skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is what my experience has taught me about software employment just in case you still want to do this.

To get employed:

1. Deck out your resume with a bunch of keyword nonsense. If it doesn't look like word salad when you are done its not competitive. Find a laundry list of tools, frameworks, run time engines, and other third party tools that you never wrote.

2. If you want to get hired and aren't already a senior principle don't be an expert. Experts are intimidating. Refer back to point 1.

3. Don't use AI during a job interview. People hate that. Instead just have a static script of key points as hints. The goal is to be at the center of a bell curve and know just enough to fit in.

4. Get really good at throw away leet code insanity. Go fast and memorize programming patterns by name. You will never use any of this at the job, but it looks impressive during interviews.

5. Answer all interview questions with confidence in 3 words or less. Be quick and ensure it does not look like you are reading or waiting for answers to materialize. Always remember the only thing most programmers fear more than writing original code is unoriginal job candidates.

Once you are hired:

1. Do all that is asked of you with as little as possible. Make it a game to see just how efficiently you can accomplish what is asked of you. The people that get promoted are the ones that shine at this and do as little work as possible. That screams to management that you don't produce regression, are not burdened with stressed, and have potential to do twice as much.

2. Automate the shit out of your job, but keep this a secret to yourself. Most of your peers cannot program. If they see that you are doing more than the copy/paste what is required they will be intimidated.

3. Save video calls with your peers for educational moments only. Video calls suck up a lot of time and your peers will want to do them only because they cannot write emails. When in doubt do as little work as possible, which includes being efficient and thorough with your communication. See point 1.

4. If you are in a toxic environment learn from the best and become a complete narcissistic asshole. Fair warning, though. This will randomly blow up in your face because you are likely surrounded by narcissists looking out for themselves. If you are in a healthy environment then be a complete team player and save all your disposable time for helping your teammates with testing and documentation. In a healthy environment take as little credit for accomplishments as possible and openly praise teammates who are worthy of praise.
The rest of the world needs to as well and their wills are strengthening.
>Hotblack Desiato's ship would just be black

These days we have paint that black, though we can't reproduce the effect on the monitor.

Those superblacks really do mess with your mind. It's like a cutout of the void.
Cost of solar+ battery has actually reached cost parity to coal in China and they have cheap labour to use coal for electricity. Trump and Co are blaming renewables for death of coal but reality it was natural gas and fracking in the past. But now renewables solar wind + batteries are already so cheap and getting cheaper that investing in coal plants will not be a good investment.

In Dubai they just signed a contract for providing 1 GW electricity 24h hours a day using solar and battery for $5 billion for 10 years. Where as a 1 GW coal plant will cost to build $1.5-2 billion and consume $3-400 million of coal a year. Coal has become uneconomical now people will fleece government money to run coal plants with your president supposedly wants to cut waste.
Is there a source for the claim that solar provides 7% of the world's power? I'm trying to track down the source of this figure. I see that the global "photovoltaic (PV) capacity" is at 6.6% (according to a trade organization that represents manufacturers of solar panels). I don't see a definition for "PV capacity", but I assume it means the total theoretical output of all installed solar panels, even if the output is much lower (due to panels being sub-optimally located, aligned, or having degraded over time).

I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm just not buying the 7% figure as the evidence stands.
Clownpertino – A simple macOS debugger detection trick
At least tailscale funnel isn't control-plane-only, unless I'm totally misunderstanding something
> We’re cooked then. To give you some perspective I had some Chinese sales reps visiting my shop, they saw us working on some designs and casually asked about working hours i told them about 40hs/wk they laughed and said “in China engineers work 12hs a day 7 days a week”.

Oh, the fallacy that grinding harder and longer leads to more and better results. Do you think you do your best work when you're exhausted?

Also, 996 is more typical in China, hated, and I believe illegal too. That kind of thing is one of the (many) reasons their population is starting to collapse.
80 countries have instant/real time payment systems today [1], and the Bank for International Settlements is working on cross border interoperability [2].

Cryptocurrencies will likely never go away, and will remain in use for certain use cases from a cross border value transfer perspective, similar to gold; either the token moves or the ownership is updated. More interesting is offering digital wallets for a single or basket of currencies to anyone you can remotely identity proof in the world (similar to nsave [3]).

[1] https://www.volt.io/real-time-payments-world-map/

[2] https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/fmis/nexus.htm

[3] https://www.nsave.com/ | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nsave
This is besides the point, but the linked Monoverse / Unanswered Oddities videos are so good. Would definitely recommend, besides being hilariously funny it's a testament to what the average person can accomplish now if they actually want to put time into making good AI-based content.
I just got a flashback to Trump enunciating “Clean coal, beautiful clean coal!”
> Using the prompt to detect and choose the most appropriate model checkpoint and LoRa(s) along with rewriting a prompt to most appropriately suit the chosen model has been pretty bog standard for a long time now.

