skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why are many recruiters so guarded about their roles/clients?
I see this a lot. A recruiter might message me with nothing but a single sentence l. For example one I got was along the lines of

> I have an [Vague job title] position that is looking for experience in [Technology X] and [Technology Y].

I have no idea if I’m remotely qualified for the role, if it’s something that fits my long term goals and plans, etc. and they won’t give any more information until I call them, until I do X or Y for them.

It seems we could both avoid wasting each others time if they just upfront gave me a brief JD and ideally the company.
The LockBit group has announced that it has added Nok Air to its list of victims and has threatened to publish the data by March 15, 2023.
Yes.... but that's running a company, not being a plumber lol!
No, it's not just an autocomplete engine. The underlying neural network architecture is a transformer. It certainly can do "autocomplete" (or riffs on autocomplete), but it can also do a lot more. It doesn't take much thought to realize that being REALLY good at autocomplete means that you need to learn how to do a lot of other things as well.

At the end of the day the "predict next word" training goal of LLMs is the ultimate intelligence test. If you could always answer that "correctly" (i.e. intelligently) you'd be a polymath genius. Focusing on the "next word" ("autocomplete") aspect of this, and ignoring the knowledge/intelligence needed to do WELL at it is rather misleading!

"The best way to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity into a single theory of everything is ..."
I understand where this narrative comes from, but I think it is false.

The reason I think that is Covid. With kids learning remote and going all digital, the facade was lifted from teaching. Parents can and did directly experience what our kids were going through.

Our kids’ lowest standardized State scores were with teachers who were terrible. A science teacher who hated kids in general (really). A general teacher near retirement phoning it in. A math teacher who said “read section 5.6 in your book and do the homework” - and that was class.

Our kids did well where the teachers were creative. Where they interacted with students. Where they gave direct feedback and corrections. Where they gave learning reinforcement extra credit to help them focus in areas they had trouble.

In good public schools and many private schools, these bad teachers are not tolerated. In poor ones, the bad teachers flourish, and the kids suffer.
Yawn. EFF is a mouthpiece for the biggest patenters and patent-infringers out there and there is nowhere near an appropriate amount of criticism or reflection here on the role the EFF plays, and launders by its popular positions with regards to privacy and security (which are more often than not hypocritically self-serving considering that the constituents and funders of the EFF are the biggest anti-privacy and anti-security entities in existence). Google infringes patents left and right, patents what it wants and uses them against competitors, and works hand in hand with the DoD to fulfill secret defense contracts to reduce privacy and security, on top of what they do in the advertising space, yet everyone here is in a rush to lap up their entirely self-serving narrative about patent trolls, expressed through the mouth of the EFF.
This is awesome, though I'm unsure whether I should port over my small 3.x C# project right now, or wait for 4.1.
It appears to be main instance according screenshots of the official app.[0]

Nicknames would be formed as next:

@{nickname}.bsky.social

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluesky-social/id6444370199
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I have 2 years of production Rust. I am looking to continue my career in Rust
after 15 years of experience in other langues.
Yeah I can believe $200k if you're doing commercial stuff running a crew. Unsure how much of that work there is in the Midwest.

No way you're making $200k doing residential work, even in large cities. Definitely not if you aren't on your own.
Meaningful metrics: How data sharpened the focus of product teams
Looks like he doesn't want Hyatt to host hate group conferences in their hotels, which are events with a lot of publicity where they're clearly using the facilities for promoting hatred. It's not like AirBNB blacklisting an individual from staying the night due to unrelated personal reputation.
>Through a series of system-wide optimizations, we’ve achieved 90% cost reduction for ChatGPT since December

This is seriously impressive. A MILLION tokens for 2 dollars is absolutely fucking insane.

I hope that the gains reached here can also be found by open source and non-controlled AI projects. If so, that could be huge for the advancement of AI.
Self-host might not be the right way to think about it. It's more of a video game with a built-in web server, like Age of Empires where one player hosts the game for everyone else.

