skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Full Self Driving and Waymo grabs all the attention, Blue Cruise and Mercedes' one is quietly doing what's asked, giving drivers a way to sit in traffic on the freeway and pay less attention. So I agree that it's been a struggle, but it seems the computers a managing to win that struggle. At the point where we're disagreeing on 3 years vs 10 or 20, and if there are enough rich people to afford a $20k house robot, I don't feel a need to convince you of my opinion, I'm simply excited for the future. I don't know what comes next but I 'm optimistic about it.
Weird comment to make on a thread about exactly this kind of feature. They're a big organization with many people working on many different things. Some will maybe great while others will potentially suck.
Hmm, you can do pretty nice things with generics to make some things impossible (or at least fail on compile), but I agree it’s hardly readable. In some cases you need that though.
Make meaningful, comprehensible documentation that adds context and specifics. Unstructured, braindump walls of detail spew don't count.
alt text is grate for blind people thanks.
It's not weird that he didn't know about it the day (or week) that it happened. It IS weird that nobody at YC was talking about OpenAI when it was exploding.
In an unrelated note, this "Google Blog" thing appears to have [at least] three different domain names that redirect to the same url: https://blog.google.com, https://blog.google and https://googleblog.com, why is that?!
A very good book, I highly recommend it. Once I finished it I was very interested in finding more research regarding geoengineering as a method to fight climate change. Both the good and the bad are presented in the book, hence the title.
Heck, calling it "Bullseye Deals" is a big giveaway by itself.
Literally everything about ML training and IP is undecided.
Tests, baby
I'm not convinced you actually read the article at all. Here's just one extract of several that to me says exactly what you're saying, except it's Larson speaking:

> It's key to not confine your conflict mining strategy to your peer group on the leadership team. “You can usually get buy-in from other executives pretty easily, but it’s much more difficult to get buy-in from people with the most context around a given problem,” he says, “Their opinion is most valuable because they are the ones who live in the details. You can’t lie to them. They know the truth of how things run.”

This immediately follows an anecdote where he talks about listening to an engineer and realizing that his approach was wrong and the engineer was right. The whole section on "micromanagement" is really about this—get down into the weeds with your engineers and listen to what they have to say.

I get from your other comment that you have had bad experiences with people "applying" Larson's ideas in the past, but I'm really not seeing that at all in this text.
At least they're polite about it. :-)
I don’t know why you’re trying to make this some kind of gotcha. What I said was absolutely 100% standard security advice. You’re just making yourself look silly here.
History? The Google TLD is relatively new and would have been created last
The hitchhiker's guide to logical verification (2023) [pdf]
AOT compilation works out of the box already in GraalPython, but needs some hackery to work with GraalJs. I believe this feature has been requested for JS and may already be in the works
Wow, if only there was a separate corporate entity which could accept donations but which wasn't the Foundation. I wonder what Mozilla would call such a Corporation.
This has been my experience when integrating with a vendor's APIs where they've been bit by the GraphQL bug. They have a full featured, stable and easy to use REST API, and then a poorly implemented GraphQL solution that doesn't cover all the use cases of the original API, and new features only appear in the GraphQL schema, so you have to be stuck using both and it's a horrible experience.

I'm also not personally a fan of having my API queries on the frontend span multiple lines for things that with a good REST design with OpenAPI are a single method call, but all too often the calls I would need to make to the vendor's GraphQL API were exactly this: did not make use of any of GraphQL's query features, and were effectively just RPC calls.
PrivateGPT is a great starting point for using a local model and RAG.
Text-generation-ui, oogabooga, using superbooga V2 is very nice and more customizable.

I’ve used both for sensitive internal SOPs, and both work quite well. Private gpt excels at ingesting many separate documents, the other excels at customization. Both are totally offline, and can use mostly whatever models you want.
it's a rather dystopian feeling that we're all just cogs in some sort of a machine, but we need money to eat and rent. I want to have actual meaning but what is it all for?
Sightful introduces Spacetop G1 as a laptop for the spatial computing era
Direct File as Permanent Free Tax Filing Option for Filing Season 2025
I'm American and have spent the majority of my life in the US, so limited perspective and all, but Bibles are literally disposable here. There's plenty of instances of overzealous churches setting up on a corner and forcing cheap mass produced pocket-Bibles into the hands of college students or pedestrians on the street who walk past them. The Christians already have usable full sized copies and will eventually realize they don't need a hard to read $0.10 copy and the unreligious mostly don't want it at all, neither group revere the physical item and will commonly throw it away. Some Christians take even take pride in showing off they have a well used Bible, to the point that they purposefully let it get worn and ragged. Eventually they will also just replace it with a fresh copy. I think you could excavate any random landfill in the US if you absolutely needed to retrieve a few hundred intact copies of the Bible.
Only if there's no person at the helm with some sort of... um... vision, they call it?
I'm surprised. After such a short deliberation period, I expected a not-guilty verdict, especially considering that I read somewhere that one of the jurors gets their news from Truth Social.

