skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I'm wrong on the timeline I think you are talking about, but Intel stock shed value like the rest of tech in 2021/22. IMO, your theory had a much smaller impact than you think in terms of the dump. They both dropped roughly the same amount from their frothy highs in 2021 to their 2022 lows, INTC and AMD at roughly 60ish%.

For the rebound you're theory is probably more true. It has been better for AMD obviously, but INTC has almost doubled in value since its $25 low, which is not slouching by any means.

I can agree on being bullish long term (I had short puts exercise back in the $20s). Like a lot of tech, INTC has more money than God and they'll get it right eventually.
That doesn't help Polish people - no sane person would use Azerty in Poland ;)
This right here is the tension between "my work doesn't support <bad thing> the whole point is showing it's bad" while simultaneously portraying the bad thing in a positive light while the narrative does the condemning.

The problem with demonizing things is that demons are
cool.

If you want your condemnation to be effective in fiction you have to make the characters doing it pathetic miserable losers. You can even have the narrative support them, they win in the end, and set it up so they were right and people will still come away with that they're bad.
> b) it's hard to judge what's possible or not without experimental data (on otherworldly civilizations), nor we're even explained the mechanisms of "us teaching others". But it's a schematic way of showing Great Filters in a simplified, gamified manner - and that's still a possible, valid and argued for answer to a Fermi Question

Exactly, the whole discussion is already extrapolation for sample of 1. Who knows how civilization would develop if we were more like bonobos less like chimpanzees.
People... aren't smart by default. The belief that Native Americans were sub-human because they didn't demonstrate the highly developed behavior of gross public displays of affection was perpetuated by, if you couldn't guess, the early French. Others used that and similar ideas to perpetuate the image that they were irredeemable savages by nature, less evolved and stain on the bloodlines of modern man. How ironic.

Neanderthals got a similar wrap. Early ethnocentrists believed that what succeeds in time succeeds in quality, but from all modern evidence, you share ancestry with a more developed, intelligent race than most.

No guarantees you inherited any of those qualities, but still :)
> Unfortunately for FreeBSD, the launch of the Intel Pentium 4 with hyper-threading in 2003, then of the AMD dual-core CPUs in 2005 have made quickly FreeBSD 4 completely obsolete.

FreeBSD 4 wasn't too bad on dual cpu systems, as I recall. Fine grained locking gets more important as cpu counts grow, of course, but at 2, the single Giant lock isn't unreasonable.
NSF to Launch National AI Research Resource Pilot
I don't see how this is significant...? So 1.9% of 0.6% of non-residential buildings have PV. Okay, so what? Warehouses, gas stations, parking lots, apartments, campuses... solar is everywhere. Why is it notable that a tiny minority of HoW also have PV? Even if they accounted for, say 3% of all non-residential PV... still, so what?

(Not directed at you, parent poster, just wondering out loud. Like I don't get why this was a study at all, much less what the results signify...)
Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment completed
> This feels like "a crime" with the gravity and social harm of a non life-threatening misdemeanor (that indeed should be fined), punished with a life-sentence of hard labour.

Where did you get this from? The article says he served 14 months and was released. Maybe 14 months is too much, but its not a life sentence.
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FiloSottile is one of the handful of people in the world whose crypto code you use instead of rolling your own.
There is none. QC is a scam like nanotech and fusion reactors. To learn more I recommended 'Will We Ever Have A Quantum Computer' by Dyakanov.
Happy to, but it is not clear what I should study. You have not yet indicated what it is about OOP that you are talking about.

You keep pointing to the object-relational mismatch, which, while a thing, has no more to do with OOP than it does functional programming. It pertains to object-based programming. That is something else entirely.

Understandably, those who don't understand OOP often confuse OOP with object-based programming. Is that the problem here? Just that you don't understand OOP?

Fair that fluidity of language means that anyone can define OOP as they wish, and if they want to define OOP to be equivalent to OBP, good for them. They wouldn't be the first. And if we were discussing this topic in a vacuum we could set out a proclamation that defines OOP to be equal to OBP. However, OOP was already and explicitly defined by the article that setup the context for the following discussion, and the definition used is Kay's – the one that has nothing to do with objects. Other definitions for OOP would be clearly off-topic.

Perhaps it is that you are purposefully trying to go off-topic? Indeed, this thread started because someone (not me!) questioned exactly that.

