skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Busang's gold resource was estimated by Bre-X's independent consulting company, Kilborn Engineering (a division of SNC-Lavalin of Montreal

Ah yes, SNC-Lavalin and fraud, name a more iconic duo.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/snc-lavalin-trading-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair
It may be fun to joke at and hate on them but look at their revenues, growth and market shares, instead of thinking as a consumer where you personal come across them and whether you like them. Nearly monopoly personal OS and productivity, top 2 cloud and search engine (cue the Bing jokes but it makes them $12bn a year), rights to frontier AI models via OpenAI. The only rival who competes in multiple markets is Google - who still makes 90% of their money from ads and does not have sales/distribution that MS has. If Microsoft doesn't have a future then what of the rest of FAANG, none of them are as diversified or have OpenAI. Oh I forgot Github and Linkedin
Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease found
That's not quite what I'm pointing at here, and I also agree with the other commenter that the metaphor is stretched too far to be useful.

But if we're going to stick with it, it's very likely the fence will still work for its purpose if you remove some of the pickets. But to figure out which ones, and how many, you need to have a clear conception of the fencemaker's goal and how it currently accomplishes them or fails to. The significance of any specific part isn't a sound basis for an argument about the purpose or usefulness of the fence per se.
This rocket is not reusable so it’s kind of an antique.
Plant-based Mediterranean diet lowers women's early death risk by 23%
I downloaded the Tetris iOS game a few days ago.

It is splashed with fullscreen ads, which are very hard to dismiss. Multiple times I've 'clicked' the ad while thinking I was getting rid of it. The normal game mode has 'goals' which appear to be the same two things over and over: get x points, clear y rows. There is some kind of competition (or gamble? I don't know -- there are prizes.) Maybe in-game purchases? You need to pay coins for some things? I can't tell, I'm trying to avoid the buttons.

There is a 'delete your data' button in settings that takes you to a form you have to fill out, finding data codes from some other location. It's as user-unfriendly as you can get.

The actual gameplay takes ages to load; I cannot understand how simple game logic like a Tetris game can have a ten-second loading period to start the app and multiple seconds to load the Tetris part. The music is exactly the same, no variations. The graphics are unimaginative. I can even criticise the icon: the icon is mostly a grid of filled squares like Breakout, it barely _looks_ like Tetris.

I can barely believe how bad a once-famous game like this has become.

Link, if you really want it :( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tetris/id1491074310
NASA's cash is nice to have. But it's not what's important to SpaceX at this point. Their estimated valuation is somewhere in the $200bn range. Their cash cow is Starlink (with 3 million subscribers and growing each month), the future profitability and competitivity of which is highly dependent on Starship being operational and fully reusable.

I know Elon says Multiplanetary this and Mars that but the real reason for the Starship push is Starlink. They need Starship to put bigger (V2s non-minis and V3s) and more satellites into the orbit if they want to get to that 35000 number this decade and not break the bank. They need to hurry before the likes of Amazon get their shit together and start building their own internet satellite constellations.
Yea the one benefit to Texas "deregulation" is its alot easier for them to build infrastructure.

In NY, NIMBYs block basically everything and it's both political parties.
And furthermore, it is by a Google employee with plans to merge it into Android as far as i know
Why are so many people so insistent on saying this?

I’m guessing you are in denial that we can make a simulated reasoning machine?
My YOShInOn RSS reader uses BERT-family embeddings to capture the "gist" of text the way the neural network for that search engine did, then I treat content-based recommendation as a classification problem. (e.g. "Will the user like this?")

My system is quite a bit different from others because, like TikTok but even more so, it demands a thumbs up/thumbs down judgement for every article so I get a set of negative samples that are really reliable.

There are numerous frontiers of improving this system. One of them is that there are certain things, like "roundup" articles that cover a wide range of topics (say https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/03/russia-uk...) that the embedding doesn't capture well, adding some new features could clear out maybe 10% of articles I'd rather not see but I am not in such a rush because overall the system is very satisfying to me and I am already blending in more random articles than that to get samples to keep it calibrated and also sometimes discover new topic areas I find interesting.

