skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with widespread cheating even if you don't cheat yourself is it essentially reduces the credit rating of your $50k program and has knock on effects elsewhere, like worse interview loops. And if the 'cheater's workload' becomes the norm, you the non-cheater can be literally failed out of programs and scholarships because you didn't keep up.
What we are discovering in the behavior of LLMs is that the corpus of material to train from is very much a product not of what Marc Andreessen calls "the woke mind virus," but the opposite: We are awash in previous decades' attitudes toward women, minorities, and conformist America assumptions about how things should be, and LLMs dutifully, mechanically, "learn" from this corpus.

You and I know to view such material with appropriate skepticism. How do you train an LLM to know "it was the '70s and you could say things like that about gay people then, but not today."

What Elon wants is to be able to say stuff he could say when he was 20. He thinks that's closer to truth.
You actually could do a lot of stuff in VS Code. See rust-analyzer or our extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tooltitu...
Abstraction works because you are able to treat an abstraction as a black box and concern yourself only with its input and output. A segment of code written by an LLM is qualitatively a very different thing; it's more like an open box of crap that you have to inspect and put together yourself, which requires knowledge of the contents, which requires experiencing the drudgery.
> It's hard to imagine such an organization working out over the long term. The incentives are all wonky! The more you contribute, the more you sacrifice by joining a coop. The less you contribute, the more you gain.

If that were true, there would be no successful co-ops anywhere in any field of work. That's obviously not the case. Just look at this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cooperatives#United_St... if you're from the USA, I'm sure you'll be able to recognize a name or two.
Gruber and co are losing their minds in constraints
I'm not sure these journalists are doing the homework that will help their readers understand what ChatGPT is. I'll admit I'm just barely coming up to speed with the math and terminal work to understand what's going on.

It's worth it though I'm not scared anymore. It's a tool. wordsmiths are gonna have to find their self worth in other places I think.
"The H-1B is a visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H) that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations."

From the Wikipedia page for H-1B visa. Note: "temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations".

Also from the page: "The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is responsible for ensuring that foreign workers do not displace or adversely affect wages or working conditions of U.S. workers."

Note: "do not displace or adversely affect wages..."

US companies have laid off tens of thousands of workers, many I'm sure are H1-B but also many US citizens as well. Priority should be for US citizens and permanent residents, by definition of the H-1B visa itself.

Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted, I citied sources. Please point out what is incorrect in my statements if you're going to downvote. Thanks!
I’m not a chemistry expert; Do the precursors’ properties necessarily matter here?

Like Table salt for example: sodium chloride. Sodium spontaneously ignites in AIR and is explosive in water. Chlorine is highly toxic and poisonous. But you bond the two chemically and you get a stable, safe, delicious flavor enhancer.

Edit: Perhaps I misunderstood your comment. Are you saying that transporting the raw chemicals required to make it on site wouldn’t be any safer to transport?
> Kind of genius, as it doesn't matter what the user is

It's a good way to avoid tracking of your meta data too for legitimate encrypted messages.
Can we also mandate any included taxes in the listed price, like elsewhere in the world?

kthxbai
It's a simple answer: remuneration.

Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played.

Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter, not the band.
And that is the main gatekeeping mechanism that keeps so many talented young writers, actors, cinematographers, etc. out of the game or working for pennies on the dollar as assistants.

It’s great when you’re in but if you don’t have the connections to get in you can find yourself on the outs for years.

If a SWE guild can find a way to eliminate the nepotism and create a meritocratic way to get into a guild…
Just like Italy then with the mafia and the landfills.
Are you saying there's a time where you weren't constantly anticipating your entire life unraveling at a moment's notice?
If you haven’t been a member of SAG, you don’t know what you are talking about.

I’ve been a member of SAG (as a child, but still!) and the WGA (as an adult). The systems are imperfect. They are also significantly better than productions with no guild affiliation.
On a very similar boat, I can relate to what you’re saying. I would just like to hang out with some pals a few times a year (so not every week like many). But it can be difficult to keep relationships close seeing each other not that often, but I guess technology can help us with that.
Take a look at firebase storage, very easy to use:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/storage/web/upload-files#we...

You can leave the bucket fully redable / writable by anyone, or limit who can do what.

