skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By no means was I trying to say these will solve everything at all, and thanks for detailing a bit more of what you did.

Was just having a conversation with someone today about this topic too. Some companies get 80 applications, and someone will indeed actually at least put eyes on all 80. Other companies get 80, and they'll just look at the first 3-5 then stop and move on to other stuff.

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> I'm saying that "the existing solution is bad" is not sufficient to draw people to alternatives by itself, and that building a better solution is harder than it seems.

Without a doubt. I've been asked a couple of times to join 'job board' startups, and there's never been a compelling hook as to how to differentiate or compete with indeed/linkedin/etc. There were ways to differentiate, but to me, they weren't compelling enough to throw my lot in with them. And... not surprisingly, years later, neither got very far. In one case, the 'hook' was to provide as detailed a profile as you could, asking users to input things like various NAICS codes to classify their work in various industries, so that people who know NAICS codes could search for your skills faster. That's certainly differentiating your platform, just not in a good way.

> What kind of "acknowledgement" are you looking for? ... But are you really going to use an entirely different platform because they say "no" rather than letting you infer it, even if that platform has 1/10th the jobs or takes a bunch of energy to sign up?

Not on its own, no. There likely are platforms that automatically close stuff out and send an acknowledgement that the hiring company has passed on you.... but I don't think I've ever engaged with one in 20+ years. And the 'takes a bunch of energy to sign up' - ideally that's already something that is taken care of.

The one place I see some growing value in 'job boards/markets' is in niche/focus - industry/skill niche and/or geographic niche. Job boards focusing on .net, or matlab, etc run by orgs who have some ability to bridge the gap between the hiring industry folks and the workers seem to be where it's at, but I seem to only know of a few (but expect that trend to grow).

Thanks for the input and insights.
A helpful tool I recommend for buying from common outlets online is Fakespot [1]. It scans the reviews and looks for suspicious/fake reviews & other telltale signs of deceit. Mozilla recently acquired it, but you can scan Amazon URLs on their website, and they have a very helpful browser addon. There was a similar tool I used to double check called ReviewMeta, but they seem to be offline.

It's not a 100% foolproof way to determine if a vendor or product is fake, but it is helpful. There are some other things you can do to double check things as well. [2]

[1] https://www.fakespot.com/

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-spot-fake-reviews-amazon/
Finger is one that was commonly available on university unix systems. You could do finger username@node.domain, and the username was often their email address or some common shortening of their name.
the correlation (if any) is negative IME, as the lowest count people are long-term employees who haven't need to build a pseudo-employment network to get their next job; they've been busy heads down doing work. The content served up by LI is either low effort/low value listicles with vague, click-baity headlines, or grand, ego-puffing requests to generate said content (you've been selected to answer this question about database design!)
There was a reason for Dresden not rebuilt by the Soviets in the same way as Warsaw. It was a reminder for the Germans that starting a world war has consequences.
Bumped this together with the side-by-side comparison task.. so will look into it :)
I'm glad someone said it.

You're only ok with it if you're not interested in having maximum freedom of movement vis-a-vis any potential exits.
> a type should be capable of reflecting any arbitrary rules a programmer knows about the bounds of a value

That's a programming language. In other words, now your type system needs a type system.
> <...> in many developing countries where salaries are far, far less than that

So is cost of living -- these two tend to be correlated.
The problem is not growing the economy per se. The problem is the economy has always grown by making profit of externalising negative impacts. Be it environmental, humanistic.

We have to learn to grow but to do it fair. Fair for the environment and for the people (meaning not having the profits end up with the 0.01% while the workers toil for minimum wage). Only then can we really grow as humanity.

The problem is what we call "ambition" is just greed. And that keeps us in this circle of destruction.
https://www.joinautopilot.com/ already lets you automatically follow her trades into your own portfolio
That depends on the container format, and with some container formats on the parser. Any container format designed to be streamable would by definition survive corruption at the end. Provided the player doesn't get too upset if any metadata at the end is corrupted, but e.g. VLC handles such things quite well
> These are the statistics underlying the reality that in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, and many other major cities in the U.S., not a single mile of rail transit is currently under construction.

Not true. In DC, the Purple Line is currently under construction to connect DC's Maryland suburbs to one another. (OK. This is technically just over the border in Maryland, but it is clearly part of the DC metro area and it interconnects with lines in the District proper.) And DC just finished (in November) adding another new line, the Silver Line, out to Dulles Airport and some of the further flung Virginia suburbs. (Similarly, I think a major project was completed in San Francisco last year.) And isn't the K under construction in LA? And what about East Side Access in New York? And the Skyline in Honolulu? I'm sure another 2 minutes of Googling could uncover more examples.

