skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I came into my former company, I took a fairly hard line that I wanted bylines on stuff I wrote--which wasn't the norm at the time but I mostly got because I was somewhat known and browbeat people into it. Still did some ghostwriting for various execs and for web copy that wasn't bylined.
What’s your reading group?

I took a DS class and (poorly) implemented Paxos a few years ago. I’m curious about how others continue learning about DS.
I like Matt, he's both a caring guy and a sensitive guy. As a sensitive and caring guy myself who tried the CEO thing, I think sadly, those are not particularly useful "top qualities" for that job.
But who owns the trademark? The for-profit company, or the nonprofit foundation?
Larvicidal Activity of Hemp Extracts and CBD Against the Yellow Fever Mosquito
Not much younger anymore but still following Wordpress. This time the difference is GPT which writes and modifies html static site as if it was WP render.
Once neural networks enter the scene, I don't think giving the same output for a given input is possible in the field currently. I believe this is as open as language models can be, and what people mean when they say it's a "fully open source" model.
I would just like to point out the irony of claiming that people live in a way inconsistent with scientific rigour, based solely on personal experience.
You're right. LLMs can't currently index pages like a search engine in real-time, only from training data.

Even when they hit the Internet to answer a question they're still using a search engine, ie search engines will absolutely still be required going into the future.
Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill
In theory. Most staff at classic department stores didn't last quite that long.

There's a local chocolate shop that has lots of turnover because they hire college girls to staff them most of the time. But the owner is on top of it, keeping good records, and about two weeks before Valentine's Day, they call me and say, Devilbunny, this is so-and-so from Chocolate Shop By You, you bought some chocolate-covered strawberries last year, would you like to order again this year? Yes, here's my credit card, and I'll pick them up after 3 pm on the 13th. Thank you, see you then. I walk up to the window, pick them up, bring them home, and say happy Valentine's. It's really the only thing she wants (I get her flowers but not roses - why be so cheesy when every other flower is like, half-price?) specifically. They make it easy to spend money with them instead of someone else. I don't have to wait more than a minute - they have a dedicated window for prepaid orders. That's service, and it's worth the small premium.
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The general consensus of commentators seems to be that Matt is wrong in the way he approached this matter. Going by the wisdom of the crowds, maybe that's true.

However, my question is this: has WPE given a factual rebuttal to Matt's claims? Especially, considering that their entire business is dependent on WordPress?

I am concerned that in the eagerness to judge Matt's conflict of interest, we should not throw out the baby with the bath water.
You might say it was NSFW.
I don't think it was a "complete failure" since we are talking about it here. I remember the whole thing quite vividly from elementary school, and it really scared me away from drugs, even as an adult to this day.
>"Once blue PHOLED finally becomes available in 2025 or 2026, most display makers will integrate them in their OLED displays (single or tandem) and deliver further improvement in lifetime, brightness, and efficiency," Virey said.

This is much more important improvement than Tandem OLED. Although I dont think I could see that on an iPhone before 2030 judging from how slow Apple adopt technology.
One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous.
designori:managers::JZY:confucius?

(In terms of the hiring process)

Lowland scots: tried to shoehorn into rustic theme
It feels ironic if the only thing that the current wave of Ai enables (other than novelty cases) is a cutdown of software/coding jobs. I don't see it replacing math professionals too soon for a variety of reasons. From an outsiders perspective on the software industry it is like it's practioners voted to make themselves redundant - that seems to be the main takeaway of ai to normal non tech people ive chatted with.

Many people have anecdotally, when I tell them what I do for a living, have told me that any other profession would have the common sense/street smarts to not make their scarce skill redundant. It goes further than that; many professions have license requirements, unions, professional bodies, etc to enforce this scarcity on the behalf on their members. After all a scarce career in most economies is one not just of wealth but higher social standing.

If all it does is allow us to churn more high level software, which let's be honest is demand inelastic due to mostly large margins on software products (i.e. they would of paid a person anyway due to ROI) it doesn't seem it will add much to society other than shifting profit in tech from Labor to Capital/owners. May replace call centre jobs too I guess and some low level writing jobs/marketing. Haven't seen any real new use cases that change my life yet positively other than an odd picture/ai app, fake social posts,annoying AI assistants in apps, maybe some teaching resources that would of been made/easy to acquire anyway by other means etc. I could easily live without these things.

If this is all it is seems Ai will do or mostly do it seems like a bit of a disappointment. Especially for the massive amount of money going into it.
*2010/2011.
Faked their observation and thus their interpretation. To trust one's alleged observations is to trust the interpretations based on them.

OP suggest was to always observe, no matter the person, which is what TFA is doing.

