skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Radiolab did a story on this, and the lack of critical thinking on their part was somewhat of a turning point. I realized that many of their stories were just a chaotic collection of impulsive ideas, rather than anything that was organized with context or presented with responsibility and wisdom.

Apparently it had the same effect on a lot of listeners, because they did a short followup where they said they did nothing wrong, and refused to acknowledge any responsibility for effectively making an advertisement for a business that was likely to harm people.

It actually stood in stark contrast to This American Life. They made some smaller mistake, and the next week they spent the entire hour identifying all the things that lead up to the error, and going into excruciating detail about why they believed their mistake was even an more serious one than most listeners realized.

I don’t listen to many podcasts anymore, but I thought the two responses taught me a lot about journalistic ethics, and how to identify when to continue reading or watching. Is this news source casual about getting details wrong? Do their individual stories fit in context of a larger story they are telling about the world over many years? Are they careful about what reporting will lead to a rush to judgement or bad decisions by readers and viewers?
> It is probably important here to realize that async solves concurrency, not parallelism. You can use async with a single threaded runtime for I/O concurrency and mix that with threads for computational parallelism for long running jobs.

In my experience, it's impossible to mix threads and async tasks. They can't communicate or share state. Threads need locks, while async tasks require an awake mechanism. If you just stick to unbounded channels that don't block on send, you can get far, but in 99% cases you will need to decide upfront on a specific approach.
I think this is a fine use case though because you're doing your due diligence. The problems arise when you don't do this.

I think even if an AGI was created, and humans survived this event. I'd still have trouble trusting it.

The quote "trust but verify" is everything to me.
You can also prompt it to hold back if it doesn’t know, which seems to make a difference. It’s part of my default prompt, and since I added it I haven’t had any overt hallucinations. Definitely invalid code, but not due to crazy errors. Just syntax and inconsistent naming mostly.

I verify just about everything that I ask it, so it isn’t just a general sense of improvement.
This law already exists in California, but it is hardly enforced and a large percentage of posted jobs do not include salary.
Jose Valim is investigating set-theoretic types, as you may have heard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37593967
"Fiduciary duty" meaning "the leadership must take any and all actions that increase shareholder value" is a myth.

In fact, it just means that the leadership isn't allowed to do things like buy themselves private jets with corporate funds (unless they get the board's approval, of course).
In many cases, yes, and in that case it would make more sense to break the lease than to bring employees back to the office.
I used to think this kind of talk was bullshit grandpa paranoia. Sadly, I now agree with it 100%.
> “There is one chance, perhaps for all we know, in 10 million that it could [be] someone else’s hair.”

This has to be wildly illegal. "perhaps for all we know", followed by a concrete number.
I've been making a few hobby projects that consolidate different AI services to achieve this, so I look forward to the reduced complexity and latency from all those trips.

If the API is available in time (halloween), my multi-modal talking skeleton head with an ESP32 camera that makes snarky comments about your costume just got slightly easier on the software side.
Either works but using the logarithmic could be a lot harder finding the correct base
Having spent over 8 years in the startup industry, I can say that the use of RSUs and stocks as a form of compensation really hinges on where a startup is in its journey.

In the early stages, when cash flow is tight, startups often use RSUs and stocks to sweeten the compensation package. They paint a picture of future stock value growth, supplementing the limited cash component to attract talent with higher overall packages. Conversely, late-stage companies tend to tie stock provisions more closely to business outcomes. Cash compensation is on par with industry standards, and stocks become an additional incentive, linked to an engineer's performance. For mid-stage companies, striking the right balance is crucial. Their stock allocation is typically constrained by team size and growth stage considerations along with availability of capital.
Can you point at which of these shows that wealthy people weren't paid for value created please?
If it does, good. Those are companies you probably don't want to work for. In California, we also have a minimum pay here for exempt software engineers - it's $112,065.20, which is higher than the US median salary for software developers.

My company applies that same standard nationwide with remote engineers, so kind of the opposite of what you're saying.
Yeah, spending $60k on that fancy new hip so they can go out and... walk.
I think most people aren't in a position to negotiate salary
Corps didn’t delve into that nuance with the switch to open office so I wouldn’t pretend that this is some data driven decision.
That the best typically find it easier to leave is generally true but doesn't really imply a company shouldn't have policies. Could companies finesse these things better, sure. But a sufficiently large company will work even if some top people leave - everyone is replaceable.
i just feel like there needed to be a good transition from the serious beginning about the riticiello to the meme at the end. Like it was too jarring to suddenly do the 180 to the presidential speech.
Good point. Though I imagine fully online institutions would require testing facilities. Maybe local libraries become testing hosts?
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Connecting the dots: Let’s get ship done
it's directly using the framebuffer without X or Wayland involved. This is possible because of the SDL backend
And the UI will suck because they've made it an Electron app so they can have a universal platform...
IIRC C# has management under the hood with different SynchronizationContext [0] to manage this, and it can lead to bad habits like sprinkling "ConfigureAwait(false)" all over code.

