skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s an absolute shedload of opportunity, for one thing. I run a job board for people who design chips and RTL for FPGAs. The pay is good and all companies are hiring RTL designers.

For another, plenty of people who do it love it. This probably isn’t the place to connect with them. I’d recommend /r/fpga or /r/chipdesign on Reddit.

(That job board is www.fpgajobs.com if you're curious.)
It is amazing how everyone arguments about suicide is trying to rationalize in one way or he the other the cause of suicide: what led to it? why? Is right? Honestly: who cares?

My stance is this: there need not to be any reason to die other than wanting it.

I've never asked for this life. So let me go, without much fuss, when I want to go. I don't need to motivate my decision, nor I need find meaning for myself to end it. Whether it is to escape pain or happiness it doesn't matter. Maybe I'm happy about the life I lived up until now, and I'm happy to go. It is nobody's concern but mine. And please, make laws and facilities to make it happen painlessly and reliably for all people who are able to decide it for the themselves at whatever age they wish to go.
It's not like the resistors are a component that is explicitly added. Every conductor has some resistance - the tiny wires that connect transistors together, the transistor itself, etc. Ideally, yes, you want those resistances to be as low as possible. But in practice there are design trade offs that happen if you do so; it's a balancing act. As the other commenter mentioned, there are no superconducting semiconductors, so the transistor is out. There has been some research into super conductors for the wires, but for the time being there is nothing that's easily integrated into existing manufacturing processes.

Re: channeling electrons - what you've described doesn't quite make sense. Fundamentally, if you're taking an electron at ground or 0V potential, and changing it's potential to VCC, it requires energy that comes from somewhere. The battery (or power supply) is doing exactly that. As the electrons flow back to the ground, the battery "recharges" them up to VCC potential.

What you can do, though, is put circuits in series between supply and ground. That way the electrons flow through the "top" circuit, do their thing, then flow through the "bottom" circuit. There's no free lunch though, as the voltage across each circuit will be reduced. Nonetheless, this is a common technique for low power analog circuits, and one I've used in the past. It's just not practical or worth it in digital circuits like a CPU.
Humans are not the dominant actors in human society, that is a very strange argument to make.
Kagi, Mojeek, Brave Search, DDG… there are plenty other options.

Curious to see what Neeva’s next move will be.
They could probably just visit Reddit, there are ample prompts there.

Prompt injection or prompt attacks are well known and likely impossible to guard against. Can you really get a human to be invulnerable to manipulation? Why would we expect the machines to be any better?
I switched off of Dvorak because of vim, and because keyboard shortcuts in general were so awkward. Shortcuts are better in Norman, but vim is still awkward.
Yann LeCun's opinion about regulating LLMs
The personalized search engine is a gamble. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.

And google thinks their version works well enough. Now my search results are crap. And I have to ask ChatGPT my problem after explaining it in a whole lot of detail and waiting for it to answer.
FYI - these are made with 3.5 not 4. He mentions this at the end.

I know 3.5 is impressive but it’s just dwarfed in its abilities by 4
Best results come with a conversation style prompt chain.

When I have it write code, I always say "identify any corner cases that are not properly handled". If you see an obvious problem, you could tell it to correct it "b - a will cause overflow for large negative numbers. Use an alternative."

I see it as an extremely broad, but maybe not incredibly deep, tool, that's most useful when you're not at the extreme specifics/esoteric knowledge.

And, bing chat is quite a bit different than ChatGPT 4 (no search), which is quite a bit different than raw GPT 4 completions.
He certainly looked better than Legolas trying to be Mario.
> Was it possible to try neeva for free?

Yes
The IA-32 ISA has been so successful _because_ of the no-compromise downward compatibility, whether you like that or not.

See all the revolutionary ISAs from the 80s, 90s and 00s that did away with all that legacy crap. Where are they now? I think the only one still working is POWER.
There are no TPM/DRM bolt-ons in the specification.
Here's a thread where I fed all of his questions to ChatGPT-4.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36014796

It seems like his graduate student did him a great disservice by feeding the questions to 3.5
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

--Calvin Coolidge
Vouched to reply, I have tried local politics, the local politicians don't have the money. It's all in Washington.
> Outside of the HN crowd, I don't think the average consumer thinks of privacy as a differentiator.

Frankly, I think this community is the exact same. Pretend to care about privacy, but convenience comes first. Like, I think the AI fad here is a perfect demonstration. I dunno.
Like what? And how does one measure that it is more impressive or less mundane?
At least on HN can we stop parroting this supposed open book strategy from 5D chess Nadella?

