skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would that be the thing that Trump says he wants to stop on day one? Those asylum-seekers? The Trump who is inviting Xi to his inauguration?
> every major piece of equipment has a PhD assigned to it and their job is basically to babysit the machine and troubleshoot when things go wrong

This works in Taiwan. It doesn’t in America. The Taiwanese workers will help transfer knowledge to American workers; it will be the joint responsibility of them both to come up with how those processes are adapted for American preferences. (Probably more automation, rotation between machines or possibly even not being under TSMC.)
A "standard servo" of R/C toy type does have feedback. It just doesn't come out the standard 3-wire interface. Robotics hobbyists have been fighting this for decades.[1] There are "digital servos" for R/C, but they have the same 3-wire interface. They just have better motor drive circuitry. Dynamixel [2] has been selling R/C type servos with a digital interface for years, but they are somewhat overpriced. It's a tiny product niche.

Rod Brooks' original insect robots used R/C servos where someone had wired in an extra wire to extract the analog error signal. This provided force feedback. So that's quite possible.

The general problem with servomotors for hobbyist use is price. Note that the OP was given those motors as an influencer. Industrial motors with encoders are expensive, and controllers are worse. Some years ago I was talking to a Maxon rep at a trade show. They'd just introduced their own controllers. He told me that the motor and the controller cost about the same to make, but the controller people were getting 90% of the profit because controllers had become cheap to make. So they built a controller to improve their margins.

[1] https://github.com/SUSF-Robotics-and-Software/OpenServo

[2] https://www.robotis.us/dynamixel/
What do you think they WANTED to do to them?
I always hated the feeling of the fountain pen scratching the paper while writing, but I only used it for school when I was very very young, and probably it was a crappy fountain pen.
If you don't mind me asking... do you have kids?
Not sure if that is mentioned with the comments already. I am currently trying to hire a remote developer (real posting) and I have to battle with 'fake applications' with super generic CVs and intros, individually created by AI for specific jobs [2,3,4]. I assume that there are humans behind it in most cases.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655183 - my rant
[2] https://www.rezi.ai/
[3] https://flowcv.com/ai-resume-builder
[4] https://www.jobscan.co/
Hiring advice for people trying to get a tech job
Curious: Do they really need 5 million Euro?
> Legacy code is written by humans, and when you read stuff written by humans you can anticipate what their intent was because you are a human as well.

Well, no. This is both technically categorically false (because you can only "anticipate" something in advance, and the intent is in the past by the time you are reading the code, though you might in principal infer their intent), and often practically false even when read with "infer" in place of "anticipate", as it is quite common for the intent of human-written code to be non-obvious, except in the sense of "the purpose of a system is what it does", in which sense AI-written code is not particularly more opaque.
Extension settings can be synced, but the extension must explicitly call the storage.sync api https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Alfalfa farming uses 40% more water than all lawns in the entire state of California. If every California resident paid $5 per year, they could buy out the entire alfalfa industry and never have to worry about residential or commercial water usage.[1]

California doesn't have a shortage of water. It just allocates water in an extremely inefficient manner.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-d...
If the attacker is in control of company.com, checking against this domain would not help.
One of the arguments against gay marriage, back in the day, was that gay marriage would somehow take away from straight marriage. It was a pretty vague argument and I never really heard a coherent articulation of it, but a lot of people repeated it.
For what it's worth, I don't think it's so much a gradient. It's that everything is always both an action and a signal. Since signals can affect the behavior of others, all signals are actions. If an action is visible, it may convey something, so all (visible) actions are signals.
not to mention the irony of announcing this "on the internet"
This looks great; very useful for (example) ranking outputs by confidence so you can do human reviews of the not-confident ones.

Any chance we can get Pydantic support?
I hope it doesn't happen anymore, but it used to be a game to clear your history and go to a fresh Youtube page and keep clicking on the top video in the suggestion list until you hit UFOs, Flat Earth, Climate Change denial, Lizard People, Chemtrails, or some other crackpot video. It was shocking just how fast the algorithm would gravitate towards that content, sometimes after just a couple of videos. I have a theory that the YouTube algorithm is partially to blame for the explosion in conspiratorial thinking on the modern Internet.
Italy where I am from is so fucked
If you're confused by the glaring bracket-matching errors in the opening quotation, it is missing two left brackets at the start of the sentence and three right brackets at the end of the sentence. That would correctly balance and nest the bracket pairs and bring the total number of clauses to 8, as described in the first paragraph.

