skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some thoughts:

1) Some companies have had the same job ads open for well over a year. Did they forget to close the role? Do they even have a People team reviewing applications? My guess is they're not actually hiring, and that the roles are listed to make it seem like the company is healthy and growing.

2) Every now and then I'll receive almost an instant decline from the ATS—my guess is that the application didn't pass a filter, or they're not able to hire in a specific state, so it's an automatic no. I try to hone in on the "this role is available in these states" sentence before I bother with an application. Often times it's not listed.

3) Recruiters who I chatted with three months ago, who were new to the company at the time, have now moved on to another company. These conversations are always difficult, because it's clear the recruiter doesn't know anything about the work to be done, or the company, nor do they posses the language to ask good and relevant questions. And now, these people aren't even at the company. Had the hiring manager or team lead handled the first interview, things might have gone differently. We miss out on a lot of great roles and opportunities due to recruiting stupidity.

4) I'm "getting older" and I'm finding it difficult to chat with some of the younger folks in the interview process. They've all bought in to the same VC rule book for hiring and team building and it just doesn't resonate with me at this point in my career. And, I've seen a lot of weird camera setups that make it challenging to have a conversation. I had a video call recently where the recruiters camera was pointing at the side of the his face—full on side view—and he was looking at my video on his screen positioned directly in front of him for the whole meeting. He never once looked at or in the direction of his camera. Bizarre.

5) I was using my HEY.com email address for applications, wasn't getting any traction, switched back to my Gmail address and got a few first-replies almost right away. My sense is that HEY is still seen as a "novelty" address, or similar to seeing a Yahoo or AOL address on an application—you make a quick judgement about someone based on their email address.

6) I had been linking off to my website that has an expanded profile and work history, but almost no one clicked through to read. It has had minimal visits, only one person has referenced the site during an interview, so I've stopped including it on applications. And in general, I think it's possible to "share too much" ahead of a first interview. The website might do more harm than good.

7) I've got a lot of work experience, so my résumé has always been a neat two pages. I switched back to a one-pager and seem to get more hits with the one page format.
Hearing the cheers from the team after the explosion, it seems like good news
Tensorflow is also from Google Brain, not DeepMind.
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We don’t have to stretch, plenty of people have ADHD and have taken MDMA, I can tell you personally that MDMA is in no way a substitute for regular adhd medication. Like, not even close. MDMA is basically a social/lovey high that mildly distorts your vision and senses, it is not something you would take regularly to help focus on work. And taking it once isn’t going to help you focus better after taking it
The Value of Science [pdf]
Please change the height to feet
Looking at Swiss banks it is not listing either Credit Suisse (okay, it's zombie currently, I give you that), nor UBS. The list seems to have some holes... actually I see only a very few new Swiss fintechs listed, and nothing else, none of the big or mid-size "brick-and-mortar" banks.

Or you mean, if there is no commission, then it won't get on the site either? In this case I'm not a fan of the business/portal idea.
I was surprised that max q happened at a velocity well below mach 1. The falcon 9 rockets traveled around mach 1 when they passed max q if I remember correctly.
I see your point but that incident didn't happen in a any way that can be tied to the regulatory measures that different states take, whereas gun crime can, so it feels like something of an apples and oranges comparison to me.

Want to say as an aside from the discussion that I'm sorry to hear about your friend and I hope that you got all the support you deserved during that time and since.
How often does public funded media investigate those funding them?
One of the goals is to work with loggers to provide an alternative path to prosperity.
Good luck to those affected I suppose, but a quick glance over https://www.buzzfeed.com/ suggests that little of value will be lost.
Not yet but I'm researching how scientists test for consciousness. I'm excited about the possibility. I'm open to the idea, for example that consciousness is universal force like gravity and our human brains focus it to produce the effects we witness in ourselves. If that's true, then it could possibly arise in a machine we build. It's a far out idea, but idea of consciousness as a universal force has been proposed by some famous Western physicists and many Eastern philosophers. It would explain a lot. I just don't think were there yet with GPT-4 but I could be wrong. I think we have a long way to go so talking about disaster scenarios is good sci fi but premature.
Finasteride.
Any idea what the training data for this is? Looking at the model, it looks like it is literally just copy-paste from Karpathy's nanoGPT, so the training data is what's most interesting. Pretty amazing anyway.
This is a accurate reflection of biases of humans in general. A good story trumps truth.
I made a thing: A Musical Motivation machine (play's that 1 good break)
Drawing a bright line between research vs products and considering only the former to be "innovation" is a way to become quickly irrelevant.
I'm a sw eng. and sometimes I just need to hear the drums from "In the air tonight". Sharing in case anyone else does.
I'm a they.
> All with the aim of being helpful enough to get google to send them traffic

