skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there was a short spike directly after the US elections, but, ignoring that, post rates are stable to somewhat rising.
accountabilty and role-based permissions based on least-privilege.

None of that matters with what DOGE is doing. That should worry you.
> [...] adding a layer of excitement and unpredictability to your journey.

That's the bit that did it for me.
Last time, a bunch of pieces of the federal government resisted Trump's attempts to ignore the constitution. I think the goal this time is to break everything in the government that did that last time, or might consider doing it this time.

Note well: That's my guess. I have no definite knowledge.
>with unemployment benefits as well, perhaps that ends up getting close enough

It won't be, unemployment benefits are a fraction of what the severance benefits are. Its disingenuous to bundle them together due to that fact alone.
Isn’t that an effect of taxes and logistics/shipping to Argentina?

It seems like the price of anything would scale similarly. If you imported this $18 device to At, it would probably double in price.
I am with you! Been programming since I was 10 and have 20YoE. Many of my prototypes have grown into full fledged products, I have 40+ published papers, and I am regularly sought out for advice and help by those who know me. Everyone i have been, I am always told I am a good catch.

However, I won't do leet coding. I want to hear about why I should come work for u. What about my works makes u think I could help ubm with your problem. Then let's have a talk about your problems and where I can create value for you.

My experience in hiring is that leet coders are good one trick ponies. But long term don't become technical peers.
This might be the laziest shit I’ve ever heard come out of a slobbering consumers mouth.
> It took 4 or 5 months to start to fuse

That's an insanely long time-frame for healing.

Bones usually start fusing in weeks, not months.
>A lot of businesses operate on trust networks at some level.

100% this. No one is immune. Not even "savvy tech people;" Theranos and FTX were similar affinity frauds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_fraud) commited against Silicon Valley old-money and VC circles, respectively.
We had racoons, skunks, and foxes paying nightly visits. Occasionally one would find a way into the coop and there would be a massive kill off. We got a dog, and just the scent of the dog around the coop has been enough to eliminate the skunks and racoons anyway. The fox still does come by from time to time. We had to put a net over the roof of the coop because of hawks.
How about the AMA?
I upvoted because it was unfairly downvoted. I disagree with the scientism presented in the comment it self.

A secular, liberal-democratic society is based on property rights and bodily autonomy. In such a society, banning abortion makes no sense.

Science has nothing to do with it.
Sure. I can’t be the only person who doesn’t fully understand the Matrix ecosystem.
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Newly created programming languages specifically tailored to GPUs (e.g. all the shading language dialects like MSL, GLSL, WGSL, HLSL, ...) are not limited by backward compatibility restrictions to C - and the execution model of GPUs is very different from traditional CPUs, yet all those languages turned out not much different from C extended with a handful new types and attributes.

Intels iAPX 432 had failed because it couldn't beat the much simpler, faster and cheaper, 'stop-gap' x86 design, not because of some C or PDP-11 conspiracy (and the Motorola 68k was much closer in spirit to the PDP ISA and a 'better fit' for C, yet it also lost against the rather crude x86 design).
I think over half of this article is wildly speculative hyperbole. "Here is a list of things we can imagine that DOGE might do with this data:
1. Invent super solider zombies.
2. Blackmail you (you specifically are at risk here)
3. Sell all the data to China who will work with Israel and Mexico to conquer America

You should be extremely worried! Run in Fear of what might come to pass!"
because some guy filled out a request to have admin access to some government data stores. Ridiculous. Between United, BCBS, and existing Chinese infiltrations into OPM and telcos your data is already compromised by real / confirmed bad actors. This is disappointing click bait from the Atlantic and their editors should be ashamed of its publication.
Sounds like Bill Mollison's chicken greenhouse idea.
> That being said, McK did create an entire game that they claim can't be studied for ahead of time. If the intention is to test true problem solving skills, then maybe that's roughly equivalent to a systems interview, which is hard(er) to cheat .

Sure, right up until someone leaks it
Promptless tries to check its generated docs against other sources to identify errors, but there are also some very cool documentation testing tools that we might integrate in the near future!
No kidding. Been waiting 15 days for what should be a routine return.
If you believe right-wing-specific sources about Musk's intentions, then I've got a bridge to sell you.
Government debt is a result of government spending into the real economy. It is where we get the taxpayer dollars that we spend, some of which go back to the government itself. A government without debt is also an economy without money.

Governments with central banks can mismanage their currency, but they can't run out of it.
I agree.

There's a lot of attention being paid to metrics that often don't align all that well with actual production use-cases, and frankly the metrics are good but hardly breath-taking.

