skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is it doesn't support HA. You're stuck on that single server model. Upgrades always = downtime = painful. You're also missing things like self-healing and your Lucense index can corrupt.

Real world experience says better to move away from it e.g. lots of self-hosted Atlassian instances over the years. Lucene was a major pain point.
We need articles like these because people don't understand that React is fundamentally an idempotent framework. The function component or render method, well, renders every single time props or state change. Hooks are just a way to have some higher order state and if you think of React as UI = f(state), then the state variable also captures hook state as its input. It would be more clear to say UI = f(state, useState variable 1, useState variable 2, useEffect function 1, ...).
The World Fastest Scrabble Program [pdf]
Building a full-text search engine in Elixir
Samsung, Qualcomm are perhaps among the worst examples.

They stopped designing their own arm cores long ago; they use ARM's own.

Instead, they are very active RISC-V members. Refer to December's RISC-V Summit, specifically, Qualcomm's talks.

They are deeply committed to RISC-V, and they are being sued by ARM; No doubt they are doing everything they can to leave the legacy ISA behind as soon as humanly possible.
Son of Former US Senator and Secretary of Navy Reveals a Lifetime of UFO Secrets
Those Thailand numbers are way off. Thailand's HDI is 0.8 and expat salaries (at least at McK) in BKK were always Shanghai and Beijing adjacent (if not higher until the 2010s).

Heck, a lot of Vietnamese prefer studying and working abroad in Thailand because salaries and development is higher than in VN and only the elite can afford to send their kids to VinUni or RMIT Saigon.
What you do is try to provide value to the business. I.e. How does this company make money? What is preventing them from having more business or from saving money providing the same goods/services? If among those challenges there is something that can be addressed with better technology in an area of your expertise, you make a proposal to your management, and if you are lucky they will give you the "go ahead".

In the real world, though, as a junior developer, somebody with much more expertise in the business and the technology side of things will be the one making these proposals and your job as a junior person will be to implement them. Get good enough at implementing them, show enough initiative, skill and business acumen, and over time you will be the one proposing ideas. You will need both hard work and good luck to succeed.

Do that... or collect a paycheck and live your life. That also works.
Great post. The most important part (which isn't clear from the title):

> Cody is Sourcegraph’s new LLM-backed coding assistant.

> Cody is not some vague “representation of a vision for the future of AI”. You can try it right now.

That link takes you to a signup form, not an app or download: https://sourcegraph.typeform.com/cody-signup

I signed up. Now begins the waiting game.
If we had started taking greenhouse gasses seriously a century sooner, they'd never have built up enough to be a problem.
Nvidia Omniverse Audio2Face perhaps?
50 Years of Silence
Thank you! Would you mind me asking whether you use any IDE like VS Code, IntelliJ etc?

I think, it would be ideal if the read and edit are fit for your need (say 80 characters max) inside the editor, but when you are committing, there is a pre-commit hook that would automatically reformat (but your IDE can still display and edit as if it was at 80 max characters).

Now sure how practical that is (and I imagine that isn't really a thing today), but what is your take on that?
Allegedly, an anonymous source was reported to have claimed.
Battery chemistry is another one. There are chemistries[1] that are much less, if at all, prone to go up in flames on their own.

Of course there's usually always a tradeoff with other properties, like weight or cost.

[1]: For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery...
I work for a vector database company (Pinecone) and can confirm that most of the mind-blowing built-with-ChatGPT products you see launching every eight'ish hours are using this technique that Steve describes. That is, embedding internal data using an LLM, loading it into a vector database like Pinecone, then query the vector DB for the most relevant information to add into the context window. And since adding more context with each prompt results in higher ChatGPT costs and latencies, you really want to find the smallest and most relevant bits of context to include. In other words, search quality matters a lot.

Edit to add: This was an aside in the post but actually a big deal... With this setup you can basically use an off-the-shelf LLM (like GPT)! No fine-tuning (and therefore no data labeling shenanigans), no searching for an open-source equivalent (and therefore no model-hosting shenanigans), no messing around with any of that. In case you're wondering how, say, Shopify and Hubspot can launch their chatbots into production in practically a week.
As I understand it's not a favorable signal but a correction. The market price, in theory, already reflected the expected demand downturn so measures taken to lower their "non-billable corporate functions" costs usually means that the market will correct the price.

That said, I'm not a fan of corporate behemoths using humans as an elastic resource or ballast they can throw away at the first sign of problems. This isn't a mom and pop that can't keep paying an employee during hard times but a public company keeping their year-to-year indicators looking pretty.
BMA announces dates for 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England
Everything other than Apple/Qualcomm as a flagship is pretty minor. Most sell more midrange machines.

