skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually really cool way to show it.

Love it.
People inside the company (not recruiters) read my blog and started the recruiting process.
There are a lot of OSS developers, I doubt AMD has the resources to do that. And realistically they don't need to, I wandered over to watch some George Hotz videos the other day and it looked like the AMD driver situation has improved to the point where specialist AMD access isn't needed to debug any more. Which is a huge change and very exciting for me personally because it means I might be able to jump back to an AMD card and ditch the mess that is Nvidia on Linux.

In theory they might not even need to be involved in optimising compute kernels, there is probably some PhD student who'll do the work because they want to be a kernel-optimising specialist. In practice a few strategic applications of paid talent is all they really need to do. Everyone wants to diversify off Nvidia so there is a lot of interest in supporting AMD if they are willing to push out firmware that multiplies matrices without crashing. Which has been a weird sticking point for AMD for a surprising amount of time.
Personas of Thought: How to Use AI Crowds for Better Decisions
I felt my blood pressure spike at the mention of the people with the headlamps - I do astrophotography, and having an hour long exposure ruined because someone sauntered over with their high beams on is a touch infuriating.
Before the machines there were guilds of cloth-makers and weavers that would work less than five days a week and at less strict hours, but they lost their jobs to automation.

I can really recommend the book Blood in the machine if anyone is interested in how automation early on affected workers.
Small tech wants to do big tech things. Open sourcing algorithms doesn’t help with the data silo of having all of the TikTok library be mined. I don’t think it matters where or who “owns” the data because the user should own their data.
Sounds like it's time to send 23andMen a GDPR/CCPA/etc. data deletion request. Here's an easy way to do it:
https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/23andme.com
IDK, I thought the whole point of a deque was to string vectors into a linked list, so you get benefits of both, the most important ones being 1) cheap random access, and 2) insertion doesn't move stuff around in memory. I.e. that the deque's "vectors connected by pointers" is not an implementation detail, but the very nature of the beast.

Maybe I just took the boxes-and-arrows diagrams from C++ books too seriously.
https://peerlist.io is a good contender too. Have you folks tried it?
There is also screen -x to share the terminal
Sometimes the entire reason why they are still on that older LTS dist is because they still need (e.g.) node 12 for some reason.
Sure, but these two words are important. They're placing the whole into a different category.

It's kind of like me saying, "I'm not a soldier - being a soldier means exercising a lot, following orders, and occasionally killing people", and you replying, "well take out the two words 'killing people' and the rest still applies to you".
The Role of A/B Testing in Entshittification
> Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology.

No surprise given that biotechnology has a lot more stakeholders. Ethics aren't just an afterthought because unlike VC/the stock market, academia has lots of ethics review gates in place. And for those that think they can sidestep ethics by going private (be it Theranos, 23andMe or various other such services), they'll all find out one day that it will catch up to them.
The here are many loopholes for pricing but if you are in the USA there are a few universities that have foreign campuses that pricing is expensive in their country they’re hosted but 50-80% cheaper then USA.
One example for Japan is Temple University. One Semester is about 1 million yen or about 6000 USD. Gives you an excuse to be in Japan. And get a degree. They have a campus also in Italy but priced more higher.

There are also American campuses in China but the price is near same same as USA!

On a similar thought, you can also do an English degree in Asia or east Europe too but for USA they may not be recognized but it’s an interesting path. I debated heavily doing an English degree program in China because it’s very very affordable, and like you I need to do it in person to pick up the language and do school work.

Tl;dr I’m assuming you’re American, if you are Temple University may fit the price for doing it in Japan and they have a computer science course, among many and a full no credit transfer to four year would cost 35~40,000 total outside rent, food, etc.

There is also opportunity cost. Assuming once again you’re from the USA, 120k/yr is the norm and most degrees are four year programs. You are giving up 560k in your prime for this, and maybe more.

I’m in the same age group, no degree and debated this as well. I’ve tried to balance remote work and WGU, and I just can’t. Work nor Uni is hard or demanding but I just feel tired and once I get off a pattern by missing school for work or other life events it’s hard to catch up and double down.

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Another is self study with WGU, one semester is about 6 months and many people can graduate in 6 months, but, online.
https://archive.is/3OVVu
> scalpel

This suggests a cautious, surgical approach. So far DOGE seems to be wielding a chainsaw instead.
They could also be used to launder proprietary code:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/57615.html

There is no non-AI GNU license yet. Personally, I think one would violate one of the FSF four freedoms, for the reasons I give in this subthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423595
> A fifth looks the same in any clef

Really? I don't think all fifths look the same even if they're all in the same clef. If you're working in C major, B to F looks like it's a fifth, but it's a tritone. Everything around this becomes a little weird; A# to E# looks like a fifth and is one, but A# to F is a fifth and doesn't look like one.