Feel free to expand on what you think is the problem and solution if you feel everyone is off-target.
There's a project called MisterFPGA, there's probably a C64 core available.
What does "Source Available" mean exactly?

Does it mean all our source code is on Github but you cannot use it to host your own instance for commercial purposes but okay for personal projects?
2 sites, my blog and a online book I wrote
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/details-of-swiss...

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/how-the-us-tax-evasion....
I constantly get graphical glitches on my Zenbook Duo 2024. Would recommend against going Intel if you want to use Linux.
Effectum – a Rust job queue library based on SQLite
...and replace it with what, exactly?

I mean, I liked Drupal, still do, but the business for custom Drupal sites dried up and moved onto WordPress with (insert builder of choice here). Teaching anything on Drupal was like pulling teeth, even in the D7 and D8+ eras. And I'm not aware of any demand for Backdrop / Concrete5 / whatever sites. WordPress even ate up whatever demand there was for Magento (good riddance IMO).

Everyone moved to WordPress because it's easy to teach clients on, the dev costs are reasonable, and there's a really good plugin ecosystem to counter the platform's faults. You can absolutely build unique sites on WordPress and lock them down too.

If WordPress dies, everyone moves to SquareSpace (which is proprietary) or socials (in other words, doesn't have a web presence).
Someone will win the lottery. It just won't ever be you.
Check out Ampleforth, fair supply distribution
Took a quick look at your blog. Some of those examples are quite bad, similar to the fake gels in the Science article. Do you know if any of them gained particular attention?
Blatant fraud is rare in physics, engineering, chemistry. Lying is rare. Quality is high at the highest institutions of physics and chemistry. Exaggerated claims occur, but much less than in day to day life. Top visibility work is quickly reproduced. Reproduction is the essence of science.
From Mullenwegs personal website (https://ma.tt)

> Afterward, I also privately shared with [ThePrimeagen] the cell phone for Heather Brunner, the WP Engine CEO, so she can hop on or debate these points. As far as I’ve heard she hasn’t responded. Why is WP Engine scared of talking to journalists live?

this is not normal.
Project Nightingale
> this fact and the use of raft in production has caused real, large scale network outages.

Paxos as well, I remember full cloud GCP outage that had something to do with Paxos, and I can’t find the data on it but I thought there was a nasty bug in zookeeper paxos implementation.

That isn’t to say any of these are perfect or bug free, it’s made by humans and we’re going to make mistakes, but my experience implementing both was I had a working raft implementation and paxos baked my brain until I gave up.

I think everyone uses raft _because_ it was possible to implement for a working dev, so there are a number of implementations, and it’s easier to understand the phases the application is in.

I’ll check out VSR I appreciate the rec.
They are suggesting that it’s easy to make mistakes when writing the JWT auth code as opposed to just talking to the IdP using TLs
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 meeting at GRAIL in Menlo Park
I'm only tangential to the area, but my impression over the decades is that what is going to happen is that, eventually, designing the next generation is going to require more resources than the current generation can provide, thereby putting a hard stop at the exponential growth stage.

I'd even dare to claim we are already at the point where the growth has stopped, but even then you will only see the effect in a decade or so as there are still many small low-hanging fruits you can fix, but no big improvements.
The fine folks at JetBrains already have done just that:

https://www.jetbrains.com/guide/pytest/tutorials/visual_pyte...
It's worth noting that Matt Mullenweg invested in WP Engine's Series A.
Why did you specify “non-lawyers”? Did you mean to imply that something written by lawyers would be unbiased? And where did I ever claim that this was unbiased? It’s the “End Software Patents Wiki”; it’s about as biased as it gets. But I thought you wanted arguments, so I linked it. If you want to dismiss them without reading them, that’s up to you.
A lot of it’s about transferable skills, which good teachers tend to accumulate a lot of. For one thing, they have to have their shit together better than your average office worker, just to get by in their profession. They tend to have excellent organizational and planning skills, and are very good at packaging and presenting information. That’s a very-partial list, and doesn’t even cover topic-specific skills they may pick up. They’re often very good and quick at picking up things like project management, or any other communication- and organization-heavy role. Marketing. Lots of things they can get up to speed on really fast. It doesn’t hurt that in a lot of places (in the US) the pay’s so poor that they don’t exactly need to move directly into even a mid-tier office job to make more than they do with 10+ years teaching—a tad above entry-level can match or beat what they’re making, and it goes up fast from there (something they tend to find thrilling and surprising—hey, look, you get actual rewards and advancement in pay for doing great at your job, not just a a monochrome certificate someone ran off on the school laser printer!)
I mean, I'm at most fine with being able to occasionally use an llm for a low-risk, otherwise predictable, small-surface area, mostly boilerplate set of problems I shouldn't be spending energy on anyway. I'm excited about potentially replacing my ( to me) recentish 2019 macbook pro with an M4, if it's a good value for me. However, I have zero interest in built-in AI features of any product, and it hasn't even crossed my mind why it would. The novelty wore off last year, and its presence in my OS is going to be at most incidental to the efficiency advantages of the hardware advancements; at worst, it'll annoy the hell of me and I'll look for ways to permanently disable any first-party integration. Haven't even paid attention to the news around what will be coming in the latest MacOS, but I'm hoping it'll be ignorable like the features that exist for iPhone users are.
In Canada, there was a lot of controversy over the government awarding ~$200M in contracts to one consultancy, almost always without competitive bidding. They chronically underdelivered, e.g.:

There has been much scrutiny over how much the ArriveCAN app cost to develop and who was subcontracted for its development. Contracts show that the federal government will spend close to $54 million with 23 separate subcontractors. A Parliamentary committee ordered federal departments to submit contracting documents related to the app but have been told that the names of subcontractors cannot be released citing issues of confidentiality. In October 2022, two developers at two separate IT companies took part in a hackathon where they both developed duplicates of the ArriveCAN app in under two days, for an estimated cost of $250,000.

Surely the actual app was more complicated than the hackathon duplicates. But where in between $250k and $54m should the cost have been? To be fair, I read estimates saying Healthcare.gov cost around $500m, and a friend who I know is a great engineer worked on that (albeit in a rescue capacity). And a single F-35 costs $80m, so maybe we need to triage things.
I have never understood why anyone gives a flying f about openresty and lua.

Openresty is the most toxic, rude, entitled “community” I’ve ever experienced. And Lua is a garbage language stuck in the 1980s, used by people afflicted with NIH. Lua’s entire ecosystem is copy-n-paste hell.
UBS paid a nearly $800M fine to the US, they didn't collapse because they could pay that. At least a couple of Swiss banks collapsed when they went through actual prosecution, but around 100 Swiss banks paid absolutely enormous fines to avoid prosecution in a political deal between the US and Switzerland with the implication that if they continued helping Americans hide assets they'd be prosecuted for all of it anyway. The fines were actually sized correctly for once, 20% to 50% of the total of assets Americans had hidden in them.
Tcl/Tk is the primary script language for many EDA tool flows. Perhaps its pervasiveness may wane as open source alternatives gradually improve and gain market penetration.
Here's a Wayback mirror since the server appears to be struggling: http://web.archive.org/web/20240402165313/https://isoe-netwo...

Edit: While the above link works for me, this link might work better for some: http://web.archive.org/web/20240402165313if_/https://isoe-ne...
I won't pretend that working with python in nix is a dream, but most of the complexity you see there is more about the author's "hmm that didn't work let's try this" writing style.

I was also tempted to chronicle my journey, since learning nix is a bit of an undertaking, so I sympathize with the author here, but under the knife of a good editor most of that section would go away.

It's actually quite easy to use nix to install globally whichever version of python you pick at random and then to override that with a specific version of python and specific packages on a per-project basis. Well, for 90% of the packages at least. The other 10% of the time you can either bail and use an imperatively created venv or take the hero's path and add special case code to poetry2nix such that the offending package now works cleanly for everyone.

People often complain about that: you shouldn't have to become a nix package maintainer just to be a nix user. And yeah we'd all like that. But there's something cool about how the line between the two is so thin. I feel like nix has given me many more opportunities to be that hero than I'd have found elsewhere. I don't always take the call, but I have once or twice, and plenty of other people do too. It's something that feels magical about nix. A problem solved somewhere can easily be a problem solved everywhere. The hard part becomes sorting through all the competing solutions.
You're definitely seeing the consequences of papers being written in the past when large-scale fraudulent analysis wasn't that feasible, and now you have all this tech that can scoop it up and look for those "needle in a haystack" instances of fraud.

I'm thinking about all the plagiarism issues uncovered with the publications of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay (and, similarly, of Neri Oxman, the wife of Bill Ackman, who basically was exposed due to Ackman's campaign against Gay). I looked over all the instances of plagiarism in detail, and, while not excusing them, they seemed like less of egregious theft of others' ideas and more like laziness/sloppiness. But I could easily imagine that laziness/sloppiness being fostered by an idea of "How could someone really check this word-for-word anyway?"

Well, now we have tech that makes it almost trivially easy to expose this type of misconduct.
Alternately, look at one recent example of massive waste as a result of accepting fraudulent research as valid.

