skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I would come back at you and say that you are talking about the Internet as if it was something markedly different from CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL. Obviously, it is, but I don't think that distinction was legible to the authors of the 1996 act. Meanwhile: the courts, post-Chevron, are going to look at the text of the act in its 1996 context, without deferring to agencies about what the spirit of that act was.

This is a whole thread of people over and over and over again saying that the courts should read the 1996 Telecommunications Act in light of what telecommunications looks like in 2025 (or what they, 2025 practitioners, believe a 1996 practitioner should have thought --- as a former 1996 practitioner my response to that is: LOL). That's exactly what the post-Chevron courts are not going to do.

So far as I know, this distinction made it to SCOTUS just once (and: in the 21st century!), and when it did, the court said: the Internet is like Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL.
"Lunatics like Ben Eater", ha ha.
At Asana we did not do any fine-tuning because it was too complicated even for our AI org of 40 engineers. We believe we can do it by setting up and cleaning data correctly.
Great example of tech bros getting way to much compensation for not much ... and also not knowing how to live a basic human life. I would like to see their wealth taxed to the hilt so they can go back to work and stfu.
The author thinks this is a novel or rare position (†) to be in, however it's actually fairly common and most people resolve it relatively easily by being with other people. The point is integration, not separation.

Those chasing prestige, and programmed to chase prestige from childhood, often do not know that prestige is a form of separation. They think that once their respect with their peers rises they will feel more connected, or more connected with better people. This is all wrong – connection is fostered by humility. (Hiking large, easy mountains might look impressive yet it is not an antidote to loneliness and isolation.) Prestige is like a drug: attaining it often makes a person hungrier for more. Prestige, at its best, is a tool to accomplish good things, and nothing more.

I suggest the author find hyper-local challenges with direct and obvious impact... maybe volunteering with the mentally ill, or cooking for large groups, or tutoring in math/physics. Of course these aren't prestigious, and I sadly doubt the author will be interested (and hope to be proven wrong).

A note regarding "purpose": I believe purpose is a misleading solution. Most of us can conjure purpose – the key is to close the feedback loop by acting on it in a way that draws one closer to community.

(† Footnote: The author may think their wealth is a distinctive quirk of their predicament; it is not. The defining characteristic is freedom and space, and a lot of people are in this position, regardless of net-worth. I hope the author looks beyond other rich people to find solutions.)
I'm surprised it's taken so long - the Microsoft model was discontinued in April 2023, so almost two years to change a silkscreened logo? The article says it's using the same design and components.

Also, Kinesis is making their own version for around the same cost: https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/mwave/
Rules to live by…

Although I swear this was posted on here just recently, was it not?
Well, for one, they're not. "Apparently" in their post implies that they are, but instead signals that they haven't done any actual research. For instance, hard wood cutting boards are permissible for use in Wisconsin: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/atcp/055/75...

The USDA also recommends wooden cutting boards be used so long as they are properly washed and sanitized before and after use: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and...

The main issues with using wood are 1) that generally you don't want to put them in a dishwasher, 2) it's trickier to track cross-contamination as you might with color-coded boards, and 3) they're much more expensive than plastic.
There is an ISO spec (you have to pay for access): https://www.iso.org/standard/76583.html
Don't worry guys, democrats will write a strongly worded letter in objection to this.
I implement NPCs, and I treat them respectfully. Someday soon, they may be smarter or more powerful than I am.

One of my NPCs has a T-shirt that says "Trainee" on the front, and "Someday, we'll be in charge" on the back.
Yeah. . . on vacation and can't stop listening. My gf is a doubter. I'm not :)
A company I worked for uses Syteline ERP which heavily relies on SQL Server. But the DBA was constantly complaining about how slow the Syteline SQL was. One major issue was long running transactions taking 10 minutes locking rows/tables for too long and using a lot of memory. You would think very expensive ERP systems would have decent SQL.
Yeah - we're doing something like one-on-ones that drive these explorations. Maybe we need to make the "20%" more formal.

The real missing part is discussed in the "knowledge building" link. I'm on board with Peter Naur's idea of building software, but it's very difficult to share individual knowledge with a team as it is being formed.

For example, reading someone's implementation as a work in progress is a different than reading an implementation that is a complete idea.

A work in progress is a lot easier to read with a design document in hand, but that design document that is full of assumptions that might be better explored in short feedback loops on production.
The Solana eBPF Virtual Machine
"look, this smartphone is 20% more expensive, but it will last twice as long and it will be more convenient for you in ways you can't understand right now", nobody would go for the worse quality, right?"

