skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like with every hobby, YouTube and Reddit push people from having an interest in something to pursuing it to extreme lengths.

Many people get so struck by gearlust they lose sight of what piqued their interest in the first place.

I'm not immune, I don't think I'd have a Unifi setup at home if I hadn't seen the flashing lights and convinced myself I needed some.
I think I misread your comment, unless you updated it. I updated mine.
Perfect video. Youtube is blocking it outside of the UK. VPN with UK exit IP seems to work.
No argument with the particles/neurons/matter approach to the subject.
It is sound and if you look at us compositionally there is nothing magic about whats going on.
There is, though, something about intuition or instinctual behavior which can constantly recombine/reapply itself to a task at hand.
I know many will balk at intuition, and maybe its only at the very best a heuristic, but i think we need to at least unravel what it is and how it operates before we can understand what makes something classify as human-like intelligence. Is it merely executing a process which we can put our minds into with practice, or is it demonstrating something more general, higher-level.
I think this is effectively provable from extraordinarily plausible premises.

1. We want to infer A from Q.
2. Most A we dont know, or have no data for, or the data is *in the future*.
3. Most Q we cannot conceptualise accurately
since we have no explanatory theory in which to phrase it or to provide measures of it.
4. All statistical approaches require knowing frequencies of (Q, A) pairs (by def.)
5. In the cases where there is a unique objective frequency of (Q,A) we often cannot know it (2, 3)
6. In most cases there is no unique objective frequency
(eg., there is no single animal any given photograph corresponds to,
nor any objective frequency of such association).

So, conclusion:

In most cases the statistical approach either necessarily fails (its about future data; its about non-objective associations; it's impossible to measure or obtain objective frequences); OR if it doesnt necessarily fail, fails in practice (it is to expensive, or otherwise impossible, to obtain the authoritative QA-frequency).

Now, of course, if your grift is generating nice cartoons or stealing cheap copy from ebooks you can convince the audience in the magical power of associating text tokens. This, of course, should be ignored when addressing the bigger methodological questions.
You're clearly correct. If you look at almost any organization, the people that move up are the ones that are most like the people already at the top. The hiring process at most companies STRONGLY incentivizes hiring people who are near clones of the people doing the hiring.

The people hiring almost always assume an air of "I am the ruler by which all things are measured" and since I represent the prototype of a perfect and desirable employee, I would expect someone I hire to have very similar properties.

It's human nature. It's also why, if you don't look, behave, and share a lot of commonalities with the upper executives, you will likely never get invited to be an upper executive. And make no mistake, the upper level is a club, and they are really choosing the people they want to be in the club.
Yeah, it's been quite a shock trying to reverse the first 40+ years of my life where I was told to eat eat eat. Not just for the weight, which is really a vanity thing, but also to counteract the diabetes that most with CF develop, since that can directly impact overall health and the ability to fight off infection.
Isn't this by definition not blameless?
This is just one step towards getting consumers to accept what they really want to impose on us: prices that change according to the customer (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00224-3)

Never knowing how much something will cost you, and accepting that the price you pay will be different than the price that others pay for the same item. Once we've accepted this, it'll be be much easier to get to us to accept discriminatory pricing.

Go out of your way to reject this now, or you will absolutely pay for it later.
You sound more like an out of touch executive or a recently-converted-Bitcoin-scammer than someone doing real work with this stuff (and yes I saw your top-voted post — as someone who also works in games at a large AAA studio I’ll just say I look forward to the GDC talk showing the evidence).
True. The issue is they aren't specific about it. One penetration testing house may pass a device when another doesn't.

They haven't solved the issue. They've highlighted it and left it up to chaos to solve it.
How to Get Out of Ontological Debt
My productivity lifehack – post-it notes with a twist
Each time I complete a task, I can say to myself: You nailed it! =]
There was a charm to old AT&T. One that we didn't see again till peak Nokia.

An AT&T handset could be used to beat up a burglar and then still be used to call the police. They were, to say the least, indestructible.

Nokia phones were that way for a bit (I forget what model number) where you could have them fly off the roof of your car at speed, and find them run over twice and still working (assuming the battery stayed in).

The latest iPhone flying out of a plane "window" and then landing still running and unbroken was an impressive moment and harkened back to earlier times.

The break up of att lead to a race to the bottom on handsets, they were disposable in a bad way for a while.
that ain't cool man.

i'd think that luke being cool is preferable to luke being warm. unless you don't approve of lukewarm either. i'd respect that.
No, you don't understand! It uses words in plausibly English ways! Everyone knows that natural language is composed of meaning!
Jesus, leave the guy alone
Yeah uh I came here to say the same... maybe if you run it as a nested loop in micropython on an underspecced device?
Gpt-4 will describe people, just don’t ask it to be judgmental.

