skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says:

> Since ordering the vehicle, Raddon's living circumstances have changed… He said that he and his wife separated and he's since moved into a new apartment complex, and his new Cybertruck doesn't fit comfortably in its parking space.
You sound like the people who used to know how to fix a car, or sew, or write cursive, or do multiplication times tables in their head, or know how to derive a formula, or check a mathematical proof.

Ask anyone below 30 if they can write cursive today, or know their times tables hehe. Ask them if they can derive a formula instead of using Mathematica.

Or ask a developer if they know how their pixel shaders work, or what’s going on under the hood of their favorite runtime, how hash tables work, or really anything. Previous generations did. When the complexity gets too high people just trust the machines I guess.

And no one actually knows what the LLM internals are anyway.
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I haven't heard the term "shallow basin hypothesis" but I know what it refers to, these two papers spring to mind for me:

1) Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10026

2) Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09913

There's also a very interesting body of work on merging trained models, such as by interpolating between points in weight space, which relates to the concept of "basins" of similar solutions. Skim the intro of this if you're interested in learning more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08403
Exploring Inventory to Sales Ratios with R
At least we can be sure this has absolutely nothing to do with protecting the interests of agrochemical manufacturers! (/s)
Why are we attracted to sad movies? [pdf]
Then we create some kind of liability for that situation. And then we figure out at what assemblage scale multiple people stop being a collection of individuals and start being something fundamentally different.

LLC et al. liability didn't just exist in a tablet given to humanity from god.

It was designed for a purpose, and we could design the same thing for people if we wanted, instead of granting legal corporations individuals' rights.
Is the cloud really considered more secure?
He gave you a pretty good review, I thought. I'd have been interested in the camera myself if it supported Windows.

Given the rate at which the data flows -- nothing at all for a long time, then a burst that isn't particularly time-sensitive, then nothing at all again for a while -- I wonder if the right way to do something like this is with LoRA. That way the camera could be mounted someplace hard to access, with no need for a file system at all. There would then be a separate receiver module that could listen for traffic from multiple cameras and store it for later access by a PC/Mac/whatever.
Thanks bud! XD
>The original bug report contained multiple comments pointing out that a file chooser is not a full blown file browser and that it either should not display or cause the creation of new thumbnails.

I think you're misunderstanding those comments, the point is that an external service needs to generate the thumbnails. If the file chooser needs them it will have to call out to that external service. There isn't any desire to build all the complex system-specific behavior around thumbnail creation into GTK itself.

>Like the guy who stopped responding after only a year of complete radio silence from the GNOME devs?

All open source maintainers I know are overworked. You shouldn't take it personally or make negative assumptions if someone doesn't get around to your pull request. This is especially true of large PRs that can be overwhelming to review.
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The trading plan is one of the major components of success for stock traders. Trade plans govern every purchase involving a trader's entry, exit, and money management rules. It ensures traders remain disciplined and don't act impulsively for emotional reasons.
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Nevertheless, one needs to bear in mind that, on some occasions, a trading plan can fail. Billing out in such a case and restarting the process is important. Refusing to change an ineffective plan may result in substantial losses. Stock trading is based on flexibility and adaptability.
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Successful stock trading requires that it is either an occupation or a full-time business, not just a hobby or job. Taking trading as just a matter of enjoyment does not involve any determination to better skills in trading. The failure to receive a check every time and treating it like a job makes it difficult to work at times.
Trading involves cost, loss, tax, anxiety, unpredictability, and risk. It should be treated as a business endeavor dedicated to thorough research and planning so that traders can yield the most benefits. Constant training, knowledge of the latest market practices, and adaptability to shifts in the industry are necessary.
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...but why wouldn't they use AI as an oracle? From an outsider's perspective, it seems that there's already plenty of incentive to test the margins of acceptable academic practice in order to produce more papers or publish more quickly. Sadly I feel like it'll become the norm to have a chatbot interpret your results and write your paper rather than using those expensive grad students.

