skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucid is possibly the worst managed automative company.

Beautiful cars, targeting the wrong part of the market (luxury sedan), and just not well run.

Went to a sales center this summer and was basically told GFYS.
6-12 months wait, we don't know.
No test drives, but if you put in a deposit, maybe you can test drive in the fall before config.
Yes, we have a floor model but no you cannot sit in it, let alone even touch it.
Again, would you like to place a deposit sir?

Less than 6 months later, by early December, despite reducing targets, and missing those reduced production targets.. they have immediately available inventory?

By EOY 2022 something like 30% of the cars they had ever produced were not yet delivered? LOL.

Right now theres a dozen sitting on their website to "buy now", all in different color combos.
I'm sure 100s in inventory to replace those listings as they sell. Reports from show rooms all over the country of people seeing the same cars sitting on the lots.
Note Tesla's available inventory generally tells you where the car is, and has a long unique URL that implies strongly that the listing is for a single physical vehicle. The Lucid listings are ambiguous enough to mask there being 10s or 100s of units in that config available. Some of the listings are 2022 model year still!

Insane.
Has CYC Tried Combining ChatGPT with CYC/OpenCYC?
The fact that many independent cross-platform app frameworks build something around webview suggests there is a baby crying to be born here, but what exactly it will look like is not clear.
Lucid hardware might be good but their software engineering seems to be kind of crap.

https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2022-lucid-air-review-p...
> You can't use a blunt usage metric to tell whether a feature works or not. It only tells you that the feature is popular for some reason. That reason might be that it works, but often the reason people use a feature a lot is it's shoved down their throats.

I never said that was the only source of information, but indeed a useful one. Thinking a good PM only uses that one bit of info means you have known really bad PMs in your work.
Sure maybe society puts them between a rock and a hard place because it requires a car. But how is the dealership forcing them to need a car, or tricking them into getting a car?

They're just selling it to them, the individual is looking at the payments, they knows it's gonna be a stretch and they are rolling the dice hoping they can afford it.

The relationship between the individual and the dealership doesn't sound very exploitative to me.
Cache pressure is not really relevant, the result can be represented in 3 bits, so the entire table can fit in three 64 bit ints. It's uglier and you still need to do bitshifts, but much easier to write.
Metrics – The Future of Spreadsheets
Neat - I had never heard of ACE. In my (fairly limited) experience it works fine, although running the cores at 140 MHz (and the network) forgives a lot of sins. I actually wrote my CP/NET server as a regular CP/M application in Turbo Pascal, so I can't speak to other server solutions. The idea behind my ZedRipper was to basically turn a 'multi-user' CP/M system into a single-user/multi-tasking system, and it worked better than expected.
You started your post saying that there's no correlation between transistors and performance. First graph shows that is wrong.

My argument was simple: 20 years ago nobody cared about performance because of the strong correlation between Moore Law and MFLOPS and performance in general.

Nowadays with multicore, individual CPU cores are becoming slower, not faster. Then we can't just wait 18 months for individual cores to get faster.

Today we need to write better software.
Totally agree though a lot of video conference software mysteriously doesn’t allow you to disable this.
SLIP uses byte stuffing to reserve its end-of-frame sequence, which leads to data-dependent packet transmission times, which is not acceptable in my application.
Ask HN: How did you escape from corporate America?
I work as a software engineer at a large corporation.

I have entrepreneurial impulses and would like to do anything other than work for someone.

So... how did you do escape from corporate hell? What is your story?
While it's true that in practice most programmers are bricklayers (especially given the growth of the industry leading to a young-skewing population), that doesn't invalidate the GP's thesis that domain expertise is a good lever for compensation growth. The biggest mistakes and greatest successes of my programming career have always been related to the breadth of my understanding of the product domain and UX that I was operating in.

The other thing I find curious in your comment is the implication that strategy is usually set by domain experts who tend to be consultants. This very much runs counter to my experience, where consultants are brought in for specific jobs or problems where an outside perspective is needed, but generally those things are scope-boxed or time-boxed tangents to the business. The big strategy is generally set by leaders and influencers within the company via a mix of formal and informal venues. These individuals will have the most knowledge of the context specific to that business and how it competes in the marketplace. Consultants, by contrast, can develop a cross-cutting knowledge of industry, which can be a valuable data point well worth paying for, but a company who relies on consultants as the primary driver of strategy is rudderless and probably in decline.
Really? I feel like they'll go the way of Docker, but faster: Right now super hot, nice tools/API, great PR. But it's build on open and known foundations, soon GPTs will be commodity and then something easier/better FOSS will arise. It may take some time (2-3 years?) but this scenario seems most likely to me.

