skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hammurabi went hard against people who accused others of serious crimes but couldn't build an airtight case -- which is like the opposite of what we do today. Imagine if cops and prosecutors had to serve the sentences of suspects they charged but couldn't convict.
An easy way to address it just project based grading. But of course, this needs a lot more graders than just a single professor to work with large class sizes. Which means more money. And it's hard to get money for education in the US.

So, it's not really AI that's at fault, as with any new technology, it disrupts; That's what new things do. It's just that the status quo is this lazy approach to education that hamstrings teachers by denying them the resources they need to do the work well, in the name of saving money.

An ironic twist on this "saving money" is that spending more on people, nets more returns. Educate someone well, and they can do high quality work, which makes a lot more money than minimal investment. Spend money on healthcare and prevention, and medical costs overall go down, as large problems are addressed when they're still small.

But I guess the lure of "lower taxes" is enough for this sort of thing to persist.
Google is paying Reddit $60 million to not have to respect it. The media reports it's for training data for AI, but none of us have read that contract.
Appreciate it for following up, that means a lot! We're a small team trying to do honest work

> maybe change the UX to make it easier to onboard?

Good point, we're already on it.

From your original comment about not seeing the recruiters database, we made it easier for you so you can now access it all here:
https://www.onsites.fyi/recruiters
I have a theory that organizations that grow fast and scale well all have this “cellular model” at their core.

Investment bank trading desks in the pre-2008 era, partnership at the big strategy consulting firms and even “multi-strategy hedge funds” now are actually all collections of very incentive aligned businesses. They share the Creo quality of making lots of millionaires and people looking back on their time there as one of great freedom and achievement.

In all these places, employees are paid according to the revenue they generate, with seemingly no ceiling to what you can take home.
It is true that the size of any one cell doesn’t scale beyond a small number of people. But all the organisations I mentioned above scale by having units tackling small pieces of vast markets.

The main lesson I took away from reading “Barbarians at the Gate” is that big companies hugely suffer from the principal agent problem, where management is mostly out to enrich themselves at the expense of shareholders and employees (sometimes). This looting is however only possible at a company that was established by a founder with a deep vision and passion for the product and has set up systems and culture that generates sufficient cash for the professional management to leech off.

What I have not read yet is a systematic study of these “cellular organizations” and what the common features are that make them successful. My guess is that the key is that each “unit” or “cell” has measurable economics that makes it possible to share the economic value over a sustained period of time. A bit like why sales people get paid a lot.
I don't know what an isolated declaration is. Do we write TS source differently?
Yes, it makes sense from a 600 million monthly visitors point of view, but that would still be a pretty interesting development if they don't respect it.
I don’t like being lectured to by people who think they’re the smart ones when their Illusion of Control problems are leaking out onto all of their friends and coworkers.

One of the sign posts of addictive behavior is when you allow your affectations to have negative consequences on the rest of your life.
Ensemble models are a real technique but boy do I feel stupid having not gotten into the making api calls to ai models grift.
No, ideas are not getting hard to find. Ideas are getting harder to discuss.

There has never been such a ripe time to find such ample reason to propose and discuss new and radical ideas. And there has never been such a hostile time to looking into it.

In physics we’ve lost 50-70 years to string theory and related nonsense and the people still working on effective quantum field theories have had to re-brand as working on “quantum information / quantum computing” to stay in rent and lab desks. There aren’t many serious QFT people who doubt Everettian epistemology but it’s still nothing undergraduates hear about. Most serious non-string gravity work comes out of Perimeter and Marletto/Deutsch.

In economics and finance we still put our hand into the sink shredder of the Chicago-style strong-form EMH, as resoundingly and empirically disproved by Simons (may he rest). And we continue to embrace Friedman-style supply side economic policy, without peer the nastiest wealth transfer from those with surplus away from those facing scarcity at the barrel of a gun in absolute terms ever. It never trickles down.

In the fundamental epistemology of our day we are surrendering the reigns of influence to people who market chat bots trained to lie convincingly at scale.

Knowledge, and the new ideas that approximate at the limit the derivative of knowledge are under attack. They’re under attack by some rich guy’s choice for the job he did well and decided to keep in the family.
something digital can never prove something analog is extant
That makes sense. Seems to open the door for fiat accompli nonetheless.
Numbers I work with are ~45k for a senior software engineer in Hungary, Spain, Italy, Greece vs ~85k in France, Germany, the Netherlands. Fully loaded cost (tax, insurance) adds about 20-30% on top in West. South and East are considerably less.

You can find even cheaper staff but you're still competing for talent. I can pay someone in South or East a premium against their market and still save big compared to an average salary in West.

This is ignoring any other benefits you have as employer in South and East. Try to fire or lay someone off in France - it'll cost you.
You imagine investors pour money into medical research, ask the researchers to produce a cure, and then bury the results?

