skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spoken to a few folks in middle management there, and some senior engineers, and it's exactly this story.
So far as they can figure there aren't many middle managers actually pushing for this.

It's all senior leadership trying valiantly to recapture the "Day 1" mentality that process and procedures have beaten out of the company.
Which was the reason for the short text length of posts.
It's true that when I'm fond of somebody, I tend to respond to false attacks on them. Not because of "meal tickets" but just human feeling.

It's true that things look different on the outside, though one might add that people who routinely jump to cynical conclusions about others don't make very good Hacker News commenters.

But what made you think I know anything about neuroscience?
I’m not persuaded that this social media stuff rises above moral panic. What were 12 year old girls watching when I was a kid? Dawson’s Creek? The videos my daughter watched on Tick Tock are way better than that. And she’s not into any brainless garbage like those TV shows that were common when I was that age.
> Ideally maybe the Primeagen will read it at some point

He did - saw it on YouTube today
Ah, the great American rhetorical tradition of masking discrimination in the language of civility. Just like pre-Jacksonian restrictions on voting protected the rights of the propertied from the depredations of the masses. Or how Jim Crow protected the rights of white southerners from those uneducated undesirables threatening orderly society. Or how restricting gay marriage protected the rights of Christians...

I hear exactly what you are saying, clear as day.
If they burn it down in four years, we vote Democratic and build the world back up again. Can we fix it like Bob the Builder? Yes, we can!

When I was a child I was a troublemaker but I learned how to get out of trouble and become a troubleshooter which made me a good coder. All I know how to do is build things and upgrade from old stuff to newer things. Logistics, change management, super debugging, codebase building, prototyping, beta testing, quality control, etc.

If Japan rebuilt itself after WWII, so could the USA after Trump's second term.
To clarify, what gets scheduled is up to the OS or runtime, all you're doing is setting relative priority. If everything is all the same priority, then it's just as likely to all run on e cores.
Not that bad. Engineers in "flyover country" where I am seem to easily exceed six figures.

My town has, ironically, a formerly British-owned firm (since bought out Berkshire Hathaway) that not only has six-figure engineering jobs, but shop floor jobs that are union and starting pay is $25/hr for unskilled - electrician and so on start higher, $30/hr, and only go up from there. The UK operations are still going, but engineering has largely moved to the U.S. (which is a bit of a puzzle, since apparently engineers in the UK can be had much more cheaply).
Well this attitude is why millennials are both failing to have enough kids and miserable as parents.

We had kids in our 20s and my daughter has been glued to her iPad since she was 2. Her grades are better than mine were at her age, she has artistic hobbies (makes jewelry, paints). She’s maybe a tidge slower than I was on reading, but that might be pandemic.

Note that Tik Tok is different than “social media” in that it doesn’t really allow for the gossip and backbiting within enclosed groups that typifies say Facebook. The most emotionally upsetting thing for her seems to be normal girl-girl social conflict, especially through her iMessage group chat.
There's no evidence that they were obligated to shut off the app immediately at the time the law was enacted.
Are these things a problem? All of this was promised by capitalism.
It's because the copyright is fake and the only thing supporting it were million dollar business. It naturally crumbles while facing billion dollar business.
In the end, it's a results business. Software just get higher pay earlier in the career so people will have to go for it.
I think it's easy to forget that computing technology is a tool. Of course it was bound to be huge today, because it's supposed to be a tool in the toolbox of every company. It wasn't as big back then because not every industry could incorporate it right away, knew how to, or was interested in doing so.

It's not bad that it's big. It only needs to grow because the rest of the economy needs to grow.

I am also afraid you're a doomer in this regard. You don't think the bigwigs with their fax machines in the 1980s wanted to make money off of us 24/7? Of course they did.

Tech is scary in the sense that it's now gone quite a bit beyond the understanding of the average joe. Even most of us on this site probably don't fully understand how much detail data can paint a picture of a person. There are companies that probably know something about me that I don't even know.

I guess I don't know how to alleviate that feeling, and maybe it's the correct default assumption to be a doomer. It certainly would be very helpful if the US treated the situation more like the EU treats the situation.
2,100-year-old Alexander the Great mosaic analyzed for restoration
There have been many times where companies took down the resource.
Be aware that they may make a claim against you !
The physical environment things makes sense, but uplink contention isn't an inherent feature of office buildings. It means that someone goofed and underprovisioned your infra.
It's crazy how I also had a private office when I was a fresh-out-of-school 22 year old only making $55k a year, and now it seems absolutely no one has an office despite making 4-10x that at big tech companies!!
Find and execute shell commands using Ollama
If you are like me and constantly forget useful shell commands, this is for you.

Here's an example:

$ ./how.sh find and delete files older than 30 days
Generated command: find . -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
Do you want to execute this command? (y/n):
Yes this is a good summation of the problem.