All? That's such a ridiculous generalization that it's practically a lie. If that's all you remember, then I suggest that your experience has been too short and/or limited. Before Google even existed there were tons of sites that were there for reasons other than ads. (I've been involved with the internet since before it became public BTW, plus Usenet and other things before that, so I have some perspective.) Even after Google became the ad behemoth it is today, plenty of sites flourished while having nothing to do with it. I had my own blog from 2000 until last year, moderately well known in some circles, but neither I nor most of the other bloggers I interacted with had anything to do with ads. There were forums without ads, e-commerce sites without ads (not counting their own), etc. The current situation, where everything seems to be a walled garden or infested with ads, is pretty recent ... and even now, there are plenty of sites that decline to play that game. Like the one we're having this conversation on.
From the readme:

>Bark has the capability to fully clone voices - including tone, pitch, emotion and prosody. The model also attempts to preserve music, ambient noise, etc. from input audio. However, to mitigate misuse of this technology, we limit the audio history prompts to a limited set of Suno-provided, fully synthetic options to choose from for each language.

It's not immediately clear how the audio history prompts are created.
$141 for 128GB ram + 2x 2TB NVMe SSD, and a very fine 16 core chip. This is a pretty solid offering.

If you get a 1 year up front price reserve instance (lot of caveats there), a m5ad.2xlarge is $176/mo. 32GiB, 8vCPU, and a 300GB NVMe ssd on a 2019 era Epyc. That's the best offer I could find from AWS for something near that price point. Having 4x the RAM, way more SSD space, and 8x the cores, on a dedicated machine sounds great. And it makes sense as an offering, is a reasonable offer, attainable.

Hopefully these come to more than the 1 data-center! :)

I do wish there were more low-end colo hosts. Places like Joe's Data Center willingness to take a couple random mid towers is so nice. The idea of doing something like this at an even lower monthly cost is so tempting.
There's also different levels of trauma involved in the kind of assault you're likelyt to come up against. Being held up at gunpoint is something I can't imagine happening in my life.
Holy crap, I've seen GPT models hallucinate api calls often enough, I would be shitting my pants when touching anything related to a drive.
Github Copilot seems like a pretty clear example. They charge a subscription that's in excess of the marginal cost of inference.
Having to explain the gap in employment from 2018-2023 would be hard. A requirement for many retail jobs(I don't remember it being this way 10+ years ago) is to list 5-10 years of work history and explain gaps.
Gluten Psychosis: Confirmation of a New Clinical Entity
Tom Lyon said in a podcast he has some, he said his wife was in Intel Marketing and they were giving them away. You should be able to find him.
The AI primitives are pretty basic. The real brains are figuring out how to make the best model. The engineering integration are pretty straightforward
Right. You know that DeepMind did AlphaGo, right? It made its entrance in 2015.
That's my bias as well. To me, it seems like every day someone releases a new AI toy, but the thing you would actually want is for a real software engineer to take the LLM or whatever, put it inside a black box, and then write actually useful software around it. Like off the top of my head, LLM + Google Calendar = useful product for managing schedules and emailing people. You could make it in a day of tinkering as a langchain demo, but actually making a real product that is useful and doesn't suck will require good old fashioned software engineering.
It costs nothing to be empathetic.
Look at SIP vs Facetime. We already had SIP av calls forever, few ever heard of it.
> Almost every political party in western democracies are “liberal” in the classical sense.

Wrong. They are neoliberal, not classically liberal.

Classical liberalism (belief in naturalistic free market economics) failed in the 20th century and neoliberalism took its place, characterized by top-down micromanagement of economic ecosystem.

In other words, classical liberalism insists markets will thrive only when left to their own devices. Neoliberalism insists markets will thrive only when managed by competent administrators (see Federal Reserve).
Propublica is doing such good work, I'm glad to send them a monthly donation
That's explored in section 5.1 of the Szabo paper.

tl;dr: you basically have to cap how much the sites can charge to avoid the pot getting drained by a bad actor, but that just creates an incentive for every site to charge the maximum - why wouldn't they? There's no human deciding after all. So then you're basically deferring to, and trusting, a central actor to set the price for all this content. Then premium content makers have to demand a higher price to make the economics work, which in turn, means everyone sets their prices to the new upper tier.

That has its own serious implications, and comes with much of the same hazard as Google has today, IMO. By eliminating the agency in making that purchasing decision you eliminate much of the benefit of a market for content.
The whole point of Buzzfeed News was actual journalism the clickbait on the main page (which isn't being shut down) paid for...
I hear there's office space they could use in Edmonton ;)
I was just poking that the parable ignores that the iterative side also requires an additional element - a target state to converge to over time, whatever that may be - repetition isn’t sufficient.
HN is an English language site for an incubator VC company that is based in California, with a heavy focus on Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

Like, what do you expect?
Using Apache Kafka and .NET
Journalism awards are total bullshit. Look at the Pulitzers given out for the investigations into Trump and Russia and made up Critical Race Theory. This polk award for exposing right wing misinformation does not mention the suppression of the Hunter Biden story which the faithful mainstream media, including Buzzfeed news, decided to censor.
I've reached out to contracting companies and vise-versa, but nothing's ever come out of such connections.
I'm a native speaker and I always appreciate corrections.

