skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A close friend of mine was an associate of Mr Beast, even living in his house in Greenville for several months. He confirmed a lot of the negative press about him in the media, and was himself ultimately screwed over by Jimmy and has been trying to get recompense for years.

MrBeast has always been clear that his goal is to make the best videos in the world. Not to be the most nurturing place to work, or the most philanthropically minded. This document makes that clear. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that in becoming the best in the world at youtube, he's had to become an extremely toxic individual.
What's the churn with docker? You don't have to update your docker files if you don't want to. I mean it's probably a bad idea to not update long term (security issues, etc), but that's also true for freebsd. Y
Sometimes understanding the gist of certain events/topics can be more useful than spending valuable minutes delving very deep into the event/topic.
I’ve been looking since January and I still can’t find a job. I’ve made it to last interviews and I’ve been told they really wanted to hire me but at the end of the day I’m still on the market.

I’m in a tech hub(NYC) and willing to come 5 days to the office. Still nothing.

Context: AI PhD dropout with 5 years of ML part time experience in CV and software engineering.
Obviously it matter.

Frankly downplaying the importance of Greenpeace, a 50 years old multinational organization that helped millions of people to remain healthy and saved millions of dollars to the public, looks very dumb in 2024.

Accusing Greenpeace of something that "hasn't done yet, but it may do, or not, in the future", is also symptomatic. Let's stick to the real facts.
> Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection?

This is not what open source means.
That's the spirit!

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/antix-23-1_init-dive...

Seems that it even saves power, in spite of using that gaming/latency-optimized kernel from Pika-OS.
I was thinking about the graphrag paper and prolog. I’d like to extract predicates. The source material will be inconsistent and contradictory and incomplete.

Using the clustering (community) model, an llm can summarize the opinions as a set of predicates which don’t have to agree and some general weight of how much people agree or disagree with them.

The predicates won’t be suitable for symbolic logic because the language will be loose. However an embedding model may be able to connect different symbols together.

Then you could attempt multiple runs through the database of predicates because there will be different opinions.

Then one could attempt to reason using these loosely stitched predicates. I don’t know how good the outcome would be.

I imagine this would be better in an interactive decision making tool where a human is evaluating the suggestions for the next step.

This could be better for planning than problem solving.
Unless "as cleverly as possible" is zero.
Virtually every casino and gambling company in existence.
Only NNs of infinite size or precision. Under more realistic assumptions, transformers without chain of thought are actually limited in what they can solve: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00729
That's a good point. I find myself using "increment" from time to time as it is.
It's easy to forget how big a deal QuickTime was back in the 90s. It was a core part of the operating system, allowing any third party app to easily embed video functionality.

That was a huge deal, suddenly multimedia interactivity was everywhere's in a way we don't see today. Classics like Myst would probably not have been what they were without QuickTime.

I miss the days of apps that strived to be useful and feature packed for "power users". No one targets power users anymore. It's hard to describe to someone who wasn't there these days, but apps in the 90s and early 2000s were just... more. They strived to be something more. They included many little niche features a handful of people might find useful, and they did come in useful.

Apps today, modern QuickTime included just feel like cut down imitations.
I'd say one counter-argument to bringing stuff home, outside of the obvious one like it being a supercooled quantum computer, is if it's valuable stuff; say you've got 100K of gear at home, who is responsible / whose insurance gets billed if it gets stolen or damaged? Does the insurance require additional security measures on your house to insure it? Who pays for that?

Anyway that depends entirely on how specialized your specialized equipment would be. I had a quick browse of your profile, it looks like you're a firmware engineer so I assume what you have is a few thousand worth of electronics hardware like oscilloscopes and that other magic stuff that firmware people have so nothing that would break the bank or fall outside of your homeowner's insurance, but you get what I mean.

That said, most non-hardware IT people have laptops nowadays that they are expected to take home, I've got two current-day macbooks so that's at least six grand of hardware sitting at home, plus the rest. I should double check my insurance <_<. At least the macbooks themselves are covered by my employer's insurance.
Acceptance of crime is a policy choice (part 2)
That’s a fault of the existing teammates. I always prioritize 1:1 with new members in my team or my sister teams and make myself available for any onboarding or technical questions.
Oh my god, I love my tesla but it nearly killed my children because the doors don't open lol

