skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one sided. Facebook have all the data for how AcmeShop's products are selling. They are free to use this information to undercut AcmeShop's products with data AcmeShop does not have on Facebook.

Yes, it's a better deal on the face of it, but as soon as AcmeShop goes out of business, competition is gone and Facebook can charge whatever they want. And we all know from the US markets that low to no competition does not benefit the consumer in any way.
How AI is beating VCs in their own game
Today we're excited to announce our provisional patent application and paper on arXiv: GPTree

GPTree outperforms the randomness by ~10x and the world's best experts by ~3x.

The cool part is that:

1. It's explainable, not a blackbox. A decision tree that humans can understand.

2. Human-machine harmony wins over machine-only and human-only decision making processes.

3. It's potentially applicable and high performant to any decision making use-case.

We fine-tuned the model for our own use-case at Vela Partners, picking outlier startups at their inception stage.

The reason why we love this research problem is that humans are so bad at picking startups at their inception stage.

For context, only 2% of the US-based investor-backed startups become an outlier return at the inception stage. Y Combinator and tier-1 VCs hovers around ~3% and ~6%, respectively. Ten-fold cross-validated GPTree is at 8% and most fined-tuned version is at ~18%.

Please take a moment to take a deep breath and let that sync in...

GPTree can find 1 outlier startup out of 5 of its investments at the inception stage. This may translate into a 10x+ return fund for whoever uses it if the future behaves as it forecasts.

Excited to hear the HN's feedback.
I don't want to be an "AI engineer" in the way the article means. There's nothing about that sort of job that I find interesting or exciting.

I hope there will still be room for devs in the future.
IME, “young” correlates with health b/c less time has been spent making it a mess… but, what’s really going on is the company’s culture and how it relates to quality work, aka, whether engineers are given the time to perform deep maintenance as the iteration concludes.

Maybe… to put it another way, it’s that time spent on quality isn’t time spent on discovery, but it’s only time spent on quality that gets you quality. So while a company is heavily focused on discovery - iteration, p/m fit, engineers figuring it out, etc - it’s not making a good codebase, and if they never carve out time to focus on quality, that won’t change.

That’s not entirely true - IMO, there’s a synergistic, not exclusionary relationship between the two - but it gets the idea across, I think.
Ah yes, the party of wealthy elites wants to tax incomes more than 400k, tax capital gains, is pro regulation. Whereas the party of working class wants to eliminate income tax, institute worldwide tariffs, is anti-regulation to the point of wanting to bring asbestos back. Makes total sense.
LLM code gen tools are really freaking good...at making the exact same react boilerplate app that everyone else has.

The moment you need to do something novel or complicated they choke up.

This is why I'm not very confident that tools like Vercel's v0 (https://v0.dev/) are useful for more than just playing around. It seems very impressive at first glance - but it's a mile wide and only an inch deep.
...If your goal was to force companies to hire native citizens wherever possible, and only H1B workers when absolutely necessary, that might be the point.
The slide I see says _revenue_. I think you have to consider cost of revenue too, and these EU fines affect that.

So if the EU goes to fines being "% of worldwide turnover"... do the math
True, and having the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy for us to judge.

The trouble is, Apple’s feedback process is so opaque that we can never know the details. All we have is the feeling of “a simple test of macOS with a third party firewall before unleashing it to the world would have shown the problem”.

For a piece of software on which countless people rely upon (which macOS and iOS are), the “beta” begins after exhausting all internal means of detecting regressions and unwanted behaviour. It’s not cheap but they can’t just dump something and expect unpaid, third party developers to report all the bugs (while never getting a reply on that feedback app).
I think most of the other commenters trying to suggest that RH is arms-length on Keycloak are missing that most of the core contributors work for RedHat.

> I am a strong proponent of open source. However, I believe that those who develop important projects should carefully consider the impact that their work can have. I think that for a centralized authentication system, a bypass of the two-factor authentication should be solved or at least mitigated in a timely manner: 10 months is a lot of time to fix a core feature of a security product.

What does the author propose as the solution here? Simply saying "you should be careful" isn't a solution. If you proposed a fix, where was the PR? Why is there no further discussion of what the holdups were?

My guess here, not being privy to internal communications: The RedHat folks were probably worried that a simple change like increasing the required access to add another 2FA would break some other functionality, or cause logical loopholes for situations where a user loses access to their 2nd factors. The result was that they were exceedingly careful/slow to get to testing and validation. Doesn't make it right. This guess comes from what I observed in my previous time at IBM -- I saw a lot of the company's open source contributions hung up in similar ways.
The trick that Jones has perfected is the ad pivot. When you watch most media, the line between content and ad is generally pretty clear. With jones, it was often very blurry. Like, he does do regular ads, but he'll also be ranting about globalists for 10 minutes and then drop in something like "They want to destroy your mind which is why you need our deep earth iodine crystals and sea algae which is proven to stop globalist mind control."

