skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Wallet" I know but what does "Mor" stand for? Morgan of Gilead? Mordred of the Dark Tower? Morlock from HG Wells' Time Machine? Mordor as in the LOTR? Inquiring minds want to know. I for one can not wait to open my body to the endless possibilities and the joy of subcutaneous monetary transfers. Shut up and take my money!
One day we'll have the Dark Souls captcha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
>It’s hard to believe the title here.

Absolutely.

I believed it only after reading the article an following the links. Of course, they can't replace all of them, just 10% of laid of workers (3% of all visas given out). And want's to remove government restrictions.
Probably trivial to get around by being a buddy with the guy who's over the head of the DoL.
> Skills are threatening in a layoff market.

Elaborate? Why is this the case?
You wrote "back" instead of "bag".
Show HN: Open-sourced my OG image generator
It helps devs create stunning social cards without any design skills. Completely free!

Features:
• SEO-optimized landing page (already getting Google traffic!)
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Docker-mounter: mount Docker images locally
Now if we could get a robotics platform like ROS that actually cares about modern dev patterns and practices from dev's slapping keyboards through production deployment with decent smoke tests, easy versioned artifacts and no need to understand linux packaging details...

Coming from web / app dev this was my very least favorite part of working on the software side of robotics with ROS.
It’s entirely possible to have well-connected suburbs, via rail or tram for dense ones and bus for less dense.

I get that US suburbs are typically not like that, but it’s not _really_ a problem for suburbs _in general_.
The rule of thumb is: The number of pages you read every day is the number of books you will read in a year.

Read 10 pages per day? That's 10 books that year.

I read a little less than 1 page per minute (depends on book), but the way I look at it is minutes per day = books in year. Read 30 minutes every day that's 30 books that year.
I wonder how long this would need to train in order to pass the Captcha...

https://github.com/apollopower/DOOM-AI
Since we know an LLM does indeed simply regurgitate data, having it pass a "test for intelligence" simply means that either the test didn't actually test intelligence, or that intelligence can be defined as simply regurgitating data.
And if you have the materials (short pipes, lots of caps, etc) to build the pipe bombs in the same area as your expolsive manufacture without the DD paperwork, you could still be charged with constructive intent. Same as if you have an unbuilt short barrel and a built lower with a stock they have charged people with intent to manufacturer an SBR.
Nextjs had become the de facto standard for writing React apps. However, things seem to have gone sideways after RSC. Not just Next, with time, React has become very confusing.

Hopefully, turbopack and RSC fixes some of these issues in future.
Sure, but so will be the native app.
An interest is antiquity is a characteristic of the Rennaisance in Europe. India has not really gotten there, although interest is growing it seems.
GitHub Plagued by 4.5M Fake Stars Problem Misleading Users
This news is weeks old.
Unfortunately very specific to QWERTY layouts:(
I first published my article on 05/17/2023
You mean the soon to be disbanded DoL?
Nature isn't the only, or even the most interesting thing to see out there. Even if you are that much into nature, you'll observe that it too is meaningfully different around the world.
The murder of Brian Thompson has been such a mask-off moment for the left. This comment is a perfect example. One can't even suggest, in a neutral way, that political violence is bad without a left wing nutjob showing up to suggest that you're not giving political violence a fair shake!
Maybe you've had a different experience with GPU drivers on ARM for Linux than most of the rest of us? (i.e. it's the fact that nVidia actually has Linux support on ARM that is the real appeal)
Neural Nets can be made to be hierarchical - I would say a most notable example is the Convolutional Neural Network so successfully promoted by Yann Le Cun.

But the issue with the LLMs architectures in place is with the idea of "predicting the next token", so strident with the exercise of intelligence - where we search instead for the "neighbouring fitting ideas".

