skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was completely lost attempting to understand this at first but I think I kind of get it now based on the documentation on the website. However, some things seem strange. If I have N items in my database, the key is length N bits. I million items = 1 million bit key. It is very likely that I am not understanding this correctly however. Does something translate a Log(N) sized "user" key to a one hot vector?

item = key * database

That sounds like loading the entire database every time. If true, I do understand how the system cannot possibly would not know which item was retrieved but not clear on how the entire database isn't loaded every time.

"Cryptographic proof that the server is not spying..."

I don't understand how this is possible. If the service is implemented to remember the key, perform the request and return the result how can cryptographic proof be provided.

In any case, this definitely seems like a very cool and useful project. I struggle to understand / trust it a little but perhaps I'll eventually become comfortable with it.
I think this is all true, but also I think very much missing my point here.. If only for the fact that you delineate a very good reason why this stuff is not going to be a one-to-one replacement for a lot of software work. Definitely agree there. We are very far if not ever divorced from the time where we can truly feel safe taking a nap behind the wheel. And yes, the 'how' work in that sense will always be primary.

I'm just addressing the hype itself, even conceding to it, and saying "ok, if its so great, what can we do with it?" That's the 'what'.
Personally I’d probably check Patrick Boyle’s videos from Youtube as a start. IMHO he tends to do a good job in summarizing these cases (bear in mind I might not be the best judge of that, of course): https://youtu.be/hhHdtDyQD90
https://youtu.be/2t4lGmNDiHo

I’d also welcome any interesting further reading on the subject!
https://archive.ph/xZRZh
Absolutely not. This is not an extreme view.

There is absolutely no way that feeding private medical data patients reveal to doctors in confidence to what's essentially the surveillance capitalism industry could possibly be considered ethical. Absolutely no way.

It hasn't even been a week since some medtech got caught selling out data to advertisers. Let us not doubt even for one second that this is unethical and illegal, or even speculate about possible scenarios where it might not be. These corporations do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
The point is that people don’t want to see the horror that goes into their animal based diet, not that the slaughterhouse is hard to get to.
Adept – a AI that learns to use software – raises $350M
> So bye javascript, it's not been nice.

I don't think frontend development is any less complex than systems engineering.

> What will stay, is human level systems engineering, Running things, designing etc

In fact I think it might be the other way around.

I'd expect systems to be slower to change and subject to their own hard dependencies on consistency. That makes them easier for a language model to imitate.

I'd expect frontend dev to move faster and subject to a never ending churn of non-technical wants from sales and marketing. The huge amount of boilerplate is an attempt to handle the few patterns that exist in an otherwise very sparse space where one design is miles away from another and much glue is required to accomplish the task. Messiness here is not due to inherent complexity, but apparent complexity since things are never allowed to converge onto something more coherent.
They are a group of clowns with no authority. Their recommendation is not worth the piece of paper it is written on and carries no weight.
I had a bottle of this stuff I recently hazmatted. Someone gave it to me from the 80's. They used to sell solvents to the electronics industry...then the CFC/Ozone regulations caused them to require to shut down.
He has stories about mixing TCE and Freon...55 gallon drums of it.
As far as I know he doesn't have Parkinsons but that doesn't mean anything.

Apparently, this stuff was great for cleaning electronics PCBs but clearly it is super bad for you. I am not sure how you could slightly smell it and not realize it...has a very strong "I cause cancer" smell to it.
The article is from 2008, and seems to be based on data from 2005. The article discusses absolute differences in population, where the relevant statistic would be the ratio. After all, that’s the likelihood that you would meet someone of the appropriate sex. Finally, there is no controlling for age.
> If one, or a group, or a nation or whatever..does not have power, then they only have freedom granted to them by actual power. That is not actual freedom, it is dependence on the benevolence of the powerful.

That's stretching the definition of freedom to absolute levels. So no one is truly free unless you have control of powerful armies. That would mean that throughout history only the very powerful have been truly free (which would be a bit cynical). I think that's not the case and I would claim that modern first-world countries have been consistently moving towards more freedom, and not just for the most powerful.

