skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was nice of the New York Times to publish Amazon's press release as an article.
meh.... I dunno.

* Identical anti-vax culture and rural-vs-urban divide

* worker protections aren't that much stronger, and the impact on a mega-contagious disease is dubious

* health care coverage isn't universal but is based on the province, and only applies to things inside of a hospital + some other stuff like midwives

* and obesity rates on the old / elderly may be very similar -- since those are the ones who are dying; I'm from the US but in Canada and I see plenty of fat older people but fewer fatass kids.

* also leaving out things like Canada's insanely high COL and associated challenges like heating costs, serious issues with transport and accessability -- if you're in a big city you have good healthcare, but if not then good luck, and a population skewed to the Boomers just like the US who are, again, the ones who are mostly dying from the disease -- it's the older folks.
> Building on top of any of these platforms provided by trillion dollar companies is a sucker's game.

Until local models reach the fidelity and speed that these megacorps offer, what choice does anyone actually have with respect to AI? I was under the impression that even if you get over the initial cost of hardware to achieve speed, the fidelity of your outputs would still be of a lower overall quality relative to GPT/Claude/Bard(maybe?). I could be 100% wrong though.
I mean the Iranian centerfuges smashed by stuxnet were also airgapped.
What happens to old&used Graviton 3 chips?

At least in the "old days" there was ( still is ) a secondary market for used server parts..

Don't know how companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google would frame a question like this so their "green" narratives wouldn't be hurt but I'm sure they'll do an excellent job.
AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things
I'm interested in how this is better / worse that runway

https://research.runwayml.com/gen2
The actual polling report: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-...

I'd download and post the pdf, but their form inputs appear broken in firefox. :|
https://www.dni.gov/files/icotr/Section702-Basics-Infographi...

> Section 702 is a key provision of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that permits the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States, with the compelled assistance of electronic communication service providers, to acquire foreign intelligence information.

Why wouldn't we want this? I'll agree to abolish it when there are no more bad guys in the world.
Saying anything else would make the liable and could mean they would have to replace them, so for sure they would claim it's not affecting longevity?
Original article: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/workers-morale-pay-ben...

Paywall removed: https://archive.is/SakUq
You can side step a lot of nonsense by selecting breeders of hunting dogs. Good health and robustness are key consideration along with sociability.
For a more in depth introduction to the topic with a lot of practical code examples, I highly recommend Herb Sutter’s excellent talk:

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eCGOqgvH4

Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeLBd2EJLOU
Sure, and does that materially change our ability to foresee or record the sort of large Earth-facing events we're discussing?

The point is that for events of this class, we're not just "testing more often" as the person I replied to suggested. We do collect more data and can make more sophisticated models from that data, but the big stuff is a bit like seeing a thundercloud on the horizon and hasn't materially changed for all that tech.
I think a good number is to have everyone together for three days at the beginning or end of each month, but ymmv.

Any number of days together over zero severely restricts the geographical region you can hire from. Surely, that limited hiring pool is going to affect your company more than 1-3 days together in the office will.
Likely Neoverse V2 architecture, based on A710 cores
I'm not sure suppressing IGF-1 will have the same effect. Two nearby points from the article:

> This is unusual — very few if any other animals have such an extreme lifespan variation within the same species.

> Part of this lifespan disparity comes from the process of selective breeding that “created” these dog breeds.

And from wiki:

> A 2022 review found that both high and low levels of IGF‐1 increase mortality risk, whilst a mid‐range (120–160 ng/ml) is associated with the lowest mortality.[1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8844108/
Uncle Ted. That's all I'm going to say.
I think you missed exceptions often being a problem in low level and embedded targets. That knocks out most of STL anyway.

I also think you are a bit harsh on virtual functions - it introduces a single indirection, yes, but sometimes that is fully justified. RTTI on the other hand... of course depends a bit on target characteristics.

