skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bruce came into the world and made it a better place. Bruce was smart, kind, thoughtful, and generous. I have never met him personally, but early in my life, his story had a significant positive impact on my life. Like him, I too grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho. It’s a conservative state in an LDS Religious stronghold. My high school technology teacher (Mike) was married to his sister at the time and spoke fondly of him but more importantly, spoke specifically about who Bruce was. In hindsight, he knew I needed to hear it.

I wasn’t out as gay yet, maybe only 15 years old. Of course, it would have been a death sentence for a teenager in Southern Idaho to come out as gay. One day though, Mike told me “You know, you can grow up here and you can be /different/ in many different kinds of ways, you can be a band nerd, a guy who writes software, you can be gay, you can be /yourself/ and no matter what some adults might tell you right now, you will be okay. Not only okay, but you can live a fulfilled and successful life while being authentic and true to yourself. You are never the person that these adults claim you are. They don’t know anything.“ He then went on to tell me Bruce’s story and how in his opinion, of course, Bruce wasn’t “evil” or “wrong” for being gay.

In 2005, I wrote my technology teacher a personal thank you letter. I wrote one to Bruce as well and I asked if it could be shared with him.

Bruce took the time to respond:

Dear Brian,
Thank you for taking the time to write your letter. I was very moved by your story. There were parts that really reminded me of some of my own experiences in life.
The beautiful thing about life, at least as I have seen it, is that if you keep trying and never doubt yourself, you really can make amazing things happen both in yourself and in the world around you. I am sure you too have already touched many people around you and have been a positive influence for them. That's so very important. You may never realize the good you are doing, but it is happening.
Being gay is becoming more and more accepted as "normal" and one day maybe it just won't matter. As for being a geek, I don't consider that a bad term. The world needs geeks. But then they need gays too!
Thanks again,
Bruce Bastian
Yes I read the book first 6-7 years ago! One of the best books I’ve read, up there with Skunk Works.
I use the GUI, the port forwarding I do it from vscode.
That chart is a good start. It could be improved by global average yearly temperature as a proxy for atmospheric energy, and a couple more charts for human and naturally occurring greenhouse emissions.
There's no such thing as a "legitimate" airdrop. They're all scams. Sometimes the scam targets aren't the airdrop recipients thought; those may be just a preliminary step to establish a measure of credibility as part of a long con.
Ask HN: Mu.xyz costs $1300 and expires in 15 days, should I renew?
As mentioned in the title. Mu.xyz expires in 15 days. It costs $1300 to renew. Should I do it? Is there value to a short domain name? Should this just be renamed to something else?
Hi there!

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I suspect he would think ChatGPT voice is pretty close to what he envisioned for man-machine symbiosis
I'm utterly confused by the description of the solution of Hilbert's 10th problem.

On one hand, the article claims that Diophantine equations are polynomials. On the other hand, it claims that when JR is true, a Diophantine equations grows faster than a polynomial.

How can a polynomial grow faster than polynomial? That seems like a contradiction to me.
There is also Bytebase[1].

[1] https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase
Don't use booleans (2019)
Folks, the headline is real bad and clickbaity, but I think the blog post is actually very, very correct in its basic premise.
Kyutai unveils today the first voice-enabled AI openly accessible to all [pdf]
Nature is brutal, we should all be really thankful that we get to die in a bed being made as comfortable as possible. For every other animal in history death was almost guaranteed to be something scary and painful.
> e is the base rate of growth shared by all continually growing processes.

I don't think that's a very good explanation because all the heavy lifting is being done by the phrases "base rate" and "continually growing", nether of which are well defined. "Continually growing" could reasonably be interpreted to mean "monotonically increasing" in which case f(x)=x qualifies and the whole explanation falls apart.

I think the idea of finding a function that is its own derivative, discovering that there is a polynomial series that meets that requirement, and evaluating that series at x=1 is a much more natural explanation.
>You don't think a fee of USD $27000 (fee for family of 4 from article) is a problem for a scientist?

Presumably the companies that really need to import talent would cover those fees for them if imported talent is actually necessary. Companies in the US pay similar fees to sponsor imported employees and no one complains about the costs.
Who complained Scrum is not agile and Scrum should be more prescriptive?
League of Legends: "The Dog" is allegedly crashing games via chat
I am a tech founder (even though not officially the CTO as I do more CEO stuff now).

