skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at Amazon, the newly hired team lead was incompetent and insecure, so this person ruled the team by fear - PIP'ed people trigger happy (myself included). HR did nothing, even though this was a recurring behavior even after I left. It was just flagged, that is not possible to PIP people without actual prior performance issues and informal conversations to address them. Fast forward to today - the person is still there and eventually was promoted. In EU, where labour laws are much stronger it's not as effective, but it's pretty much a one way ticket.
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you're welcome

For GPUs (among others), there are two quotas, regional and zonal. We have N regional T4s and unlimited zonal. Maybe you have 1 zonal and 0 regional?

If you just need a GPU, there may indeed be better or cheaper providers
My advice is to let them fire you. Waste the managers time until the last day so that they suffer during that time as well.

Once you are fired, you can apply for unemployment benefits which is paid for by the insurance of that company.

If they are not willing to treat employees humanely, it is fair game for employees to not be honest with them.
Indeed.

I worked with a large factory running all their lines and processes off an emulated, embedded controller. It was running on a desktop PC using NT 3.51 interfacing directly with real-world I/O.
I get what you're saying, and I do think we should start preparing for a future where images are not something we can trust because I think we'll inevitably get there, but images are different than text. They are information dense and can elicit an emotional reaction much faster than text can. Think of the fake images that showed Trump being violently arrested. Something like that can become viral much more easily than text.

As for a world where we all learn to distrust images, I don't think we will fully get there. You still have people falling for email scams that by now are very clearly documented. Even a small percentage of people who are living in a different reality can be problematic for the rest of us.
Carole King isn't a technically outstanding singer, but her voice is compelling. She's a bit of an outlier, and someone whose songs have been regularly covered by men.

But how many men could cover a Kate Bush song without it being ridiculous?

Tin Pan Alley was still more individually driven than what we have today where a tune is passed around between as many as 10-20 producer/songwriters who add some technical candy to the mix. Many of these songs lack bridges or even choruses, and are highly assisted by technology. T-Pain made it big because he mastered Auto-Tune very early, for example.
Sometimes I wish teddy bears would just invade, silence all humans and fix the world already.

By any means necessary.
My favorite: Herbert Simon & Alan Newell's ACM Turing Award Lecture - "Computer Science as an empirical inquiry: Symbols & Search" :

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/360018.360022

Their work on list processing was an inspiration for John McCarthy's famous paper on Lisp:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.pdf
> Going into a "cloud native" stance and continuing to micromanage containers, VMs, databases, message buses, reverse proxies, etc. seems absolutely ridiculous to me.

Honestly you're just paying the cloud provider to manage these things behind the scenes for you. Which is fine but also has its own risks. If you can keep your product that simple for the business then that's pretty incredible.

I do suspect that's not a common situation though, at least in my experience.
Principles of Design (1998) by Tim Berners-Lee. Especially its Principle of Least Power.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html
The best thing the US can do is make sure developing nations have the capability to manufacture, deploy and support carbon-free technologies. That's billions of people that can skip the polluting part of the industrial age.
also you need to include the payment gateway, like authorize.net ($25 month, $0.1 trancastion) or something else
How's it an investment if there's no liquidity? You can't sell your friendship on the market.

And don't reply with a link to that japanese guy who sells his time to hang out.
Let's say your boss, or spouse, received fake photorealistic pornographic images of you with your boss's spouse...

Why are you expressing annoyance about people focusing on the "unimportant" problem of than dealing with the fallout of "AI fake porn generators" than about other people causing these problems in the first place by focusing on the problem of generating faked porn. There's no real importance to generating this stuff.
Eh. I thought it was funny, anyway!
Totally guessing here.

iPAQ ran Windows Mobile (a derivative of windows CE). I believe custom drivers were not well supported.

As well, back around 2009 I looked into Windows CE for a hobby project I thought about commercializing, and the licensing costs were INSANE. IIRC, there was a revenue component too.

While I don’t recall all specifics, I believe using Windows Mobile in an industrial use case it violated the EULA and you’d need to use a proper Windows CE env.

Total total guess here, but I wonder if they were tied to Windows CE, still paying licensing costs, given how few “true” imax screens there are, if the base licensing costs they’d have locked into 20 years ago, would’ve made “true” imax screens unprofitable/ have retired them at the onset of the pandemic
May you live in interesting times.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti... )
Native vector search support in Microsoft Azure
I don't think it's that crazy if you trust the government to use these capabilities in the intended ways, that is to catch serious crimes. The US is a very specific country, because here people have very low trust in government and public institutions, which is why public good endeavors are less developed here, while corporations do whatever they want, as long as it seems legal. Many people would argue that's a bad thing for public good...
Well, I'm cursed by honesty. I'm not going to say anything untrue to a potential employer. It doesn't matter if anyone's checking or not.

being laid off is a totally different thing from being fired, though. I assume people who are laid off won't say "I got fired", but "I got laid off". The two things have very different implications.
Media Falls for Another Fake TikTok Challenge, Creating yet Another Moral Panic
dwm is nice. I enjoyed using it for a while.
Why is this important to you? Have you done any embedded programming?
If this obviates the need for the exploitative sex video industry so be it. The sooner it’s relegated to history the better.