Perhaps controversial, I've also found (especially bare) lambdas and even std::function objects useful, although may evolve into something purely static when the dust settled. Highly dependent on target of course.

It will be interesting to see the final form of the new MISRA std, since the active one predates all of this.
Eclipse and Apache are foundations. And while those foundations host a set of Java projects, they are not limited to it.
I'm surprised by how uncommon SK is compared to LangChain. Microsoft is very active in the space and has a few other related LLM frameworks of different nature - Semantic Memory and Guidance.
Hello yes it is I Mr. Big Business CEO and could someone call up Fox and tell them to run an article that says "more money doesn't make employees happy, returning to office does", thanks.
What a puff piece for ownership 8-/

It is amazing, that the decline in job satisfaction they describe is between 2020 and now.

In 2020 almost all s/w jobs were remote, now it's almost impossible to find fully remote work, and yet somehow remote work is why people are dissatisfied?

I would say the LACK of remote work is a significant cause of this dissatisfaction...
I have a golden retriever but he is a bit smaller than average. He isn't tiny, still around 65 lbs, which is the low end of the established breed size. If I bring him to the dog park he is about 85% the size of other retrievers.

He was a breeder stud for a long while. I get compliments on him frequently, especially on his smaller size.
Oh, then it's not correct to claim that something in your possession that isn't stolen can't become stolen without leaving your possession.

You can easily possess an item that hasn't been stolen, but upon some eventuality, no longer belongs to you that you still possess. An expired library book, for example, or a rented car.

Perhaps you've entered into an agreement involving collateral that you've violated. An item you've maintained possession of will no longer be yours when the collateral becomes the property of the person you've entered into the agreement with.
The platform layer of the "make your own game" game is always too heavy and too limited to compete with a dedicated engine in the long run. Also the monetization strategy is bad for professionals.
I really like this change and suspect the reason why is part of their motivation; they button cells used in the common smaller ones are non-rechargeable and this is really quite wasteful given how popular and good AA/AAA
Rechargeables are
Around 20 million people are feed by their agriculture. I think it's fair that a country and not EU decides if they want to have local agriculture or not.
They'll continue to run in their datacenter since they're still basically brand new?
Ask HN: Recommendations for preparing for interviews for senior software roles?
I know this has been discussed in the past (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21153175) but I'm curious if the guidance is still the same.

Standard advice seems to be:

1. Leetcode: maybe not grind it, but a) check if the companies you're interviewing at have tagged questions, b) review many questions and solutions and c) solve a few yourself from scratch

2. Cracking the Coding Interview: the "classic"; I see that Gayle also has a bunch of HackerRank affiliated videos on Youtube now.

3. Elements of Programming Interviews: similar to (2) but more thorough

Outside of those, I've also:

1. Interviewing.io: "realistic" practice interviews

2. ChatGPT: practice recruiter screen/behavorial questions, e.g. generate sample questions like "tell me about a time you overcame a technical issue", help refine a "standard set" of responses

3. Project Euler: I know it's similar to Leetcode, but I always enjoyed this more and it feels like it prepares in the same way

What else would you recommend?
Central Asian is a good balance between Eastern European directness and rudeness, and Asian politeness. It is about as polite as English culture but direct when necessary (perhaps due to long Russian influence).
https://adventofcode.com/about#faq_ai_leaderboard is a more direct link
Fairly easy, you definitely had good teachers xD
As other's mentioned, they communicate via serial to the host, this is not a device I'd be greatly concerned about as a threat.

Unless you took great care with sourcing your electronics then they're already packed with chips/parts from china.

If you _really_ want to you can use a nRF52840 (Nordic Semi is from Norway), or I think a few TI chips (USA), and use those as a gateway instead with home assistant (might need to add an extra library). Even then, both companies have manufacturing plants in china AFAIK so...
Better yet, a chatbot that helps amazon solve the many many race conditions it suffers from.
I think there should be a separate division for AI-assisted. Because it'd be interesting to see much better people can do with it, and how big the variability of the enhancement is.
Valve did have a few key people (not to mention complete access to the best 3D engine source code at the time) who really did know what they were doing.

