skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I look at resumes, a cover letter is a plus. It shows that the applicant is putting in some effort, and not just spamming every position available.

When I'm hiring, I probably spend less than 30 seconds looking at a resume...

What I look for (these are for process engineering positions)

-Education (need a degree - HR requirement) - I don't care about grade.
-Projects or internships - relevant to the position.
-Hobbies / interests - for me, this is the biggest one. Looking for a hobby or interest that needs problem solving - car repair, 3d printing, robotics, baking, whatever. I don't really care about travel, sports, etc.
I admire your dedication to the cause!
> If Apple only cared about the problem at a superficial level, why wouldn’t they do the same as Chrome and talk a big game about the problem but continuously delay changes?

If Safari behaved the same as Chrome, then Apple couldn't market Safari as more private than Chrome.
I guess it all comes down to thinking outsourcing is magic. Get same thing done at 1/4th the cost with virtually no downside. Hopefully C suites get what they deserve or at least get fired.

But at any point do these consultants like at McKinseys, BCG, AT Kerney etc who advise these money saving tactics get what they deserve?
But the code is still there and we still can build Docker images of it. The PR itself is still searchable, both internally and externally.
You're right. I had a typo.

"a main view area with graphics, text and where input can be received from the user."

But notice how you can look at that and try to reason through what I meant, realize it's not clear, and respond to that.

The above is reasoning.

"The capacity for logical, rational, and analytic thought; intelligence."

ChatGPT can't do that and I don't mean that it can't do it good yet. I mean it's literally not doing that. There is nothing to advance or to expect advancement in. The "AI" doesn't exist. LLMs are simply not AIs and they are not in the path to AI, although they likely will play a major role if a theory towards AI were to be conceived.
Some of those are improved dirt roads so it's not easy pedaling, in addition, as others have said, it can get hilly.
Good QA is not easily replaced but it's a job you under hire for a large part of the game lifecycle. It's cheaper to gut the team after a release and bite the hiring cost on the next game than to hold on to them. You don't need a legion of folks testing a prototype.

Pretty sad because good QA folks provide a lot of value despite what I'm reading in some of the other comments here.
I knew a team lead for one of Boeing's machinist groups in Seattle. They were a blue collar bunch and not college educated engineers. He wanted to have pride in their work but was constantly frustrated with their management and told me once that he didn't trust Boeing planes.

Boeing didn't like when they went on strike and moved to South Carolina where it was cheaper and there were less union friendly laws.
The author makes it sound like this is a bad thing, its not. Clinical trials are extremely expensive, if every device manufacturer had to do a clinical trial many devices would never see the light of day.

This is a cost vs benefit trade-off. A 510k is not an easy process to get through and is still very expensive and requires an enormous amount of documentation, paper work, and justification.

If a device harms a patient, it become a reportable event, and the FDA will come swooping down and shut you down if you are not properly documenting and mitigating hazards.

The alternative is fewer medical devices saving lives.
Photons do interact with each other:

• Gravitationally.

• Conversion to matter-antimatter pairs.

• In non-linear optical media, which is technically all substances, but effect strength varies.

Of course electrons are involved in the last of those, but not in the way you mean. Non-linear optical media electrons remain bound to their atoms, and act by orbital resonance effects.

The last of those is a realistic path to a general-purpose photonic computer. I worked on a design for one, and I was surprised to find our design would run not much faster than a good electronic computer, while being larger, due to optical wavelengths. But it may have been more energy efficient if we'd built it. Or rather, the calculation part may have been more efficient, with memory being less efficient than transistors. Also we didn't spend much time optimising it.

Small photonic machines are good for particular calculations such as energy-efficient FFTs, but that is smaller scale than a general purpose processor.

(If anyone is interested in photonic computer design, feel free to get in touch!)
Nowadays one would probably use the GraalVM based implementation instead of Rhino: https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/js/
I feel different about fully open source projects. You are working for free for the benefit of the company, all other companies who want to use it, and the rest of the world. I'm happy to work for free when it benefits everybody equally. I don't care that for profits benefit, because they all benefit potentially the same amount. It's a boon for the world.

With open core, you're working for free for the benefit of the leverage of a company to better position their secret sauce. It asymmetrically benefits the company more than everybody else. I only do that when I'm getting paid to do it.
One thing missing from this discussion is the cost of DRAM. It hit $4/GB in 2011, and hasn’t changed all that much since then. In contrast if you go back another 13 years, memory cost $1/MB in 1998.

Laptops have adapted to constant-price DRAM - 8GB was a decent memory size 10 years ago, and 16 is probably the equivalent today, with lots of swapping to compressed RAM using CPU cycles that get cheaper every year, and some swapping to flash that is 10-20x faster than the hard drives of 10-25 years ago. Servers not so much for various reasons, not all rational.

