skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want an overview, scroll down to this part of the page: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/transformers_agents...

In short:

- they've predefined a bunch of tools (e.g. image_generator)

- the agent is an LLM (e.g. GPT-*) which is prompted with the name and spec of each tool (the same each time) and the task(s) you want to perform

- the code generated by the agent is run by a python interpreter that has access to these tools
I think you’re mixing up my comment with another one, but go look at things like the “speaking fee” racket. US politicians get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by healthcare industry companies to deliver the most banal speeches imaginable as a form of bribery.
It's a completely different approach to fusion.

Lasers are really inefficient (poor at transforming electrical energy into light energy). They got more energy out than they put into the pellet, but nowhere near as much energy as they put into the lasers. Which means that turning that experiment into commercial fusion is... "not straightforward".
It was an AI misinformation story, so you'd think it'd be in his new wheelhouse. But we all know what "misinformation" means when people like that say it. They don't mean it literally.
The podfind example in the article is a tailwind page fronting itunes search API.

The big question here feels like: how should AI do retrieval? 'Generate an interface to hit existing DB' is probably one of the answers, I suspect this use case will grow.

Separate question, should it take a few hundred lines of html + js to provide this? Can low-boilerplate DSLs make humans and LLM codegen better at delivering on these asks
Theoretical advances are constant (just check the literature), but two particular advances in the last decade are of practical importance: one for sort and one for hash table. As in: check the implementation you are using, if it doesn't incorporate these advances you are leaving substantial performance (2x is not out of the question) on the table.

How Branch Mispredictions don't affect Quicksort (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06697

Quicksort is still the algorithm of choice for general purpose internal unstable sort. In modern hardwares, quicksort spends a lot of time recovering from branch misprediction, because quicksort's comparison branches are inherently unpredictable. The problem is severe to the extent that with branchful quicksort, uneven split with more recursion is faster than even split, because it makes branches more predictable! Exact penalty is hardware microarchitecture specific, but one report is 20:80 split being optimal.

So... you should use branchless quicksort! The technique was pioneered by an implementation called BlockQuicksort, but pdqsort (for pattern-defeating quicksort) https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05123 is also popular. pdqsort incorporates branchless technique and also includes other enhancements.

Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step (2017) https://abseil.io/blog/20180927-swisstables

Hash table is the workhorse of data structures, and while improvements are possible for specific usage patterns, open addressing with linear probing is still the fastest implementation for general purpose. So called "Swiss Table" combines cache-friendly metadata layout with SIMD-enhanced probing. These two optimizations work well with each other and combination of two is particularly effective.
> If you can make something using AI, so can everyone else

The idea / creativity is hence the key. Novel ideas don't occur to everyone.
Exactly. I commented to a different person, but I will repeat it here.

Taking credit doesn't look just one way. Very few mid-level management types will delegate work then when the work is completed they go to their direct report and say "Hey look what I created all by myself with no help. Pretty great huh!?" What happens more commonly is that they will delegate a project to team members A & B and have them come up with a solution to a problem. When the project is complete A & B show it to manager I. Manager I then goes to manager II and says "Here is what my team came up with as a solution to our current problem." Manager I had little to no involvement in the work or development of the solution, but they present it as though they had. That happens constantly in the working world. A good manager and leader will always mention, by name, who did the work.
Estate sales are commonly held by the estates of the recently deceased. So, there may be some bias in your sampling, since you're walking around the house of someone who was at the end of their life, not right in the heart of it.

And, I'm not sure large houses are as wasteful as you let on. After all, the floor area of a room grows quicker than the perimeter does. A 100 sq ft room could have 40' of walls, but a room with 4x the area could only have 2x the length of walls.

And it might just be my area, but there is no way you can get a bespoke home of equivalent square footage as you could a pre-built mcmansion.
A huge part of the point here is that McMansions create unattractive, difficult to use, and costly to maintain infrastructure. And the residents who live in the McMansions aren't really the people who are bearing the full brunt of these costs.
> They may not have found the very best person for the job (very subjective and unknowable anyway), but if the process didn't result in an under-performer taking the job, the process did not fail.

The process did not fail in the same way my bear repelling crystal necklace has not yet failed me in repelling bears.
Mind sharing the statistics you got this from?
6a ain't bad, got it for like $100 with a trade-in of my 3a I had since 3a launch
What problem is this solving? Also why would anyone trust your description of your own site instead of just looking at your homepage? This is the same reason why other self description directives failed and why search engines just parse your content for themselves, something LLMs have no trouble with.

Why would I make a request to your low trust self description when I can make one to your homepage?
yes - more and more research is cropping up around the chemical response to social media usage but here's a particularly succinct paper - dopamine reward is absolutely associated.

https://www.iomcworld.org/open-access/neurotransmitter-dopam...

