skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joke with my friends that one day I am going to get a job with Lockheed, Raytheon, etc. and be uncomfortably enthusiastic about the mission. Some sort of workplace live art project.

However, I have luckily only worked at companies in my career that I could really get behind the mission and have in my view a reasonably positive work output. Letting people save money for retirement, or start a business is pretty good. I don't know how my view would change if I worked for something more morally gray.
Related:

The Euthanasia Coaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979326 - March 2023 (3 comments)

Euthanasia Coaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27970824 - July 2021 (12 comments)

Euthanasia Coaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7715102 - May 2014 (106 comments)
That's the bit that puzzles me the most though: you want that bit gone, so why would it fill in what that shimmer looks like? If there's an airplane in the sky that you want gone from a medieval movie frame, so you select the airplane and select "remove", surely it doesn't fill in an airplane because that's the closest match for what's being selected?

I must be missing something obvious but I don't see it mentioned in the submission or comments, or perhaps I'm not making the connection
That statement simply isn't true.

The government attempted to force them to write a new operating system for them that would allow them to get the data on the phone. This was never about the San Bernardino phone, everyone knew there was nothing of any use on it and everyone involved was dead. It was about getting precedent on record that they could force a company to backdoor their OS on a court order.
They eventually dropped their request when it became obvious Apple wasn't going to roll over for them.

Your post reeks of some personal vendetta against Apple, and has no factual basis.
Thank you. I was short on time and didn’t see a good result quickly enough
Netflix funds and produces lots of local productions targeted at local markets, with zero eye towards the US market[0]. They still get international subtitles because that's cheap enough. If those shows turn out to have a more global appeal than expected, great, but they were still only originally targeted at the local market. It makes no sense if Netflix is trying to gain subscribers in Korea to make a Korean show targeted at US audiences.

[0]Example: https://about.netflix.com/ja/news/asura-trailer-special-art
OpenJDK 23 checksum and size don't match
For the JDK 23 version on this site https://jdk.java.net/23/, the checksums mentioned for

macOS / AArch64 tar.gz (sha256) 204386158

don't match the checksums or the file size.

The checksum for MacOS /AArch64 shows cd626e636fdd7e68467a9ca27d71107a27bd500c33ab40a91b57317c0c0f949f on the website, however verifying locally on the Mac gives a different SHA256 checksum.

sha256sum openjdk-23.0.1_macos-aarch64_bin.tar
01c0d6f40533472a5caed6e40f943c120e943a03fcb335da0b081d2520053d24 openjdk-23.0.1_macos-aarch64_bin.tar

What gives? Also the website shows the filesize as 204386158 (or 194.9MB), but the local downloaded file is 349.7MB. Am I doing something wrong or is the OpenJDK site hacked?
Docs are a great defense against clients that demand hand-holding, even if nobody ever actually reads them. If they ask a question covered by the docs, simply point them at the docs and they'll go away indefinitely rather than read something.
Interesting eval but my first reaction is "using Mixtral as a judge doesn't sound like a good idea". Have you tested how different its results are from GPT-4 as a judge (on a small scale) or how stuff like style and order can affect its judgements?

Edit: they have a blog post https://pvq.app/posts/individual-voting-comparison although it could go deeper
This program was one of my first interactions with a pc. This was a wonderful shot of nostalgia.
I read through Google News without logging in, and ever since that thing happened in November, it’s been flooded with crypto stories decorated with AI art. It totally makes sense to me that BTC would appear in this photo, since crypto bros seem to be the ones using AI images the most.
Good for America, thanks to covid that made it possible
Related ongoing thread:

Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42670808 - Jan 2025 (2 comments)
Related ongoing thread:

Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618595 - Jan 2025 (65 comments)
I think daily/weekly you'd shift work hours (that what I do when I have a meeting like that). Global meetings are always a pain, though I'd say the worst meetings are when US-based folks plan a meeting based on their local timezone, as opposed to UTC, because it always ends up at 3am in Australia (so I bow out of those).
I collected some more measurements with different implementations of the get function.

