skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest risk with being an early stage CTO, is being discarded. It's VERY common for the CTO to actually just be a programmer building the product, who once ships the MVP, has trouble holding his job.
I have seen so many claims like this one, yet never any evidence of this sort of thing actually happening. I tend to believe this is a combination of confirmation bias and "side-channel" information like googling related things, or pattern recognition on the ad server's ML side (e.g. if you visit the amazon toilet paper section once a month, and after almost a month you start talking about toilet paper, getting served toilet paper ads might seem suspicious, but it really isn't).

Is there any actual information about this somewhere? With the insane breach of privacy policies and laws this would be, I would think many researchers would have looked into this by now.
Meta explores stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica
I'd take that about as seriously as I would take a threat from the people who made the Juicero, considering the likely imminent insolvency of the company involved.
Hi! Are you Jim Hendler (or related to him), my Reagan-era AI professor from UMD?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hendler

My Prolog programming assignment #4, a Prolog "nehcihsahA" detector (maternal uncle: a mother's brother, or any equivalent relative) seemed designed to make me hate Prolog with a passion, involving bending over backwards by defining ridiculous predicates like siblish, sibloid, relatoid, sistoid, brothoid, mothoid, and fathoid.

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/nehcihsaha.prolog.txt

I much more enjoyed the OPS-5 programming assignment #6, for which I made a worm simulation that hacked into Ollie North's Intimus-007s ("the ace of security paper shredders") in the White House basement, via Professor Hendler's Sun workstation dormouse, rms's account with password rms on prep, and Casper Weinberger's account on UMD's Vax 11/780 mimsy and NSA's PDP-11/70 tycho, connected via the NSA's MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead, then posted Ollie North's secret diary and notes it found in the paper shredder to talk.rumors via the UCB-Vax usenet gateway.

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/crack-ollie.ops5.txt

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376750

>At the University of Maryland, our network access was through the NSA's "secret" MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead. It was pretty obvious that UMD got their network access via NSA, because mimsy.umd.edu had a similar "*.57" IP address as dockmaster, tycho and coins. [...]
Hm, the breach contained metadata, but not message contents. RCS does not attempt to defend against metadata surveillance.

Is the author's point, simplified, "any centralized collection of communications data, unencrypted, is vulnerable?" They mention E2EE, but even some of those still present centralized, unencrypted metadata.
I would say in the open source world, SWI Prolog is still the king implementation, in regards to tooling, language features beyond ISO Prolog, and toolchains.

https://www.swi-prolog.org/
Er, no. People who do know what they are talking about will notice that you are trying to pretend that a simple and relatively modest mathematical/physical thing (the world might behave in nondifferentiable, time-varying ways) is equivalent to, or straightforwardly entails, an absurdly different thing (the existence of a god who designed us).

(And also that you're trying the "blind them with science" manoeuvre on an audience full of people who actually know some science. And also that you're using words in ways that have nothing to do with how everyone else uses them.
What sort of 'actions' do those studies pertain to, though? Simple stimulus-response exercises? If so, I don't think anyone is denying the existence of reflexive or conditioned responses to external stimuli, but that in itself does not disprove that we retain the capacity to insert conscious reasoning between stimulus and response.

It seems to be a common pattern when encountering novel situations to analyze them consciously, make deliberate choices prior to taking action, but then to recall those prior decisions in future situations that involve equivalent inputs, repeating the same actions over time, to the point that we effectively "store" our past decisions as conditioned responses that the subconscious can apply directly. Things become "second nature" over time, and develop into habituated actions, but that doesn't mean that there was no conscious thought involved in the experiences that formed them in the first place.
Yes, reading this article gave me antiwork vibes.

I live in the EU, I have savings from previous jobs, and currently I am fine living on welfare, it's not confortable but it's not so bad either, so to me, I already have one form of UBI.

Recently I became a bit skeptical about antiwork because it can diverge into some form of sabotage which is a bit dishonest, but climate change is also another problem so I don't really know anymore.
That isn't a high dose. Medium.
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My last "1 hour" test took me hours to complete. I asked them to implement it in front of me in an hour and they couldn't.

Programmers are terrible at estimating and programmers will choose tasks that are obvious to them because it's the exact thing they do every day, but it might not be so easy for people not in their exact niche.
There are tons of options - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. I will advocate for zrok.io as I work on its parent project, OpenZiti. zrok is open source and has a free SaaS.
I wanted to know more, and it seems this is the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYY04D4_OQA
Neither an error nor a recovered-from panic will cause a Go program to crash; only an unrecovered panic does that.

