skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said there's no objective journalism. What's the score of the Superbowl? What agenda or subjectivity does that carry?
Those are insane number, do you have a source for them...? 30% yearly attrition rate is the stuff of call-centres, I find it hard to believe 1 out of 3 googlers quits the free-everything "googleserf" lifestyle (@ Douglas Coupland) every year.
This sort of thing can easily spiral to needing a new main power line due to the increased amp requirements.
> Everyone on the same level gets the same base pay … I am the only senior.

So you’re not on the same level, so you get paid more? Except you don’t? That’s a contradiction.

I’d start applying and interviewing elsewhere, and once you have an offer, decide which one you’d rather do. If you’re not happy where you’re at, don’t wait, start making a plan B now
Indeed:

"Article 6 of the Copyright Directive requires that Member States must provide 'adequate legal protection' against the intentional circumvention of 'effective technological measures' designed to prevent or restrict acts of copying not authorised by the rightholders of any copyright."

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Society_Directive#...
While the Chinese people are as good as any other, the Chinese government seems to be hypocrisy personified.

They're playground bullies who will push you for no reason and then tattle on you when you push back.

It's an honorless system and they seem to be very proud of it.

Right now they're actively committing a genocide, blatantly spying on other countries, allying themselves with Russia, and stealing technology and intellectual property through a vast network of spies and intentionally deceptive practices.

China denies that the 1989 Tienanmen Square Massacre even happened even though there are photos of it.

But all of that aside, yes, they are massively, massively hypocritical.

I don't know why we give them airspace in our media. It's the same thing over and over again.

The Chinese government does something that in 1960 would have been considered an actionable declaration of war.

We tell them to stop it.

China whines and says we're a bunch of meany poo poo heads.

The Chinese government does something that in 1960 would have been considered an actionable declaration of war.
To everyone at GitHub: I’m so sorry. I don’t mean this in a clever way, either. Teams is awful and it will make your lives worse to one degree or another.
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I've mi-spoken. Baral, please do explain the issue then.
Why should it be fair!?

You have 3 choices: live with it, go elsewhere or start some nuclear war trying to change it. Since you’re alone unhappy your situation will be way worse afterwards. And you will leave anyway.
I understand the current hype-cycle around AI is pitching it as some all-knowing Q & A service, but I think we’d all be a bit happier if we instead thought of it more as just another tool to get ideas from that we still ultimately need to research for ourselves.

Using the Mexico example in the article, I think the answer there was fine for a question about nightlife. As someone whose never been to Mexico, getting a few names of places to go sounds nice, and the first thing I’d do after getting that answer is look up locations, reviews(across different sites), etc… and use the initial response as a way to plan my next steps, not just take the response at face value.

I’m currently dabbling with and treating ChatGPT similarly — I ask it for options and ideas when I’m facing a mental block, but not asking it for definitive answers to the problems I’m facing. As such, it feels like a slight step above rubber-ducking, which I’m personally happy enough with.
its tragic that this sort of thing can't be resolved more optimally. Sets up a lose/lose. Too bad you can't just send your agent in to negotiate on your behalf, a 3rd party can take positions that are very hard to express yourself without ruining the relationship.
In that case, what a sad, pathetic weak-minded little man he is.

A good reminder why I shouldn’t come to hacker news anymore.
>>remote work is obviously much more prevalent now than pre-pandemic.

I am willing to bet on a 5 year picture we will see not more than 10% growth in WFH, as companies do back to the "old" ways
That is true, but Russia in particular had practically unlimited money to buy off both the US elites and their opposition, due to the rich natural resources and lack of need to support the high standards of living for the Russian population. Only China has more resources but so far they haven't formed a powerful message US politicians can use to rally their constituents to pro-China causes.
> I've heard that with regards to video conferencing, it's competitive with zoom.

Did you hear that from a Microsoft salesperson? Only a person who hasn't used both regularly can say that. UX and features on Zoom are better.

The mere fact that to this day Teams has wildly different features depending on how you join the call is a joke - for instance, joining from a browser on macOS results in no chat (the button simply isn't there).
>A vast amount is used to control everything from your car to your toaster :/

True, and hopefully after the Therac-25 incident we learned that, while it is generally fine having people playing with programming, for certain applications it is best to leave it to professionals with a deep understanding of what they're doing.

>Shit, now I feel like I'm refuting your point about death-by-C++, but also supporting that we need more regulations to protect against idiots like myself.

Yes, we likely need more regulation, at least for safety critical applications (but I don't know if those are already in place).
Traditional google searches are a take it or leave it situation. The result depends on your interpretation of the sources google provides, and therefore, you are expecting a possibility of a source being misleading or inaccurate.

