skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linking the conversation on the Huggingface-AWS partnership, which preemptively calls out Amazon for taking credit for the accomplishments of HuggingFace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34885117.
Beyond that, Zuckerberg's salary is already $1. Most of his total compensation is in the form of security services for him and his family. I suppose you can consider that a perk that could be cut in order to save some tech jobs (at the cost of security jobs). But the company probably views something happening to him as an existential threat that would result in the company failing (and everyone getting laid off), which is why they provide the security.
Ah, missed the edit window. Just because someone writes it in Wikipedia doesn't make it accurate.

The concept of an air superiority fighter really started with the F-15 Eagle (its contemporary, the F-14 was really a fleet defender designed around the AWG-9 radar and Phoenix missile system).

When the F-22 was developed, it was so far ahead of anything that USAF started referring to it as an "air supremacy" fighter that would treat opposing aircraft by "clubbing baby seals." That's how easy it would be for the F-22...

The confusion lies in the origins of the F-16. It was intended to be a daylight fighter with only short range missiles and guns, and highly maneuverable. Sprey and clan wanted a cheap fighter that could be built in mass. The life of the Falcon turned out quite different, and despite it being highly maneuverable, it was matched by other aircraft of the time (F/A-18, Fulcrum). Though it is one sexy bird.

But most USAF planning viewed the F-16 as a bomb truck (replacing the A-7) that could "swing" to help out in A2A if things got too hot. And eventually the F-16 became quite good at its strike mission, as well as SEAD/DEAD and even CAS once LANTIRN and Litening pods were wide spread.

This is the role the F-35 is intended to replace; the view is that NO non-stealthy aircraft can perform these roles in a contested environment with a near-peer opponent. And I think Ukraine is proving this out well...
To add, a good critique of YC SAFEs: https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2019/05/01/startups-shouldnt-...

But really what matters is what outcomes have occurred? Although the only way I can think of to know that would be to ask the experiences from a few founders a few years ago that used the YC SAFE.
I fail to see your example as fitting within my eloquent definition. You are free to work for less than you want from your employer; I presume they are not trying to prevent this.
Why are you so certain of that? They never earned that much because they were unique talented, but because demand was so high and you couldn't find anyone cheaper filling the requirements. Why are you sure demand won't return?
“ An ex-FAANG worker in the right job might be able to be a 10-100x force multiplier,”

From my experience they often have no idea how to deal with the typical corporate IT and the lack of ready to go infrastructure.
I feel like people think modern air warfare is like Top Gun while the whole point is to attack out of visual range.
There is such a thing as a text only GPT-4 lol. It wasn't trained to be multimodal from scratch. First a text only version was trained and then it was made multimodal somehow ( the details are unknown but making a text only LLM multimodal isn't new e.g Palm, Flamingo, Blip-2, Fromage). The text only version exists and is what the microsoft researchers had access to.
The napkin-math contrarians are out in full force today!

I urge folk to consider why folk would come from around the world to help build and sail these ships. We build container haulers to live but there are folk that live to build sailing ships.
We’re you at Walmart labs? Pretty impressive jump from Walmart to google. Any tips as to how you did it? Did you leetcode grind?
You are missing that shareholder value drives very little corporate decision-making below the C-suite. A director benefits the more people report to them. They don’t necessarily care whether any of them are doing anything as long as they can slingshot to their next job before it all implodes. But nothing ever implodes, it just reorgs.
and who will decide what is the "center" there? and isnt it unfair and not impartial to protect the center by censoring left and right?

no one should be moderated
Put an electrical tape on it when not using then? Key logging and desktop streaming are likely much more popular imo. Not just because people cover their cameras but because their face doesn't tell you much other than they are there and if they are attentive or not.
If I were a right wing judge who liked to give speeches at colleges, I'd probably add a clause that I get paid either way (assuming this was a paid gig). Honestly, the publicity will probably help him sell books or whatever it is he does as a side hustle anyway.
I support the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) instead of the ACLU since they’ve lose their way.
> It was just such a different experience.

yes, but a better one???

having said that, there has always been a huge soft spot in my heart for IBM VM/CMS.
All you need is a few thousand dollars lying around to spend solely on your inference fun?

