skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. One argument in his favor would be that he's well connected and employs a lot of AI experts across his companies. This probably means he's had a chance to speak with a lot of experts to help him develop an informed opinion.

One argument against him is that he previously overestimated the arrival of self-driving cars. We'll see if he turns out to be correct or if he's being overly ambitious once more.

From what I've read, even AI experts vary wildly in how soon they predict the development of AGI.
Yikes. My daughter, now age 18 and in college, is going to inherit our house in a few years, when we move out. Why have I not done this? [clears schedule for weekend to get on this]
I'm confused: why is this article/headline focused on developers, when the report and its outcomes are explicitly focused on designers, who are Figma and Adobe's primary audience?
Do you realize how relatively easy it is for a CS grad with time and motivation to “grind leetCode” enough to pass an interview at Amazon?

I didn’t go into AWS as a developer. I worked there in Professional Services. I shadowed a few coding interviews and conducted a few system design interviews of software devs while there.
No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins
And this may still be true in 2023, but the problem is that most of the parallelized grep replacements (e.g. ripgrep, ag, etc.) are SO much faster than grep that the much small speed differences between them doesn't provide much of a basis for differentiating them.

I use ag (typically from inside Emacs) on a 900k LOC codebase and it is effectively instantaneous (on a 16 core Ryzen Threadripper 2950X). I just don't have a need to go from less than 1 second to "a bit less than less than 1 second".

Speed is not the defining attribute of the "new greps" - they need to be assessed and compared in other ways.
See here for some recent obits written by Ronald Bergen, who died in 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ronaldbergan
Even faster, I have an alias 'ss' (mnemonic for 'super search') for rg. Fitts' Law to the max!
well, yes. but, unless there are geographical constraints, they all know that only one will be truly successful and it's hard to pass an insane exit opportunity. Especially since you can try again but full of cash.
DOTA, but mostly for addiction reasons so don't put your hand in there :D
Top_p and top_k are pretty important concepts for LLMs same as temperature so P,K,C and F are underutilized
I feel like he's mistreated because of how he looks
I would if the arrival of ChatGPT has sort of taken the wind out of Marginalia's sails as a human-directed search engine. It seems likely that the future of answering one's questions using the internet, is an LLM giving a straightforward, concise answer that is free of the quirks of a human author. Therefore, there is less motivation to search for personal websites and read website makers' own writing.

For example, imagine an old-school hobbyist website that contains information about some obscure band or author that can't be found elsewhere on the web, and doesn't readily show up in a Google search. Yet at the same time the author writes terrible prose, uses annoying HTML/CSS, or goes into tiresome political rants, etc. Instead of using a Marginalia-like search engine to discover those sites and read them directly, wouldn't it be a superior experience to have an LLM gorge on all those sites and then tell you just the facts that you care about?
> It scaled well enough for the Kirin 9000s.

For a meager 1.6 million phones sold to date.

Again, 7nm is a fantastic milestone for a forge that does not have access to newer ASML equipment, but context matters.
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My 2016.5 (why did they call it that?) CX-5 is exactly my type of boring: It Just Works. Also, they backported CarPlay to it for a nominal installation charge, it has actual buttons for all essential functions, a nice scroll wheel I can use without looking, and the screen isn't obnoxiously big. Repair costs have been quite low, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop there (around 85k miles).

In a few years I'll start looking at Subarus most likely. The feel on the road is fantastic. I just hope they haven't slipped into the complexity/tech abyss that most manufacturers seem to have.
> Deal-breaker?

It’s a take-home test. I’m saying if the particular test called for dealing with a particular type of input and you didn’t do it, you failed. It’s that simple.

If it didn’t, then it’s a pointless nitpick and shouldn’t ever be brought up as interview feedback.
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The only time I have enjoyed seeing a Cube is when I spotted one with a bumper sticker that read "Fuck aerodynamics".
You run into these problems on x86, also, with SIMD intrinsics like _mm_cvtepi8_epi32() (which converts four 8-bit integers to 32-bit integers with sign extension). The underlying instruction, PMOVSXBD, when used with a (4-byte) memory operand, imposes no alignment restrictions. But the intrinsic takes an __m128i value (not a pointer), and __m128i (the C type) requires 16-byte alignment.

If you try casting your pointer to (__m128i *) and dereferencing, sometimes the compiler will optimize it correctly (to PMOVSXBD with a memory operand, which really only loads 4 bytes), and sometimes (for example, when optimizations are disabled) it will emit MOVDQA, which does a 16-byte aligned load. Tools like UBSan will also (correctly) complain about it.

