skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I arrive back on Earth just after I went poof, then I'm pretty sure I went backwards in time a couple of minutes.

How?

Teleport in this context is an instant transportation process. but the image of you going poof is not ists a speed of light.

Like If I throw a ball at a target first THEN Fire a gun at the same target, the bullet will get there first but it didn't time travel to do that.

Lets assume that the teleport process is a wormhole or a folding of space process that reduces the distance between the two locations rather than making you go faster.

You could step through onto mars and back again and not see yourself when you arrive back but then go back to mars again and see yourself disappear and re-appear twice. still no time travel. You're just watching a delayed image.
She's pretty well known on HN and anyone who cared to find out could easily, I wasn't worried about that.

Nothing wrong with making a living being popular on YouTube for making physics videos. Even if you have to occasionally bend titles to the algorithm.
How does that work? Say your a union for Siemens. Is the company just supposed to hand over $10B worth of equity?
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I don't doubt there are low performers at FAANG. I just believe when you're doing a 10% layoff, there's no way you're not going to cut high performers as well. Some layoffs are just purely based upon the department level.
> Relativistic motion is actual time dilation and not merely your perception of someone else's motion.

What distinction are you drawing?

What is the difference between "actual" and "what [every] observer observes?

Part of the concept of relativity is that there is no preferred clock. That's why it is called "relativity".
> Bonus points to everyone who has an actual VT240 on their physical desktop.

Bonus points to anyone who can find one and get it to work. I want one, but it's a huge investment (both in price and effort)
Let me present the Paige Compositor. A typesetting machine if you like, made from 18,000 precision made parts in 1877. Well, 1877 is the start year of the contract. The project went on for about 15 years. 6 machines were ever made (out of 4,000 ordered). They kept failing.

Meanwhile, a much more limited (initially) machine arrived on the scene, the Linotype machine. It was successfull and did run the world's news and magazine press for the next 100 years.

It's really a fascinating read: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2023/03/the-machine...
I’m guessing it’s probably the prolog-like syntax that gets it thrown in to that category by some. I’ve never heard someone consider Elixir “academic”.
My savviest clients are already on this - why hire a consultant for strategy when you can just suss out what the competition is doing and improve incrementally on that?

My only (personal) hope is that it’ll free guys like me up to soar through ‘creative configuration space’ and come up with those truly unique and unexpected tactics that are new to an entire segment or industry.

Sure I don’t get to be a millionaire MD with two hundred reports billing hourly, but maybe I can do value-based or outcome-based pricing and get my clientele to take ‘healthy’ risk - instead of sitting around fretting about shaving half a point off labor costs through a mindless re-org :/

Related anecdote: if you see someone on the airplane rejiggering a public company’s org chart - short the stock!
uh is there a choice?
That’s intriguing. What kinds of modifications are you making to them in C?
primarily air command, leveraging the sensor suite to operate non air-to-air tasks. it's an advanced systems ship that can use information and agility to complete most missions that don't involve pushing peak gs, velocity and circle radius.
As a die hard command and conquer fan (I play exactly one game these days, C&C generals), me as well. I have a recurring dream of creating a successor to C&C.

What obstacles do you see to the RTS genre? Any reason why the big dogs (EA, etc) have not gone back into the genre?
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I feel like there would be a good chunk of real humans who would be incapable of answering a question like this.
$20K/person/year * 20K people is $400M/year.
Useful content for intermediate/advanced engineers. There's lots of beginner tutorials but speaking to the more experienced engineers is a challenge.
https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/latest/?group=core_scenarios

Anthropic-LM v4-s3 (52B) is the model in question.

rlaif doesn't seem to be any less effective given the size of the model.
I asked GPT4 to draw a dog or a skull in openscad and even though the end result was buggy, commenting things in the code here and there and making some volumes transparent I figured out he got it okay. For instance the dog had two eyes two ears one long nose (potatoids). It understood the symmetry of both pairs but was unable to place them at the right place. It's not like it was just misaligned, things were in the wrong planes, but they where there. As if he hadn't understood a face is like one face of a cube.
it's interesting that with game cartridges not only did game developers have to write code, they also had to possibly design and manufacture circuitry for the cartridges they would ship their games on.
They formed and announced a defense pact with the independent Donbas republics, which Ukraine then continued to attack (shelling civilian areas, by the way). So Russia responded militarily in order to provide for the security of the republics in accordance with that agreement. They have not committed genocide whatsoever.

Has Russia made changes to its constitution illegally? That would be news to me. There is of course a strong argument that the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 was not constitutional based on the results of the referendum.
The readme at https://github.com/linkedin/ambry starts with:

> Ambry is a distributed object store that supports storage of trillions of small immutable objects (50K -100K) as well as billions of large objects.

