skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the input. After having a look at some sites that compare the two's products on the consumer and business level; I think I am going to keep both available for customers in some fashion. Some might prefer one over the other, but I do have to say...

Eset seems to have more features, but they both trade blows on effectiveness according to some graphs. So I think they might be good to use with each other in tandem if they will play nice.
The ship would need to be very large - artificial gravity and adequate shielding for radiation and impacts would need to be provided, as well as an insane amount of redundancy and survivable abort routes. Attempting to do it with technologies we have, even with infinite funding, would be next to impossible without incurring in unacceptable risks.
Possibly, combined with smaller apartment construction being effectively outlawed.

Or could it be the lack of housing pushing people to focus more on their career?
Yeah, because I got suspended the webserver decided to just serve the first site alphabetically. Nice behaviour. I scared the ** out of me, I thought it had been hacked.
I'm a big fan of the original project, so I'm curious what the changes amount to. (It claims there are performance improvements, but nothing detailed.)
> C fans tend to regard BCPL as an unimportant transitional step, but it was used in two celebrated OSes. One was the TRIPOS operating system, later used as the original basis of AmigaOS.

The latter is a bit of an exaggeration. Tripos related code written in BCPL was used for "AmigaDOS" - meaning the filesystem driver, the command line shell, a few bits of process control, and a variety of generic command line utilities. It was not used for the kernel (Exec), or graphics support, or the gui library (Intuition), or the graphical shell (Workbench), or lower level device drivers, which were all written in C or 68K assembly.

The Tripos derived parts were nice though, generally nicer than the MSDOS equivalent and somewhat friendlier than the Unix command line, if the filesystem was a little slow, comparatively speaking.
2-way and 3-way speakers have been around for longer than I've been alive.
Interesting! My understanding of efficient direct-threaded interpreters is basically limited to Jones Forth. If I understand you correctly, these interpreters store their lists of subroutines in reverse order, set the stack pointer to the end of the list, and then everywhere jonesforth.s uses "lodsl\njmp *(%eax)" to iterate forward over a list of function pointers pointed to by %edi, these interpreters use "ret" to iterate backward over a list of function pointers pointed to by %esp. Is that correct?

I take it these interpreters can't register any signal handlers, as at a minimum, the kernel would write a return address above the stack's "red zone" before invoking the signal handler, which would corrupt the code. Is that right?
I find I can sketch much quicker than I can CAD. Some of my friends are the opposite. They use CAD with two mice that have buttons on the sides with hotkeys.

I like sketching because what I want is an impression of a scene in my mind. My friends seem to want more of a replication, which I think takes too much time and never looks the same as my mind.

Repetition is the mother of skill. Pick something and practice daily, even 10 min.
AGI is probably pretty close, investment keeps ramping up in the space, and we continue to see advancements in a positive direction.

My one critique: scale is absolutely part of the answer.

Before big transformer models, people thought that few shot learning would require fundamentally different architectures. GPT3 changed all that which is why its white paper is named as such.

Few shot learning is actually emergent out of its size. Which was surprising to a lot of people. Few shot learning is an incredible capability which is a big step toward AGI, so I’m not sure I buy the case that it’s not important.
Pretty much every element in your stack should be the result of a build or buy decision initially.

If something doesn't directly contribute to your competitive edge then run with a managed service / something off the shelf until you know enough about the domain to be able to make an informed decision about the trade offs.

Too often I've seen early teams that have spent months building out (and maintaining!) an area of the stack that could have been had off the shelf - freeing up engineering time and allowing focus on the areas that allow for true differentiation in the product.

Obviously off the shelf isn't free in financial or engineering time (though you can sure get a lot of free credits / on free tiers nowadays), but if your main product is doing something fancy on top of the output of a fairly generic process, do yourself a favour and find a company that has a product specialising in that process, don't build it from scratch until you have your product market fit.
Watching Holy Grail was the perfect way to unwind at the end of a very very long day. Thanks!
This is only partly true. And context matters a lot too.

For one, pollination causes better seed production. So better pollination, means more flowering plants, so more food for insects next season.

It's studied (I cannot find the paper, it was a German study, that's all I remember) where a very "poor" area (farmland and production-forests reclaimed as diverse nature) did had much more insects, much faster, on the side where honeybees were kept, than on the side where they weren't, due to the honeybees "creating" flowering plants for other insects to eat from too.

But I've also read a study from the Netherlands which is now often used by nature-management to ban honeybee-colonies from nature areas due to them competing against more endangered insects in those areas.

