skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the second time today that an HN front page post about some perceived decline has started the headline with their 40+ age.

Even when the problem might have nothing to do with their age.

I suspect that an effect of headlines like this is that it reinforces ageism in tech.

Ageism has been a problem in tech since the the modern flavor of Internet startups started. (AFAICT, with the "drop out of college to be a founder, because you have fewer commitments, and will work harder" essays.) And we're still seeing mutated versions of that.
I think he's proposing that the LLM should know how to call out to a knowledge engine at inference time. He thinks the knowledge engine continues to be its own (human-curated) system of knowledge that is valuable.

I am suggesting the LLM will (effectively) call out to a knowledge engine at training time, learn everything the knowledge engine knows, and render it obsolete.

So it's similar in some sense (collaboration between the two systems), but crucially, a diametrically opposed prediction in terms of the long-term viability of Wolfram Alpha.

Crucially, he says "[an LLM] just isn’t a good fit in situations where there are structured computational things to do", but I think it's dubious to claim this; LLMs can learn structured domains too, if they are well-represented in the training set.

edit to add: I see that you're specifically noting the LaMDA point, yes, you're right that this is more like what he's proposing. My main claim is that things will not move in that direction, rather the direction of the Mind's Eye paper I linked.
Don't bother with the dishwasher pods, they cost more and don't work as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04
Unlocking de novo antibody design with generative artificial intelligence
Twitter Bans Account for DC Area Bus System Without Explanation
If you haven't yet read it, go straight the source on this one and read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building". The paper is excellent, and an easy read. It's linked to by TFA.

The consequences of the logic contained within Naur's essay are far stronger than I think the article understands them to be.
I've done some amateur radio astronomy, and I have a keen interest in trying to detect FRB.

From what I've read, many bursts are around 1400 MHZ with some between 400 - 800mhz. Well within the capabilities of ham radio receivers and even SDRs.

Some of them have comparable signal strength to that of CAS A (5500 Jansky @ 408mhz), which is easily detectable with a UHF yagi and small RTL SDR receiver on a drift scan.

This is why I believe I might be able to detect FRB from the backyard. I might need some specialized computation to detect them, but I might not. A good place to start might be some of the known repeating FRBs.

If you've done some RA, for FRB or otherwise, I'd love to talk shop.
Of course, now that it has expanded, and it's currently 2023 not 1970, the approachability to the average person is nearly zero.
On one hand, it provides an unlimited stream of video that's tailored to your interests that you can consume any time you want from practically anywhere.

And on the other hand, it's a platform where anyone can create something and have it reach over a billion people around the world, with the amount of exposure you get determined by how much people engage with your content.

Contrast that to 30 years ago where you might get 10 TV channels (or 50 if you paid for cable), shows come on only at specific times, you have to be sitting in front of a TV set to watch them, and all of that content is chosen by a handful of guys in suits.

When I was a kid, my friends and I used to make videos on a camcorder. Of course nobody watched these except us - because how would they? The thought of sharing these with the world and have them compete on their merits to gain an audience would have been completely insane.
So I have been on both sides of the one-on-one. I see this as a time to get uninterrupted feedback on processes and day-to-day things that don't fit well within team stand-ups.

It's also a time when you should be able to express yourself more directly. It is certainly ok to use this time to talk about what you are doing. That's kind of the what the manager is looking for. Ensuring there are no impediments that get glossed over in Slack exchanges or stand-ups.

You also shouldn't feel pressured to fill the entire time. Some weeks are just slow, or things are more mundane and all parties are in sync. Some weeks it feels like I need more time, depending on your manager you could schedule another sync the next day about a specific issue.

If you don't already, it may be a good idea to take daily notes, so you can do a round-up of anything that came up in the week. This will allow you to make the best use of your meeting time without forgetting important details or questions that came up.

Other than that I try to keep my one-on-ones casual and open. It's ok for there to be a little silence.
I just noticed the above may be confusing. I wrote "with OEMs' intervention" when I meant "without OEMs' intervention."
....Actually, lots of people have been saying cryptocurrency is or would be more compelling than gold or fiat for several years now, and deriding those of us who disagreed with phrasing like "how do you like being poor?"
Ah, I probably am looking at the grid one these days, then. I've definitely got it connected to the 'net, and updated, since the single most important exclusive game on it is digital-only (the Perfect Dark HD re-release—the version that's just the original game with better textures, 720p resolution, and a modern control scheme)

So the weird, incoherent mess of options on each screen, sized and placed seemingly at random, with ads often far more prominent than any of the stuff you might actually want to do on that screen, is actually an XBone-ism? Boo, I hoped that if I ever got around to having one of those it'd be nicer :-(

I do remember it updating & changing at some point, and that it still sucked before that. I got it after the blade menu, though. I think it had that at first, but lost it as soon as it updated after plugging it in, so I never really used it. NXE's what I probably used the first times I actually played anything on it.