If people never the less want to be exhibitionists and do it, that’s fine.

Now, what’s true for real life should be true for synthetic productions. Depictions in real life that would be illegal should remain illegal in the synthetic world. Though I wonder if Japan will insist on pixelation of the groin.
This is the way. You are not obligated to grind your life for an employer that treats you so badly. Milk them for money.

Bonus points, use the time to make the manager's life miserable.
There are actual problems, they're mentioned in the article. Just because it doesn't affect you, doesn't mean it's not a problem or important to others.
> the fact that he was picked must mean he was at the bottom of the pack in terms of performance

Except, OP said that the boss chose him because he had the least amount of tenure (<1 year for OP versus > 3 years for everyone else).
this is bad UI design. not a dark pattern.

nowadays, i smile away whenever a lazy loading UI gets in my way. and i end up tapping or clicking on it. i never go back to do what i was doing when i was rudely interrupted.

i have seen it everywhere.
FlatBuffers should be faster than protobuff.
If there were only 1 million people alive in 2030, you could reasonably say humanity had "survived", but also say that most people today in 2023 are "doomed". The prognosis is certainly much better than that, but "humanity survived" is a very low bar.
I should have said 4P vs. 8P. The E-cores contribute very little performance.
Most consumer electronics don't need ICs built on cutting edge process nodes. Most of the global population of humans have more pressing needs than acquiring the latest gewgaws that can upstage last years models.
Thanks for your comment! This is now the second time I'm coming across Jetpack.io (the first time was when I found your devbox project) and this time, too, I come away thinking that you're magically reading my mind. :) Thank you for your work!

May I ask you, what exactly is Jetpack.io? It sounds like a blend between startup and open-source organization, given the prominent links to Github & Discord on your home page, the lack of a hiring page etc. I mean, I had to browse your website quite a while to find out you're actually selling a product(?) :)

Anyway, back to the topic at hand: The TySON README says

> The goal is to make it possible for all major programming languages to read configuration written in TypeScript using native libraries. That is, a go program should be able to read TySON using a go library, a rust program should be able to read TySON using a rust library, and so on.

YESSSS. In my wet dreams I sometimes even go one step further: How great would it be if every language could import constants[0] from any other language?
If I'm understanding you, you are saying that who becomes the president does actually matter alot.

Every four years, the presidential election is on the same ballot as all the other local elections. You are advocating for voting, and you're not advocating for leaving the presidential vote blank on the ballot. If you're frustrated with having little power to make very important decisions, that is more than understandable.

However, you can only consider the effect of a presidential vote to be zero if you also consider the derivative in calculus to be zero. In terms of the presidential eletion, we aren't voting as individuals, we're voting as a state. Your vote matters.
In Scotland my home rate is 35p/kW. There are special tariffs for night charging at 7p/kW for 6 hours but only with some suppliers.

Some local chargers are 16p/kW but there is a spread all the way up to 80p/kW.
afaik MLS doesn't currently support deniability. This means you can have attack where a member of the group conversation can prove in retrospect that an encrypted message was sent by a given sender. This is a big deal if you want to be able to talk freely without being blackmailed - for instance, I might want to say something to a given user intended only for their eyes, and if they then take that info and show it to other people (e.g. to blackmail me), I want to be able to claim that they faked the screenshot or otherwise fabricated the message. I certainly don't want some sort of signature on the message undeniably tying it back to me.

Now, Double Ratchet (and Olm and Megolm in Matrix) provide cryptographic deniability by using MACs rather than signatures for integrity, meaning that any given message could have been faked by the other participant in the conversation (given they know the secret that would allow them to encrypt that message themselves).

However, it's worth noting that practically speaking, a malicious server admin could turn up with some snapshots of their DB or some server logs with the ciphertext in them and say "i can prove that that screenshot's not faked, because my server saw that encrypted message sent from that user". And so if the admin was trusted (i.e. not colluding with the blackmailer), that could be seen as sufficient evidence to break deniability, albeit not at a cryptographic level.

