skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our process, we use almost the simplest possible tasks like making an HTTP request to our API and displaying the data im some form and ask people to solve them 'just as they would as part of a project they are working on'.

They get a timeframe and have to quickly elaborate on their process, what they got done and what they didn't get done.

There are drastic differences between candidates. Some barely manage the task or are satisfied as soon as it works. Some over engineer to no end and reason about all the bells and whistles and others write abstracted code without overdoing it, add some tests and rudimentary docs.

The way people approach this simple task and what their threshold for 'solving' it is has told me more about people than any difficult interview question.
I love Joe Armstrong, its a shame he passed away a few years ago. He is always a joy to listen to when he does talks. On that note, it would be pretty awesome to be able to just have a ticketing system this simple, but you'd definitely need a web UI for it to sell itself these days.
I think maybe the author has a point. It does seem like the quantity of people are suffering from memory issues has increased lately.
I see this the same way as the relationship between cinema and theatre and I would expect prices to be similar. Maybe at thr beginning they'll try to keep concert prices the same, but eventually they will as this type of entertainment becomes more mainstream
ESA Astronaut Captures Images of Rare Thunder Phenomenon
But there is no black square at the end of the blog post, therefore it is not a mathematical proof. QED
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
Why don't they just give you a new email? I mean obviously it's stupid such a solution would be required, but wouldn't that solve your problems?
I thought the trend in fashion could be traced back to the rise of non Western customers. Many Chinese and Middle Eastern people can read Latin characters well, but it’s still easier in a cleaner font.
https://nifi.apache.org

https://docs.saltproject.io/en/getstarted/

https://stackstorm.com
I have not a single bad thing to say about Dr. Promislow, I never studied under him in graduate school and only worked loosely with him in undergraduate research. I also played a lot of music with him back in the day. If you are trying to sleuth my CV you are looking at the wrong school entirely.
Arguably, equality has no default, meaningful implementation. Object identity is a good default, while data-like objects=records should have the trivial equality in place. But a connection is not equal to any other, even if their internal state is equivalent.
Kiss was known for putting on a show. Much like Taylor Swift is nowadays. You might not love her music, but by all accounts Ms Swift is one of the best entertainers that has ever lived. People who hate her songs love her shows.

Rush toured with Kiss. Probably the most technically talented band in history said “yeah, we knew how to make music, but those guys taught us how to put on a show”.
https://chat.lmsys.org/

is tons of fun for playing with this. I ran the Jon Rahm Masters thing through a dozen or so times:

- a couple of the claude models get it
- a couple of the llama2 70b derivative models get it
- the tulo DP 70b model explain how it got it

GPT-4 is very big and very heavily subsidized, but the other big ones can do all this stuff. I'm aware the authors of the papers know that "GPT-4" is a seller, and so the title is technically accurate, but if we as a community aren't going to push back against Open Philanthropy's dirty-money K-Street-to-Wall-St-to-University-Ave routine, who the hell is?
I can see the problems with it, just like I can see problems with other forms of automation. The point I am making though is that your presupposition is wrong. You are falling for some type of labor-theory-of-value fallacy. AI art can inspire awe, a primal sensation, desite the fact that no human toiled away on it. Of course that can be disheartening to some artists, but that does not make it any less true.
That is still an actively used term in Google.
Perhaps the hand is an example of something for which you really need an actual model of the anatomy to draw convincingly whereas lots of other things (eg faces) a very simple proximity model will generate just fine. Since a diffusion model doesn't have an actual conceptual model of the things it generates (it literaly just learns to remove noise from training images and then eventually "removes the noise" from a totally random bitstream until it generates your image).

It's interesting that lots of artists practise sketching using wooden models of a hand that they can pose in different ways.[1]

[1] This type of thing can be found in most art shops https://www.quickdrawsupplies.com/product/8-20cm-artists-pos...
That's why I brought up the question, and I'm baffled why so many people have been downvoting it. To me, its use seems very specific yet nothing I read about it told me anything concrete. From what I can tell, it actually is meant to broadly mean the extreme end of scaling. The threshold is still unknown to me, but I'll just take it that Meta is hyperscale.
I guess I'm lucky I've only been doing a spate of C++ for about 18 months. In the early stages before ChatGPT it was a bit tough but I was also working with admittedly simpler code (less templated code). I have a decent grasp of C including virtually every compiler/linker error that a C compiler would spit out, so I could manage a lot of the superset style errors, but as more C++ work came in, the more inscrutable the diagnostics.
partly its because it just doesnt matter EXACTLY what font. you might give Elon's rebranding of Twitter to the Unicode X glyph as a most famous recent exemplar application of this perspective -- plus it saves money on custom font crafting or analysis work.

two: there really are a certain set of traits an ideal font should have and only a subset of all possible fonts have them. so just pick one of them, dammit -- Janet! -- and move on.
Maybe, if you already reached the atmosphere with it. Obviously, current AI tech scales with compute. It "may" be the case, that just more compute is enough to reach the moon..
The image equivalent would probably be rearranging grids but only a few grids at a time.

