skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respect for being in the arena and working on a useful problem. Sorry about the decision.

Can I try to spin this moment in a different way: you have a fantastic story to tell as you pivot go head first into AI.

You’ve built amazing, relevant skills in an adjacent space. You’ve shipped, which is more than what most people do.

Rest, refuel, and put together that narrative. It’s an interesting time right now and I think there’s a solid route to raising some kind of initial funding for round 2.
The 5 million was going to a programmer and it was some weird thing with encryption of data
It was not some anecdotal fact that Bard got wrong, it was during their official public demo. It was a "scandal" because it showed Google was indeed unprepared and had no better product, not even preparing and fact checking their demo before was the cherry on the top.

Ethics is a false excuse because rushing that out show they never cared either. It was just PR and their bluff was called.

Also I skimmed over that Stochastic Paper and I’m unimpressed. I’m unfamiliar with the subject but many points seems unproven/political rather than scientific, with a fixation on training data instead of studying the emerging properties and many opinions notably regarding social activism, but maybe it was already discussed here on HN. Edit: found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382901
New Weights and Biases LLMOps tools, W&B Prompts, to support Prompt Engineers
If only Sundar Pichai was a good at executing on product & strategy as he is at winning internal fights at Google.
Our Way of Life Is Poisoning Us
How do you handle different LLMs having different vector spaces?
There is a subreddit dedicated to hair loss and techniques. I think one of the highly rated posts discusses use of weekly dermarolling, massaging the scalp, in combination with the regular things like finasteride, minoxidil, and ketoconazole shampoo. Anyways, this isn't exactly science. I think one mode of action to explore is increased blood flow helping with hair growth.

We know massaging an area increases blood flow to that area, in turn promoting better cellular metabolic processes. Dermarolling seems to do this through inflicted trauma/irritation to said area. I know one of the actions of minoxidil is a vasodilator.

Checks out. Worst case you just have really clean hair and developed a new daily mindfulness technique.
You have it mixed up. I've worked with the stats at NASA. Mission success and failure counts. Test quantity and quality count, test freedom counts, how they learn from test counts, but the test result does not count. This isn't a mission.
System76 Teases In-House Built Laptop
Depending how the authentication service was set, there could have been a possibility to scan the QR code with any TOTP 2FA app and have it working.

I guess that the university set up either the push notification feature or the numbers matching feature, which would render other TOTP compatible apps useless.
>Jeff Dean is clearly one of the greatest software developers/engineers ever but there isn’t much evidence that he is a brilliant ML researcher

Google have oversupply of brilliant ML researchers. What they need is a engineer that sees the applications of the technology so it can be turned into a product. Someone that can bridge the gap between the R&D team and the Bureaucracy.

Want an idea for a stupid product - input - description of a girl, hobbies, some minor flaws - output - create a poem. Have been using Vicuna quite successfully for that purpose.
As I understand it, the hardware design for the i860 made it incredibly hard to write a compiler for. This also helped it fail.
pg's reason for ending the death penalty is conclusive to me.

http://www.paulgraham.com/real.html
Don't worry, being french, I am used to making you guys get strokes. Carbonara with cream baby!
> because as much as people yell, NSFW makes up barely any of the front page content

This is a really important point. From what I can see, Imgur doesn't have a porn community, it just has a lot of porn because it's used as an image host by outside communities. Porn is probably a net drain on profit for them, since they make their revenue off of people who use Imgur itself, not from servicing direct image links posted on Reddit.
I've never seen meat get labelled with animal ate antibiotics. The labeling is useful and useless all at once
What's the value add on your comment? Of course costs matter for IBM and Amazon! They're publicly traded companies, and they need to make a profit or else!
Everybody and their dog is now jumping on the AI bandwagon, which in many cases means they download LangChain, use a prompt they copied from someone's tweet, concatenate it with user input and call GPT.

Companies with actual domain knowledge will be in much better position because they will really know how to leverage the full power of these new models instead of being blinded by the bling that (cherry-picked) works nicely in 50% of the cases.

My friend and me have a good natured competition in making an AI that writes stories. He's using a custom tuned LLama, I'm calling ChatGPT.

Making cutesy little stories is easy. Making anything you'd actually be interested in reading is freaking hard! We're not writers! We don't know enough to prompt/select/guide the AI to do it well!

Same in other domains. LLMs are powerful tools but they'll make you more poweful if you have the right domain knowledge (and seems these guys do). Don't give up, leverage it!
Can someone clarify what “too good to be true website purchases” is talking about? What does it have to do with AdSense?
Can the Optane Gap Be Filled?
Tell me more. What do you wish was different during the interview? What made you accept? What changed?
“You are not a tree. if you don’t like where you are, move.”

