skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first question in writing should probably always be: "Who am I writing this for?"

A lot of the times, in projects, you're writing to yourself, or more precisely to your future self, so that you can figure out in the future what it was you were trying to do in the present. If you've ever come across one of your past projects, and have no idea what it was supposed to do, or where you stopped working on it - that's where a document addressed to yourself would have been invaluable.

If you're writing for some other audience, then it's most important - assuming you want them to read your writing - to try to see the world through their eyes. Technical writing should generally be gradually incremental, starting from minimal assumptions of the audience's knowledge and working upwards. Then, they can read along for awhile at least before having to jump off the train. I recently came across an excellent example of this approach:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf

As far as non-technical writing, anything goes, be creative, you could be the next James Joyce, which AI is unlikely to ever replicate, or at least probably not.
The "rewards" thing is particularly embarrassing.
At that point I'm pretty sure they'll already have fine tuned a "senior software engineer agent". This may sound ridiculous and yeah we probably won't get rid of the entirety of SWE ladder, but my point is we are entering the realm of science fiction now, our assumptions about labor are about to fall off a cliff. Productivity will increase through the roof, corps will make more cash, workers will suffer
I would be funny if it wasn't horrifying. We're all shooting ourselves on the foot while other countries can only dream of achieving the industrial, technological and economical progress we've made. Deindustrialization 30,40,50 years ago was a side effect. But destroying our own energy infrastructure, industry, and now even agricultural sector? This is totally mad, and despite turning a blind eye this will come back to bites us, hopefully sooner rather than later so we can still undo some of the damage within 20 years.
Also JAX came out of DeepMind and is being used by Search even though TensorFlow came out of Brain, moved to Core, and is being used everywhere else.

The first time I was at Google (~2010) you could send an e-mail to any engineer in the company and you'd get response offering to collaborate within an hour, and usually a CL under review by day's end. The second time I was at Google (present), it takes multiple quarters to get teams that report up through the same director to agree on who's doing which work.
> I don't know, the US has been pushing that envelope for 40+ years and people are still paying taxes...

And people can push the "meth consumption" envelope for years before they finally die from it, too.

Getting away with unsustainable practices for X amount of time doesn't prove they're sustainable and won't end in collapse. It just means collapse can take more than X amount of time.
Thanks! That's hugely helpful - everything I could find myself seemed to be an order of magnitude or so slower than that (and they support ecdsa, too, so I can't even object on the basis of algorithmic support). With hindsight my reply was somewhat flippant - really I just wanted to push back on the idea that this was a problem that could be solved by simply sprinkling HSMs on it rather than something that requires a meaningful infastructural effort. Github is a sufficiently core piece of infrastructure that I agree more should be expected, and I hope this does serve as encouragement for them to do that.
> I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare.

While I never considered myself an engineer, but a computer scientist, I've always loved writing.

My favorite course in high school beside programming was literature and language.

I never stopped writing in a form or another. I love Shakespeare as much as I love any other old or new good author.

Considering Shakespeare old and hard to understand doesn't tell us as much about Shakespeare as about you.
Where in the API docs is this described?
I need one of these for my elderly parent, who is unable to diagnose Internet status themselves, to help me tele-repair tech problems.

Bring it to market!
So, there isn't enough internal volume to fit an A and C port in the same slot. Ports require more volume than they appear. But I'll interpret this to mean: "why can't we have one USB-C port with all the altmodes and another with just USB 2 or 3, no altmodes, no power/data role swaps, etc".

USB 2 is possible, for some really dumb reasons. USB-IF actually prohibits repurposing the USB 2 pins for other purposes in USB 3.x capable connectors; effectively making it a separate bus from everything else. So you can route the USB2 pins on both C connectors to a hub chip and route everything else from the "privileged" port to the inner port. You will still need some kind of power mux so that the USB 2 port still gets power regardless of what port holds the power role.

This technically breaks the USB-IF rules[1] because you aren't supposed to disassociate the USB2 and 3.x pins like that. In practice as long as every device sees either just 2.0 or both 2.0 and 3.x pins, it's fine.

USB 3 onwards is a problem because of altmodes. The 3.x pins are officially referred to as "high-speed lanes" in the USB-C spec, because there's two of them and they don't have to carry USB 3.x. Every altmode[0] exclusively repurposes the high-speed lanes for some other kind of traffic. So USB 3 is effectively an altmode in and of itself. If you put a USB3 hub on those pins, then you lose altmodes, unless you have that magic hub silicon that doesn't exist that I mentioned in the parent comment.

[0] The USB2 lanes are forbidden to be reused by altmodes. Which is why VirtualLink is incredibly cursed.

[1] Yes I actually have mentioned this sort of thing in the Framework forums, no they won't actually sell a card like that. Consider it an EE exercise for curious Framework users.
What's the ULPMark (power benchmark) on any of those SiFive RISC-V chips? STM32U5 (one of the many ARM Cortex-M33 designs) is 464 ULPMark-CP.

