skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That stability comes in a dead trees tome

No such "dead trees tome" exists. ISO will explicitly point out that what you're spending an eye-watering sum of money on is just a PDF.

Some of the National Bodies will tell you that you can buy this document on paper, but what they're actually doing is contracting out to a local Print On Demand service which either didn't tell them it has a document size limit or they didn't listen.

If you splash out anyway eventually what you'll get in the post, instead of your imaginary tome is a CD with the PDF on it.

> that everyone should certify their compilers against.

Try for a moment to imagine that all the GCC and Clang volunteers own legal copies of the actual ISO document. Now, stop laughing and read. Nobody cares about the actual document, in 1998 there really were academic libraries who bought C++ 98, and they might still have C++ 98, but that's a 25 year old document. Today those libraries would tell an interested user, "I'm pretty sure this is online, go away and search" and they'd be correct.

Because it's a PDF not a paper document, ISO C++ is a moving target, what's stable about that?

One of the few things about C++ that I unambiguously admire is std::format() introduced in C++ 20 -- but actually the most important feature of std::format() wasn't in the published C++ 20 ISO document, it's an erratum, pasted in much later because it's obviously needed.
Interesting point; yeah, I agree that a significant population does not have the ability to move around. If I understand you correctly, you’re saying that in a world where all sales tax is zero, the wealthier population will be able to arbitrage/optimize over the remaining tax types they pay more easily than those less wealthy, resulting in a larger wealth gap. This argument could also apply inductively in a sense over those remaining types as well, since the optimization problem gets easier as we have fewer dimensions of tax types to worry about. What I’m thinking then is the improvement here isn’t to remove taxes entirely but to remove flat taxes like sales tax and replace them with more/varying progressive taxes that make arbitrage difficult?

I hope I’m not coming off as rude—really appreciate the discussion thus far!
How do you know this given that we don't have accurate aggregate data on this?
The military program is suspended. Someone I've heard of managed to get through that but it's not currently running.
LLMs are an interim thing. It's not that efficient to type everything. Next iteration of code helpers will have some sort of screen reader/callback functionality so you can say 'I want code to do X, but what about Y (highlighting Y with a mouse in a dataset or plot).
> immediately screaming "EVERYONE WITH A GUN SHOOT THAT MAN".

They were at a theatre enjoying a show with the President of the US present, why would anyone have a gun on them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame:_Singularity

The game explains it better than I can.
Tossing the link for the pdf into the wayback machine will pull up earlier versions of the complete file.
Valve was never actually flat, they always had a corporate wing setting payscales and directing the company. It's a common misconception, partly brought about by their recruitment marketing.
Who are this powerful sorcerers that implement those network features? It’s one thing to figure out how to do that, but there must’ve been somebody who crafted all those components first. Truly impressed.
It’s fun to think about a few billion weights being the difference between useless and gold.
One of the required classes for CS degree was Assembly Language. Nobody taking or teaching the class pretended there would be a great need for this language in a job setting. But that wasn't the point of this class.
let them cheat. every assignment let them know that in the end they are only hurting themselves. the ones that want to learn, won't cheat. simple as that. and that ones that cheat and leverage it, great. hope that works out in the future at your next destination. all you can ever do is present the facts. there is no point wasting time trying to catch this.
Black Sails is a forgotten gem of a show!
Entire feature tickets with one single commit drive me batty.
That's not what the study says at all.
I don’t think that’s true, but if any actually are, I’m happy to help for a moderate fee plus costs.

What I see though are governments which oppress their people to the point of illness, the way abused animals stop procreating — and then rather than confront that behavior in themselves, buy replacements they subsequently abuse the same way.
It walks exactly like any other frogfish in the family Antennariidae.

Updated: In fact is in a related but different family Brachionichthyidae. An endemism, endangered and interesting but, apart of this, is a typical member of the order Lophiiformes.
I think this could be different depending of the country. In Spain the most popular engines in premium cars in the 90s were the 2.0L and the 2.5L turbo Diesel, and lots of compacts and mid-sized sedans, specially at the late 90s, were sold with 1.8L to 2.2L engines (Peugeot 205, Citroën Xsara, Renault Clio, Opel Corsa).

