skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short bluesky thread with some animations: https://bsky.app/profile/spacetelescope.bsky.social/post/3li...

The paper:

Yusef-Zadeh et al., Non-stop Variability of Sgr A* using JWST at 2.1 and 4.8 micron Wavelengths: Evidence for Distinct Populations of Faint and Bright Variable Emission <https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04096>.

Figure 1 therein shows views of our galactic centre in various wavelengths, and is worth the click & scroll even for non-experts.
Why is this a BAD thing?

The goal of cryptocurrency is to have a financial system with none of that pesky government regulation.

Yes, there will be scams but eventually people will learn non-governmental solutions that (my libertarian friends tell me) will be net better than government regulations.

“Bug closed/works as intended.”
This looks like a personal blog post, in a blog where the author have avoided capitalization fairly consistently. The blog post was likely not meant to be a research paper, and reading it as a research paper is probably setting the wrong expectations.

If people wanted to read formal-looking formatted text, the author has linked to one in the second paragraph:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07916 - Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation
Our US mega corp is having us hire all remote contractors, in person is completely out of the question.
Not even.

At this point Musk is Wile E. Coyote. He's run out of road, so he's attempting to improvise an Acme Degovernmentizer to levitate.

He's not interested in "cutting waste" but in covering his ass so US Gov can't Enron his doughy face into prison, where it belongs.

But it's going to explode, like everything else he's ever been solely and personally in charge of.
I don’t really see if there’s now an option to further improve the select with JavaScript to add, for example, a search textbox for filtering.

And what about the nearly unusable (on desktop) <select multiple>?
Our family buys a dozen eggs a week. This is costing more like $15-20/month. At hundreds of dollars per year, that's actually money to me.
Yeah, things like these make me glad that humans don't live forever. By the time you are 30 you already hate the way so many things work around you. If you argue about it you are called a philistine luddite who can't stomach change. There's no right or wrong, but it's good you don't have to deal with stuff you find annoying indefinitely. You just... die eventually.

It's a better equilibrium this way and one of the main reasons I don't care much for transhumanism.
Like many Elon fans, you quack “audit” and don’t know what the word means.

Audits measure compliance to an process or objective. They require that you have written down the process or objective, and retain sufficient information to measure whether you achieved it or not.

In this case, the DOGE boys do whatever Elon says. What is said isn’t recorded or written. People who attempt to do their duty who are seen as obstructive of the whim of the DOGE “agent” are fired.
What's the point of humans (other than the ai and robotics ip owners) in this scenario?
And if it actually isn't very important, you should probably find something else to do or move on in some other way.
Have chickens and they are dumber than fish. Have no qualms about eating them.
Killing is part of the "circle of life". Murder is not. They are two very different concepts.
Discussion (18 points, 6 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048882

Related (Original discovery of bug) PostgreSQL psql SQL injection (FIXED) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044672
A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Startups
The best interview process I've ever had was going to work with former coworkers, aka no real process. A couple of quick calls with new people who deferred strongly to the person who knew me, my work, and my values. Nothing else has the signal value.

Of course the problem is this can't scale or be outsourced to HR, but is this a bug or a feature?
https://xcancel.com/Astro_Andreas/status/1892517170384392664
[citation needed]

> “I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said in the ABC News Presidential Debate. “I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-i-have-nothing-t...
It is also the case that the first 80% of a projects functionality goes really quickly. Especially when you are interested and highly motivated about the project. That remaining 20% though. That is a long tail, it tends to be a huge slog that kills your motivation.
It seems that end to end neural networks for robotics are really taking off. Can someone point me towards where to learn about these, what the state of the art architectures look like, etc? Do they just convert the video into a stream of tokens, run it through a transformer, and output a stream of tokens?
My guess is it will be closer to Star Wars than Lord
of the Rings or Wheel of Time.

Yeah. Not all Bond movies were good, but they were at least rare which made them feel special.

Now? Oh boy. Amazon did not buy this franchise to turn out three movies a decade, that's for sure.

I promise there will be a James Bond streaming series, and probably multiple James Bond streaming series. And there will be spinoffs. Ever wonder what Q does when he's not making gadgets for Bond? You're going to find out in his own series. How about Miss Moneypenny? Oh yeah. Another important load-bearing column in the James Bond Cinematic/Streaming Universe. It's absolutely going to be a Star Wars / Marvel kind of thing.

I hate it, even though... if we're honest, it's not like Bond was some highbrow thing. Most of the movies were fun, but few were what people would really think of as "great." Nearly all of them had a camp factor between "moderately high" and "very high." But still.
On a related note, I am pretty confident that one of the main reasons the WWW succeeded where previous attempts failed was that it very specifically allowed 404s.
Clearly, you have never worked in healthcare.

