skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much to say about this, but it really brightened my mood! If you're bored, click through to the video of the magician who (re)discovered Gloria Dea by finding a skirt of hers in a second hand store ...
Forgive me if I’m wrong — I have a sibling comment here and am not a construction PM — but no. This comment beautifully demonstrates the point: the disconnect between our industry and the physical world.

There are not just concrete trucks just lined up down the road, waiting for a PM to say “okay we’ve got enough, you can stop now”.

The amount of concrete is known. It is planned. The 3rd party concrete supplier is given an order well ahead of time. They plan their trucks and drivers. None of this is made up on the day.

One of them having an accident matters.

This is why IT projects are such a shambles. When we forget something — a change request, say — we just say “oh well, that’s a pity”. Some poor schmuck has a bad afternoon running around making it good and life goes on. We get away with it because it isn’t concrete in a truck.
Pipewire?
At the moment the number of open jobs is not huge. The majority of companies that haven't had lay offs have simply closed their open positions. Combined with a ton of layed off developers, most job postings get hundred of applicants within a few hours.
TikTok Broke Social Media
... probably one of the best summaries on the state of LLM "understanding" of code, and I think just about as valid for "code in general" as it is for smart contracts.
Or, specified more correctly, a share alike and attribution regime not based on copyright.
You’ll know your bias if you’ve been tracking your success rate, and once you do - just keep doing the same thing, but use the opposite of your guess.
Racism: the only way to trust text content as genuinely human
Have been hiring designers and developers for nearly 15 years. The easiest way around this is to just make a website that shows your work. Put up a small project on Github (even if it's a small hobby). A resume tells me nearly nothing and the logos on it only get you past the recruiter. It is absolutely mind boggling to me that people looking for Internet-related jobs do not own the story of their own career on a website of their making.

If I need to have a conversation with you to figure out if you know what you're doing, I'm wasting your and my time. I'd rather have a conversation about whether you're a good fit.
I remember paying about $1000 per port for 100 megabit switches.
Please name the company. They deserve public shaming.
Look like a dead project by now, Mr. Bauer haven't been active on GitHub for years. :(
Fall of the Western Roman Empire.
But then it is no longer a passive element. Sure, you can use N antennas connected to some electronics that adjust the phases dynamically so they always add up. This is what modern "beam-forming" wifi routers do these days to improve range.
Ask HN: A Tool to plan KPIs and keep track of them?
We are looking for a tool that would help us pland and make sure we are on the right track for PPC metrics: advertising budget, conversion rate, cost per click,etc.

It may not be specifically designed for PPC, it's okay if it's a generic system.

The main goal is to use it to help us track the performance and if something is not okay - let us know.

What can you suggest?
in my opinion, all job postings shall state their pay ranges in the title, to avoid wasting everyone's time.

followed with key requirements, locations(and if remote is OK)

followed by your interview process steps.

that's all I need, I don't need schedule a 20-30 minutes call for each recruiter for info I can filter in a 2-minute read, in fact a twitter-size job post can cover all the essentials before any meaningful talk, why making a lengthy process longer than necessary.

and, if you're asking for many years experience for a junior position, or you're asking a senior developer to be great at leetcode challenges, you might be doing something wrong.
That's unrealistic, it would have to find an unknown exploit to escape the browser security mechanisms
You could add a schema_version column and use one constraint per schema version. It will only be per major version, if the schema is backwards compatible there's no problem.
ASTEROIDS!

Crunchy rocks of breakfast cereal from the depths of space!

Delicious with cold milk.

Fortified with RNA compound and vitamin B3.

No added complex organic molecules.
If you're into the embedded/edu/stem/steam space at all, the micro:bit v2 codebase for audio is being integrated more widely this year, and expanding our audio processing components might be a fun, bounded project if you want something smaller, but reasonably high impact?

See https://github.com/lancaster-university/codal-microbit-v2 for the ecosystem, or https://github.com/lancaster-university/codal-core/tree/mast... for the relevant section of the API.

