skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, I don't think your personal experience is an indication of what it would be like for someone else.

If your current situation sucks and you can step away (NOT end your life), do it. Whatever chance exists for things to get better, it's better than sticking with something you know is bad.
Japan has explicitly amended their copyright code to enable machine learning on copyrighted data.[0]
[0]https://storialaw.jp/en/service/bigdata/bigdata-12
The point I’m making isn’t that you can write bad r code; you can write bad code in any language.

…the point I’m making is that when you already have bad r code, it’s a massive pain in the ass.

Bad python is terrible too, but lots of people know python, and it’s easy to find help to unduck bad python code and turn it into maintainable code.

That has not been my experience with r. Ever. At any organisation.

Your experience may vary. (:
Given the absurd result the survey was obviously B.S.

Maybe the test takers were getting paid to answer surveys and were just mashing buttons?
>it's weird that Chinese people can't visit without a passport

They do visit without a passport, the same applies to ROC citizens in reverse. That's the whole point of the political amiguity on relations between the PRC and ROC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_%26_Entry_Permit
As someone with a BMI that typically exceeds obese by a percentage point or two, I am wary of aggregate diet data.

I'm fat not because of snacking, but because of 1500, 2000, and 2500 calorie meals.

N of 1 here. Take it for what it's worth, I'm skeptical of averaged data like this. There is simply no way to tell whether it's outliers like me skewing the data, or whether it represents reality.
That doesn’t mean that more cold starts aren’t bad.
210k. You easily beat that.
I agree with you but would take it a step further as an AI hater.
AI companies can ask for permission if they want to train their models on other people's works

Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music? Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren't your own?

Humans are constantly ingesting gobs of "copyrighted" insights that they eventually remix into their own creations without necessarily reimbursing the original source(s) of their creativity.

Time to put the horse back in the barn, cars and trains are here.
this seems like it might be interesting for cooling telescope optics?
What’s this doing on the front page? Slow news day(night)!
I embraced the fact that I know only one programming language at a decent level and it is Python. Rather trying to convince people that "I am a programmer", I convinced myself that, "I can solve problems through programming". I just love solving problems. No matter how hacky or stupid my solution is, it gets me from point A to point B. For many "programmers" doing things right gets in the way of doing things.
Not GP but yes I'm saying exactly that. If you concede the following axioms:

1. All tech companies' management and investors are primarily incentivized to increase the stock price total return.

2. High interest rates are kryptonite for growth tech company stock prices and will always be the biggest dampener on stock price recovery and growth.

It makes sense that company management and investors are incentivized to get rid of high interest rates. You can't manage your way out of a problem that wasn't caused by poor management. These companies were darlings of the market one week and shunned as uninvestable the next. The only thing that changed was the macro environment.

You don't need actual synchronization to observe a synchronous response. If disjoint parties have the same incentives and are equally rational, they will move in a direction that appears synchronized. Of course, these companies aren't even actually disjoint - the same management consultants may well be advising multiple tech companies and coordinating a response.

Big tech growth companies are an extremely rich and powerful segment of the economy. I wouldn't put it above them or beneath them (depending on how you view it morally) to not take givens as givens and manipulate their environment itself.
As is being confirmed by this report, these large language models are absolutely building models of the real world, though not exactly at the abstraction layer level we initially guessed. The only question is how thorough of a model it is, and what is the “waste factor”, I.e., how much more inefficient are these at learning the world compared to say the human brain. It’ll be tantalizing to see how GPT-4 performs but my best guess would be that there will be an even more amazing performance but not something that can truly match human beings (even a dumb one) without significant change to the architecture.
Eh, fair enough.

I think the point still stands though. Just mentally replace it with "a random DeviantArt" and it all still applies.
Isn’t our brain a black box too? Why exactly is it worrisome?
This explanation doesn’t pass the pub test without substantial qualification: we all know that governments can’t just print endless money and declare everyone wealthy. The missed detail is the impact on foreign currency exchange rates - and no country can survive without the global market.
People sometimes forget that words are just useful labels, the ship of Theseus is whatever ship we agree is the ship of Theseus, it was just very handy to make a sound for others to know what ship I'm talking about, but it is not an specific/defined set of atoms, it never was, the same thing happens with a lot (maybe all) concepts such as swimming, or even statistical inferences.
Not to be an ass but they're the most inflammatory sources of news I know, I won't even open an article from "Independent" for my own mental health.

Sorry, but you're just wasting my time with rot and weak arguments. Trying to say artists are luddites or something.

Good day to you.
I wish I could follow this guys advice. My colleagues are Microsoft camp guys. C# on the back end for anything they can. If your problem can’t be solved with a windows desktop app on whatever .net framework is trending, then it’s not a problem worth considering.

