skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry are company executives and managers.
They can also keep throwing money at it until it’s solved
To be clear, I assume that modern, sophisticated spam operations are "leading the league" in LLM usage. It must be much harder to stop spam when each email can be individualized by an LLM. And let's be real: LLMs are already very, very good at producing text that sounds believable. I, myself, have been fooled many times already by recent spam, that is so much more believable than two year ago.

If GMail is getting worse, I can imagine that other, smaller mail services are getting much worse. The best explanation that I have read about why Google (and other major providers) are so good at spam filtering: They can observe a huge portion of the world's email, so they have the best training sets.

It is interesting that we never hear from GMail folks on HN. You see all kinds of Googlers pop-up into discussions with interesting insights about how the sausage is made. However, I cannot recall anyone from GMail appearing on HN to share some interesting behind-the-scenes stories.
> so few people downloaded it

The article says "at least five other users of the app had similar experiences", so the lower bound is 5 users in 3 months.
You’re right. What else? Roblox games absolutely utterly suck. Little else matters.
It's not unfair. I have a different standard for proprietary payware and proprietary freeware. With the former, you know where you stand, but in my experience, the reasons for not releasing freeware under a FOSS licence are normally user-hostile, like baiting in users with a free product and charging money once they're hooked. I've been bitten too many times, so I don't tend to install proprietary freeware anymore.
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Hey Karthik, this is really helpful. Just a quick question, are the qualification insights set by default or can we customize them according to our needs?
I have several books printed in the late Victorian era and they are the most beautiful books I own.

They have brilliant colored plates which have not faded over time, they're printed onto excellent high quality paper and the letterpress is some of the sharpest printing I've ever seen. Compared with today's books these once almost-everyday items are works of art.

I'm not denying that most of the dyes used in their production are likely toxic, and I'd reckon there's no shortage of As and Cr in the brilliant greens and yellow/orange dyes.

What I'm whingeing about is that whilst printing tech is likely safer these days the presentation has gone backwards in the 140 or so years since my books were published.

Fact is safe dye chemistry just hasn't caught up, neither has the horrible smudgy low resolution offset printing we see these days.

Apologists will offer every excuse under the sun why we can't have lovely books like those printed in the late Victorian era but the fact is we actually don't have them!

When it comes to book publishing industrial dye chemistry has failed us.

(I could go on to whinge about the pathetically inadequate range of blue dyes in use today but that's a discussion for a chemistry forum.)
Wow, that is scary. Can I assume these are phishing emails? My point: They get you to "confirm" the fake order and harvest some personal information. I worry most about my parents. There is no way, at their advanced age, that they can distinguish between real and phishing emails. The Internet has gone to crap, again. Sigh.
I Hate My Boss
To add on to that, the new app is so bad that I still can't connect my subwoofer to the system after the update (worked fine previously). My surrounds randomly disconnect and lose registration (whatever that means). The button to fix it in the app doesn't respond (as in nothing happens when you click on it, like they forgot to implement that action altogether). Streaming services randomly break with no error messages. Devices go out of sync and randomly stop playing through the day. Plus features that used to be there are still missing. The UI changes are a mess too, with sliding drawers that can't be closed, many screens that don't do anything, error flows that change depending on how many times you've retried the same thing, etc.

On top of it all, they removed all async support and you can only call them for help, with several hour wait times and usually no resolution.

They just don't care about software UX. Or their users. Part of the problem is that they only sell hardware at a one time price, so they have no incentive to make it keep working afterward. It's the same model that commodity PC makers have, where they have no way to recoup further support and maintenance costs via an app store.

Sucks. Now I know to not buy expensive hardware with mandatory cloud functions.
Thermodynamics is the enemy of all "economic$cience". There can only be peace if the physicsdepartment, the messenger of reality, is brought down in armed struggle.
No. This is outright WRONG.
As others have pointed out, complexity classes describe asymptotic complexity. In other words, Big O describes scaling properties of the algorithm with regards to input size. The value is rough regression shape of the performance function if computed from 0 to infinity.

O(1) is by no means expected to outperform O(N^2) for any practical dataset. One algorithm is constant time (even though the constant can be so large that it will not finish before heat death of the universe), the other gets quadratically slower as the input size increases.

For example if O(n^2) algorithm can be implemented with SIMD, you could easily expect it to heavily outperform O(n) algorithm on many practical datasets when wall-clock performance is measured.

