skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping for someone to share a bit of insight on why they think so.

(I too suspect it will not achieve the desired outcome, but I had hoped someone could shed some light on the particular conditions in Spain rather some default answer)
True, but I have a gut feeling that a lot of these thorny issues would come up again:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/3582
Norwich restaurant charges £100 ($122) for a pineapple pizza
i agree, prevention and putting down small - wrt. city scale - fires is better. Yet once the fire is several blocks, it surprisingly looks like not much difference.
So could they use any other obscure platform. Ex. Restaurants are prone for not having their own proper/updated websites, but there are thousands of website builders just for that. There is zero reason to use Facebook as business website if your target is to make business with anyone else than Facebook users.
That's not what non-commercial means.
>Almost everyone I know has half an eye on the exit or they are making decisions like cutting back to one person businesses or taking big pay cuts for remote. Nobody seems hungry for promotions or more money. There’s so much apathy.

it's not apathy. it's realization that game is rigged, promotions are irrelevant as they increase workload/pressure on in a way that outpaces the monetary gains.

Also the fact that you can't get rich, or advance on social ladder by working anymore. There is hard cap, and it is visible to everyone younger.

COVID and remote work showed just how much rigged the game was and how the system is broken.
Are you saying: people aren't scared enough? Or poor enough?
Just for the right order of history here - this prediction disparity is false - GPT-3 came out in 2020 and a decent slew of researchers and startups had access in 2021. Though unreliable, slow and costly, davinci could mimic chats back then (It was a main feature sample), but OpenAI banned chat applications until IT released ChatGPT in Nov 2022.

For a whole year prior to ChatGPT, "davinci-instruct-002" was at the level of ChatGPT for most purposes, but applications using OpenAIs models had to be approved, and chat apps were disallowed (as were any completions > 300 tokens).

The competitors of that time (GPT-J, GPT-20b-neo) and early BigScience stuff was behind OpenAI, especially on instruction training. So we didn't see applications until OpenAI changed it's application approval process in November 2022. A good reference for where things were is "Machine Learning Street Talks" 4 hour 2020 GPT-3 video - although it expressed doubt about GPT-3, you can see there through many of the examples that the tech was close to ChatGPT relative to the previous iteration (GPT-2, T5, BERT etc).

However, for experts, it was obvious from about Spring 2021 when GPT-3 started taking off in the research zeitgeist with actual research usage, with loads of tweets and recognition of what it meant for the field (both in terms of impact to grant applications, ongoing projects and the future of language models being decoder only for the reasonable short term).

The real gap in prediction disparity was that most experts, possibly due to a bias towards their funding areas researching BERT etc, totally ignored GPT-2 and assumed encoder architectures or other fields (RNNs etc) were still better paths. Established Researchers* would have predicted GPT-3 was 10 years away in 2018 or 2019 which is funny in hindsight. However, even in 2013 (when I was not a researcher but a student), people in computer vision felt that arbitrary tasks/arbitrary recognition was nigh impossible unless using coding schemes etc (which limited to certain image types anyway)

* And I say this because I was researching in 2019, but I was more optimistic after seeing T5 and GPT-2. The field did not ignore CLIP, but there wasn't much obvious apparent research to be done with CLIP initially. Computer vision was all about semantic segmentation and recognition of disease etc in the 10s.
Your Macbooks no longer receive (security) updates.
They already have missed three MacOS releases: https://eshop.macsales.com/guides/Mac_OS_X_Compatibility

Please don't do anything security critical with them.

Other OS providers do support the devices longer.
At least for core OS updates.
There’s probably advice and books and other things that PMs here and elsewhere can give you, but also get a network together with the other senior PMs and head of product/CTO I reckon and see what’s working and what’s not. Bit of a “listening tour” (and even outside product; what does sales and support think about the product, and about working with the product). One is not a substitute for the other and I’m sure there are some institutional aspects in the company that’ll influence how you manage the product and it’s roadmap. Our ex-PM Jackie who was/is very good also wrote a book specifically for this, that helped build Asana :-) Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices to Become a Great Product Manager https://amzn.asia/d/3CP2Jex
This is the case with any parity based raid, they just hide it or lie to you in various ways. If you have two 6TB dives and two 12TB drives in a single raid-6 array, it is physically impossible to have two drive parity once you exceed 12TB of written capacity. BTRFS and bcachefs can’t magically create more space where none exists on your 6TB drives. They resort to dropping to mirror protection for the excess capacity which you could also do manually with ZFS by giving it partitions instead of the whole drive.
Depends how rest of his career experience has been. He was an engineer and he has been a founder. If the product is technical it very well makes sense for me that he is well beyond junior or mid level depending on overall experience.
There is no way a human wrote that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langar_(Sikhism)
It's possible and supported. Here are better links: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/nvidia-gpu-passthrough-into-lin..., https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/create-a-gaming-hvm/19000
Friendly people serving you in the past in Germany were millenials from post-Communist countries. They're 40 years old now.
So the campaign to terrorize everyone with upcoming AI-induced obsolescence, and the trillions of dollars spent to that aim, are working.
Finite Field Assembly: A Language for Emulating GPUs on CPU
Introduction :
Finite Field Assembly is a programming language that lets you emulate GPUs on CPUs

It's a CUDA alternative that uses finite field theory to convert GPU kernels to prime number fields.

