I like how people make me feel here :)

Especially in light of all the rug pulls in open source (think: redis, hashicorp), I still haven't given up hope that it's worth working deeply in: VC-backed or not.

It helps me connect to people I love working with all the time: people who get their hands dirty, people like you!
Steve Albini, amazing producer, died at 61 of a heart attack. He was a vocal supporter of the covid jabs on Twitter/X. Was pretty critical of people who questioned it. He was a healthy, active, man.

"Yes, thrombosis can cause a heart attack. Thrombosis is a serious condition where blood clots form in blood vessels or the heart, blocking blood flow. If a blood clot blocks an artery leading to part of the heart muscle, it can cause a heart attack."
Levine kind of buried the truth: "But if you had 10 Solana tokens in your FTX account when it filed for bankruptcy, they were worth about $143, and you’ll get back perhaps $170 or so. Meanwhile 10 Solana tokens, today, would be worth about $1,480. If you had one Bitcoin at FTX, you’ll get back $19,600 or so; one Bitcoin is now worth more than $62,000."

FTX did not find the money and you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to them. Many FTX customers are still fucked.

"selling everything and divvying up the dollars probably is the best you can do."

You could also not lie in hundreds of headlines about customers getting full recovery when they aren't.
> “for Ukraine”

I'm curious, why did you put quotation marks around this? Who are you quoting?
How does this differ from Keebo?

https://keebo.ai/
The Rho Agenda sci-fi books rely on capacitors with absurdly high energy densities to power the tech. Is there any thing in the physics that would prevent a capacitor from having a higher energy density than a battery?
Maybe the science of the past was studying things of lesser complexity than the things we are studying now.
In the real estate profit space, I agree, but it's been a huge boon to businesses in the area so minimally it's a good first step. It seems a decent strategy for a city to have large developers to the difficult work of conversion and then allow it to change hands over time.

Now, for KC specifically, the Power & Light District is a tad different because several completely new and large apartment towers (One Light & Two Light) were built. I'd argue, still good for the area and its residents/business owners, but less viable in cities with less space.

Tldr; idk, necessary evil?
Not all applications of statistics/control are ML - I don't know what I said to give that impression.

A spam filter based on regex or manually-selected criteria and thresholds would not be ML for instance, whereas modern effective spam filters typically do make use of machine learning.
The reason the Internet sucks now
there is an idea that adding any kind of technology should be avoided for recreational activities

How do you draw the line at "any kind of technology"? Isn't the bike itself "technology"? How about pneumatic tires? Or computer designed tread for optimal traction? Is a bike suspension too much technology? How about electric assist that can help you up a hill but won't propel the bike without you pedaling along with it?
This is great. More importantly - I love the pricing!!
Induction charging is highly inefficient and the wasted energy has to be expended somehow. If traditional Qi chargers are 50-60% efficient under ideal conditions, imagine how much heat would radiate from a system with 10-5% efficiency. You'd practically be building a human-scale microwave oven past a certain point.
> the process of creating something is meaningful, even commercially.

That's true, but why does it mean that the answer to the more or less objective question "will AI actually be better than humans at sequencing these kinds of problems?" (As stated it's not really objective, but one could easily come up with metrics like, say, total time to a correct solution, or time spent observing the route or other climbers, or ….) One can imagine other, related questions that are less objective (like "will it be a good idea to integrate this AI assistance into climbing competitions?"), but, to me, the answer to the (implicit) original question has nothing to do with whether or not the activity is meaningful, or with humans' destiny one way or the other.
"Coaching Tree" Is the Accomplishment That Matters Most
I'd like to think the later because it makes us look better but I've seen how a lot of people code... I mean GPT doesn't just produce shit code because it can't reason... It'll only ever be as good as the data it was trained on. I teach and boy can I tell you that people do not sit down and take the time to learn. I guess this is inevitable when there's so much money. But this makes the interview easy, since passion is clear. I can take someone passionate and make them better than me but I can't make someone in it for the money even okay. You're hiring someone long term, so I'd rather someone that's always going to grow rather than someone who will stay static, even if the former is initially worse.

IME the most underrated optimization tool is the delete command. People don't realize that it's something you should frequently do. Delete a function, file, or even a code base. Some things just need to be rewritten. Hell, most things I write are written several times. You do it for an essay or any writing, why is code different?