Googles

Oh my god, yes, I do remember NXE. Hahahaha, wow, I'd forgotten that. How awful. I partially retract my complaints about the current menus.
griswhat?
Not for each app.
In the examples of screen sharing and recording, they work on Wayland but the application needs to be aware and request permission. Zoom and Chrome both support this, AFAIK.
I remember spotting one near the FDA building in College Park, Maryland. I wonder if the grapefruit-sized fruit could be used for children's crafts and decorating, or if it just starts rotting.
I regularly wonder how much of the "tooling" in modern development stems from not knowing or making an attempt to understand what GNU applications from 30+ years ago offer out of the box.
QQBot: Variant of ChatGPT that lives in your IDE
> "Racial equity is a process of eliminating racial disparities and improving outcomes for everyone."

Uh huh. Now show us how you change racial disparities without using racial preferences/discrimination. By definition, it's not possible. Policies have to consider race first and tilt scales in order to achieve these objectives.

I'd encourage you to try and find some actual examples that run counter to this, and see for yourself.
Coinbase reputation got hit when people found out about their insider trading [1], on top of them hiring ex-wall street people

Coinbase also is 10x less volume than Binance [2]

You have all of this, then the press who keep advertise them despite the poor metrics, something doesn't sound right

I think it's fair to say people made their choice and the choice is Binance

The narative can't be forced like with other industries, unless you get help from the press and push some FUD, hmm

Or with the help of the CIA with FTX as a poison aimed at Binance, hmm

[1] - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-eve...

[2] - https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/
Same problem. My main problem now isn't the trauma, but the fact I've been very successful on my own without help for so long. Essentially every time I got let down, I doubled down on independence and worked harder. And it kept working.

Now I'm 51 and well established so I don't need anyone to provide anything, probably for the rest of my life. What I never found along the way are the skills to share, let alone enjoy, what I've built with someone else. Deep inside I just see other humans as potential attack vectors.

But I keep trying! The remaining parts should be easier, I hope.

Thanks for the chat. And best of luck to your journey as well.
Well this is terrifying (especially as someone who barely sleeps).
Broadly, I'd say there are three categories, in ascending order of change difficulty:

1. Private code. Renaming things is easy, since you only have to worry about your own references.

2. Libraries with no external dependencies. Changing symbols in the public API can break clients, but clients can always not upgrade and everything will continue working exactly as before.

3. Libraries with external dependencies, like on an operating system (e.g. UIKit) or a web service. Changing names will break clients that don't also upgrade. IMO this doesn't really count as changing the name in code, per se — the issue isn't that the downstream code is coupled to the library code, per se, but the underlying infrastructure.
Not that I know of. But my understanding is that's their intent.
The Multistate Bar Exam, of course, does not test state law. After all, how would they decide which state’s law to test?

Accordingly, the NCBE, in their unending wisdom, quizzes applicants on the common law of 18th century England.

I’d also argue that quite a few people care about the bar exam (e.g., the people who study for it for months, or who fail it and cannot practice) while there are loads of lawyers who care very little about the LSAT (e.g., I never took it).
that's what unions are for
if only an engineer could engineer a solution to what afflicts unions, dat be great
I tried to learn Python around 2008-2009 and it was literally the worst time to try to learn Python, the transition to Python3 was just beginning, take 2 random code samples from the internet and they won't work together, python2to3 didn't work either.

It's kind of a shame how this transition took more than 10 years. The good part, we learned that we don't have to go through the same again. of course I dropped python (I was like 18 years old and didn't know anything about programming), I had to learn python last year and you still can see a lot of stuff that makes the experience kind of annoying.

Anyway, I'm pretty impressed how Python still is in the first positions of most charts, I still fail to see how great the language is, but hopefully I will be able to someday soon :)
I can't answer properly without seeing your video (again probably) but suspect that you and the video got flack because "how it's been observed to make light switch from 'wave' to 'particle'" puts its finger on the precise controversial point being debated here, and so restarts the debate in miniature, like a recursive dive.
>It is not, yet somehow technically defrauding the US gov doesn't seem like the best idea in the world as a career starter.

If people thought like this there would literally never be another person ever enlisted in the military. Everyone has some sort of neurological "dysfunction" that the outdated military system thinks is world ending. If a doctor doesn't say you have it, it doesn't exist. You'll be fine.

