skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting company, and something that is surely good to watch out for in the future. It is also very needed use case now that generative AI is just about everywhere.

There is some cause to be skeptical of the claims on the website, because the site doesn't provide enough information to validate the claims with any rational basis, and there are a number of other companies that have done the same and failed to deliver.

There have also been a few court cases now where similar use cases for attribution have been used inappropriately, and resulted in false claims/charges causing great miscarriages of justice (under facial recognition).

Hopefully you performed an adequate adversarial review, and have a demonstrable way to rationally prove there are no false positives at a bare minimum.
https://executivefunctioningsuccess.com/
General philosophizing: Is it possible there's an important economic difference between public price discrimination versus secret price discrimination?

I mean there's a spectrum between "acceptable" price discrimination and "abusive". Nobody bats an eye at lower rates for bulk purchases or movie theaters offerering half price for kids.

It may not be a panacea, but sunlight is still a pretty good [civic] disinfectant.
It sounds like you're saying exactly what TFA says? Bit odd to criticize an NYT article (and without linking) as a comment on an article that does get into these details?
We built our world for a climate that no longer exists
Adderall was great at first but literally a week of daily use and I felt like all it was back to normal.

Felt like Im just damaging my physical health for no good reason
Get a sleep study.
What an ignorant take.
Task Dashboard Tips for Peak Productivity
It's been abandoned/archived. I've since been using github.com/jonboulle/clockwork which is much less problematic. For my use it is perfectly fine.
Previously (421 points, 4 years ago, 110 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325319
Your first question asks something that I haven't thought or expressed.

Your second questions appears to be more of a statement with a question mark at the end.
The most correct use for this analogues of owners, hermits and pets is as tool of desconstructing the cyberpunk genre.

It's no longer human culture in animal nature; but owner culture in anthroposcenic nature.

What happens when one that can live centuries in an intellectual enlightened form lives in a world of pollutatition, cities, old infastructure—and of course the organic leftovers?

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Noteworthy to say this makes up perhaps half of cyberpunk's foundations—one should not ever define cyberpunk solely with this idea.
Ah good point, I hadn't thought about reactions above ground.
Where else would you apply this reasoning?
If I lose my phone it doesn't stop being a phone...
Sounds like a great way to get scammed! Gold is already very liquid with a real time price on multiple metal exchanges across the globe.
Actually, while amount of nodes have not grown, capacity of lightning has steadily been growing. https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning
Why not put in a plastic ziploc bag? Lots of stuff from Amazon comes in plastic bags. I got a pack of 2x3" recently, that size would be perfect for this.

I bet it is enough not to move around in the envelope. I guess there are anti-static bags if paranoid.
90 out of 114. 24 eluded me.
""NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology (outdated or current) in order to process a request.""

Agreed, but that indicates there's something very wrong with Government's archiving processes.

Magnetic tapes, floppy and hard disks of any kind lose a certain percentage of their magnetic remanence every year and eventually they become unreadable even when old/obsolete playback machines are available to read them. That well-established fact ought to be known to anyone responsible for storing/archiving information in any of these magnetic formats together with knowledge of the correct procedures for long-term handling and preservation of such material—regeneration, transferring to digital media, to media with higher/better long-term remanence, etc.

Videotape is no exception, moreover are you going to tell me the NSA doesn't have secret audio tape/cassette recordings in storage? The same would apply to these media as well.

Seems to me National Archives ought to be involved as well. If the info is secret or such that the NSA has some reason not to trust National Archives with the media then liaison between the two branches of government should be such to at least ensure that NSA material is being preserved properly.
Isn’t the basic attack method:

A) make a copy of the memory and hard drive (encrypted with a pin).

B) try a few pins until you’re locked out.

C) revert back to the copy you made in step A.

D) Try a few pins until you’re locked out.

E) Then after a day or two after all pins have been automatically tried and it has been unlocked, you’re in.

I bet they have faster and more efficient methods than this via some secret unpatched vulnerabilities or exploits but if they ever run out of them, this tried and true method works too.
It mostly ends up in landfill. At some point we may be resource poor, and but energy rich and we'll use Plasma mass separation to separate each element out and reuse the valuable ones. Until then it's safely stored there.
Right – if spot price per oz is $2,418.95 and say hypothetically I am sourcing it for $1700/oz there seems to be a reasonable amount of margin there if you can find a buyer for it.
See also: Bastiat's "broken window" fallacy.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fa...
You should see a psychiatrist
> Was there difference in hunter-gatherers in europe/asia/americas compared to africa? Why hadn't the ancient elephants, giraffes, etc been hunted to extinction?