Which players are doing this? I haven't heard of this approach at all.

Most artistic interfaces want you to visually select a style (LoRA, Midjourney sref, etc.) and will load these under the hood. But it's explicit behavior controlled by the user.
>>The root for ta’rif is ‘arafa, which means "to know". (from TFA)

It's interesting that in the Portuguese world [like Brazil] there is still a document in logistics called "Conhecimento" == "Knowledge".

It is also a brutal historical irony that the arguably main tenet of capitalism, "Laissez faire, laissez passer", has been destroyed from the inside [Trump].
It is somewhat standard. CPU, memory, drives, LCD. The only thing not standard is the motherboard. With 3d printing, you can print your own base to contain the motherboard, plug all those parts back in, screw on the LCD. Framework Computer is doing repairable laptops
There are loads of edge cases where of course your specialist bot can be geared for that edge case, but each such bot is different.

So Boston Dynamics sells fifty companies their $1M robots (example, I have no idea of actual prices) meanwhile a custom robot costs $1M because of the extensive design and engineering work for each such custom robot. If you were buying a lot of them they'd be cheaper, but you aren't and they know this custom design won't suit the next customer.

If you were conjuring into existence arbitrary environments, Boston's humanoids lose, but the reason they picked humanoids† is that in these environments the existing workforce are humans. Humans don't mind the weird ledge needed because of a legal change in 1896, or the uneven weight distribution in the boxes, they adapt and so can Boston's robots. Humanoids couldn't fit down a 6cm diameter pipe, a custom robot could, but, since the people doing the job last month were humans it's not in a 6cm diameter pipe, the humans doing it required an access hatch, and the humanoid robot can operate that hatch too.

† You can make a similar argument for the canine robots. People already use dogs so more of our world is tweaked to make it suitable for dogs.
Probably just a check valve for one way intake when from filter
So you're just ignoring all the probabilistic, fuzzy etc. Prologs etc. which do precisely that? https://github.com/lab-v2/pyreason
> The human mind is a probabilistic computer, at every level.

Fair enough, but an airplane's wing is not very similar to a bird's wing.
tons of videos on youtube on how to do this
Why can't you do this at a big company? If it had the support of management, you could.
> The ideology each state has nothing to do with the risk coming from employing people who can be compelled to follow such rules

What? You can't be serious. Of course the state ideology impacts the risk of the state acting ideologically.
>But I think it’s going to be a rough ride, and whatever new equilibrium we reach will be the result of much turmoil.

Honestly visual media just seems to be the start. In the past two years we've seen about as much robotics progress as the last 20. If this momentum keeps up then we're not just talking about artists that are going to have issues.
This is super slick. I remember spending hours maybe days trying to make MRTG or rrdtool graphs look like these.
Mr Doob is the goat... Nice work on this. Performance is better than I was expecting. My suggestion - took me a bit to figure out how to do a normal orbit camera. I added the orbit effect to the camera which made it orbit, but then I had to separately add the look at effect card to make it actually have the normal orbit style feel. Can you combine these somehow?
The 360 played a pivotal role in the Apollo program.
Aren’t they Canadian though?
And it's not as if crypto is particularly anonymous. Transaction analysis will identify you unless you work hard at covering your tracks.
Honestly, I’m against this.

As soon as that is added, people will start to try to optimise their profiles to place them high in the list on certain things, rendering the tool pretty much useless.

The talent people want to find in the talent that doesn’t do everything in its power to say “hey, look at me, I’m talent”, but just… well… does things.
.. meanwhile, the EU has been discussing about the Digital Euro for like 5 years
Your dismissive characterization is not really accurate. Even in the cell-shaded anime waifu genre, there is a spectrum of gameplay quality and gamers do gravitate toward and reward the better games. The big reason MiHoYo games (Genshin Impact, Star Rail) have such a big presence and staying power is that even though they are waifu games at the core, the gameplay is surprisingly good (they're a night-and-day difference compared to slop like Blue Archive), and they're still fun even if you resolve to never pay any microtransactions.
I'm using it for friends and family file sharing, it's fantastic.
With the 4 common answers (all 4 people answered them the same) we know that no more than 3 of them can be correct (because Lisa scored 3 points). We also know at least one must be correct (otherwise Mary can't score 7).

Examine what Mary and Dan have in common besides those 4... Nothing. They disagreed on each of the remaining 6 answers.

We can break this down into three cases, either 1, 2, or 3 of the common answers are correct:

1 - Impossible. Mary gets 6 of the remaining correct, Dan gets 4 of the 6 remaining correct, but they have none in common so this doesn't work.

2 - Impossible. Mary gets 5 of the remaining correct, Dan gets 3 of the remaining correct, but again their answers disagree so they cannot share a common answer out of the 6 remaining.