I do wonder what sentencing will look like. Jail time is probably unlikely, but fines and probation... probably?

Whether or not this has any significant effect on the election remains to be seen. Any appeals process likely won't conclude until well afterward.
There should be something a UI like this but it just sources data from Wikipedia. Could just be the Abstract and allow you to open a wikipedia iframe or something. You should add this as a mode to this app
I know Unity at least defaults to DX11 and I believe it doesn't package other renderers at all unless you explicitly enable them in Project Settings or use a rendering feature that requires them, and I can't imagine many people are digging into the renderer settings without good reason
isn't that basically a non-compete? we can take other peoples code to build an AGPL project but you can't take our code to become a competitor (this would fail the FOSS definition)
Your reply is basically text book marketing thinking, which is very different from how things work in reality. Influencers require to be paid, and a one time short clip can easily be a 5 or 6 figure investment. Press doesn't cover you either unless you are willing to commit to ad spend. In any user community, only a small % of people will actively participate and promote your product for you for free.
Only 1 out of 4?
That's rich, coming from someone starting with the vacuous "deregulation" meme of high school armchair economists and following up with nothing of substance. Counter my points, substantively. And no, this (https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/money-supply-m2) is not deflation.
As someone working on an AI tool for education, I think it's going to be one of the hardest industries to get right, but also the most important.

- It's going to be tricky for AI tutors to make an impact. Teachers are better at inspiring students to do better than computers ever will be, but for those already motivated, AI will provide a great study tool.

- Students have access to LLMs as well now, so any writing assessment will have to be timed and closely monitored, or in-class, otherwise students can easily cheat.

- Teacher-facing tools will come before student-facing tools because of the safety aspect.

We're building an AI grading assistant for teachers (https://automark.io) that helps them provide more writing feedback to students. Papers are extremely time consuming to grade and give feedback on, which is detrimental to both the teacher and the student. Giving students unlimited practice essays before the scored essay is one area where AI will really move the needle.

Grading is also one of the main shortcomings of online courses, so I'm guessing we'll see more in that area in the future where high quality courses can scale to 10k-100k+ students.
I don't think this investment is like the rest, there was a clear conflict of interest in the OpenAI investment given that the CEO of YC was also the founder and one of the directors (?) of OpeanAI. And not only Sam, Jessica Livingston is also one of the founders of OpenAI.

This is not a comment on whether PG should have been informed or not, I don't know how YC operates.
Seems like what is more offensive here is the power imbalance, where one group can ignore the pretense or lie of friendliness.

I could see that expectation being a form of respect.
I find the distinction between AAA games and indie games irrelevant. I'm not interested in the vast majority of video games, regardless of the budget or the size of the publisher. I only play a limited number of titles, and I'm more likely to try new games from teams or individuals who made games I have have enjoyed in the past.

In that respect, video games are no different from books, movies, or TV shows. I choose entertainment based on the content, not on the form.
Inheritance is only good for code reuse, and it’s a trick you only get to use once for each piece of code, so if you use it you need to be absolutely certain that the taxonomy you’re using it to leverage code across is the right one.

All ‘is-a so it gets this code’ models can be trivially modeled as ‘has-a so it gets this code’ patterns, which don’t have that single-use constraint… so the corollary to this rule tends towards ‘never use inheritance’.
Superposition and SAEs in Mechanistic Interpretability
No. The diagram https://science.nasa.gov/resource/history-of-the-universe/ tells us that galaxies and dark matter formed 400M years after the big bang. Look at the right of the chart legend: "13.8 billion years" is above "today".
i wish perplexity.ai did this
Unfortunately there are lots of devs stuck on windows, wsl is very popular.
Also there is no standard for exposing the schema, and sometimes there isn't a schema at all. Sometimes a vendor will have the schema downloadable from their dev docs, sometimes it will be an endpoint that serves it up, and sometimes they just don't give it to you and expect you to use GraphQL Explorer directly to discover what you can do. When I encountered this I figured surely GraphQL Explorer must be fetching the schema, but I guess this is not always the case, as I never was able to get a complete schema that worked with the tooling. For that vendor, there was no way to generate client code for the schema using one of the many GraphQL client library generator frameworks.
That study said 1600 satellites are needed in a Delta Walker configuration (same as Starlink, but Starlink has more satellites already).

