skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't the point of providing the data to give bidders a reason to bid (no point in bidding outside their market)?

Yes

> If so, that would give all data to any bidder, as claimed above.

No, the big networks like Google or BidSwitch (which is an aggregator of traffic from other networks), they send you a randomized % of the requests.

The more you buy ("win-rate"), the more this % increase (so the number of requests per second you are allowed to receive.)

Some networks don't care or are too small, so they send you 100% all the time.
> There's reliable, and there's reliable. For example [1] is a conversation where I ask ChatGPT 4o questions about a seven-page tabular PDF from [2] which contains a list of election polling stations.

From your description, it does perfectly at the task asked about upthread (extraction) and has mixed results on other, question-answering, tasks, that weren't the subject.
> The linear-algebra primitives used in LLM inference, fundamentally do not have the power to allow an LLM to "emulate" its own internals […] You need host support for that.

Neither do biological brains (explicitly), yet we can hypothesize just fine.
One of the smartest people I know almost quit software her first year out of school, because her all-male team spent an afternoon teasing her about how they were going to start a strip poker game and they think she'd be "a natural", or some nonsense like that. Do you think such dynamics introduce barriers to female participation in tech? Do you think focusing solely at the "bottom of the funnel" could still result in a lack of diversity if the "top of the funnel" isn't pleasant for certain demographics to work? Do you think such an event would've occurred without pushback on a team with more than 1 woman? Do you think what you consider to be "common sense" is shaped very much by your personal experience, and that you'd have no "common sense" intuition for how frequently things like this happen because it doesn't personally impact you?
I just finished Silent Spring last fall and was shocked to learn they already knew DDT and other pesticides were causing leukemia back in 1960. I guess PR from the chemical companies is working, because I would have guessed 1979-1985.
Instead of reading that book there is a painting called Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image by Gerard van Honthorst that’s worth checking out
Otel seems complicated because different observability vendors make implementing observability super easy with their proprietary SDK’s, agents and API’s. This is what Otel wants to solve and I think the people behind it are doing a great job.
Also kudos to grafana for adopting OpenTelemetry as a first class citizen of their ecosystem.

I’ve been pushing the use of Datadog for years but their pricing is out of control for anyone between mid size company and large enterprises. So as years passed and OpenTelemetry API’s and SDK’s stabilized it became our standard for application observability.

To be honest the documentation could be better overall and the onboarding docs differ per programming language, which is not ideal.

My current team is on a NodeJS/Typescript stack and we’ve created a set of packages and an example Grafana stack to get started with OpenTelemetry real quick.
Maybe it’s useful to anyone here: https://github.com/zonneplan/open-telemetry-js
What makes you say that? I'm pretty sure it's one of the more heavily verified industries. If it wasn't, air travel would be much more dangerous.
In the bisubstitution example, I cannot see the difference between the source lemma and the target lemma. It looks like A=>A proof. Am I blind?
EF does not administer the TOEFL, but a competing English test, the EF SET, which can be taken online for free.

When fewer people take a test, I would expect the average score to go up, since the people who do take it are likely more motivated.

But it's all within the range of historical variation anyway.

https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/regions/asia/china/
Yes they do? Object that fell from the skies identified as separation ring from a rocket (66 points, 9 days ago, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567795
The more fundamental issue is that it’s legally a temporary visa program even though no one uses it that way. The law even acknowledges this with the dual intent doctrine.

If we are going to reform things we might as well scrap the visa altogether and roll whatever changes are needed into the employment based resident visas, including if necessary adjusting the numbers.

Of course that won’t happen because Congress doesn’t pass major overhauls of anything anymore. But if we are going to dream, might as well dream big.
Show HN: My first platform - "Codify" – A different take on GPT's
Hi HN,

Like many folks, I found myself in a bit of a rut during COVID—feeling isolated, drinking/smoking a lot etc...just to cope, and just not sure where life or my projects were heading. Then, I came across Marc Andreessen’s “It’s Time to Build,”. I wanted to build something that could become a verb, like “Google it” or “FB me.” I landed on “Codify.”

Codify (definition): To arrange according to a plan or system. To arrange information in a manner easy to follow.

What is Codify (.digital)?

tl;dr - a way to use ai to solve problems in real live and implement the plans etc...

tl;dr (o1) - A Workflow Automation Platform Powered by AI

Codify is a simple way to create and/or follow complex multi-party workflows. Over time, I noticed that every project I’d attempted—dietmanager (MNT workflow), phm.ai (health management workflow), a5150.health (mental health workflow)—all boiled down to the same thing: structured processes and steps that needed a smarter, more flexible automation tool. Codify is my attempt at unifying these into one platform with agentic-AI as the engine and SME driving the car via HIL.

