skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gern is the best, his writings are usually treasures.

Here, Gern nicely quotes Hoststadter’s concerns about ChatGPT, etc.

Years ago, when I was enjoying Hoststadter’s books, I asked his student Melanie Mitchell for the source code for the CopyCat creativity program they built. She very kindly sent me a copy. I mention this because she recently was one of the four panelists at a Monk Debate on AI safety, and her opinion didn’t jive with what Gern quoted Hoststadter as saying. I agree with Melanie Mitchell’s point of view that we overestimate what LLMs can do. I am super interested in this topic right now because I am 1/5 through writing a new book “Safe For Humans AI.”
if you're going to go back thousands of years, you're going to have to talk about Jewish lands again.
You wrote 'inadvertently' but I think you mean 'indirectly'
I use 16:10 1200p monitors primarily which are also arguably 2k. I recently used a 1440p monitor and it actually is quite nice. I see zero use for me for a 4k monitor; I tried it and was completely nonplussed (and it makes remote-desktop usage significantly worse).
If you don't get to post hn comments about it, why would you buy the car that costs double the median us salary in the first place?
Location: Germany

Remote: if available, but not a must

Willing to relocate: inside Germany probably yes, outside Germany we'd have to talk.

Technologies: advanced knowledge of NLP and PyTorch. Python, Linux system Administration. Check my CV for many others.

CV: https://7c0h.com/cv_villalba.pdf

Email: probably_wrong_hn@7c0h.com
In that case it needed more information to disambiguate from flamebait. Especially since the account has a history thereof.
Hi, just a thought, I backed out as soon as I saw I had to pick from a giant list of industries. Most people don't have rigid criteria like that, and if the do, a conventional search is easy. Conversational AI has a potential to more naturally arrive at interesting jobs, either through asking for a freeform description of what you want, or maybe a back and forth discussion.
I am a hands-on engineer who has worked on backends(Go, Python), mobile (Android), and frontends (React, Vue). I have strong familiarity with cloud technologies (GCP - preferred, AWS - basic, Azure - basic). And with CI/CD technologies (Jenkins -> Travis CI -> Circle CI -> GitHub Actions + Google Cloud Build).

I am looking for a hands-on senior engineering (Chief Architect/Principal/Staff) role, primarily, focused on backend. Ideally, a full-time role, but open to part-time as well. Strong preference for engineering autonomy.

Location: San Francisco bay area
Remove: Open to it
Willing to relocate: only under lucrative circumstances
Technologies: Strong engineer who has built backends in Python & Go. I have worked on two Android apps, both of them used by billion+ users. Multiple open-source projects with one having more than 1K+ stars.

I have worked for two of the FANG and had offer from the third. I have worked in a senior Architect role in a startup. And has worked as technical consulant as well as advisor to a few startups.

Resume: < can't post as some of my colleagues are regular here :/ >

Email: rocharch07@gmail.com
Also, thanks! Very nice to hear that someone appreciates my work, means a lot! Sad to hear Apple didn't allow you to offer the "bring your own keys" model. I was considering that it would be an attractive option for more tech-savvy users to avoid the apple tax. As app developers, we could still charge for the app, but not for usage. For more professional applications like coding with GPT-4 that would make a noticeable difference for end users spending.
> Getting $100m for two years of work is a lot more lucrative than working hard for a decade to build a self-sufficient company

Are we discussing drug cartels? Because this reads literally like it could apply only to a highly criminal business.
Are you suggesting the advice in there isn't applicable in other domains? Or just that it uses games as an example?
Freedom is the name of my credit card from Chase
Correct. And all the more reason to squash it.
What a super resource. I (a civilian with some maths skills - roughly undergrad) can actually start to appreciate how these things work.

I generally pick Group 31 when setting up IPSEC tunnels. I use that for Phase 1 DH group and Phase 2 PFS key group. My choice is somewhat biased by this bloke: https://cr.yp.to/ecdh.html I do not have the skills to decide what is actually secure, so I have to rely on reputation. Dan B (Ok DJB) has a very decent reputation in this field.

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I did have to hit Ctrl+ to get it to 200% for comfort - the kids will eventually discover the joys of what happens to your eyes aged around 40-50 or so. Hint: long sightedness. Combine that with a history of short sightedness and a dash of astigmatism, for extra fun. A screen is 100% wide, why use only 30% of it? OK I have a pretty instant fix with scaling and modern typefaces etc generally work OK but bitmaps generally don't. You do have to zoom quite a lot to get the graphs to start to pixelate.
"The perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are capable of retaining over 90 per cent of their initial performance after 600 hours of continuous operation, the team noted, making them suitable for commercial use."

