skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would likely only result in him being charged for something, and some poor underpaid employee have to clean it up.

Against these kind of companies there are three ways to make them change; legal action, regulation and financial loss.
No one you're complaining about would care if people were training LLMs on pirated material for their own private use.
As someone who got accepted into an Oxf'd DPhil program, did not get a stipend and had to decline the offer it certainly stings when you say "not necessarily a bad thing".

Because it definitely is a class barrier, and since my spot wasn't filled by someone else, also a lack in research output.
That is cool, but it's mostly merging, that is a partial solution and the strategy is defined by the developer. The results aren't good enough.
A Dark Room (an addictive text-based game) (2013)
Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961205 (2013, 244 comments)
LLMs hallucinate and are completely the wrong tool for this. People need to learn about the history of AI.

Expert-systems using techniques from the 80s are doing this right now [0].

[0] https://www.mathacademy.com/how-our-ai-works
> they credited my account with £10, apologised profusely, and said they would feed this back to the delivery driver

Fuck you with a bow on it!
Absolutely fascinating!

It’s precisely these orthogonal, secondary concerns that make every industry more difficult than people on the outside might think.

Articles like yours shed light on these challenges.

I’m reminded of a recent project working on a (small!) data warehouse where for the first time in my career I had to not only be concerned with theoretical performance of queries, such as the presence or absences of indexes, but orthogonal concerns such as the time taken to rewrite terabytes of data on disk during night ETL jobs… combining with the “change rate” of the source data.

Your article is a similar concern that only specialists in the in the industry are even aware of: it’s not enough to logically route connections — a challenging optimisation all by itself — but there are these competing physical optimisation issues as well that need to be simultaneously optimised!
This is what I'd do. Because this is what lawyers I've known and sometimes sold services to have done when it was at all inconvenient to send a legally sufficient message in some other way.
Depends on the profile, when somebody talks to me like that I immediately cringe in my head and lose all respect for the person.

Probably a matter of culture too.
This no longer works. The just kick it down to a support person. I don't think the question mark emails exist anymore for customer facing issues.
Check out concepts. That allows you to enforce the existence of the function. Also works with static functions and such.
This article is so bias and slanted it can’t stand up straight.
>It is not legitimate to launch death threats against a woman who (a) had no involvement in the discussion and (b) was not responsible for the role existing.

Which Musk didn't do? Are all the people who said "Trump is a threat to democracy" and similar statements responsible for the multiple assassination attempts against him?
Please tell me you have your own security cameras now.
> Put the words "demand letter" in gold and underlined in large font at the top

Does this have legal significance?
Facebook is on a similar scale in the ad market, Facebook makes even larger share of their money on ads and aren't making that much less money.
Talk to the cops and your lawyer, not the internet.
Plutonium.
> AI vacuuming up content to ultimately sell it on

To me that's this. I never cared for analytics and knowing how many people read what I write. But it appears I care about AI benefiting from it. There is no way to prevent them from stealing my content, so I may as well not publish it at all.
yeah, they were being paid 3x the minimum wage, and were paid for prep time

vs. the alternative available part time work (sainsburys/tesco)

definitely exploited
It also doesn't need to be all-or-nothing. I'm a "full-time" WFH team-lead. But when I'm onboarding a new engineer, I travel to wherever they are and we share an office for a couple weeks while I bring them up-to-speed. After that point, they can WFH or come into the office to suit their preference.

While this is less convenient for me (a fact which is reflected in my compensation), it flattens the onboarding curve without requiring a complete RTO for everyone.
The other way around. Renderman is the original, BMRT was mostly Renderman compatible.
This pov is 2 decades late. If you worked on automation in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or witnessed first hand the rise of social media and smart phones, you already held this belief. As we continue to scale technology and lower its barrier of entry, we continue to expand all of the gaps that prevent us from reaching any "utopia".

I realize that my "lowering the barrier" statement comes off as if I think we should support inclusive technology or that I don't believe in democratization of tech- Im all for inclusivity, but we have not actually reached a state of democracy.
It was (and still is) never a good idea to hotlink to an external dependency.

Most developers know better than to hotlink to an image because it might one day return a completely different image (and potentially an unsavory one) yet they casually use external code dependencies.

It is also why the Dependabot(sp?) that has become so popular among devs makes me nervous. Something automatically updating your dependencies is a recipe for disaster.
I stand clue-batted, thank you.
When you look at data, it is not as bad as you paint it to be.

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/the-u-s-is-losing-its-compet...

The U.S. placed 16th out of 81 countries in science when testing was last administered in 2022.

The top five math-scoring countries in 2022 were all in Asia.

U.S. students' math scores have remained steady since 2003.

