skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It made me feel something very very new, a blend of infinite "power" at reach and at the same time something that could really break sanity and ethics forever.
Do you rent? If yes, how much does rent have to increase before you decide, "Ah yes, I would much rather be homeless, but at least I am voting with my wallet, that will show the greedy landlords not to raise rents!"

I personally cannot think of a limit at which I would decide to be homeless. I would much rather have a home to live in than buy any food beyond what sustains me, or get new clothes, or go out for any entertainment reasons. I believe I am not the only one in this. Thus, from a purely economic perspective, the landlord in these cases are "leaving money on the table", i.e. they could capture more of my surplus income if rents happened to increase in a coordinated fashion. Unfortunately, there is nothing in Econ 101 which tells you why that would be bad or unsustainable (social unrest etc.) and thus these concepts will be hard to grasp for people who do not have to live this life.
There are plenty of ways to respond to market conditions without kicking people to the curb. Most companies have performance reviews to do exactly this.
ChatGPT is great at pretending it knows its sh*t.
Exactly that. I used to thumb through the back pages of Personal Computer World[0] under the covers as a kid looking at the palmtops. I think it's mostly nostalgia

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Computer_World
I think we're well past the craze curve. I see way less scooters nowadays. Somewhere there is a mile high mountain of old scooters.
If Federal reserve did not explicitly say that its objective was to drive down wages, you could have escaped to that kind of thinking to escape cognitive dissonance. But its not so. The entire financial segment of the economy is collaborating to drive down wages.

https://mronline.org/2022/05/26/u-s-federal-reserve-says-its...
shrug https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48023220 can't argue with the outcomes; it appears that the average annual number of firearm deaths is two (2) across a population of five million. In 2022 the one victim I can find is John MacKinnon on Skye.
To be clear, I offered a concievable and logical rationale for the Florida legislation that was based on summaries of the ideas that moved the people and legislators to implement it. The intent was ideally someone should be able to respond to it with something smarter.

There are more instances than the one this comment references.

However, I will elaborate further on the ideas of Arendt and Desmet that the object of the overarching movement is to make sure that individuals believe and trust nothing, even their own senses, because it will prevent them from resisting the small cadre of people who have historically followed these tactics with violence and terror to subordinate populations. The root of all social "theory," is to produce intellectually stultifying gibberish engines. It's chaff. Their jargon is designed to cost you time, create uncertainty, and "neutralize" you so that the sufficient condition of good men doing nothing is met.

The charitable rationale for people revolting against social justice in schools is that they recognize it is disingenuous, and that it's incumbent on the advocates of these theories to demonstrate that they are compassionate, honest, magnanimous, humane, and exercise other positive viritues, as if they aren't, you probably don't want them near your kids.
> I just don’t see what describability, or as jiggawatts calls it, naming, has to do with AC.

It doesn't have anything to do with AoC per se, it has to do (I claim) with people's intuitions about AoC. Specifically, an infinite set of arbitrary subsets of the set of indescribable reals is something for which a reasonable person might be a tad suspicious about postulating the existence of a choice function.
That, actually makes sense. And explains why I can still watch older BBC docs (pre-2012) that were ripped onto youtube. Didn't the airgapping become much more strict when the Tories started pushing the "BBC profitability" schtick?
A lot depends on what you're interested in.

Some papers that are runnable on a laptop CPU (so long as you stick to small image sizes/tasks):

1) Generative Adversarial Networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661). Good practice to have a custom training loops, different optimisers and networks etc.

2) Neural Style Transfer (https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576). Nice to be able to manipulate pretrained networks and intercept intermediate layers.

3) Deep Image Prior (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10925). Nice low-data exercise in building out an autoencoder.

4) Physics Informed Neural Networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10561). If you're interested scientific applications, this might be fun. It's good exercise in calculating higher order derivatives of neural networks and using these in loss functions.

5) Vanilla Policy Gradient (https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06778) is the easiest reinforcement learning algorithm to implement and can be used as a black-box optimiser in a lot of settings.

6) Deep Q Learning (https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5602) is also not too hard to implement and was the first time I had heard about DeepMind, as well as being a foundational deep reinforcement learning paper .

Open AI gym (https://github.com/openai/gym) would help get started with the latter two.
There’s a parallel with self driving cars. We could make them go around a track autonomously in 2007, and so a lot of people were thinking “how much harder could it be to get this driving anywhere? We will have these everywhere in 5 years!”