The general story might be true — cthet ities outside the U.S. are investing more in rail infrastructure — but this makes me question the research. The metric "mile of transit" is also probably misleading. Many U.S.cities (though not enough) already have robust mass transit systems. The primarily challenge in many places is therefore not just to build new lines, but to expand the use of what is already there. (A particular challenge after Covid wiped out ridership.)
Things would have to get very very dire to go the tactical nuke route for the US. Not only is there a fear of tactical nuclear war escalating to strategic war there's the fear of demonstrating tactical nuclear war is feasible. If it works and Iran's nuclear capability is destroyed and nothing else happens then it will be all to easy for another power to use tactical nukes and then nuclear weapons become a common component on the battlefield. That makes escalation to the big strategic weapons easier.
> It understands the framework I've built, what functions to use when and writes code looking and working as if it was my own.

Yes, that's what LLMs do. They build statistical models based on their context and training data. They then give the most likely statistical output.

There's nothing creative about it, it's all statistics based on the inputs and they can at best extrapolate but they cannot fundamentally move outside of their inputs.

Humans uniquely can.
It’s not actually bad, OP’s point is that it is not motivated by altruism. An action can be beneficial to the people without that effect being the incentive
All those recruiters have 1000's of connections!
America loves urban sprawl, so cars it is.
To be fair, US military anything is about as far as you can be from normalcy
Wonder how many people the UK screwed over with Brexit that now feel similarly towards the UK?
Well, surely we could train an AI to do the assembly. /s
Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]
this took like less than 5 minutes to write, this is definitely in the "trivial" realm
The subject of this topic, f3, will quickly probe the drive, determine the true size, and create a partition on it of the actual usable size. Using that partition, you will never lose any data. If you try to create a partition in the rest of the drive, it will be immediately corrupted, no tools will show it as good, you won't ever be able to get around to putting data on it to lose it.
Ok, I take it back, this looks pretty indicative of a low-load problem and evidently failure rates are much higher in that scenario.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYfBxmBfq7k
I find it surprising that athletes would choose to make a drastic departure from their prior intentions of fair competition in order to attempt to avoid the inevitability of retirement. I don’t find it nearly as surprising that someone would make a bite-sized compromise in order to preserve their livelihood, even though it seems unwise to me.

Sport qua job has a different feel than sport qua sport, as a sibling commenter illuminated.
SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, and is a way to directly address not just individual hardware elements, but to access specific functions or methods within that device via a "simple" addressing scheme. A MIB file describes the various endpoints available on a device, much like a wsdl file would describe a SOAP endpoint.

So you might have an SNMP address like 2.1.4.3.0.1* which the MIB file would translate to "the current temp for CPU1"
But now they own a huge wiretap array, How will they ever possibly monitize it? /s
And there's honest stuff on there too, loads of it actually. I bought a 128GB SSD from there many years ago for $10. I expected nothing but like you say, I was curious about what I'd get and something faster than a shitty USB stick with decent storage capacity was all I was after. I verified it, and it works perfectly and it's 128GB as described, it just lacks cache so it bogs down on super large files. But for $10 I couldn't buy a better USB stick.
CT doesn't tell you if a certificate is revoked, so the CA still has to operate a revocation system. That revocation system can forget about certificates.
LLAMA is an open-weights model. I like this term, let's use that instead of open source.
The existence of copyright law is to blame. Not Google, who's just trying to adhere to law.
That assumes LLMs are the path to AI, which is increasingly becoming an unpopular opinion
> can't we progress without screwing up the planet?

Probably yes.

Can we progress without screwing the planet and still making the top 0.01% ever exponentially richer? Probably not. Here lies the rub.
His channel is where I first heard of this scam.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UsWx1iO-aeA
Well, seems they did stay neutral. To be fair the Israeli government is somewhat preoccupied right now.
> The human eye cannot tell two symbols apart when they are too similar.

That leads to a simple information-theory based argument. There is a limited spatial resolution and noise floor, and so the amount of information that can be coded is finite.
>frequency of character triples

What are character triples? Are they trigrams?
> China has a decreasing population

Not in the period shown in the chart, which seems to end in 2021.
I agree with other commenters: it's not "the rest of the world". It's China.

For regional transit, China's high speed rail buildout [1] is truly breathtaking. If you look at the miles of track [2], China has 45000km with 25000km under construction. Number 2 on the list is Spain (with 4000 and 1000 respectively).

For urban transit, China again completely dominates [3] by like a factor of 6-7 to #2. The US actually fares better here bu that's skewed by a handful of outliers, most notably NYC.

