skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Parallel Iteration: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm#Execution_polici...

You're still having trouble reading so let's try socratic method: if I have a vector with 10 elements and a vector with 100 elements, which iterator from stl should I use to take their dot product?

>Sparse: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/libs/numeric/ublas/doc...

Neither will just a sparse representation answer my puzzle for you.

>Parallel Iteration: https://www.openmp.org/

Lol now I know you're just googling for keyword matches - a parfor has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Overall you seem to be very upset about some perceived cognitive burden/imposition at having to learn a few new ideas. Let me free you from that burden: you don't have to understand co-iteration. But it is possible that one day your code will be slower than someone else's that does understand co-iteration.
That is a lot of heavy, droopy, cable (if it is going to be able to withstand the stresses and ‘unkindness’ of the ocean) which is very likely to get tangled in things like spinning propellers unless very carefully managed.

Also, fishing trawlers, whales, etc.
The snap client only supports the Canonical Snap Store. There is not even an "advanced configuration" to add your own. I do not want a single point of failure in the Linux ecosystem. Canonical does.
Hm, that's an interesting fraud vector. Presumably it applies to pretty much any retailer though? And doesn't apply to items with tamper-proof factory seals that are hard to counterfeit.
What you're describing is a typical aspect of brokers. Market makers provide large standing buy and sell orders so that anyone who wants to buy/sell a security at ~market price can do so.
Is he implying the same engineer works 3 shifts or that they have 3 shifts of engineers 24/7?
Ask HN: What’s your favourite “now AI-enhanced” product?
IMHO - software engineering really isn't real engineering. Not in the traditional sense.

But it certainly is based on knowing the inner workings of all or as many and as much of the abstraction layers.

But who's a prompt engineer? Is anyone who understands how Tensors and Transformers work is a prompt engineer? Are prompt engineers model specific? I'm GPT-3.5 prompt engineer and we have a job openings for Alpca or StableML prompt engineers?

Lastly, if these LLMs are so intelligent and have so much deeper understanding as their emergent capability - why prompt engineering is needed in the first place?

You generally don't need prompt engineering even with average IQ humans unless one is trying to swindle someone.
Google should really be forced to unlock the firmware on all of their abandoned devices.

I foolishly purchased my parents a "reconditioned" Google Chromebook from Lenovo.

The device was covered in black plastic sheets to conceal scratches and markings on the casing. When we activated the device, it was out of support.

I gave them a fresh HP Chromebook to replace it.

Avoid "reconditioned" Chromebooks.
Sure, different people can be expected to have different capabilities. But I don not see how that relates to the context of this comment chain.

Specifically being able to predict the future a few years during and after an unprecedented pandemic.
Isotope map of Angola helps trace life histories across African Diaspora
https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
I think the word Engineering means your own grasp on the subject/task at hand. For example, you can't engineer a prompt that would lead to a result outside of the scope of what the model/interface is capable of doing. You can, however, engineer a prompt that will refine the result to get exactly what you want.

In other words, you also have to understand the text that you're getting back from your prompts, and then "engineer" the prompt to fish for better results. AI itself can do this to an extent, but over-engineering is also a thing, as is the fact that AI itself does not actually know what you want.

That's all there is to it. Refine, revise, engineer - all just buzzwords that lead to the same end result: a game of ping-pong between you and the LLM.
Btrfs is like an almost perfect file system. If only it had proper stable support for software RAID. It's weird that it still doesn't have it, I thought enterprises cared about that.
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Yeah but there's a huge difference between fully loaded in earth's gravity and (a smaller stage) partially empty in less gravity.
Business schools teach efficiency. Efficient as in 'put in a dollar, what gets you the most back in the shortest time period?' It is oriented to appeasing stockholders (investors), who want to see earnings grow. If your company is losing money, cut cost centers and maximize revenue to up the profits for the quarter so that the stock doesn't go down. This usually means cutting jobs, defunding research, and making things cheaper. Another way to accomplish this is to sell off specialized parts of the company for a quick cash infusion. Another big thing is the need to quantify -- you need to be able to put the numbers on a chart and if you can't then it is worthless. R&D cannot be quantified like that so it, along with things like IT and information security are seen as cost sinks ready to be slashed.

All of these add up to have terrible effects on companies that rely on research and having a workforce of highly trained professionals who are entrenched in your institutional knowledge. For example, you can't just fire a materials science engineer who is a specialist in silicon crystal seeding to save money one quarter and then hire another one when needed.
I guess that makes it economically viable for people with less income not to follow the law.
I've always been really disapointed that google let their planetary maps stagnate.

