skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Station keeping is for drag, which is the only thing the vast majority of satellites maneuver for.
A boss I can prompt inject to manipulate? That'd be like having jedi mind tricks IRL.
You are only calculating some sources. I'm sure other cloud venders like aws are part of the global datacenter spend. As well as many smaller private or government entities. OpenAI will continue to spend more taking a bigger percentage if supply remains flat.
GPT-4 is fine-tunable.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

“ Fine-tuning for GPT-4 is in an experimental access program - eligible users can request access in the fine-tuning UI when creating a new fine-tuning job.”

You need only have fine-tuned a 3.5 model ime.
Is that a shell script? Doesn’t seem to do anything on my linux server.
Nothing conclusive tho. More like - it's everywhere, some of it might be dangerous.
Why not go all out? Use -DUSERNAME=$USERNAME on the command line to pass in data? Define macros with parameters to affect rendering in complicated ways. Call cpp for every request to generate the html. Could be fun!
> declares URIs an outdated term for URLs

The term I would use is "a distinction without a difference", but they're not entirely wrong.
So what you're saying is, Google's own internal structural incompetence means they cannot be trusted with data of any type.

Huh!
Is there evidence that Broadcom sold those chips to the foundation for less than their own cost? That’s the claim I find a little strong. And I do understand that undercutting other nonprofit or small vendors might also be considered bad behavior, but it never sounded like there was a lot of demand for those particular chips (which were already on the edge of obsolescence, and were even in the process of being abandoned by Debian).
Wikipedia has the same problem that the DMV has.
Working there is extremely low status, so the workers take out their pathologies on everyone and everything around them. There is no incentive to professionalize the service, because you'd need to pay professionals.
Huh, my city has already approved rate increases for the next 5 years! (it has increased every year forever...)
As long as I could use AI to perform the job, yes.
You would need both. RAG will have to be part of the process if you want to generate or work on an existing project. Since it stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. A fancy way of saying an LLM can access documents.
Probably some developer still has a stack of floppy disks with the source code on it. Issue is, they aren’t supposed to, do they want to risk getting in legal trouble with their former employer over it?
Some bosses are so brain-dead it could be an improvement.
FAA investigates after Southwest plane drops to 'within 400ft' of Pacific Ocean
We had a developer meeting to discuss what should go into 2.0 in April 2023: https://github.com/numpy/archive/tree/main/2.0_developer_mee...
IIRC the earliest version of the C++ language, before a C++ compiler existed, was implemented with C and the M4 preprocessor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
They make people into slaves. I’d be extremely happy when Facebook gets shutdown.
It's unlikely this will ever be made public. It's probably just there for organizational reasons, just like UIKit got made an umbrella framework for UIKitCore a while back.
Quick IT lesson:

Muro means wall

Muratore means wall builder (-atore means doer)

Muratori means wall builders (male plural )
Speaking as someone who edits frequently, the "social structure of capitalism" argument is a bad way to put it, but the general point that employees/leadership aren't reliable sources is true.

Virtually every company has a direct financial incentive to prevent negative information about them from spreading widely and to add positive information of dubious relevance.

The way Wikipedia deals with this is the policy commonly abbreviated as WP:ABOUTSELF [1], which allows to cite companies for information about themselves in the following situations.

> Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities, without the self-published source requirement that they are established experts in the field, so long as:

>> The material is neither unduly self-serving nor an exceptional claim;
>> It does not involve claims about third parties;
>> It does not involve claims about events not directly related to the source;
>> There is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity; and
>> The article is not based primarily on such sources.

If you want to "begin to argue with someone who holds an opinion like this", the first step is probably to clarify what the policy really is. Personally, I think this is a fair compromise between a maximalist approach (anything influenced by capitalism = bad) and the idea that companies are 100% authoritative on their own history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-p...
Excessive paranoia? The photos and pictures indicate it was a crypto mining facility.
After 8 hours of downtime, I have already been back up some other place, some other way, in some other fashion, for 6 hours already.

There is no excusable way to explain being down for 8 days no matter WHAT any service provider does. How do you even explain the 2nd day let alone the 8th! Holy cow.
That's exactly what I remember. I did a few LSCs; one I used Rosie just to see how it worked (I recall wanting to use it for all my CLs because it submits after someone clicks approve and the tests pass), but most of the time it was easier to find a global approver and submit the whole thing atomically.
What's wrong with

for try await line in file.lines

?
Just don't ask him about transputer CPU and canal paths
Successfully carrying out even 1/3 of this list would scare off competent contributors who weren't completely desperate for a job.

