skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an incredibly myopic viewpoint as subscriptions go much further than a few shows on Netflix or AppleTV.

I subscribe to Shapr3D, Fusion360, Jetbrains, Netflix, Adobe, 1Password, Dropbox, and a half-dozen necessary services. I'd much rather just pay for the software at that point in time and never upgrade. But rent seekers don't like that business model.
It's especially ironic that this puzzle structure selects away from candidates whose ordinary method would be to look up available algorithms, rather than just going with the best answer they came up with off the top of their head.
Colorado River states to share water shortages under federal plan
Like this one the other day... $5.1MM

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/student-buys-51-million-ho...
User-Agent strings are still useful for identifying non-browser user agents but I agree that given the privacy issues they present all browsers should adopt a single standard UA string (one each for desktop and mobile). (Did you know that Chrome on Android puts your device model in the UA string? One of the many reasons to use Firefox for Android...)
My text KeenWrite supports R Markdown. I wrote a simple function to convert CSV data into a Markdown table[1] along with a tutorial demonstrating usage[2]. This allows users to keep the data separate from the document.

Having the ability to apply spreadsheet functions as per EqualTo is brilliant.

[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/blob/main/R/csv.R

[2]: https://youtu.be/XSbTF3E5p7Q?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzP...
TV news is curated for a particular effect; Why this story, and not that one?

It is a type of commercial entertainment. It it simultaneously inane and culturally violent. Here are people dying in an ongoing struggle for power between warlords and a corrupt government; here are professional athletes winning a tournament. Here's the weather forecast. These subjects merit approximately equal time and similar sentiment in tone. As a viewer of TV news, you are not empowered to change anything because you are not informed of any of the forces and complexities driving the violence and there is no call to action.
I would think (1) it was a display of power and entrenched privilege. Putting down uppity people. (2) they thought the courts would uphold or the constitutional issues would be deflected by a conservative court at some level. To me, it’s a free speech vs decorum issue and the latter isn’t anywhere near as significant. (3) they were playing to their voter base to avoid being attacked from the right in the primary election.

It’s also possible it was entirely done to prove their right wing bonafides, knowing full well somebody would toss it. They’d call that liberal intrusion and so get more right wing support. It’s as if they’re not concerned about the general election which might be a safe bet in Tennessee.
From the hiring side.
"boneheaded and apparently ..."
Show HN: I’m building an autonomous business run by ChatGPT
Hey HN!!

I just shipped a project called Airfeed: https://airfeed.co/

Here's how it works:

1. You tell it the research topics you're interested in following

This can be anything -- LLMs, chatbots, image generation, scaling model inference, small language models, datasets, etc.

2. Every morning, it filters new AI research papers for quality work that is relevant to your configured topics, and sends you an email summary.

Here's a sample email: https://airfeed.co/example_email.html

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As a fun experiment, I've made everything completely autonomous: Every morning, ChatGPT takes care of filtering/processing all research papers & writing each email.

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Why I built this:

I think there needs to be a better way for engineers, researchers, and AI product builders to stay up to date on the latest AI research that's relevant to whatever they're working on.

For someone building LLMs, this could mean keeping up with research papers covering multiple topics, ex: scaling attention, model architecture, new datasets, new fine-tuning techniques, etc.

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How this is different from other newsletters:

This isn't a generic AI newsletter.

It's research-focused & personalized, since it only highlights the papers that might be relevant to you (based on your specific topics).

I found this to be useful, since a lot of papers are irrelevant and/or low quality.

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When building maroofy.com [1], I would regularly read the latest research papers on everything related to: contrastive learning, vector embeddings, music classification, etc.

So, I thought it would be nice to build something that filters/summarizes just the new research papers covering topics I care about, and sends me the top ones in a daily, morning email.

Would love any feedback!! :D

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34635352
>But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly

You don't have to watch your words on 4chan though. You can literally just make fun of them.

You can larp as whoever you want to get a rise out of whoever you want. That is mostly what the site is. While you're larping as a nazi you're being exposed to every other political point of view, every gender, every race, and every sexuality.

How many real nazis do you think are comfortable looking at femboy threads all day? Is that really their choice forum? Hate speech and anthropomorphic dogs?
I actually like the nuance of your point. I think you're aiming at a certain circularity in the definition of intelligence. Namely, we know that there are a set of cognitive abilities which set certain people apart in society as those who can advance modernity. We find those abilities intriguing, we investigate them, and we measure them and assign them a name. Then, we notice that people who test well for those abilities do well economically and otherwise in society. The whole situation is somewhat tautological.

I agree with that reasoning! We defined intelligence the way we do because it "works." If jumping on chairs were what advanced modernity, we would test for that instead. And, that too would "work" because it would surely be a marker for people who were likely to be successful in life.

