skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds tedious.

Part of the solution to that is to standardize it. Even outside of cities, the bins are the same and can be picked up by the trucks automatically. The only manual part is rolling it to and from the truck.

Of course, generally usingess plastic is always the better option.
Puh, fun, yes. It's nice having a "conversation". But then everything that comes up I have to double check. As soon as the topic is somewhat specific, I can tell just by looking at it that the code won't work. So at the end of the day I have to go back to Google anyways.
> And OpenAI had decided that prompt injection isn't eligible for bug bounties

That's because prompt injection is not a vulnerability. It can potentially cause some embarassment to Open AI and other AI vendors (due to which they pay some attention), but other than that nobody has demonstrated that it can be a problem.

> that'll only last until it gets someone's bank account emptied or until some enemy combatant uses prompt injection to get a drone to bomb a different target.

This doesn't make sense. Can you provide an example of how this can happen?
> It's perfectly reasonable for the government to step in and say "We'll back stop this now, but we're going to examine this and put in rules to make sure this can't happen again"- and that's what happened here

We've just witnessed several of the largest bank failures in history happening this year. In an unexpected turn of events, Bitcoin is proving to be more stable than institutions like First Republic Bank (and Credit Suisse). We'll probably see a few more interesting names before this is through.

Run me through this "can't happen again" part. We've had banks for 300 years now and there is a financial crisis every decade or so these days. What is "this"? It seems to be happening quite regularly for something that can't happen again. The government has been all but force-feeding credit into markets for the last decade, that is hardly a strategy to build strong institutions. The US is at serious risk of being overshadowed by nominal Communists. My money is on the pension system bearing the brunt of this crisis.

What are the signs of regulatory success that we're supposed to be looking at? They seem to have taken an era of unprecedented prosperity and technological progress and done their best to bring that back to neutral.
A challenge I have with understanding and communicating risk is that some risk is an instant and some is across distance/time/some quantity.

If you skydive your chance of death is X.

If you drive your chance of death is Y per hour (or km).

Any advice from anyone on the best way to reconcile this? We could add a unit time or distance to the first kind, but I feel that betrays the fact that it’s mostly about “does your parachute deploy?” and is disconnected from how long or far you skydove that day.

(these examples are easy to debate but I hope you get what I’m trying to communicate)
> They don't read a lot of blogs, they never write blogs, they don't go to user groups, they don't tweet or facebook, and you don't often see them at large conferences.

One of those things is not like others. I read a lot of tech blogs/articles etc. I just feel a bit of imposter syndrome when it comes to writing/blogging. Not a lot of user groups or conferences (e.g. for Linux which I enjoy a lot) at my current location. For tweeting/facebook, I deleted my facebook account long ago and I never got the point behind twitter for tech content except for things like breaking news/product launches etc.
Will it get "their", "there" and "they're" correct?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-pPBwFFWz_k

Some children can remember exact & verifiable details of their prior life they never could have come to know in this their current child life. These details can be objectively and independently confirmed. Remarkably & quite biologically enigmatic: Some of them have birth marks and birth defects at very same locations as the lethal injury causing their often abrupt and violent past life death. Eg. Born with 5 missing fingers after a prior life accident where they were cut off... Birthmarks at the exact location where they got gunshot wounds in their prior life, which could be confirmed from the autopsy report of their deceased individuality. Furthermore: Some can speak a language they never have learnt in this life (xenoglossy) corresponding to their past life language & nationality.
They can in some cases remember names of siblings and other family members in their past life family who they never have met in this life...
Maybe it would be a nice project to see if you could get Zig working in the Linux kernel?
As long as the tech to create fake things is accessible to all it literally doesn’t matter.

Only matters if one or two parties can do it and the rest of us don’t know it’s possible.

Fake text can already exist, I can write any I want right now. Anyone who wants to create a fake image already can with time and Photoshop + Blender. None of this matters.
Unfortunately I think the answer is “we don’t know” we have loads of techniques (ex: band pass filter) and hypotheses (ex: harmonic frequencies and timbre) but we haven’t been able to implement them perfectly which seems to be why deep learning has worked so well.