The number of interceptors per satellite was unclear but this USAF captain said "composite rocket motor and micro-missile system capable of fielding a rocket pod of 100 interceptors at a cost of approximately $60,000 per micro-missile" https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Wild-Blue-Yonder/Article-Di...
"Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

New York Judge Juan Merchan set sentencing for July 11 — just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention. Trump faces a maximum sentence of up to 4 years in prison, but as a first-time, white-collar offender, no jail time is necessary, and he could receive probation instead."

He needs to go to jail, its where he belongs, not out here with the rest of us.
I never had an answer. I guess that's why I'm working at Initech.
Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts
Lol thinking those are outside the law
I'm clearly not doing a great job of conveying my thoughts today. I should probably spend more time reading what I've written before I hit the reply button.
and at some point (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/7444)
you will be able to use Phi-3-vision
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct

but for now you will have to use python.

You can try it here
https://ai.azure.com/explore/models/Phi-3-vision-128k-instru...
to get an idea of its OCR + QA abilities
If you really want to learn programming.

1. Buy SICP and put it on your book shelf.

2. Don't read it, instead read random StackOverflow posts talking about the content.

3. Spend the next 10-50 years trying to understand what people are talking about on various related forums.

4. Add more legendary books to your shelf over these 10 years, like The Art of Computer Programming. Fawn over their greatness. DON'T READ THEM.

5. Go on long walks, take spirit journeys to harsh natural locations, put your life in danger while you meditate on the concepts.

6. Blog profusely about your experiences.

7. Optional: actually write code.
July 11 punishment announcement

They can give him up to 4 years for each felony. 4 * 34 is 136 years in jail
Did the person use Lacinia? https://lacinia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
I had a vaguely similar (but way less threatening) situation years ago. Fortunately Brandy alerted me to Mike’s awareness and anger, and gave me his number.

I blocked it immediately. So he might have texted me a bunch of angry stuff. I’ve no idea. I never saw it.

Block him. He’ll get bored. I wish you the best, it’s not nice.
Especially now, there's warehouses full of them. If you're comfortable bargaining you can even get them cheaper since demand isn't that high. Delivery might be a reach, but they'll often do it for $20-$40 if they have a delivery near you.
I don’t know extent of your injuries, but weight exercises fixed back pain for me. You can’t seat in the good posture if there are no muscles to hold it.
OpenAI was also designed to avoid those mistakes, until people started seeing dollar signs. I am not sure that laws can be made to outlaw human nature (greed being an inalienable part of it). And even if they were, I am not sure they could be adequately enforced.
Does anyone know of what exactly does the openbsd support consist?
Always call. Make the pain as expensive as possible for them.
A related concept that IMO still aligns with DRY is that you should only avoid seeming code duplication when things are _semantically_ the same. No matter the mechanism (codegen, generics, macros, inheritance, ...), if you can't give a concept a meaningful [0] name then you usually shouldn't DRY it up with any mechanism. Your example is a technique I also use a lot, but the critical point is that you're choosing to break out functionality which _is_ easy to name.

[0a] More generally, I like a concept of "total" functions -- those which have sensible outputs for all their inputs. It's a bit of a tomayto/tomahto situation defining "all their inputs" (e.g., I'm personally okay using a function name like `unsafe_foo` and expecting a person to read the docs, and on the other extreme some people want sensible answers to anything the type system allows you to input), but the desired end-state is that when the project's requirements change you don't muck around with the ABI and implementation of `count_or_maybe_sort_for_these_three_special_customers_or_else_hit_the_db(...)`, or whatever much more generic and very wrong name the method actually has; the individual components are already correct, so you make the changes at the few methods which are actually wrong given the new requirements.

[0b] Another way of thinking about it is whether the two things should always change in tandem. For two largely overlapping beaucratic data formats? Maybe; there's a comment somewhere in this chain suggesting that they'll never go out of sync, but I'm a bit paranoid of that sort of thing. For the particular data structures that are currently shared by those formats? Absolutely not; if one diverges then you can build the new structure and link it in. The old structure is still valid in its own right.
The comment (what I said would make a great tweet) is autological (as in it defines itself). The intrinsic irony is that the author is also unaware therefore proving its own example. The reader who takes it at face value would be similarly unaware.

In other words, the comment is a construct of that definition; And a demonstration of the fallacy of opinion.
Why do you say that? Command economies arent exactly known for being free from personal dealing either
https://web.archive.org/web/20240530221938/https://review.fi...

(Reason: A surprisingly browser-hostile site that requires Javascript to show anything - it's ultimately only a text website.)
It depends. My best managers have been engineers. You generally don't need a full time engineering manager for a small 4 person team. If you do, your org is probably dysfunctional.