Bing has failed to take away meaningful marketshare from Google by MSFT’s on admission

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-eyes-firef...
Yes, Itanium will make the Pentium obsolete!
This is a reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012360
If you haven’t read it, Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus is a great read and is about this.
> The barrier of entry to software engineering is so so much lower than semicon, which still makes no sense to me.

Why ? So much software is far less complex to design than semiconductor stuff
I think Blofeld was the reference. Dr Evil is a parody of Blofeld.
Well, that was messed up. Thanks for sharing, I had never heard of habbo hotel until now.
What some people call "code golf," others call "syntactic sugar." :-)
> He has a problem with a specific vaccine

Which one specific vaccine would that be?
Are you a giant plagiarizing machine? After all, you learned to reason and write words and concepts from somewhere. Should you pay a royalty to every teacher you've ever had, or every author of every book you've ever read?

Is it even possible to have a novel thought that isn't somehow dependent on an earlier thought of someone else?
"Internet of Things will not happen until LAN of Things arrives", to paraphrase someone.

This already happens in the industry, like heavy industry.

At home, it's held back by absence of an adequate server. Often a router box or a NAS would be fine to host something like OwnCloud. But to run ML middle, different and much more expensive hardware is required, which would sit idle 99% of time.
I read it, yearly, but the main value for me is probably identifying what I need to do/understand in order to “get to the next step” of whatever I’m currently trying to do.
> There was a handful of new data that had been created in the intervening ~30 minutes. We pulled that diff data manually, and uploaded it to the new database.

But doesn’t that mean you had some partial downtimes? How did you manage to keep everything running during these 30 minutes where data was copied from the old DB to the new one? Let’s say there is a cron job that must be executed and its result would be stored back to the DB. Did you “pause” everything and reschedule it in the new instance once the diff copy was over?
> We live in the richest society in history, and also the most suicidal.

Actually, the US is not even in top 30 of countries with most suicides per capita. And of course, it's probably better than most at actually keeping records, which means that it should be even lower down the list.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
This is great!

I had made something like this for my own use, but it was way more complicated. It took a user account, downloaded all the liked videos, ran it through some model and vectorized it, and then you could use natural language search to describe a scene in your history of liked videos and it would show you the timestamp and the thumbnail (with the link to start watching from the timestamp).

I ended up taking it offline because I didn't use it much, it was expensive and I couldn't see a path to monetization.

This solution being posted however, is really elegant, in particular because it is very resource-efficient.
New DNA Research Changes Origin of Human Species
Thank you!! I don’t remember the prompt tbh, I think it was something like “mobile iOS application icon of a robot and child reading book”
They don't have a "tiny risc machine" underneath, that's a myth.

EDIT: https://qr.ae/pyvelA
That's not technically true.

Evidence gathered in violation of a constitutional law is often inadmissible.

But if you look at situations in which police gathered evidence in violation of a statute (e.g. committed a felony that wasn't additionally a constitutional violation), then I could count on one hand the number of times evidence has been excluded in courts across the USA in the last 100 years.

source: I play a lawyer on TV.
(not really)
> If they went around prosecuting the police they wouldn't get any more cases and they would put themselves out of business.

The prosecutor works for the government. No business involved. They will be just fine if there are no cases.
Alternate perspective: grocerers and oil producers form cartels and raise prices to line their pockets. The only people whose wages are beating inflation are at the executive level, and they really love it when you point pitchforks at the government and not them.
How to sell to developers (tldr: you don’t)
That is a lot of words to use, when you could just say that people who lived around singing birds had more children. More birds indicates a more fertile habitat, which increases survival rates. Anyone who disliked birdsong moved to a worse environment and had fewer children.
Fair point. Either way, my ulterior motive was to be able to read what they have, and learn vicariously that way :)
I don’t disagree with your point, but I’m pretty sure most of the controversy around “deplorables” was manufactured by right-wing media. Clinton was rightfully calling out the toxic bully culture of the Trump sphere. Y’know, “he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
Verification would become significantly easier.
I just finished my math undergraduate program, and the class that I enjoyed most that you don't seem to have studied at all is topology. We used Munkres, which seems to be pretty standard as far as undergrad topology is concerned, and if you're interested in getting into some more advanced pure math topics topology is super useful. I also found that learning the topological definitions of common properties like continuity to be very insightful and often much more natural than the definitions usually given in an analysis class.
My opinion is that in the end I don't think really wanting a change is enough for most people in sad social circumstances. They simply do not have the stamina, the skills or the opportunities to get out of the rut.

For example, I have a much more modest desire to have a shared hobby with is common and not expensive or difficult to pursue and a group of friends (casual to start with) to go and do that in free time. I have been at it for a year, taking classes, asking classmates and coworkers to join me. Not. A. Single. Luck.

