skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that literature that requires work does not provide more food or insight into the human condition or a sense of wonder (or whichever benchmark you choose) than simpler and more accessible works. If complexity is not what makes the work valuable, what purpose does it serve? I posit that for some people complexity for the sake of complexity _is_ the appeal.
What’s wrong with .dev?
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Senior software/Devops engineer with 7 years of experience. I have worked on 'self-contained' teams, doing a mix of Devops/Software Development/production support in various industries (social media monitoring, investment banks, factories digitalization)

Currently looking to specialize on a more Devops/infrastructure role, hence looking for Platform Engineering, Devops or eventually SRE roles
It often makes a negative difference because bacteria in the soil produce a lot of co2.
> OpenAI taken when they were valued at <1Bn

Incorrect round
It can be inferred that the author is satisfied with that aspect of the transaction by their willingness to list things that they still felt unresolved at the end.

They either were paid and think it's nobody's business or weren't and have no ideological reason for making a stink. For what it's worth, I sympathize with people who feel shafted for their work by large companies, but think it is a little silly to go looking for it.
> Having a sane short interview with probationary hire costs way less productive time and gets people onboard fast.

That sounds like a ridiculous interview process which would filter me out from even applying. I'm not going to give up the job I already have and go through all the hassle that comes with a job change for the possibility of a new position.
I vastly prefer the ability to potentially infer the rough meaning of an unrecognized word, then the ability to pronounce it.

As an ESL CELTA certified teacher for years, their rubric also seems to back this up in order of relative importance: it's meaning, then form, then finally pronunciation.
The article has some great points but has an unfortunate title that has lead to an argument the author isn't making.

The cryptographic details about preventing confused deputy are excellent and worth studying.
I think another huge issue is the combination of general-purpose/multi-tenant computing, especially with virtualization in the mix, and cache. Improvements gained from masking memory latency by issuing instructions from more thread execution contexts are suddenly lost when each of those thread contexts is accessing a totally different part of memory and evicting the cache line that the next thread wanted anyway.

In many ways barrel processing and hyperthreading are remarkably similar to VLIW - they're two very different sides of the same coin. At the end of the day, both work well for situations where multiple simultaneous instruction streams need to access relatively small amounts of adjacent data. Realtime signal processing, dedicated databases, and gaming are obvious applications here, which I think is why VLIW has done so well in DSP and hyperthreading did well in gaming and databases. Once the simultaneous instruction streams are accessing completely disparate parts of main memory, it all blows up.

Plus, in a multi-tenant environment, the security issues inherent to sharing even more execution state context (and therefore side channels) between domains also become untenable fairly quickly.
Talon Voice – Scriptable hands-free input
We poets walk amongst you on HN also. Our poems aren’t very good, but then our code isn’t either ;)
Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River
The book is also in the film - joi offers to read it to k in their first scene I think. Another cool reference there is K’s ringtone is Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf which every soviet kid should recognize from their childhood
This is a weird take. For one, handing over data because someone in power told you too is the exact opposite of power tripping. It's pretty much the entire description of disempowering.

But secondly, the idea that anyone who actually has a say in if the data is turned over (the legal team, executives) give a flying fork about how a random sysadmin in their data center feels about it is wildly off base. The data is going out or not according to legals instructions. Either sysadmin Bob does it, or he takes a principled stand, gets fired, and Bob 2 takes care of it.
An interesting aspect of cancer survivability is the jump in cancer rates in the US right around age 65. The implication is people aren't being seen until they qualify for Medicare, pointing to preventative healthcare access problems.
Same
edit: actually it takes like 5+ minutes
You should absolutely give it a try, and maybe you'll have better luck than me, and it's a fun little experiment if nothing else.

If you get frustrated and don't want to do it anymore, you might also look at Docker Swarm. For homelab stuff, I found it considerably easier to work with. I'm not sure how well it would work with hundreds of services, but for a homelab I found it considerably less frustrating to deal with than K8s. It can still be useful to play with distributed systems and it's a bit more intro-friendly in my opinion.

It's something that I think most engineers should try at least once, if nothing else to learn firsthand the annoyances of distributed computing. It's easy to read about these things in textbooks and blog posts and university courses (and you should!), but at least for me these things didn't really sink in until had to fix broken stuff, or deal with weird heartbeat issues, or see things that should go N times faster actually go slower because I didn't take into account latency etc.
The question "How long have you been renting in Canada" implies that this is for Canadians only.
Is it possible to turn off AI Overview in Google Search? What we know
Every startup has one goal: to get big enough to pivot to financialization.
The reason for this is in the article:

> The reason for this bunching up of values near 1.0 is down to the non linear perspective divide.