People who worry about the price of groceries or basic car repairs to keep their older car on the road don’t want to hear how privileged they are due to their race (they might not be a minority but they aren’t rich) / how they are destroying the planet (they aren’t flying 10x year) / that kids who took out loans for expensive private college deserve free money (they didn’t even go to college or went to state school) / how democracy is at stake / etc.
Mecha Comet [video]
I don't think that's it. I think Microsoft wanted a way to migrate already Microsoft workloads to something they could more aggressively bill by the GB or second or user or whatever revenue extraction metric you're down with. Basically, O365 extended to the entire M$ ecosystem. And for that it seems...er...ok. We've migrated a couple of dozen major M$ workloads from on-prem reasonably easily, and a bunch of little ones. Lots of skillsets transferred easily...I vividly recall talking a really fine SQLServer admin off the ledge when the "move to cloud" mandate came out who's now like "I had to learn a few new things, but it's pretty much like what I was doing before". Big win.

But then everyone said "a cloud should do X and Y and Z", and they try to bolt X/Y/Z on to the side with various levels of success. And now all the app owners who aren't native M$ have declared Azure not fit for purpose and picked up the torches and pitchforks. So we're going to support AWS, too.
The last time I worked in an office, I spent half of my time working alone at my desk, or in a video call. I can't remember ever having a significant non-video call meeting. It got to the point where most days none of the folks in our corner of the open office even talked to each other. What was I spending 2 hours a day commuting for? Sure the office was extremely nice, but the whole thing was a farce.

Later on I asked to transition to fully remote, which was denied as I didn't have a track record of working remotely. Ignoring this torturous, flawed logic, I pointed out that I had effectively been working remotely the entire time I was there, but it fell on deaf ears.

I soon left and have been working remote ever since. I'll never go back, and I'll never have to. Turns out there are tons of more sane remote friendly employment opportunities out there than there are in-office jobs in my city.
Ug, I get tons of Alex Jones drivel all of a sudden. No thanks.
That’s not automatically bad. There are two kinds of Hungarian notation: systems Hungarian, which duplicates information that the type system should be tracking; and apps Hungarian, which encodes information you’d express in types if your language’s type system were expressive enough. [1] goes into the difference.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
God, this place is such a sh*thole (literally if you count the sewage in the water). It's depressing. Every week, X is going downhill, Y is failing, we're out of money. I am so hopeless about my country's future. I feel that this is our century of humiliation.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/oracle-prepares-start-shu...
A lot of the comments express some type of deliberate cheating the benchmark. However, even without intentionally trying to game it, if anybody can repeatedly take the same test, then they'll be nudged to overfit/p-hack.

For instance, suppose they conduct an experiment and find that changing some hyper-parameter yields a 2% boost. That could just be noise, it could be a genuine small improvement, or it may be a mix of a genuine boost along with some fortunate noise. An effect may be small enough that researchers would need to rely on their gut to interpret it. Researchers may jump on noise while believing they have discovered true optimizations. Enough of these types of nudges, and some serious benchmark gains can materialize.

(Hopefully my comment isn't entirely misguided, I don't know how they actually do testing or how often they probe their test set)
> Now, why Junio thought deciseconds was a reasonable unit of time measurement for this is never discussed, so I don't really know why that is.

xmobar uses deciseconds in a similar, albeit more problematic place - to declare how often to refresh each section. Using deciseconds is fantastic if your goal is for example configs to have numbers small enough that they clearly can't be milliseconds, resulting in people making the reasonable assumption that it must thus be seconds, and running their commands 10 times as often as they intended to. I've seen a number of accidental load spikes originating from this issue.
Both, really.

It will get better, but Nvidia seems to be creating CUDA libraries for all kinds of applications, so the moat is constantly widening/deepening.
My default for times is milliseconds, since that's a common granularity of system timing functions.
The embrace of Apple’s ecosystem shows that many people, especially those in tech, prioritise this aspect less. I just wish people would stop doing mental gymnastics to "justify" their choice—not because I think it’s hypocritical, but because I believe there’s no wrong choice here, only personal preference. If you feel the need to justify your decision, it might be because it doesn’t fully align with your true values.
one can make laws that affect my life. The other ... can maybe inspire me to dance? Or pray to the CPP I guess?
If you want to cheat in 2025, you buy a bag of virtual coins and spend those coins on boosters, extra turns, etc.

If you wanted to cheat in 1992, you'd call the Sega Hotline on a premium phone number and they'd give you cheat codes.

It's the same thing, just a different medium and middleman.
Trump issued a statement saying that he would issue an executive order after he became president that retroactively would dismiss any fines which satisfied both TikTok and the app hosting providers (Apple, Google).
Cool but I don't know why it needs to be justified that it's too fast even for an F1 driver. Why can't we just say its too fast without all the fluff about being a race car driver, the guy isn't even an F1 driver but Le Mans.
Help me understand then if they’re following the letter of the law what changed with the law between the shutoff and now?
All police crime fighting activities wrack up real-world harm. For example I see an estimate that the police killed 1250 people in 2024. While most of the killings were unavoidable many were not.

