skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the discrimination rant

even candidates that might fit a poorly implemented affirmative action program are likely getting auto-rejected

nobody knows if its helpful to mention their race or disability, or whether its hurtful
I spent so much time as a kid in front of a payphone dialing 1-800-XXX-9999 numbers. That and wardialing (NPA) XXX-9999 numbers in my area code.
Discussion (29 points, 22 days ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249474
Twitter announcement: https://x.com/zhou_xian_/status/1869511650782658846

GitHub: https://github.com/Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis

academic project page: https://genesis-embodied-ai.github.io
MCP Server Ecosystem Update (Dec 19, 2024 – New Integrations and Tools)
Exciting developments in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem! Nine new repositories have been added, significantly expanding AI integration capabilities.

Key additions include:

GitHub Integration
- mcp-github-pera1: Connect GitHub repos to Claude.ai
- Query codebases for implementation details
- Enhanced code analysis capabilities

Content Management
- contentful-mcp: Full Contentful API integration
- airtable-mcp: Comprehensive Airtable management
- CRUD operations for entries and assets

Media & Research Tools
- mcp-youtube: YouTube subtitle analysis via Claude.ai
- mcp-simple-arxiv: Direct arXiv paper access
- Advanced content summarization

Infrastructure & Integration
- fetch-mcp: Versatile HTTP content retrieval
- mcp-memex: Web content analysis and knowledge base
- MCP-Bridge: OpenAI-compatible endpoint integration

Productivity Tools
- mcp-gmail-gas: Gmail integration with Claude Desktop
- Email search and management capabilities
Complete speculation but could be that Apple supports these operators on their GPUs and they need end-user models optimized to use them. Apple makes their money on consumer devices and need them to be performant for inference on the edge. Getting NVIDIA to integrate the operators may result in more models optimized for operators Apple's devices can leverage to stay ahead of other edge GPUs.
>Faulty logic - it can be bad for specific individuals while being a net good for society at large.

How is every person living in fear that they can be identified, stalked, subjected to abuse or even killed just because some rando doesn't like what they said on some internet forum a "net good for society at large"?

Please do explain.

As for my "rebuttal" being weak, I merely called for GP to have the courage of their convictions. And since (based on their participation in this discussions) they apparently have neither, I thought I'd point that up.

Don't like my writing style? Note my username and feel free to ignore me.
The shape of the modern church frustrates me to no end.

I consider myself a believer, but every time I look at a Christian organization I find their foundational document to be "The Book of Common Prayer" or some other 16th century nonsense.

Do we really need to have each member give 10% of their income so we can pay one guy upwards of six figures to give a 30-minute motivational speech once a week? That was probably useful when he was the only person that knew how to read, but today I find that the kind of person who takes that job is completely detached from the lives of ordinary people who go to work for a living.

The attitude many believers treat non-believers with is also appalling. The baseline I've seen is "you should be friends with non-believers because you can convert them". The worst I've seen is borderline xenophobia and encouraging to only consume media from approved christian-aligned sources. My younger sister attended a christian high school, and the student that spoke at her graduation gave a speech I can only describe as "we must retake the culture from our enemies, deus vult". I was appalled, but many of the adults in attendance ate it up. I don't remember Jesus warning people about enemies. I do remember him warning people about being curt towards their neighbors. Do modern christians not know what a Samaritan means?

The alignment of politics with evangelicalism has been awful, and I'm not looking forward to where it will lead.
I’ve read numerous anecdotal accounts that espouse this. Not discounting yours at all, as the precise mechanism of action of modafinil is not well understood despite decades of human testing [0][1]. From my limited understanding, it increases histamine, the effect opposite of anti-histamines like diphenhydramine.

[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15991923/
[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22640618/

Anecdotally, despite being a very subtle effect, in my specific set of circumstances, modafinil has been life changing.
Sorry, I never got a notification of your response but, Bingo! It's the same idea! We actually do restaurants as well! I'm using OSM at the moment, so you can technically rate and review any feature that exists on OSM.
Here's an example that bypasses Kasada on the Hyatt website: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/exa...
Honestly, if it works, why not send the letter first and not waste an hour on the phone?
I've found var preferable when reading code.

I've wrought my hands over this and eventually came to the conclusion that developers in every language that started with local type inference have embraced it. So I've mostly ignored my concerns and gone with "var for everything".

If you have trouble with a type then rename the function or variable (AKA your "foo" and "bar" example. The names are bad, fix them. Context matters, we have none here. No one has an editor that displays a single line of code at a time.). But in general we haven't had issues on our projects.

