skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry that you don't agree that the enforcement of laws is not authoritarianism and you are currently living in a liberal society. The vast majority of people who have lived in liberal societies for ages unfortunately believe that enforcing the laws that are made by either direct democracy or through their democratically elected institutions is good and just and I expect that will continue for a long while. You will unfortunately have to live in such a world where people are not allowed to do crime.
The artist is not consuming them for free. He spent their time and effort creating something. They are not monetizing what is provided for free, but their creation. If someone wants to pay him for his work, what is it to you?

Separately, based on my life experience, this notion of "exploitation" is truly harmful to those who subscribe to it. You'll never outdo your limiting beliefs. You don't have to take my word for it, but I encourage you to explore who was it that instilled that belief in you and what you stand to gain from subscribing to it. I mean this in earnest, as advice from a stranger, for what it's worth. <3
ooo, good idea. I might build that in.
This crap happens all the time between companies.

When I worked at Apple around 1990, Steve who was as we all know was CEO of NeXT at the time was recruiting 6 Apple folks (including me) to help add the internationalization infrastructure to NeXT OS. We were invited to dinner at his Woodside home (the one where the Ducati motorcycle was parked inside at the bottom of the stairs which I can confirm to be true.)

The first thing, after we sat down for dinner, is Steve read us a letter that the Apple Lawyers sent him threatening to sue for poaching employees. He then sat down and we had a wonderful vegetarian meal prepared by his two ex. ahead Panisse chefs.

What was memorable about the meal was that Steve was still very emotionally attached to Apple and most of dinner was him asking us about Apple.

None of us took him up on the Job offer and I letter learn that the Apple lawyers found out about the meeting before hand because one of us (who I’ll kept nameless) alerted them about the meeting.
Steve Jobs immediately got rid of "About boxes" and Easter eggs when he returned to Apple. Probably the right call if you want to promote a brand of professionalism for your company.

But it is a bit more than that. About boxes that indicated the engineers that worked on the software are kind of cute in a way — recalling a time when a couple of programmers could write The Finder.

Credits (and Easter eggs) also speak of a time when engineers, if not driving the boat, were at least given a good deal of leeway to sign their creations.

I feel like there were a cadre of engineers that Jobs tried desperately to keep out of the public eye around the time of iTunes, etc. Worried, I suppose, about poaching.

Presenting at WWDC turned out to be the best way an Apple engineer could pass out their resumé.

When the engineers were essentially muted I think it represented a power shift at Apple toward management, marketing, design.

Good for Apple. It served the company and the brand well. No one can argue with the stock trajectory.

I, on the other hand, miss the cowboy programming days.
> shameless crook

Over a decade after his death, there is plenty of observable, egregious shamelessness and brigandry in the world. Jobs was a successful player in a big, bruising corporate world.

Jobs was ruthless in business and cruel in some personal relationships. But he had skills and talent too. Apple wouldn't exist today without his leadership through a critical juncture. He was also a driving force for usability in products.

Notice how no one seems to promote usability anymore. (We do however pay lip-service to sustainability.)

I never liked the cult of idolatry that developed around the person. Comedian Bill Burr offers the best excoriation of that phenemonon. [0]

"New phone can't fit the old charger? This is your hero?!"

[0] _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s-qZsjK8I
That seems like a problem that should be remedied, not an excuse to behave badly and blame it on lack of enforceability?
Try calling 1-800-666-0000. They might be able to help.
If I may paraphrase “300” with some stylistic embellishments:

- [Fractional], only 17 jobs listed. We thought your commitment would at least match our own. Indeed has 20k+ jobs.

- Indeed opportunity 1, what is your status?

- Unresponsive company.

- And opportunity 2?

- Fake role.

- And you, opportunity 3?

- Underpaying role

- Fractional roles, what is your status?

- Aoo, Aoo, Aoo.

- See, Indeed. We did bring more actual roles to the table.

(Allegedly, but 17 real roles is better than 20k fake or unresponsive ones).
This is a great start. I've been looking for part time work, so I signed up.
Time to stock up on masks, disinfectant, and toilet paper before there are enough cases for the mass panic to set in.
Yeah thanks for a copy/paste of your previous numerous, unrelenting pushing of bitcoin on this site. I'd already seen your comment history lol
when i was in highschool, i used to get up at 5am to do my homework. it was quiet (and i was sharing my room with my brothers) and i was awake. best time of day to get work done.

i think when applying that to your side project, it has the added benefit that you start into the day doing something worthwhile which can be encouraging (no matter how bad it gets at work, i already did something useful today)
> High healthcare spending that was effective would be great!

