skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At least 4 years"? I believe I originally wrote the header you linked to in 2007... maybe 2006. ;)
> In fact since cleartype effectively triples resolution

Only horizontally (is 4K a double or a quadruple resolution of 1080p?), and only if you don't care about color (saturation, hue).
If you don't evaluate emotions too, you are missing most of human reality in your equations, like it or not. Stuff will not go as expected.
In context of the comment I was addressing, it’s clear that filesystem means more than just a key value store. I’d argue that this is generally true in common vernacular.
Garmin has a system that can notify ATC of an emergency, choose an airport, fly there, and land the plane, autonomously.

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/garmin-autoland-thi...
A 68k CPU has 68,000 transistors. If they have managed to produce all the building blocks of a CPU on a common optical process, why not build that?

Obviously this is only an easy option if the production is automated via lithography or something similar. If the process involves tweezering parts into place by hand, then a 2 bit SUBLEQ CPU is what you're gonna get...
https://the-gadgeteer.com/2016/03/17/turn-10-micro-sd-cards-...
Not being beaten up by police is part of your rights, but freely deciding how you want to work with someone else, and not being forced into the gig economy, is a right too. Every state seems to have certain coalitions with way too much power, and in California it's exercised whenever well-established interests can rephrase something that benefits them in economically leftist language: "Let's all raise the wages of pizza delivery drivers (who work directly for managers who aren't using us as a minimum-wage-circumventing middle-man.)"

See also: "Supply and demand is a capitalist hoax, let's ban the construction of houses other than the ones I'm renting out."
Which way round is this causation though?

Are they the only contributors because they're the only people who care, or are they the only contributors because they're hostile to any external contributors?
Why Walmart's quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried
It's for people who don't know how to write code and want to build a SaaS.
They just tell me the idea and I will build it. They keep the revenue!
I don't know for sure, but here's a plausible mechanism for how:

Multiple sub-networks detect the same pattern in different ways, and confidence is the percent of those sub-networks that fire for a particular instance.

There's a ton of overlap and redundancy with so many weights, so there are lots of ways this could work
I drove over the Columbia River last night in Castlegar, BC.

I could have done so without the bridge - there is almost no water flowing.

Many of the rivers and lakes in BC are severely, severely low to the point power generation is getting difficult and mills are closing. Of course, summer is just around the corner, and it seems exceptionally likely it will be a record fire season with record heat once again.

It's very hard to imagine things not getting worse.
Preaching is easy. Practicing is hard.

I would like to see Amazon Director+ having a winning attitude, not an adversarial one pitting people against each other.

Until these directors can fix a bug, they should not be allowed to talk about tech skills. Their fluff pieces are merely delusional articles meant to garner "likes" on social media.
There's a reason this topic gets flagged off the front page relentlessly, and it has something to do with the fact that even a comment that begins with the sentiment "I largely agree with you" elicits a full-page response complete with citations to "isitgenocide.com" and the Wikipedia page for the Nakba. This isn't curious conversation; it isn't even conversation. Be introspective for a second: do you feel like you're trying to have a conversation with me?
I've been a manager in software development on and off for the last 20 years now, and to echo what many of the more experienced managers here say, interviews at best give you some negative signals, but very rarely anything that I would consider a hugely positive signal. At best, I've quite gotten along with a charismatic candidate, but in my own career, even this has little correlation to people that I liked actually working with.

That being said, I think that a candidate's work history and general questions is good enough. In my experience, it's been painfully obvious everytime someone is bullshitting (or at least I think so, I never hired those people), and I haven't had any experiences where I've hired anyone directly that was a true disaster. Of all the people I've managed, I've had to fire very few, and in the cases that I did it was entirely unacceptable office behavior that led to the dismissal, and it also should not have been a surprise to anyone involved.

That isn't to say everyone worked out perfectly every time, but as a manager, I've been able to address most of those situations (and in the cases where I couldn't, it ended up being some of the very few dismissals). Approaching people who work with me with the benefit of the doubt has broadly been more successful. I address problems as something I want to help people fix, and not as something to be punished. Of the 50 or so people I've directly managed at this point, there's only a handful I wouldn't work with again.
I always thought the slashed ones were ambiguous, as adding a slash on top of a red circle which already signifies prohibition could be interpreted as a double negation.
Yes – it's a bit hard to follow the various branches of the thread on Twitter (I wasn't really intending this to be more than a 30 minute "hey that's neat" kind of experiment, but people kept suggesting new and interesting things to try :)), but I gave Claude Opus three independent tries at creating a fuzzer for Toby's packet parser, and it consistently missed the fact that it needed to include the sequence number in the CRC calculation.

