skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard anyone use the word "zekerheid" when talking about security. Verzekering, zekering, zekeren. Sure, but those are all pretty domain specific. No one hires a "zekerheidsagent" to secure their building, or an expert in "cyber zekerheid".

Ik ben daar ... vrij zeker van.
OpenDrop – An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
Are CS majors still impacted? I would have thought the continuing multi-year industry layoffs, the scapegoating of "Big Tech", and the AI hype/doom train would have reduced its popularity.
I can get value out of them just fine. But I don't use LLMs to find answers, mostly to find questions. It's not really what they're being sold/hyped for, of course. But that's kinda my point.
Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?
> don't see it accounting for real estate costs outpacing wages, requiring younger cohorts to devote arguably unreasonable amounts of their current cashflows to housing

"Millennials are now wealthier than previous generations were at their age" [1] on the back of home-price appreciation [2].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/millennials-personal-fi...

[2] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/feb/millennia...
> A lot of good people will close-up and not voluntarily ask you any question if you put them under pressure.

This sounds like the kind engineer who won't push back or ask for clarification on unclear requirements - and happily spend a month solving a problem the business doesn't have.

So maybe seeing that at interview time is a good thing?

Might not mean the candidate doesn't fit - but can clarify what kind of roles would work?
Also I wanted to create a separate post in response to the negative predictions. Obviously I can't predict the future, but in my experience creating any film is subject to significant pressure, internal and external, on the creatives involved.
There are a LOT of really excellent scripts that get diluted in this way, and there isn't much that can be done about it.

That said, Amazon Studios is probably a loss leader for Prime, or at least certainly doesn't enjoy the same margins as other AMZN LOBs.

That's okay!

Amazon Studios execs can mitigate their risk by spreading it around. Do small stuff, a single, small film about someone in this universe. Someone doing a supply chain attack on behalf of Q Branch. A watchmaker approached for a Special Project. A deep-cover NOC who works for Lloyds of London who gets wind of a forthcoming infrastructure attack. It doesn't all have to be big explosions and major stunts; the seedy underworld of espionage happens not in soaring bunkers and Red Square, but behind a highway rest stop, or in a factory office, or in the Port of Marsailles.

No need to blow the budget all at once; begin slow, build towards the theatrical films in interesting, round-about ways. Take your time and iterate, see what works. Disney/Star Wars is doing this in reverse (Andor was wildly successful) and Amazon Studios has the chance to do it right!
This makes sense. Cursor makes money therefore they are the only AI code editor
I think IBM is using LLM to rewrite COBOL code into Java.
Thiel has a man in the White House (Vance) so everyone is hoping he can leverage that.

Given the bad blood between Musk and Thiel, I wouldn't be surprised if DOGE goes straight at PLTR contracts
So, AI created a job opportunity for you?
While an interpreter can do optimizations, they do not produce "byte code" -- by that time they are compilers!

As for the comparison with the JVM .. compare to a compiler that produces x86 code, it cannot be run without an x86 machine. You need a machine to run something, be it virtual or not.
I'm embarrassed to say how often I visit js99er.net to play the old TI version of Hunt the Wumpus. I should have something better to do with my finite time on Earth.
PDFBox is the GOAT of backend pdf libraries. We've built incredible things with it, plus pdfjs on the front-end - full compliant e-signature, templated pdf generation, in-browser pdf editing. Looked deeply at alternatives but very happy with our choice. In particular using itext vs pdfbox feels like using WordPress vs Rails - try to build anything very serious and you will be happier you picked the more capable, lower-level library.
> OpenEuroLLM has a total budget of €37.4 million of which €20.6 million comes from the Digital Europe Programme.

So on average 1.87 million per participating institution which might amount to funding ~5 PhD students per institution. Not bad for a training program.

The project has been awarded the Sovereignity Seal, an EU mark of Excellence before it even started. This is truly in accordance with european values, where we reward participation and proclamation. I don't think we will ever hear again from this project.

Congratulations to the participants of the consortium for receiving this large EU grant. Thoughts and prayers to the students who will be writing the deliverable progress reports.
this is red hat as in MAGA, correct?
What’s the thing about moats?

First: AI requires an awful lot of resources, which in itself is a moat.