Happened multiple times to me and I recommend pulling the plug early. My resume has 3 jobs that lasted less than a year and 4 that have 5+ years each. People sometimes ask why that is so in interviews and my answer above always gets a chuckle and a nod.
I would be careful with waiving a giant "government" paintbrush. There's many different governments at play here all with different goals (sometimes incompatible).
I love your idea to implement GPT as the base for creating this game.
I used todays news articles to create a scene and it's so wild to me, that this is possible now. I'm not sure whether to be wary or to celebrate how this might create games that were never intended by the original game developers. Certainly going to be an interesting decade.
i think people forget they crashed a lot of starships doing the suborbital tests before they got one right. I think we'll see the same with the booster, expect more qualified tests success before you see something a layperson would call 100% success.
Usually I can tell whether something is a parody/joke website, but here I am struggling.
So, the challenge here is that these don't help be a better "programmer". However, they do stretch the mind which helps.

Unlike others, I love whiteboard code challenges. However, they really are a proxy to IQ which does correlate to job success. This works for big tech as they need more fundamentals especially if you hope to have any success climbing towards principal engineer.

Sadly, most jobs don't really need it and the reason is prices law. Applying the actual science in a real way is done by a handful of engineers in an org.
Jesus Christ, and this was at the height of the covid bubble. Faith in content sites is currently at rock bottom
>Soyuz has only had 140 flights

There has been over 140 crewed launches. For context, you seem to be counting both test/demo, crewed, and uncrewed F9 launches. Again, I don't know the exact number off the top of my head, but there's probably ~10 crewed F9 launches, so it's an order magnitude difference using the same metric. It's gets better though, when comparing total launches.
Criminal charges against Alec Baldwin dropped in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
> Sundar, Jeff Dean, James Manyika, and I have built a fantastic partnership as we’ve worked to coordinate our efforts over recent mo We’re also creating a new Scientific Board for Google DeepMind to oversee research progress and direction of the unit, which will be led by Koray and will have representatives from across the orgs. Jeff, Koray, Zoubin, Shane and myself will be finalising the composition of this board together in the coming days.

How is it different from Google's structure of having reviewing committees over everything? I hope that this is not yet another layer of gatekeepers. In a large enough organization, the high-level leads have such fragmented attention and such ingrained tendency towards avoiding political mistakes that they mainly contribute concerns instead of ideas, especially product ideas. As a result, they become gatekeepers and projects slow down. The larger an oversight committee is, the more concerns a project will receive, and the more mediocre the project will be because the team will focus on making the committee happy instead of making hard trade-offs with fast iterations. Of course, the Scientific Board consists of people way over my caliber, so they may well do a fantastic job for Google.
You want to enforce some more controls when you access to critical things, such as AWS, you can't with Google. It has no granular controls. Otherwise it's much easier. We use JumpCloud though, it's a mix between and more comprhensible.
This is one of the few things I pay for, in my opinion, worth it
Would the same apply to a GGML port or are the architechtures too different?
Not anymore, the current process does not use PFOA anymore. I think maybe 10 or 20 years now.
Makes sense. Tell me about some of the short ones. What do wish you'd known before accepting? What was different about the 5+ yr gigs?
The problem isn't the technology, it's the regulatory environment. If you're the payment processor who accepts Visa/Mastercard, the customer can do chargebacks.

Now you have some scummy site that scams a million people and uses your service to accept payments. By the time the scam is uncovered, the scammer has already withdrawn the money or paid it to someone else on your service. Holding the money in escrow for long enough to prevent this will piss off legitimate sellers and some jurisdictions prohibit it. The amount per user was like a dollar but in total it's millions of dollars, so you can't just eat it. But if you don't, the users issue mass chargebacks against your service and you get banned by the credit card companies.

To make it work, transactions for small amounts have to be caveat emptor, but the existing system doesn't allow that.
Unfortunately, that article is devoid of any technical information. Their library isn't open source so you can't verify their claims either.
China's 'King of Fairytales' quits over weak copyright laws
Interesting. I write many comments I expect to get downvoted. This wasn't one of them. Lots of Holodomor fans here.
I have seen that analysis too, the twitter thread suggested that both HPUs on the booster eventually failed before second stage separation. That could be quite significant.

Also the lack of gimballing capability could presumably have the booster continuing to thrust as it attempted to maintain attitude control even as it reached the MECO point.

I wonder how much of this learning can be applied to the next launch as they may have design issues that are already "baked in" to the built boosters.
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I see that quote, and it's Wikipedia being overly technical. PTFE is not in the same category as the other PFAS.

PTFE is missing the reactive tail that makes the other ones so problematic. It's in the same chemical family, yes, but is very different in its properties.

> Remember Teflon coated pans?

I have plenty of them.

> And how you are supposed to throw them out if they're scratched?

