skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attention used to be quadratic. But there have been linear attention advances. In fact, gpt-4 is almost certainly using some linear attention variant, maybe flash attention.

Then there's this
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learn...

I don't think a 300 page context window is too far away
Tesla-related example: $13M for lower body injury.[1]

[1] https://laist.com/news/13-million-settlement-tesla-fremont-f...
This article is super generic. It could have been written about any career path -- Some people who dedicate their careers to ascending in a single corporation regret it, Some people who aspire to be corporate lawyers regret it, Some people who become ski instructors to have more time to ski regret it.

Careers are long, and I think the key is to try things, learn what suits you, and generally try to evolve towards things that are a better fit for you.
386 is an especially important milestone CPU, since it was the first CPU to offer a 32-bit mode in the Wintel space.
Russia lost something like 27 million dead in WWII. The most recent figure I can find for this war (from November) is 100,000 dead. Russia has plenty of people remaining they can throw into the meat grinder.
I also thought it sounded more like a j/24 cockpit locker.
Is Russia low on land? Are they running out, that depopulating several nations and holding their territory with conscripts makes strategic sense?
Of course, none of that is actually going to happen, there is no general legal basis for "Someone owes me money because they said a thing that made me sad online in a debate website I voluntarily visit in my leisure time for (one assumes) entertainment or educational value," and your explanation of why it would happen indicates massive ignorance of the legal framework relevant to this thread topic.

I always find it interesting when people who are willing to accept the arbitrariness of the LISP interpreter or JavaScript's market dominance or the C++ curiously recurring template pattern get shocked or surprised that the United States' framework of law and legal precedent is arbitrary and path-dependent and does not conform to their (also arbitrary and path-dependent) sense of fairness.
Effectively a compute engine on top of S3 storage that is smart enough to push-down to S3Select where possible. Well the general idea of a compute engine on top of S3 storage where data is partitioned efficiently with the appropriate prefixing is quite common. Commonly known as an external table. Hive is an example that comes to mind.

Couple that with a meta-index/catalogue and a modern file format like parquet and you've got yourself a more modern flavor of an external table. For instance Iceberg or Deltalake.

I'm unsure whether the technologies/libraries built around interacting or managing these external table formats can actually push-down to S3Select, but I can't imagine why they can't.
From my experience the lowest productivity engineers are the ones that just never talk. I understand being an introvert but we all chat about things we have passion for.

Anyways ive seen so many "programmers" that sit silently in meetings and also just do not produce good code. Usually they produce bad code that I have to revert.
When I cancel a subscription to Disney+, no one loses their job. I think that's an important distinction.
That’s why wages are low in UK compared to USA.
Let me guess, everyone who criticizes you is a jerk?
Did you read the motion? Do you know whether it is appropriate or not? It's pretty common parlance to refer to this as "requesting that a case be tossed."

It's amusing (w/r/t to your naivety) that you assume the request is valid, but the reporting is flippant.
This sounds like survivorship bias.

Rich kids have a golden parachute for a smoother fall than all the other kids. In addition, most rich kids belong to wealthy, well-connected parents who have already built a network for them. Middle-class to poor kids do not have these resources. However, that doesn't mean bootstrapping will not work. But it is harder for them than rich kids to build a multi-million business.
I do run. I also have no problem stopping in winter. I'm not nearly as hardy as you.

Though I do get a few runs in on an indoor track.
Distrust anybody making confident claims about AI and how it will affect humanity. We simply do not have a clue, none of us do.
I had forgotten all about these! I have a vague memory of being a kid and seeing someone in a store with one of these hammering away - I assume doing inventory of some kind? I was amazed at their speed.

Interestingly I cant seem to find any youtube videos if someone using one.
> Only if your argument isn't companies exist only to maximize profit, that one I understand and reject

The fact that you do not like reality doesn't make it less real.

Companies are created to make money for founders and investors. And if they need to shed load to make those people more money, this is how it is going to be. You can always boycott Google and use/buy any of their products if it makes you feel any better about them firing people.
Of course it is. That means that you work on the problem, but when a regular interval arrives, you stop working on the problem to update the ticket instead. Once updated, you go back to working on the problem. That's how status updates are supposed to work.

