skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After graduating from college in 2010, I was offered a position at Autonomy. I decided to turn it down based on the... less-than-stellar reviews on GlassDoor, et al. I know all companies have their foibles, but the reviews there made it seem like the company was a cult run by a charismatic leader (aka, Mike Lynch). I instead took a local job paying me nearly half what Autonomy offered me (although I did learn a ton at that job). My parents looked at me like I was crazy to turn down a nearly six-figure entry-level position.

That being said, I hope they find him. :(
The point is you need to have swap enabled but not use it. If you use swap it's bad and if you have swap disabled it's also bad. There "should" be no difference but that's not the case.
Evidence against the bulge-halo conspiracy
the problem with these rebuttals is that these types of exploits are regularly leaked (well on average: rather occasionally but in large batches, like Snowden leaks).

its like saying, humans haven't reached the moon, even though humanity witnessed it in the sixties.

sometimes peoples memories are short.
I'm glad this legislation was struck down, but I don't understand "ruse" here. Protecting children wasn't a serious motivation of many people who supported it?

Like, consider a prior case of California legislation that was struck down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchan...

I think Mike Masnick and I both think it was good that that law was struck down, too. But do we think people who promoted it were insincere about believing it was harmful or undesirable for children to see violent depictions?
> The evidence that social media is bad for kids especially girls is overwhelming.

Not so! It's bad for some kids but incredibly positive for others.

> The ability to form and maintain friendships online and develop social connections are among the positive effects of social media use for youth... Seven out of ten adolescent girls of color report encountering positive or identity-affirming content related to race across social media platforms... A majority of adolescents report that social media helps them feel more accepted (58%), like they have people who can support them through tough times (67%), like they have a place to show their creative side (71%), and more connected to what’s going on in their friends’ lives (80%).

"Social Media Has Both Positive and Negative Impacts on Children and Adolescents" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK594763/

> When asked about the overall impact of social media on them personally, more teens say its effect has been mostly positive (32%) than say it has been mostly negative (9%). The largest share describes its impact in neutral terms: 59% believe social media has had neither a positive nor a negative effect on them.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/11/16/connection-c...
At least modern ICBMs do a star sight to calibrate at the top of their trajectory but, yes, that’s what inertial guidance is. Draper Labs basically pioneered.
Introduction to Valuation by NYU Stern Professor Aswath Damodaran [video]
An introduction to valuing companies by Aswath Damodaran. Fundamentals of valuation are laid out in a dead simple and intuitive manner. Super interesting stuff covered.

I don't even follow finance - I found this video by random - but Damodaran is clearly a great teacher.
Exploit is easy. It’s the explore part that’s hard. I.e. recommending me something i never knew i liked.

Pandora and Rdio and others solved the exploit problems years and years ago.
Show HN: Startup Finance Open Source Library
Got any "overwhelming" evidence that isn't a podcast? I'm sure social media ain't great for anyone. It's mostly an incomprehensibly large amount of malignant noise...but pretending that justifies some kind of heavy handed government censorship is...well, I guess I'm on social media so when in Rome...overwhelmingly stupid
VCV Pro has the DAW plugin feature as a paid extra. Cardinal seems to be taking the GPL version of VCV and using it to undercut the main income source of the VCV project.
Just don't do ads
Looks like thyey just didn’t care enough to do a redirect: https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
> Anytime I want to dig on my property, I have to make sure it won't interfere with their pressurized cables.

Sounds like a serious weak point
Point taken; it "works" for certain values of "work."

> They could hire an army of reviewers. They just don’t.

They may actually do that too, but perhaps there are thresholds that must be met for something to reach a reviewer. I have some sympathy for Google here as I work on email security in a high-volume environment. ML is one tool in the box, and human reviewers are another. Everything is a tradeoff between resources, false positives, and false negatives.

At least my organization's customers can contact support if something is going wrong, but for people trying to legitimately use Google Ads, it can be an extremely frustrating situation of shouting into the void. (And getting boilerplate support answers back from the void.)
I am an occasional alt tab user and it is a great product. Thanks for building it. I am reasonably used to MacOS window management behavior but I still need something like alt tab once a while, that’s why it keeps running in the background.

I also really appreciate the partnership and open attitude your comment above demonstrates, and that to a potential‘competitor’.
Formatron: A high-performance constrained decoding library
They can do it in C, but Google still can't do it in JS in V8 :eyeroll:
Very true, but am I, sitting up in space, in a position to have enough information to act on either of these concerns?

I can imagine a situation where I have a gut instinct that “this thing is just squirrelly, I don’t trust it.” But if I don’t have that instinctive reaction, how am I to know which return option is more reliable?

They successfully docked despite the anomalies, and it doesn’t seem to have led them to say “like hell I’m flying that deathtrap back.”

