skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm also not sure why the CEO is being so pernicious with these tiny windows. Why only give your people 4 hours with no advance notice?

Especially since the company is proudly remote with employees all over the globe, and some of them might not even be awake to see this 4-hour window email.

This strikes me as performative and manipulative to show there are no more "dissenters".
so they had a free consultancy session with an expert you say? maybe more...im not surprised, the hiring process in IT is broken, and i blame HR for this
You're the one who directly took us from Palantir to sandwiches, in a clear attempt to distract from the core subject of manipulating humans on a mass scale without using "force"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_Drive
> So which employer expressly allows you to use company time and property to do non-company things? Oh, right... none.

Virtually all companies permit non-disruptive non-work discussions during the work day. "How was your weekend?", for example. Unless you're something like a voice actor, they can even usually occur while you work.
There are other requirements, such as evidence of not only the investment but the expenditure of the funds by the U.S. company on business expenses and a good business plan, but these are not onerous requirements. The challenge sometimes is the expenditure of the funds because a substantial amount needs to have been spent before applying for the E-2 visa and sometimes it can be hard to spend that money.
Nobody was arguing there should or shouldn't be a robot that only folds clothes. The subject you replied to be about was whether or not a robot for the purpose HAS to be humanoid to work or not. You've just been arguing different points.

But even for general purpose robots, my points above stand that future tech will mean plenty of non-humanoid shaped robots could be just as effective as general purpose robots as humanoid ones.
Even if it's double taxed, the salary differential would make it worth it.
Yes, it is absolutely more valuable to know what the code "should" be doing than to know what the code is doing

Otherwise there is no way to know what is expected behavior or just a mistake built into it by accident
you can stream the response in chunks of size N + K overlap and run the guardrails on each chunk.
This thing turned into exactly the horror its critics were worried it would. Their concerns were so confidently dismissed from all sides, it was so easy to paint them as naive idealists or hardhearted religious weirdos or anything. They were right and now canada is at the forefront of a modern eugenics movement.
Nice, now I can exhaust my monthly quota in 0.004s.
Associated discussion on the paper:

Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39301944
Switched about ten months ago and it’s been so good I forget it’s even not Google sometimes.
My tinfoil hat - this is all semi-intentional self-sabotage.

WordPress is itself a fork of a previous open-source GPL license. Meaning Mullenweg couldn't make it close source even if he wanted to.

He makes it pretty clear that he thinks all of WordPress should belong to him. So he's intentionally closing out the ecosystem by making it as hostile to third-parties as possible.

As some like to say, "the cruelty is the point".
Why slimy? They asked a question and you answered without charging for it. It's not their fault.
I think the vs. humans result should be taken with a huge grain of salt. These are blitz games, and their engine’s elo was far higher against humans than against other bots. So it’s likely that time was a factor, where humans are likely to flag (run out of time) or blunder in low time situations.

It’s still very cool that they could learn a very good eval function that doesn’t require search. I would’ve liked the authors to throw out the games where the Stockfish fallback kicked in though. Even for a human, mate in 2 vs mate in 10 is the difference between a win and a draw/loss on time.

I also would’ve liked to see a head to head with limited search depth Stockfish. That would tell us approximately how much of the search tree their eval function distilled.
Is there no alternative to Photoshop? Affinity or Pixelator don't cut it?
If you can find a genocide in post WW2 history that didn’t result in the failure of the perpetrators state, that only refutes the absolute strongest version of my claim. However that doesn’t refute my general claim that Genocidal states do in fact tend to dissolve over the following decades, and that history has examples of apartheid states—even heavily armed ones—dissolving into a single state democracy of all its people.

Looking at history the pattern is pretty clear, even though it is not absolute (nothing in history is).
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff blasts Microsoft's Copilot: 'It just doesn't work'
Oh that's a big one. Looks like there have been quite a few in the space actually.
That is a very interesting perspective of Haskell vs. Lisp., I don't come to programming from a math background, but I am Russian. Maybe that's why I always preferred Lisp-style instead of Haskell :)
Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as project broadens
Touch safe, how about lick safe?
I kinda feel like an idiot. But, I genuinely thought I was going to get the job. This is my passion, and I love talking about it. I just didn't think anyone would care.

Plus it's infuriating because I didn't get the job because I didn't know how to solve some random DP problem...
So, Musk was working on it?
Nokia N9 (2011) GUI Demo [video]
Rerank-2 and rerank-2-lite: the next generation of Voyage multilingual rerankers
The nice part of DIY ham stuff is that you don't, you can sell a kit without any issue.
My opinion is both parties are in the wrong, but everyone is piling on this guy and calling him mentally ill
This allows me to write code just like in plain english.no AI needed.
I could not do this in Lisp.
Writing code is like writing a novel now.Just a story with words.No type system needed to tell a story.

