skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was just Ops, then DevOps, MLOps, AIOps and now LLMOps. I lost count of how many promote cases I reviewed over the last 10 years with those "Ops" as the sole reason to promote.
There is probably a big change coming with AI. At the moment we need to pay people to work so stuff gets done but if AI can do it instead that goes away.
USA is turning every day more and more into a totalitarian state, the newspaper owner feel (and in truth are) obligated to get into the trump's cult or else take the risk to loose on important government contract, get lawsuit or worse.

Self censorship is the worst censorship of them all, every totalitarian state does that because it doesn't cost anything but a few threat and exemplary case, and since the news are controlled by very few people there it's easy for the state to pressure them to do the right thing.

I think that 60 or 70 years ago you had many newspaper owned by small companies, very decentralized. You wouldn't have been able to do that but now every news paper, television and social network are owned by very few.

If you can't rely on professional to report on the news, and if people are forbidden to express themselves (i mean real educated opinion) on facebook, twitter and maybe tiktok you have effectively suppressed one's opinion reach.

then when people don't have the possibility anymore to voice their opinion, what prevent you from completely shutting down their voice ?

i'm probably being over dramatic, trump never expressed anything about violating usa constitution. like taking a third presidency mandate or not having the people vote for him for the next election, he didn't have close collaborators make fascist salutes to test population outcry (or lack of).

free press is always one of the first target with the army of any government that try to turn a democracy into a totalitarian state.

Seeing how every big company donated to trump investiture and now how they bow to him. All of them, microsoft, apple, amazon, meta, oracle. i think he succeeded in making the usa technology, social and news companies his own puppets.
what engine did you use? what's the best advice if someone wants to go down the same route?
This sounds great.

Python is really great for quickly developing applications.

However, maintaining them is a real pain point—especially when it comes to packages and their dependencies.

Furthermore, because there isn’t a compile-time checker, function or method signatures can change unnoticed. Compilers are great for catching such issues at compile time rather than at runtime. Python does have mypy, which can play that role, but the package must support it. Currently, you are dependent on the package maintainer regarding their adherence to semver.

Maybe this project will be able to fill that hole.
The short answer is that we do more than one parallel pass over multiple tokens: we iteratively refine them over a few passes to fix incoherences. This can be seen as a generalization of diffusion algorithms that underlie systems like Midjourney or Sora.
Easy, he can't crave money anymore, so he craves feeding his ego.
I'm quite taken by your Goat Island example - thanks for mentioning it!
Crazy how many voice AI related updates there were this week. Grok voice mode, Alexa+, Hume OCTAVE, Elevenlabs Scribe SST... big day for Voice AI!
A few years ago an oil selling dictator, used his oil money to attack and occupy my friends country, killed my friend, and forced all the population to flee without ability to take anything with them.

So if you think that i like the situation where everyone supports dictatorships like Azerbaijan by buying their oil, you are very wrong.

But what we want and what is going to happen is often very different. Cutting fossil fuel use will not happen until there are better alternatives. And at that point most likely there will be enough CO2 in atmosphere to trigger melting of permafrost which will produce its own CO2. So "these schemes" will be needed one way or another.

That said my main interest here is seasteading, and increasing ocean biomass. Reducing atmospheric CO2 is merely a curios side effect.
This makes some sense, but I generally you'd make sure the TAM of what you are building isn't smaller than one you would be cannibalizing.

Amusingly, this is exactly what Google did with Reader back in the day. They actually had Reader and Buzz integrated rather nicely, but lit it on fire in an effort to get circles going.
Good question! We are not open sourcing the models at launch time, but we have a roadmap of future releases in which we hope to make some of our models accessible to the research community.
So... I just did a little reading. And, I get the impression that if you want to do what I was suggesting, you'd have to physically walk up and talk to Brett Victor about it. https://dynamicland.org/2024/Is_Realtalk_open_source/ The entire goal of the project is in-person physical interaction.
Ask HN: Transitioning from FAANG to High-Paying Contracting–Any Advice?
I worked at Amazon and Twitch for about three years, with an additional two years of experience before that. After spending time in FAANG, I’ve decided that the lifestyle is overrated and often toxic, so I’m looking to transition into contract work at a high hourly rate. I’ve asked both Claude and ChatGPT, and they agree that finding contracts in the range of $150–$200 per hour should be realistic.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has transitioned from FAANG to contracting—how did you find your first clients, and what advice do you have for making the switch?

Currently, I’m building a startup and learning how to create content in the style of Fireship. My goal is to work around 40–60 hours per month at $200/hour, using the rest of my time to grow my business until it becomes profitable. At that rate, I estimate needing 2–3 clients, each requiring 15–20 hours per month. Given my experience in scalable software engineering and ability to create valuable content, I assume there are startups or larger companies that would find my skill set valuable.

