skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I did safety critical engineering, I was more concerned about the other person's life than my own. It's actually more scary than gratifying.
> and motivate more people to take trains.

If you build a train that does what I need without requiring copious amounts of my spare time, I might take it. If you don't then your only "motivation" boils down to "reducing options until the train is all that is left."

People need infrastructure that meets their demands. If it works, they'll be plenty motivated.
Why are control rooms always so cool!
What extra "indiscriminate bombing" ? Russia has been doing that since last February already, just look at the state of Mariupol...

No, they just don't have the means to escalate this any further (without using nukes).
I am not sure why you would say that. I mean it is true, but I am not sure how it is relevant here. If one avenue is not there, ones that crave it badly enough will venture forth. If I don't go to work and WANT to engage with others so badly, I will. And besides, meaningful relations is a meaningless term.

Example. My parent has neighbors. They have lived closely to one another. So closely and long, in fact, they had to sue to resolve some outstanding issues. In other words, neither prolonged proximity or meaningful relationship is a useful metric. I will trade those for a new neighbor every year.

Humans work like they always worked. Their predilections move them. If those are not satisfied, they are channeled.
Hi Bryan, as a young developer I have found your content and work so inspiring. As others have alluded to, On the Metal and your talks are fantastic! Keep up the good work at Oxide!
This comment thread: "That one from my culinary tradition isn't so bad, wtf? But yeah the rest of these sound gross..."
I mean it’s just taking the old business model - pay me $500 for a piece of software - and stretching it to -
Pay me $20/mo until The end of times.

The bean counters love it because it looks like you have an infinite revenue stream
Associate professors are typically tenured. Did you mean assistant professor?
Closing all offices? That means remote-only right? Sounds like a great place to work once the layoffs are a distant memory
As an aside -- and maybe I'm missing it -- but I am a gun enthusiast and a competitive shooter with extensive police training. I keep one in the chamber and expect others would too.
Yup - I've just finished bringing up some FP hardware - you can't do all the 64-bit double space but you can do all the 32-bit single op instructions (converts, sqrt, etc) - but add/sub/multiple (32x32) are not doable

But this is even more appropriate for 16-bit floats - you can realistically do all the adds/multiplies/etc, but maybe not the 3op multiply-accumulates
This doesn't actually seem extravagant: Assuming they bought (or rented), rather than built, their office, they probably just had a bunch of extra space. Even if they didn't, only a company expecting growth to completely die would build an office with only as many rooms as necessary for the company at that moment in time.

What's more efficient than empty rooms? Giving departments a bunch of rooms to do cool stuff with. The expected return on pretty much anything at GitHub's scale is higher than the cost of stocking a room full of equipment.
At least with Wikipedia the manipulation is visible and attributable. These LLMs are black boxes to the outside world, rife with manipulations (as can be seen from the way ChatGPT has changed its behaviour over time in specific areas) and in no way verifiable. Even if the creators vow to having used a certain set of data to train the model this can not be verified.

To the downvoters: explain, don't just knee-jerk your disapproval. I don't care about karma but it is tiring to see things which don't follow the narrative being downvoted out of existence.
A modern GPU with 5120 shaders and 2Ghz speeds can perform 2^32 ops in just 0.4 milliseconds. (AMD's Rx 6900xt. Yes, sub-millisecond times)

The truth of todays computers is that the 32-bit space is a sub-second problem, possibly faster than human reaction speeds.

Test the whole 32 bit space. It's cheap today.

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Extrapolating a bit: the 2^48 space is 27 seconds per op. Maybe 100 ops are needed for your test code, so the 48-bit space (aka: 3x 16-bit input space) can be exhausted and tested in roughly 50 minutes.
> BTW Love the style of Aztez.

Oh hey, thanks! I just realized my profile here was way out of date. Updated!

(Aztez was released and bombed, whoops)
The same here in Europe.
But they are getting US-style terminals and software here.

Sometimes waiters get a little embarrassed about it and tell you to just put in a zero amount. Sometimes they even put in zero themselves before handing you the terminal.

Tipping does happen, but "suggestions" for a specific amount or percentage seems wrong. Then you might as well include it in the price, which is what we have been doing since 1969.
So much rides on your implicit notion of semantic relationship, but this dependence needs demonstration. The fact that some pattern of signals on my perceptual apparatus is caused by an apple in the real world does not mean that I have knowledge or understanding of an apple in virtue of this causal relation. That my sensory signals are caused by apples is an accident of this world, one we are completely blind to. If all apples in the world were swapped with fapples (fake apples), where all sensory experiences that have up to now been caused by apples are now caused by fapples, we would be none the wiser. The semantics (i.e. wide content) of our perceptual experiences is irrelevant to literally everything we know and how we interact with the world. Our knowledge of the world is limited to our sensory experiences and our deductions, inferences, etc derived from our sensory experiences. Our situatedness in the world is only relevant insofar as it entails the space of our sensory experiences.

