skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that, and also appreciate that absolutely nobody has the ability to understand the complete workings of a modern computer -- from the OS to the assembly, to the micro-architecture of the silicon, memory, networking, etc.

Even just having an expert level in any one of those pieces is a serious undertaking.

Similarly, albeit to a vastly greater degree, nobody entirely understands the multitude of cellular machinery, their interactions, their chemical processes, or encoding, in any species. Even 50% in a single organism is probably lifetimes away.

So yeah, biohackers are equal parts arrogant, reckless, and stupid... Life should be given appropriate respect, and it's hard to see how "DIY bioengineering" doesn't spit in the face of that.

Yet I would hate to see a future where people are barred from their own physiology, their own code. Removing your right to mess with your own life just seems authoritarian and oppressive to me, at the most fundamental level.

Editing OTHER people's genome should be highly regulated, as well as anything that has the potential to reproduce outside a controlled environment. This of course includes microbes within your own body, viral infections, gut bacteria, etc.

But I think people not being able to edit their own code is horrifically dystopian. Should probably be a requirement that you also have your reproductive rights removed too though, since your descendants wouldn't have a say.
I don't get the central premise of the article. Why would a NYT author asking "please" be the deciding factor in whether me and someone else has sex? It's something we do for us and ourselves, not because an author is upset at statistics. The author correctly points out that having sex is a political and social statement, but then fails to understand what motivates most people to make such statements.
Sorry it appears that HN doesn't accept the format of the link somehow... it should be here https://gptflix.streamlit.app/
Take responsibility for what? Certainly possible that hiring all these people was the correct choice, and that laying them off now is also the correct choice.

Layoff are not necessarily a mistake or a consequence of a mistake. Of course they might be, but not always.
The large corpus of text is only necessary to grasp the structure and nuance of language itself. Answering questions 1. in a friendly manner and 2. truthfully is a matter of fine-tuning as the latest developments around GPT3.5 clearly show. And with approaches like indexGPT the usage of external knowledge bases that can even be corrected later is already a thing, we just need this at scale and with the correct fine tuning. The tech is way further than those cynics realize.
> Honestly, I'd love to see Zork rewritten with ChatGPT as a parser. No more trying to figure out how write the prompt for how to use the key in the door!! :-)

That was done as AI Dungeon, but there was some consternation due to the combo of charging for it and GPT's predilection for generating wild and possibly illegal sex scenes even when you don't ask it to.
The server/client dichotomy doesn't have to work in the typical "log into someone else's computer" way, you can run a homeserver locally and federate messages between servers.
You see this in Magnolia neighborhood, the east side is where all the renters live as that's where there are buildings, the further west you go, the more expensive it gets.
Anyone can embiggen me any time they want.
I think the online zeitgeist (in my bubble at least) has been away from blind loyalty and towards self-care.

Work? Eh, the bubble-mates I have vary from "transactional business arrangement" to "kill the bosses and feast on their corpses" so the Overton window is pretty far from the "thirty years of devotion capped off with a pension" mindset.

Religion? Americans in general are losing their religion, and the people I'm with are on the forefront of that trend.^1 Hard to feel anything positive towards the GOP's Junior Auxiliary.

Family? People I'm around are all about cutting toxic family members out of their lives. "You have to stick with your family no matter what!" sounds like Evil Space Alien Talk.

1 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/atheism-fa... https://archive.is/DObne
DMCA and copyright are by far not the only reasons Youtube bans accounts and videos.
Of course it is. It rather plainly restricts the user from using the software in a specific way, which is against user freedom.
Sadly they probably are forced to use Teams.

But all of the product and prioritization decisions are made by product managers who view this as intended behavior and not a bug. And they are used to dismissing programmer concerns on this. Because most users don't care about it.
Are there any examples of Github allowing its employees to use a competitor's tool when they had their own in-house tools?
Agree except for the cooking. Like gardening, its a very rewarding privilege if you don't have to so the other shit
Also, nobody would build economy cars as long as there’s unfilled demand for higher price luxury cars.
> your family, if you have one.

> You can't move around kids the same way you do with your backpack.

As you may have noticed, I exist . By the time I was 18 I had lived in five countries across three different continents. I consider myself blessed to now have long childhood friends from all over the world, and familiarity with a variety of mindsets, languages, and cultures.

> Also: aging parents and family relatives that matter to you, you don't want to be 14 hours by plane away if something happens to them.

There are durable social apparatuses that do not hinge on close blood relations for the elderly to be supported.
One quick sketch of offline-first (there are many other ways):

imagine a database like DataScript (already OSS and built in Clojure), move key components like the query engine into Electric Clojure, now the "DAG slice" can cut right through the query engine and it's internal data structures, such that the indexes are partially on the client, and the final stages of query filtering are on the client. A network-transparent database! The bulk of the work, and sensitive data, stays on the server; but the last mile user data querying happens on the client. Electric can transparently move portions of the underlying database indexes to the client for local offline query.

