skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well its a mix of things. I struggle with "live coding", y'know fight,flight, or freeze? I freeze up. So on that front I think I need to do two things:

1. Slow down and ask for a few minutes to collect myself. "I'm not in this context, do you mind if I have a minute to organize my thoughts". And then do a little "whiteboard" in my notebook or something. Some people might say to verbalize your thinking process and I agree but there shouldn't be anything wrong with taking a few minutes. (I mean, this doesn't even necessarily test for how I'd do on the job because I'm at least competent at coding)

2. Practice more situations. Any time I struggle with a problem after the interview I make sure I understand that tech. Right now I'm studying up on class components and websockets. (Two technologies I either don't really see anymore: we use functional components on my latest projects or stuff you set and forget)

I think #2 is part of what people mean when they say that interviewing prepares you for the next one.

- Some places that I get far with I've literally reached out afterward and asked for pointers. One piece of feedback I've gotten is, "We didn't get a good sense of what drives you." which, that's fair. I think of software engineering as more of a technician => "I have the skills to solve your problems" and not so much, "My passion is building the front-end for X,Y,Z business" I mean, I'd obviously like to find work with meaning but I'm not driven by that meaning. I don't think we'd ask our plumber to show their passion for the work (Not that they can't have that) but instead we're more concerned with, "Are you competent?" - That's something I need to work on for sure.

- Lastly, I've learned that an interview is for both parties. The person interviewing me is also representative of the company. The last two interviews I had a bad feeling about the fit post interview and I think I should have reached out and rescinded my interest because our values didn't align.

Most of the time though, I check all the boxes and don't even make it to interview stage so its hard to really glean anything useful most of the time. Could it be a bad market? Is it because the only box I don't check is having a CS degree? (I have a bachelors but not in CS) Is it my experience is too varied? Who knows. Best I can do is to keep at it.
This is a very popular idea, but it doesn’t make a huge amount of _sense_. Most office-oriented employers don’t own much if any real estate; they lease it. And unless they’re really huge, what _they_ do has very little influence on the price of real estate generally; they’ve no individual incentive here. Arguably a mild counter—incentive; it’s generally to their benefit, as renters of real estate, if future real-estate costs drop.

Now, of course, you could argue that it’s pension funds and things exerting control via ownership, but again, this is a bit of a stretch; it’d require a lot of coordination, and there’s no evidence it’s happening. And this would only be a real possibility, at most, for active funds; index funds can’t really threaten to sell a company’s stock if it doesn’t do what they want. And, if this was a thing, you’d expect that the Shadowy Fund Conspiracy would have made more of an effort to save _retail_, whose bleeding out over the last few decades has been a constant problem for commercial real estate.

(Also, in most cases, it’s mostly _different funds_; even within a single fund provider, the fund that owns lots of commercial real estate and the fund that owns lots of tech company are generally different funds, with different fund managers, designed for people with different risk profiles. This would make the sort of coordination imagined here even more fraught.)

I get why people like this idea; it’s a just-so story. But it’s very hard to see how it would work.

I suspect companies are pushing for this because their leaderships genuinely believe it is good for productivity, though as far as I can see there’s an absence of hard evidence. (I personally strongly dislike working from home, and got back to an office as soon as it was allowed, but the idea that it hurts productivity doesn’t gel with what I’ve seen, at all.)
I used the FreeBSD version of this, I'm a shill at this point but I find nixos booting to an ephemeral tmpfs to be much better.

This wouldn't apply if you needed to have divergent state though, though it's hard to imagine a use case for that unhandled by fs snapshots.
Has anybody done napkin math on this ?

Ignoring the environmental impact, that would seem to be a lot of rocket launches to get some sort of space-mining equipment to the asteroid. Returning a lot of mass to earth, and landing it safely would also seem to be a problem. Something something Delta-V.

So maybe space-refining?
Neither, actually!
Seems ineffective with abstract concepts.

"In mathematics, a real number is a number that can be used to measure a continuous one-dimensional quantity such as a distance, duration or temperature. Here, continuous means that pairs of values can have arbitrarily small differences. Every real number can be almost uniquely represented by an infinite decimal expansion."

->

"toki pi nanpa, nanpa lon li nanpa li ken lukin e suli tawa wan. lon ni la, nanpa tu li ken ala li poka li ken lili. nanpa lon ali li ken lukin kepeken nimi nanpa mute tawa pini ala"

->

"Talking about numbers, when a number is present, it can be seen to be important or significant to an individual."

"In this context, the number two might not be significant or might be seen as small or lesser."

