skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps at your institution, but where I consult it is much harder to fire an "at will" administrator than it is to fire an adjunct.

Even one who took a month of unannounced vacation out of the country then retroactively declared it as work from home when it turned out they had not even accrued the time they took. They were also only approved for one day a week work from home.

My point being at least where I work it is next to impossible to fire a full time staffer who is not attached to soft money. An adjunct though is essentially disposable once a year. Part time professors, at the end of any semester.
> what they want Windows to be.

A way to make as much money as they possibly can. Was this ever a question, really?
SPARQL queries are not yet compliant, the most important is in the wordlist.en.txt file, the goal is not to classify by word types but by SPARQL queries.

propranolol at line 134169 in en/wordlist.en.txt :-)
It seems you don't understand how this "foodchain" works—there will be nothing, no non-human or human animal, to eat if "we" run of out plant food sources. Everything consumed ultimately comes from plants.
I've had hearing loss and really loud tinnitus in one ear for more than 40 years, after getting mumps as a teenager. But if I'm not thinking about my tinnitus, I simply don't notice it. As soon as I think about it, it's there, really loud, like high-pitch radio static on maximum volume. Over time my brain has become accustomed to separating real sounds from the tinnitus. I can still really appreciate a quiet place, despite the roaring static in my ear. I'm sure that it helped that my hearing damage happened when I was relatively young, and that it only affects one ear, but the brain is amazingly plastic, adapting to cope with your limitations.
I do use a Mac. We spend a lot of time on maintenance. Here's my Saturday schedule:

* 7:00 AM find and remove duplicate files

* 8:00 AM reorganize the 2D layout of file icons within folders for maximum visual pleasure

* 9:00 degauss the LCD (really frustrated that you need third party software for this since the CRT days)

* 10:00 find and remove duplicate files

And so on. Finding duplicate files is just as essential as monitor degaussing, but you won't find this listed in the manual. You have to go to user forms where people will convince you of the need and get you to adopt procedures like the above to keep your machine at top performance.
Interesting article in Wired this month: https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-...
> OMG, you made me read his article, and only then realized how ludicrous the "cheapest-to-deliver option" is.

It’s not really ludicrous, the US Treasury isn’t selling bonds of every duration every single day. You need some kind of framework to outline which Treasuries are acceptable to settle derivative contracts like futures/options/CDSes since Treasuries are not directly fungible like equity shares or commodities.
You cannot simultaneously a) be the largest reserve currency in the world, b) be the backstop for all those states that require balanced budgets and can't pay for emergencies, c) have the largest military in the world, and d) require a federal level balanced budget.

Nationstate finances are not the same thing as personal finances or corporate finances. Trying to paint them the same is misleading at best and actively harmful at worst.
GPT-4 can pass the Amazon Interview in a few minutes.

Perhaps having a good reputation with developers won't be as important in the upcoming years.
Does anybody know how this happens?
On the contrary, personally I'd be on any competing platform were it as-good-as just to escape the Discord integration. Maybe if they didn't spend so long on that absurd homepage they could have built an API or something.
Thanks for your reply. I agree that non-monotonic logic seems a more useful way to deal with an uncertain real world than classical logic. I would be interested in following up on a few pointers, though I don't want you to spend too much effort on it, as I can't guarantee I have either the time or the aptitude to take it too far.
My impression is, Sundar has perfected it? I remember the post the other day that listed all the products that were killed over the years, that has been going on for a while. It would be interesting to see products launched vs. products killed, and average lifetime of products.
I cannot recall any occasion were I brought home a flu from visiting a page on the interwebs. Maybe you have a point with what you are saying, but I would not translate that to the internet.
Well you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents etc. Eventually inbreeding (if you can call it that when it's really distant relatives) starts becoming a factor so that some person may take up multiple "slots" in your family tree. But either way, it would seem that if you go far enough back every single human will be an ancestor of yours.

Edit: Just to clarify what I'm trying to get at is that there are probably quite a lot of Ancestors That Everyone Descend from.
If you want to go pro you could head to Vegas and compete in Schemaverse at DEFCON.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29375911
You’d still need to be able to specify _exactly_ what you want from the database in order for gpt to provide the corresponding sql. You’ll still need to understand the database structure and be able to think in terms of relations and what’s possible via queries.

Make irrelevant? Probably not. Make more convenient? Probably.
Disclaimer: used to work for Amazon a long time ago

I'm a little surprised to hear this as Amazon has only ever been a fantastic CX when it came to returns and this was by design from the early days.

That said, I can see a confluence of factors coming together - Amazon is needing to shore up costs as its share price is being hammered. This would lead to customer service being squeezed (or automated) and more stringent returns policies.

