skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone else notice this below? I can’t even begin to imagine how many CPU’s that would require and what the cost must be… just for a recommendation engine.

> The pipeline above runs approximately 5 billion times per day and completes in under 1.5 seconds on average. A single pipeline execution requires 220 seconds of CPU time, nearly 150x the latency you perceive on the app.
True, but among the organizations that have work and money you can do to get the money, some seem to have aims or products or work in domains that align better with your views on the world than other organizations. In the context of job-getting, money as an extrinsic motivator is a given. Parts of a candidate's motivation that are more towards intrinsic might be relevant.
Basically Finland has this type of control. It is tied to index so inflation so this year the rents can be increased by 8-9% I think. Previously less. And you can end rental contract, but tenant only needs to leave after 6 months.

Quite reasonable balance, but still big issue is that unpaying tenants are slow to remove.
You have good points but "the syntax is hard to manipulate programmatically"??

Maybe you haven't noticed but Lisp is now a tiny niche and most new languages aren't homoiconic either..
OpenAi started out as "open", this venture also uses rhetoric that sounds innocent if one is not used to newspeak.

More likely, they want to become the central identity provider for the whole planet and collect as much biometric data as possible.

UBI plans may also start out as UBI, but will degrade soon: "Hey, we know that it is supposed to be unconditional, but we are running into financial difficulties. Would you mind plucking some cotton to shore up your income?"
I can't really expand because I don't want to share my primary use case, I hope you understand. That said, what I mean is that it feels a lot more comprehensive, as if it really has a grasp on what is being asked, kind of like - its much better at understanding the information it has, so responses feel richer, both in context but also in tone.

I am comparing it directly to 3.5. Again, I don't have the API access so I cannot say for sure, this was only my experience from the ChatGPT interface and also a third-party API I spent $20 on just to test its limits, but sadly for the time being those limits are hardcore - it just gets stuck on long responses despite there being a token increase.

So, if I really wanted to test it out and make a proper assessment, I'd need access to the API myself so I can do some high-volume token shenanigans.
I feel like the important skill to learn is learning itself, and it becomes more and more pronounced.
I think the idea of learning and adjusting to each and every company you are about to apply can be intimidating at first. The world is changing fast. Skills and tools deprecate quickly – and it is getting even faster now. It only make sense the recruiter will pay more attention to core traits such as motivation, communication, creativity and ability to learn – vs technical knowledge which is still necessary but has less weight. So having an applicant learned about your company and demonstrating why this particular match could work, could hint about the traits aforementioned.
Hard to see the difference between that or someone so obsessed with twitter that he paid a huge premium to own it.
You can see this with the Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers and Return of the King).

The Hobbit is much newer but doesn't look so great in comparison. Sure it has some amazing special effects but the cinematic footage doesn't compare as well next to the older films
Some summaries I found online:

https://twitter.com/modern_mindset/status/164207843202770534...

> Twitter algo is finally opensource.
> • Twitter Blue 2x boosts
> • Likes have 30x comment value
> • Links/mentions/names deboosts
> • Retweets have 20x comment value
> • Restrictions/suspensions deboost
> • Images/videos/trending topics 2x boost

> Will write a thread about it later. GM

https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1642004729390858241

> Twitter algo 101

> Boosts
> - Likes 30x
> - Retweets 20x
> - Twitter Blue 2-4x
> - Trusted circle 3x
> - Images/videos 2x
> - Replies 1x

> Negatives
> - URL only
> - No text
> - Mute
> - Block
> - Unfollow
> - Report
What was the world’s population at the start of the century?

Six billion.
Developers at big companies aren't motivated to do everything perfectly. They're graded for big wins, not tech debt, documentation, or correctness.
How do you mentally frame it. Like "ignorance is acceptable" or "we are limited beings"

I think as long as we are within the realm of reality, no single person or species can know everything so we need to accept contextual knowledge will be out limitation.

I often wonder to what level will we need to know someone to be able to satisfy abstract statements.
It's not a bug, but it's misreading the htop output as mmap doesn't show up as a resident set size there. The pages are RO and not dirty so it's "on the OS" to count it and the OP had lots of RAM on the computer so the model just resides in his page cache instead.
Some threads on this topic (click to read full):

https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1641892389160894464

https://twitter.com/kaanayaz_/status/1641903611213930499
Marine notices for Starship’s first orbital flight
It's not a fundamentally bad idea from a practical point of view (like I said, I'll leave the ethics out of it), but I think it is not as good an idea as a lot of people think as it narrows the field so much. Also the signal that people get, unless they have worked directly with a person, rather than just chatted with them at a networking event or know them from their childhood, is I would argue "belongs to my tribe", rather than "good at x"
Couldn't it be a simple test of whether the applicant had read the posting thoroughly? It's a quick filter to remove anyone who didn't manage to fulfill this no-effort criteria in their application.

