skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for noting this. They sold at least one more license because of it. I've been a casual user for the last couple years so they've earned it in my book.
> EDIT: people are seriously so emotionally invested in capitalization that i get downvoted into minus, jeez.

I find it weird that you would be surprised that people care about the quality of textual communication
For junior roles, you want to interview for intelligence and shall we say an interest in learning rather than specific skills.

Even for senior roles, that's what I want to interview for, although it is true at times a business case can be made for someone that is good at some specific complex skill and doesn't need to listen to other people to do ok work.
Can't your livestock guard dog also be a pet that's socialized like a house dog? Are the two mutually exclusive?
Sliding Tile Attention: A New Method That Speeds Up HunyuanVideo's Outputs by 3x
https://hao-ai-lab.github.io/blogs/sta/
You can put it in your last will along with passwords, so the will executor does it.

But, unless explicitly stated otherwise and sans specific circumstances (honestly maybe even then), I believe data should not only be kept, but publicized, after X years. I want this to happen to my data.

The X years is necessary so people aren't killed for their secrets, and when those secrets contain information about living family and friends.

Ultimately, most of “history” and “archaeology” consists of such data. There’s a lot we only know because we non-consensually examined long dead people’s bodies, living spaces, even diaries. Similarly, there's a lot we can gain from online people's online posts, diaries, etc. in the future.

There are many tangible consequences why you don't want everything about you to be public or even exposed to "good" authorities, but I can't think of any that apply once you're long dead.
A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities
That's the issue right? No one knows what access they have, so you should assume the worst. They've already been claiming that they are making writes, so full write privilege isn't off the table.

It's not even the access that's the issue though, it's the lack of oversight. If I login to a Prod database, my commands are logged which allow the team to go back and figure out what happened if something didn't go as expected. We have backups and response processes to deal with "oops" situations. I strongly doubt the DOGE team has any fallback plan, and it would be irresponsible to simply assume they've thought fallback through.

This is more troubling with the systems being tricky legacy systems. You might have the best intentions, but it is really easy to make mistakes in brittle systems even if you are careful. We've already seen evidence that the team may have no idea how to interpret the data they're seeing. It'd be reckless to start making edits while only having a partial understanding of the system.

The story from DOGE is "look at all this fraud we've found, we're going to fix it now". It's not "here's a bunch of things we want to investigate further". It's not "here's how we're going to test whether this is actually fraud". It's not "here's what we're going to try and how we're going to revert if we are wrong".
Are you saying it cannot move faster than they because of some kind of governor?
Navigating the use of generative AI in peer review
Absolutely love this style of tool management. Why do we ever install anything?

Edit: consider also git bisect!
> Do you anticipate those companies to keep purchasing Obsidian now that it isn't a mandatory purchase for compliance?

I don't know. We'll see. It's somewhat unknowable, in the same way we don't know how many users didn't buy a license but should have. My guess is that for every person who bought a commercial license there are 9 who were out of compliance. We anecdotally know that many tech companies have way more Obsidian users than they report. This change will remove a lot of admin work for our team of seven.

What I do know is that even without any Commercial revenue, our other revenue streams (Sync, Publish and Catalyst) are enough to keep the lights on, and we really mean what we say in our Manifesto: "We believe that everyone should have the tools to think clearly and organize ideas effectively."

The bet is that this increases the number of people who discover Obsidian and end up buying one of our add-ons. In the future I can also see us creating add-ons that are more focused on organizational use. This change makes the pricing much clearer in that regard. I expect much fewer questions like "does Commercial include Sync?" which has been a point of confusion for years.
I'd imagine you could exploit something like the stochastic denoising approach from DDIM and descendants, where you add some noise back after each denoising step, essentially randomly remasking unmasked tokens and giving the model a second chance to unmask them "properly" as the denoised response becomes better-known.
Amazon shutting down its Android Appstore highlights how hard it is for alternative app stores to compete with giants like Google and Apple. Despite over a decade in the market.

This raises an important question: Can any new app store realistically challenge the dominance of Google Play and the App Store? If even a tech giant like Amazon couldn’t make it work, what hope is there for smaller competitors?
The CEO can give orders, but there should be literally no way for a single person to transfer that much money without approval.

Even our accounting system is integrated with a vendor management platform that first verifies the recipient is a known vendor, and tied to the banking part that actually issues an ACH/wire transfer such that it can't happen until approved.

The fact that there's essentially zero governance at a bank is unacceptable.
Are we at a point now where Asimov’s laws are programmed into these fellas somewhere?
I fully agree, building something like this is somewhere in my back log.

I think the key point why this "reverse cyborg" idea is not as dystopian as, say, being a worker drone in a large warehouse where the AI does not let you go to the toilet is that the AI is under your own control, so you decide on the high level goal "sort the stuff away", the AI does the intermediate planning and you do the execution.

