skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of the lawyerly arguments come from people trying to justify bad stuff

I'm not trying to justify bad stuff.

Even experts in the matter debate about it.

I've been reading about GDPR for weeks and am still not certain I have everything covered to launch my SaaS.
This was cool. Are there other tools/websites like this?
Well, although he put a lot of work into it (they didn't call him the Little Beaver in college for no reason) he wasn't Penske material, so he shouldn't have been there. But that still doesn't answer the question.
Sure, I agree that I could have been nicer. On the other hand, I have very few spoons for responding politely to people who retort to others’ requests to not be judged on the basis of their race with, effectively, “suck it up”. It’s difficult for me to consider that an attempt at helpfulness, though it’s possible that someone without personal exposure to these issues could mistakenly think otherwise. It causes a lot more damage than some snark on my part, imo.

In any case, thanks for taking the time to offer a more charitable perspective on the comment I responded to.
Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea
As technology evolves and user needs change, 99% of software engineers will encounter legacy code in their careers. Many developers, however, feel overwhelmed when faced with the task of updating or migrating a legacy system. Fear not, for we have a solution: the Strangler Fig pattern.
>are you saying we should shut down renewable energy so that the price of energy goes up and consumption of it goes down accordingly?

No. I’m suggesting that once a cost competitive alternative exists at scale for hydrocarbons, we institute Pigouvian taxes (e.g. carbon taxes). This ensures that at the margin, people are incentivized to choose low/zero carbon energy sources.
My hunch is that’s a little less than half of HN posters. I notice that a lot on reddit and much less here.
Sounds like inverted hash chains. Generate a hash chain h_i = sha(h_i-1) for a random h_0 up to h_N. Each message m_i becomes (agent_id, state, hmac(h_(N-i+1), state), h_(N-i)). Upon receipt of message m_(i+1) the receiver can verify the hmac of the preceding state and that the key is the preimage of the earlier message. By repeated hashing any gaps in the sequence can be fast-forwarded through and still verified. This provides for deletion without a loss of verifiability up to length N.
A charging dock is such a simple thing, but it effectively makes the device a hybrid tablet/nest-home-hub. It also gives the tablet a definitive place to be at rest that still provides value when not in use. The price being reasonable is a huge plus as well.
Was responsible to poke at BMC security in data centers.

BMCs lack the security fundamentals and often behave like cheap IoT knock-offs. They often use outdated kernels, libraries, and security mechanism.
Feature Stores and LLMs
Interesting, I am also Canadian and was able to access it just fine.
Failing to reproduce might be a good thing. For example, categorizing dogs as aggressive on its own vs for use in a policy decision introduces all manner of human biases- a dog owner who is thinking about whether that policy would apply to themself would not be impartial. Human idiosyncrasies and biases lead to inconsistent judgements, and one of the things we'd like to have in judgements is consistency, at least. The harshness of an appropriate response to a judgement is, for the moment, still a human input to the system, as humans decide the policies.
It all goes back to reader. That's when it went sour. They eroded all trust. No one forgets that one.
I love the idea of "marketing for introverted nerds" (though your title is better). I am meeting a friend this afternoon who could use this tool so of course I will mention it!
Yes - mullvad worked me to get on the waitlist
Between the prolific musicians I admire the most, like Allan Holdsworth, Devin Townsend, Zappa, Pat Metheny or him - he seems to be the most troubled but interesting character. It's like if the only, coherent and 'real' way he speaks is only though the guitar - any other way you'll get some gibberish our simple minds can comprehend. Heard the other day he has health issues and hope he's better now.
Customer support from Microsoft Teams and Slack channel
In re: the "but what about human nature?" argument against the possibility of a better world:

First, as I get older I get much less sympathy for that in general. Get over your bullshit and act like a decent human being. It's not that hard and the rewards are worth the effort.

^ Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I can understand sign in for ChatGPT to avoid DDOS of their servers by bots, but this is something Google should be able to handle
Is there any reason you wouldn't want to use SvelteKit now that is has reached version 1.0?
Is it better than bing or phind though? Why would I use it over bing?
If AI can generate them trivially, maybe that suggests cover letters should not have been that important to begin with.

To me, the main benefit of a cover letter is that it shows the applicant is engaged enough to actually make an application that is specific to a job posting. That is still the case with AI, it just saves everyone creating them a huge amount of work - most of which is completely wasted when the majority of application are thrown in the trash.
Sometimes, when I hit a wall algorithm-design wise, I'll get high. (weed).

It works quite well. Well enough to keep using it as a getting-through-the-wall technique, certainly.

New ideas will present themselves. New perspectives become apparent.

I recommend it.

