skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand you right, this seems like a very course-grained way to track changes. You can record that a change was made, but not the specific change. It seems like it'd help facilitate something like, say, an etag, but I don't think could get any auditable data using this alone, could you? Keeping track of added/deleted hashes would probably be best handled by a trigger, unless you really want that in your app code, so this seems a lot like an audit trigger, with very little audit data. Have I misunderstood?
They could never find more than 8000 people. The 30k number was made up so they could get more funding from non profits across the ocean. It was admitted by the guy that came up with the number, and confirmed by other people who were in the meetings at the time. 8000 compared to what the Jewish had gone through a few years before was not enough to call it a genocide.

Compared to the 2-3k homicide per year caused by crime that can’t be controlled because “armed forces = bad” / ”police=dictatorship”, not that representative and I get why they would come up with that number.
Debit card transactions in the US are capped to 0.05% + 21c for non-exempt card issuers[0]. The problem is there are a lot of exempt issuers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment
Others like Monero also have mysterious origins. I don’t think Satoshi was behind the design even in part, but it’s one theory.

I’m pointing out that even if Bitcoin was the creation, the introduction of this concept and class of data structure is much more important and will have more lasting impact.

Surely any government agency would have considered the feasibility of new alternatives with similar designs.
Yes, but it's not only climate change this time. We are also massively overusing every natural resource there is. We're in a mass extinction event and we would be in it even if there wasn't a CO2 problem at all.
Sounds like you work at a pretty toxic org if this is the case. Even at Amazon a big component of management promotions is how many people did you get promoted this year and what are the highest levels of people reporting to you.

The fastest way to go from Senior Manager to Director is to get as many people as possible promoted to Principal Engineer, or hire more PEs. Or better yet get your Principal Engineer promoted so that they have to become your peer.
I strongly, strongly suspect most people doing this are significantly short of the breakeven prices for transitioning from cloud 3090s.

inb4 there are no cloud 3090s: yes there are, just not in formal datacenters
Is this the first post about this topic here? Kind of been waiting to read the discussions
I think you’re missing the original point. It was nothing about unions or free association. In fact, the point was that ALL systems become incoherent as they scale.

The existence of unions and free association is built-in to the argument that systems designed to pick up trash sometimes intentionally do not pick up trash.

It’s not a moral judgment that these systems are broken and therefore workers should be slaves. It is an acknowledgment that complex systems end up having to meet conflicting priorities and therefore become, as you say, incoherent.
Something can be both a national tragedy and a scam.

The Darien scheme, for example, was both.
Free enterprise is not a necessary precondition for research. You'll note how much of the last 50 years of technological advancements were direct or indirect results of government funded research programs.
I'll give the Canadian telecom market as a counterexample: Multiple large providers (Rogers, Bell, Telus, Videotron to name the top four) instead of competing for customers and driving prices down, they have effectively colluded into an oligopoly - to the point of matching prices and plan details.

In this case we have multiple entities working together to maintain the existing problem, so they can collectively maximize profits.
Cloudflare is shielding pirates, but blocking one of their IPs is probably not the best way to deal with that.
Apoptosis happens at a cellular level and is controlled by higher systems such as cytokines. You haven't evolved to die, but your cells have evolved to die when instructed to.
You don't stop fighting after the major battles are won. You fight until the the war is over.

As long as there are groups that continue to fight to reverse the gains that were hard won, one must continue to fight hard. Complacency risks society regressing. See: abortion rights.
The TSA is also miraculous in it's ability to suck up billions of dollars in hidden fees added to every plane ticket and annoy tens of millions of people while performing a "service" which has been proven (many times, including by the TSA's own studies) to be completely unnecessary since cockpit doors were hardened and pilot procedures updated in 2002. Even if it was needed, their "service" has also demonstrated itself to be completely ineffective based on the number loaded handguns accidentally included in carry-on luggage and missed by TSA screening every year.
The parent comment was on how impressive a portion of the graduates were.

This presumes the context of able to be successful in business.

You may not agree with the values of Peter (I know I don't agree with all of them), but the graduates are often selected for being effective at business.

If those kinds of fellowships provide a better signal, then they would be more efficient by definition.

Your comment, though, seems to come from a place of political indignation. I hope you can reflect on how those kinds of comments reflect on your own values.
If the RSS server lies to me, then the RSS content is garbage, signed or not.
It seems as though there is essentially no scenario where the American public would accept a mandatory draft. Times have changed.
credit to California's Jerry Brown and his media outreach for championing the work of Ivan Illich
weeble-wobble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeble
perhaps you should invoke bufio.ScanWords?
Those mobile sports gambling apps aren't legal in most states as far as I know. They also block IP addresses outside the legal states.
the surrounding context, and frame of mind [schema] , of a mark, is the major consideration, when executing a grift.

set the right stage, and you can sell the skull of brian boru for 50 quid.
“Listen to the interviewer” should also be read as “don’t talk over the interviewer.”

