skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> business wants it this way

Of course they want it. It's purely objective for them and purely deceptive to the consumer. Therefore, it's the perfect thing for the FTC to regulate - I mean this is what their purpose is.

Enforcement will be difficult, but I really think platforms like Amazon isn't the problem. They're a unified platform, it's pretty easy for them to enforce better review. Maybe you need to have actually bought the product, maybe they monitor product descriptions for asking for reviews, maybe they audit packages for those little "review us 5 stars!" slips, maybe they prevent modifying products, etc.

The true tough thing to enforce is little shops. You know, convenience stores, smoke shops, that type. I've been told, verbally, many times that if I review 5 stars, I get some discount. I doubt the FTC will send physical agents to check that.
SAP Gains over $17B in Market Value After Guidance Upgrade
Not the author of the OP link, but we don't find any gap between senior and junior candidates (a reasonable proxy for age) on remote preference in our data set. Every subcohort is somewhere in the high 30s to low 40s, all within a few percent and well within MOE for the size of those subgroups even if you treat the sample as completely independent (which of course it is not).
I have been fortunate to only work with technical product owners, or ones wise enough to listen to the more technical when deciding a path forward.
But surely B&W TVs only exist with analog tuners?
“1 + 1 = 2” is only true in our imagination, according to logical deterministic rules we’ve created. But reality is, at its most fundamental level, probabilistic rather than deterministic.

Luckily, our imaginary reality of precision is close enough to the true reality of probability that it enables us to build things like computer chips (i.e., all of modern civilization). And yet, the nature of physics requires error correction for those chips. This problem becomes more obvious when working at the quantum scale, where quantum error correction remains basically unsolved.

I’m just reframing the problem of finding a grand unified theory of physics that encompasses a seemingly deterministic macro with a seemingly probabilistic micro. I say seemingly, because it seems that macro-mysteries like dark matter will have a more elegant and predictive solution once we understand how micro-probabilities create macro-effects. I suspect that the answer will be that one plus one is usually equal to two, but that under odd circumstances, are not. That’s the kind of math that will unlock new frontiers for hacking the nature of our reality.
This is wild... PHP server with electron client.. I'm genuinely impressed. It's been many years since I worked with PHP. Back in the days before proper namespaces etc. This just blows my mind. What an incredible effort, I will definitely be helping with this project in my free time. We need more crazy projects like this!
I came from Ruby and Elixir. It is always implicit returns. When I started writing TypeScript, having to have explicit returns was my number 1 bug.

People can adapt either way. You can write more concise code with implicit returns and "everything is an expression".
I bet if such an effective drug were created, that just like Ozempic, we'd end up in a situation where the rich buy it up and use it to increase their advantage thus only widening the wealth gap. Like some dystopian Monkey's paw effect.
Wait, am I crazy for thinking relations are not sets? Two sets can be coextensive without the relation have the same intension, no? Like the set of all Kings of Mars and the set of Queens of Jupiter are coextensive, but the relations are different because they have different truth conditions. Or am I misunderstanding?
"now" being 2021. 2021 was still solidly within the pandemic. It would be interesting to see if that number has gone up or down since then.
Larger businesses tend to be more on-site focused.
I'm one of the team members at Genmo that worked on Mochi 1. Let me know if you have questions :)
> If failure means you lose your one chance in your life of completing a marathon, be conservative

Strongly disagree here. There are many marathons. Push yourself as hard as you can. Worst case, you miss and can’t attempt again. But you had fun and have plenty of other things you can do with your time and physique.
Texas has a marksmanship test for a license to carry, but you can carry without a license.
No. It being an ongoing problem doesn't mean they're not trying to fix it. Is that the only evidence you have? "Problem exists"? Some problems are just... hard problems.

Google has massive issues with SEO spam, and has for a long time. Does that mean they're not trying to deliver higher quality search results?
Open the sidebar, click on your username/email and then "Feature Preview". Don't know if it depends on the "What best describes your work" setting but you can also change that here: https://claude.ai/settings/profile (I have "Engineering").
A fun story, making a wrong right.
The recruiters who are messaging you can’t all be internal recruiters. Explain to external recruiters why you’re looking for a slight change of direction and ask if they have something more suitable for you.
* Finally managed to generate JSON output without embedding responses in ```json\n...\n``` for no reason.

* Managed to put error/info messages into a separate key instead of concatenating them with stringified JSON in the main body of the response.

* Taught Claude to treat numeric integer strings as integers to avoid embarrassment when the user asks it for a "two-digit random number between 1-50, like 11" and Claude replies with 111.
> Embracing, extending, and extinguishing their own tool?

Consider how C# support in VSCode got nerfed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31760684

https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5276

There was another event only a few months ago, but I can't find the reference.
That is uncharitable and dismissive.
>> The final rule prohibits businesses from providing compensation or other incentives.

