skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My previous employer had a tender offer as part of a new funding round.

I was an ex-employee already and had exercised my options within the 90 day window of resigning. If I remember correctly, we used Carta for both exercising the options and the tender offer.

For the tender offer, the company set a deadline and a price per share. Current employees were limited to selling a certain % of their options/shares. The website enforced the same restriction for me, which seemed like a bug, but I didn’t plan on selling most of my shares anyway. I chose a number of shares in a web form, clicked a button, and got cash direct-deposited. I had a larger than usual tax bill but I paid it while handling my usual annual tax return. No penalty on the taxes due to the “safe harbor” rule.
> I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs.

Curious who and who?
This is really shoddy reporting. The title says Azure data breach whereas the attack is a phishing campaign targeting Office 365. Being a phishing campaign, it is unclear which components of Azure/Microsoft were instrumental in the attack. And the article goes on to make irrelevant allusions to Microsoft's negligent cybersecurity practices. This is such bad reporting that I wonder whether it is done with incompetence or malfeasance.
Monkey madness quantifier logic puzzle
Same! The PSP was the first mobile device I used with WiFi and a web browser.
Training requires a lot more memory to keep gradients + gradient stats for the optimizer, and needs higher precision weights for the optimization. It's also much more parallelizable. But inference is kind of a subroutine of training.
It sounds like this would have worked similarly to pifs[0].

[0]: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs
I meant some watermarking that can’t be redone even if the weights are shared

It is still an open question but I think money will be dumped into this area, for protection of IPs and compliance
i think the stick has already been swung my friend
I don't know what you're trying to argue here. Nobody denies that an enormous number of civilians have been killed in the IDF's Gaza operation.
The old industry question is whether it's complex and protected enough (or the separation wanted by the consumer, but that's an old guy's dream) that the owners of the production equipment can't do it on their own.

Azure, AWS, Google are easy candidates, Nvidia might even be proof.
Not open, but more so than Sony's.

Also, have you tried GeForce Now? Not sure if it works on Linux/Firefox. It runs on ChromeOS at least, so if you're okay with that distro, it ought to be a much better experience than GamePass (but only a subset of GamePass games are supported).
I would really like a nice consumer friendly product that either didn't use cloud storage at all or if it did, had end to end encryption of the video.

I don't have time to mess around with hacking a camera to do RTSP and then figure out how to set up and use something unfriendly like ZoneMinder.
I think it makes sense. As long as Microsoft is cool with it, they'll keep providing the compute power necessary to keep OpenAI alive.
Gotta love a company who is existentially staked on healthy open platforms.

Steam existed adversarial against so many other players: against closed controlled consoles, latter against Microsoft app stores. The best way to compete against Nintendo and Microsoft? Make sure that all games can run well & easily anywhere. Create affordable hardware atop the ecosystems you want to see win.

It reminds me of Google really. Google exists because the web. Google's existentially staked to keeping the web alive & healthy: if the web rots, Google rots. We can argue about other perverse incentives & drives, but personally I think Chrome is overwhelmingly an act of preserving & growing the web ecosystem.

Amazing things happen when great companies work for ecosystems. Rather than typical corporate shit of just trying to own & run everything yourself.
OpenAI is not public so there is less pump. You could say both are overvalued. Take the ride or wait the dump. It curious that even with the current rates we still have a lot of pump in the market.
Some assembly required, you will need a screwdriver.
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Tried it out, seriously impressive. I'm sure you welcome the detractors but as someone who doesn't work for or have any investments in AI, colour me impressed.

Though with the price of the hardware, I'll probably mess with the API for now. Give us a bell when the hardware is consumer friendly, ha ha.
I find eBay's optimizations have made it somewhat toxic.

Once you get to a product page, any further navigation of the form "similar/related products" is sponsored listings only these days.

They've narrowed a catalog that might have 1,000 relevant products into a pinball bouncing you between the same 12 sponsored listings. It's easy to figure "this is all they've got" and move on.

The model probably works okay for rebadged Alibaba tat with no meaningful differentiation; the 200 sellers with the same widget can be forced to bid against each other for visibility.

But for the classic line of "eBay as the world's garage sale", the last thing you want is to deliberately narrow your visible inventory. Customers are here for variety and the obscure, and restricting the market to "that which we can get placement revenue from" eventually drains them away.
modded oG xbox's or even X360s are a great living room centerpiece.

oG Xbox, Xlink Kai is still a thing. It was my first experience playing online as a poor 12 year old script kiddie myself.

