skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when I say start and end at the same time this of course refers to the time scale used, for example if I am talking years and say Mr. Adams started his project in 1920 and finished in 1928 and then later I say Mr. Bronder worked on his project in parallel to Mr. Adams I would expect that meant Mr. Bronder started his project in 1920 and finished in 1928 - not that they started the exact same minute - because the time scale used is in years.
Mine was in political science.
I agree. Almost all of us are writing CRUD apis and react components at work what are we contributing to the world of value? Hmm nothing I say!
I did not expect the the energy would flow so heavily to North America (24.1:3.3 TWh ratio over a year).
I was going to comment that these trucks could be much less dangerous in collisions with pedestrians and cyclists, without sacrificing utility. It could encourage better design standards for things like pickup trucks, SUVs, and minivans.
Unnamed AI research lab | ML research engineer | Zurich, Switzerland | Full-time | Onsite | 100-200k CHF

I am starting a research lab funded by a hedge fund that I created 5 years ago. The hedge is doing well, and applies ML to quant finance.
The research and trading activities should reinforce each other over time: the research publishes research and fosters in-house ML expertise. The trading applies it to quant finance and brings funding.
The research entity is incorporated, funded, has an office and 0 employees currently.

My vision for the research lab is the following:

- A bunch of phds in a room: create a good working environment, optimize for research output & runway.
- Take the "bitter lesson" seriously: most of the successes in modern machine learning are due to deep learning and the ability to leverage vasts amounts of compute and data.

So we make it a top priority to develop the infrastructure and expertise to be good at DL/LLMs/transformers. It doesn't mean that we don't explore new ideas. We want to learn to leverage large amounts of compute and be smart/efficient about it. If the trading works well, we can compete on an equal footing with the big labs over time in terms of amount spent in compute.

For the research itself, I want to start with the ARC challenge (https://arcprize.org/, https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547)

With that in mind, today I'm looking for the following role:

- ML research engineer

Compensation will include flexible options scheme based on results.

Interest and knowhow in the following is a plus: Deep learning, transformer models, reasoning, world models, learning-to-learn, mechinterp, bayesian methods, probabilistic programming
I'm also looking for evidence of past exceptional achievements.

I will mostly consider candidates having an EU passport for visa reasons.

To apply, email me at not_a_cat at fastmail dot com.
How do you know? We didn't see everyone involved and have no picture of the entire situation.
It's there, on page 19.
> When I opened the door there was a team of police officers with their weapons drawn and what looked to me like Tasers. When I heard “hands out of my pockets” in the video, I was immediately handcuffed!!! I had seen about 10 police officers in front of and in our office, and it wasn't until the following day that neighbors reported that the whole street was full of about 10 (or more) emergency vehicles right up to the next intersection!!! about 10 police cars, 2 fire departments, 1 ambulance, an emergency doctor etc...!!!

I do hope they investigate and find whomever was responsible for this email tip. At the very least I would want this person to repay the costs of this operation.
> But, what's the alternative?

Good question. I'm also on the lookout for quality content for my kids. I recently learned that YouTube Kids can be put into whitelist-only mode, and that specific channels, videos, or collections of channels can be picked individually. Google aren't making it easy, but the option is there.

> Does YouTube kill those channels?

I don't think it's about YouTube. Mr Beast is good at what he does, and manages to produce very marketable content. It's fast-food entertainment. It's a newer take on what's been on our TV screens for decades in the form of reality TV and game shows.
3.2 million

https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/bluesky-day.html
We power our home with our own solar energy
> SWAT doesn't have a lot to do.

Dood, thats not remotely SWAT. This isnt even some kind of special police. This is german normal police. And usually they are pretty damn overwhelmed by everything because they are horrible undestaffed.
He's pointing out how utterly unsubstantiated and egregious the accusation is. Not inviting further suspicion.
I’d be curious to know what percentage of PS5 Pro buyers end up installing an optical drive. I would assume the Pro buyers are less price sensitive and more demanding customers, who would be more likely to opt for the drive, even if they need to install it themselves.

Frankly, I think it’s insane they can release something called the “Pro” with fewer features than a version of the normal console.

It’s clear the consoles are pushing to remove physical media (at least Microsoft and Sony). But I don’t think we should pretend for a second it’s anything more than a way to increase profits. A digital only console effectively kills the second hand market. Like you said, I don’t think these people are thinking ahead, and they just take what they can afford. Sony can price the optical drive version at a premium and put up additional barrier, then report how customers prefer the digital only version, when the price is all they like.
the transplants are trashing the front range and do not care
It's more than an implementation detail.

