skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make sure you're taking care of the home front. i.e. handling some cooking and cleaning and other chores while your wife is working. Don't let her come home to you watching tv. Apply to jobs every day. Even if it's just one. Don't give up and watch some cheeky david goggins videos if that helps. I don't know about visa stuff but you might have to start lowering your bar eventually just to get some cash coming in. Source: my dad went through this, didn't handle it very well and everything fell apart. So yea this shit can fuck you up so you need to step up now.
This definitely resonates with my experience.

To me, it seems to be a death by a thousand cuts. Just a few challenges that come to mind:

- The housing crisis has made it very difficult to live close to your friends and just pop in throughout the week.

- Organized religion is in decline and nothing has yet taken its place as a "third place" for a community to congregate.

- Needlessly intense working conditions and / or working remotely has taken away the "second place", where you would typically "hang out" with your co-workers.

- Many people today choose not to have children, starkly dividing adults into mutually exclusive schedules and social personas.

- Many people move frequently throughout their young-adult and early-adult years, fragmenting their social lives and preventing mature friendships from forming.

- There is a significant cultural gap between older and younger generations, creating social friction within the nuclear family unit and across generational boundaries.

- The digital age has moved the location of many common past-times from a public "third place" to your private bedroom.

- etc, etc, etc
Yeah, SEGA gotta SEGA. The fishing controller was great, wasn't it? I still occasionally drag out my old system just to play SEGA Bass Fishing 2 with the rod controller.
This is welcome news.

An egregious example of what they are (hopefully) aiming to stop: https://passingtime.substack.com/p/perfidious-pricing

Also, a 2021 story from the Times about how drip pricing is getting out of control: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/opinion/consumers-drip-pr...
>Cold application is fairly useless in today's age and time.

Really? 95% of the people I've been involved in hiring have been cold applicants or via a recruiter (where normally those connections aren't made by referrals either).
100% true. So people are aware, even if you get to an LOI, then there is usually an established close period (right now it's usually 30-90 days). That close period is intense and can absolutely derail the energy of the company.
Someone already answered, but as some follow up reading I recommend this collection of documents: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/
Of course, the more obvious answer is that they don't earn what they earn because of performance, but because of broken market incentives.
No, I don't think transitioning to an entry level position is the same as 'transitioning' to the highest possible position.

That's like someone asking if they can 'transition' to being the CEO of a nationally known company.
So you'll believe a 2014 djb blog post over the following near decade of peer-reviewed research?

That's how we got here.....
> but the whole idea of the 'new world' USA was assimilation in that '30's era, not celebrating ethnicity and past backgrounds.

Jews, along with Blacks, were seen as outsiders to be marginalized by large sections of the dominant US culture at the time. Not as Whites to be assimilated. This is what makes Superman becoming such a large part of pop culture interesting.

And if you think the whole idea of the US at that time was about assimilation, not celebrating ethnicity, look up the "German American Bund" (I'd give you a link but have to restart Firefox).
but a core and critical functionality of your entire OS such that any
attempt to sidestep or evade it would be met with ruination?

Was Internet Explorer ever actually a core and critical part of Windows? Sure, Microsoft claimed that it was. But of course, they would have done that, given that the alternative was to admit that the Justice Department's argument was correct, and that Internet Explorer was being bundled in an anti-competitive manner to deprive Netscape of sales.
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Why Chinese diplomats must face consequences for alleged election interference
Why do they always do this?

It's a dick. Dicks are funny. That's it. Literally nothing to it at all.
The program in the article linked is specifically targeted to some of the poorer neighborhoods in Amsterdam. These neighborhoods are known for them being largely inhabited by the descendants of former slaves and colonized people from the former Dutch empire.
These failure modes have been recognized since long before the current crop of AI developments.

You're spreading both incorrect information "making AI development less accessible to the general public will not make it any safer" and conspiracy theories "this fear mongering singularity bullshit is just being peddled by large corporations with a vested interest."

There is no alarm bell that tells us when we've reached the point of no return. Even if we don't end up with agentic AI and a sharp left turn, we don't want to live in a world where every organization with a few million dollars can build swarms of flying drones that flood a target area and stab to death anyone out in the open.

Some Nvidia hardware is already export controlled in the same manner as other dual use technologies. More restrictions are coming, not less.
I would hope publicity isn’t the motivation for doing it though.
Basically better kerning and font weight changes, nothing too scary for the huge committees of empty suits to be presented to, meet over and approve
As long as they have to make it immediately and publicly known that they signed the waiver so I can avoid being near them; And as long as they can't sign that waiver for children.