>the model would need the ability to frame hypotheses about what this sensor data means, and test them by interacting with the world and seeing what the results were.

Why do we need to actively test our model to come to an understanding of the world? Yes, that is how we biological organisms happen to learn about the world. But it is not clear that it is required. Language models learn by developing internal models that predict the next token. But this prediction implicitly generates representations of the processes that generate the tokens. There is no in principle limit to the resolution of this model given a sufficiently large and diverse training set.
What else would it be? Are you suggesting some non-physical process?
It also costs 15k. Insane Elon gets away it.
> Suppose you study this giant stack of Thai text for years in isolation. After all this study, you're good enough that given a few written Thai words, you can write sequences of words that are likely to follow, given what you know of these patterns. You can fill in blanks. But should anyone guess that you "know" what you're saying? Nothing has ever indicated to you what any of these words _mean_. If you give back a sequence of words, which a Thai speakers understands to be expressing an opinion about monetary policy, because you read several similar sequences in the pile, is that even your opinion?

Note that this isn't just an exotic thought experiment. People like this already exist; the condition is known as "Wernicke's aphasia". People displaying this condition can speak normally. They can't understand things; they are missing a normal mental mapping from words to meanings.
Yup - quite the same as healthcare prices in the US. Because all the white collar folks have good insurance those costs are hidden and the insanely astronomical amounts are only ever levied against those without any recourse. The actual graduate program prices are just paper numbers to make accounting go brrrr - and suddenly a bunch of people (and bear in mind grad students are usually super broke to begin with) will need to come up with those BS charges and face escalating late fees if they fail to comply.
As a father of a baby I wonder what higher education is going to be in 20 years time.

I see a fairly long, gradual decline in prestige and effectiveness of universities - at least in the English speaking world - going back a couple of decades at this point. More bureaucratic, more corporate, filled with ever more political extremists. In my jurisdiction at least it's largely used as a pathway for migrants to get a permanent visa - language skill requirements are barely enforced and cheating is rife.

I'm questioning what the value of a piece of paper from such a place will really be in 2040. I question what it is now.
Dolly Zoom
With that that in mind... cell phones have offered a similar feature to billions of users for many years.

Those autocorrections are still frequently wrong.
This stuff all looks yummy
The stories are insanely creative and leave you thinking: Hell is the absence of God is a fantastic genre-bender I can imagine few other authors writing. Exhalation is also great, but it's in a different anthology.
It's hard to take this list seriously. The 99th worst rated dish consists of the following:

Peppers, onions and garlic mixed with a bit of herbs tomato sauce and olive oil.
Then added to a chicken stock to make a soup. Add rice and some meat.

Under what world is that terrible?? It feels like a stable of 20 different cultures around the world. Almost so straightforward it's hard to imagine anyway it can go wrong (other than flat out burning your ingredients).

I'm pretty sure Campbells and Progresso probably both serve a soup of these exact ingredients in a similar ratio.

It's kinda hard to take the rest of this list seriously.
Wait wait hang on… I’m confused. I was with you on the “everyone has prod access” but then you went and qualified it with teams owning slivers of something or other.

That doesn’t sound like full access to production.

I bet they didn’t even have cloud console admin.
The utility is doing a majority of the work and you do adlib, not 100% and outright replacing the legal profession. That would require good AGI.

Anyone using the current general LLMs to replace 100% of their work is very short sighted.
Are you in the U.S.? It's law https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra
> The wrinkle is that Temple's employees are public-sector employees, who are exempt from the NLRA --- but they're not necessarily exempt from equivalent Philadelphia law.

It appears that you are correct [1]. There is a Pennsylvanian 1970 "Public Employe Relations Act" Article XII that could cover unfair practices including retaliation but I can't tell if it is still in force [2]. [3] appears to imply that it is still active.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
[2] https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm...
[3] https://www.dli.pa.gov/laws-regs/laws/Pages/default.aspx
I do wonder which goods will never come down from the newly anchored prices
I have photos backup with FolderSync but just using Samba (since the NAS will be accessed by Windows clients anyway), is WebDAV necessary?

Oh, you said wifi and I read "home wifi", So I guess the WebDAV is exposed to the Internet and the phone can upload from any (wifi) connection in the world? That's more clever than my setup!
After getting my parents new computers, setting them up from scratch, and finding that Windows is an even more depressing shitshow than ever and lacking any competent E-mail program... I installed Thunderbird for the first time in at least a decade and a half.

And I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's better than I remember, and worked great for the 20,000 messages or so in each of their AOL In boxes. Sadly, I'm not kidding about those In boxes.