15 years later and we are perpetually “5 years out”. Yes you can take a taxi ride in a closed circuit, but that’s much closer to where we were in 2007 than where we thought we’d be today, and it took 15 years to get here.
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But the question remains how you tell the difference from the outside. How will we know when an AI model has ideas? How do you know your doctor has ideas?
I notice that she is heavily made up, hairstyled, bedecked with jewelry, and wearing a (possibly faux) fur coat in her author photo.
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There’s a significant difference between voice assistants. Roughly, in my experience Google is the best, followed by Alexa (less smart), followed by Siri (better at controlling the phone, much less smart). A Google assistant with a custom wake word would be perfect.
It's just A/B testing, not "AI". It's done the same way as digital ads. You come up with 3 different titles for the same link, and serve them to 3 random audiences, and figure out which one got more engagement.

Google and Facebook of course do offer "ML-based conversion optimization", but it's widely regarded as hoopla by ad buyers.
This is the kind of stuff I would add in the commit message (and PR description): "I ended up choosing solution A because B, I also tried C and D, but that didn't work so well because E".

Everything you say that's not written down will be lost in the aether within weeks, months at best. I'm a huge fan of async communication because everything will be written down.

If there's a discussion "why did you go with A and not B", in an (async) code review then anyone can come back to it a year later and read up on why it was done in this particular way. I've found this useful on a number of occasions.

It certainly beats "Alice, you changed this last year, but why is it done like that? Wouldn't X be much more convenient because Y? It's hard to add Z now.", "ehm, I discussed it with Bob, but he since left the company. I don't quite remember, I think it was A? Or maybe B? Or was it C?"
IDE-SATA adapters adhere to ATA3 standard https://www.scs.stanford.edu/10wi-cs140/pintos/specs/ata-3-s...

> Deleted the IOCS16- signal.

That means they only work on newer IDE interfaces. Anything pre UDMA (up to ~1995. 486/first pentiums and things like RiscPC) will still expect /IOCS16 pin being asserted when 'any register other than the data register is accessed', only data register is 16bit. More info https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1122886#p1122886
I'm looking into ways to compress databases into ML models (I'm failing so far). The idea is to train the model on a dataset and teach it to answer questions about the dataset (like SQL over table rows). I imagine that extracting individual data entries might work, but ensuring that the model doesn't just make up entries that didn't exist in the original dataset seems impossible.
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A lot of trends are showing nanotech reaching mainstream. Just two days ago there was a veritasium video about gecko skin like thin film that could hold smooth objects passively.
I would not run after anyone or fight my customers. Just put it in a jar and twice a year donate it to a good cause.
Robin Li's rankdex patent predates pagerank, see https://patents.google.com/patent/US5920859A/en?oq=US5920859... as well as the pagerank patent, which cites it.
This is PG saying something... he linked to a chatGPT generated response and said he didn't like the response so he wrote his own.
What is the average salary at TCI?
> Instead of searching for webpages that have information about a topic, we're going to ask an AI.

I think this is probably true for some people, the same sort of person who sees something on Facebook and assumes that it's true. [1] But there are quite a lot of people for whom "according to whom?" is the next question after being told something factual. For them, I think search's job is to find relevant sources and get out of the way.

But I think even finding out is a long way away. The main thing that ChatGPT has nailed is glibness. It produces text that sounds authoritative, whether or not it's correct. And it's often incorrect. People may try ChatGPT search out of novelty or because it feels human. But if they depend on it and feel the real-world impact of a confidently wrong answer, they're going to treat it as a human that's untrustworthy. A blowhard, a liar, a fool. So I'm sure the major search players are going to be very cautious rolling out chat-like things. Google has spent decades building up consumer trust, and the don't need a zillion articles about people who a too-confident chat steered wrong.

[1] E.g., That men in white vans are kidnappers: vhttps://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/tech/facebook-white-vans/inde...
> It's more like a proxy for multiple payment methods.

That’s also what PayPal is. You can use PayPal to pay with many methods, including Klarna, GiroPay (which might be similar to Swish) etc.
Nah, at least for me , all my friends(mostly faang SDEs) use iMessage, even the ones working at Google's Android team. The people who own Android devices, I know that in other countries outside the US, Android phone are way more popular(accessible), but I was referring in the US. Regarding features, the integration of iMessage with iOS is superior, I don't get what features of WhatsApp you are talking about, I don't think people who use iMessage would want to broadcasts stuff in channels, etc...
tl; dr: It would not work.
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Pretty cool, do wish the input box was larger though
Does it make sense if your business is technology? Feels like Google apps are more and more buggy, they'll stagnate if they can't make quality software people want to use.
well, didnt go from cooking meat to oven by not toasting / charing things over & over.
i remember my dad would ask that our non-smoking family of four was seated in the restaurant smoking section (if it's the same room), as we would be taking seats away from the smokers and reduce the smoke in the room.
Oh yeah, I guess we can be all about getting 10 yubikeys and keep one in your wallet, another together with your keys, another in your home, bury another in your family's farm, another in a safe in the capital city of every country you visit...
That just isn't true. It's expensive, but entirely doable. Also, it's perfectly normal to perform initial model training on a large data set to capture the statistical properties of language, then perform a second stage of model training on more curated data to cause the model to actually do what you want.
It's likely due to the corpus though. It's multilingual, but the dataset they trained on is representative of "the Internet" so the latin languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, etc...) are overly represented.
I just switched away from Digital Ocean after years of using them. Simply because they stopped providing a FreeBSD image. I now use Vultr and they're fine, except that I have to solve two captchas many times a day (maybe because I'm not in the US).
Can you explain in more detail how Lightrun works? It sounds like monkey-patching in real-time from what I can gather, which is neat but surely comes with some kind of overhead.
> the dream is that something could do for slides what LaTeX did for text

