skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't think I've ever taken anything through a whole "life cycle", whatever that even means for software.

Im not talking about the author, but if you have ever heard phrase "seniors with 5 x (their first year) of experience"

then not doing whole soft. dev. life cycle would be first sign of this.

Jumping between projects every year and doing similar stuff sucks, yet people do that and are proud of the fact that they change jobs every 1 or 1.5 yr
>we’ve started simulating it from the bottom up.

Not really though, as I understand it. Simulating from the bottom up would be akin to simulating neurons and such, or even the molecules that make up the brain and the connected systems. What we've done is creating a complex system whose emergent behavior's output is similar in specific ways to a human brain. And significantly more so, compared to the previous attempts.

And yes, many aspects of our existence is comparable to a machine. Which can be a very good thing, since we can apply many of the knowledge to get improvements, like we can train, debug, and fix some things. In fact I consider the realization you're having essential for personal development, because you can now leave behind things that you previously considered "you", now that they turned out to be not really "you" but just something you do, and most others do too, to get closed to what "you" really are. And do better in things that you think "you" are not!
My wife and I did this when we adopted our first cat. It's been incredibly helpful. As someone who had never interacted much with cats before that, and who was kinda afraid of them, Jackson Galaxy helped me see cats as little cute killing machines that can be as affectionate - if not more - than dogs.

His book is also very good!
The problem with lua - in my opinion is, the lackluster infrastructure for shared code.Lua rocks are version crippled and hard to integrate, bloat the code pretty fast (every instance has a full copy of all library code). Its also problematic that there are no default implementation for a API-Library layer. Which creates funny little re-implementations from v[1] to v.x and what have you not.
Ugh no brightness control would kill my eyes.

I read somewhere that the camera also doesn't work, meaning that video calls are out of the question and that's something I use for my personal and professional life.

So, not a daily driver from me just yet.

Thanks for the info.
Can you explain, how is someone a "loser" if they don't use a credit card? Buying stuff on credit was never standard around where I live. Yet, for internet purchases, sure, but for most other things, we actually never adopted credit cards. We finally have debit cards, which is nice for the occasional internet purchase. But I see no extra pressure in my society to actually own and use a credit card.
Now that the facts have come out. Dabiri said him leaving didn't have to do with the Desantis event.

Now what? Is the BBC going to retract the article? Add notes to the original article saying there was no connection? Track down every one who read it and tell them there was no connection?

This is how misinformation and dangerous narratives get built slowly.
The remake is quite good so far from the several reviews I've seen.

https://youtu.be/eGQ4bs_1MRE

https://youtu.be/9HkaK-fhceg
What's the easiest way to track and display KPIs?
We're trying to track basic events like account registration, etc. Would also need a dashboard to display this.

Thanks! :)
There's also this bit from Josh Triplett: https://hackmd.io/p3VG_bK9TXOvtgh1oA2yZQ?view
But don't you sill have privacy laws very similar to the GDPR?
It’s an interesting take that makes a lot of sense, but I still feel like the angle of “having less code to sift through to spot bugs” is very specific to your use case and high competence relative to other operations.

For a lot of companies, inspecting source code and filing bugs directly is just not a capacity that exists, which is where LTS of a Linux distribution makes a bit more sense — and without throwing any shade on FreeBSD (I love it), maybe the smaller amount of users globally compared to Linux means that “stable” isn’t quite as stable, especially if you’re doing bleeding edge stuff anyway.

I guess you could say the same thing is true for a company like Cloudflare considering their network related patches to the Linux kernel.

Thanks for the perspective!
I do spend a lot of my spare time writing code for free, but I think a healthy, well-rounded person should get outside one genre of activity at least some of the time!
I read it that this regulation only applies to retailers (as in commercial sellers) and is there to protect liscenced sellers and OEMs from price dumping through grey imports. Fair enough, as the regulations around market access, the various anti-trust laws, are pretty severe as well. They make exclusivity pretty hard, for both OEMs and retailers, and fines can be stiff.

Nowhere does it mention the sale of used gear, or the sale by private partied. Which lines up with my limited experience around buying used gear online, especially eBay, from outside the EU. I never tried to export so.
Stop dumping your cast-offs on us, Ghanaian clothes traders tell EU
I think Jira is fine and it’s ok tool. Nowadays the performance of the cloud version also has been good.

BUT it is absolutely possible to configure Jira to be horrible to use. Add lot’s of extra fields, force complex workflows etc.
If this is true, one should be able to compare with benchmarks or evals to demonstrate this.

