skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Llama.cpp takes advantage that LLaMa 7B is a tiny, very optimized model. It would run in anything, and very fast. I really doubt you can run the 30B or 65B models at acceptable speed on a CPU at least for a couple years. (I'm ready to eat my words in a couple weeks)
> I can tell who's getting work done, who isn't, who has high defect rates in their work, who makes fewer defects, who is positive ROI, and who is not paying their keep

I've been doing engineering management for ten years and I've never seen a set of metrics that can tell you these things.

What software engineering metrics tell you who has positive ROI?
> I want to see how far crypto can go without government regulations and protections.

We have seen enough of that: one rug-pull and scam after the other. Governments are stepping in with crypto precisely because of all the scams.
As another former a.r.s. and a.c.t. denizen this is spot on. Good summary!
No I think Zuckerbergs words should be read at face value.

Managers with small amount of reports will be converted to ICs and strong managers will be given more reports. The org will be more lean and will have less overhead per manager of converting work between layers.

I’m summarizing above but in the article are specific goals to address this and I didn’t pick up on any signs that employees should overwork themselves.
Thanks yeah, I was just meaning for the ergonomics aspect :)
Cheers
Sorry for the extraordinarily late reply, but: I'm only peripherally involved in this application, but I think it's in part because of hideously bad architecture from the ground up. I know it was written in Cold Fusion, for one thing, which has graduated to the ever-popular Tremendously Expensive Licensing Era, and has major performance and database problems.

But yes, politically: There is no desire to make it a "migration" type of problem; transitioning users isn't important from the business perspective. That might be hard to believe, but I think the argument is that dragging the old product through its own muck is a lot slower than building a new product that brings in new business. So, who am I to argue with that? Are we saying, no, no, if you have an old product you must migrate even when the business says you don't need to?
In my building (northern Europe) the doors are open for quite a while (maybe ten seconds). The door-close button closes immediately on push, as long as nothing/no-one is entering/leaving the elevator.

If it didn’t, I’d use the elevator even less than I do. Stairs to/from the third floor is just about the same time as the elevator.
Read book, take notes in your fav notetaking app (like Obsidian for exmaple) - now you have both knowledge and search.

Also the book in question is not really a manual or documentation of some sort.
War crimes were defined before the Geneva conventions, specifically the Hague Conventions 50 years earlier.
I dunno about anybody else, but Zuckerberg and Pichai both have writing styles with very little substance or convincing argumebnts.
If I am a Meta investor, and I see they use my capital to buy government bonds, why would I invest in them? I'd just buy the bonds myself.

Meta is supposed to be a Tech company and invest the capital they have in technology plays
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The Macedonian culture seems to me to have become distinct from Serbian and Bulgarian cultures by around WW1 at the latest. At the very least, all of the ethnographers being used to divvy up the Balkans recognized them as a distinct ethnicity at that time.
Do you have any sources, after a quick google I wasn't able to find much on lobbying that is done onbehalf of drivers.
Every bit of text from a computer system also comes from flawed humans.
Completely missed the point, as usual. Consider the amount of world knowledge present in a 175B model vs a 7B model. You can elicit instruction following behavior with a relatively small number of samples , but you're never going to get that coverage of memorized facts. The Alpaca blog post gives the example that Alpaca doesn't know the capital of Tanzania, for example. The most is that depth of knowledge and understanding, not the surface level instruction following behavior.
Speculation warning, since no devices were directly referenced...

These setups use PLCs to control water circulation, ventilation actuators, augers, and the like. I've even seen Honey Bee feeding set up with PLC interfaces just because they're common and easy.

But if they're on the internet with a dashboard, they are likely the "soft belly" as we've seen in lots of industrial ransomware incidents.

I've worked in similar ( not the same sector ) automation control environments where the programmers involved live in time-crunch "copy-pasta, change the labels" environments and security is relegated to network models.

