skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my wealthy European "cycle friendly" city, they put one of the main cycling lanes that goes downhill to the city center, between trams, cars and cubes of rusted steel with 90 edges. Every time I have to cycle through there I get Final Destination flashbacks.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/iq1b5uub7fVx8ez1A
100% agree, and of course, I absolutely knew this going in. Not building my next thing until I have something someone will start paying for before it’s even built
Wake up sheeple, the Japanese in Tokyo are all government drones! ...falls into deep thought
> Through the entirety of human history you'd keep working for the same employer for your entire life

Just looking at the Western world that breaks down during industrialization and falls apart if you go further back then that, journeymen (i.e. tradesmen who had completed their apprenticeship) would often literally travel from town to town for several years to work under different masters before submitting their work to a guild for evaluation and becoming masters themselves. I guess you could say serfs worked "for the same employer" because their feudal lords owned them as part of the territory but that seems like a stretch.

It's not so much that employees used to "keep working for the same employer for their entire lives", it's more that the people running and operating businesses used to be part of a local community and there used to be an understanding of a shared responsibility beyond private property claims.

This isn't something employees can change, either. Even employers aren't really able to change this because they too have to operate in the same economic system that contributes to this effect. It's probably more extreme in the US (and some places in the US more than others) but the economic system does not care for such sentimentalities and a business that does will put itself at an economic disadvantage, especially where the social fabric has already been sufficiently eroded to avoid bad optics (e.g. WalMart arguably failed in Germany because its attitude to employees felt extremely off-putting both to workers and consumers at the time but that resistance may have been eroded by the behavior of other companies since to the point where it would no longer make them stand out the same way if they tried to re-enter the market now - economic changes making this unfeasible notwithstanding).
You'd be wrong. Happens.
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"At-will employment" is a meme here. In reality, the company gives you a few months of pay and you sign a document saying you won't sue them for firing you during a layoff.

If you get fired for fraud or for being incompetent, for example, it's often different.
I think this is fairly commonly understood in the UK/Europe at least where they tend to mandate this rubbish. Surely the law should just state that Necessary only is the default... On some sites you have to drag 10s-100s of sliders to turn off all of the optional cookies. This is a good way of knowing a site I don't want to visit!
I'm really not a "the book is better than the movie" guy, but here I really think the movie isn't very good in comparison. It doesn't even have much to do with the book, and it loses all the intelligent humor of the original. The book is a very light short read and hilarious. The perfect introduction to Lem.
He said that with incorrect information about how layoffs in America work.
I created my first product demo video using only free-tier tools
Finally made a product demo video — without spending much or showing my face :-)

I’m a solo dev. A while ago, I built a Jira Marketplace App that turned into a small side project with a few paying customers. For years, I wanted to make a demo video to help explain what it does, but I kept putting it off. Mostly because I didn’t really know how to start — and I didn’t want to spend hundreds on software.

Last week, I finally did it using free-tier tools: HeyGen for AI avatar, ElevenLabs for voice, CapCut for editing, and the Windows Snipping Tool for screen recording.

If you’re doing everything yourself — building, marketing, support — this setup might save you some time. Happy to share how I did it.
low eu salaries implies finding job is hard. fact.
Hm? Should I as the user not be able to decide what I send or don't send?
Blank and Berez were definitely thinking about p-machines when they designed the Z machine, and there is a hat tip in the 1980 Creative Computing article describing its inner workings.

[1]: https://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm
It sure fucking seems like it is! Have you tried to buy early stock in startups? You have to have 10K minimum in most cases.

I’d have bought huggingface, openAI, anthropic, unsloth, and many others stock right at this moment if I could get in for less than 10K.

Prove me wrong internet. I’m ready to buy in these companies this minute.
Hallucinations in LLMs: A Side Effect of Being Trained to Be Right?
NumPy Alternative is built for GPUs and is 25X faster
Sounds like a can of worms
Similar thing happened to me, after almost 27 years, but my company was a great deal more respectful, in the way that they did it. I left on the best of terms; which is extremely rare, with layoffs. To this day, I still have a lot of respect for my old company.

Also, the writing had been on the wall, for years. I was quite prepared.

What I wasn't prepared for, however, was my post-layoff treatment by the modern tech industry. That was an eye-opener.
This is what torpedoed the first AI Assistant push in the late 1990's and early 2000s (see electric elves as an example). Basically we thought that personal travel assistants and open trading platforms would be cool things, but then discovered that content aggregators a) had a business model and b) could offer vertical integration and bulk buys, & discounts to goods providers and consumers, while also policing the platform. So we got Expedia and Ebay.

