skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Used to like Dvoraks articles and Cranky Geeks back in the day.

Unfortunately he joined up with 'v-jay' Adam Curry to do a podcast. That show is basically Alex Jones lite. For example laughing about the white supremacist terrorist killing of Heather Heyer, edge lording it didn't happen, "Crisis actors" etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack

Ugh.

I would post the link to the episode, but don't want to give them any traffic.
How would you stop spies or undercover cops trying to infiltrate the "market"?
It is interesting how all the value you are getting from the ai seems to be from the fact modern web search is broken.
Over the last decade+ I've been involved in the hiring process at every company I've been an employee at. I've either been a key technical interviewer, or the hiring manager. I would be able to pass all my interviews, and I'm pleased to say that (with one exception) all of my hires have succeeded in their roles. I have a very straightforward process.

- Look at every resume, pass/fail fast. Ask the Recruiter or HR to give you more resumes, not less (they typically are not equipped to assess techncal resumes)

- 15 minute phone screen. Make sure the role fits expectations, make sure the salary range is acceptable, get and give a verbal background.

- At-home code task. Something that takes an hour or so to get functional. More if the interviewee wants to put some spit-shine on it. I ask for a git repo back, and I tell the applicant up front that the code will be used to springboard the technical interview.

- 2 hour technical interview, no live-coding. In person or virtual. This involves other engineers from the org -- we code review the git repo. For each code task I have a set of 3/4 "Product Manager" style enhancement requests, we then verbally talk through the technical changes & challenges for each ask.

- 15 minute chat with the CT or VP or whomever is my boss.

- Extend an offer.

It's all very real, and very pragmatic, and shouldn't suck more than 4-6 hours out of an applicants life, total. I want to be able to extend an offer within days, assuming everyone's schedule aligns. There is 0 reason to go deeper. If you cannot asses someone's technical chops in a 2 hour conversation, you shouldn't be involved in hiring. If you couldn't complete the coding challenges to your own satisfaction, you shouldn't be involved in hiring (there are engineers I've worked with who are no longer involved in hiring due to unneeded pedantry that they themselves would not tolerate if the shoe was on the other foot).
"it might influence his opinion as they're a competitor"

Or, as is just often the case, he competes with Nvidia because he has a different opinion (of their vision).
You forgot games and scrolling HN.
Most of the people in previous generations in my family killed themselves with alcohol at a young age. In my generation, we are all diagnosed with ADHD, managing it effectively (without stimulants), and making 6 figure incomes as scientists and engineers. None of us have any hint of alcoholism.

My pet theory is that alcoholism doesn't actually run in our family, but that people were previously self-medicating for the emotional pain of being a round peg in a square hole with alcohol. When your whole life you are told that you are lazy and useless, despite internally wanting to work hard, provide for your family, and accomplish something- that causes a massive amount of pain and trauma.

People like you who insist a disability isn't real because you can't physically see it from the outside, are the reason why it took so long for people who are different to be accepted, and be able to find ways to cope. I still have to hide the fact that I have ADHD to be taken seriously professionally. Your attitude sucks, and is harming other people by dismissing who they are, and what can help them. You're morally and practically the equivalent of someone advocating for removing wheelchair ramps, and telling paralyzed people to just walk, and that people are just trying to sell them wheelchairs- it's just a scam. From the bottom of my heart- fuck you.
AI + classical algorithms is my sweet daydream. Trained heuristics (even better domain specific ones), deployed for classical A*, ILP families, focal search, etc etc.

That is going to be really amazing.
If you do that kind of rebase you have to force-push to your branch, and that's not great for many reasons. The other option is to `git merge chromium/master` into your fork. This way you don't have to force-push, but the history is not that clean and bisecting can be tricky.
I think it depends on the way your brain is remembering. Like there are types of memories specific to the sensory modality. For people who have visual memory more developed, I think, writing by hand is better way for remembering.
It's been irrational since the Industrial Revolution; future growth has never been priced in even to the level of a reasonable discount rate.
Nvidia’s PE is still 3x less than Cisco’s peak.
Most challenging part for me is to read between the lines what the clients wants and to offer them appropriate solution. Refining the idea and finding appropriate solution. Creating it is the easier part.
I am not sure. It's not a present reality, though.
Because engineers make great things and management tells them to make it woke
WAMU lays off 15 staffers, shuts down DCist
Crap. Guess it's Microcenter.
Yes, the tendency of successful businesses in a market to acquire upstarts has an effect as well.

The positive outcome for many startups that take investment money is to be acquired in such a move to pay back those investors.

The negative outcome is that you get crushed without being acquired.
Not sure about high quality, but they discussed this question a bit on the recent All-In Podcast.
> Those 3 points are also true about your code.