I did mention Qualcomm and after paying for Nuvia I doubt they're switching.
According to their terms, the correct, legal amount is the amount reported in the app. The illegal (and mismatched) amount in their export is what's being paid out.
Laying off people who are billing clients would be ridiculous because that’s where the money comes from. I suspect the bench (consultants in the firm looking for billable work) is very deep and costly right now so if there are any cuts to the people who actually make money it will be the bench.
To echo thoughtpalette (we were 2/4 onshore FE leads) - There was a lot of miscommunication between Accenture and Hertz in terms of requirements and sizing up the existing architecture. There were a lot of bad assumptions made, inadequate experience with the chosen FE stack and inexperienced offshore developers. Was an absolute clusterfuck.
Nvidia have flexed their prowess in Spanish on one of their A.I. natural language processing presentations, to some Level-N. Nvidia is working with Nordic archivists. They have a general interest in language seems to be the driver. Archiving languages before they go extinct is a use for A.I.
Not just pretty, the usability is fantastic

I loved Window, I had a keyboard centric approach using AHK to tile windows/display them borderless and without decorations etc. Each year I tried ubuntu and the latest gnome but they always sucked for various reasons.

Then comes hyprland and wow!!

I don't do exactly the same as I did on Windows yet, but it's great enough to have made me leave Windows. The keyboard configuration alone (with the help of ydotool) makes it worth it.

Give it a try!
Wait, temporarily giving someone currency that they eventually give back to you is more or less the definition of a loan, no?

And Coinbase is doing the work of abstracting that process into a single instrument (Coinbase earn)? Because that’s securitization.
Trivia: The title of the movie “Swordfish” is named after an old Marx Brothers routine from the movie “Horse Feathers, “ which revolves around an illegal speakeasy’s password to get in.

Which is, of course, “swordfish.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySqec8WrEQQ
I enjoyed Lower Decks and Nope'd out of Picard after a couple episodes. The high-water mark for ST imo is DS9, and that's awfully hard to beat. I'll have to give SNW a try.
Ha, I didn't see that! :D

> User: Almost, but you missed January. Try again.

> Bob: Okay. Let's see...January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

Very brittle.
" it will sometimes provide a wrong answer to a question or “hallucinate” material that does not exist "

That makes sense why when I use it as a worldbuilding tool for my RP campaigns it's not bad because there is no "bad" answer in that case technically
I tried again just now and it's much faster. This is extremely cool! I wonder if it would be practical to have GPT generate simple maps of environments and build a 2d component over it for something like this.
> In the Ethereum pre-sale they explicitly state it is not intended to be a security or investment offering

I mean you can say whatever you want but if it quacks like a duck it’s still a security, if you don’t mind my mixed metaphor lol
It’s a mix. Payment processors holds user funds in fbo accounts at partner banks.

Fbo accounts are technically the banks, the processor keeps the records of whose funds are whose within the account and the fdic limit applies to the beneficiary (the person the processor is holding the funds for).

Source: I worked for the treasury group at a payment processor.
I use the Magnet.app extension, which supports basic tiling commands on MacOS.
I'm a Windows wizard first and foremost, but I have to give credit where credit is due.

MacOS is very clear about what it will and won't do. So long as you subscribe to the One Apple Way(tm) and adhere to what MacOS will do, you're golden; and a common man's use case almost never goes beyond what MacOS will do.

Combine that with a consistent design language and I, sincerely, would recommend a Macbook Air of some description to most people. MacOS Just Works(tm).

Windows and Linux are for the tinkerers, for the masses MacOS is the best option out there.
> all the contents of the lawsuit are attacking CDL with the pandemic actions only a way of showing the Internet Archive is an organization that can't be trusted.

I mean, that seems like a reasonable position given the circumstances? I'm sure if a physical library started their own book printing business and handing out unlimited copies of books that they had bought one of, that the publishers would be equally pissed, and not stop being pissed if the library said "oopsie I got caught I've stopped doing it now".
You know, using absolute numbers to talk about layoffs is unhelpful, and extrapolating trends from them makes for bad, possibly harmful analysis. I get that big numbers draw eyeballs, but still.

The next best alternative is to express it in terms of a % of total employees. Better yet would be to compare the # of employees over time (possibly expressed as a proportion of some business metric such as revenue). Is this just a reversion to the mean? And is such reversion because they over-hired or because their revenue growth has meaningfully slowed?

But real useful insight would also require comparing this to other companies, including smaller ones. Just as bad as, or possibly worse than, Accenture cutting 19,000 jobs—some single digit percentage of its employees—would be to have thousands of companies cut, say, 20% of their staff.

There's a lot of availability bias in just plotting absolute layoff numbers from Big Tech and other large cap businesses.
They have a Time Machine. It's in the past!
Instead of one over the other, what might happen is the role of mo-cap actor and animator become a single role. Animators and actors both create expressions and poses of the character. Animators already film themselves in poses for inspiration.

