skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d argue that the solution isn’t for people to avoid protest or disobedience though. The civil rights movement in the US was composed of a lot of different groups, plenty of which were unsatisfied with anything less than radical change. The tactic was then to unite these people under a leader smart enough to negotiate the meeting point of their interests and the pressures of practical political change in the US. The endless civil disobedience and threat of radical violence was then a powerful piece of leverage, really the sole source of leverage, in mlk’s negotiation with lbj.

Given that brain enhancement is a while away, it’s gonna be a while before most people are able to weigh the nuanced ripple effects of their actions in order to optimally resist bad leadership, or be able to see the impracticality of otherwise good ideas; these are difficult mental feats that require a lot of self reflection. I wouldn’t then suggest that these people do nothing. I’d suggest that they represent, in essence, a productive force to be taken up and wielded against the subject of their discontent by similarly motivated, but intelligent, leadership.

Its the same concept with environmentalism. You can’t expect Joe Environment to be smart enough and critical enough to reason his way around the panic-inducing coverage of nuclear scares, but maybe you can harness his frustration with environmental as a source of political power.

I don’t think we’re going to agree though; I think we’re motivated differently. I don’t really find myself enticed by social order in the same way, and I’d trade away much of that stability to get a good shot at change that could make society more pleasant.
Jungle ramblings:

-Can't forget Facing Worlds in Unreal Tournament 1999!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4

-Andy C will be in Los Angeles Nov. 28 (typically plays LA a few times per year)

-Worth checking out: Modern DJs who mix DnB/jungle with "footwork" (musical genre), e.g. Sharelle https://m.soundcloud.com/iamsherelle

-BBC Radio 1, Radio 6, and Rinse FM all have drum n bass shows and are available for free online and through Alexa etc.

-h2k2 had at least one wicked drum n bass set, I wonder if any of you were there :)
hyperloglog distributes perfectly. Each node keeps track of the "best" hash, and then to query the global maximum, you just ask each node for their value.
Have you stopped buying magazines entirely then? It would seem any other "magazine" would have the same property.
One piece of advice I usually give is to avoid applying to jobs through company’s career websites or LinkedIn. Instead, tap your social network: see if there is someone you know/have worked with who either works at the company you’re interested in or is connected to it someone (as an advisor, investor, personal friend of someone in a leadership position) and ask them for a warm intro. Social proof gives you an advantage over the legion of anonymous online applicants.
Good luck, Sergey.

In my case, the process became so awful, humiliating, and hostile, I just gave up, and retired, ten years before I had planned. I’m very fortunate, that I could afford it. I now develop software for free, for outfits that can’t afford people like me.

It’s tough, but looking for work after 50, especially when pivoting from management, back to IC, is unbearable. My heart goes out to those without the means to walk away. I think some companies missed out, but I am under no illusion that I’m missed. I doubt they had any regrets in passing me up.

In my case, it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. I left a lot of money on the table, but I have been happier than I ever dreamed, while working twice as hard as I ever did, when I was getting paid for it.
Hence, an internal disagreement between the original promoters and the accountants/other factions.
AI: Red Hat's vision for an open source future
Bear in mind, before this there was a mechanical repeater as well, which was a transmitter and receiver which were mechanically coupled.

A carbon mic is somewhat self-exciting and does provide an amplification factor.
The Australian section likely deserves a flag for re-editing. It’s unclear what point is being made.

However we have reasonably good ways of quantifying overproduction, a simple test would be

Does a graduating student earn more or less than they did before entering the program?

There are several masters programs such as those in education where the answer would be less.
But surely this wouldn’t argue against resistance itself. If you argue no resistance should take place because it’s too damaging, then you’ll lose the small portion of radicals with beneficial ideas.

You’re also assuming that change only happens in small steps, which would trap you in a local maxima, but what about a revolution? That’s more like a giant leap, potentially in the wrong direction, but it might be worth the risk if the local maxima sucks enough.
I was working with MISP[0], an open-source threat intelligence sharing platform, and came across a really interesting dataset from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on China's technology research institutions[1]. I liked the data so much I built a quick cross-filter visualization on top of it to help explore it[2].

