skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, hard to imagine now but a few years ago it really was a popular theory that wage inflation would exceed price inflation - the continuing rise in tech salaries being the case in point. A belief often held by those with unserviceable student loans that they would rather inflate away. Plus the whole MMT thing which was disturbingly close to becoming official policy is predicated on inflation being hard to start allowing for large amounts of consequence free debt monetization (money printing). My argument was that inflation only appears hard to start because when there is a speculative bubble reducing money velocity at the same time. Mathematically it is impossible to maintain such bubbles forever even if they can last for a very long time. BlackRock will just keep getting bigger until it implodes and disappears taking peoples pension funds with it. How long will that take, I don’t know could be decades, I may not even live long enough to see it. But there is a limit and it will be reached.

The USSR lasted a rather long time despite how dysfunctional it was, and when it disappeared and defaulted on it's obligations the result was a mad scramble and mass poverty. But it also wasn't the end of the world as the prior dysfunctions meant that opportunities still existed.

I wonder if the USSR had not collapsed when it did if they could have possibly afforded to pay old age pensions or the equivalent in lifestyle in the bargain that was made with communism. I.e. how much of Soviet wealth was from people paying in to the system for obligations that the same system could not possibly keep. And is the US Social Security system in a similar state. I think the communists had the idea that upon sufficient revolution money would no longer be needed so state care would effectively be 'free' and or paid for out of the new wealth from finally achieving a communistic utopia. I see this as equivalently fanciful to the US finding a spare $70+ trillion dollars to fund it's currently unfunded obligations.
Not really, here in Amsterdam we had tourist jump of bridges and buildings on shrooms.
Unrelated question: how did you manage tabular data in git? It’s always a struggle to diff and merge changes.
Former OpenAI researcher's new company will teach you how to build an LLM
Sure, but at best that's unrelated to their value as an interview process. At worst, it's actually making things worse for you, because you're distracted and not doing more interviews.
Not in the sense I meant. The “enlightenment” confidence and awe-struck assuredness is the feeling and it comes from deep inside.

Recognizing that confidence and assuredness are not knowledge is not quite the same as those feelings themselves. Though I do recognize this is sort of recursive and cyclical and ultimately there’s nothing but some type of faith to build everything on, including doubt/skepticism.
But doesn't this reading ability plateau quickly? My 13 years old son reads pretty much as well as I do. I am working with him on SAT tests and there are some things he can improve. But not that much.

As opposed to Math - which keeps going and going well beyond college....
oops.. looks like someone forgot about natural ordering on some of those sorts.
hey, way to be exemplify that condescension:

> Perhaps it's new and frightening to you because you're level of literacy is not what it might be?

and you can't spell "your." My level of literacy is most likely much higher than yours.

Using pretentious words in order to sound more educated than you are is the very thing I'm talking about.

> To reduce to available pool to the most efficient use of letters?

(Pun intended there, I guess?) "Reducing" things to their essence is what we do in science and mathematics. It's a good thing.
The benchmark should be l4-l5. Even l6 is rare. His benchmark is ridiculous
You can start simple. Read Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang and do all exercises. Solutions are included. That book basically covers all mathematics up to junior high in a rigorous but approachable fashion. Serge Lang was a great mathematician. Then you move to logic, calculus, linear algebra and probability. Afterwards, focus on more specific areas that interest you.

Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Dover have lots of elegant and concise textbooks that can help you. At the beginning, the key is to move slowly and build some solid foundations.
I think I found what you saw:

> You're right, Ailsa, it would really help to know if and how much virus is out there in the raw milk supply being sold now to people. But testing doesn't seem to be happening regularly, and that data is really hard to come by. That's why we tried to find our own. But when I brought raw milk that I bought from those four Texas farms to one of the few labs authorized by the USDA to test milk for bird flu, the lab insisted on calling each of the four farms first for permission, though the USDA has confirmed the agency doesn't require permission from farms to perform the test.

> None of the farms gave the lab permission to run the tests. They told the lab they were aware of what a non-negative result would do for their business. So the lab refused to test our samples. That means we weren't able to find out how much virus was in the raw milk being sold now in Texas, and probably it's very difficult for other members of the public to do that, too.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251647612/a-bird-flu-outbrea...
We are going to need to know the rate of this happening. And who said it happens?
I like the Doom flames.
I really appreciate your writing style for the article. It could have been dry, but instead it kept me engaged.
Cool but doesn't the Apple Watch have all kinds of sensors to make it work against your wrist? Putting in this case will kind of remove the point of all those nifty hardware gadgets.
Telling everyone to do a dose of anti-depressants is just the same. Not a great idea.
clearly LLM app has added such logic to their app:

```
if (query.IsHallucinated()) { notifyHumanOfHallucination(); }
```

this one line will get them that unicorn eval
> Is it that the other person wasn't willing to make the effort to type is seen as disrespectful?