The difference is there are things the compiler can verify to be correct.
And airports and other places that are nominally under federal control. That said, airports generally care more about bombs and hard drugs, but the risk is higher than a bottle of bourbon.

It's also still a disqualifier for federal employment.
Exactly payload size has a lot to do with it. People are making silly surface comparisons
I use https://thistothat.com/

It's the old web that everyone laments the death of and gives additional information about the recommended types of adhesives.
Polycarbonate would be a better choice than plexiglass/acrylic. What advantages does glass have? More likely to break and more repairs?
> This event is significant because it is major demonstration of someone giving a LLM a set of instructions and the results being totally not at all what they predicted.

I think they must have expected exactly the behavior on display. What they might not have considered is the human backlash.
Why 2024 Is a Make or Break Year for Rivian
Yeah, it's not my favorite experience either, and I found it really hard to be indifferent, especially in my earlier years. The goal is almost never a perfect product. And it's also a result of many people's involvement, who often have different values than I do, or what I expect of them.
I didn't ask it then. I wasn't even alive. I'm asking now. It is a legitimate concern and continues to be a concern with these AI models and you whining that "oh but 50 years ago bla bla" (as if these two things are in any way comparable) doesn't change anything about the risks of selective access.
ITM https://www.noagendashow.net/
Not scary but hard when your niches are not exactly the 1%.

I can talk untech and talk tech.

But what the hell am I suppose to do to meet those where I'm a goth who uses FreeBSD, goes for evening strolls picking up litter for enjoyment, cynical enough that wants to see the earth burn while an environmentalist who has a dream of opening an animal sanctuary? Goes to the gym, sword fences and finds most of life bullshit oh and also a sword fencer and fire juggler?

Has his shit together, mortgage and 35?

Next up: HN dating.
The velocity of the LLM open source ecosystem is absolutely insane.

I just got into hobby projects with diffusion a week ago and I'm seeing non-stop releases. It's hard to keep up. It's a firehose of information, acronyms, code etc.

It's been a great python refresher.
Not everyone wants to build their appliances from scratch, but many people might want to have my appliances. IP laws might prevent me from selling them…
>> someone will produce an ASIC that destroys nvidia's margins here

I am no expert but it sure seems like Groq might be on to something with their LPU (language processing unit).
The question is how much of the gains from advances in AI the current leaders will be able to capture. I'm actually guessing more than in the Internet boom peaking in 2000 but I'm not actually sure. If the players remain static we might see more custom silicon designed by them the way Google does with its TPUs which is why I'm not putting too many eggs in the NVidia basket but also Broadcomm, TSMC, etc.
The fewer people you have to trust, the better. Personally I would not let anyone else host important code for me. I don't own a business but if I did, I would either host it myself or put up tons of roadblocks for anyone trying to steal my code. It might not be impossible but it would be impractical.

Dropbox has had data breaches before. You have to run their spyware to use it too. This is not a theoretical concern.
If that was the case why not go for Ryzen + ECC memory?
Weakening both Europe and Russia in relation to themself. Part of the rationale for NATO, for blowing up Nord Stream, and any other geopolitical strategy that causes chaos on the "World Island"[0] and opposes consolidation/strength from potential rivals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_Hist...
The blockchain merely robbed naive people of their money. Stuffing AI into dating is an even stronger way to commodify people than dating apps themselves were.
I eval'd it with vllm.

One thing I do suspect people are running into is sampling issues. Gemma probably doesn't like llama defaults with its 256K vocab.

Many Chinese llms have a similar "default sampling" issue.

But our testing was done with zero temperature and constrained single token responses, so that shouldnt be an issue.
"GenAI" was not meant to describe the literal offspring of GenZ, what are you doing?

Oh well, Torment Nexus gonna torment.
Note that APC has different lines (at various price points):

* Back-UPS: stand-by, Stepped approximation to a sinewave

* Back-UPS Pro: line interactive, Stepped approximation to a sinewave

* Smart-UPS: line interactive, Sine wave

* Smart-UPS Online: double-conversion online, Sine wave
They are not doing well on text....

https://deepnewz.com/politics/google-s-woke-gemini-ai-slamme...
Browsers have no good way of sandboxing external code. See the trouble that Figma went through to get plugins to work: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys...
I found several interesting exchanges, such as around/after email #212.
If a system cannot handle ñ in a password then it is completely broken. We are not talking about the latest emoji here but about a character which is part of one of the most common languages in the world, included in 8859-1 / Latin-1, etc.