Also in the UK the cost of living crisis is def causing a measurable uptick in crime presumably at every node of the logistics pipeline, from picking & packing through to delivery and in the window between delivery and customer receiving the package.

In London package theft is a huge problem atm and wouldn't be surprised if this was a deliberate bait n switch rather than benign accident
Training the brain seems a lot easier than training an AI wrt the number of iterations. You don't need to process billions or trillions of tokens to understand English.
Of course. They were in charge at the time, see.
First look at humane wearable AGI
Some things are more resilient to those things than others.
> If A, B, C ... then Y is a self contained true statement.

This phrasing helps me to see your point; gives me something to think about. Thanks for your patience in explaining! I enjoyed the conversation.
Okta is one of those companies that just dominates their niche. They're good enough and cheap enough that it's a no brainer. They're not going to go out of business and any SAAS that an organization might use will be supported. The upside of saving whatever handful of dollars per user you spend with Okta isn't worth the risk/hassle of switching away from what everyone else uses.
For most Americans, the biggest debt we have is our mortgage and 90% of mortgages in the US are fixed for the entire duration of the loan so nominal cost stays the same and the real cost goes down.
I'm not dismissing a point. I said they were good points. I just think that calling the food "fake" detracts from their argument.
I had someone on HN state stockfish is intelligent. If that is your definition of intelligence sure GPT is also intelligent. I do not think that's a common definition though!
You mean like between Google Brain and DeepMind?
Hi, I realize this is unorthodox, but there are so few people like you, that I'm hoping you can offer me some advice. My wife was diagnosed as BP1 at 18 due to psychosis associated with mania. Many years later in her mid 30s, I believe she's been misdiagnosed, as she suffers from persistent auditory hallucinations even when not manic, which I believe is the threshold for schizoaffective BP. I've actually just only come to learn about this disorder recently. I've thought she was BP1 this whole time, but I think there's more to it now.

The issue is that I cannot convince her that she's hallucinating, even though I'm positive she is. Indeed, she's hallucinated me saying things, and those are just about the only ones I can convince her. But that only happened one time. What's more, she believes she's hearing things from her doctors, so she switches them constantly. I can't get a hold of them either, of course, because as you probably know, family members have next to zero rights when it comes to this kind of thing.

How can I ever convince her to seek help and medication for these hallucinations? How can I get a doctor to listen to me and take me seriously about what's happening to her? It seems impossible to break through. Even when I do convince her that a specific hallucination was as such, she never considers the possibility on her own.

This leads to situations where she's cut out her entire family because she believes they are saying terrible things about her when her back is turned, or through walls. We can't pass strangers on the street because when we do, she's sure they're talking shit about her. She can't hold down a doctor because when she leaves, she thinks he is gossiping about her with the receptionist, and when they talk, of course she never brings up hallucinations she's having. Thank God for remote work because she hasn't had a serious job since 2014 until now. I don't know how to break this cycle, and it's only getting worse.

How were you convinced that you were hallucinating?
Elon Musk Revealed What Twitter Always Was
That's because they're doing the standard thing of spending tons on growth. Like nearly every company does.
But it’s true, it is a form of social collaboration. It’s based on a vast training dataset consisting entirely of things humans have written. It’s tuned via reinforcement learning via hiring thousands of people, many of whom are paid poverty wages. And it is further refined by the daily training it gets from its hundred million human users.

The core of the article is in the title. The tech is artificial but it’s not intelligent. I don’t think that’s a novel or interesting take either. But it’s true, and the fact you’ve conversed with a chatbot doesn’t change that fact.

We know how these things work, it’s not an ineffable mystery. Without the social collaboration - the distillation of vast amounts of human-generated text into statistics - there’s no “there” there.
No directions?
It is a subset that the paper seems to focus on,

Iteration though is already used when looping through something is non trivial. It isn't necessary for an array or vector because those have random and sequential integer indices.

Iterators are made for situations like this where it is more complex under the hood. What no one can say is why this can't be covered by giving the user an iterator. You say next, it gives you the next item, pair etc.

It seems to me that the goal is more about approaches for specific compiler optimizations/code generation

Based on what? The title is "A Language for Structured Coiteration" and most of the paper is about the internal of the data structure.

not to replace C++.

No one said that, I asked why this couldn't be done in C++ as a class. Then you wouldn't even have to use a different language.
> Also, they have used their own encryption algorithm in the past (I don’t know now)

why not just look this info up before replying ?
Is there any evidence it can? It's not incorrect to say there is no God for example
Right. There's nothing stopping someone from doing an experiment to prove a regulation needs changing. If you want to do something "innovative", do it safely. Don't experiment with innocent people's lives on the line.
That's great but it seems prices of all new cars and especially EVS even with rebates are astronomically high.