At some level aren’t everyone’s incentives, including Boeing’s, aligned around getting everyone home alive?

Sure Boeing’s risk appetite may look different, but wouldn’t even Boeing rate the loss of the return capsule as a catastrophic outcome? Wouldn’t I, as an astronaut, have priced Boeing’s incentives in to my decision not to put my foot down? And don’t I have to trust the ground team with my life before I let them strap me onto a space rocket in the first place?
Wordpress, but still.
Holy god, no 350,000 modals in my face, 300 inline boxes / weird grids, a decent podcast, all the content I would need / want to see in viewport and .. just there? good stuff.

a working rss feed that gives me what I want? nice.
~> rsstail -u https://www.techdirt.com/feed/
Making Compo Graphics for the Evoke 2024 Demoparty
At Evoke 2024, an awesome demoparty, I participated in three of the graphics competitions. Here is how I created my submissions and alternative graphics that taught me what I wanted to do. Tip of the hat to all the marvelous and creative folks I had the privilege to meet!
structured outputs help, paired with regular old systems design I think you can get pretty far. it really depends what you're building though.

>If your AI travel agent books vacations to the correct destination only 90% of the time

that would be using the wrong tool for the job. an AI travel agent would be very useful for making suggestions, either for destinations or giving a list of suggested flights, hotels etc, and then hand off to your standard systems to complete the transaction.

there are also a lot of systems that tolerate "faults" just fine such as image/video/audio gen
I'm a manager but has single contributor responsibilities.

1. How do you interface with your team (and how frequently)?
A. Daily, if not hourly. Via calls, chats and emails.

2. How do you interface with your manager (and how frequently)?
A. Ad-hoc and scheduled 1:1, my manager is a C level (smallish company, ~$40 in net profits.)

3. Do you have some recurring meetings? What is their cadence?
A. Yes, but this depends on the employee, high flyers I let them set the schedule. Folks that turn out to need more help, I set the schedule, anywhere from once a week to once a month.

4. How do you take care of documentation?
A. I have a background in Technical Documentation... Probably drives my team nuts. But I focus on getting tribal knowledge in to Wikis at least, formal documentation as required by regulation or policy/standard.

5. How do you ensure that you have time to work on your sprint tasks while context switching?
A. LOL... In seriousness I weight my story points heavier as what I am working on is usually obscure and/or steeped in regulation.

6. How do you ensure everyone is moving in the same/correct direction?
A. Through 1:1 and daily stand-ups. Plus monitoring the board. Finally, communicating the overall goals and obligations of the group. If one of my team members says "I've heard this before" I respond with "Good, you'll here it at least one more time."

I took the more challenging direction with my leadership. I manage people balancing their expectations and mine. I'll give someone enough rope early on to see if they can manage themselves.

Parting thought, I work with and worked for many veterans. One thing I learned from them is find your NCO, lean on them and reward them. Consider yourself a newly minted butter bar (Lieutenant) and don't assume you know best. But use your experience to guide the ideal direction, avoiding pitfalls you know about.
Trees probably need more maintenance, and mature trees are very expensive.
Companies keep going at it the wrong way. Instead of saying "We have AI, let's find products we can make out of AI!" they should be saying, "What products do people want, let's use whatever tools we have (including maybe AI) to make them."

The idea that a company is an AI company should be as ridiculous as a company being a Python company. "We are Python-first, have Python experts, and all of our products are made with Python. Our customers want their apps to have Python in them. We just have to 'productize Python' and find the right killer app for Python and we'll be successful!" Going at it from the wrong direction. Replace Python in that quote with AI, and you probably have something a real company has said in 2024.
Cloud connectivity in Victron products is optional and disabled by default. Also there is a read-only mode.

The hardware is modular and the software is above any competition.
Choose the responsible vendors.
But software works only 99% of the time. For some definition of work: 99% of days it's run, 99% of clicks, 99% of CPU time in given component, 99% of versions released and linked into some business' production binary, 99% of github tags, 99% of commits, 99% of software that that one guy says is battle-tested
Funny thing is that there was a freak yacht incident in this case. The yacht was destroyed by tornado and Mike Lynch's is one of the missing.
Interesting thoughts. I can’t refute or support your assertions about the cause of journalism’s demise off hand, but I actually am very curious whether a publication could find success in a model where one could pay a nominal fee to access a give article (in addition to the normal subscription setup).

I don’t pay for NYT. I don’t want to, because of the cancellation stories I see repeated.

If I could pay $1 here and there to access an article, though? I’d do that.

And NYT would get some money from me they aren’t getting now.

Seems, maybe, worth it. I don’t know.
Factually incorrect about the genesis of the internet or even the “mass” internet. But, okay.
A thousand more isn't very much when you consider "Soyuz" (the way you're using it) has been around since the 60s.

Falcon 9 had its first flight in... 2010.

