skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't that generally true? That's why anyone bothers to question their existing beliefs -- because they prefer "the truth" over "what [they] believe to be true". Not everyone does, of course, but everyone did just value "what [they] believe to be true" then any sort of self-reflection on belief would be a strict net-negative!
What? Not an a whole order of magnitude.

I thought most orderants were around 0.5 to 1nm in diameter.
> So maybe seeing that at interview time is a good thing?

Perhaps, but an interview is a fundamentally different environment than day to day work.

There's no way to solve the interview/interviewee problem though, the whole thing is impossibly fucked and is going to have false positives/negatives no matter what.
It's a spam account, look at their profile, karma and other comments.
Discussion (191 points, 11 hours ago, 162 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113397
Engineering is dictated by the problems you are given to solve, not the other way around. There are many valid situations in which well engineered solutions will have a developer running an entire kubernetes cluster.

For a dead simple example: You may want to do this if the team is small enough that your developer is also your QA engineer... because you can't test the entire application if you're not running the entire application. There are likely hundreds of other reasons too.

To suggest that "any technology with >3 interconnected components is bad engineering" is naive.
No. Employee cards are not used for significant purchases. They are for employee expenses.
That doesn’t answer the question.

For me as a job applicant even in the best case I would need to do 3 to 5 interview interviews. The same is true for companies in the best case it will take at least 3 to 5 interviews to find somebody. Are they supposed to have 3 to 5 temporary staff for weeks at a time?

How much time should that take per interview? How would somebody that currently has a job manage that kind of time commitment?
Ok. So for Musk I would like to cap the money borrowed against his stock portfolio to also be $1.
Many government offices had no free coffee already. This was the case in the mid-teens at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which houses the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where the federal CTO and CIO sit, and the National Security Council, just to name a couple.
While I agree that the author is just whining about this situation and that AWS did nothing wrong, I'd argue that a change in defaults is a breaking change.
All our acts are butterfly wing beats that influence those with whom we interact, for either good or ill. And those waves resonate back within our being as happiness or its opposite, depending on our intentions and actions.

"Positive vibration, yeah." --Bob Marley
I always thought the property "S3 compatible" was fishy - here we see why.
You're misunderstanding the EO. It has nothing to do with the Chevron deference (and you are also misunderstanding the impact of the Chevron deference)
I wonder what effect DOGE will have on attracting talent to government jobs. It was already challenging to recruit qualified individuals to government positions; with these changes, I believe the situation will worsen significantly.
Yeah, you don't even have to look on employees perks. Can easily go to the list of hundred (or hundreds already) of SaaS and similar stuff available in my company, and see contracts in the hundreds of thousands a year that nobody know who's using it. Or multiple contracts with the same function. Or Hashicorp contracts. :P
Matrix.org is the hugest public Matrix server, plus $100k is not just infrastructure costs, but development and maintenance of the bridges as well. As an etke.cc developer, I can assure you that development, maintenance, and operations even a small bridge is no joke.

t2bot's costs look like infrastructure and operation costs, not development and maintenance.

Disclaimer: I'm Aine of etke.cc, we offer managed Matrix servers with numerous different components, including bridges. Some of the components (like Postmoogle - email bridge) are developed and maintained by our team.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

You are embracing those clear, simple answers. You are going to pay dearly for it.
Because this isn't about efficiency.

The people radicalized to these actions are trying to destroy the government. They haven't been especially subtle about it in their writing. The ideal outcome is not the same government outcomes but at 70% of the cost. The ideal outcome is the collapse of the federal bureaucracy so that the lords of capital can scoop things up and create their little kingdoms.
Seems like a great idea but it's a difficult problem to solve. One of the Code Michigan hackathon winners tried something similar about a decade ago but limited it to the Detroit metro area and if I remember correctly offered delivery. You could order from different farms and they'd make a single delivery to you.

Since then I have seen several startups attempt to execute on variations of this idea. Maybe they were too early and now its time.
I feel like using calling conventions to massage the compiler's register allocation strategy is a hack. If the problem is manual control over register allocation, then the ideal solution should be... well, exactly that and no more? An annotation for local variables indicating "always spill this" (for cold-path locals) or "never spill this or else trigger a build error" (for hot-path locals). Isn't that literally why the "register" keyword exists in C? Why don't today's C compilers actually use it?
I spent the first 9.5 years of my career at a large defense contractor. We never had free coffee.
Another alternative is putting the code in a function and calling that function.

function test()
s = 0

for i = 1:10
t = s + i
s = t
println("$s")
end

println("$s")
end

test()

For anyone curious, the rationale for this scoping is explained in the docs. Essentially it's to prevent the so-called spooky action at distance.
The point is that you're still killing that broccoli, not that the two acts have equal moral value. It doesn't normally need to be said but you know, someone was wrong on the internet
A socratic dialogue over the utility of DNA language models
They could benefit some people? They benefit the workers who would otherwise be worked literally to death. I wish they were not necessary but they came to existence exactly for this exact reason. If you could come up with an equitable and non exploitative system that works for everyone, suddenly you no longer have a need for unions.
> Nobody bothers explaining why the primes are spaced like they are

I take it that means you also haven't taken (m)any number theory classes then ;-). Because people wildly care about that.