:: sibling ( node g -- sibling ) parent children remove-me first

Get a Node's parent, get the parents children, remove myself ( node ) and get the first child.
People who are searching for a place to move to. f5bot
If I fill out a W-7 as a non-American to get an ITIN - Is that then enough to open a credit card with say Navy Federal prior to even getting an address in the USA?
I'd like to have all my ducks in a row prior to even arriving if possible.

Grandfather fought in Vietnam.
We're All Just Looking for Connection
As Peter says, K1 is not a option for you because you're married. F2A will convert to immediate relative (either CR1 or IR1) once you become a US citizen.

CR1/IR1 is generally superior from the perspective of the immigrant spouse. However, CR1/IR1 does not allow derivatives, unlike F2A. If you have any children or stepchildren that don't have US citizenship or a green card, you will need to file a separate I-130 for them if you become a US citizen.
> are to be no off-topic conversations during work of any kind, and it would have to have been demonstrably enforced

This is silly.

Go read your contract. It most likely has something exactly like this in it, in addition to spelling out what you are allowed to use company property and time for. This is employer 101 level stuff folks.

> demonstrably enforced

Telling someone to get back to work once in a while is enforcement.

You can continue contorting this into some sort of pro-union/organization thing - but it is not.

These people literally:

1) Started their work day

2) Used their company-provided computer to browse the internet instead of working

3) Used their company-provided email address to sign up for a non-work-related website

4) If successful in creating the account, would proceed to spend company time gossiping about company policies.

On it's own that's a terminatable offense and a gross misuse of company time, money and property.
Find the manager of the people who interviewed you, explain it was your idea and your methodology of coming up with it. How would you even know the intricate details as an outsider? Give him a color printout with some fancy graphics if you're daring. Explain that this sort of reasoning comes from institutional knowledge you possess, which is the real asset that made this sort of optimization possible.

What's the worst that can happen? He tells you to fuck off? I know this isn't the movies, but I can't help but think; not an awful lot to lose in this situation...
these arent mistakes. why do you think they are?

Saving money ISNT the goal. If they caught an employee stealing $20 from another employee's purse, it it would be cheaper to simply reimburse the victim $20, but obviously there is more to it. You dont want to employ thieves and condone theft.
> Curious fact: both - libstdc++ and libc++ - do access to union member without any check that it is active now.

Accessing a data member that's within the common initial sequence[1] of both union alternatives is perfectly well-defined.[2]

However, it's true that in this case (I'm looking at libc++) the member isn't quite the same in both alternatives: In one case it's a `char:1` and in the other case a `size_t:1`. Also, in both cases it's nested inside an anonymous `struct __attribute__((packed))`, which means we're dealing with two different compiler extensions already. (Standard C++ supports anonymous unions,[3] but not anonymous structs.) So yes, pedantically speaking, they're relying on the compiler's behavior.

> I tried to avoid this using `std::byte[]`

I don't know about Rust, but in C++ you probably wouldn't be able to type-pun `std::byte[]` in all the ways you'd need to during constant evaluation (i.e., at constexpr time). C++20-and-later require `std::string` to be constexpr-friendly. So that's probably relevant to the library vendors' choices here.

[1] https://eel.is/c++draft/class.mem#def:common_initial_sequenc...

[2] https://eel.is/c++draft/class.mem#general-28

[3] https://eel.is/c++draft/class.union.anon
> it sounds like you’re saying that Android inherently leaks private data to Google, which is broader than even Apple fans tend to say.

Yes? I mean, not "leaks" - it's designed to upload your private data to Google and others.

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/study-reveals-scale-...

> Even when minimally configured and the handset is idle, with the notable exception of e/OS, these vendor-customised Android variants transmit substantial amounts of information to the OS developer and to third parties such as Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Facebook that have pre-installed system apps. There is no opt-out from this data collection.
wow, who hurt you ?
Idk I at least would've taken a "thank you for the idea". It's medical related so like I'm happy that I can help people. But, at least say thank you.
I think it was clever.
It’s another way of fighting back which could be more or less effective. (Right now I am dreading that I’ll need to change the database my RSS reader users because I can’t really use it commercially or open source the code.)
Because database products didn't build a platform in hopes that Amazon would add features to it, it's quite the opposite.

This looks more like Amazon copying products from successful sellers on its marketplace, then pushing them to the side.
Twitter has been dying since the moment it was born. It never turned a profit under Dorsey, sure as hell won't turn a profit under Musk, and will likely die after being traded around as a hot-potato asset after Elon liquidates. Maybe Zuckerburg will wake up with a chip on his shoulder and buy it to make "Twitter: A Meta Product". HN would sure get a kick out of that.