Sleeve tattoos but needs an IV? “Oh, I’m not good with needles, you need to sedate me first.”
It is less so OP's tool, and more so the way they presented it.

I won't discourage them away from SWEs. Instead, I want to encourage them to sell to core engineers. I was a MechE for the longest time too. And this is a great Matlab alternative. In fact, I was exactly that MechE who was using HN to feel like a part of the tech community.

The top post is phrased as a sell. But, if I'd read it during my MechE days then it would've gone right over my head.
> Not related to Project 2025, and they have countless times said they aren't associated with that project.

lmao the chief author is the head of the OMB my guy[1]

[1]https://apnews.com/article/trump-russell-vought-confirmation...
Other than fast factorization and linear search, is there anything that Quantum Computing can do? Those do seem important, but limited in scope - is this a solution in search of a problem?

I've heard it could get us very accurate high-detail physics simulations, which has potential, but don't know if that's legit or marketing BS.
Yep, here's an example: https://forms.md/#job-post
OpenEuroLLM
I've been watching Gary Marcus on BSky — seemingly finding anything to substantiate his loathing of LLMs. I wish he were less biased. To paraphrase Brian Eno, whatever shade yo want to throw at AI, 6 months from now they're going to cast it off and you'll have to find new shade to throw.

Having said that, I would be thankful if scaling has hit a wall. Scaling seems to me like the opposite of innovation.
It's worse, it will (likely) never work at all.
"Around here our eggs are averaging about $9 per 12 on the shelves, "

What state are you in, that's crazy pricing. Article says, "Last week, the average price of a dozen eggs hit $4.95 per dozen—an all time-record." So you are stuck 2x the national average price.
The list of astounding and gross things the have happened that nonetheless, somehow, leave a bunch of people going "I dunno, seems OK" or "eh, it's not a big deal" is growing longer every day, and it's really starting to have not just negative, but downright nasty effects on my feelings about those same people. I guarantee a bunch will shrug this off, too. Hell it's not even the clearest evil action this week.

There was a real line drawn, I think, with the pair of unambiguous nazi salutes on national TV. There's not much room left for even absurdly-generous plausible deniability. Folks still nodding along or going "gee, I dunno" about that are making a choice with eyes wide open. At least I don't have to second-guess how I feel about them now.
i'm ok with that
If you're being honest about your position that 2028 won't be a fair election, I'm effectively offering you free money, right? There are loads of bet/escrow systems out there - I'd be happy to do all the facilitation myself.
You need to run through hundreds of candidates to find someone marginally qualified. I am not exaggerating.
do you need a robot to work in your house 24/7?
I've come to the same conclusion. "AI" was just the marketing term for a large language model in the form of a chatbot, which harkened to sci-fi characters like Data or GLaDOS. It can look impressive, it can often give correct answers, but it's just a bunch of next word predictions stacked on top of each other. The word "AI" has deviated so much from this older meaning that a second acronym, "AGI", had to be created to represent what "AI" once did.

The new "reasoning" or "chain of thought" AIs are similarly just a bunch of conventional LLM inputs and outputs stacked on top of each other. I agree with the GP that it feels a bit magical at first, but the opportunity to run a DeepSeek distillation on my PC - where each step of the process is visible - removed quite a bit of the magic behind the curtain.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Many people, including myself (currently at Apple) play the promotion game every cycle to continue making progress in our individual careers.

Many of us try to build useful things, but that’s not possible every single time due to seasonal interest on certain technologies.
Use another AI, of course!

Idk if I'm even being sarcastic here.
But when culture fails you, it's nice to have guardrails. This is why we have a constitution, law, institutions etc. It's defense in depth, it can buy you time and that's important because the more time you have, the higher chances that the wind start blowing in another direction.

This is why the electoral college is a weak point in American democracy and no wonder it was the actual target of the Jan 6th coup attempt, the Capitol invasion being merely a distraction. Weak points like this must sealed over so that the overall system is more robust to attacks.
no, you made that up.
Nope, it was directed at your last paragraph.
I want financial independence for the sole reason that I can work on interesting problems like this without any outside nagging or funding issues from anyone else (there might still be some judgment, but I can ignore that).

Personally I think governments should fund more moonshot solo or small team efforts because high risk / high reward pays off when you reduce the variance by spreading it out over so many people. But it looks like we’re going headstrong the other direction in terms of funding in the U.S. right now, so I’m not optimistic.
Would you prefer if we started using words like aiThinking and aiReasoning to differentiate? Or is it reasonable to figure it out from context?
To be clear, I'm mostly talking about the people who did not vote for Trump.
Best angle with that crowd is that insurance companies are going to screw them over with all the data.
no it isn't. also im not trying to make it punchy, im trying to clarify my point.
> ...Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and put everything in the SOC...

Maybe UWB, NFC, GPS too, right?

