skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now there is an enormous surge in applicant demand.

Talent teams face the challenging task of handling high-volume inbound channels, while maintaining an excellent candidate experience, and dedicating time to high-value recruiting activities.

So I'm working on Hirevire(https://hirevire.com/) to help automate the screening rounds so that talent teams can spend time interviewing only the best candidates.
Let's say I want to use the model outlined in the "File Storage" example. I set up and populate my permission DB accordingly with file permissions, organization and group assignments, etc. I also have an index filled with metadata related to the files that users have uploaded to my service and not just one, but two 500 GB laptop hard drives dedicated to file storage.

User "A" comes along and searches for files matching "ragtime". I can ask the permission DB to return the ID of 1499 files "A" has (directly or indirectly) access to, and also run a free-text search to return cca. 195700 files with a title, description or indexed content that matches "ragtime". But what happens next? Can I return an accurate search hit count or filtered result set to the user from his limited access-point of view? Do I need to move metadata into the permission database to do so?
New readers of John Cook may not know this: his posts are pedagogical, often are illustrating the gist of the idea or message, not including all the details or the optimal analysis. This post mentioned the motivation too.

Also, he is a consultant, and this blog generates interests of that. He often works in clients’ data and perform EDA and provides solutions, such as statistical reasoning or methods. Ie while he write codes, it’s often not for production. He points people in the right direction so to speak.
I think you need to work on the pitch a bit and probably tone it down. Multiplying the promises under "Skills and Insights You'll Acquire" with "Who This Book Is For" just seem wildly unrealistic for one book and an oversell.

I get the vibe of a "become a 10x developer from scratch and land a rock star job in a month" bootcamp. 2/3 of your audience are likely to have seen enough of this already to be turned off. Meanwhile, perhaps some more junior will be intimidated and say "not yet" by the supposed advanced level (the material is also targeting people 10-20 years ahead in their careers after all...)

If you write another book in the future, I'd suggest splitting it into a couple more focused ones, rather than trying to cover all these dimensions for all seniority levels at the same time.
B2B e-commerce, I mostly have partnerships with small POS companies that don't have a diy e-commerce solution.
I'm not going to try to recap all of that, but, as an example, if you have a sufficiently strong understanding of arithmetic, learning basic modular arithmetic should be effortless, pigeonhole principle completely obvious.

I was quite surprised when I tried applying for a Microsoft internship in uni and they gave me a question on the pigeon-hole principle.
I haven't personally used Zed AI yet
Boeing BDS is a different org from Boeing Commercial.

Unlike Commercial, Boeing has competition from established players like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, and RTX as well as rising players like SpaceX, Andruil, Shield AI, etc.

Ther merger with McDonnell Douglas was the death knell for BDS because at the time, commercial dealflow was significantly greater than defense and space, leading to greater prioritization of commercial, and McDonnell Douglas had a history of management issues.
Working on an open mouth animatronic you can prop on a desk or hang on a wall.
It's almost as if the management is so wealthy that it can retire now with no downsides and thus has no interest in building portfolio for their next job/company.
...or if there is meaningful competition. Sadly no other product has been able to actually replace Twitter so far.
Search in Windows is THE indicator of how poorly Microsoft has maintained their core operating system, IMO.

What could be more significant over the last 20 years than "search", and where does there exist a worst implementation of it in a major piece of software?

Everything really puts a spotlight on this with how simple and effective it is.
The solar day varies in length by more than a minute over the year. That doesn't correspond to a well-defined time zone. Also, "zone" implies a geographical area, which meridians arguably aren't.
Yeah, that's the kind of use case I want to make easy!

One of the tricky parts when working with ~100 colors is how you can easily tell the tool which pairs should always contrast so it can check them automatically, instead of you having to keep selecting pairs to check.

It's simple right now though to make all colors of the same grade have the same lightness so you get easy to remember contrast guarantees e.g. green-700 will have WCAG AA contrast on grey-100, and the same for any 700 (or above) vs 100 (or below) pairing.
Have never heard of it, but seems like it should solve that
financialpanda.pl
I've been working on an exercise database, using ChatGPT. I got a list of all the interesting exercise qualities, then I turned those into measurable data fields, and now I'm organizing the 600+ fields. The goal is to build the ultimate exercise database with 50K+ exercises.