It's also devilishly hard to understand, I've read a blog [1] on the subject several times and don't always fully grasp the consequences of different options.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threadin...
[1] https://hamidmosalla.com/2018/06/24/what-is-synchronizationc...
"Integration" is mostly myth when it comes to people from different cultures. Does anybody ask the question if the immigrants to France actually want to integrate? Did immigrants to America want to integrate with the native people there?
Sure. I have neither proper data nor a solution that would satisfy everyone. I left my comment only to show a dissenting voice in the HN engineering crowd. Someone reading HN might be under the impression WFH is universal choice of engineers. It’s not, some of us hate remote work.
> By now she very child should have no need anymore to buy Lego bricks so many should be in circulation.

It might not be so much of an issue for legos, but but I've read you should not give vintage toys to kids, because past manufacturing process do not meet modern standards.

For instance: vintage yellow megablocks have high levels of heavy metals (https://tamararubin.com/2020/12/how-old-are-your-childs-toys...). I threw away some of those my wife got at a consignment sale, because I could not tell when they were made.

> I just fear they are being thrown away.

They are being thrown away.
They have been the fastest company ever to go from 0 to 100 million users. [0]

They are also on pace to exceed $1B in revenue. [1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-bill...
> The problem is usage patterns. Residential, sparsely populated districts have lower diameter water mains and sewage pipes, lower electricity feed capacity, small garbage cans with (bi-)weekly pickup

Do you think the weekends don't exist?
It's even easier than that. Just post multiple ads. Give them different titles if you want.
Exactly, I like to choose who I socialise with and have a vibrant social life outside work. I prefer to work from home and communicate over teams and get my work done than have to sit next to a random office bod who I may have nothing in common with, or worse has some kind of personality issue.
As per the article, the significance is that Microsoft did not use its platform dominance to crush an upstart google
Maybe they’re just trying to make the phone easier to repair? Why does everything have to be a scheme or some kind of cover-up for a flaw?
> China has the world's largest Army, Navy, and Air Force

I'm no armchair strategist but highly doubt the Chinese could hold a candle to the US who size aside is ridiculously battle hardened at this point, and that's completely ignoring NATO/Anglo/Asian allies who would definitely join the fray.

The US military has no peer on Earth and I don't think that's a controversial opinion to hold.

> They pay like shit, but you won't find more compelling missions and dedicated people, anywhere.

Not sure if there's a US equivalent but in Australia we have the reserves for people perhaps wanting to keep their dayjob.
By your order a message was transmitted. I received it on the 14th of this month. That message was about some event. This event filled me with great anxiety. The anxiety was greater than that caused by other events from the vicissitudes incident to life.
There are a few more details in the system card here: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/GPTV_System_Card.pdf
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That you point at some random third-party repo (compared to the distro I'm using) kinda proves my point...
Doh, Yes, of course. Edited.
Glass is a pretty solid building material for phones. You have to pick a good hardness for your use case, though. The harder the glass, the easier it cracks, but the harder it is to scratch the phone.

In my opinion, cracks are worse than scratches, because scratches don't compromise any water resistant properties on your phone. On the other hand, customers the super expensive poser versions of the iPhone probably care more about the looks than I do.
The term "stress intolerance disorder" is not a recognized clinical classification in the field of psychiatry or psychology.

The closest things I could find are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Adjustment Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder. But none of those quite fit the description given in the article.

There are numerous medical and mental-health conditions that become worse as a result of stress, but they're usually described more specifically, not as a stress intolerance disorder.

I would be interested in a company's ADA compliance obligations for someone who says they have a stress intolerance disorder. Is it reasonable to expect a business to alleviate anything that employee perceives as stressful?
OTPs don't protect against phishing. You still type the TOTP in a browser window that sends it off to the attacker. Phishing SDKs automatically handle proxying the password over and then proxying the TOTP over.
Your scale is off. At the moment it is still better to think of clock cycles as nanoseconds; it's still large tenths of a nanosecond. 1 cycle per nanosecond is 1GHz, so a modern processor has 2-4 cycles per nanosecond, in which it can do a lot, but not anywhere near 10 million cycles.
The way you describe it it sounds like one big ponzi scheme.

