skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, or at least i don't see how. Advertising can at most tell me which companies are spending a significant portion of their budget in ads instead of in making a good product or service.

To put it another way: where i live, ads for cheese or meat are non existent (while ads for fast food or cigarettes are very common), and yet i know that those products are available on supermarkets or other food stores. And i can find cheeses and meats of many brands, qualities and prices on those stores.

I don't see how having ads for those things would be an improvement. In fact, i suspect that ads would be used to convince people to buy products of less quality, or downright toxic, as seen on the rampant fast food and cigarette ads.
Seriously. Getting even one underwhelming offer is beating the odds these days.
so did anyone actually remix this, I wonder?

yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvvhDngERXo

with a followup remix of the episode where he discussed this remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=125D2DTMyGg
Built well, tests can accelerate your pace of development even before you have launched to real users.

You don't need 100% coverage, but having tests that help spot dumb mistakes you've made (like a 500 on your homepage) are cheap to implement and pay for themselves very quickly.
And here's the same thing for rachel maddow

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/12/28/rachel-maddows-defen...
Depends what you mean by "great size"? I guess? Maybe they'll never reach elephant size, but Arthropleura was pretty dang big.
I don't think it's exclusive to advertising. Humans in general desire stability (myself being no exception), and anything that disrupts a system they've become accustomed to can very quickly become perceived as a threat.

My theory is that the people who fight against changing the status quo are just fundamentally opposed to change itself, not necessarily supporting the system as it currently stands. They know the ins and outs of the current system, and changing it means they have to dump knowledge and re-learn things - which they're fiercely opposed to doing. The enemy you know, over the enemy you don't, in a manner of speaking.

Those of us who can visualize futures starkly different than a continuance of the present day are a threat to those people who demand indefinite complacency and an unchanging world. Unfortunately for them, the universe is chaos and change is inevitable - so finding your own stability amidst the chaos is a skill more people need, such that necessary change might be embraced.
Male pattern baldness progresses with age, so attempting to prevent it is affirming, if anything, a desire to appear younger than one actually is.
There are American made cars already

Wouldn’t they just keep making them in the US ?
>>me: when you import, you send your currency overseas to pay for the goods.

>you: As a general rule, this is false. Mexican importers do not pay for U.S. goods in pesos

initial conditions: americans have only dollars. mexicans have only pesos.

american sellers demand to be paid in dollars. any mexican who wants to buy american goods must convert their pesos to dollars. where do they get dollars? see initial conditions, they must get them from americans by sending their pesos overseas.

it's that simple.

now, when you run these economies with several million people importing and exporting in both directions, sure, there would be dollars in mexico and pesos in america. but why would you complicate a simple analysis with all of those other transactions when the simple case influences the outcome in the right direction and makes it easy to see what's happening?
I suspect the size hung around for a while for a couple of reasons.

The physical size (on screen) didn't vary by much. If I recall correctly, 72 to 120 dpi dominated until the introduction of Retina/HiDPI displays, and 120 dpi was pushing the limit since scaling wasn't really a thing. (When it was a thing, it tended to be handled by applications where it was important, such as desktop publishing/graphics design applications, and it only extended to the content area.)

Add that to the purpose of these buttons: they were intended to be unobtrusive messages about which browsers were supported, or which browser the site owner prefered. Going bigger would not have much of a point. (That said, they were as obtrusive as heck to those of us using unsupported browsers!)
I don't drive a car.

But on the spirit of a good conversation (see @dang, I'm behaving :)) to your point of whether I have ever broke the law or not ... most likely yes, but not consciously.

Many times I have refrained from doing things for the sole reason that it would be unlawful, even though I disagree with it.

There's a big difference between that and choosing to consciously break the law for a menial pleasure.

Edit: So weird to be on the hot pan for defending the rule of law, lmao. What a terrible status quo.
I don't follow. You're happy that work is being done, but unhappy that ... people are getting paid to work on it? Happy that the work is being done but unhappy that there are people doing the work? Or put differently, what would your ideal situation be here?
in my 25+ year career I yearly-negotiated my salary… with every employer… just as if I was just then getting hired… never looked at it as “performance review” - more like “is my compensation matching my contributions.” I think every person should approach it this way (and of course leave if the company is not willing to fully re-negotiate compensation yearly
If you’re good at running your interview process you will have 3-4 at a time. That’s usually where I’m at, I’m interviewing with 12 and get it necked down to 3 or 4 getting to the offer point. I try to stretch out the fast movers and speed up the slow ones but just be honest with recruiters. You’re in the pipeline with other companies and you’re not ready to respond yet.

