skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The root cause? You've missed the giant elephant that's standing right there in the room. It's strange how the elephant managed to make itself invisible. I agree the elephant shit is really bad and really stinks, we should do something about the shit, but we should also do something about the elephant.
I guarantee you would have learnt about that immersion blender without Adtech.

I'm not saying the industry can't be useful, I'm saying that it's broken.
Some people think it’s them and double down with using a bad tool for the job.
Thanks rbanffy - and thanks for being a great HN contributor.

It would be good (not just for you but any of us) to do some googling for language drawn from substacks to see if they're lifted from other sources - because I think this spammer has been specializing in creating substack sites for a while.
20% of the men are not dating 80% of the women. If you honestly believe this nonsense, you need to stop watching Manosphere videos on the internet and go find a local community in real life.
I have most of this code for doing this - just needs to get rewritten for local storage (I was running it on Google Cloud). Need to pick something that doesn't run Solr as a service for local use. With Ollama, we have function calls running, so should be doable. I was also thinking about using the Open WebUI for use.
Running NixOS on Proxmox LXC
This may be dumb:

Wouldnt an "AI-Container-as-A-Browser" be nifty:

Create a container that runs with an AI agent that does your browsing "for you" whereby it does the connection, cookie management, anonymously tor' wrapping as required/set/needed such that you have an abstraction between you and all your browsing, and the browser can dev/null the ads and never let them render and poison the reply with synthetic data crafting all packets that go back to the cookie providers?

I also want ti to auto crawl an delete PII from all ad / identity brokers / white-pages/scam-spam. a "Delete me from the internet" bot

I really really want this.
Have you tried Neo Store? It also pulls from F-Droid.
Alex Karp Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want?
Regression Toward the Mean: An Introduction with Examples
What percentage of projects hit a billion rows?

I guess one could write a lot of extra rows to try and get there.
I support red team efforts to bring attention to mass surveillance. If the data is collected and used for nefarious or opaque purposes, at least be silly with it too
That doesn't really explain an 1800€ price tag. I've bought 500-100 page encyclopedias of academic subjects for $40 or $50.

Projects like this are built on the work of academics, the majority of whom are publicly funded. By and large they resent the for-profit publishers who benefit from their work and sometimes reduce them to needing to pirate their own work.
I’d argue that it’s not just online dating apps that are struggling. I think as a culture we’re struggling. Dating apps are just an indicator of that.

I’m currently on a self-improvement journey where I’m literally now injecting “research chemicals” shipped in from China just because it’s the only way I’m gonna get good looking enough to compete in this ridiculous market. As much as I’ve improved myself over the years I’ve been alive, the standards have gone even higher. That said, I’m not sure if the improved version I’ve made of myself would’ve done well ten years ago either. Maybe I was always doomed to die alone.
I was working with a major telecom years ago to use this tech for fall detection to help with caregiving in older adults. Interesting use case I thought.
German Agency Wants Changes in Microsoft, CrowdStrike Products After Outage
What's the elephant? I feel like we agree, but we're talking past each other.
Using a networked service makes your app a distributed system with all the associated hard things.
Or not, since they recently added FSRS as an alternative.
I’m currently job seeking. Some companies apply to the letter of this but still share almost no information. I’ve seen salary ranges like 140-280k. In essence that tells me the company still wants to not overpay like the parent comment said.
Hopefully a patch on the ever-increasing cost of skilled labor. Plus they have infinite patience and long office hours. And all comms are logged
This is pretty much the current state of the art in learning research:
https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research/
The comment I wrote below is weird. What I mean to say is google for articles on writing good prompts. The rest matters less.

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Ignore this:

Spaced repetition, if you can stick with it, works. The details around schedules etc. don't matter as much as doing it in a way that you can keep up.

Also writing good prompts is important. I have yet to write more extensively about this but here is a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41126734
That formulation prioritizes avoiding harm to small minorities at the expense of maximizing the well being of the majority.

Consider by contrast how East asian countries approach public policy: the needs of the typical person are elevated above the needs of people with different or special circumstances. That’s why they can have nice things like public transportation and clean and safe cities.
The quality of the CMOS manufacturing process is the main factor that determines the multi-threaded performance of a CPU when it is constrained by a power limit.

The design of the CPU matters for this quality criterion only in the unlikely scenario when the design team was not competent and they have made a far from optimal design.

When AMD has transitioned to TSMC in 2019, they have instantly got a much better MT performance per watt than Intel, so the TSMC "7 nm" was already better than anything Intel had in 2019.

At that time, "7 nm" was already an old process for TSMC, having been used by Apple since 2018. Therefore, at the latest in 2018 TSMC was well in advance over Intel.

