skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netgear's first wifi 7 router purports to be capable of up to 19Gb/s. Yeah, real world will see less, but it's likely it'll be able to make use of a 5Gbit internet connection, especially sharing that connectivity across a home or business with existing MU-MIMO & OFDMA, and new Multi-Link Operations (MLO).

It does definitely occur to me that the future of home connectivity might not be based on wires. (In fact it seems likely: eventually optical will eat the data-center market almost whole as it's power efficiency/bit scales & as signal integrity challenges ges bloom. And then it will probably down-market itself.) The wifi available today is much faster than most home networks, and is often easier to deploy.

The case for why we want faster speeds is less clear. First, I take issue with fixating on internet service speeds. I don't intend to upgrade past the affordable 300Mbit fiber I have now, for cost reasons. But I love faster home networks! For a while I was running 40Gb infiniband!

Personally I really enjoy being able to do really fast backups, or having sizable RAW photos that load at near-local speeds. If connectivity is good enough, we can consider downscaling the storage on individual systems & relying more on network. I also really dig game-streaming (via moonlight+sunshine) around the home; more throughout translates to lower latency & lets me raise settings.

You rated a 4k stream as 25Mbps, but for a 144Hz 36-bit color game, I definitely want much much much more than that. For watching even a 24fps movie, I still want much more than that (although that seems to be what many steaming services offer).
I'm Not Switching to Linux
Yeah, I think that 2nd point is really critical; I'm pretty plugged into this space, and its really not obvious to me what "safety" even means in the context of a superintelligence. Is it just, e.g., "filtering the AI so it never tells users how to build nukes"? Is it more of a firewall to stop sentient process/VM/computer escape [1]? Its a redundant question with no answer because we don't even know what the threat from superintelligence is; how can we build safety systems for a threat that doesn't exist, a threat which people can't even agree on the structure of?

The pdoomers have a generally great point that, if superintelligence kills us (they'd say "when", not "if"), we won't be able to predict the mechanism of doom. It'd be like asking ants to predict that the borax they're carrying back to the hive for their queen to feast on will disrupt their digestion and kill them.

I'd also argue that the biggest threat from ASI is what I've heard Roman Yampolskiy label as "ikigai-doom"; that AI could become so much better than humans at all the things humans do, that even in the best case humanity is left with no purpose, not even to pursue creativity because the AI will be so much better at even creative acts; and in the worst case, our government and societal structure can't adapt and millions become unemployed. There's no way to build a safety mechanism against this threat because the threat is intrinsic to all the good things ASI will give us. The only winning move is to not play.

[1] https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Blackwall
Ah - so you don't ever express a join in the language - they're completely abstracted away from the user and resolved at runtime based on the bound tables in the semantic model. The 'hello world' and demo examples with multi-tables will demonstrate how this resolution happens.

Re: the structure - yeah, it's a lot of CTEs right now as that's the easiest way to guarantee correctness - I want to implement a optimization pass that will do some consolidation + predicate pushdown, but it's a balance with readability.
https://rjofutures.rjobrien.com/futures-trading-resources/gl...

Futures are technically different than forward contracts... the former is public the latter is private.

But a lot of the people doing cash forwards, trade futures on the same products, and call and put options on those futures.

Then add actual insurance in on top of all that...

There are farms that look more like Wall Street Banks with how cover and leverage.
Are you doing it one on one or in a classroom setting? In former, I imagine the success rates would be higher.
Again with the emails and how custom components aren’t proven in the browser’s accessibility tree
> What exactly is "safe" in this context, can someone give me an eli5?

In practice it essentially means the same thing as for most other AI companies - censored, restricted, and developed in secret so that "bad" people can't use it for "unsafe" things.
Congrats on adding a project supposedly using an LLM to you resume, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful. "fox" and "beta" both led to a small shake, which as a user I would think indicates they are not words in the English language.
"Flowery" returned a definition of: "full of, re­sem­bling, or smelling of flow­ers—e.g., a flow­ery meadow, flow­ery wall­pa­per"

This app appears to be a limited but somewhat artsy front-end for an (incomplete) dictionary
very cool concepts. are you taking a modern approch to security? e.g. making everything nice and auditable / traceable etc.? (thinking about EDR etc. here). Am working on annOS myself around that premise, though admitedly its my first real program and likely will perform like a big turd :D. Just curious on your take on this when desinging a new OS in these times.
So, it will definitely _load_
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. – Margaret Thatcher
PysonDB: A Simple, Lightweight, Efficent JSON Based DataBase for Python
I think you're partially right. But the "smartest" of us probably have a combination of high pain sensitivity (motivated to solve the problem) and high pain tolerance (won't give up until they do).
If you had a superintelligence it could basically manipulate people so even if you don't connect it to the internet it could try to further its goal. There is also a chance that their goals are not the same as ours.