Cool Accomplishments

- agents know when to request a HIL for a decision

- agents know when an interaction violates and industry standard

Take a look if this sounds interesting to you and LMK what you think.

Main:
https://codify.digital

Examples:

- https://crohns.ai

- https://dietmanager.com

- https://xx.clinic

- https://abstain.la

Note: In a way programs are like GPT's but they engage people, spend money etc...

Note: phm.ai is broken for most because of a DNS issue w/ heroku and multi level subdomains so you can try <co>.phm.ai or los-angeles.ca.us.phm.ai

Note: you can make, buy, sell, follow and publish programs but you cant create white labels (tenants) at the moment.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIaJZ13A0UQ

— Arion Hardison
I had my Twitter account for almost 15 years before deleting it.

I hadn't blocked ANYBODY for 13 of those years, but towards the end I was blocking dozens of users per day.
Not not just, "I don't agree with this person" but "Wow this person is genuinely hateful and not contributing anything meaningful, and I would rather not see that."
This is a good point. How about a per state auction instead? Where each state gets an allocation based on its population.
This is just not true. We have traces with hundreds of thousands of spans. Those are not very readable but that’s another problem.
> Anyone can come in and just apply for jobs, get work visa and steal a job from an American citizen.

The main mistake being made here is assuming that employment is a fixed sum game. Bringing highly skilled individuals from around the world to the US promotes US growth. A study has even shown that higher H-1B denial rate results in a decrease of US positions by multinational companies. [0]

> If American Labor is subjected to unchecked global competition from global talent pool, then so should be American Capital.

I'm not sure how that follows. Protective tariffs as a response to state subsidies don't really have an equivalent for labor.

[0] https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/fil...
Huh? The H-1B Visa was never about "top talent". It's about mass "skilled labor".

Is Bloomberg confusing it with O-1 Visas?

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
Elon musk was on H1B when he was working for a startup.

I think it is valid to allow startups hire H1Bs.

Mind you today it is extremely hard and a lot of early atage atartups dont even bother to hire h1b due to uncertainty if the lottery
All those satellites are in low enough orbits to have lifespans measured in single-digit years. They will not stay in orbit as "junk".
Appreciated! It happens. I hope things have started to get better.
I don't think the recent H1B debacle spread outside the boundary of tech very much simply because a) There is now an increasing abundance of domestic tech workers, and b) The layoffs haven't been so severe outside as much as in tech.

Fields like Architecture, Agriculture, Forestry, Medicine, etc still need a lot of skilled workers that may not be available domestically. So I'm increasingly skeptical whenever someone claims that the solution to H1B is auctioning or a significant increase in wages as other fields outside of tech may not have the resource to bid for talents. US already has a diversity based immigration system called DV, maybe a diversity based system w.r.t. jobs is warranted?
JP Morgan Chase requires all workers to return to office five days a week
I have a true vision-based super power.

my vision is so bad with nearsightedness that when I take corrective lenses off, I can focus on an ipad mini screen within 10" of my face and perceptually it is the same as focusing on a distant movie theater screen. No straining, eyes totally relaxed.

With the lights off, it's better than being in a theater. I tried an ipad pro in the Apple store and it felt like I had my own personal unfairly huge IMAX screen.
Yeah nothing wrong with “select distinct” itself if it’s used correctly for its intended reasons.

But when I see select distinct at the start of a big and complex query, I do immediately suspect that the developer might have missed some join condition down the line and “got too many rows” back from the query. And since the rows look like duplicates due to the missing join predicate, for a junior (or careless) developer, the quick “solution” is to just apply distinct in the top level query to get rid of these pesky duplicates, declare success and move on.
> What IS the best tool? What other techniques do you know of that it doesn't it implement?

The best fingerprinting tools aren't open source they're anti-botting services like CAPTCHA providers & probably ad networks.

This particular service has implementations for several popular fignerprinting techniques but there are so many ways to measure the same thing that even if your fingerprint looks fine on one test a different test of the same measure could detect it as unique. For example a user font fingerprint could be implemented via JS tests, canvas rendering tests or CSS sheets (like in this paper).

The tests that offer the highest degree of hardware variability and uniqueness that I've seen deal with rendering of test and images over canvas.

> how so?

