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I am looking for employees number no. 1 and 2. This will ideally be someone with a history of interesting research and a clear agenda for future research. I am personally interested in LLM's, MuZero (https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08265), Dreamer (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04104v1.pdf) and DreamCoder (https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381), and think there are some interesting systems to be found by interpolating between these existing areas (however, please still apply even if your research isn't in these areas).

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You're right, I wrote phenylalanine when I meant aspartame. Point about Diet Coke still stands obviously.
> Intuitive to use? Or has intuition?

I don't really see either of those things as a real possibility. Within my lifetime, anyway.
So next up: will they be able to reach profitability servicing SF and Phoenix. So far, highly small scale subsidized pilot projects.

The hardware is more expensive than regular cabs. The software has cost billions, an may cost billions more.

Operationally, energy use should be marginally higher. Hourly cab-driver wages: gone. Insurance and write off — we'll see, but if the software is any good this should be considerably lower.

I guess it comes down to the big unknown: will it work at scale. Can we find enough cities with great weather, where enough people will use it? What will happen when the price goes up? What is a fair, sustainable price? Will that be higher than human-driven car?
They are a self-spreading phenomenon like fire in the sense that they aren't alive. But what's different about them is they can develop varying characteristics that pass onto their progeny. The characteristics that are more successful at propagation result in more prions of that type existing, which over time results in the prion's evolution. It's well-documented in the literature, but it is interesting to observe that evolution can occur without DNA or RNA. That said, their evolution is probably slower and more confined than things using DNA and RNA because there is only so much variability a particular protein can have.
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Future of Coding Weekly 2023/07 Week 1
What's Fresh in Databend v1.2 - Data and AI
I’m working as a data science as at a biotech company, but I have a chemical engineering degree.

I want to highlight how cool bioreactor process optimization is. There is so much complexity and coolness to the problem. For example, scaling up does not involve making all of the parameters bigger because of different scaling relationships.
But once we fully adopt the Total Surveillance lifestyle, it will also know us in our most boring, most slobbish, most lonely of ways!
Location: Dubuque, IA USA

Remote: ONLY

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, React.js, React Native, Next.js, Remix.run, Prisma, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes and many other fantastic tools.

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Email: josh@joshmanders.com mention HN in subject to get my attention asap.
Time they would otherwise spend commuting.
Well CP/M was a mixed bag. It was case sensitive and the command line upshifted everything.

However programs like MS-BASIC would allow you to create files with lower case names that were then unmanageable from the command line.
I think it is unlikely from a simple reason: Today when you will buy "connected" car the manufacturer wants YOU to pay the internet bill for your car. But what are your incentives to pay internet for the car, when you likely already have internet in your phone? Nil.

It is nice mind experiment that cars could theoretically spy on everyone, but hitting some practical problems, like who is paying for traffic from a car to some datacenter which will be in high megabytes every second? Who pays for petabytes of data to store every hour? Who pays for massive server clusters to search through those data when you need them?
Related "Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36160198) from last month. I'm not sure users would want to link to exactly which job they now have.
> Good luck effecting a wire transfer outside of banking hours.

the beautiful thing about accounting and trade is that cash flow doesn't have to coincide with the transaction.
SoftBanks's Masayoshi Son says ChatGPT moves him to tears
The Bypass Paywalls plugin works well with FT [0].

[0] https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Haha! This is a real thing. “It is easy to assume that OOP requires such an OOP language. This is not the case.” https://zsmith.co/OOA.php

https://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Assembly-Language-Len...

Indeed, my first industry job, after spending my undergraduate and graduate degrees honing C++ skills, was doing object oriented C. It was actually great, taught me a lot about what actually matters in a language versus what people will tell you.
If the mention of word "Rust" for you will invalidate the entire comment, you just have a bias.
They literally made a movie about this in the 80's called Robocop.
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Hello! I'm a software engineer with 8 years experience, focused on backend development and infrastructure at the moment, but I have front-end and full-stack experience as well, and I'm happy to be an all-arounder for freelance projects!

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I'm flexible with timezones, and I try to be a good async communicator: I do my best to reply early and keep people in the loop. I have been working remotely for the past 6 years.

Let's chat about your project!
Red hat’s lock-in is in certifications for various software and situations. Suse is a genuine competitor in this space
The net effect of gerrymandering isn't especially large in Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Re....

Texas has 38 House seats. Republicans won 65% of seats and 58% of the popular vote.

California has 52 House seats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Re.... Democrats won 77% of seats with 63% of the popular vote.

