skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should be talking more about Jim McNerney. More than anyone else, he caused the cultural changes at Boeing that led to these disasters. He was some generic MBA with no aviation experience that followed the typical Jack Welch playbook and left before the consequences became apparent.
For somewhere like ESPN where you can reasonably expect to find people who are genuinely passionate about your product, this is reasonable. ESPN employees should be passionate about sports just as employees at a video game company should be passionate about gaming.

This doesn't apply to something that nobody in their right mind can possibly be genuinely passionate about such as insurance or tax preparation.
so couldn't you answer that? "I'm very passionate about building useful things, and I can see how your product BLAH can be applied to valuable areas like ..."
You are talking about two different things here. First is DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE, second is being fanboy of the company you are working for. I would say domain knowledge can even be a requirement, but the author talks about the second one, you don't have to be a fanboy of the company and still make good work.
I never keep the comments of the commit when squash merging. Only a sensible title of the PR and the number so it can be found. All the details are then in the PR where the more nuanced discussion is had.
> Now the LLM can choose to switch, at its own discretion, back and forth between a talking and listening mode

How would it intelligently do this? What data would you train on? You don't have trillions words of text where humans wrote what they thought silently interwoven with what they wrote publicly.

History has shown over and over that hard coded ad hoc solutions to these "simple problems" never work to create intelligent agents, you need to train the model to do that from the start you can't patch in intelligence after the fact. Those additions can be useful, but they have never been intelligent.

Anyway, such a model I'd call "stream of mind model" rather than a language model, it would fundamentally solve many of the problems with current LLM where their thinking is reliant on the shape of the answer, while a stream of mind model would shape its thinking to fit the problem and then shape the formatting to fit the communication needs.

Such a model as this guy describes would be a massive step forward, so I agree with this, but it is way too expensive to train, not due to lack of compute but due to lack of data. And I don't see that data being done within the next decade if ever, humans don't really like writing down their hidden thoughts, and you'd need to pay them to generate data amounts equivalent to the internet...
It's frequently the case that front-end people end up doing product design and so it helps if they are familiar with the domain.
Zero percent. Companies don't have reasonable expectations, or any other human qualities. They are desperate, psychotic, money-seeking apparati.
Give me B! Fasteners are fun.

Have you been to mcmaster.com?

It’s a master class in online shopping UX. Their fastener section is a joy to browse :)
How do you define an imbalance and an intervention to "fix" them? It's important to use the correct terms to avoid biased frames and conclusions. In this case they're defining certain measurable features as anomalous among a population of people. An anomaly does not mean it is a deficiency that needs to be fixed with medical intervention.
Programmers should never trust anyone, not even themselves
i would also imagine that Spirit and Allegiant both charge for checked and don't have frequent flier programs that waive that fee.
I can vouch for Lookeen (circa 2012-2015). I set it up for 200+ users on Citrix and it worked great. I had the index for each user saved to their network share and yet the search was instant. It even indexed shared mailboxes. It barely used any CPU when doing background indexing.

It worked well with thin OSTs too but due to how Outlook and Exchange work, it would have to rebuild the index more often.

Definitely a blast from the past reading the word “Lookeen” but mostly good memories about it. I believe the ADMX integration was pretty decent too.
Why do you even think that you are expected to lie? Out of tens of thousands of companies on the market, you chose maybe ten to apply, including mine. Why? “Because I need money” is not an answer, or at least not the complete one. Somehow, ten companies out of thousands fit your filter. Why? That's all I want to know as an interviewer when I ask that question. Saying “you have the best compensation” is completely okay. Saying “you fit my developer profile” is also completely okay. It’s ridiculous that anyone could think that some company praise is in order. Just tell the truth, stop making up cases to be offended by an interview question.
Can there be an initiative to force them to keep FM?
I'm very thankful that not all developers work in a code factory where explicit requirements get spit out on their desk at the end of the process. If you're involved in the definition you get to prevent the "team <upstream> is so clueless" issues, and actually learn about what you're building beyond code implementation.
I’m in awe of the tenacity of life.

Over a decade ago, a snowy owl made its way to the island of Oahu on its own. Sadly, it had to be killed because it arrived near Honolulu’s international airport and could not captured by animal control. An autopsy revealed that this owl had expended so much energy crossing the pacific that it almost certainly would have died of exhaustion within a few hours of its arrival. But, it still made it.

Hawaii has its own species of Owl. Their ancestors must have made a similar journey and had just enough luck to survive and establish a population there.

I’m fascinated by this. How did it happen? No owls migrate to Hawaii. Did this one get lost in a storm? Was it sheer luck that this owl picked the right direction while flying over the open ocean to end up finding Oahu? Do some owls just feel an urge to pick a direction and just keep flying? Was this one owl’s magnificent flight the result of some undescribed phenomenon?