I wonder if the missing brackets are an artifact of some weird automated typesetting/rendering or if an editor who never bothered to read the article came through and said, "Quotations shouldn't start and end with random brackets!"
I really like MessagePack as a serialization format but it does leave a lot underspecified, such as how to handle decoding/encoding integers. While the encoding has signed and unsigned types, the data model does not. Its not straightforward to translate to a data midel with separate signed and unsigned types.

The separation between str and bin types doesnt make sense for my usecases, and others with similar usecases either always use bin or always use str. logically bin would make sense, but str has fixstr and theres no fixbin, so more efficient to use str. Both are valid but thats more discrepancies to deal with.

For my personal usecases I'm thinking of forking MessagePack, removing str and ext, reallocting tag space a bit, having a clear mapping to low level language types, adding 128 bit integers, and maybe a frame type for streams.
Sure, that design work and firmware development is probably a miniscule part of their business in comparison to the scale of their App Store and other service revenues though. And Apple does no manufacturing at all, the screens come from Samsung and the phones are assembled by Foxconn.
Well, you know, context matters. If ten days after a CEO is shot in the street you announce a card deck of CEO portraits with a shooting target on the back, and you post to your Instagram that "the CEO must die", then people are going to draw certain conclusions. Fortunately in this case some of those people were site moderators.
The glorification of Luigi Mangione in some left-leaning circles seems to be a counterpoint to your assertion.
It's not the classic case of Streisand effect, because I don't think the tech platforms (to the extent that they can be anthropomorphized) care one way or another about the popularity of these cards. They just don't want the liability of being involved in their production and dissemenation. If someone else wants to take that on, it's somebody else's problem.

Either way, removing the cards from _their_ platform accomplishes their goal.
I thought this discussion was focused on engineering. Median salary of 67k for SDEs sounds .. low? Any Californians want to weigh in? :)

EDIT: median salary in SF: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/san-fra... would be >350k USD.
Billionaires sure do love their free speech when it lets them flood us with blatant misinformation to their benefit. But as soon as it's used to criticize them they throw a massive fit.
I used to think this but you can actually drive steppers with FOC (if they have appropriate feedback) and modulate the current based on required torque. It’s open-loop steppers that don’t do this.
How does this make money? I'm just curious? Data aggregate sales?
AZ minimum wage is 14.70. If it was 996 and you somehow only got straight time for working 72h a week, it would pay 55000. Assuming there's no overtime exemption it would be $67000. I'm pretty sure it's not a 996 in AZ.
Ah the broken window fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
This is extremely interesting to me. I understand why so many people are surprised that people would want this, but for whatever reason, I'm very much in the target audience.

I'm a "perpetual DM" in most of my roleplaying groups, having led campaigns spanning years, but very rarely do I get to participate as a player. My kids love me running adventures and one-shots, and while I enjoy it, people don't always recognize how much work it is -- both the prep, as well as the mental effort of being "on" for the entire duration of the adventure. I like afternoon one-shot adventures, but I dislike reading through long sourcebooks. I enjoy crafting puzzles and presenting challenges to the players, but also recognize the mental effort that this takes, and sometimes I just want a copilot to handle the lore and the setting. I already rely on the rules-nerds in my group to act as copilots for the specifics of game mechanics -- I don't have time to read through that many tables and commit them to memory.

Re: datasets, the paper authors used a dataset that they created by scraping Critical Role transcripts -- I doubt they had permission for that. I like contributing to open datasets for training open-source LLMs, and I think it would be really sweet for a playgroup to be able to contribute their play transcripts for such a thing. I would love to see a standard open-source dataset be collected for this, and perhaps even a standardized benchmark for quantifying the performance of particular LLMs in RPG contexts -- rules compliance, needle-in-haystack fact finding, consistency of roleplaying, understanding user intent, challenge creation / resolution, etc.
I feel like https://xkcd.com/221/ might be heavily influencing what the typical "random" die roll looks like on the internet ;)
Probably not very helpful telling him that it should work!
I'm not going to speak with authority on medicine, but my understanding is that residency takes some time if you leave your area, and there are various state compliances to keep in mind. So it doesn't sound like you can just grab any doctor and get them to work after a week.

>because the underlying technology can vary so much more (and its more important to be understood at an intimate level of detail) than for other roles.

If most jobs needed intimate knowledge of the language and constructs and weren't just CRUD apps built upon 3 frameworks, I'd almost agree with you. There are definitely roles that need that expertise, but I'd bet a yoke with a solid SWE fundamentals and comletetence in one language can ramp up for another stack relatively quickly. Nat least, no clowwr than any other engineering profession. Companies simply either oversell the work they need done or oversell how urgent the work is (compared to working the existing staff overtime).
Makes sense. My main takeaway from the ColPali paper (and your comments) is that ColPali works best for document RAG, whereas vision model embeddings are best used for image similarity search or sentiment analysis. So to answer my own question: The best model to use depends on the application.
He doesn’t even attempt to touch on the actual origins in the essay however. There are a lot of loose ends in it and this is a glaring one.