I used to chalk that up to nervousness of the candidate. I’ve since learned it’s a very bad sign.
Ghidra in Minecraft
with runpod/vast, you can request a set amount of time - generally if I request from Western EU or North America the availability is fine on the week-to-month timescale.

fwiw I find runpod's vast clone significantly better than vast and there isn't really a price premium.
Things can decay seemingly by themselves, but enshittification implies it's an agent-driven process.
> His academical record. It's a good predictor

Two things:

1) I graduated from college nearly 30 years ago. How is what I did in the 90s a predictor of what I'll do for you today

2) It could be "Her" academic record. Just saying.
And Argentina is FAR from being “the worst place on earth”. Feels like San Francisco tbh
A "stack"? "Crappy MP4 files"? I don't have any idea what you're talking about.

I'm not talking about recording video straight to disks, but using them for long-term storage. And if a single disc stores a petabyte, then a single disk could handle weeks' worth of shooting a couple hours of uncompressed 8K footage a day.
Good read (reminder) and love the reference list.

Question for the OP. I suspect we're of similar tenure, and I'd love to det your perspective...

I'm a mechanical systems engineer in an industry that is growing from industrial automation to true autonomy (robotics). I've always liked coding, but don't do it enough to be a serious contributer to "production quality" code. Nevertheless, since last year I've transitioned from a more mechanical/hardware design firm to a much more mathy/software engineering firm. I find myself in a role, bridging robotics hardware and software teams working on a ~10yr old codebase. We have some great engineers! I've tended to stay on the customer requirements and algorithm development/analysis side of things, but I struggle with the lack of benchmarking and testing our group does, and I'm continuously surprised at the simple bugs we find that cause application crashes. Moreover, when a developer shows me code, I'm stricken by the number of undocumented "magic numbers" that seem like forgotten patches popped in there at one time to make things work for a test or demo, and the number if/then statements I see that are holding things together.

I'm also faced with a growing cry for "how can we best make use of these LLM things" (for which there are a thousand and one answers).

I see/feel the suffering, and what looks to me (from my 1000ft perch) like thousands of cuts.

Bottom line, I'm increasingly thinking that I really need to take a month and try tracing through the thousands of lines of C++ (which I haven't really written since grad school) in order to truly understand the state/configuration of pur code baseline so that I can provide some more explicit leadership in terms of - do we refactor everything that looks messy or the we don't 100% understand? Do we take a T.O. to build up our automated unit and system level testing? etc.

As a manager of a SW team, from your experience is it a good idea for me to dig deep into the code to gain an intimate understanding? That feels an awful lot like micromanagement to me, but I will do it if that's what 'wisdom of experience' in this domain proves is the most value-add.
I don't necessarily agree. Using shared_ptr to not worry about lifetimes, a la C#, is not inherently a bad thing, not all code has to pretend to be Rust, especially a hobby project. From what I see, they're only really being used as dependency injection. So it has the benefits of the garbage collected model with none of the downsides

Also, speaking as a C++ game developer by profession, taking a shared_ptr copy and moving from it is a common way of saying "I will take a copy of this and keep it alive" whereas a shared_ptr ref only communicates that it can or might
I thought my kind father was murdered by a teenage gang. Then I heard the truth
How is January running too hot?

And the tiny rise over expectations in CPI was predicted by WSJ based on technical factors that always lead to CPI running higher in January.
Silver (#8 asset in the world) is also "clunky" but it is close to being surpassed in market cap by Bitcoin (#10 asset in the world).

A large part of that value is derived from a market cap based upon the stability created by the dormant coins, like gold sitting dormant in fort knox used to stabilize the USD value.

It really does seem like an intelligent design passes Occam's razor more than "oops i conveniently formatted that harddrive then disappeared"
Similarly, I quit my full time job last year because of too much "Agile" bullshit and useless meetings. There was a management change and my job went from being highly autonomous and very productive to micromanaged and bureaucratic, with nothing getting done anymore. I complained, they asked me for feedback, and I wrote them a detailed three-page report. They read it and told me to hide it to not embarrass management. I quit a few weeks later.

