skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you are an engineer working on a living product, and you identify some performance-related issue, changes you make to the product can easily be classified as bugfixes. For example, you identified an end point that should have a rate limit and didn't; you fixed it, it was a potential security issue, it didn't need communication to end users... as far as you knew, even if you misjudged.

Sure, and the vast majority of companies publicise changes that affect customers. Infact, google do it quite regularly. If you roll out a customer impacting change, even if it's a small number, you communicate it. Docker's recent (mis) communication is a good example of what's required. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I've still yet to see google acknowledge that they've done or rolled this back. Even this HN topic is about a tweet that says:

> We recently rolled out a system update to Drive item limits to preserve stability and optimize performance. While this impacted only a small number of people, we are rolling back this change as we explore alternate approaches to ensure a great experience for all.

i.e. not that they imposed an undocumented limit.

> was a potential security issue, it didn't need communication to end users...

If there's a security issue in a customer facing part of a product, and you change that part to introduce a limit, you communicate that you've done that. Coming in one day to find out that the rate limits have changed and you've not been notified about it is a sure fire way to piss off a whole bunch of people.
From my work in AI & robotics, its generally finnicky and a bit crap even when a ton of work goes into it with a lot more compute (jetson nano or higher). I feel like trying to optimise those kinds of models is a bit niche/premature
I know it's a popular way to get some HN points by repeating a "hurrdurr intel heat bad" meme, but in reality these things are absurdly efficient. At idle the entire i7-1270P SoC, including most of the system peripherals, that I happen to have on hand, draws much less than half a watt.

% sudo turbostat -i 10 -Sq --show PkgTmp,PkgWatt,CorWatt | ts
Apr 04 07:32:29 PkgTmp PkgWatt CorWatt
Apr 04 07:32:29 32 0.31 0.05
Apr 04 07:32:39 31 0.24 0.04
Apr 04 07:32:49 31 0.30 0.05
Apr 04 07:32:59 32 0.27 0.04
This is not much easier to read, this is just on much higher level.

A processor does not have a conception of brackets. Infix notation blurs the real number of operations. Processor has registers and your code does not say what you are putting in EAX what in EBX etc.
Let's be honest, the Azov Brigade should be condemned. But have they killed as many innocent civilians as the Russians over the last couple of years?

In a morally consistent world, both the Azovs and aggressive Russian regime should be countered, without any need for loss of innocent life. No one should use the existence of Azovs as an excuse to invade a country and murder innocent people.
I wonder if Goodreads is next under the guillotine.
Eh, Moscow always ran the USSR. That’s a bit like lamenting that how messed up an abusers knuckles got after hitting it on folks faces for so long.
How about just being able to run a home assistant with AI support to reprogram the home assistant, without having to spend a lot more electricity? They don’t have to have superpowers to be useful.
You're saying you're totally at ease with how everything in your society operates? And that I'm problematic for wanting things to change that I feel are unjust?
Short answer: they're like BBSes that have more tools and run on *nix.
I've just built a piece of software and realized it would be a lot better if it could save/restore its state when it restarts. I already have all state isolated in state objects, but they're not plain JSON, they contain instances of classes and things like that. But in virtually all cases I could replace classes with TypeScript interfaces (i.e. just use pure JSON and still get the type-checking benefits).

There are some exceptions where classes need to be instantiated, and I'm thinking, instead of writing a bunch of ser/de, I can just make them static, Replace-All `this` to `self` and add a `self` param. Boom, suddenly save/load is a simple as JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse()

Then I realized I'd reinvented C (plain old data) and Python (explicit self param). Nothing new under the sun!
That's all twitter is these days. People writing content to drive engagement with some silly hook to sell whatever it is they're selling.
I had a -10x engineer in my team. They refused to test their own work, because that was the tester's job. They sometimes implemented a feature in the wrong place, both technically and functionally, requiring a complete rewrite (and removing code, roll-back was not an option in this tool). They started using float in HTML while we used grid, this caused stuff to be on top of each other.

Unfortunately, this guy played management in a way that caused him to keep getting away with the behavior. Awful person to work with!
Well, not since they joined NATO in 2004. I'm not sure I would have bet entirely on "not able to", either, prior to 2022: the advancing forces in Ukraine crossed a distance greater than the width of the Balkans before being stopped. It's quite possible a single overnight push to the capitals of Estonia and Latvia would have worked. Turning it into a grinding air war while NATO ground forces were brought into position to retake it.
Using a blob storage platform that charges you every time you read, write, or access is your data is a shit strategy both for cost and speed. The entire premise is flawed.

Use it for backup, sharing, and if you must, for at-rest data. But don’t use it for operational data.
> they will not be able to improve faster than people's expectations increase.

