skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t get it why convenience _has to_ translate into agony for someone else.

It doesn't have to. But it does, often, nonetheless, currently.

Do you know anyone who does gig work for their main or only income? Are they happy with their lives? For now we are leaving aside "externalities" such as all the extra cars on the road creating traffic and extra emissions and focusing on the topic of TFA.

One has to wonder: what sort of systemic, material forces sustain this imbalance? which companies are propped up with subsidies, investment, etc.? why do people put money into those companies in which ways and for which reasons? how are those companies incentivized to operate given their positions in the economy? what does that mean for the people who are dependent on the money they are paid in wages from the only company willing to employ them to avoid a destitute life of food and housing insecurity? what could we do differently to alleviate this very real pain felt by millions every day?

Paying people "accordingly" for running Doordash orders would result in a complete collapse of Doordash because its business model is unsustainable without 1) subsidies a la venture capital and 2) minimizing compensation (wages, liabilities, wear&tear on personal property) paid to the drivers vis-a-vis the maximization of quarterly profits. Delivery fees would cost absurd amounts and no one would be able to afford the service without these factors.

Some people make arguments in favor of the company surviving at the expense of the workers; others prefer to insist in the opposite direction.
Gotcha! Thanks for the response. So if I have, say, 10 PDF files which I plan to extract text from and use to fine-tune davinci, I would have to supply the entire textual information extracted from the PDF file each time?
The examples in the article seem to be making the point that even when the AI cites the correct context (ie: financial reports) it still produces completely hallucinated information.

So even if you were to white-list the context to train the engine against, it would still make up information because that's just what LLMs do. They make stuff up to fit certain patterns.
I don't like hybrid because I prefer to go in every day but a lot of my coworkers don't come into the office very often. I'd rather teams were fully WFO or fully WFH instead of hybrid. That's not really an option at my work though.
I'm sure you can add constraints of some sorts to build internally consistent world models. Or add stochastic outputs as has been done in computer vision to assign e.g. variances to the probabilities and determine when the model is out if its depth (and automatically query external databases to remove the uncertainty / read up on the topic..)
It probably depends a lot on where you live relative to the office. If you are within a short commute (e.g. < 30 minutes), hybrid is pretty nice. If you're a longer distance away (30-90 minutes), hybrid is doable but means a quality of life hit. If you relocated farther from the office, then hybrid is infeasible and you have to choose whether to move or to find a new job.
> Free markets would eventually find a cost-effective solution

The facts would seem to disagree with this assumption.
Or the inspect panel. Or the ability to download a local copy of a page for later modification. Or tools that allow you to inspect HTTP requests. Or screen readers that look at underlying page data instead of what's visually present. Or web crawlers.
Microsoft showed the opposite. (Microsoft employee here). We were more productive by every common software dev measure when working from home. That's why Satya has been calling other CEOs out on their rather misguided need to "get the employees back in the office". It's a management problem (bad management) - not an employee problem. Focus on outcomes and create an environment that enables teams to achieve them...including ones with new hires and junior folks. It's possible. It just takes some (gasp) work. By managers.
This isn’t great for people who live nearby and would like an arrangement where they’re mostly remote and visit every once in a while.
Probably because management considered remote onboarding as a temporary thing that would be over in three weeks for the past three years, instead of the new normal that would require more thought to how to onboard remotely effectively. There's been plenty of companies that were mainly remote long before the pandemic as well. Even in government sometimes employees working on sensitive info get a scif installed in their basement. If it didn't work people wouldn't do it. Sometimes its nice to also think about the personal benefits to the employee to their life outside of the work, versus the companies absolute bottom line all the time.
The heater is really interesting. Obviously, the purchase price is insane unless you're bullish on crypto. I love the concept though.

Thanks for sharing.
It was 100% in person, it was around 2011. I wonder how much remoteness there is in MBA programs now. I imagine those are the programs that would lose the most from lack of physical proximity.
>which a quick google search would have solved as well,

You mean 'may' have solved that. Google is becoming a bullshit generator for SEO farms and spitting out ads at such a rate it can be near useless for some questions.

Now the real question is, can we tell when Google or GPT is dumping bullshit on us.
> And that's Lobbying to protect labor intensive work, which happens to be women's underwear. Not lobbying to tax women more cause they're women.

But of course if the headline and first paragraphs let the reader inaccurately assume it's the latter, you generate more outrage and more clicks.

Honestly, for outrage-bait topics like this, the journalist isn't doing his job if he doesn't discover and explain the actual reason for the fact their reporting "'The patterns seem to date back to lobbying from earlier eras,' Rampell writes," doesn't cut it.
How can the company who makes one of the best (if not the best) electron app (vscode), also ship one of the worst electron apps (Teams)?

