skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

I've had managers like this. It's a sort of uncontrolled OCD if I'm being honest, particular painful as well if you know it's a kind, deeply well intended person.. unable to control their OCD. People with OCD applied to a technical field can be brilliant superstars, as is the case here. Of course I said, "maybe better if we part ways". And as I left, I got grilled on, let's say by way of example, how the company NAS worked. Then it became me giving a lesson in NAS 101 and simultaneously explaining how the setup was kosher, because he didn't know jack about NAS setup but had deep anxiety there was a problem. It's like asking a surgeon "I don't trust you, how do I know you're a good surgeon" "you need to explain why you're a good surgeon but also explain surgery on the whole to me at the same time because I don't know it".. after that I cried all the way to a better job with full trust.

Now you all think it's bad in tech, now try medicine. They use "360 reviews" and your "boss" is a bureaucratic admin. It's all politics. If you throw a rock, you'll hit ten people who use reviews as weapons. Telling people off face to face is frowned upon. Penting up the rage for the day the review comes, that is the "safe" method to blow off grievances. At point whichever narrative of their grievance becomes hyperbolic. Medicine itself is saturated with sociopaths, type A personalities, OCD, so there's a lot of people with a lot that they get mad about. If the boss wants you to be the fall guy, nothing you can do. If another department decides they don't like you, or they make you the fall guy, your boss will weigh the politics of the situation, and if you're not politically as important as that department, they'll gladly sacrifice you as a pawn towards their goal. I once got written up due to my deep, seething, hatred of women. The person writing it (now a cancer doctor), you see, they did not claim word nor action against women, for I had committed none. They had seen me make eye contact with a male coworker a single time and thought, "why was he not making eye contact with the FEMALE coworker" and went on a long, long rant expanding upon the basis of this event regarding my hatred of women, perhaps due to an innate psychic ability to read my thoughts, or at least that's how it read. In medicine, that writeup is then held against you. I'm a republican now, in part because of this type of culture and the power people can wield playing games such as this.
Every band improves over time as well and the Beatles hit pretty early. Without a time frame the comment is not that useful.
Because almost all news is just looking for a reason, any reason, to support some kind of narrative of angst and outrage to drive engagement.
And don't forget that the percentages are not global, but in small buckets. This makes the worst performers extremely valuable, because not only you have someone to get rid of, but if they are bad enough, the rest of the team knows who will be laid off, so they can be far less tense.

It's also bad for the high performers, as working in the same team is bad: Having 3 great performers in a team means at least one, if not two are going to get a middling review. Everyone's behavior gets warped in ways that don't align well with what would be good for the company
well well you could argue that they are supporting the use case, since they are not disallowing it as they do disallow it for a bunch of purposes such as training your own AI model our classifiers off of it
who is going to police the policeman?
One thing I have learned gardening is the importance of microflora. Which we also have in our guts.

Another theory I have (again, no idea if it's true) is that when people consume carbohydrates as the bulk of their diet for length of time the gut microflora changes to species that prefer those. And they signal to the person "hey, you need some dinner rolls right now!".
We started having a few developers have constant VSCode timeouts. We switched to GitHub devcontainers which have been great.
Can I take Karin Dreijer from Fever Ray instead?
Because it looks like a little chess king, instead of anything to do with Westinghouse or electronics?
For room-scale passive radar, search HN for IEEE 802.11bf and WiFi 7 Sensing.

https://github.com/Marsrocky/Awesome-WiFi-CSI-Sensing
> (can amateurs pick up pulsars?)

In theory, yes but it's supposed to be pretty tricky. Since it looks like you're up for making antennas, maybe this is for you:

https://britastro.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SmallApertu...

Vela is the "brightest" pulsar but is only visible in the southern hemisphere. B0329+54 is the "brightest" in the northern hemisphere.

Optical astrophotography has stacking software. Radio astronomy has a counterpart in folding software.
Yes, but after you get used to it, CADR, CADDR, etc are just a lot easier (and logical!) than SECOND, THIRD, ...
> This is a national security issue for the USA

I'm skeptical. If it was actually a national security issue those GPUs would not be allowed to be sold to civilians. You can't have something that is easily portable and readily available to and tradable between civilians in the US and realistically expect it not to get out.
The U.S. economy ($27 trillion in 2023) is largely services based, including "advertising." About 70% of U.S. GDP comes from industries like professional services, real estate, finance and health care. Manufacturing only accounts for around 10% of GDP, or $2.7 trillion in 2023. Apples's revenue, by comparison, was $383 billion. Advertising in the U.S. accounted for 1% or $270 billion.

From what I can see through Google search, Germany's GDP was around $5 trillion in 2023 with around 20% from manufacturing (or $1 trillion)--or about 3 Apple's.