It is no longer realistic to pretend that only ASCII exists and try to get away with that.
Barring the singularity, just because you find something with search doesn’t mean you can’t understand why it’s better.
They already have a major problem with catfishing/scammers/bots.
T1* and T2* are common terms in magnetic nuclear resonance imaging, suggesting Tn* for any integer n should be free of bullshit IP protection. May I thus suggest T10*, following the pattern of a11y and i18n?
The German law tries to prevent this several ways:

- charging individually for sales is prohibited by §25(2) and §24; the only allowed thing is to have consumption-dependent but standardized ("Pauschale") membership costs. (This is, honestly, worded a bit weird and might need a lawyer to interpret "properly".) [Edit: this got changed in the final version — and is now more restrictive, only membership fees are allowed.]

- you are only permitted to be a member of one association, §16(2)

- associations are only permitted to have 500 members, §16(2)

- there is a minimum membership duration of 3 months, §16(5)
I meant more in terms of the article content. The entire article is about his point-of-view, but it's surely useful to the readers to know if he's just someone who happens to have an opinion, or if he also directly competes with the project/company he is talking about. But they never say that.
Apple's Keyframer can animate simple drawings using text descriptions
This is fine. F-strings are very useful in the absence of something more well-designed.

My main issue with Python is the whole dependency management/venv situation. It's fine for single app/web-app deployment but when I have a hundred different Python projects on my computer and I need to easily run scripts from them several times a day. My solutions are... not elegant. My current scheme is to start moving my most frequently-used scripts into a monorepo under a single venv.

(recommendations happily accepted)
I think Google has some big advantages in cost with TPUs and their crazy datacenter infra (stuff like optical circuit switches) but I'd guess long context is still going to be expensive initially.
Yeah cutting out sharing joints led to much less transmission of illness like colds.
> Given that the battery is external to the headset, any heat generated would presumably need to be caused by a background software process gone haywire.

Apple is very good at background software processes taking 100%-500% cpu (100% == one core in Apple land).
Take it to the next step towards Black Mirror where the AR shadows out people you've blocked and then mutes their voice so you can't hear them
Much of the sf area old money comes from folks selling tools into the gold rush, for example Folgers started serving coffee to miners, Levi’s selling jeans, Wells Fargo.
We’ve had servers with hundreds of gigs of RAM for a long time, although they were obviously expensive back then. I really don’t see a specific reason why we couldn’t have done it then from a hardware standpoint. I think it’s really because of the AI Winter and Minsky’s book that showed a simple perceptron couldn’t handle XOR that made the whole space seem like toxic waste to VCs and corporate tech executives of the time.
Direct link to video, which didn't play embedded for me:

https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hubble-r...
But plastic easily scratches? The real question is why it is plastic over glass instead of plastic under glass. Though, I'm kind of thinking they might have realized this could happen and so wanted to safety of the plastic in front of the glass lest users accidentally cut themselves on the broken glass :/.

https://youtube.com/shorts/kuiwxZS4GJE

https://youtube.com/shorts/5Wsmz7sjOb4
Peter Singer is well known as a "founder" of EA, and vegetarianism is a tenet that many EAs hold, whether or not you directly consider it part of EA. Animal welfare is, at the very least, one of the core causes.

That specific book may have been written before effective altruism really existed, but it makes sense for one of Singer's books to be considered a founding text.
Or people who want to "out" gay people. I know.

That would be a good argument over not permitting a unilateral notification of a match (which, at the very least, I wanted to make very expensive and thus profitable, if it's allowed at all). If it notified both people 100% of the time, and one of you was a possible impostor, you could report them. And from a legal standpoint, showing interest in a market doesn't make you guilty. And, you could possibly also build "cred" in one of these tagged "markets" by getting cred from others who say you're legit, and that information would be revealed at the same time (possibly at your discretion).
To be fair he's just gotten old and doesn't have his wits about him as even his writing sucks now. The NA podcast still merits the occasional listen, but Curry went evangelical and their community has become full of that particular breed of "patriot" that I don't like to associate with. I don't think they do either, but the irony (given their anti-advertising model) is that these types of folks pay their bills, so now they're stuck keeping them happy.
Why would anyone disagree with “wokeness”? I think that says a lot. Are the ultra-rich who complain about the “woke mind virus” hurt in any way by diversity? No, they are not.
Black Mirror did it already.
Spyware leak offers look inside Chinese government hacking efforts
I ordered a computer from Southern California, they shipped it to Texas, Florida, Maine, and then back to Northern California. My last two orders were just stolen from someone at FedEx. They got the shipment, but it never left the facility after that. Customer service is an offshore apology machine that can't help with anything. I used to prefer fedex, but the standard of service is so subpar I go out of my way to avoid them.
>Cisco seems the most reasonable analogy to me.

Cisco at its peak in 1999 had a P/E ratio of near 200. Nvidia trailing 12 months is closer to 50. ( Today it is closer to 60 ). So I dont think Cisco is a good comparison.
That was actually one of the better Black Mirror episodes. Wouldn't want to be those avatars, mind you.
There’s a lot more pieces, agency being a big one but online learning is required too and many other layers beyond that.
I had a proof of concept for us to migrate sites to a static / low / no cost hosting option.

