skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse, it is possible for the server to detect that you are doing that [1]. It could serve you malicious code when you "curl | bash" and then afterwards when you go to download a copy of the script to try to figure out what the heck it did the server could serve you benign code.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
Not really if you think about it more and research how llms work. If anything they will just get better.

I used to think the same but after reading and learning some more, I realized not.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2023%2F0...
It would be cool if I could touch the title and get more info. Anyone know of a startup doing something like that?
Think of an army, where the generals are making decisions based on outdated reconnaissance reports and commanding the troops on the ground to behave in ways that no longer fit the situation.

Switching to OODA would allow the troops in the field to make live observations and (to a reasonable extent) orient, decide, and act on thir own.
By "value" I mean "the nebulous value we as a species derive from art" not necessarily economic value.

Regarding cave paintings: You couldn't make new cave paintings even if you wanted to. We don't value the lines on the cave wall. We value the leap in human cognition. We value the evidence that humans advanced from the primitive animal mind to become an abstract thinker. And, based on how things have developed, I think we can conclude thinking symbolically and in the abstract was a pretty good idea! It's likely that contemporaries to cave painters had their minds absolutely blown by the first use of symbols. Cave paintings are high values now, but were probably also high value when they were created.
>They're optimizing for being the first google result for "how to do X in Y language. They're not optimizing for being the best place for an individual to ask "hot to do X in Y language."

Great! And the answer to that question being "we didn't allow anyone to answer it, good bye", it's a pretty awful goal.
My recollection of history is that 230 popped out of the need to protect ISPs (which were originally smaller businesses) from someone doing something illegal through their servers. Until then, if I recall correctly (and it's entirely probable I don't), then even things like forfeiture laws could come into play. You're a mom and pop ISP, you host some websites on pizza box Sparc servers, and suddenly the FBI is scooping it up while busting and internet crime ring. I don't think Google should be held liable if I put up something illegal.

But I don't see how you can argue the algorithm is entirely neutral, if the algorithm is to drive engagement. The algorithm is not recommending a random video with 'cooking' in its description. It's going from 'cooking', to 'eat more vegetables', to 'have you considered vegetarianism,' eventually to 'vegan purity must be maintained - meat eaters must die' and 'we gloriously behead a poultry farmer.' At some point, when you're making decisions about what to recommend, you're no longer just passively hosting content.

Even if the algorithm wasn't intentionally written to turn people into a radical vegetablists, at some point it shouldn't matter. And (again, my recollection) Google didn't jump up and say "Gadzooks! You're right! We shall cease immediately for we are not evil (despite our handle-bar mustaches)" They, and other social content companies, fought the changes. So it's not as if they were ignorant of what they were doing.

Meh - I think some of the other posters are right - they'll kick it down the road and hope it goes away.
> And btw the stock that AMZN was giving to the employees was coming out of thin air. Not from buybacks. So they were compensating people with dilution ?

All employee compensation is (minuscule) dilution. Don't worry about it too much.
Can you explain further for the lay person?
What about HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 do you see poses large latency problems? Both of those do away with HTTP HOL blocking (not TCP HOL blocking) and allow parallel streams. Homa proposes introducing a transport level protocol with request/response semantics specifically to accommodate protocols like HTTP which operate using requests and responses.
Sure, but even if stock was 100% of their comp, and the stock went down 35%, they're only down 35% -- not 50%. That's the point GP is making.
One would have to imagine they'll be cut down ports suited to the hardware ala Nintendo ports of yore, but their verbiage of "content and feature parity" implies otherwise. I am kind of curious.
That's what advisers are for. If anything, having definitive term limits gives former representatives an alternative career path in this form as well.
It's in a big, glowing box, in Sergei Brin's basement.
> break everything up into smaller chunks. It gives you clearly defined guardrails

This is only true if management respects the estimates. In my experience, they do not understand why Fibonacci or t-shirt sizing, etc. are used. They mentally convert the points to some "X days" and then beat you in the head with it. They want to micromanage and they do not understand they are building software. You can't break certain tasks down further and you can't parallelize many tasks. You can bring up Fred Brooks but it's a hopeless cause. They will never get it. Then as you inch towards their arbitrary deadline (that they tell no one, by the way, because it's better the developers don't know about deadlines until the last fucking minute because "agile" and not "waterfall") they suddenly act shocked that 9 women really can't make a baby in one month.

But I digress.
Yeah, it's a deceptive headline. In the article it says "For those who have been with the online behemoth the longest, up to 50% of their total income is balanced on market outcomes."