It's nature. It depends.
Fragile FAANG-ers
Wait a few years until you hear about the biochem weapons labs in Ukraine.
The previous rise in food prices also being attributable to the Russian heatwave of 2010 being the link to climate change.
Added a second page after about 10 years of experience. Not planning to ever add a third. Nobody cares about what you did three jobs ago, so I'm content with having my early gigs summarized to literally a single line each. There's also the option of dropping them entirely if ageism becomes an issue.

As an ex-hiring manager, resumes over 3 pages were almost guaranteed to have a ton of useless (to the reader) detail that obscured the signal and any kind of messaging the candidate wanted to convey with this document. This is such a critical thing that many people miss - the product you are selling is your experience, and the resume is the sleek marketing document, not the dry technical specification (I don't mean this literally, but 5-15 page resumes, I'm looking at you).
>OUTSIDE SURVEILLANCE ALLIANCES
>Based outside Russia, China, USA and other 14 Eyes surveillance countries.

Hmmm. Interesting. Thanks.
Do you see a future where a language like Dart could run on edge functions (via WASM), all while integrating nicely with the DX?
For myself, I abandoned spreadsheets in favor of the relational database. In fact, I consider spreadsheets to be a phase you grow out of.

Weirdly, I consider visidata to be the best spreadsheet software out there, "but visidata is not a spreadsheet" I hear you cry, I know, that is what makes it weird.

I guess what I really want out of a spreadsheet is row level integrity.
My brother is an MD and I showed him some Leetcode prep material since I am studying for interviews. Specifically, a problem from Grokking the Coding Interview.

His response - “It would be helpful if they then showed how that is used in real world code“. I had to tell him I don’t think these kinds of scenarios come up often in real-world use cases, haha. They are essentially coding puzzles to filter for people who are good at solving coding puzzles, which may or may not directly translate to being good at writing application code.
No it's not, and yes it is. That these laboratories were (and still are?) doing gain of function research - deliberately creating new variants of viruses to study them - has been known since the start of the pandemic (the results are published in reputable scientific journals, and a lot of the funding came from western medical research bodies). And it's definitely something I think we need to have a societal conversation about. Personally in light of recent events I feel like this is something we probably ought not to be doing.
I did find the choice of folks to quote interesting. But didn't read anything known to be false. So wouldn't agree this is an accurate take. This snippet might be useful to read again:

But “facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored,” Aldous Huxley reminds us. “You can avoid reality,” Ayn Rand says, “but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
There is a bit of a difference between a theorem prover that can take selfproduced and verified proofs as input into future training steps, and an omniscient philosopher king handling the logistics and affect of daily life. And if there even exists a path between them, I imagine it has many orders of magnitude greater discrete steps along the way than many singularity believers would accept.
Dropbox is fully remote. All of these companies have offices around the country. I don't see how selection bias plays in here
This exploit chain illustrates how once you have obtained a memory corruption primitive it is very hard to prevent full compromise. This makes it more important than ever to limit the ability of attackers to acquire memory corruption primitives.

The best hope for legacy C and C++ code right now is a combination of extensive fuzzing and dynamic analysis to detect as many memory corruption bugs as you can, plus mitigations in CPUs and compilers to make it harder to turn memory corruption bugs into malicious execution, plus sandboxing to limit the damage of malicious execution. This exploit chain demonstrates techniques to bypass that entire mitigation stage (and also shows that Apple severely bungled their sandbox design).

This doesn't bode well for the mitigation approach. They add significant complexity to the silicon and software stack, which has a cost in performance, but also ultimately security --- at some point we will see these mitigations themselves contributing to attack vectors. In return they make exploitation a lot more difficult, but mitigation bypass techniques can often be packaged and reused. For example stack overflow techniques have been effectively mitigated but that doesn't matter to attackers these days, who are now very good at using heap overflow and UAF. Meanwhile those stack overflow mitigations (stack cookies etc) still have to remain in place, making our systems more complex and slower.
Webflow seems like a nice enough company and good product, but I find their marketing as "No code" platform to be very misleading. It's cool WYSIWYG website builder, they have added a small handful of features that allow you to build something a bit meatier than a static page (ecommerce, or gated publishing tools mostly), but a lot of their marketing lingo and the communities in which they advertise themselves are trying to pass the tool as a web app builder.

As a non engineer tinkerer I've used a handful of "true" no code platforms (adalo, glide, retool) experimented with a few more (thunkable for one), and investigated a ton (currently contemplating noloco.io for a new side project), and every once in a white I fall prey to Webflow announcing a new version and promising no-code heaven... only to waste considerable time deciphering the offering and realizing it doesn't do a fifth of what I really need.

