skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't think it was as cut and dried as that.

To quote Wikipedia: By the end of the 1960s, the idea of the Third World came to represent countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that were considered underdeveloped by the West based on a variety of characteristics (low economic development, low life expectancy, high rates of poverty and disease, etc.).

For example, I agree China was usually considered Third World but so was Cuba (despite being Soviet aligned).

And as far as I know Yugoslavia was never considered Third World despite it not being Soviet or US aligned.

I guess my argument is that whilst Third World initially was a political label is turned into an economic one so quickly that the political aspects were mostly ignored. Instead terms like "non-aligned block" were mostly used in the political sphere to designate what "Third World" originally meant.
Never mind dark patterns. If engineers had that kind of moral fibre to choose doing the right thing over getting paid, social media as we know it today wouldn't exist, and adtech giants wouldn't rule the web.

The reality is that most of us think we're making the world a better place, when truthfully we're just trying to make a decent living, while making the unscrupulous shot callers rich. And that's the percentage that does actually want to make an honest living. Others will happily apply their knowledge to deceive and exploit, and then go on to make successful companies of their own. The circle of tech.
This part is confusing to me. Yes, the market is bad and their IPO would probably be way less than it would’ve been if the market was “healthier”.

But if the market recovers and they want to do an IPO then, wouldn’t they be in the same position if they IPOd now, and then growth of the market would cause their stock to grow as well?
>May I ask, why does this seem to matter so much to you? If you are a bootcamp graduate yourself, that doesn't preclude you from being a good engineer. I am more than happy to believe you are the one-in-a-thousand counter-example.

I'm not a bootcamp graduate engineer. I'm actually quite good at what I do, interviewing (from both sides) and engineering. This topic matters to me because I like to argue online and I have strong opinions.

It's common for people to manipulate their perception of reality to justify their own situation, I assure you I am not doing that here, however I think you are doing this.

>>What I'm saying is that the market is flooded with these false negatives.

>Understood.

A false negative is someone who is GOOD, but appears bad. He is a negative but that assignment is false. I am saying the market is flooded with capable engineers that are good but appear bad due to interview processes and biases. Hence the term false negative.

>Do you have me confused with the other guy?

Nope you guys touched on similar points. You never mentioned syntax, but you're likely testing on algorithms so it's the same result. You get a ton of false negatives. You pay a premium for the guy who does better at the interview when you can get someone who's just as capable at a much lower cost.

The point is someone will hire those false negatives at a cheaper price and that effects the whole market. Companies hire the best they can get.

>Agreed, but that's not how we interview.

That's why a certain segment of the market looks like there's a dearth of people. It's because the interview clouds your perception. You interview the wrong way, you agree. The contradiction here is that although most people like you agree, you still reject people based off the SAME results as the WRONG interview AND you think the rejection is accurate.

That's how the psychology works. Everyone I talk to agrees interviewing is wrong overall but when they use it to judge on individual candidates they think it's accurate.

The contradiction exists even in your own reply. You agree the interview process you use is screwed yet you're really confident about your judgement of the market even though your measurement methodology is SELF admitted to be wrong. It renders your entire argument into question.
> Modifying code to fix a non-issue has a non-zero chance of introducing a real bug

One example of such bug, where fixing a purify warning about uninitialized memory crippled OpenSSL:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...

via: https://xkcd.com/424/

I think it's generally preferred to enable most warnings but have some annotations to silence false positives, preferably with sufficient comments accompanying those annotations to help the code reviewers.
The worst case integer divide times on newest Intel/AMD cpus are 15/18 for 64bit and 12/13 for 32-bit. Both do early out for easy values at around 10 cycles.

Integer division is still on the slower side operations on the machines, but the advice to avoid division at all costs is outdated. In comparison, the FP divide instructions are in the ~13/14 cycles, it would be hard for you to shuffle data to that side and back and not be slower. (And no, they are not doing this internally -- both have separate integer divide units.)
You are purely speculating about what a politician knows. I honestly don't even know what I know about me. I have some thoughts, but I'm not sure if those are just side effects of me processing or trying to maximize some function in my brain.

By your definition -- maybe we don't have (A)GI either.
Sure. Grant that that's terrible. Or substitute even worse outcomes. That doesn't mean we can require fairness if fairness is impossible. I think people are assuming I'm making a broader case than I've meant to...
lets hope their lead engineers won't get the turing treatment, expecially when cadres will be dissatisfied about their ego petproject managed by their buddies.

