skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
actually did tobi even have any other cofounders? i just realized i only ever hear about him and harvey finkelstein

edit: google says scott lake was actually the founding CEO. TIL! https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/profile/in/scottlake?origina...
"Turning sea water into clean, drinkable water costs $2 to $5 for 1000 gallons.

Less than half a penny per gallon is obviously absurdly cheap."

- Elon Musk, 2023-05-07 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655262008898383872?ref_...
You mean those settings that you don't get to see anymore when you type about:config unless you now, every fucking time, click "show me all settings"? The one they also removed entirely from the android release? That about:config?

Because they've been doing the exact same thing to that, packing it away more and more, slowly killing off the parts that made it a great power user and developer browser by just making them a little bit harder to use or get to every time.
More like 18 months or less based on the height and weight limit, completely impractical pricing
Full disclosure, that's not the National Post saying this. That's a quote from Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez.

The way you are quoting the remark, some might assume this is the National Post saying this when it's really NP quoting someone else. This isn't to imply you are misrepresenting anything.
You mean they passed quals but couldn't get an advisor?

Or failed quals?
Which is why you queue up CPU intensive tasks to threads where you can time slice, and IO intensive tasks to async/fibers whatever you wanna call them. It's hard to make this completely seamless. Power to Java for getting the closest.
You have to be careful with these reads on sentiment, because they're based on public opinion polling, which is incredibly imprecise. You can get majority support in a policy opinion poll for almost anything, but when we have actual tests of those policies at the ballot box, support crumbles --- the best example for that is single-payer health care.

I happen to agree with you about abortion, and thing the opposition party is and will continue to be punished for passing unpopular restrictions on reproductive health care. But one thing I don't think anybody can reasonably say is that GOP voters were bamboozled into voting for curtailment of reproductive rights; abortion and public schools are the two fundamental defining differences between the parties!
Impressive, Excited to try it out!
OK, you are right. I was focused in on "that’s a decade of $20 keyboards lasting a year each." BUT they didn't actually do that, which is good.
I’d like to start a discussion: Regardless of what OpenAI would have written in this announcement, they would have received snickering and ridicule on HN.

This, however, just solidifies them as the current authority on LLMs. OpenAI interested and investing in alignment is a net good, no matter your stance on their policies.
I was thinking, this sounds very much like a person with a vested interest in getting you to do more research.
While I concede what shipped today has potential to be abused, I reserve my outrage until that actually happens.

We're both operating on assumptions. Mine is based on the discussion and work taking place in: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1837670

You're assuming this will be (ab)used before that lands, if it ever lands.

However, we're both just making conjecture until one of those realities (or another) is observed.
Yes. These advertising companies extract the excess wealth created by the labour of the news-reporting media without compensation. The people of Canada decided that this is unfair and not in their best interest. The advertising companies decided it is not in their best interest to pay the cost of leverage that resource for their wealth-extraction strategies and are going to discontinue it.

Everyone wins.
All the easy gold has been dug up, and shovels are no longer practical.
With the amount of curtailed energy this year in California, using a state-of-the-art RO process, we could have desalinated about 880k acre-feet of water. This is roughly enough water for all domestic urban water use statewide for about half the year. It is already close to penciling out and our energy resources are still expanding.
Except that without parties, its really hard to tell who stands for what. In the local elections where I live, there aren't parties. Voting requires researching each candidate carefully to determine what they stand for. Now, I'm nerdy enough to do that research. But the general population isn't.
Can’t get time any lower than 3 years and 12 months but it’s fun trying to speedrun this
I mean, that's actually not too much of a downside, since salt is a fairly valuable economic good - Indian salt farmers do exactly that to harvest the salt crystals.
This is conspiratorial in nature. Firefox has run ads against all users before but why would they specifically do what you suggest when uBlock Origin is shown in the linked article to be a trusted application that this domain quarantine list would not apply to?
The browser reinforces javascript ecosystem dominance. We are not going to deprecate javascript in the browser because that would break the world. The way forward is improving wasm, and improvements there are coming, but even so the performance is roughly comparable to javascript in all of the benchmarks I've seen.

Even if we get to a place where wasm performs much better than javascript, javascript will remain dominant due to the fact that it's the default. It is what it is, we're stuck with it short of something like AI changing everything.
I was surprised how cheap it is. Desalinated water costs ~50 cents per 1000 liters [1]. That's about the same amount of water as a typical American household uses per day.

