skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your response here, and a lot of the supportive responses to it, highlight what I find so aggravating about the crypto/blockchain community: no explicit, discrete examples, just a lot of hand wavy "oh, it takes a lot of work but when it comes you'll know it!!" wishful thinking. Top that off with the common (you aren't doing this BTW but I see it all over HN) "See how the HN hivemind just hates crypto!" whenever sceptics ask for explicit, unambiguous details on the utility of the technology.

I'll play devil's advocate, because I do actually think there is one place blockchain could be useful: as a backend settlement layer for financial institutions. If you ever get into things like banking or credit cards, you'll find that our current settlement technology is kind of insane - it's basically a digitization of paper file driven processes from 70 years ago. Things like big clearing houses are largely necessary as a result of these processes, and I could see blockchain obviating some of that.

Even then, though, it takes blockchain from being this "changing the world technology" to a relatively minor efficiency improvement. I also still wouldn't bet on it, because even though the existing system is complicated and crazy, it still works, and it's not totally clear to me that existing players have enough incentives to actually change the system.
If you buy a nice domain and add references to the list it would definitely end up on front page of HN.
I will one up you, I don't put in notice until I'm 1-2 weeks into my new job. Don't really have any justification except for paranoia, which is only getting more validated from other anecdotes in this thread.
I agree, but as 'Bill Gates' said on The Simpsons: "I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks."
I was able to run a LLaMa on my personal machine to run some labeling on my documents, as a test of its capabilities. It was instruct tune. 30b parameters

4 example labels, and I had a binary classifier in seconds. Sure, semantic text classifiers were possible for a while, but making it accessible changes everything. Giving anyone who can use a spreadsheet the power of a local LLM (or, basically free LLMs) can make them much, much more productive. A lot of office work is clicking through sheets and doing manual labeling.

It's truly wild what is becoming accessible! Really excited to see the next gen software that the open community comes up with :)
China Simulates Attacking Taiwan from All Sides with Help from Its Carrier Force
Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
I’m Yousif, founder/CTO of OASIS AI, a new iOS app to elevate your communication skills.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oasis-ai/id1668222944

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Let’s face it: humans communicate constantly, but we suck at it.

We want to use LLMs to go beyond Grammarly's error correction and Google Translate's word-for-word translation. Instead, OASIS refines your thoughts and intentions, choosing the perfect words to express your ideas in any format or language. The app gives you a first draft, a starting place, and then you’re in control from there.

OASIS started off as English–to-English, and we are now in the process of rolling out language translation and speech transcription for over 30 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic. As a preview, the app enables English speakers to craft WeChat posts that mimic the casual writing of a native Mandarin Chinese speaker.

What do you think? What features should we add? How can we be better?

https://theoasis.com/
Why can’t you just incinerate them?
lock people up much longer and you don't need people keeping them in line on the streets. with the added benefit of not having to worry about national headlines in case barney fife decides to get extra beat-y
The first TCP/IP stack was actually open source(before the term even existed). Written by Bill Joy(and maybe others) of Vi, Sun and BSD fame.
The homeless problem would go away too if they would just redefine "homeless" to mean something else.
Inference, even fine-tuning a few layers would be difficult since one needs to use non-quantized model, I'd imagine
Movies already depict illegal activity. But I assume you're implying child pornography.
This reads less like a critique of Sun Tzu and more a critique of people who read Sun Tzu.

One thing that hasn't changed about human nature, everyone is looking for a quick solution that's guaranteed to work. If you can market yourself as an authority many people will listen to you whether you actually are an authority or not. Engaging with reality directly is difficult, painful, uncertain, and often unfulfilling, so people demand proxies to do it for them. In many cases these proxies are necessary, the world is too complex for everyone to know everything in perfect detail. But if you're going to devote 40 hours/week or more to something, it's probably best that you minimize your proxies for that thing.

Using Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, or any strategic work as an all-encompassing ground truth is to deny reality for the sake of comfort. Denying reality for the sake of comfort is not a competitive trait.
How to slowly destroy a company's reputation one silly decision at a time.
Then it can just as well be called ToS, instead.
"First AI had replaced SEO writers and I didn't care because I wasn't a SEO writer. Next AI had replaced journalists and I didn't care because I wasn't a journalist. Then AI had replaced my job and there was nobody left who would help me."
Apple expands innovative Restore Fund for carbon removal
> In the mudroom at the back of the house, Susan found a note by the microwave from her husband of almost 18 years, Mike. "Sue, haven't been sleeping. Had to get away—Went to the beach."