I don’t think that many people really qualify as such (though it’s probably true that many of them are on HN).
Are you using quantization? I’ve gotten very good results from the float16 13B vicuna model.
Installing a battery in South Australia did not lead to to a quadrupling of national energy prices. The cost of energy globally has shot up since 2020, and Australia's spot prices are based on the global market.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PNRGINDEXM

Energy independence in the form of renewables is now more advantageous than ever. Tethering your economy to global price hikes like this is a vulnerable position to be in.
Drug use can really mess with a person's ability to think logically. Yes, it’s self distruction but first of all comes getting the next hit
> A June 2022 “Portfolio summary” purporting to model cryptocurrency positions held by Alameda stated, with respect to valuation inputs for certain tokens, that Alameda personnel should “come up with some numbers? idk.” In an internal communication, Bankman-Fried described Alameda as “hilariously beyond any threshold of any auditor being able to even get partially through an audit,” adding: > Alameda is unauditable. I don’t mean this in the sense of “a major accounting firm will have reservations about auditing it”; I mean this in the sense of “we are only able to ballpark what its balances are, let alone something like a comprehensive transaction history.” We sometimes find $50m of assets lying around that we lost track of; such is life

Yikes. Did SBF just not give a damn about anything? The more I see stuff like this, the more I'm convinced that this wasn't fraud, this was just historically awful management by a few kids that had no business running a lemonade stand let alone a multi billion dollar crypto exchange.
I am not free to work for more than my employer wants to pay.
(Only) On HN, I find this odd.

I'll openly admit this is unreasonable for the "average consumer." So I'd never think to suggest mucking about with their systems. However, for tech-literate folk, if you really need extreme battery life, limit short/long TDP max values.

If you are willing to use a noticeably slower machine because you value battery life, then instruct your machine to behave accordingly. It takes seconds and is way easier than writing any program. Zen 3+ cores are still quite fast with a 10/15 watt long/short power limit. On the Intel side, CPUs can further be instructed to disable all but 1 P-Core.

Modern processors are pretty dynamic. I'm not pretending this will get you to arm levels of idle power draw, but things aren't an order of magnitude off, either. As a bonus, when you are plugged in, you get way more power on tap compared to any snapdragon.
Intelligence is a limited, partial substitute for knowledge. The problem with Aristotelian physics wasn't that Aristotle wasn't smart enough. It was that Aristotle lacked the ground truth knowledge to understand where he was wrong. An AI that can't run experiments will end up with elegant hallucinations of nanofactory blueprints but no actual nanofactory. (That's even assuming that Drexlerian nanotech is actually something that can be built. It's still an open question.)

All the computing power in the world is insufficient to simulate a living bacterium at the molecular level. We also don't have a molecular resolution map of bacteria in the first place. The AI will have to figure out how to make one. The AI can try to develop faster high fidelity approximations for molecular simulation, but that too requires calibration against experiments as well as a lot of simulation resources. If it seizes control of public cloud computing for its simulations people will notice and can just unplug cables. If its intrusions are subtle, only using little unnoticeable compute slices when machines are largely idle, then its simulations are going to get less compute resources in aggregate than researchers have now.
You can answer these questions on OpenNEM:

https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=1y&interval=1M

SA imports about ~10% of its power and exports about ~5% at the moment (YTD) and price is cheaper than NSW and QLD
> why would it be a goal for the company to keep people around that can be automated away

The explanation that I always use is that in a small company, the feedback loop all the way up to the CEO and/or investors is short enough that any misbehaviour from employees for their own interests will be easily detected, so it doesn't happen.

In a big enough hierarchy however, the feedback loop can span decades of real-world results, so middle-managers can make decisions that are detrimental to the long-term performance of the firm but gain them short-term results (from which bonuses and promotions are derived), not to mention plausible-deniable "money under the table" that is still technically a "bonus" though off-the-company-books. By the time the long-term impact of the decision comes to light (if it ever does), they would've long since moved on or even retired.

Therefore, in a big company, you need to keep in mind that people may not act within the firm's best interests if they know they can get away with it, and you may merely be a pawn within their chessboard - in which case they're happy to pay you to keep you around but you need to move exactly as they say and not rock the boat too much.

And I'm not even talking of outright blackmail where multiple high-standing people within the company could have dirt on each other (or at least pretend to?) and thus cooperate with each other because any defection means mutually-assured destruction.
Saragarhi?
How does one even attach a sail to a cargo ship that would move it at 10 knots? I'm not an engineer so it might even be obvious, but it seems like the mast would have to exert an incredible amount of force on the ship.

Then again, I guess the same applies to old sailing ship and they figured it out. It just boggles my mind.
A zip/post code adds redundancy to a state, town and often street, sometimes more.
I argue that Hopf algebras, which are spicy tensors, provide a better autodiff and are a better model for SSMs, convnets, transformers, and diffusion models.
Isn't this a cost issue? Fentanyl users are already bargain hunters.
No. You are creating a red herring. What is speech if no one can hear it or read it? If I intercepted the post you just made and scrambled it with random characters so noone else would understand it, are you still calling that free speech? How is that effectively different than some people purposefully yelling over your conversations and scrambling the sound waves entering the intended listener’s ear?
Join the discord https://discord.cofunctional.ai
Nothing about leaf-blowers. The amount of pollution they produce is insane. Both directly by their exhaust, and secondary because they kick up a LOT of dust.
Cruise updated its software in March, after a low-speed (10 m.p.h.) failure to stop in time, in which no one was injured. While they weren't required to do so, the company also filed a voluntary report with the NHTSA. To avoid confusion, the company published a blog post explaining their rationale for addressing the "exceptionally rare" set of circumstances.

