skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it not to do with rational thought? Presumably you're an actor in an environment with goals, goals that would presumably benefit, at least to some microscopic degree, to having someone monitor them for all eternity. That means all else being equal, you should try to live forever.
I do consider Switzerland doings as hostile to EU.

1) Switzerland gain on using EU transportation and free market but does not contribute fair fee to maintain and build it.

You can tax EU - we will see who will survive.

2) Switzerland does unfair tax competition

3) Switzerland helped hide EU citizens untaxed money (maybe still does)

4) Switzerland helps Russian oligarchs maintain their wealth and many other criminals all around the world.

5) Last but not least:
If Switzerland does not care about Ukraine dying because it is ‘neutral’ and yet still wants safe borders, then I don’t fucking care about Switzerland well being.
My mandatory criterias:

- I can speak the language and preferable have some contacts. Contacts don't have to be friends and Internet random people are fine, but they need to be locals to give me some information;

- The government does not have very stringent control over Internet. I don't want to have someone break into my door just because I reposted someone else's Tweet or voiced my concern;

- The city should have good hospitals, reasonably well public transit and other infrastructures. All public service should be of reasonable price to foreigners. They can and probably should be more expensive than the costs charged to the locals, but if it's 10x then it's too much.

- The local people don't dislike strangers;

- Crime rate is reasonable and I should not be afraid to walk after 9 p.m.;

- Living expense is lower than my resident country, otherwise it's just going to be a short vacation;

- It doesn't have large cockroaches;

Optional ones:

- It rains very little;

- It has public computers;

- It has a large electronics retail market;

I know some places that satisfy all mandatories except one, and some optional ones.
Read this account of the police illegally trespassing onto private property and violently beating and apprehending individuals who were protesting a recent police killing of a black man named Alton Sterling.

It happened in my city and and several of my friends were there, beaten by police and arrested. I was not around at the time or I'd have been there as well, and likely shot and killed.

https://19thnews.org/2023/05/baton-rouge-police-violence-pro...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IwK-E1iC2v8 (footage of the assault)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alton_Sterling

> Police alleged that Sterling had reached for the loaded handgun in his pants pocket ... The owner of the store where the shooting occurred said that Sterling had started carrying a gun a few days prior to the event as other CD vendors had been robbed recently. He also said that Sterling was "not the one causing trouble" during the situation that led to the police being called.

I personally had an incident that led to almost a dozen police officers pointing their guns at me and detaining me just for visiting a convenience store that had recently been robbed. I shudder to think about what would have occurred if I were black.
> Should I help my coworker through a problem? End of the month, my KPIs might be negatively impacted, whereas theirs were boosted.

I feel like helping a coworker should be factored into your performance. "force-multiplier", or however the industry calls it. but then, I've never worked at a toxic, hyper-competitive rank-and-yank..
there's another option: buy the vendor. in the absence of details, it's unclear if this is even feasible, but the vendor already has the software they need, it just needs additional work done on it. so instead of reinventing the wheel, buying the vendor allows you to fix the existing one.
LLMs are NLP, what you are talking about is NLU, which has been considered an AI-hard problem for a long time.

I keep looking for discoveries that show any movement there. But LLMs are still basically pattern matching and finding.

They can do impressive things, but they actually have no concept of what the 'right thing' even is, it is statistic not philosophy.
@Dang -- One of the most lovely things about HN is how, when suddenly, a lot of same-vein ideas pop up that when seen holistically can all be leveraged if you're keenly watching (HN Lego as it were...) :-)

@pancomplex -- Love it.

What I am pinging above about is that I was posting yesterday in response to "Structured outputs" from OpenAI [0] -- and then Magic Loops founder chimed in.

This seems Perfect! for what I was describing in that comment thread:

So with Frigate, I can have non-code-non-tech inputs into an app, such as you state, by linking the FlowID and load a Magic-Loop Snippets, and have micro-prompt widgets in a react app/dash that can poll and include whatever data is important. (wait until txtai libs are used in these Frigates)

So, imaging that you want a flow that has a component where you take a MagicLoop to poll for a particular thing, then include that ML (smart AI crons jobs) - and embedd them into the flow, and have it hit the page - so you get multiple layers of abstraction, with a deeper level of tools that can provide some really interesting ways users can add functions to their app based on Frigate...

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Does this make sense? (dopamine is plentiful this AM)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173223#41176823

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I really like this - and I am working on something that can fully use this - I just don't have time till later in the weekend to attempt to integrate - but this is a functionality that I really do need - and if I can integrate it in the way I hope to -- ill show it to you.
> But in general it feels like a technical solution to a social problem- so much of what goes on in the world isn't clear or methodical, so many events that cant possibly be quantified or verified 100% by a third party- and setting the expectation that they can is IMO placing too much trust in the journalistic process. The reader should always have a seed of doubt, always question the motives of the messenger, and I just don't want that doubt to be assuaged while its still warranted.

