skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize for assuming!

I do believe it's clear that if you support the American-Israeli war machine, you support colonialism and Zionism intrinsically. So I don't know if most Americans are Zionist or not, but I do personally know a frightening amount of Zionists.

A confused bunch, as I am originally from the Deep South and most of these Zionists I speak of were shitting on Jews and making light of the Holocaust just a few years ago. It seems paradoxical until you realize the common thread is the support of fascism.

> I note you mentioned abolition, colonialism, and genocide so I think it's not a stretch to say you decide based on anti-Fascism which I'll leave open to definition.

Absolutely. Specifically, I start from the Golden Rule, or a modified version of it, I also back the spirit of the Constitution, which in my mind should have always extended to protect not just white, land-owning Americans, but the entire world, rich and poor, given that the rights it recognizes are considered inalienable for all humans.

I also find solidarity within some of the views of most of our founding fathers, especially regarding basic things such as taxation without representation, even if I don't agree with their views on slavery or certain economic positions.
Unless you're in like the top 1% in your field, there is no negotiation. Must be nice I guess.
Ah, more bright ideas by people who have zero idea how the system they are destroying works.
Fewer Americans see TikTok as National Security threat, support a ban than 2023
This is actually a good thing (not that anyone responsible had the faintest idea what would happen). When they invade Taiwan we’ll have this sort of thing going on so we’ll need to know where our military supply chain bonks.
> Going further: do you want a US internet, a French internet, Japanese internet, etc?

The Internet was conceived as a network of independent nodes, all interconnected. What I said looks a lot more like what the Internet was intended to be than YouTube does.

> I would prefer to avoid fragmentation of the ecosystem, since it complicates discovery of content, reduces potential reach, limits cross-pollination of ideas, etc.

Aggregators, RSS feeds or similar, word of mouth, all those things help with relevant discovery. The YouTube recommendations algorithm seems to do less so.

> Suppose that I really want to consume content from certain UK creators, but the UK YouTube-equivalent is region-locked, as much of BBC is today. That's a net loss compared to the status quo.

Perhaps. You might also ask yourself why they are region-locked. I believe it will come down to advertisement, at least to a non-negligible amount.

In any case, I'm not saying multi-language or multi-country websites and services would be prohibited from existing, only that the likes of YouTube would probably not be as profitable and may cease to exist.

> And there are plenty of people who speak languages other than their native one. English literacy / fluency is a de facto standard in tech, whether we like it or not.

It is. And within a certain circle it's less of a problem, though sometimes it can also become one.

> It's not a matter of suppressing other cultures, but rather providing a common language for discourse.

I assume you're a native English speaker, most likely from the USA. What you call "a common language for discourse" is unfortunately exactly the suppression of other cultures. There's no way to have that common language without the language, the ideas and the very ways of thinking approaching more the one of the language that's becoming common.

The very premise of TFA shows that. Propaganda and advertisement are one and the same in some languages. And that has profound implications in how the speakers of those languages interpret the world in what pertains to these concepts. By "providing a common language" where there is an intrinsic difference between the words, that world view, the very premises of those other cultures are changed and moulded to be more similar to those of the dominant language.

The very existence of said common language makes the world less interesting, it slowly erases and erodes individualities of cultures and ultimately we as a species are poorer for it.
I read some advice that suggested asking the salary band during salary negotiations and that many HR departments won't hesitate to share.

I tried this while interviewing for my current job and sure enough they shared. Lesson learned: you can ask and the worst they will probably do is say no, but it's very valuable knowledge if they share.
You think they're going to check? Just call up the competition, ask them to divulge information about current hiring, which legally can't be divulged?

You're negotiating based on potential.
> Voyagers will keep flying across Milky Way, maybe they will last longer the the Earth itself

Will they? Good thing I am tired and going to sleep right now, you almost nerd-sniped me. What will happen on the scale of millions to billions of years? Will it collide with something? Will it be slowly eroded by particles? Will it lose material by outgasing?
This regime is one Man, tRump, who surrounded himself by yes men. He doesn't have any sort of negative feedback cycle now to keep a cap on how much damage he can do to the economy. Either they owe him something, they are part of the MAGA cult, or they stand to make money by bending the knee (like Bezos and Zuck and Husk).
it usually starts with a stalactite, then a stalagmite; by the way is there a mnemonic for the two words in English? something like t for tumbling and m for mounting...
The one where some sort of payment can be demonstrated in court. So quite possibly both if someone at the broadcaster accepted free back care services and decided to produce the story. But yeah, it could get very murky if you go down the rabbit hole and include things like owning shares in a health care provider.
Hell yes. Advertising is legitimate interest but it has become completely degenerate with social networks and the attention economy.

