skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Automate HR.

I'm serious. Company of 50 that I run, with a bunch of other subsidiaries that employee around 350 people altogether. We have a central admin team (who handle general administrative duties) with a very strong set of internal tooling also augmented by some rudimentary crud UIs and AI. It's magical because we never had to use recruiters to hire and everything runs automated/semiautomated. I'm honestly considering spinning this process out as a way for companies to outsource and minify their HR processes, and surprisingly I've received some very strong interest from some equally sized companies (100-300 employee teams).

HR is a wasteful expenditure pushed by the likes of thinkers who've never worked an actual day in their lives. If there's one culture any company must follow, it's simply one of Prussian-style discipline (which can by definition take many forms).
same with all social media today cliche songs/cliche posts /ragebait stuff / annoying laughing sound effects
Everyone should probably consume less news but what is happening in the US right now will have a dramatic effect on our northern neighbors so I don't think being informed on the happenings is the worst idea
No idea either — but humans tend to exchange less blood than deer (via thickets of ticks).
Please, avoid X links
It's quite literally our main export partner. Entire industries in Canada (Airplanes, cars, wood) live and die by US policy.
Trip down memory lane touching several points in my career. Rip /.
I agree it's not first level fun.

And on your ceramics point. That sounds like hell to me too. But maybe that's why neither of us make pots.
oh wow. I have become fond of pidgin over the years. There is a slack plugin that makes life a lot better. It seems for plugins, extensions, app stores, and general third-party repositories (pip, npm, crates, etc) risks are increasing. Centralization breeds certain risks that are tough to mitigate. So far, mitigating these risks involve trusting a central steward, cryptographic signing, and contributor reputation.I wonder if we can ever truly mitigate the contributor or steward aspects?
Their numbers are for a single input, I assume the throughput is much higher given the prices they are quoting and the cost of a single cs3.
on the other hand internal teams are not exactly known for their amazing inventiveness and daring bets that then make bank.
just mount the whole root fs as a volume? or use bwrap or crun or runc to run your OCI bundle. Sadly the latter tools have some warts for this purpose...
interesting! is there a way to fine tune the trained experts, say, by adding new ones? would be super cool!
I have no idea what "a military conflict between what would become Western Canada and what used to be Upper Canada" refers to unless you meant the northwest and Red River rebellions, in which case it really stretches my (anglo) mind how that has more to do with Quebec separatism than any of the other grievances.
There's a Place for Everyone
I completely agree, filling oceans/seas with noise seems like a good recipe to further stress marine ecosystems
Boeing, even without the military connection, is one of the more important companies in the US for exports. They are also too big to fail. It's very much in the national interest for them to right the ship. The same is true of Intel. Their domestic fabs are -very- important to NatSec.
Ya, as I write in my article, I'm very on board with the "change the curriculum to make more sense" project. I just want to be talking about how to do it in a critical way, rather than just going with the GA way, which requires, in my opinion, a lot of justification that I haven't seen.
This is the thing about software: even if you aren't looking to improve it, the world around it will subtly shift so it'll need to be updated or it'll stop working.

For example, Windows XP can't access the modern internet because it doesn't support TLS 1.2 or 1.3 and most of the web is now secure. The software still exists, but the world around it has shifted so it doesn't really work. If 95% of people end up owning electric cars, gas stations are going to become scarce. Maybe there will be workarounds, but the world will have shifted around the product. Let's say that all gas pumps were changed to wider-nozzle pumps. Sure, you could make an adapter, but that's the point: changes in the world around you end up necessitating changes, workarounds, etc.

It might be mostly read-only, but there's always little possible things that come up requiring work to be done on it.
It's sad that Bill Hicks isn't alive so he could tweak his "Marketers" rant towards HR.
Based on how Xamarin performed prior to the MS acquisition, I'd guess dead.

The license cost was high, and the MS acquisition came right around the time React Native and Flutter started to enter v1. I think they'd of been blown out of the water pretty quickly. At least Microsoft allowed Xamarin to get into enterprise .NET shops pretty quickly. There's a lot of B2B form based apps written in Xamarin. I worked on a pretty big one that made (and continues to make) a lot of money.

I've long assumed the point of the acquisition was because Xamarin did basically all the hard work of allowing .NET to be cross platform.
> Some people compare the immune system to a muscle

To reiterate something from a recent discussion on air purifiers [0], if your body is a civilization of cells then activating the adaptive immune system is like unleashing Skynet [1] to stop a potential zombie apocalypse.

