skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real danger to human creativity that these tools represent is the mechanization of human innovation. Relying on these tools will discourage us from looking beyond what has been done before, and further reduce innovation into no more than imitative remixing. Businesses and corporations assert that mechanization will benefit both the worker and the consumer. It’ll save time and make things more efficient.

Efficiency holds back innovation and creativity. It focuses on cost at the expense of discovery and exploration.
Hopefully this is a harbinger of the end of the emphasis VCs and Universities put on pushing 22-year olds to be founders. There's a reason most successful entrepreneurs average 42 when they start a company
Maybe consider not questioning motives or disposition ? My first thought was that it was staged. The lack of critical thinking in todays world is appalling and enables the exploitation of the vulnerable.
Send the station an email and ask.
I've been considering newer Toyota Tacoma's recently and their interiors are still stuck in 2010. I believe they are releasing a new redesign, but I still can't believe how outdated even 2022's are.
Toyota and Porsche
Exactly, I think we 100% agree.
China's new cancer drug Toripalimab is approved in the US but will cost 30x more
The law doesn't care about technology technicalities.

It cares about legal technicalities.

The law doesn't care, for instance, that the MP3 file of Beyoncé's latest hit is not the same bits in the same order as the original master file created when she recorded it. That holds true no matter how many times you re-encode it into different formats.

As things stand, there has been no definitive ruling on the matter of ML model training and copyright; I don't know how that will end up shaking out, and honestly, I'm not yet sure how I think things should shake out in any detail. I think that people whose works are being used to fuel massive profit-generating engines for the very wealthy should have some right to give or revoke consent, but I'm not at all sure offhand if there's a realistic way to do that without serious unintended consequences.

But I am sure that arguing that the precise technical nature of how the transformations are performed means that nothing is actually being "copied" should not, and is unlikely to, hold much legal water.
There was something of a cliff at certain levels if you didn't get promoted around the third year.
Something about the offer package would subsidize your base pay for a limited number of years until your stock started to vest, to smooth out your pay. However on the third year that subsidy would go away, and depending on the stock performance, your future stock grants could adjust down as well. In practice because the stock had been running up so much pre-2022, by the time the stock vested it was up a good amount.

So if your stock grants & stock price performance after the third year weren't "just so" you could see your TC slip because the salary subsidy went away.
How can they be maintaining these completely antithetitical interests, like wjy do they want to arbitrarily fire the person at all if they have already evaluated that person to be worthy of retention? Why is this even on the table in the absence of any failure to meet whatever metrics?

Is it just a big power play that keeps rolling in the expectation of bottomless/infinite talenent and pepetual inflow/attrition?
Much like the smart worker, wouldn’t the model asking questions lead to a better answer? Context is important, and if you haven’t provided sufficient context in your question, the worker or model would ask questions.
The guy I responded to did basically that, trying to assign blame to drivers. Why would I care what some drivers do when I'm crossing the street? I assume all drivers are bad and act accordingly. The people that don't do that, are more likely to get hit. That's what I meant.
Do you think it makes a difference if the person is bad person but their work contributes meaningfully to their field vs if the person is affable but their work is geared towards reducing the signal to noise ratio of other channels of communication?
Choosing "Hands-On Selenium WebDriver With Java" might not be ideal, not due to the book's quality, but because web UI automation represents only a fraction of the automation testing field. Even within UI automation, Selenium has become somewhat outdated.
For testers without automation foundations, I suggest learning Python and crafting short scripts for automating daily tasks. This covers the initial aspect of automation testing: 1, controlling another program through code.
This skill is very useful, even if you don't write automation tests, as it can enhance efficiency in documentation work and data analysis

Another essential skill is: 2, mastering the art of writing effective automation test cases.
The mindset for automation testing differs significantly from manual testing, requiring even experienced testers to learn. The official Cucumber tutorial is an option, even if Cucumber isn't utilized for test writing in the future. The examples in the documentation still offer universal reference value.
How is it "seeking conflict" to correct factually wrong claims about your project?
You did the correct thing. The PIP is to cover their butt that you really were a bad employee and you were not wrongfully terminated. The laws vary wildly state-to-state but generally if you're PIP'ed out you can't claim unemployment or wrongful termination.
Show HN: Free tool to convert a Website to GPT
GPT Crawler allows you to scrape the website content which can uploaded to a GPT and you can create a Website Assistant
thanks! I'm still learning how to use them.
That works as-performant in a browser with collaboration, absolutely, there's no alternatives.
"The problem for AI is that creative work is not predictable. It is not about statistical likelihood or simply mashing up the familiar—it is about leaps in logic and counterintuitive juxtapositions. It is about the unique experience of the individual, and seeking to do what has never been done before. It is about the least predictable next word or pixel. So the danger is not that AI programs will write the next great novel or create the next great painting, successfully replacing human inventiveness: they never will. The greater danger is that they won’t need to create great writing or art."
> As shown by recent wiretappings, politicians have the most to lose if they give their chat logs away to a smaller, unelected group of people.

