skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (unless the standard says compilers should ignore the `#pragma` if they don't understand it, but I confess haven't checked).

It does (Section 15.9 [cpp.pragma]):

> Any pragma that is not recognized by the implementation is ignored.

However, Clang has the -Wunknown-pragmas warning which will fire on pragmas it doesn't recognize, so you'll probably want to do what gavinhoward does and guard non-Clang pragmas with compiler-specific #ifdefs.
My guess is that eventually our devices will get powerful enough, or the software optimized enough that we can build and train these systems without crazy expensive hardware at which point everyone will have access to the technology without needing companies to act like gatekeepers.

In the meantime, I expect our every interaction with this technology will be carefully monitored and controlled. As long as we have to beg for access to it, or are limited to what others train it on, we'll never be a threat to those with the money and access to use these tools to their full potential.

I think universities might help serve to bridge the gap though, as they have in the past when it came to getting powerful new technology into the hands of the not-quite-as privileged. Maybe we'll see some cool things come out of that space.
So, with kid gloves? Look state by state at DUI laws. Many if not most won’t end leave you with a suspended license, much less jailed.
Maybe nobody cared who they were until they put on the mask. It doesn't matter who they are, what matters is their plan...
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907312 - Jan 2021 (53 comments)
US National Institute of Health on Long Covid:

"Symptoms of COVID-19 can last months — or even longer — after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Symptoms vary from person to person and can affect almost any part of the body."

https://covid19.nih.gov/covid-19-topics/long-covid

Statement by Mayo Clinic:

"Research suggests that between one month and one year after having COVID-19, 1 in 5 people ages 18 to 64 has at least one medical condition that might be due to COVID-19...."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

Johns Hopkins:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
It sounds like you're advocating for summary execution. That's not really done in the civilized world. What do you really mean?
That's the issue with centralized infra... I expect it to be less and less stable the more customers they have. I still wish them good luck.

On my side I took the opposite direction, each workload is shared nothing.
That’s how the right to a jury of peers works now too - you’re expected to take a plea deal, and prosecutors threaten more charges and ask for longer sentences if someone won’t take a deal.
Thanks for that. Sounds like it might fit what we want. I'll reach out if I have any more questions.

Are you tied to GCP services like pubsub and BiqQuery? We're in AWS, not GCP.
Median NYC household income is $70.7k [1]. That suggests a single person on a $100k salary should be able to do OK.

Median household income in Manhattan is just under $100k [2].

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...

[2] https://furmancenter.org/neighborhoods/view/manhattan
Do you believe that these models will not be replicated outside OpenAI? And do you believe OpenAI will remain relatively benevolent long-term if they are not replicated elsewhere?
From my experience etcd would have been a better choice for maturity if they don't need the gossip stuff.
> This falls into the "write a memo" bucket. You notice a trend (like all applications by a specific minority get shut down). You document it by pulling a report. You identify the potential ramifications. Hit send. If it gets round filed and the trend continues, it's time to vote with your feet and explain why in your exit interview.

Thing is, I don't think this attitude would apply to many other subjects.

For instance you notice your company has difficulty hiring so you talk to HR to give more visibility in tech conferences for instance. They drag their feet and don't want to bother, but you start looking around, discuss internaly and see the idea has traction and people are willing to volunteer to do it, so you come up with a realistic proposition for meetups on friday evenings. The plan is greenlit by your boss, you talk to your office manager, get the ball rolling, and 6 months later your company officially has a meetup event every month, and everyone's pretty happy you did it.

So where's the line between expanding company's hiring practices and expanding company's PR practices ?

My point is, at some level (I assume "tech lead" is not some grunt worker) you're supposed to interpret your mandate as broadly as it still makes sense from a practical point of view, and will be rewarded for moving things in the right direction.

Saying "getting the right people for the job in your team" should stop at the memo level doesn't fit my experience of what is expected from that kind of role.
The Roblox outage seemed like a pretty one-off instance due to a hard to catch bug. Consul still seems like a great choice and it looks like Roblox continues to use it at their scale.
RLHF is basically just applying social power to the machine. It’s used for good (ChatGPT won’t help you spread Nazi memes) and hegemony (ChatGPT won’t help you overthrow capitalism).
I am often of the opinion many technical people can't bring abstract ideas across domains. I have seen people recognize things in context and ignore the same idea in another one. They loose sight of the details when looking to high up or looking at reports instead of building the reports themselves.
Microsoft lays off AI ethics and society team
A lot of HSBC's "interaction" with criminal elements south of the border was detected via analysis of CTRs.

And don't most banking systems automatically generate a CTR based on the transaction ledger? It's not like a teller is filling out a form and faxing it.
> and it was only in the last decade that the vanishing gradients problem was tamed.