For X360 LAN parties, It took a long time to find, but the hard-coded 4ms ping limit for "LAN" mode was removed, so LAN parties can be split into neighborhood LAN parties without problems
Is it too late to ret-con the name of john draper / captain crunch to bobby dials?
Embeetle – the clean and efficient IDE, tailor-made for your MCU
Yep, I can see why someone would prefer preventing shadowing even though I don't. I just wanted to be clear on what the actual behavior was.
It must be a big offer
> We had a near-UV scanner that could map the surface of a test object (sensitive circuit boards) down to a few wavelengths, but it was too damn accurate

Could you give more info about this scanner? I would imagine it to be very helpful when prototyping a board, to test for eg thermal cycling effects on solder joints.
I think he is being sarcastic
Haha, awesome. Would be good to get the uncompressed audio, I bet you could decode that binary stream into bytes.
The 5 dysfunctions of teams in the context of software development
There's going to be an insane rug-pull at the end of this. Nvidia funds coreweave who buys gpus and sells them to Microsoft. Microsoft invested in openai who rents the gpus from Microsoft.
My biggest worry is the direction Valve will take post-Gabe. I really hope he's got his Tim Cook-equivalent lined up. Someone who won't try to shake up the company too much and just keep things going how they are. All it takes is one (1) MBA to come in and do what they do and destroy everything Valve has built up for short term gains.
I left college college dropout off my resume.

Otherwise yeah I think many can sympathize with being hired and having managers not know your history.

"Oh you have experience operating SaaS and designing cloud infra? You know how to build packages?!"

"Dude, I've been working as an AWS solutions architect and developer for like 8 years and worked as the primary systems engineer at an ISP and VPS provider. Why did you even hire m... I want a raise."
The author asserts that Emacs uses modes (it doesn't by default), does not have a GUI (it does), and cannot display images (it can). Not that this detracts from the point they should have made, which is that it has a steeper learning curve than Pulsar.
It’s your “backup brain”.
Australian musicians find a way around the Universal's TikTok battle
I have one, with 13B, on a 5-year-old 48GB Q8000 GPU. It’s also can see, it’s LLaVA. And it is very important that it is local, as privacy is important and streaming images to the cloud is time consuming.

You only need a few tokens, not the full 500 tokens response to run TTS. And you can pre-generate responses online, as ASR is still in progress. With a bit of clever engineering the response starts with virtually no delay, the moment its natural to start the response.
The problem with OpenAI is that their products have no actual intelligence. They are radically over-valued for the statistical products they make that are entirely unreliable in terms of correspondence with reality. Nvidia is making chips and selling them and they work.
I think that ownership for C is gross. It's hard to convert code to something like this.

But you could get most of the benefit by just isoheaping (strictly allocate different types in different heaps).
Women Get the Same Exercise Benefits as Men, but with Less Effort
I don't like ubuntu (lots of sneaky phone home stuff, forced updates, etc) but they do provide a sort of frozen os with a stable ABI.

I honestly don't know how game developers provide binaries for linux (especially with sound and graphics). It seems to be more source compatible than binary compatible.

I suspect with ubuntu, they can just target ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 and it will probably work with later ubuntu versions.

Can you ship a game For arch? it seems like periodically there would be a firedrill and the game would have to recompiled and an update pushed out. (or is the deal with arch that the OS adapts to the games?)
"Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohoolhoolzote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes and no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."
You don't have to buy them.
What if google let us pick the version of their algo we want to use for search results? That makes it impossible for SEO companies to target all algos, while also letting us customers use the right algo for the right search?

OpenAI does it with their LLMs albeit with a different intent.
Colorado Bill Would End Minimum Parking Requirements
Yes. OTP is engrained in my head as the One True Programming (way of building large systems).
Possibly a collision in the caching library. Pretty bad that the video streams aren't properly permissioned
OpenAI doesn't seem to have a moat as big as Nvidia (I believe AI tech company valuations are in the hype phase)
I mean I already mute and mash till the line drops when they do come in, but they may not continue doing so at a low enough rate to keep that feasible, and boringly mechanical but necessary tasks are always prime candidates for automation in any case.
Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated
I believe that PPUs are all that is up for sale bc MS has 49% stake
The catch is that there are >10 startups and big-tech teams trying to do what OpenAIs is doing, and at least a few of them appear to be competitive. One or two of them may emerge as a winner. But there's only one Nvidia.

