skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My longest employment stint was at such a company and it was a very good experience for me. That said, even though I worked at such a company for a while, I don't have a very good idea how I would go about identifying other such companies with open roles. Any suggestions on how to do that?
Where do white males go? Obviously they can't go to Google...
Fake news. The president has so many parameters, you wouldn't even believe it. All the biggest, best parameters. American made parameters, best in the world, genius, genius parameters. You wish you had parameters like these.
Ad free social media. Now your feed is filled with personal recommendations from "friends".
What does "chasing" mean here?
These are just three random words. Can you say more?
I'm from Europe. Whether it is seen socially outdated or not is orthogonal to the fact that US is the main exporter.

Just go through your cinema/streaming service and count how many of the movies/shows/music are from US.
There are so many chain types it is easier to do the abbreviations. Basically extend a RAG to have a graph to influence how to either critisize itself or perform different actions. It has gotten to the point where there are libraries for define them. https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/tutorials/introduct...
I solved this by having twins. They are 4 and just play with each other. Try that next time!
I don't know, I feel like you have be a pretty low IQ person (I'm talking about the millions of people on the far left of the IQ bell curve) to consider any interaction with a bot as socially meaningful or stimulating (dopamine).

Maybe if you used some future LLM and hidden the "this is a bot" icon, more people would interact, but as it stands, only dumb people (and there's not that many of them, again, normal distribution) will buy into it. The kind of people who "fall in love with their AI girlfriend chatbot" would be your income stream. Lmao.

(Thinking about it now, I don't think I've ever heard about a female doing this... probably because the dumbest of us men are far dumber than any woman.)
Not necessarily. A common pattern is to build a 'private API' intended to be used by one's own front-end applications. For example: most client-rendered applications, like the Airbnb example on this page.
Facebook Live has seemed to be somewhat successful among MLM moms
Hey! Thanks for all of the work you do. I love reading your stuff.

Lately, I've been playing a lot with the code from Neural Guided Constraint Logic Programming for Program Synthesis [1]. I want to apply it to searching for neural network architectures. Something like:

(define-relation (layero layer in out) ;; [2]
(conde
((== layer `(Linear ,in ,out)))
((== layer `(Relu ,in ,out))
(== in out))
((fresh (percent)
(== layer `(Dropout ,in ,out ,percent))
(== in out)
(countero percent)
(<o '(1) percent)
(<o percent '(0 0 1 0 0 1 1))))))

And a `layerso` that is just a sequence of `layers`. And then use some metric that captures how effective the training run was and use that metric for teaching the search network.

I'm sure there's better ways to do it than the way I'm going about it. But it's a fun way to learn a bunch of cool new stuff.

Thanks for getting me started down this path!

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02840

[2] https://github.com/eihli/reason/blob/523920773b7040325c8098a...
That's O-1, not H1B
Most people do care about quality. There are so few things of great quality that most have to remain content with the available options.

Like in the article, anyone watching Netflix's badly written shows have probably watched all the great ones there - and there are not a lot of great ones to go through in most niches.
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You mean it’s a social network that advertises exclusively to people in their prime spending years?

Sounds like a roaring success to me. Looking at their financials, I’m right about that: https://valustox.com/META.

Our culture is obsessed with youth. But economically the young are not a great demographic to have frequenting your site:

- fashions change quickly

- they can be demanding

- they have no money

Contrast to a 40-60 y.o. with a net worth 100-1000x what it was when they were 19, and who are set in their ways, and one of those ways is to go on Facebook every day.
I don't need to know, but I want to know. Social media interactions doesn't cause me any stress or anxiety: rather the opposite. Most of us don't have problems with substance abuse or negative social media engagement. You shouldn't generalize from your own very limited experience or presume to give advice about things you don't understand.
Not saying that it is an easy place to get in to - the bar is high, but if you are good enough to get in it is fairly chilled.

FWIW I interview a lot of candidates and there is quite a broad range of ages from college grads up to and including folks older than me. The hiring process is flawed in many ways, but they do seem to go out of their way to be fair and equitable regarding age race gender etc. It is no longer "culture fit" examined during interview for example, but now "culture add"
It's also easy to make assumptions, such as that it's few users
yes but transformers are much slower than state space models
My point is that it's done this way for a reason beyond the nefarious ones that people in hn always seem to assume. Engineers want this data because it helps them do their job, bit because some product person wants to use it to sell it or use it to train an ML model. There is certainly extraneous data collected because the incremental cost of doing so once you've established the pipeline is small and eventually someone does make a bad decision, but that's where we should focus our energy. Otherwise you're just making a lot of folks jobs harder because their software runs doesn't run in the cloud. An unintended consequence of this might be to push even more software into the cloud which would otherwise run on client side.
You're severely overstating the case here, as if it just produces random text like a markov generator or something.
Ask HN: What should I with the content of my previous Math Tutoring Startup?
Hi HN. My name is Jurgen. I'm the Co-Founder and CTO of amy.app
About one year ago we couldn't secure any more funding and had to shut down the company after 7 years. During that time, our content team generated about 25000 math exercises. Each exercise has a step by step solution. Furthermore for each step it includes pedagogically valuable mistakes students might make.