Wow. Tell me you definitely planned this murder without telling me you definitely planned this murder.
I found this to be very liberating, that I can finally type whatever I want into the LLM, without the possibility of the government knowing what I am writing. Just being able to do that, and have the watchful eye of the state not being able to monitor you is amazing.
Show HN: Taleblocks - Turn text into compelling videos using power of AI
Don't forget that the third world has 2x better outcomes with regards to schizophrenia. Probably due to the fact that they have more familial support and/or less reliant on meds.

https://thecorrespondent.com/407/people-not-pills-what-the-w...
Use AI to generate script, voice text and match media to text. Future is about automation. Taleblocks is here for that.
We shouldn't be calling subsidence sea level rise. They are two distinct, measurable, phenomena that happen to have the same impact.
I've never worked with a CNC. Wouldn't they typically have safeguards against machine-damaging instructions?
I'm not sure which part of the world you are in, but for example in Europe it is common to have 1 month as a minimum notice period, and not uncommon to have 3 or even 6 months (this latter usually if you stay at a company for a long time).

It is also common in certain countries to either get a "reference" letter from previous employers or provide a reference about a person in email or on the phone - going back to 3 or 5 years.

And finally, we are talking about moving countries, if not continents. Maybe if you are 18 you can stop working on a Friday in country A, travel with a suitcase over the weekend and start working on Monday in country B, but as you get older, the number of people and stuff attached to you just grows... and this becomes a rather more difficult and time consuming process.
Memory use is already linear in practice, thanks to FlashAttention. It's an open question whether computation can be made sub-quadratic without impacting model performance, although there are ongoing efforts seeking to do exactly that.[a]

Keep in mind: Once you go into precision as low as 4 bits (or lower?), all sorts of optimizations can become practical. Off the top of my head, maybe you could cache and reuse common attention sub-matrices (e.g., a 16×16 sub-matrix with 4-bit elements occupies only 16×16×4÷8=128 bytes of space)?

My sense is there's so much money at stake here, that whoever does this first will win big even if they end up having to replace or augment it with something better down the road. Hypothetical example: Imagine Intel or AMD coming out with a $1K or $2K card that has "built-in 4-bit attention," enabling you to run transformers of much greater scale on a run-of-the-mill desktop PC. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

[a] Here's a recent post about a new approach from a group at Stanford that looks promising to me, although I don't fully understand all its details yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35502187
If I understand correctly, the licensing issue is around mixing GPL software and CDDL software. I don't think that happens in the ZoL tree, but may happen in distributions that ship the kernel and ZoL together.

Using the ZoL tree with FreeBSD doesn't have the same licensing conflict; BSD and CDDL software can mix.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay
Wow, smells like 1950s
This is far more sensible advice than all the "there ought to be a law" (in which jurisdiction?) comments on this thread and probably also more realistic than trying to figure out how to protect yourself 100% against any eventuality.

Even without moving internationally, managers change, executives decide to cancel projects or cut back headcount, etc. Sure, that can happen a year down the road too. But if something is going to be a big move, it makes sense to find ways to at least reduce the harm if it turns out there really wasn't a meeting of the minds or circumstances changed.
SS13 is like Eve Online, great fun to read the antics, but a bit of a chore to actually play.
Freddie DeBoer writes a bit about this.
You see, it’s fully decentralized. When dealing with automobile licensing, no single centralized authority has full contr… okay, I see your point now.
"Aperiodic" is the opposite of "periodic"
> Sanctioning specific companies and specific individuals makes sense. Blanket bans is just venting your own steam in a counterproductive way.

Google has to respond to who the government sanctions. Russia has been sanctioned and it rightfully makes Google wary of doing business with them.

If you think sanctions are counterproductive, you can vote for the GOP, because people like Matt Gaetz are fighting to end the involvement of the US with the war but until that happens it's understandable that companies aligned with allied countries would become averse to hiring Russian nationals
Which makes the “build vs buy” argument a whole lot more interesting.
Form a guild. Other professionals have organizations to protect them, engineers should too. This is the way.
Then you tech employee are not big enough. Of course they can do this. Goes to HR, Hiring Manager, HM approves sends back to HR, HR sends to legal, HM pings because legal is slow, bam it's done. Everything can be done between humans.
> We literally have conservatives disassembling democracy across this nation, and the Left's favorite game to play is "Can we castigate more progressives for not passing the acid test."

I have to say, a rant like that about how things are in SF ending on that note caught me off guard. You explained in detail all of these problems and closed out that you’re worried about conservatives?

I have to ask…why?
It's not an attack. Just an opinion. Just like you have an opinion different from mine.

You should not downvote someone for having a different opinion.

You're exaggerating this opinion by calling me prejudice against software engineers and using words like self hate. Again I just have an opinion.

Landscapes imo should not always exclude people. I often include people to illustrate scale. It doesn't have to be a sea of faces all the time, but a lot of photographers follow this idea of keeping their landscape photos pristine and devoid of anything with a person.
Local LLMs remove the data protection problem but open the door for malicious use on a larger scale.
Perhaps so. But until that happens, I can't stick it in an employment contract.
How realistic is CPU-only inference in the near future?
What about Meta? Zuckerberg can't be axed and controls 50+% of the voting shares. They are still doing big layoffs and cuts. They have also always been very aggressive about growth and hiring.

