skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Value creation" is not the same as the monopolistic paradigm of a winner-take-all 100m race. Hyperscaling is a system where potentially profitable businesses are destroyed because they weren't profitable ENOUGH for some singular VC investor class.

I agree with you that profitable businesses add value to everyone's lives, but there's a maximalist limit to the relationship where they start extracting value and opportunity overall.
Funny though, this term is spread by the media. That’s how it becomes commonplace.

Now the media is telling us we should stop using a term they popularized, by continuing to use the term in their headlines.

Maybe if they just no longer used it, the problem would self-correct itself and we wouldn’t need to chastise ordinary people for using common language.
> You're completely right. It's a squatter and he wants money. The project is not dead, however. It's currently used for research at University of Oslo

If someone bought the domain and is re-using the same assets to put advertisements up then the author of includeos would have some real teeth in courts...
It’s not a marketplace (yet), so you’ll share your product page yourself. It’s built for quick publishing, ideal if you already have an audience.
Sometimes the priority appears to be hitting all of the latest buzzwords. Customers and long term revenue may not be as important as dumping on retail with an IPO or tokens. The promise of "hyperscale" performance becomes more valuable than tangibles. Which is the same as saying, demonstrating tangible performance is undesirable, if it detracts from the narrative of "hyperscale".
Imagine simping for a spook agency while calling yourself a journalist.
I think it’s a bit of that coupled with:

* Not liking the idea of paying for office space that sits mostly empty.

* Even if they wanted to unload their commercial real estate and go fully remote, the market for that is not good.

* Local governments pressuring companies to bring employees back to offices because those employees in turn buy goods and services in the area.
Talent is expensive and the job of mgmt is to keep costs down
I still haven't seen a convincing drone video.

The last one I saw was someone on Facebook posting what is clearly a video of an airplane coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International, which is all of three miles away from us.
> To me, it seems exactly like the point of view that someone who wins the 100m would have.

That's just your own assumption. Who cares what any of us imagines anyone else thinks? It's not really relevant.
From the article

> He soon became concerned VinFast was cutting corners with safety, keeping costs down by employing a small team of inexperienced engineers.

> His concerns grew when he heard three of his predecessors had quit after short spells on the project.

This to me sounds like the boss issued a task that was impossible to do safely and fired anyone who splashed reality into the mix.
Doesn't this thinking also lead to the eventual enshittification of their product? Hyperscalar growth will eventually stop. At that point to justify your valuation you need to start screwing over customers
It also is just as PC as the rest of them I thought it was supposed to be able to be racist as its big differentiator that fans were excited about
Thank you for explaining what an abstract is... The fact that those number come from a citation doesn't make them true.
This is a badly written paper that a decent researcher wouldn't have written (and I know that the author has many papers, I am speaking about this one) and a decent reviewer would have rejected. A paragraph about Elon Musk? Guesstimates on information rates?
As a blog post would have been okay-ish, as a scientific paper is quite bad.
Really the main problem is trust and credibility, or lack thereof. Which necissitates all of these adaptations.

There’s a famous story of Warren Buffet buying Nebraska Furnitur Mart with no paperwork whatsoever, just some verbal assurances, a handshake, and a TV interview with the esteemed owner.
Exactly. English text is thought to have about 10 bits per word of information content, yet you can read much more quickly than 1 word per second. That includes not just ingesting the word, but also comprehending the meaning the author is conveying and your own reflections on those words.
It would be interesting to see the numbers. I know for my wife and I, most shopping is done at home on phone or tablet and connected to our home wifi. And even shopping away from home is generally in the same county, so taxes are the same (or close enough for an up-front estimate).
In all fairness, Vultr was the first hosting company to offering fractional GPUs - and they gained a lot of traction with indie developers as a result of it.

Not sure if this was their first GPU offering, but they have been doing it for 2.5+ years (at minimum)

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220524005336/en/Int...
Another decision that affects the workers, made by people who don't have the workers' best interests in mind.

