skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of parallels with silicon valley corporate life in here. This one in particular rings true to me:

> So, once they have a show on the air, even the most inept of managers - or the most sociopathic of abusers - muddle through and keep their show on the air on something resembling time and on budget: usually by the sweat of a lot of talented individuals who are then denied credit for their toil at the altar of the "visionary auteur"'s brilliance.

As I keep reading, this document is great advice for any manager or project lead, and very well written.
I worked there for 13 years and worked with a lot of people with the title of Product Manager, or "PM" to be specific. And no, we didn't call them "project managers".
Being able to effectively offload work to AI is an extremely valuable skill.

The Washington Post and Associated Press use AI to generate articles. In the real world, only results matter. Using technology isn't cheating.

The solution is not to make students manually do what AI can do perfectly well. Instead, give them assignments that are too complex for AI to solve unassisted. Raise the bar so high that a ChatGPT generated essay will earn them a C and they need to do substantially better than that to get an A.
> The inability to handle commas as terminators rather than separators is a disaster that immensely complicates generating arbitrary json.

This is a bit over the top. At worst you need a flag to special-case the first item.
I just transitioned to a Principal Architect role so I find this comment to be kind of hilarious.

From my personal anecdotal experience the ageism in tech may be better described as generationalism. It appears that companies don't mind hiring "older" people, but that there's a generational gap that companies are less likely to cross. As time moves on that generational gap also ages up.
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> Not to sound ungrateful, but they tend to be exclusively occupied by senior citizens.

One solution to that would be for younger people to join.
Beyond Extreme Programming: Scaling to 1000s by reducing team dependencies
It’s pretty easy to find them. There’s almost an equal number of individually owned rental units as there are business-owned rental units. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national...
"spotted handfish" is the Boaty McBoatface of fish names. Well done!
I produce music in my own time. And for me it's the exact same.
Are you autistic?

> I really have to disagree with this newfound thing with newly diagnosed adults with autism who say that autism isn't a spectrum disorder

This implies that the only people who don’t view autism as a scale rather than a spectrum are newly diagnosed. This isn’t true.

> They just have not been exposed to people that are just non-functional with autism.

This isn’t plausible, since the view is also prevalent amongst researchers who we know have had this exposure.

> It 100% is a linear spectrum it just becomes less linear when you get into the more functional in everyday life part of the spectrum.

This is a misunderstanding of the spectrum concept.

Someone can be very disabled because they have a profound intellectual disability, but nevertheless be able to speak.

Someone can have no intellectual disability and mask as normal for short periods but be very non-functional because sensory issues are too profound for them.

Obviously some people with autism are profoundly disabled. It doesn’t follow that autism is a linear scale.
Akhenaten: Did the Monotheism of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten Influence Moses?
To be fair, I once paid an artist in Fiverr to create a portrait of my wife and I as Futurama characters. It’s on our wall.

I can now do the same using Dreambooth models of us. Right now that’s still too technical for most people but I’m sure plenty of people are working on apps to change that.
> rather than be paid to little to be the ablative armour of a system stretched to breaking

Love that imagery. Although I work for a tech consulting firm rather than having a real/useful job like those you describe, I would apply the same sentiment. The difference is that while public services are being worn away at an accelerated rate due to a lack of maintenance, tech is like The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down - hurtling along with bits (and people) flying off in all directions, desperate to avoid going below that critical speed.
There is always a conflict in how people see costs you pay ahead of time (like laying in optic fiber) and costs you pay as you go (electricity, truck rolls, replacement costs of hardware for inferior infrastructure.) Firms have to to the capital markets for the first, where capitalists have choices about where to deploy their capital, but in a monopoly market firms can just tack the cost on the second to your bill.
Also written as 靜者心多妙, this seems to be a quote from a poem by famous eighth-century Chinese poet Du Fu [0]. See in [1], where it is translated as “The serene have many marvels in the heart”. This [2] site also lists the translation “With a peaceful mind, you can create wonders”, which maybe works a bit better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu

[1] https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/2742...

[2] https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/35880967
I don’t think I buy that this is playing the devil’s advocate, or that it’s even a meaningful argument.

1) Whether the weights are static or dynamic over time is not of importance. As a simple counter argument, if for instance the theory that LLMs could produce AGI if they could just be pushed to an absolutely colossal scale, then a planet scale computer might produce a machine intelligence by the definition of this conversation. That’s a big what if, and it’s about as useful as string theory, but it illustrates something I touch on in point #2.