We already have systems like that, every time you use you tell your navi where you want to go, it plans the route and gives you primitive commands like "on the next intersection, turn right", so why not have those for cooking, doing the laundry, etc.?

Heck, even a paper calendar is already kinda this, as in separating the planning phase from the execution phase.
I want to hire people who can be given some problem and will go off and work on it and come to me with questions when specs are unclear or there's some weird thing that cropped up. AI is 100% not that. You have to watch it like a 15 year old driver.
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I ask for code, and if they have none prepared I ask that they spend at most two hours building something they enjoy.

I expect a decent developer to be able to bootstrap and write most of a fun toy project in a domain they know well or at worst some kata from the Internet within half an hour. Then we spend some time screen sharing and talking about it, similar to pair programming but less problem focused.

If you can't do it you'll likely struggle a lot when working with us because we commonly use throwaway prototypes.
An experiment in AI model aesthetic preferences
One of my litmus tests for software is "can I use it on a flight?", so you'll be pleased to know Subtrace works great locally without ever talking to subtrace.dev!

subtrace run -devtools=/subtrace -- python3 -m http.server

Run the above command in a Linux machine, go to http://localhost:8000/subtrace and send some requests to localhost:8000 to see a stripped down version of the Subtrace dashboard working fully locally.
You can multiply 20W by whatever you want, and if you multiply 1kW by the same number, you will get a number that is 50x as large.

Put another way, of course you can naturally ventilate a house to get the same air change rate that an HRV/ERV will get you. But (a) if you live somewhere with poor outdoor air quality, you have no opportunity to mitigate it with natural ventilation and (b) natural ventilation at high rates requires far more active heating and cooling in climates that need heating and cooling.

Even just the power needed to operate a large enough standalone air purifier in a naturally ventilated house will be far larger than the power needed to run a filtered ventilation system that will outperform that standalone filter (in a well sealed house or a positive pressure system).

As I write this, I’m running an ERV that is consuming 25W to supply HEPA filtered air at very slight positive pressure. The same ventilation rate, from unfiltered natural ventilation, would remove 500W of heat, and I’d probably need at least 100W of air purifiers running to get anywhere near the level of filtration that those 25W include at no additional cost.

You seem to be trying to tell me that the 25W would scale to a lot of power if everyone did this but that the 500W I would use otherwise would have no impact because the Romans didn’t worry about it. I’m unconvinced.

(This is a system where I replaced the mediocre and undersized filter from the manufacturer with a monstrous 24"x24"x12" nominal HEPA filter, a 24"x24" MERV 8 prefilter, and a carbon filter mat from McMaster-Carr. I expect the HEPA filter to last for several years, the extremely inexpensive prefilter to last for a year or so, and the carbon filter to need replacement more frequently if outdoor odors from wildfires become an issue. Why HEPA instead of a 99.9% filter with somewhat lower resistance? Because it’s much easier to buy a real HEPA filter and the added resistance is negligible. No additional power is consumed by any of this: it all has less resistance to airflow than even a brand new factory filter. The only real downside is that it’s physically large.)
Yep. And that's why charter schools, school vouchers, and private schools are the manifestations of desire for those wishing to destroy and defund public secular education.
It is not dramatic at all. Because of the very fact it's contentious, a rebuild will be undertaken by the next government to not trust it. It's an absolute guarantee regardless of how any one side feels about it.

I and many people would argue to rebuild it based on the lack of transparency we have seen. There are enough people that feel that way that a rebuild is inevitable, regardless if you end up right. The position is that we really don't know, so the only way to be safe is a do-over. Or at the very least, a completely transparent audit, which is also insanely expensive and very hard to scope.
But companies don't pay high salaries for the 80% mundane and easy tasks you do day to day. They pay for the 20% that is challenging and especially for that 1% of problems that occur only once every few months or years. If that 80% was 100% of the job then the company could pay 1/2 to 1/3rd the amount by outsourcing it.
This is how my team hires and it’s incredible.

I think what makes it work is that our code pair is pretty low stakes. I was told that I didn’t have to finish the problem and I was free to use whatever tools or language I needed. They just wanted to see how I work and collaborate.
Should I cohabitate with and routinely handle disease vectors that I have no prior experience caring for?
Maybe we don't need employers. Maybe we need a bunch of 1-person companies. I don't think AI is yet the force multiplier that makes that feasible for the masses, but who knows what things will look like in a few years.
This linked website has an incentive to portray this "savings" as larger than it actually is.
> It is widely noted that dictatorships are extremely efficient.

I mean... define 'efficient'. They rarely have particularly efficient or productive economies or public services. They can make _laws_ quickly, but it more or less ends there.

