skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the record I’ll say the average person interviews below their ability and if you can interview at your ability you are practically doing better than your ability.

This might look a little “scammy” but I’ll vouch that Bob Firestone changed my viewpoint of job interviews completely

https://job-interview-answers.com/

His course took me from being terrified of job interviews to being willing to do them for fun or just to find out what is going on in an organization.

There is another approach to interviewing where you look at it as a flawed process (it’s like they are trying to reject people instead of hire people) and try to subvert it in a gentle way. There are quite a few ways to do this but one of the best is to put on the mindset of a consultant and try to help with the problem the company has right there in the interview, that is, you ask questions to that end every chance you can get like a coiled spring.

Now that doesn’t work in a FAANG company because the people who designed these processes are looking for round pegs to go into round holes and know that a person with highly developed narcissism can cheat their way around that kind of organization so the highly structured interview process prevents anyone from exploiting “weak points”. (Once a narcissist gets in they will wield OKRs, stack ranking and similar practices as a weapon against anyone; a person who can convince their superiors that their glass is half full and yours is half empty will rise quickly to the top which is why having a founder as CEO is actually healthy for that kind of organization.)

The good news is that most employers aren’t FAANGs. The bad news is that a FAANG history is not going to help you succeed anywhere, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308

for a basic criticism of that kind of environment and why being a senior in that organization qualifies you as a junior in any other organization. So in some way you are going to have to accept a step down and some crawling back up.

Good luck!
What they will get for $100/hour is a highly skilled, experienced, hard-working, and deeply corrupt freelance sysadmin who will take them for almost as much as the ransomware mob did.

The people running this casino don't seem all that bright. Unless that ad was a joke, in which case I guess I shouldn't be talking...
When allocators are hoarding your precious memory (2021)
I still use Xitter for cross-posting tiktoks. Why not? I don't engage.
Yes.

Though, to me it seems that the article's explanation is the ELI5 of your equation, not the other way around...
I don’t think Stable Diffusion is made to produce statistically accurate depictions of groups. Asking for a judge 300 times won’t give you 34% female judge images, it will give you individual photos of the demographic most likely to be a judge, which is white male. I do agree this statistically results in exaggerated stereotypes though, I just don’t know how you would get generative images to produce while remembering what they’ve produced in the past and making it representative of the whole population of inputted images.
It's darkening the public usage, the private channels for research and communication will become disproportionately more valuable.

It's odd not to see Google or Meta try and make a copyright strike system for written text. Copy and paste LLMs are driving people away from google's ad bucks, filling FB with junk. I guess 'the web' is no longer worth defending, de facto.
If anything it gives a quantifiable lens into what everyone perceives based on media and validated by their own experience

What is the goal of this observation? Patch it for “representation” to inspire toddlers?
> I think most attempts to arrive at an answer will end up somewhere between half and virtually all of them being "not very close" (~ light-minutes) away

Mean free path of free neutrons moving past normal matter is only in the order of centimetres, exactly how many centimetres depends on the neutron energy and the specific nuclei it's interacting with, but still order of centimetres.

Given the relative masses, I can assume the air above will be exploded out of the way; but the half going down will have all of the earth as a moderator… and also serve as a neutron-absorbing backstop that will probably increase the actual yield.

I'm also ignoring any binding energy between the neutrons. I'm basically treating them as disconnected from the first moment, which may be a terrible idea, but AFAIK nobody actually knows how long a macroscopic combination of this scale would remain stable for.
Many years ago, I worked for a fortune 500 company that did billions in revenue. I was literally one of two DBAs for the entire company. Yes, we did have a revolving door of contractors and a team of "DBAs" in India. Did I ever let them touch production? No.

I tasked them with monitoring and dealing with all the non prod environments. You have to realize in a big corp there are an infinite number of ways for things to fall apart. Much of it beyond your control. My goal was to minimize the blast radius.

One time I took vacation for the first time in years. When I came back I was blamed for an outage while I was on holiday. Their reasoning was that they didn’t push any new code into production so it must be the database’s fault. After a day of troubleshooting, I learned the application code was not using a framework like Microsoft Linq to read the SQL output but was reading it raw. I also learned that the Windows admin had been pushing Windows updates into the servers. The issue was that a Windows update (not a SQL Server update) changed how timestamps were recorded. It was beyond stupid. Instead of yyyymmdd hhmmss like the application expected. It was now yyyymmdd hhmmss timezoneoffset +- hh. They now had some weird hour offset and the actual values changed. To fix the issue the windows update was rolled back. And the Windows admins were told never to touch the database servers without my permission. And the application was rewritten.
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I was just thinking the inference cost could be reduced by making hardware with less error correction in specific areas to get higher density, and let the NN work around the limitations.
Windows 11 has two features that I appreciate enough to hesitate going back to 10, specifically AtlasOS.