So it's question of costs vs benefits for crime fighting methods like face recognition.
It seems like the salaries quoted here haven't changed much in the past couple of decades. It's a shame. I know in the past there was a brain drain of talent from the UK to Canada due to the salary disparity. Here's an example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matthews

And in general engineering jobs in Canada don't even pay as well as in the USA.
Yes, it would be great if this approach becomes more common for web servers.

Since Clace is built for internal tools, even new app installation can be done by regular users. If the namespace is available, a new app can use that without conflicting with other apps.
Reminds me of the following proverb:

"The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity."

(Proverbs 11:3)
It’s because it’s okay to post mundane things on Twitter/X. It’s because tweets are short and are very fleeting.

An Instagram post takes up my whole screen and a picture is expected. Each post is given so much real estate and it makes you want to dress it up.

In the end, those different amounts of “friction” lends to posting different kinds of content.

It’s a vibe of a high end dinner establishment vs. a quick pickup place. They have their own lanes.
As I had the same feeling as you, I subscribed to a quarterly news magazine called delayed gratification. I feel it's a good balance between keeping up-to-date, while not letting the news interfere with my daily life and emotions.
The 'Laffer Curve' concept is treated at first glance as some kind of complex model created by experts that Explains A Lot, at second glance as something a bunch of drunk political operatives scrawled on a cocktail napkin in 1974 that doesn't necessarily have any relation to reality, and at third glance as a tautology whose dishonest core is the labelling of the x axis.

Academic attempts to identify the optimal maxima of tax receipts, which conservative political operatives will always implicitly assume is "half whatever the current rate is", suggest something on the order of 60%.
When can you change the lyrics in song covers?
I run ollama as my model for continue.dev in VS Code. It works fine, but it often will suggest one block of code, then write a completely different block into my files. I have no idea if the difference comes from ollama or continue, but... I cannot trust that it will do what it said it would. So there is no flippin' way I'd trust an AI to run commands on my system, regardless of what it told me it intended to run.
Hopefully we'll at least get something new out of it, like punk rock the last time.
I think "capital" is the wrong word for it. We've got a lot of money lying around, but capital implies something productive can be done with it. We can't eat money, and we can't tax it or else they'll screw off. Perhaps if we stopped acting as the worlds fixer for tax dodging we would end up being better off. I can't help but view the City as a kind of tumour, sucking the life out of the rest of the country to enlarge itself.
My hot take is planned obsolescence doesn't exist.

It's a side effect of items being built to cost, and the marketing phenomenon that consumers follow fashion trends.

Your car doesn't have planned obsolescence: it has a warranty period. If you want a longer one, you'll pay more because that is not a free service to provide.
Good point.

Primarily, the YubiKey is there to lock away the private key while making it available to the running CA. Certificate signing happens inside the YubiKey, and the CA private key is not exportable.

This uses the YubiKey PIV application, not FIDO.

As an aside, step-ca supports several approaches for key protection, but the YubiKey is relatively inexpensive.

Another fun approach is to use systemd-creds to help encrypt the CA's private key password inside a TPM 2.0 module and tie it to PCR values, similar to what LUKS or BitLocker can do for auto disk unlocking based on system integrity. The Raspberry Pi doesn't have TPM 2.0 but there are HATs available.
Congress could impeach. In a sane world, if the executive continually ignores Congress, then that's what would happen.
As a British person, I only discovered that water fluoridation was a thing a few months ago. We usually have chlorine in our water, but almost no fluoride - we get that in our toothpaste.

PS. I've never needed a filling so far :)
Right, your type system can quickly become unwieldy if you try to create a new type for every slight semantic difference.

I feel like Go strikes a good balance here with the time.Duration type, which I use wherever I can (my _msec example came from C). Go doesn’t allow implicit conversion between types defined with a typedef, so your code ends up being very explicit about what’s going on.
Gimp, LibreOffice, Gog.
I'd argue that Democracy cannot be exercised by the electorate when > 36% of the voting population did not vote (90m / 245m https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-1...).

You're dealing with 64% of the voting population, who inherently lean one way or the other so a small nudge can be the difference between one side or the other winning.

e.g. Candidate swapping might bring votes from minority groups or Women.

Imagine a scenario when even 5% more people voted, suddenly the margins are much wider and the results hold stronger validity.
What does an advanced reader look like in your mind?
The problem isn't what the things are, it's what they aren't.
> Can somehow explain to me how they can simply not respect copyright and get away with it? Also is this a uniquely open-ai problem, or also true of the other llm makers?