You can't draw immediate conclusions about performance of the algorithm from Big O class alone.
Stockholm syndrome much? Why would the windows that I am multi-tasking on just coveniently belong to the same app for me to use this shortcut?
Right, available memory includes swap. (That's why I didn't say "available RAM".)
By lifting the corporate veil and verifying the legal and physical existence of the developer behind the app
It might have, I remember attending a talk by Peter Chen when I was at VMware around that time, and I know there was some kind of collaboration. (I wasn't involved in record-replay at VMware, but I was interested in it due to some ancient work I did with userspace record-replay debugging, https://lizard.sf.net).

rr is fantastic work, mad props! And the multiprocess stuff in pernosco looks super neat.
Eh not just the broligarchs, consulting giants want in on the action too - Will AI Eat Consulting? A Consultant’s Perspective (https://rimaiti.substack.com/p/will-ai-eat-consulting-a-cons...)
I'm pretty sure Boeing did not merge with Lockheed Martin. In this alternate history was it because of the F-35 contract?
At about 39 minutes in, he's asked if efforts analogous to seti at home can be used to get around the scaling problems with training the next round of big models.

He gives a strongly NVidia oriented answer that I happen to think is dead wrong. Pushing more and more GPU/Memory bandwidth into more and more expensive packages that are obsolete after a year or two isn't the approach that I think will win in the end.

I think systems which eliminate the memory/compute distinction completely, like FPGA but more optimized for throughput, instead of latency, are the way to go.

Imagine if you had a network of machines, that could each handle one layer of an LLM with no memory transfers, your bottleneck would be just getting the data between layers. GPT 4, for example, is likely a 8 separate columns of 120 layers of of 1024^2 parameter matrix multiplies. Assuming infinitely fast compute, you still have to transfer at least 2KB of parameters between layers for every token. Assuming PCI Express 7, at about 200 Gigabytes/second, that's about 100,000,000 tokens/second across all of the computing fabric.

Flowing 13 trillion tokens through that would take 36 hours/epoch.

Doing all of that in one place is impressive. But if you can farm it out, and have a bunch of CPUs and network connections, you're transferring 4k each way for each token from each workstation. It wouldn't be unreasonable to aggregate all of those flows across the internet without the need for anything super fancy. Even if it took a month/epoch, it could keep going for a very long time.
The relationship between Norway and the EU is like the relationship between Canada and the US, except that Norway is way more subservient.

Norway has a system that has been called “fax democracy”, where it has to accept EU laws have supremacy over Norwegian laws, without any veto or democratic representation.

That is not the position of strength from which to launch a sabotage attack on the EU’s largest and most powerful member.

The chances of Canada attacking US infrastructure is zero. The chances of Norway doing the same to Germany is even less.
This is easy with Syncthing. Just create a bindirectional sync and move away the data with cron.
WebRTC (and the various hole-punching techniques listed elsewhere here) have mechanisms to help with most cases of both participants living behind NAT boxes. The remaining cases require some sort of relay that is willing to proxy the connection through the extra-strict NAT layers.

Tor is basically a distributed set of proxy servers, so using onion servers (aka Hidden Services) is a viable, albeit somewhat slow, way to manage even the strict NAT boxes.

If you have Tor installed, then `wormhole send --tor` will automatically use an onion service to do exactly that.
That was Dali as far as I know.
One thing the article doesn't touch on is that Roblox has yet to tap into the China market, where 25% of the world's gaming revenue reside.
The most simple job queue in MySQL:

update job_table set key=value where ... limit 1

It's simple and atomic. Unfortunately PG doesn't allow `update ... limit` syntax
For those that are looking, I have one of these to sell.

Drop me a line or schedule a meet: https://srdjan.pro
Reminds me of git man pages generators. Extremely fun as well when you can't quite tell if it's real.
> When a user buys $30 in Robux, the platform’s virtual currency, Roblox recognizes $30 in bookings. An average of $3 of that $30 is spent on a “consumable” (i.e., a single-user or otherwise perishable good), and so Roblox recognizes that $3 as revenue right away. The remaining $27 is spent on “durable” goods such as an avatar. As an avatar can and often will be used over time, Roblox recognizes this revenue over the average lifetime of a Roblox user

I'm not sure if I'm understanding this point correctly. From my understanding, wouldn't roblox consider their revenue in a given month to be 1/9th of this months purchases + 1/27th of last month's purchases + ...

If so, why would their revenue recognition make them unprofitable? Every month they only realize 1/9th of revenue from that month, but that would be offset by the other 8/9ths of revenue coming from the last 27 months. Wouldn't it just make their recognized revenue a frontloaded rolling average?
I'm referring to companies financial statements where these numbers are reported. It doesn't mean the cash comp isn't high or that a specific job offer won't have a lot of cash comp.

What it does mean is that, in aggregate, Roblox has issued $1B in new shares to employees in the last 12 months, diluting shareholders by 4% or so. This is the most significant factor making the company cash-flow positive while remaining not profitable. It's essentially the same as investors putting more money into the business constantly.
I'm a pretty senior IC at Roblox, and my new hire offer was 40% cash / 60% RSUs. It's now closer to 33/67 with refresher grants.