Once that oversight was pointed out, it did write a decent fuzzer that found the memory safety bugs in do_read and do_write. I also got it to fix those two bugs automatically (by providing it the ASAN output).
> The problem with this is that the neither party really thinks this kind of corruption is a problem

You’re half right.
You assume there is no objective fact and that having an opinion is enough. That is a faulty assumption. Our society suffers from a deficit of truth seeking and a surplus of confirmation bias & wishful thinking.
>It's culture is perpetually endangered.

Iceland is it's own island. How could a culture be any less endangered than that? Every culture is at least as inherently endangered as Iceland's.
You may find this web site enlightening, I certainly did (https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/tax-burden-by-state...) This paragraph in particular for me

Since we present tax burdens as a share of income as a relative ranking of the 50 states, slight changes in taxes or income can translate into seemingly dramatic shifts in rank. For example, Oklahoma (10th) and Ohio (24th) only differ in burden by just over one percentage point. Tax revenue growth during the pandemic, however, has not only increased overall tax burdens but also expanded variance among states. In our last pre-pandemic analysis, the 20 middle-ranked states differed by less than a percentage point on effective rate, but in 2022, the difference between New Hampshire (16th) and Maryland (35th) is 1.8 percentage points. While burdens are clustered in the center of the distribution, states at the top and bottom can have substantially different burden percentages: the state with the highest burden, New York, has a burden percentage of 15.9 percent, while the state with the lowest burden, Alaska, has a burden percentage of 4.6 percent.
The primitive technology YouTube channel is pretty much this.

He doesn't use any equipment, materials or tools he hasn't made himself from the earth.

And, after many years of effort, he has managed to make some (not great quality) iron. He has also made bricks, pottery, a fan and buildings.
Video data doesn't work well with these multimodal LLMs because images are still somewhat intensive for them process. Both the GPT-4-Vision demos and Gemini take a few frames from each video (~1 frame per second).

Self-driving cars use much more efficient approaches for the real-time outputs needed.
Oh, so am I to read this right that the actual vector work being done here is not done via the RiscV [V]ector extension, but by a purely custom core?
The Georgia Tech Knowledge Based AI course involved building a program to answer ravens progressive matrix questions. The course was offered in the online MS program, so thousands of students have taken the course. The most impressive result I saw was one student who got nearly perfect results in about 25 lines of Python code.

This may be a case where humans do well on the test, but you can do very well on the test without doing anything the way a human would. The fact that GPTs aren’t very good at the test isn’t probably evidence that they’re not really very smart, but it doesn’t really mean that if we fix them to do very well on the test that they’ve gotten any smarter.
Tax Burden by State (2022)
I’m not at all worried about LLMs replacing even low-level engineers. We’ve been using Copilot and ChatGPT for awhile at work now and the most useful applications we’ve found are more analogous to a compiler than a developer. For example, we’ve had good luck using it to help port a bunch of code between large APIs. the process still involves a lot of human work to fix bugs from its output but a project we estimated at 6 months took three weeks.

On the other hand, as someone whose role gives me visibility into the way senior leaders at the company think about what AI will be able to do, I’m absolutely terrified that they’re going to detonate the company by massively over-investing in AI before it’s proven and by forcing everyone to distort their roadmaps around some truly unhinged claims about what AI is going to do in the future.

CEOs and senior corporate leaders don’t understand what this technology is and have always dreamed of a world where they didn’t need engineers (or anyone else who actually knows how to make stuff) but instead could turn the whole company into a big “Done” button that just pops out real versions of their buzzword filled fever dreams. This makes them the worst possible rubes for some the AI over-promising — and eager to make up their own!

Between this and the really crazy over-valuations we’re already seeing in companies like Nvidia, I’m seeing the risk of a truly catastrophic 2000- or 2008-style economic crash rising rapidly and am starting to prepare myself for that scenario in the next 2-5 years.
But why is Airbus so much better ?
I'm neither for nor against. I want objective truth, not relativist pandering.
At a more senior level, a company can probably have a better handle on what you're capable of. At that point, it's more about fit for a given role and, really (although folks here may not like this), whether you click--the first date thing. Which IMO is perfectly fine especially at a more senior level.

