skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about anything other than your comment which was downvoted when I saw it (and check, yup, still downvoted). That comment just says, "nope" -- and doesn't add anything to the discussion, just "nope." Since that comment was saying that the option is not just a binary A or B, you can change the value of the comment from negative (as evidenced by negative votes) to positive simply by engaging slightly further and saying "It is not just A or B, for example C". I'd be surprised if the comment was downvoted then.

I think you are maybe reading more into my reply than I ever intended to put into it. It is a meta comment about a comment.
And you thought your for-loops were too deeply nested!
Source code:

+: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/clojure-1.11.1/src/c...

*: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/clojure-1.11.1/src/c...

Docs:

+: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/%2B

*: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/*
Random TikTokers will use AI that sounds like a celebrity, and they get away with it. There are many reasons why it's not a big fuss. They're not really selling a product directly, so it could be considered a fair use, unlike ChatGPT which is a paid product (they're literally selling the voice as a feature). There is also the intent; a Morgan Freeman AI voice on a random TikTok video is obvious to a reasonable person to not actually be his real voice, so you can't really make any sort of claim that they're masquerading him as actually saying whatever the script is. It's just for fun. And finally you can't really sue thousands and thousands of TikTokers.
His talks are some of the most fascinating I’ve ever heard. Nick Lane is a close second.
Conversion works in mysterious ways!
But the original assertion was that the researchers "behaved respectfully" by using the #16 name.
Does it? The x-amz-copy-source-if-match etc headers seem to be talking about the source, not the target. I see nothing there to express "fail if target object exists already".
This is also the American/bald eagle problem. When people hear their actual cries, they’re often confused.
Wealthy's root form is weal. As in we should do things for the common weal of the people.

Weal is defined as happiness, well-being, prosperity, or that which is best for someone.
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I am now!

Thats my bank holiday jobs all sorted.

I am going to dig a massive hole in the garden and line it with 3 foot thick concrete including the roof, not unsimilar to a fall out shelter.

Stock up with as much survival gear and food as possible.

Most important of all I am going to start wearing my tin foil hat.

Definitely lots of books as the phone and internet will be wiped out.

I am personally looking forward to a no phones and internet future.

Not worried too much about food, If I run out I will send the old trouble down the supermarket.

She's as tough as old boots and I am sure highly resistant to magnetic storm force fields.

Dont worry I'm not that callous, I will lend her my tin foil at to protect her.

Then its just a matter of waiting until the rest of the world is destroyed by the magnetic storm event.
Can you share more about how you went about this? How did you learn what’s needed to go through with this? Beyond knowing things like time value of money and the goal of making more revenue than costs.
If this is really your hill to die on, go for it. Using “prosecute” to refer to civil litigation is not standard English in any dialect circa 1850.
Another oss alternative that a like is SpaceSniffer[1]. It doesn't have the color coding but it is much faster and updates live.

[1]: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
I'll take that wager. How much? I say we make it large enough to be interesting.
You're not competing against the hackers doing nothing, you're competing against them targeting some other country or just changing jobs. You don't have to get the payouts to $0, just low enough that it's not worth doing.

This would basically remove the prospect of million dollar payouts; it probably removes the prospect of payouts in the hundreds of thousands. Any company with the money to make those kinds of payouts is likely to have reporting requirements that make it very hard or impossible to hide.

Payments in the tens of thousands could maybe be hidden or targeted at small enough businesses that they don't have to report what happened to their money, but is it even worth it at that point? We're talking people with at least some level of technical ability; do they really want to piss off the FBI/NSA/European equivalents for tens of thousands of dollars? I sure wouldn't.
Ask it for an image or for some text. Then cross-check. Many times you can see: it doesn’t make stuff up, it steals and remixes. Same thing here.
Amazon's model for package delivery is to hire "contractor" companies who then hire workers to drive around Amazon-marked vehicles to deliver nothing but Amazon packages, working under a long list of rules imposed by Amazon. These workers are effectively Amazon employees, but don't get the ordinary protections that would be afforded to workers hired directly by Amazon. Compared to other delivery drivers they have less training, higher turnover (less experience), higher delivery quotas, harsher schedules, worse pay/benefits, less job security, and no collective bargaining. This puts downward pressure on every other package delivery company, but those companies (and national postal services) can't legally mistreat their employees in the same ways Amazon can. This gives Amazon an uncompetitive advantage by reducing their costs below their competitors' costs, in a way that is unlawful and would be impossible if existing labor laws were vigorously enforced. However, they have thus far managed to evade legal responsibility in many (but not all) jurisdictions.
It's in the very article
> He compared Johansson’s case to one brought by the singer Bette Midler against the Ford Motor Company in the 1980s. Ford asked Midler to use her voice in ads. After she declined, Ford hired an impersonator. The U.S. appellate courts ruled in Midler’s favor, indicating her voice was protected against unauthorized use.
Awesome man! I am curious to know more about it though. I am thinking to take back my grand parent hotel but i am worried about the small town life
The article is clear: This is hiding which posts you’ve liked from other users.

