skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ignored your other response to me because I didn't see anything in the abstract that contradicted my posts, but maybe there's something deeper in the paper that does. I'll read more of it later.

I think, though, the disconnect between us is that I don't see this:

> Explain LLM output that is correct and novel.

As something I need to do for my position to be strong. It would be if I'd made different claims, but I haven't made those claims. I can see parts of the paper's abstract that would also be relevant and tough to deal with if I'd made those other claims, so I'm guessing those are the parts you think I need to focus on, but I'm not disputing stuff like (paraphrasing) "LLMs may produce output that follows the pattern of a form of reasoned argument they were trained on, not just the particulars" from the abstract. Sure, maybe they do, OK.

I don't subscribe to (and don't really understand the motivation for) claims that generative AI can't produce output that's not explicitly in their training set, which is a claim I have seen and (I think?) one you're taking me as promoting. Friggin' Markov chain text generators can, why couldn't LLMs? Another formulation is that everything they output is a result of what they were trained on, which is stronger but only because it's, like, tautologically true and not very interesting.
windows sysadmins are very much a thing. desktop and laptop MS Windows installed in any company doing anything important is sysadmin'ed centrally. If you require security (not to leak company info) you must disable the ability for users to install anything. The side benefit of this is that the admins can admin other things like mail servers, ip addresses, etc. My gf (accountant) has to call the sysadmins to plug in an external display at home, which they can do remotely at 2 in the morning.
Very, very well said.

When I see a young company that has lavish offices, I see a company that I want to avoid, for pretty much the reasons the author points out. It's a company that's wasting their resources on things that don't matter. An established and very profitable company can get away with this (although it's still not a great look), but a young company? At best, it's a sign that the company isn't going to be around for all that long.

It also triggers the "chandelier rule" (when being pitched something, the bigger the chandelier in the room the worse the deal is for you). It's not quite the same thing, but it's in a similar ballpark.
This was such a fascinating read—it really resonated with me. A few years ago, my girlfriend and I started a small coffee shop in Hanoi as a fun side project, and I was struck by the parallels between Vietnam's coffee history and the issues you outline here about Kenya.

Vietnam, like Kenya, emerged from a coffee industry shaped by colonial-era inequities. Yet through reforms, robust state support for smallholder farmers, and a focus on infrastructure, Vietnam has positioned itself as a global coffee powerhouse. While the initial focus on robusta was quantity-driven, there’s now a shift toward quality, which is helping Vietnamese coffee expand into new markets.

Kenya’s situation feels similar yet distinct. It has an unparalleled coffee heritage, and with thoughtful reforms—empowering smallholders, encouraging direct trade, and finding the right balance between quality and disease-resistant hybrids—it could reclaim its standing on the global stage.

The article beautifully captures the systemic challenges and the hope for transformation. I really believe Kenya’s coffee can rise again, stronger and fairer, just as Vietnam is starting to do. It’s inspiring to see how coffee connects people and places across the world in such unique ways!
Firefox containers let you isolate browsing contexts. Think separate cookie jars. Example: You can have one container for work (logged into work Gmail, Slack) and another for personal (personal Gmail, Amazon). They won't share logins or tracking data.
We at Syself.com also have great experiences with Kubernetes on Hetzner. We built a platform on top of Cluster API and brought a managed Kubernetes experience to Hetzner. Now we have self-healing, automated updates and 100% reproductibility, with full bare metal support.

> Hetzner volumes are, in my experience, too slow for a production database.

That's true, though. To solve that we developed a way to persist the local storage of bare metal servers across reprovisionings. This way it's both faster and cheaper. Now we are adding an automated database deployment layer on top of it.
> shit circumstances outside of their control.

They chose to outsource the development of their core products to a country like Russia to save costs. How was that outside of their control? It's not like it was the most stable or reliable country to do business in even before 2022...
If you're a lifelong ANSI C programmer, RAII is new and scary.
I think this comment is being too dismissive/negative/bitter.