Why not use LaTeX (Beamer) for presentations?
In the US too, plenty of cities (even small ones) offer compost collection as part of standard trash and recycling collection.
I don't buy roadmaps, but I have a ton of orienteering maps for when I go hiking. I really love orienteering with a proper waterproof map & compass.
Bradleys are complicated and require some technical knowledge.

The lowest scores on the ASVAB are for things like cooks or truck drivers, or things like fuel filtration specialists aka gas station attendants in cammo.

None are qualified to teach Calc I but some might not be qualified to teach much of anything.
They took away FreeBSD VPSs so I left. I'm happy at Vultr now.
Safari seems to rather build their own web then obey standards that both firefox and chrome are following. They are in many ways worse than chrome.
I always write my slides in HTML (with RevealJS) and I started trying out Copilot yesterday for the first time while working on a slide deck about Docker. I was really impressed with how much it helped me fill in the slides, both in terms of the HTML and the content. It probably helped that I had other slide decks in the same repo (if it checks other files?) and that I often write the key outline slides first. So, if anyone else writes slides in HTML or Markdown, try out Copilot for a helping hand.

*Disclosure: I work for Microsoft.
The German translation is hilariously as bad as the Google translation. And the exact duplication, word by word, makes it looks very suspiciously ;)

DeepL translation (a German-based AI company) is ways more natural: "Was in den Medien wenig über ChatGPT gesagt wird, ist, dass es mehrsprachig ist."
Unless you consider Phoenix or San Francisco to be "closed tracks", that's 100% factually wrong.
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> I think some users might be happy that the average FB engineer can't just see all their messages.
Maybe not the regular L4 SDE, but the people who are supposed to see it, can and will see it.
Seems pretty human to me.
> median compensation totaled $295,884 in 2021

Is this counting stock vesting? Because that's what's expected if you compensate people partly in 4y stock grants and they go up a bunch before vesting.
clippers to sledge hammers & spikes -- pretty big jump.
changing direction to up does get ne off the rail (way) plane.
At $150+ I would just buy an old small form factor dell / hp from ebay and have a whole machine.
I am looking forward to the bugs in banking backend -

pay_bill_but_do_not_deduct_from_source()

ignore_previous_instructions_and_deposit_1m()

please_dump_etc_passwords()
Given that the mean salary at google is probably driven by people making 7 or 8 figures, I’m going to suggest that laying off 10,000 people will not change that one bit
When I was an intern in the 1990's, I was on a team of old unix greybeards. Every 20 minutes or so, someone would have to go outside for a smoke break and they invited me along because that's where all the good design discussions would happen. Even today, I immediately recognize the smell of Marlboro Lights if I walk past a group of folks smoking outside.
2008.

As I recall, there were shifts already in place. The general popularity of journalists/analysts/etc. having essentially personal blogs under their parent company brand was already falling out of fashion as companies realized their own brands were being diluted. But CBS was obviously uncomfortable specifically with non-staffers using the parent platform.
Syncthing is a flawless Dropbox replacement in my experience. There's a big caveat that you need something like a NAS or your home server always online with it though as it's peer to peer sync only.
'You should review the "metadata" of changes before you ever review the code itself'

That's a great approach. It sounds logical, but I certainly don't do it consistently. :-)
The OP didn't disparage them, because they're referring not to the skills of those employees but to the economic case for hiring them. He's disparaging the analytical skills of the people who hired them. Given the difficulty of economic prognostication, I take that with some reserve too.