No, it's exactly the opposite. "Reaction" responses are irrelevant noise that clogs up the communication channel and wastes other people's time and attention.

People don't usually manually type these sorts of reactions because doing so is not often worth the effort. But this feature eliminates the friction, and encourages people to engage in behavior that is effectively spamming.
Fedora AI/ML Survey
I agree with Musk about the California law, but a CEO is supposed to make decisions for a company to increase shareholder value (and arguably benefit other stakeholders), not to make political points.

'His disclosures followed the move by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, to sign a new law Monday that aims to prevent schools from informing families if their children identify as gay or transgender.

“This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X, the social-media platform he owns. He cited the law as well as “many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies.”'
It's an awk interview. "Awk creator" is relevant.
This is a great idea. It would be even better if there were a column for warranty details, power consumption, and slot/port counts.
HN explicitly allows reposts:

>Are reposts ok?

>If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

>Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This is the opposite of privatizing. Publicizing I guess.

The government already spends more than it takes in and is $32 trillion in debt.

There are definitely a lot of inefficiencies in healthcare, many of them could be solved without the government taking it over.
On the author's resume is a link to a L10 salary at google under "available for employment" and a distinguished engineer at Amazon. So author is in the top 0.01% (or even higher really) of salary expectations for the SWE ladder as I understand.
Let's try it. Can you shoot me an email?
People were saying things like "Why does twitter need 10,000 employees?" for years and years on end.

We are seeing a reversion to the mean.
I won't attribute this to Einstein:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/

That word you dislike means you've violated "But Not Simpler"
> And generative content is also legal, thats even includes reposting a copyrighted video even if there is discussion video over the video.

Citation please.
How is the NVIDIA driver situation on Linux these days? I built a new desktop with an AMD GPU since I didn't want to deal with all the weirdness of closed source or lacking/obsolete open source drivers.
Kernel is an overloaded term for GPUs. This is about the linux kernel
As with many problems this can be handled by a layer of indirection.

Have your subclass push all its data into a storage object that itself is a simple ObjC type held in a standard ARC-managed property/ivar. Then the NSCopyObject memcpy copies the pointer to your storage and the ARC fixup ensures the retain count of the storage object is correct.

This is the simplest way to resolve the problem for something like NSCell without anyone making future code changes needing to think about it too hard or accidentally introducing a regression.
Power consumption would make sense
My current favorite is Cirrus7: 100% passively cooled in a great compact custom case: https://www.cirrus7.com/
?? but who is monitoring the AI layer monitoring the AI who produced the original output ??

openai audited by claudeai which is then audited by gemini ai...

then to close the loop, gemini ai is then audited by openai
I agree that you sometimes have to pick you battles and have allegiances of convenience.

However, my opinion is that an excessive amount of “selling your soul to the devil” for short term gains is the root cause of much of what is wrong in business and politics.
Way over the top commentary from you, I was already shaking my head before this round.

It was unkind of you to write up an elaborate accusation just because you felt frustrated.

There's one very obvious reason why they they don't use the Android Settings app: it's built for displays at least 2x as tall. (some of the dozens more in [1])

Additionally, a major point of frustration for you seems to be a perceived refusal to admit there's no reason to send WiFi info to the server. TFA doesn't claim they are. Just logged locally in files.

Note everyone along the way clearly said "this is bad and I don't like it" along with facts they were trying to communicate --- its really annoying to have to add those disclaimers because people might be on edge, I can't imagine how frustrating it was to add them and still get the personal attack.

source: I have no love for Rabbit. I left Google in October to found an AI startup. At Google, I worked on Android for several years.

[1] it's unskinned, has a bunch of unnecessary settings, would complicate it with legacy nonsense in what was sold as simplification of legacy nonsense, and they're using something that makes it the face of the device (setting their APK as launcher? kiosk mode?). I can't think of a single OEM that says "hey just go to the settings app to set up wifi".
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As someone who is pretty skeptical and reads the fine print, I think this is a good move and I really do not see a downside (other than the fact that this probably strengthens the nVidia monoculture).
Has anyone tried breeding mice for extremely long lifespans? Seems like something that would be fairly simple to implement considering the generational turnaround time of the species.
Except our entire sociopolitical system here doesn't incentivize lofty, crunchy-granola companies. The same reason why we're in this mess in the first place is, well... because we're in this mess in the first place. I.e. you have the causality backwards: we don't need alternative orgs to save us, we need to outlaw the more ruthless, race-to-the-bottom business practices that are not only legal, but encouraged. It's not a coincidence that it's getting harder and harder to complete with big, entrenched players, and a worker co-op can't do much when Google has more money than several small countries combined.
This type of behavior seems like it should be something that should be (relatively) easy to fix with some kind of external intervention layer. Google has been able to answer queries without using LLMs for some time now, so maybe some kind of pre-check followed by a prompt injection to stiff-arm the LLM in the right direction.
> Why did you wait until the article was ready to be published to inform them?

