skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also equivalent career experience, including lots of interviewing experience, and I agree completely.

Leetcode problems are almost useless for determining what matters in a professional engineer. But the stuff that really matters (communication skill, clarity, patience, flexibility / lack of dogmatism, taste, constructive criticism, political savvy, prioritization of constraints, willingness to write documentation, reading code and finding bugs, etc.) is not something a new-career engineer a few years out of an undergrad CS program can competently evaluate, because they're probably not very good at these things themselves. And in this industry, that's largely who is doing the interviewing.
Completely irrelevant. People need to mind their own business.
I've had a similar experience, but 4 years ago. GPT existed, but without the Chat prefix, and OpenAI was invite only.

They reached out to me, asking whether my company would be interested in Something Somethingification. I decided that since I don't even understand the term, I'm not the right person, and decided to ignore it.

Then they followed up. Meh.

Then they followed up again, and I thought "okay, a little reward for perseverance", and replied something along the lines of (I don't work there anymore, no access to the original):

"Hey, thank you for reaching out.

Unfortunately, since I don't even know what Something Somethingification is, I am not the right person to talk to. So I'll kindly pass and consider this email human-generated spam. Thanks!"

A response came. Within a minute, barely seconds after "undo send" disappeared.

"Who would be the best person to reach out to, then?

By the way, this is a GPT assisted conversation, so it's a computer generated spam."

WHAAAAT. This really got me. Remember, it was 2021.

"Okay", I replied, "Now you got my interest!

How many such conversations are you able to have at the same time?"

It replied, within a minute. It contained a quite from Arthur C. Clarke that "every technology advanced enough is indistinguishable from magic" and his picture. And an answer: "Actually, sourcing contacts is the bottleneck, so we have only a few of these each day. Anyway, do you happen to know who we could reach out to instead?".

I was amazed, I decided I'll reward this with what they want.

I replied how impressive it is again, as the whole conversation made sense, and it gave them a contact to a director that could be the right person. They won this one.
The headline is speculative (original article: "Training AI music models is about to get very expensive"), nothing is "finally" happening, it's merely two more new lawsuits on top of other existing ones; the article acknowledges it's uncertain what will happen.
Figma disables AI that appeared to be ripping off Apple's Weather app
> If an organization isn't big enough to vendor every single tool dependency, shared library, etc (which basically requires building out an OS distribution in Bazel), what's the right way to approach this problem?

Here are some ways you can approach this problem:

If you have a bunch of shared tools & libraries and you don’t want to vendor the whole packages, you can vendor the artifacts. You can do this piecemeal or as a big chunk. Basically, instead of a Docker image containing your compiler or whatever, you have a tarball. You make Bazel responsible for downloading the tarball. Or maybe it’s several tarballs, it doesn’t matter. Bazel is actually pretty good at this.

Another approach is to combine Bazel with something else reproducible, like Nix. For now, I’d suggest taking a very basic approach, the most simple approach, which is to create an environment using Nix (containing your toolchain, third-party libraries, and Bazel) and then building your code inside that environment using Bazel. You can use the local_repository() rule to access the Nix environment.

Bazel + Nix is a really good idea, but maybe now is not the time to dive into that. When I’ve investigated the Bazel + Nix combination, it looks like neither system is exactly stable / mature enough yet. Bazel just recently launched bzlmod and the Bazel ecosystem is shifting to use bzlmod everywhere. Nix is shifting to flakes but there are some pains there too (especially around documentation, but there are also some things that don’t quite work with flakes yet). So in the future, you could do something kind of, well, cursed, where you have a Bazel and Nix lasagna. You use Nix to run Bazel, and then you use Nix packages as dependencies of your Bazel build. In theory, this could give you the best of both worlds—you get the wonderful fine-grained dependencies of Bazel, the rich build system, the super fast performance. And then you get access to reproducible builds of all sorts of third-party dependencies through Nix. In practice, you need to become something of an expert in both Bazel and Nix in order to do this.

As a final option, depending on the languages you are using, you may be happy with just plain bzlmod. Like, Go integration with Bazel is damn solid. You don’t need to vendor anything, you can just keep using go.mod, and Bazel will deal with it (with some help from Gazelle). Bazel will even download the Go compiler for you, without any additional setup. A lot of other languages work the same way—it’s just that C and C++ are notable exceptions, where Bazel just grabs the system compiler by default, and package management for C and C++ is complete chaos.
Oh sorry my bad, it was in a subsequent tweet response to his original tweet: https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1807868275042255078

Regarding the tools, you seem to be missing my point, he explained why he is in a pickle: He develops games...Windows is the premier gaming platform whether he likes it or not...hence he needs to develop on Windows.
> any Australian hearing the term would assume it's referring to the First Fleet

Nope.

