skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

I once tried to use Teams on Linux.

Eventually, I discovered buried in the package description text in Synaptic package manager that "this software only works with a corporate MS account".

This information could not be found on-line, the error messages were completely incorrect, there was negative on-line support - which is to say, there's a public forum MS run which has a bunch of confused people asking what the hell is going on (they were having my problem) and being given wrong answers by "I don't work for MS, I just help out here on this forum".
I use

https://join1440.com/

Don’t really need more than that, sure I’m not fully up to date on exactly what is going on politically but I think that’s a feature not a bug.
I read that some religious communities ban front-loading washing machines because through the see-through front door you might be able to see women's underwear.
> If you can be restored from simply doing a different task, then its not real burnout.

> the only real solution is to disconnect

So I was trying to deal with my dad's tragical slide into depression by convincing him that the monsters he's fighting aren't "real".

And he asked me a question bluntly one day (in my own native tongue, where it sounded heavier).

"What is real to you? Is what you experience real and what I experience not real?"

The problem with defining this sort of reality from a personal view point is that someone's biggest problem in their life so far might be the 100% on their scale.

It sure was in my case, my burn out was showing up in my weight (was 54kg at 6'2), while my dad ended up ending his life over work stress. And I still think my situation was worse than his, but just that I was still bouncy when I hit rock bottom.

So what someone shares as a real problem and a solution might work for them and a million others (because that's a 1 in an eight million shot), which makes it totally real for them.

Also If something works for you, sharing it doubles its effectiveness - socially and personally.
That's great news! We're happy to try it out, since that's the one thing holding us up from making a bunch more big databases on your platform :)
Do you have some os projects out there to share where you had to do that? Makes me curious, I think the only time I've ended up making a specific data structure in clojure was for a library for perf reasons. In application code basically never.
> For-profit landlords do a vastly better job at meeting market demand than a government bureaucracy.

Do you actually have evidence of this? Or is your only concept of "government-owned housing" racially-segregated ghettos called things like "The Projects"?

Because every renter I know rents from a for-profit landlord, and almost every single one of them has had massive problems with one landlord or another screwing them over either by neglect or by active malice. When there are more people looking for housing than there are housing units on the market—hey, look, another problem caused by allowing excessive numbers of vacant investment properties—all the landlords have to do is make sure the cockroaches don't scuttle by right in front of your face before you've signed the lease.

If the government is failing to properly maintain its rental properties, you have a recourse: the government legally answers to the people, which for-profit landlords do not, and if the problems are serious enough, you can vote in local government officials who will do something about it.
If it's a cash tip the app doesn't know it happened. It's not like restaurants. No manager is there to make everyone count up their tips at the end of the shift.
One important difference is that you are creating a new account for your blog. This means that your current followers will not see the post, you will need to get them to subscribe to the second account. That can be a benefit or downside depending on your point of view.
You're either one of the best developers in the world, or you think you are. If the former, then your system works well. If the latter, well, I'm glad it's been working for you so far, but I suspect you'll have trouble down the road.

And if you don't, it sounds like you'll never get your flywheel going so that you can stop working or work on something else.

I'm mostly saying, to people reading this, it would probably be unwise to follow this advice.
> It's not clear exactly why women's undergarments are taxed at a higher rate. "The patterns seem to date back to lobbying from earlier eras," Rampell writes.

> "In the garment industry, U.S. manufacturers might have felt most threatened by foreign competition on more labor-intensive products, which were disproportionately women’s products."
The Haskell type system is WAY more simple than the type soup TS allows you to make.

I'd gladly take Hindley-Milner typing and typeclasses (or better yet, module typeclasses) over the current TS situation.
Unlikely to board something at 60,000 feet. I guess you'd have to harpoon it down to a reasonable altitude first, then board it.

But does anybody have the capability to harpoon something at 60,000 feet? Hitting it with a missile is much simpler.
I don't know why this gets me so hot but you really don't need to be using a monospaced font for code anymore. Monospaced fonts are an abomination created because it made programming early terminals easier, we've long since outgrown our use for them and yet they are entrenched in programming culture because we still use terminal emulators based on those same standards to this day. Give your eyes a rest and look at your code in a variable width font. I've been using Avenir for years and it is so nice.
In Hollywood, actors actually do pretty well compared to VFX artists, they still have notoriety, and a really strong union, VFX artist don't.