The only difference is all the other players only need a web browser to connect. But you can play the game from a single computer if you want.
These measures are all so far in the future they are irrelevant. It's like giving people a loan their kids will pay.
There are a lot of Spanish immersion schools especially at the lower grade levels to help bridge the gap into bilingual learning.
Also even if that were the case, is that worth diverging from the main mission of the creation of the company to do? If they created the company with non profit in mind (since the consequences of a profit maximizing AI organization is the risk they wanted to avoid) then if you have to relax that constraint in order to build AGI, is that really a trade you should do? (Vs just being smarter with algorithms and more resourceful with resources. Or like tackling something else than LLMs.)
Which case are you referencing?
One problem is the managers that were supposed to be leaders but in reality they are very poor accountants.

Source: me.
There's a bunch in here that I think HN readers will find fascinating, but it may help to have a little context going in. At Oxide, we have developed our own switch[0][1] using switching silicon that implements P4[2]. P4 is really interesting -- you can think of it as a much cleaner eBPF -- and our programmable switch is effectively a P4 engine. This is really powerful; if you want to jump to why, listen to Ry expand on it about an hour into the conversation.[3]

This conversation goes into the details about making all of this work. Along the way, we hit on pushing a cycle-accurate simulator to its limits; developing a new P4 compiler that has a Rust target; using that compiler to then develop an accurate hardware-virtualized model of the ASIC; developing a new routing protocol (delay driven multipathing); and how all of this adds to up solving some gnarly problems like microcongestion and flexible topology construction.

[0] https://share.transistor.fm/s/c80a79d8

[1] https://share.transistor.fm/s/65a10522

[2] https://p4.org/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWh2Sms3aw#t=1h4m46s
I mean at least when it catches fire I know something's wrong ...
The HP LaserJet 4 uses 55 watts on standby. If you pay for your own electricity that becomes pretty expensive quickly.
The ChatGPT API is cheaper than a fine-tuned babbage model.
Think about all tricks you can so in decimal, but in base 2 instead.

E.g in decimal you can multiply by ten by appending a zero, so in binary you multiply by 2 by doing so. And left shifting by 1 is what appends a zero.

Or you can take approximate log base ten in decimal by counting amount of digits, so in binary you can approximate log2 this way (counting up to most significant one-bit). Etc...
Fuel taxes come nowhere near paying for the roads. Only a lack of imagination prevents us from replacing any lost tax revenues.

My town puts a $9/mo fee on my water bill to pay for road improvements. Everyone in town pays in regardless of how much or what they drive. The money is also being spent on sidewalks and bike routes, so non-drivers benefit too.
I haven't played Thorium, but bridge sims are a lot of fun. Especially when playing with colleagues or other engineers. I've found non-tech people can get frustrated and bored with them, but my 70yo non-techie mother is in love with the engineering station of Artemis. It is a lot of work to play the Captain role, and in any event the game is tiring after about an hour.

What's really fun is having everyone in the room engaged with a central game (played on the big TV in the room) on their own phones/computers. Usually group games aren't cooperative or interactive to the entire group at once. Jackbox has a few coop BYOD party games, but I really wish this product-space had more options.

There's also the case of venues having realistic bridge-sims that are kinda like an escape room (in setting/biz model). Show up to the set and cooperate to solve the task. This seems to be the use-case for Thorium classic (the predecessor to TFA). I've seen these at flight museums. They're a load of fun, but probably rather expensive to setup and run (and still tiring).
Yup,

Apple is probably the biggest global vendor in Switzerland that refuses to accept Swiss payment methods like Twint[1] or the now defunct PostFinance card[2]. It's such an Issue that every time you do anything in the Apple store they constantly tell you, we don't accept ..., make sure your have another payment method when you pickup your device.

BTW, they still charge a ~10% premium in Switzerland compared to the rest of Europe, just because.

[1] https://www.twint.ch/en/

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfinance_Card
There are giant CNCs [1] that can cut marble and other stone so between the machine and transportation to Easter island, in the ballpark of a few hundred thousand dollars. Most of that is setup cost for the first one though, since a block of stone is significantly cheaper than a CNC.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=iI8OmfEK8cE
This thread is glossing over some important details. A package repo has two distinct storage concerns: the index (a list of which versions of packages have ever been released), and the actual packages themselves. It's convenient to have the index centralized, for maximum consistency. But the packages themselves can be stored however you want, and if you try to access a stale mirror without the most recent version of a package, then the client should have the option of using a different mirror or else accepting the old version.