One theory is that they gradually adapted as humans developed.

Once humans spread out to other continents the change was too rapid for the megafauna on those continents to adapt.
There's discussion about mining landfills to recover these kinds of materials. When you rememeber we had to dig it all out of the ground, taking it from a dump seems pretty convenient!
I'll bet a dollar that none of this ends up being particularly viable.

Feels like an "anti-Photoshop" company; whatever means you might like or want to exist re defending this sort of thing will lose in an arms race.

This is not to say that there's nothing that can be done, but I just doubt those solutions will ever be technical.
On an aggregate level, no. Those things you've listed only occur when times are good and the gravy train is running. In a recession or hyperinflation it's a different matter altogether. China would certainly want that magical ability for their economy right now if they could.
> Was there difference in hunter-gatherers in europe/asia/americas compared to africa? Why hadn't the ancient elephants, giraffes, etc been hunted to extinction?

Consider that African megafauna have co-existed with early hominids and eventually humans for millions of years. They may have simply adapted to human predation successfully enough to survive, as one factor.

Whereas in North America and elsewhere you have the sudden (on the evolutionary time scale) arrival of Homo Sapiens who are likely already very skilled and advanced hunters among a population of prey animals that have never experienced such a predator.

It’s also possible that in tandem, climate change was less severe in Africa than elsewhere over the last 50k years.
I'm particularly impressed by the way Sora generates crashing waves here. Truly breathtaking stuff.

I fully realize there's no meaningful sense in which these models simulate physics, but it's simultaneously very difficult to deny that their output is a strong approximation of reality (at least visually).

I wonder if anyone seriously starts to model physics by throwing huge amounts of AI compute at AI models, rather than attempting to model reality.
How much work has been stolen and exploited by the more powerful for their own gain? Lots I'm sure. Justifying mistakes of the present by normalizing the sins of the past is a weak-willed argument.
First one I tried was marquee but it's not included :(
Ah, the system I ran into would've been pre-c++11.

Only saw it trying to debug a heap issue and I was surprised because I thought surely it's a null terminated string already right? They also checked the heap allocation size, so it would only reallocate if the length of string data % 8 was zero.
I love this one. The outrage I would feel reading people's extreme tweets (not political necessarily, just hyper argumentative) was addictive for me, and simultaneously kept me wired. I thought it was worth it to keep up on the latest of tech, news, sports, whatever, but cutting it out helped my mind get to a FAR slower pace. It's crazy what fomo can put you through
I'm actually laughing quite hard at this. This may be the most HN take I think I've ever seen.

"20 year career in neurology, but there's this one weird trick that will fix everything"
I find the whole discussion of gender here distracting from the science. I don't see how using gender makes the point more clear.
The problem with being the best developer I meet this year is twofold.

Firstly, it's unlikely that your definition of 'best" and my definition of "best" co-incide. Being a developer encompasses a wide range of skills, technical skills like writing code, writing helpful documentation, interacting with colleagues, architecting for the future, fixing other peoples bugs and more. Unless your priority order is the same as mine, knowing you're good at one thing can get a hindrance.

But leaving that aside, being very good at something (and more importantly knowing it) seldom makes for a good team mate. It comes with an attitude that is less likely to conform with what we do here, less likely to admit when you're wrong, less likely to adapt when we have priorities other than yours.

I'll also point out that your additude to non-developer topics should be one of privacy. I don't really want to know your political views, or your views on crypto, or your brushes with race, ethnicity and so on. If you vered into any of those topics in an interview I'd be alarmed. Even if asked your answers in those areas should be non-committal. And if I did ask about something like crypto (I dont) I'd be looking for a measured answer that showed you can understand both sides of an argument, that you can admit when a position is controversial, that while there are positives there are also negatives and so on.

I say this not to negate you, but perhaps to help you grow in your interviewing skills. It's just fine to be white, libertarian, into crypto, 35 years old, whatever. But interviewing is about getting to know someone, and TMI can be, well, too much.

I get where you're coming from, I really do, and you may be a great developer, but unfortunately you may not be a great employee just yet. And ultimately they're hiring an employee first, a developer second.
Same with font
Many people struggle with similar issues. Here's what you can do:

See a doctor: Rule out any underlying medical conditions.
Seek professional help: Therapists or coaches specializing in executive function and memory can provide personalized strategies.
Develop routines and systems: Use calendars, to-do lists, and reminders to stay organized.
Break down tasks: Tackle big goals in smaller, manageable steps.
Practice mindfulness: Meditation and other mindfulness techniques can improve focus and emotional regulation.
Connect with others: Talking to friends, family, or support groups can be helpful.
Remember, you're not alone and there's help available. Start with small changes and be patient with yourself.
Oh dear god.

