skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can both be right. Like LLMs, McKinsey offers a combination of competence and bullshit. It hires bright, young, and freshly educated people who can go at problems with energy and a toolbox of the latest tools. Yet, putting a young person in a role like that is an hierarchy-disrupting tactic which can be seen best in the Church of Scientology where they find the youngest staff member they can find to be an "ethics officer".

A primary social hierarchy (Scientology, a corporation, Mao-era China) might feel threatened by various secondary and informal hierarchies (people who practice "the tech" on their own and make changes, workers who have the knowledge of how to do the company's task in their heads but not written down, sysadmins who keep a file of anyone who could possibly help them solve problems in their organization or with their vendors, fox cults, ...)

An accusation that is frequently leveled at McKinsey is that management brings them on to "launder" things they want to do, what I can say is that your slide decks are not just seen by the systems thinkers who are running the show but they are also seen by the people that the people who are running the show want to persuade.
Huggingface rings a bell? 80% is coming from chinese reaearch.
Location: Warsaw, Poland

Remote: Yes (experienced in remote work)

Willing to relocate: No (but travels for business)

Technologies: Python deep learning data science stack (PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Keras), TypeScript (mostly for Vue.js), data vis (ggplot2, D3.js), LaTeX, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, quantum computing (PhD in quantum physics)

Résumé/CV: https://p.migdal.pl/resume

Email: pmigdal+hn@gmail.com

I am open to ambitious challenges combining AI with the end-user experience. Ideal roles include Data Science Tech Lead, Head of AI, Technical Product Manager, and CTO. I have a soft spot for medtech, biotech, psychology, interactive experiences, and education.

In the meantime, I am open to consulting and project-based work. Previously, I was a co-founder and CTO of Quantum Flytrap, where we created user interfaces for quantum computing hardware.

A few highlights:

- Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap has been nominated for the 27th Webby Awards in the Science category, among OpenAI and NASA.

- Developed livelossplot, a popular Python library for visualizing deep learning model training, with over 2M installations.

- Alumnus of the renowned MIT Research Science Institute and recipient of the bronze medal in the International Physics Olympiad.

- Over 15 of my projects and posts have been featured on the Hacker News front page. See https://p.migdal.pl/blog.
In my defense I assumed they were a user data-mining scam, not a coupon code scam. Still never used it and told people not to whenever they asked, but, whatcha gonna do.
May be with these rules:
- Per user account we only count one clone
- We don't count anonymous clones

But I agree it's not like this is also without any issues
Therapy! I think it might be causing people way more problems than it's solving. I was talking to a very nice gentleman before Christmas who had moved back home to his parents after his relationship ended due to his ex having an alcohol problem. But it seems clear to me that the reason he can't move on after so long is because of the constant introspection and therapy.

We're just not very coherent beings. There's conflicting ideas and fuzziness in our minds. If you bring that under the microscope with the goal of "accepting yourself", it's just a recursive never ending hole. You are yourself, there's nothing really down there other than the thoughts you generate as you think about the thoughts you have, and it all ends up being rather made up. Moving on means doing something different. When I was treated for anxiety problems the idea was to prevent endlessly grinding over the same thoughts, but therapy for other things seems to encourage it.
Huge pet peve of mine. Reporters incentive are to keep you on site, not inform.

It is particularly egregious when reporting on governmental public safety announcement and laws. Reporting buries the web results, but fails to cite it.

I'm generally a libertarian, but would be in favor of required linking of government PSAs and laws
I Reproduced Inverse Reinforcement Alignment Training Method from DeepMind
Hey Guys
This is a reproduction I made of the finetuning method: "Imitating Language via Scalable Inverse Reinforcement Learning"(https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01369) from Deepmind.
Check it out.
Also I am looking for work. Reach out to me on Linkedin.
Sumopaint on Puter
The smallest "hello, world" programs in Rust I did for Arduino are 294 bytes for blink and 388 bytes for hw.
You're most welcome -- I was afraid I had offended you. Corrections are more than welcome.
Assuming it's due to Elon. Any moral qualms driving a VW, Mercedes, BMW, or Toyota?