For my accounts I rely on Apple Mail and SpamSieve, which works well. The dealbreaker for me when I tried Thunderbird years ago is that it lacked any way to export the filters you'd set up, so you could copy them to your other computers. Has this been addressed?
"Free" education, except that they have to work for the university, and, as you note, they lose out on all the income they could have earned during those years. It's effectively quite expensive.

Some of the complaints from prior strikes were rather basic issues like not being able to afford nessesary dental care.
There is a lot of innocent or even bland things on this list.

Chikwanga is #44 on the list. This is just a cassava flour cake, it's a staple food meant to be eaten along with something else, it being bland is kind of the point. Of course if you go to some Congolese restaurant and only order chikwanga you're going to be disappointed, but it's the same as going to a Chinese restaurant and only ordering white rice.
I was expecting LD_PRELOAD trickery.
it doesnt solve the problem

give me functions that output typed data. none of this string parsing shit. the sole fact that they have syntax to call bash: $() makes me not want to use this ever. this is why every single effort like this is wasted. i used to get excited by these projects and after about 2 of them i realized it's always a bunch of crap duct taped together, and also bends over to be compatible with un*x and so everything is ruined.

they're also often so poorly implemented, like with those early fancy python shells they'd go beserk if one command you execute goes into a time consuming process (or infinite loop) whereas why the hell can i not just run another command below while waiting for the one above to complete? this is the thought i had in 2008. i could have made something better out of my ass. really, there's no other way to put it.

here's another thing: a language console should operate on semantic objects, not text. as in, you move objects around to program in it. editing code by typing one character at a time is too slow. no amount of vim or emacs fixes this. in fact, we can just scrap those un*x garbage (along with the rest of un*x) while we're at it, when implementing an OS that works on actual meaningful data instead of text, and semantic objects instead of a language represented by text.
We Need Programming Mentors
Perhaps a better solution would have been not using the Linux namespaces but using LD_PRELOAD to preload a shared library to intercept all the FS-related API and normalize the path. Of course more complex and would only function for dynamically linked executables, but would have not required to launch the executable with a proxy and would also be more stable, not relying on not so stable features such as Linux namespaces.
You don’t need a conspiracy for the media to report that “new thing is dangerous”. Those stories practically click on themselves.
Short, memorable passwords like one's birthday or favourite pet's name are "just fine for the vast majority of users". It's a meaningless metric of quality - or more to the point - it isn't a metric of quality.
Same at my company. I see that many people got a BS promotion because their bosses are good at politics. Meanwhile about 7% were laid off and our bonuses were taken away
We possibly have encountered graduate students with differing lifestyles, but a lot of the grad students I know in the natural sciences have grueling schedules between taking classes, TAing, and conducting research. The way these activities are structured may not correspond to a typical 9-5 but they’re still intense in their own right. To add onto this - attending conferences isn’t always on the universities dime, often it comes out of grants and other associated project costs that are allotted for your research. Maybe the university does foot the bill in other cases, but these are marginal costs when compared to the realizable value brought by graduate students in the form of monetizable knowledge and subsidized teaching costs. The latter point is at the crux of most tension between graduate students and university administrations, and there’s a large imbalance between the tangible value that grad students (and most academic researchers) bring to universities and the way that they’re compensated.
> Is it family and I'm just fortunate having a family where everyone gets along?

Yes, it's about family, and yes, I'd say you're very fortunate. I don't know how common "a family where everyone gets along" is, but in my personal experience, it's quite rare.

> Maybe you could downsize? Have Christmas with only the closest family.

It's the closest family that actually is the problem. My understanding of the phenomenon is that people organizing the event typically succumb to perceived (I'd say imagined) social pressure demanding it to be perfect, which immediately sparks conflicts - by the time of Christmas Eve dinner, everyone is wound up, if they haven't already snapped multiple times before. The dinner then obviously becomes a disappointment - instead of familial love, you get familial contempt. Attempts to counteract it become a case of "beatings will continue until morale improves".

And, of course, the more this happens, the more likely it'll happen again next year, as everyone expects to have a nervous and unpleasant day, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Given the high cost of tuition, are people really going to want to pay grad students higher salaries?

A lot of nice things in life require that someone make a low wage so they are affordable to you.
Management can't measure the latter as easily as the former, and arguing against switching is a much more complex argument to understand than "this number is bigger than that one".

There's a very appropriate classic quote for that sort of situation: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts."
Why? For the sake of the discussion let's say that this story is pure fabulation.

Alright, the internet is full of it, and many newspaper are not afraid of publishing clickbait bullshit, as long as it sells.

What's the risk? Since when is fake news illegal?