Surely the creators of the policy will not forget to exclude themselves from being affected.
Yeah, these are theoretical lab tests. Good luck actually finding a series of working, available fast chargers on a real road trip anywhere. I really want an Ioniq5 but I'll wait until they switch to the Tesla style plugs because the support is currently not there.
Army unveils first-ever doctrine for 'information'
You should file for disability accommodations. That is completely legal to ask. Sometimes you need to back it up with documentation, but i suspect that won't be a problem.

They can't discriminate against you for this.
If you don't buy it, I assume that you have solid alternate explanations of why the trends in vehicle size/power/design seem to closely track the preferences expressed by federal policy (intentionally or not) along with fuel costs.

Yes, there are (largely misguided but in some senses game-theory justified) preferences for higher/larger/heavier vehicles. But from what I've read, these don't provide much (statistical) explanatory power for the actual numbers.
Q* is a strange thing, youtube is full of videos explaining what q* is, but nobody really knows. All those ideas are combinations of reinforcement learning or path finding with language models. It doesn’t sound like something that would be a new idea, but much of the progress in AI has been just based on compute growing.

If there has been a big leap, the thing that worries me most is the new board of open AI and what that means about how they intend to use the power they now hold. We had a board that felt so strongly about something that they acted swiftly to remove Altman and now he is back. The previous board seemed to hold social responsibility and safety as the priority. The new board will have a different outlook based on its members past statements.
The results in the paper (page 7) are empirical and reasonably convincing across both ChatGPT and a variety of other open source models.

Why do you think it’s misleading?

You think it’s just generating plausible random crap that happens to exist verbatim on the internet?

I mean… read the paper, 0.8% outputs were verbatim for gpt-3.5.

I’m not sure how you can plausibly claim that’s random chance.

> I think it’s a bug

It is a bug, but that doesn’t make it misleading or untrue.

This is like saying a security vuln in gmail that lets you steal 1% of mail is misleading. That would not be a bug, it would be a freaking disaster.

The problem here is that (as mentioned in other comments), training LLMs in a way that avoids this is actually pretty hard to do.

/shrug
At that size and internal specs... why not laptop?
With gcc, the option -Wcast-align=strict is useful.

Edit:
And if the buffer to convert is very large, one could first check the alignment of the pointer (with alignof(T)) in C++
Literally nothing given the docker file would be a couple of wget invocations and a chaos lol
/usr/local is for all users of the multi-user server you're on, which you have installed locally.

~/... is for your personal user account

/bin (and /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin ) is for system software (from your distro of choice)

and /opt is for third party packages from third party providers

we tend to forget the "Unix" precursor of Linux comes from the data centre server world.

so "a mess" is relative
This is not a value judgment and the concept of ultrasound does not have feelings you need to white knight for.

I'm stating the objective fact that ultrasound is worse at producing images than other imaging techniques. There is no "both sides" argument to be made here.
Shkreli is everything wrong with current-year capitalism condensed into one little weasel who looks so geeky even I want to stuff him in a locker.

No, he isn't the problem, the system that enables him is. But he is an opportunistic piece of shit.
It's all about the money, the writer himself mentioned he had 100k's of stock that would vest. When you get into the 100k range of windfalls, people will do all sorts of things, even people you have known for years. That's why sometimes you only see people's true nature when their parents die and estate settlement comes into the picture.

If you don't want to deal with this kind of stuff, don't allow the almighty dollar to control your life.
Well, yes, if you're playing this kind of game, the compiler cannot type-check what you're doing (or sanity-check it in any other way). You're outside the area covered by the standard. You're coding without a net.

But C and C++ are explicitly intended for this kind of situation. You know enough about how types are represented in memory to fiddle with their internals, and you have sufficient reason to do so? Go for it. Just don't expect the type checking to save you, because it won't.
That's only applied to pedophile rapists like Roman Polanski and not the most dangerous element of our society, people who vote for the wrong party.

Besides, if you get hired to work on a Polanski film, free travel outside the US! Why bother working for the pedophile rapists already in LA?
Agreed that what is left unsaid in a lot of performance conversations is the person-role match. Someone isn't a high/low performer globally, just at that time in that role.