It makes me so mad because of the concerted effort made to dismantle and derail (pun intended) public transit efforts in the United States. The Koch brothers (well, brother) spend a fortune fighting these projects [4]. Elon Musk famously only propsosed the Hyperloop in the hopes of killing the California High Speed Rail ("HSR") [5].

Look at Las Vegas, a huge tourist destination. What Las Vegas actually needs is a subway line between the airport and the major Strip hotels. This would require probably less than 20 miles of tunnels. It could even be a mix of light rail in the suburbs and to the airport and tunnels under the Strip. You could extend it to key parts of Las Vegas to include all the people that need to work on the Strip through Park and Ride stations. It would be incredibly cheap for the benefit.

But instead we got the idiotic Tesla tunnels by The Boring Company, which I'm convinced was only proposed to kill the idea of any public transit infrastructure in Las Vegas.

It's all so short-sighted because public transit scales and it would make life easier for anyone who actually wants or needs to drive. But instead we get idiotic infrastructure like the Katy Freeway in Houston [6].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/xszhbm/chinese_hig...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lin...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems#List_by_...

[4]: https://archive.is/UFujh

[5]: https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688

[6]: https://b93.net/widest-freeway-in-the-united-states-is-in-te...
oh I made a a typo. Meant "types" OR "bytes"
First, Rust compiled is not wt that performant. Well behind c, go, c++,...

But also because SQLite is based on crazily optimized C!
It also says

> This is not an OCR problem, but of course, I can't have a look into the software itself, maybe OCR is still fiddling with the data even though we switched it off.

But the point stands either way; LLMs are prone to hallucinations already, so I would not trust them to not make a mistake in OCR because they thought the page would probably say something different than it does.
The UX of LinkedIn is terrible. Once I went into a futile debate with a support person (yes, it was that ancient time couple of years ago), so I had to conclude the 'support' is even worse. I do not use it that much like when I thought it would be good for finding a job (I did eventually, but not there) and memories fade, but I recall that searching for keywords is like triggering a random number generator, search profile gives notifications about dozens of new positions but when I trigger manually the very same search then it is 0 results, and whenever I did something then I got a notification that I just did that, very useful thanks, and it stayed there until you manually close it, also you have more and more otherwise, very annoying. Feels like genuine Microsoft quality.
The problems with the current generation and rollout of "AI" which I am using synonymously in this post with large language models, because that's the context it seems to be mostly used in print media - are so numerous that I could not list them out all in one post and this has been debated to an absurd degree already, on this site and on other platforms.

I really can't think of many, if any real positives. One example I like to use is in video game tutorial articles. I don't know if you've tried to use basically any search engine to find reliable video game information/walkthroughs lately, but the amount of blatant misinformation that has proliferated in this space makes searching the web for even the most basic information an exercise in complete futility.

This is something "AI" should be good at. Video game walkthroughs have been done to death, a game that's been out for 2+ years has likely already had every single secret and path in it discovered 10,000 times over and posted all over reddit and other sites. Yet, after completing my 2nd elden ring run this weekend, my first since 2022, I was struck at how much blatantly wrong info I stumbled across, even on websites I had considered "authoritative." And it's always subtle enough to be impossibly annoying - stuff like "head south from this site" when in fact, it should have said "north" Very small errors that seem like the result of hallucinations that cause an inordinate amount of time spent figuring out what's wrong - much like my experience with coding "assistants."

If it can't get something like this correct - which I'm aware isn't necessarily a purely "AI" problem - how do we expect it to do anything important? I really have not seen a solid case yet and would love to be convinced otherwise, but the more I learn the less I like what I see.
Meta releases an open-weights GPT-4-level AI model, Llama 3.1 405B
"It's potentially the first time anyone can download a GPT-4-class large language model (LLM) for free and run it on their own hardware. You'll still need some beefy hardware: Meta says it can run on a "single server node," which isn't desktop PC-grade equipment. But it's a provocative shot across the bow of "closed" AI model vendors such as OpenAI and Anthropic."

I love that Ars-Technica calls out BS on the title of the article: "Open source AI is the path forward," says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term.

The author Edwards states correctly "...undermining your competitors using a model subsidized by a social media war chest is also an efficient way to play spoiler in a market where you might not always win with the most cutting-edge tech."
This isn't helpful. The community defers to the OSI's definition because it captures what they care about.

We've seen people try to deceptively describe non-OSS projects as open source, and no doubt we will continue to see it. Thankfully the community (including Hacker News) is quick to call it out, and to insist on not cheapening the term.