If it is simply that you don't know how to clarify what you mean, why not just say so?
CAIO: Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I
To me, really, the novel spent a great deal of time pointing out the fickleness of the UK Government, the idea that it was prone to fads, and that people simply went along with it. Only a handful swim against the tide. Even Alex's parents are reprogrammed more or less at will by the media. Burgess has touched this material before in The Wanting Seed, with what was acceptable lashes back and forth.

That came through sufficiently in the movie that I feel like this delivery was fine.

Similarly, the free will issue came through fine. Alex lacks the capacity to dwell on the subject. It falls to a prison chaplain to even ask. Nobody cares, of course, this is about results, not reformation. If Alex and other recipients of the Technique must stagger through society wearing invisible chains, that's fine as far as Government is concerned. Again, well-conveyed.

These two themes collide at the end, wherein the Government changes its mind and finds it politically expedient to restore (or just re-re-program) him to his original and savage state. ("I was cured alright.") Twenty-one, incidentally, is the terminal age in the novel for Logan's Run; youth violence and an age divide was certainly on the minds of some.

I felt like Alex himself was almost, well, not irrelevant, but simply a ball upon which multiple dogs had set their sights.
Yes! Please, give me big fat buttons. The thing I hate the most in the UI nowadays is to be randomly touching/clicking around to find what is touchable/clickable.

Yes, skeuomorphism went too far but the pendulum swigged way too far in the opposite direction. Metro, flat, ultra minimalistic design makes user interactions harder when they remove useful visual clues from interfaces.
>The whole point of publishing an idea or art piece is to influence people

One of the topics constantly running in my mind is Alan Moore saying that writing a comic, novel, movie, is an act of magic.

You write, or say, something. Other people hear, and their brain is forever changed. They will think and/or act differently.

So he truly is a wizard.
Neat! A segment on this was on my local NPR yesterday.

As noted in the article, the aim is to boost (chronically underfunded and logistically challenging) biodiversity studies.

>> With only trace amounts of DNA needed to identify species, the data obtained have the ability to strengthen biodiversity assessments through improving the detection and monitoring of rare, cryptic, or protected species, increasing the taxonomic resolution of biodiversity surveys, allowing for increased sampling of inhospitable or challenging environments to survey, and aiding in the early detection of invasive species.

Critically, they just used a plastic stick to collect webs. So pretty cost-effective!

Looks like UV plays a major degrading role, so sunlight-shielded webs yielded the best results. Which makes sense, because DNA.
Yeah, that's the issue I was alluding to ('one day'). Note the original author replied immediately saying yes would love to, ... but also that was over 7y ago now. But not a flat no, not a won't-fix; they don't leave requests hanging around that they have no interest in supporting.

Edit: and in fact, I'd forgotten all about it, but you can tell I'd seen that issue because it was locked on my suggestion ;)
Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
This thread is open to anyone seeking for volunteer projects and anyone who is seeking volunteers for their projects.
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: A good example would be to write the name of the project, and a short description. Also write down the project website and git forge URL, and write the programming languages it uses. Also, please don't forget to start your comment off with "SEEKING VOLUNTEERS" for people seeking projects to find your comment easier, and not get it mixed up with the "SEEKING PROJECTS" comments.

SEEKING PROJECTS: If comfortable doing so, write down your name, and programming languages that you know. Also don't forget to write down some of the projects that you have volunteered on, or some of the projects that you made, and what you are interested in working on. Optionally, you can write your email, if you want opportunities to be discussed privately. Also, please don't forget to start your comment off with "SEEKING PROJECTS" for people seeking volunteers to find your comment easier, and not get it mixed up with the "SEEKING VOLUNTEERS" comments.
I feel that there's a lot hidden in that word "just". The shopping sites you have in mind, are they searchable using google? Do they accept visa cards or paypal?

You wrote that GP "heavily underestimate DN markets by service and volume". If those markets can't be found using mass-market search engines and don't accept payment using mass-market payment services, then I think they're either nïche or you need to explain how they reached large volume.
Been using Lifestance for my therapist/psychiatrist since it was one of the few places that took Medicaid.

Calling it a digital pill-mill seems inaccurate based on my experiences, but maybe other providers within the system are shadier than the ones I've interacted with.