To Barrin's point, the jury is still out on formally qualifying this as "addiction" - and for most people the context of habit change is apt.
I don't like the snarky/sarcastic tone of this blog post. It feels like a ranty hacker news comment that someone put WAY too much effort into.
working with databases, streaming data around with stuff like kafka or snowflake, integration with orchestrators like prefect or dagster, robust interfaces for spark, being able to read a directory of parquet files without the GC going insane, this kind of thing

I know there are some existing packages that nominally do some of these things, but generally they are understaffed and not fully mature. I love Julia as a language, so I hope this will improve over time. I think it's one of those problems that just requires more adoption before it can be fixed, and things like precompile TTFX improvements in 1.9 are a good way to get that!
ChatGPT already recognises common scam emails, so it probably won't be that cooperative. Interactions with scammers aren't that helpful for training LLMs, and I would expect accounts whose conversations consist solely of interactions associated with scams will likely end up being flagged up and banned.

In theory you could solve this with a custom LLM but.... that's a lot of time, compute costs and effort to waste scammer time which is almost worthless
> just covering failures and fake it till you make it without discernment or introspection (doing it in a field where you really need to stop faking it sooner)

In a word: scamming.

Even her voice is fake.
Asking for help from those that are smarter than I am ;;

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One of the very common things for Martial Arts Books in the past, was the fact that one were presented with a series of pics, along with some descriptions about what was being done in the pics.

Sometimes, these are really hard to interpolate between frames, unless you had a much larger repetoir of movements based on experience (i.e. a white belt vs another higher belt... e.g. a green belt will have better context of movement than a white belt...)

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So can this be used to interpolate frames and digest lists (lists are what many martial arts count as documentation for their various arts...

Many of these have been passed down via scrolls with either textual transmissions, paintings and then finally pics before vids existed...

It would be really interesting to see if AI can interpret btwn images and or scroll text to be able to create an animation of said movements.

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For example, not only was Wally Jay one of my teachers, but as the inventor (re-discoverer) of Small Circle JuiJitsu - his pics are hard to infer what is happening... because there is a lot of nuanced feeling in each movement that is hard to convey via pics/text

But if you can interpolate btwn frames, and model the movements, its game changing because through such interpolations on can imagine that you can get any angle of viewership -- and additionally, one can have the precise positioning and translucent display of bone/joint/muscle articulation such that one may provide for a deeper insight into the kinematics behind each movement.
> A lot of people in this thread seem to be undervaluing those old school Disney characters

Right? There were even competitors back then. People all but forgot the Looney Tunes.
My long-horizon strategy has been the kinds of roles I take on. A product-focused role lets you go deep into a narrow problem area, whereas a customer-facing consulting/services role forces you to go wide, learning a new area every time. Over the years I’ve used time in the latter to select what to go deep into.
I confess myself completely unsurprised that amazon interview performance has no bearing on actual job performance.

I would bet money that most companies have this problem.
Sure, but is that causal? For example, maybe there's some other factor (like SES) that's driving both. And switching to IQ tests doesn't really solve the problem, as your avenues for cheating on that are identical to LC.

You could probably screen candidates based on the question "Did any of your parents go to college? And if so, did they study or work in a STEM field?" and be roughly as predictable.

(This is terrible and you shouldn't do this)
Youtuber Wendigoon made a 6h summary/analysis of Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy, which was top seller for the followong week or two on amazon and anecdotaly became hard to find in libraries in the US!

Very good video as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu6STuj4njw
Google is bringing AI to the browser with WebGPU in Chrome
Do you want to be in Canada?
I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. McMansions are defined by their attempts to outwardly demonstrate wealth, which makes deriding them easy but justifiable. Many of the kinds of homes the author discusses here are multimillion dollar properties. Yes, there's a little snobbery involved, but I don't find it classist to point out the irony in wealthy folks appearing cheap by yelling "LOOK HOW WEALTHY I AM!"
So bed bath and beyond is a startup?
> focus on improving its context recognition rather than trying to fix that by inserting even more training data.

That's how you improve its context recognition. You show it many contexts.

> most AI projects don't exactly care about things like the wishes of authors, copyright, or ethical considerations

Why is it 'ethical' that you get to add a bunch of restrictions to a pre-negotiated situation? You get copyright protections in trade for letting people use your work. There's a way to add restrictions - licensing - and you're looking to get the benefits of licensing, and to take away fair use right from other people, without paying the costs of doing so.

fwiw, I copy most pages I visit and store them. The website has given me the equivalent of a pamphlet and I store it instead of discarding it when I'm finished. This way I can go back and read it again later without having to track down the author and ask for another copy. It's not AI which has me doing this, I've been doing it for decades - it's censorship that has shown me the need.
it's using the =:= operator you say it should be using, not the == operator you incorrectly say it is using

however, that operator was originally defined incorrectly, and now they are fixing that bug
> c.) that the cheaters clearly are skilled after all because of all their success, as evidenced by being promoted, so it's ok.