This is in a sense the background of another well-known conjecture, the Riemann conjecture...
You may be thinking of a green card. Once someone is granted citizenship in the US, they're no longer considered a foreign national.
That sounds like more of a failure of management than of the employee charge card system. They should be screening those charges and periodically reviewing contracts anyway.
> Okay, but I'd never expect an AWS SDK to remain backwards compatible with third-party services and would be leery about using an AWS SDK with anything but AWS. It's on the third parties to keep their S3-compatible API, well, compatible.

Back when Microsoft started offering CosmosDB, I was working at MongoDB on the drivers team (which develops a slew of first-party client libraries for using MongoDB), and several of the more popular drivers got a huge influx of "bug" reports of users having issues with connecting to CosmosDB. Our official policy was that if a user reported a bug with a third-party database, we'd do a basic attempt to reproduce it with MongoDB, and if it actually turned out to be a bug that was with our code, it would show up there, and we'd fix it. Otherwise, we didn't spend any time trying to figure out what the issue with CosmosDB was. In terms of backwards compatibility, we spent enough time worrying about compatibility for arbitrary versions of our own client and server software for it to be worth spending any time thinking about how changes might impact third-party databases.

In the immediate week or two after CosmosDB came out, a few people tried out the drivers they worked on to see if we could spot any differences, and although at least for basic stuff it seemed to work fine, there were a couple small oddities with specific fields in the responses during the connection handshake and stuff like that, and I think as a joke someone made a silly patch to their driver that checked those fields and logged something cheeky, but management was pretty clear that they had zero interest in any sort of proactive approach like that; the stance was basically that drivers were intentionally licensed permissively and users were free to do anything they wanted with them, and it only became our business if they actually reached out to us in some way.
XMPP had its run and is dead, replaced by Matrix. Every single contact I've had on XMPP has migrated away from it.

Anyone telling me "actually nvm, I'm switching from Matrix to XMPP again" won't get me to replace the chat app that I keep just for this one person plus 2-3 others with another experimental, broken, soon to be replaced chat app, they'll get a link to Signal and an invite to send me a letter if they don't want to use that.

Matrix seems reasonably usable for 1:1 channels at least, and I've also successfully used it for groups, including ones bridged to discord and IRC.
and "actively erodes human community and democratic society"
Every week new products are released from you guess where: the US. Products used by people all over the world. US is doing pretty great compared to for example Europe. The US is not becoming an authoritarian state. Its a country lead by companies and institutions. Its just a bit clearer now. But its nothing different than 10 years ago
I'm sorry, but just because I didn't pepper my post with shibolleths like z/OS or VSAM or the vagaries of ACCEPT and DISPLAY keywords, doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about. I worked specifically on connecting COBOL system to a DB/2 database, and one thing was for certain: understanding the data format was the hardest part of the problem. Those definitions, in our system, were tightly coupled to the user interface code, AND the batch processing code.

No, it's not my specialty and didn't work with this system for long, but my overall impression was that COBOL programmers get (understandably) low-level abstractions, and therefore had to build higher level abstractions themselves. This is not like modern software development where you have an embarrasment of riches from any level of abstraction you want, and a large system where every part of the stack is a custom solution is generally going to be more chaotic. To put some numbers on it, to add a column of data to the system I worked on required on average about 20k hours of coding work. No doubt some of this was sand-bagging, but I'd say 80% of it was legitimate.
You’re asking what is the point of being alive if you don’t have to work at a company?
Show HN: AI Tim Draper (With Permission)
There's even more overhead on the people being provisionally hired.

Yes, sometimes things just don't work out. But, if someone quits a job and maybe relocates, that's a big personal cost. It's just the way things work in some limited contexts (e.g. professional sports) but it's not and shouldn't be the norm.