Player A would upload the JSON to it and get the shareable URL:
==================================================================
import { getStorage, ref, uploadString } from "firebase/storage";
const storage = getStorage();
const storageRef = ref(storage, 'some-child');

const state = '{foo:bar}';
uploadString(storageRef, state)
.then((snapshot) => {
console.log('Uploaded the state!');
return snapshot.ref.getDownloadURL();
})
.then((url) => {
console.log(`Shareable state url: + ${url}`);
})
====================================================

And Player B would simply HTTP GET the shared URL.
It’s the only thing I’ve heard about. I think there’s some rat fuckery going on, I agree. I’m not so sure it’s a cover up orchestrated or enabled by the government as much as other actors using the opportunity to stoke distrust in the government.
I think I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I meant is that even if you run both at the wattage, the 4090 would still pull way ahead in most situations. The performance per watt is higher, and in both cases it seems like Amd and Nvidia cranked the power way higher even if it meant hitting diminishing returns. A 4090 running at 400w isn't much more performant than a 4090 running at 290-300w.

In both cases though, you are right that they are both absolute hogs. If thermals are a concern, these are pretty much unusable.
all it takes is one person from another country to gain access and transfer knowledge to another country.
Yes, exactly. And if you have two upstreams, there's no single GUA prefix that makes sense to use in all situations. You make your routing decision, then you NAT (er, sorry, NPTv6, which is Totally Not The Same Thing As NAT) to the GUA prefix corresponding with the network that you're egressing from.

If you don't need Internet connectivity, yes, NAT-free ULAs work fine.
The way barber shops/salons work is the barber typically rents a chair from the business, some proportion of the fee you pay goes to the house and it is expected that the barber will earn some proportion of their money via tips. They also provide their own tools and products. Tipping barbers goes back at least to the 80's if not longer.
Let's be fair here... I consider myself a pretty proficient Product Manager and even I would struggle to tell you what the Program Manager in our Org is actually meant to do.

Don't get me wrong, they do a lot and it's all valuable. But even they can't tell me what their fundamental role responsibility is hahaha.
I agree with the author about /etc/APK/world.

APK has become my favorite package manager - so far I've had zero breakage with it, unlike apt and pacman which have lots of sharp corners. The same can be said about Alpine Linux in general.

For the last 6 months I have been experimenting with running a zero-maintenance weekly upgrade+reboot cronjob on my Alpine server. Obviously a bad idea but I just want to see how long it takes for something to break.
VCs are funding $100,000,000 AI compute efforts now, so it might be something like that.
> airlines where the base price is akin to "we let you hang on to the wing", and everything else is an upcharge.

This would actually be a better situation. Instead the base price is "this would be what we would theoretically charge you to hang onto the wing, but since that's not legally allowed there's no possible way anyone could buy a ticket for this price." If they were selling food like that, there would be a "state-inspected and legal to sell quality upcharge."
Just cracking myself up thinking about 20 years from now where at some startup the sole engineer (prompt engineer?) who has been trying for hours to figure out why their program doesn't work finally gives up and asks the model "what is the difference between 'let' and 'const'?" and getting a mostly verbatim stackoverflow answer back. A beautiful story to me.
Tories just can't resist a wading in to a culture war. Anything to distract from the NI/Brexit shambles
Lost original lyrics to Little River Band's "Reminiscing":

o/~ We'll be sitting in the park
sipping Thunderbird till dark
debating pigeons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBETVhHpcPk
You can set the poker stakes so low that it effectively isn’t gambling. And poker is a game of skill, where good players can be profitable long run.

Huge difference between playing for $10 vs nothing. In a free game people tend to be much more reckless.

But $10 is not remotely like playing blackjack in a casino
What content is that, beyond what is actually written in the article? Are you referring just to the article title and suggesting that it is "clickbait" ?
> it's very painful to do that

Sure it's hard. Do I care? Not in even the slightest. I have not one picogram of care.

The calculation is made at the point of sale. They can list a final price and work backwards. Does that make it harder for a business to set the price? Yeah maybe. I still don't care.

It's a clearly solvable problem. It'd provide a superior consumer experience. It'd be slightly inconvenient for businesses. SHIP IT.
Power is the main reason to do custom ASICs. I’d be curious as to your opinion of Recogni given they are claiming a 10x power reduction per unit compute.
> Why add another layer?

The answer given:

> to take out some of the drudgery
Reverse Opium Wars.

What goes around, tends to come around. History repeats.
Option #4 will give you autoscaling without having to deal with k8s.

IIRC all of the options listed still involve writing a Dockerfile, though. Render.com, Cyclic.sh, and Railway.app are also in that category(ish) but will automate the build more like Heroku. (this is off the top of my head, please correct if I misremembered anything)
No reason to turn everything into market, and use blockchain for voting automation or partial governance, especially seeing what clownshow DAOs have been.
I've always seen it be hit or miss.
> Canada

Why does Canada have a long wait time? Population is smaller than California.
I think most just want a decent job to pay bills after. The rest love the field, the theory of cs, and may or may not continue into academics or research.
The article is the content marketing. It can be reduced to some political posturing followed by "buy my book".
> The more you contribute, the more you sacrifice by joining a coop. The less you contribute, the more you gain.