A lot of applicants simply send their resumes to any position that is vaguely relevant, without diving into the details of the role.

A little bit like Van Halen's "Brown M&M clause": https://effectiviology.com/brown-mms/
While I can understand there may be debate around various trans issues purposefully calling someone something when they’ve politely asked you to call them something else isn’t up for much debate. Seems like common courtesy/politeness.

I see your point about losing users potentially but I would argue that Twitter’s intense focus on the US (as shown by the democrat/republican metrics) and trying to placate everyone is actually a negative for their business. There’s billions of other internet users outside the US. Shifting focus to serve them instead of focussing intensely on trying to please both sides in the US (and failing) would probably deliver better value for their shareholders.
Maybe with the population of this site this is more true than the most, but I'd still consider it a minority, even here.

I doubt many plumbers cite a love of modern world development, when they get hired for fixing toilets, or that people assembling washing machines have a passion for clean clothes for other people... or even people working for google don't really have that much passion for collecting other peoples personal data and exploiting it to show ads.
Just happened to see this.

If your buying say, steel, presumably you care very little about the supplier, their story, etc. You want specs (carbon content, hardness, annealing temperature, whatever) and price.

Likewise, hiring people as commodities, you don't care about the cover letter, you want to know where they went to school and want experience they have.

If you're trying to hire a person as opposed to a commodity, you will care a lot less about the specs and more about the person, and want to hear their story.
If I ask a human what their favorite flavor of ice cream is, they will answer based on their actual preference for different kinds of ice cream.

If I ask a chat LLM what its favorite flavor of ice cream is, it will select a statistically likely answer to the question.

That's the difference.

For reference: my favorite ice cream flavor is cake batter, but only if it's the one at Cold Stone. If it's from somewhere else, I go with cookie dough.
Had the fair organisers quietly allowed the animal to be returned, one of this controversy would have happened. A bit of common sense would have saved a lot of drama. Now the fair looks terrible.
The concern is that there could be an exponential advancement in AI over the next few decades. So GPT looks stupid right now, stochastic parrot and all, but after 15, 30 years? I'm on board with some kind of precautionary principle applied on an international scale.
"Symptoms resolved for most team members later the same afternoon, and everyone resumed work on survey data collection within 24 hours" (Note the "everyone resumed work on survey data collection" part)

I take that to mean the opposite of the quote you gave. So it's unclear which is true.
Anecdata, but I learned Python many years ago precisely because I found the syntax was clear.

I liked the one way of doing most things philosophy, coming off working on a large C++ code base.
Just me or is scrolling/panning super broken?

MobileSafari on iOS latest
I'm gonna be honest. I still think that Star Wars 4/5/6 looks so much more authentic than 7/8/9 because it didn't have as much CGI ability so the use of models etc was more important.

1/2/3 is the worse examples as the CGI quality was particularly bad. Let's not even start about Jar Jar.
There are laws and legal agreements in place that prevents certain sensitive data being stored in different legal jurisdictions.

Any gov or military contract data usually has specific requirements stating data storage requirements.
As I've been reading this (and lobbing remarks in the comments) I've tried to get to the bottom of why this makes me uneasy. I think I've worked it out well enough to express it now.

In biology, the more successful a species is, the more parasites, predators, and pathogens adapt to attack it. This means that over time a species has to change in order to survive, or die off by massive and continued attrition.

Technology, I think, evolves in the same way. It isn't static, it responds to markets, new techniques, and new threats. It can be exploited both technically and socially. And of course, the bigger the target in terms of both users and codebase, the more valuable and vulnerable it becomes.

This is a rough way of saying: I don't believe a world scale system like this could ever marshal enough continuous investment to respond to the enormousness of the capital that will be spent breaking it by criminals, spies, and probably advertisers.

The question of establishing trust in the world has always been hard, even before computers. It is harder now, and the odds are against us.
Does this throw out the whole moral panic about animal welfare? If plants suffer too, isn't it wrong to eat them as well? Or there should be real focus in humane treatment and harvesting them?
The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be
NIH is a cynical name, it means you prefer IH. All this stuff is related to Canonical reinventing stuff, without most other distros adopting it.
Not that the US has a positive record on immigration. There's no wall in Sicily, at least.

Keep on gifting your data to the megacorps, I am sure they care about you.
0.001% of 1 million is 10
Friday is traditionally end of the week and many people stressed out, tired, frustrated about the week and so on. So fridays the conversations are less nice online I noticed. So apparently many people used their friday frustration to blow off steam by spamming the github page with "issues" like, "rewrite everything in rust", "rewrite everything in scratch" ,... and while I was checking, many people were participating in this.
Kind of going on a tangent, but I think it's relevant so please bear with me:

I never understood the point of cheaping out on storage media.

