skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point you're missing is that senior engs in Meta do not just write code. Some of the senior engs almost do not write code at all. They design systems and move complex projects forward. So that's more of like a TPM/PM/mgmt skill there, in addition to excellent technical ability to write the code itself. In certain projects, especially in infra, writing code is usually the last part (and often the least complex one) of your avg large project driven by senior ICs; and often the code is written by engs across teams/orgs, not necessarily the senior eng themselves.
So yea, deep language knowledge, while an excellent skill, is not something that defines a senior eng (at least in Meta and I presume in similar FAANG companies).
I've got a Gemini PDA from the original kickstarter. The Android support (last time I checked) was out of date.

The keyboard is good, for the size it is (whole thing is large phone size). I have a Psion 5, and the Gemini keyboard is pretty much an exact copy, but better.

I feel like there's 2 kinds of keyboard modalities - thumbs (loved my Blackberries) and touch-type. The Gemini is just a bit too small for touch typing, and is too large for thumbs. It's still very cool.

I typed a couple of blog posts on it, but wouldn't want to do more than that. Since then it's been gathering dust.

I'm planning to eBay it soon to very-slightly-offset a Pocket Reform. From the pictures believe that the Pocket Reform is just large enough to be a touch-typer.
I would argue we treat pigs (which are comparable to dogs in terms of intelligence) raised for slaughter much worse than these dogs. Yet I still eat bacon.

Moral consistency on animal welfare is really hard because we have so many blind spots due to how commonplace some practices are. There is definitely a push for ending things like cosmetics testing on animals[1], but I'm not sure we can or should stop testing things like cancer treatments on animals. At least not until we have viable alternatives.

[1] https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/timeline-cosmetics-t...
$40k today is not a lot even for a lot of middle class… basically his parents gifted him an equivalent of a slightly nice new car.

With X.com he did quite a bit than invest as all of the other cofounders left prior to launch. By the time they merged with cofinity Elon was the only one of the original team.
It's fairly common to want P2P connections, even if the users aren't aware of it. A lot of online games rely on NAT traversal, sometimes automatically picking a host based on whoever's NAT it can get past. I don't remember the details, but even the Nintendo Switch cares about NAT.

A lot of would-be P2P applications end up using a relay server to get around that restriction, which adds significant cost and latency. Sure it's a well-established workaround by now, but it'd be nice not to rely on it.
If you need correct information - it's not really useful at all if something is mostly correct 95% of the time.

If you don't need correct information, ChatGPT is great.
This is all good stuff, ADHD or not!
Why in the hell is this doenvoted? Every two months Edge grows some new feature to help me "shop" or some other bs.

There are literally 3x as many knobs to disable "yes, plz hijack my data" in Edge than Chrome.
I too thought they were related, but apparently not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344
I always get a sinking feeling in my stomach when a news or news messageboard site fails to load, or is very slow. Guess that's because of 9/11.
Couldn't that sort of fragmentation, uncertainty, and secrecy contribute to marginalizing these systems, or make it harder for them to keep growing? Those are some of the big questions that make guessing at the future so difficult.

You can see the same sort of thing with OpenAI's reluctance to describe the GPT4 model in as much detail as past ones.
Hell name any war without war crimes.
At which point we call it Skynet?
Until relatively recently it did.

Now there's a default kali user and you escalate via sudo, at least on the live systems.
Not only that, but the text is a tiny sliver of horizontal space, with that annoying background filler everywhere else. It's so bad I had to break out the ruler just to be sure: My monitor is 24 inches across, and at my default text size, the content of that site is 6 inches across: 3/4 of the screen wasted. This web developer needs a paddlin'.
I did some work at a startup that tried to solve a similar problem and currently finishing medical school. Nobody here is discussing the paperwork and burnout problem that exists in medicine that will make these tools valuable. Fortunately, language models used for summarization based on a transcript are much less likely to hallucinate compared to upscaling/denoising image algorithms. Recent LMs are scoring top marks on LSAT, so they are maintaining accuracy as they get larger. If doctors can save time, this will be useful for the patient in the long-run.