Another interesting frontier is sequential recommendation

https://paperswithcode.com/task/sequential-recommendation

but I'm not sure if I really want to take an ML approach to this because I'm not sure there is enough training data for one person's content-based recommendation. I'm not sure exactly how I want to do it, but when I post to a place like HN I do not want to post a stick of five articles from phys.org, rather I want there to be some diversity in my feed not just over the course of a 300 article batch but on the scale of individual posts. Items can be hung up in queues for several days in this process; most "news" on HN is fairly evergreen and it doesn't matter if it is delayed a week but articles about sports have a short shelf life as you look like a fool if you post an article about what happened in week 3 of the NFL after the games of week 4 have played. So I need some way for sports articles to "jump the line" ahead of other articles but I don't want that to privilege sports over everything else.

Similarly there is "the probability that article A is relevant" but there is also "Is A or B a higher quality article?" One Google innovation was using a document quality score (PageRank) asides a normal document-query ranking which is tricky because now you're not optimizing for one thing but trying to optimize for two things that could compete with each other. I am thinking about switching that system from a batch to a streaming mode and need some answers for that.
I think you're wrong about that — I just tried prompting ChatGPT 4o to show all its working before giving an answer.

It was still incorrect, but when asked to show its working it formatted the answer prettily.
Starship hasn't been to orbit yet.
> A problem with this approach is it's not monotonical

Whether or not that's bad fully depends on your platform and the number of writes you do. If you're using a massively distributed database like Datastore, Spanner etc, you want random keys as to avoid hot spots for writes. They produce contention.
I agree the communication about this change of ownership has been far from ideal.

But issues with permissions (e.g. the user needing to disable/re-enable some macOS permission after an update, even if the cert doesn't change) are fairly common.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/07/arm-earnings-report-q3-2024-...
https://www.techpowerup.com/322317/amd-hits-highest-ever-x86...

Did a pretty simple search, but these appear to be the trend being referenced.

The first marks a clear downward trajectory for Intel (on x86) and upward one for AMD, the second mentions high ship numbers for ARM.

I can imagine you can dice those to show that the Intel market share demand is decreasing, at least relative to total market share (which could be increasing).

> I just thought that something like this could be achieved by Intel with their processors too but it doesn't look like that's the case.

Nope. Intel has an large set of extensions to support with CISC (slow, more complexity) whereas RISC architecture has a small API and hence more leeway to do as they please (fast, less complexity).

You could probably strip down the intel CISC architecture to something much simpler/nimbler, but you'd break a ton of existing applications. Or you could go RISC as well, and break even more things...

Or like Apple you already don't care and effectively deprecate all the "old" applications (they run on a compatibility layer), and use your expertise and vertical integration to design a system from the ground up...Microsoft and Intel would both have to decide to completely abandon their existing product line and "start over", which they could do, but then they'd also have to work very, very closely with each other (no egos/bosses trying to do things "their" way) to make that work, and probably piss off every other vendor they've ever worked with at the same time....

Which is probably why Microsoft is trying so hard to "just" get ARM working, its far simpler to target a platform with a large and growing base rather than try to work efficiently with Intel...
CVs are fine, alternatives are Linkedin, which are basically a digitalized version of a CV.

It's ok to sort through CVs, unless you are getting spammed, everyone behind a CV is a person and deserves some attention. There are many tools that help you do that as well.
Uh.. what format does it give you the data in then?
You're right, it really wasn't that strong to begin with. Everyone talks about Boeing's engineering culture but this all took place in the context of the 1990s after the DoD started to unwind its anti-Soviet doctrine and retooling the armed forces for other enemies. There was less money to go around in the defense industry and everyone was downsizing so the engineering culture at Boeing was at risk if not already undermined by layoffs. The 1990s also brought a global slump in aircraft sales which hit their commercial aviation divisions really hard and Boeing tried to age-out the most expensive workers that would have been the backbone of the culture.

