skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your interview has traditional comp sci academic questions instead of practical then perhaps avoid that company (unless it is academia).

What they should be asking you is to show the most optimal way to reverse the array, which is to find a popular highly optimised library and use that, one that is also likely to be far less buggy.

Algorithmic implementation screams academic, practical implementation yells experience.
The only way you can make that claim is if you had X% (for a large X) of your paying customers leave and start using GPT4 instead, resulting in an unsustainable drop in revenue. My guess is you never had those customers, and your company never gained any traction at all. Hard to blame GPT for that.
Maybe also the legal framework does not exist (yet). Doing a payment, no matter how small, may require to first accept some legal terms - depending on jurisdiction.
I was working a very undemanding job at the time and watched the "Cyber Symposium" (and other amazing shows on "Frank TV") out of morbid curiosity. Was very happy that Graham could get his eyes on the "data," even if the conclusion was obvious. How the hell were we supposed to believe that Mike got his hands on these so-called "packet captures"?
Good analysis of the goals of this test. That said, the failure was interesting to me.

In the SpaceX feed they were waiting for the second stage to separate and light, and it didn't do either. So first question is why didn't it separate? I think that is the relevant one because I would expect them to have interlocks that would prevent the second stage from starting up if it were still attached to the booster. The interlocks would explain not starting up the second stage engines.

One anomaly I noticed was that the booster did not appear to shut down 100%, ever. If that was the case, that would be important because the onset of "zero g" from engine shutdown is a well tested way for the next stage to know that the stage below it has stopped firing.

Some (many? all?) spacecraft rely on the physics of the expended boost stage being much lighter than the remaining stack. This disparity means atmospheric drag on the lower stage has a bigger effect than it does on the upper stage. If the second stage retention system "lets go" when it detects zero-g, then the two pieces will begin to separate, slowly at first, and then faster when the very un-aerodynamic opening to the top of the booster gets into the slip stream.

Depending on how the second stage interlock works, it could be timed (wait t seconds and then light up) or radar (wait for distance between first and second stage) or some communication between the booster and the stage. By time is cheap, but risks a slowly separating booster being "too close" and having it become damaged from the blast of the vacuum engines starting up. Radar is likely most reliable (and most expensive), and comms would work by there is a lot of ionization going on at that speed that makes them more difficult.

So questions I would look at; First, if all the raptors didn't shut down, why not? Second, did the booster attempt a rotation and re-entry burn with the second stage still attached? Third, is there a way to "abort to orbit" this scenario where the second stage decides to let go and light up even though the first stage hasn't shut down?

Fun to watch though, its a pretty amazing rocket and that they didn't have 4 (or 5) of the raptors firing when it started off was another thing to look into. On pad aborts are a thing too, but as the parent states, there are faults that you won't get any useful data, and those you note and continue on through. I think the non-start of the raptors was of the latter.
Lol. I clicked "discuss" to make this exact point. Glad to see HN readers are up on which satellites do what.
When did anyone realize that there generative AI was actually a product with wide consumer appeal? Or how many use cases there were for it as an API service? I'd say it wasn't really obvious until around Q4 last year, maybe Q3 at the earliest.

That's a pretty short time ago. So it seems that so far it hasn't really been a failure to execute, but more about problems with product vision or with reading the market right leading to not even attempting to have actual products in this space. That's definitely a problem, but not one that's particularly predictive of how well they'll be able to execute now that they're actually working on products.
Entirely anecdotal, but we've been using Google Worksapce since it was called Google Apps and my experiences with their customer support have been fairly positive. At one point, I had a rep chat with me for about 45 minutes trying to figure out a bizarre problem, then we figured out that it was likely something outside of Google's control and instead of saying "we can't help with that", he setup a call about an hour later with an engineer and himself so we could verify. Turned out to be a DNS misconfiguration (a TXT record was double quoted from what I recall), but we struggled to figure that out and after a 30 minute call, we had it fixed and they emailed me a week later saying they had updated both internal and public support docs to include my edge case and had introduced a more descriptive error.

It's not the best support I've received in the IT sector (Linode has always been my favorite for that; I worry Akamai will ruin that though), but it was pretty close.
I think you are both saying the same or compatible ideas.
Just set it to 20 years or something with no option to renew. There are plenty of government positions that have limit of like 5 years or something.
Being a brilliant ML researcher has approximately zero overlap with making products for people to use.
MDMA will never be prescribed for ADHD for the same reason that Desoxyn (aka methamphetamine) is almost never prescribed for it. It is way too easy to use those for recreational purposes and have a high risk of being abused.
If we start making incremental changes, there’s a chance our magic imaginary solutions might actually be implemented and get dirtied by the real world.
Googler here, opinion my own.