By loading an image that can only be accessed if you're logged in your google / facebook / twitter accounts and checking if the image request returned an error. There's a repo that implements this for >30 different websites, but I can't remember it's name rn. I'll edit this comment later if I remember what it was called
> Why should Americans compete with the whole world for domestic jobs?

Because its the global market. Why should other countries allow Coke to sell in their markets and depress local soda companies? A person is just an LLC selling their goods/services. Immigration is no different to customs.

All countries are hypocrites, and everything sucks.
> No such LLMs exist, because they are trained to predict the next word not (WebCamState, RobotArmState, NextWord)

Seems we might not be that far away given the work on action tokens[1] and such.

NVIDIA divoted a lot of the CES presentation to this kind of stuff[2].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19578 (semi-random example)

[2]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai/cosmos/
Node's new built-in support for TypeScript
Lets not ignore O1 visas either. O1 visas are, in my opinion, what we should lean into instead of continuing with employer specific specialized worker visas - if you're accepted into the US you should be free to work for whomever you chose and the power to change jobs is requisite to ensuring a fair labor market.
I was 240 pounds and dropped to 190 pounds in one year. I didn't do any more or less aerobic exercise than I had before my weight loss (which wasn't much). All I did was monitor my weight and adjust my calorie intake to maintain a one pound per week loss. After I completed this diet, not only had I developed better eating habits, I maintained that weight for 10 years. It was only when I caught COVID when my weight quickly rose and I started dealing with chronic health issues that made it difficult to maintain that discipline.

Which is all to say, aerobic exercise is not a _requirement_. I'm sure it works (while maintaining the same calorie intake) and is overall better for your health, but there are plenty of examples of successful weight-loss that don't include lots of exercise.
Yeah, with complete lack of context, it's just two people having a lil chat, bro!

Please, whatever you do, don't look into who the two people are, what they represent, or their political leanings, or what they've said. Now THAT would be crazy.
The problem I've heard from friends in education is that it's just very difficult to affect these in the US education system because of how underfunded the system is as a whole. Most of these issues, at least when we talk about cisgendered folks, come from how parents push their values onto their kids. I have plenty of friends whose parents discouraged daughters from exploring technically or mechanically involved interests because of ideas they had about masculinity and femininity.

My parents softly discouraged my sister from playing with Legos as a kid because "girls like pretty things."
> Do you actually have experience with those programs?

I was hiring manager at a "woke" (media) company during and after peak DEI.

The only policy of DEI that really affected me was that we had to have a "diverse slate of candidates" meaning, we had to interview at least one woman and (non asian) minority. This was actually a problem hiring engineers because we wouldn't be able to extend offers unless we'd satisfy the "diverse slate" meaning we'd miss out on candidates we wanted to hire while waiting for more people to interview. We could get exceptions but it'd be a fight with HR.

Asians didn't count as diverse because, in tech, they are not underrepresented. Basically "diverse" hires were women, AA, hispanic, etc.

Our company quietly walked back the "diverse slate" stuff years ago. In fact I think it was only in effect for like a year at the most.

The DEI stuff rolling out was highly performative. It wasn't in place for really long and quietly walked back. Now, the loud walking back of policies that probably haven't been enforced in years is also performative. In both instances it's companies responding to the political moment.
I've been told to checkout Krastorio 2, and myself I've enjoyed the Space Exploration mod

- https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Krastorio2

- https://mods.factorio.com/mod/space-exploration
In Europe it's a big no, but Israel is not politically in Europe, and yes it is a very common and widely accepted practice from companies there.

It started with the Download Valley where companies would monetize search ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley ) and siphon personal data.

The same with location information, plenty of shady SDKs offer to pay you if you leak location of your users.

Again, mostly based in Israel, but sometimes New York.
It's cheaper, at least where I live in Central Africa.

You can pay as your budget allows — per day, per hour, night bundles, or even smaller data packages like 150MB.

Public Wi-Fi isn’t common in places like malls, gyms, schools, offices, or hospitals here. However, mobile data ensures you stay connected on your cellphone.

I've switched between three ISPs in the past three months, all of which have been disappointing, mainly due to poor customer service. With cellular data, I can easily top up using mobile money whenever my data runs out.