How many control systems have been impacted by scope creep and are now on the network when they weren't initially? How many of those are on the internet because someone wanted access from their iPad?

I'm fairly bothered that the only hope I have in some of the equipment I've worked on is that if it is accessible from the internet one day, it has far too many indistinguishable peers to be a "particular" target and it would take a lot of research to determine any value.
>The federal government caused the problem first though.

Nonsense.

>The federal reserve denied inflation was real for so long, signaling to everyone that it was safe to buy US Treasuries, then suddenly and aggressively started raising rates.

The Fed was issuing forward guidance in 2020 that it planned to aggressively raise rates. By 2021, my dog could have told you that this was going to happen.

>And wasn't it the federal government regulators who are responsible for ensuring that banks are not taking on excessive risk? Are they not to be trusted, and must every depositor perform a deep-dive due diligence on their bank and continuously do so in order to make sure their money is safe while deposited in a bank of all places?

SVB spent a lot of money on lobbying to keep themselves small enough (by raising the limits) to not have to get the full brunt of regulations. (https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-used...)

>No, the Federal government is more like an arsonist who set fire to a building, then showed up to rescue the people inside, taking all the credit, and then shaming those who noticed the smoke and escaped on their own before they arrived.

Makes sense that you don't know the difference between the Federal Government, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC though.
I don't think those ideas necessarily contradict. If you're using VR to collaborate with someone on the other side of the country (or world) but you only need to collaborate intermittently, then remote collaboration just has to be "good enough" to offset the cost of travel even if in person would be ideal. Meanwhile, for their own employees who may need to collaborate daily, from their point of view they might think in that case it makes more sense to enforce in-person. I doubt Meta's stated goal (at this point) with their VR stuff is that you should never ever leave your house because VR is just as good, seems like it's more "this thing enables remote to be better".
No XDA thread that I know of, but have a nice gist. https://gist.github.com/varhub/7b9555cdd1e5ad785ffde2300fcfd...
*wouldn't go

[I don't know if there's something about HN or how people are using it, but these typos that make sentences have the opposite meaning seem far more frequent here than what I'd expect. I probably am biased towards noticing.]
So many though, all at once. This is criminal lack of forseight and mismanagement
Perception is reality though. The average person doesn't care about the difference between BTC and ETH and ERC-20 tokens, it all looks like the same get-rich-quick scheme. People aren't reading whitepapers, every coin has one. They're evaluating Youtube thumbnails as their source of information.
Because Little Snitch is the tool that will help you from getting surprised in the future by something you don't have now. Sure, you might be surprise free in your outbound traffic now, but what happens 6 months from now when you suddenly are hit with something from a new download or some other method of infection? Little Snitch will block it from the first attempt and bring it to your attention. Without it, it'll just happily do it's little tasks until the next time you think about auditing with a reset trial version of Little Snitch.

Just like you don't need health insurance until you do, then it's too late if you don't have it. The comparison seems obvious enough
Nope, US, based out of CA, but he was from the Midwest.

It was funny as when I met him a few times he responded the same way.

"You're from Minnesota? Can I talk to you about hunting? They told me I shouldn't do that in California ..."

I didn't hunt but I let the man tell his story ;)

I usually feel pretty disconnected from executive types and so on but I liked that guy. I liked him so much I was suspicious all over again as that's not how I feel about those guys usually. He was actually fun to be around.
If you want more details the last paper, on InstructGPT, is probably the most interesting?
Do you have the knowledge or time to conduct whiteboard interviews for every contractor?
Can we assume that Facebook did a good job onboarding remotely? I guess maybe the argument is that given poor onboarding, in-person is better than remote, and going back to in-person saves having to invest in better onboarding. But that’s just an argument that the status quo is easier - of course it’s easier to keep doing what you’re used to, and of course traditional onboarding is geared towards in-person! And that’s quite unfortunate because you do have companies onboarding remotely quite successfully so there’s possibly nothing inherent to remote onboarding that makes it strictly worse.
> No, really. A lot of people just want to show off kids to family and friends, and don't think about the repercussions of making it public on Facebook