I work (~5% of my work week) on https://trek.nasa.gov/ . Our front page sucks, but the individual map browsers are quite rich in terms of available layers and tools. Our UI is... not optimized for discoverability, but there's a lot there. Mars is at https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/
Mh. The sarcastic, cynic admin in me is strongly advising against being good at SQL, understanding how SQL is executed in your specific database, how optimizations work and such.

Like, it is extremely impressive what a PostgreSQL server with some well-written queries can do. There is this running gag of how hard it is to replace a reporting solution based off of one database system and a bunch of smartly written queries with supporting indexes and it's honestly not wrong.

But that's also the problem - suddenly, you end up being the guy being paged for emergency "databases are on fire" situations, and "these queries are impossible to optimize to un-fire the database" and such. And once you get some time to think about these queries, you can kinda rewrite them to take 10 seconds instead of 10 hours by eliminating some subquery dependencies with some acrobatics.

So, imo: Do learn SQL and how it works, so my job gets easier. But keep it very, very secret that you know it well.

I also very much enjoy this game. It's very cute and fun.
I’ve been using ChatGPT to do my job for a couple of months now. You have to be very specific with requirements you give it, and you do have to test the code of course, but at worst it gets me 90% of the way there in seconds instead of the hours or days it would take me to write that code by hand.

Eventually, everyone is going to know how effective it is at writing code, and I think companies will expect ~10x the output from developers for the same salary and same 40-hour workweek. It’s disheartening.
The model works in a certain way, it just needs to be discovered and interpreted and you might want to hire someone to help you with that. Not really different than getting a solutions architect to have an API explained to you.
Bolivia is sitting on a goldmine of lithium
You can disable TLS cert verification when going through a proxy in VSCode. There is an option to disable “strict SSL”. Then I run a man-in-the-middle HTTP proxy and capture the traffic.

Also possible when using the Vim copilot plugin (or its emacs port) which is pretty informative - you can see a lot of the extra tricks the VSCode implementation uses.
Energy-efficient robot hand learns how not to drop the ball
The original comment was talking about big-co CEOs. Your company doesn't seem like it would qualify yet :)
I found when you actually talk to Support, to try and get something done or to actually fix a problem, it's the usual level of large company support; what you say is ignored, the questions you ask are ignored, the boilerplate replies do not in fact relate to the actual situation, you get a different person every time, and no one ever reads the prior conversation, so it's impossible to build up any understanding and every support agent makes the same mistakes and misunderstandings, again and again and again.

I found I was getting small compensation payments, which I did not want and had not asked for, where the agent had not understood what was going on, but was actually just pushing that small-compensation button by habit and reflex.

Any high-level support manager who thinks support can be provided by routing each email to an arbitrary support agent is utterly incompetent and should be instantly fired.

As it is, I stopped using Amazon a few years ago, because of how they treat warehouse staff.
One the main things Jordan Peterson talks about is hierarchy. So to be welcomed by the center-left and others, one should probably steer clear of all discussion of hierarchy--other than to say it's bad, and a direct result of racism, sexism, bigotry or any of the other isms Ferris was uninterested in.
I don't know, is there something about not being able to dig or draw that is essential to the human experience?

It's funny to see people act like AI is just another simple tool instead of an unprecedented fundamental shake-up of how we think about intelligence, ourselves, and our role in society.
I admit I skimmed the article and I think the concrete change apple did was this right:

> Apple Business Connect lets businesses create and update their information in the cards that represent them in apps and services that only Apple controls, like Apple Maps, Wallet, Messages, and in search results via Siri or Spotlight. Updates business owners make to their cards will then propagate to all these places. That incredible access to the right place at the right time for 1.8 billion active Apple devices has never been available before.

It seems to me that the rest of the article is just a kind of prediction about what Apple could do. Underline _could_ and that is different than doing or wanting.
Show HN: I made an automated phishing email analysis tool called ThePhish
It's based on TheHive, Cortex and MISP. I'll update it once the new TheHive API 5 will be released as stable.
Engineering is a practice. Like medicine, but we’re building machines that run in a virtual space. We architect and build houses in our minds. We send those projects to production to make the business money.

That’s engineering.
Lenovo won't sell you a new battery for it.
> (Chrome and Firefox display read-only PDFs).

Not really. You can edit PDF with Firefox.
Given that we are very limited in our ability to predict the future, the thesis does not matter much. Better to discuss specific actions here and now that we can predict the consequences of [with some certainty into some time into the future].
As soon as is can answer I don't know let me find out. we're in for a world of shit.
The realism is insane.
There is a danger in our ever increasing advancements of gameplay. I can only imagine a child playing this and thinking they have a health bar IRL. Super cool from a technology standpoint. A little scary from a societal standpoint.
Still miss it
Those comparisons are meaningless, because this bird is living in Human care through Human decisions (at some point...).

