skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a sentiment in the post that "poor" hiring managers have no other way to weed out the incompetent. At the same time it says that HR functionaries are not even looking at CVs...
It is not a contradiction though, such idiocy is natural for those systems. But the sentiment about "poor" hiring managers is a miss. The system is by design:
https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html#part-i---ma...
I wish there were a "zip" standard for storing a million small files in one package. NPM and other open source programs badly need this.
Snap I am in Australia and working through Andrej Karpathy's videos on neural nets and language models etc.

I am on the fence about having a course-mate as I don’t want to slow down someone else (or vice versa), but might be cool to have a catchup with someone on a similar learning path for inspiration
For GPUs AMD yes, but for example when the Asahi project started there was no open source driver from NVIDIA. These trends are very recent, and they do not guarantee anything more anyway (like who knows if they will continue contributing in the next generation).
It is becoming the anime of the 90’s, pre cowboy bebop. Voice actors would not learn the nuance of the original delivery, the pay was too low to spend the time. Everyone was either yelling or just rushing through them. This is happening now, shows are rushed to deliver “content” and fill the airwaves, not actually do something good.
It breaks updates, so it's an absolutely no-go.
Very positive news. ChatGPT is not good for the environment. It uses so much energy and MS already consumes too much energy for what they deliver (almost nothing)
In some states you can register a tank to drive on the street!
I thought this too before I bought it, but figured “what the hell” and bought it anyway.

I haven’t played the first one, but the second one is excellent and is my favorite game of the year so far, and probably last year too. And as already mentioned, it plays great on the Steam Deck.

I highly recommend it.
The story behind those lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P__qjVB9Tc
Note that some sites depend on referrer and might break if disabled.

Here's a list of them maintained by the extension mentioned above: https://gitlab.com/smart-referrer/smart-referer/-/blob/gh-pa...
Once they delete it, they would have to use the internet archive to prove they own it, which would be rather ironic.
In general, I think it's good to limit how much stuff you depend on. Not in an extreme minimalist "write everything from scratch" sort of way, but in a "don't just needlessly add billions of lines of dependency code for the hell of it" sort of way. If you've decided to write a program in Java or another JVM language, you already have some JVM as a dependency, so you might as well use a build system written in it, but when nothing else depends on anything Java-related, I'm gonna need an incredibly good reason to add JVM as a dependency just to be able to use one build system instead of another. And IMO, Meson[1] is good enough, there's nothing I'm sorely missing from it and the build configuration doesn't end up as an unmaintainable mess, so switching it out doesn't seem to cross that threshold.

Then there are some reasons specific to Java itself. For one, the JVM is just incredibly slow to start up, and I hate having to deal with Java-based tooling. Gradle is infuriating to work with for that reason (and others). I'm also incredibly uneasy regarding anything made by Oracle, I definitely don't want to add a critical dependency on an Oracle product just to be able to use a build system which may or may not arguably be slightly better in some areas. I know OpenJDK is a community project, but it's one that's completely dependent on Oracle. With Oracle's recent-ish hostile moves regarding LTS builds of OpenJDK, I'm even more wary than normal.

[1] You may point out that Meson is written in Python, which means using Meson adds a dependency on Python. And yeah, I think that's totally fair, and I would respect someone's decision to use CMake instead of Meson to avoid adding all of Python as a dependency. But Python falls in a different category for me personally, because: 1) a lot of my projects end up with a build-time dependency on Python regardless of build systems, since Python is what I use for things like custom preprocessors and random scripts; 2) the sorts of systems I care about (Linux, macOS) tend to come with Python anyway; and 3) I trust the Python foundation way more than I trust Oracle.
That's a form of self censorship indeed.
Because it was cribbed from there.

If you know an authoritative source of information on a subject, for God's sake don't ask ChatGPT on the hope it will find it too, parrot it back, because it has a high probability of putting unrelated but plausible-sounding shit in there. Leaving you to sort out what's real and what's statistically-related nonsense.
Very nice that this is a plugin for VSCode or IntelliJ. I recently tried the Cursor app but it’s a stand-alone app not a plugin:

https://www.cursor.so/
Might be chilling effect indeed, thank you. I'm trying to find that website which was very visual and well designed...
Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm TeraWulf’s annual report revealed that the corporate recorded 146% income progress in the course of the fourth-quarter of 2022 in comparison with the third.

TeraWulf grew its $3.9 million income recorded within the third quarter of 2022 to $9.6 million within the fourth-quarter of the yr, in accordance with the report... read more information from the site

https://financedaily.site/btc-miner-terawulf-grew-revenue-ov...
> I don't sync folders. I mount my accounts as network drives.

Implementation-wise under the hood is it really much different?