On-prem stuff is more tricky, but useful for privacy. Nvidia is supporting the space with their health AGX series.
Makes sense, so if I already have a tRPC application, what's the transition like to Garph? Or do I need to have it already in Garph when first starting out (ie hard to transition)?
We don't know, OpenAI refused to publish any details about the architecture in the technical report. We don't know parameters, we don't know depth, we don't know how exactly it's integrating image data (ViT-style maybe?), we don't even know anything about the training data. Right now it's a giant black box.
Some
Of the lifts at work respond instantly. It is such a delight.
I got an account on masthead.social, and that has been down for a week.

There is/was a thread about on Reddit, and half of the threads were someone saying, "Mastodon.social is fine, what's the problem?" and responses pointing out the post was about mastHEAD.social.

Daily Kos is also down. Archive.is was spotty this past weekend. It seems like outages are becoming more common.
Whoa boy. You should spend your time in some different subs. I've carefully curated a list of subs that match my interests, and Reddit is delightful.
Check out when Dropbox launched

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
The best outcome for humanity at large would be if it never came back.
It's not just about the money. You can make an argument that they want to serve as many people as possible in the best possible way, and that means concentrating their limited resources on the languages people want to learn most.
Hi Vykintas, thank you for answering. I'm the GP.

First of all, I want to reiterate that I purposefully used the word "allegedly" because I have no proof. I only have a smoking gun https://archive.is/bQo0O .

Second of all, I want to explain that it is very difficult to verify any of your points.

> you can easily [...] look through the code. As you can see majority of it is open source.

Yes. This is correct, but at the time of writing this comment, the source has been made available only 9 hour ago. https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux

The whole thing is one giant "Initial commit" of what looks like millions of lines of code. Auditing this code will take months for single motivated person. There is little to no comments. "Just read the code" is difficult in this context. Also routing traffic through the client can be done just with 2 lines of code enabling kernel ip forwarding, and another line of code adding a nft/iptable rule to nat traffic from NordVPN to the outside world. This is looking for a needle in a haystack if this is obfuscated.

Also your Windows and MacOS clients (which are the most used by non-power-users) are not opensource, at the time of writing. So these ones could still be doing what has been alledged. This would be fine, since it's most likely most of your users.

> you can easily check it using Wireshark

This is also not that easy. If, as alleged, Oxylabs resells millions of NordVPN IPs to thousands of Oxylabs customers, you only have 1/1000 chance to be the botnet of the day. So you would need to be running Wireshark the one day out of 2½ year to see the traffic going through with Wireshark.
The key question is always a painfully simple one: how much are people willing to pay as a privacy-first premium?

The answers to this determine everything. Treating privacy-first as the moral and ethical default we should expect everyone to start from is a wonderful idea, rooted in compassion, kindness, and a foundational respect for human rights. It has also been an abject failure to date.

We should not expect the future to be different unless we are willing to be realistic about the economics at work. Otherwise the market gap will remain in the realm of the wonderfully hypothetical forever.
I (jokingly) had thought to myself "GPT-4 is probably to blame for all the outages today". Who thought that it would be true, at least for this one!
> headquarters

What does it mean to "have a headquarter" in 2023?
Their (mostly free) users are the only asset they have. They didn't invent container technology, they made a nice interface that popularized it. That's fine, they did a good job, but it seems like they are getting funding on the premise that they're somehow going to be able to get money out of everyone running linux containers.

What services does Docker actually provide? You don't need a crystal ball to know hosting image tarballs is going to be a very low margin business, even if you have the HUGE advantage of baking your URL into the client.

And once you kill that goose, even if it only lays copper eggs, it's not coming back. Once users don't use docker.io, what relevance will the Docker client have?
I spend already 30 minutes on it, and still no solution.
No. Having it close the doors when you press close the doors is what is wanted. Not a little light.
> The economist.

