skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to make you use it more, but I found a thing that actually works for me, to restore some of the previous feed behavior. I saved a bookmark that directly goes to the "Friends" feed. It seems to have surprisingly few (I think zero or one) ads and recommended things this way. The funny thing is that the "You read all the posts" thing still appears if used in this way, telling you to go outside.

I do the same for instagram [2], and there was also a post of setting "Google web" as the default search engine, showing you actual web results, not stuff recommended by Google.

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr [1]

https://www.instagram.com/?variant=following [2]
'The Man Without Qualities' (1930-1943)
Hi Kévin! A while ago, I’ve built a hub implementation using Typescript and Deno, mainly for learning, but also to see if I could come up with a neat solution for distributed event storage in-memory, using Raft. It implements the full spec, so far, and is pretty easy to understand, if I may say so myself.

Do you still accept entries for alternative hubs? It may be helpful for others to understand how the specification is supposed to work; some parts were a little opaque to me at first, and required digging into the reference implementation to fully grasp.
AFAICT most ISAs themselves are not slow. Most modern ISAs can be implemented quickly because the decoder is not the bottleneck and high performance cores do so much. So it's more like a question of why hasn't someone with a high-performance core slapped a RISC-V ISA on it?

Well, for one they weren't built with RISC-V in the first place so it would take some work to do and test. Second, there isn't currently a market for this. There is not consumer item that has RISC-V and could sell more units by getting a faster one. Third, a lot of cores are probably entangled with ARM IP for now.

None of these are integral to RISC-V itself. If you could rewrite history and swap the ISAs for ARM and RISC-V it'd still have a headwind right now from the late start, and the tail wind of being license free. It's entirely non-technical.
There is not much insight to glean from these career framework docs. The high level takeaway is roughly that a junior engineer should own a feature, a mid-level should own a collection of features and a senior engineer should own a product or a significant chunk of a product and so on.

The docs are frequently developed by the HR function with only incidental input from the actual professionals who are on these career ladders. The input is usually given only by senior executives who have not actually performed the roles that represent 80% of the company by headcount in a decade.

You may notice that the descriptions of responsibilities are both extremely vague and quite expansive. This is by design. The purpose of these frameworks are as follows:

1. To provide maximum flexibility in termination of an employee: Since the framework is essentially impossible to comply with in its entirety, if the manager or management chain of an employee wants to fire them, they can readily develop a plausible sounding justification. 0% of the employees of the company always do all the things listed on in the career framework, so there's always a justification to fire someone. This takes the form of something like "Your performance did not meet XYZ Inc's high standards. You did not complete framework section 6, bullet 3 when you were running project ABC. You aren't meeting the expectations for your job and level, so you are terminated effective immediately."

2. To provide flexibility for justifying promotions or lack thereof: Despite ostensibly having a rigorous process with checks and balances and extensive discussion, the promotion process at large tech companies is largely a subjective discussion that may or may not take into account the contribution impact of the employee. The discussions fall prey to anchoring, herding, and perhaps most importantly lack of blinding (e.g. I can see who is making what arguments, so I can tailor my position to them). Having a broad and vague role description lets the final decision maker justify a positive promotion outcome ("well, X did ABC and that's right here in the L5 description") in almost all cases. At the same time, it lets managers who fail to get their reports promoted say "feedback was that you didn't do Y, which is clearly listed in the L5 role profile."
Chinese users root their device and damage the wifi via software instructions for a refund. Happened during the Mi 11 series

However I do think phone companies should allow root after warranty expires.
Cement made at ambient temperature using renewable electricity
Yes there should. Native apps use system libraries, flatpaks bring their own. Computers have limited amouns of ram. When we run programs that use the same libraries, they stay in cache in ram and don't need to be reloaded from disk. This makes running the program originally faster, and makes context switching faster. The latter is only true if we've run out of ram and some things need to be evicted from cache, but the former is true regardless. All of this will vary depending on disk speed; those still on spinning rust will notice it more severely.
It's the main reason I access my stuff via VPN when I'm out of the house. There are potential security issues with having services exposed, but mainly there's just so much garbage traffic adding load to my server and connection and I don't want to worry about it.
I think it is important to distinguish between individualism vs. collectivism and selfish vs. altruistic. Egalitarian ideals are something different again. The US is highly individualistic. The founding documents are explicitly egalitarian.
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HDMI 2.2 confirmed to launch at CES 2025
Logically, if sea level rise somewhere of 5-9" has resulted in imperceptible rise anywhere we care enough about to have pictures of (zero sea level rise on landmarks), then extrapolated that out to the next 100 years expected rise of 15" more, i expect there to be again almost imperceptible rise in the sea anywhere we care about.
People can program in python but cannot select a kernel from a list? I find that hard to believe
If it is massaged into desired results, then it will be invalidated by facts quite easily. Inversely, obfuscating things is also easy if you just provide the whole package and just say "see, you click on the button and you get the same result, you have proven that it is correct". No providing code means that people will redo their own implementation and come back to you when they will see they don't get the same results.