Can’t they just set up a meeting and and take notes on how the other team did it?
He was the most popular user on the platform, brining in millions of views and engagements to twitter. Also the president of your country.

This is the equivalent to arguing that Michael Jackson got to tour Disney Land in off hours, when regular person would have been arrested for doing the same. And how unfair that is.
Check OpeanAI's tutorials [1] and cookbook [2]. Or try LangChain [3], which abstracts a lot of the work.

[1] - https://platform.openai.com/docs/tutorials
[2] - https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook
[3] - https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain
Oregon Liquor Officials Are Accused of Hoarding Rare Bourbon
>But, since things are interconnected, and a state isn't just some lonely abstract entity, isn't in your interest to try push for things that are good overall?

States are separate for a reason, the people of each state want to do things their own way. For the things we can all agree nationally there is the federal government, but for everything else it's separated at the state level so we step on as few toes as possible.

Spamming a New Hampshire state representative when you aren't in New Hampshire, let alone not in the US, subverts democracy by violating state and possibly country lines.
This is different. This isn't a patent of an algorithm or similar implementation in software. This is a means of controlling a device by decoded voice commands via another device. It's not a software patent in the way FOSS people mean when they say to ban software patents.
My plan is to save money aggressively and then get one of those monotonous task jobs. Like cashier or stock boy.
Metronet in the US does CGNAT. I’ve had them for about a year and a half. Hasn’t caused me any real issues other than the occasional captcha.
I agree it's pretty good at generalities, doesn't shit the bed quite so much. Yet to suggest a plan that an entire team of professionals, who have been working for 8 months could not figure out?

It's certainly not that good, absent some amazing wizardry or some very silly professionals in a very squishy field. Yet I have no explanation for why someone would go on the internet and lie about something like that.

There were comments a while back (less so now) of people making other claims like it was solving complex functions for them and writing sophisticated software.

The entire thing baffles me. If I could get it to do that, I'd be showing you all of my marvelous works and bragging quite a bit as your newfound AI-whisperer. Hell, I'd get it to write a script for me to run that evangelized itself (edit: and me of course, as its chosen envoy to mankind) to the furthest corners of the internet!
Wave of telco attacks tied to bad third-party vendor security hygiene
That says more about Cloudflare than you think it's saying about you, tbh. I see this often, many people enlist their site into Cloudflare and consider the job done, and Cloudflare doesn't necessarily discourage that either until their app draws traffic and suddenly sales is your new neighbor.
I don’t know why you bring up 17 U.S.C. § 117(a)(1); it is completely irrelevant to your question. It is an important thing to understand, but it doesn’t have any effect on the answer to the question you asked. I can’t even fathom why you would think that it does. Maybe it is some kind of motivated reasoning?

The FAQ is, however, quite relevant. It’s certainly not part of the text of the GPL, but your Question is very Frequently Asked, and thus the answer to it is right there (<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MoneyGuzzlerInc>).

I'd like to modify GPL-covered programs and link them with the
portability libraries from Money Guzzler Inc. I cannot distribute
the source code for these libraries, so any user who wanted to
change these versions would have to obtain those libraries
separately. Why doesn't the GPL permit this? (#MoneyGuzzlerInc)

There are two reasons for this. First, a general one. If we
permitted company A to make a proprietary file, and company B
to distribute GPL-covered software linked with that file, the
effect would be to make a hole in the GPL big enough to drive
a truck through. This would be carte blanche for withholding
the source code for all sorts of modifications and extensions
to GPL-covered software.

Giving all users access to the source code is one of our main
goals, so this consequence is definitely something we want to
avoid.

More concretely, the versions of the programs linked with the
Money Guzzler libraries would not really be free software as
we understand the term—they would not come with full source
code that enables users to change and recompile the program.
Teams regularly randomly gets worse in many metrics. I will start work one day and something will randomly work differently, with no warning.

One good example is that teams now tries harder to autoformat code. It will refuse to treat something copied from an IDE as just text, automatically put it into some random quote style box, and the process of getting your cursor out of that box to continue writing your message changes and is inconsistent over time. If the recipient of that message then tries to copy and paste that code, the formatting and raw text content will have been changed in unexpected ways, and you have to manually fix it. This is such a stupidly simple and expected use for a chat app in software development workspaces yet it probably isn't an allowed use case at microsoft. Microsoft fired their QA department, so any code path in any app not regularly used by Microsoft staff internally is pretty much garanteed to wander, be inconsistent, randomly break, and change in unnecessary ways.
How is Clojure for dotNet? I haven't touched Clojure in general for years (honestly I think it's been at least a decade) but I remember a lot of libraries making calls expecting the Java standard library so seems like things would have broken, but maybe it is gotten a lot better in recent years.
It can't do anagrams though (every now and then it might get a common one right but in general it's bad at letter- based manipulations/ information, including even word lengths, reversal etc.).
davinci-003 has a 4k tokens cap, you cannot just 'shove all your information in the prompt.' Can parallelize but then rate limits become a problem. Really curious to hear how these guys are handling it.
Whereas C++ versions are each distinct languages which aren't necessarily interoperable, Rust Editions promise to interoperate and this is used all over the place. As a result the Editions can only "really" touch syntax, how you in some sense spell Rust, not what it means.

