skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if i'm already typing, it's too late to interrupt my flow

the preceding minutes trawling logs, filling my head with events, and connecting all the dots is the unstable part i need to keep in my head
I don't think we really know what "me" is yet, to any useful degree. We have no idea what causes our consciousness, or where it "lives" (if anywhere). We don't know if Star Trek-style transporters would actually kill you and create a new you somewhere else. We don't know if it's possible to transmit your consciousness elsewhere, leaving your body behind, a la Altered Carbon.

Sometimes we think of these as philosophical questions, but in many ways they are questions for science that we don't know how to tackle.
This is a great start, clearly world is moving towards this.
Trying to imagine the most charitable interpretation here: Perhaps they're worried about people breaking the charge-port, where standard USB connectors are not rated for the kind of wiggling and jiggling going on.

Especially if some portion of consumers always leave it connected, either out of ignorance or paranoia.

From that perspective, placing it at the bottom is a clever way to ensure that the more-fragile connector is left alone while inserted.
I wonder how does the perf in tokens/second compares to my version of Mistral: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/tree/master/Mistral/Mistral...

BTW, see that section of the readme about quantization: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-f...
How can the paid plans meet the standard described in the parent comment?
Sounds like a course description written to receive grant money.
I'm not from SV, but are you talking about the companies from down there? And if yes, I suppose it includes some of the FAANGs.
I don't really know for sure, 2007 was a weird time. The iPhone launched that year with obvious deficiencies (no apps, no 3G) but managed to evolve into something much better quickly enough that it didn't really matter. The Foleo was really limited, but I'm not sure that would have killed it if they would have gotten subsequent versions right.
This difference this time is that they learned their lesson. Not the lesson of not engaging in corrupt business practices, but not to get caught: there's likely a Signal group chat they use with burner phones. Arguably the best piece of evidence against Jobs mental acuity was the fact that he just openly engaging in a criminal conspiracy using the company's email servers.
The First Message Transmission
I recently fine-tuned the Qwen-Coder-7b-Instuct model to generate Milkdrop presets. Pretty amazing to see what can be done locally.
https://huggingface.co/InferenceIllusionist/MilkDropLM-7b-v0...
It's not that it was written off the cuff, it's that it holds up nearly 20 years later as a measured, ethical response to having his company threatened. And this email wouldn't even be public if it hadn't been evidence in court proceedings
My memory was that it was released and then two weeks cancelled when HP decided to close down Palm and sell off WebOS. I worked for a short time (6 months) working on the tablet setup experience.

And yes, then they were being dumped at fire sell prices of $99/149$ depending up the configuration.
You could have also “known” that bitcoin was a massive bubble and going to zero back when that was a popular sentiment.

It’s not just timing the bubble that is tricky. Sometimes the “obvious” bubble never ends up popping.
How about local hackers? Best work on fixing the attribution so it's even reasonably sure who was foreign.
Thanks, this should be the link for the post, instead of the xitter paywal.
Honestly you’re better off finding a full time remote job at a slower paced company where it’s feasible to work on two things at once.

Part time work isn’t consistent and it pays so little it’s hardly worth it.
Someone is paying to host these, but providing them for free use. You're consuming them for free and attempting to get paid for them.

Intentionally monetizing that which is provided for free. Seems exploitative, to me?
And the ones from another country are allowed to be so underpaid. Offshoring is abusing the exchange rate and the the economy of the lower rate country. Has any country leveled tariffs on labor? India and Columbia should definitely consider it.
I'd like to see this study done with activity trackers on the children to look at
1) changes in exercise
2) actual sleep time results.

Not that I don't believe the results, but I we don't need to do self reported studies anymore, and having someone guess how much sleep they got is notoriously unreliable.

Without the phones, did the children play outside more (exercise), and of course, did they do an activity like read in bed rather than scrolling - thereby removing the late hour dopamine hit.
I am from a total different field but: I've gotten 99% of my contracts through word-of-mouth.

Yes, no brainer. But how to get the first contract?

I exploited myself, my client vastly underpaid but I had my first client.
How does this relate to the previous comment?

Did you reply to the wrong one?
Thats the solution that sprang to my mind.

I don't think its stupid, its just working within the confines of what Apple have provided.

The question is, if everyone jumps on this 'solution' and it becomes an issue, will Apple 'fix' it by slowing down these busy wait threads, or provide an option for devs to do it 'properly'
I don’t blame your company. This world has had it in for me since the day I was born lol
If they are using standard compliant tools like pyenv, venv and pip then uv will play nicely with that. In fact I'm working on a project like that right now. The 'official' guidelines says to use pip and venv, but I'm using uv and no one else notices.