So we need a way to discern intent from AGI and higher and the ability to align the goals.

With that said I'm not sure if we ever get to them being self driven and having goals.
Seeing as it is (after a quick google) an American holiday, the answer is, unsurprisingly, no.
The battle for George Orwell's soul
The current intelligences of the world (us) have organized their civilization in a way that the conforming members of society are the norm and criminals the outcasts. Certainly not a perfect system, but something along those lines for the most part.

I like to think AGIs will decide to do that too.
That sort of environment is an artifact of a new technical domain, not unique to programming or because of any characteristics unique to it.

At different times for example it was typical for a doctor, architect, or pilot to be an informally educated enthusiast. As programming has matured into a broadly relevant and economically important domain, the dynamics of who does it and how they learn it change, as it also did in those other fields.

You can lament the change but it's never coming back.
This is really cool and I’d actually love to have it.

The main issue with it — aside from the limited market; how many houses are big enough to justify the cost, and how many of those are new construction or to-the-studs remodeled in any given year? — will be reliability over time. Central vac systems eventually fail and generally homeowners find it simpler to buy a normal vacuum than to fix the system.

Now this seems like a job for semi-autonomous robots.
You're not old or grumpy, you're just stating the quiet part out loud. It's the same game, but now with 100% more AI.
In my area, internet and energy are insanely expensive and that means I'm not at all willing to share my precious bandwidth or compute just to subsidize someone generating Rule 34 porn of their favorite anime character.

I don't seed torrents for the same reason. If I lived in South Korea or somewhere that bandwidth was dirt cheap, then maybe.
Well it doesn't help that the stack trace often doesn't follow anything but its own convention, much less the conventions of a basic English sentence. The fact you have to learn to read an error message is damning for whoever thought this would be a good error message, honestly.
From the FAQ:

> Are there any restrictions on the types of events I can create?

> Radius is open to a wide range of events, from small community gatherings to large-scale conferences. However, we do have guidelines to ensure all events meet our community standards and are appropriate for our audience.

The guidelines are neither linked from this answer nor are present in the Terms page. I’m not sure how a potential user would decide if their content is acceptable or brig group will suddenly vanish due to these unseen guidelines.

I couldn’t see anything about content moderation and related policies either.
I’m not sure how Google and Meta placing massive AI visibility in their everyday user interfaces isn’t staking reputation.
I think you just need to rethink your feedback cadence
Yeah, for learning that's good. But for novel research, not so much. I do a lot of what I always call "fast math on a computer" because that was a by product of me writing my own tools to solve problems in grad school. I didn't have numpy and only very limited BLAS optimizations existed at the time, so I had to write lots of low level stuff. But the actual novel work was pretty small on top of that.

In my grandparent post I mentioned that I could redo my PhD thesis in about a week of work. Much of that is that I know where the dead ends lie now. But a lot is also that I could just take advantage of numpy and I could just write everything in vector math now and not need to code up my own linear algebra stuff.
> Programming is easy. Putting a bunch of black-boxes together in order to build some app or whatever is much, much harder and more complex

This is why I think those low-level "invert a binary tree" and "find a substring in a string" questions are not really that great if you're trying to find someone to actually build an application. Many more people know how to invert a binary tree than know how to go from an empty text file to a non-trivial mobile app distributed in an App Store.

This is why I like high level design questions like: "Design an application that takes a user's GPS location, draws it on a map, and shows the 10 nearest restaurants." I'm not expecting them to open up their IDE and start coding. I want to see someone who can draw boxes and lines connecting them, and write the right words in those boxes. I want them to show which of those lines are network calls, which of them are IPC, and which of them are API calls within the actual app. Which of them are provided by the operating system and which of them will they need to write themselves? Then show what one of those lines might look like as an API. I don't care if they know the exact code that should be in those boxes. I want to know they are thinking sensibly about how everything fits together.
Lambda/Austen certainly were capable of controlling whether or not they lied to prospective students about their job placement statistics.
The debate about GUI vs code solutions has raged for decades, generating more heat than light. I've tried to give a summary of the pros and cons of the 2 approaches here:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2024/01/16/visual-vs-text-bas...

TLDR: Best depends on the situation and the people involved. Given the wide range of both situations and people, I think there are is plenty of room for both approaches.
But wouldn't the focus on "safety first" sort of preclude them from giving their researchers the unfettered right to publish their work however and whenever they see fit? Isn't the idea to basically try to solve the problems in secret and only release things when they have high confidence in the safety properties?

