skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is spending $10-50mil building a markov text model of everything ever digitised; if they did so, their performance would approach a basic LLM.

Though, more simply, you can just take any LLM and rephrase it as a markov model. All algorithms which model conditional probability are equivalent; you can even unpack a NN as a kNN model or a decision tree.

They all model 'planning' in the same way: P(C|A, B) is a 'plan' for C following A, B. There is no model of P("A B C" | "A B"). Literally, at inference time, no computation whatsoever is performed to anticipate any future prediction -- this follows both trivially form the mathematical formalism (which no one seems to want to understand); or you can also see this empirically: inference time is constant regardless of prompt/continuation.

The reason 'the cat sat...' is completed by 'on the mat' is that it's maximal that P(on|the cat sat...), P(the|the cat sat on...), P(mat|the cat sat on the...)

Why its maximal is not in the model at all, nor in the data. It's in the data generating process, ie., us. It is we who arranged text by these frequencies and we did so because the phrase is a popular one for academic demonstrations (and so on).

As ever, people attribute "to the data" or worse, "to the LLM" no properties it has.. rather it replays the data to us and we suppose the LLM must have the property that generates this data originally. Nope.

Why did the tape recorder say, "the cat sat on the mat"? What, on the tape or in the recorder made "mat" the right word? Surely, the tape must have planned the word...
http://web.archive.org/web/20240501171727/https://www.nytime...
I'm not sure where it gets the known good hash from without making an HTTP call to the originating URL, though. The trustworthiness of the file hash is the same as the file itself if they have the same origin.

I would also consider to what degree such a system ends up looking like a half-baked, distributed Cloudflare anyways. Like yes, I'm sure we could build some kind of incredibly complicated, reputation-based, distributed link preview caching system. Or the host could just fix their Cloudflare (or accept dying under traffic load).

My generalized experience has been that untrusted, secure, distributed systems are incredibly difficult to build, and that it's probably not worth doing for something as trivial as URL previews. Just let the request die and swap the preview for a message like "This site was down as of $lastTimeItCheckedForAPreview". Maybe change the message so it shows the URL but doesn't make it an <a> element so people can't just click on it to discourage sending them further traffic.

Or worst case, they could try a fallback to reliable, centralized sources for that info. See if Google Search has a cached copy, or archive.org, or whatever else. It's not decentralized, but I also think it should be fine to use non-decentralized features as a fallback for optional features. I've got more confidence that archive.org hasn't tinkered with their version than some random Mastodon instance.
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Fat Web Client are generally bad idea and most sites are better off being Thin Web Clients with Servers doing heavy lifting and lite frameworks like htmx fill in the gaps.

The more appropriate analogy is, you do not need a sky-crane to build a single family home.
I don't think that's a complete view as nuget started on codeplex (!) and I think the commit history wasn't imported fully (mine is missing)
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The problem with this logic is that I’m not sure you’d want it applied when the tables are turned. How would you feel if Israel-supporting lawyers started filing frivolous nuisance suits against these protesters? Still fair game?

Keep in mind that these junk suits (in both directions), have negative impacts on other people trying to access the justice system for legitimate reasons.
>> but that people are using React to build simple pages which is unnecessary

JS devs running around talking about sever side rendering and hydration and how that can be good for caching... They are acting like they discovered fire and it's just 20 year old web tech. (Akami anyone).

React, is a prime example of Conways law, and a Facebook product for a Facebook problem. And I will tell you that if I was shoving personalized content down the wire, or a real web app react makes sense. It is a good idea.

On the other hand, should I serve a blog post with react? Probably not. How about that product page for your ecom-store? React might not make sense there either. But HTMX, or jQuery or something that runs after render would be amazing for riding the cache.

And this is where we get into the problem with "modern" js. There is a ton of amazing tooling, but its a lot of it is all (react and the whole stack that comes with it) or nothing (HTMX) ... I think that there is a market gap because a lot of us know that we need something in-between.

There is a reason that 70 percent of sites still have jQuery see: https://archive.is/jYEZh . And even if that number is half that, it shows that the JS market still has a massive gap.
Hackers don't care about compliance
Sounds like you need a better designed toilet. Good low flow toilets do exist.

We replaced the old 3.5 gallons per flush toilet in our house with a new Kohler 1.28gpf unit and it flushes and clears the bowl just fine - no worse than the previous toilet with about 1/3rd the water use.
Link 404's out now..
> how can we possibly expect these companies to deliver value to shareholders while shouldering the risks posed by adversarial state-backed hackers

1. Liability

2. Insurance Premiums

3. Regulation

1 and 2 are already in place, and 3 is currently working it's way over the next couple years.

> TL;DR: I'll believe it when I see it.

