skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manager: so what’s the problem?
Dev: ..explains the problem..
Manager: use English idiot
Dev: no work right, I fix, u go now k?

Yeah it’s a long read and could do with summary. But then again even the length can itself be seen as a response to lose-lose aspects of corporate culture. Anything you don’t mention in that PowerPoint is just an opportunity for someone to tear you down with FUD, bike shedding, or simple ignorance. But keep it short so everyone gets a chance to take a shot. Every design doc should be a slide deck and every deck a design doc, every tweet a blog and every blog a tweet! Gotta make sure it’s effortless for the loyal opposition
For what it's worth, certain system prompts can improve output quality.
> Firstly, the WiFi logic is probably entirely handled by Android, so the app doesn’t have to do anything with that.

The app handles the process of connecting to a WiFi network.

It doesn't have a standard Android interface. The only interface is through the Rabbit app, so by definition the app must also handle WiFi at some point.

The already released an update to reduce logging before this blog was posted.

I'm not defending their initial over-logging as a good security choice, but I do think it's being greatly exaggerated in this comment section. If you could access the device's storage, you could access the WiFi network name, period. The fact that it's in the logs, not just the config files/db, doesn't raise the severity of any vulnerabilities.
That’s a very simplistic view. Especially that java does/will provide “structured concurrency” as something analogous to structured control flow, vs gotos.

Also, nothing prevents you from building your own, more limited but safer (the two always come together!) abstraction on top, but you couldn’t express Loom on async as the primitive.
Having senior leadership on board is critical to the entire process.
It's the other side of passing the Turing test. Assuming that the machine passes, what's next?

What's next is a lot of people are fooled. Is it me or the machine that replaced me? Is it grandma, transmigrated into machineland afterlife, or is it just a fake? Does the fake get to vote and own property?

Worst possible scenario : Everybody is fooled. Everybody gets brainscraped. Everybody goes to immortal AI heaven. But actually nobody did. I won't give away what story goes with that spoiler (not Egan).

All that's left is machines and Amish.
Is GDPR Saving 2,920 Lives per Year?
Have you seen the explanations of radiation where they say flying (as a passenger) is about equal to the dosage of a dental X-ray (or something similar)? Someone who spends their career getting exposed at that rate might be worth making them a shield.
Beautiful!

OpenAI isn't just training a model to produce more-verifiable correct answers -- it's leveraging an adversarial relationship to train a model that's better at being correct, and also a model that's better at deceiving / being wrong. This is the key. There are three agents here:

* A "verifier" (a small model, whose job it is to discern correct answers from incorrect answers)

* A "helpful prover" (blue team, whose job it is to produce correct answers with an easy-to-follow explanation)

* A "sneaky prover" (red team, whose job it is to produce incorrect answers with a deceptive explanation)

By arranging these three models in an adversarial relationship with a true reinforcement learning feedback loop, the entire model grows and gets better.

This is fantastic to read, and corroborates the results achieved by SPAG -- easily one of my favorite papers from the past year. SPAG pioneered (as far as I'm aware) the approach of using adversarial language games in a true reinforcement-learning setup (not merely RLHF, which isn't true RL), and showed that training models in adversarial language games can show generalized improvements even in areas not directly related to the game. [1]

Ever since the SPAG paper came out, I've been daydreaming about the different sorts of adversarial games that one could use to train LLMs. I've written down a bunch of notes on the subject [2] (in case anyone else is reading my rambling notes).

I would really like to see some of these experiments actually get up and running on open-source LLMs -- I'm excited to see if / how they could be used to improve the quality of some of the open-source base models that are floating around out there.