That's not true now, and has never been true. (Other than perhaps the scratches making your food stick.)
if i don’t eat collagen because i’m afraid of prions is that overkil?
Very interesting, thank you!

This correlates perfectly with my experience: When I've tried to incorporate breakfast or other frequent small meals into my diet, I've found it wreaks havoc on my energy levels and feeling of fullness throughout the day. Without attempting to "fast," I've found that I feel best and experience fewer "crashes" when I skip breakfast and after-dinner snacks. You've just explained a convincing reason why that would be the case.
Sounds like integration with Plaid or one of their competitors.

But from personal experience, even if a bank is listed on their sites, it doesn't mean that the integration actually works.
Cerebras’s Open-Source GPT Models Trained at Wafer Scale
The article says that it's claimed that Huawei is... but that it's misleading (virtual shares) and that whenever ask the question dodgy answers are given.
> One of the first things Zelensky did after Russia invaded was to outlaw all other political parties.

That assertion appears to be an exaggeration from what I can tell. Can you back up your statement that all other parties were banned, as opposed to some?

> Ukraine suspends 11 political parties with links to Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspen...

> Late last year, Zelenskyy announced Poroshenko was being investigated for treason, and this past March, 11 political parties were suspended and any of their elected members dismissed from office for being pro-Russian. Most were fringe, but one party had nearly 10% of seats in Ukraine's Parliament.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110577439/zelenskyy-has-cons...

Certainly banning some is starting down a path, but there is a big difference between All and Some. Particularly in the context of a country being invaded.

The consolidation and control of television outlets in Ukraine by Zelensky is also worth noting, of course.
Perhaps a naive question: What was so special about silk? It seems it was just a luxury article for the rich. I assume unlike today, not many people had a lot of disposable income to spend on luxury products. So I don't understand how silk could have been economically relevant compared to other non-luxury goods.
> It’s free

I want to pay for my Linux.

I’d write a wishlist but anyone could write another one, but I’d take any OS that convinces me to pay $300 a year.

I’d pay for anything as nice as macOS (with the old control panel). I pay that price for my IDE and an OS is worth way more, open-source at that, which actually advances humanity. Linux is the VIIth wonder of the human civilization, a demonstration of human selflessness, as opposed to Windows, Linux will be here in 50 years becauE OSS is a donation of code to our children; Also no human construction has ever been so widespread across the world and even on other planets (Linux is powering the helicopter flying on Mars), of course I wish I could pay for… for a Linux that made me productive, not like Ubuntu.

Also paying means it would actually receive good marketing teams.
> In addition, this isn't publicly funded, so it would seem if some of the people get spooked by not understanding the goals of a launch correctly, then it doesn't really matter that much.

It does matter that we are scattering debris over a large area for no reason. It does not matter if that was done by the flight termination system or other mechanism.
Ask HN: Is it worth it for me to learn Go or Rust as a Data Engineer?
I've been working as a data engineer now for about 4 years professionally, exclusively in Python and the various flavors of SQL. I also have some experience in C, C++, C#, and Java from university. I have seen the occasional job post that mentions Go or Rust as something that would be nice to have. I have yet to encounter any projects in my career either in-house or otherwise that uses these languages. Would it be worth my time to learn them on the side or to try and propose our next tool, pipeline, etc. be written in one of them?
Babylon.js 6.0
TSMC expects Q2 sales to drop by 16% as clients struggle to clear inventory
Lets look at both sides of the coin here - this is research, it isn't meant to be quick. Throwing lots of money into research is about letting lots of people try to tackle a problem to find the 1 person in the ignorant, seething mass of average humans who happens to know how. It is expected that most money on research will be wasted funding people who, in hindsight, had no idea and were doing something that was in fore- and hind- sight obviously not going to work [0].

Although, that said, I do want to stand up for the anti-government argument here. The NIH isn't going to be as effective as a private market at identifying who is effective. Everyone is affected by COVID, it isn't like they need to force people with money to take an interest in what is happening here. Ironically, although the NIH is effectively throwing people at a problem here to play the odds, we'd probably find that a private organisation is much better at it by similar logic. I'd keep an eye on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation myself, Gates seemed to be quite busy through COVID. Similar efforts by other wealthy people are also likely to be happening.

[0] Vulcanization is a fun example. Both in fore- and hind- sight the experiment didn't work. Dude just happened to be clumsy.
but pultzier was not always an industry award. back in the duranty days washingtone post directly contradicted nyt.
What does "null routed at root" mean here? Is this a form of DoS attack?
Freakonomics I believe it was, had a podcast on how Journalism is a public service. Meaning, it should be funded by grants.

Why and how is it a public service? I wish I could remember the episode.