There is truth here -- yes, OP is likely out of his depth a bit. Yes, he's likely to be seen as a "cost center" rather than an asset. Yes there's internal pressure to deliver at a level higher than experience.

But none of those are reasons to flee.

OP: I think you would be wiser to enjoy this situation, learn as much as possible, deliver as best you can, BUT be fully aware that you could be nixed at any moment and do NOT take it personally if/when that happens.

Another thing to do, on the other end of the spectrum, is not get "stuck" at this company. You might find yourself extremely successful there! But there is a natural limit to how much you'll be able to learn/grow as a solo operator at a non-tech company.

Use the time you have to learn as best you can and pivot to a role at a proper eng-focused org where you can get the mentorship you want (assuming you want that!). Find another gig before you have time to learn bad habits or get too stuck in your ways.

2 years at this company will likely be great for you and be an asset to your overall career. 10 years will likely not.
> They would have at least 5 years to figure it out before ARM becomes viable on desktop assuming there continues to be movement in that direction.

What's this based on? Surely the proportion of desktops that need to be more powerful than anything Apple is doing on ARM is very small. And surely Apple isn't 5 years ahead?
those idioms and slang still follow grammar rules though. they are not irregular.

also the irregularities in english developed over centuries by contact with other languages in an environment that lacked the normative influence of globalization and modern communication tools.

at the time english was also not the defacto language for international communication that it is today. this status is responsible for efforts such as a wikipedia in basic english that makes information easier to approach by non-native speakers.

as esperanto was expressly created with the goal of being an international language, any attempts to introduce irregularities will meet a lot more resistance and therefore development of an irregular grammar is unlikely to happen.
That would be a healthy, balanced and long-term-oriented approach. But those who get to the level of CEO are subjected to intense forces that select against those traits.

I don’t know much about this guy but it’s reasonable to assume that any C-level exec will hold on to the position for dear life until they are forced out.
Huweii's Harmony NEXT came about shortly after OpenAtom formed, which is sort of the Linux Foundation of Harmony. NEXT definitely has a lot of new & rebuilt aspects of Harmony, seems unlikely to be compatible or really the same; it's a major shift with new kernels & all.
My limited understanding is that K and J are very different, despite both being in the same language family. I found K a lot easier to grasp when I was playing with both languages years ago.
> This is already wrong! Animalia is an Earth kingdom, and the Xenomorphs clearly aren't an Earth life-form.

Has biology even bothered to come up with a name for that level of taxon, or would it be premature? I know that in recent years they've been quibbling about both what the top-level (Earth top-level) taxon should be, and what the specific ones would even be for it, but I've never heard of a scheme that embiggens it to alien life. If they ever did so, would there even be the same number of sub-taxons for it for any given planet?

And what in the hell do we do if we discover one of those on Earth? There's no reason to be certain that life only abiogenically manifested once on Earth is there?
Why? Can you elaborate what you find so offensive?
I've personally never had issues with it on Arch; I agree with the sibling comment that some issue with groups might be the the issue. In case it helps, here's what I always do to set it up on a new installation:

1. Install `sudo` via pacman
2. Optionally set the EDITOR env var to use something other than vi for the following command, e.g. `export EDITOR=nvim` (if you do change it and want to retain the default shortcuts like `ctrl+a` to go to the beginning of the line, you'll also probably want to do `set -o emacs` to make sure it doesn't get changed due to the EDITOR being set)
3. Run `sudo visudo` (or `sudo -E visudo` if you want to make sure the `EDITOR` env var is used) to edit the sudoers file and look for the line `%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL`. Uncomment that one, and comment out the one slightly above that's the same but doesn't have `NOPASSWD`. Save and exit the editor.
4. If you're not already a member of the `wheel` group, add yourself with `usermod -aG wheel <your username>`. You might need to log out and back in or reboot to this to take effect; groups are often weird like that.

