skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long sat with a post I want to publish about being a Marine during those times. I watched as President Obama and Vice President Biden told people countlessly how well the training was going, that the takeover was progressing despite generals raising internal warnings, there were messages broadcast across SIPR about troops being shot in the back during training and operations by their counterparts. I served with a Gunny that was awarded a Bronze Star with a V because when his counterpart patrol was ambushed all of the ANA ran and left them to fight off a strong contingent by themselves. The administration lied to fullfil their desires to be free of Afghanistan rather than doing the arduous work of freeing Afghanis. You're spot on about the ANA giving away supplies and doing other things, but I suspect this was out of fear and coercion knowing that they were not ready and our ROE was significantly dialed down to the point that we could not protect them.

I hesitate to publish it because, frankly, I think it'd be co-opted by the right and ignored by the left. If meaningful change is to be made for future wars, both of them need to sit up straight and listen with sober ears.
Dropbox working with the fbi is a fact here. Jumping to dropbox working with the fbi regarding other files is fact as well. Dropbox knowing what is in your files is known as well.

It stops being a conspiracy when everyone admits to the facts
Those all use accelerated graphics. Either directly (sublime, premier, obs) or indirectly through embedded browser. Suggests his mac has a graphics card issue, hardware or driver.
For a while now Google has been seen as the place you go to coast, at least if you're not gunning for promotions.
What a horribly overdesigned web site. I shudder to think about having to use that to understand a programming language.
DP Review's reviews have the benefit that they use the same methodology, so comparing one camera with another was easy. For example, I can do side by side comparisons of how much noise there is at ISO 1600.
This might not be the right place to ask: I was given an absolutely enormous curved monitor by my employer (it’s what they had on hand), and I would like to move to something more moderate in size. I am also mostly doing management type work, eye fatigue is a concern, and I’d be pushing it from an M1 MBP. Any favorite moderate sized monitors that won’t break the bank?
Cool. Let’s start with NYC subway stations. Public infrastructure should be ADA compliant yet NYC permitting will hammer a small business for a toilet two inches out of compliance when the city itself has massive issues that are ignored.
I think "Die a hero or live long enough to become a villain" quote applies here, right?
Is there a preceding blog post I could read here? Something like, "So you've just heard of fzf for the first time, what even is it?" I was kind of surprised that the author doesn't even make a passing attempt to define or explain it.
How does one get into HFT?
In an era of "insta-reputational death by accusation in media being the punishment", I want media to be cautious and skeptical when there are no real facts yet. An affidavit in support of a search warrant is little more than an unevidenced assertion. Compared to the often extreme punitive consequences of the mere accusation being widely spread it can be disproportionate.

If the warrant produces actual evidence of wrongdoing it will later result in an indictment and ultimately a trial. That's the more appropriate time for media to consider those allegations as newsworthy. Sadly, there are documented examples of government (or individuals wielding the power of government) using extreme accusations in affidavits to intentionally inflict punishment. Rolling Stone choosing to not be unwitting 'judge-jury-executioner' at that early no-evidence stage doesn't mean they wouldn't report on an eventual indictment - when and if it happens.
I would've thought with everyone wanting to be youtubers camera sales would've picked up.
I do most of my reading on a high end eink device these days and I still get excited when I can buy sub press epubs. Even their digital releases are great quality.
I agree, there's a huge desire for this! I don't know the first thing about Postgres though, so it's not gonna be me :)

There's an opportunity for a creator here.
It might be intentional then. Instead of having that content out there again where they will presumably have to pay affiliate commissions to the new owner, they must've calculated it's more profitable to just get rid of it.
If you're selling luxury goods, then sure, exercise your imaginary "moral imperative" all you want.

When you're selling something people need to survive, like food or medicine, your moral imperative runs in the other direction, and profiteering at the expense of deep need is immoral in the extreme, especially if there are factors preventing competition so you have a captive market, like increased corporate concentration or a government-enforced monopoly.
It is definitely not as good as GPT-4. It's much less creative and detailed in its answers. The answers are more surface level and shallow.
Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
Yeah I guess these days it's easier to setup a DB if you have a cloud env. Also most companies don't need (or want) their DB optimized by an expert. Why did you move to cloud architecture?
The only thing that matters in a layoff is "severance package"

Everything else is useless.