I don't think there's even a power benchmark on any of those chips you've mentioned. At least, I'm not seeing any online in my searches.

STM32U5 (and most other Cortex-M33 based microcontrollers) are ~110nA of power consumption sleep mode, and 16uA / MHz at 160MHz, some of the most power-competitive chips I'm aware of on the market. I'm talking "run a microcontroller on a CR2032 cell for 10 years" kinda thing here.

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EDIT: Looking at the ULPMark website (https://www.eembc.org/ulpmark/ulp-cp/scores.php), it looks like the #1 chip is RSL15, which is ARM Cortex-M33, as I expected. With a ULPMark score of 1090 (higher the score, the less power the device uses). Nearly everything on the top list is Cortex-M33...

Except LP5100 and XRM32UL051 are some Chinese Chips I don't understand. They got some impressive scores but I don't know what architecture they have. Nearly everything else is Cortex-M33 (except for the Ambiq, which is ARM Cortex-M4).

Cortex-M0+ was the king of this a few years ago, but M33 has displaced it. We still see Cortex-M0+ chips due to much lower costs around though. So if RISC-V is around Cortex-M0+ level, I'd still be interested.
The Edge requirement and Bing's waitlist are probably slowing things down. Also, people are probably still split between using Bing or ChatGPT.
I'm not sure what issues in Wayland you're talking about. I've been using sway with fractional scaling for a few years now and never really had any problems.
what crime do you think they've committed by refusing to sell to Musk?
Looks like ChatGPT got it right with the description. Perhaps obvious, but the ".." check is to stop path traversal. Also, if you pass an additional arg, it takes that as a directory for the script to serve over http, defaults to CWD. The rest seems like enough explanation.

You can also pretty print gawk source with -o[filename], using - as the filename to print to stdout, so you can just run the oneliner version, but lead with "gawk -o- " and it will print the pretty version.

Edit: Also, the performance is terrible. Gawk's listen sockets suck because you get no granular control over listen/accept. The socat based one I replied to is probably much better.
As an FYI they also offer a bundle at https://plus.npr.org/ where one gets all the "plus versions" of the podcasts and your local station gets a percentage of that donation

Only KALW showed up for me, but I previously donated to them anyway because I prefer their programming and they were the original home of 99% Invisible for which I'll be eternally grateful
It's not aphantasia, I can imagine in visual form perfectly fine. It's just that it's not a particularly strong image or easy to focus on. :(
I wonder how Docker survives after this, this action now rolled back was clearly a cost cutting exercise. Im still surprised Google hasnt acquired them.
TFA contains no examples of children being shown "sexually explicit material" by educators in public employ. I've never heard of it happening in Missouri, and I have lived here for decades. Thread parent has shown no indication of bigotry. You don't seem to be discussing this issue in good faith.
like Her, but there could be many or there could be one
I think the biggest difference in how we're approaching this is around the "value creation" aspect. I was being intentionally short-term-focused, but I don't think I made that clear.

I agree completely about the valuation of circulation, I think I was just getting at it differently when talking about creating a sucessful company "creating money." Thinking about consumer behavior of the founder, investors, and any other employees of that company. They're gonna spend their "actual dollars" much more freely because they have that new asset of ownership of the company in their back pocket. Which increases circulation, taxable receipts, etc etc.

Value is ultimately necessary, yeah, I think that's what you're getting about re: the consumption sphere. Because I believe that most companies produce more real value than crypto, say, I do think real companies are a much better long-term way to go since sooner or later people will notice that gap and start selling their stakes in things not actually bringing in real revenue in exchange for real value with corresponding bad effects on consumption. A company and a crypto token can both give a bunch of early parties a bunch of "new spending power" overnight - but for long-term health, you need something that will continue to reward the next several generations of investors, vs just a greater fool scam.
For me it’s because they are very careful not to screw over customers that rely on certain behavior.

Having said that, Microsoft does sometimes break backwards compatibility.

I sell a Windows app (a battery meter) that cannot work on Windows 11 because the new Taskbar doesn’t expose an interface for plugins to render data on the taskbar (IDeskBand is the old interface).

So I can display a small window to the user but it’s far less convenient that showing it persistently in the taskbar.
Which clock change are you referring to? I don't think I've ever heard anything about this.
What does that look like for the end user, in practice?
What kind of items are these? I have never once received something fake in all my years of heavy Amazon use.
It was the top astrophysics program in the world when I was there. Maybe they should have stepped it up though and gone for top in the universe.
You get it to write them. Maybe in cucumber so you can check them / edit them by reading the English. Maybe you use a competitors model to write the tests as then less likely to make same error in code and tests, or write them twice and get best of three to spot errors.
Take a look at

https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...

https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

They can be taught!
did you reach out via https://openai.com/security.txt?
Somehow one doubts that a new "Kindergarten is Mostly Hardcore Porn Appreciation" charter elementary would escape legislative attention in our increasingly authoritarian climate...