They have an absolutely insane outlay of additional compute, which appears to have given them a relatively paltry increase in capabilities.

15 times the compute for 5-15% better performance is basically the exact opposite of the bitter lesson.

Hell - it genuinely seems like the author didn't even read the actual bitter lesson.

The lesson is not "scale always wins" the lesson was "We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we think does not work in the long run."

And somewhat ironically - the latest advances seem to genuinely undermine the lesson. It turns out that building in reasoning/thinking (a heuristic that copies human behavior) is the biggest performance jump we've seen in the last year.

Does that mean we won't scale out of the current capabilities? No, we definitely might. But we also definitely might not.

The diminishing returns we're seeing for scale hint strongly that just throwing more compute at the problem is not enough by itself. Possibly still required, but definitely not sufficient.
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What is the technical justification behind such as statement? Sharing hooks across the team doesn't equate to forcing a workflow on them. Each developer must manually activate the hooks in some manner in all the cases I've seen. Otherwise, they work as usual without the hooks and without interfering in the workflow in any manner. As a corollary, the hook conditions are enforced in the CI (since it can't be enforced in the developer's system). Git hooks are instead offered as a convenience function to help the developers catch mistakes early and often, before it hits the CI.
The intention is very much to offer greater financial transparency, in fact doing so is a prerequisite for multiple funding sources.

The Matrix Foundation Governing Board now has a dedicated finance committee, I don't have concrete timelines for publishing, though I would expect this to happen within a small number of months.

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/governing-board-first-report...
https://ziglang.org/ is a solid future C-replacement, IMHO. There's pretty much no downsides and all upsides from a C hacker's perspective. It just hasn't reached 1.0 yet!
Behind Musk's X Turnaround: Pick-and-Choose Financials
https://archive.today/UkboS
Part of the problem is there just aren't a lot of people out there who can correctly judge that level of experience, and looking up the spectrum tends to simply look weird.
You can use iCloud but it's quite slow.

There are different solutions really, some people use Git and treat the whole vault as a repo. Though I find it quite annoying to manage, also cause not every platform supports git.

That's also why I started writing a plugin to sync with any GitHub repo, it uses the GH REST APIs so it can be used on any platform. https://github.com/silvanocerza/obsidian-github-sync

I'm still actively developing it but the core features work nicely.
Back when I lived in Texas and they started doing vanity plates, I applied for the plate "BLWP" (I lived in D/FW and visited Lubbock from time to time, so there was a non-zero chance someone driving by would get it.) After waiting a month, I got the letter from the DPS... no... someone beat me to it. So I guess there were at least two fans of the 990's memory-to-memory architecture out there.
At this point, this is enough autonomy to have a set of these guys man a howitzer (read as old stockpiles of weapons we already have). Kind of a scary thought. On one hand, I think the idea of moving real people out of danger in war is a good idea, and as an American i'd want Americans to have an edge... and we can't guarantee our enemies won't take it if we skip it, on the other hand I have a visceral reaction to machines killing people.

I think we're at an inflection point now where AI and robotics can be used in warfare, and we need to start having that conversation.
It's a good question, and there are sometimes good answers. Does someone else's model understand how to standardize and interpret your company's data? Will they notice and tell you if something isn't looking right? What if the model needs to change to account for opportunities or risks from evolving data sources or business environment? Building in-house can help ensure that an organization has the competencies to do these things without depending on someone else.
In last month or so, nice examples of their broad work/initiatives (other than the more directly 'political' ones):

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880807

Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797756

Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825726

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969272
Yes, another AI chatbot, but this one helps people buy stuff
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- Handles order-related questions and support
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- WooCommerce (live now!)
- Shopify (launching in the next few days)

We built this because we noticed most chatbots just handle basic FAQs, but don't really help with the core part of ecommerce - helping customers find and buy products they'll love.

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*What we'd love to know:*

- What customization options would you want to see before installing this on your site?
- Any specific features that would make this a must-have for your business?
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Another problem is it is difficult to compare candidates whose interviews involved working on completely different problems.
"We need to run through hundreds of candidates per position, not a half dozen"

But you don't! You only need to find the first person who is good enough to do the job. You do not need to find the best person.
Why I've not been scammed. Why I'm not successful.
Shameless plug, I'm working on a plugin to sync your vault with a GitHub repo.
It's still under active development but it does the job.

https://github.com/silvanocerza/obsidian-github-sync

Feedback is more than welcome.
>I decided to use a Surface Book 3 but the writing isn't the same... probably will try one of those textured surface cover things.