[1] https://github.com/Linear95/SPAG

[2] https://github.com/HanClinto/MENTAT
just glancing over this pdf it doesn't seem so bad. The first couple of problems are just integrations with some very obvious u-substitutions.
Cities Can Use Paris as a Model for Implementing Safer Street Infrastructure
Yes! This is one of the critical things I need from an on the go device
I'm sorry - at this point in time Python is the only language I expect every single developer to know. You don't have to be an expert, you don't have to like it, but you need to know it.
Doesn’t the anonymity reduce the incentive companies would otherwise have to hide or underplay infections?
Air conditioning should be applied only the to a bubble of cubic space surrounding the people in a given room as well as any temperature-sensitive goods like medicines, perishables, etc. We ought to develop tech to facilitate this, for example a mosquito net style insulating cocoon to enclose your bed at night that conditions the air inside of it but leaves the rest of the room warm.
I also thought it was funny that they are listing features like apple pay and magnetic charging as if these features have anything to do with the case.
Is this also available from the googlecloud APIs libraries? Would be neat to be able to create a Google Doc from markdown content, it's something we were going to look into for one of the things we are building.
Can I? Tools
> At least now I no longer have to argue with ‘inflation is good for us’ people.

Who has been arguing this?
Agreed, but the question is how to reliably test for those skills, any freaking desperate idiot could have managed the interviews I've been through.
English will almost surely still be the dominant world language for as long as any of us is alive.
The 2014 models could have come with an nVidia GPU. They are not the same boards at all, which means that it's not just a "to hell with the 2014".

There's more to a computer than a spec sheet.
Yes, you can weed out 50% of incompetent applicants, but that is not the issue. The problem is that the people who will excel in these questions are the ones playing the leetcode game for months. The people with real jobs will pass your question but will do so-so compared to the leetcode gamers, and the second group will get the job. Also, doing exceedingly well in the coding questions doesn't guarantee these people are any good at the real job.
GANs have been used for a long time in order to improve the training of images -- it seems like we're finally starting to see this approach catch on for LLMs.

I'm aware of the SPAG paper -- who else have you seen take this approach with LLMs lately?

https://github.com/Linear95/SPAG
> While tough, it's often a good thing for the applicant as a natural filter. If someone can't hire well, it's not a good place to work.

But for people like the guy who wrote that article, eviction eventually becomes a problem. And so many companies can't hire well right now that in a market with declining openings he might not be able to wait for a company that can hire well.
I have prompts but I give the solution away. It's basic shit like factorial or fibonacci. People still fail. Resume fraud is rampant.

EDIT: Another thing: about 80% of the candidates I interview wouldn't be able to pass our Product Manager SQL interview. It's basic shit, but not as basic as the stuff I ask. All the PMs in my current job have better skill than 90% of the backend engineers I interviewed in the last two years. Resume fraud is rampant.
All very tragic. Back in the last century, as 'civilization' encroached on tribal lands they would send in emissaries to make first contact. Even in the best cases, the locals would have no resistance to common disease. In a year or two they'd have largely died off from that. Log and repeat.
Thanks, just added email (+LinkedIn).

Happy to chat. Not selling direct-to-consumer yet (going through installers and integrators) but that's coming.
The design is nicely done, too. I expected something very academic, this was interactive.
At least it's available to paying customers, that's not always the case.
Why bother operating a much more complex LLM stack when you're already raking in cash from confused boomers trying to pay the IRS off with iTunes gift cards? Their system works. They'll take up machine learning powered tools once the old farts all die off/go broke and they need more complicated scams for more technology-savvy victims.

I'm being glib here but also if you're the type of person who gets texts from the IRS from a number you've never seen and take it at face value that you can pay off your overdue tax bill with gift cards... like, you are already the perfect victim for this sort of scam. They don't need to be good, they just need you to self identify and leap right into the trap.
Yeah I had to stop reading when I got to that part. I get making a mistake and adding a zero accidentally but all of the daily compensation values were so far off from anything approaching reality I wasn't going to bother reading whatever other analysis he had for fear it would also be wildly inflated.
I'm going to turn 50 in less than a month. Up until very recently, I had undiagnosed CPTSD and ADHD.

