skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pretty much only go out now for stuff I can't make my self, or as a social thing.

Most restaurant food needs to be simple and easy so they can get you in and out quick.
That sounds more like a jailbreaking or model safety scenario than prompt injection.

Prompt injection is specifically when an application works by taking a set of instructions and concatenating on an untrusted string that might subvert those instructions.
“All you can eat” rarely means “you can eat as much as you can afford” but rather means “you pay one price and can eat as much as you like for that price”.

That a conveyor belt is involved doesn’t change the offer.
These LLMs do not have a concept of factual correctness and are not trained/optimized as such. I find it laughable that people expect these things to act like quiz bots - this misunderstands the nature of a generative LLM entirely.

It simply spits out whatever output sequence it feels is most likely to occur after your input sequence. How it defines “most likely” is the subject of much research, but to optimize for factual correctness is a completely different endeavor. In certain cases (like coding problems) it can sound smart enough because for certain prompts, the approximate consensus of all available text on the internet is pretty much true and is unpolluted by garbage content from laypeople. It is also good at generating generic fluffy “content” although the value of this feature escapes me.

In the end the quality of the information it will get back to you is no better than the quality of a thorough google search.. it will just get you a more concise and well-formatted answer faster.
I don’t agree in this case. Well, maybe I agree on the ultra shitty corporate part. But these are public photos, and if I’d looked at one it could have some influence, probably tiny, on my own drawings. Seems reasonable that the same would be true of my tools.

If they were scanning my private messages, things would be different.
Thank you both for your input.

@gtirloni can you share more about your experiences talking to founders? Did they just disagree with you that there was a problem at all?
>Google Docs created in 2006

tech was based on an acquired company, Google just abused their search monopoly to make it more popular(same thing they did with YT). This has been the strategy for every service they've ever made, Google really hasn't launched a decent in-house product since Gmail and even that was grown using their search monopoly as free advertising

>Google Docs originated from Writely, a web-based word processor created by the software company Upstartle and launched in August 2005
Apparently in cars it’s weirder. Wire it one way and the wiring corrodes. Go the other way and the body corrodes.
The advent calendar design was such a good idea since you're releasing this in December! My favorite is the clock that tells you your time at 22 and the functioning Christmas lights at 23!
Lack of top-down direction is what allowed that situation. Microsoft is MBA-driven and usually has a coherent product lineup, including messaging.

Also, "had." Google cleaned things up. They still sometimes do stuff just cause, but it's a lot less now. I still feel like Meet using laggy VP9 (vs H.264 like everyone else) is entirely due to engineer stubbornness.
The more I learn about Altman, the more I begin to think he is a pathological liar.
goats are ingenious at "ornery" and related fields.

a herd of goats produces a constant clatter of horns and chatter that sounds like a cocktail party. maybe more of a pre-school playground war. yeah, that's closer to the spirit of it.

We have a blind goat who is part of our dog pack. She was never with a herd, but she knows she is pack, and that makes it OK enough. She'll take great delight in stomping and being pointy at the dogs over the food dish when she's not hungry and knows she'll get put outside; just because "thats what we do." It means something different in goat language.

The hounds tolerate her as the silly pointy puppy who talks funny.

There's absolutely politics and dialog and emotions in that kind of interplay; but all i can see is that it would be very hard to classify and quantify into real data.
We should envy people that stand firm on their beliefs and are vindicated, not those that may experience backlash in the future because people that had a different view won in the end. Suffering hardship for doing what you think is right is not something to envy.

Don't envy martyrs, wish for a world without the need for them.
> "I got a minor piece wrong"

You were entirely wrong.

I generally remember this bit of grammar as the apostrophe replacing the missing letters of the contraction (which is not needed for the possessive situation).
"...our very expensive grinder." To save you the effort: that's about $4300 of coffee grinder, in that video. (Weber EG-1, Black. White is $400 "cheaper.")
I recall the Signetics 2650 as having 15-bit internal addressing with the 16th bit used for an indirect addressing mode. But yes, not all 15 bits being routed out to pins it had pretty limited memory potential.
I recall reading that Bernie Taupin and Elton John first met when they separately answered an ad for a company that wrote jingles and music for commercials. Apparently the two were partnered together at the company and would crank out a high volume of content every day. If true, this gives insight into their prolific output during the late sixties and early seventies.
Perlin Noise (and it's successor Fractal Noise) are incredible bang-for-your-buck when adding realism and/or an "organic" feel to things. You can see it used to great effect, for example, in Aladdin (1992) for the scene where they escape from the Cave of Wonders.
I think Pensando and Xilinx are the networking story, not pcie. The clusters use Cray's slingshot. Within a node, the x64 cores and GPU units are on a common fabric which is also not pcie.
I feel that more than you realize

That was basically what magic leap did to the whole AR development market. Everyone deep in it knew they couldn’t do it but they messed up so badly that it basically killed the entire industry
Prompt injection has absolutely nothing to do with censoring ideas. You're confusing the specific prompt injection class of vulnerabilities with wider issues of AI "safety" and moderation.
> there's no way you guys would get the same comp though?