Second: having a moat doesn’t prevent your service to be attacked. See Tesla.

Third: not having a moat doesn’t prevent your service from dominating. See TikTok.
> The Zhongs' suit follows one filed on Feb. 3 by Students Against Racial Discrimination, which alleges UC's use of holistic admissions--meaning non-academic factors, like extracurriculars and life circumstances--diminishes academic merit and hurts Asian American and white applicants.

These institutions will tell you they aren't just there to provide boilerplate "I grind harder than everyone else" degrees, they go out of their way to be more than that. That's why their degrees are valued. In order do to this, they provide an enriched social environment that exposes students to more than just the top X people who were the best at grinding on test prep.

Someone could easily start a school that only accepts based on test score, nothing else. I wonder why nobody thinks that would be a valuable degree?
> It makes no sense to get a £80 vet bill on a chicken that cost £20.

I guess it depends on how you look at it. By analogy, it makes no sense to have my cat go to the vet either (and pay thousands of dollars for a ~$50 cat lol), but they still go. I guess it's all about personal choice and perspective. It does feel a bit silly in a way though

> but if you pick one up, they also smell nice

Agreed, a clean chicken can smell really good!

> If chickens weren't incontinent, though, they would make great indoor pets

That's the big thing! On Japanese twitter, chicken diapers are a popular item!
> the majority of buyers and users of software rarely ask for or need this level of perfection

You're right. Maybe just reliable replicability, then.

The core point is, the next step is the LLM talking directly to the control unit. No human-readable code in between. The prompts are the code.
note: i bought six americauna female chicks for $33 with tax, 2 hours ago with no issue. Some person in front of me bought like 60 birds.
Newtonian physics is still settled science even though we have relativity to give more accurate results in domains where Newtonian mechanics fails. It still holds in all the same places it used to.

You don't seem to understand how scientific models and theories work.

In fact, germ theory of medicine is much the same way. Germ Theory does not explain or predict or account for ALL disease, for example PTSD, and if you build a useful theory for mental illnesses that aren't caused by little creatures of some sort, that doesn't overturn germ theory, it compliments it. A person creating a new theory of how Long Covid hurts people for example may not stick strictly to germ theory, but that would STILL not overturn germ theory.

>Can you think of any cases where the science had nearly full consensus and it was useful to re-litigate? Galileo isn't the only example.

Galileo isn't an example of the science being "settled" and someone radically overturning it. Nobody believed in geocentrism due to "Science", which is also why Galileo had so much difficulty, it was literally a religious matter. Kepler was about as close as we had to any sort of consistent theory to how the heavenly bodies moved, and it was not at all settled, and yet he was still basically right

In actuality, there are remarkably few times where a theory was entirely overturned, especially by a new theory. When we know little enough about a field that we could get something so wrong, we usually don't have much in the way of "theory" and are still spitballing, and that's not considered settled science. If you want a good feeling for what this looks like, go read up on the debates science had when we first started looking at Statistical Mechanics and basics of thermodynamics. There were heated(lol) debates about the very philosophy of science, and whether we should really rely on theories that don't seem like they are physical, and that mostly went away as it continued to bear high quality predictions. The problems and places where theories are not great are usually well understood by the very scientists who work through a theory, because understanding the parameter space and confidence intervals for a theory are a requirement of using that theory successfully.

"Human CO2 and other pollutants are the near totality of the cause of the globe warming" is settled science.

"The globe is warming" is settled science

"Global warming will cause changes in micro and macro climates all over" is settled science

"A hotter globe will result in more energetic, chaotic, and potentially destructive weather" is settled science and obvious

"Global warming is going to kill us all in a decade" is NOT settled science. There is no settled science for how bad climate change will make things for us, who will be worst affected, who might benefit, etc. There is comprehensive agreement among climate scientists that global warming is harmful to our future, and something we have to try and reduce the effect of, prepare for the outcomes of, and adapt to the consequences of, and something that, whether we do anything to combat it, will be immensely costly to handle.
I also (like nullc ) agree with his take that the OIRA part is more important. But I’m sort of not sure I agree with his argument about their independence. Walter is brilliant so I may just be missing something that is in his brain and left unsaid. ;)

He agrees that most were never really independent but points out some and goes into a chat about the UET. The UET seems mostly irrelevant here. There is no 4th branch.
They are either executive agencies or not.

