skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, found it buggy, but I don’t agree that they should only focus on search. Chrome is proof of how important a search engine is to a browser, and vice versa.

We should welcome browser competition to fight against Google’s dominance, and if there’s a company I trust to have my best interests in mind for this job it’s Kagi.
Which NTP site are you referring to? I’m keen to check out some examples.
I've also used DMS to migrate smaller datasets (~200GB) from AWS RDS MySQL 5.7 to RDS PostgreSQL 11. 10 seconds of downtime here was actually incurred not due to the migration itself, but to enable MySQL binary logging on the RDS instance, which requires a restart, and which AWS DMS uses to replicate changes from the replication source (MySQL) to the target (PostgreSQL).

Traffic was steered to the new PostgreSQL instance not with DNS/Route 53 weighted records, but an application-level percentage enroller (based on user ID). Our particular set-up did in fact have apps talking to both databases simultaneously, each with a percentage share of traffic, and so we did not need to incur additional downtime to cut off traffic to the original source database - though now you do have to worry about eventual consistency.

I wouldn't recommend using their Schema Conversion Tool. We instead migrated the data as 1-to-1 as possible into the PostgreSQL target table, and then used plpgsql triggers on the replication target table to clean/validate the data and write it to another table with our desired (and more strongly typed - no more storing JSON as TEXT) schema.

There were also some issues with the replication task seeming to stall and stop during the change data capture (CDC) phase. As mentioned support is kind of spotty in this area, though we learned it may have to do with sizing the DMS replication instance correctly.
The term translational is frequently used to describe basic research (eg. with cells or mice) that has applications to human health - findings in lab that make it to the clinic.
You can still configure an app password
> I’m in an okay job which I am thankful to have rn but I feel like I’m stagnating and not earning as much I should but at the same time not many jobs for what I’m interested in.

I am in same situation. Its been 2 yrs here and I happy with what I am doing but need more salary to survive. The Fintech one will pay more but I am not sure how fintech is doing.
One of my personal career mottos is to focus on a secondary objective, as I’m miserable with all the mess going on around the primary objective.

One of the things that inspired that was seeing how much better the mobile version of websites often were than their apps. Thinking about Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and similar. Their apps don’t have tabs, often drop state, and seem to occasionally focus on shiny over usable. My local newspaper prevents you from copying any text in the app. The mobile websites on the other hand tend to mostly have an annoying “our app provides a better experience” banner to bypass, otherwise they’re engineered to work, not push the envelope. They’re important enough for some resources, but it doesn’t seem like there is quite as much noise during the development for the ‘fallback version’. And I think that makes all the difference.
Because Apple is primarily a fashion statement/display of wealth. It’s a luxury good first and foremost, and that means a lot a certain part of our brain, and so we unconditionally (sometimes even unconsciously) defend it. Especially amongst those who enjoy tech in California, as in that situation it also becomes a pride point, which is probably a large subset of active HN users.
Aes has a blocksize of 128bits, which so 96 bit is the nonce size that gets you a 32 bit counter. You probably don't want a smaller counter. Things xsalsa technically have a larger nonce but in reality still derive a smaller nonce.
Ben and Brian's Google IO talks were fantastic. Their talks always made me realise that Google was a special place. Sad to see its not the case anymore from Ben himself.
I think the way F# implemented it is pretty good: if you want to use a keyword or whitespace in a variable or function name, it has to be enclosed in double backticks.

e.g:

[<Property>]
let ``Reverse of reverse of a list is the original list`` (xs:list<int>) =
List.rev(List.rev xs) = xs
> There’s something deep in the human mindset about resource anxiety and the importance of that not being a thing can’t be underestimated. So maybe it kind of was about the free food and clothing all along?

From the outside, this was much of the appeal of Google earlier on (and rare other places, at times): personal finances are taken care of, low corporate BS, no startup runway anxiety, no "if only we could spend resources on that thing", no "if only I could combine efforts with more people like me".