If on the other hand they're using a more optionated tool like poetry then it won't work as well, but that has more to do with poetry doing its own thing and not playing nice with other tools.
However important, this is a niche problem. Most users will not be able use a dumb TV. Everything becomes more clunky for them. Instead of fighting the uphill battle of making legislation, more people should be made aware of the issue and the - not that complicated - ways to counter this.

Pihole, not giving internet (only local network) / and/or only use a trusted device via HDMI to display content.
> If I'm clear on the requirements & everyone else is clear on what I'm delivering.

That's a big 'if', and usually isn't possible without prototyping in my experience. What you're describing seems like something that would be written after a prototype is already done. Presenting a prototype (or iterating on multiple prototypes) is a better way to tease out unknowns than any document.
Not to my satisfaction… which is just as important, or as unimportant, as your satisfaction.

Hence why I asked a followup question in the first place…?
Yeah, that's only a part of the time I consider as 'programming' / 'being in the flow'.
Yep, in simple terms they all became tabloids. They do still hire a few real journalists to keep up appearances, but sensationalism is what sells so that’s what gets the most real estate.
I do think youthfulness can mean better performance, but don't forget that in modern times youth development has been much more optimized than ever before so the youth have advantage of that, getting the best development while the brains are most plastic to improve.
A proof of concept of something that is clearly documented? Did they even read the documentation?
> Result is negative. If you swap the variables, you have to imagine the area is a negative area

And why is that a problem? Just reverse the equation before and after the proof.
I'm a bit confused by the claim that duckdb doesn't support dataframes.

This blog post suggests that it has been supported since 2021 and matches my experience.

https://duckdb.org/2021/05/14/sql-on-pandas.html
Nah, I’d rather continue to let random HN commenters shame me for thinking critically and not taking things at face value.
Your writing style is excellent! So well captured. I didn't realize the stings could scar like that.

I got caught in a blue bottle swarm about 10 years ago off Mark's Park in Bondi, but the marks only lasted a week.
> but then you still have to prove the component-wise formula from it

In an orthogonal basis this is trivial because cos(Pi/2) = 0 though…
To bring things full circle: the cross-entropy loss is the KL divergence. So intuitively, when you're minimizing cross-entropy loss, you're trying to minimize the "divergence" between the true distribution and your model distribution.

This intuition really helped me understand CE loss.
> The universe does not have a finite symbolic description

Why do you believe that? Have you mixed up the universe with Gödel's incompleteness theorems?

Your past light cone is finite in current standard models of cosmology, and according to the best available models of quantum mechanics a finite light cone has a finite representation — in a quantised sense, even, with a maximum number of bits, not just a finite number of real-valued dimensions.

Even if the universe outside your past light cone is infinite, that's unobservable.

> Same is true for the arithmetic performed by neural networks to flash lights on the screen which people interpret as meaningful messages.

This statement is fully compatible with the proposition that an artificial neural network itself is capable of attributing meaning in the same way as a biological neural network.

It does not say anything, one way or the other, about what is needed to make a difference between what can and cannot have (or give) meaning.
I've been on the managing side of part-time employees. We did part time when people were going back for advanced degrees or had other short-term needs away from work, but still wanted to keep their jobs.

Unfortunately it's really hard to have one person working 10-15 hours per week while everyone else is working 40.

You encounter a lot of situations where teams are delaying meetings until the part-time person is available. You have to catch the part-time person up on things that have changed while they were away. If the part-time person doesn't finish an important task before their 10-15 hours is up, someone else might have to take it and restart the task to remove it as a blocker.

It only really works when the part-time person's project is really independent and not time sensitive. Anything that interacts with the rest of the team or the rest of the company comes with additional overhead that might come close to cancelling out the productivity of having one person working 10 hours per week.

There's a lot of wishful thinking about part time work where all hours worked contribute equally to the project, but in the real world having 4 full-time employees and 1 part-time person working 10 hours on a project is basically the same as having just 4 full-time employees working on the same thing. Having only 4 full-time employees might even be more efficient due to the lower communication overhead.

So that leaves independent projects and work that isn't time sensitive.
If you fractionate them, that’s 1700 jobs
[German speaker detected!] "seit" != "since", in this context.

"has been offline for"
You make it sound like doing the right thing caused the downfall of Palm but I don't think there's any evidence of that. Being evil doesn't automatically make your products better.
Yeah, I realize it was part of the game, but I just have such a strong aversion to it that that was the line for me. Even creating a fictional account is too much.
I regret there is not a merciful option like "wait for death in a corner".

Great job! I had fun and got bored to death at the same time.
But in these cases, it is the "clever soul" who's to blame, especially if they cannot be legally restricted from being "clever".