I've never read a better explanation for why "we will never have AGI." As the objective quality of AI output increases, we simply value it less.
Begetting Maya, Neoliberalism, democracy is our most sacred institution (coupled with "Why does everything suck so much!!!???"), etc.
Firebase Push Messaging Down
Correct. It's sometimes referred to as "mission blindness": when a bureaucracy (or part of a bureaucracy) is so focused on short-term mission goals to the detriment of everything else. The people taking these actions will continue this path unless the told otherwise.
Definitely disappointed, I used them regularly for the last 6/7 years, ordered from them over 70 books and this feels like a punch in the gut. My country is not served by Amazon Prime, so basically for a single book I have to pay a delivery fee of 10 euros... While on the other hand Book Depository offered a free delivery, although you waited a month or two.

Shame, it really sucks, never should have allowed Amazon to buy them.
cool stuff, reminds me the EDA software used during college
...that's why we need more housing?
I would be somewhat willing to believe is Russia got rid of own Neonazi first. Which is not what happening, Russia has quite strong movement. It is also quite racist country, socially-culturally very much like nazi were - having a thing against gays, celebrating violence, all of that.
"Ukraine as a neutral, sovereign country"

Based on what Ukraine at least appears to want, especially now, if it is sovereign it won't be neutral, and if forced to be neutral it isn't really sovereign.
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Gaslighting is a pretty serious accusation, its weird to see you use it so casually.
The essay seems to be predicated on the mistaken notion at the time that the electron has no mass (the proton had not been discovered yet). Of course today philosophers of physics might make similar arguments using gluons; see that other hot thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35432918

RIP M Poincare was a great man.
I suspect we’re going to see a lot more of this kind of thing e.g. this is currently at the top of GitHub trending

https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT

I’m not sure it ends well.
> Awesome, do you have a list of the few thousand maintainers that might be relevant and actually maybe just the ones that similar to the repos I maintain?

Which one should your message be:

A) to "a few thousand" maintainers

B) private

Sorry, but I don't believe a project that size doesn't already have private channels in which they communicate with each other. And when you are on the outside of these channels, writing a mail to the person that it might concern the most is absolutely a thing you can do, so they can privately communicate it to the relevant people. This is also a feature because it keeps their internal discussion boards free from a ton of requests.
Here's one : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair

Though it was the airline's own additional airport security check rather than the security checkpoint.
I don't believe a fellow is clever, unless he can explain his clever thoughts clearly. Feynman was seriously clever.
GPT-4 is barely 3 weeks old but have already created a business opportunity to run a paid newsletter about GPT-4!
Meanwhile, Sweden's NATO application is blocked by Turkey because former Peshmerga fighter Amineh Kakabaveh happened to become very powerful in the chaotic Swedish parliament a few years ago.

The story: https://www.outlookindia.com/international/former-kurdish-re...
edo is a pretty great guy
Is that how NATO is spoken about in Europe, that it is the might of 30 nations and not just the US?
And yet Finland had no issue with NATO being on it's border all this time. (or a bunch of other countries for that matter)
Yeah, and the Finns hated it. My ancestors immigrated to the US to avoid being drafted from Finland into the imperial Russian army.
I work in property insurtech and had lots of fun.

- Customer support chatbot. Convert knowledge base and other materials to q&a form with gpt4. Ada2 embeddings, search for questions in repository with faiss, ask gpt4 to answer. Works a lot better than standard "search with embeddings in KnowledgeBase".
- Parsing out and standardizing insurance descriptions, Excels, schedules of values
- Parsing out and standardizing documents like building permits, claims

For industries that have a lot of text format and can deal with some degree of statistical error as long as averages are better it's massive
> I think it could be neat as a way to transfer a recipe to an oven, or specific washing instructions to a washing machine for particular items of clothing.

...is there also a neat way to remotely transfer the recipe's ingredients to an oven or load clothes into a washing machine?

One of my buddies once joked about the smart homes that they allow you to unlock your front door while being anywhere in the world — but sadly, there is almost never a useful reason to unlock your house's front door from 2000 km away.
So, this is mostly a US-centric forum, but I wonder what is the take on this from the perspective of a Finnish person.

Is there any controversy or concerns of becoming a foothold for future conflicts?
This whole thing has been dragging on for sometime now, had the opinions shifted over time?
Not the same scale, but yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katorga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
Yeah this is the way!
We're thinking the same thing. You might be interested in the prompt template I used to make GPT respond in json format here: https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr/blob/main/templates/r...

Having GPT's response in json was useful to be able to easily apply the changes GPT wants to the filesystem. GPT4 is significantly more consistent with only responding with json.