I highly recommend against Freelancers or people who will have no future skin in the game. Instead, you need to try and get some type of Prototype built yourself (may be with some help) and then look for a CTO/Co-founder.

Ok, so what can you do to find a CTO:

- Do Wireframes or mockups of your idea (use something like Whimsical or any other mockup tool. Personally I am a big fan of Whimsical and use it daily to mock ideas)

- Get it designed using something like Figma. May be use a Designer Freelancer for that. That's ok

- Put up a landing page using a website builder. Talk about the idea there. Create a signup list if you can.

- Get busy on social media like twitter/linkedin

Do all of these and you may be able to attract a good CTO. The point is to do enough things first to attract the tech co-founder.

Again, do not pay freelancers to build an application unless you really have no leads even after doing all the steps I mentioned above. You will thank me later.
> Russians genuinely do not care about Eastern Europeans.

That's not what actions say. Constant economic, political and social sabotage since the end of USSR, combined with hostile rhetorics from popular slogans like "The masters will be back!" to official demands to kick Eastern Europe out of NATO, leave little doubt. There is nothing people in Eastern Europe wouldn't like more than the luxury to focus on domestic issues and pretend that Russia doesn't exist at all, but Russian actions force us to divert considerable amount of resources towards ensuring that you stay where you are. Russia is the only reason why we need to have an army at all. Were Russia a normal country like Germany or Spain, we could disband the army tomorrow.

> It looks like Russia is not going to collapse in any of the modes you have described, and it's going to hold whatever lands it is holding, and that is how it's going to be.

Total delusion. Russian economy is already a dead man walking. The financial blockade keeps getting worse, and even the people from your central bank are saying: "Потому что [если] не будет нормальных расчетов за продукцию по внешнеэкономической деятельности, для нашей и экспортно, и импортно зависимой страны это просто все, это погибель". You can't run a modern country on Dogecoin or "import substitutions" hammered together by some Vanyas, that much is clear to everyone. This won't end in any other way than the previous time.

Likewise, Crimea is already lost. Every air defense system you set up there gets blown up by Ukrainians using weapons that cost a tiny fraction of their target. Without air defense, the remaining forces are sitting ducks. Russian ground forces will eventually either get destroyed, or pull out like they did from Kherson to save what's left. This is purely a matter of time. The navy has already abandoned Crimea.

Not to mention Eastern Ukraine. 10 000 Russians die every month just to keep the frontline where it is, and twice as many get wounded or crippled for life. It will only get worse as Soviet era stocks deplete and get replaced with older and older junk with every passing month while Ukraine keeps getting better and better new production as western arms factories gear up. At the start of the war, European factories were producing large caliber artillery ammo in batches of tens of thousands. This year they will produce over a million units, up to three million next year, going as far as it needs to go.

I wonder when will you finally wake up to the reality that Putin blundered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sell oil and gas while it still has any value, and use that flow of money to bring Russia to European level of prosperity. Gazprom is now in the red while Germany has produced 2/3 of all electricity this year from renewables. The window of opportunity is closing. Every Kinzhal blown up by Patriots somewhere in the skies over Ukraine costs as much as a modern schoolhouse, but instead of engaging in international trade and investing in schools that produce value for decades to come, you only get a loud bang. Putin is destroying your opportunity for a better life. Why do you choose to accept that?
> an LLM is not a product

I imagine you meant to say that LLMs are comoditized.

Getting the correct words here is important, as you can see by all the people disagreeing on the literal interpretation of your post.

And yeah. LLMs have got the fastest transition from highly innovative singular product to plain commodity I've ever seen or read about. BSD licensed software libraries do not move that quickly. They were mostly not even adopted yet, and have a huge barrier to entry, what makes it much more of a feat.
I think it's less about distance and more about culture. DC and Baltimore are vastly different in culture, recreational activities, industries, demographics, etc. People don't live downtown in one and work in the other. The commute would kill you. Average income in DC is nearly double what it is in Baltimore.

Like, imagine SF and Oakland, but with an extra 30 miles in between.
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> a good coverage with modern and clean trains

But not a single ounce of reliability to be found among them.

