skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I don't like is the prognosis, which seems to think we should somehow stop or reverse the current transformation. I just doubt that's possible.

Why not? Sometimes change is just plain for the worse. However, passivity and helplessness in the face of change are attitudes that are common and frequently encouraged in modern society, and that is another problem that needs to be addressed.
It was >60% almost everywhere until ~1600: https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture
there’s nothing morally wrong with that

that being said i don’t know any investor that wants to invest in companies that are middle of the road

most employees want to work for winners

we may not want that to be true but it tends to be

if you’re not first you’re last
Sorry, I meant what do you use instead of Sendgrid?
Uh, isn't it also because BART uses a wide gauge?
Our KiCad 6 was on its own PPA you would have had to add manually.
Same for KiCad 7 which has its own PPA. None of this is automated.

Ubuntu/Canoical itself may have pulled a kicad package update from Debian. But we have no say over that process in Ubuntu.
I just tried a similar query on perplexity.ai. "Who won the Daytona 500 in 2023?" (the race is scheduled for February 19th)

Result: "Sterling Marlin won the 2023 Daytona 500, driving the No. 4 for Morgan-McClure Motorsports[1]. He led a race-high 105 laps and won his second career race at Daytona International Speedway[1]. The 64th running of the DAYTONA 500 was held on February 19, 2023[2]. Austin Cindric had previously won the DAYTONA 500 in February 5, 2023[3]."
The one time I visited Versailles was enough to convince me to never return, unless I could get some kind of special tour. I've never been to an attraction with such a crush of a crowd. It was impossible to stop to look at anything, because the crowd was so thick that it had a flow to it that dragged you along.

I'd consider returning if they limited the max in there at a time to perhaps half what it was, which I think is the most you could have in there without making the experience hellish, but otherwise, I tell everyone to just go look at the garden and skip going in. It's really cool, but you can't enjoy it. Just do the garden and Petit Trianon and such—those are worth the train ride, skip the palace proper. Go to one of the less-visited palaces or castles within a similar range of Paris if you want to see royal opulence and get to actually see it and not just get shoved through it (it's also the most inclined to violence I've felt in a long damn time—some people were pushing their way through the crowd with enough regularity that one was constantly being pushed, bumped, and jostled, and god damn did they really deserve an elbow or a "misplaced" foot)
Your points are about the website "ghacks" ot about the plugin?

there is no relation between he add-on, its maintainers, and the site this article is hosted.
Really badly. Fog quickly dissipates the laser beam.

It is basically impossible to shoot through a cloud to hit a target behind it.
Where would that data live and how would we disentangle it from income effects?
AP quotes two different experts warning about dioxins from this incident. Did they get it wrong?

https://apnews.com/article/rail-accidents-evacuations-ohio-h...
What does worse mean? Tesla's AI drives worse than an 80 year old with cataracts, but on the other hand it can react faster to obstacles than the fastest race-car drivers.

I don't own a Tesla so have no direct experience, but my guess would be that it might crash less than a human, but has far more near-misses.
That's a smart thing to do. I have also noticed that there's different type of work that can be done better when sleep depleted. I'm working 7 days / week nowadays and one day I will usually be pretty sleep depleted. I have noticed that when I'm sleep depleted the most minor distraction can blow up and take out an hour or so. So I plan to do deep work on that day and ideally it's the deep work I have been doing on the day prior so there's no energy cost associated with switching. And it depends on the type of task as well. I.e. I will struggle with boring front-end implementation on sleep depletion, but I will be able to solve the most complex architectural decisions no matter how little energy I have because it just sucks me in.
Yeah I think this is the vibe:

I need high quality supplies, restaurant food at my doorstep. If it somehow result in low wage/ worker agony, this is the sacrifice I am willing to make
This is an important point. Furthermore, it might just make an officer anxious to use it on somebody else so they can be on the delivering end rather than the receiving end.
The unreliability is fundamental to the nature of GPT, though. It can't not confabulate. You can't know when it is and is not right short of actually doing the work in the first place.

The things that will be built on GPT, you might be able to trust. But a language model can't be checking your particle physics work. A language model barely does simple arithmetic correctly. This is not some sort of temporary aberration; even human language models can't do arithmetic correctly. We do that elsewhere.
Also worth mentioning are pull-up or pull-down resistors. They give a pin a default state when nothing is driving the pin. You will often see them on reset pins and on inputs from buttons.
Why would you have that expectation?
Personally, I really dislike the idea of a decentralised counterparty but for eth I can see the argument at least. Of course, you could make the same argument about mining gold: it's a security because you are taking profit by diluting the overall global gold supply network...