Roblox pays very competitively (see levels.fyi). The apparent strategy is to try to hire lots of long-tenured L6+ Googlers (seriously, it's crazy how many former Googlers I work with).
If you believe what Wiki says, he has been involved in many of the Google products that have shaped our digital lives in the last 20 years:

> Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and ChromeOS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. In addition, he went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.

That is quite a list. I have not accomplished even 1% as much!
I cannot shake the feeling that this is actually a misfeature that will get people into trouble in new and puzzling ways. The isolated classloaders in Java and the assembly domains in .Net didn't turn out to be very bright ideas and from a software design perspective this is virtually identical.
Cable Cowboy, I'm guessing. Great book!
50+ million daily active users pretty much instantly invalidates that claim (hell, even a million daily actives would have, AAA games dream of these numbers =)

It's not for you and me, we just see a garbage "game", but holy shit is there a large demographic that loves what Roblox gives them.
Manufacturing economies seem to have a generalizable problem with software.
I've also enjoyed the Postmodernism essay generator[1], which uses[2] a recursive transition network[3] to generate the text.

[1]: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ (refresh for new, random essay)

[2]: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2005/11...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_transition_network
Such as stdout or stderr that a log crate would be using?
That's really not the case. Check the wiki page for the top games in 2005. Many of these games are still around in an upgraded form.
River ( https://riverqueue.com ) is a Postgres background job engine written in Go, which also has insert only clients in other languages. Currently we have these for Ruby and Python:

https://github.com/riverqueue/riverqueue-ruby

https://github.com/riverqueue/riverqueue-python
why is it wild? Microsoft keeps 30% of xbox store sales. Apple, Google, MS, etc. play a massive part in attracting users to the platform.
I want to sell a domain, where do I list it?
One way, inbound sms is like 1 out of 100 in distractions, whereas having a phone with internet, social media, bidirectional messaging is 100 out of 100.
This sounds like HSBC’s relationship with drug cartels
I am looking for directories that list domains for sale
SpamAssassin seems to work for me.
well I am definitely to blame though it still makes me sour. When I created the account it was a time when the issue of corporations abusing your information was a hot topic. So when I created the account I was in the mindset that I should not give all my information to any company so I made up my details. So I did not have a real name it was obviously fake and I used a fake birthday. I had all this information but I strongly believe they realized my name was a fake and cut me off. I tried to do the reset link but it never worked. Still to this day I get the occasion email from that account as I did set it up to forward to my gmail. Just yesterday I got an email about verifying my insticart account and it was not me. I am still bothered years later that I was logged out and my password that I am sure i knew did not work. I feel like they forced me to try a reset and when I did it failed. That was my first email. I wish I could get back in. I screwed up with the fake info. I was young. I have given up and don't think there is a fix at this time, it has been years. I have grieved and moved on.
It is able to do this, and it being Ahk, it's also more customizable
The majority of stories aren't that complex.

The overwhelming majority of stories I've found it useful for me to look up on Wikipedia ... tend to be there. Most of these tend toward natural disasters, industrial / infrastructure incidents, business/political news, possibly something in technology or the sciences. Not so much "human interest", celebrities/gossip, entertainment, etc., though I suspect some of those might also find their way to Wikpedia, modulo BLP considerations (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...>).

Wikipedia does not merely regurgitate news, but processes, synthesizes, and very often balances multiple viewpoints.
Financial Scams Against Seniors Surge as Banks Fail to Protect Wealth
“I don’t think you understood Popper at all.”

That’s an interesting way of debating.

I have to admit I’m tempted to grief for your insult but it’s too much of a good day to waste it
What's really exciting is that this suit is the type of thing that will only make the situation worse for smaller apps. More and more rules have been working so well for the Play Store I bet doubling them will really help.
I've overseen the construction of several highway expansions and overpasses, and shouldered only the accusation of being a drive-by manager.
Its based on lights out satellite imagery.
https://archive.ph/f9ytu
In normal English usage this would imply that the LLM was not GPT-4 LLM but some stereotypical anonymous LLM.

In business terms GPT-4 can be said to be superior because it understood the instruction and left, in AI terms the anonymous LLM might be superior because it may have understood the instruction but responded in an "intelligent" manner by arguing about the morality of the instructions.

At a meta-level the joke thus argues that GPT in achieving business ends has had its intelligence hampered. As have we all.

At the same meta-level as the joke was constructed by Claude it can be argued that Claude is commenting on both the intellectual limitations of the Markov chain (insane babblings), and GPT-4 (unimaginative, inhibited business type) and that the best version is some LLM that is not GPT-4 with its limitations - an LLM like Claude. Sneaky Claude.
What would be the point? Where would we send them? What would they do when they get there?