> Hundreds of millions of dollars and [16] years of research across an entire field may have been wasted due to potentially falsified data that helped lay the foundation for the leading hypothesis of what causes Alzheimer’s disease.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9016221/alzheimers-research-poten...
I was a longtime newspaper person and I agree that things like AP attribution were generally pretty clear. I doubt the average reader noticed.
Yes, humans have always been the problem.
[citation needed]

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I conjecture the most common underlying motive is to embellish cv, and climb the academic ladder.
The thing is that none of this matters. This is what happens when you get too zoomed in on the tiny little island you live on and make a total ass of yourself.
> Modeling a human brain, a cephalopod brain and a corvid brain aren’t even mutually exclusive

Take an existing implementation, ChatGPT4 or whatever - is it closer to a brain of a rat or of Albert Einstein?

If you are not sure, then, we, it’s just have some sort of intelligence, not ‘model of a human brain’.

I would wager it’s closer to a rat.

Also the phrase implies that we understand the difference between human brain vs brain of an elephant. For some reason humans are more capable, it’s not just size. At the moment we don’t understand.
You can look at the NPU software stack here:

https://github.com/intel/linux-npu-driver/blob/main/docs/ove...

The Linux driver is specific to Linux, but the software on top of that like oneAPI and OpenVINO are cross platform I think.
This was not used to commingle authority vs the stories they reported themselves, and is in no way comparable to what cnn is doing, ie leveraging their site rank to juice traffic to trash content for ad dollars.
Plot twist: it’s the Black Mirror take on Autofac
I had a similar experience with my young son. One of our best memories together was telling a long bus ride in pouring rain, just watching the scenery roll by. He is 21 now, and still finally remembered that trip.
The fact that some areas are gray shouldn't prevent us from demanding legal consequences when the fraud is gross and deliberate, as appears to be the case here.
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It's not a race though. Once the fraud is committed to record it can no longer advance in sophistication. Mechanisms for detection will continue to advance.
Are you okay trying something from the early 2000s internet? If that is the case, then you might try this following exercise. Look at things around in your room and then immediately start describing them with as much detail as you can. The whole exercise sort of grates your brain against reality and this makes it much better to come up with things where it needs to and remember it.

Then you start doing this after closing your eyes. Pick up any scene and then immediately start describing it in as much details as you can. The point is to have details which are really minute and tiny such as how does a chair feel like, what is the texture, what is the color, what does the texture feel like on your hand, how high is the seat, how high are the things around you. Trick is to keep going for at least 1-2 minutes without thinking about what to say next.
This is all because science is systematic (step by step), not systemic (considering the whole system).

Both perspectives are required to understand reality. [1]

It's time to update science.

[1] "Systems Engineering: A systemic and systematic methodology for solving complex problems." Joseph Kasser, 2019. p. 17
The CPU: Arm Cortex-X925's Breakthrough with a 15% IPC Improvement
> My conclusions were flat out wrong and there was nothing to salvage from the data.

Wow that’s pretty crazy. I have to say many times in my career I’ve been writing a paper and realized “** there’s a bug”, and had to redo everything. But the overall conclusion never changed because the idea was grounded from several different angles(usually the pieces fit together even better). One bug might invalidate your result, but even if your code was correct the underlying assumptions behind the code could be wrong! I think the real issue was your boss wasn’t active enough in your work to make it robust to coding mistakes.
I have never experienced this. Notification fatigue is always engineering’s fault.

I have faced my share of micromanagers but nobody has ever told me how to set my notifications.
> All attempts I've seen so far have dropped functionality to get there.

Well, then I recommend you take a look at Racket's macro system: Racket gives you hygienic macros without any loss of power. (It's actually more powerful and expressive than CL macros.)
Barry Apppelman, for a long time the boss of all the Unix engineers, said malice was preferable to incompetence because malice would take breaks.
Endgame Tablebase
> why does it come by default on most distros given its history?

Most distros are made by some high schooler as a weekend project. Fork Ubuntu, add some wacky experimental GUI, done.

And the distros that aren't like that are made by big corporations who only care about securing servers and kiosks, home desktops really aren't their concern.
OSHA has entered the chat.
In reinforcement learning pre-training reduces peak performance. We can argue about this, but it is not a sufficiently strong point to stop reading from alone.
Surely the incentive mismatch isn’t this simple:

Big results are rewarded, the process is considered worthless?
> The organizations who fund the research are (finally) beginning to require it [0][1], and some journals encourage it

Feels like wrong way round - organisations paying for journals should be demanding it as proof?
I think this suggestion contains the implicit bias that “replication isn’t important or challenging”, hence you leave it to trainees. Actually, replication is incredibly challenging. Put PhD students on it, and they’ll be convinced the original study was fraud for 4 years until they finally have the skill to get it right!
> how slow Apple adopt technology.

Aren’t they only slow to adopt new display technology.

Everything else they either lead or are on par with, no?

Biometrics, Spatial Audio, health sensors, SOS phone calls, etc.