Given that content is pedagogically sound and human curated it might be useful to someone. It could be used for things like AI training (after all it resembles a chat) or for creating individual math exercise to print them on paper.

If anyone has some pointers I would love to hear them
- Here is a content explorer: https://curriculum.amy.app/ToM (this does not includes the mistakes part)
- That's the landing page: https://www.amy.app (you can try it by click the demo button)
- This is an SAT specific version: https://sat.amy.app

Please find my contacts in my HN profile.

Thanks again!
I'm presuming birds poop on cars, spraying the cars with a hose puts droplets of it in the air.
It’s just a little cpu and some nonvolatile memory running a program. You can send it messages, and it will send back replies, but you cannot control which program is running on it. Of course this is vague enough that it could implement almost anything you want.

What makes it a TPM is the protocol it answers to. The TPM has a hardware RNG, and you can just ask it for some random numbers. That’s very simple. You can have it create encryption keys for you, since those are primarily just random numbers. You can ask it to _store_ a key for you, to be released to anyone who asks for it provided the TPM is in a certain state. What is this state? This is the really interesting part of the TPM.

The TPM has a number of registers that start off empty when the computer boots. At any point any program running on the computer can send a message to the TPM that asks it to incorporate an input into one of these registers. The input is a number, and the new value of the register is basically just the hash of the current value of the register and the new input.

If the BIOS/UEFI computes a hash of its own code plus the bootloader’s code and measures that into a register on the TPM then the bootloader could check the TPM to make sure that it hasn’t been tampered with before it boots. It’s easier though if the bootloader hashes the kernel (and the kernel command line) that it’s going to run and measures that into the same register. The kernel can then hash the initial ram disk and measure that in. At each step of the process we can measure the next important part of the OS and incorporate its value into the same register and at the very end we will have a number. If that number is the same every time we boot up the computer then we know that the computer and the software have not been tampered with. We can even send that number off over the network as part of a Remote Attestation protocol. You might have all the laptops you supply to your employees do this so that you can know that they haven’t been tampered with. Or all of your cloud instances could do this for the same reason. (Of course the exact number that the TPM ends up storing changes after every OS upgrade, and you need to have some way of knowing what numbers to expect, so this is a fair amount of work.) Remote Attestation is not really of any use to the average consumer, but reliably detecting a hacked OS would be.

Going back to encryption keys, you could store the encryption key for your home directory in the TPM, locked to a specific value of a specific register. You would then not be able to unlock your home directory if the computer has been tampered with. An attacker who boots off of a USB drive can’t possibly arrange for the same value to end up in the TPM, even assuming that they know what value is required. It will do them no good to take the encrypted disk out of the computer and put it in another one, because the key doesn’t go with it. Rubber hose cryptography isn’t useful either, even if there is also a password for your account. This should be quite valuable to many, if perhaps not all, users.
Finding a new job, programmers are overpaid and the market has been saturated for about two decades now. San Francisco wages are the reason why so much development is outsourced without a second thought. That compensation will not persist, with or without Musk.
I'm a custom ROM developer that spans a lot of devices (TrebleDroid GSI, a generic kind of custom ROM that works on thousands of Android devices) I've bought dozens of smartphones to implement bug fixes (current total number is 50).

I used to buy Xiaomi devices, because there are a lot of users (lots of bugs to fix), and often have brand new SoC at affordable price early. But I've stopped buying Xiaomi for a few years now, because of the low reliability, high complexity of Xiaomi's bootloader unlock, and the rules keep changing.

So far it looks like the community of people using Xiaomi devices with custom ROM is still pretty strong, so it's not necessarily a bad idea to buy Xiaomi. But I very strongly recommend that you unlock bootloader right after buying your device [1], because buying a device now and expecting to be able to unlock it in 4 years look too optimistic to me.