Airtable, Notion and Coda do the same btw, and like Webflow they're nice enough tools on their own, but I wish they would't use the no-code or low-code moniker so loosely, because it creates a lot of noise to dilute the signal of actual no code tools.
I broadly agree, highly. I do think it's at least worth considering a framing, that most product & orgs are closer to sales- their whole objevtive is to land new money, to find huge new revenue sources. There's some market competition, but even within markets the focus on competing via new big banner big splashes far overwhelms the deeper level of caring that engineers & those further down see. Dissonance, more dissonance.

The org generally lacks the ability to understand what is really possible, the value of what it can do, the knowledge of what it is. I do think there's hella shady terrible exploitative behaviors, and plenty of gloryhounding only interested in new splashy features, but underneath this all, tech is super impervious & they just have no clue. And how could they? I have the hardest time imagining how even the best intended company can have a hope of having anyone with an iota of power make a reasonable & informed decision- the org has to play pretend, operate as if it understands anything, because the fact that it knows as pathetically little about what it is & how it works is unmanageable. For small orgs this can be avoided, but so quickly fiefs spring up & we start limiting our scope, learning go think only of less, & not the whole.
Lovely comment. I share your sentiment. Go is truly hated on hacker news these days (and, if you're brave enough to venture there, reviled on r/programming).
Have you considered turning this into a SaaS of your own? As in: here is the code if you want to self-Host, but if you want I can manage it for you for X/month?
Yeah... no. "Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence."

At least this article makes a concrete prediction. AIs massively outnumber humans within a century - so, by 2122.

But we don't even know what consciousness is. This assumes that AGI is a tractable problem; we don't know that. It assumes that adaptability is the one remaining major trick to get us there; we certainly don't know that.

"The ball is already rolling"? That's nice. The author assumes - on no basis that I can see - that it doesn't have far to have to roll. But since we don't actually know what consciousness is, we don't have any idea where the destination is, or how far away it is.
You can downrate it, but charging more just because you can is not admirable.
I'm also in the multi-decade range. I've begun dropping my oldest jobs to keep it to 2 pages. This has had three benefits: more space for the relevant positions; I don't get asked about skills I haven't practiced in 20 years; and it makes pre-interview age discrimination a lot harder.
Yeah, but there's in-group jargon and technical approaches that FAANG and FAANG-adjacent engineers will pick up on. Just because you're anonymous doesn't mean you aren't unconsciously signaling your background to your interviewer.
Wow! Finally some positive news about trans people! It's a small step, but it's a step nonetheless!
Wow, actual use of come from instructions.
Yeah, I'm certainly not claiming it's equivalent today, I haven't even tried a demo. Just a thing to watch if you're interested in this space.
Quad 9 is useful, but I found some websites that should work ended up not working anymore or as well. Kind of annoying. But yeah, Malwarebytes is one I haven't thought about for a while. Last I saw one of their things on a computer I was fixing was also one of the last times I saw CCcleaner on a computer as well.

But yeah, windows defender IS usually good enough.
In general if you were to take away synthetic fertilizers and rely only on traditional agriculture without over-pumping water from aquifers you start to realize that the population of planet earth is only possible to sustain at its current levels with the current system and if/when parts of that start to go away then some of the people start to go away too.

The current situation highlights the reliance also on global supply chains functioning properly. These are fun times.
This is a gem: https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/matrix-growth-academy-zero-...

https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas

He has a brother named Michael Skok: https://www.youtube.com/user/Harvardilab/playlists

Look for "Startup Secrets" playlists.
Very nice. How is your experience with docker swarm?
What is "pretty close"? A few years? Decades? A century?

I don't think AGI is close, nor is the amount of investment a good indication of nearness (or even, actual possibility that it will ever happen).
Hey thanks for the feedback! What I meant by the first statement was that these systems are immutable. For example, IPFS stores any files permanently and they can’t be modified.

Thanks for spotting the typo!
Interesting. In terms of critical thought, I guess I should mention that I used to be firmly against the possibility of a singularity. The views I shared in my article are views I've only really switched too after careful consideration over the past two years or so -- I used to be convinced that a robot could never be "alive".

Becoming an ML engineer changed things for me, though, because all of a sudden, this "AI" thing people always talked about got demystified. Once I understood the basic guiding principles of how AI actually works, my mind rapidly changed to be in favor of a singularity happening instead of thinking it's impossible.

To each their own, though. I'm curious why you think that speaking about "The" Singularity is a sign of being in a "critical thought free zone"? I'd love to hear more about why you think that if you'd be so inclined.
I've lived in Silicon Valley and I've lived outside of it. I'm sure it's a myth. The higher rate of pay is not an indication of higher skill.
Well, most IP cameras cannot be accessed this way when you look at the global pool of IP cameras. However many on them on Amazon, particularly from OEM companies like Reolink that are more of a custom relabeller vs. a real camera manufacturer have all kinds of backdoor access methods.

