skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well we have evidence - 'the stated reason' - on one hand, and none on the other. As someone who likes those sorts of things, living in places like that is completely worthwhile if affordable.

> “Hacking” this by figuring out exactly what you want and finding it in a less in-demand place is a great move if you work remotely.

I referenced that in my GP comment - absolutely, don't imitate others, find what you want!

That's easier in places like NY and SF, where people are receptive to that and they don't enforce conformity or think you are too outside the pale with some wild idea or behavior. You're startup idea might not get much support in much of the world.
YC can't even urge it's own startups to do anything
Rules for derivatives require the least memorization
Is there a difference between doing something and supporting something?

This joke is like a decade old at this point https://xkcd.com/1172/
Sort of. It’s more akin to design guidelines.
Tough. Researchers will have to get good at it.
Hmmm, if you're starting a cult as a way to tap into tax exemptions, I suspect your accountants and lawyers would have long heated arguments about exactly how to best structure the church building ownership or lease/rental. Is your cult's meeting place a capex or an opex?
> because we allowed the elite to run things

By definition, a society’s elites always run things…
The default prefix used to be "SQLite_". (2006)
Sadly, most of them don't care what happens to foreigners. Even more sadly, some of those same people are hoping for those deaths.
> just as a major PBM reform bill was set to pass last December, Elon Musk fired off a series of tweets opposing it

Source? (Not doubting you.)
He's got it wrong. People don't support tau like he supported the Red Sox, the support tau because it's actually a handy constant. Pi still exists!

Tau is not an inconsequential lost cause. I think it will slowly win over everyone.
When you say TDD do you meant test driven design or the test first design actually practice when “doing TDD”
I'd love to see the data they're getting. This might be the last time that anyone will be able to cross-reference financial data across the federal government.
Oh well it’s nice to know that if we work together you’ll be nice since you’re being paid to be.

But do you treat others outside of work like this? What if your partner makes a mistake? Your kid thinks they’ve done something awesome but have a huge flaw in whatever it is?

> They are probably going to be in a bad mood if you waste their time with a bold claim that is so obviously false.

Did you review this on company time? On your own time? How is your time being wasted giving feedback to another developer? You’re improving the community of developers. You don’t see the benefit of that?

I wonder how you tolerate failure? Weakness? In others. I don’t think well but what do I care? right? I’m not in the business of helping anyone better themselves or anything ;-)
I like informative ads. Like old newspaper or magazine ads that are just a picture of the item and a few bullet points about what it offers. Ads like this post are manipulative and they weaponize psychology to make people buy things they wouldn’t want otherwise
> what else can be undone with a midnight tweetstorm?

I'm sure we'll find out soon enough.

Such a pity that this is "easily" remedied via campaign finance reform and revoking Citizens United.
So its about 45 minutes (by car) from a city of about 130,000 people.

That's hardly the middle of nowhere.
Oh. It's like Firecracker, only much faster 8-)

What I like most is the ability to instantly reset the state of the VM to a known predefined state. It's like restarting the VM without any actual restart. It looks like an ideal course of action for network-facing services that are constantly under attack: even if an attack succeeds, the result is erased on the next request.

Easy COW page sharing for programs that are not written with that in mind, like ML model runners, is also pretty nice.
> Weird, I haven't gotten a check from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, or any other AI company for any of my works yet, nor have any of my writer, musician, developer, or photographer friends who also self-publish without permissive licenses that would allow for such use.

Can you tell me the specific number of dollars that would be?

I interpreted "pay the price of each copyrighted work" as the sale price, a criticism of things like meta's piracy.

If there was a mandatory licensing regime that AI could use, and there was an exact answer for what the payment would be, I think it might make sense to use "the price" to talk about that license. But right now in today's world it's very confusing to use "the price" to talk about a hypothetical negotiation that has not happened yet, where many many works would never have a number available.
>>> on one hand I suspect too much code has explicit and implicit global state for this technique to be useful ...

>> Any collaborations having observable side effects such as these are very difficult to prove correct, regardless the test approach employed.

> yes but resetting the environment before each test is one way to deal with them

Not really.

Resetting an environment for each test requires distinct tests exist for all anticipated workflow permutations. While this is onerous when the side effects are limited to in-process mutable state (such as global, session, and thread-local data), it is infeasible when global state is a persistent store[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_store
I have been writing the same thing by (ab)using the existing unit of measurement known as a bel (B), which is most commonly seen with the SI prefix “deci” (d) as dB or decibel. I write the speed of light as 8.5 Bm/s (“8.5 bel meters per second”), which resembles the expression 20 dBV (“20 decibel volts”) shown at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel.
First, to be clear, I'm not arguing that you should consider LLMs intelligent. I was responding more narrowly to the claim that an LLM "just repeats its training data."