Power can be decentralized away from individuals into groups of people and institutions. Throughout history civilizations have constantly evolved in the direction of more decentralization of power, from dictators and kings to representative republics. Sure even now the power is concentrated at the top, but we could be close to another political breakthrough because of technology, which would further decentralize power, and allow more freedom.

> It is good to be powerful. It is bad to be weak.

By definition not everyone can be powerful at the same time, since power is measured by exerting it on someone else. This means that thinking it's all about power is the same as saying "the ends justify the means", since power is the end and everything else is determined by it.

> Often times one does have to apply power against other people, do you disagree?

Sure like in self-defense.

> But rules and laws and principles are broken all the time.. by whom? The powerful of course.

In today's day and age, it's usually the corrupt. We're supposed to know better, and we should have laws that prevent certain things, but of course there are always corrupt people trying to game the system. Power tends to corrupt, which is why decentralizing tends to help.
how do you run LLaMa on a phone?
This is a significantly better example! When non-DRYness leaks out over interfaces it becomes much more of a problem.
I've been offered payment in tokens. I don't know if they'd have had conditions, though.
My thinking with panspermia at least is the building blocks may be relatively common but planet earth is a unique environment for harboring life. Kind of like why we define a “Goldilocks zone” to look for et life
Unless there is deflation, the price of these bonds isn’t going up. Principal has lost its value far more than the interest rate will ever compensate for.
Where is the Stable diffusion equivalent of ChatGPT though?
> And in 90% of the case, that could have been replaced by a trivial lightweight mosquito (MQTT) server for 10% of the operating cost.

What about ZeroMQ and if one also needs to temporarily store the queued data at least until it's delivered?

We use MQTT now, but with EMQX as a broker instead of Mosquitto. It has a HTTP API for managing users and ACLs which was easier to integrate than the equivalent Mosquitto MQTT API.
I would also add Samsung semi to that list. As I understand, for the small nodes, everyone is using ASML. That's a bit scary to me.

About RISC-V: What does you think is different about RISC-V vs ARM? I can only think that ARM has been used in the wild for longer, so there is a meaningful feedback loop. Designers can incorporate this feedback into future designs. Don't give up hope on RISC-V too soon! It might have a place in IoT which needs more diverse compute.
contact me on linkedin if interested!
>Authentic human generated information has irreducible newness

I believe that point is open to debate.
Correct. And it will also work with the future V2 satellites (non-mini), which require Starship for launch.
Yet in a capitalist society, against business interests. Look at how Snowflake (the data warehousing company) is driven now, vs before they were public
It really depends on a lot of factors. For somebody who's shy / socially awkward / introvert (lots of those in tech) it's _a lot_ easier asking questions in chat than in person, especially a shared chat with not too many people, it's also way faster than walking across the hallway to catch the person that you need.

In my experience coaching many young engineers in person and remote, the problem is not so much that it's easier for them to ask questions, is that they don't ask questions, like, at all. They are too worried to sound/appear dumb, even when all the senior/staff engineers are super nice. And in a way I understand that, they are unproven, they have to show their worth to everyone else.

My theory is that the idea that early career people don't do well remote is that it's easier for the senior people to forget about them and not check up on them regularly to make sure they're progressing. If a person is sitting close to you and not making progress it's a lot harder to miss. Also the casual "hey everything OK with your problem?" is a lot easier in person than online. That being said, with some adjustments it really doesn't take too much effort on the Tl/Manager side to make sure junior folks don't get stuck.

I've lead a few teams remotely now and the most successful ones were the ones where I started checking up on the most junior ones often, as often as every day, just asking low-key questions like "hey do you have any questions for me? are you stuck anywhere?" for a bit, just to make sure they were feeling OK asking me when they had a problem, and re-routing them to the right person as needed. After a while they feel safe and start doing it on their own, but it might take a while depending on the person.