Instead of stress about modern cost of living, stress about whether there's going to be layoffs or bankruptcy, stress from untrustworthy leadership, etc., there's only... Hmmm, I just encountered another tricky application of technology problem that I want to solve, and it seems hard, but I can just focus on it and solve it.

For me, the appeal wasn't the myths about "smartest people in the world", nor the prestige (other than not being a downward arc on resume), nor the perks, nor the hip decor. Though, as you say, maybe some of the perks also gave a very base reinforcement of the sense of resource non-scarcity.
I don’t know about that sorry. It did let you suspend Windows totally, not sure how different that is than today. I had to take over responsibility for a device driver in windows 95/98 era and SoftICE offered a better debugger than microsoft for the task under Windows at that time.
> But, coming back to my first decade at Google, it was incredible to see employees valued above everything else. Perhaps this is a privilege only possible in a culture of infinite abundance. Or maybe not? Maybe it's possible in a limited-resource culture too, but only if the company is small.

Every team that I’ve been on where I felt this way was when that company was rapidly growing and successful. I can’t say the reverse is necessarily true, but can success be the key ingredient that enables this, not the company size?
you dont think a super intelligence will inherit any amount of moral or social framework from being trained on data that is 100% from humans?
How does that compare to leaving the trees grow, say, 25 more years? You’re only comparing the action of using them in construction.
Almost sure this is the linux kernel version.
I remember memorizing multiplication tables in school.

I learned that 3 x 9 = 27. You just had to memorize that, right? Well then I realized that if 3 x 10 = 30, then 3 x 9 must be one fewer '3' added together by the multiplication, which means take out one '3' from the set of 3s you are adding together by multiplication when doing 3 x 10, which comes to 30 - 3 = 27.

That means I didn't really need to memorize 3 x 9, I needed the above simple rule in addition to the fact that n x 10 is always what you get when you take the digit 'n' and add a 0 after it.

So learning multiplication tables was hard, until I learned the rule of looking for an easier-to-remember result and then adding or subtracting something to it. Of course I also had to understand that multiplication is really just repeated addition.

My teacher never taught me this trick, just told us to recite the multiplication tables in out heads again and again. But after doing that for some time I figured out the above trick myself.

Learning math beyond multiplication is hard if you cannot multiply numbers in your head, because lots of math presentations assume that of course you know that 3 x 9 = 27. Or something similar. It is not just about understanding the concepts, it's about being able to perform calculations, in your head. Else you cannot understand the explanations of new concepts. Even though we have pocket-calculators, we still need to be able to do calculations in our heads to understand new topics. in math.

So, learning what is 3 x 9 is not hard AFTER you have learned n * 10, and this trick. I assume something like that happens in the minds of mathematicians. They know a lot of math already which makes it easier to understand new results when they already know a lot. To learn what is n * 10, you had to learn 1 x 10, 2 x 10, 3 x 10 etc. and then understand the pattern in there.

Learning something is easy if you already know lots of related stuff. So it's not about learning more and more difficult things, it is about just learning more and more, related things. It is about having more and more (learned) data in your head.

I assume that is also why LLMs work so well: They have lots of data.

In summary: Learning math is not "difficult", it is tedious.
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I'm sure there are math nerds that work in marketing.

Your whole blog post comes across as an advert, that may not have been your intention but that's what it looks like to me, legit or not.
The European Union has a regulation that requires EVs to illuminate their brake lights anytime the regenerative-braking system’s deceleration rate exceeds 1.3 meters per second squared, or about 0.13 g.
Yeah but you also eat, shit, and sleep. So there goes your ability to run non-stop.