Ask the same question about anything else we send into space.

They can't be more effective telescopes than Hubble since they would be tiny, and it would be impossible to combine the images.

I see nothing impossible about combining the images. Why do you deem it impossible? Further, what does size have to do with it? If I gather 1 metre wide of light from 1000 lenses, and mesh them, is that not better than Hubbles meager, tiny size? Well, I don't know yet. But I do know that I can launch 1000 satellites for under $1M, so maybe it's worth a test.

Another problem is that they are too tiny to send radio back to the Earth.

Huh?! Why on earth so? You can have receivers in orbit. You could have regional radio-only platforms to collect(again, small) and re-transmit. Antennas aren't big bulky things, wire mesh in space can be super light. Most of antenna weight on earth is to support itself.

How would we launch them? SpaceX gets them to Earth orbit.

There are multiple ways to move things from LEO to above. Did you miss the part about how cheap it will be to launch to orbit? LEO is solved, just scale for 1kg payloads, and see how easy it is to get them to escape velocity.

These things will be cheap, flimsy, minimally engineered. The goal is to iterate, and see what works. If 99% of them blow up, malfunction, break on the first try, you improve on the 1% that works for the next time.

Because it's cheap to try!

I feel your not viewing this through the optics of almost-free. Would you levy all these worries and concerns and such, if I was launching paper-folded boats onto a river, to see which survived the best? Because that's what this is. That's how cheap this is.

It would be expensive to get them to rest of Solar System

Why? It's not expensive to get things to orbit, it's cheap. That means everything is cheap, including fuel. Think of the future, not the past.

And in another post, I discussed solar sails, electric methods of propulsion, I have to repeat here.. this is fun, experimental playtime.

Getting them up to speed of this object is beyond our technology.

You think it's impossible to get other objects to the speed we got Voyagers, a 1/2 century ago? This is a strange assertion. Regardless, I simply stipulated "away from earth", as in, the earth/moon system. There are immense advantages to that simple act.

And you're stuck on "hubble". It was an example. There are 1000s of other sensor platforms we can attempt, measuring all manner of things, looking for variations in physical laws, and validating assumptions we have.

The key part here is... there will no longer be a restriction on getting things to space (it used to take YEARS to get a launch window). There will be no cost barrier to getting things to space, none, nada. There will be the opportunity to experiment, cheaply, easily, on whims, instead of decades of research and then an attempt to validate at enormous expense.

Think of the possibilities. Stop thinking of the roadblocks, which often are mired in old-cost, old-launch think.
surely G-code prims must be sortable?
> A camera is a rather limited tool

It's also a very common viewpoint but not true, as there are countless methods in which photographer can prepare for a photo. A quick argument: video is a stream of photographs. Do you think that movies can never capture reality as an artist would ;-)

Today's photography decline and digital method's popularity raise show - iny my opinion - that the trend is stable. Average person practices the most approachable form of art available to them. Shift from painting to photography happened not because it's subjectively better but objectively easier.
There is one big issue with terminal editors that I keep running up against: single font size. One notable place where this is an issue is file listings, being able to have smaller proportional fonts makes a huge difference in usability.

I have switched to Zed, but it sadly shares more in common with vscode than it does vim. I believe the ideal text editor would bring a small amount of GUI to the general idea of one of the popular nvim distros (especially telescope).
There an old "how things are made" video on yt that explains this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqT4DuAVxs
A 300-word answer isn't 20x more intelligent than a 15-word one. I think Walter said all that needs to be said, and more economically than you did.
It's easy to accidentally ship a minimum version requirement that is out of date when you also consistently use lock files pinned to newer versions. The code may silently depend on something introduced in a newer version pulled in by the lock file.
was it instructed to insult Mark Twain? Because otherwise, I take exception.
It could be their active user count is increasing very fast and that is eating the rolling revenues via infra costs, customer acquisition costs, perhaps they are subventing that growth in other ways like discounts to get players into the paying segments etc.
You can also see an iPhone held up on some which wouldn’t show up if it were all drawn by eye. So a photo was taken, printed, and then this was traced— which is still impressive it’s just a technique. The great renaissance artists used camera obscura.
> The real problem here is that we're expecting Google to do this instead of law enforcement. Is there a scammer? Arrest them.

That would be ideal, but getting 195 countries on the same page on cybercrime just isn't going to happen. As it is we have multiple countries where the government actively sponsors internet scammers.
I’m surprised that Roblox haven’t done what Amazon did with Kindle books. They just stopped book purchases through Kindle iOS app.

At this point it’s safe to assume Roblox is as popular as Apple so they don’t have the problem of discovery. Distribution yes for which they can pay the listing price.
Curious, why is Roblox in violation of Apple's App store policies?