So if it goes to zero. Though presumably people would lose their salary then too.
Not for Supreme Court justices you don't.
I know that Japan has a separate industrial zoning category for things like that.

In most of the developed world stuff like this often ends up the east side of town, because in the northern hemisphere prevailing winds usually come from the west. Poor people often end up on the east side of towns for the same reason.
Nah it just takes a few minutes. Solid entertainment, costs nothing.
What else would you remove? If it's just extensions, can you just not install them?
As with most bad things, the question isn't "ads vs no ads", it's "greed vs no greed".

A website placing a well intended ad and being respectful of your experience and attention is fine.

Dark patterns and Casual evil are not.
https://archive.is/Wgxug (non-paywall)
Citation needed. A lot of neural-net based AIs actually get better when trained on their own output[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
>But I don't see how you can argue the algorithm is entirely neutral, if the algorithm is to drive engagement.

Section 230 doesn't require that platforms be neutral.
I believe they already model based on the question-response content being generated today.
Amazon actually tells employees that they have a "total compensation" philosophy, which means that when the value of unvested shares increases then Amazon will take that into account when issuing new grants (ex: as part of the performance review and compensation process).

For example, if Amazon thinks you should be paid $250k per year and your total comp for the next year is at $300k based on the value of your granted but not yet vested stock awards, then Amazon will not award anymore stock awards to vest in that year. This is different from most other companies that usually just give you a stock award with a standard vest schedule (ex: 25% vest over 4 years).

Amazon has justified this buy telling employees that if the stock drops below your TC target, then they'll award more shares to make you whole. So the question is are employees going to be down from their TC target, or from an inflated compensation number from during the pandemic when many employees were likely making more than their TC targets.

At least this was how it worked when I was employed at Amazon in around 2017.
> meaning many people will be underwater.

Overall interesting overview of how amazon specific details combine right now, but I don't think "underwater" is the right term here - in normal usage that refers to an asset that has become worth less than what is currently owed on it, e.g. by selling it you lose money. I can't see how that applies here, did I miss something? Surely you still come out ahead, just not as much as you thought you would?

Assuming that is the case, it's really two separate problems - one is people assuming continuous performance and baking those assumptions in, the other is weird distortions in employee comp that happen when those assumptions prove not to be true.

I doubt people have too much sympathy for the former, it's classic counting your chickens before they hatch. But the latter is a real workplace problem, and not easy to fix.
All those holes have to impact how people grip the ball, right? And air drag will be different as well.
Raised environment?
If you don't install any addons, you'll be fine. You'll have to do without uBlock Origin and other ad blockers, though. Consider Brave if you still want those and want to stick to Chromium.

In Firefox, you can go to about:config and set the default permission to deny to a lot of stuff (notifications, clipboard, etc.). You can also disable webgl and other features like those.
This is something a lot of people forget. Among tech folks the narrative was always "Chrome won because it was faster", but in the real world most people got Chrome for the first time because they installed a Java or Flash update and Google paid for Chrome to automatically be installed and instantly set itself as the default browser (this is literally how I got Chrome installed for the first time, against my will, via a Flash update).
Right, it's complete hearsay. Look, I could say Comcast is lax about piracy right here. Am I telling the truth? Am I even a Comcast customer? It's total BS.
I remember being taught the concept of "critical mass" a long time ago in uni which is at the core of every social media problem.
100%, tableau sucks
The article claims:

> The past two years have not been as rosy for Amazon’s stock price. It fell 2.3% in 2021 and a whopping 49.5% last year.

This explains the headline. I guess that the figures depend on the specific dates you pick?
When companies migrate back to colo/on-prem from cloud are they disabling CPU vuln mitigations for non public facing servers?
On some server generations the performance uplift is huge.
YMMV, but I've never been successful doing this, and the compensation available in salary + stock (modulo some expected risk) has always greatly exceeded cash-only compensation.
And when do the announcements come from Bain and BCG as well, as if this isn't due to market conditions, it's due to their specific network being edged out.

I'd wonder if it signals a shift in consulting in general, as a big part of their value prop was you became part of the network when you hired them, but for some reason McKinsey is letting on that they are short those relationships.

When the smart money with as insider knowledge as it gets radically hedges the success and growth of their customers, that sounds like an economic leading indicator.
So now there is zero pretense about OpenAI being any kind of altruistic force for good.
It isn’t clear to me that social media is a winner take all economy given the multitude of social media sites out there.
They didn't interview a single teen in this article? Every single perspective is that of the parents or a psychologist.
Europe is actually "net expensive" because there are high payroll taxes in some countries, and then, of course, in some countries it is virtually impossible to fire.
I don't work in the space anymore, but I work in an adjacent sector so I still interact with EMs and Partners.