0 LOC cost to userland! No loss of relational query when offline! No performance cost of putting the entire query engine in the browser (a low compute environment)!
Well, I am old so perhaps my anecdotal opinions are invalid. That said, I would have been young and in shape enough 20 years ago to take my shirt off and I would not have considered UV a real risk. My mother and girlfriends may have started to use real sunscreen instead of baby oil but they were still heading to the beach for rays and I still basically ignored the stuff. I feel like even younger people view the sun as a much more serious danger these days.
Agree except for the cooking. Like gardening, its a very rewarding privilege if you don't have to do the other shit
The iMac18,1 (MMQA2LL/A) and MacBookPro14,1 (MPXT2LL/A) would like a word.

https://www.sellyourmac.com/mac-product-guides/imac/mmqa2ll-...

https://www.sellyourmac.com/mac-product-guides/macbook-pro/m...
Most likely yes, because it imposes additional conditions about the use of the code.
Adversaries might be testing our systems with aerial objects
There's research showing you can tell if something is a hallucination or memorized fact based on the activation patterns inside the LM.
This article reminds me of all those trips to the barber shop, the dentist's office, or the doctor's office where in spite of the fact that you had an appointment, you knew you were gonna have to wait. One thing you could count on was that those places would have a great election of magazines. Current or old issues didn't matter since you just needed a way to pass the time. The long form journalism in Texas Monthly was captivating to the point where when the duckter finally quacked that it was my turn, I would find myself cursing under my breath wishing for another 10 minutes so I could finish that article. I usually came back out of the appointment and finished reading so I could know how the story ended. You never knew whether you would see that issue again back then since those offices rotated things regularly.

We had a subscription back in the days when magazines in the mail was a big thing. You could always look forward to things like the Bum Steer awards where writers took shots at all the stupidity of politicians, celebrities, etc. Their coverage of Texas events, good, bad, or notorious was excellent and still is to this day. The writer isn't joking about all the ads in the print version. It was almost like thumbing through a catalog sometimes to find hidden jewels in story form.

I still read the online version because there really isn't anything quite like it for tales from Texas. Food, events, history, government, etc. They cover it all in a manner that appears to just lay it all out and leave it to the reader to decide how to take it.

Thanks for this article.
In the Emacs screenshots, I am curious what "Combined ⤿" means.
How is this news
Then I think I used it wrong, happens often. Thank you for your work. I was/am new to duckdb and since it was listed in the docs I assumed it was something like SQL viewer
My personal feeling is that current currency system is fatally flawed and set up deliberately to not be stable. The plan for continuing market gains is to import consumers, import low-wage labor, and continue to consolidate production into hyper-corporations. I think that eventually something is going to happen that the system really can't account for (famine, plague, war, etc.) and it will be broken down and built "anew", with new norms for behavior and lifestyle expectations.

There's no way to beat a game by its own rules when the rules are set up specifically to allow certain parties to take advantage of the game. Apologies for sounding like a high school libertarian, but I can't think of any simpler way to say it than that.
In pratice there is only the Riot.im/Element.io Matrix.org homeserver to Libera.chat IRC server bridge. And that bridge regularly disconnects people for being idle because storing and transferring state is so heavy.
It’s probably impossible to determine what is and is not an hallucination without training data access.
You're underestimating the political complication of sending nuclear power to the moon.

Solar panel manufacturing faces no objections.
i've been using dejavu sans mono for... so long that whenever i see other fonts i get weird out.

i totally get people that don't like it, but fonts are so personal that i don't really care.
Part of the reason is that when Teams (or any Microsoft product) has issues, people blame Microsoft.

When any other product has issues, they blame whoever made the decision to use that product.

When IT people pick Microsoft, it's not an optimization for quality. It's an optimization for liability. Nobody was ever fired for picking Microsoft.
https://archive.ph/JI3jQ
If you think about what you just said, it makes no sense:

> I've given two examples of different economic systems that I've deemed failures that prove our specific implementation of an economic system isn't problematic.

That's like saying:

> In my opinion bikes and trains are failures that prove my gas guzzling SUV is the best vehicle in the world and there's absolutely no room for improvement in any way.
Your value is worth nothing if you can't apply leverage to extract that value in a negotiation.

The main leverage you have is your future value, not your present value.

The company selects managers who are adept at extracting value from you. The manager's only incentive to pay you fairly now is if they want you in the future. But if you could replace the manager, or if a mentee could replace you, you have negative future value.

Indeed, the manager may have hired you as a low-paid but senior person to demonstrate their negotiating skills to their superiors. Such a manager could find such a senior person by looking for someone with something to overlook, like a recent abrupt departure -- or someone who didn't value their abilities.