As an alternative, Arch has `opendoas` in the `extra` repos nowadays, which is a port of the OpenBSD replacement for sudo designed to be easier to configure. There's literally no configuration for it by default, and to enable passwordless, all you need to put in `/etc/opendoas.conf` is `permit nopass :wheel`.
The iPhone 16 (not Pro/max) is about that size.

iPhone 16:
5.81” x 2.82” x 0.31”

Pixel 4a:
5.7" x 2.7” x 0.3”
It makes sense when you look at that the number as a count of “junk” floating around. Higher number, more junk. More junk==less clean.

The fun backwards measurement is always AWG. Smaller number means thicker wire. Larger number means thinner wire.
That's the bet I made after the crash last summer. I think the USG only really cares about the fabs, as we've shown the ability to design better chips than intel's here. Time will tell if I'm right.
The bone conducting ones are better, but still not great with moderate-high background noise.
well that's ironic ahaha just removed that for the time being, so hopefully you're good :)
"leadership" is arguably the most important engineering skill. Every engineering role I've ever had required leading people or organizations to make the correct technical choices.
Tech Companies Are Awash in 'Ghost Engineers,' Researcher Says
Surnames of Etnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe of Sweetgum Kriyul People
Genealogical report, some common surnames of Ethnic Qarsherskiyans in and around Madison County, Ohio, USA in the early 1990s:
White
Whitelow
Whiteglow
Dewbre
Pence
Saint-Rock
Santrock
Sandrock
Husseini
Whitehorse
Lyle
Patricio
If it's any consolation, the way VX is portrayed in The Rock has almost nothing in common with the real thing.
But he thinks the way to spur domestic manufacturing is via tariffs of overseas chip makers, not via government investment. He talked about this when he was interviewed by Joe Rogan before the election (I read a writeup, did not listen to it)
Surely the point of copyright is to allow a person to have sole rights to commercialise a thing before it goes to the public domain.

If so, if they havent done that in the first 10/15 years, why should they get an extra 10/15 years?

Further, another issue of very long copyrights is preserving things you don't really have a right to preserve.

that successful videogame may still be around in 25 years. the one that wasn't so popular has much less chance of surviving.

And then you have the added complication of what was successful? a fixed term means you know when something is in the public domain.

personally, I think there should be registration and fees attached. if you want copyright protection for the first 5 years, pay a nominal fee. if you want more than that, pay exponentially more for each year.

If companies want to pay that tax, they can. if it isn't worth it, then it can go in the public domain.

Either way, at least you have a register of what is in, and out of copyright.
Thank you dearly for keeping the candle of goodwill kindling.

I don't think I'll actually request (I'm not in NA so I don't know if it'd be trickier or something), but I'd take off of my chest the plight this year nonetheless if that's ok.

In today's exchange rate, I receive around net USD1200 a month, and have around USD1150 of mandatory expenses. 440 (rent) + 75 (electricity) + 250 (mother's health insurance) + 250 (my part in monthly food expenses) + 70 (therapy) + 70 (gas). I can survive, but I can't do much, and more importantly, I need nothing bad to happen, else this can snowball.

It was a rather cruel year. I spent around USD1500 over the last year on my elder dog's health issues. He had 3 surgeries, and while he survived those he ultimately deteriorated quickly over a week and passed away in early November. I still can't last a day without breaking down - he was, is, a brother to me. Part of the sum I mentioned was for his cremation service.

During the year, I also had a HDD fail in a small time window where some of the projects I had the most emotional investment in were, without backups. I had to pay another USD500 to actually recover the data. Two tires flattened out in the span of 2 weeks, another USD330.

Of course, things snowballed. Every month I need to pay one or two bills on credit to split it over the next year just so I don't get a loan. I think if I can make it to May, where I'll get around an extra salary, I can make do, but life is pretty miserable.

And I had planned to get married early next year, so that's slipping off the table too. My fiancée supports me where she can emotionally, but she's unemployed too, trying to start a doc degree in Biology next year. While I need to support my mother, who gets next to nothing as retirement, at least her family's got her back while she lives with them.