Quite possibly that some commentators think that way, but I doubt that cheaters suddenly stop cheating after the interview, particularly not if it worked out so well for them. I rather think they'll continue their path of alternative facts; blaming others for failures, mis-attributing successes, mis-charecterizing their contributions, lying, gas-lighting, bullying and even squeezing their colleagues out of their job. There might be work environments where this is a net positive for the organization, but I can't think of one right now.
You're right, there's actually no reason why a second server couldn't serve up toots with the old IDs.

The main problem would probably be keeping track of what server to fetch these messages from after a move (or even a second move) to a different server and keeping the metadata attached in sync.
It is wholly interesting that such a tool is needed. We need a new generation motivated by self-control and at an early age be critical of how technology triggers dopamine responses. I would be interested in seeing clinical classification of app addictions as a real health issue that deserves treatment. The real answer is to put down the phone. We (in this industry) are all complicit in the creation and promulgation of this problem.
What Does Vercel Do?
>>deprive people of obtaining CCW permits without ridiculous requirements and mind boggling wait times.

Again, in the context of A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, what is the problem with qualifications and a wait time? (yes, if they are actually egregious, it can be an effective ban).

Beyond that, what is so mandatory about concealed carry? It is the right to bear arms -in a well-regulated context- not the right of any mentally-ill person to sneak arms into any place at any time.
Eh, that's why the second check I mentioned is there... To see what the neuron is doing in relation to the rest of the network.
It's really astonishing that she seems to be getting away with it (again). I sincerely hope that's not the case.
Hmm, "robot" in its spelled out form sounds weird to me for this use ("bot" is more frequent). Wikipedia redirects people looking for software agents to a separate page from the article about the beep-boop ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
I dont think anyone's claiming this isn't shameful; they're just saying it works.

And when real people are faced with a broken system which penalises honesty and rewards cheating, many will choose pragmatically rather than idealistically.
It's the world we live in.

* Candidates now lie about experience.
* promotions are given for loyalty, not contribution.
* Companies cheat on hiring using false job descriptions and fake career carrots.
* Your performance at work does not matter. Advance your career by interview prep, not excelling at your role.
* Prestige (ex-FAANG, Ivy league degree) matter more than hard work.

I've noticed that tech companies are now filled with people who have zero interest in computer software. Management at tech companies is comprised of non-technical people.
Okay then - I agree with you that wording in the article seems rather shifty on this point. Like the way they start off in the title using neutral language, but then throughout the article they do seem to be spinning in such a way that it seems they want the reader to feel that in fact the relation is (or "may be") mostly causative. And that, for not addressing the elephant in the room (the correlative confound) overall the article can be said to be somewhat disappointing.

What I'm not so sure about is to what extent we can, starting from that -- make inferences about the authors' broader motives, or to speak of their "gall" and how unmitigated it was. And frankly, I don't particularly care.

Not that you shouldn't care, though. But if you want to criticize them "personally", perhaps a letter to the original journal would do the trick? Or at least get it it of your system? Because I kind of doubt they're taking the trouble to dig into the fine print of this thread, or to otherwise allow their morning coffee ritual to be upended by this withering analysis of yours.
> Does that page apply to employer based plans? It's not clear that it's not just discussing marketplace plans.

It applies to all non-Medicare, non-Medicaid, non-grandfathered[0] plans for people under the age of 65.

Ironically, once you turn 65, all bets are off: insurers can factor your age into your premiums, and people often get a massive rate hike then (usually prompting them to switch to Medicare).

[0] A small percentage of employer-provided pre-ACA plans are grandfathered in, but they're few in number and decreasing over time. If you have a grandfathered plan, you probably know it, because it's required to be disclosed visibly in the plan documents when you enroll.
>> That's not "twisted idea," unless you think it's OK for parents to beat their kids.

> The "beating" bit has nothing to do with raising children.

Says you, but historically a lot of parents have disagreed.

Statements like the one I quoted in the GP are often revealed to be equivalent to something like "people totally shouldn't be allowed to impose their beliefs about X on others...except for my beliefs, which totally should be imposed on others because I've confused them with the objective laws of nature or something."
Anyone setting up a honey pot. Half of 4chan posts are 3 letter agencies trying to bait people into violence.
I really don't like the tone of this post, particularly calling out a named employee for, as far as I can see, a perfectly fine response. It seems to me that the OP is the one who has taken an antagonistic tone on the feedback threads, even when GitHub are showing themselves as responsive to the feedback.