Doesn't exactly sound like a money making scheme.
oh what a surprise, legend
Fabric and this!!! This is promising to build on.

danielmiessler.com/p/fabric-origin-story

together with obsidian is my setup I am trying to build now. I'm using obsidian to plan the vector and meta data to pull and reference with the assistants and building function tools to query.
Whatever happened to Giyom (Gulliaume Patry)? I saw ElKY (Bertrand Grospeller) is a well known poker player now.
danielmiessler.com/p/fabric-origin-story. A tool I've been using as well.
It might be simpler than that. Let me remind you all of how erudite I am. I am very smart, I had this idea, and I would like to share it with you, because smart people have smart ideas. Remember, I am very smart. Here’s my idea.

Some of the dumbest, or rather the most dangerous, ideas I’ve heard came from smart people. Lots of dumb ideas come from someone who isn’t in danger of bringing them to fruition. The Smart Guy is imminently in danger of doing so. Or I suppose rather that we are in imminent danger of him doing so.
First time I see the Hyundai branded box

https://www.dibidibi.com/Data/GP/c65gadz83a/DETAIL/37996145-...

quite funny
This looks like a product a lot of effort and thought went into, including a consistent graphical design. Congrats!

The style that was chosen, to me is deeply unsettling. These Well-lit, colourful, rounded, smooth 3D objects remind me of a chaotic, visually complex and triggering while trying-to-be-baby-safe environment, and indeed puts me into thinking the exact opposite of what I'd want to achieve with this product (which is eliminating chaos, and get my adult daily life sorted out).

Note that this is rather a weird angle and not a criticism of your product. I'm pretty sure it's only me, or at most a handful of people who are triggered into this state of mind. I found it interesting.
It depends on why it isn't my job. If I have the ability and the capability and the time to do it and probably a few other things, then it's bad. But framed as a specialization inside a giant company, where it's not my job so if I do it, I'll do a bad job and make mistakes and cause more work for you and me, and end up being a -10x engineer, please tell me it's not your job.
Imo, the need to weed out is counterproductive from a societal perspective. Imagine if in military conscription they weeded out everybody who didn't want to be there. They'd probably fall short of their service requirements quickly. In the same way, if America wants to bridge the supposed gap in math from Asia, it's not a matter of who is willing, it's a matter of whether they can teach or not.
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In the Netherlands gaps aren’t allowed either, and I’m surprised that it is elsewhere, as that allows to you get rid of unwanted invoices whenever you want.

However you are allowed to have multiple sequences, differentiated through a prefix, but all starting at 0. That’s what we recently did to switch invoice generation tools (we actually still run both of them alongside each other atm).

Of course you could still drop some invoices from the end when you do this, but I guess tax authorities accept that risk.
I'm always fascinated by the videos of https://www.youtube.com/c/covertcabal
They regularly count tanks in storage sites
Death Valley is so hot right now, rescue helicopters can't fly
Yup, this is what I thought would happen. It wouldn't surprise me if reddit goes a step further and requires login to view pages.

AI is the death-knell of the web as we've known it for the past three decades. Once freely available information will retreat behind login walls and charge bigco's for access to train their models.

I wonder if some standardised data API will be settled upon, perhaps it already exists?
> a cycle of vomiting and sleeping for a period of 72 hours

I've been in such cycles, though mine usually last for about 6 to 12 hours only. That's long enough.

I always figured the stress of my migraine caused my body to say, "okay, get all the food out, we shouldn't be digesting anything at a time like this". I've vomited 20 to 30 times in a night before.

And the weird part is, I actually have good memories of these times. The exhaustion and sleep that follow are amazing, and I feel especially good the next day. I've read sometimes migraines have a serotonin effect, maybe there's some chemical reason my brain decides in retrospect that it was a good experience. I recently saw a Veritasium video about how the ending of an experience shapes our memory of it [0], maybe the relief of the migraine finally subsiding is a good ending and shapes my memory of it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4r71kEdYME
A few kilometers into the charge, Richard called for a halt to the advance, relying on his own knowledge of Turkic/Mongol strategy. Some of his leaders kept going anyways and died, though most of his army quickly obeyed. That maintained the victory since he didn't get pulled into the trap you mentioned.

Trust cuts both ways. Senior leadership needs to be trustworthy, so when the time comes to make a decision based on information you can't easily reveal to employees, they follow you.

You need to tell people to take the initiative to charge, and cut them off before they die.

That's a difficult balance to strike. But it's how you pull off a victory against an army twice your size thousands of miles from home.
The distance between two points is always the same. It's the PATH between them that may vary.
Did anyone else think gameplay was not anywhere near as enjoyable in SC2? There was something a bit more raw about SC1/Brood War which I felt went missing in SC2. I didn't invest enough time into SC2 though.
Bing is still indexing it. As is DDG. https://www.bing.com/search?q=reddit+travel&qs=n&form=QBRE&s...
They didn't implement it as anything resembling a system widget.