I suppose you can give a huge sign-on bonus with no claw-back provision, but that's never going to happen in most cases.
I’ll bite since you mentioned VA. I 100% see bloat and waste that need to be purged every time I go in. The large portion of non DRs working there I interact with are lazy and barely work. It’s been a jobs program that has created issue after issue. Clear the bloat and hire the right people. So again, yes I’m fine with it.
That website tho..
Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind and for some reason I figured "hey, hurricane electric will give me a /48 at points all over the world, guess someone figured it out". Thinking back... no, that doesn't mean that. It's not portable and there's no reason they're not assigning from different pools at each location.
Not a lawyer but these could be valid additional terms under section 7 (likely 7b) of the AGPL.
If your only insurance that Trump and his party will not attempt to illegally hold onto power one way or another is that they constantly lie and may have lied about doing that too, it provides me with little confidence.

You fall in the common liberal trap of putting too much faith in the strength of our institutions and democracy. The president is already quite literally above the law, Congress remains passive in the face of obvious unconstitutional acts and the supreme court is on board with it all. Why would they acknowledge the results of a losing election? If it wasn't for the (relative) moral integrity of Mike Pence last time, who knows what would have happened.

And if we do switch to democrats, then cool, I'll be happy to eat my hat and give you my five mea culpas. In the meantime, please don't shoot down any worry about the current distressing concentration of power :)
I worked for a company that at one point was worried about wasteful expenses.

Eventually to solve this resulted in a system where a $40 pizza lunch went to a committee of completely disconnected morons who debated it and would then forward it to a VP to make the final call. Probably a couple thousands in time costs with the paperwork and people time involved … for $40 of pizza. Oh and they had lunch while they debated.

I got an email from the committee once, I told them to forget it and I would buy my team pizza with my own money…. they actually tried to get me in trouble for that.

These kinda dumbass middle manager politics sound like they help (to people with no work experience…) but they’re more costly in the end.

Thankfully we were bought and the new CEO did away with it.
Genetics does not draw neat lines.
Well sure, it's a pretty left leaning community, but what people support most at the end of the day is progress.
Number of calories !== number of lives
This will have the additional challenge of being catered to audiences of other languages.
Have you worked for the federal government? Employees literally have to fill out forms and follow a strict process to buy anything when they don't have these charge cards.
No they aren’t, hence why so many Americans are surprised about USAID and their crazy projects. We’ll have to agree do disagree.
Lower unwanted pregnancy and abortions by mandating vasectomies for men unmarried by age 21.
I disagree with the premise that these are the "red flags" that should be avoided.

-Claiming credibility through patents
-Manufacturing hype before manufacturing products
-Pitching products via a TED talk
-Having no plan for inevitable electronic waste

These are definitely red flags, but how often do we see this sort of thing.
-Paying editors to create Wikipedia articles about you
-Pivoting the product to AI, even before shipping

What the author misses is that you need to sell a product, and pre-product, you need to sell that YOU are the person to do it.

That is why Imran promotes his patents, or people talk about their PhD, etc. Nobody would have believed what he was saying without those patents. Ok, maybe if he was a Stanford drop-out, but if neither of those things..... ;)

How do we differentiate "manufacturing hype" vs "promoting a vision"? Though, when it came down to it, the vision was a vision of smoke, but we can't suggest to founders that we don't "promote a vision". Otherwise, what are employees, investors, and future customers buying into?

TED is becoming such a cliche, but I think this comment is suggesting not marketing, which is what TED is. A marketing channel, which (used to) provide a level of credibility.

Who says Humane didn't have a plan for electronic waste? They didn't talk about it, and maybe they should have. We're building hardware, and though we probably won't promote how we deal with electronic waste, we may talk about how we've focused on making our product easily refurbishable and environmentally friendly, but I doubt many people are going to even care. Do you see how many people use take away coffee cups EVERYDAY!!!

In the end, I don't think Humane really matters at all. The only people who got hurt where the VCs, and by the look of the buy-out, just barely. I'm assuming they were paying top dollar for talent in the Bay Area, and those people won't get any return on their equity, but that could have happened at any start-up where they may not have been paid as well.

The public doesn't care about Humane. The only reason it is being mentioned at all is because they were able to build some publicity.
> There's no guarantee you'll be able to easily use an ebook in today's formats 50 years from now.

I have no idea what “easily” means here, but I’m not unique. While these open-format ebooks remain of interest to even a small community, they will remain readable and convertable.

What makes you doubt that?

> You're really that confident in 50 years you'll be able to easily run x86 applications written for Windows or Mac?

Again, I have no idea what “easily” means here. However, my use of “proper” also wasn’t clear (I edited it down from “free software”).

“Proper” certainly implies that their runnability does not depend on the wall clock, or availability of an internet service. Yes, I am confident that I can run such programs in the future, on appropriate hardware.

(Note how the thread is about digital, not physical, things.)
> Are there any of his original supporters left to piss off?