Edit: Ah didn't get the "reference", perhaps indeed it will be the last of the tech companies ever indeed, at least one started by humans ;).
My mistake! That's what I get for reading the comment but not putting it into the context of the post.

It isn't that people want EVs they want truck form factor EVs. And yes, Tesla has failed on providing that.
I'm still unclear on the question. Is it any more malware than any other time-wasting app? Or is it the same, but Chinese?

I don't doubt that China has no positive intentions for all of the data it's collecting, but I don't really see American firms doing any better with it. It's not like it's collecting your passwords or cracking your bank account. It's just wasting vast amounts of your time, and watching over your shoulder while you do it so that they can do it even better.

Or is there something I'm still mising?
If it's a "better electron" (which I think it is, amongst other things) then it will certainly be used for a lot of "web technology only" apps. There are just so many of them, the other end of the spectrum "rust app with some ui built on html" is extremely rare compared to that.

My first contact with a tauri app is cinny desktop (matrix client) and it's an absolute joy to use. The project source is hardly more than a reference to the source of the web version and some configuration files that make a PWA manifest seem elaborate by comparison.
Mojang Targets Repositories of Browser-Based Minecraft Copy ‘Eaglercraft’
CISOs are starting to report to the board. The biggest challenge is budget. It's hard to put an ROI on a theoretical risk that chances of risk happening are at best an educated guess. Most company leaders don't value detection of breach but only prevention so things like the significant cost of storing network flow logs is an uphill battle.
I would suggest trying https://www.meteosource.com where you can get all data including 10 day forecast with a text description. There is a free plan for developers with 7 days forecast and a reasonably priced Flexi plan with full data.
> Average tenure for a CISO is lowest of any C suite.

Do you have any stats to support this statement? I work as a Information Security Officer, other firms have BISOs or other names for this kind of position.

Additionally, a lot of what you are describing is either cliché ("you can only be wrong once"), only true for certain types of businesses or regions. There have been examples where CISOs have experienced legal pain in the US, see Uber's former CISO. But I would not expect companies to see this as an exemplary case.
> The sister thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34973654 points out that "completely separate models" are exactly what OpenAI is now selling for $250k/yr.

The sister thread isn't describing a Microsoft model, it's describing an OpenAI model.

> Actually, you can. That’s the purpose of RLHF. You reward the model for behaving the way you want. And in that context, it’s a matter of rewarding it for paying attention to [system].

You're overthinking how specific alignment is. ChatGPT went through alignment to train it to stay on topic during conversations. There's a difference between general alignment and the kind of hyper-specific training you're thinking of.

But you're also kind of missing the scope of prompt injection attacks. Even if Microsoft did train the model to pay attention to specific prompt words, it doesn't mean that the model wouldn't be vulnerable to other prompt injections, because prompt injections are not a deliberate vulnerability that OpenAI added. They're an emergent property of the model.

Look, the fact that prompt injections do work today with Bing chat that don't use [system][0] should cause you to think that maybe there's something more complicated going on here than just bad parsing rules.

If I can't convince of that, then... I can't convince of that, it's fine; in terms of disagreements I've had on HN, this one is pretty low-consequence, it's a purely technical disagreement. But I'm going to throw out a prediction that Microsoft is not going to be able to easily guard against this attack. Check back in over time and see if that prediction holds true if you want to. Otherwise, similarly, I hope you have a great week. And honestly, I hope you're right, because if you're not right then it's going to be a significant challenge to wire any LLM that works with 3rd-party data to real-world systems.

[0]: Read through the paper, there are examples they list that don't use [system], instead they emulate Basic code or a terminal prompt. Things that Microsoft almost certainly didn't train the model to pay attention to.
My note-taking system for work
<3 Ubuntu desktop & server.

Slick, consistent UX. Smooth upgrades. Didn't have an issue for years.

Tried Manjaro but that has shown to create considerably more work than Ubuntu.
You should reread “Refactoring”.

Refactors compose. In three months you can completely rearchitect a module without breaking it at any point in the process. That’s the promise of refactoring.

Functions don’t have an identity. There is no such thing. I don’t know who taught you that but they have broken you in the process. Renaming things is a refactoring. We don’t check the entire commit history to make sure that function name has never existed. Only that it hasn’t existed recently. There’s no identity.