BCG Gamma is similar to QuantumBlack, but BCG's Lighthouse is much more comparable to QuantumBlack.

That said, in general BCG hasn't seen the same level of scope creep as McK has. BCG has also had a strong Life Sciences, VC, and Tech Due Dilligence practice because of VCs origins in Boston (YC was originally in Boston for example).

That said, I do think BCG and Bain will also do some back office culling now that McK has opened the door.
The problem is that 'discrimination' is exactly what you're trying to do in sifting job applicants, for example. Not unduly prejudiced discrimination, but you need to discriminate somehow.

I'm not all that familiar with US law fwiw, but I understand there's a concept of 'protected characteristics' very similar to here in the UK & EU countries. I don't really see that there's any other way of doing it - you have to use something - if you're not allowed anything then you can only pick randomly. (You may as well take the first applicant, except maybe that's not allowed either because it discriminates against slower applicants.)
AI Gold Rush
I love the idea but the why escapes me. Is this a curated collection of news or is it a writers blog?
It's a chrome APi, not a browser web API.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/syste...
Interestingly, the Google download page is copyright by Google.

Microsoft changing that page for their profit is 100% NOT fair use. Google should simply sue them for all those counts of willful copyright infringement at $180k each.
WSL problems but not related to CUDA:

- need a patch to expose ports for services in WSL to network (WSLHostPatcher)

- the Virtual Hard Disk (vhdx) does not free unused space easily and it can grow quickly. I ended up just symlinking my code and dataset folders to mounts, not saving a lot of data inside the vhdx

- beware of upgrades etc. I think I nuked my WSL 2x due to config issues. Having all your code/data on mounts also makes this easy.

related to ML/CUDA:

- how you install pytorch + CUDA matters. I ended up just installing from `conda --channel fastchan` and don't touch it. not ideal but it works

- Don't forget to configure the RAM allocation in case you need a lot

- I haven't tried running a CUDA Docker on WSL. May be an easier way to do this.

Running on Windows directly is also an option. I choose to run on WSL because most learning resources/documentation refer more to Linux installs and setups.
That may be true in your specific case, but is most definitely not true in general (your house also probably costs $3 million).

Nonetheless, NONE of what you say justifies single family home MANDATES (as well as minimum parking mandates, minimum setbacks, maximum heights, etc.). Let people build what they want to, at the price they want to, and everyone will be happier. This is the United States we're talking about, supposedly the "land of the free"—why not make it actually true?
This linked article seems to have gotten special access to the data -- unfortunately only the resulting model is available.
Quantum Physicists Make Nanoscopic Breakthrough of Colossal Significance
That's how it's supposed to be. I doubt it really is in practice (at least not always). Let me rephrase it to what I think is the reality:

"The fines will be handed out in such a way that obeying the law would have been cheaper as estimated by people who don't really have a way to know."

-> That's how lobbying works: people on both sides argue, and some rule decides for something in the middle. It's not exactly a formal proof.
Would you rather that unemployed people just starve?
anyone else disappointed when you spawn one over the US that little jets don't come and shoot it down?
People care and should care about what they get rewarded for. If promotions/raises/bonuses are based on the manager's view of your personal work, as is the case at most companies, then that is exactly what a sane person should focus on. Removing the manager from the standup or adding another layer of a Scrum Master won't change that but merely change how they get that same information. Standup at least provides an equal opportunity for everyone to sell themselves in those cases.
They have been able to grow to almost a trillion dollars in market cap, during very competitive hiring market conditions, with those image problems. I will be very surprised if any backfiring, much less a spectacular one, happens.
My experience matches shortcake27's. For instance, I've had a recipe loaded up in a tab, gone off to mix ingredients, and unlocked the iPhone for the next step only to see the page reload.
This was still the case when I was considering an Amazon offer in late 2020.
Seems its for backend jobs. Consultants are not affected by this. 2 things come to mind:

1) McKinsey did numbers and found consultants are meeting numbers but support functions are not.

2) Consultants doing consultancy for eliminating redundancies could't see that consultants can ever be redundant unless they are offloaded to clients.
You know that the web existed before advertising?
Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done
The lack of any discussion of NFTs also indicates this is a dated paper.
You're misremembering. 230 didn't really ever regard ISPs, it applied to what were functional web forums, CompuServe which didn't moderate and Prodigy which did.

