skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Similar dynamics" requires situations where training the AI becomes bottlenecked on training opportunities.

There will certainly be areas where such bottlenecks exist, and so we can assume that there will be types of problems we can't expect exponential improvement to continue once it hits those bottlenecks. But the point is that self-driving is a poor example to use to judge what we can expect to see in fields that are less constrained by turnaround times and safety. Not least because "anyone" - though certainly constrained by costs - can try to do novel things with large language models. Very few can try to do novel things with self-driving because they have nothing realistic to test it on at scale.
I've spent the past day playing with this, iteratively feeding real tasks from my software consulting work into it and building with the output. At this point I am convinced it will replace a team of smart junior developers under me, who work instantly and have deep expertise in every language and framework I use. They make mistakes, but when I ask them to correct the mistakes they do so instantly, and don't get frustrated. At this point my biggest fear is that this tool is going to get taken away from me, and I would pay a substantial portion of the increased efficiency it gives me -- thousands of dollars per month -- as a business owner and senior developer to avoid that.
Appreciate the input. I would say that another line at the same location isn’t a back up, that’s scaling and you can choose to run that line or not. It’s not uncommon to run a second or third line at lesser capacity than the primary line (the Nissan plant in Sunderland flex the secondary lines a lot for example).

Much of my manufacturing knowledge comes from automotive and it’s very very very rare to run a literal back up factory (as in an unused facility in a different location that’s good to go to replace another factory). They take so much man power to run, so much time to set up that it’s not economically viable to just have it on standby as a back up.

Even if you did there would be masses of business pressure to utilise the capacity.

That’s why I pointed to diversification instead, Nissan make the Qashqai in 3 locations, UK, Russia and Japan (from memory) which gives them a level of resilience but they aren’t back ups.

If Sunderland goes down then Russia and Japan plants can’t just step up and fill in.

Setting up a new factory for the DBX nearly killed Aston Martin (May still do arguably) and that was one being set up ti be used. Not sat idle waiting.
Apparently yes. Sorry, it's 4pm my time and spent most of my day with my best friends and their two year old, who is adorable, but loud. Brain fog is real.
Twin studies exist; the major component of heredity is, unsurprisingly enough, genetic. For intelligence, it's anywhere between 50 and 80%. Given a strong political opposition to such conclusions, I'd expect it's actually underrated.
Waiting on web developer to get automated away. Every crud website feels like reinventing the wheel again and again.
Replicated with ChatGPT:
"The statement "we developers are now modern-day horseshoe makers" is a metaphor. It suggests that just as horseshoe makers were once important and in high demand but are now largely obsolete due to technological advancements, developers may eventually become obsolete as well due to advances in technology. In other words, the statement is expressing the idea that the role of developers may become less important or necessary in the future."
Nokia used to have a big factory in Mexico. Brazil already makes iPhones since it’s cheaper due to their insane import tax.
I don't get the "digital wall" things.

Yes, mid 2020 till 2021 is the worst part of the pandemic era. For few months, shopping malls, restaurants, cafes etc are not allowed to open. Then the restrictions were gradually lifted: they were allowed to open in shorter business time.

Even at that period I'd still regularely go out to take pictures, visit local coffee shops, take a walk (no traffic yay).
We just need to sign an open letter that says what we, as developers, will and will not build, and what kinds of ostracism will result from not signing or not adhering.
You make a good point but im not sure a physical newspaper/journal would be the best example of a non-digital endeavor. I don’t intend to nitpick here but maybe one of the biggest “tradeoffs” of the digital space is access to information; when it rains it pours hey?
In my opinion access to diverse news and professional/academic journals is one of the best parts of the internet.

Maybe reading a newspaper at the table with coffee with family/friends would be appropriate though - one perk of many being sunday crosswords.
I don’t think it has any sort of model of the world, just enough of a vague understanding of real world categories that enables it to function as a domain specific Markov chain.
I’d like to see again “Made in USA” phone and ready to pay 10% more.
Genuinely curious about why this was flagged, if anyone feels like enlightening me so I can be a better citizen here.
This doesn’t seem accurate. Isn’t AGPL viral across RPC boundaries requiring open sourcing not just the service but all supporting code for that service?
> Where has Powell said anything about immigration

He did mention that lack of labor supply is driving up wages.