The function in question is nonlinear. So using "normal" z, values in the range [0, 0.5] are going to be very, very close to the camera. The vast majority of things aren't going to be that close to the camera. Most typical distances are going to be in the [0.5, 1] range.

Hence, reversing that gives you more precision where it matters.
seems really interesting for fuzzing.
I interpreted the parent to mean that it might not be fair to assume existing package managers have done a _great_ job at downloading and verifying, especially verifying, resources from the network. There are businesses that exist attempting to solve this problem like socket.io. Safely installing the correct dependencies for a project is still not a guarantee from any of the major package managers.
They'll get rid of it eventually when it starts cutting into their ads revenue.

But for now, we have to suffer through someone's terrible idea to make it part of their homepage lol
There are quite a few bold claims just in the introductory chapter, but we should not discount the authors work because of it. Those are his opinions.

I personally don’t think LLMs can achieve reasoning, or any kind of innate awareness.
Powdderall? I thought everyone was doing amphetamines instead of cocaine these days.
This reminds me of a book I recently enjoyed: Lost in the Cosmos: the Last Self Help Book by novelist Walker Percy. One of his best questions was on "the problem of re-entry", i.e. how does one go from plumbing the very depths of existence/meaning back to the mundane of standing in line to buy groceries. How does one "re-enter" "normal life"? The book doesn't so much as answer the question as make the reader ponder it, but it does have an interlude on writers and their propensity toward alcohol (which, given his career as a novelist, one could say he has valid insight into).

WARNING: personal, non-verifiable theory about to be presented

When coming across modern writers I will often check their biography to see what odd-jobs they have had. I feel that modern man can become so insulated in modern life (e.g. spending an entire career in academia with, say, no hobbies that are grounded in actual life such as fishing, serious gardening, etc) that he can become very disconnected and overly "heady" or "abstract". As such, I often am glad to see when an artist or writer has some terribly mundane and tactile job on their resume. I know that as somebody drawn to the arts I have been incredibly thankful for my unplanned career in software as it has opened my eyes to many naive thoughts I had as to "how the world works".
For my home lab I started with k3s on VMs which I eventually migrated to a k3s with etcd for HA. I added Raspberry Pi nodes to force myself to deal with multi-architecture builds of my own code in Jenkins and deployments. Some of the Pi's have only wifi and some Ethernet so that got me into node affinity for deploying workloads. At some point I added some bare metal Intel machines to the mix. So now whether it's a Pi, VM, or bare metal machine all I need to do is a base OS install with ssh server, add it to my Ansible inventory and it will be up on my cluster in a few minutes.
It's a half truth; the truth is somewhere in the middle of this and another theory. I'm not an economist, but the start of my professional life was marred by the experience of 2008 so I spent a lot of my time reading about it.

A source from the other side of this equation: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heres-what-really-caused-housin...

In reality, there were a lot more sub-prime loans but only one of those lenders was actually expected to take on sub-prime loans. That's to say, taking on more sub-prime loans was a choice reflected in an ecosystem of incentives where profits were falling because a few lenders started a campaign to lower borrowing standards and the rest of the herd followed to stay afloat. What also happened was that lenders were essentially over weighting sub-prime loans into these packages and then using their relationships with the privately controlled ratings agencies to rate them the way that would be if they were filled with primes. If you read between the lines lenders found the solution to their profit problem and were trying to justify its stability post-hoc through package ratings. The reality is that sub-primes are highly profitable when they work out because they have high interest rates. When they don't they're not that expensive because generally the property is offloaded but this only works up to a magical threshold depending on a lot of risk variables. Once you go beyond that threshold and the dominos begin to fall, they all fall spectacularly. Risk traditionally should be leveled by packaging them with less risky loans.
Wonder what corpus this was trained on or what it sources from.
Speaking only my own experiences, my contract was ~2x what competitors were paying in the US. This was similar amongst the contractors I worked with, depending on seniority.
You seem stuck on this idea of intelligence, when you don't need "reasoning" to do any of this. You don't even need the LLM. You could just use object recognition and current robotics techniques. The LLM could just be the language interface for giving it instructions of where to patrol, what to observe.
Philip Larkin: librarian

Wasn't an odd job though, he had a pretty good career as I understand it
I am seeing it out there. I'm in the weeds everyday on r/SaaS talking to people.

People are scared and there is something really fishy going on in the tech labor market. It's like a big wave that's coming. Everyone says they're hiring and no one really is.

