skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, that's also relevant to me! I've checked my local laws, and where I live, your legal name is the one you consistently present yourself as. If you're Joe Frank Smith, and you go by Frank everywhere, that's your legal name.

I've gotten so tired of having this argument. Inevitably some clerk will insist on calling me by my first name, "you know, your legal name". No. My middle name is my legal name. It's what my mom, sisters, wife, friends, teachers, coworkers, doctors, and everyone else call me. My first name is an aka at best, except the only people who insist on using it are ones wrong about the law, so I'm not even really "known as" it.

I once closed a bank account 10 minutes after opening it because they insisted that my debit card be printed as "Joe Smith", not "Frank Smith". I told them I'd absolutely refuse to touch it because that's not my name. I find it interesting that it's mostly local orgs who are a pain in the neck about being wrong about this. You'd think a small local bank would know local law better than a huge multi-national, but the giant bank I opened a business account with was totally fine putting Frank Smith on my accounts. Go figure.

(Somewhat related: That's made me super sympathetic to trans people who want to be known as something other than what's written on their birth certificate. Yeah, I get it. It's nails on a chalkboard when someone calls me Joe, so if you don't want people calling you Tammy anymore, I'm on your side.)
Nah, the pay-for-attention model (the bluetick thing) was Musk; other than dating/hookup sites (and even then, they usually _ration_ it) I think it’s the only significant social media site to do it. No VCs involved.

It’s not like it’s a new idea; dating sites have been trying it since the 90s. But it, ah, a _bad_ model; it is why any popular post on Twitter is now drowned in irrelevant replies from idiot blueticks. It’s a reasonable rule of thumb that, if you have to pay to have your posts amplified, they’re probably not good enough for anyone to want to read them.
No positions have yet been filled - I did write a follow up post where I'll compensate you fairly if we interviewed you, but don't end up hiring you - https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1891609444343050514

Also I added bug bounties for all tasks in Task 4 :)
> real fascists wouldn't be gutting the NNSA or the DoD. They'd be building it up and expanding it, even at this early stage.

Not necessarily. If those organisations were not blindly obedient to the leader (which they shouldn't be in a functioning democracy) then the fascist playbook then would be to neuter them and replace them with a more loyal apparatus.

In Hitler's Nazi germany, the SS were a new organisation with loyalty to the Fuhrer rather than the state. The SS acquired immense power and became a virtual state within a state.

You're also assuming that the fascist end goal is global domination. If the Fuhrer was driven primarily by narcissism, and by nature lazy rather than as hard working as Hitler apparently was, and they already have control of the largest democracy and arsenal in the world, then war and global domination may not be required to satisfy their psychological urges.
California takes steps toward officially recognizing Bigfoot
That could still be decades away.
They offered me a job in the past so they definitely hire middling engineers.
> I'm not sure if running any local model on smartphones make sense right now for most of the people

It probably makes sense for simpler tasks like summarizing text messages/email that you might not necessarily want to send off to a third party that has a "move fast and break things" approach to data privacy
USB AI accelerator, in case anyone was wondering why USB needed to be accelerated.
IMHO the primary problem with offshoring vs using employees was always principal / agent problem and incentives.

There was never a strong incentive for your "partner" to actually finish the job, they got more money from overruns, fixing defects, sunk costs, requirements churn, overstaffing, giving you juniors and billing for seniors, etc etc etc.

There were also issues with cultural differences, communication and lack of understanding of the "customer" - but they are minor and resolvable compared to the core problem.
Well, certainly not above 0xA0000
They are going to produce 20 films and TV series in Mexico annually, so 80 total over 4 years, at an average cost of $12.5 million per piece of content. The same production in the USA would easily run 10x that, maybe more. No brainer to move more production overseas.
Those tools didn’t actually exist the year or so I was writing Julia professionally (and that was only 3 years ago) so it’s nice to see the language coming along.

At the same time, I would expect the Rust ecosystem to overtake Julia’s in that domain in the next couple of years. Polars is already nicer than pandas, I’ve seen a some promising work on numpy-style tensor libraries, and I’m pretty impressed by the progress with getting enzyme integrated into Rust (I could never make it work with Julia). Here’s a nice example repo I saw recently:

https://github.com/ChemAI-Lab/molpipx/
Unless I'm misunderstanding, this solves for the problem in which someone wants to put a skyscraper in the middle of suburbia. In other words, based on the assumption that developers will always want to build bigger, but the locals don't want that.

Interesting to imagine what this city would look like. If it spread out evenly, you'd get a strange "bowl", with the original SFHs in the center, and high-rises on the periphery.

I guess in reality you wouldn't have such even growth; high rises would still potentially want to clump together for business districts, etc.

