skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Notice that you had to notice the error and had to prompt it to double check. Lots of complicated things going on here. Many (most?) humans will fail somewhere along this trajectory.

Sure. This was covered by my statement above: "These algorithms are incomplete and buggy".

> “It was able to reason intelligently” imbues qualities that I am skeptical is reasonable to attribute to this very narrow domain - what’s an example where it showed intelligent reasoning capabilities?

Here's an example. I asked it to analyze the case where we always pick option "b" in my example above. It took my word problem and boiled it down to an equation:

ChatGPT: To find the threshold where the behavior switches from decreasing to increasing when always choosing option "b", we need to identify the smallest integer starting value that, after being doubled and reduced by 40, leads to an equal or larger integer in the next iteration. We're looking for the smallest integer x where 2x - 40 >= x

This was part of a longer conversation where it analyzed different properties and outcomes of the "game rules" that I gave it.

As you pointed out, it got some things wrong and had to be corrected. But Socratic reasoning works fairly well to guide it. It can find errors in its own reasoning. For instance, if asked to actually calculate a few iterations for a given case, it will find its own errors in its claims about that case.

Is it useful right now? Maybe, maybe not, depends on your use case. It definitely takes a lot of thinking on your own and guiding it. At some points it goes from seemingly intelligent to downright pigheaded and stupid.

But in my view there is absolutely no way a lookup table algorithm can contain enough data to be anywhere near the level of responses we're seeing here.
Isn’t that just easy way to run Windows on my laptop ? Docker is not about security, but about lazyness.
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Accepted that their is a VC hype but didn't the dotcom era have a similar hype? The internet is still a huge deal.

About the comparison with NFTs, people/customers are buying AI products without the hope of getting reach. That's a huge difference.
Mamba is like a burrito...
I generally agree with what you say. Except that I think it's more likely a red flag for the author of the article, not necessarily the company (but of course could be), depending on whether which side had the greater authority to set or influence the deadlines.

Sometimes it's easier said than done though. At some point of seniority you basically have to make the engineering estimates whether features/tasks could be done within a deadline. If you made a mistake, you might end up having to own it.
> Expectation: Once I become a senior, I will have more time to relax.

This is not necessarily false if the metric is the amount of work done. Being able to complete a task in 1hr instead of expected 10hrs means that one can* have 9hrs to relax.

* considering one care about free time more than doing more tasks
I don't think it's really about "the people in charge of deadlines". When you, as a senior engineer on the team, work crazy hours, all the junior folks on your team who look up to you (even simply because they also want a fancy job title down the line) copy that behavior. And then it becomes the new normal.
TIL a "journeyman" is a "journée-man"

(for thoughts on how to progress beyond "master", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494801 )
To each their own, but this is in fundamental disagreement with how career ladders work.

If you do the bare minimum to get by, you meet expectations. If you want to grow your career, by necessity and definition, you need to go above and beyond in order to exceed expectations, and this requires hard work.

Companies like Google, Facebook, et al. have defined dexpectations in place that juniors must grow into a senior role in N years. If you don't, you'll be fired for underperformance.

So yes, if you're a junior, "just doing the job" is coasting.
I’ll ignore the religious part of you statement because I think it’s posed in bad faith (bad pun).

Programmers aren’t rational in the slightest. How many tech leads and senior engineers write bad code and design bad systems and behave completely irrational about it when it yields bad results. No, they double down on things and dance around the root cause.
It's already happening https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
Maybe but then you are reinforcing bad planning and behaviour from management. Far better to reduce the scope or content so you don’t hit that deadline totally spent.
The only kind of bonds we can model reasonably well while ignoring quantum effects are hydrogen bonds. Hydrogen bonds can be modeled as parameterized effects in Newtonian mechanics, and molecular dynamics simulations using Newtonian mechanics can reproduce some interesting properties of molecules in solution.

The vast majority of chemical reactions involve changes in electronic configuration that are only described by quantum mechanics. The most accurate algorithmic approximations of electron quantum mechanics have terrible scaling properties - O(N^7) or worse. Due to that terrible scaling, the largest high-accuracy calculations that are tractable now are not that much larger than those that could be completed in the 1990s, despite much greater processing power.