So, no, no need to invent that academics are all part of this strange crazy evil group. Academics are debating and are being skeptical of their colleagues results all the time, which is already contradictory to your idea that the majority is motivated by frauding.

Occams razor is simply that there are some good reasons why code is not shared, going from laziness to lack of expertise on code design to the fact that code sharing is just not that important (or sometimes plainly bad) for reproducibility, no need to invent that the main reason is fraud.
> This concerns me. How do we assess the AI's interpretation when it comes to what we ourselves can't see?

Sometimes a clue or nudge can trigger a cascade of discovery. Even if that clue is wrong, it causes people to look at something they maybe never would have. In any case, so long as we're reasonably skeptical this is really no different than a very human way of working... have you tried "...fill in wild idea..."

> I'd really prefer we not start filling the gaps with lies formed of regurgitated data pools

A lie requires an intent to deceive and that is beyond the capability of modern AI. In many cases lie can reveal adjacent truth - and I suspect that is what is happening. Regardless, finding truth in history is really hard because many times, the record is filled with actual lies intended to make the victor, ruler or look better.
What is the metric for LLMs? Shouldn't more than just accuracy be measured? If something has high accuracy but low recall, won't it be overfit and fail to generalize? Your metrics would give you false confidence in how effective your model is. Just wondering because the announcement only seems to mention accuracy.
Good looking project I will check this out for sure
Yeah so native apps have some unique abilities to track you that websites do not.

On top of that, platforms like Reddit and Facebook tend to prefer native apps because it's easier to keep you within the app. Even if you click a link to an external website, for example, Facebook will open that link in an in-app browser (unless you find the opt-out). A few years ago, a researcher found out that these apps often inject their own javascript into that in-app browser. In theory, that means FB can track you even on external sites, even if you do not accept cookies for that website. You just brought your own tracker. Facebook then decided they should ship their own entire browser engine, giving them even more control.

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2022/in-app-browsers-are-tr...
Most users don't want reverse chronological feeds. They say they do but they really don't, and fail to appreciate how that would actually work. First, that would incentivize posting more low-value crap just to stay on the top of everyone else's feed. Second, if you don't log on for a while you're likely to miss some major life events (birth, death, marriage, divorce, move, new job) that people most want to see.
Since Eliza we've known that people love interacting with bots, especially if they fake innocence or cause outrage. Us old folks saw it on IRC, crude markov chains puking out bits of the Bible and porn getting large amounts of "engagement" year after year.

Meta knows this and wants to make money off of it. Connecting people around "engagement" failed and caused a lot of murder and that wasn't good for PR and relations to politicians. Keeping people around ads with bots though? Probably seems both safe and lucrative. Come for the mom selling used sports gear, stay for the late night chats with a machine that's a better listener than your over worked partner.
I mean flash drives that plug directly into the computer with no cable.
Show HN: AI-native fast and simple alternative to popular BI solutions
I've seen it a few times. One company replaced the entire QA department with off shore people from India, this didn't go well. Another replaced a bunch of devs with off shore people in Belarus, this did go well.

Disney did it back in 2015 or so.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/do-...
Ask HN: How do you personally plan to handle Elon's scam to drive down wages?
Elon has plans to double the number the H1B visas driving down the price of labor. H1B workers are also easier to exploit and less likely to unionize which is currently the tech sectors biggest fear. More American devs are waking up to the reality that despite being salary workers they should not be consistently working nights and weekends for free. It will be easier to force H1B workers to work long hours for less. I know many on this forum have been around for a while, likewise we're seeing mass layoffs in tech by many companies who've received large government subsidies. What are your personal plans?
... wherein:

"It will demonstrate progress to date, including the now-routine use of relational programming in miniKanren to identify personalized treatments for patients with some of the rarest and most challenging diseases in the world."