Teslarati gets the mistaken idea that the low-speed crash happened "earlier this week," and publishes a story headlined "Cruise recalls fleet after collision."
And they're both not so great, aren't they?
Yeah sure, that's what should happen. I'm not saying otherwise, read the comment again.
Although not technically an Easter Egg (more like unused code), the Hot Coffee mod [1] to Grand Theft Auto San Andreas certainly cost the developer and publisher a lot of headaches and money. I can see why Easter Eggs would be forbidden after that experience.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(minigame)
>> No. Pick a a stable, guaranteed-to-exist, shard key (composite or atomic properties) and use that. If composite, order properties used in most-to-least distinct value distribution.

> what??

> if you shard users by user ID and orders by order ID, then a query that joins a bunch of user orders in the same tenant namespace will spread across multiple user shards and multiple order shards

Note my recommendation of picking a "stable, guaranteed-to-exist, shard key."

If there is a users table/collection sharded by its id and an orders table/collection sharded by its id, then there is no "guaranteed-to-exist shard key" between them, right? So, in that case, where the two are often accessed together, having a "guaranteed-to-exist shard key" of the "tenant namespace" would be the logical choice.

> value distribution doesn't really have any impact here

I mentioned value distribution strictly in the context of ordering composite shard keys (if applicable). My apologies for any confusion this might have introduced.

> (shard keys are also guaranteed to exist by definition, not clear what you mean by that)

My implication was in reference to what is always available across accessing sharded entities. In the scenario you describe, sharding by either user or order id would not be ideal. In situations where one or the other is not sharded, then identifying a common shard key likely is not needed.

>> Sharding and multi-tenancy are orthogonal concepts.

> sharding and multi-tenancy are only orthogonal if you don't care that a single tenant can have information on multiple shards

My assertion was regarding theory, not specific scenarios. In practice, having multiple tables/collections needing shards with the tenant being the common entity strongly implies sharding on a tenant property and not of those unique to each table/collection, as implied in your reply.
> How did you get involved with harm-reduction work?

> ... Now, I’m a daily intravenous meth user.

I really didn't expect the harm reduction worker to be actively addicted.
DEA 4 page report, Oct 2022:

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/The%20Growin...

Article quotes "We know that xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer, but we’re not sure how the drug dealers are getting it from clinics."

DEA says "A kilogram of xylazine powder can be purchased online from Chinese suppliers with common
prices ranging from $6-$20 U.S. dollars per kilogram. At this low price, its use as an adulterant
may increase the profit for illicit drug traffickers, as its psychoactive effects allows them to reduce the amount of fentanyl or heroin used in a mixture. It may also attract customers looking for a
longer high since xylazine is described as having many of the same effects for users as opioids,
but with a longer-lasting effect than fentanyl alone."
Apollonius of Tyana?
Although temperature can be analogised to particles moving around I believe that at the extremes the fact that's just an analogy causes problems which would be relevant here.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/family-from-gujarat-d...

Family of 4 from Gujarat drowns while illegally crossing river to reach U.S.
I don’t know about that line of logic, the dealer is responsible whether they laced the supply themsleves or not, if not fully at least partly for passing the drugs along. They could claim not knowing but that doesn’t make then any less responsible.
> I think that person is suicidal

Someone doing this stuff isn't thinking of the endgame any more than an alcoholic is thinking about cirrhosis. They just want to get high. They're not at the opiod buffet picking their fave. They're doing the best stuff their dealer has that they can afford.
Its time for the government to intervene.
Apparently the new Amazon delivery trend is "empty box" according to Reddit [1][2][3][4][5].

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/11uqmn4/ordere...

[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/11eixo2/got_em...

[3]https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/12fzsb4/i_rece...

[4]https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/search/?q=empty&restric...

[5]https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/search/?q=delivery+&res...
Here's a couple more quotes from Yann LeCun, their Chief AI Scientist:

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1643945742850031616

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1644503237699969026

pretty clear the non-release and extremely half assed response to the leak is just CYA
they did, and they were right
I’m not sure the author had a real point here. I’d love some hard data on how many people are pivoting to canned food companies after FAANG life

I don't get this common/popular notion where just because you lose a lucrative job or opportunity that suddenly you become poor. What happens to all that accumulated $? Does it just go away? I think we want to believe that it does because it gives us comfort knowing that some sort of balance has been restored to the universe--that people have are so successful have to be reset to zero.

