skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens with communication "in person" is that people talk at the same time. This doesn't fly in remote meetings, so they kind of enforce good meeting hygiene in this regard. Not enough to make meetings great overall but it helps.

Management in many corporations want the employees to feel like they are friends, which they typically are not (do you regularly visit co-workers in their homes? no? then you probably aren't actually friends). It's one of many strategies to foster unfounded loyalty to the employer and enabling of corporate hierarchies.
It is possible for a trait that is broadly negative in most environments to confer enough of an advantage in a specific environment to be selected for: see sickle-cell anemia. And there are scenarios where people with ADHD outperform thise without (the famous "gorilla video" tends not to fool them, for example). But I agree this is basically only hinting at a possible hypothesis, nowhere near an actual conclusion.
"customer could not care less". This perspective is too narrow, or even a fallacy, often repeated to justify abandoning some good practices.

Oh yeah customer cares. If I leave my car in a workshop, I care whether mechanics have one big mess there or not, I am looking for signs of a good routine, clever process, some smart choices they made for themselves. If they did a fix for me but have a mess, I will never go back to them.
Most of customers do such choices.
I think the problem here is that that is often still not that acceptable. Let's imagine a system with say, 100 million users making 25 queries a day, just to give us some contrived numbers to examine. At a 10% error rate that's 250 million mistakes a day, or 75 million if we're generous and say there's a 3% error rate. Then you have to think about your application, how easily you can detect issues, how much money you're willing to pay your ops staff (and how big you want to expand it), the cost of the mistakes themselves as well as the legal and retutational costs of having an unreliable system. Take those costs, add it to the cost to run this system (probably considerable), and you're coming up on a heuristic for figuring out if possible equates worth doing. 75 million times any dollar amount (plus 2.5 billion total queries you need to run the infrastructure for) is still a lot of capital. If each mistake costs you $0.20 (I made this number up), then maybe $5.5b a year is worth the cost? I'm not sure.

It's probable that Google is in the middle of doing this napkin math given all the embarrassing stuff we saw last week. So it's cool that we're closer to solving these really hard problems but whether they're acceptable is a more complicated question than just it used to not be possible. Maybe that math works out in your favor for your application.
Haven't watched much of anime, and haven't watched any for more than a decade. But back then I had huge impression from Azumanga Daioh. Nothing special in plot, just a year in the life of a few schoolgirls. But such lively and unique personages, I remember I had lump in the throat when I watched the last episode, as if I was saying farewell to close friends that I will not ever see again.
It appears very few people are privileged to be in a place for it to be a personal preference.

Like how the “I love Mondays” people are a rounding error.

Very few of the talented people with choices - already rare - are choosing that personal preference. And the other people that love it for the networking were not the talented people with choices, they are the ambitious juniors desperate to build rapport.
Customers care a lot about defects, and I've seen defects increase dramatically due to complexity and technical debt.
I'm confused too. I haven't seen anything in that link that might be new and justifies this random post.
I'm surprised by the performance. Doesn't qemu have dynamic recompilation capabilities?
> Plus, I'd love to be proven wrong, but I could bet that most people will fix the issue by simply adding the "all-on" switch to the command line instead of carefully evaluating which annotation processors are really needed by their codebase.

That’s ok!

For those people, they hit a small speed bump where they have to make a small change to their build. For those of us who care, we get a bunch of control we may choose to exert.
Login is not obvious. A login is usual a process step before the main part of the process. That does not fit to an API call which is authenticated using a token.
The main problem now with many custom ROMs is VoLTE support. Many countries are shutting down 3G networks, and many VoLTE solutions (for 4G and 5G voice) are not available in the open source ROMs.
Next-gen Kaldi and WebAssembly with sherpa-ONNX for Text-to-speech
That's true (and for valid reasons, e.g. saving on insurance/security at the office), but that doesn't mean you don't get to have a work/life boundary. There's a EU directive (or there will be) colloquially called the right to disconnect: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20210121STO...
Interesting point. It's either that or Ilya also didn't mention it to the board. Seems unusual whichever it was.
Explaning words of one language in another which lacks equivalents is always tricky. I think this article does better than most.

But could do better. E.g.

> Let's update the first list so that these two lists do have equivalent values:

s/equivalent/equal/

> The variables a and b point to different lists, so they're equal but not identical.

s/different/separate/

Few would understand different in a way that can be true of equal lists.
Large parts of Android (Google Play Services) are not open source.
Partitioning also prunes the number of files to be looked at. Only the directory structure of the files (or prefixes of the objects in S3) need to be checked.
Evidence that the earth is flat grows ever taller as well. If you have no method for removing things that turn out to not be true, only taller will the pile grow.
Yeah that wasn't actually a new fractal though, just generalised Mandelbrot with a negative non-integer exponent.. but yes some kind of interactive exploration of it would be fun I agree!