Gish looks cool!
Which countries had Russia invaded prior to the conflict that began early 2007?
You had a bad chiropractor, who probably would have made a bad doctor as well by the sounds of it (just assuming a rugby injury is a slipped disk? did he even check? was he even able to check?)
No, it asks a nonsensical question from bizarre premises and provides an unreal assessment that Russia might invade the Balkans when all its available conventional forces are tied up in Ukraine.

There's no obligation to engage in bad takes. Just downvote and move on.
Huh, Intel is really trying for enthusiasts to not want to touch their products...

If it really is security problem all it should be is an option that can be turned off, not mobo manufacturers trying to get around what intel did
> NATO in Ukraine wasn’t a pretext it was (part of) the text.

I thought it was because of Nazis in Ukraine.

They just keep changing the message once they get bored and don't even try.
You're free to believe whatever you want but then we're deep into religious territory, which is fine in itself but doesn't really matter here
He was responding to viral tweets[1] that said GPT-4 had "100 trillion parameters" and was "500x more powerful than GPT-3," which is indeed absurd hype. On the other hand, two weeks ago a team of Microsoft researchers put out a paper claiming that GPT-4 "could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system."

[1] https://twitter.com/andrewsteinwold/status/15948895625260277...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
Woke the plank Were pirate ships beacons of diversity and democracy?
Need to try this. I got one that’s bad. I mostly use the the Pro controller so I forget about it but there’s also times when I play Mario Party and need the joy cons for 4 people.
Dock it to two - the M1 can only handle one external display; the previous Intel MacBook Pros could do four; and the M1 Max brings this back. I have four external monitors + the internal and the M1 couldn't do it; the M1 Max can so I held out.

(You can do a hacky thing with DisplayLink adapters that emulate a virtual screen somehow but it IS hacky - https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/19166... )
It's not that bad engineers only socialize with other bad engineers - but rather that many naïve and inexperienced engineers are much too kind, and will try to onboard every friend or relative they know, without ever having worked with them - they're basically vouching people blindly.

This is something I've seen myself: Clueless manager hires the wrong man for the job -> wrong man is utterly clueless on how things work, what needs to be done, and flounders around for a couple of months -> wrong man decides that, hey, I know this one guy that seems to know his sh!t, let's get him onboard. Just fast-track him through the process.

Turns out the new guy is also wrong man for the job, and doesn't know what to do. So now they're two (wrong) guys doing busywork while the ship is sinking.
Klaus Teuber, inventor of Settlers Of Catan, has died
"With over 50 requests to invest in our new company, we had to filter for serious replies and ticket sizes that actually justified the time handling legal docs."

Why would someone invest in a random company with no real products and no real future? Is this something normal in USA? Should I launch a shopify with GPT integration and get a few $M in fundings?
I never assumed Russia was a passive unresponsive corpse with no concerns or perspective and memory of its own.

In fact, I am very concerned about its death-worshipping perspective and distorted memory.

You still have to stand up to a bully, or you encourage them. A strategic mistake was not putting severe sanctions on Russia in 2014 when they annexed Crimea.
That should be the default for a long time already.
The first one does not even mean anything.

As for second one, I would much rather be in western block then in the BRICS block. Better living standards, less violence, better everything.
Ask HN: Does your company have a policy for allowed use of ChatGPT?
Does your company have a ChatGPT policy other than a total ban? If so, could you describe the policy and the industry you work in? Some policies that seem plausible to me are (1) Don't send confidential information to ChatGPT. (2) Take responsibility for the quality of any work aided by ChatGPT. (3) Document what ChatGPT was used for.
If you'll notice, memory is often made on a carrier (e.g. SIMM module). So you don't have to find someone to make you a x9 or x34 or whatever bit wide chip; you find someone to make a carrier out of off the shelf parts with enough chips for your word width (possibly burning some bits). Early 9-bit SIMMs had 2 4-bit wide DRAMS and 1 1-bit wide DRAM. Just need a memory controller that makes sense of it.
Code for Measuring and Manipulating Knowledge in LLMs
https://github.com/evandez/REMEDI
You know what. I do agree with most points in the article. And I do find them funny.

Yet, I also met an awful lot of terrific engineers who were brutally aggressive towards anything they felt was stupid. And in my opinion, those people cause at least just as many problems as people who perform really poorly.

I think the tone of the article (cynical, exagerating bad traits, etc.) promotes that kind of toxic culture, while not bringing much to the table in terms of fighting mediocrity. That is all.
Even so, you can run models on a private cloud. No need to do anything but sense on an embedded device.
The article is about a consumer's perspective on uninspiring proprietary products being offered by Big Tech.

