skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So when we have perfect deep fakes that are indistinguishable from real videos and people are using it for satire, people shouldn’t be required to inform people of that?

How is one to figure out what is real and what is a satire? Times and technologies change. What was once reasonable won’t always be.
A drop-in redis replacement with rather impressive latency and throughput bench figures. Wonder what its like to operate in a non-azure stack in the real world.
That's okay, they can still mine Bitcoin with JavaScript.
its a cookie stored on their device right? if its not a unique cookie it would still be anonymous if it isnt cleared every time they leave wouldnt it?
The reality is that while this site has come to be a major "town square" for tech folks, it exists for its own specific purposes that are not aligned with tech workers organizing toward ensuring our mutual safety and well-being. Of course we're free to use this site as we like rather than embrace its self-described purpose, which is often enough compatible with its moderation standards, but that conflict grows.

As dang once said early in ChatGPT's hype, if AI were good enough to generate the insights brought from conversation here, at as good or better a level than humans are able to, he'd consider replacing the open forum with AI generated content. Because it would serve the purpose of the site, which is not community.
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It might take 50 years to awaken to the abuse of power going on here.

Forget individual videos for a second and look at youtube-the-experience as a whole. The recommendation stream is the single most important "generative AI" going on ever, using the sense of authenticity, curiosity and salience that comes from the individual videos themselves, but stitching them together in a very particular way. All the while the experience of being recommended videos being almost completely invisible. Of course this is psychologically "satisfying" to the users - in the shortest term - because they keep coming back, to the point of addiction. (Especially as features like shorts creep in).

Allowing the well of "interesting, warm, authentic audio & videos having the secondary gains of working on your psychological needs" being tainted with the question of generated content is a game changer because it breaks the wall of authenticity for the entire app. It brings the whole youtube-the-experience into question, it reduces its psychological stand-in function for human voice & likeness, band-aiding the hyper-individualized lonely person's suffering based content consumption habits. I know this is a bit dramatic, and for sure videos can be genuinely informative, but let's be honest, neither that is the entirety of your stream, nor that is the experience for the vast majority of the users. It will get worse as long as there is a mathematical headroom of making more money out of making it worse, that's what the shareholder duty is about.

When gen-AI came about I was naively happy about the fake "authenticity" wall of the recommended streams breaking down thanks to the garbage of generated sophistry overtaking and grossing out the users. Kind of like super delicious looking cakes turning out to be made of kitchen sponges turning people off of cakes all together. I was wrong to think AI oligopoly would let the opportunity of having a chokehold on the entire "content" business, and here we are. (Also this voluntary tagging will give them the perfect live training set, on top of what they have.)

Once the tech is good enough to generate video streams on the fly, so that all you need is a single livestream, that you won't even have a recommendation engine of videos and instead a team of virtual personas doing everything you could ever desire on screen, it is game over. It might already be game over.

To get out of this the single most important legislative maneuver is being able to accept and enforce the facts that a) recommendation is speech b) recommendation is also gen-AI, and should be subject to same level of regulatory scrutiny. I don't care if it generates pixels or characters at a time, or slaps together the most "interesting" subset of videos/posts/users/reels/shorts out of the vast sea of the collective content-consciousness, they are just one level of abstraction apart but functionally one and the same: look at me; look at my ads; come back to me; keep looking at me.
> Why is there so much focus on humanoids?

This always irked me about sci-fi and robotics in general. It’s been demonstrated by Boston Dynamics and others that different forms are better like forms based on dogs and insects, and also no need for artificial lighting with other types of sensors available.

For example, if a factory was staffed with robots it’s only illuminated for the humans and maybe cameras.
I don't know what you're trying to say here. Obama's work history is knowable. We don't need to reconstruct it from the gists of his speeches. He was a community organizer in the mid-1980s, working with the Catholic church, when he was 22-24 years old, in the wake of the collapse of the steel industry in southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana --- a series of events that were not, as you would have had it in your previous comments, racialized. But his job immediately prior to his career in politics was adjacent to yours: he worked in the field of law.
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I really enjoyed this article, I wish I would have read this the week before I first started interviewing people. I have 100% made some of these mistakes before.

Thankfully, when I first started, I was interviewing alongside a team of engineers more experienced than me, and I had a terrific manager that slowly brought me along (or left me out when I was out of my league) to strengthen my interviewing skillset - otherwise I would have sunk a deserving candidate at least a couple of times.