In some sense, it's PR, but not in the typical gimmicky way. Alphabet has had DeepMind for a while, and at this point with all of the competition in AI, it doesn't make sense to keep DeepMind at arm's length. I personally think it's a good move and gives me more confidence, but it doesn't affect me directly. I do worry what redundancies this causes with Brain and Research though.
Good naming choice after OpenAIs whisper for speech to text. Bark is fitting name for text to speech.
Zeidman's clearly all about getting that bread. In the photo he provided to the Washington Post for their article he's posing with his self-published Animal Farm sequel, where the animals are "woke" now.
My SO ended up with optic nerve damage. Speaking with the neurologist, they've seen a huge uptick in cases with optic nerve damage in both eyes for older patients which is unheard of previously. When the neurologist spoke with others in the same field at a conference, the same is seen all over the world.

I asked if there have been any studies to these findings, and she said no because there's no way to pinpoint covid as the root cause since most everyone has had it.
Does anyone else remember when Ubuntu releases felt...significant? Since 12.04 changes have felt incremental.
I'm not sure much changes here. People are simply not selling their home right now, because they know that the pool of buyers that can afford their desired price is smaller than it could be. There is definitely some effect where buyers are scared off by things like "on the market for 9 months", so sellers are kind of chilling right now unless they absolutely have to move.

My advice is to not time the market too much. I bought late last year; objectively not the best time ever to get a mortgage (or to convert your savings in stock into cash!), but I also wasn't competing with anyone for what I think is an extremely desirable apartment. I paid $110k under the original listing price, but I think their original price was objectively insane and would have not sold at that price for a couple years.

Keep an eye on listings; if there's something you want that you can afford, I say go for it. Because like you say, it's likely that rates will go down. (Don't bet your house on it, though. Get a fixed rate mortgage and then when rates are 18% 5 years down the road, you don't lose your home.)
PTFE is made using using a process that uses PFOA or another, similar fluorosurfactant. There are likely trace amounts of these fluorosurfactants left behind in the PTFE, which might be enough to cause issues.
Cell towers have no relation whatsoever to any of the different types of differential GNSS
interesting. an elderly person got both anxiety symptoms and crippling fatigue a month after covid. she seems to get better with anti-anxiety medications (has no mental issues). we literally scanned everything including brain, blood, abdominals, lungs, neurologic symptoms, everything. It's down to either post-covid fatigue, anxiety or both
Then what holds the rocket down while the engines are spooling up?

Could possibly this explain why there was so much lateral movement of the booster before it cleared the tower?
>I did not notice that. So, then it really doesn't tell us anything new.

It was in the linked article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3

It's always good to go to the sources when looking at these potentially overhyped news articles. I would love this to be the answer to depression, but I'm somewhat skeptical. I'm also cognizant of the power of the placebo effect (and related psychological factors) in changing the brain, having fully recovered from ME/CFS and severe depression/anxiety myself.
JEP 447: Statements before super()
Of course. It doesn't help what I'm getting pretty much the same IPs from my provider.

Double (triple|quad) hop, tied to different entities is necessary if you want at least plausible deniability. Thankfully I don't do things what may be of the interest of someone who can raid Mullvad offices.

But I recently discovered a VPS provider who only needs an email address to confirm an order, so it can be used as a bootstrap for a something pretty anonymous. Still needs an email, but as I said in some other comment recently, you can do that (if you are okay with leaving some traces) with a Google device with WiFi only capability.
Kind of upsetting given that BuzzFeed News was probably the sole good part of BuzzFeed.

All the other stuff people love to hate is staying. Quizzes, listicles, celebrity garbage, they’re keeping that
As per 2:

If I have to use my left hand, the figure should use its right hand. This way I can mirror the figure so from my perspective both hands move to the left.
The fact there is none is because humans are inherently heuristic and ads are the non invasive answer to being around and letting business models happen as any manual micro payments just wouldn't happen. What's our closest buy me a cup of coffee? And that's niche and really only adopted by those who have thought about this problem.
Ash HN: Can you turn on solar before SCE PTO approval?
heard mixed answers... anyone from SCE could give some insides ? thanks
> I stand by my assertion that nobody who has would consider it suitable for ADHD

If you modified that superlative to read "Most people who have taken MDMA would not consider it suitable for ADHD", then yes, I would agree with that statement.

I just don't find it a particularly profound or useful one, because most people have a particularly bad understanding of how recreational experiences translate to therapeutic ones.

