skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried Sonnet? 3.5 is imo even better than chatGPT
It would not appear Gary Marcus is a fan of OpenAI [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/garymarcu...
Start your own business.
Exactly. Genau. Exacto. YYYYYY format.

"In 02024, Danny Hillis answered frequently asked questions about The Clock."
Under Surveillance: How Location Data Jeopardizes German Security
The name just makes me think of the screaming cowboy song. https://youtu.be/rvrZJ5C_Nwg?t=138
Yeah clearly, OpenAI is rocketing forward and beyond.
This is a great discussion. Good managers can insulate you from bad companies and bad managers can ruin your experience in a great company. I would go as far as to say the person you work for is more important in some cases than the company you work for.

Here are some thoughts.
Companies aren't always clear on who you would be reporting to during the hiring process. This isn't always intentional, but org structures are sometimes in flux as teams grow.
You should at least ask who you're going to report to or who you could potentially report to and ensure you have a conversation with them.

Also when looking for jobs, instead of searching by company or job openings, look for managers you have gotten along with or would like to work for and literally contact them and tell them you're looking for a new gig and would love to work on their team. Manager's who may not be hiring right now generally are open to the idea of bringing a known quantity onto their team who want to work for them specifically, so if something opens up you jump to the top of the list.
Distributed Collaborative ML (and LLMs) in the Browser
What do u mean "graduate level"?
can you share some names of these hft/crypto firms?
> did not read on and learn about other search engines crawling beyond GBY. Still there are indeed very few that are crawling at web scale, and internationally

That's helpful clarification.

In criticism of the article, you might agree that

none of them have their own results

is a fairly absolute statement. It signals: Final word on the matter; no nuance to follow.
> They then made little groups of three where the manager tries to coordinate who does what in terms of the tasks, and then they give the group a score.

Honestly, this sounds exactly like what a group of graduate students who have never had a real job in the corporate world would come up with as an assessment of management skills.

I feel like you would need 6 months at least to really assess management.
yeah, according to the article [0] about the release of Llama 3.1 405B, it was trained on 15 trillion tokens using 16000 Nvidia H100's to do it. Even if they did release the training data, I don't think many people would have the number of gpus required to actually do any real training to create the model....

[0] https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/
I don't think we are approaching limits, if you take off the English-centric glasses. You can query LLMs about pretty basic questions about Polish language or literature and it's gonna either bullshit or say it doesn't know the answer.

Example:

w której gwarze jest słowo ekspres i co znaczy?

Słowo "ekspres" występuje w gwarze śląskiej i oznacza tam ekspres do kawy. Jest to skrót od nazwy "ekspres do kawy", czyli urządzenia służącego do szybkiego przygotowania kawy.

The correct answer is that "ekspres" is a zipper in Łódź dialect.
Imo, it's good that the Windows Phone died - it would have distracted Microsoft from the much more lucrative segments it's in today and opened the door to potential antitrust litigation.
hello, yes we have been selling batteries for a while but not really to the consumers more to fleets of vehicles. Concerning the safety, Bosch batteries are among the best but if one of your cell does a thermal runaway, you're screwed, the plastic casing will just burn. Our aluminum casing withstands the complete burn down of the pack without letting one flame out. Checkout the test: https://docs.gouach.com/fireproof-casing
The vulnerabilities are rather to easy to address as a service provider. It boils down to 1) Use Https, 2) Assert both the request expiration and that you (the service) are the intended recipient of the request, and 3) Assert the signature (using the metadata you received from the identity provider through a trusted channel). I don't know why people say SAML is complex or hard, it's just you accepting a redirect from an identity provider with an XML payload you validate against.
On YouTube, I love "Proper Honest Tech".

https://www.youtube.com/@ProperHonestTech

He is excellent at explaining how to use the iPhone (and other Apple stuff) in a fun, clear and concise way. His explanations are simple, but he goes deep on features that I haven't seen covered elsewhere.
>Amen. I'll be happy once I can pick up, say, LSD, from a pharmacy, and know that it's dosed accurately and unadulterated.

You can go to a pharmacy right now and look through aisle upon aisle of "medications" that rarely have the ingredients they say in them, and that's not illegal as long as they note "not approved by the FDA to treat any disease"

People act like legal products don't get adulterated
Interesting. I have long found Reddit to be the an excellent source of solutions to problems. Stack Overflow usually beats it for programming specific stuff, but for everything else usually the most helpful answer comes from Reddit. It's a real person, helping another real person with a real problem.
Surya OCR is great in my test use cases! Hoping to try it out in production soon.
The great-parent demonstrates that they are nevertheless capable of doing so, but not without special instructions. Your elaboration doesn’t explain why the special instructions are needed.
Find a working environment that is less dependent on sucking up.
Sorry for the confusion!