Id personally rather ride Falcon, but to each his own I guess.
Well yes, the Reddit-Google deal might be found to violate antitrust. Probably will, because it is so blatantly anticompetitive. But if a publication decides to give special access to search engines so they can enforce their paywall but still be findable by search, I don't think the regulators would worry about that, provided that there's a way for competing search engines to get the same access.
We got frustrated with lack of tools available to founders to model their SAFE rounds and subsiquent dilutions, so we built an open source library and cap table worksheet.

The underlying finance library is MIT licensed and we've done our best to match it up with known sources of truth (Excel spreadsheets from lawyers), along with tests!

Feel free to give feedback to either me (mdp@1984.vc), or team@1984.vc
They leak like a sieve to their trusted testers.
You just said that the message for "non-existent server" is spelled "method not allowed"? Did I read this right?
So this magistrate Roy is the real person wielding power with the R&R?

Not a judge? Is he the central con artist here? Something sounds highly unusual there.

Magistrates don't even need a law degree in Virginia... Overnight judges
The tape is probably a reponse to some infamous disasters/tragedies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II#Mishaps

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Searcy_missile_silo_fire

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...
Nope. That deal was for AI not search.
There are separated chemicals, the hypergolic means no ignition source required.

Which to his point would be even more scary, but just isn't the actual real world risk with the way the things were designed.

Plus hypergolics are usually toxic on their own, even without mixing and/or booming, in a quieter, more-deadly-to-technicians way.

Spills and defueling and meeting well-intentioned but bad safety guidelines that require abundant fiddling were the real source of danger. More fiddling == bad.

Iirc, the fuels/oxidizers/reagents/ whatever-liquids mainly behaved like aluminum oxidizing, such that reaction with the tanks components actually created an increased buffer layer of oxidation/ protection.

Tank corrosion wasn't high on the list of risks after it was figured out on a per-chemical basis.

I think it's one of the aspects covered fairly well in (the great, often posted) Ignition! [0]

[0]https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612
I was doing some analysis of a solar-electric plane that can fly indefinitely: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite

Seems feasible, never went past the analysis phase though :)
> The constitution is not a immutable document

Actually, yes it is. You can amend it, but you can't edit it.

Secondly, there's a body of legal scholarship that your "different judge" has to master. It's not just a matter of policy preference.
This has been the case for decades. Look at the internet and .com’s. Mobile. Etc.
Any opinion on the book 'Inventing Accuracy'? It covers the Minuteman guidance system for a few chapters.
It's not the job of the lawmakers to follow the constitution. That job belongs to the judges. Lawmakers ought to know what's constitutional and what's not because there's no point in passing a law that will immediately be struck down, but this whole process of passing laws and then having them be reviewed by judges is the process we've landed on for figuring out the boundaries of what's constitutional and what's not.
I didn't mean to suggest it as a competition to the method presented (LSR: latent space readout). It is old after all. LSR's use in evaluator LLM and working with small samples (because it works with linear direction) does seem novel and useful to me.

An advantage of being aware of early papers is that it accumulates citations so you can often find good works in reverse citations. I had a brief look and the following seems interesting:

GRATH: Gradual Self-Truthifying for Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12292

TruthX: Alleviating Hallucinations by Editing Large Language Models in Truthful Space https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17811

In contrast, Lynx may be a better model and HaluBench may be a better benchmark, but the paper is too new so it has zero reverse citations on Google Scholar at the moment. Interestingly, Lynx paper does cite Azaria 2023 although in a very cursory way.
There are a few projects for this. Check this out: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/tree/main/Firmwar...
I blogged about our glorious journey Becoming an AI Company (TM)

https://candid.dev/blog/becoming-an-ai-company/
Postgres can scale down, there are a few settings you can tweak: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-resou...
Software works so much more than 99% of the time that it's a rather deliberate strawman to claim otherwise.

Newly-"AI"-branded things that I have touched work substantially less than 90% of the time. There are like 3 orders of magnitude difference, even people who aren't paying any attention at all are noticing it.
Utterly impractical as a clock. Brilliant hack.

I guess version two will add a camera, an eye detector and two servos to orient the clock to create a real-live hybrid of xclock and xeyes.
I'm building a cluster of 128 GPUs. 16 chassis. Each chassis has 8 NIC's in it to do 400G into a single switch. This has ballooned into 384 Singlemode Fiber cables and 64 Multimode Fiber cables to connect it all together.

Great article to see how it all gets made!
ChatGPT is very useful for me to the point that I pay subscription fee. To me it IS the product.
Advanced IMUs are still export controlled and the state-of-the-art is classified. The US military considers this a cornerstone technology and has invested heavily in R&D over the years. The IMUs that are widely available commercially have improved significantly over the years but so have the military versions.
I just discovered this and love it! You can install Alpine Linux (and others, like Debian) on Oracle Cloud free tier: https://mrbluecoat.blogspot.com/2024/08/smallest-oracle-clou...
And yet, generative AI also seems to be poor at randomness. When I ask Google Gemini for a list of 50 random words, it gave me a list of 18 unique words, with 16 of them repeated exactly 3 times.