People are trying to scramble to build little businesses out of Notion templates and Wordpress themes and using ChatGPT the best they can. Everyone's got the green "Open to Work"

It's crazy!
Canada says online streaming services must hand over 5% of their revenues
90% feels like an overestimate to me but it's already quite poor, you wouldn't accept that for saving most other things. Another problem is highlighted in the piece - it's a hassle to ensure external tools handle session state and credentials. Dynamic content is poorly handled, the default behaviours are miserable (a browser will run random Javascript from the network but not Javascript you've saved, etc).

There's a lot of interest in 'digital preservation' and perhaps one sign of how it's very much early days of the field - it's tricky to 'just save' the results of one of the most basic current computer interactions - looking at a web page.
> 'Save the webpage as I see it in my browser' remains a surprisingly annoying and fiddly problem

You may be interested in SingleFile[1]

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

I use it all the time to archive webpages, and I imagine it wouldn't be hard to throw together a script to use FireFox's headless mode in combination with SingleFile to selfhost a clone of the wayback machine.
We will be starting out in Canada, and expand as we grow.
Python is chosen for data processing because it's one of the most popular languages in the world and it has a passable REPL (which is more than most languages) so you can use it for experimentation.

From the readme they describe it as "robust" and having a high level of type safety, so I'm guessing they're just leaning towards the "learn about bugs up before they hit production" end of the spectrum than you.

Then again I don't do any of this data engineering stuff so maybe it doesn't matter too much if it doesn't work reliably?
Specifically the David Bowie version from 1978
Oh this is fun - takes a second to wrap your head around, but the way the groups of letters fit into the grouped slots is a neat way to lead the player along into guessing the correct placement
OpenAI: Customizing File Search Settings
> not blindly recommending it to the public at large

What about a 1 on 1 consultation with a doctor makes you think the advice they give you is a blind recommendation?

The general advice knowing nothing about you is to get the flue shot. A doctor looking at you can tell if your BMI is over 40, but a poster/website etc can’t.

Thus the default is to recommend everyone get a flue shot while a Doctor may say you specifically have little need.
The author expanded on that later in the article, saying it was not quite right and doesn't always work, but it's a good analogy.
I think the core idea makes sense, but this article is quite difficult for me to parse and is extremely short on details or evidence. Would love to read a more thoroughly thought out piece on the topic.

What I am curious about is how we manage this as a society. The one thing I am sure won't happen is every tech worker becomes an expert ChatGPT wrapper in some niche. How could there possibly be enough of a market for everyone to survive doing that?
It is about the integrity of the performance. Pointing out risks is going off-message.
That may be the case, what I’m contesting is this distinction made between JS/Python and other languages.
Do homophones rhyme?
For anyone looking for an introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis that goes deeper than most videos but is still accessible to someone with a STEM degree I really enjoyed this video series [1] by zetamath.

I understood everything in Profesor Tao's OP up to the part about "controlling a key matrix of phases" so the videos must have taught me something!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVaSA_b938U&list=PLbaA3qJlbE...
If I understand correctly, you still can get Windows 10, which can be activated with local user: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

It is also more customizable in terms of disabling some (most?) spyware features using 3rd party tools. It's an effort, but I think your marriage is worth it.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

Did you try engineering resins, like Siraya Tech's "Build", "Sculpt", etc.?

I make some small parts that I FDM print, then CNC mill for accuracy. Was hoping to switch to resin printing, instead.
When apps show me ads I close them and do something else.
More Crowding, Fewer Babies: The Effects of Housing Density on Fertility
I've noticed that adding a colour can make it go from having a solution to not having a solution. Maybe it should try to come up with a solution using fewer colours in that case, since it's not obvious that manually removing a colour will lead to a solution.
Just to echo what you are saying, I've read the first chapter and I thought the thesis is interesting and the writing is good but I failed to be convinced becuase it makes a lot of classic mistakes you make in science. Even though logical arguments are being made there is no attempt not to overfit the data.

The author brings out a lot of stats "smart high-schooler", "effective compute", "OOM", "Test Scores", "inference efficiency" but doesn't do a good job of explaining how the author predicted these things before hand (preregistering) and how they actual will result in new technologies or how we can extrapolate past the trend line.

Also in the unhobbling section
"Tools: Imagine if humans weren’t allowed to use calculators or computers. We’re only at the beginning here, but ChatGPT can now use a web browser, run some code, and so on. "

This is so non-specific (because no one has really commercialized anything with this yet) that I worry that we don't actually know if we can make the kinds of effective tools the author is talking about. Would love some feedback on these critisms
I don't think that's really conclusive; surely they've taken it as far as they think they can in a reasonable amount of time, but (1) they've no real need to be secretive--why not share it as soon as there's a concrete result?, and (2) sometimes the inventor of a technique can be too used to the old way of thinking to use their new technique to its full potential, and it takes less experienced eyes on it.
For Want of a Relative Path
Why does it have to be completely worthless or completely dangerous? Where does this binary thinking come from? In my experience, almost nothing in the world is binary on a spectrum of "good" or "bad".
TIL the Fields medal is only awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eupAXdWPvX8&list=PLt5AfwLFPx...
Are you trying to get the TLS cert for domains you own, or are you getting certs for all other domains?

