skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ummm...let me think here:

Poster: Because throwing the CTO under the bus is always career enhancing ...

You: That isn't throwing anyone under the bus. I've literally had that conversation.

Me: What do you mean? You complained to the CEO about the CTO?

You can't "throw the CTO under the bus" when talking to the CTO, "throwing X under the bus" colloquially means "blame X for the problem when talking to authority figure Y"

That's why your comments are confusing.

The thread leading up to your comment is presupposing tattling on the CTO to some authority figure.

You were very terse and dismissive in your reply. Apparently you were trying to communicate "No, I was smart, I didn't talk to an authority figure", instead you said you've "literally had that conversation", which would further imply you tattled to a authority figure, and that you only wanted to disagree on whether this constituted throwing the CTO under the bus to the authority figure.
I'm.. shocked there's been 40 million posts. Wow.

Really neat work

edit: Also had no idea HN went back to 2006. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

edit2: PG wrote this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487171
“A security vulnerability was found in the system views pg_stats_ext and pg_stats_ext_exprs, potentially allowing authenticated database users to see data they don't have sufficient privileges to view. The fix for this vulnerability only fixes fresh PostgreSQL installations, namely those that are created with the initdb utility after this fix is applied. If you have a current PostgreSQL installation and are concerned about this issue, please follow the instructions in the "Updating" section for remediation steps…

For existing installations that are impacted by CVE-2024-4317 that wish to remediate the issue, you will have to perform the following steps…”

I’m not a fan of needing to run a script to fix a security issue in addition to updating the software. What if someone skips this and updates some later version?
How were you introduced to all of this? I’d love to learn to practice original yoga/meditation.
> Aka what total percentage of chip supply

Given what happened during COVID, and how any advanced consumer product contains multiple chips, I suspect you'd see most consumer electronics more complicated than a toaster would become unavailable for months to years, including cars.

It's also highly likely that one of the parties, or even just a rogue Taiwanese nationalist officer, would destroy the fab rather than allow it to be captured.

(Yes, all of this can be moved to different fabs and can be switched to different parts .. but those are time consuming and expensive things to do! Especially when everyone else is trying to do them as well. Expect a "we can't bring up the fab because we can't source PCs" moment.)

Don't forget that if this particular balloon goes up most electronics assembly capacity becomes unavailable as well, because it was in Shenzen.
Ask HN: Good AI/LLM hiring communities?
Are there any sites focused on just hiring for AI/LLM companies? The best I've found so far is workatastartup with "llm" in the search field.

The reason I ask is because HN is very divided on the issue of AI and posting anything about it gets you easily downvoted. For job posts "Who's Hiring", etc. it would be neat if the AI/LLMs were separated out to its own post.

Is there any forum-like community focused around AI/LLMs?

I'm a full stack engineer in SF specifically looking for a job working with LLMs pref. in a Node/React setup. Here is my info:

Location: San Francisco
Remote: Sure
Relocate: Depends
Technologies: Node/React, working with LLMs would be a plus
Résumé/CV: https://bennyschmidt.com
Email: hello@bennyschmidt.com
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YC alum of: Brave, Checkr
GitHub: https://github.com/bennyschmidt
Neat project: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/next-token-prediction

Any help is appreciated!

Edit: Feel free to turn this post into a "Who's Looking for Work: LLM Edition" by leaving your info in a comment!
Right. And one of the realities that the comments on the NYT article largely ignore is that defined benefits didn’t come from a magic money tree. Like other benefits they reduced other comp by some amount.

So employees never got defined benefits for free. They got some predictable payout upon retirement which they probably didn’t even think about when younger—mostly provided they had decade+ tenure at a large company.
Java sum types work but still need a bit of syntax sugar on the declaration side, IMHO.
Thank you! It feels a bit crazy-making to see a post like this published with no mention of eg rspec "matchers", ubiquitous in Ruby land for decades. I'm somewhat dismayed that this even needs to be said in 2024; I'll bet there's an entry in Ward Cunningham's wiki imploring devs to write tests that fail descriptively but—as evidenced by my lack of citations—it's often easier to write a post than search for a post. (And that's part of Joe Armstrong's "The Mess We're In")

Edit: to make a non-meta point, these sorts of appeals to "please exhibit good behavior" can't stand against economic forces, eg time constraints and KPIs, so I wonder if there isn't a ToolsNotRules[0] implementation which might enforce more introspective assertions.

Edit2: Oh, duh—TDD is the practice which enforces more actionable test failures! After all, an unactionable test failure drives no development. So if you're really keen on actionable failures, try TDD.