It is the root cause of many modern issues and _something_ definitely needs to be done about it. It even erodes capitalism itself by making consumers the product, which has been known for a while but the generalization seems non-obvious - that this happens every time when to the producer-consumer relationship is introduced a third party that changes the financials incentives of producers.

I probably wouldn't go as far as making advertising completely illegal but I'd like to see it regulated and probably limited to spaces specifically made to be "advertising hubs" both online and in the physical world.
How has the story about the Duke Lacrosse players been processed in the journalism schools?
I love this idea. Jaron Lanier should join forces with the author.
The size of their brain may depend on how many people are in the economy.
Stalactites hold “tight” to the ceiling.

Courtesy of a 30-year-old Bill Nye episode.
I'm all for resources for people looking for alternatives, but I think there are some flaws with the way this is presented.

The whole first section is a bunch of scary stuff that in the end is not really a great way to select products, at least in my personal opinion. If you are worried about nation-state spying you aren't going to use any cloud services, and you shouldn't take a company's location as any sort of reasonable way to protect yourself if you are truly on that level of tin foil hat.

> If the company has servers, offices, or employees in the US, it can be legally forced to hand over your data to the US government.

Yeah, including many of the alternatives that are on this list.*

I also think a lot of the alternatives have their own flaws.

- Alternatives that are listed with "Strong privacy laws, GDPR applies." Well, the GDPR applies to any user in the EU using a product made by a US-based tech company. So choosing a company solely for GDPR coverage isn't really a particularly good reason to choose it.

- Alternatives like Opera and Deepseek have offices in China which for many people concerned about state surveillance isn't exactly an upgrade.

- Some alternatives on the list have US servers and US ownership, like Tidal (owned by Block (Square), a US company).
Yea, this has been pretty much my experience through years of job searching. Very rare to find a company willing to negotiate.
Every single time I’ve been job searching (10x) I’ve always had 2-3 offers on the line simultaneously; I honestly assumed this was the norm.
Nice release. I see that everyone is playing the differentiation game now: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/llama-4-and-...
I'd rather not live in a childless police state, actually.
> and sending photos over a dot matrix phone line system in the late 1940's

Facsimile was actually invented in the 1840s to transmit images over telegraph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax
I dunno, all of the Thompson twins are still alive, afaik...
Loads of USB accessories can do it too. Granted this isn’t necessarily fully Microsoft’s fault since average USB gadget firmware quality is poor at best, but it’s a problem.
You can edit the system prompt via the settings page, which gives the chat model additional context at the start of every chat.

E.g. You may tell it you're reading a particular novel, so each chat would begin `You are a helpful assistant. The user would like you to know they are reading Sapiens...`.
Surprise surprise, now, it is Department of Government Efficiency that is wasting "tax payers' money".
How will a new business promote its product if advertising is banned ?

Thinking from a small business perspective, advertising is the only way to find consumers if you are just getting started.

Business stop advertising. Sales drop. People lose job.
This is an excellent recommendation! I read Blindsight earlier this year. Easily one of my favorite sci-fi novels. It and Canticle for Leibowitz are in a class by themselves when it comes to sci-fi that deals with "philosophical" issues.

I'll check out The Freeze-Frame sequence next, thanks! First I just need to finish Consider Phlebas, which I'm finding pretty weak.

Transference is also on the to-do list. Watts says it is almost diametrically the opposite, intellectually, of Blindsight, but he also praises it.
Crazy that there are now five and a half companies that all have roughly state of the art LLMs.

> We developed a new training technique which we refer to as MetaP that allows us to reliably set critical model hyper-parameters such as per-layer learning rates and initialization scales. We found that chosen hyper-parameters transfer well across different values of batch size, model width, depth, and training tokens.

This sounds interesting. Anyone have a link to the paper or other documentation on MetaP?
That asterisk is doing some very heavy lifting.
> Whether I commit murder is objective.

Homicide is objective. Murder is unlawful homicide and therefore subjective.
Related: How to sabotage your salary negotiations efforts before you even start

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239747
It's a lot slower than a Mac Studio. Significantly slower CPU, GPU, memory bandwidth.
A priori, this is a very strange assertion.

Assume that X% of companies are interested in you and you pursue Y leads to result in X% * Y offers. A large number of people will receive 0 offers and they'll be long term on the job market until they make a change to either X (job hunting strategy) or Y (pool of roles considered).

A large number of people will receive >1 offers because they're competitive in the marketplace. Only some tiny number of people will receive exactly one offer unless Y is very small.