Wall St firms I have worked at typically try to find different roles for people before marking them as at risk of a layoff. Not sure FAANG behaves the same, but from all these PIP discussions it seems not.
How is this relevant? The voter's estimation of worth barely influence Kissinger types at all.
> This is one of the reasons I’m always interested to help new learners: even well-trodden paths can reveal new insights.

"Stomp and holler" grade applause for that line.
Being a Capitalist
Let's imagine an hypothetical LLM, which has been trained on books, published by publishers (companies). Thousands, thousands of book which are not out of their copyright terms, without telling to their authors.

All of the things emitted by this LLM will be a remix of these books.

Will the outputs of this LLM be a violation of copyright? I bet it will be.

Let's train the same AI, on self-published, but again copyrighted material.

Will the outputs of this LLM be a violation of copyright? I bet it should be.

but, in reality, in discourse, we see that if it's company IP, then ordinary people are doing it wrong because it's copyright violation, and if it's people's IP, then ordinary people are doing it wrong, because it's fair use.

Copyrighting things are not a privilege given to corporations. If it's fair use, I can train a voice model with Freddie Mercury's voice, and make him a vocal of my garage band, but RIAA will end my life, but if a company samples my sound and reproduces for a video without my consent, it'll be fair use because I don't have 1000 lawyers.

This is what bothers me.
Why not just make new ones? Regardless of whether I use Conda, Pyenv or virtualenv, I always consider the environments to be disposable.
In order to signal virtue, the thing in question has to be considered virtuous, by the mainstream media intelligencia and generally the opponents as well. You cannot appear virtuous if what you stand for is contrary to the mainstream opinion of how moral behavior is supposed to look like.
By deciding to give preference to history and the thing that is currently considered immoral (eating meat) they actually do the reverse of virtue signaling.

And yes, that is a pro free market move, because the only thing they say is: you can call your alternative product whatever you want and you may sell it as well, but do not try to confuse customers with historical naming that do not represent what your product is.
Vegans/vegetarians are in general for an outright ban of those products, so basically authoritarian fascist behavior; but as always, it's the most tolerant called on his behavior and somehow it is found problematic that it is forbidden to lie on products packaging...
If there's no other traffic, why not avoid being near the car at all?
> In the United States, vehicles with tires carry twice as much freight as vehicles without them. Tires have an outsized role in individual transportation: The vast majority of Americans commute on tires, outweighing all other modes by about fourteen to one.

Another way to look at this is to see the pitiful state of the rail network on the continent: the most efficient way to move goods and people over land, severely underused.

The article's author is very excited about tires, but it would be good to balance the stoke with the health and environmental impacts such mass usage of tires has. Rubber dust and microplastics polution in urban centers and along transport corridors contribute to a range of negative health impacts.

Not to mention, where do discarded tires end up: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/01/worlds-biggest-tire-gr...
"drunk or phone" is a game that I play.
ABB Dual YuMi is 70k, so 14k is relllatively affordable. Robot parts are wicked expensive and bills rack up fast.
> But, I think llama plus obese binaries must be targeting a very, very different community- one that doesn't build its own binaries, runs in any number of different locations, and focuses on getting the model to run with the least friction.

Yes, the average user.
It was almost as fast to google as it would have been to ask: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15677....
Sure, I've seen plenty of very capable people put very little to no effort into their work.
I’ve done this in a project.
You are kidding yourself if you have systems that can not only write code but also that web assembly can provide a sandbox
Never bothered to look, honestly. I have the higher trim model, so probably more horses
High barriers to entry on the interview process don't mean as much as you may think. Even with the best interview process in the world, you're only going to have a small number of hours to try to evaluate a lot of complex factors about a human you know nothing about. You're going to hire people you shouldn't - and lots of them. You're also going to miss hiring people you should. It sucks, but that's life.

With that in mind I do think your conclusion's a little suspect - there really will be a good amount of underperforming people you really do want to part ways with. Maybe not 6% - I don't work in HR, so I don't see those sorts of metrics - but I definitely have encountered lots of people who got through the interview process but nevertheless had no ability to do the job adequately.

I'm sure a bunch of people will jump on this to then complain about the arduous interview process - but NO interview process is perfect. Having a tough process is a reasonable way to reduce the number of people you end up not keeping on, and expecting any process involving humans to be anything close to perfect is wildly unrealistic.
Ask HN: How to properly build a multi-terabyte DuckDB database?
I have an initial data dump of ~2 TB of structured text, and a further 20-30 GB weekly to be added in the future, with a final size of ~10 TB. I only need a single node, and I need serious analytics, so I'm considering DuckDB. Disk space is not a concern, but incremental backup speed is.

How do I do this properly so that it is performant and scales without breaking? Are there any gotchas?