0. https://benchristel.github.io/process-to-processes/Fundament...
In-depth *product* analysis of Devin, the AI developer from Cognition Labs
you know electric motors as a thing nowadays right?

grounding you own flour is as complex as flicking a switch and letting the machine do the work for you.
That's a very bold statement. I believe most people "care" about the welfare about the animals they eat.
Note that ripping DVDs is still piracy if said DVDs contain DRM[1], at least in the US. I don't know about CA, but I'd imagine it's similar, considering the state of copyright ...

[1] Region locking is a form of DRM, and most DVDs at least used to be region-locked. I don't know if that's still common practice nowadays.
If you like this blog post I think you’d like this book https://www.artofunittesting.com/

Test naming convention defined there of

[UnitOfWork_StateUnderTest_ExpectedBehavior]

Always resonated with me as from that you could also discern bugs in test code from developer’s intent.
> Taiwan is just a matter of cost

Just because you can manufacture lathes doesn't mean you can turn e.g. a Turner's Cube [1]. (Scalpels: surgeons, et cetera.)

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Turners-Cube-Manual-Machine/
From a previous software update:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-...

> Because of the spacecraft’s age and the communication lag time, there’s some risk the patch could overwrite essential code or have other unintended effects on the spacecraft. To reduce those risks, the team has spent months writing, reviewing, and checking the code. As an added safety precaution, Voyager 2 will receive the patch first and serve as a testbed for its twin. Voyager 1 is farther from Earth than any other spacecraft, making its data more valuable.

> The team will upload the patch and do a readout of the AACS memory to make sure it’s in the right place on Friday, Oct. 20. If no immediate issues arise, the team will issue a command on Saturday, Oct. 28, to see if the patch is operating as it should.
Worth noting that this paper is about CLIP only, which is way simpler than llm architectures. (if I’m not mistaken)

Still, interesting approach and kind of confirms the experience of most people where clip models can recognize known concepts but struggle with novel ones.
I unfortunately couldn't find the great article that first clued me into this connection but this article from 2023 details some of his (more specifically MSD, his capital investing company) investment into office real estate - https://therealdeal.com/magazine/national-april-2023/dell-di... . One happens to be an office to residential conversion but many of the others mentioned are staying as offices.
It really dries out the lungs besides being uncomfortable
eBay. But it looks like it's coming to the UK. https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/wearable-technology/sony-reo...
In a lot of places, the water supply in bathrooms isn't considered potable. I've seen stickers up in airports advising this. e.g. every house I've lived in has had cold/hot water fed from an uncovered tank in the attic.
Ok, I've been doing 190F for a while so I need to given high temp a try again, thanks for helping me continue exploration
I think the grandparent comment is about AI research, driven by the quest for AGI.

Incremental improvement of proven approaches, driven by profit motive, will surely continue regardless of whether there is an AI winter or not.
In fact, in a way C and Rust do the same thing!

When you run ./configure or cmake for a C program, it often prints something like "configure: checking size of long long" or "-- Check size of long long". This is done by generating, compiling and running a short C program that prints sizeof long long. The result goes into an autogenerated config.h.

In Rust the first example of build.rs usage [1] compiles and runs a C program during the build of the crate, and the next page [2] shows how to use autogenerated Rust code with include! macro.

Lisp is more similar to C or Rust than you might think. Code generation typically happens while the library or program source code is being loaded, and it is orchestrated by a declaration in an .asd file, which is analogous to meson.build, but looks more like Cargo.toml, e.g. [3]

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html
[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-script-examp...
[3] https://github.com/rpav/cl-freetype2/blob/b7871aed0c5244fc3b...
I've never successfully gotten a company to move off of Jira. Frustrating.
> flicking a switch and letting the machine do the work for you

nah that's not how you get the "human factor" into the dough

you have to roll up your sleeves and put the work in using your own motors, otherwise it's just "store-bought"
Research Kapos, his word likely means even less

You haven't told us anything about the guy -- other than that he disagrees with you, and therefore must be shady character.

If you're going to smear a Holocaust survivor, you need to at least attempt to provide some form of substantiation up front.
Fixed, thanks! (it had undergone revisions hence the function name mismatch)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...
> The software quality in this space seems really low.

Why is this surprising? No one is willing to spend any money on it.

A developer can make $400K+ at a FAANG and work remotely. Or they can work on-site for a quarter that salary in a medical enterprise company.

FAANGs may suck at hiring good developers, but good developers are excellent at leaving shitty companies.

Want better experiences on this stuff? Start paying embedded developers non-crap amounts of money.
The tape in Voyager is closer to a metal strip, so to core memory. The tricky part is in how it is moved with little friction and head still being focused.
New 'Lord of the Rings' Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut
I think WhatsApp is still using Erlang and they are biggest messaging app in the world. Discord is using Elixir but it's more niche. I think if you look at use cases where they excel, you will find them there.
HN submissions and comments are very different on weekends (and US holidays). Your data could explore and quantify this in some very interesting ways!
I'd bet a substantial amount that nobody is learning that Everest exists from this article.