In my simplistic, probably overly naive idea it seems that a “network drive” built on top of Google Drive would still cache the files in memory, and improper shutdown or loss of network access could still leave your files in an inconsistent state. Probably they have a lot of advanced logic on top, that could roll back partial updates, or keep track of things so that the updates are not applied before sync is complete.

But anyways from this point of view sync vs network mounted drive feels like sync is a kind of network mounted drive that flushes to local disk in addition to working with the remote.

One of these days I want to build such things from scratch myself so that I can experience first-hand the horrors that lie underneath sync / network disk service setups modelled on my idea of Dropbox / Google Drive etc
Hey, I've done that :)

(well, at least contributing to an open-source library in the space to get an idea of the domain while applying)
Bad Tests Are Worse Than Product Issues
Integer overflow is real and prevalent. To many times have I seen unchecked overflow return a number much much smaller than expected.
Thanks for reminding me of the "full moon in a forest" style night scenes :)
I think that the moment you scale up the hardware for intelligence (from the 20cm brain) to a datacenter scale (to several hundred meters) you start getting into some other kinds of issues, such as it's hard to get a consistent view across the whole "brain". Synchronizing things will take longer, limited by the speed of light: suddenly things on the far ends can communicate with a latency with a lower bound of 100ns. For GPT4 it doesn't matter yet, because all the matrix multiplications take much longer, but maybe once we get to much larger models, that can interact with their environment via something else than a static text box, this will become a limitation.

GPT4 is not an exponential improvement over GPT3. It's is better, but not exponentially so (as in f(x) = e^x).

> If you think GPTs can get to human-level intelligence, why would the improvement stop at that arbitrary point?

Because GPTs are trained on human generated data. They might have some ability to generalize, but to a limited extent. GPT4 is not a super human chess player. It's can play chess, but far from Magnus Carlssen. But we do have super human chess engines, but those are made in a completely different way from GPT.
Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1...
That could be it indeed, thank you. Now I'm trying to find that website which was very visual and well designed to illustrate consequences of chilling effect...
Well, that's the thing, because you haven't done that, I am now biased to believe you wouldn't be a good applicant regardless of your skills. In the end, the applications gaming has made things worse for everyone, but especially the outliers. And because there's only so much time one can spend screening applicants, the biases will negatively impact genuine candidates as well. The only way out of this I've found so far (aside from the obvious one of networking) is to use paid job posting sites, although that gets to be quite pricey
Good remainder again that "the cloud is just someone's else computer"!

In my experience, GDrive is a piece of crap with a lot of weird behaviors and easy ways to lose your data if you sync your computer with it.

The worse here, as said by multiple persons, is not to have a limit. A limit on their service is fair. It is that this limit is undocumented, and that their key selling point is to shout everywhere that if you pay you will have "unlimited" storage. And that it will scale more easily than using your own "not cloud" backups.
I also grew up in the US. In my high school we read the book "Hiroshima" by John Hersey, which tells what happened that day, according to survivors. I recall it being a powerful read. Gave me a tremendous amount of perspective and empathy for the victims.

There is some historical evidence that the US dropped leaflets warning about the impending bombings and the atomic bombs specifically. For info, Google "LeMay leaflets." It's also likely that the US made AM radio broadcasts about it. Even so, I'm sure the Japanese citizenry would have regarded it as the enemy propaganda it was and largely ignored the messages. And of course no one could have anticipated or imagined the atomic bombs.
Watching the bright and beautiful trailer for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City reminded me how wonderful it is to have a director who isn't interested in a pointless pursuit of "realism" in an inherently unreal medium, and instead joyfully and unashamedly embraces its artificiality and creates his own style, instead of following the herd. I would take him at his quirkiest and most cliched over another dark and colourless movie.
I like https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3
Humor is fine, but when several readers don't recognize it as such, the joke obviously isn't based on shared common knowledge. Some people walk away with wrong information, and that isn't helpful.
Nice username! Im from/in Aachen ;) saw your meta comment as well on your name
Commander X16 2023 update [video]
Maybe it's time to ditch Windows once and for all. Put spywares aside, the reliability is ridiculous.

Bought a surface pro for kids, and had to clean wipe Windows 11 less than a week as they pushed an update causing external display to flicker, uninstalling the update screwed up the whole system and the system restore did not work at all. So had to spend half a day just to install Windows 10.

For my own laptop, mostly looked okay until a couple of days ago except a couple different minor issues got fixed now and then. All of a sudden, Edge became unbearably slow. Simply create a new tab or switching to another one could take a minute despite the cpu usage was less than 10% and over 32GB free mem available. Tried everything such as switching off hardware acceleration etc., none worked. Then I noticed that the URL inspection related fuction which was for sure turned off was back on again. Turned those off those, it got much faster but still slower than it should be.