Random clefs seem like they would make that problem worse.
> my concern is to limit the ability of someone with access to my computer from using a connected hardware authenticator.

You don't need anything special to do that. Just select a hardware token that refuses to sign anything until it receives physical input from you.
This reduces the field of software engineering to simple code generation when it is much more than that.

Things like system design thinking and architectural design are not solely tasks performed by managers or specialised roles.

Software developers need to wear multiple hats to deliver a solution. Sure, building out new features or products from scratch often get the most glory an attention. But IMO, humans still have the edge when it comes to debugging, refactoring and optimisation. In my experience, we beat AI in these problems because we can hold the entire problem space/context in our brains,and reason about it. In contrast, AI is simply pattern matching, and sure it can do a great job, but only stochastically so.
None taken. At all!

If you take everything to the extreme "full" honesty becomes "blunt" honesty. I do not advocate that. Pink Floyd answered that with "The Trial". Dark fiction tends to explore the extremes and to me often tends to miss the nuances. Reading such fiction can and should be thought-provoking but not be seen as a pattern.

The kind of honesty I try to advocate is a personal stance. Can you be trusted? Do your viewpoints falter under pressure? Are you able to change them openly? So it all basicly ties into a sense of morality. A bit of a dirty word in our business first world of today.

Reach for the moon and all that. ;-)
Why AI wrappers are the new SaaS
I think LLMs are intelligence augmenting. They are a tremendously powerful search tool but you need to know what you are looking for.

The idea that they can replace workers is laughable. I am afraid though that the current state of LLMs is too expensive for its use case. So I'm trying not to lean too much on them.
> This doesn't really detail any money laundering scheme

Yes, there are reasons to avoid providing a detailed manual on the exact workings of a successful large-scale money-laundering scheme. For the same reason why an article wouldn't explain exactly how to e.g. make explosives or cook meth at scale.

You can always find out if you try, of course. But NYTimes level journalism does hesitate to explain those details.
This guy.. :(

Honestly he is a danger, with his pseudo-intellectual mumbojumbo.
Tree-shaking also.
Worst thing is that a whole lot of people now think that a sizable majority of engineers are represented by him.
I don't like 23andme, but don't the shadow profiles sorta implicitly exist whenever you're working with DNA data?

If their DNA test can recognise first cousins, then they've got a recognisable DNA profile for each user's parents, grandparents, children and so on.
not sure about that. hal is definitely a bit of a bumbling idiot, especially next to his wife.
Yeah it's kind of a different standard

There is a section 2.1.3 "Online platform studies versus lift tests" in the article. For the marketing tools purpose, you can use either (or some mixture of both). There are pros and cons to the choice.
More interesting is to research the history and development of regional cuisines

For example, Xinjiang’s representative dish, Big Plate Chicken, was actually invented by a Sichuanese chef in the 1980s, primarily to serve truck drivers

Another example is that both Beijing and Nanjing have roast duck as a signature dish. This is because in the 14th century, the Ming Dynasty emperor moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, bringing roast duck along with it.
> The device (eg. Phone or Tablet) gets owned and gives up its value as a provider of confirmation

Any device could get exploited. The requirement that it happen to both that device and my computer, simultaneously, significantly raises the difficulty bar.

> Users end up nominating a password service like 1Password as the device

I don't see the issue. Isn't that the user's choice to make? If you want better security then don't make that particular choice.

> Someone manages to convince the authentication systems that their faux device emitting the signal, is the device in question

By that logic why have passwords or keys or anything at all? Someone might exploit the server and get in regardless so why bother?

I've got at least a few objections to modern auth schemes but these aren't them.
General consumer protection is not the AG's job. You're demanding action out of the wrong person.
Absolutely not! LLM training quite easily gets stuck. People call it "divergence" or "loss spike". See for example:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3524938.3525354

"Gradient optimization with attention layers can be notoriously difficult requiring tricks such as learning rate warmup to prevent divergence.“

"we then propose a new weight initialization scheme with theoretical justification, that enables training without warmup"

Or "Initialization of Large Language Models via Reparameterization to Mitigate Loss Spikes"

https://arxiv.org/html/2410.05052v1

If all local minima were similar, then these papers would represent a lot of wasted effort. Or said in a different way: If labs like DeepMind are willing to pay for large teams that are trying to optimize initialization, then surely this represents a real existing problem.
Really nice work!
you could have asked you primary care doctor for a test, instead of paying a company for the privilege of creating a dna map to sell to law enforcement.
Finally found a microsoft link for the Hungarian Notation article - search engines suck these days.

see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualst...
I think you misunderstood the assignment. The temp predictions in my area wildly swing around, until the day of, and even then I have to adjust for my actual location. And I'm not in Kansas City. The only place that has ~3° accuracy is San Diego. And maybe Antarctica.
My girlfriend really want to do one of these DNA analysis package from one of 23andMe's competitors, and she cannot for the life of her understand why I don't want to.