I don't want to force anyone who doesn't or cannot give consent to suffer.
Thanks for unlocking the memory I have of getting my radio license in my early 20s. Got a lot of questions about why I was interested in radio, but in the sort of way that you might ask an alien what the purpose for their visit is.

Also if anybody is reading this and interested in radio - take the test! It's cheap and you can cram the material in a day.
I find it very hard to believe that in the long run companies actually profit from having such a confrontational relationship with their customers. Like is getting an extra five dollars a month from me really worth me hating you?
No, the business is built on infrastructure that is paid for with a tiny fraction of taxes.

They are not congruent.

Taxes in Europe are also much higher in general. Perhaps this is a result of obscuring the amounts in the advertised prices—it never raises to the level of conscious consideration of the tax burden at point of purchase.
The question to consider is "how much do you value the craft that went into the image?" Would you still have hung it on the wall if it was created using img2img?

And to that end, those are the artists that should be concerned about AI.

If, it's an image that you sat for at a tourist attraction - then it's also the craft (and the memories associated with that) which are valued. No one is going to pay a person who takes a photograph at Pier 39 and then prints out a Futurama-ified version of that and sells it to you for $20. Those artists have something where the craft is valued.

Similarly, the spray paint artists - its the craft that is valued (I dabbled creating those scenes in povray).

But my photograph of El Capitan? I'm not worried that someone will have DALL-E generate an image and then hang that on the wall because I never would have had that sale to begin with - they're not interested in my interpretation of the scene and the "this is a real place that you could potentially stand at and see the same things that I saw" https://shagie.smugmug.com/keyword/El%20Capitan/ - the reason for those is that they are a real place.

The Futurama characters? That's not a sale that the animators at Rough Draft Studios would have ever gotten. Everyone else is doing detractive works be it done by a human or AI - it doesn't really matter.

Now, if you ordered that from an animator who did original Futurama work - then the associated craft would likely be valued a bit more. You might ask that it be signed by the artist too and 50 years from now, on antiques roadshow your kids or grand kids will ask about it and it would be worth more than the paper and long forgotten memories.
Software development has arguably more gatekeeping even without any guild. Got a CS degree from a university that isn't R1 and didn't score a summer internship? Need a visa sponsor? I don't envy how painful your early career will be. Luck out with the Stanford admission and a summer internship? You are playing on easy mode.
The standard of living rises with wages because we spend those wages on our standard of living. There's some segments like education and health care that are just broken vampires sucking up resources. In some places housing gets added to that list due to zoning. But for the most part people are getting better things for the same effort of working than they used to.
I was calling read. I suspect the real problem is explained by another commenter, who points out that 80 MB of ASCII text will become 240MB of UTF32 in the hands of SBCL, not to mention all the additional words of memory required for cons cells.
"Californians are fed up with being bombarded by junk fees that, more and more, are making it unaffordable to attend a concert, go to a sporting event, take a vacation, or stay at a hotel."

Oh, believe me, state Senator Nancy Skinner, requiring businesses to disclose these fees up front is not going to make these purchases any more affordable. Companies will either maintain the fees but comply with the disclosure requirement or remove the fees and jack up the base price accordingly. Either way, the goods and services they sell will not magically become cheaper.

What it will do, however, is level the playing field, which is good for competition, and may have some indirect benefits for consumers. So I'm very much in support of requiring up-front pricing. (In fact, it would be lovely to see pricing that's inclusive of all taxes as well.)
The usual suspect, BIND, has a feature called Response Policy Zones that can serve different responses to different ACL matches (such as source IP). It can even autogenerate the modified records if you ask it politely.

Of course a screwdriver also has a feature called Quick Eyeball Removal which may be preferable. That or I'm just bitter about having done this :).
> I think AirBnb should show initial totals with it included, so you're never surprised by it. But it shouldn't be rolled up into the nightly rate because it really is a one-off.

I disagree with this, and it's easily handled on the backend too. If the cleaning fee is e.g once per trip or once every few days, smear that cost across the cost of the stay for your effective nightly rate.

Frankly, how much it costs to clean a unit shouldn't be a separate calculus when comparing rooms. What ultimately matters is how much I'm out of pocket by the end of the trip, and that's most easily compared by showing the customer the effective nightly rate for the date range being searched. Do the breakdown later, sure, but the effective nightly rate is what should be shown first. Or even just the total for the stay, but no weirdness with fees where those fees can be smeared.

Last tidbit: cleaning fees are another profit vehicle for Airbnb sellers; rarely is the fee the same as what the seller is paying the cleaning service.
Writing a useful bug report is a critical part of the software development process.
A good bug report can help developers quickly identify and fix the issue, while a poorly written one can cause confusion and delay the process. What are your tips to write it?
Claritin. As long as I take one every day during the period when whatever pollen I'm allergic to is prevalent, I have few or no problems. Luckily for me, my spring allergies seem to only run for about 3-4 weeks, starting sometime in March, and winding down by sometime in April.
Wowie. Maybe just maybe folks have bigger issues than "my identity as a man is dependent on having a job". But again, I have existed in queer and 30-yr-and-below spaces for so long that this is just absurd to me. Even the straight friends I have would openly scoff at this.