[1] Though you'll most likely won't be able to "just" unlock and forget it, because of all the apps that really really really want you to run Xiaomi and Google adwares and not your own OS
The important thing is to realize how much programming has been wasted solving problems that can be easily expressed as logic programming and/or integer programming. If you need to solve logic and combinatorial based problems, learning these techniques will save you hundreds of hours.
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Hi! Which paper were you trying to read?

I'd be happy to try to explain anything you found confusing.

Perhaps this online tutorial would be a helpful start:

https://io.livecode.ch/learn/webyrd/webmk
First, there is a huge difference between art and engineering that the author completely misses.

Because most people are not competent to judge the quality of two similar product does not mean they don't care about quality. They just usually can't tell, so they go for the cheaper (which has a higher probability of being worse). And it drives the prices down, and the quality with it. Or it reinforces monopolies, because only those who already produce at scale can produce better quality at lower price.

But if there was a way to correctly tell people: "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? The problem is not that people don't care about quality, it's that they are not competent to judge it and marketing does the rest.

Then the article talks a lot about art. Interestingly, the author says "I'm pride to not understand art, but let me still explain to you how it works". And then proves it by giving contradictory examples like "people don't care about quality, they will just listen to ABBA or go to the Louvre". You have to not understand ABBA or what's in the Louvre to think like that.

So here is my rant: it's okay to be proud to not be knowledgeable about stuff. But then don't be surprised if people notice that you have no clue if you write about it.

(Yes, I noticed the irony of writing a pedant comment about a mediocre article that prides itself in being mediocre and criticises pedantry :-) ).
I can’t tell if you’re questioning whether H-1B should be absorbed into H-2B
The reality that I observe with H1Bs among a couple of my friends who are here on one is: They are paid less, they dislike their jobs, and they feel a tremendous inability to find a new one.

H1Bs are figuratively a policy disconcertingly similar to slave labor.

Much of this election cycle has been about the schism between the ground truth people observe, and what we're being told by the elites; the economy is good, but many people are struggling, stuff like that. H1Bs are that for me. Everyone says we need them, that our industry would be screwed without them; but what I see is a program which exists only to prop up unsustainable companies on the backs of cheap indentured labor; it does not serve the interests of the American people. The vast majority go to companies like Accenture; trash consulting companies.

Immigration is America's superpower. Temporary migrant workers are not immigration. The goal of every foreign worker entering America should be citizenship, every migrant worker program should pose citizenship as the outcome, and if it would be politically/economically unsustainable to do that the program should not exist.
We're better with vaccines than in the Black Death days. And with flea killing. The UK government has already ordered five million doses of H5 vaccine just in case it come in handy.
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I still don't get it. why would they need an AI model to inflate user counts like this?

There are much simpler ways to create users than spending $100 of millions on gpus. The technology of batch inserting rows into a db, and AI chat bots have existed for a decade.
They're coming for the influencers. This is another avenue for advertising. That's the end game in this.
> Ilya Strebulaev, a professor in the Venture Capital Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business, analysed data from 500 unicorns between 1997 and 2019

Unicorns between 1997 and 2019 include many patently unsustainable businesses whise valuation was total froth, and whose investors lost enormous amounts of money. I'm not sure this was a sign of anything other than participating in a feast of capital.
You never called any question impossible, said Harry, until you had taken an actual clock and thought about it for five minutes, by the motion of the minute hand. Not five minutes metaphorically, five minutes by a physical clock.

And furthermore, Harry said, his voice emphatic and his right hand thumping hard on the floor, you did not start out immediately looking for solutions.

[...]

So Harry was going to leave this problem to Fred and George, and they would discuss all the aspects of it and brainstorm anything they thought might be remotely relevant. And they shouldn't try to come up with an actual solution until they'd finished doing that, unless of course they did happen to randomly think of something awesome, in which case they could write it down for afterward and then go back to thinking. And he didn't want to hear back from them about any so-called failures to think of anything for at least a week. Some people spent decades trying to think of things.
North Atlantic right whales should live past 100. They're dying around 22
PostgreSQL is very very good about really never doing this, and also a scalar vs. list is pretty much a PostgreSQL case since most other relational DBs dont have a native ARRAY type. I think you're mostly thinking of MySQL that has some int/string coercion cases which are to be clear bad, but not as egregious as "any arbitrary type goes right in with no checking whatsoever.

as mentioned, SQLite breaks all these rules and I think SQLite is very wrong on this.
That sounds just like the "TV show" from Fahrenheit 451, just endless conversations about nothing where you are the star.
i don't know, but their website doesn't support https at least
It's not a wild exaggeration and it's possible for most (healthy) middle-aged men within a year (usually a lot less), except for the truly unendowed. (We don't control our genetics and/or other ailments, but I think it's better as a policy to not try to rank yourself in this regard and just be Pollyannaish about it and assume you can achieve it.)

