skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'll hop on the dismissive bandwagon but not for the same reason as everyone else: not a single one of these HDLs ever (ever) amount to more than perl scripts.

why? how? how could that possibly be? this one is written in rust...?

because not a single one of them, ever (ever) emits a netlist. they all emit verilog (or vhdl). hence: overengineered perl scripts (which actual employed RTL engineers use heavily...).
It's not a 'strong statement'. It's a statement supported both by rationality (more inputs spread out across less users) and empiricism -- there's countless case studies arriving at same conclusions. Here's some from Strong Towns:
i) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/3/cobb-county-add...
ii) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/27/a-texas-sized-...
All of this is moot if essential services like government or banking require root of trust attestation that is only available on windows. New chips already have Microsoft's pluton core.
Usually it’s much easier to be liberal when doing so doesn’t cost you meaningfully. I’d encourage you to evaluate for yourself if your stances are truly fair and if you’re truly liberal considering how painful it is for an H1B to lose their job vs you. It’s also easy to say “but H1Bs get exploited!” Considering how many H1Bs come here, maybe they’d rather face this exploitation vs staying in their own country?
Thanks for sharing your perspective. It makes a lot of sense!
“Oil” is 10-15% less dense than water. So yes, “about” the density of water, for napkin purposes. This would be diesel or heating oil.

Gasoline is 30% less dense than water though.
Is it just me but Google products such as Calendar, Sheets, and even Docs performance has deteriorated really bad in Safari. Of course, they work well in Chrome. I like to do quick tasks in Safari, my default browser, such as bricking meeting slots in the Calendar.
I've had a similar time trying to hire an ML developer with any experience. What I suspect the market has gotten tougher, but not uniformly. If it's bad for experienced people with some form of personal network, it's extra bad for those who were already terrible when the market was tight.

I also love how all the responses blame you and the company; maybe we've developed some unrealistic expectations over the past few years? I don't hear this sort of response outside of development.
17M cyberattacks a day: How Oklahoma stops 99% of them
your number is good, as it's the heavier from all oil. Don't work for all type of oil though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_gravity

Light crude oil has an API gravity higher than 31.1° (i.e., less than 870 kg/m3)
Medium oil has an API gravity between 22.3 and 31.1° (i.e., 870 to 920 kg/m3)
Heavy crude oil has an API gravity below 22.3° (i.e., 920 to 1000 kg/m3)
Extra heavy oil has an API gravity below 10.0° (i.e., greater than 1000 kg/m3)
Keyword: ECA
Older even than the Pony Express.
Blame the Linux project's workflow. It's hard to reason about because that patch is Linus merging 7 other patches together and you need to go read the mailing list archives if you want to look up more context about the changes.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/20240308085754.476197-7-ar...

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/20240308085754.476197-8-ar...

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/20240308085754.476197-9-ar...

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/20240308085754.476197-10-a...

[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/20240308085754.476197-11-a...

[5] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/20240308085754.476197-12-a...

[6] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-efi/CAMj1kXEoLOshENQO=RjQRq48D...

[7] https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/12/26/220

[8] https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/12/26/218
It's an interesting concept. Cheap. Doesn't take up a lot of space. Could be driven by a solar furnace.

My concern is whether the cyclone particle separator will do a good enough job - gas turbine blades don't like being blasted with grit. I expect they'd need a heat exchanger to be sure to get only clean gas driving the turbines.
>> We literally had an attempted coup

>Despite what you may have been told, the intentions of the vast majority of the people of the people there is unknown.

This doesn't matter - we're describing the actions and expected results, not the delusions of the pawns involved.

January 6 was so objectively a coup that if you described it to people in ancient Greece, they would recognize it as a coup. To quote a blog by a doctorate professor of ancient history:

>No ancient Greek would have had any trouble in understanding what happened on the 6th or that it was a serious attempt (albeit an incompetent one) to seize power. Having a leader or a political faction move with a mob (often armed, but not always so) to try to disperse the normal civic assemblies of a Greek polis and occupy their normal meeting place was a standard maneuver to try to seize power during stasis. As Dr. Roel Konijnendijk, an ancient Greek history specialist, noted in this excellent discussion on the r/AskHistorians reddit (where he posts as Iphikrates), “In the Greek world, most attempts to seize power by force tended to take the same form: the seditious party would contrive an opportunity to gather in arms while their opponents were unarmed and off-guard, and seize control of all public spaces.”

Emphasis not mine.

https://acoup.blog/2021/01/15/miscellanea-insurrections-anci...