Without changing the DAG, I can arbitrarily move "main" to point at any commit I like in git. This isn't some esoteric action - this is done constantly as part of normal git workflow.

While what people understand as a branch in traditional SCM discussions can only grow by the addition of new versions. Commits/versions belong to a specific and unique branch and once added to the version tree, cannot "move" branches.

While in git, a commit can belong to any number of (git) "branches" which makes presenting a true branch based history (if the DAG contains merges) impossible. Which is why we all end up using a workflow based on rebase instead of one based branch-and-merge.

I've observed how much confusion using the name "branch" for what is a version pointer in git causes to those starting with git. The easiest way I've found to help people is to tell them forget about the word "branch" and think in terms of the DAG and pointers to elements in the DAG.
This is called "A Forth Story"

I want to like and use Forth for something, but this from the post sums it up pretty well.

"I told my partner that the final device could not be
programmed in Forth. Why would I say such a thing? Simply because
technology had passed Forth by, in my opinion. It was no longer
possible for one person to develop all the software required in a
graphical environment. I needed to buy the tools I needed to leverage
my time for a professional job. I could no longer play the role of the
maverick programmer, nor did I want to. I need to be part of a
collaborative community in which I can give and receive work. I do not
see Forth as a viable solution as of today."

That was 1995. His "story" also ended in 1995 with him being unemployed. The author is Allen Cekorich, which made it easy for me to look him up on LinkedIn and see what happened after. Yes, LinkedIn is good for something. Sounds like he landed on his feet.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-cekorich-a86aa731/details/...
Wasted opportunity for what?

> In December 2022, USPS announced that 75% of its initial order of 60,000 NGDVs would be BEVs. By 2026, all new NGDVs ordered will be delivered as BEVs.

So the should be very few of these ICE variants around presumably primarily in areas where the charging capacity is impractical to install. I don’t know how 8.6 mpg fares against similar trucks to know whether better ICE alternatives were possible and hybrid would likely add significant weight, cost and maintenance for likely little comparative value.
I think this document predates the current scandal - the page 19 reference is to https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/style/mrbeast-beast-games... where the more recent scandal is https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna164777

(Sorry, my mistake: the page 19 bit is indeed “no does not mean no” which is unfortunate wording given a current scandal! The scandal I referred to is the one about leaving contestants in the sun for three+ hours)
Well, you gotta read all the way to the end before the author even defines what they think a "skynet moment" is: "a tipping point where the pursuit of advanced capabilities overshadows the fundamental principles of transparency and user control"

And sure, it probably does meet that definition. Many things do these days. Which makes the title pretty much clickbait.
My understanding of US law is that if the police kill your SWATting victim, they will charge you with murder.

It doesn't matter that you tricked someone else into pulling the trigger.

Same thing can happen if your partner in crime dies.
Uhh, no.
my car consumes 5% more with AC on. it's a 2002 Mazda. So, I don't believe 25% number.
Yeah, I think my frustrations have much more to do with the environment than coding or whatever. I don’t spend a ton of time coding and so my frustrations naturally are abundant.

I think a lot of finance these days is kinda bullshit though. My friends in NYC who are in finance and making a killing (easily making more than faang engineer comp) are barely working and seem to be happy with their jobs. What a joke it is to be in the tech industry when you’re also working one of the lowest social status jobs on top of being ground into dust.

I wish I had chosen a different career.
Then I would remove anything that would require manual review.

A while back someone built a similar “automated” tool to summarize books and the summaries were wildly inaccurate.

I noticed your site also promotes “book summaries”.

That seems an area rife for misinformation without extensive work in manual review; ie, reading the books, and listening to the “summaries” critically.
I looked at a few images, they look like a combination of:

* Geordi's visor

* A nose clip for swimming

* Stick-on googly eyes

The last design choice seems particularly bold. I guess they're less threatening that way? Or it just kind of happened for technical reasons.
I switched to Clink several years ago and it's a bit of a game changer for me: https://github.com/mridgers/clink

I tried Terminal but it felt weirdly laggy, although IIRC it was still beta when I tried it so it might have matured a lot. But the readline behaviour in clink is awesome, there's a lot of good muscle memory overlaps for me between how I use Linux.
It quite clearly is.
Nope, that's good context that I missed.
It doesn't kill them per se, but it doesn't seem to promote them either. The good content takes a lot more digging to find. Not an easy task, considering how bad the search on YouTube is.
> department of governmental efficiency

I have no idea if this is 'extreme' or not but U.S. Government Accountability Office already exists.

https://www.gao.gov/about

> GAO, often called the "congressional watchdog,” is an independent, non-partisan agency that works for Congress. GAO examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal agencies with objective, non-partisan, fact-based information to help the government save money and work more efficiently.