This is why I am surprised, why is it such a big deal?
The challenges of playing the market against artificial intelligence
AI has already creamed humans in checkers, chess and the complex game of Go. Are markets next?
lol - this seems like a great way to keep a class divide. “I can’t let the poors know I make so much. They might try to take my money!”

Way to not work on class unity.

I’ve told my friends, family, peers, and anyone else how much I made all the way from delivering newspapers for criminally low wages, to doing random IT work in my local town of 4,000 people as a high schooler, to working as a cashier at a department store making minimum wage, and all the way up to my 7 figure TCs.

You know why? I want people to know what’s possible and what’s available out there. I want them to advocate for more money. When I tell them what I make - they think, “fuck, I should ask for more. You’re right!” They become more incentivized to advocate for unity among the working class as well because they realize without good bargaining - they will lose out.

Terrible idea for everyone. If people get jealous - tell them how you made it happen. If it was luck - fucking acknowledge it. If it was back breaking work - acknowledge it too. Acknowledge all the parts good and bad that got you to where you are. That’s what I do and everyone has no substantial resentment at the end.

Btw - I work as a typical engineer in SV. Nothing special.
Remote means they trust their employees to perform without physical eyes on them. "Open office" layout is designed to have eyes on your screen providing constant pressure to actually work, nothing else.

Market currently says that employees pay to work remote. When I was shopping around for jobs recently, every offer I got for remote work was less than a similar in-person job. At my current job, I got a pay cut for moving out of the Bay Area (worth it), and my manager said he's only ok with this because I'm a very active worker.
Don't tell him about APL then.
My cable modem ISP is even better: no guaranteed upload speed at all for any service level.
I use the ChatGPT in Search extension and it absolutely helps to have the context to the side of my search results; I hope it never changes! I also use some SEO optimization extensions as well which is interesting for trends and categorical associations on some things in tandem with search results.
I (occasionally) get ads up to £600k. YMMV
I've never seen any good writing on the subject but I've always found it curious that the US has sort of an arms length relationship with so many meats and almost complete rejection of offal (some liver and tongue and very rarely kidney or gizzard being the exceptions) as compared to, what seems like, the entire rest of the world.
GitLab also just announced layoffs: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/09/gitlab-news/
An organization that is also supposed to be a non-profit and therefore focused on only using that money to fulfill its larger mission statement
It is a business but arguably it should be more focused on education and community enrichment than pure profits.

Not everything in life needs to be focused on profit.
There are a lot of small software developers who would like to get paid, but either can’t charge potential clients (too much regulatory overhead), or are completely un-banked (reside in remote areas w/little infrastructure or are residents of the same country as the boogie-man du jour)

This let’s them get paid, even if every government in the word shakes in rage at the idea of someone licensing their software.

But for normal companies buying software through their finance department, having a Fiat-to-crypto account where they can get a USD$ invoice approved and wire the funds would be wonderful!

I’ve fought for 6+ months just to get one invoice paid (USA client, Canadian vendor). This would have made my pain so much less. For African or Eastern European clients, I basically can’t offer them my software as they effectively can’t pay me.

If you can KYC the client company, and then they could pay via your service and deposit to a crypto account associated with the KYC-ed vendor — this will be a huge win!
The trouble is domain expertise in what domain. The "Brains aren't computers" rants are predominantly from Psychologists who I agree have domain expertise when it comes to the brain but know very little about computers.

An example would be the problem of understanding. The Psychologists are confident we can't expect to fully understand our own minds. But, they are also confident we can expect to understand any possible Computer Program. And they're just wrong about that, that's the implication of Kurt Gödel's work, we definitely can't expect to understand arbitrary Computer Programs, we have instead chosen to mostly try to write programs from a narrow set we can understand, although not altogether successfully. Thus, the Psychologist thinks they've found an obvious difference, but I think they found an obvious similarity!
Our company is hiring more sales. Trying to squeeze more out of the market before facing reality I guess.

Our investors also forced us to do layoffs and other savings because it’s good optics and their other portfolio companies are losing money fast. Even though we’re a net profitable company
I think you have it backwards. Cable generally is asymmetric.
Yeah, I've had a truck for 20 years, can't go back
I scrolled through the page you linked but I don’t see whatever image you’re referring to
Typically. Not always.

Some institutions/departments will promote to associate without tenure. At those same places, they'll typically let you stick around for quite a while as long as you keep bringing in the money. In every field there are at least a few departments that are notoriously stingy with tenure.
"Doesn't work at all" is definitely not true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nF0K2nJ7N8
Its not that the author is stupid for not 'getting it', its simply that regex is a write-only language.
The advantage of Reddit could also be seen as a disadvantage:

There are SO MANY subreddits. It's bad in that you don't always know which one to go to. Good in that if you don't like one, there's another one that's very similar.