But we needed a native app on iOS for irrigation control, so we had to tool up with Swift. I would love to do a solid cross platform thing, but there isn’t one in mobile space for user rich experiences that do Bluetooth, mapping, etc. We tried. So Kotlin has to be added to the mix so we could use the only right/available tool for native Android app job. The embedded stuff? Needed C code. The control node that runs our edge stuff needed to run on little Linux computers and support self hosted development. C wasn’t going to work, nor was Kotlin or Swift. Python it is. We needed a highly threaded cloud bridge sevice. Python was out for that. I guess I could have tried server Kotlin or Swift, but I went with Elixir instead and just wish I could use that everywhere.

So if you’re just doing web stuff, I guess you can just use consistent whatever. Though isn’t the whole argument of node/deno that since you have no (real) choice but to use JSON the front side, you might as well use it as the wrong tool for backend as well?
Honestly, can people stop speaking in absolutes regarding these systems? We (researchers and non-researchers alike) are gradually trying to comprehend exactly how much they generalise and memorise, but this is darn hard work and it is not our fault that several major tech giants decided to deploy and profit from these models long before the scientific and legal landscape was clear. Somepalli et al. (2022) [1] for example is a fairly strong argument against your statement above.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03860

The fact is that these systems are complex, new, and interesting. However, it is not the fault of small-time programmers and artists that modern copyright law is a major, overreaching mess that is now finally greatly affecting what the big corporations want to do. They are getting sued? Cry me a river… Perhaps they will finally stop backing the American-led copyright lobby then?
Now you’re so keen on being right that you’ve lost sight of the value that was originally proposed in the first place.
A war would be a great distraction for the local population until the quick victories stop happening. They would only do it when they have nothing to lose. And based on the amount of children of CCP officials in Ivy League schools (including Xi's own daughter) and Wall Street firms, they do have everything to lose for the foreseeable future.

I firmly believe in the odds of a hot war being extremely low until the children of high ranking CCP officials start a mass exodus from their comfy white collar lives in the Western world, much like Putin recalling his yachts on the eve of the war in Ukraine.
Art of Electronics and the accompanying lab manual are hands down the best electronics books I've read. Yes, definitely have the very fundamentals down - the equivalent of a day's reading on the fundamentals should be more than enough IMO.
You're advocating sectoral bargaining. Common in the EU. It's probably The Correct Answer™. Though organizing by craft or industry may also achieve what you want.

The USA has enterprise bargaining. Sectoral bargaining was proposed. But the corporations (plantation class) nerfed it.

The comparative power of Labor, USA vs EU, speaks the merits of sectoral over enterprise bargaining.

"Sectoral collective bargaining is an aim of trade unions or labor unions to reach a collective agreement that covers all workers in a sector of the economy. It contrasts to enterprise bargaining where agreements cover individual firms. Generally countries with sectoral collective bargaining have higher rates of union organisation and better coverage of collective agreements than countries with enterprise bargaining."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_collective_bargaining
The “true story of brainwashing?” You’re so screwed!

It’s hard to talk about the greatest crises of our world when you cannot convince a know-it-all american their modern living is built upon a lie incomprehensible to ordinary minds.

We just went through these last “fake news conspiracy” years with the outcome of convincing yourselves that all conspiracies are crazy talk and the conventional narratives capture truth.

There is a conspiracy against your natural destinies, and thought control is more than brain washing.

Screwing with your mind has modernized, these ideas of “brainwashing” are antiquated and miss all practical tells.
> It is not effective at producing well adjusted people with a healthy attitude to violence, nor is it effective at producing lasting compliance.

I don't know what "healthy attitude to violence" is when there's a disagreement by what "violence" means. So I'll have to await some clarification, other than simply sharing your unspecified views. Police carry weapons in modern societies across the globe. Claiming violence does not produce lasting compliance is an interesting belief that is not shared by the majority of the world, so I find this claim uncompelling. There are exceptions ofc, like Japan, where a large part of the peacekeeping force patrols without weapons. While it is effective at times, the lack of efficacy can also be seen on Youtube.

> That you seek to compare abuse with saving a child from being hit by a vehicle is a astonishing

I did not compare them directly. I illustrated the use of the term "violence" is overly broad, as unconsented forceful action is not unwarranted. The question is degree, intent, and efficacy, as stated. Please don't misrepresent my statements. You are imagining I meant "abuse", which is another broad term that is dishonestly equated to "corporal punishment" or "violence". I have trouble teasing out what you specifically trying to communicate, other than a strong disdain for corporal punishment without qualification.
I really have no idea what your point is and the kind of hostile "replace you" language is about. Have you ever considered our jobs will just evolve? Like as if coding computers is the last job in the world? Like, we might not even have jobs in the future. So in that respect, it might be ha.