The lessons we learned in the decades when RAM was always getting bigger and cheaper every year don’t always apply nowadays.
What a super important project! Very well done to the researchers and
I really, really hope you get funding and/or people joining and taking
this all the way. Please keep it up!

Been involved with a physical supply-chain assurance technology
project and this is the first time I heard of this kind of IR chip
scanning.

For those that don't understand; securing the provenance of physical
hardware is the foundation of all other cybersecurity.

VCs and money people... this is where you should be placing your bets!

It doesn't actually matter if/that it's not terribly effective at the
moment. Keep building and roll it out. Get people using cheap scanners
and publish open hash databases. Even with false positives it becomes
like "effective security theatre" and is a massive deterrent to
anyone attempting implants or stealth logic modification at silicon or
board level.
RQuickShare – Implementation of Android QuickShare for Linux
Is it the S3 sleep issue LTT highlighted, or something else?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
TIL: OSL
I'd be dead scared of false positives riding in one. That might be harmless at a speed slightly above pedestrian, but my speed range does not end there.
In a properly functioning quality and safety management system, there's no awkward in-the-middle. The "open door plug" procedure is a planned part of the construction, inspection and maintenance of the airplane. And even if there was a doubt, the thing to do in that case is stop and document the doubt, and then document the process of discussion of the doubt, and then document the decision, including whatever change to the quality system may be needed to avoid this doubt arising the next time.

The problem here is not that Boeing does not know how to run both the original quality system and the system to modify it if necessary. The problem is the quality culture that puts "implementing the quality system" above "make line go up" is degraded.
Again, might be an EU thing, but even my logged-out youtube sessions seem completely un-personalised (I likewise use sites in fresh sessions by default).

Opening youtube.com in a fresh, logged-out browser session gives me a blank home page, with this dialog:

> Your YouTube history is off

> You can turn on watch and search history at any time to get the latest videos tailored to you.

> To update your selection, turn on YouTube History and confirm your settings to accept the use of cookies and data
On one hand, I don’t really understand why anyone would expect an LLM to solve logic puzzles. The only way it can do so is not through reasoning, but by having been trained on a structurally similar puzzle.

On the other hand, it does feel fun that the top ones appear to solve it, and I understand why it feels cool to have a computer that appears to be capable of solving these puzzles. But really, I think this is just specificity in training. There is no theoretical or empirical basis for LLMs having any reasoning capability. The only reason it can solve it is because side the creators of these top models specifically trained the models on problems like this to give the appearance of intelligence.
What an odd thing to say
Seems you’re right. They say each zone is a separate failure domain but you kind of have to trust their word on that.
the problem is that having a healthy community of scholars doing good historical research using sophisticated methods, produces a lot of positive externalities. most people never engage with it but having such people around does limit historical bullshit. this has been good for society. but it's now falling apart.
Haha, I don't think I've ever read a more historically-inaccurate sentence. :P
> Without SAML auth, you simply cannot deploy it yourself for your internal users

Of course you can, you just need to do (relatively small) extra job syncing credentials with your IDP.
Indeed one of my favorites as well. Can't stop thinking about its modern angle where for example our industry is full of mediocre programmers that only really can do more of what they have already seen. I'm really longing for colleagues that actually put research effort into their code.
You have backwards
Hibernation success also depends on device driver support and so many devices don't correctly support hibernation, for example, by failing to come back to life after machine is resumed, or certain functions becoming broken due to software/hardware bugs.
I think you missed the point of my comment. When I said my list of CVE and my list of unfixed 0days, I meant that literally: CVE attributed by Apple to me, and unfixed 0days that I personally discovered. I wasn't making a "wild accusation".
Why would it never happen? The swap space is still limited. If you run out stuff gets killed by the OOM (out of memory) killer. What's the difference?

Also, it's not just about space. SSDs have a very limited number of write cycles before they fail.
It's not the default and in most use cases there's no pressing reason to change it. (Unless you know that Apple has broken the default mode data consistency guarantees...)

Secondarily there's also a list of disadvantages listed for the WAL mode in the SQLite docs, and some others besides, eg infinitely growing WAL files if there's always readers around.
Well, if they have to keep their QA team employed now, maybe it will lead to a longer testing period before launch. One can dream.
Three passengers with airsickness. Fourth Boeing incident in a week.

Hype machine at work.
I think their point is that a straightforward reading of the statement “this had good consequences for all of humanity” would need to be evaluated by examining the finite equivalent “there does not exist a member of humanity for whom this had bad consequences”.

Hence they propose an asterisk next to “all”, because “all of humanity” means something more like “humanity as a whole (decided by someone?)” or “humanity (the ones who aren’t dead?)”
I don't think I ever used hibernation after Windows XP. Suspend is just better unless it takes more than a few days.
The data will be kept encrypted in the database and will not be shared with anyone until you die.