Look, switching to "source available" is fine. But for the love of c'thulu, please don't create a new, bastardized "franken-license" by adding an "appendix" to a known license. NOBODY knows what the actual meaning of the new creation is, including users, the developers, potential users, etc.

It would be much, much, much better to just change licenses to one of the many existing, well understood, well accepted, "source available" licenses that already exist.
The answer is federation. Don't try to sell me "subscribing to one specific blog", sell me a sensibly curated and rich network.

People might be willing to pay $10 per month for a broad spectrum of quality content, but they don't want to spend 13 cents for a given arbitrary single article. It's an annoying decision burden, even if you try to shunt it away from them with delayed end-of-month billing (constant fear of a surprise $300 bill) or a prepaid-credit scheme (where you have to still check your balance regularly).

It has to be unmetered at the moment of use -- no surprise paywall popping back up-- and it has to cover enough content that you're not reliant on "if we lose our #1 draw, the entire platform falls over".

The perfect prototype was basically the Japanese phone-book manga magazine. If you liked one or two series consistently, it was enough to justify buying the book, and since you already paid, you may as well explore the other 18 series in there to see if there's something you like.
I went to RPI's summer program for high school students in the mid 80s. I was hand assembling and linking assembly for a PDP-11 in the computer lab for a class, and I struck up a conversation with the sys admin of the "big" VAX-11 machine. The load over the summer on the VAX was low, so he was using the whole VAX to calculate the digits of pi. When I asked him "Why?", he said he hated to waste all those cycles. I remember less about the technical details of what he was doing than I do about PDP-11 assembly language. And pi is 3.1415927..., right?

Now that I am reading Meagher on octrees, I kind of wish I had met him--I think he was there at the time. I did get a tour of the image lab, and remember the colorful monkey on a monitor.
AI-digest: Query your whole codebase in a Custom ChatGPT or Claude Project
Keep the bug generators going, we will need the jobs
A Shameful Venture
This is the code that does the work: https://github.com/rectanglehq/Shapeshift/blob/d954dab2a866c...

There are a few ways this could be made a less expensive to run:

1. Cache those embeddings somewhere. You're only embedding simple strings like "name" and "address" - no need to do that work more than once in an entire lifetime of running the tool.

2. As suggested here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40973028 change the design of the tool so instead of doing the work it returns a reusable data structure mapping input keys to output keys, so you only have to run it once and can then use that generated data structure to apply the transformations on large amounts of data in the future.

3. Since so many of the keys are going to have predictable names ("name", "address" etc) you could even pre-calculate embeddings for the 1,000 most common keys across all three embedding providers and ship those as part of the package.

Also: in https://github.com/rectanglehq/Shapeshift/blob/d954dab2a866c... you're using Promise.map() to run multiple embeddings through the OpenAI API at once, which risks tripping their rate-limit. You should be able to pass the text as an array in a single call instead, something like this:

const response = await this.openai!.embeddings.create({
model: this.embeddingModel,
input: texts,
encoding_format: "float",
});
return response.data.map(item => item.embedding);

https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings/cr... says input can be a string OR an array - that's reflected in the TypeScript library here too: https://github.com/openai/openai-node/blob/5873a017f0f2040ef...
You naively ignore the power of mentally ill people in our society. The social contract should be continuously improved to weaker their power and marginalize their obsessions but the corporate workplace is a rotting carcass for these dysfunctionally productive people to twist to their ends. They fight losses to their power over others more than anything else. It’s terrifying to watch the banality and casualness that people engage in these antisocial behaviors with.
They did more than that, my house was built in 1968, it was wired with 6pr for Picturephone service.
That’s fair. I was just surprised to hear he’d be using carpet in the first place. I’m sure he knows what he’s doing, not questioning him.
That's ok, I'm waay ahead of them — I've been defaulting to not visiting Google for years now.
I don't think you read the whole thing. I specifically said "no cost-plus pricing." It's just a notional price for comparison with the real ones.
I want to add, try starting with lowest dose! For me 3.1mg Adzenys or 10mg Vyvanse (both lowest dose possible) have a clearly noticeable and beneficial effect without overriding my core personality and preferred mental tendencies (though this along with a low/moderate dose of NDRI and SSRI)
Why don't you have cloudflare caching enabled on the images?
There is an old Soviet joke: "Soviet microprocessors are the word-biggest microprocessors!" ("Советские микропроцессоры - самые большие микропроцессоры в мире!")
> only go to a therapist with objective and practical plans for results, even if that may take a few sessions. Any therapist that just offers vague solutions is leading you on.