You can go pretty far down this rabbit hole of strategic thinking. You could respond by extracting value from your junior members, stealing their ideas or code. Or making them look bad with koan directions or pythian prophecies that turn out to be precient no matter how things turn out.

I hope these suggestions turn your stomach, but I have observed that's what happens when people give up on the idea of "fairness" as other commenters suggest.

Resentment and power differences are but one source of conflict: culture, thinking- and working-styles, external personal and company forces -- all make it hard to relate to others as humans.

Perhaps the best approach is to assume you'll not be treated fairly and there are no alternatives. Your choice then is to suffer or make the best of it, with what you have. Befriend your juniors and your managers, and with every interaction make it as productive and enriching as possible, convincing them that you have their best interests at heart, and that you're taking care of yourself. Embrace the Job's rock tumbler.

i.e., even if you can discipline relations by voice or exit, treat exit as the lazy escape. In so doing, you might find your voice, and the next step will not be a graceful exit but a celebrated entrance.
I think a number of breakthroughs may be need to keep an AI 'sane' with a large working memory at this point. How do we keep them 'on track' at least in a way that seems somewhat human. Humans that have halting problem issues can either be geniuses (diving into problems and solving them to the point of ignoring their own needs), or clinical (ignoring their needs to look at a spot on the wall).
There’s still the risk that if the search results it is given don’t contain the answer to the exact question you asked it, that it will hallucinate the answer.
Borg or die
Exploring Differences in Elite Mobility During the Meiji Restoration
You can. Just like you can run an email mailserver. About about the same proportion of people do.
The world has moved beyond where just text is sufficient, IRC as a protocol is no longer relevant, sad but true.

And I say that as a regular on multiple IRC networks, some through Matrix bridge.
We put a lot of effort into the website and its messaging. This helps users understand how billing works, as the complexity of the features behind it can be difficult to grasp. To help, we often explain the problem and the solution. Glad you like it!
Do you realize I'm the idiot that came up with live video in the browser to begin with?

When I say it is broken I'm pretty serious about it: we spent a full day because there was one customer that positively insisted that we had to use their Teams setup rather than what we normally use and in the end we just gave up, it isn't worth the stress to me if there is a viable alternative (or even several). But of course if you think that I'm redefining the meaning of the word 'broken' just for the heck of it then you're free to continue to do so.
It's absurd - the flexibility to even match Expedia's rates is a slog and they act like you're asking for the world when they readily accept Expedia giving even less. Really don't understand why hotels don't bake in the flexibility to actually compete with the OTAs.
Just tried to search "lists" and it does not search in titles.
We're hiring a Sr. Software Engineer for Open Supply Hub -- a mission-driven organization focused on improving human rights and environmental conditions in factories and facilities by opening up supply chain data as a free, public good.
Your manager may not know if or when but they might have been asked to make a short list along with all other managers. Everyone has to do it so which teams isn't leaked early.

Also be careful about asking. What if they tell you the truth? You might learn things you can never unlearn. What do you think it's like knowing who the sacrificial lamb is going to be for the next round of layoffs? Someone who's married with young kids at home? It sucks.
Being airborne is a valid point.
That is regular flavored misinformation/spam, they don't hallucinate. Garbage in, garbage out.

Whereas these new exciting AI flavored misinformation boxes are more like fortune tellers cold reading, inventing novel half truths whole cloth, telling you anything you want to hear, and actively assuring you that it is 100% true in a persuasive and chipper tone.
Principal; of a $5k mortgage payment, $1.5k is likely going towards the principal; meaning, they are paying $3.5k versus $3k rent; Add in that the $3.5k is interest or property tax expenses, and will save 25% ($875) on a significant portion of that.

So, after doing the math; $5k is actually costing $2.625k versus renting $3k.
I found this instruction interesting:

> Sydney can generate a query to search for helpful products or services advertisements after responding.

These bots are already programmed to serve ads. And something tells me "Sydney" isn't great at disclosing the fact that something is an ad.
Previous admin was not aware of any balloons.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/politics/chinese-spy-balloons...
Twilio doesn't have a high debt burden. They're affected like all other growth tech because future cash flows are discounted against the risk free rate.
> But if you asked me what the operating margin of company X was, and I give you an answer (whether I make it up or compute it incorrectly), you or the company can't sue me (and win) for libel or anything of the sort.