There's still obvious limits. Imagine everybody spending 80% of their income on healthcare, of which 100% goes to doctors performing effective and required procedures: Society would still collapse, since people do have needs other than healthcare.
> excellent developer experience, easy to debug

There’snt such thing on android. Of course In comparison to dev friendly areas like modern webdev.
Or build the China version that asks you for an SMS confirmation every time you click anything in the phone.
> Shakhova et al. (2008) estimate that not less than 1,400 gigatonnes of carbon is presently locked up as methane and methane hydrates under the Arctic submarine permafrost, and 5–10% of that area is subject to puncturing by open talik. Their paper initially included the line that the "release of up to 50 gigatonnes of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time". A release on this scale would increase the methane content of the planet's atmosphere by a factor of twelve,[72][73] equivalent in greenhouse effect to a doubling in the 2008 level of CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate

(however if you read further down, catastrophic methane clathrate release is apparently tought to be unlikely to happen on short-ish timescales after all)

And then there's livestock...
I don't get your point. Laptops, tablets, and phones are made for that.
I think it would have to be reserved for egregious cases to start with, and perhaps that would be enough to have a chilling effect and scare people away from intentional addiction engineering.

I share concerns about this but I feel like eventually it won’t matter. We are getting so good at addicting each other and it’s getting so ubiquitous that eventually I think there will be a crusade with a lot of collateral damage.

Either that or we will just accept a society with a massive Matrix-like addict slave class. Maybe that’s the outcome.
I'm mostly responding to the middle third of the article that IMO interprets the word "correct" in an academic way that, IMO, is unanchored to how, to a rounding error, software is written:

> "Even simple versions of the approach are intractable in the very precise sense of computational complexity theory if we are concerned about generating code that is correct." (Then 5 paragraphs about that being pspace-complete.)

The notion of correctness used in the article is a verified property. My point is probably less than 1% of the programmers on this site have ever verified their code in that sense, especially since they left a university setting. Instead, most commercial developers write tests based on their domain knowledge as developers and some limited understanding of their company's business domain... if at all. Which LLMs can also do.
Man plans and executives laugh
Thanks - the comments are worth reading too
I don't eat meat and don't drive cars. How about you?
Thanks for sharing. Any thoughts on hiring a fractional CTO? I’m a barely-technical founder, working w/ no code/low code tools like Airtable, Copilot for my product and services but want to outsource work and move towards more technical product but have been striking out trying to hire more technical people than I am directly and don’t want a cofounder. Where to find a fractional CTO, how to go about it, etc. thanks
pi and e aren't names; they're values. Of course you can't swap values.
I think data analytics can work, but most tools and workflows today are just… not good enough. The dashboards look great, but they often give surface-level metrics with no real insights.

The problem isn’t being ‘data-driven’—it’s the gap between collecting data and making it actionable. Most platforms focus on showing numbers, not answering questions like why something happened or what to do next.
> you'd be an idiot to not have a pile of BTC right now

I do agree with your overall take that there is a recent trend towards de-democratization of investment opportunities. The invention of the stock market was a huge deal because it massively moved the needle towards democratization.

BTC ain't it, however. Good luck proving the hypothesis that BTC is not tulips.

Personally, I see two major outcome sets. Either Russia "conquers the planet" or it doesn't. If it does, BTC is no longer any use to Russian-aligned oligarchs to bypass sanctions. If it doesn't, the West will eventually wisen up and hamper BTC transactions to the point that the alternatives win out.

Those are two likely crashpoints. There are 10000 possible others. Musical chairs always ends, it's just a matter of when.
thanks for this explanation.
fp-ts is not specifically concerned with concurrency, but does run async computations concurrently (in parallel) by default where possible, but you can opt out from it by using seq (sequntial versions) of functions
I know you've mentioned Slack multiple times, but please for the love of all things holy don't use a closed system that deletes messages and isn't easily discoverable via search engines. Zulip has built-in support for a providing SEO renders of the messages and I'd imagine one could easily self-host it in Oracle Cloud's free tier, or apply through their sponsorship program https://zulip.com/plans/#cloud-sponsorships

https://zulip.com/help/public-access-option and https://zulip.com/help/moderating-open-organizations are relevant
I like where your head is at but if you keep it to yourself then you can't get feedback on it.

I once did the draft with ncurses as a hedge against it becoming the real thing. It didn't go over especially well but it was fun.
It is the default for me. A smartphone is a versatile but inferior device in terms of UX.
Show HN: Built a Simple AI Code Reviewer in 3 Hours
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I spent a couple of hours this afternoon building a basic AI-powered code reviewer using Replit. Based on your custom instructions, it reviews code on existing pull requests and can even comment in your name.