UK had its chance to be a tech powerhouse, and wasted it. Nobody ever cared about why.
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I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible
overrated company with bad foresight to read the trend. Maybe paystack is a terrible acquisition anyways.
> No one wants to pay for games anymore

Is that true, or are games so broken that nobody is willing to pay for them anymore. I've completely stopped buying almost any game that isn't on Apple Arcade because I know those games will be free of pay-to-win mechanics and nickel-and-diming you with more charges and dark patterns. On Apple's service, they all have to ask if they want to steal my data and resell it. I always say "No." I have a Steam account for playing older games I bought a while ago, but I buy maybe 1 game per year on it, if even, and only because it's not available anywhere else I'm willing to spend money. I'm playing more games than ever before now, too!
It's not more leverage after the additional money loaned is plowed back into the home's equity by way of the renovations, however. The bank simply needs some way to enforce that the additional money loaned is actually being used for this purpose, and that the renovations are of the 'widely acceptable' type.
Raising money now means they probably expect the financial industry to go further down.
Its well known that acquisitions are a great way to hide fraud, too. Number of studies on that front.

Another (usual) reason is when a company lacks clear avenues for growth so they are looking to buy some growtg
Higher than Adyen, seems too high perhaps? Probably some structure in this deal to enable the higher valuation
“Over the last year, people in the downtown jail have reported spending long hours in isolation — 23 hours a day — for multiple days on end. Lawyers have complained to reporters and county officials that their clients aren’t getting regular changes of clothes, have had their medical appointments canceled and miss court dates because of a lack of adequate staffing, which extends their jail stays.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/aclu-sues-king-cou...
>Python 3.11 support on Anaconda Platform

>Due to lack of Python 3.11 support for packages that PyTorch depends on, including NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, Pillow and others on the Anaconda platform. We will not be releasing Conda binaries compiled with Python 3.11 for PyTorch Release 2.0. The Pip packages with Python 3.11 support will be released, hence if you intend to use PyTorch 2.0 with Python 3.11 please use our Pip packages.

It really sucks that anaconda always lags behind. I know the reasoning*, and I know it makes sense for what a lot of teams use it for... but on our side we are now looking more and more into dropping it since we are more of an R&D team. We already use containers for most of our pipelines, so just using pip might be viable.

*Though I guess Anaconda chewed more than it can handle w.r.t managing an entire Python universe, and keeping up to date. Conda-forge is already almost a requirement but using the official package (with pip, in this case) has its own benefits for very complex packages like pytorch.
Probably not. I do not think they have much in terms of trade secrets. Now that they showed what can be achieved it is only a matter of time, before other teams catch up. I would be surprised if they hold their lead for more than 5 years.
Fun fact: You have to pay AMT on exercise even if the stock cannot be sold in the open market. Usually this means dipping into ones other savings. It hurts even more than you are paying AMT on fictitious valuations (if the company is not public yet) and you really can't be sure if they will ever go IPO
Hmm.. but there's no ambiguity in "billion"? There's certainly less than in "giga dollars"
Neither of your anecdotes match my own personal experiences - so I'm sure the general truth is somewhere in between.

I've been responsible for millions of dollars of AWS spend over the last decade. I've had virtually zero AWS caused downtime in that period outside of the few major outages that affected the whole world (for example that major S3 outage) - but the "100s of services will always have performance issues or degraded availability" has literally never been true for me. I've had hundreds of instances be retired - but that is all automated and without downtime.

Over the last 18 months at my current company, we've had 100% uptime - there has not been a single AWS incident that has affected us in us-east-2. And since we're using ECS and fargate, we've also not had to worry about instance retirement.

On the other hand - I've also had numerous personal servers with hetzner over the years - and the hardware is _old_. I've had at least 3 hard drives go bad over the last ~8 years.

Again, I still strongly recommend hetzner for many cases - but I just think it's important to go in understanding the difference in responsibility for things like hardware level monitoring.
U.S. Threatens to Ban TikTok If Chinese Founder Doesn’t Sell Ownership Stake
How one can tune the model to a specific usage? Is there some place that teaches this?
This is low level code written in a library to make full use of AVX-512.. which is inherently a processor native feature that has to be written in a language close to assembly because the processor only understands machine code.. there is no way to avoid assembly or the pointer arithmetic. Someone has to do the pointer arithmetic so the higher level languages and libraries don't have to.
Is the code actually compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing (which IME is rare for userspace code, but I don't work with numerical code very much), or are you saying this is because of the types involved in the cast? I didn't see anything in [0] about a change in pointer semantics from using the vector extensions in the compilation unit?

[0]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html#Ve...
Ugh, yeah, if this was not someone I know, the pictures, yikes !
It is using compiler intrinsics, I grant, and taking advantage of IB is yes, well-defined given an implementation (as we have here) … but it seems like it's still C?

