skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following HN's guidelines, I'm going to assume that you're a pretty smart person who knows that our northern/southern hemispheres mean that there are only two options for when summer occurs, and when winter occurs, and that they're essentially just opposites of one another.

If you're reading it from a southern hemisphere viewpoint and find that it doesn't make sense, isn't it quite simple to just go, "Oh, perhaps it's the opposite?" and apply that?

This is hardly the first time I've ever encountered this sort of thing. In fact, as an American, I've had to employ this sort of thinking myself when interacting with people on forums from places like South America and Australia.

It's an easy fix, and it's not that big of a deal, honestly - an innocent little side effect of the fact that we're able to communicate at such a global level[1]. :)

[1] https://youtu.be/PdFB7q89_3U?si=-amoG7EtEpS0xkEW
I don't think room temperature is important per se. Rather it's shorthand for a superconductor that functions without special cooling. Even if the temperature range is somewhat limited, it's still possible to be pretty useful (e.g. deep ocean temps are fairly cold and stable so a superconducting cable to power repeaters on fiber optic cables might be useful).
> We had a great natural case study in Australia of COVID through a vaccinated population. Everyone caught it over the course of a month, the vaccines did basically nothing to stop the spread. They were pretty much only useful on an individual level which means there was never a requirement for any coercive measures.

I am from Australia and this is all nonsense.

a) Vaccines are not designed to prevent transmission. They are designed to stop people from getting seriously ill and dying.

b) Vaccines and lockdowns were vital in high-density areas like Victoria and NSW which saw health care systems almost instantly overwhelmed. This was then causing mass deaths for both COVID and non-COVID cases. It was a public health emergency by every definition.

c) COVID was only allowed to spread once enough of the population was vaccinated. And that was because instead of needing to go into hospital people could stay at home for a few days. And even then it has taken years for the system to recover.
If the company was not meaningfully involved in selling a dangerous addictive substance falsely marketed that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans then they should not face any penalty or fines. On the other hand, if they were, this is on a similar order of magnitude to American losses in World War 2, and their executives should be hung and company ended with shareholders zeroed out.
It ain't deep. He wants to influence American policty to get more money for whatever personal ideals he has. This isn't mind reading so much as reflecting on his actions from this year alone.
I feel like lots of providers in Japan are using it now. MAP-E is awful, it doesn't use typical IPv6 acquisition methods and the ipv4 address/allowed forwarding ports are calculated based on the IPv6 address (using a public/fixed table?).
> Archaeologists have speculated that the writing may have recorded military spoils, construction projects, or offerings to deities, though definitive interpretations remain elusive.

So they know jack shit. Just as likely to be for accounting purposes, like a large number of Sumerian tablets.
One of the worst things about the move to smartphones is the inability to make full backups. I don't understand. It's my own device, all the data belongs to me, and I should be able to back it up whenever I want.
No one at Meta considers IC6 “Staff”, except someone 3 years out of school.
Wrong. It's more about money. People who run ISPs have said they don't support IPv6 because they won't see any return on the cost. These ISPs use CGNAT and like to solve customer "issues" by selling them a static IP. They would sell far fewer static IPs and actually have to look into issues rather than dilly dally around a bit so the static IP "fixes" the issue. They like to blame issues on other nefarious customers causing shared IPs to be banned or something like that.
You need the first three elements to go into the first group, the next three to go into the second group, and so on. How would you write it?
Very cool! Always wondered how solo engineers deal with physical and shipping? I suppose there is some sort of API that allows prints and shipping on behalf?
Our live translation used AI to translate AI
The old noggin would count the fs
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> “Pre-training as we know it will unquestionably end,” Sutskever said onstage.

> “We’ve achieved peak data and there’ll be no more.”

> During his NeurIPS talk, Sutskever said that, while he believes existing data can still take AI development farther, the industry is tapping out on new data to train on. This dynamic will, he said, eventually force a shift away from the way models are trained today. He compared the situation to fossil fuels: just as oil is a finite resource, the internet contains a finite amount of human-generated content.

> “We’ve achieved peak data and there’ll be no more,” according to Sutskever. “We have to deal with the data that we have. There’s only one internet.”

What will replace Internet data for training? Curated synthetic datasets?

There are massive proprietary datasets out there which people avoid using for training due to copyright concerns. But if you actually own one of those datasets, that resolves a lot of the legal issues with training on it.

