skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The other issue is that file sharing being illegal, Wikipedia requiring derivatives to be copyleft, etc means I can’t train models with most data legally.

That really depends on whether LLM pretraining ends up held as an infringing use. (Of course, it’ll take a while for the cases to work through the courts and for a body of jurisprudence to be developed on this subject.)
I'm not a professional analyst but the numbers look weird to me. Prediction was to sell 507,000 in Q4, they delivered 497,570, but only made 459,445. That means that they had almost 35.000 cars "laying around" from Q3 that they delivered in Q4. That seems a bit weird to me. But maybe someone that monitors the big 3 automakers in the USA can comment on how many cars waiting in the pipeline is a normal amount.

Also the total 2024 production shows something very interesting: Tesla is a one-trick pony. They sold 1,77 million cars, of which 1,70 million were model 3/Y. So the Model S, X, and cybertruck only make up 85,000 cars. That is not healthy for the long term. Because the Model 3 and Y compete in the middle class price wise, so nobody buys expensive Tesla's. And nobody can buy a cheap Tesla because there is no 25k Toyota Corolla equivalent.

It will be interesting to see in the next years if Tesla can make a dent in other price segments.
> Unfortunately, I have only seen 3 models, 3B or over, handle RAG.

What's the unit "B" in "3B"? I can search for acronyms like "RAG" just fine, but you experts aren't making it easy for us beginners :)

Edit: Apologies, this is obvious. My brain needed a reboot for the new year.
A lot of places will not consider you for management unless you have prior management experience, so it's a catch22. Happened to me several times despite my career aspirations being clear to my manager. I suppose it's safer to hire someone externally who's already a manager than to promote someone internally who you also need to keep doing the grunt work.
That's the real AI future, not some atomic war with robots. Manipulative AI bowing to the dollars of advertisers, responding to something overheard by a smart speaker 20 minutes ago by packaging an interstitial ad for coca-cola and delivering it stealthily in-experience to your child in their bedroom on a VR headset, straight to their cornea.

The ways for circumventing the influence are currently being dismantled and these AI RTB ad systems are well funded and being built. AI news feed will echo the message and the advertiser will be there again in their AI internet search.

We will cede the agencies of reality to machines responding to those wishing to reshape reality in their own interest as more of the human experience gets commodified, packaged, and traded as a security to investors looking to extract value from being alive.
This is very clearly an attempt to get government employees to quit. They are not shy about stating that. It is hard to fire civil servants, and this is an attempt to get around civil service protections.

Whether you agree or disagree that we need to downsize the government drastically and whether this is an ethical way to achieve that goal is a personal opinion. One every American has a right to have.

This has nothing to do with the standard "WFH is good or bad style" conversations on here regularly.
True but memory requirements grow with sequence length. For recurrent models the memory requirement is constant. This is why I qualified with "low memory".
I found a GitHub captcha to be unsolvable. That captcha properly stressed me out.
This is based on regional economic data, e.g.:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00985-5

and follow up works.

The methods are fairly straightforward. Panel regression with temperature effects on top of a per region and per year background.

As I understand it, there is some disagreement for how to exactly aggregate the growth effects over time. But to me what was shocking about this is just how clearly you already see the impacts in existing _macroeconomic_ data, once it's sufficiently high spatial resolution. I am in the "who really cares about GDP" camp generally, it's a very crude measure. I was not expecting to see climate impacts to show up in GDP data for quite some time.
Cymbals aren't like speakers, microphones, or rooms, whose inputs are audio and can therefore be modelled with IR via an impulse input. (Well, you can model a cymbal with IR and use it as a reverberator, like a speaker.)

AFAIK, what you're talking about would probably fall into the category of physical modelling, and there's quite a bit of development happening there currently.
that entity extraction is where it actually gets really really difficult, even for LLMs since people will use 10 different names for the same thing and you'll have to know them ahead of time to handle them all properly. For either BERT based or llm based there's a bit of a need for the system to try to correct and learn those new names unless you require users to put them all in ahead of time. That said i've seen LLMs handle this a lot better with a list of aliases in the prompt for each room and then type of device when playing with home assistant + llm.
Over the past 2 years, my company has laid off over 70% of the US based engineers.
Only, 20-30 are left.
Many of those positions were "re-structured", and re-hired in Eastern Europe.

As an engineering manager, my job was not cut, but if I leave they will re-hire my position in Europe.
Everyone in the US who managed to get another job, the replacement req was not filled in the US.

The engineering office in the US was shutdown, and the remaining folks mostly work from home.
The problem is that enforcement is unequal and always seems to benefit the rich over the creators.