Lockheed had just merged with Martin Marietta to become Lockheed Martin and that goaded Boeing's leadership to blunder into a FOMO merger with McDonnell-Douglas. On top of that, the US government itself actually paid bonuses to the executives who got the LM deal done so the incentives were rotten from the start.

I've also heard rumors that Boeing execs received pressure from the DoD to acquire McDonnell-Douglas to prevent it from going bankrupt so they might not have been entirely willing from the start. The latter had just lost some pretty large contracts to competitors and was at risk of going bust entirely which was an unacceptable vendor risk to the DoD. The DoD didn't have the money to prop it up directly so instead might have used a third party.
OK, but I have a two-year-old, so consider my privilege sufficiently "checked" before having written the post. Anyway, what would you suggest that would be more fair?
I’m unsure why the downvotes, but it would be an interesting study whether there is an adaptation for lower testosterone to encourage fathers to be more nurturing and less aggressive to their offspring. Ie, is there a plausible and measurable explanation for why the t-drop is evolutionarily advantageous.
1) Intel hit a rough patch vs AMD chips for performance/price tradeoffs

2) Apple M Series Chips

3) New Snapdragon ARM chips are poised to do to the rest of laptops what M did to Macs. Once someone has all day battery life they aren’t going back to intel.
Back side is much more correct but in colloquial English it sounds like you’re talking about the Moon’s butt. This would also mean if the Moon lost its tide lock and spun around it would be Mooning us.

Dark side sounds cooler and more mysterious.
Impressive!

Are there always three players in the goalie position? I seem to remember playing with one goalie (1-2-5-3 players), but that’s a while ago.
Have the team reflect and come up with a better process, or they will be disbanded. Give them any and all the resources they ask for.
It says "Timeline backs up to Google servers over Wi-Fi when your device is charging and idle." on an iphone so I don't think it is synced to icloud.
If you bought a "license", don't you have a right to know who you are doing business with?
To be fair, SpaceX is far more cheerworthy.

Does the Starliner have any feature that current SpaceX rockets don't have?
I was really surprised to read the other day that Dell isn't making money on AI servers. I played around with the server build tool on their website and was surprised to see that a H100 adds ~$50K to a server! How the heck are these companies spending $100K per server going to get back their ROI? Are all these costs going to get written off as R&D? This really seems like the dot-com days but worse somehow.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/dell-shares-fall-ai-servers-...
> This assumes that Microsofts future IS windows.

> I don't believe that has been the case since Satya.

Indeed. When MS has several multi-billion dollar streams of revenue - Office, Azure, XBox, game labels, and so on, and the "cloudy" part of computing is almost exclusively Linux, there's less compelling reasons for them to invest in Windows.

With other moves like WSL, 'winget' and 'sudo', it's clear Windows is slowly moving towards a facade that mimics Linux from the CLI.

In 2000, MS was Windows 9x, 2000, and Office.

Consider that in 2004, you'd go to a site and download a Windows-only piece of software, and in 2024, you'll now find Apple-only software, or Linux only.

Arguably, the 'year of the Linux(-like) desktop' has been MacOS for well over a decade. It's a gateway drug to full Linux, with very little friction in comparison to Windows (filesystem paths, Win32 api, etc.).
Suicide won't be committed by missteps. Suicide will be committed by departing from your brand. And this copilot+ and recall is on-brand. And the missteps will be corrected. Remember tick-tock. The ticks suck! The tocks do well. Tick: 95, Windows 2000, ME, Vista, Win8. Tock: Windows 98SE?, XP, 7, 10. I am not sure where to put Windows 11.

Copilot+ is a tick. Let's wait for what is next.
Why does it say faceless when many of them have faces?
> For some reason I expected a "not-first-class" experience while using my own hosted runner but that was not the case. It works and behaves exactly as their own runners do.