So, "hierarchical" in this context is there to express that it is typical of natural intelligence to refine an idea - formulating an hypothesis and improving its form (hence its expression) step after step of pondering. The issue of transparency in current LLMs, and the idea of "predicting the next token", do not help in having the idea of typical natural intelligence mechanism and the tentative interpretation of LLM internals match.
Excellent, though I'd have liked it more with a bigger gun
Hmm, I think 'fail fast' and 'embrace the grind' are popular and somewhat contradictory advices. Which is better? I think 'fail fast' is (or was?) a bit overhyped so I tend to err on the side of 'embrace the grind'. But obviously the art is in deciding which one to follow in a case by case basis. Working on your dream game for years only to find absolutely no traction is not a good place to be in, but constantly chasing low-effort ideas without any 'moat' can be also fruitless. Moat usually comes with time, effort, and resources invested.
Why were these US workers laid-off in the first place earlier in 2024? The article mentions layoffs but not the reason.
India and China both had socialist systems at the time, so using India as some kind of foil to China's communism is not going to work.

People confuse democracy with the free market. It's not. India up until the 90s had a tightly regulated economy that rivaled China's economic control.
This was used as a plot point in The Abyss (1989). The rats in that movie were actually breathing Fluorinert, but they used special effects for the human actors.

The Abyss also may have inspired the use of LCL as a breathing fluid in Evangelion.
Your point, to me, is well taken. I can't imagine being a neighbor of this man when he suddenly snapped and went on a rampage. Some might argue who knows if he would have ever snapped, that's all well and good if you're not living near him.

Is it fair of my neighbor to instill fear in his fellow neighbors? What if his stash was kept secret for decades, are all those bombs good for the neighborhood? What if he dies and then his stash is discovered in some kind of explosive event?
Berkeley Mono V2
The next section of the wikipedia link discusses the low speed approximation, where sqrt(m^2c^4+(pc)^2) ≈ mc^2 + 1/2 mv^2.

Calling E=mc^2 an "approximation" is technically correct. It's the 0th order approximation. That's just pointlessly confusing. A better word choice would be "a special case".
For real. Elon should just open up a large Bangalore office. He would have no shortage of the best and brightest (Tesla is highly regarded in India, right?) and that would help give him more leverage to reduce pricing there, and given how many Indians I see driving Teslas in USA, BMW/Mercedes/audi there would have good reasons to worry.

I’m not anti H1B at all, I more think it’s a shame how limited they are to just tech. Please oh please bring us more doctors. Our stupid arbitrary caps on annual doctors produced is part of the healthcare cost problem. Even if we dropped that, we’ve already brainwashed ourselves to believe med school is a 6+ figure expense
How about acting like a civilized person and not responding (or encouraging others to respond) to speech with violence?
YES, that would absolutely work

As long as the infrastructure is good enough that it doesn't delay all the trains/busses (which happens a lot in Boston metro area, unfixed for decades).

At that point, it's just a capital equation - is it more costly to ensure they run 99.995% reliably +/-30sec or just invest enough capital to field and maintain a new train every 5min on average? One advantage of the latter is a lot more redundant equipment available. But also a lot more total wear and maintenance.

But either works
> But off the shelf mini PCs are much more user friendly for existing software IME.

I'd love you to point me in the direction of an off-the-shelf mini PC that has 64gb of addressable memory and CUDA support.
How is that moving the goalposts?
Pretty much all communist countries need repression to maintain control. USSR is the most known example, but other countries in its area of influence used similar methods. Whole Eastern Europe is still traumatized.
javascript-walled.
Sure, it did good in frontiermath. That's not what this thread is about.

Your comment isn't relevant at all
"Works well" may also depend on the species and sizes of the trees in an area as well as the soil composition.
It’s random, but big consultancies game the system to get many slots. They will then hire them out. That could be what’s going on here.
Work makes the man. Compulsory general education and workers rights (to not work) has systemically disadvantaged native-born workers. That is understandable for back breaking labor were death is commonplace but it simply isn't justifiable for office work nor most construction and landscaping work.