AFAIK the OP did not start writing his article until after they resolved it, which they did within 24 hours.

quoting the blogpost now, "firstly because I hadn't fully thought through the impacts at the time"
The issue was overlooked by OP up until concerns were voiced by other community members which ultimately got the problem patched within 24h of it being noticed.

You claim "the amount of negative spin in the article left a bad taste in my mouth.", but you seem to be the only one spinning quotes out of context to fit your narrative
Someone of that is similar to the Seinfeld is unfunny trope right? Where it's not funny because we've been inundated with the same humor from other media before experiencing shakespeare, so it seems trite.
> In general, people are completely uninterested in experience that they don't understand...

It depends on the interviewer. I have colleagues who are risk averse. They want to stick with the tried and true. I on the other hand am a bit of risk taker. If you told me about something that I knew nothing about, and it was a legitimate way to improve things, you will have peaked my curiosity. I would immediately want to know more.

Also, it helps if the hiring person is an experienced dev. In my org, managers do not participate in the hiring of developers, other than background checks and verifying references.
There are ways things can be computers that don't require the typical setup of a von Neumann architecture. Psilocybin taught me that. My education and subsequent studies confirmed that.
As a resident of nearby Capitola (and not far from Pleasure Point where Tom Lehrer bought a home), I absolutely love the winter in Santa Cruz County. I can enjoy the natural scenery and many of the tourist attractions without dealing with the crowds and the traffic.

I’ve been living in Santa Cruz County for 12 out of the past 14 years; 1 year living in graduate housing at UCSC, 4 years in Capitola, two years away in the East Bay, and then the past 7 years in Capitola again. UC Santa Cruz brought me to the county, but even after graduating I stuck around for quite a while. I enjoy the tranquility of Capitola, and I feel it’s a nice retreat from Silicon Valley while being close for meetings and events. Hybrid work helps a lot; I wouldn’t want to drive over Highway 17 every day, though.

I’m going to miss living here; I’m preparing for a move back to the East Bay since I will start a full-time tenure-track teaching position at Ohlone College in Fremont. No more hybrid work; I will be in the classroom at least four days per week. I’m looking forward to finally engaging in my passion for teaching full time after nine years in industry, but I can’t do Highway 17 every day, so I’m going to need to move from Capitola. I’m sad I’ll have to give up the nice weather and the soothing morning coastal fog, but I will always have great memories.
> I just think it's silly when you guys cry that modern sites don't support your decrepit charity browser.
>
> Clearly you took it so personally that you dug through my comment history.

I look through most comment histories before responding. Because of this, I know that you are mostly reasonable on other topics. I find it interesting that you think prodding back is "crying", can you not take it as well as you deal it?

What did Mozilla do to you that makes you go from reasonable javascript coder to raging troll on this one specific topic?
Not relying on your network sounds like terrible advice.

Employee: “Hello, hiring manager. I know an incredible candidate for that job we posted last week.”

Hiring manager: “Thanks, employee, but we have hundreds of resumes from strangers, so we don’t need to talk to your contact.”

I’m not saying that never happens? But I am saying that it happens rarely enough that you shouldn’t use it to guide your networking strategy.
I am far from an expert on LLMs and have never used the Rabbit, but wouldn't it be silly to have the llm produce the weather? Wouldn't that mean it must have the information in either the context window (or the training set, but that seems pretty unlikely to be current), meaning it already had to be gathered from an external source and wouldn't need to be sent to the LLM anyway?

What can/does the Rabbit add to it above what a simple string concatenation would?
Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson convicted in New York fraud trial
The saccharin research was on both mice and rats, and to this day the jury is still out on manufactured sweeteners and their health impact.

Of course animal models "don't necessarily" translate; a first year med student knows that. Mice are still an excellent model as a step moving closer toward human trials because mice are incredibly similar to us physiologically and genetically, and we have a great deal of understanding about those similarities and differences.

Half the article discusses the challenges involved in trying to move beyond the mouse model to study the phenomenon more.
I can't think of anything in the world I would enjoy doing less than completing "a simple auditory–visual matching task" while in an MRI scanner on shrooms.
"X%" here likely means "single digit number of percentage points", as opposed to something like "XX%".
people are lazy, we're more than happy to not be in the loop
Wow, this looks awesome for a low-usage home server (since it makes no noise). Does it handle load well though?
More incentive to buy from local farmers who you know where possible.
I wonder has anyone tried combining all the disparate techniques we have found so far?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02224-1 There is this other protein too.

