skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"is a GREAT sign that we’re likely going to have time to expand out of our solar system before some dominant civ just eats us maybe without even noticing us."

This is a bold interpretation. Could be a sign of many things. Like that life is much rarer than we assume. Could be that all civilizations run into some kind of energy trap or that civilizations tend to destroy themself with technology

“Must be water based, since that’s what we know,”

No scientist says that they MUST be water based, but water based would be a decent assumption since we know life can be water based. To look for life in general: look for entropy sources.

https://www.sciencealert.com/entropy-could-be-the-secret-to-...
Doubt. Laying people off because the free money train ended.

Doing AI because it's the fad of the moment.

Not causal.
> No one likes slow DSP audio software.

And then there's Diva at its highest output quality setting... :)
Vent: Job market /w speech impediment
I am completely running out of mental fuel and noticing a feeling of hate towards the tech industry. For many, when markets are rough, the interviews are tough; I get it.

Early in my career, I traded college for a full-stack bootcamp that my friend (15+ YOE in the industry) told me about, and after 8 months, he got me my first job in this little startup.

The startup failed. Both founders started to fight with each other, one didn’t want to raise money, and our money-man founder decided it’s over.

A few months later, I surprisingly found another job through Discord in the web3 space. The interview was merely a 3 min conversation with nothing else after (good for me, but first red flag) , and I got the job.

After a year or so, the company got out-competed in the space, the C-suite got played by one of our engineers ($240k/year, apparently had another job, and off-loaded a lot of his work onto others, good for him, bad for us.), C-suite started laying off engineers 1 by 1 (I was the last one to get laid off), C-suite started to ignore employees and clients, and finally went bankrupt.

Forward to now, I am 9 months into my job search with two bankrupted no-name companies on my resume, no higher education, living in an expensive city (my spouse is supporting us right now but can’t handle everything), my savings are running really low, and cannot decide where to put my focus in.

I have a speech impediment, and the amount of stress that this market is causing me is making it way worse than it usually is, which annoyingly leaks into my thought process during interviews. I am just having a very very hard time, and from the interviewer's perspective I can see how sporadic I can be. I ask for more time and patience, but I am having a hard time getting it.

EOD interviewees have to sell themselves, and interviewers have to decide if it’s a good bet. Selling myself over the chat-box is difficult (I get bad blocks constantly now).

Anyways, idk, I needed to vent because I have no idea what to do. I have such strong work ethic, but having an extremely hard time showing enough value out of me for employers to make a bet on me.
Well, this is particularly frustrating because PNN is already taken as well, by the (imo) much more novel idea of Physics Informed Neural Networks (aka PINNs or PNNs).

Why this isn't called Hardware Neural Nets is beyond me.
Do you like programming in Java?
I'm more concerned about the AI generated images that make it into scientific papers and textbooks[0].

[0]https://venturebeat.com/ai/science-journal-retracts-peer-rev...
I owe that guy about 2 million keystrokes.
Nyctography
This is a great writeup on a perennially misunderstood topic in Python packaging (and namespacing/module semantics)! A lot of (bad) security tools begin with the assumption that a top-level module name can always be reliably mapped back to its PyPI package name, and this post's data concretely dispels that assumption.

It's a shame that there isn't (currently) a reliable way to perform this backwards link: the closest current things are `{dist}.dist-info/METADATA` (unreliable, entirely user controlled) and `direct_url.json` for URL-installed packages, which isn't present for packages resolved from indices.

Edit: PEP 710[1] would accomplish the above, but it's still in draft.

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0710/
I don’t think there is a hard requirement in the code. It may work well on lavapipe (software Vulkan).
https://github.com/MichaelWest22/htmx-extensions/tree/main/s...

one great feature of htmx is how easy it is to understand and develop extensions for. I've just implemented this extension which allows safer handling of CSP nonce if this was required by an application. Hopefully this will get accepted as an official htmx extension.