One of the reasons to refactor is that the function has been lying about its responsibilities. So you extract steps out of it, create a new call path that fixes the discrepancy, migrate the call sites, delete the incorrect function, and then, if the function name was really good, you might wait a while and rename the new function to the old name. Each step makes sense if you’ve followed the entire process. If you haven’t been following along at all then you have absolutely no idea how things got here until you read the git history thoroughly, which some people can’t do, and others won’t do if they expect the code to be static.
The spec is a W3C CSS working group draft: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/

It looks like less of a Chrome thing and more of an Edge thing? The Intent to Prototype [1] links to an Edge explainer [2] with Microsoft authors. It doesn't look like anyone has asked Mozilla for a position yet [3] but I expect if they get positive signals from web developers (us!) that will be soon.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/vsPdd...

[2] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...

[3] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues?q=anch...
another interesting : https://polite.technology/preview

// polite.technology is a free text under the CC0 license originally penned by Tom MacWright

"This is a book about the social interactions and situations that are the underpinnings of the open source world. It's about how humans collaboratively create software."
Can you elaborate, what is "the AI apocalypse"? Is it just a symbolic metaphor or is there any scientific research behind this words? For me it's rather more unpredictable toxic environment we observe in the world currently, dominated by purely human-made destructive decisions, often based on purely animal instincts.
Sometimes it’s reading about how to do things idiomatic to that language - or system - that solves the problem.

I’m saying that it feels healthier to me that I take the time to read when my adhd and energy allows.
Mostly agreed, but I'd hazard a guess that the scale of github is far larger than distribution mirrors of old.
Deleting the option to have the max battery pack along with quad motors was what pushed me over the edge. I was still with them when they removed some of the other gizmos like electric bed cover but the battery and motors are what I really wanted.

If I wanted a dual motor config I'd just have ordered a Ford, which would probably deliver sooner, for less money, and probably better supported in the long run.
While JS won’t match Rust for speed, you are likely experiencing WebKits general large performance advantage over Blink as well.

A JS dev who knows generally how to write performant apps can produce some very close to native feeling experiences in WebKit, it simply feels that fast.

Rust meanwhile is a terrible language for UI work. Just like you wouldn’t use assembly for game programming today, or even why you wouldn’t use JS for sensitive systems programming, you don’t use a static compiled, verbose, picky, slow compiling language for a domain that simply demands you have a totally different set of trade offs.

The nature of UI is this: you’re going to iterate a ton, change a ton, you need to be creative and willing to try and throw away experiments as fast as possible, you need the fastest possible feedback cycle between save and hot reload. Your problem space will never be as clear as systems programming. Because the output is visual that time diff between “hmm does this work” and “ok yes/no” needs to be as quick as possible, and you absolutely need to be able to go from idea to output in as quick a time as possible.

This is hugely a function of verbosity, elegance of the libraries and hot reload - JS absolutely crushes Rust along these axis. Meanwhile memory safety isn’t a big concern. But not just that, dynamic languages give you dev tools where you can inspect, edit and test changes and code at runtime and that’s the single biggest productivity boost you’ll find as a frontend dev. These are lessons learned over 20 years of developing for every UI platform under the sun.

The modern web stack is simply going to get you to production with a far higher quality of UI in way, way less time.

I could go on for a lot longer about this topic but suffice it to say: JS is an absolutely incredible language for fronted. It’s set of trade offs match the domain beautifully. I wish it was faster, but WebKit at this point is so much faster and less energy intensive than Blink that I’m extremely happy with app performance in it.
Good question, I'm wondering the the other way around.
Draft specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/
Yes, of course, Google would not be serving up an auto-complete for such a high volume search if had no demand and/or click through for the related search results; just take a look at the results yourself to see:

https://google.com/search?q=chatgpt+stock
Generally stopping reading over a small complaint is, yeah, pretty petty.
And I am completely fine with it.
Good for them. Good work should be rewarded. I guess they thought they were too noble than they really are, but everyone thinks that before they hit the jackpot.
As long as they were not publicly funded then they should be free to do whatever they want with their own research efforts.
What the world needs is a boomer LLM, as if existing ones aren't sufficiently polluted by the corpus they trained on.

What people like Elon and pmarca don't realize is that an AGI that transcends human bigotries will look even less like what they want.
I wouldn't call the game library trash even despite the lack of AAA. It doesn't seem like there's much AAA in VR period. And stuff like Half Life Alyx you can still play on a Quest 2 via usb-c to mid-teir PC or shadow.vr cloud gaming.