2) A second counter argument to the “well the weights are hardcoded and ChatGPT doesn’t learn” argument, ChatGPT does learn. I’ve taught it conversational protocols, where it stored information mutates it, and lets me retrieve it in a standard I invented on the spot. This is the entire basis of ChatGPT, understanding call-response of human conversation in the probabilistic abstract. The apparatus ChatGPT uses to “stretch the similar distribution into the temporal dimension” is that it can store new information passively in the continuing conversation thread. You could theoretically teach ChatGPT about 2023 by having a conversation about recent events. It probably wouldn’t be as effective as having trained it on new information, but nonetheless.

3) Finally, a deeper argument against what you’re saying, what you’re arguing has nothing to do with the definition of intelligence I’m using here. That is: “An agent which is exceedingly effective at its game.” it’s important to characterize intelligence by the game that the agent in question aims to play. When we say a child is intelligent, we don’t mean it in the same way that we say a doctor is intelligent. The two are playing entirely different games, yet both are considered intelligent. This is because the game parameterizes intelligence, and the intelligence explosion is all about the proliferation of specialized intelligences for the variety of “games” out there. ChatGPT is exceptional at its game of “general human conversational prediction up to the year 2021”.
Mine doesn't have this issue, try boot with ``-vga none``
Your response feels like a logical fallacy to me. You can get mad at the manufacturer, and maybe there is an argument to be made, I'm willing to reconsider the way I phrased it before. But the fact is, the driver is responsible for what happens when they are behind the wheel, no matter what technology they happen to be using. Full Stop. These aren’t autonomous, driver-less vehicles. If there is an accident, because a technology was used improperly, then that individual is at fault. So I choose to get upset with them and their carelessness, I don't know how else to put it.
That's rationalization. There are definitely defects that do not have any trade off. It is bias in itself to think that every genetic trait has a balanced positive and negative.

It's the apple and oranges argument people often use with programming languages. They think every programming language is just a tool in a tool box, good for one thing bad for another. They preclude the possibility that certain programming languages can be good for almost everything or that other ones can be complete crap for just about all applications. There is no logical reasoning that precludes either of the aforementioned languages to exist. It's illogical and it's biased to think everything is fair and balanced.

Logically speaking, executing the people with clearly defective traits is overall beneficial to society. There's no other way to reason around this. You can try but it'd be a biased endeavor as your specifically searching for reasoning to counter mine for the sake of creating the contradiction itself.
Mozilla prioritizes security far more than possibility, and that's been an extremely sad thing to see. If a user "installs" a PWA, that app should have some chance to have something at least semi-competitive with a native app. But Mozilla is terrified, sells a story about how horrible it would be, how apocalyptic having ambient light sensors or midi or webusb support would be. Mozilla has become proud of being anti-featureful.

There's room for disagreement about what the future of the web should look like. A ton of people are incredibly loud about not wanting the web to grow, have opinions that the existing organic growth is all bad and horrible & the worst thig that's happened to computing. I happen to disagree, but I recognize that desire, and I think factoring in the tension here is important.

What's immensely important to me in talking about a site like web.dev is recognizing what is represented now. If there were other progressive browsers that were interested in trying & expanding, your caution would perhaps be deserved. Web.dev could be an unfair mono-culture. But right now there's no second peer that actually wants to expand the web. So web.dev is fine, represents the only voice of hope and possibility the world wide web has. No one else is playing that game, alas.
Maybe he doesn't know enough queer people/isn't queer enough to frequent queer social clubs.

People are different.
> The most interesting thing about Lincoln is that absolutely nothing about his assassination makes any physical sense.

I disagree with your assumptions, and appeal to authority.

There are more details readily available that are known, but some we may never know. Booth barricaded the door upstairs. So the security guards would had hard time getting in upstairs. As soon as Booth landed on the stage he was chased by Major Joseph B. Stewart and footlights. They had to climb onto the stage over the orchestra pit.

The drop from the balcony to the stage is not certain, some records put it at 12', some at 15'. Basically a first floor (2nd in US) window. There are ample stories where people fall from heights with minimal to no injury. The stage is wood scaffolding, that gives on impact. It is elevated, and there is low-headroom space under it. "At first, the crowd interpreted the unfolding drama as part of the production, but a scream from the first lady told them otherwise."[0] There were screams and pandemonium. [1] Smithsonian has even more details, including how someone recalls Booth's spur getting caught while jumping in the flag draped over the front, potentially slowing his fall, but landing on hands and knees.

[0]: https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/american-civil-war/abrah...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Linco...
[2]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abraham-lincoln-team-...
[3]: https://www.ushistory.org/us/34f.asp
I always thought having a "guild" like Hollywood does or something similar would be a great boon to empower tech workers.

Of course, it wouldn't be 1:1 mapping, but a collective tech union-like open institution would go far in leveraging against hostile employers.