Nadella was directly involved and he's way smarter than that. Comping one the best ML teams in the world correctly is child's play compared to undoing Balmer's open source mess.
It also works for very narrow sets of dishes. Nobody is an expert in every type of food in the world. Parent poster was just humblebragging.
Not in this case. Since the non-ethical market participants are non-ethical, they tend to use non-ethical means: like hiding from or like lying to their customers about where and how their products were produced.

Therefore it is not really an informed decision of the customer that makes them successful. It rather is the lack of transparency of the market, due to the non-ethical sellers lying and regulation being too lax.
The CEO is an instrument of the board. The CEO is not there to lead the board. This is just backstabbing, plain and simple.
A lot of “data engineers” are former db analysts and such that don’t know much of anything technically outside of SQL and even that might be something they only are “certified” to know rather than actually good at.

It’s basically becoming a title I’d associate with being low-skill. I used to be a “software engineer in data” and never call myself a data engineer because people would think I don’t know how to write/maintain production services, just write ETL pipelines
To me, that sounds like he acknowledged his power but disagreed with the person who said it. He's just repeating the question but shifted to it being fulfilling (and not about money). Without the question being included, I think it's hard to use this quote as proof.

He's also said something similar in another interview:

“One of the takeaways I’ve learned is that this concept of having enough money is not an idea that’s easy to get across to people. I have enough money. What I want more of is, like, an interesting life, impact; access to be in the conversation. So I still get a lot of selfish benefit from this. What else am I going to do with my time? This is really great. I cannot imagine a more interesting life than this one and a more interesting thing to work on.”
In most restaurants, the food itself is a loss leader. The real money is in booze and drinks. Why most diners back east have a bar. All the money is made in the bar drinks.
I'm not justifying it, if I were the manager I'd be pissed too haha.
I think the OpenAI shenanigans are far from over and the next act is likely to play out. A couple of my personal opinions are:

- As PG pointed out Sam would find his way to the top of an island of cannibals. If you're generous to Toner's side in this article she likely _was_ alarmed by how Sam tried to get other board members to turn against her. When she walked into the arena with Altman to try and remove him however he had much more experience and orchestrated an incredible counter-coup.

- There must be an army of attorneys representing the board members, and investors because there are huge potential legal pitfalls to destroying value, or failing fiduciary duties.

- We don't know a lot because anything put out in public has to be spotless legally. If you're a board member and you know the truth, the only upside to leaking more info is clout, but the downsides are being sued and tied up in court losing a lot of time and money.

- People seem dissatisfied with what was revealed in this article but Toner has likely been advised by lots of counsel on exactly what can be said, and the list of those things is probably miniscule. I'd say she's doing the best she can to give the public more info and I'm happy she's taken the effort to do so.
MatterGen: A generative model for inorganic materials design
The InfoTaskForce interpreter was one of the earliest 3rd party z machines. That dates to 1987 and was originally developed on the Macintosh but was ported to DOS, Unix, Amiga, Atari, ... Zip (Mark Howell) was also highly influential and ported everywhere. The only definitive date I can find is for it is version 2 (late 1993) but there are usenet references to it in 1992. Frotz was a re-write of zip and dates to 1995 or so.
For someone who isn't experienced in how Linux crashes - what currently happens when there's an error that can't be recovered from? Does the device just restart?
Backstory please.
I normally would agree with you but there are cases where what was spoken and its meaning are disjointed.

Example: Picture of a plate of cookies.
Obese person: “I would kill for that right now”.

Comment flagged. Obviously the person was being sarcastic but if you just took the words at face value, it’s the most negative sentiment score you could probably have. To kill something. Moderation bots do a good job of detecting the comment but a pretty poor job of detecting its meaning. At least current moderation models. Only Meta knows what’s cooking in the oven to tackle it. I’m sure they are working on it with their models.

I would like a more robust appeal process. Like bot flags, you appeal, appeal bot runs it through a more thorough model, upholds the flag, you appeal, a human or “more advanced AI” would then really detect whether it’s a joke sentiment, sarcasm, or you have a history of violent posts and it was justified.
Yes, but not meaningfully. The higher the voltage you get, the more arching there is when a relay trips (also depends on if there's any sort of inductive load, think the sparks you see when you unplug a vacuum without turning it off).

