skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Did you actually read that article. In there it even stated there was a pattern of behaviour and that his comments on Facebook had been shared with thousands

Are you talking about this?

"The initial post received six likes. However, it was sent to your 1,500 Facebook friends and, because of your lack of privacy settings, will have been forwarded to friends of your friends."

"shared" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here, and likely used in a misleading way. Given how facebook uses algorithmic timelines, and the wording (the judge was seemingly unwilling to use a stronger word like "seen" or "read"), my guess is that was the upper bound of people who could have seen his post, not how many people actually seen it. It certainly doesn't mean 1,500 people actually clicked the shared button next to his post (or otherwise make a conscious effort to disseminate the post), as "his comments on Facebook had been shared with thousands" implies.

> and directly resulted criminal damage.

Is there any evidence that people who has committed crimes even seen his post? Or are you simply claiming that because he made such tweets, such tweets called for riots, and riots happened, that those tweets "directly resulted criminal damage"?

>Not only that, that his comments were intended to cause criminal damage and result in physical attacks against immigrants.

This doesn't contradict my prior comment, which specifically admits his behavior is illegal under even US law. My complaint was with the characterization that his tweets counts as "organising".
I’m not entirely sure they are writing any portion of their driver using SPARC the presentation they gave 5 years ago seems to indicate they are limiting the usage to firmware for their embedded RISC-V co-processor, they may have expanded the usage of it but I still think it’s predominantly firmware related with possibly some expansion to their automotive and robotics solutions.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/securing-the-future-of-...
Thank you very much. That's actually a great suggestion. I completely forgot about that. As for the single line comments, indeed this is a bug, I'll try to fix it.
Yes, thank goodness relative pitch is trainable, because that’s all you need, almost all the time. This new ability would let you come in on the right pitch for your first note, which is a cool trick. But after that, relative is fine. Indeed, it would be awful if you heard everything absolute and had to translate to relative (I’m guessing you can do both at the same time, though).
When the diseases of the third world metastasise and cause a far worse pandemic than the one that just happened you will think the 1% is cheap.
DAO Governance Platform Agora Acquires Older Competitor, Boardroom
I avoided Zed (from the creators of Atom) for this reason. Sometimes people learn from their mistakes. But it didn't seem like they were embarrassed of it. Plus they're a AI company too, and that alone lends itself to feature bloat.
Its for your safety and security
/s
Absolute (“perfect”) pitch is, for some people, a kind of shorthand for supreme musical giftedness…when in reality it’s more of a curious party trick than a skill that is valuable for a musician or composer. So you can train yourself to do it—what’s the point exactly? Plenty of people who don’t have that skill have an extremely accurate ear for relative pitch, which is the one that actually matters.
Totally disagree, I've used KQL for about 10 years now, and SQL for 20. Given the choice, I'll always prefer KQL.

Sorry, I don't have time for a thorough rebuttal of all the topics mentioned in the link you provided, but if I had to bring up a few counterpoints:

1. (Can't be expressed) KQLs dynamic datatype handles JSON much better than SQLs language additions.

2. (variables/Fragile structure/Functions) KQL fixes many of the orthogonality issues in SQL. (Specifically: both variable assignments and function parameters can accept scalar and tabular values in a similiar way, where-as SQL uses different syntax for each)

(disclaimer, msft employee)
Yes, better. And what a lovely nationalist heritage too!
You can also adjust energy prices to shape demand. It's not like baseload power plants have ever had constant demands there's always a curve.

The solution is of course a mix. Solar/wind/hydrogen/gas/etc., big grid/home systems. It will require grid upgrades.

Batteries are already happening [0]. And electric cars + home solar systems with batteries have a further ability to allow additions to this at scale if the grid supports it

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_energy_storage_syste...
Maybe it depends on the institution? I, and many of those I know who went to the same institution, had terrible PhD experiences. I burnt out and left with a Masters, others just quit, one committed suicide. Even those who completed the PhD said it was miserable.

Its hard to know if the risk of a bad time is always high or if it is dependent on culture etc, but I do not recommend PhDs as a pathway anymore.
Something, something, anecdotes and data. I've had three of them. All perfect. So I'm at least thrice as right as you are on the topic, I guess.

But in all seriousness: I don't doubt that there are Teslas out there with issues. All car manufacturers make bad cars occasionally.
I don't like saying this, but it's safe to say the cutting edge research is happening inside places like Meta, X, Google, and Microsoft. Obviously they all exist to increase engagement and not necessarily to improve the GUIs as a first priority.

Also what /u/Austin-cheney says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005164
Playing devil's advocate...

Yeah, the ad supported model has its problems, but it also makes the internet way more accessible. If we think about it, companies and people with more money are basically subsidizing these services for everyone else. They're the ones seeing the ads that keeps the lights on for users who can't afford to pay.