With that said, I do believe Nvidia is overvalued - if it triples profit its PE ratio would still be 30 (i.e. 30 years to return on investment), while there's a fairly good chance someone would catch up to them in 10-20 years.
Stupid question, but why aren't they doing it already? What's their bottleneck right now?
I think the logic is roughly: _some_ people that want to deploy LLMs for things will pay OpenAI. _everyone_ that wants to deploy LLMs for things will pay NVDA.
That wasn't so much a cat and mouse game, rather a bunch of hackers playing keep away with Sony's hat. The PSP's security was "defeated" literally from day one since the v1 firmware launched unsigned executables, then after that there was exploit after exploit, then the whole pandora battery thing and finally the host keys got leaked and it was game over.

I bought my PSP at launch and it spent the vast majority of it's lifespan with some kind of custom firmware installed.
Who is more replaceable?

The eventual winner will almost surely be worth more than Nvidia when the rubble clears, but they, and all the losers and midfielders won't get to that day without forking over billions of their dollars to....
Sounds like ChipDNA (from Analog Devices if I recall) but with glue patterns instead of silicon.
That does not seem so far fetched to me. So many of the purported alien sightings are beings with bilateral symmetry, two eyes, two arms, humanoid face and so on. The only way I could see that happening is visitors from a distant future.

Or, more likely, the alien "creators" have created them more or less in our image.
Okay, but if they can do that to our networks, why assume they can't about as easily do it to us?
Low millions
>Good music isn't rare and it is not hard to find it.

I think you and I may have different standards and taste. I don't disagree that there's plenty of good stuff being made, but a lot of it is hard to find and sorting through all the chaff is a gigantic pain.

This just points to the broader issue I was getting at in my previous comment. Record labels have never been great for artists, but they've pretty much abdicated any value they brought as a sort of filter awhile ago and have handed that off to algorithms that are questionable at best.

Quality also isn't always rewarded "fairly" or given a fair chance to catch on with a different market than whatever insular scene it exists within- this is compounded further via the insular nature of online groups too. Music labels and streaming platforms offer basically no support to musicians and groups who need it the most and who could benefit from a more hands on approach, and instead defer all their resources onto a few golden geese, because its safe and pays the bills.

This is short sighted though and creates an atmosphere of stagnation- a similar process is happening in film as well, culture is just being mediated by algorithms and markets, which is why culture has become so stagnant, predictable, boring, and circular.
A Wikipedia style "disambiguator" might help.

If Google silos queries into different top-level categories (i. e. research vs commerce) being able to clearly pick one of them, even if once you see the first results, solves the problem.

Giving users the feeling of control and the ability to improve their skills seem to be completely beyond modern software companies though. "It's all magic and algorithms beyond your understanding, mortal!"
>So in the end sex really only refers to what your hormones are and nowadays you can change that with medication

I think there's a significant point being glossed over here. You are suggesting that it is which hormones our bodies produce that determines sex, without regard to whether our bodies produce them with or without deliberate intervention. I don't particularly care if we settle on one or the other but it seems somewhat disingenuous to imply that this has never mattered when we've been running with a definition of sex that assumed a natural expression of hormones.
How to over Engineer a Todo App (The Zenith Gradient Algorithm)
There's usually a two or three step training procedure, first training to predict the next word on a huge corpus of text (billions or trillions of words), then possibly some instruction tuning (giving the model question & answer pairs and training on the answer) and then finally RLHF (or RLAIF, DPO etc) where the model is trained to match human preferences. It's this last step that is used to increase the helpfulness & harmlessness of the model, training it to not respond to certain topics.
“Take”? More like “buy for a very good price”, nothing wrong with that.
I'm looking forward to the day HomeKit supports 2K and/or 4K video recordings.
We compared CockroachDB and YugabyteDB several years ago and had consistently better performance with YugabyteDB. We recently migrated our workloads from self-hosted to YugabyteDB Managed and have been happy. We do thousands of queries per second with less than 5ms latency. I would say the biggest problem we've had is managing Postgres connection memory usage but the Yugabyte team is working on a server-side proxy similar to pgBouncer but without the same limitations [1]. We're also awaiting the release of CDC that doesn't require us to run Kafka. While for other companies Kafka might already be a dependency in their stack, it's not for us and we'd prefer not to introduce it just for CDC.