Trauma disorders, not to put too fine a point on it, fuck up your memory something fierce. CPTSD in particular can cause emotional flashbacks, where you're not audiovisually experiencing the prior trauma, but your brain is playing back the emotions. Thus, the emotional dysregulation.

I would strongly echo other people's comments here about therapy, a big benefit to me. I've always seen it as something with no stigma - you are just adding tools to your mental toolbelt. There is a good book by Pete Walker on complex PTSD; it may be worth a buy to see if it sounds familiar to you.

I also would suggest to you this: one of the best slogans I've ever heard is that we don't see other people's films, we see their highlight reels. You may have 100 different places you want to go. You may think everyone is going to each of their 100 different places.

But be kind to yourself. Believe it or not, it's not just an emotionally kind idea, it's a good one from a productivity viewpoint. If you're attacking yourself, you're putting yourself into fight-flight mode, and that redirects a lot of blood flow towards the more reactionary, less cognitive parts of your brain. Higher-order thinking is actually easier when you are not attacking yourself.

Hope this is helpful.
This will be supported by the Drive APIs
Loki backed by S3 and queried via Grafana is a good, mostly FOSS solution. Installs pretty easily via helm and S3 gives a reasonable balance between cost, ease, and durability if you're in AWS already.
https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/200... - Livestock Information Security Act, probably what's being referred to and was the first link returned by Google when I searched for your phrase of "Livestock Information Protection Act".
Every third sentence in the article is soaking in sarcasm… I read it that way.
I've never been sure which way the causation goes (if any), but I've known three people so far who had psychotic breaks after an intense mushroom trip. Similar to what you wrote - a sudden obsession with conspiracy theories and/or intense religious persuasions. Something they all had in common was being very confident and self-assured to begin with, which makes me wonder if it's particularly risky for those kinds of people? They all recovered, fortunately.
Isn't that Akka?
Mythology, also procedure.

If I am a member of a tribe that uses ceremonial ayhuasca at regular intervals, I will build my relationships around that cycle, so the feeling of awe and understanding corresponds with an actual personal breakthrough or meaningful group event. That's the 10x use case
> On July 12th, I asked Rabbit Inc. if they had any comments to make on the content of this article,

> As of the end of July 15th, they have not responded.

Their lawyers are considering the options how to sue you.
I'm on my 5th dose, and I now have infrared vision and can smell colors. Feelz great man!
Do you know similar stuff about dissociatives, like NMDA-antagonists? Are their effects in any way comparable or is it completely different net results?
> We don't teach students how to be present, to know nature, how to explore their thoughts and emotions, or how to collaborate.

Montessori schools do. Wish they were more common.
That is the definition of ‘right’ in a trading context.
So, I think in my local bubble noone is for instance as excited about DB systems as I am, so in essence I thought I could even spend some money to get some expert opinions or rather insights I'm struggling with (currently for instance with bad throughput of my immutable OSS DBS). That said I think noone so far wanted money and some even offered help, but so far I think they didn't have time, thus didn't answer any "pings". So, as I can't spend too much time (and of course not too much money) either on profiling and debugging right now it's kind of a dilemma, as it would IMHO be very interesting to know what's slowing down N read-only trxs in my system :-) that said a couple of years ago I also asked about help with a frontend without much luck. I guess it has to have some value of course, so maybe at least spending some money (even if it's a non profit spare time project since 11 or even more years) should be OK :-)

Guess I just felt a bit frustrated...
Can you give me a couple of examples? I'd like to see where I stand with my knowledge.
oh no, that's sad. anyway.
It might clarify things to say unconscious beliefs, expectations, or thought patterns instead of knowledge. It doesn't seem that the subconscious mind is a font of pure wisdom and knowledge but it powerfully affects us in ways that our conscious mind isn't aware of, by definition.