Prompt:

Describe all objective details you can glean from the person in this photo.

Result:

The person in the photo appears to be a woman with fair skin. She has long, straight, light blonde hair, and blue eyes. Her eyebrows are well-shaped and lighter in color, matching her hair. She is wearing mascara and possibly eyeliner, which highlight her eyes, and she has a natural, possibly light pink, lipstick on. She is smiling, showing her teeth, which are white and well-aligned.

The woman is wearing what seems to be a black outfit, although only a small portion is visible. She appears to be indoors, with a nondescript background.

There are no visible tattoos, piercings (other than possibly in her ears, which are not fully visible), or distinctive marks that can be seen in the photograph.
Sure I agree it is interesting to some extent. The problem is these articles are written very emotionally as advocacy pieces and leads to stupid laws that basically amount to handouts to certain groups or regulations to prevent change in a neighborhood
I do agree here!

Bit of a tangent from the thread but what have been the most valuable advances in knowledge representation in the last 20 years? Any articles you could share would be lovely!
Algorithmic road trip to visit a street named after each day of the year
I didn't update it. I am quoting GP in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661339
It's an interesting package, and I have some of the use cases it appears to address. However, the documentation is inadequate to quickly understand how to robustly build some of the more complex cases. In particular, how to build bash-style process substitution. Robust here is the pipeline exits non-zero if any of the substituted processes fail, as demonstrated by this example:

#!/bin/bash
set -beEu -o pipefail
cat <(date) <(false)
echo did not exit non-zero

If this is addressed, it would be worth more time to figure out Pipexec.
On the other hand, it's quite likely that the cars actually were stopped when the photo was taken. The convertible is following the truck way too closely for them to be moving at a normal driving speed. I feel like most people have an incorrect mental model about how far apart cars are when driving. Maybe GPT-4 understands this in a way that most humans don't?
You do what?

I’m afraid you have the reaction products wrong. This is the chloralkali process, and you get hydroxide, hydrogen, and chlorine gas. The latter is extremely nasty. If you do it right (which I can almost guarantee you are not doing), it will react with water to form hypochlorite (that’s your fairly safe disinfectant) and chloride (harmless).

But this reaction goes the other way in acidic conditions: hypochlorite will turn into chlorine gas.

DO NOT run the chloralkali process indoors. DO NOT run it near your face. DO NOT think you’re clever and run it in a closed container — not only is the chlorine toxic, but it can explode when mixed with hydrogen. DO NOT mix bleach-containing products with acids. Just buy plain bleach (the “sanitizing” kind), dilute it carefully with water, and use it in an appropriate concentration.

(You can safely do the chloralkali process in a cell with a high flow of salty swimming pool water, with safety measures to turn it off if the flow stops.)
Double Space Court Case
A lot of it is private sales and there's a couple sites selling this land specifically.

Not a typo, I meant like acorn away your savings.
I would add a bit of nuance to Canada USA question. Canada can not have proper companies or even industry because of the USA. The only legitimately Canadian industries are those that are highly protected from US market capital. Canada just became good at the only thing that the US allowed it to be.
> My entire point is that this style of show sometimes gets it wrong. You keep pointing to an instance when they may have gotten it right and ignoring the sometimes.

Do you have any concrete examples? You have yet to provide a direct example of this and instead only keep alluding to it happening.
Extract CV infos automatically with NLP
Hi everyone,

I want to exctract infos from CV such as first name, second name, gender, ... and fill them into an excel table automatically, the scenario is having many CVs inside a folder, and then have an excel table where each row represent a candidate data. the CVs can be either in English or French, pdf or .docx formats
Does anyone have an idea how to achieve that ? or have previously done that before ? I saw there is an AWS service that can help ? what are your thoughts ?

Thanks
> Kimchi, Sauerkraut, Blood Sausages, Hakarl. Pickles, Smoked Fish, Canned Veggies, Yogurt, Cheese, Ham are all processed products, made with lots of chemicals and designed to store for months or years without cold. Are all of these historically important foods objectionable to you?

You were the one arguing that SPAM isn't highly processed food in a can, that's what my objection was. I consider every one of those foods you listed processed in some way as is most of the food we eat because cooking is processing. Grinding is processing. Chopping is processing. All of them have tradeoffs in nutrition, texture, taste, and preservation.