Keep in mind that building video game levels, models, animations and such back then was dramatically simpler than it is now.

One person did all the texture work for the whole game.
One person did all the sound effects and music, and also coded the DSP engine to add real-time sound manipulation based on the environment.

You can do a lot with a few very talented people who are willing to guide a whole bunch of smart, eager and motivated folks.. which I think is what happened at Valve.
If you install the 'Dark Reader' browser extension, you can get dark mode on sites that don't have a native dark theme (such as HN!)
I'm currently setting up a small coding assessment for recruitment purposes at my company. I think in 2023 it's not reasonable to restrict the usage of tools like gpt4 or copilot. I wonder how advent of code will enforce this?
TeamCity 2023.11: Matrix Build, Build Cache, and More
I always considered Fastmail to be a transport/protocol provider and the web/mobile apps to be conveniences. If I had any of these concerns, I'd download or otherwise replicate the data and to my searches elsewhere.
Design is visual engineering .. development is software engineering.

Both essentially involve solving problems.
I would be pretty mad if I got a "remote first" job and they expected me to fly in twelve times a year.
>> Will you be asking for a bailout from all of us during the next hurricane?

The smarmy-ness is just stifling.

Do you live in a place that is free from natural disasters?
So much of the cost will come from data ingestion, this makes sense.
(For Kubernetes users mainly) I need your help/advice with a business idea
Hi all, if you already use Kubernetes in any capacity or are you interested in it, would you mind spending a few minutes voting in a quick poll and hopefully answering a few questions? I would appreciate your help a ton because it would help me make the right decision and hopefully avoid a costly waste of time.

Everything is in a Github discussion at https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s/discussions/296. A huge thank you in advance if you can help with this!
Logically applies to the small dogs too - they're still going to die, and they're only here because of our preferences. It's about where you, personally, want to draw that line, and different people have different thresholds.

(Rabbits and fancy goldfish have similar "live pretty, die young" problems. Probably a whole host of other animals - anything we've bred for shortened heads is likely to have breathing problems - including the Chihuahua).
There are many large scale energy storage solutions.

Nuclear is not the only carbon-free alternative for baseload.
The vast majority of jobs can't be done from home as they require physical presence. WFH is an issue only for the top 10% of income earners in white collar jobs.
Embedded shop? MISRA? Sounds strangely familiar...
> Is the book labelled as fiction?

> I understand that early versions of NT emitted error messages identifying itself as OS/2. Did the book explain when NT became "brand new OS from scratch".

Windows NT started out as Microsoft's effort to do OS/2 NT. There was a 32-bit Microsoft OS/2 2.0 (distinct from IBM OS/2 2.0), and OS/2 NT was to be OS/2 3.0.

OS/2 NT wasn't rebranded Windows NT until Windows 3.0 eliminated OS/2 from relevance, and with it, the Microsoft/IBM partnership. That's when IBM introduced their own (very nice) OS/2 2.0 and started a years long effort to eliminate Microsoft code from the OS/2 codebase (and the Microsoft copyright message from all over the UI)
Using native google sheets equations, you can build your own neural network. Google Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VS1kn0zXbedx7JEJu1ui...
They can't enforce it, hence the polite plea.
Quantitative evaluation of whether the Covid-19 vaccine saved lives [pdf]
Full Title:"Quantitative evaluation of whether the Nobel-Prize-winning COVID-19 vaccine actually saved millions of lives"

Article and video presentation by study author.
https://brownstone.org/articles/not-14m-lives-saved-but-over...
If you want to get down to it, forget technology. Living requires "destruction of the environment". The question is whether it's sustainable in the short, medium, and long term.