Look, I get it. Most of us have budgets to work with, not all of us can afford enterprise 40TB Kioxia SSDs or enterprise HDDs hot off the presses.

But if I actually, truly care about my data I'm going to at least shell out for (brand new!) drives from reputable brands like Samsung, Crucial, Seagate, Western Digital, Kingston, and so on. The ease of mind is worth the cost, as far as I'm concerned.

What is the rationale behind buying used drives, or drives from off-brand vendors of unknown or even ill reputation? Aside from just goofing around, I mean. I never can justify the idea, no matter how strapped for cash I could be.
Another factor: If you watch a film in the cinema then the surroundings are almost completely dark, which makes it easier to see what's going on on a dark screen. However we increasingly consume content at home where there is typically more ambient light, especially if we don't choose to turn off all the lights just to watch tv as other family members may be doing other things and find it annoying.
Well, you are into something:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

See rule 2.
I agree, which is why I wonder what your motivation is to defend Twitter. You're posting about this for a reason. If I were a social media company, I'd probably have paid agitators to defend them.
And step 1 is precisely the hoop-jumping nonsense ChatGPT is automating. Look forward to all candidates providing a resume and a letter generated from "ChatGPT, write a business-y sounding letter that shows my passion for this AI for dogs startup".
Yes, they definitely helps. I posted some jobs on linkedin and got absolutely garbage applicants. So the next time I wrote "do not apply on LinkedIn, email cv to xxxx". It was unbelievable to see how I had exactly the same wave of useless applications come in via LinkedIn's automated process, which I got to summarily ignore, and got a way higher average quality sent by email.
As usual, sarcasm doesn't work well on HN.
Assuming the car is actually used, an HDD would be subject to numerous physical stresses. Not exactly something HDDs like.
Yes, that's totally fair. But I'll say that I've taken or been offered "networking-enhanced" job opportunities in startups a handful of times, and they were always people I knew and had worked with directly, or in one case, someone who was extremely close to a person I had worked with directly.

"Chatted with someone at a networking event" seems like an extremely weak signal, and I'd be suspicious of that type of hire.
> By one philosopher’s count, there are 784 questions in the Investigations and 110 answers—all but 40 of which are meant to be the wrong answer.

Glad I read it for this nugget alone.
https://web0.cc/a/qIeq4dH4Nz
Someone wants to measure their business after paying what was a reasonable figure when they offered it, but that became overpriced once the market changed.

Sounds like fairly rational behaviour.

HN isn’t a site for making unfounded personal attacks on others.
Progressives have totally lost their minds.
Not only that. It also completely skips amber part of spectrum, making human skin look bit weird.
UK politics, IMHO, is blighted by a cabal of Oxbridge unqualified humanities graduates that cycle between journalism and some role in politics (MP, Private Sectary, think tank, "policy advisor").

As consequence both journalism and politics in the UK seem less about the truth or doing what's best and more about selling convincing short term rhetoric.

We need a revolution where we hang the last Cambridge classics graduate with the entrails of the last Oxford PPE graduate[1].

1. Hahahahahaha, I'm joking[2] of course!

2. Kinda...
I used to love this website, and remember using it almost 20 years ago to purchase an Olympus c-5060.

Great work!
Dogme 95
It's not teaching them the wrong way. It's teaching them a simple version of the right way.

You can't do everything at once and git is counter-productive on day one, and the most important thing was they find programming remotely interesting at all.

The next most important thing is always working on a new copy.

How exactly you make those new copies barely matters at all compared to just having them at all.

Using something arcane and unforgiving and inscrutable and complex like git to accomplish those copies is way way down on the list.

The new student is barely interested in the actual coding to make a game if you're lucky. They would rather mow lawns than learn administriva like git.

It could even be argued as irresponsible to hand git to babies and expect everything to be fine. Just because we all have about 5 git commands we use 99.9% of the time, and have no problem 99% of the time because we learned how to "hold it right" and just always carefully do things in the right order, does not mean git can actually be made safe and simple. Those 5 or so commands aren't actually enough.
"Scream" is a sensationalist word, it anthromorphizes plants. You might as well say you can hear them sing Chop Suey's lyrics when they get cut down:
Father, into your hands I commend my spirit
Father, into your hands
Why have you forsaken me?
In your eyes forsaken me
In your thoughts forsaken me
In your heart forsaken me, oh
Boosting both right and left wing content increases your chance to see either type of content, because you boosted them over everything else.
> the issue was deferred without acknowledging the reporter's concise suggestions of how to handle it, engineering-wise

A day in my life at my last job. Basically a regular occurrence that it was “urgent” after a customer report.
"Removed test for 100% CI pass"
It seems it's a play with soft-ware hard-ware, implying electric and civil engineering.
This is the latest comment.
Yes, if the model is mmap'ed read-only (as I'm sure it is).