What is less meaningless is the idea that animals should be able to fulfill the full spectrum of their natural behavior. For parrots that means conspecific company. People don't talk like parrots and don't act like parrots. That is consensus among experts, by the way.
There is no "we". Google's purpose is not to advance peoplekind.

The shareholders decide on the compensation of the CEO, that's literally it.
Very cool, thanks for sharing. It's fascinating to me that google has put so little effort into their planetary maps since an inital burst of interest, but hasn't killed them yet. Is it just "below the radar"? I guess I assumed they would have some management process that kills zombie projects... don't they?
It's triennial.
Here in Europe easily up to 60€ per hour or based on assignment. Especially for commercial or corporate work. Way more if the writer has an industry-recognized byline.
Any form of engineering involves a certain degree of reliance on abstractions, e.g. a civil engineer really doesn't need to know everything about the molecular structure of steel and concrete to successfully design and build a structure such as a bridge.

What does matter is having stable, predictable abstractions that you can rely on, so in software engineering it would be a mistake to rely on system-dependent undefined behavior when using a language like C++. You also don't necessarily need to know what kind of low-level optimizations the compiler and linker are using to generate your executable binary, though in some cases it could be important.

With LLMs, however, it's not really clear if the same prompt always gives the same kind of output, and you can do 'regenerate response' with something like ChatGPT to see this in action.

In some sense, 'prompt engineering' can be more like 'interviewing an engineer' in that LLMs seem to provide better outputs if you start with a broad, general question and then narrow down to your specific interest over a series of questions. Helping the LLM out by defining context, asking it to expand on a specific output it generated, pointing out where it may be hallucinating etc. all appears to improve the quality of output but I don't know if this kind of iterative process is really 'prompt engineering', maybe 'prompt optimization' is a better word for it?

In other words, writing a series of prompts to an LLM that gets you the answer you need feels quite unlike writing a Python script to automate some task. You can plan the latter out from start to end, but the former is this back-and-forth process.
You can fix that by installing Linux. I'm talking about unavoidable stuff like firmware updates. Other manufacturers drop support for devices much sooner.
If you’re specific enough, it is excellent at writing not just simple stuff but complex programs. Entire programs. Usually they work, but if they don’t, it’s a matter of swapping out usually a word or two in a single line of code.

It is excellent at writing code.
TSMC shares deep history with ASML via Philips (Philips was the first investor in TSMC, and ASML was started off as a Philips spin off).

Most of today's advanced litho (EUV) was actually funded/developed in American labs (Berkeley lab etc). The US was ahead in litho for awhile...but GCA folded and ASML acquired Cymer (based in San Diego, develops light sources for EUV) and SVG.

TSMC has a couple of advantages: 1) Focus exclusively on manufacturing, not design, 2) Large volume customers/products (Apple, AMD, NVIDIA etc), but especially Apple/iPhone. The process technology /manufacturing is tightly coupled to design specs. This provides a faster manufacturing learning curve.

-Intel screwed up by missing mobile / pushing out EUV adoption. Since they also design their own chips, they compete with any potential foundry customers in several markets (ex: data center), which is why they haven't been able to grow their foundry services division that much. TSMC is friendly with everyone and does one thing: manufacture chips in the fab.

Intel is attempting to catch up now by placing several orders for the next version of EUV, High NA EUV. They've also stated that with their planned process innovations ("RibbonFET" and "PowerVIA"), they will have a better process than TSMC at the 18A node (1.8 nm).

-For Samsung, their core business is more memory/displays. Memory lags logic in process technology innovation.

On the logic side, Samsung has made the leap to Gate-all-around transistors (next evolution of transistor, succeeding FinFET) before Intel/TSMC but seems to be facing yield problems.

TSMC is the top dog now, but things are going to get interesting as we go <3, 2 nm...
Eh, we’ve had black boxes for a while. It’s just a non-human “fall guy.”

The law deals with this with outcome tests: if the outcome would have been illegal had a person done it, then the person using the black box is liable.

Eg, if you hire on non-skill-based criteria, and the outcome is not similar to the racial distribution of the applicant pool, you’re liable for discriminatory hiring. This is a common problem with using personality-based hiring assessments.
It’s not a matter of food poisoning, it’s a matter of do you really want to ingest contaminants. Regular consumption of contaminants such as pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics (all present in the water supply especially at lower elevations) has an impact on long term health.
I do miss it too. What is the point in having so much money if you can't do exciting, useful, and cool stuff.
"Has Some Interesting Beliefs" is being used as understatement.

"kept things extremely normal" is commonly used sarcasm.

The article ends with the author saying they're puzzled by LeCun's posts, and asking if the reader is too.
One of the biggest problems with the concept of corporate personhood is that if a corporation commits a crime you can't just throw it in jail like a normal person.

