skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 8086 is just starting to pipeline so it is starting small.

Recently I did some reading about the Transport Triggered Architecture and for the first time thought "I could make a special purpose microprocessor" and might actually try it with an FPGA. That got me thinking a lot about processor architecture, particularly the ability for one (real or micro) instruction to simultaneously control multiple subsystems.

What I see as problematic though is that the TTA stalls when it is waiting for memory, I think a high performance system based on the TTA would need some kind of programmable memory access engine that would try to schedule fetches ahead of time programmatically... But I think then it is getting pretty hard.
Fair point, I don’t really have oppinions on that.

My point was the inverse, that the archetypical Japanese approach to engineering suits the iterative careful development that hardware requires.
Other than the occasional mass genocide hardly anyone dies from guns in China!

On the plus side, most modern day peace-time gun deaths being caused by suicide, the state will just execute you to save the danger of you having a gun to commit suicide with!
> but I _really_ dislike when ChatGPT lectures me because my request is against its "moral values."

Just know that the morality systems cost more GPU cycles to run, and they are the first to be gutted when an open source model emerges. See for example stable diffusion, in which people disable watermarking and filtering and other stuff the user didn't ask for.
The existing open source models which compete at this point suck ass in comparison.

I'm likely to do less NLP research going forward and more CV research because I can't locally run most LLMs but I sure as shit can run most of the diffusion models at home.

It's a sad situation.
It seems to be between my skull and my skin.

I should mention that I have had some auditory hallucinations within the last few weeks.
I have had a similar problem with the 4 letter extension causing issues. What is really annoying is the sites that allow the signup with the 4 letters but then proceed to fail at every other opportunity up to and including opt out(GAP). I spent an hour with them over the phone before anyone even understood what I was saying.

I am also now using Fastmail addresses for anything I don't have some trust for and isn't a problem if lost. I no longer use my domain for things outside of this because it seems like an obvious step to simply link an unknown domain together, even if a laughable amount of companies don't.
I'm in my 50s. The cognitive decline in my mid to late 40s was very, very real. I'm hanging on hard because I work at a FAANG and I have to keep my job, but I'm literally dumber than I was 10 years ago.

I don't know if there's anything you can do about it. I did start drinking those energy drinks with nootropics, at least the caffeine helps.

Some other suggestions are: get a lot of sleep, cognitively I declined tremendously when I got sleep deprivation. I would also get an MRI. I just read your comment about slurring words and I would spend the money and get an MRI on your own money just to be sure.
How many legitimate users will use pluses or dots which you forgot to allow in your email validator?

How many legitimate users will use capital letters, which I had to add to an in-production email validator on an app with millions of MAUs?

Just send a confirmation email to whatever string they provide you.
A Harry Potter Trivia Bot, Powered by GPT-3
Over winter break I resurfaced an old project, a harry potter trivia bot. I rebuilt it using generative models instead of the extractive ones I had used previously. The generative approach was far easier to implement and performed better. Cheers.
This is not an effective argument in disagreement with the OP.
MathML is going to be released in Chrome 109
If someone is wary to ask, they probably can't afford it
I'm speculating a bit here, but I suspect that answer reflects a practically risk-averse read of the same case, for two reasons. One is that, as a district court opinion, Bridgeman isn't _necessarily_ binding federal precedent. (I don't want to overstate that point, because Bridgeman is well established and has been found persuasive by other courts. Still, given that this site appears to distribute the resulting ebooks itself, I assume their appetite for risk here is pretty small.)

Even following Bridgeman though, there is a teeny bit of analysis that you have to do to determine that the reproduction is a faithful photographic copy of the original. In most cases that's straightforward, but again, if you really want to limit risk and as in this case your application doesn't require a particular image, it might be worth cutting out that analysis altogether and going with media that is simply outside of the range of copyright terms.
> EDIT: On closer inspection, I think this is intentional HN rage bait.

do flag stories like this
Flashy movement draws our attention... away from the speaker and the content of the talk. Doesn't help.

Animation can be useful in very small doses if it helps to understand something that is dynamic in nature, but that's it.
I don't really understand this sentiment. Management joining or not should have 0 effect on standup. They should only be there to hear what folks are working on and or also to give their own updates.
It’s definitely easier to write new code, but faster? I doubt it.