Social sciences aren't going to be able to provide specific answers to your questions in the near term. No, there is no single gene or trait that codes for "intelligence" as we define it. But, that does not mean we can't come up with intelligence tests which correlate strongly with that definition and also correlate strongly with various measures of success in life. Such measures also correlate strongly with society-wide success (measured by a group's progress along the tech tree).
Interesting PR. It looks like https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/pull/757 is more inline with multiple clients using the same prepared statements. I'll be watching that closely.
define:choice

>The act of choosing; selection.

>The power, right, or liberty to choose; option.

>An alternative.

There exist many alternatives to watching new TV shows. For example, books, work, exercise, cooking, staring at the wall, playing music, gardening, etc. Hell, one could even CHOOSE to spend 2 minutes and change their media subscription every month so that they are only paying for 1 every month.
put a better way, theoretically it's possible for an entity that has received a small amount of funds from the state, to be controlled by that state, just like SpaceX, which is state funded, could be controlled by that state, and just like theoretically I could give you a dollar and then control you, but any actual accusation of such or implication thereof would need actual evidence behind it, or else such conspiracy theories based only on incentives and no evidence can be dismissed out of hand.
It took roughly a century to go from constitutional amendment to legislative enforcement for equal treatment under the law. In 2023, for political points, state and local leaders are banning critical race theory in schools (even though it’s an academic legal theory).

However one feels about “race”, it’s a current theme, not a relic, politically, economically or legally. And that shouldn’t be at odds with the individual choice to treat others equally.
Right now driverless cars only work in places like that with relatively decent weather and which are meticulously mapped with frequent updates, because the tech still does not allow for safe driving using onboard sensors alone.

A self-driving car that can safely drive in all the same places and conditions that humans can is not yet possible.
You're right, they technically use Core PCE, rather than Core CPI. But if you look at a chart of the two they are very tightly correlated.

They can be used pretty much interchangeably as an inflation measure, methodology not different enough to create material differences.
"released lab grown mosquitos to wipe them out"

Spoiler alert. We lose fish. All fresh water fish. Not as bad as fucking with bees. But a close second.
Another problem to be solved with more computation and human backed reinforcement learning, surely.
Those aren’t listed are they? The idea you need to release code for the os, file system, network routers, etc is absurd.
I don’t think it’s super relevant for the challenge to be similar to the day job challenges. Maybe it’s even unclear what those are at the point of interviewing.

What is important is that the candidate’s skills generalize well to both the challenge in the interview as well as the day job. A question like this might be a good indicator or not depending on the job.

If people completely fail at this question it can reveal a lot of relevant information.
A question I used for a number of years was a simple "compression" algorithm that would turn a string of lower case letters into a shorter string by length encoding using the capital equivalent:

abbbbbcdddddde => aB5cD6e

The number of developers who struggled or utterly failed with this was depressing.
Whoever wrote this article is either disingenuous or lacks critical thinking skills. For example, it says:
"It also tells kids, and I quote, that institutions “chronically favor white people and disadvantage people of color.”"

The quotation doesn't say that. The quotation is defining institutional racism and saying that one case of it is if institutions create outcomes that chronically favor white people... The fact that this author could jump to that interpretation of that sentence is ridiculous.
Again, hyper-cynical words but not a lot of meaning. Gun to your head, would you choose the facts from the NYT or from Steve's Dipshit Blog? It is and always has been and always will be a matter of degrees.
> Ironic, considering how user hostile Mac OS interface is.

You might not like it, doesn't make it user hostile. At least not without further expanding, because it's definitely not just a fact as you seem to state.
True, but the reason that I don't do that (instead, I just don't do subscriptions at all) is that is a lot of recordkeeping and attention capacity to spend. Much more than I'm going to do (whether I intend to or not).

I'm guessing that a substantial number of people keep subscriptions they don't really use because of the same effect -- they aren't putting in the work to actually track them, so they get forgotten about.
Is demanding something in the ballpark of what you are offering yourself deplorable?
> I believe knowing their data-structures and algorithms is the difference between an okay programmer and a good one

For me, the difference between and okay programmer and a good one is: how much Linux/Unix they know (processes, core system calls, networking, sockets, awk/sed/bash). Whether you are writing apis for ecommerce platforms or writing custom k8s providers, Linux knowledge is a must. Knowing how to implement a trie? I bet most of us have never been in that situation.
Anecdote v anecdote, matey. As with anything, if they work for you and others, that's great. I have a feeling that it may be a demographic thing related to geographic area, that and the times have of course changed and dating apps are far more mainstream than they were a decade ago.

An additional anecdote though as an in-between of both of ours: my mother in the UK met a man from Canada in a chatroom over twenty years ago, divorced my father, and they're still married. Not to say that it has always been smooth sailing at times for them (he's got paranoid schizophrenia, she's physically disabled now), but they're happy, so meeting people via software evidently does work for some people.