Their science scores have been about the same since 2006.

The IMD World Competitiveness Center reports that the U.S. ranked 12th in its 2024 Competitiveness Report after ranking first in 2018.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/most-amer...
No criminal charges have been filed yet because it's not yet clear where the money went or who could have stolen it. The Madoff case didn't have this element of mystery because there weren't multiple layers of intermediaries to muddle things, and because the case was blown open directly by Madoff's confession.

Law enforcement is eventually going to figure out the answers to these questions, since they are knowable if you dig deep enough; it's just that this takes time. And then I would bet there will be criminal charges.
And that they were bought from Amazon!
Same as the other comment. It's merging, not construction from a self-generated strategic plan to cause ambiguity.
I feel like I'm talking with people who would rather ride a horse and buggy down a rutted dirt road for 2 hours both ways, checking the wooden wheels for damage. Giving the horses rest stops.

I think I'll take a 10 minute car drive to costco, thank you very much.
Which Countries Have the Most Industrial Robots?
Not sure why this got downvoted. This actually worked. Sure, I shouldn't have to negotiate with a bot, but it did get me to a human just now. (Or maybe a really convincing bot).
I found strange to see so much criticism of the post as usually, anything that Wes Kao writes really resonates with me as a senior IC. Usually there’s a great balance of nuance and depth to the advice that makes it easy to digest and pick small bits and pieces to try out on my own context
Exactly; it's why I worked hard during and after uni so I could retire young. That was 25 years ago; I am working more than ever now. But only on whatever I want / like to do. That happens to make money as people want to buy it.
Wow! So beautifully designed and smooth, brought many good memories...
But could it handle `The Donald'?
The problem with a "put down the phone bitch" sign is it's more likely to prompt taking out a phone for a picture.
I just went through the Amazon chat experience, quickly got to a real person and had my issue resolved. I had to start by referencing a specific order and say “No” to all the “is this a payment problem?” and “do you want to make a return?” prompts, but it wasn’t hard in the end.
Are we describing interviews here, or the process of software engineering in practice? It could be either imo.

Those clarifying questions and some of the thinking through consequences are the only really topical part of SE interviews, the rest is just math you won't use on the job 99.99% of the time anyway.
From repo at start of thread: screenshots for adding router users and managing network segments, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secure-programmable-router/id6.... Router image runs Linux and hostapd.
I don’t put things in production, the company does. And it’s the companies responsible to deal with problems that show up.

24/7 coverage is expensive and mandating someone is on call 24/7 don’t actually provide it.
Infant dies and 10 others sick in latest listeria outbreak
I though he would try to net profit through probability by requesting to regenerate the file and hope to get a compressible one in at least 5000/100=50 times. (Though I don't think that would work.)
Great, so what are those benefits all the way up?
Organs
I use DaisyUI on top of Tailwind to get the nice semantic classes like btn.
> Such as?

Tickets to a live performance. Health information. Public benefits. Tax refunds. Rental cars.
> IT seems to be rather the exception

I think there’s actually a fair number of jobs where some level of this is expected.

Doctors are one obvious example — they have on call responsibilities often more onerous than IT, and depending on the situation don’t always receive additional compensation for it.

If you manage people who work different hours from you, in a
lot of jobs it’s not uncommon to be called in if shit hits the fan when you’re not working (for example if you’re a hotel manager, to just name one).

I’ve found that any good lawyer I’ve worked with will answer my calls and help me work through things at basically any time of day (their firm might be billing me for the time, but that doesn’t necessarily directly translate to their comp).

Lots of reporters are expected to cover news that breaks on their beat, no matter when it happens.
>>chainsaw tends to growl before it bites.

It doesn't tend to; it growls continuously : treat me wrong an i will eat you.
These are all rhetorical techniques to make your idea their idea. If you ever want to get anything done in painfully structured or faux-flat orgs, this is the way.

Why this psyop works:

1. People like to take credit for things.

2. People don't like to be wrong.

3. People get irked when a good idea wasn't their idea.

4. People don't like to feel threatened.

5. Just remove the duck.

The examples given are a little contrived, but the techniques applied are gold for more tricky scenarios.
If you know how to multiply and divide, Math Academy will take you to college level math pretty quickly.
https://old.reddit.com/user/MarshallBrain

It's an unusual post history. He seemed to post exclusively in a set of small, self-created subreddits. It's quite an eclectic mix of fascinating subjects!