Perhaps there is some rare instinct which inspires an individual to go on a suicidal journey into the unknown. A species sacrificing an individual to make the gamble that it will end up in some far flung biome and establishing itself there.

The flip side of this story is realizing just how many more snowy owls must have ended up over the Pacific Ocean and kept flying until they unceremoniously perished amongst the waves.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2012/01/details-emerge-about-snowy...
Curious. I've lived here for 10 years and I don't see it like this.
Are you suggesting a general solution to the halting problem?
I'm confused. What is "missing" from Win32? To be clear, I count all base DLLs included with Windows a "Win32". One thing I can think of from your list: component layouts. Resizable windows with component layout is awful in Win32.
Wow. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this workplace you describe.

I mean, yeah, you've described it well. I can understand how it works. But I just can't imagine working as a developer where the first introduction to a "task" is this finely specified. Like, this dev won't have been involved in the feature at all before seeing it in a card in some task manager app?

Yikes.

Are you saying that you've worked in places like this? Just doing these tiny little tasks, blind, to an app that you have no context on. And you did this for more than, say, a week before quitting? And that week wasn't your first week of your first job out of school?
Where is this goal documented? I’ve seen some very counter productive immigration policies in the EU, but using migrants as a way to preserve asset prices and suppress real wages is as creative as thinking the earth is flat.
Yes. Two different things. The SwiftUI docs are mostly just listings of functions and not much explanation of how to use them.
I've used oil/vinegar for a decade or more, I'd be entirely lost without -
The model is interesting. This is similar in parts to what we are building at nonbios. So for example sensory inputs are not required to simulate a model of a mind. If a human cannot see, the human mind is still clearly human.
Nope, in Australia this is now the law and it hasn't stopped the CC duopoly at all. In fact it seemed to benefit it, as small merchants who used to not accept cards for small payments now just don't care since they pass the fees on to the customer. It turns out that most people just don't care about a 1% surcharge.
Check out https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
Sicilian farmers are trading olives for papayas
Love it!

I'd love the ability to share a note via url.
you absolutely need to do this. we call it the "internet of shit VLAN".
Next, ransomware. "Pay us $1000 or you won't be able to sleep in your bed for the next month".
I disagree on both counts.

I didn't mean to imply anything about lying or misleading. Similarly, I don't think it is manipulation to consider your audience and what they are trying to ask.

The best coworkers I've had were honest and straightforward, but could understand and emphasize with their audience too. I think everyone who takes this question literally at face value is missing the second half of that.

I think most people want a nearly endless list of things, of which money is just one of the most important.

For example, most people won't be happy with if you give them money but treat them like shit and over work them with frustrating tasks.
and yet lots of people go to school for a very long time to study accounting, or do graduate work in actuarial sciences, so I think you're wrong. It's easier to communicate passionate about the verb than the noun. Like what if you applied to a tax prep company and they had an free version for low-income people? It would be easy to talk about how you wanted to really help people with a difficult and expensive requirement where there is real need.
It's something that would be assumed without being explicitly stated. I'd have no idea how the stats are supposed to be displayed for a cricket match but I'm a fan of other sports so I'd know there's a correct way and would likely ask a cricket fan coworker how to do it. Or research it myself if nobody's a cricket fan. With baseball box scores, I'd know the right way to do it without having to ask.
Compare two specifications and summarize the differences (not a word-by-word diff).
The harder truth is that it's rare to find the perfect job, and rare to find the perfect candidate. There's an assumption with many of the views in this thread that the employment market is more efficient than it is at matching people.
AI is ruining the internet [video]
There is no need to make this more complicated than it really is. In this individual's case the conversation could go as follows:

> Q: Why do you want to work for us?

> A: Because I need the money.

Generalization is dangerous and people want to join groups of other people for many different reasons. Some of them are bored and have nothing better to do with their time. Others are charmed by that particular group of people because of who those people are or the kind of work that they do. A few are interested in moving to a different city or country and expanding their horizons. Making it sound like this is all about money everywhere all the time seems nihilistic and pretty depressing to me. I would not want to work with a person who is doing it just for the money or refuses to give a reason why they wish to join my group. I suppose therein lies the merit of asking "why".
I see. Thanks.

So, not in reply to you, but the parent. It then seems entirely accurate to say they are not comparable.

Ffmpeg as workhorse is common. But what handbrake and losslesscut are in terms of (mostly) UI, they solve different problems, of which there isn't much to compare.
Quaternions in Signal and Image Processing
This feels like a special case, due to actual widespread passion for sports, which would often be lacking for businesses in other domains.
Chinese space rocket crashes in flames after accidental launch
A capacitance hat is a legit way to electrically lengthen an antenna.