Those posts aren't monetized. To monetize social media posting requires intent, it doesn't happen by accident.
Maybe that is the disease? greed, sociopathy... money worship
Suspicion Machines Methodology - Breakdown of Welfare Risk Scoring System
And to sum it up: basically the entire sustainability accreditations have been taken over by corporate interests. So the label itself on every seafood item is super inaccurate and doesn't actually save the planet or the fish population at all. Not even a dent.
Silicon Valley Bank CEO and CFO Sued by Shareholders for Fraud
I didn't know about that. I wonder how much money and/or tokens this is, in what amounts, and whether Binance can prove it (separate from other funds).
Literally said in the comment you are replying to if you bother to read until the 3rd para!
DRM, if I had to guess.
I've been using WezTerm for a year more or less and haven't had any problems so far. Whenever I want anything fancy I just go to the docs or dig through the Github repo (issues, PRs, etc) and that's all I need.

I just couldn't stand the petulant attitude of Alacritty's maintaner(s) and it didn't take much to find something else. Although I can't give this for granted now I haven't seen there's the same sort of behavior on WezTerm.
I think the real question is where their servers are.
I want to start off by saying that I am not a dev, my job is engineering that uses advanced mathematical theory to solve physical problems.

I have only set up a LinkedIn profile. Recruiters have my email from there, the conferences I've attended and contact information I've passed to my friends (being an engineering grad student helps). It varies, but the lowest is 45k/year, which living in the capital (even more if I lived in a village) of Chile means that as a single male I would live comfortably and without worries.
> The crypto industry has basically done a speed run of the history of banking and finance over the last decade or so.

Does that mean it'll eventually eclipse and live in front of the current timeline of banking, so we'll see banking and finance following the crypto industry at one point, repeating the same mistake that happens in cryptocurrencies?
SVB ended up on the wrong side of a trade and somehow it’s the feds fault?

They knew that there were risks in their strategy and went ahead with it, rather than hedging and forgoing profits. It’s not the feds job to make policy on the basis of how one bank is trading.
But search wasn’t.
Zuck: VR head sets

Elon: Satellite phones

Samsung: The Moon

Apple: Sat + VR

Microsoft: GPT

Is how I see it.
Moody's changes outlook on U.S. banking system to 'negative'
HTTPS is not going to hide your IP or the IP of the websites you access.
Beside HTTPS there are other network protocols people are using.
GitHub and other companies like Amazon have the advantage of the scale in terms of dataset. What’s the guarantee that the pre trained model you have that you’ll fine tune on a company’s code base is as good as say Copilot? It makes it even hard to evaluate when you don’t have a demo to try - it’s not that hard to setup a pipeline to run your model in cloud and send invites to potential customers if you want to.
It can be that in-person is best, but isn't always possible. And then it can also be the case that VR is better than connecting over Web/Mobile, while also being far cheaper than a plane ticket.
Because that's not how banking works. They aren't allowed to get a loan to cover liquidity obligations. They have to sell assets which takes time. If Peter Thiel starts screaming for everyone to withdraw their money, the bank can't keep up, and the FDIC steps in.
You're right: it's worse than abstract. You said it has an excellent track record, but now you refuse to provide any facts. It's not "going example-for-example" -- it's called honest debate.
Aws charges per wattage or per thread? Don't think so. It makes sense if you are the cloud provider yourself but I don't see this as relevant for most businesses.
of course it's total bullshit but it's wrong to blame the people getting bullshitted and not the bullshitter
Good rule of thumb: Yudkowsky is always trying to appear more knowledgeable than he is. He's also been larping an AI expert for a long time.
After 15 years of the talent acquisition arms race they all finally got what they wanted, and now they are happy to throw it all way.
it's paid for by auctioning off SVB's assets and raising FDIC fees on other banks
I would find it suspect if my specialist was googling unless I had something really weird going on, and might consider going to a different specialist.
You're wrong, and it's easy to show why:

SVB executives did NOT have to load up on high-duration bonds! They were under no obligation to do that.