Cynicism is valid, but at some point it's just unfounded nihilism, and you as an individual IC will never publicly see these changes as they are well above your pay grade (and you sure as hell won't hear about it publicly)

> Being dragged in front of Congress on anything related to a computer is not a big deal

It is when you are on the hook for that federal bailout to prevent the entire healthcare system from collapsing [0] caused by incompetence surrounding credential management

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/calls-mount-for-government-help...
Related (but we merged the thread hither):

Paul Auster: How I Became a Writer (2014) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221327
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40219823.
What are you trying to say, genuine question.
Honestly if I can't read the whole article why even post it?
Diesel fuel contains more energy per gallon/Liter so that’s not a useful comparison.
not harsh and not untrue :)

But for context, the original intention of this article is to highlight opinions from the community. I feel that interleaving my own opinions would be untrue to the original intent.
The AWK Programming Language was published in 1988, and indicates:

"Aside from these
limitations, however, awk should be useful in any environment; in particular, it
runs on MS-DOS. Further information is available from Addison-Wesley."

It likely was not easy to find, and I hadn't heard of it until 1990.
Of course I do not
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app
I understand the unwillingness for Google employees to engage is unpleasant discussion, but it's been mentioned that Google is grossly over-staffed by people that simply "rest and vest" rather than do anything of value.

I could never get any reasonable answer as to why these people think their role is justified. Instead the discussion would always get downvoted and flagged into oblivion. I always found it peculiar for the need of censorship brigading rather than having a reason.

I guess management has started asking the same question, and short of a convincing answer, are cutting the dead weight.
Who did i accuse?

What an odd thing to say.
In a population of 66 million in that part of the world, 30 is a lot fewer than I would have guessed
I always preferred the spring loaded knobs (or levers) that you twist compared to the buttons you press down. More leverage, easier to use and modulate if necessary.
Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/topics/home/

Every single topic (millions of them) is pre-generated with AI, and then you can join any one topic and "write your opinion". Most topics have no replies, or they have a single answer by an external spam agency.

LinkedIn also gives you the tools to write with AI,

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1517763
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Yes. Getting rid of fat most certainly improves investor confidence and stock prices at least in short run.
You can remove "FAANG"
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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months for money laundering
Which is not in itself a natural phenomenon - Spotify for example did not get wiped out by Apple Music or Google Play/YouTube Music. Europe's local Facebooks and Twitters just weren't that good.
Eth or Bitcoin have never been down. If this software is especially bad then ..
I've yet to go through one of these, but I've at least imagined it would be a decent format.

(For me, at least. I don't parallel-task very well in the first place, and being under the magnifying glass makes it significantly worse. I have trouble, say, even making sense of the words someone else says when I'm already focused on coding/reading/writing something. If the interviewer interjects a thought or question about what I'm doing, I often have to stop, struggle to ~park my train of thought, and then ask them to repeat what they said. If I make the mistake of asking them to repeat before the train's parked, I may have to ask them to repeat it again.)

I think I'd also look pretty favorably on an interviewing process that gives a few format choices and lets me choose what I'm most comfortable with.
I wonder how much worse it will get. Probably all the way back to 20k if I had to guess.
A competitor (e.g. Google) could come up with an app based version at any time. That app based version could simply integrate with the apps you have already installed. So far this thing is just a quirky feature phone.
I'd be eager to know if these layoffs are cover for firing "inconvenient" employees. Google's fired Timnit Gebru, labor organizers, and recently folks who protested a contract with the Israeli Defense Forces. It's kind of their thing at this point.
Trouble is, even if that's true, knowing what 25% aren't needed isn't always obvious. Research and development of new areas is just table stakes for a company of Google's size (unless it just wants to milk search for as much cash as possible before it dies).

25% of staff's wages are a lot, but the risk of going out of business because all the talented people are left continually fighting fires is worth a lot more.
This is true, and always has been, though would you say that the competition will be ever more cutthroat going forward? Not everyone can be a genius programmer, and even those who could may be unlucky in terms of opportunities for advancement, so people who don't live and breathe code (or whatever career in general) may be finding that their place in society is shrinking.
There are meteorites on Earth which very likely originated from Mars. They're believed to have been launched into space by an impact, eventually finding their way onto Earth. If we're looking for the most realistic options for panspermia to have occurred, they'd be due to a natural event of this sort.
HN discussions [0](138 points, 19 hours ago, 152 comments), [1](28 points, 14 hours ago, 20 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217453
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40219194
It’s available via API.
The CISO role is too often just a game of roulette. The big question is whether the CISO is actually able to effect changes that have material impact on their own fate, by improving security posture. If not, then the CISO is merely compensated to play the scapegoat when luck is down.
You're misreading in multiple ways, maybe in a rush to dunk on "Closed AI".