But lately I took a break and worked on running (GPX run file analysis) and habit tracking. The eventual goal is to package it all together into one integrated PWA / mobile app.
Telegram staff are all living in Russia, this is not even a secret.
are you going to cover the whole process end to end, from my cash to my friends cash assuming neither of us have a crypto wallet yet?

what about transfer fees?

all in all this is way to complex for the average person and inaccessible for many.

in some countries mobile money accounts come with every phone number, and you can transfer micropayments from one number to another even across networks and even internationally. and you don't even need a smartphone. any feature phone that can send USSD codes will work. that is a working micropayment system accessible to anyone who can afford at least a feature phone.
Well I’m saying it’s barely better than traditional photographs
> Currently all LLMs are only determining the most probable next token, but this means they are not aware of the probability of the entire sequence of tokens they are emitting. That is, they can only build sentences by picking the most probable next word, but can never choose the most probable sentence

They're normally trained to output a probability distribution for the next token and _sample_ from that distribution. Doing so iteratively, if you work through the conditional probabilities, samples from the distribution of completed prompts (or similarly if you want to stop at a single sentence) with the same distribution as the base training data.

You're right that you can't pick the most likely sentence in general, but if there exists a sentence likely enough for you to care then you can just repeat the prompt a few times and take the most common output, adjusting the repetition count in line with your desired probability of failure. Most prompts don't have a "most likely" sentence for you to care about though. If you ask for meal suggestions with some context, you almost certainly want a different response each time, and the thing that matters is that the distribution of those responses is "good." LLMs, by design, can accomplish that so long as the training data has enough information and the task requires at most a small, bounded amount of computation.
Piling on the "Do the Physical Therapy" train, I had this done 2 years ago, did the PT work and now back 100%. It's a pain (literally and figuratively) but future you will be super happy current you did the work. Look into chair yoga, it will help you keep all of the other bits stretched out. Good luck!
It is a massive failure and also very public. Some flight booking websites now allow you to filter for non-boeing flights. Sure, Boeing can take a lot of hits due to its size, but damage accumulates, trust erodes and a tipping point could be reached somewhere. It's similar to how countries collapse in a war: First not at all, then very fast.
Neither Nvidia nor Apple have access to a spigot of unconditional cash. Their customers are quite discerning and have alternatives they could switch to.
C64 RAD Doom – What I have been tinkering with [video]
I wish we didn’t think of understanding math as being smart or dumb. Like, it was a singular ability. Math is a subject deep, wide, and rich of ideas as well as results. For me, learning and understanding new concepts and results is like discovering new mountains and trying to ascend them. I won’t be able to ascend most, but I can certainly sit back and appreciate and enjoy their magnificence.
This security theater around supply chain security is getting ridiculous.

What we need is true supply chain security, but no one is willing to pay for that; it would mean paying FOSS projects, and companies don't want to pay for their "free" software.
In a democracy two wolves and a sheep discuss what is for dinner.
The VW Beetle evokes memories of years gone by
More context: Airbus has beaten Boeing in orders and deliveries for 5 straight years [1]. Boeing does have a protected market because of the 737 type rating for airlines like Southwest but as we saw with the 737MAX, that comes at a cost.

This is deeply embarrassing for Boeing. Their internal woes have bubbled to the surface and have started to affect planning, budgeting and delivery. This was for something designed to carry humans too. How much will Boeing have to do to repair their reputation and restore confidence in Starliner specifically but also their commercial spaceflight divisions in general?

Compare this to SpaceX where the Falcon 9's recent incident broke a streak of over 400 successful launches. Falcon 9 is now the most successful and reliable launch platform and its also one of the cheapest.

The Falcon 9 is really the Boeing 747 of space at this point.

SpaceX has its own issues with delivering on time. Crew Dragon was late. Starship is behind schedule and (IIRC) over cost. But these issues just pale into comparison to Boeing's issues.

[1]: https://archive.is/nzjKQ
Working on making my first personal website since I was about 16; not totally sure how to get the balance of personal and professional down fully but I feel like it's going to be very good at encouraging me to refine my side project experiments instead of just dumping them on github and maybe posting them here.

Will probably try to self-host because why not.

Also doing my first Java based project since school; surprised how okay it's been going so far.
Has there been any change in Boeing management (which is what led to the mess they are in)?
good idea!

feature idea- you can see the reading progress of everyone in the group to sort of apply some passive social pressure to catch up if you're behind

then again, not everyone might be willing to do this since the book club might not all be about actually reading the book for them
Great concept. Where can I find more info?

And out of curiosity, how did you decide on 55 seats?
I've been using devdocs.io for ruby and rails api docs.
WebForge IDE - develop for the web on iOS.

Rich text editor, run PHP and NodeJS on device, manage Git repos, and view your projects in a built-in browser that includes dev tools.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webforge-ide/id6450872424
Its privately held, would depend what Musk wants out of it, would he want profit above all else, this is doubtful. There's a case to be made for economies of scale, the long term opportunities this presents for mars etc.
> claim that cats (of all animals!) should stay at home at all costs. that's also weird. But these are mostly internet people, I've never found one in real life...

I’m one of these people. I swear I’m not just an internet person. Most of my friends who own cats also have these views as well.