Noob question: these things have software defined radio something DSP something angry pixies. And the just add Rx/Tx stuff as needed. Right?

AM, FM, CB, whatever support would be cool.
MAGA will blow up in their faces. When health care and benefits disappear the US is suddenly going to have millions of angry, desperate, stupid and/or brainwashed volatile people waving their 2nd Amendments at Washington.

This has Musk's name stamped on it. No amount of lying and misdirection is going to change that.
With Kafka you normally don't pick a worker - Kafka does that. IIRC with some sort of consistent hashing - but for simplicity sake lets say it's just modulo 'messageID % numberOfShards'.

You control/configure numberOfShards - and its usually set to something order of magnitude bigger than your expected number of workers (to be precise - that's number of docker pods or hardware boxes/servers) - e.g. 32, 64 or 128.

So in practice - Kafka assigns multiple shards to each of your "workers" (if you have more workers than shards then some workers don't do any work).

And while each of your workers is limited to one thread for consuming Kafka messages. Each worker can still process multiple messages at the same time - in different async/threads.
> In this case Musk reckons he can save $2tn which some (better informed) analysts are saying is bollocks.

A lot of this depends on how you measure. For example, there are a lot of social assistance programs that provide in-kind benefits (e.g. you get subsidized housing) and those programs both require a bureaucracy to administer them and are less efficient than cash transfer payments, so they could be converted into refundable tax credits. Then the program costs somewhat less (you eliminate the administrative bureaucracy) and is more efficient and with better outcomes, but you can count the entire cost of the program as a reduction because it's now a tax credit (i.e. a tax cut) instead of a government budget item.

Do that with the entire social assistance system and you could get a sizable budget reduction before you even get into overpriced government contracts etc.
Norinchukin CEO Plans to Resign After Bond Losses
I don't think the authors are calling for more spending. In fact they point out that funding is not a cure-all:

> In 1985, based on the theory that funding would close education gaps, a judge ordered enormous spending increases in Kansas City Schools, tripling the district’s budget and enabling them to run through a wish list of everything they could dream of to close the gaps. They built new schools, created a busing plan, and reduced the student-teacher ratio to a record low nationwide, throwing money at the problem for more than a decade. But when the Supreme Court ordered a reversal in 1995, the district’s test scores had not improved, its black-white gap had not closed, and it was no more integrated than when it began.

The piece focuses more on encouraging separation of pupils by ability, instead of uniformly teaching to the median.
A portion of dietary cholesterol is directly absorbed and increases your serum LDL-c. Especially an issue if you have the Lp-a mutation that increases this turnover.

Though I think it's more useful to consider what you could replace it with if you did want to do the optimization.

I've been fiber-maxing and ApoB-minimizing for years and my breakfast lately is usually a large bowl oats + mix-ins, a tofu scramble, or a tempeh dish. According to cronometer, they have similar nutrition and calorie profile of six eggs, except they have fiber and other perks.

The downside is that it took quite a bit of motivated behavioral change to end up with new dietary staples having grown up in our egg-heavy culture.
> Consoles have known hardware and thus games can ship with precompiled shaders. I know this has been done since at least PS2 era since I enjoy taking apart game assets.

That's what I said. Consoles ship GPU machine code, PCs ship textual shaders (in the case of OpenGL) or some intermediate representation (DXIL, DXBC, SPIRV, ...)
Anyone who suggests a paired programming solution is right, and answering the wrong question. Unless/until we return to a covid-like market the process will never be optimized for the candidate, and this is just too expensive an approach for employers. In this market I think the answer is hire less.
There are lessons that people learn over time and come up with best practices to avoid repeating the mistakes. If the intent is to really uncover waste and fraud then one way could have been

1. To ask for READ access to all the data with PII/sensitive scrubbed.

2. Any action to modify the content/data should ideally have followed the existing path/mechanism
Yup. You can check out of FAANG anytime you like, but you can never leave.

Was path dependency for careers always this bad?
It’s another side of the same problem. We REALLY need data privacy laws in this country.
That's a great analogy. I would add that since I left every single smart person in my extended network that worked there has left. As far as I can tell all my former teams are held together with jr devs and bubblegum.
In many respects the deposing of the last Western Roman Emperor is a bad date to use for the "Fall of Rome", given that the general socioeconomic trends of the time are fairly continuous for that period and contemporary sources didn't place much value on the shift of politics.

The Crisis of the Third Century, which starts in 235, is where the inflection point between "broadly stable" and "broadly negative" sets in, and the shocks both of the Crisis of the Third Century and the Plague of Justinian are each larger than the shock of the deposing of the last Western Roman Emperor.
> ‘GOD MODE’ ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT DATA

Isn't this title clickbait?

There's an implication this is access to all government data - but the article doesn't explicitly state that but would lead you to believe that.