Github Copilot is not the same as Copilot Chat which uses GPT-4, there still some uncertainty on if Copilot completions use GPT-4 as outsiders know it (and iirc they've specifically said it doesn't at some point)

I also said Haiku is two massive steps behind Anthropic's offerings... which are Sonnet and Opus.

Anthropic isn't any more open than OpenAI, and I personally don't attribute any sort of virtue to any major corporation, so I'll take what works best
Proposal for a smaller phone with an e-Ink screen on the back, and being very connectable.
Geo-Entity Linking for Noisy Multilingual User Input
Yea ok, we already have the citing thing done, and are going to start working on the RAG architecture soon.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3088174 :
"Results show that layoff announcements trigger negative returns for both U.S. and Japanese firms. Specifically, layoff announcements of U.S. firms are associated with a negative 1.78 percent abnormal return ..."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1748-8583.12532 : "They find that investors do not react if a layoff announcement signals proactive management (e.g., cost cutting) but penalize the firm if the layoff indicates reactive management (e.g., decline in demand). The penalty is also positively associated with layoff size but unrelated to firm size. Further, investors have become less punitive over time, or if its stock is traded on an exchange in civil law (vs. common law) country. "
> On what planet have you been living on? There absolutely is.

First, you could have phrased this differently and been less aggressive. Edit: I see you edited your comment after the fact. Good job.

But more importantly, has their been a study on layoffs like this and long-term health of companies? By the metric of the stock price, Boeing is doing better than it was 20, 30, 40+ years ago. Yes, they've have some problems, but the modern Boeing is, according to the share prices, more valuable and therefore a better company.

So, I'm also genuinely curious about if research has been done on this outside of immediate stock price and more about general strength of companies.
Nothing, obviously. When Twitter/Facebook/Instagram is ordered by the DHS to censor accounts or modify engagement algorithms, that's just good ol' fashioned Americanism, bro. Uncle Sam's Ministry of Truth is superior to China's in every conceivable way. That's how the Founders intended it, and you better light off some fireworks and grill some burgers in solidarity, brother. Seriously, my orders are if you see something, say something. Light up that grill so I know you're not one of Them. FISA courts don't fuck around, don't ask me how I know. Just do it.
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Okun’s Law has held up pretty well over the last 60 years. Are you aware of any research that disputes that other than the degree of the coefficient?
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It shows a lot of movies available in prime video for Norway which is wrong.
Yeah, but I think it's worthwhile to try to stop it where possible. URL previews are insignificant enough that it makes more sense to me to just not render them than to render something potentially incorrect. I'd rather not get a URL preview than get one with no confidence that it's correct.
HN discussion [0](97 points, 2 days ago, 73 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206729
There quite a few in javascript/browser world:
- Browser Houdini effort https://ishoudinireadyyet.com/
- Service workers https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/
- Svelte 5 new version https://svelte-5-preview.vercel.app/status
- Turbo bundler rust rewrite https://areweturboyet.com/

And prob much more
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So if you do a take home, I believe you MUST follow it up with a live review. It becomes painfully obvious who cheated based on their ability to reason about their decisions.
No I don't, but that's the data I found, and it's a lot better than pretending that all races commit crime in equal proportion. Feel free to counter with better data, like murder convictions by race or similar, instead of just pearl clutching.
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In terms of using stderr/stdout: yeah I think this is totally defensible. And depending on how hard you squint, and if you use Plan9, logging to a separate log file is just a metrics stream too, and it very well could be transformed into one before being sent anywhere else. This is overwhelmingly normal too, so it's not a hypothetical extreme at all - avoiding std* is often a good practice.

Semi-structured streams with basically unbounded cardinality are still useful tho, and I think that's arguably "a log" regardless of how it's represented. And then levels come back into the system.
While not as capable, I switched over to https://httpie.io/ after Postman removed access to features without a sign-in.
Would be curious to get people's input - Assuming you were a candidate with a decent resume but no significant public Github activity, would it be an interesting alternative to a take home assessment or in person white board coding session, if a hiring manager suggested that you fork an open source project of your choice and make a PR of your choice (or other contribution)?
They and We are doing some extra leg work here

They were fired for blocking a senior executives private office.

Do that in the name of US, china, russia, sesame street, and you're getting fired.
During my recent second stint there I have not seen anyone who was resting and vesting in engineering. I’ve seen a lot of people under tremendous stress working really hard on bullshit that’s not even remotely necessary, but resting and vesting was not something I saw. It could be happening among managers, directors and execs, of whom Google has a tremendous number, but not among ICs, who are impacted by this layoff
The methodology is questionable. Experimentation would be a lot more informative. Build something with a couple different sets of technologies using the best practices for each stack (practices for a React SPA should be _very_ different from a server-rendered HTMX application). Then compare metrics like development time, code size, etc and discuss findings.