skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stanley Zhong had a 4.42 GPA from Gunn High School and 1590 out of 1600 on the SATs. He also founded his own document-signing startup and tutored underserved kids in coding. His college rejections and his employment offer from Google became a lightning rod in the national debate over the college admissions process.

> Stanley Zhong and his father Nan Zhong filed a new complaint in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, alleging the University of California illegally engages in racial discrimination in its admissions process. The use of race was banned by California voters through Prop 209 in 1996 and affirmed in an unrelated case involving Harvard in 2023.
Many S3-compatible services are recommending that their users use the S3 SDK directly, and changing the default settings in this way can have a direct impact on their users.

This is wholly predictable; AWS isn't in the business of letting other companies OpenSearch them.
Now next is to have a Senior Editor and Editor pair :)
They aren't auditing anything. Programmers/engineers don't audit budget and spending. If they were doing an audit, they would have accountants on their team, which they don't. If you bring coders/engineers into a system, it's for accessing/manipulating data/code/infrastructure. This is an enormous and unprecedented overreach.
Which was caused by cost cutting measures, MBA disease, in companies to begin with.

We’re just seeing the end of the cat and mouse struggle that’s been going on since the 60s. And massively accelerated in the 80s.

It’s unfortunate for companies though because they’re the ones that will lose out in the end when all the experienced people start retiring and they have no one to hire.

It’s an untenable position to not train people, period. There is no schooling you could go through that would educated junior dev to the level of a senior dev. And it’s the same for any other role. Experience is not optional.
A good saying I heard a while ago was “you don’t get scammed because you’re stupid, you get scammed because you’re human”.

These scammers aren’t random individuals, they’re business that invest a lot of time and energy into working out how to scam people. They’re professionals targeting amateurs.
Why would it? Once those are introduced, advancement leaves behind pure scaling.
let me spell it out for you:

If you're a midlevel program manager (or whatever role label they have) at USAID you should be noticing that vaccines are not being given out. If USAID doesn't have the capability to monitor its programs to the point where that level of accountability exists, then it shouldn't exist.
Salesforce is the culprit here, not AI.
It also has 20x the GDP of Wyoming.
A lot of good people will close-up and not voluntarily ask you any question if you put them under pressure. (What they automatically are on that exercise.)

What is not to say that you are making anything wrong. But watch for bias there.
I'm not sure what the other option is here? Keep old defaults and hope users update?

I wouldn't be happy to find out they did it /just/ to break third-party S3 providers but it seems like it's an easy enough thing to turn it off right?

I'm just not sure how comfortable I am with the phrasing here (or maybe I'm reading too much into it).
What's wrong with indicting nature? Male animals regularly rape female animals. We shouldn't hold animals morally culpable, as they aren't moral agents, but humans are moral agents. There is no human act in this world for which "this is commonplace in nature" is a moral defense.
> Why do we ever install anything

To be able to reproduce all the procedures reliably, constantly, and without an internet connection. At least it's a requirement for my job and some other industries. Also because it's good to be serious about your job, and because reproducible builds is a nice thing to do.
But can I run it on Gaia-X?

This really reads like a parody. Press release, “a consortium of 20 research institutions”, “awarded the STEP (Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform) seal”. Lots of grandiose self-congratulations. All with nothing to run, download or try of course.
Ah, customizable for web developers, not end users.

(And yes, I'm still bitter about you all wrecking my scroll bars.)
>the dire externalities that are enabled by crypto. Every single crime you can think of, is easier to do now because of crypto.

replace crypto with railroad in the 19th century. Or even just Internet in the 90-ies. Or AI in 20 years.
Not to mention, raising meat chickens is sad. We've bread them to gorge themselves so they bulk up fast. That results in essentially morbidly obese chickens. We ended up with two on accident and they couldn't even climb the ramp into the coop after a few weeks. The just gorged and sat around in the dirt. It was very sad. Raising non-meat chickens takes a lot longer and the meat output is much lower.
School? You want to see my 1999 Java code? I’ll go dig out the 3.5 floppy for you.
I think they've yet to train let alone release any models. This is just a press release about the effort
we're pretty much training these models on the entirety of human recorded information (good & bad); sure, we can run larger and larger models, but it seems that fundamentally we've hit a wall in that none of these models are immune from hallucinations and the constant generation of "sounds likely but is false" sentences.