What every web developer wanted from 1997 on was the common nav bar of the era: a set of dropdown menus that more or less behaved like the native dropdowns every other piece of software on the machine had. What we got was a <ul> with a funny name, so you had to at least toss a bunch of CSS at it to remotely resemble a "menu", and if it was on something like IE, also JavaScript to breathe it to life.

I always believed if we had added a few more native-widget tags in the 1990s anything-goes era (a <menu> that looked the part, <td sortable="type">, maybe <richtext>, an <include> that was better than iframes), we could have had web based apps earlier, less Javascript to provide trivial functionality, and steered the web into a direction where the north star was the look, feel, and standards of native software.

If quality web apps followed the OS Human Interface Guidelines and looked and active as native as possible, it would have created a completely different evolutionary environment. Would we end up prioritizing things like structured data because standard design practices were already displaying things in familiar structured widgets?
On a first glance my regular YT start page has more interesting videos. I’d like the idea but right now it’s just click bait stuff (all caps, annoying thumbnails etc.).
Python is used in ML because it's not the slow Python that's doing the matrix multiplication (if you write it right), so if you're asking what to learn, I'd start with that to get a feel for the math involved before wading into the deep end of the pool with C++.

If I were starting a new project today, it would depend on the project and who I was doing it for as to the language I would use, but C++ would definitely be on the list.
Writing fleshes out thought because writing is like talking to yourself with automatic history recording. I suggest trying to skip the middle step (writing) and just talk to yourself via voice recording or something else. It works and it takes a lot less formatting effort. Similarly, conversation works beautifully too.
Reminds me a bit of Boeing aquiring McDonnell Douglas.
Interesting. There have been all sorts of "Reddit's content is key to search results, adding 'reddit' to search results makes them good" stories. And there's been a lot of talk about how some of the big ML makers, notably Google, depend on Reddit's content to train their AI. And Google has that recent $60 million deal for content. So clearly Reddit's execs have been talking about how their content is valuable and they shouldn't give it away for free.

But at the same time, blocking search engines from indexing your social media site is a dangerous game. Any search engine that respects this is gonna effectively de-list Reddit. That's no good for views, and views is what makes Reddit money. Presumably they have negotiated private deals with Google and probably Microsoft for this and are trying to sell their data to ML companies, because otherwise this would seem suicidal.

Kind of a shame. The information is still going to get shared around to all the giant corporations, but Reddit will presumably make it harder to access for all the little guys. And the more they tie the content to dollars, the more managers on the inside will start doing stupid things to try and generate more of whatever the most valuable kinds of content are.
"The sweltering heat could creep close to the world’s record highest temperature of 134 degrees marked at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley on July 10, 1913, according to the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas."
Do you have anything to support that claim? Because in my belief this follows normal thermodynamics, which means that if the energy dissipation over an amount of time is less than the energy cost to heat, it makes sense to do it.

Do you think there is no relation between the thickness of the insulation and the time it takes before reheating is more energy efficient?
If anyone is curious how deeply destructive, or how deeply approved by the NSA, or how deeply self-sabotaging for society the modern AI training data pipeline is becoming I’d refer them to SB 1047.

OpenAI is openly collaborating with the NSA, Google is manipulating the definition of a web crawl, Anthropic has installed a bunch of humanitarians from Jump Trading as the leading mech interp group that makes strident claims about how all this stuff works based on weights you do not and never will have access to.

They’re telling you: “And you will do nothing, because you can do nothing.”

I invite you to join me in proving that we can in fact do something.
if they're getting the data directly from Reddit then they can respect it while still having the content because they're not crawling it via http.
As the person who implemented it originally, it was not a technical limitation but a design choice.

In the early implementation of Warcraft 1 (1993-ish) I made it possible to select all the units on-screen at once with drag-select, and even more by scrolling and shift-clicking or shift-click-dragging.

Allen Adham (president of Blizzard, and exec producer for Warcraft) argued convincingly that only 4 units (for War 1) should be selected at a time. I argued against it pretty vociferously at the time … and in later days (post launch, most likely) came around to his way of thinking. Attacking with a superfluid of units takes less skill than selecting troops in small batches, and so requires to use more intent & skill.

Warcraft 2 allowed 9 units to be selected, and StarCraft more.
Havana Syndrome: Putting the Myth to Rest
They are not indexing new pages. I should have made that more clear.
that's not ai but the result of the linked in scraper lawsuit. if it's not behind a login, it's fair game to be scraped. Behind a login, the site operator doesn't have to let you scrape them.
I dig it. Just from clicking "random" a bunch of times I'm able to stumble upon (web) radio stations from across the globe.