How does that make them suitable for commercial use?
Booting RISC-V Linux on Star64 JH7110 SBC
Omg they hired the HR from the PRC, how much social credits you got from this post?
Right, I know how git works. I meant in the method of work you are describing, but it sounds like the answer is you don't consider the number of local commits that differ from main branch to be constrained by what you are calling "trunk-based development", it's fine to have several.

Is what you are calling trunk-based development simply avoiding long-lived branches?
very much so, and it scales with network and time

i work in a courthouse, they had to use all versions of IE and firefox due to unmaintained application locks

the lack of subtle ergonomics make people do more work on computer than on paper

if you remember the old electronic calculator versus abacus, it's the same logic, or lack thereof, by the time you've changed context (session expired ? how to change app, how to change tab, gathered data from the client, tried filling it 7 times in various forms, your 1960 self is already finished filling in the form with a smile)

there's probably a greenspun variant for this
Any history of Google not respecting it?
I would love a 120Hz 8k 40 inch monitor. You could use 8k for productivity and then 4k for gaming.
Travel advisories are meant to inform travelers of risks... not provide commentary or political discussions on domestic policies.

When I worked at a huge company, I found that most advisories from state department quite accurately portrayed the risks in country. I would often look at state.gov and then talk to my local security people and they were close enough to be valuable to most travelers.
If there were a species whose average adult intelligence was that of a human three-year old, then yes you'd be limited in what you could teach them. But as for what AIs can teach humans, you have to assume we are using competent smart adults. My claim is just what AIs can teach competent smart adults is many many orders of magnitude more than what humans can teach competent smart cockroaches. Thus Hofstadter's analogy is not a good one.
> not be able to cash out when the time comes for me to retire

You can perfectly cash out by selling your business to private equity, or to anyone really.

Ban on M&A just means you cant sell a social network to Facebook, but you could sell it to Microsoft, to Autodesk, to Berkshire capital, etc.
I don’t know if that’s historically common but I sometimes verb like this when I’m too lazy to think of phrases like “think of phrases”. (Here’s to hoping that makes any sense.)
Hey there, newer member of the first group here. Please see https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ to update your meta-comment. So, is CL used in the industry today, yes or no?

Personal note: I much prefer to maintain a long-living software in Common Lisp rather than in Python, thank you very much. May all the new programmers learn easily and all the teams have lots of ~~burden~~ work with Python, good for them.
Definitely, I'm happy with anything over 50%.
You are way too optimistic about the weight. ViewSonic p225f with 20" visible display, that reportedly was capable of 2560x1920/63Hz weighted 30.5 kgs!

I am not sure with that dot pitch of 0.25mm it was worth it.

[1] https://www.backoffice.be/prod_uk/ViewSonic/p225f_viewsonic_...
I don't know anything about dementia but I gotta wonder how many people with it would even contemplate such a question.
Workplace AA is the least I’m concerning about. Any biased candidate selection method will be punished by market.
> And if simple constructive tension, i.e. awkward silence, is all that’s needed to get the model to generate toxic text, maybe that’s … not great.

You’re comparing awkward silence to pointing a gun in someone’s face. A bank teller does need to be able to handle awkward silence in a professional way.
I saw a rusty-looking bridge and thought of Pittsburgh so I picked interior Pennsylvania (somewhere).
> For example, there’s no traditional file system.

Is that correct?

The first screen-grab in the article shows a "System Workspace" window with some script snippets that seem to do "traditional file system" stuff.

And "The Blue Book" says:

"Class FileStream is a subclass of ExternalStream. All accesses to external files are done using an instance of FileStream.

…

Classes ExternalStream and FileStream are provided in the Smalltalk-80 system as the framework in which a file system can be created. Additional protocol in class FileStream assumes that a file system is based on a framework consisting of a directory or dictionary of files, where a file is a sequence of file pages. The Smalltalk-80 system includes classes FileDirectory, File, and FilePage to represent these structural parts of a file system."

etc etc

page 209 "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" "The Blue Book"

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Blueboo...
I was going to build something similar for funsies but now I don't have to :)

I'm curious the page mentions not being able to scrape sites that require a login but then I saw LinkedIn as an example. Will LinkedIn eventually be supported but require a login or something?
I saw a rusty-looking bridge and thought of Pittsburgh so I picked interior Pennsylvania (somewhere, 209 km off).
Not really. I'm not a lover of china, but I don't wish ill on people who go there or think people should have to deal with arbitrary enforcement of laws because you are from a foreign country.
Interesting… https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pull/10156
Iraqi Farouk al-Kasim behind Norway oil fund that is envy of world
If you pinch to zoom on the map the state lines show, qnd even city names start to show. But you have to zoom more than you would think.
Are you writing content (like a blog)? Would you be fine if another website copied your blog without giving attribution, and people read from that one instead? Would you still write blog posts if people read a modified version of them through some AI system without ever knowing about what you wrote?

Are you writing open source code? Would you still make it open source if people never saw it as "your" code, but instead paid an AI company to access your knowledge?