If I were a researcher, I think I'd care more about ensuring that I get credit for any important theoretical discoveries I make. This is something that LeCun is constantly stressing and I think people underestimate this drive. Of course, there might be enough researchers today who are sufficiently scared of bad AI safety outcomes that they're willing to subordinate their own ego and professional drive to the "greater good" of society (at least in their own mind).
I know it is a difficult subject but whichever country gets access to this superintelligence will certainly use it for "safety" reasons. Sutskever has lived in israel and now has a team there , but israel doesnt strike me as a state that can be trusted with the safety of the world. (many of the AI business leaders are of jewish descent, but not sure if they have half their team there).

US on the other hand is a known quantity when it comes to policing the world.

Ultimately the only safe AI is going to be the open one, and it will probably have a stupid name
My colleague had FNU on his US visa (and hence on his driving license as well)
https://citizenpath.com/faq/fnu-first-name-unknown/

So it was like FNU Raj (if his name was Raj - it wasn't)
> modern OSes

Like NT? It is in fact the UNIX-likes that are compelled into a fairly ancient stream-of-bytes model; NT (and Windows atop it) understands that data needs to have structure, and imposes structure on that data at an OS level; everything is a manipulable handle, rather than an opaque block of memory to be written to/read from, arbitrarily.
Interesting, haven't seen mention of that aspect of enterprise ssds at all.
You can do it with two calls to splice
They will be able to pay their researchers the same way every other startup in the space is doing it – by raising an absurd amount of money.
If everyone is creating AGI, another AI company will just create another AGI. There is no such thing as SAFE AGI.

I feel like this 'safe' word is another word for censorship. Like google search results have become censored.
Open source LibreChat offers more than just extra LLMs
Curious Marc[1] works on a lot of old HP test equipment, and he’s also a Silicon Valley native, frequent contributor to the Computer History Museum, and his channel features an HN regular, Ken Shirriff, who can reverse engineer everything from vintage Russian Soyuz components to uncapped IC packages.

1. https://youtube.com/@curiousmarc?si=pHOewmmWbDDmSSZb
It was a code school. Not lambda but a comparable curriculum & setting.
Or: "Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king." - Tywin Lannister
Get in touch if you want to extend this to other languages! I have a locally-hosted stack that does a very similar thing for Finnish, taking a few cues from the academic literature on how to build high-quality exposure to words.
> compensation packages that truly gifted AI researchers can make now

I guess it depends on your definition of "truly gifted" but, working in this space, I've found that there is very little correlation between comp and quality of AI research. There's absolutely some brilliant people working for big names and making serious money, there's also plenty of really talented people working for smaller startups doing incredible work but getting paid less, academics making very little, and even the occasional "hobbyist" making nothing and churning out great work while hiding behind an anime girl avatar.

OpenAI clearly has some talented people, but there's also a bunch of the typical "TC optimization" crowd in there these days. The fact that so many were willing to resign with sama if necessary appears largely because they were more concerned with losing their nice compensation packages than any of their obsession with doing top tier research.
I’m curious if the downvote was calling us all NPCs or the entire joke being not funny. I know we all try to be serious and contribute to the conversation here but come on it’s funny, no?!
Unless you know something I don’t, that’s not the case. It also makes sense, engineers are far more portable and scarcity isn’t an issue (many ML PhDs find engineering positions).
He's not going to recognize the pattern on his own, no matter how obvious it is to you. You will do him a disservice if you don't pull him aside one day and say, hey I noticed you have a blind spot, and I need to point it out to you because it's going to be a limiter for your career unless you learn to deal with it.
I can read the numbers upside down, I just don't want to and I find it silly that these manufacturers took several years to notice and decide to fix a basic fit-and-finish issue that probably affected 90% of their customer base. Like, how on Earth was this not caught during the prototype phase?
Show HN: I made the world's first bilingual job board
I really don't understand why people give names like this. I understand how they happen when you're trying to force a name into a naming convention that isn't the one it comes from, but why start your kid out that way?

Near-miss: the poet William Carlos Williams.
That might be offset by the costs of servicing the loan used to buy it. I think I recall the interest on that is something like a billion dollars a year.
> ReactOS must take the record for software with the longest gestation in history

I think that would be Project Xanadu, started in (depending upon what you consider as "starting") in 1961 or 1965.
As a company, I much rather not deal with passwords, MFA, and password/MFA-reset procedures. That costs money to develop and maintain.

Storing ClientID and ClientSecret for OpenID, or some keys for SAML per customer is much easier, and a lot less risky.

After all, I'm in the business of solving (insert SaaS problem), not in the business of solving authentication.
Ahh windows. It's the Honda Civic of operating systems.

Articles like this remind me of the old civic's... rims, stereo and an engine that burns enough oil that you just added a quart when you added gas.
I keep pulling up one of my favorite bits on this attitude http://www.cs.uni.edu/%7Ewallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26209541

> ...