You also think for yourself and have a set of morals from which to gauge right and wrong actions. So, presumably, there goes your unwavering ability to do EXACTLY what your told, at all times, without the slightest consideration of other people's (or the planet's) wellbeing.
NATO countries can overproduce Russia in a future, but right now they don't.
Azure has a half-million character free tier for their top-quality "Neural" voices, which I find somewhat better than Google Cloud's top tier of voices ("Studio" voices). For personal use you can probably just use Azure for free too!

If you're running a business you'll probably burn through the free tiers of either of them, and Google is wayyy more expensive — roughly $8/hr for Studio voices using the 50k characters per hour estimate. The "Neural2" voices are competitively priced with OpenAI and Azure, but are pretty low quality compared to even Azure (and much worse than OpenAI).
Vera: LoRA ~10x more parameter efficient, same performance, works for vision too
If historic Broadway theaters in NYC transitioned to blocks of server farms, then many people would have a feeling, "Singing and dancing and live art used to happen here, and that history is worth continuing, here," even if for economic reasons it wouldn't and couldn't anymore. . . and so I don't think it's only wistful or wishfulness speaking.

It's positive to believe that places where creativity happened and was on display and at least nominally prized were places that need to continue in some form or fashion. I agree with you that the form and fashion may just be less visible now to these people wherever it has moved on to, now.
I think it's how people go about it.

Autism is literally defined by a deficit in social skills + restricted repetitive behaviours and nothing else so that is basically what gets treated - the symptoms gets treated with behaviourism and the underlying causes of that behaviour are ignored. GI problems are comorbid in like ~40% of autism cases. Do schools stress getting these autistic kids exercising and teaching them how to cook healthy meals so they can overcome these struggles, live a life without pain, so they can not only live a higher quality of life but have an easier and more pleasant time being social? Sometimes - but the overwhelming emphasis is simply making them act more normal in a very simplistic and direct and to the point way. The system isn't designed to improve autistic kids quality of life you see, it's designed to make them less troublesome for the people around them, and hold them accountable for the trouble they're causing, that's people's mindset.

There is a very cold and unemphathetic attitude towards autistic kids where they're just expected to be iron willed stoics who behave using a fake personality that pleases others around them while their underlying issues basically get no attention from the system. I think if autistic people were treated with more empathy, as less of a monolith, as being defined as being more than "social deficits + repetitive behaviours", we would go a long way.
The TinyStories[1] paper has an interesting solution for how to evaluate stories. They ask GPT-4 to grade them on grammar, consistency, and creativity.

This seems like it would be extremely hard to figure out how to do automatically though.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07759.pdf
Yes, tel scammer will surely love it.
Systemd has to pick something as a default. Distributions are more than capable of changing the default on their builds of Systemd if they want to. Feel free to file a bug with Redhat, or Debian, or whoever maintains your distribution and see if they want to change the default on their system.
The subset of ASD is really just BAP where the intensity of the traits and/or their particular expression come in conflict with the expectations and basic needs of daily life, requiring support (and diagnosis). Even in absence of this conflict, the acknowledgement of one's autism is useful from a self-compassion and tolerance standpoint
Presumably you don't stop them, and they throw errors during the cutover.
He’s like Elon at this point, before the Ketamine haze. Everything he says is directed at padding the narrative of one of his investments or to misdirect regulators and the public.

We should not be surprised if misdirection products (in the style of Hyperloop) are released.
They already did once with their “chatgpt detection” they knew from the start wouldn’t work.

It’s easy to see if you keep track of his atttributable speech that he tells every audience something different (the same thing he got accused off in the whole coup at OAI last month). His narrative changes moment to moment and is often self contradictory. And why wouldn’t he.

People think that public record would make such an approach fail but we’ve seen over and over again from Elon to Others that it doesn’t work that way.

Legend / Cult means people select what they want to hear and the rapid fire coverage of press and influencer regurgitated vomit on LinkedIn and X prevent people from connecting the dots. No press organization calls out the bullshit (same as Googles inane Gemini CoT32 handwaving). Nobody has the big picture and there is no accountability.