1. What is considered to be the size of a “large object”? 2. Can Ambry handle large object multipart uploads or would one have to build this themselves by storing chunks as separate objects?
Yeah, you have to filter somehow. I wrote it up in more detail [1], but to filter out the resume spammers, I ask for a brief answer to a novel question [2]. That winnowed things down that I could talk to every plausible candidate. Maybe I'd need to tune that in the era of ChatGPT; we'll see.

[1] https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/slightly-less-awful-h...

[2] e.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/20151005181908/http://www.codefo...
It might indeed be snobbery, but your explanation that English pronunciation is so irregular doesn't lead to that. If anything the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation ought to make it more populist to use symbols that help disambiguate the correct pronunciation, so that a struggling reader won't pronounce "cooperate" as "coup-erate."
Interesting an article like this would not mention h1b at all. On Blind you see posts of people laid off from fang willing to settle for whatever pay as long as the employor can sponsor their visa to avoid deportation
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How about “viability to perform a freely chosen pursuit and possibly receive remuneration or rewards regardless of whether that money is required to eat a buy one get one free Big Mac”?
They mistook a diagram in the video showing flow of time for velocity. You can go there and back again in space at faster than light, but your local time bubble runs forward in each case. No traveling back in time. An external observer sees you traveling back in time the way we see gravitational lensing but your personal frame of time marches forward.
As someone who's been both at top startups as well as boring tech companies, my experience suggests that it's not as much a difference of tech stacks or skills as opposed to priorities.

For better or worse, in a lot of tech companies, tech wins hands-down. It has to be the "right" kind of tech (suggesting pragmatic but old-school solutions not fitting the current groupthink might not pan out), but generally, tech nevertheless works (maybe because there are enough resume-driven-developers that regardless of management/politics concerns, pushing for the right tech will always get enough people on your side to win).

In legacy companies, tech alone won't get you very far regardless of its merits - if anything it's the opposite. "Too much" tech will actually be seen as a threat and you may encounter roadblocks, because the tech you're proposing is too good and will threaten some entrenched positions or entire departments within the company.

If you want to succeed as a tech guy in a big legacy company as an employee, you need to stay within your lane and not push the boundaries - the boundaries you are being given (explicitly - or implicitly as in "why hasn't this been done before? this seems so easy") are there for a reason and are there to protect some position(s), and unless you have a direct relationship with the CEO and/or investors, you are unlikely to win this battle (it took me a firing to actually understand that). Remember that you may be hired to provide business value as much as you could be hired to be a number on some manager's direct report's list where your only true job is to pad that list and otherwise not rock the boat too much.

On the other hand if you determine the limits and manage to automate day-to-day tasks well or at the very least automate the BS and make your workday enjoyable, it can be a nice cushy job that only require a couple hours a day - not to mention that doing the right favours to the right people will give you good career progression (if the company itself appears to be on solid foundations). Of course, please do any of the juniors a favour and try to explain them these dynamics in private, so they don't shoot themselves in the foot early and get fired by threatening some high-up position/department.

TLDR: don't join a legacy company because of passion, but join it if you're ready to put morals/perfectionism aside and make a decent bit of dough. The reason their tech is so shit is not because of lack of skills or money but because a lot of existing money depends on nobody having those skills. If you can operate within that environment you will have a good time.
That's part of the issue. Another big part is that we should put a whole load more money into investigating financial crime (so funding white collar crime investigatory units as well as tax authorities).
Interesting. I am definitely not a doctor. If you have medical advice to practice this technique, I would follow it.

I will say that I have been practicing mindfulness meditation for 7 years in various traditions and have never come across this technique. It also goes against the definition of mindfulness (paying attention to the present moment without judgement) as it is applying judgement to your thoughts.

I have experienced very difficult and dark periods of meditation when I was hard on myself for thinking, and learning to be very kind to myself in meditation was a huge step forward in my practice. Rather than “stop”, I say “thinking” to myself in a kind way.
The best startup ideas often come from people who worked inside F500 companies and saw the inefficiencies with current vendored/home grown solutions.
GPT-4 gets it "wrong" too, until you interrogate it and discover that it assumed that by "beyond" you meant beyond as in if you were approaching the door from the outside west, and the sign was laying outside but east of the door.

It's the old word-problem problem.
I've seen you pop up and recommend Hopf algebras and your paper in several deep learning threads here on HN. I am interested in your work, but find the topic very opaque and unintuitive (despite a background in physics and CS). Do you have any recommended educational resources for a gentle introduction to this?
I read Casio promises 30 sec/month but (lucky?) customers report losing 2 seconds per month.

