skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I can’t see a reason why it should be equal. Even if you strip the relationship down to its most basic principle, there is asymmetry. One party provides work with the expectation of pay, the other party providess pay with the expectation of work.

But the asymmetries don’t end there. Terminating employment is a far greater threat to the employee than the employer. This creates a power imbalance which could easily be exploited by malicious or incompetent employers. That power imbalance is fundamental to this relationship and is reason enough (in the opinion of many countries) to bolster worker rights.
Peaches spread across North America through Indigenous networks
Building a Harrison Wooden Longcase [pdf]
> the biometric data collected when you got your ID

When I got my license, which I can use to board a flight in my country I did not give fingerprints or an eye scan. They have my photo, DOB, name - not more.
Asimov himself wrote a short story proving how even in the scenario where the three laws are followed, harm to humans can still easily be achieved.

I vaguely recall it involved two or three robots who were unaware of what the previous robots had done. First, a person asks one robot to purchase a poison, then asks another to dissolve this powder into a drink, then another serves that drink to the victim. I read the story decades ago, but the very rough idea stands.
Very cool story, quite impactful on my thinking, although I will caution that the dystopia is better conceived than the utopia, mainly because the later requires inventing fantasy technology while the former does not. Indeed it's not clear at all what forces might destabalize the dystopia, since the power structures are immortal and self-replicating, and physics and biology (at least) prevents the utopia from existing. Maybe an asteroid or a caldera explosion? In fact I would love to read a sequel where the dystopia wins and AI-empowered oligarchs and human wage slaves create generation ships to nearby stars and eventually setup fast food restaurants in every corner of the galaxy.
There is no code-review process for management decisions. Management is essentially like writing code on the production server all the time. The stakes are maybe a little lower, it's a good bit harder to make disastrous mistakes, but there's no real roll-back or testing for if you're about to ruin your team.
Given that you already need government issued ID that matches the name printed on your ticket to travel on an airplane, wouldn’t the government already have the ability to track you, regardless of facial recognition?
They lose out on export revenue
The variety in past firstnames always fascinates me. 5 Johns, 5 Jameses, plus David & William.
A .com domain is very inexpensive, often less than a dollar a month depending upon the registrar you choose, I’m just not seeing the abuse here.
I've been using PHP since 1999 and never downloaded the documentation locally.
Lecture 16: Relational Algebra [pdf]
That's the definition of a normal error not a category error.

If you disagree, what do you see as something that would be in the correct category but wrong in the sentence?

The normal definition of category error is something that is so wrong it doesn't make sense on a deep level. Like for example if they suggested quicksort as an error correction code.

The mere fact we are talking about "real" computers should be a tip off its not a category error, since people can build new computers. Category errors are wron a priori. Its possible someone tomorrow will build a computer using a repetition code for error correcting. It is not possible they will use quicksort for ECC. Repetition codes is in the right category of things even if it is the wrong instance. Quicksort is not in the right category.
> almost no one will remember

And that is true for all memory, I suppose. There is none. It's constant communication, down to the quantum level, a constant vortex of information, and if the vortex stops, all memory is gone.
We generate 30% excess calories more than what is required to feed the world even after wasting 25 calories to create one beef calorie for the developed world. There is no competition. There are only distribution problems under capitalism.

After that what’s left? Wants. We should be able to work way less to just survive in this world. We shouldn’t need to work 70 hours a week to afford a small apartment.
Elon’s technology first approach would be… to eliminate facial recognition?
This is a poor comparison that misses the reason why the plow took off. The plow was able to produce grains similar to human laborers at a speed that made scythes and bush knives obscelete. There was no more need for human labor because mechanized harvesting provided a "good enough" alternative.

AI does not mechanize human thought, create a suitable replacement product, or displace demand for human content. It is not the plow, because the plow was actually competitive and forced people to change their lives. Consequently, the smartest people today are probably the ones that least regard AI and LLMs.
That is way too polarised. In a world just introducing ICE cars, gas stations once where rare too—without those, you’d be short of luck as well. Give it a bit of time, and you’ll have a reliable charging grid.

Additionally, much of the fear of running out of electricity has been instilled by the oil and car lobby. The problem is hugely inflated over the actual experience of driving an EV in reality.