It’s still pretty simple, but it works! I’m honestly surprised at how quickly I got it up and running (took around 2-3 hours). Thought it’d be fun to share here in case anyone’s interested or has ideas for improvement.

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Here’s the link if you want to check it out:

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The reason this is the case is that in most cases, simply knowing the direction of some news event is not enough to predict the reaction in a stock. If only it was so simple, linear and one dimensional.

Generally the reaction of a stock has about a dozen inputs ranging from other market participants expectations, macro/rates, broader market, politics, etc.

On other participants expectations alone..

You might see a news story like "Apple ships record number of iPads" and go wow great, I should have bought Apple yesterday. But you don't know what other participants expected in terms of number of iPads shipped.

Further, you don't know what metric of Apples earnings report that other participants were tracking most closely. What if it was gross margin on iPads sold, and while the units sold went up.. it was all in a newer lower end priced model that dragged down overall margin in the segment?

Further what other news did you miss - what if in some parallel dimension of this game, there was a news story on page 5 about MSFT/GOOG shipping a truly competent iPad competitor.

Or what if what other investors respond to is some aside comment made on the earnings call regarding an expected slowdown in services revenue?
Yeah, these are definitely valid points. But is it so bad that you don’t hire someone great who comes along and only wants part time when you’ve got no other decent candidates in the pipeline?

The challenges you mention are real, but many companies will still be tempted even if they have to make an effort to carve out specific tasks that are a good fit.
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I think right on calling me out on that statement as it was likely a bit to broad. One differentiation that probably has to be made is whether you work as an employee or go self-employed/own your own small business, where you can earn significantly more.

Also my first thought was more towards craftsmen like electricians, plumbers or basically anyone working within the field of renewable energies/heating (espeically heat pumps)/insulating older houses. And at least those are in such high demand where i am at that they can demand high prices.
This one, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22I7yJiOu0s
Remixes or covers? I can find the latter but not the former.
The biggest issue that I’ve had with design docs, is that nobody reads them; even if required by their employer.

The biggest issue that I’ve had with prototyping, is that people consider it “ship” code, and force me to use it as final code.

I find that I’m best served with a hybrid approach, where I spend a lot of time planning and documenting, but basically, for myself, then writing ship-Quality prototype code, so that using it in the end product is OK.
I think the crux is here (from their explanation post):

> extract the most valuable 10 hours/week ...

> ... don’t pay payroll taxes, don’t pay bonuses, and don’t need to offer benefits

How they define a "fractional" is almost 1:1 the definition of false self-employment, which is illegal in many parts of Europe, as it fulfils all criteria of normal employment without any of the security for the employee and circumvention of paying for social safety.
Maybe they mean the other way around aka querying duckdb using dataframe queries instead of sql, which can be achieved through the ibis project
I'm building something similar, but to find remote contact jobs instead of fractional work:

https://wonderful.dev
A decade or so later I worked at Intuit where Intuit, Adobe, Apple, Google, Pixar (and one or two other companies that escape me) had an anti-poaching agreement not to approach anyone for a job (if they however we approached by someone they would consider them.) All the companies were later fined (I think it was a court case) and employees between certain years at those companies who were looking for jobs got a significant settlement.

I missed the date of qualifying for the settlement by one year but I know for a fact that this was indeed true because as a hiring manager at Intuit HR more than one time told me I could not cold call people at these companies to recruit.
I can offer my experience with respect to your two questions, though my use case is likely atypical.

1) I haven't personally run into upper size limits to the point of non linear performance degradation. However, some caveats to that are (a) most my files are in the range of 2-10gb with a few topping out near 100gb. (b) I am running a single r6gd metal as the primary interface with this which has 512 gb of ram. So, essentially, any one of my files can fit into ram.

Even given that setup, I will mention that I find myself hand tuning queries a lot more than I was with Spark. Since duckdb is meant to be more lightweight the query optimization engine is less robust.

2) I can't speak too much towards this use case. I haven't had any occasion to query across duckdb files. However, I experimented on top of delta lake between duckdb and polars and never really found a true performance case for polars in my (again atypical use case) set of test. But definitely worth doing your own benchmarking on your specific use case :)
This just rose to the top of HN today :)

https://www.fractionaljobs.io/
I think the point is that being evil (especially in illegal ways) should be discouraged by society _regardless_ of whether it's successful. The issue isn't that this specific good guy lost, it's that the bad guy faced no repercussions. If this good guy still wouldn't have won, there still could have been a different good guy to come along.
I use a Sensirion CO2 sensor for automatic home ventilation. It works well, because ventilation is more about the relative levels of CO2 and rate of change. I'm not sure the exact value as reported by the sensor is very accurate.

TVOC sensors are indeed useless. They measure so much noise that you can't use the data for anything.
You and several of your siblings here are missing the point - this is not about resisting or obfuscating image content or subject or fooling an AI classifier, etc.

