skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just described the entire audience at this summers Games Done Quick event. I think they’ve mandated masks there for some reason.
I think about that too, the guy is an asshole.. but in an almost banal, everyday sort of way.
His brilliant short about polishing a car is rather hard to forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7Dk4z2oiQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kustom_Kar_Kommandos
Contexts is amazing, being able to search window titles is how I do almost all my navigation between apps now days, especially when I have code editors open to multiple (4+) different projects.

I have an equivalent installed on Windows (I forget its name) and it is likewise just as amazingly useful.
There are lots of famous people almost no one hates because they are harmless. People hate some CEOs because of the notable harm their decisions make.
STEM professions are important, but I disagree that they're not valued enough. If anything, the US is overvaluing them compared to the rest of the world.

Education and health professionals are much more valuable to society, and it's criminal how little they're paid in general. Sure, they ultimately depend on STEM fields, but without them our societies would literally collapse. The "prime movers" as you put it depend much more on health and education professions than the other way around.
If you're starting your own project, sure. But most people are paid hourly or salary and not paid based on completion of tasks, so I don't really care if it saves me hours at work - I'll be given more work to do. If the company is paying for it, I'd be happy to use it, but then your cost-effectiveness comparison goes out the window.
An interesting exercise, but ends up in some of the worst java you'll ever see in your life. This would be a good thing to show people moving from language A to language B, as a reason to not just try and reuse language A's idioms in language B.
The do little work is certainly not true of everyone I know at G. Maybe some teams have slackers but in general they’ve always managed low performers out, with maybe the exception of 2020-2022 when they didn’t want to fire anyone.
The money means very little in actuality.

Most CEOs are doing it for other reasons besides money (personal enjoyment, thrill, respectability, “duty,” etc.).
Don’t meter it, just make it a flat fee based on average?
Yes, I think there might be something to that. Just recently my wife was watching an episode of the new Kardashians show. She made a comment like, "they are so pretty it's almost annoying" and I reminded her that this is TV magic. They don't look like that in real life. They are surrounded by makeup teams who are at the top of their craft. They have been under the knife more times than they can probably count with the best Beverly Hills surgeons money can buy and getting the absolute best and most careful work those doctors have ever done because they know how important it is they do a good job for such high profile people. Then of course there is the cameras and the lighting. It is the absolute brightest show you will see on TV. Every room they are in is lit so that not a single shadow can be seen. And then of course every bad angle, every bad shot, every frown they don't like, is cut. And they are always ready and prepped for the paparazzi because they usually purposely leak where they will be when they want to be filmed and photographed. Every girl in a America needs to remember this and get reminded of it frequently. Almost nothing on TV, almost nothing on social media, is real.
> Then let the moderators moderate

They did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36167892

> you can choose a different hill upon which to die, so to speak.

I didn't die on the hill, I conquered it. ;-)
Notice how they said percentage of profit not percentage of revenue.

Ask them if they will expect the CEO pay to be zero if the company doesn't show a profit?
I flirt with the Who's Hiring threads all the time. One day I may apply to one, looks like interesting problem spaces in far off places.
So what does it take to have subjective experience? Why do animals (whether higher or lower) have consciousness, but not plants?
What is an FN AI?
> How is that any different than providing free labor to help someone learn how to build the next [X] so that they can more effectively dominate?

Its an absurd equivalence. A human can never "dominate" no matter how much they learn.

Training for free a closed, for-profit private enterprize infrastructure that will eventually make your preferred free collaboration platform obsolete is like the ultimate of naivete (or vested interest).
One problem with this is that future Models will probably be trained with data that includes a subset of AI generated data.

As this ratio grows the need to classify AI/human becomes critical, otherwise all these models will probably degrade over time.
Elon Musk is wealthier than Bezos, and is the wealthiest person in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Billionaires_Index

Edit: Hi folks. Please remember I’m responding to a comment about public perception, not some ground truth idea of absolute wealth. These lists reflect what regular people are being told, and are probably a good indicator of public perception.
post-truth
> If the near-the-money options are correctly modeled, how will you make money on them?

In a hand-wavy sense, they're the hedge.

A mis-priced option isn't completely mis-priced: some of the modeling is correct enough. The trick to making money is to buy the mis-priced option, but then sell back the "part" of it that is correctly priced.

That leaves you holding only the part where you think you have an edge, and in turns this is what makes the "insurance" model somewhat viable.
Radiation-hardened quine (4 years ago) - 22 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18840797

Radiation-hardened quine (9 years ago) - 71 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7276976
> This should be a crime, and she should be in prison for attempting to spread a deadly disease

yeah and HIV positive people having sex are next!