But that assumes if you pay more quality increases as well. But that is not always the case. Case in point my iphone which has display issues within 2 yrs and apple is expecting me to pay half the price of the device to fix it. Against my old android which is 4x cheaper and still working great after 2 yrs.

Quality should not be associated with price.
I understand the concern but we don't need anyone's IP. Unfortunately, it is hard to provide fine-tuning solution without access to the codebase. We just think that using a large general-purpose model for a highly specific codebase with a lot of internal frameworks is not the best solution and want to try to improve it.
Do not confuse silence with absence. Also, that weird-looking fella in the corner with the bits and vectors sticking out is not really representative.
10 years of very effective republican propaganda has convinced people that whatever republicans do is good
You know, if I've noticed anything in the past couple years, it's that even if you self-host your own site, it's still going to get hoovered up and used/exploited by things like AI training bots.

So? What do I care? If some stuff I posted to my website (with no requirement for attribution or remuneration, and also no guarantee that the information is true or valid) can improve the AI services that I use, great.
SAL as well? (And anyway this example seems to be shifting by the low 8 bits of RCX (CL), not the full width register.)
You just don’t want to signal you’re a provider. Weird hangup a lot of tech guys have
maybe folks 'in the industry' have heard of those, but revit is the one people outside the industry have heard of.
Programatic SEO as a Service with AI
hmm, I think some of your ratings might be very misleading. One of the ideas behind plasticlist was looking at things like plastic packaging leaching into the product itself, which wouldn't be in the ingredients list.

For example, you list Fairlife Core Power Chocolate Protein Shake as 100/100 but it is on the plasticlist report as containing levels of DEHP and DEHT, likely coming from the packaging. Not sure what an accurate rating would be, but not 100 for sure.

Maybe it works for non-food items better, but for food it might be counterproductive.
Not impossible, but the likelihood of a domain being taken away on a whim compared to a social network deciding to "shadowban" or just disable an account on their network is significantly lower. Also, with a domain you might have a legal recourse to pursue with the registrar/registry. With a social network account? You're on someone else's turf, and they can do what they want.
Probably not for this level of position, though you are welcome to apply if you meet the requirements! Additionally, we do have other positions that have to do with software engineering and bioinformatics that don't require Rust. I'd just check out "software engineer" at stjude.org/careers.
I would be on the YouTubers' side except they are the ones who have been shilling Honey non-stop for years to begin with. You don't get to cry "I've been scammed" after happily accepting money to perpetuate the scam to your users.
I agree, we need to post more data. Since we are very early (<1 month) we just shared the initial results. Discourse repo was just a good option since it is a big public repo that could benefit from fine-tuning. We plan to add more benchmarks to the website as we progress.
> calls for the murder of muslims, calls for the removal of rights for trans people, and is now calling for treason charges against politicians

Please provide evidence of these claims.
That's always a good question. Were you smart, or were you lucky?

This is most often a problem with traders and investors who made a good bet. Less so with something that took a lot of effort to make work.

I know a married couple who blew through an amount in eight figures and had to get low level jobs. Lost their house.
I thought they had as well, which was why I was surprised to see them.

I can't remember the site I saw them on, so I don't know for certain, but the site was definitely protected by Cloudflare, and I'm not really sure what you mean by "fake" - they were definitely CAPTCHAs with image tiles, but I guess I don't know for certain they were coming from Cloudflare servers.
holy sh*t, I kneel.
Maybe they're referring to TFA (where the person did DIY an effective solution)?
I don't see any need. The thread is ok on the whole.

On HN, the onus is on commenters not to react to the bits they find most provocative. There's even a site guideline about that: "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, okay, but what is the text "they don't they they're supposed to??" supposed to mean? Is it missing the word think? A different word?
> the Internet is firmly something you would build on top of a telecommunications service; the entire Internet is an information service.

I think the key assumption you're making here is that anything layered on top of a telecommunications service must be an information service, so if "telecommunications service" can be defined narrowly enough, then maybe the entire Internet (endpoints and transit) can be construed as "information service".

But that's not how the two legal definitions are related. Information services must have an underlying telecommunications service, but I don't see where the law prohibits a telecommunications service from being layered atop another telecommunications service (which POTS as an amalgamation of numerous providers seems to be, especially in the case of MVNOs, or undersea cable operators selling a slice of their bandwidth to phone companies).

I also don't see where the definitions require that the line between telecommunications services and information services must be drawn at a low enough layer that IP transit exists solely above the line. And certainly a company who operates the lowest physical layer must be operating at least partially on the "telecommunications" side of the line.
Could be done in the future. Our current focus is highest accuracy. But there are no limitations on the models - just would depend on user preference of size/performance tradeoff.
No, because they’d still lack a physical keyboard and a large screen ;)
> DOGE is BS.