The first being auto-HDR. I don’t have to manually switch my displays to HDR when I launch a 3D game with HDR support, and I don’t have to have the awful always on HDR on my desktop.

The second being Windows 11 remembering window position when you disconnect and reconnect monitors. It’s great being able to take my laptop off the dock with two monitors, then bring it back and my windows go back to where they were in each display. Windows 10 just puts them all on the primary display.
> Passing arbitrary strings to bash as root? It's about passing arbitrary arguments to logrotate.

No it's not; you are just exploiting bash's argument expansion in a badly written script you wrote to feed some additional shell stuff to bash /after/ the logrotate command. You could have done this as easily with 'sudo /bin/false' in there. Yes, you made logrotate do some things, but that's just a red herring in this case. The entire security issue is with the dumb bash script; it has nothing to do with anything else.

Nothing in ubuntu's documentation anywhere tells you to "use this insecure bash script" to restrict a user to running a single command. It doesn't tell you to give global passwordless sudo privileges to the user that you want to do this either. Your configuration is cobbled from suggestions you found online and proceeded to implement incompletely/poorly.
The F35 program is really blown out of proportion. Yes it is easy to criticize and point to many mistakes, but the fact is that virtually every next generation fighter project is a colossal management nightmare. I find it somewhat confusing that the F22 is universally beloved yet it is arguably a failure of sorts (limited production run, few prospects for its future).

Honestly I feel like the F35 is a target in the “information warfare” space. While the project is not above criticism, China/Russia/etc have every reason to promote animosity towards the project.
>> You can call it dangerous but you can’t call it useless. It’s also only going towards improvement from here, including drastic reductions in hallucinations.

> Why?

A pseudo-religious belief in progress, especially the technological kind.

It's bullshit. If it were true, 2022 pre-LLM Google would have been better than 2010-era Google, but it most definitely wasn't. Consumer printer technology, for the most part, has been getting worse for decades at this point.
Vertical integration is already under scrutiny by the antitrust folks. Even more so now after everything Google was able to get away with.

OpenAI wanting to vertically merge to make their own AI chips may seem harmless enough (it's a good business move, we can cut expenses)! But we can't forget that Sam Altman just a few months ago told Congress he supports making an organization that companies need permission from to being creating/utilizing advanced AI systems. And he's such a kind man he's willing to lead that organization himself.

Obviously someone integrating the chips to train AI, and having the ability to approve/deny his own competition is a huge red flag.
I have to agree, this rhetoric has been exceedingly common nowadays.

It's stunning to see how many so-called liberals nowadays have little in common with the liberals of the 2000s, sometimes even the complete opposite. I recall standing against censorship, governmental abuse, american imperialism, and many other values to be firmly entrenched in the liberal camp when I was coming-of-age politically speaking back in the US.
If it's just a better Google Translate, then I don't see the problem. If it's used to actually write the first version because people can't write or sort out their ideas... I dunno.

Is there any evidence that it's primarily used by non-native English speakers for this purpose, though? (edit: just saw the list of authors, probably this is the case, at least in this context).
I did, for years. This is the type of viewpoint I would expect from someone who has never lived in an actually diverse country.
> The man pages are readily available.

True, but I find the man pages not easy and quick to parse.
I would be very curious if you could tell me what pages that is on because I do not remember any of this from that book.

I remember the book emphasizing communication above all else and did not even shit on Monogamy. What it shit on is society assuming what should be the norm with no discussion.

You are right that it requires enthusiastic consent from both parties. But that also doesn't mean that one party has to be unhappy because the other one is not interested in it. At some point you may have to admit that the relationship doesn't have a future if you cannot make this situation work.

I feel like too often the focus is on "well I want an open relationship but my partner doesn't so thats the end of that" when in reality its a 2 way street. That doesn't give you a pass to cheat, but it also doesn't mean ignore what may make you happy.
> The two anti-western dissidents that come to mind are Nelson Mandela and (arguably) Martin Luther King. Again, they received the prize after achieving global fame and recognition.

Seems like a “no true Scotsman” argument. Naturally, the winners are going to often be prominent individuals.

> Tawakkol Karman (2011) is another dissident against a non-western country.

The previous poster specifically said “I don't see the award ever going to a rights activist fighting against the Saudi, Pakistani, or any other American-allied regimes,” so I brought up a recent activist that has been against the Saudi government (and I guess Malala Yousafzai could be viewed as critical of many parts of the Pakistani government).