There are other bottlenecks than CPU cores though, it might not be very useful to run multiple in parallel..
Note that this is the same Worldcoin that has been going round poor countries scanning people's eyeballs with an orb in exchange for some shady cryptocurrency with the primary objective of making some billionaires richer. See e.g. previous discussions on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947468 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28998065 . I thought trying to turn our world into a terrifying dystopia for private profit was scary, but this article trying to sell it as something that is somehow beneficial for humanity is even worse.
Braking news, a non biological relatively simple machine gives bad answers when used to study biological evolution.
Then there is Go and C#.
It is writing a book. You need to set the stage properly so “asking questions” will become part of its story. Roleplay. It is not a being, there is no feedback loop, no motivation. If it is said to want something I think you can say it wants to finish the text. Whatever it is.
It's not just movies. There was an episode of The Mandalorian with cave scenes so dark that they were literally unwatchable for me with the shades open. You'd think people would have learned after the mess with Game of Thrones.
From your link:

WunderGraph is an all-in-one solution to build, integrate, deploy and monitor modern APIs. We empower developers to ship faster and with confidence.

What does any of that even mean? If I'm submitting an application, it's because you listed specific skills and experience requirements and I meet them. I'm not going to {insert euphemism here} just to satisfy your ego.

Your hiring approach favors bullshitters.
At least on the consumer side of things it doesn't. The consumer-facing side of the internet is quite mature. You are fighting for consumers' attention with giant companies that have addiction down to a science. Furthermore there are entire categories of the internet that have people's attention on lock (social media, video, music, gaming, news, chat, e-commerce and gambling). Breaking through all that existing noise is super tough now, a valuable product won't cut it. If you look at the big consumer-facing successes post-2015 (TikTok, OpenAI, Fortnite, Disney+), they all spent obscene amounts of money to get where they are at now
>I really don't get good vibes from this whole thing...

Trust your instincts here. This thing is hardly a democratic technology -- it seems like it's by the Silicon Valley Elite, of the Silicon Valley Elite, for the Silicon Valley Elite.
Have you watched a video of someone with rabies exposed to water? I don’t recommend it, it is more than a hard time swallowing.
Much more secure? Really?

And you think it is relevant for a laptop?
Phones are not unique to US, though. They don't explain the gap.
Text-to-speech is available on the iPhone, is it not?

And it probably has the same accuracy as the spellcheck on the T9, unless you meant to talk about the ducking ponyman in your text.
Reminded me immediately of a tweet someone made about Dexter when the newest season aired: https://twitter.com/_katiestebbins_/status/14613483079013785...

Personally I don't agree with the take of the article in two ways. The first one is that it gives way too much default credit to realism as a stylistic choice. Movies are works of fiction and the creator has total artistic freedom in what aesthetic to go for, and being 'realistic' isn't necessarily a good thing, you still need to make the case for it.

Secondly I think the bigger reason is a trend towards grittiness, bleakness or a sort of 'scandi-noir crime drama' look. People go for that mood not just visually but also in terms of writing, muted mumbly dialogue, minimalism, and so on.

Villeneuve's Dune that's mentioned in the article is to me, despite the apparent popular appeal, a negative example of this trend. The movie is overly bleak and oppressive, cold, distant in a way that many of his films are and heavy on visual stereotypes. (the hairless, pale, black-dressed 'brutish' Harkonnen's, a caricature that the books deliberately avoided).
Anonymous Twitter sources may have _low_ credibility, but Elon musk has _exactly zero_ credibility at this point. He has a significant and proven track record of making false and misleading statements, even ignoring the many many more difficult to prove allegations.

In my personal experience, software engineers, when you ask them about technical matters like "does the code do X" or "is there a condition for Y" are generally pretty honest. Programming is a task that requires being able to have structured and literal reasoning, and asking engineers about purely technical details usually triggers that response, even if you can imagine a social motive for lying.
Should be wc -l
Sadly, this is a trend too. Lush, orchestral music with memorable themes, harmonic development, etc. is being phased out in favor of minimalist, repetitive, electronic sounds. To understand what that gives up, I recommend the "Listening In" channel e.g. https://youtu.be/iGN_5oNla_8
It talks about "Internet of Things", in a BBS from 1987, but some quick googling seem to hint that this phrase was invented in 1999 at the earliest.
> Hadany and several other members of the team previously showed that plants increase the concentration of sugar in their nectar when they "hear" the sounds made by pollinators

If it walks like pseudoscience, swims like pseudoscience and quacks like pseudoscience...
Legit was my first thought when I saw the headline. But apparently it's real