Edit: I saw other comments. I am both “old” and I have a mechanical engineering degree (not CS) and I do just fine interviewing with startups. I worked really hard at the practice of interviewing, this has more rewards and lower risk than basically any other skills you can learn so invest it.
You're trying to make this sound very complicated but it's not. In this world without paid advertising, ABC can advertise their own shows. They cannot advertise things for other companies, whether they own them or not.

A network of TV stations could cross-promote across all stations. Yes, that would be unfair, but no more unfair than the current situation where whoever has more money can have their ads seen everywhere. Fairness between companies isn't the goal, it's less manipulation and noise for the rest of us.

There's an example of a TV station that already has to follow these rules: the BBC.
Although it should be said the economic success of the Americans hitherto is also quite foreign to the rest of the world; and driven mainly by their legal quirks.
I saw plenty of billboards in London and Paris last summer. Where is this magical place in the world that has lots of people but no billboards?
> say “I'm looking for $150K to $160K…”

I’ll defer to your experience on this but I am under the impression that giving a range was a bad idea because a company can always lowball you: “oh, you said you were okay with 150K, why are you trying to renegotiate with us now?!”
> Is this really the case? If a company is giving you an offer, presumably they want to hire you.

In my opinion and experience, I've seen recruiters respect you "harder" if you're not a pushover; that reflects in their internal profile about you.
As someone who can speak authoritatively, being bald doesn't make men incels.

Being an unempathetic asshat does.

Work on oneself. Treat other people nicely. Be surprised when they respond favorably.

IOW, they'd just be incels with hair...
At what point can we focus the output of an industrial AC unit into water to generate steam for a turbine?
This is addressed in the article:

> Turns out, it doesn’t matter that much where your first offer is from, or even how much they’re offering you. Just having an offer in hand will get the engine running.

> If you’re already in the pipeline with other companies (which you should be if you’re doing it right), you should proactively reach out and let them know that you’ve just received an offer. Try to build a sense of urgency. Regardless of whether you know the expiration date, all offers expire at some point, so take advantage of that.

Anecdotally, I have seen this work many times to great effect.
It is. A friend of mine has this. It took her so much time to actually seek help, despite the excruciating pain, and she got part of her digestive system removed because it spread too much.

Nowadays, after 2 years of the surgery, she manages it with a restrict and healthy diet, and the pill. It takes a big toll on the well being even after the pain is gone, and she is almost always tired because of it, the body is constantly fighting the inflammation.
This made me LOL louder than I have for a long time! Agree.
Are candidate endorsements by corporations (e.g CNN) allowed? That sounds like something that should be banned.
I use Unexpected Keyboard on android and it has been amazing. It gives you so much options and speed that other keyboards aren't even remotely close, and seems very close to what you've linked.
> The second and third books leave something to be desired

Also got this feeling on the first read... but now I remember them very fondly! I like to think that this trilogy happens in the same universe as Dune, being a prequel to the events of Dune. The homage to the Dune universe by the author is obvious (the names of the books, the notion of "other memories", etc). But many notions fit together, with some effort in your imagination. The second book of the trilogy provides a mechanism to explain the other memories in the form of nodal biology. The octopi ftl technique is reminiscent of the guild navigators. The third book hints subtly at a reason why the butlerian jihad could have happened.
I Killed Our AI Search with 5M Users: Fixed Workflows Don't Scale
Oh I see. To you earlier question, I believe neoclassical economics assumed international trade would tend towards balance in the long run due to market forces.
Unlikely. The incels would find something else to become unreasonably embittered about so they can continue directing their misplaced ire towards women.
“Just to clarify, I said in an email that I’m looking for $150k to $160k depending on the role. Now that we’ve talked about the job I feel like the $160k is the right amount given my skills and experience.”

That’s how to handle it, with the caveat that you should not be using that as a ploy to get the higher rate, never having had the willingness to take the lower rate. If you give a range, you should expect to be offered at the lower end and you should be happy to accept that offer. If you’re not happy with the lower end then you put forward the wrong numbers.

And if they say no, shrug and move on.
You might consider using this handy thing, also available as a binwalk module, for recognizing the ISA.

https://github.com/airbus-seclab/cpu_rec
You can swap experts in and out of VRAM, it just increases inference time substantially.