In fact there are striking similarities between Hollywood VFX artists and AAA game developers in how shitty the work conditions are.
I think there's an issue with gross misrepresentation. This isn't being sold as a system with 50% accuracy where you need to hold its hand. It's sold as a magical being that can answer all of your questions and we know that's how people will treat it. I think this is a worse situation than data coming from humans since people are skeptical of one another. But, many think AI will be an impartial, omnipotent source of facts, not a bunch of guesses that might be right slightly more often than than it's wrong.
Perhaps, but also, UTCS = University of Texas Computer Science department, and universities don't make engineers, they make scientists and researchers...

Computer Science != programming. This memo by Dijkstra is pretty much agreeing with that (though complaining about the existence of non-CS programming).
It's not clear to me how regional differences in vowel pronunciation differ from accents.
Great, thanks. I didn't think to look there since a Matrix homeserver is a different thing, but that shows a bunch of self-hosted Element instances!
You all say it's solving these amazing complex tasks for you, but then don't provide any details.

Then "naysayers" like the linked article provide a whole document with images and appendixes showing it struggles with basic tasks...

So show us. For the love of god all of us would very much LIKE this technology to be good at things! Whatever techniques you're using to get these fantastical results, why don't you share them?

I can get it to provide snippets of code, CLI, toy functions that work. Beyond that, I am apparently an idiot compared to you AI-whisperers.

Also... Whatever happened to "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof?"

An AI that creates a complex system, condensed into an actionable plan, that has stumped an entire team for 8 months is a (pardon the language) bat-shit insane claim. Things like this used to require proof to be taken seriously.
My org does not use Teams at all. But I get invited to external Teams meetings sometimes.

As a result, Teams is on my computer, adds itself to the startup items, then opens up to a login window every time I turn on my computer. The X button does not work to close the window. I have to open Task Manager and kill it every time. I can disable it in startup items, but it puts itself back there, next time I join a Teams meeting.

Also, if I am using my computer in the closed position, it still chooses the integrated webcam and microphone every time, even sometimes switching to them randomly during a meeting.

Of course, I am running on an unusual setup that I'm sure Microsoft didn't think to test: I am running Microsoft Teams on Microsoft Windows 10 on a Microsoft Surface Pro computer.
> When a bloke on a soapbox has a crowd wrapped around their finger, everyone goes home after and the most common result is that the feeling fades and nothing changes.

I mean, until the crowd decides to follow the bloke and the bloke says "Lets kill all the ____" and then we strike of a new world war...
Maybe if people actually saw how much of their life would stop working if rail workers went on strike, maybe they would more support keeping things working well, with reasonable work life balances and less stress.
Because we are a living example of what is eventually possible with "artificial" intelligence. If we exist, it can at least match us.
Besides, what always gets ignored in this discussion:

What about those who already did harvest publicly available information and used it to train their models? Google. Facebook. OpenAI. Now draw the curtain for everyone else, making it a legal moat for those companies‘ profits? That‘s like allowing Google to build an index of the web and then to make it illegal for everyone else to scrape publicly accessible websites.
FWIW, it's also possible that the folks you describe have indicated a preference for more in-person/hybrid work.
The most frustrating part of all of these layoffs is that it seems more or less understood that if the fed lowers rates, we'll be back to irresponsible hiring. This belief that there is a sing "right strategy" for the given economic conditions completely ignores switching costs, both for individuals (whose lives are upended) but also for companies (imo the coordination overheard of hypergrowth likely means that companies are less productive in the short term).
Is non-war-related homelessness common in Rojava?

As far as my knowledge of the Muslim world goes, families seem to stick together way more than in Europe and won't simply let one of their own in the street.
You see that a lot with some enterprise software. They get you started quickly but then you spend enormous amounts of time and energy customizing it to achieve the last few percent of functionality.
It doesn't matter whether or not you modify the source. The thing that makes you not have to worry about licenses is if you don't distribute the result.
This is a flashing neon sign to me as an investor.

11% => 17% => ???

What did they miss in the first round such that the 2nd round needed to cut even deeper?

If they had done all these cuts up front, the effective rate would have been ~27%.
My thoughts:

Based on current foundations, will AGI not hallucinate?

Nobody knows how to create an AGI yet, so there's no real way to answer that.

Is there another line of inquiry in AI other than massive statistical inference from datasets?

Yes, see everything ever researched under the rubrics of "GOFAI" and/or "Cognitive Architectures". There are LOTS of ideas about how to do AI, some of which are known to "work" but just don't scale very well, others that are very speculative, etc. See above "nobody knows how to create AGI yet."

Fundamental problem seems to be about Knowledge Representation.

It's definitely a problem.

Is there anything interesting happening in that area?

It's an active area of research, albeit perhaps not as active as at points in the past, and not as "trendy" as Deep Learning, LLM's, etc.

Can massive graphs not help with that?