People used to shine shoes for a living you know, then a machine came along to do it, now almost no one shines shoes anyway? You would've been a farmer, no you sit around in your underpants arguing on hackernews on the weekend.

Use your imagination a little bit and stop focusing on the "replace you " bit? There might be things after AI, if we don't destroy our civilization with it.

The difference in our argument here is this. From a technical perspective, I think you're wrong and naive to think a language model will replace people in most roles. I'm talking about the pragmatic side of the argument, you're speculating Google has a AlphaCoder waiting in the midst to eat our jobs, while that might be true, it's a different thing to what ChatGPT is.

I'll give you an example, I could use something to generate art for the company I'm building an not hire artists, but do you know why I don't? Because there's a whole strategy around art, design and user experience to building a brand. Maybe my staff will use AI to generate design for consideration which will save us sometime and let us focus on other things, but ultimately I'm not going to use a "hallucinated gif" instead of hiring someone who has studied and "understands" design.
> Solar alone obviously can't happen, most places.

Exactly my point.

Yet, beyond that, the analysis shows you have to have 100% backup rated at 100% the required peak power output.

That's the conundrum. For every deliverable GW of of solar you have have a GW of backup.

And so my question is simple: How does that make any sense at all?

Let's make sure we don't engage in a hand-wavy arguments though.

Wind: Regional, seasonal and varies throughout the day

Hydro: Not available everywhere, highly seasonal. Check out this chart [0]. Hydro is susceptible to water availability. Hoover Dam lost 33% of it's output capacity for this reason --about 600 MW.

Geothermal: Sounds great. Only 0.4% of US utility scale generation

Old Nukes: 20% of US power generation. We have over 80 of them. Only three of them in the west [1] (which is astounding)

Transmission Lines: They are only good for about 300 miles. Power is relatively local. Hoover Dam feeding Los Angeles is about 250 miles straight line.

Combined Cycle Gas turbines: About 20% of US capacity. None west of Texas.

Anyhow, the point is that it is easy to list all of this power generation options and lose sight that they are not available everywhere and adding capacity is nearly impossible. In fact, if you look at the maps showing distribution of the above power sources in the US it isn't too hard to conclude that the west coast is not in good shape at all.

Here's the kicker: I haven't even introduced the reality that 100% conversion to electric powered vehicles will require the US to double it's power generation capacity. This is monumental. Conceptually, it means we have to fully duplicate our existing generation and transmission infrastructure. Frankly, I don't know how we make that happen. Please don't say solar. Once again, nuclear keeps coming back as a source that is impossible to ignore. We need so much power to support electric vehicles that we would need to build 1200 new 1 GW class nuclear power plants. This is impossible. Clearly a hybrid system will be required. Again, no, solar can't do it. It can be a part of it, but it just can't rise up to the occasion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectric_power_in_the_Uni...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...
It doesn't matter, brains took millions of years to become what they are now, it wouldn't be a surprise that we may need to take a completely different path to make machines perform equally or better than a human using our current technically (incl future iterations/versions of it), including stuff that looked from a biological perspective would be "wasteful".
For someone on phone, could you show the PNG of what the output is?
That statement is contrary to data [1]. China is the single largest exporter across the globe. What food and energy they import is "luxury" for the growing middle class [2] but not essential (to Chinese Gov't way of thinking) as they have food and energy enough internally to get by.

The geographic bind for China is the China Sea - they are a trading super power with no bulk overland routes and all sea trade funneled through the one body of water (unlike the US with two large coasts).

[1] https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/countries/43

[2] https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=43&queryLevel=...
The coin has a deposit problem. There is nothing that says the Fed has to create deposits 1-for-1. If you have an unbalanced budget then Treasury dollars deposited at the Fed become like Canadian dollars deposited at the Fed. They start to attract a discount. Since that's how monetary policy is alleged to work (Treasury has to offer the world a discount to get them to part with their 'scarce' money), an antagonistic Fed (or Supreme Court) could easily go down that road.

The other alternative interpretation is that Congress has ordered the Fed to pay out a certain amount from the TGA, ordered the IRS to collect a certain amount into the TGA and ordered the Treasury to drain reserves into the TGA to a set amount. Those orders don't add up, therefore the result will be a carried forward balancing item at the Fed.

In other words any ability the Fed has to say 'no' to a Treasury payment order either doesn't exist in law, or has been repealed under the doctrine of implied repeal. It also avoids the discount argument, and the issued argument.

That concept blows the mind of those who still think money is about shiny coins in bags, rather than a function of accounting entries in a banking system.
"Close to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight."
https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c...