On a trivial level, it's obviously true that every token in an LLM's output must have existed in the training data. But that's as far as your observation goes.

The point is that LLMs can produce novel sequences of tokens that exhibit the functional equivalent of "understanding" of the input and the expected output. Further, however they achieve it, functionally their output compares well to output that has been produced by a reasoning process.

None of this would be expected if they simply repeated "a bunch of training data predictions averaged together... or something roughly like that." For example, if that were all that was happening, you couldn't reasonably expect them to respond to a prompt with decent, working new code that's fit for purpose. They would produce code that looks plausible, but that doesn't compile, or run, or do what was intended.

One reason your model of the process fails to capture what's happening is because it's not taking into account the effects of latent space embeddings, and the resulting relationships between token representations. This is a major part of what enables an LLM to generalize and produce "correct" output, taking meaning into account, beyond simply repeating its training data.

As for intelligence - again the question comes down to functional equivalence. If we use traditional ways of measuring intelligence, like IQ tests, then LLMs beat the average human. Of course, that's not as significant as might naively be imagined, but it hints at the problem: how do you define intelligence, and on what basis are you claiming an LLM doesn't have it? Ultimately, it's a question of definitions, and I suspect it'd actually be quite difficult to give a rigorous (non-handwavy) definition of intelligence that an LLM can't satisfy. This may partly be an indictment of our understanding of intelligence.
The GDPR is very clear (despite those who profit from breaching it would like you to believe): consent for non-essential data collection/processing should be strictly opt-in. You can't opt-in by default, you can't use dark patterns to trick people to opt-in, and you can't degrade the experience to coerce people to opt in.

Yet by your own comment's admission, Facebook has tried multiple blatant breaches of the regulation, and is still in business and trying their latest iteration of pseudo-compliance, which means whatever enforcement there is, it's clearly not enough.

When it comes to the DMA, Apple is currently on track to receive a (very low) fine for not actually complying by still preventing developer from letting users know they can pay for apps/services outside the App Store for cheaper. So clearly the potential penalties and actual enforcement is low enough that Apple is (rightly) calling their bluff.
This is where s2.dev could in theory come to the rescue. Able to keep up with the streaming bandwidth, but durable.
Only boring people can afford to live in SF
Yes, and similarly to increase the efficiency of our healthcare system, I suppose doctors should have to get good at also doing their own billing, janitorial, etc.
I was initially against systemd (around the time Debian started discussing using it) for non-technical reasons: the project seemed to have some very negative aspects in terms of how feedback and concerns are addressed. I don't know for sure but I strongly suspect this was the core issue a good chunk of those "against" were concerned about: the way the project is run.

Having used it for several major releases of Debian technically I'm happy to have it - it's an improvement over the sysv init & crontabs. I'm not completely in love with journal compared to regular logs but I can see some advantages.
> if one can articulate what specifically they're looking for, it's almost always possible to find it in a significantly cheaper cost-of-living area.

Isn't that the basic essential of designing tech - the narrower your specs the less expensive your solution, so articulate them very specifically.

I don't know that I buy "almost always" though. If your spec is world-class _____, you probably need to be in one of a few cities.
Supposedly, he's not into watersports. Given his temperament, his attitude toward SiliValley CEOs could change in the next 5 minutes, then go another direction 5 minutes later.

We are not dealing with a stable individual here. The only predictable trait he has is vindictiveness.
Not op, but I'm clearly reading their message differently than you.

Any type of physical engineering is based on hard facts, data, and well established historical research, mathematics, and more.

I've seen many an electrical engineer say, "fuck it, this is too hard and pays too little" and so they pivoted into software engineering quite easily.

On the other hand I've never seen the opposite. Real engineering is hard because you actually have to get shit perfect. The wrong o rings and real people die.

There are a few real software engineering shops and real software engineers, but 90% are just slinging shit together for a bunch of enterprise CRUD and they are all just one bad deploy away from disaster.
It depends on what you mean by "models".

LLMs? No. But LLMs are too slow for content moderation at scale.

Custom trained models? Maybe. Is the unicode characters in the training data?
> Careless recursion in C... is obviously bad

Keeping the focus specifically on this bug: Do you think it was "careless recursion" in libexpat? That library was started in 1997, and the recursion bug wasn't found until 2022.

