skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to name and shame… and also have enough influence to have your post rise against the sea of garbage out there.

Most people’s post wouldn’t get looked at at all, 3blue1brown is fortunate to have such a large audience so that his complaint gets looked at by a human.
> the right side of history.

A particularly odious moral framework, mostly used to justify mass murder.
Quartz is an analog mechanism like a pendulum. It doesn't stop at each cycle.
Either way, someone needs to sue them.
I have, many times in the last 2 or 3 years... I still do... It's cheap and easy to implement, it's easy to use and it ads just as much cruft as I'm willing to tolerate. I build boring software, average CRUD applications for government departments, people in this line of work don't give a shit about millisecond delays or reactivity, hell, they don't even care about responsiveness... jQuery facilitates high speed development, provides neat functionality that doesn't get in the way, it's easy to maintain, and keeps people happy.
For context, the liberal party is right of centre these days. We don't even have a "far-left" party. The NDP is solidly left, probably slightly left of what the liberals were years ago when this poster thinks things were wonderful.

We do have fringe parties that are far-left, that basically get a handful of votes a year, and we have one far-right party, the People Party of Canada, that gets enough votes to occasionally get some news coverage.
He's overreacting. Its a matter of perspective. From the perspective of most of us here, asking ChatGPT to convert 3 minutes to seconds sounds trivial. We can do this conversion in our heads effortlessly in a fraction of a second. Because we've been doing it our entire lives on a daily basis. But for an 11-year-old kid, it can be a challenge. Why bother straining your brain if you can just ask ChatGPT... We are wired to avoid thinking and take the easy path. I bet that the things he's asking ChatGPT will appear equally trivial to somebody else.

The best way to handle this would be to talk to her and convince her to not use ChatGPT...
I don't have a horse in this race, but I would have found it useful if you wrote what exactly you find terrifying. It's often in this kind of discussions that someone says "Things said here are X", but there are things said on both sides and I literally cannot tell even which side the speaker is on.
"In 1971, official date of the birth of topos theory, unfortunately the dream team at
Dalhousie was dispersed. What happened, that made you go to Denmark ?

Some members of the team, including myself, became active against the Vietnam
war and later against the War Measures Act proclaimed by Trudeau.

That Act,similar in many ways to the Patriot Act 35 years later in the US, suspended civil liberties under the pretext of a terrorist danger.

(The alleged danger at the time was a Quebec group later revealed to be infiltrated by the RCMP, the Canadian secret police.)

Twelve communist bookstores in Quebec (unrelated to the terrorists) were burned down by police;

several political activists from various groups
across Canada were incarcerated in mental hospitals, etc. etc.

I publicly opposed the consolidation of this fascist law, both in the university senate and in public demonstrations.

The administration of the university declared me guilty of “disruption of academic activities”.

Rumors began to be circulated, for example, that my categorical arrow diagrams were actually plans for attacking the administration building.

My contract was not renewed"

https://www.mat.uc.pt/~picado/lawvere/interview.pdf
"It would be weird if we rounded for years, months and days, that's for sure. "

We round years too, otherwise I would be in my 30s.
Imagine being on that team, and going home every day and reflecting on your career choices.
I do wish they continued on this track instead of apple intelligence. I should be enable to click generate audiobook in iBooks and have an audiobook made in any voice of my choosing. Open source solutions are far too slow on macOS, and subpar in other languages.
The point is that we use 12:00 to note a time between 12:00:00.0 (inclusive) and 12:01:00.0 (exclusive). Saying that 12:00 is a time between 11:59 and 12:01 implies that the range of error is twice as big as it actually is.

How long between 12:01:00.0 and 12:00 (as read on a clock)? Between 0 and 60 seconds.

How long between 11:59:00.0 and 12:00 (as read on a clock)? Between 60 and 120 seconds.
.NET languages have always had access to unsafe feature subsets at multiple levels of abstraction with varying degrees of "unsafety". .NET has also been slowly leaning more into its systems-programming side. It is now at a strange crossroads where it is not like C or C++, or as a much better replacement, Rust but not like Java or Go either.
Wouldn't you rather have a nice breakfast though?
That was a long and tedious article. It describes how to adopt a hardened & transactional mindset. UGH.

Consumer sales is not Software Sales. In general - the professionals/engineers/managers I spoke with were really gracious and insightful.

Most sales organizations operate like a factory producing widgets. This is fine. It produces outcomes at the lowest possible cost of sales.

There are times when there is no substitute for elite sales:
1) Getting customer #2-100.
2) Most products which sell for over 200k
3) Complex engagements with multiple decision makers

I worked in early stage startups and sold software to the Global 2000.