I assume anyone who tries to fight over this will be harassed, and attempts to organize against it will be frowned on and, often, actively sabotaged.

Other posters may very well be correct in assuming this harassment through policy _is_ intentional and meant to make employees leave 'voluntarily' rather than doing a layoff.
> Just for playing any sport the accuracy to instruct 100s of muscles to work in a certain way is certainly above that 10bits

But significant portions of that process are not done by the conscious brain, and some aren't done by the brain at all (reflex and peripheral nervous system). We don't consciously think about each of the 100 muscles we're switching on and off at rapid speed.
Great idea and it works, I am already discouraged and inspired by the results.
Did you create this to get inspiration of what you can do that sounds good and has no competition? Be aware, no competition is not always a good sign.
My main takeaways from this are:

— wow there sure are a lot of subleties in iOS animations and interactions that seem very _very_ hard to replicate

— why is my brain _so good_ and noticing those little things?! I shouldn't be able to notice that the battery indicator is too thick; that the squircles are not continnous, or that the curves on all animations are just ever so slightly off.
The passive suggestion is basically exactly what I had in my brief imagination. Would have somewhat obvious points of failure that you would have to fortify in somewhat obvious ways. Much like any fence technology on land.

But this discussion is largely silly; as you are arguing against it as being some sort of perfect proposal. I thought it was quite clear I don't even really mean it as a serious proposal. Just as one that goes against "first principals" being some sort of golden blessing that is bound to get good results.
I believe it, modern society has killed the artisans crafts. No one can make the old style ornament now.
In practice, it is even less. Current state-of-the-art algorithms compress the English Wikipedia using just 0.8 bits per character: https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
Is Trump getting the daily intelligence briefings? Last I heard, he has not gone through the normal transition process. So he might not be getting the information that a normal president-elect would be getting.
We could use one of those where I live. There was a furniture store off the side of the highway that over a period of like 4 years had at least 12 of them, and then would just change it's name each time.

Never bought anything from there since it seemed so incredibly sketchy. Then at last it went out of business properly and a U-Haul took over the space.
I once worked with a guy that thought all working code was good code. I literally showed him a massively improved refactored version and he basically just shrugged. Once he left our velocity went way up
> In place of "pig butchering," Interpol proposes the term "romance baiting" – evidently satisfied that a fishing metaphor involving lures, bait, and hooks makes self-esteem more sustainable for victims.

Let me make a prediction for a title of a future news article from The Register somewhere in the late 2025: "Interpol wants everyone to stop saying 'romance baiting'".
You realize that have of the features you are counting are now in Go while missing in the beginning exactly because people were missing them and Go simply did not offer a sane way to work around the missing features?

I'm also quite sure that Go will provide a more sane way to handle errors in the not so far future, since it's continuously at the top of people's complaints
Did you...actually read what they wrote there?

The (hypothetical) airfare was listed as "free", but it was impossible to end up paying less than $1200 for it.

The point being that even if you have a choice between several fees (making none of them "mandatory" by a narrow reading), you're still paying something beyond the advertised base price.

The logical good-faith rule in a case like this would be that you must advertise at least the minimum price anyone would end up paying based on the available "fee choices".
But how is your manager going to get the immense health benefits he gets from constantly making your life hell?

Be considerate of his feelings, you selfish child.
The examples on that page are way cleaner and easier to read than the scroll inscription. The letters in the scroll are not written consistently, and even the size of the letters changes dramatically as the inscription goes on.
You're adjusting for inflation twice. The numbers I gave in my comment, and in the chart I linked, are after inflation adjustment.

Here's the equivalent chart without inflation adjustment, which gives the (incorrect) impression of sharply rising incomes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N
Man, the media himself, huh? That guy has to keep his story straight.
What you're describing here is software, not hardware—Cognitive Science is the relevant field, not Neuroscience.