For example, Getty has a massive image library. Training on it would risk Getty suing you. But what if Getty decides to use it to train their own AI? Similarly, what if News Corp decides to train an AI using its publishing assets (Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins, etc)?
You can roll back to a backup right before the OS update that caused the bug. For example I have hourly snapshots using btrfs. Each snapshot is entirely bootable by itself, so if I ever broke anything, I just roll back. The system snapshots are read-only, so they are unlikely to be destroyed by bugs like that. You can also just make another snapshot of the same snapshot to be safer. It's also separate from the user data I care about.
That is only after a newline, so if you typed 'cat' before the filename, for instance, it would work just fine.
It's interesting that there's no "trap instruction/sequence" feature built into the CPU architecture. That would presumably be valuable for auditing and debugging, or to create a custom instruction by trapping an otherwise unused bit sequence.
I landed on this page thanks to the newsletter.

I also use Raycast HackerNews aggregation but I appreciate your email every time it lands.
I hope if Glock is forced to change their design to something more convoluted and less reliable that police are the first ones required to switch over.
Non-derivative doesn't mean the same as non-infringing though.

For example, suppose if I photograph a copyrighted painting, and then started selling copies of the slightly-cropped photo. The output wouldn't have enough originality to qualify as a derivative work (let alone an original work) but it would still be infringement against the painter.
Definitely not the title (Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act)
Not a separate numpad, but numbers on the same layer. Horizontal 1234567890 is bad
It is just broken somehow. No matter what text I generate on that site, I can never add to the map, always an error and telling me to wait a minute to try again. Maybe instructions are not clear enough. Does it need to be the only text in ones profile? That would be silly. Does it need to the at the top or at the bottom? Then it should say to.
> That is true for lots of other things.

it may be a hot take, but yes. A lot of humanity has indeed been ways to show off how big someone's dick is, or as a dick measuring contest.

The moonlanding was an amazing but ultimately useless landmark in the grand scheme of things. Very little of the tech used back then is useful for a practical space supply line. The ability to launch out of our atmosphere and later put sattelites into orbit was 90% of the worth of such resarch 60 years later.
Quite seriously: why? What actual advantage do you get? People tend to split things up into separate files far too eagerly. A single two-thousand-line file is nothing. Especially when most of that is in one class, and needs to be, so you can’t really split things up, or at the very least there would be runtime overhead to it.
Can someone VP/EM at Meta put this and publishing person on PIP and make them get down off the high horse?

The blog post, linkedin are becoming too atrocious with general advice with useless bragging.
That's the whole point, otherwise it's not safe against "make it look like an accident."
Didn't they originally buy PA Semi while Jobs was on watch?
"First image of our Milky Way's black hole [Sagittarius A*] may be inaccurate, scientists say" (2024-10)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087932 https://www.space.com/the-universe/black-holes/1st-image-of-... :

> "We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, rather than the actual astronomical structure."

> The ring-like structure, which really represents intense radio waves blasted from the brilliant disk of gas, known as the "accretion disk," that's swirling around the black hole, may in fact be more elongated than appears, the researchers argue

"An Independent Hybrid Imaging of Sgr A* from the Data in EHT 2017 Observations" (2024-10)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1158 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/534/4/3237/7660988 :

> To mitigate the time variability in the Sgr A* structure, data weighting strategies derived from general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations with the source-size assumption are used. In addition, the EHTC analysis uses a unique criterion for selecting the final image. It is not based on consistency with the observed data, but rather on the highest rate of appearance of the image morphology from a wide imaging parameter space. Our concern is that these methods may interfere with the PSF deconvolution and cause the resulting image to reflect more structural features of the PSF than of the actual intrinsic source.

> On the other hand, our independent analysis used traditional very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) imaging techniques to derive our final image. We used the hybrid mapping method, which is widely accepted as the standard approach, namely iterations between imaging by the clean algorithm and calibrating the data by self-calibration, following well-established precautions. In addition, we performed a comparison with the PSF structure, noting the absence of distinct PSF features in the resulting images. Finally, we selected the image with the highest degree of consistency with the observational data."

> Our final image shows that the eastern half of this structure is brighter, which may be due to a Doppler boost from the rapid rotation of the accretion disc. We hypothesize that our image indicates that a portion of the accretion disc, located approximately 2 to several R_S (where R_S is the Schwarzschild radius) away from the black hole, is rotating at nearly 60% of the speed of light and is seen at an angle of 40°−45° (Section 4).
so I think there are two things going on.

First, you seem to be addressing the weakest form of their argument, not the strongest. It's reasonable to understand that some disciplines become obsolete or outdated.

Second, you framed your point as a rhetorical question with an obvious answer. At best, it waste people's time on a low latency communication platform, at worst, it is condescending and a common from of trolling.

In my experience, effective communication means addressing the strongest interpretation of what they're saying, and cutting to the chase by bringing your strongest most relevant points.
Vale.sh looks pretty good, thanks for the reference.