Beyond that, my IDE (Intellij) makes it easy to uncover the inferred type if I really need to be 100.00% sure what it is. In general I don't, because in general I don't care, and even before 'var' I was generally ignoring the type anyways.
The first speaker in the video works at or started https://neocortix.com/ where, by "doing surgery" on LLAMA, he is able to have the AI recognize when it's reaching for facts, then find the actual reference in the training data set and quote it directly.

I'd have linked the site instead of a video, but the site doesn't have too much info while in the video he shows a grokkable breakdown of how it works.
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456802
I am genuinely curious. Do you have a link to the publicized finances
I've been loving Copilot Edits (their take on the multi file edits stuff). I'm personally still doing the process of finding and adding files to its context/working set (letting it try to do that part just doesn't work great yet), but then it quickly applied edits and gives you a review/checkpoint UI.

The UI is still changing slightly every couple weeks as they improve things and polish it, but it's become a big enough part of my day to day that it's pretty much always open on the right pane of vscode for me.
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I think the author is assuming OpenAI is using CoreDNS which is likely not true.
> especially if the only reason they're unprofitable is people abusing the rules to extract capital from them unsustainably

Employees don't extract capital from companies, especially unsustainably.

Executives and Boards of Directors do though
> probably the greatest gift one can give to one's kids - freedom of faith and self determination, something almost impossible as adult if indoctrinated young

This really isn't possible to give someone. Your cultural upbringing will flavor your core beliefs, whether religiously or non-religiously
As an Australian who earns under 100k and bought an electric car last year for 52,000$, it would have been cool if this was available then, but the actual interest saving is minimal. It's not really that low.

Scotland, on the other hand, gives you the loan entirely interest free.
'us' --> ??? I shared my experience. I never compelled your team to stick with my comment. In fact, I don't care about it all, I can simply edit my comment to nothing. There is no loss to me :)

But the problem is I can't edit. But sure I never share my experience to anyone from now. Stay happy!!!
How to choose the base operating system for `home-manager`? I've suffering a LD error on Ubuntu.
Atoms with Consciousness: Yo-Yo Ma Performs Feynman's Ode to the Wonder of Life
https://gamescent.com/
I've been slightly curious about Avante, but I switched to vim about a year ago and still have other things I'm working on first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kzSV2xctjc
Building Offline: Mail Storage
Educating Silicon
Discussion about the impending agreement (57 points, 9 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372064
> FAANG will argue that they are laying off people with skills they don't need, and there's a lack of people with skills they do need.

They are laying off workers (permanent residents and H1Bs alike) mostly to cut costs while all their competitors are doing it, thereby saving face.

Additionally they are signalling to investors that they are focused on cash generation and only investing in areas they think will serve that end in the near term.

Finally, they are preparing for a future where they need fewer workers per unit of revenue and profit growth, but in the short term, that just means a higher workload for those workers that remain.
I see what you mean. So do you think a pure tutorial would have been better?

This is our first HN post so I was trying to strike a good balance between talking about what we think the future will look like and briefly mentioning what we're up to.

I could definitely have kept it to a tutorial, though, and saved the plug for what we're building for a later Show HN or Launch HN.
You shouldn’t find joy in the failure of others that you don’t have a relationship with. Why does this news fill you with joy?
As an academic scientist in the USA, it is an amazing opportunity to work with bright people from all over the world. I feel lucky that I am from the place where this happens, and I don't personally have to travel overseas for it- but certainly would if I hadn't been from here. The scientists that come here from all over the world make discoveries that help everyone, but the companies that spin out of them usually end up US based and are a major driver of the economy. When we do hiring, it is only about 1/4 of the time or so I would say that we get a highly qualified applicant that is a US citizen.
> proprietary databases (which granted SO also was)*

StackOverflow's database was public and shared at the Internet Archive until recently: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

They've now moved it onto their own infra, ostensibly so people have to agree not to use it for LLM training: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/401324/announcing-a...
I don't jump much, I've worked for 3 companies in 20 years.

They were smallish companies, 1000ish employees. Only one had H1B, and there were more than 50, but never worked with most enough to pass judgment one way or another.
It's a good example of how ridiculous the AI training situation is.

They claim it's fair use for them to steal all data they want, but you're not allowed to use AI data output, despite this data literally not being subject to copyright protections on account of lacking a human author.

And especially Github. They already have an enormous corpus that is licensed under MIT/equivalent licenses, explicitly permitting them to do this AI nonsense. All they had to do was use only the code they were allowed to use, maybe put up an attribution page listing all the repos used, and nobody would've minded because of the explicit opt-in given ahead of time.

But no. They couldn't bother with even that little respect.
Obligatory: the SSPL is widely not considered to be an open-source license, and this variation probably isn't either. I think it's best to avoid the term (or start with a base license like AGPL instead, if you really care.)