Before using psychedelics, it's important to anchor ourselves by questioning the difference between knowing something and feeling like we know something.
yes. modus operandi of the GOP since Reagan.

Trump is just balls-out about courting the rich, and absolutely willing to say and do anything to pander to the proles
These folks are so scared of transparency they've convinced representatives to make recording information about livestock production illegal. It's absolutely mind boggling that this isn't considered a big problem.
I'm enjoying reading this, and I never paid much attention to the R1 product. "Carroot" was enough of a chuckle to merit the rest. :D
> If it sends data, it should sent it to the weather API,

That's not how the device works. The weather and location data are both context inputs to an LLM. The LLM produces the response and sends it to the device. The LLM runs on the server, not the device.

You can't have the device connect to a separate weather API unless you send keys to the device, which would require per-user access credentials (good luck finding a 3rd party provider happy to do that). It would also increase the number of round trips, which increases response delay, which is one of the primary complaints about the device.
These numbers are absolutely insane. In Poland 300 EUR per day is a good senior level salary. If I earned 10k per day, I'd quit after a year, but a medium house, and live very comfortably just from a 2% interest rate for the rest of my life.
I agree, it's sour grapes. These companies grew to be the most powerful in the world, even electing presidents, through these interview processes. The midwit memes can be summarized:

(low IQ) acting on simple instinct vs. (mid IQ) paralyzed by complex rationale vs. (high IQ) acting on simple instinct

The high IQ guys who just do the work to grind LC show enormous signal for being effective software engineers.
And SWEs have to go to college or post-grad. However they're eternally in the low level hell of solving coding questions.
Yep, the site was down. And for quite a while. One can only ignore, roll eyes, and move on. There you go. Thanks for replying too.
Stashing this nugget for future me: "interviewers often can’t reliably judge or measure people who have better answers than they expect"
Real, actual Markdown support is arriving in Google Docs
Any reasonably observant individual could claim the same at this point.

The rest sounds like high flying BS to my ears, isolating yourself has consequences.
The US slaughters ~25 million chickens per day (9 billion per year).

It’s grim, but its not that much of an outlier.
Astronomers spot a highly eccentric planet on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter
The Case of the Golden Idol
From my time at then-Facebook: ARC is a huge pain at scale (hundreds of developers contributing to the same codebase) because anyone anywhere can cause a retain cycle.

E.g. imagine if you open some news feed story, then go back to news feed so the view controller you opened is lost, but the person who implemented that page was an android dev who recently switched to iOS and doesn’t know about weak pointers, and had something deep in the view hierarchy retaining a pointer to the root… now everything associated with that page is leaked, which can include megabytes of decoded images or worse, videos…

The issue was compounded by the fact that, at least at the time, their interview process primarily rewarded regurgitating memorized answers to leetcode problems as quickly as possible.
Could you give me a concrete example of what that looks like?
Show HN: Electronics.dev – a podcast about building electronics with code
He's watching everything else already, he's even in your child's bedroom already due to proctor spyware.
Is it "AfD did well on Tik Tok" or "center-left/right parties did terribly on Tik Tok?"

I could write a lot about it, but here are a few points.

(1) I see Biden and Obama running cringey ads asking for money on YouTube. Biden's performance is direct and sincere, I genuinely like him as a person, I think he's a good role model. But he's got more money than I do: if I send him the $5 he's asking for I will get $500 worth of spam from left-wing groups that want more. This isn't the road to political engagement.

(2) The business of center-X parties is not political engagement but rather political disengagement. Wintrobe's book

https://www.amazon.com/Political-Economy-Dictatorship-Wintro...

presents a model of a dictator that I think is enlightening to democratic politics. He considers a dictator who'd like to steal from his country and spend the spoils as much as he can but is constrained by the need to spend something to "buy off" the public and interest groups. Similarly in the US, a politician would like to deliver the maximum spoils to supportive interest groups without making big expensive promises for the general public. So you get Clinton's "Triangulation" and a general comfort with winning elections with a 50.2% margin and having gridlock because if you won 65% of the vote and controlled both chambers you'd have no excuse why you aren't delivering on popular promises.