Even if Skynet reliably wins, you're losing at least a few cities as glowing craters, and each time you're rolling the dice hoping that not too many of the murder-bots go rogue before you can make them self-destruct or go back into storage. You definitely do not want to slam that big red button just because of one police report of a human biting another human, or a report that a bunch of people with green skin are marching down the road, etc.

As we studying the adaptive immune system, we keep discovering safety-interlocks and subtle feedback loops, which presumably evolved because our relatives without them simply tore themselves apart a bit too often.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347868#41348890

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
in particular it appears that they only implement data parallel DP - at 1.2B you can fit full copy of model into memory, but larger models require splitting the weights across multiple machines (different techniques eg distributed data parallel DDP, tensor parallel TP, pipeline parallel TP, ...)

without more details it's unclear if the proposed technique keeps its speedups in that case
That is accurate. 10x population.
> Instead, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — who flew up on the troubled capsule — will get a ride on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon in February.

That's...a long way away.
> On a philosophical level, I think it plainly evil that, even after I've paid such high taxes to fund everyone else's treatment, and then after the government refuses to provide me with adequate healthcare, after already paying for services not received, they then make it illegal to use whatever money I have left to provide basic healthcare to myself and my family.

The evil part seems to be where they bilk you out of your tax dollars a few steps up the chain.
Please, avoid X links, I do not have an account there and they do not allow me to view.
I like the concept! I don't like the wall of text. It's hard to concentrate / parse what's in the text box. Keep working on it, it has potential.
A modern example that is easy to visualize (unlike internal parasites) might be head-lice: There's a reason powdered wigs were very popular a few hundred years ago.
> Facebook

> Reddit

> StackOverflow

> Twitter Community Notes

These are all examples of vertically integrated corporate-run centralized platforms and therefore have inherently unilateral centralized moderation with the same sets of legal requirements regarding alignment of policies and enforcement. They are all the same model, effectively.

> Who makes the ultimate call on whether it be Russian disinformation or COVID-19?

Nobody. Hopefully.

There are moderation models which do not have these restrictions but they are inherently incompatible with these platforms.

The fediverse (ActivityPub/Mastodon/Threads/etc) is one example of a different model. I personally think it's obvious this is not a complete answer, easily observed by drama-driven defederation politics.

We need to be exploring and adopting improved moderation mechanisms and tools for networks like Nostr, BlueSky, Matrix, and keep do the same for the infrastructure layer.

Couple the recent UN convention against cybercrime[0] and the EU "SecEUrity Package"[1] with the arrest of Pavel Durov and I hope some of you reading this will wake up to the shift in relevance and urgency of the topics of decentralization and more serious use of E2EE and signatures. This includes taking a critical look at the TLS layer, PKI, and the roles of companies like CloudFlare and Akamai. I'd say a thing or two about the intertwined constriction of the financial rails, deprecation of cash, and the relevance of cryptocurrency... But let's keep that at that.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41211976
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/effs-concerns-about-un...

[1]: https://www.statewatch.org/news/2024/july/police-should-have...
It's long been believed that an ACL rupture requires surgery as the ligament does not have sufficient blood flow to repair on its own. But then a recent study showed that in a significant percentage of people who suffer ACL ruptures and elect not to have surgery the ligament eventually repairs itself on its own.
Why is this t regretful to stop misinformation? I don’t get it, is he hedging against a trump win this election?
does Kani count?

https://github.com/model-checking/kani
https://nitter.poast.org/emergetools/status/1828490449881047... Here's a link that can be actually viewed.
> Traditional taxi services haven’t needed this feature, why does Lyft?

Oh, but traditional taxis did have this feature. If your skin was the wrong color or you wanted the taxi to go to the wrong part of town, you were out of luck. This was one of the reasons why so many people liked ridesharing over taxis.

And now we have "Discrimination as a Service" announced in a press release.

Thus, we come back to the start of the full circle.
> Japan has very low wages... so inflation is catastrophic

Wages increase with government spending (and inflation), unless productivity falls a lot or there's a huge wealth transfer from labor to capital. When the government prints a bunch of money and uses it to purchase a bunch of rice from Japanese farmers, that money ends up as higher wages for farmers and their supply chain, and this in turn circulates throughout the economy, as one farmer's spending is another retail worker's wages.

This doesn't help retirees of course, who aren't earning any more, but the government can choose to hand them more money too if necessary; inflation-indexed pensions are a policy choice. (Although I would say that they should be handing more money to young children, in the custody of their parents).
But the article isn’t implying that. In fact it explicitly says that helminths can be dangerous.
.Net SRE here, all our .Net REST APIs are deployed on Kubernetes. Devs are still mostly on Windows because Visual Studio.

