skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in my experience. I’ve seen teams come up with justifications like that female candidates don’t have enough experience in certain technologies, won’t be good cultural fits, or not team players, all rationales that don’t get applied to male candidates.

My favorite example is when hiring rockstar developers who are anti-social or toxic. For some reason, it’s ok to hire men who act that way, but totally unacceptable when women do.

In startups, leadership goes along with it because they don’t have time to deal with it. In corporate environments HR doesn’t know enough to pushback or their KPIs are if they filled the open positions.

The problem is that if you don’t want to hire someone, there so many different ways to disqualify them.
Thank you, not surprising it's the nordic countries. I can't imagine this in the US but I'm glad to learn some places pull it off.
The fact that this is downvoted, shows HN commentators have no idea why the current president won.

Those 20 year olds aren’t ignorant of the fact that they are being discriminated against, and they will one day be our future voters and politicians.

Can we be surprised when they want to burn it all down? Can we be surprised when they flock to anyone offering a sympathetic ear?

Reverse discrimination is a fundamentally short term and self-defeating strategy.
> In particular, it does seem like the balance of power between capital and labor could easily get messed up, and this may require early intervention.

Marxist analysis from Sam Altman?

> We are open to strange-sounding ideas like giving some “compute budget” to enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI, but we can also see a lot of ways where just relentlessly driving the cost of intelligence as low as possible has the desired effect.

I can't imagine a world in which billionaires (trillionaires?) would happily share their wealth to people whose work they don't need anymore. Honestly, I have more faith in a rogue ASI taking over the world to install a fair post-scarcity society than on current politicians and tech-oligarchs to give up a single cent to the masses.
The speaker makes a common error in quoting absolute numbers without discussing how much of an overall pool they represent. The numbers quoted also aren’t given dates making it impossible to know if the spending happened under the outgoing administration or a previous one. They then go on to offer no alternative, just a bunch of undirected outrage. If you find yourself outraged at nothing specific, question if you are being manipulated.

There are claims of fraud made but not backed up by the evidence presented. On the contrary, audit results that detailed leave few places for fraud to hide.

There’s much to debate around the investment choices cherry-picked for the camera, but they’re cherry picked! You can be certain 6-7 different examples exist that would make USAID look like saints.

All that said, it’s good to see them on camera justifying the decision.
It’s not the same, but seeing how many of them have prior personal experience working for him or Thiel it looks like a form of old boys network rather than a fair hiring process. Government is supposed to be fair about these things because the stakes are higher due to various legal requirements: for example, suppose that Boeing sued claiming that a Musk appointee helped SpaceX get a contract – even if everything was done in good faith and SpaceX was the better vendor, it could cost a lot and delay projects for years trying to prove that in court.

The concerns about things like Treasury data come up in the same context. If someone sues claiming that their data was used incorrectly, if the access was on an official system it will have logs and policies which could be used to show that the same appointee never accessed that data and wouldn’t have been able to send it outside. If the stories about things like personal devices or outside cloud services are true, that may no longer be easy or even possible and a lawsuit might be successful even if they didn’t actually share data with their old boss.
on the "$70,000 for DEI musical in Ireland"

"The woke extravaganza in question was actually something called Dignity, a live-streamed set of performances from the US ambassador’s residence in the Phoenix Park in September 2022 that featured, among others, the American folk musician Rhiannon Giddens, the Italian instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, the singer-songwriter Mick Flannery and the fiddler Martin Hayes.

Having examined the evidence on YouTube, I regret to inform you that there is nothing about white fragility, queer theory or any of the other progressive shibboleths that have attained the same status in this White House that the dictatorship of the proletariat had for the un-American activities committee of the US House of Representatives in the late 1940s.

It is certainly true that the accompanying promotional bumf for the gig (which was sponsored by the well-known radical agitators Coca-Cola and PwC, among others) was full of the sort of platitudes that were so in vogue in the faraway days of the early 2020s.

“The Biden administration is committed to principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access,” we were informed. “With this event we aim to highlight and celebrate the work that the embassy, the Irish Government and our partners are doing to advance DEI throughout Irish society. These ideals have long underpinned the strong relationship between both countries.”

Not any more."

https://www.paywallskip.com/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ir...
Training on all papers does not mean the model believes or knows the truth.

It is just a machine that spits out words.
I wonder if their curated set of 817 math problems is also useful as teaching material for training math students on a diverse set of problems.
When I was a teen these types hung out on IRC and even AOL in chatrooms like "progs" to trade credit card numbers. Young people and operational security doesn't exist.
Yeah, that’s what I thought as well but it occurred to me that I couldn’t even tell.
What is scientific about this?