See for example:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107594

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107554

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-544t

Or if you prefer video:

https://www.gao.gov/video/comptroller-general-testifies-u.s....
Where is here for you?
Except your analogy doesn't work because every single bitcoin address has the same brand of lock.
Question is: can this be learned from and applied to other industries which are not focused on extreme growth, such as more traditional industries or B2B work? I’m not sure.
For the first half of what you said: I will note that "wine capital of France" is a completely different claim than "capital of France", even if many of the words are the same. For the rest: I'll just leave this here for everyone else to judge which of us is being the pedant, and which is arguing just to keep arguing.

As for the second half: I am almost in agreement with your overall point here. LLMs are plausible text generators. Yes, I'm with you there. But LLMs are marketed as more than that, and that's the problem. They're marketed by their makers as more than that.

This is not a technical problem, it's a marketing problem. You can't yell at people for accusing a plausible text generator of "hallucinating", when they were sold it as being more than just a plausible text generator. (The were sold it as being "AI", which is something that you might realistically be able to accuse of hallucinating.) The LLM creators have written a check that their tech, by its very nature, cannot cash. And so their tech is being held to a standard that it cannot reach. This isn't the fault of the tech; it's the fault of the marketing departments.
I'm interested in doing something similar, except using a board with open-source firmware. What kind of options do I have (if any)?
I admit that A/C with windows down is how I use it when driving around town. Just for when I get into a hot car. When the car cools down, I turn the A/C off.

I do run A/C on highway trips, partly because I suspect that the noise with windows open can cause hearing damage.
> Whether or not computation behind the scenes happens at some particular time (read/compile/run) isn't too relevant.

Actually it is relevant: is the object mutable? Are new objects created? What optimizations can a compiler do? Is it an object which is a part of the source code?

If we allow [1, 2, (+ 1 a)] in a function as a list notation, then we have two choices:

1) every invocation of [1, 2, (+ 1 a)] returns a new list.

2) every invocation of [1, 2, (+ 1 a)] returns a single list object, but modifies the last slot of the list. -> then the list needs to be mutable.

(defun foo (a)
[1, 2, (+ 1 a)])

Common Lisp in general assumes that in

(defun foo (a)
'(1 2 3))

it is undefined what exact effects the attempts to modify the quoted list (1 2 3) has. Additionally the elements are not evaluated. We have to assume that the quoted list (1 2 3) is a literal constant.

Thus FOO

* returns ONE object. It does not cons new lists at runtime.

* modifying the list may be not possible. A compiler might allocate such an object in a read-only memory segment (that would be a rate feature -> but it might happen on architectures like iOS where machine code is by default not mutable).

* attempts to modify the list may be detected.

SBCL:

* (let ((a '(1 2 3))) (setf (car a) 4) a)
; in: LET ((A '(1 2 3)))
; (SETF (CAR A) 4)
;
; caught WARNING:
; Destructive function SB-KERNEL:%RPLACA called on constant data: (1 2 3)
; See also:
; The ANSI Standard, Special Operator QUOTE
; The ANSI Standard, Section 3.7.1
;
; compilation unit finished
; caught 1 WARNING condition
(4 2 3)

* attempts to modify literal constants may modify coalesced lists

for example

(defun foo ()
(let ((a '(1 2 3))
(b '(1 2 3)))
(setf (car a) 10)
(eql (car a) (car b))))

In above function, a file compiler might detect that similar lists are used and allocate only one object for both variables.

The value of (foo) can be T, NIL, a warning might be signalled or an error might be detected.

So Common Lisp really pushes the idea that in source code these literals should be treated as immutable constant objects, which are a part of the source code.

Even for structures: (defun bar () #S(PERSON :NAME "Joe" :AGE a)) -> A is not evaluated, BAR returns always the same object.

> Do you have any suggestions on how to talk about this "literal syntax" in another way that won't step on or cause confusion with the CL spec's definition?

Actually I was under the impression that "literal" in a programming language often means "constant object".

See for example string literals in C:

https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/STR30-C.+Do+no...

