skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
out of curiosity, how do you feel about cold emails asking for a conversation?

I am currently looking for a new job (potentially in a new industry), so I'm doing cold outreach to people whose experience seems relevant and/or interesting, asking for advice, and usually a phone call in which I can pick their brain

would you also view my emails as spam? if not, would you bother replying?
5 stars ought to be enough. I usually either like or dislike a book, simple as that, so I'd probably give everything either 5 stars or 1-2 stars. Speaking for myself, there are no cases where I'd want to give something 9 stars or 6 stars out of 10.

Here's an example of the book cover issue: https://ibb.co/DQLC584

In the pic, out of five recommendations, one is correct, two are wrong, and two have no covers available.
Ending the Cyber Command and NSA 'dual hat'
Reading the thread: How is it even illegal to decompile ?

The binary is readable so what is it wrong to say oh i have a code that produces the same binary ?

Especially if you dont monetize
> Don't do this.

No. Its fine. go ahead and do this ( if you want).
which is funny, given the topic.
So it's fine if someone steals your daughter's favorite teddy bear, because you shouldn't delegate your kid's emotional state to a stuffed toy?
Google Rolls Out Faster Gemini AI Model to Power Agents
It's on the ballot a lot; Obama wanted, but was ultimately unable to, implement a broad individual mandate within the ACA; Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supported medicare for all.

A number of states have implemented individual mandates; including Massachusetts under Mitt Romney.

It seems quite clear that you'd get it if you (collectively) voted that way, or not for candidates who very actively oppose it.
These nihilist arguments often ignore physical, nonverbal interaction. You can interpret it as byte procession in the end but it is still missing from digital interaction.
That’s a legal remedy not justice. Justice wouldn’t let Jones potentially buy back the company using money the siphoned off and hid from the court.
Jujutsu: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
Man Indicted for Manipulating Five Companies and Defrauding Investors of $200M
Elizabeth Holmes wishes a lot of you people were on her jury.
What is the main difference compare to before?
It was started by the founder of clips4sale and intended primarily for the findom kink. They really pushed the SFW angle early on as a way of hanging on to Stripe's low processing rates.
I use a similar setup with my desktop: Split keyboard with trackball in the middle.
Been using it for 3 years now and I love it.
It doesn't work. I tried atleast 15 times and it says it has trouble identifying and something not right! Well, There you go! for wasting my time....
Could this be a way to ensure that your code wouldn't be used by LLMs? Just include a couple of names in a comment in the code.
An open marketplace for consultations similar to Stack overflow but with the guarantee that my problem will be solved.

As a sole ML developer in a small company, I can't reach out to someone who can guide me specific to my problem. AI can definitely help but there is no human assurance providing guarantee of end result. I don't consider discussion websites or blogposts to be helpful because I have to personally learn from mistakes as I implement solutions.

As a generalist consultant, they would have seen many common problems across the industry and can cross pollinate ideas across industries. They will also develop a kind of tribal knowledge of dos, donts, best practices, best libraries so that I don't have to do it myself.
No, no you don't get it. We need to scan those chat messages, pinky promise we'll never use it against your interests.
> about perceived 'technical debt' that is incurred delivering business value than to actually let them try and do things their way :D

Aye.

Some day I will write a detailed account of the worst code I've ever worked with. 1000 lines of spaghetti inside a single if-block; 20,000 blank comments; a whole pantheon of god classes; etc.

And yet, it was a very successful *product*. Much more so than the carefully engineered and architected codebase in an ISO 9001 (or was it 9000?) employer.

"""It was the best of code, it was the worst of code; it was the age of delivery, it was the age of technical debt; it was the epoch of rapid prototyping, it was the epoch of unmaintainable legacy; it was the season of boundless innovation, it was the season of endless refactoring; it was the spring of shipping features, it was the winter of debugging nightmares.""" etc.
I found once I started using a cross-device password manager, I stopped using OAuth anyway!
> POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!! This page welcomes all varieties of race, gender or anyone interested in its contents. If you are offended by anything that seems politically incorrect, don't write to me. I do not care to be annoyed by fanatic whiners who expect every printed line to pass correct political specifications.

Gross. Between the “discovery” of free energy, this disclaimer, and the site style, this gives the creepy, crazy uncle vibes.
I agree. I never said there weren't loopholes in the remedy. We'll see if they manage to close it off.
For New Zealand in particular, the flags that are used through history are wildly inaccurate. It's missing the initial flag used before the Union Jack was officially adopted. And the signalling flag that is on there between 1907-1947 was never an official flag and was only kind of used between 1899-1902 before the current flag (Union Jack in the corner with the red Southern Cross stars on a blue background) was adopted in 1902.
I'm not saying he's correct because he's from Harvard, but he's not some crank outside the system to be lightly dismissed. He's firmly in the mainstream of physics and foundations of physics and seems to have gotten a new result. Time will tell.
The top ones are making million a month. There’s no way you can manage a thousand subscribers yourself.
> Sure, it may take some on the team a half hour to do some work, but for others, it will take two weeks.