3. Mary needs 4 of the remaining 6 and Dan needs 2, this is feasible.

At this point you can ignore the 4 common ones other than to say Colin has at least a score of 3.

Since we now know that everything outside those common ones are incorrect for Lisa, cross everything off that Lisa and Colin share of the 6 non-common answers. There are only 3 that disagree with Lisa so they must be correct (because everything Lisa answered here is wrong). This gives Colin a final score of 6, three in common with everyone and three from disagreeing with Lisa.

The reason there are 4 keys in Hillel's solution is actually kind of funny, they don't matter. Those 4 keys only disagree on which of the 4 common answers are incorrect. They agree everywhere else.

EDIT: Presentation and some typos
Search engines? I'm still using web rings. ;-)
I haven't used Nim enough to write a good comparison. I am not mentioning Crystal either. If someone wants to contribute a comparison I'd be happy to feature it. It is supposed to be fair and simply outline the differences in features.
> Can Gen-AI, moot the need for code?

During interviews one of my go-to examples of problem solving is a project I was able to kill during discovery, cancelling a client contract and sending everyone back to the drawing board.

Half of the people I've talked to do not understand why that might be a positive situation for everyone involved. I need to explain the benefit of having clients think you walk on water. They're still upset my example isn't heavy on any of the math they've memorized.

It feels like we're wondering how wise an AI can be in an era where wisdom and long-term thinking aren't really valued.
The US is unable to fix anything even if they are willing. Throw-away culture has consequences.
Pix (and UPI, a related system in India with similar success) are my two go-to examples for how it makes sense for the central bank / public sector to get into the retail payment space. It baffles me that most major central banks (that are considering it at all) are considering doing so in the form of CBDCs [0]. CBDCs are like a bundle of two services, central bank money and a payment system. The central bank money part is the one that has everybody questioning its use cases, the reason why banks generally oppose it (hence making them likely to nudge their customers away from it), and it's a genuine financial stability concern that requires safety measures like holding limits [1] that complicate UX and/or the design.

The payment system is the part that imho makes complete sense, in multiple ways: more competition in a market dominated by two US networks, strategic independence wrt to a critical infrastructure, providing a public good for underbanked demographics,... I don't get why places like the ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, PBC,... (the US Fed is one of the few not pushing too actively in that direction) insist on bundling the two together instead of focusing on the payment system. If you succeed there, the potential for success is massive, without needing a central bank money feature, as shown by Pix and UPI. Getting one such feature right is hard enough, I don't get why they don't just focus on that and leave the central bank money baggage by the wayside.

[0] Central Bank Digital Currency, a form of money that has similar UX to bank accounts but represents a central bank liability, as opposed to commercial bank liabilities like your usual bank account. It doesn't need deposit insurance, it's legal tender and is at the same level as physical cash economically (M0).

[1] see eg https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops/ecb.op326~d5c223d9b...
"manufacturing as a service", however that may look, might be more of a fit for the modern economy...unless we really regress back to 1930
Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff
Tailscale just got a lot of money to keep growing. But what they are doing is more important than the money. They are helping computers talk to each other in an easy and safe way.

Before, the internet was built to connect places, not people. That made things messy. People had to set up tricky stuff like VPNs and firewalls. Tailscale makes this much easier by using your name or account, not just numbers like IP addresses.

Now, big companies and people at home use Tailscale to keep their computers and apps connected. It works without a lot of setup, and it’s safe. Even people building smart robots and AI are using it.

What’s really good is that Tailscale still helps small users for free, and they try hard not to break anything when they update their tools. If they keep doing that, they can become a very important part of how the internet works in the future.
I'd argue that UIs built in Visual Studio are a lot more performant and lightweight than Electron apps.
Last I looked 100% of the US manufacturers were assembling panels with silicon from China.

Maybe some domestic monocrystalline wafer production has come online recently? Curious if anyone has updated info.
Probably the flouride, but RFK will sort that out.
Interesting how you claim domain expertise while dismissing industry-standard terminology documented by established authorities. I cited verifiable sources that explicitly include internal documents like feature requirements under product documentation. Your response? More appeals to personal authority without a single citation. When confronted with evidence contradicting your position, you resort to name-calling rather than engaging with the facts. If you've spent 30 years in a bubble where terminology differs from broader industry standards, that's a limitation of your experience, not everyone else's.

Semantics. What a hill to die on.
They mention twice that their powder is mixed with water but don't say why. I suspect its to keep particles from being carried in the air/wind?
I just don’t get what is the long term plan of who is even going to work in these factories. If they completely automate it, then it’s not bringing those jobs back. If they don’t… the median age in the US is 38.5. It’s not 80s when it was like 30. I don’t even think China can do what they did with their current demographics. An average person who will lose their service job won’t be competitive in a factory just because of their physical limits.