Personally I hypothesize that the reason it’s so hard is that the sources are intermixed sharing frequencies so isolating to certain frequencies doesn’t isolate a speaker. We’d need something like beam forming to know how much amplitude of each frequency to extract. I’d also hypothesize that humans, while able to focus on a directional source, also cannot “extract” clean signal either (imagine someone talking while a pan crashes on the floor - it completely drowns out what the person said)
So take it down?
One of my pet peeves is that the Linux SPI driver framework has a very transactional API. You can read/write N bytes to a bus at a time.

Some SPI devices can stream out lots of data on the bus. I’m looking at you ADCs.

It’d be nice to have a stream style API for that. Not sure which Linux framework is best suited for that. Maybe IIO but something on those lines might be fun to explore.
I just googled both examples and people were terrified of electricity and cars, which I would say relates to ethics in the case of AI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
https://macleans.ca/society/technology/boo-a-brief-history-o...
yes

> export GCSFUSE_REPO=gcsfuse-`lsb_release -c -s`
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Couple videos of talks that are relevant for reference:

https://youtu.be/jK-SBu1iiHo

https://youtu.be/gJYzySN4iYo
>There’s an easy way to solve this: add an end if delimiter. Again: terseness bites.

I think this is the second frontpage post in a single week with someone talking about this exact thing, going on about how OCaml doesn't have braces or block-end signifiers....somehow completely missing `begin`...`end`, which has been part of the language since like forever?

Just like with the last post, let's look at this post's example:

let foo _ =
if true then
print_endline "Hello, world!";
true
else
false

Yeah, I'm a little surprised that this doesn't work, actually, since I would assume that it would parse the if-branch until it gets an expression, but the compiler (and OCamlFormat, for what it's worth) interprets this code like this (and the auto-formatting done by ocamlformat makes it clear what's going on -- maybe consider hooking that up as an on-save action in your editor):

let foo _ =
if true then
print_endline "Hello, world!";
true
else
false

(which I discovered by just copy-pasting it directly into https://try.ocamlpro.com, which auto-formatted the code exactly like that for me).

Basically "(if true then print); true" rather than "if true then (print; true)"

Getting back to my original point, the code can easily be fixed by using `begin` and `end`:

let foo _ =
if true then begin
print_endline "Hello, world!";
true
end
else
false

OCaml _does_ have braces, like in the "more-solid-feeling" languages the author describes. They're just named "begin" and "end" instead of "{" and "}", same as in Ruby or Elixir or Pascal or even Austral (which is the author's own language).

This is, admittedly, more of a pain for dropping in a quick debug statement than what the author found:

let foo _ =
if true then
let _ = print_endline "Hello, world!" in
true
else
false

...which honestly, for the "quickly add a print-debug line" case, doesn't seem like a problem?
well, thank you for that. not.
Isn't the conclusion here just begging the question?

By the nature of number ranges there are infinitely many more wrong answers available to calculators performing addition and yet a simple ripple carry adder still promptly produces the correct output without lookahead, why this is compelling evidence?

Further, if it relied on internal state or lookahead why would it occasionally hallucinate appropriate tokens it wasn't provided?
Cloud Storage FUSE does not support overwriting in the middle of a file. Only sequential writes are supported.

This seems like a big limitation?
Do you know of any rpc libraries that hide the failure modes of the network from the application?
The Apple iPhone reveal styled announcement videos are also just absurd. Today, we are reinventing the web!
Your kids need and deserve more of your time and thought than you are giving them.
It has been a long standing dream to make videos like this. I have no idea where to start though. I think everyone has these out of the box ideas, but we (or at least I) disregard them as "who will be interested in this".
What DX? One-click install, one time? How does that justify a recurring price premium?
You've really got to laugh/cry at someone who looks at the utterly milquetoast responses given by ChatGPT and everyone including investors collectively losing their shit and says ... "how can I go from owning small% of this company on the hype train to 100% of a company on this hype train".

"Wont somebody think of the children, its not safe" is the new "Creative differences" as the excuse for breaking up the band and going solo.
It really feels like anyone who uses Asimov's Three laws have not read "I Robot" at all. The entire thing was stories of edge cases and failures of the three laws.
Out of curiosity, what part of my prior comment of findings lead to your conclusion that I made the argument you stated?
> But if the standard treatments aren't working for you, do your own research and ask your doctor to try something else.