He does it pretty much out of habit. He literally did an ad pivot while on the stand in his court cases.
I encouraged my mother, who had short-term memory issues _and_ dementia to write things down. It backfired. She's write something down, like the fact that she got a call from her gardener, then obsess over it. She'd open the book over and over and then talk about the "odd" call she got from her gardener for weeks! We had to take the book and write things like "This issue has been resolved" under the things she wrote down.

I think an e-ink that we control remotely might work for her, too. We can put an item up there and then remove it as soon as it's not relevant anymore so she won't keep re-reading it and obsessing over it.
Gemini-Exp-1114
François as a contestant of ARC prize ?! For real ?
real firms do this too.

Pick up a local newspaper that is not well known.
> I imagine at the very least that the company formerly known as Twitter will be protected.

verified: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
Who is Alex Jones? /s
I work on such a team, and we don't refer to ourselves as "AI engineers". We're devs working on developing deep learning systems (but not genAI).
To me this is like: Why work for a big company? I worked for a big company once and did not like it. Kids out of college are always drawn to the big names, and they can look good on your resume.

My feeling is, if you want to work for a big company, work for a small one and make it big. I can say from experience that turns out really well.
Good for us I guess?
More like a case of “perhaps dont make judgements if your knowledge on the subject is aprox zero”. Again, same question as upthread - show me how prevailing wage is suppressing the market. The h1b could also been issued years ago like in 2021 for example
Stealthy Attributes of Apt Lazarus: Evading Detection with Extended Attributes
Is Amazon able to make a better value 3d printer?

If yes, seems like consumers win?

If no, then people will lose trust on Amazon over time and will use other shopping platforms. So Amazon is basically trading short-term profit for long-term profit.
But everyone piled on anyway; see the comment below where the writer opened with 'I have to be harsh about this'.

Classic Hacker News.
I'm not changing goalposts, I was responding to what you said about AI spitting out something wrong and you spending 3 hours debugging it.

My original point about not needing fundamentals would obviously require AI to, y'know, not hallucinate errors that take three hours to debug. We're clearly not there yet. The original goalposts remain the same.

Since human conversations often flow from one topic to another, in addition to the goal post of "not needing fundamentals" in my original post, my second post introduced a goalpost of "being broadly useful". You're correct that it's not the same goalpost as in my first comment, which is not unexpected, as the comment in question is also not my first comment.
The Onion reporting that bigfoot was spotted riding a log flume at an amusement park is, you know, an obviously untrue statement that readers are aware is untrue, told for amusement. Alex Jones saying that Sandy Hook parents are faking it and their children were never killed is ... it's different, man. It's a different thing.
Read some dozens of words of the article and see that the subject is "fault injection" ON A CHIP!!!

Good clarification for me since just now have some new code (on Windows in IBM's interpretive, scripting language Rexx) for detecting rare faults and want to test the code by creating, say, "injecting", faults! Soooo, now don't have to spend time on the article since apparently it does not apply to my current work!

Point: In general would like, e.g., more informative article titles and, earlier in the article, more clearity on the what the article is about. Related, would like more definitions of acronyms, e.g., MSM for "mainstream media". A point: Sometimes writers are narrowly focused on their subject, assume too much such "focus" for their likely audience, and early on might explain their subject more clearly! E.g., Hacker News is about hardware, say, "chips", yes, but also about software! Ah, right, as in general, not everyone will agree with the concern and point here!
How well are you able to handle live speaker diarization? I've been tinkering with building similar solutions, but unless you have previously labeled speakers things tend to go haywire once you have multiple speakers + crosstalk.
Sooner or later they will become enemies.
Without cause, you can't discriminate for citizenship.

Just like you can't discriminate by race, unless you're a film director you want a black actress to play Rosa Parks.
It's because they all identify as comedians.

(Yes, this is the one rightwing joke).
So source: “trust me bro”?
Yeah I got 3 months free to stay in my tiny Gowanus apartment. It ended up saving us enough to get us over the line on a down payment on a house later. It was a really fortunate turn in an otherwise miserable year.
is this the situation of POSIWID
I was thinking that too. This seems like a useful tool for a secret communication protocol.
Electric Clojure v3 also implements differential dataflow. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9e_FDjHLU
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Hope you like it guys! I'm open to any feedback.. just keep it friendly. I'm here to make it better for you, so help me out! :)

Have a nice day!
> “By divesting Jones of Infowars’ assets, the families and the team at The Onion have done a public service and will meaningfully hinder Jones’s ability to do more harm,”

How hard is it really to start a new podcast?
That's the best practical joke I have ever heard!
Agree but sometimes smaller organizations have allot going on and not enough people to stay on top of it all. These can be the best opportunities.
I’m not necessarily shocked but more appalled. I’ve always wondered this - in tech there’s very little reason to believe that you need to import talent. Learning is mostly democratized these days, and I find it hard pressed to believe that there isn’t a US Citizen for literally any tech company. But they cost more hence they try to do the whole H1B process… which then comes to bite them back.
Agreed. Plus, these days, i can’t get any work done without my Brain Force Plus
I was talking to someone who is applying in another industry and they were bemoaning having to list a bunch of references on their resume, and having to call all their references to talk about the businesses that might contact them, what to say, etc.