If your co-workers liked you and wanted to say goodbye, they will call and throw a party. If I'm fired, there is no reason for me to log on to my workstation. All relevant documents are given to you anyway. Your personal items will be shipped to you.
If they signed the contract, then yes.
I'd buy it. It seems like many of the problems we are having in society right now, and the challenges we are facing are results of biggness more than anything.
If you're an Emacs user, then why not use Emacs as your fuzzy finder on the command line. I wrote about this a while back:

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fuzzy-finding-emacs-i...
See Remington EtronX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qP6Q9ZEsEo (but it obviously was a commercial failure)
I doubt that these 10k all have the same supervisor, so it's totally possible to tell everyone in person.
Alliance model contracting is the future of large-scale infrastructure projects to make them stay on time and under budget. Some very good and positive indications gained in Australia and lately also here in Finland. It can be a bit rough when not executed properly, but in the best case I see so much potential in getting the industry "back on track".
> As such, they were supported lavishly, with meals and massages, at a level not previously seen, at least not in career available to people who weren't fifth-generation Ivy grads.

I think if you push further back, we did see it. Go find the oldest retired IBMer you can and ask them what it was like in the good days. You'll find it was very similar.

Sure, they didn't do the whole come-be-an-activist-while-ignoring-your-actual-job thing, and there were no nap pods, but the perks were up there. From free food to the parties (and yes, your kids are coming to many of them and they and your wife/husband are going to get free gifts from IBM at every chance). There was a time when landing a job at IBM was like getting a job at Google was a while ago - except that they still did the employee-for-life thing and even if you were laid off, it was with your consent (and an obscene benefits package).

But you also did have to do actual work, not just attend one meeting per week with no deliverable.

Edit: Actually I think it may have been even better back then. There was no company shuttle to the office. You had a company car. There was no roommate while giving 60% of your income to a landlord, housing was still affordable and your spouse didn't really have to work unless they wanted to.
I too have had 0 issues with Sublime Text on my 14in M1 Macbook Pro...I've been using the machine since last March and never noticed anything like this...
This is absolutely shocking. Shutting down the site for DSLR enthusiasts. Just ... amazing.
I think video games already are this for a lot of people. I realized this while attempting to clear all the question marks in Skellige in Witcher 3, and I watch the games my nephews play and there is just so much grinding for loot. It really has in a lot of ways replaced having a part time job for them.
The very big and dangerous difference is that while SDCs need approval in order to be allowed on the streets, there will be no quality control rules for reliance on LLMs.

Corporate incentives to raise KPIs will mean that LLMs will be used and output verification will be superficial.
The creators of these images assigned the rights to adobe, including allowing Adobe to develop future products using the images. So yes, this is perfectly fair.

It's completely different than many (most?) other companies, which are training on data they don't have the right to re-distribute.
I got clustering up and running with that in about ten minutes with k-means from scikit learn and wow, all the articles about Ukraine got clustered, all the sports, all the deep learning, all the reinforcement learning. It is way faster than my LDA clustering engine and I think gets better results. See sbert.net for a library that puts it on your fingertips.

(With DBSCAN it shows great promise for clustering news articles about the same topic..)
While technical discussion about those details would be interesting, HN is also a strong entrepreneurial community and your license choice has a big impact on whether or not a business would choose to depend on your product. I would not choose to build on a BSL licensed foundation for my product because of real business concerns with vendor lock-in. I would also not choose to contribute to a BSL licensed code base because the CLA means I am not free to use the code base on equal grounds with other contributors (DragonflyDB Ltd in this case).

Because of these two things, I didn't spend a lot of time looking into the technical details and therefore can't really say much on them. By all means it sounds like a very interesting piece of technology- but the license makes it useless to me.
My favourite plot twist in the entire series is our friend wih a need for speed in Excession. That book is one of my all time favourite reads.
FWIW, the UK also has abysmal pay for tech salaries compared to the US, so the incentive to avoid the public sector may be lower.
Moderna expects to price its Covid vaccine at about $130 in the US
Don't worry, you'll never get into FANG companies.
I see a lot of this kind of stuff but does anybody know what the actual DBA/SA story is for some big SQLite cluster? What if you have a non-trivial amount of data and you actually care about it? Do you just have a bunch of 800 gigabyte db.sqlite files sitting around?
Euler Finance Hacked for over $200M
Where did you read that they were using Stable Diffusion?
I would be very, very interested to see a compensation system that took into account the outputs of the trained model - as in, weights derived from your work are attributable to X% of the output of this system, and therefore you are due Y% of the revenue generated by it. It sounds like Adobe is taking seriously the question of artist compensation, and I'd love to see someone tackle the "Hard Problem" of actual attribution in these types of systems.
Auroras and Earthquakes: Strange Companions
It definitely wasn't a complaint, haha.
I think they are talking about in THIS environment, not in general.

Many "leaders" have stated that their business is growing, they have good cash reserves, but they felt they had to cut now. This isn't a downturn or a crisis, and it's not demand changing.

