skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not one person in this thread thinks everyone should be forced to live in high-rise buildings, or in any particular type of building, and no one made any such argument. I certainly wouldn't want to live in such a place. All people want is the freedom to choose the set of tradeoffs that suit them (because everything has a tradeoff), and the freedom to build what people actually want. Forcing people to live in one particular style of low-rise building is the status quo and is what you are proposing be forced upon everyone.

There's a big difference between high-rise and mid-rise, and all three can peacefully coexist. If you had watched the video I linked earlier you would have seen many examples of this. I will link it here again for convenience.

Population Density 101: A Visual Guide to Suburbs and Skyscrapers by Oh The Urbanity!: https://youtu.be/y3XoUBzfXps
I think it's happening. Capital One got rid of the 'Agile' division. Capital One follows leads from FAANG type companies and in turn, there are some other banks that follow (and marvel) what Capital One does.

https://medium.com/serious-scrum/agile-layoff-nightmare-at-c...

Edit: another URL in case you don't want the one above: https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/20/capital_one/
I like the idea of AI helping the average person write good enough content when and where its needed.

I don't like the idea of the internet becoming a vast wasteland of spam...which is what 60% the case right now?

But its only a matter of time until reality is drowned out by spam and the internet ceases to be useful.

What will the world be like when 99.99% of all comments, reviews, books, articles, and art is just chatGPT talking back to itself.

It's nauseating...
Big corp will always have more data. Even just the web, search engine have a big head start. Then there are "private" data that big provider use for "improving our product": emails, word documents, chat messages, non public social media posts,...
>> a misconfigured domain name system service at GoDaddy allowed hackers to hijack dozens of websites owned by Expedia, Yelp, Mozilla, and others..

Any idea what was the impact on Mozilla ? Did it impact the Firefox and plugin servers ?
That’s probably true… but at least the mass murders are kept to a minimum, so there is still that going for it.
I would personally err toward keeping things factual, interjecting little opinion.
Charging infrastructure at work and in apartment buildings are currently deplorable in the southeast. I'm surprised, I assumed the author's residence of LA would be a great place to own an EV. Is it not profitable?
Julian O'Shea has a great video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4BtdFgVGjc

(His channel is great btw, interesting videos on cities, weird designs, etc).
You mean like it is now?
> There are no reasonable laws that will be able to prevent this

any law can be legislated, if it can be put down as text.

It may be considered unreasonable, but if the majority of people _do_ agree, then it could be done.
Supply-side solution to housing problem?
I would assume most of those funds ($24B) are already allocated to various programs. The US Federal government OTOH has departments and funds set aside for such larger scale unexpected disasters. Let's also not forget the infinite money printer.
In 2017, I wrote this as a "retrospective interview" supposedly taking place in 2019.

https://issuu.com/stanfordchaparral/docs/parody_119_3-4/17

To summarize: Larry Page is bragging about how, in 2017, Alphabet created a "data REIT" which contained all of Google's data, and licensed it on FRAND terms to all comers. As a "REIT" it's required to pay out 95% of its profits as dividends, and everyone whose data they use is a shareholder in the "REIT."

Yes, I know that's not what REIT's are for. This would take legislation, as Larry hints in the interview.

Basically, the AI training data is nationalized, with compensation to the owners, i.e. Google, FB, etc. You could argue, and people would, about who deserves compensation. Congress would have to do its job, for once.

In this "interview" Larry is bragging about how well this worked out for Google, since the clients of Google Data can make much better use of the data than Google itself can.
Eh, the way I've used these tools are so interactive and iterative that I would absolutely say the output is my work, or at most a collaboration.

Did you dig the hole, or the backhoe you were driving?
I'm thinking that was meant to be $3,000 USD per month ~ $36K annum in Brazil (which is circa Brazil median dev salary).
The productivity in office suits certain work styles that are people heavy. The argument for and against remote work isn't as dependent on the productivity time as people think. Sure, some people are unproductive for periods between 9am - 5pm. Most people are not. That's why those times work. I am myself very productive during those times but only for analytical work. When I need to code, I have to be home with ANC earphones and get lost in the iterations (assuming I'm not stuck somewhere).

The whole idiocy around 5 days a week 9-5 is because people think you have to be in office all that time. People can and do take random half days, hours off to go to the dentist or the doctor or to the post office or whatever the fuck. That's how it has always been. There are very few jobs that require you to literally never fuck off if there's nothing going on. Work adjusts around you if you're a productive person. Some of us can get stuck with shitty bosses and everyone empathizes with that, but for the vast majority of folks, the boss absolutely does not give a flying fuck about when you come in as long as he knows you're disciplined.
Just a note. The NLRB rules on Labor Law ie Union Rules. This is pretty narrow in that you can’t be asked to waive rights that the NLRB covers which are primarily around your rights to organize and the rules that govern those processes. Not employment rights in general.