CompuServe didn't moderate at all, while Prodigy did moderate. The courts found Prodigy liable for content, because it chose to moderate some content. CompuServe was not liable because it left all content up. Congress wanted to encourage sites to moderate content without suddenly becoming liable for anything they failed to moderate, so 230 exists to shield sites who choose to moderate some content from becoming liable for all the other content that they fail to moderate in good faith (https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/legislative-history).
So index it to income / wealth instead.
and disallowing this would not be good for security at all!

Maybe once we can stop drinking the corporate "security" kool-aid, we'll realise that it was all just an excuse to take control away from us. Saying "security" should be like saying "terrorists" or "think of the children" at this point.
There is a large market for useless security work from companies that need to demonstrate that some kind of security activity has taken place but don't particularly care about security as an "end".

In these situations everyone is just "going through the motions", the PM who hired them, the pentesters, the devs who dutifully put pointless findings in the backlog, compliance people tracking stuff in their register...

The only thing worse is not having a process at all.
> If you need to go that fast why not implement a layer 2 protocol?

How? Datacenters aren't a single link, you need to route packets.

> The point of these abstractions is that they are insurance. We pay taxes on best case scenarios all the time in order to avoid or clamp worst case scenarios. When industries start chasing that last 5% by gambling on removing resiliency, that usually ends poorly for the rest of us.

I'm not sure what this means. There are other transport level protocols already, UDP is in fairly regular use. Is your argument that TCP offers us some insurance that Homa will not?
> Often the desire for Agile comes from not knowing how to manage a project

Corporate Agile takes thr worst of Waterfall and Agile and combines them.

It frees the management from budgeting for discovery and research, which are nessesary in waterfall. They can come unprepared.

Then they demand all the things they expect from waterfall - hard deadlines, no surprises. Then thry change scope on the fly because 'its agile, right'.

Agile does more to excuse poor managment than it does to enable developers.
Maybe we should start holding software engineers liable. Will push a lot of tech bro imposters out of this industry.
I've seen people try ChatGPT for solving r/tipOfMyTongue questions. The AI is hilariously bad at this task. It happily invents new plots for existing movies and books.

if it starts to ingest that data it will only get more wrong over time. Unless it also ingest the replies that say "ChatGPT is full of shit here?"
Even if it were used to flood the internet with shitty info, the only thing that would interfere with would be competitors training competing AI off the "internet dataset"

GPT could filter out anything they themselves emitted in future trains, yeah?
Because they know what their bot's said.
They get the benefit of looking at a conversation, knowing reasonably well what's copy/pasted from ai.com and what's the exasperated expert trying to correct a doomed world :p

The only way it eats itself is 1. Colossal mistakes. 2. Everyone decides to get off the internet and go outside.

2 seems pretty unrealistic, we put up with a lot :D
We actually do have a web based demo which is https://demo.questdb.io/ preloaded with millions of rows of data.

That one focuses on SQL queries though.

The notebook in https://play.questdb.io/ offers a more rounded experience to try out any and all of our features.

You can use the notebook to try out data ingestion, dropping partitions and more that is simply not possible in a more sandboxed environment.

The other part is that we value our Python users and wanted to provide an example of how to use our database in conjunction with other tools commonly used in the data science space to slice and dice time series data.
There's also the Berlin Tree Register[1] mapping which looks like every public tree in the city.

And while we're at it, the city's official Geoportal Berlin[2] is a treasure trove of open geo data.

[1] https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=05c3f9d7dea6422b86e...

[2] https://fbinter.stadt-berlin.de/fb/index.jsp
Amazon emplyees actually have a negative cash salary that they pay back with equity they sell.
I'd feel much more secure, from extensions and websites if those permissions just didn't exist. I can only turnoff what I know about, but not those new things quietly added with each update.
why support two input mechanisms when you can only support one?
Used cars are relatively more expensive than in the 90s and 2000s. Gone are the days of buying the nice old lady from down the street's Oldsmobile for a good price. Gas is crazy expensive too compared to the minimum wage a teenager would be making now. Then there's the question of insurance for young drivers...
I've worked in various consulting roles, and one thing that's always been true is the "rank and file" don't like you and think they know better, can do better, and already know or have thought of everything you do. They miss that you're hired by leadrship, for other reasons (see my other post in the thread). I'd actually be worried (and it's happened) when the line employees like you as an external consultant and think you're adding value. It means you're engaging at the wrong level and probably not getting at the root of what you're there to address.
We had a literal coup attempt two years ago. Of course our democracy is faulting, it's been disintegrating for many years.