That seems like an egregious difference, and I don’t think should be mentioned in such an off hand manner. Why doesn’t your team train people?

FYI, training doesn’t need to be hands-on, I think it’s often better to give employees education/training budgets. Technical team leads should be able to identify someone’s gaps, and make recommendations.

Or maybe it’s better to let someone go instead of wasting their time in a no-growth environment.
One of the HackerNews guys was running his own server for OF "models", which probably are not affected by this.
> According to Embodied, Moxie can’t perform core functionality without cloud connectivity.

As always. Everything that relies on some cloud can become a brick without warning. And many things shouldn't require it...
Personally I love using Cuelang, but there's something about it that makes, at least my colleagues really reluctant to adopt it. Not sure what it is. They don't see the benefit.

My gut feeling so far is that they don't know the benefits of using strictly typed languages. They only see upfront cost of braincycles and more typing. They rather forego that and run into problems once it's deployed.
Sora is a toy. No understanding of physics. Fairly expensive. Hard to tell stories with it. I work in video production. The industry is not big enough for you to invest billions and billions into. It’s currently in a total state of crisis.

Video production is just not big enough of a market to make a difference in the AI race. I don’t understand why any AI company would spend significant amount of resources matching Sora when I don’t really think it will be a 10 billion dollar product (yet).

Plus Google is well positioned to match it anyway, since they have YouTube data they can probably license to their AI gen video training.
Didn't you already make this exact same joke on another LLM post?
It is both, the holy binity.
Underestimating Users
Ah, yes fixing problems of one specific language at the protocol layer (and violating the spec). JSON isn't inherently limited to 2^52, JSON parsing in some languages and libraries are.
Only if we arbitrarily state this is now art. But you can of course say the same for the standard version. There is even a youngster out there that started a work called "the art of computer programming."

We are definitely legitimate to lament about the good old time when art and mere texnical stuffs were clearly and sharply separated, while this new generation is ruining societies and our glorious civilizations with their careless use of words that mixes everything. Well, at least as legitimate as any old man in traceable history.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...
Understanding Hidden Computations in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has significantly enhanced the reasoning abilities of large language models. However, recent studies have shown that models can still perform complex reasoning tasks even when the CoT is replaced with filler(hidden) characters (e.g., "..."), leaving open questions about how models internally process and represent reasoning steps. In this paper, we investigate methods to decode these hidden characters in transformer models trained with filler CoT sequences. By analyzing layer-wise representations using the logit lens method and examining token rankings, we demonstrate that the hidden characters can be recovered without loss of performance. Our findings provide insights into the internal mechanisms of transformer models and open avenues for improving interpretability and transparency in language model reasoning.
Some languages lean on exception handling more heavily than others. Golang and Rust don't have them at all while, whereas Python and Java are exception town.

On one hand it kinda makes sense to handle rare cases in a way that doesn't affect the normal flow, but on the other hand having a piece of code literally try to crash the program on purpose because something didn't look quite right is a horrible idea in practice.
Changing my legal to name Java Script so nobody can use it to code
UX design for AI: a practical guide to avoid common mistakes
I mean, if you knew who he was, he wouldn't be a very good privacy guy, now, would he?
I had a somewhat repugnant second-level boss whose philosophy was to give people a little more work than they thought they could do to get the best performance out of them, and I believe he was right since, at least for me, I worked harder to make the earlier deadline and/or did more than I thought I could. He must have known Parkinson's.

That only went so far, since piling yet more work onto someone who made an earlier deadline may get them to the point where they don't perform.

Which is why I appreciated a not-for-profit company where they'd actually ask me if I needed more time, since quality was of utmost importance. At that point at that company I knew the codebase, so I'd consistently over-estimate and deliver early, since there was still a chance of hidden impacts/requirements.
Thank you once again!
I will take a look :)
Congratulations! I'd be interested in signing up (moving away from Pingping). I would recommend adding something on your site about who makes this and how much faith users should have in this service.
It's kind of fascinating to consider the level of automation and UI affordances you can apply to faking authentic human contact.
How StumbleUpon pioneered the way we use the internet
Does it work in Firefox? Not here...

Suggestion 1: you could show the name of bigger entities also in the corners of the screen - now you must scroll up to Italy to see that the green region is the Roman empire.