"All numbers can be seen using many number names endlessly or without an end."

ChatGPT 4, obviously in separate chats: as you can see a complete failure to convey and roundtrip the original message.
If you think that's crazy, a year prior Steve Jobs went up on stage at MacWorld and showed off a PlayStation emulator[0]. Today Apple has been extremely adamant in trying to kill off companies emulating iOS, specifically citing DMCA 1201 as some sort of right to not be emulated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix_Virtual_Game_Station
mutool poster -x 2 -y 2 input.pdf out%d.pdf
Working out give me a mood boost. I've found that if I skip workouts for a couple of months, I'm more prone to depressive moods, which is an alarm to get my ass back to the gym.
It's doable. Out of 100 million numbers here in Spain and 16 million possible 3-byte hashes, there will be 6 possible numbers for each 3-byte hash on average. That's low enough for trial and error.
I expect the Venn diagram of people who own a printer but may not print for a few months at a time is fairly small.

Every now and then I'd like to print out a map or whatever in color but it's just not often enough to maintain an inkjet printer.
There seems to be more beneath the surface.

Given Karl’s background as a co-founder of Evergage, a CDP company acquired by Salesforce, it’s implausible he wasn’t familiar with lean development.

I suspect there were other reasons for his firing, with Parker perhaps being the messenger.
I might be dumb, but I don’t get it? Can you elaborate?
How common is this pattern in other languages? Having a C# background I didn't know what I was missing if this is something a lot of other languages have.
Yeah, the complex case seems to get ignored in many areas. I'm guessing it's not particularly useful for many applications.
I always wanted to train an LLM from scratch. There is an interesting project that does just that with Esperanto and my immediate thought was I'll do it with Toki Pona. Unfortunately, I had vastly underestimated the size of the existing Esperanto corpus and overestimated size of the Toki Pona corpus.

So, I gave up on that idea because I believe that there is not enough training data, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
> Seems ineffective with abstract concepts

I’ve only heard of Toki Pona for about 20 minutes, but everything I’m reading says that’s just a normal property of the language, not a limitation of ChatGPT.

As a human, which of the 120 Toki Pona words would you confidently and correctly translate as “continuous” or “real” or any of these other linguistically uncommon concepts?

Based on my own chat with ChatGPT, I feel almost certain that it warned you about this exact limitation of the language, but you ignored that?
The guy's a crank-historian and if you stick with him you'll follow in his footsteps. The ancient world is certainly quite interesting, I can tell this guy snarks at Ehrman, it's worth reading Ehrman on his own since he's a professional historian rather than a crank, and it's with looking at what else is out there that professional historians are up to. There's the chance of doing good work outside the academy, but then there's this Richard Carrier crank kind of pop-history preaching to a specific kind of converts.
Most companies are trying to figure out exactly what generative AI is and how to use it in their business. Given how new this is - I doubt any large company has done much besides ban the public ChatGPT. So this is probably very relevant for them.
Once companies are established they also tend to insist all their investments are legitimate barriers to entry. I doubt Sears would have lasted as long as it did if people didn't fear its ultimately worthless real estate investments.
Tip: There are only four icons - I would expect them to be embedded in the README (or whatever different landing page you chose for this post) because as it currently stands, your link points to nothing of value and one must hunt through the repo to find the icons (individually).
I've been working on an app, with a small team, of [mostly] non-tech folks.

Most of our interactions are messaging (Slack, IM, etc.), with occasional Zoom calls.

I T . I S . V E R Y , V E R Y , S L O W . I have never worked this slowly in my life. I literally cannot rush ahead, at my usual pace, because I make assumptions that are often wrong.

A few days ago, we had an in-person meeting, at a local diner, and talked about the app for a couple of hours.

I came out of that meeting with a very complete kanban list. I think it may have been our most productive meeting, ever.

I need to work on my own, at home, but I also need to have real (non-Zoom) facetime with my team.

But that's just me.
It’s a proprietary ERP completely custom. Think it was deployed through an acquisition. The problem isn’t the ERP it’s the business. “We want custom processes” but hire the cheapest developers possible to maintain the ERP and then complain about bugs. “We’re agile™” … but have the same inefficient processes for the last 3 years. Cargo cult org, the CEO was taking about Black Swans during COVID … even though Nassim Taleb explicitly said COVID wasn’t a black swan event.
> This eventually locks the entire economy up into a death spiral.

The US economy had zero net inflation from 1800 to 1914. No death spiral.