i totally recommend getting a textured screen cover if you can find one.

i had one for my SP7 and it made sketching and annotating dramatically more tolerable - even pleasant. i was concerned it'd degrade stylus nibs more quickly but it wasn't a problem. colors were naturally a hair less vivid but it was acceptable and a good tradeoff for less glare in general and honestly i liked how it looked - it felt less like i was looking at a screen, if you know what i mean. in hindsight i think it's crazy that they sell these tablets with untextured screens/nibs.

edit: this is off-topic but i enjoyed reading your bio. i hope you have a nice day.
So, where is your evidence that fraud of such scale is happening in the federal budget that requires unprecedented (and likely extremely illegal) access by people who are not qualified to be running a gas station IT system, let alone the entire financial and IT backend of the federal government? This is such a dishonest discussion and I suspect you types know it.
If you persevere but don't succeed, please let us know in, say, one year time.

I'd be happy to support $10 for a story of failure. It would be tremendously helpful as a counterweight to all the free success stories out there.
? there's tons of businesses and startups building on closed models already

the risk is mitigated by competition in the space and commoditization of LLMs over time. This isn't like building an app solely on Facebook platform or something. It's very easy to swap models. There's platforms that let you use multiple models with the same interface, etc.
It would probably require a “hard fork,” which is generally considered to be a major change in the Bitcoin world.

All the best,
Yeah, I don't think people realize how many times the franchise has been updated over the years. I'm conservatively counting five times (marked with asterisks) but I think the number could be as high as seven. And then you've got to consider that they've tried to finish the character unsuccessfully even before No Time To Die with Never Say Never Again.

- Dr. No

- From Russia with Love

- Goldfinger

- Thunderball

- You Only Live Twice

*- On Her Majesty's Secret Service

- Diamonds Are Forever

*- Live and Let Die

- The Man with the Golden Gun

- The Spy Who Loved Me

- Moonraker

- For Your Eyes Only

*- Never Say Never Again

- Octopussy

- A View to a Kill

*- The Living Daylights

- Licence to Kill

*- GoldenEye

- Tomorrow Never Dies

- The World Is Not Enough

- Die Another Day

*- Casino Royale

- Quantum of Solace

- Skyfall

- Spectre

- No Time to Die
If I'm applying for a Java position and I claim to have Java experience on my resume, it's perfectly valid for them to ask me the difference between an int, an Integer, and a BigInteger.

But it's certainly not a universal question applicable to all programming languages.

Likewise, Clubber says in their post that their 'gotcha' question doesn't apply to most languages.
Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPgDgNtOouo

Some more background:

https://www.volvocars.com/en-ca/news/safety/let-your-head-re...
> How many people, who have good prospects elsewhere, are going to work for a government agency -- usually a lower pay -- to put up with shit like this that doesn't even happen in industry? Would you?

You could remove the "to put up with shit like this" part and the answer would still be "nobody". You have to remove the "who have good prospects elsewhere" part for it to make sense.
> without ever actually seeing any real returns.

I am sure he "saw" real returns on a very real looking app or website. As we transition to a cashless society we are all getting use to the numbers on our computers and phones representing real money.

My paystub is digital, it goes into my bank account directly and the numbers on my computer go up. I spend money by taping a computer chip onto another computer chip and then the numbers in my bank account drop. I can also digitally transfer those numbers to a brokerage account and click a few buttons and then the numbers go up and down depending on how people are feeling about the stock market. In the past few years, seemingly always up, which I think is priming young or naive investors to believe investments never fail.
So from what I understand it actually means that they were for example never trained on a video of an apple. Maybe only on a video of bread, pineapple, chocolate.

However, as it was trained using generic text data similarly to a normal LLM, it knows how an apple is supposed to look like.

Similar than a kid that never saw a banana, but his parent described it to him.
For the answer of is "is softmax the only way to turn unnormalized real values into a categorial distribution" you can just use statistics.

Eg. Using Bayesian stats, if i assume an even prior (pretend i have no assumptions about how biased it is), i see a coin flip heads 4 times in a row, what's the probability of it being heads?

Via a long winded proof using the dirichlet distribution Bayesian stats will say "add one to the top and two to the bottom". Here we saw 4/4 heads. So we guess 5/6 chance of being heads (+1 to the top, +2 to the bottom) the next time or a 1/6 chance of being tails. This represents that the statistical model is assuming some bias in the coin.