They are positioning it as more of a flattening, which may actually be what's happening but I'm guessing plenty of IC's are still losing their jobs there.
For clarification, by on boarding paperwork do you mean forms i9 and w4?
Yes, the current system is a good-enough solution, and any better alternative has to be not just better but so much better that it is worth the large cost of switching to a different solution. Game theoretically, it's an "inadequate equilibrium".
I assume it's basically this position: https://thriveml.com/jobs/product-policy-lead-e296c565

> As the Product Policy Lead, you will set the foundation for Anthropic’s approach to safe deployments. You will develop the policies that govern the use of our systems, oversee the technical approaches to identifying current and future risks, and build the organizational capacity to mitigate product safety risks at-scale. You will work collaboratively with our Product, Societal Impacts, Policy, Legal, and leadership teams to develop policies and processes that protect Anthropic and our partners.

> You’re a great fit for the role if you’ve served in leadership positions in the fields of Trust & Safety, product policy, or risk management at fast-growing technology companies, and you recognize that emerging technology such as generative AI systems will require creative approaches to mitigating complex threats.

> Please note that in this role you may encounter sensitive material and subject matter, including policy issues that may be offensive or upsetting.
> Was Bell hiring Soviet nationals in the heyday of UNIX? I doubt it

Could they? Soviet Union did not let its citizens leave easily.

It's different nowadays, and you'll be surprised to learn:

- that Google an likes have more than enough offices outside the U.S.

- that quite a lot of their employees are Russian citizens, Russia has been a talent pool for them for quite a while

- that the war changed very little for their employment

- and that Google did not stop hiring from Russia after the war began
> Things happen. The landscape changes.

During the dot com bubble burst, 2008, or March 2020, sure. Or if something is happening to that specific company.

There wasn't that during this window with Google. This was just sloppy HR. With how they were dragging their feet, I doubt many people were in this position (which is actually an argument for sucking it up and actually hiring him).

That said, it sounded like Google was more cagey than usual, so that should be a red flag. Demand some contractual protections, and if they're denied, wait another 3 months to see how things shake out.
Undecidability of Energy Levels in a Material
> But anyone can listen in and tell when valid answers are being ignored.

While I do agree that does happen I've also seen many people try to mind read others and assume bad faith when they were in fact asking genuine questions, and it's happened to me as well (it's actually happening now in a thread below). It's harder to read others than you think.

Sometimes people are so dug into their camp they assume bad faith because the questions threaten them and cause a fight/flight reaction instead of simply responding to the substance.

A lot of the times, it's just the socratic method being applied to you, but if you think the questions contain misinformation... the best way to fight misinformation, is with more information.
Store secrets in 1Password CLI and load them into your ZSH shell when needed
I’ve had a career lasting over three decades and counting. Have never gone a day without a job in that time.

Part of the reason is because I followed your exact advice. To which I would also add - don’t have a big gap between your last day at your current job and your first day at your next.

Simply walking in the door on your first day increases the amount of paperwork they have to file to get rid of you.
Thus illustrating why the argument in the link doesn't make sense
When we are honest about it. How much waste is there from a coal or gas power plant? It takes a wind turbine less than a day to make up for all the oil in the gears (vs if you burned the oil in a power plant), and they run for years after that.
If I was religious the C64 demoscene would be my holy land.
Apple’s move to make stable diffusion run well on the iPhone makes me think they’re watching this space, just waiting for the right open model for them to commit to.
> "cyborg techno-feminism"?

Naomi Wu is an excellent engineer and a luminary for the DIY space.
It would be true if a strong correlation of lower birthrates is cost of living.

People in rich countries still have less babies, but those that afford it have more.
Seems to have received the HN kiss of death...

Archive: https://archive.ph/xdoVH
Agree, though plain old Bayesian classifiers have been able to handle some significant portion of that office work for a long time. And not much ever came from it for everyday stuff outside of spam filters.

Maybe both the buzz factor and broader applicability means it's more likely to happen this go around?
I wonder how good the neural engine with the unified memory is compared to say intel cpu with 32gb ram. Could anyone give some insight?
You can also make the related cards as siblings and use the bury feature so that you can only ever see one on a given day. I frequently use this to learn lists e.g.:

Card 1 front: Countries in the UK: 1. [...] 2. 3. 4.
Card 1 back: Countries in the UK: 1. England 2. Scotland 3. Wales 4. Northern Ireland

Card 2 front: Countries in the UK: 1. England 2. [...] 3. 4.
Card 2 back: Countries in the UK: 1. England 2. Scotland 3. Wales 4. Northern Ireland

Card 3 front: Countries in the UK: 1. 2. Scotland 3. [...] 4.
Card 3 back: Countries in the UK: 1. England 2. Scotland 3. Wales 4. Northern Ireland

Card 4 front: Countries in the UK: 1. 2. 3. Wales 4. [...]
Card 4 back: Countries in the UK: 1. England 2. Scotland 3. Wales 4. Northern Ireland

Because the cards are siblings, I'll only ever be tested on one in a given day. Each item in the list (aside from the first) is prompted by the preceding item, so that your brain learns to generate the entire list from memory sequentially. The same technique can be used to memorise a long quote by breaking it down into a list of chunks.