I know its a cheap watch but would it be that hard to have a settings for it? I hear people tuned antique pendulum clocks to seconds per year. I suppose it helps that they are inaccurate enough to have tuning?
Looking at the repo's mix file it seems to use poolboy for pooling. Given that dashbit and José helped out, was nimble_pool considered?
A boom in one corner of the options market could bring 'volmageddon'
You would not believe the amount of internal and public facing sabotage done by FB employees.
+1 to this. I've been learning Supreme Commander FAF, which has a cool little community and open source matchmaking servers. I read this blog post recently which piqued my interest: https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/p/the-most-beautiful-gam...

Might be worth checking out!
Modern humans are much better at successful bio-insulation. New Zealand's first colonists couldn't help but bring rats, there were rats everywhere there were humans, they snuck about large boats, the colonists were humans, they brought rats and, (with some small but growing exceptions) there are still rats everywhere humans live on New Zealand today.

However, by the time Amundsen Scott was built in 1956 we'd got much more conscious of why this is a bad idea and of how to prevent it. So the only reason there would be ants at Amundsen Scott would be if we intentionally wanted ants there, and I can't think of any reason why we would. If they "escaped" they can't live on Antarctica, the penguins make it look easy but it's really hard to live there, an ant colony would need human intervention to basically feed and protect the ants.
I'd be interested to see the data for unis showing their costs are lower. I doubt it.

For private companies, and an SBIR ,you have to establish an indirect rate based on your actual costs. The rate is the ratio of all indirect costs for the company vs the direct costs for the project (salary times the % of the person's time). It's a bit of work the first time you have to do it.

I'd be surprised if the NSF lets the uni just put whatever they want down and it isn't based on submitted budget data.
Cargo-cut-diagnostics: Cargo subcommand to display only the first page of diagn
No, middle managers earning $500k total comp for 30 hours of work and flirting with unionizing are never coming back. It’s over
My argument is simple. Humans can typically only hear one person speak at a time. In order to have a proper societal discussion, there needs to be some rules of engagement to ensure that listeners can get something out of what is being said. Yelling over people constantly with the express intent of preventing that person’s audience from hearing what they are saying is harassment, not free speech.
> Usually those novel technologies that don’t become viable is because it’s either a technology we don’t want (like a sentient toaster) or there is another technology that can solve the same problem but cheaper.

I'm sure there must be academic studies looking into reasons for tech not getting to production. I don't know them, so I can only hazard a guess that this isn't quite right. I think many technologies just don't prove feasible outside the lab. One cause of infeasability is of course price (no route found to a true industrial scale learning curve). But sometimes it's safety or inherent limitations that weren't understood before trying to scale, or any number of other causes not predictable from basic science. You can't know 'till you know, and for fusion, we don't know yet. It's a bet (which to be fair is the same with nearly any new tech). A good one, perhaps.
I’ve got a Garmin 7x. Sometimes I think about switching to something like this as I’m going through an unhealthy phase and not utilising the smart watch capability very much. However, I can’t give up the torch. I cannot believe how handy it is having a torch two button clicks away on my wrist, wherever I am, as opposed to fumbling in my pocket or searching around for my phone or a torch. Use it every day, absolute game changer.
Thanks, so to make usable you would need a GPU with at least 50GB.
That probably mean A100 with 80GB at around 10K$.

Ok I understand why people use CPU and main memory.

After a quick check up you can rent a A100/80G at 1$-2$/h.
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Most people running llama locally are doing CPU inference, period.
I'm telling you what the argument is. Not endorsing it. That's why its in quotes.
Do you know what kind of speed you can expect with inference on CPU?
This is the much more serious issue in this case. Here we have the next generation of lawyers and judges literally unable to hear something they don't agree with without having a public meltdown.

I don't hope for a long life, because when these people gain power life will be worth much less. I intend to enjoy freedom while I can.
I, too, pay for plus access. It's completely worth it for the myriad of random tasks/questions I throw at it.

I can think of 1 occasion I needed some C code for parsing UDP packets. I copy & pasted the unformatted pdf contents of the spec and told GPT "I need code for parsing this". It made a struct, a method for parsing, and wrapping code to use it all of which was 100% accurate/usable. Such a huge time saver.
Also, here is an official repo where you can look at proposed and accepted changes: https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe-evolution
That's true in engineering and other grant-heavy fields. In other fields, where administrators care about tuition dollars, faculty can teach in the summer (and of course, get paid more). Summer grant money is supposed to be an incentive to choose research over teaching, consulting, and taking a vacation.
I haven’t seen to much discussion of what’s possible at various sizes for an early stage start up, which is a discussion I’d expect to see on yc.