There are other ways of approximating quantum effects in chemistry that scale better, but they all have tradeoffs and weaknesses of their own. They can used in limited domains or used to guide experimental design, but they're not accurate enough to discover useful reactions via pure calculation. They need to work in tandem with experimental validation and it requires domain experts in both the experimental and theoretical work. The methods are not simple enough for a bench chemist to use them as a black box for reaction discovery.
All of this progress is also good information to counter the endless claims that electric vehicles are destroying the world. There is an impact from all mining exercises and there are terrible conditions in some cobalt mines. Tesla apparently buys from only certified cobalt suppliers, for example. But every article that talks about improvements in efficiency in recycling and the continuing improvements help to set the record straight.

We could reach almost steady state of battery materials eventually with more and better battery recycling. I wonder when that might be expected? 30 years for EVs to go through the car fleet and replace all other cars, then most battery materials can come from recycling? However there will likely be different minerals in new battery tech over time, will solid state batteries be as recyclable?
How old are you? When my family came to northern Virginia in 1989, it was quite polished, conformist, and orderly. The George H.W. Bush East-coast WASP culture still dominated. The current generation of “think for yourself” “don’t let anyone tell you what to do” kids was percolating through the education system, but they were not yet running anything.

You can still see pockets of this. I was in Salt Lake City a couple of years ago and it was amazing. I was also in Iowa, and the older folks were pretty orderly, but you can see among the younger folks that southern redneck culture has been spreading.
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I've always found the programming world to lack the standards and rigor of other professions like being a medical doctor or an engineer where you need to join organizations and work under a pro for a few number of years before you can rightfully call yourself an engineer.

This means that I've noticed, for example, that seniors in one company with lax standards, would be at best a junior in another company with higher standards. Heck I've even worked under these "seniors" and thought to myself: "in what world are you senior if I'm better at everything that you do? I can learn nothing from you."

But all that to say, is that I don't blame seniors for not having sure footing. It's hard if you can't can compare yourself to a well defined standard or paragon of excellence.
Yeah, this is why I really like Kagi's approach: it's clearly marked for what is, and cites its sources so you can verify the quality of the answer (or at least get a ballpark idea of where it's coming from) yourself.
I found what you are referring to on line 76 of the assets/win7x64.xml answer file (under the “Key” directive).

So I googled the key to see if it was a widely circulated known cracked key I found.

It turned up on this site: https://www.windowsafg.com/keys.html which implies (strongly) that its a placeholder key that doesn't activate windows, they’re used for installation only.
There is very high variance in diagnosis, especially with different variants of ADHD such as older people (vs children), female (vs male) and inattentive (vs hyperactive).

Almost certainly across cultures too.

So variation in diagnosis might not reflect variation in prevalence. Hopefully they did their homework.
Same, AI might just be the pinnacle of software technology. But I don't think this will be our last invention. Even if AGI comes and we make it possible, people will still have to work on quantum computers, robotics and a lot more.

As someone once said, software is an enabler not the solution itself.
I agree that sometimes you need to do it in order to not totally screw up the business, but I think any case where you make that decision should require a postmortem where everyone involved in that deadline gets together and figures out why it couldn't happen during the team's regularly scheduled hours. If you do it quietly without making it very clear to the business that this was abnormal and should not happen again, then you're still feeding the false idea that it's okay to plan around late nights and long hours.

An early stage startup is a possible exception as long as your entire team is on board with it and getting a satisfactory amount of equity compensation. But the entire team has to be on board with working extra hours, it can't just be you deciding that for the team.
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And for more than 10 generations old processors that's a reasonable price.
Mamba might just make LLMs 1000x cheaper
Your article is thin to say the least.

The US was one of the the leading inventors of the industrial revolution among nations and there's no evidence to suggest that the US stole more from Europe than Europe stole from the US leading up to the 20th century.

People never provide more than a tiny number of examples while making that outlandish claim (that the US became a superpower heavily in part due to technology piracy). Which stacks against the vast scale of the US economy over time and its gigantic demonstrated inventiveness.

By the time the US economy was the size of China, it had already given the world an absurd number of prominent technologies and scientific achievements. That happened in part due to the renowned productivity of the US university system, which the world has been trying to copy since WW2.

China has given the world what compared to Apollo, the Internet, the transistor, microprocessor, GPU, Hubble, GPS, powered flight, or cracking the human genome? Nothing, crickets.

How about something comparable to inventing the first video game, which is courtesy of the US? Nope.

All that economic output, where's their Internet equivalent contribution?
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> Of course nobody gives a crap about college degrees.

That's missing the point of the example.