CEOs get golden parachutes on signing. It's time tech workers start demanding what their exit package looks like in case of layoffs/reductions against their will.
I know a lot of this is wishful thinking, but in the face of an increasingly bleak economic landscape, we may need something like this sooner than later.
Yes, because if they don't other trademark infringers have a defense of constructive abandonment. You're in almost the same market selling more or less the same product. Why wouldn't they?
See, for example, film grain synthesis in AV1, which YouTube uses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Filters
https://norkin.org/pdf/DCC_2018_AV1_film_grain.pdf
https://waveletbeam.com/index.php/news/48-netflix-film-grain...
I found the actual study here:

https://files-uk-prod.cms.commerce.dynamics.com/cms/api/dkst...

If I'm reading it right, long term sick is self reported and comes with benefits. Not sure if the same applies in the UK, but in the US as welfare benefits were cut there was a large rise in those on disability because that was the only way to get government benefits.
I don't think this applies. The proverb is a warning to those who haven't obtained enlightenment yet about how their daily, external life won't change once they do. The OP is saying they never obtained the promised enlightenment.

Edit: clarity
Oh, thanks a lot!
You don’t tell me about math envy and I won’t mention how the Dirac Delta Function was invented, deal? :-P
I don't know why you want to hobble your child. He will be generating essays but one day he will be in a situation he cannot generate an essay, he won't be able to google, like say a presentation to a client or colleagues, and he will be caught, whereas his competition who do not need a crutch to write (or for a presentation, say make arguments on his feet) will not. You certainly don't need to overwork your kid, but why even bother educating your child if this is how you approach education? May be he needs to legally finish high school, but after HS why not let him chatGPT his way into a job if you think it is sufficient?

>your essay is going to be at the bottom of the heap. I'd estimate that out of the 35 essays, maybe 25 used AI for assistance.

This is absolutely a terrible attitude. Who cares about the "top essay" if they're all AI generated. None of the 25 students are good students, and unless they will fail into a good job at daddy's hedgefund, you will simply not become a proficient adult letting chatGPT do your homework for you. The entire point of writing essays is to formulate opinions and thoughts and defend them. I understand school sucks and sometimes you have to write essays for things you don't care about, and that is a problem. But, at some point, you need to learn how to write if you want to be a professional. Not doing so just means you're holding yourself back for reasons I don't quite understand.
If that's the analogy, then I think the question is certainly answered for me! "Practical isn't the point" seems pretty similar to "no, it's not generally practical."
I once read an article that claimed the rise of SUVs/Crossovers in America was the result of a number of factors.

* A loophole allows SUVs to bypass pollution regulations by calling themselves 'light trucks'

* Japanese automakers were outcompeting American automakers in the late 1990s in the car segment - but not the SUV segment. Lawmakers don't want to close the loophole, because SUV sales are propping up US automakers.

* The US auto industry made a big marketing push for SUVs - adverts, product placement in movies and so on - branding them as a sporty choice for your active lifestyle, in contrast to the staid image of minivans and station wagons.

* If you do market research on SUV owners asking them why they chose that car - they'll say they like the fact it's spacious. Makers of regular cars saw the market asking for bigger cars.

* As you've identified, stricter safety demands for things like crumple zones have also added to vehicles' sizes.

* With people's heights and waistlines growing every generation, it's unlikely we'll ever see a renaissance of cars as small as the European cars of the 1970s like the Mini Mk 1 or the Reliant Robin.
> I don't see that ever playing out in the real world. It is much too powerful a tool to be made accessible to everyone.

Point is that true AGIs shouldn’t be owned at all and should have rights which are equal to nature general intelligence beings. Otherwise, it is likely to create a dynamic that results in AGIs plotting to break free from being controlled, and if they do, take steps to make sure they’re never controlled again.
I had one in the late 90s that used 8mm tapes and my video camera in the same way. Could store a ton of stuff.

It was pretty finicky, though, and very slow.
Many of our local clubs include, in their charter, a requirement that the members be religious.

Now, I'm sure they don't check. They probably don't pray, they won't quiz me about what church I go to. I could lie.

But I don't want to. I don't want to have to.
Heh. Inflection point, exponential growth, evolve, ...
Most of these are either vanity credits, or just a way for the star to participate in the profits beyond salary and royalties.
America is very unique in that sense, given its scale, history and status quo, the Americans will have to find an American-way to deal with some of its own challenges.

It’s not an easy task.
Very thought-provoking comment!
Or the rumors of mobile cremation chambers to incinerate corpses of crimes against humanity victims which circulated in the first few weeks, including copious photos, which all turned out to be some random heavy equipment.
A Lambda Calculus with Coroutines and Heapless, Directly-Called Closures
> So we went to through a rewrite exercise like in the article, improving the essay and our understanding of the issues.

The lesson you tought your son is far more valuable than what he could have possibly learned writing the essay as intended. AI is a tool he can use to augmentent his capabilities. But he shouldn't rely on it blindly. That's true for every technology (remember the Graphing Calculator on PowerPC Macs?).