There is a more fundamental problem as well. Multi-agent systems require the programmer of the agent to influence the state of the agent in order that the agent can act to influence the states of other agents in the system. This is a very hard programming task.
ZBLAN is such a material, a type of glass much more transparent than silica glass and could be used for fiber optics. It has been tested on the ISS.

A similar fictional material is also at the center of the plot of the novel Artemis by Andy Weir.
A socialist version of this could work too - governments creating money/debt to invest in state owned enterprises for example.
Is there a proactive way to defend against invisible Unicode attacks?
Not like lawyers, dentists, car salesmen, etc do!
There's no legal requirement, but literally every company that is not bankrupt does it because otherwise they will face huge numbers of wrongful termination suits.
Surely that’s only if people don’t lift / lower the seat? Or are people splashing that much?
Author here: (1) We didn't remove the stddev term. (2) We use token-level loss (every token has the same weight), which is very similar to what Dr. GRPO does. However, we compute the mean gradient per token, while Dr. GRPO computes the sum. Typically, these are equivalent. However, since we're also doing gradient accumulation over micro-batches to reduce memory usage during training, this led to a bug in our implementation: it gives more weight to tokens in short sequences than to those in long sequences.

Interestingly, this is the same bug that most open-source LLM training frameworks (such as HF Trainer) had and only recently fixed.

In short, I'm working on a quick fix, after that, using sum or mean should yield equivalent results.

P.S. Fixed!
Relatively, yes. In aggregate, the rich pay the lion’s share of taxes in the West.

Your comment defeats the point you are trying to make. When talking about paying fair share or paying enough in taxes it’s the relative part that matters; not the aggregate.
Well, I'm not sure it is. People are pretty aware of salaries already for example. This was about stock options specifically.
thanks for highlighting this. to those unaware the US currently employs 20M people in manufacturing while Information is only 3M.

so yeah even with a 'non-existent' manufacturing sector it has been able to provide more jobs than so called technology industry.
Because it already is a thing? Some companies already force AI upon their devs. And weird, I still need to pay my bills so yea, I need a career to do so.
Not OP, but Notepad++ does restore open tabs. :-)
So what is the procedure for checking a bike? I've been very into bikes my whole life, never had one fail, and I confess I do not know how to test anything other than looking and riding one.
The question is: Do you know the words or do you know the meaning in the context of the article?
QWERTY for Western European Languages
They aren’t building the stadiums when those stadiums are paid for with public money that they contribute relatively less to.
Well the context is how they built and sold a business so unless that information is pertinent then why would he? Perhaps you can elaborate its relevance in more detail?
I think this can largely be solved with good UI. For example, if an MCP or tool gets executed that you didn't want to get executed, the UI should provide an easy way to turn it off or to edit the description of that tool to make it more clear when it should be used and should not be used by the agent.

Also, in my experience, there is a huge bump in performance and real-world usage abilities as the context grows. So I definitely don't agree about a negative correlation there, however, in some use cases and with the wrong contexts it certainly can be true.
Corporations like Google certainly encourage a focus on in-group relationships between employees to reduce churn (i.e. increase stakes for disgruntled employees who might consider quitting). The entire idea of having scheduled leisure activities, daycare, laundry services, etc all provided either by the company or facilitated through the company encapsulates current employees and gently excludes former employees, which likely helps reduce their ability to spread or air negative sentiments following their departure (which apparently can be fairly rapid, which also means fired employees will be stunned and possibly in shock for the limited duration where they may still have access to other employees directly).

There's a reason the "employee retention" behavior of companies like Google and Facebook during the web 2.0 craze was often compared to actual cults.
Show HN: I made a multiplayer Minesweeper game - revamped with your feedback
Hi everyone! First of all, the response from last time really was overwhelming, at one point even reaching 54 concurrent players, so thank you for that! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398081)

Secondly, I wanted to provide the final revamped game based on all your feedback. Several common themes from the comments lead to some major improvements:

• Many people found the rate limit restrictive, while others found the game to sometimes be too quick. The solution to this was creating three separate modes, each one having a different rate limit and grid size. Now players can pick a more casual, intermediate, or competitive game.

• The scoring system needed some changes. Rewards for correctly clearing and flagging cells are now the same. Also, incorrect actions now result in a higher penalty.

• People were looking for features to better connect with other players. So now it's possible to customize your player name and also chat with others in the same game.
Your second paragraph perfectly explains why your suggestion in your first paragraph doesn’t happen.
I worked a at large European company.
They announced there would be layoffs.
But not who, just the date.
On that date, they came round during the day, tapping people on the shoulder, who walked out of the room and were never seen in the office again.
Grown men were crying, who weren't even let go.