Go ahead and criticise a product, but don't call out an employee or make out that they are failing to fulfil your personal requirements.

I'm sure this is only a first version of the new GitHub search, and more features will come. Give them the benefit of the doubt.

I don't really understand why we are seeing more and more of these style of antagonistic blog posts (or comments here on HN).
Is there any evidence, other than these people using unethical methods to get hired on initiall at companies, that they didn't earn the raises they received?
I really miss "sort by date" because something commited 10 years ago has a very different context than something commited last week.

Time is an important information.
I know you said you didn't like the idea of hashes, so this might be a non-starter for your use case.

But it sounds like a V5 Guid [0] might meet some of the needs for your "operation Ids".
The existing "random agent id", and "sequence number" could be used as part of the namespace / salt.

[0] https://www.sohamkamani.com/uuid-versions-explained/#v5-non-...
if only you could decide on what other people could spend their money on, then the world would be such a better place, right? and, you seem to have no problem enjoying the downstream effects of their "estate".

btw, that thing you're undoubtedly alluding to, the 1-story craftsman bungalow with custom woodwork and detached garage/shed, gravel driveway and on half an acre with a perfectly manicured herb garden and tomato beds is more expensive and probably located in a jurisdiction with much higher taxes.

i live in a concrete loft which is basically the polar opposite of a mcmansion but can you enlighten me how i'm doing my entire life wrong also?

different types of housing exist because people have different tastes.
Why is the tech real this time? Why is it an awesome company?

Give us some substance. Dismissing critics as cynics doesn't tell me anything as a layman. A good exchange between a booster and a debunker adds something to the discussion.
If the companies wanted a fair interview they would ask questions and have a discussion that only a skilled engineer with real world experience could have.
Actually, it funnily enough proved to create some bad habits for the PLANE rather than the driving!

When I started my flight training, my flight instructor's chief complaint was that I was so used to looking INSIDE the cockpit rather than out. Conversely, picking up instrument flying definitely came very easy (I was used to reading plates, ATC phrasing, etc.), but
When you're getting colonized, I don't know if it really matters whether the colonizers honor their promises more or less. Consider the Maori, the gold standard for a colonized people who managed to get a full treaty with the British very early on, even securing representation in government in the mid-1800s. Are they meaningfully any better off as a result of these agreements, relative to other indigenous groups? Not really, and in recent times they even seem to have slid back on many important welfare and quality of life metrics, despite changes in NZ policies towards Maoris that should have had the opposite effect. Sure the Maori may have built up "trust" in the colonizers' treaties, but since they were an out-group it didn't affect their day-to-day interactions, so they didn't reap the benefits that go with being part of the high trust society.

My point is that in-group relations is not the same as out-group relations. High trust is about how you treat members of your in-group. Enslaving foreign people is most certainly a "low trust" move (how can I possibly enter an agreement with you when I know you might just show up one day and enslave me?) but it's fully possible and consistent for the perpetrator to belong to a high trust society.
Heh my last few houses have pre-nuclear steel in them, since they were built before the bombs dropped.

And yes, the "standard" (hard to call something a standard that only really existed for 50 or so years of the modern USA) of houses going out of style and passing down as starter homes, etc has been sadly disrupted.

And many of those starter homes are now held out as rentals, which further distorts it.

(We're actually in a "starter home" now and considering what the next step should be, and the vast improvements in energy, etc over the last 20 years alone is making me heavily lean toward building, especially as I can sit on the design and get something more reasonable for the cost.)
Actual mansions are several orders of magnitude less common.
Many generations of people before us ended up prematurely dead by being decent people while others cheated
How would your company protect itself against Sherlocking? (when an OS adds features previously available as 3rd party apps)

It seems like Google's Digital Wellbeing or the Apple equivalent could steal these features.
groups and semilattices are mutually exclusive; semilattices can't have any inverse elements
Yes, that is the point. Business owners generally do not like employees to pay excess expenses so that the owners’ profits are less, even if the owners are shareholders in publicly listed companies.
This is great. When do you plan to release the Android version?
Google just doesn't have the volumes to provide products in all countries. Providing sales integrations and support is costly and if you don't have volumes, your amortized cost over a device is high.
It's not quite the same though.

In the cookie case, you can detect a returning visitor by the presence of the cookie, you do not need to assign an unique identifier.

In the hashing case, the hash of the IP and UA counts as PII, at least for the 24 hours while you still have the salt.