Each has taken, uh, far more aggressive actions in their respective pasts.
Economic self strangulation induced via the wealth gap. Its going to be economically impossible to build anything but luxury shoes next.
Sounds like all it does is make your IP reputation slightly better than tor, which is a pretty low bar to cross. You'd likely get the same effect from using any other VPN service, so it's not exactly evidence that cloudflare is running a "racket" with its worker product. The linked blog post even touts the fact it's free as an advantage. Rackets typically aren't free.
Plastic cutting boards are mostly just plain undyed polyethylene (HDPE)- which is just a fully saturated perfectly straight hydrocarbon, similar to saturated fat or wax and lacks the kind of reactive functional groups that make other plastic polymers toxic. I think it is quite unlikely that HDPE in particular is toxic or endocrine disrupting to humans in the way a lot of other plastics seem to be.

It's also basically just a very viscous fluid and I suspect would flow into grooves when a knife blade hits it, without releasing particles like harder more solid plastics would.

Personally, I try to avoid having most plastics contact my food and water, but make an exception for HDPE.

In general, each plastic polymer is very different from another chemically, and it makes sense to consider their safety independently, and not group all plastics together.
Commercial kitchens use color coded cutting boards AFAIK.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/3053/cutting-boards.html?fi...
It hasn't been merged into the main branch yet, but you can embed Scryer in Python now[1], and it's quite enjoyable. I've also embedded in Java, Clojure, and elisp[2] :)

The Clojure one is bundled up into a library called libscryer-clj, which I haven't released yet, but it operates the same way as libpython-clj[3], libjulia-clj[4], and libapl-clj[5].

As an aside, Scryer is hella ergonomic. clpz+reif is an amazing and amazingly powerful combination, and Scryer's DCG philsophy over double quoted strings is chefs kiss -- it really delivers on the original mission of Prolog. Ediprolog[6] is a fantastic REPL for Emacs.

And honestly if you haven't seen Marcus Triska's work[7], by God you are missing out on one of the true joys of life.

[1]: https://github.com/jjtolton/scryer-prolog/blob/ISSUE-2464/sc...

[2]: https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions/2687

[3]: https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj

[4]: https://github.com/cnuernber/libjulia-clj

[5]: https://github.com/jjtolton/libapl-clj

[6]: https://www.metalevel.at/ediprolog/

[7]: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePowerOfProlog
The puzzle case is no different to how you can't sell somebody a rubiks cube without allowing them to "solve" it by taking it apart and putting it back together.

You can make a physical item intentionally hard to work with or modify, but I see that as a shortcoming of our current legal standard—that's why we need some kind of "right to repair" framework. Requiring people to distribute human-readable code alongside software follows the same underlying philosophy as physical "right to repair" requirements.
> This year, that was reconnecting with "unproductive" hobbies like guitar, reading fiction, playing board games and daydreaming in nature.

The post resonated with me. After a couple decades trying different things, I think the best opportunities have always come with doing random fun things. Hard work is important but that's not where the opportunities come from. For example: applying for hundreds of jobs yielded no results for me, but just engaging in hobbies allowed me to find a much better job.

The problem is humans tend to seek out goals and accomplish them because it feels safe, but I think the return is much less than if you just let yourself be a bit more free. It's scary because you don't know what will happen, but it works much better in the long run.
I feel the same about Starlink, sadly. And unlike Tesla there are no real alternatives.

Man, I wish Musk would just stay out of the limelight and enjoy his private life inventing new industries and taking the occasional Mars vacation or whatever. There was really no need to jump into the deep end the way he did.
Isn't the Peter Principle only true if you consider skillsets to be static? If you learn and grow into new roles, it can be avoided or mitigated.
> I'm not saying this isn't a problem, it's just not a Honey-specific problem.