The data offers a fairly comprehensive and interesting perspective on China's research priorities and organization, I can't speak to the effectiveness of the programs themselves, but it does make me concerned that we are falling far behind in many areas, including cyber security.

[0] https://www.misp-project.org/

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MISP/misp-galaxy/refs/head...

[2] https://www.layer8.org/8541dd18-ff05-4720-aac7-1bd59d3921dd/
> there are things in this world that are worth financially supporting

The fact that there are things in the world worth financially supporting does not excuse capitalism.

It does not mean that we cannot find better ways of organising our affairs to have happy fulfilling lives.
We're adding symbolic verification to LLM-generated SQL code at http://sql.ai
This is how it works in the us and why there is only one store. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
This is simply layoffs without having to do layoffs. Much cleaner. I work for a state institution, due to budget cuts, layoffs are
Coming. However, almost everyone hired the last few years are temporary employees. So we aren’t laying people off, we are simply not renewing positions. No messy uniom notifications needed.
He says that he used a Kensington Thunderbolt 5 cable, so I think that just reinforces the story that the vendors don't have things implemented properly yet.
Having a few random mixes of yours I've (somehow) collected over the years amongst others, I didn't expect to click through a random Soundcloud link and see your name.

Thanks for all the great tunes!
To be clear, these aren't compatible with the M4 Mac Mini, though compatible modules for those are expected to come out shortly.
They provide zero value to the renter — it’s essentially an issue of supply and demand. There is a lot of demand for NYC apartments and not a lot of supply, so landlords can hand off their listings to a broker to market and show, and say “I’m not going to pay you, collect a fee from the tenant you bring in” and because of the supply and demand people deal with it.

They ultimately provide a lot of value to landlord — paying for marketing, showing the apartment to a bunch of people, answering the NYU student’s parents questions about crime in the neighborhood, making sure that applicants have provided all the right paperwork, etc etc.

The best part is that as a renter, just before you hand over the many thousand dollar check, you sign a piece of paper that says “this person you are paying does not work for you or represent your interests in any way in this transaction.”
Mark Zuckerberg sings with T-Pain on 'Get Low' remix
TIL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/datatype-character.html (it's in the table at the bottom). I'd still be suspicious of using it, and the docs recommend against it, but it exists.
Still reminds me of when rivian announced a 100% RTO for their Palo Alto offices in between their first and second round of layoffs, despite not even having enough chairs for everybody if they actually showed up.

It'd be rad if we were able to bargain as some sort of collective in order to prevent companies from doing this exact thing that every company has been doing for the last 5 years. Like if we could unite and organize in some way that would make it harder for companies to pull obvious stuff like this without consequences. Oh well.
just use the cursor and upload everything to the almighty AI
Fun story: I’ve had a speaker which would connect to a Bluetooth device as soon as it was turned on, and only enter pairing mode if a paired device wasn’t in range. I couldn’t figure out what device it was connecting to, so I put it in the microwave (while it was off!) briefly to trigger the pairing timeout.
More popular the service is more difficult to make breaking changes . YouTube has a wide install base on variety of hardware like older TVs, most of it with no path for upgrades .

That means it will take many years if a not decade or more for YouTube to implement new protocols and drop old ones without it causing problems to significant user base .

If the user base that hacks around ads is < user base that will loose access by implementing something like above , economically it makes sense not to do so.
So here's the thing - the law isn't the problem - because you have no idea in advance how each individual piece of media, film, song, whatever, will be treated depending upon your own circumstances. And this actually changes from time to time.

e.g. Bought all eight films in the collection of a well-known series about a wizarding school. Move country. Film number 4 vanishes into thin-air. Just gone. Have to buy film again in current country.

e.g. Bought entire collection of classic British comedy about some senior governmental tomfoolery. Whole collection vanishes on move. Then about three months later reappears. Then a few weeks later disappears. Then reappears again. Then disappears.