The bigger problem with Go in this regard is how easy it is to cause a panic thanks to nil.
you guys are giving me so much to read thanks <3 i'll give this a check when i have some time out of exams/work. I will surely check ErgoAI
Does it understand commands such as "get this Nvidia driver to work"?
I vaguely remember using Apple IIs in elementary school in 1997-ish
I'll second the plug: it's an excellent podcast
What everyone wants is native software for their chosen platform.

There are lots of programmers who would rather have a Unix-like environment but are compelled to use Windows machines. Almost nobody with the reverse situation.

So they install Cygwin, or MinGW / MSYS2, or Git Bash, or WSL, so they don't get the braindead Microsoft vision of what a shell and userspace should be. They get a comfortable and familiar environment they're productive with, using software that was designed for Unix and written using Unix. They know what they're doing and accept the tradeoffs they've made. They are not the same as the naive user who needs their hand held.

If these programmers build software for naive users, they should be using languages suitable for cross-platform support, and target-specific build solutions, like jlink, electron-builder, PyInstaller... duh! Or write C/C++ linked to cygwin1.dll for Unix semantics (in the same way Windows developers can write C/C++ linked to libwine.so.1 for Windows semantics...)

If that approach isn't a good fit, then sure, go native development in the target platform. Learn PowerShell rather than try to write it in bash and bundle the entire Unix userspace to make it work. But don't say you need to adopt the full Windows native toolchain and spend years becoming adept with them, unless you're actually planning to become a native Windows developer.
As a whole unemployed cuts your bargaining power, it's natural to say "why should I leave my job" as a counterpoint. The flipside game is if you can arrange multiple offers at once (i.e. a high value candidate) while unemployed, it's a fantastic feeling. Then it's more like an auction, and auctions can get irrational. Turnabout is fair play and all that
I went back to university. I wouldn't have had the motivation to do this outside of the structured environment of academia and, critically, the pressure of exams and grades that come with school. A huge amount of my motivation comes from the fear of "getting a bad grade". Without the fear of a bad grade, I definitely would have given up learning math as soon as I got bored.
Hey, this is my first blog post... please check it out, and report any mistakes or other opinions to me, I'd love to hear them <3
Edit: new url is https://redactedontop.github.io/blog/luca-part-1
The CLP (constraint logic programming) systems available in some Prologs take it to the next level: https://us.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clp
i've been aware of that for a while, it seems to be the state of the art at least in my university (to the point that to this day the researchers are trying to convert old prolog projects to this implementation)
With compliments to your prof ;), interest in Prolog just now is recovering from a year-long focus on W3C's RDF/SPARQL. TBL surely had an itch to scratch with regards to logical knowledge representation dating back even longer than the web [1]. But Prolog has broader applicability not only in logical/knowledge graph querying, but also in solving all kinds of discrete combinatorical optimization problems. Or, as the Quantum Prolog site [2] puts it, "planning, optimization, diagnostics, and complex configuration." The site demos logistics optimization (in-browser demo) and reports initial optimization (parallelization) of Inductive Logic Programming and other ML tasks for partially auto-generating Prolog code from existing solutions.

Edit: ... and on performance vs SWI Prolog, too

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE

[2]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.io
You're right. There are a lot of misconceptions because the majority of people has never tried strong psychedelic drugs like psilocybin or LSD, so their information is based entirely on hearsay. Both in the negative sense ("you can permanently 'fry' your brain", "you'll jump out of the window", etc), as well as positive myths like that it's going to solve all your mental issues.

I'm not fully sure regarding the last sentence though. The important thing to know for those who have never experienced it and who have issues that could come out during the trip is that you need to care A LOT about set and setting. You should have an experienced person whom you fully trust and who can guide you through the experience. Don't do it on your own when you're in a bad state, that's pretty much the worst way to take psychedelics and basically asking for the trip to go wrong. And you'll want to avoid strangers as well unless you're super extroverted maybe.

Also, and that's my personal take, don't sign up to questionable retreats or scientific studies/therapies conducted by self-proclaimed experts who have never taken it themselves. Just because someone has a degree in psychology - a questionable science to begin with when you look at all the failed attempts to replicate the findings - it doesn't mean they understand how it feels to be on a psychedelic trip.
I don't think you can get competent people in Poland for $35k. Double that, and you're getting somewhere.
This has been going until 2014 or so.

Later for serious candidates it got completely unpractical, because H1B lottery got too filled with companies mass hiring Indians, that no serious company will spend time on hiring you given they have 20-30% chance of actually being able to get you into US.