(Attention is like a flashlight in a dark room. One of those focusable flashlights. You can narrow the beam to a very bright spot. Make a very small place very clearly lit. But that also renders the rest of the room pitch black (how deep is that darkness? Do you know???). Sometimes the broader beam is called for. Sometimes it's useful to lose control of the light entirely.)
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It’s also legal to take state approved drugs in the US.

Point taken though!
What type of racing are you doing? I am stating the obvious here but there is more than one discipline of MTB and switching could give you a jolt of motivation (if you want that jolt).
This announcement has nothing to do with physics. As stated, it's just an agreement for Microsoft to buy electricity, and not obviously an agreement to do so at any particular price. And why make this move now? Is Helion afraid that no one would buy their electricity? It's literally the most fungible commodity ever and we're heading into an era of unprecedented demand for charging EVs. Anyone offering reliable, environmentally friendly in 2028 will have no problem selling all they can produce. And why pick a specific customer at all? That's a weird way to sell bulk electricity, which is distributed by grids that cover millions of consumers. I could see Microsoft needing to make such an agreement before Constellation might be willing to finance new transmission from the grid to a remote Azure data center, but nothing in this announcement suggests that's the case. The only plausible explanation for this move is financial--Helion is going to leverage Microsoft's name to lure investment--and/or some sort of carbon credit/greenwashing play by Constellation & Microsoft.
Alternatively, "Our customer constantly has issues with our service, let's ignore it until they are no longer a customer"
Optimazing for training could help distillation also.
seems fine. it's a competency test and they've passed.
Ok and how to watch it ? I hate cliffhanger articles...
I wish this were true. I'm currently dealing with three third-party libraries whose types are out of date with the actual code because they do this.
Obsessed with its name. No role playing. Even in role its still Bard. Teacher Bard. Hopefully waiting.
Apple is mostly a hardware company. Aside from aesthetics, people are attracted to their products because of the UI for the OS. If you get that for little to nothing, why would anyone buy their overpriced hardware?
Digi-Key provides such a consistently stellar performance that I simply don't bother checking anywhere else first. Unless it's something I don't mind buying on Amazon.
The idea that GPT-4 is 1 trillion parameters has been refuted by Sam Altman himself on the Lex Fridman podcast (THIS IS WRONG, SEE CORRECTION BELOW).

These days, the largest models that have been trained optimally (in terms of model size w.r.t. tokens) typically hover around 50B (likely PaLM 2-L size and LLaMa is maxed at 70B). We simply do not have enough pre-training data to optimally train a 1T parameter model. For GPT-4 to be 1 trillion parameters, OpenAI would have needed to:

1) somehow magically unlocked 20x the amount of data (1T tokens -> 20T tokens)
2) somehow engineered an incredibly fast inference engine for a 1T GPT model that significantly better than anything anyone else has built
3) is somehow is able to eat the cost of hosting 1T parameter models

The probability that all the above 3 have happened seem incredibly low.

CORRECTION: The refutation for the size of GPT-4 on the lex fridman podcast was that GPT-4 was 100T parameters (and not directly, they were just joking about it), not 1T, however, the above 3 points still stand.
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Same price as Samsung Fold 4.
I don't know how common it is generally, but I do it myself. It's extremely effective for detecting spam sent to email addresses scraped off of websites.
ChatGPT 3.5 is likely much smaller than GPT-3’s 175b parameters. Based on the API pricing, I believe 8k context GPT-4 is larger than 175b parameters, but less than 1t.

https://openai.com/pricing
So why doesn't the same apply to Satya?
The question as I read it is about how concentrated the plutonium is in that region. Everything start to difuse given enough time.
I like the integrated " Search related topics " suggestions. It's not clear when they appear, but they're pretty good suggestions. (Edit: Oh, they appear when you click "Google it", which I must have accidentally done with one answer and not the rest.)

Often, when ChatGPT answers something and it seems dubious, I search for the topic in another tab to confirm it. Here Bard suggests that search itself, exactly when I needed it.
"The Empire Strikes Back" or the shift and from "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" to "de-platforming works"; its not over its just getting started.
Consider also that although an engineer has the potential to engineer large amounts of value, that doesn't mean he will. Hence, the value of him to the company is discounted by the risk that he won't deliver.

I.e. an engineer who has a track record of delivering value can command a much higher salary. I know one who got a million dollar salary.

This is also why CEOs get paid so much. Leverage. Nadella is a prime example. As an MSFT shareholder, I'd say he was darn well worth it.
Seems the blog author was taking the "cheap" option by trading time-to-deliver for cost.

I don't think anyone assumes when they take the cheap shipping option that they are eating a 10% chance the package never shows up. Nor mis-matched packages. Nor sudden calls from collections. Nor being re-labeled in the database as a 'distributor.'

Author gave time for them to work out the bugs between each attempt, and, seems each attempt went worse.