So what you said, that "TSMC only caught up to Intel's process in 2016. The playing field remained pretty even over the ensuing 4 years." is only partially correct. No later than 2018, i.e. no later than 2 years after 2016, "the playing field" was no longer even.

Perhaps TSMC was already above Intel long before 2018, but there are no older products in direct competition that would allow us to judge whose CMOS process was better.
Sure, but it's interesting that it actually happened and was doing things that might plausibly work. I'm not worried about the sci-fi implications of runaway intelligence but self-modifying AI that can meaningfully improve itself is a very powerful concept.
I know zero decent people, computer nerds or not, who engaged in embezzlement. A number of people dabbled in stealing phone services, and some of them probably made some money reselling them, but not to the tune of 60,000 euros — that's definitely career criminal territory.

And, much as it may surprise you, large numbers of "computer nerds" did NOT engage in any unlawful activities.

But your mention of "clot shot" certainly clarifies why you would be simping for a low life POS like Dotcom.
What Is Overfitting?
Why though? Am under stress! Quickly, contract inflammatory bowel disease! How will that help?
So store your manager with paper towels, changed frequently, to help them last longer.
I am starting to get worried about the Space station and the astronauts. Boeing's internal politics shouldn't ruin the station.
Pushing US companies that don’t follow local laws to not operate there?

Something tells me they’d be okay with that.
I recently read and enjoyed "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley, full of lots of techniques for learning maths and science
The average number of legs of living things is 0.01.

"If you count up all the animals in the world, the average number of legs each animal has is 0.01 legs. This is because the huge numbers of nematodes in the world, which have no legs. There are 10 to the power of 22 nematodes in the world, which means there are 100 times more nematodes than mites in the world, and 1,000 times more nematodes than insects. One nematode lives as a parasite in the human eye that can grow up to 7cm in length."
> I heard that wges are less than 50% but you end up saving more

Curios regarding how you came up with that conclusion. After paying rent, taxes and buying some groceries from EU senior engineer's ~80k you will generally have enough to maybe buy a new smartphone at the end of the year, not any meaningful amount of savings.
Show HN: I built a LinkedIn email leads SaaS in 2 days
Hey fellow builders,

2 days ago I got an idea to build a SaaS to find emails from LinkedIn. and I got this idea because I bought a domain back in March (BoringLead .com), Yes I bought the domain first and then thought of what to build for it.

But after 2 days of development, I was finally able to launch BoringLead, a platform where you just need to enter a keyword, targeted country, and hit search. it will find and return the emails and their LinkedIn profiles for you.

Once you get emails, they will be in your search history which you can download as CSV.

I wanted to build something like the Apollo lead platform and I think this is a good first step toward it.

Do check out the platform. Looking forward to all your positive and negative feedback.
Market rate is based on the responsibilities of the job, not on what a single candidate might want. My advice is to not try to negotiate down on what you're going to offer a candidate, just state the responsibilities of the job, the expected compensation, and let the best match fill that. This isn't a menial job where you can swap in a new employee quickly, but is a major investment where an extra 5-10% could save you a large amount of wasted effort when this person moves on to the next company using his time at your company to close that wage gap you created. It always amazed me that companies would fight over a relatively small amount, lowering retention rates, while paying massive amounts towards recruiting and training of new employees.
In my case it's because the smarts are paired with mental illness
So, I take it you haven't tried Astro then?
> In all seriousness though, this is a bad question for exactly the same reason as "Please describe your greatest weakness" is a bad question. You're only testing the verbal intelligence of the person your talking to and they are, without a shadow of a doubt, going to give a diplomatic say-nothing answer if they have any sense in them

But why? Why would you not expect an answer like "our website is slow, and we are hoping you can help us with that"; or "we are thinking of improving collaboration between front-end and back-end engineers; and we were wondering what your experience has been in this area", etc?
Yea, it's mainly for fun/experimentation. I got a $15 Heltec board and a decent antenna and could reach some nodes in SF down to San Bruno from hills in the East Bay.

But I was surprised that there's only 5-10 active nodes in the North Bay and fewer people than that - Bay Area being what it is (was), I was hoping there'd be a a little underground community.
The difference is that Kant's categorical imperative allows for you to wish for all women to be slaves. Rawls' doesn't since you may be a woman and you have no way of kniwing behind the veil of ignorance.
Most charity interventions don't do much
> Disclaimer: I'm not a psychiatrist, nor am I a doctor or have any medical background or really any authority to talk about any of this. I'm a programmer and I didn't even finish my masters. I might be autistic but haven't been diagnosed (assessment soon!) so for now I'm just a Weird Nerd who writes about complexity aaaaaand let's move on to the interesting stuff.
Every database has issues and quirks whether they be about how you design your application, how you need to scale, or how you need to maintain your database. You can play this game “just use XYZ and have no problems”, but it isn’t realistic. Production databases at scale require heavy dedicated infra to stay highly available and performant, and even out of the box solutions require you to understand what is going on and tune them else you run into “surprises” which are almost always that no one RTFM. Pretty much every mainstream database is capable of both highly available and highly consistent workloads at scale. The storage engine largely shouldn’t matter as much as the application tuning.
> We're well beyond the arguments for the recommendation graphs and the open market.