Saying that LLMs are just guessing the next tokens therefore they are parrots, that doesn't bring anything to the table. You might as well say that humans guess the next key they type on their keyboards. Both are probably true, at some level, but you don't gain any insight from it. You also didn't say anything about the probability distribution of the guesswork, so you didn't say if the guessing was smart guessing or dumb guessing. To be honest, I think this view is just a way of sticking your head in the sand about the upcoming technological revolution.
I've been mistakenly banned from Discord before and I know from experience that pretty much any low level mod has a complete and readibly accessible history of all of my posts across all servers complete with timestamps and IP addresses

I'm also pretty sure phone number are required for sign up

I think your second point is the more likely explanation. Any other platform that would've hosted this many communities dedicated to drugs, cybercrime, etc would definitely have faced serious legal challenges. It seems much more likely that feds find it a useful platform to keep around
I'd never seen [1] before. Thanks for the link! That's a great and even-handed discussion of the topic.

I've written a lot of hobby Ada code. I really like the language. Recently I did some research into how memory safety in Ada/SPARK compares with Rust[0]. My conclusion was that Rust is better at outright preventing common memory-related errors, but Ada has a lot of great features which let you avoid them in the first place. SPARK is a bit intimidating, but you can pretty much achieve parity with Rust on memory safety, and achieve a higher degree of safety overall. I got a real kick out of someone's comment on Reddit saying 'Both Ada and Rust benefit from not being C'.

0: https://ajxs.me/blog/How_Does_Adas_Memory_Safety_Compare_Aga...
It's not an audit, it's bullshit. The resistance he has met from officials is due to them trying to follow the law.

Musk doesn't have the context or detail on what is wasteful or not. Those decisions are made in Congress. If you believe him you believe you can just look at who is being paid and a short description and identify waste. That notion is idiotic.

Musk and crew aren't informed or qualified enough to make decisions about any of this. They're just ignoring the law and made themselves judge jury and executioner.

Sadly, Musk will just create waste, not fix it.
Who are these people and why should we trust their analysis?
> Mac is a terrible OS for Java software development.

I've not seen this at all, and I use both Ubuntu and macOS for Java dev.
That must be the bigest scandal since Watergate-gate.
I like how you are 100% convinced that this “a mess” and “we can only assume the worst” and that PII is compromised, etc.

What actual facts do you have for anything?

I understand why the media is mad, why NGOs, and why liberal politicians are mad, I get why foreign countries are mad.

I’m interested in fraud and abuse, regardless of who does it. So if Musk’s team finds it, great, if they get caught committing it and have to deal with that, also great.

But right now we know there is something broken. Instead of being mad about that, you are angry about hypotheticals that have not happened.

Why is that?
That's sort of arrogant, Most of that 99 (if that many) % could learn if inspired to and provided resources. And does use reasoning and instinct in day-to-day life even if it's as simple as "I'll take go shopping before I take my car to the shop so I have the groceries" or "hide this money in a new place so my husband doesn't drink it away". Models will get better over time, and yes humans only use models too.

Humans rely in cues to tell when each other is fabricating or lying. Machines don't have those cues, and fabricate their reasoning too. So we have a complicatedly difficult time trusting them.
He is talking about cost. Are you saying price didn’t go down 10 times the last 12 months? How much data is too little?
Start with educating architects and developers on how to measure and optimize costs. They are the first point (and probably cheapest) to optimize costs.

Later, FinOps role can evolve but expectations will mostly be reactive.
Sure, this is true of any service.
>Is there real data men are actually being marginalised in a real way? Dunno. But feelings and emotions right?

It's not hard to find. eg. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/08/07/wome...
> I think this is even true for pornography, or more wholesome forms of gooning.

good to know gooning is officially in the lexicon
I actually made a CLI tool (https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory) that automatically binds to Control+R to support both history searching and AI queries (by prefixing queries with `?`).

Here's the prompt engineering I did: https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory/blob/master/shared/ai/a...
Are you being serious. All this stuff has been going on for decades, and the data has been public for years. If you think this is corruption, not an argument I'm trying to have (a lot of it is fwiw,) then wait till you see what these guys have planned haha.
I’m not sure if it’s automated behaviour, but I often notice my posts go to -3 within a minute of being posted then climb back to positive over time.
Consider an RNG.
The white house is citing... Breitbart and the daily mail?

The real kicker is the daily mail "articles" don't have a single solitary source of their own that they link to or even mention.

