skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
34 felony convictions for filling out a form incorrectly

Like filing for public benefits in someone else's name just a matter of "filling out a form incorrectly".
I’m looking forward to when tech is not synonymous with screens.
Unfortunately, that means you still get everything addressed to 'resident'... Last time I checked, there was no way to stop those at all :-/

I just got a p.o. box and pretend my mailbox doesn't exist
(2023) in case it looks familiar
Top talent who can shop around for more pay is going to demand higher pay in exchange for the opportunity costs for having to live in Oregon/New Mexico compared to Cupertino.
How does this rule get circumvented?
Jaguar Type 00 press release
Sorry to hear you had to block the site - Do you have issues loading other webflow sites because of NextDNS? I've found many threads on issues between them - but not much in the way of a solution.
In fact, there is an interesting historical anecdote about polish-american pianistic prodigy Josef Hofmann related to absolute pitch:

"Josef startled musicians by the accuracy of his ear. Once, at the Metropolitan Opera, he heard a tuning fork supposed to be at 440-A. Josef said it was a shade sharp, and it was."

This is incredibly impressive for two reasons:

- It shows absolute pitch is not necessarily limited solely to semitone identification

- A pure tone from a tuning fork doesn't have any of the characteristic overtones, timbre, etc. that you'd get from an instrument to help identify the sound
Show HN: Yeet a cube, an example of AI-powered UX
A web app that lets you yeet a cube with a natural language request rather than by pressing a button.

The code is available at https://github.com/rellfy/yeet-the-cube

The AI part is done as a plugin that defines the yeet function and is uploaded to asterai.io which hosts the AI agent. Messages are received in the front-end and decoded with protobuf. Once the yeet request is identified a function is called to yeet the cube with three.js.

So this example is serverless (hosted on vercel and asterai for the AI agent), meaning there's no need to manage any server code to implement AI-powered UX use cases such as this (very important) one.
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> Do you have experience with SYCL?

No, I bought a Nvidia card and just use CUDA.

> OpenCL had just a weird dance to perform to get a kernel running...

Yeah but that entire list, if you step back and think big picture, probably isn't the problem. Programmers have a predictable response to that sort of silliness. Build a library over it & abstract it away. The sheer number of frameworks out there is awe-inspiring.

I gave up on OpenCL on AMD cards. It wasn't the long complex process that got me, it was the unavoidable crashes along the way. I suspect that is a more significant issue than I realised at the time (when I assumed it was just me) because it goes a long way to explain AMD's pariah-like status in the machine learning world. The situation is more one-sided than can be explained by just a well-optimised library. I've personally seen more success implementing machine learning frameworks on AMD CPUs than on AMD's GPUs, and that is a remarkable thing. Although I assume in 2024 the state of the game has changed a lot from when I was investigating the situation actively.

I don't think CUDA is the problem here, math libraries are commodity software that give a relatively marginal edge. The lack of CUDA is probably a symptom of deeper hardware problems once people stray off an explicitly graphical workflow. If the hardware worked to spec I expect someone would just build a non-optimised CUDA clone and we'd all move on. But AMD did build a CUDA clone and it didn't work for me at least - and the buzz suggests something is still going wrong for AMD's GPGPU efforts.
CEO Bob Wise just left for Nvidia to run engineering and operations for DGX Cloud.

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You’re arguing semantics. It doesn’t make it more clear.

The gene has been shown to have a causation or at least an interesting correlation in orange cat probability. That’s enough for it to say behind which is not very specific, likely chosen deliberately for that property.
I love Ancillary Justice even though I don’t think I should - must be the long payoff. Of course, you can get some of the same themes in an easier (and no spaceships, sentient or otherwise) read with Leckie’s other book The Raven Tower.
Starting from a blank sheet of paper, it is easy to make leaps and bounds level of achievements. After something matures, the achievements become more incremental and looks like the tech is stale.
Art Cashin, New York Stock Exchange fixture for decades, dies at age 83
As someone clinically tone deaf (and no desire to change), this comments section is wild. Y’all experience sound very differently than me.
Show HN is for your own work, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Who is David Mayer?
I've been thinking about doing something like this!
The reality is people want what you produce when you're sober, not having fantasy hallucinations.
When I started at Facebook one of things everyone did during orientation was to put up a diff changing the default text of the search bar at the top of the homepage. This was a good way to familiarize people with the end to end flow of making changes. They didn’t say this explicitly but I think it was also intended to give people a “holy shit” moment when you realize that your silly code change is one button press away from 10 figure page views.

The idea was you make the change, take a screenshot of the result on your dev instance, get it stamped by your “mentor” and then abandon it. AFAIK this had been going on for a while before I got there.

Fast forward a few months and I see a sev pop up. “Default text on www.facebook.com search bar says ‘I am a search bar!’”
This is a really cool workflow
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From the very top of the second page of that "One good paper":

Can a BH form in a finite time as viewed by a
distant observer? (Answer: Yes.)