I don't have answers; just the lingering question "why are we building this?"
That'd make some sense if AVX-512 was not part of x86-64-v4, but it is.
Oh hey that's the question I got for my recent amazon onsite (slightly different constraints). I couldn't find the exact question online and I thought it was a "fair" medium question. IMO this is a pretty good question there's a really easy suboptimal solution so people don't get completely stuck, the optimizations are pretty straightforward and there's a lot of room to demonstrate you can write clean code.

*Fair meaning there's no crazy tricks to it or any obscure algorithms just applying DSA fundamentals.
What is interpretability? [video]
The letter: https://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/Bellevue/Bellevue/Departmen...
Sleep apnea linked to brain and memory problems
>Jaynes goes so far as to assert that language generates consciousness

The recent discussion of Helen Keller[1] and her description of learning the meaning of "I", strongly backs this assertion, on my opinion.

I read her words as implying that you can't have consciousness without self identity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466814
Exactly. People complain about Python's package management story, but for 99% of use cases a workflow that consists of Python's built-in venv, pip, requirements.txt, and constraints.txt is completely fine.
While I can understand the backlash against the resale clause, it shouldn't have been a secret, since it got a ton of media last year. Someone bought a very expensive vehicle and voluntarily agreed to a contract with crazy terms in it. I don't usually want to blame the victim, but this really is on the buyer. There were many vehicles on the market at a lower price that didn't require this kind of agreement.
Or throw in a random AI feature to satisfy investors.
Show HN: I made a local code interpreter with Tauri and Pyodide
Hey HN!

I had some time these last few days and I wanted to put together an app using Tauri and Pyodide (Python in WebAssembly) – two really cool pieces of tech that I recently heard of but haven't had the pleasure to play with until now.

I built Waraqa: an AI-powered tool for local, lightweight data analysis. Waraqa can run entirely on your machine with Ollama, ensuring full privacy and control over your data, and can also interface with OpenAI (for less privacy but admittedly better results ). A few key features I wanted to bake into this MVP include:

- Python code execution within a Pyodide environment
- Interactive data visualizations with Plotly
- Model selection between OpenAI and Ollama-supported models

There is a bunch more that can be added and quite a few bumps that can be ironed out, but I'd love to hear the community's thoughts! The source code and website (which includes a demo video) is linked below. :)

Source code: https://github.com/vizlylabs/waraqa

Website: https://waraqa.ai/
I don’t need to install their root CA unless I specifically want to access any LAN services.

Most people are not interested in that and so don’t need to add any new CA.

Most people borrow the WiFi so they can check their WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok etc. None of which requires adding any new CA.
yeah, it's almost like the hiring process is a gamble with no solid heuristic :(
People from Hong Kong tend to use Cangjie or the number pad when entering Chinese characters. Pinyin is only really used on the mainland.
I think it should work pretty well for that use case.

I need to add support to the companion app to make exporting videos convenient though. Right now it only allows batch-exporting images.
I'm all for hiring people who can figure things out and know how to figure things out. I'm not blind to the fact people will google and copy-paste-modify stackoverflow example code and don't have strong issue against hiring someone who would work that way.

So my simple whiteboard interview question started as "Print the numbers from 1 to 10" but then I had a few candidates that would just write the numbers out on the board.

Since it happened more than once I figured it was a me problem so I became more specific with "Write code to print the numbers from 1 to 10". But then one one candidate would out dumb me and write 10 lines of print statements.

So I thought it would be clever to force a loop of with a really large number: "Write code to print the numbers from 1 to 1 million." but I had one candidate who started to write out a bunch print statements and I had to stop him.

The latest iteration is "Using a for loop to print the numbers from 1 to 1 million putting one number per line." I usually get blank stares. It's either they think it's some sort of trick question or they don't know how to do it. One time I saw an implementation using an if statement to skip 0 and an extra print for the last 1000000.

The solution to that was to tell HR to let me phone interview them for 10 minutes before brining them onsite.
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Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed-integer nonlinear programming
Every time I play a casual cash poker game with friends, we spend the first several minutes struggling to figure out chip denominations. I built this to automate that process.