They CHOSE to do it because they wanted to increase interest income and earnings in the short run.

They could have easily purchased a lower-duration mix of bonds. Instead, they gambled the bank on a bet that long-term rates would stay at historic lows.

Once they made that bet, they could have easily hedged it every year, at a cost. Instead, they chose not to spend any money on hedging.

The federal government did not cause SVB's failure. SVB executives caused it.
Why Walking to Work Can Be More Polluting Than Driving to Work (2013)
This is not a snarky response, but is it possible the answer is simply "who cares?"

I see NordVPN ads all over youtube, podcasts, and TV. Those overwhelmingly non-technical customers certainly don't care about the code quality, documentation, or constants defined far from where they're used.

It seems to me this is about marketing the product to be perceived as transparent and secure, which is certainly what those customers care about.
That depends on the implementation. E.g. Sam's Club lets you scan items as you put them into your cart and just walk past the registers.

In the local grocery store at rush hour, cashier lines are long and self-checkout tends to be quicker for buying 3 items. Taking a whole cart into self-checkout is slower than a cashier, because the self-checkout has like a 5% chance per item of going into "assistance needed" mode.
I don't know about other laptops but I personally experienced a latent issue with all lenovo laptops (thinkpad & ideapad) where there is a short between the keyboard and the audio card - you could hear very faint static with headphones plugged in when there was no audio playing and I could even hear the static change when I scrolled my mouse - possibly because of how closely packed everything is.
Don't let all the AI hype trick you into thinking you can trust Microsoft for anything.
They exist. People have trained BERT-like and other transformer models for specialist domains, particularly medicine. I “see” them all the time on arXiv.org.

Models like that perform well if you are doing classification, information extraction, etc.

For text generation though they have the same bullshitting problem as ChatGPT however, remember that science chatbot that Facebook released that they had to take down?
I think cryptography is one of the few places where it makes sense to do that. Because:

* There's not that much code involved.

* Many CPUs have instructions specifically made for accelerating cryptographic algorithms.

* Security may have specific requirements from the code, such as not giving away any secrets through timing. This may require writing very specific, suboptimal code intentionally.
Let's be real here. No other bank in the world would've collapsed in similar situation.

Did SVB lose money and made bad bets? Yes. Could they have raised back money by selling shares and return to solid ground? Also probably yes.

What made this completely fatal is their client base. Client base which are supposed to be the biggest risk takers in the economy. Fled away at record speed. The burners of billions of dollars, fled away from quite moderate risk bank (moderate relative to their own risk profiles). That has been there for 40 years.

It's not people who are unfamiliar with raising money. It's not your common people who somehow started a bank run.

It's a small and connected group, that could communicate exaggerated risk to everyone and flee at record speed. Which is why I don't buy their innocent claims at all.

It's actually hilarious that people who were selling sham crypto for billions of dollars got spooked by a bank. As depositors. It's like they projected their own insecurities and grift and fled like they saw their own scam and found themselves in it.
Outside of the Federal Reserve issue, isn't a core component here the 2018 bank deregulation laws that weakened the rules so they wouldn't apply to banks the size of SVB (less than $250B in assets)? Dodd-Frank was put in in place for a reason after 2008 and crawling it back in form of the 2018 bank deregulation laws was a glaring mistake.
Yeah, good point. But I think this still applies to WG21.
> The only other place where I see this is useful is competing tasks. One task needs more resources from a thread pool shared by other tasks. A pid controller can allocate existing threads based off of pressure. Allocating more threads to a pool in this case though, still doesn't make sense.