This is one the topics that just keeps turning up:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24483168

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31203209

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591820
I didn't expect image gen models to be so widely used. Would be nice to have some concrete numbers instead of these anecdotes the article provides. Bullish case for ai though
Interesting, do you have a link to this statement? Also, do they state what did cause the crash? At least removing the file of zeroes does solve the problem, as the instructions both from Microsoft and CrowdStrike states "Boot into safe mode. Delete C-00000291*.sys." That's the file(s) with the zeroes... See https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediatio... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5eRUaMZXk (3 minutes 20 seconds in).
That isn't an inherent property of trams. A lot of them share road space with vehicles. A lot of buses meanwhile have dedicated lanes.
"Open weights" means you can use the weights for free (as in beer). "Open source" means you get the training dataset and the methodology. ~Nobody does open source LLMs.
Wiz hit 100M in mid 2021 and 350M ARR last year; now they're going to automagically get that to a Billion in a much tougher climate?
This would be nice. I am using Proton right now, with my own domain. I can make up any address and have it go to my catch-all inbox, which works decently well. However, every so often something will want me to send an email and that's a problem.

I was buying a pair of shoes online and some kind of fraud flag was raised. They asked me to reply to their email to prove I owned it. I ended up replying from my actual account, as I didn't want to burn one of my actual address on a one-time thing. I never gave the email I sent from to anyone, and it has received 0 emails, I really didn't want to risk having it added to their email list by using it, but didn't feel like I had a lot of option. I went on a bit of a rant as a reply, explaining my whole setup, why wha they were asking was problematic, and warning them how irate I would be if the email I was sending from ever got spam in the future, I'd know it was from them.

Of course, the more I try to solve this email problem by using additional addresses, aliases, etc, the more I think I'm just creating a larger problem. If I could go back in time, I would probably not do any of it, and instead just have the 1 address that I use for everything to keep it easy. Instead of investing time in making new accounts, actually invest time in clicking unsubscribe, blocking, and training the spam filters... also, being very selective about where it's used, although that can be difficult these days.
When you say data centers, what do you mean? If I was looking on Craigslist or whatever for this, how would I be able to tell which seller is a data center?
But that definition of engaging is already what showing means in “show, don’t tell”. There’s no reason to give it a new term and thus again muddying the waters of understanding
404 for me?
You also have to argue for finite color resolution, or else a color noise floor that masks the difference between similar colors.

If we have 300 dpi, we can still code unlimited amounts of information if the color space is continuous, and noise-free.

(The article mentions the human eye limitations, but we could use technological instrumentation to extract info from a print; the human eye doesn't limit what we can code on a BluRay disc, e.g.)
As an embedded engineer I would design that as an interlock in the circuit and not rely on firmware
Put movies in a password protected zip.
New data on the product job market
That's not entirely true. You can be found factually innocent, and still be unable to escape prison—due to the utterly Kafkaesque nature of the legal system.

Here's a case I read about over a decade ago, and never forgot:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-aug-21-la-me-in... ("Man behind bars 2 years after judge orders release" (2012))

- "But two years after he was supposed to be released, Larsen remains behind bars while the California attorney general appeals the decision. The state’s main argument: He did not file his legal paperwork seeking release on time."
Service Level Objectives Made Easy with Sloth and Pyrra
They've been working on AI for a good bit now. Open source especially is something they've championed since the mid 2010s at least with things like PyTorch, GraphQL, and React. It's not something they've suddenly pivoted to since ChatGPT came in 2022.
As part of a big refactoring of our Service Level Objectives (SLOs) implementation at work, I had the opportunity to try several tools and approaches to generate and manage SLOs. If you’re not familiar with the concept of SLOs, you should read the Site Reliability Engineering Book from Google, which is a must-read for everyone working on, or interested in DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering.
AT&T needs to spend some time and money on infastructure. They are clearly in a state of decline.
Source available means you can see the source, but not modify it. This is kinda the opposite, you can modify the model, but you don't see all the details of its creation.
I think it generates the transcript automatically for new recordings but you can also edit a old one and then generate the transcript from there
You can certainly return an item if the title of the listing was inaccurate.

In my experience, eBay won't "flag" dishonest sellers of counterfeit storage products, anyhow. I tried to get a listing selling counterfeit Samsung micro SD drives taken down, but eBay did nothing. I was refunded, but the unsuspecting will continue to be duped.
WalMart has a market cap of almost 600 Billion dollars. Weird dis.
The closed-form math formulas giving the glyphs of the font have to be written on a square piece of paper with limited resolution ...
But the reason they are a student is because they can't play the music. Showing them the notations and demonstrating how to play it are steps towards them playing it themselves.
Hmmmmmmmm the places where riding the subway means obeying social norms, continue to build subways. The places where riding the subway does not require any social norms be obeyed, have stopped.
Is this a potential sign of the fault shifting or whatever the correct terminology is? A warning shot before a massive earthquake? Or just a geyser-like phenomenon?