skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it crazy that this isn't the case in the US every time I see this topic come up. You always hear about all the benefits of working for a FAANG, but they're too cheap to even cover cost of transport?

In the Netherlands, and probably a lot of other EU countries, transport to work has to be compensated by your employer. If you live within biking distance this means providing you a bike (usually via a service like Swapfiets these days), and otherwise you get your train/public transport costs or fuel costs if you drive a car completely covered. It's even tax-deductible I think, though I've never bothered looking into that option since I just take my own bike to work.
I did read one out-and-out crime novel by Asimov. You will not be surprised to learn that the victim was graduate student in chemistry, the murder occurred in a laboratory, and the plot twist turned on something known chiefly to chemists.

(I've forgotten the title--I read the book nearer 50 than 40 years ago.)
That’s not true at all, I purchased mine in the UK without a prescription.
Sorry for the dumb question, but what is the significance of this issue, "popups are windows"? Has something changed in Wayland which makes child windows unworkable?
That’s an inheriting point!

Congrats on your success!
it's good in theory, and sometimes it pans out as your project evolves. however if you did this from the get go, you would never actually get anything done.
And I always have the peace of mind that should my server hardware give up the ghost, I can always take a new computer, run my scripts, and have everything configured and running in no time because the procedures are exercised regularly.
Having read his blog [1] and HN posts [2] for several years, I found this interview with Simon Willison quite enjoyable.

[1] https://simonwillison.net

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=simonw
Nice work! Would be cool to have a plugin system that could allow for interfacing with other DBs like sqlite etc.
Whose code do you think is secure?
ZML - High performance AI inference stack
It passed the Chrome Web Store review process, so everything must be good.
ISO 9075-3
> Its a good example of what LLMs arent capable of. If they think the word Mississippi has the letter A in it (per article), thats a strong indication that the transformer architecture may never be able to achieve AGI.

It only indicates that tokenization is used. The LLM architecture can be used without tokenization. It would just mean that the available space in the context window would be used less efficiently. For example, a 10 letter word which could be represented by one token would instead take 10 slots.
Problems in Floss Projects #3 – The Development Bystander Problem
"Less fiction, more science" Karl Marx.
Using hardware floating point types is not suitable if mathematical correctness matters, and is largely a deprecated practice. Check out Python’s fraction module for example, for exact arithmetic[0].

[0]: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/fraction-module-python/
As I'm on my 3rd car key for a car I've had about 8 years. Nevermind I disassemble the key and clean the button and battery terminals.
This was depicted in The Simpsons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Job

> "The Book Job" is the sixth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 20, 2011. In the episode, Lisa is shocked to discover that all popular young-adult novels are not each written by a single author with any inspiration, but are conceived by book publishing executives through use of market research and ghostwriters to make money. When Homer hears this, he decides to get rich by starting work on a fantasy novel about trolls together with Bart, Principal Skinner, Patty, Moe, Professor Frink, and author Neil Gaiman.
The facade of principles-based foreign policy falls pretty quickly once interests are at play.

The US used to be a supporter of an international trade framework, based on the WTO. Now, the US is probably the WTO's greatest antagonist.

The US talks about human rights and international law, but then backs Israel as the latter flattens Gaza and kills tens of thousands of civilians in a massive turkey shoot.
does it support, ssh workspaces like vs code
While I disagree fundamentally with the premise that people should be kept away from useful tools, I think that there is an understandable fear of dealing with the fallout of certain demographics having access to tools.

Unfortunately we have a lot of people that despite an abundance of ignorance are arrogant enough to think that they know better than most, but still are incapable of applying basic logic and critical thinking in their reasoning. (which if you think about it is sensible, since wisdom is largely a matter of comprehension of the depth of ones ignorance)

These people are a huge PITA to work with and every tool they wield inflicts pain on those trying to help them.
does it support, ssh workspaces like vs code?
Retroactive Public Goods Funding and Open Data in Web3 with David Gasquez
I understand that, but even so the sentence makes no sense. I assumed that they meant to write: ‘Highlights automatically searches directions for a location’. Pardon my pedantry, but how is it possible to ‘surface’ a direction. Am I missing something?

My point stands… the quality of writing in this article is very poor: overly long sentences, clunky information reveal etc. it feels more like a first draft.
Negative Resistance: Bio-Inspired Wires Amplify Their Own Signals
What a wonderful idea. Congrats!
In large personal projects I try to be thorough in my documentation and naming conventions it helps me to write more durable software. When I am on my own time I prefer to keep my software as durable as possible because I am not being paid a salary to qualify all the extra time spent on regression, defects, and reviewing prior decisions. I would rather spend this personal time on design decisions instead, and central to the corresponding planning processes is well written documentation. It also helps when the documentation is itself interactive.
Fair enough. I can’t edit it to remove that part, which is mostly orthogonal to the point.
> It’s not always that easy

Where did they say it was easy?