Suggestion 2: I expected to be able to drag the timeline left and right. Dragging the cursor over the screen edge for the next time period makes you unwillingly jump a few hundred years.
> For video games the binary is the covered work, not its disassembly.

For the law it doesn't matter much if you look at binary code in a hex editor or at disassembly, since disassembly is just a 1:1 translation of the binary code. Otherwise it would be sufficient to let's say gzip compress the binary and distribute that without fearing any copyright claims since the result would be different and no longer covered, which is obviously not the case. The same applies for decompilation results. Means: for clean room implementations, you cannot look at any of it.

> And disassembly is covered by the DMCA and explicitly allowed for this type of purpose, so that’s not illegal at least.

You can, under certain circumstances, disassemble code for interoperability purposes. This explicitly does NOT cover the case of "I want to make a 1:1 clone of the whole software" which is what these decompilation projects are about. After all, the point of the "matching decompilation" projects is that if you compile the source code, you get the exact same binary again. And for the non-matching decompilation projects, you get at least very similar code after compilation.

For the DMCA exception, think about it more like you are working on GIMP and you want to add support for reading/writing PhotoShop files. You can look at PhotoShop code to understand how these files are read/written to then derive the file structures and implement the relevant I/O code for GIMP. You can NOT look at any PhotoShop code that is not absolutely required for this task, nor can you look at PhotoShop code and build your own clone of PhotoShop using that knowledge and call the result GIMP, which would still not be a "decompilation project" comparable to these game decompilation projects. I hope you can see how these "clean room" claims for such game decompilation projects are pure nonsense.

> Why does using a computer to aid that process make things questionable?

This essentially boils down to "if I didn't see the original code anyway, how am I supposed to have 'copied' it?" which you can't easily do if the computer did in fact see the original code.

Obligatory EFF link for completeness: https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq
Very nice. I wish cities' names changed with the period (and disappear when they were not even a thing)
Do you mean that you want prostitute? You can buy time with one.
SEA-ME-WE3 submarine cable system retired
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The new hot-reloading is amazing! Coming from another Rust web framework waiting for UI updates to show up has always been a huge painpoint, so thanks for this!
Idiomatic Errors in Clojure
> How can anyone know these aren't a threat without knowing whose they are?

Because they are theirs, obviously. They just won't say it.
If you’re genuinely interested in a conversation, I think that’s different. If you’re reaching out to someone who you admire/‘know’, that’s you making an effort at a genuine human connection.

What I get are emails that say ‘I would love to write articles for your audience, please respond if you would like to see a sample.’ My site clearly doesn’t publish 3rd party articles. And if you were that keen, just send me the damned sample.

You’re okay.
I just read Dreamland, which talks about the opioid crisis in US.

The book talks about (chronic) Pain Managment before all the (addictive) "wonder" drugs showed up. Apparently there were Pain Clinics (univ of washington model) that had a multi disciplinary approach(not purely drug based) to pain managment that seemed to be working. No life long addiction and ever increasing issues. But that initial one time cost was more than the cost of pills. So Insurance Companies just stopped covering that as an option. Result was those clinics shutdown and the only option most people were given were pills. They get addicted. Pharma companies profit multiply. Wall St is happy. Those who run out of cash for pills turn too and prop up the drug cartels. What is sad is once everyone starts profiting breaking out of the pattern for all parties involved gets harder and harder.
This is why I started building gptme almost 2 years ago. Making these agents/tools local-first has many benefits like that.

GitHub: https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme
There are still people on there who make $$$ by pretty much just publishing Instagram-level stuff, but in bigger sets + videos. Most actual cosplayers moved off OF eventually and either sell directly or via Patreon now.

It doesn't always have to be hardcore, but the implication of having an OF is "porn star".
Ars Technica is not a great news outlet, even by tech news outlet standards.
You must work at a Japanese university.

Joking aside, surely those name exclusions only account for user input and not data the model is trained on.
This is just so they can steal everyone's voice, avoid.
we moved away from Plasmo to WXT and saw significant improvements:

https://chatgptwriter.ai/blog/migrate-plasmo-to-wxt
The drones keep transmitting the code 01000111 01010100 01001100. What can it mean??
https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ is the OSM like version
I didn't miss the point of the quotation. I am not really concerned with your motivations. My point was that Mallory's quotation becomes distorted by technological society to present new challenges that are relatively harmful and stupid, like making a small ChatGPT clone (or even making ChatGPT in the first place).