OUR economy is not growing when there are millions of men who sit at home staring screens all day bumming off the government and their parents, many more million are in prison. Either cancel free money and food program, draft them for much needed infrastructure work or run them out of major cities to fend for themselves, trimming the fat.

I for one am fine with the most intelligent and driven workers coming into the country, they are the ones that make life worth living. I am not fine with lazy countrymen who think billionaires own them something.
Tyler Cowen: Trump's DOGE team should read Shakespeare
I think your second point answers your first: it is better for the US to import talent than to export companies, so if that’s the choice then these programs are no-brainers.

But what I fear is the belief that it is better to have a poorly educated populace plus imported talent than it is to have a well educated populace. That seems to be the real policy issue here and it’s kind of terrifying.
> ... what is the point of importing all this labor to replace a local labor pool when we have a global internet

Control. They are easier to control and bully than people working remotely.
It's definitely satire, how would you take this sentence as serious:

> I told Larry this especially means a lot to me because my former #1 ranked Ph.D. student is now a professor in Michigan's Computer Science department with their famous Database Group.
Someone gifted me All Systems Red this year and I had never heard of the series and it may be one of my faves of all time. I’m on book 5 now it’s been such a joy
I see myself in your description, I also love to learn and it's sometimes a negative trait because I have this urge to just move on to something new as soon as I gain enough understanding on the topic.

I have no masters, no education at all. I just dropped out of school and started helping at a web hosting company back in 2004, and my career took off from there.

The only advice I can give you is to specialize on something that matters. Like provisioning, kubernetes, cloud services, or whatever. I never got a job that wasn't interested in some specific thing I had experience in. None of them had any interest in me being a jack of all trades.

Start building stuff at home, publish the code and infrastructure definitions on github. Start writing about it in a blog, show in every way possible that you have a passion for it.
At a performance boost of 10-100x :)
H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
Is ruby used outside of web dev (i.e., Ruby on Rails)? it seems like a nice cute language but I almost never hear about it.
Can you give an example of one of these problems that 'wasn't even constructed until after the model was made'?

I'd like to see if it's truly novel and unique, the first problem of its type ever construed by mankind, or if it's similar to existing problems.
"The real criminal in this case is feds depriving fundamental civil rights under color of law."

Which part is this?
It's X11/systemd/ipv4 problem. People agreeing there is a problem doesn't mean that any single solution will be accepted. With terminals you have a system that works with anything from HPC-s to serial devices. An alternative would probably need to drop support for something, meaning congratulations: The number of standards increased by 1 - probably 2 by the time that people unsupported by the modern alternative decide that they too would like something new.

The current effort can at least be pointed towards something.
The article linked inside of this one provides a bit more detail, but overall, you're correct, it's unclear if the roles hired for were the same as those fired. At the very least, the sheer volume of H1Bs requested during a mass layoffs isn't great optics.

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-wo...
You seem to know quite a bit about Bayesian statistics; anywhere recommendations of reading material specifically about Bayesian inference applied on time series?
Interesting; it recognizes kills made with chainsaw, gun, shotgun, machine gun, but not rocket launcher. Plasma and BFG keys don't work.
I think we should zoom out a level. Why is the H1B so well tailored to bringing in underpaid foreign labor and making them powerless in the employment relationship? It’s because large business interests have captured government.

It’s the same reason the government never really cracks down on illegal immigration. Illegal immigration could be cut by an order of magnitude by strictly enforcing the laws against employing them. This is never done, or even proposed. Why? Because large business interests benefit from the way things are. The purpose of the system isn’t to prevent illegal immigration, it’s to provide a underclass of cheap, powerless labor.

Until this government capture is reversed, we’ll never have rules that are beneficial for the average American or the average immigrant, except possibly by accident.
If you watch the video she explicitly says that the Feynman lectures were written by Feynman, the actual lectures, but were edited into book form by the other guy. She says exactly that, so she is not lying about that.