You seem to have taken it personally, as if I'm making some sort of judgement on your diet. I don't care, I'm done with this nonsense.
> There may be a queue of 25 other prs/issues/discussions that also need a response.

There are 30 open PRs. No other open PR has more than 2 thumbs ups/hearts. This one was open for months.

There's zero chance they were unaware of it.

They may have thought "ugh that's awkward; let's not think about it", but that falls firmly into "hoping that nothing happens".
Google (Alphabet) is the successor to Bell Labs.
Fewer MBAs in Europe.
They're most definitely not professionals in the sense that their profession isn't playing the game competitively.

They might be better skilled than the average players, but their actual profession is QA, e.g. making sure the game runs, not that it's perfectly balanced.

As far as balance feedback, you can't do better than actual top players.
I was thinking 5% was probably within the range of ordinary variations for a lot of domestically used chemicals .. that might mean one could already do such a study.

However, you have to get people to tell you how much product they use, which brands, how often, and not lie about it. That's basically impossible without antisocial levels of monitoring (which supermarkets probably already do, but which they don't want to tell their customers they do).

It's like the early days of mass customer data tracking where they'd tell customers they were probably pregnant, or probably gay, or whatever. People didn't receive the information in a way that suggested they were happy about the data being gathered.

It's probably too unethical to even use that data. Unless you're only trying to sell more crap, then it's A-OK! /s
Well their perspective causes accidents.

Financial disclosure is NOT more important than safety. Even if it involves all kinds of financial non-transparency and even financial crimes to ensure that lives are safe, at the impact of Wall Street billionaires' profits, I'm in support of it. I'd like to get to my destination alive.

If a plane can be made twice as safe, I'll buy Boeing stock at twice the price. Then when the plane is 3X as safe I'll sell it at 3X the price. Their financials don't matter to me. As a non-billionaire without a private jet, safety is how I "value" a transportation company.
I have watched huge number of his talks, and unfortunatelly he did not say something new in this one ..
Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works
AT&T had shareholders, but they also had a public interest mandate imposed on them by antitrust regulations, so couldn’t operate on the modern notion that shareholder value is all that matters.
See also the 1D version of this, rendered as audio: "bytebeat" music. Surprisingly complex music from very simple modular arithmetic and bit shifting.

https://youtu.be/tCRPUv8V22o
Controlling 3.6kW of Solar EV Charging with an Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi
Why don't you just rtfm? I'm not interested in "convincing" you, you're free to proudly declare that you refuse to read the docs, and you have an odd definition of "rant".
As if today's excessively interview-ritual-prepped people needed to be told more things to fake.

I suspect most big-tech hiring realizes this, but mostly they just want large numbers of disposable interchangeable worker drones, and they have theories/evidence suggesting they should select for candidates who demonstrate willingness to contort themselves to whatever prepped interview rituals the company demands.

I've given up on the increasingly dysfunctional/dystopic big-tech, so will probably have to found a startup, and sadly filter out any candidates who present like they're trying to pass a BS-tech interview.
As with our political parties, there are no left wing papers in the United States, at least not by the accounting of the median developed democracy. They may run individual stories of a particular bent, but the NYTimes overall is a right wing news source. One need only consider how they handled the Iraq War or pander to conservative moral panics around trans people for this to be obvious, and I’m speaking specifically to their so-called reporting on these issues, separate from the editorial department. The NYTimes is also wildly anti-union and routinely engages in intimidation tactics against its staff, eliminated their public oversight editor position, among many other egregious examples.
Doesn't seem like a bullshit excuse to me. How do you propose they make money if nobody has to pay for anything?
That's fine for a single person. Fine you you can be off the grid, but at least to build a road it's already $100k.
laukalt sounds better than lukecool, so let's invent it as an alternative to kühl. laukalt also rhymes with saukalt. then you can have a sequence: saukalt -> laukalt -> lauwarm -> sauwarm -> sauheiss.
"Even though the file API handles all those concerns, but it doesn't expose them to you. A narrow interface handling a large number of concerns - that makes the unix file API a "deep" module."

Both sentences here are incomplete, incoherent. I did not read past this point.
I suspect thats basically it (operations one by one and then pipelining to saturate). Thats basically what Groq does also AFAIK. From their website it seems the chips are designed to be connected together into one big topology, the "Galaxy" system. Also similar to TPU's, although they use HBM with only a few very powerful "cores" vs DRAM with low powered cores.
Are you arguing that they don't do that with federal oversight?

Without government oversight providing plausible deniability and the appearance of safety, companies wouldn't get this large. When consumers don't believe the government is ensuring that only safe products and services are available they will step up to make their own decisions.