Eventually __mm_loadu_epi32() was added, but it was released in a broken state in the initial gcc implementation: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99754 so you can't rely on it. There is __mm_load_ss(), but gcc's implementation derefs a (float *), so it still requires 4-byte alignment: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84508

The workarounds described in the article (combined with _mm_cvtsi32_si128()) are the only reliable solution I have found. Various compilers still generate an extra MOVD instruction instead of using a memory operand, and reportedly ICC will even do an extra load into a general-purpose register before moving the value to a SIMD register: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72837929/mm-loadu-si32-n...

Those extra moves are cheap on x86, so it is not the end of the world, but the whole situation is less than ideal.
There's this:
https://archive.org/details/BASICODE2Manual

I actually tried downloading programes from the Dutch radio station back in those days - and it worked.
I have a colleague at Amazon who mentioned this last point as the explicit reason he planning to leave Amazon. He was (is) a people manager and every year, having to cut off a member of his team for no reason was not something he wanted to do on an ethical level. He described the process with me and in the end his solution was to give the IC a tip off that a PIP was coming and in that case that person was able to move to another team quickly enough to avoid the chopping block.
Indeed: we have machines doing novel work in organic synthesis but none yet to empty a dishwasher.
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Well, if we were starting from scratch {u,}int8_t should definitely not be character type; instead we would have byte_t (plus an explicitly sized variant, octect_t?) as the general universally aliasable byte type, and all of these would be guaranteed to be distinct types.

But today, uint8_t is in practice always a char type. You can static_assert if you want to be completely sure. Or just use std::byte.
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For example, Harry Truman, and his sacking of MacArthur. Now that there's been more info released regarding Army biowarfare programs in the late 40s/early 50s, recruitment of the Japanese specialists immediately after WW2, etc...
Yeah for the most part in the US there's very little legal protections in the code that state authorities can use to vindicate an employee. I think the only protections are things like age, sexual, racial discrimination. The PIP itself is designed to gather evidence that the company has a cause to rebut any claim of illegal discrimination. But if you don't start out with one of those claims, it's moot to disprove the cause.

I could be wrong - some more progressive states may have more protections than this. And certainly folks who are employed under collective bargaining agreements have more protections. That wouldn't apply at Amazon, though.
This is certainly a topic of debate (obviously) and not settled within, as far as I can tell, any "section" of society.

Anyway, even assume you buy into that, it's usually unidirectional: a person's personal infractions don't necessarily have to destroy one's appreciation for their artwork.

The O'Keefe case (not that I necessarily do or do not agree with it) is the reverse: his work reflects poorly on his character. This directional flow, as far as I can tell, is not really hotly debated. People don't really debate "does engaging in bad behavior make you a bad person?" they just debate whether specific behavior is bad or not. Totally different from the art/artist debate.
Are you guys able to offer any guidance on numerical stability of linear algebra problems? For example, the Woodbury matrix identity's stability seems uncertain based on https://mathoverflow.net/questions/80340/special-considerati...
Fortunately I was in a situation where I'm not too bothered about not getting the job but admittedly it would have been nice to have this chat with them.

I am _very_ familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and would, of course, adapt to house style, but where I am now we set up a nice pipeline in Dagster with a whole lot of boxes for assets, and at the risk of being non-technical I want the box with the bug to be the one that turns red. If I use x[] I get that. If I use x.get the red box could be three modules downstream because of a NoneType Exception.
The problem is this is on purpose. Those at the top are good at the political game so they make the game all about politics.
> It's kind of mind-blowing to know that the thing used to run an entire PC was later used for pocket toys like the Tamagotchi a handful of years later.

Perhaps ironically, all of the microprocessors of the early and mid 1970s, the 6502 included, were intended as embedded controllers. Systems where you couldn't justify the expense of a "real" computer, and didn't want to design full custom electronics. Like for an engine control unit, or, indeed, a video game. (Although not for handheld battery-powered units originally, only the later CMOS revisions had low enough power draw for that to be practical.)

That hobbyists would make single-board computers with about the capability of an early 1960s minicomputer using chips like the 6502 or 8080 - and then find those machines useful enough to create a large market - was quite a surprise, and an upset, to both the semiconductor and computer manufacturing companies. MOS was one of the first to recognize that market, and sell direct via mail order. The easy availability of samples, and low cost in small quantities, was one of the reasons for the 6502's success against its bigger competitors. Motorola, Intel, TI, etc. at the time were marketing to the engineers at companies that made car engines, CNC machines, telephone exchanges, etc.
Wasn't the lesson of Vietnam, that the "war at home", the battle for the hearts and minds of the TV audience, was far more important than any reality troops faced? See "Kill counts" and then everything up to recent headlines about which missile was shot down by whom and "this wasn't combat" but that over there a few hundred miles, that was.
Binary thinking will do that - you’re making a very sweeping claim without acknowledging that not everything fits cleanly into it. Even if we accept for the sake of argument that, say, the North Vietnamese government was terror on earth justifying any possible action against it, Allende wasn’t a Communist and nor were East Timor, Bangladesh, Cambodia, etc. so this is effectively arguing that you let someone be shot because you thought they might grow up to be a murderer.
That's fine and I believe you. But does this negate every other thing he's done that is objectively right? What if he atoned?