... wherefrom I cannot help but be amazed at how personalization through data optimization apparently actually helps solve such things and can be an approach.-
Node.js is a server runtime, it does not run clientside at all. NPM can be used to download server OR client JS packages. A frontend bundler tool (e.g. webpack) can analyze a dependency graph of your client-side entrypoint and bundle all the NPM deps used, which will then be sent and executed on the client. No Node.js components or code are run client-side at any point (caveat - some packages can work server- and client-side).

HTH
Salesforce gotta sell
> "Wage theft" is a bit spicy as well. Are employees entitled to their job at a given wage as some kind of Nativist birth right?

"Entitled" and "Nativist birth right" is loaded language that I think you're using to discredit valid labor concerns. Most people besides techy libertarians with empathy trouble generally think that workers should be getting paid enough to get by on, although opinions on what that level is or how best to accomplish it vary considerably. Having to compete with the slave labor of authoritarian regimes isn't right. Having to compete with indentured servants on H1B visas isn't right. These things are good for corporations, but as Sam Hyde pointed out, they make America worse.
I worked for 9 years at one of the large US softy companies after 40; I worked from home. Got promoted a few times, avoided doing management.
The main challenge is that you would need to write the documentation for a person who might have never used this particular software before.

The information that is in your head might be nonsense for this person, and there is chance that it is not reducing the time it takes to understand in a meaningful way.
I am not sure about the claim by one tweet cited in the article that the approved number per year is exceeding the limit of 85k to 800k. I understand that the limit can be exceeded (transfers and academic positions mainly) but I am not sure that would give x10 increase above the limit.

Does anyone with more understanding and good numbers weight in about that?
> works for some projects and not for others

Precisely why independents exist.

All of that other stuff is your distraction. You can have a mixed strategy. You can tune and innovate over time. Think things through and find what meets opportunity. Clients want work done with out the pain in the ass. Being direct and easy to deal with is “why me” in the first place.

You can invoice in blocks and pre bill ~25% as a retainer of necessary. You work through blocks of hours or features and send “pay the amount of” invoices every week (or as agreed) subtotaled from the projected original.

The first (or routine) invoice is just their professional promise to pay you as agreed if you do the work. Periodic or batch “pay amount of” invoices notch away at these. Keeps everything clear and hassle free.
I've been doing this for a couple years. My feed is better, but they still have plenty of garbage I'm not interested in. I make it a point to scroll until I have blocked two of these - that is my signal that it is time to read. Hopefully if more of us start that rule of two eventually it will be populate enough that they notice and add a mode for those like to better see our friends thus keeping us a little longer (I doubt it, but it would be nice).
I think the vast majority of ad spending goes into the furnace. Most people block it out, skip it, or ignore it. Unless it's really good, or unique, it is just universal noise now.
Passwords are generally defeated by a hammer to the fingers.

Repeat until password is extracted.
Someone who went with me to school 30 years ago and did not sent me an sms or some kind of message - is not my friend and I don’t care.

My distance friends have contact with me at least once a year and mostly at least once a month via WhatsApp.

I do not need feed for that and if someone is gone - it is gone I don’t have time to hunt down people who are not in contact with me anyway.
Yes, they should do the thing that they absolutely do not want to do, that republicans have fought against forever. Musk’s goal isn't efficiency but destruction.
He's a child prodigy who didn't burn out, that does make him quite rare.
You do realize that it was the “open safari and do some searches for ebikes” step that causes you to get the ads in TikTok, right?
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This happens, that much is unarguable. But replacing departments does not disproportionately affect workers over 40 unless that dept is disproportionately over 40, which begs the original question: How can one find such a dept!?
I completely agree that it is a relative "simple" matter to put a fast core in there, the techniques are known. You may not beat an Apple Mx chip, but you could at least get somewhere close to it, like 50% of the performance. And then RISC-V would take off like crazy.
This is assuming they aren't hiding in your other clothes or fabrics, which they are very good at doing. There's a reason why "burn the house down" is a common retort to people asking about bed bugs. They are damn near impossible to get rid of.
How is SMS easier? I can't easily access it on the desktop or the browser. Group SMS chats seem to be non-standard if possible (never seen anyone use it). Sharing things such as photos and videos through SMS is still a broken mess.
Implementing and using a miniKanren was fun and enlightening. And it helped me appreciate how incredibly optimized and fast SWI-Prolog is for relational/logical programming. If someone knows of a miniKanren/language combination that outperforms SWI-Prolog and has good developer ergonomics for relational/logical programming, I’d love to hear about it.
Facebook the app/website is already dead, as only boomers and people like me (not yet boomers but not young, either) are now its only remaining users, while IG is going into the same realm of irrelevance, mostly because millennials (its main audience) have spiritually become boomers-like themselves.