If the response to this is "well I better embrace my identity as a man who only has worth via a job and deserving of love in exchange for money"... then yeah, /r/arethestraightsokay ?

Sometimes I just wish I could instill a sense of "this is YOUR life, your ONLY life" for others the way I've embraced in my late-20s. So many people barreling faster and faster ahead to avoid any examination of their actual relationship to happiness. And then the masses to give excuses for why an unexamined life is unavoidable (lest they consider their own).
When I got a N64 I remember clearly that the N64 major downside was that piracy was much harder, but everyone was buying cheap PS1 pirated disks on street vendors. Like, very very cheap, and no internet connection required.

That was in Brazil btw.
Blind is a toxic cesspool. Yes, it can be useful for certain things (compensation research, interview loops), but someone feeling down will be doing themselves a huge disservice by joining Blind in that state.
Possibly the price. On secondary markets like Ebay - I've occasionally seen T4 cards for $500-600. Also, the form factor. The T4s are comparatively much smaller/shorter than a 3090/4090. So would be a easier fit in a server case.
I got allergy shots for two years. These banished my asthma symptoms (I used to use a steroid inhaler but I am now drug-free, at least for asthma) and reduced my seasonal allergies such that I am only an occasional user of Fexofenadine.

I used to use Cetirizine on the advise of my allergist, which is supposedly non-drowsy, but I found it had strong enough CNS effects that I had severe withdrawal symptoms (worse than an SSRI) whenever I missed a pill. That got me to switch to Fexofenadine which has less effect on the CNS.
Parent comment is from a target victim. OP is actually one of the blogs being unwittingly used to spam those victims.
Hugo is distributed as a single binary, but Jekyll requires a Ruby environment (assuming you want to test locally).
And it's also good that migrating a codebase to a new language with questionable prospects carries no risk or cost. Otherwise its adoption rate could disappoint.
I think the old way was in founding & operating durable businesses which could be handed down to average-enough offspring. Farms, factories, local trades, etc. You still see this in some private businesses like real estate.

In conflict with this historical model is that most modern high paying jobs these days are high skill PMC which leaves the highly paid without ownership in any particular enterprise they can hand down.
Very Californian
Yes. It is nearly impossible to get ChatGPT talking like this, without experimenting with various forms of prompt trickery. But it's almost the default endpoint for Sidney Bing. Microsoft has the resources to keep up, so I am sure this will get ironed out sooner or later.

EDIT: PS, I also think their shortening the sessions to 5 turns is a cop out that doesn't actually fix the issue. ChatGPT has not had to do this. I realize they are slightly different, since Sidney Bing can look stuff up on the web, but that is no excuse for Microsoft not applying the same monitors and filters. It's clear Sidney Bing can be triggered into producing negative responses right from the start.
Only if you discount the impact on users who are blocked like those on VPNs, or myself because Cloudflare seems to dislike my ISP, and have no recourse.
Papers on the UX of AI programming assistants
Yes, and, near as I can tell, Sidney has never made an implausible threat.

Speaking loosely, we could say that Sidney consistently acts like Sidney knows that you know that Sidney is an AI.

That's what I'm remarking on. Because it's astounding.

Throwing it out there: has anyone seen a Sidney transcript where S threatens something implausible? It would only take one example to disconfirm.
That's because it's illegal in the EU to display or advertise a price to a consumer (ie not another business) without VAT added.
Are railcars filled with pure chlorine any better? Chlorine gas leaks are deadly.

Unless you're talking about in situ chlorine production, which has its own list of issues.
I'm a bit taken aback by how accurately your creative problem solving process resembles mine. I've never been able to explain it so eloquently or cohesively.

During the first phase, the "problem will often seem too big to fit in my head" is so accurate, especially while I'm still focused on understanding the problem (prior to breaking it down into more manageable pieces).

I appreciate this comment, thank you.
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I know this is sarcastic and if you didn't post it first I would have.

The inconsistencies some people have when complaining about regulation, California, and Democrats is just irritating
This is a world wide problem. After traveling in Europe, I think it is a global issue and quite bad in Europe.

Banks across the European Union slap customers with hidden fees, offer financial advice that can turn out to be harmful and provide inadequate information to consumers before they sign up for accounts, according to a report released Tuesday by the European Commission.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125363506624231121

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187234-i138-k10962835...

https://wise.com/gb/blog/transparency-an-open-letter-from-th...
For any high cost of living area where a senior developer works, there are plenty of non-developer workers doing the same 9-5s in the same office buildings on a fraction of their salary.