They said maybe try going back to the office and seeing if you like it.

Heresy here on HN, I know.
This is how it was for me growing up blue collar in the northeastern USA in the 80s. My father fixed everything in the house and the vehicles. I inherited my older siblings clothes, and my younger siblings inherited mine. My mother would hem pant legs shorter when we were young, and then let them back out as we grew older. If you wore a knee or an elbow out of clothes, it was getting patched.

This instilled some good and bad tendencies in me. I do almost all of the repairs around the house myself. I work too much though, so I don't always have enough time or energy. Even though I can easily afford it, I have a hard time paying someone else to do them. This means I live with broken stuff longer than I should.

I'd probably have more money if I spent that time working on side projects instead of doing maintenance and repairs.
I’m surprised that understanding how to be thought unfolds is being considered not relevant to the answer. I have done a lot of problem solving in groups and alone. How thoughts develop seems fundamental to understand the solutions.

The story regarding the banning of terms that can be used with a reasoning system is a big red flag to me.

This sort of knee jerk reaction displays immature management and an immature technology product.
You can avoid the copper washers! The main reason to change them is under compression the copper work hardens to seal up. To get a good seal though you just need to re-anneal the copper so it's soft - heat it to cherry red and let it cool down. Takes about 5-10 seconds with a blowtorch - I've been doing it for oil changes on my car for several years now with no problems.
Given that this one is getting traction, I think it indeed warranted another post.
> all I can say is I hope it didn’t mess up my recommendation algorithm.

I can't help but interpret that as meaning you are hesitant about trying out new music because of a cabal of professional programmers.
I have `blaze` (bazel) aliased to a command that runs whatever blaze command I'm trying to do and then rings the terminal bell. Any compilation, run, test, etc, all gets a visual and audible notification that it has completed.

This is great for my focus. Even if a build or test is only going to take 10s, I'll still change window to my email or chat. The ping brings me back.
Folke Bernadotte
You can't just extend a house willy nilly. You have to set up scaffolding, destroy some walls, have temporary rigs to keep the ceilings from collapsing, etc. Unless you want to live in a "shipping container" building, but even then there's a non 0 effort, and the shipping container constraint comes with its own set of issues.

In real life, you just can't have it both ways. There's always a trade off. If the trade makes sense go for it I say, but I think people aren't always honest (to me or themselves) about the exact trade they are making.
Most cases do have some notable restrictions on that.

For instance, requesting sex in exchange for money is illegal in most places.

Requesting someone commit a crime on your behalf in exchange for money or other compensation as well (conspiracy, usually).

Several other examples too - requesting someone fix their prices, agree to not compete with you in exchange for the same, etc.
Not the parent poster, but companies want people who will deal and cater to their needs, not people who will whine and complain about (even very real) issues.

And employees will typically want companies that will cater to their every whim and pay them very well to be catered too.

Where the two meet is the labor market.

Conditions are changing, and ‘hard’ force is being applied again.
The absence of good does not imply bad.
Funny that people disagree and downvote.
If we are still talking about AI enhanced companies, it's not that companies evolve. It's that those companies who are unfit, die off. Paul Graham put it humorously in a very old speech I can't find...
The issue is that folks like newbies on the team end up left out, and when everyone is off doing their own thing there is often no actual team - which shows up in a lot of non-obvious ways.
This looks excellent, with one potential caveat: does it support slash commands (e.g. \dt)?
This repair makes the case I've found more obvious though: we need microcontroller firmwares to be made available (I would argue as a public government archive honestly).

I've had several Yamaha amps blow micro-processors or DSPs, and on the older ones there were no firmware upgrades so you just plain couldn't do anything afterwards.

I've got the same problem with the controller for my heat exchange ventilation - microcontroller is dead, and while the chip is easy to get and replace, there's 0 chance I can source a replacement firmware for it.
The only thing I like about Electron apps is that they just work on Linux, otherwise not many companies would bother porting their apps to Linux.