Anyone know more about this?
AI Chatbots: ChatGPT and Other Alternatives
In general data from conversations isn't merely instantly fed back into the model so there is no way for for users to feed garbage into the model in the fashion you imagine.
CS25 Stanford Seminar – Introduction to Transformers with Andrej Karpathy
Damn right but I don't understand why. That is, why is ads business generating so much profits that it allows to build such ridiculously powerfull devices ? Is it because it's genuinely full of money or is it because Google is so central that it makes tons of money out of lots an dlots and lots of small adverts ?
Yes. I think 'sirsinsalot is likely right in suggesting[0] that they could be trying "to hoard the capability to out compete any competitor, of any kind, commercially or politically and hide the true extent of your capability to avoid scrutiny and legislation", and that they're currently "dialing back the public expectations", possibly while "deploying the capability in a novel way to exploit it as the largest lever" they can.

That view is consistent with GPT-4 getting dumber on both OpenAI proper and Azure OpenAI - even as the companies and corporations using the latter are paying through the nose for the privilege.

Alternative take is that they're doing it to slow the development of the whole field down, per all the AI safety letters and manifestos that they've been signing and circulating - but that would be at best a stop-gap before OSS models catch up, and it's more than likely that OpenAI and/or Microsoft would succumb to the temptation of doing what 'sirsinsalot suggested anyway.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36135425
Because the answer is yes.
Clearly a case of 'You know who you are ...'. Correct or not, without a specific example who's to defend themselves? I'm not keen on slippery generalizations.
are you talking about hackernoon?
A stronger hypothesis: the main goal of most AI researchers is to make other AI researchers think they are cool, and using a word from classic science fiction helps do that.
Ethereum move to the Point of Sale ahem, to the PoS was simply late. It's not a new invention an is years old by now. DerangedFinance is only interesting for speculators and scammers. Without CEX on-ramps there is nothing interesting or useful in DeFi for a common people. It is only interesting to observe from the outside, how yet another bridge has been "hacked" due to the poor code, or how another person had been destroyed with slippage due to shitty UI of all token software, etc.

What people mean here is that general innovation is dead in token industry, finding a new niches, new industries. All attempts have dies in 2018 or so. Decentralized storage, decentralized compute (with blockchain), decentralized LoRaWan, decentralized identities, decentralized off-chain ownership and so on and so forth. All failed spectacularly.

The only innovation remaining is simply more advanced instruments for scammers and illegal finance operations. That is innovation, but not particularly interesting for mass market.
Wow: OS/2. Last update was about 20 years ago. Which modern hardware runs OS/2?
The comments on that Swift forum seem to indicate that the slowness is not caused by the type checker though.
I don't believe so, however if you've not see Witch[0] it's a spotlight replacement. Honestly fantastic, one of the few apps I miss the most after having to move the primary workstation back to Windows.

[0]https://manytricks.com/witch/
Thank you to reply. Your definition of data engineer makes sense. From my experience, I would not call it a new role. People were doing similar things 25 years ago when building the first generation of "data warehouses". (Remember that term from the late 1990s!?)

I am surprised that you are using Python for data transformation. Isn't it too slow for huge data sets? (If you are using C/C++ libraries like Pandas/NumPy, then ignore this question.) When I have huge amounts of data, I always want to use something like C/C++/Rust/C#/Java do the heavy lifting because it is so much faster than Python.
Why do we still call those processors GPU when they are not meant to process graphics?
There is value in making things "more reproducible" even if you don't achieve "total reproducibility". Even just having a basic layer of extra isolation from the host system (even when updating everything at will without pinned versions) can be enough to motivate the tool's usage. There are varying degrees of reasonable pragmatism in different situations. Heck some people even decide not to use containers at all, and some of those even have well-motivated reasons for this choice!

(And will this stuff even still run on chips 10-20 years from now anyway? Is there maybe a practical limit to reproducibility?)
I think this website's numbers are way too low for Spain and other EU countries, similarly to how their 76k $ average software developer salary for the US seems too low: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer/...

They likely have a different definition for software developer than myself.
Eh, time will tell. Nvidia is killing it because they have "semi decent" software toolchains like CUDA when just about hardware player botched software. That said, a lot of interesting development on the XLA and PyTorch 2.0 sides that lower straight down to LLVM, bypassing Nvidia's CUDA moat today.
Maybe some use cases or some words about what problem it solves would be nice. :)
I rarely use windows, so it would be nice to get a short description/summary.
>I don't understand how these exes are leading these conversations, as they are responsible creating these products with potential harms in the first place.

They're basically trying to form a consortium, hoping to create an environment for AI labs and regulators to mitigate the dangers of AI. I suggest you go to their website. Their mission and reasons are stated there.