I never felt good about that company ever again.
Yep, these guys have a very powerful network with access to a lot more CISO offices than you or I can get into. That network also includes a lot of the people who develop malware and exploits.
Way too many "coders" now do that. I put the quotes because I automatically lose respect over any vibe coder.

This is a dystopian nightmare in the making.

At some point only a very few select people will actually understand enough programming, and they will be prosecuted by the powers that be.
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Ps: Recently completed a work trial with Mercor — one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the Bay Area.
I've heard this said .. admittedly, deep within the bowels of many a coffeeshop .. of marijuana.

Basically, weed rewards us for its continued safe domestication.

Try as I might, I cannot find a way to disprove this theory. The more I test it, the more it seems absolutely correct.

The same of course, is true of coffee and tobacco, albeit the means of domestication differ in magnitude and effect in each case.

The jury is still out on Triffids, however.
Many cardiac events start that way.
It's not an exact repeat.
They demonstrate they know 'veer' (off topic) without saying 'veer'.
The Entire Universe Could Exist Inside a Black Hole – Here's Why
>Its mostly hailed as a great artsy movie, that general audiences find super boring

You make it sound like some obscure arthouse. It's one of the most influence movies of all time, art design and worldbuilding wise.

It just didn't catch on at the box office in its time. Way more serious and slower paced movies have been big hits, so it's not being "artsy" that's the problem.

Sci-fi wasn't much of a win with adults at the time, and unlike Star Wars this was an adult oriented movie.

>Nobody hails bladerunner for its pacing.

You'd be surpised.
Rising federal bond yields make them a better investment, more or less by definition, unless you're genuinely worried about default.

But that said, I don't think (again, sort of definitionally) there is a "best strategic hedge" in the face of a trade war. In trade wars everyone loses. You can't meaningfully bet against a shrinkage of the global economy in aggregate.
IBM i 7.6 and IBM i 7.5 TR6
What about European taxes? I', paying 48% + there is 21% VAT on almost everything. Plus taxes for water (taxes, not pay-per-used-m3, and this payment is here too), energy (atop of market energy prices), roads, gasoline, etc.
Actual job posting says:

Do you have the right to work in the EU/UK? (Unfortunately, at this time we cannot offer sponsorship for this role, and we cannot consider people working remotely in different countries to UK or Germany)
It's got all the hallmarks of a piece written by AI. Lots of purple prose, adjectives where they add no information, bullet lists, etc. All this sits alongside banal content like "[Wiz] Use colors and designs to signal reliability in a high-stakes industry."

It may have been lightly edited & enriched by a human, but most of this article was written by an AI.
Yes because back then the belief capitalism was doomed was rife

But after the fall of the USSR and the general joke which was scientific socialism, i expected that to disappear
SpeechMap: The Free Speech Dashboard for Al
Enforcing Conventions.md with AI Agent
> You're welcome to find me an example in the first world.

You can get a one way ticket to a supermax in El Salvador even if you have the protection of the supreme court.
It's backed by SensioLabs (same creators as Symfony), plus theres a ton of sponsorship across the whole Symfony ecosystem. Every release is sponsored by multiple companies for example: https://symfony.com/backers

Symfony itself also had a round of funding many years ago when it wasn't rolling in cash, around $7 million if I recall.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200
I've been using bicycles as my main mode of transport since I could walk, one of the side effects of being born in the Netherlands and living there until about 25 years ago. I mostly use steel-frame bicycles but I do have an aluminium-framed racer, now about 45 years old. During those years I've experienced (among others):

3 frame failures of which 2 caused by broken tubes, 1 by failing solder joints - bikes with lugs are soldered, not welded.

2 front fork failures, 1 of which caused me to roll over the handle bars at high speed.

1 front drum brake failure which caused the front wheel to lock, rolling up the front fork like the lid of a sardines can and me to fly off at high speed

1 broken crank axle

1 broken crank

1 rear derailleur failure which caused the rear wheel to lock up, sending me flying

Several handle bar raiser failures

Thus far no broken bones, all the failed frames were replaced at no cost, the other failures I've fixed myself - I always maintain my own bikes, did that since I was about 14 (now 59).

I also maintain our cars, motorbikes and other vehicles (tractors) which does give me some insight in the frequency of failures due to structural weaknesses in these categories. Bicycles do experience far more failures due to such causes than any of the other categories, most likely due to their lighter construction as well as a possible lack of quality control - those frame failures, especially the one involving the failure of the solder joint at the rear risers should have been discovered before the (BSA-branded, manufactured by Raleigh) frame left the assembly line.