Can you imagine if these incidents happened in ICE cars from the same manufacturer? In my extremely biased opinion I think there would be recalls out the wazoo and comparisons to the ford pinto with how idiotic the design was to prioritise some (not particularly effective) aesthetics nonsense over safe and simple bloody door handles.
And how are our parents going to do this without us being there? It once took be 3 hours to accomplish it with my father. He’s 3000 miles away but it was only marginally better than a plane trip.
Partly because "artificial intelligence" is a loaded phrase which brings implications of AGI along for the ride, partly because "intelligence" is not a well defined term, so an artificial version of it could be argued to be almost anything, and partly because even if you lean on the colloquial understanding of what "intelligence" is, ChatGPT (and its friends) still isn't it. It's a Chinese Room - or a stochastic parrot.
Copper Robotics creator here: the issue with ROS IMHO is that the architecture is not ideal and if you want your framework to be just ROS compliant you get all the issues the other comments are talking about (wrestling, tuning and so on).
Copper is deterministic by design, data oriented from head to toes (we get 100x less latency than ROS2 out of that), performance tuning can be done algorithmically instead of having to have a developer in the loop and we leverage the awesomeness of cargo to have a sane package management that is familiar to rust developers etc... all those are basically impossible to achieve if we don't call it ROS3 or something :)
Until just a few years ago James Hamilton (who the article is about) was a fairly remote worker—as he was circumnavigating on his boat, which they decided to stop:

* https://mvdirona.com/2021/09/changing-plans-again/

* https://mvdirona.com/2015/08/communications-at-sea/

* https://mvdirona.com/2009/06/remote-data-communication-costs...

* https://www.youtube.com/user/mvdirona
Gadget Teardowns
but why be so controlling? imagine someone is so busy they have to commute at 45 min commute in the 15 minute gap between meetings. so you’re refusal to be more understanding is blocking progress. likely it’ll be you removed from the meeting and going forward you’ll be included less. have fun being a low level IC!
I'm a big IP v6 fan but the multicast improvements are oft overstated. The meat and potatoes changes are about getting rid of broadcasts in a LAN (in a way where a dumb switch will still treat them as broadcast anyways), not about actual routing of multicast between LANs. There is no requirement IPv6 routers must support routing multicast outside of the LAN (a completely different task). There is no public assignment of ff00::/8, it's still a free for all for generic streams. There's nothing that makes routing it across LANs easier to scale and orchestrate (in fact the protocols for this are separate from IP anyways).

Effectively, the only real "improvement" for the routed multicast case is you have more private multicast addresses to pick from.
We love legally backed job protections.
CoT performance of any other SOTA quickly plateaus as tokens grow. It does not have anywhere near the same graph as o1's test time compute plot.

Saying it's just CoT is kind of meaningless. Even just looking at the examples on Open AI's blog and you quickly see no other model today can generate or utilize CoT to anywhere near that quality through prompting or naive fine-tuning.
Reader mode 24/7
I'm sure you can find more big-name examples like London but that some of the biggest cities out there are packed neither invalidates everyone else's experience nor should be a major surprise methinks. Probably more biased than looking at how the remaining 95% of the system runs? Of course, either extreme is biased
Or in this case, it's never too late to spin.
Maybe. Later than if he quits, and maybe not if they reverse their position like they've done a few times already. If he quits right away he's guaranteeing he doesn't have that job.
This is just Eclipse Theia plugins. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this project is actually Eclipse Theia based
Yeah I'm just totally not a team player anyway. I would avoid such interactions in the office too, by picking another floor. I'm not a mother hen. Other people are and they like to be that, so it's much better that they do it. They also do this over Teams by the way.

I always maneuver myself into such a place that I have something to work on for myself.
This 100%. I taught myself *everything* in college. I relied on textbooks and online resources to teach myself the material outside of class. It worked pretty well. I wasn't the top of my class, nor have I retained all the things I've learned (but who does?).

Fortunately, what I have retained is the ability to pick up almost any subject and learn about it on my own. That's more important than anything they can teach you in a classroom.
"Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it."

…And me too, especially when I think outside the orthodoxy, which I do all the time.

As I must be wrong of course I don't talk about such stuff, as one would be lauged at and ignored.
US and Japan near deal to curb chip technology exports to China
I’ve also learned how to read a language’s phonetic alphabet.

Always funny when someone asks “hey, can you read this $language”, then I read it out aloud to them.