The approach is fundamentally flawed, you don't get AGI by building a sentence predictor.
From https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release (3 Feb 2025):

> "The models will be developed within Europe's robust regulatory framework...
This should probably link to the actual press release since its more of an announcement of something forming rather than a release of any models, code, whitepapers, etc.

https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release
Can you support that assertion? What's your evidence?
It takes 20 to 40 plant calories to raise one calorie of beef. So slaughtering a cow kills 20 to 40 times the number of lives as eating plants directly.
Another case of Hyrum's Law, where the entire functionality of the S3 SDK and any competing service provider borrowing from it becomes Amazon's problem to fix at their own cost. Maybe it's time for a non-Amazon but S3 API compatible library to emerge among the other cloud storage providers offering S3 compatible APIs. OpenDAL looks interesting. Also another reminder to run thorough integration tests before updating your dependencies.
Thank you. This is my favorite kind of comment. There are lots of "technical" terms which manage to acquire similar but distinct uses (today I was contending with "agent" and "prompt"). Keeping them straight in your own head, and recognizing when others don't is as valuable as it is unappreciated.
Well that's kind of the problem though, isn't it? All that effort for the machine to sometimes correctly draw the regression line between the right and wrong answers in order to solve a trivial problem. A 6-year old kid would only need to learn the alphabet before being able to count it all on their own. Do we even realise how ridiculous these 'successes' sound? So a machine we have to "train" how to count the letters, is supposed to take over the work which is orders of magnitude more complex? It's a classic solution looking for a problem, if I've ever seen one.
Browse Instagram, apparently.
> Why is this hard to accept?

Because a lot of people on the other side of the aisle from the current executive said it is bad.

And then they used ad hominem attacks and random slanders to try to shout down anyone who says otherwise.

It's unfortunate.
Congrats guys! Back in the spring of last year I did an initial spike investigating tools that could evaluate the accuracy of responses in our RAG queries where I work. We used your services (tests and test dashboard) as a little demo.
They should relax safety standards for the plane to speed up delivery. And don't fill full tank of gas, just barely enough to make it to the destination, maybe even less, to save time and deliver faster.
How much time you got? I'll keep it high level because I'm pretty sure I'd crash Hacker News if I spent all day typing out every last specific issue for you, and I don't have time to do that anyway.

- A multitude of errors in basic math in the claimed savings, like claiming 55 billion in savings when the "receipts" posted on their own site to back up those numbers did not add up to 55 billion even assuming they were accurate. Diving deeper, they clearly misunderstand how government contracts work, claiming they saved the full value of contracts they cut despite said contracts having been partially paid out. In one case they claimed 8 billion in savings for a contract that was worth 8 million, and then apparently tried to change the data to cover up their mistake when called out.

Here's a twitter thread with some more specific examples: https://x.com/electricfutures/status/1892432354016202831

- And here's all the contracts they claim to have canceled: https://doge.gov/savings
No verifiable reasons have been given for why these specific contracts were chosen. What made these more wasteful than other contracts? How will canceling them improve efficiency? Nothing more than "Trust us bro", I doubt they know themselves; they certainly haven't had the time or the staff or the expertise to investigate anything with any detail.

- Elon's companies are recipients of massive government contracts and were under investigation by some of the agencies he is attempting to cut. An insane conflict of interest that has not been accounted for beyond "trust us". There is no politically independent oversight of any nature.

- The shutdown of USAID was done so incompetently that employees were left stranded overseas locked out of government networks without support.

- The wholesale gutting of the CFPB, a program which actually made more money for taxpayers than it cost, while claiming to care about financial efficiency.

- Avoidable accidental firings of critical personnel across government agencies. Re-hiring is a non-trivial cost on top the immediate disruption and you won't get a 100% return rate. Complete waste of time of and money while disrupting mission critical activities.

These are not the actions of serious people trying to curtail government waste, fraud and abuse. If they are, they're a sign of rank incompetence. These are the actions of people who, even if given the benefit of the doubt, are falsely convinced that the government does no good whatsoever and they can cut programs and grants with no consequences that matter except to their political enemies.

This isn't even getting into the legality of what they're doing, but DOGE supporters have made it quite clear at this point that they view the law as the enemy, or at the very least irrelevant.
Very clever but the WPM is very low so only good for paralyzed people.
> There should be a ton of companies out there just dying to hire someone with that kind of experience.

heh.. they are probably dead already?

i have even longer years.. But this time i am looking since.. september? Applying 1-2 per day, on average.. Widening the fishing net each month.. ~2% showed some interest.. but no bingo.

"overqualified" is about half of the "excuses" :/

Time to plant tomatoes maybe..
Sure, but in this context, your FAANG experience is a negative signal for people who don't know you well yet. It's unfortunate for you, but a genuine factor you now need to account for.

Your path through will probably look like having the luck of breaking in at one of these kinds of companies, and then staying for several years to demonstrate earnest commitment/fit while building a new network of connections, and then leveraging those connections to get more opportunities if it becomes necessary to do so. If you have connection from your previous non-FAANG work, that's probably your best route.