If everything was subscription only, a ton of people like students, low income families, people in developing countries would be shut out. "Free" services, even with their flaws, create a kind of digital subsidy. It's not perfect, but it means way more people can use these tools.
I think this is the natural outcome mode of Anarcho-liberalism on the left versus populism on the right, as demonstrated in many countries around the world.

Turns out leftist anarcho-liberal movements mean they simultaneously fuel the right, but ultimately fail due to lack of organization and platform coherence.
> The executive should have the power to fire/remove executive associated departments/employees, obviously.

The executive has that power—with legal constraints on the how and in what circumstances it can be used. These constraints exist, in large part, because of widespread corruption and abuse before they existed, when executive branch positions top to bottom were both sold corruptly and used as currency to buy favors. (They also exist because of the fundamentl role of the executive is to execute laws; policy primacy rests in the legislature, and if it determines and puts in law that a department is to exist and serve a function, then the President’s job is to make sure that happens, not overturn it because he has other preferences.)

It is not an “imbalance” that the US is not set up as an executive dictatorship with an advisory legislature where Congress can pass laws but the executive branch is free not to execute them if it has other preferences.
Excellent find, thanks
But what's the difference between an example ("it’s such good pedagogical practice to demonstrate examples of concepts you are trying to teach") and an analogy ("now they have to spend a week thinking that monads are burritos and getting utterly confused, and then a week trying to forget about the burrito analogy"), and why is it completely subjective leaving us with no hope?
You don't need to. If you don't draw the energy from the panels, nothing happens. It's not like a turbine where you'd have to dump the energy into a dummy load. Solar power not used is simply not produced.
Key bird flu lab threatens to strike as California cases and egg prices climb
“ The lab is the only one in the state able to handle the most dangerous cases of avian flu, which has swept through dozens of poultry and hundreds of dairy farms in California’s agricultural heartland with no clear end in sight.
Getting a positive, timely test result is vital for dairy farmers to make a decision on isolating or culling infected animals, but also to qualify for supplemental payments from the USDA to help combat an outbreak.”
I mean, I don't know him personally, either, but I do think they're correct that he craves approval.

Hell, he tried to get the left's approval for years. However nothing he did was ever good enough to satisfy the loudest, most critical voices, which I think has contributed to his abandonment of the left as a whole.

It probably didn't help that he was outright snubbed by the previous administration numerous times. I think that blatant disapproval helped shape who he is today, too.

I'm mostly basing this on pragmatism, really. He wants to succeed, and if the left isn't enabling that, of course he'll try the right. They seem much more welcoming (ironic!), and much more supportive of his goals (also ironic, given Tesla's position opposing fossil fuels and climate change!)
It is open-source no one is going to serve you or care for your time. Take it or leave it.
I wish I had this problem with my arrays.

The solution is obvious and cheap. You don't need powerwalls in 2025 all the major backup battery manufacturers now make $3-4k models which you can wheel around and can take your excess with zero conf off the shelf.
It’s not like interpretability research is immune. You could’ve been in year 4 of your degree when Anthropic released their sparse autoencoder research. It’s just less busy because as you correctly note, industry mostly cares about getting the black box to print money.

> Plus it would be fascinating

You can do research on the weekend even if you’re not in a PhD. I’ve done it. And no one was breathing down my neck to publish it.
Why is this convo about kernels so angry? And macOS isn't even based on a microkernel.
This reminds me that utilities can limit the size of your rooftop solar system, which locks you into whatever your usage you had at install time. Because of that it's difficult for me to actually achieve net zero electric usage and it's more cost effective for me to remain on a gas furnace instead of upgrading to a heat pump. This is such a shame. I wish I could just get 2 more KWh.
If Hitler was married to a Sri Lanken man he wouldn't have been accepted by those who believed in racial purity aka the Nazis...
Something is weird in at least firefox.
Type or paste:

select \*
from crime_scene;

then TYPE so you add a comment

select \*
from crime_scene;
--

I see

select ----from----------------

but when I select the text I see what I wrote - I like the comment my text (and I was pulling in the instructions) but it renders some interesting garbage pretty fast.
Get an article about Rust, and there’s going to be comments about how drama, zealous Rust is from people that never use Rust. Regardless of its content.

So yeah, typical internet houlier than thou reactions, I wouldn’t read much into them.
Some memory-safe languages are capable of code generation. I think the ones that aren't should be.

Admittedly, I don't know any compiler backends that generate COBOL.
What a pleasant rabbit hole.

Thank you for sharing. The embeddable nature of this sounds great, the idea of having one spreadsheet solution that can run as code, on the browser, desktop or even within another app sounds amazing.