50 cents per day for a fully desalinated water supply is... incredibly cheap.

If you're interested in water policy and water management / engineering, I cannot recommend enough reading the book "Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Costs
> Are users giving informed consent for Google's ability to remotely disable Android apps or Apple's ability to do the same on iOS?

No, but we expect Google to be user-hostile. We expect the opposite of Mozilla.
You've never heard a business make a BS claim?
Did you have a look at https://rqlite.io/ ?
Math is pointless from start to finish, but that doesn't stop them.

PhD is granted for novelty, not practicality.
It might be worthwhile to point out which bits of an analogy you take objection with when trying to refute an analogy. Meta is not my local coffee shop, but for the sake of the argument it might be fine to interchange them. If it's not fine to compare them as such, pointing out what aspects you think break the comparison is helpful, since it lets others in the discussion try to come up with a better argument/analogy and elevate the discussion overall.
Yeah, but you'd be amazed how few people do that basic arithmetic!
I'm not surprised it can write that regex and explain it, because that's a pretty simple regex and regexes generally are very well documented. Here's something it can't do:

I was writing a python script that took a list of tuples with x elements. Each element in the tuple represented a value in a dataset, so the first dataset would be the list of elements at position 0 in each tuple, the second dataset would be the list of elements in positions 1 etc. I wanted to extract each dataset into a list, calculate the derivate of each element in the list, and then reassemble the original list of tuples with the derivates in place of the original values.

I tried to get ChatGPT to give me a one liner to do this for _hours_. It would generally get step one and two correct, splitting the list of tuples of x length into x lists, and then calculating the derivative of each element in the list, but inevitably at the last step it would do something screwy. Most commonly it would reassembly a list of tuples, except the elements of each tuple would be from the indexes in the _second_ list. So I would get a list of all the derivates in position one in every dataset. Even if I explained what was wrong with the output, it would apologize and then blithely give me the exact same answer! Why did it do this? Because it doesn't actually understand the prompt, and the answer to my question is not in its dataset in a way that can be statistically derived.
The band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, or the one from Berlin?
Why is this the case? Wouldn’t having more than one paper proving/discovering the same thing be good for confidence in either of them?
Saying it's "an LLM" doesn't change the impact. GPT4 is an LLM, and so are many others ranging from toy quality to GPT3.5. It is very clear GPT4 is much better. If there is another jump like GPT4 , whether it is LLM or not, it's impact will be huge.
Bletchley park has the main villa and some of the actual buildings with some props and setups. It has also a type of museum (btw Turing's hack to make monopoly interesting...) Right next to it is the national computer museum it is a different entity and this is where the actual big equipment is such as the Colossus etc

Those two places are a great visit easily accessible from london by rail.

If you haven't read about the life on bletchley park I would suggest a guided visit.

I had the best visit ever because I was very very lucky. I had the best tour guide and I did not ask for it. And he wasn't really a guide, just a very old person full of energy who used to work there and could walk for hours around showing stuff. And every one working in bletchley knew who he was. I didn't.
They stay hot, but not so much fiery generally. You're talking about a professional fireworks show as well, which are going to be bigger and presumably hotter. Lighting off artillery shells last night, by the time the debris fluttered down, it was cool to the touch. The tubes on the ground are a different story though. Shoot, the debris from the one the neighbors so kindly dropped in the tube upside down when I was 30 feet away didn't burn me. Wasn't happy about it, but wasn't even singed.

Were they lighting the fireworks directly on a dry field? How far from the tubes were these fires starting?
I agree, but it's still the password in that it's the secret set of characters needed to be compared against to login. It's just not the same text a user would enter when prompted for the password.

Keeps in mind these hackers are the ones saying they have passwords and this is Microsoft. Most likely hashes.
"plausible deniability"
I'm looking at this and unclear what he's talking about. Essentially, citation needed Elon?
My favorite meme on the subject: "Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take":

> 52. You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.
Looks like there's a space port in Sweden now, too. Doesn't look like they're launching Arianes there yet tho.

https://sscspace.com/the-world-watched-the-inauguration-of-s...
> large systems are grown far more effectively than they are designed

It's easy to bake in poorly scaling technical decisions at an early stage that take an obscene amount of engineering effort to undo once the scaling problem become obvious. I've seen intern-days of "savings" turn into senior-years of rework and the scale in my corner of the world is tiny by SV standards.