If you build the thing you are talking about, you will create the excitement currently missing.
I once lost a 3/4 full normal-size tube of toothpaste because of one of these limits.

Made me wonder how paste-like something has to not count as a liquid to them. Playdough?

How closely do they look at deodorant? Some stick-form ones are more liquid than toothpaste is.
There has been a civil war of Ukraine and Pro-Russia separatists in the East for 10 years now. It's not a black and white thing and although I think Russia's approach the last year has been despicable (invading and destroying lives and property in areas where there isn't a dispute between people), it isn't like it was all peace and love in the eastern areas of Ukraine.

I think it's important to bring nuance to these things and not just use a lazy label like "imperialism" to describe what's going on, even if imperialism maybe does play a part too.

Even dismissing the Nazi stuff - yes Russia has overblown it, but there were literal pro-Nazi military units of Ukraine fighting in that civil war that terrorized pro-Russian citizens.
Probably related: https://twitter.com/ProductHunt/status/1643255866865635330/p... (ChatGPT banned in Italy)
No NATO country was attacked when they bombed Yugoslavia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
The proton is a collection of quarks and gluons moving at relativistic speeds around a central point.

What? Moving at relativistic speeds? I had never heard that.
Genuinely curious about this as well
I'm not saying we should discount Putin's viewpoint and others like him, it is after all one of the very few tools we've got to analyse what he'll do. But just because we acknowledge Putin's viewpoint doesn't mean we agree with him, or that we should allow him to act unchallenged. It is his viewpoint that Ukraine is not a real nation without Russia, and thus has no right to making their own choices for their own country. It is our (including Ukraine's) viewpoint that Ukraine is an independent and sovereign nation with the right to enter economic and military alliances if it so desires. And what's happening in Ukraine at the moment is the result of the clash of those viewpoints. Ukrainians are dying for their nation, and the West is assisting Ukraine while hoping Putin isn't too far gone to just press the button.

Putin said that Russia does not need a world if Russia is not in it. The West is saying they're not okay with a militaristic expansionist nuclear-threatening Russia in the world. I tend to agree with the West's viewpoint, even knowing what may ultimately come from it.
Yes, I will try to find it.
At first I thought this was a dumb novelty stunt. I guess, I still think it is but at the meta level this is probably what is happening for dozens (hundreds) of companies. Likely people are starting small companies and basically intellectually abdicating many decisions to ChatGPT.

This guy takes it several steps farther in a pretty weird dystopian living art display; but effectively many tiny companies will be built like this I bet.
Any guidance on how to get controllers repaired under this directive? (EU based but don't have the receipts anymore)
It will be just about as accesible as my CEO.

I have a subscription, but the service is maddingly overloaded. Often you can't get in at all, or if you can response will frequently give errors. Data fails to load, network error, etc.

Judging from reddit, I'm not the only one it seems. I'm considering cancelling as it just brings headache. ChatGpt-3 works like a charm, but is considerably less helpful.
> are you able to name many great artists in history who died rich

That's not relevant. There are tons of working artists today and there have been for decades. But if a person can't pay rent by selling their art, things suddenly change for millions of people.
Like all things such as this, it's controversial and there is no such thing as a unified vision.

For some people, yes... In fact US involvement is largely a controversial topic because joining NATO, to some people and politicians, is tantamount to putting US military bases in your country.

The reality is, when people talk about the benefits of NATO they will strongly lean on the fact that it's many countries in a pact together. Decidedly not hiding behind the coat-tails of the US- in fact the US involvement, at least in political circles, is generally seen as a net-negative.
>Also, when I was young, and learning the ropes, I was young. I didn't have responsibilities; just being able to afford a crappy apartment and food was more than enough.

Back in the mid 90s, I had the opportunity to join a small startup. I took a 50% pay cut and took a big risk; but I got a healthy chunk of founder's stock so if it worked out, I would be rewarded. Turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made; but I also made it when I was young and single with no one to take care of but myself. I seriously doubt I would have done that just a few years later when I was married and had a couple young kids.

Rich people can afford to take more risk and do it more times than can people with more modest means. It is certainly possible for the middle class to make it work; but they have to be more strategic and careful and thanks for pointing out a few ways to do that.
I'm a member of a systemically oppressed group. Try again.
Whether ECS is complex or not depends a lot on which one you use. I've heard the same thing from a lot of gamedevs that use DOTS, but people in general seem to be pretty happy using Entitas (also a C# ECS that can be used with Unity), Bevy (which is based entirely on ECS) or for that matter Flecs.
I have a M1 MacBook Air and what I said is still true. It's a matter of physics.
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