For the former, the Caddy ACME DNS plugin should work.

For the latter, I think mitmproxy or similar would handle the on demand TLS cert creation. There's commercial intercept proxies as well, but I have no experience with them.
Maybe that's why I never liked Batman. He always just happened to have the exact very specialized tool on his belt to escape whatever contrived setup the Joker trapped him.
Different vector widths for different cores isn't currently feasible, even with SVE.
So all cores would need to support 1024-bit SIMD.

I think it's reasonable for the non-SIMD focused cores to do so via splitting into multiple micro-ops or double/quadruple/whatever pumping.

I do think that would be an interesting design to experiment with.
framework 13 amd cpu. It's great!
Oh this is cool. I looked at using tmux before we built ht because I’ve used screen and tmux forever. I didn’t find libtmux though. Will def check it out.
Does the global average count where most people live, or does it average New York and Mexico City with rural Idaho and Bretagne?
also one funny thing is that the author mentions power constraints, but then doesn't calculate how many terraflops for example the us grid can produce etc.
Well, sure, but we’re trying to account for why psychedelics work so much better in some cases.
> Just keep the experts around.

This has always been a thing with small business, especially in the age of higher interest rates + rising wages + end of VC over-spending era.
The real step 1 is not trying to be good at anything and just doing it for the enjoyment

Attachment to outcome is very real and hold a lot of people back

For example I started getting really good at chess when I stopped caring how many rating points I lost or won today and completely forgot about ratings altogether
Another marketer marketing
> > Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat

I think this is the crux of all the other socio-economic superstructure arguments the article's author makes. The assertion is that Tolkien's fantasy world of wizards, wraiths, walking trees, dragons, invisibility rings, dwarves, elves, etc would have a realistic medieval material production culture.

In order to imagine an idealized/fantasy bucolic shire, wouldn't Tolkien just imagine soil that's more fertile and nutritional crops with higher yield? Would this be the furthest he asks the reader to stretch their imagination?
NanoDO: A minimal Transformer decoder-only language model implementation
Shatner moment?
bait --> marketing their product
But if you serialize the DOM as-is, you literally get what you see on the page when you archive it. Nothing about it is dynamic, and there is no sessions nor credentials to handle. Granted, it's a static copy of a specific single page.

If you need more than that, then WARC is probably the best. For my measly needs of just preserving exactly what I see, serializing the DOM and saving the result seems to do just fine.
And how much else was passed down orally in India? Not much. Imagine if all we had of ancient Greece were the Iliad and the Odyssey!
It's easy to think this way when the labor market is in a bad position. When there's inevitably an upswing in the economy, companies will hire like crazy again.
bddbddb: Using Datalog with Binary Decision Diagrams for Program Analysis [pdf]
My counterpoint: if your product is simply a ChatGPT wrapper, you have no moat. Whatever is complicated enough and is actually making money, and you feel the need to test it and make sure it keeps running, that's your moat, and that's what you're going to want to hire human help for once you actually make some money.
If the default list is the weak point, why not start empty and let users hide as they go? You keep the value of the extension without the extra maintenance.
Yeah, I feel similarly. It's an extreme over-generalization making a relatively intentionally proactive statement using very vague anecdata.
Yay, keep the argument based on this binary red vs blue mentality. It has has done wonders to civic debate in the last 20 years, and this "with us or against us" tribal thinking pairs perfectly with your call for more empathy, don't you think?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576018
In the meantime, I assume that you only want Canadians to answer the questionnaire, is that correct?

Either way, perhaps the intention should be made overt on the page...
Luzhin's Defense / The Defense / Zashchita Luzhina is awesome too.
I came up with it pretty quick this morning and posted it on LinkedIn.

It's just anecdotal evidence and what I'm seeing. I really am out there in the weeds solopreneur'ing and talking to people. You can check my reddit history

https://www.reddit.com/user/demofunjohn/

So it's just my experience. I didn't do any market research.

I think the fact that this post is resonating strong is testament to how people feel though
You might try some of the shorter ones. e.g. from the 19th century: Gogol's short stories, Dostoevsky's "The Double", Turgenev's "Fathers and Children". They weren't all baggy monsters!