He also uses “political correctness”, which is a more precise way to describe the phenomenon he talks about. But that buzzword died a long time ago, so “the origins of woke” without actually touching on the origin of “woke” will do.
The work to develop the base theory, which this article presents, takes 15 months, but it doesn't take 15 months to read it (and hopefully it won't take as long to use it either). Whenever you use a programming language, you may work with data structures that took months to formalize and several more years to optimize, yet no one is saying "throw our data structures away". Even things like pretty printing and formatting a float have collectively several years of research behind them, yet the API is often a single function call.

Of course, you can still not like types, and making it harder to evolve libraries over time is a good reason. But using the time it takes to formalize its underlying concepts is not a strong argument against them. The goal is that someone will spend this time, precisely so you don't have to. :)
A single company controlling all consumer transactions was unthinkable and technologically impossible in 1789, yes. The US didn't even have standardized currency at the time. Control of tea is not analogous.
Thankfully Hacker News isn't interested in hijacking my brain or addicting me or making money off of me. Yet it still does hijack my brain; oddly enough the only real way to steer clear of this, is to steer clear of Hacker News.
Doesn't that make it even less interesting? If all those products are moving to this new division, then it cannot really be specifically about AI. It's just a routine corporate reorganization shuffle that happens to be using the buzzword du jour.
The Emotional Appeal of Rust
It may be possible to get Shepherd to work with Hoot eventually! I'm not sure what on earth it would mean though. What daemons would you manage in the browser? But it's indeed a fun idea!
Rather, sounds like paying the real costs rather than playing games to avoid that.
Why does it have to be 996 at TSMC in the US?
That's an incorrect interpretation of what I wrote.
The guy also posted "the CEO must die" to his Instagram.
Hyperbolic AI ambassador program for students
Hyperbolic AI has an Ambassador program spinning up for 2025. May be a great opportunity for students to get some experience and build up their own work experience.

They do decentralized gpu rentals and host a bunch of AI models. Huggingface uses them and so do some universities like Cornell and Stanford.

https://x.com/hyperbolic_labs/status/1878917042763714688
These days, ZFS frees memory fast enough when Linux requests memory to be freed that you generally do not see OOM because of ZFS, but if you have a workload where it is not fast enough, you can limit the maximum arc size to try to help:

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance%20and%20T...
They call it existential "rant mode"
I think that's much more true around the median income whereas highly paid professionals tend to get good healthcare paid for by their employer.

I moved from the UK to US a decade ago. Software engineer salaries in the UK are on the 75th percentile of earnings vs the 90th percentile in the US. The US also has higher variance of income, so at the 90th percentile one would earn 2.6x the median salary vs 2.0x in the UK. If you are a highly paid professional the US is a pretty good place to be.

The downside is of course you live in a much more unequal place with all the societal problems that implies. After having a kid we're thinking of moving back to Europe, though whether we can find jobs and visas in the places we'd like to live is an open question. It's a lot more complicated having lost my EU citizenship post Brexit.
How do we get the buy in from management for building a culture like this?

If your employer is not a big tech company, it does not have big tech company resources and does not have a big tech company culture. It can't mimic Amazon because AWS is not an inhouse system. It can't mimic Google because it is not driven by advertising. It can't mimic Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.

Your employer has the culture and resources it has as a natural result of the business it is in, the customers it has, and the direction leadership is leading it.

Facebook can roll out a feature across a few million users (not customers) and it doesn't matter if the feature upsets half the users and a few customers. But ordinary business is primarily focused on stability and slow growth. Upsetting a few customers is a big big problem.
How many recovery processes would depend on email. And it coming from right domain? Or changes in DNS. Or some other factor that domain holder could do. I don't think possible alternative scenarios would go down too well.
Most administrations do this at the end.
Too late to edit, but another option which may be too late for this intersection would be to add intend to cross buttons (or other ways of detecting pedestrian intent) farther from the intersection. Many intersections have vehicle detectors farther from the intersection which allows the traffic controller to reduce waiting by lengthening or reducing cycle times in anticipation of traffic that will arrive soon. For example: if there is a dominate traffic direction, the controller can idle at green, and traffic in that direction will often not have to wait. With detectors only at the light, traffic in the opposite direction would need to wait when it arrives; with further back sensors, traffic in the opposite direction can initiate a cycle change earlier and may not need to come to a stop at all. Or cycles in one direction can be lengthened if there is traffic detected at the light and at the further back sensor, which indicates potentially high demand in that direction, especially if the further back sensor stays active which could indicate vehicles are backed up all the way to that sensor. That's less applicable for a pedestrian detector, pedestrian backups are uncommon unless there's an event, at which point it's common to use police/traffic officers to direct traffic or a specialized event mode enabled by a physical control supervised by an officer; but indicators of more pedestrians does justify increasing the pedestrian cycle time.
I wonder if open models are even going to be allowed.