Are you getting those strange internet points by answering StackOverflow questions? Will you still do it if people stop seeing the answers you redacted (and voting for them)?

If it goes there, I will stop blogging, stackoverflow and open sourcing. And everything else that I do for free, just for the satisfaction of getting a "thank you" from a human from time to time. If AI wants to make me disappear, I will disappear.
Shove it in the container with absolute minimum deps.
I mean every democrat whined about the SCOTUS blocking the student loan decision and how it's another example of this "extremist" court blocking the will of the people. They didn't mention that decision was unanimous, which is actually really unheard of with the division on the court.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-535_i3kn.pdf (page 4)

Lets just face it though...it's easier to hope SCOTUS interprets a law or order a certain way than actually have congress do their job and pass a clear law.
At this scale, the difference doesn't matter. "No support" means "only runs on". Those software makes everything we use daily and we depend our literal lives on. No sane management will risk billions of losses, the literal production and accounting of the company or possible loss of human lives on some ideological or aesthetic preferences on the OS. Moreover the licensing agreements usually prevent the licensees from even trying such things. Compared to their licensing fees, RHEL or SLES are a cent to a 100 bill.

Technically the programs may or may not work. Those programs are large and even if you have access to the source code, they can be very tricky to understand. Making all of their parts and their extensively used C++ plugin systems work in a foreign distro is probably harder than reverse engineering some hardware. They are not "janky commercial software". People can and do produce cars, planes, UAVs, latest supercomputers and ICs, satellites and even nuclear warheads with them.

Linux userspace libraries don't provide stability or featureset guarantees and distros patch them and worsen the compatibility. Enterprise distros guarantee them and take responsibility for that. In addition the commercial software developers and their customers get premium tier support often connecting you to the developers who curated the distro. You cannot expect community to provide any of that, especially after many years of tradition of almost intentional breaking.
TBH, I don't find LeCun particularly convincing. I think he's correct but not persuasive, if that makes sense.

Debunking AI x-risk is a weird thing to spend time on. There's really no up-side, and there aren't a bunch of rich people paying for Institutes and Foundations on Non-Breathtaking-Very-Boring-Safety-Research. Also, most of the arguments in favor of x-risk that lawmakers and laypeople find most convincing are unfalsifiable, so it's a bit like arguing against religion in that respect.

I don't think there are any public intellectuals in this space doing it well. I'm not sure what to make of that. For myself, I make the argument for focusing on concrete safety problems from within the agencies and companies that are allocating resources. I'm not gifted TED talker.
I do UX research for a complex simulation training device. We record and catalogue dozens of hours of video.

You would be amazed how many users miss key information presented to them. You’d think you can plan and predict, but they always manage to find a new and surprising way to just not get stuff.

UX testing on simplest grittiest prototypes yields the best results in my experience. The more work you put into it before showing it to users, the more irritated you will be.
Making infrared cooling paint from grocery store items [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36579701
All I want is a list of jobs that involve functional programming.
Which is why we need laws, otherwise copyright is dead.
> As you noted, we're both in Australia, so there's no language or cultural differences here, so I know you're incorrect. The "not okay" in that phrase is the version of "not okay" in "I just got admitted to the psych ward, I'm not okay", it is not the version of "not okay" in "Terrorism is not okay". They are two different meanings, only one of them is the correct one for that saying.

So two things. One "not okay" as in psych ward can still imply negative things, but secondly I am aware of the useage of it as a saying, I am referring to jokes people have made using the saying in such a way as to imply the other meaning of not OK, which in part are funny precisely because of the typical saying. I am getting very frustrated you refuse to believe that anyone may play on the standard meaning and that I must be mistaken.

> Your contention is because the grammatical format of the joke is the same and you're not offended by it when you're the object of it, marginalised people should not be offended when they are the object of it.

No that isn't my contention. My contention is that offense doesn't equate to harm. I find some of the jokes I am talking about offensive, but I also am capable of understanding the context in which many of them are said and that the people saying them aren't actually terrible prejudiced people. Some of them absolutely are, I've met some people who are definitely actively prejudiced but they are a minority.

> You remember the lord joking about how the peasants look like scarecrows during the famine, and how that is an objectively true observation that the lord and the court find funny but the peasants don't find funny? Do you understand why even though it's true and clearly funny to the lord and his coterie, the peasants wouldn't find it funny? If the peasants joked about the lord looking like a tomato, would you consider that to be hypocritical?

I feel like this is a false equivalency. The lord and his court are why the peasants look like scarecrows in the first place, because they will have taxed them and taken a large part of their crops and left them with little to eat. This is laughing at the misfortune of people while being the cause of the misfortune.