I have had decent success with them when finetuning antennas for lower bands.
I had never heard of either so thought the title was a metaphor for "how to get root access to your brain to improve sleep quality"

I sure hope these beds have tactile controls you can feel and use in the dark, and don't require pulling out a smartphone in front of your face while trying to sleep to adjust them, because bed/matress manufacturers for sure must know what is good and bad for sleep quality
Yeah, one of the most fun gigs I ever had was for this little startup in the Outdoor space. When I interviewed, there were something like 30 mountain bikes parked in the lobby.

It was folks from all walks of life, ages, and income levels. But they were pretty much all fit and healthy (and generally fun to be around). There were office kayaking trips.

I can't imagine you'd be able to pull that off today. There would be some form of DEI lawsuit inside the first week.
Sleep Number gets its name from the firmness controls on their mattress. You pick your "sleep number" and your partner picks theirs on the other side of the bed.
I only interview for a fraction of the positions I get contacted about.

When it has been time to make a career change, I've always had multiple options for which position/company to choose.

I don't think I ever took the offer with the highest total comp.
I can't remember who said it but I remember hearing that a good go Dev and a new go Dev should be able to produce generally similar code in order for maintainability. I do like playing with go, it's sits in a nice little playground in my head, mostly thanks to the compile times I think.
Do run it now!

Don't worry about where it sleeps in your tool cabinet so much. Put that fastidiousness to better use by reaching in with your intellect to see what favorable positions you can tickle the LLM into. None to be found you say? In the tool world an LLM is closer to a mirror than a hammer.
From Cursor's privacy policy:
If you enable "Privacy Mode" in Cursor's settings, none of your code will ever be stored by us or any third-party (except for OpenAI which persists the prompts we send to them for 30 days for trust and safety, unless you're on the business plan).
If you choose to keep Privacy Mode off, we may save prompts / collect telemetry data to improve the product.
How do I analyze my sleep quality? I gauge how tired I am when I wake up... as man has done for eons.
Abstract:

Quaternions are still largely misunderstood and often considered an “exotic” signal representation without much practical utility despite the fact that they have been around the signal and image processing community for more than 30 years now. The main aim of this article is to counter this misconception and to demystify the use of quaternion algebra for solving problems in signal and image processing. To this end, we propose a comprehensive and objective overview of the key aspects of quaternion representations, models, and methods and illustrate our journey through the literature with flagship applications. We conclude this work by an outlook on the remaining challenges and open problems in quaternion signal and image processing.
Everyone needs to be motivated by the job.

Think a teacher/nurse, would you find it ok for them to answer “for the money”.

Another angle to it; you can be professional and explain your goals but also you can’t be desperate, no one likes that, even if you are desperate you need to act professional about that.
> You chose those examples exactly because they are extreme.

No, I chose them because they're examples of countries that many people refuse to trade with. Feel free to consider Cuba or any other pariah state.

> Non-governmental citizens have damn near zero influence over government policy... Voters in Israel have a lot more influence on their representatives than I do as a voter in California/USA.

Surely that makes it more defensible to boycott Israeli businesses because of the actions of their state, not less.

> we should be clear about what behaviors we want to shape and provide both the carrot and the stick in plain view.

The people boycotting Israel have been pretty clear about what they're calling for (much clearer than e.g. Iran, which complied with the deal we'd made with them and was then still hit with sanctions anyway).
I'll do research if you guys actually decide to interview me. Huge waste of my time for me to give a shit about your company if our relationship ends with you throwing my resume in the trash and sending me a polite email telling me to pound sand.
> If people succeed in making that truly lifelike and humanlike, it will actually out-compete us for resource control. And will no longer be a tool we can use.

Symbiotic species exists, AI as we make them today will evolve as a symbiote to humans because its the AI that is most useful to humans that gets selected for more resources.
If they succeed in getting it through the Tehachapi's, it will be a civil engineering feat without precedent in California history.

I am not holding my breath that it will come in 10 years, or even in my lifetime.
Did we learn nothing from Dr. Daystrom.
I see what you mean about the squashed commits now. I've updated the template we're using to make this a little nicer now - https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/blob/5e7fbe8c328050a2... (from an in flight PR)
Isn't it Economics 101 that a higher price, when supply is constant, will lead to a decrease in demand?
Maybe there would be fewer crusty cynics if the kind of loyalty and interest companies seem to expect from their employees was at all reciprocated.
You've picked a funny first example. I've actually wanted to work on software related to fecal sample collection and am passionate about it.