Would be nice to have some kind of listing of all the available stations and their "frequencies". I also can't find any info on how to submit stations.
Is Linux not a valid example? Look at all the shite Microsoft bolt onto windows.
FLAC is meant for audio only. But you can open a BMP file as raw audio (8-bit unsigned mono) using a sound-editing tool, then save it as a FLAC file. Since FLAC is lossless, you get your original data back when you decompress it.

It just happened to work particularly well on a certain grayscale image. Because only an 8-bit grayscale image could potentially be similar to 8-bit mono unsigned audio, I wouldn't try any other image format.
> The FT link is paywalled

https://archive.is/Q6ou7
Autonomi pretends that the network will store your data forever in exchange of just an initial payment. This is a bold claim, and I'm not sure how this can work in practice - the docs didn't give much details.
~/code/projectname

If I have an upstream branch I tend to do

~/code/GitHub/reponame

Or

~/code/GitLab/reponame

Depending on where it’s hosted.
At that time, by working ungodly amounts of hours every week.

[edit] which is not sustainable and I do not recommend!
Technically this title violates HNs title policy as it should just be "Reddits robot.txt" or something, but "Reddits robot.txt changed" is more useful. I'm curious to see if mods change it.
I played SC2 for only a short time, so I may misremember. The transition to 3d does not feel great, it makes movement a bit sluggish and slow.

Additionally, 2d enables more / exaggerated visual effects (like tank shot blast) and consistent visual sprites.
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I (late 30’s male) grew up with migraine and ultimately discovered that they were triggered by caffeine mixed with dehydration and/or chocolate.

Having discovered this I’ve been able to control them completely, but realize that not everyone’s triggers are the same.

I carry sumatriptan just in case but have never felt as though it’s made a difference. I’m always hopeful for more solutions to migraines for those who suffer
Katrain uses Kivy and is problematic to package and upgrade because of it, on rolling release distros. When installing it with pip, it partially works.

From a packaging point of view Kivy is not great.
I have also noticed this and have searched in vain trying to find a definition and/or psychological discussion about this. When I was noticing it in others I would notice myself doing it also!

The closest I got was in street hypnotists. They seek to overwhelm the target to put them in that state and then do their suggestions. The target retains the suggestions but with no awareness of hearing. They may even talk to you. The intentional manufacture of the state I think is called "induction".

But I think it mostly occurs normally between many of us at a lower level (but the hypnotists dont talk about that).

The bit I mostly interested in was what myself and others would say and why they would say it when in that non manufactured state. Imagine two people in a blip talking to each other! The other psychological definition related to the talking bit would be a type of "Freudian slip".
That electro mechanical system also switched significantly less calls than the digital counterparts!

Most modern day telcos that I have seen still have multiple power/line cards/uplinks in place and designed for redundancy. However the new systems can also just do so much more and are so more flexible that they can be configured out of existence just as easily!

Some of this as well is just poor software, on some of the big carrier grade routers you can configure many things but the combination of things that you can figure may also just cause things to not work correctly, or even worse pull down the entire chassis, I don't have immediate experience on how good the early 2000s software was, but I would take a guess and say that configurability/flexibility has had a serious cost on reliability of the network
Why are there ads of single women on the page?
A little Python/Tk script that scrapes weather.gov data and provides an icon with the local temperature and a forecast dump. It was sized to fit the fairly large-iconed dock of my X11 desktop and be a bit more modern than old WindowMaker dock apps.
> there might be no humans involved.

the corporation is not autonomous. Some humans decided what it wanted - mostly profits.
Did he have a separate judiciary? If not, I could imagine him getting sick of loads of people coming to him with accusations.
Dichotomies are generally false.
If people who steal your files can see your chat history and pretend to be you that IMO is a security risk.

I think the implication is that they c/should encrypt those files and store its key securely, e.g. using https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/certifica...
not to disagree in any meaningful way, but

> Are there more paedophiles living in the world today compared to 100 years ago? I doubt it.

world population has quadrupled (?) in that time. either the percentage has gone way down or the amount has gone up
Yes, the Irish plundered the globe with their vast colonial empire to acquire their wealth.
> So clearly Reddit's execs have been talking about how their content is valuable and they shouldn't give it away for free.

Yeah see the API changes from last year and their pre-IPO investor roadshow. This ground is well trodden.
DuckDB only supports either one read+write client or arbitrary read clients with no writer. This is the biggest blocker for adopting it in a real-world hosted app.

Rel: https://duckdb.org/docs/connect/concurrency.html#handling-co...
I think there's a lot to unpack here. Teaching someone how to write a for loop is easy and can done in a straightforward way, but teaching them when it's best to use, and getting them to under why, is different. Even further, getting them evaluate novel situations, apply it correctly and be able to communicate why they did it that way is another thing.

At what point would you say they've actually acquired the skill?