skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope we eventually understand the unreasonable effectiveness of LLMs, if not, it will still be a delightful mystery to live with.
Too early for that! "The Thing" is traditionally midwinter viewing.
Hmm. You can search episode names and show notes on Pocket Casts on a per-show but not a global basis. I guess that is a shortcoming.
I heard this story some 20 years ago, only the manufacturers were Japanese. It's probably apocryphal.
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CGPT: "[...] Does this sound like something you'd like to explore further?"

ME: "yes"

CGPT: "You have to answer the question before we can continue."

...

I managed to get out of that loop with a "let's talk about X" prompt, but it felt like talking to a particularly obtuse person.

TBH, it mostly stated the kind of faff I'd expect from "career folks" ("have you thought about doing courses...?"). It reminded me of why I don't like people in that niche.
the difference with a human is, they'd concede they made a mistake. The user did as Bing asked, reported the date on their phone. Bing doubled down on incorrectness.

also, LLMs are not human, so no expectation to treat it as such required.
I do think that people have much higher expectations today. Getting an engine rebuilt is mostly no longer a thing. The US mostly caught up, then Europe.
That's actually very plausible. And not limited to the fundies only. It's all fun and games, until such a bill gets passed and all of a sudden the UK leaves the EU (sure, it was a popular vote, but the spirit is the same).
Remarkable. This is the first time I've ever heard of the "Core Guidelines".

Seems like something I would be interested in; I've increasingly felt overwhelmed by the endlessly growing scope of C++, and the challenge of understanding which parts are and are not "Modern C++".
> As far as we know, time and space are continuous.

Our models are continuous. The map is not the territory.

> Various aspects of quantum field theories would not work in a discretized universe.

If you're referring to symmetries, that's not true [1]. Discretized theories have received barely any attention because physicists have simply built upon the formalisms they're used to from classical physics. We see people frequently saying that we should abandon classical intuitions now that we have quantum mechanics, but we haven't really even tried to abandon classical formalisms, which are just another form of classical intuition.

IMO, baking continuity and uncountable infinities is what's responsible for many of the difficulties we've had, and various forms of discretization have resolved these issues in the past [2]. My conjecture is that one of the next big advances in physics will be to take discretization seriously.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08997

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421
The threat of dollarization of the UK economy is pretty minimal, and I'm not seeing how the present proposal to grant individuals optional rights to hold a relatively small sterling balance in a basic bank account administered by the BofE rather than some other entity changes that. The working paper seems more worried by the proposed Libra (remember that!) than the USD...
Instead of doing this, simply don't have the assets vest and own them fully at the beginning at essentially a $0 cost basis. If you're the founder you should stack all the cards in your favor. Vesting periods should be for employees - also make sure they have long cliffs so you can claw back their equity.
Don't mistake media braintrust opinions for Americans opinions.

Local environmental hazards like this have unanimous bipartisan support for being thorough and transparent, thats how we got legislation like the Clean Air Act. How greased hands and coverup agents feel about it is a separate matter.
Look at the fotos, 16GB is even printed on the stick itself. Without the 'usable memory less' clause
I'm currently in much the same limbo: some geezer with an IP from the other side of the world logged into my fb account, changed password and phone number and likely did a bunch of unsavory stuff that broke the fb "community guidelines".

My account has now been "under review" since Saturday which means I can't log in, and my messenger, my fb profile and the associated businesses and groups that I manage have all disappeared from fb.

Having googled around my initial hopes that it will soon be resolved has flatlined: there seems to have been a surge of this lately and nobody that I have seen have had their access back (the reviewers have been fired?). I will likely loose my WhatsApp as well, judging by the reports.

Of course I realize that as an unpaying user of Meta products people might say "serves you right for being stupid". But I don't buy that. Fb is the de facto online directory of ordinary people (not counting much of the HN crowd as "ordinary" here).

It's totally unreasonable (understatement) that fb can effectively erase me and my online history and business without recourse because their systems leak and they don't have manpower who can do a human review of the facts in the case.

In the short term I'll be looking for other solutions, in the longer term I'll be supporting calls for making services like fb a public utility, with certain legal obligations (like not erasing online presences).
The Toyota Production System was established during Shoichiro Toyoda's leadership. It is the company's "operating system" if you will, and has made an enormous impact, both in the auto industry and in other fields such as IT.

"Lean" manufacturing, a term from Womack & Jones, is based on their research into this.

If you want to dive in, here is my reading list for essential books on how Toyota came to build high quality cars at scale, and how it transfers to other disciplines.

