skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there’s no hard ceiling above the people on the bottom. It’s not a stratification — it’s a spectrum. The lower-end developers replaced easily by LLMs aren’t going to just give up and become task rabbits: they’re going to update their skills trying to qualify for the (probably temporarily) less vulnerable jobs above them. They might never be good enough to solve the really hard problems, they’ll put pressure on those just above them… which will echo up the entire industry. When everyone— regardless of the applicability of LLMs to their workflow— is suddenly facing competition from the developers just below them because of this upward pressure, the market gets a whole lot shittier. Damn near everybody I’ve spoken to thinks they’re the special one that surely can’t be heavily affected by LLMs because their job is uniquely difficult/quality-focused/etc. Even for the smallish percentage of people for whom that’s true, the value of their skill set on a whole is still going to take a huge hit.

What seems far more likely to me is that computer scientists will be doing math research and wrangling LLMS, a vanishingly small number of dedicated software engineers work on most practical textual coding tasks with engineering methodologies, and low or no code tooling with the aid of LLMs gets good enough to make custom software something made by mostly less-technical people with domain knowledge, like spreadsheet scripting.

A lot of people in the LLM booster crowd think LLMs will replace specialists with generalists. I think that’s utterly ridiculous. LLMs easily have the shallow/broad knowledge generalists require, but struggle with the accuracy and trustworthiness for specialized work. They are much more likely to replace the generalists currently supporting people with domain-specific expertise too deep to trust to LLMs. The problem here is that most developers aren’t really specialists. They work across the spectrum of disciplines and domains but know how to use a very complex toolkit. The more accessible those tools are to other people, the more the skill dissolves into the expected professional skill set.
By successfully pressuring Democratic politicians like Kamala Harris to publicly adopt progressive positions that are unpopular, but highly favored by the kind of people who donate to and operate organizations like the ACLU.

For example, the (unfortunately very successful) Trump ad “Harris is for they/them, Trump is for you” ultimately originates with the ACLU. In 2019 they successfully got Harris to pledge government funding for gender affirming care for people in e.g. immigration detention [1]. It is totally insane that the ACLU thought it was important and worthwhile to get a pledge on this edge case. In general this advocacy was way out of touch with the country at large, has totally backfired, and now landed us with an anti-trans administration.

[1] question 14 here https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-rights-for-all-candidate...
I think this is wrong distinction to make. One could have a metric like “how well does the interviewee pool match the overall population demographics” or the same thing for the new hires or for the current employees, etc. And improving those metrics could be a goal.

BUT letting the actual hiring process have any part in achieving that goal beyond merely trying to be fair seems like it could be problematic. So, if a company actually wants to do anything to improve these diversity metrics, I think they should be in the form of outreach and thoroughly separated from the decisions to interview or hire a candidate. Make sure that the company goes to job fairs at variety of universities. Have outreach for people who didn’t go to university at all. Heck, a big company like Google could even try to encourage young members of under-represented groups to go to college, have some scholarship programs, and maybe cultivate an improved candidate pool (although care is still needed — giving scholarships only to people of a certain race or races is problematic). But don’t let the people making hiring decisions know that these are the people you reached out to so that you don’t taint the process!
4K doesn't really say anything about image quality, just the resolution of the picture, which tells you the theoretical maximum level of visual detail.

Focusing on resolution is like asking "how strong is one meter of rope" without talking about the composition of the rope.

With streaming video, image quality ultimately comes down to the codec and the bitrate. They probably use a relatively low bitrate regardless of codec.
No, that's not an answer to that specific question.

Performance on the AT-SAT is not job performance.

If you have a qualification test that feels useful but also turns out to be highly non-predictive of job performance (as, for example, most college entrance exams turn out to be for college performance), you could change the qualification threshold for the test without any particular expectation of losing job performance.

In fact, it is precisely this logic that led many universities to stop using admissions tests - they just failed to predict actual performance very well at all.
Not sure I'd call FLAC "more modern." There are college graduates younger than FLAC. I mean, sure, it's a decade younger than MP3, so you're technically correct, but it's not exactly the latest hot format.
We'll give these ones away. Somebody will take them in and get eggs out of them for another year probably.
Realistically, what modern device won't play OPUS files? According to xiph.Org[0] it's transparent at 120
Ladder-residual: parallelism-aware architecture, accelerates a 70B LLM by 30%
I hope you either:

(A) design your own replacement logo (perhaps something subversive), or

(B) stick on a logo from another brand... Maybe an old British/Euro brand? Or a brand associated with gas-guzzlers. Or an old-school rainbow Apple logo.
A group that wants to privilege winners is more likely to win than a group that wants to privilege losers, for one thing.