> people on H1B are paid more than the prevailing wage for a metropolitan region

Because H1B visas are generally only issued to high skilled professionals? Sure. a software engineer on H1B is probably gonna earn more than the waiter or cashier in the shop downstairs. Are they gonna earn more than their colleagues who are citizens/permanent residents? Obviously not...
Yes because Linux doesn’t suffer from cults of personality like RMS…

For software developers who haven’t gotten over their addiction to food and shelter and who trade labor for money via software development, the entire premise behind “all software should be free” is quite cultish.
I don't know if this is quite what you mean, but I've had more than one discussion (and seen many more online on twitter, reddit) that goes something like:

>Alice: say, for the sake of argument, that A is true

>Bob: But A isn't true?

>Alice: Whether A is true or not is a different question. For the purposes of our conversation (that we're talking about the consequences of A being true), it is.

>Bob: But... A isn't true.

>Alice: I give up!

>Bob: I win!

For Bob, it seems to be completely impossible to talk "stipulatively".

It's equal parts frustrating and baffling to me that some people just can't understand the concept of talking about logical conclusions from some starting point independently from the veracity of that starting point, and I'd agree it's one of the big issues with (online) discourse today.
I think this reply avoids the thrust of the argument: there's no simple way to draw a clear line around the behaviors that shouldn't be tolerated. We need a robust process, and it is bound to be an ongoing effort to maintain a free society.
>My "justification" is not usable identically, word for word, by the same people who believe the opposite of my beliefs, because they do not believe my beliefs.

"If we tolerate {people with out-group beliefs}, they will take power and restrict our civil liberties, therefore we must guard {Sacred Value} from them" can be - and is - used by both sides to justify restriction of civil liberties.

>All the examples you cite (a CNN host, individuals talking about physically opposing self-identified Nazis, "comedians jailed for jokes", teenagers jailed for singing) are individuals.

I didn't know quite how to parse this. Are you saying that the victims are all individuals, or that the oppressors are? In both cases, that's not necessarily true. There were many people involved in calling that teenager a terrible person and harassing him - the force of the media, hate mobs on Twitter, and the like. And the people chilled into silence by "cancel culture" form a large group themselves. All of these groups, of course, are composed of individuals, but that doesn't seem to weigh on either direction. Of course the people who most acutely feel oppression are going to be individuals; how else would that work? Of course the oppressive group is going to be large; how else would it have any power?

>One group is cancelling the civil liberties of another, visibly, but they are keeping those rights for themselves.

And this is exactly what I mean about the symmetry of these arguments. I have heard this same idea repeated by right-wing people about the left! And they are able to produce examples of the same - that's what their complaints about cancel culture are. Here's an example of that; in the wake of the #MeToo movement, I have seen people on this very forum put forward the idea that allegations of sexual assault and rape are so serious and so traumatizing to the victims, that they should be assumed to be true and damning in the absence of evidence or trials. That is, that the accused should have their right to a fair trial, the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty, revoked. That's a really damned worrying thing to hear as a liberal who's actually interested in protecting civil rights! Apparently some people have never heard of Emmett Till.

The thing is, the pop-culture paradox of tolerance - the idea under discussion - is literally about being able to declare some ideas "intolerant" and thus remove them from the discussion. It's a claim that some ideas are so dangerous that the public needs to be protected from them, and the claim that the group presenting that paradox are the people who should make that determination. I don't trust any group with that power. To do so would be to willingly place myself under the power of a despot.
What is "a duck"?

P.S. Note I didn't say "just". That assumption is all yours.
Maybe someone could make ChatGPT write an equivalent extension for Firefox.
> What you use on Mac for window management? Recently switched from Linux Mint Cinnamon, default window management feels like a downgrade, maybe I’m holding it wrong?

You're not holding it wrong, it's just a very primitive desktop environment. No snapping, poor external monitor support, defaults to magically moving desktops in relation to each other, etc.

If you want good window management right out the box, you won't get it from MacOS.
The "this isn't cheating" folks do a pretty fine demonstration of why modern humanity is trying hard to wreck itself and will probably succeed. That this is "cheating", violating the spirit of the thing even if it's "technically okay", should be self-evident and obvious, but instead we've got folks actually arguing about it. Sincerely, even.

It's not new, but this, right here, is the thing that's broken in humans.

Public things aren't exclusively for you. Public things are for everyone who uses them.

Geez.
I literally landed in Japan today for the first time since COVID:

Had problems creating and topping up Suica/PASMO with multiple foreign Visa cards (ended up using Amex), but had absolutely no problems paying with Visa in stores that accept the usual myriad of cards.
Let’s assume tolerance means tolerance of viewpoints which disagree with our own position.

From an evolutionary lens, if someone disagrees with us, then aren’t we predisposed not to tolerate since tolerating would be at odds with our own survival? That’s the sort of lazy evaluation approach.