Of course, I say this as someone who has gotten every one of my (few) jobs since grad school through personal connections.
Not to detract from your point, because I think you're right, but gpt4 doesn't seem to mention the biggest thing a human wpuld notice, which is that the portable toilets are about to be knocked off the truck by driving under the bridge.

still, impressive
The original test of the GIF parser does, but the VRML parser less so and the completely novel packet parser even less so. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the scope of the "unknown" format being limited – it's not the most complex format in the world, but neither is GIF.

Another test to check how much seeing the actual parser code helps is to have it generate a GIF fuzzer without giving it the code:

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1766135426476064774

And finally, for fun, we can see how it does when we give it the RFC for GIF89a:

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1766207786751279298
> It's not like you would ever rely on the POSIX API for that anyway, even for when your files actually are on a POSIX filesystem.

Because there is no POSIX api for this. Depending on your requirements and query patterns, you may not need a completely separate database that you need to keep in sync.
Wouldn't that perspective affect how arms and hands are depicted? Also, worth saying something why the looks of other females in the group are not relevant.
i would argue that's a negative for a QA department and a positive for player feedback.

generally a good game developer wants to know how they've affected balance, which is something an acceptance test won't tell you.
The article frames the historically high office vacancy as crushing these businesses that catered to an office crowd.

I could imagine a similar article that would frame the rise of work from home for increasing effective take home pay of employees, reducing carbon emissions and increasing available employment opportunities which is all great for workers.

Or maybe WFH is a race to the bottom in terms of wages since companies no longer have to pay a premium for local workers in a high cost area.

Or maybe WFH is helping create new businesses as they can source talent from around the country.

Or maybe fewer workers means that public transportation services are at risk of being defunded which would hurt the most vulnerable.

Or any number of other effects from a changing work environment. My point is that these kinds of articles are arbitrary and uninteresting.

> In New York, which counts on office properties to generate about 10% of its tax revenue, the comptroller warned last summer that the city could face a shortfall of more than $1bn in the coming years under a doomsday scenario.

A city serves its people, not the other way around. If a city offers too much office space, it should adjust. If it fails to do so, it'll have to learn to do more with less
> I really miss the days when we at least paid lip-service to the idea that character and integrity mattered most in our pols.

It still matters if you’re a Democrat. Hillary Clinton was crucified for keeping her official emails on a private server.

We have an unequal system, where one party is held to a high standard, and the standard for the other party is always low enough for them to slither over.
Their defense and space contracts are not going well.

KC-46 tanker replacement was a fixed-price contract and Boeing lost $7 billion on that.

Starliner is a similar story, $1.5 billion down the hole.

EDIT:

T-7A Red Hawk trainer: $1 billion in losses. Air force one VC-25B program: Its losses are now at about $2.4 billion. T-38 Talon trainer, MQ-25...

Yea, it's not going well for them. Other programs are still fine, e.g. F-35, but fixed price contracts are in a dump.
I wonder whether the recent release of the Comac C919 [1] has anything to do with it - either through pushing Boeing to cut corners to compete on cost, or through malicious amplification of bad news stories involving Boeing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919
Sure, but my point is that self-driving may be easier to achieve if we don't insist on doing it the hard way with hardwired logic running task-specific models, the way I originally assumed it would have to be done.
Laws should have built-in expiration dates so they would be forced to be renewed/refactored every period to expand robustness or trim cruft.
"Attention to detail" this is maybe the most important thing, comes with good focus, and also I'd say pragmatism
Note: you can request names outside this list if f.ex. one or both parents are citizens with a foreign background. I know this from first hand experience and it was a relatively easy process.
I don't think using a language model to generate inputs directly is ever going to be as efficient as writing a little bit of code to do the generation; it's really hard to beat an input generator that can craft thousands of inputs/second.
And the RCMP will be there to squash (physically if necessary) and infiltrate any organized resistance to the regime that brought Canada to this state
I’ll go one further: this is a compelling argument for, at least, direct government participation in markets we consider crucial to a functioning society.
>the suggestion that law enforcement should "contribute to policy change"

nothing in this report sound especially novel or unexpected. these are all obvious problems - that's not to say the solutions are obvious, but the problems are. but the idea that the police should be involved in creating policy rather than following it is a pretty scary one. it sounds like they identified the rise or authoritarianism in their report as a trend to hop onto, rather than a threat to be aware of.
Agree yet rigor is essential for ensuring that research is methodologically sound, reproducible and contributes meaningfully to knowledge.
+1.