>before signing my life away for six years

You can sign for 4! Here's the path I'm taking:

- Programming job in the Air Force, got free training and experience for 4 years
- Either use SkillBridge to get a paid internship with a defense contractor/other large tech company, or immediately go from military to GS
- Eventually use the fact that I get 3 years of paid college for free w/ post 9/11 GI bill

No matter what you're gonna have to spend 4 years of your life doing something, might as well get guaranteed training/experience + veteran status. If you want to get involved with gov't tech careers military is the way to go IMO. Just make sure you join the Air/Space Force so you actually get to do your job, most people who join other branches regret it.

Obviously I'm not trying to say this is the only option, there are probably other paths available, but this is by far the easiest/most common/most "low risk" way of doing things.
You might enjoy this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58100575-from-strength-t...
There's a need because WAL/OTs aren't the most approachable.

It's important to communicate and assure ACID and CAP properties. It'd be nice to have an "ORM" data layer that's say an extension of GraphQL that can specify what sort of guarantees the app wants.
Except that the HTML spec explicitly states just before that regex that what it checks is not whether it's a valid e-mail address, and that it intentionally rejects valid e-mail address.
Network services were port-separated since the internet was a thing. (A bit earlier, but ports had different names.)
Self publish a book
It's all legacy, tech debt from the early Internet days (and before.) My first email address was through a UUCP feed, back in 1991 or so. We used bang paths. My email was something like uunet!host2!host1!username.
The Amiga is such a perfect example. I grew up in the 80s in a software engineering household and all my parents friends were likewise engineers in the computer industry. So I grew up and ended up in the industry too.

I was around lots and lots of different computers that were not common in the 80s due to being a "tailgate" kid into facilities. And yet I've still never seen an Amiga in person I think, and I have never had a "IRL" friend who ever had one either.

And yet you'd think from nostalgia that we all had them in the 80s.
The issues with xorg that i’m aware of are that it’s awful to maintain and that it has security issues like everything being able to access your clipboard.

And xwayland exists so porting isn’t much of an issue.

But yeah, despite all that i’m on x11 still as well. I need to use proprietary nvidia drivers and I don’t want to run full gnome or whatever to make that run smoothly. I’ll probably be dead before dwm stops working on an updated system.
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(Style transfer in the other direction was a bit easier)
OpenStack is more popular than ever.

I always find it odd that people dismiss it.
My goals from 1-1s are asking for regular feedback and preventing surprises.

I keep a running list of things that I need to talk to my manager about. I pull top 2-3 things off this list for each 1-1. And once a month I talk about career progress. Basically closing "gaps" especially if you're in a BigCo there's often a list of expectations that might be surprising (e.g. must do N interviews) and i'd like to see what I can do to close them.

Things on my list might include
- Things I did that went well, and didn't go well.
- Venting
- Ideas I'd like to bounce off him.
- Things that frustrated me (but dont block me yet) and seeing if he can help.
- Ideas for new things me or my team could do.
- Questions on who I should talk to for X thing.

My golden rule is never, ever use a 1-1 for project status updates. I'll provide one if asked but otherwise this is time for me.
Related tangent: Windy (iOS app) does a remarkably good job providing multiple data sources and terrific dataviz.
Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
Ideally all children would get a good education, but I find it morally repugnant that unrelated person Y gets tossed in a cage if they don't fund person X's children.
Interview with John Deere user [video]
I would link to an article, but Louis Rossmann only posts videos. He is the foremost authority in terms of Right To Repair, and it's worth watching the video, as there's no better source for this information.
Why is it bad? What's a better one? What would a better one look like?
Stranger helps locate lost hiker as strong example of OSINT (2021)
Firstly, Musks stake probably isn’t big enough for it to materially solve any of his money problems. It’s not even clear he owns any stake- he was a donor at the non profit stage and stepped away in 2019. Secondly, SpaceX is raising funds at a $137Bn valuation and Musk owns a hell of a lot more than that- if he needs cash, that would be a very easy way to get it. Finally, even if Musk was desperate to cash out, that would not explain why the Microsoft deal is buying up so much - they’re clearly doing a deal far bigger than Musks stake. Finally- plenty of people would be desperate to get into OpenAI at this point so if Musk wanted out there are plenty of other ways.
Do you really feel like this is a real contribution to the conversation? Agile coaches help stabilize software development, and meditation teachers teach a valuable self-regulation skill. You not wanting or valuing something doesn't make it "snake oil".
The tech diagram on AWS is insane. This is what I call vendor lock-in porn

I'm wondering how much your monthly bill is?
How’s the war on drugs working out?
Doesn't Stallman's "free" license dictate what you can and cannot do with the software?
You should definitely be able to read freely and fine at 45, and definitely see a doctor.