Amazon has had this rule in place for a long time and I still get cards in the boxes of the stuff I buy, "Give us a 5 star review and get 30% off your next purchase!"

Clearly Amazon doesn't know about this or isn't generally enforcing it. I'm wondering how the FTC is going to patrol this since Amazon has already had this rule in place for a while and it hasn't dissuaded sellers from changing their habits.
UK Ofcom: Social media algorithms must be adjusted to prevent misinformation fro
Quote:

Social media algorithms must be adjusted to prevent misinformation from spreading, the chief executive of Ofcom has warned

Next: halting problem must be solved. :)
AI and new tools have broken the system. The tools send you email saying things like "X corp is interested in you!" and you send a resume, and you don't hear back. Nothing, not even a rejection.

Eventually you stop believing them, understanding it for the marketing spam that it is. Direct submissions are better, but only slightly. Recruiters are much better, in general, since they have a relationship with a real person at the company and can actually get your resume in front of eyes. But yeah, tools like ziprecruiter, careerboutique, jobot, etc are worse than useless: by lying to you about interest they actively discourage you from looking. There are no good alternatives (I'd love to learn I'm wrong), so you have to keep using those bad tools anyway.
Your analysis doesn't support your claim. Just to point out one basic flaw, real engineering always has to account for financial realities including cash flow as a constraint or optimization parameter.

I don't think you even understand what software engineering is. If we want to limit the discussion to just software development as a craft and take out the engineering aspects then you might have a point, but that's not what the SWEBOK is about.

And in fairness, most real world software projects can produce good enough results without applying real engineering practices. If you're just building yet another CRUD web app then rigorous engineering is hardly required or even economically justified.
Definitely yes to the first: the index implementation is fully integrated with PlanetScale's sharding layer, so you can scale horizontally as much as you need. This works very well in practice: the sharding layer, Vitess, is extremely well battle tested with petabyte-sized clusters in production, and our vector indexes are like any other table on the cluster, so it really scales horizontally with very predictable performance.

As for separating storage and compute: we don't do that. One of our key sells here is that this is vector data fully integrated into your relational database with ACID semantics. Very hard to do separate storage and compute and keep this behavior!
Jony Ive's former design team is nearly all gone from Apple, has it mattered?
I find it so hard to understand this type of militancy. In what other situation is it normal to respond to the statement "I have a preference for X" with "no you don't / you have issues / take responsibility for yourself"? I prefer working with others around and I'd like to work with others who feel the same way. That isn't a personal attack on you or anyone else :)
A more canonical means would be to use the runtime directory. Explicitly setting a Runtime directory= for each would be appropriate.

I get your point. Yeah as a newbie flipping on random options listed under "sandbox" may be bad for you. But this hardly seems like a good dig against a well integrated unit process that has lots on tap to do the job very very well, in a succint manner.
advice to OP - you hurt your own credibility posting on medium dot com. just blog on huggingface or substack or hashnode.
> It would be an example of ruinous empathy.

Setting aside empathy, giving some thought about how we can slow the rate of change and/or cushion the fall for those affected is also in our self-interest.

As the number of people who have little left to lose grows, it destabilizes society and sets the stage for populism and revolution. Are cheap goods really so important that we're willing to leave our children to deal with another round of communism vs fascism?
Maybe the name for the "hate speech" is poorly chosen, since it's not necessarily about "hate".
Differential Learning
Go to the left sidebar, open the dropdown menu labeled with your account email at the bottom, click Feature Preview, enable LaTeX Rendering.
I never said it's the best, it's actually pretty bad at it (and if you re-read what I've written, you'd see that I consider Capitalism to be a form of totalitarianism). It's just arguably miles ahead of the alternatives that currently exist…
One big cost I can see right away is environmental issues and water shortages in areas where AI data centers would run. No one is bothering about it now.

Getting better models at the edge would help in this to some extent as it will decentralise the runtime of AI (still model training would happen in data centers)
I'm not sure why you keep using the term fanatics in what should be a civil cpnversation - it makes me think that either you have an agenda you're trying to hide your simply put you're an extremely rude person.
In Ruby and Elixir, it is implicit returns. That's always been like that, and people working with those languages don't have a problem with it. When I started writing Typescript, I was screaming internally at the explicit returns.

So I think this has more to do with how people are used to thinking with the languages they are fluent in.
> use jemalloc for linux targets

Why is that? Or, why isn't it required for other targets?
Oh, yeah it is in "Feature Preview" (not in Settings though), my bad!
There are three things I refuse to do for any company. I have never had a problem finding a job, even in "down markets". It does greatly constrain which companies are a fit, but I think understanding your own boundaries and being honest about it is actually crucially important to being happy at work.