5x5 deadlifts is generally too much volume and probably constitutes overtraining for you if they're sufficiently heavy. Admittedly, when you're not particularly strong it's less stress and more recoverable (because they can't be that heavy).

Not being able to deadlift 405 after three years is generally indicative of poor programming (if you're trying to get stronger, at least) and/or poor recovery. You have to eat, you have to sleep, and you have to increase the weight each time.
They cost a lot, and the main reason is the quality of the components.

They definitely are "better", as in they're a pure luxury good that serves no purpose outside of being a higher quality product.

There's really no value that a mechanical keyboard that can give you that a standard chiclet keyboard doesn't give you, yet, it's a quite large industry with many disparate manufacturers and standards and so-forth.
Indian startups raised 32% fewer rounds in 2024 as VCs got selective
Did somebody say eMacs? I dunno, I think VI integration could be more important.
Sure, but that may simply be the NAICS code for all of Amazon, not the specific division that is doing the hiring.
I have trouble understanding your use of the term DRM. Media DRM makes sense: the copyright holders want to "manage" their rights digitally. How is that relevant to Play Integrity or WEI? Whose right is being protected or managed? If I have an Android without Play Integrity there are certain apps that will not run, but I don't see any rights being managed here: an app developer has the right to refuse service just like I have the right to refuse running an app.

In fact I see no relationship between DRM and Play Integrity other than a tenuous connection that both are about controlling what a user cannot do on their device. If this is what you mean, then you have made the same mistake as FSF by conflating unrelated technologies.
1-2% at a FAANG seems way to high. There are a lot of other companies out there hiring people. Some of them are great places to work, some of them are not.
My feed in the mobile app is

- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- people you might know
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from frien
- loops
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from a non-friend about a friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend
- post from friend

I can only guess the reason mine isn't filled with spam is because I click the ... and pick "don't show me this" whenever it shows me something I don't care about.

I wish I could tell it never show me loops, never recommend friends, never show me posts of friends of friends. While annoying, it's not so bad ATM that I've felt the need to quit

On the other hand I check it less than once a week, maybe once every 2 weeks.
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In some regions (mine) Craigslist never took off, and now is a ghost town.

I would estimate it gets less than 1% of the traffic of FB Marketplace, in terms of number of vehicles posted. And nearly all of them are car lots, not individuals.
You still loose data stored, phone number, etc.

But you could make the argument you should do backup of cloud services, the same way you do backup of hard drives.
> In the grand scheme of things, i bet smokers are net contributors to society as.

I do believe you are entitled to your opinion, but it's a measured fact that smokers are of a tremendous detriment to health care, finance, and productivity. It's a general consensus that smokers are net negative to society.

It's fine to be pushing edgy thoughts, but there are numerous studies about the impact of smokers to society and healthcare, if anyone bothers to look.

- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4494734/

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...

> It's really surreal to blame smokers for pollution.

https://fctc.who.int/news-and-resources/spotlight/environmen...

Cigarette butt pollution is real, and in Milan it's reached insane proportions. It makes total sense to both blame smokers for failing to clean their trash, and regulating them out of the public spaces.

Additionally, smokers were responsible for a disproportionate amount of indoor pollution when smoking was allowed indoors in public spaces, but thankfully we regulated that. Now it's time to regulate the outdoor smoking and ban smokers to the confines of their own homes.
If you stick around in physics long enough you will submit a paper to Physical Review Letters (which is limited to about four pages) that gets rejected because it isn't of general enough interest, then you resubmit to some other section of The Physical Review and get in.

These days I read a lot of CS papers with an eye on solving the problems and personally I tend to find the short ones useless. (e.g. pay $30 for a 4-page paper because it supposedly has a good ranking function for named entity recognition except... it isn't a good ranking function)
That actually distills it down pretty well. What's your financial position? What do you want/need your financial position to be once you (maybe, largely) stop collecting a paycheck? Are you OK with not working for a company vs. maybe doing some stuff on the side?

Especially once you've thought about your finances, your horizons may open up a lot. I know people who largely retired in their 40s and that may be for you or may be hell.
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character. ai exists somewhat profitably right now, and Replika had very dedicated users, so that doesn't rule out an audience who just wants to be lied to
"RWKV (pronounced RwaKuv)" - love it. How does the corw make? Rwa! Rwa! Rwa!
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M-F:

7am

* brush teeth

* drive to the office

* breakfast

* (sometimes) therapy

* start day

9am