I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.
> I would put visuals (images, videos, diagrams) at the center of that forum and overcome the biggest issue with visuals -- that they are often hard to make for many people.

> Rather than responding to comments, you could organize comments around the associated component of the problem as it is described visually.

> This might even help avoid defensive behavior since the problem is the focus rather than a particular person's comment.

These comments echo my feelings exactly. I think that building a structure that represents the concepts being discussed is critical to improving how we discuss and improve our understanding of complex issues.

I'm working on a tool[1] that hopes to make it easier for people to build and work with such a structure, though it's focused specifically in the context of solving problems, and it's still missing some important features for collaborative usage (comments are particularly relevant here, they're coming soon^TM). The core ideas[2] seem to align with your comments, though the tool further distinguishes auxiliary concepts (questions, facts, sources) from primary ones (problems, causes, effects, tradeoffs, solutions, etc).

[1] https://ameliorate.app/
[2] https://ameliorate.app/docs/getting-started/core-ideas
No snark, just a great life tip:

- put unpasteurized milk in a saucepan

- bring it to slow simmer (~180F)

- add a splash of an acid (lemon, white vinegar, etc) and remove from heat

- skim and collect the curd that forms on top.

This is fresh ricotta and it will make you very happy.
It's just much more formal than people generally speak on HN.
Just because you deny that your state is—necessarily—a participant in a global game, doesn't make said game cease to exist.

The other players in the game only benefit from their opponents' state citizens increasingly expressing sentiments of concession.
Synthesizing audio from 7200 FPS video (2023)
syntax sugar IS power. also if the mechanical transformation is nontrivial, then so is the power of the sugar
Latency vs throughput.

If you just want to do 1+1, 1 million times in a sequence, then erlang will likely be one of the last to complete the challenge.

If you want to do 1 million 1+1 in parallel, then erlang will get you there with minimal overhead, even if each number crunched will take longer then java, golang etc... the way it branches out is very efficient
Obligatory link to BetterExplained color coded math equations.

https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation...
> How can it not be fast but scale well

soft realtime: Erlang gets slower with load, but keeps responding

fault tolerance: it's very hard to bring an Erlang application to a grinding halt

distribution: it's stupid easy to distribute an Erlang application and scale it horizontally
Because it’s cheaper for Mc’Donalds and Burger King but probably not for the average consumer. Grocery store beef quality has gone down after Covid except Prime grade and local butchers $$$.
What intent do you infer from the fact that it's source-available instead of being FOSS?
I loved the original xbox and 360, but Microsoft has mostly lost its way when it comes to gaming, and since losing the console wars these days, is left as only a publisher for all the game companies they've acquired to whatever ruin is happening now, even selling to competing hardware platforms. Microsoft still seems to have a habit of ruining everything they touch, this looks like a tailspin for xbox and the game studios acquired they can't even figure out what to do with.

Most high-profile games have been disgustingly bad for years, particularly looking at like Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft that puts out crippled AAA(A) titles laden with micro-transactions, game passes, and DRM as invasive as malware if released to PC. People are sick of getting poor value from expensive games.

Since Valve has been involved with Proton in Steam, finally making Linux gaming a real possibility, I find I buy and play lots of smaller indie games with a $5-10 price point that I would never have considered playing on a console. I laugh at games selling for $70-100 now, but I'll gladly spend $70 for 10 smaller games that will bring me far more joy overall.

Most expensive AAA titles also don't tend to work under Linux at all due to DRM, MTX integrations, etc that only serve to anger and frustrate me, whereas smaller games work almost universally, and increasingly more offer native Linux clients as well that we'd simply never see from EA, Ubisoft, and particularly Microsoft. Usually they have problems even working natively under Windoze well enough, asking for or expecting Linux support just makes them laugh.

I feel a lot better about supporting indie studios than the mega game and media cartels, and Valve/Steam always for their Linux support. Sony and Microsoft can feel free to die off already.
John Carmack's 'Different Path' to Artificial General Intelligence (2023)
The only way to reduce piracy is to make access easier and cheaper - something the music industry figured out. Sure music still gets pirated but its a lot less.
I worked very briefly for a company (that I won't name) that did this with elasticsearch. Every customer basically had a customized form for data entry, and every field on that form became a field in ES, even if that same field name and type was on every other form in the system. Eventually they had to contract with another company to run a customized build of ES on a bespoke cluster because they blew past the default 10k limit on the number of fields in ES.