There's something I'd be much more keen to show the world (and which might render faster than negmandel!) which I call 'mandelfield', here's an old blogger post about it (yeah sorry it's blogger@): https://ultraiterator.blogspot.com/2009/10/hidden-mandelfiel...

And I think Flickr is the best way to browse my fractals at present:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/57934548@N02/
My avatar pic there is a 'mandelfield'. I think it's a really interesting phenomena!
I think most of us go through a 'software development is like..' metaphor phase.

Back in my day it was via McConnell and the PragProg guys. Jeff Atwood covered it in a blog post from over 15 years ago:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/tending-your-software-garden/
I understand software better from words and diagrams than reading the code.

Complexity is aided by having sturdy mental models - what you intuitively understand. And to see the truth clearly.

To have humility: my code is probably ugly to other people, but I understand my code faster than reading yours.

I can't pretend to know that the system I build would be better than yours.

Be wary of pride.
The catacombs in Naples are worth a visit too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_San_Gennaro
Most of this modern day nonsense comes from the US so maybe look inward first?
Why do you think the Europeans are much less competent and how would differences in approaches impact leaks?
Reminds me a lot of Cogmind's[1] level entry visuals, love it!

[1]: https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/
Is it? They're preventing you from having more ram in the name of having a limited amount of ram that is faster.

Which, as you said yourself, is useless if your working set doesn't fit in your limited amount of ram.

> RAM command waits are the biggest killer of responsiveness

... no, using swap is the biggest killer of responsiveness :)
I doubt that is true. The hearing aids sold as medical devices, have to satisfy regulatory standards. So a lot of incentive to use older reliable tech.

Not to mention, it probably takes a couple of years to get the certification for a device. So, any device to market is easily 2-3 years old tech by definition.
Like "careerist lapdog" in the article. I gave up reading after that.

After 4 years of WFH, not all due to COVID, I make it a point to go to the office 5 days a week even though my company is hybrid 3 days in, 2 days out. Humans are social animals and even though I am an introvert, postage stamp videoconferencing window s don't cut it.
This thread feels astroturfed, or at least like some overly enthusiastic friend-posting.

Buncha low activity accounts posting marketing copy style testimonials.

I’m not saying it was necessarily intentional manipulation, but it feels off for a Show HN.
I hate when people throw corporate bullshit using words like "family".

It might be true for small <15 employees companies, never for bigger ones.
It's DNS all over again, basically.

> it just needs to be implemented

Do you know BGPKit [1]? I'm not sure what the state of the project is, but I remember vaguely them implementing ASPA and being involved in the RFC back then.

[1] https://github.com/bgpkit
Noise can travel far in apartment buildings and in non-straight lines...

If you are worried and trust that the neighbor comes in good faith, you can ask them to call you once they hear those banging, or even better knock on you door and come in to listen.

Recording might not actually help you, as you might record noises and not be able to prove where it comes from. The same applies for renting an acoustic sniper localization system- it might direct you somewhere but not really help find the source
Can we put a date on this? I was in undergrad when this was released.
I don’t use any TTS at the moment because they all sound weird and it’s distracting when random words or phrases are mispronounced or have odd intonations or misplaced stresses. I would use it a lot more if it sounded entirely natural, I know this because I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts.
Maybe that would bump the people willing to go to the office by another 5-10% but every once in a while we have days when multiple teams happen to be in the office on the same day, and at least half of the desks are occupied. Despite having half of the office dedicated as "the focus zone", most people don't really work or like to work on those days. There are much more meetings, and casual chit-chat but an actual output of "work products" is close to none.
Ask HN: What software doesn't have a sidebar nowadays?
Basically every software product or website has a sidebar these days, I was wondering if there are any major players that do not have a sidebar as their default. Google is one, anything else?
Unfortunately, the best school doesn't advertise, and like the elusive unicorn doesn't seem to exist because the incentives only seem to promote perverse incentives.

Bad options have crowded out good options, eventually like any lawn that has plastic sheeting blacking it out, the organisms underneath die leaving barren soil.

That may just be my personal geography I did try every college in my area in a 200 mile radius aside from the private ones which I couldn't afford, and the ones that wouldn't let me in, so this wasn't a lack of trying.

That burn rate continues churning forever on the blood of past students that were told lies with no other choice, and the tests are scheduled just after the full refund deadline.

I'd taken physics 9 times by the time I gave up on Aerospace Engineering. They used to do a lab contest among the colleges (same college district) in my area for physics and I directing my group repeatedly won.

Kind of farcical when your students flunk the course repeatedly but are the only ones in the contest to complete a proper egg drop with limited material selection from 6 stories where the egg survives without a crack.