Texas is just a red state. Abbott won by more than 10 points in a statewide election. The cities aren't even that blue. Beto won Harris county by less than 10 points.
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (but I can work most time zones, try me!)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: USA or Japan only
Technologies: C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript // HTML, CSS, React, Angular, SQL (MySQL, Postgres) // Xcode, Swift, Java, Android Studio // Linux, Bash, Git // Docker, Kubernetes / Heroku, Django and AWS (will get SAA-C03 certified this month, will update as soon as I get it)
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uxvd6oLocdjMzmunxYiYQczi5LS2kluo/view?usp=sharing
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I am very flexible and open to learn any new technology even if it’s just for one small task. I can also read and understand other people’s code comfortably. I am looking for a long-term SWE/AWS SA role, other roles are also welcome (including iOS, Android and Web development roles).
About me: I developed and released two mobile games a few years ago with one of them reaching #2 in the puzzle category on the app store. Although I have a Chemical Engineering degree from Japan (2020 graduate), I’ve been coding way before I went to university. I can speak/read/write both English and Japanese fluently. I worked odd jobs throughout the first year of the pandemic and I currently work for a Y Combinator-backed (YC20) tech startup, mostly front-end with a focus on JSONForms and automating the generation of Forms schemas using Python and Pandas. I'm confident I can overcome any task, hit me up!
Hire a gray-beard for your senior DevOps or SRE needs! Whatever your
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Email: jurgen at the below domain

Résumé/CV: http://botz.org/cv.pdf

I’ve had a nearly 20 year career as an SRE / DevOps engineer and as an
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I am at a point in my life where relocation is a possibility for the
right job. I hold an EU passport.
Not a NewSQL database though as GP mentioned. I don't think Tigris has a SQL layer.
Isn't that how it is with most homes with garages, both with and without ornate front entrances? In most cases, the occupants of that house will rarely enter through the front door. Even in cases where they park in the driveway/street, they often will enter through the garage because entering a code or using a remote control is easier than using a key on the front door.
I can only tamper so many physical brakes in a given night. But being able to just disable all brakes of a given firmware revision at the push of a button?

These are totally different scenarios.
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Optimizing Memory Usage for Training LLMs and Vision Transformers in PyTorch
99% of their customers are gamers.
Yes, that handbrake. You can likely still find the hydraulic or cable operated ones on low-cost automobiles, but new cars (at least in USA) almost universally have a little button to electrically enable the parking brake. In more advanced cars with an automatic transmission these electric parking brakes are automatically enabled and disabled when switching into park and drive mode.

In the USA this change to electric parking brakes was hastened by most people just not using the parking brake at all, instead just putting the car into "park" on the transmission. Many experienced drivers I know in USA do not know what a parking brake is or how to use it.
Because it was a wash. I was paid a higher rebate from the state, the coop we have for power and the manufacturer. It didn't make financial sense to buy anything less.
Back in 2014 or so, I saw the FoundationDB team demo the product at a developer conference. They had the database running across a bunch of machines, with a visual showing their health and data distribution. One team member would then be turning machines on and off (or maybe unplugging them from the network) and you could see FDB effortlessly rebalancing the data across the available nodes. It was a very striking, impressive presentation (especially as we were dealing with the challenges of distributed Cassandra at the time).
Can you elaborate what your process is? Some context would be nice as well. Like, what kind of language, what kind of project? I'm genuinely interested.
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So… don’t do that? I am more proud of my young children than anything else in my life.

Edit: you can’t insulated them from everything (nor would you want to), but you can support and reinforce their authentic interests that aren’t driven by mass culture - and you can work to maintain boundaries around your values. Maintaining clear boundaries in a responsive and loving way is often really hard, but is probably the most important thing - in my opinion.
PHP is still strong server-side and the Laravel ecosystem is active and striving. I don't see a reason to change. I use Ruby/Rails, a lot of things are similar, you'd kind of relearn each component again (authentication, rendering, dealing with uploads, background jobs, security)
From my perspective as an SF resident, it truly does not exist here.

We have some interesting experiments (Cruise, Waymo) wandering around (a subset of) our streets, but they simply can't drive nearly as well as 98% of humans.

They achieve some measure of "safety" by failing safe e.g. stopping and putting hazard flashers on when confused. But they're not an effective or useful "service" for us, in the current state. Have you ever seen one try to deal with a contested left turn, or a 4 way stop with pedestrians constantly crossing?
From Pew Research: A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves

So yes, your friend is unusual, especially as a millienial where even more have heard of it and used it. When you're asking a statistics question, make sure you cite statistics instead of asking people to write comments from their toilet.

Also: "Just 14% of U.S. adults have tried ChatGPT". I think we need to take a step back and consider how much the bar has been raised. "Just" 14% of Americans? This is an incredibly high number.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majorit...
"Son said he holds court with A.I. every day, feeding it ideas and hoping to get its approval. At the meeting, he described his ideation process with ChatGPT, in which he pitches an idea, gets feedback, then goes back and forth until the A.I. is satisfied.

“After we repeated this several dozen times, I really felt great because my idea was praised as feasible and wonderful,” Son said."

Wild. Is this real life or an anime?
Crikey: LattBot strikes again! This guy's footprint on compilers and languages in one generation cannot be understated. His PhD work eventually grew into LLVM and Clang which lit a fire under GCC and MSVC. The C and C++ compiler ecosystem is now far more competitive and healthy.

He has the magic touch. What you describe sounds amazing. And having LattBot behind it is even better.

I have watched one of his episodes with Lex before. He is absurdly humble about his accomplishments.
The brand was pretty popular at some point, and there are a lot of enthusiasts, even a federation of Panhard fanclubs. When asking a workshop for some part, whether machining or molding or whatever, they generally group their needs to make runs of tens or hundreds of parts to make it viable.