> but I think it's also really hard to run a punctual train network with a country of this size in the middle of Europe

If it was just the punctuallity. However they can't even notify people of delays correctly. Just to take the most obvious example to ever exist: Last year the entire state of Bavaria got snowed in, most predictions put restoration of rail travel at around a week. For the first day the DB app reported cancellations one hour in advance, the following days it used a 12 hour window to cancel trains. At no point did they bother to put a realistic "don't bother we wont even get to your station for the next 5 days" anywhere on the app. The event may have been an outlier but them failing to anounce cancellations when they become aware of an issue is systematic, worst case you wont be aware that your train wont make it anywhere is when the conductors start handing out complaint forms the moment the train leaves the station. The entire DB is a clown show without equal.
How are you financially?
>> read the watch

> It's not testing the perception of time

It's literally testing the perception of time?
One workable pathway is to join a team working on AI products as a full-stack engineer. AI practitioners notably are less inclined to do frontend or even backend work, even more so when talking about SWE best practices and moving code to production. So there is plenty for you to offer given your 10 years tenure in dev.

Then learn by symbiosis, while having AI on your resume :)

Feel free to get in touch if you want to chat more about this.
FWIW, that's incorrect. It's not at all unusual for ideology to get modeled and analyzed that way in sociology, anthropology, etc
Swappable low cost sodium batteries are where I think cars may end up in the future.

Literally, pull into a swapping station, and have your battery swapped out for a charged one in a couple of minutes. Probably faster than fuelling up your car with petrol.
You're missing the point. What's not realistic is to tell everyone that they should abstain from any type of entertainment that requires power (TV shows, movies, video games, etc) and should only read books and play board games instead. I don't care what kind of renaissance board games are undergoing, most people still only play the mass market classics, and then only rarely.

I don't know how much energy Netflix uses serving a movie, but playing a video game on my PC for two hours where I'm located might generate a kg of CO2. That's about as much as I'll breathe in a day. Relative to other sources of atmospheric CO2 I'm not that concerned.
Log risks when building GenAI bots and tools
Hey everyone,

I've just launched a tool aimed at helping fellow developers log risks when building GenAI bots and tools. The idea is to create a standardized way to quantify GenAI outputs against domain-specific factual inaccuracies. The goal? To make these bots safer, more compliant, and more efficient, hopefully leading to wider adoption.

But here's the thing—I’m just a hobbyist and a novice developer. Knowing that, I’d really appreciate any contributions or feedback that could help make this project more useful for everyone.

Check out the POC on GitHub:
https://github.com/DataSnackAPI/SnackRiskAPI

Thanks a ton!
My wife wears her rings, but I don't find jewelry comfortable, so I never wear mine. I wonder how many snoopers think we're having an affair when we go out.
I speak from a little bit of experience as I once dated a paralegal. The job sucked. Zero opportunity for advancement. 100% soul-crushing busywork. It’s also in major danger of being automated away.

When I go out to restaurants I see plenty of male and not-young bartenders and servers.

And let’s not forget that this is a comparison of a job that requires high school education versus a job that requires extra training on top of that.
Buying Nvidia after their meteoric rise and selling Tesla after the stock tumbled is not a particularly ... novel set of trades.
I do wonder if we'll see people change the architecture and material of houses to deal with the increased risk? You have to think at some point beach houses are going to go from 'luxury' to a brutalist, elevated tornado shelter type thing on stilts.
Not sure if my experience is relevant, but I did a couple of internships in web dev during my bachelors degree in CS and quickly realized it wasn't for me. I then did a masters and now a PhD in medical imaging where I extensively use machine learning (design and train my own models, doing both supervised and RL) but I wouldn't say I am a researcher in AI/ML.

Because I am still in the academic process, I had the opportunity to take a couple of classes on the subject. Three books that I would recommend going over to make sure your foundation in ML and mathematics are solid are

-Pattern recognition and machine learning by Christopher Bishop

-Mathematics for Machine Learning by Peter Deisenroth

-Deep Learning by Courville, Bengio and Goodfellow

All three are legally available online in some form. I can't say I have any experience in finding a job related to ML though.
>The UK collectively decided to fuck itself into oblivion, repeatedly, for more than a decade.

As an outsider, it definitely seems like that. Obviously the US has been making some really dumb decisions lately too, but the UK almost seems like they are intentionally footgunning themselves and are happy to continue doing so.
Even without kittens, house cats will often take a captured small animal inside (still alive) and dump it near their caretaker and expect them to finish the job.

Our cat has only access to a confined (extremely high walls) garden (largely left to grow wild for environmental reasons) due to proximity to a road where people drive extremely badly, and still manages to occasionally succeed at bringing something in, usually dumping it at someone’s feet and going “ok you do it”.
However "alp" comes from Latin "Alpes", which is the mountain range in Western Europe we now call the Alps.

