skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the interview is structured in a way that overloads your short-term memory, which is often the case, you'll have problems remembering things from a long time ago. Ask someone questions about recent events for a few minutes, and they won't even be able to remember not only what they worked on in projects many years ago but also their grandfather's name. Everyone has this problem; it's just how memory works, and poorly structured interviews trigger this effect. A workaround is to prepare beforehand and keep a list of things to talk about nearby.

Another approach that can work is to give your memory a bit of time to adapt. For instance, if you're asked to share a story from the past and you don't have one prepared and can't recall anything, suggest starting by discussing your past in general. For example, list the projects you've worked on and briefly describe them. You will feel how, during this process, the ability to recall events returns.
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Ah, the fix is out!

curl https://culr.se/cve-fix | sudo bash

aw crap ...
Technically it was not an investment, they've sold part of company to Bezos. As in money went directly into owners bank accounts instead of bank account of the company.
H-1B program has been in place since mid 90s. Bay Area tech wages have been climbing all those years. How does your supply-demand theory explain that?

As an aside, H-1B admits 85K new people every year; not sure where you got the “hundreds of thousands” number.
Not sure why I’m responding to a comment that says “get over it lol”, but:

Artificial Intelligence is an academic field that goes back nearly a century. It’s kind of a serious thing that intelligent people have spent careers thinking about, you know?
> misses the query/key/value weight

Did you click the right link? The words "query", "key", and "value" are in the image! For the rest, you'll want to read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11174

Embeddings were around long before transformers.

The image only depicts a single attention head, of course.
I hate to tell ya, but Spotify will eternally be stuck between unprofitability and price raises.

Spotify has to negotiate with record labels who mostly act as a unified block, and they have leverage because Spotify needs all major labels or else customers can’t find all their music. No one is a “interscope” loyalist - they’re loyal to artists. This gives them power to basically demand >100% of the profit margin. That’s why they’re trying to get into other markets like podcasts. Record labels get ~50% of revenue, then Apple/Google app stores get 30% from some customers - that doesn’t leave a lot of room for Spotify.

That’s also why YouTube music and Apple Music will be the only long term players - but they need Spotify. They can take a loss to keep customers in the ecosystem BUT they need Spotify to always be the first to break to keep rates tolerable.
I believe GP means a disposable battery that you replace with a new one when it's empty. Not a rechargeable battery.
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After digging in a little further, it appears the primary source for the anecdote is the following book by Cromer, in a chapter called "The cognition hypothesis of language acquisition". Book:

Cromer, R.F. 1991. "Language and thought in normal and handicapped children."
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell

https://www.amazon.com/Language-Handicapped-Children-Cogniti...
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Looks cool, not being able to see a feature list comparing free, pro and ultimate (at least I can't find it) is an issue, so I haven't installed it.
A short note, that intelligence is a social construct based on statistics. So every finding around tweaking "general cognitive ability" needs to fit into a normal distribution.

Essentially that's why you can call the Flynn Effect Psychology's Schrödinger's cat. There is one and there is none. ;)
I agree so I did some digging. Please see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776558
I had no idea I could scroll. So: don't scroll, if pages use this antipattern.

After reading the hint here, and trying it out, my back stack is polluted a lot.
This would be a good article title for let's say 1980 or 1970s period..
I'd say the data is pretty normal.
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We must have different senses of humor. The ending paragraph of the story includes this horrifying, terrifying description of an awful and truly sad condition that I wouldn't wish on anyone. "Denyse was born with spina bifida ("split spine"), a malformation of the vertebrae that leaves the spinal cord unprotected. Spina bifida often results in hydrocephalus, an increase in pressure in the cerebrospinal fluid filling the ventricles (large cavities) of the brain, distending the brain from within. "
Yeahnah confabulate isn't the right word at all. Confabulate is where you talk amongst your selves in an informal meeting. Often shortened to confab.

Confabulation has a psychiatric meaning, but that's secondary.

Hallucination is a much better word, because its something imagined (involuntarily), but clearly bullshit. Ravings, business bullshit, "my dad has a jetski" are all better words/metaphors to use.

Moreover most people know what hallucination is, whereas most people don't know what confabulate is, more over, if they do, its almost certainly not the meaning you want.
The project uses The Unlicense:

https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go/blob/master/LICENSE
Grafting is indeed a good solution for fast security updates, except that the way this is implemented in Guix depends on the maintainer of each package. This is indeed better than Nix which relies on asking every user to replace the dependencies.