I always assumed that SV companies experienced similar traumatic misadventures, multiplied up by scale, and baked "thinking at scale" into their technical interviews as a crude (but probably somewhat effective) countermeasure. Even if you only ever use the knowledge one time, indirectly and accidentally, by peer-pressuring your buddy into thinking before coding and therefore avoid a $10M landmine, it was all worthwhile.
Ask HN: Can you share your FAANG interview preparation story?
As much as I dislike modern FAANG interviews, I decided to dedicate some time to Leetcode, revise data structures and algorithms.

The main goal is to be in good Leetcode shape to potentially land a better paid job.

I am currently using the following resources:

* Neetcode

* Competitive Programmer's Handbook
https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf

* Algorithm Design Manual + Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms as references when some algorithm doesn't click the first time and I need an alternative explanation

Practice makes perfect in this case so I just keep practicing Leetcode problems and trying to identify the patterns I struggle with.

Dynamic programming is really hard. In a lot of DP problems except for the easiest ones like Coin Change, I'm not it's realistic under stress to come up with an optimal solution.

If you have recently (or not necessarily recently) passed (or not necessarily passed) a Leetcode-based interview, share your story and preparation please :)
The recent paper about using gpt-4 to give more insight into its actual internals was interesting, but yeah the risks seem really high at the moment that we'd accidentally develop unaligned AGI before figuring out alignment.

Out of the options to reduce that risk I think it would really take something like this, which also seems extremely unlikely to actually happen given the coordination problem: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

You talk about aligned agents - but there aren't any today and we don't know how to make them. It wouldn't be aligned agents vs. unaligned, it's only unaligned.

I don't think spreading out the tech reduces the risk. Spreading out nuclear weapons doesn't reduce the risk (and with nukes at least it's a lot easier to control the fissionable materials). Even with nukes you can still create them and decide not to use them, not so true with superintelligent AGI.

If anyone could have made nukes from their computer humanity may not have made it.

I'm glad OpenAI understands the severity of the problem though and is at least trying to solve it in time.
Businesses do that all the time, and yet sometimes real products come out of what sounds like hype marketing BS. In this case there might be a non trivial chance of it being true.
> of all the changes in the past decade, that's actually one I'm 100% okay with

I would have been OK with it if it didn't come with the loss of functionality.
> SpaceX has definitively shown that there's a disconnect between delivering a great product and acting as a distribution mechanism for aerospace entitlement.

Did spaceX not receive significant "aerospace entitlement" funding through public contracts?
> I still do not understand why async was deemed appropriate, for example, in python.

Because queues backed by thread/process pools for serving web requests has sharp edges.
This thread is about async/await, which was added to JavaScript in 2017. Before then, async programming was only done with Node.js (unless you consider windows.setTimeout() to be "event-driven programming"), which came out in 2009. Event-driven programming was an established paradigm years before then.
I've been wondering if one solution is having dual plumbing in some houses, that includes a parallel system for non-drinkable (but otherwise clean) water.
I was recently laid off from a climate tech software company, and one of my former colleagues and I are now working on hardware appliances, solving the problems that our previous company’s software “enabled” other people to solve.

At best, climate tech software makes the necessary hardware cheaper and more effective, or provides important data, but pure software plays in climate tech should be considered greenwashing scams until proven innocent.
This is why situations like VisualMic and visual-based cryptoanalysis tools are troublesome (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36331446). All you need is a decent smartphone (e.g., Samsung Galaxy S22) and open-source software.

Quite a vulnerable place humans are in at present.
Very similar to mvsqlite (also has snapshots with its own MVCC). Sadly you cannot self host this, though. It's true you can open source LiteFS, but this seems to have additional features.

I still think the replicated sqlite approach is the wrong one, though. It makes sense for fly, but most people don't need replication, they need sharding. The parallel write issue with SQLite remains sadly.

Ideally you would have both - a cluster (let's say 3 instances) for SQLite, in which writes a committed transactionally, and then LiteFS, where you shard on a key (let's say in the instnace of HN, by thread) and create separate SQLite DB for each where you get (stale) fast reads.
It sure helps to know that something is an object or an array and thus intellisense can actually do something useful for you before you run in the bowser, or what an API returns, or a parameter `users` to a function is an array of users vs a Set of users, or that the the field on a `User` type went from companyName to organizationName.