I will say though, if you're going to do both, do a good job, meaning one you'd expect of your reports. Don't be a manager that hands off his half-working project "to take it over the line." Finish your work.
Don't think anyone has mentioned https://web3forms.com/ which normally means there's a good reason not to... Anyone advise against it?
If only Satya Nadella would dogfood the OOTB experience of Windows 11 and not whatever his IT departments set up for him, he'd probably throw his laptop out the window and fire half the Windows managers.
Use python to build things. Make sure you can deploy them to AWS and actually use them.

Use c to build some very minor things, so you can get a better feel for how memory works.

Don't build any mobile apps, you'll go down a rabbit hole. Don't worry about algorithms or any theoretical books for at least a year.
> he could receive probation instead

Probation of what exactly?

Bedtime curfew of 11pm and no Milk and Cookies before bed?
Don’t forget those towers covers the vast majority of US population with high speed connectivity, where Starlink only has ~1 million US customers 1/300th the population. Those ratios aren’t that off in terms of customers per unit, but the problem with scaling satellites is they don’t stay in one location.

You can’t just put 50 satellites next to each other over a suburb and call it a day you need a ring(s) of satellites circling the entire globe to reach whatever your target density is along their full orbit. Unfortunately, most land has really low density North Dakota only averages 11 people per square mile, while Florida a mostly empty state sits at 422.

Target 10 people per square mile (adjusting for household size and rates percentage of people signing up) and just about all your satellites are useful across the entire US.

But Pick 100 people per square mile 90% of your time over North Dakota is wasted. Worse large chunks of Florida are also nearly empty as most of its population is along the coastline in places like Sweetwater where 8,800 people per square mile live. So your wasteful 100 people per square mile in ND still only covers a small fraction of the population in Florida.

Cellular is the reverse the first 10k towers are largely “dead weight” that cover few people per tower, but the rest of the 130k are really useful because you optimize locations for density. Swap that to satellites initially the constellation has very high utilization, but the ratio keeps getting worse as you add more satellites.

PS: Starlink could try to vary speeds or prices more based on density, but people really want predictable results for their money.
So wait, I’m supposed to just let my kids go to school, where there are how many shootings a year, with no way to contact them?

Not an icebergs chance in hell I’d let that happen.
Here's the thing: the technology will get faster and better.

Your average driver is already at the limits of human capabilities with no room for improvement unless they go train to drive like F1 racers. So comparing humans to the current state of tech seems silly given that the tech will assuredly one day be faster than a human.
I've been thinking since "business" usually drives direction of engineering efforts, what metrics could be applied to those in such positions?

Are the quality of those decisions evaluated, as measured by their costs and outcomes?
The absolutely most fundamental thing to master is to read books about the concepts, practices, histories and philosophies of the craft.

It's become very popular to learn how to assemble code by following step-by-step tutorials and watching YouTube demonstrations. It does get the job done for a lot of people, but it usually doesn't develop very strong or deep foundational knowledge. As a result, people who don't make a point to leave that world generally end up stuck under a low skill ceiling.

So whatever suggestions you find in other replies here, favor books (and perhaps deep courses) over anything more shallow. And among those books, favor those that are heavy on prose and explain things over those that just guide you through doing things. And then when you get the books, sit down with them and really work through them.
> that's about a company a day.

That doesn't really seem too hard to stay on top of. Might not be able to rattle them off later, but even spending 10 minutes looking into the investment of the day should be able to expose really obvious conflicts of interest.
I echo others: follow your nose. Build things. Find an open source project that interests you, pick a low hanging bug, fix it. Do it again. Work on harder issues. Try implementing a requested feature.

Start a greenfield project. Something that isn’t huge in scope. A basic text editor, a mini redis clone, an asteroids game. Try something harder for your next project.

Theory-wise I think type theory is a good start. Along with with Software Abstractions; a great book on the design of software systems using formal methods. And a book or two on data structures and algorithms. Discrete maths essentially and combinatorics. That will get you far.
How is this an exception? Bullseye Deals is an independent company, and there is a middleman (Liquidity Services, Inc) between them and Target.

From the article:

> Bullseye Deals technically falls into this latter category, though it is branded in a way that at least hints at it being associated with Target. Sources tell Modern Retail that all the listings are salvage merchandise from Target that’s been purchased by the reverse supply chain services company Liquidity Services, Inc.

> A Target spokesperson confirmed to Modern Retail that the company that runs the Bullseye Deals account does buy salvage merchandise from Target and sells it. Liquidity Services, Inc. did not respond to a request for comment.
It is extremely not common, lol.

I’ve done startups myself and it’s not common in any contracts I’ve signed nor have my coworkers. If it was, we all wouldn’t be able to start our own companies.
I'm not a fan of them using our data to train their AI, with very obscure opt-out procedures.

Not unexpected but just what you'd expect.

But I haven't used Facebook for about a decade, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Said the human worker just before he was fired, never to be heard from again. Meanwhile, the code kept working correctly for the next ten years.