Another person linked to the WA law that makes it possible to jail a person for being sick. I'm surprised laws like that are on the books.
Generative AI and ChatGPT Enterprise Risks [pdf]
That would require getting passive index funds to change how they vote. Honestly, if their was an index fund that consistently voted for better corporate governance I'd move my money there.
More than 32 instructions per PIO block: my main current project (PicoGUS) uses 32 instructions on one PIO block and 31 on the other to handle ISA IO, ISA DMA, I2S audio out, and SPI PSRAM access. Having more would let me cut a few less corners in how ISA is handled.

More/more flexible PIO instructions: branching is very limited, you can only arbitrarily SET up to 5 pins or pindirs at once (increasing to 8 would be a godsend), stalling with a sideset repeatedly executes the sideset, etc... I could go on.

Memory mapped PSRAM: I made a library to assist with accessing SPI PSRAM but it's still just functions to get/set groups of bytes. An intelligent cache around it would also mitigate the much higher latency of accessing PSRAM as well.

More SRAM: everyone can always use more RAM!

More GPIOs: everyone can always use more GPIOs!
Being gobbled up at a premium is a reasonable exit strategy.
System76 Galago Pro now includes H-Class CPUs
For fun and art I assume :) it’s an interesting subversion of norms. A camera with out a lens, but still requires you to be present with it.

Imagine if you saw someone using this in public? Would make you feel a certain weird way right? It’s a weird object that implies some tough questions about what photography is. That emotional impact just isn’t the same if it’s a web app you pull up on your phone, imperceptible to those around you.
Whether it was true or not the whole thing just doesn’t make sense. Why would the Air Force even code the simulated capability for the simulated drone to “kill” its pilot?

I swear journalists are way too credulous about this type of story. I just listened to a podcast episode about that which covers some of the more egregious reporting on “AI” lately [0]

0: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-183-ai-hype-and-t...
> You can't just unilaterally decide you're going to orient your life around your friends if your friends aren't on the same page.

And that's the rub. It's really difficult to find "bro's for life" that plan on being that way for most people, for a variety of reasons, will move out of that phase. I believe it's because we hang with a pack when we are in our mate selection phase of life and after that occurs, people have different ambitions for their life. Hangin with friends all the time is generally very different at that point.

> To be fair I don't think I was "unsuccessful" at making friends when I was younger

Indeed, there's many reasons someone may not form lasting bonds with friends in their youth and it's not necessarily because they were not good at it.
> Why do they mask then?

Disposable/cloth masks that do absolutely nothing to prevent the spread of an airborne disease like Covid do still work with diseases (like the Flu) with a droplet based spread.

> CDC says seasonal flu cases hit record lows around the world

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-and-flu/cdc-says-seasona...

The problem was the cult of people claiming that a disposable/cloth mask could be effective against an airborne disease, and being exceptionally hateful to anyone who wouldn't go along with this view.
He is transparently glib, but he often says one thing and does another. And his reputation for "telling it like it is" is doing the leg work of obscuring the fact that he's a massive hypocrite and can't be trusted.
> A digital computer cannot emulate an analog computer: it can only simulate it to an arbitrary level of precision. That’s the whole point.

A modern digital computer can simulate this particular analog computer beyond the noise floor. Practically speaking, that means a digital computer can perfectly emulate this system therefore it's simply a toy or perhaps for aesthetics.
If you change spaces using the keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+1,2 etc. (they might not be set to that by default.. it's 'Switch to Desktop 1' etc in the settings), then there is still a shorter animation, and there is no input delay when switching.
I don’t care if you spy on public figures, someone funded by tax dollars does not have the right to privacy. That’s not what my comment was about and you know that.

Feel free to move to one of the “regular” examples of financial surveillance states such as Cuba or Venezuela, I will never object to collectivists looting from each other. I just ask that you leave others out of it.
A 'fUCKIn' ai'
"it's to retain talents"... except most of these people sit on the board of each other's companies and vote each others outrageous compensations... retaining talents my ass...
What interns wrought at Jane Street (2018)
> kinetic energy associated with a running engine (flywheel to entire vehicle mass)

Like the notoriously hard to stall Citroën 2CVs and Dyanes, where roughly a third of the total weight of the engine was the ridiculous flywheel.