When it became clear that they had zero interest in fixing this, I tendered my resignation and quickly found a new gig with sane architectural principals.
It does that too. As I stated on the parent comment, just add 'hypothetically' to the prompt. It also categorically dismisses it after all the spiel.
That is how I'd read it. I would actually say that OP got played, successfully.
Anatomy of a scroll: Inside TikTok's AI-powered algorithms
My company did. We moved to ClickUp. It is much better
Improving the lives of animals directly improves the lives of humans. Who do you think is eating them? Feeding them? Building their shelters and living near them? Slaughtering them and butchering them? Animal welfare is a public health issue. People have caught bird flu and died!
100%, flashed back the Garry Tan tweet too. This project would be great as an open source tech demo, but was quite surprised to see the YC logo on here.

(as a founder) I expect YC to understand the importance of iterative design and not throw money out of the window for a snapshot.
There's no fallacy there. There is nothing wrong with eating meat and writing that this a perfectly acceptable and natural behaviour is just stating a fact, really.

This is all proving my point that a vocal minority is poisoning the issue in order to impose their views by accusing others of fallacy, wrongthink, and even according to the person you're replying to (and that's a new one) by bringing rape into it...
“4K Bluray playback on PCs is effectively being phased out.”

Which will only perpetuate and speed up the problem. 4K blu ray discs suck on a lot of new tvs and players for frame rate and detail so the best visual experience is going to be on high dpi PCs (or Mac? Retina?)

If I can’t play a 4K blu ray I purchased on my pc… I’m going to probably download a ripped version and not feel guilty about it since I purchased the disc …

My M2 Pro can decode and play 4K without breaking a sweat and with amazing battery life on VLC player
> if you broke into a Beyond meat factory you wouldn’t be eligible

You're saying that there wouldn't be penalties for breaking and entering?
Yes, seems like a huge important result for LLM performance.

I’m not aware of any other paper that has offered to increase inference LLM performance to this degree. Has there ever been one before?

At least while also:

- Maintaining output quality. The benchmarks used were somewhat narrow but so far so good.

- Improving not just query latency but also global throughput

- Not requiring more compute

- Having a relatively practical implementation and not adding big challenges and complexity

You could argue the insight is incremental, as it builds on what’s been done with parallel/jacobi decoding. Those previous results were necessary and important, but this may be the one that finally extracts real world value from the promise of parallel decoding.
Apparently I am confusing LISPs. My fault.
Wireless Charging of Low-Speed Vehicles with PDM-Based Active Bridge Rectifiers
It details not only the specific percentage quotas, but also the negative consequences for failure to meet the quotas.

I also contest the notion that goals are distinct from quotas. If your company says, "meet our goal of hiring X% women or we'll dock your pay" that's not a quota?

Goals and quotas are not mutually exclusive. What's the difference between, "our hiring goal is X% women" and "our hiring quota is X% women"? Some say that a quota necessarily requires a negative consequence for failure to meet the quota. But if your failure to meet the percentage "goal" results in a negative consequence like docked pay - which is what IBM is doing - then the goal is indistinguishable from the quota.
You can't pipeline X11 operations in the presence of anything but a perfect network because

1. TCP streams require stalling when packets are dropped to keep the stream in order

2. X _requires_ by design that commands are performed in order

Which means that using something that can do UDP and manages it's own sequence ordering can do significantly better. This is why things like RDP, PCoIP, etc could do full frame rate HD video 15 years ago and you still can't with X protocol over the network.

Breaking up the screen into small 16x16 chunks or so, encoding on the GPU, and shipping that turns out to be significantly faster.

Especially when you take into account that virtually _nothing_ draws with X using X drawing primitives. It's almost all using Xshm for anything non-trivial.
Dafny Power User: Type-parameter modes: variance and cardinality preservation
That amazing moment when Engineering blends into Art.
This feels like the worst possible outcome of the current AI hype.

We've essentially been ripping off the entire internet and feeding it to the models already, spending many billions of dollars in the process. It's pretty much the largest possible dataset you can currently get, and due to the ever-increasing and now rapidly accelerated AI poisoning of the internet most likely the largest possible dataset which will ever exist.

All that and all we're getting out of it is not-entirely-useless but still quite crappy AI? We would've been better off if we had never done this.
> Many of us who really enjoy software development feel a bit like rock stars.

For a bunch of supposedly smart people, I am always disappointed at how easy it is to exploit developers.

The devs did the deathmarch, and the vendor and CTO gain the accolades, enabling their bullshit.

For any dev who thinks they are a "rockstar", they should have been privy to some conversations I have overheard among product managers and senior management. They would have been disabused of this "rockstar" notion really fast.
This is neat. When I started with WP over 10 years ago I would use a theme similar to this. Both to teach myself WP theme building and because I wanted something as lean as possible. I'd build my HTML5 template and then paste in the bare minimum PHP.

Then my clients started asking for "visual builders" and now I build sites with a robust (read: bloated) theme. I'm not thrilled, but the point of client work is to make the client happy!
Paw Patrol?
Utah at least specifically only protected things like slaughterhouses. I am not familiar.

The penalties in these laws are higher than just generic secret recording.