Ended up doing hourly freelancing for a small company. Never had a single useless meeting. My reports are an occasional weekly summary of issues. The rest of the time I just have a timer going when I'm actually working and I bill accordingly. Extremely productive with no wasted hours on rituals and stupid ceremonies. I get paid less and don't get side perks like free lunches or company outings anymore, but I'm soooo much happier overall.

It's like that old saying, people don't quit jobs, they quit their bosses. I would've stayed at my old org for half the pay and no silly perks if they just gave me a longer leash (and ideally a different boss) instead of making me jump through endless stupid hoops. I was one of their top performers, too, something like the 95th percentile or higher in performance reviews. I tried, telling different people all the way up to the VP of my branch how bad the situation was, but nobody listened. Their loss. Not long after, the CEO brought in completely new management again and laid off most of my peers. It was just a terribly managed org at the higher levels.

In contrast, working for small companies, there's just not the luxury of paying for useless cruft and ceremonies to make middle management look important. That's a symptom of org bloat, not effective management.
terrasite is a phenomenal nomination for AotY 2023.
if you are just using it for inference, i think an appropriate comparison would just be like a together.ai endpoint or something - which allows you to scale up pretty immediately and likely is more economical as well.
That's not a very helpful, or accurate, comment.
Monero for instance is optionally transparent using view keys, which allow read access to incoming but not outgoing transactions.

As cryptocurrency already requires the safeguarding of a private key or a custodial partner doing so, and generally do not accept rollbacks on the base level, there isn’t that much added drawback to making strong privacy default.
use runpod and yeah i think vast.ai has some scams, especially in the asian and eastern european nodes.
Here's the abstract from the original paper: Gravity differs from all other known fundamental forces because it is best described as a curvature of space-time. For that reason, it remains resistant to unifications with quantum theory. Gravitational interaction is fundamentally weak and becomes prominent only at macroscopic scales. This means, we do not know what happens to gravity in the microscopic regime where quantum effects dominate and whether quantum coherent effects of gravity become apparent. Levitated mechanical systems of mesoscopic size offer a probe of gravity, while still allowing quantum control over their motional state. This regime opens the possibility of table-top testing of quantum superposition and entanglement in gravitating systems. Here, we show gravitational coupling between a levitated submillimeter-scale magnetic particle inside a type I superconducting trap and kilogram source masses, placed approximately half a meter away. Our results extend gravity measurements to low gravitational forces of attonewton and underline the importance of levitated mechanical sensors.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk2949

Cool paper, but the linked article gives me these vibes:

[2] https://taylor.town/exciting-new-way
And to emphasize your point, it seems from the coverage like the problem isn’t so much that overbearing managers are setting out to nanny the users as it is that they’re approaching this task in kind of a lazy, box-ticking kind of way rather than bringing serious thought and engineering creativity to bear.

It’s not “let’s re-vet all the training inputs to reflect the just society of our dreams,” it’s “yeah, the AI Safety people say make it diverse, just put ‘make it diverse’ in the prompt.” Which, I mean, if your main thing is getting this wild new product baked and out the door, I can see that kind of mandate competing with a lot of more existential priorities for the product.

Then again it wouldn’t surprise me if they were up against the limits of the technology a bit too: it seems plausible that getting too in-the-weeds with your “represent diversity sensitively” system prompt could quickly start to impair the tool’s overall quality.
Wage slavery and misogyny *are* real problems that sane people want solved.

Yes they are still problems.

No, there hasn’t been newsheavy significant wins recently. There has, however, been newsworthy significant losses.

The idea that institutions should disappear because they’ve managed certain successes is utterly, bafflingly stupid. That’s especially the case as we are still current fraught with issues that these institutions exist to help with.
Gall mentions the example of an organization founded to conquer polio. With that disease all but eradicated, the foundation almost collapsed, but instead changed the goal to conquer genetic defects. Very little changed about what the organization did, and the new goal is one that isn't likely to ever be completely achieved.
No, this is incorrect. Here is the actual section from the bill:

> SEC. 107. PROHIBITION AGAINST DUPLICATING COVERAGE. (a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning on the effective date described in section 106(a), it shall be unlawful for— (1) a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act; or (2) an employer to provide benefits for an employee, former employee, or the dependents of an employee or former employee that duplicate the benefits provided under this Act.

You could technically also buy extra insurance for… something extra, but your existing insurance plan would have become illegal.

This was a huge sticking point, despite how many people try to deny it or downplay it.
In an industrial greenhouse setting sometimes CO2 is pumped in for yields.
The old empires of cocoa, coffee and tea are fragile
My big problem with 'Know why not (just) what' is that, as demonstrated in the responses here, the interviewers typically don't, and if you try it will sometimes result in them failing you.