Imagine you got 16 CPUs/cores and a 4 stage pipeline, lets say we want to run one thread per CPU/core for max performance (avoiding context switching). Without knowing anything about the workload: what is the best way to distributed the threads over the stages? You can't tell. Even if you tested all the possilble ways to spread out the threads over the different stages on some particular workload, then as the workload changes you wouldn't have optimal allocation anymore. A controller can adjust the threads per stage until it finds the optimal allocation for the current workload and change it as it changes.
My anecdotal experience matches the conclusion… that internet-urban myths are born of poor regurgitation of glorified content marketing; and also that most door close buttons work after a minimum time threshold. Interesting to learn it’s part of the ADA. Neat newsletter, I subscribed.
Still blows my mind that news is just plural for new. I hate it so much, perhaps irrationally.
I didn't make my mind if I hate NordVPN more or Skillshare. Or maybe Squarespace?
Generally the products and their packaging were simply ''badge engineered'' to swap out the Philips name for Norelco or Magnavox. North American consumers back then would likely not have recognized the Philips brand. Heck, it is doubtful most of them would have recognized the Phillips brand of vacuum tubes either, but trademark law prevailed. As for given names, there is no special exemption for them (i.e. someone named Heinz cannot use their given name to begin marketing a line of food condiments without a battery of corporate lawyers representing the giant Heinz outfit putting an end to that).
Just use Big Five in Canada, I assume you have 100% guarantee then. In the US $250,000 is guaranteed by FDIC (per bank), so you would probably be fine here too. OTOH not all businesses can operate from a founder's wallet, some need loans. Who's going to provide those loans if every bank is a full-reserve bank?
The point I was making is that the problem (MH) is a lot more subtle than people give it credit for. Many of the arguments people make for how the MH problem is "obvious" seem to work for this modified game too unless you're careful with them.
And we're talking about "sharenting" which does not imply monetization at all, hence why the post I replied to was off base.
I believe they all got paid good. I was a bit surprised at the animosity but the old CEO certainly seemed to burn bridges (I note how in another post) and I also suspect the old CEO took it really personal that he got beat by our main competitor.
Rather, auditing is only proof that the parts the auditors looked at were secure against what the the auditors knew to look for, at the moment of the audit.
This site would so much improve by using `background-attachment: fixed;` in its CSS. I'm getting a headache here.
That’s something slightly different though. Microsoft had this crappy idea that drivers are no longer just drivers but instead you’ll also get all the usermode software you never wanted automatically.

IIRC you cannot disable this behavior without entirely disabling driver installs/updates from Windows Update.

The mouse itself would still work without it.
"I have the ability to punish you for my fantasy not being true" isn't childish, it's common among adults, and, indeed, is a defining feature among the adults who abuse children and anyone else less powerful than them. It is, in fact, one of the most powerful tools a dictator has: "You failed to capture that objective? You are incompetent, and possibly traitorous, so you will be executed, your family will be executed, and I will continue this war with competent generals who execute my plans because my plans are viable."
Unless you spring for fancier receivers the most you get is parametric EQ weights. It's a simple IIR filter rather than a proper FIR.
Permission to come aboard?
Spoke to a few farmer friends. They tell me that large scale operations are very technically complex and have many digital systems deployed for remote management. That being said, a lot of the numbers here seemed to be miss reported. This seems like a combination of genuine issue and fear pandering.
I love taunting people by saying: "It's all just Vines"
What I like using Grafana Loki for (and where I avoid it)
it looks to similar to strcpy() which for some reason makes it confusing and not at all memorable to me. (and i don't even write code in languages that have this function)
People who have not much else, are generally very protective of their identity.
the "gain" startups were getting was a deposit account that doesn't disappear over the weekend. these were not supposed to be high risk/reward investments.
It is quite possible that the people they are firing aren't the ones they recently hired, but instead people who have been there for a long time but aren't meaningfully contributing anymore.
What Happened to McDonnell Douglas?