skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least by the time it came to the G4 Cube, they had at least adjusted the clock speeds to stop a repeat of this.

I used to have a Dual G5 PowerMac and when you have that thing going at full speed, it was LOUD! I suspect that absolutely bugged Jobs to no end could have been a big point that lead to the Intel transition.

I get the desire to have fanless computers, they are neat but you have to aware of the limits. Look at the M series Apple chips and it makes so much sense to be fanless.
Nice tool. I am using ai-shell for that purpose.

https://github.com/BuilderIO/ai-shell
"There’s been a significant shift in education level between the two parties recently"

Not sure I believe this. What's the source of this statistic?
@dang why is this four day old post [1] suddenly resurrected as if I posted it today? This is the second or third time I've seen it happen.

Can you let people karma farm repeat posts without this nonsense?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=throwup238&next=4095...
I don't doubt that the effort required is immense.

But, you're talking about a collection of institutions that receive tens of thousands of applications every year. Just by pure numbers, it's clear that only a small percentage can attend.

And the fact that only a few can attend feeds their air of exclusivity, which makes their attendees stand out in the job market, which then causes more people to want to attend those schools.

I don't know if there's a way to solve this except by forcing people to stop caring about what school a job applicant went to. Which is kind of starting to happen but, in many industries like law and business it's still the norm.

Societal problem, really.
Black water (from the toilet) is most definitely sewage. Where did you get the idea that it isn’t? Grey water can be sewage, too.
Zellij is a terminal workspace or terminal multiplexer not a terminal.
It should be compared against tmux, screen and similar tools.
My RV doesn't have separate tanks or a chemical toilet.
Joe Biden will be ok
I would look around here for inspiration: https://1mb.club/
The difference is one is real and the other is a scam to sell faraday cages and garbage.
Is there an age where parenting wouldn’t humble you? Or is a precise degree of humbling you’re trying to get at?

And what’s the sign you’re talking about? It sounds ominous but I didn’t get it.

I also don’t understand what smoking gun you’re seeing. IMO selfish is used too carelessly by the author. It’s not selfish, it’s just a want. Wants aren’t inherently selfish. And in that frame, I’d agree with the author. In typical western nuclear family setups, choice of children is usually a decision coming out of an individual want.

The transition he talks of is also typical in that stakes go up very quickly when the process kicks in. A human life is given a lot of value (in all sustainable cultures), and dealing with that can be really intense…if you’re allowed to feel it while trying to keep the children and yourself alive, which is typically very resource intensive. But the joy the author is talking about is very real.

There’s a pro-natalist group that described the joy as being able to appreciate the world from your children’s eyes, along with all their enthusiasm for it. The world anew.

And in that frame I can see a case of someone can do it too early. But nothing the author said indicated that to me.
No, having embedded dsls that aren't just treated as strings, but as integral parts of the system that get syntax checks etc. at compile time and that analyzers can understand.
Maybe it was competition in the 1980's with the soviets trailing, but with the fall of the USSR in 91' the competition was over. Through the 90's and 2000's NASA and the DoD kept pushing new exploratory technology and increasingly advanced and technical engine designs.

SpaceX was notorious for eschewing experienced rocket scientists and grinding out work from novice engineers, but I think it is fair to say they still benefited from the pool of experience they did tap into.
If that’s true, they should want to evaluate all the options out there to ensure they’re not missing out.

Though I think it’s more likely there’s some Googler who happen to use this service, note how the wording is “Engineers […] use our products[…]” rather than “Companies”.
To have been stopped by a minor hurdle one must necessarily have started. It seems like you mean to disagree with the idea that "there are things worse than dying" and I expect they meant being maimed can be thought of as worse than being successful, due to the long-term personal consequences.
On a quick glance I don't understand your example. Are you sure there is no mistake in it?
I would ask which user has shown ABC page path, because I don't see any. Perhaps you made up the lines on the fly while writing it here, and the actual example is clearer? Already a bit dumbfounded by this. Such things can easily throw people off for the rest of the interview. Keep in mind the stress situation you put people into. Examples need to be 100% clear.
There's extensive information on how this poll is conducted here. [1] It's a bit different than normal because it's not a one-off survey, but rather a long-term recurring polling. This particular series has been going for 23 years now. I'd guess they added the higher education aspects in 2015 (since that's when the graphs begin). Higher education took a really unexpected turn. We hit 'peak higher education' in 2011 [2], but everybody at the time was expecting it to continue growing rapidly as it had in the decades prior.

[1] - https://www.gallup.com/175307/gallup-poll-social-series-meth...