Truly incredible times we live in.
Once loaded, weights just stay in HBM. And PCIe throughput is not at all an issue - the cards communicate over a large number of very high speed ROCE links both inside and outside the server. HBM throughput is not as much of an issue either, since during inference you are mostly just reading weights, not also writing out intermediate results and gradients. HBM2e is actually a smart decision on Intel's part IMO - it's not as supply constrained, so they can have more of it. Gaudi2 has 96GB of HBM2e. Gaudi3 has 144GB IIRC, as well as about 4x more compute and even faster interconnect. This means you can do longer context and/or larger models without splitting it across hosts where bandwidth is at somewhat of a premium. Though Gaudi3 is also less price competitive, I must add. No relation to Intel - I have never worked for them and hold no position in their stock. I just had pretty good experience working with Gaudi2.
> I'm starting to wonder if Vitamin D and Omega 3s are indicators, not drivers

most cells have vitamin D receptors, so I would think it is actually a driver
> DOGE keeps exposing, day after day, actual attacks on democracy, where US taxpayers dollar were used to fund a leftist agenda

That’s… normal? Just because you don’t like a leftist agenda doesn’t mean it’s an attack on democracy. You might be surprised to hear that those leftist presidents were actually democratically elected. Much like, as much as it pains me to say it, Trump.
Full on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
Testing on platforms that perverts the precision is outside appropriate, I would say.
Wouldn't be very difficult to know a priori whether the object allocated at a callsite is likely to be long-lived? The object has to be allocated before you can make some other object reference it. So when you do, even if you know that the reference is from an old-gen object "the mistake has already been made" and the new object has been allocated in the nursery.
How does Musk find "fraud and abuse" if he doesn't have access to the whole stack of decision making?

It's not up to him to make those decisions, it's up to congress. Musk is just making up bullshit (I'm surprised he didn't say he was rooting out pedophiles) to justify his jihad against the public service.
The people working in DOGE are the absolutely last people on earth I would trust to tell me what was going on. Just assume they have copies of all sensitive data they've encountered and that data has already been spread via them getting hacked, bribed, just posting it to brag...
>to an extent that would materially affect the balance sheet?
Yup. Looking at you, ATI.
There's a cable planned to be laid out between Cyprus and mainland Europe to connect electricity grids, project is called East Mediterranean Interconnect. It's next step would be connection between Cyprus and Israel. Turkey not very happy about it at the moment according to https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/03/new-turkish-power-play...
Yep. There's a big difference between personal truth and statiscal truth.

In the short term, an individual can avoid the megacorp manipulations. But society will change and those changes will affect the individual.
I found anecdotally that it was fairly difficult to get a heat pump when I replaced my air conditioner last year. Several reputable and carefully vetted companies suggested that retrofitiing it into a midwestern house to replace an air conditioning, because it only worked efficiently on a certain temperature band. I’m not sure why they do it, but replacing my existing system with a heat pump was heavily discouraged by the vendors in my area. We have boiler radiant heat in our older home not forced air.
I do find that knocking them down to find out why they were necessary is often a lot more efficient. Even at 37 that hasn’t really changed. But that’s a lot easier to justify when the impact of that decision is a bunch of process interruption at worst.
I think it may be the case that your possession of a tidbit of trivia and your particular interpretation of changes/reforms that came after Vatican II is causing you to interpret my comment in a different light than it was meant.

I was actually envisioning something closer to the monastery that Alyosha was a part of in The Brothers Karamazov. It reminds me of the cliché admonishment of priests that pray in the streets (something that pops up in the Bhagavad Gita long before it does in the words of Jesus). It is worth pondering the lengths to which monks would go to prove their holiness was genuine and not the result of seeking attention.

It is true that at the time of my writing the comment, the top comment was a popular blogger extolling the benefits of clout that one might gain from writing a blog that gains some following. But in general, that is a feat most will never achieve. For the rest, they are more like the premodern adherents, doing the ritual for some other reason. The blog post we are discussing is literally about that kind of self-justification.

If you know you will not (or perhaps should not) blog to gain an audience, why should you do it?
each subsequent post is worse than the one before who is the audience for this drivel
Curiously both Tesla and SpaceX benefit enormously from government spending[1] to the tune of almost $5Bn of taxpayer money. And then Tesla paid zero income tax last year[2] and none in 2021 either[3]. And now Musk is taking the position that the government spends too much taxpayer's money and needs to be torn down.

Musk also did very well by plainly lying (which I would call market manipulation) about Tesla products; the Cybertruck video where Musk claimed it was faster than a Porsche while towing a Porsche was a lie[4]. A 2016 video demonstrating self-driving was faked[5]. Musk's statements about what the Tesla Semi can do were not just generous marketing, they are impossible[6], claiming 500 miles range and PepsiCo reports they can't even carry a load of Lay's potato chips for 500 miles and on heavier loads they can only travel 100 miles. Faked self parking videos, faked SolarCity videos, faked Optimus humanoid robot videos, faked CyberTruck towing an F150 video[7]. The Optimus robots at the October 2024 event were remote controled and remote-voiced by humans[8]. They walk like Honda Asimo robots walked 25 years ago but they're being spun like they are Boston Dynamics killers. Musk's talk of tentacle arms to recharge Teslas never turned into anything (though BYD in China has had public automated electric-car battery-swap stations for years now). Musk's talk of full self driving first promised, what, 2017? turned out to be misleading with cars not even having the hardware to do a good job of it. Musk's early plans for completely automated Model 3 factory faded very quickly with them reverting to humans in marquees.