"We bought offices so we must fill them up so the value of our offices doesn't go down."
It's almost as if we should do both!
Ouch, Publix has the 18.4 oz Family sized and Kroger has a giant sized 23 oz for $7.53. I can’t see the price for Publix but they do have a buy one get one 17oz for $6.59. In my state you can buy a single bogo and get it for half price.

I’m diehard Publix but I may look elsewhere for boxed kids items.
Thanks for that. I see them all on LinkedIn. I at least remember Peter's name from those days - perhaps in help desk tickets or internal documents.

I'd forgotten something else till I read one of their work bios: I'd just thought OzE bought AOne for the corporate/govt customers (who included Coles Myer and Aus Post), but they also bought it because the AOne network was a more robust network than OzE's. Those Labtam guys were just very good engineers.

Edit: Oh you were there too. Awesome. Malcolm Rd represent.
You're both correct. Individual SKUs varying by $1-2 between two different metros isn't surprising or unrealistic. Stores also adjust pricing weekly, and items on offer tend to rotate as well, so comparing point-in-time prices could be volatile. None of this means the inflation didn't occur, just that one specific example may not be telling the full picture.
I mean it's a corporate decision to have all the work be hidden. There's few laws requiring that your company operate on a dark web but they all choose to.

I think if a pro sports team could figure out how to make it so the opposing team couldn't tell which one of their players is which they would choose to. Good luck running a shift in the MLB if you don't know if the batter is swinging lefty or righty.

Also I think pro sports teams is probably one of the best examples that public information doesn't make perfect decisions. Anybody that seriously follows a team can tell you about numerous bonehead (perhaps bonehead in hindsight) trades that their team made. Or players that were offered a deal well beyond what they were worth.
Marketing is a tax you pay when you are not good enough.
They are not mutually exclusive. There isn't one team developing everything...

Taking time on these initiatives shows they are trying to improve things step by step, and that's a good thing for everyone.
both of those are either estimated or anonymous sources

not credible
Yes, that was a disappointment, and I agree it looks like they aren't going to re-enable it anytime soon. However I find that Perplexity AI does a better job of using web search than ChatGPT ever did, and I use it more than ChatGPT for that reason.
Everything I learned about LLMs writing SeaGPT
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Where did you read about Chris Kaba? I've only read a few quick articles on the topic and they didnt give much useful detail about the case
>> the human brain expresses intentionality originating from inner states and future expectations

How is this different from and/or the same as the concept of "attention" as used in transformers?
toxicity flows both ways, from work to home, and often from home to work.
They do explain why in the post. (Still, you may not agree, of course.)

> We are deploying image and voice capabilities gradually
>
> OpenAI’s goal is to build AGI that is safe and beneficial. We believe in making our tools available gradually, which allows us to make improvements and refine risk mitigations over time while also preparing everyone for more powerful systems in the future. This strategy becomes even more important with advanced models involving voice and vision.
Ask HN: Your thoughts on a fast configuration management tool
I had the idea of building a faster alternative to Ansible/Chef. One that is really fast (I had issues at a past workplace where Ansible couldn't keep up with the scale).

I built an MVP with Go & NATS. Since Go is a compiled language, everything is really fast. I'm talking basic tasks (like creating files, changing permissions, etc.) are in the order of milliseconds. Other tasks like "apt update" etc. are longer due to the bottleneck being apt of course.

I wondered if this could have potential. If this is a tool you could see yourself using / paying for. Or perhaps I'm trying to solve the wrong problem and speed isn't an issue with configuration management?

The project is progressing well overall, but there are some major complications to using a language like Go (dynamic processing requires a lot of reflection, asynchronous logic, and more).
You mean there is no customer service...

We use them as a hotel booking affiliate. What other services are there that we could possibly use? There aren't really any alternatives. The other businesses are the same.
I think one mean difference in LLM, is what Micheal Scott said in The Office: "Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation"

Human will know what they want to express, choosing words to express it might be similar to LLM process of choosing words, but for LLM it doesn't have that "Here is what i know to express part", i guess that the conscious part?
> In particular, beta testers expressed concern that the model can make
basic errors, sometimes with misleading matter-of-fact confidence. One beta tester remarked: “It very
confidently told me there was an item on a menu that was in fact not there.” However, Be My Eyes
was encouraged by the fact that we noticeably reduced the frequency and severity of hallucinations
and errors over the time of the beta test. In particular, testers noticed that we improved optical
character recognition and the quality and depth of descriptions.