That said, your understanding is largely supported by our current understanding of consciousness, attention, and perception. The attention mechanism doesn't handle parallel processing well—but can operate "multi-threaded", where it juggles several foci at once (with some obvious cost to switching between them). But I think its a mistake to assume that decision making has to be done within this attention context. While we may only be aware of a single thread at any given time, the brain is doing a lot of parallel processing. We can only focus our attention on a single cognitive task, but that doesn't mean we're not actively performing many others.
>In place of "pig butchering," Interpol proposes the term "romance baiting"

But these are different things. They are strategies for separate components of a scam. Romance is one method of luring the mark, obtaining their trust, motivating them to pay, etc. Pig butchering is one game plan for maximising the profit extracted from the scam.

You can have a romance scam without pig butchering, and you can have a scam that employs pig butchering without any romantic element.
>> Data Liberation: Export your personal data from platforms like YouTube, GitHub, Notion, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Is there a complete list of supported platforms somewhere? Thanks.
Yeah Amazon has to some extent had a reputation for working people to the bone but as far as I can tell it hasn’t hurt them.

I wouldn’t want to work that way but if it is as competitive to work there as they say …. I’m probably not qualified.
Mixing code, markdown and execution results in one output file gives Jupyter notebooks superpower. You can really have anything in the ipynb file, stored in JSON. I wish there was two types of ipynb files, one for file with just code and markdown (for example ipynbc), and one for keeping code+markdown+results.

BTW, sometime ago I wrote an article about surprising things that you can build with Jupyter notebook https://mljar.com/blog/how-to-use-jupyter-notebook/ You will find in the list: blog, book, website, web app, dashboards, REST API, even full packages :)
"This perfume was worth an entire year's wages. Why wasn't it sold and the money given to the poor?"

Sacred art exists to honor the Lord. We ourselves may remain poor and humble in the middle of all this beauty :-)
I wonder how an industry wide blacklist complies with GDPR right to be forgotten.

Oh wait, it doesn't, but because it's not a tech company it gets a free pass.
WSJ is also blocking my request to view the page. Why they need a shitty request blocker for a web article - server side rendering only the first paragraph, I don't know.
Our metric shows that AIs productivity improved 20% compare to workers ever since return to office. The conclusion is inescapable, AI likes it when developers cluster together in glass towers and improves.
The difference is the customer for some of those companies demands cutting edge tech and is willing to pay handsomely for it. Because if they don't have the best, the adversary will and that is unacceptable.
Oooo, link to a photo, please!
It is. I just so happen to live in a state with very little workers rights.
Panics can be values and errors don't have to be values in go?

I think you are missing up concepts here
Didn't say that. Didn't say anything close to that. Not to mention you can be trustworthy and still do something for self-serving purposes.
A big ass ham sandwich too.
Do you have a way to try this for free? I keep trying to upload smaller and smaller files. Also, take a look at https://transcriberai.com.
It’s always funny to see which mental patients jump on the latest mass hysteria.

Amazon is selling 1000’s, if not 10,000, drones EVERY SINGLE DAY!
All of its senior executive leadership is still British

Obviously not true.

One of them is German.
Aside from silly "sales-tax-holidays" I've never heard of the sales tax rates changing so frequently. I'm curious to know where this is happening "multiple times per year". Here in MA it's been the same rate for 15 years.
And for the sales-tax-holiday situation can't a shop just say something like "everything will have x% taken off at the register" just like they would during a typical "10% off all items" type of sale?
Show HN: I built a tool for mobile and computer use using local and remote LLMs
Created a tool that lets you use LLMs to automate task across mobile (android) and computer. Currently, this uses screenshots and LLMs support for extracting screen UI elements effectively. This is still a work in progress and attempting to make this work with local models via Ollama (the code is in place with some issues). As of now, Gemini and GPT 4o works the best for finding UI elements and planning the task.