A "Kindergarten is Mostly Singing Songs about Jesus" charter elementary, OTOH? We may have a few hundred of those already.
H2NO (Coca-Cola Campaign)
every successfull passenger rail in the world is designed and run by government
Rich Bank Dumb Bank: Was Signature a Failure or a Patsy?
It's Hacker News. You're not allowed to like things. Hey, I don't make the rules.
People that work in industry in places with lax regulation are often very much choosing to do that work. It isn't something we should celebrate of course, but they see it as their best choice.

It's probably generally the case that improving conditions for workers would result in productivity increases in those economies, so it is sort of doubly stupid.
You don't seem to be very familiar with users that happen to be older. However, that search is uncomfortably common. Impersonation and scamming of their service is a problem, but when they help the user to the impersonation site.. that's on them.
The ability to re-download purchases is being taken away and Nintendo doesn't provide a way to back them up.
Look at immigrant households. Poor, overworked, yet they cook.

It's a matter of culture.
It could go even further, in theory. The kind of ops that the current crop of LLMs needs is very simple, and at the same time there's no hard requirement for precision (which is why 4-bit quantization works so well). This means that unconventional approaches such as analog computing are potentially in the play again - it's easy to do addition and multiplication in an analog circuit, if you don't care about the answer being precise, and in theory one could pack a lot more of those circuits in the same space.
> My formative experience of their backwards compatibility was being unable to open old word docs in newer versions of word.

From experience: Word's still dropping support for older documents, and LibreOffice still supports them. (The only LO incompatibility I know is missing Math formulae sometimes, and that might have been fixed; if not, it's a fairly straightforward code change, since OOXML Math tags contain textboxes.)
I see an Idiocracy inspired future for programming.

People claim that AI can write code so they start firing programmers. Universities stop software engineering programs as there is no one taking the courses. People stop writing blogs or stackoverflow. Software engineers either move to other fields or start living offgrid. No new innovation or new line of code written by human.

Meanwhile, software quality get worse by each passing day and there’s no one to fix. AI poisons it’s own well by generating shitty code and now even simple tasks are taking 30 seconds. People say, “In the good old days, we used to get response in under 1 second”. Just like how they talk about cars and their durability in the good’ol days.
The difference is that in Europe being part of a "race" had no legal impact. This is a (dumb) classification, that's all.

We do not have positive discrimination that gives privileges to style reeves in the US. And since your race is apparently declarative, I wonder, as a white blue eyed guy, of I could identify as an Afro-American and make use of them?
Well, 'vegan' is a broad concept. Clearly there are certain plants which are hard to grow and which produce minimal foodstuffs per acre, strawberries and almonds probably fall into that category (comparable to dairy, certainly) and in grassland ecosystems, it might be less of a footprint to live off meat and milk from herded animals rather than trying to implement crop agriculture.

Reindeer herders in Siberia, for example, are probably more in tune with their environment than any vegan cultivator in that zone could be.
You have to eat the whole meal (inclusive of the shrimp cocktail, salad, baked potato, and dinner roll) without getting up and without throwing up in the allotted hour.

The no-throwing up rule was instituted some time ago because passers-by (mostly long-haul truckers at the time) would essentially dine for free irrespective of whether or not they completed the challenge. You are also on the hook for the $72, which was not the case back in the day.

See https://www.bigtexan.com/72-oz-steak/ for current rules and regulations.
ChatGPT wrote this
Ask HN: How do you cope with the speed of GPT news/advancement?
The original announcement was such that no followup would make people happy. It's not fair that you can mess up badly enough that even with perfect play, total recovery is not possible. Life is not fair.
“Slightly Evil” AI Apps
I have been saying this for a long time, as in, why are other police departments investigating the police departments. This is one of the few agencies where the agency investigate themselves, and the government just let it happen.
"nuclear power" is open source, and this is one of the fundamental ideas behind the NPT

reactor blueprints have been accessible to IAEA members for something like 50 years
Someone needs to say it, but Levi's AI/ML is a total wreck. It's like the worst of process heavy design and development staffed almost entirely by juniors, surprisingly hard to find senior engineers, their model seems to be junior engineers reporting to senior (but non-technical) managers. Does no one stay there?

And let's not get started on their Google chatbot which they spent millions on (outsourced development, despite their alleged internal competency) and completely failed at being able to recommend... denim jackets.

That being the case, this news comes as almost no surprise.
> Everything is arbitrary at the end of the day.