The most warmongering piece of shit publication to ever exist. Literally a publication for the pro-slavery british elite that somehow is now considered a reputable source.

Google "the economist covers iraq war".

Fuck to hell this fiendish "magazine".
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Let me spell it out. A junior dev is 1 or 2 years of experience away from a senior dev for python.

For C++ it takes probably 4 or 5 years.

This is not nonsense. This is real.
When we taught parsing (formal language theory) we generally did so using a "Chomskian" hierarchy. In a trivial sense it would be something like: regex (finite automata; pushdown) -> context free (CYK; LL(1); LL(k)) -> Turing reduction crap.

I think it did a huge disservice to our students. It completely elided probably the three most important strategies for parsing "in practice", in order: recursive descent (RD), Pratt, and Earley. The time it spent on algorithmic reduction was insufficient to teach students the practice of translating algorithms to simpler, but more efficient, forms (parametric algorithm design).

I think it's because there's not a lot of formal "meat" on RD, Pratt, and Earley — the first two are engineering solutions, and the latter is too difficult for lower-division to do the proofs.

Anyways, learn Pratt and RD. That's all you need, in practice.
Bad ideas are very relative.

Some bad ideas work extremely well if they fit your use case, you understand very well the tradeoffs and you’re building safeguards (disaster recovery).

Some other companies try to convince (force?) you into a workflow or into a specific solution. Aws just gives you the tools and some guidance on how to use them best.
> but doesn't Meta use the same terrible hiring practices that values so-called "leet" code style interviews? Such interviewing practices are bound to produce poor results, especially at the scale that Meta, Amazon, etc. do them at.

These two statements do not follow, why would "such interviewing practices [be] bound to produce poor results, especially at the scale that Meta, Amazon, etc. do them at?"
And what is the accuracy rate of the average Google search? Are you applying this extreme level of skepticism to everything you search for or only to LLM output?

I've seen this pattern enough times here that it's actually becoming infuriating for how bad faith it is. Look, we both know that there is a gradient on how people use the information they receive. On one side of that scale is how you claim LLM's work, bullshit generators that are wrong so often they are not useful, and so regularly everything you read is presumed bullshit – except applied to everything. On the other side of that scale is homo credulus, a fictional sub species of human that blithely accepts anything they are told without checking it against anything, be it common sense, their own working model of the world, other information, anything. They just take it and run with it.

Neither of these approaches are useful and neither of them match reality.

I am asking, begging you even, to knock it off already. The hyperbole you are spouting is not useful and it is demonstrably not correct.
Yesterday the BBC front page had an article about a teachers' WhatsApp group with a racist name. I thought to myself that it must be a show news day. Then today happens!
I think that GPT4 (and all others) are overhyped, and overblown.

ML/LLM does not fundamentally understand the code. It has to be trained based upon contextual information as to what the code is doing. There are already researchers experimenting with "poisoning" ML models.

For the industry, it just means that a lot of people who _cannot_ code (IE, they haven't the skill, training, or experience to do it) will "start coding" and launch products. Then, when it breaks they'll have to rely upon someone who actually understands why the edge-case bug happened.

ML/LLM are awesome foot-cannons. They have their place, but like a firearm — their 90% use-case will be to cause harm to other individuals (directly, or indirectly).
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Mathsteroids on Hyperbolic Surfaces
Corn syrup has rapidly been vanishing from foods based on consumer demand. A decade ago buying bread without corn syrup in it was a challenge, now days all but the cheapest bread in stores proudly had "no corn syrup!" printed on the label.

> leading to people having small, inadequate kitchens and ordering food more.

Friend of mine has been undergoing a kitchen remodel and cooking for a family of 4 using a plug in induction burner for the last 5 or 6 months. Historically kitchens were small and families were big. Outside of kitchens that only have a microwave, even a small 2 burner range will suffice, although it will strongly limit what dishes can be prepared in reasonable time.