That's the last straw. Installed Fedora and it looks great by default. However, I still need to find some substitution for the stuffs I use on Windows. Once that's done, Windows 11 can go.
This is happening now, shows are rushed to deliver “content” and fill the airwaves, not actually do something good.

This may be so, but shows used to have 22 episodes in the US, now series have 8 or 10. So far, far less work yearly, less cramming to get shooting/processing/writing done.

You'd think this would give more time for better takes, directing, acting.

Guess not.
Human Level Warcraft
Blackmailing is screaming "yOuR sYsTeM iS nOt SeCuRe!1!!@1!1!#11$%$!" to anyone who shirks updates of any kind. As if the sky is falling if they so much as miss a single update.

To anyone who engages in that blackmail, and honestly gaslighting: Kindly fuck off. That argument has never been correct nor valuable information.
mostly games for myself but I've also needed it for various weird programs that some professor decided we should use for some homework.
I think that's a misinterpretation of what these types of papers are.

GPT3.5 and GPT4 are already general purpose with text tasks. You can give it _any_ well defined programming task that involves a fairly direct route from natural language to code, along with the API/module description (or output data format), and it can do it. That's the only reason this and 500 other papers or services like it (but doing different things) are possible.

3.5 is not multimodal though. That's why it needs the other models. But GPT4 has image understanding and can do a lot of these things without the external tools.

There is no reason to think that similar variations of GPT will not be able to handle video understanding or generation at some point.
Most jobs out there are straight up boring. Due to the way simplistifi'er managers are structuring the system. It selects for accountable people, not responsible people. Even if the domain has something interesting in it.
The filtering starts with HR functionary demanding a love letter to enter the managers' dollhouse.

https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html#part-i---ma...
>One would think that movies would be produced for the viewers but apparently the monopolistic landscape of modern entertainment allows film-makers to make insane, ego-driven choices without consequences.

Where is the monopoly?
Interesting post. Maxed out hardware can't make up for poorly optimized code and architecture.

The computer scientist Niklaus Wirth wrote in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software" that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.

Constraints sometimes can lead to more innovation and efficiency. Limiting the level of hardware that the dev team can design and test against could be a good start.
Oops, sorry about that. I must have had something cached from when I verified that I had the correct tld, though in the end, jwz.com, jwz.net, and jwz.org all lead to the same place.
Ghost them and move on. Why waste your time?
Does it mean that with "raw" flash it's possible to use it in either mode? I guess it should not be impossible to create DIY SSD?
I don't get the reason behind his complaints about not 100% of all the comments being focused on the one topic. It's a discussion forum for humans, not a bureaucratic committee. Comment folding exists for a reason.

And while it sure can be frustrating when completely avoidable questions are asked, I don't get why that's so bad that one has to block the website. Especially considering 95% of comments to marcan's post linked above could be summarized as "haha orange site bad" - a lack of substance doesn't seem to be the issue.

I'm sure this frustration has a cause, but I struggle to see what that is.
Exactly, but is it a good thing to separate people into groups? How does that help?
Maybe they all do, maybe they don't. Maybe it's more than 1/5, but maybe it's less. The article doesn't touch on it.
I feel like there is some additional context missing. It's not like HN readers were spamming him, or flooding his platform. It's just, from what I gathered from this mastodon thread, that the people didn't read the article, resulting in comments on HN not being interesting enough for him.

But blocking people just because they are reading HN and learning about Asahi through it seems kinda extreme and uncalled for.
This was a nice focused read. I've never had pizza rolls and just checking, my local supermarkets don't have these either. They'll likely forever stay as a stereotype-point of US culture from a distance, much like the red party cups.
Pizza rolls, Steak-umms, and Chef Boyardee pizzas were basically survival food in the 80s as many of us were left to fend for ourselves for days at a time during the school week.
> Candidates are to their resumes what a chef's meal is to the list of ingredients.

It sounds as though you're saying it's not the list of ingredients, it's what you make of them.

On the contrary, the interesting chefs, you can tell from the list, as there are delightfully unexpected choices and twists on the list.