My advice is if your not using inline script tags or the eval feature just keep it simple and disable allowScriptTags and allowEval and set a good CSP header. Also make sure you set a htmx-config meta tag in your page headers to set your config and protect from injected meta tags.

If you need inline scripts in a few places then be aware you need to choose a good templating or auto escaping engine on the backend to protect you and think about user inputs and be careful when using any raw escape override functions. If you have a sensitive application that needs regular external pen-testing then look at things like my safe-nonce extension that gives you another layer of protection to sell.
I’ve thought about this. What if we gave billionaires the option (marginal tax rates for capital gains), where they are either paying any taxes above $XM as either taxes or as donations to a list of eligible non-profits. Basically “forced” giving pledge.
> Tesla accounted for 49.7 percent of electric vehicles sales from April through June, down from 59.3 percent a year earlier.

Still a commanding market share, so much so that in a mature market it would draw the ire of Lina Khan. That being said, the first derivative does not look good. TSLA stock up like 9 days in a row. Maybe this puts on the brakes, but latest move seems like some short covering mixed in.
I have. In April 2019, when I worked at Dropbox, we instituted what we called "Opportunistic Hiring". 20 heads were reserved to hire "opportunistically". What this meant is that when a diverse candidate was hired, the headcount used for that hire didn't come from the team's headcount. It came from the pool of headcount for "opportunistic hires". Unless the "opportunistic hires" pool was already exhausted, then a diverse hire still counted against the team's headcount. The definition of a "diverse" candidate was a woman of any race, and URM men. If this sounds like an overly-complex way of saying "we're prohibiting Asian and white men from 20 headcount" it's because it is. I can provide the exact wording of the policy if you want.

It's not "freezing out" all white males. One, it's also freezing out Asian males. And two, it's only freezing them out of a specific chunk of our headcount. But it still deeply affected me to see a company outright deny employment on the basis of race and gender, even if it was only for part of the headcount.
I always felt that Tesla was the compromise you'd have to make if you wanted an EV. Now the compromise is Electrify America if you go for an EV from an established auto manufacturer, but fortunately that's changing.

One thing Tesla is exceptional at is building and maintaining a rapid charging network. Now that they're opening up to non-Tesla EVs I can only imagine a more rapid decline in their market share. Tesla superchargers and a Toyota or Lexus EV? Sign me up yesterday!
I think Tesla is being outcompeted, has fallen behind, and is now going all in on pipe dreams rather than producing a car that competes in quality to other car manufacturers.
I don't know. When it comes to real-time audio... imagine a huge festival with a giant wall of speakers blasting at the audience. If the audio playback glitches and you something like a 22kHz buzz (alternating two samples), that is a lot of fried ears.
I can't read because of the paywall, but are their relative sales down but absolute sales up?

Tempted to guess "no" since there's a bit of an EV winter going on, even though EVs are the future...
> They have healthcare as well, you know, they just pay it from their paycheck and it isn't deducted from their salary.

This usually cancels out the lower tax rates, and it has some key drawbacks: if anything interferes with your ability to stay employed, you lose coverage completely and have to hope that you’ll eventually qualify for public assistance, which can take quite a long time and will likely force you to find new providers, potentially with substantial travel requirements. The costs are 2-3 times higher, too, and medical expenses are a leading cause of bankruptcy.
And the decision itself was a rug pull from many years of legal precedent too. Roe v Wade also did exactly just that. I presume you dislike those two decisions just as much as you dislike this one? Surely any decision that creates a new precedent will inherently be a rug pull?
Very likely. All of these illnesses are diseases of the cells. We're entering the golden age of immune cell science. You figure out what immune cells are causing disease and how to restore them.

Here the T cells are imbalanced and a specific protein is found to regulate the imbalance but the interferon is countering the protein's effects. Now you can target that in many ways and run all sorts of clinical trials.
I’m not sure that’s necessarily a bad thing for them. I don’t think they’re capable of competing with the giants conventionally. They have to remain unique in some subjective way.