My three refusals / boundaries are:

1. Work permanently from an office building, unless I am given a private office with a door that closes and locks.

2. Work within waterfall processes for software projects.

3. Work on an almost entirely outsourced team (whether that's "on-shore" or "off-shore" is irrelevant, contractors don't have skin in the game)

That's pretty much it, I'm otherwise remarkably flexible and have done a lot of interesting stuff in a lot of different domains through my relatively lengthy career. I've been permanent remote since 2015, so since well before the current WFH shift. For senior level technical people with unique skills, you've always had the leverage to set boundaries in even really poor labor markets, and even more so as you move up in corporate rank.

If I'm given a private office with a door that locks in a reasonably decent office building, and I am paid an appropriate amount to live within a reasonable commute without sacrificing my quality of life, I'd consider working in an office again for awhile. But so far I've never had a company that is willing to provide private offices for anyone below senior executive (SVP+) level, so remote it is.
Related:

Standing desks may be bad for your health, study suggests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862258
By definition a dogwhistle appears to not mean anything specific to anyone but the target group. So even human moderators can't moderate it.
I dont think that is a contradiction to the parent post.

It certainly seems like there is a shift in supply and demand. When getting hired is hard and you have mortgage payments due, how many people are willing or able to turn down offers because they are "WFH" only.
```I think Rust makes a great prototyping and deploy straight to production language.```

How?
Congratulations, you've won a car!

If you choose to drive it, it's full price.
Holy shit Docker is 11 years old.
Nice. Seems like good warmup for PULP before doing Occamy for real? At a much smaller scale?

https://pulp-platform.org/occamy/
Captchas are toast.
Discussion (20 points, 1 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916246
Autodidacts learn by doing themselves. I am not sure they're going to dig this whole book learning concept.
It could be Japanese beeper slang and mean Q.
> We know that cars are neither binding nor addictive because people regularly move to cities and sell their only car with little difficulty

Little difficulty? Is this a joke or do we have different definitions of difficulty?

There're hardly any cities in the US with adequate transportation, number 1. I live in a city; you probably do to. You REQUIRE your car, as do 99.9999% of all cities in the US. Some don't, like NYC - but even there you're pushing it. It's not London.

> as if ridding ourselves of cars would magically make everything close

That's exactly what it does, because everything is far because of the car. It's urban sprawl. We don't have more "stuff", rather we waste the majority of our spaces on infrastructure for cars. Roads, parking, etc.

> Before the car, going to town was an all-day affair in the horse drawn carriage

That's just not true. People live in the town, that's why it's a town. Are you a farmer or something? No, you live in an urban area. You're IN the town, your town is just car centric and therefore it sucks ass to navigate.

> Rather than trying to kill cars, why not attempt to build better rail infrastructure

Sigh... okay:

1. Nobody on Earth is trying to kill cars, including me.

2. The reason rail is bad and isn't getting better is BECAUSE of cars and car-centric infrastructure. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on car infrastructure. That's money not going to public transportation, despite being public funds. If we divert even a fraction of that money, we can have a huge impact. But there's blockers, people like you. In addition, to make rail effective you have to not waste miles and miles of space on urban sprawl. But people love their automobiles and 2 hour commutes.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916246
It's quite sad that application interoperability requires parsing text passed via pipes instead of exchanging structured information.

Like others said, worse is better.
Strangely enough, I saw a promo on my United flight the other day that their latest cabin refreshes feature screens in every seatback. I thought airlines were going in the other direction.
I did, however, specifically use future tense in my post. I agree that we're not there yet but I don't think that we have plateaud. The rapid spurts in GenAI from nothing to what we've got today in such a short amount of time is not sustainable, but we're still seeing improvements all the time.

I don't understand the LLM/logic analogy, other than that there's still things about GenAI that are lacking today.

Current GenAI is not streamlined for asset generation. But I think there is a huge opportunity to go into that niche and address the problems that currently exist.
The state of CSS3 animations in 2024
Fair point, it's not just a modern convention but yes, I think in theory a state constitution could be changed to make the whole legislature appointed by the governor or chosen by lottery or whatever.
If that's your threat model, then you either need to build your own CDN (from the data center up) or find a vendor willing to sell you the features you need. It won't be cheap.
This is a really poorly informed article, almost unbearable to read due to the conflation of issues. Content moderation existed before modern AI. Then the article claims that most moderation decisions are actually (exploited) human labor, which I find extremely difficult to believe – even with simpler classifiers. Yes, Amazon used human labor for their small-scale (later shut down) stores. We have seen that trick to drive product hype, it happens. That does not mean FB, Instagram etc uses human labor for “nearly all decisions”. But even if they did, “AI” did not create the gore/csam/abuse content (again, yet), nor the need to moderate public cesspool ad-driven social media. You’re talking about a different issue with different economics and incentives.

