skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will they hire back James Damore? Of course not, the early dissenters remain disgraced even if the people in power adopt their views a couple of years later.

I'm sure all Google leadership is best friends with Trump now.
Simply pitch shifting somebody doesn't make them sound like a normal male/female speaker. There's a lot more to it, including musicality of speech, word choice, resonant frequencies, etc.

If you pitch shifted the average American woman, you'd probably get a voice that sounded like a gay (camp) man.
Hard disagree on the 10kloc limit. At a previous job, I maintained and enhanced a 50kloc monolith (written by someone else), usually by myself. My productivity was very high. At my current job, we've split a codebase that should be about 50kloc into more than 10 separate repositories; everything is still just as coupled but it's much harder to reason about and refactor. My productivity is much lower.
They run their own DNS infra so that when you set the SOA for your zone to their servers they can decide what to resolve to. If you have protection set on a specific record then it resolves to a fleet of nginx servers with a bunch of special sauce that does the reverse proxying that allows for WAF, caching, anti-DDoS, etc. It's entirely feasible for them to exempt specific requests like this one since they aren't "protect[ing] the whole DNS" so much as using it to facilitate control
of the entire HTTP request/response.
Passkeys are also a great way to have vendor lock-in.
Where would you park your money rather than US equities?
> Still extremely impressive

There's nothing impressive about blatant lies. You've embraced nihilism. It will do you no good.
Almost every President until Nixon claimed the constitutional right to impound appropriations, and actually did it. And Congress often objected, but what could they do? Until Nixon did it so much, that Congress passed a law against it. And Nixon decided to sign the law, because he wanted to put the controversy over his own impoundments behind him. And from then until now, even if some Presidents questioned the constitutionality of that law, they decided to abide by it. Until finally, now in the second Trump administration, Trump has listened to conservative legal scholars arguing that the law is unconstitutional, and decided to adopt their argument and ignore it. And likely SCOTUS will decide its constitutionality as a result. But you make a decades-old debate sound like something that has a completely obvious answer. If the answer is as simple and obvious as you think it is, how did almost every President up to and including Nixon get it wrong?
Respectfully, if AI is the golden calf, then so were the printing press, the steam engine, and the microprocessor before it. Every era births its own Promethean fire—each time, there are those who claim it will unseat the divine, and others who bow before it as if it were divine itself. But in the end, all of these are just tools, reflections of human will, neither inherently sacred nor inherently profane.

The argument that AI is a false idol is a purely religious appeal—one that could be applied to anything humans elevate beyond its intended function. If AI is the golden calf, then so is wealth, celebrity, ideology, even the veneration of one’s own intellect. False idols are not technological phenomena; they are human ones.

And yet, AI is uniquely unsettling because it forces us to ask: What makes us different? What part of our intellect, our reasoning, our creativity is truly ours? But these are philosophical, not theological, questions. The fear is not that AI will replace God, but that it will challenge the very constructs by which we define ourselves.

To worship AI is foolish. To fear it as divine competition is equally so. The wiser path is to recognize it for what it is—a recursive artifact of human intelligence, built to serve, not to be served.
I wish to know how to access it for myself, but how may I contact you?

is it chatGPT Plus, Pro or something else? Where are you based UK or Germany?

I was hoping for a market research on SysML tooling.
The text itself is thought-provoking and worth a read.

One takeaway is that it's easy to get lost in the churn; not as a society to take action when it's easier for each individual to mind their own business. And let society be torn apart. Is this what is happening now?

> do your part to kick this content down

No.
They're not off topic if they are 'evidence of some interesting new phenomenon'. As a long-time HN user you are surely as aware of that caveat as I am.

Politics has always made up a large part of HN discourse. You can verify this by hitting the firebase API, or just use the search field at the bottom of the page and look into some past discussions around terms like 'Iraq' or 'guantanamo'.
Might be a good idea to make sure this is backed up in case the bill is passed.

https://www.osha.gov/data
> In almost 10 years, Sciter UI engine has become the secret weapon of success

oh neat, I like learning about “secret weapons” like lisp/erlang

> for some of the most prominent antivirus products on the market: Norton Antivirus and Internet Security, Comodo Internet Security, ESET Antivirus, BitDefender Antivirus, and others.

I saw that sentence ending differently in my head...

It just doesn’t seem like a very strong claim, that all these products which don’t really hinge on having great (or even good) UIs consider Sciter to be their secret weapon.
> I don't even know what 'outreach' and 'financial support' mean in this context

Go to a predominantly black school/neighbourhood and hand out flyers with "hey, we have this great programme you should consider applying for!"

Provide financial support for candidates who cannot afford to go through the programme on their own means (which will be disproportionately, though not exclusively, from minority groups).