This absolutely POPS on a resume, and is one of the indicators I look for.
The safety people aren't that bright. They are just trying to write tons of requirements that the actual ML model writers follow to make sure race and violence is accounted for somehow. These are not AI experts. They are mostly lay people.
Offline IMAP – Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes
You can ask ChatGpt
Ameca the Robot with GPT3
It’s interesting to see how propaganda can be so thinly veiled even in modern times. I had some American friends who said the 7th grade narrative on the War of 1812 was that it was a “tie.”
It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for a site that was a garbage click generator to be accepted as a legit site. I wonder at what point you're better starting from scratch. If lifehacker.com comes up in a search now, I don't click, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Unveiling Tweepcred: The Power Behind Twitter's Recommendation Engine
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need
I suspect the answer to the second question is "both, plus the fear that unionization might spread and show the proles that they actually have the power to turn things back in their favor, and end the gravy train that has let the already-wealthy take nearly all the increases in productivity for 50 years to line their pockets."
I don't know about science fiction authors, but I feel bad for parody sites like The Onion. I guess it all started with 2016 election - when reality is this absurd, how can outlets like The Onion make a living? Slapping at Oscar for a stupid joke, Congresswoman going on and on about public urination, Billionaire buying a social media company for tens of Billions, ex-president spending insane amount of time testing insulting nick names....

What a bizarre time to live in
I think the problem is that there is no good cross-platform build tool and as a project grows it almost always depends on some other runtime/language.

I don't want to manage Cargo.toml or requirements.txt or pyproject.toml or package.json or whatever. It's all the same stuff - just a dag of dependencies, each has it's own type and output and build pipeline and defaults and env vars etc.

Bazem, from what I've heard, is the best. Maybe that is the reason for the lack of adoption - it's very good but not good enough?

PS. I never used Bazel
You do an A/B test so even for the same tweet or same time period, you’re just comparing the new, “treatment” group against the old “control group.”
I follow Hector on Mastodon and he's posted a few times in the past about how he dislikes the HN comments and often finds them toxic. He didn't implement any anti-HN measures in his sites before though, so there was clearly something different this time. What I think elevated this from "ignore" to "block" were a few creepy subthreads relating to him and the identity of Lina that I am not going to repeat. Additionally I thought this was a shame because those nasty ones ended up being flagged and downvoted by the community, and drowned out by a boatload of comments saying how much people admired the work Hector, Lina, Alyssa and the Asahi crew are doing. So he's under the impression that most HNers are dumb idiots who dislike him and and are comofortable doxxing people, which I don't think is the case.

However if you're looking for the basic archetype of a bad HN comment I think yours is actually much more appropriate. Very poor form :-/
> Some things are dangerous, like toxic materials I don't know about and cannot know about.

You don't need regulation for companies to tell you that a product contains a harmful substance. You just need a functioning legal system.
Well, actually some people do care, for different reasons. If apple was more open then it would appeal much more to these people.

Sometimes it is even just a practical issue: having as low level control as possible can increase performance in certain aspects, for example in latency related tasks, that can be important in certain applications. This does not make everything else useless, but there are definitely tasks for which I choose an AMD gpu over an NVIDIA gpu (or apple silicon) just because of the open source drivers in linux.
I dunno about you but I'd rather have one or two parks in an area than a sea of parking lots.
Respectively, Python, and Yes I did.

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=glue%20language
It should also be remembered that the firebombings of Tokyo by conventional means caused perhaps even more damage and civilian casualties.

So I think that in the context they simply didn't care about minimising casualties, perhaps even the opposite. They wanted to show that they now had a weapon that made annihilating a whole city much more efficient and practical, and that they were going to use it until Japan surrendered.
Audio is great

Some cases, yes the sound setup helps. Other cases, such as actors "mumbling", sound setup does nothing.

Gibberish is just gibberish.
They reopened in two days! That's incredible.

My country would have been stuck in the stone age forever. It's a good thing we don't start wars.
This looks good. I used to really like Lifehacker about a decade ago. When I looked at it again a few years ago I was deeply disappointed. The article sounds like they're trying to pivot away from being a spam farm and actually want to provide valuable content again.
Re: Vehicle miles. In the UK a license proves you are competent to drive. In the US a license proves you are not incompetent. The US driving test is set so that over 90% pass, deliberately. Because driving is seen as necessary.

Has that changed? Is the UK license standard as high as it once was?
Maybe you missed this news story:

Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets[1]

The research found that in six out of seven countries, apart from Germany, tweets from rightwing politicians received more amplification from the algorithm than those from the left; right-leaning news organisations were more amplified than those on the left; and generally politicians’ tweets were more amplified by an algorithmic timeline than by the chronological timeline.

According to a 27-page research document [2], Twitter found a “statistically significant difference favouring the political right wing” in all the countries except Germany.

Twitter admits it was boosting right wing accounts over left wing accounts. It treated right wing twitter users who violated its own terms of service better than regular users because of their position as conservative leaders. Trump himself was boosted and promoted while he violated Twitter TOS. It took him using Twitter to wage a coup against the US government for them to ban him. So yeah, there's more than a little reason to believe that there's evidence at Twitter of them boosting right wing accounts.

And PS: Notice that this research by Twitter is never mentioned by Musk or in the Twitter files. They're trying very hard to memory hole this report, and it seems like it's worked on you.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...

[2] https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...