So now only H1B hiring you have is mass hiring, where company does not care if you or someone else gets through lottery, as long as they'll get their 20-30% of candidates through.
> I suspect that absolutely bugged Jobs to no end could have been a big point that lead to the Intel transition.

I'm sure it was that, but also they were never able to stuff a G5 into a laptop due to thermals. They simply had to switch if they wanted to have portables.

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/PowerBook_G5
Canceled my prime subscription about a year back. Amazon's response to low quality garbage filling their platforms has, humorously, been to erect walls and opaque processes that in the long run benefit the people selling low-quality garbage.

How does that work? Well, if you are a pop-up reseller of some Alibaba good, you simply accept eventual account terminations, and you roll that into your deployment process. The lifecycle looks like this:

1. You make some new generic name like FITPLUS

2. Order several hundred items from a factory whose representative you can contact by barking up the chain on AliExpress, the factory should be able to white-label them as FITPLUS for a small fee.

3. You pay for a couple dozen reviews up front on your new account to seed reviews.

4. Just keep shipping, and if the product is reviewing well, keep shipping forever. If not, restart the process.

5. Report other market players for similar items as making derivative products. After all, they are probably doing the same to you.

The key thing for success is that you treat Amazon and your customers with a complete mercenary mentality. Your name doesn't matter, service doesn't matter, because everything that happens is at the whims of fickle machine gods. If your first offering doesn't work, you fire up a second, a third, a fourth, until something sticks around for a while.

People trying to make high-quality goods will typically roll over and bow out after the first product take-down.
+ a lot of great contributors such as yourself :)

Glad to have you in the community!
> You've got a pile of images with no descriptive text. What kind of query do you think would make a search engine include one of those pages in the result pages? They need something to work with.

Although Google these days definitely runs image recognition and OCR while indexing images for its image search.
Note that it does require the design of the roundabout to be made with this in mind. Leaving any dutch roundabout involves a fairly tight 90 degree curve, forcing cars to slow down before encountering cyclists or pedestrians.
This one is not about tech. Just oligarchs buying the influence.
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I think the author (Hugh Landau) is making a point about the nature of machines. I accept this point, and the related one that humans can use machines to enforce ruthlessness, and that the machine interface means that there's no human who can readily be blamed for the ruthlessness.

However, the point is a little bit undermined by Landau's erroneous assumption about slam-door railway stock in the UK. It absolutely was not abandoned to improve schedule-keeping; on the contrary, it was abandoned because it was unsafe as hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam-door_train
They aren't modern tech titans because they're actually willing to let nice-sounding professed morals in get between them and the wealth/power they crave.

Betting that Biden might win? About like betting on a horse with a broken leg.

The courts have made it quite clear that back-in-power President Trump will not have to worry about any pesky Constitutions nor laws limiting what he can do. And America's rich & powerful are quite aware of how Mr. Putin dealt with the Russian oligarchs who failed to demonstrate steadfast loyalty to him.
Is this code review indicating a 7 year old will be put on a PIP?

While most of th 7 year olds contemporaries are busy consuming content instead of creating it like this?
So just X25519 then?
I'm not sure that it makes sense to regard any instance of an entity engaging in stimulus response behavior as being equivalent to self-awareness -- in fact, other comments in this thread include arguments that because humans often respond reflexively to external stimuli, we ourselves are not always self-aware in the process of our own decision-making.
I don't think this is true. Most of the doctors and lawyers I know work at big firms with a publicly reviewable presence, but there's no practical way to review individuals at those firms.
That is my point, i think that prolog isn't just a simple tool to solve stuff, i think that it's potential can still be explored (even if, to be fair, Rust can run on a functional paradigm setting)
I wouldn’t overthink their comment. It’s just a standard racism. Using DEI as slang for people of color is a 2023/2024 era dog whistle.
You're half-right. It's not hallucinations, but I think the question to the LLM was "do the protagonists fight against the unknown?", when it should have been "are they fighting against another human?". So the LLM is answering about the unknown, when the actual graph talks about human antagonists.
Backlash against job quotas for locals in India's IT hub
What a curious swap. May I ask which course he taught?
The cat page is my favorite
Paid take homes are probably the least worst way to suss out signal in today's hiring market. The only time I had better was when I just set up a nights/weekends arrangement with a company and just started ripping through real tickets. Ended up getting hired on full time and they cut me a check for a few thousand dollars up front. It was very nice.
I wonder if they record less than 5 stars if the user doesn't submit the text box, or if their research says everyone has great quality because they close/decline to provide feedback.
You could also split the curve at an arbitrary value of the parameter t. Then find the length of that entire curve. Splitting at a specific value is straight forward.