In alphabetical order, I've found:

https://old.reddit.com/r/2ndIntelligentSpecies/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AmAnimals/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChinaDomination/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ConcentrationOfWealth/

https://old.reddit.com/r/DoomsdayBook/

https://old.reddit.com/r/DoomsdayNow/

https://old.reddit.com/r/GreatCostumes/

https://old.reddit.com/r/HarvestPorn/

https://old.reddit.com/r/HowDogsWork/

https://old.reddit.com/r/HowHumanBeingsWork/

https://old.reddit.com/r/HowGodWorks/

https://old.reddit.com/r/HumanDecency/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ideathon/

https://old.reddit.com/r/LockCarbon/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineThatMakesMoney/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MarshallBrain/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MBthin/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MuskMarsColony/

https://old.reddit.com/r/PeopleBeingAssholes/

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedneckTech/

https://old.reddit.com/r/SomethingGoesWrong/

We didn't deserve him. May you find peace, Marshall Brain.
It is a demotion.
Ask HN: Payment processing for micro SaaS outside USA?
I am developing a micro SaaS (not expecting to earn much from it), and I can't find a payment processor for it. I am in a country not supported by Stripe, so the obvious option is not possible.

I don't have business documentations (some of them require that), I just want to get paid via Credit Card (if they can include subscriptions that'd be great, if not I can try to code that myself), and then receive the money in my bank account or Paypal.

Is out there an option to do this without much bureaucracy? My customers wouldn't use crypto so that's not an option either.
I'd strongly recommend Math Academy for at least 30 minutes per day.
I so very much agree with you...
I was first baffled by how unintelligent some parts of the OP managed to come through - while it's still a very nice collection of woes and unethical lies, which is very valuable in itself.
But then, I've read the linked CNN post about Jeff Bezos prohibiting presidential endorsement in Washington Posts and the outrage that has generated. No, this is surely not the author's folly - there must be a more generic problem there...
Why do so many people considered intelligent think it's normal practice that newspapers give such a very direct and simple political message, like vote for X. And have been doing it for 40 years.
It's normal for newspapers and editors to have clear and mostly stable political views and voice that, but I feel it very weird that they publish something as direct as this one. Just like it's very weird for celebrities (who normally work outside politics) to publicly endorse X or Y.
By doing this, you lose focus on what you really want to say, and just simplify politics and communication into a binary question. Is it really needed to ELI3 everything even in politics, even to such a binary degree, and if we don't THAT is the "betrayal of responsibility"?
While I'm not a great friend of using the usual left-right distinctions, especially in global settings, but that's not really important (people will see whatever enemies where they want to see, but it's still much better than naming your global enemies after a more specific group/country/religion).
Technology can give us hope for new opportunities, that we can receive some "outside help" to change our social constraints. But we shouldn't blame yet another group of people for specific technology failing to solve or address some important issues of society.
I wholeheartedly believe it is inevitable to convince as many people of the 8 billion to feel compassion for each other, to save the planet, to give better education and equal chances to live a full life for those who can make use of that and social care to those who need it, and, to work together for such important and clear goals... But business-as-usual will not do that, current recipes of "pluralistic democracies led by wise citizen journalists telling us what to do and think" will not get us there.
And that's also a problem for LLMs: mandating guardrails will not make them more useful, and as long as LLM safety and "bias" is about how many people will be offended by their responses, then we're clearly just heading in the same wrong direction of blinding ourselves.
(My condolences with you! But having a toddler is a wonderful thing, it gives you hope and a good reason to expect many joy from the future ... even if it doesn't look bright now, cheer up!)
I don’t think it’s lack of confidence. Rather, the public wouldn’t support the costs and sacrifices necessary.
Same. What the author writes seems more of a consequence of economic anxiety and the resulting populism (e.g. "big corporations bad, profit bad") than tech itself.

A lot of people who criticize tech, like the author, would often excuse non-commercial or personal actors for doing the same thing (e.g. "regular people using LLMs are fine, big corporations using LLMs are bad"), which shows that they believe that "doing it for a profit" makes the moral difference. So it has nothing to do with tech at all, but rather whether or not the actor is doing it for a commercial purpose.
It’s worth mentioning that small claims court judgments are often non-binding. Meaning, if either party is dissatisfied with the outcome, they can have an automatic “do-over” in regular civil court.
Feedback is pointless. Vote with your feet. If a team has high churn it's guaranteed the leadership is garbage.
I was actually joking. If you accidentally create a compiler, it's not too much more yak (yacc) shaving to create a compiler compiler...
>a) Publicly shamed a civil servant with full knowledge it would drive the violent elements of his supporters to attack her. I've never seen this before in US politics where an innocent party was targeted this way and clearly it was done to drive fear within the government.