Also, it's not just for secrets. It's for business too.

Think you are running a SaaS and something happens to you. What will happen to the business? Someone has to know what you have to do to run the server, to manage the database.

It's like having a backup with you forever so that your family can get your journals, "how to run my business" stuff ready.
Agree with you here.

Wanted to echo " It's (cybersecurity) pretty painful right now".

The FDA just implemented new requirements. Basically they require penetration testing on all new medical devices. The issue is they don't have the expertise in house to know the technical details, and they haven't defined the tests, etc. Additionally they're isn't yet an ecosystem of partners and service providers yet to provide and compete in providing those penetrstion testing services.

Pragmatically what it means for folks trying to get a device cleared at the current moment:

You need to send your device to the one and only penetration testing house that does this for the FDA now and let them try to physically hack into your medical device. You have to make it impossible and evident if someone tampers with it in any way. This is in addition to all the software security stuff we need.

Imagine of you were making computer monitors. One day you are suddenly required to make it so a technical expert cannot open the monitor up using specialized tools.
I'm in a similar situation so it's funny to see someone else here with the same. I had my transplant in 1988. There's also Steve Rasmussen (you can google him) who AFAIK also does not take Trikafta.
Could also be both. Training data organically creating the difference but with an additional layer of specific alignment on top too
I don't have those expectations of current models. Your post says "I have no idea why anyone would want this" and so I explained why I might want this. It's not just me, there are many companies hawking AI therapists, friends, romantic partners, etc., and interruptions would be useful in these contexts too. These companies seem mostly sketchy to me but I can't deny there's demand for their products.
No, the FAA didn't cut corners, Boeing did. The FAA did a bad job catching it.

And being certified by both means that orgs and aircraft are certified by both. Decades of cooperation and alignment of regulations and requirements mean that the sevond certification is covering the delta between both, believing the common stuff to be properly cerified by the other regulator. That is where the FAA lost trust.

Hence my believe the FAA will not show much liniency to Boeing this time.
DishBrain, described in this fantastic article, apparently figured out how to play Pong [better than `chance`] without being told to "achieve a high score" — using petri-dish-grown brain cells with only a very basic input/output [limbic] system.

Basic info on DishBrain: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-can-you-GK9aohldRJqh9o...

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I love Author Watts' comparison that grasshoppers have less neurons than DishBrain, and yet are often considered sentient.

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My only [potential?] "fact check" would be that the inventor of the Paper Clip Maximization Theory is actually Ilya Sudkowski.
Hi, author here! Completely agree, I would love to see the FDA publish an official dataset of predicate device relationships. I'm not sure if they have this data available internally, but if not, they could validate my dataset and republish it, which might be easier than starting from scratch.
Maybe not for keeping a job, but as evidenced by media coverage awareness was raised.
I’ve wondered this also because it can be handy to have multiple ways of accessing the same file. For example to obfuscate database uuids if they are used in the key. In theory you could implement soft links in AWS by just storing a file with the path to the linked file. But it would be a lot of manual work.
For location history I use https://gpslogger.app. It's open-source, can be found on F-Droid and has many settings.
I see alot of new founders just jumping into AI cause it's cool, all of them should give a read to get the reality of being an "AI startup"
you would think the companies rolling these out would have that level of sense from the get go. turns out, they didn’t, and described it in the sensational way.

“dynamic pricing and daypart offerings.”

that’s the ceo of wendys - not the media. sure, they tried to awkwardly correct the optics.

there may be upsides, but to act like this is purely media sensationalism is to sound quite a bit like jumping too far in the other direction. the why isn’t terribly important. just like the ceo, the optics are off.
i'm talking about the domains that were banned.
Ram still gets cheaper. 16gb ddr4 is $30, ddr5 is $45. The only company with expensive ram is and has always been Apple.
I turn everything on and sign in everywhere. It's super useful to remember both what I searched for and where I've been.

I use Google stuff because of the tracking/personalization, like Calendar is integrated with Gmail, or Maps can show my contacts, or Search knows where I am, and YouTube makes OK (not great) recommendations based on my history.

I'd gladly pay them to handle all this for me (instead of ads), especially for search and maps.
yes we do? it's a load of trouble to get deep into rainforest, desert, ocean, mountains, artic, antarctic habitats to study the flora and fauna there.
I just wrote some server provisioning automation for a datacenter. I originally didn’t include special handling for swap, as I didn’t think anyone would be using it, but I got some user requests. So now if they add swap, I set it up accordingly. It wasn’t common, and I don’t know if their app strictly required it or they were leaning on old habits, but some are still doing it.
Fantastic story, one of my favorites by Asimov!

What's fun for HN is that his target profession is actually Computer Programmer. Interesting correlation to his eventual fate.