Finite Field is the primary data structure : FF-asm is a CUDA alternative designed for computations over finite fields.

Recursive computing support : not cache-aware vectorization, not parallelization, but performing a calculation inside a calculation inside another calculation.

Extension of C89 - runs everywhere gcc is available.
Context : I'm getting my math PhD and I built this language around my area of expertise, Number Theory and Finite Fields.
I understand what you think you are seeing and that you are probably not alone in this. But you haven’t managed to convince me that there is a «cohesive coalition». I think people who believe that this is what they see may have gotten a bit carried away.
People are doing exactly that.

They're welcoming historically marginalized groups into their workplaces, their families, their communities. Every day they treat others with basic respect.

It makes some people so mad that they crawl the internet for examples of these people "going too far". They'll bring up examples from other continents to get that angry fix. They'll misconstrue them in the worst possible light and pass it on telephone style till it's unrecognizable. And if they don't find any they'll make them up. They'll sometimes pretend to be the people they hate and propose stupid things to make themselves angry.

I've seen the latter happen in comments here where one reactionary sarcastically suggests something ridiculous and another one takes it seriously and gets angry at it.

Currently online lesbians are being blamed for forest fires. Which is only a minor update on the classic religious claim of "hurricanes caused by being tolerant of gays".

So I don't think you can escape this just by not being "woke" and "annoying".
> There’s so much apathy.

While I agree with what you say, I disagree about the "apathy" part. In my circles, people focus on what is important for them - and fortunately for their mental health work is not their top priority.
Well, this starts at the top.

Treat people with respect, pay them decently (it doesn’t need to be MANGA crazy), and promote good management.

We would probably be shocked at how engagement, morale, productivity, and deliverable Quality go up.

When the only carrot is money, you’re just going to get short-term mercenaries that don’t care about what they do, who they work for, who they work with, and bounce from job to job; doing terrible work (even if they are quite capable of doing good work).
Okay. I like what they were trying to do in, yes. "The alcoholic detective" is a fun enough archetype, too. But I think they failed at execution on almost everything. The game doesn't even scroll smoothly and the dialog font and colors are ugly, and boy do you look at them a lot.
> And that leads to bad products being created. Just look at some of the films and games that have been produced in the last few years. Concord is a good example of something that is the result of this "woke" culture.

I didn't play Concord and only saw Sony are shutting it down shortly after release due to poor sales. The reviews I saw were about uninteresting gameplay and characters. What exactly was "woke" about it?

> But forcing them to hire specific percentages of certain demographics is contra-productive. Now you don't have the best person for the job, if their ethnicity, sexuality or whatever doesn't also align with the current requirements. This might lead to very bad results. You want your brain-surgeon to be good at his job, and not just the only one that had the right skin tone in that hiring session. And even if they are good or even the best choice, others in the company don't know that, and they might categorize them a "DEI-hire" anyway. That only creates further resentments.

I agree, forcing specific percents of people is counterproductive. It would be good if it happened naturally, but it didn't for a variety of reasons (some of them various -isms, like hiring managers with biases, poor schooling outcomes or directions due to bad locations/prejudices; some of them more widely cultural, religious, personal). But are you aware of any place where there are actually forced distributions of people to hire? I'm aware of multiple efforts to level the playing field at the hiring stage, including by the European Comission (on men/women equality). But they're all about goals, with extremely explicit caveats that the best candidate should be picked, but if two candidates are equal, the less represented one should be preferred to add diversity. Diversity in a business or public facing organisation is good for them due to a wider representation of ideas and lived experiences. Are you aware of any places where there are fixed quotas and random unqualified people are hired because of their gender or skin colour? I'd be shocked, and all "DEI HIRE" outrages I've seen have been utter nonsense spread by right-wing crisis actors (I've seen it for firefighters, Boeing, Alaska Air and a bunch of other things I can't recall) because it's fashionable to say any non-majority employee was hired only because of their immutable characteristics and is by definition unqualified. Which is, of course, nonsense.
I'm not sure that's really a caveat, it just means old data might be in an inoptimal layout. Even with that, you still get the full benefits of raidzN, where up to N disks can completely fail and the pool will remain functional.
The security, and overall application stability attack vector, is why I now vouch for processes with OS IPC instead of shared libraries, even if it requires more resources.

