skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people don't really get that our brains are a bunch of specialized subcomponents that work in concert (Your pre-frontal cortex just cannot beat your heart, not matter how optimized it gets). This is unsurprising, as our brains are one of the most complex/hard to monitor things on earth.

When an artificial tool that is really a point solution "tricks" us into thinking it has replicated a task that requires complex multi-component functioning within our brain, we assume the tool is acting like our brain is acting.

The joke of course being that if you maliciously edited GPT's index for translating vectors to words, it would produce gibberish and we wouldn't care (despite being the exact same core model).

We are only impressed by the complex sequence to sequence strings it makes because the tokens happen to be words (arguable the most important things in our lives).

EDIT: a great historic metaphor for this is how we thought about 'computer vision' and CNN's. They do great at identifying things in images, but notice that we still use image-based captcha's (Even on OpenAI sites no less!)?

That's because it turns out optical illusions and context-heavy images are things that CNN's really struggle at (since the problem space is bigger than 'how are these pixels arranged')
The problem is needing to verify accuracy makes it a really bad search engine replacement. A good con artist is generally truthful, they just know how to seem truthful even when they lie which exactly the issue with trusting ChatGPT etc. You can’t tell if the model is telling bullshit unless you already know the truth.

This doesn’t make them useless in general, just a poor fit if you can’t easily fact check the results.
made its fortune in philanthropy

Already sounds dubious to me. Don't you need a fortune before you go into philanthropy? Making a fortune in philanthropy sounds like embezzlement.
npm install common-sense
The world is a hostile place and everyone wants to drink your milkshake (including me).

Don't think there's anything that can or should be done about it. This is how it's always been and this how it will always be: it's fundamental to humanity.
Human Microphone
Yeah, have a friend that opted to stop using their real name online. We were on a group call with random strangers and girl randomly yelled out his real name when she heard his voice.
Sraffa asks Wittgenstein: “What is the logical form of that?”
A stumbled over this anecdote about Piero Sraffa and Ludwig Wittgenstein. I like it.
They have the abitity to create transcripts of everything on there, across languages, with the capability to apply good-enough translations to other languages, its insane
Sorry about the delays! Our engineer director in charge of making that process smooth still lives in Ukraine, and, you know, war.

I am gonna help. Can you forward me where you are at directly to my email julien _AT_ serpapi.com? I will dig to find out why your application is stuck.
There are two different contexts around layoffs.

1) The company is struggling, losing money, etc and needs to tackle corrective action before everyone loses their jobs.
2) The company is generating record revenues, profits are high, but growth will be 4% instead of 5% so we need layoffs.

There seem to be a staggering number of layoffs from camp two.

> But it's weird to see all of these think pieces implying that once someone is hired into a job, that job should exist forever.

It's also really weird to see:

- Rescinded offers
- People hired and let go in 3 months (not for performance but because oopsie we miscalculated)
- Entire teams built in the first half of a year let go in the second half
- People with 10+ years of exemplary service dumped without even a phone call.

This is all also happening against the backdrop of low unemployment, high demand for tech labor, and a skills gap that's growing.

The analysis was of Fortune 1000 companies which typically aren't companies that would be suffering from long term declining performance which would imply the layoffs are a reaction to a short term fluctuation rather than a long term trend that needs to be corrected.

And I don't think the author is saying that laying people off won't balance the financials for that year or that quarter but that the ripple effects from a layoff can actually do more harm than the calculated returns.

- snap back attrition
- loss of knowledge
- opportunity cost
- lost productivity from demoralized workforce

Nintendo is a great example of a company that when confronted with economic hardship due to bad strategy avoided layoff and instead reduced executive compensation.

https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-sator...

Satoru Iwata effectively stated the same conclusions this article did that such moves might resolve short-term difficulties, but always proved counter-productive in the long-term. Long term thinking versus short term thinking not surprising for a company that has been around since 1889 and has evolved constantly.

It's almost like maybe investor sentiment and stock price is not a good metric for actually running a successful business. Just look at Apple this morning...

Revenue: $117.1 billion versus $121.1 billion expected

Investors are pulling their hair out because Apple only made $117 billion. Is anyone really going to miss that $4 billion? You'll hear investors and talking heads calling for corrective layoffs when in reality nothing needs to be done. They are still ridiculously profitable and will continue to be.
I used to have to switch to Google a lot, but over the past couple years I find myself doing it less and less. And recently, a few times I've switched to Google I've received worse results.
True, just have a look at Stack Overflow questions tagged Dart, very few (being extra cautious here) are not flutter question.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dart
Nice article, but nothing really surprising when you follow the progression starting from 8080.