Now, I have family, successful career, financial freedom, enough health to be active, no serious character flaws that would tax friendships. Are you telling me a fat and bitter guy who have been living alone long enough to be rusty in social graces is going to suddenly have willing friend material, let alone romantic prospects?

Personally I am not going to judge him or say he should have just tried harder. You?
It also might be revealing to read the account of the guy that jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived.
It's incredible how much of today's discourse comes up in that interview. We haven't come very far since 1979.
I hope the author of the blog post realizes that treesitter was never mean to be "an editable ast" or something. It is a partial ast parser taking into account presence of errors and error reporting. It is written in C for a reason: it needs to quickly get a partial ast and report errors in it.

There SO MANY perfect tools for language implementation and ast manipulation..! Starting with ML family languages that are very good at this.
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder Through the 'Community' of Ella
You are a great Trekkie, I must have been dreaming
You might as well ask why people bother asking it questions or talking to it at all on that basis. The fact it does typically respond differently to commands than to questions is part of the power of how LLMs work (whether that's entirely due to the fact its training data includes examples of commands being given and appropriate responses or it's explicitly part of the programming I couldn't venture to say, though I suspect the former).
I think the people who thought about these issues when they were purely theoretical got it right.

You need a “laws of robotics” to protect society from these type of technologies. The problem here is that the simplest answers to many problems tend to be the extreme ones.

Right wing people tend to get concerned about this because the fundamental premise of conservatism is to conserve traditional practices and values. It’s easier to say “no” in a scope based on those fundamental principles than to manage complexity in a more nuanced (and more capricious) scope.

This may be a technology category like medicine where licensing for specific use cases becomes important.
For performant enough models, you can just instruct it not to necessarily use that information in immediate completions.

adding something like

"Write the first page of the first chapter of this novel. Do not introduce the elements of the synopsis too quickly. Weave in the world, characters, and plot naturally. Pace it out properly. That means that several elements of the story may not come into light for several chapters."

after you've written up key elements you want in the story actually makes the models write something that paces ok/normally.
Do you understand what lead times are?

For example, 9 women can't have a baby in 1 month, because there is a series of necessary processes that has to be undergone and can't be accelerated.
My claim: Tesla Autopilot is the most advanced autonomous tech currently available to consumers.

Your claim: Cruise is the most advanced tech currently available to consumers.

My refutation: Cruise is only available in one city in the USA.

Are you braindead? Why is there so much blind anti-Musk rhetoric on this forum?
> As always, you are (were) using Twitter wrong. I follow authors, artists and journalists.

Well yeah, but those authors, artists and journalists can only use Twitter to share links and images (and announcements) since no meaningful content can fit into 230 chars. The worst is when people split a single paragraph text into 5+ tweets, that just brain damage inducing UX....

IMHO removing the limit would've been the only good thing Musk did if it was available to everyone.
Ask HN: What's the biggest pain point of test automation at your organization?
My right means the government can't hinder me. Making it illegal, regardless of whether it's prosecuted or not is stamping on my rights. The government has no ability to make it illegal
This seems less like an inability and more like a deliberate feature. They probably have some VERY strong and repeated language in the initial prompt to ALWAYS be polite. The Copilot prompt that leaked was full of demands to be nice and not racist etc etc

I don’t think it’s an inability to follow your instruction, it’s just that it’s already trying to follow an instruction
That is crazy high, cash back credit card levels
It certainly makes logical sense. I think if you have the ability to control the light in the first place via an API, it's probably an LED smart bulb and thus doesn't produce much heat. At least, I'm not aware of any incandescent smart bulbs.
eels eels eels
And your staircases, because they do not have the concept of scaling heights little by little instead of all at once.

/s
Yeah I was pleasantly surprised reading the article that the people managing these public housing complexes actually cared enough about the folks living there to install the cameras. I hope the GP has the empathy to understand why that's important, but judging by the focus on carrots and socially engineering away nicotine usage, I doubt they've ever cohabitated spaces with someone who isn't a tech worker making $300k/year.
Your search queries on Kagi are paired with your credit card, so if that doesn't bother you, ChatGTP shouldn't either.
And here I was wondering how manufacturers can take a thing that works and make it not work in new engine version.

Shit like "we did chain driven timing and it worked, but in new engine it prematurely wears", or "someone decided it is fine for belt-driven timing to take dip in oil, oh surprise, we now have parts of the belt landing in various parts of the engine".

Or my favourite, "metal, belt driven water pump is almost never replaced thru the lifetime of the engine and it's cheap, let's make propellers plastic and also drive it from separate electric engine"
Not finalized. https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/17/report-claims-snowflake-...
You mean because the native UI opens quickly, it is a snappy devide?