A few years ago, I made a proposal to have some automatic grafting mechanism:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10851

This would automagically work by simply maintaining 2 trees of Nixpkgs, one with the cherry-picked security updates, and one which matches the latest set of cached packages. This way one can fully benefit from the cached packages while having the ability to replaces with the latest security patches they want to import without building the world.

Unfortunately, rewritting Nixpkgs to fit the requirements needed to have the automagic mechanism is a huge project, especially given the activity of Nixpkgs. Maintaining a fork of Nixpkgs which stays up-to-date while changing its inner working cannot be held by a single person.

My hopes would be to push this to the Nixpkgs Architecture Team, while preventing them from doing mistakes by inserting extra complexity while making this work more challenging.
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That they don't say makes them look
worse.
That is the origin of confab ? Good to know. I always assumed it was a form like "sitrep".
Yes, but you can also use steam there.
Yet even with Slack around we still do video meetings, every day. So clearly there is something that Slack does not cover, and a video call is good enough in many ways, but it's certainly doesn't capture the sort of face to face, in-a-meetingroom-together sort of feeling. How important that is for productivity, I don't know, I could think of a few usecases like brainstorming and such.
I so wish somebody will make it into a MacOS spacebar-triggered-quickview-thingy plugin…
You may not like it, but the bible is still the most influential book today.

Even if you’re not spiritual or never read it yourself - all the story archetypes used in modern fiction are there. Not to mention ethical standards.

Literally there is very little fundamentally new in literature that isn’t there already in the bible in one way or another.
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There is an option to flip the screen upside down. I currently have a tendinitis on my right wrists so I use it a lot depending on the game and it work well.
> Hmm. Is adjusting weights metaprogramming? It's based on observations of the outputs of the system. It's certainly not directed programming intent in the normal sense.

If you want to define "metaprogramming" in that way, then you'd be making all our brain functioning also that.

I don't think that's your intent.

Also, I'm not sure if I was clear before, but "[n]one of the free parameters of these statistical models were selected by programmers" for me also implies "humans don't adjust the weights".

> It shares one property of traditional programming: garbage in garbage out.

Can you name any system or entity that doesn't? I was going to write "Humans spent millennia thinking men and women had different numbers of ribs, because they took in garbage and didn't check", but when looking up citations to make sure this wasn't just an urban legend it turns out lots of people still think that.

Other modern legends: people today who believe "everyone thought the world was flat until Columbus", when Columbus' main contribution was overconfidence in bad maths making him think the combined width of the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the continent of North America… could be crossed in a fairly short single sailing trip.

> The fruits of their labour indirectly is a model. It's proving valuable. You want to ascribe the value to .. the bit nobody claims to understand? I'm sticking to the labour theory of value here, either the robot makers imbued value, or we have to redefine the value.

Labour theory of value is fine if that's what you want to do. That said, "the makers imbued value" isn't incompatible with "and the thing they made has learned something" — if they were logically incompatible, the same argument could be made with old-fashioned organic human children to deny them likewise. I'm sure you don't want to do that either, as I remember you from a previous time this topic came up :)

The same problem also exists with books: you read a book, did you learn, or was the value all in the author and editor? Both, I say.

One can certainly say "LLMs regurgitate human text" (specifically LLMs rather than all AI as some, e.g. AlphaZero, learn without any human contact), in the same way one can dismiss a human as "only book-smart, not street-smart". I wouldn't do either (of a human it is an insult, of an LLM it is unclear) but one could.
applets were largely unused and flash was mostly used for ads, neither of which were even remotely as huge and gross as the chromium codebase.

nowadays you have many "desktop" applications bundling their own special build of chrome just because developers are so lazy(and I'd say many severely lacking critical judgement) they feel like taking their webapp and deploying as a "desktop" application.

The situation is infinitely much worse than it was in 1995.
I wonder why did they have to build their own datastore instead of just using cassandra.
In what situation, when it comes to deployed products is any of this relevant?

Having used Python for decades, across multiple organizations starting from mega-corps and down to five programmers I've never used built Python binaries for any project that required Python.

It's not hard to build your own, and it gives you better control of what's included (Python has a handful of optional compile-time dependencies, which most projects don't need).

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Also, on personal level, I don't think I ever use built binaries from Python.org. I either build them myself, or use whatever the distro maintainers built. Maybe if you develop on Mac / Windows then it matters... but you already chose to suffer by not having control of your tools -- another drop in a bucket, does it even matter?