I think web apps/Electron apps may be a factor in reaching the year of the Linux desktop.
Is it possible to have some kind of electron/tauri/,.. based runtime, but without the actual app? The users would need to install this runtime only once.
The apps would need to be installed separately.
The apps could be just the plain html/js/css/assets maybe packed within a zip, with a dedicated extension. The runtime would take care of the installation.
That way the devs could develop with their FE-stack of their choice and ship just the small packages.
Does this make sense?
Hand in the blender can be healed for a few tens of thousands of dollars and a year of rehab probably. Commute to office takes approximately one full month of human life every year, unpaid and uncompensated. So that's actually a very reasonable comparison. It's just most humans are terrible with estimating long term costs and benefits, so they tend to ignore the ridiculously insane cost of commute over whole career.
Is this really "open source"? Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection?
Ok, let’s talk benefits. Does everyone get the same pay and vacation?
As a freelancer I have said on several occasions "this won't work". After the 3rd time I would just get on and build it. Every time it was "people will do this and this will happen". But people do stuff wrong in seemingly endless ways. Getting paid for building useless stuff was not a joy.
Aider is AI pair programming in your terminal.

Aider lets you pair program with LLMs, to edit code in your local git repository. Start a new project or work with an existing git repo. Aider works best with GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet and can connect to almost any LLM.

https://aider.chat/

See LLM Leaderboards as well: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
There is modern version of Charles Dickens' way of publishing a chapter each week in the newspaper. Artists on tiktok and instagram and youtube shorts are developing characters with backstories and so on.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@dsand00

Nowadays, you don't have to write the boring parts, just write the interesting bits.
Since the site seems down, https://web.archive.org/web/20240917105646/https://safecpp.o...
I often develop feelings for the products I use (I know...). When I look at dishwasher I reminisce how many moments I had whilst standing next to it tirelessly working through my dirty dishes. I'll give it a tap. Sometimes I talk to it when loading like "Hey there, I got you some new stuff. Don't worry I'll feed you salt at the end of the week. Now I'll do your favourite program". Then once it finishes I say like "Oh what a great work you did there!" and so on.
Then when it broke (the motor seized) I just wouldn't have heart to simply dispose of it. I sourced the motor and called in repair guy who installed it. It did cost me in total as much as I would pay for a new dishwasher, but I would never get the sense of feeling that I saved a friend.
It’s all relative. FAANGs have been very high compensation (and good work environments) by US standards, and frankly in comparison to most global standards.

But they aren’t perfect, and they’ve been good relative to other employers.

Having transportation covered is an extremely rare benefit in the US.
What the author calls bad code is one way of writing idiomatic Rust. There are more complex techniques.

It's recommended to not split the low level details from. your business logic, in fact it's not just recommended the compiler slowly forces your hand.

If you write overly abstract code like the author recommends you will leave a large amount of performance on the table. Code like that doesn't play nicely with lifetimes, by trying to separate memory management from business logic you're left with only the least restrictive scheme owned heap allocated data.

The Rust type system teaches you not separate concerns, without giving up the ability to reason about your code.
Probably helps when you are getting forced as a Netflix to generate a percentage of local content.
Even for a server farm, you can prioritize the web traffic and still use the excess capacity for CI or whatever.
So buying own home/apartment to live in is a "foolish" idea now, right?
So what? Society needs a variety of roles to be filled to maintain civilization and there should be a fair distribution of benefits, and the positive changes should not be hoarded by a specific class of workers.
> I'm not entirely cynical on the value of LLMs, but I've yet to see one say "I dont know", or "I'm not sure, but here's my best guess".

I've used LLMs to build form autofilling based on unstructured documents. It correctly does not answer fields that it doesn't know, and does not try to guess anything. It has been pretty much error-free.

It's all about your prompting. Without explicitly being given guidance on how not to answer, you're right, they will never say they don't know.

If you've never actually seen that happen, I encourage you to experiment more with LLMs; there's lots that can be achieved with the right prompting.
I did read one out-and-out crime novel by Azimov. You will not be surprised to learn that the victim was graduate student in chemistry, the murder occurred in a laboratory, and the plot twist turned on something known chiefly to chemists.

(I've forgotten the title--I read the book nearer 50 than 40 years ago.)

Edit: I see from Wikipedia that it was The Death Dealers, later republished as A Whiff of Death.
This is called write-to-market, and it's a well-known thing in self publishing - even though many wannabe fiction writers choose to ignore it, because they'd rather believe their book will have publishers swooning and readers gushing. (Spoilers: odds of that are very, very close to zero.)

In fact all publishing is write-to-market now.

Most traditionally published books are picked to chase trends. There's also a huge market for ghost-written titles with a celebrity on the cover.

It's a shamelessly conservative industry. It's unbelievably hard to pitch a fresh fiction franchise, even if it's wildly creative and incredibly well-written.
>> Some of the problems don’t matter as much if your goal for the model is just prediction, not interpretation of the model and its coefficients. But most of the time that I see the method used (including recent examples being distributed by so-called experts as part of their online teaching), the end model is indeed used for interpretation, and I have no doubt this is also the case with much published science. Further, even when the goal is only prediction, there are better methods like the Lasso, of dealing with a problem of a high number of variables.