You could say the same thing to describe working for any corporation.
I have just fixed it recently for perl. Until libc will break it again, as announced
> but they will still pick one flight over another if the base rate is $5 cheaper

The other flight also tricks you with in-flight purchase of air, so, might as well choose the lowest base price.
This is how it was envisioned, yes, but in practice there are issues with source address selection when you have multiple prefixes on-link for multihoming purposes. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5220 for a description of the problem.
This reminds me of a stupid idea I had: would it theoretically be possible to store data using the backbone of the Internet itself? You'd bounce packets (probably TCP) back and forth between two hosts with bytes that aren't actually written to a disk anywhere so they just exist as a stream until one end decides to copy a section for itself.
It's not about whether they are, as defined by the law, right or wrong. That's the moral definition part.

The implementation part is where the problem lies. If this company is right, then they are being actively harmed by the utility provided in the very law that has defined them to be in the right!

Even if the DMCA takedown feature makes logical sense in the abstract, its thoroughly demonstrated utility for abuse shows us that the law itself fails to implement its own application.

The correct way to resolve this problem is to change the law, such that it is no longer abusable.
I am trying to think about use of LLMs in education as similar to calculators. This post reflects how I was taught: students couldn’t use calculators to solve problems initially. For example, no calculators to do addition and subtraction when you’re learning to add or subtract. But also, probably not when learning to multiply or divide. Doing addition and subtraction builds skills and intuition for what multiplication and division are. The same is true with understanding fractions.

Moving up the math hierarchy to algebra, though, this changes. Algebra is at first about the concept of solving equations, and the core idea is that “to solve the equation, you can do whatever you want to one side, as long as you do it to the other.” The mechanics of addition or subtraction, for the most part, no longer matter. Go ahead and use a calculator to solve obscure divisions and multiplications so you can better understand algebra (though it feels appropriate to note that a student who is good at arithmetic can still outpace a calculator for problems that are likely to be used pedagogically, since the numbers are easy).

In this example, algebra is to calculus what arithmetic is to algebra. A calculus teacher cares little if his students can solve equations; he expects they can. They’re instead learning integrals and derivatives and series, and I doubt a calculus teacher would begrudge their students using a calculator to solve a difficult equation.

The problems with treating LLMs this way are many. They are not calculators. You cannot (trivially, or maybe at all) understand how an LLM works. You cannot (trivially) fact check it if it spits out an absurd-sounding answer. You cannot limit the LLM to what your own, personal abilities to trivially do are. We need AI that cites sources, so we can debug when it’s wrong. We need understandable AI for the same reason, not the obscure black boxes we have today. We need AIs that not only can solve our problems, but that can also help us to solve our own problems. When we have those things, AI will be much more useful for education and for widespread use.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
I think it’s an interesting point about making the questions audit or debugging.

But, also a mistake to hark on the often humorous fact at how confidently wrong our Gen1 AI can be. That will go down over time. Imagine a time when AI is making good programming choices and correcting itself when it’s wrong. Imagine Gen4 AIs.

Both of these things tie together. If we need to detect cheating now, prove you can debug. When AIs get better, prove you can debug. It’ll be the same skill either way.
Microsoft retains the right to break your process without your permission.
The Atlantic had a good article about this last summer. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/pennsyl...
GenZ here. 95% of my life so far has been spent alone lol. Prices for everything are crazy, a 1-BR apt cost 2-3K a month, and jobs barely pay enough to cover that while taking up half my waking hours. I've totally burned out
It's not an analogy, it's actually happening. I think you mean "example."
It will be a hard sell since it or similar tech has already been long embraced commercially. A bit like forcing students to use an abacus while calculators are around.

The student should still be responsible for what they submit and all of its errors of course. But what should really change is our methods of assessing students. The University model for undergrads has already been long broken in need of fixing. I don't think this will significantly impact grad students yet.
"but free healthcare" is ridiculous too. I don't think people understand how cheap healthcare now is in the U.S.. I know people on ACA plans that cover health, dental, and vision, copays in line with what I pay, for about $75 a month (I think this is silver tier). Chances are you are taking a much bigger salary hit working in europe than $75 a month. I guess you can save on education, but that savings probably starts looking smaller too when you consider in state tuition rates, community college credit prices, or the fact most private colleges dish out full ride financial aid packages like candy to anyone making below a certain threshold.
+1 too much money flying around just causes inflation, since the underlying resources that the money is trying to allocate remain constrained.