I’m based in Seattle but currently living off my savings while I focus on my startup and content creation. I’ve considered moving back to my hometown, which has a lower cost of living, but I’m unsure if that would impact my ability to find high-paying remote contracts.

A few specific questions for those with experience in high-paying contract work:

What are the best ways to find $200/hour contracts? Do companies typically post these, or is it more about networking?
How important is location? Would moving to a lower-cost city hurt my chances of finding premium contracts?
Do you recommend going through agencies, or is it better to source clients directly?
How do you structure contracts to minimize risk (e.g., payment terms, project scope, client expectations)?
Are there any common pitfalls to avoid when negotiating high hourly rates?
If you were starting over today, what would you do differently?
I’d really appreciate any insights from those who have made this transition successfully!
> If it is, why did no one person team disrupt and totally take over any market anywhere these past couple of years?

If AI is revolutionary, yet ubiquitous (anyone can visit chatgpt.com right now), there won't be these runaway winners in a specific industry; at best, new branches of industries will grow rapidly, and perhaps within an industry progress will intensify.
What's sad about this is that none of those clowns will be held responsible for the consequences of their acts.
He had a long term lease on a cabana - that wasn’t cheap. Also ate lunch and bought drinks there.

Not saying this was out of reach for anyone, but the cabana alone probably would have been for the vast majority of people.
Don't give them ideas. We can't actually make it useful. AI isn't I enough.
> lack of discoverability is an intentional misfeature of social media

That's not the message at all. The message is that the problem with social media is that it feeds you content without any prompting, and so it turns the user into a purely passive consumer and robs them of their agency. There's plenty of discoverability in social media. The problem is you don't have to use it, and so people don't. A blinking cursor forces you to take the wheel.
I actually made that change in response to their comment! It used to be a live GIF with no narration.
Ah, my bad, I thought it was public and he had the majority.
I just looked at a picture of those. I would describe them as earbuds with wires and a thing that lets you dangle them around your neck.

I guess I'm also bad software.
406 "Not acceptable" error.
This is just a "lisp image", right? [with the attendant pros/cons ...]
Is this why biological neural networks are spiking?
Thank you! I absolutely suck at game jams. Like, really bad. Ballionaire is the one time a gamejam (https://itch.io/jam/eggjam-20) went right for me (good idea, microscopic scope) - you can see a video from about ~10 days into development here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwIwcGewZME

Normally I either scope way too big, or scope small and lose motivation because the idea is too itty bitty to maintain motivation. I have no idea how to hit the sweet spot more frequently. Some people are just really good at this, but not me.

For insurance: private insurance via ACA/Obamacare. I had savings.
You used some big terms that I just had to take a cursory glance at to get the meaning of but it sounds like if what you’re describing ever picked up steam it would set an ill precedent and benefit the spirit of polarization that I think you’re trying to oppose.
This is why I never do the cross-eyed version of focusing on these. For me that's always been uncofortable.

Using the parallel view, or focusing out beyond the picture to make the images converge has always been easier and more comfortable for me.
You haven't argued anything more substantive the other way. I'm speaking colloquially here, if you want a robust argument, you're not going to find it from me right now. This is just a conversation, not a dissertation. If you don't want to engage in it, that's fine. But let's not overdramatize what is happening here right now, which is a basic conversation about intuitions and principles.

You attacked the other poster's claim with a hypothetical. I rebutted yours the same way. Begging for "proof" is beyond the scope of this conversation.
Not that I know of? But, I have also not been watching that market for a long long time.

I am actually somewhat interested on building a small speaker thing that I can load a VXML document on and start adding use cases to it. Especially after considering how much I could save by dropping all of my current subscription stuff.
I worked on a provenance system which would be so completely the wrong solution to this problem that I only bring it up because the 100,000 foot view is still relevant.

I think we are eventually going to end up with some sort of tagged memory with what this is for (such as credentials) and rules about who is allowed to touch it and where it's allowed to go. Instead of writing yet another tool that won't let fields called "password" or "token" or "key" be printed into the logs, but misses "pk", it's going to be no printing any memory block in this arena, period.

I also think we aren't doing enough basic things with backend systems like keeping just a user ID in the main database schema and putting all of the PII in a completely different cluster of machines, that has 1/10 to 1/100th of the sudoer entries on it of any other service in the company. I know these systems are out there, my complaint is we should be talking about them all the time, to push the Recency Effect and/or Primacy Effect hard.
Okay I have token caching annd token costing implemented in a PR. Will go live tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion!
The post office building had a fire in 2013: https://sdk.mk/index.php/kultura/izgorenata-kultna-shalter-s...

