skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems they will see the greatest benefit from this research, but they don’t want to pay for it?

The US government also did the research on fracking (i.e., for natural gas extraction), as far as I know.

Back in the late 1950s when NASA was born, the US felt that if the Soviet Union obtained a significant advantage in space technology, it could be an existential threat. The government therefore invested directly in research.

The US still invests in research in nuclear energy and other things. Congress is just now passing laws that will allow the government to recover expenses for private commercial use of its space launch facilities (it's a bit more complex than that, and I don't recall the details).

Maybe it would make sense for anyone commercializing it to pay royalties, at least if they start earning serious revenue.
Sure, its educated gambling, but it is not fair to exclude high value exits too.
I wonder if Cards Against Humanity bid against them.
Yes, it's been better explained now.

I guess this is a case of "don't hate the player, hate the game." although the question remains why they filled the role with an H1B candidate in the first place if they could find locals that could do the job. That piece is clearly unethical and done only for wage suppression.
Satire Slinger The Onion Buys Alex Jones' Infowars with Sandy Hook Families
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
Let's see then and discuss after?
I now wonder if the same thing happened to me. Within the niche of that job I was pretty objectively the highest qualified candidate in the world at the time. Did really well in interviews. Did not get the job. A decade later, though, I'm actually thankful I didn't get it. Blessing in disguise.
I mean, adding some shotgun changes to a messy codebase is always significantly easier than refactoring the whole.
Isn't the most important thing which project is most interesting/promising to you?
> Meta had years to comply with the new regulations

This has nothing to do with the DMA if that's what you mean.

EU is alleging Meta is infringing on the 1994 EEA Agreement specifically the generic "don't impose unfair trading conditions" clause. Which if it successful should frighten most companies. Because making life harder for your competitors is the entire point of business.
Exactly. Technology can, at most, facilitate real interactions, but it cannot and should not replace theme.

Another thing is to not to "wait for Godot" by passively waiting for others' initiative and instead be the source of initiative by default.

Finally, PSA: don't buy into any of the immature objectification, stereotyping, or egotistical nonsense... be real and treat others as human beings, not a means to an end.
Just like last time!
Not terribly hard as Info warriors aren't known for being detail oriented. Credulity is somewhat of a requirement to be sincere.
If You Like Being Ripped Off by Comcast, You'll Love Trump's Likely New FCC Boss
Area man is consistently fooled by The Onion.
Worked yesterday.
You're on a slightly different page: Trusted Publishing supports four different providers, but this initial enablement of attestations (which are built on top of Trusted Publishing) is for GitHub only. The plan is to enable the others in short order.
Reporting back from my biglaw pal I sent this to:

> Big flaw in the product: 60 year old partner who still makes hand edits and has the Secretary scan the pages and send them out of order to the associate

> Second big flaw in the product: specialists edits get rejected because they don’t know the deal points and are just swooping in

I took issue with this as step 4 seems to involve an M&A lawyer accepting/rejecting specialist edits piecemeal, to which he responded "Right, but that doesn’t actually save that much time. It’s the same work that an M&A associate is already doing"

> Third big flaw in the product: big law firms are the least innovative organizations on earth

> Fourth big flaw in the product: having junior associates do menial tasks at $800-950/hr is a feature, not a bug, of law firm business model. So you are solving for something that the target customer doesn’t necessarily want solved.

and there it is :/
> Those companies are breaking the law.

If the position requires a security clearance, they are not breaking the law. Language like this is standard on defense contractor postings that require clearances (this from Lockeed):

> Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

> SpaceX was prosecuted for doing that.

SpaceX was prosecuted for excluding refugees and asylees from export-controlled positions, not cleared positions.
Meta has been fined because they employed tactics to undermine competition and persistently employ anti-competitive tactics.

What exactly did they do? The article is light on details. I think if you list them, maybe people will see your side more.

I personally think there is a difference between what DMA laws says and what people think is fair.
It's a large market, and more profitable than APAC and RoW per user (just look at the Meta investor presentations which show that it's US, followed by the EU then APAC and RoW[1]).

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2024/q3...
For starters, Engineer only makes sense if the person actually holds an engineering degree, taken at an institution validated by the Engineering Order.
Based on their stock and wealth, I don't think Meta and Google are exactly suffering. They've been getting away with this shit for, well, decades.
Maybe it's written in HTML 3.2.
Those are the best places these days. It sucks when clubs get closed in urban areas but there's still plenty of parties happening where you're bothering nobody, and nobody will bother you.

I think I'm at the age where I'm more interested in participating as someone actually creating part of the entertainment if I'm going to feel like I'm having the best time though, I think that's probably the best way for anyone to get into it. Lots of volunteer opportunities at festivals and of course paid gigs you can do. If you're a programmer, maybe getting deep into visuals is a way you can have some fun contributing too.