It won't happen overnight and you'll always be at a disadvantage when you find yourself applying through resume portals. Good luck!
The way that most tech companies define levels - yes I’m simplifying slightly. I’ll provide citations:

Junior - you are told what to do (business objective) and how to do it (technical).

Mid - you are told what to do (business objective). But you are expected to use your experience to figure out the “how”. You should be able to lead a decently complicated feature/epic/work stream either by yourself or with others and mentoring other juniors.

Senior - You are expected to lead major projects that involve multiple epics with multiple developers, talk to “the business”, disambiguate, deal with XYProblems, communicate trade offs between time, cost, meeting requirements, etc. Now you also start having to deal with cross team coordination.

Staff - cross team impact, dealing much more with business strategy and setting technical direction.

As an IC, the only things you have at your disposal are your relationships and reputation. Both require soft skills.

Leveling guidelines:

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/
Here's a statement by NVIDIA:

"The revenue associated with Singapore does not indicate diversion to China," a statement by Nvidia reads. "Our public filings report 'bill to' not 'ship to' locations of our customers. Many of our customers have business entities in Singapore and use those entities for products destined for the U.S. and the West. We insist that our partners comply with all applicable laws, and if we receive any information to the contrary, act accordingly." (Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...)
I don't actually use Obsidian's syncing feature or web publishing.

I use Obsidian to write and manage large collections of linked notes, like a personal Wiki; only I don't need to host a wiki somewhere, and the files are just plain text files. It's become one of my killer apps, one where I manage all of my background notes for the projects I work on. It suits the way I think, and I find it more useful and more friendly than other apps of its type.
Somehow doesn't inspire me knowing how "fast" things happen in Europe ...
Is closing deals on the golf course even still a thing these days? I suppose it probably is in some circles but I haven't seen it in a couple of decades of tech industry life when it was more likely to be fun runs or skiing.
is there a good AI product Ad ?
The Clinton administration conducted a thorough audit, eventually laying off 351k people [1]. But they did so using a six-month review of all agencies performed by experienced federal workers. They ensured there were no national security ramifications and provided severance.

Reagan also had the Grace Commission [2].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/politics/doge-musk-gore-rego-...

[2] https://www.history.com/news/ronald-reagan-grace-commission-...
Worked great for me. I was on swim team and did weight lifting and got shredded.
Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
You're probably right. It definitely was teco and likely 1970ish.
> To do so, Mr. Giorgi has his own timesaving helper: an A.I. coding assistant. He taps a few keys and the software tool suggests the rest of the line of code. It can also recommend changes, fetch data, identify bugs and run basic tests. Even though the A.I. makes some mistakes, it saves him up to an hour many days.

> Still, nearly two-thirds of software developers are already using A.I. coding tools, according to a survey by Evans Data, a research firm.

> So far, the A.I. agents appear to improve the daily productivity of developers in actual business settings between 10 percent and 30 percent, according to studies. At KPMG, an accounting and consulting firm, developers using GitHub Copilot are saving 4.5 hours a week on average and report that the quality of their code has improved, based on a survey by the firm.

We're in for a really dire future where the worst engineers you can imagine are not only shoveling out more garbage code but the ability to assess it for problems or issues is much more difficult.
I use it in Neovide and Kitty. I just can't let go of Code Saver when trying other fonts in Neovide.
I have no reason to trust Elon Musk and many many reasons not to.
Mountain Biking just seems dangerous in general. I do a lot of trail running, and at this point I feel like my most likely source of injury is from a mountain biker colliding with me.
Now we're back to Chinese room debacle
It is. They will do nothing but distribute the EU taxpayers money into their pockets. Unfortunately.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922989
The three goals featured prominently above the fold are:

> truly open
> including data, documentation, training and testing code, and evaluation metrics; including community involvement

> compliant
> under EU regulations, OpenEuroLLM will provide a series of transparent and performant LLMs

> diverse
> for European languages and other socially and economically interesting ones, preserving linguistic and cultural diversity

The first one seems good, but the second two seem to be pretty beside the point of creating models that compete with the cutting edge of China and the USA.
So "everything that matters will continue to be written normally, but throwaway chatter will be written casually, where the specific features connoting casualness are a matter of ever-changing fashion"? Thinking back on '90s-era IRC chats, I suppose it was ever thus.
What is and isn't political is itself a political question. There is no escape hatch.
You’ve already benefited from them, by getting government services at a lower up front cost by acquiring labor with the promise of them on the backend.

