skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In every company I've worked for, the biggest fans/lovers of meetings/let's "touch base" have always been: The most useless members of our team.

And I truly mean that, whether PM/TPM/or even SDM/SDE. The common denominator is they were always absolutely useless, adding no value or no true technical contribution, and their only value add was siloing information and claiming to be in "meetings" to lead some effort forward.

Their entire job function could've probably been replaced by a wiki or Google Doc. They intentionally made themselves the only points of contact and did not introduce people cross team because people would probably immediately realize how useless they are.

I've seen this multiple times, multiple roles, L5+, earning 100s of thousands of dollars a year at big tech companies.

Yes, I will waste 45 minutes of my time explaining word for word to you, exactly what is written in this design document, and none of it will be documented, no AIs will come from it, so you can look "busy" for today and tell your manager you did something. Woohoo collaboration!
I'm curious here how do they make money? i heard that they have ai consulting service. is that sufficient to run the company? i don't think any researchers i know pay for hugging face.
AI, Lawyers, and Jevon's Paradox
> imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman

I like this idea. What if you could study geometric function theory with Kaczynski? You could study chemical engineering with Thomas Midgley Jr!

Creative writing with L Ron Hubbard!
> by turning them off, you are therefore forcing people who want to communicate with you to adapt to your communication preferences because you have

I don't see how. All it means is that I won't see the reactions. That's my loss. I'm not forcing anyone else to do anything differently.

If it actually begins to interfere with communications too much, I can turn them back on.

> it's somehow unethical or abusive of the user or something

For me, that's not the thing at all. It's more that configuration options often make the difference between software being useful to me and not being useful to me. That's all.
Why? The VC money is flowing right now.
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https://github.com/andrewhickman/protox is a pure-Rust protobuf compiler.

The argument works better for the likes of libclang.
I, for one, represent this comment.
I mean ... many people went to school as students for a good 12 years. That's likely tainted experience, less objective perhaps, but nontheless valid experience.
> Think it is something like 12-13 bits plus your IP even with a VPN.

Is that legal under GDPR?
i think kids would be self-motivated with the right system.

I got a lot more motivated to learn when i learned programming.

during the pandemic, the world was in shock, so of course kids are going to play video games when their parents are anxious and filled with cabin-feever.
Most AI startups are following the Underpants Gnomes business plan:

Phase 1 - Launch product which loses money

Phase 2 - ???

Phase 3 - Profit!

Few have progressed past the first phase yet.
Step 1: Be at exactly the optimum point during a massive opportunity.

Step 2: Do almost anything you will still grow.
No. After about 5000 ft AGL (give or take) you can't pick up cell tower signals at all, since the antennas are directional and pointed towards the ground.

This is a deliberate design decision, because even a low-altitude aircraft would have hundreds of cell towers in sight and would overwhelm the network when handsets tried to register on all of them.

But also: Pilots like being able to have guarantees about system accuracy. We get notices anytime even a single GPS satellite is out of service (even though there are 31 of them), and have software tools in the aircraft to predict if there will be any signal degradation along our route (RAIM). I can't imagine having anything near that level of guarenteed safety with an ad-hoc system like described.
This is one of iCloud's best features. I'm almost always protected by something like a VPN but that Cloudflare has been programmed to trust so I don't see recaptchas all day. AT&T just helpfully leaked their call records database which serves as a data point against trusting ISP more than Apple & Cloudflare. If anything, I want Private Relay running for every application on my phone
DOS still allowed you to run child processes, and TSRs were a thing that sometimes caused funny behaviours.

My point was that running your own chosen process as PID1 (or, to be more practical, a minimal init or maybe system v init with single entry for process to run) matches the requirements of running small set of processes just as well as DOS (if you need more, it's IMO more worthwhile to start getting a build of some RTOS for your platform)
I think this is still the case opinions regarding stuff like this isn’t just voiced in public anymore so it gives the appearance of shifting stats
Hard to say what situations you have experienced because the details are scant, but in my experience usually those people have helped, in one way or another, to ensure that my pay check has the specific number that it does.

Simply put: they use the information they gain to justify the utility of individual team members to the overall effort and thus the proportionate compensation.
Yup, the big advantage the article cites for space based power is 24/7 availability vs the daily cycle on the ground, but that is so easily solved by batteries which are also on a rapidly declining cost curve. While I tend to like space-based ideas (just cool tech problems!), it seems that by the time this is really viable the problem will have been well-solved on the ground?
Learning stuff is 100% secondary. If it wasn't these two below would have same-ish chances in life/career.

Student A: Went to College X and majored in Y. Finished all XXX number of credits and graduated with Bachelor's Degree

Student B: Went to same College X and majored in same Y. Finished all XXX-1 number of credits so is 1 credit short and never got a degree.

