skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right. But that’s my point. You can “ignore” the error and Go doesn’t force you to do anything that about it. I’ve seen this in production code. Also I’ve seen people just checking the null-ness of the return value, ignoring the error. And that brings me to my point, which is, it’s all about good programming practices, whether it’s Python or Go.

edit: combating the overzealous auto-correct
How about providing hardware security key instead? paid by employer in this case would be common.
I do see your point, and yeah theft is theft and theft is bad. But what I’m getting at is more the POV for media consumers.

If it’s regurgitated / unoriginal anyway then I don’t think most people care much whether it’s summarized/subjected to extra spin and fluff by a person or by a machine.
We are the apex of the AI hype cycle. I can't wait to come back here in 2 years and laugh at how everyone thought AI Clippy was going to take over the world.
Then comes the next CEO, and (s)he will "pivot"...
This is a complete non-sequitor? Be well my friend, I'm sorry about the account being marked as throttled, I think it'll help in the long run.
I improved our CI build time from 24mins to 8mins and reduced costs by 50%
Universities - I worked for two big ones - are in the business of selling degrees. The importance of a degree(s) is a religion at most universities.

I agree with you that it's not necessary. And I don't expect their religion to change.
Gotcha. That makes sense. All of the jars sounds like NL where I live, also the Gouda.

I guess when I was picturing a vegetable lasagna, pesto and spinach were not high on my list as I don’t particular care for either of those ingredients.

I have an idea for how to do something similar though with different ingredients! Thanks for writing it all out.
Actually, it's even worse than that.

The lower levels of the Intelligence Services had a vague idea an attack like this would happen [0] but dismissed it as unrealistic, and Egypt even warned Israel 3 days before the attack [1] but most likely it was ignored/procrastinated due to the Judical Protests and Yom Kippur holiday season.

There was a systemic failure that is very unsurprising due to the relative lack of long term institutional knowledge as Intelligence Community and Policy members left to work for American MNCs like Microsoft or Google, or start their own massive cybersecurity companies like Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, Wiz, etc.

Before the economic reforms in the 1990s-2000s, the only options for the best and brightest in Israel was to become a careerist in the Israeli Government or emigrate to the US to found companies like PANW. This meant a large subset of Israel's top talent remained in the government, but all that fell apart due to economic liberalization because people had better choices that paid more and had better work hours.

It's the exact same story in Singapore and South Korea today, and a similar brain drain happened in the former Soviet Union and India in the 1990s.

> The supposed spookiest spooks in the whole wide world didn't know about an attack being planned within their own borders

Imo, the reason Israel's intelligence community was a top player in the 1970s-90s was because most Israelis were 1st-1.5 generation refugees from Arab countries. Mizrahi Jews (especially Yemeni) are fairly overrepresented in careerist Military and Police roles in Israel due to a relative lack of career options, and a number of that generation was L1 Arabic or Farsi speaking.

By the 2000s-2010s, the younger generation was 2nd or 3rd generation and truly "Israeli" so a lot of the cultural nuances in the Arab World fell by the wayside.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-h...

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047
LLM's are trained in much the same way, so while your point stands, most/all of the tips here are going to be useful for LLM's for at least a year or so.

If a tip was like "use XML tags to give clarity to the model," then it wouldn't be sustainable.
If you want to use something similar that’s not owned by a big company now, take a look at cord.com :)
You know I am someone who likes to push the envelope near the point of breaking just to observe what would happen, and I more or less feel the same about AI; that said I can’t help but wonder how ill prepared we all are when such this shift to near total automation eventually happens.

Companies gravitate towards cheap, and maximally efficient labor… currently the best way to achieve that if you’re a US business is to outsource it oversees, ergo India and customer support.

What will happen when people not only compete against each other for work, but also against machines? (That probably already happens to an extent, I am talking systemic) It’s not even remotely fair for an individual to have to compete in this kind of environment.

There several solutions that I can think of (By “we” I mean the US in this case).

1. We can turn into a welfare state and start paying everyone a fixed income.
2. We could augment ourselves with technology that enhances cognitive and physical abilities, leveling the playing field with AI.
3. We could put performance limits on enterprise computer hardware and put a ceiling on the emergent capabilities of AI and therefore reduce the barrier to fairly compete.