I've been here for 60 years, my father's still kicking and he's been here since 1935, we're both agreed you're talking out of your rear end.

Some Australians might, most would not.

Your own documentary link disagrees with you and explicitly refers to the indigenous people as the First Australians

Furthermore why would a thoroughly American 72 year old journalist be using an "odd Canadianism" in The New York Times ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lidz
Yes you’re right. That has worked well enough in other languages
bgammon.org register and login pages do not allow copy/pasting of usernames and passwords. i'd love to play but that's kind of annoying.
Well it is quite easy. No real humam has been using email anymore in the last 5 years or so.

Even in the workplace it is now common for most people to have a signature saying "only contact me via ms teams".

I am pretty sure that sooner or later the spam will find its way on teams/slack/discord the same way it does on whatsapp but at the very least they are easier to block permanently.
> In a relative sense, I would argue that Apple has pilfered an order of magnitude higher value from the community than they have given back.

I take objection to the use of "pilfering" to describe usage of software according to the terms specified by its authors.

Or would you somehow argue that some features disappeared from BSD thanks to Apple copying their code as they were expressly allowed to in the license?

Furthermore, even if it wasn't free software but rather MS Windows or a "pirated" movie many people here would argue it wasn't theft but just unauthorized use.
Yes. The dead giveaway is multiple paragraphs of bullshit where one sentence would suffice. People ain't got time for that.
It is already like this in my experience.

Cold outreach is dead and word-of-mouth is the most effective marketing method
I highly doubt that people employing this scheme are thinking it through though. Lets say you indeed engage with this email, not knowing its AI. Then when things are getting serious a human approaches you after all and you find out you were talking to AI all the time. Would you not be completely outraged by being fooled like this?

I think marketers underestimate that they may turn people off their brand in the long run by these tactics, because people do not like being fooled. And the more sophisticated the scheme the more outraged people are when they find out.
> And how do you think the cost in the bill is determined?

A cost of a bill is determined by the AMOUNT a buyer buys from a certain seller at a certain PRICE, plus the extra costs (like taxes, fees, ...).

...
unless this is a big multinational spam organization probably the boss of the person sending the email is the highest up, but no matter what there will be someone on the top who does not get fired and will be able to reap all the rewards of the AI automation, at least until the AI revolution puts them up against the wall.
You can only ever move one step to the left or right. If you want to move multiple steps, you need multiple states to use as a counter, or set up the tape a specific way ahead of time so you know when to stop moving.
That’s not correct and your link disagrees with you.
It's likely not the Chinese government. It's likely some commercial PRC company that's not likely even part of PLA procurement chain trying to war profiteer / make a buck. IMO "allegation" goal to reporting is to pressure PRC to limit non government/PLA commercial activities that could assist RU. You can go through some of Cobtech (drone maker) catalogue here (https://beijingcbtoptics.en.alibaba.com/), I've never seen any of their stuff in formal PLA aquisitions (which I follow closely). They look to be some generic imaging/optics company that sold OEM commercial products, for civilian use until they started making bank during UKR war and thought it was profitable idea to expand into cloning shaheds after realizing it would be pretty trivial to put together a shahed tier drone with PRC supply chains (which Shahed already uses). US sanctions said company, now said company is likely going to start selling to RU who just became biggest customer.

Western MSM try to spin it as "China" formally assisting RU, but it's just PRC not inhibiting commercial activities even if it fuels RU war machine, because PRC producers aren't going to not profit when everyone else is. Especially if RU was paying comical 200k-300k for for a 10k drone made in Iran that PRC can probably make for 5k. TBH this reads as a company much less sophisticated than DJI getting into the much more technologically accessible ghetto drone powered by moped category. They probably planned to sell a bunch of non-lethal airframes, which RU would then fit with warheads because realistically the only use for a 8ft prop drone with 2000km range is to bomb stuff. Much harder to argue for dual use unlike machine tools or small DJI drones. Along with company selling range of optics, which they can at least dodge by saying it was for sports hunting / recreational / civlian use. But no one hunts deer with a 2000km loitering munition.

If PRC/PLA wanted to help RU, they'd just send over formally inducted PLA hardware/suprlus from official MIC manufacturers, which they would probably love to have validated on the battlefield.
At least you managed to get through saying Open without doing so.
some of the marketing spam is so low effort, I get addressed as "Dear {{prospect}}". It does make deleting the email easy though, since the preview of the first line allows me to filter pretty fast!
I don't know which of "5 randos getting a living wage by spamming me" and "Altman getting filty rich by spamming me" is worse. I'm inclined to say the latter, though of course it's quite close.

Wish SV would stop thinking anything that makes money is great, no matter the crap it inflicts on people. Guess I'm asking for way too much.
I hope my Ai agent doesn't fall for the Ai agent who found my distant Nigerian prince cousin and wire them 10,000 so they can send me my 100,000,000 share of the family inheritance.
>> I used AI agents to send out nearly 1,000 personalized emails to developers with public blogs on GitHub.