1000000 iterations, buffer 8192, message 128

i9-13900K, gcc 13.3, -O3, kernel 6.8.0-49, glibc 2.39

byte-mod: 0.117353 us/iter

byte-and: 0.065379 us/iter

byte-sub: 0.027865 us/iter

1cpy-mod: 0.001143 us/iter

1cpy-and: 0.001100 us/iter

1cpy-sub: 0.001098 us/iter

2cpy-mod: 0.008140 us/iter

2cpy-and: 0.001100 us/iter

2cpy-sub: 0.007711 us/iter

funny-mod: 0.001145 us/iter

funny-and: 0.001101 us/iter

funny-sub: 0.001100 us/iter

where:

`byte` is per-byte copy

`1cpy` is a single-memcpy (assumes message size divides buffer size evenly)

`2cpy` is the split memcpy (which supports other message sizes)

`funny` is single-memcpy with the double-memmapped buffer

and:

`mod` uses `head %= buffer_size`

`and` uses `head &= buffer_size`

`sub` uses `if (head >= buffer_size) head -= buffer_size`

The tl;dr here is that the doubly memmapped buffer performs the same as the 1-memcpy implementation that doesn't do anything funny and significantly better than all 2-memcpy implementations except `and`. Since your page size is gonna be a power of 2 anyway, this means this trick is not really worthwhile and indeed you should just use `and`. But, compared to the other wrapping implementations it does still provide a tangible improvement. That may just come down to how the compiler was able to optimize it, but I don't feel like nitpicking the generated code to figure out why right now.
Nice, I hope you get a lot out of it! I found much of his thinking familiar in isolation, but appreciated how he put it all together under the umbrella of burnout. It changed my perspective substantially and opened my mind quite a bit regarding how I treat myself.
I would suggest one doesn't have anything to do with the other.
Saying that repeatedly in most settings gets tedious for the audience who'd wonder whether you're alright.

Saying that any relevant technical setting as a newcomer would likely be received politely although many would then point out the ground truth behind that simplification:

Nature has many examples of physical gender not being straightforward; egg tempreture determining development in crocadiles and other reptiles for one.

Even in humans it's less that straightforward for a little over 1% of births and decidedly undecided even by experts with all the machines that beep for about a fiftieth of 1%.

Banging on about it in online forums using throwaway accounts is simply being a sad wannabe edge lord type.
I was mainly thinking of Samsung's SmartTag, not Google's recent venture. I have looked for info on the SmartTags in the past and couldn't find it. I have some Samsung ones myself.

I didn't look at the Google ones because I don't use a Google account. So I couldn't use them anyway.

But good to hear that they did design it well, I'll check that video.
A lot of people on Facebook use their real names, and back before I quit it, I was pretty shocked at the kinds of horrible things people would say under their real name and under a picture of their face, also, knowing full well their friends and family could easily see it. I don't think real names would help that much.
You obviously haven't read the ToS.

> You agree that any and all content, including without limitation any and all text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, animations, and product feedback (collectively, “Content”) that you provide to the public Network (collectively, “Subscriber Content”), is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC BY-SA 4.0)

That requires named attribution, which SO violated, voiding the license.
Wildfires in 1970 brought FIRESCOPE, changing how emergencies are managed (2019)
Control over capital to a highly centralized degree makes their (Jamie’s) job easier. I’m not sure I would blindly call that “demonstrably competent”. The banking system is also held up by the government and the reserve system and regulations that make competition low, so it isn’t like some theoretical perfectly competitive space.
You can "favorite" comments
Thanks for the reply. Would like to see whether the chat template is cause of this strange behavior.
This was a few years ago in the EU, but I admit I'm not the most knowledgeable on employment law.
> Images are often too smooth, videos too robotic and rhythmic, water too shiny, etc. Trained eyes can easily distinguish between AI and real.

That's likely to get better. Last year, consistently getting fingers and arms right was tough. This year, there are AI-generated violin playing videos.

> I would never assume the AI answer to a consequential problem to be authoritative, unless it shows me the source and I can click on the link to verify the source and the data presented (search engine use case).

That remains the elephant in the room - the tendency to make up fake answers. Until that's fixed, LLMs are only useful for problems where the cost of such errors is an externality, dumped on the consumer.
Sort of. It was kind of handy when int would be the natural machine size, 16-bit on 16-bit hardware, 32 on 32. But making int be 64-bit leaves a gap, so it’s generally stuck at 32-but even on 64-bit hardware. And then people couldn’t agree on whether long should be 32 or 64 on 64-bit platforms, so now none of the basic integer types will typically give you the natural machine size on both 32 and 64-bit targets. At this point, if you want the “biggest integer that goes fast on this hardware” then your best bet is probably intptr_t or size_t.
The amount of inferences and insinuations you draw is a perfect example of why the Chatham House Rule is needed. I wonder how biologists discuss the issue if one hypothesis is outright forbidden. Note also that Ketanji Brown Jackson evaded the question when asked in a hearing.
> Its allowing a class of pilots to fly who know less and less, and are more reliant on the automation. With deadly results.