Why? If people prefer these options, I don't see how forcing them into an alternative is any better. People on X could enjoy a free experience with no ads if they used Mastodon instead, but they actively seek out X. They want an ads-included package because they feel that the value is stronger than the alternatives.

I despise ads, but I don't think it's fair to characterize ads as market abuse any more than paid services are abusive. People consider the deal fair, they don't care about surveillance capitalism and they want to watch their YouTube video.
> How come one million prosperous individuals can't get together to lift one out of misery?

Because the foundation of their happiness is predicated on taking someone else's. It's an end result of a political system built on utilitarian morality. Although La Guinn may disagree with the comparison, taxes are a close real-life parallel.
It's hideous but it's a sort of psychology that makes sense to me. You're faced with this overwhelming existential threat you can't really understand. And here's a cute consumer device marketed to you to that promises to give you some idea what might be happening. It's a way of establishing the feeling of control, even if it doesn't work very well.
As someone who’s been an interviewer approximately 50X more often than I’ve been interviewed, I have come to love the “any questions for me?” part of the interview.

I have progressively reserved more and more time for it, particularly for candidates who are already making a strong impression. And for candidates who are otherwise hard to read or on the boundary, it’s been a great opportunity for clarifying discussion.

Would strongly recommend leaving 30-50% of the interview for candidate-driven topics.
Nice, I love lit-html(1)!

I wanted to add my two pennies to the discussion. You are of correct that with that approach you lose the declarativeness but sometimes you don't need that, if the thing is mostly static.

I went this road many years ago for a project. The nice thing of this approach is getting rid of all the ugly DOM API but enjoying it's performance over innerHTML.

(1) I absolutely love lit-html but don't like the rest of the lit components framework. Luckily you can use it independently!
Darn

Btw that's not exactly what it says. It says that the integration of hyper into curl is not being maintained, not that hyper itself is not maintained
Meta kills off CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists – AP News
> Benefits javascript developers? I'm writing rust and compiling to webassembly.

And pray tell, why aren't you compiling to native?

> You seem to think that all the web apps that exist would just be native apps if the web didn't support js.

Or not exist at all if there is no market :)

However, I'm pretty sure that niche apps have always existed, even when they were native. I've used a fair few.
I think the salient point is that it was unexpected to the researchers.

When people propose regulation for AI systems out of concern for unexpected self-improvement, this is the sort of scenario they are worried about.

Security in general is hard to get right, but the basics are not difficult if you try, and most companies fail to even implement the basics.

For AI, sandboxing will get you quite far, but how do you guarantee it’s used as the risk of accidentally creating a self-replicating WebGPU virus increases?
I'm waiting for python support first. Not sure what the eta is or why it's taking so long. Every day we get closer to the eventual deadline.

> Extended date representations are not currently supported (±YYYYYY-MM-DD).

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.dat...

> MAXYEAR is 9999.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.MAX...

I'm also waiting for longnow.org to start using long dates behind the scenes, like image urls, html metadata, http headers, etc. They need to eat their own dog food as far as software goes.

<link rel="icon" href="https://static.longnow.org/2022/06/favicon.png" type="image/png">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://static.longnow.org/2021/10/header-talks.jpg">
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2024-06-11T17:21:23.000Z">
Subreddits I've never even heard of
Waymo cars honk at eachother at 4AM every night in this San Francisco lot
Ads literally dictate what you see online. They don't create the desire for power and influence, but they do create the structure for achieving power and influence.
Yeah, it's just a scam so companies don't have to keep vacation on their books. It just means if you give your boss enough notice, maybe you'll get some time off, as long as your project is progressing well.
Down into the ocean's 'twilight zone' with Boaty McBoatface
What Is Underfitting?
https://archive.is/d56oU
It is super unlikely that an algorithm that was made based on feels would turn out to be the most effective. Especially since it requires some learning and errors to even learn how to use it.
Sure, but do you think that's the reason why there is an interest in promoting diverse teams? For helping the people "grow up"? Besides, that's only true if the differences are relatively small, you can't understand and relate to everyone. You can obviously collaborate with them on a professional level.
Quantum scale sensors used to measure planetary scale magnetic fields
One cool thing about math though is that continuous/analysis concepts and discrete concepts interact with each other. There's a fair bit of calculus in e.g. AoCP. At some point number theory as well. Kind of depends on how deep you want to go. You can learn a lot about cryptography without really needing a very strong mathematical base.
Why buy servers if it’s cheaper to hack/steal them?
Yeah, I think people forget that when you are employed you are not the owner, you are sacrificing your freedom to serve someone else’s enterprise.