As an experienced person, I can chat with anybody at the company within minutes, it's so much more productive than chasing somebody in the office (which could be easily 10~20min walk away).

In person is way better for socializing, creating team bonds, etc. but you don't need that every day, a yearly/quarterly team/company offsite is sufficient.

This is my perspective working at companies that are big enough that they would be global anyway. For a smaller company I can see the argument of having everyone in the same office, but even then your giving up a lot to make up for that (commuting, walking around finding the right person) and I don't think that scales well beyond the 1000 people mark.
How can anyone take seriously the notion that anyone who has written a book and seeks to earn money from people who want to read it is a "monopolist"?
What's the use of worker rights if one is not given fair chance to be a worker again?
I’m baffled how so many smart people bought into the “new normal” narrative and believed that our pandemic era weirdness would last forever.

It was across the board. People in my hometown set up restaurants, cafes, coworking spaces - businesses that don’t see an ROI for a few years at least - all because they thought the young people who had returned home during the pandemic would stay there forever.

Of course, now almost everyone has gone back and these businesses are dead or struggling.
good results with otta.com
> making space for the embedded radiation to soar free. That light — the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — continues to stream through the sky in all directions

"Let there be light". Lucifer provides.
Or else called $OPNAI.
An LLM can never offset a consultants diverse duties though. Some, maybe. However you cannot run healthcare with 90% specificity
Impressive. Interesting how it gets some things so close, but pretty wrong

if (c.length === 8) {
return new Color3(
parseInt(c.substr(0, 2), 16) / 255,
parseInt(c.substr(2, 2), 16) / 255,
parseInt(c.substr(4, 2), 16) / 255,
);
}

If "c" has a length of 8, it treats the first two characters as the alpha value and ignores them.
Of course it's exploitative, but I do see a longer grace period helping alleviate the pressure that such visa holders would face.
I'm surprised that FAANG companies haven't really offered subsidized housing as long as the employees retain their jobs or meet certain performance metrics. That's another great way to ultimately exploit certain workers while seeming like a huge perk.
I am not saying it's not exploitative nor arguing for it. The question was why would the US have an interest in this.
Once upon a time, when there was no social media, but there were (blog)webrolls, Digg, Slashdot, etc. And there were quite a few personal websites. I had one and was happily showing off to my small group of friends while sipping “cutting-chai” in the suburbs of Bombay, strolling with a Girlfriend and taking Macromedia Flash exams on the spot to impress her. There was a Startup, Macromedia, that saw that I was pretty active writing ActionScript (ASFunctions mostly) to make Flash sing to my tunes. Bam, Macromedia sent tickets to fly to San Francisco, while another group invited me to speak at Detroit (it was then a nice city) I even got to meet the “father of ActionScript”, and that geeky guy that sometimes did the Apple Watch demos.

Early to mid 2000s, my website was blowing up and so came advertisers, and Google Adsense. I think, having a Google Pagerank of 7-8 helped a lot. Besides the typical, one of the best month I remember was when a company bought a bunch of Adobe’ Creative Suite licenses after clicking my affiliate link. Btw, I did away with any form of ads by around 2017/2018. I never wanted my website to be commercially earning money but in those days, the money on the side helped me bootstrap my Startups and pay my rent.

Dug up some pictures for you

Earlier pampering by Macromedia https://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/albums/720575940835...

And some of these other pictures should give you a rough idea that my site was good enough to earn not-so-bad money early on. Also look at the sidebar in the website, that is how we added the ads - just plain text with hyperlinks.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0pat7u9csqj8n15/brajeshwar.com-200...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u0vdmv81gq8v3bi/google-adsense-che...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qdml3x3q68nq5ru/brajeshwar.com-inc...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7cshznldpaphivq/brajeshwar.com-ado...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5yxcy4iun17ipng/brajeshwar.com-com...
Thats quite the typo!
quite prevalent. happens a lot for Israeli startups at least
Yeah, but can GPT4 be a hypocrite?
If I was a billionaire, I’d commission a lidar survey of the entire planet.