Try it out here (the submitted link goes to the GitHub repo): https://jstrieb.github.io/poker-chipper/

It turns out that picking chip denominations optimally—such that as many chips are distributed as possible, and such that the denominations are nice—is hard (in the computational complexity sense). Upon reflection, the problem seemed to be a perfect fit for constrained optimization.

I first got a CLI prototype working with Z3 (an SMT solver with optimization capabilities https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3) in Python. Then, I cross-compiled SCIP (https://www.scipopt.org/) to web assembly, and ported my code to use SCIP instead of Z3 so it could run in the browser.

The web interface is designed to be fast and easy to use on desktop and mobile.

I would love to answer questions and discuss design choices. I'm also open to feedback and bug reports. Thanks for taking a look!
> why would an adult with a new phone let them?

You said “a parent is stealing their 30 year old child's phone”, so consent is not required.

> Not kids.

Maybe, but we’re not talking about them. We were talking about parents.

> Prove it, you haven't linked a single thing.

This wikipedia article has some references: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservatism_(bel...>

> More back peddling.

I’m not “back peddling”, I’m conceding that the point is now moot and uninteresting.

> I would prefer it if you had evidence when making claims.

I’ve seen no evidence from you, either, that those parents who track the location of their child will mostly give that up volontarily as the child becomes an adult. You have shown that those parents will lose the tracking anyway for technical reasons, and you have shown that most people find the tracking of adults to be disagreeable. But nothing which speaks to the issue in question.

> Here's an actual outside perspective where people are universally mortified at the idea of someone tracking a 24 year old.

Oh, I agree; most people do find the idea to be distasteful, especially when presented like in that link, i.e. from the now-adult child’s perspective. But we were not talking about “most people”, the issue is whether parents who already track their children’s location would continue to try to do so.
Yes, and Bazel makes some very serious trade-offs in order to make starlark work. Notably, dependencies are referenced as stringly labels as a poor substitute for lazy evaluation (starlark itself has strict evaluation semantics).

This in turn requires additional tooling to catch errors early, and also means that a starlark-repl for Bazel will never really be all that useful, since the build graph doesn't exist in starlark alone.

In my experience, this makes Bazel a significantly harder build system to truly grok, tho perhaps easier to use it without understanding it.

Contrast with nix, where the entire build graph exists as a nix expression. In my experience, you can gain a surprisingly deep understanding of nix armed only with knowledge of nix-the-language (and without knowing any implementation details of nix-the-binary-that-builds-derivations).
Let's remember that after occupation by Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades they renamed Twangste to Königsberg in 1255 .
Keep in mind, when Swisher says she likes Sam, what she means is, to quote her Twitter: "Sam Altman is no different than most of the talented ones, which is to say, aggressive, sometimes imperious and yes, self-serving."
Although a potential issue generally, it's unrelated here.

If it's already open source, GitHub can almost (depending on license) use it as they see fit anyway.
It's a third party package, though.
Sass variables and CSS Custom Properties (a.k.a. CSS variables) are pretty different from each other [1].

If you want to use CSS Nesting and be backwards compatible with older browsers, the PostCSS plugin postcss-preset-env handles that and lots of other new CSS features that older browsers don't support [2].

[1]: https://sass-lang.com/blog/sass-and-native-nesting/

[2]: https://preset-env.cssdb.org
cheers! i'm familiar with those first two papers, just not with the specific term. my intuition was more relatively deep points connected by tunnels than shallow basin - but it might just be the difficulty of describing high dimensional spaces
Hydro, wind, and solar backed by batteries looks like an ~90% solution to grid power / ground transportation reasonably quickly and we have enough fission power plants to make up the difference.

So we already have the short term solution, it’s really 25+ years out when things get more interesting. Existing nuclear power is going to get increasingly expensive to maintain and recent construction projects have been boondoggles. So fusion has a real shot here assuming the economics work out.