There are raves happening in warzones and even places you think there would be authoritarian crackdowns like China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp2qB9qXJ1w
>If you want to deliberately hire Americans who interview worse than non Americans, you're breaking the law

LOL I'm gonna need a source for this gem
I understand now. See above.
Normally, I'd just dismiss this as ChatGPT being trained not to disagree, but as a non-native speaker this has me doubting myself: Is prompt really pronounced rompt?

It feels like it can't possible be true, but on the other hand, I'm probably due for having my confidence in my English completely shattered again by learning another weird word's real pronunciation, so maybe this is it.
The Surprising Social Lives of Pythons
A startup with talent theoretically follows that pattern. If you're not a startup, you don't need to go fast in the beginning. If you don't have talent in both your dev team and your management, the codebase will get worse over time. Every company can differ on those two variables, and their codebases will reflect that. Probably most companies are large and talent-starved, so they go slow, start out with good code, then get bad over time.
Constructive criticism is a good thing, but in this thread you aren't speaking to Gwern directly, you're badmouthing him to his peers. I'm sure you would have felt different if your colleague had done that.
The ModRetro Chromatic is about to ship and the store has a bunch of newly developed Game Boy games on physical cartridges.

New Game Boy games in 2024/2025!

(I don't know if this blog post is related to the release of the Chromatic)
Glad she recovered!
Probably - or at least that is the rhetorics.

However, it is not clear that this is not in balance already. The discussion thread seems to believe that the EU is being harsher to the US than the other way around.
AI progress stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic hit roadblocks
> but sometimes the greed is just too strong, and there is an endless supply of applicants who are willing to compromise.

This is why increasing the supply is so important too. Lawmakers like to overestimate the impact of their laws.

But banning fees is so much easier than building house/going against your paymasters.

We had a similar fee ban in England too. Has it moved the needle on the overall rental situation? I don't believe so
> It seems likely a good lawyer could pierce that corporate veil and go after the new company, but I don't know if that has happened.

He's spent the whole time since losing the lawsuit illegally shifting assets to his parents and they bankruptcy courts haven't seemed to be able to stop that.
turns out Swift is pretty difficult to use in frameworks compared to other executables
I’d respectfully put it to you that you don’t seem to actually understand how any of this works. You picked two examples that have nothing to do with the accusation of “protectionism”.
Of course you could paint the bikeshed that color, but it's too late now. If you really care that much and want to bother him, you could email hn@ycombinator.com and maybe dang will edit the title.

Do you have anything interesting to say about the contents of the paper itself, or did you just come here to complain about the discussion title too?
The US famously compromised the Greek phone switches a while back, which were written in Erlang and thus so was the malware (correction--it was actually the proprietary predecessor to Erland, called PLEX). An telecom employee died under mysterious circumstances in the aftermath and the US Embassy in Athens was found to have close ties to the individuals involved; a CIA employee was later charged and fled back to the US. All in a days work for the "leaders of the free world."
Most give you an option to contact the author. I've corresponded with a few - most of what they get is death threats, etc.
There's a generator for those hidden subpixel message textures:

https://jsbin.com/korotaluso/edit?js,output
This is why we all need to live below our means if possible. It gives the hamster wheel less power over you.
I did not miss this. I followed this closely as it happened. And this "gotcha" right here, that he does not have perfect memory of all of his text messages sent over the two years previous, was the most significant allegation that has been brought to light against him.

And, those text messages revealed nothing of substance, they had nothing to charge with him with. They didn't even attempt to charge him. They didn't even go after the supposed perjury charge because it was weak. If it wasn't weak, they would certainly go after him for it.

Nobody has a perfect memory of all text messages they have sent over the last couple of years. If you think you have a perfect memory of all text messages you have sent over the last couple of years, you don't understand your own memory. Let alone a guy who runs a business with 20+ employees reading a deluge of news articles and whitepapers from when he gets up to when he goes to sleep.
... until it won't. A mature code-base also has (or should have) strong test coverage, both in unit-testing and comprehensive integration testing. With proper ci/cd pipelines, you can have a small team update and upgrade stuff at a fraction of the usual cost (see amazon going from old java to newer versions) and "pay off" some of that debt.

The tooling for this will only improve.
Even if you did, the result would almost certainly be a fairly expressive formal system. Deciding equivalence of some change would be undecidable and enumerating the "interesting" differences between changes would be impossible in practice.
Except for VR headsets, I reject the notion that facebook/meta is a "tech" company.
I miss the days of the regional scenes in music. These seem to be long past us now.

Using metal as an example; the 80’s and 90’s as an example had several distinct vibrant scenes, Bergen’s Black Metal, Gothenburg’s Melodeath, Tampa Bay’s Death Metal, as examples. All distinct and vibrant with a period of sustained development with a cluster of artists who seemed to circulate and work off each other.