Does that mean I want the government to get involved, mandating regular inspections? Certainly not, one of the big appeals of riding bicycles is the lack of any government involvement and I'd like to keep it that way.
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What I've learned after 40 years as the Observer's science editor
Silver lining: one less person working on the spying machine.
Keep in mind that our brains also have a great deal of built in trained structure from evolution. So even if we understood exactly how a brain learns, we may still not be able to replicate it if we can't figure out the highly optimized initial state from which it starts in a fetus.
I think this is at least a major part of the problem, and I share this hypothesis (and have been saying as much for the past two years). We never train them to know what they know and what they don't know (meta-cognition). We only train them to output the next token, not to self-reflect and ask: Is this true based on my prior knowledge?
Rust doesn't have interface inheritance either.

Rust only has composition in this regard. Calling it inheritance in any way is just confusing terminology.
In Japan firing an employee is difficult and layoffs are unheard of. I would have few concerns finding something new were that to change overnight here.
For some piece of mind, we can perform the search:

OUTPUT=$(find .cursor/rules/ -name '*.mdc' -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0 perl -wnE '
BEGIN { $re = qr/\x{200D}|\x{200C}|\x{200B}|\x{202A}|\x{202B}|\x{202C}|\x{202D}|\x{202E}|\x{2066}|\x{2067}|\x{2068}|\x{2069}/ }
print "$ARGV:$.:$_" if /$re/
' 2>/dev/null)

FILES_FOUND=$(find .cursor/rules/ -name '*.mdc' -print 2>/dev/null)

if [[ -z "$FILES_FOUND" ]]; then
echo "Error: No .mdc files found in the directory."
elif [[ -z "$OUTPUT" ]]; then
echo "No suspicious Unicode characters found."
else
echo "Found suspicious characters:"
echo "$OUTPUT"
fi

- Can this be improved?
Japanese hand plane has to be one of the most satisfying tools to use...if you're into wood working, really worth trying one.
speaking of cyclists: https://newsthump.com/2020/08/13/cyclist-repeatedly-fails-ca...
I see myself out
True, genetic algorithms are only implied, but those implied gradients are used in the more successful evolutionary strategies. So while they might not look like it (because it's not used in a continuous descent) they still very much work like (although they represent a smoother function than) regular back-prop gradients when aggregated.
Haha, so much for "steel is real".

I must say, the more I research this, the more I admire aluminium. Other than street cred and the alleged road vibrations, it's incredible how strong, light and cheap it is.
Similarly:

I got badly burnt in a relationship once.

After that I promised myself not to get hurt again. If you don't love each other any more, accept that, and walk away.

Worked for me, and I stayed friends with almost all my ex-es after that.
It says they are getting ready for the future when some govt agency splits them up and they are shedding the load now (the areas they will have to sell).
We have to draw some line on good faith vs bad faith arguments though. Not understanding the difference between a UI and API is a stretch and purposefully conflating them just to win a semantic argument is not productive.
Re-reading Pike's C++ critique now, I do chuckle at things like;

> Did the C++ committee really believe that was wrong with C++ was that it didn't have enough features?

C++ was basically saved by C++11. When written in 2012 it may have been seen as a reasonable though contrarian reaction, but history does not agree. It's just wrong.

I'm very much NOT saying that every decision Go made was wrong. And often experts don't predict the future very well. But I do think that this gives further proof that while not a bad coder by any means, no Pike is very much not an expert in PL. Implementing ideas you had from the 1980s adding things you've learned since is not the same thing as learning lessons from the industry in that subfield.
He's NOT the Messiah, he's a VERY NAUGHTY BOY!
Even that quote itself jumps from "are using" to "mission-critical development infrastructure ... relying on them daily".
https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/thread/338168440?hl...
While possibly a traumatic experience for Adam, I fail to see the significance of this beyond anecdotal level. And I find it rather odd to argue that after all Google did and didn't do that this is what is causing disillusionment with Google. By now Chrome is basically just a Trojan Horse with advertisement and surveillance for this purpose hidden in the inside.
> The actual method of conversion involves a complicated curve that isn't continuous

Isn't continuous? Really? That seems surprising to me; tell me more.
You’re wrong, empirical evidence shows that you’re wrong, but you don’t seem like you’re engaging in good faith so I’m not going to do your homework for you either.
like nomads.com?
there is a proxy to check this - investor quality.
Every high quality investor - including YC - forces an options pool. The post-money SAFE created by YC accounts for an options pool ("The Post-Money Valuation Cap is post the Options and option pool existing prior to the Equity
Financing").

high quality investors will in most cases, decline a fundraise if there is no options pool - since it signals that the founders are not serious about the most valuable asset of any startup.

The people.
Filtering them?
Why are you assuming the worst version of my argument to argue against?
Someone living in Sydney (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546796) and using "maths" in the Commonwealth style (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280463) decides that someone like my foreign-born father who became a US citizen as a teenager, was wrong to think he's an American?

Bless your heart.