Classic post-2010s-era support quality.
Into the great wide open AI
The calendar spam is real, and it doesn't serve anyone to pretend it's not.

Just like other anti-spam measures, non-spammers will get caught up in this. But a reasonable solution starts with acknowledging the issue is real: people figured out how to get calendar bookings on my calendar w/o my approval.
> might look like a comment, but they are actually just valid bits of code

So comments that are code then.

Everyone can sit around going “This is not a pipe it’s a photo of a pipe or my perception of a photo of a pipe”. But if you did not have a sentence above your photo saying “This is not a pipe” or an arts teacher to tell you “this is not a pipe” and there was just a picture of a pipe on the page and someone pointed at it and said “can you tell me what that is?” You would say “why of course, it’s a pipe”. And then all of a sudden it started spouting water out of the end (let’s assume it was a GIF) then you can say “oh it looks like a pipe but it’s actually a water pistol masquerading as a pipe”. The fact that as a dev you have to constantly be on the look out for water pistols masquerading as pipes rather than having a clear distinction between pipes and water pistols is just a piss poor and easily avoidable design decision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
GPT-4 is a fine-tuned model (likely first fine-tuned for code, then for chat on top of that like gpt-3.5-turbo was[0]), while PaLM2 as reported is a foundational model without any additional fine-tuning applied yet. I would expect its performance to improve on this if it were fine-tuned, though I don't have a great sense of what the cap would be.

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers
Sounds like they trained it on internal Google forums!
I was really hoping all these AI advancements will lead to significant improvements for Google Assistant... but there seems to be no mention of it :(
Bot abuse is a huge problem for search engines and similar services. Modern scrapers are virtually impossible to detect and abusing publicly available endpoints for free compute is basically an industry today.

It's a real shame. Means everything goes behind a signup wall.

For reference, about 1% of the traffic I get on my site is probably human (20k quries/day). An attemted 2 million queries/day from confirmed bots.
oh, yes I'm a big forager, and making sure to spread the seeds around, where they have a chance to grow
Honestly the author would be better off ordering from AliExpress. I pretty much use DigiKey exclusively. Zero plans to use Mouser, especially now.
Selection bias though, right?
Anyone who leverages up to buy a home and then has to rent out a part of it to a stranger is, probably, by definition, having cashflow issues?
Those who make the hiring/firing/promoting decisions rarely have the technical chops to determine which of the engineers is good and which isn't. So it's the engineers that are the most convincing that get the benefits, rather than the highest performers.

There are those who constantly put in overtime to put out fires that they created. To management, these seem like hard-working, dedicated folks. Meanwhile those who design things well, don't have fires to put out, and leave on-time every day seem lazy. All too often the first group is given praise instead of the second group.

This is a point of unfairness that is rampant in the industry. I don't know of any way to solve it, besides each person being their own promoter, hype man, sales man.
oh that's interesting how do posts get queued there

EDIT: i see they are picked manually "HN's second-chance pool is a way to give links a second chance at the front page. Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community."
Maybe going against the grain here, but this was the best Google I/O I've seen in a long time.

In the past, they seemed liked incremental updates on their hardware (which I don't care too much about) or some new products like the pixel watch / glasses (which I probably won't use). I knew there would be a huge focus on AI this year, but I was pleasantly surprised by many of the new features and how quickly these integrations are happening. This is just the tip of the iceberg, I'm excited to see how the industry progresses.
It doesn’t seem to be improving through Silicon Valley VC money though. Name one SV funded biotech startup. Ginkgo is cool though.
It isn't Edge-specific which is good and I find it faster than Bing. Phind is way better than Bard, but verbose. I still find ChatGPT my first port of call. GPT-3.5 is blazing fast and very useful.
I don't care what svelte does, but I've maintained projects with jsdoc types and projects using ts directly and IMO using jsdoc tends to be more of a hassle to maintain, had worse ide guidance and in general felt just more cumbersome.

Being able to click through to the implementation in your ide is nice though, but can be solved by the ide.
It probably wouldn't be that much work to make an option for firefox compatible reports. Might be a fun first PR for someone.
I'm not 100% sure that AGI is guaranteed to end humanity like Yudkowsky, but if that's the course we're on, seeing news like this is depressing. Can anyone legitimately argue that LLMs are safe because they don't have agency, when we just straight up give them agency? I know current-generation LLMs aren't really dangerous -- but is this not likely to happen over and over again as our machine intelligences get smarter and smarter? someone is going to give them the ability to affect the world. They won't even have to try to "get out of the box", because it'll have 2 sides missing.