If I use Photoshop's 1's and 0's and don't follow Photoshop's rules, I could be bankrupt and thrown onto the streets, dramatically decreasing my life expectancy, or locked up and legally enslaved by Tyson Foods.

If PayPal, an 85 billion dollar market cap figure that has monopolized a large amount of digital commerce, uses our 1's and 0's and don't follow our rules, we're laughed at, because we are not an 85 billion dollar market cap figure.

I expect you understand this on some level.

> - Censorship of conservative speech vs censorship of liberal speech

How so? There are many left aligned websites that remove conservative content, and many conservative websites that remove lefty content, many sites that allow both and many sites that remove both. Perhaps I misunderstood, apologies if so.
No morning wood/erection references in all these comments?

Why is that? Privacy oriented shy hackers or real absence of it?
Someone at Mozilla apparently created links to my PREVIOUS article after reading today's case study demonstrating how Google and Bing shadow-banned the content!

Thank you, whoever you are and I cannot wait to see if this will lead to major SERP changes in the coming weeks ;)
https://jychp.medium.com/how-to-bypass-cloudflare-bot-protec... and many other posts. Haven't looked into this in a while, so can't tell you exactly how effective it is today. (Definitely corrects the high bot score of your IP though)
IMHO: politics, and irritation at his personality and disruption. He has been the driver of some pretty amazing things, but that makes some people jealous or just bitter.
I've been using the Engineer PA-21 and Hozan P-707 called out in the article for a few years, although I prefer the latter. Mostly crimping 4mm bullets and other common open barrel connectors (Sumitomo, etc.). Great tool at a pretty reasonable price.

One thing this article doesn't seem to mention is pin release tools, which are invaluable if you need to repin or repair a connector. Most open barrel terminals have a small metal tang that retains them in their connector housing. A jeweller's screwdriver can work in a pinch, but can mangle either the pin or the housing. I've been using Hero's FR-150 set, but there's no shortage of suitable options out there for whatever connectors you might be working with.
He's correct.

GPL is called a viral license. Any project that you add GPL code to must be licensed under GPL (and made available to others under the GPL guidelines). That's why many commercial companies don't include GPL code - see Apple.

LGPL is typically meant for code packaged as a standalone library called from other, possibly non-GPL, code. You can distribute and call LGPL code from your code but your code does not have to be GPL/LGPL-licensed.

I believe the intent of LGPL was to have free LGPL versions of libraries where only popular non-LGPL libraries existed before. Any changes made to LGPL source code must be released under the usual LGPL/GPL guidelines, i.e. you can't make changes to LGPL code, release it in your project, yet keep the changes to yourself.
That. And a little more.

A friend of mine has been doing business development around platforms for commenting and sharing with better incentive structure. In April we heard about this site

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternat...

for the very first time (despite being people who are really interested in that sort of thing.) Then we knew it was going out of business so we both used it as much as we could while it lasted because, frankly, if our ideas were going to fly we'd need a platform with most of the features they had.

It was a refined and beautiful platform that looked and worked a lot like Bluesky and even though it attracted talk about current affairs it was not the right wing and left wing nuts you find on Ecchs or Mastodon respectively. (Maybe we didn't hear about it because they were careful in how they grew it) It was founded by Noam Bardin (founder of Waze) and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway.

We figured if they couldn't do it there's no way we could do it.

Here's what I think happened.

Early on they were able to sign up second and third tier publishers for their universal paywall. My guess is that they planned to get their platform working really well (and did) so they could do a great demo (and did) and make a compelling pitch to first tier publishers. First tier publishers were not interested.

I'll challenge your analysis and say that an alternate business model could increase the total number of subscribers, but they would be right to be skeptical like you. A universal paywall could also be additive to conventional subscriptions.

The dirty little secret is that nobody wants to sell advertising free content in exchange for money because of this: one theory of marketing is that there are two kinds of people, (1) people with money and (2) people without money. Somebody who can't afford a subscription to The New York Times probably can't afford to keep a car in running order never mind buy anything non-essential. People who buy subscriptions are automatically qualified as people who are worth advertising to. There might have been an alternative timeline where, in the 1970s, magazines like Vogue were entirely free and supported by advertising but it doesn't really work because you need readers who have enough money that they can buy the stuff that's being advertised.