> ElBaradei won the prize for his work in the IAEA (whose primary focus has been on non-western nations) -not for his opposition to the Iraq war - whose primary focus has been on non-western nations.

It was pretty obvious to everyone at the time that this (as well as Obama’s prize) was a direct rebuke against Bush’s foreign policy. Here’s the opening paragraph of the New York Times article about his award[1]:

> The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, whom the Bush administration tried but failed to remove from his job just months ago.

> The award was a vindication of a man and an agency long at odds with President Bush and his administration over how to confront Iraq and Iran. It could strengthen the agency's position as conflicts loom over preventing Iran from obtaining fuel it could use for nuclear weapons and disarming North Korea.

> For most of the last year, the Bush administration had tried to block Dr. ElBaradei from assuming a third term as chief of the agency, a part of the United Nations, arguing that he would not be strong enough to face down Iran and the covert nuclear weapons program it is suspected of having. But the United States had no support from any of its allies, and ultimately had to withdraw its objections to Dr. ElBaradei's reappointment.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/08/front%20page/world/atomic...
Is it a given that the loss isn’t covered by insurance?

There’s always a balance of risk and the cost of mitigating risk.

One way to mitigate risk is simply buying an insurance policy which in many cases may be cheaper than paying a security firm to protect yourself proactively.

Cyber insurance often includes things like coverage for a PR firm to help regain as much reputational damage that may have been incurred.

Many cyber insurance plans also includes coverage for paying ransoms.

(I’m playing devils advocate somewhat, buying insurance to protect against cyber is something companies should do alongside of taking a proactive approach to securing systems)
Would OpenAI be competing with them, though? If they just manufacture their own and use their own, but don't sell them, then nVidia and ARM are just losing a client, not getting competition.

Ideally what we would see is OpenAI investing in a new but independently operated chip manufacturer that makes chips to their standards. Though is it also possible that a chip of such standard would be so specialized that it wouldn't be usable by others? I'm not a hardware person, so that's a genuine question.
Nope! The memory synchronizing properties of those functions are at the specification level. POSIX says so, and so the implementation has to make it so, somehow. That could involve recognizing those functions in the compiler. Usually external function calls are good enough to have a compiler barrier (the compiler won't reorder accesses around those locking calls), so that the function then just has to contain the hardware memory barriers.
Why not sell the 747?
Looking at the examples-- we have Perl and Php, but not Python

Not to criticise those languages, but they are hardly used in test automation anymore (if they ever were). This looks like a really out of date hobby project
Job Boards Are Terrible
What happened in the past few years? All job boards have eroded in quality - I am an engineering & product leader and I get fed sponsored jobs on LinkedIn for marketing internships. WTF?

I was so frustrated that a few weeks ago I spent a ton of money on a new domain and built a new job board only for newly-opened product roles at YC startups (currently track 4500+ YC startup job boards for daily changes).

I'd love to have a single place where I can search and filter all jobs, but at least this approach filters for 1) top startups, and 2) actually live jobs vs stale postings

Anybody else annoyed by this?
>On the other hand, if it is stored on the cloud, it's likely that you won't have the level of access required to tamper with the data...

Location data can easily be fabricated. This has been discussed extensively in other subthreads. Thus insufficient by itself.

However, it can be corroborated with e.g. cameras along the path if need be, providing an alibi. By having control of the data, rather than giving it up to the cloud, it can be used in this way, without allowing it to be used against you in the "location data says you were near the scene of the crime" scenario.
This is because && and || are often used as conditionals:

[ -e README ] && cat README

avoids an error if the file README doesn't exist, and

[ -e README ] || echo "You should write a README!"

works the opposite way.

What's more pernicious is that pipelines don't cause the shell to exit (assuming set -e) unless the last command fails:

grep foo README | sort

does not fail if README doesn't exist, unless you've also used `set -o pipefail`.
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Moores law is dead when it comes to power consumption, that means compute is getting more capital intensive.

If you have an algorithm that works and need scale, you must vertically integrate to maintain an edge over those using more general compute architectures.
Totally agree - it would have to be a 2.0 version to do it right.
I was going to say the same thing. My gut is it exists as strongly in other places, but that we don't have direct exposure to their social zones to see it.

And it isn't like rust is particularly hit by it, either. You'd think people writing PHP or Java hate life, if you only went by what you are likely to see in our social sites.
True, there is always a lot of observation bias in our personal experiences.
Congress Should Regulate Artificial Intelligence
I think your parent comment point is that they could have skipped half the changes and still kept up to date with frontend tech.

