skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To me that means someone who is consistenly 10x better at everything on all projects always. That doesn't exist.

At the far end of the distribution, they definitely exist and some are like 100-1000x.

I work with someone that can pick up a new language and be writing fluently in that languages’ idiomatic style in a weekend, delivering robust, scalable, concise code.

He can learn a new domain and understand its nuances so quickly that he often becomes more fluent than the company ‘domain experts’ after just a few weeks’ of effort. And no… this isn’t shallow stuff. We’re talking domain experts with Ph.Ds in EE from MIT. He drives industry standards and has the patents/resume to show for it.

The thing is… everything he touches turns to gold. From documentation to design, implementation, test code, infrastructure, maintenance… he does it all.

I’ve worked with smart people (friends/former colleagues at various FAANG staff eng level people). This guy is next level compared to anyone else I’ve worked with.
This seems really good for the developing world, but seems like a recipe for a headache. Adjusting each eye independently everytime seems like a recipe for having inconsistent relative power between the lenses.
The ability to pay attention on a specific thing for more than a few seconds doesn't feel "natural" to me. Evolution does not favor long-term attention for anyone who is not a top-predator. Imagine a deer paying too much attention to grass It's eating and not able to be distracted by the slightest of the noise a predator may make is not going to reproduce. We, humans, are close to top-predators, so, maybe! I've not thought about it too deeply. But I still feel that the ability to focus for a long time is a bug, not a feature in the natural environment. The economic system has turned into a must-have feature and lack of it a bug that is to be cured by medicine. I wonder if early pioneers (not the sciency/nerdy kind) all had ADHD?
Which illustrates my point about being willing to pay for a Linux specific OEM. Complainers almost always opted in to being OEMs then complained about the work they opted in to. Linux isn't free windows for every computer in the world.
California allocated 7 billion in 2022 to homelessness. There are 172,000 homeless in California. So that is $40,000 per homeless person, per year, in just state funds. Lot's of people keep a roof over their heads while making less money than that a year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ultimately the only thing that holds true about AI is Tesler's Theorem:

Artificial intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet

Machine Learning is only still artificial intelligence because we haven't figured it out. Ultimately ML is just fancy control theory. Once the field is sufficiently explored, it will slowly stop being AI and will start being treated as a subset of control theory instead. I doubt it'll happen any time soon but it'll happen eventually.

This is in the same way that algorithms, combinatorics, and graph theory when applied were seen as AI anywhere from 70 years ago to as little as ~25 years ago. Those fields' applications to unsolved computing problems (that humans could do) was what made them AI and once we solved those problems, they (and the techniques used) stopped being AI.
The "This Title Is Now Longer Than The Actual Movie" gag feels a bit too much like something ripped from the training set for me. I'm willing to be amazed though.
My landlords truck was stolen out of his driveway last year. The police found it a few weeks later, and there was a very expensive looking arc welder in it that he got to keep.
Almost reads as if you're a writer for the show looking for some extra residuals ;-)

I did not even know that this show existed. Having only recently signed up to Hulu, I'll have to dig this up.
Row count is not the only condition for how much can fit on a page.

Content matters for row height, as does fonts, styling, etc. Footers, too. The number of footnotes (thus the height of the footer) can depend on the page content, too.

Maybe there's an image in there, or some sort of specially styled content that makes the line height larger than normal.

You have to be able to render the row to know the final dimensions, to be able to make a call whether it should go on that page or the next. If you don't, then you end up with one page actually rendering over into a second page.
For most of the world (outside silicon valley) stateless is not the typical. The typical is stateful app + stateful DB run on stateful VMs.

For most enterprises, running a stateful app with SQLite is not only possible, it's easier than running stateless apps as their entire IT infrastructure is setup to support stateful apps and it's what their sysadmins know how to do.

I have tried to deploy stateless docker container apps into a typical enterprise network and it's a nightmare. The people done understand it, are not interested in understanding it, none of the infrastructure supports it and if you want to setup something like Kubernetes then you end up in configuration hell as none of the easy to deploy standard setups actually work out of the box in an enterprise network, everything ends up needing highly customized configuration to work.
> I think this end of intellectual property was predicted when the Constitution was signed.

True. And in 1890 it was predicted that cities would be drowning in horse droppings by 1960. But just because they were wrong then doesn't mean similar predictions today are also wrong.

> We shift to your AI paying when it references the content and move on.

Nope. Because the AI isn't "referencing" LotR, anymore than a human author is when writing a generic fantasy novel about elves and dwarfs. Ideas aren't protected by copyright. Content, characters etc. are. But AI-generated works aren't going to "copy" LotR story or characters. They're going to do what humans have been doing since forever: Draw inspiration from the entire body of human (and AI) creative works in existence. Copyright doesn't prevent that.
And then the academia will wonder why general public stopped trusting science again.
> One of the challenges faced by ChatGPT was in seeing it produce conversational-style output instead of simply the most common words that it saw.