They are further either exercising power delegated from Congress, or exercising power delegated from the executive. If the former, Trump can’t control them, even under most interpretations of UET, but then you have non delegation problems to deal with. This is the OIG case.

If they are exercising power granted to the executive, it’s literally his right to control them.

The constitution doesn’t give a third option where congress can establish agencies that have power from the executive but the executive can’t control them. They can only establish agencies with no real power that the executive can’t control

I can believe after ~250 years we have some weird edge cases, but it seems fine to clean that up
There is no such thing as "thing" here.

These models are trained such that the given conditions (the visual input and the text prompt) will be continued with a desirable continuation (motor function over time).

The only dimension accuracy can apply to is desirability.
Excellent point. Just because the invention of the automobile arguably introduced something valuable, how we ended up using them had a ton of negative side effects. I don't know enough about cars or horses to argue pros and cons. But I can certainly see how we _could_ have used them in a way that's just objectively better than what we could do without them. But you're right, I can't argue we did.
The percentage of children in the population is lower than in 1993.
Well, you do have to worry about customers using old client libraries / SDKs, even if your whole backend has migrated to a new API.

Many customers don't like to upgrade unless they need to. It can be significant toil for them. So, you do see some tail traffic in the wild that comes from SDKs released years ago. For a service as big as S3, I bet they get traffic from SDKs ever longer than that.
Yes, AWS Simple Storage Service. That’s the list from Amazon’s perspective.
This is an even better argument for universal pensions (which isn't Social Security, as was never meant to be treated as a pension to begin with)

Same as universal healthcare, seems like you net benefit by removing these burdens from localities and businesses.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/17/millennial-h...

> By age 30, just 42% of millennials owned homes, compared to 48% of gen Xers and 51% of baby boomers, an analysis of government data by Apartment List found. This gap persists into their early 40s, with the oldest millennials still having a lower rate of ownership than previous generations when they were that age. ...

> But turbulent times may be ahead for millennials. Experts say that the window of improved affordability may have already closed.

> “They bought houses and they are active in the market,” said Lautz of the NAR, “just not at the rate that we should be seeing for this age category.” Housing affordability has declined steadily in 2023, according to the NAR, as has inventory, from 1.9m homes in June 2019 to 1m today. And this year, boomers are once again the largest group of homebuyers, often competing with millennials looking to buy their first home.

> The personal savings rate is now 4.3% compared to an unusually high rate of 33.8% in April 2020. And Experian expects student loan payments – on pause during the pandemic – to resume in October at more than $200 a month on average.

> Matt Kinghorn, a senior demographer at the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University, said the increase in home ownership among young adults over the last few years “could potentially be short-lived, driven by those really low mortgage interest rates and a surge in personal savings during the first year of the pandemic”.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/25/a-look-at...

> One commonly used (though also criticized) benchmark for housing affordability is that no more than 30% of household income should go toward housing costs. Households that spend more than that are considered “cost burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

> By that standard, 31.3% of American households were cost burdened in 2023, including 27.1% of households with a mortgage and 49.7% of households that rent, according to 1-year estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). (Many more people own than rent: In the second quarter of 2024, 65.6% of occupied housing units were owned while 34.4% were rented, according to the most recent estimates from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey/Housing Vacancy Survey.)
Why should young workers be asked to work more to provide a lifestyle to others that they can't themselves achieve?
Maybe you can't download their weights, but you can literally try out their products right from their homepage. What's your point?
My only guess with Cal Poly/UC Davis (less certain about Michigan or Wisconsin) is that the many other extremely successful CS applicants from good Bay Area schools also applied there as their 'safeties' since they're in-state, and those schools had artificially high denials as a result? wild guess. I'd suspect there's some "I'm sure you're not going to go here"-denials coming from lower-ranked schools when they get applications from strong candidates. Given that he was accepted to UT and UM and he declined to attend either (I'm making the possibly wrong assumption that his family could've afforded the out-of-state tuition, but given his father's job I don't think that's an unreasonable assumption), I doubt he would've attended those "safeties" even given the opportunity.
I think that was the Recursiv, that was built by some TI escapees in Britain. But this is based on very old neurons, so I could DEFINITELY be wrong on this one. Just offering what I think I remember.