I’m not sure it will make a good product, though.
Hopefully, it wouldn't match the algorithm.

It's implementing it two different ways and comparing the results. It's not a guarantee, since you could have implemented the wrong spec, but there's only so much you can do with internal consistency checks.

But it would be better to compare to a known good function. It might be easier to add a dependency to do that in a test than in production code.
You have to prioritize the issues, you can’t tackle them all at once, and inability to address lower priority issues should not be used as an excuse to avoid addressing higher priority ones.

High consumption of sugar is a worse problem than sedentary habits. “You can’t outrun a bad diet.”
The .horse TLD was the most brilliant play ever. I've never seen a serious site on that TLD, but I've seen a lot of really fun toys. It's like nerds decided .horse was gonna be the TLD for playing.
Question for European workers: Do you feel that social services help close some of that gap in pay? Raising a kid in the USA has become massively expensive. Health care costs, education costs, child care costs means parents can easily spent 50-100k a year on children alone. My partner wants to move to the Netherlands, but it would mean a massive pay cut for me long term. Their argument is that children will be cheaper, but I’m dubious on if the offset will be enough.
Going straight by stock price isn't very valuable unless you're selling immediately.

600 million dollars is a lot, and in order for that 12 billion increase to stick around this team up needs to present a lot of value. I'm optimistic but I'm also an outsider.
Enforcing gender discrimination is too hard these days.
In browsers, it's as simple as:

if (!sessionStorage.sessionReported) {
reportSession();
sessionStorage.sessionReported = 1;
}
Next, you'll see it appear in your social targeted ads. <cueOmninousMusic>
Don't count on it. He's ruining that too.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-does-180-on-super...
> One thing Tesla is exceptional at is building and maintaining a rapid charging network

I wonder if laying off the entire 500-person Supercharger team will affect this at all.
Lifestyle is different. For example, you don't need a car in London, that's an easy 5-10k in savings per year.
> Then they basically asked them to prove it would catastrophically fail at the temperatures expected the next morning, which they couldn't conclusively do since they didn't have the data to back it up.

Turns out they _did_ conclusively prove that, just not within the time or budget (or casualty) constraints demanded by management at the time.

:sigh:
https://archive.vn/TrDHz
It has been a while, but last time I got the ROCm drivers and some other items that I needed from them there was a really weird proprietary license. That might not be the case anymore my information might be stale.
I'm not even sure derailments is the worst flaw.

As soon as one train has to slow down, you're going to get the mother of all cascading effects - trains are slow to brake, but their acceleration is quite a bit slower than that, and you'll be limited to, at the very best, the acceleration of the slowest train in front of you.
For us, the consumers, yup. TSLA shareholders, probably not.
You’re missing the (slightly better than) 2K OLED monitor. Seems like you can get something like that for $200, which will downgrade your hardware significantly. The linked computer probably uses more power than a Macbook for the same task even if the Macbook is running its display.

I don’t love Apple’s gated ecosystem (which isn’t as bad on Mac as on iPhones) but this thing is an absolute steal for what it is, especially considering 90% of what people on these days is in a browser or electron app.
Browsing for 15 mins on twitter and you can see .eth blue ticked usernames spewing Russian propaganda. Elon fired most of its vetting team and handicapped the reporting function. Adversaries are riding "free speech" on twitter without moderation and are running it. Elon seems to be doing it on purpose as he has an agenda with Peter Thiel/David Sacks.