It doesn't fully sort out the trust issue though, even if everything is sandboxed in some fashion.
This is a good write up that is sure to trigger a lot of people. The main two things I see coming out of this aggressive militant moralism is the death of public and to some degree private dialog. This is especially apparent in left-wing medias who seem to have completely cleaned up their writings to the point that now in order to get informed about what's actually going on you literally need a separate news source. Interesting discussions have also died out because there is one right way that everyone must adhere to, one correct language, one correct behavior. They died out because any voiced opinion that is slightly off is going to get canceled by the moralists so we're left with silence and private echo chambers. At this point its a religion where the tenets are more important than actual reality. As a fellow atheist I can't wait for it to dissipate.
Yep. My boys (11 and 13) have been using public transport here in Prague by themselves since they were 9. It's hard to overstate how good it is for the development of kids to have that sort of trust and independence at such a young age.
> Would I use it on a single disk on a Desktop? Probably not.

I do. Snapshots and replication and checksumming are awesome.
Commonly management tasked with say, rescuing a disabled train have a plan A and they get focused on trying to make plan A work even if plan A has now introduced so many further obstacles that a complete re-evaluation is appropriate.

Yesterday was the first day of in person exams at my employer (a large University) and we got reports that a key system wasn't working, the students were not able to take one of the exams on offer that morning as instead a "User friendly" something-went-wrong-tell-a-grown-up message appeared.

We didn't know, but in fact this bug could have been fixed by (temporarily) removing a single line of code from some server software, maybe 5-10 minutes to implement, test and ship to production under emergency conditions, then an afternoon of paperwork. However our early attempts to diagnose tickled a different bug making it seem hopeless, and so effort focused on manually tweaking the configuration of every single exam computer across the entire physical estate, which took maybe half an hour or more.

The bug could also have been worked around, with insight, by a single SQL query, taking maybe 10 seconds to write and execute. The software would still be broken, but those students could have taken their exam which is what mattered.

But we soldiered on with plan A. And that worked, it was just much slower. If it had taken a whole day I'd like to hope we'd have re-evaluated instead.
It isn't:

https://x.com/search?q=cisgender&src=typed_query&f=live
Another Routine Thursday, a.k.a. Art
i develop on linux, on various projects. i'm mostly concerned with all the tools, build scripts and tests that may read sensitive data, or accidentally destroy data. so i'm limiting access to files when working on a project with linux namespaces, using bubblewrap.

i've got a simple per-project dot file that describes the file system binds. while i'm working on a project, new terminals i open are automatically isolated to that project based on that dot file. it has very low (cognitive) overhead and integrates pretty much seamlessly. i suspect many developers have similar scripts. i looked for projects that did this some time ago, but couldn't find it. either because it's too simple to make a project about, or because i don't know how others would describe it. if anyone has pointers...

i don't limit network access (though i did experiment with logging all traffic, and automatically setting up a mitm proxy for all traffic; it wasn't convenient enough to use as regular user).
there is still a whole kernel attack surface of course. though i'm mostly concerned about files being read/destroyed.
"K. 231" ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Does the how matter if we can’t replicate it the same way?
Hah, more license confusion! It is a good learning resource for those wanting to see how such a codebase works. I do think they should have opened the repository as read-only and that may align more with the educational intent.

"We will only consider pull requests and issues regarding self-hosting or critical fixes. "

Having this makes the messaging a bit confusing. You will accept improvements and bug fixes which we can use commercially but you can't - Did I read that right?
Write a blog for yourself like a journal if nothing else. Writing down thoughts forces you to think actively about them, and actively confront the contradictions you might have. You are forced to make decisions about your beliefs and what you want to present. How you want to present the ideas.
Without touching the argument if the end justifies the means, the master of the deal apparently has communicated very badly what his intentions are. Obviously, nobody in Europe understood him.

But let's just wait and see, actions speak louder than words, although given past actions that is not instilling great confidence in me.
Employers don't engage with employees, why should it go the other way?

Anecdote time:

My uncle went straight from school to work for the local factory. The factory gave him a low-cost loan the factory backed, he built a house with it. Paid the loan back in record time (because of the low interest). He did get laid off once and had to work in a factory one town over (same company still), but when the economy picked up he came back to the same factory.

He retired from there some years ago, ever had the one employer, but they took good care of him and he returned it with loyalty to the company.