That many people only receive one offer is more of a sign that they're not strategic in their job hunting approach (which is upstream of them not being strategic in their negotiations) and this is a fixable problem.
Well, arguably so do LLMs. You put in the same input prompt, out comes the same code. But yeah, it is kinda different, but I'm just saying that as LLMs become better at understanding how to solve sub-problems, they may become reliable enough that coding via LLMs becomes the new norm, and learning how to effectively prompt will become a new skill for coders
This Guy Built the Ultimate Gaming House [video]
It's not even per token. The routing happens once per layer, with the same token bouncing between layers.

It's more of a performance optimization than anything else, improving memory liquidity. Except it's not an optimization for running the model locally (where you only run a single query at a time, and it would be nice to keep the weights on the disk until they are relevant).

It's a performance optimization for large deployments with thousands of GPUs answering tens of thousands of queries per second. They put thousands of queries into a single batch and run them in parallel. After each layer, the queries are re-routed to the GPU holding the correct subset of weights. Individual queries will bounce across dozens of GPUs per token, distributing load.

Even though the name "expert" implies they should experts in a given topic, it's really not true. During training, they optimize for making the load distribute evenly, nothing else.
That seems rather focused on one policy that was big in the 50s. The Marshal Plan was great but that isn't something the modern US seems to be capable of - since around Vietnam I think was the change. It has been a good 50 years where the US just breaks stuff and leaves it broken.

Modern prosperity is caused by modern policy. I've seen some reasonable theorising that income basically comes from how easy it is to do business (thinking especially of https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/the-cost-of-regulation). Which is linked in no small way to the cultural factors
chgs pointed out - the most vibrant and high income industry in the world is also the one that sees laws impeding them as a problem that can be overcome.

The attitude of doing things that create wealthy even if NIMBYs object is an attitude that leads to wealth creation. Strange but true. Not the only factor, the political strength of the opposition matters a lot too.
Which three major gaming companies are you referring to? The ones that make walled garden consoles?

At the end of the day, I boycott not just from an ethical standpoint, but from the perspective of a customer. Nintendo is a first-party game publisher. They are uniquely litigious toward their own customers and community, and they don't innovate. Money toward Nintendo directly encourages that.

Any sufficiently large company does lots of unethical things, so boycotting the entire company is harder and sends a less clear message economically. But YMMV.
Agree with this entirely. In fact, I would go as far as saying if advertising was illegal, then expressing opinions would be illegal. Everything is an advertisement.
I agree. I also think this is a false dilemma.

Just because some corruption always will exist, doesn't mean that there aren't societies which have enforced laws that are more or less effective.

This binary thinking doesn't need to happen in a policy discussion. We don't need a perfect set of laws or rules to make things better. We don't avoid having a law just because someone will violate it. For example, a speed limit is still valid to have even though most people will break it, some egregiously so. DUIs laws are useful even though people still drink and drive.

It just so happens that with advertising we can be particularly effective at curbing the worst offenders. That's because advertising is most effective when it's seen by the largest number of people. I don't really care if a company tries to skirt an anti-ad law by paying an influencer millions to wear their product, so long I'm not forced to watch 20 minutes of ads in a 20 minute video. An anti-ad law would force advertisers to be subversive which is, frankly, fine by me. Subversive ads simply can't be intrusive.
I know that the AI that they're going to try to do this with is going to choke on the COBOL side of things a bit, but I have to wonder, what's the target language?
Anyone know what they mean by this:

> We developed a novel distillation loss function that dynamically weights the soft and hard targets through training.
I’d draw the line at publishers.

Are you a publisher (ie responsible for every single thing that appears on your platform)? You can show advertising. Otherwise no.

I know this isn’t in the spirit of the article, but I like the idea of a ad-spaces and ad-free spaces.
Absolutely same experience. It's quite draining but extremely effective.
Shift work increases the cancer rate.
We didn't! Chicago built their subway IN THE AIR!
I’ve been wanting to understand Darwin at this depth for a long time. Great read!
Trump does care about his base, if his base support starts dropping, he will look for the escape hatch. His ego and narcissism need that, bigly.
The mounts in the Horizon games on PlayStation are even better as a concept, as they let you actually try it on. And they're probably as close to implementation as this.

https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Mountable
The one I've heard is 'just remember ants in pants: the mites go up, the tites come down'
I agree with you within the scope of top tech jobs. The tech interviews process is fairly uniquely grueling because it's both very high paid (so a costly mistake to hire poorly) while lacking much professional certification.

In many other careers the interview process is, if not shorter, at least more behavioral and less mentally draining because you're already pre-screened by licensure or rigid advancement structure of some sort.
Couldn't see anything but the menu
Most likely you paid someone to make the sign, and someone else to put it up. Even if you made and installed the sign yourself, you paid for the materials.
I wish I could take this advice, but my imposter syndrome is just too strong and you cant just turn it off with logical explanations.