I was shocked at how long it took Labour to beat the Tories in the the UK in the last decade. I mean the Tories kept screwing up over and over and it had to go really far before voters finally gave up on them.

It's easy to conclude that politics in the US are like professional wrestling and the Democrats are getting paid to lose.
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Imagine when H264 patents expire.
DEI is nominally good but its just racism. Not like reverse racism or indirect racism - just racism. There’s really no other way to slice intentionally discriminating based on race.

Whats probably most egregious is the idea that its good because its racist against the right people.
Who ever cared it was not?
Yeah but I don't want touch JS for this
FLAC allows embedding a seektable but encoders rarely emit one in practice.

Since FLAC boils down to a mix of verbatim subframes and linear predictive coding (specifically, polynomials with warmup samples or Rice coding), non-verbatim subframes are variable-length, and the samples for a given interval of time may even span between two blocks. It's a tricky problem, but doable, and FLAC implementations IME (libflac, libavcodec, etc.) have varying levels of accuracy when seeking without a seektable.

I assume the choking described depends largely on the medium of transport (e.g. HTTP servers without support for Range headers makes streaming practically impossible), followed by some delay to "guess" the correct block to jump to then figure out which frames contain samples closest to the requested timestamp.
https://archive.is/bDFMy
And soon enough we'll have... EnshittAIfication

A small group of humans were brilliant enough to invent the internet. Then in a blink of an eye, a bunch of other humans turned genius into stupidity.

We can't have nice things? We don't deserve them.
Interesting, may be that's why they can communicate so efficiently and wouldn't mind to work hard for the greater good.
If your interview process can be solved by AI - it only means your interview process sucks.

Which is the case for >90% of the companies I interviewed with (big and small)
Adding and mixing some protein powder, e.g. whey protein concentrate, into various kinds of foods can enrich them greatly in protein, with a very small increase in bulk, so one can have an adequate protein intake without eating much.
it's science for school and history for college
Funny this is a thing that people in some country need to work through. Personally, I have to fight the feeling of sadness and guilt every time I read about things going on around me that I should but do not do something to help. For the things that I am powerless against, honestly I have zero emotion, much less outrage.
Fraunhofer must've taken a quite a hit to their budget, or so I thought, but it turns out that revenue from MP3 licensing was only about ~100 million EUR annually.

Seems the license came quite cheap anyways.
out of curiosity: which company did you put in a complaint to?

about posting any results: I assume you are aware that after some time it is no longer possible to add comments to a HN discussion, I assume you will post any progress as a HN submission?
for every change they make, Elon should take a consumer flight

There's no way inexperienced 20 year old programmers should be anywhere near this.

> Just a few days ago, the FAA’s primary aircraft safety notification system failed for several hours!

And nothing catastrophic happened...
In python and js sonarcube sucks. Ruff and Biome are perfect but still need manual fixes
It’s actually still a bit tedious on the Apple ecosystem. On the web (Safari) you have to wrap it in a WEBM or CAF container, and on iOS it’s similar. That’s a lossless process, but it’s still not the OPUS container
> I wanted to reduce write-wear on my ssd

Modern SSDs are pretty good at things like wear levelling.

For example [1] reports that a bunch of 256 GB SSDs lasted to 2000+ terabytes written, and a handful up to 7000 terabytes written. So you could saturate a 100 megabit internet connection for 5 years before even a small SSD would wear out. And an SSD 4x the size has 4x the life.

If you're running on a raspberry pi with a microsd card for storage, feel free to keep worrying though :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/mukiwz/are_we_overthi...
Yeah. Ironically the JLS includes a complete specification of what the type E1|E2 is, because if you write a catch block that catches both then that's the type of what you catch, there's just no syntax for it.
I also used Deno for some side projects before 1.0 and I really like it. Especially its focus on web stanrards, and yes, being an all-in-one tool. But I don't have the time or inclination for a lot of side projects these days.

I actually feel much more warmly to Deno than Bun, and would use it if I felt like it made sense. I tried to avoid advocating either way in my former posts in this thread. But regardless of my personal feelings, at work pragmatism rules the day.
Might have been how your PI operated, but that's _not_ been my experience in writing grants.
Depending on where you are, that's "already" or "soon".
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I don't deal with this kind of job too much but sometimes I have to migrate data from one system to another one. The cleaning is hard and specific to the data but most of the time I was able to deal with it using Regex find and replace and some command-line tools. For mapping, I would take 10 lines out of the CSV for test import, use AI or manually map the fields and then do batch import once the mapping is correct. AI can also help you clean, transform the data but the output may not be consistent.
more isnt the problem. or its not the first problem.