So the laws aren't causing this, but they do need to resolve this. Licensing media might be harder than the Good Friday Agreement, but I refuse to accept that it's impossible, and consumers should just suck it up. I don't have any kind of contract with anyone but Apple, so they really should take responsibility.

I keep buying CDs at €1 or £1 each from the local secondhand-kaufhäuser or charity shop, and the house is littered with thousands of CDs and the only break-up clause I would worry about with regard to those is the one with my other half, not with who I bought them from.
Isn't regulatory harmonization (one of) the points of the EU?
They published a nearly layman friendly doc of the platform architecture including a description of moderation a year ago. Great read. https://docs.bsky.app/blog/blueskys-moderation-architecture
I expect a change in this in the coming months..

evangelical churches are starting to get concerned about this and we are starting to see the evangelical base in congress react against.. [1][2]

When people that has lost all their money on gambling stop paying the tithe, that many evangelical churches demand, the movement against it between churches leadership will gain a LOT of traction..

[1] https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2024/11/bets-chegam-as...
[2] https://noticias.gospelmais.com.br/bets-de-jogos-de-azar-ban...
It looks like this measure only applies to "real estate agents who exclusively represent the landlord’s interests". "The bill requires landlords who hire real estate agents to pay the agents’ fees themselves".

My read is that as long as a broker works with multiple landlords, you the tenant will still pay them a fee. And it might remain difficult to find available lodging without going through brokers.
Well fingers crossed for Pixelmator.

Their agreement with Apple was subject to regulatory approval.
Did it go through?
You’ll have fun with the occasional „recommendation“ pop-ups Spotify shows to paying subscribers. Did you know you can pay them to rank higher in the algorithm and that a lot of the big playlists do the same?
I personally think ARC-AGI will be a forgotten, unimportant benchmark that doesn't indicate anything more than a models ability reason, which honestly is just a very small step in the path towards AGI
A 'Cop of Peace'?
Yes I have the same engineering sample. I can only keep 48 cores fed with max memory bandwidth given current llama.cpp architectural constraints
Type-Safe Data Science
Analytics / data science using Java + Manifold + DuckDB. Powerful, type-safe, amazing.
It's actually fascinating the number of times that the dissent will later become the law after culture changes.
Wait, this is all over a banner ad?
He's getting up there in years, I hope he hangs out a while longer. We could use more senators like him.
You've probably conflated the saying "going through the backdoor" with the noun backdoor, which is an understandable mistake to make.

Conflating the two is even easier when the backdoor is morally questionable i.e. When someone purposefully installs a wooden backdoor on a bankvault and says it's so that we don't need to go through the whole rigmarole of opening the main vault-door. Yes it allows them to do their job of checking what's in safety deposit boxes easier but the door itself is an evil.
I think it's free users see 20 mins a hour, and YouTube premium users see a banner ad for NFL Sunday.
A new virus-like entity has just been discovered. 'Obelisks' explained
FBI raids home and seizes phone of Polymarket founder
In "Wipeout" on the original Playstation there's the famous "Firestarter" song by Prodigy. It's the, slowed down, amen break too I think:

https://youtu.be/V_b5-RWOfMo

EDIT: yup it's in TFA, facepalming myself.
This is quite cool. I believe they use the same system to choose photos for memories and wallpaper suggestions. And it works well - what they choose really looks great!

Would be interested in the tech behind that (surely machine learning will be involved somehow).
TiketVisa is a SaaS platform designed to support visa applicants by providing essential travel documents required for visa applications. Specifically, it offers live PNR (Passenger Name Record) flight tickets and hotel reservations without the need to purchase actual flights or hotels. This is particularly valuable for visa applicants who need confirmed travel bookings as part of their visa requirements but want to avoid the financial commitment of booking non-refundable flights and accommodations.
Between blenders and BDSM gear, guess which one is usually OK to discuss at a workplace, and which one creates a potential for a hostile work environment or sexual harassment.