(Most recreational methamphetamine or cocaine users would find it hard to imagine therapeutic uses for either drug, for example, even though both are well-established.)
Thanks, but I didn't find any details about performance of pre reinforcement training and after. Looking to understand more about the assertion that hallucinations are introduced by the reinforcement training.
history is semantic, coarse and fine. so essentially the same thing thats getting generated just using it as an input before the generation
Seems one could use GPS for less granular positioning and then use visual landmarks like the soil/crop edge from the prior pass or row locations to align for the next pass.
>Google is panicked about losing the AI race

What a shortsighted statement for a race that has barely gotten out of the gates. But, if any one company should be panicking then it's OpenAI at the thought of losing their minimal lead and getting crushed by the company, that invented most of the technology they use, put a significant amount of resources behind their AI initiatives.
Yes would be great if OP could share their customer count. Even if in the single digits or tens, there’s no shame in that
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It will most likely be approved as a schedule 2 drug only used in a doctor’s office. MDMA isn’t what is helping people, it is the therapy made possible by the MDMA that causes people to no longer have PTSD.
This thread is full of people saying that what Xerox did was some terrible mistake, but I think that it was much better that they could afford to do all this research which spawned a massive industry as a result than had they become this massive monopoly which controlled everything.

If Google spends billions of it's ad money doing original research that spawns a new industry with thousands of companies, that would seem to be a great result to me.
New columns.

For the headings, I mean the Wikipedia section headings (which isn't always a paragraphs, my mistake).

In both cases the data can be used like to classify/visualize Show HNs in your linked post.
What's the test fixture for realistic vibration oscillations of the support struts or combustion instability as the rocket breaks the sound barrier?

At some point, your in silico model needs real world data to validate it.
Come to think of it; I never saw the water deluge system come to life... did it?
Yep I definitely need to work on that transition (I'm the type of person that spaces out easily and would lose track of whether I'm in a break or exercise). I'll play around with a couple of ideas and hopefully resolve it tomorrow
What stops you from jumping on the GPT4 bandwagon?
Concrete which pelted the surrounding city and infrastructure, as well has hitting quite a bit of infrastructure in Starbase. We don't know what the total damage will be, but this was not supposed to happen, and is not good.
Sounds like you killed it yourself. Why not embrace the tech and incorporate it into your service?
Won’t matter because MDMA is bound to be a schedule 2 drug only administered at a doctor’s office.
My take:

1. All fundamental AI research now falls under Demis. So basically what was Brain is now Deep Brain.
2. Jeff will lead the product build out of a multi-modal AI (LLM).
3. Google research under James will continue with everything else not directly AI related.
“One of the first” doesn’t exclude multiple precedents.
Another easier option is to run the VPN client and torrent client in a Docker container, with networking separate from the host machine. Then the only thing using the VPN is the torrent client.
In general removing the gil will make things slower because you need to make sure things are safe. If most code out there is single threaded, removing the gil may not really have a benefit.
Whilst I imagine that this paper is technically sound, the entire discussion around weight loss on HN is utterly bizarre.

So there are pollutants that mildly increase appetite or decrease basal metabolic rate.

If you're gaining weight and don't want to, the knobs of diet and exercise are still there, they don't go away simply because the number of calories you need changes a bit.

Fast food and ready meals are in plastic containers. There is almost certainly a link between those and obesity. But you can eat both and be thin, or muscular and lean, or any body type you want really, if you modulate their use.

People budget all of the time with their money, but ask them to do it with food and it's like you have two heads.
"Combining our talents and efforts will accelerate our progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity"

...which is that we're not looking at enough ads.
> computer input devices

Are you saying like having some keyboard and mouse being made out of metal? Maybe ceramics or glass?
Ironically enough, that's the exact same line of reasoning that can be used to explain why we don't see media reporting on lizard people running the shadow government. Lizard people run corporations and, by extension, corporate media.

Just because you might say that my theory above is superficially less plausible than yours, it doesn't change the fact that both of them have the same amount of supporting evidence.
> reduced time between meals not allowing people to exercise their lipid transport in reverse.

I hadn't heard of this before, but it's interesting; despite receiving guidance to consume smaller, more frequent meals, I've found the practice has a negative effect on my own energy levels and weight stability.

Would you mind elaborating on this point, or providing links to further reading?
>This is kind of like saying "I have a slight bias against maps because one sent me in the wrong direction."

Maps giving the wrong directions is an accident. Journalists deliberately misleading for the benefit of their career/company is not an accident.

And continuing the maps analogy for the misinformation in finance, I would question the value of a map that often was entirely incorrect.

>People need a way to know what's going on in the world.

Why do people need to know what's going on?