For example, one of the core ideas is that AI labs are competing in a high stakes race, and many of them will do dangerous things with AI in order to try to come out on top. This consortium is trying to prevent this sort of thing.
Well, people suspect it isn't, and it's not like we can see the internal version designation, and it's not even like we would care a lot, if it performed identically from day to day.

Indeed, you could do better or worse with the exact same raw checkpoint, just depending on inference-optimizing tricks.
Excellent blog post. I never saw it before. Thank you to share.
Men rea does not mean intent, it simply refers to the mental element of a crime. It can be intent or some lower bar such as recklessness or gross negligence, depending on how the crime is defined.
In practice Switzerland adopts EU law with minor revisions because doing otherwise would lock Swiss businesses out of the EU internal market.

The Swiss version of GDPR is coming in September:

https://www.ey.com/en_ch/law/a-new-era-for-data-protection-i...
As someone who moved 20 years ago to the bay area, and later SF proper, for a tech job, I totally agree with that. While the majority of my friends here are still in STEM-related fields (at least they're not all traditionally "tech"), it's very important to get out of the tech bubble early and often to see what else is out there.

Still here post-COVID, and similarly happy that many of the people who hated it here and were only here for their jobs are gone now. Granted, I don't love the city like I once did, but I still find it satisfying to live here, despite the cost of living.
Yes, I once just about walked into one while lost in thought when walking along a trail. I didn't see it because its chest was over my head; there were only legs in my line of sight.
The reason it's worse is basically because it's more 'safe' (not racist, etc). That of course sounds insane, and doesn't mean that safety shouldn't be strived for, etc - but there's an explanation as to how this occurs.

It occurs because the system essentially does a latent classification of problems into 'acceptable' or 'not acceptable' to respond to. When this is done, a decent amount of information is lost regarding how to represent these latent spaces that may be completely unrelated (making nefarious materials, or spouting hate speech are now in the same 'bucket' for the decoder).

This degradation was observed quite early on with the tikz unicorn benchmark, which improved with training, and then degraded when fine-tuning to be more safe was applied.
One think I want to add to my comment:

It doesn't mean what they did wasn't very wrong.

Just some of the speculations in previous HN comments seem to be very far off
> "I don't understand how these exes are leading these conversations, as they are responsible creating these products with potential harms in the first place."

Imagine a caveman figured out how to make fire. Their tribe sees how they can use it against their enemy tribes or to clear brush or whatever. They decide to hold a meeting to discuss the fire and how to not let it burn down their own village or their whole forest. Probably the guy who figured out how to make it would be involved in that meeting.
And realistically why would have they. Russia did not stop too much production, just moved where it was sold. And increasing production would have driven price down making in long run less money in total for them.
https://www.freepascal.org/

Free Pascal is based on Borland's Pascal with Objects and Turbo Pascal.

Standford Pascal is more of the standard Pascal written before Borland was founded.
Good point. "AI accelerators" is a thing now that competes directly with "GPUs used for AI as its sole purpose".
Looks great, our team will be trying it out next month
Single use plastics and plastic packaging need to be banned worldwide for most use cases, instead there’s more and more plastic and the packaging is getting thicker and more elaborate…

I can already hear the chorus of “but”… and this is why micro plastics are in everything from in vitro baby guts to the bottom of the Marianas trench
Of course you are, and of course Gmail sends the fed everything they asked for.

There was one email provider that didn't, remember what happened to it?
There is a whole industry around the import of US cars that are not directly sold in the EU. You can even register them with the US rear lights, in Germany. The absence of an EU CoC makes this a tack costly and lengthy, but it is absolutely possible.

Coming back to the video, I think it is more an issue around Nikon US, eBay US and the seller. I don't think Nikon, or any other Japanese camera brand, are blocking international resale of used gear on eBay in general, there are way to many private and commercial sellers in Japan shipping through eBay to the US and the EU for thatbto be true.

Also, with all the account blocking stories and copy right take downs being discussed on HN basically every day, why do we all assume it is Nikon's "fault"? I mean eBay is a party in this, too.
This might seem funny, but I noticed this too.

When I thank GPT-4 and also give it feedback on what worked and what didn't, it works better and so to me it seems like the equivalent of "putting in more effort".
The danger is induced by the possibility that AI will surpass the humans in a few years leading to disruptions in working and personal life.
Then, the whole economy needs to be overthrown and alternatives for taxes and such needs to be found. This endangers the social communities imho. One solution could be to tax upon the work, not the salaries of workers.

Also, if one takes a closer look who is saying that.. of course, a lot of people, but the Execs say it (or sign letters to halt the development) just because of they securing their stakes.