I mean, look at us, we don't know each other, but we're having a conversation, so if that idea is extrapolated to a dating app, sure, I can buy into the idea that they can be effective for some people.
There are a finite number of words in the dictionary, which implies there is an upper bound in the length of words.

The maximum number of iterations is the length of the longest word in the dictionary.

This means that part 1 of the problem can be solved in O(1)+O(1).

That doesn’t mean you will be happy with it. Not all O(1)s are equal.
No, it doesn't. It doesn't believe anything, it's just generating a story for you that sounds credible enough for you to go "yes, this is what an answer would look like". That's its job. That's its only job. Literally everything it says is fabricated, and if it happens to be the truth, that's a coincidence.
> Race struggles were a relic of the past 50+ years ago.

Race struggles were a current event 50 years ago. The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1968 -- 55 years ago -- for example, and it hardly represented the end of racial injustice in the US. (Indeed, it's still an ongoing process in some regards.)
It's called libel? I am really surprised this took much consternation for such an obvious answer. They would have to prove their statements were true which is impossible with a language model since it's basically unknowable -- the burden of proof is on Google. Not a good place to be.
People have already started writing the languages. Here's an example that I think is really neat: https://github.com/jbrukh/gpt-jargon.
US inflation at 5%, the lowest it has been since 2021
Will bitbucket.org sending me to oauth.atlassian.com fail with Total Cookie Protection enabled ?

Will someonlineshop.com redirecting me to payments.mybank.com fail with Total Cookie Protection enabled because the payments site uses cookies to store the return url for the online shop ?
We send staged phishing emails internally to see who takes the bait.

Leaving USB sticks lying around with some sort of callback to see who plugs them in is a really clever idea. We could probably catch the serial number range in Defender ATP.
I can't stand NPR. It's always one sided and always the typical US propaganda. CSPAN is where it's at for raw politics.
You're right, I misremembered/misspoke. I've edited my comment to make that clear. Thank you for the correction.
Sure I can. Watch:

It is not being pushed.

I'm on my phone so I can't back that up, but we've already established in this thread that is sufficient grounds to be believed.
The number of states is exponential for a general regex. This regex has an NFA closely resembling the trie for the dictionary. There could be at most one live state per depth in the trie. So the number of possible states is bounded at least by (words in dictionary)^(length of longest word). Really much smaller because the states at different levels have to share prefixes.
When you read "superintelligence", think "God". It's theology pretending to be science.
I think the majority of what made the M1 lineup so successful, was that they were on TSMC's 5nm before anyone else, and had that exclusivity.

November 2020 the m1 mac mini was released... September 2022 was when Zen4 came along, the next CPU to use the same node. Nearly a full 2 years.

Cinebench scores... The M1 Ultra got 24189 multithreaded... not that impressive but its tdp is 60w... at 65w the 7950x (eco mode) scored 31308 in the same test, down from 38291 at full power usage (170w).

It will be interesting to see if apple pushes for another exclusivity deal with TSMC for 3nm.
Switzerland has 3 languages, but they're quite region-specific. I live in the German region. The Windows Store always shows up for me in French. Geniuses. Hey Microsoft, you can probably geo-locate me, if not that, maybe you could at least honour the language I've chosen for the OS?

Also, Windows 7 reliably shows you what your current keyboard language is. This has not worked reliably since the beginning of Windows 10, it would often show "Layout is US-English" but pressing the key between T and U would give me Z (because in the German layout it is Z, and there are other differences). Or the other way around. Even more fun if you have German (Germany) and German (Switzerland), and you can't even use iterate through the layouts to find the correct one, because many times the control panel would lose all your keyboard layouts and the layout is in some undefined state. Fucking joke of an OS.
so why aren’t my gay friends on that list?

After all, if they are being bullied because they are gay, all gay people should be listed on there.
The parent trap: how to fix Britain’s childcare crisis
> images and charts and memes that were (and still are) posted to 4chan every day

Look, if people posting charts and memes you find distasteful bothers you this much, you frankly don't belong on the internet. And you can post the opposite perspective on 4chan, without censorship: you can be pro-Communist, anti-Ukraine, pro-CCP, whatever.

And if I wanted to, I could probably play the same game as you and mine the Nashville shooter's manifesto for examples of influences to target for censorship, except strangely, for some reason, they won't release it.
The best theory I've seen is that Zuckerberg was looking for an angle where Facebook could control a platform, rather than simply be a program on somebody else's. Look around, see VR, and think "This space is in its infancy, and doesn't currently have a market-dominant platform" and then bet big.

Because at the end of the day, Facebook didn't have much to lose. The social media wars were over, FB and especially Instagram had won. As long as they didn't actively break anything, the information->ads->money pipeline will keep flowing until the entire space gets disrupted by something fundamental shifting under their feet.