In the future, a single person might end up taking their own mo-cap video as well as polishing up the animations for several characters.
US government indescriminately hoarding American citizens' data? But if we don't, the terrorists win! It's not as if honest Americans have anything to hide, right?

US companies openly abusing their access to American citizens' data? I'm sure fining them like 0.1% of their profits will do the trick! No, we can't add more regulations to the industry! Haven't you read Atlas Shrugged?

Chinese company having access to American citizens' data? We need to do something about this ASAP! Maybe we can make them an American company!
You might be in for a bad rest of your life
Because the privacy abuses are privacy abuses, regardless of their country of origin? If Google is already properly respecting their users privacy they won't be affected by a strong privacy law - except we know that they aren't, and therefore we should be cleaning house instead of singling out Tik Tok.
Confusing arouses when no one at Google tells the user.
It sounds like you're talking about Jinja? Check out the includes / extends directives.

Also, look into HTMX.
Agreed GPT4 is better, but there's still simple world modeling issues:

> I have a chair in front of the TV and one in front of the computer. I put a watch under the chair in front of the TV. I swap the chairs. Where is the watch?

> After swapping the chairs, the watch is now under the chair that is in front of the computer.

Interestingly, GPT3 got it correct.
You're not wrong. Fortunately, I was insulated from a lot of that climate, got what I needed from the job, and moved on. I definitely don't aspire to more senior levels of management, certainly not in this organization, after seeing that and other things.
Thanks for the pointer. Here is an alternative link with higher quality and downloadable slides
https://pirsa.org/C11025
Capital is a doorstopper and I can't imagine kids reading it.
It's notable that we've been having AI panics since Eliza.

What is it about chatbots that trigger people? Probably the importance and centrality of language in human consciousness, and the manifest credularity of the general population (and many readers of HN).

Unfortunately it's unlikely this will stop, and it'll probably get worse. The final irony will be that when some "real AI" is created, no-one will believe it, having been exhausted by 200 years of hype.
I hope this is the last straw to end Jack Dorsey‘s career.
Butler Virtual Operating System
Right? How dare those users be upset at their workflow being broken? Everyone knows that if you can't write code, you should have no expectation of software ever working for you! After all, the only other way to ever have any legitimate opinion about any product ever is if you're paying for it, but we conveniently fix that problem by making it literally impossible to pay for Firefox! Why can't the users just shut up and be grateful for the features that haven't yet been ripped out?

(/s)
Then go in on Web3. While Crypto as an investment is full of scams, Crypto as an uncensorable anonymous social network is the real deal. Make an anonymous twt clone with posts stored on ipfs.
That is the ways in which they are different. Both can give yield, even if one is through equity and the other through ownership of the underlying resource. The idea is that the dev teams will deliver the computational platform of choice for future apps, and you are owning some of the fuel that allows you to use that computational platform. It's like AWS raised money through selling credits to use their servers.
The payment processor I worked for ran routine capitalization audits on the partner banks they used.
When down that route once, about 20 years ago, never again.
MI has the bonus that the 'meat' of the stunts are actually being performed by real people, and the CGI is dressing around it. A big draw, in my opinion. Superhero movies where the majority of the action is CGI? Eh.
I think what we call "role-play" might be more integral to intelligence than we tend to give it credit for. Now I think of it, a "job description" could be a good prompt.

If you start with a CEO-like job agent, that can think of what other jobs are necessary then you can bootstrap from there. "I want to produce and sell red bread" => "We are going to need a bakery, accountant, marketeer, etc." and then those are "companies" of sorts with their own CEO that can think of how to solve their particular sub-problems.
Some parts are overblown, financial blacklisting sex workers is a waste of everyone’s time and resources. Conflating all sex work with sex trafficking is … consistent, but useless and inaccurate.

Flouting FinCEN and other US agency regulations would be a valuable problem

Many of FinCEN’s regulations are stupid and investors bidding up shares on user metrics is also dumb, but if any investor purchased based on poor metrics then that will be an expensive problem

the regulatory slaps will be expensive either way

The interchange issue is hard to tell about its value, but looking at Paypal’s issue with the SEC can provide clues

Is Hindenburg double dipping on whistleblower reports to the SEC?
Often it is far longer than writing it all yourself.

What I see as the advantage is taking doc comments or documentation and fine-tuning the engine on it.

Not embedding more words as numbers.

Not adding it to a prompt.

Literally fine tuning the model.

Does Alpaca or any LLaMA version let you do it? Cause Chat-GPT doesn’t.

And anyway I wouldn’t want to give our whole code over to some third company to re-use the way an artist’s work got jacked because it was publicly posted. I want to self-host the fine-tuned model.

THAT would be the killer feature, for businesses. The Web attracted businesses, not people. People moved over later.