As someone with a couple of apps kicking around that would benefit massively from a robust spreadhsheet solution, I wish you luck.
OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site
Well Musk/X thought it will be too much work to generate fake views for advertisers. It is easier to take over the govt and make doge.gov links all point to X. Also helps the PageRank/SearchRank.
The headline sounds like there's a specific kind of bug called an unforgivable buffer overflow - was hoping to find out what it was.
The free competitors have raced to the bottom and don't provide a useful service any more.
I mean it is "The Economist".
I am not sure if we read the same article, but the article I read specifically calls out funding by nations as problematic:

> This is because WADA relies heavily on funding from stakeholders, some of which have had the highest number of doping cases to investigate, such as Russia, China and the US. This in turn creates serious challenges for WADA in maintaining its own independence and impartiality.

The US has had more olympic medals stripped than China due to doping, but less than Russia [1]. This could be because China is better at hiding/masking it. It could be because US athletes get tested more thoroughly. However, the article calls out the relationship between funding and nations that are interested in doping and winning athletic competitions as problematic. Your... quick dismissive and berating diversion to our current administration is not very enlightening.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1288717/countries-most-s...
I think that the example you give is similar to another comment around here, where someone said ChatGPT helped them learn Python. I can imagine that it does help them learn, there. And that's great!

But I believe that it is a different situation from what I was describing. For someone who is already a professional, I think that AIs risk to prevent them from improving. The industry will push us towards using the AI and tuning the output because that is more productive now, even if it means that we don't improve our skills.

> This technology doesn't threaten people, it empowers them.

AI threatens many people in many ways. For instance by enabling phishing to a level never seen before. By being a big copyright-laundering machine in favour of BigTech. By teaching people to believe an eloquent, all-knowing chat interface because most of the time it seems good enough to not fact-check. Etc.

> It doesn't harm creativity, it enables it.

Do you know any professional artist? I do. I have an example in the animation movies business. You know what genAI brings to their job? They are pushed to have a genAI generate images, select those that are good enough, photoshop them a bit and move to the next.

This is the definition of "harming creativity". If AI makes you twice as productive, it's okay to lower the quality of what you produce, right? You'll just sell more of lower-quality stuff. That's a tendency that has existed in software in the last decade, but it feels like LLMs will bring that to a whole new level.

> I don't know about "worthless arguments"

My apologies. Re-reading it out of context, it sounds harsh. It's not an excuse, but I wrote it after answering a few other comments that all said "people said that for technology X and they were wrong, which proves that if you say it now for technology Y you are most likely wrong as well".

> hits close to home, because in this case I was arguably the asshole

I wouldn't call that being an asshole. Not helping someone for free because they are stuck using the stuff you provided for free is completely fine.

I have had many people over the years telling me how my project sucked, how it was making them lose money, how they wouldn't use my project unless I added X and Y. When being part of a larger community, I've had people pressure me by telling everybody and their cat, on public channels, that "well you shouldn't use this project because it seems unmaintained" (last commit was some weeks before, issues had been answered days before). Or complaining about the license because it makes it harder for them to make money out of my free work.

Many times people don't even realise that they are assholes. They think that if I published my work for free, they are the customer, and they deserve free support.

Users of open source projects make me want to keep my stuff proprietary. Not because I don't want them to benefit, but just because I want them to stop bullying me.
I'm amazed this one isn't flagged yet...

I'm also amazed that things like curling, which was invented by a bunch of drunk Canadians as a way to have an excuse to spend even more time at the bar, now requires an international chemical testing regimen to ensure the participants aren't ingesting performance enhancing drugs (other than alcohol).

The fact that "sporting" activities are given such treatment is truly one of the great wastes of resources that could be cleaned up.
At least some version of it has been open source for years: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE
A page in French discussing coaxial stepped impedance low-pass filters. The spreadsheets should work in any language.
XNU apparently stands for "X is not Unix." Well that's confusing.
This the functional equivalent of a self-pitying LiveJournal post by a moody teen that's been called out by his friends for being a bit of a dick.

Marcan wants to use social brigading to get his way, Marcan wants the entire Linux kernel dev flow to bend for him, and, when none of his poorly presented demands get him what he wants, he is - of course - the victim here.

Asahi is neat, but it clearly isn't a working daily driver yet, and it's not abusive to make feature requests and bug reports. Discussions around Rust in the kernel are not, and can never be, an 'injustice'. In Marcan's world, everything other than vehement agreement and immediate compliance is abusive, hostile, toxic, etc. But of course, the only toxic person here is the one threatening to wield the mob to get his way.

Honestly, I'd query whether the benefit is worth the cost. I'll take average code from well-adjusted anons over clever code from bullying, hyper-online micro-influencers any day of the week.
> There is no mystery why these institutions that are 30 years old exist, we have the documents and probably the people that formed them still around. We know what they got paid for and what they did.

You're suggesting the DOGE folks actually read these documents and talked to the people?
I remember when I was in school and our religion teacher told us that 200 years ago there were still people that knew almost everything that was known to humanity back then. This wasn’t possible anymore.