Here, I'm not 100% certain this code isn't UB: we type-pun a __m512i and a uint64_t … I'm not certain that's not UB. If I'm forced into writing C, I try to avoid doing that at all costs … I'd rather not encounter nasal demons.

The warning also seems a bit merited, given that each "increment" is over more than a single object on the underlying array. (But, of course, that is the intent. But I'm just not sure the static analyzer can see it.)
One of the problems I have with the VP of the product discussed is that while I trust CloudFlare, Akami or any of the big players, to run a tight network -- with high and STABLE performance -- I can't say the same about a random vendor (uber driver?) in this network.

Was the issues you were seeing in this general area?
No, it's not take it or get nothing.

People have RSUs. Those RSUs vest at some point. When they vest, they have to pay taxes on them, at whatever value they have at that moment. This raise allows Stripe's employees to pay those taxes, and gives them a chance to sell if they want to. If they don't sell, they'll have to wait for future liquidity events, like private raises, buybacks from Stripe, or IPO.

The down round is appealing if you're intending to hold the shares until later, because you pay employee taxes at a low valuation, and then capital gains on the difference between that low valuation and your eventual sale price.
I don't think it is hesitation. They probably just do not have results that are comparable, yet. In that case it is better to not release anything than release results that show that your model is 1/4 as good as that of your competitor.
I do the same with the writing style! (not in this case)

.... maybe.
>I don't see the drawback in being housed, fed, and entertained by an omniscient AI

Replace "omniscient AI" with "girlfriend" and you see begin to why so many women are fed up with the deadbeats they increasingly opt not to date. :)
> They are used for post ordering

Are they? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

Do posts by users with more karma rank higher?

No.
There's a link to Professor Lemire's bio on the linked article: https://lemire.me/en/
The order should be as follows:

- automated testing;

- -Wall -Wextra, and -Weverything with some exceptions;

- address, memory, thread, and undefined sanitizers;

- fuzzing (at least some sort of), coverage-guided fuzzing with sanitizers;

- static analysis, starting with clang-tidy;

- other static analyzers, such as Coverity, CodeQL - have the least priority.

An example of how everything of the above, everywhere, all at once is applied in public can be seen in the ClickHouse repository: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse in the per-commit checks. But keep in mind that the checks are really heavy - run for multiple hours, and we have to apply kludges to support GitHub Actions with spot instances...

Also the dashboard can be checked here: https://aretestsgreenyet.com/
> Initial time for real dollar caluculation can be anything. You can ask what your real dollar salary is relative to 1950, or relative to 1951, or yesterday.

Regardless of which day's dollars we use as a baseline for comparison, a bond issued under at a lower interest rate is discounted relative to the same bond issued later at a higher interest rate. Quibbling about how we express this valuation suggests you don't understand this difference, but this difference is important to understanding the current day banking crisis.

> While I meant to write real dollars, I wish I wrote nominal, based on how much confusion it caused.

You still seem unaware that these meanings and words are a very well understood convention that you violated. The only confusion was the confusion you had in the meanings you assigned to the words.

> I still stand by the idea that it is silly, and not very useful to put a future return on investment on an asset list in to 2023 dollars using a 10 year inflation projection.

The main thing is that these valuation rules exist for reasons and while we could debate which rules are good etc., understanding the basics of bond valuation and the common terminology we use to discuss them is a minimum prerequisite and I'm still working on getting you on board with the basic terminology every one else is using.

There isn't much discussion to be had without a common vocabulary.
Wework had indefensible problems with their business model, hence sinking even in the frothiest of times. Stripes would have surely fared much better.
Yes, and that's exactly the problem with this approach. There's no accounting for the different metrics of the fonts.

Font size and font family should ideally always be set together. If you're setting a font-size, then you should force a font-family, and vice versa. Otherwise, you should set neither and let the user agent decide. This ensures that you would never get a broken combination that's uncomfortable or unusable.

It's similar to the idea that whenever you're setting a foreground color, you should always set the background color as well.
Can you just quit and find a new job? Honestly, that’s what I tend to do because getting people to actually change is an art that may not actually be possible. I think it’s largely up to their capacity as a leader to admit being wrong and growing. If they don’t have it, then you can’t force them to gain that understanding.
See also lists

* HTTP 418 (I'm a teapot) [0]

* Not a Typewriter [1]

* PC LOAD LETTER [2]

What else is out there?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER
All of the above, plus, maybe, don't let people see you put in your pin.
don't take security for granted. Be careful.
I guess the lesson I learned is you need to pay attention to security.
Because they are police states and people are disunited and afraid.
Billion is different in Short (10^9) vs Long (10^12) scale.

See:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
C# .NET had async and await in 2012, for comparison. I've always loved Java but Microsoft deserves immense credit for raising the bar, and so quickly, too.
Construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQPGe6HQlZI

Hotels,pubs,etc: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/british-...