One correction though:

> EAX is called the “Accumulator register” is not just a convention, it actually makes a difference to the encoding (and potentially the performance, as a result)

No. As the decoder doesn't decode byte-by-bytes, but whole strings together and registers are all renamed meaning that %eax isn't really different from %ebx etc. the only difference is that it saves one byte of code space which is an extremely minor density improvement and you'd have to make a very contrived example to be able to measure the difference.
I would have thought they could spin up headless Chrome instances to simply pull down, render, and then index websites. Apparently this is too resource intensive for them? I'm sure the idea has come up (there's no way I thought of this and they didn't).
If one's town had a neighboring rival town/school growing up, using the rival town could provide a semblance of cohesiveness due to still being intimate with many of the details of said town as a rival.
I'm thinking on learning a system language. Do you recommend C++ or Rust? I now mostly TS, Python, R, Dart, and currently basic/intermediate in Swift.
I was just hearing about a local who's using ChatGPT to write copy for their personal website. Then I was thinking, how long until the browser itself has a built in feature to summarize paragraphs of text (which was possibly generated by a model) into chunked, readable content, replacing the original html as the page renders? These models are consuming the world and each other faster than we can think of what's next.
It is not that difficult to implement -some- basic features of static analysis or abstract interpretation. The problem complexity in this area is enormous and it quickly becomes difficult to manage aspects of path exploration and satisfiability effectively. This is why fuzzing has been more popular method since it is not as difficult to implement and produces reasonable results.
macOS 13.2 Breaks Compatibility with Pioneer's CD/DVD Drives
Only to let it cool down again ...
Agreed! We will add support for window customization as part of the multi-window effort.
Oh, cool! So kinda like IRC?
First, it’s not even clear that a recession will happen. And unless you are retiring and need the money in the next few years, it’s not wise to convert stocks into cash. You are trying to time the market which is pretty much impossible.
I was surprised to find ChatGPT does a better job of translating than Google translate, at least for one difficult task I needed to get done.

I have been a Google Translate user for more than a decade. I use it a dozen or more times a day for multiple languages. It is a very useful tool.

I recently had to translate a passage that included this phrase: 六六大顺

Google Translate gave me: Liuliu Dashun (basically no translation, just a transliteration or romanization)

Bing Translator: Six Six Dashun (a little bit better because 六 does mean six in some contexts.

Baidu: Liu Liu (basically no translation)

Naver: Six or Six Dashun (partial translation, plus added an incorrect particle)

Only ChatGPT gave the correct answer: "Everything going smoothly"

There is a cultural context that is essential to the translation, which apparently only ChatGPT has. It turns out that the number 6 is a lucky number in Chinese. It has the meaning of being “auspicious”. In Chinese culture, there is an idiom called “六六大顺 (liù liù dà shùn)”, which means “Everything comes in a smooth way” or more naturally "Everything going smoothly".

BTW, after seeing the ChatGTP results, I found this contextual info using Google search, in a website http://www.ichineselearning.com

It is ironic that Google search "knows" (helps you find) the cultural context but Google Translate apparently does not leverage this info.
I'm not a hiring manager but I think if you're early in your career, a cert wouldn't hurt and may distinguish you from other candidates. If you have 5-8+ yr exp, it probably matters less.
The first time I ever failed to pay off my card in full on a given month, they increased my credit limit significantly. That seemed a bit perverse to me: Hey, we see you're struggling, let us make sure you have enough rope to hang yourself with.

Prior to that I'd only ever increase my limit when my monthly spend would approach it, usually a holiday season.
That's why the have (had?) all that fun stuff on the back of the cereal box. Or the morning paper. It's not a new phenomenon that we strive to fill our idle time with some kind of stimulation.
Discover is also.
Use a PURDAH, like in "Fall; or Dodge In Hell"
It seems to me the utility of the 'good' 50% depends entirely upon your ability to recognize it.

How do you know when to dig through those obscure manuals?

It seems to me that it'd be more useful when:

a) I don't care whether the text says things which are not true

Write me a poem about ...

b) I care, and will have to verify it's results, but that cost is worth it

Generate some test data ...

I think we're at a very dangerous intersection between an apparent decline in American's ability to detect nonsense and an automated way to create convincing nonsense.
Asp.net Core Dev Team Launches 'Blazor United' Push for .NET 8
Shortly after Blazor creator Steve Sanderson wowed web-devs with a new prototype project called Blazor United and solicited feedback on its viability, Microsoft flipped the switch and put it on the roadmap for .NET 8.
CSAs where I live are a luxury good for a few people to feel better about themselves. You pay in much more than you get back (compared to a grocery store), and what you get is geared towards variety to make it more appealing. As such, you get enough of any particular veg for one or two meals, at a cost that is wildly expensive for most people. I tried one summer, and it was cute but replaced approximately 0% of our grocery bill.
Err... not if you are paying interest. But if you got a 0% APR credit card, rock on!
When you dig deeper, you will indeed find that the public reason for these kind of restrictions is "to keep the user safe".