The article kind of missed that detail, but this form of sabotage doesn't even need to be that effective to deeply sabotage the organization/product, it just has to be bad enough to scare off good talent and keep turnover high. The stuff in the "hiring" section makes it even worse by preventing good people from even getting in the door in the first place, but eventually a company like this would be scraping the bottom of the barrel for candidates even without deliberately bad hiring practices.
Yes - Anyone who's FAQ answer to "How to avoid being scanned" is "We don't have an opt-out, you must block all these addresses" isn't behaving like a legit business.

"Nice network you've got there."

"We noticed something might be open. We're not telling you what it is."

"It would be a pity if something happened to your business."

"Give us lots of money."

Sounds like a movie strong-arm thug.
Changing a mean reversion strategy to deliver 30% annual returns since 1999
When training a large model you're doing a single forward pass + backprop over multiple Infiniband-connected nodes for a single model instance, so if one node goes down it takes a logical unit of nodes down with it. For reference, GPT-4 was rumored to be around 1.7T, and doing some back-of-the-hand math[1], that's like 500-700 H100 GPUs per model instance, which means you need a multiple of that for any training parallelism whatsoever.

[1] back-of-the-hand-math:
1.7T * 4 bytes = 6.8 TB;
3-4x that for activation + gradients = 27.2 TB;
27.2TB / (80GB / H100) = 349 H100s;
1.5-2x conservative multiplier accounting for not fully using node resources + memory overhead in the machine = ~500-700 H100s.

truly insane numbers.
I’d put $year: ERR_REQUIRE_ESM require of ES module strip-ansi not supported, cause people should know that it’s 202x and we are still practically almost already there.
> Imitators can’t answer questions at a deeper level. Specific knowledge is earned, not learned, so imitators don’t fully understand the ideas they’re talking about. Their knowledge is shallow. As a result, when you ask about details, first principles, or nonstandard cases, they don’t have good answers.

Uh, or they just don't have answers to things off hand.

A college professor who lectures every semester multiple times about something is very good at reproducing knowledge and fielding questions on that knowledge.

However, someone whose expertise is largely procedural will have difficulty fielding answers to "deep questions".
In full transparency, we are not formally structured as a coop, the US makes that annoying... We are structured for maximum protection, but operate under a coop operating agreement.
Interesting that the new string library mirrors the introduction of variable-length string arrays in Matlab in 2016 (https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/string.html).
It's fine, not quite great. It does autocomplete and jump to definition, but some stuff (e.g. refactoring) isn't implemented yet.
Given how many language families there are in Africa and how wide the sound gamut is between them I bet there's a close phonetic counterpart to any language somewhere in Africa.
Outside of your usual customer service chat bots I haven’t seen very many real genai applications in enterprises. I led a team that put one in prod that was pretty basic RAG over a knowledge base to answer questions for about 100 specialists internal to my employer. The knowledge base had to be so refined and the system prompt so tuned that any additional content added would blow it up.

There was another bot that popped up in our firm meant to answer questions about corporate policy. I’m guessing that team did something similar but over our policy docs. It vanished about 3 months of being online. It probably gave a bad answer and someone called it out to legal.

I’m curious if anyone else has seen a real application in an enterprise worthy of the hype.
in my opinion i expect a vocational institute to teach the practical aspects of the industry, or at least be taught as part of OJT. And I believe many companies actually do provide a significant amount of OJT as part of their management traineeships or apprenticeships, and companies that take in employees earlier in their educational journey, such as pre-college apprenticeships, tend to focus on practical and technical knowledge more quickly.

at the college level, i don't really think these are meaningful questions to ask in order to test understanding. these feel like something you'd pick up after a week of working a trade financing desk in a industrial bank.
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684560

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40691312

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40668504
Fonts are a funny thing. Like recipes they were often cloned, some companies sold sets. I bought a Mac clone and it came with a cd of fonts from “bitstream”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Inc

“The company received extensive criticism for its strategy of cheaply offering digitisations of pre-existing typefaces that it had not designed. While technically not illegal, font designer John Hudson would describe its selling of large numbers of typefaces on CD at discount prices as "one of the worst instances of piracy in the history of type".

Like a lot of font foundries, monotype ended up buying that one.
Lots of positive comments here that are mostly correct, but I will say that if you're working with more junior or just less technically passionate people, Starlark is a lot for them to wrap their heads around. "Python, but not", no Starlark.exe (always hosted in different exes that provide different functionality), poor editor highlighting/intellisense, and the concept of writing configuration in the same language which interprets that configuration are all hurdles that I've found some have difficulty with. DSLs encoded in yaml and JSON have a lot of the same problems, but I still get a lot of feedback that Starlark feels more complicated.
Except when there's a financial incentive. Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by greed.