After all, the unscrambling here is within words, not across them.
Why Repairing Your EV Is So Expensive
I still dont see how its any different from glassdoor
Illinois just took a huge step forward by eliminating cash bail. It hasn't had all the negative impacts that detractors predicted.

I would think a libertarian-orientated place like HN would be in full support. This model should be copied across the country so people aren't unconstitutionally jailed before being convicted. Unfortunately, the discussion has been focused on politics as a Democratic legislature and Governor passed the law.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion...
Intel Neural-Chat-7B Model Achieves Top Ranking on LLM Leaderboard
This is similar to what I do (details depend on the specific position).
Hubble Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 1
Any ideas how the oil would have transpired from the back of the ear inside? Sounds unlikely to me.
I think you just get used to it. Some things that can help:
1. Setup auto linting so everything auto indents and is uniform
2. Use something like paredit that helps you edit S-expressions (https://calva.io/paredit/)
I don't think they're saying they're comparable, its just that a lot of people were waiting for the cheaper standalone firewall, which is what the gateway lite is. also its $129 not $172.
> Their puzzles start feeling like chores

Advent of chore ? :)

..though I agree - never went past 10th day or so.
It's quite easy to hide (provide plausible deniability for) low productivity if the person is smart about it. Complain about environment issues, broken CI builds, unexpected complexity etc., there was one meeting too, then put in the minimum amount of progress.
Feeding the above scrambled text "UNDERNEATHTHEGAZEOFORIONSBELTWHERETHESEAOF"into the Google search box also segments and punctuates correctly (Showing results for..correct text..).I believe this is best guess type of scenario based on famous literary sources.
I’m Guessing the sites will then fallback to another protocol correct?
Or a NYTimes Gift Article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk...
> Nix (and by extension Guix) has had remote builds and signed build provenance for nearly 2 decades.

Where is this documented? When I search for "Nix code signing" I mostly get issue reports for people experiencing breakage due to macOS's (separate) code signing requirements.

Edit: To be clear, I like Nix, and I find many of its properties appealing. At the same time, it's not clear to me that Homebrew has too much to glean here: Homebrew isn't trying to be a totalizing package/system state management solution, and has historically leaned heavily on automation and external services (GHA, GHCR, etc.). These are design decisions with tradeoffs; they've also informed the proposed build provenance design substantially.
Demonstrating a Top-Ranked 7B Chat Model on the LLM Leaderboard
My firewall blocks your comment so I will comment on your name.

Nothing should be taken seriously from a user named spacebacon.
At this point, did we expect anything different?

Whether an oil sultan, king or baron, they all borrow from the same playbook. First is denial that the problem exists, then there is disputing the science, and then there is stalling citing humanitarian reasons.

This playbook is not new, it's been used to great success (along with buying media, scientists, doctors and politicians) by the tobacco giants, causing millions of unnecessary deaths and great amount of suffering.

These people have no morals, scruples, and are ready to throw the whole world and its future in the singular pursuit of profit.

At the moment the only thing that surprised me is the amount of shamelessness that is required to host the biggest climate summit as one of the biggest polluters in the world, and also dispute the already established science. The gall of this is beyond me, it's a shameful charade.
This is public now but happened in 2019. It wouldn't be news to OpenAI's board.
If we're speaking very recently, some of this may be due to the covid isolation.

Chronic stress, reduced physical activity and subclinical depression is quite the cocktail for attention and memory difficulties.
>She also has a history of mental illness.

Was this diagnosed before he climbed into her bed when she was 4 y.o.? I'm no psychologist and I don't know what her own diagnosis involves but it seems that this diagnosis could be identifying a condition that resulted from abuse dealt by someone that she normally would trust.

Overall from what I have read the last few weeks Altman seems to be an unethical sleeze who decides how to proceed on everything based on an analysis of what he can get for himself - the perfect type of person who would abuse someone who he saw as being in a weaker position, like his little sister with no thought to how that would affect her later in life.
Numerous studies suggest that excessive social media usage can negatively affect cognitive abilities, memory retention, and sustained focus.
Nicholas Carr wrote about this almost two decades ago.

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-goog...

I refer to it in my post: https://renegadeotter.com/2023/08/24/getting-your-focus-back...
> I suspect a lot of content is a bit “if you know you know” sort of insider knowledge stuff

It is, the kind of knowledge that takes decades to accumulate you won't see on people's blog posts. This is why ultra low-latency and high-performance systems engineers can ask more for their services.