Facebook/Instagram reporting system works better. Well, after 30 years of the internet, what started out as helpful online community/resource has now sadly been weaponized. I miss the early web 2.0 days (2003 - 2009)

What comes next?
I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion, but most people base it on something. You are free to do whatever you're doing, but I hope no one takes you seriously.
Tesla just announced days ago Q2 deliveries exceeded predictions, so this headline looks like a misleading statement that EV adoption over all is accelerating, and Tesla sales are expanding too.
You’re right that 60 is the limit, but many people file them much sooner.
I think most other cultures just don't have any kind of drive to do one's best and excel.
Apparently my memory is false, I thought originally the salsa20 variants and machine code were on cryp.to in my memory, but Dan Berstein's site is - https://cr.yp.to/

While at a startup when we were looking at data at rest encryption, streaming encryption and other such things. Dan had a page with different implementations (cross compiled from his assembler representation) to target chipsets and instruction sets. Using VMs (this was the early/mid 2000s) and such, it was interesting to see what of those instruction sets were supported. In testing, there would be occasional hiccups where an implementation wasn't fully supported though the VM claimed such.
I look after a few WP sites. WP is not a dirty word when it helps to pay bills. They are behind a HA Proxy with some URLs unavailable to the outside world.

You can do that at the individual web server level but HA Proxy is handy to apply policy across lots of sites.
Why do you think you don't get it?
Twitter/X seems to be doing OK after getting rid of a lot of fat
>> In 2006, Rissell co-founded TSheets, a digital time-tracking and employee scheduling application for web and mobile applications. The local firm worked closely with California-based Intuit Inc. for several years before the latter bought TSheets in December 2017 for approximately $340 million.
I heard that most of the U.S car manufacturers have drastically reduced their EV car manufacturing due to the slowing economy, so that means once demand for cars picks up again, they'll be ill-prepared to meet the demand for EV cars. (As demand for EV should keep growing steadily in the long run over ICE vehicles)
Eliza was a lot better than this.
Try starting with the kind of statement you would give to a psychologist, e.g. "I'm feeling a bit stressed recently."
That's been my concern as well. Having a charging network so reliant on Tesla => Musk does not seem the most secure foundation and much more like the shifting sands parable. I would be much more happy to have a Tesla/Musk free system, but so far we haven't seen any serious candidates.
JupyterLab and Notebook offer the most hassle free PDF making experience, besides Obsidian [0]. You have to have LaTeX installed in the system. And if you don't want full fledged ToC support, equation numbering, etc. Although I am sure that there are plugins for that. Just write Markdown, and see beautiful PDF rendered.

I still use LaTeX for book/paper kinds of stuff, but in all other cases, I use JupyterLab or Obsidian.

[0]: https://obsidian.md
One of the projects I work on every now and then is the "World's Worst X86 Decoder", where I'm trying to essentially automatically uncover x86 assembly semantics without ever having to build a list of x86 instructions, and this has forced me to look at the x86 ISA in a different way. The basic format I build for an opcode is this:

enum Group1Prefix { Lock = 0xf0, Repnz = 0xf2, Repz = 0xf3 }
enum Group2Prefix { Cs = 0x2e, Ds = 0x3e, Es = 0x26, Fs = 0x64, Gs = 0x65, Ss = 0x36 }
enum Group3Prefix { OpSize = 0x66 }
enum Group4Prefix { AddrSize = 0x67 }
enum ModernPrefix {
Rex { w: bool },
Vex { w: bool, l: bool },
}
struct Opcode {
pub group1: Option<Group1Prefix>,
pub group2: Option<Group2Prefix>,
pub group3: Option<Group3Prefix>,
pub group4: Option<Group4Prefix>,
pub modern_prefix: Option<ModernPrefix>,
pub opcode_map: u8,
pub opcode: u8,
}

And all opcodes can optionally have an immediate of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 8 bytes and optionally have a ModR/M byte (which is a separate datastructure because I don't enter that information myself, I simply run a sandsifter-like program to execute every single opcode and work out the answer).

This isn't quite accurate to how an assembler would see it, as Intel will sometimes pack instructions with 0 or 1 operands into a ModR/M byte, so that, e.g., 0F.01 eax, [mem] is actually the SGDT instruction and 0F.01 ecx, [mem] is SIDT (and 0F.01 eax, ecx is actually VMCALL).