How do I explain that I don't want my DNA analysed and sold around to all sorts of companies?
Ohh, @deng, my exact words and you are 100% right. Same experience, same conclusion:

- I would go even further: Do not use bash/python or any duck-typed lang. (only for simple projects, but better just dont get started).
- Leverage Nix (!! no its not a joke ecosystem) : devshells or/and build devcontainers out of it.
- Treat tooling code, ci code, the exact same as your other code.
- Maybe generate the pipeline for your YAML based CI system in code.
- If you use a CI system, gitlab, circle etc, use one which does not do stupid things with your containers (like Github: 4 years! old f** up: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/863#issuecomment-25...)

Thats why we built our own build tool which does that, or at least helps us doing the above things:

https://github.com/sdsc-ordes/quitsh
Mac OSX 10.3 and 10.4 looked beautiful and positive, and you could guess where the scrollbar was in the spot.

On PearPC, I could emulate it back in the day under an AMD Athlon 2000 at usable speeds by setting down the emulated screen refresh to 10 FPS or such.
Ohh, @deng, my exact words and you are 100% right. Same experience, same conclusion:

- I would go even further: Do not use bash/python or any duck-typed lang. (only for simple projects, but better just dont get started).

- Leverage Nix (!! no its not a joke ecosystem) : devshells or/and build devcontainers out of it.

- Treat tooling code, ci code, the exact same as your other code.

- Maybe generate the pipeline for your YAML based CI system in code.

- If you use a CI system, gitlab, circle etc, use one which does not do stupid things with your containers (like Github: 4 years! old f** up: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/863#issuecomment-25...). Also one which lets you run dynamically generated pipelines.

Thats why we built our own build tool which does that, or at least helps us doing the above things:

https://github.com/sdsc-ordes/quitsh
Is it safe to put my seedlings outside or is there going to be a soft freeze that kills them all in two days.
> they would need to be looking for me specifically

I don't think so. They probably automatically determine how closely related all their customers are, so it just takes one of your (possibly distant) relatives putting in enough family tree.
That's not true, shares are a share of the companies assets and future dividends.

There are "scavengers" out there who buy a company if its assets are worth more than the market cap, close down the company or otherwise spin out the assets, and thus earn more than they paid for the shares.
yarvin has been saying this since like 2012? it's just his thing you can ignore him. richard hanania has more of an impact, if you want to worry.
Thanks for your input.

> I agree with the general premise that China is way more unified than Europe. In some respects, moreso than the US due to the lack of federalism and the 90%+ Han majority.

In some ways yes, in some ways no? How do Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, and until recently, Hong Kong fit into your theory? In Europe, they don't have 're-education' camps; on the other hand, they also aren't trying to impose a strong central government (the EU is nothing like Chinese central government).

Europe mostly has a unified alphabet, and words are often mutually recognizeable - not the same as China, but not nothing.
A collection of OSS TUI apps I use daily
You can discuss things unrelated to genuinely proprietary information. But this depends on the company—I worked for several companies whose secret sauce was more related to proprietary business information rather than proprietary tech, so they gave close to zero shits if I publicly wrote about it and, at times, republished my posts on their own company blog to make themselves more attractive to devs.

I also have a bunch of personal projects about which I can talk.

Topics like "what we learned load-balancing a tomcat cluster" contain genuinely useful information, but the company I worked for at the time didn't consider them proprietary because the proprietary stuff was what they ran on the cluster.

I'll acknowledge that this won't be the case for everybody. I've been pretty lucky that none of the companies I worked for prevented me from writing about these topics; some were happy to use what I wrote for their own promotional material.

(I don't want to dox myself, so I'd rather not share a link to my blog, and "what we learned load-balancing a tomcat cluster" isn't the literal title of a blog post I wrote.)
no. fingerprinting is like denying a kid at a carnival ride with a height check.

what this thread is about is denying a kid a kindergarten spot because the dna shows their height will never get them a basketball college scholarship.
> How on earth is that possible? Docker compose requires a daemon and the DOCKER_HOST var fo be set.

Docker contexts [1] is an alternative to DOCKER_HOST variable. It may have been inspired by kubectl contexts (just a speculation). It's more principled than the variable, in my opinion.

> I always thought using it defeated the point of podman.

Podman doesn't have a persistent daemon like Docker's that monitors the running containers. However, taking inputs over a socket is a useful feature in Docker. Podman achieves this without a persistent daemon using systemd socket units [2]. Whenever a request is received at the socket, systemd spins up podman to serve it. Podman keeps listening on the socket and then exits after a short period of inactivity (like 5s). So it's not quite comparable to what Docker does.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/manage-resources/contexts/

[2] https://docs.podman.io/en/stable/markdown/podman-system-serv...
I mean if it was trading at $8/share isn't the market rate $8/share?
Ph.D.'s are rather immersed. Imagine how much time you spend staring at Latin texts over many years.
In which manner, in this theories, do you measure the performance of the « dictator »/CEO/president? Is it based on objective KPIs decided ahead of time? or are the KPIs supposed to be evaluated by the consumers/electors/ people?