Not the like counts in posts.
This channel has lots of Youtube shorts about basic ideas in Black Metal guitar: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c16tL6rdh7g
"Sky" voice has been available for 8 months now, they didn't ask for Scarlett Johansson voice several times before releasing it.
Think they just added 7z and rar support very recently though. But zip has been in there for ages... I use it all the time.
I think the author has a hard time trying to put a "why should we care?" spin on this at the end: Middle class families need a nice night out, and red lobster is the best way to do that!

Totally agree that this is vicious jackal like behavior by the PE funds. But as others have said, this is the lifecycle of a dying company. If red lobster's share prices were high because they were extremely profitable and everyone loved the restaurants:

A) it'd be too expensive for PE to buy up a controlling share

B) The smart move wouldn't be to strip the company for parts, the smart move would be to keep running the business well and soaking up the cashflows

This stuff happens to a limping company and the PEs are the wild dogs picking off the old weak corporations.

I think articles like this are pulling a switcheroo where it gets you to engage your moral indignation emotions and aim them in defense of a corporation. Those emotions are appropriate if we're talking about a human being, but aren't when we talking about a company. Imagine a PE fund doing some equivalent to an elderly person, that would actually be outrage worthy! This is just corporate finance, don't let it get to you.
> one thing worth recognizing is that very few careers are as age biased as tech. I worked in an industry were 40 was considered "young" and ever since I hit lates-30s in tech I've been the "old guy".

I was called "grandpa" by my office mates in a job when I was 35. You can't get away with that overtness with today's word-policing, but even if the words are banned, I think the attitudes have not really changed.
Links to all of the sources, mostly US government docs, about the Liberty

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1D9Zaet2ypKD7H6gyxYtU...

One source of many about targeting journalists for over two decades

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/middleeast/israel-military-jo...

One source on IDF killing indiscriminately

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/02/middleeast/israel-bo...

And for some extra flavor have a few sources on the IDF posting videos of their abuse of Palestinians

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-09/ty-article-ma...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/idf-posting-abuse-foota...

Are these actions that of the "most moral army"?

These things are easily googlable yet you haven't bothered to do the slightest bit of reading before dismissing the claims outright. Even the US president had said that the attack on the Liberty was 100% intentional while knowing it was a US vessel
We’re already there

Headed to production
Thanks for weighing in. I'm sure for your setup right now, our router in it's current form would not be useful for you. This is the very first version, and the scope is therefore relatively limited.

On our roadmap, we plan to support:

- an API which returns the neural scores directly, enabling model selection and model-specific prompts to all be handled on the client side

- automatic learning of intermediate prompts for agentic multi-step systems, taking a similar view as DSPy, where all intermediate LLM calls and prompts are treated as latent variables in an optimizable end-to-end agentic system.

With these additions, the subtleties of the model + prompt relationship would be better respected.

I also believe that LLMs will become more robust to prompt subtleties over time. Also, some tasks are less sensitive to these minor subtleties you refer to.

For example, if you have a sales call agent, you might want to optimize UX for easy dialgoue prompts (so the person on the other end isn't left waiting), and take longer thinking about harder prompts requiring the full context of the call.

This is just an example, but my point is that not all LLM applications are the same. Some might be super sensitive to prompt subtleties, others might not be.

Thoughts?
Dumb down your resume. Mine's currently missing an entire decade, leaving out entire details for the things that are there, etc.

If you keep running into an "employment experience" issue but you actually do know what you are doing, a dev I know used to be a maths teacher, created an LLC with a dumb name and created a consulting website. Then after a couple of years of no leads, simply listed themselves as an employee at said LLC on their resume. They are also one of the best devs I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Can someone point me to some resources as to how to interpret the table, which I assume is some sort of description for a Turing machine?
This is from their PillPack acquisition?
Learn Ops. All operations in decent orgs these days _is_ software engineering, and a large swath of those who do it lack deep infra experience and rely a lot on trial and error in more complicated configurations.
It's only a logical fallacy if it is taken to be the entirety of the argument rather than an abbreviated representation of a longer chain of reasoning. I don't think anyone would claim that sentence is self-evidently true!
This article is a paid hit-piece. Trumpian language and all: “people are saying—very good people, the best people—that the voice wasn’t copied. It was a perfect call.” It is so obvious that her voice was stolen, and they are paying to try to cover it up.
Clojure has immutability built into the language and the core data structures are all persistent so that you can get sufficiently efficient partial updates while still preserving a pure FP style.