For the large majority of HN who are not organized (or being organized) this wouldn’t impact them at all.
No, but I think there's a reason you aren't touching at all upon the mechanics of its generation or direction.

Given that even under absurdly generous assumptions you need around five square kilometers, or about 2 ISS' worth, of solar panel area per beam, this omission is not surprising.
They're big. Like, REALLY big.

Think of a 7'+ man who weighs 500+ lbs, carries around knives, and looks at you half-interestedly... like he's flipping a coin in his head to decide whether or not to eat you.

That's a lot of presence to ignore when there's only open field between the two of you.
The lesson, then, appears to be that size of privacy organization does not have a correlated effect on effectiveness.
Data isn’t the only bottleneck. Training models at scale is an expensive and difficult engineering task. It’s something that the “data is the new gold” people always seem to overlook.

And then even if you have the data and the engineering talent, it takes competent leadership to deploy a product and shepherd it to success. (Looking at Google’s graveyard here)
A lot of severance stuff is questionably enforceable. Discrimination lawsuits can still be successfully brought under a number of circumstances. You can’t just put a clause in it. This is especially true if the employee is laid off and forced to sign immediately.
An Editor Recalls Some Hopeless Papers [pdf]
No it's not. Being polite is human. It exists in every culture in some form or another. And besides, who are you to judge anyway?
Hey, whatever gets me insurance, IDGAF if it's true.
Honestly if knowledge workers are sort of dialing it in unhappily with minimal productivity after X hours and labor/service/on-call workers can keep plugging away for Y>X hours then there might be some win-win there in terms of quality of life and wage inflation.
Have you worked with Bain or BCG? Are they any more competent?
Anyone managed to reverse engineer the original prompt?
Really? Does Midjourney have a civitai.com number of models, extensions like LORA and textual inversion? Does Midjourney have a controlNet alternative?

I’m asking, I have no idea. I was under the impression that MJ was a easier to use toy. I didn’t know they were close let alone Mj superior.
If you can change sex without changing chromosomes, I would really like to know how it is possible to produce sperm not being male.

I was only stating definition of male and female. If someone believes for example, they are Apache Helicopter, good for them.
> would love any feedback on this.

It's a great feature, however I suspect that you may get too many "I'm flexible" entries relative to how flexible people actually are. In practice I'm probably flexible on equity expectations if a well known engineer/founder wanted to partner with me - or X MM had been secured for funding.

While it might be too much information for a profile, allowing individuals to indicate equity preferences for specific company valuations in their match preferences might guide both parties to the right deal.
Any tips for level 26? I've been playing around with the idea that the three numbers represent coordinates but without much luck. Also, the 'inverse' thing is throwing me off.
The problem is that all the aggressive proposals come far in advance of the technology actually being even remotely ready (robots don't serve me meals from McDonalds yet, the minimum-wage worker robotic replacement hasn't happened - it probably won't happen in my lifetime).

They're somewhere between reactionary efforts to strangle the technology in the crib, and just completely misinformed naval-gazing by people with nothing better to do - proposing fictional scenarios to argue about rather then dealing with real data.
(Haiku developer here.)

I would trust the NTFS driver pretty implicitly at this point both for read/write; it's based on NTFS-3G, and following the rewrite I did of the Haiku-specific parts of it in late 2021, appears to be very solid in testing.

The EXT2/3/4 driver is also very good, but there may be some issues remaining there. However I haven't heard reports of it destroying data.

The FAT driver, on the other hand, has some cases where it has been known to corrupt directories. It could probably use a rewrite; most of its code dates to the 1990s...

Those are the "big 3" of other filesystems, anyway. I don't think there's a status page for all of them.
They will just glom on to some other cargo cult. It was Six Sigma and the Capability Maturity Model and PMPs as far as the eye could see before Agile, Inc. figured out how to package and sell itself via SAFe and certifications.

Companies like Capital One will inevitably be seduced by the next great idea and will avoid hiring real leadership at the product and team level at all costs.

Decision-makers got to their lofty corporate positions because of how well they play the game will do everything in their power to make sure the game continues.
Aaaargh, why do people do such stupid things?? Because they started doing it a long time ago when it wasn't stupid.
Hmm. Restricting AI would restrict real voices. But unfettered AI also restricts real voices. There is no path that does not restrict real voices. The best we can do (analogous to the welfare fraud case) is maximize the real voices, which in practice is probably going to mean a brutal crackdown on AI content. (It's easier to do AI fraud in volume than it is to do welfare fraud in volume.) Some real, human voices, with valuable things to say, are going to get blocked, and that's bad. But more would be unheard without the crackdown, so we kind of have to do it.
ChatGPT has really bad understanding of anything spatial:

> A is 1m left of B, B is 1m above C, D is 1m right of C, E is 1m below D, and E is 1m right of F. Where is F located relative to C?