Essentially Rust 2015 Edition and Rust 2021 Edition are actually exactly the same language except that the spelling is different, and as a result there are some things you can spell in one that you don't have a way to spell in the other. So in Rust 2015 Edition I can name my function async, because I want to, in Rust 2021 Edition that's fine, but it's written "r#async". Same function, same name in a sense, but different spelling. On the other hand, if I have an actual async function in Rust 2021 Edition, I can't write that in 2015 Edition at all - there's no way to spell the async keyword in that edition.

The library however, is mostly semantics, not syntax. We care about what it does, not how to spell things on the whole.
There's a quite common problem that could be called "Not Invented Here (because we bit off more than we could chew and didn't finish the project, missing the market opportunity)"
People who grew up playing games are now in positions of respect and power in the industry.
I think WFH is important as it shows deference to families bringing up children where WFH may be a vital part of being able to dedicate enough time to their children.

As someone without children myself, I judge an organisation by how they treat employees with divergent goals (such as wanting to spend time with their children) because it shows me how the organisation will treat me if/when I fall outside complete alignment with corporate goals (perhaps due to politics, age or health).
I feel like it's only the part with generic nginx 5xx error that sets the bar a bit too high. Too many huge services suffer from the same sin.
turn left on the way back
Speaking as someone whose company uses Telnyx... Telnyx has too many incidents/problems to be worth replacing Twilio with. Would go with Bandwidth if you're looking for cheaper-than-Twilio-but-worse-tech.
There's already a content filter layer between chatGPT and the user which can detect words/strings appearing in the output. They simply didn't add those terms to the moderation API it uses under the hood.
Of course not - It's a small volume chemical. And blaming the Jones Act (as bad as it is) for a shipmnet from Illinois to Pennsylvania takes a certain kind of logic. OP is going to lose it when he realizes he can't blame "unions" for gutting the rail safety regulations that Obama added in 2015..

https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rule...

“The mission of the FRA is safety and not focusing on what is convenient or inexpensive or provides the most cost savings for the rail industry,” said Sarah Feinberg, the FRA administrator at the time, about the new rule. “When I focus on safety, I land on ECP. It’s a very black-and-white issue for me.”

Soon after the rule’s enactment, the railroad industry took the matter to Congress and found allies in Senate Republicans, after an election cycle that saw rail industry donors dump $6 million into GOP campaign coffers.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) — the Senate’s third largest recipient of rail industry campaign cash — pushed to repeal the electronic braking rule outright, before settling for a measure requiring additional research and a new cost-benefit analysis of the technology. Under former President Donald Trump, the braking upgrades quickly became another casualty of his administration’s slash-and-burn approach to regulatory policy.

While the Obama administration had estimated that the rule could save more than $1 billion by averting accidents, the Trump administration rolled out new figures that cut the estimated benefits by a third.

The AAR lobbying group concurred that “the costs of the ECP rule substantially outweigh its benefits,” and claimed the mandate would cost them about $3 billion — or roughly 2 weeks of their operating revenue in a typical year. The FRA estimated the brake requirement would cost about half a billion.

Trump’s Transportation Department ultimately rescinded the brake rule in late 2017.

Thune praised the decision in a statement arguing that “sound science and careful study” had won the day.

But a 2018 investigation from the Associated Press revealed that the Trump Transportation Department had flubbed its calculations. By excluding the most common type of train derailments, the government’s analysis omitted at least $117 million in estimated future damages when it revised the rule’s potential benefits to justify its repeal.

The agency acknowledged the error and issued a technical correction to its analysis, but said that the expense was still too great to reinstate the ECP brake rule.
Was referring to the genetic change identified in the article
ChatGPT is not God. Not now, not ever.
Surely, though, the average HN user is the pinnacle of thoughtfulness.
It's particularly useful for the historical places. And the ones in countries with a less... uh... developed address system.