TI definitely had a defense oriented business up until the late 90s when they sold their Defense Semiconductor Engineering Group (DESG) to (I think) Raytheon.
> perhaps back then it was a reasonable but generous offer.

No, it was a trade. You would accept low pay, very little opportunity for career advancement, and even if you worked hard to advance you were never going to more than double what you were making when you were hired. Also, government jobs are political jobs, are often eliminated on a whim, or you're forced to work unpaid for a while because of a budget vote.

In return, you got a pension. A pension that everyone understood the yield of, and everybody understood about what it was worth. It was entirely sustainable. The problem was and is that invested pension funds become underfunded because if instead of depositing the money, you spend it somewhere else and promise to put it back later, it's basically a low-interest loan. If the budget is tight enough (so credit is probably bad enough) that a state or municipality is considering raiding pensions, then this represents a huge amount of savings. The problem is that you're never going to pay it back.

Another problem is that managing those funds became lucrative for the managers, and for the products that they would steer these institutions into buying, often in exchange for kickbacks or in a complex web of self-dealing: Somehow, the person managing pensions funds for your state has them all invested in products sold by a company his son works for. His son didn't directly profit from the trade, but for some reason makes $500K a year, barely graduated high school, and nobody knows what he actually does there.

That's not the fault of pensions, that's the fault of thieves. What's unsustainable is a government that promises a pension in return for a shitty boring career as a clerk, and then after you retire from sitting in a DMV window for 25 years, takes the pension back. Nobody would accept a government job cheaply then, because the state has ruined its reputation in the same way as if they had defaulted on their bonds.

Nothing wrong if that's how we want to pay government employees: a days work for a days pay. But we got a discount because we didn't pay like that, and if we had, that money would just have been spent at the time, rather than being stolen throughout their retirement. Pretending like pensions were an unreasonable demand or an absurd promise is just laying groundwork to justify stealing from people who worked for a living.

edit: If government jobs were so good, why weren't they in demand? Does supply and demand only break down when we need it to?
The eggs do taste better but that depends on what you are feeding them.

You don't have to eat your chickens, it’s up to you.

predators and rats and avian flu are the tough problems.
So CERN and similar? you think it could have been done without any coordonation? Like 2 guys faking under they make it USA style ?
Maybe the lesson should be: a good product can make money even without a moat.
That’s an odd way to describe it. Elasticsearch was a wrapper around Lucene. Had they started with a restrictive license rather than wait until it got popular under the nonrestrictive license, Solr might have taken off more. OpenSearch is what the community needed. That Amazon did it is fine.
Grapes of wrath is a perfect description of the mood. But I'd says been growing to this peak for a decade or so...
I wish more services would become de-facto standards and there were many implementations of the same API. I'd love more (cheaper) DynamoDB compatible APIs.
I’d watch this
New York sues vape distributors over fruit and candy e-cigarette flavors
It's cool, no doubt. But keep in mind this is 20 years late:

As a prototype for a "robot scientist", Adam is able to perform independent
experiments to test hypotheses and interpret findings without human guidance,
removing some of the drudgery of laboratory experimentation.[11][12] Adam is
capable of:

* hypothesizing to explain observations
* devising experiments to test these hypotheses
* physically running the experiments using laboratory robotics
* interpreting the results from the experiments
* repeating the cycle as required[10][13][14][15][16]

While researching yeast-based functional genomics, Adam became the first
machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of
its human creators.[5][17][18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist
1point3acres is massacring tech interviews right now. Having to pay $80/month to some China based website where NDA-protected interview questions are posted regularly, then being asked the same questions in the interview, seems insane.

It also feels like interviewers know this and assume you studied the questions, they seem incapable of giving hints, etc if you don't have the questions memorized.

AI is the least of it.
The spending of money is inexorable, but little else is achieved (unless you count blocking productive people).
If you invested your own money in AI do not worry about Gary Marcus, he will have little impact on when the bubble bursts. I for one welcome the skeptics because the amount of hype needs to come down a bit as it is currently at astronomical levels.