He and his companies are so invested in that stuff, no sane person should take anything he says at face value.

It’s big techs public policy playbook. You claim or adapt a breakthrough (Meta: Metaverse) for example and exploit the glacial speed and erosion of governments and public research (who have to rely on private sector information as a result) to position yourself as the only credible party to talk to. Moving AI funding research into corporate labs in the 2010s has really made this approach extremely fertile.

Press has been disarmed too, they are too starved and broken to call out the bullshit - see techcrunch publishing almost daily claims of companies without editorial about their AI exploits that anyone with a bit of understanding can see for the bullshit they are.

Throw in some legend building and wave around some cash and you get to plow the field ahead of you with your desired narrative.

See: AI doomerism to influence EU regulation which went to back burner the moment it was passed. The months before he travelled to every government in the world to personally impress the need to regulate in a way that protects his interests.

He’s not even a master manipulator. He’s just a manipulator with a lot of money and a self made success narrative. That’s enough, especially in America, to rise all the way to the top - as we know.
I wasn't suggesting you were wrong to define your local busses as not having (working) heating :)

Just that I have no idea where in the world your local busses are, and that you were speaking as if your experience was true of busses everywhere.
Just one more web boom please, say 4.0 with AI.
I didn't see Google's board fire it's CEO and then he gets reinstated and basically fires the board.

Instead Google had more drama with the inappropriate behavior kind.
I can't speak for the state of the problem, but the Kia EV6 is a sibling to the Ioniq 5, and I would assume had/has the same issue.
Guy seems a bit new to C.

pointers-to-structs ARE pointers-to-objects. That's the default way to operate on objects in a huge amount of code.

Don't use strncpy(), if it hits the limit it doesn't end the copy with NUL, causing random crashes.

Quite a few people have concluded that generally, despite the standard library using them, NUL-terminated C string were not the Right Way and it's better to have a struct with the pointer and a size_t length (and perhaps a size_t representing the possibly larger allocated length). This eliminates NUL handling, and strlen() as well and since everything can cheaply know the length, can be the basis of more secure code.
Damn it folks. Why is this so hard.

Step 1: Install Firefox

Step 2: Install ublock origin

that's it.

No need for all these stupid extra browsers with their false claims of absolute privacy.
I don't think the problem is much about what is illegal or not, but the way it is handled by the justice (lack of burden of proof by those who denounce), the previsionnal detention and the harsh sentences which lead as this law being a tool to arbitrary jail anyone and especially political opposition.
Unity, Unreal, Ogre3D, Open3D, Godot, Stride, Defold,....

Assuming you want to use 2024 hardware features in 2024.
I would be really interested to hear about what you do. If you don't want to share it in public, you can email me at the address in my profile. I'm always looking for a niche, but I haven't found one that has stuck.
So you implement stalking technology, but it's okay because it's for ads?
It has always been my theory/belief that long periods of demoralization actually get rid of a disproportionately higher amount of good talent. When the company starts to smell, those that can move on, because they’re in demand elsewhere as well, will do so. You’re then left with those that hope you don’t let them go, but are less confident or capable in their abilities to find employment elsewhere.
He influenced my career as much as Dennis and Ken did.

Our "nanokernel" paper brought NTP into the nanosecond domain and gave FreeBSD "timecounters".

But our true shared passion was Loran-C

Dave even invented the 16-pulse "tactical Loran-C" during the Vietnam War.

I borrowed his ISA card Loran-C receiver (serial #1 & only) and later I built two generations of SDR receivers, and he was so proud when I showed him this dancing pulse received with a cheap ARM chip:

https://phk.freebsd.dk/AducLoran/animation2.gif

And boy was he pissed when USA shut down Loran-C, he really loved his "loudenboomers"

RIP
Even after reading first 4 paragraphs of your about page, I don't have any idea what your software does.
Mesa alone is like 50mb of tightly optimized x86-64 machine code (Windows 95, by comparison, came on 8x1.4mb floppies); and that's just to talk to the actual kernel drivers - you need that for the GPU to draw things on the screen (unless you want software rendering = idle silicon).