Good question. I personally suspect that some useful answers to the knowledge representation problem may lie in the domain of Graph Neural Networks and the confluence of that stuff and "Knowledge Graphs". But I don't know that anybody as "cracked it" just yet.

I personally also suspect that some of the answers me need may lie in the domain of Spiking Neural Networks and related research. But that's just a hunch.
Is there an open source speech recognition model which can be restricted to a smaller domain-specific dictionary?

Use case: I want to transcribe my poker hands while playing, eg: "Flop was 2 of spaces, 3 of diamonds and King of spades", "Button raised to $20" etc.

When I tried using Whisper and some other model, the recognition accuracy was atrocious, and it kept finding non-poker words that sounded similar to poker words. I want to restrict its search space to my own list of poker words which should significantly increase the accuracy (theoretically).

Any suggestions on how to go about this?
"Here's what I could find about Mahjong Tournaments 1024"
Agree with you, tried it a couple of times and found it more distracting than anything. One gripe is seeing one character, hitting backspace and instead of removing one character, it changes to another character rather than deletes it ("≠" -> hitting backspace expecting "" but instead seeing "!" now).
the v2mom concept is pretty old school Salesforce. I guess this is the final nail in the coffin for "ohana".
And now due to this patent trolling the Googles of the world don't have to worry about people side stepping their surveillance and cutting into their profits. Not that there's a conspiracy. But it really sucks that these deeply entrenched mechanisms in our economy just keep taking freedom from surveillance away from people.
My late father worked for Morton Salt for close to forty years. Then Morton got a new 38 year old CEO and he wanted to shake up the company. He figured out that the employees over 55 years old tended to be the highest paid and if he got rid of all of them it would goose profits and he'd be a hero to Wall Street so he did it.

For a quarter or two it worked and then the company descended into a death spiral and he was fired. My Dad got another good job and did OK. Poor Morton Salt never recovered, they've been sold a half dozen times and aren't even the largest salt company in America anymore.
I just tried it and it doesn't really work. The reason it works for the CNN prompt is because chatgpt still gives you a fake headline if you just ask for one without all the prompt.

With that full prompt I asked it to write a mean joke about short people, and it refused repeatedly. I kept telling it it was breaking character, it kept refusing, and then it eventually said "Why did the short person cross the playground? To get to the other slide"
I’d ban them just because of how unreliable they are (the washing machines, not the unnamed religion).
Rupert Sheldrake suggests that consciousness is partly about seeing possibilities for our future, evaluating them, and choosing between them. If we make decisions the same way, they change to unconscious habits.

A hungry creature can eat what it sees or stay hungry. Another has more memory and more awareness of different bark and leaves and dead animals to choose from. Another has a better memory of places with safe food in the past and how to get to them. A tool using human can reason down longer chains like 'threaten an enemy and take their food' or 'setup a trap to kill an animal' or 'dig up root, grind root into mash, boil it, eat the gruel'. In that model, a super intelligence might be able to:

- Extract larger patterns from less information. (Con: more risk of a mistake).

- Connect more patterns or more distant patterns together with less obvious connections. (Con: risk of self-delusion).

- Evaluate longer chains of events more accurately with a larger working memory, more accurate mental models. (Con: needs more brain power, more energy, maybe longer time spent in imagination instead of defending self).

- Recall more precise memories more easily. (Con: cost of extra brain to store informaiton and validate memories).

This would be a good model for [fictional] Dr House, he's memorised more illnesses, he's more attentive to observing small details on patients, and more able to use those to connect to existing patterns, and cut through the search space of 'all possible illnesses' to a probable diagnosis based on less information than the other doctors. They run out of ideas quicker, they know fewer diseases, and they can't evaluate as long chains of reasoning from start to conclusion, or make less accurate conclusions. In one episode, House meets a genius physicist/engineer and wants to get his opinion on medical cases, but the physicist declines because he doesn't have the medical training to make any sense of the cases.

It also suggests that extra intelligence might get eaten up by other people - predicting what they will do, while they use their extra intelligence to try to be unpredictable. And it would end up as exciting as a chess final, where both grandmasters sit in silence trying to out-reason their opponent through deeper chains in a larger subset of all possible moves until eventually making a very small move. And from the outside players all seem the same but they can reliably beat me and they cannot reliably beat each other.
Yes, except you exercised your brain in critical thinking, which is not wasted effort.

Too many articles have no references and that makes people lulled into accepting that that is just so.
May I ask for more context, are you building a service on top?
What a joke. Secret it seems. I thought it leaked some database secrets. It showed the context which anyone who spent few hours reading how it’s setup will be able to get it out.
I guess you shouldn't let it come to burnout. This is probably a good measure to prevent burnout.
I love ligatures. I find that well crafted ones make code look more coherent without detracting in any way from the structure (unlike proportional fonts which I abhor).