(China's kind of the exception, but it's not at all a typical dictatorship.)
There are no "tiers" with Obsidian. The app is free without limits. You don't even need to sign up. You own your data locally. You can pay for the add-ons like Sync and Publish if you want, but there's also third-party alternatives to those.
Since you can count the cycles your computer takes, then at any point in time it's outputting a countable digit on a list of numbers that is also countable. Accelerating it to infinity lets you finish both of those tasks, but it doesn't break you into another realm.

If you get a nondeterministic computer, where every digit it splits into 10 identical computers that each picked one of the 10 options, then when you run that for countably infinite cycles you'll find that you have uncountably infinite computers and you have finally calculated every real number.

The cardinality of the real numbers is 2 to the power of the countable numbers.
Anyone have an idea why the matrix.org bridges are so expensive to run?

e.g. t2bot.io also runs Matrix bridges and the costs are only about $1.5k/mo [0], not $100k

[0]: https://t2bot.io/donations/
I use syncthing. Works flawlessly and took just a few minutes to setup.
Inherited status is a different kind of status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist or have merit.

Inherited status is an implication of advantage. Sure, YOU didn't out-compete the herd, but your creators did, and my knowing that /you/, through your parents, are the product of success is status for you, too.

Sure, earned success is /also/ a boost, but... let's not pretend like inherited success is a /detractor/.

Everyone weighs what they know with what they don't and assigns status.

Good looking? Plus!
Overtly intelligent? Plus!
Very awkward around people? Minus!
Inherited status? Plus!
Black sheep? Hm... If I respect the family's status then... Minus? If I don't then... Plus?

and so on.

We all know "it is a lot of factors" and quite obviously status is merely among them, including inherited status.
I like it,even though I was looking for the difference between it and goodreads. Maybe consider just books from past centuries cos those are kinda hard to find. That I will pay to get my hands on some.
> We are both active and require a lot of protein.

I'm curious what your targets are. I've found getting 0.8g of protein per kg of bodyweight (USDA recommendation) is easy on any diet whereas 1.5g/kg or higher on a vegan diet can be hard depending on your target macro ratio. If you're bulking or doing long-distance running/biking (i.e. carbs aren't a limiting factor) then it's totally doable. Besides tofu, seitan, and beans there's lentils, chickpeas, edamame, spinach, nuts, seeds, nooch, etc.

> beans: ... My wife gets bloated painfully

If she's committed to making beans work you could experiment with varieties and preparation methods that are more digestible, or she could try Beano. But honestly that seems like a lot of work.

> beyond meat: it's expensive, gas and bloat is still an issue, a big one

Same, I just can't digest it. I'm glad the faux meats exist for folks who want them, but I'm sad at how it's displaced other veggie burgers at restaurants.

> Tofu, seitan and TVP are all good, but they're extremely boring (user error attributes to this I'm sure).

I've come to appreciate the blank canvas they provide but that did take a lot of trial and error to get to the point where I knew what to do with them. Similar to beans it depends on how committed you are. (In my case it took a long time for the incongruence between my food choices and my ethics to grow big enough to overcome my innate laziness and affinity for barbecue.)

> Every vegetarian/vegan I've talked to is just not into weightlifting, so they sort of dismiss the diet needs we need.

I know a few vegans into powerlifting/streetlifting, and as mentioned above bulking isn't too hard -- the real issue is cutting. Every one of them supplements with protein powders, especially while cutting. Then again, so do all the omnivore lifters I know.
If this will stop the proliferation of terrible JavaScript implementations of <select>, I'm here for it.
Unfortunately I used to think this was the main purpose of the interview as well, but have been proven wrong time and time again.

The only thing that matters in most places is getting to the optimal solution quickly. It doesn't matter if you explain your thought process or ask clarifying questions, just get to the solution and answer the time and space complexity correctly and you pass.

Like others have said I think this is a symptom of the sheer number of people applying and needing to go through the process, there is no time for nuance or evaluating people on if you would actually like to work with them or not.
Well, yes, there was a product that never worked, and conviction + prison sentencing for fraud, and the bankruptcy, and out of work workers and shafted suppliers...but we shouldn't let that detract from the positive!
There was a Show HN yesterday (if you want to ask the author): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106945
There are caveats there too. Generally topological qubits can be immune to all kinds of noise (i.e. built-in error correction) but Majorana zero modes aren't exact the right kind of topological for that to be true. They only enjoy protection on most operations, but not all. So there is a still a need for error correction here (and all the complication that entails) it is just hopefully less onerous since only essentially one operation requires it.
> I’m not even sure the proper term one would use to describe a situation like this.?

