skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Post a longtime job out of grad school via on-campus interview (which is a bit of an irrelevant story itself), every other of my (few) jobs were through a professional network. Nothing formal, but people I ran into and maintained some connection with. I know there are a lot of people who (at least until recently) are they just ping a recruiter and get offers dropped in their lap. Or who are deeply resentful that it seems like "who you know" is the modus operandi for some. But without being anything like deliberate or cynical about the whole thing, it worked for me.
It took me a long time to realize that conversations are the building blocks of relationships. Want a relationship? You need to have conversations.
It must have gotten extremely expensive to have armed security officers in every Texas school.
> because all their relationships are transactional and they aren’t offering anything of value

Why is a transactional relationship considered bad? And why would one consider a transactional relationship as something not offering value?

I don't like small talk, but if I like the person I would try to help them anyway with their transactional request, with the expectation that I might have a similar transactional request at some point in the future. If the relationship is equally transactional in both directions, I don't see a problem with that.
My comment was a bit inflammatory, of course it isn't useless work, but that stems from consultants that often naively suggest we should move to the cloud. But that isn't really sound advice and just far from reality. As I said, this is producing industry, so perhaps an edge case for better of worse.

Our R&D and production probably cannot ever move completely to the browser. Security restrictions of browsers are focused on being safe on the net, so interactivity is limited and overall it is often impractical.

And since we have at least hybrid environments, we often compare desktop usage with purely cloud approaches and the desktop seem to mostly win for productivity. And I bet this would be the case for many other companies too.

Sure, if you are purely service based, it can work. But even our customer service has a workshops with numerous devices measuring materials in all kinds of way. You cannot really connect them to a browser. Or you could, but then it is extreme impractical again.

Or logistics. Scanning pallets, registering wares, nothing here is browser based. It really seems to be the word, excel crowd that can do it and maybe your erp is a cloud solution.

I do software development. Theoretically I could develop in the cloud too for the most part but I would also severely hate it. And even if I restrict myself to the Microsoft part, it also is a bit unreliable.
Less than 2.7bn:1 user:staff ratio.

Do you have any other impossible conundrums I can clear up before coffee?
The spacebar is there and gets used, it's just dark. Looks like an old Russian typewriter and nothing suggests it's AI generated.
The author might be wrong. It can actually be racist in ways beyond "African people are genetically inferior."

I didn't find the author to be particularly deeply invested, they seemed to want to score some points over "social justice warriors" and then backed off pretty quickly with an "it's complicated" footnote.
I like the YAML abstraction. This should make it easier to programmatically try and evaluate multiple configurations for the whole AI pipeline (not just the LLM) against a dataset or real users through an API deployment.

Some feedback: It would be great to see in one place all the supported fields and values for the YAML config.
Yeah you really can't go this hands-off on deployments when the stakes are high. If someone could be physically harmed by bad code, then it all needs to be reviewed. If you can be hacked by a rouge deployment, then it all needs to be reviewed.

And more generally, it is not fun using a lot of mainstream software these days because it is a buggy mess, and I believe a lot of that dysfunction is partially related to the low standards for correctness that development teams have.
>People demand justice, whether they're right to is a secondary concern, as is the methodologies they choose to seek it. Some become activists. Some become politicians. Some pick up guns.

That is a true, but We should discourage and condemn them picking up guns. There is a feedback loop at play
Breakthrough in avalanche-based amorphization reduces data storage energy 1e-9
What does "support for Fedora" means in this context ?
Rogue holds up remarkably well. I installed it about a year ago out of “historical curiosity”, only to find myself playing it for almost an hour.

I will admit that DRL it a bit more my style nowadays, it’s amazing to me that a game living entirely in my terminal is still pretty fun.
Meh. They're enormous amounts of fun and my kids spent many happy hours in the one in Nice without any ill effects. It's a big dirty world.
Checkout link in beta provides details. But you can request both :)
Whether the people support the insurrection or not is immaterial to whether it was an armed insurrection. It was.

The fact that a plurality of Americans appears to support the armed insurrection is a testament their willingness to hold Trump and his supporters above the rule of law. That mentality is extremely dangerous, but that's a different subject.
The technology is incredible, but the path to AGI isn't single-player. Qualia is the missing dataset required for AGI. See attention-schema theory for how social pressures lead to qualia-driven minds capable of true intelligence.
Landfills Can Help Solve the Renewable Energy Land Shortage
It was actually prohibited to carry on all forms of private property, until a recent court ruling struck it down. So if you can't carry on public transit, you can't carry it in government buildings, you can't carry it near schools and other public property, you can't use it on private property what is the permit for again?