Otherwise I had a ton of fun replaying Resident Evil 4 and other games. The graphics are relatively primitive but the entire experience makes up for it 2 fold. When it's good it's really good. Just have to wade through a lot of arcady games to find them. Also multiplayer is 100% squeeky voiced kids and teenagers, so avoid.

The best thing I discovered was the unreleased Quest game dB where all the prerelase and indie titles are. It doubles the amount of content available. Lots of it free.

https://www.applabdb.com/
For a new car with a warranty, that makes sense. For the anywho who works on their own car, automatics are an incredible pain.

Most failure modes are catastrophic and require a full rebuild as all components are integrated. Coolant lines that run into the engine bay are a hazard when doing common work like replacing radiators. They’re typically heavier.

High wear components in manuals like clutches, pilot bearings and master/slave cylinders are straightforward to replace.

Clutchless shifting with a DSG or tiptronic is a far cry from meshing synchros. Smoother, yes, but sportier is up to the eye of the beholder here.
Flywheel Training Is a Gamechanger
Chinese banks try to revive housing market with mortgages for 95-year-olds
> These headsets, like consoles, are most certainly subsidized with some expectations of game sales. Meta say they’re not seeing long lasting engagement.

This was more true before than now. The Q2 launched at US $299. At that price they were losing potentially hundreds per unit. They were quoting multi-billion dollar quarter losses. Now at $399 and enough manufacturing time to lower costs, I bet they are close to break even. The hardware is becoming dated so the cost get get components must be not too shabby. Ultimately the Quest 2 is a Samsung Galaxy S20 under it all, seriously. The Xr2 is based on the 865 and the display is a high res ~6 inch LCD cut in half via optics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

The internet will be saturated with fake people soon. Someone already did a PoC of this on 4chan as a joke with just a small GPT2 model. In a few years you won't be able to tell if you're talking to a human unless they're physically in front of you.
You can start with a monolith and evolve it into microservices. Very broadly:

1. Start the monolithic app
2. Write internal classes and functions such that they mimic an independent API and schema
3. Write an API wrapper around unique functionality
4. Allow exposing APIs on unique service ports
5. Run independent copies of your app, running one API at a time
6. Separate the schema of each API into its own database and connect at runtime
7. Now you have a microservice
Is it possible you've just misread something? The quote is about tracking conversions, not about tracking conversations.
Not a feature, but an advantage: From what I can tell (I have only used PureRef so far) is that BeeRef has a open file format. For someone with their own image tagging system, it is hard for me to export an image query to PureRef. Having an open file format would make that easy.
It is a fabulous exercise device. I have also found that Thrill of the Fight is an amazing stress buster. I think it’s because it hooks into the fight or flight response and closes the loop on chronic stress by letting you punch it in the face.
Ask HN: Are interviews harder to land than ever?
I have seen hundreds of submitted applications for roles and folks receiving 0 interviews — and these are for highly qualified and skilled workers that a year ago would have landed a job in a few days, let alone struggle to land an interview.

Are you all seeing the same thing?
https://apps.ankiweb.net/

There should be a link there to the official app.
Thanks for your reply, I liked it!

> It seems like the author burned out not because of the work but because wherever he ended up

Don't get me wrong and maybe I was not clear enough (my bad). The infosec part I mostly contributed to was within some consulting companies where I was hopping from one assignment to another one, having different clients every week.
I saw some clients with some really strong security posture, I mean it. The "burn out" I experienced was clearly not related to that but pretty much from hacking, writing report, sleep & repeat.
I think the trick to staying happy in cyber security is to chase down niche fields in technology. Your work won't be perceived as sexy by the broader community since you're not tracking north korea, but the trade off is that you will have fun and not have to brush shoulders with so many egos. So what's green these days? That's for you to decide, but one area I think is interesting is smart contract security on blockchains. Lots of folks are pouring into that space.
You're putting forward a false dichotomy. Not buying into the ethics of 'work hard for a company, they make money, you make money and that is a self evident net positive' is quite reasonable. There is no need to resort to name calling for people who don't buy into this narrative. There is quite a lot more to live, and to being a good person, then pouring your all into paid work. And it is plain to see there was a nice party from 1960 to 1980s and we're the cleanup crew. A working person could support a family, buy a home before 30 and have hobbies 50 years ago. Now that sounds like a bad joke.