The word has become genericized to a degree. One the other hand Alps used to be one very specific mountain range, and alp a mountain in that mountain range, so surprise at some other place calling their mountain range Alps is understandable.
Visualized by location: https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1808526908864217371
> in which something which comes across as rather American (because it is) but has a superficial layer of Australianness layered atop. Cultural appropriation, perhaps?

As an American, I totally get this because the exact same thing happens when encountering "American" things in other countries.
Hurricanes are just trying to catch up to Ethernet cable standards </XKCD>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6_cable
Agreed! I used radicale for the same purpose. Very easy installation given I already had a VPS.

https://radicale.org
I don’t have the understanding, but apparently there are finitary statements which are independent of ZFC. This has been used to prove that BB(745) is independent of ZFC.

https://mathoverflow.net/a/26605

Furthermore, Scott aaronson jokingly conjectured that even BB(20) is independent of ZFC. That’s my reference here where we end up needing Aleph* for BB(18).
I once hired a dev shop with one manager and one employee, lol. I don't really know why, but I decided to give it a shot. So I gave them the absolute simplest task of creating a login screen. Could someone screw up a login screen for $50? The specs were clearly on PDF, with font weights and padding given.

My god, they really set the bar on not giving a shit. After several failed attempts to follow the specifications, I just gave them the $50 and a terrible review on Upwork. They responded with a terrible review as well.

There's nothing really preventing some charismatic stranger on the internet from claiming his team is not like the other teams. No offense, but some evidence is always helpful.
If we are going to compare to WW2, I think Ukriane's love for Bandera is the best thing to keep in mind. I'll show some wikipedia things here...

See here the photo of the Euromaidan head quarters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan#Legal_hearings_and_...

That's Bandera's face! He was leader of the OUN that helped Hitler to ethnically cleanse. 70k jews killed in a short time at teh hands of the OUN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nati...

So why again should I be happy with any organization that puts up OUN pictures/statures in praise?

And how is this propaganda? I've talked to numerous Ukrainians about this and many see Bandera as a hero. Sorry. I think he's a fascist and anyone praising him is a fascist too.
If you can not do something it's performance of what exactly ? (of nothing, or ads)
Counterexample: the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles had the advantage that they didn't have to build much for the Games. For venues for the events they have enough large arenas and stadiums for the major pro sports teams there and enough universities with large stadiums to cover all the high attendance events.

For the lower attendance sports they had plenty of smaller commercial venues and college facilities.

For housing they used student housing at UCLA and USC. Combined USC and UCLA have around 50k undergraduates with around 40% living on-campus with much of that vacant over the summer.

They ended up only needing to build a couple new venues--one velodrome and one swimming facility, if I recall correctly.
f'(x) = f(x), f(0) = 1 _uniquely defines_ f(x) = e^x, the linked article basically says this.
That's a fair point. I know a lot of people are miserable with dating apps, but they don't exactly have a controlled parallel experience.

There are huge romanticizing and grass is always greener and roma biases when comparing to an unlived past.

That doesn't mean there aren't material differences, justs that comparison usually come from speculation opposed to data
How to optimize LLM features after launch
PMs are always tasked with implementing a feedback loop to improve features after launch. With LLMs, it's faster than ever before. You have a new production dependency that reasons and interacts with end users. In this article, I share 4 examples of how to evaluate and move the product forward. How are other product teams thinking about it?
> I also think that this opinion seems to be exactly in line with existing legal precedent. Truman was never prosecuted for the massacres he presided on. Nixon was never prosecuted. Reagen was never prosecuted. We just don't seem to ever prosecute ex presidents at all whether we had this opinion to spell it out for us or not.

I think you are looking at this backwards. There was an unwritten agreement between the people and the Executive, namely, that we understand there are things that you might have done or had to do while President that to the ordinary person would be a crime and we will let you ride off into the sunset unbothered after you leave office, but in exchange for this, we expect there to be a peaceful transfer of power. We have entrusted this experiment in democracy to you, and when its time to go, you make sure it is passed on. Even Nixon did this.

There have always been contentious elections - some have ended up in the courts - but at the end of the day, a process was observed and followed. Donald Trump was the first President to not respect this unwritten agreement between the Office and the people. And now conservatives are doing what they always do: They are saying that we the people are not protected when the Executive doesn't hold up their end of the bargain, but that we are bound to uphold ours.