My main complaint is that I've met with multiple therapists and none of them are really academic like I want my therapists to be. Good vibes does not work for me, show me some data.
Interesting seeing Tim Cook wear it for the first time. Interesting strategy to gradually roll out media. First, carefully shot videos with models, then the reviewers, now carefully staged videos with Tim Cook in Vanity Fair. They're trying their hardest to Apple their way into social acceptance of this thing, let's see if it works!
is this the first ever true open source release of an LLM model? I'm not aware of anyone else doing a similar thing, but perhaps I missed something.
Google Labs: ImageFX and MusicFX Generative AI Tools
There is a really interesting museum of pre-90s minicomputers on a floor of the Palace Of Culture in the middle of Warsaw. The units are huge. The computers are well preserved. They're not plugged in or powered on.
The Pantheon's Doors Are Original
We’re still afraid of boogeymen, aren’t we?
I agree—I don't think overall cookies or cheesecake are a major source of obesity, since they're really not eaten that often. You're right about soda, but in general the large amount of sugar (in whatever form) in so many foods is a problem.
Are you really suggesting that real gang violence was caused by a novel?
Maybe I was hallucinatung more detail than was there, but I found parts of the book had stunning parallels between the themes of each storyline, where the symbolic struggles by each cast of characters informed or reflected somehow the struggles of the other.
Definitely a step in the right direction.
A relief agency that employs terrorists is being held to an impossible standard you think? It’s an impossible standard to not hire people who kill, kidnap and rape?

And btw, 12 out 12000 is 0,1%. Also, it’s more like 10% btw, and 50% having personal family ties to Hamas.
College might be a good starting point since you're young
I think the point about visual feedback when a tap registers is really important. On touch devices it is pretty much standard that some % of your taps will fail to register, either registering on some other screen element (because mobile UI designers love to make REALLY TINY buttons right next to other touchable elements) or just not registering, perhaps because your finger shifted too much before you lifted it up, or you were off by a couple pixels.

So having clear visual feedback that a touch registered, and showing you where it registered, is huge.

I reserve a special curse for people who implement touch feedback separate from touch processing, though. I've used a couple different apps where it's possible to create a visual 'touch' that doesn't actually trigger a click on the button, and that's infuriating.
Honestly, Neal Stephenson's later writings are awesome. I don't think he's gotten sloppier at all.
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: Lutino.io > Edit/revamp/extend good quality code in Java plus some marketing tricks.
Excited to use this feature to protect my eyes from this demonic software. Someone should write a browser extension.
Let's keep it civil, my friend. I totally get the frustration with leetcode-style questions and acknowledge that they aren't perfect. They can indeed overlook the diverse strengths that experienced engineers bring to the table. My perspective is that understanding the basics, like the efficiency of different data structures, is crucial, not just for interviews but for making informed decisions in our work.

I'm not advocating for spot tests on complex algorithms without context. However, I believe a conversation about fundamental concepts like big-O notation reflects on one's approach to problem-solving and software design. It's not about dismissing anyone's experience or capability but ensuring a solid foundation that benefits all aspects of engineering work.

I understand senior engineers being out of practice and not being able to derive things like topological sort on the fly, but an inability to talk about the basics of big-O or the simplest of data structures is more commonly a red flag than "rust." If they never learned the material, that's a red flag. If they learned the material and they've been building software for the last decade without taking the basics of the material into account while coding, then that is a red flag as well.

Again, happy to admit that this is a flawed approach that will lose some great engineers, but most engineers that have your line of thinking are ones I actively avoid hiring. These concepts are practical, available to learn for free, and easy to understand. If an engineer feels that testing these concepts is beneath them, then they definitely aren't a good fit for any team I'm on. Big-O is to software engineers what Ohm's Law is to electricians. Imagine a world where electricians thought it was demeaning to talk about Ohm's law in an interview. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sadly, it seems like often documentation is only an afterthought - and it's even worse when it becomes disconnected from the code and either lost, or misleading because referring to a different version. (And not all code is done by businesses.)
How about this one: People started doing something that made their faces grow poorly, and they never stopped, in fact it got adopted universally.
I suggest you try something like LunarVim[1] or NvChad[2] for a ready-to use IDE-like neovim configuration.

I had the same problem with configuring (neo)vim, it's simply too much work to get a reasonable IDE experience.
Using an already well tested and documented configuration helped me to make the switch.

[1] https://www.lunarvim.org/

[2] https://nvchad.com/
I'd like to not worry about it, but it then prevents me from posting. The suggestion is to then stop posting and move on, which I fear allows the washing of dialogue and kindles political approaches that further the damage we're doing to society and the environment through corporate influence. If you, as a developer, feel good about your job helping corporations inflate rent prices, you're not going to look for another job. If you can clearly see that your employer is destroying society, you're very much likely not going to be willing to stick around. Maybe that's doesn't matter in most cases, but clearly big tech employees have influenced government contracts, etc.
I hate that superior.