Interesting, I've used GitLab extensively and hosted/self-hosted runners were trivial to use/run, so I would have expected nothing less from GitHub. They probably make a decent margin on the hosted runners at the cost of significant complexity, so if they can give that away to the orgs that will have their own (virtual) hardware anyway, with their own contracts and networking and etc., why not?

> Just wanted to add, I loved your post on logging Nomad allocs using Loki. Was a huge help while I was setting up our clusters at $CURRENT_JOB

Glad you found it helpful! If you ever want to chat about it, feel free to hit me up (contacts are on my website available in my profile).
I observed very similar behavior a few years back when transferring files between two servers under my control on different parts of a large university network.

We also initially thought we were the subject of a breach, but after the investigation we determined that the network's IDS was monitoring all traffic, and upon certain triggers, would make identical requests from external networks.

We found a way to identify all other similar IDSs across the internet and even "weaponize" this behavior. We ended up writing a paper on it: https://ian.ucsd.edu/papers/cset2023_fireye.pdf
I use SensibleSideButtons and ScrollReverser continually. Those are features which I consider absolutely basic and their omission leaves me cynical.

Rectangle and Contexts are extensions I use to make Mac OS closer to Windows or Linux in comfort, but they're not what I'd consider essential.

An interesting thing happened while I was enumerating the tweaks I had installed. Some of their menu bar icons were hiding under my notch without my even realising! Completely lacking an overflow indication is embarrassingly sloppy, and I might have to grab something like Bartender now too.
That's the genius plan: kill Windows marketshare so that it can grow again in the future!
The expectation is placed on the entity the trust is given to. Unless you go to individuals directly, there can be so such expectation on individuals. There may be an assumption that the entity you have given trust to do will "do the right thing" with individual agents, but it there is no such expectation as you have already trusted the entity, meaning that you have already trusted its agents. What have you gained by keeping information away from people you have already entrusted with the information? If you cannot find the trust to give them, why are you giving it?
I've prevented a lot of losses :)
GPT-40 got it right with the abstract puzzle. Gemini got it wrong when I tried it.
Notably, the 2024 list was released just yesterday, so I wouldn't fault anyone for not having seen that yet. Texas was in the lead for a couple of years, but honestly it's so close that I don't think it's interesting to assert that "X state has the most big companies according to some magazine's list!". CA, NY, and TX are all huge states with long-standing business investment. That's not changing any time soon.
Have you seen those toy review channels or those family youtubers?
Unfortunately, in practice,that doesn't seem to happen very often.
It's nice to know that we have an ARM64 fallback if our perfectly robust and cheaper self-hosting of GHA (gha-runner-scale-set* components) were ever to go down, I suppose, but I can't help but feel like I am part of a huge market segment that GitHub lost during the ARM64 runner absence. Seems a little too late given they have natively supported action-runners images in ARM64 for some time.
Electric cars have electric motors. So if you attach an electric motor to an F150 without removing the gas engine, you have an electric car. And it has terrible gas mileage.
The realized value of LLMs is going to be output from a data to AI pipeline. From raw data to actions or insights. This is Microsoft's play to control the entire process. They are attempting to abstract away all the "tooling" needed to manage and process data.
It falls down because there is no discretion left to the consumer. Objectively, the computer is already processing all the data you are interacting with. Subjectively it is assumed its ephemeral. Computer forensics proves this wrong.
So I think to refine my opening statement, the realized value of LLMs is going to be the output from a "curated" data to AI pipeline. Which Microsoft is not providing with this solution.
> McDonald's have tries to claim for a long time that "Mac" is their exclusive trademarkable name. It is not. It is a word in a language that most of the people who eat in McDon;d's do not speak, but it is a really common prefix as previously discussed.

I don't know EU law, but I don't buy this argument. Some very common words are trademarkable (e.g. Apple) in certain trade contexts. You seem to be arguing only a neologism can be trademarkable.