Typescript is going to help you out greatly there. Nothing about any of that will slow you down, in fact it'll do the opposite. If you're leaving those all as `any` until the last minute I think you're really leaving a lot of productivity on the table.
I'm fully empathetic to this argument, but IMO this wasn't clearly called out in GP's original post. It also doesn't meet my personal definition of "usable". "Ethical" might've been a better choice here.
What are the reasons to continue using SQLite over MySQL/MariaDB when you start to require distributed architectures? Wouldn't it be better to switch at that point? Assuming that being able to read from a database on the same filesystem as the application doesn't provide any tangible benefits for 99.99% of applications that don't have such low latency requirements?
George Washington pointed this out in his farewell address and it’s almost prophetic to read in 2023, skip to the last paragraph if you’re in a hurry:

“I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

…

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

…

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
Never used Astro but, wow, the comments here are meaner than the „crime“. AFAICT this wasn’t done with the intention of outright deceit.

all this while the stats themselves seem to be correct.

It‘s probably done to provide a more interesting graph. Something quite common in infographics. Playing devil’s advocate here, if you aren’t able to see that a number higher than 50% isn’t supposed to be left of center, you’re probably in the wrong business anyway.

Arguably it would have been more innocent if they indicated the shift by cracked bars [1], but then this is probably not provided by the charting library they use (or any that I know of).

[1] https://peltiertech.com/images/2011-11/Ybroken.png
In my experience, banking websites are notoriously ass-backwards and need more hacks and patches than many other websites.

I’ve specifically used Greasemonkey to fix bank breaking pasting into fields and blocking password managers by splitting login form into deliberately broken pieces.
Release development version GIMP 2.99.16
I’m entitled to anything I can take without harming others.
Very high complexity, long slog (7+ years) food automation robotics venture here. We actually moved to Shenzhen (from elsewhere in China), then moved out of Shenzhen as we matured to a point where additional industrial space was required: large blocks of land around Shenzhen are prohibitively expensive. For us, in-house manufacturing and all that goes with it are firmly in-scope.

We maintain a presence for supply chain, but EOY 2022 moved operations out of China owing to an alignment of operational challenges under the current domestic environment, macro-political conditions, venture maturity and correspondingly changing needs. Managing that move alone was an extremely complex challenge involving all manner of curveballs - more than enough for a decent film.

We anticipate raising in the US 4Q this year for 2024 US go-to-market.

Coming from software, hard is an understatement. Purely on the R&D front we've had to successfully innovate in fields as varied as electrical and power engineering, electronic engineering, global cross-market food regulations, HVAC, hydraulics, mechanical engineering, process engineering, refrigeration. On the business front we've had to tackle - as an early stage venture - the many challenges of cross-border operations including cross-border financing, HR, intellectual property, legal, a shifting array of visa rules, supply chain (chipageddon, shipageddon), etc. The team has waxed and waned up to over a dozen full time and back down to two at present. Over this time I've seen countless tangentially-aligned investment fads and trends come and go: Chinese 'New Retail', YC's short-lived move to China (flew me to Beijing to interview with the partners), COVID-fuelled global overinvestment in last-mile food delivery, drone delivery, ghost kitchens, 15 minute groceries, etc. Right now there's a huge number of ventures failing in related spaces, but we remain very confident.

We persist largely because we started from a good place (already spoke fluent Chinese, knew China, could self-fund), have focused on a genuinely venture-scale business strategy, maintained a low burn rate, stuck to fundamentals, ignored the trends, and I am personally lucky enough to have both a hugely supportive family and early stage investor sharing my high conviction plus enough residual resources from a prior exit to continue to invest personally. At this point, our technology is genuinely best in class globally by multiple objective metrics (eg. footprint, cost per location, degree of automation), and we are correspondingly well placed for aggressive venture-scale growth and returns. We therefore look forward to securing significant US funding, leveraging our China supply chain, and consolidating US hiring and operations to achieve go-to-market. But damn, has it been a trip!
Discoveries are always preceded by a long string of "No" and why would you do this?

Use good science, but run weird experiments!
The referenced piece is an appendix at the end of the pdf. Interesting analysis -- see also Sarrazin's verbiste: http://perso.b2b2c.ca/~sarrazip/dev/verbiste.html
That was surprisingly stressful
how this works? does amazon have any api?