One of the big pieces was Schmidhuber's lab's highway nets, done ~30 years ago, but just didn't land until a more limited version was rediscovered.
10? So less likely than winning the lottery.
Intercontinental missile being burned up in the atmosphere.
Driving alone in a car with a mask on is pretty pointless, but I haven't seen people do that since the height of the pandemic, personally. Probably still happens, but certainly doesn't seem anything on a "mass psychosis" level.

On the other hand, I drove with a mask on a few times - but that's when I was sick and attempting to reduce the chances of getting family members present in the car sick too.
could be, but i meant the scaremongering in the article

elemental chlorine legitimately is pretty toxic
Does space trash look particularly distinctive when it makes back to earth? Human made space trash to be specific.
There's no breathalyzer for smartphones though. They need some way to prove it.
It also mentions that the model that didn't succeed wasn't the most recent one.
"The park is vibrant and full of kids and families over the day.. dealers don't even annoy you usually if you signal strong non-interest or don't fall into typical buyer group."

Yeah, that's where I want to take my kids, where the "drug dealers don't annoy us if we're not interested"... you must have very high annoyance thresholds.
> kind of weird when something so unusual happens and you feel like the only one who saw it.

I was camping at a river with some friends some time ago in the summer, and we saw some meteor drawing a huge long line in the sky, it lasted quite a bit of time. Enough for me to call for my friends to get up and look at it, and they both saw it as well. Could never find any news about it though. Never seen anything like it since then.
The 90% of the tecnology used in the internet and even in your pocket was born because some guys wanted to play Space War under a PDP-8 machine with no OS.

The technology to draw "widgets" in your Unix console was born to play computer games depending on them.
How can I prove to you that I have a headache? At a certain point you just have to listen to patients and trust them.

It’s really weird to get super skeptical of people’s claims only for a specific disease or a specific type of person.
What fraction of meals are sandwiches? Not everyone is eating a sandwich every day.
I still see them sometimes in Southern Europe. Great condition too usually. I’m a fan of old civics too :)
Do not worry about the Swiss, they know to launder money even without american clientele. They have many buddies in Liechtenstein with odd funds, charities never yet seen in the so called leaks.

The historic reasons for the us taking a at the swiss have been the hidden, non declared tax moneys from american people and corporations.
The Swiss had a cloaking system in place called banking secrecy, it was even codified into law.

America wanted whats owed to them and that was it.

Swiss bankers would fly to the us physically, in person, pick up funds and goods like diamonds and transport them to switzerland without declaring anything. All the little tricks like labelling the funds fraudulently, diamonds in a toothpaste tube, that was part of the service portfolio.

The us promised to sue and the whole decisionmakers knew they will be safe nowehere but in switzerland, a small country with sub par weather, and if the us got hold of them, they will spend a good time of their lifes behind bars.
The swiss banking secrecy laws were thus burried for good.
The swiss still had the cheek to blather about data protection and privacy and then agreed to hand over a portfolio of "suspicious" accounts.

How hypocritical this was was shown later on, when it became impossible in switzerland and europe for americans to open bank accounts unless employed in Switzerland and being residents.

You say banks have a bad reputation overall, but somehow the swiss banks had a better reputation, even though they are on a level with a carribean tax haven operator.
Yep! More putting it out there for other folks. I’m also a somewhat frustrated paying customer, but as I’m dealing with my own growing pains, I relate to what they’re going through. I’ve personally migrated my DB to Crunchy to somewhat mitigate the risk.
Yah I should have clarified - 'bail should be granted' meaning people being released without cash bail - a promise to appear, holding passports, maybe other restrictions, I think those are pretty reasonable.
GPT-4 cannot hire anyone. It outputs text and what happens to that text is up to the user.
Unfortunately while I won’t be persuaded by a list that is mostly useless, others will make decisions on it without realizing how misleading it is. That is why I object.
What does texting and driving actually mean?

I simply can't read messages and type with my fingers if I wanted to, while moving. Do people really do that without immediately crashing?

Or is using Google Maps with Android Auto and tapping to view incoming texts what should be a felony?

If looking away from the road is the problem, then we should prohibit any controls in the center console for climate control or radios, and...passengers?
I like the J. R. R. Tolkien reference of the company name...