Fission has gotten safer as we’ve learned from past mistakes, but each of those lessens directly results in increasing costs. Not just in obvious ways but getting better at foreign material exclusion means it takes longer to do the same tasks. Multiply that by every significant indecent at any power plant and it’s no wonder things keep getting more expensive.
For some reason I never thought to weigh it! Need to update the website.

I just put one on my kitchen scale: 70g.
Agree with you. And for specific cases like HFT, the interviews will be a lot more specific in that area anyway, so it would be weird for a "senior developer who doesn't know algorithms" to pass in the first place.
I love leetcode type puzzles. I still do an occasional puzzle even though I’m not looking for work. I like the feeling of intellectual satisfaction when I come up with a solution to an interesting problem.
Yes, the site is very authentic but at first glance I was pretty confused. The animated cartoony camera followed by "only for mac" and "download" made me think this was an app, not a hardware camera.

I'd put a real photo of the camera in the hero section so people instantly grok that it's a real device.
What's stopping him from renting/leasing it to someone for a year and then selling it a year later (perhaps to that same lessee with the lease payments taken off the top)?

The lessee would need to insure it themselves, obviously.
I wasn't around for KDE2, what was the backlash? Looking at Wikipedia, it looks like it introduced a lot of my favourite parts of KDE:

- KIO

- KParts

- KHTML
I've less familiarity with it on the enlisted side, but there's also much stronger gating of promotions by competency tests there, right?

On the officer side, especially in certain specialties, it's very much musical chairs... with an ever-decreasing number of chairs.

(Which admittedly creates a lot of its own issues by setting up zero-sum, don't-help-your-competition scenarios and politics at the higher ranks)
Not just being partner, but what sounds like some extraordinary generosity by Paul Graham, new in the WSJ article cited by OP:

> Hydrazine bought out a portion of startup shares owned by Graham, a transaction that gave Altman stakes in some of the hottest companies backed by Y Combinator. The sale hasn’t been previously reported.

https://archive.is/x2hx4#selection-2672.0-2672.1

Depending on what companies and how much, that could have been an extraordinary windfall.
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Is "leakage" just another term for overfitting?
There is also a (unofficial) Google project called fire [1]:

> Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

[1] https://github.com/google/python-fire
putting to one side the higher questions of "should they" (which mostly relate to the continuing discussion on age gating) reddit has an nsfw flag which supposedly marks per-post. And, nsfw marker for the entire account. the utility of a 2-level marker is pretty clear, because some people post occasional things which might cause distress/offence, and others are only there for nsfw.

The per-post thing (for example) works on reportage of the war in Ukraine: you can avoid the gore, and focus on the discussion because the imagery which is going to include things you don't want to see is fuzzed out.

I think its a good balance between editorial policy, and user-choice.
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We're hiring a founding engineer to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet.

We recently launched on HN, you can check out our launch here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136. We're two second-time YC founders in this for the long haul and just wrapped up the YC W24 batch.

As a founding engineer, you'll be responsible for contributing across the entire codebase. We'll compensate accordingly and with high equity. It's currently just the two founders + a part-time contractor. We're all technical and contribute code.

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The DNG/TIFF spec is unreasonably flexible. It would be possible to add just a fixed precalculated header on the image data to make it valid DNG. The lack of filesystem is still a bigger issue.
I know I would.
GPT-whatever can’t do sources.

I was trying to use it as a research tool and it hallucinated 95% of the references I asked for (not a made up percentage, I counted)

Ironically the one real source turned out to be quite useful.
Well, Kashkari should know better, given he's the president of the Minneapolis Fed. The Fed has a dual mandate (low inflation and low unemployment). Recession avoidance is not part of that mandate.
I think the lack of true laziness will be a big performance problem for a large build graph.

On the other hand the monolithic nature of the nixpkgs package set is one of the authors gripes with nix, so performance at that scale may be a non-goal.
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I don't live in Morro Bar, so I don't have a horse in this race; I support battery deployments in California, but I also think it's stupid to place a battery in the place, where people actually want to live. California is large.

In fact, there's a lot of empty space less than 30 km (20 mi) from Morro Bay. Why not to build a battery there?
OpenAI Doesn't Understand How Its AI Works