skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, things are not great, but they're not nearly so bad as you make them sound. Inflation hurt, but it's falling, and interest rates should follow soon. Employment is high. Housing costs are terrible. It's a mixed bag, but it's not the doom that you claim.

Second: Even if things are bad, they are not so bad that they can't be made much worse. It's easier to not make a dumb move than it is to make a smart one. We may not know how to make things better, but at least let's not make things worse. "We have to do something, X is something, therefore we have to do X" is extremely poor reasoning. No, if things are bad, we have to do something that will actually help.
> I worry (and have already read worrying things) about “cheating detection” tools that have been deployed in schools.

This is my worry as well.

Punishment for cheating can be can easily set back a student a year or more. This is fair if the student has been cheating, but really harsh.

So while this isn't criminal court, I think schools should apply the same principles here: innocent until proven guilty.

And in my view, secret probability distributions isn't exactly good proof.

Furthermore, to make it even worse: if someone is actually innocent it will be next to impossible to argue their innocence since everyone will trust the system and as far as I can see the system cannot be actually verified by a board without disclosing the weights. And that is assuming they would care to try to help a student prove their innocence in the first place.

AFAIK this is a topic that has been explored to some depth in science fiction, but more importantly, we have case like the mail service in UK where multiple people lost their jobs because nobody could belive the system they had built or paid for could make such crazy mistakes.

Back to students: For a less privileged student I guess it can easily ruin their studies. TBH as someone who struggled a lot in school I am not sure I'd finished if I had gotten my studies delayed by a year. Which would have been sad, given how well I have managed once I didn't have to juggle full time studies and part time work.

Recently (last year and this) we (Norway) have had some debates that seemed to be way overdue regarding what can ve considered cheating (with some ridiculous examples of students getting punished for "self-plagiarism" for the most absurd things, including not specifying a failed previous exam written by themselves as a source).

This could easily have gotten nowhere except for the fact that:

1. the person in charge of the board of appeals was caught for something else

2. Somebody took the effort to dig out the master thesis from two ministers, including the then sitting Minister of Education and proved that they had clearly been "cheating" according to the rules that they were judging students by.
Indeed. Heck even VCRs were rare back then - how many people happened to record that and then thought to go back frame by frame to pick the address up?

It was an entirely different time indeed!
There are digital forms of currency already but barring that, you can still manage centralized trust with distributed communication.

Ie: maybe I trust a mechanism by Google/Apple where tap becomes powered locally and the phone/device itself carries a balance.

It’s true that these solutions don’t exist today but they are not far away with the amount of pressure we are talking about by losing the internet.

Also, credit cards used to work in a similar way to checks. The information would be recorded and the transaction would be finalized later.

I came across a pre-magnetic-strip credit card years ago… it’s pretty fascinating how currency has evolved in the last half-century. There is no reason for me to think that it will stop where we are at today.
> "Why can’t one of the most popular websites in the world run on gum and a few paper clips"

The answer is almost always: Cloud Costs, Kubernetes and Resume-driven architectures.
> Negotiations between it and the Times hit logjams over things like a “just cause” provision that prevents the company from firing workers unless it’s for something like misconduct, as well as pay increases, pay equity, and return-to-office policies, reports the Times.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/4/24287600/new-york-times-t...

I dunno. It is a negotiation between the union and the company. They might not have prepared much marketing material because they aren’t really selling anything to those of us in the general public, right?
And the folding will hide parameters if they flow to a second line, ime.

Whether this is on by default or not is not the issue. It's just getting "smart" folding in vscode that would be the feature win.
Locals newspapers were a grocery shopper and a comic book that dabbled in journalism as well.
> it's for the managers to know "what up"

If a manager wastes 30 minutes of their teams time every day because they can't figure out 'what up' from their task management software or quick 1-on-1 meetings, I can confidently assert they're a shit manager.
>> The Hell’s Angels used to stage concerts in San Francisco in 1967-68, and Big Brother & the Holding Company played in some of them. You can find posters promoting these shows on the web.
The original k8s paper mentioned that the only use case was a low latency and a high latency workflow combination and the resource allocation is based on that. The generic idea is that you can easily move low latency work between nodes and there are no serios repercussions when a high latency job fails.

Based on this information, it is hard to justify to even consider k8s for the problem that gitpod has.
"See Figure 1".
It's the same in the US, but the NY Times is probably the most financially successful newspaper in the world at this point. They are not only the #1 news source by reputation, they made a huge push into digital very early and sell subscriptions to news, gaming (they have the #1 crossword and wordle), cooking, product reviews and sports. They supposedly make as much money on games as news which is why the message from the union has been to boycott wordle today.
The curse of dimensionality in neural network embeddings actually serves a valuable purpose, contrary to what might seem intuitive. While the tendency for distances to become more uniform and large in high-dimensional spaces might appear problematic, this characteristic helps maintain clear separation between different semantic concepts. Rather than aiming for uniform coverage of the embedding space, neural networks benefit from having distinct clusters with meaningful gaps between them – much like how a library benefits from having clear separation between different subject areas, rather than books being randomly distributed throughout the space.

