skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Typical Acquihire Process with FAANGs?
Looking for founders willing to share a breakdown / stories of how acquihires happen with small startup teams of <= 3 people getting acquired by FAANGs or similar.
> None of those things are going to make a bad feature successful and not doing these will not make a good feature unsuccessful. They're all a form of technical debt

You said what I was thinking but couldn’t come up with the words. These aren’t the difference makers.

Every “successful product” is held together with spit, glue, and an ocean of tech debt. There is no utopia.
> This is a weird assumption. What's preventing a backend system from saying "Hey, we think you're a bot. Here's an alternative way to contact us."

Not a weird assumption, but a necessary assumption based on considerations of scale.

A small-scale website that doesn't receive too much spam attempt can manually classify spam by human agents. A medium-scale website can have CAPTCHA to let through some visitors and the rest goes to human verification. You appear to be in this bucket. When the scale is huge, no other alternative way to contact exists. CAPTCHA becomes your only tool.

In other words, CAPTCHA is only necessary because of scale; what do you think the first A stands for? But because of scale, alternate ways stop working.
That's just using YouTube with extra steps.
Two Garbage Collection Improvements Made Our Storefronts 8% Faster
Here's my Kubernetes security horror story.

You probably know about resolv.conf, but you might not know about "search domains". A feature that should've never existed, but was added because "why not?". If you don't know what it does, in first approximation, it creates a domain alias. This is sometimes used to save some typing when using DNS for service discovery in larger clusters in a very hierarchical way (when names start to look like a.b.c.d.e.f.g...com, it's tempting to alias them to something shorter).

So, long story short. Ubuntu LTS had a bug (actually a whole bunch of them) in the same script that was responsible for generation of this file (it's a bad idea to have this file to begin with... but hey, who cares, right?). So, one aspect of the bug was that a variable name "DOMAINS" was used instead of its value. And that became a search address in resolv.conf.

Now, this search works by appending the search path to the domain name, if DNS server tells you it cannot find it. I had no idea DOMAINS was possible to register as a valid domain name. I mean, it should've been a TLD to be discoverable globally, right? -- Well, it's still a mystery to me, but, for some reason domains of the form a.b.c.DOMAINS are resolved to some AWS EC2 instance...

And, the punch line: if you screw up CoreDNS configuration somehow, or something else goes wrong with service discovery inside your Kubernetes cluster on unpatched Ubuntu -- there's a good chance your traffic will go to that EC2 instance. Who's on the other side -- I don't know. I didn't send anything important that way and discovered it because something like Spark operator didn't work... but it could've been much worse.

Oh, btw, I believe resolv.conf is used by different CNIs. Maybe Calico and Flanel. I cannot remember atm. why it was used... or maybe it's some kubelet setting.

Anyways. Larger point is... large Kubernetes clusters are virtually impossible to systematically audit. Too many things can do too many things. Too much trickery goes on in all sorts of system components that deal with networking. It's also impossible to track who does what and who owns what because there's no user identity.

---

I believe that, again, industry adopted an absolute horror show of a program / environment not because it was a great tool, but because "organically" developers started to add "features", creating something that's hard to resist, because, superficially, it creates a lot of value with minimal effort -- but it also lays a trap that is not immediately obvious. And those who find themselves trapped, instead of running away, star adding more "features" to fight the trap. But, in this foolhardy attempt, they only make the trap stronger.
Oh wow! I'm guessing this "
 "leakage" is related to OPs behavior, with us seeing a "free running" text completion, without a prompt/initial bias?

edit: Actually, this may be some RLHF leakage for 3.5-turbo: https://chat.openai.com/share/d223c02c-77c1-4172-b1e3-2592f4...

It nearly always provides the "original question" when asked, which I'm naively assuming isn't generated in response. With the dozen or so times I've tried, there's never more than a single previous question, before the response.

I suppose it would make sense there would be much more bias towards RLHF questions/responses.
I made something similar for selling access to GitHub repos but it didn’t take off. People were hesitant to give a new product like mine access to their repos because we hadn’t built up trust that established brands like gumroad have. Makes it really hard for new players to enter this space. Have you seen similar concerns and how do you address them?
Is it just me or is the new import initialization algorithm n^2 in the worst case? Surprised by that.
The author of that post makes a good point: using Gemini offers no advantage over how I already use the Web. I think that goes for more than a few people, and not just the author.

Admittedly, I've never dived deeply into Geminispace, but it's never held my interest. Like the author of that post, I can get all of what I need online with my web browser and RSS feed reader.

But, hey, if you enjoy using Gemini (as a reader or a creator or both), then stick with it!
I tried fine-tuning BERT models for a content-based recommender system and found they used more than 50x the effort to train than an embedding based model that performed about as well.