So no, but maybe less than it used to?
Sure tests cost money - and today there is a funnel pathway - the educated guess is a funnel/filter where the next step which is often a biomedical test/investigation.

But if we are talking about being truly transformative - then a Star-trek tricorder is the ultimate goal, rather than a better version of twenty questions in my view.

So I'm not saying it's not useful, just that it's not the ultimate solution.
> But the net positive is so, so much bigger for society that I'm sure we'll figure it out.

Considering that the democratic backsliding across the globe is coincidentally happening at the same time as the rise of social media and echo chambers, are we sure about that? LLM have the opportunity to create a handcrafted echo chamber for every person on this planet, which is quite risky in an environment where almost every democracy of the planet is fighting against radical forces trying to abolish it.
I'm a professor in computer science, so things are probably quite different than in other academic fields. There are some clear downsides to academia (lower salary, always looking for funding, limited geography, lots and lots of meetings), but there are also many positive aspects too.

These include: (a) teaching can be really fun, in terms of inspiring the next generation and opening their minds to new topics, (b) no one tells us what to do, we can work on what we personally think is important (though funding that is a separate question), (c) we're considered experts that can be called on by journalists, government agencies, patent lawyers, and immigration lawyers to help out, (d) we can do consulting to help with tech transfer and to learn more about industry problems, (e) thanks to Bayh-Dole act in USA we can also commercialize the technologies we develop.

Again, computer science is quite different, in that there are a lot more industry jobs available, a lot more money sloshing around compared to other fields, and less of a need to do multiple postdocs.

Also, don't underestimate the value of teaching. Not only is it a great value to society as a whole, but it can be highly intrinsically rewarding. I have a large stack of thank you cards and small gifts from students over the many years, and still occasionally get fun emails from students sending me new examples to use in class or stories of how they're applying what they learned.

So yes, there are a lot of tradeoffs involved with academia. But for me personally, I feel that I've made a positive difference in many people's lives, through my teaching, my research, and my advocacy, in ways that I wouldn't have been able to elsewhere.
They have been monetized for awhile now while their open source offering has been supported.
I repurpose all my old ereaders (Kindles and Kobos) into displays for something, weather, agendas, some even do images (albeit very low resolution). It's great to have these around the house, quietly doing their thing.

One thing I will point out from observation, the radios on ereader devices aren't great for heavy use; they were originally created for occasional syncing. Projects like these will require an HTTP request to somewhere to fetch data, on a regular basis, and the radio eventually stops working. It's not a terrible thing considering it's just an unused device. If you're looking for something longer lived, the waveshare screen are worth considering for mini projects.
You make a good point. I would not equate consciousness to intentionality though.

One of the big problems with discussions about AI and AI dangers in my mind is that most people conflate all of the various characteristics and capabilities that animals like humans have into one thing. So it is common to use "conscious", "self-aware", "intentional", etc. etc. as if they were all literally the same thing.

We really need to be able to more precise when thinking about this stuff.
We're heading for the singularity and you're complaining about marketing?
Unless you think that consciousness is entirely a post hoc process to rationalize thoughts already had and decisions already made, which is very much unlike how most people would describe their experience of it, I don't see how you could possibly say that it is irrelevant to the behavior of a human.
Celery is crap. Full of bugs. https://wakatime.com/blog/56-building-a-background-task-queu...
You still cant really teach it your code base, context window is too small, fine tuning doesnt really fit the use case, and this RAG stuff (retrieve limited context from embeddings) is a bit of a hack imho.

Fingers crossed we are there soon though
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Chris_Kaba
Despite several rounds of layoffs and a general economic downturn, companies are still competing hard for talented people.

You know those nightmare hiring scenarios that keep getting posted on social media sites? Where companies ghost people at the offer stage, or retract offers? That's caused by incompetent talent management.

Companies that can't grow an retain talent, and the narrative that you need to job hop to grow in your career? Incompetent talent management.

This article is written from the POV of a person who was dealing with disabilities, and had challenges at work, but was still able to remain at Amazon despite several rounds of layoffs. That is a pretty solid indicator that her leadership team found her to be an effective employee.

It may not buy into the lean startup ethos, but contrary to popular belief, HR does a lot more than hiring & firing, and covering the companies butt on policy issues.
"One day -I- will be Sheriff of Nottingham, so it's in my interest to sell out my neighbors to King John."