Depending on the routing function you can figure out all the active experts ahead of the forward pass for a single token and pipeline the expert loading.
While I agree testing in general is a must, I'm still not sold on unit testing as a general tool.

For stuff like core libraries or say compilers, sure, unit tests are great. But for the levels above I'm leaning towards integration tests first, and then possibly add unit tests if needed.

After all, you can't not have integration tests. No matter how perfect your Lego bricks are, you can still assemble them together the wrong way around.
The UK, outside of cities is largely devoid of bill boards a la the US. Milan is not "Europe" either!

I have driven/travelled across a lot, nearly all, European countries and the other one - the UK.

You do not get those huge screens on stilts anywhere that I have seen in Europe, that seem to be common across the US.

To be fair, I've only driven across about 10 US states. However, I do have Holywood's and other's output to act as a proxy and it seems that US companies do love to shout it from the hill tops at vast expense and fuck up the scenery with those bill board thingies.

Try driving around La Toscana and say Florida. I've done both, multiple times and I'm a proper outsider. I love both regions quite passionately but for very different reasons. FL has way more issues in my opinion but we are discussing bill boards so let's stay on task.

Billboards require power as well as the obvious physical attributes. They are an absolute eyesore and in my opinion should be abolished. Turn them into wind turbines and do some good - the basics are in place.

However. I know FL quite well. It has a lovely climate (unless it is trying to kill you). Florida man almost certainly invented air conditioning and FL man being FL man took it to the max when confronted with a rather lovely climate.

FL man is a thing and it turns out that CA Pres. can be weirder than anything seen before.

US - remember your mates, we remember you as is and don't hold you accountable for going a bit odder than usual for a while.
The example returns an error for me "Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for saransh.2nd.exchange. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.netlify.app, netlify.app"
Yeah but that's like saying that there are so many "openings" in chess, it makes it hard for newcomers.

That's the game! The 'inside rules' for a cryptic are what makes it cryptic. Without them you just have a word puzzle.
I don't think RAG will survive this time
I am still dismayed how quickly we gave up on including the pre-training data as a requirement for "open-source" LLMs.

As someone who thinks LLMs as akin to Lisp expert systems (but in natural language): is like including the C source code to your Lisp compiler, but claiming the Lisp applications are merely "data" and shouldn't be included.
Sao Paulo

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
It depends what you mean by "engineering these solutions into the model". Using better data leads to better models given the same architecture and training. Nothing wrong with it, it's hard work, it might be with as specific goal in mind. LLM "breakthroughs" aren't really a thing at this point. It's just one little thing after another.
It's illegal here in Canberra, Australia. There's not total compliance -- people still stick an A-frame on the street, and of course real estate agents will always put something in a front lawn -- but there aren't giant billboards that you see everywhere else. It's really refreshing.
Our users both tell us what the software should do and they also do the testing. Where we sometimes fail is when the users say they tested a feature when in fact they assume that the developer did. Of course the developer tests what the wrote, but often a build will go awry and we count on users to verify things.
Depends on your toolset. For some kind of code, testing is the solution and not a problem. For React before version 17 between the test code never being able to know if your callbacks have settled and react-testing-library insisting that you aria-everything or screw up your code with test id’s, writing a test is hours of wasted time now and more hours wasted gradually over the next year because your tests already take 70 sec to run. React always knew what was queued to run and why it took them 17 releases to expose it to test runners is beyond me.
Getting to Yes and Bargaining for Advantage are also good reads related to this topic
Please put this into VR headsets loool
So true. Even companies I've heard back from, it's impossible to predict when. I've has a few take 2+ months!
> I worked really hard at the practice of interviewing

What did you do?
I tend to think that the most valuable tests are on the exact level of when something gets used by multiple consumers.

So shared functions get unit tested, but if there is a non shared function that gets triggered only from few layers up via user click, it is better to simulate that click and assert accordingly. However the exceptions are when the input can have tons of different permutations, when unit test might just become more optimal then.
This is the script that assembles the structured comments and generates the summary - https://github.com/levelup-apps/hn-enhancer/blob/main/script...

You can run it as:
node summarize-comments.js <post_id>
Example: node summarize-comments.js 43597782

And the summary will be put in the "output" folder.