Are you suggesting there is no possible way to make the government more efficient in a way that reduces costs by some significant amount?

That seems like an extreme statement.
Why do we need purpose beyond existence? We're here to experience a unique life that nobody else will experience, no matter how many commonalities are shared. Yet people are never content with that, and feel they must have a "greater" purpose, when reality is that there is no greater purpose than mere existence.
It's dumb, but Terminal.app is about eight years behind every other macOS terminal in supporting true color mode. Feels like sort of a table stakes feature in a modern terminal, and makes me suspect Terminal.app is not a high priority for Apple. The people want pretty editor themes!
https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/india
Zero is certainly on my scale. Bonus points if you build a server and keep it under your desk.
The way we do LLMs now is that the program and the data are one and the same. The program mutates itself as it "executes". This is probably also how the brain works since there is no hard separation between "memory" neurons and "data processing" neurons. (biology has no hard separation in general).
> I can absolutely see why someone rational would want to share a whole lot less, anywhere, in an open fashion, regardless of where it's hosted.

I've reached the same conclusion.

All data is just bits. Numbers. Once it's out there, trying to control their spread and use is just delusional. People should just stop sharing things publicly. Even things like AGPLv3 are proving to be ineffective against their exploitation.

I really didn't expect to live in this "copyright for me, not for thee" world. The same corporations that compare us mere mortals to high seas pirates when we infringe their copyrights are now getting caught shamelessly AI laundering the copyrights of others on an industrial scale.

It's so demoralizing. I feel like giving up and just going private. Problem is I also want to share the things I made. To talk about my projects with real people. Programming is lonely enough as it is. Without sharing I'm not sure what the point even is. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do from now on. I just know I don't want to end up working for free to enrich trillion dollar corporations.
Looks like a great repo to try the fine-tuning! I will email you, thanks!
>We know from leaks, reverse-engineering, and personal experience that this spying is going on.

No we don't. There isn't any of that. This is flat earthing for technophiles.
Ukraine would love it even more if Russia got out of their country.

The war can end tomorrow. All Russia needs to do is get out of Ukraine. All of it.

Easy to do, simple to achieve. No more Russians or North Koreans need to die.
I think you have reached a level of abstraction where the courts, post-Chevron, were not going to take the FCC's word for it. I also think, putting my brain back into 1996-Thomas mode (still eating frozen pizzas, still enjoying the music of Front Line Assembly) that fetching a web page is, by the logic of the Act, fundamentally the same thing as making a request of Prodigy or AOL. And I'm telling you this as someone (again) who ran an ISP in 1996.

I can't say enough how much the Telecommunications Act was not about this issue. This does not feel like a sufficiently load-bearing piece of legislative intent to hang such an intrusive regulatory framework on! Based solely on this definition, in a statute that pretty clearly saw the Internet as a use case for telecommunications, the FCC gets to regulate all Internet providers? What did you think was going to happen?
Yeah and it was probably equally craven and opportunistic to bring them in as well.
I could definitely see the use from a landlord's perspective but of course would hate this as a tenant.

My last landlord wanted me to sign a lot of arbitrary (and mostly unenforceable) rules. One was "no guests without permission". I read it over and asked him, "so if I have someone sleep over, you want me to call you on your cell?" He scratched out the rule.
Thank you for the suggestion, we will take a look!
I was in a somewhat similar position as the OP, having had a successful exit many years ago and trying to figure things out. I was lucky that I still had a faculty position at a top university, young kids, and a good family to help ground me and guide me.

My general take on things is this: money is one of the closest things we have to a superpower in this world. With enough money, you can build new things, make steps toward solving hard problems, and influence people and organizations to do things you want.

Given all this, what kind of world would you want to live in? And with your newfound superpower, what kind of steps can you take that might get us closer to that world?

Now, of course, this path is fraught with many challenges and dangers (especially as evidenced by so many superpowered billionaires around the world that want us to live in an oligarchy, but that's a rant for another day). Instead, I'll end by sharing a few things that have helped shape my thinking about how I spend my time and what kind of positive impact I want to make on the world:

- https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/wealth.html

- John Rawls on the Veil of Ignorance and the original position https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position

- Prof. Michael Sandel (Harvard) on Justice: What's the Right Thing to do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY&list=PL30C13C91C...

- Prof. Robert Reich's course on Wealth and Poverty (former US Sec of Labor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2blKai7HA&list=PLOLArO56vj...

