skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIe and IIc have a vsync status bit that you can poll, but IIRC the polarity was flipped between the two models and there are other quirks that can interfere with using it, so it was neither recommended nor popular.
Xapian is a library, while elastic has a client-server model

Xapian is more like sqlite while elastic would be mariadb
I think things get really interesting when you combine small, efficient ANNs with evolutionary/genetic algorithms.

The biggest challenge with these is coming up with a function that clearly represents the fitness of a candidate. EAs are worthless if you can't provide good selection pressure over time. There are always multiple conflicting objectives in the most practical cases. I've recently discovered that you can skip all the nasty objective weighting business if you just select the Pareto front every generation. You never know when a trip down a less important path might result in the most optimal global solution.
You can check to see if you were in the breach here:

https://npd.pentester.com/search

This will save you the effort of a 30min search per `grep` on the original breached files.
From my understanding, the scammers themselves are typically a half/whole continent away, in a jurisdiction that doesn't care too much and is easily bought by money. Meanwhile the people picking up cash are sometimes not even connected to the scam, they can be Uber drivers who were requested to pick up a package, as was the case when a man in Ohio tragically shot someone sent by scammers [0]. Unfortunately the Internet has made it really easy to do things like this without stepping foot in the country

[0] https://apnews.com/article/uber-driver-killed-scam-4998a42b2...
It feels like a great addition for interpreted languages. Since I spend most of my time writing Python code, I guess it’d make sense for me.

I haven’t had an AMD-based machine since the early 2000’s.
Welcome to “at-will” employment. On the flip side, this also means an employee can quit at any time.
> He's also hilariously roasted crypto

My favorite "Crypo Roaster" is https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com

She just lets Web3 roast itself.
Yes, for roles we’ve never hired for.

In which case to find the market salary, we ask candidates (candidates are the market, we want to pay market rates. So, we ask candidates)
Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change (2024)
Level 1 Tech Wendell implied that it’s been seen in server cpus as well but seems less likely as Max TDP is more controlled so max current damage seems less likely.
Language, culture, family, friends, and missing awareness that conditions elsewhere might be actually better, to name a few?
How would you do that from an Android phone? I've found myself wanting to update OSM/Organic Maps info many times.
Organic Maps is an excellent mapping application. Blocking it is an error.
By solving the problem in more than one way! This should be very achievable in a field like discrete math. First solve the problem by hand, then model the program in something like Mathematica or OR-Tools and see if you can get the same solution.

This would work even better in a lower level maths like Algebra and Calculus. Just use Mathematica's Solve[] function for many problems and you'll know if you were right or wrong.

One can also use this approach in an algorithms class. Write your own naïve program to trivially but reliably solve test cases, then compare your more sophisticated algorithms to these results. Alternatively, use a reference implementation from some other library. For example, compare your own graph algorithm solutions to what Neo4j returns.
The idea is to establish principles of justice without knowing what your position is in society; not that the society forces the same outcome.

Take your example of athleticism. You probably wouldn't want a society based on the principle "society values people according to their athleticism" because you don't know if you will be athletic or not. However, you might want a society based on the principle "society values whatever traits someone brings to the table" because then the athletic person can be valued for their athleticism and the non-athletic person can be valued for some other trait.
Money is not a thing. More like a form of energy, or media.

Make money to buy a fancy car is not important.

Make money to invest in kids education is meaningful.

This is what I meant.
> Bread is made of yeast, flour, water and salt. Anything else isn’t bread.

This is simply wrong and excludes quite a lot of traditional and uncontroversial breads. Your ingredient list (you don't technically need the salt, by the way) describes the minimalist -- and best, in my opinion -- yeasted bread. I consider unleavened and alternatively leavened breads to be breads as well, but that's neither here nor there.

But potato bread is also bread. Bread doesn't stop being bread because you've added seeds, or egg, etc.

I think Subway's bread is certainly bread. Really terrible bread, but bread nonetheless.

Subway's "obscure ingredients" aren't uniquely terrible. They're common ingredients that exist in a whole lot of your diet unless you're taking great pains to avoid them. I would prefer they weren't there at all, but that they are is neither surprising nor particularly outrageous. They're part of industrial food production, and fast food is absolutely industrial food production.

> there are still countries where you can buy real bread on practically every street, and it’s better.

You can do this in most of the US. Maybe not on every street, but it's readily available.
It’s Postgres compatible. If you only use standard features your negotiating lever is to bail for another Postgres compatible database. There are tons of managed offerings that are quick to stand up.

This is why standard APIs, protocols, and languages are a more important thing than specific pieces of software. If there is compatibility you have choice.
Professional Communities and Job Search
> “…vacation longer than three weeks requires the company to stop paying your salary and consider you "abandoning" your job”

Can you explain more about your experience with this? I’ve never heard of it.