They were unwilling to spend time "training" the team to learn react (in 2020).

They were unwilling to let their senior FE dev spend any time with me to correct the CSS issues I was struggling with.

They used this deception and dishonesty to say "it didn't work" and wasn't worth any more time. I build a prototype in a week. It's not like I spent month(s) on it without any ROI. They just wouldn't look at it because that would mean acknowledging I and or / my ideas had value.

The closest thing I got to an answer is that the CMS they preferred, which was chosen 10 years ago by people no longer working there... was the only way they could support client sites. Because that's what they've been using. Turnover means it's so hard for us to support anything new because we have no time...

Basically they Brawndo'd me.

It was hard to stomach getting fired by the incompetent people driving the business into the ground when I was literally pleading with them to implement money saving measures.

The horse sometimes would rather kill itself than drink the clean water you've found... that's just life. It's hard to accept.

https://i.redd.it/h2lmsdwqtci81.jpg
Hypothesis: Cannabis is a major part of the entrepreneurial drive/mood for many people. It isn’t just a drain. It’s a spark, too.
So... I read all 333 of them to see which ones would also work in French, and happened to find two typos:

305 : "What is a vampire's favorite kind of shop? A blood vessel." Should be "ship".

324 : "Tomorrow my wife and I are getting new classes. And after that? We'll see...". Should be "glasses".
and you'll be saying that about GPT5 when it comes out to.

This is what hype looks like.
Been programming over 30 years, since I was 8 years old and my dad’s coworker gave me his old BASIC programming books and I was hooked.

I have always found programming easy, and still do. It is just fun, and I still love learning new languages and tools and paradigms. It is still my favorite hobby.

However, WORK is hard. Dealing with office politics and changing priorities and bad leadership and meetings and TPS reports and JIRA tickets and new HR processes every year and mergers and acquisitions and new mandates to switch everything to a different system and all the other corporate bullshit is why they have to pay me so much.
Was Len known to type in British English and use British terms?
Are all of the digital fingerprints created by Satoshi (emails and posted code) completely untraceable, with no archives of domains, IP addresses, access logs, etc., still in existence that might identify where he was logging in from?
Ive seen restaurants do as much as 4% off for cash.
> That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scientific consensus, isn't true.

Here's a recent survey of virologists and infectious disease epidemiologists, with a smaller proportion of biosafety/biosecurity professionals and
evolutionary geneticists.

> the goal of this survey was to conduct a rigorous, geographically
diverse, and anonymous survey of scientific experts regarding the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

https://gcrinstitute.org/papers/069_covid-origin.pdf

They support the natural origin theory at roughly 4 to 1, not sure if you'd count that as a large scientific consensus but it's in the ballpark.
There is actually no tax on it (… in the current law)

(You obviously still need to manage VAT if your business exceeds 22'000€/50'000€ per year.)
That's essentially what vapor chamber coolers are. It's a sealed unit where the working fluid evaporates on the CPU end, absorbing a ton of heat, and then condenses on the other side, before going back to do the cycle again. Because the heat of vaporization is so large, these can move a lot more heat than ordinary heat sinks.
The tax revenue from commerical sales was one of the big pro arguments before they had to cancel/deley those plans due to EU/international laws.
It could be worse but they took a bigger hit than germany or france during either world war demographically, best case scenario they get their entire territory back, spend 10+ years on demining, another 10+ years on rebuilding and the next 50 years getting back to their pre war population.

On the other side the US gets free weapon testing range, weakens russia like never before, keep the military industry afloat, use all their soon to expire/expired stocks, sign military and construction contracts for the eventual post war rebuilding, &c.
> We do need some protections in place.

i find impossible to believe that people that are currently working in the music/film industries will not take advantage of these new technologies (see designers that went from pen and paper to software).

i think a decent analogy is music. software has completely taken over music production. but musicians are still making great music, analogue or otherwise.

these new technologies might even open up these industries to a lot more people since creation will no longer be hindered by learning different types of software.

yes, i'm an optimist :)
Also, they denied the problem for the longest time, even though they fired the antenna designer.
This is basically how it works in Spain as well, you don't use the words "buy" or "sell", but you contribute financially to the club treasury and you may withdraw that deposit in suitable amount of weed. You don't hand over cash to the person behind the counter, as an example.

You're not there to "purchase", but the effect is the same.
AI is not good enough to take over most jobs. The hype is overblown and lacking in evidence.
scratches. its all about scratches.

any poly will scratch pretty easily compared to glass, which is a bad thing when its a lens you are looking through. You could make the argument they could just design an easily replaceable poly lens at a reasonable price, but.....its 2024 device manufacturers hate the idea of any user replaceable parts.