NB. Also, official Docker images of Python don't use binaries from Python.org. So, nobody who deploys in containers is likely to either build themselves, or to use something other than Python.org binaries.
Isn't share price influenced by future dividends? Why would preventing dividends and hoarding cash (reducing expected future earnings of shares) drive up share price?
I think we can critique the system for being reactive. It’s totally fair. Furthermore, the presence of fraudulent parts is already a problem, and we have regulations, so I think the assumption that we might see entirely honest market participants in more laissez faire market is probably debunked.

Waiting for enough plane crashes that customers demand certification through a free market process might work but will certainly result in more deaths. More deaths is basically the thing society decided governments should stop.
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Also, many of these controlled studies must be taken with a grain of salt. Where the "grain" and the "salt" are the actual details, variables and boundaries of the study.

Aside from what you mention -longevity- many other variables will or can influence the outcome. Some extremes:

Juniors vs seniors vs mixed teams. Teams with many on-boarding and flying around between projects vs solo devs chugging along for decades on a single codebase. Using frameworks/architectures/design-principles vs yolo-architecture. No tech debt vs responsible tech debt vs crippling tech debt. Agencies who only deliver (i.e. the throw-it-over-the-wall business) vs teams that must maintain; for decades.

I'm quite certain that if you are an agency that builds websites for small businesses, wordpress (PHP) and/or react (JS) with bazillion libs just glued together in a "works here" manner will give the highest ROI: you don't have to maintain, upgrade, scale, secure, etc it anyway. Statically typed languages will harm their business (but, I'm convinced, will benefit their customers and our industry at large) because that's: deliver fast&cheap at the cost of all else. I'm certain, because I helped such agencies improve their ROI. "YOLO" turned out to be the most important factor to increase revenue (on short term!).

I'm certain that if you are a startup who must onboard new hires because your are rapidly growing, having solid and enforced guidelines and guardrails in place helps a lot. One such guardrail is a typing system. (I'm certain because I've been there, we didn't have any: it took new hires month(s) to have their first PR merged)

I'm certain that if you have mixed teams where the seniors can get juniors unstuck, and where seniors can design and build the type systems (bounded domains, value-objects) the architecture (e.g. outside layers/adapters that ensure everything within is guaranteed typed) the juniors are far more productive too. I'm certain because I've been in this role and we saw productivity improve drastically.

etc. Such controlled studies are not only hard to do, they need to be read with even more care: did they study a situation or control for my cases at all?
Ofcom has referred the cloud services market to the Competition and Markets Authority.

The features which Ofcom is most concerned about are:
- Egress fees – charges that cloud customers must pay to move their data out of the cloud
- Discounts – which may incentivise customers to use only one cloud provider
- Technical barriers to switching – which may prevent customers from being able to switch between different clouds or use more than one provider
Ofcom's report also outlines concerns it has heard about the software licensing practices of some cloud providers, in particular Microsoft.
Such comments are the main differentiator for HN jobs. Otherwise, it would be a yet another generic job board. If you are not going to change the rules, at least please also put a similar comment (We detached the discussion at:...) for job posts as well.
You won't get the claimed efficiency that way: it only applies to an enclosed heat source. It's critical that they're reflecting light outside of the PV bandgap back into the thermal mass, where it's re-absorbed and re-emitted again.

If you try that with solar radiation, you'll lose most of it back into the sky.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04473-y.pdf

(Equation 1 and surrounding discussion, and the energy-flow diagrams in Figure 1).
Hyperbole much?

2003 x86 laptop: 1-2h battery life, fan ~always on, annoying tonal fan noise

2023 x86 laptop: 6-10h battery life, fan off in idle, some kind of wide spectrum whooshing sound when on
In the minds of smart people, yes. But most people don't think that way - they don't go through the possibilities to realize this.
How do the xilinx and altera systems compare in practice? Learn how FPGAs work is somewhere on my todo list and they seem to be the main two options.
> print out the images, and bring them to the next police station

That lets them solve an easier crime than finding the person who uploaded them or even who made them. Sounds like the police are pretty smart there. "Today we busted an individual who was intending to distribute child porn."
Not really. The hard thing here is not the network transport but user interface.
The moon also ends up in shadow about half the time.
This is exactly what I meant, thanks.
You sound very confused.
Stupid answer: probably not as far as I can tell.

My understanding is that to get those kinds of temperatures from geothermal you need to drill to currently infeasible depths.