Case in point, if Boeing flights started to show a pattern of safety issues and customers didn't believe that planes must be safe because they are regulated, consumers may decide to fly less or not at all. Companies would have to respond when money dries up and plane sit empty. Companies would also focus on safety if they know their business could disappear either through customers losing faith in them or due to the heavy cost of litigation when their safety lapses create a pattern of harm.

Regulation on this scale serves a few purposes. Most importantly, I'd argue, to give financial and legal cover to the largest corporations, and to create the appearance of control and safety beyond what any realistic guarantee could ever possibly be.
US Government explicitly recommends 6 memory safe languages
Not really because these things aren't defined.

There is no definition or standard to which you would do your in house tests to. It's not like other things where you design it to comply with iso whatever and then you test to that.

Here the standard so to speak is defined by the penetration test itself.

An example in safes. No safe is untraceable. Safes are spec'd by number of minutes to resist a tool attack. Then when a safe company goes to UL or whatever to certify the safe, UL technicians get the best commercially available tools and try there best to break into the safe and time themselves. If it takes them more than the spec, it passes.

Here there is no spec. There is no defined time. There is no standard. It's just up to what you can get the penetration test house to agree to write.
The problem is once you let go of those semantics, a lot of software stops working if run against such a "filesystem". If you dilute the meaning of "filesystem" too much, it becomes less useful as a term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System was interesting, I'd actually love to see something similar re-implemented with modern ideas, but it's more of an direct-access archival system than a general-purpose filesystem[1], you can't just put files written by arbitrary software on it. It's a bit like NFS without locks&leases, but even less like a normal filesystem; only really good for files created once that "settle down" into effectively being read-only.

[1]: I wrote https://github.com/bazil/plop that is (unfortunately undocumented) content-addressed immutable file storage over object storage, used in conjunction with a git repo with symlinks to it to manage the "naming layer". See https://bazil.org/doc/ for background, plop is basically a simplification of the ideas to get to working code easier. Site hasn't been updated in almost a decade, wow. It's in everyday use though!
We could reduce our immigration rate by over 90% and still have net-positive growth. Why is birth rate relevant?
Can this be used outside of OpenAI environments? If yes I think an example would be great!
Per-pixel is pretty slow, most fast algorithms don’t do this. Also, this is on the Playdate, which uses a somewhat lean ARM chip (stm32f7).
And I'm going to fewer restaurants! Maybe it's a good thing that companies are trying to squeeze blood from a stone. It makes it much easier to walk away from convenient, but bad habits.
You're talking about the revolving door, that's easy to fix compared to the real problems. Politics is connected to people with money and those same people have investments in the companies being regulated. The regulators will be instructed by politicians to go-easy, and they will because why not, it's other people's money being wasted. The companies will hold their services hostage to the point that a politician/regulator must have the fortitude to be willing to let the regulated company fail, let the services fail, see large numbers of people laid off, have people's pensions take a hit, and endure constant attacks by news media. Or they can put up a noisy but ineffectual fight which they give in at the last minute and then be able to tell people that at least they tried.
Because you're using the product for whatever reason, and you really want that one feature, but you don't want to be stuck maintaining the fork just for that.
The liability, in this case, is not about innovation, but about cost-reduction and outsourcing to a vendor with (allegedly) no audit and compliance controls.
This is quite an outlandish take. The safety of the aviation industry is by and large directly due to strict safety regulations, many of which Boeing pioneered before being taken over and financialized into the mess it is today.

New entrants in this industry need a ton of capital, made only worse by the monopoly suppliers in every single airframe sector. If anything, there needs to be more regulation to breakup these behemoths (or, prevent mergers like McDonnell Douglas and Boeing) in the first place.
that's hilarious...a grumpy senior engineer who has been in the trenches and is usually the kind of person that gets hard problems out the door is "damaging" but toxic managers who screw their team with a smile is normal or expected.

I realize you didn't say that exactly, but this is what the tone of OPs article is. IF you are a lowly IC, no matter how skilled, you must be the good subservient. The King demands a cheery disposition.

But the King is allowed to behave in any way he chooses. Capriciously firing people. Yelling, demanding, berating, snap judgements, etc...
I remember in econ101 the professor showed the supply demand curve graph and explained consumer surplus and how it was inefficient because there were consumers willing to pay more but the supplier had to set a single, optimal price.

The professor went on for a few minutes on how dynamic pricing per consumer would maybe be possible one day to realize this and how much more money would make. But he said ultimately it wasn’t fair and he was glad it was “impossible.”
intuition is a form of pattern matching without reasoning, so kinda like LLM