On the other hand, I don't expect to be told an inaccurate & misleading answer from somebody who I was told to ask the question to- and doesn't provide sources.

To conflate the expectations of traditional search results with the output of a supposedly helpful chat bot is wildly inappropriate.
So, fellow HN users... where are we on the S curve?

I think we're right before the hockey stick, just like the days of Napster.

To use another analogy - The Industrial Revolution didn't make it possible to make screws, it made it possible to make a box of screws that you could sell for a dollar. Previously it took a skilled craftsman and time. No two were alike, and they tended to be individually stamped with a number so you could unscrew/rescrew things when you took something apart.

Someone in 1810 wouldn't want to buy cheap screws, the way forward would be able to own a lathe, planer, and make your own screws, and other hardware.

Similarly, my strategy right now is to try to find stuff I can use on my own computer, not something that Google can kill on a whim.

I've played with Stable-diffusion-ui, and found that for me, the main use would be to transform a rough (VERY rough) sketch of something into well illustrated picture.

I'll start playing with ChatGPT and the like when I can run them on my own hardware.
> So people are going to be even more blindsided when someone develops an AI that uses GPT as its language comprehension component

I don't think that would work, because GPT doesn't actually comprehend anything. Comprehension requires deriving meaning, and GPT doesn't engage with meaning at all. It predicts which word is most likely to come next in a sequence, but that's it.

What I think we'd be more likely to end up with is something GPT-esque which, instead of simply generating text, transforms English to and from a symbolic logic language. This logic language would be able to encode actual knowledge and ideas, and it would be used by a separate, problem-solving AI which is capable of true logic and analysis—a true general AI.

The real question, IMO, is if we're even capable of producing enough training data to take such a problem-solving AI to a serious level of intelligence. Scenarios that require genuine intelligence to solve likely require genuine intelligence to create, and we'd need a lot of them.
Sorry, I didn't mean that LLMs are not a subset of AI. They clearly are. What they are not is equal to AI; there are things that are AI that are not LLMs.

It is obvious when I say it, but my internal language model (heh) can tell a lot of people are not thinking that way when they speak, and the latter is often more reliable than how people claim they are thinking.
Can you explain when you said "left policies forcing people to use these companies that entrenched them". I can think of no instances of this
I mean, if one guy is talking about a broken leg, and a second comes by and says "ah yeah, I scraped my knee once too, I had to use a band-aid in order to solve it," I think it's entirely valid to say that those are not comparable experiences. I feel that you are arguing they are different degrees of the same thing. That may be true, but it's true in such a thin sense that it doesn't really contribute to a conversation.
> As to these senior citizens giving this advice and me giving this advice: It is a solution for many people.

The one that first triggered me was a senior citizen telling this to a high school dropout. Without a GED it's effectively impossible for a typical high school dropout to join the military in the US. And even with a GED there are absolute limits to the number of candidates they will accept. https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/can-you-join-the-milit...

Though apparently the US Army briefly relaxed this requirement last year: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-army-no-ged-high-school...

> This is my main point, to both make and save money at the same time.

It's a good point.
"Time to generate a bunch of b$ websites stating falsehoods and make sure these AI bots are seeded with it." ~Bad guys everywhere
I saw that. I'm planning on open sourcing my business's licensing API this year (which also handles entitlements, but differently than Oso). Maybe we can chat once that happens. Would love to point customers to Lago more often (currently we recommend Lago for metering [0] when it makes sense).

Keep up the good work, regardless!

[0]: https://keygen.sh/docs/choosing-a-licensing-model/metered-li...
> It cannot generate new ideas.

I don't find very much substance in this argument, given how impossible it is to consistently define "new" and "idea" in this context. At the end of the day, ChatGPT demonstrates that AI models are making real progress towards convincing mimicry of human behavior. How it does it is of no concern to me, what is concerning is the fact that it does it at all.
There is no salary system that is fair. If you want to be compensated relative to value produced you have to own your business.
UTF-32 doesn’t completely solve this either, because grapheme clusters.
You sound like someone who has either never tried chatgpt, or someone who’s so scared of the consequences that it prefers to put its head in the sand.

«just a text generator on steroid » is meaningless unless you define what « on steroid» means. It might as well describe a novelist’s activity or a programmer.