I mean this genuinely because I have tuned out from national news, like buzzfeed, for a long time and it has only had positive effects on my life.
Wikipedia for example gets generous donations from all kinds of people. So paying freely for beneficial services is also known in non nerd circles. Micropayments would really help, spread that to smaller projects/sites, that cannot afford to also build a foundation structure.
Sure, ignoring past failures can always make someone on a winning streak look invincible. But calculating the underlying odds to hit even a 200 long winning streak with the observed failure rates on other systems wouldn’t be particularly unlikely.

These systems all are quite good, and they have tended to get better over time.
Seems like a great vertical for AI. Many successful startups have taken commoditized technologies and glued them together in novel and interesting ways. Why can’t you guys do that with GPT4? Don’t confuse the technology you developed with the product you are offering to customers
Doesn't this mean long COVID isn't a thing they could test for reliably given the low rates and the inability to give people COVID for the test? Observational studies on people already showing symptoms is about the best they could have done.
Hard Conway's Law
Most modern cellphones use AGPS, assisted GPS, to reduce the time to get their first fix. Basically, AGPS primes the GPS receiver with an accurate time of day and the GPS almanac (satellite ephemeris data). That's rather different from Differential GPS, which is basically corrections used to compensate for fluctuating conditions in the atmosphere.

I may be wrong, but I don't know of any system for cell-tower derived corrections being redistributed out as GNSS corrections. Could you clarify the specific system you described?
This move makes sense from the perspective that DeepMind has some street cred in their ability to produce novel models that solve interesting problems. The only issue is that DeepMind has also suffered from the same problems that the mothership has: an inability to execute. Are there any documented success stories of DeepMind making serious money off their models? They've been great at producing interesting and valuable research, but all of their partnerships have failed as far as I know.

Google's screwed because LLMs offer us a fundamentally different business model for search, and I'm not convinced though that you can actually make a company out of LLMs that is as wildly profitable as Google was during its hayday. If that's true, then I just don't see how any CEO could go to the shareholders and say: "in order for us to survive, we have to accept that we're going to be a much smaller company in 5 years, both in terms of head count and profit." Sundar would be overthrown in a matter of days.
yah I always wondered about that, all this BPA free stuff always made we ponder "well what replaced the BPA and do we know anything about it?" Seems like it would have served some role and some substitute would have to have been found otherwise it would have been a useless functionless addition to begin with and therefore an extraneous cost.
This content and tone of this comment is completely out of place, and a perfect example of what GP is criticizing.
"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."

Isn't this open source and can be easily removed or am I missing something?
ehhhhhhh sure but for how long? these statements stick out to me:

- "I’m sure you will have lots of questions about what this new unit will look like" aka we're not going to talk about specifics in public comms

- "Jeff Dean will take on the elevated role ... reporting to me. ... Working alongside Demis, Jeff will help set the future direction of our AI research" aka Demis isn't the only Big Dog in the room anymore
Why have I never heard of any of these? I'd figure I'd see at least a couple of brick and mortar institutions. Am I missing something major here?
Ask HN: BTC for Indie Project
Asking for BTC donations towards making a blockchain-based predictions market for the African ecosystem, based on the NEAR SDK.
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Thanks! FYI, on 2016 iPhone SE Safari, the pause button/counter/progress bar cover the text and make it unreadable. Will likely be using your app daily, though. The images clearly show what to do.
SpaceX has launched 9 crew missions with around 30 or so humans.

It is the only US entity with the capability to do so.
I hear it too. I don't know if it's just background noise though. May be quality issues with the audio synthesis.
Sadly, or interestingly, that was not an engineering lesson but a human one - don't trust the supplier.

Framed this way, I'm not surprised younger Elon's company missed it.
> ...nobody uses Bing if they want good search results.

Sadly, I think I'd argue that nobody has good search results anymore. Google's results have been SEO'd to the hilt and most of the results are blog spam garbage nowadays.
Space elevator is by far the most efficient though . . right? Stuff that's on the end of the cable has enough angular velocity to get flung all across the inner system. Lunar orbit could be reached with release at 50,960 km. At the end of a 144,000 km cable you could get to Jupiter. I dunno what sort of other zero fuel launch techniques are getting considered though - there's no doubt a space elevator is just out of our capabilities today and for a while yet. Probably until our automation is good enough for self-directed asteroid factories to be a Thing.
Evan Collins and Froyo Tam's work in identifying and labeling modern aesthetic trends is one of the coolest areas of internet research I've come across. They have done loads of scanning of old catalogs and magazines, uploading work to internet archive, etc. and formed the 'consumer aesthetics research institute (CARI)' to catalog it all. Tons of modern internet aesthetic trends like "Fruitiger Aero", "Y2k aesthetic" etc have largely been the work of these two and the CARI community. Their work and research gets constantly copied or shared without source, so I always try to point people back to the community that has done the hard work finding these trends.

https://cari.institute/