Big companies will get rid of new actors entering the market by laying strict rules upon new actors, that will slow down development and hold new ones viable, but for themselves, they need just to change their technologies.

The ones who sign letters to stop development for a year are keen to develop their own and are in need to slow down the big competitors. Elon Musk, f.e.

So, it's a danger, but Internet was for some actors in the beginning, too, a big danger;)
China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’
Not the same. Not all problems can be efficiently divided among NUMA nodes with low bandwidth interconnects.
That kill seemed pointless in so many ways. Couldn’t he just back off?
Show HN: Lona 1.14 adds support for soft real-time communication
Yeah, but the example is about exports from the US, not about imports into the EU.
`+secretkey` is easy to remove.

I don't think changes are hard to push forward. Soon every website will require SSL. Tech giants can move the needle on adoption of new standards.

Wanting to stay in contact with your customer is a pretty big forcing function for adoption.
This. In combination with tree shaking, I think this approach covers most of the use cases.
nice!

This is the sort of area where it feels the JVM has some under utilised potential, as these type of optimisations can take advantage of the strong guarantees of the JVM runtime.

Am curious though if it can work with other SIMD AVX versions since AVX512 is only selectively supported. And what's the potential to go all the way and add OpenCL or CUDA implementations?
> This is good, and I hope it stands. Once you demonstrate that you are in fact a citizen of the US, you cannot be denied entry, and IMO all the regular Constitutional protections should immediately apply.

I'm chuffed about this, but I won't celebrate until the decision applies to non-citizens crossing the border too. Right now a border official can tell a non-US citizen to do absolutely anything, and if they fail to comply they can simply be denied entry, with no reasonable right of appeal, no matter how unreasonable the border official's request. Border officials do and will continue to abuse that privilege until reined in.
In codebases that allow out of order definitions, things get wild real quick.

As I understand, Java allows this. You can effectively have circular dependencies. If true, I have worked on multiple million+ lines Java projects in my career; none of them were "wild real quick". Also, C++ has forward type declarations to effectively allow the same. Again, there are ginormous projects like Google Chrome and Firefox written in C++.
Even that should be illegal. People move. All the times.
Logically it just doesn't have that data and why would it? If you had proprietary data you didn't want to share why would you add it to the language model?
Nowhere!!!
All the good communities are online only.
I want to meet people with similar interetsts locally.
would be alarming if you had second hand thoughts...
I know what Frauenhofer is.. so we agree Frauenhofer does not "provision" 100% fossil, or what sense should this sentence have made then?? If anything (I mean they have very different branches, with different stances, I worked with one back then in partnership student time) they are generally an advocate of renewables? At least the ISE, IBP, IEE.. which not please???

Also think big for the future, I asked about Europe... it is about scale. Sure if I limit it down, I can also claim: Sun never shines in my backyard.
Maybe it had to do with jailbreaks? A lot of the jailbreaks were related to coding, so maybe they put more restrictions in there. Only speculating, but I cannot imagine why it got worse otherwise.
CPUs are also arguably not the centre of processing in such systems.
It's an umbrella term for a bunch of mechanisms where the receiver can tell the sender about things like dropped packets, congestion etc. So the sender can adjust the stream accordingly.
How did the encounter go? Don’t leave us hanging here!
My working theory is, that advertising is the overhead cost of doing capitalism. There is a certain percentage of resources which have to be spent on advertising to keep the system functioning. Google is good at grabbing a large portion of a huge pile of money.
Top Russian official says British politicians now a legitimate military target
So they are now tightroping with declarations of war.
>> J P Morgan Chase, Bank of America, seeking among other things “[c]opies of all bank statements” relating to Mr. Polselli and petitioners ..."

the above leave it open for "select * from records where customer_id = '...' " , DUMP all transactions.

but the definition of “in aid of the collection.” should be yielding a narrower query, not ALL (*) transactions may be in "aid of", some may be private and even sensitive in nature yet legit.

For example, the Banks could provide a sample schema (+data) with a GUI to IRS so their operatives can construct a query, providing a case/reason for requiring each column.

Also a good idea to create business accounts and run all biz transactions via that, keeping private accounts for personal use.
A good step at least. In my oppinion searching of smartphones means almost the same like searching one's actual brain or even more. This should never be allowed under any circumstances, not even for a very legitimate suspect or convict.
can you open source the code looks cool!
I remember the woman in Sweden that was found, apparently, beaten to death. Of course the husband was the prime suspect. Took a long good while for them to agree that she was in fact killed by a moose. He even sued for wrongful accusation:

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/6264964