But for BUSD, none of this applies: you cannot mine it, control is absolutely with Paxos, and is undiluted and the price is (in theory) fixed.
Two layoffs is worse than one big layoff, in terms of morale.
In Turkey it is different, even the minimum requirements were bypassed with exemptions due to government's contractors friendly policies, and Erdoğan has recently been promising "the biggest social housing project in the history of the Turkish republic'. Most houses in Turkey are of inferior quality, I visited Antalya and the thin walls and roofs of buildings and rooms of the flats barely had privacy in terms of sound proofing within it and with the neighboring flats. The same was the rule up north, and from my discussions with some locals inferior quality and low standard was not only in building materials and standards but in several other sectors.
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Patience is the wrong aspect here. What you need isn't patience, it's a reminder that this is a long process.

If all you can muster is 20 minutes per day, that still adds up hugely. No patience required. Although of course, you improve faster if you can actively practice for longer periods. But nevertheless, it is just about showing up every day. In the case of drawing, it's about drawing every day, and wanting to improve some aspect of it. Simply doing the same thing over and over again won't get you anywhere.
The thing is, I think a big part of solving the crisis is cutting costs and improving efficiency, and also advertising and lobbying to get more income. Because healthcare is intrinsically expensive. So I get why admins are important.

That being said, even with no experience or understanding of admin myself, I can still see that they are doing a really bad job. Because they are "taking home millions in pay"; because there are simple things like increasing nurses' pay (when the alternative is hiring traveling nurses for even more!) and actually listening to their feedback; because even to the unknowing public there should be some support, yet I've never heard anything good about admin except when they don't take excess pay and implement the obvious.
Why? In a world where the vast majority of computers are internet connected. This is just how software is constructed nowadays. Especially web development which is ahead of the ancient development practises common in libre software. Just open your network tab and see how many requests it makes without asking you.
Corruption doesn’t make things cheaper. Shoddy housing most likely costs the same as up to code housing, especially since you can’t tell if it complies or not (hard to see the rebar embedded in the concrete or its absence)

See the market for lemons.
Even a broken clock is right twice per day.

The question that I have is: why are all these big corporations doing synchronized layoffs? Is it about having more people than needed or is it pure greed and expectations that they can easily get away with it because "everyone is doing it"?
Stage5: All other languages and their syntax now looks ugly and wrong. I'm mean for heavens sake put the parens on the outside ! We are not heathens.

Lol only half joking. It really did surprise me how can something I hated some much in the beginning of learning Clojure (all the parens) has now become one of the things I most adore about the language (all the parens)
I got laid off in 2009. It took me roughly six months to find something new, and this was with three years of experience and transition from driver development in C to full-stack web development. I got a token raise in the process. In hindsight, 2008 wasn't fun, but it wasn't that bad.

That said, I could see this being worse than 2008 for tech. Parts of tech really did binge on hiring in 2020 and 2021. In 2007, companies were just getting over the scars of 2000.
Cultivating a sense of perspective about pet loss can lead to post-trauma (cont)
Objective journalism should be the goal. I'm counted amongst the "American left" and I think Jacobin is a rag.
I think what I would add to your comment, and specifically criticize the HN hype around it, is that all these GPT "AI" tools are entirely dependent on the OpenAI API. ChatGPT might have shown a glimpse of spark by smashing two rocks together, but it is nowhere near being able to create a full-blown fire out of it.

Outside of Google and OpenAI, I doubt there is a single team in the world right now that would be capable of recreating ChatGPT from scratch using their own model.
Said like someone who has never had to fix a broad corporate CI system.

Fixing this in several CI systems I've encountered would take well into months, plausibly with many unknown failures because of cached builds.
If you need to read them for your job, that is just a business expense. If you read them for your leisure and they're not even worth 50c to you, then that sounds like you are wasting your time.
Out of curiosity, I searched the pet vacuum mentioned in the first example, and found it on amazon [0]. Just like Bing says, it is a corded model with a 16 feet cord, and searching the reviews for "noise" shows that many people think that it is too loud. At least in this case, it seems that Bing got it right.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Bissell-Eraser-Handheld-Vacuum-Corded...
IMO starting with "first of all we were there first" kind of sets the tone for the whole message.
Here's how I would have written the same message:

Hi! Lotus has a great product. We should know, as they reached out to us for inspiration before. Our team has prior experience building billing engines, so we have a very good understanding of the space.