Do you have a source for that? I've implemented GPT from scratch and I don't see anywhere that doesn't just take the current output + input as attention and produces the next word. The loss being if it correctly guessed what would be the next word according to context and position.
The replicator could also create the microwave with the 30 seconds on the timer, with the soup inside, already running. Think of the time savings!
Displays are no longer low-resolution.
hah, nice... "endlessly" is a stretch tho
> 1. Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.

I'm confused by this. How does judging someone you just met and know zero about (the spouse or lack-thereof) tell you anything meaningful about the other person you know zero about (the person whose character you're primarily interested in judging)?
It's quite funny that there is a specialized and exclusive "Facebook container" extension dedicated to stop Facebook and their services alone from tracking you lol.
Acceptable Beer Bellies in Your Codebase
Unix is dead! Long live Unix!
I am saddened by this news. No doubt the charities they select are the same ones that can afford to buy TV ads, magazine ads, internet ads, and direct mail advertising. What a great way to spend the donations!

Meanwhile, the smaller nonprofit organizations that have no advertising budget, no payroll, no employee benefits, etc. that run on a shoestring budget will never miss the measly $1000 a year that Amazon Smile generated, right?

If they were serious amount making a significant impact, they would allow for donations to the smaller organizations that spend virtually every dollar on their programs rather than huge salaries and elaborate holiday parties that larger nonprofits can afford.

If you are interested, IRS provides copies of tax returns for many US-based charities. Look at the bigger ones to see where your donations are actually being spent, and the large sums they have in their bank and investment accounts.
I believe it. I've gone from paying zero attention to the cost of things... to cutting extras/budgeting in the last five years; with just as many raises!

It really feels like my career leaps have been nullified. Unless I find a similar joint income, I don't know if I'll own a home. There's no family windfall to expect

I know, woe is me. I feel for everyone that doesn't have this padding.

Aside: The down payment stories I hear have been absurd. What's reasonable, on the low end?
9 x 12 inches and 11 x 14 inches are standard in art paper in the US. As are 5 x 7 and 8 x 10.

The first one, 9 x 12, happens to also be “ARCH A” but I haven’t seen a fancy name for the others.
It blows our minds that you `figured` out a way to conflate these things.
I think 'Adaptive Algorithm's would be better.

But he's missing something key: the ever elusive lure of true, AGI is like crack to the media.

Watch how Altman and others in the press use that kind of language in small doses to titillate the marketplace.

Buzzwords get a lot of funding going.
Gun ownership isn't the same thing as being anti-gun control. The majority of people, many of them gun owners and haling from both "parties", would like to see some basic restrictions on how quick and easy it is to buy a gun.
This is a misunderstanding of what dictionaries are for. They’re not authoritative sources of what words mean, they’re a record of all the different ways a word has been used.

If people use the term robot to refer to assembly like machines then as far as the dictionary is concerned those are robots now. Someone who comes across a text and doesn’t know what the author is saying when they talk about robots used in manufacturing should be able to find that usage in a dictionary.

And there’s no reason these two terms can’t coexist happily enough as robot (manufacturing) and robot (automaton).
You can add a "not in citation" or "dubious" tag to the reference that's there, or another cleanup tag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Clean.... A lot of Wikipedia articles are waiting for someone with the right references to come along (or for the right reference to come into existence), and until then the best anyone can do is insert warnings that the article is poorly cited.
Wow, beautiful writing. You know how to use words well.

Your second last sentence “it needs to connect you to the people around you in ways that are meaningful to yourself, otherwise it will leave you empty and drained” is in my opinion a key point on this debate on longlines/communication.

As with anything in live communication, relationship, friendship needs to be a two ways street otherwise it won’t be of true value for either side or won’t work in the long run.
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i try to view all the utilities you provide to see if anything is relevant and i get a login page. If you are really targeting developers as opposed to business owners this information should be provided upfront otherwise you will get high bounce rate and it will take a while for you to understand after it shows up in your analytics what is going wrong.
Mac Mini M2 Specs
Should I get base specs or should I upgrade? I don't do any heavy compiling just basic coding and browsing.
Every abstraction is unnecessary. And the gains are almost always minor… until you apply some of those abstractions across an entire code base.

C-style `for` loops were the norm for decades. Now virtually every language gives you some ability to iterate directly over every element in a collection. Replacing a `for` loop with an iterator over each element is never necessary. The old way worked for decades. The gains are minor. Should we go back to C-style `for` loops? If not, why not?