No, therapy is also a place to practice relating, eg vocalizing emotions, setting boundaries, or mending ruptures. Therapy is, after all, also a relationship.

"Vague" solutions are, of course, "no true scotsman," but yes, therapists should be able to offer concrete, actionable coping tools--explain them to you, and help you process your attempt to put them into practice.

I don't see a reason, however, to see a therapist who finds fault with me that I don't, myself, consider a problem. Let my friends and relations stage the interventions if need be. ;)
You’re thinking of slavery with extra steps.
I'm curious now: what's the difference between "experience" and "lived experience"?
At least I'm not the only now who sees it - I feel a tremendous sense of loss when I look at Divestiture - we lost untold jobs, manufacturing and engineering capacity - and the ability to respond quickly.

For me, as someone who spent some portion of my career in wireline telephony, I feel these losses acutely, particularly as the copper wireline network dies - the fact that all of this infrastructure was built by one company was not lost on me, and was very obvious early in my career - but is less so now.
Agreed. Rather than making CUDA the standard; AMD should push/drive an open standard that can be run on any hardware.

We have seen this succeed multiple times: FreeSync vs GSync, DLSS vs FSR, (not AMD but) Vulkan vs DirectX & Metal.

All of the big tech companies are obsessed with ring-fencing developers behind the thin veil of "innovation" - where really it's just good for business (I swear it should be regulated because it's really bad for consumers).

A CUDA translation layer is okay for now but it does risk CUDA becoming the standard API. Personally, I am comfortable with waiting on an open standard to take over - ROCm has serviced my needs pretty well so far.

Just wish GPU sharing with VMs was as easy as CPU sharing.
I mean, I'd really prefer if you didn't. Not that other people won't.
I felt similar things about 1.5 years ago, and I decided to read a lot of books about work and business and write myself a todo manager and gradually build up tooling around it to help myself function effectively.

It is too early for me to tell definitively whether it has helped, but I think it has.

Be prepared for this to be a long process.
There's some sound advice in this thread, including the obvious ones: talk to a therapist, psychiatrist, get disciplined, etc. etc. What some people don't get is that for the person on the other side, all these advices are usually a given.

I'm relatively successful in tackling my mental health issues and neurodivergence, have been on therapy, medication constantly for over a decade, but when I'm in a particularly bad shape from a depression or attention deficit, I'll actually drop the very things that have worked in the past, even when I'm perfectly aware they help. It's weird and absolutely irrational.

The only advice I can give you, really, based on this personal experience, is to get a third-party to "coach" you into doing the right stuff. Anybody. It can be family, a friend, anyone. If you already have a therapist, most will be likely happy to do it. All you need is someone to hold you accountable for the stuff you know you need to do. That person will keep tabs on you for a few weeks until you follow all the obvious advice here: find a therapist, a psychiatrist, a gym, quit booze, etc. In worst case scenarios, that person can go ahead and schedule appointments for you.

Once you're in therapy and|or medication and|or good habits for a couple months, you'll get traction to do everything else, and with some luck (finding the right professional, the right drug, the right methods is a trial-and-error) you'll build up some momentum quickly and won't need anyone keeping tabs anymore.
Western Electric people helped to teach Japan these skills post war.
Don’t think that needed clarification from “pet”
Horses don't revolt
I am intrigued at how much thought went into "copper". Was the thinking that everyone's eyes would glaze over at such a common material? My initial reaction would be to use a different rare element. However, a rare element might draw more scrutiny to the casual observer. Then again, the potential for confusion is incredibly high. Interesting spycraft.

Supposedly the opsec at the Manhattan Project was so good, significant portions of the workforce had no idea on what they were laboring. Post war interviews thought the facility was all a sham, dedicated to nothing but medical testing.
requires creative thinking.

I would guess it's very close to the first thing that pops into the head of many a Russian speaker. А? Что? - Ничего. Желтые ботинки! Not to mention the frequent use in the classical literature, for the more high-minded. https://vk.com/topic-16292643_23535328
There’s been 20 new JavaScript frameworks since then!