>predictions suggested only 3% of black applicants would pass.

Thats not '3% of the applicants are black'. It's '3% of black applicants pass the test'

Starting there alone would yield meaningful results - at the end of the day, you gotta pass the test. Changing the test so more people pass is illogical and dangerous.
Licensing is distinct for FAST and (A)VOD. That is, a service may have acquired the rights to show a specific title on FAST but not AVOD (or vice-versa).
I was just going to say … uhh DHL ?
Prototyping through the regular mail or even air mail is a little crazy it’s worked at all for you.
To me it seems OPUS is transparent at much lower than 120.

32 is more than enough for books/podcasts, 96 is more than enough for music. I doubt above-96 makes much sense for OPUS - I'd use FLAC if I needed better quality.
Just wanted to mention that the time between challenges is set by the site, not CF. Perhaps if you mention it, the site(s) will update the setting?
Your premise is that this would chase women off. Let's consider their experience.

Under the status quo, they get shown 100 guys and like five of them. Four are above the 95th percentile and two of those never even reply. The other two are players. The fifth was at the same percentile as the woman and is the only interaction we're trying to preserve because it's the only one of any genuine value to either her or him. He also replies, so she gets three replies, but the two players are hotter so her first two dates are with them. They both suck and one is so sleazy it turns her off the app before she even goes on the third date that might have been good, and she's gone. And if she's not gone yet then she matches with another player before she goes on a date with the third guy, so even if she goes on the date she's already written him off because she's got a date with another philandering Ken doll the day after.

Now suppose you don't show her those guys. She doesn't like as many people at first -- only three or four instead of five. But they're all in the same percentile as she is, they all reply, none of them are players, and she goes on dates she actually enjoys. She's now going to be on this app until she enters a committed relationship with someone instead of quitting after two bad dates.
An American here: no, never.
I do not have experience with wavelet-driven loss functions.

Do structured emergent primes afford insight into n-body fluid+gravity dynamics and superfluid (condensate) dynamics at deep space and stellar thermal ranges?

How do wavelets model curl and n-body vortices?

What do I remember about wavelets, without reading the article?
Wavelets are or aren't analogous to neurons. Wavelets discretize. Am I confusing wavelets and autoencoders? Are wavelets like tiles or compression symbol tables?

How do wavelet-driven loss functions differ from other loss functions like Cross-Entropy and Harmonic Loss?

How does prime emergence relate to harmonics and [Fourier,] convolution with and without superposition?

Other seemingly relevant things:

- particle with mass only when moving in certain directions; re: chirality

- "NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens" (2024-11) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42229953 :

> ScholarlyArticle: "Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49689-w

>>> Could this be used as an engine of some kind?

>> What about helical polarization?

> If there is locomotion due to a dynamic between handed molecules and, say, helically polarized fields; is such handedness a survival selector for life in deep space?

> Are chiral molecules more likely to land on earth?

>> "Chiral Colloidal Molecules And Observation of The Propeller Effect" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3856768/
Impoundment is determined on the scope of a “program” for which appropriations have been made: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title2/chap....

If you think there’s a violation of the impoundment act, you need to identify what the “program” is and why you think the administration won’t spend the whole program amount within the relevant time period.
Apple uses fedex straight from Shanghai I’m sure that’s an option too
there is limited TPU support in pytorch via torch_xla
> the actual work to get more candidates from diverse backgrounds is difficult and takes time

Yes, it’s lazy and stupid for the FAA to believe they can fix inequality by biasing hiring practices.

The fundamental problem is that the US has severe wealth inequality, which for historical reasons is correlated with race, and for structural reasons (property taxes fund schools, meaning poor kids get worse education) is made even worse.

All of the “wholistic evaluation” doublespeak and weird qualification exams in the world can’t fix that.
Leaving the politics aside,

any HN worthy technical comments on the sanity of moving fast and breaking things when dealing with a control system that overseees one million people aloft (ok, that's globally last I checked) every minute of the day?
> I don't know why this article says "now". It was over 7, almost 8 years ago

“MP3 is now free. It was free seven years ago, but it is now too.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLAe3RyMDk
It’s in-group/out-group narrative. In order to claim to be the good guys you have to invent a bad guy. It’s a power/ego game played by people who are abusive. Both parties play it.
Can you please be more clear on what is being looted in your view? I can see how a lot of money can be made from having the government fund a project that you benefit from. For example DOGE uncovered that Senator Lindsey Graham sits on the board of International Republican Institute which was funded by USAID. I don't see how someone benefits themselves financially by cutting government spending since the revenue stream that they could direct into their pocket has now dried up.
"DEI" is a political football thrown around. What really should be emphasized is: Every employee at a company or in government should be treated and evaluated as an individual, not as the member of this or that group.
I mean, you want to store a kitchen sink of data, too. You don't like the semantic web or semantic metadata, fine - what do you propose? A custom metadata format for each use case? That is semantic information.