"Move fast and break things."[0]

Another way to phrase this is:

Move fast enough while breaking things and regulations
can never catch up.

0 - https://quotes.guide/mark-zuckerberg/quote/move-fast-and-bre...
So when past presidents have said they wont prosecute marijuana laws, what was that?

Your argument reminds me of the clip where the guy who had his license revoked for DUI is surprised when the car starts anyway. Just because a law says a thing, a person still has to action something. If the boss says don't do it, you don't do it. Don't rightly matter if the law says you should.
OpenAI played themselves here. Now nobody is going to take any of their results on this benchmark seriously, ever again. That o3 result has just disappeared in a poof of smoke. If they had blinded themselves properly then that wouldn't be the case.

Whereas other AI companies now have the opportunity to be first to get a significant result on FrontierMath.
I cringe every time I see "my IQ increased by X points after doing Y" posts on Twitter - yes, you had a practice run on Raven's progressive matrices a month ago, that helped, these have a limited question bank and the effect of Y is marginal. That said, obviously, test taking is a skill (separate from background knowledge and both general/domain-specific ability) and should be trained if you expect to have life-altering events based on tests (i.e., do an LSAT course if you want to go to law school). Conversely, shouldn't be done if you think it will limit you through superstition ("I had a score of X, thus I can only perform around level of X+fudge factor"). For an LLM company a good test score is a valuation-altering event!
So, just to confirm, you prefer to read the news on hacker news via RSS? Why?

I assumed you meant view the RSS for sites on HN but that's clearly different than what you were thinking.
That is simply a topical remark within the judgement denying the injunction. It isn't relevant to what is enforceable or being enforced. The Act in question doesn't contain wording that implies that TikTok would have been required to be taken immediately offline, as the act requires enforcement by the FTC, which hasn't yet moved on the matter.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7520...
I don't think that's really true in this case.

Predicting that something will be a big deal and grow fast isn't what's at issue here. And yes, even in 2009 you could have made that prediction about Twitter.

The issue here is that it is being spoken of as a protocol, which isn't just some kind of analogy. It is a word with a literal definition.

And we can now see that the end result is largely negative. It's not a public protocol, all of its content is behind a login wall. It didn't even join the fediverse.

Essentially, pg is imaginging something more like Bluesky or Mastodon and the fediverse, but for Twitter, which never came close to materializing.

I think Twitter will inevitably go down in history as being much more like an extended runtime edition of MySpace: yet another social network that became popular, made its founders who sold the company rich, but ultimately became a dying/dead entity under the next batch of management.
MLE is a basic statistical technique. Feel free to go REEEE when Amazon recommends products.
The second Python method that uses intermediary variable is what I use because it works much better with a debugger

I also like this trick to avoid nested for loops:

import itertools
names = ['Bob', 'Sam']
nums = [1,2]
letters = ['A','B']
for name,num,letter in itertools.product(names,nums,letters):
print(f"{name} {num} {letter}")

Bob 1 A
Bob 1 B
Bob 2 A
Bob 2 B
Sam 1 A
Sam 1 B
Sam 2 A
Sam 2 B
On my phone I go to dark mode when I'm reading ebooks in bright sunlight. Not sure this a universal experience.
Apple's QuickDraw GX did that, as well (I believe -it's been a long time). I think it was because it was based on display Postscript.

What a huge PItA.
The surveillance harms/thread of a Chinese state owned app need to be fully explained to really make sense.

Unfortunately, going into the minutiae of app based surveillance technology would run head-on into other surveillance based tech from Facebook, Google, and so on.

And it would bring up the touchy subject of data privacy. Oh gosh, if Americans had data privacy this would impact a lot of American businesses based on surveillance tech.

So let's just accept, on good faith, that what the Democrat's portrayed as Trump's Xenophobia, was OK as a natsec issue when Biden did it (no xeno here, folks!), and now that Trump has his bargaining position it's time for "let's make a deal!" (and that Republican who stalled the initial TikTok ban has probably been a good boy this Christmas, and maybe deserves a quid pro quo gift).
And this is exactly the kind the language should have a type for, Duration.
> This has me curious about ARC-AGI

In the o3 announcement video, the president of ARC Prize said they'd be partnering with OpenAI to develop the next benchmark.

> mechanical turking a training set, fine tuning their model

You don't need mechanical turking here. You can use an LLM to generate a lot more data that's similar to the official training data, and then you can train on that. It sounds like "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps", but isn't. An approach to do this has been published, and it seems to be scaling very well with the amount of such generated training data (They won the 1st paper award)
my limited understanding is it's basically just raw RGB values as binary, with just enough metadata to put it on the screen. BMP from my understanding is, like most things microsoft from that era, just a memory dump of the structure/array holding the image in memory.

I wonder if grandparent meant something else, but i don't know enough this instant to guess at what other format?