How does browsing works?
Maybe start with the Simple English Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This was over 10 years ago... We tried a few things; I don't recall the details. I assume we tried this.
+1 for Tinybird
> hundreds of thousands and it can't be sustainable? How many users do they think they need to make it sustainable? What were the targets?

If you assume 80% of users were 'free' and 20% were paid (which is probably pretty generous), and 'hundreds of thousands' means 200-400k users, annual revenue was maybe $5m - $10m.

There are 74 employees who have listed Neeva as their employer on linkedin, so even assuming that is all staff and that the average salary is $50k-£100k (which seems low?), salary then is somewhere between $3.7 - $7.4m.

So I can absolutely see a world where they were losing a lot of money - if they paid staff $100k and had c300k users of which 20% were paid, they can't even cover staff costs before even considering hosting/user aquisition costs/office space/equipment/software licences etc.
A strangely mixed metaphor, and incorrect, the buggy manufacturer did well enough... for a while at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker
I've been making a post-apoc survival adventure game lately [1], and as part of the world-making I've spent some time on banging out little slang languages and cultural terms, for the characters in it to use. They deal in English, mostly. But so much time has past, and theres been so much loss of the traditional institutions which "anchor" languages over the decades and actively help to keep them consistent, that there cant help but be LOTS of drift, here and there. Linguistic mutation and evolution -- but survival of the "most popular." Of whatever gets most repeated, person to person.

Its also a comedy so I get to have fun playing around with the distinction between "Approved, Proper and Official" languages and words, and their nemeses: the hip, the veil-piercing, the casual, the quickly improvised or intentionally irreverant ones.

When I was a kid I could effortlessly switch back and forth between the two types. Though I felt more natural and at home in the latter. Then as a groan-up in the white-collar workforce, when I was forced to do the whole hours-long, two--way highway commute M-F to spend yet another 8 hours in a drab cubicle, and had to Watch Every Single Thing I Said and Did All Day Long lest some random person take it out-of-context or Find It Offensive, a certain joy for life was... slowly beaten out of me.

I've always been a fan of Lojban, on paper. But I dont see it having a bigger future. English is "good enough" however imperfect.

Less is more strikes again? :-)

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(1. see my bio: Slartboz)
To be fair having demeaning names for the engineers' work activities is not the worst part of corporate agile. Unfortunately.

I have heard some third tier companies and lower play "planning poker" at work. It doesn't sound like any fun or efficient but a cheap paycheck for an "agile helper". I am not sure how many of them have remained employed during these layoffs.
If it's informative, you can't really summarize. Summarizing is the act of throwing most of the information away.

If it's informative, you have to read and take your conclusions. And if you later decide to use the information for different conclusions, you'll have to read it again.

It's little wonder that informative texts don't usually come in the form of books.
James Pavur has some interesting papers on various types of satellite hacking, from using ML to determine that some "space debris" might actually be hidden spacecraft [0] to VSAT security [1] to Cyber Antisatellite weapons [2], and other interesting stuff [3].

[0]:https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9af9771d-74cd-49f3-88e3-f3...

[1]:http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/11922/Pavur%20et%20al%20A%20tal...

[2]:https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6e4194fa-474b-41cb-81fa-db...

[3]:https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/publications/date/James.Pavur...

Note: I'm not associated with Dr. Pavur in any way other than being fascinated by some of his papers and Defcon presentations.
Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
To whom? I could read it as patronizing to Knuth, which I didn't intend it to be (but it could obviously be read that way). I absolutely love Knuth and his in depth books on algorithms, and his thorough understanding of the field of computer algorithms.

He is a key contributor to the entire field of computer science. He's unimpressed by AI, probably because he hasn't seen the utter decline of the Internet in the last 15 or so years. The rest of us, has to suffer through it.

Knuth goes on doing core research.

However, what I was trying to do was not patronize Knuth, but rather defend his decision and him being set in his ways. I don't believe what Knuth is doing is wrong at all. I believe the commenter I replied to is wrong on So Many Levels.
It continues to expand because there's nothing else like it: a language and editor agnostic tool for implementing parsers for IDEs. All of the editors come up with all kinds of niche hacks and DSLs. All editors keep reimplementing broken, partial, regexp soups..

I can only see more editors just giving up on this and going all in of treesitter.

It's not only neovim, btw, the next emacs is also gonna have it included.
> I wonder how this will affect quirks such as A20

A20 was removed in Haswell (released pretty much exactly ten years ago).
This is the post: https://crawshaw.io/blog/sharp-edged-finalizers
PicRoulette.xyz
A rant on bus stops
Inhabiting a Fire-Adapted Land
My write-up on the recent LA bus stop fiasco
lol rip.

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/python/2023/05/20/writing-pyth...