This is a plausible hypothesis, but it is reflected in the data? Flying has gotten safer and safer over the years, but of course that's got a multitude of effects contributing to it, not just the skill of the pilots. Reliance on automation is effectively a requirement for modern aircraft given the number of control systems which are critical to the pilot having any control of the aircraft. I've seen Boeing criticized for their approach here: while Airbus's interface is more or less "you are directing a series of control systems, not flying the plane directly", Boeing has essentially tried to concoct an elaborate illusion that a gigantic airliner is a Cessna, which a leaky abstraction even if it makes the pilot feel like they are "closer to the metal". (I could draw a comparison to C programmers who feel the same thing despite the great honking illusion of an optimizing compiler in between).
It’s odd that MS is releasing models they are competitors to OA. This reinforce the idea that there is no real strategic advantage in owning a model. I think the strategy is now offer cheap and performant infra to run the models.
That guy was right predicting conflicts. The comments on that post are something.
Good find!

I was briefly thinking what if techcrunch was using Automattic but quickly dismissed the thought.
FWIW, Phi-4 was converted to Ollama by the community last month:

https://ollama.com/vanilj/Phi-4
I'm absolutely not an Apple fanboy actually. I use Samsung phones. And FOSS on my computers. I moved away from iOS and Mac years ago because I found them too locked in.

I don't trust Samsung and Google as far as I can throw them but apparently in this case they did an ok job. And unfortunately there's no meaningful alternative to the duopoly of iOS and Android. So I was left with two bad choices.

But I don't trust any big tech no. It's just really hard to do without them, sadly.
That theory has always seemed to me like the tail wagging the dog--a relatively small tail (commercial real estate) wagging a big dog (trillion dollar companies). If you look at the balance sheet of these companies, real property is significant, but almost always far from the largest investment they have made.
The problem is that, remarkably, there’s always a reason not to build. A different site in Chile will probably have some obscure species of beetle, or rocks that someone has interpreted as an Indigenous site, or some minor highway that can’t handle the traffic, etc etc etc, so that we can’t build there either.
Superior for those under 25 or broke. Author forgot some features of hostels:

- Sharing a small space with loud, rude, drunk, and smelly people.

- Forced to hear other people’s music, videos, and phone conversations.

- Shared toilets and showers not cleaned very often.

- Curfews.

- Constant risk of some “chill” hostel companion stealing your stuff.

- Staying in inconvenient, low-rent, even dangerous parts of town.

If you like the frat house experience or can’t afford something nicer, go for the hostels.

And anyone can pay for cheaper laundry service in places like Mexico or SE Asia. Or learn how to wash your own clothes.
JPM is also building a new 3 billion dollar tower in NYC, right? I believe it just finished all exterior construction work recently and interior is finishing up soon this could also just be a way to prop up the value of real estate. They directly own a lot of real estate, have many client assets parked in real estate, and the collateral for a lot of their lending is also real estate. The RTO trend helps them not face massive losses, effectively by stealing from all the employees worldwide that have to endure lengthy commutes and live in a few concentrated (and therefore expensive) locations.
Yeah I gather now. That's pretty cool for a company like Google. I still think they're evil though. But in this case it appears they did a good job.
> my understanding is that originally deep links required a special non-domain to be registered that was separate from a normal web url.

You might be thinking of protocol handlers, like oacon:// to open something in software installed to handle that (in this case, launching openarena to connect directly from a dpmaster mirror with such application links included). I don't think they were called deep links back then, just different protocols, like http in http://example.org is a protocol that your browser is configured to handle and ftp:// used to be as well

These are still in relatively common use today, but on mobile devices it has become the norm to hijack specific domain names or even a path (e.g. F-Droid will try to handle repositories on third-party domains for you by trying to hook¹ any URL that contains */fdroid/repo/* -- so far, this has always been useful to me, but I can see the flip side). This link hijacking is often a pain for me as anyone linking to any Google product will make my phone try to open some Play Services component, which is largely not functional. I can't get rid of the system component (e.g. replace it with microG) without installing a custom ROM, which I can't do without getting rid of half the device's special features (no point having this phone then), but I also don't want it pinging back to the mothership so... a pain it shall be

As for your problem, reset the app's settings and it'll re-prompt you the next time you click one of these links in which app these links should open. It should do that any time there is (newly) more than one app that can handle any given URL

¹ https://github.com/f-droid/fdroidclient/blob/be028d71c2a25b9...
> Yea. The "What's going to be taboo in 30 years" question is a good one. I don't know and I don't have a good answer to that. I personally don't worry about it because it's never occurred to me to walk up close to the line of what's acceptable. I have pretty vanilla opinions.

30 years is a long time. Even the most vanilla of opinions can become entirely taboo in less time than that. Take gay marriage as an example. In 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act became law. Joe Biden, Harry Reid, and Chuck Schumer were among the Congressmen who voted in favor of it, and Bill Clinton signed it. In 2008, Barack Obama said "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage." Even Obama's statement would be taboo today, let alone passing such a bill.
On iOS the app can ask to take over certain https urls. The web site also needs to have a special file to grant this access. Bluesky is choosing to do this to you. I used this for a login / reset flow about a decade ago, so it's been around for a while.

