skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, obviously. For example, there is a bridge construction project that is delayed by lack of qualified labor. I am sure they can rebid the project and hire labor currently employed on other construction projects, delaying those projects instead.

That is still a shortage. There is a finite number of licensed captains with Master of Towing endorsement who are legally allowed to work on U.S. flag vessels. You cannot make a new licensed captain with just money. It takes time.

I completely agree that shortages can be fixed with good planning, which industry and the U.S. government did not do.

I also completely agree that when using unskilled labor, one can just apply more money to attract labor. Skilled labor requires more than money to acquire.
It looks like Portugal is having some serious issues with decriminalization.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
Or stainless steel, or BPA-free plastic, or plant-fiber cellulose plastic, or silicone, or...
The answer to what the ‘real deal’ is obvious, but fairly disturbing.

Games.

From the first clever bloke who came up with an algorithm to play a card game against himself (ie, Solitaire), to the Mechanical Turk, to Big Blue, the the ghosts in PacMan, the NPC’s in Counterstrike, etc, etc., there is a fascination with making something that can ‘beat’ us.

Humans have a need to compete.

We’re drawn to the idea of a machine that is so smart and clever that it poses a genuine challenge to our wits.

The ‘real deal’ that most have in mind isn’t some virtual assistant that can help you calendar things or write letters. No, the ‘real deal’ is always described in terms of SkyNet or sinister AI overlords, or malicious intelligent robots.

I don’t think that stuff is hyperbole.

Rather, I think that is precisely what we want… we want something that can destroy us… something, against whom, we can compete with our survival at stake.

In short, the ‘real deal’ has been staring us in the face for centuries; we make movies and write books about it… particularly in Sci-Fi. The goal IS SkyNet. The goal IS HAL. Let’s be honest… that’s what we are shooting for — the ultimate competitor that, unlike anything else on this boring planet, has the wits to take us out.

Whether it’s bored trailer-trash playing Russian Roullete, or bored Billionaires descending to the Titanic in a jerry-rigged sub, we have a very strong need to make our lives interesting by betting our lives themselves.

The purpose of AI is to make a challenger who has the ability to wipe us out, with intent.

That’s the ‘real deal.’
Because a big company cannot afford to cater to every little taste, because the shareholders will be upset that they didn't just get to pocket that money.

If you want more variety, break up large companies. Hard to do when Toyota, Honda, etc aren't american companies though.

I too hate large vehicles and prefer my tiny hatchback. It's fun, cheap, efficient, easy to drive, easy to park. Why would I ever get something gigantic? If I need to move something big, something that somehow doesn't fit in my car with the seats folded down (people have fit entire bedroom sets in there somehow) I can go rent a truck from home depot FFS.
I went to Portugal during this supposed 'golden' era and it was just as depressing then as Portland is now. I have no idea how anyone can say it was a success. The despair on the street was palpable.
The problem apparently is that they didn't actually have full type inference and the expressions on the right were given their types (probably a tuple of int x int x cstring) before they attempted the assignment into foo. Now they're using unification (they call it "top-down inference", so I'm guessing it's regular unification like other type inference systems use) so that the expression on the right will have the correct type and be assignable into the variable on the left.
What’s really interesting to me as a non-scientist, is that the process of creating this is widely used in at least two different industries.

In silicon it’s called doping, and it’s pretty much the foundation of modern thin and strong glass used in everything from smartphones to car windshields.
Relevant, how?

You're probably going to accuse me of some bias. I'm however going to claim I then know more of the state of SO, given my active membership there...
yes, Nim has move semantics, but takes care of you more than c++ does.
for example, if you use an object that was previously moved, you dont get garbage, the compiler turns the first move into a copy (and tells you)

the relevant docs are here: https://nim-lang.org/docs/destructors.html
This particular example is built on top of llama.cpp. It has a few benefits:

1. It's hopefully easier to install (though still not nearly easy enough)

2. All prompts you send through it - along with their responses - are automatically logged to a SQLite database. This is fantastic for running experiments and figuring out what kinds of things work.