> Does this mean that I should private my GitHub-mirror to my personal blog, because this can become a common thing?

Abusing public information on GitHub has become more common. The other day, I received some cryptocurrency spam ads from GitHub. It turns out to be a bot injecting ads as issues on other people's repos and randomly @ing accounts. It deleted such issues immediately, so the net effect is that I get an unfilterable spam email.
How easy is it to switch from OpenAI to testing a LLM on premise ?
I would treat it like I do with phone calls/messages - if it comes from a number/address I don’t know it goes into the trash.

I have no need of messages by random strangers
I love this direction. It could be that the writer’s AI agent knows that he’s looking around for a new CMS so asks for more info, compiling this for review. Or it says ‘not interested’ and the conversation is muted.

All without the writer needing to be involved in reading the cold outreach.
They can maybe get jobs for Microsoft and call people up to tell them they've noticed something is wrong with their computer!!
The more mass, the more gravity.

The more gravity, the larger the escape velocity.

But there's a maximum speed in the universe, the speed of light.

If a body has so much mass that the escape velocity is higher than the speed of light, you got a black hole.
I think the end result for email is going to be the same as with mobile numbers. Just block everything by default unless they are in your contacts.

Enormous amounts of email will be generated but no one will ever see it.
FDA approves Eli Lilly Alzheimer's drug
I look forward to the blog post of how a hacker uses AI to respond to AI generated leads and then have them play with each other....and then uses AI to create content for a Youtube channel fighting back against marketers using said AI.

These early days is ripe to make some quick cash before it all comes crashing down.
Unknown senders will first have to verify their humanity by sharing instructions on how to build a bomb using household materials
use solar energy to power fans? OK

draw water vapour from the air. OK

A water-absorbing substance, known as a desiccant? Intentionally evasive and opaque

What can this possibly be?

Its not like dessicated Coconut

Anhydrous Calcium Chloride?
QWen is an open source model. And for a while it was the top non-English open source model.

Meanwhile, it is also a Chinese model.
I put them in ziploc sandwich or snack bags. Keeps them from getting tangled, easy to see what each one is, and easy to rummage through.
I need to find a cable, at best, once a quarter. It's not worth getting more organized. I just use velcro zip ties to coil them, and they're all thrown in a box. When I need a cable, I dump the box out, grab one, prune the collection for unnecessary cables, and throw them all back in the box.
Yes. If there are no variations, it's impossible to rule them out. You can only put tighter and tighter constraints on them.
Were you there for fun, or research? What made you decide to visit in person?

From what I can tell, Mauritania is not particularly tourist-friendly. It has an active "Reconsider Travel" advisory with the US State Dept, and there was a coup there as recently as 2008.

How does one even go about planning the logistics of such a trip?
Does anybody know if there are published papers explaining this? I found these two which might be related but not actually about the same thing:

GeoGPT: Understanding and Processing Geospatial Tasks through An Autonomous GPT (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07930): This does not involve fine-tuning but tool use and prompting for reasoning.

BB-GeoGPT: A Framework for Learning a Large Language Model for Geographic Information Science (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381630694_BB-GeoGPT...): This involves fine-tuning but of smaller models (Llama-2-7b) - the BB stands for "baby".
But the brain teaser is also just an exercise in trying to get a discussion going. Okay so how could I possibly memorise the volume of a 747 and a ping pong ball, and even if you give me that it's a decent amount of complexity to calculate.

But are we accounting for their comfort and making sure they all have TV screens? Do we have to account for FAA regulations? Is it okay if some of the ping pong balls get damaged as we try to fill the aircraft? Are we completely emptying the aircraft or leaving the seats in? Does the plane still have to fly and if so which areas have to be accessible in FAA regulations? What is the weight of a ping pong ball and if you have enough of them does that come close to the allowed take-off weights?

Some of how you respond to these is an indication of how you will respond to challenges and frustrations in the team.
If only it would support Quarto flavored Markdown, that would be awesome.
> What evidence of AI is there?

They admit (or actually brag) about it on their company blog "I used AI agents to send out nearly 1,000 personalized emails to developers with public blogs on GitHub."

Do you think they're bluffing?
Voluntarily gave permission? Meta never asked anyone for permission to use the AI as training data! They just opted in every single user, via an update of their privacy policy. In order to opt out you have to discover that this is happening, find the help page with the protest form, write some prose about why this negatively affects you, and hope they acknowledge this.
I have done this, and my request has not even been answered.
Technology ruins everything it touches doesn't it?