There also is the ability to register for a URL "scheme" (the bit that replaces "https"), which I believe is what you're thinking of and it does predate the https thing, but both have been around for a while. I'm guessing companies have just gotten more aggressive about using the https one.

Edit: and yes it is annoying, I've uninstalled the GitHub app because of this.
"Need" has nothing to do with why SSO is expensive. There is no meaningful difference, from a business model perspective, between SAML and OIDC (though: don't do SAML). SSO is expensive because customers that require it are less price sensitive than customers that don't.

By all means: build your own SSO on the open core of products that charge for SSO. I promise: the companies don't really care that you're doing this. You're profoundly segmenting yourself out by doing that.
Seconded. Also imagine not just shouting feedback at a person who doesn't care but that function being replaced by an llm that literally can't care.
I did US East Coast / Shanghai for one project. We got really good at asynchronous messaging, and that went a long way.

Still didn't fix the 1-workday latency for discussions, though.
They'll just add a disclaimer somewhere.
So most companies are shitty companies that deserve to go out of business. Got it!
Worked for American companies for 25 years. Generally Americans come across as more confident, and yet conform to hierarchy in a way I've never seen en-masse in Australian culture. It always seemed to be that only the most weirdo Americans are blind to relative status, whereas for many Australians it's the norm?

Employment-at-will takes some cultural adjustment, too. But for tech folks tends to be a net win. You just need to set your expectations accordingly!
He used the SPAC to get UMG to the table then purposely structured the deal in a way that if SEC did not approve he would have to buy it with his fund. Thus leveraging the spac and all the hype around it to get what he really wanted, UMG in his fund.

Ackman's fund is now the second largest owner of UMG, and spac investors have worthless sparcs waiting for sec approval years later.

If you follow Ackman you will see his m.o. plays out like this over and over on every deal and boardroom he is a part of.

Edit: Also a large amount of retailers were in warrants and got $0 back.
I just buy them in the shop. We have this shop called "Action" that sells a brand called "Fresh 'n' Rebel". They sell a pack of 3 tags for 16€. They work well. I have a bunch of them and also put some in some of my more expensive electronics so I can track them when they get stolen (with the speaker disabled of course)
I think they want/need a plan b in case OpenAI falls apart like it almost did when Sam got fired.
We are specifically discussing scene-referred image data—the raw pixel values obtained from a digital camera sensor. That is where unrecoverable information loss occurs at capture time. Parsing that data is when LR et al. engage various highlight reconstruction algorithms that fill in the missing information. My point is that a lot of that loss is often avoidable at capture time.
> the compiler only knows about what lexically precedes it. […] it drives programmers to lay out the declarations backwards. The leaf functions come first, and the global interface functions are last. It’s like reading a newspaper article from the bottom up. It makes no sense.

Defining functions on a “bottom-up” order like this is common even in languages like Python which allow forward references. [0]

Is that just a holdover from languages which don’t allow such references? Or does it actually make more sense for certain types of code?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/73131538
It's funny/sad how many of these "we must return to the office" speeches are given by CEOs, over Zoom, sitting in their third home in Aspen or Monaco.
Still. Asking the user is important. Even when there isn't anything you can see.
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D had compile time execution of functions in 2007.

Order-independent top level declarations.

Underscores embedded in integer literals. (I stole this idea from Ada, which had been forgotten. Soon after D popularized it, it became standard in other languages.)

Continue or break to labeled loop.

Fixed sizes for ints, longs, etc.

Of course, I don't know if there's a straight line here, and Zig is welcome to use any features from D that they like. But it's just interesting that things innovated in D pop up in subsequent designs.
What sector was the company in?
I’m an Australian that has worked a lot with US companies.

The most boastful Australian companies I have worked with have also been the least effective.

Consultancies tend to be very boastful, but they have to be constantly selling themselves.

The other boastful culture I worked in was a big bank.

They had some of the worst over-complicated software, and a horrible culture, it seemed like the only way to rise in the company was salesmanship.
I scream into the void after reading this post: "Please give even a 10th of that money you wasted on that SaaS to the maintainer(s) of the OSS alternative, even while you're trialing it internally!"
Ford is cutting back production because they aren't seeing the necessary growth. Even if nothing else changes, they will continue to lose money selling them.
In my experience (outside of bigtech but in the B-tier of VC-funded startups), "change the world" hyperbole is rare, but most founders and founding devs are pretty confident they can improve some specific topic for some specific niche of people. And it's sometimes even true for the ones that provide real services.
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I thought ollama was just a convenience wrapper around llama.cpp?