Getting upset about being corrected means you've got so much hubris as to think that you think you couldn't possibly be making any mistakes, or so much ego as to think you are above being corrected... or both.

To NOT correct people because we might "offend" them leads to a world of clueless idiots thinking they're infallible geniuses.... Crap. We're too late.
I wonder how models based on MACHOs predict the Einstein rings to look.
We don’t want other countries weapons guided by our gps satellites!
> Despite talk of alternatives in these comments, there is nothing on the market that checks all of the same boxes that the APU2 does: 1) AMD64 2) fanless 3) low power 4) multiple interfaces 5) under $200.

ODROID-H3/ODROID-H3+, maybe? [1, 2]

1) AMD64/x86-64 architecture (Intel chip).

2) optional fan; I'm unsure if it's necessary for any particular load

3) 2W at idle up to 18W with CPU+GPU pegged

4) 2 2.5GbE NICs builtin, M.2 card available to add another 4

5) bare board is $165 direct from hardkernel (H3+) or $129 (H3). Almost certainly over $200 once you include RAM, SSD, case, power supply, and shipping, but I think the same is true for pcengines stuff too?

[1] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3/

[2] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/
That's true, broken clocks are sometimes right and all that.
This is a whole-body PFOA content of < 10µg. How do individual people avoid it? Moving to towns with better water sources? The amount they say is significant is lower than the average across the U.S. population for both PFOA and PFHxS.
I decided to start with online banks but traditional banks will be added soon too
This is pretty standard? A division I worked for years ago received $20 million per year from the DoD for a “pilot” that never even launched. We got paid for 5 years before the plug was pulled. The government is an endless fountain of cash.
Not shortcuts. Anyone who's taken any psychedelic will tell you that. They're maps of the mountain passes, to use your analogy. (Or maybe maps to the maps)
What was your general background prior to this position?
I love this philosophy, but question whether it needs an acronym that implies it's a system. Unless there's more to it than "have a personal blog, and promote it."
As that article describes, Huawei is effectively employee-owned, though the legal arrangement is not straightforward (because of China's laws on stock ownership at the time Huawei was founded).
They'll need one that won't turn to a hail of debris and a crater though, that may be somewhat more work.
> tri-state means everything is off, so one transistor can't also be on at the same time.

I'm using tri-state to mean it has three distinct states. The output transistors are not sharing a control wire to make them one on, one off. If that's wrong use, I'm sorry.

The point I'm making is that it's easy to make it so the output transistors don't fight, even if the one that's enabled gets a halfsies voltage, because the other one won't also get a halfsies voltage, it will get a pure digital off.

> Damping dissipates heat, so damping by controlling the output transistor requires a bigger output transistor. Damping the output transistor also changes the electrical characteristics of the pin.

I'm assuming it's already kind of heat resistant because it only sometimes fails when shorted with no limiter at all. And if you damp it enough you won't make much heat. But fine, let's ignore that. You already brought up just turning it off at a certain point. If that's what's needed, so be it, because that won't change the characteristics.

No magic needed to keep the characteristics the same if you're just turning it off the way it normally turns off.

But I still don't understand how a transistor with an input that damps it is supposed to cause voltage spikes in excess of the same transistor with an input that doesn't damp it and always switches with maximum aggression, with only the control logic changing.
There's a massive gap between >50% of the population farming and GPS guided tractors that apparently don't need a driver.

Edit: I say don't need a driver, or whether they always needed a driver who now just needs to drive, but that to me doesn't constitute 'crippled'
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I was let go in December from a contract gig at a startup after they lost their funding from a large semiconductor company that was/is cutting costs in a big way. I think we were doing interesting stuff and if we'd had another 6 months or so of funding our corporate patron could've benefited from the tech we were creating. Now, AFAICT the startup has been entirely mothballed.

> How did you feel then vs now? Are you doing alright?

At the time they cut us I felt like it was all futility. We were working on something that could save save power by making certain workloads run much more efficiently, seemed like something worthwhile, but there was no money for it anymore.

Doing OK, just feel kind of 'meh' about looking for work... interviewing in tech really is the worst and TBH I have a lot of what I call "interviewing PTSD".

> Are you looking for/have you found work?

I have been sort of half-heartedly looking for work - basically just doing the minimum 5 contacts/week to keep my unemployment coming in. We paid off our house at the end of last year so not feeling really particularly worried as my wife is still working and we get our health insurance from her job.