So while I agree that some people's motivations may be sound, it is how they are applied that is a perversion, and that Mallory's quotation has the germ of a phenomenon that is incredibly dangerous and isn't as deserving of awe as it is.
it's a cool setup, though I wonder if it might be more compact if one designed a new case for the framework (laptop), given that the built-in keyboard and trackpad will go unused

one complaint: I initially had no idea what a "hook and loop fastener" was, and even then I had to google it to confirm it was velcro
But how would that work reliably? If I make the statement that "David Mayer" is criminal, an international terrorist or a Nickelback fan, that's definitely libelous. But if I say those things about Osama bin Laden, they're just simply facts. [1]

The legal AI would be impossible to calibrate: either it has the categorize everything that could possibly be construed as libel as illegal, and therefore basically ban all output related to not just contemporary criminal actors, but also historical ones [2], or it would have to let a lot of things slip through the cracks -- essentially, whenever the output to validate suggests that someone's sexual misconduct is proven in court, it would have to allow that, even if that court case is just the LLM's halluzination. There's just no way for the legal model to tell the difference.

[1]: I could not find any sources that corroborate the statement that bin Laden is into Nickelback, but I think it follows from the other two statements.

[2]: Calling Christopher Columbus a rapist isn't libel, and conversely, describing him in other terms is misleading at best, historically revisionist at worst.
DuckDB binary downloaders compared

`eget` wins:

eget duckdb/duckdb
2 candidates found (unsure architecture): please select manually
(1) duckdb_cli-osx-universal.zip
(2) libduckdb-osx-universal.zip
Enter selection number:

Afterwards it correctly unzips. Can use cmdline flag to match artifacts

`gah` fails:

gah install duckdb/duckdb
Fetching release info for: duckdb/duckdb [latest]
Found release: v1.1.3 Bugfix Release
Downloading:
Warning: output file name has no length
curl: option -o: is badly used here

(Using curl 8.4.0 on macOS)

`dist` also fails:

dist install duckdb/duckdb
• determining latest version
• version: 1.1.3
⨯ no matching asset found, score too low
⨯ closest matching: duckdb_cli-osx-universal.zip (34) (threshold: 40)
Shoot one down and see who comes knocking?
You don't need to dig hard on Instagram to find 100% AI generated models.

They seem to be pictures and videos from actual people, but AI-modified to add the characteristics of the AI model they're pretending to be.

Some of them have the IG subscription system active and most of them have OF links or similar in their profile.

Reporting them to Meta does nothing.
AI Plateau Is Here. No More Progress? [video]
Operational maturity - small-to-medium sized businesses will often treat things like their oncall as an afterthought as they grow, leading to every team doing things differently & chronically burnt out individual "heroes" taking on too much of the burden.

Large corporations are able to allocate dedicated FTEs to tackle this and standardise their processes around best practices. Things like the ability to staff "follow-the-sun" rotations that just aren't feasible at smaller scales.

I'm building Rezible (https://github.com/rezible/rezible) to address this. The aim is to provide an "oncall on rails" experience for teams, with best practices encoded into the product for engineers to follow.
I believe that this is a problem with western societies at large.

The tempting efficiency of infant capitalism was its decentralized and small scale structure. You can’t govern a country top-down, and letting the people at the bottom do their own work is most efficient.

But now some companies are larger than most countries and we are back to where we started… but without transparency and democratic regulations.

I think we need better ways to deal with large systems and complexity.
I'm sure glad the kid didn't reach Reddit or 4chan. Otherwise, who knows what malicious advice he would have followed
hey thanks for the feedback! tried on multiple browsers, couldn't reproduce the issue. if you need any additional info let me know, I'll send it over in a mail.
Mikochi: Minimalist Remote File Browser
Plus side, hosting has never been cheaper.
Github actions are not free, you get a bunch of free minutes. For the public repositories, you are usually queued too far if you are sending lots of actions.
Hallmark cards tend to leave a lot of blank space to write. It’s absolutely genuine when you grab a pen and start writing. Bonus points if the Hallmark message is relevant to the person receiving it and maybe something you can riff on in the handwritten part. Funny cards are also great!

So I would say the golden rule continues to apply: the more effort is visible, the more genuine it is.
Places do not assume you have Whatsapp, but they can contact you there if you have it which is a win/win to me.

> To get reliable internet on your phone abroad you need data roaming in the first place, if you have that then there is no benefits of WhatsApp over call/sms.

Not true at all, those are two separate concerns. You may have data roaming plans for few euros per week and yet, a single phone call may costs you as much.
At least you can theoretically stop sharing with this one. Microsoft was essentially trying to do this, but doing it for everything on your PC, with zero transparency.

Here's Google doing essentially the same thing, even more so that it's explicitly shipping your activity to the cloud, and this response is so different from the "we're sticking this on your machine and you can't turn it off" version Microsoft was attempting to land. This is what Microsoft should have done.
Working fine for me on FF. Once or twice the timeline stops working, but clicking around a bit brings it back.
This should be top comment.
The lengths people will go to avoid exercising.