Leetcode stuff sucks, but it is kind of nice being an industry where I can have no college degree and no references, but over the course of a few 1 hour interviews demonstrate competence.
That's a legalism that isn't universal. Personally, I think that anyone who engages in engineering is logically an engineer. Maybe not a certified engineer, but an engineer nonetheless.
jj has become my new favorite
These are comforting for sure if you're scared about your future as a SWE.
> I always thought "The Onion" was just like Alex Jones in that they call out all the insanity being done by a certain "ilk" of our society which has indeed gone insane thru over-consumption and over-believing in the lies the MSM tells daily, in their failed attempts to slander the political party they've decided to side against. -- You

> Instead, the publication portrayed Biden as a blue-collar "average Joe", an affable "goofy uncle", a muscle car driver, an avid fan of 1980s hair metal, a raucous party animal, a shameless womanizer, a recidivist petty criminal, and a drug-dealing outlaw. --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_(The_Onion)
In 2004, George W Bush was re-elected. At that time, a plausible Onion story might have been that George W Bush was going to appoint a vaccine denier HHS and someone who was investigated by the DOJ as AG, and that would have been, like, mildly funny (which was always the Onion's thing, really; it was almost never _great_), because haha, the president popularly considered to be a bit incompetent is appointing obviously unsuitable people, how amusing, but also, well, a bit of fun, not real. (Actually, if anything I think this might have strayed a bit too far into absurdity for the Onion's liking, particularly Gaetz.)

Fast-forward to 2024, and, well... It just doesn't work as well anymore. Like, imagine an Onion story about Trump's appointments. What could it possibly say that would be stranger than the reality?
If can you can create boilerplate code, logging, documentation, common algorithms by AI it saves you a lot of time which you can use on your specialized stuff. I am convinced that you can make yourself x2 by using an AI. Just use it in the proper way.
Right, because the definition of “wealthy elite” is making $100k/yr.
"You have to understand how hard this makes it to engage honestly with your post. All useful conversation requires a minimal foundation of trust/honesty/charity - i.e. that both parties honestly want the best overall outcome for everybody, and the disagreement is only about what that compromise looks like and how to get it. When you write like this, it makes you sound like you just want confrontation."
Reminded me of Lenny and he didn't even need any AI to waste a lot of scammers' time.
They are almost certainly going to sue for illegal enrichment. I'm certain that Jones will try and move assets and I'm sure he'll get caught doing that.

It means Onion sues Jones will likely be in the headlines a fair bit.
I'm honestly glad we don't live in the universe where Bryan Danielson chose 'We Built The City' as his Ring of Honor entrance music.
Microservices are back on the menu, boys.
Hence the lying
InfoWars was a supplements business. The political stuff was just a funnel to sell the supplements, where the real money was made.
> So we agree that there is more than one way to interpret 5/2+3 (a correct and an incorrect way) and therefore that the GP statement below is wrong.

No. There being "more than one way" to interpret implies the meaning is ambiguous. It's not.

There's not one incorrect way to interpret that math statement, there are infinite incorrect ways to do so. For example, you could interpret as being a poem about cats.
It's funny that there are two common and opposite narratives in HN comments for EU fines on tech companies. The is to claim that the fines are far too small, and the companies will happily just continue breaking the laws and treat the fines as a cost of doing business. The other is that the fines are so impractically huge that they're going to drive the companies out of the EU entirely.

Both narratives are just nonsense. The goal of the fines is to change product behavior immediately, and to act as a deterrent for illegal product changes in the future. The fines seem pretty well calibrated for that. $1 billion is real money even to Meta. They can't afford to ignore this and other similar issues, and will need to at least make an effort that looks like good faith enough to avoid the fines ratcheting up higher.

But on the other hand, Meta probably makes on the order of $10 billion / year in profit in the EU. They're not about to leave. Like, even in that one year (2018?) when Google ended up adding a separate line item for EU antitrust fines into their financial statements there was no chance they'd leave.
The US has recovered from inflation better than practically any other country. Yes, the last 4 years have been far, far better than trump's first term by any measure you care to mention, except maybe hate, lies and fear.
Congrats on the sale! Wondering what your thoughts are of these extremely low cost kvm’s from Sipeed (NanoKVM)?