At the early 2000s, about 90% of the cars sold were Diesel IIRC. We always care a lot in terms of economy where buying a car, and with a Diesel oil cheaper than gas, and Diesel cars that had more mileage than petrol ones, there's the reason.
Schools haven't been focused on rote learning for eons. I don't know where you get that idea from.
Well, one of the big reasons for that in the netherlands is they don't build places to live. Take a look at the satellite view of amsterdam. Huge cycling town, you'd expect everything within a 5 or 10 mile radius of the central rail station to be built up pretty well to maximize the bikeshed, right? Nope. Medieval low rise apartments that are illegal to replace, and protected agricultural lands within 5 miles just to rub salt on the wound that the farmer's tractors harvesting crops for export in zunderdorp have better transit access than you, a rent burdoned low income worker central to the amsterdam economy.
If the police are breaking the law then that's another issues. The TVPA gives visas to human trafficking victims and VAWA gives you residency for saying the magic words that your lover/pimp/whatever has abused you.
I grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s and have a phenomenal memory. My dad used to tell me how valuable it would be once I grew up and got a job. It’s so funny how false that ended up being.

It’s much more beneficial socially because I can recall jokes that fit situations incredibly quickly and get a good laugh.
You present a view preposterously one-sided.

The FDA fines and sues companies not following the rules. They set a floor for behavior and mitigate frivolous lawsuits. This help companies and society, this is better for both. This isn't a pie we are dividing, this is complex system we are building together.

The current system isn't perfect but things are clearly better with than without. Businesses know what they can and can't be sued for and overall less bad shit happens to the populace. It isn't like I have the ability to sue people dumping CO2 into the air. Because lawsuits need more than someone polluting, they need someone to break a rule or cause direct harm and for the victim to know who to sue and have money to do it with

We could theoretically make these systems better by making the rules better and sometimes we even do.
Sounds like the writer of the software is equally at fault, and the sysadmin could have been more creative.

I see no reason why the data collection can't be managed by a highly portable console app running inside a VM or dos emulator or the legacy PC can't be kept behind a firewall that only lets data out.
Perhaps to teach programming at the university level we will need to better mimic real world software development. I always found the 300-line assignments to be a poor practice for the real job where you have 100k LOC legacy systems.

We should work backwards from "what skills should students learn".

Maybe we need to make larger assignments that need to pass larger acceptance tests. Students who chose to use chat gpt will also need to learn the skills necessary to debug its output.
When Peak oil happens, if we don't have a replacement fuel (which we don't currently), then it won't be long time, it will be forever.
Sorry, I didn't realize that there was a timing issue.
It’s funny how many contributions to classic records are uncredited, eg. the opening riff of My Girl.
I do find it amusing how much of a hard stop just making the directory with a readme for a new project is. Heaven help me if I need to care about dependencies.
Agree - it never feels native, even on a very powerful PC.
The early engineers would be paid in a lot of equity, not the tiny fractions of a percent that you get at startups these days, so if you're willing to take a risk, it could be a good deal.
I didn't take anything personally. IMO your implication that I did just feels like another attempt to straw-man PM's.

Trust me, we deal with so much psuedo-emotional garbage every day that stuff like this just slides off our backs.

My point is that you obviously don't actually understand what a PM's job is, so you probably shouldn't be telling everyone what they can and cannot do.

As a PM I've been the one that's lead some of the largest and most successful innovation focused initiatives that the companies I've worked at have ever delivered. In some cased delivering revenue uplifts totaling 20-30% of the companies entire income.

Engineers don't have a monopoly on innovation. Innovation is what happens when a great solution is paired with a nasty problem. For at least one half of that calculus, most companies need good PM's.
I can think of a couple reasons:

Excavating that magnitude of gold is certainly no small squeeze on the average paycheck. Additionally, the questions from the regulatory agencies when 7t of gold shows up on the market is certainly something worth considering. Finally, the security of keeping the whole operation under wraps while you excavate any of this yourself? Headaches upon headaches.
Petals doesn't train new models, it only runs BLOOM in a distributed way.
The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism
People are going to use it, so telling them not to doesn't work. You can demonstrate the proper way to use it, and caveats of using it directly without any thought, but you need to explain how to analyze code, and how to check that it's doing what you think it's doing. Also remind them that it won't come up with new ways to solve a problem - it's trained on how people solved problems in the past, but not all the possible ways to solve a problem. The best students probably wouldn't use it, and wouldn't need to, or they will use it, but know when it's giving an inefficient or insufficient response. Either way, you can't stop it, so learn to harness it.
Sure but if you allow it aren’t you facilitating a potentially unfair (or unreliable) baseline?
Do you accept change in cash? Have you ever used your phone while on the toilet? Do you keep your toothbrush unsealed in the same room as your toilet?
I took it as the focus being on using LLMs to enhance critical thinking (like using calculators in higher math classes). That would be taking the output of these systems and use critical thinking in order to examine the material, feeding it rewrites, as well as using editorial skills to see what goes in the final assignment. I see no problem in that.

However, upon rereading the article, it does seem to say that the focus was on using the tool and prompt engineering rather than using it as a tool for extending students' own cognition.
We might add a signals-like primitive to React
Be prepared for a long haul, some of us without degrees are still looking a year later, despite having a decade of experience doing the role.