How?
1) Never contact someone unless you have very (*very) strong indicators that what you are offering has high value to them and their goals
2) KNOW what you are talking about. Be able to engage in conversations about their technical infrastructure, options, goals and politics.
3) The goal of every call is to add value... NOT to make a sale. Adding value will open doors and people pick up the phone. Trusted peers provide referrals. They provide insight.

A classic failure of early stage founders it to mistake the factory model of sales (efficiency) for the required model of sales (inefficient, research based, strategic).

To site the Cynefin framework (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework) They mistake mistakenly believe that sales is simple and can be structured like a factory.

Most sales people are factory workers. They crank widgets.

Most products don't have sufficient margin to justify hiring expensive talent.

Professional sales is complex, chaotic, political, layered with inter-dependencies, and fought with constraints. It's a great career -- once you get good at it.
How do you solve cross talk in congested areas? Made worse by the fact that mesh networks have a significant communication overhead.
As a React developer, I love that HTMX is trying to aim for stewardship and "No new features as a feature". IMO, page router NextJS is perfect (and in line with the original API it pitched), and the bifurcation to app/page router has been complicated. Yes, I am fully aware that NextJS works with both app/page. I just find it mentally confusing to wrap my head around both worlds.

I feel this way about base React too, including -- functional/class components, hooks/non-hooks, and more recently, RSCs/Client components. Although I'm more willing to see React as an evolving research project, as contradictory as this may sound.
I had a watchface on my Pebble smartwatch that only displayed time in five-minute intervals. This post is making me question whether it rounded up or not.

I have to assume it did because I didn't start being late for everything.

In case you want to see it: https://pebblestyle.com/watchface/BVmexStjq3j/
But if every clock was like that, then 12:59:30 would be the new 13:00:00
Run _what_ on the GPU? All of Blender?
"Text-like" meaning easy to parse and universally understood. With language-specific (or indeed, all) AST/generic tree attributes serialized in a uniform way that does not entirely break parsing if an editor does not understand one of them. I.e. I can edit code even if my editor doesn't understand the language and doesn't give me syntax highlighting and completion. More, that that 'understanding' can be factored out of the editor core, as is done with language servers today.
Hexrays used to be difficult to deal with if you want to purchase IDA Pro for the first time, due to their software getting leaked online.

They have eased the procedure to buy from them, but from time to time they'll ask you to fill out your info with national ID/passport (they say its because they don't want to sell their software to individuals under sanctions). This is despite them being based in Belgium (not the US).

For any serious work IDA Pro is highly suitable (the customization and scripting, loader examples and processor plugins...etc), on the other hand for side projects and basic security research Binary ninja and ghidra can go along way.
The trick is not to lock and use static friction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiction

Hm, the stiction page on Wikipedia does not explain how it relates to braking. Maybe check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_braking
The problem is tests/quizzes and especially standardized ones. They have never been good teaching tools, and teachers have been railroaded into using them because they provide a blunt way to measure outcomes at a population level. But real teaching is 1:1 and teachers have a lot of power, it's just stuff that doesn't scale and you can't mandate organizationally. But this has mostly always been the case. Trying to measure student performance with a student who is more interested in gaming the process than learning is a fools' errand.
> Imagine if you could link your email client and your web browser closely together so that every site that offered a magic link "just worked". You click a button, it emails you, your email client silently notifies the web browser and deletes the email, and then you get logged in.

How the hell do you think that’s better? Passkeys are absolutely portable, many of the password managers on the market allow you to export them.

What happens if google suddenly decides to deactivate your account?
Running it async will prevent the main screen from lagging:

(async () => {
const delay = (ms) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
for (let i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
document.getElementsByClassName('main-btn')[0].click();
await delay(5); // 5 ms sleep
}
})();
At one point I built a type-based state machine core for Java. The idea was to use interfaces and classes as the basis for defining what transitions are allowed, and as a way to store the associated fields. It relied on Java's type-checking to guide you into using it correctly.

public interface TurnstileState {}

public interface LockedState extends TurnstileState {}
public class UnlockedState implements TurnstileState {
public final int credits;
public UnlockedState(int credits) {
this.credits = credits;
}
}

public static final LockedState LOCKED = new LockedState() {};

StateMachine<TurnstileState> turnstile = StateMachine.<TurnstileState>.newBuilder()
.addValidTransition(LockedState.class, UnlockedState.class)
.addValidTransition(UnlockedState.class, LockedState.class)
.addValidTransition(UnlockedState.class, UnlockedState.class)
.buildWithInitialState(LOCKED);

turnstile.transition(new UnlockedState(1));

I never got around to building out examples in Kotlin. I feel like the type checking there would streamline a ton of this even further.

https://github.com/Hounshell/st8 if anyone wants to see the gory bits.
Your analogy doesn't match my statement. I am saying there should be a canonical location for what you create that is on a URL that you own. Everything else is distribution.