Oh well, good luck to you guys.
Still if the US does keep 100% tariffs then probably people will switch.
Why are you being disingenuous? Simply having access to the eval in question is already enough for your synthetics guys to match the distribution, and of course you don't contaminate directly on train, that would be stupid, and you would get caught, but if it does inform the reward, the result is the same. You _should_ quit, but you wouldn't because you'd already convinced yourself you're doing RL God's work, not sleight of hand.

> If an MMLU question asks about an abstract algebra proof, is it cheating to have trained on papers about abstract algebra?

This kind of disingenuous bullshit is exactly why people call you cheaters.

> Generally, I don’t think anyone here is cheating and I think we’re relatively diligent with our evals.

You guys should follow Apple's cult guidelines: never stand out. Think different
That is confusing. We'll get this fixed by creating camera presets that combine multiple effect cards! Thank you.
Your hypothesis makes sense. I'd call it "human exceptionalism" - the (wildly unsupported) assumption that we are separate from nature.

Religions that see humans and nature as part of the same system don't have this idea of "unnatural" landscapes. They have no concept of "wilderness". All landscapes are landscapes to which we both belong and shape through our actions.
sure, but html isn't only used in a browser context. I have a severely under-powered ereader that I use to read epubs (html). It already takes ten seconds to paginate on first open and font size changes. I can't imagine how long it would take to non-naively wrap lines
Show HN: UIT – Library for performant, modular, low-memory file processing
UIT is a library for performant, modular, low-memory file processing at scale, in the Cloud. It works by offering a 4-step process to gather a file hierarchy from any desired modalty, apply filters and transformations, and output it in any desired modality.

- *performance*: speed is of essence when navigating and searching through large amounts of data
- *low-memory* by applying streaming and parallelization we can run this in low-memory environments such as Cloudflare workers
- *modular*: modularity is beneficial because by making it composable we get a clear high-level overview of all building blocks. also, not all building blocks can be ran in the same runtime or location.
UIT has come about after many iterations of the platform of uithub, which started as a simple node-based parser of zipfiles. While building more and more features and add-ons, I found myself limited by the memory a lot as I was not streaming enough, and going back to JSON too early (because using the Streams API is tricky!). Thus, as features and complexity grew the need was born to create a more modular extensible architecture with good serverless practices in mind.
+1 for comparative neuroanatomy indeed
Yeh use native inputs unless you absolutely need a custom one.
> most major central banks (that are considering it at all) are considering doing so in the form of CBDCs

Other than the EU and UK, which other major CB is considering CBDCs alone?

Numerically, most people I know in the space are heavily motivated by the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) model both India and Brazil have been using, and DPI has been a hot topic in the DevEcon space for 4 years now.

In fact, Indian and Chinese lobbyists now compete with each other across Africa for DPI related infra work (Biden admin even helped support India's evangelism of the Indian DPI model in ASEAN and Africa), and Brazil's Pix has seen significant uptake in Argentina and Uruguay.

And most regional economies like Vietnam, Pakistan, Nigeria, and South Korea have similar implantations

The big difference might be public versus private domain experience. In newer economies like BRICS and much of ASEAN, the infra and norm setting work fell onto regulators. But in more developed economies like the US, UK, or EU, similar developments could be done by the private sector.
Literally everyone uses Swish in my experience. Even idiotic criminals.

We "had" to get swish (and a debit card..) for our 12 yo daughter because cash is just not very usable here. Although the CC is still used more than swish, but for transfers between persons, or smaller companies swish is very common.
I guess that's because pretty much nobody in Brazil knows what an IBAN is
How much of the 'gap' between species do their edits cover? Are these like 50% hybrids, or much closer to the original donor grey wolves? Is it the kind of thing that could result in more authentic (for lack of a better term) dire wolves after a few generations of breeding?
A.i. is a blatant case of darwinism.

There are those who adapt, those who will keep moaning about it and finally those who believe it can do everything.

First one will succeed, second one will be replaced, third one is going to get hurt.

I believe this article and the people it mentions are mostly from the second category. Yet no one with all his mind can deny that ai makes writing code faster, not necessarily better but faster, and games at the end are mostly codes.

Of course ai is going to get pushed hard by your ceo, he knows that if he doesn't, another competitor who use it will be able to produce more games, faster and less expensive.
Question to the Netflix folks: I saw a lot of in-house developed tools being quoted, do you guys have service mesh like linkerd ?

Have you guys evaluated vendors like Kentik?

I would love to get more insight into what do you guys actually do with flow logs? for example if I store 1 TB of flow logs, what value can I actually derive from them that justify the cost of collection, processing, and storage.
Migrants who used Biden-era app told to leave US 'immediately'
100k emails from the 90s Cypherpunk listserve