From your comment you appear to believe that preprint supports (emphasis yours):

It hasn't finished forming because as its gravitational
field increases its time distortion increases. Its
formation is "frozen in time" (actually just very very
slow), *it is never fully formed.*

and you also write:

If there is a paradox in your model, then your model
is broken, end of story.

Finally you write "relativity does not allow observers to disagree on observations of what" and also "Hawking showed that they evaporate in a finite time."

Static and non-static observers in general curved spacetimes immersed in relativistic QFTs generically disagree on particle counts. The Unruh, Hartle-Hawking, Rindler, Minkowski and Boulware vacuums seem especially apposite search terms for someone who isn't among "the slow people at the back of the class".

(Ginzburg & Frolov 1987 is a good starting point: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1070/PU1987v030n12ABEH... (one can also stick "sci-hub.se/" in front of the URL). It is cited a lot <https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cites=12518697499517381...>).
Would love to see this written up
Microsoft (and other parties) already demonstrated quite effective x86 emulation, opening the migration path away from this anachronistic ISA.
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Ask HN: Is 100% recall search over private data solvable?
I have been working on AI products for some time, and there is always a RAG / search component to build.

With the plethora of tools out there by now, it's now pretty instinctive to set up with a basic stack.

However, I did see feedback from end users mentioning the search part didn't provide good results. And I also saw several engineering teams going from a standard stack to something way more complex.

Also, there always seems to be edge cases where hybrid search doesn't cut it. (Like asking "search for contracts that DO NOT mention a termination fee" for example).

I'm curious to understand what the community thinks about retrieval systems:

- is it still considered to be a hard problem?
- are teams actively trying to solve it, if so how?
- will we ever have a system that basically can find any information across any corpus even with minimal indications from users?
> The law made it so no one had the position to squeeze suppliers for lower prices

Not quite. The law made it so that suppliers couldn't offer better deals to one of its customers over another. But retailers could still squeeze suppliers by going with another supplier if another supplier had better prices.

In other words, the law didn't make suppliers a monopoly, there was still competition between suppliers, it just prevented suppliers from shifting a disadvantage onto their smallest customers.
Do you think Intel can improve the quality of engineers on the fab side by offering PhD level salaries to people with BS/MS from good graduates from good US schools? I suspect that Intel hires PhDs from subpar universities.
Heroku was revolutionary, but was bought out (salesforce) and stagnated while retaining their 4x cost. More than a few of the addons i've used on heroku have shut down, and you still have to upgrade your app to the new heroku stack regularly, so hosting an app is not maintenance free.

I wish they had maintained momentum and attempted to price competitively, but at this point its probably too late.
It’s one of those things that’s fine until it isn’t. Eventually some Karen or restaurateur will rat you out to the sales tax authorities.

The cop thing doesn’t really matter. They stay in their lane until they don’t. I had an uncle who was NYPD, they’d randomly (from their pov) get tasked with cracking down on random crap. Sometimes they’d give folks a heads up.

In NYC the landlords are rapacious, so it’s difficult to compete with Pedro’s Taco Truck.
The primary corporate advantages to tips is they allow the business to display artificially low prices to customers (since they don't include the tip) and pay artificially low wages to employees (tipped jobs have a lower minimum wage).
Could you elaborate on how human power structures are seen more as bridges?
This is it. I like Rust a lot, but you gotta pick the right tool for the job sometimes
>There is no reason that journalists should feel "grandfathered in" to X because they used Twitter before. Elon Musk has very strong opinions about traditional media that rightfully leaves these employed journalists with little hope for the platform. They could be sharing the best-researched articles on the platform and it would consistently underperform relative to whatever the manufactured outrage is on Trending.

>It's just frogs noticing the pot boil. Social media has always been a raw deal for these publishers, and now it's probably a loss leader. Why stay on the platform if it's going to go from "shit" to "flaming shit"?

No argument against any of this. If this isn't a hit piece, why is there zero mention of where we can get their content?

This isn't a notice saying they're moving away from platform X and over to platform Y because of reasons A, B, and C, which is what an informational notice for the intended audience (people like me who are interested in reading what EFJ journalists have to say) should include.

This is a piece that's only saying they're moving away from platform X for reasons A, B, and C. That's not useful for conveying where their target audience can go to read EFJ content, it's just a roundabout way of criticising platform X for reasons A, B, and C.

P.S. upvoted your comment after I saw it went gray. Your question appears good faith to me and I really wish we could all stop downvoting good faith and thoughtful responses like yours rather than weaponizing downvotes to suppress ideas and perspectives we don't agree with.
Having maintained something similar myself, how has your experience been with exact determinism in C++? C++ compilers tend to be a bit of a free-for-all when it comes to bit determinism, whereas the rustc folks are very good about spending the design time to preemptively avoid many of the issues you'd need workarounds for in other languages.
I have some sympathy for "divide and conquer" but for me, libc and libm and libffi seem like very good splits. libgnuc is just having a lend, libobjc is beginning to feel like I'm being trolled and when I learned about stdlib I decided to stop worrying.

There was a time when the fastest way to resolve circular dependencies in the library chain was to simply add -Lthing multiple times in sequence so that a subsequent library could be sure the name list of the priors were loaded, including the dependencies down "right" of it in the list.