There's also an interview with a sci-fi author (Ted Chiang I believe, but I can't find it to confirm), that also posed an interesting question: what is your ideal world, and what steps are you taking to help us get closer to that world? For me, it's Star Trek, not the space exploration part (though that's cool), but the idea that Earth has become a planet where things like war, poverty, hunger, racism, and xenophobia are things in the far past, and every person can achieve their full potential. I know cynics will scoff, but that's a world I'd like to live in, and one I'm trying to use my superpowers to get to.
> Interesting, although once it’s been digitised, is there that much value in it?

There's a good chance the original documents will outlast the digitized versions.
Raising the standard of living for the poorest people in the world does very little to increase the rate of climate change since these people have very little impact on the environment and consume so little in the first place. I'd argue that we also owe it to them because the poor are also least capable to handle the consequences of climate change and the other issues facing developing nations. I don't know why this needs to be said but those are real issues.

The flaw in Elysium is moral and practical. You have to accept that humans by virtue of being human deserve some consideration, and the well being of society deserves consideration. If a rich person don't believe this then they are irresponsible. Too much inequality in society makes it shittier for everybody for plenty of reasons.
The total number of countries worldwide has itself more than doubled since WWII. Additionally, those new countries were often created via political turmoil that continues to this day. “Number of countries” is an unhelpful metric.
I don’t think anything will help the author as much as giving a bunch of money away. I grew up in a community where I met good number of very rich people with inherited wealth and every one of them is depressed or has some other issue—hypochondria, feelings of inadequacy, or some strange striving for significance through conspicuous consumption which is, of course, ultimately unfulfilling, etc. The root cause in all these cases, in my view, is the money. Just give it away and face the fear of engaging with the world again.
Examples of Eventual Counterexamples (2011)
Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones (1992)
Context - https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2024/11/20/a-pla...
Funny thing to double-check: are these encodings correctly specifying a 64-bit operand? Maybe everyone's compilers are subtly wrong D:

edit: It looks like VEX.W is set in the encoding from the uops.info tests ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
that is a very interesting point! we would get along, lol
If you're interviewing for staff level positions and above, you'll be discussing long term planning and some pretty tactical stuff where an NDA makes perfect sense. Might be a bit overkill for senior and below but meh.
They don't need to read your mind. The systems that push ads to you are also owned by the companies that are pushing contents and shaping how you see the internet. It's like how magicians incept ideas into your head then use it like they can read your mind.
Since this is anecdote time: I got an HP49G for the SAT Math subject test (which apparently is no longer a thing). I loved it to bits.

But I ended up putting it away – by the time I was simultaneously doing college statistics, a class on numerical methods and DEs, and few other classes, I got so frustrated with having to remember inscrutable 6-letter softmenu items that I took my first summer paycheck and blew it on a TI-89.
This used to be a forum for startup-folk, not wanna-be-FAANG-employees.

There's a lot of sense in this post. There's not a lot of sense in the reaction here.
> Everything I said are basic facts about plastic chemistry you can verify yourself, but I can elaborate more if that is helpful.

Sure, go ahead. Nobody could verify what you claimed, because it was so vague to be undefined. That's the point.

You said something vague ("plastic polymers"), then you asserted toxicity (which is also a meaningless word -- nearly everything is toxic at some dose). As for the rest of the comment...I actually do have some training in chemistry and I have no idea what you're talking about. Just for example:

>> polyethylene (HDPE)- which is just a fully saturated perfectly straight hydrocarbon, similar to saturated fat or wax

No. Saturated fat is nothing like polyethylene. A fat is a triglyceride. A polyethylene molecule is not. You can't just wave your hands and say "they both have carbon chains" and draw broad conclusions from that.

Similarly, A "wax" can have all of the stuff that I think you'd (probably?) characterize as a "reactive functional group" -- things like esters, alcohols, and ketones.

> take for example Bisphenol A (BPA), one of the monomers used in making polycarbonate

You're trying to overgeneralize from very specific examples. Setting aside the evidence (or lack thereof) regarding the specific harm of BPA, the difference between BPA and even other kinds of polycarbonates is so vast as to be a meaningless comparison.

In biochemistry, the stereochemistry of a single bond can make orders of magnitude difference in toxicity, even if all the other atoms are the same. You can't just go "oh, it has rings/oxygens/whatever, so it must be toxic", or even "it looks like a fatty acid, so it must be safe".
It's entirely the center of this dispute. What is it that I'm actually paying my ISP for? I'm paying them for a telecommunications circuit. I'm not paying them because they host or manipulate data I care about, I pay them so I can telecommunicate with actual information services.