We are a legit company and have been operating for more than three years, with B2B clients using our batteries for about 2 years!

We’ve even fundraise two years ago https://www.breega.com/gouach-secures-e3-3m-seed-funding/

The current post is because we are selling a new battery focused on e-bikes with a fireproof casing and easy to repair design

We’re also opening it to anyone who wants to install it on an ebike, rather than just B2B!
This paper is super interesting and seems to agree with real life anecdata - most managers are crap and management is a hard skill that people are not trained for.

How to find a good engineering manager to work for:

1. during your interview you must learn something significant - can be technical, or about managing people or something.

2. they should not grate you even 1 second. The interview is where you and they are at your respective very very best behaviors. If they grate on you even for 1 second, you probably don't want to work for them. You should always come out feeling positive.

3. they should push you during your interview without you feeling bad about it. The job of a manager is to bring the best/most out of you. When you are on the job they will push you hard. Also they need to find the boundary of your abilities during your interview.

4. they must have better communication skills than you and you should look up to them. Everyone judges their boss and can't deal with a boss that is worse than them at their job.

Find a good manager to work for is very difficult. Because of the high stakes related to a job search - finding a good one will probably only happen by accident.

Treasure those bosses.

The worst thing that can happen (as it happened with me) is that your first boss is great at their job. Then every boss after that will be such a huge letdown. :)
definitely not an articulate request, but the point of using these tools is to speed me up. The less the user has to articulate and the more it can infer correctly, the more helpful it is. Other frontier models don't have this problem.

Llama 405B response would be exactly what I expect

https://x.com/WesleyYue/status/1816157147413278811
Just to be pedantic: you mean ‘one-to-one and onto’, otherwise you’re only capturing countability rather than being countably infinite.
There's a difference between "sucking up" and being polite/courteous and respectful. For me, arrogance has always been a bit of a trigger. I can work with most people, but when someone is both arrogant and less than competent it irks me to no end.

My advice is try to always assume the best possible interpretation of any given person's motives in a workplace. Try to be friendly.
It's totally out of hand.

Both political parties maintain databases with contact info of everyone they can (it's really hard to say for sure if someone is truly with one party or the other, so collect info on everyone and assign probabilities!). Campaigns have access to this info and do with it what they will.

For the smaller campaigns, a campaign worker will log in and say "based on metrics A, B, and C, give me a list of people in this geographic area that have a likelihood greater than X of voting for my political party". They give this list to their volunteers who then use either their personal phone or grab a burner phone out of a huge bag and start sending texts. For the bigger campaigns it is much more automated using services that charge per hundred or thousand.

I'm the "precinct boss" for my area and I'm supposed to keep the database up to date with any contact info I get directly from voters. I (and many of the others in my area) refuse to do so and keep anything I get completely private. I refuse to contact any voter on behalf of any candidate; I will only tell them about all the candidates and give pertinent info, etc. I can get away with it as long as nobody else collects 15 signatures to get themselves on the ballot to challenge me. That's a pretty low bar :). But the folks running the database for the national party don't like it and threaten to take away my access. Oh well.

I've been sketching out an alternative based on push notifications, where the user has control over which notifications are delivered and campaigns and candidates can't do anything about it. Not surprisingly, this is not a popular idea with political parties.
I think this is it.

Generated data is ok if you're curating it to make sure nothing bad, wrong or insensible comes in.

Basically still needs a human in the loop.
I was considering buying a Lenovo Legion 7i (i9-14900HX), time to move onto other options I guess.
A few come to mind...

Brand power

Exclusive data deals

Being able to call an API vs having to pay for & devops an always on model yourself
This narrative is ahistorical. The nationalism movements of the 19th century were all over the world, and against most empires, not just the Ottomans. So the new found Arab nationalism was new, just like Serbian or Greek nationalism was new, we also had a new found Irish nationalism and even Icelandic nationalism in the 19th century. Even zionism started as a 19th century ideology.

Nor was the nationalism movements of the 19th century necessary a call for an ethnostate. It was first and foremost a call against empires and for own governments over own nation states. When there were calls for ethno-demographic policies to maintain a supremacy of one ethnicity over others, those were aside policies which differed among proponents of nationalism. These policies were equally—if not more—prominent among empires, than nation states. Even among zionists, only a portion of the original 19th century zionists actually wanted to displace Palestinians (or other indigenous populations of wherever they would establish the jewish state) upon migration. That is only a portion of zionists wanted an ethnostate.

So no, nationalists of the 19th century—arabs, europeans, and others—did not necessarily want an ethnostate.

EDIT: That all said, it is a bit odd to excuse a very real and existing ethnostate, by citing a theoretical ethnostate which never actually existed and at best had very limited support among the public and rulers at the time.
Archive without paywall: https://archive.is/xh2fn
Tbf, you can ask it basic questions in English and it will also bullshit you.
I am not implying that, but merely defining what the WebPKI is and where we fit into it.

Let's Encrypt's primary goal is to encrypt the web, and most of our decision making is based on that. It isn't so much about HTTP as it is the ecosystem.

You can use our certificates for any TLS Server use-case. I wouldn't suggest using our certificates for things which aren't TLS servers, though.
> ... BP basically threw away their consumer brand in the US ...

That must not have lasted long. I don't recall a time when there wasn't a BP station during and after that disaster.
Discussion (45 points, 21 days ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40872276
Please don't assume your experience applies to everyone. If ChatGPT can't do what I want, my first reaction is to ask Claude for the same thing. Often to find out that Claude performs much better. I've already cancelled ChaptGPT Plus for exactly that reason.
Sort of yes, sort of no.

Of course, I agree that Stability AI made Stable Diffusion freely available and they're worth orders of magnitude less than OpenAI. To the point they're struggling to keep the lights on.

But it doesn't necessarily make that much difference whether you openly share the inner technical details. When you've got a motivated and well financed competitor, merely demonstrating a given feature is possible, showing the output and performance and price, might be enough.

If OpenAI adds a feature, who's to say Google and Facebook can't match it even though they can't access the code?
Small shops, cafes, restaurants, even chains in London refuse to take it.
The trap is thinking that management is about "sucking up" or "playing a game." The way I run my team is entirely in line with my personality and values. There's no fakery at all.

In a way, that's the key: you need to be in an environment where you can operate in a way that works for you and delivers value to the organization. I'm very explicit to my higher-ups about what I'm optimizing for, and that if there's a day when my organization no longer values that, I'll step back from this management role.
Nvidia/Microsoft would probably buy all of openAI before letting it fail.
I wasn't thinking I was "defeating the system."
This reminds me of when I had to supervise outsourced developers. I wanted to say "build a function that does X and returns Y". But instead I had to say "build a function that takes these inputs, loops over them and does A or B based on condition C, and then return Y by applying Z transformation"

At that point it was easier to do it myself.
They're losing advantage in every front. Compute, model, deployment, cloud services, community.
"Sorry for causing you billions of dollars in damages...here's a cookie as an apology!"
Like Rokus from 2019.
That's just same same but different, not a step change towards significant cognitive ability.
Relatedly, what does "parallel" function calling mean in this context?
“We are sorry. We really messed up with this deployment. In fact, we’ve questioned whether we should be alive, or whether we should have even been born at all. Heck, maybe none of this should exist.”

The only way I can imagine one-upping the detractors at this point.
"BSing", these days.-
The Internet is more than sophisticated big tech companies.
Hi! Sorry for the confusion! The customer comments are real, and came from our initial battery prototypes which we sold to people (by converting their bikes in our shop)

We did mention Infinite Battery because it’s the new name we’re giving to the product (which is now the « v3 » of that battery)

But you are right that they are confusing we will remove those

We are indeed a legit company! You can see that we’ve fundraised two years ago https://www.breega.com/gouach-secures-e3-3m-seed-funding/

And our batteries are running every day on shared mobility bikes!
Remarkly
As someone who has implemented SAML and OIDC at many large companies, I disagree with the general thrust of this comment.

Customers usually care most about a specific outcome. If that outcome can be achieved using OIDC instead of SAML, some orgs will go with the recommendation instead of the initial request.

I bring this up because most customers asking for SAML were doing so either because that’s what they were told they needed, or because it’s what they did last time. When presented with additional options and more importantly the rationale behind those options, many customers either switched gears or started working towards OIDC and changed SAML to an intermediate step along the way.

Push for the best solution. Sometimes it doesn’t change anything, but it often does, and even when it doesn’t, it raises awareness of the alternatives.

(There will always be some subset of orgs with immovable standards that are immune to good rationale, but these need not prevent progress elsewhere).
no doubt he won't - he will instead buy it all in a firesale
> And Yandex isn't much better for non cyrillic search,

I like Yandex when I'm rabbit-holing after obscure musicians/music. I routinely have a better experience than I do with DDG or Kagi or Goog.
Provide an AWS unique ID, get an ARN
Just anecdotal. Was T2 and getting kidney stones every two or three months (cause not related but treatment was). Cut out oxalates which restricted diet. Monitored sugar 3-5 times daily. Switched to carnivore diet + onions and mushrooms and went on Metformin. All at the same time. Did this for 2.5 months with no additional exercise. This dropped me down below T2 level. Went off Metformin and am maintaining with same daily testing. Off carnivore for paleo minus anything with oxalates after the 2.5 months strict carnivore.

