skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legalities aside, isn't this the end game for most profit driven companies? Isn't Matt just doing his job here, trying to drive an increase in revenue?

I'm not saying I like it, but, ethics aside (and lets not play dumb here, when do ethics drive business, unless it affects profit), I'm struggling to understand all the outrage over his actions?
I have several emails, roughly categorizable as "work/personal", "main side email/google account", "notifications from social media sites" and "email tjat doesn't sound like a name". If it's a website verification code or something one-off, 10minutemail or temp-mail could help.
Ha.

Better, IMO: (1) those who believe in science would panic less. (2) And for those who don't, they would not be impacted since they are YOLO. (3) And for science + non-science interactions, that would be less stressful since we are all pretty much used to putting up with each other in this way.
Autobahn und Fahrvergnügen muss als Grund genügen.
C# again. I aspire to get back to C++ but this isn’t the year for me.
you should be looking for another job… immediately… terraforming on YOUR time is no way to live…
Still the good ol' Arduino IDE for regular stuff and I've been dabbling in going full platform.io but change is hard
not me! But yeah, we’re out there. The thing is, with a bunch of kids, you still only ever have one or two tiny needy ones. So it’s less of a lift than you’d think.

still a lift though
i think the most distinctive difference is that filtering of the fire hose

the fire hose is what bluesky calls the totality of the network regardless of who, what or why it exists

the largest threat to the network is a DDOS of the fire hose

compared to the fact that x is intentionally NOT a fire hose, which is widely documented by anyone getting banned that elon personally beefs with

so yeah, the fundamental design is what attracts people and why everything that’s tried to compete with existing networks “mano y mano” has failed— networks today generally boil down to dictatorships.
Also giving billions worth of weapon is seemingly totally fine but selling shells and sending troops to an allied country is "an escalation" when the opponent camp does it. The double standards and double speak is so tiring.
It’s funny, the most effective “architects” only have “developer” in their title.

The ones with “architect” in the title move on to the next project as soon as the previous is started…
The Irreducible Complexity of Objectivity (2004)
The biggest fuckup last time was people's general confusion and lack of preparation.

Given that we're only ~4 years post-pandemic, I daresay that part would go a lot better this time around.

What would probably be screwed up again would be flushing the monetary system with too much cheap money in an attempt to avoid recession, at the same time as supply is constrained, exacerbating inflation (especially in assets).
Lazygit is the only git „client“ (or frontend?) I use. I love it.
The current strain definitely does not have a 50% mortality rate.
They are related to the discipline being quite new, I think.I have seen little correlation between studying computer science and being able to program well. That might also have something to do with the generally atrocious quality of CS teaching in Germany. Professors try so hard to avoid "dirty practice" in favor of doing quasi-mathematics that they ignore interesting and fruitful fields because (get this!) not only does practice follow theory, but vice versa as well, maybe even more so.
Several of today's "business leaders" and the various judges appointed by the ascendant kleptocracy seem to constantly argue otherwise. What's the actual plan for doing that?
It's more like, "No, I didn't have any particular reason for doing it this way, if you have a better idea, go for it."
huh? just because you're not in SF or Seattle or Boston doesn't mean you're in a "much more remote area"

You can absolutely buy a decent house in a nice city for $750K on a total household income under $150K. Without having inherited anything.

Source: me. 2 young kids. Not living in SF, obviously.
> It's the manned space exploration programs and all the space-as-in-vapid programs that could and should be cut with extreme prejudice.

The main thing on the chopping block is all rocket R&D and forcing NASA to contract out that work. It's unlikely Musk would suggest chopping the programs themselves as those are very lucrative contracts SpaceX would be bidding for.

> no value in manned space exploration at this point

Only if you ignore the value of inspiring the next generation of scientists and explorers.
I doubt people are willing to be bullied into shutting down their businesses and fully putting their lives and children's educations on hold because white coat wearing talking heads on TV told them it would only take two weeks.
I wonder if it would have been possible to win the challenge legitimately?

If a randomly-generated file happened to contain some redundancy through sheer chance, you could hand-craft a compressor to take advantage of it. This compressor would not work in general for random data, but it could work for this one particular case.

It's a bet worth taking, because the payoff, 50:1 ($5,000 to $100), is pretty good. Play the game 50 times and you might get a file you could compress.