As such, Meta is throwing everything at the wall hoping that something, anything, will stick.
Since OP mentioned quality to me that's almost always synonymous and things like TDD and Agile which I view as a false prophet to quality.
See also rudecaptcha.xyz
Well that’s a new kind of economy AI making apps so AI bots can post around …

Maybe we should just pull the plug already?
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That's true there is nowhere to go but up if you're in a submarine!
I have no idea what the "Chapter 120 defense" is, but online liability concerns were always mostly about libel. That's what led to the CDA Section 230.

https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230

Giving harmful advice generally doesn't create any legal liability so no defense is needed there. It might be bad for PR though.
You just glossed over Nakba again:

”Israel was founded and for sure did some things that weren't great”

The very foundation of Israel is illegitimate. That is the core issue.
Was that not obvious enough when they renamed to Meta?

It seems everyone has forgotten the absolute failure that this shift has been.
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Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.
Video capture cards can be countered with encrypted video from GPU to monitor. That's why you can't screencap 4k Disney+ movies.
More optimism may be creeping back in but there's still a lot more hesitancy, caution, and conservatism in my experience than there was for much of the last decade+ (except probably in AI which is pretty hot overall). It's also not clear how hiring is distributed by seniority. On the one hand, I hear that things are tougher for junior people without networks. On the other hand, I hear that filling slots opened up by attrition are tending to go to more junior/cheaper people.
It's a secure storage spot for crypto keys and performing crypto operations for things like bitlocker and validating device or OSs for secure boot. If you know of the Apple Secure Enclave it's a more generic version of that, a place where even the device vendor (in theory, who knows what techniques the secret squirrels of the world have hidden away) cannot extract the actual key material from only request operations performed using that info.

That's my understanding at least.
This gave me a funny idea for a new social media app...

One that's centered around "you" and filled with thousands/millions of LLM bots praising you, treating you like a celebrity, etc. Each of your posts will get tens of thousands of "likes", hundreds of comments, etc. Dm's straight to your feed, people wanting you, etc etc.

If the newsfeed is already mostly "the algorithm", might as well take it to the extreme. I bet tons of people would get addicted to the dopamine hit of celebrity status (whether it's bots or not).
Show HN: Control multiple 3D printers from a single Raspberry Pi
I built a web service to help manage large printer farms after creating a solution for my brother's online shop with 40 printers.

The system uses NATS for comms between Raspberry Pis and the backend, with each cluster isolated via separate NATS accounts.

Users can download a custom Pi image with pre-configured node credentials.

Based on testing, each Pi can reliably handle 10-20 active printers. Scaling is straightforward - add more Pis to manage more printers.
If you could see several of them, that meant that that hotel room had TONS AND TONS of them.
The richest man in the world, who just fired 90% of his employees and plans on cutting the Department of Education saying Americans are too stupid so we need to remove the caps on indentured labor is the most amusing thing I've seen in a really long time.

Immigration is America's greatest asset, followed closely by the vast oceans that shield our capital from any threats. H1B should be replaced by an auction system that lets in the top paid employees and converts to a green card after one year with the company.
Those E. H. Shepard illustrations are truly spectacular. They remind me a lot of the original Peggy Fortnum Paddington art. That kind of sketchy black and white art can't sustain a big multimedia franchise, but I find it so much more evocative.
Can the gov site see who requests age verification? They already have to know who they're verifying because how else would they verify age?
Sigh Rhetorically: What's the point of pride or doing anything in life if you're not going to try to make something (eventually, objectively) excellent?
I’ve definitely encountered such cases myself (when actual cited paper didn’t support author’s claims).

Nothing prevents the site introducing more direct peer review (published X papers on a topic -> review a paper).

Though If we compare two cases: reading a paper to leave an anonymous review vs reading a paper to cite it. The latter seems like more authentic and useful (less perversed incentives).
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people are allowed to blog why they decided to read more of some genre.

why does it upset you so that someone else wrote their own personal reasons on their own blog?
I use https://github.com/maildev/maildev which you can run from docker. But +1 for dotnet, don't see much of that these days.
The Speed of Human Thought Is Far Slower Than the Average Wi-Fi, Study Suggests
You're right. My post was mainly focusing on expenses and living standards. I'm already contributing above average to my pension and I'm hoping that any above inflation payrises I do get go towards retiring early.
This actually sounds plausible and that it would be successful.
Can a malicious gov site gather a list of which sites are asking for your verification?
Bun package manager (compatible with NPM) doesn't execute any code during package installation.