I still don't consider myself an exceptionally strong technical developer, but at least I know enough about my limits to know how to set the table effectively during an interview.

Aside from what was listed in the article, a couple of additional pieces of advice I've picked up along the way were:

1. Don't leave an interview with any suppositions that could have been clarified directly with the candidate. If you're unsure of something on their resume, ask them to clarify, even if it makes you feel a little uncomfortable (except don't ask legally protected questions, of course)
2. Seek curious people. You can teach a programming language, but you can't teach interest in the craft.
Thanks, I was thinking that zero, negative zero, inf, negative inf, and the NaN's were included like in IEEE 754
You're comparing RAM amounts to other RAM amounts without considering requirements. 24GB is more than (most) current games would ever require, but is considered a uncomfortably-constrictive minimum for most industrial work.

Traditional CPU-bound physics/simulation models have typically wanted all the RAM they could get; the more RAM the more accurate the model. The same is true for AI models.

I can max out 24GB just using spreadsheets and databases, let alone my 3D work or anything computational.
Is the issue underemployment or elite overproduction?
>often

One should ask how much I fly before one would make an assumption. I can count on a single hand how many times I have had a plane change at the last minute.
I see, so the idea is that enough of the quantization errors are sort of averaged out across the dimensions of the vector space to still be useful?
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I recently found out my second grade teacher in Chile in 1954, Miss Irene K., was part of the Kindertransport. She was sent as a child from Germany to England so she had an English education. She then emigrated to Chile. I have never forgotten her - she made me bilingual, which changed my life in many ways.
Befriend your neighbors. It's not as low-pressure as coworkers, but it's close. Not necessarily the immediate ones, but people in the neighborhood or apartment. Most people are normal, friendly and receptive.
Maybe it is me, but it seems more like a parody showing how not to do things. I believe the easiest way to do it is something like:

mypoint.coords().map(|x| x * x).sum().sqrt()

Instead there are dozens of lines of code adding some obscure constructs with the only goal to hide what happens and without any idea why we need to hide. You can find words "this design rationale", hinting that somehow this text may explain motivation behind all the complexity, which is also sounds to me as a sarcasm.

> Copyright © 2009-2013 Barend Gehrels,

Is 2013 the year when C++ people came to their senses and stopped doing that?
> The study’s limitations included its reliance on self-reported dietary information, which may be affected by participant’s memory or recall and may not accurately assess typical eating patterns

Bad data highly likely here.
This entire thread is people arguing that breaking laws you disagree with is fine or even a "moral imperative".

You can hold that opinion, but as with most things it doesn't excuse you from the consequences of your actions.
All garage doors I’ve seen had a heavy yank handle on the inside.
It will equally eliminate the need for all scientists and engineers. And every other human occupation.
> I’m honestly not sure why springs are common at all in this application.

Properly adjusted springs effectively cancel out the weight of the door. This makes it easy to open and close with and without an opener, and greatly limits the danger of a door falling closed under it's own weight, which can seriously hurt someone.
I think the next time I have to replace my torsion springs, I'm going to install the Coplay Ez-Set system, anyone have experience with it? It has a built in tensioning system. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Clopay-EZ-Set-Torsion-Conversion...

It has a built-in winder that uses a power drill.

There are tools that will attach to the traditional winders and you can use a power drill, those tools are $800, which is a bit hard to swallow.
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> cloud is not meaningfully leveraged

I would very much warn about this. "Leveraging" cloud is a massive double-edged sword.

I've been in places that "leveraged" cloud. In practice this meant that every application had "gaps" filled in by cloud-only services that are impossible to run locally, can have their own state separate from application state and are a black box when things go wrong.

There is great value in being able to run your entire stack locally and having superuser access on all the parts. You may however not see that value until "spooky action at a distance" starts happening and the lack of access/local reproductibility impedes troubleshooting.
I bought an oil/fluid extractor off Amazon. It's basically a bicycle pump sized tank, with a long hose you stuff down the dipstick hole. You then pump the unit up, which creates a vacuum, and pulls the oil up and out of the car. Takes about 5 minutes to get 5 quarts out, and then you just refill, pour the used oil into the now empty bottles the new oil came in, and take it to your oil recycling center
I think Jensen said something like needing 25x fewer GPUs (vs. A100) to get the same performance, which amounts to essentially the same thing.
That's true, but lately it seems like at least one of the most well-known CEOs is really a fruitcake, so this difference in penalties might not matter that much.
Love the science hate the publisher, and the slant on the story. The leap-over-the-wall link is https://archive.md/FKIAD

I believe scientists are nothing like as confident as this press agency is. Sherry Markson (news ltd) has been running hot on this story, written a book, has major investment as a journalist in the story arc. I wonder how much she contributed to this one. (not on the byline)

The abstract in the origin paper: This risk assessment cannot prove the origin of SARS-CoV-2 but shows that the possibility of a laboratory origin cannot be easily dismissed.

the tool of choice, the mGFT is a modified risk assessment process. It was designed for this, but it comes down to what I think can be cast as subjective judgement calls.