(note: the domain name has nothing to do with coups, it's just the acronym for A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantries)
Here we just provide natural language instructions and the LLMs generate the code appropriate at a given time.
If the site changes, we can regenerate the code using the same instruction, so unless the site changes a lot, it is quite robust
This is so spot on.
I doubt so, pretty much every US government based system is inferior to it's private sector equivalent. Even regulations on this would be difficult because you're not just fighting against the sheer volume of posts constantly needing to be checked, but also against privacy concerns, since "this corporation is constantly watching everything you post" is both a mandatory requirement and largely seen as bad.
Here I was thinking $95/hr was pretty good for app development.
This is cool. Was looking for model weights, but it seems like maybe it will work with a variety of different models. This is like a RAG/agent app built on top of your typical llama. Am I reading that right?
You can watch the Twitter stream using the embedded card on the SpaceX website[0]. Just click the Watch button and it will open the player, no account required.

[0]: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
Traffic is just cars times miles. If all your cars are parked far away from their final destination, all you are doing is adding total miles traveled. Those don't just have basic operation costs, but create yet another kind of traffic: Just like how an elementary school creates more traffic than a high school, because pickups and drop offs require more miles than just having the car parked in the right spots.

So instead of, say, having rush hour start at 4pm, with people leaving work, you have a new, free, bonus rush hour at 2, of empty cars driving near the places where they'll need to be picked up. Same thing near any other rush hour: Every added mile kills. It's not even just cars that have this problem: You'll find that in American cities with transit, which often are built with very few key destinations, there are large depots for trains downtown! Bart has no need to use most of their trains most of their day, so you'll find trains that just go downtown and stay there, parked.

What drives efficiency, always, is fewer miles traveled, and having the need for transport be as even as possible. Something like car-centric stadium is terrible: You need major infra to support a game, with many lanes, and many parking places, just to support game days. But then there might be as few as 10 game days a year, so all that extra infrastructure is wasted the other 355 days.

Self driving, rented cars probably make the first worse, and don't really make huge differences in the second. I think that they have advantages: fewer people dying from drunk driving, or someone doing 80mph in a city street running people over, like we had last week in St Louis. Younger people and older people retaining some independence in areas where now they are wholly dependent of others to go anywhere. But the efficiency gains story is a pipe dream. We will see more miles driven, and therefore more total congestion.
What do you think this is, chat gpt or stack overflow?
Edit/remove/retry is just including the whole conversation over again (IIUC this is even how the app works.) It's part of why the API is so expensive
That's federal gasoline tax. In most states there is also state gasoline tax on top of that which is usually quite a bit higher.
it's how "rocket stove" works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove

Since you burn the wood really fast, you need to delay that heat release. That's where sand comes in as a cheap and good enough material. There are also systems that heat water and store it in a tank, which also make sense if you want hot water in your house too.
Similar example, Amazon disabled the ability to download your order history, leading to angry customers complaining[1] that they now have to click through item-by-item to get all of their orders for taxes or spend tracking. There are independently developed extensions[2] that do automated scraping, but they have to be actively maintained for changes in the site. A tool like LaVague would save a lot of headache for this and similar tasks.

1. https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000BMJvWOSQ1/do...

2. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/amazon-order-histor...
It's very different. There are tons of foreign owned apps and websites, like Spotify for example. Are we going to force them to become an American company too?
I saw that as well.
It could indeed have an impact on jobs, just like any productivity gains have destroyed jobs.

However, the net gains, in my humble opinion, could be phenomenal. Imagine all the time, mental energy and money spent on navigating through the legacy of today's society? From the legacy legal systems that is super complex, to legacy websites, I believe there is much time to be saved so we can dedicate resources to what truly matters, intellectual pursuits or quality time with friends and family
Oh god that looks cursed. Have you thought of just representing the characters using Zhuyin?
I try to be positive. People still choose to interpret my writing as negative, but that’s very much on them. I’m not a negative person, despite the circus that is Life in the Twenty-First Century.

I was a troll. A fairly nasty one, and I feel the need to atone. No excuses. I just don’t do that, anymore.

My formula tends to be specific, in praise (and as much of that, as possible), and vague, in criticism (and as little of that, as possible). It does earn me some sneers, from this crowd, but I’m really too long in the tooth, to be ruled by personal insecurities. I continue to do it, and the occasional insult won’t stop me, or provoke me into retaliating.

I’m a pretty good coder. I write code every day, and just about everything I write, ships. I open a significant part of it[0]. I feel that I do it well, and would rather lead by example, than complain about others. Just feels better, to me.

Kindness and empathy almost seem like lost arts, these days, and that really is a shame. I know that I played a small part in establishing that culture, and hope to play a small part in reversing it.