Does every program need all of that code? There's libraries in there to handle OpenGL (in half a million different versions), Vulkan, AMD, Intel, Nouveau, etc... Nope, you usually need just the tiny bits relevant to your application+hardware. But what's easier, figuring out which bits you don't need - or making the stack more portable and future-proof, by always shipping everything?

A lot of complexity is accidental, but most of it comes from conscious choices to make life simpler for everyone. Of course taken to the logical extreme, we do end up with Electron, but where are we supposed to draw the line?
I really love how verbose and up to date the UK with tech
Criminally comical.
You are not everybody, so whether you heard it or not is immaterial to Meta, Zuckerberg, and anyone else.
As well as lots of stuff they acquired and left to rot.
People giving away their google account password to other apps / companies is bad for security. I'm surprised this still existed.

I think this hasn't worked for accounts that have had 2FA for quite some time. I remember having to switch several years ago.
In the north of Europe it is mostly wood
> have a set of morals from which to gauge right and wrong actions.

Could we even say that the grandparent poster is aligned?
Here you go, an ten years old article from the Guardian, a leftie news outlet that always supports climate action campaigns.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-s...

I remember the fracking hysteria quite well when it happened in Eastern Europe because I too fell for it, to then find out it was a Russian psyop.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/20/russias-quiet-war-again...
Well, it seems like it's got some cool tech based on providing access to everybody else's copyrighted content in novel ways, a bunch of promise to make a lot of money without knowing 100% what the plan is, messy politics at the top, and it's around the San Francisco area, so....
Why doesn't the government manufacture their own cars? They're going to lose institutional expertise in building cars! They should also own and operate their own manufacturing facilities which should be physically secure, not shared with some 'civilian commercial venture'.

By golly, the government can't do business if it isn't a datacenter operations company, a software vendor, and a car manufacturer.
> I wonder if there's a feedback loop in the viewer metrics. Most people are probably not interested in searching around for what they want, so they click on whatever is on the front page.

I recall reading something years ago that said some porn site that started to do data-driven analytics and found that even though "step-sibling/parent fantasy" stuff wasn't generally popular, but it was particularly good at attracting paying subscribers. I kinda wonder if that effect was overstated, but all the porn sites started cargo-culting that finding as "conventional wisdom" and made the genre a thing.

> So much porn is perfectly normal-looking based on the thumbnail/preview other than the creepy title, so maybe people just watch it anyway if it looks good, even if the plot premise is offputting.

I think of lot of that particular genre isn't normal-looking, for instance by casting size differences to creepily create the impression of an illegal age difference:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeygae/porns-latest-trend-is...
Yes, that's a very apt description
So has he finally admitted the floating torsos with no legs was a bit of a silly bet?
I recall questions on the Patent Bar study guide about "death of the inventor" and "uncooperative inventor." It's all covered, but I don't recall how.
You Might Want Alexa or Siri to Sound More Like You
OK, that's fine.

The concern seems to be when people pass generative AI content as their own, but be up front about it and it's fine.

I tell ppl all the time that I write code with AI help, no-one really cares.
Yeah, it sounds like you're not far from the point where you can start jumping ahead and working backwards to fill in the bits that you're missing - that's what many people naturally and instinctively try and it can work but can also be frustrating if one misjudges one's degree of proficiency. You don't often see 'I'm just going to give myself a full secondary school maths refresher' which is more demanding on time and self-discipline but at least we know it's pretty reliable given those things.
Stay employable? I have been unemployed for 1.5 years. Absolutely NOBODY needs a product management leader anymore. If anything only entry level and I am overqualified to do that (not saying it arrogantly, but companies don't ever consider me stepping 3-4 levels back).
Tech is in a slow death spiral.