You begin by referring to at-will employment, which has a long history in state laws. This context gives the impression the “what” that is doing the “requiring” is the state and its laws.

I’m wondering if this “long vacation” thing has a basis in law or possibly originates from individual company or union contracts.

Or if this is a cost savings measure for business services which are paid on monthly basis. Most insurances are based on employee count and earnings, but are calculated yearly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
I guess people in Europe find it strange that people in the US are willing to accept the status quo there?
It's very strange that when I land on the page for the very first time, I land halfway down the page and I'm staring at a block of random code.

Not what you'd expect to see.
Apple doesn't itself make those games, it simply offers a marketplace and takes an obscene 30% cut of all the horribly addictive games.

The companies that make those games, like Epic and miHoYo are far more directly culpable.

Really, I blame the governments for not banning this obviously deleterious crap, like the US is seriously debating banning tik-tok when gacha games are right there.
Relevant: <https://np.reddit.com/r/AppleIIGS/comments/vaaogf/is_there_e...>

and

<https://np.reddit.com/r/atari8bit/comments/po7m4z/in_defense...>
Huh, how so? I got my career a few years before anyone would even date me and now I'm pretty content being unmarried after my divorce
#real-todolist has an autofocus element and I'm using Firefox
If you make software and I start using it, I’ve created an obligation for you to keep making it?
The polite way to say this is "following the incentives".
Intels foundries might be considered strategic assets for the US government. Spinning them out works potentially create a longterm risk for the country.
The hard parts (and the important parts)
It gets worse at that on a regular basis, at least on iOS, where they can’t factory install the background tracking daemons.
You can still make poop jokes when you're old
NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
Why would a company allow that, can't they put a limit on that themselves? All my employment contracts in the Netherlands had a clause about that.
Nice writeup overall, but I think it falls victim to the "trusting the number on the tin" trap. If you look purely at the names TSMC and Intel assigned to their process nodes in the 2010s, it'd be easy to look at the timeline and think "TSMC got smaller transistors than Intel, and so Intel fell behind. Ergo, the core architecture didn't matter."

In reality, TSMC only caught up to Intel's process in 2016. The playing field remained pretty even over the ensuing 4 years. The level playing field exposed Intel's stagnant core architecture, breaking their datacenter hegemony.

I think the author gets the big picture right - the process node sets the bar. But, I do wonder if the author glosses over architecture too easily. Sure, history tells us that it only matters when the "process playing field" is level. But, times are changing. There are fewer players than ever in the cutting-edge process arena, yet the cost of implementing those new processes marches forward at its usual exponential pace. Major world powers are more interested than ever in keeping their domestic fabs at the forefront of the field. In this environment, can anyone safely assume they'll be able to lean into a long-term process advantage?
Daily Scrums for the Technical Leader – NimBold
Any comparisons on performance?
It's highly dependent on company (and team) culture. If you can actually take a generous amount of vacation, personal, and sick (if you need it) time, I have no real problem with it. (Then, I haven't moved around a lot--I know some people who move jobs every year or two count on a payout from accrued vacation when they do.)

Someone I know who retired from a fairly senior position at Netflix rather liked it and took some fairly long vacations but said there really was a good tradition of umplugging at least as he observed that came from the top.
Interesting. Insofar as that's new, and they tripped a family sensor, that could well be related since we're BnL not supposed to track minors in any way.
Lol why are you surprised that a forum dedicated to professionals in a very high paying field with low barriers to entry has people with a ton of disposable income?
Fdroid and be done with it?
Boeing, Lockheed Martin in Talks to Sell ULA to Sierra Space
I only use ethernet for my computer and I don't even have a wifi card.

Switching to a wired ethnernet only router might be the way to go. But there is still other concerns such as the Intel and AMD management engines.
I don't quite follow their leap from seeing three distinct regions and types of neurons firing to the proposal that each is storing a separate copy of the memory.

Anyone have an idea of how they make that leap? Or are the researchers getting ahead of their skis, assuming that neurons lighting up means the memory is directly stored there as opposed to those neurons simply being part of the process?
Everyone wants to be on the top, but their real preferences are revealed by the choices they make. Americans are less likely to study STEM than people in other developed countries, while foreign students in American universities prefer STEM fields. And when there is not enough domestic STEM talent, even with the help of foreign students, American businesses import foreign talent.
> But it seems you've cited an example of something ironically very anti-labor. This means your government has codified into law the false idea that all human employees are undifferentiated commodities (like cattle). So as an employer, if there's no ability to remove underperformers every year

No, that is not the case. You can still fire people and you can do so especially if they are underperforming. You just can't do it as a mass layoff.