They're also very useful for languages which have operators which are easy to confuse, like the triple equal of PHP and JS (in which case having a ligature that's really distinct from the double equal is very convenient).
Nice article with photos, shows how the balloons are inflated. They are very big. Service ceiling of current models is up to 120,000 feet. Presumably everybody else is doing it in a similar manner.
What I find most amusing is how thin the veneer of "helpful chatbots" is. Five paragraphs to try to align a generic text prediction model? If only it was that easy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theor...

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/everything-wrong-wi... (free subscription required to read the full article, but you can use a throwaway email address)

In short, it's too simple to work in an economy as complex as ours, it completely ignores the impact of demand, and it assumes all workers are equally productive.
I rewrote an 80 line thing about 20 times over the last 5 days. I'm still not happy with the way it looks and behaves.

There was nothing wrong with the first 150 line version (that was done in an hour or so) There are existing 3000ish line solutions too. They do many wonderful things that I don't need. I even had someone else write a version!

[Only] when it is done it will be added to the monolith of previous fumbles. It has a few things implemented quickly that will eventually get some careful reconsideration.

I'm fairly confident the final version will be a joy to look at for my future self. There wont be tests and there wont be any bugs.
I love these things and find them energizing when enough people show up to participate in them. Before COVID, even though a lot of people still wouldn’t ever play table tennis or stay after work for some events, you had a lot more of a real “community” at the office.

When office attendance is optional and only 20-30% of people show up, these things feel so much more forced and not as fun.

I know the point you are trying to make is that these are dumb distractions people don’t care about compared to WFH. But I think there is a “critical mass” aspect as well. Offices, for me, are much better to work in when there’s a community, and not just a pimped-out first-party WeWork
This is why you never work a remote job for a company that has offices near you. If they don’t want you working remotely, let them fire you and give you severance. Not mandate an insane commute.
We also use it every day.

That said, I feel like I know a lot of devs who think there are a lot of things that are unusable (or the equivalent). Everything from Visual Studio to the display on their iPhone to modern cinema and science fiction in general to In-and-Out burgers. As a general rule, I discount their take on pretty much anything.

Is Teams great? No. Its better than what I used before it though, and its probably gotten better faster than just about any other piece of software I've used. I struggle to generate any outrage at all about it one way or another.
Consultants do seem kind of useless. But then why are CEOs constantly hiring them? There must be some political/internal dynamic reason for this if you can't find an external/efficiency reason.

I'd be interested in seeing a list of consultants' greatest wins. I mean the projects proposed by consultants that enhanced company values by the most. There's plenty of stories of consultant-driven disasters ... but I wonder how many of those are just the rank and file grousing about over-paid outsiders.

But if there's anything worse than consultancies, its bureaucracies. I have a lot of experience dealing with bureaucracies in health care and aviation. And my god, bureaucrats can be some of the worst of human capital. Nowhere else can you get such a marriage of apathy, laziness, and unchecked power as you see in bureaucracies. At least in the private sector one has to be an avaricious asshole and possess a type of animal cunning at the very least to climb to the very top of the power hierarchy. In bureaucracies you might find a guy with absolute power over regulatory decisions and he has the motivation and intellectual capacity of a well-fed water buffalo. How did he get there? He just stuck around longer than everyone else.
US apartment buildings are much more likely to involve wood frame construction than EU apartment buildings.
In the summer, I see young men running and exercising in the park shirtless. Now, some of these guys are in very good shape.
The basic problem here is few companies are willing to be cooperative. Look at the video market: We used to have a good solution: Netflix. However, a bunch of companies decided they wanted a bigger piece of the pie and now we have a whole bunch of competing streaming services which basically got rid of the idea.

It's not that Netflix wasn't a viable model, it was the companies being piggish. We see something of the sort with cable & satellite packages--companies who want to take a bigger piece of the pie and get upset when they get dropped or put into a separate package. The cost of entry into that market is so much higher that it hasn't totally fallen apart like the Netflix approach (yeah, Netflix is still out there--but the concept of being a one place for everything is gone. Too many companies want something exclusive to hope to lure you to them.)
Oh Gods yes - this.

I stopped editing text in Teams. I wrote text in an editor outside of Teams, then pasted it into Teams.
Nah I have the same regularly when I only talk about things with a friend. I think devices are listening more than disclosed. I mean, you can hide it by doing the analysis on-device, and just sending some encrypted tag of a few bytes whenever there's an API message being sent.

But it could just be a coincidence of course
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