So, basically: deniability is subtle - it's not obvious that cryptographic deniability is always a big win, given one can often find non-cryptographic ways to sufficiently prove that a user sent a message. That said, if you don't have cryptographic deniability, then you can be sure that a malicious conversation participant equipped with a suitable client which has forensics mode enabled will be able to produce evidence that cryptographically proves that you indeed said a given sensitive statement, whether you like it or not.
the biggest appeal of cast iron is its large thermal mass, owing to the weight and material
They're trying to replace all those people with AI too.
This research doesn't claim to show any cause of ADHD, it's only showing potential exacerbating influences on, or at least confounding factors of, the severity of symptoms those with ADHD present later in life. Children who expressed more negative emotional outbursts were more likely to be mistreated later, and those that were mistreated were more likely to express ADHD symptoms, and those those expressed more ADHD symptoms were more likely to be mistreated.
There's no causal explanation expressed there, simply correlations that could be used to identify at risk factors earlier on in life. Everyone expresses their ADHD differently and identifying patterns in life that may either aggravate or alleviate the difficulties of the condition can potentially be helpful in the long run.
In many ways, the growth obsession is a product of the Reagan-era deregulation craze, and the "Greed is the One True God" ethic that kinda took over Wall Street then. (Try reading some stories about GE before Jack Welch became CEO, and after.) Other big contributors:

- The huge sums of wealth which tens of millions of ordinary people feel they need to accumulate, to pay for their (grand)?children's college education, unexpected medical bills, many decades of retirement and elder care, etc. Compare that to (say) the 1950's.

- The huge structural and social barriers to creating small businesses in most economic sectors, compared to (say) 60 years ago. Back then, how many of the businesses in an average town were (at most) small-ish, family-owned companies?

- How d*mn much "money" is sloshing around the financial system these days, with the "at any sign of crisis, pour in more $trillions" monetary policies of the Fed.
Given legal implications, 'pedantic' is a rather inaccurate descriptor.
The insane thing about this is to me that Exxon did seem to have ideas about pivoting away from oil and gas in the 1970s[0]. They funded research that brought down the cost of solar panels five-fold and started manufacturing and selling their own panels[1], they developed the lithium-ion battery[2], and they created subsidiaries for servicing the nuclear power industry[3], among other things.

I’ve never understood the obstructionist position of these oil execs. If you want to make a shitload of money, why not push for development of some emerging industry like renewables where all the infrastructure has to be built up from nothing? That could be money you are getting paid to build it. Instead, now it’s money going to some other company.

[0] https://www.desmog.com/s1ep1-bell-labs-energy/

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/30/763844598/how-big-oil-of-the-...

[2] https://www.bupipedream.com/news/49390/prof-whittingham/

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/14/archives/exxons-innovativ...
Author here. I agree with you. LLaMA2 isn't open source (as my title says, the HN one was modified). My point is that the average person will still call it "open source" because they don't know any better, and it's hard to fix that. Rather than just saying "this isn't open source", we should try to come up with better terminology.

Also, while weights usage might be restricted, it's a very big compute investment shared with the public. They use a 285:1 training tokens to params ratio, and the loss graphs show the model wasn't yet saturated. This is valuable information for other teams looking to train their own models.

LLaMA1 was highly restrictive, but the data mix mentioned in the paper led to the creation of RedPajama, which was used in the training of MPT. There's still plenty of value in this work that will flow to open source, even if it doesn't fit in the traditional labels.
It's very likely that technical (or otherwise) decision makers at ad-tech adjacent businesses are the target audience of that documentation, not us.
Re: Duke Nukem, I hadn't played it since Atomic Edition in 1999 or so but I recently picked up the "World Tour" expansion (bundled with the PSN version, maybe on Steam) for a couple bucks and gotta say it's a shot of steroids-- it does things with the BUILD engine nobody had conceived of in the 90s. "High Times" is memorable in its technical trickery, and was like discovering Duke again for the first time (it's also the frontrunner map; subsequent maps are good but only moving if you're into seeing IRL landmarks recreated in Minecraft). Check it out if you're feeling nostalgic.

Tangent-- modern Doom games have all been underwhelming, but the Brutal Doom mod (and non-MIDI soundtrack) for the original's WAD files evoked the same feeling of rediscovery for that franchise too. Duke has his own similar renovation project (eduke32 IIRC).
Clock speed doesn't matter.
Mods changed the title, I used the original one when first posting. Not sure why they changed it.
Also many SIM cards (UICCs) / embedded SIM modules as well as e.g. the Secure Element that Samsung uses for Knox run with Java Card.
They grow up so quickly
Check out Mr. Fancy T1 line over here. I remember downloading Slackware floppy images over 28.8 dialup. Talk about pain. I recently stumbled on a dusty box of them whilst cleaning out the attic.
I love Dan Brown's books. Maybe critics don't like him for his formulaic writing - copying the plot over and over after Angels & Demons. But IT WORKS. And it is HIGHLY engaging and moves the reader through the book at breakneck speed just like the action in the books. Plus Even when you know the formula of his books, the twists and turns and gotchas turn out to be great. Plus the stories have amazing real world location and art references and descriptions and for anyone that has been or plans to go to the places in Brown's books, he makes these places really come alive and you actually appreciate more of the acrchitecture and art of the setting if you do visit if you knew little about either previously.