(3) Similarly there is Baudrillard's idea of "cooling" in which the whole political system and media exist to disengage people. Even elections themselves exist to blunt the threat of real change that might happen if people had to overthrow the system if they had any problem with it. Center-X parties have been in the business of "cooling out the mark" for a long time and have been very comfortable with failure and near-failure situations such as Germany's interminable plan to shut down nuclear power. They want you to be barely engaged enough to pull the lever for them, but they don't want you to be engaged enough to make anything difficult for them.

Trouble is that AfD really wants you to be engaged and their whole strategy is organized around it.
> If you do three years worth of hiring in one single year, eventually you need to pause

Yep, a lot of demand (for tech labor) was pulled forward. The other aspect to consider for the last year or so is that some higher up folks who make decisions to hire people seem to have become convinced that AI is going to (or already is) enable them to get by with fewer engineering heads.
Not in general. I have never in my life experienced the "smacked down in PR for some arcane technical reason, likely with a rude comment" that the O.O.P. wrote. Although I wouldn't let that bother me. If someone doesn't want to merge a patch I send them, that doesn't even remotely hurt my feelings.

You can "Contribute to Open Source" without your contributions being accepted/merged.
Excerpt from a book I just read, The Renaissance Diet 2.0:

> What about all those cancer studies [about artificial sweeteners] in rats? The first study that initiated this scare was done in the 1970s, and saccharin at high doses was found to cause bladder cancer in rats. Pretty scary, except that in the early 2000s, it was shown that this reaction to saccharin was unique to rats and mechanistically impossible in humans. To illustrate the point, it has also been shown that vitamin C increases tumor growth in rats and mice, but does not seem to have tumor growth effects in humans.

Just sharing as a reminder that studies on animals do not necessarily translate to humans.
I think what you said is compatible with OP. It urged caution, not prohibition.
I agree with your general point -- we should lean into kids' existing motivations rather than wring our hands that kids don't like to do rote practice. Doing anything else is a failing strategy, unless we devise new motivational environments.
There is circuitry to prevent this.
Works fine for me on FF and I have copious plugins installed.
Yeah, smells more like wishful FB BS to me.
You don’t need to be a doctor or therapist to let people know that some people can have very bad reactions and it’s not all roses.

I see the same thing happening in people smoke marijuana where any claim that it can have harmful effects for some or with abuse is met with “yeah well what do you know, i read this other thing and i never had issues myself”.
> proper explanation (which I didn't find skimming the article) needs to cover why tech is more influenced by that than say travel & leisure sectors.

It's really about the difference between the Risk Free Rate (RFR) and return. Increasing interest rates increases the RFR. A few years ago the RFR was ~0% and even went negative in some places, and now it's ~5%. For an investor to invest in a company the risk premium now has ~5% added. This means even companies like Google, Apple, Meta, etc... must cut costs in order to maintain their current stock price. Since most costs are labor, that's what gets cut.

It impacts startups the same way. Sitting on cash is earning 5% now, so the potential must be that much better to get someone to invest.

The reason tech is more impacted is that the multiples are higher. You can think of a multiple like leverage. Every dollar invested in tech might move 5x-10x more than every dollar in travel. It's great when things are going up, but not great during a correction.
It also keeps the public from learning about which companies have repeated problems. If we were allowed to know where our food comes from, and where contaminated or infected food comes from, we could avoid buying products from those places and reward the facilities that are cleaner, inspect themselves well enough to protect the public, and don't have a long history of making people sick. We could also pressure the government to do more about the facilities that have the most problems.
The open league results are in part explained by the drop out rate of players who start then lose interest after a few weeks. Comparing against active players might be more reasonable (assuming this league wasn't choose once and do nothing for the season).