I’m currently editing the third edition of my book and a bunch of articles for my website. This will come in handy.
If I install all my private-passkeys onto my phone, then I have a new problem of Lost, Stolen, Broken to deal with. I’m device agnostic, I want to get to my account from my phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, all I’m doing is spreading the exposure out by needing to install passkeys everywhere.
I was at meta. What do you mean? It’s how we used to define staff in our cross company leveling docs.
Would have been far more interesting and mysterious if it was Georgia (outer Main Belt asteroid).
Same stuff in amazon, if you're lucky to get into new project, even if it's designed like shit (in my case), people got nice promos. As soon as it was delivered team left with new titles and now new team which alomst doesn't grow. 1 promo in 4 years.
I don't think they work at Meta anymore.
It could be as simple as an auto email sent to both or through one of the social channels that they both use.
I am so sorry to hear what happened to your Mom. This is a slap on the wrist to those who suffered and to those who loved them.

How do companies like McKinsey get away with this?
Pre-training as we know it will end – slide of Ilya Sutskever
I'm not. I was part of the government and a defense contractor.

As to what these are: they are clearly something complying with the FAR on dusk to dawn lighting, it's going to be some disappointing, boring outcome like dominos pizza delivery drones.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

Half the videos I saw were people noticing a commercial aircraft with landing lights on. I saw a bell 412 with some terrain mapping sensors mounted on it hovering in a pattern around my neighborhood earlier in the year and it turned out to be scanning for the power company, a new way of checking the lines. I'll be far more interested in a UAP that doesn't follow our dusk to dawn lighting rules.
well you're making a horrible argument of it. All you seem to be doing is saying "he's doing good things" and you dismiss any disagreement with "well what do you think he's doing?" with no further discussion.

Musk is a great argument that while the government is inefficient, they are still beholden to laws and people. Musk isn't. Tax him to high hell.
Random thoughts.

HN meetings are often organized on meetup.com, eventbrite, etc.... so maybe start linking to those meetngs?

Also, There's an organization called Pechakucha Night. It started in Tokyo by an architecture company. Their format was each presenter gives them 20 images, they run for 20 seconds each on auto-play. So your presentation is exactly 400 seconds long (6 mins, 4 second).

In any case, with no promotion on their part that I know if, people started organizing the same event in other countries. There are 1325 places in the world that have had one of these meetups. 57 meetups happened in November

They run a website that people can post their meetups.

https://www.pechakucha.com/

A similar example is Nerd Nite which IIUC followed a similar pattern. Started in one place. Others, inspired, copied.

https://nerdnite.com/

Anyway, the point is maybe they're a model. Have your site be similar. Maybe contact existing meetups and ask them to add to your event list.

I don't know if a format would help. Nerd Nite is generally three 10-20 minute talks with 20 minutes between. Pechakucha Night is usually 2-3 sets of ~4 talks with a 20 minute break between talks. Maybe suggesting a more fixed format, rather than just "hang out", is a better draw, more likely to attract people to the event?

Also, random observation. Pechakucha night in my city used to be held in a big room with no seats which IMO helped people mingle. They moved it to a place with seats and everyone just sits in their seats with who ever they came with. Similarly, Nerd Nite was at reasonably large venue. They moved to some restaurant like venue and now it's nearly impossible to mingle as there is no room to stand near anyone.

I know you're not necessarily organizing any events but maybe a "guideline" on running events would be useful for encouraging people to organize.
I don't entirely agree, but thank you for elaborating. I see at least where you are coming from.
Or… ever?
Sagittarius A*:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A\\\\* :

> Astronomers have been unable to observe Sgr A* in the optical spectrum because of the effect of 25 magnitudes of extinction (absorption and scattering) by dust and gas between the source and Earth. [26]

> [...]

> In May 2022, astronomers released the first image of the accretion disk around the horizon of Sagittarius A*, confirming it to be a black hole, using the Event Horizon Telescope, a world-wide network of radio observatories. [13] This is the second confirmed image of a black hole, after Messier 87's supermassive black hole in 2019. [14][15] The black hole itself is not seen; as light is incapable of escaping the immense gravitational force of a black hole," only nearby objects whose behavior is influenced by the black hole can be observed. The observed radio and infrared energy emanates from gas and dust heated to millions of degrees while falling into the black hole. [16]*

EHT: Event Horizon Telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope

First EHT image of Sagittarius A*:
(2017, 2022)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EHT_Saggitarius_A_bl...
I think people's perception of the world evolves.

Elder generation thought face to face conversation is usually sinciere. But the culture of massive commercialization of everything changed it. Our generation learned that if unknown person talks to you they are most likely lying to sell you something. But we grew up with honest Internet so we see online chats as honest so AI might trick us. Next generation will know that online conversation might be AI bs.

Everything is fluid. The world moves on. People learn new things and adjust their valuations.

The perception of adults that the world goes to hell all the time is as old as time itself.
> With private insurers in the US, it means denying care for person A because they think they can get away with it and it will increase their profits.