Raina MacIntyre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raina_MacIntyre is a well respected epidemiologist and specialist in the field of infectious diseases. I hesitate to criticise her angle on this, but I don't see the unanimity in the virology community around this position. I stress that her work during COVID was vital for managing Australia-wide community risk, and I value her work immensely because I live in Oz, and it helped keep us safe for 2 years.
Well now I’m headed to Mr Porter to make some mistakes… I guess that’s what I get for opening this thread.
It's time for DNA editing tools to seriously shine.
flame war detector will downgrade posts like this if i understand HN correctly :)
It’s about risk assessment. It would be awful to have one of the small percent of dogs that have bad reactions to those medicines. It’s also bad to have dogs crawling with ticks.

Where I grew up, having dogs get sick from tick bites was fairly common. Ever seen a collie with its ears packed with swollen ticks? That has to be miserable. The risk of the medicine was less than the risk of the bites in our case.
I concur with everything you said, and to be clear, I wasn’t specifically referring to big C Conservatives, GOP or otherwise, which I agree are straying from small c conservative values. I was referring specifically to political conservatism which I understood to be about minimal intrusion in private affairs. It would appear no mainstream political parties still stand for this.
Should ≠ will.

We still have Fortran and Cobol. It’s easy to imagine that Rust will replace C++ Real Soon Now, because you just have to imagine that all of the legacy code disappears, and Rust gets all the tooling support that C++ has.
Also many cities in America are walkable.
I mean, I don’t even like programming with Spring because what all of those annotations are doing is horribly opaque. Let alone mountains of AI generated code doing God knows what.

I mean Ken Thompson put a back door into the C compiler no one ever found. Can you imagine what an AI could be capable of?
You have to put it in their little mouths and then rub their throats until they swallow it.
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Sorry, this one is probably a better link:

https://amp.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3247172/huaweis-h...
> you also could not pay me enough to crawl around under a poorly jacked-up car

Absolutely, I agree. However, like any work, there's a safe way and a million unsafe ways to perform it. Crawling under a car on a jack is unsafe. Crawling under a car properly supported by jack stands is perfectly safe.

I replaced my own garage doors, not just because of the cost, but also because I could not find a contractor to do it inside of four months. I did my research, took my time, and got two 9x7' doors replaced in a weekend and a half at a leisurely pace for a third of the quotes I received from the pros.

The FUD spread online around garage doors is unreal.

If you don't know how to do it safely, don't attempt it. If you can spend a few hours learning how to do things properly and safely, go for it. It's not black magic. Garage door installers are people too, and it's not like the training is some dark arts ritual imbued upon them by shadowy figures. It's basic physics, geometry, and hand tools.
Asbestos has been completely banned in Australia since 2003.
How many security teams have you been on? Definitely ones with less work than I've been on...
I’ve seen a 40 meter skein selling for as much as $600. A sweater might be 800m-1600m of yarn. But assuming $300, that’s easily $6k in yarn.
The reason is predictable is that it repeats every 80 years or so - I guess that's the orbit of the dwarf sun it's eating.
Go hunt some bad guys around the world?
I have always been told that LLVM doesn't parallelize codegen because the right place for that is in the build system: just do make -j N (or use ninja, which parallelizes automatically). And when you're building lots of source files in a normal project that's definitely true.

It's different when you're a wasm VM that receives big chunk of wasm that contains many source files, and you get it all at once. And for that reason pretty much every wasm compiler parallelizes codegen: Cranelift as you said, and also V8, SpiderMonkey, JSC, and not just VMs but also optimizers like Binaryen. It's a crucial part of their design.