Cats are incredibly efficient killers and live a considerably shorter life when given unsupervised access outdoors. Just because it’s natural for them doesn’t mean it’s good for them or their environment. Cats can live perfectly happy lives indoors, if taken care of properly. This isn’t weird. What’s weird is what’s normal.
And consistent power is not what the market wants. It wants dispatchable power.

But it is clear that you know where such a calculation will end up in terms of costs for consumers which is why you don’t want to do it.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/energy-...

For every passing year the periods of time where nuclear power plants are forced off the grid because they are too expensive will become longer.

That is for existing paid off nuclear plants, new builds are simply ludicrously expensive today.
There was a period of roughly a year where SpaceX was the only medium lift rocket in the Western world with available payload capacity. ULA was in between Atlas V and Vulcan, ArianeSpace was between Ariane 5 and 6, with both upcoming rockets fully booked for a while. It was to the point that Europe had to book launches with SpaceX, and SpaceX did not take advantage of their monopoly.

They aren't just doing the bare minimum to be cheaper and better (as would be the way to go if they were trying to just be better than Boeing). Right now, SpaceX has launched the majority of the global mass to orbit this year and has done most rocket launches this year. SpaceX has flown 83 times, an unprecedented rate of a launch on average every ~3 days, ULA has flown 4 times, SLS (and for that matter Starliner also) will probably not fly again until 2026.

It's laughable to suggest that Boeing is even competing, let alone applying price pressure.
Oh, right, good point )) I should take the rest of the day off.
The paper's section 5.1 (“Usage at Google”) and its Figure 4 (page 9) shows the usage growing steadily, “despite limited documentation and incomplete tooling” — of course 1600 users is still small relative to the number of SQL users at Google, and it's possible the growth will plateau at some point, but I for one adopted pipe syntax the very day I saw it (even sent an excited email to their mailing list), and have been using it ever since. As it's an extension, it's always possible to use regular SQL for parts of the same query (copying others' queries etc), but often I find myself rewriting queries into pipe SQL and find it significantly simplifies them (CTEs can be removed, etc).
Looks terrible. Very sad.
Citation extremely needed.

I have worked at 20+ companies and the ones that had little to no security got ransomwared at LEAST yearly (with 50m+ in revenues) and the ones that had basic and standard security practices got zero network wide intrusions (at least at lower then say, a nation state level.)

Now, COULD they have been exploited with an 0day? Sure, in theory these networks could be both exploited with the same technology or by a dedicated actor likely without an issue - they're internet connected corporate networks mostly with probably out of date tech; and in practice most attacks corporations need to mitigate are the drive by trash that consumers also face.
In the unlikely case that you actually have a static sbin and not just a symlink you could hack together a one-liner using file or objdump to check headers and set correct perms... but considering that everything in the dir should be either an executable or a directory, chmod a+x would work just as well.

If /usr/bin isn't a symlink to /bin or vice-versa, then you should have tools there to do the same thing.

If you somehow still have a working C compiler (or access to another language that can do syscalls or has C bindings), it's pretty easy to write a wrapper for the syscall.

If there's an rsync daemon, nfs share, etc. running, you can copy over a static busybox and fix the system that way.

If you're allowed to take the system down, it's really easy - just boot up a live image and change the permissions.
Schindler’s List. Many times.
Anchorman,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
Donnie Darko
SpaceX has a bunch of ulterior motives for its owner.

Loss of a competitor might change its pricing structure, but they want success for reasons that go beyond extracting money.
I don't know if such analysis really applies here. It's hardly a normal marketplace. Boeing and SpaceX has received billions and billions from the US government and will continue to do so because it is in the US military's best interest for them to exist.
>>have a bunch of e-scooter 18650 battery packs

Where get?

There is a guy that rides the trail near me thats riding an ebike with a triangular battery pack that looks identical to one some HNer built here - He's too fast and I havent been able to stop him.

Another question for the DIY e-bik crowd, is what kind of OTS motor could one harvest, like a motor from an electric lawm mower, or edger, weed-wacker? Are there power tools where the electric motor is useable? (like how people originally used mower engines in goKarts and such?

Also, for fireproofing - mix Powdered Aerogel into a Silicon Slurry and dip the battery in that - the silicon and aerogel will make a heat sleeve thats quite fire resistant.
I find myself reading technical docs on my phone all the time. I'm often out on a walk or shopping or whatever while thinking over a plan for a project, and when I have an idea that seems like it'd work I'll go look at the docs to make sure I'm not missing something.

They clearly wanted to support mobile (otherwise the hamburger menu is unforgivable) and already spent time making it partially work, but it looks like they just bailed out early before going the final 1% of the way to it looking polished (see a sibling's two-line fix [0]).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41346674
I'm working on my personal website (https://dmilicic.com) and the accompanying blog post about it.

I decided it was time to have a personal website as a software contractor and brand myself online as the state of IT is still uncertain.
In that sense, extrapolation should never be used in “production”. At best it is for exploration.