'Mafia state' is the term traditionally used to describe a similar situation in post-Soviet Russia.
Even without clipped wings, my chickens only try flying over the electric netting/fencing when my livestock guardian dog gets a bit too "playful".
>The best interview process I've ever been a part of involved pair programming with the person for a couple hours... You never failed to know within a few minutes whether the person could do the job

There is something funny about the "best interview process" taking "a couple hours" despite giving you the answer "within a few minutes". Seems like even the best process is a little broken.
HP .... hard to love aren't they.
I and everyone I know turns it off. On many platforms and in many cultures, capitalization often implies Solemness or even rudeness in 1-on-1 conversations, and otherwise comes across as being out of touch in other kinds of communication.
We have a ticket to allow this actually!
And then there's people like me who have been at startups, midsize companies, tiny small businesses and FAANGs.

Not everyone at a FAANG is purely motivated by the amount of money that they can get.

I’m looking for a smaller company because I’m tired of the FAANG mentality personally.
MLB alliance of Earl Weaver, Frank Robinson makes baseball history
By re-hiring him?
Just so you know I agree the "counterargument" about killing plants makes no sense at all. But thank you for your thoughtful reply. My ethical framework is different than yours but I respect how well thought out yours is.
It's not useless because some people will lie and cheat. Over the years, I've interviewed hundreds of people and a substantial minority could not write even the simplest code. Many will say they would be able to filter out such people after a conversation. But, IMO, the fact that they are still able to get hired at some places shows how wrong that often is.
It's not true at all. It was very common, nearly norm in all online communication until phones started auto correcting with capitalization. You could always tell who was a mac/phone user by their use of capitalization. Sam is older than when that happened. He almost certainly spent the majority of his online life typing in lowercase, as I did. Go look at any old IRC chat log, forum, etc from his era.
I can understand using software like this in conjunction with local cacheing, but it seems to me that direct access to S3 would be fraught with edge cases and performance issues.
This is true of all animal husbandry but unless you're buying chicks from huge sellers you'll be fine.
Thanks. This comment above does mention ASRock: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112594

On the other hand, dmidecode output in the article shows:

Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 0H3K7P
They have "Multiplayer" on their current roadmap [0]. I assume this is to help reduce friction in getting their Sync offering for teams.

I personally like the move a lot and I hope this works well for them. The model of selling their add-on services seems to have worked for them well so far, and I hope it continues. It's a very functional free core with their paid add-ons being very additive and well made.

[0] https://obsidian.md/roadmap/
> Broad market indices, however, don’t fail.

Famous last words
Just a big list of bullshit. Don't waste your time.
What's new on CPAN – January 2025
My favorite security anti-pattern!
Locking the main doors while leaving all the windows wide open.
See neo-feudalism, mafia state, illiberalism, tyranny, and obeying in advance.

What you're describing is the inevitable cost of corruption. It's not merely economic cost, it's the loss of freedom. In this case, freedom of association.
Riding my bike with open ear audio for podcasts and the ability to snap a quick video if I see something cool on a ride is extremely worth it.
I see these on Facebook and have avoided them. Isn't the whole point of the "tests" to collect personal data?

I don't know if it's "a new type of psychological myth" so much as a scam.
This _does_ seem to "install" things to a DOTSLASH_CACHE dir though.[1] It seems similar to tools like nvm of pyenv but in this case can handle more than just a single target language. Pretty neat.

[1] https://dotslash-cli.com/docs/flags/#environment-variables
WhisperCat v1.3.0 with Faster Whisper Released
I'm happy to share the new v1.0.3 update for WhisperCat. With this release, you'll get Faster Whisper integration, a straightforward user interface with global hotkeys, and support for file transcription.

I'm looking forward to your feedback, so please let me know what you think!

https://github.com/ddxy/whispercat
'Healthy' Vitamin B12 Levels Not Enough to Ward Off Neuro Decline
My 80s CDs are fine. Just played my first CD, Bryan Adams and it sounds like the day I bought it. Maybe your environment or drive are factors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckless_(Bryan_Adams_album)
I have to imagine they ran the numbers and found that that wouldn't be an issue. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of enterprise use was completely unlicensed before this.
> the same access to various components of the US Govt that Obama’s US Digital Services

…but also much more. It is intellectually dishonest to equate these two.

Cutting through red tape can technically be done by nuking the red tape, but why cause all this harm when you can use scissors?
A few replies up, when presented with a clear example of the DOGE team having carte blanche access to sensitive government data, you handwaved it away. Don't accuse other people of being hyper-emotional when your own reasoning is so plainly motivated by political sentiment.
One option is to make the interviews harder and let candidates use ai to see how they can work with ai and actually build working product. They will be using ai in the job anyway so let them use it instead of asking stupid algorithm questions to sort an array
How does one travel/vacation if they have chickens? Are they self-managing enough to be left alone for 1-2 weeks a couple times a year?
I've been doing front-end since the days of IE5 and I'd be rich if I had a penny for every time I've had to do a custom "select". It's a pain to use third-party libraries for this, but it _is_ a solved problem and doesn't require that much extra code.