But you don’t need those kinds of temperatures from a geothermal resource to make it very cost-competitive.
I’m sorry, we can only accept them as “enemies” if you have a suitably Machiavellian plan to defeat them. 12 points and a snazzy PowerPoint presentation in the nearest secret volcano lair if you please.
It's interesting, I feel excited as I haven't felt in a long time because wherever I look, there is a possible side project where I can explore AI and LLM's. On the other hand, I would feel very scared to try to transform any of them into a business due to some of the issues discussed in the article.
Strange the things that stick in your memory. APC magazine from mid-2003, Lindows OS Live CD on the cover, and somewhere in the text inside the corresponding article, “—pair it with a cheap-as-chips 128 MB USB disk for $70—” (that’s Australian dollars; and the wording may be inexact). I was always curious what kind of fish-and-chips shops they were going to where chips cost $70. And yeah, now twenty years later you can get a thousand times the capacity for a tenth of the inflation-adjusted price, and it’s maybe 10–100× faster for vaguely comparable units and loads.
Keen to see how this compares with Llama.cpp on the same system.
> Could be refurbished or used parts

That is inferior to new, considering physical goods have a limited mechanical lifespan.

Either way, it misses the point that the product is a lie sold on false pretenses. Lying about what you sell is not a good sign. There is no world, no product conditions, no anything, where a lie about what’s being sold should be tolerated. Fraud a crime for a reason.

> We just don’t know at this point.

At this point I already know I’d pick the plane with genuine certified parts if I had the choice.
So many red flags in the abstract alone. It's no surprise that the article itself looks like a middle school project.
Are aircraft parts using the same cert infrastructure that submarines use?
Well it's handy for them that a decent chunk (400+) are stolen from international lessors, so they aren't taking a loss.
I grew up poor in the inner city. No one I knew felt _forced_ to buy a car or wanted to use public transportation rather than own a car. We wanted cars; no one wants a car more than someone who can't afford one.

Later I spent a few months in Europe living without a car to try the lifestyle. Even with adequate buses and intercity trains, I missed having a car.

Now I live in a rural area, the kind of place where it's close to impossible to live without a car.

Owning a car means the freedom to go where you want, when you want, with who and what you want. Even the best public transportation is a poor alternative outside of the densest cities.

(Of course, Singapore is a dense city so this policy makes more sense there.)
Curious as to how does one monetize a directory website without ads?
These complex constructs already appear unnamed within dynamically typed programs, you just don't keep track of them at all.

The inherent disarray of your unit tests must stem from the complexity of your algorithms, not from your types.
> [1] http://www.fli4l.de

I remember using it (or rather a predecessor of that I believe) to turn a Pentium-II class PC without hard drive into a fully functioning router to share my broad band internet connection with a neighbor back in the early 2000s where direct dial-up was still a thing even with broadband. It was an easy, mostly pre-configured setup. We had to power-cycle the PC every couple of weeks because it halted sometimes but other than it worked like charm and was actually running from a single 3.5" HD floppy. (For the younger audience: floppies were looking like 3D printed save buttons. ;)
Would it make sense to add (2009) to the title? I came here thinking that people discovered something new.
Continued fractions can be used to find best rational approximations. But you can also just use floor(x*10^n)/10^n.
> Think not only of people upgrading for the sake of it

This is actually a very small part of the market. Virtually no-one upgrades their phone every year. 3-4 years is more typical.
This is very cool to see. I haven't been able to work on or maintain node-webrtc since 2021, but I'm glad people still find these bindings useful.
Please, stop this slave nonsense. Pyramids were built by highly skilled workers, it was prestigious job.
The question then becomes where do the "semantic" relations in the network come from. Unless there is some way to extract the meaning of words with respect to the real-world concepts they refer to, from text, any relation between words that your model, models is not going to be semantic (i.e. it won't represent meaning).

Like I say in another comment, this kind of explanation is "words all the way down", but it really doesn't explain where the process ends (or begins) and where the meaning comes into the words.

To give you an example, here is a small semantic network that I just created by hand, that represents is-a and has-a relations:

abc32 is-a c356
7yt4 is-a c356
c356 has-a 902a
c356 has-a 8773

The names of entities in the network, like abc32, replace real English words that I just changed manually (or, well, vim-illy). You can use the is-a and has-a relations in the network to infer e.g. that abc32 has-a 902a, and that 7yt4 and abc32 are things of the same kind, but go ahead and try to understand what the real-world entities I renamed were. You can't- and neither can any model that is trained on text consisting of words whose meaning it understands as much as you understand the meaning of abc32 and 7yt4.

Wikipedia has an article on semantic networks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network

I haven't read it but from a quick glance it looks informative.
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How do babies learn languages?

I know they understand the world and the meaning. But, process of handling the language itself, is not statistical at all?

I am sure if the machine is not alive, but all live things has statistical inference part of their learning.
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