Some examples that work as of now:

1. Use gmail and ask <friend>@example.com for lunch next saturday

2. Start a 3+2 chess game on lichess

Working demos: https://github.com/BandarLabs/clickclickclick

This improves the cost of one automation task from approx. $0.6 via Claude to:

$0.06 - OpenAI 4o mini as planner + free Gemini flash 1.5 (15 calls/min)

The Llama vision models will eventually make it 0.
> if enough people leave, you might not even have to do layoffs.

Signaling to stock holders that you're doing layoffs is the most important part of layoffs.

If done in secrecy it's almost useless.
This doesn't account for shrinkage in the pool
Viral marketing for Anduril's drone-seeking drone(s)? Whip up hysteria and sell a "solution"?

(So far it seems the beneficiary isn't Anduril but Robin Radar:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/know-special-drone-dete... )
> Creating stuff from scratch is not a fun experience

I'd have to say that I completely disagree here - it's one of the things I get most fun out of, even at work.
5 years back I helped freeCodeCamp.org in creating their public-key cryptography curriculum: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/CurriculumExpansion/pull/184.

That curriculum never went live on the freeCodeCamp platform. So I recently built a free, open-source course on cryptography designed completely for developers: https://cryptography-for-devs.github.io

The course builds up intuition step by step.

First we cover the fundamentals. Going from symmetric encryption -> password hashing -> rainbow tables, salt -> PBKDF2.

Then the second module, the more exciting one, we go from: Diffie Hellman key exchange -> RSA -> TLS.

The material is filled with stuff I always wanted to know about like Chain of Trust, how SSH authentication with GitHub works, TLS handshake.
Started about 2 weeks ago.
I'm not saying use kverr for explicit error handling (like, you could, but that is non ideal), use kverr as a context bag of data you want to capture in a log. If you programmatically are routing with untyped string data, I agree, unreliable
Arctic Embed 2.0 interview with Authors
The Arctic Embedding model series from Snowflake has been one of the most impactful open-source text embedding models! In addition to the open model, which has helped a lot of companies kick off their own inference and fine-tuning services (including us at Weaviate), the Snowflake team has also published incredible research breaking down all the components of how to train these models!

I am SUPER EXCITED to share the 110th Weaviate Podcast interviewing Arctic Embed co-authors Luke Merrick and Puxuan Yu -- further joined by Charles Pierse from Weaviate, discussing all things Arctic Embed!

The podcast covers the origin of Arctic Embed, pre-training embedding models, Matryoshka Representation Learning, fine-tuning embedding models, synthetic query generation, hard negative mining, and lastly a topic I personally find very interesting: Perspectives on single-vector embedding models compared to ColBERT, SPLADE, or Re-rankers.

I hope you enjoy the podcast!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjqv4uk3RCs

Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/weaviate/episodes/Arctic-Embed-with-Luke-Merrick--Puxuan-Yu--and-Charles-Pierse---Weaviate-Podcast-110-e2sg168/a-abmi4qd
the unspoken reasoning for these back-to-work efforts is to stave off a western financial collapse in commercial real estate. https://hbr.org/2024/07/u-s-commercial-real-estate-is-headed...

after COVID the number of companies that either did not renew commercial leases or defaulted on existing leases jumped significantly. banks saw this and quietly extended commercial leases and relaxed payment dates and penalties to stave off a crisis in 2023. Joe Biden even injected ten billion dollars in assistance to commercial real estate and publicly demanded all federal workers "return to office." the government owns its real estate by and large, so this was largely an expression of solidarity with the landed gentry.

moving into 2025...it does not appear to be working. Many corporations are not falling in line to prevent the collapse and instead are seeking short-term gains as they realize massive savings by ditching commercial landlords. productivity and worker satisfaction is also improved. even climate change is impacted positively by work from home efforts.