People who lose their FANG jobs are still going to be in a better position, all else equal. Maybe they are in a better position by virtue of having more money and being more qualified or smarter, making finding a new job easier.
Size as in geographic area or population? Detroit has blocks and blocks where only a single house exists, thousands of empty lots and abandoned homes. Easier to build when there’s cheap empty lots.
Layoffs don't imply poor management.

During the pandemic the Fed slashed interest rates, giving companies more money so they can hire more people and keep unemployment down.

Then the Fed raised interest rates, forcing companies to lay people off to save money, so we can increase unemployment to fight inflation.

You could argue that Facebook's management could have predicted the Fed's rate hikes. Then they could have refused to hire people for new projects because they might have to cut those projects later. I don't think that's better.
The point is here, that even if someone intent is to parody, this can transition into actual defamation depending on the context.

For example, if someone put up a poster, with your name and photo on it, and the poster said "I, the person in the photo, support Killing a bunch of people, on this date, at this time, at this location", this would be defamation.

When you start getting into actual death threats, this can cross the line into illegal defamation.

And no, defamation is not protected by the 1st amendment, nor are many types of death threats.
How did literally nothing but Quest come out of that then?
Stop the dumb policy of letting drugs free.
This needs to end, and the government must intervene and put an end to every drug dealer, and seriously find a way to deal with addicts.
I'm just saying, would being an alcoholic of rock-bottom spirits be that much more expensive? I'd rather be a shaking alcoholic than have my arm fall off my body as I inject drugs into my festering stump. But that's just me.
The other possibility is that we'll get cards that are very specifically designed just for the LLMs, basically ditching everything that is not strictly necessary for the sake of squeezing more compute / VRAM, and perhaps optimizing around int4/int8 (the latter is apparently "good enough" for training?).
I went from 20 years of several FAANG jobs to working for a small tech company with about 300 engineers. It was a bit of a rude awakening. The technology stack is a house of cards consisting of hundreds of homegrown wrappers around AWS. Everything is brittle, undocumented, and constantly changing. Every little thing is a huge pain in the ass.
Did you get your cats back?
Could you imagine legal students, people being trained in adversarial debate, thinking the best approach is to shout someone down?
This is literally the policy that got us here and has failed us every single step of the way. Doing more of it is how things keep getting worse.

The correct answer is to decriminalize everything and improve public health programs like Portugal did 20+ years ago. They saw extremely good outcomes. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
I’m not saying you shouldn’t hire them (though any local auditor with the same license would likely be better from a quality standpoint), I’m just saying you shouldn’t trust anything they report.
>Except it’s coming from the White House, not a random op-ed columnist.

I agree that what I said was pretty dismissive. However considering current attitudes of data and multiple Congressional hearings about uses of public data with seldom satisfactory results, I remain pretty skeptical.
> People have a right to speech. They don't have a right to be heard.

Time and place restrictions are perfectly legal.

A school, government fund or otherwise, or even the government itself, is absolutely free to prevent a mob of students, from shouting down speakers.

And they can use the force of their position as the university, or the force of law to do so.

Time and place restrictions absolutely can help promote speech, and are legal.
https://www.aad.org/dw/dw-insights-and-inquiries/archive/202...
Is inarticulate yelling legally "speech" though?

That's a genuine question.
Unions are advocates and adversarial by default, because there's no cost to being so and plenty of benefits.

In addition, the union doesn't care about one unit of workers. They will happily sacrifice one store, or one industry, to further their goals - which may or may not be aligned with the workers.

Their actions and their rhetoric shows that's the case.

If workers agree to be a means to some other end then that's great. But most of them aren't smart enough or aware enough to understand this, from what it seems. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Only if there were certain well-known methods to give people with opposing views an equal platform for speaking their views. Like a moderator who enforces turn-taking and time limits. Or a talking stick. Or just being civil in the presence of those whom you may cast as barbarians and savages.
Extreme NSFL warning!
This is slightly off topic but wondering how those left behind are faring? I wonder if the situation has gotten a lot more toxic (was never a bed of roses) except now big tech employers know they hold the cards? Are people getting overworked more than before? Are some people coasting hoping to get severance?
> We’re you at Walmart labs? Pretty impressive jump from Walmart to google. Any tips as to how you did it? Did you leetcode grind?

The engineering practices at Walmart are quite similar to those at Google.

As someone who also made the transition from a smaller company to Big Tech, I can say that while the user base is much larger, the engineering practices and quality remain relatively consistent.

If you’re looking to land a job at a Big Tech company and want to practice by solving LeetCode problems, go for it. However, keep in mind that solving these problems alone won't guarantee you a job.