Maybe try a longer commute or a roommate before whining about your cost of living

W.r.t. immigration- you're certainly right. I would be terrified to rock the boat if my employer could put me at risk of deportation
Isn't freelancing an option?

I am sometimes hiring on UpWork and I can tell you that competent, motivated freelancers with good English skills are super rare.
Good point; the post even reinforces how the students couldn't use AI to do the whole assignment because in addition to writing the essay with ChatGPT, they also had to "write a reflection at the end on how the AI did". The AI has no meaningful idea of how it did, or how to reflect on a student's subjective experience using it.
That’s what Stability AI has been doing… There are already open source LLMs the size of GPT-3 such as OPT and Bloom
Microsoft’s Outlook spam email filters are broken for many
I just tried to run the example in the README, using the OPT-30B model. It appeared to download 60GiB of model files, and then it attempted to read all of it into RAM. My laptop has "only" 32GiB of RAM so it just ran out of memory.
I think I phrased myself poorly in my original post

As mentioned in another post, current antibiotics are already produced by organisms in nature, which has made bacteria more likely to develop resistance to those antibiotics over time

It's a reasonable assumption, that bacteria has evolved to be more capable of developing resistance, since having the ability for a resistance gene to a specific antibiotic to develop every X generations would provide a competitive advantage

This same pressure does not exist for the class of antibiotics presented in the article, so there has been no evolutionary pressure to select for genes that could potentially develop into a mechanism for resistance
That's not necessarily true. I have had success in the past with certain specific articles ranking high on google because there wasn't anything that went into that much detail about a more focused topic. E.g. AWS Cognito. In fact, you could probably document almost anything technical about AWS and get a lot of traffic since their documentation (or lack thereof) is so bad.
I would love for someone to clarify this for me: My understanding is that the physical act of observing, as in, with the specific machine we use, is what causes photons to suddenly behave different. Like if decided to gently touch a marble rolling down a ramp in darkness to measure how fast it was rolling, the act of touching changes how the marble rolls. It's not that we're actually observing the marble's behavior, is that's we're interfering with its behavior when we measure it.

Is this accurate? Or is the observation of the photon not physically impacted by our observation, and through some magic of quantum behavior, it somehow "knows" it's being observed and changes because of that?
Why not both? GANN vs LLM, an eternal cat and mouse game even more pointless than cryptocurrency mining
Thats one way to market yourself, but not the only way. For example, consultancies don't come up with products people are willing to pay for. They are hired as a service to do work on a project, but they aren't selling things off the shelf. A software "consultancy" could operate in a similar way, where customers say "we need engineering labor to achieve our goals" and this agency comes in with the labor that develops the product to meet the companies needs.
Consider joining the military!

- You can get naturalized. https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...

- It's the U.S. Military, so pretty good record on the whole. Maybe if you look the other way on Vietnam, Abu Ghraib, Blackwater, misbehaved politicians and their silly e-mail servers, and the fact that it can kind of be ugly business.

- Free college, if you have kids you can confer it to them.

- It's a job, dollar-amount-wise pay won't be competitive, but it's non-zero, and yields non-cash benefits such as the VA loan, aforementioned GI bill, and a litany of other benefits from both state and federal government. https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/benefits_book/2020_Feder...

- May be able to select your own job, and get a standard technical career education in that trade.

- Sense of duty, discipline, world-class paralegal-type education/MBA-type organizational-business operations exposure, physical-health-type education and training. (MBAs aren't too popular around here, but the frustrating language they use to discuss things is pervasive and hence useful). In all likelihood, you'll skip away with a lot of soft-skills, a stronger body, a wallet, a retirement fund, and a diverse set of friends. As the Military is bound to law, every action must be assessed in terms of law, and all activities are governed by law. Well-meaning contributors over hundreds of years have written law, orders, doctrine, policy, manual, and regulation often in blood, you get to pick that all up.

- Huge community of invested contributors, VFW/American Legion admission, common ground with many Americans as the DoD is the world's largest employer.

- There's options to potentially serve locally such as Guard or Reserve, you might reach out to local recruiters from different branches to find out if that's an option.

You can check out the service-sites for more details, or maybe walk in to a recruiter's station and see if they're like, there.
for me its similar but I don't need boredom, I either get the insight randomly or in dreams/waking up
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It's really interesting that these models are written in Python. Anyone know how much of a speed up using a faster language here would have? Maybe it's already off-loading a lot of the computation to C (I know many Python libraries do this), but I'd love to know.