At a Google interview I tried to explain that in big-O notation the sequence can only exceed the bound in a finite prefix of the sequence.

Formally:

O(g(n)) = { f(n): there exist positive constants c and n_0 such that 0 ≤ f(n) ≤ cg(n) for all n ≥ n_0 }

I was actually made the interviewer mad with that when he asked if there was any reason to use non-recursive search algorithms and I was providing justification.

I still got an offer but turned it down because I need an environment where I can learn where my blind spots are and return in kind with the team.
Welcome to my list of things people say AI will soon be able to do.
Real Soon Now™.
What in the world is going on with these convoluted framings? Just call it racism - not a 'shortcut' or an 'overcorrection'. Why not just clearly, simply, and precisely describe what is going on? This is anti-white racism. Google Gemini was erasing white people from history and also the present, and when it wasn't simply erasing them, it was diluting them - going partway towards erasure.

What I've said is bare, basic truth, and not ideological. If it offends or provokes factual or semantic quibbling, then such reaction indicates pretzel thinking about moral good and 'racism' in the minds of people like Smith.
I saw a video this morning with the new features and I'm blown away at the rate of improvement. I started using KiCad with v4, and it worked but was clunky. Now, it's such an incredible tool. I tell anyone looking for PCB software that if your budget is less than $1k, just use KiCad.
The era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us
It's not a conspiracy, it's a culture.

People who don't adhere get filtered out or learn to be quiet, and then you wind up with free, uncoerced and honest decisions that all cut a particular way.
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A visit to that user's timeline will show you how credible they are.
What I Learned Developing with LLMs
That's not crating though. Having the option to stay there only if it's desirable makes this just another part of the house.
Show HN: Justpath – a simple utility to explore the PATH environment variable
Does an MX record make it a “database of convenience”? You don’t have to serve any of those records. I’m not saying there isn’t a problem with email but just that it’s not a problem with DNS.
As others have mentioned, the relationship between employee and employer seems to be more openly regarded as a business arrangement (which it always was) and not as much of a place-to-be-loyal-to than I’ve historically seen. Getting let go can cause lasting problems, specially for a person’s self-esteem or confidence.

With so many being let go lately I think the sentiment is also changing a bit. You’re hired to make money for the employer, or solve problems to reduce costs. But now, even if you meet all of your requirements you can still be let go because the company’s shareholders aren’t seeing the growth they want despite the company being wildly profitable anyway.

So what’s the point in giving your free time (after work hours) to a place, or sacrificing real life things, when the company will just drop you whenever for whatever anyway? The illusion of loyalty is breaking and I think that’s a good thing.

Loyalty to a company, IMO, largely results in holding your career back if you’re shirking better things for the “good enough” thing you have now because you’re loyal. But the company isn’t loyal to you, and specially not if they’re under some sort of pressure to cut costs. Not saying don’t work to your fullest or apply yourself, or never go beyond, because those things are kind of part of work, but the undying loyalty is wilting.

Add to that the difficulty of finding jobs because companies made stupid short-term decisions (probably knowing they were gonna need to drop people later) in the name of quick money during COVID, and you’re left feeling pretty dejected about the whole thing.

Work, get paid, look after you. Company will look after itself. If they don’t, move on and make sure you’re okay. The company’s health is not your problem (assuming you’re doing your work) unless you’re one of the folk responsible for its life.
Are there any publications you can point me to that show the techniques there are ineffective?
Isn't the entire point of tinygrad and the tinybox the "apple style" of we are building this software to work best on our hardware?
On 33B/34B models I get 35 tokens/sec, way faster than I can read streaming in. At huge contexts (like 30K-74K), prompt processing takes forever and token generation is slower, but its still faster than I can read.

Miqu 70B is slow (less than 10 tok/sec, I think) because I have to split it with llama.cpp. I only use it for short context questions where I need a bit more intelligence.

And for reference, this is a SFF desktop! It's no Macbook, but still small enough (10L and flat) for me to fly with in carry on.
Shattering the 'copper or optics' paradigm: humble plastic waveguides outperform
> Point2’s E-Tube provides a low-cost, low-loss broadband dielectric waveguide solution that could serve as an advanced alternative to existing electrical and optical interconnects in high-speed, short-reach communication links. It’s 80% lighter and 50% less bulky than copper cables, and could reduce power consumption and the cost of optical cables by 50%, with picosecond latencies that are three orders of magnitude better.
I don’t see this way of thinking very often and I do think it’s more useful to meditate on it. Thank you for taking the time for this, the silent majority appreciates it even if we can’t find the words.