unpopular take: It is (financially) critically important that all workers return to the office. a crash in the commercial real estate sector would cause solvency problems for large cities dependent on cashflow from office workers. the auto sector (repair and sales) would also take a massive hit at a time when Stellantis is facing down a potential bankruptcy. the locus for most states in terms of homeless outreach and drug treatment is their city, which would receive serious cutbacks at a time when the opioid and fentanyl crises are still of great concern.

barring some sort of major shift in policy (which wont happen) at the federal level, the US economy was not prepared to move to a work-from-home model.
Sounds like they failed to perform a threat analysis. And that applies to both sides. The buyer thinks that the bunker will protect them no matter what, and the journalist takes the opposite and equally wrong position that the bunkers are virtually useless. As you correctly point out, they are useful in some situations, and for some people who can afford it they are worth the cost.
I know that RTO is offensive to many, and not mildly so... but if they were trying to force people to quit of their own accord, wouldn't we also see an escalation of tactics beyond RTO? If it's a good strategy, why stop there?
The hidden fees is what turned me off from AirBnb...

Because it would display the nightly rate as $X.

But then at checkout, it would add in "house cleaning fees" etc (which I don't dispute is a fair fee to include) but it at times can grossly misrepresent what your true nightly cost is when searching.

Maybe this will be a step in the direction like Telco's have had to do with creating simplified & standardized "nutrition labels" for pricing.
Twelve Byzantine Rulers https://12byzantinerulers.com/
No no no. I am -not- pinning this on "education". Note: a divergence between the world views (in a comprehensive sense) between elites and those who cater to their cultural consumption and the rest.
It’s all about economics. Just apply the formula: https://youtu.be/SiB8GVMNJkE

(May not be SFW depending on where you work)
yes agree and .. there are branches of Christianity across the world that did not lose the connection to warfare. There are plenty of people who fight fiercely (in real life) that espouse Christ deeply.. a current Japan martial arts cage fighting champion from Brazil dedicated his whole victory speech to Christ recently, for example.
It wasn't even a good name, "fattening" isn't a good metaphor for "cultivating a relationship with the victim". The name made me assume that the scam involved helping the victim earn more money, to steal it all eventually.
You're forgetting:

The people calling the shots might also be investors in the real estate market, so have an incentive for it to not crash. :)
This is one of those articles you need to read: the headline and summary line are misleading.

> Other types of dementia didn't show the same relationship as Alzheimer's disease. And other transportation-related jobs that didn't require as much real-time spatial and navigational processing didn't have the same results as taxi or ambulance drivers. Bus drivers, for example, ranked 263rd.

The hypothesis of the paper is that a larger hippocampus may contribute to lower rates of Alzheimer’s, inviting more investigation. The study authors admit there’s not a ton that can be concluded with certainty.
Agree, you tap into the rigidness of a semantic color and type hierarchy, while allowing utility classes for specifics of a platform/environment.
This type of comment is my least favorite on HN. "Seems quite trivial," "non-sequitur to compare them," "foolish." I am not able to read the paper as I do not have access, but the published perspective has 131 citations which seem to consider everything from task-specific human abilities, to cortical processing speeds, to perception and limb movements and eye movements, and so on.

I'm glad you thought about it too, but to assume that the authors are just silly and don't understand the problem space is really not a good contribution to conversation.
Thematically related recent piece about how Machiavelli and Du Bois had a similar perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127895

Also, early this year I read Pigliucci's How to Be a Stoic. In that book the author often references that he had "conversations" with his "friend" Epictetus.

All this to say: there might be something to this practice of befriending the dead.
MS Teams is designed to create siloed teams and organizations. It discourages public chat and collaboration. It encourages private group chats.
Java DataFrame library 1.0 GA release
Does this come with the page/code to store, or is there a good way of doing this? I looked a while back for properly archiving pages and their code but things were all in the works, maybe that's more solved now.

This kind of thing seems like a truly outstanding resource, and I'm happy to pay for it, with the desire to have this for when my kids get older.
Anyone up for starting a wolf hunting club?