And he adds just enough real history intertwined with his pseudo-history to make the books super interesting, and even give the curious reader a springboard to dive deeper into the questions his books raise for Mr. Langdon.

Oh and then there's the worldwide sales and financial success he has achieved from his books...
That came up too. The security aspect of the product does less than nothing: not only does it fail to encrypt data end-to-end, it uses public ip addresses for both the control and data plane. Those public endpoints had an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability recently.

It’s a staggeringly bad product and it blew my mind now it was impossible to convince anyone of this.

We used pictures, for crying out loud. We did all the things everyone here has been helpfully suggesting. Talking about business consequences (dire), costs (enormous), risks (massive), etc…

The response was: “the sales guy from the vendor assured me it’s all fine. This is just your opinion.”

The causal chain of a->b->c was just not sinking in.

The CTO he could not judge anyone’s expertise not just mine — he also couldn’t judge the lack of expertise by the vendor and their sales team.

So he chose based on who has the nicer suit, the shiniest smile, etc…
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I believe Tariffs are the traditional way.
Pornhub has an AI R&D operation. So far, they've mostly been restoring really old porno films from 1900-1920. Presumably they have work underway on generating content directly. As they point out, they have plenty of training data.
It is more about IP address range. There are apps, that give users cash, in exchange using their home connectivity.

If you want 100% undetectable, use real browser, with image recognition and auto clicker.
Yes. Once again: I'm not saying that your argument is invalid because you've changed your mind. I'm saying that because you've deeply held both positions on the issue, it is disingenuous to pretend that one of those positions is obviously false. Perhaps you know something new, as the metaphorical inheritor of the family business. It's incumbent on you to share that, rather than posturing as if you knew it all along.

(Again, I agree with Rayiner Classic on this point, and not with New Rayiner, but that's neither here nor there.)
A photo of Trump being violently arrested provokes a reaction because we assume it captures a real scene. A painting or a political cartoon showing the same scene would not, even if it were quite realistically painted. Before the camera was invented, paintings and engravings like that were the best anyone could do to transmit a scene, and now that AI can generate fake photorealistic images, photos will gradually have to be seen the same as a skilled painting. It might capture reality, or it might not.
So the fact that thousands of researchers with billions of dollars behind them to build this omnipotent being means nothing to you? Because they all certainly think it's achievable.
No, I totally agree that DMs should be called DMs in the UI, and Rooms should be called Rooms. Unfortunately, there's just a plain old blindspot here - i'll keep pointing out and we'll get it fixed.
Something is off here. Now you're presenting it as a joke, and previously you offered it as a literal "counter-anecdote" to the OP. If it was actually a joke then it's meaningless in the context of the thread.
Congrats! Great concept.

Curious, how do you go about advertising your services?
Trends that will mitigate harassment done with stuff like this are already underway, but they're mostly ones that run contrary to the original spirit of the internet:

* don't accept unsolicited messages or images from people you don't already know

* don't leave your corporate-moderated walled garden of choice to search for stuff on the open internet

* don't put too trust much into any information distributed primarily online

I think these things will all be necessary but they are far more dystopian than the internet that I once hoped for.
Just want to make a note that Slackware 14 (the previous major version), from 2012, which shipped with the 3.2.29 kernel, is receiving updates as recently as today.
charging a fee to pay a bill, no matter the excuse, is walking on thin ice.
Funny that your Twitter link happens to leave out when the Pfizer CEO made that comment. Initially all doses were supposed to the elderly and front-line workers. He mentions that the vaccine wasn't recommended for his group as he isn't a front-line worker. Do you have any evidence he still hasn't taken it?
Ah yes all that research money will be used to buy mansions and ferarris. Do you have a clue how this stuff works in real life?

Also note that until maybe the last year not only was there not a great financial incentive to be a "doomer" but it would actively hurt your career if you were. Most of the main people in the scene have been sounding this alarm for years sometimes decades. It's also difficult to explain people like Geoff Hinton or Yoshua Bengio joining and leaving behind high profile and highly lucrative positions. Yann LeCun, a staunch anti-doomer is perhaps the perfect example who has actually DOES have enormous financial incentive to play down AI dangers.
I think about this clip regularly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154
Brings back memories! I cut my teeth on Slackware 4 and then 7.
Bukele is more popular than the Pope across Latin America
this used to happen with google searches
It is a solution. Just like wind/solar/hydro/geothermal/batteries are ones. None of which require poverty. I agree, that fossil fuels increased the standard of living, but that doesn't mean that it's/was the only way or that other countries have to follow suit to increase their standards of living right now.
Yeah, when a child emulates their parents, they are running their brain.