They could chirp the tyres in first, second, or third gear if you got all that mass spinning fast enough, not from power but from momentum.
Starting with a trained PyTorch model, it builds optimized C++ binaries for running inference (not training) on NVidia and AMD GPUs. Various optimizations mentioned a lot, so presumably models run faster than with just running them via regular PyTorch.
I doubt the debt could be renegotiated without the creditors effectively taking control and requiring management changes. To put it another way, bankruptcy would wipe out out equity holders and their control over management.
Yes - 5 years ago I had my own small startup building Shopify apps. The business wasn’t growing as fast as I’d have liked and so I was taking on part time contract work on the side. I responded to a job post here on HN from a YC company, and ended up doing a little contract work for them. They liked it and they came back a few months later to see if I’d join them full time to lead the product eng team. I considered my options, and what I liked about the opportunity at the startup was that they were building in a similar space as I was with my business, except better capitalized and further along. I took the job and have been with the company 5 years now. As with any startup, it’s had its ups and downs, but overall it was a good decision for me and I have no regrets. And I owe it all to HN. Thank you HN!
Reminds me of the old Science Fair Electronic Computer Kit Model No. 28-180 from Radio Shack...

https://www.oldcomputermuseum.com/electronic_computer.html

I had one as a kid and regret a) that I didn't figure it out more, and b) threw it away at some point.
Bosses dont pay you to go home early and play tennis (they should), they pay you to make money and you cant make money unless you sit there and gamble.
LangChain: The Trendiest Web Framework of 2023, Thanks to AI
Re: 2), it's particularly painful if you need the "reduce motion" accessibility setting. Instead of shrinking down from their current positions where you might glimpse a window mid-animation and see where it's going, you get a fade effect from full size windows straight to unreadably small windows.
Bill Gates’ Fanciful Memory
Why did you fight them without medicine?

More importantly how did you do it? I have tinnitus and almost all painkillers are ototoxic (I.e. they can make tinnitus worse). So I’m always in a catch 22 when it comes to treating my migraines.
This is an example of using a simple AI technique (stable diffusion) and really getting the most out of it. It's really just a clever execution and presentation of what is now just about the most commonly deployed type of generative AI.

As opposed to what I am doing, trying to write a whole program from scratch, probably the most complex and difficult to pull off application of AI. It's quite challenging to explain what you want and get a functioning attractive output. Also to run arbitrary backend code I need to deploy VMs which are relatively expensive. People don't seem interested in paying for my website.

So right now I am trying to think of something similar to my original idea but maybe easier to accomplish successfully and with less work for the user.

Maybe if I can finally do a good job with filling web page templates that is what I should start with. Because even if it can synthesize code for some unique requirement, the fact that the web pages it outputs don't look attractive is probably making it hard for people to understand that it's useful.

But basically I think this blockade thing is a good lesson for me if I can find a way to adapt a similar approach to what I have been trying to do.
For me, looking back, the best funnel was publishing articles and doing work in the open in a mid-sized niche. People noticed me and offered contracts.

I'm not entirely certain this will work so well, since it seems everybody is an expert at personal branding with GitHub contributions and all that nowadays.

A "hyper connector" I knew also provided some leads but smaller in scope and pay.

HN job announcements were pretty bad as an experience. With the one exception.

I'm in corporate now, but I'm also wondering how to find the next leads. Curious what your experience is?
Yeah, there's none of that in car ECUs.

If something happens to the system that controls the ignition, it either runs poorly or stops altogether. No biggie.
Yes, AMT works over Intel WiFi.
Related ongoing thread:

Neverflow: C macros that guard against buffer overflows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36163542 - June 2023 (80 comments)
Related ongoing thread:

Modern C (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36167820 - June 2023 (19 comments)
Yeah dude, I would spend all day writing scripts to optimize my World of Warcraft character instead of fixing obscure OS bugs

I'd probably do it on a megayacht while cruising around aimlessly too..
Very much not an expert here but what I understand is that most deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.) have some overhead associated with them just being on the graphics card. This takes PyTorch code and removes the overhead by translating the network into a "native" language for the card (CUDA for NVIDIA).

What I'm not sure is what "HIP" is in this context.

The way I'm reading this is it's the difference between running code in an interpreter vs. on the bare metal (for the GPU)
magnet's keybindings for me are the best defaults—they are very intuitive, and don't conflict with emacs. rectangle is an alternative i've tried, but magnet is the one for me.
Fine tuning the fan curves in the BIOS is a pretty crummy experience requiring multiple reboots to test the system under load and play with the configuration. If there was a Linux compatible tool to tweak them on demand, I would love to know.
You can model passive circuits with RLC ordinary differential equations (depending on the setup of the equations there's some algorithms such as Runge Kutta to solve them numerically). Afaik you can model some active components with ordinary differential equations, but I wouldn't be surprised if you had to resort to partial differential equations (More or less a "complete" electromagnetic simulation at that point).
Generally if you write some code and it breaks, your whole team has some fault in its release mechanism, and that's group owned
Hah, my perspective is the exact opposite!