Another comparison: the U.S. and German automotive industries were about the same in 2023. The coming of EV's will likely impact both countries, especially with pressure from China (and potentially Japan and South Korea.) EV's will also likely disrupt the after-market repair and parts industries, since they technically require less maintenance.
Ask HN: Are there any recent startup that do EMG like CTRL-Lab and Thalmic?
With the recent resurgent in EMG human-machine interface tech especially those that do hand pose estimation, I went to look around for possible start-ups that are working on its but got nothing from Google so far. And since I am not in SV, I would love to know of companies who are doing interesting thing in this field, if there are any...
> 99¢ vs. $1 for men

isn't it on the border of measurement error ? Would it be fair to say, after controlling for some variables the gender gap narrows down to 1% (which is a fairly small number if you ask me).

Like $1000 per year on a median salary in the US
Classic Books Updated with Illustrations Using AI
AI used to create illustrations for classic public domain books. One of the authors, Jason Gauci, is also the co-host of the Programming Throwdown podcast (also worked at Google Research and Facebook AI)
Now let's add millions of electric cars to the grid too.
And ban natural gas for heating too.
Hi, the helm chart uses the OSS PeerDB images.
The sh files were created to bootstrap the values files for easier (and faster) POCs.

You can append a `template` argument when running the script files which will lead to a set of values file being generated, which you can then modify accordingly.
There is a production guide for the same as we have customers in production using GitOps (ArgoCD) with the provided charts (https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb-enterprise/blob/main/PRO...)
The names CAR and CDR weren't invented for Lisp or FLPL. They came from assembly language mnemonics on the IBM 704, where the first Lisp interpreter was implemented.

The original Lisp CAR and CDR operations used the machine-level instructions with those names on the IBM 704.

Cons cells were stored in single words of the 36-bit memory and 36/38-bit registers, and the CAR and CDR operations accessed the "address" and "decrement" 15-bit parts of a word, respectively.
WriteMapper for Education
Since ~2017, Mitt Romney and anyone further left than him is 'Progressive'.
um... try reading the tweet maybe? it's adding massive new details about a different country altogether
> You think any of them gives a shit about Meta's ToS?

Really nobody should, about any ToS.
I've seen enough elections to know that, irrespective of the winner, the big picture will remain roughly the same; the rich will get richer, and everybody else will keep getting the leftovers. So, whenever someone says "this is the most important election ever", I shrug. The good thing about our system is that we can try again in 4 years if we make the wrong choice - look back and you'll see plenty of apocalyptical predictions for the victory of candidate X, Y or Z.
How about The GPL?
Maybe the reason we're still stuck with LaTeX and PDFs because ebook software can't be bothered to implement decent typesetting.
Anyone have experience with AI therapy that can weigh in on the value? Is it effective?

I’ve never done therapy. Mainly because everyone I know who has spoken about it seems to go through an exhausting search for years of finding a good match, and it seems to take months of visits before the assessment can be made.
Iran and North Korea have no problems sending troops to participate directly in hostilities against Ukraine but, there is no will in the EU or USA to send troops to Ukraine to help in logistics, air defense, and possibly training.

The EU won't even shoot down Russian drones and missiles that stray/fly over NATO Territory on their way to Ukraine. What is the West thinking, this behavior seriously undermines their relevancy on the world stage.
Wait until he NYTimes hears what Meta's open source can be used for too!
Glad I bought a NeXT Cube. Still looks like a futuristic otherworldly monolith. That Ross Perot had something to do with its inception still blows my mind.
When your company gets even a little big, the decision making process gets filtered through sufficient levels of management that it's not the company owner firing people at any time: It's an employee who doesn't necessarily have to be aligned at all with what is good for the company that is firing people at any time.

Eventually you learn that one of your middle managers managed to fire someone for some reason that is illegal, or is related to some kind of crime, and guess what? It seeps upward, and your company is in the wrong.

A process doesn't just protect the employee, it protects you from the iffy middle management that, without exception, gets in. And the more freedom you give them, the worse the behavior.
Joke conspiracy theory: it's all a conspiracy of mass media to paint AI as bad as they can, so when it becomes more energy-efficient it won't be able to disrupt their deceptive practices by de-hyping the headlines replacing them with impartial summaries (since all LLMs really can do are text transformations), thus upsetting the hidden attention economy. /bs

:o)

For real, though, is these something already out there that solves the clickbait problem?
There are likely casualties:

https://www.iswresearch.org/2024/11/russian-offensive-campai...
> They want to do their job, and get paid

Where "job" is defined in a narrowest way possible to assume minimum responsibility. Still want to get 200k+ salaries though...