They claim to be worried about malware installing their own extensions, so they lock everything down. As if that same malware wouldn't just patch the firefox binary to allow loading unsigned extensions.

It's ridiculous and obviously meant as a first step towards a walled garden. It's very unfortunate that firefox followed google in this.
Thanks! Sorry about the delays as well. Can you send me an email to my direct email julien _AT_ serpapi.com?
I imagine the difference is that copying a prompt is quite easy if you can get it to leak.

Copying most CRUD apps still takes many SWEYears.
Yeah, generally speaking the US does not incentivize its citizens to have kids. Any other first-world country will at least give you free healthcare and maternity leave. Some give paternity leave and let you work fewer hours (for proportionally-less pay) if you are a parent.

So if I have a child in the Netherlands, it costs me nothing (doctor checkups, delivery in the hospital, vaccinations, etc.), I get free PTO, and I get to go to a 4 or 3-day workweek.

If I have a child in the US, I have to pay my deductible/coinsurance on medical costs, probably still ends up being several grand at least, get no paid time off and will be lucky to get unpaid time off for more than a week or two, still have to choose between 40 hours/week working or unemployment/self-employment, and I get to wonder if my child will come home from school every day. Oh, and I get to make a 401k withdrawal to put them through college unless they are top of their class or really good at sports…

Why the fuck would I raise a child in the US?
Optimistic view: inflation has risen by about 8 percentage points over the last two years, but average credit card interest rates have climbed only about 4 percentage points. So relative to inflation borrowing money got cheaper, leading to a rise in debt.

This view is likely overly optimistic.
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If you want safety and are buying bonds, make sure you actually understand bonds. For example U.S. long term treasury dropped by 30% in 2022, even more than the drop in S&P500; if you don't understand how the Fed raising the rate could affect your bonds portfolio, don't buy bonds.
The "correct" way is also template-heavy so enjoy long compile times followed by utterly incomprehensible error messages.
Right? There are people paying higher rates than that on a mortgage, which is usually a pretty safe bet to underwrite
I don't think I agreed with anything you said.

I work with all available material in many different ways (Anki cards, videos, different explanations of the same thing, etc), and ChatGPT is another way to learn and help me generate learning material. For example I have it ask me questions like a tutor would. Or I ask various questions when I'm unsure about the wider context - e.g. it provides much more about the underlying physics than the Pilot Handbook itself. If I don't understand, I can ask for clarification, or an explanation like I am 5.

Reading the Pilot Handbook is a big part of learning but being limited to it would be hard. I'm very happy about having Chatgpt available.
The Erdõs Project – The Collected Papers of Paul Erdõs
It gets the hate because it comes from Google and it was originally marketed as a JavaScript replacement.

Additionally, the first unoptimized compiler resulted in "hello world" having a gargantuan amount of JavaScript code. That left the language with a hard to shake stigma.
The default state for a company is to produce a yearly layoff. This has been dramatically reduced since gen y hit the work market because they were leave the company instead of stressing and they were important as they were bringing the tech power to the industry

Now they are getting old and there is no short of people to work on tech so the cycle restarts.

Honestly if I do get in a company that practices this I will quit.
It has done horrors to people close to me and they will never recover.
A fun book about this stuff is Michael Bazell’s Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear in America. With extreme effort you can keep a surprising number of things unlinked from your government name if you really want to.
what do you mean 'scaling laws'?
Where did you read that Twitter SSO is unaffected? Do you have any source to reference for this?
If it's a stock $100/month as Elno seems to float in a tweet, IFTTT should be ok, probably, assuming they want to pay.

If it's something daft like $100/month for 1000 calls a day, we may well see integrations like IFTTT go down. Which will suck because I have A Lot of them right now.
Poor will have the highest utility in the Metaverse, just like the internet.
Can I get in on that beta? Submitted the form yesterday. Currently building something that could use it. ;)
To be fair, it's all the same thing underneath, the Ads app is the same as AdWords on web. "Google's biggest money maker" isn't referring to either AdWords the website or the Ads mobile app, it's talking about the underlying ads product itself, ie what gets shown on websites, these are simply UIs over that.
You'd think right? There must be other reasons then... how does Google benefit from not building better SPA crawling infrastructure? It's certainly gotten _better_ over the last few years, but still seems lacking.
I reject the use of surveillance based authentication. I do not consent to my information being used in this way, nor it being stored in those surveillance databases in general. And I certainly do not want to confirm their records.