On Windows, there is a nicely and predictably maintained Z-order, whereas MacOS insists that if I want to switch focus, surely I want all the windows that the other app has to offer, which feels like a big "mishmash" to me.
Not a blog, but a good YT channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/MalwareTechBlog/videos
What did you not understand about my comment?
Is this a thing in red states and areas? Like masking as a "fuck you I'm different?" signal?

Because around me in super-liberal-coastal-land practically nobody masks, and the ones I know personally who sometimes do have underlying reasons to be more cautious (e.g. relatives undergoing nasty cancer treatments and such that they don't want to spread anything to). It's been like 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 people at the gym I go to, for instance, this year. Or look at the crowds in the recent NBA playoff games.
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Aw no measurements? Need to see if it can fit on a desk.
How does this compare to Carp? Is there any good support for SIMD? where "good" means "we have more than a thin wrapper over immintrin.h"
Does anyone know if there's a package to get these tools/updates for parrotOS?
How much faster is it?
CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 'framework'

HIP: AMD GPU 'framework'

This takes Neural Network defined in python and convert them to C++ code calling CUDA / HIP for maximum inference speed
Just curious to understand how does a mask over your mouth keep the sun off of your face (presumably the eyes)?
Anyone seen details on if this can handle splitting a model across GPUs?
I agree, it could go either way.

It's probably up to whoever replaced Tucker Carlson (who was it? I never heard). The entire right will align with their stance, and the left will rally against whichever stance it is.
I don't see any Hacker News meetups in those results?
I am not entirely convinced. Not that long ago Musk was very positively portrayed in the media and elsewhere. I personally compared it to Gates' coverage given how they both seemed to aim to make his persona known as 'philantropist', 'visionary' or something along those lines.

Naturally, some of it could have been organic. I sure remember having a more positive opinion on Musk based on what he was able to accomplish with Tesla and SpaceX. It is only later as he was gaining more spotlight that the eventual reports of his work practices became more commonly known. OTOH, Gates remain that old guy that talks about sustainability, saving the world and stuff.

Come to think of it. Maybe you are right. Musk does not have PR team.
The latency improvements are impressive but the ability to run models beyond their typical memory limitations is way cooler.
Why is this non-binding? Did they not have a majority or something?
An autonomous Belgian firearm.
It is intentionally hard to get all the details in place to pick someone up. Having someone pick her up is easy, there are many police officers who can do it (though most wouldn't know how to use the right protection to deal with someone with TB). However having a process in place to ensure that someone like that is picked up quickly, while not allowing evil people to abuse the process to pick on an innocent person is very hard.
Phytoplankton: Cellular Process Behind Oxygen Production
Oh please, it's a well known proposed solution that still doesn't give us a failsafe and every Alignment Researcher ever has considered this:

https://www.alignmentawards.com/shutdown

Hell, so much so, that you can get awards, probably even tenure, for writing a compelling argument or providing technical research for how we could guarantee that we'd be able to turn off a super intelligent AGI. Thus far: no solution.

We have however found that even smart people initially think "just turn it off" will work.

Neil deGrasse Tyson used to think you could just turn it off. He has since changed his mind. So does every public intellectual I can think of that engages with the arguments in good faith. Even the OP article concedes AGI research into the possibility that AGI could kill us all is important (just that other things are more important right now). There is no argument made that "we could just turn it off" in OP and therefore we shouldn't do the research at all.
Depends where you were, and when. Probably almost everyone got sick in China after they dropped their zero-covid measures, in the space of a month or so. If you're sick for maybe 1-3 weeks, that's easily 1/3rd of the population sick simultaneously.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/15/world/asia/ch...

> Based on that data, they inferred that 90 percent of the population was infected in little more than a month.

> While the figure is high, epidemiologists who were not involved with the project said such a rate was plausible. And in January, a leading government epidemiologist said on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, that 80 percent of the population had been infected. Some European companies’ operations in China saw infection rates of 90 percent among their employees in December, Joerg Wuttke, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, told The Times in an interview.
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OpenCL works fine on Nvidia GPUs. It's more annoying to code for, and harder to get good performance out of than CUDA, but it works.
It sounds more like it was a thought experiment.
that's fascinating.

if i am here as a technical resource, i dont care

if i am here to make connections and maybe even, every 10 years, a new friend, then absolutely not.

so the challenge to the reply to my post, is to say something that disproves i come here for connections and friends.