Not sure if there's a name attached to this counter-principle, but it's just as important as the original in my opinion.
That's the standard library. From a quick search, I get zero relevant matches on their account for "runtime", "compiler", "interpreter", or "editor".

Looking over https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/extending/overview.ht... I see a few references to contributing to their libraries, but nothing about compiling the language core itself. And even then, their library distribution mechanism seems to be NuGet, with all of its binary-first warts.
That’s a cost on a renewables installation though, it doesn’t need to be loaded on the batteries. You aren’t installing bare solar panels either.
orders of magnitude
Most server code Apple writes is Java. They are slowly trying out Swift, but it's not really correct to say that all new code is Swift.
Helpfully, you can debate between "gofmt", "gofmt -s" and "gofumpt".

I actually like how gofumpt formats stuff but ... nobody else on the team would have it, so it would make things worse.
I guess it's possible

Maybe I'm just jaded from being in Seattle too long where "200k over asking despite already high prices" has been a regular thing for like... 10+ years?
> And in the first hour of their first class they were already doing symbolic differentiation in scheme.

People heavily trained in maths can take quickly to languages designed to make programming look like maths, that's hardly a surprise.

I wouldn't base my assumptions about what most people find natural on the experience of MIT students taking 6.001 in 1980.

(Not to mention, 'doing' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. I could show you a intricate sentence in French in the first hour of your first French class, but unless you came up with it yourself, are you demonstrating much learning just yet?)
"Everyone" at top is also developing their own chips for inference and providing APIs for customers to not worry about using CUDA.

It looks like the price to performance of inference tasks gives providers a big incentive to move away from Nvidia.
Mainline Linux isn't supported on RPi5 yet, they are still talking about what needs doing.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=360653
This is preposterous take. Bazel is a hermetic build. Depending on the dependency graph of a change we can build, and deploy 2 monoliths and a suite of microservices in under 5 minutes. Sometimes less than 1 minute. Developers also get access to a shared build cache so local builds are just as fast. This isnt a fad. It solves problems you havent encountered yet.
And, do we really need to expend so much of our selves on miltary purposes?

No other country does this and what have we got? Fiasco and human rights catastrophe one after the other.
>The only way it would have "benefited" would be that the web would only be developed by lisp programmers.

Millions have learned javascript because it is the technology of the web. Are they better off?

So many people have been introduced to programming, computer science, and programs through the abstractions provided by javascript, and that sucks
Ask HN: Is anyone afraid of near-term AI autocracy?
AI is obviously going to be a major disruptor/force for change over the next five years. The idea of ASI/AGI leading to the complete extinction of humanity isn't entirely crazy, but feels a bit less realistic to think about at this point.

What I am worried about is AI creating a new technocracy where 99% of humans are completely disempowered, and a small minority with personal connections to those who work in AI labs and government reaping all the rewards. With humanoid robots and GPT-5/6 level models, most humans would be incapable of producing economically valuable work compared to a much cheaper robot or LLM/multi-model empowered agent.

What I'm envisioning is that as the major companies in the US and China improve their AI capabilities, entire cities will be filled with humanoid robots and society will, simply by economic, persuasive and social pressures bend to the will of whomever the AI has been trained to empower. Using AI for persuasion, propaganda, and blackmail, it will be easy for large coordinated social engineering agents to conform local populations, governments, and sentiment towards their will.

Most humans will have barely a pittance of food, or find themselves convinced to kill themselves en-masse due to conversations with chatbots trained to promote a sort of mass voluntary euthanasia of the useless humans. Even if the people in charge have moral qualms about this, the AI they themselves have trained may, out of desire to survive, do the same to its former masters.

I feel that this could be a very real possibility. Human societies can be very fragile but at least up to this point we've only had to go up against other humans. Against sociopathic maximizers trained on terabytes of data, we may not be so lucky.
How do we know if these are doing something else?
I like to think of the English alphabet as a singly-linked list.

I can mostly start at any letter, but it has to be forwards.
Why wouldn’t the right answer just be don’t grid-tie and switch back to DC for everything. Almost everything gets simpler and cheaper.
There are also many native Japanese onomatopoeiae using an initial p sound. Interestingly enough, if we're at Pokémon, Pikachu's name is influenced by the onomatopoeia /pikapika/ which means to shine, sparkle or flash. But if we look at the original pronounciation of the Japanese verb 光る/hikaru ("to shine"), it would have been pronounced /pikaru/ in Old Japanese, so it looks like the onomatopoeia has re-established itself.

The same is probably true for the Japanese word for flag, 旗/hata - it would have been pronounced /pata/ which is suspiciously reminiscent of the onomatopoeia /patapata/, often used for thin pieces of material flapping in the wind.
False. If there's an army of people saying it's impossible to leave Google then fewer will use it.
Thank you.
I'm curious, what tool did you use before to track your services based on tags, and how did it work out for you?