From a product perspective, our coverage is more extensive. We provide more advanced coupons, usage-based components and billing use-cases. For example, we offer credit notes and refunds, small examples that are not listed in their API. Our product covers more billing edge-cases and deeper features.

While we don't know how many customers Lotus has in production, our top user is invoicing 5M customers a month!

Overall, we believe at this point that our product is more advanced. We wish them luck though, the more products in this space the better.
I think that's the point they were making.
Yes, it is based on my observations. I also see the cool, fast moving smaller companies (and even some big ones) that use AI and technology in fascinating ways - but I would caution against overlooking what a lot of the new technologies might wind up to be used for.

For example, modern controlling functions couldn't exist without a certain level of technology. How much technology spend these days is dedicated to some form of administrative tasks? Those $$$ will have an effect.
I have been using Clojure for a solo project for a while now and find it shockingly productive. I initially planned to limit how much of the language "surface area" I explored to keep focused on solving the problem but was able to productively use much more of Clojure than I expected:

-core.async for concurrency that led me speed up some tasks from ~1000ms to ~40ms (well, core.async got me to about 100ms, or closer to 5x speedup on other tasks, and then other optimizations got me the rest of the way). Also using refs for some very limited data sharing across go threads (apparently actually using refs and dosync, aka mvcc data structures, is rare).

-spec for parsing a dsl and validating input

-macros for a select few syntax and core async optimizations (avoiding unnecessary go block usage)

-multimethods for extensibility

-a fair amount of Java interop to use best in class libraries

-transients to help optimize performance in some places

-even transducers a few places (maybe 1 percent of my code if that, but still)

-edn for dsl files

I sense that where people have more friction is trying to work with other people, in teams and organizations. In the right organization this can clearly work, dedicated Clojure shops, but there can be resistance in other organizations, and it has to be "smuggled in", and people worry about the ability to hire (especially for orgs that tend not to train heavily - nubank clearly trains a lot of programmers on Clojure but many shops don't want to do this level of training). And then people will avoid using certain advanced features like macros or even some functional conventions (recursion, reduce and map etc instead of vanilla loops) because they worry it will make it harder to onboard people without Lisp or FP experience.

I honestly think this is Clojure's big challenge, entrenched expectations and conventions in the industry and a desire to pull programmers off the shelf. In this talk (the one we're all commenting on) Rich and others point at the productivity and fun of REPL driven development -- finding some way to really grow that and somehow take it to the next level -- as a possible solution, to offer yet another carrot to encourage people to make the leap to Clojure. It sounds like a good idea but I have no idea what that looks like exactly.

I honestly think the answer to getting more Clojure penetration may be the passage of time, as happened with python. I know nubank/cognitect has been funding some open source work with small grants on top of Alex and Rich's work (and Stuart's?). This kind of basic grunt work can pay off long term. But it's not a sexy answer and if it doesn't work you're at a dead end.
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Yes..."Lossy JPEG," at least describes the idea that there is, some kind of "subsampling," going on, rather than just...a magical box?

I think most laypeople understand the simple statement, "it's a parrot."

I had the original author of this paper reach out to me about my plagiarism video on Mastodon:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

The idea of a lossy JPEG/Parrot helps capture the idea that there are dangers and opportunities in LLM's. You can have fake or doctored images spread, you can have a Parrot swear at someone and cause un-needed conflict - but they can also be great tools and/or cute and helpful companions, as long as we understand their limitations.
I'm sure there's a whole chain of broken links and enough blame to share around, but as an engineer, I have to ask why we sometimes forget that we, as doctors, are also bound by a creed, which says (among other things, depending on the version), that we place service before profit, and the welfare of the public above all other considerations and that we'll "practice our profession conscientiously, with dignity, and in accordance with the highest ethical and professional standards".
Am I too naive to still believe in this?
Our exposure to smart-sounding chatbots is inducing a novel form of pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia .

Our brains are pattern-recognition engines and humans are social animals; together that means that our brains are predisposed to anthropomorphizing and interpreting patterns as human-like.

For the whole of human history thus far, the only things that we have commonly encountered that conversed like humans have been other humans. This means that when we observe something like ChatGPT that appears to "speak", we are susceptible to interpreting intelligence where there is none, in the same way that an optical illusion can fool your brain into perceiving something that is not happening.