John Lennon beat his wife (and wrote songs about it!!) but I still see morons with "Imagine" t-shirts preaching peace.
Ask HN: Do you use reading or computer glasses for computer usage?
My younger coworkers are all running their WQHD monitors at 100% scaling, I'm at 125% with the monitor pulled maybe 16 inches from my face. I'm in front of a monitor for close to eight hours per day.

I'm in my mid 40's and I can still read my kindle without issue, though some books are getting progressively more difficult.

I was looking into reading glasses, but apparently there are also computer glasses. I'm going to discuss with my optometrist during my next visit, but would like to go in prepared.

Are you using reading or computer glasses? How did you decide which one to use?
Are you using reading and computer glasses?
Any questions I should ask my optometrist?
Once you read the dictionary everything else is just a remix by your own definition.

> If it's fair use, I can train a voice model with Freddie Mercury's voice

This is where it falls down. If it's fair use you can train your AI using clips of his voice. It does not give you the right to then produce a sample similar enough to one of his songs and use it in your own (without royalties). But you absolutely can use your FM voice to sing your own song because voices can't be copywriitten.
The Model 3 can do that, and the Model Y as well on some occasions... but the catch is that it is 1000 rated miles. Real world mileage is much lower.
Any examples? All I see in the recent release post is:

> ugrep is easily one of the if not most featureful grep programs in existence. And it is also fast.

which is burntsushi, ripgrep's author, defending ugrep from someone saying they only focus on performance at the cost of features.
That quote: I don’t buy it. There is plenty of incremental innovation now and more ambitious people still shoot for the stars. If AI is mediocre and doesn’t solve what humans want to solve, it won’t replace human desire for real innovation.

Ideas are cheap and plentiful, everyone has them. They will be pursued, just in greater numbers.
Other tesla cars included
Totally, like something from Mechwarrior 2
There's really no God algorithm needed, just something good enough to assist with research of the next tier of hardware, energy, and code for AI.
Is that the “peak” rate? Or your average rate? The article is about the latter. Additionally, it uses the actual measured average efficiency of driving for calculating miles, not what the car itself reports (teslas tend to be far too optimistic here)
Awesome day for privacy ! They'll try again with another name in three months and it'll pass tho
This is a nice chart, but what we need with EVs is modularity of the batteries. Imagine you're buying a 100kWh battery equipped EV when it's 15 year's old and the battery has 20% of its capacity, but it still weights the same as it was new. The rest of the car except few cosmetic issues is in great shape. If the battery consisted of 10 modules 10kWh each, you could sell for scrap all 10, add some money and buy let's say two new packs for a total of 20kWh (because you can't afford more now and you need a car for a 20 mile commute only). Your car becomes a lot lighter, you have an option to add capacity gradually, but even more importantly all the raw materials from the old battery that had only 20% of its capacity can now be recycled into 10 new 10kWh batteries.

If we are serious about moving to electric cars for environmental reasons we have to look beyond co2 and this could be one of very good first steps.
I'm not familiar with the structure of stream payouts on Spotify, but if 80 million streams gives 12 dollars, that means Taylor Swift's 26.1B streams give ~4k?

I knew the rates were bad but damn...
The Renault engines are used in the entry level cars like the A, CLA and B class. The kind of Mercedes used as taxis (E and S class) will not be impacted by that change.
Is support for webgames/HTML5 fully re-added yet? It's hard to tell, as few things have been announced on it, and the lack of webgame questions on the forum about 4.x is not reassuring.
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I don’t think making it easy to install is cargo-culting. In my case it’s an accessibility thing. I wanted a private alternative that I could give to nontechnical people in my life who had started using ChatGPT. Some don’t understand local vs cloud and definitely don’t know about ggufs or LLMs but they all install apps from the App Store.
So you think he said this then they immediately requested a meeting with him the following noon? So they basically didn’t deliberate at all? I doubt it.

They also should have known about the advancements so saying this in public isn’t consistent with him not being candid.
hey Ayewo, have a look at the link below, this is a short demo video showing how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlEajEoUytc&t=124s&ab_channe...
Old guru mechanics don't often like computers. lol
This already exists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAG_FBZJVJ8
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OpenAI chaos not about AI safety, says Microsoft boss
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The seal between wheel and tire in a tubeless tire is good enough to hold air for months to years. That's incredible, when you think about it.
>But if we have 2 * 0 = 0, the inverse of that would be 0 / 0 = 2, which is just not true

By the article's own definition, there are two inversions for each operation so why is only one of them given as "proof"? Taking the other inversion, we have 0 / 2 = 0 which is perfectly correct, and contradicts the claim that inversions "prove" why we can't divide by zero.