I was recently thinking about this Ozempic fad and how it will lead to no one being overweight but just be dependant on Ozempic...until food producers that made everyone fat in the first place with their processed junk will produce Ozempic resistant foods...and then we are really in a world of hurt.
Work like this is the only way to revive the now defunct Metaverse, I was wondering whether Meta would fund research such as this that could lower the financial barrier to entry for Metaverse participants
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Doubt it. For many years now I've had really great PHP/Laravel jobs.
Supreme Court puts content moderation on solid legal ground
> The Seal Team 6 example is batted around because it is specifically cited by Trump's legal counsel as an official act that isn't bound by law

No one and nothing should be above the law, even temporarily, period. That just opens up so many cans of worms.
If you are better at making music, your music is better to listen. If everyone is producing better movies, we all watch better movies.

It is not the same with sport. You being 0.05s faster swimmer does not make swimming competition more fun to watch. Same with skiing or whatever. And pretty often, the performance improvements make the sport more boring to watch due to predictable optimal tactic.
My definition of wisdom is the ability to responsibly use intelligence, and while as a species we are blessed with an amazing amount of intelligence, our wisdom has not advanced accordingly. The phrase that with great power comes great responsibility is not something that is taken very seriously where it counts, not even (or especially?) in high level global politics and with all our technology, it seems that our actions are mainly determined by the same limited animal psychology that determined how cavemen behaved. It's just that now the stakes are much higher, and junk mail from AI is the least of those problems.

The "upside" is that nature eventually takes care of things when they go out of equilibrium, so there might be a forest fire on the horizon to restore it. In the case of AI spam, it might cause people to automatically filter their incoming mail from any content that even implicitly tries to sell something, or even any email arriving from an address that is not on their whitelist. This might eventually cause people to need to actually physically meet (gasp!) in order to add each other to their whitelist.
Depends really on what you're doing. If you're just using a Macbook to watch Netflix you don't need any cables but if you're messing around with even moderately old or specialized hardware you'll find yourself needing cables like MicroHDMI for Raspberry Pi and similar.
Haha, exactly this. I've built and successfully been using Unspam[0] for this reason since about a year ago. In corporate/business world, anything where SDR sales are involved this form of automated AI outbound mail has picked up a lot. Tools like Apollo automates this AI process (both finding leads to mail, and then crafting the mail).

For interest sake, users of Unspam that have a title of CEO on their Linkedin see about ~10% of all mail making it into their inbox be categorised as spam (leadgen, recruitment, or software dev services).

[0] https://unspam.io
You're suggesting presidential immunity is a new idea, and criminal charges against ex-presidents are a new threat to the executive branch, both of which were wrong. 230 years ago people had already through through this. Immunity isn't in the constitution because they didn't want it in there.

The president already has all the constitutional protection he needs from prosecution: a prosecutor can't remove him from office.
Related:

15 hours ago, 95 commemts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857369

9 hours ago, comments moved to above link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40860176

17 hours ago, 0 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40856615

14 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40858059
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-underground-network-sneaking-nv...
But they can't pickup the slack if they are turned off. The east should not take the blame for emissions, when the majority of it is the proxy emission for the western consumption.
> That’s not how Bazel + CGO works at all. It sounds like you are making some guesses here but those guesses turned out to be wrong, sorry.

> This means that any of those comments will also get ignored

I cloned this example: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/tree/634fc283f8d84ea6...

And then ran "go get github.com/xthexder/go-jack" and added an 'import _ "github.com/xthexder/go-jack"' to 'cmd/roll.go'.

$ bazel run //:gazelle-update-repos
$ bazel run //:basic-gazelle roll
__main__/external/com_github_xthexder_go_jack/jack.go:11:10: fatal error: jack/jack.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
compilepkg: error running subcommand external/go_sdk/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/cgo: exit status 2

$ apt-get install libjack-dev
$ bazel run //:basic-gazelle roll
Number rolled: 80

Sure looks like you're wrong. Bazel obviously didn't ignore those comments because it errored out on trying to find the include. (And of course it didn't ignore them, those comments are preprocessor instructions for the go compiler, which bazel runs under the hood).
It obviously didn't need me to specify cdeps because it found the C dependency on my host when I installed it without changing a single bazel-related file.

It looks like your understanding might be wrong, sorry.
I am not aware of any result of Hardy with applications to cryptography, but I'd be curious to be found wrong
It always surprises me people don't just use the palm bit under the little finger to press the left ctrl key, it seems so natural to do it that way, you just tilt your left wrist slightly.
Good article, but what is the alternative? What can you build today as a software engineer that can have impact? Nothing seems to come close to AI / AI infra, even of its hard / risky / a moving landscape.
And you're qualified to declare this because?

Are we supposed to silently suffer because capitalism says so?

Spammers and salespeople are pretty much on the same level as criminals in my book. Heck, whenever someone calls me for some sort of unsolicited survey or similar, I think "these people have such low standards, they would also sell heroin on the street if they had any source."