I have an intestinal issue - and as a result I'm always watching out for signs of problems in my own stool. There are obvious indicators - e.g. black tarry stool suggests a bleed in upper intestine.

One issue is that it's kind of hard to get good pictures to compare to. Google images will show you some examples, but not examples of false positives. Is your stool partially pale white because you ate a ton of marshmallows recently, or because you have an obstruction in your bile duct?

A doctor once suggested I had Crohn's Disease (luckily, didn't) and I joined the subreddit for it and was pretty horrified by what I read.

A big issue with Crohn's is understanding the relationship between what you eat and how well your digestive system preforms. This is something that tracking software could help with - I imagine taking a picture of food and of your excrement and then ML on the backend sorts everything out and makes dietary suggestions.

Users could also annotate their images with additional insights or notes like "I have condition X - this sample is a good indicator of X" and curious users could image match pictures of potentially problematic stool to the annotated repository.

My point is - plenty of people are passionate about random subjects that may seem dull to you. Plenty more people can get passionate because even a random topic likely has immense depth and nuance to it.

I find coworkers that aren't passionate are a drag to work with. I want to make something useful and good to solve a real problem. If you are just there to do the bare minimum to collect a paycheck - that's very annoying, you're more of an obstacle to work around than a teammate. You can hire people like that if you don't have better options, but hopefully there are better options!
And I'm sure every one of those 100k devices has a unique ssh key right?

Surely you can see the problem.
AI is a tool, not a thing. With better integration into the traditional programming environment it will become yet another programming tool.

This is basically like when programs went from being text based to UI based. Future software will have AI, LLMs, as a component/interface.

The "LLM is the program" is not adequate, reliable, scalable.
We open sourced our project long back - https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna because eventually it'll be fed to the agent one way or the other :)
Pipes was created back when people were looking up alternatives for the Yahoo service. It isn't a new project.
This is interesting.

How do you visually identify a function with multiple inputs and outputs? I tend to imagine it as a bi-graph - with boxes for values and for functions, and arrows in between. The stack idea is interesting and can work here too.

I could get behind saying "all functions have exactly one input value and one output value" but you really need to be able to construct and deconstruct structs/records/tuples to be able to e.g. pass two values to one function.
Fair, companies shouldn’t be anthropomorphised, but surely a money-seeking apparatus can form a justified expectation?

I could rephrase it as ”For what share of companies might one have reasonable expectations…”

Are “desperate” or especially “psychotic” any less human qualities than “reasonable”? ;)
This is irrelevant to what we were discussing originally. Neither the UK nor any other country does have battery storage of the size of major power plants. Those are required to provide stable energy. Otherwise the power would go out during calm or in the night.
Depending on the implementation, there might still be multiple bugs lurking, especially in input parsing
Dear ImGui is nice but beyond basic styling, it’s not exactly quick and easy to style. It also lacks any kind of accessibility features, which is fine when you’re making tools for games or similar (ie highly visual tools), but if you’re making anything meant for a wider audience, you really should use something with solid accessibility support so stuff like screen readers work.
HF for Legal, an open-source community on Hugging Face
Announcing the creation of the "HF for Legal" organization on Hugging Face, an open-source community dedicated to demystifying language models for legal professionals

Whether you're a practicing attorney, a legal scholar, or a technologist interested in legal applications of AI, HF for Legal may be your hub for exploration, learning, and free innovation

On the occasion of this launch, you'll be able to find several notebooks I've been developing over the last few months for TSDAE pre-training of embedding models, the generation of indexes for semantic search adapted to the field of French law, or the addition of information retrieval tasks to the MTEB.

Join us in our mission to make AI more accessible and understandable for the legal world, ensuring that the power of language models can be harnessed effectively and ethically.

Special thanks to Clément for encouraging me to start this organization. Let's hope we can bring together all the enthusiasts who work in this field.

Let's code and share together!
I don't know where you work but what you describe sounds like a widget factory.
Yep, that was immediately apparent! It would definitely make a difference. I still think the market for "people who would buy a controller add-on for their phone" is quite small though.
Nice! I've only used linear types in Clean ages ago, but haven't checked them out in Haskell, yet.
Model training seems to me to be much closer to simulating the evolution of the human mind starting from single cell bacteria, rather than the development of the mind of a baby up to a fully functional human. If so, then sensory inputs and interaction with the physical through them were absolutely a crucial part of how minds evolved, so I find your approach a priori very unlikely to have a chance at success.

To be clear, my reasoning is that this is the only plausible explanation for the extreme difference in how much data an individual human needs to learn language, and how much data an LMM needs to reach its level of simulation. Humanity collectively probably needed similar amounts of data as LLMs do to get here, but it was spread across a billion years of evolution from simple animals to Homo Sapiens.