1) I was trying to allude to people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

2) I was trying to choose an example that would indisputably be considered a "junior" developer if that person were hired into a low-level role within an existing corporate hierarchy but also an example where the person indisputably took the responsibilities of a "senior" developer from the very beginning, led a team of engineers, and created great value for the company. Somehow these people are considered as "way more than a senior developer" despite having the exact same (negligible) experience level as a newly hired corporate junior developer.

It feels like the only difference is whether the person is high or low in the company org chart.
> Boring meetings, working during the weekends, stress and awful legacy tech is not a necessity

I did some mentoring in a program for juniors for a while.

The most common problem we saw was unrealistic expectations. Kids had grown up reading comment sections like HN and Reddit where people complained about every little thing and painted unrealistic pictures of what a job should be like.

Then these people grew up, graduated, and thought they were going to walk into jobs where they would work exclusively on passion work in greenfield projects with the hottest tech stacks, never have to sit in a meeting, and that they could work at whatever comfortable pace they wanted and nobody should be able to complain about how long it was taking.

There were frequent crises when people took their first jobs and got assigned to work on legacy codebases, for example. I lost track of how many times I had to explain to someone that a big company isn’t going to entrust the fresh-out-of-college (in this case, mid-tier college) junior to own a greenfield project in React, or how often I had to explain that deadlines are a fact of life in some businesses (e.g. those with contracted deliverables to customers depending on the product going live at predictable times).

Of course, there were other times we had to explain to people that their jobs were bad: People who had 25 hours of recurring meetings every week or companies that expected people to work 9AM to 9PM every day. This was very rare, though.

I don’t know the solution, but I can say that the way the internet talks about tech jobs as if they should never be the slightest bit uncomfortable is causing a lot of whiplash for juniors when they encounter reality. Sometimes you’re going to have to sit in some boring meetings or work on a legacy project. You shouldn’t be grinding away every weekend, but a job is sometimes going to be a little uncomfortable relative to some of the hyper-idealistic things we talk about online.
These two are highly correlated. My background is lower middle class, but high income for a few years made me into high wealth. With lower income tax, that would have been even more extreme. But with the high income tax I'm paying, lots of benefits go to low income families and make it less likely that their kids end up poor when they will be adults.

A proper taxation of inheritance would make income and wealth even stronger correlated, but that's hard to do as long as you can take your extreme wealth abroad. Family dynasties do exist even here and it's still an issue society needs to solve.
On this I will say they are far more snappy than they used to be, battery life is great if you ask me.

But in real terms I moved my home streaming app of choice to infuse. Between that app and the Apple TV 4K I’ve had since just before they moved the remote to usb c it’s been great.

I will say that it is tucked inside a cupboard and hooked up to Ethernet but aside from that it’s leaps and bounds ahead of the other solutions I looked at /tried over the last few years.
To the contrary, consideration takes time, and rules of thumb are valuable to mitigate overthinking.
No, the whole point of having an app installed is to have an icon you can tap to bring up said app when you need it. Same way as with desktop: installing != running.
> Compare writing a crud app with making an immersive game, or an application like photoshop/davinci/etc.

I hear you, but I don't see how immersive games are limited without a CSS build step. Games in particular don't usually have a lot of CSS anyway.

As far as complex webapps go, I'm not thoroughly convinced that the dev team is limited by the lack of a CSS build step. Sure, it makes things slightly more tedious, but not that much more tedious, surely?
here it's both
Simple Face Detection Server
I needed to do some basic face detection for a project in an environment that had no access to the internet. It turned out to be surprisingly difficult to get a simple face detection server running locally. Either the code was outdated, wouldn't run in Docker, model was too big and slow, results were bad, license not permissive enough, it was too complicated, etc.

So I did some research and found that RetinaFace backed by ResNet50 is a good balance between speed and performance. It runs fast enough on CPU and still benefits from GPU and has close to state-of-the-art accuracy.

I took an implementation, stripped it, optimized it for inference, and put it behind a FastAPI API. If you ever need to do some quick and simple face detection I hope you can also make use of this!
It is a really recent development. Even if this architecture is technically superior, it could take time before a model using it becomes competitive.

Or maybe it does not pan out at all. We are still at the stage where people are throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Some promising ideas which work at small scale do not work at bigger.
I’ve been working on “life query” which is like osquery but all your life indicators: social, finance, health, business, productivity.
The first sentence of that document makes reference to money creation happening by commercial banks making loans. It then goes on to explain much of the detail. The document is all about commercial banking.