Taking something as fundamental to what FP is like map/reduce and saying "this can live in an adjunct library" feels like somebody took divide and conquer a litte too far.
Firstly, this doesn't mention the thing that bothered me the most in my few encounters; how baroque and fluid the tooling is.

I have regularly run into code that can only be compiled by a rather narrow range of ghc versions; too old or too new and it just won't.

> Haskell probably has the most elegant syntax across all languages I’ve seen (maybe Idris is better because dependently typed code can become ugly in Haskell really quickly).

I have a general dislike for ML-type syntaxes, and Haskell is my least favorite of the ML-type syntaxes I have encountered. Presumably there is some underlying set of principles that the author would like maximized that I assuredly do not.

> There’s utter joy in expressing your ideas by typing as few characters as possible.

Disagree; if I did agree, then I would probably use something from the APL family or maybe Factor.
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Since eating out got excessively overpriced I've started cooking more consistently than I ever had before in my life. The food is much better, besides being obviously cheaper as well. And I'm not even saying I'm good at it, it's just easy to find a few basic things you like that aren't hard to do well.
I think that part of the article may be confused, the result of a misunderstanding or a translation error. We're getting secondhand information from an astronomer who isn't a native English speaker filtered through some random journalist.
FreeBSD continues to impress me. As a one-time Windows-only user until the past 5 years or so, FreeBSD lured me into a higher realm of computing that various Linux distros never could. And, furthermore, it did what Linux itself could not: it brought me to terms with Linux in that I actually use it too. In truth, today, I use all three regularly and I am more skilled, knowledgable, and successful for it - and my career isn't even all that technical.
Bob Swan was fine. He was no visionary, but he was trying to do the right thing with the advice he was being given, and actually started the cleanup of a lot of BK's mess.

BK will go down in history as the person who destroyed a once great engineering firm.
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Wankery is really orthogonal to accuracy - this could well be the best-ranked roaster, Dustin Curtis may have really discovered the best spoon, etc.
Same here. Pixel 5 has been amazing and would love to keep it but the arbitrary stopping of OS and security updates is forcing my hand. I have searched long and far for the technical reasons (some security chip, ram requirements, processor features, etc) but can't seem to come up with anything. Makes it hard to reason about this in any other way than they want to sell more things.
Does this also have something to do with Vietnam being mostly robusta?
I mean, if you're not in the hobby you probably don't have any insight into this.
It's not made up. The satellite made some minor orbital parameter changes but at all times it was in a regular orbit. It wasn't making irregular course changes in the way that an airplane might.
Haskell isn't all that pure.
Huge +1 to this post. Lots of other posts are off-base about the basic definition.

I've always had strong relative pitch ability and many people mistake my ability for perfect pitch. But in most practical applications, it's not just the _answer_ you arrive at that makes the definition so (because this can be faked), it's _how_ you know it.

People with absolute pitch just _know_ it without thinking -- no tricks, no mental reference note, no memorizing songs, no relying on a certain instrument's timbre, etc., they just know it.
Sorry:

a codebase with a 1300 line file.
Whats the tdlr for the uninformed about AD?
That is interesting. I wonder how many stalking maneuvers it can do before it depletes it's propellant/reaction mass.
Typically with robots you need more power than what embedded provides. We build on top of commodity x86 systems a lot of the time. Other times we use SOCs like the Nvidia Jetson line, which also doesn't require a lot of embedded skills; you get a full operating system and a userspace so it's more like programming on a typical unix-based system. You find more embedded in the automation side of things. Wearables, IOT, always connected devices -- things that are too small and low powered to afford an OS.
Who's using Heroku these days? The rug pull they managed back in the day akin to Travis ought to have lost them any goodwill.
I have a nagging feeling that Collapsing Empire isn’t “good” literature (the swearing and sex?) but really enjoyed it, along with the other Scalzi books I’ve read. As others have pointed out, the reason for collapse are unique compared to other collapsing empire stories.
yes, I understand that. I am speaking about this appeal that the article discusses. The shareholders voted that they wanted to give him the money anyways and the judge said they cant do that.

>Musk’s attorneys attempted to reverse McCormick’s January decision after the 2018 pay package was re-approved by 84% of shares not held by Musk or his brother, Kimbal Musk, in June.

But on Monday, that motion was denied. McCormick said that although the package was once again ratified by a majority of shareholders, that didn’t mean Musk’s record-breaking payday was in shareholders’ best interests.
I know it isn’t ideal, but I just like the idea of seeing t what I’m doing. Like the extra vision you get with contacts as opposed to glasses.
Indeed. Brian Krzanich destroyed Intel.
I lost taste for whiskey around the time I turned 30 on its own. It kind of makes me feel like puking now. Strangely I am kind of developing a taste for moderate amounts of specific beers and beer used to make me feel like puking earlier. Taste for occasional wine stayed as it was.

So could it be some hormonal change? Something like this drug induces maybe?

Also, when I was younger my food intake was more automatically controlled. I didn’t have to watch whether I had eaten enough, unlike now when I often have to tell myself that it’s enough now.