The high dimensionality of embeddings provides several key advantages during training and inference. The additional dimensions allow the network to better preserve both local and global relationships between data points, while providing the capacity to capture subtle semantic nuances. This extra capacity helps prevent information bottlenecks and provides more pathways for gradient descent during training, leading to more stable optimization. In essence, the high-dimensional nature of embeddings, despite its counterintuitive properties, is a feature rather than a bug in neural network architecture.

TL;DR: High-dimensional embeddings in neural networks are actually beneficial - the extra dimensions help keep different concepts clearly separated and make training more stable, even though the distances between points become more uniform.
Feels a bit a like the matrix, having a synthetic population simulate an entire country: https://matsim.org/examples/sbb/
Mazda only enabled the touch on the LCD when the car was stopped. It seems that with the Gen4 models (2019 onward) they just cost-reduced the sensing circuit out of the design and nobody has really complained. Taking that layer out also reduces the spidering issue when the OCA fill rewets.
Ask HN: Can high school math be motivated by writing code to train and use LLMs?
Might this approach better motivate high school students to learn math and computer science?
I have thrown people under the bus while under pressure from my manager to explain why reviewing a Pull Request takes me several hours or days while other members did it in a few minutes. It was the wrong thing to do but the pressure was unbearable.
Cost of living has gotten really insane today compared to a couple decades ago.

Its pretty easy to go to college on loans and rack up $150k in debt for an average 4-year degree. Its easy to spend $35k-$50k on a new car, even 10 year old cars in good shape are $10k-$15k. Housing costs vary a lot more by area, but I think most would agree its extremely expensive these days.

The idea that a young family could have $5,000/mo just in debt payments between school, vehicles, and housing is insane to me. That doesn't even account for day to day expenses, children, vacations, etc.
> the fact you have to be dealing with a set of containers that could change if the base layer changed meant instability

Can you expand on this? Are you talking about containers you create?
Right, you can change punctuation to clarify it. However, it doesn't change the fact that the Oxford comma could make the list readable as a parenthetical phrase.

I'm not saying the Oxford comma is bad. I'm just saying that it isn't 100% perfect as many people imply.
Hotter take: IPv6 isn't going to happen. Most people's needs are met by NAT for clients and SNI routing for servers. We ran out of IPv4 addresses years ago. If it was actually a problem it would have happened then. It makes me sad for the p2p internet but it's true.

A response I've seen is that the relatively recent IPv4 price increases will change that. SNI routing solves that too.
Our what?
Catchup – Virtual Coffee for Slack
The date really doesn't matter, I promise. It's representative of the overall quality. And HBSD has been defunct/inactive for some of those 9 years, possibly the majority of them -- the 2nd developer left 5 years ago, for example.
The code might compile, but it does not functionally with in an empty game state. Resulting in an always win for the first player if he does not play on any diagonal
Of course, you can complain loudly about who’s on the ballot. But you don’t get to complain about the outcome of the election because you decided to opt out.
I mean, newspapers used to make all their money on classified ads which is why Craigslist has killed so much local news and Craig Newmark is now donating money to save journalism.
lol, I’ve never tried web serving from vimscript. I think handling sockets might be the hard part. bash is there too, and you can absolutely do simple web serving in bash, provided you also have netcat or socat https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd

Sadly it doesn’t appear either of those socket utilities are ported yet.
That is putting it mildly. Crumbs art is ridiculously over the top offensive.

Of course taboo-breaking was the point of underground comics.
I’ll jump in here - as a former new englander, the cheerful helping tone of all modern voice llms infuriates me. And the slow speed. And the over explanations. ChatGPT advanced can be induced to talk more quickly, less sycophantically and if I like in a not-bad regional accent; essentially I want it to mirror my tone better. But those inducements don’t stick between sessions.