(And, barring those promises not being fulfilled, plenty of people your age and younger have already been working in jobs that qualify them for pensions when they reach a certain age, or have a relative with such a pension with survivorship benefits, and will benefit from them as beneficiaries.)
Not OP, but it's nice to be kept up to date on what companies are doing, who is hiring, stuff like that. I frequently see managers announcing positions on LinkedIn, but I couldn't care less about the borderline sociopathic posting some people do.
Out of curiosity, what would you prefer? I wouldn't say tex is my all time favorite format, but definitely better than 90% of the documentation solutions out there.
Can you tell more ? Why does vaccination prevents export ?
Do you actually trust Elon Musk?
Seattle has roughly the same population as San Francisco and roughly the same labor costs, and has an annual budget of $8.3 billion. At some point you have to just face facts that it's gross mismanagement and incompetence.
Looks like they started work Feb 1 and haven't made anything yet.
He was mistakenly given write access by the treasury department employees in charge of managing DOGE permissions. He resigned a day later, likely before he even realized he had write access. In that short window, he accessed the system "exclusively under the supervision of Bureau database administrators", and the initial treasury department investigation did not find any misuse of said write permissions.

I don't see how this can be blamed on DOGE. If anything it shows that DOGE employees are closely monitored, and their access is minimized and audited.

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/court-documents-shed-new-ligh...
And I fear destroying the DOE will be the nail in the coffee
> If you understand the grammatical topics that a natural language picks, all you have to learn is what word transformation rules map to those concepts, and the natural language's vocabulary.

Yes, and then do that in real time while you're having a conversation with someone who's been learning the language since they were a baby. It is an unreasonable comparison.
> I feel like this sentence is in every article for a reason.

Breakthroughs, BY DEFINITION, come from people going against the grain. Breakthroughs are paradigm shifts. You don't shift the paradigm by following the paradigm.

I think we do a lot of disservice by dismissing the role of the dark horses. They are necessary. Like you suggest, there are many that fail, probably most do. But considering the impact, even just a small percentage succeeding warrants significant encouragement. Yet we often act in reverse, we discourage going against the grain. Often with reasons about fear of failure. In research, most things fail. But the only real failure is the ones you don't learn from (currently it is very hard to publish negative results. Resulting it not even being attempted. The system encourages "safe" research, which by its nature, can only be incremental. Fine, we want this, but it's ironic considering how many works get rejected due to "lack of novelty")
Does https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=208 help?

(Also, the factoring-21 result is from 2012, and may have been surpassed since then depending on how you count. Recent quantum-computing research has focused less on factoring numbers and more on problems like random circuit sampling where it's easier to get meaningful results with the noisy intermediate-scale machines we have today. Factoring is hard mode because you have to get it exactly right or else it's no good at all.)
> nobody here can say they would stand for this at any company they worked at or ran

This is what leaves me incredulous about so many people here defending this. I've been on this site daily for how many years I don't know but the one thing that has been consistent is the security idea that an outside entity gaining physical access to your server means that it is irreparably compromised, and that it should be treated as a liability and re-built from the ground up. But somehow it's fine if it's public data in a federal database?
Why bother when there's Mistral which is already open, pretty good and, crucially, exists
It will probably never be feasible to have "your own" spacecraft like we have cars. The time and distance scales are just way too huge. Something more resembling the scale of a superyacht might become possible in the far future.
Starting by misleading? Nice start!

The title should be “effort to train model” or plans, not saying “series”! Series without having even one?
Mine was similar, labral repair as well as rotator cuff arthroscopy.

I had nearly zero ability to lift the arm under its own power at one week and limited (but good for one week) flexibility. To be clear, I did not engage in any actual drilling or movement of that shoulder in training for perhaps a month. It was in the sling, tightly affixed to my body. I started with one-sided warmup movements and drills and progressed as I felt able.

By a month I was helping newcomers by helping them with some details of techniques. Due to being unable to lift the arm under its own power, I would “crawl” my arm using my fingers where it needed to go to show them. This was with zero actual resistance, but I was at least using the arm: moving it, contracting the muscles, working through scar tissue, and getting blood flowing.

Again, I 100% acknowledge that I exposed myself to greater levels of risk by doing this. I did try to mitigate that risk as best I could, but that never drops it to zero. And while I was pushing things, I was also adapting things day by day to what I realistically felt my capabilities were.
That's fine, but there are many tasks (for example, natural-language processing) where there is no classical way to precisely define the steps you want to be performed, and hand-tuning a list of keywords or heuristics is time-consuming and less accurate than reading through the texts yourself. In this case, providing high-level instructions to an LLM to read through the text and attempt to apply the spirit of your instructions is invaluable.
Run it in a browser in Wine on a MAC?
The player and the game are symbiotic.
"and I don't think they have ill intent"

Elon Musk absolutely has ill intent or else DOGE wouldn't have all this access that they absolutely DO NOT NEED!
Pair programming on what problem though? I dont think many companies would want an outsider to work on their codebase.