I see a lot of the time programmers doing the easy/fun thing rather than the hard beneficial to the business thing.
Take a look at half the brochures for investment funds and it becomes evident. Somehow returns from 2008 get left out - or 2020 when COVID hit. Money managers are already gearing up to tout their returns once this recession starts to wind down.
I was trying my best not to freak them out, given how rare brain tumors are. I just wanted to make sure they were considering it.
I wonder how much longer the Empire State Building construction would have taken, or what other compromises would have been required (fewer floors, less ornamentation, etc) in order to prevent those deaths.
I suspect that this is true for a number of people and you're being honest with yourself. I find that frequently skimming social media, mostly twitter and IG, makes deeper reading harder. If you do that even 30 min a day, you're untraining reading and training skimming. the rapid cognitive switching involved with skimming a wide range of topics that fly by on a timeline also trains the neural grooves for rapid context switching over attending to something for a while.

Good luck - might take a few months, but with good sleep and restricting phone use, I would imagine you'll see improvements. Med school is also very hard - my wife's a doctor so I see this up close. Don't be too hard on yourself.
I'm starting to think everything we do has a use it or lose it quality. I remember reading how people who haven't spoken in their native language in awhile (for example because of a study abroad) have difficulty speaking their language when they come back. They also end up using simpler vocabulary as well.

So it wouldn't surprise me if skills like reading also fall under this. But to be fair the stuff you are probably reading is probably really dense and full of lots of medical terminology so it might not be surprising that you have to reread it.
... that implies all your services already were HTTP-separated or some other swappable network invocation besides direct calls ...

Which means... you were microservicing before microservices were a thing?

If not, do you care to share how you abstracted your service invocations so they could fluidly go from inter-box comms to separated boxes?
Great comment! I didn't see Wolfram's OP as being bearish on the "naive" scaling hypothesis, but more as him being a bit upset and jealous about ChatGPT recently getting so much attention. Maybe he's a bit scared too about what future improvements to ChatGPT-like models could do to his business. In any case, I think his proposal of combining the two approaches makes a lot of sense in the near term, as I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329654
yup, I make it my priority. I live very simply, I eat only raw produce.

Sometimes it is 2-3 hours if I am feeling cramped for time, but 3-4 hours 4-5 days a week.
as long as they were ubiquitous and containers I have no objection.
Check out the classic Rands article “The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster”, written from the manager’s POV: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-t...
Manager Tools is a good podcast.
> And that is the problem.

No, that's not the problem.

> the business (read: product owner) has deemed it unimportant to update or understand,

That's the problem. It's not on a random person in the department to spend their own time trying to solve a problem the business doesn't want invest time or money into solving. I don't see you offering to do this for free, so don't claim that's a problem for others.
Common Red Flags of World-Changing Project Ideas
FYI, it isn’t actually harder to make ammo than the gun. I have a decent amount of experience reloading and machining (including machining parts that could easily be guns, but weren’t). I also have quite a bit of experience with muzzle loading/black powder, etc.

It’s just not something that is currently optimized to make in an improvised way, because ammo is normally the easy, bulk, part. It does require a decent amount of expertise, and ability to pay attention to detail though.

If someone was so motivated, metal slugs + compressed gas can make a far more than adequate weapon (semi-auto too!), and would 3D print quite nicely. If someone was going to go that way, 3D printing a suppressor would be trivial too.

And those slugs could be easily cast in any kitchen using commonly available materials (zinc, for instance, if lead was controlled).

The underlying reason this isn’t really a problem is due to motive, economics/payback, etc.

It’s solidly in the ‘but why?’ category for pretty much everyone, but if someone had a reason, I bet they could make a 3D printable design with a couple pages of directions and almost anyone could do it.

The local scuba shop would have quite the run on pony bottles though!
Remind HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews
Original thread: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30181167

For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549

It works with comments, too: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253

Hastily-developed source: https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com
As they say, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
> it's not the most valuable thing I could be doing

> Even now that I went into consulting

I have a couple counter points on this. Previous CTOs I know that post to LinkedIn a lot, helped fill open roles, share company developments, and appear well networked "IT gurus". Then eventually started their consulting firms. Thing was, they were like executive celebrities to their dozens->hundreds of reports they managed over the years while holding their CTO roles. Fast forward a few years, many of those reports are now >=director levels managing $xxx million of budget dollars at various other companies. So, when they hear their old CTO is starting a consulting company, well you know how that goes. The CTO consulting firm is quickly a 100+ team. So maybe not the best use of your time for the company you work for at the moment, but it can pay dividends in the future for you personally.
I don't exercise really, but I do tend to walk 10,000 steps every day.
I’ve used https://open-meteo.com/ before and I think it’s the same type of open data being exposed.

These types of projects are great for stuff like home automation. I’m using to to improve my predictions for power generation (PV) and consumption (heat pump). Planning to is ergst to optimize home battery charging in the future.