At some point perhaps we should just consider the "death penalty" for corporations that break the law.

That or we start holding executives and/or shareholders accountable for the actions that happen in organisations they're supposed to control.
It's actually the other way round.

The camcorder can reproduce every scene in detail. But it can not tell you the plot.

AI can tell you about the plot, but not reproduce detailed scenes.

So this is a prime example of how AI is humanlike and not copying anything.
Slow, proprietary, auto update, sandboxed (which causes integration problems with other things). Solves a problem for Canonical and makes everyone else's life harder.
The stock price is his full responsibility.
The New Population-Control Movement
don't forget Eyes on the Solar System, WorldWind, Cosmographia, JMars, and USGS PILOT
Snap has been around for 8 years and during this time it got zero traction outside of Ubuntu. Canonical is known for axing their own projects eventually when they fail to get traction, so it seems pretty safe to assume that the writing is on the wall for snap.
As someone who does mostly infrastructure admin, and occasionally has to touch both PostgresDB and MySQL databases, I found this to be a fun set of challenges.

I would like to suggest an improvement to the user experience. The scenario text is currently displayed character-by-character, which significantly prolongs the time it takes to complete the "easy" scenarios. In my case, it took 10 minutes, with 8 of those minutes spent waiting for the text to appear. A faster display of the text would enhance the overall experience.
What a ridiculous argument. That's like saying the police shouldnt have weapons to defend themselves with because there's a history of police killing innocent people.

No, the real answer here is to address the actual corruption to expose and remove it.

Not to mention, if you have nothing to hide, how can someone abuse their power to use it against you?

These bills are put in place because they save lives, especially vulnerable children.
Now extend that to every topic …
I may be out of touch, but do people really expect a $200 laptop to last more than a few years?
We are talking about China, that straight up just replaced Google with their own thing.

You are either doing business with China at their own rules, or you don’t do anything. Apple has different iCloud settings for the rest of the world, and while it does suck for Chinese people, the alternative would be some domestic OS with much much more involved privacy violations.

Also, why should a company be above local law? Sure it sucks when the local law is bad and apple should not make the job easier, but if they do lawfully request some data then I don’t see why Apple should not fulfill it.
No coverage of distributed databases?
As a former amazonian, I am actually a bit surprised to read this.

Am outside on mobile, so I have to be brief.

During covid, there was this mercy period for delayed deliveries, as it wasnt really amazon causing the delay, but rather the last mile service or the whole supply chain.

They used to absolutelly always refund no questions asked and depending on the service they would send return labels.

If you have worked at amazon, then you will know this can only happen due to comingling(usa issue mostly) or malicious sellers in for a quick buck.

To make money with bad products its pretty hard on amazon, they will simply refund the orders the buyers request a refund for and additionally hold the sellers fund in reserve until account health metrics are sorted out.

That, or amazon has changed their overall strategies making refunds now harder, but all their internal rules speak against that.

Their first level support is so so, their second level and seller support is sonething of the best in the world.

Keep in mind, the final buyer is not their customer, the seller is. But brand pr comes before sellers, make no mistake.
Yeah, the smartphone situation is quite dramatic. I was surprised to see GrapheneOS recommending Google phones but I bought a Pixel when I learned why.
My 2015 MacBook Pro last got an update mid 2022 iirc
Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Enrichment
But aren't there people out there who actually want the SEC's protection? Offering protection to people who don't want it is a creative use of language.

IMO the discourse around crypto is typically poor because it's a shallow proxy to politics/philosophy/economics. But instead of having a meaningful discussion about any one of those topics we get this.

Let's agree crypto is an unregulated digital casino. Why do people care so passionately about code enforcement when it comes to securities? I could possibly see the moral hazard of gambling addiction but given the state of gambling commercials that ship has sailed.

It goes along the same vein as the SEC protecting non-accredited investors from fraud and risk. I appreciate what the SEC does but there's no way to opt-out of being protected? There's no waiver that can be signed to say "I'm totally going to lose my money and that's okay"? Losing money gambling on sports is good. Losing money gambling on private equity will not be tolerated in a civilized society.

Maybe two people can look at the same fence and feel opposite about it. What makes me feel caged could make someone else feel safe
I have two Chromebooks, both over 8 years old. The eldest, an ASUS, I gave to my dad and he uses it everyday. Aside from the odd security issue (he'll install any extension he's told to) it works just as well as it when it was new.

The other, a Toshiba, I've dragged around the world with me, has had one repair, a battery replacement, and, again, works fine.

Chromebooks are cheap but reliable devices that ought not to, in all honesty, last as long as they do.

I've had two ThinkPads in the same time, one was stolen and the other I use daily without issue. I buy reconditioned so the cost scale is comparable, as is the utility and reliability.

Non-story!