There's a point when change is just too much and the returns are diminishing.
I wish the article included a bit more info about the significance of the particle, instead of just describing how energetic it was. For example, it never expands on this, which is IMO the most interesting sentence on the page:

> The particle's energy was unexpected and called into question theories of that era about the origin and propagation of cosmic rays.
Alex Debrie: " Damn, this is an excellent resource. I read the first few chapters closely and plan to return to the rest. Lots of interesting stuff + frank discussion of how to truly evaluate different database options."

https://x.com/alexbdebrie/status/1709960305122418898?s=20
I can't speak more highly of this extension. It is phenomenal for academic work and research in general. The developer also worked closely with zotero (citation manager) and it uses the technology to archive articles you cite.
Lol. Some of the wellbeing tips were really quite good though.
They really remove it: I favorited another thread, but it's gone.

Apparently, Sam Altman was president of YC. As long as this keeps happening without any explanation, it's clear where this site's allegiance lies.
Mass social/psychological manipulation.

Probably still trying to figure out brain implants and immortality, otherwise pelosi wouldn’t look like a lizard.
Firstly, thank you for sharing your experience. It's not an easy thing to do, especially when sharing vulnerability, so kudos to you for doing it.

Secondly, the market is in a different place than we were before. We are in a high inflation, high interest rate, hostile de-globalising world - and job seekers need to draw a sharp line on everything they understood about the job market from before Q1 2022. This means that achieving an equivalent FAANG level job in terms of compensation, work conditions etc is unlikely, and unfortunately, we need to adjust expectations accordingly.

Thirdly, practical advice: get some written references or video testimonies from your colleagues and former bosses. These should be made available to the interviewing employer at the beginning of the process - link to them in your resume etc. If you find interviewing and assessments challenging, I think that providing alternative evidence of your capability would be the first thing to do.

Finally, you are not alone. Lot of very talented people are in the same boat, we're all bobbing around in this systemic reset. Good luck
Literally every application I work on requires design, libraries, and meticulous code.

The focus for me is on the tools and frameworks, not the underlying language. Show me a Typescript-based or Go-based language that can go from zero to production as fast as Rails with the same-sized team with no productivity loss, and I'd happily use it.
Apple as well, if I understand correctly what the "Apple Neural Engine" is all about.
It's not a strawman just because it hurts your argument. :)

The point is that you can't reasonably say SQLite is not open source, and the limitations around SQLite and this book are comparable. So it's not an immediate "No. End of discussion." that the book isn't open source.

You're entitled to your opinion but you probably shouldn't act like everyone else is an idiot for disagreeing with you.
Is it actually true that AI is biased? Surely, an AI cannot "be biased", it just looks at the input data and outputs it's own. This is not bias. If anything the regulation "hardcoded" into the models is the only bias which exists, and it is purposefully put there to combat things like what people in this article are upset about.

If someone finds AI output problematic, you should look at the input data. If the input data such as the world in general is causing "problematic" output data, it might be time to reconsider what you think of as problematic.
Im pretty sure they exist to beat the market.

They are called “hedge funds” because, as opposed to other stock funds they were allowed to take short positions while mutual funds could not, and so they could hedge some of their risk.
Perlmutter (#8) was just commissioned into full service earlier this year and uses Zen 3 cores with A100s. Leonardo (#4) is also current year and uses Xeon CPUs with A100s. Google's H3 also seems to pair H100s with Xeon CPUs.

But yes, the CPU is mostly just a footnote, most of the FLOPs come from the GPUs. Although of course the CPUs still need to be sufficiently fast enough that the GPUs can be kept fed.
The Iranian government has killed thousands of people and repressed other viewpoints not supported by the ruling elite.

It is possible the general population in Iran support this. All I know is that in countries where the people are allowed to voice their opinions freely, they generally oppose raping and torturing prisoners.
Non competes wouldn't be a big deal, if companies were required to use them fairly and sensibly: by matching a competitor's compensation for the duration of however long they want someone to not work for a competitor.

Companies want to have their cake and eat it too: no, you can't work for someone else, and no, we're not gonna compensate you for that.
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WD40 - Nooooo! It gets gummy. Use a proper lubricating oil. Or replace the fan.

"Pro tip:" Do not direct the output of a strong air stream (e.g. the kind used for automotive work) at the fan as it can de-blade the fan.
Unless you enforce your network to have simple understandable mechanics during training you won’t be able to properly decompose the network to a mechanistic understandable explanation. Due to the fact that it won’t work like that under the hood. Parts of the network will be simple enough to be understandable but allot of it won’t.

The human mind can not deal with and understand things that have to much dimensionality.

My 5 cents.