To this day it's closed and without any signs of life.
> Truth be told, it does feel like free markets have become a bit of a dirty word in both political realms recently;

Oddly, I'd say its basically only Trump attacking the idea in any significant way, with the strong advocacy of tariffs. It remains bizarre to me that conservatives have seemed happy to throw away generations of advocacy for free trade.

I don't expect Bezos to contradict him either.
This should be a top level comment.

To Bezos, a market controlled by a single large capital allocator is a free market. Unless the allocator is government of course (unless there's subsidies to apply for!).
Okay I have token caching and token costing implemented in a PR. Will go live tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion!
Someone now needs to buy NYT and NY Post and deny the neocons pro-war platforms.
https://ml-gsai.github.io/LLaDA-demo/

As far as I understand (based on reading for less than 5 minutes) it is still a transformer model, but they simply start predicting tokens in random positions, with the possibility of updating existing tokens, rather than producing tokens from left to right.

That isn't too different from say good old stable diffusion.
I think the discussion of traditional masculinity is shoehorned into this topic. The facts are that Americans of both genders report having fewer friends since 30 years ago. The decline is more pronounced among men - in 1990 they had more friends than women, now they have fewer (but both genders have fewer friends than in 1990)[0].

I think it's obvious that traditional masculine attitude have declined since 1990, so men's worsening friendships relative to women can't be blamed on worsening masculine attitudes. And of course, that part of the decline shared by both genders can't be blamed on masculine attitudes, unless women have adopted "tough guy" machismo since 1990...

I'd love to see a more critical and open-minded analysis of these trends. To me it remains something of a mystery. One possibility is the rise of social media is actually eroding friendships. Or maybe the relative lack of single-gender spaces actually causes a problem for same-gender friendship formation?

[0] https://www.americansurveycenter.org/why-mens-social-circles...
> they’re the problem because they vote

You may want to rephrase that.
no worries, quaternions just make the usual rotations. It’s cyclic.
You vs. the Parasite
I wish I could draw like that! The artist is Hanja Grgičević and she works for a sister dev company of the publisher Raw Fury. I gave Hanja my mood board (https://www.canva.com/design/DAF1ZIStuTY/j66Hl6xPyMNU6cfRsw2...) and we iterated from there. I'm so happy with her work :)
Yes, its comparable to communism, they're both far up on the leaderboard, with religion.

There's something between those extremes that works very well and produce societies that are great for all people, regulated markets and socialised democracy.
> A Quaternion from what I believe is just the same but instead of distance it just encodes the rotation around that direction as a fixed axis. (Instead the angle stored is half etc).

The first part kinda makes sense, but I have no idea what the paranthetical is intended to mean.
So will the next major Alexa release be Alexa++ ?
I agree with this. I got to experience both sides when I interviewed at FB/Meta. I practiced the leetcode and Cracking the Code Interview stuff of course and one of my interviewers asked something like that. I guess it was insulting and pointless but whatever - I just did it.

Another interviewer asked a much more interesting question: you are writing an IM client. How do you build the client-server communication?

That was a great conversation I enjoyed on its own without regard for the interview. Asking questions: do we have online/offline status? (yes) What are the target devices? (mobile).

IIRC I said I'd want to optimize for bandwidth and latency. Cellular networks can be spotty at times and stall out in really annoying ways. I'd design the protocol to use an efficient encoding with a pre-shared dictionary (the list of friends doesn't change that much after all and lots of the same words/emoji are used frequently). I also said I'd make a flexible format that would let things like online/offline status or you have a new message from X ride along with an actual message in the current conversation and explore options like QUIC or other UDP-based eventually-consistent options given how a cellular dead band can put you in TCP retransmit jail for minutes at times.

For closure I was offered a position but went to a different company.
This is how it works now, though I need to make it more clear.

If you subscribe to the annual plan (or the monthly plan for 12 months) and cancel, you get a perpetual license, meaning you can continue using the current version indefinitely.

The end goal is generate a sustainable income for as long as possible, so I can enjoy life with my family.
Does this argument apply to claude-code and aider? Or just tools I write?

Does your argument apply to all software libraries/products?
I'm very much looking up to NativeAOT on C#, being able to compile to native dlls is very attractive to me, as I'd love to do (offline) game modding.
I currently use Rust and it works quite well, but it's never too late to wish for a more 'forgiving' language for smaller projects!
Googles issue is a good part of their hiring is generic and the interviewers random

No one knows what your going to be working on
Over the Clouds: CPython, Pyodide and Spy
Doesn't it prompt to uninstall?
> Like the parent says, you already know where it is.

The parent is incorrect. You know approximately where it is. If your approximation is off by some amount, you miss. How good of an approximation you have is determined by your detection equipment. How good of an approximation you need is determined by the speed. For the same detection equipment, hitting the faster moving thing is harder.