Anyway, I don't know much about this language (first time hearing about it) but congratulations nonetheless. Admittedly, I am struggling to figure out what exactly where Moonbit fits in versus other programming languages, and I'm curious what is special about it, but it's not immediately obvious to me reading the front page blurbs.
:/ Never got into embedded programming or engineering, maybe I should though. Invested too many of my math skills in theoretical computer science

Never too late to learn etc. etc.
I assume this is why this was posted on HN. My first thought when I heard the drone stories was “you’re just noticing them now?” Anyone who has ever spent any time watching the skies knows that there is an amazing variety of things in the sky.

To be honest I am kind of surprised that the current hysteria revolves around something plausible (foreign drones) given that past hysteria has been about the totally implausible (alien UFOs… or angels… or whatever).
Tell me about it. First time I was “very” ill from the flu, the doc was nonchalant. He was all, “yeah, this isn’t uncommon”. I was bed ridden for 2 weeks and wasn’t really 100% for almost 3months after.
but what if I am an under 100k qualifier who doesn't want to take on a loan at all (ie; give me a good deal on a cash sale)
These reports could be debunked in 4 years.
Bitwarden Usability issues (UX) in redesigned UI
The 2024.12 update to Bitwarden has brought along controversial UI/UX changes
Some have speculated they want to command regulations so complex that only they can adhere to them.
Exactly, the OS should have the functionality and UI.
Thank you for your feedback. You’re absolutely right that TDF-2 can exhibit artifacts in the presence of modulation or automation. In this implementation, I’ve addressed this by crossfading between the old and new coefficient sets. I’m aware of the SVF topology and its advantages, especially in low-precision applications. However, I wanted to experiment with biquads due to their computational efficiency when filters remain steady.

I hadn’t fully realized the extent to which EQ cramping is a concern in the audio community, so I’ll definitely dive deeper into mitigation techniques to address it effectively.

Regarding your point about limiting to five bands, I completely agree: there’s no technical reason to impose this restriction, especially given the abundant memory available on modern desktop systems. I’ll explore a more dynamic architecture to allow for arbitrary numbers of bands.

Thanks again for sharing your insights. They’ve given me a lot to think about as I work on improving this project!
For even more credit, they should leave all the extra telemetry and other crap out of the download, so it's only a megabyte or so, instead of 150MB, and let people opt-in to downloading that junk.
I just get a blank black page on iOS Safari. What’s suppose to happen?
I have an idea - how about Apple letting Mac users use Nvidia cards/chips again?
Simpler solution.

Simply not cleaning them.

No more birdie bam then, because they see immediately what's ahead.

No more dread about smashed beaks, brains and broken wings.

Birdie sings, joy it brings!
Or Dr. Dre.
Initial technological progress was agonizingly slow. Presuming that man then was just as smart as today, why would that be so?

I suspect it is because the thought of what might be possible just never entered their minds.

For example, Edison invented the idea of the invention development laboratory. Very, very recently. The Wright Bros were the first to come up with the idea of a research and development laboratory - just over a century ago.
This is like saying you're more likely to fall for scams if you think you're too smart to fall for them.

I don't think it works that way.

I wouldn't use the word smart to describe the people (that I know) that fall for scams/conspiracy theories.

Now, you could say that they incorrectly think they're to smart, but then that means how smart you consider yourself isn't relevant, i.e. a not-smart person and a smart person both consider themselves smart.
That is exactly what I was going to say. Nvidia has been a big No No inside Apple after they strained there relationship with MacBook Pro recall with Nvidia GPU causing overheating. Apple's heat dissipation were never good in the first place which makes the matter worst.

So this isn't just about Faster LLM performance. This could possibly opens up a whole new world for Mac ecosystem with CUDA.
I think this is clearly seen whenever we go for a walk or a drive, the mind drifts but you still somehow get to your destination and in hindsight wonder who was actually driving the car?
wow. can you imagine the amount of work that was put into this website?
You mean a language like... Python?

>>> 'hello world'
'hello world'
It's probably less about layers and more about the different number of stakeholders.

Visa/MC transactions go through at least four systems (merchant, merchant payment service provider/acquirer, Visa/MC, issuer processor); Amex is merchant acquirer and card issuer in one, so there is no network and accordingly at most three parties involved (merchant, merchant PSP, Amex).

That said, some of my Visa/MC cards have very snappy notifications too. In principle, the issuer or issuer processor will know about the transaction outcome even before the merchant (they're the one responding, after all), and I definitely have some cards where I get the notification at the same time and sometimes before the POS displays "approved".
I agree - that’s a standout even with a lot of beautiful prose in that piece.
To be clear, the actual proposal being made is "I am a fan of charging 2-3x the normal tax rate for H1Bs".

One interpretation is that workers should pay 2-3x the income tax, massively depressing net wages for people on visas.