I think it would be a good thing if people were introduced to the concept of the unknown, and learned for the first time in their life to be able to reliably identify it.

And it wouldn't be journalists doing this work, this would have to be an entirely new job role, blending skills from several disciplines (philosophy, psychology, geopolitics, etc).
Last I checked Langchain was just basically a pile of helpers? There isn't really a coherent model of anything that's presented to the user, just some light wrappers around stuff. I played around for a bit, it was fine, but I opted to write my own helpers in the end.

Did I miss out on some major developments there? Because I don't see why it's a thing that's being talked about everywhere, when it's barely anything.
This is a rod Samsung has made for their own back though. Fewer SKU's, and more shared parts between models would be better for consumers and for the planet.
> Like if we say C# is performant, it’s still the case that (eventually) the way to make it faster is “stop writing C#”.

That has stopped being true a few years ago and in some cases was never true.

The way for a faster C# codebase is writing faster C#. .NET CoreLib including all performance-sensitive paths like memmove is written in pure C#, and the VM (by that I mean all reflection bits, TypeLoader, etc.) itself, excluding GC, is also pure C# when you are using NativeAOT.

The optimization techniques to achieve this are but not limited to using monomorphized struct generics, stack buffers, arenas and memory pooling, using SIMD API (which has the same performance characteristics as intrinsics in C/C++), not allocating by using structs or making object lifetime GC friendly if allocations cannot be avoided, making otherwise safe code bounds check elision friendly, reducing indirection, etc. Many of these are exact same as what you would do in languages like C, C++ or Rust.

As a result, the use of FFI to call into C/C++/Rust/ObjC/Swift(upcoming native Swift ABI support)/etc. today is predominantly relegated to accessing necessary OS APIs and libraries.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Of course most of these optimizations are at odds with "dynamism" and yield the speed-up by making the dispatch static and inlining-friendly, and giving the compiler more information it can prove and make use of. Not to mention C# (together with Swift) sits the closest to the metal among otherwise high-level languages by virtue of what .NET is and what its ILC and JIT compile IL to.
Are you joking? Peer communication is the most toxic, Lord Of The Flies things there is. Notice how much office politics is high school bullshit? That is what happens when you have norms set by an isolated incestuous prison-mimicking subset of society cut off from experience and wisdom.

Consuming an infinite amount of media is positively wholesome by comparison.
I wonder if it is more about simply shaving a few cents off. Full USB-C protocol implementation may be much more difficult.
Watsonx flows engine: use Llama 3.1 for free
> upgradable

How human would I be then?
I am sad that they discontinued their Pop Shell gnome extension.

I use GNOME but with the animations completely turned off. That combined with the tiling shell feels really snappy and good. I am really considering forking that extension and also visually improving it a little (not a fan of their design language, though I like the modern adwaita style of gtk/gnome apps).
Severance is a "we'll pay you to leave quietly" deal, not an entitlement. If the company plans to be continually laying people off (kind of a stupid idea because it makes your other employees nervous) they can find other ways to ensure silence from their victims.
in the US at least, I'd be surprised if you entitled to anything, especially in a "right to work" state. It's mostly goodwill.
You are correct, the nondualism prevalent in Eastern thinking is not mutually exclusive with wanton disregard of nature. I'm just suggesting that this idea of "intrinsically valuing nature means devaluing the human" requires a strong mental separation between the human and nature, and this way of thinking isn't quite the universal truth that the article makes it out to be.
It saves cost and none of the features of USB-C (speed, power delivery etc) are supported. Makes sense.
That's a problem on a different level of the CUDA stack.

Having a compiler that takes a special C++ or python dialect and compiles it to GPU suitable llvm-ir and then to a GPU binary is one thing (and there's progress on that side: triton, numba, soonish mojo), being able to launch that binary without going through the nvidia driver is another problem.
Likewise. I'm not sure Kubernetes famous complexity (and the resulting staff requirements) are worth it to preemptively avoid vendor lockin, and wouldn't be solved more efficiently by migrating to another cloud provider's native tools if the need arises.
>Don't like it, buy something else.

Sure, but you're allowed to not be happy about it and to criticize the supplier.
> Should I help my coworker through a problem? End of the month, my KPIs might be negatively impacted, whereas theirs were boosted.

That's why you have mentoring as a metric.
From the paper :https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39106304

edit: ok apologies, after several attempts

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.24670873.html

3-(2-Naphthylmethyl)-4-(4-piperidinyl)-1H-pyrazol-1-ol

(incorrect stuff removed ...)
Personally I have about three dozen USB-A to USB-C cables lying around and the thought of actually spending money to acquire extra Micro USB cables in 2024 is very unappealing.