A VR-2ndLife that actually caught on could honestly be a relatively believable such shift. Ultimately it didn't, but that's still alright news for FB: no big changes means the gravy train is still rolling.
Saying this in a discussion about Citogenesis is funny to me. How would you even determine "factual accuracy"? Just look at the list. There are many instances where "reliable sources" repeated false information which was then used to "prove" that the information is reliable.

As far as I am concerned AI responses will never be reliable without verification. Same as any human responses, but there you can at least verify credentials.
> I'm pretty sure that even an actualy Nazi would realize that they do not have the option to just straight up murder you right then and there at the restaurant table.

The fact that you think that's a counter argument, indicates you have severely failed to consider my perspective.

I won't willing hang out with you if you knowingly hang out with them. If you try to force me to hang out with you, I believe you would be breaking the law.

Furthermore, if they were in my country, I'd have them arrested because membership of that group is outlawed here.

There is no possibility of civil discourse, not only between me and someone who wants me dead (which wasn't actually the scenario I was describing even though it was clearly what you described in the quote), but there is also no possibility of civil discourse between me and those who tolerate those who wish me dead.

If we meet IRL, and you try to defend actual literal Nazis, the most civil I'll be able to be is getting up and leaving, not any kind of discussion. It's hard enough to not be enraged right now, and here I have the benefit of an edit button and the emotional distance that comes with text.
SSPL goes way beyond AGPL as it contains an additional clause called "Offering the Program as a Service". It is not defined at all what constitutes providing MongoDB as a service. How many layers are needed to abstract MongoDB in a way that it doesn't trigger this clause? There are no answers for that in the SSPL. It comes with an enormous amount of risk compared to AGPL. There is a good article from Dor Laor at ScyllaDB which explains this in detail [1].

Moreover, cloud providers are not limited to AWS, Azure and GCP. Smaller providers whom we talked to are not able to negotiate licensing terms with MongoDB the same way as how AWS could. For this reason, these providers are not able to provide MongoDB as a service. Yes, it's great for MongoDB that they were stopped from providing MongoDB for free, but now they can't provide the service at all. This limits competition and choices, and that is never in the favor of users.

[1]: https://www.scylladb.com/2018/10/22/the-dark-side-of-mongodb...
None of that does a thing to make people actually want to use the product though. Nobody wants to strap a VR set to their head because it would be good for Facebook. I get why they want that to be true, but spending immense amounts of money trying to force it to be true has been a stupid waste.
chatcpt outputs everything just so confident since it's basically just a bullshit generator. it's markov chain word bots on steroids.
frankly, any evidence besides zero would be good, but ideally any evidence which is convincing. It's up to the conspiracy theorist, not the audience, to come up with such evidence, whatever it may be.

an example of evidence of such a conspiracy theory would be internal emails telling a reporter to go easy on the US government because a small portion of funding comes from it, or to attack X because the US government wants them to

statistical evidence would work too if it proves the claims of bias somehow, I leave it to you to figure out some examples
I suspect it's less useful as a "this person will excel" test and more useful as a "this person won't fail miserably" test.

Unfortunately the OP seems to be using it in the former sense (when applied to the tries solution that he things will separate the "good" candidates from the plodding lunkheads).
...which are really annoying when you do need to transfer data to your phone, but all you have in your bag are data-blockers ;)
I believe they maintain a whitelist for the big guys.
It’ll be a world where it’s important to know the right question to ask
I'd sum up that train of thought like this... A recruiter who comes back to the hiring manager with "this person is a superstar at [competitor] and we can steal them away" is a more persuasive argument, as well as a feather-in-the-cap for the recruiter, as opposed to, "this person is, well, Open To Work at the present time." At the very least, in the first case, you have to move quickly, which is desirable to the recruiter.

Or another way: imagine visiting a foreign city and there is an extremely busy restaurant and a mostly empty one. You're likely to go to the busy one first and ask if it's possible to get a table... the hostess says "normally no, but we just had a cancellation and its yours right now." Score! A story you'll tell all your friends. Getting a table at the empty restaurant... ehhh, whatever.
>Were they aware of the impression they were making on the public?

Left wing echo chambers are not the public, and certainly not in Tennessee.

The impression you seem to have is "insurrections" are okay as long it's leftist.
No. It isn't in decline. Saying it is in decline assumes there was a period of time where it was better.
There are a lot of bad programmers out there. There is, and always had been a lot of bad software
Try some kind of hobby!

Play (e.g. board) games with highly sensitive people that have the (social) skills you want to develop, hang around with them, try social dancing classes. Most people will pickup skills when it is necessary in context -- give it enough time and activity and it'll probably develop. Practice!