It's no different than how states used "Poll Taxes" and "Tests" to circumvent the 15th Amendment before the Civil Rights Movement. NYC thinks they are above the law and does everything they can to circumvent it.
Exactly. Your used toothbrush sitting wet in your bathroom is full of fecal matter.
The growing movement is the one that views vaccines as a categorical good and wants to unperson those who see each individual treatment as a an engineered tool with its own risks and benefits.

If you know anything about marketing you know that for such messaging to be culturally pervasive is a result of years of effort and organizing.
Related recent project you can try out yourself (Chrome only) which hallucinates new frames of a Minecraft style game: https://oasis.decart.ai/

That one would reimagine the world any time you look at the sky or ground. Sounds like Genie2 solves that: "Genie 2 is capable of remembering parts of the world that are no longer in view and then rendering them accurately when they become observable again."
this is absolutely not true. Human history is not the story of hyper adaptive silicon valley disruptors, in fact your completely backwards. Most of human history growth was enormously slow, and only in the past few decades has it really skyrocketed to the point where people become obsolete this quickly. If you were born in 1008 you could be a blacksmith for the next 600 years at least without too much issue.
Previously you said authorized (legal). Now you’re changing your argument to illegal.

I meant "unauthorized". It was just a typo, honest.

How about you look up how many refugees European nations are paying to house

It was the conflation of "refugees" with "illegal immigrants" in the commenter's post that I took issue with. The two categories might sound the same but are entirely different.

In particular the latter category definitely do not receive subsidized subsidized housing or benefits the way actual legally recognized asylum seekers, aka "refugees" do.
This is roughly the intuition I have developed -- any computational function requires time and space to evaluate. Most computations carry with them some epistemic or aleatoric modeling uncertainty, but sometimes even a perfectly deterministic function with a worst case constant time complexity is worth approximating, as the constant factor may be prohibitive.

Given an exact decision procedure with astronomical lower bounds, and an approximate one that is identical on 99.99% of IID sampled inputs that takes a second to evaluate, which would you prefer? Given a low latency, high variance approximation, would you be willing to exchange latency for lower variance? Engineering is all about such tradeoffs.

There is a neat picture [1] in GEB that captures a similar idea.

[1]: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:4800/format:webp/1*VU1...
There is an enormous amount of theater in US lawmaking. “I’m doing something about the <X> problem.” (or even just “I proposed legislation that would have done something about the <Y> problem…”)
ScholarlyArticle: "Electrically driven long-range solid-state amorphization in ferroic In2Se3" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08156-8

NewsArticles:

"'Accidental discovery' creates candidate for universal memory — a weird semiconductor that consumes a billion times less power" (2024)
https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/accidental-...

"Advances in energy-efficient avalanche-based amorphization could revolutionize data storage" (2024)
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-advances-energy-efficien...

"Self shocks turn crystal to glass at ultralow power density" (2024)
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063944
Genuine question: What is the point of telling us about this if we can’t use it? Is it just to flex on everyone?
Hmmm.... But we were told on HN that "Google is dying" remember? in reality, is it isn't.

We'll see which so-called AI-companies are really "dying" when either a correction, market crash or a new AI winter arrives.
>The problem is that thanks to 1% of overly active idiots it quicky degraded to "gender affirming closets" at our libraries and transgender lessons for 4th graders.

just 1%?
I think the point being made here is not that people should work against their own "rational self interest" but that paying taxes in your local community to support infrastructure, policing, education, public services, public health, and so on is actually directly in your own self interest. But people have this idea that taxes benefit nobody so we work scrupulously to avoid them.

One of the biggest socialist programs of wealth redistribution in the US is actually our highway and road system, where we pay hundreds of billions of dollars from cities to smaller municipalities and counties to maintain a system of public roadways by which those smaller municipalities can reach larger cities by car. Absolutely nobody complains about that. So clearly paying taxes on that is beneficial. And that suggests that paying taxes on other things is beneficial.
Russian criminals helped UK drug gangs launder lockdown cash into Crypto
Also worth noting that there can be incidents where a massive number of people are infected in a short span.

> with the largest sickening over 2,000 water frolickers in one go.

Lots of people experience isolated events of food-borne illnesses for a variety of reasons. But when a restaurant gets 2000 people sick in a short time frame, we shut it down...and correctly so!

The average annual rate is not terribly informative for making effective public health decisions because it smooths out most of the interesting bits.
> Genie 2 is capable of remembering parts of the world that are no longer in view and then rendering them accurately when they become observable again.

This is huge, the Minecraft demos we saw recently we're just toys because you couldn't actually do anything in them.
> The safest and richest societies are also the most highly medicated...

That, alone, could point to two very obvious but very different conclusions.

One is that people in those societies need medications more.

Alternatively, people in these societies get needed medications more.