A more nuanced take could be that being tolerant also encourages us to revisit our own position and improve it if need be enabling a greater likelihood of survival.
I agree wholeheartedly with this article and think it's worth writing more. I used to blog a ton and am considering restarting the habit.

A good companion article to this could be Simon Willison's "What to blog about" https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/
When you say SAS, are you referring to the UK’s special air service?
$100K ads is nothing. It is an ad budget that will get exhausted in few days with broad targeting parameters. The entire issue was a nothing burger, fabricated by one side to push their agenda.
Problem is it wouldn’t be 10% more, it’d be 100% more
The Next Generation of Fortnite Battle Royale Is Powered by Unreal Engine 5.1
> Which raises the question of how much they can even be held accountable for their actions to some degree

I think they can still be held accountable. They were told not to do a thing, and they did it.
I will never give a penny to EV manufacturers period.

As a consumer I want corporate attention to be focused on me, not people who will be alive 100 years from now.

I am also working on avoiding giving Misk and co. any of my tax money by moving to either Sao Paolo, Mexico City or Dubai
I want better systems and I am cynical about pursuing other ends in this willfully politics-blind isolated manner, impressiveness of their achievements having a slightly tragic quality under that light.

I am not from the US but I think the US is a great case study in the disconnect between technological progress and improved general conditions (in particular for but not exclusively relating to healthcare). I think cynicism is the correct response to this trend.
Not sure why this has to be seen in the light of extremes vs. gray areas. People should really be more open to questioning ways of living as a whole instead of just automatically aiming for some middle ground by default and without discernment. In the end it’s better to be decisive and consistent than to be contradictory and mediocre.
K-diffusion: Karras et al. (2022) diffusion models for PyTorch
Ask HN: Reading material on how to be a better software engineer?
I’ve gotten to be quite good at the actual coding part after a decade or so of programming. I’m not looking for better code practices, although I’ll obviously still learn and grow there.

What I’m seeking is reading material regarding how to manage project scope, be better team member, converting asks to deliverables, managing expectations from management, enabling team members by opening communication channels across teams, time management, etc.

Any suggested reading material? Preferably books, but excellent blog posts are welcome.
I did not view the video, but I believe "General Purpose Computing" is coming to an end. With everyone moving to Cell Phones plus the boot lockdown (Secure Boot) and things like Intel ME, TPM, future is not looking too bright. And I heard Microsoft is requiring some new addition to Chips that Windows will need which seems to be a kind of backdoor (I forgot what it is called).

I am sure many people here have seen this, looks to me this is the direction society is slowly heading towards:

www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
The word suffers can mean experienced in a negative way.
It didn’t resonate with me personally, either.
But have definitely witnessed this happening with k-8 teachers and students.
That's a false equivalence. "Pro-life" advocates use a topic that some people find emotive purely for political ends.

Gun control advocates object tto avoidable gun massacres in schools, malls, and other public places.

They're not remotely comparable.

The obvious difference is that if a woman has an abortion it's fundamentally a private matter. The outcome affects a single person. Or two people at most.

The outcome is not a line of ambulances and coffins and a traumatised community of teachers, parents, and neighbours.

Of course they're framed as if they're equivalent freedoms, because in the US "freedom" is a master-frame that can be used to justify almost anything.

And that's the real problem. One group consistently uses deceptive single-issue appeals to emotion to gain and hold political power. If there are no real issues to appeal to, they'll quite happily invent some. They fundamentally don't care what the issue is as long as it's politically useful.

The other group actually cares about outcomes - not just in a negative sense of wanting certain things not to happen, but in the positive sense of expanding political access to everyone in the community for the benefit of the entire community.

What's missing - in the US particularly - is a political system which makes this fundamental distinction clear and explicit. Democracies have few defences against deceptive framing used for political grift.

And that's not a good way to build a better future.
The problem I had was that I didn't see where the mistake was... once I know the mistake pointing it out is pointless.
A quick google search did not return anything, mainstream media does not cover stories like this, and I cannot remember where I read these stories. I know the last one I read was about a family suing the government to stop the euthanasia of their son(I believe). And I have read articles similar to this one of the elderly going to the hospital and being offered euthanasia instead of medical care.

I did find this forbes article (https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2022/08/15/canadas-n...) that talked about a troubling case I had not heard or and included lots of details about the whole system.

But when all you need is a nurse practitioner and a signature from someone with dementia or other mentally crippling disease, of course things like this will happen. Agree or disagree with how some European countries do it, this is not that same thing. The people pushing this are the doctors and nurses you go to to get medial treatment from, and the oversight is non-existent.
"Électricité de France S.A. (literally Electricity of France), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state." - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_de_Franc...
"In some ways, you could represent the whole idea of modern human society with a light bulb turning on above our heads. Few technologies have been as critical to shaping the world as we know it."