None of that really changes the popularity or adoption of federated alternatives, though. I think people are getting tired of social media and are cutting it out of their lives whether they realize it or not. Musk's politically-motivated ramblings definitely drove the knife in the back, but I'm not going to smile and pretend that @jack incorporating crypto features into Twitter wasn't cringeworthy and drove people away too. I never made a Twitter account specifically because I knew this would happen, and now that it's gone up in flames I don't find myself being more active on the fediverse. I think I just resent the whole thing as a vain and poorly commercialized popularity contest.
Ask HN: Is it possible to create an AI that will last a billion years?
It would need to keep operating even after humans have long gone extinct.

Is this technologically feasible?
US Tech Firms to Invest More Than $8B in U.K. Data Centers Amid AI Frenzy
This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_verification_system#Legal_... will begin to give you at least feel for the field.

If it reflects reality the areas which currently have rules are porn, social media and video games so whatever your mysterious plants are they're unlikely to have restrictions applied to them . Even those controls are restricted to certain geographic areas.

Admirably, in my opinion, the exception to this is Germany, which has gone some way to recognizing that perhaps allowing five year olds watch people having their heads blown off might be at least as problematic as letting the toddlers watch porn, still no mention of pictures of plants though.

I'm not a lawyer and I don't speak German so anyone who's interested in the German rules should confirm what I've said for themselves https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-JMedienSchSt...) .
> On a video call, everybody is watching how they look, if you're the one who isn't paying attention then you're the odd one out.

Not my experience in the slightest, and it is rather surprising to hear about others’ experiences from the comments in this thread.

While I don’t disagree that maybe other people do experience calls this way, I would ask: how can everyone simultaneously be watching themselves and also others for others to make a faux pax? It doesn’t seem possible.
postfix as MTA.
dovecot for IMAP.
opendkim, postfix-policyd-spf-python, and opendkim for authentication
a database to store mailbox and alias info. something like mariadb, postgresql, or just sqlite would do.

I wrote my own code to tie it all together, but there are tutorials that show how to do pretty much the same thing if you do some searching.

I have my email stack running on linux in a cheap VPS.

The main problem most people run into is having poor ip and/or domain reputation with the large mailbox providers. (gmail, yahoo, etc.) It takes time and not sending email that looks spammy to build enough reputation to get delivery to the inbox and avoid being sent to the spam folder. You can get an idea of domain/ip rep by signing up for google postmaster tools and entering your domain and ip or block of IPs from which you are sending. If you are lucky when you sign up for a cheap VPS you will get an IP address that does not have a bed ruputation or at least no reputation.

My setup is only for my personal, non-commercial stuff.

You could also use a setup like this with integrated with something like AWS SES in order to mitigate bad IP reputation.

edited to fix a typo
The reason the time (blitz) games make sense is because the distilled functionality is of a 50ms Stockfish eval function. The engine likely would perform worse as only the human would benefit from the additional time.

As for limited search tree I like the idea! I think it's tough to measure, since the time it takes to perform search across various depths vary wildly based on the complexity of the position. I feel like you would have to compile a dataset of specific positions identified to require significant depth of search to find a "good" move.
I think we're in agreement here. I never said the West inherently has more altruism. However, the West's high GDP is what enables Westerners to give more to free computing/internet-related projects offering excellent value.

Without a high GDP, there won't be much to give in the first place.
Regarding your first question, you would get a 60-day grace period following the end of your employment (limited, however, by your I-94 expiration date). During this 60-day period, you could remain in the U.S. and apply to change your status to another visa classification before the end of the 60-day period, such as to another work visa (if one is available) or a visitor visa. Regarding your second question, you are referring to an EB5 green card. That is too convoluted to explain here. If you are interested, you should consult with someone who specializes in EB5 green cards.
Send them a very large invoice for consulting with a letter attached explaining why.
Microsoft has blown their AI advantage. Perplexity.ai is what Bing could have been.
Had a similar thought. Azure Postgres has something similar to pg_parquet (pg_azure_storage), but we're looking into replacing it with pg_duckdb assuming the extension continues to mature.

It would be great if the Postgres community could get behind one good opensource extension for the various columnstore data use cases (querying data stored in an open columnstore format - delta, iceberg, etc. being one of them). pg_duckdb seems to have the best chance at being the goto extension for this.
I just installed 1.4 to check and it now appears to keep the font you've chosen.
That's a survivorship bias of astronomical proportions
> WordPress.org recommends a number of hosts.