Something you can do in the in between time is order a full blood panel, kidney, liver, thyroid, hormones, etc, online or through your doctor's office. Then get a copy of this (you can often download a PDF from the lab company that does your panel, or doctor's office) and visit a natural path (ND). You might be able to find one through your school. Bring up what foods you eat, your lifestyle, exercise, sleep habits. Then, try and see if any adjustments work.

When you finally do get an appointment for a medical doctor (you said in 9 months) bring this information, so your doctor has something to go on. Your MD will probably just re-order the labs again, but now you will have some previous data, and some experience tweaking your lifestyle with what worked and didn't.
The vulnerable part of the npm ecosystem is trust and end-user high-granularity control of trust.

If that problem can be solved, there's nothing inherently problematic with just using large swathes of mostly unknown code. Almost no Debian user knows the innards of every package they've installed, even the dev libraries they're building new applications on top of (to say nothing of every Ubuntu user).

(TBF to the ecosystem, there actually is a mechanism for flagging security issues in old library versions and surfacing those to a package builder. But it is up to the package builder to account for them by changing their dependencies).
Several Top Rivian Executives Depart the Electric-Vehicle Startup
A new milestone for light-driven electronics
I send an email in advance with the 3 or 4 priority things I want to talk about, and if there's nothing to discuss I just say that and we cancel. Usually it's key work updates, if there's any help or information I need. I've never had a direct report of mine take the lead like that, bit I wish they would!
Have any nerdy Congresspeople wanted to solve this ridiculous inefficiency in recent years. Seems like a natural "the Europeans kick our ass at forecasting" message would go over well and potentially negate the lobbying from Weather Channel and others with a vested interest in perpetuating this stupid situation.
Not discussed but have scattered tidbits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34020263

The last one is the most applicable here:

> Btw, none of this is new—it happens every time there's a major ongoing topic with divisive qualities. The principles we use are: (1) downweight the follow-ups so there isn't too much repetition; (2) upweight (not a word - I just mean turn off user flags and software penalties) the ones that have significant new information; and (3) downweight the hopeless flamewars, where the community is incapable of curious conversation and people are just bashing things they hate (or rather, bashing each other in the name of things they hate).

---

So its things like "the ratio of downvotes to post comments is looked at" to help detect flame wars. That then makes it down weighted and not show up on the front page as much.

Likewise, common things in titles (ChatGPT) gets down weighted so that they don't have a "here is a whole bunch of them that dominate the front page". If you browse https://news.ycombinator.com/newest much, you'll occasionally see lots of things on active topics.

But once it gets enough positive engagement in a post, it becomes up weighted.

Adding some slight friction to find the active but not front page is useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/active is different than https://news.ycombinator.com

Additionally, things that had some activity, but not enough to ever go above a certain rank shows up in https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
> But I'm not writing a heap for Java. I'm taking business object X and stuffing through system Y and feeding the result to system Z, all internal to the company I work for. Good luck with getting ChatGPT to do that.

Exactly. Nearly every example I've seen is something that I could easily find an answer for on SO for anyways. ChatGPT customizes it as needed which is nice (though it often makes glaring and not so glaring mistakes).
To add to the anecdotes, I've never felt pressured by any of my employers (explicitly or implicitly) to talk publicly about them on social media, my blog, or anything else. I would feel pretty weird if that happened, especially on a regular basis. If it's a recurring point of contention for you, I would suggest telling a higher-up how you feel and/or looking at other jobs
Oregon represent!
I'm guessing they don't want to end up like MS's last (2? Can't find the other one)(1) or Meta's attempts at online chatbots/ai?(2)

I'm guessing OpenAI just doesn't want the bad press...

1) https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
2) https://mashable.com/article/meta-facebook-ai-chatbot-racism...
Facebook, Instagram Ban Ads Targeted at Teens Based on Gender
A Pokemon Case Study: Objects vs. Names (2019)
I made a silly landing page for myself using some of the outline techniques. I think it looks fun: https://www.goodbarn.xyz/

Its just a pure html page, so you can view page source and see how rugged it is.
Peter Norvig comes to mind when you mention incredibly articulate communication style and in a respectful way, ridiculously prolific. I've turned to his work a lot throughout my Python journey, it took a lot of hard work to unlearn all the Perl in my old bones, but I appreciated how much beautiful code he's put up online for anybody to dig through.

Maybe also Larry Wall, RIP.
The optical fiber that keeps data safe even after being twisted or bent
I have to agree with your last point. The OP keeps saying that there are no provable facts, when there actually are. Saying the same thing over and over, only louder, is actually their complaint, yet that is what they are doing!