As long as you're internally making a distinction between the different operand forms of instructions (e.g., 8-bit ADD versus 16-bit versus 32-bit versus 64-bit, and register/register versus register/immediate versus register/memory), it's actually not all that difficult to deal with the instruction encoding, or even mapping IR to those instructions, at least until EVEX prefixes enter the picture.
I’m assuming this is a joke, but there’s no explanation on the page about what ELIZA is and it’s not capitalized in the title of the post.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
I was trying not to cast aspersions, but I thought you might have been treating this as a binary. I was just trying to place this stuff on a gradient.
I'm not sure if I really agree - the level of abstraction used for each is extremely similar. There's not really any "Graphics Pipeline Specifics" pollution in OpenCL or CUDA.

You can pretty much translate something like https://github.com/jcupitt/opencl-experiments/blob/master/Op... with string replace function names.
That's not necessarily true at all.

Sometimes organizations simply wind up in impossible positions. Funding dries up for macroeconomic reasons that you have no control over, demand patterns change, etc.

There are plenty of failed orgs that would have failed even if they'd had true business geniuses leading them.

You could just as easily assert that paying someone $285K got the expertise that kept the organization going for an extra 3 years than it would have otherwise, because someone with less expertise would have made a bunch of worse choices that it would have run out of money 3 years earlier.

You seem to be demanding some kind of divine level of perfection here.
a social platform is not the same thing in any way shape or form.
Absolutely. I think genAI is awesome - I love having fun with it. But when I see AI art used as an article header, it makes me cringe. The ugliness of AI art is a very specific kind of ugliness, and it has a particular effect when presented as article or advertising content. The vibe it gives off is something like cheapness, low-class, lack of caring, a sort of boring cutesiness, even a little disrespectful - I can't really give a succinct description.

I'm sure there are plenty of good uses of AI art in this space too (I think I've seen one or two creative AI images that worked well with the content), but the bad examples are overwhelming in number, and they stand out.
Why is this surprising?

It makes sense that “facts” exist in earlier layers, then these become more abstract as you become deeper.

This reminds me of residual connections from CNNs and vision.
OP here. This is probably the most down-voted and dumped-on post I've made on HN.

Answer: We hired interns the same way. Is that really so bad though?

How would you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 on C++: 1 being you know C, and 10 being you are Bjarne Stroustrup or Bruce Eckle. Personally, I started out as a 4 back in 1996, and have monotonically fallen ever since.
I've had a lot of fun running generative AI, and continue to do so. It's a lot more fun than paying attention to, or talking to shitty trolls like you.
Thank you for your detailed feedback.

> I hit a bug where the chatlog doesn’t auto-scroll properly

It seems that this issue occurs when the window size is small. I’ll investigate this further.

Strflow is specifically designed for writing and accumulating notes, and it currently doesn’t have features related to task management. While some features may be added in the future, the app will remain focused on simplicity.

Thanks again!
Do you recognize the drastic changes the world would have to see to prevent a dedicated individual from driving what they want in any half-way liberal legal environment?

The US, for example, allows one to build a kit car totally by ones-self, and the waitlist for VIN certification is fairly short. If you want to shortcut the VIN certification you can build a car on a car that has at least 30% of the original frame in tact and piggy-back onto that VIN number with proper certification. If that frame is older than the mid 70s, go hog-wild; you can operate it with a coal engine if you want to.

If you're a 'dedicated individual' that is concerned with having a modern car that is engineered well for safety's sake, then go buy a kit from the hundreds of companies that do nothing but engineering work.

If you're afraid that there will be electrification mandates, no worries -- there are hundreds of startups focused on the conversion of existing ICEs into EVs.

What I'm trying to say : a world locked down to prevent all forms of vehicular autonomy is a lot different than the one we exist in today; it's not something easily predictable to assume when that will end, given the many different venues one can explore to express vehicular autonomy and individualistic choice.
And a TON of it is spam and “robots talking to robots”
When your CEO turns the brand from a status symbol to the opposite, it's "concerning".
True, but only to be replaced with other concerns, most likely.