Clearly a company with $5-5MM in the bank can’t train a competitive LLM from scratch but what would it cost to fine tune and/or run a 65B parameter model or a hypothetical future open source 165B parameter model?
That's true, but it's also kind of irrelevant. Again, the actual requirement is "exercises control over editorial content", which is different than what GP stated. According to Twitter, if that requirement is not met, then the other items in the list don't matter.

In addition, the definition Twitter gives requires that the items in the list be done in service of the central requirement. In other words, merely having financial resources be provided by the government is not enough for a media organization to qualify as "state-affiliated" - those financial resources must be given to exercise control over editorial content. If control is not exercised over editorial content, then by Twitter's definition it does not matter that the government provides funds to the media organization.
>Why would ChatGPT provide me with dangerous code if I prompt it benignly?

Because it's a black box that's sensitive to unexpected inputs. Humans create bugs too, but an unaligned AI doesn't have the sense to be careful of certain classes of bug.
Yeah but Australia also happily digging vast quantities of coal out of the ground and selling it to India and China and elsewhere, utterly dwarfing any local cutbacks in usage.

A land of opportunity (for the OzzieGarchs) and hypocrisy (for the politicians).
> Ex-IT Auditor and I agree. I was screaming for automation in the audit process for years and nobody would listen.

Honestly, this seems like a lose-lose for decision makers:
- automation reduces billable hours, a net loss to the auditor
- automation finds more fraud, a net loss to the person who hired the good auditor

Of course, shareholders would appreciate less fraud, but have no seat at this particular table.
That all seems to hang on the assumption that the AGI will develop goals
Definitely agreed. Variations on the word "agile" are too loaded and religious now, but I was hoping I could define "scrappy" how I want to, which at times includes shrewd planning. :)
Disclaimer: Was laid off in Jan. from Google. Previously worked at Walmart.

What I'm seeing is those that were impacted by the layoffs are still looking for tech industry jobs as a primary, but not completely shutting down non-tech positions.

There's definitely a heightened focus on the work and impact that a role can achieve though, working on big things where a lot of their large systems experience can be useful. Places that, despite "current macroeconomic conditions" , are still growing and need that experience.
Bravo. You are a type 2 engineer and have obviously been paying attention.
They weren't uniquely talented.
hmm, starting with these two so high in the list makes it difficult to properly read the rest.

> 2. Doublespeak: People often say the opposite of what they mean

> 4. Preference Falsification: People lie about their true opinions

Are we supposed to apply these to the 48 other ideas that he pitches as his guiding lights ?

Otherwise I think more than the ideas themselves, it's a good reminder that anyone having seen enough paradigms will have a prism of often contradicting ideas to look through any specific issue. None of these ideas would make sense on their own, nor has much value outside of being another perspective to complete the others.

This is often lost when trying to pigeon hole a real situation into a single well-know pattern or single idea.
F-35 was spawned from the JAST initiative coming out of the Pentagon's Bottom up review. It was designed to replace the F-16, A-10, Harrier, as well as the F/A-18C and D models.

It was no more an air superiority fighter than the F-16. Would it be expect to be able to fight if needed? Sure, just like a Falcon would, but that wasn't it's primary mission/role.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/jas...
Feature request that would make me consider moving off of pgbouncer: make prepared statements work in transaction pooling mode.

We've found that we can double our throughput by using prepared statements, but can't do so because we use pgbouncer in transaction pooling mode.

Our newer systems (on Rust) bypass pgbouncer in favor of an in process pool so we get to take advantage of prepared statements there, but our legacy systems would benefit a lot from it.
Bank-switching is still quite common in microcontrollers at the low end of the market, mainly 8 and 16-bit ones.

It also allowed Nintendo to have a stronger case against 3rd party companies making their own cartridges, as the nintendo logo is copyrighted

More precisely trademarked, but that eventually lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade which effectively stopped the practice.
This feels like Bard has read too many US instruction manuals.
> Duchamp who took various everyday objects (most famously an urinal)

Appropriately: appropriated without appropriate attribution from Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, apparently:

a 1917 letter Duchamp wrote to his sister, Susanne, translated: “One of my female friends who had adopted the masculine pseudonym Richard Mutt sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture.”
R Mutt was identified as an artist living in Philadelphia, which is where she was living at the time.
Duchamp said he had purchased the urinal from JL Mott Ironworks Company, adapting Mutt from Mott, but the company did not manufacture the model in the photograph
the handwriting on the urinal matches the handwriting Von Freytag-Loringhoven used for her poems.
Because it shows that real brain complexity is much larger than we thought, which means AGI is farther down the road.
Someone who wants to scare workers back into the office
Yes, it is interesting. I'm curious what the experience of H1bs who've been let go recently