I personally I’m gonna open up a bakery in France and just hope you all manage ok.
Absolutely. I had the case, that a team member had a smartphone running on Graphene OS and was not able to run the required 2FA app Microsoft Authenticator. An employer must not dictate the type of phone that an employee owns privately and cannot even enforce the use of privately owned phones or other resources, if they are needed to fulfill the work contract. So I asked the company to provide a company phone to my team member, which they did, despite having a policy not to do so.
I dunno, you roll out all of the armored tank division, it doesn't have have to be 1:1...
Unfortunately that video is gone. Is that the one where he was using sped up audio cues to analyze code?
Someone at SGI wrote a paper/web page/blog post titled "Pecked To Death By Ducks", claiming that x86 chips could never compete with SGI, and claiming to refute all the arguments that they could.

Then Intel introduced dual core (or maybe just two chips in one housing sharing a bus), and that generated a lot of buzz. So he wrote a follow-up titled "Pecked To Death By Ducks With Two Bills".

I don't recall the timing, though, how it related to the timing of asking everyone to read The Innovator's Dilemma. But at least some of the time, there was a pretty deep denial (or at least a pretty deep effort to keep the customers in denial).
Interesting analogue to books like "How to win friends and influence people". This genre of self help books include a lot of things that when you squint look like prompt engineering on humans
Also that they control politics, so as they apply AI liberally, resulting in oceans of untold (and plenty of told) deaths and horrifying injustices, you can rest assured that they will have no liability, even if they need to have legislation passed to avoid it.

They're not predicting the future, they're announcing it. It's up to the population to get over themselves and deal with it.
nope, i love patio11 too and i feel the exact same way
The standard quip here is that NeXT purchased Apple for negative $400 million.
> Prompt engineering doesn't feel like an activity that creates sustainable AI advancement.

Agreed, it should really be rolled into fine tuning. If you're building a model for PR, for example, it should already be fine tuned so it can't say anything disastrous. Prompt engineering is only really relevant to general-purpose models which aren't that useful to begin with (other than "fun" chatting).
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Am I the only one annoyed by the term “prompt engineer{ing}”?

I thought this was a meme, but I have actually seen some job posts for “prompt engineer”.
I think the C-suite may have more exposure to the many roles in a company.

As an example the help desk function is likely to be transformed. Loan processors (the people reading your basic loan application details), farther out the underwriters approving a loan and at what rate. These functions are easy targets for AI to transform. It’s a highly repeatable role with lots of historical data. All that’s missing is some software guardrails placed around the models.
Thanks, will be fixed in next version
As someone trying to get into Amiga retro competing as a hobby in today's day and age, I find it keeping all the different types of ram straight very confusing lol
Awesome! Great to hear it's useful for your project. Let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues.
Sounds like some folks actually believe corporate mission statements!
The money quote at the end: Randomization doesn’t make a study worse. What it can do is give researchers and consumers of researchers an inappropriately warm and cozy feeling, leading them to not look at serious problems of interpretation of the results of the study, for example, extracting large and unreproducible results from small noisy samples and then using inappropriately applied statistical models to label such findings as “statistically significant.”

Spot on, unfortunately.
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Considering there're ChatGPT IRC bots, can already do that indirectly.
Far more likely is the Orwell future:
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
The Mercalli scale you cite is defined in roman numerals.

The parent posted decimals.

As you said, they are not the same thing.
Ask HN: How to train an image recognition AI
I'm working to create a sort of Operating Manual for a specific large building. There are a lot of pieces of equipment from various manufacturers. My idea is to have the maintenance person snap a photo of a piece of equipment, have AI recognize the model/manufacturer, and provide a quick link to that equipment's repair manual and parts list. Any guidance on where to start would be much appreciated.
> Files that are 1 hour and 300+ GB in size. I tried using Kdenlive but it choked.

Well if you do want to do any notable editing, it should be easy to make proxy videos to solve that problem. A few clicks to enable, even.
The strange thing is that Kierans used Woods' identity since 1988, but somehow didn't cause Woods enough trouble to the point of getting him arrested until thirty years later. The situation took curiously long to come to a head.
https://archive.ph/B0NKb
Insanely relevant thread from 2018, the article is great and worth the read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645
They were O2s. Rural public school.