And that doesn't touch on the "not used for chicken sandwiches" part, which seems to be a key part of the actual argument.

> This would be a bit like opening a restaurant that sells some random fast food - let's say chicken, and then claiming no one else can call anything, for example "Kentucky" because your restaurant name makes use of it, you trademarked it, so therefore no one can use it.

In the context of anything, or in the context of the fast food market? Because I think it would be legitimate to block a new fast food restaurant called "Kentucky Chicken" on trademark grounds.
> what does failure mean

I've been reading that 50+% of software projects "fail" ever since I started programming in 1992 (long before the term "agile" crept into our lexicon). They consistently fail because they consistently have deadlines but no actual definitions. That was true before Agile, was true during Agile, and will be true after Agile.
Well, if you had recall enabled, you could get all your text back out of that :)
Oracle didn’t move its entire workforce, but it’s inaccurate to say it was “in name only”. Oracle spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a massive office campus near downtown Austin that reportedly has space for 10,000 employees.

I’m curious what other companies you’re thinking of when you say “like many others”, because all of the ones I can think of have moved significant parts of their operations to Texas.
> Apple - their silence, but also their hardware capabilities to run LLMs
> billion dollar datacenter investment that still provides a worse experience

It's not at all clear to me that those very small local models would be competing directly with large LLMs run in datacentres for the same use cases. If that's going to be the case MS/etc. would also require significantly less compute power that's is currently expected, so Nvidia would be the real losers in that case (unless they shift to consumer HW).

Also does Apple have such a huge advantage compared to the newer AMD/Intel/Google/Qualcomm(?) chips with NPUs? Yes Apple started investing sooner but all the phones/tablets and the overwhelming majority of laptops are crippled by extremely low memory capacity (in the context of running LLMs). So are they really that much ahead? e.g. what real advantages does the latest iPhone have compared to a Pixel 8 Pro (sure it's still a niche device, with a seemingly inferior an chip (but more memory) but based on what we know Google seems to be ahead in AI development and will make their solution available on all high end Android devices).

> As soon as they release something, it's

I doubt that's a given, their software has long ceased to be highly particularly exceptional and on the hardware side the only actually innovative product they have released for years has been a flop with a very unclear future.
Within one organization the form is standardized, and across companies it's very similar. But sure, maybe not the right word. I'm comparing it to "just letting the interviewers chat and decide based on whatever" which is typical in industries without a skills test.
Can it be used to efficiently build multi-arch docker images? Both armv8/x64
I tried it and it's pretty awesome!
Some things to note

- the builders are well aware of the situation

- they are not training on the full internet, they are actually training on less than previously, a filtered subset produces better models

- training involves much more than text on the internet, textbooks are a great addition to the training set. Multi-modal, especially video, is expected to give them better world understanding. I suspect this will unlock the household robot

- they now have all the actual interactions (and feedback) with the LLM to add to the training, which is much more relevent and direct training data
> In the AGI scenario, the employers that are dependent on consumer sales will wither and die, as consumer buying power shrinks due to unemployment.

Why? People will find ways to exchange value.

> Not if the AGI can do all those jobs better and cheaper than most people (or even just good enough and more obediently).

What does this mean? By AGI do you mean "cleaning robots" or "entertaining bartenders" or "live music" or "person who owns this house I want to rent" or "mind I will pay to learn from"? None of those sounds like anything to do with AGI, unless the AGI is housed in a robot that can clean things (and then I don't need AGI).

Also there will be a floor of jobs not worth doing with AGI because of the energy and maintenance requirements. AGI is not a magic wand. It's a specific thing. ChatGPT being able to spit out a decent but generic essay doesn't suddenly mean that all the crazy numbers of jobs everyone does will vanish.
Nonintrussive non-datamining ads platform?
What are some ad networks that I can implement on my site to gain ad revenue without sacrificing user's data to Google AdSense?