... eyeroll
I’ve started doing many things more slowly, not just reading. Cooking, for example. After the challenge of chopping an onion really quickly wore off, I started going slower and enjoying the moment. I realized chefs in kitchens go fast because they have to. They have many tables to serve. I have just one, so for me trying to look like a chef doesn’t make any sense. I can go slow and it’s ok, my family isn’t “waiting for their order”. I call them to the table when dinner is ready, which means: no rush needed, and I can just enjoy the moment. Same goes for almost anything else.
Like this

await asyncio.sleep(120)
PHP 8 does exactly what he suggested and omits the token name:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected token "::"

https://3v4l.org/2T8qQ
This brings back memories of me reading this is middle school. I remember getting to this exact spot and thinking should I be reading this? Lol. I'm glad to know I'm not the only person that read that passage a different way.
Leave them! They're beautiful!
Switching to a third party which agrees on a subset of topics with the original party they come from is completely understandable. But again, doing a complete 180, especially knowing what parties stands for in the US is hard to believe. It should takes years, and I mean more than a decade.
Thank you, this is something I've said for ages now. If a company has an almost defacto monopoly and stops people from talking about something, it's effectively the same as a government doing it. And when about 98% of internet communities are hosted by and controlled by large corporations, the whole 'go elsewhere and start up your own service' thing feels kinda clueless, as if it's deliberately ignoring how powerful network effects are.

It's also clueless because it's extremely difficult to run a business or service online if your views/product/service is despised by a large enough percentage of the population, due to every single layer of the stack being controlled by someone that can and will shut down anyone they disagree with. ISPs, web hosts, anti DDOS providers, software providers, domain name registrars, payment processors... all of them think of themselves as the internet moral police, and will boot customers/clients if enough people scream at them to do so (or in the case of things like porn or gambling, because it's 'convenient').

So running an alternative gets more and more costly and impractical the more controversy you bring, to the point you're probably required to run your own datacentre and networking links if people hate you enough.

That's not true of a real life business or organisation, which gets services provided by utilities and where (assuming they own the building), only the government could boot them out.
> [image of slider going from red "min" to green "max"]

> This is what you get when you search for “Maximum” on Pixabay, not really sure what’s going on here.

This image succinctly summarizes the problem that the article is talking about. (It's an actual case of "an image is worth a thousand words".) The correct color scale would have green in the middle and red both on the "minimum" and the "maximum" side. Instead, "maximum" somehow has a generalized positive connotation, even though it is just as far away from "optimal" as "minimum".
ChatGPT can still hallucinate stuff, so if you want to write anything of substance, you have to check its claims through Google.
Oops, sorry about that. I searched for the story before posting and didn’t see it.
It seems like the leaderboard was made obsolete today. Once there is an AI everybody can use to solve it automatically, there will be hundreds of submissions around the same time.

Let’s see how many days those AIs can solve. Around day 10 AoC usually gets quite difficult.
Isn't ironic that we can clone, copy and made a cheaper replacement of any real product in the planet in a couple of weeks, except those who really would benefit of that treatment?

Why is not the government making a lower quality, cheaper foam to use in those training seasons that does not cause cancer? That would save a lot of money.

Or just buying their training foam from Amazon...
That's even more interesting. Thanks.
That seems to me like their import tax is working.

I wish more countries had import taxes of this sort, they tend to push the nation to be a bit more diversified in their economy since they provide air cover for small local concerns.
I think you and I think along roughly similar lines. Several years back, I was in the market for an EV and seriously considering a Tesla. However, during the course of that consideration, he made the “$420 funding secured” tweet (and also I believe started spouting off about “pedo guy”) and I decided I preferred not to do business with companies that casually commit major securities fraud.

Wound up buying an Audi e-tron instead. Range didn’t hold up to any of the Teslas at the time, but it was more than workable and the fit/finish and interior were excellent.
I've been unable to behave around people, a need not to harm their feelings, or maybe a fear of expressing my self (trauma based upbringing or something). This means I get locked in with verbal flooders regularly and they indeed seem to love having me around to spill their mind out.
But even if you encourage that it's still pointless, because you don't know how people have used it, or with what distribution.

This annoys me with ratings used to train recommendations too, e.g. Netflix, where I don't know how they want me to use it. What if I know it is something I would absolutely not even try watching, should I rate it? Or am I telling it I tried it, and that's a higher rating (because I might give something similar a go too) than none at all? Not to mention the old stars not being mapped into thumbs, or the later addition of double thumbs up meaning only more recently encountered favourites get that accolade.