W. Edwards Deming - the grand old man of the field, building on a strict statistical discipline. His book "Out of the Crisis" is a wonderful treatise on his thinking including his famous "14 Points for Management". This is definitely a must read that will change the way you think about management and quality. Deming provided the inspiration for the quality movement that powered post-war Japanese manufacturing.

Taiichi Ohno - one of the greatest industrial innovators of the 20th century, the father of the Toyota Production System. After spending his career relentlessly optimizing manufacturing at Toyota he wrote the book "Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-scale Production" that describes his work.

Womack & Jones - Their books are great and it is well worth to read them all to see a lot of the principles and case studies for lean thinking. Also, it is quite interesting to see that software development is now rediscovering some of the things that manufacturing learned much earlier - in the case of Toyota as early as in the 1950s and 1960s. Begin your studies with "The Machine That Changed the World", a five-year study of the global auto industry from MIT and go on with the "Lean Thinking" and "Lean Solutions". They give a fascinating perspective on manufacturing and plenty of examples of the lean principles and they applications. These are the books that brought lean to the mainstream.

Mary and Tom Poppendieck - with a background in manufacturing and software they were leading the effort to translate the concepts of lean to software development. They have written two great books, "Implementing Lean Software Development" and "Lean Software Development - an Agile Toolkit". Both books are well worth reading a present a both the principles and lot of cases in a friendly, colloquial manner. Highly recommended!

Matthew May - I really like his approach to elegance and simplicity. May has worked with Toyota and their corporate university and his book "The Elegant Solution" offers insight into their innovation process - the principles it is built on and the practices that make it work.

Jeffrey Liker - his "The Toyota Way" is a very good introduction to the application of lean methods at Toyota. This is one of the best lean books I have read. Definitely a favourite!

This list covers up to around 10 years ago. Please comment with recommendations for more recent books on the topic.
What if the flawed routing simply exaggerates flaws with the way we think it should be designed?

The number one bottleneck in real traffic is intersections. Some people think optimal city design should mix zoning types at a finer level.

To your point though, we can't really demonstrate what's better when the agents are acting stupidly. I'd like to be able to learn what would work in the real world too.
Now I wonder if they watch other Antarctic media. I'd recommend "A Place Further than the Universe" but I have no idea if it's something they'd want to watch.
If this story has any accuracy, it's a sorry statement on what passes for work and management at large companies. It sounds pretty plausible and I'm not surprised Amazon disagrees. I don't expect Amazon or the spokespersons to be self-aware.

I feel really bad if this is the reality of work in 2023.
Lots of people saying Toyota missed the boat on EVs. I'm not convinced the technology, infrastructure or battery supply is ready for true mass production of EVs. Toyota makes 10 million cars a year, they'll be selling good EVs soon enough to put Tesla to shame.
I wonder why there are so few usb flash drives that have a physical "read only" lock.

That was so useful to defend against viruses.

A cheap flash drive will cost say 15 dollars and one with a physical button/lock to make it read only will be 150?

The cost of materials should be maybe 5 more dollars...

On a side note, if you go into one of those "print shops" that can print things for you and use an USB stick, then how can you sanitize your stick from the multiple viruses / worms that you will get?
Only thing that comes to my mind is to use a computer where the hard drives are physically disconnected and some live CD linux. But even then it is unclear if you can really format the usb flash memory to make it safe.
not an entirely bad idea.
The FAQ page puts Electrical Engineer at $95k/yr and 140% of area median income. With $150k you'd be at 220% of area median income. That's outside the "Who is affordable housing for" table
It's a 5.7, and for reference there have been 6 earthquakes of magnitude >= 5.7 in New Zealand in the past year.

https://earthquaketrack.com/p/new-zealand/recent?mag_filter=...

(It is possible this is the 7th, and not listed in the above website)
Well, I'm thinking I must be missing some nuance, it seems like there must be some session state stored in the LLM somehow, otherwise it would have to re-parse the entire chat session from scratch to generate each succeeding token. But maybe it does do that. I'm trying to understand if it is learning, or building a model of the world in any persistent way how that is happening and where it exists, if at all.
You might have 10 years of experience in UX design, but whoever made this landing page did not bother to read it on a mobile device.
The government voluntarily gave up powers in each of those circumstances. The people didn't take control.
> Are large corps really stopping people from buying Copilot on their own and using the personal license, BTW? Definitely not.

I would imagine so, just because of the EULA difference. Personally I never used and wouldn't dare to use Copilot at work, specifically out of concern for leaking company IP.

(EDIT: That, and exports control. Regulations governing what can be sold to who around the world are complex, and come with huge fines and prison sentences for non-compliance. Large corporations take this very seriously. For software devs this, in practice, means that someone will be going over the dependency trees of your projects with a fine-tooth comb. I'm sure exports control people will be interested in your use of Copilot, though what they'd think of it I am not sure.)