Hmm, you must have missed when the Department of Justice sent protestors to Florida to pressure a local district attorney into pressing charges against a very clearly innocent man. And if you disagree with the very clearly innocent part then you definitely didn't watch the trial and missed the eyewitness reports and the medical reports.

https://theweek.com/articles/462236/did-justice-department-i...
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When someone tells me that downloading a song or a movie is like stealing, I usually encourage them to download a new car.
This. I had to get a little used to not fluffing around my feedback. One of our managers just asked me to give it to him straight, directly and 1-on-1 and we’d get along fine. So we did. I still am having trouble with how little, what I see as fact based, feedback is needed before the average person has had enough.

Example: I like to point out shitty work processes (one needs a hobby). Anything with a few loops and some rework goes for me to start my first time right story. People take offense. No stop, you are not the process. You didn’t design it, you merely took part because we asked you to. Now stop and consider whether you think it is shitty and if so, what can we do? Can you do it? Do you need help? When? Organizationally, it’s a good riff. For me, it’s strange to do and see it help. It feels like delivering snake oil. (I rationalize this as delivering Lean in thirty minutes.)

My communication plan is facts >> options >> opinions >> advice. This way I help people mentally separate “what is” from whatever opinion I’m holding. This works for both verbal and written communication. It’s a coping strategy for being outlier direct.
> The amount of transparency over government

Can you describe how transparency over government has increased (by social media)?
the first thing that came to mind after I read your words - Google started as “do no evil…”
Waking someone up is going to cost far more than the time spent fixing the issue.
The energy consumption of both crypto and AI are way overstated. Total energy budget of crypto is less than a percent of world electricity consumption (not energy consumption, electricity). And a ton of that electricity is particularly no-carbon.

AI is harder to get numbers for and obviously is a moving target, but plausibly half of the consumption that crypto is.
Chainsaws don't like dry wood. They are not cost effective energy and wear-wise for most carpentry work.
Biohybrid neural interfaces: an old idea enabling a new space of possibilities
Maybe you could tell us in which country you operate ?
Would help to find the right psp
I'm guessing at some point there will be LLMs trawling through news items to put together profiles for people, and as the cost comes down, it won't just be available to three letter agencies and ad platforms, but schools and employers will start to use them like credit scores.
yeah, I wish we could be more specific here. Like I appreciate the things you’re saying, and I don’t doubt the truth or sincerity of that opinion — but I feel like I’ve encountered some math PhD students who were surprisingly inflexible in the way they thought, and very parochial in their intellectual interests. I guess I just haven’t (anecdotally) found the transference of math training to other domains as much as others seem to.
Who came up with the words? If autocorrect is acting as a typist, transferring your words to screen, you are the author.
Yeah totally-

Don't confuse hate for the republicans as support for the democrats
New nuclear power in the US (timeline)
Yup, this works. I did not think to click "Digital Services" because this has nothing to do with digital services. But it does get you to the chat.
Hard to say but this should give you an idea [0].

At that rate, less than a year is reasonable.

[0] https://www.justinmath.com/what-is-the-highest-sustainable-d...
Knowledge Creation
Same here - whenever I see someone trying to get around giving honest feedback, and trying to frame it as "humble curiosity" instead, I immediately assume they read some "leadership" articles and are trying to apply it because they are second guessing themselves. I believe it depends a lot on the culture, but I am much more used to either keeping my mouth shut (when there is nothing on the line) or being blunt (when it matters). Either way, no sugarcoating or "being curious".
It happened in late September… that’s a tricky one, because there’s no Fall Olympics. I think Summer already has enough water sports, so let’s give this one to Winter.
I'd argue 99% percent of companies operate like this. No one likes blunt feedback--even in friendships and marriage. Good luck if you throw money and ego into the mix.
The antenna diodes are only relevant during manufacturing, when a metal line is connected on one end but not the other. ESD diodes on the other hand protect inputs against electrostatic discharge when the chip is in use.
Imagine if someone bought a royal permission to "own" the image of Mt. Everest, hired a bunch of gangsters and tried to chase and beat up everyone who dared to look at the mountain without paying a fee? That's the modern copyright holders, the wannabe aristocracy of the digital world.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-reveals-secr... (2021)

Study mentioned: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2020.085...
Show HN: Open-Source Tool to Remove Background Music from Videos
A lightweight audio enhancer for internet media. It's fast, free and easy to use.

Pull the docker image from GHCR, instructions and demo video on the readme!
I believe the original two-space aka semispace collector actually used all of the memory as main memory... then it used a tape as temporary buffer where it wrote "live" objects, and restored from tape again
I thought they were there to allow Van Eck phreaking of the processor state
he didn't say stealing isn't piracy, in which case your point would stand - he says piracy isn't stealing. piracy could be a lot of things, but stealing isn't one of them.
Well I can be completely honest and tell you that the earth is flat. Do you see now that being objective is also needed?