For crates.io specifically, the packages are stored in S3, whereas the index is currently stored as a bog-standard Github repo (not as a Github Package), and in the near future the crates.io index will also move to crates.io itself (https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/01/30/cargo-spar...).
> Meta's new Llama models outperforming GPT-3

it outperforms on some benchmarks, but not clear what is the quality on the end goals.
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It's very important to distinguish that stuff, because as we saw in The Millionaire Next Door you can often end up classifying someone as "electrician" or "plumber" when more properly they should be classified as "small business owner".
There is no IQ threshold effect, also not for income
The game is under active development, and I'm trying to keep an open governance model, where anyone can contribute ideas and shape the direction of development. If you want, feel free to pop into the Github discussions to propose how to build these kinds of mechanics into the game!
You really think the school system is bad because the entire cadre of school administrators are taking secret orders from shadowy politicians to keep kids dumb? I recommend you rethink the logical process that brought you to this conclusion.
Interesting conversation ... but I don't think this is as disastrous for the world as other commentators seem to feel. First, I don't think OpenAI is really far ahead (or even ahead at all) of other companies (particularly Google). And maybe I'm naive, but I don't think they have some special insights either about how to build models ... they just trained one model using a lot of resources and data. But other organizations know how to gather data and train models too.

And nothing stops us from building more models in the open ... nor from pooling our resources and training something for the community.

Things are not so dire. We are okay.
Or, the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proletariat, if you will.
Well said and exactly right. The private school not only had higher expectations? But also realistic feedback in the form of real grades and consequences.
Car manufacturers discovered that they can get higher profit margins per vehicle with supply constrained, and now they are addicted to it. GM is actually cutting production to avoid having to give up the "low supply" margins. This is the kind of thing that works until some competitor decides to ramp production and drop prices and eat your lunch. On a side note Tesla is just opened up their Texas gigafactory and recently dropped prices across the board.
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> This is just conveniently redefining what most people mean when they talk about objective factors.

I disagree. People have complained about the increase in television channels and shows leading to a breakdown in the cohesiveness of society. Broadcast technologies (along with the related rabbit-hole and bubble effects) are definitely an aspect of "objective factors" that people talk about.

> People tend to think of issues that impact mental health as somehow less objective, because mental health is itself subjective.

Personal mental health is subjective in much the same way that personal ability to find a place to sleep (from couch surfing to buying a mansion) is subjective (and becoming harder due to demographics and new construction deficits).

Social mental health (sociology) is an objectively measurable criterion. As indicated by the link in my edit to the post you are responding to.
> The logic here is absolutely astounding. People _killing themselves_ is not an indicator that life is worse?

It could be an indicator that there is a perception that life is worse, which may drive action regardless of whether it is objectively true - and social media may be the primary vector for spreading that perception.

Let’s face it, “life is better/worse” is an absurdly one-dimensional judgement given how complex everyone’s lives are. Even if there was a way of measuring an accurate quality of life trend, I expect it is far more likely that people’s perceptions are shaped by their media inputs than by reviewing actual data.
Given CMake's compatibility guarantees and Lua's…lack of it, we'd have been stuck with Lua 4.x or something (or supporting every version of Lua since then at the same time…nobody's idea of "great" IMO). If CMake had chosen an existing language when it started, it'd likely have been Python 2.x, Perl 5, or Tcl. Not sure that any of these would have been strictly better decisions in today's world than the status quo.

FD: CMake developer
Whisper as an API is great, but having to send the whole payload upfront is a bummer. Most use cases I can build for would want streaming support.

Like establish a WebRTC connection and stream audio to OpenAI and get back a live transcription until the audio channel closes.
He’s basically showing data oriented design, where you, try to limit cpu cache misses by operating on the data.