Also I'm not talking about the CD, which is a race car and a different kind of beast, but most of their other models, from the start of the 20th century until the 60s.
Yes I know. I explicitly said it was similar to mongo. Just responding to the bit that it’s battle tested and used as a foundation (no pun intended) for another db. As far as I know it’s the only database that has a company around it that is using FDB
From the beginning, this product was a very classically Apple strategy of 'let's just take the Next Gen technology, integrate it well, and beat everyone else to market.'

Similar to the iPhone 'winning' capacitive touch (or the iPod winning with Toshiba's mini HDD's), Apple plans to 'win' on SOTA hand tracking, camera-based full-color passthrough, face tracking, etc.

These are all things that Meta (and the rest) have talked about, but have not yet executed on.

It's not surprising (given this strategy) that the first runs are at low yield, the $3tn question will be can Tim Cook fix the problem fast enough (he was largely chosen as CEO because of this exact skill).

My guess is that this follows a 1/2 scale iPad trajectory - People like it, the early days are choppy but no one denigrates the product's quality, the product defines the category (and potentially becomes the category like iPad did), then over time the category becomes a utility product (e.g., iPad cash registers driving a lot of sales) rather than a 'new' iPhone.
Because testosterone affects everything, including the heart and other organs, potentially causing serious problems down the line. SARMs only effect skeletal muscle tissue, and so it is likely safer in the long run. Obviously more research is needed on long term effect, but this is primarily why people are using them.
What specifically do you want? Government cameras pointed at drivers?
> early Perl was missing little things like named function arguments

It's still missing those :)

(To be clear for people unfamiliar with Perl, it probably will never have them, because it doesn't need them. In Perl, all functions effectively have a single parameter of array type. The standard convention is to assign each array entry to a variable at the start of your function definition, and the names of those variables then effectively act as parameter names. But that's just a convention and you can do something else if you want.)
Clicks and impressions do not necessarily need to be human clicks or human impressions.
China to Restrict Exports of Metals Critical to Chip Production
Honest question: how is it possible for the American public to just accept that? This feels like a politician’s ideal wedge topic. “They want to control YOUR car. Take away your freedom.” And it’s not even hyperbole! For a nation that obsesses over the minutiae of gun legislation for its effects to personal freedom, it’s a bit out of character to let the government build in a remote “accidental” crash button.
Maybe it's like in the free-to-play video game business: Having one whale (person who spends more on the product) outweighs having lots of smaller customers.

The IMO dystopian move is to just let the AI employ humans as 'hands' for subsistence.
No.

Moderator time is a capacity limitation: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725>

Throwing more messages (not necessarily signal) onto the queue likely won't help that. Keep in mind that spurious or abusive reports are frequent characteristics of such systems.

Who precisely is being "gatekept" through a reliance on email? Even this highly-pseudonymous space alien cat replying to you now manages to get through that particular hurdle, and in fact, anyone, whether they have an HN account or not, who does have an email account (much of the online public) can at least in theory reach HN mods.

So, say, if you happen to be some third party who's being affected, abused, misrepresented, etc., on HN, it's possible to reach moderators directly with no further site interactions required.

Contrast with virtually all online ticketing or contact systems which otherwise mandate a site-specific account or profile.
All my server back-ends send me alerts and logs via matrix, which I can check easily from any device, including my phone :)

https://github.com/aaviator42/MatrixTexter
Thank you, I think the Selectric is a pretty interesting device. Your story makes it sound like the role earlier filled by the Friden Flexowriter. I imagine it was pretty easy for the Selectric to out do the Flexowriter for most things and the output could be easily duplicated at a certain point.

Any insight on friden flexowriter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friden_Flexowriter
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FoundationDB is a truly one-of-a-kind bit of technology. Others have already linked to the testing methodology that allows them to run orders of magnitude more database hours in test than have run in production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

A less known but also great talk is the follow which talked about what the a few of the team worked on next, effectively trying to generalize the methodology to any computer program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSPwJFXVlw

I liken the approach to being able to fuzz the execution space of the program, not just the inputs.
It is a reference to the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil.
i use an m1 max with 32gb ram at work and it's often slow as hell.

apps refuse to open without reboot. often resets or disables system settings randomly.

with shit like docker or microsoft "cloud services as a js app" running, no chip is going to help.

running win10 at home for 8 years best experience in over 20 years of all OSes in stability.
I am saying that:

- after I started lifting, I started getting attention and conversations I did not get before

- young men are not complete idiots, and can observe that this is true
V-analyzer, the new language server for V
Not to mention every repo might have a different dev experience, different ways to test, different everything. Just multiplies dev ex pain times number of repos.
Streams weights instead of data sounds really interesting - I had never considered it.

Something else that might be theoretically possible is -

Large array of FPGAs are apparently used to simulate and verify chips [1], can the same be done to run LLMs? Can we have 0.25 to 1 token per cycle, would the engineering effort be worth it, and would it be financially feasible from a TCO standpoint?

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/amd-vp1902-is-leviathan-fpga-do...