Personally, I hold myself to excruciatingly high standards, but I really only worry about others, if I use their work. Life’s too short, to be obsessed with the motes in the eyes.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#browse-away
YC probably prefers adding a bit of friction for people interested, instead of having the risk of negative comments about the companies under the job posting.
Same. I used to really like interviewing, but the AI cheaters combined with development as just a job has destroyed the experience. I did participate in interviewing an intern a few weeks ago who showed some passion and energy, and they got the role, so a small victory.
"Nightlife" just outside of your door seems like it would actively discourage the kind of garage tinkering which built SV in the first place.
>You should meet some of my old coworkers in large cities in Asia... (you don't SIT on the train at all in rush hour!)

Tokyo (I heard)

Mumbai
Don't say "alternate" like that! Have some respect. Windows is the most popular alternative OS to linux, right after macOS.
The CCP owns 1% of Bytedance and gets to appoint a board seat

https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinpings-subtle-strategy-to-...
This is just the beginning, but it is indeed on the roadmap!

Once we solve browser automation, we intend to support other integrations to further facilitate automation of workflows
Wow this is about how much the average radiologist makes after 10 years of postgraduate studies
Honestly urge most people, especially in tech to read something like Nonviolent Communication. There is a way to communicate your care that doesn't have you come off as an angry asshole. I'm guilty of it, I'm an asshole even when I don't mean to be and even when I mean to be I probably shouldn't. But everyone can do better.
You may like the novel Ella Minnow Pea

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Minnow_Pea
How is upholding the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution not having the US best interests in mind? This is so PATRIOT ACT 2.0
Thanks a lot! Love the support <3
One year ago I was looking. I applied to a 3 places, they rushed me through interviews and I got offers from every one. One was over 500k with 9 years of experience.

I chose to stay at my old job then left a few months ago. Took 3 months to get an interview and I've seen such shitty behavior. Company hiring for nonexistent positions. Ghosting after bad interviews. Heel dragging and super long interview turnaround times. I strongly suspect I'm going to take a pay cut when I do get an offer. My feeling is just that employers can be picky now, so they are. I hope things turn around soon
Not particularly. Reading through https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1bd12gc/..., this looks like good old-fashioned vaporware.
Which is why Linux distros should be investing heavily in security now so they can prove to manufacturers / Microsoft / the government that they are secure (compared to other consumer operating systems) to avoid a future like that.
Thanks! Funny thing, we did not use Vision models but text only with the HTML of the current page. However, we intend to add it to boost performance
Bitcoin has an incredibly small effect in that space if you insist on using that as an argument against.
> we can't make a market

Bingo. It takes a buyer and a seller to close a deal.

Supply going the wrong way with layoffs, demand going the wrong way with interest rates.

Like a traffic jam, takes time to unwind the backlog.
it's definitely a more modern thing, even in Software Development. Probably part on the employee's demands jumping between roles with much shorter tenure, and partly on the employer to justify the higher salaries over the past few years.
Why would it not? It's regulating the flow of protected speech materials, exactly the same as in the precedent case...
> Am I missing something about how people are using flakes right now?

Yes. Lots of orgs are using Nix today and need to meet SOC2 or better, and are using many different caches to meet compliance objectives. This is creating a significant performance penalty.

Further, whether you care about the separation or not the onboarding process is simply nicer, because it is tied to the environment you're running in (GHA) not tokens you have to copy paste around.

> If I have a monorepo, flakes are likely off the table right away due to the performance hit.

If you've heard of "lazy trees", that work is being spearheaded by us at DetSys to address this problem :).
What Is a Sand Battery? Polar Night Energy's Sand-Based Thermal Energy Storage [video]
Not downvoting, but perhaps those who did shared my thought "safety for whom thing?"
Most of what I see that seems like good AI/ML is stuff being added to existing products and make it better, not stand alone LLMs or startups.

For example, all the ML involved in the image processing on modern smartphone cameras. Or ML models used to recognize and extract text from images or video. I find these things extremely useful, and with them happening on-device, there isn’t a giant hungry datacenter required to use it.

The other day I was sent a screenshot of a table in a website by my boss and needed to add information for each row. I was table to highlight it all out of the image and paste it into Excel and it required only very minor cleanup thanks to the ML. If this was 5 years ago I probably would have had to re-type it all by hand, or just hand back a much worse product.

Sure, this is just better OCR, but I find these types of things have a bunch bigger positive impact on my day-to-day life than whatever the newest AI startup is pitching.
Interpolation Tricks
yes, it like surfing porn in the early internet year using a dialup modem. One line a the time until you finally can see enough of the picture (reply) to realize that is was not the reply you were looking for.

LLM streaming must be a cost saving feature to prevent you from overloading the servers by asking to many questions with in a short time frame. Annoying feature IMHO
The applicant pool is not randomly selected, though. The 6-10 randomly selected geniuses are likely all happily and productively employed elsewhere, there's a competitive filter against high-level talent that you have to also get through.
Same it was super slow and unusable when I tried. 10 seconds for a reply or smth. GPT4 API itself was way faster
I'm unclear on your point. The small amount of salt that's added to nettipot water isn't enough to kill bacteria, so what does it matter if tap water with salt is or isn't called tap water?
You are exactly right! As I wanted to have a solution that works with many LLMs out of the box, I focused on chain of thoughts and few shot learnings.