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If companies were loyal to employees in ways other than just fancy words ("we are family here"), people would be more likely to be loyal to companies.

Now the only way to get a proper raise is to switch jobs. The best way to get a better salary/title at your current job is to leave to another company for a year or two or come back. New employees fresh out of school get paid same or better than people who have been there for a decade.

Why would anyone work hard in those situations?
it makes me sad that having to get really good at something is presented as a negative. also where is the "now" coming from in that statement? now that there's so much slop?
The tangent about the hipster trend is interesting. Having grown up in a rural village during the 00s I heard about hipsters long before I ever saw a person who would even remotely fit the cliché.

During that time actual cliché hipsters existed as was apparent (via the internet), but more important to my own life was another aspect: it was a kind of catchall term for people who didn't fit neatly into the usual known groups (Punks, Skaters, Metalheads, Ravers, Emos, ..) or did their own thing. I was connected to my local art scene, most of which have been called hipsters without actually being or remotely looking like hipsters.

Hipster was a degorative for: "Oh you think you're different". The thing was I didn't only think that, I was different. Probably most people on this website here were different from the average person during their teens.

You don't just eat vegan, you are a vegan. The thing to recognize is that these boxes exist to make themselves feel superior. So they put the people whose behavior and existence induces cognitive dissonance into their world view into boxes and pat themselves on their backs whenever they can convince themselves they spotted a marker that proves the person opposite is part of that box.

And before there is a misunderstanding: the boxes can work both ways. People within a box can hate on those outside of it and vice versa — and both feel superior to the other. The point is that people ascribe certain attributes to the boxes and use it to paint simplistic pictures of the world around them, precisely because it makes them feel better. Made a certain food choice? Congrats, idiots now think you're smug.

And I am not even vegan. I just try to look past the boxes as life is much more nuanced and much richer behind them.
The Covid response seems to have really turned things upside down in relation to work. Inflation and cost cutting and this big readjustment in people’s values. I think apathy has ratcheted up and I don’t see how it reverts back.
That part is fair but they should have said something like "shared source", or "source available".

"Open source" means something specific to a lot of people. You may have issues with how OSI operates (I do too!) but let's not muddy things further.
I completely understand the need for protectionism. That said, Sweden's immigration policy ranks among the worst in Western countries. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any pushback; rather, my point is that these policies are exploitative on both ends. Why bring in refugees in the first place? And if you do, why bring them in en masse?

The US handles a much larger number of migrants each year and consistently attracts the cream of the crop. I'm not saying the US doesn’t have issues with migrants, but during my time living there, I didn’t find the situation as severe as in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, or Italy.

Europe's immigration policy is broken. Many immigrants end up draining the social welfare system, overcrowding service providers, and causing religious tensions. But let’s be honest: everyone knows which group is primarily responsible. It’s extremely difficult for that group to enter the US. At the same time, it’s much easier—though still not trivial—for skilled migrants to move there. In Germany, the situation is the opposite: it’s trivial to enter as a charity case but much harder as a skilled migrant.

If you can afford to reject immigration, you're free to do so. America can’t, and they’re profiting from it. But why adopt such a self-sabotaging approach, bringing in the worst of the crop and then blaming them for the country’s woes? That’s the part I can’t understand.
Depends if the project started with you or was ongoing. If it is the latter, defer to pre-existing coworkers to an extent at first.
I haven't compared image models in a long while, so I don't know the relevant performance metrics. But even a few years ago, you would usually use a pretrained model, and then finetune on your own dataset though. So those models would also have "seen millions of images", and not just your 100k.

This change of not needing ML engineers is not so much about the models, as it is about easy API access for how to finetune a model, it seems to me?

Of course it's great that the models have advanced and become better, and more robust though.
Copilot Induced Crash: how AI-assisted development introduces new types of bugs
(footnote: I am not vegan myself)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2dHFC31VtQ
The cause of efficiency. The most efficient employee, in the eyes of companies, are those who do their job well, need little effort to maintain, and cheap. All of them resulting in minimum effort, minimum wage worker that just get the job done without additional effort.

And when companies can layoff employees easily and have no retirement / loyalty bonus program, it cements the minimum effort effect.
They went from Show HN to bust in 5 months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182414

I really wonder how that happened. Was there like no traction whatsoever? 5 months doesn't seem like an awfully long amount of time to give a product a chance.
There doesn't seem to be any mention of 2006's Sid Meier's Railroads! which seems to be an evolution of Railroad Tycoon.

I've played "Railroads!" for countless hours - it's an incredible game, especially when LAN'ing with others.

Any reason why this game might be left out?
Even that ridiculous thing doesn't have "differently abled".