Compare and contrast:

-"Hey Lauren, check out this new blender I got yesterday!"

-"Hey Lauren, check out this new gimp suit I got yesterday!"

Or:

-"Hey Mary, the facilities put a new blender in the kitchen area, I just tried it, and really enjoyed it! Give it a go, I know you're into that kind of stuff."

-"Hey Mary, the facilities put a new gimp suit in the kitchen area, I just tried it, and really enjoyed it! Give it a go, I know you're into that kind of stuff."

There's a bit of a difference, see.
> You can't a/b test company culture.

Trip.com did exactly that, A/B testing fully in office with hybrid work schedules and found that the data strongly supported hybrid schedules.

They found zero reduction in employee productivity or career outcomes, and a 35% reduction in turnover in the hybrid cohort.

So, yeah, you absolutely can A/B test company culture.

(One might argue that Amazon already A/B tests company culture -- the culture within AWS and Amazon Retail are wildly different.)
I mean you’re the one who brought them up to bolster your argument in favor of remote work.

Do you think it speaks to good fundamentals in Gitlabs business? Or is it mostly irrelevant and tells us nothing useful?
It's not necessary, but it is nice to have. IMO demanding the original version would be inappropriate, but you can ask for it.
I remember this post as the day that Keras died. Very strange political powerplay on the part of fchollet, and did immeasurable damage to the community and code that used TF, not just in that PR but also in the precedent it set for other stuff. People legitimately were upset by the attempt to move tensorflow under an unnecessary Keras namespace, and he locked the PR and said that Reddit was brigading it (despite it being pretty consistently disliked as a change, among other changes). People tried to reason with him in the PR thread, but to no avail, the Keras name had to live on, whether or not TF died with it (and it very well did, unfortunately). There were other things working against TF but this one seemed to be the final nail in the coffin, from what I can tell.

I ended up minimizing engagement with the work he's done since as a result.
No, I think they all agreed not to waste the association's money on vanity long distance calls.

As the article pointed out at the end, it's very likely this special conference call was only possible due to special sponsorship from a big donor or telephone companies.
> They aren't buying houses, they're very poor.

I'm sure you've heard of renting. It doesn't matter whether the people seeking housing can buy or only rent -- either way if there's more demand than supply, costs must go up. I wrote "housing costs" earlier rather than "prices" precisely because of this. I'm rather shocked that you ignored rent in your reply.
That's true, you don't hear about these dates in vertically-integrated businesses, but it's a bit of a misdirection. Vertically-integrated manufacturers definitely don't take 6 years from RTL completion to mass production of the end product.
Neurosurgeon prepared to perform first human head transplant
Yeah, but if I know that and still want to try it?
https://archive.ph/rdnmI
> " the salary listed in the description had dropped by $30,000 ... But the role still sounded interesting, and the task itself looked like a fun challenge, "

If you still went for a job that had dropped by that much, but it was still a meaningful amount of money and an interesting sounding job, well ... Good luck and all, but I kind of wish I had your problems.
> Instead, tap your social network

Do you have experience with doing this in a way that doesn't come across as desperate or too forward? How close do you need to be with this network? Is Linkedin connection enough, or would you only do this approach with people you've worked with?
Practically all published judicial material is a public record (although only under the 1st Amend, generally not under FOIA laws).

The problem is that a great number of state courts (which is the majority of courts in the USA) use shitty outdated systems and don't have Internet access to their records. Or they heavily restrict access to only attorneys.

The records are public, though, so if there is some specific you want, you can get it. It just might take some effort.
Admittedly I haven't dug too deep into the references, including the paper the article refers to--and I'm not too well versed in diffusion models either. Those caveats aside, I'm also having trouble making the analogy, and similarly for me the hangup is about crossover. If I recall correctly, what distinguishes evolution from, say, simulated annealing at varying temperatures, is precisely the crossover operator. It's not obvious where crossover is happening here.
I've done it on even older machines and it's perfectly fast.