The amount of stuff that seems to be hidden beneath forest and snow and mud and ocean is absurd.
It could realistically already trade in the markets, drive political leanings on social media, create bank runs, etc.
From their homepage:

> Vanilla OS is an immutable and atomic Ubuntu Linux-based Point Release distribution, that receives updates at the right time, neither before nor after, without sacrificing security and functionality.

I have no clue what any of that means. And why should I care?
> It's a science fiction conceit

What is the human brain then? I'm afraid you are bound to push so far that humans are no longer qualify as intelligent.
Collusion can work with 2, maybe 3 suppliers.

More than that, and somebody always breaks the pact fairly soon.
the ARC team can be manipulated I'd reckon through an adversarial AI. I used to think these controversy tinfoil theories, but then I see the devolution of someone like a Elon Musk in real time.
Moloch at work.
My take on this is that the drugs make the feelings and experience so strong it must be real. It’s so overwhelmingly strong that it must be real, because it feels real.

But it’s still a hallucination.

On the other hand it could enable new strong feelings towards things that before didn’t elicit those feelings. And you get a new perspective on those things. Which could be a good thing if you are depressed for example.
https://archive.ph/Tc8Y6
Yes. People are supposed to get paid for the labor of creating. Not the finished product.
I was misled by the title of this submission. The Linux NordVPN client is now open source (https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux), but the Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows NordVPN clients are still closed source.
TypeScript: in all sane deployments, it’s translated to JavaScript at build time, so that the end user is just receiving normal JavaScript. If you eschew a few features that do generate some new JavaScript (e.g. enums), TypeScript compilation can even be as simple as just removing type annotations. For most practical purposes, TypeScript is just JavaScript. The end user doesn’t experience the “heavy machinery” to translate it to JavaScript.

Python: whether you use the likes of Brython (>5MB of JavaScript, though if you’re unrealistically careful—given the choice to use Brython—you may be able to whittle it down towards 1MB) or CPython compiled to WASM (mostly even larger, but of WASM rather than JS), performance is always going to be worse than reasonably-equivalent JavaScript or ahead-of-time-compiled WASM from languages like C++ or Rust. It’s fundamentally doing more work than alternatives, so it’ll always be heavier to download, slower to run, and more memory-hungry on equivalent code. It should never be used for web frontend stuff except when operating under extraordinarily unusual constraints, because it’s simply significantly worse in every way imaginable other than “is it more like Python than like JavaScript”.
This is actually an excellent point. Also why I think we will eventually all be back in the open office, even though I enjoy working in my pajamas.
I could have worded it better. I was just trying to understand the why of the protocol. My experience was probably irrelevant as we were just using it for storage and interfacing with an FS translation (rclone or similar). We have long stopped using AWS for cost reasons though.
Sure, but this is not how they work.

Each new building adds to the total value of the city, but also competes with the other buildings.
This seems like an unintentional side-effect of bad wording in the ADA. The intent is obviously to give people enough time to enter an elevator before its door closes automatically, but I don't think they had in mind restricting the manual close functionality when they wrote that sentence. If they had added to it to read "...start to close without intervention shall be..." , we wouldn't need to have this whole discussion.

Relatedly, in the past I've been on a (very old) elevator, which just waited with the doors open at the last floor it was called to, and didn't even have a close nor open button for the doors. Selecting a floor, and possibly calls from other floors, would close them automatically, and they would open when the elevator arrived at its destination.
"I can always make more money, I can't make more time."

This was something a mentor told me, but then described with a lot more nuance around what that means.

That money is something you can save or borrow, but time is a much harder thing to borrow or save. That when you are young time feels endless and money cramps you up. Instead of chasing money as a goal from that perspective, to chase the ownership of your time which you are going to exchange for money right now.

Not to retire and then chase your passion, but to exercise your passions when you have "young time" instead.