And in terms of finickiness, there are SO many ways an ICE can break, so many replacement parts, maintenance requirements, and complexity compared to an electric engine. You’re just used to those in ICEs.
The leviathan is often arbitrary and capricious.
Interesting, never heard of it. Thanks!
> see if there's an existing bugzilla for it

Bugzilla is a bug-tracking platform.
I bet it's even more annoying when you participate with those complaints and give them your attention. Then you can get really mad at them for stealing your attention instead of just moving on.
Might be worth updating the title to "SmolLM: state-of-the-art small language model trained on open datasets" (See the first table of https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm for benchmarks)

It was fascinating digging into this to find their dataset weights defined in a declarative YAML file [2]. 70% is from FineWeb/Commoncrawl but filtered using a classifier trained on Llama-70b's rating from 0-5 of the educational content of the text [3]. This is something we know small models like Phi-3 have been doing for a while, but it's great to see a fully open reproduction of it that beats their benchmarks. Definitely supports the idea you can get even better reasoning at smaller model sizes by carefully filtering and curating your training data (and generating good synthetic data from/distilling bigger models).

You can see the 450k Llama educational value scores here:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-ll...
It's interesting, I think the text with 3 scores is really good, but the 5 scores pick content that is not very reasoning or information-heavy but just mentions education or a worksheet. For SmolLM they just took the documents with scores >= 3 so it doesn't matter a ton.

2. https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/blob/9efce803bc7e37727...
3. https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-classifier
Why Elon Musk can never balance the budget, in one chart
Show HN: Use Gleam Along with Electron (QuickStart Template)
You could make the case that we're actually working what he'd consider 80 hour weeks since we've been maneuvered into requiring two incomes to support a household instead of one.
Indeed, the government doesn't even need the ID, they ingest a data feed of Passenger Name Records (PNRs) from all airlines. This is why when TSA performs the automated identity proofing, comparing a photo of you to your ID, they don't require that you provide a boarding pass.

Comparing an ephemeral photo taken of you to your government credential at the TSA checkpoint is a temporary formality. At some point, the government credential presentation will be unnecessary.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/clearing-cbp/passenger-name-recor... (Control-F "What information is collected?")
The difficulty is the small sample size. Most people won't have a ton of different managers in their career and you'll change over time and your role will change over time and want/need different things from your manager.

There's also a lot of selection bias. What many people point out in these threads is that the sort of people who desire to be in management, and the sort of skills selected for in managers often don't align to what more ICs would actually want out of their managers. Managers are often hired by other managers and not by the managed, so the skills that get you the job often aren't aligned to what would make them good to work for.
Yes, we all know what dynamic dispatch is, which is exactly what the docs talk about.

> Or, we could decide that parameterized methods do not, in fact, implement interfaces, but then it's much less clear why we need methods at all.

I will say it again: the go docs want to gaslight the reader into believing everything is allright, a design decision, and never a bad one. Constantly. It reads between a cult and a marketing piece, sometimes.

Methods have many more upsides than dynamic dispatch, or else there would be no (or little) methods that don't have an interface. We could all code like it's C, yet we don't. The only times I have been forced into this C style is when I wanted a method with generic parameters.
Spent hours in highschool printing stuff out of howstuffworks.com because dialup at home was too slow until we got dsl :(

May he rest in peace.
I noticed that. He made several subreddits, here's a (likely incomplete) list. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42224139

His commentary near the end of this interview is also telling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5v2cfJp1o

An optimist in (increasingly) a cynic's world. Be at peace, Marshall Brain.
Ansible is better than Bash if your goals include:

* Automating repetitive tasks across many servers.

* Ensuring idempotent configurations (e.g., setting up web servers, installing packages consistently).

* Managing infrastructure as code for better version control and collaboration.

* Orchestrating complex workflows that involve multiple steps or dependencies.

However, Ansible is not a container orchestrator.

Kubernetes (K8s) provides capabilities that Ansible or Docker-Compose cannot match. While Docker-Compose only supports a basic subset, Kubernetes offers:

* Advanced orchestration features, such as rolling updates, health checks, scaling, and self-healing.

* Automatic maintenance of the desired state for running workloads.

* Restarting failed containers, rescheduling pods, and replacing unhealthy nodes.

* Horizontal pod auto-scaling based on metrics (e.g., CPU, memory, or custom metrics).

* Continuous monitoring and reconciliation of the actual state with the desired state.

* Immediate application of changes to bring resources to the desired configuration.

* Service discovery via DNS and automatic load balancing across pods.

* Native support for Persistent Volumes (PVs) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) for storage management.

* Abstraction of storage providers, supporting local, cloud, and network storage.

If you need these features but are concerned about the complexity of Kubernetes, consider using a managed Kubernetes service like GKE or EKS to simplify deployment and management. Alternatively, and this is my prefered option, combining Terraform with a Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform allows the provider to handle most of the operational complexity for you.
> you don't compare the languages if you run some third-party code on top of it, which has nothing to do with how the language itself is implemented

What if "the language itself" provides arbitrary precision arithmetic by wrapping GMP and GMP is not written in "the language itself" ?

https://gmplib.org/

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/integer-gmp
I also can't see the tracking difference between a human verifying your identity and entering that into a database and a computer verifying your identity and entering that into a database.