By the time I get an offer, I already feel like I’m already uncomfortable about all the bragging I’ve had to do to hype myself up. Asking for more in a negotiation is just a recipe for even worse guilt during the onboarding process (which is already a fraught time for feeling like an idiot).
at my company the dollars are what they are - take it or leave it. However you can often get an extra week of paid vacation if you ask. You don't eken have to know it is exactly what we can give - the hiring manager wants you and has been told $x by hr but know vacation is an option and will offer it if you just don't say yes instantly.
Yea, I kind of think a lot of these "Just negotiate, bro" posts are from people who are extremely strong candidates already, like they invented the entire field that the company plays in. Or their PhD thesis was on the exact thing the company is trying to do. For the rest of us, companies can take us or leave us--they aren't going to get into some bidding war for some generic, but strong senior skilled candidate.
I have found test-first development valuable sometimes. It's a proper subset of the times that automated testing in general is worthwhile; there's fairly strong empirical support in the academic literature for automated testing improving productivity and quality, but test-first seems to be a wash overall.

Test-first development has some advantages in my experience:

- You know the test isn't vacuous because you saw it fail when you first ran it.

- You know you have thorough test coverage because you stopped adding code to the implementation when all the tests passed (at least temporarily).

- You know the interface you're implementing isn't a huge pain in the ass to use because you would have noticed that halfway through writing the test case and redesigned it.

- You have a shorter feedback loop between writing the implementation and seeing a test start passing, which can be a useful motivation hack and can also speed up your learning of the language and libraries you're using to build the implementation.

But there are also disadvantages:

- You can't use snapshot testing. I didn't know about syrupy, but doctest is also very amenable to snapshot testing.

- The rapid feedback loop can be a motivational trap, getting you lost in tactical details (as Ousterhout famously worried in his debate with Martin) at the expense of attention to more strategic concerns that are ultimately more valuable.

- Sometimes it's a bigger concern to define an interface that it's feasible to implement than one that's a pleasure to use. Test-first development backfires in that case, since first you wrote a test that's impossible to pass, then an article implementation that doesn't pass it, and then a second test that are tests the actually feasible implementation. A common case of this is where you left some necessary resource or information out of the interface.

With respect to your piece about snapshot testing, which is excellent, I actually disagree about using tests to verify security properties. I mean, you should definitely have automated security tests, yes, but you should never rely on them. Code reviews, logical arguments, and ideally formal proofs are much better. Attackers can be counted on to try things you didn't think about when you were writing the tests. Randomized testing like Hypothesis or AFL can help, but not enough.

But, at the other extreme, there are some programs for which automated testing itself is of no value.
Sadly firefox's reader mode still renders it in a thin strip of text. Granted it's in a readable font that way, but still.
Por esa misma razón, un LLM te habría funcionado perfectamente: desplegando tus pensamientos tal como querías, pero sin las distracciones causadas por la mala ortografía o los errores gramaticales. Los LLM son herramientas —como bien sabes— que ya son esenciales y lo serán aún más con el paso del tiempo. Que algunos en esta plataforma se irriten por su uso solo significa que, eventualmente, se convertirán en los dinosaurios del futuro.

For that very reason, an LLM would have worked perfectly for you: laying out your thoughts just as you intended, but without the distractions caused by poor spelling or grammatical mistakes. LLMs are tools—as you well know—that are already essential and will become even more so over time. The fact that some people on this platform get irritated by their use just means they’ll eventually become the dinosaurs of the future.
Has that been recently? I've read the market has been brutal lately, but I haven't had to look myself, thankfully.
There is very little evidence for this. IMO, it is feel good advice that sounds right.

Try background noise of any sort, until you find a fit.

I can't pay attention to anything anymore without noise. A little rumble in thy ears does wonders.

I severely question anecdotes that pair programming does anything other than motivate you to not look like a moron wasting time in front of someone else (in the context of ADHD -- there are other uses for it).

That isn't a viable strategy for growth, imo.

Also, if you are new to taking stimulants, you might be surprised how much worse it gets later in life, especially if you have been taking them since youth. There is a non-zero cost (I would say a sacrifice) to treating ADHD with amphetamines or other dopamine reuptake inhibitors / dopamingenics.

If you doubt this, there is very little mention of body doubling in literature outside of blogs:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%20%22Body%20Doubling%...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22Body%20Double%22%20...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22Body%20Double%22%
Those "magic variables" have caused more pain than being helpful.

- Added 8 variables inside docker-compose, only 7 get recognized

- Why my docker-compose works locally and not on Coolify? Oh yeah it has its own network stuff. Then tell me beforehand!

- Error messages like "Oops something is not okay, are you okay?" 0% helpful information, 100% condescending crap

I'm not sure why this software keeps getting recommended. Even in videos like these, the guy admits its not ready yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJlPG82Ucw&t=3126s