It's worth pointing out that, of the hosts Wordpress.org just promoted (https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wp-engine-promotions/) 3 are owned by Automattic and the other 2 pay Automattic licensing/service fees.
All correct. Thanks!
It was the CTO. The methodology for it involves a background in genetics which they don't have. I just want a thank you. I've had product discussions before, but this has obviously never happened.
But it's a transparently biased and divisive article. The issue is complex but the article is simplified to the point of "red meat for the masses".
Because hydrogen fuel doesn’t make sense in any form. It is the darling of petroleum executives. Any engineer or sane person who pokes at it will see it makes no sense.
For the uninitiated (like me):

The Japanese Fifth Generation Project

https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/5thgen.htm
Oligodendroglial fatty acid metabolism as a CNS energy reserve
"How was your weekend" is not the same as spending a couple hours on a non-work related website.

This is not a union/organization issue. This is a very simple case of employees goofing off on the clock and being surprised the company found out about it.

There wouldn't even be an article about this had any of this occurred after hours or on breaks. The fact that breaks aren't even part of the discussion tells you without ambiguity these people were stealing company time, money and resources instead of doing the thing they were hired to do.
Well which one is it? Are the podcasts low quality or not? If they are, what the hell are you worried about? To be worried about, idk, disinformation from podcasts of all things is absolutely silliness. Won't someone think of the... podcast audiences? Fuckin what dude?
If you forget it's not Google, I don't want to sign up. I want something that reminds me all the time that it's not Google, mainly by its ability to actually find the things I search for.
You're right, in a way. This kind of speaking style you use is very welcome in the "therapy" areas but would be considered passive aggressive or creepy in the "brotherhood" ones. Using "therapy speak" on people who have said they dislike it (like you're using with me) is generally considered an insult, since it implies that I'm not your equal. You're basically talking down to me in a circuitous way which makes it difficult for me to address it directly. Right now, to a naive outsider, you are being the polite one and I'm being the impolite one, when in truth it's the opposite.
Even if they had literally disabled 80% of the functionality of wordpress, would that still be the concern of anyone other than WP Engine and their customers?

Why would anyone using open source software be required to use 100% of the functionality that the software is capable of providing?
That seems sort of beside the point. The existence of not-power-hungry Linux installs indicates that there’s something Microsoft could do about the problem.

For me, I like a convertible laptop which I cannot buy from Apple for any amount of money as far as I know. If I could have gotten a fully unlocked iPad I probably would have gone for that, but they don’t seem to exist. Yet, at least! Here’s hoping.

It actually would be nice if Microsoft would figure out their part of the mess, because that would give people the ability to trade money for battery life.
Up until he lost his goddamn mind to the alt-right meme machine, to Twitter, to Ambien (or whatever else he's on), and to his own ego.

He was successful because:

1) He got very lucky in the 90's tech boom. Right time, right place, won the lottery.

2) He had enough scientific, engineering, and science fiction education to appreciate and differentiate the 3 edges of:

* "physically possible"

* "possible within the constraints of a project that I can imagine"

* "possible within the constraints of a project that the market can imagine"

and to dream big nerdy dreams rather than to dream specifically of seeing line go up.

3) He was capable of pushing past the last constraint & occasionally the second constraint in a way that was persuasive enough to investors to power a reality distortion field composed of hope for a future that he understood to be technically possible, and convincing them that he was banking on his own success. This is a rare talent, and why tech co-founders have business co-founders. He was always able to put a down payment on these dreams because of #1.

4) Then once he had the money from investors, he put his companies almost entirely in the hands of enthusiastic engineers that were happy to be allowed to contribute to an epic project with actual funding to build the future, rather than spending their lives rotting away writing technical documentation for a defense prime or writing grant proposals or teaching CS101 in a community college or making the 17412nd mobile gacha game. They were given aggressive goals, an aggressive schedule, not a lot of salary, and not a lot of sleep, but free reign to make decisions, move quickly, and break things. The cult of Musk looked less like a religion and more like a fun university extracurricular research project, but for 60 hours a week w/ room & board paid.

Very little of the 'business community' has any special expertise beyond specific social skills, most of them have forced themselves into very-short-timeframe thinking, and they have no idea what's actually possible, when or how to put their faith in the engineers, or what might result. They distrust this entire caste & culture of people, and they perennially shortchange their efforts.

5) Other companies would have outsourced hundreds of parts on these projects primarily to protect management from liability should a project go wrong and the board demand that somebody be ritualistically fired. SpaceX & Tesla preferred to just build their own fabrication shop and hire people to run it, and vertical integration skipped over the prevailing GARGANTUAN market inefficiencies associated with running a complex private-sector supply chain, evidently because there's a top-down disrespect for the sanctity of MBA-type management and for the idea of being accountable to a board of these type of people.
Is that really kids liking history or is that kids thinking war is cool?

History is also largely a joke subject that's just interesting fun facts and dry US history repeated ad infinitum for most american grade schools.

I would say the only history class that was actually of any value for me in high school was AP modern european history.