> I'm struggling to understand the case where you are further from the destination than the x37B, with an orbit 60,000km from earth.

Well yeah, that's because the x37B interception scenario is the second case, where you are much closer to the destination but going much slower.
They could publish horoscopes and it would be an improvement.
Do you not realize you've been programmed to look for a specific group to blame instead of thinking?

Why would you blame tech workers? They're just another brainwashed mass that works for a living. If I were to suggest a wrong solution - I'd at least blame the finance sector.

Blaming doesn't solve anything because once you're done with your witch hunt - the problems remain. The systemic problem remains. We need systemic solutions and those require thinking, not reaching for a pre-made solution you've been brainwashed to reach for.

Until people recognize modern society to be a complex system that requires thinking to operate, there will be no meaningful progress. We're still operating under the system of I take people willing to dish out violence and go around bullying everyone in sight. I then take the plundered resources and tell nerds to go do their nerd shit to make me a complex society that works wonderfully.

It doesn't work. Not because nerds realize working for power hungry dummies is stupid but because we're destroying the planet and regular working people worldwide hate us and we have to work hard to barely keep the thing from falling apart. Constantly lying to everyone and yourself once you realize the fucked system you're in is exhausting, so it doesn't work. But please realize - the answer isn't to blame anyone. It's to find solutions and that takes thinking.
That might be challenging as large companies tend to hit people with strong NDAs which means that any reference to time at $company would need to be approved by $company. IF you don't do this then you might be rinsed by the court.
"With _liberty_ and justice for all"? This should be pretty bipartisan IMO.
Also, doesn't this just turn WaPo into WSJ that harps on these pillars everyday? This doesn't seem like a very sound market decision either.

It's always funny to hear about media bias with obvious very large alternatives available. It was very eery hearing about the Media's supposed Liberal biases through the 2020 and 2024 election campaigns with Fox News fully dominating viewership numbers [1]. And now here we go again with print media.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news...
This. It's ridiculous how often people complain about the design of free software. If you don't like it, just don't use it! Use something else! Build your own! Or fork it to work in the way you described that you'd prefer - you can do that yourself if you really want since the source is available
My mistake. In addition to the same colored coins falling out of the bricks, I thought there were same-color brick pieces.

I like the way the changes you made look already! Has a better feel to it.
> I wonder how difficult it would be to do video

One approach is time-shifted side-window video. Time-offset frame pairs from mono video that's pointed perpendicular to camera motion. Pretending that frames offset in space, time, and orientation, are offset only in horizontal-space-perpendicular-to-shot. Sufficiently perpendicular that difference in apparent size within pairs doesn't bite, and similarly for motion stability, orientation, distance from subjects, and non-horizontal motion. Phone video out the side window of a train/plane/bus/car with a view, or a drone footage segment that meets constraints. River seen from bridge-crossing train window; waiting rocket seen from circling drone. Upside is easy capture, and an inter-ocular distance that's potentially quite large (miles) and adjustable in post processing. Downsides include non-static things don't fuse (traffic by that river, fog off the rocket), and it can be a pain to find usable segments in existing video.
Show HN: Custom X Feed Summarizer
In between jobs I had a bit of free time and created something I am excited to share!
I built this app (www.feedtldr.com) that allows you to create a personalized and curated daily newsletter, summarizing the most important trends, discussions, and announcements from the last 24h based on the accounts you want to follow on X.

I built this first for myself because I was tired of constantly having to check on X what the ML community has been up to on a daily basis (which is a lot!) and getting bombarded with other posts and infos I couldn't care less about. I often was getting brainrotted in the process.

I also really like the daily summaries I get from newsletters like
TLDR newsletter, but they tend to be a bit too broad/generic and dont capture all relevant topics I care about and/or are shared around the ML communities I follow. I wanted something similar but more personalized that I can curate myself.

When I showed it to other people they wanted to use it for themselves too so I decided to make this a standalone web app that anybody can try out.

I found it to be super useful for myself so far. I am getting daily updates of the most important posts/papers/announcements from all X accounts I follow in the ML community without having to doomscroll on X to search for them.

But would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on what could be improved!
Very cool!

- What choices did you make to give yourself more time to work on this project?

- At what point did you begin getting feedback of some sort?

- Were there clearly things you wished to include in the game but had to cut out in the interest of time? How did you decide what would be "good enough"?
Congratulations! How did you get the process started for distributing your game? Were there any early channels for marketing you found particularly effective?
Almost any website with an image gallery is a better source than Instagram for browsing images available on both even for those with Instagram accounts; the image quality is almost always better elsewhere.
This pencil is unclear. Has pointy tip problem. Needs more examples.
That very much was a part of the government. They were receiving orders directly from the White House, same as now, I suppose.