You built a house on someone else's land, and then they tore it down. Build a house on your own land, as small as that land may be. From there you can create roads, bridges, tunnels to other people's land. On the web land is infinite. You can make your own land.
Deere Goes Driverless Beyond Midwest Farms to Ease Labor Crunch
Unless it's an old AC-motor clock
That’s an improvement on what lazy teachers do now, grade the students current assignment based on their previous work or reputation or how much they like the student.

Tip for students: do well on your first assignment. The better teachers will give you the benefit of the doubt for mistakes on your future work. The bad teachers will just give you the same grade.

Having older siblings and friends with older siblings and resubmitting their essay is eye opening.
To be fair I think Sam's belief is very genuine here. I remember way back in the day when asked how they would make money, he said "we will just ask the agi". People laughed then but that future seems closer than when he responded with that?

Having said that I don't think conscious AGI is possible in this path. It would probably be cracked by the Chinese because the American way is brute force. The Chinese way is more yin yang and lesser investments (forced hand maybe) which will force research on more energy conservative methods.

The key to conscious AI is energy conservation.
Yes, this bothered be as well - the department of government efficiency is, as with all government agencies, is working for the public good in the public interest. This means everything must default to being open, unless there is a good reason not to be (military, CIA etc).

I don't trust Elon, and don't see why DOGE should (or could) be secret - unless it's a cover to acquire more power, which seems to be his true objective. (recently, at least)
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/citations-needed
> For most machine learning systems, "performance equivalent to an expert human" is the best you can expect - simply because it's learned from training data labelled by expert humans.

However, this is one of the few cases where presumably the data could be perfect, far exceeding the ability of a expert human.

Some things have no ground truth. For example, masking objects for training vision object detection models. Does the object end at this pixel or that one?
Harvard passes 98% of intake.

The quality of the teaching or learning seems almost irrelevant already.
No, it would be a landslide only in one sense, the first past the post sense. Not in any other sense. The majority of individuals would still not want the cons in power, but with FPTP the left vote gets split.
That's one of the things that makes Stimulation Clicker so good, by being exposed to the most extreme version, it helps you identify other engineered attention grabbers in everyday life.
i would recommend the homepage & docs:

https://htmx.org

https://htmx.org/docs

and if you want a more in depth treatment, our book (free online):

https://hypermedia.systems
They can also be quite messy and hard/annoying to follow/parse since a lot of screen real estate is used for trivial things. For example the first graph wastes 300x250 pixels several times for what would be a single character in a text-based language (and that's if you ignore the padding between the nodes since you could claim that whitespace in a text-based language serves the same purpose).

And unlike a text-based language where there is (usually) a single flow path going towards a single direction, with graphics like the one in the article you have several "flows" so your eyes need to move all over the place all the time to connect the "bits" in order to figure out what is going on.

Though that last part could probably be solved by using DRAKON graphs instead (which can also use less screen space) since those have a more strict flow.

IMO graph-based visual languages are nice for very high level flows but the moment you need to use more than a couple "dot product" or "add values" nodes, it is time to switch to a text-based one.
> Crazy how only Canada has used emergency powers to curtail opposition.

As opposed to using it to curtail support? It was used against occupiers and there is no Charter right to that (2011 ONSC 6862; 2024 ONSC 3755).

> We basically have 0 rights rights the moment a majority decides that we don't. I guess that's the perks of having an incredibly ineffective constitution.

Wat?

* https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and...

There are multiple cases where governments (with majorities) have passed legislation that was successfully challenged under the Charter.

Further, the Emergencies Act was written post-Charter, with it in mind:

> AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council, in taking such special temporary measures, would be subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights and must have regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly with respect to those fundamental rights that are not to be limited or abridged even in a national emergency;

* https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/page-1.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergencies_Act
how do you feel about its adoption in things like https://fastht.ml/ ? i was open to the idea at first esp with jeremy howard's endorsement, but once you start updating multiple things on a page at once i felt like i was fighting htmx rather than it helping me. components are a really neat paradigm and just bc react is currently in a complexity upswing doesnt mean we want to throw the baby out with bathwater
minor nit: it seems like they're not rasterizing every pixel on cpu, instead just generating heightmap values instead, which is a lot lower resolution?

and games like Dreams have proven that you can ship world class experiences using CPU rasterization. If it's easier and it performs good enough, nothing wrong with it.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting the article. But I fail to see how the question (or leaving a conversation in the middle) added anything to the solution. Their colleague executed despite a problematic conversation.
Ditto. It was also running at about 3 fps on my iPhone 12 on safari.