Do you think that allows you to expand your market since the hardware is cheaper as you maintain great user experience? Or does that force you to go upmarket as hobbyists need only the minimal feature set?

A lot of very cheap risc-v boards like milk-v duo sbc are available now
Please note that Bsky servers appear to be suffering under the load of 15 new users per second, with bursts as high 133 new users per second!
It is kind of surprising.

I wonder what happens in people who are on anti-TNFa. Maybe the antibody doesn't cross the blood brain barrier though.
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> Not only does a complex codebase make it harder for the model to generate a coherent response, it also makes it harder for the developer to formulate a coherent request.

> This experience has lead most developers to “watch and wait” for the tools to improve until they can handle ‘production-level’ complexity in software.

You will be waiting until the heat death of the universe.

If you are unable to articulate the exact nature of your problem, it won't ever matter how powerful the model is. Even a nuclear weapon will fail to have effect on target if you can't approximate its location.

Ideas like dumpstering all of the codebase into a gigantic context window seem insufficient, since the reason you are involved in the first place is because that heap is not doing what the customer wants it to do. It is currently a representation of where you don't want to be.
Step 1. Assert there is a crisis.

Step 2. Insert yourself as the solution.

My goodness. Didn't we see the results of the "Code of Conduct" wars? There was a "crisis" of "toxicity" that had to be fixed. What resulted? Endless drama from meddling management types. They couldn't write a line of code to save their lives, but want to take over the projects to serve their social goals.

> Whitacre suggests “three levers to pull to solve the open-source sustainability crisis and quit burning out maintainers.” These three levers revolve around commercialization, taxation, and social validation.

Rofl. You want to know how to cause a real crisis in the open source world? Involve government, taxes, and "social validation" systems.

Edit: Oh, by the way. Once you start receiving tax money, you become dependent on it. And then the government effectively gains control over your project. "Develop this, or we cut off your funding."
Telling that you think this is happening just because their products are available in the EU and not because they were "acting in a way that gave it a significant advantage over competitors" as the EU claims.
Yes and no.

Primarily working on growing a pressure washing business so I can be utterly done with (full-time, employee) tech work.

The other thing is an app / community for teaching meditation (a longtime passion of mine). I don't know if it will do well but if it nets me a half-dozen to a dozen students that I am instructing 1-1 via zoom for 20-30 minutes on a weekly basis when I FIRE here in the next five years I'll be happy.
Christ almighty, we've found a hardman. Point taken.
why would they buy something that no longer exists? https://theonion.com/new-york-times-to-cease-publication/
This is why I’ve given up on software. I loved it, made side projects in college, got my computer science degree, worked for a couple years and then got laid off early in 2023. It’s been a year and a half and I still can not find a new job. I have not coded in god knows how long, I don’t find it enjoyable anymore. In fact I almost despise it. I’ve decided to join the military instead.
This article reminds me of a quote by Jeff Bezos where he says "I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins… Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy."

And I find it interesting he says a thousand Mozarts, because it seems to fall in the same fallacy the Dan Frank is talking about in this article.. Many people seem convinced that there's something about our society that is forstalling the creation of Mozart's and Einstein's not that the history of music and technology means that modern genius' are necessarily more niche than historical genius.

For instance, in Music, I think there's probably quite a few modern Mozart's -- Aphex Twin/Squarepusher, maybe someone like a Steve Reich or a John Luther Adams, there's probably a few in metal and hip hop and a variety of other Genre's. I like to joke that maybe Taylor Swift is a modern Mozart.

I think it's sad in a lot of ways how little recognition there is in experimentation and modernism. What would Jeff Bezos say about this? "Steve Reich is great, but he's no Mozart". Which I think leaves us in sort of a "No True Mozart" fallacy.
What really should have happened in this case, like the the Parkland killer, was for the people who sued to also take his Name and Likeness.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/families-settle-court-b...

This would hopefully avoid letting him just rebuild another slime empire.
The "fine people" hoax and "drink bleach" hoax are not open to interpretation, not by a long shot.

Even Snopes, fucking Snopes, confirmed the "fine people" thing is false.

Obama, Kamala, and Joe Biden all pushed "Trump said Nazis were fine people" with complete confidence, this is the literal definition of a hoax.

The original video credited with "drinking bleach", was Trump openly speculating on disinfection approaches. And, the approach he verbalized out loud, disinfecting lungs with UV light, was at the time a relatively new and completely valid medical treatment. Trump was ahead of the curve on that one.

Anyone who interprets his open questions about the UV light treatment as "drink bleach" is either a victim of a hoax (and an irresponsible moron) or has no qualms pushing hoaxes.
I call them warts, but yes agree, especially an industry that does a lot of changing, for example a heavily regulated one.