About the only offers I've gotten are a systems architect role starting at 50k, where they then come back on the second interview and say its 30k since I'm not qualified since I don't have a degree. Take it or leave it.

I have a decade of direct experience doing this work and have set up hundreds of clients with cloud or hybrid depending on regulatory requirements. 50k was low for that work, but now 30?

Bunch of scumbags out there.
Quite a few successful web3 companies are decentralized anonymous organizations (DAOs) which are essentially co-ops with more automation and anonymity.
I, like clearly a lot of others :-), resonate with this form. For me step 2 is walking. Taking a walk for a couple of miles around the neighborhood is "just boring enough" to trigger this background processing phase.
I think you can find a lot of unreasonable ones out there, but at its core the idea of not taking a company's trade secrets to a competitor is a reasonable thing to agree on. It turns into a bad thing when companies abuse their bargaining power to stop you from working on totally unrelated projects in your personal time, or when they stop people from practicing their profession for a period of time after they part ways with no compensation for lost income.

In industries where they really care about trade secrets but are also dealing with people who know how to negotiate, you see a lot of contracts where you get paid your full salary for say a year to sit at home and do nothing, as compensation for not working for a competitor during that time.
How did you work there for 13 years and not realize that Microsoft “PM” was neither product nor project, but “Program”?

It was a hybrid role that every org did differently, and it was confusing to everyone and made it hard to separate product focus from execution focus.

Last year they split the roles into Product Manager and Technical Program Manager (TPM), and PM’s had to elect which role/title/path to choose.

This is at least true for the Experiences and Devices and Cloud and AI orgs.

Source: work there now, have been there 6 years.
> Eliminate the need to manage and inject API tokens into containers and servers and instead authorize containers and servers to perform those operations.

What does this look like in practice? Can someone provide example scenarios that this is describing?
Strong disagreement!

Software is the high paying industry with the least gatekeeping I'm aware of.

I never got around to finish my degree. Neither did Bill Gates. I've worked with highschool dropouts and Harvard graduates. And by and large, nobody cares!
I'm browsing the Marriot site right now and the hotels that are classified as a "resort" [1] all have a resort fee attached, in addition to the sticker price, after I select my room.

That's the default behavior, but a point in Marriot's favor is that you can at least select a checkbox to include taxes & fees in the quoted price. However it then bundles them together and I still can't see how much is required taxes and how much is the hotel's resort fee. I can only see that breakdown once I actually select my room.

[1] https://www.marriott.com/travel-experience/resort-hotels/
that's one thing I genuinely admire Microsoft for - the effort they put into maintenance
You’re reiterating a point I acknowledged. There are subtleties you’re ignoring.

Our conscious experience is in fact a unique phenomenon because it is all perceivable phenomenon.

You can create as many self reflective machines as you like and experiment on them and compare them to output from humans, and maybe you’ll learn things, but you can’t ever get to looking at consciousness at all. There is no indirect or direct data you can use to compare all of your experience to something that sits inside a fraction of it.

What you’re talking about are behavioral experiments comparing the reported thoughts and actions of separate acknowledged conscious actors, ie other people, to the internal states and outputs of machines.

You’re not looking at consciousness when you do that. Looking at consciousness requires looking at all experience. Which is fundamentally impossible. When you try to look at all of experience as a single object to study nothing is differentiated. There is zero information.
We've tightened the security around major US politicians, and especially the President, a ton over the 20th century, especially. It's even increased a bunch since e.g. the 1950s.

Anyone could just walk onto the White House grounds without challenge for a really long time, for example.
This Axios "article" does not mention the actual cases[1][2], so I'm left to trust that the two people in the by-line actually know what they're talking about. In case you don't like making those sorts of assumptions, here's the summary from scotusblog on the two cases. Oral argument is 21-22 FEB.

>Issue: Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes interactive computer services when they make targeted recommendations of information provided by another information content provider, or only limits the liability of interactive computer services when they engage in traditional editorial functions (such as deciding whether to display or withdraw) with regard to such information.

>Issues: (1) Whether a defendant that provides generic, widely available services to all its numerous users and “regularly” works to detect and prevent terrorists from using those services “knowingly” provided substantial assistance under 18 U.S.C. § 2333 merely because it allegedly could have taken more “meaningful” or “aggressive” action to prevent such use; and (2) whether a defendant whose generic, widely available services were not used in connection with the specific “act of international terrorism” that injured the plaintiff may be liable for aiding and abetting under Section 2333.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/gonzalez-v-googl...

[2] https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/twitter-inc-v-ta...
The OS needs a browser engine for its WebView, which many apps etc rely on.

On non Google Android releases these can pretty easily be swapped.