Edit: or were they talking about 26 percent of the length as opposed to t = 0.26? that's a different story.

Edit2: Oh, that's just 0.26 times the total length. What am I missing?
One of my loans out of college was 13%.
The second one in this video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84EQv6_91dU
The latest Nvidia drivers offer an option to start using system memory when VRAM is insufficient. It certainly slows things down, but it does work. It's not perfect in my experience, but it is an alternative for large models.
This sounds like a marketing post for this feature to me.
Yeah... I guess Landian accelerationism really is the Tao indicated by the cosmos. Alright, fine, where do I sign up?
I've had a candidate that had Apache Spark on the resume, turns out he was sitting in a room with other people who were writing Spark jobs.
Yes, I'm in Europe.
No, most curves support a compressed (x coord, parity/sign bit) representation. It's what you'd probably be using if Elligator didn't exist, so makes sense as the point of comparison.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mattsson-tls-compact-...
Buffalo native here (where the Erie Canal ends) - the Canal is very much in use still today. No horses pulling barges though anymore!

Big news in Buffalo this week was a new pedestrian bridge just pulled into town via the Canal after spending a few weeks winding its way across the state:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rwparkbuffalo/albums/721777203...
I remember as a kid (like at 13 or 14) using BBEdit then Adobe PageMill
> Sometimes—usually with controversial topics—I've sat on my post and watched the votes oscillating up and down so in the end I've ended up with none or near zero.

Probably a form of upvoting that represents "I don't really agree with you, but I don't agree with the downvotes either". That means many comments will start attracting upvotes only when they are greyed out. It isn't so rare for reasonable but downvoted comments to bubble back up to exactly +1.

> From my experience, almost inevitably, downvoters don't offer a counter viewpoint or argument.

It'd be interesting to know how many people just don't use downvotes as a matter of course. The signal they send is wildly ambiguous. Although in this case I'd guess it was the ranty tone of the comment and the lack of charity, evidence or argument beyond assertions were the major factors.
HTML is fine to lean to code by hand.

Tags can provide clear starts and ends for beginners, as well as concepts of nesting.

Folks who learned to code HTML using a wysiwyg html editor may be able to describe how it helped them learn.
Yes, if they had then those particular elliptic integrals would have a closed form. Some degenerate classes of elliptic integrals do have closed forms, in precisely the same way that you can determine whether certain subsets of programs halt despite the halting problem in general being insoluble! I think you misunderstand what is meant by the statement "elliptic integrals in general have no closed form".
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Are Nvidia grace CPUs even available? I thought it was interesting they mentioned that.
Yes. In modern operating systems, GPU drivers usually consist in kernel component that is loaded inside of the kernel or in a privileged context, and a userspace component that talks with it and implements the GPU-specific part of the APIs that the windowing system and applications use. In the case of NVIDIA, they have decided to drop their proprietary kernel module in favour of an open one. Unfortunately, it's out of tree.

In Linux and BSD, you usually get all of your drivers with the system; you don't have to install anything, it's all mostly plug and play. For instance, this has been the case for AMD and Intel GPUs, which have a 100% open source stack. NVIDIA is particularly annoying due to the need to install the drivers separately and the fact they've got different implementations of things compared to anyone else, so NVIDIA users are often left behind by FOSS projects due to GeForce cards being more annoying to work with.
> But in the week leading up to Config, new components and example screens were added that we simply didn’t vet carefully enough. A few of those assets were similar to aspects of real world applications, and appeared in the output of the feature with certain prompts.

I assumed the AI was mimicking designs that it had been trained on, but this is saying they gave the AI a design system to work with. Their designers created a design system that was presumably templates for the AI to use. The design system they gave it was the source of the copycat components.

So they put Apple’s weather app components into the design system. Then when you prompt it for a weather app, it picked those back out of the design system.

This makes the problem even worse in some ways. This outcome was not only predictable, it was intentional (by at least some portion of the team).
I think "self-awareness" as we are discussing it here does not just mean "causal relationship between stimulus and response". It specifically refers to a singular consciousness engaging in thought that translates into intentionality -- this is something that we only directly experience within our own minds, and it doesn't make sense to speculatively apply it to things that are observably very different from ourselves.
It's just been in the news again recently because a 260 feet long pedestrian bridge, which was built in Italy, was floated up on barges to a park being built in Buffalo. Being able to transport this large structure by water helps avoid closing roads to traffic or navigating under low street bridges. It attracted crowds all the way up.

"This is a big deal because this used to be a commercial canal and nowadays it's not so this is an event"

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/ralph-c-wilson-bridg...