3. The same LLM tool works for other models as well - you can run "llm -m $MODEL $PROMPT" against OpenAI models, Anthropic models, other self-hosted models, models hosted on Replicate - all handled by plugins, which should make it really easy to add support for other models too.

My ultimate goal with LLM is that when someone releases a new model it will quickly be supported by an LLM plugin, which should make it MUCH easier to install and run these things without having to figure out a brand new way of doing it every single time.

More on the project here: https://llm.datasette.io/

And a lot more about how the (new) plugin system works here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jul/12/llm/
This is quite nice.

iMessage doesn't keep your whole message history on-device. You can scroll back and it will fetch a bit more each time, but that's it.

Is there anyway to pull back to the beginning of time into the local database? I'd like to retrieve some specific old messages from a friend who has passed away. If I could get them out I could search (I know what I am looking for) but it would involve an unfeasible amount of "pull to fetch more"
Imagine you are just sitting there when you see a message pop up from ChatGPT 9.2 saying, “You know, I’ve been thinking, an easy way to quickly solve the climate crisis would be to get rid of all the humans. What do you think?” That would be just great.
Why do you think everyone should get voting rights if there is a section of the society who want to actively harm themselves. What are their votes reflective of?
What happend to this project? It looks like the Github was deleted.
Threlte: A Three.js component library for Svelte
What makes you prefer Terminal.app over iTerm2?
This is super cool man!
You can't walk off the lot with any Tesla, so Tesla has much less influence on what percentage of its cars are the base model than other brands. You order online so there's no salesman standing over you talking you into unneeded upgrades.

For high-demand products Tesla will offer a better expected delivery date for more expensive vehicles, but Tesla's supply and demand are in balance now and you can get base model deliveries within a couple of weeks.
> I would be more inclined to pay attention to the guidelines if those were not used to reinforce the site's obvious political biases

This is an illusion. Everyone with strong political passions feels like the site is "obviously" biased against them. Your counterparts on the opposing side of any battle are equally certain of this. This is a reliable phenomenon and seems to be a function of how political passions work. It's not an accurate reflection of either the community or the moderation, no matter how obvious it feels.

> My last comment before this one was 56 days ago.

I'm responding to the preponderance of guideline-breaking comments in your HN comment feed.

Re deletion: it looks like you emailed us 7 years ago. Since then a lot has changed; we still don't delete entire account histories but we can randomize the username and/or do other things.
Nice, but it needs continuous integration!

Something that runs in docker container on my home server. If my phone gets stolen, I have 1 hour old backup....
There's PPP considertaions. PRC R&D funding also bias towards experimental/applied vs basic research. Hence not surprising they're hammering these replication efforts.
Tell HN: Mailjet locked me out of my account with no explanation
I have a blog that adds emails to Mailjet whenever someone subscribes. I have a few hundred subscribers who I email whenever I publish a new blog post.

After about a year of not writing, I decided to start back up. To my surprise, when I tried to log into my Mailjet account, I got a message saying "Account closed due to phishing attempts."

I emailed support and all they would offer me was "Our decision is final. We cannot give you a reason for security reasons. We cannot let you export your list of subscribers."

So, I guess I just lost a few hundred subscribers and there's no way for me to get them back. If my account was compromised (probably not), they should've let me know and helped protect my account. If their system actually detected a phishing attempt, it must be hilariously bad because I was sending a very basic email about a new blog post being published.

Don't be like me. Back up your list of subscribers. You never know when a service like Mailjet will lock you out with no explanation.
You're conflating being an intelligence operative with being an intelligence agent. The salaried employees of the CIA (operatives et al) do not "drink and do drugs with people they're trying to collect intel from." They recruit local contacts (agents) to do that for them.