Student B is worthless even though she/he learned exactly the same thing as Student A. School (especially in USA) never was and never will be about learning ...
Disney investigating leak of internal messages
> I've been wanting a language with that feature

Python, which realization CPython is mentioned in the article, has arbitrary precision integers.
LOL. Imagine being so miserable and desperate that you rob your grandmothers grave for a few dollars.
I'll tell you where it will go wrong.

We had an economics teacher, that when you would bring up "the pope" topic, she could go on a 1+ hour rant about what is wrong with the whole catholic institution, etc.

Of course us kids, would somehow be able to get this topic into the lesson, to trigger her rant.

If you want to know various ways on how to break AI, let some kids, who are forced to interact with it, loose on the thing. I'm sure they'll figure out how to get it to say the most crazy shit in no time.
It isn't materially different than replying "OK" in that both a thumb's-up notification and an "OK" reply both act as distractions from whatever meaningful activity I'm engaging in, the same with all the DINGS and BUZZES and BANNERS and POP UPS that vie for my precious attention.

I've struggled my entire life trying to control my focus, and it's like the rest of humanity has decided to go all in on filling our shared environment with even more distractions. It sucks. It's manipulative. Let me turn it off. Leave me be. Better yet, help me pay attention to the things _I_ value.

/rant
Done right it could eliminate the ability of the government to freeze my bank account if I’m protesting, for example, like Trudeau did in Canada not long ago.
Thanks for sharing Visualping— can't believe I hadn’t heard of them yet! They seem to be class-leading in “web change detection notifications”, even serving some F500 clients. I checked out some third-party reviews and it seems they sometimes gets complaints around reliability and pricing. That might explain why people have spun up open-source alternatives like changedetection and Huginn, which are more powerful and flexible, but don't match Visualping's user-friendliness and customer support.

I’m definitely doubling down on the agency use case since I have a connection there. But based on what I’ve gathered, here are a few other potential uses:

- For tech marketing managers managing multiple products daily, ensuring everything’s purchase-ready.
- For developers, monitoring forums for important updates, filtering out the noise.
- For warehouse managers, keeping an eye on product pages for restocking purposes, maybe checking in about once an hour depending on demand.
- For marketers, detecting website outages—this should run as often as possible without causing issues.
- For academics, staying updated on relevant research grants to quickly apply.
- For me personally, as a marathon runner who switches out training shoes every 300 miles or so, I want to catch discounts on last season’s models which perform just as well at half the price.
- For everyday consumers, checking international shipping updates, which can sometimes require multiple form submissions.

It also appears perception of web clipping tools is "advanced mode" and not easy to use. I’m excited about making them simple enough for anyone to use. I'm imagining an interface where you can easily save what matters to you, record your activities, and keep those sessions safe and private on your own device for future replay. Also hoping that making it open source builds trust, but I'm still checking how well that works. The goal is a tool that "just works" out of the box while still keeping your data local, private, and secure.

Also noticing that notification filter setup can be complex, and require a lot of upkeep. I’m thinking about how to make that easier and more reliable. Currently plan to use a fine-tuned local LLM for parsing & interpreting HTML and JSON. This approach would help the AI be smarter about timing & sending notifications. For example it would ignore minor changes like a one-minute increase in your commute, but alert you about significant changes like a sudden 15-minute jump.

Let me know if you have any more thoughts on this! Also if you’re open to it, I’d be interested in learning more about how you use Visualping.
I’m mixed, I definetly wouldn’t home school my kids and it doesn’t seem scalable and I do think there’s value in a population having a shared identity from education, but, at least from my own experience I suspect my kids will have their most valuable academic opportunities outside of school.
Show HN: Contacts: A Microlang for Managing Contacts
My solution when I lived near a museum I liked (the MFA in Boston, USA) was to get a membership and go once every week or two and only spend half an hour to an hour, in one specific room or exhibit.

When I'm visiting, I try to look a museum up ahead of time and then focus on a small but good subsection of stuff. I hit full saturation/fatigue at about two and a half hours.
Thanks for the link. Found it useful. x is blocked at dns level on my computer.
I guess they are distilling the models so that they can save $$$ on serving.
I’m not entirely sure but I suspect through their ML hosting/inference/training products and services they have working with enterprises. But I’m still baffled how they cover their AWS storage and egress fees :)

I remember seeing a post last week-ish from Julien Chaumond that they are profitable.
Miguel de Icaza's [Swift Godot](https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot) effort is also very active and worth tracking I think.
> I see AI being more of a teaching assistant, rather than a replacement for teachers.