Central banks operate exactly the same way as commercial banks, just the money they create flows in a different circuit.
Well not exactly. In my mind the price of running such old cpus for say the last (say, 4?) years would have been higher than buying new+new runtime costs. Those would definitely be considered opportunity costs that ought to be avoided.
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Well, you're just flat wrong. These programs are meant to develop a country's domestic tech and spaceflight capabilities, test new technology, look for potential resources on the moon, perform science experiments, etc. Increasing national standing may be an objective but it's not the main one because there are cheaper and more effective ways to make circuses than launching a lunar lander. I bet more people know about the relationship Travis Kelce and Taylor swift than are even aware that the US has a lander on the moon. The headlines about it will be gone by Monday unless it explodes or something.
I've known about the two projects for literally 20+ years, but wow I never knew it was the same person behind them....
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I have worked on this side project for some months to visualize what's happening in the world on a daily basis. Would love to hear what you think of it !
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Is it usable? Depending on exactly what it can access I might be interested to try it.
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The GP is saying that his website fails outside of the contracted hours as well as inside of them.

And yes, an emergency here or there is normal in smaller companies. If they start happening several times in a single year, it's a sign that something is very wrong, but it's not reasonable to expect them never to happen.

Also, a small place will have scheduled out-of-hours work. Those can be well planed or not, and people can be well compensated or not, but they'll always exist.
British comedian Dave Gorman claims the clocks are set to that time (actually 10.08 in his example), because that makes them look happy, and they sell better that way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCRifY0H3Y
Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code – they should leave it up to AI
His ass.
The cost is in the mounting and the inverters. If you can re-use them, it might make sense re-power.
> China has given the world what compared to Apollo, the Internet, the transistor, microprocessor, GPU, Hubble, GPS, powered flight

All those are more recent and I could argue they're built on an industrial base built on IP theft :)
It removes the references to the base image.

I don’t see any benefits. Security scanners have a harder time to track issues, because they can’t just detect the image is depending on an insecure base image.

It also strips the possibility to deduplicate some base layers, or a partial pull if you already have one of the base layers in the cache (Debian or Ubuntu are very common, you might have even the exact same version already in the layer cache).
Thanks! The time for which TXT records are cached is determined by their TTLs. When publishing a DNS TXT record, you can usually set the TTL to be as low as 1 minute or even less, so any changes to the content would be picked up really quickly. (https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/ref...)
I like the last one, but how do you connect the boards to each other? Solder balls? Just pressure?
this appears to just be UAE investing in a real estate developent, they're not claiming territory or mining rights.
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Working the 40 hours you're paid for is not the "bare minimum". That's the most a company should ask of you without additional comp.

You can go above and beyond in 40 hours. Quality, intelligent work does not require overtime.

Hustle culture is simply wrong here. Luckily I could not care less about working at faang or whatever the fuck they're called these days.
> The less qualified, the more likely that they fell for the "updates are bad, they ruin your computer" narrative.

Bad example; this "narrative" is true as often as it isn't.
Broadly speaking, "computational materials science" has been a thing for quite a while, and has been responsible for the majority of academic supercomputer time allocations for decades.
The industrial revolution created unusual economic conditions that evened out socioeconomic inequalities. The socioeconomic inequality that existed before then is probably a more nature state for societies to tend towards. Over time the inequality will eventually be restored.
> A Perpetual Purpose Trust (PPT) is a legal and organizational structure that allows a company to operate with a focus on achieving their overarching goal of creating purpose or impact rather than focusing on maximizing profits alone.

Patagonia and Bosch are the well known examples of this ownership structure.
If you ask people about how many children they plan to have, and why, they do list environmental concerns.

So, "others", apparently includes their own chidren.
We don't even need to get into "desperation" arguments. I support their efforts to copy and extend 100%.

Western states deserve to have their asses handed to them on this. This was a double-whammy of stupid assumptions: that the rest of the world-- with different backgrounds and needs-- would forever accept the "let's legislate that water runs uphill" IP narrative, and that other countries were willing to remain trade vassals forever.

If it takes industrial-scale Chinese copying to force technology to march forward, I'm all for it.

I also love the tendency to cast this as moral argument-- "they're StEaLiNg our tech." If anyone is immoral in this situation, it's the IP holders. They're bottling up the very progress of mankind to ensure they can make their quarterly sacrifices to the almighty Market God, and we've just normalized it here. I hope that their attitude towards intellectual property gets ever laxer and shows us a new way forward.