I use this method often for prediction applications. First, it’s a sort of hyper parameter selection, so you should obviously use a holdout and test set to help you make a good choice.

Second, I often see the method dogmatically shut down like this, in favor of lasso. Yet every time I have compared the two they give similar selections — so how can one be “evil” and the other so glorified? I prefer the stepwise method though as you can visualize the benefit of adding in each additional feature. That can help to guide further feature development — a point that I’ve seen significantly lift the bottom line of enterprise scale companies.
Sure, in same sense as an infinitely long tape let's a Turing machine solve arbitrary problems. In theory at least. If one had the right program.
I don't think it's even limited to written or spoken languages.

I've been learning a lot of CAD and mechanical principles lately, and I can tell that my brain has some sort of kinematic/movement language that is expanding, and helping me understand how things work, and how to build more things.
How large?

In use, treesitter-derived approach seems far effective than rag.
I must have misunderstood something. I'm a musician and have never seen a tunable keyboard, which I thought, upon seeing this, would be useful. I guess I'm dense, because I'd still be interested in this as an option in a physical keyboard.

But I am an illiterate musician. Perhaps that's were the misunderstanding arises. I favor Eastern instruments too.
Waitlist.
I'd say that market exists, but is kinda invisible.

I've been looking around for a junior with a passion for Common Lisp, but I have _no_ idea where to find one, especially in Germany (job's remote, but I'm currently not able to hire FTEs outside the country).
Generally if you put a space before your command it'll bypass the history, though depending on your *nix you might need to set `HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth` in your bashrc or similar if it's not already.
> It’s an iPad tou can strap to your face

I disagree. It’s inventing new multi modality such as the pinch to select and the in-the-air drag and drop. This brings us a bit closer to Minority Report Tom Cruise magic.
This is what I believe as well. It's an assuming narrative that allows them to say that it wasn't them it was the employee choice.
It's very obvious if you're paying attention.

What is the security benefit of removing the command-click shortcut?
Let them try to run the operation on a skeleton crew.
Why the completely generic name, with meaning unrelated in any way to editors?
I'm extremely curious about the nationality and residence of a person who uses Braintree (a town in Essex UK with a silly name) as an example but purchases things in dollars
I feel like it’s giving good money away when you hire someone to do work for you that you know you can do. You look at the markups for things and it gives you pause. Things like a valve or whatever. You can go to the Home Depot and get it for cheaper even when you include the cost of whatever tools you need to get.

But at some point you have to say, let’s just get someone to to it (the deck, the fence, the gutters, etc.) still it’s like zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. There is some personal satisfaction in being self reliant.
I'm usually met with a mix of shock, disbelief, and sometimes a little bit of joy, when I speak Greek with a Greek person outside of Greece - which was at first odd, considering the origin of the word "diaspora". Some reactions were really weird, one person told me it feels wrong to hear a foreigner speak their native language so far from home, another told me it's the most useless language to learn, etc - but I've never been met with antagonism.

I don't think language and culture can be separated; Greece has been occupied by the Ottoman empire for ca 400 years, and the history of reclaiming their culture and independence is stained with blood (like most of them are).

In retrospect, I'm glad I ended up being "friends" with a hospitable culture. I haven't been to Greece in over a decade but it always feels like I'd be welcome there.
if you want to see people you can work in a coworking space near where you live without the commute. I dont understand people who want to commute more than one hour a day if they have the choice not to. And even more so if you consider the environmental impact and all the stress that goes with it.
I do some personal work in MacOS 9 on a MacBook Pismo and use the standard Platinum sounds at a low sound level. I personally find the little click and chirp soundtrack quite useful as audio feedback. Though if I were to do this in the office, for the sake of my personal safety, I think I would wear headphones!
‘Be careful what you wish for’ - if remote work is the norm, there is all the sudden massive downward competitive pressure on salaries, as now people can work from much lower cost of living areas. Or even lower cost of living countries.

Either officially, or unofficially.

What globalization did to manufacturing, remote work is going to do to knowledge work.

And in most cases, if the bosses give up on RTO, they’re going to be explicit about this. Because why not?
It's not clear me what you're saying; isn't the whole deal here that by performing RL on the CoT (given sufficient size and compute) it would converge to the right program?
Well I suppose people have invested time, money and creativity into designing a site. The legal issues might revolve around copyright.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on Mac (or they're not a "digital gatekeeper" or whatever) so that wouldn't apply there.
What you really want is to get a reference to those SharedArrayBuffers in the native code like you can do with WASM
I think ZSTD is also like this.
Multiply: The Francis Hookham collection of hand held electronic calculators [pdf]
Would love to know more about this. Do you have a link?