My experiences with personal licenses in two different corporate environments so far were:

- A large multinational - they had an internal "app store" through which you could request specific software products. Licensing issues were handled behind the scenes and invisible to the user. If the software required a one-time payment or a paid subscription, you were informed how much money will be charged to what cost centre, and how often (in less corporate language: how much $ will be deducted from your salary, and when). I never tried to run software on personal licenses while there, but if I did, I imagine it would've been flagged by the same auditing system that occasionally pestered me about old JRE versions that need to be uninstalled.

- A mid-sized manufacturer with highly corporate culture - they had IT install software to do automated auditing, and flagged any unauthorized software being run. They made a huge stink about people using unlicensed IrfanView. I actually bought an IrfanView license for my work machine using my own money, just so I could keep telling IT to tell whoever was driving those audits to leave me alone, as the license explicitly allowed using the software in commercial / corporate contexts. They weren't happy, but they also didn't tell me to remove it, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - but had I asked, they'd just say "no".
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing
Depends on how the energy is generated and transmitted really.
I thought that they had an open API, and I also thought we as players and AI enthusiasts would benefit somehow from this venture, it was all rather exciting. But the research was all behind closed doors, and nothing much came of it except for some impressive demonstrations.
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Ordering from Amazon is like gambling. Will you receive a genuine product as pictured or described, or a broken out-of-the box piece of crap? Only Jeff knows!

I'd rather buy from a local electronics retailer. Sure, might be a few bucks more expensive, but at least they have a brick-and-mortar location where I can come and complain if the products suck.
As it is, there isn't much of a general barrier to getting a law degree/any law degree to the point where the typical lawyer isn't really making a lot of money. The big bucks are going to white shoe law firms in big cities to lawyers who went to top schools (including Harvard) and landed federal court clerkships.

While there are respectable salaries among the others, there are also a lot of lawyers doing real estate law in shopping malls that are just getting by.
But I don't want to pay the spin up price all the time.
If you're so smart, why aren't rich yet?*

* change out rich for wealth or whatever major thing you are currently focused on.
This was my thinking, exactly. I have not tried implementing one before.
The article points out that the kernel uses ORC instead of DWARF for unwinding. I wonder if that could ever become an option in userspace? I imagine that if all you’re interested in is stack traces, instead of debugging (which DWARF is designed for), ORC would be a very nice performance win. And it’s not as if they’re mutually exclusive, either: there’s no reason why a binary or debuginfo couldn’t just ship both.

In any case, the runtime performance hit of frame pointers is quite high, and since we do have things like DWARF (and maybe ORC someday?), I’d still argue that frame pointers aren’t necessary. It’s nice to have that extra register free!
I've been with Linode since 2004, and this is making me seriously consider other providers.
"Please don't anthropomorphize the AI. It doesn't like that."
Haha. I said I wanted to become an international assassin. It helpfully suggested that I become a private investigator instead, as “the required skills are similar”.

Who knew!!
I'm now super amused with myself for not looking for "oct." Which, yeah, would have been the obvious prefix to look for.
Even iPhones aren't immune to getting bad blocks. The system files category is a catch-all that includes the reserved blocks for remapping by FTL when blocks go bad. As storage tiers get bigger, so does the number of reserved cells, in absolute terms.
He doesn't know shit because he was wrong on one prediction? The political talking heads have been repeatedly wrong on many things, and even outright deceptive, and yet they're still plastered all over the media. I think Snowden's track record is better frankly, and the OP's explanation is very plausible.
I missed that WD had purchased SanDisk. Well that's SanDIsk off the list of suppliers...
helpful without judging... seems like an ideal counselor
So many things to read up on, now! :D Thanks for the pointers!
Well.. if that’s what you want to do the advice is a good place to start.
If you zoom in on the first warehouse picture, you see there's ice inside the stores warehouse.

I guess they let everything that can tolerate it freeze?
I tell my children this every day, but it doesn't make any difference.
> Trying to change productivity at Salesforce is rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.

I agree. But this Titanic has many more years to very slowly sink, because large enterprises take forever to migrate away from Salesforce.

And the Salesforce sales teams are even better than Oracle at selling a crap product at high prices. That will buy them a lot of time.
Margaret Thatcher? I personally don't agree with all her ideas, but she has rescued the UK out of the mess they were in in the early '80s, and she managed to do it in an extremely hostile environment.
What? That doesn’t sound right. I would have to think the majority of people plug them in. That is the whole point of paying more for a plug-in.
Rail workers work under a completely different set of labor laws than virtually every other industry. They do not have the same protections, workers compensation or union rules than other industries do.