I don't think that 8 billion people is too many. As we adopt more environmentally friendly technology, I think we'll realize that the earth can easily sustain 8 billion.
FWIW, Amazon recently also announced AI powered code remediation (for Terraform and CloudFormation among other languages) and IaC support with CodeWhisperer as well: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-codewhisperer-offers...
My advisor gave me this paper at the beginning of my PhD; useful advice especially when google scholar dumps heaps of papers onto you every so often. Though I'd largely ignore the time estimates. That varies deeply depending on the paper and field.
SafeRTOS is a complete rewrite of FreeRTOS, it's more or less API compatible. The cost is all in the certificate!
> It is crazy sometimes how you try to program something the best you ever could with classical C++, and then someone comes along and makes a version using SIMD that is over 10x faster (but less portable code).

But that’s one of the points of a systems programming language (of which C++ is one) — it tries to be portably as efficient as possible but makes it easy to do target-specific programming when required.

> I really wish compilers were better at auto vectorization

FORTRAN compilers sure are, since aliasing is not allowed. C++ is kneecapped by following C’s memory model.
Replaced the heads on my 1970 bus in the middle of the Baja desert with Volkswagen Alive in hand. That was a trip! : )
California vs. Florida: which state handled Covid better
"When California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis take the stage Thursday for their much-hyped televised debate, it will be perhaps the starkest visual representation of the divide between the two states."
Title should be changed to "please don't use AI to get on the global leaderboard".
You can't stop people from polluting the web with ai-generated outputs (and therefore contaminating data sets you hope to be able to be able to assume are human-generated) until you create a humanweb (fuck the 'web3' attempts we've had so far, web3 ought to be human-verified vs non-human-verified web) that has real, effective human-verification on inputs built-in. The regular web will still be useful but for an increasing number of applications you'll need to go to the humanweb to get what you need where self-feeding hallucinations and sloppy modelpaste isn't everywhere.

If people are mad that Twitter gives a megaphone to everyone, including the ignorant masses, then they'll love the auto-spam that LLMs are going to create.

Anything that can be said will be said.

You want a Reddit with humans? Ha. On the regular non-human-verified discussion platforms of tomorrow, you'll be lucky if 4% of the comments you are replying to and arguing with even have a human on the other end, but the good news is the rebuttal comment you posted after having too much coffee will be ingested and used for training of the next version of the model you're arguing with. So your original content human-input may be parroted much more broadly than it would've been on the pre-LLM web.

If LLM spam really does flourish and spread misinfo and hallucinations everywhere and we don't develop good automated means to prevent it or to verify content, it may be necessary for a central authority/business to maintain hardware terminals at distributed, centralized locations for interacting with the humanweb that you can't install or control the software on and where a human or a camera is watching you physically type on the keyboard to make sure you aren't just automating the inputs physically with some software->machine->keyboard interface or connecting some virtual keyboard. Think a locked-down public library computer but you're watched while you interact with it, and they're deployed and administered across the planet by a trusted multinational for sensitive usages where you absolutely need to ensure the inputs are from humans.

You wanna get real fun and cyberpunk novel thought-experimenty, picture prison-like security, physical pat-downs or even a requirement that you use the terminal naked and are body-searched for devices. Maybe x-ray scanned for implanted hardware.

Of course the whole thing falls apart if the trusted authority that administers the hardware is compromised but at least you stop some of the non-state actors and script kiddies.
I think blogspam is what you’re looking for. Content which is primarily intended to generate clicks rather than be read in any capacity.
Yeah - I take "I'm sorry you feel that way" as a way of blaming the victim for their feelings, as a subtle way of blaming them for having inappropriate or out-of-control feelings. And sometimes that's true, but, the majority of the time, that's the wrong reason.
Fox News propaganda.
Files Suggest UN Climate Summit's Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels
One interesting thing is that you can also easily spend $50k on a luxury-spec Maverick. I drove one a couple weeks ago that was $52k out the door, fully 100% over base price. I'm sure the profit margin on those packages is pretty impressive. I ended up buying a bare bones one that was under $25k, silly miniature bed be damned.
> I think in 2023 it's not reasonable to restrict the usage of tools like gpt4 or copilot.