If you're interested do feel free to suggest stuff via feature suggetions and such on the issue trackers, and PR's welcome :)
I mostly agree with you. But it seems clear that mammals do have a lot of the same emotions humans do, as those emotions evolved long before humans took the stage. We just inherited them from our earlier ancestors.
Once this really takes off, why would we be able to distinguish between the two if it is doing its job?

In fact, I have no interest in hearing from 99.9% of people, regardless.

I want my internet curated and vetted by multiple layers of "AI," along with water, food, air, etcᕦ ᶘ ᵒ ㉨ ᵒ ᶅ ᕤ
How many of those 77 million are dead? 42 years is a long time. If you asked me to put money down, I'd definitely place my bet with Raiders of the Lost Ark. But I'd still like to know the numbers. And if we put a cap on age, say, 35, things would get even more interesting--for example, by exaggerating the effect of population growth.
It matters because LLMs can tell plausible lies at incredible scale: marketing, propaganda, misinformation and disinformation, etc. Understanding whether content is AI generated would be a useful red flag, but we can't. Nor can supposed "AI detectors" do so with any reliability [0]. It's going to be a problem.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11156
Nobody gets a CS degree dreaming of working for Walmart, but they have 1315 openings with the word “software” in the title. Many jobs are in CA, TX or WA

https://careers.walmart.com/results?q=software&page=1&sort=r...

CVS has 492

https://jobs.cvshealth.com/job-search-results/?keyword=softw...

The non-tech Fortune 500 companies are still hiring. Go down the list

https://fortune.com/ranking/fortune500/
Reddit certainly used to but I haven't used it in years.
Then, my answer is just to learn STEM and help others with it.
Yeah, the incentives are different.

My understanding is that the "honor" thing is a useful proxy for a time when ranged combat could not generally be decisive - as you would not expect ranged fighting to be able to force an enemy to surrender/withdraw/just all die. In these scenarios (and if you're not a society of mounted horse archers...), you -cannot- rely on ranged combat to enable your tribe/clan/fief/kingdom to actually decide outcomes.

Therefore you have to incentize your soldiers and especially your leaders to actually be compelled to undertake, and be good at close combat, because if you're not good at that, you're not going to get get what you want (once again, unless you happen to be mounted horse archers).

It's only really with the development of breach loaded firearms could you reasonably expect to be able to keep an attacking enemy at bay through firepower alone (and even then it's not guaranteed as Isandlwana shows).
Also no way to inform it that you have seen a yellow+green for a repeated letter.
You're absolutely wrong, why don't we start consuming things like poneratoxin? Proteins evolved to be activated by it right?
This is similar to what I do and IMO it works. 90% of a good developer can be found in their desire to learn / desire to problem solve as long. You can get most of what you need from an interview just by getting somebody talking enough to geek out on you.
Sample size is 4,600 participants (over 6 experiments).
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208839120
If you have an algorithm that is correct 30% of the time on some benchmark, then invert results and you have an algorithm that is correct 70% of the time. That's why 50% is the worst case result.
I was thinking the same. But it sounds more like how to prevent being OODAed by someone else.
When dealing with GPT/LLMs, latency of requests is a minimal part of the time spent, so I don't think geographic location will matter much for that.
That's very funny :)
Right. Only blame Nike. Not the terrible governments that allow such conditions. Governments have the ultimate power. They can use the military or put people in prison.

If you look at Vietnam before capitalism and after. It's a big difference. But I don't think you care about this.

Why do you think children have to work in these countries? If not for companies like Nike, they would have nothing and no ability to feed their family because of the government in power.

You are the privileged one. Not understanding actual human suffering.

All systems contain human suffering. Capitalism allows for actual freedom.