Lots of paper show that fine-tuning only helps with steerability and form (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05119), therefore I thought it would be sufficient to provide just the right examples and it did work!

We do intend to create a decentralized dataset to further train models and have maybe a 2b or 7b model working well
Location: Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#/.NET, WPF, C++, Python, SQL, Angular, Typescript, Android/Kotlin, AWS, Git

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2vxoBWzkQexKktwL2v_p284wl4...

Email: iampgr4@gmail.com

I have eight years of extensive experience in Full Stack and mobile development to the table. I've served as both a tech lead and mentor, engaging in a diverse range of projects and applications. I am seeking a Senior Software position as a Full Stack Engineer, preferably utilizing C# and/or Angular.
I was a contractor for a large financial institution -- one you've heard of. They fired a number of their employees during a layoff a year before my contract ended.

They did it, not because I was cheaper (my contract certainly wasn't) but because they could get rid of the bottom 15%. And company rules limited my contractual ability to remain on.

I was kinda shocked at this. "Why wouldn't you keep the people you hired on over the contractors? Don't you hire the best?"

It turns out they hired to fill seats, not to hire the best.
That was more of a WSE-1 problem maybe? They switched to a new compute paradigm (details on their site if you look up "weight streaming") where they basically store the activation on the wafer instead of the whole model. For something very large (say, 32K context and 16k hidden dimension) this would make an activation layer only 1-2GB (16 bit or 32 bit). As I understand it, this was one of the key changes needed to go from single system boxes to these super computing clusters they have been able to deploy.

The Nvidia bandwidth to compute ratio is more necessary because they are moving things around all the time. By keeping all the outputs on the wafer and only streaming the weights, you have a much more favorable requirement for BW to compute. And the number of layers becomes less impactful because they are storing transient outputs.

This is probably one of the primary reasons they didn't need to increase SRAM for WSE-3. WSE-2 was developed based on the old "fit the whole model on the chip" paradigm but models eclipsed 1TB so the new solution is more scalable.
More similar tools from quick browsing

[1] AI Employe: https://github.com/vignshwarar/AI-Employe

[2] BrowserPilot: https://github.com/handrew/browserpilot
Everyone can see that today's UX experience is needlessly slow and buggy. I don't think that's a surprise to people who care about UX. And most people (your average joe) don't care about UX. This article is only being read by people who care about UX, and they already know how bad everything is. It reads just a bit like a rant and it's a bit like doomscrolling news. What would be interesting is a take on fixing this.
Executing my soup program with excellence (2011)
>If you honestly believed this to be true, you would be arguing for a ban on all social media

Your terms are acceptable.
Man these Indian bpo companies like Wipro Infosys HCl destroyed the future of India and gave the world the worst software ever.
Very interesting indeed!

We are thinking of developing an extension that would connect the browser to LaVague so that actions can be sent to the extension and be executed locally, thus bypassing their barriers
forrest fires are not actually that uncommon, and contrary to what some agenda pushers say, they are not caused by climate change. a great many are by arsonists (of which the media then ignores), and the rest happens naturally. Due to poor forrest management (of preventing smaller fires), it then turns into megafires
Ah, if it was just jobs. Imagine you have a very smart kid that goes faster than grade level. In a rural area, your option is home schooling. In a small metro, there might be enough kids to have some sort of gifted program that works. In a really large metro, there will be many specialized schools, where people that are used to not just random gifted children, but those that share very similar strengths and weaknesses. You'll also have more medical specialists, a far wider variety of quality entertainment options, and more people sharing whatever weird hobbies you have.

The advantages of having more people living in your metro are are massive even if one is a remote worker. The advantages might not be needed for one's special case, and you might prefer to, say, live near a beach with great surfing opportunities in Portugal, but you'll still be accepting significant tradeoffs for not living near more people.
Anthropic took the lead from OpenAI in LLM IMO. Claude 3 Opus is by far the best LLM on the market right now. It the first time using LLM where I was actually impressive by the responses. The knowledge, reasoning, and responses from Opus are way better than GPT4.

Haiku seems like it adds to this lead. Having a cheaper and better model than GPT3.5 for processing large amounts of documents is great.

Props to the Anthropic team.
> development as just a job

Hobbists are discarded at the first pass I guess.
In a free market, there's no such thing as a shortage. This isn't a 1980's soviet grocery store. The market for programmers is not centrally planned. Its one of the least-regulated markets extant today.

So anybody complaining about a "shortage of programmers" is just a cheapskate.

In a free market, what signals to us that more of something should be produced? Buehler? Buehler?