Like I said in another part of this thread: we should not be confounding "freely available" with "free to use without limitation". The various forms of open source licensing are testament to this concept: some things are indeed freely offered; others stipulate that you can't use them to make money without also offering your source code freely, etc. In both cases, the code is offered freely, but in the latter case, you're not legally allowed to use it without limitation.

Public information is often taken down because it can't be limited in such ways, and it relies on an honor system of sorts. Once people stop being honorable, there is no other choice but to take the resource away. The fault there absolutely rests with the individuals that have violated the implicit honor system.
No, definitely not blue bottons, bluebottles have the distinctive "sail" that sits above the water.
Who would it have succeeded as well with? Because they tried hiring a few CEOs, and far from succeeding, they were very nearly bankrupt. After bringing him back, they worked their way to being the most valuable public company. He's one of the clearest examples of the value of a good CEO.
Seems "part time" would be a better name?
I skimmed their "12 minute read" about how it works, and didn't see this information:

* How does Fractional Jobs (the company) get paid? (For example, do they only get paid to list an ad?)

* Is Fractional Jobs involved at all, after initial contact between contractor and client is made? (For example, do FJ charge either parties a finder's fee or contract fee, or take an ongoing cut, or place restrictions on the relationship?)
I feel like there is a strong tendency to average out people’s contributions.

Your comment is on the milder scale, so this is only tangentially a response to you.

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With highly related choices, it can make sense to add & cancel moral choices. Good & bad behavior are like positives & negatives.

But life and incidents are not simple sums. Relations between choices & their outcomes are highly nonlinear. They can have thresholds, be multiplicative, exponential, roots or logarithmic relations.

Choices & their outcomes rarely simply add or cancel.

Jobs was an incredibly prolific innovator whose personal characteristics often translated to important advances in the quality of computing, independent of the general industry’s shared march of compounding quantity/efficiency of computing.

No amount of moral lapses not on that scale cancel any of that.

At the same time, his positive contributions, no matter how large, don’t cancel out his poor behaviors.

Like a polynomial, or more complicated algebraic or calculus expressions, it takes several “numbers” to characterize human being’s contributions.

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The worst cases of overly reductive thinking happen in politics. The prevalence of judging people and peoples’ behaviors as simply net positive or negative, and their opponents as simply the other sign is endemic.

The result creates hard high-contrast divisions in ideologies & loyalties that don’t reflect reality much at all.

But over reduction also appears to be a common reflex when judging innovators.
Ed’s was way too long for the job it needed to do.
I was thinking one server and just for job seekers. Like a support group for people looking for tech jobs.

Maybe there could be channels per role/level, like #backend-senior, #ml-junior. So you could discuss hiring process and get tips from people looking for similar roles.
Tools are great, but there is a way to learn the fundamentals and progress through skills and technology.

Learn to do something manually and then learn the technology.

Do you want engineers who are useless if their calculator breaks or do you want someone who can fall back on pen and paper and get the work done?
LG owner here. I won't connect it to wifi, lan or BT. Once in a while nags me to do it, I might do it eventually, in it's own VLAN and without Internet access.

Here in Portugal all ISP provide a smart box, most of them also have common services like Netflix and so on, no need to any "smart" feature from the TV itself. Completly useless.
Ask HN: Is "Data-Driven Growth" a Myth or Reality?
Every growth playbook preaches ‘data-driven decisions,’ and many successful founders credit being data-driven for their growth.

But how real is it in practice? Does it truly drive growth, or is it harder than it seems to collect, interpret, and act on the right data?

I’m curious—has being data-driven worked for you, or have you seen diminishing returns? I’d love to hear how the Hacker News community approaches this.
You know that you can make any model call and use tools simply by giving it few shot examples and writing your own parsing logic. I’ve done it many times for clients, both at the prompt and at the fine-tune level.
But the Foleo was by all accounts a bad device (when Palm enthusiasts were able to use obtain nearly final release Foleo’s years later, this was vindicated by even the most strident of Palm fanboys). The price was ridiculous ($600 before a $100 introductory rebate) for a thing that also required a $400 or $500 phone to work.

It wasn’t a netbook at all, it was a thin client for an extremely underpowered mobile phone with a very outdated operating system.

Ignoring for a moment that the netbook craze was extremely short-lived and largely a placeholder for what people really wanted (sub $500 laptops), no attempt at any of these sorts of companion devices has ever achieved critical mass and Palm was right to cancel a product that wouldn’t have moved the needle. Why Samsung even bothers maintaining DeX mode is beyond me.

Another smart phone pioneer that struggled and was never able to adequately respond to the iPhone did release their own take on the Foleo. It was called the BlackBerry Playbook and it was an absolutely terrible tablet and a colossal failure.