There are a million things to criticize AI for, but this take is domain-illiterate – they’re simply drawing a connection between the hyped and fancy (currently AI) and poor working conditions in one part of the tech sector (content moderation).

Look, I’m sure the “data industry” has massive labor issues, heck these companies treat their warehouse workers like crap. Maybe there are companies who exploit workers more in order to train AI models. But the article is clearly about human-created content moderation for social media.

Of all the things AI does, it is pretty good at determining what’s in an image or video. Personally I think sifting through troves of garbage for abusive photos and videos (the most traumatizing for workers) is one of the better applications for AI. (Then you’ll see another sob story article about these people losing their jobs.)
very cool stuff! I just read the SPFresh paper a few days ago and was wondering if it's been implemented in industry (e.g. Turbopuffer's implementation of SPANN).

I'd be curious how y'all represent the posting lists for each partition in InnoDB:

- what IDs are you storing in the posting lists?

- how are the posting lists represented on disk? are they using compression and/or some form of skip indexing? the paper seemed to use a pretty simple block-based representation, but I'm curious what works well in practice.

- how do the posting list data structures themselves handle incremental updates and MVCC?
I've found that doing some research and finding the phone number of the hiring person and calling them directly is very powerful.
Most of the example you cite were not outpaced by the competition in the same market - they missed the boat when their tech space got disrupted by a completely new and different alternative to their product.
I think the practical economics of the LLM business are becoming clearer in recent times. Huge models are expensive to train and expensive to run. As long as it meets the average user's everyday needs, it's probably much more profitable to just continue with multimodal and fine-tuning development on smaller models.
not sure i understand the rsults. its based on qwen 32b which is 49.49, and your best model is 53.54. results havent shown that your approach adds significant value yet.

can you compare with just qwen 32b with CoT?
You aren't alone, although you're in the minority. In our data set, around 9% of candidates are looking for in-office work only (we find a similar value to the OP - 41% - looking for remote work only).

That's an advantage for you, though! Active desire to work in-office greatly reduces the amount of competition you're dealing with for jobs; all else equal, it should ~double your success rate.
EY fired staff for watching multiple online training courses at the same time
https://archive.ph/g7D9H
Ah I think he was making a point about the need being Boolean more so than a literal meaning of once. You said 1% which probably matches up to my usage of the tow feature. All good though, those rentals are definitely the most available but they rarely work for me as I usually need more time. They design it to be highly available for short store-to-home trips.

Occasionally I still rent, sometimes I need a bigger truck than I have due to weight.
ah, talk-no-jutsu, the most powerful weapon in a main character arsenal.
Don't let recruiters drive your career. Apply for jobs at companies you want to work for, and ask friends in the business to refer you.
I've been evaluating and building out small prototypes with all the usual suspects for backend Rust work. So far I've reluctantly agreed with the hive mind that Axum on balance is the best choice, despite being lower-level than I'd like.

Other contenders were Loco (but was TOO much like Rails) and Rocket (whose macros only started to bother me after writing more Rust).

Your framework seems to perfectly match my criteria of "batteries-included, but not too prescriptive". Great addition to the ecosystem!
I wonder what the ratio of "real human" posts vs mass-produced botspam is like in that dataset. Probably looks like the inside of a mortgage-backed security in 2006.
True.

Btw, does anyone have hands-on experience with such a truck like, say, an F150 lightning?
Trying to find a pricing page.. Anyone find one?
Buses and trams do that as well, or at least extremely close to it. If the next bus is in a minute, and it's going to the block you're going to, guess what - you can go where you want, whatever time you want.

This is the case in many areas. When I was in Romania, between buses, trams, and rail I could go wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted. There was always an option available, typically multiple overlapping options. Keep in mind this is a poor eastern European country.

Keep in mind it's also fast, like very fast. Going across the city was a 10-minute affair. Try driving across a big city like Dallas.
Doing anything at all probably costs more than $1M.
My only experience with Arkansas was waking up to a speeding ticket at 3 in the morning. Who puts out a speed trap at 3 in the fucking morning?

But if it’s anything like Oklahoma…
一 + 一 = ニ.
Mastery by Robert Greene, 2012
they have been toast for at least a decade if not two now. With OCR and captcha solving services like DeathByCaptcha or AntiCaptcha where it costs ~$2.99 per 1k successfully solved captchas, they are a non-issue amd takes about 5-10 lines of code added to your script to implement a solution.
Coming from Ruby and Elixir, Civet adds a lot of things I miss from those languages.

I still have gripes about runtimes such as Nodejs, but I don't expect something like Civet to solve those.