Why can't 0 / 0 be defined to be any number you wish? The inversions would work fine.
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Part 2 of a series covering the topics in Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman. Covers B-Trees, LSM-Trees, SSTables, and Bloom Filters.
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True, max charging speed is mostly theoretical and probably not experienced by most owners regularly. Until all of the car companies switched to the same plug, you need to look at the distribution and availability of fast chargers compatible with each car.

Even though some of these cars have charge speeds much higher than Tesla, it seems to be pretty difficult to actually find a compatible fast charger that is also working.

In all the reviews I've watched of new non-tesla road trips, everyone has awful charging experiences where they are stuck waiting at slow chargers.
> You had visa-sponsored employees who, once we Pivoted them and moved them out, no longer were authorized to work in the United States.

One of the main reasons I staid out of working in the US, maybe it's just sour grapes at this point (as I'm already in my early 40s that train has long passed) but seeing as how I would have basically been considered just a modern work slave it makes me think that I made the right choice. Also, all the best to the poor people affected by this insanity, I'm sure that they deserved much better.
Forced ranking in your use case doesn't work because it's generally firm wide cascade. Is 6% of every team in every department in every org unnecessary?

No, in fact.. there's teams that should be 2x as big and teams that should be completely let go.

Management actually needs to do what they get the big bucks for and make strategic decisions about what business lines do/don't need to be staffed rather than culling arbitrary %s everywhere.

Think - Google Bard vs Search vs Ads vs Youtube vs their 27 different chat/video apps vs .. etc.
What's the source of those comments?
This is Edmunds. They are better at making pretty graphs that look like they would be informative, than at actually informing.

The Out of Spec Motoring 10%/15 minute challenge is a much better practical measure: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_jw_Q1ikuE93fZjRZyx0...

It also highlights a lot of issues being mentioned by others here. The Taycan is amazing... when it isn't being let down by their sibling company (EA). The Model 3 base is really a bargain, with competitive speeds and one of the lowest prices.

And Tesla's 4680 batteries so far? Terrible.
Sounds like a list of things to do if you don't have a family, friends, pets, hobbies, chores or a job.
Could you point me to the timestamp where it empties a dishwasher?
Those vigilante groups do it largely when a large SUV is parked illegally, such as on a sidewalk. You don't have as much of a chance to park like that in the US.
I don't know... I hear what you're saying, and I partially agree with it, but it's not as simple as "only FAANG is the problem". There are trickle-down effects on the rest of the industry and society too. Touched upon it in a cousin thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473513), where I was arguing that the big tech companies have trickle-down effects that drive up wages across industries and makes devs more and more unaffordable to non-tech, non-FAANG companies.

I've never complained about equity or such because I never had any, having never worked for a big tech company. Plus side, I never had to do leetcode either :) But even then, my last job was at a F1000 old-school manufacturer, and even there I was paid $100k, with free lunches, loose PTO, company paid trips, etc. -- all for making a simple frontend in React, utilizing less skill than I ever have before (because it's so specialized into that stack nowadays, vs the old days where you also had to deal with networking, sys admin, VMs, etc.) Those were cultural things they copied from tech companies. At other jobs before that, I was still paid much more than most of my peers, who had better education and who've worked their asses off for years. Before 2023, dev work could launch you into the middle class after just a few months of bootcamp and a good reference or two. What other profession is like that?

I think that's my primary gripe with modern US SWE: it's a get-rich-quick scheme requiring little actual skill or training, and sometimes, little actual work. The work isn't that hard, and something like Upwork is probably more representative of what a realistic market would pay (much less).

If I ever imagine myself to be fairly compensated because not everyone can do coding (which is true)... then I look at how teachers, adjunct professors, electricians, plumbers, truckers, etc. are paid and I realize yeah, no... I just sit on my ass all day, code a few hours a day and sit in on meetings and such and the money comes in. It's not even in the same league as other professions in terms of how hard you have to work vs how much you get paid. Especially when I look at my actual friends in tech proper, who work like 10-15 hours a week by their own admittance a week and make way more money. All around it just screams "bubble".

We're not paid this much because of our skills. We're paid this much because capital was hoping to cash in on the hypergrowth before it bursts.
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It takes forever (like an hour) to install the data science stack plus pytorch and cuda libraries plus other hardware related libraries.
I have never heard this perspective. What are some examples of where he has been mischaracterized?
I cofounded a company back in 2021, at the time I was 37. I still felt too inexperienced to be doing what I was doing. Can't imagine having the hubris to think you know how to start a company in your early 20's.
> ...> Llama: The third planet from the sun is called Mars.

Ask it if is there life on Mars in that parallel reality