Inverting the priority would mean that you never update tickets until you're done fixing the problem. That might be possible in small organisations or for small problems. Everywhere else, it's necessary to provide updates from time to time before the problem is solved.
Also it could be used to save a lot of abandonware through AI enhanced reverse engineering. This is the kind of high toil work that very few people want to do, unless it becomes a lot easier
I've used the one on falstad.com many many times to design op-amp circuits quickly so I could see exactly changing each component would do.
It's only getting worse in this country
I am one of those women who would wear an ill fitting bra over a well fitting one if a well fitting one accentuated my back fat. When you're conditioned to look and present themselves a certain way, it's almost impossible to fight it with rational arguments. It's anecdotal, of course, but I've seen a certain degree of conditioning in practically all the women across different cultures, just that the details differ.

Btw, I don't want huge pockets on my pants if they make me look "ugly". I've also recently opted for a handbag over a backpack, even though a backpack is an objectively healthier option for you back (and I am used to wearing backpacks, handbags are so freaking uncomfortable). The reason I switched? Backpacks made me look/feel "childish". That's it. I traded physical comfort and health for, hopefully, psychological comfort and the ability to control my narrative through my looks.
Is it supposed to be the shiba inu image that replaced the Twitter Bird?
It seems an especially bad time to signal to companies that investing and innovating in Europe is more difficult.
The "long game" becomes short if your organisation is out-executed by a competitor who isn't as conservative in approach.
I’ve heard it described as “Americans think of themselves as temporary poor future billionaires”. Not all Americans, but this is why you see so many simping for the rich even when its not in their own interests.
> Oh, I see... I just assumed people read tickets and did the work and updated the ticket?

There are a LOT of Professional Scrum Masters and Product Managers who want to constantly review the state of tickets, make update/status comments and communicate simple questions and answers via the ticket system.

Did you mean 'x'? Yes, I meant 'x'.

Our slack bot channel exploded when we hired a new Product Manager who communicated strictly via ticket updates, literally dozens of alerts per day. They got upset when they found out every single developer had unsubscribed from all the ticket channels because of the noise.
Sir...this is a Wendy's \s

I agree with your criticism and would have been more critical as well of their claim in previous years. Nowadays, everything is relatively fast for user's needs so unless we're picking hairs...I think we can let a potential silly error slide
Next feature: SpaceHeater mode. Now your customers in cold climates can reduce their heating needs by running Intel CPUs at extra-high voltages, allowing even seldom used cores to pump out heat as if they were running Edge 24/7. Your customer's software wont be stable, but their electricity bill sure will be.
Many were optimistic after the fall of the USSR ("end of history" and all that) that Russia would develop into a liberal democracy that would concentrate on improving the lives of its citizens, and engage in mutually beneficial peaceful trade with other countries, while respecting their sovereignty. But, the Russian leadership chose differently, aggression and imperialism, and are now reaping what they sowed. Whining over Finland choosing to take steps to protect it from Russian aggression is the whine of sad, small, and entitled men.
What's interesting is that the trend in "Average Weighted Accuracy" seems to increase linearly in the past three years whereas the number of model parameters and required compute is growing exponentially. So accuracy is pretty expensive.
Even worse deal for Russia, which now has to think even harder about attacking NATO countries with its magnificent invincible army.
> the BRICS surpassed the G7 in terms of GDP and more countries are seeking to join.

Is "the BRICS" something besides a joint meeting that happens every now and then? What's the point in joining a joint meeting that happens every now and then?
Training orchestration does need new tools to spin up GPU instances and make the most of them and then spin them down, we are still struggling in this domain
I recommend doing one's own research on this topic; the well is quite deep. Musk's greatest talent is salesmanship; that sometimes divorces from the truth.

This can get you started: https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musks-lies-about-tesla-on-tw...
The point I was addressing was "Rich kids can afford many throws." in the grandparent. The parent post doesn't really change what the main point of the grandparent is, which is that rich people get more chances.
Perhaps, but I guess you can speculate that the groups ostensibly "combatting hate" online are going to have access to sophisticated AI tools to find, target, and shut down whatever they want to label as hate. Any unfiltered AIs are probably going to have a giant bullseye on them.
The median income in the USA is 41k.
ZeroHedge have been posting about this since 2008. Wake me up when it happens.
They've been trying for ~13months already and haven't done so, why do you think they could do it now? Especially after losing 150,000+ soldiers (dead and/or wounded), and thousands of tanks and other armored vehicles? They've lost tens of thousands of troops and dozens/hundreds of vehicles just trying to take one town since August (Bakhmut).
In that context, I love giving complete responsibility to a small, integrated team of designers and programmers. They define their tasks, adjust the scope, and work together to build vertical slices of the product one at a time. This completely differs from other methodologies, where managers chop up the work and programmers act like ticket-takers.