There were all kinds of toys, though. There was a dedicated classroom setup for video-based remote learning some 30 years before COVID - that got used for one semester, from what I gather (was never used while I was there). The school was even host to a dialup ISP at one point.

The administrators were all in on technology. The teachers, not so much...

Eventually, in my last year, the government changed the funding model and the party ended.
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> Am I correct in concluding that this backdoor might have been picked up sooner if the practice of shipping tarballs of source releases was dropped in favour of running builds straight off a repo tag?

I don't think so. The git repo did have everything needed. The release tarball thing was just an added benefit to the attackers, but not critical. IMO.

> I've setup and worked with many build pipelines in the .NET world over nearly 20 years and we manage fine without the concept of a source release tarball, but I realise C dev is more complex so I'm probably missing something?

.Net, but, portable .Net?

The issue isn't the language but what things you need to detect presence of in the target host when building, and if you're doing systems programming you're likely to need to detect many such things, and if you're doing more high level programming (e.g., an HTTP app that uses a DB) then you're not likely to need to detect many such things.

The real issue is the variance from standards (e.g., POSIX) and the fact that the standards (e.g., POSIX) are so far behind because they really just standardize the lowest common denominator.
It's more than that - the bass bar on modern instruments is substantially heavier, because string tension with modern wire wound strings is higher than baroque era gut strings; the older instruments are more lightly built.

The tone you get with gut strings is completely different than with modern strings - more complex, more resonances, but a modern style instrument will deaden that somewhat, you really want a period instrument to take advantage of gut strings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y4lcQ7BTLw

The neck is also different, but that affects reaching the high end of the fingerboard more than accoustics.
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I find this extremely silly too. The goal of kyoo is to organize your library for you, you should be able to use your download folder as your library folder, and it should work right away without having anything to rename.

There are still some edge cases, especially with extra which are not handled very well right now.
It works even for weird anime naming, things like "[SomeGroup] Jojo's bizzare adventure - golden wings 12.mkv"
I personally believe that the faster we can automate all of our jobs the faster universal basic income will come out of the inevitable political pressure.

The guys we are celebrating today are also first in line to be used as political scapegoats tomorrow.

Keep your head down, keep innovating!
Robert Sapolsky and Kevin Mitchell Diverge on Free Will
It seems like so often the participants in an activity know where the problems are. Which suggests that surveying experienced participants and looking into whatever gets the most votes as hazardous.
They sort of tried. Around then they had a Windows NT machine that cost around US$12,000. But it was too late. The first serious graphics cards for PCs were appearing, from Matrox and others, with prices of a few thousand dollars.

(I tried some early NT graphics cards on a Pentium Pro machine. This was before gamer GPUs; these were pro cards from tiny operations. Fujitsu tried unsuccessfully to get into that business, with a small business unit in Silicon Valley. At one point they loaned me a Fujitsu Sapphire graphics card prototype. When I went back to their office to return it, the office had closed.)

Also, there was a bad real estate deal. SGI owned a lot of land where Google HQ is now. They sold it to Goldman Sachs in a sale and lease-back transaction, selling at the bottom of the market. That land, the area north of US 101 in Mountain View had, and has, a special property tax break. It's the "Shoreline Regional Park Community", set up in 1969. The area used to be a dump. Those hills near Google HQ are piles of trash. So there was a tax deal to get companies to locate there. That made the land especially valuable.
> Long before Windows 95 there was DOOM and DOOM would not run on an Amiga.

Yeah fair. I do wonder if a port like the SNES version would have been possible if id would have greenlit it, but that's a "what if" universe. Alien Breed 3D would run on a 1200, but IIRC it ran pretty poorly on that.

> And then the 80s ended. What point did I make that you are contradicting?

I mean, yes, VGA cards and Soundblaster cards were around in 1990, but they weren't really standard for several years later.

> And if you wanted to do CAD? Would you use an Amiga? Probably not. What about desktop publishing? Pointing out that Amiga had carved out a niche (in video editing) when that was the norm back in those days doesn't make any strong comment about the long term superiority or viability of the platform.

Also fair. I'll acknowledge my view is a bit myopic, since I don't really do CAD or desktop publishing, but I do some occasional video editing, and I do think Amigas were quite impressive on that front. You're right in saying it was a "niche" though.