There are so many ways to import -- which is the fastest?

Is this a definite case for partitioning?

Should I create adaptive radix tree indices? The docs say, "ART indexes must currently be able to fit in-memory. Avoid creating ART indexes if the index does not fit in memory."

What else am I missing here? Can DuckDB even handle databases of this size?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
> I think they tested without preconditioning the battery

This sounds feasible, I didn't think of that one!
You are correct in principle, but the code in the original post definitely exhibits strict aliasing violations. Not only that, it didn't need to.
Correct- as a reference for OC this is known as Moravec's Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox)
Yeah, but once X passes, your comp drops significantly - "down a cliff".
That's absolutely not true.

You might get replicas of incredibly popular works like Mona Lisa due to overfitting but that's it.

If I am wrong please do provide an example as this is very relevant and interesting (and impossible from an information theory pov).
"To know which is which, American soldiers must study not only their enemies but also their target audiences among neutral, allied, and domestic US populations: “A group, faction, or nation’s prevailing narratives can provide a great deal of insight into how that group, faction, or nation might perceive Army operations.”"
> There are industries & companies that have grown fat & lazy and could use a few annual 6% culls, but you eventually run out of fat.

Agreed, but there's also an unaddressed issue of whether many (most?) positions at large tech companies provide an actual economic benefit to the company or whether they exist simply because of organizational inefficiencies (Parkinson's Law).

To put it another way, a hire may have been the best candidate out a very selective interview process, but if his position exists simply because of internal silo building, forced ranking - as bad of a system as it is - may work.

Is there any economically valid reason for Meta to have ~75K employees?
Yes, the Treaty of Lisbon plus the Charter act as the de-facto EU constitution.
Lower pressure is required with wider tires (stress in the tire casing is proportional to P*r). Which is good, because it turns out that lower pressure, when coupled with flexible tires, is actually lower resistance than high pressure.

Tubeless "just" allows for lower pressures without pinch flatting. The lower limit on pressure is to have enough to keep the bead seated, and not burping air. If you run lower than that, you've got to go tublar.
I'm going to take the side of the IP argument based on whatever hurts big business most. If they want to "steal" from the little guy by locking everything up behind copyright (or patents or trademarks) then I will oppose it. If they want to "steal" from the little guy by ingesting his works into the AI machine then I will oppose it.

Notice how governments and companies became "worried" about AI when people were starting to emulate certain styles in the images generated. Suddenly they needed to be regulated and censored (even harder).
I'm surprised the gcc and clang people have never noticed that uint8_t is an integer type, and therefore does not need to be a character type.
Congrats on the Show HN!

I’d love to take a look at your product but the link in your launch is gated behind a login.

Your product definitely sounds interesting to me [1] and I’m sure there are a few others who’d like to see it in action without first creating an account.

Can you please link to any of a live preview from a repo on GitHub, a demo or even a video showing your product in action?

1: I came across https://text-to-diagram.com/ on HN and think using text to create diagrams is cool, if done right. Would be interested in a technical deep dive on how you are able to strike a balance between showing too little vs too much info in the diagrams your tool creates from Terraform files.
Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate AI images as fast as you can type
Not as dangerous as it seems compared to other military aircraft...

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/is-the-v-22-osprey-actually-as-...
In the 1500s wagon suspension technology wasn't very good. Humans would much prefer to walk if they could since riding would be very rough on the body. There wasn't really any disadvantage - humans can walk at least as far in a day as a horse (or more likely ox in 1500). Even rich people would walk, the horse would be for heavy things that you carry with you (ie a knight armor - a knight would then put the armor and and ride into battle).

There are exceptions to the above where people did ride in wagons. However they were rare as for most people walking was good. Many of the exceptions where to show off: I'm rich enough to have a wagon so I'm going to ride in it when you are looking (and if I think nobody is I'm getting out to walk).
You seem to think savings account do not get withdrawn against. If you take the customers cash to put into a T-bill but the customer withdrawals money before the T-bill matures, where do you get their cash from to honor the request?

Not everyone uses offerings in the manner the offerer expects. As software types, this is familiar territory. If you design a thing with only the happy path in mind while never allowing for that path not being followed, you’re in for a very rough time.
Thats what I said. Emacs gives me the option to edit on the machine through tty. You just can not do this on VS Code
Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
(Nitpick: the second one does realize, he just gets killed anyway.)
Do we want AI to be the only economical way for “content” to be created in the future? And for the corporate owners of AI to be the middle men on all creativity?

I’m no great fan of the current IP regime, but the economics of building, maintaining and operating LLMs have the potential to completely gut human creativity and replace it with a mechanical ouroboros eating its own tale.