(Disclaimer; open sourced a small go library for open meteo, but otherwise not affiliated)
Not out of the box. When I try it I get this:

$ ls -al | clip

Command 'clip' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install geomview

"geomview" has something to do with 3D images.

I tried this with Ubuntu 18 and 20 ...
Why? Huggingface is most likely worth as much as OpenAI is today and everything they do is open sourced or basically open sourced.

Huggingface is one of the most beloved companies in the world right now too. Lots of interest in them within open source developer communities.
> BGP hijacking is still possible today.

.. in the same sense as http hijacking is possible today, i.e. without httpS. For BGP we have RPKI ROA for a quite a while, and ASPA is coming.
Huh? I have a sporting goods store in my neighborhood that I've bought a few from. You walk in, say I want it, fill out the form and pay your money. The checks add a few minutes, but it's not much different from buying a barbecue which they sell a few aisles down.
that's fair ;)

when kickstarter was first taking off, I loved using it to springboard only the projects that would at least break even: if there wasn't enough demand, nothing happens, but as long as the minimum is high enough to cover all the costs, it worked out pretty well
X runs on so many more platforms than Wayland, even if every single Linux distribution switched tomorrow there would still be good reason to support X. Python3 is strictly an improvement on every platform, I don't think they're analogous because there really is no good reason to keep Python2 around.
There will always be another recession, but no one knows when. Therefore, the way you position yourself now should really be how you would position yourself at any time.
As a manager how can you not know what your staff is doing at any given time? I've worked in some places where developers chose their own stories but we had morning standups to communicate what we were working on.
With technical managers: how things are going, what needs to be solved to speed things up, what is holding the progress up.

With non-technical managers (which I would expect to have 1:1s in the first place):

- How it is going

- How the team is doing

- What I need

- How my life is

- How his kids are

- What I would like to see happening in the team or company

Usually if this is a team manager, he had zero insight from the daily progress or process (why should he). So to see where problems need to be solved for the team, whom to promote or move into another position, etc. can only come from such meetings. And he also needs personal, confidential opportunities for that.

Not everyone is vocal, not every team member understands what is a problem or an issue in the first place...
I wish I could offer more on maximizing this time... However, I think I can help in another way.

Don't feel bad about 'blowing your trumpet' or complaining; that's exactly the time to do it!

My manager and I skip our 1:1s more often than we have them, and when we do, it's usually just a hang-out session.

We meet once every two weeks, and most of the time is just talking about random things we found neat.

However, there are times when another team is being difficult and I need help 'navigating the business'. These meetings are super valuable for that.

I can provide more in-depth information on the situation as a whole, and we can work on a plan - without needlessly involving the rest of our team.
I would say RN, more community support if you're using it for business.
> You take the weapons out of reach of people who would use them to do harm to others _first_, and only then can we make any progress on the issues.

Translation: "we'll disarm who we please and demand that you wait until we're satisfied before we start tackling the actual issues driving violence and suicide"

Nah, that ain't how this works. We as a society can and should be addressing the systemic causes of violent crime and suicide now; punting on that on the basis of "but bad people still have guns" is reprehensible.
Am the only one who feels like thia whole article is like ChatGPT repeating the definitions without giving out any details?.
For example, instead of the other Rep who said exactly just a paraphrase of what the previous Rep said, they could explain what is FairTax is actually instead of just keep saying the samething.
Yes, I almost completely agree.

Except for the voting part. To vote on a problem, you need to know the potential solutions. We barely know the questions to ask regarding what is necessary to teach a child to be a well-formed person. And laws in those cases lead to serious unintended consequences.
GraphQXL – The Missing GraphQL Language Extension?
Meaningless.

Senate wouldn’t back it and President wouldn’t sign it.

Telling how ignorant audiences are of civics that this stunt would merit an article. (Indeed, a good number of these same reps literally voted to fund the IRS at unprecedented levels just a few weeks ago.)
Two terms you may want to refresh your memory on: second system syndrome and Chesterton's fence. I've never seen a rewrite come in remotely on time, and I've seen quite a few fail altogether. Often what happens is, in trying to solve the problem again, the developers come to understand the original system, which already works. It becomes impossible to articulate tangible benefits for the rewrite and it gets shelved.
Ask HN: How pivot into a (viable) US Government career in tech?
As a slightly aged collegeman with a presumptive, future degree in Computer Engineering, I'm not entirely certain if I want to chase the same things as many of my peers.

I was flirting with the idea of joining the military and pivoting off of that into something in defense, because frankly, with little social life, and littler desire for riches, work with the government, on problems that could provide that elusive sense of self worth really appealed to me.

However, with a recent neurological development, that career may be entirely a wash before it began. And thus I'm back where I started, except now with no idea where to begin.