Your other claims that she is lying are backed up with as little factual information as her assertions, but having read about the man i would seriously consider that a great many of his stories are seriously exaggerated for effect. Again, she states that stories about the challenger hearings and his wife and various other occurrences for which we have evidence are completely factual. But it is rather obvious, dick being a rather hammy storyteller, that many fun details in his stories could have been tweaked to make them fun, and are kinda strange when you imagine what the other side of the conversation must've been like.

I don't blame you if you did not watch the video because it was long, but i will blame you for lying in this chat. I understand, i worshiped Feynman for a very long time but we have to understand that the man is not the legend.
Because consumers will pay ~3-5x MSRP if the hype is big enough.
You might be surprised to find out that such a change has quite limited benefits. Many people will simply create their throwaways in advance, only to pull them out once the waiting period has elapsed.
No, it's his position that Lenin and Stalin faced foreign (or at least foreign-influenced) opposition almost immediately. Which is true.

On the other hand, that excuse runs pretty thin after 1945. But the oppression was still there. So it appears that oppression was more a feature of the system. (Or at least a feature of the man - but then Lenin did it too, and Brezhnev did it perhaps less, but still enough to be oppressive, so it looks like it was a feature of the system.)
> Coming from web / app dev this was my very least favorite part of working on the software side of robotics with ROS

To be brutally honest, you aren't the primary persona in the robotics space.

If you have limited resources (as any organization does), the PM for DevEx will target customers with the best "bang-for-buck" from a developer effort to revenue standpoint.

Most purchasers and users in the robotics and hardware space tend to be experienced players in the hardware, aerospace, and MechE world, which has different patterns and priorities from a purely software world.

If there is a case to be made that there is a significant untapped market, it makes sense for someone like you to go it on your own and create an alternate offering via your own startup.
Shadow of the Colossus on the PS2 was a techical marvel

http://lukasz.dk/files/making_of_sotc.pdf

https://www.froyok.fr/blog/2012-10-breakdown-shadow-of-the-c...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553497
It's entertaining that Github has become such a common place to find information that even closed source projects put something up there
Does Musk have preferential access to any branches of US government that could informally help him hire more?
The UCMJ is enacted under Congressional powers, therefore not an Executive power. Meaning it’s power flows from Article I. Further, it does not somehow supersede the Supremacy Clause of Article VI, meaning it must still operate within the framework of the Constitution.

The USMJ limits some rights but also expands others. For example, a “jury of your peers” can more accurately reflect the accused, you receive Miranda rights earlier, you can request summary judgment for criminal matters, etc. On the flip side, free speech is more constrained due to the societal need for an impartial military, and this has been upheld by the Supreme Court on multiple occasions.
Blessed be the developer who has never had to refactor anything.
You’re gonna have issues with road capacity; cars just aren’t a particularly efficient use of it.

For instance, to pick a car at random, a Toyota Corolla is about 4.5 meters long, and will typically hold one or two people, with an absolute max of five. A double-decker bus holds about 80 people and is about 10 meters long. A 50 meter long tram set will hold about 4-500 people depending on configuration. The number of people on the roads in buses and trams in busy cities at peak times simply would not fit on those same roads in cars.
This workshop contribution is OK, and the benchmark is somewhat valuable even without the rephrasing part of the problems, but the rephrasing (of only a small number of problems) sometimes genuinely makes the problem more confusing to humans as well by either poor phrasing (fig 3), or unneeded breaking of convention (fig 4; points in 2D are often P, with coordinates x,y). It would have been nice to see effects on the rephrasing of the latest/post-training date problems as a function of the increased noising, to delineate part of this confusion. I wonder how much better o3 is on the same benchmark.

Also, the correct title of this contribution is: Putnam-AXIOM: A Functional and Static Benchmark for Measuring Higher Level Mathematical Reasoning
All the time!