I think its very healthy and human to understand people have phases in life where they need to be cared for.

It’s very easy to have a narrow view of the world where everything would be fixed by the ‘market’.
Me too.

I'll give you one counter-argument, though: maybe it's hard to appreciate all of the problems a traditional SQL RDBMS solves until you try and solve them without an RDBMS... and crash and burn badly.

But, if they're actually building a real product with real funding money and they only know MongoDB... yeah, it's intervention time.
Hyperspectral imaging is about collecting images in more than three bands of color (red, green, blue) as perceived by humans. Lots of things look very different in the IR and UV spectra, especially flowers and insects.
If the takehome message is "run an ad-blocker with your Tor Browser, to be safe", hopefully bad people believe that, and good people don't.
Broke: paying teachers a living wage, allowing educators to unionize, promoting positive social interaction

Woke: Training kids on social interactions and appropriate conduct with an LLM that cannot reliably solve basic math or simple interpersonal disputes
But that changes from team to team, and sometimes even from individuals to individuals. It’s rare the company (not faang level) that invests that much in engineering culture.
There's a guy in Twitter who thinks that the brain is an antenna that receives consciousness, or something like that. I'll see if I can find it, but it's kind of hard to navigate Twitter since I got banned.

Edit: I couldn't find it. Something about microtubules
FSRS v5 is state of the art
Don't underestimate the power of giving your opponents plausible excuses to avoid conflict. People often don't want conflict and will be satisfied with token justifications such as "I was attacked and it's legal if it's in my territory".

It's a matter of narrative, really. Then, let's say, a NATO country has the option of the choice between "well they do have a point actually" and "I'll take the risk of you wiping my centuries old capital with your nuclear ICBMs".
I can’t imagine anyone would actually answer that question, seems inappropriate to even ask
I do not get the reasoning around SQLite.

SQlite is easy to backup, especially if you are OK with write locking for long enough to copy a file. It now has a backup API too of you are not OK with that.

Lots of things do not scale enough to need more than one application server. A lot of the time, even though I mostly use Postgres, the DB and the application are on the same server, which gets rid of the difficulties of working over a network (more configuration, more security issues, more maintenance).

The main reasons I do not use SQLite are its far more limited data types and and its lack of support for things like ALTER COLUMN (other comments have covered these individually).
I remember I used immutable VMs for a lot of testing - those reset to the last saved state when shut down and made a lot of tests more easily repeatable. This is a sensible thing to do for privacy as well - any cookies you gain during your session you shed on reboot.
Also worry about Nagle, fast open, http2 or 3, and maybe dns resolution. Happy eyeballs too.
I build the sdImage using nixos-generators. I then redeploy the same configuration using `nixos-rebuild switch --target-host=`. It’s rather neat because my flake will export both, and the configuration is a module I don’t need to repeat.

Doesn’t come with FDE, but I use tmpfs for payloads.
Something to keep in mind on the maternity leave front…

Most short term disability insurance actually covers maternity leave for about 6 weeks. It’s really easy for employers to make sure this is part of their benefits package these days.
Their audio version of the article is free at:

https://www.economist.com/media-assets/audio/062%20Business%...
> Humans will always be humans, independently of the platform. :-P

While true, I'd much rather read discussions on HN than say X or even Reddit these days.
I dunno, a two minute LinkedIn search or Glassdoor search will give you all kinds of metrics for all kinds of roles and for companies at different stages, so I don't at all buy this argument.

Especially for developers, you can get a crazy range of quality, experience and location at different multiples of cost. Like if I was buying a car I first determine my needs and money to spend then start searching in that band of prices. What if I just went to a cqr salesman and asked how much are you expecting to make from this sale? Is that a smart starting point for anyone?
Given how there's plenty of market for retro nostalgia kit, I'm surprised nobody is making a modern desktop PC that pushes the same aesthetic buttons.

Beige paint is no more expensive than white or black. A desktop form factor would be good for today's super-heavy video cards. Since we no longer design around internal optical drives, etc, you could probably whip up something micro-ATX that looked a lot like an IIgs or the IIsi mockup, maybe with some USB ports in the front "lip" for convenience sake.
This entire field responds better to self-treatment than anything else.
At some point I'd love to further train an LLM on all my PDFs and be able to ask it questions.