On the technical side having some sort of continuation or summarization loop on seems interesting to me as a product feature. It’s not enough to build a company off of though. But it would be nice.
You know that Cloud Run is effectively a Kubernetes PaaS, right?
Rimworld is heavily inspired by Dwarf Fortress, so if you’re looking for more complex examples you don’t have to look far. DF is pretty granular with the physical and mental states of its characters - to the point that a character might lose a specific toe or get depressed about their situation - but of course it’s still a video game, not a scientific simulation of an AI society.
I would never treat them as anonymous. Expect that even if told they are that at some point someone could access your answers, for whatever reason they may have. I don't think you need to lie on them but I'd probably hold personal criticisms back and use a gentle touch. In essence, be positive and likeable.
I mean, I'm aware of the downsides, the OP asked why someone might use it. Ease of use seems like a reasonable upside
Fair question. Having not worked at an organization like the New York Times, I really don't know. 5 people would obviously be too few, and 2,000 people would be too many. Hacker News handles a huge amount of traffic to dynamic pages with basically zero (by comparison) technical maintenance. Twitter (though not doing well as a business) was overloaded with tech employees.
Striking is not damaging the workplace in any way other than removing employees. Actively misconfiguring equipment is a dismissable offense in pretty much every situation I've ever seen. It can also be considered criminal.
When I was four, I got a record player for Christmas. This one:

https://djcj.website/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/denim_turnta...

My mom had a copy of Ray Charles' greatest hits. My favorite song was One Mint Julep. Quincy Jones did the arrangement. You can see by the wear on this record how much I listened to that song, as well as "Unchain My Heart" and "Hit the Road Jack."

https://djcj.website/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/one-mint-jul...

So much great music. And when you watch interviews with other musicians with whom he crossed paths, they all talk about what an uplifting and positive influence he had on their lives.

Here's a interview with his longtime collaborator Tom Bähler. He has some really beautiful stories about his experiences with Quincy.

https://youtu.be/yIkP_XuIDeY?t=5197

And when he got together with Rod Temperton, the magic was next-level.

https://www.facebook.com/QuincyJones/posts/ill-never-forget-...
I guess we disagree on whether unions should fight for enough wages for their workers to support a family.
>I can’t help but think those people don’t understand that $100k is very much the new $45k of the 2000s, and has much less purchasing power than the latter did at the time.

False. $45k in 2005 is only $73k today, when adjusted for inflation[1]. Even if you use the most generous interpretation of "2000s" to mean 2000, that's only $82k.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Typically in IoT you'll use an soc that actually supported some kind of network connection
Not really that different from other forms of illegal content coming from countries without an extradition treaty. (Piracy, scam calls, CP, etc.) Trying to stop it by imposing onerous restrictions on your own citizens isn't likely to be effective.
It's a walled garden in the way that matter most, which is that if the things inside the wall get back, you can't take your account/social graph and go outside the garden.
One of the most effective motivators I’ve seen is combining math and computer science with game development. Language models on their own can be a bit dry, but if you integrate them as agents in a game world alongside math-based challenges, it could be really engaging. I remember Raspberry Pi’s Educational Minecraft; using a setup like that, where you train characters to have their own personalities, could be an exciting way to teach both
People will laugh at it, but pet bereavement should absolutely be a thing. The saddest I've ever been in my life was when my dog died. Perhaps seven days is a bit much, but when you go to the bargaining table you don't start with what you want, you start past that point then negotiate down.
How interested are the students in writing code and LLMs?

How good a match is that sort of math for the required-syllabus & standardized test math that they'll be expected to know?

What's your budget for computers & software that can do the code & LLM stuff?
I do agree with the points in article that k8s is not a good fit for development environments.

In my opinion, k8s is great for stable and consistent deployment/orchestration of applications. Dev environments by default are in a constant state of flux.

I don’t understand the need for “cloud development environments” though. Isn’t the point of containerized apps is to avoid the need for synchronizing dev envs amongst teams?

Or maybe this product is supposed to decrease onboarding friction?
That is not what the union asked for.

The guild said it was asking readers to honor its digital picket line by not playing Times Games products, such as Wordle, and not using the Cooking app.
the router vendor never tested any of the ipv6 support. ipv6 firewall was broken in the UI, and iptables commands were blocked on the CLI. so there was no ipv6 firewall (it was allow-all)
Google employee here. Not the case. Cloud Run doesn't run on Kubernetes. It supports the Knative interface which is an OSS project for Kubernetes-based serverless. But Cloud Run is a fully managed service that sits directly atop Borg (https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/securing/security).
Interesting. I spot checked the Boeing strike, and it does seem like unions often aren't too specific about their demands in public. I guess a lot of stuff that I thought came from unions is actually coming from internal reports like this.
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Sequencing Swabs
Maybe that’s part of it but there are so many moving parts in a near-realtime CMS and world class publishing platform, so 600 people doesn’t surprise me when you consider the scope and scale of the NYT
Yes.

Extra points if you are familiar enough with the documentation to find the answer quickly.
Sure, but the workers don't have to take a shave to prop up a failing business model. Sure, they COULD just go somewhere else, but it's reasonable to first negotiate with the employer, because, ideally, the employer doesn't want a whole section of their workforce to just leave.