Today it feels easier to connect with others globally with music genres we like, but it’s almost as if this homogenises the art we produce in a sense.

A core collection of 20-40 artists and musicians working and operating in isolation (comparative to now), sharing what they enjoy, spinning it and innovating it to something new.

To genericise it and bring it back to the core of this place - In a sense one relate these scenes in a way to areas with a particularly strong start-up scene, albeit more freeform and wholly artistic in their endeavours.
> Let it be art, not propaganda.

My friend I have some news for you.

Edit: almost ended it there but remembered what website I’m on.

I don’t think there’s a material difference between art and propaganda. The art you like is merely the propaganda which you do not question.
Also

https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/06/but-lawyers-know-nothing-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36510439

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446275

(https://jduclos.com/notes/github-for-lawyers is dead but several versions can be found on Internet Archive)
Tbf successfully avoiding prosecution for white collar crime is a credential in understanding the law, sorta...
Qualcomm's Windows on Arm push would be great – if only it ran all your software
Why can't you complain? I see reply links under all the listings and you certainly have enough karma to do anything here (AFAIK)
Makefiles are kind of fragile and they barely get the job done. They’re error-prone to write—even experienced programmers often end up with dependencies in their makefiles which are incorrectly specified, or you end up using stale intermediate artifacts in your build due to unforeseen error conditions in your recipes. Make itself is missing a lot of critical features, like the ability to rebuild when the configuration changes. Some simple tasks are difficult or arcane in Make, like creating an output directory.

This is why people have been hacking together Make replacements for the past forty years. The underlying problem (build systems) is incredibly intricate and complicated, and as a result, the replacements all make some sort of tradeoffs and we don’t have a clear “winner” for make. We just kind of agree that make is bad, but don’t agree on what should replace it.

I know that there are also some Make apologists hanging around on HN looking for a fight, so if that’s what’s going on here, I want to be absolutely clear—I’m not interested in apologia for Make.
I reached out to a recruiter I know about a job posted on their company's site. They replied that wasn't a real posting it was just to get people in the pipeline. They did say if it was a "real" posting they were hiring for it will have as ReqID at the top of the page. Too bad that's not something you could filter for.
The members of the Commission are appointed by the governments of the member states which are elected?
It's 100% predatory. I hope we will see similar cases brought against Amazon soon (if they haven't been already).

The fact that so many companies are dependent on selling on Amazon, yet Amazon also sells their own products, is ludicrous.

- AcmeShop sells 3d printers and sell on Amazon

- Amazon sees these printers are selling well

- Amazon buys/creates their own 3d printer brand

- Amazon gives their own products preferencial treatment and uses all it's data for how AcmeShop's printers are selling to undercut them in all markets

- AcmeShop goes out of business because unaware consumers buy what, on the surface, is a better deal

- With no competition Amazon increases it's prices to whatever it likes
Can you clarify the abusive part?

In your scenario, Alice already decided not to buy anything from AcmeShop.

Even if AcmeShop advertised on Facebook it wouldn't have changed her behavior. She got a better deal on Facebook Marketplace. And she was already visiting Facebook and the Marketplace is already a single click.

I don't see the abusive or predatory part. It seems like Facebook Marketplace just offered a superior used 3D printer for her.

So what part am I missing?
I don't keep up with the latest C shenanigans, cuz I like C the way it was, but have they change something where "pointer to an array[5]" is a meaningful distinction to draw?

I mean, "a pointer to an array of X" is simply "a pointer to X" and using hungarian notation, you can encode the knowledge "this pointer can be incremented" into its name.

and typedef'ing *function declarations? who has families of functions with the same type signatures that they want to point to?
> I can accept a chess pool with a single good comment to make up for it.

Have fun with that.

> the occasional comment in bad taste.

That's a lot different than most social media.
Hey, yes I can do that. I will brush this up, package all the bits (3d files, pcb files, code etc), and add to github.

On another note, would you happen to live in London? If you really want to try this I could hand you one which will save you plenty of time finding the parts, printing the case, ordering PCBs, and soldering. You can reach me on first_name dot last_name hat gmail dot come. The name is at the top of the original post.
I was working for Meta in Bellevue, WA in 2022. Got laid off. Applied to several positions at MS (I was living in Redmond at the time), couldn't get a callback. Months and months go by, get a job, move across the country, get an email 9-12 months after applying that they'd like to interview me. I didn't even bother responding.
Like most of us it appears LLMs really only want to work on greenfield projects.
The act was modified to ensure that it wouldn't kill non-commercial open source.