1. When journalists investigate their local politicians it helps keep those politicians clean.

2. Strong local papers and journalism is taken into account by loan officers who in turn save the municipalities tons of money by shaving off a percentage of a loan. This is massive returns when it takes 20million to build a local high schools, Libraries, etc.
Question is, would they make more or less profit by making new rockets versus refurbishing the existing ones? By how much?
It is certainly an interesting phenomenon, and I wonder what techniques from neuroscience for brain mapping could be used for model "brain mapping", which could lend itself more to prompt engineering as a science (latent space mapping).
An advanced form of comedy, indeed! Bravo! Not even The Onion could have done it better!
Really like this.

For the timer you should use a mono font so it doesn't jump around so much as it's ticking down.

A sound between stretches would be helpful for the times I can't see the screen. Would be good to be able toggle off/on.
Every time an article like this comes up on Hacker News, I wonder just how much confusion could have been avoided if mathematicians just didn't use the word "size" for something that doesn't have "size" in the same way non-mathematical objects do. Just call it "larger cardinality" or something.
The crux of PG's argument

"This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty. We don't even reach the point where theoretical questions about the moral justification or effectiveness of capital punishment start to matter, because so many of the people sentenced to death are actually innocent. Whatever it means in theory, in practice capital punishment means killing innocent people."
Do we know this for sure?

Yes, they both have management engines (as does every modern CPU), which is a potential risk... and AMT/DASH/IPMI is a bigger risk. However, I wasn't aware a backdoor was ever found?
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?

T+00:16 - Shortly after liftoff, when the engine graphic first appears, three engines were out.
https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2721

T+00:28 - Sparks are seen in the engine exhaust and some flashes.
https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2733

T+00:40 - A fourth engine is marked out.
https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI

T+01:02 - A fifth engine is marked out (just after the announcer says "we're throttled down and throttled back up")
https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2766

T+01:08 - More sparks (streaks) come from the engine
https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2773

T+01:16 - There is a shot of the aft of the rocket and it looks like six engines are out
https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2781

T+01:19 - MaxQ is called
https://youtu.be/-1wcilQ58hI?t=2783

My totally uninformed speculation is that the first stage did not achieve the target velocity (and trajectory?) due to the 6(?) engine failures so the first stage continued to burn and the second stage never separated because the separation conditions were not met (velocity/trajectory).
I was surprised by the quality of the results from Claude, I hadn't used it until recently. I asked it for strategic advice about playing a game of Magic: The Gathering and it gave what felt like pretty nuanced advice (talked about "resolving" spells, which is parlance only really used by avid players).
Try using the search box at the bottom of the page and sorting by date, HN's search works well as it's de facto curated and scored.
"Sun Microsystems literally invented Java and has done a ton of open research on RISC, how are they not able to execute as those technologies are exploding"
AFAIK the USB ports on RPi are shared with other peripherals. And there is no way you can connect more than 2 SATA drives without additional HW .
No, it's precise. I like to be precise.

He claims things get brushed away by a certain subculture but can't or won't give examples.

He provides his bad experience but seems to believe that must overshadow any good experiences of others' like mine. It doesn't because my experience with drugs has been generally positive and MDMA actually turned my life around. Without it my life would not be worth living now (and I assure you it's not much fun even now) after a childhood you could not imagine.

He laments that nobody told him the risks but clearly didn't make sufficient effort to determine them. Two words and one click on the web and he would have found plenty.

Respond to what I said, not what you want me to have said.

(edit: cleanup & clarify)
Low quality rocket full of fuel? I don't think anyone wants it on their launch pad.
They are good at execution…

It might help to reflect on what the upsides of this have been for OpenAI, re execution.

On the face of it, execution is often all that matters. FB v myspace, AMD v Intel (eventually), Uber v Lyft, MS v Apple (pre 2001), Apple v MS (post 2001) etc.
As an insider in the industry I can tell you the digital news era is well and truly over. We are in the influencer age now. And this has all been part of a purposefully executed plan by the big web platforms to keep people on their sites and apps rather than have them leave and go to external domains. Any online publication that wants to survive will have to run with a skeleton team full of workaholics. And that will be just to break even and get by.
I used to take melatonin as a single-digit-year-old child in the '90s alongside Ritalin. I used to find that the although the melatonin definitely put me to sleep, I didn't feel all that rested for it—it was more like blinking then waking up hours later.

I'd be interested to try it again after reading the link. My sleep hygiene is frankly appalling, sometimes I can be awake for days on end, and it's been that way ever since I was born, even prior to Ritalin. I don't currently take Ritalin, but intend on starting again. I know I need to take better care of myself in my thirties, that's an inevitability for everybody.

I think I went to a sleep clinic as a child, but don't remember much about it or the results.
granted, there is this "us vs them" mentality, but prior to the whole Xi/nationalist thing, weren't a lot of chip engineers going back and forth, employment-wise, between TSMC, SMIC, and other mainland companies?