Another interpretation is that employers should pay 2-3x the payroll tax (I guess Social Security and Medicare in the US?) which again means that (not immediately due to nominal wage rigidity, but over time) visa worker wages will be depressed. In any case, visa workers pay into social security, but will not be able to claim benefits unless they become green card holders.

There are already substantial fees employers have to pay, which already depress wages. The proposals suggest making it worse. There is no real thought behind them, no research, no data. Just pure naked nativism: workers must be punished even more than they are right now for daring to immigrate.

It is, in other words, extraordinarily racist. And if someone, through whatever life experiences, has come to believe that this is the way forward, then they absolutely should revisit their worldviews.

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Neither of these come anywhere close to addressing the actual problem, which is that it isn't the case that workers on visas have the same labor rights as everyone else. Workers on visas are preferentially hired by some firms because they will silently deal with abusive bosses, long work hours and sexual harassment. Giving everyone full labor rights addresses this issue completely.

Do you want H1B worker wages to be depressed, or do you not? Do you care about your fellow workers being sexually harassed, or do you not?

> I have no idea what's in the parent's heart

I don't, either, but structural racism is a million times worse than some rando shouting a slur at me.
ChatGPT doesn't have PMF

Why do I say this? Because their cost to deliver their product exceeds their revenue. That tells me the product (as it is today) does not match the market demand.
Fixed newlines:

> 0. I use messaging apps like WhatsApp, and Messenger which are multi device. So I log into them on the home iPhone. (WA finally added 'login as companion device' on iOS only a year ago).

> 1. Pushover to get notifications from any other apps that don't support multi device. (Signal ugh). I used Buzzkill to do the pushing from the android devices. Very reliable once set up.

> 2. I use Google Voice for my calls and SMS so that was easy to get on iPhone. (No calls though. The watch doesn't support sip/voip calls except Apple's own FaceTime ugh)

> 3. I spent a year doing cellular on Watch. I joined various family members' premium plans of the big 3 US networks (as well asany MVNOs like Visible) to use cellular on the watch. I paid ~$10/mo via this route. All good. But I stopped early this year because I found the cellular reliability to be just... piss poor garbage. (This is extensive use across US as well as international travel in Europe and Asia) It really wasn't worth cellular I realized.
I think what we're seeing echoes a pattern we have lived through many times before, just with new tooling. Every major leap in developer productivity - from assembly to higher-level languages, from hand-rolled infrastructure to cloud platforms, from code libraries to massive open-source ecosystems - has sparked fears that fewer developers would be needed. In practice, these advancements have not reduced the total number of developers; they have just raised the bar on what we can accomplish.

LLMs and code generation tools are no exception. They will handle some boilerplate and trivial tasks, just like autocompletion, frameworks, and package managers already do. This will make junior-level coding skills less of a differentiator over time. But it is also going to free experienced engineers to spend more time on the complex, high-level challenges that no model can solve right now - negotiating unclear requirements, architecting systems under conflicting constraints, reasoning about trade-offs, ensuring reliability and security, and mentoring teams.

It is less about "Will these tools replace me?" and more about "How do I incorporate these tools into my workflow to build better software faster?" That is the question worth focusing on. History suggests that the demand for making complex software is bottomless, and the limiting factor is almost never just "typing code." LLMs are another abstraction layer. The people who figure out how to use these abstractions effectively, augmenting their human judgment and creativity rather than fighting it, will end up leading the pack.
Towards a new kind of science and technology
> I’m not super confident in your estimate of angular size.

Neither am I, but I am confident it was a drone. Does “given all the rest” mean I wrote so much I have to be crazy, or do you actually have an explanation that better fits what I saw? Given the light configuration I don’t see how it could be a plane. And helicopters make a very distinctive noise. Maybe I saw a military helicopter, but at that point drones seem more likely.

I am interested in alternative proposals that take into account everything I observed. Less so in single-point criticisms coming from the assumption that there’s nothing to see so I must be deluded if I think I saw something.
Most bugs aren't going to create any risk for data exfiltration. In most real application servers (which are very rarely written in C or C++ these days), requests are almost completely isolated from each other except to the extent that they interact with a database. If you detect a bug in one request, you just abort the one request, and there's likely no way it could affect others.

This is part of why something like Rust is usable at all; in the real world a lot of logic has straightforward, linear lifecycles. To the extent that it doesn't, you can push the long-lived state into something like an external database, and now your application has straightforward lifecycles again where the goal of a task is to produce commands to manipulate the database and then exit.
> People in the past were just as good at figuring stuff out as we are today.

I seriously doubt that. My experience in college was not to learn facts and formulae, but to learn how to learn. I.e. training the mind.

It's similar to athletes. The worst Olympic athlete today would blow away the best from a century ago. That's not because people are inherently stronger today, but because we know how to train much better.