Their Managed platform handles backup/restore, encryption, SSL, metrics, upgrades, and one-click scaling. You can even configure multi-region clusters with read replicas. Their platform is not very flexible with compute, however. You have fixed CPU and RAM sizes to choose from.

Happy to answer specific questions.

[1] https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/explore/connection-manager...
yup, the "cat-and-mouse" game ended when they embedded the decryption key physically to the CPU.

You can't read it without breaking it.
I have been solidly in the just use Elixir camp, but I'm debating that on some new projects. For one, if you want a library to be used in both, it's best to write it in Erlang. Then Elixir can just directly call the functions or you could build Elixir-specific wrappers of the Erlang functions. The other is that Erlang just has a bit of simplicity and rawness about it that I like, not to mention it is the OG language. I would miss piping and variable name rebinding though.

At the end of the day, I do think that Elixir has the better tooling ecosystem. Mix, Hex, the formatter, Credo, ExUnit, Livebook, etc. are really nice.
The Beatles had an album that might interest you. In fact, they pretty much stopped touring after that one.
Cake is a C23 front end, but it can also be used as a static analysis tool.
The qualifiers can be empty macros then the same code can be compiled with gcc , clang and the static analysis of ownership can be using cake.

Inside visual studio for instance, we can have on external tools

C:\Program Files (x86)\cake\cake.exe
$(ItemPath) -msvc-output -no-output -analyze -nullchecks

The main annotations are qualifiers (similar to const). C23 attributes were considered instead of qualifiers, but qualifiers have better integration with the type system. In any case, macros are used to be declared as empty when necessary.

The qualifiers and the rules can be applied to any compiler.
Something harder to specify (but not impossible) is the flow analysis.

Sample of rule for compilers.

int * owner a;
int * b;
a = b;

we cannot assign view to an owner object.
this kind of rule does not require flow analysis.
Anti-scale: A response to AI in journalism
Are there voice responses in the demo? I couldn't find em?
How did you derive that figure to begin with? And in what realm does only what's been posted in the last year qualify as information worth retaining the ability to retrieve?
It's supremely naive to think that Russia wants to fully subjugate Ukraine

You're splitting hairs, and basically putting up a strawman defense here.

Whether Russia intended to subjugate about 70 percent of Ukraine's territory (which by all indications was its initial goal at the outset, and probably still is), or 100 percent, is irrelevant to the main point under discussion.

Your words were that Russia "can eventually attrite Ukraine into a demographic death spiral", implying some sort of eventual decisive victory over Ukraine (as opposed to holding on to a few Oblasts).

The latter it might be able to do, but the former - no.

One would be stupid to think that Putin is interested in another Afghanistan.

He has already racked up 4x the total casualties of the Afghan occupation in just 2 years. We all know it isn't what he "wanted" but it's the situation he has created for himself, and his people, nonetheless.
This sounds like an appropriate practice.

As a non-boater and non-biologist though, I wonder if Death Valley might be the place where the concern would be lowest.
It would be like reconstructing a sand castle grain by grain.

I hope to not be alive when technology progresses to that point!
If you are an L4 (basically starting at OAI), the median PPU package is $315k [0] and that's valued from the last tender offer round. So that means an exit of ~$945k.

[0]: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/openai/salaries/software-en...
Faster than Sublime? Unlikely.
Then why are you complaining about the commute time?
A few years back Blizzard released the remastered edition of Diablo 2. That was one of my favorite games growing up. I figured I would spend some time playing the original to give myself some nostalgia (on the old school battle net from the early 2000s). This was a game where you level up a character, collect loot, and trade. Without online trading and cooperation, the game can become difficult.

As I started playing, I noticed that 1) there were less games to join and 2) there were still somehow thousands of people playing, as seen in the character rankings. So somehow you didn't see people playing, but they were leveling up ahead of you. Well, as you might have guessed, those thousands of players were actually bots. It actually made me kinda sad because the lively online experience I once had as a kid was gone. It didn't seem like there would ever be any going back either.
This reminded of the memorable Sherlock Holmes quote. Hopefully it is good advice for those of us who are a bit younger.

"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.

“You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.”

“To forget it!”

“You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

“But the Solar System!” I protested.

“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”