You didn’t just say that. You said a whole lot of other things. You lead with the fact that it’s well known within the industry. The implication of your comment is that the companies did nothing wrong, and people are idiots for not knowing this stuff before. If that’s not your stance, you should make your stance more clear.

If you instead simply said “people should also be angry at all these other extensions and companies, they’re complicit and just as bad” then nobody would be calling you out for astroturfing.
This is what googles gemini ads sound like: AI built for Narcissists
My account is 11 years old. How dare I try to share a perspective as somebody who worked in the affiliate industry.
People care a lot about this sort of quality. Nobody want a refrigerator that dies in five years.

But what can you do about it? It’s not like these things are labeled with a honest assessment of their realistic lifespan. Reviews? That only gives you an early snapshot. That might catch the worst of the trash but it won’t distinguish between a lifespan of 5 years or 50 years. Reputation? Everyone knows how often companies go for short-term thinking and chasing next quarter’s profits. Just because they made stuff to last ten years ago doesn’t mean they don’t make crap today.

So what do you do? Buy the cheapest one and it might be crap? Or spend more and it might still be crap?
Creator of SIMT/CUDA on his engineering journey at SGI/Nvidia
Journey from SGI, the first GPU, programmable shaders, unified shaders, CUDA at NVIDIA.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533685
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote recruiters to help make buildings cheaper
Meta to appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead policy team;Nick Clegg steps down
China's Economy Won't Overtake the U.S., Some Now Predict
archive/paywall: https://archive.is/uzCif
It wasn't meant to be taken seriously, I was using it to show the ridiculousness of blaming a user for the shortcomings of cloudflare.

But if you like: the arbitrarily blocked user if not at fault, cloudflare is at fault.
He was never a tech titan. He’s always been a racist emerald mine heir who lied his way into everything. You really need to read this book to get your head adjusted properly on Musk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicrous:_The_Unvarnished_Sto...
This is another good example of people writing the problem off to social without even trying something more sophisticated than a counter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578134

The amount of trivial self-defeating ideas that for some unclear reason supposed to prove the absense of a solution - with the current solution being a dead stupid counter - is amazing.
What do you by "Mobile skills"? Like writing Android or iOS apps using Java/Kotlin/Swift, or do you mostly write C++ for those devices?

I mostly write C++ services/libraries for Android, but I've wondered if learning the app dev side of things is worth it. I'm sort of concerned that mobile app dev pays less than system level C++ work.
The macOS version is now available for download at https://apiparrot.com/#download

Please note that since the app isn't code-signed yet, you'll need to remove the quarantine attribute to run it. I've updated the documentation with instructions on how to do this: https://docs.apiparrot.com/docs/getting-started/download-and...

Let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues!
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, React, Vue, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Docker, Ansible, AWS, C#, Bash, Linux, Postgres, SQL Server, MongoDB, Firebase, Supabase, CI/CD pipelines, HTML/CSS, Git, Azure, Cypress, pytest

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/188Ztj6mvXX-v_WRqG_zaW2ik...

Email: christopherisler1@gmail.com

Portfolio: https://github.com/chrisisler

- Full stack developer with "T-shaped" skills
- Vim enthusiast with a background in computer science, user interfaces and API integration
- Currently back-n-forth between a few endeavors: building a mobile-first strength training platform in React; learning the Microsoft C# .NET + Azure stack with IaC; and coding a website for musicians to share short musical ideas built using Python FastAPI + AWS + Postgres + Vue