That's not to say that humans are somehow special or that or human intelligence is impossible to replicate. But these things right here aren't intelligent, y'all. That said, can they be useful? Certainly. Tools don't need to be intelligent to be useful. A chainsaw isn't intelligent, and it can still be highly useful... and highly destructive, if used in the wrong way.
I've had a similar experience using the sam [1] text editor in command line mode, basically like a REPL. Filtering and modifying data using sam's "structural regular expressions". Rob Pike, the author of sam, specifically points out in the linked paper that the command language is great for manipulating multi-line "records".

Add the ability to { nest { expressions } } + very flexible file system IO (e.g. pipe selection to an external command and return the result), and you have a really nice recursive querying language. I specifically like it because of how easy it is to refine the query/regex substitution when it didn't yield the expected result.

1: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/ (In particular, scroll to the "Structural Regular Expressions" section.)
I specifically mentioned that the upper castes are their 'core' vote bank and not their only vote bank.

They have a large support from other castes now because Muslims are the enemies now. Until this narrative stays they will stay.

This tribal president and the previous dalit president are exactly what I mean by their election winning formula. I'm not sure what's illogical in any of this because this is literally what they themselves speak about in every election meeting.
The parent comment was worried about losing jobs regardless of UBI, which means the choice is not "high paying FAANG job or UBI" but "no income or UBI". I didn't say you said UBI shouldn't be allowed, I said why have you approached it from the angle "if you had your job forcibly taken away and had only UBI to live on, imagine how much you'd suffer, then you'd regret your support for UBI, hah, gotcha"?

Instead of, say, "imagine if you lost your job and had a choice of no income or some income, you might still lose your house but being able to afford food would be useful".

or from the angle "imagine a society where the poorest and unemployed had enough income to eat without foodbanks and foodstamps?".
> All productivity numbers are per hour

which numbers? GP was talking about numbers of companies and the article is pretty low on data either way. In any case, the points I was trying to make were: there are eventually diminishing returns on individual productivity and looking at the number of startups is a very weird way to evaluate how useful a technology is.

> the USA, which did not have to rebuild after the last war.

So the post-war US economy should be directly compared to today's while completely ignoring the war?
>Institutions don't want to be in this business either. My wife works for one of the largest ones in the midwest, and trust me, they value the land and developments much more than the rents.

The rent is what determines the value of the land and developments.

>Government subsidy is AN incentive to maintain the above services at the MINIMUM viable and provable state to get their handout, but they are NOT landlords.

This subsidy can directly be given to people as cash. No need for a middleman to take a cut.
If you have used the summary function of Gpt, it can be out right wrong but sound very plausible. With the amount of disinformation out there people that are interested in science but wants it the easy way is could make things worse. Imagine the summarized states the result show that certain meds give good results but without the right statistic context, it could be just marginally good, or even not statistically significant to the trained reader. Now they pass it off and start validating their own biases
In a similar vein: it's worth noting that pepper spray, mace, and other "nonlethal" chemical weapons are actually relatively lethal[1]. It's hard to estimate exactly how many people die after being pepper sprayed each year, in part because the police exert force to get deaths in custody recategorized into pre-existing medical conditions, drug overdoses, etc.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-18-mn-14572-...
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To be honest, I don't think "regular people" are excited, I do not think they care. A lot of researchers and even more grifters, hucksters, and cheats are rushing in, thinking they can make a quick buck, scam a few people, may be lay off some of their valuable employees, all because they hardly understand the technology. Just like crypto, a lot of people are rushing in, mostly unsavory types.

I honestly like old machines. It's why the C64 is so great, you can really understand mostly everything, there are no surprises. The fact is that computers (phones really) have become that less and less and people think AI bots can make them even less so, even though really, these AI tools look right now to be even worse than people in their unpredictability yet lack of essential human character. As difficult as people are, there is value in interacting with them. I'm not sure yet AI provides that.
Lol. I don't think anyone gives a damn about morale nowadays. :(
> This is simply not true, as a quick perusal of any proposal for a future collider will show: they all start with motivational statements

They are pseudo motivations "justified" by appeals to pseudo problems. They are pseudo problems for exactly the reasons Hossenfelder discusses in this video and in her book.
That's a fair train of thought, and I do agree it's better to embrace the future than to resist it.

> Instead, we should take some lessons from the past and this time around we can proactively ameliorate the worst aspects of the ongoing changes.

Yeah, I like this way of slicing it. What do you think are those downsides, and how could they be ameliorated?
Of course it can’t. That you’re even surprised by this enough to write a blog post is more worrying.