Furthermore, the data structures in clojure also have interfaces that make it easier to swap out which data structure you're using while still keeping whatever map/filter/reduce algorithm implementation you're sending it through.

Common lisp, on the other hand, has setf. Which more or lets you mutate anything. You certainly can code in an FP style in common lisp, but it doesn't restrict you in any meaningful way. Not a problem if you control the entire codebase, but when gluing components together this can be a source of friction.
Bought a farm and went to work for a state government. Still doing dev but having a lot more day to day impact and when I leave at 5 I am done. Went on a contract and decided I liked what I saw from work life balance. Has let me step aside and let my wife and kids pursue their career while I focus on keeping animals inside fences and doing the laundry because everyone else is working 60-70 hour weeks. And no, none of them are in dev. They saw, or didn't see because I was never around, why it was a bad life choice for them I guess.
I'm curious if this stuff:

A) makes it inside the US

B) scales outside of it

My gut reaction is A) maybe, B) hell no.
What I'm saying is that extern "C" has no effect on structure compatibility.
Show HN: A web server written in plain English
What do I mean by plain English?
I mean there's no source code, no programming language.
Just plain English "compiled" and CI/CDed into "production" at https://nie.avoguard.com/.

Why did I build this? Just for fun. I wanted to see how close to a production-ready code can an LLM generate, and what would it take to actually take it into production. With today's technology, could an English speaker write a web server without knowing much about software engineering?

See the "source plain English" for details of how detailed the instructions need to be to produce something somewhat stable. It's very basic, so it should be easy to build and modify for your own experiments.
> It's conceivable that Microsoft developers could have programmed Windows Explorer differently to have an optimized code path of reading MFT for local disks and then fall back to slower FindFirstFile()/FindNextFile() for non-MFT disks

Surely this would have been worth doing, even if it meant flushing out bugs elsewhere.
I Tried Being a Mascot for the Day
Thank you. Watching it now. Does the Langlands program compete with Category Theory as being the grand unified theory of math, or are they not really comparable?
> When you're an engineer, you are responsible for the software you develop, deploy, and maintain. When you’re a manager, you are responsible for your team and the organization as a whole.

Maybe, in the article's startup with 40 engineers, if they want to structure it as compartmentalized worker drone resources, who mostly only do what they're tasked to do, and someone else has their eye on the bigger picture and what all the teams need.

Depending on the nature of the project, 40 engineers could be a lot, and might have big coordination overhead and risk. Then maybe managers and/or cross-team technical roles can help with that.

Or maybe the bulk of it is something easily parallelizable and straightforward, like systems integrations for many customers around a shared core that they don't much change. Or they're building something that they're sure fits a routine pattern, with little cross-team thinking to do (e.g., "simple CRUD, with Web backend, Web frontend, and iOS and Android apps"). If the work is that simple, but still voluminous, you don't need many people who aren't either typing code or determining&selling product.
That's probably the reason for eliminating the written word. Saying "width and heighth" still sounds pretty reasonable (I have to stop myself from saying it), and I hear it all the time.
You once found joy in mathematics, and have replaced that source of joy with ...?
I've made a simple archive of the work Lehrer released to the public domain: https://github.com/jcalvinowens/tomlehrer-archive

The text on his website suggests it won't be around for long. The archive is a git repo, you can help out by hosting it somewhere.
In addition to Unhook, I also use SponsorBlock [1] and Return YouTube Dislike [2].

While SponsorBlock is something that some people might not want/need, I find Return YouTube Dislike to be particularly useful because the like/dislike ratio is a valuable data point for a video I'm about to watch even if it's just an approximate/predicted value.

[1] https://sponsor.ajay.app/

[2] https://returnyoutubedislike.com/
You are living the dream. Compensation is pointless if you make enough and is satisfied with what you have.

Working like this can bring a lot of satisfaction because in the end you help a lot of people, like me (also a Berliner!).

In a big organization it's very unlikely that you'll get that kind of satisfaction.
> you write new files containing the changes (the log)

People are asking for create-if-not-exists specifically to be able to add objects to an ordered log, without needing a separate service for coordination.
S3 cannot be used for this. GCS, for example, can.
> The free Khanmigo access takes effect on May 21 for K-12 educators based in the United States.
No, that's long been established. His movie preferences just illustrate it further.
Big Tech can barley make a website that works as well as grainger, pretty sure this one ages poorly.
I think the way I would split the difference here is that your point should inform how we think about regulation and investigation. How we write rules, how we decide to proceed in terms of investigating things.

But when it comes to specific questions that hinge on evidence, I think you have to maintain the typical presumption of innocence, just to balance out the possibilities of mob psychology getting out of control.
only doesn't mean they don't have effective pricing power in the local labor market due to their size
McKinsey & Co. has 45k employees. The stereotype you might have of their employees is not universal. I know someone who worked for a startup/greenfield tech project division at a similar company who went to that job from a start up and right back into a start up after it.