West coast US cities are a perfect example of this, not enough housing means labor resources are constrained which is the biggest input for actually getting things done (fixing problems, creating value, etc).
Ah, you got me there. My apologies. You're right. I had forgotten that it was "program" and not "product". (I haven't worked there in a few years and probably mixed it up with product manager titles at a different company.)

To me, it always felt like it was supposed to be an intentional "product" role as opposed to "project", but you're right that it basically was a hybrid where they worked on product but also helped manage the project itself.
Randall: Look, do you want to be leader of this gang?

Strutter: No, we agreed: No leader!

Randall: Right. So shut up and do as I say.
This guy gets it. Thank you for taking the time to write this up properly, the failure of OP to understand the PM roles relationship with the concept of a "problem space" is a fundamental misunderstanding of the role that never seems to go away.
You’re effectively relying on two computers to be up and running 24/7. It’d be twice as better of an idea (which is still a very low number) to just store that data in RAM on a single device, rather than rely on two.
What you see from the legal perspective vs the actual on-the-ground wheeling, dealing, favor-trading, social circle maintaining, networking actions to even get onto a union production as a non-union worker can be quite a big spread.

The intended legal requirement can be very different from the way it’s practiced on the ground.

My own attempts to break-in + friends’ experiences shows a clear pattern: the guilds gatekeep, almost arbitrarily, and creates environments primed for abuse.

Perhaps the legal, corporate side of the guilds should realign with the reality on the ground and change this. That is, if this is an undesirable state of affairs.
I am mostly annoyed with people jumping out with absolutes which are fake.

Yes you don't need to make everything SPA - but yes SPA has its legitimate use cases. There will be always bunch of people overusing stuff or using it in wrong contexts but yeah complaint posts are usually written with narration of "all or nothing".
256gb of ddr4 rdimms only costs about $400 right now. $200 for ddr3. Not uncommon in homelabs.

I don't think 200gb ram is actually required, that's just what that cloud vm was spec'd with. Though the 175b model should see benefit with ram even beyond 200gb.
> Hey you, Mr. staff engineer in silicon valley unicorn, tell me, when did you need last time to invert B-tree?

I find this hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
The countries you mentioned probably have a higher % of uninhabited land.
>hope that works out in the future at your next destination.

That's the thing - a lot of code is generated with "Github Copilot" so it isn't considered "cheating" in the real world. They need to learn how to properly use the tools available to them. They'll be harmed by forcing them not to use this tech, so it makes sense to teach them how to use it better.
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Have you? Not OP and I have not tried it personally, but the people I know who have it say it's virtually imperceptible overall and that the whole issue is vastly overblown by people who mostly haven't used it themselves.

Remember that framegen's latency is inversely proportional to framerate in general... if you're starting from a (DLSS-assisted) 70fps framerate in a cinematic single-player game, that's probably fine. If you're playing a twitch shooter where the framerate is 200fps, your framerate is already high enough that the extra 0.5ms latency is probably fine.

People have been consistently negative about these new technologies from NVIDIA ever conceivably working or improving in the future, while absolutely fellating anything AMD comes out with. Framegen really is a solid option even right now and it's only going to get better over the next 2 years. The obvious trajectory here is that NVIDIA will continue to get better and people will still pooh-pooh it up until AMD releases FSR3 and suddenly wow, it's great, even though it is worse than NVIDIA's initial offering was. Remember they don’t have the optical flow engine and even nvidias first-gen engine is significantly worse quality.

It's so predictable at this point, I want AMD to do well but the social media story hasn't changed in 10 years to be honest, everything AMD does is amazing and benevolently pro-consumer and is gonna be great in a couple more iterations, and everything NVIDIA does is awful and malicious/avaricious and could never possibly work.

Just wait for FSR3 (with FluidFrames TM!) and RDNA4. Yup, that cycle is starting now too.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-fsr-3-announced

https://hothardware.com/news/amd-promises-rdna-4-near-future

Like I guess framegen is so awful that AMD is gonna spend like ten million bucks of dev time making their own. That kinda says it all.
Have you even looked at it? It's a bit different ;)
I'll clarify myself - all communication of imperfect knowledge is biased. I'm afraid we're falling into a overly pedantic semantic quibble though.

The context we're talking about is how much we can understand about a war. I understand that Russia invaded Ukraine, and that nothing Ukraine's done even begins justifies a full on, bloody invasion.
Heh! Good catch! That is what I get for not testing. After UINT_MAX, x wraps around to 0.