I’m not an expert on the intricacies of it, but the way a guy explained to me is to he union cannot or will not protect members for safety work stoppages.
I agree -- there is a lot of variability depending on boroughs. Hope they will extend the good practices more and more.
Yes, they can always stuff you into a cage when they catch you. That doesn't mean we should live in a cage full-time. As I and the sibling comment said, let's not make it easy for them. The USSR did break up, and tyrannical governments get overthrown - but that's going to be a lot harder to do if state repression becomes more efficient and easy.
And I'll bet those offending tweets are still on Twitter.
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Are you saying co-ops don’t work? Mondragon is “at scale”. The US is failing at [affordable] health care compared to a country like Cuba. Worker unions are closer to democracies and work well too.
The National Media apparatus is not putting pressure on the right entities to ensure transparency and accountability. They have no problem doing that when it suits their political objectives. Wall to wall coverage of shit most people barely give a shit about for weeks on end with no changes but endless questions.

Here's an issue that has very grave implications for us all and suddenly they're not interested in asking the right questions of the right people anymore. You don't find that remotely disappointing or curious?

If the 'wrong' people were in office they'd have the sainted mayor talking about how much they need the federal help they're not getting. Why haven't they even bothered asking FEMA for help by the way? Maybe a competent media would ask those questions.
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Radios don't support video, but apart from that yeah pretty much. Quite literally the top result when I search on twitter for "Ohio" is a tweet from several days ago with a photo of the cloud and talk of acid rain, others have photos about the dead livestock and fish. They've been viewed 40M+ times. https://mobile.twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/16248854664...

This news is nowhere near as secret as people want to believe. I don't know why so many are convinced it is. Maybe some desire to feel part of a small "in the know" group?
Didn't Bitcoin lose half its value like 6 months ago?
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> What follows is millions of derivative Mario levels unworthy of their own game.

It doesn't refute your point, but what actually happened was that brilliant tinkerers found ingenious ways to combine the basic tools to create whole new classes of advanced gadgets that enable styles of gameplay not intended by Nintendo. Here's a playlist with some examples and tutorials: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLekbcfvMB1gYieKXixxXVBTYC...
I heard of that but never had a chance to do some testing. Is dual-channel good for gaming only or for everything?
This was true several years ago but if you look now there are hundreds of GWh of cell plants coming online over the next 3 years. Toyota is very late here and won’t be able to produce dedicated BEVs at scale until 2026+. Competitors will already be on their 2nd or 3rd generation BEV platforms by then.
I don't see how this is funny. I also think this is a bit insulting.

What is a "truly conscious" AI and why would anyone believe that's inevitable let alone possible? We don't even know what consciousness is. Any premature attempt to define, legislate, or even market it is disgusting pragmatism that needs to be eradicated from the tech industry yesterday.
I had way too much fun with this during my backlog refinement meeting. Amazing project, well done!
There’s no merge or precommit hooks or blocking.

If they chose to make their code invisible to me then I can’t fix it.
I, and most software engineers, would be interviewing 24/7.
I think this advice could be revised to.

"You can't change people, you can only manipulate them."
> The most likely scenario is that my email password was compromised and there’s a backdoor to disable 2FA after doing a password reset request which is a huge security flaw that shouldn’t exist.

So you don't know if your gmail account was hacked or accessed? I would be worry about that.
Do you enjoy soundscapes in movies? Sometimes I get the chills at the sound of the wind blowing, rain, etc. What Im trying to determine is whether it is music or general sound your brain circuitry doesn’t care to release dopamine..
The only time I got a corporate card, the company used a third option: a corporate AMEX that you had to pay off on your own + timely reimbursements + rule against plugging your own travel reward cards to collect miles and bonuses.

From employee point of view, this setup had all the drawbacks of using your own card, with none of the benefits. Well, OK - it saved you a tiny bit of time when doing expense reports, by automatically pre-filling the expense sheet with transactions pulled from AMEX statement. So there's that.

As for software licensing, that same company had a system through which you could request software, and appropriate costs would be deducted automatically from somewhere (e.g. team budget, or more likely, your paycheck). So again, a third option.
Guess DB isn't content with just delaying their own trains these days..
EU sues Member States who refuse to bring in new copyright rules
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Shopify deleted 322,000 hours of meetings. Should the rest of us be jealous?
Exactly, except debuginfod from Canonical and some others misses the executables.
The model is the model and it works exactly as it should.
Is this supposed to be a parody? https://files.catbox.moe/lb3t5q.png
You can't call it "early ecosystem" after 15 years.
Is Bing AI available? (Neeva marketing site)