Fine-tuned BERT failed completed at predicting if a headline would get upvoted on HN or what the comments/votes ratios would be. Those are even noisier than the recommender so it comes as no surprise to me. (For both of those my best model is still a bag-of-words model.)
Yep, I've worked on consumer products with decade plus lifespans. I was lucky enough to have worked in places that valued creativity, so shipping interesting features was always prioritized over direction by committee with data augmentation. I'll say that the end-users really loved that. They for the most part don't want you rearranging their living room (so to speak) they want new home additions.
Oh I see, thanks for the attention to detail :) The title should probably be changed, then, since it says "YouTube will now show..."
For me the series of "a" lead to a (partly French) discussion about Christianity. For example:

What I meant to say was that I prefer the idea of Jesus being in charge of things, as it would likely lead to positive changes in the world.
I am the happy passenger in the boat, the albatross in the sky, the wild man with the pink spoon.
When I think about No-functional approach (like security..), It seems that it is not possible to sell to anyone today...
That's disappointing to see, and posted within 10 minutes no less.
Or the problem could be with methodology, and the wrong people are in charge of the right people left, and so the mindset for testing is just wrong.

Also you’re dealing with a company that has been running to stand still for a long time. There’s been a lot of pressure to meet numbers that they simply cannot keep up with. At some point people cheat, unconsciously or consciously, to achieve the impossible.
“I am the happy passenger in the boat, the albatross in the sky, the wild man with the pink spoon.”
You are describing a creator bias, there are probably a better name, where you think the ones who created something knows it best. For example, you could create a programming language, a game, or anything, and you think that you know it better then someone who use it for several hours every day. The larger the user base the less likely you are better or know it better then all users.
It's better to pay the cost of abstraction when you've good evidence of its necessity
Rent-seeking reduces total GDP, which impacts everyone's quality of life.
Now I want a t-shirt that says "Keep going, keep growing, hour by hour"
War Music: Homer and His Iliad
TruthGPT – Monocle AR's arGPT telling fact from fiction [video]
> There is nothing like the AfD in the US

Because white nationalism is more and more becoming part of the mainstream. GOP is perfectly capable of hosting moderates and quazi-nazis at the same time.
WITHIN CELLS INTERLINKED
There is often very low entropy in the lowest few bits of system time as well (due to the underlying clock having a different resolution than the system call). Given that every bit you lose halves the time for a brute-force, that's a problem.
> Humans are social animals and they are deeply moved to work extremely hard for the sake of love, dignity, and respect alone. Contrary to the nonsense picture you paint, humans only lose touch with such desires in the face of hopelessness to realize them.

This is bullshit, and obviously so. Humans are by nature lazy. If you give people food and comfort, they will work the barest minimum they can to not be bored, and practically speaking, they'll pick an unproductive hobby (like gaming or idle art) instead of the stuff that society needs to function.

People have kids because having a kid is a deeply rewarding experience. Very few people are going to volunteer to work in mines, maintain sewer systems, or farm for other people to eat.
> It looks like Apple has revoked the developer certificate. Anyone know if there's a public log somewhere showing when it was revoked?

No, Developer ID doesn't use a Certificate Revocation List:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/revocation.html
Blood letting was done for the patient and killed patients.
High-throughput stream processing in Rust
Not true, disabling 2G is already present in iOS in Lockdown Mode.
The "Perl6/Raku is nothing like Perl 5" hype has been hugely overstated. It wasn't called Perl 6 for nothing and it was developed by the same Perl team more or less. For anyone who worked with Perl 5 significantly the legacy in Perl6/Raku is obvious. Raku's whole object model is a slightly more capable version of Moose.pm, a Perl 5 module on CPAN.
Oh dear, this is clearly a buggy piece of software, and not "meantlly unwell". Probably the code to parse their input and output was written with the aid of ai.
Would a CSPRNG be at all an improvement with only a 32 bit seed? Couldn't you still brute force it?
It looks like the user spammed this message in various pages, scroll a bit down on his user page https://www.reddit.com/user/Impossible_Arrival21/

Maybe something deliberate to trick the AI? Was it posted after the disclosing of the AI glitch?
Why is the 2fa rollout going at such a glacial pace ?
In July last year it was announced that the top 1% projects contributors had to use 2fa.
It it because of pushback from the developpers, or maybe because it is not as easy it it seems ?
I'm just curious, I am in now way involved in this.
The fact that this person thinks Cloudflare has their MAC address leads me to believe they shouldn't be speculating on the "implications for the web"
Sponsorships – Tilted Windmill Press
GPT-3.5 understands this though: What string do you get if you put angle brackets around the string "|endoftext|"?
>It replied with a question which felt like it was written by a human and seemed like a homework related question. Something, somewhere was leaking other people's conversations.