No, but it's reasonable to say "we want to get a sense of your baseline understanding of things so please don't cheat with LLMs or otherwise."
Yeah I don't think it's that much either. I feel a lot of readers are reading my comments as if I'm being hostile towards renewables and downvoting me because of that assumption.

I am not opposed to renewables, nor am I trying to argue that "it takes [insert amount of miles that's well within the average lifespan of a car] for EVs to break even" somehow implies "EVs bad"

Obviously I don't support the continued usage of oil and coal as energy resources
Overshoots are an unfortunate holdover. In many fonts, "C"s and "O"s are too big and "A"s are too tall. I mean, just look at this:

https://typography.guru/uploads/monthly_2020_01/overshoot.th...

Or this:

https://ilovetypography.com/img/2015/03/Caslon-overshoot-500...

Or this:

https://ktla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/06/GettyIma...

Or this:

https://live.staticflickr.com/5300/5482446696_1fa1ff2b45_b.j...

Hideous.

Try to follow that baseline with your eye. It's a roller coaster of chaos.

Type designers like to add overshoots merely out of habit, not aesthetics. They might have made sense in the lead type era, but simply look like mistakes today.
That doesn't sound like a prompt injection mitigation to me.

The whole challenge with prompt injection is that if I, an employee with a specific level of access, view ANY untrusted text within the context of the LLM (including pasting text in by hand because I e.g. want it summarized) there is a risk that the untrusted text might include malicious instructions which are then executed on my behalf, taking advantage of my access levels.

The only "access to private data" system that I can think if that's not vulnerable to prompt injection is one where every last token of that private data is known to be free of potential attacks - and where the user of that system has no tools that could be used to introduce new untrusted instructions.
How I read a research paper
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-researc...
On top of that, there’s little bigger-than-you ideas floating around. It feels very brave-new-worldish. Even in mainstream stuff like climate warming stuff. Most people just party and pay lip service. Few people do destructive stuff that makes little sense. And very few people actually do anything worthwhile. And looks like there’s little in the movement itself guiding people towards productive paths.
I have a PDP-11/05 with 16KB core in my home lab. Haven't powered it up in a decade since getting rid of my Teletype ASR 33 for space reasons. I need to cobble up a 20mA current loop interface to talk to it. This PiDP-11 is much more energy-efficient, the /05 really heats up the room!
Someone buy aidventofcode.com and run it similarly with more progressive and modern rules.

edit: curious about the downvotes. AI is here to stay, but the Advent of Code site specifically states that “[t]he leaderboards are for human competitors; if you want to compare the speed of your AI solver with others, please do so elsewhere.” So creating a new site in the same spirit, but with progressive rules, seems like exactly what they’re advocating for themselves.
Please don't post regular news or political horse race stories to HN. They're off topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Some political stories are fine but they need to overlap with something intellectually interesting and provide a basis for a curious conversation.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
icymi, Dave Cutler's got a great YouTube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage
> "I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you."

In 2023, "Getting betting at programming" means learning how to use an AI.
Indeed. In all fairness, the hub works really well. I have a few bulbs and switches from Ikea, and I control everything through the Home app on my iPhone. Last week I got an outlet from Ikea. As soon as I added it to the hub, it showed up in the Home app. Matter FTW!
How about not breeding dogs to their own detriment? I suspect dogs will have no problems self-selecting mates and having pups.
Anybody who uses this is a dum dum
If you follow the link they expand on the policy. I don't think they will enforce this; thus the "Please". They say that you can use AI tools for assist (but discourage it). Feeding the text into an AI and getting an answer they consider to be a faux pas.