As buildings get torn down, you could do the recalculation; each new building can be x% above or below the local building density "slope". So over time, even the SFH areas could grow upwards, just at a slow pace.
You can have dedicated controllers for the motors that limit their max torque.
If you can successfully challenge pharma patents you can get rich by shorting the stock. A hedge fund manager named Kyle Bass tried this with a couple dozen drugs to varying degrees of success. But also, a patent being invalidated doesn't mean prices come down immediately. ANDAs still take 3-4 years to get approved on average.
is that not the way it works?
It’s essentially worthless for you, as a consumer of them. The best way to see which one works best is to give a bunch of them a try for your specific use case
Hey, this is your fifth submission of this post, maybe you can review the guidelines and FAQ:

> It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086644

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43067691

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045330

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032065
you might want to have a few special agents swing by big balls' apartment and go through whatever hard drives can be found. ive got to think they've already made an offsite backup.
Is this the diversity stuff at work? There are too many asians in the schools so they are ignoring some so they can get more diversity in the shools?
>no strings attached

This is an important detail! Great move then, IMO.
Ask HN: Tired of startups – want a normal job. Help
All but the first few years out of school I spent the better part of my 20's working in startups. I've networked well enough, had some ups and some downs. Initially just working for startups as an IC eventually moving into product / technical product and later actually founding / co-founding two companies.

One fizzled out, the other was acquired in a way I sort of made money.

Recently the market has been a bit of a mess and although I took a break to avoid burnout I'm realizing startups (at least with my level of ability and intelligence) are likely just not a great way to make money.

I'm newly 30 and starting to realize I kind of just want a life and a reasonable tech salary. Nothing insane, just something that could support me in a b-tier city with my own place where I have enough time to actually have a girlfriend and well... a normal life.

I'm freaking out because the market is beyond fucked and it seems like my only real choice if I want to "grow" as an engineer / product guy is founding another company. Fortunately I got into some solid accelerators in the valley with a friend from a few years back. It feels good, but at the same time, I feel old and just want a normal job. Even shooting around what new college grads are getting would be fine ($120-140k). I feel like a freaking loser given my age and my relative career stagnation / my inability to actually turn my mildly above average skills into any real money.

Last time I interviewed, my litany of previous startups seemed to totally kneecap my chances of getting return callbacks led alone offers. Any advice where I should look next - I feel like between AI and offshoring I might just need to do something else all-together.

Any advice here is appreciated :)
> I do benefit if he just paid an equivalent amount into the general tax fund

Questionable. Tax receipts that get spent on roads, bridges, other infrastructure that over time increase your and everyone's standard of living? Sure. Funding of boondoggles and sinecures for political allies? Not at all.

> his net worth (as figured by his borrowing potential) grows proportionally a lot faster than mine does

You were talking about income tax, so net worth shouldn't matter, right? And I think you're alluding to the fact that the ultra-wealthy can often temporarily avoid capital gains tax by borrowing against their stock holdings instead for their income; I don't think this matters that much in the end, because it's all taxed anyway. Interest paid to the lender is income to that lender which is taxed, and eventually the bill comes due, at which point shares will have to be sold and capital gains taxes incurred.
It has a tiny amount, I believe it was 8MiB. That's Mega, not Giga.
Maybe I’m
Stupid but I couldn’t figure out how to set the pull up or pull down resistors on these boards. Maybe with LLMs I can figure this out now…. Something to do with device tree confits?
> It provides a lot of jobs to people who are otherwise unemployable.

You seem to be implying that this is a desirable property of government. I don't think that's true, and I think that the Broken Window Fallacy applies to your argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I strongly object to this idea that this is not under user control. Far too many companies and governments seek to control what their users do with data and information and devices that are supposed to be in the control of the user. If you don't trust someone to handle secure information securely perhaps you shouldn't be sending them secure information.

If you're saying you want this to be an optional thing, perhaps even defaulted to enabled to protect grandma from doing something, then I would support that. But it needs to be optional. This mindset of a company can dictate every potential use case to end users is foolishness and doesn't slow down hackers but just irritates normal users who need those features. Just like right now apps can flag whether you can do screenshots or not. In normal situations banking apps other secure messaging apps one time view of photo apps this is all quite useful but it shouldn't be an enforced requirement that you have to then hack your phone to override it. It should be a default that's enabled that you can then disable. Now if you want the sending party to know if you've disabled that feature that's fine as well it's simply more information. Then the sender can decide what they want to do. The idea of completely removing control as if you know better needs to stop.