I also have a note type that consists of multiple cloze fields so that I can capture related information as siblings.
You'd be surprised by what you can get by simply asking for it.
completely agree with you.

the leader of the political opposition was murdered in front of the kremlin wall by being shot repeatedly by chechnyans hired by the government directly linked to Putin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Boris_Nemtsov

The same is true for the attempts on Navelny, etc. Russia has put literally thousands of people in jail for protesting the war.

And if we really are going to make a big deal out of russia attacking ukraine and how terrible that is and we should ostracize all russian people, then we should all start with the americans first. Because the iraq war was motivated as well as ukraine, caused the deaths of a million iraqis, and americans travel freely and nobody cares that they come from a country responsible for such death and travesty.
Eh, practically every service will let you 'log in with google' (or equivalent) for free if you're the sort of user who prefers that to a password manager.

SaaS companies want to charge a lower price to price-sensitive customers like bootstrapping startups, and a higher price to price-insensitive customers like big corporations; and they need some way to draw the line. And the moment you've got time to waste on things like SOC2 that drive you towards SSO - you are a price-insensitive organisation.
The eagerness to reason from the headline anecdata on this topic is a signal that it is not just the mentally ill who exhibit severe thinking problems.

No, you can't reason with that one person at that moment. Get them sedated, cleaned up, new clothes and a haircut, and then ask them what is going on with them.

For each one like that there are another 10,000 people in various forms of quiet desperation.
If you change the numbers from 160lbs to 300lbs and 9,400lbs to 2,000lbs does it really seem any less absurd if you're looking at it strictly from a numbers point of view?
Wireheading City
>>They optimize for stock price, not employee satisfaction, not customer satisfaction.

Are you suggesting that CEO's don't have exactly the same motivations and incentives?
> Using our software for free and then holding us responsible… ha!

Yeah...slap in the face for open source contributions that literally chnage the world for the better.
Amazon will rent you infiband-class machines like the C6in.metal (https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/c6in.metal) with 200Gb/s of bandwidth. With EFA (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/efa/) you can use HPC features like rDMA.
As a California resident for the past several decades, I would much prefer the DMV focus on addressing the far more fundamental issues in basic service fulfillment first.
It really is unbelievable considering what the train was hauling. It wasn't just a long coal train:

> It had five locomotives at the front and 136 cars trailing behind, about half hauling hazardous material: propane, isobutane, ethyl alcohol, phosphoric acid and molten sulfur heated to 235 degrees Fahrenheit.

I could have killed a lot of people. It seems really dangerous to play fast and loose with those rules while also carrying super dangerous cargo. It's very easy to imagine the wrong composition of those dangerous trailers getting derailed.
Here is an interesting article from Contrast CTO, especially in an industry that is quite opaque. Comparing one tool with another remains a big challenge, but at least this gives an interesting blueprint on how to evaluate them individually.
So you take vacation from the previous job I assume?
What difference does it make if you're at-will. You could be let go on the first day, no reason given.
Because you should be processing the images on the server side anyways. I guess it would be nice to cut down on file transfer size, but at the end of the day you need size limits enforced on the server. I recommend pulling in an image processing library on the server side and reformatting it before saving it, in order to eliminate a class of issues with invalid images.
Technically the shape itself repeats like a mug, infinitely tiling the plane. However, that tiling is not overly repetitive -- if it's like the Penrose tiling, it can be self-similar in a handful of rotations about a single origin, but unlike a square tiling, does not admit infinitely many self-similarities.
The thing you are currently doing is known as JAQing off.

Lithium is not comparable to oil and gas. An EV contains a few kilos of lithium, which is perfectly recyclable and not consumed. Meanwhile the average American motorist buys and burns 2 metric tons of motor fuel every year.
-10 < 0, ie. they couldn't put Google on their CV even if their tongue-in-cheek wording was reality.
Yes? I’m also aware of the catastrophic destruction that democratic, capitalist countries have done with no accountability - are you?
All of my “paid on start” bonuses/reimbursements were paid weeks after I started, often with my first paycheck.
maybe one could use physics to do that in analog. Or even better, in biology. I think with a clump of ~1.5kg of neurons we can have a pretty efficient coprocessor that is fed with pizza.