Documentary: Britain's Unemployment Crisis | A Very British Job Agency | Channel 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVH6pgKyZvE

Taxis/Uber (anecdotal): I rarely see proper english uber drivers.
Which proves the need for regulation.
More importantly I wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI's top talent is poached by Google/Facebook. Or are there some contracts that explicitly forbid this? I think such contracts would be illegal no?
In the most casual sense, a renderer is what "takes a picture" of the scene.

A scene is made of objects, light sources, and a camera. The renderer calculates the reflection of light on the objects' surfaces from the perspective of the camera, so that it can decide what color each pixel is in the resulting image.

Objects are made up of a few different data structures: one for physical shape (usually a "mesh" of triangles); one for "texture" (color mapped across the surface); and one for "material" (alters the interaction of light, like adding reflections or transparency).

People don't write the scene data by hand: they use tools to construct each object, often multiple tools for each data structure. Some tools focus on one feature: like ZBrush for "sculpting" a mesh object shape. Other tools can handle every step in the pipeline. For example, Blender can do modeling, rigging, animation, texturing and material definition, rendering, post-processing, and even video editing; and that's leaving out probably 95% of its entire feature set.

If you are interested at all in exploring 3D animation, I recommend downloading Blender. It's free software licensed under GPLv3, and runs well on every major platform. It's incredibly full-featured, and the UI is excellent. Blender is competitive with nearly every 3D digital art tool in existence; particularly for animation and rendering.
And Musk will make a new company called Hent AI for all of your art and recreation needs...

Will be a big hit in Japan.
I prefer to use gibi-dollars ($1073741824)
Could you say that the writer's style is... florid?
And Guix, too. Specially Guix.
That’s not how it works. You assume the liabilities too.
That is super exciting and frightening at the same time.
Maybe too handy.
> Why do they always have to bring race into this?

Who is this mysterious "they" you speak of?
yes they did rise this year linked to inflation while at the same time gov insisted for not raising salaries
The country runs on old people voting to "level up" and "build back better". 2-3 word slogans so hearing "Quantum" and "AI" during the budget today is just bravo.
Ah, didn't read that part...
Good catch
I believe that is only the interface towards the computer, printer specific options still require that interface to be implemented. And scanners ...
Faceted Snow
Wework's problem wasn't timing. They actually chose to go public under perfect market conditions, just that their underlying business was so out of touch with reality that not even the most optimistic institutional investors or bankers could digest it.
Isn't any LLM mathematically a Markov chain, such that the current state includes the context of the last (finite) n tokens?
Here is the InvokeAI code, minus the codeformer/gfpgan changes that dont work yet:

https://gist.github.com/brucethemoose/ea64f498b0aa51adcc88f5...

I intend to start some issues for this on the repo soon(TM).
Well, then the proper response from Github would be something like:

WARNING: HIGH-TO-CRITICAL SEVERITY:
You are using C. C is not memory safe, and likely
to expose your users to critical vulnerabilities.

Not sure it would fly.
See the above reply ^
This. Pixar’s Renderman has been an “option” for a while. It was out of band though. The cycles team will look at the theory behind what’s going on in renderers like this and will make the tech work inside cycles. Maybe someone will port this as another render option but really the sauce is their lighting models and parallel vectorization which could improve cycles already abysmally slow render times.

Renderman for Blender:

https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/pages/viewpage.action?mobileBypas...
Thank you, @jeroenhd, you got it right.

>now your battery-starved mobile phone is validating cryptographic signatures

with a native app, it costs nothing. Actually, the main power consumer is the phone screen.

>who's responsible for illegal content hosted on servers

this is a very important question. We are going to run AI models against all content we host on Peers. Right now, we don't accept third-parties and "fake" all Peers ourself. Want to ask lawyers what is the best way to handle this case.
IPFS or Torrents would be ideal way to host and distribute docker images as every layer is content addressable therefore read-only. I don't mind to seed any public images I keep running on my server.
It is apparently only accessible with Edge.
I'm honestly more upset about how shitty it is to download DLCs and mods on iOS. The whole thing is botched beyond belief
I don't understand how they could be refusing to allow clients to exercise puts if the people complaining don't have the stock to sell.
Gotta get those utilons by any means so the org can buy multiple altruistic castles.
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If you paid attention the last week or so there have been a lot of accounts here promoting the fed bank as a solution.

You are correct and I agree with your assessment for what it's worth. Dozens of banks collapsing has two outcomes. Centralization into TBTF banks or a fed bank. Given the desire to manipulate currency further with CBDC I would suspect the modern money "theorists" in congress are salivating.