The ability to understand enough of the relationship between words and their associated concepts in chatgpt is good enough to produce meaningful and sometimes correct answers to a huge number of questions. This is far beyond « random », and can easily be described as an « intelligent » capacity.
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I think we need to work on what constitutes a citation. Your browser should know whether:

- you explicitly trust the author of the cited source

- a chain of transitive trust exists from you to that author

- no such path exists

...and render the citation accordingly (e.g. in different colors)
ChatGPT can give you a full description of why it made the decision it did and it usually is fairly accurate.
> copy of `sqlite` since it is a WASM dependency

How's the performance vs ffi version? I'm about to use deno with sqlite and have to decide which one to use. The lack of WAL in WASM version gives me a pause though.
There's also the instance of the Bing chatbot insisting that the current year is 2022 and being EXTREMELY passive-aggressive when corrected.

https://libreddit.strongthany.cc/r/bing/comments/110eagl/the...
Yeah, that’s kind of what I was trying to get at in the second paragraph about the difference in where data is collected. In our hypothetical restaurant example, I think most people’s reactions would depend heavily on what specifically is collected and the granularity: almost nobody cares about someone saying they track what sells best, and only few would even care about their specific combination of items being tallied, but more people care if it can be linked to them in a loyalty program, and still more would care if it was something like an app tracking your attention on the menu. As described, I think the proposed system is more like the second of those four examples but a fair fraction of people are talking like it’s the fourth.

To be clear, “what if they extended the scope later?” is a fair question but I do think that needs to be carefully expressed as a significant hypothetical future change from the actual proposal.
There was a discussion on HN recently about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454165
Just like conservatives/tory/UKIP from UK, the BJP have found way of blaming everyone else for issues. Of course, it works for a decade. Pretty sure once they have exhausted all cylinders, they will end up in same current UK situation.

At the end if the majority (mostly boomers) that do not want change continue to do this it is saddening for the young. But of course, when it bites them it may be too late.

Sad but democracy in function.
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A comparison of architectural patterns for handling messages:

-- Reactor (imperative programming with blocking calls),

-- Proactor (reactive programming with non-blocking calls),

-- Half-Sync/Half-Async (imperative logic over a reactive framework).
Where was this guy warning of a crypto bubble in 2020-2021? Instead he was hyping crypto. If this is any indication, AI will probably continue to do well. I don't think GPT be as big as Google, but it's not going to pop either as he is expecting.
https://archive.is/ve86J
Yes, it reads as if OP would be okay with the situation if their coworkers were paid less.
> why UTF-32 didn't catch on

> memory wasteful

The answer is in the question really. If you've got a big pile of mostly-ascii data, quadrupling memory/storage to encode it as UTF32 is going to be a pretty tough sell
> If ICEs still represent a desirable choice for enough people/purposes, the support for them will be there.

This means that of the people who want ICEs, a select few people with money will be able to afford it while those without money are told to make do.
My boss actually gave me similar advice when I took another job.

He also welcomed me back to my old role when that job didnt suit me.
Dogfooding works when affected employees have the ability to improve the product.

You wouldn't want to eat dog food that wasn't prepared in sanitary conditions, so if you worked at a dog food plant and knew you'd be eating something that closed through that dirty grate, you'd clean it. You wouldn't want a program on your PC that regularly consumes an entire core while idle or that crashes when active, so you'd fix those issues if it was your software.

People naturally want to fix problems that affect them and add features that would improve their daily use of a product. At a small company or startup, where people can do this, you should use your own products as much as possible.

But if you are a Microsoft/GitHub employee with no access to the Teams code, not even access to a human being who works on Teams, there's no point. Use whatever meeting software lets you do your job best.
The Pentagon confirmed this on Sunday, which is why they said they weren't referring to them as balloons. They did hint that it's likely that the balloon part may be within the object itself to obscure its true nature. I don't think they are saying it's aliens, just that a pass by couldn't determine the exact nature of the object.
There is no singular factor for the long peace in Europe. I don't claim superpowers are the reason either, just that the argument is made. The situation is far too complicated for me -- one who is neither a historical, economist, nor military strategist -- to make strong conclusions. There's too many coupled variables and causal variables.
This is definitely something we'd like to build in the future.
For now, we focused on building the core billing features and giving access to the billing and usage data so that end users could leverage it in their own BI and data stack (tracking, revenue recognition, etc).
The next step would definitely be to offer these kind of features: either through partnerships or internally with the help of the community. If someone is building a great product in this space, we're very interested!
Every other day, a poster comments how they make presentations or write code using chatgpt. Just in another thread, someone posted how chatgpt solved their coding problem...which a quick google search would have solved as well, as others in the replies to it pointed out.

Whenever I've used chatgpt I was impressed at the surface level, but digging deeper into a convo always turned up circular HS tier BS'ing. The fact that so many people online and on HN are saying chatgpt is astounding and revolutionary are just betraying that that such HS-essay level BS is convincing to them, and it's somewhat of a depressing though that so many people are so easy striken by a confidence trick.
This is a really good point, and one that can be hard to realize.