Things will not get better with technology or literally anything if we cannot require people to be responsible for their actions. Sensible defaults are great a sensible default to have this on is fine a system that notifies other parties during a communication if it's on or off is fine. Removal of control from the user is wrong.
That is how I would design it. It is common in safety critical PLC systems to have 1 or more separate safety PLCs that try to prevent bad things from happening.
These were nice early in the TensorFlow evolution, for things like Frigate...

But even CPU inference is both faster and more energy efficient with a modern Arm SBC chip, and things like the Hailo chip are way faster for similar price, if you have an M.2 slot.

I haven't seen a good USB port alternative for edge devices though.

The big problem is Google seems to have let the whole thing stagnate since like 2019. They could have some near little 5/10/20 TOPS NPUs for cheap if they had continued developing this hardware ecosystem :(
I don't think it is appropriate (and feasible) to let app an developer decide how exactly and when _I_ share _MY_ screen on _MY_ phone.
>Why would common services be overburdened?

Water restrictions? Fatbergs? Brownouts? Congestion? Traffic? Breathing room? Not to mention increasing demand on any inelastic local supply will drive up prices. To my initial point, the upscaling of utilities and infrastructure is often magically handwaved alongside the up-zoning demands. There are real negatives to cramming more and more people into one place!
Have you mentioned this before? I saw a similar context comment maybe 3 days ago on here, down to "byte for byte output [...W]hich compiler options were used"
Luckily we have precedent set by our former prez, Slick Willy.

"Well now that depends on what the definition of the word is [employee] is."
No? Paris, NYC, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, London are all dense urban jungles. Doesn't stop them from being desirable.
Polanco, a neighborhood in Mexico City, has homes that sell for prices that you'd expect from Malibu, CA or Atherton.
I bet there is too! But I think it is also hard to form this community. Given the increased friction from the general community I think it might be time to put serious effort in determining how to make this a reality.

I don't have a great idea for it tbh. I'll pitch a bad one at least to put something out there. Maybe we can convince some billionaire to perform a post scarcity experiment? To buy large chunk of land, gather people who have both high passion and expertise in domains, and let them run wild. Less like Star Trek and more like Eureka[0]. I don't think it is a realistic expectation to get billionaire funding, but I think the idea of looking at something like Eureka (or this category of groups you see in many Sci-Fi stories) is worth drawing inspiration from: effectively post scarce (possible on small scale?), high levels of freedom (very doable), high levels of creativity and expressiveness (this is the experiment, to see if it is decreased/maintained/increased).

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796264/
I wonder if they could get around that by making the prices balance to zero? Like charge fees to people during congestion times and pay those fees outdistributed equally amongst those who enter during non congestion.

Then there would be no net revenue/toll. The optics would also be far better than green washing a net toll on people driving in from outside the city/state.
Maybe, but I don't live in the USA and have no idea whether women there find me gross.
https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-spotted-pro-putin-russi...
On the same way than cproc+QBE I guess, 70% of gcc speed in my benchmarks.

The more real-life alternatives to those abominations of gcc and clang, the merrier.

I wish the linux kernel devs did care to keep the door _reasonably_ open for such compilers (with assembler source files as alternative to inline assembly, some extensions avoidance and niche expensive compiler features).

This is another case of why super complex syntax computer languages should be avoided like hell (c++, rust, etc).
This is false - we just started hiring a few days ago (hence the Tweet)

We were looking for interns a few months ago, but did not give any offers to anyone. If we provided offers, we never rescind them.

If you could, do you have a link to the Reddit comment? It would be cool if I could clear things up, since this is defamation and fully untrue.
Using Ollama/llama.cpp with Vulkan is both much easier, and works across more GPUs, than ROCm. I wish they'd merge the PR that adds it across the board :(
How much does this meeting cost?
Decades ago a radio technician friend of mine took me up the elevator in the west leg to the top platform, to enjoy the fantastic view of the city. As the caption at the base of the west leg elevator entrance says, it was quite small and cramped indeed, and it definitely was disconcerting when it changed orientation passing through the waist of the tower!
This in particular seems dangerous:

> RD: I do think we should err on the side of caution when it comes to ethical decisions on the treatment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) which might be an Artificial Consciousness (AC). Already, although I THINK you are not conscious, I FEEL that you are.

Feelings and pain are embodied experience. There’s no ethical quandary in my mind when dealing with these creations. Because they do not feel—they imitate feeling. They do not get depressed—they imitate the patterns of depressed humans.

The only way this changes is if their creators act with cruelty to give them subsystems which induce emotional states unnecessarily. But why would you give pain to your digital servants? Would you not be in some way responsible for all the pain they felt thereafter?
100% - there has not been any solid theoretical argument whatsoever (beyond some confusions about scaling that we can now see were incorrect).
I wrote a follow up Tweet a while back to address this - we'll compensate anyone fairly if we interview them but don't hire time. Also I added $100 to $1000 bug bounties for each task for Task 4 - https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1891609444343050514
Wasn't C# essentially microsoft throwing their hat in the ring against Oracle and to show off how cool this .net stuff is?