I always wonder would these combined with things like senolytics etc have a greater effect?
Ask HN: Good Examples of Personal Websites
Folks, I'm in the process of gathering some inspiration for designing my personal website.
Nothing cool or fancy, I'm not a FE engineer afterall.

But I'd love to see what you guys consider to be a good personal website. It could contain a blog or projects session or not, Im not sure what I want to have in mine just yet :D
Sure.

Here's a log file of page accesses on our server. It's a CSV. The first column is the user, the second column is the page, and the third column is the load time for that page in milliseconds. We want to know what is the most common three page path access pattern on our site. By that I mean, if the user goes to pages A -> B -> C -> A -> B -> C the most common three page path for that user is "A -> B -> C".

user, page, load time
A, B, 500
A, C, 100
A, D, 50
B, C, 100
A, E, 200
B, A, 450

etc.

So for this first question you should give an answer in the form of "A -> B -> C with a count of N".

We would have two files, one simple one that is possible to read through and calculate by hand, and one too long for that. The longer file has a "gotchya" where there's actually two paths that are tied for the highest frequency. I'd point out that they'd given an incomplete answer if they don't give all paths with the highest frequency.

The second part would be to calculate the slowest three page path using the load times.

In my opinion it's a pretty good way to filter out people that can't code at all. It's more or less a fancy fizzbuzz.
Until (very) recently iOS users saw the same thing you did, e.g. the text describing the reaction instead of the reaction itself.

The person sending the reaction sees it on the message like an iMessage, but everything in a non-iMessage group text (iOS, android, or other) gets sent the same “liked your message” text. Nowadays both Android and iOS parse those texts and apply the reaction as if it was sent normally, but that’s a decent change
How could it be a static target though? That doesn't seem practical.
>> It made me realize something: when we were growing up a saying was "talk to your kids about drugs". There needs to be an equivalent campaign for these scams.

THIS.

I've been saying this for years. I have no idea why an a world that has been inhospitable to older folks for decades, why there are no programs to help elderly and at risk people to keep an eye out for these.

I'm sorry to hear about your mother as well. That's heartbreaking.
"K" is usually a short form of "okay", which is either an affirmative response to a yes/no question, or an acknowledgment of receiving an informmational message, depending on context. In most cases, this is a useful response.

Asking a question and getting "I like your question" as the sole response is incredibly obnoxious.
I love the concept! I think TinyPod is an outcry over the sizes of the smartphones today. The smallest most recent iPhone you could buy was iPhone 13 mini and it was discontinued. Don't know about other brands, but from what I am seeing nothing fits the pocket anymore. There must but a niche for those who don't read or watch movies on their hand-held devices, and if the apps are well designed a smaller screen is just fine.
OP, one common mistake is overthinking the interview process. I know it is bullshit, but it helps to think of it as an adjacent but mainly orthogonal skill to everyday work.

I am also allergic to playing the game, but I got ground down in my twenties and now I am happier than ever simply accepting the imperfections of the world, and sometimes even getting a chance to improve part of one.

Try applying the midwit meme from your post to the interview process "If I get hired, it worked."
Glad news!!!
It's endlessly interesting to read how people narrow broad points.
Maybe a key innovation would be to apply backpropagation to optimize the crossover process itself. Instead of random crossover, compute the gradient of the crossover operation.

For each potential combination, "learn" (via normal backprop) how different ways of crossover impacts on overall network performance. Then use this to guide the selection of optimal crossover points and methods.

This "gradient-optimized crossover" would be a search process in itself, aiming to find the best way to combine specific parts of networks to maximize improvement of the whole. It could make "leaps", instead of small incremental steps, due to the exploratory genetic algorithm.

Has anything like this been tried?
Even if you're very conventionally minded, it shouldn't be that crazy to you that not everyone adopts dominant media narratives
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Or space janitors.
No, they were separate dosages to compare FC effects.
Fan / no-fan would also be useful to many people (myself included).
I remember Nvidia getting hacked pretty bad a few years ago. IIRC, the hackers threatened to release everything they had unless they open sourced their drivers. Maybe they got what they wanted.

[0] https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/nvidia-hackers-allegedly-...
great. rtx 4090 works out of the box after installing drivers from non-free. That's on debian bookworm.
My experience is that it’s very easy to expose kids to English in a non-English country - just let them consume all their entertainment (Netflix, games, books) in English right from the start. You don’t need to do anything special other than that.
The politicians who are pro-crypto were paid to be so.[1] Well-paid.[2]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/63ad2147-0aa7-4e28-9cf5-6ce3ce7a2...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/05/congress-blocked-se...