Abyss: 1
Ambiguous: 3
Cacophony: 3
Crescendo: 3
Ephemeral: 3
Ethereal: 3
Euphoria: 3
Labyrinth: 3
Maverick: 3
Melancholy: 3
Mellifluous: 3
Nostalgia: 3
Oblivion: 3
Paradox: 3
Quixotic: 1
Serendipity: 3
Sublime: 3
Zenith: 3
This is obviously a snapshot in time (title includes 1988). I can’t attest to the State of Computer Science Education in the late 1980s. He laments the term software engineering because software engineering does not fit the traditional, more mechanical engineering terms.

The more mathematical proof style that he is advocating for is used sometimes in aerospace (in particular Airworthiness) and medical.

Some might say that his proposed methods only apply to software requiring that level of rigor. It is also really expensive.
What Are You Going to Do With That? The future of college in the asset economy
A Background-Proof Guide on AI
Green Death Solution
depends on your definition of "good." if good means creating the next generation of recommendation algorithms that result massive technology addiction and a mental health crisis, then yeah
It just needs to beat all the other non-deterministic processes at accuracy.

Call centre workers are often dreadfully inaccurate as well. Same with support engineers.

Heck even for banking, there are enormous teams fixing every screw up made by some other employee.
Boeing Halts 777X Flight Tests over Damage Found in Engine Mount
Fiber ISP came to my town years ago. I live within a few miles of town on a major road yet I still don't have fiber. I call every few months but they just say its not available at my place.
It really is one of the more effective ways to identify a bubble when companies shift to selling themselves on the tools and technology they use rather than the problem they are solving.
The rare species is an ocelot.
it seems that suggesting media will always be limited unless there's more context given to the user's situation via device or external apis..
Maybe Bayesian was not such a good name for a boat.
You hit the nail. It's been almost tragically funny how people frantically tried to juggle 5 bars of wet soap in recent 2 years solving problems that (from what I've seen so far) have been already solved in a (boring) deterministic way consuming much less resources.

Going further, our predecessors put so much work into getting non-deterministic electronics together providing us with a stable and _correct_ platform, it looks ridiculous how people were trying to squeeze another layer of non-determinism in between to solve the same classes of problems.
No offense to the developers, but how do I know this binary is safe?
As a consequence of the aging members, a lot of churches (particularly the less virulent mainstream protestant flavor) around here are merging congregations and getting demolished, to be replaced with more apartment buildings. Sometimes the parishioners will fight the good fight and get concessions made for affordable housing or other social goods.
Put it on repeat :P
i 100% percent agree. people get so caught up on trying to do everything 90% right with AI, but they forget there's a reason most websites offer at least 2 9's of uptime.
The user you’re replying to asked how to solve a practical problem and you responded with philosophy.

While I don’t disagree with what you said in principle, being able to fall-back to TIA for removed/deleted images would probably solve the issue 95% of the time.
(Put it on repeat)
I don't entirely disagree with you, but "what products do people want" is overly conservative. Pre-ChatGPT, very few people wanted a (more or less) general purpose chatbot.
This is the main focus of Jon Haidt's research right now. Plenty of resources on his site dedicated to it here: https://www.afterbabel.com/
> I don't understand "ruse" here. Protecting children wasn't a serious motivation of many people who supported it?

Maybe the ruse is using the motivation of protecting the children to downplay the First Amendment issues. At least some of the legislators might be so sincere and serious about protecting children that they don't fathom how broad the First Amendment's prohibitions on content-based regulation are. Or maybe the ruse is that the legislators frame the act as a design-based restriction or a conduct-based restriction rather than the content-based restriction it really is. In First Amendment cases, the strict scrutiny test applies to laws which indirectly cause removal of legal speech, not just laws which directly require removal.
By "Ruse," they mean the law's ruse of claiming to only regulate the conduct of design, when in actual fact the law clearly intends to regulate speech. It's a "ruse" to try to avoid a court noticing that the law obviously violates the First Amendment.
I have met some developers in my career that can communicate as effectively as this with equally brutal criticality, but those people are astonishingly rare. Maybe 2% of the developer population, if I am being gracious, can be described this way.

Most developers I have worked with are cowards exactly as he used that word. Now in all fairness my career is largely limited to large corporate employers that only hire Java developers and, god forbid, JavaScript developers. It’s frameworks, Maven, and NPM for absolutely everything.

The hiring managers always claim to look for innovators, but then you get in and everyone is just the same. Thousands of developers just retaining their employment doing the same shit day after day, fearing any changes coming down the pike.