It’s a question of degree. Race is just too fuzzy / too arbitrary. If you want to do science and ask questions about ancestry, you ask questions about ancestry. Race is too much of a social / political construct, and the actual “definitions” of race are too arbitrary and mired in history to be useful to most scientists (with obvious exceptions, like sociologists studying race).

“Asian culture” is pretty damn broad anyway. Asia accounts for nearly 60% of the world’s population, so any inferences you make about Asian culture, generally speaking, are going to be nigh worthless.
Where was the "rampant inflation" from 2008? I don't see it here [1].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infl...
This comment is giving me “Look at me I’m so very smart” vibes.
Honestly, reading that article makes it sound like Amazon will be the last one standing. They run the majority of their logistics themselves and are the only retailer, maybe save Walmart, that can attempt to find efficiencies rather than just pay what UPS/Fedex ask for.
Can you use the old-fashioned way, and repeatedly update the tray icon?
Yeah, all they have to do is implement that will and motivation algorithm.
> We believe our models should reflect our consumers, which is why we’re continuing to diversify our human models in terms of size and body type, age and skin color

Does this mean that as a consumer I should see a diverse set of models or only see models reflecting my own traits? Is there a balance to strike between personalization and diversity, or is that a false dichotomy?
What does TS stand for?
He, uh, made the following claims:

1. he's been using it for 9 days

2. he has subscribed for gpt4

3. it took 3 rounds of refining to get it running

4. it did what he wanted

5. it took about 15 minutes to do something that would have taken him "3 months"

I believe the first 3 but am skeptical of the last 2. He was, in any case, effusive about its capabilities.

For context, I should note:

- he was obviously inebriated, high, and the sort of person who trusted a stranger (me) with his unlocked phone while he went to the bathroom. (I think this actually has a little to say about how quickly he's picking up good prompting?)

- This was at a dive bar in Houston's east end--not really a tech hub.

Edit: he was persuasive enough that I intend to try to shift more of my habitual queries from Google to chat gpt until I at least have a deeper grok of effective prompting than I have picked up so far.
> The reason they didn't release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing/ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the "There's no such thing as bad publicity" logic. That works great as a wrecking ball, but it's not a long term product strategy.

Not sure if this is the right read considering that CHATGPT/Bing now constitute a far greater brand risk to Google than they would if Google they had gotten out ahead on LLMs. What may have seemed like prudent caution to protect a brand has now shown to be much closer to incumbent complacency.

Suppose it is the classic story of big companies that get disrupted anywhere.
Well, Microsoft forced me to use Edge to open Bing chat, so I did that and asked it "how can you use bing chat on chrome?". It pointed me to a chrome extension that allows that. See, it's useful.
Just to piggyback on these guys not being the good guys, I don't think good people would have released this yet. This is gas on a fire when you look at the issues people are having figuring out whats going on in the world and making sense of it.

Every interaction with the public and these AIs I see screams "this was not ready for general consumption"
Is this satire?!

Elon wanted to take over because he thought they were falling behind Google...

Elon thought, the company that has taken Bing from a laughing stock to a publicly recognized existential threat to Google... was actually behind.

And you're actually saying it's... morally disgusting... to not let a donation turn into a down payment on your company???

I don't even know how you misunderstand so many things at such a deep level all at once. I really hope this is satire.
github repo: https://github.com/IST-DASLab/sparsegpt
I called it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35267569#35270165
Same with layoffs and everything else.

The CEO could take a 100% paycut, relinquish all of his shares, take 20 lashes on the back, and fire himself yet the top comments will always be about "oh so this is taking responsibility huh, how about not screwing it up in the first place???"

It's a tired act.
LinusTechTips YouTube channels hacked to promote cryptoscams
I disagree. There are plenty of erotic undertones with TurboTax. I always feel like I'm getting fucked
Pure Data is great software, but I don't think it is useful for the OP.
PR exists because honesty and frankness are punished in our society and people will jump at any opportunity to prosecute or sue. The result is PR fluff, endless disclaimers, and announcements with as little detail of the internal workings of a decision as possible which need to pass through review by legal and finance teams.

But we all know that, right? We don't need to pretend like we don't, or act like we are offended by it, as if it's the first press release we've ever seen.
Read articles like this and avoid the hype: https://rodneybrooks.com/what-will-transformers-transform/
Hi! I in _no way_ mean to detract or malign or "anything negative" the parent comment (communication is hard!!), BUT I really compliment that exact sentence. :)

My background contains signal processing, "pre-deep learning ML", systems engineering, and firmware, and that sentence jumped out at me as crystal clear in my mind, despite not knowing what HuggingFace is or PyTorch.

Correct me if I'm wrong: These huge models involve lots of weights used in large matrices. The contribution of this work is to plug in some matrix factorization and learn a lower dimensional representation, instead of a large second matrix.

Fantastic!

Also makes me wonder what other performance improvements await through proper application of established and well known Mathematics. :D
> style reeves

What does this mean?