Did you check the copyright situation? I guess the Tolkien Estate could try to sue you guys if you get successful...
https://bgr.com/lifestyle/phone-detecting-cameras-trial/
Swiss neutrality goes back much farther that that, IIRC. Early 1500's. Different political organizations back then, of course, but the Swiss have been doing the neutrality thing for half a millennium, and through much worse situations, I don't see why they'd stop now.
Most often the issues that take down a site are with core services like network routing, DNS and service discovery. Consul gets mentioned because it’s in that business and isn’t a standard so it gets called out specifically. Zookeeper, HAProxy and various cluster managers also get slagged for this stuff and yeah, sometimes it’s their fault but that’s what it means to be in that business.
Related:

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3rd Ed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33927021 - Dec 2022 (33 comments)

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31214018 - April 2022 (18 comments)

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797418 - Dec 2015 (12 comments)

Programming Languages – Application and Interpretation (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277898 - March 2015 (5 comments)

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1377203 - May 2010 (7 comments)

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi (Free Book) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=169291 - April 2008 (8 comments)
Switzerland's doctrine of neutrality is not newfound, rather it's a strategy they've built into their geography over centuries. They're nestled between mountains, so it would be pretty difficult for any other nation to attack them, but up until 1945, Europe was home to very frequent wars of conquest, which were devastating to property and people. Switzerland's strategy was to lean into their natural defenses by building hundreds of thousands of bunkers [0] in the mountains and signalling "Hey, we aren't looking to attack you, but if you invade, watch out for our extremely well fortified defenses. By the way, would you care to keep your valuables in our vaults? Lots of pillagers out there in the rest of Europe."

(but seriously, skim through the video. Switzerland's defenses are wild and beautiful.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bPIaHg11mI
Humans made the decision. Some humans like doing what they think is the right thing, otherwise they feel terrible. Feeling like a good human and not a bad one drives a decent amount of decision making.
uh 2018-2020 was not a good window

it was pretty much very end of 2020 and early to mid 2021.
That's probably why the Russian one is so well documented. They have a dashcam culture
> It is a capital raise. It's right there in the announcement. They are
> raising new capital, issuing shares, then buying back different shares.

If the transaction completes with the company having the same amount of shares as before, and the same amount of money as before, then it's not a capital raise.

> But the series I investors are getting a little over 10% of the company
> for their 6.5B, instead of about 5% for their 6.5B (if the valuation was
> 120B as suggested).

The valuation is independent of the ownership percentage. If 5% of the company is held by employees (with locked-up RSUs) and 5% held by institutions, then allowing employees to sell their shares to institutions does not change how many shares exist.

Even if the employees decide to sell all of their shares (leaving the external investors with 10%), whether this happens at a 50B or 95B or 120B valuation doesn't affect the percentages. It only affects how much money the employees receive for selling their ownership interest.

> The existing equity holders as a group are in a position which is about
> 5% different economically than it could have been

You're still confused about valuation, price, and share count. Issuing new shares directly affects the fair market value of a company, and can be additive (if sold above fair value) or dilutive (if sold below). In contrast, temporary price fluctuations (due to bubbles, panic, etc) do not affect the value of the shares except in very unusual circumstances.
startups are like fentanyl -- the gap between the lethal and the effective dose is v small.
This to me is the interesting part:

>Also, the asymmetric treatment of demographic groups by OpenAI content moderation system seems to persist, whereby derogatory comments about some demographic groups are flagged as hateful while the exact same comments about other demographic groups are not labeled as hateful.

Emphasis not mine.
I appreciate the tongue in cheek "AI" generated article but seriously, Brother isn't where it's at for home printers anymore. I had one of the mentioned printers and after a firmware update I couldn't use third party toners anymore. We moved to an Epson ink tank printer, so far so good.
There's also the very low possibility of something just skipping along the upper atmosphere and ricocheting back into space.
That's a good point / thing that I've not thought about as much here. I would be much more frustrated if my primary datastores were hosted there. As things stand, their semi-hosted offering never really made sense to me (esp. now lol), but I do think if you get into the game of DB hosting there's almost another level of expectation even beyond basic compute (oddly enough)
SVB had a bonus schedule like every other company, and paid out those bonuses to all eligible employees. The payments were for work done in 2022. There is literally nothing to see here.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/silicon-valley-bank-employee...
under and above her, unless he's a man named laura
It's not immediately obvious to me – why would escape velocity also be the minimum speed at which an object could enter the atmosphere?
Thank you for saying this. I agree with OP concerning the article. I work in finance and if people knew just how clueless even we are when it comes to devices being compromised they would never use an app or website for banking again. Even if we can tell it wasn’t the account holder it’s extremely hard to do much more than that. No one knows what to tell the poor person either. I take a hit and get in trouble for my hour call giving instructions but rather that than see someone suffer.