Though it's not surprising that language may assume different, more dynamic, semantics for compound objects like lists, vectors, hash tables or OOP objects. Especially for languages which are focused more on developer convenience, than on compiler optimizations. Common Lisp there does not provide an object notation with default component evaluation, but assumes that one uses functions for object creation in this case.
Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532098
I don’t think this is quite describing mixed bathrooms, it seems like they are addressing the issue by making bathrooms unisex single toilets, which is hardly a radical concept in public facilities.
Yep as 404 Media describes here: https://www.404media.co/the-dji-drone-ban-a-uniquely-america...

Archival link: https://archive.ph/pPXor

"The other early impact of these safety and geofencing features, though, is that DJI has become the only viable mass market drone manufacturer in the United States. There are DIY drones and racing drones, but the overwhelming majority of hobby drones on the market are made by DJI. Most of DJI’s main competitors are also Chinese. This is in part because geofencing and altitude restrictions made DJI drones more foolproof, easier to fly, and safer to use. Essentially, DJI made a better product than its competitors and now dominates the market. (There is one new hobby drone made by an American company, called the Blackhawk 3, but it has not yet found much of a market and most reviews say that comparable DJI drones are cheaper and better)."

"More powerful but more complicated drones like those made by onetime competitor 3D Robotics failed to find a user base, and that company no longer exists. Skydio, an American company that sells drones exclusively to cops and first responders, has fully shelved its hobby products. Consumer products from other drone manufacturers have similarly failed. This means that we are now in a situation where, if DJI is banned, there are few options ready to step in and replace it, because all of the companies that would have replaced it have utterly failed to provide the type of experience that the U.S. government demanded and is now upset about. A recent post on the Drone Girl blog [1], which has been covering the industry for many years, points out “There are no consumer drone companies in the U.S. worth talking about right now.”"

[1] https://www.thedronegirl.com/2020/06/23/american-drone-compa...
Pull the fire alarm and evacuate the building?

Or, just stop using over-bloviated metaphors for first world marketing creating fictional scheduling crises.

Not making you dev schedule is not a "fire", much less a "war".

Maybe try getting outside once in awhile and clearing your head of this make believe bullshit...
MrBeast's videos are total slop that I would put serious effort towards preventing my children watching if I had some but reading this it's immediately obvious why he's successful.
Yes, and now I will argue against myself a bit but it's also important to remember that addiction is not inevitable. It can be fought on a population level over time. Just take a look at this graph. Press the play button on the world map:

https://ourworldindata.org/which-countries-smoke-most

I think social media lands somewhere between tobacco and sugar. We don't need tobacco. We need carbohydrates but not refined sugar. Social media can be useful sometimes, but is often a disservice. The feeling of usefulness probably makes it more addictive than smoking. At least for me.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41548399
Hey, let's try not to go full on ad hominem, shall we? Much nicer if you had actually addressed the text in my comment and not made up stuff that isn't there [0].

Crime in Sweden (and elsewhere) is still a serious problem. But so is racism, which simplifies societal problems to a question of innate qualities of foreigners when instead one ought to consider societal, historic, cultural, and economic factors as a whole. You know, real knowledge and stuff that actually makes it possible to solve problems. Symbolic gestures like offering to pay money for their departure don't solve any problems; it only serves to offend, degrade, and alienate.

You might also be interested to hear that Sweden comes in at 118 in the global organized crime index, UK is 61, USA is 67, Germany 80 etc [1].

[0] 'you (...) say "The people who have a problem with this are racist" ' - I never said that, and I don't believe it either.

[1] https://ocindex.net/rankings?f=rankings&view=List&group=Coun...
First time entrepreneurs are also learning how to build culture. No excuse, but still.
Yet another step into ChromeOSissification of the Web.
Maybe autocommit mode is set? I'd expect that.
Yes, press the play button on the world map here:

https://ourworldindata.org/which-countries-smoke-most
Yep. It can be done.
Advertisement disclaimer.

Bluesky is a VC-funded corporate network that expects return on investment while saying it is open. Up until the present date that same company made it difficult for anyone to run their own server, only permitting to self-host their own data rather than the promoted decentralized open data: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080334/bluesky-self-hos...

It also restricts anyone from adding their algorithms or even create new clients to access the data. It is a _defacto_ walled garden that somehow gets promoted on mainstream media. The same media that largely ignored open platforms, or when mentioning them has adopted a negative tone. That media has forgot that the same brazilian person they called names is now living in a country under effective control with walled gardens: https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-do...

The same ignored Nostr counts today with +700 volunteer-based servers that are decentralized and permit anyone, anywhere, to publish their own texts: https://nostr.watch/relays/find

HN, it is time to make a stand if you want to keep the internet free.
Break up Google fast. We need tech to return to the true hacker spirit.