Sad. But true. That said, why don't the insurance companies know about successful alternatives? After paying out X, isn't it in their best interest - and the patients' best interest - to say, "Our data shows that these alternatives have been successful is similar cases. Perhaps there are somethings here to consider."

It's not a diagnosis, just data / possibilities. This might also encourage insurance companies to be less tight fisted about what they'll cover. That is, they're not blindly paying for fringe "experiment" but investing in solutions that will mitigate future payouts.

Smarter use of the data would means more choices and better care for patients, and more profits for insurance companies. Is that not a win win?
These nags are annoying as the only way to get rid of them is to buy the upgrade.

Embarrassingly, Apple won and I finally bought iCloud a few years ago as per of Apple One.

At least with Apple they seem to fix the “bugs” where they show you an ad for something I already bought. Office365 has shown me ads on window even though I have a personal and work license but Microsoft seems to forget my login every once in a while and use that as an opportunity to stupidly show me ads again.

I, probably falsely, attribute this to stupidity on the company’s part that they aren’t smart enough to check if I’ve bought before showing me an ad. Or they assume everyone in the world should buy.

But I’ve gotten an add for Dropbox pro probably thousands of times and I don’t need it so haven’t upgraded. I’m using their free service so that’s a plus but these nagging ads make me hate the company for intruding.
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I absolutely love the intricate machining work on systems like these. The precision required to prevent any inaccuracy due to tolerance stack up is insane. I haven't been able to find a detailed breakdown of this one, but would love to know what the internals look like.
If only there was one entity that literally controls who has access or not to the Google Store, and could enforce practices like actually respecting copyrights (like the GPL) or even using an upstream kernel for any device that ever wants to access the Google Store...

This is all Google's fault. They are the ones who develop most of the software. They are the ones who decide what to deprecated and what not. They also set the rules about what is acceptable and what is not ('open' handset alliance my ass).
pretty standard limitation of object storage services iirc
Ask HN: How to Interact with LinkedIn Recruiters?
I recently set my LinkedIn status to "looking for work" and had several recruiters reach out to me. I am not urgent trying to switch jobs, but I do want to know what a competitive rate for my position is and whether I should leave given my stagnant compensation.

So I'm curious about several things:

- How should I approach chatting with recruiters? Any general advice?

- Has anyone been successful asking about comp before interviewing?

- How do you manage interacting with multiple recruiters simultaneously?

- Anything to be wary of with a current employer?

For context: I'm about 3 years out of college, working as a C++ SWE in proprietary trading.
For human speech:

o The tall vertical lines reflect "plosives" - sudden releases of sound energy often at the begining of words from having mouth/airway closed then open, as in the first letter of "put" or "tea"

o The high frequencies come from "fricatives" like the first letter of "see" or "free" where air is being passed through the teeth or almost closed lips

o The lower frequencies are where most of the recognizable speech content is, corresponding to the way the resonant frequencies of the mouth and throat are being changed (articulation) by moving the tongue, lips and teeth. Specifically the speech content is in changes to the "formants" which are the changing resonant frequencies showing up as bright mostly horizontal bands in the lower frequencies

Noise may show up in various ways depending on what the noise source is. A fixed frequency spectrum background hum is going to show up as one or more horizontal frequency bands across the entire spectrogram. High frequency noise is going to show up as much more energy in the higher frequencies, which don't have a lot of energy for clean speech (fricatives only).
Some psycho with a generic SUV and no license can easily kill a couple people. It's so easy people do it accidentally all the time.
Not just that, he is also very good at making videos. His story lines are good and everything flows like a deep river. It's mesmerizing to look at.
Should we really be talking about AGI here? LLM are interesting and may have security challenges but they're light years away from AGI.
Programs take in input and produce output. The whole point of using any program is that the program produces more than you put into it -- otherwise why wouldn't you just use pen and paper? Either all programs are "generative" or none are.
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D'oh, you're 100% correct!
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> Inheritance is a two-way relationship, i.e. if "Dog" overrides functionality in "Animal" then an internal method defined in "Animal" that calls that functionality would be dispatched to the overridden one defined in "Dog".

I disagree, I think that's actually bundling the concept of polymorphism with the concept of inheritance. Okay, C++ does it, but is there any other reason why inheritance must support polymorphic methods in order to be "real" inheritance?