Also bad for people with stalkers/abusive partners. I don’t know why everyone says it’s so hard to compromise a device/number (either platform) when it’s not. Or maybe I’m just in a position where I see it more often and overall it is hard? My day job minimum of 2 a day, confirmed not counting otherwise. Volunteer work, its not as frequent but also don’t deal with same volume of people. It is creepier though and no one knows what to do. One case working w a big agency as it involves a high dollar amount and is ongoing and THEY can’t seem to give advice that works either. Person at this point went to a flip phone.

Reset the phone? Didn’t work. Abandon all accounts, reset phone, cool. Didn’t work. K now all of the above and dump the number, and/or replace entire phone, latter usually works but not always. Sorry this is long here is my point in commenting. I wish someone with knowledge would take the time to do a solid write up for people with zero tech knowledge not just how to protect themselves but how to determine if/how they are compromised, log proof if possible (court etc) get rid of it and move forward safely, or as safe as possible for both android and IOS, a comprehensive write up. They would be a super hero. Literally help countless.

It would help people like the 83 y/o grandma who got cleaned out THREE TIMES and cried to me begging for help on how to stop it, the women whose abusive exes show up at shelters because they have accessed sms or location despite the women using precautions given to them as the precautions are not up to date with what’s possible. Forgive me, it gets to me some of the most vulnerable people are dealing with this at an alarming rate and the people they are told to get help from genuinely don’t know what to do, while I know some it’s not enough to truly be of help say if someone has a well versed ex determined to hunt them down. These people could care less about the Gov knowing all, they just want to be safe.
Yes, exactly. An autocompleter is saying what the next words probably would be, not what it should be. It's like a chess program that tries to find the most likely move that a huan would make in the position rather than the best move.
Models you can run locally are coming soon.
+1 for CUPS/docker. I've been running a Brother 1018 (circa 2012) off a Raspberry PI 3 over the home network so everyone in the house can use it. It just keeps on ticking with the odd toner cartridge change.
Was affected by the outage. Didn't know about it so I thought it was just another crash on Fly.io.

Tried to restart our app from the command line, only to be told they had disabled the API. And there is no restart feature on their dashboard. So all I could do was watching flyio logs telling me that our apps were down.

Sigh.

We moved from Heroku to Fly.io only this January, and are already considering moving away from it. The reliability is miserable at best. And so many basic features are missing. Yes it's much cheaper than Heroku, but we ended up paying much more time/resource/money dealing with its glitches. Defeats the purpose why we used a PaaS in the first place.
I really wish compiling cuda extensions worked better out of the box. Is there a reason they can't bundle nvcc alongside pytorch outside of complexity/expense?
imo there's already a bunch of inconsistent nanny-state stuff when trying to use a smartphone as a passenger/navigator. There's things I'm not allowed to do without unplugging the phone briefly, and there's also things I'm allowed to do that absolutely require looking down at a zero-haptic-feedback touchscreen.

It seems like there's always corner cases that aren't considered (in your proposal above, what if the navigator doesn't have a phone because they're a child, or because their phone ran out of batteries? What happens when the sensors/algorithms are wrong about how fast we're going? What happens when the sensors are wrong about whether or not there's another device? What if that second device keeps disappearing and re-apparing while somebody tries to do a multiple step operation?) ... Trying to build some water-tight mechanism to keep us out of trouble but also with access to full functionality "when we can use it responsibly" is an endless rabbit hole.

IMO it feels like a systemic problem asking for a systemic solution. Whether we think that solution is self-driving cars, rail travel, walkable cities, or taxis probably says as much about our politics as anything else though.
An Information Tax to reign in the time and energy wasting Attention Economy
The 52h were "Democratic party that limits the working week to 52 hours: 40 of regular work plus 12 of overtime."

That gives you an opportunity to effectively pull an all nighter in an emergency once a week. I really don't see why any more would be allowed regularly. That would be a plain management failure.
I have long covid. See my comment elsewhere on this thread for details. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35176612
I would err on the side that this benefits Stripe somehow. Corporate entities don't "do the right thing because it's the right thing to do". They do the right thing because it's strategically advantageous to them.
>>>They're not technically innocent. Nor are they technically guilty. Their status is in question.

They are technically innocent. That is the central assumption in any good justice system.

>>>But your last sentence comes back around to the problem of there not being enough capacity for these people. ASAP could very well be a year and a half.

I don't think anyone would consider that reasonable if they were in custody. Let's say you were charged with something (that you didn't do, let's say) - what would you consider a fair amount of time before a trial?
Citation needed. Oklahoma averages over 50 per year and is 2/3rds the land area of the UK.[0]

[0] https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-ok-monthlyannual
You should be be hesitant! But not everyone wants to work at a large public company and deal with all the bureaucracy that entails, or want to work somewhere risky for the chance to make it big.
Humans run companies, humans made this decision.