But if you try to monetize, you have a lot more responsibility. That is reasonable, but on the other hand, with burnout and other issues surrounding unpaid work... How sustainable is open source without any sort of monetization?
I started all of my projects because they were interesting to me; This time I wanted to get some external input first.
This is one of the longest standing conversation with my lawyer partner.

The best interaction is on Google Docs which is somewhat ok, definitely better than sending some docx back and forth. The main friction seems to be that very few things beat email attachments, no auth to fight with.

Wish these folks the best.
>> But arguably any labor shortage can be fixed by just having way higher wages.

Yes, like a lot of immigration, it is entirely about wage suppression to benefit owners and shareholders.
That's only 99% true, but the 1% of exceptions will get an egregiously disproportionate amount of attention and concern.
I thought that number was conservative. I was hiring at 1/2 and 1/3.
An insidious feature of machine generated content is that it will dominate not because it’s better, but because it’s cheaper.
Well I guess it depends on where you draw the line. Let's say there was a fair number of openly or covertly aggressive takes among the not too many (dozens) comments that I scrolled over
If Zuck is to be believed, he's not about making life harder for competitors, he's about competing vigorously.

If you leverage your business, and data obtained for other reasons, to unfairly depress competition, the end user loses out, and is part of why antitrust legislation exists.

Another example is what Amazon were accused of - using their internal data from providing seller services to then decide which products to launch in their Amazon Basics range - to the point where it makes those other products no longer profitable to sell, and an option for consumers is removed.

If they conducted research without using that data about what products people would like, that's different - that's competing vigorously and fairly.
I actually almost fainted laughing when I read this and then some of the coping responses on X. I needed this today. What a good move.
Anyone familiar with debian can explain what these drops in percentages are?

E.g. arm64 dropped very low for a while or all arches dropped around 2024.68

https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-quarter.png
Do you live in the EU? From where I stand I mostly got cookie banners, can't get to Google maps or flights from Google search, get AI launches 6 months after the rest of the world if at all etc.. Not yet feeling all the consumer benefits
Can't tell if this is satire or not, that's the real irony here.
This person is 100% correct that git will never see adoption outside the tech industry.

My partner worked as a veterinarian for several years, and it was fascinating to see how vets use computers. These were brilliant people - I knew three who did literal brain surgery. But they just had zero patience for computers. They did not want to troubleshoot, figure out how something worked or dive deeper. Ever. They didn't care! They were busy saving the lives of people's pets.

It was a good reminder there are many smart people who do not know computers work and do not care to. A good startup acknowledges this reality.
I’m cracking up
Yup. Really moved me.
I worked at a globally remote company. Most of the European devs worked for a one man consulting company, that my employer then "contracted" out to. I'm not sure if that nullifies all the protections, but I'm sure it did a lot.
You're right, corrected my comment.
An AI engineer with some experience today can easily pull down 700K-1M TC a year at a bigtech. They must be unaware that the "barriers are coming down fast". In reality it's a full time job to just _keep up with research_. And another full time job to try and do something meaningful with it. So yeah, you can all be AI engineers, but don't expect an easy ride.
The link you reference seems more like a faux paper texture? The OP ‘riso noise’ is over the top but it seems to be a new hype and tells me they have never seen a riso print in real life, nor worked with one. Riso machines/drivers have multiple print settings, “Screen Covered” (bitmap/halftone), “Grain Touch” (the noisy dither used here) and special solid modes for vector line/text iirc.
In fairness, the possibility the two heads' respective egos will cancel each other out is the most efficient thing about it...
AI is just a hype. Its future is going to dissapear sooner or later because of the ammount of gigantic électricity it requires to run. AI is a pure gadget 99.9% of the time, I cant imagine a future of it.
1. Maybe you don’t care but if nobody else cared then the entirety of legacy media would not have gone into overdrive to gaslight the American public about its existence.

2. I’m not aware of anyone telling people to inject bleach or horse tranquilizers. Have a citation for that? If not, you’re the one spreading misinformation.
I mean would the Onion lie to us
The Who's Hiring, I kind of have lukewarm feelings toward those outcomes, because assholes are everywhere - but I've had the same experience as you on https://www.workatastartup.com/ which is just what the actual fucking hell.

From reading the sibling comments, it seems that my problem is that I enjoy reading more than talking on the phone so I much prefer browsing through listings and being selective, but what apparently needs to happen is that I call previous recruiters and badger them about "got anything?" rather that believing anything written online is true
Part of the MO of these outrage merchants is that they simultaneously claim that the government perpetrate the most vile acts (killing children, poisoning the water, false flag attacks) while also acting outraged and surprised that they'd do something as mundane as ignore a procedure.
I think the intent is for deploying this between APIs and models.
It's a grifting method. Provoke outrage among the less informed and watch the money roll in
> Based on what previous in-real-life examples is this a realistic worry

My interpretation is that the post you replied to was 100% satire.