C++ uses virtual classes to achieve polymorphism through inheritance. Go simply uses interfaces. I don't see any reason why Go's approach would be "less OOP" than C++.
Well, this was expected no? Now it depends on main search engines to point out who is garbage / fraud and put them on a lower search rank.
The 2 guys left at Google Search algo must be working a lot lately….
> A correlation between ethnic groups and economic disparity is not indicative of causation, much less of what the cause might be?

Correct. We typically understand the actual cause in the US -- historical policies promoting detrimental economic outcomes to targeted ethnic groups. I'm not sure why you interpreted my positive finding of relationship into a normative declaration of causation.

> I find economists often to be surprisingly bad at math.

Which ones?
Yes, that isn't lost on me but it seems somewhat unavoidable. I would love it if we could trust everyone we meet, but unless we can somehow get everyone to stop doing bad things then you will need to be skeptical of people that you don't have a reason to trust. I think it is important that we add strong mechanisms for trust where possible such as regulations for companies and trust via relationships but it seems that no trust is the inevitable default. People have been running phone scams for decades and it doesn't seem like stopping them from making these attempts is feasible. The most viable solution seems to be helping people identify who they are talking with so that they can avoid falling for the scam.

Maybe I am too pessimistic and we will be able to fulfill everyone's needs one day. But as the rich keep getting richer and focusing on power for themselves that doesn't seem like a direction that we are going to move towards soon.
I’ve experimented with using gcsfuse and its AWS equivalent, s3fs-fuse in production. At best, they are suited to niche applications; at worst, they are merely nice toys. The issue is that every file system operation is fundamentally an HTTP request, so the latency is several orders of magnitude higher than the equivalent disk operation.

For certain applications that consistently read limited subsets of the filesystem, this can be mitigated somewhat by the disk cache, but for applications that would thrash the cache, cloud buckets are simply not a good storage backend if you desire disk-like access.

What I would really like to see is a two-tier cache system: most recently accessed files are cached to RAM, with less recently accessed files spilling over to a disk-backed cache. That would open up a world of additional applications whose useful cache size exceeds practical RAM amounts.
that’s fine, but if we’re going that way then people shouldn’t be getting rich running them by socializing the risk and not the profits
Is there a source on this that’s not YouTube hearsay?
The big issue IMO with a declining population is a lot of our economic structure here in America is built on the assumption growth is infinite.

Social security would be insolvent if not enough people paid in to fund those being paid out. Stock prices and home prices would decrease as well. Debt would become more expensive since there would be fewer people to pay it back.

Because assets are priced based on their future value, growth is a huge component of the prices assets. The value of most everything in our society is predicated on that rate of growth.
Oh, there's definitely a poetry to them, though too often it's Vogon.
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And personally I’m fine with this workflow.

Having a conversation allows me to figure out what I’m trying to figure out.

Once I know that, I know what to look for.

To me, the value of the conversation isn’t its perfect accuracy, but the expressiveness and ease of veering in any direction that seems interesting at the moment. The efficiency gains when jumping around within a subject are incredible.
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> those nuts tell hundreds of BS

Quite dismissive to lump one person making a single complaint with all other complaints ever uttered.
In this context they're functionally equivalent, in that anyone making statements is also communicating information. Could you explain the difference that I did not grasp?
In a similar situation as you, I’ve been having lots of luck using phind.com . They advertise as “the AI search engine built for developers” and its interface is a blend of google and chatgpt. You can also paste in long snippets of code or provide specific URLs you want it to use as a part of its answer. It then generates a few possible solutions with references.

For me it’s consistently been much more helpful than google.
New cars don't even need license plates to be tracked. They transmit telemetry over 5G. The car companies sell this data to whoever they want, including law enforcement.

Right now you can probably disable the cell radio by disconnecting the antenna but if that becomes popular I have no doubts that cars will be changed to refuse to operate without regular connections.

The recent infrastructure bill (H.R. 3684) includes a requirement for cars to have anti-drunk driving tech included, which includes driver-facing cameras.

All of this data will be sold to the highest bidder.
It is important to mention that FISA requests have something like a 98% approval rate and have a history of being overly broad allowing for dragnet data collection. So PRISM does still allow for very wide sweeping data access from tech companies.
But yes, end-to-end encryption is one of the few things that can help with this.