However now I feel like it’s possible again.

https://www.phind.com/search/cm73yk4wc0002336u6brx4jp1

It helps greatly to learn new topics.
60 / 200k < 8 / 24k, 500k / 200k < 80k / 24k ~(666k for same ratio on the higher salary)

Not accounting for taxation, other CoL and all that, but your example doesn't really work out.

Just to put this into perspective: In Germany average fulltime wage is rougly 54k ~= 34k after tax and social security. Average price of building a new 150 m^2 (living space) home is 400k-500k.
Pdf mentions split rainbows
You'd be able to code memory bugs into an OS kernel written in Rust. It's the same problem as a JavaScript JIT - the fundamental operations it has to do are unsafe, so it doesn't matter what language it's in.

Among other things, you need more secure hardware to make progress.
I've recently come to consider WADA as an extension of US domestic anti-drug policy, so I'm surprised to see this
I mean, they basically are. They are slashing foreign aid, slashing Medicaid $800B, slashing SNAP programs 20%, and they're giving the money back to the American people in the form of tax breaks.

But not average Americans, no, don't be silly. It's going back to the 1% and corporations, the "real Americans" who built this country.

Average Americans get nothing. Actually, it's worse than that we get less than nothing; we are losing social welfare programs that keep up alive and healthy. Instead, the plan as far as I can tell is to just let people who depend on those programs die.
AI Licensing Deals with Google and OpenAI Make Up 10% of Reddit's Revenue
Inside Amazon's Messy Push to Bring Everyone Back to the Office
Yeah, I gave a talk on Ada a few months back at a local meetup. Calling it "Boomer Rust" at the start helped break the ice, everyone laughed, and it also helped them get the gist of Ada's particular value-add while I went into details.
From the discussion here, it seems that HN turns out to be a very money-centric place. Somewhat surprising.

It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research. It’s always talked about as if getting a PhD is just another rung in a long ladder towards… earning a lot of money? Not only that — it’s apparently such an obvious fact that it’s an unacknowledged (though implicitly present) assumption in almost every comment here.

The obsession with the ‘STEM’ acronym (well, really the grouping rather than the name) also winds me up, but I better not go there…
Thanks for putting me on to Protocol Labs! It's a wealth of super cool projects.
https://archive.ph/1IWSf
LM2: Large Memory Models
I am in a lab that does EEG research and have recently been doing research using self-supervised learning on EEG. We had to get approval for "secondary use of data" to use open datasets from https://openneuro.org/ and we had to jump through a bunch of hoops with our IRB. It was harder to get it approved than the EEG experiments we run ourselves for some reason.
If true, the implications for innovation seem fairly terrifying.
Why some of these are missing letter U or W?
Who knows? If we had micropayments we certainly would have had a lot of fraud around them,.

I'm sure, however, that we haven't seen how bad it gets on our current track.

Last summer I watched a lot of Tubi, which is a free advertising streaming service which has the lower tier of content that you might see on broadcast TV or cable plus generous helpings of old movies, subprime anime [1], subtitled Italian crime dramas, etc.

The ads started out really polite, with heavy rotation of ads for P&G brands like Dawn and Tide featuring black people cleaning up [2]. None of the personal injury lawyers, prescription drug ads, ads for legal and illegal medicare frauds, etc. I gave my email addresses and they mixed in a light tranche of retargeted ads from brands I'd engaged with long ago and who were famous for using retargeted ads on the web in the day.

The adtech revolution is half about tech and half about brands that take advantage of the new medium and it's certain Tubi is in the honeymoon phase today because they're still willing to lose money. Investors will expect to take profits someday, and by then cable will be gone, broadcast will suffer from neglect [4] and the ads will get worse, much worse.

I think we'll see more businesses centered around running bad ads everywhere, the only respite might be that some platforms like Amazon and Temu get so big that they trap many businesses into using them as their exclusive channel and starve other channels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juden_Chan but also some good older stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranma_%C2%BD and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accel_World

[2] their own messes

[3] https://www.avclub.com/tubi-success-hasnt-turned-profit-stre...

[4] even a few years ago the kind of normcore people who used to watch broadcast TV would seem to think I was doing some kind of hacking when I put up an antenna to get OTA television
The pricing on these products is frustrating. To even try out the Phind-405B model I have to pay $20 and then I get unlimited queries which I never asked for? For a product I don't even know if I'll ever use again, give me usage based pricing.
Dunning-Kruger is itself kind of a tech bro-ey catchphrase though…
I think you can break six figs in pretty much any metro area of US. Might need a couple years of experience in areas with low tech demand, but in major cities (SF, LA, NYC), I would expect the average new grad offer to be right around 100k.

My first job in 2017 was for 130k iirc. I work on ML efficiency. You should check out https://www.levels.fyi/ for more details.