Best practice is to put your IP cameras on a separate isolated network, connected to a dual-NIC recorder/PC running trusted software (eg: not some random DVR/NVR on Amazon) for recording and viewing. This is not a perfect solution, but it at least takes you far away from the path-of-least-resistance pool of devices with weak cybersecurity that are prone to various exploits.
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Where do you shop instead?
I'm still figuring out the mental aspect of it, but I just feel I do what I set my mind to do, and that's groundbreaking for me. I feel there's now a way out my life long depression.

I'm on lisdexamfetamine and I don't have any side effect which is pretty crazy. Just calm, productivity and focus.
This is sort of like philosophical arguments where someone concludes the universe doesn't exist and then everyone leaves to get lunch. Like, what are you supposed to do? Not get out of bed?

There are real legal issues over bad uses of machine learning already in use and they are hurting people now.
> Unkenholz allegedly retained the classified NDI within his personal email address.

I love how whoever wrote this clearly does not understand technology, and thinks that somehow the _data_ was stored within the _address_.
Access wasn’t even that bad of an implementation. It was amazing not just how broadly access was used but the kinds of users who could do real things with it. A bit like HyperCard.
Me too, been using it for 10 years.
I enjoyed your film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZRjZtzD_Q). I don't think many solo film makers have the skills to do competent 3D compositing - it was a surprise. Keep making stuff.

As for the post, I don't really believe it's possible to reason about what can or can't happen technologically on a 100 year timeline. But 20 years... Hmm. I've been following AGI debates ever since I accidentally found Yudkowsky's SL4 mailing list in 2000. I am still waiting to see any approach that looks to me like the spark of the germ of the seed of a generalized abstract world-and-concept-modelling and manipulation machine.

I fully expect to see ever more sophisticated Roombas, Big Dogs, and Waymos. But those things are so incredibly narrow. Indeed, if they were capable of spontaneously doing anything outside of what they are marketed to do, it would probably make them bad consumer products. I was right on the verge of lumping the game solvers in with these things, but then I reconsidered. Generalized video game solvers seem like a way forward, intuitively. But that's an application, not an architecture, and I haven't heard of anything that can generalize from playing atari to doing crosswords.

I have noticed this Transformer thing gaining steam just recently but haven't investigated it just yet. Do you believe it is the spark of the germ of the seed of AGI? (I fear people tend to forget what the G stands for.)
I hadn't previously read up on the RR issue. But after some surface level research, I would not say it was Excel as an issue. It sounds like the tool did exactly what they programmed it to. It seems like human error or choices they made to arrive at the conclusion they wanted; which seems to be speculated (or true, I only scratched the surface).

> While using RR’s working spreadsheet, we identified coding
errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics. [0]

I'm not a fan of tools giving warnings for these types of "coding errors". Although a warning I can think would be nice is where math just doesn't work as expected. The recent floating point discussion [1] seems appropriate as it's just not very intuitive and as a programmer you need a pretty deep level of understanding to know that the resulting math is likely not accurate. But, it also seems to effect nearly every programming language and is not a quirk of one specific thing.

I'd be interested to read more if you have info outline the actual error within Excel. If there is some 2+2=5 situation, I'd be interested to learn about that. I feel like every time someone says "Excel error", it's actually "human error". It would be like if every car accident was a vehicle malfunction but we all know it's most likely an operator issue.

[0] http://peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_p...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856434
> multiple times per week for months on end yes

that is not use but abuse, and I'd expect bad consequences.
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This just sounds like Dropbox, Google have a similar interview to interviewing.io. So if you're able to clear the Dropbox interview bar, you'll do well on their test. It doesn't really say anything about general work performance, only performance on a specific interview.
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> you know what we lose even more artists to? Commercial art

I remember a commercial for Mucinex (cough medicine) where anthropomorphic boogers get their house wrecked by a tornado courtesy of Mucinex. Somewhere in the chaos, a painting of the Mona Lisa as an anthropomorphic booger goes by. I often wonder what was going through the artist's mind while they were crafting that little detail.
Having a FAANG on your resume is a whole different topic from whether the title you had there had "senior" in it.
Which part? The part that I quoted was the last paragraph of the article with only a paragraph of hiring opportunities afterwards, unrelated to the article..
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with the government severely limiting people's ability to buy dollars in Russia recently the USDT has become much more popular there.

Speaking about the economy in the Mid East - the 2011 Arab Spring was triggered by the bread prices rise (due to lower Russian exports due to 2010 fires). With Ukraine and Russia being major exporters of wheat, in particular into the Arab Spring region, and both countries expected to export much less this year due to the war - one can see that an even larger Arab Spring II is in the making now, and probably in some other regions of the world too. The food prices drastically rising will in particular lead to inflation and local currencies devaluations if not a total crash.