Sure, this advice has only been relevant to me after I got past all my debt.

After that point, you can turn money into time in interesting ways - you can hire a cook, you can live closer to work for more rent, have a babysitter for sunday morning.

But that the purpose of work is not to make money, but to spend your other time well.
better the tax code were simplified instead
That seems less like a reasoning issue and more an issue of building up an ASCII chart in a single pass. I doubt most humans would be able to accomplish that.

To demonstrate this a bit, I asked for HP's family tree as JSON, suitable for use in a charting library, and this is what it came up with:

---

{
"nodes": [
{ "id": "Harry Potter" },
{ "id": "Ginny Weasley" },
{ "id": "James Potter" },
{ "id": "Lily Potter (née Evans)" },
{ "id": "Arthur Weasley" },
{ "id": "Molly Weasley (née Prewett)" },
{ "id": "Fleamont Potter" },
{ "id": "Euphemia Potter" },
{ "id": "Mr. Evans" },
{ "id": "Mrs. Evans" },
{ "id": "Vernon Dursley" },
{ "id": "Petunia Dursley (née Evans)" },
{ "id": "Dudley Dursley" },
{ "id": "James Sirius Potter" },
{ "id": "Albus Severus Potter" },
{ "id": "Lily Luna Potter" }
],
"links": [
{ "source": "Harry Potter", "target": "James Potter" },
{ "source": "Harry Potter", "target": "Lily Potter (née Evans)" },
{ "source": "Ginny Weasley", "target": "Arthur Weasley" },
{ "source": "Ginny Weasley", "target": "Molly Weasley (née Prewett)" },
{ "source": "James Potter", "target": "Fleamont Potter" },
{ "source": "James Potter", "target": "Euphemia Potter" },
{ "source": "Lily Potter (née Evans)", "target": "Mr. Evans" },
{ "source": "Lily Potter (née Evans)", "target": "Mrs. Evans" },
{ "source": "Petunia Dursley (née Evans)", "target": "Mr. Evans" },
{ "source": "Petunia Dursley (née Evans)", "target": "Mrs. Evans" },
{ "source": "Vernon Dursley", "target": "Petunia Dursley (née Evans)" },
{ "source": "Dudley Dursley", "target": "Vernon Dursley" },
{ "source": "Dudley Dursley", "target": "Petunia Dursley (née Evans)" },
{ "source": "James Sirius Potter", "target": "Harry Potter" },
{ "source": "James Sirius Potter", "target": "Ginny Weasley" },
{ "source": "Albus Severus Potter", "target": "Harry Potter" },
{ "source": "Albus Severus Potter", "target": "Ginny Weasley" },
{ "source": "Lily Luna Potter", "target": "Harry Potter" },
{ "source": "Lily Luna Potter", "target": "Ginny Weasley" }
]
}

---

Sorry about HN formatting, but you get the idea. This looks fairly accurate to me. What about this demonstrates less "reasoning" then turning it into an ASCII chart?
All the training data the world will ever need to bootstrap AI has already been generated. A poor take.
I guess you're right, I initially read it as "40% of AI suggestions don't get modified", not "40% of code is AI generated".
Combine this with GPT and everyone will have a personal assistant.
Evolutionary bias is why they are so biased towards worst case apocalyptic. The paranoids who see sabretooth tigers behind every moving bush and approached them with spears readied lived more than the ones who considered it just the wind.
> Yeah just like people in Detroit stopped buying Chinese made goods because all of the jobs went there and then all of the jobs came back because of it and everyone lived happily ever after.
What

What are you on about? The Detroit auto industry failed due to Japan producing a superior product.

> By the end of the 1970s, the Japanese automakers dominated the domestic producers in product quality ratings for every auto market segment, representing a formidable competitive advantage (National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council, 1982, p. 99). The quality gap between U.S.-produced cars and foreign cars was beyond dispute (Kwoka, 1984, p. 518) [1]

[1] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6309861.pdf