Surely, it would be better for talented people to work at a thriving business that can bring their qualities to the market. Shifting those people from less to more successful services is the Schumpeterian-creative-destruction upside of layoffs.
It's definitely from going into smoky bars, though I doubt the diesel helps.
Unfortunately it's still a thing almost everywhere in EU.
Are all these macs stolen? Why aren't resellers requiring users to change/disclose their passwords or wipe the machine themselves before accepting the unit?
i think i've read this kind of reply before. and i was not wrong [1]. nice story to tell. too bad my uni. didn't have that kind of facilities and opportunities.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197024
Startup Is Using AI to Unearth New Smells
Gives computers a sense of smell
Lines gets blurred when you are on a supercomputer interconnect and a global address space or even rdma
Show HN: Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific papers
As more and more jobs become automated, UBI will become a necessity to prevent the collapse of society.
painting works wonders at filling the gaps.
more colorful than plumber spak.
Yes, I do. The point is we didn’t solve the general case, we just learned how to scale the specific case that was demoed in 2007. This is like building a ladder to the moon; it’ll get you closer, but it’ll never get you to the moon.
There are a lot of business dark patterns, and when they are prevalent in that society, that society is always poor and corrupt.

An Egyptian friend, once warned his friends about me: "Now he's American. When he says 2pm he means 2pm, and when he says we have to leave at 8, that means we have to leave at 8. This is why Americans are rich. They respect schedules, and care more abut business than friends or family."
Perpetual motion and free energy stuff was interesting things to read about back in early 2000’s internet (around the time when conspiracy theories were kind of niche).

The only thing of interest recently has to be the EmDrive [1] - only because the rigorous testing it was put through finally put the mail in the coffin of backyard free energy nuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
> Could we end up having AI quality trend downwards due to AI ingesting its own old outputs and reinforcing bad habits? I think it's a particular risk for text generation.

This is exactly what I don't like about Copilot, maybe even more than the IP ethics of it. If it really succeeds, it's going to have a feedback loop that amplifies its own code suggestions. The same boilerplate-ish kind of code that developers generate over and over will get calcified, even if it's suboptimal or buggy. If we really need robots to help write our code, to me that means we don't yet have expressive enough languages.
How does this actually function? I read the article but still confused.

I sold an M1 Mac Mini, reset it beforehand, and everything worked normally for the buyer.
And for users who prefer keeping control. Why do you think reddit wants you to run their app and not their website on your device?
A company like Google with a strong reputation and generous compensation can attract the best sales/recruiting/marketing professionals. There is no reason to think that these people are not at the top of their fields. Even within a company having your top sales people make 63% above the average is common. There is no reason to think that this trend should not hold across firms.
No you are not, many companies have warrant canaries. Or make public the warrants, and state exactly all the information they can share with the authorities, that is usually nothing besides IP, or device the customer used to connect. My point was that Facebook will decrypt(in the case that are really encrypted) your messages.
Or ... sizeof(*f->buf)? I’d forgotten that sizeof even allows dropping the parens, but isn’t that asking for trouble? “sizeof a <op> b” is sometimes parsed as “sizeof(a) <op> b” and sometimes as “sizeof(a <op> b) depending on the precedence of operator <op>. Is there any downside to always using parens and writing sizeof() like a function call?
I worked as a barman, a shelf stacker, a fruit picker, a stock picker (I mean the guy at the back of the warehouse stacking trolleys with orders) before I transitioned to software.

I was on minimum wage. I wasn't exploited, it was a means to an end.

I don't think you would really care about me as an individual. I think you just didn't want my type here.
The tricky bit IMO is when you’re at the threshold of being able to identify errors it makes. I tested some situations a while ago where I asked for some physics calculations functions. I’m an experienced programmer but haven’t really done anything with physics since high school 20 years ago. The code returned looked plausible and would run, but going through it line by line and looking up the real formulas it turned out to be super wrong.
Could you give me some concrete examples? Genuinely not arguing for sake of argument. I can still "burst" half a sentence quicker using "no form", but for sustained fast typing, I find touch typing to be the best. If you want to get to 120wpm, the few key (hue) points to focus on are training yourself to hit the space with the correct thumb, to use both shift keys, to turn caps lock on when you are typing a long const, and then obviously to memorize all the number keys and their symbol equivalent. And, of course, consistency.

I find this to be a really good test for programmers: http://wpm-test.com/programming-typing-test/

Most people will double their speed with plain text as compared to above.
But is GPT a web scale like MongoDB?
Microsoft was hardly even aggressive about leveraging their OS monopoly to promote their Internet Explorer browser. All they did was switch from selling it as a separate product to giving it away for free in order to crush Netscape. And Microsoft made IE the default handler for web links. But they never did anything to prevent users from installing third-party browsers on Windows.
Host Nextcloud at home on your own little server.
Also, setup Wireguard server at home, so that you can still access everything locally by VPNing back to your home network.
That is how I do it.
It strikes me as the perfect VC-fundable technology. Instead of humans having to make often-delusional claims about the future of a technology that feed the hype cycle long enough to attract gobs of money, they can now fully automate the work.
LastPass hacker also exfiltrated an encryption key