This may sound extreme (it really isn't) but as Dr of Eng TP's job was to sus those folks out as early as possible and part ways (the kind where they go work for someone else). Some folks are completely irrational about their setups and no amount of appeasement in the form of "whys" and training is usually sufficient.
Yeah, bro, it’s an open model. You know who else supports the military? Linux. Oh shit, dawg, our open source goody two shoes software of techno Jesus permits military use. Oh man, thank god Kubernetes’ license doesn’t let it be deployed to USAF fighter jets. That would be awful.

I support open. Free as in free speech. Let’s go!
It's been rather shocking hearing one President candidate push Peskin-like policy (Trump), and the other the policies of Peskin's nemeses (Harris). Of course since Harris is from Oakland, slightly younger, and doesn't come from trust fund money, her background would be more likely to align with fair housing policy than Peskin.
Discussion about the strike on the front page (619 points, 1136 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795
Management are already hurt by the formation of the union, and not agreeing to a contract is their way of attempting to hurt the union back.

I'd agree with you if the situation suggested management were acting in good faith, but 6+ months to negotiate is them either not taking the union seriously or trying to wear them down and make union leadership look ineffective to members.
> If it was actually a national security issue those GPUs would not be allowed to be sold to civilians.

Fertilizer can be made into bombs yet it's still sold to civilians. I would argue that purchasing a Beirut amount of it and transporting it through a city would be of interest to national security.

Likewise, there's a difference between a GPU and over 1000+ AI servers
They will still make a real alternative, it's in their own national security interests to do so.
It's not that a single GPU is a national security issue (although the law treats it like such).

It's that selling MILLIONS of GPUs is a national security issue.

Enforcing the first is a fool's errand, but the second one is much more doable.
Which is a non-issue for the US military. Not a TOS, nor cost, nor technical expertise is going to stop this sort of technology from being applied to armed forces.

If anyone's upset at Meta for this, they're getting angry at the wrong people...
tru but at least they can stifle it and make it very expensive by shutting down as many channels as possible. The law, even when it's as stupid as banning encryption algorithm exports in the 90's, must be obeyed, but I think ultimately this is useless, China will make their own eventually, this is an uphill battle.
> One has to talk to peers, subordinates and superiors and do anonymous feedback, in addition to random checks

But the article claims you can't trust peer reviews, and that managers should just "know" what their reports (in this case line managers) are up to / how good they are...
Barack Obama already did.
Eye color, unlike Race or Gender, is pretty evenly distributed over the obvious confounding variables like "Age" or "Preference of staying home with children". I'd expect it to be +/- 10%, though probably not "equal" enough to keep "disparate impact" folks from calling it out.
Just a note, add death and disability insurance. My hope is that 18 yrs from now you'll be cursing my advice since you didn't need it but life is unpredictable so you never know.
Reddit and Twitter are flooded with semi automated political bots. And it will just get worse. Given that Llama is free to use why does Mera even have to give permission, how would they know?

It will reinforce the political lines of those with the most resources/motivation who can afford the most human like bots in the greatest number. No way mere humans with only a single manual account each can hope to be influential on those topics.

The sooner everyone realizes this the better. I think it means we need to move towards verified user accounts, that tell people you are a real person in the actual country, in any place where there are parties who have interests in manipulation.
Walmart has used LLMs to create or improve 850M pieces of data in their catalog
> Should we not require any due process under law, because the officer "just knew" that it was that brown guy who stole the bread?

This is a bit fallacious and a false analogy. Due process under law exists because it's definable. We have standards for evidence, burden of proof, reasonable doubt, etc.

The challenges in cleanly defining what it means to be a "good employee" don't somehow mean other aspects of society that can be defined shouldn't be.
To be fair, though, this thread is about things that HOAs can do but local governments can't, and local governments can and do ban short-term rentals in some places.
The full poem is also in the article.

(sorry to be That Person, but I'm really hoping Hacker News doesn't eventually become like Reddit where the comments are almost completely divorced from the content of the article).
Local Llama 3.1 8B

Q: Does this this title sounds like clickbait? "Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes"

A: Yes, that title sounds like clickbait. Here's why:

1. It's sensational: The word "Permits" implies a significant or surprising decision, which grabs attention.
2. It's vague: The title doesn't provide much context about what kind of military purposes or what specific A.I. models are involved.
3. It's designed to elicit a reaction: The title is likely intended to provoke a strong emotional response, such as surprise, concern, or excitement, rather than simply informing readers about a fact.

A more neutral and informative title might be: "Meta Expands Use of A.I. Models for U.S. Military Applications"

However, it's worth noting that the title still has some implications of significance and interest, and it's not necessarily a straightforward clickbait title.
> There are a lot of resources that tend to be needed to set up a program. There tend to be very few needed once the program is running.

I think this is true for simple programs, and less true the more complex a program is.

What about programs that due to their nature need to frequently make new network connections, or to periodically check config files?

> How would you block all file system access after a program is finished reading its config files, the files they include, and the shared libraries and plugins scattered around the file system? How would you turn off all network access after the listening socket is established?