I've had 3 interviews in the last 4 months. In two of them I ended up saying "I think this is not going to be a good fit for either of us".

> How do pay/benefits (remote, etc.) compare?

Not sure, haven't gotten to any salary negotiation stage.

> How have your feelings about the industry changed?

I've been in the "industry" for over 30 years, I'd say my feelings about the industry changed about 10 years ago when "tech" became synonymous with "social media". Silicon Valley hasn't been about silicon for quite a while now. When I was younger I was really excited about new tech developments, but now I'm just not sure that we're doing good for the world anymore, in fact it seems like there's more bad than good coming from our industry in that last several years.

I'm lucky to be in a financial position to be very picky about what I work on - I have to find it interesting and it needs to seem beneficial somehow. I'll probably just consider myself semi-retired if I don't find something that fits my criteria in about 6 months.
Who knows, our Earth could be one of those.

It would certainly explain things, like why we seem to be out nowhere.. I mean there is no signs of life, against all the odds. Deep mission alright.

It would explain why we started agriculture, civilisation etc so suddenly. It would also explain many of the myths, such as the ones about star people visiting us.

I would obviously create and seed a planet first, then monitor its development upto a point before going in to live onsite. Maybe we had created some folks there to do some gardening. When you arrive and they're treating you like a king and after you left eventually the stories started to seem like fairytales.

It would fit with the idea that there was an ancient advanced ciliation, who was wiped out about 12,000 years ago, because of something like flood, solar events or asteroids caused floods etc. or they decided to reboot the experiment. But few who survived were able to restart civilisation at some basic level at least.

Since our ancestors were wiped out there has been this state of amnesia, like Graham Hancock puts it. We have been left wondering in the dark, asking ourselves who we are, why are we here and if there is anybody out there.

Maybe "the gods" will return some day and offer us way back home, but we will probably try to shoot them. All thanks to Hollywood brainwashing the world to imagine that aliens are some space insects who want to turn us into batteries. Why not imagine it would be more like the final episode of Battlestar Galactica or the world of Expanse? But who knows, maybe they're already here and some suspicious folks are freaking out.

Anyways, sorry about that. Just felt that this train of thought was supposed to be spilled out here. <InsetAllTheDisclaimersRequiredHere />
They mean main stream media voice of the elite reporting at its finest
you complain about partisan garbage and then link to the partisan garbage at heritage.org

interesting tactic
+1. Bell labs said hi
Seagate, Western Digital/Hitachi and Toshiba are the only realistic options.
In the grand scheme and from the outside looking in being `good at execution` might be the most important thing.

There were plenty of touch screen phones before the iphone.
Not weird at all. People very often undertake projects, or are delegated projects with little experience in them all the time. Or different people responsible for different parts of the project don't communicate well with each other and things get overlooked. Happens in small projects like this, definitely happens in huge multi-billion-dollar projects too.

I can imagine that amongst all the preliminary permits and intermediate inspections, the "man trap" was never labeled as such and inspectors simply saw it as two sets of doors, which is very common in building entrances. The person responsible for implementing the security system very possibly worked with a small-business contractor with no knowledge of fire codes and had no communication themselves with the person responsible for compliance with fire code.
Are you at peace promoting more violence?
In the link you provided:

> Note that this data policy does not apply to OpenAI's Non-API consumer services like ChatGPT or DALL·E Labs.
I just had a look, then clicked over to Yahoo: pretty similar
They made the enormous mistake of releasing bard with a lightweight model. It instantly made google look like they were way behind, and made bard largely irrelevant.

Bard should have been limited access and been the absolute most power model they had.

Now everyone is questioning if Google actually can compete with OpenAI at all, despite decades headstart and far more research and funding.
> wonder how much of the mainland static about Taiwan is really about seizing TSMC

Virtually none. (It’s not something that can easily be seized.)
I think the most “negative toward the general populace” take I can get behind here is that our heuristic for “respectable journalistic institutions” is based too much on name-brands. I mean people could have skimmed BuzzFeed News and realized they were not BuzzFeed lists or whatever, and that’s a point against us all, but it isn’t that surprising.

It doesn’t really indicate that we don’t want serious journalism, just that we’re not really willing to give every service the benefit of the doubt.
There's definitely something amiss. Maybe we're just not seeing the whole picture, but Google has the best potential out there still. Not only vast and fundamental research came out their door (presumably there's more), but they also have their own compute resources and an up-to-date copy of internet.zip and gmail.zip and youtube.zip which they can train on vs what small and stale stuff (compared to Google's data) OpenAI trained their stuff on (like common crawl etc.). What gives, Google? Get on it!

edit: I forgot all about google_maps.zip / waze.gz and all the juicy traffic data coming from android.. which probably already relies heavily on AI