There's a dealership that's closed listed as "Service Point - Costa Rica" where the address is "RUTA 32, KILOMETRO 14" in "San Isidro". Maps does not do very well with that information, and just searching for the address lists a place 50 km away.
I really don't understand this. In what world are people creating chatbots by taking their LLMs and feeding it a page of instructions? Why would anyone even think this would work?
The verbs here are a bit alarmist

Nah, they're appropriate. Getting that low (less than 775 ft) is bad, doing that on climb out is worse. There's no margin for error at that height. Moreover the plane pulled 2.7G which is in excess of what the plane is rated for (2.5G). The pilots should've returned (to Maui or the Big Island) for an inspection instead of continuing on with the flight.

though this should have been reported even if just to NASA.

What I've read is that the incident was reported after the flight landed at SFO.
> services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works

A soft paywall that can be removed by modifying HTML elements on a page doesn't seem like an actual control for copyrighted material, since the server has already provided you the entirety of the copywritten work and it exists on your computer in plain text (within markup). That they're choosing to do that is on them. I am lawfully accessing their website and how I interact with the local copy of data that they send me is 100% my business as long as I'm not redistributing it.
Permission to Break Production
Somewhat off topic:

Does anybody have an IDE solution that offers auto-completion in multiple languages in the SAME notebook? For example, I'm currently using Jupyter Notebooks in DataSpell primarily in Python, but for a few cells I'll use R (using rpy2) and the R code doesn't do autocorrection.
Not to mention that the audience is very different between friends at a party and on Twitter. Twitter, and social media, is far more reaching and lots of context and intent may be lost as we cross many different cultural lines and play the game of telephone. Your friends are far more likely to be good faith actors, but even there we can see how a singular bad actor can quickly ruin a situation. I'd argue that there's parallels to not just jokes but any types of communication (science, tech, political, etc) and attraction. (Though people are also able to successfully carve out bubbles and find a very specific audience but at the same time very large. Both can be true. Sometimes the hate can amplify these bubbles. Not so simple)
> If the building sits empty, the value of the building, and therefore the company, will drop.

No, this is not how commerical real estate is valued.
Of course there are limits, but new processes can be invented, it's just history. Electric cars are much more efficient than ICE ones.
First civilian jet engine designs could be efficient up to a point, then they changed designs. Laser uranium enrichment is so much more efficient that USA classified it [1]. Transformers training is more efficient.
And so on...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_lase...
I don't understand most of the negative comments in this thread along the lines of "if my company would require I use Teams I'd quite on the spot". Really? an IM client is what's going to make you quit? I always thought it was amusing that old developers were super anal about vim vs emacs and saw it as a tongue in cheek but now I realize most of those people are really serious and take these things quite emotionally...
Canada Q&A about object shoot-down
The problem with this lately has been sharp declines causing people to hit the IRS limit, which is based on the FMV on the initial offering date, and thus end up not being able to purchase as much as they expected. So the effective return on the money they set aside is way lower, and they could have paused contributions to put that money to work elsewhere.

Example:
Stock @ $100 on the offering date and you are able to contribute $10,000 for 6 months.
Stock dips to $25 on the purchase date.
With the IRS Limit of $25k, you are only able to purchase 250 shares max ($25k/$100). Thus with a 15% discount on $25, you'd only be able to buy $5312 worth (250 * 21.25) and get a refund of $4688. In total of cash and stock, you'd have $10,938, which is still a gain, but only half the gain you expected.

Obviously, this is somewhat of an extreme example, but not wholly unprecedented in the current markets. And as stock prices remain low, the IRS limit isn't as far away as you'd expect for some stocks.
That's a good thing. Don't stress about it.

Listen to yourself in terms of why you believe you're not functioning like you think you should.

I have about 3 to 4 hours a day, twice a week, of top-level cognitive bandwidth.

That's it. The rest is idle to a degree where I can do shit for brains work and help others.

But really heavy load work takes its toll and also takes a lot of mental capacity if the domain i work on is complex, relatively to what just accomplished. Hence context switching is hard.

One practical thing is to write a journal with the things you speculate about. Just sentences. Write it down and continue. Write. Continue.

It's a good way to have that kind of valve.
The source of the 260 thousand killed is unknown and a century after the event, according to the same Wikipedia article, but Antioch also had a Circus, built during the time of Augustus, that could host 80 thousand spectators.
> actual, physical burnout

As with all mental health issues, there is no clear line between "fake" and "actual, physical". It's a spectrum. Even small amounts of stress and boredom create physical responses.

I have Bipolar disorder and I will happily admit that anyone can suffer depression & mania symptoms, and that the difference between what they suffer and I suffer is one of magnitude and not one of categorical difference.

The article author sounded a little bit burned out. You were/are severely burned out. Is there something wrong with saying it like that?

Unrelated, read both of these statements and tell me you don't see irony:

> Be far less sensitive.

> Also, perhaps you should try to experience burnout before a needlessly pedantic out-of-nowhere virtue signal