So I'm asking HN: How to kickstart a career in (possibly) defense or an adjacent world without military contacts?

I am a US citizen, I have no criminal record.
my screen time on my phone is less than 45 mins each day.

I use an iPad also but I don't have any social media apps, etc loaded. Its very strictly used for classwork, research, assignments, etc.
Intel’s Delays in Delivering a Crucial New Microprocessor
I think that's what I ran into ... but not at first, only later, which was weird ...
I sometimes participate in the Rust RFCs, so yes, I can imagine them writing RFCs and debating back and forth, which they do daily.

Again you're focusing on coworkers and teams here and there at various companies, not in the best of the best who are the ones who built the internet and who would build it today. They are not average developers like one might normally work with, as I said, they are 0.0...1%.
Sorry for your situation.

I'm sure you will be okay later on because that has nothing to do with your age or cognitive decline.

You can be physically stronger and "brainly" faster and more effective than any man younger than you as long as you keep exercising/coding.
Falling with Helium - https://what-if.xkcd.com/62/

> While researching this article,[5] I managed to lock up my copy of Mathematica several times on balloon-related differential equations, and subsequently got my IP address banned from Wolfram|Alpha for making too many requests. The ban-appeal form asked me to explain what task I was performing that necessitated so many queries, so this is what I put: ...

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https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWolframAlpha/posts/did-you-...

Did you know that we banned xkcd's Randall Munroe's IP address? Whoops! We address that mishap AND his query here:

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A Response to “Falling with Helium” - https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/09/19/a-response-to-falli...

> Recently the author of xkcd, Randall Munroe, was asked the question of how long it would be necessary for someone to fall in order to jump out of an airplane, fill a large balloon with helium while falling, and land safely. Randall unfortunately ran into some difficulties with completing his calculation, including getting his IP address banned by Wolfram|Alpha. (No worries: we received his request and have already fixed that.)
I can't stand websites that say my email is invalid because it has a "+" in it. If the site doesn't allow it I usually take my business elsewhere.
I know that this isn't a serious piece of legislation, but just entertaining the idea of a consumption tax: wouldn't this hugely incentivize people to spend money overseas rather than domestically? Basically this would give people a huge discount if they take vacations abroad rather than domestically, to the point that it would make sense to do regular weekend trips to Mexico or Canada. In theory the government could try to tax consumption abroad, but in practice it seems like that would be very hard to enforce.
Studying algorithms doesn't help directly with many coding tasks, but does provide people with a way of reasoning. It also makes people aware that eg some sorting algorithms are better than others.

Similarly, studying business makes one aware of a wider range of issues and tools, and case studies allow learning lessons from others.

If an MBA doesn't help with those things, you should ask for your money back.
you are fine. I am not freaked out by your thoughts. I truly appreciate you replied at all.
You're using ChatGPT as a strawman.

You claimed the younger generation doesn't have the attention span to invent the internet. Someone else mentioned the clear and ongoing progress in machine learning, which involves many things not named ChatGPT, and has become one of the biggest economic engines of the world.

You're just making an inane generalization. You will rightly be criticized for this.

And you're completely missing out on the inevitable fact that those zoomers could teach you a lot of things you don't know too.
My introduction to 1:1 was with a notably bad manager and that has given me a bad taste for them.

Once a week is a horrible schedule. That's a regular production killer as you need to task switch from focused work up to the corporate game level. Before the meeting I spend time thinking about what to talk about and after the meeting I need to refocus, which takes time.

During the meeting I try to keep things light and social and parse the information I share with consideration of my manager's ability to handle it. I also have to consider how my dislike for the meetings might be perceived as hostility by my manager and be harmful to my career.

Yes, I hate them.
What I have liked both as a manager and as an employee is to talk about things that are important but not urgent, especially focusing on the employee's experience and happiness. I think they day-to-day work stuff belongs mostly elsewhere.

When I start 1:1s with a new engineer, I will ask about why they took the job, what they were hoping to get out of it, and where they see themselves as going professionally. Then over the long term it's my job to make sure that they are getting what they want out of the job and staying happy enough that they stay, so I'll return to those early conversations and update them.

Lara Hogan has some good resources for managers: https://larahogan.me/resources/one-on-ones/

Regarding the OP's situation, though, it sounds like they are feeling responsible for directing the 1:1. I'd say that's a bit of a managerial failure. But answering the question directly, in the OP's shoes I might turn to broader questions. Ask about the company strategy, and how the employee's work fits in. Ask for career advice. Ask about manager's relationships with higher ups.
Republicans have run on a platform of "Government is terrible at it's job" for 50 years, and every time they get elected they work really hard to prove it.