When you understand the answer to that, you’ll understand why that same logic applies to trivial functions like `zip` and `map` that simply take the idea one minor step further.
Do we even have a definition of intelligence? A definition that is not a word salad made of vague terms?
My van was stolen outside my apartment in Oakland a few years ago. I called in to report it had been stolen and got a call back less than 5 minutes later by an officer who was with my van in another part of town about to have it towed. It was just parked in the middle of the road.

When I got there to pick it up, I found other people's stolen mail, hundreds of feet of speaker wire, a car stereo, and a lunchbox full of hundreds of house keys among other items. It was as if they used it as a heistmobile. Unfortunately, a lot of my stuff was stolen like a camera and some clothing, but they didn't touch the thousands of dollars worth of climbing and snowboarding gear. It was almost as if they didn't even know what it was.
The Three Body Problem (TV Show)
16TiB is not a problem. I have admin'd postgres databases larger than that. If you use good hardware (ECC RAM) and an error-correcting filesystem (ZFS) you are generally good to go.

Typically for postgres, DB corruption issues are isolated to single tables/indices, not the entire database. Sqlite's architecture might be a bit less "resilient" in this sense (I'm not sure, just guessing), but it also might have a lower chance of introducing corruption in the first place.
All that's true enough, but do you agree with the original statement:

> Google was born into an economy that was just starting to recover from being bad.

I don't think being grad students at Stanford and then incorporating in 1998 counts as "just starting to recover". The economy in 1996 wasn't bad. 1998 definitely wasn't.
I believe the word should be format and not generate. The model is just formatting your content to fit the proper English "template". It's not generating its own content in this case
There were some papers linked here yesterday. I'm not good at memorizing URLs. Sorry.
I think you might also be looking at tech with a slightly narrower view. Silicon Valley Web 3.0 startups are one section of tech, but you’ll also see stories about John Deere and the right to fix farm equipment, optimizing motors, flood control, and whatever else on HN. Tech and hacking is a pretty wide field and every economic sector has its own definition of what constitutes “tech”. For some it’s optimizing excel spreadsheets, for some it’s crypto trading, and for some it’s about building better branch cutters.
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I also miss some aspects of retail. Life was easy when all I had to do was show up and stock the shelves. Co-workers were a lot easier to talk to and make friends with. I actually had pretty good insurance for about $20 a week too (this was 15+ years ago).
Yeah I hear it’s common practice now to avoid synchronizing GPU training kernels in order to speed things up, and it has positive regularization benefits and little downside.
Ooh, I like LXMs. Hadn't heard that before.
> great for database programming

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Like, custom database implementations? I wrote a little bit of Prolog in college and thought it was neat but I haven't looked at it since. I've seen Datalog mentioned recently in relation to biscuits, a technology I think is incredibly cool but that I don't fully grok.
Apple is the only tech giant that still hasn’t announced layoffs
He must mean Guam?
I have a lot of bitter things to say about automated testing, having spent 14 years of my life trying to knead it into a legitimate profession, but here's the most significant:

You test case is more useless than a turd in the middle of the dining room table unless you put a comment in front of it that explains what it assumes, what it attempts, and what you expect to happen as a result.

Because if you just throw in some code, you're only giving the poor bastard investigating it two puzzles to debug instead of one.
I don’t think colonization was necessary to European development. Germany rapidly developed too without colonizing anyone. Indeed, I think you have the causation backward. European countries were able to colonize other countries because they had developed ahead of them. India was ruled by a series of foreign powers for hundreds of years before the British. It’s not like the Mughals simply chose not to develop like Britain did.
It was explicitly said that the economy wasn't bad in 1996, just not good either. There is little doubt that the economy was good in 1998.
I don't understand why llms need to be acknowledged if writing assistants aren't.
The ones that weren't well behaved back then found themselves in a tarpit (which was also a 'what you do with spam email sites connecting on port 25'). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)

The thing was that you'd send everything that was requesting faster than some rate limit to that tarpit unless it was google.
I'm referring to possible performance loss due to lack of parameterization. Yeah, one could enable forced parameterization and let parameter sniffing do its job, but that can be a double edged sword.
Jacinda Ardern to step down as New Zealand prime minister
Trying to excuse your bullying behavior by pointing at someone else's behavior isn't actually justifying your own.
All episodes of Tencent's adaption of the massively succesful Chinese sci-fi story made available on YouTube with English subtitles.

Looks very faithful to the book.
"you’d have to build some bespoke solution"

Or you could use one of the many off the shelf solutions that has sprung up over the last few years.
And, you know, the present. Should I really care more about China being bullied 70 years ago than China bullying right now?
I don’t think it’s just ‘semantics’ unless you believe that AGI can be achieved by stitching together LLM prompts under some sort of ‘executive planning’ expert system.