The challenge, then, would be for the person offering the bet to generate a really random file that contained no such redundancy. That might not be easy.
Just wait until you find out that our NATO ally Turkey is occupying an area larger than the west bank and gaza combined in Syria.
Basically, the number of symbols and the repeating patterns. But it seems that in this particular case, they also relied on the shapes of the "letters" to conclude the alphabetic nature of the script.
Quite the broad paint brush. Many of us will look at a train going off of the rails and make different travel plans.
> One big problem for comparisons is that most of the time people don’t do a straight rewrite

We can explore the alternative and transliterate in a very literal way:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
It’s amazing that this commentary on the value of prediction markets was written in 2001.
I feel like I've seen some stuff like this circulating around, mostly used to mic drop anti-AI people like "100% of people against AI art can't even accurately point out AI art."

I'm an anti-AI person, and this misses the point entirely. I'm not diminishing the technology--I think it's amazing that you can generate this kind of stuff in moments; it's truly incredible. The fact that it's so convincing is the point though. It's true that I can't tell whether another human was trying to communicate something to me in digital art, or if it's just AI generated, but up until a very short while ago I could always assume. I can't anymore, so now whenever I see an image online, I have to consider if it's AI or not before interpreting it artistically, and since I can't reliably do that, I can't interpret it artistically at all. It's like we suddenly found a way to destroy all art online. It's... honestly abominable.
That argument was made, and addressed in the emails. How are you defining compression? Actual compassion doesn't seem to have been a requirement in the challenge.
Unless you are the .1% of developer (and probably with a heaping helping of luck) you aren't going to end up working someplace that isn't terminally dysfunctional no matter how much you polish your resume.
If you expect your team to provide 24/7/365 assurance, then it's hard to see how that isn't a perfectly reasonable idea. The only counter to it is that keeping people on call shifts financial cost off the business in the form of psychological cost to its employees. Not very convincing.
By its wording, the policy is specifically about training LLMs. A classic Markov chain may be a language model, but it’s not a large language model. The same rules might not apply.
Good point !

“professional environments” have flaws - and can be as you assert dehumanisating - more so when orgs are large, and rules enforced blindly or with ‘zero tolerance’.

I meant it as a proxy for a forum where mutual respect and civility are theoretically expected.

Although in the real world not always present.

I agree that rules can potentially be overbearing and curtail free expression but also protect and nurture expression where it is suppressed by an unruly culture.

As in most things, it is difficult to find a good balance and a healthy community is self-regulating.
Not true. If you buy a book, it is yours. You can literally do anything you want with it. They cannot reclaim it. You cannot create a copy of the book, but that has nothing to do with owning an individual book.
It's common to think of alphabetic writing as all writing. I assume that the author is asserting that the characters represent individual phonemes as opposed to pictograms or syllables because those have been around much earlier. There's not much information though and I have no idea how they can make such a radical claim with 4 finger-sized cylinders.
Thats a great writeup for GPU perf improvements!

I was personally looking more for details on dealing with JS and its GC and keeping things smooth on that front.
Way worse. The public perception in my community is that the response to covid was hyper-exaggerated. Unless people they knew in real life were dying, they would basically never go through the masking and quarantine again.
It's MathJax, do you have javascript enabled?
I have seen this argument made many times, but none of the examples used illustrated it properly. Past a certain point, one becomes suspicious of the argument itself.
Goes along with, "Dear sir, you have built a lisp"---usually from first principles, ad hoc, and with glaring defects.
"(La)Tex" is believed to expand to "(Lamport)TeX" although I haven't seen an official source for that trivia :-)
early retirement is all about being happy now-ish vs. when you are old!

but if price to pay for early retirement is stress/anxiety/unhappiness and ESPECIALLY less time with your children (especially before puberty) no early retirement is worth it
I would say ego problem comes with a title.
There is no difference. They’re not your words.

These are games no one in the real world is interested in playing.
Yep, it's a big orange ball.
I agree with you in principle that's the correct attitude. However I don't think the comparison to the music industry is necessarily correct.

A lot of managers in tech got there because they are technically strong. We can argue about whether that's correct or not but I think that's typically the case. People who perform well as engineers are the ones who are given leadership opportunities. People who do not are not.

So first challenge is given you were maybe one of the smarter hires, of some smart people that tried to hire people smarter than themselves (let's assume), how do you hire people smarter than yourself? at scale?

Where we end up typically in successful tech companies is with some degree of a mix of trying to make "folks at the pointy end successful" and some degree of "telling the folks at the pointy end what to do". Usually managers and directors are very strong technically and quite sharp, though more distant from the actual work because they don't do it any more. The precise mix depends on culture and circumstances but it's almost never this ideal environment of servant leaders surrounded by immense talent and just facilitating that talent doing great things.