You need to set the environment variable (in this case OPENROUTER_API_KEY because LLama4 is currently available at OpenRouter).
Nelson's arguments sound odd to me. He says that embedded markup is bad for WYSIWYG editors since they have to maintain a connection between the raw and formatted text streams (which can have different character counts, etc.), but out-of-line styling would similarly need careful implementation work to keep it synchronized with the text stream at all times, even with concurrent editing and other such features.

(Cf. how the cross-reference stream in PDF files makes it painful to edit objects in them, even when the files are nominally encoded in plaintext.)

He then goes into how a separate styling layer can assist with transcluding text from other people's work while modifying the style. But style variations are hardly the only legitimate changes typically made to direct quotations: people often want to modify capitalization or punctuation, elide portions, or insert bracketed notes. And at that point, you're modifying the content as well as the styling, so style-only modifications would be very limiting for that use case.

As for the structure layer, this would have the same issues as every other attempt in the last three decades to create a semantic web or whatever. Authors don't want to spend their time carefully curating metadata that 99.9% of readers won't care about, while bad actors want to game their relevancy metrics through any mechanism available.
What about side projects that you are working alone on?
You start conservatively, and set up a watchdog to investigate loopholes and punish those abusing them. Fund an astroturfing campaign? Congrats, that's 10 years and a hefty fine to fund the continued operation of the watchdog. You can make promotional material and publish it, but it has to be clearly labeled and opt-in, not bundled with access to something else. The problem isn't small-time promotion that's difficult or impossible to crack down on, it's that we've built a whole attention economy. So long as we make it a bad value proposition for big players we'll have succeeded.
Academics, members of academia, who speak out will risk brining their schools into the government spotlight. Those wishing to remain academics, rather than become freelance "writers", must be very careful. The days of free academic expression seem to be over.
The problem here and with your comparison is that Gemini (the language model) wasn't creating black vikings because of political bias in the training, but due to how Google augmented the user prompts to force-include diversity. Behind the scenes, you were basically telling Gemini to always remember racial diversity even if you didn't in your prompt.

But if you were asking Gemini, vikings were white.

This was later rectified in an update once Google realized what mistake they had done, since it causes gross historical inaccuracies. But it wasn't rectified by doing anything to Gemini the language model. It did right all along.
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Jesus. How much ram does the big one take to run?
It's also quite difficult to manage.

I was lucky enough to have 3 companies that all gave me offers (a couple years back when the market for tech was at its peak). It played out like this article recommends. After an offer was on the table, the other 2 kept throwing better and better offers at me.

However, interviewing at 3 companies, over the span of 2 weeks, with an existing (remote) full time job was hard work. Likely impossible if I hadn't already checked out at the FT job. It was also mentally exhausting, with how companies like to do multiple rounds.
Except that only his character was Streisand-ing it; Colbert-the-person thought it would be hilarious to slyly encourage people to remix a spoken interview with a "great dance beat" (and, at the time, it kind of was)
> Rule #5 of negotiation: don’t be the decision-maker. Even if you don’t particularly care what your friends/family/husband/mother thinks, by mentioning them, you’re no longer the only person the recruiter needs to win over. There’s no point in them trying to bully and intimidate you; the “true decision-maker” is beyond their reach.

It's a very old thing in general, not just in job-hunting.

And sometimes "I have to discuss it with my spouse" is literally for real.

But if someone says it, but the listener doesn't think it's for real, then the speaker sounds like either:

* from a culture in which it's mutually understood as a nicety, not to be taken literally; or

* a bullshitter.

The former is very Californian stereotype, incidentally.
The problem is the harder you try to imagine it, the less it looks like a better world.

Letting people communicate freely is a good thing in its own right, and fundamental to so many other good things we enjoy. Getting rid of a billboard for something I am never going to buy sounds great, but it kinda sucks for the person who actually is interested in the thing that billboard is advertising. Even if there were some type of advertising that provided no benefit to any part of society, the restriction on the freedom to communicate those advertisements is something that harms all of us.

Sometimes the part of building a better world that takes the most effort is recognizing where we already have.
Considering the ration of job applications to job offers right now seems to be 1 in 500, your right on point

In the current job market, only if your in the top 0.01% will you ever have to worry about this.

I really hope things improve but I'm pessimistic...
- Think about clear interfaces

- Handle edge cases explicitly

- Create clean separation of concerns

- Build proper startup/shutdown sequences

If you do all of these things to start with though, then what's the value proposition?