Yes Musk has done pretty well with investors letting him get away with a lot of broken promises and taxpayers letting him get away with a lot of subsidies and customers letting him get away with a lot of shoddy products. Lucky for him the Tesla engineers were competent true believers(tm) and delivered decent Model 3 and Model Y but that should only give them a similar valuation to other car companies, shouldn't it?

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...

[2] https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2...

[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/10/investing/elon-musk-tesla...

[4] https://www.insidehook.com/autos/no-one-exposes-elon-musk-li...

[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-faked-video-in-2016-pr...

[6] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-semi-gets-debunked-...

[7] https://dawnproject.com/teslas-history-of-faking-demonstrati...

[8] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269131/tesla-optimus-r...
One thing is to see senior engineers turning to brainrot, and seemingly overnight forgetting how to do basic programming, to the point where if ChatGPT is down they suddenly have no idea how to do work, and another thing is having an entire generation of junior engineers never having learned programming in the first place, because they finished uni via prompting, somehow got a job via prompting, and now are all getting fired en-masse for obvious reasons, creating a huge void in the job market, and very disappointed seniors (those who haven't succumbed to brainrot just yet).

I'm not sure how to feel about any of this. On the one hand it clearly shows yet again how gullible people are. I wonder if senior engineers (those who can actually solve novel problems) value in the job market will go up as a result of this? Or will the market be saturated with so much AI-enabled waste that it brings the entire fields salary down as a whole? I feel bad for the end consumer who has to tolerate lower and lower quality products year over year, as the general software engineering practice seemingly burns to the ground, and becomes a chinese sweatshop churning out counterfeit sneakers.
What? That's (1) not true and (2) says, uh, a lot of unintentional things about the way you approach the world. I'm not sure you realize quite how it makes you look.

For one, it's not even internally consistent -- the people who built telescopes and satellites didn't "see" the moons, either. They got back a bunch of electrical signals and interpreted it to mean something. This worldview essentially boils down to the old "brain in a jar" which is fun to think about at 3am when you're 21 and stoned, but it's not otherwise useful so we discard it.

For another, "how many moons does Jupiter have" doesn't have a correct answer, because it doesn't have an answer. There is no objective definition of what a "moon" is. There's not even a precise IAU technical definition. Jupiter has rings that are constantly changing, every single particle of those could be considered a moon if you want to get pedantic enough.

I'm always a bit shocked and disappointed with people when they go "well, you learn it on a test and that's how you know" because ...no, no that's not at all how it works. The most essential part of learning is knowing how we know and knowing how certain we are in that conclusion.

"Jupiter has 95 moons" is not a useful or true fact. "Jupiter has 95 named moons and thousands of smaller objects orbiting it and the International Astronomical Union has decided it's not naming any more of them." is both useful and predictive [0] because you know there isn't going to be any more unless something really wild happens.

[0] https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/jupiter-moons/
The Com is just a general term for crime communities on the Internet. Its not a specific group. The Com includes groups that commit crimes stretching from cybercrime to literally the worst crimes you can think of and the vast majority of this is done on Discord and Telegram.

You can go down a really dark rabbit hole if you really dig deep into some of these groups within The Com.

This is where the worst of the worst spend all their time.
Yes, but you can still ride extremely safely. Motorcycle cops do not get into many accidents, for example.
almost without a doubt, you'd have to be unwaveringly upright to enter a vault of treasure and not cram some gold into your pockets
Any motor experts here? Why are they chasing rare earth metals in the first place? In the end, the mines are going to be in China anyway, right? Why don't we design around rare earth magnets in the first place?

Synchronous reluctance motors where torque density isn't a strict requirement, and brushless separately excited synchronous motors (synchro motor with electromagnets on the rotor) for high torque/energy density applications?
Especially given glucose decomposes under 200C.
Are you saying women don’t face sexism anymore?
So an endgame is grok runs the government.

I’d be worried about real spies gaining access in person given the confusion of who is doge or not.
Are you contending that every human derives their reasoning from first principals rather than being taught rules in a natural language?
Anecdote: In Lincoln UK, the cathedral chimes are not rung after (or immediately before) 11 PM. Mythically, this is because Michael Todd, who played Guy Gibson, the leader of the Dambuster raid in the post-war film, found them too disturbing, at the White Hart hotel, next to the cathedral, when he was filming.

As someone who lives in Lincoln, in the hearing of the bells I quite like it, but I'm not so close that it keeps me awake!