I've worked with Azure team, all greenfield they do for Azure goes on Linux as well. Windows Server is pretty much dead to Microsoft though it will be continue to be supported and released because $$$.
Exponential Growth Bias – Why Making Up for Lost Time Is Hard
"So what are you basing your views on that new nuclear has to or should be part of the mix?"

My position is that nuclear energy should be part of the mix.

That said, I've struggled for years before arriving at that position. I say that as someone who once worked on the surveillance side of nuclear energy, my job was (as part of a team) to ensure that nuclear power plants/industry were safe and that nuclear materials were safely secured and not diverted for nefarious purposes.

It is just not possible for me to fully justify my position here as it would require a full-length blog to do so. I will say however that my above comment was based on a number of factors, the first is that despite some recent progress in fusion it won't be a viable option for decades. Second, the demand for power is increasing exponentially, as I've mentioned elsewhere (_ph_), we've been perpetually on the edge of just having enough power with precious little in reserve for many decades when in fact we really need much more energy than we have now (unfortunately, again, I cannot do full justice to that point here).

Third, this story—at least at face value—shows how nuclear reactors could be installed safety and quickly and at a significantly lower cost than traditional above-ground ones.

I'd suggest you watch Sabine Hossenfelder's YouTube post on the problems and high costs of constructing of nuclear power plants in the present political climate. Essentially, I agree with her position but I'd point out that her video was made before this 'underground' proposal (personally, I've held the view for years that deeply-buried nuclear plants—if constructed property and with safety in mind—would be a pretty good solution in respect of all three key factors: cost, safety and speed of construction: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5EsBiC9HjyQ.
There were certainly attempts to suppress it such as the Proximal Origins paper. And the public "We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories" letter where privately the were saying it was "so friggin likely". The reasons do seem kind of political, though more to cover up establishment cock ups and not upset the Chinese than a left right thing.

Even today Wikipedia says "explanations, such as speculations that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a laboratory have been proposed, such explanations are not supported by evidence." But if you look at the actual evidence it was almost certainly a lab leak.
Which defense projects is Boeing lacking on?

If anything, it seems their defense projects are the most competent side of present-day Boeing.
Rare earths are used in the production of solar panels and wind turbines and the associated electronics and storage batteries. The point is that if you're concerned about "low-level waste" then you can't propose these things as an alternative since they generate even more of it.
I use to get the flu 1 or 2 times a year. I started going out in more crowded areas, going to pub, etc, and I haven't had a cold or flu in 4 years.

I don't know the article knows as much as they think they do about health, because using muscles also damages them. I been nursing a bicep injury for the last 4 months.

I get its not a prefect analogy, but nothing is, else it would be the same thing

I don't think people should go licking railings, but total avoidance of germs is quite harmful. that's a fact.
I don’t understand why those who praise space-x also take the time to bad mouth nasa. They are basically teammates here. Space-x has done some great things (kudos to Shotwell) but they did it on the shoulders of nasa and government funding, and that’s ok too.
Since SpaceX is a private company, neither of us knows how much SpaceX spent internally on their fixed-price contract.

What we do know is that NASA awarded contracts to both companies in 2010. Crew Dragon worked perfectly on their first crewed flight in 2020, and has taken astronauts to ISS half a dozen times.

NASA paid SpaceX the originally agreed amount of $3.1 billion for six flights, and SpaceX seems happy to continue the arrangement. Boeing has spent $6.7 billion so far.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/boeing-warns-of-more-f...
No, they're not sure, which is why they're not putting people on it.

It cannot currently get back on its own, but the capability exists. It's a software fix. They will try, which might even work. If it does it might even salvage the project. If it doesn't...
I literally just have a single text document called todo.md that I write the date and what I want to do in it and then cross it out when im done.

its good for remember what I was working on yesterday to keep a smooth continuitity. Helps me get 'back on task' quick.

Its seriously just a single document with like 5 bullet points in it each day. I barely ever scroll down. Latest day is always at the top.
Hard to argue that Musk isn't far right at this point, and the other two are
right-leaning opportunists.
in a nutshell, this is why men dropped out and stopped talking to women at all
Works extremely well. Just don't expect to do version soup of random versions of everything. nixpkgs provides one of each that are chosen and known to work together.
Boeing shareholders haven't earned a proper return in half a decade, but the idiots kept voting in the same blockhead of a CEO. Serves 'em right.