You still haven't given me an example of a better system.
Happy to introduce you to https://ossia.io there are a lots of tasks open! You can check the projects for the general development axes: https://github.com/ossia/score/projects?query=is%3Aopen ; e.g. Audio, Musicality, Integrations, JACK & Linux integration (some are in Classic projects mode) all have audio-related tasks, some easy, some hard.

Creating new Avendish plug-ins (docs: https://celtera.github.io/avendish/) could also be fairly useful, here's a very basic example one: https://github.com/celtera/avendish/blob/main/examples/Advan...
> Well, what I'm saying is couldn't AI be used to help? I mean thanks for the link! But...I'm thinking more of a hybrid approach. A way we could combine this, SAT or something, with AI somehow? I don't know...maybe.

Sounds like you have the proverbial AI hammer and are looking at everything as nails. You’re doing the same as the people who want to apply blockchains to everything.

Use the best tool for the job, don’t try to force everything into the same problem space just because there’s something shiny and new.
Are we in a recession? There rumour is we're heading in that direction, but it's not official, at least not yet.

The point being, this might be a better question in 12 to 24+ months.

That said, Covid took out a number of SMBs. Perhaps those that remain are strong and can weather a recession better. We'll see?
Maybe it's a question not supposed to ask. They all know the answer but it's inconvenient to answer before the public.
These are actually all great reasons. Speaking from experience a bad hire can be extremely detrimental.

While all valid points i do dislike how often those tests and interviews focus a lot on areas that you will not be doing in the role. This is where I see the biggest frustrations. When we hire we do try to tailer the interview process in a related to the work involved as possible. It adds confidence that we have hired the right candidate for the job.
There are actually 3 lists if you count the Wordlebot 2.0 [1] list:

1. The words that are solutions in the current game

2. An approximately 2x size list that is the space Wordlebot uses to "play" in. Supposedly it's still common words though some seem pretty weird to even a native English speaker (and some British slang leaks through as well). For example, titer was one of Wordlebot's recommended guesses today which I correctly sort of assumed had something to do with titration but would probably never have guessed it.

3. A larger pool of words that Wordle will let you enter as guesses

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/upshot/wordle-wordlebot-n...
Also the US runs a deficit so there are lots of opportunities to own dollars abroad.
The Moore film is about adopting practices from other "Western" nations so it's weird to describe that as anti-Western:

> In the film, Moore visits a number of countries and examines aspects of their social policies that he suggests the United States could adopt.[7] He visits Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland; respectively, the subjects covered are worker benefits, school lunches, early education, college education, worker inclusion, decriminalized drugs, low recidivism, women's health care, and women's inclusion and leadership role in society. These countries and supporting facts are listed on the film's website.[8]
So your work is good enough to use in production, but not good enough to pay for? I would contact a lawyer on principle. Minimum write a Glassdoor review.
This is wrong.

Terms of service only apply if you agree to them. They do do not magically apply if you download the weights from someone else.

Both the weights and the fine-tuned data were generated without human creativity and thus not eligible for copyright protection under law.
I have no idea about the substantive discussion, but just to point out: Switzerland is not in the EU.
For that 23 year old:

> Weddings are expensive if you ever wish to marry (avg wedding in the US is $20k).

Weddings are usually much less expensive. Average cost is misleading; median is more representative and much lower. Average 2020 wedding cost was 19k - 27k, while median cost was 11k. This reflects a few couples spending drastically more than average, and most couples spending less [1].

Also, wedding costs can be adjusted a lot. Unlike childcare costs, which are fairly inelastic, weddings can be much more easily tailored to lower cost. Fewer guests, outside venue, etc. -- these factors can be adjusted without life changes.

My wedding cost 5k in 2014. We had 15 guests -- parents, grandparent, siblings, and significant others. Ceremony was in a nice park, reception was dinner and drinks in a reserved section of a high-end restaurant in a metropolitan downtown.

> Children are expensive too

To clarify for the young: children are _much_ more expensive than weddings. It's like an expensive wedding every year. In my opinion, minimizing this cost while still having children is a very worthwhile effort in life planning for a 23 year old.