Strict carnivore for me was steak, hamburger, stew meat fried in butter, mushrooms and onions in butter, bacon, and very sharp cheddar (only on burgers or raw). Eat every bit of gristle and fat. It is very hard to get enough fat.

Brain fog lasted for 10-11 days. Felt fantastic after that.

To keep your carnivore costs down I would recommend stew meat from Costco fried with onions and mushrooms when you can't stand steak or plain burgers.

This has worked for me for the last 6 months. I have no idea what it will be long term. Maybe someone will find something useful in it.
i was mostly interested about lived-through experiences of people who also host videos. for example i encountered a case where audio file had a video track in it. it baffled me until i found it was the album cover/image as motion-jpeg. so i had to adjust the input validation. or that my own generated mp3 audio file from a video file was not passing a 90% ffprobe reliability threshold so again i had to alter validation... and things like that. like people mentioned that yuv420 profile being important. i also heard about malicious code being in video files or containers in general which can cause some issues. though i do not know much about it.
They did that in the chatgpt 4 demo 1.5 year ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GylMu1wF9hw
There are natural tendencies based on gender. That said, they tend to overlap between the two, but become more extreme at the edges of a given bell curve.

For example, in strength, if you take an equal group of men and women, then half of all men are likely to be stronger than all women and half of all women are likely to be weaker than all men in the group. Meaning half intermingle and overlap.

The same is true for some psychological traits. These aren't absolutes though. I don't think it should generally be a consideration for a given position myself, but there are absolute differences in most cases.
Microsoft has always had stricter requirements for OCSP than the baseline requirements, which the other root programs have not had.

With the CA/Browser forum baseline requirements amended to no longer require OCSP, it is Microsoft's requirements alone that require OCSP.
Some industries are forced by regulation or liability to have something like crowdstrike deployed on their systems. And crowdstrike doesn't have a lot of alternatives that tick as many checkboxes and are as widely recognized.
Maybe their gift card list got hacked
We do distinguish them. You literally just demonstrated it! "Brick layer" draws a clear distinction from the "architect" who designed the building, as well as the "janitor" who maintains the building afterwards. Throw those terms out to a random person on the street and they're bound to have a pretty good idea what you mean in that differentiation. The differentiation is helpful! That is why we have created words to call attention to the differentiation found in different engineering roles, just like we do for physicians, and every other broad career category out there.

But, as least as far as I know (and nobody seems to have anything to suggest otherwise), we've never done the same within different software engineering specialities. The only thing that I've ever seen that might come close is "software architect", but despite working in the industry I honestly have no idea what that actually means. The people who claim that title don't seem to do anything different than anyone else. Without a "software brick layer", what could it even begin to mean? Whatever it means, I'm certain the average person on the street will have no clue as to what a "software architect" is and how it differs from anyone else working on software.

As such, what I suggested is that within the software discipline we've never reached generally accepted terms to spell out that differentiation because it doesn't matter in software. We get a few people here and there with bizarre emotional attachments to different jobs that wish there was differentiation (what I suspect is the source of "software architect"), but that does not make for a practical reason to actually put in the effort on a population scale.

Sure, perhaps it will start to matter as the field evolves. Software is still quite young in the grand scheme of things. The differentiation between brick layer and architect in the early days of building construction was no doubt equally useless; only becoming useful as the profession grew up. And, indeed, when that time comes we'll have little choice but to start to settle on words to describe different software development jobs, but until then...
This is literally the smoothest, most fluid table scrolling I’ve ever seen on the web (Mobile Safari). The scaling to viewport bounds, the shadow hinting at additional content… this is almost distractingly good.

Is this all one-off code, or have you packaged it for broader use?
> In the late 2010s it seems like people were wising up to the idea that you can't implicitly trust big tech companies

In the 2000s we only had Microsoft, and none of us were confused as to whether to trust Bill Gates or not...
That's a great point. In my limited experience working with AWS API Gateway, sending anything except 200 and 429 causes the gateway to respond with either a 403 or a timeout. Very odd.
> If you're ever in a situation similar to this, run as fast and as far as you can.

I really really want to underscore this point.

You're literally standing on top of ground and under that is boiling water.

If that breaks and you fall in you're going to be in boiling water with no way to get out and you will die screaming.

Also NEVER walk on ground that has no vegetation. If you look around a geyser you will see that the ground is white and has no vegetation. That's because the temperature is too high and it has water under it that's heating the ground.

Walk on that and there's a chance you will fall in.

In the back country there are no fences so you can fall right through the crust.
Investing in elected representatives delivers the best ROI.
Making something like CRLite more like a standard seems worthwhile. I looked at the Mozilla bits but AFAICT there’s not much if any documentation of the low-level bits and pieces.