If you don't do that, you get a kitchen sink. If you need to store 1930s death certificats, 10k filings, your doctor's signup forms, the ARR graph for your startup, and a genealogy chart all in the same format, kitchen sink it is.

If it were "just a wrapper for image data", what exactly would that wrapper add? Semantic information, or a kitchen sink to manage additional info.

You're asking to store complex data without preserving complexity - I don't think that'll work.
Analog twins.

Did HN have the spot recently about bars where you drive RC construction equipment around in a sandbox?

It will be interesting to see how peoples' desire to operate physical objects/robots like RC competes with digital experiences as physical robotics continues to improve.

Once a controlled physical object leaves your field of view though, it probably becomes "virtual" in the sense that, sure, you could have a headset on like a drone pilot. But soon graphics and AI-generated experiences will be convincing realities.

Maybe long way of saying, how cool are toy robots about to get?
Honestly, it sounds like you don't appreciate music very much or have very limited taste.

Top 40, billboard, and the grammys aren't representative of contemporary music quality or the depth of talented musicians out there. It's not a secret and every musician knows it. Pearl Jam '96 grammys. It represents the consumers of music.

If you can't be bothered to watch or listen to some kexp live, audiotree live, tiny desk. Or listen to internet radio. Or read any of the numerous music publications. Or dig through related artists on a streaming platform. Then it's a problem with you the consumer of music, and makes you really no different than all the other people that make those top 40 charts what they are. It has no bearing or makes no comment on the overwhelming amount of good music we have today and how accessible it is.
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Yes that is essentially what I want but for the same reason I am not a trump supporter nor did I vote for Trump despite voting.

I see him as a somewhat useful tool of chaos but I'm under no illusion he is operating under anything but pursuit of personal gains.
Why reinvent the wheels over and over again?

Just port coreboot, or something similar to the likes of https://cwwk.net/ which have done the hardware part sufficiently.

Or even better, organize to have some group/org paying them to port it to their HW.

Or/and get https://bootlin.com / https://www.collabora.com involved,

if they are disinterested, have them coordinate the effort.

They should know how to do that, instead of wasting time with reverse engineering all sorts of crap.

Apply same due dilligence to the firmware running on the NIC/switch.

Then continue with the 'optics' in the SFP+.

They are 'smart' nowadays, and often run Linux, or some RTOS, too.

See https://pon.wiki/xgs-pon/ont/bfw-solutions/was-110/#boot-log for just one example.

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I see an opportunity for scraper-publishers - who use legitimate access corridors to obtain desired content and publish it without human gatewalls.

I'm sure if this becomes more of an issue the market will provide for that.
Amazingly you are still not free to use them on iPhone's Music app.
We will never know because that who or what doesn't exist.
> Almost any reply to a political thread in the next four years is going to be "That sounds illegal"

And the last four years, for which Biden pardoned his son, certainly nothing illegal in his doings I'm sure.
I think they protect only the login page.
It's all completely crazy. There are rumors that some of offer emails didn't pass DMARC in the first place. Reportedly it started with someone from xAI showing up at an OPM physical location with a computer to plug into the network. People calling it coup or analogizing the ops team to Chinese Red Guards aren't exaggerating.
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Funding can only come from congress. At this scale it will require new funding.
> not a spoonful, but the same weight as a plastic spoon

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Supremacy clause will likely protect them. Even fed lon horiuchi, charged with sniping an innocent woman with a child in her arms, was able to claim supremacy long enough the state case was too stale to win.
This document was hugely influential to me. It got me interested in linguistics (one of the "immaterial sciences" alongside math, comp sci). My username includes "kisone" which is from the conlang I made as a kid. It is wonderful to see it again and I hope folks still enjoy it!
I’m more calling out conservative hypocrisy.

What ever happened to “personal responsibility”, “not blaming others for your position in life” and “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”?
People who just don't like pakistani people spend a lot of time talking about pakistani child rape gangs. Does that mean we should ignore the pakistani child rape gangs?
BeamNG does it, and their UI responsiveness is the worst I've ever seen. It runs at most 20fps and using it is straight up painful.
I had not seen h.264 was finally freeing up. That's huge news to me.