This approach can be way faster, but is only relevant when you have a lot of entities you need to iterate over. If you have 3-100 objects it would of course still be faster but by negligible amount
We Must Prevent a New Nuclear Arms Race
In my experience, most devs dislike working in C++. (I'm an industry engineer in games. Even the people who like C++ hate C++.)

Maintaining C++ support is expensive for an engine, just like maintaining any language binding. IMO, they should optimize for the most approachable/developer ergonomic language, which C++ definitely is not.

That said, I strongly disagree with their decision to simply build their own language. I think there are many languages that already exist that make better candidates for game development either because they are well known, well supported, or easily portable.
It might not be relevant to HN. But could you please explain the reference? Why is Godot a joke? I'm familiar with the reference
May He Sweat Copiously
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Ex-Microsoft L66 Principal Data Scientist, UW Statistics PhD, Caltech undergrad, fmr CFA. Can work as IC or hands-on lead, lot of experience ramping up junior DS IC's, whether from technical or MBA-type backgrounds.

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Recently I've been working on crowdsourcing/human relevance/RLHF; if you're using humans to generate training or optimization data, talk to me about designing incentives and monitoring quality.

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> 2000 miles off the coast of Chilli.

I wonder how did the ancient people get there? I find it hard to believe that they just got on boats heading east deep into the largest ocean on the planet hoping that they would find an island? Unless of course, they were already there and humans' history dates way back (i.e., before the island shifted east due to tectonic plates movements)?

The island does not have much resources either, so how could they survive? Did they cut down all the trees to use and rails for these huge pieces of stone? And why can we only see the heads, not the entire body buried under the ground?
He Took His Shoes Off 20 Years Ago. He Hasn’t Put Them Back On
I've played Artemis before. Thorium's promise of a "game master" and a narrative outside of combat sounds interesting.

Incidentally, here's a link to the latest alpha:

https://github.com/Thorium-Sim/thorium-nova/releases/tag/v1....
Which is good, because their backups for large servers are troublesome.

(short answer, too many inodes are bad. too many is low single digit millions.)
The definition of a gentleman - "a man who can play the bagpipes. But doesn't"

(unknown attribution but I got it from a scotsman)
Grade level education standards are criterion-based, not norm-referenced. That's why kids (used to) get held back to repeat a grade when they failed them.
FWIWs, Ford eliminated all cars in is lineup except for the Mustang in the US, and otherwise sells SUVs and trucks.
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No I think I am holding it wrong... maybe it is getting blocked or broken by a blocker.
This headline is brought to you by brand new on site in less than 24 hours genetic sequencing.

More interesting to me is how often, when tested, does this happen?
> IT in Europe here and we work 8-5 with 1h lunch...

Similar in the US, I've never actually seen an office that works 9-5, despite that being the phrase. It's always 8:30-5 or 8-5.

It may once have been A Thing here in the US, with a 30-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks coming out of a total of eight hours at work, since there are legally-mandated break periods for ordinary wage or hourly workers—but it seems like everyone's "exempt" now and so has far less legal protection, plus I'm sure enforcement's nearly non-existent. I assume it did actually exist, once, though, for "9-to-5" to have entered the language to begin with.
> There should be more trust.

This is, really, the heart of the problem. There is very little trust. And the software industry, as a whole, is the reason. The amount of abuse we as an industry have engaged in, and continue to engage in, is remarkable.

Repairing that trust is something that will take years of good behavior. We as an industry haven't even begun the first steps down that path, though.

> Use a trustable third party telemetry service

Does one exist? And if so, how would you or I -- let alone an ordinary user -- know it was trustable?
If you are Microsoft as GigaScaler with almost unlimited cash and can ignore getting profit of your api/models its pretty easy to undercut all the other companies and offer it very cheap just to gain advantage in the future.
We'd have to believe that he means what he said about starting the company. Maybe he meant it, maybe it was just corporate philanthropy BS. Which do you think is really the case?
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I haven't touched resistors in years, but from what I can remember, it's just a rainbow, with darkred(=brown) and black before, and grey/white after. And gold/silver are modifiers.