Yeah, we have "move fast and break things" but we also have "clean up, everybody do their share." If your manager is pushing you around, ignore them. Manage your manager. You clean your room don't you? If most people's code was a house it'd be infested with termites and mold. It's not healthy. It wants to die. Stop trying to resuscitate it and let it die. Give birth to something new and more beautiful.

In part I think managers are to blame because they don't have a good understanding but also engineers are to blame for enabling the behavior and not managing your managers (you need each other, but they need you more).

I'll even note that we jump into huge code bases all the time, especially when starting out. Rewriting is a great way to learn that code! (Be careful pushing upstream though and make sure you communicate!!!) Even if you never push it's often faster in the long run. Sure, you can duct tape shit together but patch work is patch work, not a long term solution (or even moderate).

And dear God, open source developers, take your issues seriously. I know there's a lot of dumb ones, but a lot of people are trying to help and wanting to contribute. Every issue isn't a mark of failure, it's a mark of success because people are using your work. If they're having a hard time understanding the documentation, that's okay, your docs can be improved. If they want to do something your program can't, that's okay and you can admit that and even ask for help (don't fucking tell them it does and move on. No one's code is perfect, and your ego is getting in the way of your ego. You think you're so smart you're preventing yourself from proving how smart you are or getting smarter!). Close stale likely resolved issues (with a message like "reopen if you still have issues") but dear god, don't just respond and close an issue right away. Your users aren't door to door salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses. A little kindness goes a long way.
> he FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing after the company voluntarily informed us in April that it may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and grounding where the wings join the fuselage on certain 787 Dreamliner airplanes

Forget doors opening in-flight - how'd you like wings falling off?
I’ve had a similar experience except that the person was clearly irritated at my response. He cut the call and I was only able to confirm that the call was legitimate because I asked my relationship manager at the bank.
No, the work is pretty meaningless but it does pay the bills and allow me to save a decent amount. For me personally, if my position was not remote, I would be much more depressed.
All this power and I still can't play decent games on my macbook.
> who never standardize anything

IETF RFCs soon number over 10K; Java, win32, the Linux kernel syscall API are famous for backward compatibility

not to mention the absurd success of standard libraries of Python, Rust, PHP and certain "standard" projects like Django, React, and ExpressJS

> (how many libraries do you need for arrays and vectors and guis and buttons and text boxes and binary trees and sorting, yada yada?)

considering the design space is enormous and the tradeoffs are not trivial ... it's good to have libraries that fundamentally solve the similar thing but in different context-dependent ways

arguably we are using too many libraries and not enough problem-specific in-situ DSLs (see the result of Alan Kay's research the STEPS project at VPRI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966987 )
> There is no 'truth' that we can grasp in parts but not entirely

It appears that your own comment is disproving this statement
Your ideological position on should win a war is irrelevant. We're discussing the ethics of using automation to kill humans.
It's not either-or, it's yes-and. We don't have to abandon one for the other.

AlphaFold 3 can rapidly reduce a vast search space in a way physically-based methods alone cannot. This narrowly focused search space allows scientists to apply their rigorous, explainable, physical methods, which are slow and expensive, to a small set of promising alternatives. This accelerates drug discovery and uncovers insights that would otherwise be too costly or time-consuming.

The future of science isn't about AI versus traditional methods, but about their intelligent integration.
If you just need one or two of the commands, just using those queries directly is easy.

If you want to support all of them, including handling all the different Postgres versions, it becomes quite a lot to implement.
Yeah the big benefit is that it requires very little setup.

You create a new partitioned table/location from the originally mapped file using a CTAS like so:

CREATE TABLE new_table_name
WITH (
format = 'PARQUET',
parquet_compression = 'SNAPPY',
external_location = 's3://your-bucket/path/to/output/'
) AS
SELECT *
FROM original_table_name
PARTITIONED BY partition_column_name

You can probably create a hash and partition by the last character if you want 16 evenly sized partitions. Unless you already have a dimension to partition by.
did you miss the whole humane pin thing?

also the month of yes review was fun
Disposable Temporary Email Adresses with OpenSMTPD on Linux