When confronted with it, I generally answer the questions without using any personal knowledge - either choosing none of the above or doing web searches for questions like what city is Foo St in. This works about half the time (demonstrating the uselessness of it), and the other half they can just send me a snail mail letter.

(Of course this isn't really applicable to the situation you found yourself in, and I could see myself making the same compromise under duress. But speaking generally)
exec ionice -c 3 nice -n 20 "$@"

Make it a shell script like `takeiteasy`, and run `takeiteasy cargo ...`
Klopodavka Game in Rust and WebAssembly
Oooh, didn't know about the release notes RSS, thanks!
This is an implementation of a neat pencil-and-paper game from the 1980's in Eastern Europe called Virus Wars or Klopodavka (bedbugs).

In this variant of Klopodavka, players can add a bug or squish an opponent's along cells adjacent to a path of friendly cells connected to the player's base. Players get six actions per turn and a player loses when no more valid moves are available. Although the AI is limited, it's an interesting game of territory and thinking about how one's own bugs will be used against oneself.

The code can be found at https://github.com/ptupitsyn/klopodavka-rs and was developed by Pavel Tupitsyn, who is also the maintainer of Apache Ignite according to his GitHub bio.
DDG, with the very rare !g to search Google. DDG has been doing a great job for my needs.
There's two other comments in this thread that were posted before yours, with links outlining Tether's restrictive ToS. You should probably read them instead of doubling down on a weird half-position.
It looks like the Eton figures for WW1 are 1157 died, out of 5660 who served in the war; just over 20%.

That's a lot higher than the overall British death rate of 12.5% of those who served (from https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/oly...).
A list of all the official languages with English and native labels
Spent a bit of time compiling this, might be useful for some of your projects. Any change suggestions are welcome.
Neat, it says Powered by Flutter on Android. That's pretty cool.
Child tax credits are menial, and public education quality is constantly declining (and very little is spent here anyway).
At least farmers have the humility to not go on the internet and smear you based on their opinion of your use of a document database over a relational database.
> the education was sufficient to understand the concept of not spending money you do not have

My public schooling in a podunk county TN had no component for financial management.

Even so, you assume that such education exists in a vacuum. It does not. It runs counter to a deluge of culture and advertising that tries to induce people to go into debt the moment they are able to pass a credit check.
Looking at these bookshelves a number are particle/pressboard products. Would you trust unknown quality/untested inputs (industrial glues) used to make a product known to outgas into your sealed living environment? For example particle board takes five to 10 years to completely outgas itself of all formaldehyde.
Makes me wonder why employees are expected to give two weeks notice when they choose to leave, write docs detailing knowledge transfer, etc. Why can't we just "disappear", as if we were laid off?
Agree. Learning AWS and especially scripting things with CLI / using terraform is a good start.

AWS is a huge area with a bazillion of ingredients but you could start with learning: S3 buckets, permissions, lambda functions.
An accounting change:
https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15387/why-did-...
That's called debit card. Limit is the money in your back account.
What about Apple changing the title to associate for former employees. Makes me think of Jony Ive. Would have loved to see them list his title as "Associate" when he left.
It’s actually a myth that carrying a balance does anything to your credit score. Low utilization of your credit limit and long history of the credit line, combined with history of on time payments is what matters.

You get a higher credit limit if they think your income is higher.

Also, parent poster is likely paying interest, which is the worst thing you can do on a credit card.
Can you give insight into how that top 10 chart demonstrates anonymity?
I stayed with the same job since 2017 - too afraid to change jobs after the pandemic hit. No raises at all, and we're at a company that was able to profit from COVID-19. My wife and I have been taking huge credit card losses lately by staying with the company. I'm now interviewing and getting out. The inflation is killing everything. Definitely saw my grocery and gas bills double, easily. It's really hard to live in California right now, since every item at the grocery store got their with Diesel fuel (which is 5.00, peaked at 8 in the summer).
I think it's a bit ridiculous to call it "server side rendering". It is called HTTP
From the (US-based) user perspective: better buyer protections, non-negligible rewards
Or, more directly, ask Sutskever...
This. I think these firms would have an easier time hiring engineers away from FAANGs, if they realised that FAANG engineers don't precisely understand how the bonus system works. (I think the vagueness is actually seen as a feature of the bonus system!)
I use it to generate text that is more complex than I typically would generate on my own. And then manually fix the facts in post-processing.