Given that I highly doubt all government data is in a single data store ... this is probably more like - GOGE has access to all GSA contracts (just one department) ... which is way less sensationalized (and appropriate for a government agency looking review contracts for efficiency)

Note: I'm not taking a political stance on this.
In case anyone is not aware, https://github.com/rclone/rclone written in Go is the established swiss army knife of cloud storage sync, and supports mounting on Windows with many caveats (https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/).

Congratulations on hitting the HN frontpage with your new project, mounting cloud storage locally is definitely a topic of interest!
>One has to wonder how this bank ever managed to be successful before.

The article touches on exactly this:

>No one in Elkhart has managed to make sense of the mystery at the center of the betrayal: Why did a successful, financially sophisticated banker, a man the whole town trusted for decades, gamble his life away for a shot at crypto riches?

Though this guy had been previously fired from the same position at the bank in 2011 for financial irregularities under his watch, so they kind of only have themselves to blame:

>But in 2011, the leaders of the Kansas Bank Corporation grew concerned about Hanes, according to Tina Call, who served on the company’s board at the time. They had discovered problems in his loan portfolio — borrowers who lacked sufficient collateral, financial paperwork that didn’t seem to add up.

>Hanes was eventually fired for reasons that remain in dispute years later.
Which is why I personally disagree with

>> The question isn't what's being accessed, it's who is accessing it.

It certainty is a question of what is being accessed. I don't care if it is god damn Mr Rogers with the best intentions. The more sensitive the data, the stronger roadblocks need be in place. Often to the degree of impossible to access because it shouldn't be gathered in the first place.

There will always be good reasons to access data, and sensitive data. There is always good that can come out of this. But just because you can do something good with it doesn't mean you should. You can do a lot of good with a nuclear bomb, but I don't want any ever built because it takes only a small mistake (not an act of malice!) to have huge consequences. There is always a cost, you must always consider if the costs are worth the benefits.
I'd keep an eye on your lipids if you are consuming 3 eggs every day for months on end. If all turns out great, perfect.
But what if the right way is judging the pros and cons of perfection and doing what makes the most sense?
Ultimately, one of the cameras in my iPhone 7 failed, and I replaced it with an SE3 - which was indistinguishable from the 7 - but another issue was patches.

With very little skill, I found I could duplicate this issue on my iPhone 7 running the latest supported version of iOS:
https://joshua.hu/apple-ios-patched-unpatched-vulnerabilitie...
> I’ve heard that Torvalds build Git in 5 days

And it shows.

I am joking of course, git is pretty great, well half-joking, what is it about linux that it attracts such terrible interfaces. git vs hg, iptables vs pf. there is a lot of technical excellence present, marred by a substandard interface.
> You’re still anthropomorphizing what these models are doing.

Didn't we build them to imitate humans? They're anthropomorphic by definition.
https://products.aspose.ai/pdf/searchable

then

https://products.aspose.app/pdf/conversion/pdf-to-txt

Makes the layout of the space for the text
I salute your optimism. Really, this just gives developers more options to make designers lives more miserable, and vice-versa.
Can dbos work with CF durable objects?
i love when we pretend the NSA is dumb makes my day :)
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We didn't do assessments (if by that you mean take home assignments). This was partly a solution to that, since nobody thought they were a good idea. If you mean the phone screen, I think that would be a problem, yep, but it wasn't an issue back in 2016. Having them pair would weed out cheaters, but we would have to figure out a way to weed them out during the screening, I agree.

We also did not require the employers doing the interview to be our most senior team members. They probably did it more often than most people, but often because they volunteered to do it. Anyone on the team would be part of the loop, which helped with scheduling. And, remember, we were working on actual tickets, so in a lot of cases it actually helped having the candidate there as a pairing partner.

For a little extra detail, the way we actually did it was to have 2-3 pairing sessions of up to 2 hours apiece. At the end of the day, all the team members who paired with the candidate had to give them the thumbs up.
I always find the "It's just..." arguments amusing. It presupposes that we know what any intelligence, including our own "is". Human intelligence can just as trivially be reduced down to "it's just a bench of chemical/electrical gradients".

We don't understand how our (or any) intelligence functions, so acting like a next-token predictor can't be "real" intelligence seems overly confident.
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk by Daniel Ingalls
Surely the response to the Snowden leaks should not be 'Well, Snowden showed that we have a lot of illegal snopping, so all snooping in the future is also ok'?
Do we have different definitions of "marginally qualified"? Idk, I feel I'm a decent engineer - I can certainly do whatever leetcode medium they throw at me, as much as this counts of anything - and can actually code, but I still get maybe 1 callback per 50 applications.

Does "marginally qualified" mean "Ivy League Competitive Programmer PhD" or something?
Same epidemic in Japan, egg shortages have been. A thing but the prices have hardly changed ?
I like to describe them as a very powerful tool for quickly creating impressive demos.