> thus contains too much sodium

Sodium is an often blamed boogie man, but undeservedly so. Outside of people with chronic health conditions, it is really hard to intake so much sodium such that it has a negative impact on health.

The problems in the US food supply are likely a lot more subtle and nuanced than too much fat or salt. People have been eating salted fatty cuts of meat for thousands of years w/o the health problems we see now days.
Maybe it should have been clear after trying to get high off breathing dry ice and alcohol as a kid (urban legend), or reading about experimental methods to elicit panic response, but it became undeniably clear after a bunch of rat sacrifices that CO2 asphyxiation is one of the most unpleasant ways to die. Surprised it's still allowed
There is also the evergreen document titled: “FreeBSD: A lesson in poor defaults”

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html

(Discussion on HN from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32506675)
A tutor doesn't just imply parents who can afford one but also who care enough to do so in the first place and see the value of an education.

I think you'd find that even by the sat-prep age the actual limiting factor for many (most?) of the tutor-less is a fate-accompli attitude towards their path in life.

Might as well turn on the chat bots at the cradle. Ah, and make sure everybody gets the same quality AI to parent them for it to be egalitarian.
Arguments feel more public, like people are watching. Similar to forum threads in the past. When people are watching, I feel the need to defend myself (or "The Truth" as I see it).
When the Skynet robots start going door-to-door, just put on your 7-fingered gloves and they will leave you alone.

“One of us!”
It’s a ride share service, so you rent it one way, with the expectation it goes each way per day.

So that’s 700k * 2 trips * 365 days = 511 million rides annually. Even more if people bring passengers.
i think he's talking about rape 'fantasy' subreddits and women using dogs for sex
I just finished reading the 'paper' and I'm astonished that they aren't even publishing the # of parameters or even a vague outline of the architecture changes. It feels like such a slap in the face to all the academic AI researchers that their work is built off over the years, to just say 'yeah we're not telling you how any of this is possible because reasons'. Not even the damned parameter count. Christ.
Why would they want a costly conflict like this?

If they didn't enter to begin with the Donbass would've gotten run over. And if they would leave now the same thing would happen. And nothing would've changed with their NATO dilemma (and you can shout "defensive alliance" all you want, Russia is not going to buy that).
We are the Reddit. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your tornadofart distinctiveness to our own.
Thanks for the explanation! Obviously I completely misinterpreted both technologies.
Context and nuance? On Reddit? Usually I think it lacks both.
With a lot of Google projects, they are "killed" by integrating their features in other projects or merged.
Context!

This was the question that was posed by the parent:

>>> At what point does blatant advertising/propaganda meaningfully undermine human agency?

I don’t know about you, but that’s the kind of question you ask when you want to question the legitimacy of something, e.g. a vote. There was a lot of controversy around the amount of money spent by the “Yes on 22” campaign that the “No on 22” camp hasn’t stopped complaining about since the election, and behave as if money, not the votes cast by the literal millions of people who cast them with a nearly 3 million vote differential, was the only deciding factor, so it’s not an unreasonable read given context.

This was the question I counterposed:

>> so do you want to tell me why my vote should be nullified other than you disagree with the outcome?

You’re not the parent, but you are the one that picked up the mantle, quoting the end of my argument. This is the question through which all of my comments have been framed. We don’t have to continue, but keep the context in mind if you do, because as I just said, I’m not looking to persuade anyone on Proposition 22 and haven’t been for over two years, nor do entirely hypothetical anti-thumb bills interest me. Prop 22 already passed and it wasn’t even close, nor was the issue anywhere near mass bodily mutilation; but if somebody would like to explain to me why my vote should be nullified other than because they disagree with the outcome, that’s what I’m here for and I said so from the start.

Cheers!
As are people with 500+ connections.