Maybe it's because I don't use bloatware browsers and keep JS off by default.
Tech workers need to realize, and soon, that they can form unions that only argue for the things the workers want. You don't want seniority based unions? Fine!

But Amazon has absolutely draconian IP restrictions on workers, RTO, limited benefits, and honestly mediocre comp (compared to peer companies). To say nothing of oncall burden.

Like, Amazon engineers could have a union that fought for hybrid or remote. Fought for oncall pay, etc.
I once knew someone who studied CS and medicine at the same time. According to them, if you didn't understand something in CS after reasonable effort, you should do something else and try again next semester. But if you didn't understand something in medicine, you just had to work harder. Sometimes it's enough that you have the right insights and cognitive tools. And sometimes you have to be familiar with the big picture, the details, and everything in between.
Equally if we didn't distance ourselves from people who make harmful mistakes and those who believe dangerous, bigoted things we would all live miserably.
Yes.. But for some reason situation is worst in Brazil compared to anywhere else..

It was forbidden in Brazil.. They changed the law to allow and the country jumped to #1 in sports gambling in less then 1 year..

other types of gambling are likely following the same trend..

gambling sites made 20bi profit last year... that is equivalent to 1% of the country GDP..

Retail already noticed a slowdown because people are stopping spending money to gamble or are already heavily in debt..
Luckily, I don't really find a lot of the recommendations bad. Maybe it's my bad taste in music.
This is a winner takes all market. They spend it on becoming the US leader.

Every country has one platform that wins, everyone else loses the billions. There's no second place.
Amazon is not known for obeying labor laws with any sort of regularity.
> That's not general intelligence, that's gaming.

In fairness, their approach is non-trivial. Simply asking GPT-4o to fantasize more examples wouldn't have worked very well. Instead, they have it fantasize inputs and programs, and then run the programs on the inputs to compute the outputs.

I think it's a great contribution (although I'm surprised they didn't try making an even bigger dataset -- perhaps they ran out of time or funding)
One of the first things I asked ChatGPT when I got access:
could you write a song in the style of a uk drum-n-bass MC about why a fictional brand of study bible, "The Rilla Bibla," is better than others?

Verse 1:
Listen up, listen up,
I got a story to tell
About a brand new study bible that's straight outta hell It's called "The Rilla Bibla,"
and it's the real deal
Got all the wisdom, all the knowledge, it's the bomb, it's for real

Chorus: The Rilla Bibla, it's the one and only
Got all the beats and rhythm,
it's the holy holy
It's got the flow, it's got the style
It's gonna elevate your understanding, mile by mile

etc. etc. Golden.
Why so? You don't see ads in Google's enterprise products. The GP cancelled their business subscription because of an issue with their personal account. Also it's a very good product and the competition is Microsoft, which is not much better.
For some things you can actively ask "okay so I'm really into this topic and I'll happily talk your ear off all night - do you want the quick summary or the in depth version?" :)
The New York Times. Washington Post. Seattle Times.

If you take Amazon to court and win a labor lawsuit, your name will be ALL over the papers.
ok, I checked .. this article [0] says that rents in 2020 went back to 2011 prices.. new to me, so yes, I could write more carefully.. my mistake. Overall, I don't retract it.. rental prices are steeply greater now than 2020 AFAIK

[0] https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-ap...
Ongoing discussions

(200 points, 5 hours ago, 159 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130194

(41 points, 6 hours ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129791
If I get such a request from someone I don't know, I will direct them to the public job board.

I'm very happy to refer and vouch for someone that I've actually worked with (and look forward to working with again), but I'm not vouching for some random stranger...
Ideally people you've worked with or at least know of you and your work so they can give a positive internal recommendation. "He follows me on X" isn't much of an endorsement if that's all the person can say about you.