When I was much younger, a few years out of high school, I ended up being the last developer on a sinking ship, and had asked for a pay raise to get me up to where the highest paid of the employees who had left were, IIRC that was around $5/hr, and was denied. I should have used that as an RGE, but instead just hung on until around a year later when a job fell into my lap. But the employer would have been hurting if I left, and was definitely more expensive for them to lose me than it would have to keep me. But in the end, the parent company folded a couple years later because of a very, very bad bet they made.
TukDB: The Search Database of the Future
I think this is good, you gain versioning for free
Stop. Just stop this madness. Nobody needs any new formats.

We had s-expressions. They were OK.

We had ASN.1. It was OK.

We had .ini files. They were OK-ish.

We had XML. It was OK.

We had JSON. It was OK.

We had YAML. It was OK.

We had TOML. It was OK.

We had probably a million other fundamentally isomorphic solutions to this basically trivial problem, and each of them was more or less OK.

What is not OK is endless proliferation because somebody has some trivial gripe and wants to make a name for themselves.
Relevant: https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/1852847683666641124

And my take on intrinsics, they add, not remove, complexity. For no gain.

Awful, relative to writing (or reading) asm.
Remote work made so much sense for all the reasons you’ve listed.
Hard disagree but it'd be fine to have it as an option, of course. The author mentioned an outline -- if we could have that as a separate page, easily toggled with a key combination, that'd be sweet.

Code folding by default triggers thoughts of the annoying, mostly useless TypeScript d files that VSCode dumps you in to when you ctrl/cmd click into a function. The only reason I do that is to see implementation details so I can figure out why something's not working. If third-party library d files were replaced by pre-folded source, I guess that'd be OK.
Show HN: Vessal–Looking for Feedback
A rat is an intelligent creature but also lives in filth.
The Pixel 7 series has an optical sensor under the display. I wonder how some oil/cream/etc helps? The newer ones have ultrasonic sensors, so that should be better.
> You know that Cloud Run is a Kubernetes PaaS, right?

Yup. Isn't it Knative Serving or a home grown Google alternative to it? https://knative.dev/docs/serving/

The key is I am not managing Kubernetes and I am not paying for it - it is a fool's errand, and incredibly rarely needed. Who cares what is underneath the simple Cloud Run developer UX? What matters for me is cost, simplicity, speed and understandability. You get that with Cloud Run, and you don't with Kubernetes.
What does apollo do? Seems like AI tailored cold emailing.
Hi all,

I'm Connor, founder of Vessal, and wanted to (1) share with the group and (2) collect any feedback or suggestions you all may have.

Briefly, Vessal aims to make transportation private and secure. In some ways, it can be equated to a "VPN for transportation."

We are still relatively in our infancy, and therefore may be a little clunky sometimes as far as usability. Of course, we are always striving to improve!

Thanks for your time and taking a look, and again, we appreciate any feedback or suggestions you may have.

Connor
I’ve been around long enough to have had frame pointers pretty ubiquitously, then lost them, and now starting to have them again. The dark times in the middle were painful. For the software I’ve worked on, the easy dynamic profiling using frame pointers (eg using DTrace) has given far more in performance wins than omitting them would have. (Part of my beef with the article is that while edge cases do break some samples, in practice it’s a very small fraction, and almost by definition not the important ones if you’re trying to find heavy on-CPU code paths.)

I get that some use cases may be better without frame pointers. A well-resourced team can always recompile the world, whichever the default is. It’s just that my experience is that most software is not already perfectly tuned and I’d much rather the default be more easily observable.
Thanks for the reply. It's not just prints, though. Cards, photobooks, and other items are on the list. So it really does need to be usable for her.
> The workforce is absolutely full of people who value their work and its impact on other people above all else regardless of how poorly they’re paid or treated.

They're called juniors, and haven't yet been broken by the system.

> If you’re a teacher, bus driver, emergency responder, nurse, transit operator, power/gas workers etc. you’re most likely not getting paid much or nearly enough, but would never dream of bringing this “idgaf, pay me” attitude to work.

Have you seen the state of these professions? That's the prevailing attitude at the moment, and the reasons are obvious.
For a time there were automatic transmission cars with push buttons. I think it was a 1950s/60s Great Idea. If I remember you had to reach around the steering wheel to access them.

Never used one but it fell out of favor.
> If we decide we're full, that's ok.

We've got both a declining birth rate and an economy that demands growth. Our biggest competitor is 4x our size. We have vast open spaces, and a history of repeatedly, successfully incorporating waves of immigrants. We're not even remotely full.