I am searching for contract, full-time, or part-time opportunities.
Autodesk made almost 5 billion dollars in 2023. You can host a vBulletin forum with incredibly high traffic for a couple thousand a year. Stop making excuses for shitty companies.
Torrenting hasn't been the most popular form of piracy for a while: many subscribe to a couple streaming services and use pirate streaming sites to fill in the gaps [1]. This is so prevalent that even entertainment industry talent use pirate sites for both series [2] and sports [3]. Takedowns mean that sites change from year to year but FMHY-style curation makes casual piracy easy: one can always find a site with 1080p content (unsure about the bitrate though) and great UX.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/could-piracy-help-netflix-win-the-s...
[2] https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/sydney-sweeney-pirating-...
[3] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/nfl-player-illegally...
I like how they quoted Brendan Carr - he's one of those people who think anything done in the public interest, to protect people's rights, increase transparency or to hold power brokers accountable is, without exaggeration, evil tyrannical overreach.

These kinds of people talk about personal responsibility because they don't believe in social or civic responsibility.

I mean don't get me wrong, he's ok with the government paying for things to gift them away to corporations, or bailing them out or banning things like municipal broadband and consumer disclosure or legislation that enables dark money to move around - that's apparently good government doing good things.

It's like he reads Philip K Dick for inspiration of how to structure a society.
Reddit also used sock puppets.

We definitely headed to dead internet
I have a minor nit to pick. I actually prefer when tutorials provide the prompts for all code snippets for two reasons:

1. Many tutorials reference many languages. (I frequently write tutorials for students that include bash, sql, and python.) Providing the prompts `$`, `sqlite>` and `>>>` makes it obvious which language a piece of code is being written in.

2. Certain types of code should not be thoughtlessly copy/pasted, and providing multiline `$` prompts enforce that the user copy/pastes line by line. A good example is a sequence of commands that involves `sudo dd` to format a harddrive. But for really intro-level stuff I want the student/reader to carefully think about all the commands, and forcing them to copy/paste line by line helps achieve that goal.

That said, this is an overall good introduction to writing that I will definitely making required reading for some of my data science students. When the book is complete, I'll be happily buying a copy :)
> Post status updates and get infinite replies from millions of AI followers

Isn't that already what Facebook is?
Lots of the population isn't paying up-front for their phone, and the monthly fee on a longer lasting phone would be lower in a competitive market.
Magnetospheric origin of a fast radio burst constrained using scintillation
I can see github platform internals caring about this for anomaly detection, but as a developer, who cares? I suppose a botnet could be making fake stars on a malware project or supply chain attack, but the problem there doesn't seem like it's the number of stars.
Update: The macOS version is now available for download at https://apiparrot.com/#download

Please note that since the app isn't code-signed yet, you'll need to remove the quarantine attribute to run it. I've updated the documentation with instructions on how to do this: https://docs.apiparrot.com/docs/getting-started/download-and...

Let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues!
Yes. I wrote about this on my blog six months ago [1].

CloudFlare has positioned itself as the doorman of the Internet, deciding who gets to visit shitty websites written by AIs and who doesn't. Every time I try to visit a website and get blocked by this company and its unnecessary services, I congratulate myself for avoiding yet another terrible website and move on with my life.

[1] https://ido50.net/content/what-chafes-my-groin-9.html
Did GP say that americans are not the only people in the world that can invent and innovate?
Link to appellate opinion: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0002p-06.pd...
Anything waterproof is going to be either leather or polyester. There’s no getting around it today.
Did Baum ever confirm this political interpretation of his works? I've read about his writing approach and it doesn't seem likely to me. His intention was to create a body of fairy tales that was purely American, that is, without the influence of the Brothers Grimm and the like. He developed his manuscripts piecemeal, adding bits here and there as inspiration came, resulting in rather disjointed narratives.
His post history talks about something like that. May be a spam accounts, who knows.
Was child support funded by dividends or stock sales?
anyone tried? is it helpful? if not, why not? please tell me your opinions!
Can you give me some examples? Because in my experience even very stable, very "foundational" libs and frameworks that I know about and use almost never go 5 years without any commit/change. There's always either a small bug fix, or some update to a build script, updated documentation, or something.