[2] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/183995/us-college-enroll...
The whole point of my comment is that with REST you don't have any guarantees about the API and thus it's a much harder target to support. You're limiting it to json:api which is nice but I have never even seen a company use that. What happens in reality is that I get 20 apis from 20 teams, each of them completely different principle - and am supposed to build an universal auth layer for that. That's much more painful than in the companies that decided to go for GraphQL only.
While I get that it's the AI product, the vulnerability here is the k8s configuration. It really has nothing to do with the AI product itself or AI training or anything related to machine learning or generative AI, it's more about poor cloud computing platform security.
In other HN article: "Risk of long COVID declined over course of pandemic
Drop attributed mostly to vaccination but remaining risk still significant".

Attributed. Not proved. Attributed.
Wonder how this compares to open interpreter.
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Outside of global top 50, ROI decreases to the point where you start considering where it is actually worth it. That was at least my thought process back in the days when I was applying to universities.
There is something off here.

- 1000+ applications, 2 interviews. Holy batman. That’s what, 4+ applications a (work)day for a year straight? How do you even find these positions.

- “Air tight”, god-tier CV.

- Only doing “PR”s.

- Handling “setInterval”s.
Coding an AI powered home automation assistant in Rust from scratch
It doesn’t, Hyundai just likes to say “when using a 350 kW charger” in their marketing to imply that it does.

Their actual peak charge rate is something like 235 kW which is still nothing to sneeze at.
What nonsense!

That is probably the better example of a perfectly good sentence fragment. There are many others in spoken English.
These are product-oriented tech companies, while the contracting pertains to e.g. custom software development.

What follows is that these companies have enough revenue to afford FAANG salaries. And FAANG employees in foreign countries have their salaries computed by HR spreadsheets, with the goal of making a family-oriented employee quality of life on par in every country. According to levels.fyi, in Poland Google pays $96.7k to SWE L4. Sure, those salaries were often set when the particular office location was created, and inflation happened since, unevenly. So you might find even higher reported salary from tech companies that opened their Warsaw office somewhat recent.

So, even the entry level SWE earn more than custom software contractors. Beyond that, there's more. With their skillset, 10x employees could leave and form start-ups. To prevent that, the FAANG have a career ladder that make 10x employees earn 10x more every 10 years. Provided they jump the promo hoops.

Again, the tech companies afford that, because their revenue comes from tech products

That isn't to say that as an SWE in these companies you couldn't work on a CRUD database project for some internal website. Perhaps you can get promoted doing that, even though it has more in common with custom software development.
That’s only intellible if I think you’re a native speaker of a pro-drop language where the copulative is dropped. Because of the structure of the English, it is ambiguous what “missing” here is appositional to, since participial forms in pro-drop languages are usually conjugated according to their case, number, and gender (at least among the Indo-European languages), so I can’t tell if the fragment is missing a sentence or if the verb is missing a fragment (or other, numerous possible interpretations).

Its not a bad thing to be wrong, since, when it comes to expression, one can never be right. But it is still better to know the best way to be wrong, a wrong way that cannot be made right. And then you yourself will have created something entirely new.
I’m curious about this but the free strategies are the least interesting. And so I dropped off there.

If you’re making money off the practice problems, why even gate the strategies?

Just a thought.
Love the site design though!
The first 4 generations (the 4th seemed the worst affected) or so of Apple iPod seemed to have an issue where the 1.8" ATA connector coming out of the HDD would sit too loosely. A firm smack on the palm of the hand (while it was off with heads parked) seemed to be able to reliably reseat the connector and get the connection working again when they started having reading errors. Obviously opening it up and taping the connector down firmly with some kapton is a more reliable solution, but for someone wanting their music to work immediately this was an easy reliable workaround.
> when you die, you’ll probably remember

Is this vacuous clickbait written by AI?
Does anyone really believe that having a good corpus will remove hallucinations?

Is this article even written by a person? Hard to know; they have a real blog with real article, but stuff like this reads strangely. Maybe it's just not a native english speaker?

> Hallucinations are certainly the toughest nut to crack and their negative impact is basically only slightly lessened by good confidence estimates and reliable citations (sources).

> The impact of contradictions in the training data.

(was this a prompt header you forget to remove?)

> LLM are incapable of "self-inspection" on their training data to find logical inconsistencies in it but in the input context window they should be able to find logical inconsistencies.

Annnnyway...

Hallucinations cannot be fixed by a good corpus in a non-deterministic (ie. temp > 0) LLM system where you've introduced a random factor.

Period. QED. If you think it can, do more reading.

The idea that a good corpus can significantly improve the error rate is an open question, but the research I've seen tends to fall on the side of "to some degree, but curating a 'perfect' dataset like that, of a sufficiently large size, is basically impossible'".

So, it's a pipe dream.

Yes, if you could have a perfect corpus, absolutely, you would get a better model.

...but how do you plan to get that perfect corpus of training data?

If it was that easy, the people spending millions and millions of dollars making LLMs would have, I guess, probably come up with a solution for it. They're not stupid. If you could easily do it, it would already have been done.

my $0.02:

This is a dead end of research, because it's impossible.