It was a nice shopping trip worth of fun though.
I accidentally refreshed the screen, fuuuuuck
Haven't lisp coders been doing this forever with emacs?
I spent an embarrassing amount of time playing this. Eventually it became overwhelming, but for a while it was (un)surprisingly engaging.
Not being a part of the states is our national identity. It’s just very fringe minority who dabbles with the idea of joining the USA.
Not at all. Highest standard would have been a engineered materials arresting system, which the airport didn’t have.
On the contrary, in three years we will be used to AI which requires much newer tech than available today. The current tech will be obsolete.

We have seen that play out with all the previous AI chips (mostly Google).

The software and its requirements are moving faster than devices can be shipped and accumulate significant marketshare.

This is not to say thay Google and Apple haven't or won't be able to ship some minor models such as voice recognition or translation, but for frontier level AI the local chips just won't suffice.
Can definitely promise all resumes are reviewed by an actual human pending an applicant's answers on specific application questions (ie. do you require sponsorship [we aren't set up to accommodate visas at this time], are you willing to complete a background check, etc.) that would indeed cause an application to be auto-rejected.
I’m now imagining Torvalds riding a hell-hawk.
No they played that one pretty straight. You were supposed to be just as confused as MC. If they wanted you to think anything else, they would have given a knowing wink.
For positive numbers, both the FLOOR() and TRUNC() functions return the same values
> Phoenix Project

When that book came out, I actually COULD NOT BELIEVE that someone wrote A NOVEL about project management that was NOT some type of farce, comedy, or venomous satire.

Not sure if this is my gen-x mindset playing tricks on me or what.
I'd like a couple of laws whereby if you charge or make money through something, you need to have some human monitoring.

Surely there's precedent is it not illegal to operate an unmonitored industrial factory
But neither is it continuous. It ticks. The mechanism might be made from iron, but a part of it is not unlike a floor function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapement
The 10th remake of Demolition Man in 2090 is going to wild
Wow. Came here expecting to read about truckers and instead learned something really useful! Thank you!
>Perfect performance would simulate semantic understanding, no?

The thought experiment argues the exact opposite. The idea is you can have perfect Chinese but not understand a single word of what you are saying. The argument is that syntax (procedure based operation) and semantics (understanding) are distinct and separable.

As you extend the scope of the Chinese room from a single task (e.g. Chinese conversation) to human behavior in general, it converges with the question of if philosophical zombies can exist.

In terms of the Chinese room, the distinction IS the difference.
Yes but people actually think about 20th percentile Harvard vs 20th BU, and correctly deduces that Harvard would be better path.

Parents are worried about the worst case scenario, and going to Harvard raises that floor by ensuring they can get noticed straight out of graduation, even if they are bottom of the class.
> One could endlessly go on...

Yet, apparently one will instead sidestep the discussion entirely. Frankly the more you've tried to answer the question the less you actually answer it...

I don't see how "rapidly transitioning from a high-trust to a low-trust society" or "she's got 2 bikes stolen ... this would be inconceivable to me during my time living in the same town" reflect failures in Canadian government at all, really.

Has societal trust actually increased anywhere in the developed world? Sure, our governments have had their share of failures, but it would actually take an extraordinary vision and effort to increase societal trust as technology and population advance.

Is it possible your sister had a shockingly unlucky semester? Or that your world model was simply naive and wrong 10 years ago? Hard to say since the anecdote isn't really evidence of anything.
Ask HN: Are competency based behavioral interviews a thing in your company?
We’ve been exploring ways to make our hiring process (for engineers, PMs and designers) more structured, particularly around behavioral interviews. We have a competency framework that outlines the key traits and skills we value in candidates, but a big challenge has been ensuring that all interviewers are calibrated and evaluating candidates consistently.

It often feels like interpretations of the framework vary, and this sometimes leads to misaligned decisions or feedback. I’m curious to know how others approach this problem.

Do you have a competency framework that matters in your hiring process?

If so, how do you train or guide interviewers to apply it consistently?

Are there tools, techniques, or processes that have worked well for you?
They are emphasizing the queuing implementation.
A rising trend of 'murderous verbs' in movies over 50 years
Most criminal convictions are based on circumstantial evidence. True crime podcasts and shows have made the general population expect a higher level of evidence. I can't say I disagree.