That's normalized as a probability against 1 which is what we want. It works for multiple probabilities as well, you add to the bottom as many different outcomes as you have. The Dirichlet distribution allows for real numbers and you can support this too. If you feel this gives too much weight to the possibility of the coin being biased you can actually simply add more to the top and bottom which is the same as accounting for this in your prior, eg. add 100 to the top and 200 to the bottom instead.

Now this has a lot of differences with outcomes compared to softmax. It actually gives everything a non-zero chance rather than using the classic sigmoid activation function that softmax has underneath which moves things to almost absolute 0 or 1. But... other distributions like this are very helpful in many circumstances. Do you actually think the chance of tails becomes 0 if you see heads flipped 100 times in a row? Of course not.

So anyway the softmax function fits things to a particular type of distribution but you can actually fit pretty much anything to any distribution with good old statistics. Choose the right one for your use case.
Having someone in your cabinet doesn't mean their views override yours.

It's good to have a cabinet of diverse thought. You can pool all perspectives to make a final informed decision.

That's why he has ex-democrats like RFK and Tulsi. Doesn't mean he will implement all of RFKs views though.

And I didn't say they coordinated every judge/attorney, you put those words there. I simply said court strategies.

It's a well known strategy to shop around for judges to bring a court case. Republicans do it too. Though Democrats excel at it.
> People fall for scams all the time, and as a society, we are failing to educate them with the sense to sniff them out.

IDK. It's one thing to fall for a scam and lose all your money. It's another thing to, after all that, go to your board of directors, ask permission to invest bank money in the scam, and when they say "We don't feel comfortable with this" tell them "Too late, I already invested the company's money in this for you." This is not a financially illiterate person, but someone who seemingly knew he needed board approval for an investment at scale, yet simultaneously ignored it and assumed he would be given it when asking retroactively.

There's a great many other failures of control here, like staff disobeying policy when he told them to. And perhaps it's my family history speaking here, but I suspect this guy has an undiagnosed mental illness (bipolar?).
The streets of Manhattan are within spitting distance of the state border and contain a high volume of interstate traffic. There is nothing antiquated about regarding them as what they are.
Yep, I've done a lot of SQL interviews and it is always interesting to see the folks who've crash and burned at code review and killed it at writing individual queries and sometimes the unexpected, the opposite happened, the person would fly through a code review and do really subpar on writing it, a signal I usually took to mean that the person was nervous as hell in the interview.

The two folks who showed this behavior I hired anyway (they were contractors so nbd) and they were excellent hires, so I really love the code review approach for climbing up bloom's taxonomy.
Perhaps some day everyone will recognize that this is the inevitable fate of any device that relies on an external service to keep functioning.

I find it amazing that tech companies are able to keep conning people into buying these things.
That's the problem, though - the computer is already better at thinking than you, but we still don't know how to make it good at arbitrary labor requiring a mix of precision and power, something humans find natural.

In other words: I'm sorry, but that's how reality turned out. Robots are better at thinking, humans better at laboring. Why fight against nature?

(Just joking... I think.)
I hate to be the Debbie Downer here, but the answer is no. The first thing I saw on your home page was `npm install formsmd` which tells me two things (unfair as it is): first that you aren’t focused on sales - which is what makes money - and second that you’re selling to developers which are probably one of the worst target markets to sell to. They’re skeptical, demanding, and an all around onerous bunch.

There’s no reason you can’t try this out as a slow burn side project that may one day - many years from now - turn into a reliable income that frees you from the usual rat race plantation job, but this is not something you should do while unemployed and burned out. You brushed it off but the other sibling comment that said that is 100% correct. STOP. You will not go viral and get a thousand monthly subscribers overnight. You can still work on this project as therapy for your burnout, but you must go into it with zero delusions of short term financial viability.

“I just run head-first into development” does not make money. Sales and marketing make money. If you don’t even have an idea of what that would really look like, this will only end in tears.

On the other hand, how many sales have you and will you make from this post? That may change the calculus w.r.t. virality if you can figure out how to do some more quality advertising. But if it’s going to work you need a mind shift from developer to entrepreneur.
Well, yes, because 1 is pretty close to zero, on a scale of 0 to infinity. However, if you look at their actual technical skilz:

The incompetence at DOGE is staggering. Absolutely no security on their .gov webiste: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835

can't even get mail merges to work, see some of their emails terminating people. Telling people to sign the doc and then not attaching the doc.

The search for 'probationary' employees failing 3 times because they didn't check the definition of the term.

No, technical competence really isn't DOGE's strong point.
I think you need to expand on the edit even more for this to make sense.
The fact that you said "I have sources" and didn't share them makes me doubt that you are here to argue in good faith.