I'm 90% sure they stopped the contest because it looked bad.
Plus they - in theory - have a huge vested financial interest. All the OpenAI employees, assuming they held some kind of stock, became millionaires overnight as ChatGPT took off.
I've seen this mentioned a few times, but is this true? I could swear I've heard him mention that he uses ChatGPT for programming stuff. He might not be a super technical software engineer, but is he "non-technical" in that he can't even write some simple python or something equivalent?
Send your personal information to someone after you gone, like steam account
The Windows Internals series is typically the go-to for what you're looking for. Combine with MSDN browsing to determine what you want to do and how you want to do it.
Show HN: I made a social media profile pic generator
It was online in 2022 too: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-php-client-services...
This shows how far smartphone hardware is from pals who love to tinker with software.
Haha..I get where you're coming from. However, tool that show reports and outputs, that are CLI-first, can get a lot of help in improving the developer experience. Honestly, I was looking for something like this for my tool!
I can't wait. MWL's writing style makes reading technical documentation a lot more fun than it has to be.
Together with wasm / js this can give you super lightweight 'electron-like' standalone apps in less than 2 MB. Used as such in in https://github.com/pannous/wasp/
National Bureau of Economic Research Blockchain Analysis of the BTC Market [pdf]
"In this paper, we provide detailed analyses of the Bitcoin network and its main participants. We
build a novel database using a large number of public and proprietary sources to link Bitcoin
addresses to real entities and develop an extensive suite of algorithms to extract information
about the behavior of the main market participants. We conduct three major pieces of analysis of
the Bitcoin eco-system. First, we analyze the transaction volume and network structure of the
main participants on the blockchain. Second, we document the concentration and regional
composition of the miners which are the backbone of the verification protocol and ensure the
integrity of the blockchain ledger. Finally, we analyze the ownership concentration of the largest
holders of Bitcoin.
"
i'm using it for a while now, i just ssh to my kubernetes development pod and i do everything from there, i have also a code-server instance installed on the pod so i can use vscode as if i was on that machine. blink was really a gamechanger for me as it fits all my needs! but i think i have a job that's the best use case for blink 'cause i'm a backend dev working exclusively on cloud. the only think i don't like is that i cannot scale vscode UI inside blink
This is not the title of the video
Video games, for one.
In other news, water discovered to be wet.
https://elevenlabs.io/ And choose German for a sample. Not sure if it’s good enough for your needs but they have a wide variety of languages and voices.
Technology and Security Competitions
Comedy can fight science misinformation
Use cases:
Send personal information, like passwords, to recipients who may need them after you're gone,
Send love letters,
Confess mysteries post mortem
and much more..
The third part that is also about certain is that we'll be dealing with climate change, since we are not stopping burning fossil fuels. Instead we are building new fresh power plants fueled by fossil fuels with planned operational life times far into the future.
The linked video is just that article rehashed.
The "projection" can be centered on any arbitrary point, actually. See https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/planets_webgl/GottPlanets.ht...
lol I met Josh Boehm years ago, didn’t realize he had crawled so far up the ladder at SpaceX. I tried talking with him about programming but he struck me as one of those insufferable managerial types with no passion for the craft that had fully bought into his personality cult. I seem to recall his handle on some social media being “Baron Boehm”, which is probably a telling indication of his ego.
Thanks for sharing, I've followed these authors for a while and they're great.

Some notes from my own experience on LLMs for NLP problems:

1) The output schema is usually more impactful than the text part of a prompt.

a) Field order matters a lot. At inference, the earlier tokens generated influence the next tokens.

b) Just have the CoT as a field in the schema too.

c) PotentialField and ActualField allow the LLM to create some broad options and then select the best. This mitigates the fact that they can't backtrack a bit. If you have human evaluation in your process, this also makes it easier for them to correct mistakes.

`'PotentialThemes': ['Surreal Worlds', 'Alternate History', 'Post-Apocalyptic'], 'FinalThemes': ['Surreal Worlds']`

d) Most well definined problems should be possible zero-shot on a frontier model. Before rushing off to add examples really check that you're solving the correct problem in the most ideal way.

2) Defining the schema as typescript types is flexible and reliable and takes up minimal tokens. The output JSON structure is pretty much always correct (as long as the it fits in the context window) the only issue is that the language model can pick values outside the schema but that's easy to validate in post.

3) "Evaluating LLMs can be a minefield." yeah it's a pain in the ass.

4) Adding too many examples increases the token costs per item a lot. I've found that it's possible to process several items in one prompt and, despite it being seemingly silly and inefficient, it works reliably and cheaply.

5) Example selection is not trivial and can cause very subtle errors.

6) Structuring your inputs with XML is very good. Even if you're trying to get JSON output, XML input seems to work better. (Haven't extensively tested this because eval is hard).
> Of course many are still "panicked" since if they leave the city they fear it would be hard to came back if the WFH end, but this is not really an issue in practical terms

May I ask where do you live in EU that WFH is stil in palce? Here in Austria no employer tolerates WFH anymore.