I don't need launch control, giant screens, self drive etc. just a basic EV under $30K with standard dash gauges.
Everything is branded for what it is not.

Google’s mission is to display ads on everything. Organizing information is just an optional side quest when it enables the former.
We need to improve our understanding of parrot languages. :)
My best summary from years of experience and observations and learning from several birds. Learning to read their likes and dislikes. Also exposure to others who do the same, bird people.

It is what it is, whatever you may choose to call it. You may also take it or leave it.
Politicians are elected, the commissioners aren't.
I've paid attention to the evolution of LLMs for a while now. I wonder if the need to fine-tune LLMs will become a thing of the past for many (if not most) use-cases.

Take GPT-4, for example. GPT-4's zero-shot prompt performance is excellent. It capably handles tons of tasks—even in specialized domains such as medicine and law. (Note: I'm a doctor and lawyer both.) I can see future LLMs being even more capable.

In fact, I see LLMs as platforms rather than products. Take smartphones: you have just two dominant platforms, iOS and Android. An entire ecosystem of apps runs on them. A software-only example might be web browsers: Chrome (and chromium browsers) and Firefox. These are the platforms on which millions of web applications run. I see LLMs ending up this way: a few platform providers, and a much vaster ecosystem of "apps" built on them.

This also implies something else: the "fine-tuning data" moat you thought your organization might have had might not be a moat at all. "Foundation" LLMs will become so good that everyone else will be able to do what you're doing. You'll have to compete the old-fashioned way: by building a better product, and crushing sales and marketing.
Correct me if I’m wrong but this concept of state is across a prediction which is a series of token proposals. Not a sense of persistent state over, say, a chat session.
> Deemed a neutral mutation, Eiberg says the eye-color example "simply shows that nature is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so."

Blue eyes tends to make people seem more attractive and the evolutionary reason is that they end up being a good quality in a mate because it's easier to see pupil dilation. Thus making it easier to perceive their emotional states better than of someone with black/brown eyes.

This is also true for pale eye colors in general(non-black and non-brown) which are perceived as more attractive, another reason being that they're rare and exclusive. This not just helps in finding better mates but also helps with survival, like how attractive or taller people are helped more in society or are promoted more. Like how almost all US presidents are tall.

Not sure what the technical defintion of a neutral mutation is, but I don't think this is one based on plain English, or I am just plain wrong.
Don’t forget the automation part, that’s the key issue.

Unsolicited robocalls are illegal in many places where human callers may not be.
I don't understand how Google could have this and yet they don't have high res images of the Earth's oceans.
That's a bit I find surprising. I would have thought that working out if the pad was up to the job would be one of the easier rocket-science tasks they were faced with.
The notion of organizing private information (VS the public internet) helped me shift my perspective a bit, thank you. It also dramatically amplified my feelings about other Google products, like Drive, which do an absolutely terrible job organizing and making private information accessible. It's almost maliciously bad.
It was ~$55 in March 2020, and most recently closed at $105. But the two key points you seem to be missing are:

1. Not all incentive packages are tied to share price. Many of them are tied to other metrics that the (shareholder elected) board decide are appropriate. This is where the bulk of Pichai’s comp comes from.

2. When they are tied to share price, they tend to be benchmarked. In this case Pichai’s share price incentives have been benchmarked against the S&P100, against which Google has been doing perfectly well. The reason for this is because directors generally don’t task CEOs with preventing economic downturns, and they typically want any incentives they create to be as effective under those conditions as they would be at any other time.

The shareholders are absolutely setting the rules for the executives here.
Journaling can mean many things. Twitter could be considered a journaling app.

At first I read the headline and thought this was dumb, but maybe it will be more like a simple social media app that’s less about mass news stories and more about people you care about (kinda like Facebook back in the OG days)
If I sum up that chart, I barely get ~40%.

(software engineering is “highest”, at 19.3%)

What roles are in the 60%??
I’m a designer who codes, and for those who have had trouble expressing the value and finding a role that enables both, here is how I’ve positioned it:

As the primary designer for a product, who can also implement the design - the amount of communication needed between design and engineering literally evaporates.

I tell my devs they can build an ugly v1 of any feature simply for the sake of speed, and I’ll go in after to clean it up and make it look consistent. they don’t need to waste time with CSS.

Design changes so often after implementation, that I don’t even keep a living design file, most changes happen directly in code. If I do need to design something as part of a pitch or meeting material I take a screen shot of the product and just modify that.

Having worked as only a designer, and then only as an engineer, I can’t express how much faster my team is when design is part of engineering.