Then they ask what it means and I’m like “oh, I have absolutely no idea, I just know how to read it”
It looks very promising! Congratulations, great tool! I can't wait to start experimenting with it. I plan to use it locally, with Ollama.
Plain RNNs are theoretically weaker than transformers with COT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18510 .
Zed team also being the creators of Electron should have been the best people for this. They themselves opted to write a new immediate mode UI library.
https://archive.ph/FDmwq
Oh right nevermind. For about 300GB of data. I would assume this is what they did them
Cisco Umbrella blocked the link on my work computer, but I assume the project is at https://github.com/EPFL-Center-for-Imaging/splinebox
if we were coworkers, and i detected this unequal behavior from you i would force you to communicate with me using only docs.

egos in engineers need to die.
Yes and no. Everyone on the team tries to be cognizant of time zones and coworkers availability. Trying to schedule meetings across multiple time zones quickly limits available working hours.
Yeah no, I read it exactly like you, nothing insinuating about anyone sexuality.

It's not that group A lifestyle is very different than group B lifestyle, but that the differences are not enough to preclude friendship. Neither in OP's example, nor yours.
Yes, a job (not the job) of a manager is to gain trust up and down. Imagine, just for a fleeting moment, that "communicating and explaining corporate policies" may actually play a role in this! "Here is why we have to RTO 5 days a week: [corporate bs]."

Now let's also imagine that you already have the trust of your direct reports (I would think a lot of Amazon managers don't but that's neither here nor there). You explain a policy to them - they have to be in the office 5 days a week or Things happen, whatever they may be. This person just refuses to do it. Is the manager to just say "oh well I don't want to 'be a dictator' so I'll just let them ignore this policy?" Of course not. They'd be abdicating part of their job if they did that.
The genetic architecture of personality traits and overlap with psychopathology
Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
Last year we launched a project called Psychic that did moderately well on hacker news, but was a commercial failure. We were able to find customers, but none with compelling and overlapping use cases. Everyone who was interested was too early to be a real customer.

This was our launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032081

We recently decided to revive and rebrand the project after seeing a sudden spike in interest from people who wanted to connect LLMs to data - but specifically through browsers. It's also a problem we've experienced firsthand, having built scraping features into Psychic and previously working on bot detection at Robinhood.

If you haven’t built a web scraper or browser automation before, you might assume it’s very straightforward. People have been building scrapers for as long as the internet has existed, so there must be many tools for the job.

The truth is that web scraping strategies need to constantly adapt as web standard change, and as companies that don’t want to be scraped adopt new technologies to try and block it. The old standards never completely go away, so the longer the internet exists, the more edge cases you’ll need to account for. This adds up to a LOT of infrastructure that needs to be set up and a lot of schlep developers have to go through to get up and running.

Scraping is no easier today than it was 10 years ago - the problems are just different.

Finic is an open source platform for building and deploying browser agents. Browser agents are bots deployed to the cloud that mimic the behaviour of humans, like web scrapers or remote process automation (RPA) jobs. Simple examples include scripts that scrape static websites like the SEC's EDGAR database. More complex use cases include integrating with legacy applications that don’t have public APIs, where the best way to automate data entry is to just manipulate HTML selectors (EHRs for example).

Our goal is to make Finic the easiest way to deploy a Playwright-based browser automation. With this launch, you can already do so in just 4 steps. Check out our docs for more info: https://docs.finic.io/quickstart
You can install 2.0.11 for the fix now!
Another factor is that gzip is over 30 years old and ubiquitous in many contexts.

Zstd is awesome, but has only been around for a decade, but seems to be growing.
How did you sleep?
Actix (Rust) vs. Zap (Zig) vs. Stdlib (Zig): Performance Benchmark in Kubernetes [video]
I have been obese for more than a decade, during which I have made many failed attempts of losing weight.

Because of the many failures, I was pretty convinced that what you say is true and no matter what I do I cannot lose weight.

Nevertheless, eventually I have made one more attempt, which was successful, so after about ten months I have reached a weight of only 2/3 of the weight that I had previously.

Then, after learning thus how to control my weight, I have kept it constant for more than a decade, until today. Losing weight was a rather unpleasant experience, especially in the beginning, but then the improvements in my quality of life have been so noticeable that the effort has certainly been worthwhile.

Looking back at time when I was obese, I regret a lot that I did not lose weight earlier and I consider that my failed attempts of losing weight had been quite stupid, because I should have realized that I am not doing all that is necessary for success.

The final attempt that was successful started with a way to measure accurately my changes in weight from a day to another, to determine the effect of the changes in diet, and it required a complete change both in what I was eating and in how I was eating.

Now it is very obvious for me why all my early attempts were not successful, because they were doomed from the start, since I was not doing them in the right way. However at that time, I was not aware of this and I did not think enough about the manner in which I should handle this problem.

After my own experience, I find it very hard to believe in the theories that for many or most obese people there are objective reasons for them to be obese instead of the fact that they have just never been taught what to eat and how to eat in order to preserve their health (in a detailed, practical way, not with generalities like "do not eat too much").