On top of that first-tier publishers have a terrible reputation for arrogance (in my experience confirmed for NYT), much of which comes from being at the absolute top of one particular social hierarchy. To me Bardin, AH and Galloway are startup royalty. To the managers of The New York Times they are the The New York Times and those other folks are just Noam Bardin, Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway.
If I have a process that works for 95% of the people, why should I care about outliers who use Linux behind a VPN on a heavily customized version of Firefox?
Is the implication that the employees of the company are the cats and not the mice?
Burton Algorithms
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I added pay ranges for the roles that have one listed, but I can also say that as a Staff Software Engineer on the mobile team, I make a bit over $200k base, in addition to bonus and equity.

All the usual benefits: equity, healthcare, 401k matching (Vanguard), unlimited PTO, etc. I take about 5 weeks a year, in addition to ~3 weeks worth of company holidays (federal holidays + the week of Christmas to New Years.)

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I grew up in the town next door to Norwell and I play the drums. I drove by many times and would have loved to have gone in and seen if they might have given a high school student a quick tour of the less-secret parts of the factory, but I never did.

There was definitely a strong drumming community in the area; there were some fantastic players and teachers around (i.e. Steve Smith from Journey was born in Whitman). Not sure if that's because of Zildjian, but it was a fun place to grow up and play music. It might just be that there are so many strong music universities in the area.
The "like" metric is dumbed-down to self-amplifying popularity that hovers around meaninglessness. It would be more valuable to weight things based who else you respect also rate a particular item.
That is creepy as hell.
The post mentions that the bots were crawling all the wiki diffs. I think that might be useful to see how text evolves and changes over time. Possibly how it improves over time, and what those improvements are.

I guess they are hoping that there will be small changes to your website that it can learn from.
That page doesn't make any mention of HDCP stripping, and says it can only work up to 1080p anyway which isn't hardware protected to begin with.

Where is the evidence this device strips HDCP?
Oh, they absolutely are, I don't disagree -- I use them too.

But the immediate response to bots shouldn't be "make everyone go through a captcha". There's lots of nuance that you can tune to deal with your particular situation, but the first thing I'd do is block known bots or ASNs, set up a limit to trigger (bots usually don't make 1 document request a minute), set up higher limits for users who (seem to) have a valid cookie indicating that they are logged in, set up different thresholds for certain countries that are more risky etc etc.

What you need to protect your service depends on your situation, it's not a one-size-fits-all solution. E.g. I find that I have no automated contact form spam once I add a simple JS to add some data that isn't standard, but I'm sure that wouldn't hold up if there was enough incentive to try to get past it.

But the OP mentioned not just free services, but e.g. webhosting logins. That's just sad, as is Cloudflare's community being behind an aggressive captcha. I'm a user, I'm logged in, I've posted before, I'm in good standing, yet when I go there, I need to solve a captcha. When I then go there again an hour later, guess what, another captcha.

Either there's another reason I'm not seeing or it's just lazyness as in "we need to have a forum but we really don't want to spend any resources on it, just put up an aggressive captcha that'll filter out most bots and everyone but the determined users".
How did past mathematicians feel about giant computations?
Unification is reflexive:

(== x x) = x for all x

It is commutative:

(== x y) = (== y x) for all x and y

It is idempotent:

(== x (== x y)) = (== x y) for all x and y

And it is associative:

(== x (== y z)) = (== (== x y) z)

It's not transitive, e.g. if we unify pairs (using made up syntax [a, b]) then

(== [x, 1] [2, y]) = [2, 1]
(== [2, y] [z, 3]) = [2, 3]
(== [x, 1] [z, 3]) does not unify (since 1 does not unify with 3)
AWS uses a SAT solver (Z3) to resolve permissions.

I can see miniKanren (or some other logic programming language) being helpful in the realm of authorization.
Very good stuff. Going to consult this as I build personal and work projects. Working at a huge org right now and its amazing how many crucial details are missed in the tutorials that we have for internal things we depend on
From the toilet?
Thomas Neumann doing Thomas Neumann things
Here is a commercial product using the older 'Nanhu' architecture by XiangShan. Doesn't seem to be released yet, but interesting nonetheless!

https://milkv.io/ja/ruyibook
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life
I'd be interested in the history of the Zildjian trademark, which is an iconic masterpiece of design by this point. It looks like it was intended to evoke the flowing calligraphy of the older Arabic trademark ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company#/media... ), though in truth it looks like a fairly ordinary application of Latin Uncial script (the "d" and especially the "a" are a dead giveaway).
This process is known as Sortition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Unknown elephant loanwords identified as truck engine sounds
Spotted the Brit!
Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb
At work, development with VMs has been a given since the early days of Amazon EC2 in 2010.

Likewise when Windows 7 came out, I stop bothering with dual booting hassles and using VMare Workstation instead for whatever Linux.