> require adherence to technical standards and guidelines for cyber, supply-chain, and physical security for protecting and controlling any facilities, equipment, devices, systems, data, and other property, including AI model weights

> plans for commercializing or otherwise deploying or advancing deployment of appropriate intellectual property, including AI model weights
I love the ideas behind Nix. But as noted here, there's a thousand cuts to be found.

My biggest issue has been packaging binary distributed programs. These often want files in a particular directory somewhere, often want to find relative path libraries or plugins, want certain configuration options in etc...

None of that Just Works, there's a whole confusing method to try and monkey patch the software to work but its long list of not being able to find the information you want, not being able to do what you want, or simply limitations around how nix wants to structure things that make it really really frustrating.

If something like Nix were to be done again... I'd really recommend starting with something like a strongly typed flake like language with tooling a lot closer to that of cargo from rust from the get go. Errors should be easy, projects should be easily setup independently, etc. Where every project can simply be built as an independent thing. Sure there's downsides, but the upsides are that... you don't have the impossible task of managing one of the largest mono repos, if not the largest, on github. With all of the insane issues that entails. It wouldn't be that terrible to have a crates.io equivalent to publish, test, and share flakes.

Now I think I might've just created flakehub... but flakehub still relies on nix the tool and nix the language which are far from easy to work with.
Do you really think the answer is for my 5 year old to ride her pink bike with a basket and flowers in the same street as a Dodge Ram 3500 piloted by someone staring at their phone?
> The salary is less than U.S. but their actual take home pay may be more.

Simply not true. For example, I have a high deductible plan. I pay no premiums, and my max out of pocket is around $5-6K/year.

So that's the max I'd pay per year for medical expenses for the whole family. Throw in a few more thousand for transportation related expenses. Probably shouldn't even do that as the cost to own a car is generally cheaper in the US than Europe (cars are cheaper, and auto related taxes are lower).

What else?
Ahh I just had to share that my 1 year old daughter also loves the grocery store. She doesn't want to leave the cart when it's time to go. Thanks for the comment.
> That said, it's concerning to see the reported probability for getting a 4 on a die roll is 65%.

Finding that an LLM is biased toward inventing die rolls that are the median result rounded to an available result by the most common rounding method is...not particularly surprising. If you want a fair RNG, use an RNG deigned to be fair, not an LLM where that would be, at best, an emergent accidental property.
Same way you prevent humans from breaking your codebase: tests, code reviews, static analysis, etc. I agree with others that say treat AI like an intern or junior dev. They can speed you up if managed well, but need oversight. Over time the AI will get better, and will learn to learn as senior developers do.
To be fair, Vivaldi is a pretty high bar given how much stuff they have in the browser itself (and the overall "super customizable kitchen sink" philosophy they carried over from Opera days that enables this).
You're wildly exaggerating. There are only ~33k EV registrations in the entire state of TN [1], or just over 1% of all registrations in the state [2].

I don't doubt that most of them are Teslas, but they're hardly everywhere. Also as of October, they'd only delivered about 27k Cybertrucks globally, so even if you assume 5% went to TN (which seems ridiculously unlikely), that's ~1500 vehicles out of the literally hundreds of thousands of non-EV trucks in the state.

1. https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10962
2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/196010/total-number-of-r...
Maybe try pushing your community towards adopting https://www.waituntil8th.org/
If all of your peers are talking about the stuff they saw on YouTube, but you’re not allowed to, this will naturally make you an outcast in that topic. Now, if almost everything they talk about in the internet, and you cannot relate to it at all, it will hinder your interpersonal skills, because you just don’t talk to your peers.

I hate how we got here, but watching my nephews go through this stuff made me realize you can’t cut the kids off completely. Ideally, you would live in a community where all parents have agreed on the social media limits, and slowly get the kids see how others function through it as well.
Is the U.S. responding to recent moves in the U.K. to make a national effort in this field (the U.S. does not want to be an also-ran)? Are they responding to the efforts in China?

Do they know something more than we do with regard to the efficacy of current or soon-to-come AI? Or is it purely a speculative business/economic move?
Addressed with polling data below. There is no evidence of a significant left/right divide on this issue.
Raspberry Pi 5 edge AI computer ships with 8GB RAM, Hailo-8 AI module