The person at the insurer who denies a claim is not making more money because they denied it. The company as a whole might, but not the person denying it.
For me, he seemed harmlessly eccentric until “pedo guy”. It’s been all downhill since then.
Not really, Georgia (U.S. State) has a history of modern-manufactured stone tablets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Most FAANG teams are grid locked with gatekeeping engineers.
Sure there is a reason, just not a good one. Bad defaults are rather sticky. And the keybinding would be ergonomic, not random
Question - is this a field ripe for breakthroughs using advancing AI capabilities? Or not likely because LLMs haven’t ingested much data that could help reason in this field (or whatever reason)?
why not just iterate in steps of three over items for each next group? seems a bit contrived.
What makes you think that? :P
Opioids don't prevent a virus from multiplying and spreading to other people without their consent either!
In theory I can make bluetooth and wifi and deep-sleep work with Linux, but am I actually able to fix it? No, and not for a lack of trying. If we're talking about practical ability to fix what goes wrong with my daily driver, then macOS still wins hands down.
As you noted, there were important reasons for those changes – they even helpfully summarized them in a dedicated section of https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4861#section-3.1; the checksum benefits are obvious – and none of them were major factors in the rollout delays.

The single biggest factor was that changing the header format broke every decoder in existence, and it took a long time both to get all of that old hardware and software aged out of common use since there wasn’t a legal or financial compulsion to do so. Nobody delayed migration because they liked supporting ARP+ICMP more or critically depended on being able to half-ass the implementation of an obscure time sync protocol - if you don’t update checksums, lots of things will stop your traffic even in an IPv4-only world. The main reason was that everyone had to replace their network infrastructure, review firewall rules, etc. and early adopters were only rewarded with more pain. Given how painful that has been, I sympathize with the people who said we should go to 128-bits because we never want to repeat the process.
It's understandable that management would like to minimize the impact of lower-status employees. One perspective on this is that the end goal of this type of business is to ultimately not need employees and forward all the money to the top. The end goal for many decision makers has always been passive income; what's more passive than bots? And sure they'll make mistakes, but there's an implied promise that they'll be addressed soon and "look how close we are already! We just need a few dozen more billion dollars".

The more conservative perspective is that process compliance is the most important bit of certain organized labor. If there is something wrong with the system, management needs to be able to see that. Say the handbook says to use an x bit in the y socket, but all your coworkers know to, obviously, use the y bit on the y socket. That's fine until a new plant opens with 5 million too many x bits and 5 million too few y bits, and an initial production run of broken product. Generally, under rational management, you will not be punished for doing things the way you are supposed to.
FYI, the author used to be a programming languages theory researcher before changing fields to biomedicine. So I think you’re reading into the field a bit

You last point definitely resonates though
Windows automatically save a restore point before updates are installed and rolling back - assuming the machine isn't bricked - is really simple.
I don't know of any ISP that will give you a public ipv4 address for free.

More interesting is windows 11 auto configuring ipv6. Does you pc have a public ipv6 address starting with 2:: or fe80:: link local address?

Quick ipv6 crash course. Instead of DHCPv4 (there is DHCPv6 but it's optional) being required for address configuations, ipv6 uses somting called Stateless address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC). Normaly your router sends out Router advertizments packets and this tells devices about the default gateway, public prefix, dns etc... and pc will generate a public ip of (64 bit public prefix):(64 bit random number).

It seems like Windows 10 and eariler will not do ipv6 unless your router advertises it.

TL;DR learning ipv6 is easier than disabling it at this point
Maybe, but they're making $600k-$1M+ a year whether or not people are gatekeeping the title "staff".
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Are you sure?

Good Ventures / Open Philanthropy (Dustin Moskovitz) funded GiveWell and OpenAI, and GiveWell's leadership floated to OpenAI, but I'm not convinced that GiveWell funded OpenAI.

https://www.givewell.org/about/gw-op-relationship

They are certainly both entangled with the Effective Altruism community, but GiveWell came from the "humanities/finance" side, not the tech bro technoutopia side.
I didn't do anything nearly as dramatic as four promos in three years (if I'm understanding that levels.fyi chart correctly), but I did a few levels much faster than the average at Google, and much of this rings true.

One thing I think it misses: you gotta play the game. At Google, that's shipping something, having some obviously quantifiable impact, or doing something with a much larger reach than expected for your level. "Playing the game" means seeking out that work, figuring out the narrative, and not working on things that don't help you achieve that end.

Kinda cynical, but if your goal is climbing a corporate ladder, you should understand what that corporation or org actually values and rewards. Note that this may be different than what it says it values.
Yes. Although the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs are interesting, and just might deserve an HN link, the title is editorializing.