Superior, is good enough adapted to circumstances. Evolution turns your blood into anti-freeze as a inherited sickness, and this bug is a feature near the arctic. For the rest of the planet you are a very sick fish.

Imagine a water-world, with one volcano caldera above water. In that volcano caldera there is a geysir, and th at geysir, keeps a giant diamond ball rolling, since the dawn of time.

Evolution is not a refree, rewarding smartness or excellence. It just a process rewarding even foolish adaptions, in my example, the ability to become flat and squeeze into rift and cracks. It also rewards cultural taboos, like sticking your flatworm head up and wonder at the sky.

So superior, the word, assumes the idea of progress, of going forth towards the end of history, that the process can not crash and get stuck in a million years looping till the sun goes out. And that "getting stuck" is a very real thing, a very real danger, a "reasonable" voice from the gut, to return to reliable roots and thrust your "gut-instincts."
Semiconductor manufacturing is brutal. I'm glad I no long work for 24/7 fabs & foundries.

I have similar stories where adding a standard wafer-rinse step took a year of testing, documenting, pitching to customers, etc.
Ask HN: What anomaly detections could be automated in neural networks?
I am working on a debugging tool for neural networks (https://github.com/FlorianDietz/comgra). Currently it is useful for visualizations and in-depth manual analysis, something that is lacking in tensorboard and other tools.

I want to extend it to automate a lot of the common analyses and anomaly detections, and I'm looking for suggestions.

How it would work:

You run a number of trials on similar networks with similar tasks, with different hyperparameters. The tool logs all relevant data and automatically detects anomalies such as "vanishing gradients" or "the loss has unusually high variance".

In a second step, it performs a correlation analysis between the hyperparameters of each trial and the anomalies detected in those trials. It then generates a list of warnings for each statistically significant finding. For example:

"30% of trials with learning rate above 3e-4 had vanishing gradients, versus 0% of trials with learning rate below 3e-4."

"50% of trials with architectural variant X had unusually high variance in the loss, versus 10% of trials with other architectural variants."

Having a large list of warnings like these generated automatically would allow you to identify bugs very quickly. Additionally, if no warnings are generated then you can be much more confident in the stability of your model.

Of course, many warnings would also be false positives that aren't worth investigating, but I imagine it's better to be warned for no reason than to miss a problem that actually matters.

What do you think of the idea?

What types of anomalies do you think would make the most sense to look for?
>Important:

> Image generation in Bard is available in most countries, except in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the UK. It’s only available for English prompts.

Very fun
As long as there are middle managers and executives with kingdom-building ambition there will be overhiring.
Also great for surveillance of human mammals, especially for knowing which ones frequent which areas. That is assuming you already have their DNA for comparison. Or no? Would this work?
I don't need to read the book to tell you that movie was not a failure.
Scaling security with AI: from detection to solution
GF is one of those films that are so drenched in critical acclaim and hype that it's not possible to simply stumble across it without preconception. For that reason, when you watch it, it doesn't seem spectacular because people have praised it right into the ground.
It insists upon itself, Lois.
I’ll bite. Does he say Neanderthals hunted and ate humans?
Does this include senators who voted to authorize Gulf War II? Given the slow turnover, I suppose it must.
The downside is that you're now wasting interview time on the river crossing problem instead of actually relevant questions for the job you're hiring for.
What stage of capitalism is it when people buy so much drugs to paralyze their digestive track because they have so much food available they are eating themselves to an early grave and then this disrupts supply chains for people who depend on that drug for treating debilitating chronic diseases?
Corruption can lead to money and fame.
The US market in particular seems to be the worst in decades, but I'm not seeing the same in other markets. Friends in Australia hopped around in the last couple of years and are very happy with their conditions and total comp.

It doesn't help that Google fires several companies worth of people sometimes, and they flood the market, and most of them are good at being hired.

As always, the best thing you can do is be the best engineer you can be. Companies are still hiring, and while supply outstrips demand more than usual, you should always try to be the best unit of supply you can be.
i think pookha is saying their reformation was possibly inspired by the book
If it can run a browser, I'm sold.
Only if you have carpal tunnel problems or painful arthritis, it will make you happy and as productive as a normal developer with vs/vscode/jetbrains/etc

The amount of time you need setup *vim in order to make it a useful editor is not justified, i have seen people waste weeks on it and the only reason is if you have a condition that vim helps to masquerade.

Personally m waiting to get enough money to justify a kinesis keyboard, that will the only reason to improve my neovim knowledge... as for the moment the vim keybindings for vscode are as good as neovim.