> How’d you get into this/what do you do for work

I'm not the OP but for HFT shops thread-per-core design is the only right way. Prop trading, big market makers etc, we all go to great lengths to isolate the workloads as much as possible.
Serif fonts read fine on any screen with at least a pixel density of Apple's Retina displays. Subjective preferences are another matter, of course. I prefer serifs even on worse displays, because my brain decodes them better. And I will basically refuse to read sans serif in print, or rather, my brain refuses to comply anyway.
That's ok. You get to be impressed or not impressed by whatever impresses or doesn't impress you. Maybe nothing is impressive! I'm extremely fine with a statement like that.

I question whether your bounding the human time to a minute is valuable here though. If the jumbled content were multiple pages long instead of only 23 words, would it be somehow more impressive despite the process being exactly the same?

> I am having a hard time overcoming the likelihood that scrambled and cipher-encoded words/solutions are part of the training corpus, thus fully explaining the phenomenon.

Scrambled words are part of my training corpus too, but it still takes me a lot longer than the machine, and I don't even need to give the machine a hint about what's going on. I just say "tell me what this says" and a moment later it does.
> I don't think every user has to reproduce the build; it should suffice to have a handful of verifiers building and checking the published versions. Someone needs to do it, but not everyone.

This works, but you still need a gossiping mechanism (and accompanying threshold model, etc.). That gets very complicated very fast!
Interactive map of underwater wrecks in Corsica, France
Of course it's easy to fake issues to justify lack of productivity for months when you're remote, but then you should be sharing your issues at the daily meetings so people can help you fix them to get on with work. That's what the dailys are for.

Keeping your blocking issues silent for days is what the problem is, not that you habe issues.
For reference, he explicitly mentions it in [0][1].

[0]: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
[1]: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
I know so many people who don't work in tech - some who work in blue collar jobs, in fact - that have Eero or Orbi or similar easy to use network extenders set up. Wanting to have wifi coverage away from the ISP-provided router isn't something that only tech insiders desire.
Oh, I see now. I mean, I don’t disagree that the most aggressive way for the ICRC to handle it would be to claim it as some kind of emerging customary norm rather than trying to whet appetites for a new AP to address it. You can never be sure what the results of treaty negotiations will be. Failure to ratify an AP would be positive evidence that there is no such norm. So why risk it?

The problem is that it’s wildly implausible that there is such an emerging customary norm. And there really is no way to claim with a straight face that this sort of thing falls under the terms of the GCs. And the problem with making aggressive claims about customary norms is that IHL really only does work if people agree to make it work. The worst thing that could happen is to have countries not even pay IHL lip service.

But this all gets to the really, really hard but fundamental question of international law: enforcement. I was piqued by you originally using the term “legislation” just because the way we think about legislation, there is usually an executive to enforce it. That’s part of what makes it “law.” But there is no such thing in international law, and given how overwhelmingly powerful states continue to be, there won’t be in my lifetime. I love the idea of international law, but this is what makes it so slippery and difficult and frustrating.
This video demonstrates a simple technique to extract motion from a video.
Ask HN: How to admit that you don't want to be on the manager track anymore?
Has anyone ever been promoted to an engineering manager and decided it wasn't for them? How did you broach this subject with your superior, and is there shame in doing so? I'm feeling quite alone in this and am looking for others who may have gone through the same thing.

I'm coming up to a year of being a manager, and I am strongly considering telling my manager I regret my decision to accept this position. I'm not sure how to start this conversation without sounding like I'm giving up. My manager recommended me for this position because I was one of the most senior members on our team at the time, and the team was growing too large for him to handle alone. What started as managing a few people has turned into managing a small team of junior engineers and a slew of contractors.

My days are mostly long, unhappy, and stressful. There are some weeks where I want to pull my hair out from having to deal with all the problems that get dumped into my lap. My sleep has been disrupted and my mood is not great, but I have started working with a personal trainer and running group to burn out some frustration.

Tips, stories, advice? Thank you!
Is that a filter for all of Medium, even those hosted by non-Medium domains? If so, I'm interested in the details!
Natural H2 Emissions in Colombian Ophiolites: First Findings
Just to add to your first point, many washers feature digital control of motors at the very low level, especially for BLDC motor types. This can reduce noise, increase efficiency and longevity of a motor. This requires electronics and software for precise timing control.
A Deep Dive into Jscrambler's Obfuscation – Part 1: Opaque Predicates
Thanks for sharing.

Browsing the before&after tag was especially enjoying: https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/categor...

I found a nice counter example to the trend presented in the article: https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_log...
This is unethical.

I don't necessarily blame the developer for selling: I understand that some offers are difficult to refuse. But I absolutely do blame him for being dishonest to his users and contributors.