One characteristics of ML is that this distinction often is not clear. (Hallucination, generalization, etc.)
When I was a kid I apparently watched Ghostbusters every day. It was on a stolen rental that had the 2nd movie on after it, but my mother always stopped the video after the first and then would ask if I wanted to watch number 2 the next day, sometimes I did, but I always watched the first. When I realised how the tape player/tape worked and learned to read the box, I would watch them back to back. I think this was between the ages of 3 and 5 and it slowed down to weekly, fortnightly etc. I've probably seen the first movie over 1000 times, know every line and musical jingle.

I tend not to rewatch things anymore, maybe after 5 or 6 years if I really like something, usually with someone who hasn't seen it so I can share it with them.

Oddly enough I have absolutely no love for any further Ghostbusters sequels or the video games. As I said, I'm overly familiar with the first movie, I don't want to hear the same music I associate specifically with the Sedgewick Hotel playing during some other scene, or hear the same quotes or even see the same actors 50 years older. I want something new of the same quality and flavour of the era, which is pretty much impossible at this point in history.
The themes, attitudes and imagery of the movie greatly influenced my interests and development as I grew up, even down to the clothes I wear today.
I would be curious to know if you think what you’re saying is niche or not. Not arguing or doubting but it seems foreign against my experience.

> Are you certain you've tagged everything as UPROPERTY/UCLASS/USTRUCT that needs to be?

Pretty much everything seems to need this?

> Are you definitely always capturing your UObject pointers correctly?

Idk what this means

> Are you definitely never using UObjects outside the game thread?

Just… don’t? The engine is not safe for multi threaded operations on game state. Why would this come up?

> Is your TSharedPtr structure acyclic?

Idk what this means

> Are you certain they're all getting cleaned up?

Like garbage collected? I haven’t run into anything on that…?

> Have you tagged each one with the correct multithreading mode?

Why would you be doing significant multi threading?
> this pipeline syntax to be mixed with regular compositional forms like CTEs and subqueries?

Yes, it's an extension (available by default), which means you can freely mix with regular SQL and use pipes for just parts of your query.

https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/2024.08.2/docs/pipe-s...

> Pipe syntax can be mixed with standard syntax in the same query. For example, subqueries can use different syntax from the parent query.
Boeing has been mismanaged for decades, but they're a juggernaut so it has taken a long time for the cracks to start showing in such an obvious manner.
From the press conference yesterday, it seems pretty clear that the only reason NASA keeps Boeing around is for this very reason, making sure there is competition.
I did an early project with only #ffffff, #000000, #ff0000, etc because I thought those were the most “pure” colors. It looked freaking awful.

The best colors are ones that are subtly off of pure white and pure black; to the point where you can’t even tell. My website uses #191919, which you can’t consciously tell isn’t black, but looks better for it.

=> https://matthiasportzel.com

Print’s a different beast. I used the same concepts to design my business cards and they looked washed out using off-black. Paper reflects environmental light (instead of emitting its own light) so you can crack the contrast as high as you want and the end result won’t be pure black on pure white.
I am working on an app for creating stories with illustrations in a revealjs slide deck.

The idea is that a user would handwrite or type the first sentence of a story they want to write. This sentence would be used by llama 3.1 as a prompt to make a short story. Then the story is fed to stable diffusion to create image illustrations. Finally, all of it is combined into a slide deck that users can see in the app and also download if they want.

I am using Shiny and Quarto for this project.
I love how the multiple hydrogen explosions when the reactors were going through uncontrolled meltdowns in Fukushima now are “negligible issues”.

Everything to frame nuclear in a positive light.
Considering how long free electron lasers have to be for the wigglers to work, I'd imagine so. But if you can get electrons to oscillate fast enough in a small enough distance, hit me up.
That's one extreme example, Assange has literally leaked the raw footage and names of operatives.

Plenty of people speak out and oppose the government in the US and have for a long time, all without going to jail. In Russia opposition leaders are jailed and die. Even ordinary citizens are jailed for speaking publicly.

The US has also gone through several transfers of power replacing the head of state.
Working on an audio watermarking system.

I've got the API ready, which requires 2 main values:
- The original file ( which can be sent as a file, or hosted internally and requested using an ID )
- The data that needs to be printed into the audio file.

The API will return a watermarked version of the audio file that you can use later to extract the same data you sent before.

It's currently being tested on a production website, will wait for feedback, improve, and create an actual service out of the API.
SpaceX technology and logistics have increased dollars-to-delta-V efficiency so much that they are benefiting from Jevons Paradox[0], with orbital launch demand skyrocketing (heh) due to a step change in cost.

Even if competitors disappeared, the profit-maximizing price level is unlikely to rise much, as that would choke out a whole emerging sector of launch buyers whose businesses only make sense at a certain $/kg-to-LEO level.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox