skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a long and proud tradition in the UK of undermining the ability of the working classes, coupled with a fear/distain of the state education system.

The idea that comprehensive schools are producing illiterate and innumerate school leavers plays neatly into the prejudices of journalists and business owners (the majority of whom have been privately educated), whilst simultaneously justifying the poor pay and conditions on offer to shop floor staff.

Anybody who has spent any time around young people in the UK will know that they are, if anything, far more literate than previous generations, which should come as no surprise since they spend a greater amount of time reading and writing on electronic devices.
Can we adapt blender to also do audio? It’s video editor is pretty good already.
Wouldn't the devops guy just be the person to handles the setup of all that automation? That is what devops is at my company.
Worth it for a few companies, but not for the majority. Most tests are also useless. Going for 100% test coverage is insanity. I think there is a lot of people in tech with autistic personalities who really hate when things are not perfect.
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Wikipedia suggests "Ponzi finance"

> non-sustainable patterns of finance, such as borrowers who can only meet their debt commitment if they continuously obtain new sources of financing, often at an accelerating pace and/or ever-increasing interest rates until the borrower cannot secure more financing at any interest rate and becomes insolvent.
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> For France, it was eye opening ( and the same for the French side of Switzerland)

How so?
Most children in America know of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who in 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her act ultimately helped spark the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Consequently,
It's not Sentry's job to ask users for consent, but the software developers.

If you want to be mad - be mad at the people who are doing the truly shitty things with your data, not at the legitimate vendor.
You'd use gamma to convert it to the limited rgba8888 scheme. Or maybe with hdr monitors some sort of 10 or 12 bit scheme. Either way you'll need to cut out information, because a light with value 1029 and a shade with value 3 in the same picture won't bode well without some gamma correction and cutoff.
As someone who has lived in places where you really don’t need a car, it’s hard to explain how fundamentally different they are.

I don’t live in one anymore, and it was awkward when friends visited (hardly any parking), but some aspects of it were profoundly pleasant in ways that I couldn’t have understood before I tried it.
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Reminds me of Doomwatch:The Plastic Eaters, from 1970.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomwatch
> Gone are the days, when one could easily ssh into remote prod systems and fix the issue. With shell less Docker...

I think we finally realized that fixing something in prod via ssh is not a good solution and might introduce new bugs on its own. Rather build an infrastructure that allows you to rollback fast. It is also not worth to fix individual machines in a big cluster, just throw them away and bootstrap them from zero. This way you make sure that you don't have accumulated patches and workarounds on your nodes that might lead to future failures. In some companies we reached the point where you don't even fix a cluster in a multi-cluster setup, but throw away the whole damn thing and bootstrap it from zero.
You say sophisticated but in reality, it has become extreamly complex, which is a natural consequence of using tons of different tools and glueing them together.
To my untrained ear this sounds almost like a mix of Hindi and Mandarin. Interesting.
Counterpoint - during typical (consumer) usage hardware spends most of the time idle. Hardware capable of sustaining the maximum workload indefinitely is likely to have a lower maximum in practice. Unsustainable bursts are likely to provide higher overall performance for typical workloads, so it makes sense to optimize the hardware design for those.
> So if your toaster started talking you would treat it like a person?

Strawman.

> unthinking compliance with senseless

Neither unthinking nor senseless.

> ugly, disrespectful of thought and actually immoral

Absolute hogwash. What terrible reasoning you're just now coming up with.
I struggle to comprehend how anyone thought copilot is a good idea.law wise and concept wise.
Depends who you ask. Everyone seems to invent the definition that local-optimize for themselves. The book Good To Great goes into the dynamics, outside of IT, so is a general pattern.
I'm just not sure this is true. There are plenty of things wrong with the education system in the UK, and no doubt many individuals are completely failed by the system. But most kids do learn to read, write, perform basic maths and handle social situations well enough that they can get a job / engage in further training.

Room for improvement? Yes, hugely. Total failure? I think that's hyperbole.
Why would you not just let the output hardware handle that sort of stuff? It really depends on the hardware what it can output and what not.
actually the education budget (in real terms) peaked in 2011 and has been flat since then.
Some things are more worth it than others, and you can choose how much effort you put in. Small commits are definitely worth it when debugging. I've lost hours, maybe even days because of long commits that were a pain to bisect. The help you get from singling out a commit of 3 changes compared to one with 20 changes is immense.
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I doubt it. While a bit cheaper this isn't that much cheaper to run yourself given that it has much worse results than GPT-3 and would require way more maintenance to keep running.
We see this with Dyson claiming every few years that they can't find enough engineers -- translation -- we can't find enough engineers for the salary we want to pay them.
Thanks that’s interesting, but reliant on the all present word Ponzi!
I think that this may have a lot to do with Sharon White looking to be a big beast in the Labour party in pretty short order. A stint at Ofcom followed by time at JL gives good credentials for a front bench position, possibly from the House of Lords.
The NY Times is in a competition with themselves to write the dumbest headlines and see how fast it can shovel its credibility into a bonfire.

Here, I'll do your job for you:

"Rich Americans More Likely To Have Access To Green Spaces"
This I would love schools to teach critical thinking, how you country works, citizen rights and responsibilities, financial skills, how starting and running business work. All the plumbing that you have to deal with in the real life. However I don’t think schools are set up for this either in skills or willingness.
Has the advent of electronic devices brought more reading and writing for the current generation? Any sources on that? I’m strongly hoping that any such study would count texting as neither reading nor writing…
Exactly. This was the type of mistake that OpenAI could easily have made. I could see myself including this historical dataset without giving it a second thought. After all, the more data, the better, right?

One of The Pile's goals was to point out how tricky that can be. We've all seen how effortlessly Copilot spits out GPL code by rote; one wrong prompt would be all it takes to start spewing a lot things that no one wants to hear, if you have the wrong sort of data.

When you train with The Pile, you know exactly what you're getting, because you can take whatever parts you want and ignore the rest. It's a modular dataset. But defaults still matter -- by default, everyone will train on everything. Maybe OpenAI trained on the wrong thing, and maybe that's why they're forcing everyone to use their filters now. Whereas people can "just go train on everything in The Pile" and not have to worry.

(Once upon a time, the plan was to include a dump of Literotica in The Pile, which you can still find here: https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile_preliminary_components/ I argued heavily in favor of this, and thought it was totally lame when they decided to drop it.

In hindsight, that was a close call. AI Dungeon proves that it's easy to carelessly include things that can bite you later: https://gitgud.io/AuroraPurgatio/aurorapurgatio#aurorapurgat...

Maybe some people want their models to include that sort of thing, but it shouldn't be the default. People shouldn't have to worry that the defaults will be "Whoa, I only wanted to make a Q&A system for my business; why is it reciting love poems?"

Stella saw that, I think. I didn't.
That doesn't make sense. If the scope is broader, then you can do at least as much infringement compared to if the scope is narrow.
Yup. Same reason cyanide is deadly. Ain't chemistry grand? Good for a smoker to know since we're carrying quite a bit more than your average jogger... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxyhemoglobin#Affinity_of_...
Religion in that list makes what you're describing as progress.
> Anybody who has spent any time around young people in the UK

I don't think this is sufficient as people tend to group with people like themselves. For example, I do not believe I know any adults without a university degree. I might erroneously conclude that virtually everyone goes to university. Most people do not have one.
Best devs I ever worked with never completed high school.
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It's not silly, it's an evolved and pragmatic solution to the question of how society can incentivize creative work. More or less every society has developed some notion of IP and there's little appetite in wider society to debate it - the idea of abolishing IP laws is deeply fringe and only really surfaces in forums like this one.

Does it have flaws and can it be improved upon? Sure. I think society underweights what improvements to the patent system in particular could do. But such ideas are so niche they are hardly even written down, let alone debated at large. Society has bigger issues on its mind.

Like any evolved system IP law encounters new challenges over time and will be expected to evolve again, which it will surely do. A simple fix for Copilot is surely to just exclude all non-Apache2/BSD/MIT licensed code. Although there might technically still be advertising clause related issues, in practice hardly anyone cares enough to go to court over that.
In that hypothetical scenario, would you prefer humanity was left extinct? Culture can be recreated, or at least something new can be created in its place. If you're dead, that's it, you're gone
Oh give the guy a break, people. It's not like he's wrong here. Detach your emotions from your proof-of-stake for a minute. We're all greedy bastards but please let's be honest about it.
This why here in Finland a lot of rural roads are being converted back to dirt. Basically keep the asphalt for as long as it can be with cheap repairs and once it needs to be redone just rip it off and put some gravel. Maintenance for these is cheap using existing infrastructure (trucks and loaders that the municipality already owns for winter/snow). Basically every spring just relevel it with a blade attached to a truck and add a bit of gravel.
I don’t think so! What I’m looking for is a sort of taxonomy of scams. Ponzi sits within that taxonomy but is only one species!

I’ll advertise on HN once done. Thanks for your encouraging feedback.
Likely this was for a position for which yearly total comp is in the single digit millions. I'd guess they are highly sought after and quite many people apply. So such filtering, while sad, is something to be expected.
Right. The second issue is that the example grayscale ramps in the page lack a color profile as well, and depending on how you're looking at them (monitor and, sadly, which browser/version) you'll get different results.

On my current high-gamut display the uncorrected images look almost linear, while the gamma-corrected ones have too much black (exactly the opposite of what the page is intended to show).
> Running Kubernetes for example has in just the past couple of months potentially become a genuinely hands off exercise thanks to GKE Autopilot where you can just throw containers at it and it will just work and do the right thing by default.

I never heard of Autopilot before but it sounds like what AWS has had for a while with Fargate where you don't need to manage your worker nodes, instead you define what compute resources you want and what tier of instances they should run on (CPU optimized, general, etc.).

Things like this are definitely a very welcome change but running a production workload on Kubernetes is still no where near a hands off exercise, even with the cluster creation and scaling aspect abstracted away. There's still learning, using and applying Kubernetes.

Sure once you have the knowledge and experience you might only need something like 200-250 lines of YAML to run a production grade stateless web app service on your cluster including a few bells and whistles like external-dns but getting there isn't hands off and things are changing, then there's also figuring out how to automate all of this into a CI / CD pipeline and ensuring any services being built are architected to run in a load balanced container friendly way (using object storage, generally stateless, env variables, etc.). Not all of these things are a given.

I just mostly went through this path in the last few months while working part time for a client. I'm basically at the point of wrapping things up with external-dns and it's taken around 80 hours to get there. That's not including automating all of this in CI yet too. In end there's no way I would classify myself as an expert either, there's still a lot left to learn, but that timeframe includes learning Kubernetes from scratch after already having worked with Docker / Ansible for 6+ years and being comfortable with sysadmin / ops tasks in general. It wasn't the hardest thing in the world but it wasn't anywhere near hands off. It was like learning any other complex piece of software. A crazy amount of trial and error while reading the docs and scouring the internet for as many resources as you can find.

The same process happened with Serverless too. It took a different amount of time to get a function running in a production ready way but there were a ton of things to learn along the way.

In both cases this required spending a lot of time learning things that a lot of developers either don't care about or don't have time to learn because they are busy developing business features. IMO the demand for ops style roles will never go away, even going with the highest level of abstraction with Heroku requires spending time setting it all up and keeping things in check.
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How to hold a client to pay without a formal invoice? a promise isn't worth shit especially from a client in another country...

What if that client can issue you a formal "I Owe U" with terms of service, and those IoU's are shared publicly for all the world to see!

What if that client can issue that IoU on social media by just saying saying the word IoU while talking to you!

Who wants to brain storm this further?
What do insanely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about?
(talking about France here, I can provide some websites with old manuals or student notebooks)
Two examples : past simple is no longer required to be studied in primary school and dumb down kid books with much less vocabulary and grammar (actual incorrect grammar) being re-edited like the Enid Blyton (The Famous Five) ones.

One needs to understand that kids are spending at least 2 less years in school from 6 to 18. We are lying to the kids, parents and ourselves.
You are misunderstanding the concept of literacy here. It doesn’t mean “reads slang fan fiction on Twitter”, it means “reads exemplary works of art created throughout history.”

I doubt the average young person even knows that Homer is the author of the Iliad and not a character on The Simpson’s.
Counterpoint. Few people who the education system worked out for are going to be working on the department store shop floor.

Not that I disagree, but the opinion is coming from a very specific view point. If the kids had strong educations, would they be okay getting paid £10 an hour / £16k a year.
I wished they would have a separate, properly named process for it. My old MB Pro (late 2015) was throtteling a lot and it took me very long to recognize, as it was just "kernel task" gobbling up cpu. Getting the machine cleaned out at a service center did help a lot, I wonder, whether redoing the thermal paste on the cpu would have improved it further, but I ended up replacing it with a current model.
because "I'm missing something out, I want find myself".

This just comes from the media and consumer capitalism. A century ago, the idea that you should blow up your family to go “find yourself” in a series of experiences would be seen as laughable.
> Bash has a handy POSIX mode which you can run your code under if you’re not sure if it’s portable or not.

That is not what POSIX mode is for. POSIX mode is to let POSIX scripts work, not to let non-POSIX scripts fail. The latter is done only insofar as it is necessary to achieve the former, so POSIX mode still leaves plenty of extensions enabled, which is fine for its intended use.
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You, and not OP, are mistaken. Literate here means C+ grade in English language, not literature.
I'm in the process of migrating a handful of small internal systems from azure to AWS - azure is miles ahead in this regard so you're likely looking at it from the perspective of someone using the best tooling available. Setting up Azure Container Instances, or even Azure webapp compared to fargate/elastic beanstalk is just night and day
> But most kids do learn to read, write, perform basic maths and handle social situations well

Kids learn to read nowadays at 5 or 6 (so some of them enter school already being able to read), learning to write and perform basic maths is not that hard either. The fact that you use these measures as a baseline shows that the education system is a train wreck.
My experience of British teachers is entirely contrary to this. I would employ most of them if they came to work for me - almost all of them are "get job done people people" and they care about their work.

- an acquaintance who is a teacher takes breakfast (at her own expense on a tight salary) into class for all her 8-9 year old students because she knows that some of them don't get fed at home

- my daughters teacher started and runs an engineering class after school for the kids using donations of machinery and components from parents (I gave them a defunct hedge cutter which they stripped down and then rebuilt to show how the motor works)

- the head of the other primary school in town goes to the traveler camps out in the country side and goes door to door to engage the families and persuade them to send their kids to school. He is physically frail, openly gay and anyone who has gone to those camps knows that this is a genuinely risky thing to do - but he does it, every summer, because he cares about the kids. Btw, the fact that he brings them into his school means that he has an extra cohort of really challenging problems every summer which slamdunks into the toilet his chance of further preferment and performance related pay.

I think you should spend some time in schools, perhaps you could see if one of them near you needs a governor - you might learn something.
I don’t think it’s particularly surprising that young people going directly into retail jobs have poor functional numeracy or literacy. Firstly, those with academic skills or other skills will either be getting further education or going into a trade. So you’re left with quite a specific group of people. Then consider- is this specific to this group? I got a masters in engineering, when I turned up on day 1 was I a good engineer? No, I had very little practical experience and that matters. The idea that education makes you ready for a job is a slightly absurd standard unless we re-work our education system to have a far more practical set of courses. We can do that but that will equally have short comings.
Whether they can read a bottle of aspirin is the example in this report:

https://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/building...
Stories are pretty good! First try, where first sentence is prompt:

Once upon a time, there was a tiny dragon, only one inch tall. The dragon lived in a large mansion with his three sisters. He was very good at flying. He loved to fly around and play with his friends, especially the cloud animals.

One day, the dragon left his mansion and flew to the far-off woods. "I am going to a wonderful place with many kinds of flowers!" thought the dragon. "A rainbow will lead me there." And he started his journey.

After traveling a long way, he saw a dark tunnel ahead of him. "Where am I going?" thought the dragon. He climbed down the tunnel. The wall of the tunnel was smooth and shiny. It was so dark in there. The only thing he saw was some shadows.

Suddenly, an awful noise came from the shadows. "SH-OOO-SHHHHHHH" It sounded like someone was sucking his thumb or something. The dragon stopped in his tracks. A dark shadow moved up towards him.

The dragon took a little step back. "Wh-what are you?" he stammered. The shadow bent down and glared at the tiny dragon.

"I'm not very small, you know," he said. The shadow was about the size of a middle school boy.
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>£10 an hour

Is that terrible in the UK? That's like $14 an hour and large swaths of Americans are expected to live on that with much shittier welfare than the UK.
> The human brain isn't Turing-complete as that would require infinite memory.

This is wrong, this is not what Turing completeness is. It applies to computational models, not hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness
The delayed capital works. If 10% is normal, off the back of the Eisenhower era spend, the JFK spend, the LBJ spend on infrastructure, then capital works budgets have been lick-of-paint since. They're overdue for significant re investment.

The federal capital works improvement spending proposed as recovery intervention identifies 100 major bridges nationally, and another 10,000 worth investing in.[1]

Since then 10% can't stop, the likely spend has to be more. It's that simple.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
i would invite you to justify why reading and writing messages doesn’t constitute reading and writing, on some level.
New HDR standards, Rec.709/Rec.2020 still have that same gamma ramp so I wouldn’t call it a relic.
Wait, what? Devops is all about building and using automation to enable many rapid releases!
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