Canceling Foleo in 2007 was prudent. It is a shame the post-Colligan Palm was never able to find success; webOS had many great ideas. But the Palm Foleo was a product that absolutely did not need to exist.
The article seems to abrupt right after the video that bubbles over half the screen. What an idiotic site.
I could have done with this a while back. Seems much nicer than serverless framework.
Feel free to suggest a more reliable proxy if you don't like this one. What this means is your chance to find a person who knows/has experience with JAX are very low.
If youre a job seeker and would be interested to join a slack, drop a comment here or email me: scott@scottantipa.com
I don't know your labelling scheme. I do know what my measurements are, or what clothes I have already (and to what extent they fit / don't fit). In general, hierarchical classification schemes are unsuitable for an inherently multidimensional / unstructured search task. What if, for example, I'm half-way between two of your "body types"? Do I have to keep switching pages?

If I could, say, look up a particular item of clothing, see the pictures, pick a model and see other clothes that fit that model, that would be superb. Or have that pre-populate the model measurements sliders in a search, which I can then edit. (Really, I'm just trying to describe the features, not the implementation, here.)

It might be my lack of experience, but I have no idea what the "male" body types are supposed to mean. The diagrams do not appear to match the models, and there is overlap between the categories. I don't know how I'd shop for "male" clothes using this system.

Btw, I noticed the "chat with AI" button that doesn't do anything. I think an "AI" could work quite well, if you go old-school with it (behaviour trees implementing an expert system version of the script you work out for your manual consultations) rather than trying to get an expensive, unreliable LLM thing going (as is the modern fad). See "How to get people to say and type what computers can understand" by Elizabeth Zoltan-Ford (https://www.speech.kth.se/~edlund/bielefeld/references/zolta...) and related literature.
I have extensive experience hiring fractional talent at our company over the past 2 years (CMO, CFO, CTO). I’m currently spending $250k/yr on fractionals.

To avoid disappointment 2-3 months into the engagement, my #1 recommendation is to have a very specific and well written statement of work that you mutually agree on so that it’s perfectly clear what your expectations of them are.

When our fractionals didn’t work out, it was always because we had expectations that the fractional wasn’t able to live up to. And in hindsight, simply spelling out the work in a SOW would have avoided the misalignment.

In general, there are a lot of fractionals who don’t like to roll their sleeves up to do real work. IME most fractionals could simply be described as “paid advisors”. For our company, when we’ve had fractionals not work out it was always because the fractional simply didn’t want to do anything other than join meetings and advise.

Again, all solvable by simply having a clear SOW and making sure mutual expectations are clearly communicated.

It’s extremely tempting to just engage a fractional because it’s easy and quick, especially when you’re desperate to get someone in the door. Don’t make that mistake and take your time.
I think the best description I have ever heard of Jobs was given by Bill Burr: "Jesus, Ghandi, John Lennon, ME!". Much like Lennon, he cultivated a whole peace/love/enlightenment image while being a garbage person. Lennon for example, beat the shit out of his first wife, abandoned his first son Julian, and then made sure they got no money from him. Sound familiar? Yeah Jobs did very much the same to his first wife and daughter (well, I am not sure if he physically abused his wife but still..).

I think you can make the argument that what Jobs brought to the table was impeccable taste. He was very good at pushing (some would say abusing) his people to make things that people genuinely loved. I think that design sense is notably absent in today's crop of tech CEO's. Again Burr nails it: "I want my entire album collection in this phone. GET ON IT!!"
I mean, a license to use something for free can still apply to something that is freely given? There's no conflation, since they're just different aspects of the same thing

And no, that's not unfair, that's absolutely within their rights, as the provider of said thing. What's unfair is willfully taking advantage of a free resource in ways that are explicitly against the reasons the provider is providing the thing in the first place. That's just place malice at that point.

After all, a license is just a social contact that can actually be enforced. I would argue the world would be a far better place if people didn't abuse the unenforceable nature of what you're calling "just a social contract".
As somebody having once "shopped for healthcare" in the US: It's pretty high on my list of all-time most frustrating and stressful situations, and that was for a relatively minor dental issue. I can't begin to imagine how it must be for somebody facing a major life-threatening (but not urgent in the emergency room sense) condition.

I'd gladly "overpay" a few (or even many) percent if that's what it takes to get systematic protection from being a pawn in a game of 10d chess between doctors needing to overtreat to recoup their enormous investments, insurers pushing back by possibly declining to pay for what I actually need to get done, and medical administration and billing companies, and industry for the size of which I have yet to hear a compelling economic argument.
Downvoting everyone and everything with no excuse is Reddit-like to a T.
A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc
Related:

Fractional Jobs – The Job Board for Fractional Work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425473
Steve Jobs asking for a no poaching agreement is not just unethical but illegal. His threat about Apple’s greater financial resources is just so petty and low. It really changes my view of him.