If you fire someone then you need a reason to do so. If you fire people because of a layoff then you need to show that the layoff is legitimate.

You can not just group underperformers and let them go as a layoff because you are circumventing labor law. You can not lie about the reason why you are letting someone go.

No one would care if you fired 99% of your company IF you are prepared to show they were underperforming and that was the official reason given.
Since everyone’s discussing the inverse, I shall mention that long ago I worked for a 100 person, 5 year old, startup who's policy was: your vacation is your year-end bonus. No one could take vacation ever, it just got paid out in December. They did give you Christmas and New Year’s off.

Getting sick was jokingly referred to as a firing offense, though people did take sick leave. Burnout was a real thing – and I barely lasted a year, though that may well have been unrelated.
Intel: Our balance sheet is a smoking ruin, but we think our new chips work
You need money to survive. Hence, it's wise to optimise your life to obtain money with minimum suffering involved.
I can only "buckle down" for a certain number of years before I become insanely depressed and start asking what life has to offer for me

"Of course I'll focus on happiness and not obsess over early retiring as soon as possible" but then I obsessed a little anyway, spending almost no money on myself and staying miserable

Also the world is full of stupid assholes but even teenagers already know this
There is still only one test (2016)
California trims AI safety bill amid fears of tech exodus
I’d be curious to see how that holds up in Europe or California.

At least one person must have sent them a “do not sell my personal information” or “right to be forgotten” request, and then declined to accept the new terms.
Not surprisingly these articles never talk about men’s experiences. Only women or “people”
Maybe I misread the GP comment, but there is a big difference in governments defining guard rails for what isn't allowed in any T&Cs and governments being involved directly in every T&Cs.
Why should he/she labour for free for the shop owners?
Benefits javascript developers? I'm writing rust and compiling to webassembly.

> I see zero benefit for the users

You seem to think that all the web apps that exist would just be native apps if the web didn't support js. Your way of thinking reeks of 4chan/g from 2005. Next you are going to start complaining about "bloat".

Also fyi, people that create things tend to be users of their own creations.
Each of these systems contribute to information. They may be closely entangled (compared to say a rock on mars) or have more entanglement due to proximity. This “entanglement” may relay universal truths or even advanced theories on itself at the speed of information.
I've seen some backlash where folks would abandon cart at the till, or ask to remove the item and leave it there at least, causing quite some chaos/delays overall. And that's just user error/misreading a label. Pretty sure if pricing is unpredictable between displays and the till often enough, people will just go shop elsewhere and/or regulation would eventually be created if it doesn't already exist...

The other thing is for folks who can afford to pay more, I'm not sure they even look at the prices on the shelves. I assume they may rather look at the end total and only check individual items if the end bill is abnormally high, in which case if everything was upped a little based on profiling, it might not be noticed unless googled or compared to another store?

I guess those behaviours may not be correlated to income, but all in all I have a hard time imagining this system resulting in either tiny optimizations that may be profitable in agregate or a net loss of clients/sales if it is too noticeable...
Paternity != maternity but that's still awfully short IMHO.
> No - children have brains, same as adults. All they are missing is some life experience, but they are quite capable of applying the knowledge they do have to novel problems.

Life experience directly prevents application of logic, as we shortcut to our knowledge associated with the word so that we can skip the expensive-and-hard "logic" thing. I've seen this first-hand with a modified version of the Queen of Hearts poem used as a logic puzzle at university, and most of us were trying to remember the poem rather than solve the puzzle — the teachers knew this and that was the point of the exercise, to get us to read the actual question instead of what we were expecting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_of_Hearts_(poem)

If the missing gap was as you say, then approaches like Cyc's from 40 years ago would be highly effective and we wouldn't need or want neural nets for anything deeper than finding the inputs to send to that model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

> There is a lot more structure to the architecture of our brain than that of an LLM (which was never designed for this!)

Yes.

I don't know how much of that really matters given they are weirdly high performance given GPT-3 has a total complexity similar to the connectome of a mid-sized rodent, but they are indeed different.

On the other hand, converting the training run to biological terms would be like keeping said rodent alive for 50,000 years experiencing nothing but a stream of pre-tokenised text from the internet and giving it rewards or punishments according to how well it imagines a missing token. Perhaps a rat would do fine if it didn't typically die of old age 0.006% of the way through such a training process.

But that's just more agreement that it's all very alien.

> our brain has all the moving parts necessary for reasoning, critically including "always on" learning so that it can learn from it's own mistakes as it/we figure something out.