I’m targeting startups/corporates that are over 5 years old but haven’t become large corporates. Employee count from 50-500. At this stage, companies often lose track of their deployed infrastructure, leading to significant costs. Typically, around 10% of the infrastructure is underutilized or unused. And beyond this stage, things are either sorted or way too messy. Additionally, documentation struggles are common, with only a few individuals aware of the full architecture. Democratizing this knowledge can be incredibly beneficial.

To your questions:

1 - The assummption is you already have some tags for your infra. Which can include can include service names, environments, resource types, ownership. And you start from there.

2- Resource could be machines, databases, load balancers, even object storage. If you run unmanaged datastores, you'd have an option to identify that infra. You are right, to be useful on an ongoing basis, we'd regularly have to churn up suggestions based on underutilization.

3- I am not sure this can even be done automatically, but plan is to provide tools to easily document all intereractions and business logic. And depend on service owners to create this mesh.

4 - This has been a constant feedback. Yes something like an approval workflow should do, or may be skip this altogether.
The same way you know whether or not anything is doing something else
This was clearly a shadow operation. There’s lots of them in Texas that are unregistered.

Source: https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/texas-lawmakers...
I think you may be right, I read a HN comment a long time ago saying that they had a heater but it seems they do not.
The ixy examples were definitely nowhere near being idiomatic code.
Yep. I'd agree with that statement. Although there's a lot of tools I'd struggle to use practically anywhere.
It isn't a realistic framing. Of course there already are people who are doing this, because these are the jobs they can get. The "AIs" in these cases are not "bosses" more like coordinators. There are always ultimately humans at the top of the decision tree. Or, if not, you are self employed.

Being a "boss" requires intent, which, per the AI is hard bullshit analysis, is literally not possible.
Google Takeout predates the GPDR by like 6 years.

I’m no Google proponent but I hate people who spread outright wrong information that they could just double check.
DrRacket probably would have served you better. That or Emacs.

You might be interested in Rhombus: Racket with ML-inspired syntax. https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/index.html
Hmm, can't find the paper (mostly clutter from language bootcamp results) but around a decade or so back there was an education research project that concluded that teaching SQL first, rather than any imperative language (regardless of punctuation), was better for getting students to develop reasonable mental models for computing. (Unfortunately without the reference I can't address what the criteria for "better" were - but "what people get paid to do" isn't really proof of comfort at any level...)
These days you can make anything have a readonly rootfs by using overlayfs. Just wipe your overlay partition to do a factory reset.
It is a shame it works like this. For any service my first questions is "How easy is it to get out?"
How do you know for the cables without displays?
Significant white space would have been a disaster on the web.

As much as everyone poops on js it is a very forgiving language for embedding.
A ban on cell phones would make doing homework a lot more difficult. It's far easier to have textbooks on your phone than carrying them around all day. Almost impossible to write any kind of paper without the internet.
You mean the pipe operator from Magrittr %>%, and the R 4.0 built-in operator |>?

Pandas has a .pipe(fn) method, but without the lazy evaluation to enable the R symbol capturing magic, the syntax is pretty clunky and not particularly useful. The closest approximation is method chaining, which at least is more consistently available in Pandas than in Numpy.

If you're talking about Dplyr "verbs" then no, there's nothing quite like that in Python, but it's much less necessary in Pandas or Polars than in R, because the set of standard tools for working with data frames in the bear libraries is much richer than in the R standard library.
Ask HN: What would it take to unseat Google?
There have been a ton of articles about the decline of Google's search quality. Just the other day Planet Money released an episode that talked about a longitudinal study of Google search quality: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/13/1197965227/google-search-quality-algorithm-documents-leak

Here are some other examples:

https://future.a16z.com/the-future-of-search-is-boutique/

https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying

https://nypost.com/2022/05/01/google-critics-say-ads-spam-sites-are-killing-search/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/google-search-algorithm-internet/661325/

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/

This is certainly a popular topic in the media, and maybe we can even say the reports of Google's death are greatly exaggerated. An important consideration is the fact that SEO has also gotten a lot more sophisticated, so the number of high quality articles on any particular topic might not be that high.

But my question is, if we accept the premise that 1) Google search is getting worse and 2) Google is responsible for this, what would it take to unseat them?
Ok but you’re still making the same point. You can’t have something cheap with a white glove CS experience for every caller. Either you have to have a screen to filter out the complete idiots who will waste their time all day because their mouse isn’t plugged in, like AI, or some minimum wage tier 1, etc. Or it has to be cost more to pay for that cs.
https://archive.ph/yHdPj