I hope everyone is, or gets to be, doing better than summarizing their year like this. It's hard to find days where I can try and study to hopefully better provide here. Be well, folks.
Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]
I wonder about the details of this.

For example, could "Intel A" continue to own the foundries, split off "Intel B" as the owner of the product lines, and then do some rebranding shenanigans so that the CPUs are still branded as "Intel"?
Who knows. The same reply could have been written to someone opining that Kodak should pivot to digital cameras.

We can't see the future, but neither can CEOs, no matter how well paid and respected they are.

After all the current CEO is being ousted, so obviously he didn't do the right things despite being a CEO.
More power efficient, yes. "Better" no. They're objectively slower than the 14th gen, which is pretty pathetic for a new CPU release.
More generally and symmetrically:

When you are studying science and technology, and the math theorem doesn't match experiment, the theory is probably wrong (or incomplete, missing factors), so you can discard it or try to improve it.

When you are studying math, and the intuition doesn't match the theorem, the intuition is probably wrong (or incomplete).
I tend to agree. He's not outside the window where someone might choose to retire. But no named permanent successor? Retiring immediately? Tend to speak to a fairly sudden decision.
Probably should add GMC in there.

I heard they’re building a iOS / android replacement. Think of the vertical integration!

I’m picturing a boot-looping cargo plane full of hummers dropping like a stone — doesn’t get much more vertically integrated than that. Think of all the layers they can eliminate.
The next version of Chrome introduces a whole UI for this at chrome://certificate-manager.
From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive
>Imagine regular muggles being able to install stuff at home, which Just Works, doesn't need a central cloud service, doesn't invade your privacy, and continues to work even when the original manufacturer shuts down.

Most of those central services are built on the premise it's difficult for most people to open up internal network ports. That's just as difficult for IPv6 without NAT: my IPv6 capable router defaults to all ports closed which is good security practice.

Regular muggles don't update anything ever so if the manufacturer shuts down there's an open security hole on their network.
Thanks to the retroactive extension here in Canada, nothing.
>This is already wrong! Animalia is an Earth kingdom, and the Xenomorphs clearly aren't an Earth life-form.

Is it if the engineers seeded earth with life?
1) Coding clearing in the moment vs (2) coding clearly for future selves is two different mindsets/contexts right there.

(3) Communicating clearly is an orthogonal skill to coding clearly. I think this skill is barely acknowledged in engineering cultures in comparison to the above.

I feel you have to have an engineering culture that values institutional knowledge retention, team education and growth — and not treating engineers as fungible — to get to level (2). Level (3) would be a great place to work.
Ask HN: How do you become more "responsible for your own career?"
"You are responsible for your own career."

I've been told this by multiple people at the large tech company I work at, mostly by former $AMZN employees who have come to expect little/marginal investment from managers in highly competitive markets.

This is a stark contrast from my time in startups. (I guess I count myself lucky). The only difference I can perceive is that the two environments have different constraints.

I wonder if anyone has been able to thread the needle between being lost in a large company and still growing, while also not quite being ready to do a startup again?
You could accomplish that with ContainerScript like this:

return url.hostname;

But your container list would get pretty messy.
This beautifully captures the importance of meaningful connections, which is exactly what we’re building toward with amiqo—helping people find belonging through real-life interactions.
Outside of Nvidia, nobody is okay with that.
Because you made me curious

>> The nerve agent VX is an oily liquid that is clear, odorless, and tasteless, and looks similar to motor oil. [0]

"Clear" and "motor oil" seem mutually-exclusive though.

Apparently what they meant was translucent, brown-tinted fresh motor oil. [1]

[0] https://www.webmd.com/men/commonly-known-chemical-weapons-ag...

[1] https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2022/06/08/chem...
> gets blasted out into such far reaches the two races are never within a distance (in terms of space or time) they could communicate?