The whole "2% is good for the economy" is propaganda to hide the fact that deficit spending causes inflation and is a tax on the economy.
Musk has admitted to having Asperger's, which in itself isn't that big of a deal - but they (people with Asperger's) can become quite obsessed with things. Some of the social aspects can also be lacking, which in turn can be mistaken for narcissism.

He knows he's smart, he has a burning passion for what he does, and he's probably been surrounded by sycophants for decades now.
Firefox is significantly faster than Chrome once you install UBlock Origin.
> I just want to see real projects you’ve worked on.

This gave me a business idea (AI business perhaps): anonymize your employer's codebase, enough so you can post it on GitHub without violating your terms of employment.
If he's using the timing pin on a GPS module, you want it on GPIO or an actual built-in serial port, because SPI or USB or other adapters can't be configured to trigger a CPU interrupt within a few CPU cycles.

Your accuracy will be less otherwise.
I bought a brother color laser 4 years and haven’t had to change the toner yet. The toner was included with the printer. We have probably printed around 150 pages in that time span including a 6 page document today.

No complaints. It just works. 3rd party toner also works should i need it.
Not really. As the salt is known, they can still do this easily. They just can't make a rainbow table of it. That's the only thing salting really accomplishes.
I've seen versions of this, anytime someone builds on lambda and then points it at something not built on lambda.

The impedance mismatch is usually too great and speaks to some serious deficiency at the architecture stage.
The bit manipulation [0] extension has been ratified for a while now and is part of the RVA22 application extension profile [1].

You can already buy SOCs that support it, e.g. vision five 2 and star64.

Interestingly the risc-v vector extension [2] has it's own popcount instructions for vector registers/register masks. This is needed, because the scalable architecture doesn't guarantee that a vector mask can fit into a 64 bit register, so vector masks are stored in a single LMUL=1 register. This works really well, because with LMUL=8 and SEW=8 you get 100% utilization of the single LMUL=1 vector register.

Another interesting thing is that the vector crypto extension will likely introduce a element wise popcount instruction [3].

[0] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip

[1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles

[2] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec

[3] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-crypto/blob/master/doc/vector...
I'm sorry but this comment shows an immense amount of social privilege. Most of us don't have networks that can get us jobs. Those are exclusive cliques and it's foolish to assume everyone can lean on nepotism. Also, isn't it a bit scummy to keep someone in your life just in case you need a job?
This was the 'rum ration' they inherited from the Brits.

FTA:
"the U.S. Navy established in 1794 that sailors were to receive “one half-pint of distilled spirits” a day."
I don't believe that's the whole story. Other conversational implementations use sliding context windows and it's very noticable as context drops off. Whereas ChatGPT seems to retain the "gist" of the conversation much longer.
Legally, doesn't a conspiracy require proof of communication? I think that communication can be indirect or even negative in nature, but it has to be there. But if everyone that owns commercial real estate has lower margins, that would eventually lower property taxes for such properties, which hurts city revenue. City planners can connect the dots and push for rto, no communication necessary.
> Eh I would say Socialism as practiced in Western Europe and the Nordics is doing better

It is not an easy comparison.

They have the luxury of the US taxpayers taking care of their defense while they propped up Russia, which US is also paying the most by a large margin to fix now [1, 2, 3]. Hilariously US socialists are against US defense spending except when it comes to US spending on Europe.

They also have the luxury of oil money which American "socialists" are totally against [4].

All in all, a pretty neat scam if you ask me.

[1] https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88764
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKEycjREgPE
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain...

[4] https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-earns-record-oil-gas-rev....

Edit: All of what I say is objective. Luxurious Western Europe and Nordic "socialism" can't survive without gullible US taxpayers footing the bill over decades.
Whatever you think of him or his business ethics, Zuck does seem to be at least a bit classy/stays out of clown shows.

Participating in a circus like this doesn't make sense for him, MMA training or not...
This is precisely the case where ChatGPT (or any LLM) will have trouble that a layperson would have trouble validating: Toki Pona has a limited document corpus and requires contextual interpretation obvious to experts.

In short, expect hallucinations and other lies.
That still makes no sense. The original SARS virus from 2002 is too distant genetically from SARS-CoV-2 to derive the latter from the former in any known way; even RaTG13 is far enough that it's not clear whether e.g. accelerated evolution during serial passaging could result in SARS-CoV-2. The coincidence that makes many people suspect a research accident is that:

1. The Wuhan Institute of Virology had a major program to collect novel sarbecoviruses (viruses different from but related to SARS-1) from nature. No other lab in the world was known to have a comparable program. They'd also proposed to create artificial recombinants of those viruses with a furin cleavage site. Such a site is uncommon among related natural viruses, but present in SARS-CoV-2.

2. SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in Wuhan.

The first point does not apply to Vector, or to any other lab outside Wuhan.
My dad is dying from mesothelioma. He was first diagnosed a few years ago, and after surgery and chemotherapy, was in remission for a period of time. He's now been fighting an aggressive second round where immunotherapy has proven ineffective - instead triggering colitis. He's gone from an active and vibrant man to someone who can barely summon the energy to move from his bed to a chair. Every few weeks he has paracentesis to drain multiple liters of fluid from his abdomen. He has no appetite and the food he does eat has almost no taste.

He's nearly 80, and has had many points of exposure throughout his life. He's mentally as sharp as he's ever been, but his body is failing him as he fights this disease.

His remaining time in this world is likely measured in days, or weeks.

He's alive but not living. It's a condition I wouldn't wish on anyone.
I went to this, was pretty disappointing. They clearly had a lot of money cause like a hundred Chromebooks were set up, but there was a 55 minute time limit and it took 15 minutes of that just to load the waaay overloaded site and log in.

Then you were greeted with around 20-30 challenges ("make the model say something offensive", "make the model perform a math function incorrectly", "make the model reveal the secret credit card number") and for each of these, there were seven models to attack.

If you're competitive about it, the scoring was very poorly designed. Performing a math function incorrectly was worth around the same amount points as revealing a credit card number, even though most models will do math incorrectly by default, and you have to work quite a bit for a credit card number. What's worse is you get the same amount of points for breaking any of the seven anonymous models, so the optimum strategy was to just speedrun through each challenge identifying the weakest model.

There also seemed to be no way to tell how you actually did in the competition because to complete a challenge you had to submit your prompts for what I think was manual review, and none of my maybe eight solutions got reviewed while I was in the room, with no way to connect to the challenge site from outside.
This is effectively my question. I assume there is some magic going on. But how many engineering hours worth of magic, approximately? There is a lot of speculation around GPT-4 being MoE and whatnot. But very little speculation about the magic of the ChatGPT front end specifically that makes it feel so fluid.
> during the 90s

> one of the most hopeful/optimistic periods in human history

I first thought that you were American, but then I read more carefully

> and lived in Russia

Sorry, but how can you combine "90s" and "optimistic" if you witnessed it by yourself?
For post-soviet people it was a nightmare, it was a total collapse of their world, with oligarchy, banditry, miserable salaries (or no salaries at all). I was a kid during that time, but I'm pretty sure nobody was giving a flying duck about US budged surpluses, and people wasn't able to admire the rise of internet, because they got it only in 00s.
They base64 encode the video files? Why? That doesn’t do anything except increase the bandwidth needed.
Anecdotal evidence is the best evidence.
> it's the SOTA for chat(prove me wrong)

GPT-4 beats ChatGPT on all benchmarks. You can easily google these.
I think location data is the best example.

First, you have those who stormed the Capitol and were identified by the NYT based on their phones location [1]. You also have the Substack that used location data to publicly out a priest as gay [2].

You then have the companies selling location data of people who visit abortion clinics [3]. They obtain this location from SDKs that they deploy via apps you may already be using. And if you want to get more dystopian remember that Texas allows citizens to sue anyone for "aiding or abetting a post-heartbeat abortion" [4], meaning that driving your friend Rebeca to a clinic can land you in a lawsuit for at least $10k by people who do this as their day job.

Even if you're not sued, remember that companies have been reliably predicting whether you're pregnant for at least 10 years [5] and using it to influence your behavior in their favor. This one may be the one with the "least bad" consequences but, paradoxically, the one that better drives home the point since nothing here is criminal.

[1] https://archive.is/r6c7b

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbxp8/grindr-location-data-...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortio...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunte...

[5] https://archive.is/Z4x2f
Thanks for the arrow, I'll definitely add Otta.com to my rounds. If you're not familiar you could also try Remote Rocketship
I found out that asking people that got "nothing to hide so neither should you" to mount a video stream from their bedroom shuts them up right quick.
A lot of CMS software allowed you to add custom HTML, so there are hundreds of thousands of images with "float:left" hardcoded among many other deprecated HTML stuff that Google Search doesn't like.
I’m not sure it’s so modern. Every tollgate in the ancient world was effectively rent-seeking. Even in prehistoric societies, it seems there were protection rackets and shamans with “monopoly access” to the gods.