Any recruiter I spoke with and I asked them about WFH, they asked "how many days?" and when I answered "well, all of them?", the conversation ended there. All the managers want butts in seats at least 3 days/week. One company here I interviewed recently told me when I asked about WFH "we know people love this WFH thing, so to please them, we're offering WFH on Fridays" lol

Managers can't live without seeing butts in seats here. It's either you come to the office or stay unemployed. The market is really bad here and employees have no leverage for WFH, that's why I asked where you live, since I'm planning to get out of this hellhole and I'm checking my options.
Humane AI Pin review roundup: an undercooked flop that's way ahead of its time
https://archive.ph/sXbBT
Correct title: Cloudflare: Pay Me 120k Or We Shut You Down
Bit annoying that they added ambient music over the demo youtube video, spoiling the one thing you want to demonstrate.
>unbounded wealth disparity ends poorly for the wealthy. I hope we can find a way forward without that "solution" happening here.

Historically there have been swings in inequality. It can just lead to people voting in left wing governments who tax the rich a lot.
As far back as 2011, I was reading articles from this blog: https://www.1024cores.net/

I remember thinking: "That's crazy! One kilo-cores! They're processors, not memory!"

Then, almost immediately, it started sinking in that this is what Moore's law means. That yes, sooner or later, I'll be working on a single system with more than a thousand cores (or hardware threads) in it.

This behemoth of a server probably has 8 sockets and I'm guessing it is the size of half a rack or thereabouts.

An upcoming AMD EPYC processor is rumored to have 256 cores (512 threads), which means that a "normal sized" server will have 512c/1024t soon at a more reasonable cost: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/328692-future-256-core...

Similarly, Intel is planning a processor with 288 cores within a year, although it may or may not have hyper-threading: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21276/intel-previews-sierra-f...

A challenge I like to pose to software developers is this: If you were given one of these servers, and you could install your software on it, would it get 100x faster for one user than a server with just 10 vCPUs?
Yet another reason not to complain when those things go away.
Not clear based on what criteria OP has determined this is the best OS model. I also don't see that claim being made anywhere in the GitHub repo so I suspect it might be a case of vibe-based benchmarking (VBB).

As pointed out by u/modeless, there is an established leaderboard and this model isn't on it (yet)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508445
Show HN: AWS EKS Terraform configuration with necessary modules for DevOps team
Yes, though the first one or two times it can be fun to farm puddings.
> There is almost zero value in evaluating a prompt by only running it once.

To the user

But these tools are marketed as if you do only need to run them once to get a good result; The companies behind them would really want you to stop hammering the button that deletes their money.

As an aside:

> For evaluating prompts and running in production; your hallucination rate is inversely proportional to the number of times you sample.

This isn't really true, and requires you to fuzz the prompt itself for best effect. Making the "spam the LLM with requests" problem much worse.
Private APIs have been starting to be restricted in previous versions already, requiring command line flags like add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api
It's possible to change YT video title. Searching for "Cloudflare has become a pig butchering scam but legal" shows the video as the first result. My guess is that title of the video has changed between posting on HN and now.
Don't they track time to see that people are at the office less hours than contracted??
Billion dollar unregulated casino that is burning through cloudflare ips.. i don't see where cloudflare can be blamed here, they stated you should BYOIP, you didn't approve and were banned, their is no blame here.

Just FYI some countries ban casino domains/ips that are not licensed to operate even when its "just a landing page that says sorry not available"
I do, but it's all wireless. My laptop and desktop both have Bluetooth.
Youtubers often change titles to try out which ones drive views. It's possible that the post title was the view title previously.
I would argue it is a demonstration of what Altman is capable of bringing about. He can make things like this 'happen' for him.
Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander, and now, our current batch.
> and trashing their account when they tell you they are talking to a competitor

That is just a story they have made up. They don't know why Cloudflare shut their account down. I reckon the Fastly "reason" is likey a red herring.
I think between Anna's Archive, fineweb and as many github repos as you can scrape you can get a pretty decent dataset.

I doubt Anna's Archive would produce a good model on its own though.
> Google is one

YouTube, GMail, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Cloud Services: are we a joke to you?
That's interesting. I didn't know there was a Sam fired betting market.
I think a lot of people don't change job because looking for another job involve all kind of stress. Am I taking the right decision? Will I be happier at the new position? What if I join and that company is announcing 1 year from now that it will have to layoff workers? Also some hiring process are so bureaucratic and long these days that just the thought of enduring all of it is tiring. Also when you are reaching 45y old you are thinking probably more conservatively.

I am saying this having moved jobs 6 times in 23 years.