I've been in places that are very close to the "good" end of this spectrum and there's still going to be some pause in giving feedback to leadership that they've done something wrong. Maybe you have a great relationship with your lieutenants where they can be openly critical of you and you reinforce that. I think that's highly unusual in a social environment. It's a lot more likely there are certain things they won't share with you because they estimate the damage to the relationship is larger than the utility of being open.

EDIT: I misread your statement about hiring people smarter than yourself, so I think we agree there. The problem is still that if you're the smartest person there's a bit of tension between that and creating conditions for the people under you to be successful. Btw, I still think you should try and hire people smarter than yourself ;) it's just hard to impossible to scale that - as you point out.
Yeah, you'd think, but this one was run by the staff in #libera the other night after the announcement and it sounded like they believed markovs technically counted. But I imagine as long as no one is rocking the boat they'll be left alone. Perhaps there was some misunderstanding on my part.
Your point is incoherent.Could you restate?

Are you suggesting that we never had ownership, it just wasn't obvious? If so, please cite your sources.
Sick with bird flu, not sick from bird flu! In other words, we can blissfully ignore it and anybody who tells us otherwise is just trying to attack us!

But sure, it's a valid technical point. The problem is that it dovetails right into people's desire to rationalize why they themselves are unaffected.
What exactly was stolen?
Thanks for the clarification.
And, yes, that quote is so badass!
So far? It could be (read: is) recency bias, but I recently finished Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and found it fascinating and relevant, although some of the one-off science facts are outdated. I'm planning on reading her other books. I've heard they're much more poetic annd have a nicer subject matter than how we're killing ourselves.
An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone's Ballots to Combat Mistrust
As a senior leader myself, that was my initial reaction. Then, I thought about myself and cohort and I would say, unfortunately, the advice in the article is required. There are challenges in feedback in both directions. E.g.the people who are best at receiving it are the ones who usually don't, either because they are strong in many other things than the feedback domain, or because they seem so self confident that people are intimidated. On the other hand, people who are not good at receiving feedback are also the ones who would be vindictive and their reactions may poison feedback as a practice. And also people may switch from one category to the other transiently, because of other pressures etc. In summary, in my own practice, while I am opinionated, I have never given negative feedback either to managers or subordinates. Not that they were all perfect, but I found it is usually up to me to work with the people and their strengths and weaknesses and by focusing on strengths I have not corrected any weakness, but have often made them irrelevant to me. Some may say this is a weakness for a leader, and I would agree but still focus on my other strengths.

Edit: an additional consideration as I am digesting my response. People are more open to discussing how to improve a process or a system rather than a person or even more so themselves. Feedback is sometimes personal, that's why things like post mortems, process reviews etc. can work miracles when we manage to keep them about the process or framework rather than the people who are assigned to them.

An additional slightly cynical point on feedback received as a subordinate (no matter how high up you most probably report to someone unless you are at the top). If someone gives you feedback about what you should do to get promoted/a raise etc , you are 90% not going to get those even if you heed to the feedback. These things happen for things you do, and the broader perception of yourself not on the basis of a checklist, and if they use a checklist against you, they don't really care about You. If someone mentors you, you will get it. Learn to read the difference between the two.
The act of offering a cash prize to prove you wrong kind of makes you look like a jerk. It's assumed that you will use every loop hole at your disposal. Seeing the situation reversed so elegantly makes me root for the challenger.
I'm reminded of the (broken) C parser in the Linux kernel used for modversions. God forbid you just use libclang.
Linear Co-Pilot that generates code for your issues
Lancet's numbers are not based in facts. Here's the exact excerpt from them:

> Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population's inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip.

> In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

Again, from their own words, these numbers are not based in any reality on the ground, they are just taking the current number of reported deaths and multiplying it by 5. It also includes theoretical deaths in the future.

Edit: corrected multiple
Who's the bigger troll?

Putting up the initial challenge, especially with the accompanying commentary, is just as much trolling as that.
https://archive.is/93NX9
More like they hire electricians but expect them to do electrical engineering. In a way, despite the name, a rigorous discipline of software engineering doesn't really exist yet. Or it does (cf. "The Right Stuff", Space Shuttle software), but the tradeoffs for that kind of rigor are not or don't seem favorable.
It probably never did. Owing to the very limited testing then and even now, we have certainly missed a lot of cases.

That said, when they do end up in the hospital, they usually tend to be seriously ill. But that tells us little about the frequency of such high acuity cases. Still, severe influenza A subtypes are no joke.
Information being free and the ability to change information are two different things.
>Growing up, there was a more positive view of tech. The future looked awesome

I think that may be a bit biased. There was also Threads, Terminator 2, Blade Runner, Robocop, Planet of the Apes, Escape from New York, Brazil, Mad Max and the like.