I also am increasingly thinking that this generation of AI is going to destroy social media with a flood of what Cory Doctorow calls “botshit”.

Only difference is instead of worried about this I’m more <Jack Nicholson head-nodding meme>. The death of social media can’t come too soon.
Yes, they ship to many countries in Europe, just add 14€ to the order
In what some call a frightening abuse of executive power the FAA and Dept of Justice have combined powers in a "Power Rangers type thing" and issued a sweeping judgement against all holders of an MBA. A prepared statement released by the lead investigators from the Dept of Justice said "Those who can't do teach and those who can't do either become either an accountant or an MBA or probably both. At some point the gangrenous limb must be swiftly cleaved and that is our intent here today."
Thanks for responding, I meant this when I said "pay their dues" btw: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pay-d...

I didn't feel that strongly about this a few years ago but with the Ukraine war demonstrating how unprepared certain NATO members were (ex: Germany), despite their pledges at the 2014 Whales Summit[1], which was essentially preparing for this possibility. I can't help but view Trump's anger about this as fortelling, even if obnoxious. Still, I'm confused why this is getting re-interpreted as an attempt at disbanding NATO, from my perspective the allies who refuse to follow through with their promises are fundamentally what challenges the alliance's integrity, not the allies who call them out on it...

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wales_summit#Wales_Pled...
If they called it something along the lines of an off hours discount that's what the optics would be. Clearly the fact that people are talking about this in a generally negative way shows that they aren't seeing it as getting a bargain.
Isn't Florida often hammered by hurricanes? On top of rising sea levels. Compare it to more desert-like California (which has earthquakes but maybe once a century, which then gets some vague misrepresentation in insurance risk calculations).

Insurances generally want your money unless stuff is just too risky. But some folks are eager to build real estate literally on top of dynamite factory if that land would be cheap enough.

So, why are those houses un-insurable is a good question for a start.

Also, OP writes their observation specifically about California.
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LibreWolf does this, actually: it initially blocks websites from using WebGPU (and canvas) by default and then gives you a popup to grant them permission.
Now imagine an automated system deciding in a checkmate situation whether to have a bigger collision or a smaller collision but risking to be covered in human waste.

By the way, that output is pretty freaky. I just can't imagine the amount of data needed to get to that level of accuracy.
Ah, thank you. This makes more sense. And I think I remember reading about it once. Apologies for the misinterpretation!
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There are a handful of global news brands with readers that are willing/able to pay significant subscription fees for. FT is one of them but US readers mostly consider them the European WSJ and subscribe to the WSJ if they are willing to pay for that sort of thing.

I'm not sure the FT makes sense for US readers on a budget. Personally I do the NYT and Economist so it's not like I don't pay for news and commentary but that's probably about my limit.
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Yes, the RISC-V Vector extension would be absolutely overkill for an ML accelerator, and waste a lot of die space.
Currently the cards need an x86_64 host, but they plan to replace that with their ascalon risc-v cpu, that supports the risc-v vector extension (rvv).
So most compute is done by the accelerator cards, but for some things the host system steps in. There rvv can come in handy, because it's a lot more flexible.
I would argue that convincingly unfaked communication is more important than fast communication.

America gained cultural power over the world by making most of the worlds films. But if those films took a year to arrive in Turkmenistan, it wouldn't diminish the power of that culture over the people.

However, if rather than a film arriving, it was a guy on horseback who had heard legend of someone who had once seen an American film, then it would probably have little impact.
Sarcasm aside, I agree testing on populations raises a whole bunch of ethical and morality concerns.

Also how would we control for environmental health effects, or even interactions between multiple product variances. This kind of testing would be wildly expensive, pose potential public health risks, and the data collected would be coarse and noisy at best
Are all your s3 keys opaque strings (like UUIDs)?, do you use / (slash) in your keys?

If you truly believe S3 has absolutely no connection to folders, you would answer Yes and No.
There has been a slowing down in many many places the last year.

The reason why the stats doesn't show might be because some of job counting people also lost their job. How are these stats being made ?
This is a rarity.

Many interviewers are so biased and lack nuance that they literally just go with whether or not the person passed the question.
What do you know, another police message that implies they need a larger budget ad infinitum. Things are getting worse they say, please give us a larger stick.
Exactly. Most of California is a huge QoL downgrade so the pay needs to be bonkers to compensate.
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skateboarding is full of this stuff, its a bit different since there's usually no objective measurement like height, but take the Ollie and the Kickflip for example.