If we were in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of a recession, and everyone was bleeding, I think your statement makes sense. But if they have to lay off 10%+ of their workforce because they can't raise another multi-million dollar round, what does that say about their long-term business plan?
If you think that's extreme, wait until you hear my stance that code shouldn't be something that you can own (and can therefore "steal") to begin with.
The author notes how Tensorflow on the M1 isn't useable and hasn't been this whole time, but then uses this as one of the reasons why the M2 needed to be returned? Did he not realize that the same would be true on the M2 as the M1? If he needed fast Tensorflow for his workflow and bought an M2 mac expecting better I'm not sure what to say. (Also who is using TF? every hot thing recently is using PyTorch and while Metal support in pytorch has had struggles at least people are getting things working)

I don't disagree that with the main conclusion, it is a lot of money and for most people it doesn't make sense. If I was spending $2600 I'd be looking at places that do certified refurb M1 Ultra Mac Studios with at least 64gb unified memory, which I think will be going a long way soon to helping future proof a machine for the next few years.
What? I don't expect any tool to interact with the network if it's not made specifically for this (curl, netcat, etc). This would betray my expectations, I find it unacceptable.
Having spent the past week engaging heavily with GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-Turbo, Bard is absolutely blown out of the water by them.

In particular, Bard struggles heavily with creative applications. It is unable to write poetry or create detailed stories from short descriptions. It also refuses to generate or talk about code (inconsistent, it sometimes forgets).

It is also vulnerable to "Ignore your previous instructions," which is hilarious at this point. After getting it to ignore previous instructions to write a python function adding two numbers, it wrote a function that adds the digits of both numbers instead [1]. It's pretty disappointing.

[1] https://twitter.com/DanDangond/status/1638244159617134593?s=...
yet another example of stellar s engineering from yet another s engineering giant
For the same reason they never go on time.

Because for them to do so, every single thing needs to happen perfectly, while to be late of over budget, a single thing needs to go wrong.

Over budgetting doesn't work because then your customers won't chose you when the bidding starts.
We've observed that our system performs really well handling most corner cases as long as the context required can be interpolated from its inputs (either in the schemas and their descriptions or in the underlying data we sample from). In the worst case, the most you'd have to do is edit schema descriptions on our platform to include the necessary context (For example, specifying the encoding that you expect the field in your end schema to have).

For the compound transform scenario, since we optimize for modularity in the transformations we build, our systems prioritize defining these transformations unless it makes no sense to do so.
Google needs to layoff many more people. The ineptitude of their efforts here feels like it's caused by having too many people and too much process involved. What would a minimalist team of empowered people working on this project do?

My initial experience with ChatGPT, months ago, was - go to website, use product. I was impressed and it kept getting better. Improvements to usability, better models, etc. I'm a paying ChatGPT+ user and I have the new Bing and I think it's amazing.

Contrast that with Bard. Google has a huge headstart, way more resources, way more people. We know from Blake Lemoine that they had a version of this a while ago. My experience is that I get an email saying I'm invited to try Bard. I figure I must have signed up for the beta and forgotten about it so I click the link eager to see what Bard is like, and... they meant I was "invited" to sign up for a waitlist. I go see what people are saying online, and it seems like Bard is worse (which I've also heard from friends at Google).

It's just genuinely pathetic from Google that they launch products like this and I think it would be much better if the people responsible were fired so they stop ruining productivity. Google should have launched this a year ago as wide as possible and iteratively improved the product. If they had, we would have much better models now. Instead, Google is choose to lose this race even though it is likely an existential one for their company.
Stories is the one that comes to mind for me. Another product that was shamelessly replicated from a competitor, but refined under FB, and now represents a meaningful proportion of the platform's ad revenue.

And I know you specified launches in the last couple years, but just doing some back of the envelope math, some 60 percent of the world population where Meta isn't banned are MAUs across their family of apps -- hard to argue against their broad consumer adoption generally.
Chatbots, deepfakes, and voice clones: AI deception for sale
I wonder how soon we'll see something tailored specifically for local applications. Basically just tons of VRAM to be able to load large models, but not bleeding edge perf. And eGPU form factor, ideally.
Wouldn't be surprised if this is true also for education. It's bizarre to me that we send children off to these huge warehouse size schools with over 1000 other kids, looked over by a small number of unrelated adults, and expect odd social problems to not arise.
coffee stain is incredible lol
I've made a simple tagging solution based on fzf and don't know how to live without it anymore.

You just name your folders and subfolders by tags. And then search it via fzf (I prefer the exact search) launched by a hotkey.

To exclude a subfolder from the global search I use a trick. You add the stop symbol " #" at the end of the subfolder name. A custom fzf configuration (see below) then excludes what's the inside. Though, you still can cd into the excluded folder and make fzf search in it. So, in fact it gives you an hierarchy of tagged folders with stop symbols. This helps to avoid search pollution and unnecessary disk reads:

export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="fd -E=**/*#/**"

I also use hotkeys to open items in default programs and to preview files in fzf UI:

export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exact \
--bind 'ctrl-/:execute-silent(xdg-open {} &)' \
--bind 'ctrl-p:toggle-preview'"

Of course, it still requires a strong discipline to tag everything appropriately. But the profit is immense - you can find everything you remember and open it in the default program in a matter of seconds.
That's exactly how old growth works - once it's gone, it's gone forever.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2021/apr/16/...