I'm not so sure about that. We have plenty of cognitive biases, and because of these even we have to take notes, check with others, or defer to computers, for more than the most trivial of logic problems.
It does, but I've never seen any company that doesn't pay for accrued time.
While that's technically valid, it feels like it's going against the spirit of the "original position". That is to say, it seems to me that the original position isn't intended to literally say "run an optimization on the probability density function in order to maximize your expected happiness". Instead, it seems to me that it's intended to illustrate the idea that whatever rules society operates under need to work regardless of what your starting point in society is.

Stated another way, while that argument is probably a valid way to "win" a competitive debate, it doesn't strike me as particularly useful for exploring the concept that Rawls is presenting.
In England I had a 3 month notice period at a previous employer, luckily the employer I was going to was okay with waiting that amount of time.
In a lot of US jurisdictions there are rules that you have 21 days to review a severance agreement. My guess is that a "you have three days to agree" type notice may run foul of that.
Ask HN: Chances of immigrating to the US through a multinational company?
I live in France and will be visiting NYC and SF soon. On paper, these cities look like where I would really like to live. The tech scene is very interesting to me especially; I know Paris and don't want to live there long-term.

How are my chances of working for e.g. FAANG in Europe, then getting into the US on an L1 (?) visa, and then getting permanent residency then citizenship? What would the process and timeline look like? If anyone did this, I would be even more interested.

I ask because I read everywhere that the H1B lottery is a complete mess right now, and I don't feel confident taking my chances for 12% per year 3 times, even with a sponsor.

I work in AI (deep learning and related) and have some published co-authored papers, if that matters. I would probably aim for a research engineer or ML engineer position right now.

Thanks!
Definitely this. Candidates have asked me some pretty hard questions and I rarely ever feel much internal resistance in giving an honest answer, for this exact reason as well as personal guilt that someone might make a major life decision in part because of a deceptive answer. A manager might not hire you if you ask a question they dislike, but unless your question to my humble engineer self is something like “how few hours a week do you manage to get away with working?” or “I hate computers, do you frequently work with computers?”, I don’t even know how I’d give you a thumbs-down without sounding disingenuous in the post-interview feedback meeting.

So much interviewing advice is bullshit, but it’s 100% true that asking good questions at the end is the ideal point to get the most accurate picture of what your job experience is going to be like. Just like my interview questions are in-part trying to gauge what it’s going to be like working with you.
Then you would need to encrypt the data to many public keys, could be difficult but possible.

Also means adding a new follower requires you to rewrite old posts, right?
> I do not miss the US; moving to the EU was the best decision I ever made.

It’s very easy to live in the EU with an US compensation.

I wonder if you will feel the same if you had a local job.
The judge is biased by social media?
The article makes it sound as if „200 question“ dating sited like eHarmony were any better, but it’s scientifically proven that there’s no correlation between such questionnaire matches and actual relationship compatibility
If "innovation" equals firing a quarter of your company at a moment's notice because some psychotic C-level wants 3 cents more of profit this quarter, then I'll take stagnation, thanks.
I haven't tried it myself, but I think https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
I’m on iOS with Safari - no audio either.

Album plays fine on Bandcamp though!
Also would like to know how I should present this to the local company. Can I tell them "I want to work for you but I'm aiming to get US residency", and ask them if they would commit to that? Or do I need to work for a year or two and _then_ ask for it?
This is a great way to cement inefficiencies and create pencil pushers.
> Why “stop linking to X”?

Clicking on almost any of the UI elements leads to a log in prompt, without showing anything else. For people without accounts (or those who don't want to make one), that's probably not functionally different from dropping a link to some forum that requires registration, albeit in this case I guess at least the main post is visible.

The Mastodon link in comparison has the discussion visible up front, which is nice to see! Now whether the fediverse is popular enough to actually have good discussions, that's a bit harder to say, but at least it's something!

I think Facebook also had similar issues, where it gates a lot of things behind a login prompt, quite user hostile, though also understandable why they'd do it that way.
Ah yes, thank you! But would you say they more about infra/platform while Apache is more about application?
> tools provided in common linux distros

Again... those tools are open source, audited and have many eyes on them

This tool however is shady as heck. google dropped the ball
Ask HN: Is it still relevant to learn C in 2024?
On iOS, I never use gmaps. Even if I tap a link accidentally and it opens their website, the address is broken half the time. Instead, I screen shot the address and paste it into another mapping app.

However, on android, if the google location services (the spyware half of gmaps) is not installed, then third party apps like uber and lyft, and real world infrastructure access, like ev charging and paying parking meters break.
Thanks for the spot-on, very illuminated comparison.-
You're right, Ireland doesn't deserve that trash fire.
How do you feel about Ring Modulation? It’s another step into weird.

https://youtu.be/9PmHWap1T-E?si=9lbiTQSU1ARFBKeD