I don’t think that produces anything like AGI, but it does let you build out of components that can tackle much fuzzier problems than typical computer programs can, like ‘figuring out what a human means’ and ‘identifying which things identified by an image classifier in an image of a complex environment might be relevant to a task’, or ‘summarizing the plan so far back to a human to get it approved’.
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Electric Capital 2022 Crypto Developer Summary [pdf]
I took a course called Principles of Programming Languages. Covered grammars, regular languages, state machines, and then had practical assignments in Haskell and Prolog. I had the exact same experience with Prolog. I loved it, but I haven't looked at it since college.
You want high-density storage to minimize the number of servers required when data models get large. If you limited yourself to 16 TiB, then it would not be uncommon to require thousands of servers for large data models. If your database supports high-density storage then you could fit this in a single rack. For somewhat smaller data models you could fit this on a single server. It doesn't just save a lot of money, some edge environments -- essentially single servers -- are already PiB+. Storage bandwidth is typically greater than network bandwidth these days so many workloads scale well this way.

Quantity has a quality all its own. Fragmenting your database over thousands of servers introduces new classes of failure and greatly increases the risks of other types of failures that you don't have to deal with when you only have dozens of servers or a single server.

High-density storage does require strategies for recovery that reflect the bandwidth-to-storage ratios. Designers are usually aware of the implications and architect appropriately.
I have always harbored a secret suspicion that it was caused by and transmitted principally by lawyers and MBAs. Possibly engineered intentionally. In the dark ages, I'm not sure what you called them (clergy?) but I know they were there in some form. They have always been there.

And if anyone was going to be a bloodsucking tick-infested disease-spreading reservoir of bubonic nastiness it's definitely lawyers. Maybe also civic "leaders".
Abstract version: https://www.developerreport.com/developer-report
Just like someone else wasn’t particularly amazed of the process how lightbulbs were being made in the 21st century, I’m pretty de-sensitized when it comes to the wearing of masks or respirators in Japan.

For me, it would be remarkable if masks or respirators weren’t worn.
This is how we get naive, unsophisticated people fooled into thinking it's fine to read or take a nap while their car "self drives".
Beverly D'Angelo
That's Beverly D'Angelo, probably best known for playing Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's "Vacation" movie series.
> A 3 decades old looking OS

You can use Windows XP themes.
New BMW X6 as a show car: world’s first vehicle in Vantablack (2019)
Since you are so interested in reducing poverty and improving economic outcomes for those people abroad, what percentage of your first-world income/wealth are you sending to these impoverished regions? And for comparison, how does that amount compare to your donations to church and conservative causes?

Or am I confused and your concern only extends to reducing other people's (say for example less fortunate US women and unfortunate Nigerians) net income and definitely not your own income?
While I really hope the claim that hating on Comic Sans being ableist is facetious, I do kinda like the font, and use Fantasque Sans[^1] in my terminal.

[^1]: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
> for the entire history of AI, Machine Learning has either been the only, or the most effective method by far of solving actual problems.

Did Deep Blue not act intelligently? It didn't use machine learning.
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Cataspania and the god of arithmetic [ChatGPT output]
This is a great question, hope he answers.
You do if you make the course long enough. :)
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The various wkhtmltopdf wrappers (there are many for .NET) work, but note wkhtmltopdf itself (based on Qt 4/5) is abandoned and the general response for issues was always 'just hack the HTML until it sorta works'.
> The solution is to give up smoking. If you stop smoking then you won’t have any more cigarette butts that you need to get rid of.

What a ridiculous solution. That's like saying the solution to reducing road deaths is to stop driving.
If you can stitch something together though, you can start to get the data you need to train an end-to-end model. And once you get that at any reasonable level of proficiency, you should see the ML flywheel spinning. The hard part is stitching everything together.
The tweet underneath mentioned OCR.
Off-patent drug could protect from future Covid-19 variants
In 2008 startups actually could afford to have a garage to start. Not anymore ...
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05594-0
My god, you're like the chillest person. I wish I could let go of things as easily as you.
It was a joke, implying that this happened to a previous actor on this demo video.
In the traits example

> which tells the compiler “I just want something that implements Meow”.

The ‘trait Meower’ also implies same, right? If so, why can’t we use that
Agreed from personal experience.

Consulting, and specifically exposure to a large number of corporate cultures in your clients, is a great accelerator at the start of a career.
Mostly true. From what i observe the processes could will be like give hint to AI to create a bunch of template of some sort, then humans select / rearrange / put in number and detail then AI fix grammar.
It appears you're all caught up and can look forward to "The Garbage Patch" in Ecotone this year. https://kimsamek.com/
I thought of that but Guam is ~1700nm from the Chinese coast. Surely that can't be it.

Camp Casey maybe? That's something like 200mi from the Chinese border (through NK of course).
Well, you know, coding on Macs with one language implementation and deploying on FreeBSD with another is why you can't have nice things like Reddit written in Lisp. Maybe there is a bit of a point there?