The only repos where that's not the case are usually very niche, and in that case it becomes very hard to judge if the library is just very stable or a minefield of bugs and undesired behavior that no one else reported because no one else is using it.
The reason for shareholder value to be the guiding principle for companies is about being clear what an organization is about. There is nothing wrong with a company supporting some nonprofit cause but that should be a distinct legal entity. Productive enterprises should be corporations that endeavor to make money. Social cause organizations should be 501c3 or equivalents and not making products as their primary business. Blurring the lines (C corps getting involved in social activism, nonprofits making lots of money and paying most of it for administrative purposes) causes no end of problems.
Yeah, me too. Nobody is born being a great manager. The only way to learn is to actually become a manager and actually do the job.

And you can tell if someone has potential. Like, a good manager needs to be a good communicator, well-organized and a good leader. These are skills you can notice if a person has before promoting them. Similarly going further up the hierarchy.
> It's disappointing to me because the FSF could be so much more influential today

I mean, open source advocacy already includes both business-friendly convenience-focused pragmatists and social-friendly, principled advocates of digital freedom who were essentially turned off by RMS's personality and/or approach.

Taken together, their work seems like it sets a reasonable ceiling on what FSF-- or any freedom-based organization-- could achieve.

If I'm wrong I'd like to know what exactly the FSF could have achieved in your opinion that's above that ceiling, as well as the tactics they'd have use to get there.
Mike Shapiro: Valve Halflife GMan #2025
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

In short: until society changes you play by its rules.
This is by people who used to work on Honey - they're not part of PayPal.
Regular posting of antisemitic memes on Twitter is pretty extreme
It seems a bit shortsighted to think that CloudFlare only does this for 'shitty websites written by AIs'
Another interesting way - and I personally think its fraudulent. This is how it goes - run hackathons or sponsor events in Universities. There are a ton of colleges who are constantly seeking support to run events.

Some companies take advantage of this by asking for stars in return of sponsorship. I have seen proposals that say for a $2000 sponsorship - 2000 stars guaranteed. The way it works is if a participant registers in the event they also have to show proof that they starred a specific repo that belongs to the company.
That's not what the paper said. The numbers are much lower because not all starts are by unique accounts.

> In total, StarScout identified 4.53 million fake stars across 22,915 repositories (before the postprocessing step designed to remove spurious ones), created by 1.32 million accounts; among these stars, 0.95 million are identified with the low activity signature and 3.58 million are identified by the clustering signature. In the postprocessing step, StarScout further identified 15,835 repositories with fake star campaigns (corresponding to 3.1 million fake stars coming from 278k accounts).
WSDOT Ultra-high speed rail study
You are disengaged from consensus reality if you don’t understand why thinking the 2020 election was in any way fraudulent is an extreme view.
It’s an obvious parody.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | U.S. + Europe

Location: Tennessee, United States

Unicorn. I do branding [1], design, and full-stack JavaScript development. I built the Joystick JavaScript framework (full-stack [2]) and Push deployment service [3]. Recently shipped Parrot [4].

Though I prefer my own tools to move fastest, I'm competent with and adaptable to any/all JavaScript + Node.js frameworks and tools.

Looking to work with entrepreneurs and small teams (or VCs who need a sharp shooter who can deliver) who need help shipping product and features that work from day one, fast. 17+ years of experience running a small business/shipping software, so I don't need to be babysat—just set loose with a clear idea of what needs to be built and open lines of communication if/when I have questions. The catch: I'm using freelance work to finance product ideas and have freedom to do work on my terms (i.e., I can be available to consult long-term by contract but not looking to transition to a full-time position).

Average time to brand, design, and ship a full-stack app is 3-6 months but I can move faster if you're willing/able to delegate 100%.

Contact: ryan.glover@cheatcode.co

[1] https://dribbble.com/rglover

[2] https://cheatcode.co/joystick

[3] https://cheatcode.co/push

[4] https://codewithparrot.com