I also use my phone’s hotspot to connect my PCs at home or on the go.
this is fine, but I would like to see the deceleration for the second half of the journey
Quibble: no source for that target architecture. If the source included pragmas for other targets, you'll never know what they were.
If it was a GPT wrapper, it wouldn't require an A100/H100 GPU; the container has a model wrapper, sure, but also it has the wrapped, standalone model, as well; its not calling OpenAI's model.
We have a supply of domestic nurses that travel to these areas. Why do they need foreign visas? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the Dutch Auction is.
I've got -7.5 myopia/nearsightedness in both eyes, with astigmatism. As a result, my eyes can easily go out of focus to do Magic Eye or this type of thing. The bonus superpower is, if I take my contacts out and get really close up on something, it's like I'm looking through a microscope; if I happen to have glasses on, sometimes I can also catch the light and focus in just the right way to further magnify what I'm seeing already zoomed in. In those instances I see whatever's reflecting through the glasses, so mostly eyelashes and skin/pores, but it's fascinating nonetheless. Can't see a damn thing beyond the tip of my nose without corrective lenses though LOL
A triumph of LLM literalism. It may never have occurred to me that that might literally have been the title. Googling "bone people" or "bone people children's book" doesn't work; the SERPs are flooded by a different novel that won the Booker in 1986, interesting zero six-year-olds. But "bone people science fiction" does work!

I read (er, reread) it last night using the book-borrowing feature of archive.org which got them existentially sued: https://archive.org/details/bonepeople0000unse/. The mind-reading business hardly figures in the action; it's there, but marginal. Actually the humans defeat the bone people by kicking one of them in the head (er, skull) and then by blasting them with an air gun. Literally an air gun: it shoots air, and it turns out that air kills bone people. That was lucky!

Upon second reading I remain of the opinion that defeating mind-readers by keeping one's thoughts in the back of one's mind is the most interesting thing about the book, so it's not surprising that was what stuck in my mind, though not so much in the back. It's been in a trunk in the middle somewhere.
Geostationary satellites are way too far and few in between to meaningfully present a problem. The majority of dangerous (in Kessler syndrome sense) junk is on higher LEO and eccentric orbits.
> In JavaScript because there is both null and undefined it is easy to assume that undefined means we don't know the value and null means we do know it has no value.

Javascript objects have two kinds of undefined that are both represented by the same value. You have to use another method to see which it is, and I've seen "foo" in this example used for the same thing as "null" in your example:

>> z = {foo: undefined}
Object { foo: undefined }

>> z.foo
undefined

>> z.bar
undefined

>> z.hasOwnProperty('foo')
true

>> z.hasOwnProperty('bar')
false

This is something you have to account for because the key is still there if you try to remove a value by just setting it to undefined:

>> Object.keys(z)
Array [ "foo" ]

>> for (let k in z) { console.info(k); }
foo

This is the right way to remove the key:

>> delete z.foo
true

>> z
Object { }

>> Object.keys(z)
I would have expected a larger crater for Tolkien..
Great list - especially the "what not to do". The most self-destructive thing you can do is be the new guy that shows up talking about how everything is shit and needs to be rewritten with your favorite stack. I have seen so many autist senior engineers come in and completely self-sabotage their employment with that move.
> Compare to what end? The environment cares about total output, not per capita output.

Yes, and the environment does not care in any way about countries or other silly subdivisions. So we approach the problem as each of us humans having some carbon budget based on the limits of our environment. You can argue how exactly these budgets are distributed, but it's the only measure that matters. Because again: you're arbitrarily choosing to look at countries, when even other subdivisions along the same axis would make more sense. So why focus on countries specifically?

> Why does it need to be?

Because obviously a measurement that's comparable is more useful than one that isn't. It allows us to make determinations about what changes bring us closer to the goal of environmental sustainability, and which changes bring us further away. Do I really need to go on further?
Same! I feel like I can get a fleeting moment and then it's gone. I swear I could cross my eyes when I was a kid - I wonder if with practice it'll come back or if I'm just old and this skill I didn't-know-I-wanted is lost
Discussion (209 points, 261 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657901
Did that work out in Canada?
This is true, but it’s also how basically every country runs their visa programs. They initially admit foreigners in a temporary status and after a few years grant a permanent status. This is how Mexico residency works in general, and even how marriage-based residency works in Colombia. I don’t really see it as much of a problem.
tor tries to do this by offering different "safety" levels that the user can choose between

some browsers try to randomize fignerprintable parameters but that's easy to detect
Are you suggesting that two people in a shared inertial space when venture into other intertial frames but ultimately end up in a same frame later will agree on how much time has passed in between?

Because I lowekey believe this to be true but don't have means to prove it.
If the ADA was being proposed today, Republicans would decry it as yet another woke DEI effort.

They're absolutely in the same category.