I'm positive this is an LLM hallucination. Tell 3.5 to say 'A' one thousand times. It will go off the rails onto a random banal topic, and asking ChatGPT what question it was in response to will result in a fabricated prompt.
Direct link to the 10-Q where they make the statement: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001813756/0...
The first few paragraphs sounded like Donald Trump Twitter posts to me. definitely spooky vibes.
The problem is that nobody wants to admit that the old, stodgy mainframe guys were right 30 years ago and that sharing anything always results in an exfiltration surface.

Nobody wants to be the first to take proper steps because they have to either:

1) Partition hardware properly so that users are genuinely isolated. This costs silicon area that nobody wants to pay for.

2) Stop all the speculative bullshit. This throws performance into rewind and will put chip performance back a decade or two that nobody wants to pay for.

Until people are willing to value security enough to put real money behind it, this will continue ad nauseam.
based on the `whois milksad.info`
Domain registrar is Namecheap :shrug:
That was due to extremely low per capita GDP creating a general dearth of decently paying jobs. This is due to people wanting to work in an industry at any cost. So your comparison is utterly disingenuous and exactly the type people getting a union advantage would make.
I don't get it. They offer a service that that people choose to sign up for and take active steps to use. I don't see how that's an attack. Honestly I'm still trying to understand who is being attacked.

Like is it an attack on the site owner - are you saying cloudflare is extorting them or something? That seems unlikely but I agree that would be a form of attack... it also doesn't seem to be what you're saying.

Is it an attack on the user of the website because the website owner successfully denies visitors it does not want? Does that mean that login credentials are a form of attack too? Would an on-prem load balancer or WAF that dropped all traffic from a region or matching patterns still be an attack?

It just doesn't make sense that it's an attack.
Researchers develop AI that can log keystrokes acoustically with 92-95% accuracy
Actually, we have very relevant data in https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

> PC VIDEO CARD USAGE BY MFG during FEBRUARY 2022 - JULY 2023

> 15.93% AMD

> 74.69% Nvidia
Yep same, I got a response that looked like what you get when you just copy paste a whole webpage. I’m not sure how that sort of formatting is getting to the trained model!
https://chat.openai.com/share/aaed13bc-3619-4bf6-8bab-dbfb9a... (last message)

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Really awesome! couple of things to take it to next level.

1. A timeline or animation to show how a city location or land mass changed over time.
2. Predict the future where would my city be in 100 million years. May be under water
Look forward to samsung disabling this, just like they do for other android cellular settings.
Nice, it looks like I was overthinking it then.
It sees a lot of separate conversations in its training. It seems much simpler to assume that it's incorrectly learned that it should shift the conversation into a new one occasionally to match this tendency of the training data rather than a bug actually leaking and blending user conversations together.
Nope, I read it exactly as that and imo it is ridiculous, top three episodes to clarify?
I wonder whether they modified brainflayer for brute forcing this, or if they wrote something from scratch.
There’s a marketing opportunity here to put multi-core back in the spotlight. Most workloads have reached the point of diminishing returns for adding more cores to a CPU, but if it turns out we need more cores just so we can run more concurrent processes (or browser tabs) securely, then here come the 128-core laptop chips…
That site reads like it's generated from a search query. It has multiple, wildly different answers:

> In general, you will need to use about 100g of sunflower seeds to make 1 litre of oil.

> It takes around 170,000 sunflower seeds to make one litre of oil.
> the history of human civilization on Earth

We actually don't even know that much. Written records only go back so far, and the ability to measure say temperature in any relatively accurate way is a modern invention. Majority (or all?) dependable temperature data starts around 1900...

If it's alarming because within recent human history something is changing quickly - well fine, but that's not how this stuff is being offered.

Even so, the question remains - is it an actual problem? Has human activity created the change, accelerated change, or was the change inevitable (ie. caused by polar reversal)? These are difficult questions to answer absolutely.

Even if we could answer these questions confidently - should we do anything about it? Would our actions to "combat" climate change cause unknown side effects? Probably... how do we square those potentially negative impacts with the "good" changes we've created?

It's pretty complicated. Anyone offering absolutes or hysterics should be taken skeptically in my opinion.
The Lion and the Fox, or the travails of mobile browsing and privacy
Canada’s Omers Pulls Its Venture Capital Arm from Europe
It almost smells like they're batching user requests together and tracking per-conversation offsets in a non threadsafe manner.
Then I have no idea. Sounds like more captcha vendors should be advertising themselves as "GDPR compliant".

Reminds me of "asbestos free" labeling: https://xkcd.com/641/
> Let's be honest here. Your service has likely caused millions of people harm who one day to the other are suddenly blocked from half the WWW

If this was true, Cloudflare wouldn't be a good product used by a lot of sites.
AnyTracker Is Now Available on iOS
The app can be used to track any number/text on any website. Useful to get alerts when sales happen, or just when a website changes. Two years ago the app was released on Google Play, finally it is available for iPhone and Mac as well.
Unity Weta Tools
It seems like a different take with similar sentiment: The project isn't over once it's functional.