I also think there is a big difference between making a joke about the suffering that people actively are going through than there is about say, making a joke that references the stereotype that lesbian couples move in together quickly.
Once about 18 years ago, I was at a church rummage sale, and I think it was at the same sale (possibly two different years) when I made some impressive scores.

The first was an HP LaserJet 4 in completely working order. I hooked that thing up to a real computer and used it for years.

The second was a Mac Plus 512k, complete in box, with all original receipts for system and software, along with a newspaper clipping about a scrappy little company named Microsoft run by some guy named Gates.

The Mac Plus included a second floppy drive, Print Shop, Golf, other fantastic vintage software that I can't remember, and of course, all cables, accessories, and intact system disks required to run the machine. It was a beauty to behold, without defect or flaw, and I basically had no idea what to do with it.

Its printer interface wouldn't jibe with the LaserJet, so I couldn't exactly play around with Print Shop. I had no interest in Golf. It was a cute toy and set piece, but without any meaningful way to interface with the real modern world, it didn't do anything productive for me.

So eventually I donated it off, I think to Goodwill, but yeah, that Apple box held myriad wonders for the next person to get their hands on it!
If anything - you can get it waaay cheaper now.

I'm struggling to remember how much they did cost, but with $2000 price tag for the top of the notch machine the monitors on the low end tended (well, AFAIR, don't take my word for it) to be less than $150, and hi-end were like $700 for not the ultra-uber-special cases.
> Now instead of having to buy out the little guy, they just wait for it close and then buy all the assets

Thiz is a fantasy, these businesses were not going bancrupt - they were challanging big business and making a killing. Your scenario is detached from reality
The mouse cables are hilariously short these days. I know, I know, get a $30 bluetooth mouse that is better in every way, but I remember the days of like 8 ft mouse cables.
Count me as one more person who did not realize this until after playing the full game and then coming back here to read the comments.

One more arrow in the quiver of "users don't read"
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CPU Utilization Is Wrong (2017)
Purpose of review is to ask questions to help you write more tests to catch more bugs.
Until the maintainers of libgen are fed up from the fact that people think "it's ChatGPT" and don't know about them, at which point they may just stop the project.
120 Hz feels a lot smoother for scrolling or anything with movement on the screen.

8K is the point in which at the monitor size I use, individual pixels would be too hard to see. They're already a bit hard to see at 4K, but at 8K it'd be perfect.
How do you know if the "discussion" made it into the code?
My aim with this app was to provide a sleek macOS ChatGPT/GPT-4 experience for users who couldn't be bothered to sign up for Open AI developer account. Of course, along the way I considered that there is a sizeable audience who would prefer to avoid any third-party proxy and use their keys directly. Unfortunately, as mentioned by DerJacques in this thread, it is not certain that allowing this would pass Apple reviews. However, we could try? If I see enough interest in "bring your own keys" model, it could be possible to offer this version of the app outside the App Store. Would you be willing to pay ~$30 one-time purchase for such an app?
Office - if you are referring to Microsoft Office, they are available on Mac
https://foreverliketh.is/blog/
I'd likely not be gaming at 8K for a while. But for productivity tools it'd be amazing.
Code generation with privacy guarantees: Deploy SantaCoder with BlindBox
Yes. Because that doesn't pin dependencies of your dependencies (this is what "transitive dependencies" means).
It's amazing how you switched metrics from production numbers to sales numbers to make a point. Nevermind the number of unrealized buyers who are passing on the brand because of it's toxic leadership, but perhaps you can switch metrics again to counter this point?
Yes, you can get good performance on GPUs due to the parallelism and memory bandwidth. On a new GPU like H100, I believe you can do ~ 50-100 GTEPS (billions of traversed edges per sec) in a BFS. I'm not sure where the state of the art on CPUs is at, but you can certainly do efficient implementations on CPUs too. This paper is a few years old (https://people.csail.mit.edu/jshun/spaa2018.pdf), but has some numbers.

For CPU based index compression/decompression, the webgraph framework is quite mature and widely used and there's also Ligra+ that does it.
Starlette is a much better designed asgi framework.
It's just your bank accounts, your crypto, your Gmail with all your passwords to everything....
The bridge in the fitst photo is an old one lane bridge, probably was used by carriages. It looks like it mostly just connects a small neighborhood of houses, not a main road by any means. There are probably newer concrete bridges out of frame, but they're not as picturesque as old steel bridges.
That doesn't really work. For a separate thread to be able to tun the signal handler meaningfully, the thread that caused the signal must be stopped. Which would cause the same reentrancy problems.

For process-wide signals you can already have dedicated threads.
Why must this “purpose” you outline be mutually exclusive with the idea of Intelligent Design?
I thought I was in 2... till I actually got a 120Hz screen. Since I flip between my desktop at 120Hz and Macbook Air M1 at 60Hz frequently I discovered I really notice.

Its always so much nicer when I leave the Air. Everything is so much smoother.