> Another way is to be absolutely restrictive, rather than track the limit. Create some test cases representing the worst recursive cases you're willing to handle (and document as such). Empirically measure their stack use. Multiply that by 1.5 and use that as the stack check limit.

We look forward to your patches for libexpat to add new unit tests.
This dynamic is hard to avoid. If you have 1 or 2 people who have more institutional knowledge than the rest of the team, they can burn through more tickets and gain more knowledge through exposure to other people’s problems, which they help with. Then everybody ends up relying on the “hero”, and nobody is really happy about it.

That’s my experience, at least. Cleaner code, separation of responsibilities, and good documentation seem to help though. But I do think a lot of the time people are mistaking “more productive developers” with “devs who got stuck with knowing all the random shit that our horrible codebase relies on” lol
An approach we've done is to use Postgres' "create database foo2 template foo1" syntax to essentially snapshot the db under test at various points and use those to rollback as needed.
reminds me of old orkut profile which had lot of these funky fonts.
The website says nothing about who's behind it, no ToS, no privacy policy. 3rd party content on the app subdomain includes twitter ads + three domains I've never seen before. All my instincts tell me not to trust this in the slightest.
> What are they gonna do then when all the discussion boards where that data would originate are either gone or optimized into algorithmic metric farms like all the other social media sites?

As people are using AI more and more for coding and problems solving providing company can keep records and train on them. I.e. if person 1 solved the problem of doing 2 on product 3 then when 4 is trying to do the same it can be either already trained into the model or model can lookup similar problems and solutions. This way the knowledge isn't gone or isolated, it's being saved and reused. Ideally it requires permission from the user, but price cuts can be motivating. Like all main players today have free versions which can collect interaction data. With millions of users it's much more than online forums have.
Not much of a surprise: There's no reason to expect that government-work would be an amazingly better outcome than other places LLMs have been tried.
Not surprised, given its ancestry. This isn't a critique, so much as an observation.

Microsoft's corporate culture evolved during some two decades under a very different threat model & security posture. A lot of the platform's foundations originate from that era, and although they've made significant strides you still see some of their other products struggle in this aspect as well (eg. good security primitives are there but they're sloppy in their default configuration and intuitability). Compare it to a platform that spent its youth growing up in a more actively hostile environment (like Bitcoin).
Woah thank you for sharing this! Absolutely riveting list of topics.
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869311029131596262?lang=en
... without restricting other people.

This whole mess is because society decided that restricting everyone's rights to share and access information was a sane tradeoff to make for making sure people got paid. No it is not and, so long as humans are physical, it will never be. It appears that humanity will have to get this simple fact hammered into them with every new leap in technology.

Find another work-rewarding scheme. Ensure you get paid before you release information (e.g. crowd funding or contracts with escrows). Forget about nonsensical concepts relating to "intellectual" property (information is not property). Forget recurring revenue from licensing information. You only get paid once when you do work. You are not entitled to anything more. If reality makes living off your work unworkable, do something else.

I'm glad other countries are starting to wake up and ignore this nonsense. Stop trying make something as unnatural and immoral as this work.
Presumably a lot of the funds in the terminated grants were for running programs that had other direct costs beyond pure headcount…

That’s the thing that isn’t being reported well, IMHO: federal grants aren’t just gifts that the government gives universities, they are contracts for universities to perform services (conducting very specific research programs with well-specified deliverables, running very specific educational activities for carefully defined populations of learners, etc.).
Self-hosting.
> Apple now allows alternative browser engines within the EU, as just one example.

Have any shipped?
I know next to nothing about Bluesky or ATProto outside of what this article told me, but: as I was reading the part about the need to trust who's controlling the PLC directory, I kept thinking that this could be a proper problem for trust-less cryptographic data storage mechanisms (like cryptocurrency ledgers) to solve. Isn't that right? You would shift the risk from "the entity hosting the PLC directory goes rogue and you can't update your data anymore" to "a sybil attack can boot you off the network"
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In a lot of cases, some of those who carry all the water are doing it to themselves, and it hurts the team (and themselves).

In the organization I work in we have an operations team to take care of day to day failure. Write a run book, set up ticketing, hand it off, good to go. I treat this work and hand off as a high priority, as it frees up my time to work on other things. The ones who are chronically busy and appear to be “carrying the water” don’t do it. Their time is dominated my support, they are constantly busy, and it looks like they are doing a lot… but they’re doing work that can and should be handed off.