No one was told about this. People only found out about the sale by chance, because someone noticed that the Play Store listing details were changed and made a post on Reddit.

When confronted on GitHub, the developer gave evasive answers, citing vague and unrelated issues, such as "the quality of the Android ecosystem dropping".

I assume a lot of users bought these apps with the expectation that they were not infested with ads, data mining, dark patterns, etc. Most people have automatic updates enabled, and they will get all of the above shoved into their face before they can prevent it.

The value of these acquisitions is determined almost entirely by the userbase. The developer was only able to get this deal because of his users. At the very least, they deserved to be treated with some basic amount of respect.
It hurts most because it was one of the few open source projects I regularly donated to.
> Mr. Musk explained that his plan was to colonize Mars to escape overpopulation and other dangers on Earth.

I don’t think Musk has ever been worried about overpopulation. The opposite is true.
This is a neat project but it doesn't seem to render the plant at the moment. It did render plants 20 minutes ago - perhaps the HN load has hurt it?

All of the code is available online, with great documentation. There is, in fact, a server back end for this project:

https://github.com/jim-fx/plantarium/tree/main
https://github.com/jim-fx/plantarium/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE....

I will be back in a few days when it is working again.
Several writers have argued that Life is just what biologists study, which sounds circular but is really saying the subject is more interesting than the definition.

From “Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology”:

Indeed, it is our view that the quest to understand this strangest of biological phenomena is often hindered by a persnickety insistence on defining it. Biologists cannot even agree on a unique definition of life itself; but that hasn’t stopped them from unraveling aspects of the cell, the double helix, photosynthesis, enzymes and a host of other living phenomena…
With that much money you can just pay an entire team to find places to send it for you.
It's much more complicated than that. The article 3 (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/) says two possible ways to get into a territorial scope of GDPR:

- the offering of goods or services

- the monitoring of behavior of data subjects

Offering doesn't mean that it's just available and/or sellable in EU. It's more complicated than that. EDPB has a guidance on this topic: https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/general-guidance/guide... In short, document shows examples where some services are available in EU, and sellable there but personal data isn't covered by GDPR.

On the other hand, my understanding is that monitoring of behavior is always covered by GDPR.

(I am not a lawyer and this is not a legal advice)
TFA talks a lot about corruption and it's way worse than people think.

Not that long in Belgium, in the port of Antwerp ("Anvers" in french), non-corrupt employees found a container with cocaine.

Before the authorities came to seize the shipment, corrupt cops tried to bribe the port custom employees to gain temporary access to the container (basically to steal part of the shipment before it'd be officially weighted).

I pity these people: when shipment go undetected, it's their fault. Then criminals try to bribe them. Then corrupt cops try to bribe them.

It's a sad state of affair.

Whether cocaine should be legal or not is another topic but it's not legal and there are killings related to cocaine traffic in Europe: consumers of cocaine have their share of responsibility too.
While Adam Neumann did something fishy it's much different from Altman conflict of interest. OpenAI is a non-profit and Altman is hired CEO not the owner of the company.
He didn't coin it: the movement's use of that name goes back to the Oxford group in 2011: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9a7xMXoSiQs3EYPA2/...

(He did use it once before then in a 2007 blog post, but if we're counting they sort of thing then https://archive.is/4d9oC from Anand in 2003 is even older.)
I personally find the presentation of corporate missions in quasi-religious terminology extremely off-putting. The company might be doing great things, but there ought to be cultural space left for things much more important than companies.
There's a great Corecursive podcast on the history of ELIZA: [0]

[0] https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/
Of course we do. Nothing wrong with that!
Social programs and "union-type programs" are not the same thing. You're comparing government provided social security / healthcare with a union while the two are completely different.

Strikes are paid for by the union, not the employer.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocryphal
Regardless if you like or dislike Altman, it is just a constant distraction to bring up his sister. I think most/all have heard it 10x by now. It’s very old, there has never been more evidence and his sister is mentally unwell. It serves no purpose to a a thread about OpenAI buying chips from a company he is invested in.

Does anyone get tired by the tech bros label always being thrown out when people disagree. Can we not all grow up and if we are to have disagreements, actually discuss it constructively?
Show HN: A Google Maps Scraper
Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019)
Like a tv?
There's a huge drop in the loss curve right at 8k steps. Isn't that unusual?
SkyECC was blown wide open by LE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_Sky_Global
Not if you already are exercising.
If human behaviour is naturally guided by fast changes (the D term in a PID controller), then literacy, or at least some mnemonic method to objectively compare states on much longer timescales, may be needed to artificially provide a way to reduce deviations from a desired setpoint (the I term in a PID controller; compare μηδὲν ἄγαν)
You may also want to look at SPDK and DPDK.