And generally, "most qualified candidate" doesn't really exist. Usually what you have is something like "50% clearly unqualified, 25% maybe, and 25% seems qualified" and that's it. Numbers vary and there are exceptions, but by and large, that's basically how it works. So you need a "tie-breaker", which is usually "person I got along with the best", which is just as biased as "person from $minority_group" as a tie-breaker.

Obviously things didn't go well at the FAA, but it really doesn't take that much imagination to come up with some basic measures that are reasonable and don't discriminate anyone.
So I am forced to deal with the main/master mess. That's what I thought. I don't know why you commented.
The most ironic thing is that they can’t protect against bots; I even wrote some that bypassed their protection.
In fairness, I don’t think paragraph 2 excludes discourse on the topics I mentioned. It certainly hasn’t in the past.

I keep reading about tech news on websites where I’d have expected so see it here first: that was a reason to ask.
Didn't President Reagan fire almost every air traffic controller in thr 80s? Weren't they unionized as well?

My understanding is that the consequences of that decision is being felt even to this day. I only know about it because of the recent airplane accident
This is rather blunt, but if it is between 98% (CF-protected) versus near-0% (heavily-DDoSed site), then you hopefully you now see the dilemma that other people faced.
2024YR4 Collision Chance is now 1.9%
AMD Announces Open-Source "Schola" Library for Reinforcement Learning
> Is it a given there would be a budget impasse, if all institutions of power are held by Republicans?

No. American political parties are more akin to continuously-branded coalitions than parties in the way they work in parliamentary systems. There is a minority of House Republicans who will vote down any budget bill because they reject the concept of federal government.
I'll admit I had to search for the name. I recognized your username as "that Yao guy" and remembered that you were also working on a build system and VCS. Since yore is in the same repository of yao, it wasn't hard to find.
We've had good success with Black Soldier Flies[1] too. They compost pretty much anything - you can toss in meat/cheese and similar scraps not just veggies. And you get a very high quality protein to feed the chickens.

[1] https://www.hobbyfarms.com/black-soldier-flies-free-self-har...
(disclaimer I am CEO of llamaindex, which includes LlamaParse)

Nice article! We're actively benchmarking Gemini 2.0 right now and if the results are as good as implied by this article, heck we'll adapt and improve upon it. Our goal (and in fact the reason our parser works so well) is to always use and stay on top of the latest SOTA models and tech :) - we blend LLM/VLM tech with best-in-class heuristic techniques.

Some quick notes:
1. I'm glad that LlamaParse is mentioned in the article, but it's not mentioned in the performance benchmarks. I'm pretty confident that our most accurate modes are at the top of the table benchmark - our stuff is pretty good.

2. There's a long tail of issues beyond just tables - this includes fonts, headers/footers, ability to recognize charts/images/form fields, and as other posters said, the ability to have fine-grained bounding boxes on the source elements. We've optimized our parser to tackle all of these modes, and we need proper benchmarks for that.

3. DIY'ing your own pipeline to run a VLM at scale to parse docs is surprisingly challenging. You need to orchestrate a robust system that can screenshot a bunch of pages at the right resolution (which can be quite slow), tune the prompts, and make sure you're obeying rate limits + can retry on failure.
Who's delusional? When you start off with an insult you've already lost me. As they say, every accusation is a confession.
Yeah, you want some separation from the house to the coop. Granma just picked em up by the neck and cracked the whip. Did it two handed on holidays. She knew which were sick, old, or just not laying. The feet did keep going for a while, and granpa did have to cut the heads and feet off. Removing the feathers after par-boiling was our (kids) job. That sucked.

My experience is that without at least one rooster the hens won't lay well, you won't have chicks, and frankly the hens aren't safe from predators. But, nobody likes roosters, especially other roosters and neighbors. That's what kills chickens in the city for me.
I suspect that bird-human contact is as much a concern, if not more so than bird-bird contact.
You're still going to try to reduce the errors by each party as much as you can. The point is that if they each do the right thing 99.9% of the time, the overlap allows you to prevent a problem 99.9999% of the time. Whereas if you compromise one of them so that it's 80% instead of 99.9%, the chance that something makes it through the net increases by a factor of 200.
> Respectfully, if AI is the golden calf, then so were the printing press

Stupid analogy after stupid analogy. The printing press merely let us mass-transmit ideas on paper. The whole point of AI is to be able to imitate the human mind, through a neutral network created via software and data training.

I have no problem sitting by while fools use AI to create inherently doomed works of art and prose.
I hope there is somethng good left from NOAA going into the future. I like many of there products and the weather forecasting is great (if just for the lack of adds). I often use:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=29.4252&lon=-9...

and like the GOES images:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
This depends on your situation. For example...