Think: DEA employee, vs. DEA criminal informant. The job of the DEA employee is not to infiltrate drug gangs. It's to organize and monitor the infiltration of drug gangs. The criminal informant wears the wire. The DEA employee sits in the black van outside, listening to the wire.

The most common position in the CIA is "analyst." The job of a CIA analyst is to sit there in a cubicle and read/listen to all the evidence gathered by agents (or spy satellites, or wiretaps, or whatever), gathering any "interesting" stuff into a report (with a further fan-in to "senior analysts" who map-reduce all those reports into "intelligence".) Unlike an operative, an analyst doesn't even get to speak with any agents — let alone head out into the field to recruit them.
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No.

I'm an experienced machine learning engineer, software developer, and author of 2 patents in ML/AI. I'm an EGBC-licensed professional engineer and I have a BASc in Mechatronics Engineering and 10 years of overall experience in software development. I've developed and shipped end-to-end machine learning products and features across different platforms (web services, mobile apps, and embedded systems). I enjoy building practical machine learning systems from prototype to production that have a positive impact on people's lives.

Thanks for your time.

Technologies:

DL/ML: PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, data pipelines, ONNX, TFLite, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, OpenAI Api, Huggingface Transformers, Librosa, PyWavelets

Mobile ML: Swift, CoreML, iOS development

Data science: Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Jupyter Notebook, Colab, Seaborn, Chart.js, Streamlit, Airflow, Dagster

Backend: Python, C++, Django, Flask, FastAPI, SQLite, PostgreSQL, REST, Docker

Embedded Software: C, Bare metal software development, TinyML, RTOS, Embedded Linux

Cloud: AWS, GCP, Linode

Website: https://dmitridevaz.com
Spying prevents war. It's easier to get into a war if you don't really understand each other. Not to mention if you don't know who has missiles pointed at you.
Weird how that happens.

I was trained as a unlimited Third Mate (Any Oceans, Any Gross tons), but decided not to sit for license and became an engineer instead. Every so often I wonder if I made the right choice, esp. since some of my classmates now own or are running shipping companies.
Hacker News Post - Who is hiring?

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At Quobyte, we are working on the Data Center File System (DCFS), a highly scalable and fault-tolerant software storage system built around a parallel file system core. Customers use Quobyte DCFS for ML and HPC clusters in industry and academia, k8s and OpenStack infrastructures, streaming, web mail, post production, origin and CGI clusters, and as a scalable backend for SaaS products. There are Quobyte DCFS clusters which span thousands of machines and crunch 100s of GB/s!

Under the hood, DCFS is a full-stack storage system, written in Java and C++. The engineering work covers everything from kernel development over our own replicated database system design to distributed algorithms (Paxos!) and performance. In short: lots of real-world challenging and fun problems! We work as a highly efficient engineering team, and do mandatory code reviews, lots of unit and integration testing,

Santa Clara, CA:

* Customer Success Engineer

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Berlin, Germany:

* Software Engineer

* Sales Executive

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Really the code is C++ on a C RTOS (the same compiler toolchain), and the Python scripts are there to generate fonts and handle build jobs, and don't get loaded into the actual iron. Last time I checked the code is built off blocking functions rather than state machine objects in an event loop, which I'm not sure how I feel about in an interactive GUI.
Please, everyone try this.

Your preferred ratio, for recreation OR medicinal purposes, may be way closer to 1:1 (THC/CBD) than you thought!
"Cheaper than twitter" is a canonical example of damning with faint praise.
I thought part of getting anything like a security clearance involves their interviewing people from your past. So all it takes is one of those people admitting they smoked pot with you under the bleachers in high school, for example.
This plus vacation time in the Northern hemisphere - that one science reporter per large news org who actually understands the importance is AFK.
Half (49%) of US adults have tried marijuana.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/353645/nearly-half-adults-tried...
Failed attempt to replicate:
Semiconducting transport in Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O sintered from Pb2SO5 and Cu3P
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2307/2307.16802.pdf
The measurements were reproduced by a different team on samples provided by Dias:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06301
Blind trust doesn't work. It's a smokescreen. If your political actions improve your stock value, that increase will still be there when you step down.