Using LLMs which are finetuned to evaluate the output of other LLMs and using multi-sample / voting to reduce the incidence of halluciations that make it past the API barrier is both actively used and far, far more effective.

(ie. it doesn't matter if your LLM hallucinates 1 time in 10; if you can reliably detect that 1 instance, sample again, and return a non hallucination).

Other solutions... I'm skeptical; most of the ones I've seen haven't worked when you actually try to use them.
Maybe so, but at least my kids would get that reference.
Pain is the mental reaction, not the whole process (of course, mental reactions are themselves physical processes, but that's a different discussion). When you take an opioid, the pain goes away, but the physical process that was previously causing it doesn't.
Musk claims to be pro free speech.

He doesn't carry through.

https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-...

https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-a...

Like John Clauser yelling at clouds, all hat and no cattle.
They definitely have to attach to the grid in a different way than a regular house or business does.

If you look nearby any DC fast charger you will usually see a number of heavy duty electrical cabinets containing the electrical equipment (and increasingly batteries) that power the chargers.
Apple: Bringing you form over function for almost 50 years
The various Apple IIs were roughly $1300 machines but then Apple didn't really put out a sequel at that price for a decade with the Mac Classic. Instead releasing hugely expensive and incompatible machines like the III, Lisa and the Mac lineup.

Amazing that Apple survived, at all. Equally weird that, despite inflation, Apple's cheapest ever computer is the current $599 Mac mini.
There was a story about this happening with some Amiga 500 computers, allegedly due to a too-high speed bump in a Commodore parking lot.

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/a-history-of-the-amiga...
What’s clear to me is that our feeling about University is a bit like the Anna Karenina quote: Happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. In other words, a lot of people are unhappy with college, but everyone has their own ax to grind about why.

I will say that I have never experienced any ideological purity tests that conservatives are constantly complaining about. Maybe that’s because I mostly took math and engineering classes.
At UC Santa Cruz I had Gerhard Ringel[1] as a professor for graph theory, talked with him outside of class otherwise. Spent a lot of time going through his book.

Some concepts I’ve used but to be asked random leet code graph questions, meh. The current interview paradigm needs to change. It’d be fine to be told - it’ll cover x and y a couple of days before but not drop into a random problem. That is not our industry.

Gerhard was an amazing teacher and taught me a lot. Sadly I’ve had to use it little.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ringel
"Hallucinations" implies that someone isn't of sound mental state. We can argue forever about what that means for a LLM and whether that's appropriate, but I think it's absolutely the right attitude and approach to be taking toward these things.

They simply do not behave like humans of sound minds, and "hallucinations" conveys that in a way that "confabulations" or even "bullshit" does not. (Though "bullshit" isn't bad either.)
I absolutely love this, but I hate websites like this so much, especially on mobile. I’m haphazardly scrolling hitting breakpoints trying to get to content that either lags well behind my gestures to animate a device spinning around, or zips past everything I wanted to actually read. If you want to show a video, please just show a video.
From the article...

"While Chinese per capita meat consumption lags significantly behind the US, China is the world’s largest consumer of animal products, making up 27 per cent of the global total in 2021, because of the size of its population, according to a McKinsey & Company report."

So, they are getting more protein from veggies? Given the US has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world, this seems to be more about preferences in diet.

https://archive.md/mL8jp#selection-2539.0-2539.265

ETA: I wonder how much of this is shopping habits as well. In the Philippines, many people shop at the local market where they buy fish, pork, chicken, eggs, and veggies. If I go to the grocery store, I notice many baskets have packaged stuff which doesn't even resemble food.

But the article starts with this... "China has surpassed the US in the amount of daily dietary protein available to its population." So, it's counting the inputs with the idea that those end up somewhere even if it's junk food? It's also not clear how much of that availability is for animal feed. More mouths to feed in China, also means more animals to feed to get that protein. Complex subject.
Protocol Buffers have schemas too (though versioning and ensuring compatibility is quite messy and requires understanding internals). And it has less overhead than MesssagePack.

I'm not sure what Avro is doing, but as a rule schema enables you to have less overhead, rather than more. The main advantage of MessagePack over schema-based formats is that it's dead-simple and mostly compatible with JSON. Schema-based formats usually need either a code generator or maintaining an annotated version of your data classes and making sure they match the schema.

(Of course, with JSON or MessagePack you might still end up using a serialization library and something like JSON Schema).
I'm curious what state even has a "bad" one. At least bad enough to the point where its worth being over 100k in the hole for the alternative.
What is the evolutionary value of longevity?
Are running shoes getting too good?
"Why ‘technological doping’ is a growing concern for professional sports"
How much do people care that you went to a top 10 college?