Are you someone who took a federal job where you were working from home, and the nearest office near you is 5 hours away? And now you can't sell your home in time for the deadline to start working in the office?

Then yeah, you take the gamble on not getting paid. The only problem with this approach is you cannot collect unemployment like you can if you're let go.
It's a reference to Eric S. Raymond's famous article "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", where he compares the rather top-down, leader driven culture of Unix development to the free-for-all style of Linux.

Of course, I always like to point out the foolishness of this metaphor: Bazaars in the Near East were usually run in a fairly regimented fashion by merchant guilds and their elected or appointed leaders.
I would guess so. Their blog also has a big gap between 2020 [1] (when the Servo team was laid off from Mozilla) and 2023 [2] when they found new funding and restarted development, with nothing else posted in between.

1: https://servo.org/blog/2020/11/17/servo-home/

2: https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/
It depends on the books. I read a lot of fiction, and it's been a long time since I read a book that could be read in 2 hours.

But I've had a few lately that came close.
Those agencies are part of the executive branch as they are administrative in nature.
AMD Stock Craters on Soft AI Data Center Business
Maybe they wanted some cached data to get invalidated if users change their passwords?
Neither him nor Trump ever hid what Elon was going to do if Trump was elected. Unlike other donators of both parties, we always knew what Elon's goal was. He literally spent the last year on Twitter tweeting about it.

Many people, especially libertarians, voted for Trump for this exact reason.

Yeah, you might think he shouldn't have access to these system but it's the President, who the majority of the people voted for, that has the authority to grant him access, or ask for access from the appoint leaders of these departments.

Everyday when he posts list of things the US government is spending money on the more people are backing Elon in this endeavor.

Go here https://x.com/DOGE and read some of the things we are paying for and you tell me that we should be spending money on it.

Yeah, you might think he up to something bad but you would have always thought that because you don't like him.

Are you sure he's not just an American who cares about the US and doesn't want it too head into a death spiral from massive amount of debt with no one brave enough to stop it because it might cause them to lose an election?
I wonder if browsers have a future.
This is not the FAA's air traffic controller test. This is the biographical assessment. The air traffic controller test is called the ATSA (formerly AT-SAT) for Air Traffic Skills Assessment (Test).

This gives examples of the test format and questions:

https://pointsixtyfive.com/xenforo/threads/atsa-compilation....
Looks like my definition of memory safety is wrong and it means only "Runtime makes sure incorrect memory reads/writes are not possible", not by what means, so crashing is under that definition ok.
> Who's delusional?

Every atheist on here, but more particularly, the elitist tech communities that think science is all there is to reality, when life experience abundantly proves otherwise from every direction.
Personally, I think that if your adversaries are doing just that, a grant with a title related to that makes sense, both to understand the problem domain and to defend against it. Yes, I would want the department of defense to be funding research in this area.

Maybe more importantly, I would not expect anyone to glean anything useful about said research from a title entry in a grants database, or maybe from anything in the grant description. I especially think it's absurd to expect an individual coming from outside government, who is unfamiliar with the details of what is going on at DARPA to pull up the title of such projects and immediately have any idea what the hell is happening. I know this from a bit of personal experience with DARPA projects.

There's a part of me that finds Musk's behavior in all of this to be a massive security breach. You can put aside any of the questions about the constitutionality of funding, this is an absurd breach of national security, both in terms of the INFSEC/IT aspect but also in terms of him casually shining spotlights on projects he knows nothing about and knows nothing of the consequences of disclosure.

It's ridiculous how much attention and handwringing there was about Wikileaks and Snowden, and yet we just let a random ignorant (in the sense of having no idea what's going on in the government — otherwise his exercise would have been unnecessary) billionaire with ties to white supremacist groups tap into the federal government and start blasting it on his personal social media platform. If this was anyone else doing these exact same actions during a different administration, they would be arrested and charged with espionage and treason immediately.

To me it's performative empty arrogance with real security consequences, both for the people whose personal information was accessed but also for national intelligence and military strategies and methods.
Blind auditions in orchestras, efforts to get women into sciences are all great examples.
I dunno, I could say that functions do capture their environment (global variables are captured by reference).

I don't really see how it would be misleading.
> Spending any tax money on programs designed to only help "DEI" causes is racist.

DEI has only one cause, and that is avoiding discrimination on non-germane axes, particulalry by subtle, non-obvious means, such as relying on biased funnels.
That's also true of Apple/Amazon/etc.

If you want to make money from a movie, that seems a much better option.
> Given a long enough time horizon, you'll deeply regret building on Serverless Functions

Could someone expand on this point?
> The whole point of AI is to be able to imitate the human mind

The point of AI as we know it (LLMs) is to mimic human text with the greatest accuracy. Simulating the entire mind is besides the point, wasteful and not how LLMs (or any AI for that matter) works.