Does Alpaca or any LLaMA version let you do it? Giving it (with its existing weights) a gigabyte of text files and letting it fine tune itself on that?
Sweet. I should then expect they will have 4090s for purchase on their website again then?
Not entirely a fair comparison.

The tiger is dangerous because whether you consider it a sentient, intentional killing machine or a bunch of atoms, it exists and manipulates the same physical space that you do (indeed, as the tweeted image points out implicitly, it is only a tiger when you consider at the same sort of physical scale that we exist at).

Software, however, does not have this property. Ultimately it does exist as something in the physical world (voltages on gates, or whatever), but at that level it's equivalent to the "bunch of atoms" view. Software (by itself) does not operate in the physical space that we do, and so it cannot pose the same kind of threats to us as other physical systems do.

The question is therefore a lot more nuanced: what types of control (if any) can (a given piece of) software exert over the world in which we operate? This includes the abstract yet still large scale world of things like finance and record keeping, but it also obviously covers the physical space in which our bodies exist.

Right now, there is very (very) little software that exists as a sentient, intentional threat to us within that space. When and if software starts to be able to exert more force on that space, then the "it's just logic and gates and stuff" view will be inappropriate. For now, the main risk from software comes from what other humans will do with it, not what it will do to us (though smartphones do raise issues about even that).
In high land value areas demolishing and rebuilding can be a commercially viable alternate to conversions as well.
> ZERO meaningful financial institutions have an ATM or banking branch in all of Hawaii

That is truly fascinating and something I hadn’t noticed when visiting. I wonder what implications this has for capital intensive construction projects there.

Presumably the builders still finance through major institutions but need to pay out all local labor via bank accounts from institutions on the island? So the local authorities have essentially taxed banking generally?
Cars don't run. And even if they did, or you tortured the definition to include rolling on fairly straight prepared paths as running, it is only better for specific definitions of better.

Cars are faster on reasonable traversable terrain. Are they more or less energy efficient? Under what circumstances? Do they self navigate the best path around obstacles? Better is really subjective.

And this applies to the large language models too. Just like calculators, they are going to do some things better, or maybe cheaper. But I've played with them trying to get them to write non-trivial programs, and they really do fail confidently. I suspect the amount of source code online means that any common problem has been included in the training data, and the LLM constitutes a program. So, at this point for programming, it's fancy Google. And that has value, but it is not intelligence.

I am not saying we (as a society) shouldn't be worried about these developments. Near as I can tell, they will mostly be used to further concentrate wealth among the few, and drive people apart because we already can't settle on a common set of (reasonably) objective facts about what is going on -- both problems are probably the same thing from different perspectives...
I feel like there should be two levels of unlocked phones 1 which is full unlocked (access key apps, photos, settings, etc.) and like a guest mode (phone, web browser, weather app, calculator, etc)
That doesn't work in practice because the machine in question is under my desk, and reaching back into the USB ports entails moving it (and sometimes unplugging other things).
> How can I find places that have these interesting problems to solve? And then, how does one go about "trying" to solve them? [...] On a related note, a LOT of software suffers from suboptimal performance but it's not usually so bad that it obviously impacts the electric bill.

In scientific computing and HPC, I believe the solution to many problems can be accelerated significantly. For example, redesigning the algorithms in a way that can be benefited from GPUs. Unfortunately, it's not just a matter of rewriting the code, sometimes they require one to completely reinvent the algorithms in order to transform them to a form suitable for modern hardware, and it takes expert-level knowledge of the underlying mathematics and physics to do so. So many people just choose to keep running the decade-old existing code.
I've read most (all of them? Except Feersum Endjinn, it was just too hard to read to enjoy it - but that's me) and I do think Banks has a lot of violent and sometimes gruesome parts. The Archimandrite Luseferous springs to mind (not part of the culture series, more an anti-culture book, it feels like the mirror universe in Star Trek, E.g. in DS9, but it's so culture-like, I include it).
that is what I was afraid of. Meaning you can't create a content sharing platform being a one dev team, can you? In between writing and maintaining code, make sure the platform is deployed and available and on top of that moderating content and spam... seems infeasible.
Messages from UFOs
FreeRTOS has a massive effect on throughput. If your audioprocessing is predictible and your interrupts too there is no reason to need that overhead.
> 2) entropy always* increases (RAM usage, memory corruption, hardware issues, OS misconfiguration etc.) so eventually the application will break and stop serving traffic until it's repaired/restarted (which can take time if it's a hardware issue)*

This is not what entropy means. Even if you constrain it to hardware, there is no reason to think that this will happen eventually, unless your timeline is significantly long.
Do research on the state of the art technology, or a homegrown copy of it that likely doesn't exhibit the same features.

It seems like they thought it through to me.
I think the concern is foreign agents using the data for either propaganda or targeting individuals’ phones/location data.

It’s exactly what national intelligence exists for.