But when you think about the impact that has on switches and relays, realize that in your own home you have 120V controlled by switches. Very cheap switches last decades (though admittedly not switched as often as something like a blinker).
There is intuition you can develop to understand when it might be not good at solving the problem and when it will be. I have 10+ yrs coding experience, tons of side projects besides work and I find it amazing.

I actually think maybe it is even better with more experience as it allows you to understand what it excels at and be critical of its output to recognize when it might be wrong.

I would usually be able to do whatever it does, it would just take more energy and time, but I am able to almost immediately recognize when it is wrong.
> Your cryptosystem is not responsible for the stability of your storage medium, and your storage medium is not responsible for the security of your cryptosystem

This is exactly why your crypto system should not rely on spontaneously writing many gigabytes on a read operation, without asking. I couldn't have said it better myself.

What you are advocating is crypto intruding on the storage mechanism inappropriately. It's a layer violation.

I think if it's important to the end user, you could write fairly decent code at the app layer that asynchronously re-encrypts old data in a way that doesn't harm the user. That code would need to have a strategy for write failures. A basic cryptography tool should probably not have this as a built-in feature however, for a few reasons including those I've stated.
Uh, what? Are you claiming that if a company experiences a 10x (!) increase in valuation, that the dilution fully destroys that upside and the average developer experiences no increase in their comp? That is not even vaguely close to true in my experience.
GSuite for calendar makes sense too. Chat sucks, and Meet would be decent if it weren't so laggy, but those are two things you can easily not use.
They are an ads company. Focus is never on "core" products.
Smaller transformers with whole numbers, right? But why 4 and not 3 or 6?
MatterGen: Property-Guided Materials Design
My understanding of BGP is that it’s so old (and was relatively well designed) that it could now be considered an arcane magic once widespread but now only known by some old wizards.
Except such cultures inevitably morph back into individualistic ones, typically once educational attainments and female emancipation kick in.

It's not about culture, it's about economic conditions.
I mean a lot of problems are amenable to subdivision into parts where the process of each part is not needed for the other parts. It's not even clear that humans usually hold in memory all of process of the previous parts especially the it won't be used later.
GSuite has existed since 2006, so it's not like Google lacks focus on it.
> CSMA/CD

Lol I'd forgotten about base-T.
I guess an important place to start is how you define “mediocre employees.”

Is showing up on time, working steadily, making some progress, and then going home mediocre or excellent? Is having fanatical drive, taking sole ownership of the most important projects, and working 14 hours a day mediocre or excellent?

Which of these employees is less mediocre to you:

• Employee 1 - Says they’ll get 4 things done every week and always gets those things done

• Employee 2 - Says they’ll get 10 things done every week and they always get 8 done, but you can never predict which 8

There’s no clear definition of “mediocre” so you can bend it to whatever picture you want to paint.

I think my overall point is that it’s easy to look at a startup that fails and go, “the early employees were mediocre” and just make up whatever criteria you want to paint those people as mediocre. But it almost certainly would’ve failed with a Tech Bro Dream Team as well.

Most people (myself included) are just average and mediocre and will do anything to convince themselves they’re not. “Oh, I worked at a successful startup and mediocre early employees are death to a startup so I must not be mediocre.”
That only works if the "usable public transit" is in place. And we also have to consider that a large portion of the poor do have a reliable vehicle. I have personally kept a lot of those running for friends and family and the idea of only the wealthy being able to afford a parking space they too subsidize with taxes they pay feels pretty wrong to me.
I don't know if that really excuses Google in this case because it's a productization problem. Google never tried to release a ChatGPT competitor until after OpenAI had. OpenAI has been wildly successful as the first mover, despite having to blaze some new product trails. Even after months of watching them and with near-infinite resources, Google is still struggling to catch up.
Notice how bots and AI are lumped, that’s called a classification. I was referring to bot/AI not pre-cognitive AI or GenAI. AI is a broad term, hence the focus on bot/AI. I guess it would make more sense if it was written bot/ML?
Hold on a second...4x the voltage means you only need 1/4th the current. The power loss in the wire is current^2 x the wire's resistance, so 1/4th the current does indeed mean 1/16th the losses.

But 1/4th the current means you can use a higher gauge wire. Looking at a table of wire gauge current capacities it looks like if your maximum current is 1/4th you can switch to wire with 1/4th the cross section. And resistance is inversely proportional to cross section, so 1/4th the cross section means 4x the resistance.

Doesn't that then bring the savings down from the 16x you would get if you just upped the voltage down to 4x?
The fairphone 5 is available new preinstalled with /e/os from the murena store:

https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairpho...
Not to mention Jekyll
LinkedIn data says ~44% of the OpenAI team is "Engineering", the rest is operations, human resources and sales.