It's a nice coincidence tho, you and OP should collaborate on a joint research to get the bottom of it.
I came in to my current gig as the first devops hire. We were a lot smaller then. 8 years on, I'm managing an infrastructure team alongside ops and devops teams. We also draw lines a little differently; infrastructure manages core services like auth, logging, instrumentation, etc.

In my experience, devops folks usually come from the dev side, not the ops side, and their experience and curiosity reflects that. So we let them focus on shipping line-of-business code while making sure what they ship runs in a competently managed environment, as well as handling data centers and all the more traditional infra stuff.
I see where you’re coming from but I just have a different view borne out of a different experience. I’m not one to tolerate interruptions well either but it’s not corporate leader woo to entertain unstructured serendipitous conversations (low signal to noise but the occasional fortuitous signal is worth the pain).
I'd argue no (that's why I recommended it for ebikes 2 levels up)
I ran Firefox in Crostini once. I'd say it was an "eh" experince. But then I installed Linux on it. Too bad that the way I installed Linux on it is being discontinued...
No shit sherlock.

I'm just pointing out that EE salaries within the US are depressed due to the (relatively) low wages within DFW (which by DFW levels are competitive).

At the end of the day, you guys are definetly being underpaid compared to SWEs as well as certain specialities of EE (take a look at Nvidia's mid-level TC in the Bay verus TI's in DFW).

DFW has always been a major EE hub in the US, but SV and Portland are similarly sized EE industry hubs and their wages have been depressed.

Since DFW represents around 30-40% of the EE industry within the US, it's a major portion but plenty of industry share is still stuck in higher CoL areas, which incentivizes talent to either switch to SWE or outsource jobs to SK, Taiwan, PRC, India, and Israel where such salaries are more competitive
I am said maintainer. Note that's not part of my work at Mozilla, and that doesn't make the Debian package endorsed by Mozilla as the way to get Firefox on Debian.
This, along with other examples, are mostl likely "classic" (not ML-related) infrastructure bugs from low quality multi-tenancy implementation. I.e. whatever gets shared (servers or GPUs) doesn't get properly isolated. Sure enough it can be server-side sessions or actual GPU resources.

This surfaces the true level of safety/security and a good reflection of the reality compared to the projected "safety" OpenAI tries to persuade is needed.
Just increase the sampling temperature. Maybe insert a least-k after the top-k
They're already going to 67, and since single-isles will go to single-pilot with AI everyone can be a Captain at FO pay.
Yes, X11 has been working for a long time. Here's a screenshot from 2013: https://lwn.net/Articles/555566/
Hmmm... so on that hugging face page there's a text box where you enter input then you click the 'compute' button.

So I asked it to "Write a python function that computes the square of the input number."

And it responds with:

def square(x):

Which seems quite underwhelming.
Exactly what you're looking for https://watchy.sqfmi.com/
And that's only for people who run Steam, who are likely to have high-end cards. This is, it does not include PCs for office workloads or most laptops. Intel is at 9% right now in that Steam survey so the real number is much, much higher than AMD (and perhaps nvidia too). This makes AMD the third one in user share.
Sounds like they're dealing with Climate Change too.
intuitively i agree with you, i've seen a lot of the pseudo-science.

But curious, can you elaborate on how telemetry driven development leads to organizational turf wars? I think i've seen that too but interested to hear your thoughts.
How do I scroll directly to top or bottom in one tap, please?
Firefox on Android, for example. I guess they just didn't want to add mobile UI to pdf.js?
That's a very cool personal theory, and I would love to see it get explored.
I'm pretty sure a session ID is personal data since it can be linked to a specific user by the service provider (see GDPR article 4(1)), and can be processed under the “legitimate interest” legal basis (article 6(1)f).

Cookies don't violate GDPR, but are subject to ePrivacy 2002/58/CE, article 5(3). “Strictly necessary” cookies (eg. session ID cookies) are exempt from consent.
Interesting and well done on the launch! Something similar to this https://super.so
Would be cool if instead of simply inputting a title and description the ai guides you trough a few questions to best capture site details. Getting the site copy ready can be really hard, just that is a product worth looking at imo.
TFA quotes Bill Joy:

“[...] you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough.”

Oddly, the reason that the vi paradigm has survived in the form of Vim/Neovim, Evil, Kakoune, Helix, and probably more, is that the interface that vi was optimized for (the QWERTY keyboard without a mouse) turns out to still be an extremely efficient interface today.

For complex interactions, we still haven't invented anything that would supersede what is effectively a typewriter from the 1870s. Look at HJKL in the home row on this Sholes and Glidden: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sholes-Glidden_1874....