65 microSv or 65 µSv is a really trivial amount. It should inspire a yawn not a yikes.

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
Exactly how it works in these countries. More and more of the economy is flowing through Black Market crypto dealers located in neighborhoods. The government takes a 50% tax on foreign cash coming in to convert to local currency, and once you do it you have to deal with 50% inflation. As a result there are black market crypto Banks. Someone will convert crypto for pesos to buy groceries at the crypto bank. The grocery store takes the peso they get and puts it back in the crypto Bank. Nobody wants hold the pesos any real time because it is a losing proposition.

To put it in perspective, prior to crypto, people would take their entire paycheck and savings and immediately buy pallets of bricks for the same purpose. They would fill their houses and yards with these bricks because they held value better than the currency, even after accounting for the cost of trucking them around
> You would've had to have spent quite a lot fo time just writing up the requirements that it would've been as easy to do some other way.

I have to do that with human team members as well. People have to either listen or read what has to be done. Like said; it's the same brief I gave human programmers that it had as input.

Edit: not to mention, I have to spend far less on that as well; chatgpt generates better, well written briefs from a few words, including pseudo code, boilterplate + failing tests that should succeed when done and possible directions to attack a problem. It helps human programmers understand hard problems better and solve them faster.

> It's something I could do with swagger in 5 minutes as well, you don't need an AI to generate boilerplate code.

It doesn't just generate boilerplate code, it generates everything. Functional code including all logic, database interactions, api interactions, transformations + tests.

> ,know what the job entails or is worth?

You seem to be triggered, why?

Being rusty at a programming language/framework has zero to do with what it entails or is worth; it will be more or less the same in other languages/frameworks I'm not rusty at. Rusty here means; I forgot some of the language/framework functions to do things (like, make a database model in this particular ORM); that doesn't, in any way, make it difficult to estimate the work.

Not only that; I said others (as in 3rdparty) estimated it from $1500-$3500, not me. I estimated it to far less, even being rusty. But not to as little as I got it done with chatgpt.

> I mean you have clients, and you're pasting code from ChatGPT into source control and people are paying you for this?

Yes, and I tell them how it's done. They don't care how it's done, as long as it's done. This particular client asked me last week how to invest in AI products because of what I showed them (I sent them a PDF with the prompts and responses for doing that particular micro service).

But each their own... My team gained super powers with this (and with copilot as well); if it doesn't work for you, that's fine. In my experience, it's already better than most people I ever worked with (that's probably the client base I work with ; large corps).
https://www.timothybrooks.com/instruct-pix2pix
Sadly, no. Verifying that ECC is actually functioning is ridiculously hard on consumer grade motherboards.
> "[...] he could give each outgoing employee about $10k of that stock (to sell maybe) to make their lives easier."

To be fair, I think the package they are actually offering is way, way more valuable than 10k: "We’ll also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU vesting."

Plus healthcare, 2022 bonuses being paid out, and some other items on there.
Ah the dream of easy to administer, perfectly adapted fine grained access permissions that can predict the future of exactly what an authorized user can run and needs to do.

It never works because of the lack of precog, ticket walls, escalation over policy requiring reviews, and other bureaucracy.

What they end up replacing ssh with (teleport or aws ssm are the two I've been forced to use) are slow, spotty, crash frequently, and who knows what vulnerabilities they have.

If all these companies trying to get rid of sshd want to slap their own daemon on to replace it, why not keep sshd and simply have a deamon that manages the keys and not throw out the entire tool chain?

The most fun thing with teleport and aws-ssm: to use it you had to bring up a web page to authenticate. There goes any hope of automation at scale. Because in a world where you're supposed to treat servers like cattle, let's impose (and I mean impose) a regime that forces you to access them one at a time manually, especially in critical situations.
Simulating disk failure with btrfs single mode
RIF’s also involve a random element so that the distribution of people let go is sufficiently equal among age sex etc to avoid lawsuits.
The 'fixing up mistakes in the map' team is quite separate from the anti-spam team.

Using volunteer reports for anti-spam doesn't work because the spammers play a numbers game, and perhaps only 10% will be reported by a good citizen like you.
Fiat is the best fine tuned PoS system we have.

Is it perfect? No.

Is it ages ahead of Bitcoin? Yes
They started it, not there's many services providing this now. You don't have to go with AWS for a few years now if you want to go serverless. (Even if they are the most popular) For self hosted context there's https://fnproject.io/ for example.
Is there any data on how long this last? Having a perfectly working laptop die because some membrane lose elasticity would suck
PhotoRoom (YC S20) Is Hiring a Fullstack Engineer (Generative AI API) in Paris