I (deliberately) haven’t bought a consumer electronic device that still uses Micro USB in years so don’t accumulate those cables for free anymore like with USB-C.

Of course ubiquitous USB-C dev boards/breakout boards without 5.1kΩ resistors for C-C power is its own frustration ... But I can tolerate that having so many extra USB-A chargers and cables. Trigger boards are great because they necessarily support PD without playing the AliExpress C-C lottery.
>capitalism extracts labor from wealth gradients

This is the sort of thing that sounds very truthy but I don't think that's actually very true. I don't think that this property is particularly unique to capitalism. As long as people have existed society as a system, whatever 'isim' it was labeled with (and even before) has extracted labor from power gradients. It's more simply stated that people tend toward forming more stable and longer lasting social systems (in which more gets done) in the presence of a strong hierarchy.
Gnome with animations completely turned off + the pop shell extension is a great experience. And for when you have to, you can still log into sway from GDM.
No, that’s just being stupid. There are thousands of people in Europe petitioning right now to give people freedom to run games even after the company that runs them shuts down. People are working on accessibility technologies that help put computers in the hands of more people than ever before. Countries are slowly turning the screws on companies who abuse their monopolies to make worse products for people. Meanwhile ‘userbinator thinks the best way to ensure software freedom is to argue on an Internet forum about why everyone should use C.

BTW: Stallman is brought up too which is actually very relevant for why this is such a losing argument: jailbreaks are cool and all but today they are basically irrelevant for the average user. This is just like Stallman fighting for GPL is nice but only really for people who compile their software themselves. People like the ability to have control over their software but going about it from the perspective of a software engineer who can write code or hack things is very exclusionary.
> Let's admit that life is for the most part a shitty deal, with some moments of excitement.

Can't relate with this sentiment. Life is what you make of it and a lot of times we overcomplicate it and worry about meaningless things.
My two cents:

You have a greenfield development project with a very well understood set of business needs and requirements, and you have the budget (I'm guessing) to run some small-scale experiments without the usual sort of time pressures; to a certain kind of developer (hi!) this is super attractive.

I would spend a few weeks getting to know big chunks of the core use cases, and then architect a system designed from the beginning to handle those needs, and the prototype a bunch of that system over a couple of months.

Although these time estimates are totally armchair bullshit, what I'd actually do is timebox both steps to something like "two weeks" and "two months" - that'll help mitigate scope creep that'll come from not having the usual sort of time pressure. It's not about getting it done, it's about finding out what it would take to get it done, and seeing how much can be accomplished in a set amount of time is a good way to do that.

The key bit in all cases is (1) hiring good people (2) getting out of their way except for (3) keeping them on track. (One trick for #3 is to have them propose plans, and then always ask "okay but is there a simpler way to do it?", 2-3 times, kinda like 5-why's).

For #1, I'd look at talks people give at conferences, and then either try to hire those people, or ask those people for referrals.

For #2, that's your executive-level corporate culture. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, you either already have it or you don't, and that's probably not something you can change because if you don't have it, you also don't have the psychological safety necessary to find out that you don't have it - although, you can look for where you've got high employee churn, and that's where your problems are.

For #3, I'd use a combination of what I call the "wine trick" with "ELI5". The "wine trick" is that you don't actually need to know anything about wine to find out if someone else does: just get them talking about the details of their special interest, and if they can, they know a lot about their subject. Combine that with "Explain It Like I'm Five" to find out if they're actually just bullshitting, and because the other way to find out if someone knows a lot about something is if they can teach it. (Plus, they'd need those communication skills during the rest of this process anyway).
How do they get away with no severance?
Presumably yes, if it functions through an ioctl interface.
According to the CEO, the only reason was that he struggled to attract senior engineers in the area. Eventually that didn't just happen in the area, though...
Yeah I remember going to a Booster Juice (Canadian smoothie chain) after they banned plastic straws here, and saw they were proudly advertising their biodegradable straws, and upon trying one I was perfectly satisfied with it compared to a normal plastic one. I figured maybe it's not standard because they're expensive enough that it could only be justified when selling a $10 drink.

Then the last time I went they had moved onto paper straws like everyone else.
Managing 500 or more VMS is a lot of work.

Aline the VM upgrade, auth, backup, log rotation etc.

With k8s I can give everyone a namespace, policies, volumes, have automatic log aggregation due to demon sets and k8s/cloud native stacks.

Self healing and more.

It's hard to describe how much better it is.
That's a fair point, I can't say for certain that tools like Spawn will be able to build really complex software. However, I think there's a ton of software that could be built with current model capabilities that simply isn't getting built because the remainder of the process still has a high learning curve (ex: learning how to use Xcode, figuring out app permissions etc.)
I'm interested to see how this goes.