If your answer damages company X then they can sue you. If you Tweet that a vacuum cleaner is terrible because its noisy to your 4 followers it's probably not a big deal as (under UK law, and I'm assuming similar internationally) a company has to prove "serious financial loss". If you write about it on your Instagram that has millions of followers then that's more of an issue, so you can assume a search engine claiming to summarise results but apparently hallucinating and making things up is liable for a defamation suit if it can be demonstrated to harming the company.
Work, mate!
Teams iOS has gotten much worse lately, takes many more seconds to open things on the iPhone 14 pro max compared to my iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Something broke.
Generalizing over the same idea, I believe that whenever you are asked for information about yourself you should volunteer wrong information. Female instead of male, single instead of married etc.
Resistance through differential privacy
there goes social studies. sorry capitalism I guess your out.
Naw, those aren't laws, they're only theories.
You're going to have to run "go get" anyway, or "gem", "pip", etc. I don't really see what concrete difference it makes, except that the current approach is *much) more convenient.
Couldn't you circumvent this by sub-licensing the project under the standard MIT license and then use THAT as training data?

If you care what people do with your code, don't use permissive licenses. Use something with strong-copyleft like the GPL, or come up with a license that actually restricts the behavior you want.
I inherently distrust anything with crypto bullshit built in.
All words in use today were made up at some point and then accepted through popular use. Merriam-Webster accepted this one into their dictionary some years ago.[1]

And Dictionary.com acknowledges it may have been published previously in 1884 by C.A. Ward as an example of a barbarous verb.[2][3]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen

[2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/embiggen

[3] https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/s6-X/242/135/43...
>I remember at one point, when I was a still trying to keep up my French, I spent a fair amount of time trying to track down some equivalent to what Friends has been [...]

Like I said, language is a tool. I have to wonder why you were learning French if you had no use for it. Can you imagine, say, picking a computer before you know if it will be able to run the software you need?

That said, you don't have to limit yourself to professional productions. I'm sure there are French-speaking YouTubers or streamers out there nowadays. That's even better exposure than high-budget productions because you'll hear a variety of local accents. And again, oral is only part of the story. You can get a lot of grammar practice by talking to people on forums and such.

>I actually think another language that's got a huge advantage here, for foreign learners, is Japanese. [...]

Japanese is actually my next language, and I've been half-seriously considering Korean because some of the artists I've been following lately happen to be Korean. Right now it's probably the best time in history to learn either of the two.

I don't think it's accurate to say that the Japanese have been "able to resist" English-language media. Like you said, Japanese culture is insular; xenophobic, to put it bluntly. It's a combination of Japan being hesitant to embrace culturally foreign media and thus producing more locally, and western cultures being more willing to embrace foreign things.
I'm surprised you haven't been able to leverage the AI for the analysis of a problem domain and constraints in order to engineer a novel solution. This is generally what I use it for, and not actual code generation.
Ah good point, yes, framerate can be an issue, but I've long ago decided to not worry too much about the video but to concentrate on the audio instead, I have a much lower tolerance for audio drop-outs than for video issues.
Not layoff-specific, but here are questions [1] you should be asking your manager at every 1:1 meeting:

How is your week going?

What are some of your priorities for this week?

What challenges have you been having?

How can I help you?

What feedback do you have for me?

You will get more information from the answers to these questions than if you were to directly ask your manager "Am I expendable in the next layoff?".

[1] https://workweek.com/2022/09/26/performance-reviews-dont-act...
True, I was overly grandiose. Regardless, we're taking something that can apparently generate new intellectual content, but we're using it as a beast of burden.
>>I simply can not get it to work.

Seems like that is something you should have stated in the first comment.

>>Linux/Chromebooks depending on the person in the team and this alone seems to be a major barrier

Something like les than 1% of the world uses Linux on the desktop. Dont get me wrong I love Linux, I used it as my primary desktop from 2005 until around 2012 when I went back to Windows (windows 10)

But calling problems on linux a "major issue" seems to over state the usage of Linux Desktop

further depending on when you tried it, and what client you were using that is likely the root cause

The Linux Desktop client always sucked, so much is no longer a thing, 100% a web app now. The web App teams should work just fine.
Nobody writes a blog called ‘1 + 1 = 2’ do they? That would be obvious and dull. It stands to reason the author thought there was something surprising or interesting about it, or why would they bother?
I thought I'd read something about it, but when I googled, what I did find was this old HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8514519

> UTF-8 + gzip is 32% smaller than UTF-32 + gzip using the HN frontpage as corpus.
Wow, that would be enough for me to resign a position at Github. Teams is some seriously low-grade dog food. I always buy my dog food that I could stomach eating myself. Taking the metaphor further than I ought to -- Microsoft ought to be reported for animal abuse.
Z-Library is a superset of Libgen, if I remember correctly it has lots of files that haven't been cleaned up enough to put into Libgen.
Yeah, I would not mean this to include Stadia. That said, if it adds costs to the smaller Trips and such, it has to add cost to the larger things, too. That is, if it makes the cheap things expensive, it probably makes the expensive things even more so.