If you want your biblical analogy to stick you should make sure you're up-to-snuff on the technical side first.
yeah this is not a buyout, this is someone asking people to resign and that MAYBE their employer will look the other way while they don't work until the effective resignation date but no guarantees about it.

That's a setup for firing people on the spot for cause if I've ever seen one.
It's also the same channel they put their new trailers on, so the increased watch time should really help with getting their other videos recommended more.
Do you have any indication of why this person was the target of abuse?
No, read the article again. They didn't need to pass the same test to the same degree - the criteria was also changed to have "qualified" and "well qualified".
All the beings presently conceived so incorrectly in people's thoughts—incorrectly because the mere shadowy intellect can only conceive of the mineral, the crudely material element, be it in the mineral, plant, animal or even human kingdom—these thoughts of human beings that have no reality all of a sudden will become realities when the moon and the earth will unite again. From the earth, there will spring forth a horrible brood of beings. In character they will be in between the mineral and plant kingdoms. They will be beings resembling automatons, with an over-abundant intellect of great intensity. Along with this development, which will spread over the earth, the latter will be covered as if by a network or web of ghastly spiders possessing tremendous wisdom. Yet their organization will not even reach up to the level of the plants. They will be horrible spiders who will be entangled with one another. In their outward movements they will imitate everything human beings have thought up with their shadowy intellect, which did not allow itself to be stimulated by what is to come through new Imagination and through spiritual science in general.
All these unreal thoughts people are thinking will be endowed with being. As it is covered with layers of air today, or occasionally with swarms of locusts, the earth will be covered with hideous mineral-plant-like spiders that intertwine with one another most cleverly but in a frighteningly evil manner. To the extent that human beings have not enlivened their shadowy, intellectual concepts, they will have to unite their being, not with the entities who are seeking to descend since the last third of the nineteenth century, but instead with these ghastly mineral-plant-like spidery creatures. They will have to dwell together with these spiders; they will have to seek their further progress in cosmic evolution in the evolutionary stream that this spider brood will then assume.

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA204/English/AP1987/19210513...
Sì, naturalmente! They approve of my spaghetti code
Brace yourself... most programmers don't have a CS degree.

Yes really.
Clearly the American people did see a problem with inflation and voted accordingly. And no matter how they try to spin it to support a particular political narrative, that won't change.
There are so many ways to spin the numbers to make them support an argument. I'm not an economist so am in no position to assess (and I'm guessing neither are you).
But given the track record (bias) of the NYT, I'm always going to be a bit suspicious.
And not just the ORM, but the way it's used. If you ensure that lazy-loading is turned off from day 1 and stays off, you might be okay. But if you don't pay attention to this and write a bunch of code for N years until all the "select N+1"s you've been unwittingly doing finally force your DB to a crawl... now you're in trouble.
It's always an absurd double standard.

A bunch of people said stupid shit on Tumbler, so I guess the republicans just had to go tear down all our institutions and grift every dime they can?

It's pathetic, but par for the course for the party that insists on "personal responsibility", yet blames Democrats for the deficit despite being empirically responsible for most of it.

"You had extremists" nope, none of those people screaming on tumbler were invited into the Party's cabinet.
Please tell me what those pharmaceutical companies with a similar maker cap to Facebook Are.
The conundrum is that by thinking this way about population groups that are not your own, and imposing your will—no matter how well-intentioned—upon them, you are undermining the agency and self-determination of said population groups.

I believe that in order to actually enact meaningful change, even deeper-rooted causes must be discovered and examined—and while this is certainly possible in theory, it's essentially impossible to do under the auspices of what currently qualifies as “political correctness”.
That assumes that you're able to find a model that can match Gemini's performance - I haven't come across anything that comes close (although hopefully that changes).
This situation has been repeatedly happening multiple times a year. Its an ongoing battle where Cloudflare exploits their monopoly on the web to break the web for any unfavored browser.

The fact that its regressed and repeated so many times now that clearly it indicates a trend and pattern of abuse by malicious intention. Change management isn't hard, unit tests are not hard, consistently breaking only certain browsers seems targeted.

Notably there are mainstream browsers that have this problem as well. Mozilla Firefox for example. Their Challenge has broken large swathes of the web many times to the point where companies hosting apps and websites have simply said they will not support any browser other than Google Chrome/Edge.

Anytime the market gets sieved and pushed to only one single solution, its because someone is doing it for their benefit to everyone elses loss.

Cloudflare should be broken up in antitrust as a monopoly, as should Google.
You're most likely thinking of Battlezone from 1980. Funnily enough, the 3D tech that was developed for that game was repurposed by Atari to create a tank simulator for use by the Army, though apparently it never went further than the prototype stage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)...