We can all make arbitrary heuristics. And we do.
US government debt ... woke

The absolute state of people these days is truly something to behold.
I’m one of these skeptics, but it’s not moving the goalposts. These goalposts are already there, in some sort of serial order that we expect them to be reached. It is good that when tech like this satisfied one of the easier/earlier goalposts, that skeptics refine our criticism based on evidence.

You will see skepticism until it is ubiquitous; for example, Tesla tech - it’s iterative and there are still skeptics about its current implementation.
complex systems are complicated to run? it's incredibly expensive to chase another 9 of availability so everyone who isn't the bell system has had outages from time to time.
This is all part of docker's master plan.

You can see it with more clarity here:

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/11815

or here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33054369/how-to-change-t...

so redhat's podman clone of docker allows this:

https://halukkarakaya.medium.com/how-to-configure-default-se...
My mom studied xenotransplantation in non-human primates and pigs. I worked in the veterinary resources department for a couple summers and I can confirm it can be draining. Especially since like most vet resources departments it's in the basement. The best part of the baboons' day is usually when they get to watch The Lion King for enrichment. After a few times they become so familiar with it that they are excited when their favorite scenes are coming up. It's heartbreaking, but at the same time, if we can figure out how to successfully stop organ rejection then we will most likely have cured cancer on the way, and have a much better understanding of how the immune system functions.
This is massive.

I've just been talking with a friend yesterday that this tech is coming sooner and later, in a few years at most ... didn't think it was coming in less than 24hrs from then.

It is going to change all knowledge work a lot, but this is still a demo. It will take time for best uses and integrations to get built.

Assuming OpenAI and Microsoft don't screw it up (and/or a viable open source/competition emerges).

Exciting times!
At this point, if it goes from being in the bottom 10% on a simulated bar exam to top 10% on a simulated bar exam, then who cares if that's all they're doing???
The Kolmogorov complexity, applied to entertainment. Yes, looks like we’re going there.
Methinks this author would be happier with Gopher or Gemini?
You're also probably a decent human being and not searching for that kind of stuff. That does not mean it does not exist on reddit, sadly. Reddit as a company, however, is doing nothing against it, or not enough
And an obsession with sources. Which makes sense sometimes, but you can tell someone your favorite color is orange and they're not happy unless there's a Reuters article about what color you like.
Oxide pays all employees $191,227 (Bay Area startup)
You might enjoy the alternative approach taken by .NET's threadpool which uses hill climbing to dynamically adjust the number of threads. See this articles [1] and its references to Microsoft's papers on their design. Semi-relatedly, I used hill climbing to adjust the eviction policy in Caffeine (Java cache) to favor recency/frequency. While it seemed simple and naive, it worked surprisingly well and robustly.

[1] https://mattwarren.org/2017/04/13/The-CLR-Thread-Pool-Thread...
Only half? That's so civilised. Inter tribal wars ended with all the men dead or in slavery, all the old women murdered and all the young women taken in as sex slaves. Same for the children too.
Some of those people are even here. Who knows why.
Shameless plug:

https://github.com/TeamOpenSmartGlasses/OpenSourceSmartGlass...

ASR is done locally on the user's phone.
Yeah, I'm not sure why they haven't been able to sort out their infrastructure issues. Nothing they do is rocket science. Especially these days.

Probably concentrating on IPO and trying to keep the balance sheet tight.
Does anyone else feel like they won't have a job for very long?
You probably don't want to go to a FANG. Start your career somewhere else. It's easier to 'level up' and if you want to go FANG later on you can leverage that.

I am the highest level of Sr. SWE at my FANG w/ very little work to get there vs the folks I work with who are grinding themselves to death trying to get promoted from within.

Edit: I'll add that your first job or two is pretty important for setting the tone of your career. Going to a FANG and learning toxic habits, like putting yourself above your team and thinking only of compensation/promotions, can make you an asshole for life.
Full URLs: Definitely not. Path and query parameters are part of the HTTP payload, i.e. encrypted within HTTPS.

Host names: Very likely, unless you're using SNI.