But it's still a valid concern as to whether or not this new system is at least as secure and privacy-respecting as the old one.
Users don't put it in those terms. They'll complain about spam calls that no longer sound like a male voice with heavy foreign accent.

The logical solution will be, we need a service that scans all calls for phishing, just like we have for email.
The service cannot be local for the same reason as for email.
Type Theory Forall: What Is Type Theory and What Properties We Should Care About
> c) I've heard that the ratio between the cost of nails and the price of lettuce is still more or less the same as it was in the 1770s.

This feels like it can’t be correct.

Nails were expensive and difficult to obtain in the American colonies, so that abandoned houses were sometimes deliberately burned down to allow recovery of used nails from the ashes. This became such a problem in Virginia that a law was created to stop people from burning their houses when they moved. [0]

And nails were a significant expense in Thoreau’s cabin in _Walden_, c.a. 1850s

Maybe lettuce was a lot more expensive back then than I realize, though. I assume that produce is close to “free”, since you can grow it yourself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(fastener)
If I understand it correctly the site is managed more like a hobby/private website.

There is no company behind with sys admin 24h support.
> I can’t see a reason why this is all not equal on both sides.

I can.

Think of what employment is for a second: shareholders (or company owners) own the capital, and the employee gets to follow orders. Structurally, the company pay workers less than their actual value: shareholders gotta hold, and they squeeze the margin out of the employee. The margin may be thin, but it's never meant to be zero (except for non-profits, but they're the exception).

Such a relationship is fundamentally asymmetrical, such an exchange fundamentally unequal. If you want any hope of restoring fairness from this system, termination conditions have to be asymmetrical as well.
Yes, BYD will be fine.

And they know this is --- hence they are doubling the size of their already massive factory.

Guess who won't be fine? US auto manufacturers. They won't be able to compete anywhere other than the USA. And China loves it.
Nah. I suspect his first target will be the NLRB.
A photo isn’t an interactive interface so there’s entirely different perception tasks involved in parsing it. We like a lot of things in photos that are horrible for UI design — and vice versa.

But this also gets into another gray area where looking at a design for a UI != using said design to perform important tasks. Hence why prototyping and user tests often run counter to “pretty” interfaces.
> What a missed opportunity! A note in a bottle in a lighthouse seems like the perfect opportunity to be more poetic, inspiring and exciting.

Were there other messages with “more poetic, inspiring and exciting” content from around that time and place?
Well yeah of course but the discussion here is on Minecraft and Lego specifically.

But realistically a lot of kids today are getting much less practical motor skills building things, and a lot more specific fine motor skills controlling video game interfaces.

I think building things has a much wider range of motor skills than using UIs.
Also please stop comparing absolute numbers between countries with more than an order of magnitude population difference.
Yeah, it seems pretty useless. Nothing stops them from simply doing this on publicly available data online as well.

We’ve known for over a decade that DHS, FBI, CBP, and local police buy location data.

https://www.propublica.org/article/no-warrant-no-problem-how...
Yes, the articles are scientific.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01698...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144929041000166...

https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2121593

Though this lacks citations and evidence, it's by a generally accepted expert and authority in the field:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/low-contrast/

I'm really struggling to understand the connections you're drawing to food.
It's always surprised me how many people are happy with somewhat sloppy work, doing just enough to solve a particular issue. Most of the time it doesn't even come from management pressure, it's just the way people work.

Perhaps there is something wrong with me but I always want to dot all the i's and cross all the t's.
1xx is the response code you try to ignore because it's really annoying to deal with properly (like when you receive a 100 response to a file upload, or even worse, a 101 with a protocol that isn't exactly what you expected, or a 103 which means more content comes later).

1xx response codes are crucial for things like WebSockets and HTTP/3 but they make the HTTP state machine more complex and many people writing manual HTTP requests are ill-prepared to deal with them.
That will never happen. The long lines and inconveniences are the point, not a side effect.

How many shoe bombers does the TSA catch in a day? 0. In a month? 0. Since the only shoe bomber? 0. We still take off our shoes. Same with underwear bombs. 0. We still partially undress and do the nude-a-tron.

The point is, we could already ditch the lines, we don't want to.
FoldScope: $2 microscope changes how kids see the world
Indeed, not to mention the availability of public social media photos. To think that every intelligence agency on earth hasn’t already trained FR across their databases of IDs and material voluntarily uploaded by themselves and their family/friends…

One reason I left Facebook early on was that I didn’t like getting tagged in photos the next morning after everyone would get home from parties. Too bad for me, as long as you have a friend who don’t value your privacy, there is nothing you can do about it.