I mean, it seems like a fair number of them don’t care what he does, or how - he’s a “genius” and everything he does is perfect, much like his VP.

Excuses will always abound.
Universities (at least certain ones) and startups (more in absolute terms than universities, but there's also a much bigger fraction of swindlers). Most blogs and forums are garbage. If you're not inside these ecosystems, try to find out who the smart/talented people are by reading influential papers. Then you can start following them on X, linkedin etc. and often you'll see what they're up to next. For example, there's a pretty clear research paper and hiring trail of certain people that eventually led to GPT-4, even though OpenAI never published anything on the architecture.
What VLMs do you use when you're listing OmniAI - is this mostly wrapping the model providers like your zerox repo?
Have you considered that DOGE is an opaque, unaccountable bureaucracy that is motivated to optimize for ragebait? Who don't seem to know the consequences of their actions, or have any skin in the game if they make mistakes? Who have been given alarmingly high level of control over some of the most sensitive pieces of information and governance of our government, and never made any effort to assure the public that they aren't acting carelessly? And for some of these services they have basically left broken, there is an obvious conflict of interest when Musk suggests that the government buys replacement services from him?

You're asking the people to act in good faith but it doesn't seem like DOGE either understands or cares that there are a lot of people who have basically had their contributions and service to the country basically shattered overnight, because Elon wants to get x amount of likes from a certain culture war faction.
Hi Aine! I actually migrated to etke.cc when that happened, and have been really happy with your services.

I do get that the goals are different, and to be honest, I'm still not sure whether my post/annoyance is justified. EMS is within their rights to do what they want, and sure, single users/small instances like me may not be worth their time. I would just think that if they are still struggling to fund large public servers, I wouldn't turn own even smaller instances until I am financially solvent.
It works surprisingly well! I thought it’d just be a read interface but it archives and marks as read like I asked. This would be useful when I commute to work.

Drafting replies would be necessary, of course.

It sounds like you have a library to make these voice apps. To my knowledge, people just use providers like Vapi or Retell. What’s the difference here?
Concur. Element is embarrassingly buggy.
> How many image formats CAN'T you read today that you could read 50 years ago?

I don’t know. How many?
Then why do large-breed dogs die around 8 years of age when small-breed dogs can live to twice that easy?
We’ll have to disagree. I believe the mindless waste of the past administration and their programs and narratives on things like biology were clear simple and wrong.
I actually grew up listening to talk radio; still do. The nationally syndicated stuff is whatever, but, the locally produced stuff is useful. Gotta know what the people around you are thinking and saying.

Before we had an FM radio I used to listen to a lot of Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura when I was little. Listening to something at an early age and thinking "I don't agree" was a good experience. To this day I don't like reading, watching, or listening to stuff that I "agree" with.
I've never run a non-profit, but what's stopping the Foundation from releasing a raw dump of expenses?

Where I live, all government contracts/invoices need to be published before they come into effect. This obviously required some setup, but presumably you already have similar data as a source for the planned report, why not release it?
It's not chicken flu, it's avian flu. You have to control for contact with all birds. I have a neighbor with chickens. They aren't always cooped up so they often mix with the wild pigeons and mourning doves. Even still, they just have simple cages that can be pecked/pooped through.
Yup; AI can't, but AI plus laws made by purchased lawmakers sure can.
Not exactly. They can be and are often used for larger provisional purchases. For example, when we wanted to get Slack or any SaaS, it was put on a charge card so we could start using it quickly, but that would start the clock ticking on an official procurement, which entailed legal and security reviews, etc.
Yeah, people should wake up to what people are really saying.
For some people, it literally changes based on the administration. We need to teach people to always be skeptical of government overreach, no matter who is in office.
Copilot does seem to be catching up in some areas but from my testing Cursor still has better UX. There's substantial value in the "glue" that Cursor provides, one that Microsoft has failed to replicate so far.
Is the US going the way the aftermath of which is described in Neuromancer, or is it going to be Snow Crash, complete with visas to every city state, and the "US" part that's left deluded that they are in control?
The article directly states that this applies to the GSA smartpay cards. Those are limited to approved purchases under the micro procurement threshold under GSA directives.
> Perhaps Musk knows what's scheduled to take place and in his opinion its all a waste of time.

Musk's opinion on anything is worthless.
XMPP isn't dead, but think what you like. More and more people have been adopting it. "experimental, broken", that's not really how I describe software that's been in use since 2004 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gajim / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software) ), 2014 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_(software) ) etc. If you want to describe something as experimental or broken just take a look at Element, which has never once been what I would describe as "polished".
That is incorrect. They are for business expenses, like buying gas to fill your company car while traveling.