That’s what he announced he’s doing. Creating an assistant, not a replacement.
At that time, "micropayments" meant payments on the order of less than a cent. Chaum's system didn't try to do that.

I don't know exactly what "micropayments" means to people now. I get the impression it's more on the order of a dollar. But DigiCash really wasn't even meant to do large volumes of payments that small. I don't think a system like that has ever really been tried.

It's true that any kind of pay-per-use would be a hard, hard sell, though. Who wants to have to think about whether every click is worth the nickel it's going to cost? But it's also true that people don't like to buy subscriptions. So now we're in advertising hell. Which nobody likes either, to the point where a double digit percentage of users are blocking ads.

I think advertising took off because there was no coordination problem; nobody had to ask the consumer about whether to deploy it. And for larger payments everybody already had credit cards, so there was no onboarding issue.
How entropy, work and limits shape Earth system functioning
The developers seem aware and "are working on a solution" https://consentomatic.au.dk/
U.S. Detected Iranian Plot to Kill Trump Separate From Last Weekend’s Shooting
>Isn't that what the curriculum already accommodates then? Didn't you just say that?

No. The current curriculum penalizes people that are academically incline. Fast track programs are difficult to access for example.

>For one size fits all mass education, catering to the largest mass is the best you can do.

Yes. But we now have other options.

> Most people aren't academically inclined
>>Is that so?

As OP pointed out most people need someone to guide them and give them directions. This is because a lot of kids are not interested in learning and do "bugger all" without supervision.

The kind of self-directed learning only benefits people that are already academically motivated.

>Isn't that by definition? Most xes are x.

Yes. This was in contrast to what OP was saying, which is "The pandemic showed us exactly what children would prefer to do, when they don't have a physical teacher standing over them, which is bugger all."

This isn't true for students that are academically inclined. Only true for those that aren't academically inclined.
Billions. Now we are talking.
A likely truth no one wants talk about : LLMs will only help people who want to learn. Those people are likely already in very good shape in life. The amount of help from LLMs is likely very high for such people - as you note the ability to have a back and forth is very helpful.

For 99% of the population, they aren't going to do this. It is what it is.
In my mid 20s I tried antidepressants for the first time. To me it was a big step because like many, I had a false perception of it having an unnatural effect on my personality, but I was finally ready to try them. The doctor said they will take at least 2 weeks to have any effect, and despite knowing that AND knowing about the placebo effect, I still "felt better" for several days after I started the regimen. To me, that was absolutely proof of the placebo effect, especially because after the 2 week window the effect was a backfire where I was in bed for a day and couldn't do anything. The pills backfired on me.
MacGyver would have used a hair dryer.
If delivering a good education can't be achieved because there are parts of our education system that continually resist adaptation, then whatever those parts are they ought to reach their breaking point and be pushed beyond it.
No my friend, the people who ensure the paycheck has the specific number it does are some drones in HR far removed from you. They determine reasonable bands for your role based on industry standards and how the company wants to position itself in the market.

Then your individual contribution and performance determines an additional +-10%.
I'm mostly talking about the rather artificial division of students into grades of equal ages without taking into account the individual's proclivities, abilities and achievements. This separation is entirely contrary to organic human self-organization (even in work places) from a tribal perspective and results in a great deal of social illnesses (bullying, cliques, etc.) that are, although found elsewhere, exacerbated by the artificiality of the group-making (which is necessary for the public school model as it currently exists today to function).
If there is only one way to solve a problem, there is nothing to invent, just discover, and discoveries are decidedly not patentable.
> this is what communicated more means in their broken by profit minds

"We should have communicated more" seems like a passive-aggressive way of saying "Oh, you poor simpletons... We should have talked slower, used more, simple words, and been more persuasive. We failed to properly explain why you're wrong. If only we did that, you'd more readily accept what we're giving you."
the guys at the gun shop mounted the scope, and did the preliminary sighting, then at the range we put the rifle in a rifle holder, very sturdy thing, and did the final adjustments, and that was it.

also this is not superhuman, there are other guys at the range WAY better than me.

the caliber is 3006spr, with a cut barrel, nothing special. zeiss victory 2.8-20 56mm scope.
Hugging Face is already profitable according to Clement
https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1811675386368966682
Modern Toyota engines require regular oil changes because their tolerances and oil are very thin. You certainly can run them with far less but they won't last nearly as long
Apple Launches New Safari Ad Campaign: 'A Browser That's Private'
Kids, when given the choice, will choose to play games (of many different kinds) above just about anything else.