Possibly on Google Android as well.
Perhaps a virtual machine running windows with the compatible version of IE just for this purpose would be a good option. Take snapshots after it's setup correctly so any sneaky update shenanigans MS pulls can be reverted.
do/did you seriously think that the processing requirement was going to “kill” that possibility?

the history of computing clearly indicates that either the requirements for running or the bar for owning this technology was always going to drop
They have too many nimbys that make housing expensive and squander their transit infrastructure. places like zunderdorp or ransdorp or really that whole area outside the a10 in amsterdam are ripe opportunities for housing that is perfectly bikeable to a whole lot of transit, currently being used for agriculture like it has been for the last millenia, and at this rate will continue to be used for that for the next millenia. Then that leaves you with adding housing in town to match job growth demand, seems logical right? But you can't because of height limit ordinances prevent adding any meaningful housing supply even if you were allowed to take down a historic building. This leaves you with the inevitable end result we have today, of Amsterdam being one of the most expensive places to live in Europe.
Additionally, as a PM, I hear unexpected things from my engineering teams to and they very often change the course of an initiative we're running.

A PM is an Air Traffic Controller - not a dictator.
I find the subtle animations incredibly distracting. I can't read this as an adult.
Yes, it does although we seem to be coming at this from different perspectives.

The C++ language spec is just vast. There are many footguns when doing apparently safe things. Different code bases use different subsets of the language. It is immensely powerful.

C, by contrast, is just a much simpler language than C++. I'm not entirely sure what you are disagreeing with.
I for one am completely uninterested in AI-generated "art" (including writing, music, etc) because of the lack of a human who is communicating something. I'm concerned it will be increasingly difficult to tell what is worth my while.
At a very high level yes. There is also the very important step of efficiently laying out data in the GPU memory to compute tensor values in the kernels.
Are you paying month to month or yearly? I don't know if you can rely on that storage being available. See below.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-to-your-g-suite-u...
> In fact chatGPT doesn't really change the landscape that much. All it does is democratising contract cheating

But generative AI will remain a workhorse even after graduation.
It seems ChatGPT should be treated the same way institutions treat plagiarism. It's fine to use LLMs for inspiration but the work you submit must be meaningfully your own.

Of course it's not perfect, it never will be. But ultimately it's the student that suffers when they plagiarize. Professors ought have this conversation with students at the same times they're discussing the value of learning & education. I suspect we'll build tools that match answers against the text that LLMs spit out and that will make it easy for people to detect when answers are being pasted verbatim from LLMs.

The other broader spicier thought that comes to mind is that LLMs may push the Overton Window for what's considered entry level and that's probably ultimately good tough it won't be without some sacrifice. This would mean CS departments potentially need to do a curriculum iteration to accommodate. Perhaps there are new, slightly more sophisticated, entry level problems that can be tackled where the commodity solutions haven't yet been entombed in LLMs. Maybe assessments will shift to be less about regurgitating the solution to a common problem and instead to fixing problems with some localized toy implementation or some fictitious API that LLMs won't know about.
Nope. I definitely do kill hours at a time with people from work or people I never talked with. :D

My team has weekly happy-hours which are obviously after hours (I honestly thought every team did it!), my landlady often invites us tenants a monthly dinner that goes into the night, I attend random Meetups and just stay for several hours chatting, I participate in our co-working space "parties" and stay until late with people I never seen. Heck, yesterday I went to a restaurant with my (recent) language class and we stayed until 2AM.

Of course you can claim "this is not really hanging out, this is other stuff". I hate cigarettes and don't have a garage, but I guess drinking and random location is equivalent, as long as we chat for hours, so why not?

But I definitely do not consider "chatting while picking up the mail" as hanging out. Not even in the same ballpark.

In Germany we have a thing called "Men's day" where we get a cart of beer and go to the middle of the forest just to do nothing at all for a whole day. Now THIS is what I call hanging out. I wonder if the culture is where the disconnect is coming from.

EDIT: Although honestly pretty much every other country I lived in my life had a similar culture and... it was the rule as far as I could tell.

EDIT 2: I also don't think you're a sociopath! Far from it! I just think you're someone who doesn't enjoy long aimless chats with unknown people.
Nintendo Fanboy Visits the Newly Opened Super Nintendo World Theme Park
This Vice article is one of the clearest examples of content marketing I've ever seen.
> other than taxes and fees imposed by a government

IMO, taxes need to be part of the advertised price.

Part of the reason we tolerate hidden fees in the US is because we're used to paying more than the sticker price for something because it doesn't include taxes (and tip.)

If I lived in CA, I'd contact my reps and ask them to redo the bill to also include taxes and tips. It's not right to eliminate some kinds of hidden fees while still keeping government hidden fees.
Great analogy, never thought of it this way.