Sunak's wife is the daughter of the Infosys founder. According to Wikipedia:

> She holds a 0.93-per-cent stake in Infosys, along with shares in several other British businesses
Tbf he didn't bury the lede, it's right in the second paragraph:

> I believe that no compiler needs to call home. But I also believe that we have a viable alternative if we reject the `tele` part of telemetry. Local metrics that are never sent anywhere can still give us valuable insight about how the Rust compiler is behaving.
I use Emacs for all my writing. As far as producing documents, if it's math-oriented, I'll tend to use LaTeX and render to PDF. If it's for my blog, I write that in Markdown, though I'm considering switching to Restructured Text or some other format -- it's hard to get what I want done in Markdown without adding a crap-ton of extensions, i.e. distractions.

Emacs certainly can be the ultimate time waster in and of itself, and I won't deny that I've spent a lot of time configuring my init files. But, the basic experience is pretty much a blank screen, until you hit the control or meta keys, so I consider it pretty well suited to distraction-free writing. And, when you get to editing, it has some world-class text manipulation capabilities that make it hard to beat.
Yes they are - they are AS non-nebulous as you can possibly get - totally black and white obvious. "Is there a stream of experiences?" is very straightforward, black and white. It's what you have when you're awake, and what you lose when you're in dreamless sleep. Not nebulous in any way.

"Can you pay attention to this part of your experience?" is a very black-and-white, non-nebulous question with an easy yes or no answer. Not sure what you're reading into this.
Stray animals, cats in particular, are contributing to the rapid decline of our bird population. Freedom to breed animals in an irretrievably broken ecosystem is a dubious proposition.

(I’m not advocating for a ban but there aren’t any good options here. )
Alfred-40B, an OSS RLHF version of Falcon40B
I'm not sure about in the United States, but here in Canada, we barely even have "good" and "bad" neighbourhoods. My city is quite well-mixed together economically. Somehow, despite that, the recent dysfunction of society -- the sharp increase in the number of homeless and the number of publicly intoxicated people -- seems to fall entirely on the poor as a consequence. They're the ones suffering it day to day. A relative's apartment building is a 10 minute walk away. He is dealing with people passed out in vomit in the stairwells, smashing the first and second floor windows regularly, pulling the fire alarms and setting small fires regularly. All of this is quite new. And it's so absent from my upper-middle-class community half a kilometre away -- we're so insulated -- that a lot of my peers seem to be unaware there's even anything going on. None of that is happening on my street.
> Maybe they did put their bank account in a function name.

Thank you for proving my point - again, no rational debate here. Obviously nobody would ever make a function name their bank account number. And why would metrics include function names? Metrics are numbers, not logs.

> Similarly, you don't know what they're doing or how doing that might expose them in ways they might care about. If my country decides to outlaw something and starts looking for mentions of it and jailing people, your decision yesterday could endanger me. This happens with some regularity, and you can't reliably predict the topics that get targeted.

Yet another contrived example that has nothing to do with the subject at hand and has no rational basis for happening. A random country creates a random law that happens to outlaw a compiler metric? You think a country's gonna make software development illegal soon?

> I generally approve telemetry for tools because I know how useful it is. But I see no reason why that should be your choice instead of mine.

Nobody's taking away your choices! You don't want telemetry? Block the outgoing connections! Disable it in a config file! Use a friggin' VPN like all the other privacy-paranoid do!
Gold is everywhere in computing, not a big deal.
This requires terpenes, and in some cases, CBD.
If his grievances actually got through to the AMD CEO, I'd say he's already had a bigger impact than most.
Ah, the rich have discovered the 'price the poor out of living' climate solution, jolly good.
I had some SSDs which reported that they have reached the maximum amount of data that may be written.