Shareholders are almost always best served by a product-first CEO who maximizes the long-term value proposition of the company.
Had the same instant turn off.
I hope they don't cancel, instead, identify how to make things better. Iterate, learn, improve.
Hard to say, but this could need a larger staff.

The physical bit of reactor where the fission happens is left alone in operation. All the pipes, steam turbines, pumps, plumbing, cooling towers, etc etc do and this wants all of that on the surface.
> SpaceX has had the same exact cost overruns as Boeing....

Why do you believe this is the case?
I think their ad placement is even better than their pricing.

API Result:

GET https://api.isevenapi.xyz/api/iseven/6/

{"ad":"Buy isEvenCoin, the hottest new cryptocurrency!","iseven":true}
What if someone did not have the physical strength to become a champion cyclist/baseball player, but found a medicinal way to overcome their limitations and achieve peak performance in their field? We've already come to a decisive conclusion on this; steroids are banned in most sporting competitions. Just as cheats are in online games. Just because someone does not have the pure physical ability to compete at the highest level does not give them leeway to cheat.
Degenerate gambler, graphomaniac, and a pedophile--what a list.

btw, there are likely more HP books sold then all books by all these authors combined.
> to a group that seldom votes

Seniors and church-goers? Citation needed.

> He was just trying to convince them that this election matters most.

Sure. And he said he was going to "act as a dictator from day 1" (after saying repeatedly that "America could benefit from a dictatorship" and praising what other dictators "have been able to do for their country") for what reason? He said he'd terminate the constitution. The guy who just got indicted again for his BS on and around Jan 6.

Really, he just means "I'll fix the country so well, and there will be so much love, that people will be happy to keep voting us back in".

I don't think he'll succeed. I don't think he'll be elected. But if you think there's not a part of Trump that wants to be President For Life, and will if he thinks he can get away with it, then ... you haven't been listening to him.
SpaceX values meritocracy first and foremost. Boeing, not so much. One of these companies has a very bright future.
I read the article. I think that though it is relatively short, it isn't shallow, and certainly isn't clickbait. They also point to the paper the article draws from if you want more.

>> ... it’s very possible there’s more governing army ant behavior than two simple rules.

>Then don't say otherwise in the title!

The title constrains the rules to those dictating bridge building, whereas the quoted caveat above is more general.
>but it strangely does not support Linux.

Support reasons. Still isn't the year of Linux Desktop.
Exactly, anecdotes, with a healthy portion of the Availability and Confirmation Heuristics.

We already know that women are more susceptible to auto-immune responses and that pregnancy is one of the reasons for that disparity between the sexes (carrying a foreign invader for 9 months plays with the expression of immunity genes in a manner that occasionally - rarely, at a population level - backfires.) And we know that the risk for an autoimmune "malfunction" rises with age. Thus there will obviously be random clusters of people, with more women who've given birth and and average age that skews older than, say, 30 - to which you unfortunately seem to belong - where there are more autoimmune responses than the average population.

What's funny is that in response to this post there are multiple posts each suggesting their own conspiracy. I wonder if this actually points to something, or it too is a just random noise.
Indeed. Not just other countries, either. Here in America we need to stop being hyper-fixated on the news cycle too. It's extremely unhealthy.
Maybe a breeder reactor would still be built to burn all this "waste" which is 90% fuel. Nuclear fission energy can become way cleaner when the political logjam around extracting and burning plutonium is unclogged.
Why should their agreement with Steinberg factor into this?

There is no need to maintain the auth server just make the one-time cost of removing the requirement of the auth server.

As for this particular EULA, if the publisher stops selling the software, they shouldn't be able to revoke existing licenses based on it. The license was granted in exchange for a fee, creating an expectation that the software could be used indefinitely under the agreed terms. Their EULA specifies that revocation is linked to breaches by the licensee, not the publisher's business decisions.

Their EULA lacks any clause that allows revocation simply because the software is no longer sold. Revoking a license under these circumstances would remove their right to use a product they legally purchased, which is a violation of their consumer rights. The publisher's decision to withdraw the software from the market shouldn’t negate the licensee's ability to continue using it as originally intended.

Software being remotely authorized is an implementation detail not a contractual one. It literally doesn't matter. It's their job to allow software legally purchased to continue to function however they are able to do it.
They absolutely have, Windows, Android and Apples platforms all have the concept of "secure" framebuffers which appear as black rectangles if you attempt to screenshot or record them. Netflix and similar will only serve you high res video if your system supports that protection amongst others, otherwise they'll restrict you to something like 720p.