I wrote a short post about this story w.r.t. job displacement of SWEs a couple of years ago: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2022/asimov-programming-and-th...
Why not just make them 27cm and then you get the true distance signals travel?
Apple Car Designs Give Tantalizing Look at What Might Have Been
my favourite asimov story[+], because i really love the trope of "society may enforce conformity, but then it relies on outsiders to advance". mercedes lackey's "the lark and the wren" is another good story built around this idea.

[+] joint favourite with "the martian way", an extremely underrated story that to me exemplifies the golden age optimism around solar system exploration in a way that not even clarke manages.
Paleo-dunes reminds me of when I was gobsmacked when I learned the kilometers deep sandstone deposits in Grand Canyon and Grand Staircase (Coconino and Navajo other sandstone formations) were sand from huge sediment carried by ancient east to west running possibly Mississippi sized rivers from the Himalaya high great Appalachian mountain ranges on the North American east coast. Huge mountains were just "sanded down" over time and deposited thousands of miles away to the west.

The surprised and shocked to learn that thousands(!!) of feet of rock had been eroded away above the current ground level of the Grand Canyon to move that enormous volume of former solid rock elsewhere. It boggles the mind to imagine a mile of rock over a large region just being just moved to a new location.

And then surprise turns to astonishment, as they say, to learn that the Vishnu Schist unconformity at the bottom of the whole sequence records several hundred million years in two periods of the earth being a giant snowball covered in ice where the entire continental surface across the planet was sanded almost smooth by enormous Greenland scale glaciers.

Geology is crazy.
You’re assuming you’re paginating through all objects from start to finish.

A request to list objects under “foo/“ is a request to list all objects starting with “foo/“, which is constant time irregardless of the number of keys before. Same applies for “foo/bar-“, or any other list request for any given prefix. There are no directories on s3.
"Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."

Being non-free is a defect that can always be improved, best technology is always free and something you don't need to think to use.
I think the broader context here is that it's "fine for training" in the sense that you can successfully train a model, but it's not "fine for training" in the sense that it can only train small models due to the lack of scaling across cards, which directly cuts against where ML has been trending over the last several years.

In LLM-land we've rapidly gone from training bespoke models to doing fine tuning to RLHF to zero-shot prompting. The better the underlying model the more you can do without additional training, so hardware that fails to scale up to the largest training runs will have limited practical utility despite technically supporting training.
VulnCheck opened up their database for the public so organizations can keep a close eye on vulnerabilities that are known to be exploited in the wild.

There are so many use cases how this data can be utilized:
- Create a watchlist of your critical tech stack and monitor on a regular basis if something new shows up.
- You can enrich your vulnerability scanning data so what KEVs exist in your environment.
- You can do awareness campaign internally to convince technical teams and senior management why investing in defense-in-depth controls is essential.

I created a little demonstration how to work with the data with Power Bi. You can work with their API or download the dataset as JSON manually if you are not comfortable with APIs.

Looking at the data what immediately stands out is the surge of KEVs from 2022 to 2023. We are only early March, and the numbers are almost near to 2020's total!

Like any dataset, VulnCheck KEV is not perfect either. For instance they only report 2 KEVs for Chrome for 2023, whilst there has been more. Having said that this is a great initiative what VM and security teams should take advantage of. Looking forward to see how they take this further.
Yi 34B Chat has not done well on my new NYT Connections benchmark and it's only in the 22nd place on the LMSYS Elo-based leaderboard (151 Elo below GPT 4 Turbo). It's doing better in Chinese. When it comes to models with open-sourced weights, Qwen 72B is clearly stronger.
I'd blame bloatware rather than the OS. As globular-toast's comment points out, using an SSD for swap could cause significant wear, i.e. shortening of the device's usable lifetime.

If applications made more efficient use of memory, the OS wouldn't need to terminate processes.
In the segment about Boeing they purposefully mislead the audience into believing instead of issuing a software update, the company issued stock buy backs. Looking at the dates if the source articles shows a much different timeline.
If they don't want to provide the best possible product and not accept outside contributions, they should not provide a free and open source repository.
How to hard-fork to save most users' funds in a quantum emergency
> I've never seen one in Berlin.

I've seen several, but they are carted around and look like some trailer parked innocently on sidewalk, I was curious about one "futuristic" looking trailer thinking it was maybe a bike garage or something but after careful observing it was indeed a speed camera.

> 30km speed limits? More of a guideline and those signs are used very sparingly.

Yeah, unless they are near school zone. Then they are almost invisible and you have a radar with flash to make sure that you know you are speeding.

There are more outside Berlin. I drove one road where it had a side road every 1km or so. And of course constant 60-80-60-80-60 signs. And a radar exactly there where you finally said "fsck it" and didn't slow at that next 60km/h.