Existence exists and life (consciousness) exists to experience it.

Relationships.

That’s way “it’s all about.”

Relationships create more probability in the Universe, rather than everything merely winding down. More than an expanding cloud of fire and cinder anyhow.

Your relationship with yourself, your environment, others, and your works is more universe than without.
Tap on it . Arrow keys to move and space to shoot. It’s annoying because you can’t strafe.
Been sometime since I looked at these services (YMMV on chrome), but these folks handle engineer placement: https://www.aerotek.com/

Also, could look for a local city Union position to gear down your workloads... as collective bargaining is the only real mitigation for institutional "culture fit"/bigotry, and massive influxes of qualified desperate people.

One should know what you need by now, but ikigai may help guide you into an area that increases well-being:

https://themindfool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ikigai_do...

Regulatory capture of the training/certification for technology has always been a serious problem. It does create fungible staff, but provides no economic advantages for most firms.

Best of luck, =3
They aren't really holding him. He's out on bail, right?
At one point it was pretty common for farmer's guidebooks to include recipes for explosives that could be used to clear land (e.g. boulders).

It's fairly common for tannerite to be used for target shooting.

Gunpowder is commonly available for reloading.

I doubt this is common and should probably be illegal if it isn't already because it's horrible for the environment. However, blast fishing is apparently actually a thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_fishing
Show HN: Vocab TUI – AI-powered vocabulary practice in the terminal
I built this while preparing for the GRE, wanting a better alternative to traditional flashcards. It's a terminal-based vocabulary learning tool that uses LLMs (via Ollama) to evaluate how well you understand difficult words. (Built with Ratatui)

Tech stack: Rust, Ollama (llama3.2 model)

Try it out: https://github.com/NishantJoshi00/vocab-tui

Would love feedback from the community, especially from those preparing for standardized tests.
I am not advocating for anything but sharing how it’s used. The why would be a lot of people don’t have access to stump grinders and they can be awfully slow if you have a lot to take care of. They also are more expensive to rent and especially to buy. You don’t seem to have experience in the area but if you are taking care of multiple acres and need to knock out a number of stumps, machinery is pretty inefficient. It’s also difficult to move around if we are talking multi acre properties and not a residential less than acre lot.

Get out of here with your ridiculous 1823 hyperbole. These explosive can be very efficient and useful when managing multiple acres.
For the many reasons I listed. Pre sharesd keys are almost always global and you can’t do forensics to find the leak.
The Time for React Native Is Now
this thread is about math LLM capability, it’s a bit ridiculous to say that mentioning frontiermath is off topic but that’s just me
There are weekends where I spent 3 to 4 hours reading at the public library. It is definitely a deliberate act, not always supported by other family members but it is possible. I am able to do 20 to 30 books a year. All the best! I hope you are able to get started. Happy reading.
I think, in Germany, only small companies (sole proprietorship businesses) will see your diverse skillset as an advantage.

Or one of those companies who are really desperate to hire someone for whatever reason. Perhaps you can _take over_ such a business (search for "Nachfolger gesucht unternehmen")

It is not clear what your problem is. Has the freelancing side-business dried up, or is the "main day job" gone, or both?

It is also not clear what you are looking for.
It's worth noting that almost half of the H1Bs Tesla requested already worked at the company, and were requested continuations of visa.

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-wo...
Funny, but thanks to RL, I'd expect this to actually be an ineffective CAPTCHA. DOTA was solved years ago, yes?
Nice work! I love the care and discussion around low level optimizations, as such things are often ignored.

There are a lot of interesting variants of rank/select and other succinct data structures which has interesting tradeoffs. Maybe most useful when compression is critical. At least my own data structures can’t compete with the query performance you are showing, but they are great when the memory footprint matters.
Civilization (and the social contract that sustains it) requires defense at times. D-Day serves as an example; we did substantially more than punching.