The exception being a netbook from the Asus Linux netbooks glory days, a price category nowadays replaced by tablets.
He is Kekikus Maximus, first Doge of the American Imperium and you will refer to him as such.
And for a while startups were using it as a traction metric for open core projects when pitching to VCs.
You just did a Show HN for this (13 points, 5 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42526150
There's a sort of horror to this concept: you realize that everyone, including yourself, is doomed to incompetence. That every successful business you know of is run at a profit in spite of incompetence. Even more horrifying: Most experiences I've had in my professional career validates this premise. I can think of many projects I was a part of that seemed misguided at best, yet the company continued to succeed by momentum and great decisions that were made in the past (and sometimes decisions that were not even very consciously done).

When the stars align and things are successful, its time to celebrate, but maybe don't assume it'll always happen that way. Why this concept is also comforting is that you can kind of relax a bit on some level. I mean do your job of course and make sure things are running, but maybe this new initiative from the CEO isn't quite as important to the success of your company as they may make you believe.
Over my career I've certainly written more SQL than any other type of code. Not so much in the last five years so I'm sure I've lost some of it, but I used to really enjoy it. Once you stop thinking iteratively and start thinking in set operations it becomes quite natural and powerful.
Location: Midwest, USA

Remote: Preferred

Willing to Locate: No

Technologies: 10 years of professional experience, working primarily in full-stack web development. I work daily in Python, FastAPI, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, MacOS, Docker, AWS (EC2, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM), Git. I'm familiar (Use most months) with ElasticSearch, CloudSearch, Tailwind, Vue. As Hobbies, or smaller projects (used on at least one completed project over the past five years): Go, Zig, C, C++, Rust, Phoenix, NoSQL, MongoDB, (probably more, but these were the ones that came to mind.)

My day job has me performing two main functions:

- Building full stack web development systems. I generally lean more towards writing backend code, and documenting our infrastructure. UI is my weakest area. This role has me working in datasets with ~1 billion row tables, and search indexes with ~100 million documents. Since we're a small company (~8 developers), I have been a major part of the architecture of our systems over the past 8 years. We've got five separate core businesses that our dev team supports, and I've been a part of architecting and implementing all of them. I would prefer to focus more on backend development in a future role.

- Creating one-off scripts or processes to assist in business functions. These tend to involve quickly reverse engineering undocumented web APIs we have permission to use, and querying them for our customers. At their simplest, these are a mix of writing some SQL and a few HTTP requests. At their most complicated, they have involved designing and implementing a tree structure to accurately model the business domain, and then pulling data about these structures from relevant public APIs.

- Miscellaneous tasks as they come up, recently, I reduced the cost of a company's AWS CloudSearch spend by 80% (over 10k/month) by reviewing their codebase, doing some research, and improving what they were storing and how they were doing so. This required a one-line code change on the existing codebase, and writing a new, short (~500 line) indexer. Doing a deep dive into the single highest AWS line item was the impetus for the project, and frankly, it turned out far better than expected.
Outside of work, I ran https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com, a website I built and maintain. It really will self-destruct, and it reaches ~100k users and handles ~13M requests each month. Building tools and infrastructure to manage its moderation and keep it a positive community has been a huge learning experience.

Email: Femme@Femmeandroid.com

Good luck with whatever you're working on!
That device makes no mention of stripping HDCP and I can't find any evidence it does that on the maker's website. What makes you think it will strip HDCP?
The GPL does the exact opposite of copyright; the fact that it uses copyright to achieve that is just an implementation detail.

If you believe information should be free to share and remix, you would believe that copyright infringement is not theft and that not releasing code is wrong.

The fact that the proprietary code is based on GPL code just shows that the ex-Honey folks are hypocrites: they're trying to use copyright to control their code, but breaking the same rules in the way they reuse others' code.
Neither do I.

I believe the only thing anyone can do is take metrics of how the metrics are gamed, as this particular paper has done.
So you are OK with incompetent people occupying positions they should not have?
Gandi appears to still allow registration of them: https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/tld/su.

I didn't actually register one, but they quoted a price of $28.31 for the first year then $63.98/year afterwards.
Yeah, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that—it would have been such a smart idea and made everything a lot clearer! For some reason, I focused on adding a help page inside the website to answer any questions, but I didn’t think about how it looks for people who haven’t signed up yet and are just trying to figure out what the site is about. On the help page, I did include some images and stuff, but now that you mention it, a Loom video would’ve been way better. It probably would’ve also saved me from having to write so much text trying to explain things.

Thanks for pointing that out—definitely something I’ll keep in mind going forward!