For LLVM, the right design may be what it has today: single-core codegen. (LTO is the main issue there, but that's what thin LTO is for.)
Definitely impressive, Microsoft Research comes out with some impressive projects from time to time, must be fun getting paid to do R&D. I wish big companies did more R&D style projects that benefit the industry in general. I sure hope a good company takes over Hashicorp if they're on the market to be bought.
They could move into compilers or VMs or low level performance profiling, where those skills are still very important.
Call me a simpleton, but I'd rather have a simple library routine for the case I'm handling, even if the library needs lots of routines for all the variations I might run into, instead of one Swiss-army-knife routine that tries to do everything (that will take me so long to understand that I end up just writing the routine I need instead of trying to grok the library).
This might not be related, but I had an outage of a VKE cluster from Friday to Monday morning and their customer support blamed it on dockerhub. This didn't seem right at all though since the issue only came up when I upgraded a cluster and didn't impact every node. So like their customer support normally does, they figure out some way to deflect the problem (ie point at dockerhub despite the status page only showing some degradation) and ignore it. What didn't inspire confidence though is that their customer support clearly doesn't understand k8s well giving me a response to the effect of "clearly it is dockerhub's fault" when highlighting a pod's status without going into the events or logs of the pod to see the containers were being pulled.

Again, not sure if this is related, but using this as an opportunity to share how bad my experience has been with vultr's customer support over the last couple years. Every time I have interacted with them over an issue it is some diagnosis that makes things not their fault somehow. When people have clusters out because of control plane errors for multiple days, I would think they would be somewhat concerned or give some kind of response to the effect of an apology especially when spending thousands every month. I doubt I'll get any reimbursement.

Worst situation in the past was when I complained about connectivity issues that I was sure related to some firewall on their side that was throwing alarms for my app and kept on trying to get them to look at it. Going absolutely crazy for a month trying to figure out what the hell is going on, finally got my rep to look at it and bam, they see the issues and blamed it on a faulty cable. Faulty cables don't drop packets like what I saw though so now I honestly just don't know what to believe from them.
and yet these companies consider piracy stealing too, thats just copying for free without consent, where's the difference?
This is a new claim by a new author building on the previous work.
From the benchmark performance charts(https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/benchmarking/results...), the throughput of the GET command exceeds that of Dragonfly by more than tenfold. While 50% latency is slightly higher than Dragonfly, the 99th percentile is slightly lower than Dragonfly. Both the throughput and latency of Garnet and Dragonfly are far better than Redis, indicating that Redis may require a significant performance optimization.
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It’s not very metal tho
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Did we read the same article?

"New arenas are by nature unproven. In order to get the potential benefit, you have to invest time early on without a guarantee of any kind of satisfying return. And new arenas often fail. Even if they don’t, the rules of the game are controlled by someone else. This is a common critique of social media platforms that court creators to invest time in their platform without offering any guarantees in return.

So the truth is you have to have some tolerance for risk to play in new arenas."

At the end:
"Find out what games will be played there and the arbitrage opportunities that may pop up. Then decide which ones are worth investing time in. Prioritize. Be picky."

Being picky is the opposite of "participate in (and pollute) as many early "arenas" as possible." to me.

It's just a commentary on not overlooking new things and a counterweight to all the people who say "All new things are gone, there's nothing like XYZ anymore"
You have made an assertion in which multiple people, including myself, find to be short sighted and from a position of lacking in experience.

While anecdotal, my experiences in Waymo have convinced me that Level 5 is possible in my lifetime. Tesla's latest update is also a huge step forward, and I no longer am assured that they won't "pull it off" - although I still have some doubts about them specficially. I still don't trust Tesla's current solution, but it is no longer in a dire state.

There is a long way to go with self-driving, but it took us a very long time to go a very short way. Recently , we have gone a very long way in a very short time.
There is a vast gulf between natural language and the other 3, which are fundamentally very similar to each other.
I would rather not categorically ban anything. I don't want lots of arsenic in my food, but arsenic also has unique industrial uses where it can be prevented from leaching into the environment. Maybe asbestos turns out to be the only thing we can think of to enable exploration of other planets, or heat storage of zero carbon energy. Or maybe in time asbestos can be treated to prevent release of airborne fibers. I certainly wouldn't use asbestos in residential buildings or consumer products barring unforeseen breakthroughs to make it safe. But treat each use case separately, there could be rare ones where it's worth the risk.
Sounds like people are trying to steal our Vegemite supply :D

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this is a very fair point. I forgot they could make an entire academy around new certs.
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"Suppose you need a C++ program…"

No.