Reality is probably somewhere in the middle.
Yep, crime is always orginized and your fellow citizen, especially during the good times, aren't
I had to look that up. Apparently the Lancet just multiplied by five the numbers from the Gazan health ministry, on the basis "of four indirect deaths per one direct death". That inflation technique is not used in any conflict anywhere else in the world, and particularly not in the Syrian conflict we're discussing and comparing to. If you would like to use that number, then apply that inflation technique also to the Syrian conflict as well.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240711-more-than-1...
This is a good point. I am fortunate to have a good manager who recognizes the unfair burden. I have missed a pagerduty notification before, which my manager dealt with. The incident did not appear to affect my subsequent performance review, as evidenced by top of band compensation.

I would expect stricter accountability with a more reasonable on-call schedule.
There are many specialized terms for different types of writing system, but those distinctions are generally of very little interest unless you're compiling a table of different writing systems.

Generally you look at what concepts are embodied in the script, and at the form of the glyphs. So:

You might have a script that assigns glyphs to phonemes. ("Language is made of sounds.")

You might have a script that assigns glyphs to consonants and doesn't bother to represent vowels. ("Language is made of sounds, and some of them are more important than others.")

You might have a script that assigns glyphs to syllables. ("Language is made of things you can say.")

You might have a script in which the glyphs assigned to syllables are composed of recognizable and conceptually distinct parts, but those parts have no independent representation. (Compare the glyphs ሀ ለ ሐ with the related glyphs ሄ ሌ ሔ.) ("Language is made of things you can say, but there are patterns.")

You might have a script that assigns glyphs to words, though in almost all cases you don't. The label "logographic script", applied to a script the labeler doesn't know well, is infinitely more popular than the concept "logographic script". I don't think any script has ever existed meeting the criterion of "it does not represent phonetic, but semantic units". But there are some, and used to be more, that leaned more or less strongly in that direction.
I think you can make some argument about why this isn't possible at 50:1 odds.

A plausible "decompressor" is at least, say, 30 or 100 bytes, so the random file needs to have 30 bytes less entropy than you expected, which happens with probability X where X << 1/50. Sum over the whole domain of reasonable decompressors, and you still don't get there.

This argument could do with more rigor, but I think it's correct. Give me 100 million to 1 odds, though, and I'll take my chances trying to brute force a compressor.
"If I could actually buy movies and TV shows for download I would"

I wouldn't for one simple reason: the canon of classic cinema that one needs to watch and rewatch in order to have a solid knowledge of the art form, consists of many hundreds of films. Multiply that by the cost of purchasing individual films, and you arrive at a total cost that even most people in highly paid countries would find unbearable, let alone less fortunate regions of the world. And while some very lucky people might have access to public libraries that can supply rips, you can't expect the rest of the planet to go without culture, so torrenting it is, just like how Anna's Archive and LibGen have opened literature still under copyright to all.
Nope.

> LLMs are allowed on Libera.Chat. They may both take input from Libera.Chat and output responses to Libera.Chat.

This wouldn't help HN.

Nor would the opposite policy, if only because it would encourage accusatory behavior.
> they are just taking the current number of reported deaths and multiplying it by 4.

Actually, multiplying by five.
Would be very challenging to get there in time.

11AU is outside Saturn's orbit. With the high inclination of the orbit (95 degrees) it's coming in on a more-or-less polar orbit of the sun. You might need a Jupiter flyby along the lines of what Ulysses did to fling it out of the ecliptic plane, but Jupiter might not be in the right place in its orbit to make that work..

And you'd need a very light spacecraft (not much mass budget for instruments) launched very fast, and it's far enough away from the sun that you'd want RTG power rather than solar panels.
We've seen political blogspam before with Mastodon and a little Threads.

Bluesky does seem different (it might be a real successor), but HN is at the random monkeys stage. It's just NPCs hating on Twitter as the media tells them to.

Here, only an Imposter scientist chases - 'a place of joy'. Real science is anarchy. A hacker should not be caring what the fakers in academia are saying.

As other comments correctly point out, if Bluesky becomes popular it'll be the same as Twitter anyway, logically it'll be worse... Bluesky has time to pivot but HN isn't mature enough to model how they might be a success.
chatgpt said has much worst vibes imho
The definition of terrorism generally excludes acts performed by a legitimate state. Whenever this causes problems, you have to declare the relevant state illegitimate (which, depending on the state, may be trivial or highly contested).