So most likely, if most of the employees moved over to Microsoft, they wouldn't get the same comp, at most 44% of the company would.
Ask HN: 3 years ago the end of Centos Linux was announced, where are we now?
In December 2020 Redhat announced [0] "The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream". In response to that several new projects emerged to continue the Centos Linux tradition, notably Alma Linux and Rocky Linux.

Where have Centos users amongst the HN community ended up? Are you still downstream of RHEL using one of these new projects, or have you moved upstream of RHEL by adopting Centos Stream, or maybe you've moved away from Redhat ecosystem altogether?

[0] https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html
That’s wild to me, many high schools across the country have people that can do 370lb DL at 185lb.

I can understand the struggle at an older age, but age matters a lot here.
I would strongly assume Buzzard believes those two positions to be perfectly compatible and consistent. I'm sure it would be very insightful to hear him explain how they are. Hope someone asks him about it.

> formalization would be a great practical tool to mitigate those problems

Yes, I agree. V. Voevodsky's story is a great example how things can go wrong and I very much admire him for the consequences he took from that.

However, if some mathematician has the goal of advancing a certain field, I don't think you can argue convincingly in 2023 that they should formalize their papers because making extra sure there's no errors is worth the time investment in terms of advancing the field. Again, I expect to see this slowly change.
This is exactly when I've used wireless charging the most, after my physical connector has broken. It let's me extend the life of the phone.
Something Awful still exists and maintains a shockingly high level of discussion for the topics I'm interested in (tech, mental health, anime).
> “Fancy titles like ‘Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology’ can lead to a false sense of understanding of the complex process of entrepreneurial innovation,” Khosla wrote in an essay

Exactly. Being a rent-seeking grifter doesn't make you an expert. In anything.
On Writing by Stephen King - contains a lot great advice and interesting anecdotes for writing fiction but is easily applicable to other mediums, including software development. And, of course, well written.

4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burke - deconstructs the hustle/productivity mindset and rejects it in favor of an existential view of accepting your finitude and prioritizing accordingly. I wouldn’t say the book changed my mind but reassured some of my feelings and put some words to why trying to pursue too many goals or experiences typically fails or is unfulfilling. Sort of ironically takes its main point a little too far by the end in my opinion but I recommend it anyway, it’s pretty short.

Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner - still in progress but clearly a great book so far. I recommend it to anyone living in western US/MX.
You Can Buy Hemingway's Typewriter. But Would You Use It?
I'd just like a DRM filter on steam. You can filter out free to play and DLC so they never appear on the store page. It would be great if you could also filter out DRM (even by type if they're feeling motivated).

Then i'd bet if they gave the publisher statistics on how many people never see their game because it contains denuvo or a 3rd party launcher you'd see meanigful change, and if not then at least the store is nicer for the steam customers who care about it.
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
`tailscale status` should tell you which nodes do or don't have a direct connection.
He and all his contemporaries are. You can't rise to that position without being a sociopath.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
> They do not have the power to defy economics and charge arbitrarily high rents as supply tends to infinity.

Housing supply will never trend to infinity.

Ok I realize you exaggerate and probably meant to some very large number. Even that is quite wishful thinking since housing is expensive to build and takes time and people (who are in short supply, tried hiring a house building crew lately?)

> More supply pushes rents down even if all the excess supply is acquired by investors.

Can you name a few US cities where this has worked out that way?
The biggest value prop of the 34010 was "save money and time because you don't need a separate CPU and GPU to make an Xterm (or similar graphics device)...it's all in one chip". And, at the time, the Xterm was going to be the desktop computer (see: The network is the computer).

The other value prop is "just code to our TIGA standard and your code will run on all the many tms340 devices that are going to be out there". That didn't work out either.
Total aside. I just looked at https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Ocellus -- there is one main glider. I noticed the two biggish curvy Golgi apparatus-looking-things on the sides and wondered if they play a necessary role in preserving the cyclical pattern. I guessed they might be important to prevent the three squares on each end from breaking down when the glider collides with them. I couldn't tell for sure as the animation was too fast. Well, turns out there is a very nice LifeViewer that allowed me to play with the sequence! By stepping the simulation I could see that the curvy structures play a role.
> or really just they're the first ones to put together a bunch of stuff that everyone knew

Thats what 80% of “innovation” is, with the exception of applied science fields.
A kernel panic handler writes down a piece of stack, a piece of code, contents of registers, and some minimal message.
Normally the machine does not reboot, so that you could photograph the console maybe.

(The screen normally remains white on black. The console can as well be a COM port.)

You can configure it to auto-reboot by putting a timeout value to /proc/sys/kernel/panic.