The constant need to go go go is so deeply ingrained in so many of us, that the first instinct is to conclude “there’s something wrong with me”.

Burnout seems to be the body/mind’s way of enforcing that downtime, so that’s definitely a critical lesson to take from all of this.
> I believe they are over paid for where we live.

This is the line I have a bit of trouble with. You shouldn't try to bring others down to feel better about making more, you should see what they're being paid and realize you are worth more. Outline this in asking for compensation adjustment, or begin to look elsewhere. If you can't find a role making more, just try not to let what others make bother you. At the end of the day you are the only one looking out for you - so invest more in doing that, and try to spend less worrying about others. Their making more or less will have little to no impact on your personal career progression.
And ADHD. Could be that there is a lot of it, but I know a few folks self-diagnosing. At least two of them went off meds and are fine, which raises questions if they were truly ADHD in the first place.
> Why do you think YouTube isn’t profitable? Plenty of ads in it and bringing in something like $15 bln/year in revenue

The infrastructure to store and deliver seamlessly zettabytes of video all around the world surely doesn't come cheaply.
> it is up to me to mentor and guide these developers

That right there is what makes you a senior. Make sure your work, your performance, and your track-record in levelling up your coworkers is well-documented, and use that to justify your bump and bonus. There is a chance that it doesn't work - in that case you have a year (or more) of experience with leading teams and mentoring coworkers that you can take to your next gig.

With regards to either or not things are fair, it is very possible that the business doesn't understand the value of the work your team does. It might be worth finding out what it is they do value and either trying to provide it or - if you can't directly provide it - enabling those who do provide it.

In either case, since you are going to be at this job for a while, it's a good opportunity to focus on fattening up your resume with those soft skills that often don't come easy but are valuable.
What I said was a guess based on my contextual perception of the unknown term 'spectrumite', not a literal explanation.
I agree. We're just barely uncovering the tip of the iceberg right now. Everything we've seen up til now has been a proof-of-concept. The true scope of this field has yet to be realized.
honestly, I would probably subscribe to apple news if they did this. Or another similar tool I want to support good journalism, but I don't want to have multiple subscriptions to manage and deal with.
Just bin them altogether, they are vommit inducing anytime
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Because I loathe captcha, I make sure that every time I am presented one I sneak in an incorrect answer just to fuck with the model I'm training for free. Garbage in, garbage out.
Your own house is not an "investment" as such, it's part of your life support after retiring. It doesn't really matter what value it has on the market, if it supports you over those years without needing too much maintenance. And after you expire, you won't care anyway what residual value it had.
> I don't think such real-world analogies serve any useful purpose, they only make things more confusing.

Isn’t it the same as using a term like “spy” with significant outside connotations rather than more common technical terms like “telemetry” or “anonymous usage data collection”?

Similarly, “deception” implies malice or subterfuge. One typically doesn’t associate that with extensive public comment so using that term seems like it’s contributing more heat than light.
Many plans I've participated in cap contributions well before the theoretical 25k limit. Current employer has a very interesting plan that leaves much of the limits up to you which is a double edged sword. If you can figure out how to model the limit, you can make informed decisions when the price falls but for the average employee it's complicated and can cap their contributions way too early.

To effectively figure out the 25k limit you need a history of prior contributions to know how much limit is left in each tax/calendar year.
After all that government done to Muslims, and its intentional hatred towards them, you still say it doesn't have a problem with criticism?

They are so accepting of criticism, that every time one criticizes them, they get banned from India's Twitter.

This isn't a real account and should be flagged.
The 12,000 km estimate is straight maths assuming a (fairly typical) relative orbital velocity of ~20,000 km/s for the meteroid, and looking at distance travelled in 10 minutes.

Mind that the geometry of the collision might truncate that considerably. Again, I'm not claiming expertise here, and the "straight maths" rubric isn't a justification for correctness so much as explaining how I arrived at the number.
> Because it's by far the worst

laughs in WebEx
> Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues.

My 2019 Intel MacBook would sound like a jet engine taking off when opening IntelliJ. Apple’s M2? Doesn’t even get hot doing a full index and battery lasts 4-5x as long.

The quality of life using an Apple Silicone laptop while traveling is so much better. Frankly, it’s an embarrassment for Intel.
It is not Bing that cannot be trusted, but LLMs in general. They are so good at imitating, I don’t think any human being will ever be able to imitate stuff as good as those AIs do, but they understand nothing. They lack the concept of the information itself, they are only good at presenting information.
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