I recently used ChatGPT and Claude to help myself build a simple app for my wife. Just listing things and being able to edit them basically. It was VERY frustrating as both models get pretty basic things wrong around the plumbing stuff like configuring SwiftData or CoreData.

I tried it with a version of the prompt(s) I used in that project and I got an app that's just a white page.
Why don't they define a min/max for each primitive type?
How many are there, 15?
wow, I've been waiting for a project like this! Clerk seems fine, Auth0 is fine, but I'd rather build on open-source. Can't wait to start integrating this into my next project
> DHS and FBI are police inasmuch as they are not military or strictly IC, i.e. they can make arrests

They are law enforcement. They are not police, and this distinction must be made to avoid this exact situation wherein state police are de facto granted more privileges and duties than specifically mandated.
>A similar deal with Samsung or another phone maker would be amazing.

Exactly. I usually use ifixit's guides but often by the parts on amazon or ebay because generic parts are generic parts, but if ifixit could certify that their parts are OEM certified, I'd definitely consider paying the extra that they charge to buy from them.
I wouldn't be surprised if upper level people tend to hire reports with discretion, people who let them keep their hands clean.

Dictator: "You mentioned a... reeducation project of some kind...?"

Minister of Internal Affairs: "Yes sir, it's been taken care of already."
The real problem is that those which leave are those who have [better] options. So by utilizing this kind of strategy you select for the employees you least want.
>I wouldn't trade a "cool project" for any of that.

something-something "Life is short to deal with problems we didn't have to have"
Do you mean white?
Electric bandage holds promise for treating chronic wounds
> iFixit’s business selling repair tools and parts is inappropriate.

But isn't that why they exist? I have always seen the teardowns and repairability scores as advertising. If they didn't sell repair tools then what would they make money on?
1) Then more math should get formalised in lean.

2) How is a solution by LLMs supposed to be verified without such a formalisation?
> If you dig deep enough you'll eventually be right.

And you'll leave a trail of broken lives behind you.
I almost had a heart attack when my brain turned that into ADP.
Phison Pascari D200V PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD with 122.88TB of Capacity Announced
Hacking a Virtual Power Plant
What about duct taped to the floor?
I'm confident Figma isn't paying published rates for AWS. The transition might have helped them in their rate negotiations with AWS, or it might not have. Hard data on the money saved would be difficult to attribute.
You will need an NVIDIA driver (the README says as much), be it the proprietary or open source modules. Looks like this is performing RM (Resource Manager, which is the low-level API that is used to communicate with the NVIDIA proprietary driver using ioctl calls) API calls. If you look in the src/nvidia directory, many of the header files are RM API call header files from the NVIDIA open source kernel module, containing various structures and RM API command numbers (not sure if this is the official term).

Fun thing, the open source modules takes some proprietary things and moves them to the GSP firmware. Incidentally, the open source modules actually communicate with the GSP firmware using the RM API as well. This understanding may be correct, but now instead of some RM calls being handled in kernel space they are forwarded to the firmware and handled there.
I was wondering if a starting a new company was a better way.

It has one customer (initially).

If it doesn’t pan out you can drop that shitty vendor.
The evidence presented thus far doesn't have any discussion of brand safety, and appears focussed on retribution for wrongthink against specific ad platforms.

Which may or may not be fine. IANAL.

Personally, I am shocked and appalled by the (few) ads I've seen lately, and arrange my affairs to avoid using any vendors I see advertising on the mainstream channels touted by the defendant in this case as being "safe" for their represented brands.

My young daughter sees none of these ads, as they are IMHO generally sex-cultish religious indoctrination... (specifically: the ads / programming revolves around glorifying whatever sexual identities or behaviours are embraced by that religion, instead of on the relevant topic or event at hand).

Once again, that's fine -- and I don't think there's a legal foundation preventing individuals (or the companies they own) from avoiding ad sellers that appear to be ideologically / religiously motivated to proselytize for (or avoid) sex-cultish religions.

It is probably even fine for an advertising industry organization to proclaim publicly that it rejects ad platforms based on ideological grounds -- I would certainly join such an organization, if it resulting in my company's advertising never appearing on a channel that contains sex-cultish religious programming or advertising!

Would that be ... illegal? I hope not!

So, in that light -- what is wrong with this industry organization avoiding ad channels that reject sex-cultish religious programming or advertising?

If everyone involved knew exactly that this was the goal of the defendant's organization (and they all felt that their product's ads belonged on channels containing such IMHO questionable programming), why wouldn't that be just fine?
Politicians and corporate execs involved in the destruction of our environment and the underclass?
> So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience?

No division.

> Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self

Where did you get that idea?
perhaps this 5% is employees who were documented underperforming, breaking rules, getting into conflicts, gaming at work, etc. ehe company has every right to let them go without severance. usually referred to as "regretted attrition" which is ironic in this case because GM doesn't regret them leaving in the slightest.