Consider a common scenario: childcare in or near a major city that would allow a dual-income household to work 9 AM - 5 PM with commute times factored in. In my experience, that's $15k - $30k per year, _per child_ [2]. Nanny care substantially minimizes marginal per-child cost for > 1 child, but still costs 25k - 40k per year.

Children are worth it! But do plan. Living near parents that are willing and able to help with childcare can greatly reduce costs. Choosing employers or careers that offer flexible or non-9-5 hours can also be a big help.

[1] https://silkstemcollective.com/median-and-average-wedding-co...

[2] https://www.epi.org/child-care-costs-in-the-united-states is the best estimator I've found, but still seems low for 9-5, 5 day per week childcare in or near a big city.
For an extremely brief period that's already coming to an end. Unfettered GPT-alike models are already available.
Container security fundamentals part 2
Part of this is due to fraud from the last couple of years. I know multiple companies who dealt with remote employee fraud over the last 2 years. Companies are defensive now.
I would suggest there is a very simple reason BMW and Bosch's GitHub repos weren't blocked in World War 2 due to their collaboration with the Nazi regime.
Meat paste is totally how a lot of meat products are made, so that makes sense for cultured meat.

I once worked in a plant that largely made hotdogs. Pink slime everywhere.
Asked and answered:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34370250
So, if the average of your past results is under 50% then always invert your result?

That makes sense, so you can never have less than 51% accuracy. That could still trend towards 50% though.

Thanks for explaining it!
Context is everything, and why these fail. When I did one, the process included the narrative version of the results. I had a question that was something like "It's important to support your organization", which I agree with. In the narrative form of the results, it concluded that I "may not tell the truth to superiors if something is wrong" from that.

Of course I support the organization, and I think being honest with superiors is the best way to do that.

In the end, these things are so imprecise that you have to get to know somebody to know which parts are accurate (some were) and which aren't. By †he time you know how accurate it was, you know the person well enough to not need the test.
Yes, I use browser bookmarks on chrome.

I am not completely happy with them though. There is no tagging support so I have a haphazard tagging system via #tags in the bookmark name.

Chrome also doesn't have any non-google sync options, which is a pain. I am using floccus to sync currently but it only syncs bookmarks and not other Browser settings or history which is a pain. And it also doesn't work on Android chrome since there is no web extension support Android chrome.
Detecting whether something is written by an AI is a waste of time. Either someone will sign the statement as their own or they won't (and it should be treated as nonsense).

People lie. People tell the truth. Machines lie. Machines tell the truth. I bet our ability to detect when a person is lieing isn't any better than 50% either.

What matters is accountability, not method of generation.
CS "laws" like Metcalfe's are closer to Murphy's Law than Newton's...
Even worse in cold climates.

I've had an external heater heating the inside of my car and the engine for 2 hours. Then I start the car with AC set to 22C and instantly I'm blasted with -20C air from the outside.

Why?

The Toyota Prius was the first car I owned that actually waited for the air to be the correct temperature before opening the ducts. The same worked in the summer, if the car was already cooler than the outside air, it wouldn't do anything until the AC had enough time to cool.
Reading the original ethernet paper was one of my favorite moments in college. Just a brilliantly pragmatic design (especially handling packet collisions with randomized retransmissions).

Made me appreciate how important it is for something to be simple and pragmatic, rather than over-engineered to perfection.
> Ps: I'm a manager, so I can say that I'm overpaid for what I deliver, while devs are underpaid and the expectation on them is out of reality.

If you are able to recognise this, surely you have the power and the incentive to change this?
Good counter, I suppose it's irresponsible to act as though ANFO / ammonium nitrate alone is fully innert. What you'll notice looking through that list though is the vast majority of those accidents are related to fertilizer production. It seems silly but partly it's a volume matter, partly it must be an industry attitude. When people think of mines, explosives come to mind. There's relatively few companies controlling the worlds' supply chains so good practices are widespread. The same cannot be said for fertilizer products though, given the ubiquitous use, high tonnage, and lack of consolidation and awareness.
This has gotta add weight to the Panspermia hypothesis.