The future of education is the playful gamification of relevant skills, knowledge, and behaviors.
Privacy policy is incomplete but points towards copious sharing of our data. Red flag for email clients.
To your point... if you trust anything, you already are at a big disadvantage in learning. It's the wrong attitude.
BRB hacking "Engage!" into https://github.com/marketplace/actions/manual-workflow-appro...
I mean, it's also the fact that they were the first to create a hub for the most massive secular technology trend since the advent of the internet. It's almost like anything short of utter incompetence would have worked here. So as interesting as it is to hear how they did it, it's not necessarily actionable advice or the most efficient, effective, productive approach
Using a tiny rock as a pivot and a bearing is my favorite hack. Some of the others look like they could get away from you and result in death.
Songsterr: Guitar Tabs with Rhythm
Ask 5 people around you what they need help with? Try to help them with technology to achieve their goal. Then it's a choice whether to keep it as side project or expand.
I really love these updates. I really appreciate your articles and they've made me go into a deep dive into the history of microchips and IC design in general.

How did you get into this in the first place? From your blog I gather that you used to be in software (or still are).
Product people will not. So we have the inglorious situation of 2 sets of diagrams and notes on the translation between them. If the problem was easy to solve, it wouldn't be something you can express in a sentence, while simultaneously asserting how easy it is.

Some people do not adequately constrain the problem while others overly constrain it, conceptually.
Typical strawman placed in advance to distract from the real perpetrators.
We’ll see what happens, I don’t think there’s enough unity among Republicans for a coherent libertarian agenda to actually get enacted, more likely a Christo-fascist one, but I lean more libertarian as I get older, so despite my extreme skepticism if it happens beyond my control, I’ll be damn curious to see it.
> Yes, I will waste 45 minutes of my time explaining word for word to you, exactly what is written in this design document

And they will misunderstand you, turn around and butcher the explanation to some higher up, indirectly claiming credit for your work as the messenger of its result. If something goes wrong with the project, they'll definitely make sure to emphasize your involvement in the failed initiative, strategically distancing themselves.
This is the first I'm hearing of JSR
I was curious as well what the business model is.

They are selling related services. Looks like data and inference offerings with per seat pricing.
https://huggingface.co/pricing
One of my hobbies is writing period-correct stuff for s/370 and MVS, and, yep, bitsavers is where it's at. Weird thought that if that person didn't go through the effort, the information would be near-unobtainable.
Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts, including acting as foreign agent
Work environments tend to be class sorted. You also have recourse to handle people who behave horribly towards you. Disruptors are removed. Everyone is generally aligned towards the same goal. The two are vastly different.
Seconding the other question, would be curious to know
Disagree slightly. I think AI can be used to generate average quality course material, which may be useful to below average teachers, or good teachers thrown into a subject they haven’t taught yet.

Obviously someone like Andrej will totally crush it.
There is idea answer, and then there is Python. I would have picked later!
Community gardens, sports, religious or interest groups, collectives, contributing in a large household, early work experience, hobbies/interests. It probably is a fairly finite list because societies have optimized for the individual and people are often only active within of a community at work or in education facilities. So a part of a solution in my view would be establishing more communities that are separate from the family... they might look a lot like schools though, so maybe we should just focus on those? There's more need for new communities to be established for other age ranges.
The "Little Tech Agenda" Is Just Self-Serving Nonsense
> why would my browser spend my processor cycles, network bandwidth, and electricity for the benefit of someone else's for-profit business?

I think a reasonable answer is that you are using their website for your own purposes; that running a website has costs; and that many businesses choose to fund those costs by advertising. If you don't want to be advertised to, I would suggest paying a fee to use ad-free services.
I agree that learning is secondary in practice, but in theory is the whole point of school, and society would be a lot better off if we managed to draw theory and practice closer together.

In your example, I would argue you haven't taken my position to its required logical extent. I don't believe in the value of college degrees at all, the way things are currently structured, and I would discourage my kids from going to college unless they had a very specific career path in mind for which the degree is required. The measurement of learning has become the goal of learning, unfortunately.
The vast majority of the money goes to ads

One appealing idea I heard is that every American gets a voucher they can allocate as they see fit, from a pool of tax money allocated to the elections. Candidate should probably get a fixed pool as well

Citizens United ruling is what opened the door to PACs and the ability for individuals to spend above the individual limits
The words "clinically significant" and "benefit" are not the same thing as the effect being real. To me it reads as if they are testing the hypothesis that a patient comes into ER with a sprained ankle and the doctor gives them this "new powerful prescription pain pill that just came out" and instead tricks them with a sugar pill. If this worked, I'm sure it would be used as much as possible. And the study you linked is simply confirming that PE is not an effective treatment for anything.

That's not the topic at hand here, which is "is the PE real?". For me it absolutely is.