This could be done with seccomp, although it would be more work than it is to use pledge (although a pledge 'port' also exists), it could also be done with things like SELinux.

> Pledge makes everything you're talking about work trivially,

I was talking about more complete sandboxing, and pledge doesn't allow for that. Pledge is substantially more limited in scope.

> the only thing that's needed is for the program to opt in

That's actually a pretty big issue. If all the software you want to use is in the ports tree I guess it's fine, but what about for untrusted or complex code? Say, running an instance of Oracle, or a torrent program that by it's nature constantly needs to make network connections and write/read different files? Pledge is little help in these cases, and especially ineffective as any attempt at sandboxing such applications.
Is there a browser plugin that:

1. clicks the link
2. reads the article
3. rewrites the link title in less clickbaity terms?

It seems possible.
> isn't it on the border of measurement error?

At least going by that payscale.com link, I don't think so. That is compiled from 600K+ responses, so they have enough data to measure small differences with some confidence, I think. I didn't sign up to download the full dataset though, so I'm mostly going by their claims.

Quoting from the article:

Although $0.99 may seem very close to $1, the red line in the chart
below has never crossed the dotted $1 line in blue representing men’s
pay. Even when women are doing the same jobs, the gender pay gap is
not zero.

If it were a "lost in measurement error" thing, I would expect that chart to have a lot more noise in it — some years women would be above men, other years below (that said, I do wish the charts had error bars). Instead, it's showing a small-but-consistent difference repeated across the years.
Also Lithium, proven in studies.
Well, I was mostly breaking the case for Biblical Literalism.

Catholics believes the Bible to be a collection of stories, and that God wants us to know these stories. Certain elements of the Bible are taken as truth, but so are long running traditions (such as the Assumption of Mary, an event that is NOT in the Bible).

Indeed: Catholics treat the Bible as just one of many traditions and even as other traditions beyond the Bible in terms of truth.

IE: Biblical Literalism (trying to take the Bible as LITERALLY True or historical) is a mistake. And ignoring other traditions (ex: assumption of Mary) is also a big mistake.

Still, the myth of Biblical Literalism exists today. Because well... Catholicism is not the only interpretation and some other Christians have a different belief system.
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Of course someone did. The clear and obvious interpretation is saying that “making the jobs safer” is an alternative to “a group does more dangerous jobs and dangerous jobs should be paid more”
Yup domain mappings for now. There is some label support in Cloud Run but I haven’t explored it yet. You can also get the automatic domain name for a service via the cloud run tools.

Yeah I definitely want to also avoid a load balancer or gateway or end points as well for cost purposes.
Would they work on BSD/MacOS? It’s not just gnu vs rust out there.
Hah, "small" -- my HOA consists of two condo buildings, seven units total. We basically have to beg three people to fill out the required three board positions every year, because no one (myself included) wants to do it.

A friend of mine is a member of a little HOA that consists only of himself and his downstairs neighbor.

So much pointless overhead...
Walmart Reports Second Quarter Results [pdf]
Did you read the intro? It was telling someone presenting with OCD to continue checking the oven. It’s not better than nothing when it is validating (with no knowledge) and encouraging obsessive anxieties.
I don't think Dreamweaver was "too complicated" [1] and I recall seeing tons of sites in the 90s, some managed by hand, some by program (whether custom written or commercial). Yes, that might have been early adapters of technology, but I recall seeing web sites from as many non-technical people as technical (and I'm not talking about GeoCites either).

Hindsight is always 20/20. I don't think it was centralization via GeoCities and Tripod was a major misstep. Yes, possibly a misstep, but there were several along the way (Javascript and Active-X are two that come to mind).

[1] Just how stupid do we need to assume a user is? A person who has never seen a phone would still need training on how to use it, and that's not a hard thing to use at all.
Oh, so you're the sucker.

All sizzle, no steak.
Good question! I’m not so familiar with it.

It looks like Daft is closer to Lance with it’s own data format and engine. But I’d appreciate more insights from users or the creators.
Willful ignorance, at best.
> I take handfuls of corn and stuff to throw around their backyard when I go visit.

Wow, it's a wonder your sister hasn't stopped inviting you over.
Surely, every other time you've raised this argument, people have pointed out that job seniority is a desirable and highly contested variable? Saying that it makes sense, because fewer women and minorities are promoted, does not actually support your point. Don't control for job title.
Thank you. That indeed sounds like an idea. I am going to work on it. I am also planning to actively try to work on some well-used open source app where there is need for contributors.
Yeah…why would they need to bother with secretly arranging for their gpus to go to China given that there is excess demand in the free world.
Close this loophole and another one opens. The ban was and is incredibly shortsighted.
Might as well. You can't stop foreign militaries from getting their hands on it and doing the same