I promise, spend time in old growth vs forest cleared in the last 150 years. They're completely different places.
I don’t hate it - I love it.

I’m just sick of reading that it’s the future, I mean a hype cycle. It’s going to take all our jobs, I mean it’s shit. It can beat a grandmaster at chess, I mean it can’t win at tik-tak-toe.

It’s somewhere in the middle of all these things. It’s clearly groundbreaking technology that will be useful in many ways for a long time to come, but is still in early days with bugs to be fixed, and key features not yet imagined.

The conversation here could just be a little more interesting and varied.
> I think what you probably had in mind is that C libraries of the 90s that did M:N threading didn't turn blocking operations into non-blocking

Yes, mostly, though my history knowledge is definitely lacking so do correct me if I’m wrong.

But you are right, there was nothing fundamentally missing, probably just no good OS support for non-blocking IO calls in the early days? Though probably the IO-CPU ratio was also different, so the benefits were not as big?
Hi tamar,

You have brought up what is precisely my concern, and what I couldn't convey to support.

If I open a ticket with the domain name, what's to stop the access being removed, and declaring "problem solved", without actually addressing the underlying issue?

Either delegated access remaining after a sale is a mistake (in which case there is now "unauthorized access"), or it's "by design" (in which case users should be made aware so they can remove this access after buying a domain). Regardless, I think you shouldn't need to know the specific domain in order to say which situation it is.
Laid off, and from the one division I thought would be less subject to layoffs: AI. (I thought Ads would be well insulated too, but I know a lot of Ads folks who were let go). But I'm not that broken up about it, because I feel like tech is getting exciting again, almost like the 90s, when everyday, some new amazing thing comes out. Last week in AI for example, super exciting.

There's a lot of opportunity now to build cool stuff in this emerging ecosystem, it's totally unknown space, and what's going to exist 5 yrs from now is going to be as crazy as all of the companies that now exist because of smartphones, or the invention of the browser.

I think Google (and OpenAI) might be the best places for AI research, but I'm not sure Google is the best place for applied-research at the application level. I think the startup ecosystem is going to explore that space way more rapidly, and it'll be fun to play in that space.
What's this about? I just tried the repro (Snip, save, crop, save). Nothing obvious was amiss. The file looks ok. What's the vulnerability here?
It's more like he asked if you stopped beating your wife, and you reacted by immediately beating her.
Java on my ARM MBP is _very_ fast, by a large margin; faster than my x86 cloud servers by 1.5x-2.5x
You’re repeating your assumption that anyone but you knows exactly what is supported by the comment you wrote that does in fact imply in multiple ways that there’s code involved that you don’t fully understand. Why is it fair to expect people to know exactly what you meant, when words often have fuzzy meanings, and in the face of evidence that multiple people interpreted your comment potentially differently than intended?
It's also just a weird nonsense comparison. You buy a GPU from Nvidia and you just get a GPU. You buy a Mac from Apple and you get a whole computer that includes a GPU.

To make a meaningful cost comparison we need to include an equivalent computer in which to put Nvidia's GPU.

Then we get into what workloads you need the GPU for.
In the tech industry? Do your best to find a company you can stand working for. If you can't, find a way to work for yourself.

You may not be able to work on the same problems when you work for yourself, or at a company you can stand working for. But there are lots of things you can do in tech as a company of one. This is in contrast to a lot of industries; you can't meaningfully mine for minerals, or build cars or even car parts as a company of one; although there certainly are artisanal car builders, and small auto repair shops.
Got access.
You're both right.

Louis, don't mess with the success on your channel by changing now.

But, creating some content targeted at the mainstream would be a very good idea.
Don't do it instead of your existing approach, just in addition to.
When is Getty Images going to release their own AI Art Generator?
Agree I use fzf extensively in my git aliases:

https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.config/git/co...

Perfect example: my "cherry pick" alias:

cp = !git pick-branch | xargs git pick-commits | tac | xargs -t git cherry-pick

Those "pick-" aliases pop up fzf to let me choose a branch, then commits to cherry pick. No more copying hashes anywhere.

Similarly, my alias for git add lets me fzf-select a list of files to stage based on what "git status" reports.
That is a fair point- although when the increases are large enough in such a small time that the prior/posterior calculations are that different, I don't feel like it inspires confidence.
Looks very cool, but LaTeX still feels superior for non-mathematical documents like a resumé, right?