Both my grandfather and my father had been obese and they both had diabetes in old age, so I certainly did not have any help from genetic inheritance. It is enough for me to eat during a single day like I was eating when I was obese, to gain enough weight that I would need at least a week to lose it again.

The only thing with which I agree is that for poor people who are obese it is extremely difficult to lose weight, because all their time is occupied with ensuring their subsistence, so it is hard for them to reserve time for things like cooking at home, learning about how to compose a healthy diet, doing some physical exercises and so on.
Belonging in an Age of Othering
That's like asking about the job market for hammers.
How do you implement a text editor?

I think a lot of people don't consider how complex text editors are and then there are the complexities of an IDE, or extensions, to be able to interact with it.

ropes? gap buffers? https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...

how vscode does it,

- https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table
Interesting, thanks for the info and link. So what, it would be basically impossible to get a distributor to take books from a new publishing company? Or is it that they could be convinced to do so but likely if the new publishing company made a deal where they picked up more of the costs and/or risk than usual?

Any reason the new publishing company couldn't just be a distributor themselves, and make deals with bookstores allowing for discounts and returns?

I have no issue with the idea of taking losses before making a profit, and if anything I produce is good, I would have faith it would sell eventually. Any returned copies are copies that could be donated to various places, which might hopefully allow word of mouth to spread.
Yeah, the title is a bit hyperbolic. I have not used selection methods that much, but not too surprising they would have similar results to LASSO as selection or predictive method for people who think of it in terms of "feature development".

The distaste for step-wise selection comes from its typical use. If one reads Harrell's complaints quoted in the blog post carefully, quite many of them are less about the selection method but what analyst does with it, namely, interpretation of inferential statistics. When you see step-wise in the wild, practitioner often has used step-wise or other selection method and then reports the usual test-statistics and p-values for the final fitted model ... that are derived with assumptions that don't usually take into account the selection steps. It is quite unfortunate in fields where people put lot of faith in coefficient estimates, p-values and Wald confidence intervals when writing conclusions of their paper.

With LASSO and its cousins, the standard packages and literature strongly encourage the user to focus on predictions and run cross-validation right from the beginning.
This does make sense from a "crafting great software" perspective.

But building three separate codebases in comparatively niche GUI frameworks full of platform-specific quirks when you could achieve 95% of the quality with a single JS/TS codebase comes across pretty terribly as a business decision. It's hard to justify what is likely a 10x-ish cost multiplier with "it uses less RAM" or "the scrolling feels more natural". While large companies can afford it, the cost-benefit still doesn't look good to them.
human nature in action, you have a nice thing for so long, you'd get bored of it
Yes it can. It's as absurd as claiming you can't talk about a person without mentioning their eventual death.
I prefer the notion of Productive Failure [0].

[0] https://www.manukapur.com/productive-failure/
About the SENDUIPI instruction: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/senduipi

It seems to require the kernel to set the IA32_UINTR_TT MSR before it does anything, so at least you can't send random IPIs to other processes from userspace.

I wonder about the cost of supporting these unused features in Intel chips. Will Intel keep including it forever even if no one adopts it? Drop it? (It is controlled by a CPUID feature flag so that is possible.)
Presumably your comp changes if you get promoted in that time though?
I had a coauthor once who loved to show off and give away copies of "his" book once it was published. But getting them to do work on it? That was pulling teeth.
Static HedgeDoc renderer. Render your Markdown as site
I build this because I liked the HedgeDoc style but missed the option to use the same markdown and just use it as website somewhere. A stand-alone parser/renderer didn't exist.

With this static-hedgedoc project you can render your own markdown site. You can see a demo here that parses the markdown features page from HedgeDoc using this static renderer https://static-hedgedoc.sc2.nl/ All you need to do this too is:
- Clone the git repo
- Copy static-hedgedoc-demo.html as index.html
- in your index.html replace static-hedgedoc-demo.md with your markdown file, you should put it in the same folder as index.html.
- If you like the style as-is then you're done at this point with making edits.
- Upload to your site and done

Do read the github project page as there are caveats, there are bugs and it is still work in progress! I used mostly all of the same js projects as HedgeDoc uses to be as comparable as it can be. I did use the latest versions of libraries (HedgeDoc uses really old ones) which will cause some subtle differences. Also, all the js files (all resources really) are served from your site, not a single link to a CDN. Still, loading a site "only" involves about ~700kb of datatransfer so not too bad.

Todo: I want to make a separate project that uses static-hedgedoc + some glue to create a split-view editor/preview (like HedgeDoc) but just as editor without any of the fancy collaborative features.