> Commodore as a company was such a piece of shit it made Apple of the 80s look well run.

No argument here. Still think that the hardware was pretty cool though.

> What was bizarre about it

I guess "bizarre" was the wrong word. It was just really really unstable, and System 7 would constantly freeze for seemingly no reason and I hated it.

> Also you seem to be fixated on preemptive multitasking to the neglect of things like memory protection.

I feel like if Commodore had been competently run, they could have done work to get proper protected memory support, but again that's of course a "what if" universe that we can't really know for sure.

I guess what frustrates me is that it did genuinely feel like Commodore was really ahead of the curve. I think the fact that they had something pretty advanced like preemptive multitasking (edit: fixed typo) in the mid 80s was a solid core to build on, and I do kind of wish it had caught on and iterated. I see no reason why the Amiga couldn't have eventually gotten decent CAD and Desktop publishing software. I think Commodore didn't think they had to keep growing.
Yes, XFS has been in the Linux kernel since 2001! Time flies.
> I think what you have described fits more with the traditional depiction of AI, but I don't agree that it is inherent.

Because we've had software since the inception of computers that only does things as it's told and when it's told, and that's called... software, programs, apps, etc. Intelligence belies something entirely different in the minds of laypeople and many tech people alike. To assert otherwise is to upend an entire understood element of our shared culture for the purposes of marketing. It's ridiculous.
I hate having to rename my files on an arbitrary pattern to have items show up in the media browser. I want a media browser to organize my media, not to ask me to organize it myself.
Theory of beauty and low-complexity art (2010)
> they had no path forward

This is I think the premise that you and people like me who think Amiga could have gone on to do great things disagree on, I think. Most Amiga fans would say that it totally had a path forward, or at least there is no evidence that it didn't, and the failure to follow that path therefore it wasn't an inherent technical problem, but a problem of politics and management. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
Thanks, will address in next version.
Why Is Technology Mean to Me?
Presumably you mean the Sun logo: http://www.logobook.com/logo/sun-microsystems/

Which is one of the all-time greats IMHO. I'd keep it around too.
the sound of an electric guitar right on the edge of breakup
You have to complain more. Complain to the boss's boss if your boss doesn't want to do anything. My experience is most people don't want conflict so nothing is done for the first couple of complaints.
I do, I think a lot of times massive fuckups get the "it was secretely a 4d chess move" thing but it's pretty believable (to me at least) that Israeli capabilities have degraded significantly over the decades as the IDF shifted from a war fighting army to prison guards
If he can perceive bright light I wonder if he can detect color?

Because I’m mostly normally sighted I use audio cues for extremely low bandwidth data, like chat or build status. I wonder if someone with a text to speech tool would be better off getting visual cues for low bandwidth data. For example one or more color panels on the wall in front of you to indicate chat status or unread email or failed builds. Four pixels in three colors can encode a lot of status.
Its almost like a law of nature that if there is spare labor capacity, capital will invent a use for it.
what are the sources for your RAG? fintwitter?
The blog author does well to id/categorize the issues. People need a way to quantize+act on the issues - various systems exist for that. Key is to feel progress (on a particular direction/plan or at least in hindsight).

Ideas that track such progress:

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1-3 high quality decisions per week (credits to Bezos, tho he does 1-3 per day).

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1-2 important/not-urgent tasks per week.

1-2 small, not-important/(semi-)urgent tasks per day - these are also a form of "toothbrushing" that each adult has to do.

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Bullet journal works well for both.
Why would I use that cable instead of normal one?
Last year I’ve seen a live “prompt battle” and it was great: a single-elimination tournament with an applause meter, a hype-man and music!

https://promptbattle.com
Historically, conventional wisdom has been two years to recoup the overhead.

Obviously depends on market volatility, and I've no idea if there's a more accurate # now.
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Execs can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
I knew it :) thanks for confirming! And for sharing.
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Contrary to the sibling comments, executives at publicly traded companies have very little reason to speak honestly about this plenty of reasons to bolster the position of AI in their company. The narrative pushes the value of their shares and earns them a raise for fairly little effort.

Don't know why you would ask these people instead of, say, researchers.

Speaking personally and a bit more cynically, these execs likely have _no_ clue what they are talking about and care about little more than money and status.