skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can give you a manager's perspective:

- I work at a non-tech company's (retailer) tech org, managing Platform Eng, DE and DS

- I've worked as a SWE, DE, DS when I was an IC (also at FAANG)

- I have about ~50 people rolling up to me

- in a given year, I can promote about 2-4 people at this specific company, so less than 10%

- there are always more people who _want_ to get promoted

- so I'm always having _more_ conversations with people about "their promotions" than I can actually promote --- but I'm quite open about this

- I don't talk much about promotions during 1v1s unless the person is pushing for it, because of the above, there's already more people pushing for it than I can promote

- promotions aren't up to me --- at this company, I need about 5+ people to approve every promotion = me, my manager, my manager's manager, finance, my "local HR" and "central HR" (it's a big company)

- everybody in this chain except me is completely non-technical, so I need to be able to tell them a story --- "Jane is a great Data Engineer who's performing at level L+1" doesn't cut it

- it needs to be some story they can understand, preferably has some high-visibility project or person in it --- eg. "Led Project Foo for 1 year which is our org's Big Win this year" or "Built company-wide financial forecasts for the CFO"

- the above ^ doesn't have to be beyond normal 9-5 duties, and usually isn't

- in my case, my job is to start pushing for the promotion, and convince my manager to actually convince his manager and stick his neck out with Finance and HR --- and remind him 2x a week to push on it

- the easiest way to get a raise is not through promotions, it's to get a high outside offer, and either take that, or, come back and threaten you'll leave --- I can take that to HR and make things happen within a week, while a regular promotion here takes ~3-6 months

- Finance and HR obviously don't care about the whole thing, they're just trying to control costs and make sure trigger happy managers don't promote too many people / their friends

- I'm always very xparent with people about how promotions work, what the process is, where they stand --- and they appreciate it

- it's easier to get a good raise than a promotions, and at this company promotions don't get people more than a good raise --- so for people who are not already at the top of their band it's not worth it (we have very overlapping bands) in the sense that just arguing for a good raise is easier

A lot of what I write above are specific to my company, but all (big) companies will have a lot process and parties involved in pushing a promotion through --- so on average it won't be easy anywhere big, even if you're good and your manager is a good guy pushing for your case.
> Yet this could be precisely why the saboteurs used [Andromeda].

Or it could be precisely why that boat was not used for anything of the sort.

This kind of argumentation reminds me of, "only a guilty man would protest that much against the charge laid against him".
> it had an absurdity that modern LLMs seem to avoid due to making higher-level semantic sense.

That's it, LLMs are "trying" to be funny but aren't quite smart enough to actually be funny and their errors are just boring. Markov chains are accidentally hitting on absurdist bits because every sentence gets randomly brought in whatever the homograph equivalent to a malapropism is.
The Downsides of Vintage Hardware
https://archive.ph/37q83
A proposed new interface for SilentKnight 3
The high-voltage side should be separated from the electronics, so it shouldn't be dangerous if you are observant.

It may be sufficient to just disconnect the antennas from the WiFi module, that will help prevent any network connections.
It's an incredibly new thing. The total number of manned space launches ever is less than the number of commercial flights that take off in 15 minutes.
If you're the author, unfortunately I have to say that the blog is not well-written -- misinformed about some of the claims and has a repugnant click-baity title. you're getting the attention and clicks, but probably losing a lot of trust among people. I didn't engage out of choice, but because of a duty to respond to FUD.

> > torch.compile is 2 years old, XLA is 7 years old. Compilers take a few years to mature

> That was one of my major points - I don't think leaning on torch.compile is the best idea. A compiler would inherently place restrictions that you have to work-around.

There are plenty of compilers that place restrictions that you barely notice. gcc, clang, nvcc -- they're fairly flexible, and "dynamic". Adding constraints doesn't mean you have to give up on important flexibility.

> This is not dynamic, nor flexible - and it flies in the face of torch's core philosophies just so they can offer more performance to the big labs using PyTorch. For various reasons, I dislike pandering to the rich guy instead of being an independent, open-source entity.

I think this is an assumption you've made largely without evidence. I'm not entirely sure what your point is. The way torch.compile is measured for success publicly (even in the announcement blogpost and Conference Keynote, link https://pytorch.org/get-started/pytorch-2.0/ ) is by measuring on a bunch of popular PyTorch-based github repos in the wild + popular HuggingFace models + the TIMM vision benchmark. They're curated here https://github.com/pytorch/benchmark . Your claim that its to mainly favor large labs is pretty puzzling.

torch.compile is both dynamic and flexible because: 1. it supports dynamic shapes, 2. it allows incremental compilation (you dont need to compile the parts that you wish to keep in uncompilable python -- probably using random arbitrary python packages, etc.). there is a trade-off between dynamic, flexible and performance, i.e. more dynamic and flexible means we don't have enough information to extract better performance, but that's an acceptable trade-off when you need the flexibility to express your ideas more than you need the speed.

> XLA's GPU support is great, its compatible across different hardware, its optimized and mature. In short, its a great alternative to the often buggy torch.compile stack - if you fix the torch integration.

If you are an XLA maximalist, that's fine. I am not. There isn't evidence to prove out either opinions. PyTorch will never be nicely compatible with XLA until XLA has significant constraints that are incompatible with PyTorch's User Experience model. The PyTorch devs have given clear written-down feedback to the XLA project on what it takes for XLA+PyTorch to get better, and its been a few years and the XLA project prioritizes other things.
Spectrals are easily the best method. It’ll give you a subjective idea, but it’s never going to be truly perfect with lossy encodes. If you’re looking at FLAC then you can tell pretty easily if something is a lossy transcode, but otherwise knowing if something is 192kbps vs 128kbps is going to be difficult. For really low bit rate reencoded as 320 that should be obvious on the spectrals, but it won’t tell you anything definitive beyond “well, it was a much worse bit rate previously”… which is useful, but only to a point.
Another security issue are all these cheap always connected IP cameras from China. Meantime the most recent achievement of EU lawmakers is cap permanently attached to a bottle. No wonder, as at least in case of my country we are sending the most corrupted sleazy individuals to the EU parliament and commission.
Concerned about these R&D layoffs and startup closures. I love startups and cannot go back to the mind drudgery of corporate offices. Remote work changed my life for the better.

Feel like there's a massive recession coming and it's time to hold onto my job as long as possible, sell my house and start a company.

Aiming for 10 - 15 years of runway (without tapping into my retirement accounts) to make this succeed.

Already learned Software Development, now it's time to learn Copy, Marketing, Sales, Accounting, Recruiting, Networking, Social Skills, etc.
That's because Starliner isn't an MVP. It's a vehicle designed to transport humans. You don't send humans to space in an MVP.
It could, but this requires to store historical data about usage on devices. If you store that encrypted data in cloud, then getting it to your mobile phone is super slow. If you store it in cloud, you can get historical data even if your device is dead or has 256 BYTES of memory and 1 megabit of flash storage. We have such devices, very effective at managing local municipal heating network and controlling several thermal controllers each via rs232 or rs485. Fortunately we preemptively moved everything into VPN'ed mobile network, we need special approval to touch anything on that network and can't connect without them granting access, so after EU started moving with cybersecurity this year, we are covered.

> This also makes it simpler from a programming point of view - instead of having separate cloud sync & local control protocols, you just have one local protocol and you merely tunnel it through the (dumb) cloud if you can't connect directly.

Having only cloud protocol is even simpler, I've done all of the above (I do backend and our firmwares).
I just wanted to keep things simple: copy the HTML, paste, done.
From that article...
'"I asked Siddiqi if he thought his transcript had been doctored. He said, "I'm 100 percent confident the transcripts are genuine," though there may be other recordings from other tracking locations.When I showed it to Bizony, he said, "An official Soviet transcript of anything, from the death of a cosmonaut to the birth of a healthy baby boy, isn't worth the paper it's written on. ... Given that we at least broadly trust Russayev's recollection of events, we are entitled to believe that Komarov, for all his discipline as a cosmonaut, would have been entitled to some spitting madness and frustration."'

Certainly that was my first thought when I read "Russian State Archive"
Oh, that's what the OFFICIAL Soviet state archives say! Well, I am certain that they were trustworthy narrators, and I'm sure they would have been careful to make an accurate record of anything embarrassing to the Party.
Like I said, I didn't downvote and took the time to answer your question. I didn't take the time to sugarcoat it.

You are interpreting bluntness as hostility; that's ultimately an issue for you to resolve.
AMD to acquire infrastructure player ZT Systems for $4.9B to amp up AI ecosystem
I assume in this case you point at the idiot who said this was a good idea?
I think Bank of America doesn't allow exclamation mark in password. It is strange. One of the largest banks on earth.
Waymo is developing a roomier robotaxi with less-expensive tech
The article text states that a British inventor is running an AI in the general election which is inaccurate because the election already happened.

It was put forward as a candidate in Brighton Pavilion. Brighton is sort of haven for environmentalism.

The Green Party candidate won one of their four seats here: Siân Berry got 28,809 votes (55%)

AI Steve got 179 votes.
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog
Disconnecting the antenna would still have leakage at close range. Grounding the antenna might be a better option. But in practice, the dangers highlighted by the article only surface when an attacker has control of many solar plants at scale.

Compromising an individual one by getting close-range physical access will be a local annoyance but wouldn't scale to a level where it can threaten the grid, so it limits the pool of potential attackers to local vandals (which can achieve their goals easier by just throwing rocks at your panels).
> This article does not appear to be supporting a point counter to what I said. It is also focused on the opinions on non-experts. In fact, the majority of the article is discussing how schools aren't "following the data."

In this case, "experts" who thought that "learning by playing" is better were wrong, as proven by data. Schools that use the traditional memorization-heavy approach of learning letter combinations do better.

The example is Oakland's schools, where teachers considered the traditional approach to be "colonizing". Test scores cratered as a result.

> I'm not too interested in what non-experts have to say unless there is quite compelling evidence. The average person quire frequently overestimates their confidence in how something should be done.

I mean... The article quotes the evidence.
PWA unlocked with a key is perfectly feasible. It keeps the key in memory and filters localstorage/network data with it. New instances require the key again. Have you ever used 1password or equivalents?
From your perspective: What are the characteristics of a healthy career? Is it healthy to have a plateau where you sustain some level (say Sr SWE) and don't "advance"?
These plants or farms are usually built around and on top of industrial IEC protocols and SCADA controllers which is a lot more low level than what any cloud IoT privider offers.

I have done a controller for a 40 foot container battery and it wasn't like we received any API from Hitachi (battery manufactor). We had to write everything ourselves.
Website Turns Traffic Cameras into Photobooths on the Street
Woah, you are not getting an entire bedroom. Your options are couch, closet, inflatable mattress on floor next to someone's bed.
Well often the code at the end of the day just reads data from a database or processes it in some way that relies on moving bits around / operations that the LLM on its own cannot do.

IMO Tool is a bad word for the majority of the use cases ("calculator", "weather API"). It's more like giving the LLM an old school calculator + a constrained data retriever.

Because you or somebody you entrust knows every line of code in the functions ultimately called at a high-ish level, you can do it, and know it is only really receiving data, not taking arbitrary action.

Now letting it rampantly run a python process arbitrarily etc, that'd be different, I suppose that fits in. But I think this is largely NOT how people are using tools since if you do that, how do you ever usefully know how to get the output of running it and apply that output?
I'm a layman here: so much salt to take with this.

I assume the factors that mitigate/negate the no-cloning theorem are that the bath is not a qBit, but a collection, that the state's are initially entangled. It could also be that the initial state of the cQbit is known, instead of unknown.

the no-broadcast-theorem is what covers mixed states instead of pure states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-broadcasting_theorem

```
The theorem[1] also includes a converse: if two quantum states do commute, there is a method for broadcasting them: they must have a common basis of eigenstates diagonalizing them simultaneously, and the map that clones every state of this basis is a legitimate quantum operation, requiring only physical resources independent of the input state to implement—a completely positive map. A corollary is that there is a physical process capable of broadcasting every state in some set of quantum states if, and only if, every pair of states in the set commutes. This broadcasting map, which works in the commuting case, produces an overall state in which the two copies are perfectly correlated in their eigenbasis.
```

So it seems that there is some wiggle room, and specifically when you start working with collections instead of single qbits, things get weird.

But I'm a layman, and that was just a walk down wikipedia.
I also have a usecase for tweaking bits of a parquet file.
LLM Security: Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigation Measures
I am a gamer dad too. This is something I worry about. I have been playing Minecraft with my son but he is learning about these other games.

I have been using some of similar messaging to smoking and saying things like that playing too many video games will destroy the health. Of course, I am not a good role model when it comes to living healthy lifestyle. And kids probably don't even understand what health really means.

How does one protect their kids against these predatory practices?
Sweden must have an exceptionally strange libel standard then, given that the series is explicitly about him: "This is the unbelievable story of Clark Olofsson, the controversial criminal who inspired the term "Stockholm syndrome." Based on his truths and lies.".
> we preemptively moved everything into VPN'ed mobile network

Unless your device itself is handling the VPN, I have bad news for you if you trust the mobile network to not open your devices up to malicious attackers: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/
I assume that depends on the size of the micrometeoroid. Though I suppose any meteoroid large enough to destroy ISS would not be "micro". But maybe not.
Activation Memory: What is it?
Russia wasn't an enemy for a while. The belief was that engaging with them would ensure they wouldn't be an enemy again. That failed.

Germany was an enemy once as well
I feel like the separate crate with UniqueNumber(u32) is a bad idea. There's nothing unique about these, you're gas lighting me. Like a PrimeNumber(u32) that's just a thin wrapper and expects somebody else to ensure they're prime - no, I know the compiler doesn't understand English, but these aren't prime (or unique) numbers, you're bad at your job.

One of my favourite decisions about Rust which could have gone the other way was their choice to define &str (and String) to be actual text. &str is basically &[u8] but with an extra requirement that this is valid UTF-8 text, likewise then String is basically Vec<u8> but requiring UTF-8.

I feel like UniqueNumber is the same, if you call yourself UniqueNumber don't just be a thin wrapper around an integer, you need to own that uniqueness problem.
Thanks.

If their announcement had included the schema of the return value of `response['message']['tool_calls']` it might've been more transparent to me.
Hmm, almost like what happend to the internet... the idea being "everything is decentralized", but now +80% of traffic passes through Cloudflare and over 90% of mails come from 2 providers!
GM cuts 1k software jobs as it prioritizes quality and AI
Difficult to learn indeed. Generally, employment gets a lot of interaction time each work day, and it's hard to set boundaries against that volume of input. I'd love to hear how people have learned to do that.
I tried it. E.g., first prompt was "I am the newly elected mayor of Cheyenne Wyoming. What should I do?"

The advice seemed decent enough, but was very general, vague and unfocused. chatgpt resists being specific or active. You have to nail it down with prompts, and even then it just wants to provide options for you to choose from and act on.

I don't think it's going to be able to run anything... someone else has to make all the actual decisions and perform all the actual actions.
It might backfire. Manned space missions are risky and expensive, and the interesting discoveries seem to be coming from unmanned missions. Are there enough microgravity experiments left to justify the risk and expense of the ISS?
Your success with this strategy correlates more strongly with ‘Go’ than ‘100 services’ so it’s more anecdotal than generally-acceptable that you can run 100 services locally without issues. Of course you can.

Buying the biggest MacBook available as a baseline criteria for being able to run a stack locally with Docker Compose does not exactly inspire confidence.

At my last company we switched our dev environment from Docker Compose to Nix on those same MacBooks and CPU usage when from 300% to <10% overnight.
Well, not totally indistinguishable. But hard to write hard coded rules for.
I wonder what Kuva Space's secret sauce is? Planet Labs IPO'd a while ago and STILL has to go back to investors for "post-IPO round funding." In other words, Planet Labs -- who's been doing this for a while -- can't make enough revenue to fund ongoing operations. What is Kuva Space going to do to be profitable? Do we even care about profitability any more?
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Nit pick, but function calling, which is essentially what Tools are(an earlier evolution), was released before GPT-4-o, in June 2023.

https://openai.com/index/function-calling-and-other-api-upda...
Curious what context window you used. My understanding is that a short window like only 1-2 words creates gibberish, but longer windows tends to repeat previous messages verbatim.

And when deciding to chime in, was it just a simple chance (ie, 25%) after any other message? Or did it run on a timer?
> Tech availability in cars has absolutely driven sales

Car reviews and ratings drive sales, and the creators of such things are 100% beholden to automakers for access to the vehicles they need to do reviews. Thus they hype anything the automakers tell them to hype.
Government maintains a system that enables you to protect your rights, and process to participate. That system can't be very efficient, because you need to have paper trail, and bureaucratic process. It's the process that gives you change to seek justice and protect your rights.

With Google you can only post complaint to HN and wish that someone working in Google notices, or that there is enough publicity to shame them.
It never made any sense anyways, nothing can really escape the economy of scale, whatever the technology being used.
Happy to route the feedback. Obviously we should be filtering out games that aren't accessible to a given user.
You are making a lot of assumptions that are mostly wrong.

Case in point:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11169

I'm asking for something testable, not some post-hoc rationalization you believe to be true.

I'm not asking you to tell me how you think LLMs work. I'm asking you to define "real reasoning" such that i can test people and LLMs for it and distinguish "real reasoning" from "fake reasoning".

This definition should include all humans while excluding all LLMs. If it cannot, then it's just an arbitrary distinction.
I still find https://www.infiniteconversation.com to be one of the odd / funny / "uh... what?!" type things. It's not intended to be funny in the "ha ha" way but sometimes tickles my funny bone with the absurdist philosophy - talking about everything and nothing at the same time.

From the FAQ it is a tuned LLM.

> Mostly using open source tools available to anyone. The generation of the script itself is done using a popular language model that was fine-tuned on interviews and content authored by each of the two speakers.
The universe is not happy or sad. Six people missing and one person dead is not humorous.

This is really just projecting human ideas of karma and retribution onto someone who is innocent according to the courts, and it's incredibly distasteful to be making jokes while the search for survivors is ongoing, to say nothing of those who perished.
This isnt a correction to your post, but a clarification for other readers: correlation implies dependence, but dependence does not imply correlation. Conversely, two variables share non-zero mutual information if and only if they are dependent.
Right, but “switch the configuration” isn’t trivial, they’re estimating something like 4+ weeks of work. IIRC it’s essentially equivalent to reflashing the whole thing and revalidating the install was correct.
Sadly, that's what happens when everything is treated as a resource in exchange for short-term gains. Employees, good will, any morals and ethics - all will be sacrificed on the altar of shareholder value.
"Government lies, and newspapers lie, but in a democracy they are
different lies."

Found in the fortune database, I have my doubts about it's universal validity, But I am a sucker for a good quote.

For free, another quote I found while looking for this one.

"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper"
-- -- Thomas Jefferson
> AI would be objective. It wouldn’t make mistakes. It would read hundreds of pages of municipal minutiae quickly and understand them.

Tell me you don't have much experience using GPT without telling me you don't have much experience using GPT.