Panspermia is a hypothesis that suggests life on Earth may have originated from microorganisms or organic matter that traveled through space, potentially from other planets or moons in our solar system or even from other star systems.
A non-person cannot sue.
Same for PMs — huge variance in ability and impact but the interview process is not diagnostic most of the time and same for performance management

From your POV what do you think we should do?
Here in Norway they seem endemic. That ship has sailed, unfortunately.
Only if the person taking the test is willing to lie. I imagine most people understand that you are supposed to lie on these tests, but I could imagine some extremely honest people failing them even if they were smart enough to figure out what the employer wants to hear.
Thanks, that should help anyone else following the same thought pattern I had. :)
> at least until there is a lot more transparency around their sources of information.

? doesn't this story include the ai giving the exact source it got the information right as it says the untrue info

There are a lot of things to critisise about hallucinating ai but this one literally said where it got the info
If I search for “OS 9” without any quotes or anything I get the Wikipedia article for Mac OS 9. I think it’s fine. There’s enough niners out there keeping things alive.
How to Polis, 101, Part I: Component Parts
ZenGo uncovers 'red pill attack' vulnerability in popular Web3 apps
Don't forget to Strongly Agree with everything your boss would want to hear and Strongly Disagree with anything that suggests you're a functional human being with goals outside the company's.
This reminds me a bit of what it was like to graduate in 2008.

(Horrible, it turns out).

What's insane is the hiring market during the longest bull run in history, which has now ended.
There are two futures: One is Sam Altman taking everyone's iris scans (I'm not making this up). In the other we have privacy preserving decentralized solutions to proving our unique humanity.
> Social Media, Influencer culture, Creators, and a Ad-tech driven surveillance

I think it does help those. You've seen how the early models had to be taken off because teenagers trained models to be bigots. If there's a widely-deployed model that uses near-contemporary data, it would be the prime target for all kinds of promotion, influence, disinformation and product placement just like how Google became one such. The reasonable, useful replies that current models give you may become a thing of a past once people start to target LLMs for the same things that they today target Google's search, and you will have the same SEO arms race, albeit probably harder to combat considering how much more opaque LLMs probably are compared to Google's search algorithms.

Perhaps the good useful information that we get from LLMs today are more a product of them being trained on paid content of high quality that aren't widely distributed.
> Most people don’t go vegan or vegetarian. It’s really a very tiny segment of the population

And that implies there is no market how exactly? There's plenty of market for things that the majority isn't interested in. You seem to have an axe to grind.
Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI
Did anyone compare Alpaca responses between LLaMA fp16 vs 4-bit quantized?
I have been trying since morning with no success. HN c'mon loosen your death grip hug for a minute.
I don't know how to do this, but drivers should never have access to phone calls. You are driving and should not have that distraction. I've never seen someone drive safely and talk on the phone at the same time. Many say they are safe while in the phone, but independent observation says they are not.
I can say that stock trading can be highly profitable in general, so there's no doubt that so many entrepreneurs are getting into it. Moreover, there are many platforms like https://www.koyfin.com/compare/finviz-alternative/ that can help you with that by providing all the necessary tools and help with data analysis, so it's definitely worth considering as a source of additional income.
Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Surged in 2022
Hi everyone,

I've created a podcast show completely generated with AI. The text is generated by GPT4, all the artwork is from Midjourney v5 and the speech synthesis is from ElevenLabs. All the Tweets from the host's account is also from GPT4.

Over time I'd like to automate as much as possible, so that I can just feed it one subject matter per day and it goes from GPT4 -> Uploaded podcast episode -> Social media awareness without my interference.

I'm also doing an episode this week where one GPT4 model interviews another GPT4 model.