Looks like they McKinsey has a whole arm, Fuel, doing that type of work: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...
Obligatory Zootopia Sloth scene: https://youtu.be/HHKwnUa3txo?si=ZblXuDa4RXtYXzzk
Did this actually work? Searching for 'etilqs_', now in 2024, gives plenty of results much like the ones described in the comment. The claim that "...anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart enough to know that calling the developer will not help..." doesn't hold true when the confused users were never being 'smart' at all; they were reading out-of-context support queries and blogspam.

In my opinion, the problems that remain to this day include:

- lack of adherence to conventions for naming and storage of temporary files, especially on Windows. Somehow I'm not surprised that McAfee was a prime offender: antivirus vendors have no incentive to make things less confusing!

- sub-standard technical support that perpetuates misunderstandings. I sometimes wonder how I ever managed to become expert in the fields that I have, because most of the information on any technical subject is misleading if not outright wrong.

- (predictably) a lack of technical literacy in the general population. I know people are touchy about this, and rightly so - it's not the fault of the individual. Yet you can't avoid the mismatch between the knowledge required to correctly understand and debug software like SQLite and the much lower threshold of being able to find a telephone number online and start pestering people.
This is a good example of the case Scarlett Johansson has against OpenAI
Thank you for providing a nice side-by-side. This makes it clear to me the voices are not very similar at all. If Johansson had agreed, I have to imagine they would've been able to make a much closer (and less annoying!) voice.
it's "cool" tech but unfortunately not in the industry I would like
You know, it's art even if it has no ambitions to be exhibited at the MoMA.

> It's a computer wallpaper that monopolistic megacorp funded to show off how wealthy it is.

Groan. It's not possible to have a serious discussions with someone starting from such a cynical position. After all, what is even the point of creating anything? We're all going to turn to dust and be forgotten forevermore.
There is copyobject or something which is exactly equivalent to renaming.
Pretty sure that's what he means. It's one of the more competitive academic positions.

Anecdote, but: I knew several math and physics PhD students. About half of the physics ones eventually obtained tenure track faculty positions in the US. Not a single math one did.
What a great article. Really helped clear things up /s
This is actually really helpful thank you
This may be the study thereim discussed?

"Electric recycling of Portland cement at scale" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07338-8
> Weird Al albums and he is very diligent about obtaining permissions from artists he is covering.

IIUC, Weird Al probably doesn't need permission for his parodies, legally speaking. He does get it anyway.
No it doesn't, but leading up to the trial, Epic generally and Sweeney specifically made a _huge_ PR push that he was waging this battle on Apple (and Google) on behalf of all developers everywhere who are getting screwed over by the 30% commission.

While it’s perfectly fine for him to sue, I think it’s extremely disingenuous for him to make that huge PR push about how he’s standing up for the common developer and then admit on the stand that he’s perfectly happy to let the common developer continue to twist in the wind as long as he gets his pay-off.

In that sense, Google’s post did get one thing right — Epic’s only interested in itself; any impact for anybody else, positive or negative, is just incidental.
Zebra Imaging (now defunct) made impressive holographic displays (prints?) ~15 years ago which were illuminated by external light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhgzWFos6m8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx3TSQul94E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D5yzaTn26Y
Something I think I might like to do if / when I'm closer to financial independence, that sounds like it might be up your alley as well, is write about some deep and interesting topic. Basically, be a beat journalist with a self-driven beat that is heavy on empirical analysis.

For me, and my current interests, this would be climate and energy technology, a la heatmap.news. For you, maybe something in the commodities and geopolitical analysis space.

It's easy to make fun of how everyone has a newsletter and a podcast now, but at the heart of that is that it truly is the case that there has never in history been a better time to do reporting on interesting things, and possibly even find a large enough audience for it to be a real and sustainable vocation.
TFA specifies "more than 1,500 billion". That's more than a _trillion_, not "billions"! Why the reluctance to use the proper number?
Actually, they train you to squeeze money from everyone. They squeeze money from you to help you squeeze money out of your customers.
> The point is that they pay such low wages that their workers are still eligible for welfare when working there (despite being hugely profitable)

I'm not contesting this. This is a valid point.

> This essentially means that tax dollars are subsidizing their profits.

I don't see how this would be the case.

Two scenarios:

1:

- Welfare is now $0/month

- Some people that could get by with welfare now can't. They start looking for jobs.

- Increase in the supply of workers.

- Decrease in wages. (good for amazon)

2:

- Welfare is now $3k/month

- Some people decide that it's no longer worth it to work. They'd rather just live off of welfare.

- Decrease in the supply of workers.

- Increase in wages. (bad for amazon)