Add to this any public event, where they are well within their rights to take your picture and match it against known threat actors and the only way to not play this game is to be a hermit
Wow, this is very tragic. I was actually just reflecting on the influence Howstuffworks.com had on my life and interests. Quick story:

My first introduction to programming was building a Geocities website in HTML (using notepad, of course) at a science camp in 1999. They also showed us the "How HTML Works" web page as a resource, which became my first technical resource. I remembering struggling with something on my website and eventually emailing my question to Howstuffworks, not expecting much back. Not only did a very patient and informative woman respond to me, she continued to answer my questions and offer helpful guidance to this very eager kid for the rest of the summer. Without that positive experience, who knows if I would have stuck with it. It's been on mind a lot since I just realized that was 25 years ago.

I hope Marshall knew how much people valued the things he created and the impact they had.
There's no guarantee your code will be rewritten or refactored. I have code written over 15 years ago that I know is still in production because it is stable and core to the application. I suppose one day it probably will be replaced but I'm pretty satisfied with that piece of work and found it to be, if anything, more life affirming than draining.

You can have your cake and eat it, too: if your work is satisfying and seeing people use the things you built gives you joy, you can make good money doing something you life without optimizing your entire life solely around ladder climbing or bigger paychecks.
i think the big blind spot most research like this has is that they focus on the abstractions on music- "harmony" in particular. music becomes so much more interesting when you realize the practicalities of the instruments, coordination of musicians and circumstances of listening etc drive the music as much as anything. the music encodes all this. notice how different genres have different instruments, different band sizes, different performance customs, different societal status, different harmony, melody, rhythm, texture etc? focusing on harmony is fun, but its over analyzed because its math bait
Just remove TSA. Airport security provides nothing.
Mark–Scavenge: Waiting for Trash to Take Itself Out
Every now and again a site exists that has a massive community, tons of resources, ways to speak with other learners, ways to meet language exchange partners, and are greatly successful. Then all of that gets gutted for what is essentially a worse version of Anki but for the web when the company runs out of funding and has to start turning a profit somehow. This burns the community and the people providing most of the value move elsewhere.

It's happened to italki (now iKnow), Memrise, DuoLingo, and a few sites that were so short-lived I no longer remember what they were called.

My takeaway is that language learning apps are a lot like dating apps. They profit less if people actually learn a language and so can't be too good at their job because they'll bleed users faster than they can gain them - similar to dating apps. It needs to work just well enough that users are tricked into believing it is working but not so well that it actually works for most people.

It seems like the ETA before enshittification begins is about 2~3 years. If you're an early enough adopter you might actually benefit from it but you have to be willing to jump ship and not fall for the engagement/gamification tactics that keep you sticking around after it has stopped providing any value.

I spent way too long 'watering my garden' on Memrise before I looked around and noticed all of the once useful community-providing mnemonics were gone, you couldn't correct bad definitions anymore, it was difficult to actually speak to anyone else in the community (unless you could find them on the forums), and eventually I stopped using it altogether. The community I had signed up for and was a huge part of Memrise's success no longer existed.
And as VP you can make a ton of money and spend it wisely, make a difference to your extended family or even a community you live.

That is a real meaning and sense of purpose for your earned money!
Apples and bananas.
This article conflates the notion of being "in tech" with being a CEO for some reason. The vast majority of people "in tech" will be workers, not CEOs. For those people, a statement like "There’s no surplus value in hiring in the Bay Area" should sound like a good thing.
Is there a list of the world's largest factories, in a liberal sense of the word? The ones I'm aware of only consider individual structures [0], which excludes industrial plants that span multiple buildings, like this one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings
The only way I know how to deal with this is FIRE. Investing as much as possible and working towards early retirement or semi-retirement so that you can at least live a good chunk of your life.

The world we live in still sucks away the best years of your life but at least you don't have to wait until your 60s to live the life you want. You can also work on side projects in your spare time that will hopefully accelerate this process.

This should be doable on a tech salary.
The thing is though that payment networks do in fact do instant verification and it is interesting what gets verified and when. At gas stations it is very common to ask for a zip code (again US), and this is verified immediately to allow the transaction to proceed. I’ve found that when a street address is asked for there is some verification and often a match on the house number is sufficient. Zip codes are verified almost always, names pretty much never.
This likely has something to do with complexities behind “authorized users”.
That sounds similar to what I think about Nebula. They need to try to make that place feel alive.