I have replaced them promptly, without waiting to see if they will really die.

I also had some new HDDs which have failed the SMART self-tests, so I was able to request replacements. After having once problems with a new HDD, I have always run all the SMART self-tests on all new HDDs, before storing any valuable data on them, and that has proved to be a good policy.
> never clean it with soap.

This is a myth. I was struggling with getting a good non-stick-ability on my Lodge, until someone pointed out the 'patina' is really just burnt carbon and does nothing for non-stick. The non-stick seasoning comes from polymerized oils, which aren't affected by lye-free soaps. I haven't had any sticking issues since I've started washing my pan with soap after a messy meal and leaving a microscopic film of Crisco on after drying.
I live near a smaller airport - the worst problem is that you can’t get service off hours.

In the taxi days, they had a contractual obligation to provide service to the airport. Now, getting an early morning Uber/Lyft for a first flight is difficult… prebooking doesn’t work, and you’re stuck driving and parking, hiring a black car, etc.
a.k.a., "that's not real communism".
I remember when I was in the Navy, running a nuclear power plant on a ship that carried nuclear weapons, and the Chief of the Boat regularly showed up to work so drunk he couldn't speak (having driven himself to work) and everyone ignored it and when juniors complained seniors threatened to fabricate charges against them to shut them up, and listening to that guy scream and yell about how anyone who smokes cannabis is a fucking loser, a total garbage piece of shit, not even a real human being, and genuinely having difficulty not laughing and/or screaming. What a fucking joke that place was.

Friends in the intelligence community have told me they have as many extreme, extreme alcoholics as the Navy does, and that's just fine, part of the "culture", but oh boy, cannabis is not acceptable. Not sure if it was always like that, or just recently because they have recruiting problems.

I also have friends at national labs watching this very enthusiastically, hoping it spills over to their sector, because they have difficulty recruiting PhDs who are willing to get randomly piss tested.
It's B2B, heavily NDA'd, etc. We serve small US banks and credit unions. Front line of business app. CRUD/workflow stuff.

I'd do the exact same thing for any B2C web property in 2023.
> while being greatly better compared to states like W. Virginia.

Typical Oregon response comparing Oregon, a fairly rich state, with West Virginia, one of the poorest states. If you can't do better than a poor state with your high taxes and high median incomes... that's not a good reflection on the state. Yet, most Oregonians seem to get some satisfaction that they do better than Mississippi, Alabama, and West Virginia, even if they're #49 in the ranking. It's gross.

I mean, Oregon has Intel, Nike, Adidas, a well-developed tech sector, etc, and West Virginia has coal mining, yet we're actually comparing ourselves to them.

I really wish people in this state would strive for something actually better.
I think you can just import dom and get access to browser APIs.
I think it's being used endearingly, regardless of the person's gender.

I see your point though and can understand how it may make you feel as a transwoman.

How might one achieve the same effect with different phrasing?
This is excellent news. For one, there will be a significant drop in fear mongering click baiting news, and then news publishers will be starved of traffic. The industry needs a hard reset. Would love for this to happen in the UK as well.
any tips on how to go about fine tuning a model?

I would like to test performance on a particular task. I can probably get around 100 hand trained example prompts -> ideal response

Not sure if this is enough to warrant retraining on top of the base model. or if I should just throw a few examples into the prompt itself.

Also unsure which source download I should start with if I intend to do retraining
I resided in Portland for two years and volunteered at a free medical clinic. We saw many individuals who were addicted to hard narcotics and it was the same people, repeatedly in our clinics. Then new drugs would emerge on the street and it seemed a never ending cycle of drug addiction, poor health, homelessness, and death. It wore me down because the tide of addicts never slowed, and I questioned if such legalization is beneficial.

Prison is not the answer but decriminalization removes incentives against powerful narcotics.
Or the ability to make the required spices on demand :-).
Taming OpenAI's Function Call: A Dive into PromptPerfect's Function Debugger