I know this is not directly related to what you say, but we do have right here and now whales to talk to. And elephants too! There is this idea that to find alien minds to communicate with one has to reach out to the far cosmos. But we can't even talk to the alien minds right on our doorsteps. Maybe we should try that before we theorise that communication between two races is impossible due to distance.
The most dumb cat I had was the siamese cat. She was not orange. She learned how to steal from a pan closed by a lid only when she spent a summer in country with my old cat, who was a street born, and he was really smart. At some point he led me for a mile, insisting that I followed him. I followed because I was curios. It turned out my cat planned an assault on some house (not on humans but on an another male cat there) and wanted me to help.

But my siamese was extremely stupid. For example, it is the only cat that could be distracted. If you took a cat on your lap and it didn't feel like sitting on your lap, it would be hard to keep cat there, it would take any chance to run away. But my siamese would allow me to distract her and would forget that she wanted to run away. It could be distracted from food also. Her attention span was seconds, not like most of cats who get an idea and become obsessed with it.

She had broken spine near the tail. My theory is cats hide their real brain somewhere in the back of the spine, while the thing in their heads exists to mislead humans.
This feels a bit pedantic. ARM-the-CPU-architecture is increasingly making inroads with more efficient designs that deliver comparable performance to Intel's x86 chips, thanks to Apple and Qualcomm. ARM-the-holding-company is not doing that, they just make mediocre designs and own IP.
And really, AMD spun off Global Foundries. AMD doesn't want to run a fab.

Does this mean that Intel's fabs should split for Global Foundries, and the Intel design team should go to AMD?
Ahh, but you miss out on the 'cool' aspect embodied by letter X, the underlying meaning that effectively refers to the title of the movie and other things are likely going over my head. Gige prefix does not have the same impact. Alien in fake latin sounds a lot better.
Beyond just performance, RAII (a cryptically named concept BTW) introduces a lot of implicit, indirect behavior, making code much more complicated and harder to reason about. When does your constructor & destructor fire when a dynamic array grows? Did you use the copy-and-swap idiom properly? Did you define all the "rule of five" methods? It's bonkers.

I think a "defer" or "on scope exit" statement is just about ideal, gets you the same benefits but much more simply.
> Should be something like Gigeroids.

Xenomorph sounds way cooler. That's what's important in a movie/toy franchise.
the incidents were reported, email to root. Would you prefer that you get narc'ed silently?
I think a better word is "motivation" -- why we chose this option at this juncture instead of many other options. Yes, it's a "reason", but "reason" already means something else.

The "Reason" as result is true is that it follows from the previously established axioms via logical reasoning.
If you're getting a ton of irrelevant results, it's helpful to find a word common to them and exclude it from results; I don't have an easy way of measuring how many relevant results are excluded but if you choose it well it'll help. Similarly, find some list of all the operators for a given search engine and try them out.

I've found searching multiple indexes can be helpful, especially ones that seek different categories of thing out. For instance if I can't find something using Google, Marginalia can be surprisingly helpful. A list
of sites to try is available here: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-....

Also, often finding some discussion of something that seems close to what you want and might discuss it briefly and seeing what it links to will help. But that's from mostly looking at academic stuff, which has copious citations that often won't show up in a search query for a term, but can be found in the likes of JSTOR or LibGen/SciHub.

Also from academic stuff: if you can find directories of things related to what you want (eg 'old books about the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,' to take a real question I had), often a more general term ('old books') and then searching those websites (HathiTrust, Internet Archive, etc) directly will find things.

But that's for someone who primarily runs into trouble because I'm researching obscure subjects and probably are less applicable in other areas.
Xenomorph sounds cooler.
I absolutely love how once things get down to 1 AWG they realized they had a problem and just started adding zeros. Then that got a bit silly, so when they reached 4/0 AWG they switched to KCMIL measurements and the numbers start going up.
By what measure are TPUs “successful”? Where is your data coming from?