I'm sure it depends on your field: in mine (academic science, which is as plagued by name-dropping and elitism as any) the thing that matters is the last thing you did.

Of course the whole thing is a trajectory. If your goal is to climb the ivory tower (it probably shouldn't be but anyway...) you need to be lucky or rich at some point. But if it doesn't happen at at undergraduate admissions you just have to do actual work, and then get lucky at some later point. So yes, it's screwed up. But that's not my question.

What I want to know: how often are people getting hired based on their undergraduate institution beyond their first job out of collage. Is this a thing? In what field?
I cant wait to use linux without having to spend multiple weekends trying to get the right drivers to work.
In my mind LLMs are already fatally compromised. Proximity matching via vector embeddings that offer no guarantees of completeness or correctness have already surrendered the essential advantage of technological advances.

Imagine a dictionary where the words are only mostly in alphabetical order. If you look up a word and don't find it, you can't be certain it's not in there. It's as useful as asking someone else, or several other people, but it's value as a reference is zero, and there's no shortage of other people on the planet.
Having as open-source all the kernel, more precisely all the privileged code, is much more important for security than having as open-source all the firmware of the peripheral devices.

Any closed-source privileged code cannot be audited and it may contain either intentional backdoors, or, more likely, bugs that can cause various undesirable effects, like crashes or privilege escalation.

On the other hand, in a properly designed modern computer any bad firmware of a peripheral device cannot have a worse effect than making that peripheral unusable.

The kernel should take care, e.g. by using the I/O MMU, that the peripheral cannot access anything where it could do damage, like the DRAM not assigned to it or the non-volatile memory (e.g. SSDs) or the network interfaces for communicating with external parties.

Even when the peripheral is so important as the display, a crash in its firmware would have no effect if the kernel had reserved some key combination to reset the GPU (while I am not aware of such a useful feature in Linux, its effect can frequently be achieved by switching, e.g. with Alt+F1, to a virtual console and then back to the GUI, the saving and restoring of the GPU state together with the switching of the video modes being enough to clear some corruption caused by a buggy GPU driver or a buggy mouse or keyboard driver).

In conclusion, making the NVIDIA kernel driver as open source does not deserve to have its importance minimized. It is an important contribution to a more secure OS kernel.

The only closed-source firmware that must be feared is that which comes from the CPU manufacturer, e.g. from Intel, AMD, Apple or Qualcomm.

All such firmware currently includes various features for remote management that are not publicly documented, so you can never be sure if they can be properly disabled, especially when the remote management can be done wirelessly, like through the WiFi interface of the Intel laptop CPUs, so you cannot interpose an external firewall to filter the network traffic of any "magic" packets.

A paranoid laptop user can circumvent the lack of control over the firmware blobs from the CPU manufacturer by disconnecting the internal antennas and using an external cheap and small single-board computer for all wired and wireless network access, which must run a firewall with tight rules. Such a SBC should be chosen among those for which complete hardware documentation is provided, i.e. including its schematics.
> Physical health is the most important thing in society, one should not live in a country that doesn’t promote their individual health, growth, strength and power.

That seems like a questionable assertion. Poverty aside, I don't see how/why North Korea couldn't prioritize health, which wouldn't solve the largest problems in that society from my perspective, no matter how healthy they got.
Top Polluter China's Shrinking Emissions Put Carbon Peak in Play
So you have happened to finish the grade in US without publicly saying the following words even once - "all races are equal"? It sounds too unbelivable.
Most modern RV's have separate grey and blackwater tanks, but many older units (including the 1973 GMC RV) had a single combined tank.

You sometimes still still a combined tank on modern units, usually smaller ones.

I don't know what you mean by "chemical toilets", I put digesting/deodorizing chemicals in my RV's black tank, does that make it a "chemical toilet"? Either way, the liquid I drain from the black tank is definitely what I would call "sewage".
and ironically, what’s the exhaust treatment used for diesels? Urea. (Aka DEF/Adblue)
This was common-ish with home computers, back when they were still called "home computers". It was a recognized fix for the BBC Micro, as well as some early Amiga models.
Hi, thanks for this amazing work.

Just curious: Google docs supports a lot more than what Markdown has syntaxes for - how do you deal with this when exporting to markdown?
There are a (very) few coding boot camps that offer something resembling the practical model.

Check out Turing School. 40 hours/ week of classroom instruction, including 6 weeks of just programming before you get introduced to a framework.
Not surprised as most majors don't leaf to valuable jobs and higher education turn from an attempt to help the younger generation to business.
I'll update as soon at its in NixOS unstable. Hopefully this will change the mind of the sway maintainers to start supporting Nvidia cards, I'm using i3 and X but would like to try out Wayland.
Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise
Some RVs have separate black water tanks (toilet specifically) and grey water tanks (shower, sinks). Not all do. Sewage is definitely black water and not grey.