I suspect the average American gets more therapy than the average Afghan, but I suspect the Afghans would still benefit from it.
“Americans born before 1996”
Formswrite
That's what he says: “I’m on an anti-aging protocol from my doctor that includes testosterone replacement,” Kennedy said. “I don’t take any anabolic steroids or anything like that and the TRT I use is bioidentical to what my body produces.”

I wouldn't be surprised if he mixed in a few other "vitamins"
I think it's simply the enforcement mechanisms make people paranoid, especially since they are usually directed at children (by schools), it all then snowballs from there.

I agree the needles don't help though.
This makes sense in some ways technologically, but just having a "centralized compute box" seems like a lot more complexity than many/most would want in their homes.

I mean, everything could have been already working that way for a lot of years right? One big shared compute box in your house and everything else is a dumb screen? But few people roll that way, even nerds, so I don't see that becoming a thing for offloaded AI compute.

I also think that the future of consumer AI is going to be models trained/refined on your own data and habits, not just a box in your basement running stock ollama models. So I have some latency/bandwidth/storage/privacy questions when it comes to wirelessly and transparently offloading it to a magic AI box that sits next to my wireless router or w/e, versus running those same tasks on-device. To say nothing of consumer appetite for AI stuff that only works (or only works best) when you're on your home network.
I'm saying the opposite. There are several comments that demonstrate an insecure "dog eat dog" mentality.
Is there anything AI (or more like AGI) could do for you that would change your opinion? Eternal life, interstellar travel, curing diseases, educating people with superhuman patience and competence would not be worth it?
I tried this, but it didn't work very well for me. Maybe I was just catching people at a bad time? They'd always brush me off with some version of

"uh, it isn't my birthday"

"you've said that to me every day for a week, please stop"

"stay away from me".

What could I be doing wrong? Am I just choosing the wrong people to try to befriend?
Couldn't be me!
Nor are they impressed when people resort to mining the ancient past or far-off countries for the deepest pits of misery they can find to make things look good by comparison.

Practicing gratitude is a pretty common strategy for combating depression. If young people today in developed nations don't even understand how bad humans used to have it (and still do, in some places), how can they possibly be grateful for what they have?

Maybe AI-generated, historical influencers should be a thing. "Walked two miles to the river to fill my clay jug. Set my baby down and a croc took her."
The beta is email-based booking, changes and more. The demo simulates the search experience via email.
DSQL Vignette: Reads and Compute
Do exotic foods, information, entertainment, and travel make you happy? Or are they more like cheap substitutes for the real thing.
> My body my choice?

If being pregnant was contagious, we'd treat it as a very different issue.
Is this fast enough for DDR or SRAM RAM? "Breakthrough in avalanche-based amorphization reduces data storage energy 1e-9" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318944
You don’t filter the pathogens. You filter debris and kill the pathogens with UV, chemicals, etc.

It would not be hard to make a significant improvement by just adding UV sterilization.
The Catholic Church teaches that we cannot do evil so that good may come out of it. It cannot be the means as in abortion. It could only be tolerated as an undesirable consequence of a good act such as self-defense. But unless one is in immediate danger from the agressor, I do not see how one can use deadly force. Whether the partisan action is legitimate self-defense I cannot say, I didn't actually look into this, but the disposition of treating whst you believe is a sin as a good essentially, and hoping for forgiveness without repentance, that is evil.
Isn't this what actuarial science is? Surely the boffins at the EPA can model potential outcomes and weigh potential environmental downside against the economic downside. Including factors like how replaceable is formaldehyde and are the known substitutes even worse.
I think many kids growing up today in developing countries also have their brains fried by the same ad-tech.
Humans never needed to be hyper-adaptive. 80+% of people in the far past were farmers their whole life, just like their parents, and their children, and everyone they associated with. Prior to farming, dumber means of food gathering. You worked your ass off or died but it was never about the latest thing, that's a purely modern invention. Hardly anybody went to "school" or learned a trade, nobody expected job changes every 5 years. You were a dirt poor, uneducated, worn down farmer. The modern invention was the idea we'd have time to be something else (or be a significantly more educated farmer not so concerned with imminent death) and the very recent invention is that you'd need to be multiple something elses over time.
I sometimes wonder how much of the youth mental health crisis I keep hearing about is actually the result of poisoning. Lead, plasticizers, dioxin, formaldehyde, PFAS, aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals. How much of this is a necessary result of supplying safe food and water to more people than ever in history, how much is sheer accident, and how much is from people who care about nothing but the bottom line?
"In most ways, these types of benchmarks are meaningless. Python was the slowest language in the benchmark, and yet at the same time it’s the most used language on Github as of October 2024."