I'm getting more and more on board with "shut it all down" being the only course of action, because it seems like humanity needs all the safety margin we can get, to account for the ease at which anyone can deploy stuff like this. It's not clear alignment of a super-intelligence is even a solvable problem.
That's an ambitious price point. Who are they targeting with this?
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I have a saas application and I have been having trouble getting feedback from users. What are you using to get feedback from your users to improve your saas application?
Wave was awfully confusing. What was it even for?
The government tolerates business because the alternative is so much worse.
The reason I think you’re getting so much confusion is it doesn’t seem to make any sense to folks what you’re proposing.

It seems like an edge case either already served by existing tech except for some very, very small set of situations where most won’t consider it practical or useful anyway. They’ll just knuckle under the societal rules which forbid it, because the cost of doing it in a way they won’t likely be caught and imprisoned isn’t worth it to them.

Most people just care about having food in their belly every day, feeling safe and loved, and being able to believe that what they’re doing is okay day to day and will work out to be all good in the future.

Doing what you’re proposing doesn’t really help them with that.
Why? How does it compare to Europe’s Space Shuttle?
I agree entirely. Digi-key is my first stop because my experience with them has always been great. Although not common, sometimes Digi-key doesn't stock the part I want and I need to look elsewhere. Mouser was always my second stop before, but they won't be now.
Yes but spacex didn’t promise anything physicists said is impossible. Engineers saying impossible is different from physicists saying it.

The equivalent would be if spacex said something that violated the rocket equation. They didn’t. And also while they promise the Mars, they can settle for the largest reusable rocket as a consolation prize. In fields like biotech and fusion there’s often no consolation prize. So spacex was well managed with the right level of optimism and practicality. Not so here.
> I've been a professional since 2016, i know that doesn't make me an old timer but... when were the salaries higher compared to last couple of years?

just for context I'm located in EU and I consider faang type jobs and compensations something that happens in a minuscule of cases in land far far away. if you look at salaries in "ordinary sw jobs" they may not have been higher in the past, but when adjusted for cost of living (and housing) and inflation, they definitely haven't been keeping up with the times

also in the past when engineers were considered "magicians" it was not uncommon to have royalties for authoring, license agreements in place for very simple low hanging fruit type of applications. this is completely opposed to current power dynamics where employers got the hint and redrafted the employment contracts to make sure most engineers are replaceable cogs in a cost centers dishing out lines of text. I'm not complaining, just giving examples about the decrease in the prestige and benefits in the job itself...
Thanks for taking the time to evaluate the platform.

Regarding hex tech, we are more focused on the BI side of the business, providing an integrated platform for deploying and publishing data applications based on notebooks and low-code components, rather than building another real-time notebook collaboration platform or a graph-based notebook like einblick or hex tech. We believe they represent a great opportunity to bridge the gap between data science notebooks and what final users expect: Dashboards and reports.

As for releasing the platform as an open core, we've had internal discussions about this since the beginning of the project, and it's something we're seriously considering.

Accessing the showcase without registering is something we definitely need to change, although it's free to register and all you need is a Google/Microsoft/Github account.

Thanks for the feedback, esafak!
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> Pat Metheny

That reminds me, Pat Metheny is another instrumentalist who had some gold albums in the late 80s/early 90s.

> Heard the other day he has health issues and hope he's better now.

I had not heard that until now!
Oh, love the name, nice homage to the commodore 64 era ( LOAD "*",8,1 ). The editor screenshot also has a strong C64 vibe.
I have had excellent experience with Digikey's customer service. They always answer the phone and resolve problems quickly. I've recently been using Mouser because their warehouse location means that the "standard" UPS option (@7.99) ships overnight to us in Houston. I greatly appreciate the fact that they autodetect the proximity and so actively block me from accidentally paying for upgraded shipping...

I am curious about whether the author tried a voice call. All of the data suggests only electronic communication...
As this LLM agent architecture continues to evolve and improve, we will probably see a lot of incredible products built on top of it.
Google Maps is getting a new ‘Immersive View for Routes’ feature
No, the most comedic mistake is to have a public-facing Jenkins running. I mean in general you wouldn't make your CI accessible from the outside, but especially not Jenkins. That software has probably more CVEs every year than all of our other tooling combined.
Well, Amstrad was precisely the inspiration ;-) Take a look at the About page for the history!
BTW, turns out changing to CullClockwise for the RasterizerState made the graph show up again, so the order of the vertices were in the opposite order, which it also noted and provided the corrected code for it (basically just reversing the order of vertices), so I could set it back to the default of CounterClockwise again.

Now on to curved corners!
IMO they are impressed with your demo and fishing for inside information. If they can get you on the phone, get you talking, and flatter you enough, you'll probably blab some stuff they can use for their own project.

You have a demo available, so obviously that is not what they are interested in.
Isn't this just way more evidence you don't even know your users?
Fear. Get scared..

Curious. Get curious about things..

Unrealistic expectation.