And what consequences can those KPIs have, if considered to be poor?
Can we fire the dictator?

If no KPIs allow to maintain the system stable, as a feedback loop, then welcome to USSR where everything is fake, and the « government » governs itself until complete failure.
little difference: Republicans are now in charge of all branchs of democracy.
I think you gave a pretty good answer in fact.
That really becomes a "not your problem" as a library author.

If a user wants to use an old version of node, they'll have to use an old version of the library that still supports cjs.
48x98 is exactly that dimension (i..e after planing of the lumber). Well, +/- 1 mm of tolerance/shrinkage due to drying.

It goes by the name "two four" here as well informally due to long tradition (and yes, I once did wonder why 2-by-4 is smaller than 2 by 4 inches and looked it up), but you will not see it written anywhere, in writing it is always in mm after planing.

The oral words for lumber dimensions before planing is the only context as an adult I have met inches except in US.
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Except J.D. Vance is an adherent of Yarvin's ideas and Vance is in the government:

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-w...

They've been talking about ignoring court rulings for years. Now they're in a position to actually do that.

It may well happen soon that they ignore a Supreme Court ruling. It depends how far they think they can push it.
deleting your data just change "for alexfromapex, sibling of x, son of y and z" to "maybe belong to owner of email alexfromapex@gmail, sibling of x, son of y and z"... that's the beauty of soft deletion plus shadow/inferred profiles.
> Latin had remained the most important language for the publication of scientific works and for international correspondence between well-educated people

... and important to the Catholic Church.
Seems risky to put your data on non-EU servers. It is still risk, but at least there is legal framework.
When Pope Benedict resigned he announced it in Latin unexpectedly. Many present did not understand what he was saying.

https://insidethevatican.com/magazine/pope-benedicts-resigna...
I really hate how MSVC made std::deque toxic for cross-platform use, it's such a cool concept.
Murray Gell-Mann says "et tu?"
Self-Optimization of Hopfield Networks: The Creativity of Unsupervised Learning
The bigger the volume the more accurate temperature you should be able to get.

Do you think 2C global warming is irrelevant because a single thermocouple couldn't accurately measure it?
and the point of going private is likely to not have to publish all the revenue sources from the data.
As an aside I actually regret signing up for 23andMe, not because this isn't a great idea but more because I find the idea that the future having copies of your DNA around we might end up in some weird sci-fi universe where people can be specifically targeted with viruses or profiled in some other way. Not that I'll ever be important enough for that to happen but it feels like an invasion of privacy having such personal data lying around in a small text file. To some degree it's a copy of who you are.

Who knows who will buy all this data after bankruptcy...

Does anyone at 23andMe know if when DNA data and account is deleted by them that it is really deleted/purged from all backups and systems? Anonymous accounts are available, thanks!
> Are all the inputs (from buoys, weather balloons, stations, etc) from decades of history stored

I was also thinking about smartphones. They have barometric data, and while it might vary from phone to phone, I'm sure something like a kalman filter + historic data could do something there.

Think about gathering all the data from "stationary" phones, correlate that with weather sat data, and with real "ground truth" weather stations, and then go back 30 - 60 min / a day, and see what comes out.
I loved xoxo pattern based drum machines as a teen in the early 80s. Was never able to afford a 808 back in the day, but bought a DR110 back then. However I've always been mostly a hard / prog rock guy, so I see 16 beats pattern based drum machines as extremely limiting: no flams, no triplets, no effective rolls, no ghost notes, etc. The day I could buy a R8 was liberating, but in the end nothing beats real drumming on a real drum set.
Your genome can be scavenged from the air. It is not information we are capable of keeping private.
Gov sites issueing warnings about citizen data security seems a bit funny these days.

Elon: "Comedy!"
Liquidity matters
This blog is chock full of these ideas, start here:

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2019/algebraic-data-types-wh...
Show HN: I made a dev portfolio builder to help developers have a nice portfolio
Every time I've asked dev friends to send me their portfolio, they've sent me a GitHub repo.

Sometimes it's a website that I don't really want to read because it's either incomprehensible if you don’t use their stack or just a big paragraph as if it were a biography.

So, I built a developer portfolio builder that matches what non-techies like recruiters, managers and HR people could want to see when they open a portfolio.

That means: short sentences, nice images, bullet points.

The application is built in Flutter.

I'd like to have your opinion on the concept.
Move fast and break the United States of America
What's not mumbo jumbo?
Apache Flink 2.0.0: A New Era of Real-Time Data Processing
only billions?