First, this indicates some sort of deep confusion about the purpose of benchmarks in the first place. Benchmarks are performance tests, not popularity tests. And I don't think I'm just jumping on a bit of bad wording, because I see this idea in its various forms a lot poking out in a lot of conversations. Python is popular because there are many aspects to it, among which is the fact that yes, it really is a rather slow language, but the positives outweigh it for many purposes. They don't cancel it. Python's other positive aspects do not speed it up; indeed, they're actually critically tied to why it is slow in the first place. If they were not, Python would not be slow. It has had a lot of work done on it over the years, after all.

Secondly, I think people sort of chant "microbenchmarks are useless", but they aren't useless. I find that microbenchmark actually represents some fairly realistic representation of the relative performance of those various languages. What they are not is totally determinative. You can't divide one language's microbenchmark on this test by another to get a "Python is 160x slower than C". This is, in fact, not an accurate assessment; if you want a single unified number, 40-50 is much closer. But "useless" is way too strong. No language is so wonderful on all other dimensions that it can have something as basic as a function call be dozens of times slower than some other language and yet keep up with that other language in general. (Assuming both languages have had production-quality optimizations applied to them and one of them isn't some very very young language.) It is a real fact about these languages, it is not a huge outlier, and it is a problem I've encountered in real codebases before when I needed to literally optimize out function calls in a dynamic scripting language to speed up certain code to acceptable levels, because function calls in dynamic scripting languages really are expensive in a way that really can matter. It shouldn't be overestimated and used to derive silly "x times faster/slower" values, but at the same time, if you're dismissing these sorts of things, you're throwing away real data. There are no languages that are just as fast as C, except gee golly they just happen to have this one thing where function calls are 1000 times slower for no reason even though everything else is C-speed. These performance differences are reasonably correlated.
We had a bug with one of our external provides earier this morning, but its now resolved.
You also tend to compare yourself to others. For example, I am not happy when CEO gets a 20% raise while telling the rest of us that money is tight and no raises can be given. We all want some level of fairness.
Do people within Google get to try it? If yes, how long is the approval process?
I read this more as a "toy problem" - a demo on how to do caching well, than as "this data needs caching, today". i.e. a tutorial, because sooner or later you will benefit from caching.

As such I think it's a well written clear example. But you always need to bear in mind that a toy problem simple enough to demo a technique clearly, is seldom complex enough to need the technique.
I mean .45 is already subsonic right?
That's so interesting! So it's a great way to display og:images for canvas items
He's been convicted of heroin possession in the past.
A Bloomberg article says that he was told in a board meeting that he had a choice: Resign or be fired. He opted for the former, but really, he was fired.
Some kind of marketing strategy that actually nobody understands
Show HN: A directory of alternatives to popular software
Hi, Quentin here!

I was collecting tools for quite some time now. Mostly to take some inspiration or analyze competitors to my other products.

2 weeks ago, I though it would be fun to learn more about NuxtJs (I’m a software engineer working with Vue). So I thought building a directory website out of this collection was pretty good idea.

After 2 weeks of building, YouMightNotNeed was born. It's a community driven list of alternatives to popular software and applications.

Enjoy and thank you for your support!

PS: I know there are already websites that have the same purpose but it really came from my will to learn new stuff.
Yup. And the other (green/teal?) typewriter has a spacebar on the edge, same colour as the typewriter body. Ends of it sometimes visible between fingers, it's also used.
> The unprecedented arrest of founder Pavel Durov to force this on the company further confirms what this is and what it isn't: it is not about child safety.

What?

He was arrested for running a service that was hosting CSAM (illegal, and correctly so by most people's ethical systems) and not giving reasonable effort to take it down (illegal, and correctly so by most people's ethical systems).

I think you're just reflexively anti-moderation because it's the chic thing these days, but you're kind of ideology-ing yourself into an awkward corner on this particular case.
Sadly this post will probably get buried because it's a video link, but it really deserves some front page coverage.

This project involves a bunch of different disciplines, and I'm always amazed by what Shane can do in his (very expensive) mad science lab.
Broken on Vivaldi as well.
> stop and make room for someone else to try.

In other words, kick everybody off of Youtube.
Yes, the internet did in fact drop the ball. Fix is live.
Probably when Genie 10 will get integrated on a Pixel phone.
The Process Person who wants to build a Mature software organization will say, process is seriously needed.
I love any opportunity to suggest people try out Brogue. It was developed with the idea "What would have happened if development continued on Rogue?"

Info here: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

Repo/downloads here: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
Reading aloud helps with comprehension. I sometimes read aloud myself, I think its good to speak a few thousand extra words everyday...words you might not usually say if you're reading a classic novel. Plus I usually take a long hot bath after workouts to help with recovery. So a good time to read while soaking in bubbles. Can recommend.