I dabbled in both at around the same time a long time ago for console apps and visual studio's autocomplete / assist / library fetch etc made it easier than Java to get working in but...

Its been so long I forget the origin stories sometimes.
It is easy to argue that Manhattan is far more livable than San Francisco due to the layout and highly convenient zoning, even before taking the obvious transportation advantages into account. San Francisco's advantage is the climate and beautiful natural setting.

Considering the advances in seismic technology made over the past fifty years, it is a shame that much faster upgrades to the real estate have not been encouraged.
I’m not that familiar with US politics but I read that this was more a symbolic move and he actually can’t influence this law since as you pointed out it’s a matter of the New York state. He can announce things all day, which is exactly the strategy - do at least 5 ridiculous things every day and the media/people can’t react fast enough — bury them in shit
because i correct foresaw quite a lot. you should actually read the paper.
Bit weird to make a fuss about the constitution just to say the law is the law, you make it sound like breaking the ordinary law is unconstitutional.

But yes, everyone has an obligation to follow the law, which is what exactly this EO is about. Federal agencies don't get to pick and choose their own creative interpretations of the law, they have to follow the actual law. The president literally has a constitutional duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and this EO is him doing that.
Except those things would be very easily defeated by a 12 gauge shotgun or a AR-15
The problem is that it wouldn't get done. To do it that way you would need the cooperation of the bureaucracy and they are just not going to cooperate here. And who can blame them? I wouldn't do a good job if my bosses asked me to do an analysis of how to cut my job. The conclusion would be "the collateral damage would be catastrophic." I think that's why large corporate layoffs are always a shitshow too.
This doesn't say anything about moving US production there.

It's presumably mostly Spanish-speaking content for Spanish-speaking audiences.

Yes you can get Vancouver to stand in for New York City. No, you can't get Mexico to stand in for the US in most scenarios.
you obviously never actually read the paper; you should.
External kernel APIs/ABIs are not frozen unless by external you only mean user space (eg externally loaded kernel modules try to keep up with dkms but source level changes require updates to the module source, often having to maintain multiple versions in one codebase with ifdef’s to select different kernel versions)
meanwhile, the SSA's international offices have gone dark, leaving millions of US retirees without administrative services or support. in my case, due to banking regulations in the country where i am retired, i have to open a new bank account; but the office in Philippines that handles those matters is unresponsive to emails or calls. that means after next month's benefit payment, i will not receive my retirement pension. thanks elon!
Spontaneous ordering of identical materials into a triboelectric series
>and it just didn't. I'm curious if this will be similar.

If I were to bet on it, yes it will be similar. My guess is that things will over all be better 3/4 years from now, after some initial pain.
> A good example is to allow each building to only double the square footage of the median building within, say, a quarter-mile radius of the property being redeveloped. This means that SFH's can only become duplexes until duplexes are the norm.

No, it doesn't; existing SFHs can, and have when allowed to, become duplexes, triplexes, and sometimes even quadruplexes without changing square footage at all, with doubling, you can go even further. All it takes is remodeling so that each subdivided unit meets minimum habitability standards (separate access, its own restroom, whatever other facilities are mininally required.)
Yea I think it’s soon time to flag all Us politics/DOGE threads — it’s a bit tiring, especially for the majority of the world that lives elsewhere
That's called not having a backup of your physical storage medium: when it takes damage, files get gone!
well, in my personal experience, parsing is the easiest part. it's what you do with the AST once you have one that is the hard part. but for some reason an overwhelming amount of writing is about frontends when you could teach the concepts to a layman with some boxes and arrows.
I wrote a follow up tweet a while back - if we interview you, but don't think it'll work out, we'll compensate you! I also added individual bug bounties ranging from $100 to $1000 per task

https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1891609444343050514

Also all tasks are not "free work" - they're already solved internally (albeit from task 4 for Github issues) But they haved bug bounties as well - if there's anyone you want me to improve, definitely please tell me - thanks!
so glad someone else sees this.
Show me the goalposts I have moved, with actual quotes to prove it. nobody ever has when I have asked.

Aso consider eg the bets I have made with Miles Brundage (and offered to Musk(, with money where I have backed up my views.

good summary of predictions i made - mostly correct – is here: https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/25-ai-predictions...
How Europe is funding its solar boom
what an interesting prompt
You can think that someone doesn't deserve the benefit they get from the government but also think it's unfair to impose additional hardship by cutting it off suddenly.

> You cannot have multiple governments

I have 4. City, county, state, and federal.