Instead of having 10x engineers, make the team 10x. Shape Up (https://basecamp.com/shapeup/0.3-chapter-01#making-teams-res...) by Basecamp is the best resource I've seen on that topic.
>I am blending the Zurich case

DO you have any information on the Zurich case? I'm not aware of any layoffs there.
And remember, all of the above is a symptom of being in an organization where someone more important than you says "I don't have time to look at <insert reporting system>, tell me what the status of <deliverable> is".

Fixing this from the bottom up is better accomplished via updating ones resume & LinkedIn profile.
I'm surprised you don't stress more on the habit of always picking the popular google-scale tools even for in smaller companies. Or the language or framework of the month lol.
> Who's scared of Russia and their threats, these days?

Ukraine?
That's me. I definitely feel like I focus better with a single display and not having things like Slack, Spotify, etc. visible. The 16" MBP is about the minimum screen space I like.
> The author probably thinks these issues are caused by bad people instead of bad processes

Author here.

This is an excellent way to phrase a subtle point that I couldn't figure out how to fit in the piece.

I think that -10x engineering is not someone you are, but something you do. And even more commonly, it's something that organizations do for periods of time.
This website is just amazing... Had I had this in the early 00s when I was studying electronics... Transistor circuits just make sense. And the number of already-setup examples is great.
Counter-point: The money-making machine exists to serve people, not the other way around.
Gates had one other company that he founded at 17 before starting Microsoft at 20.
>The only one you mentioned (voluntary layoffs) is a bad idea because it leads the most talented people to leave

Not necessarily.

Also people who have been sticking around out of inertia and doing the bare minimum. People ready to retire a bit early. Etc. Basically, it's reasonable to think that most people who would volunteer--especially at a very top-tier pay job--might well not be there in a year or so anyway. (There is I guess an argument that the people who are going to leave anyway will leave with or without a package so why pay for the package?)

While you might not want to choose people purely based on volunteers, it's not clear that taking at least some volunteers doesn't benefit both the company and workers.
They don't. You can find many of the same feedback in this thread, and lots of people are defending the dangerous under prescription of Adderall, which I consider a civil rights violation.
Well, why else would you start a company?
The caveat is requiring liquid nitrogen.
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The full resolution depth data doesn't always exist, which is why it can reduce bandwidth usage. It probably depends on the architecture, I've seen cases where there is no full resolution depth buffer and you have to generate one via decompression.
If you look at it like working on AI in the USA will provide you the best density of AI workers, researchers, and resources, it makes a lot of sense.

In terms of competition, evidently it’s working out relatively well in the USA as there are enough people there to support nearly half the AI companies on earth. It appears to be a very fertile bed for growth in this sector.

Further, most products will likely wind up online; there will not be much need for localized competition advantage outside of securing a team. The competition stage is largely a global market, online. You’re best forming your company where you can hire people and collaborate with other people in your sector. That’s ideally in the USA, so far.
Eh that’s not what I’ve seen, non deterministic models have a whole class of unique challenges
Did you include a safety so we can shut them down? Please don't tell me the only Emergency Power Off is inside the main control room...Is there an access via the air conditioner vents?
Russia invaded under pretext of "we are afraid of NATO".

NATO in Ukraine wasn’t a pretext it was (part of) the text. People in the West really seem to think Russia invaded to satisfy some vague desire for evil and villainy. People in the West really seem to think NATO and the EU being in a (proxy) war now with Russia over Ukraine disproves Russian concerns.

It prevents Russia from attacking Finland

Which was never going to happen. Zero reason. Impossible to sell to Russia’s allies on which it so depends, if we believe Western media. (Except now, of course, Finland has gained some nuclear targets on its map, in the event of. That’s the real 5D chess.) So there must be some other punitive quality to a country on the border of Russia becoming part of NATO.
Now there is something Bartosz Ciechanowski should write a blog post about!

I also think something important is missing from this explanation: the vertical/horizontal solution would not have been backwards compatible in two ways: (1) A mono needle would not have been able detect the vertical movement, resulting in a missing channel. (2) A stereo needle able to play such a record would not have been able to play a classic mono record, because the mono signal would have only been translated into a single channel (the left or right channel), and the other channel would have remained silent.

(1) would've made stereo records unattractive for customers who already owned an existing mono player, and (2) would've made stereo players unattractive to customers who already had a substantial mono record collection.

With the 45 degree solution, existing mono players were able to play stereo records (the horizontal movement is exactly the sum of the two channels), and stereo players were able to play existing mono records. For this to work, the left and right signals were recorded in opposite phase. A really elegant solution, which somehow reminds me of the cover of GEB [0].