I’ve been the water carrier as well, but always tried to skill up people any time I had the opportunity. Or I’d build tools to make it easier for people to help, or find a niche where they could be useful doing something that would really improve things that I either didn’t have the time or interest for.
As a direct consequence I have two alternative app stores on my iPhone. Something Americans cannot have.
One step close to a Snow Crash reality
> Try again, Trump famously didn’t have much corporate backing in 2016. Corporations wanted a standard Republican. He didn’t have any more money than the DNC. He is what the majority of the American people wanted.

I thought you said it didn't start with Trump?

And your premise is wrong anyway, Trump had plenty of corporate support in 2016 and more in 2024, he just had some token resistance from big corps relative to others, they got over it quickly and it was never more than just for show.

> Again, tell me how a corporation can shoot me with impunity, take my property without due process, literally take away my freedom or stop me because I “fit the description” or look like I don’t belong in a neghborhood where I know I my income was twice the median income in the county?

By just doing it, what you think they can't find guns and assholes who need money or are evil? You think they can't find ways to cheat you out of your property or life? Who's going to stop them?

You tear down the government, the corporations will make their own in their own image. The government is _supposed_ to be there, it's the people coming together to do the shared work of society for the common good.

It just has to be a good government, the people have to fight for that. Half of our people fight to tear it down instead and the other half barely know what the hell they want.

> You worry about some theoretical abstract corporate power, I worry about jack booted thugs with the full force of the government behind them

They're the same people. Look at our government. Theoretical abstract, what are you talking about, it's the literal nazi shithead in the whitehouse and all the rest of his enablers.
Portugal rules out buying F-35s because of Trump
Don't see that happening with android, not sure why you think it would happen with iPhone.
> when people start talking about differential equations

It's not like you are going to solve those analytically.

Implement a couple numerical solvers for things like Navier–Stokes and you'll see that differential equations is just obscenely compressed code.
By "literally" I mean that the name for it is the Code of Law, with a civil code, and a criminal code. And this usage of "code" predates computer programming by many centuries!
You could advocate for bombing America and there wouldn’t be such a strong response. Who is really running things here?
Just wanted to point out something that not everyone might realize:

Unicode is not supposed to have fonts at all. Unicode defines characters that you can then represent in various fonts. It just so happens that Unicode has many characters that happen to look like the letter "C" (as an example): © for copyright, ℂ for complex numbers (formally called Double-Struck Capital C), etc. The author uses these many variations as a fun way to make "fonts".
I'm sympathetic but there's no clear historic chronology. For instance the ancient egyptians dealt with both algebra and calculus (at least in part) long before Pythagoras. And thats not starting on China and India which had very different chronologies.
I can now use Facebook without being profiled for ads. I can also delete my account.

It took longer than expected, but it happened. The GDPR has forced Facebook and others to change.

People may want huge fines, but then the EU is accused of targeting US companies or suffocating innovation. I don't want fines necessarily, I want results.
I dunno, I've looked at cheap places and generally it seems like they're "cheap for a reason" to me.

Not that they're always terrible or anything, but there's often certain things missing that I'd rather have around. But maybe someday.
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> In other words, to the religious, the use of the building for non-religious purposes is "shrug".

This isn’t accurate except for perhaps certain parts of Protestantism. To Catholics, Orthodox, probably portions of the Church of England etc, ie a majority of Christianity church buildings are holy and specially blessed. They hold the Eucharist in the Tabernacle which these Churches believe is the body and blood of Jesus under the guise of bread which is the most holy thing for them. In order for these buildings to be used for any other purpose all the holy things would need to be removed and the building specifically deconsecrated.
Surviving without a designer? More life thriving without one.

Honestly I think many startups at an early stage don’t need designers at all and they just want to look trendy (which admittedly is critical for consumer-focused companies that live and die on becoming trendy, but that’s not what I do).

The best designer for an early stage startup these days is someone with not awful visual/UX taste (no need for a specialist or a visual prodigy; most teams I’ve met have at least somebody who isn’t hopeless in this respect); but with a strong understanding of their target users and what they’re familiar with, so you can just copy prior art as is relevant. Much better than taking a designer who knows nothing about the space and needing to transfer your learned experience into their brain somehow.

Most startups aren’t doing anything truly novel from a UI standpoint so why reinvent the wheel? Designers become more useful when you stop having strong communication and trust in your team since it just got too big for that.
Wait, don't I recognize that name? Wait a second... This is THE John Scalzi? When I was a kid I pulled a paperback off of my dad's bookshelf, Old Man's War. Great, take your brain out trashy sci fi, and I mean that in the most positive way possible, it left a big impression on me. Incredible writer, cool that he is still around and has a blog.