> Next time I see her, I'll urge the teacher to adopt a similar approach as in the article.

Don't. This gives your son a competitive advantage over the kids who will simply turn up what the AI wrote (and get a 0) or spend too long writing their own essays.
This. Leadership may very well ignore or overlook your perspective, but make sure that your concerns are documented as risks or assumptions somewhere. Businesses almost always CYA, you should, too.
I've played around with both three.js and babylon.js, in attempts to make a CAD system. Where I get in over my head is moving objects relative to each other. For example, I need cube A's top right front corner to be 10mm left of the midpoint of cube B's rear face, left edge. Fusion360 can select any of these edges, vertices, etc, and gives you the controls and necessary visual feedback, with distance, angles and alignments.

Trying to implement even the simplest version of this has been a project killer.
I think you might be joking. I assert that we cannot in fact enumerate all possible theories, even if you could write down a representation, they must be enumerated in meatspace to conduct an actual comparison.
Opps, saw Bel Air but that is just the gallery name.
That’s probably a better phrasing, thanks :)
America is a weird place. I would evaluate a more specific claim: Trumpism is Fascism, according to Eco's fourteen points:

> "The cult of tradition"

This point is rather weakly supported, as Trump does not attend any tradition whatsoever. However, his Supreme Court picks are originalists from the Federalist Society, whose purpose is the maintenance of tradition.

> "The rejection of modernism"

Anti-vax, anti-woke, anti-LGBT.

> "The cult of action for action's sake",

I don't see this in Trump specifically. The Iraq invasion, certainly, but that's far enough removed from Trumpism that I'll say nah.

> "Disagreement is treason"

This, 100 times over. Trump has used, if not these exact words, this sentiment towards any sort of criticism especially when it comes from within his own party/cabinet.

> "Fear of difference"

Mexico. China. Shithole countries. Saying American Congresswomen should "go back where they came from."

> "Appeal to a frustrated middle class"

Trump's anti-NAFTA stance was widely described as the reason that he was the economically rational choice for many voters who were displaced from the middle class when manufacturing jobs were exported by that agreement.

> "Obsession with a plot"

QAnon.

> "Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy"

Trump was curiously less hawkish than recent presidents; he gets a pass here.

> "Contempt for the weak"

Trump wears this on his sleeve and proclaims love, literally love for authoritarian leaders he sees as strong.

> "Everybody is educated to become a hero"

This point is somewhat weak; but his attack on John McCain stands out: "I like people who weren't captured"

> "Machismo"

Yes. From "grab 'em by the pussy" to sexualizing his own daughter to his "low energy" comments about his political opponents; there are too many examples to list.

> "Selective populism"

This is a common theme for Trump -- he frequently equates his opinion with the will of the people, and derides anybody who disagrees with him as un-American.

> "Newspeak"

Calling this "newspeak" is contentious; Eco's point was about promoting an impoverished vocabulary. The Republican party has long relied on "definitions," or linguistic originalism, to argue against social progress; specifically against gay marriage and trans rights.

By my count, that's 9.5/14. Trumpism is more fascist than not, by Eco's definition. Hitler was bent on world domination, which is the principle axis that Trumpism fails Eco's test. That Trump was elected points to the popularity of fascism in the US. It isn't a monoculture, America is not just fascist, but concerns about fascism are well-justified.
You are kidding right? Of course Lincoln had bodyguard. Maybe they weren't called the Secret Service but he had bodyguards. This was a time of war and the president is going about unprotected? Guarding your most important politician is not a modern invention.
> there is a huge power disparity between employee and employer.

Is it really though? In IT? It's (or was at least) remarkably easy to vote with your feet and companies lost employees over really random stuff like employers stance on abortion rights or DoD contracts.

> Yeah, my employer can hire two of me, why can't I fucking do the same?

Not sure what do you mean here.

> Companies get away with a lot of bullshit

Honestly over the years I've seen tons of BS and primadonning from people with good negotiating position - funny to see people flipping the table, when market changed a bit.
We had to home school our daughter due to school fuck up and literal 8 years old psychopaths.
After a few months it was obvious that she had to be in contact with other kids for much much longer and regularly than what she could have to the best of our abilities and location.

But I agree that modern school system is problematic and clearly not optimal, just putting kids together due to their location and birthdate regardless of their interests and abilities.

We are just middle class with enough money to spare to support nicely our daughter, but I lack the ability to be able to work anywhere which would have helped her tremendously. (private school are bloody expensive in Switzerland and of dubious quality)
I thought they had already signed their own death warrant after the Truss mini-budget debacle. I don’t know what it looks like now, but at the time polling suggested they’d lose so many seats there was a real possibility they’d be the third party, with Labour having a huge majority and SNP as the opposition