PS: if you are interested in cutting-edge record groove technology, the "Füllschriftverfahren" invented by Eduard Rhein might interest you. It was an early compression technology for audio. The method was based on earlier work by the London-based Columbia Graphophone Company, but their work was never used in practice. Basically, before this invention, the spacing between the grooves on a record was fixed, with enough margins so that large amplitudes would not cut into neighboring grooves. Rhein build a machine that dynamically spaced the grooves based on the maximum local amplitude, allowing much smaller groove margins for quiet parts of an audio file, and therefore increased information density. This nearly doubled the running time of typical records.

Sadly, I only found an extensive description of this technology in German, including original patents [1]. But the figures are self-explaining.

[0] https://i.stack.imgur.com/OKBvZ.jpg

[1] https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?530
China is everywhere, I don’t say this to vilify them.
Nitpick.

In practice, your employer do away with your role. You're made redundant. It's a simple downsizing.
You do understand that the internet crosses borders while national laws don’t right?

It’s perfectly ok in a personal and professional sense to have your own standards rather than just throwing up your hands and saying “well it’s not technically illegal… in this country”
Being in the USA my whole life, I was curious what they meant by "redundancy process", if there were laws in the UK governing layoffs that we might not be used to in free-for-all USA.

But here's all I found, from [1], basically:

> Your employer needs to show they have a redundancy process. They can decide what the process is, but it should always include a meeting with you to talk about:

> * why you’re being made redundant

> * the next steps in their process

> …Your employer’s process has to explain: how they’ll choose people for redundancy; how long the decision will take; what meetings you can go to and when; how you can appeal if you’re chosen for redundancy…

> …You should get invited to at least 1 meeting between you and your employer. Your meeting should happen before your employer has made their final decision about who will be made redundant…

> …You might be able to challenge your redundancy by making a claim for ‘unfair dismissal’ if your employer hasn’t told you these things

That, which is apparently legally required, is definitely not something that is guaranteed to happen in the USA, or really probably ever happens quite like that. (internal appeals process for a layoff? Unheard of in the USA).

I don't know if this law was followed or not by Google; or if this website I found is completely accureate, or if there are additional UK customary practices we should know about. (The OP article was not great, actual reporting would be including something on if Google broke the UK law or not). Perhaps someone from the UK could give us some context? But it doesn't seem like "these people are out of touch", it seems like possibly the commenter is out of touch with law and practice in the UK (and Europe)?

I suppose someone, perhaps the person I'm replying to, could say, who cares about this process, what difference does it make, in the end the employer still gets to lay off who they want, their decision, nothing in that process needs to change their minds, and people still won't be happy.

That may be; I'm still curious for a report from a worker in the UK of how this works out in practice.

I could see that process making people feel like they had a bit more dignity even when getting laid off, which is not nothing.

In general, I agree with the workers that it would be better if the decision of who to layoff is not solely the employers, but the employees actually do have a say in it. The legal process above is not necessarily that. To get that, you usually need a union, and this is one of the things union contracts often cover.

[1] https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/work/redundancy/check-your...
That description sounds more like a 0x or -1x engineer. Consider yourself fortunate to having never worked with someone who is closer to -10x.
I worked for a startup that developed CNN models

https://www.davidsbatista.net/blog/2018/03/31/SentenceClassi...

for early processing of data, you can think of it as a profiling tool that works at the level of an individual “cell” in a table, so given a number like 90214 it will guess that it could be a zip code, given “John” it would guess it is a proper name, etc. I’d contrast that to tools that profile a whole column at a time (funny… these are all 5 digit zero padded numbers) but that column is full of numbers consistent with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

This system was successful for a few customers including a major telecom and ultimately the company got bought by a major shoe and clothing brand.

We had an “MLOps” system we developed internally for training those CNN models and we trained some for that task and trained some for other tasks. There were numerous problems with the models that we were concerned about then, most of them have been solved by transformer models which we were just starting to read about then.
The NX300 doesn't support running from external power, you only can charge the battery when off, or run from battery, even when plugged in. The NX500 can be used as a HDMI or network streaming camera, but I'm not sure which protocols it's using for that.
It's fine. It's clear the purpose is to list a bunch of traits and observations you've made over the years. It's concise. Trying to fluff it up would only make it less readable.
Can we go back to calling it "changing" instead of "pivoting" again?
Its extremely hard to argue for debuggability. I always try to prioritize how easy is it to test the said feature and understand it. However, during reviews of other engineers PR, I am always met with criticism that there is no need. "Instead of localhost, this can be tested on staging" and etc.
If they're both the most talented and also don't want to work for you, what makes you think they'd stay?