Speed is most critical to startups, I’ve always found interviewing with startups and presenting this skill set is highly sought after when expressed properly.
Rust and Go are very much alike, when Java is not an option because of the JVM startup time and memory requirements (GraalVM Native Image solves this, but at the expense of highly reduced performance).
> That right there is more evidence for the tooth fairy than you’ll ever find in favor of CEOs assuming risk.

I quit my $400k/yr fintech job to be CEO of a company whose primary customers use our tool to make Trump and Biden video game memes on TikTok.
My 2021 volkswagen e-Up can easily do 10kWh/100km, but then it's pretty small and light.
Heheh, don’t forget to reset the SMC, it collects too much entropy overnight so if you want deterministic behaviour you’ll need to make sure to dump its contents to /dev/null.
People at your company besides those with the authority to pay you can also be appreciative.
Stop redefining things to support your argument. "The basic operations under arithmetic are addition and subtraction, division and multiplication"
Same, for the same reason, for 36 months now, and I've gotten much healthier according to the lab results and my subjective quality of life.
I'm not sure I understand how they're not competitive. Staying steady while your opponent is making mistakes is, in fact, a competitive strategy — straight out of Aesop's Fables. Intel doesn't get to be the "competitive" one just because they're playing the role of the Hare.
The statista statistics are almost immediately covered by a subscribe for access popup. Search seems to be doing as you say in general, but also is loosing share on desktop to bing, where edge would be the most relevant competing browser.
It has always boggled my mind that military subs run around under the water largely blind, due to the fact that using active sonar would give their position away, and passives are going to miss many things like this.
It's about status, not money. If the CEO of a $T company like google doesn't get a lot of money AND doesn't have a charitable reason not to, he's going to lose respect and it's likely he won't be able to make the deals he should've otherwise been able to. When you're in upper management your salary and perks make your position and are responsible for effective output.

At least, this is how people that make all that money think. Yes, it's a huge waste, but who's instituting the other kind of social structure that doesn't reward socio / psychopathy anyway?

The paragraph above is an easy way to discount any and all criticisms. It could be worse, ya kno?
Okay, how about the guy who started building houses for vets? Or just whatever local guy who is doing good in your neighborhood? I know a guy who does bbq for charity. That guys great. 10/10 masculine role model.
Unfortunately, they are - iPhones are absolutely sold for parts because a locked iPhone is unsellable otherwise.
The thing that kills you is IOPs per query.

At 30 TBs the hot data set is huge an there is a long tail of queries not loaded into memory.

Plus they were saying 10k+ connections per server. So we are probably looking st 500k+ connections.

There is also a regular influx on unoptimized / badly written queries as people add features/games etc. Plus you can end up with random spikes.

This setup is likely optimized for high read availability. The slides mention the mental overhead of failovers. This is a thing. Try to explain and help each team understand how to do those safely. Downtime are also not an option.

So there is quite some information and context (likely) missing. I used to manage a similar scale zoo of MySQL (similar peak QPS, less total data iirc). I am not sure I would subscribe so much on the Vitess as solution side though. Galera and Group Replication can give you hassle free failovers, add some read replicas and you have a really nice DB setup that can scale horizontally amd vertically until you hit the write limitations per server.
Yes that's exactly what people are saying here. It's not a criticism of the tool it's an example of what the tool is and how it functions.
>one of the world's most commonly prescribed medications

TIL. First time seeing this word
I like this yes code concept. It resonates as I'm building a new kind of platform: https://www.adama-platform.com/
I purchased a refurbished iPhone 13 recently from Amazon's renewed store, as it seemed like a better deal than blackmarket.co.uk and more reliable than eBay.

Probably the most expensive thing I ever bought from Amazon but I'm very happy with it. Despite being one of the lower "grades" of refurb, it looks brand new, has 100% battery health, and is still under Apple warranty until October. Saved hundreds of £ compared to buying new!

I have had a couple of instances in the past of "wrong product sent" (eg: ordered toothbrush heads, got a phone case?!) with Amazon but it certainly didn't happen on this occasion.
That’s external state. I believe it just feeds the bot the entire conversation each time. I’m open to being shown otherwise.

That is to say, swapping out bots midway through the conversation should have no impact.
Even worse than letting an enemy know where you are now, is letting them know where you will be in the future.
You can also make your database persist writes to /dev/null, it will make performance go through the roof
Texas lawmakers advance bill to force schools to display Ten Commandments
I like you 3d printing reference. You can have 2 people with the same printer trying to print the same part. What else goes into getting a good part? Proper bed leveling, bed heating, choice of material, part cooler, nozzle temperature, feed rate, speed, acceleration, layer thickness, infill pattern, and many other settings and choices. And that's just an off the shelf printer melting plastic...