> But I had enjoyed working on the hard projects I'd encountered in my programing class back in high school. They were challenges I wanted to overcome. I changed my major and dove into college CS courses, which were full of hard problems -- but hard problems that I wanted to solve. I didn't mind being frustrated for an entire semester one year, working in assembly language and JCL, because I wanted to solve the puzzles.

> Maybe this is what people mean when they tell us to "find our passion", but that phrase seems pretty abstract to me. Maybe instead we should encourage people to find the hard problems they like to work on. Which problems do you want to keep working on, even when they turn out to be harder than you expected? Which kinds of frustration do you enjoy, or at least are willing to endure while you figure things out? Answers to these very practical questions might help you find a place where you can build an interesting and rewarding life.

> ...

... And there's also Programming Sucks ( https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks ) which takes a rather hyperbolic style of writing on the subject.

The penultimate part of it is:

> Eventually every programmer wakes up and before they're fully conscious they see their whole world and every relationship in it as chunks of code, and they trade stories about it as if sleepiness triggering acid trips is a normal thing that happens to people. This is a world where people eschew sex to write a programming language for orangutans. All programmers are forcing their brains to do things brains were never meant to do in a situation they can never make better, ten to fifteen hours a day, five to seven days a week, and every one of them is slowly going mad.
> It was the force of nature that turned my life on the right path.

In what way was it a force of nature, vs just a bootcamp where you applied yourself?

Is there something in the instruction Lambda offered vs other bootcamps?
Turn Packets into Queryable Data
I think it usually comes down to Angular vs React for most legitimate decisions for longer term, maintained projects. I prefer Angular because all the major modules are built-in and you know what to expect when you open a new project. React reminds me of PHP sometimes because you never know what you're walking into. And two different React projects can look drastically different.
Ask HN: Anyone else private information get sold by namecheap?
I have domains purchased through namecheap with privacy turned on for .com. .ca domains are private no matter what. And yet I'm having call centers call me. I asked where they got the information from, and they said namecheap.

They didn't work for namecheap.

Do I have any legal recourse or am I screwed.
Russia wanted to join nato, but nato wouldn't let them. Why would N korea even try then?
Probably the best thing he could do.
Three-bedroom tiny house sleeps a family of five under one small roof
That's not a complete solution. For instance, it assumes that each canvas pixel corresponds to a single logical pixel, and that each logical pixel corresponds to a single physical pixel. There are a number of reasons that might not be true.
Wait’ll you find out the same company that makes the PCBs will also source the parts and do the soldering for you, as well as 3D print the case — all in quantity 2 and up! All for incredibly cheap, and 6-day turnaround to your (west coast US) door. It’s a golden age for random hardware hacking. (Check out JLCPCB and PCBWay.)
A rare example of a naturally occurring left-skewed distribution.
Incredible website design, I hope they keep the theme. With so many AI startups going with advanced WebGL/ThreeJS wacky overwhelming animated website designs, the simplicity here is a stark contrast.
The round displays are so cool

Uses an FPGA lol damn that's hardcore
I think he literally just demonstrated the problem you were trying to illustrate about software provers
Texas averages 36 inches of rain and 2 inches of snow each year. Ohio gets 40 inches of rain and 28 inches of snow.
Isn't the binary tree question more of a "low-pass filter"? As in, if someone can't even do that, they don't get as far as the interview where you talk about architecture and other cool things?
Backprop is neither commutative nor associative.
I don't really think the primary value of a bootcamp is teaching you anything you couldn't learn on your own, but that it pushes you into a structured environment with other like-minded people to interact with and mentorship from experienced developers.
Ilya the grifter? That’s a take I didn’t expect to see here.
Thoughtful of them to refer to "NT architecture" as opposed to "NT Technology".
So far it is only people telling AI what to do. When we reach the day where it is common place for AI to tell people what to do then we are possibly in trouble.
Plenty of folks are sick of Meetup, so there should be a fertile audience. One question I would have before migrating an existing group is what your plans are for making this sustainable. People don't want to jump to a new platform that is great, only to find it migrate in the direction of the platform they've just left. On the other hand, people don't want to migrate to a platform that is going to go under because it's not financially sustainable.

If you can be transparent about what your goals are and what it will take you to get there, you'll probably find a lot more people willing to make the leap. I think of Garry Tan's Posthaven as a good model. [1]

1: https://posthaven.com/pledge
You can be a professional software developer without all the 'bro' stuff.

And there's certainly still space for people who are curious and intrinsically motivated if you think about the whole pie growing rather than just being cut up differently.
This is the opposite of click bait.
Well, try running numpy on apple metal.
lol, I guess sometimes the answer is keeping it simple..