This imagemagick command is an attempt to remove digital forensic clues that would tie, for instance, an image posted by one pseudonym to an image posted by another pseudonym.

At what confidence level can a raw HEIC from my iphone be tied to the jpeg that results from this cropping, resizing, noise and attenuation ?

At what confidence level can one such transformed jpeg be tied to another such transformed jpeg ? (assuming that you scramble the values for (quality/shave/resize/attenuate) ...)

This is tangential to the OP and the discussion - forgive me - but I think it's an interesting tangent.
> It is a default belief that most of us have. The more I learn, the less I think it is true.

Sure, that's totally reasonable! It all depends on context - I think I'm safe to assume another human is more similar to me than an ant, but that doesn't mean all humans are roughly equivalent in experience. Even more important, then, that we can't assume a machine or an algorithm has developed similar experiences to us simply because they seem to act similarly on the surface.

I'm on the opposite side of the fence as you, I don't think or suspect that any LLMs or ML in general have developed self-awareness. That comes with the same big caveat that its just what I suspect though, and could be totally wrong.
I had to do this for a patent application, and likewise found it very useful for identifying holes in my thought process or simply forcing myself to do the functional design work up-front and completely.

It was also great for brainstorming about every feature and functional aspect you can imagine for your product, and making an effort to accommodate it in your design even if it's not MVP material.
I'm a little disappointed at the focus here on how it's hard or impossible to visualize when b<a or when either a or b is negative.

That's not the point. To me, it's useful to already know that an algebraic proof of that equation exists, but to see it work out visually. I don't need to see it worked out visually for every single possible value for this to be helpful for understanding.

It also nicely illustrates how algebra and geometry are linked. And that multiplication is geometrically taking you from 1 dimension to 2.
(I'm not Ryan, but) "casual" and "formal" are in the eye of the beholder. If you're planning to add categories for everything, I'm not sure that this tool will be the "future of online fashion". (If you want a purely categories-based system, and want to make the best categories-based system you can, then more power to you: but you'll have to ignore feedback from people like me, because I'm not your target audience.)
I prefer using “cross-end” in my code comments.
The Bay Area still has the highest cost of living in the U.S.
What we know about the mysterious drones reported over the East Coast
My company often hires for part time workers. It's like multiplexing, there is a market for squeezing out some efficiency.
The kids were wearing smart watches for the study. Source: The TV show, Episode 1, about 9 minutes in.
DiceDB is now open source
Considering the exponential increases in invention and adoption of new technologies for the past 200 years, I'm not sure that timeline is very close to what I'd expect from a new technology in this era.

I'd argue that we've already passed peak LLM as I think, after been having burned by it a few times, it's usage as a professional or reliable technology has seceded, rather than accelerated, over the past 6 months. Gone are the days of doom sayers talking about AGI taking over the world and LLMs replacing every single job at the call center and in software teams. Now everyone's scaled back to the things you can actually let it do, which is assist with a lot of coddling/verifying.
Indicators (blinkers) have to emit amber light to be road legal. I find the flashing red lights very difficult to see when driving in the US
"The Message" by Asimov
It seems to have been prompted to seek out interesting, easily overlooked ("subtle!") details, but actually still misses them even if some are present.

I tried this picture [1] of a model nativity scene, which caused it to go on and on about the dryness of the moss and the indications of wear on the (fake) stable while completely overlooking that the scene had no Jesus.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/x7D1GC7
tl;dr: They switched from the fauxpen source BUSL to the truly FOSS AGPLv3.
It may seem trivial, but to use that to prove the component-wise formula for general vectors you're assuming distributivity of the dot product over addition of one of its arguments. But if you're starting with the x.y = |x| |y| cos θ definition, how do you prove that (without first going via the component wise definition that you're still in the process of proving)? You end up needing trigonometric angle formulae that are at least as hard to prove as Pythagoras's theorem.

Sorry, but you can't bypass proving Pythagoras's theorem by definition of the dot product or anything else.
It might not have been fully BS; as the parent commenter mentions, having a paper trail might have been an intentional strategy to try to discourage Jobs from going forward with it.
Well, introducing them to the LLM before the world requires correct answers of them may be their most prolific years with the technology.
I noticed that Stewart Brand recommended this piece (https://x.com/stewartbrand/status/1868407292418498605), so I've replaced the baity title with the neutral subtitle and re-upped it.

If you're going to comment in this thread, please make sure you're posting thoughtfully, i.e. reflectively* and not reacting reflexively to one of the obvious triggers here. That's how the article is written (not counting the title), so please respond in kind and sail around the obvious icebergs.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...