F is located 1m above and 1m left of C.

This kinda makes sense since it's trained solely on text. Ours depends on vision and body sense, and things like "left of" are layered on top of that, so I think we might not fully appreciate just how complicated the concepts of orientation etc are when you cannot do that kind of layering.
Recruiters are always selling and networking, regardless of the number of openings to fill. If there are few jobs every reference call is vital sales call to fill the account managers funnel. This is why, especially in slow times like this, you don't give references until after the technical interview.
A few layoffs in Microsoft Sydney too.
Any sources for what you claim?
What are you talking about? I'm not mocking anybody. We have app store reviews because it's a known fact that not all users read or care about permissions. My point is simply that those safeguards exist for those users and they seem to be working rather well.
You need a reality check if you think life today for most people isn't materially better than 50, 100, 500 years ago thanks to improvements driven by capitalism.
AFAICT there's no noticeable difference in TDP between the desktop and laptop versions of Apple Silicon chips. There may be a difference in thermal cooling efficiency though, in which case you might want to check for online reviews on whether or how much load will lead to thermal throttling for the particular hardware you're considering.
Vanderbilt used ChatGPT to console students after MSU shooting
What better way to ensure freedom than to give everyone the chance to take risks without fear of destitution?
I knew someone who had accrued so many PTO days that he started using them to take every Friday off instead of losing his PTO. That reminds me that I should check my PTO balance.
It does. The caption for the top image, "Gif: YouTube - Wilson Basketball" links to the video.
You can do this if you hire the right people. The only “process” that always works is “hire right people and the F out of the way.”

The problem of course is that there are waaaaay too many software developers and roughly 93% are terrible at their job (this is just simple math, take anything and put millions of people to do it there will only be 5-7% that are actually good at it).
It's not the authors who are being hurt (not directly).

A publication that promotes visions of futuristic technology as entertainment is now being DDOS'd by a futuristic technology.
Silent Air Menace?
Customer websites being hijacked and going unnoticed for years is incredible levels of incompetent.
That seems to be true of almost any significant technological advancement. I would argue that the proper response as a society is to socialize the benefits of these developments in order to stem the otherwise inevitable spreading of the wealth gap. I'm sure someone will eventually call me a commie for such wild notions.
Layoffs in Amazon Brisbane.
Having your private property rights enforced by police is an instance of a social safety net. It’s helping you do things that would be much harder or impossible to do by yourself. So is modern agriculture, medicine, engineering, etc.
There have been lots of RPC protocols. Here are some still in use.

Transport level:

* Sun RPC [1]. QNX still uses this. It can run over UDP or over raw Ethernet. It just transfers an array of bytes and gets an array of bytes back - marshalling is a higher level problem. It handles messages bigger than one packet, and retransmission. It's simple and performance is good, but there is no security.

* Stream Control Transmission Protocol. Telcos still use this. It's how Signalling System 7 is sent over IP.

Although many implementations exist for both, they've never been popular outside their niches.

Marshalling level:

* CORBA - you define interfaces in a special language and compile them. Data is not self-describing.

* SOAP, from the XML era.

* Google Protocol Buffers - another system where you compile definitions.

* HTTP/JSON - where we are now.

Plus a lot of Microsoft-specific stuff.

Either you have a system where both ends have to exactly agree on format, you have a verbose format with unneeded description data in every message, or you have a very complicated negotiation at connection time. This leads to much disagreement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_RPC
> unless AI is open-source and truly owned by the end users

This misses the deeper reality, in my view. AI is predicated on and bootstrapped by the free labor of others. Even if it were “open source” and “owned” by end-users, AI fundamentally requires people to do free work. That’s the problem with it.
I get that, but not sure if it's a problem in practice. There are two additional consideration's to make:

1) We may be able to model a subset of chatGPT's abilities as adversarial questions. For example, can we write an AI that finds sources and generates questions that a solving AI should be able to figure out. Can we write a test framework such that AI's can challenge themselves to write optimal code for a given solution. Etc.

2) Like I mentioned, if you're scraping the internet you are inherently needing to build some kind of relevance model. E.g. highly up items answers on stack overflow have more weight. In said situation whether or not the content is written by human is largely irrelevant - if you have a reasonable ranking method than highly ranked content is important regardless of source.
... you seem highly invested in this so I'll humor you.

Even in my original reply:

> If you don't work at Google, convincing your engineering organization into learning Bazel is almost always a non-starter. Who uses Bazel in the wild? Xooglers primarily.

Emphasis on almost since you've missed it three replies now.

What are you even getting at here? I freely admit that some companies adopt Bazel. Many do not. You doing a Bing search to find the ones that do doesn't change that fact.

> Ok great, we agree. You’ve revised your point from earlier.

I haven't revised anything. You misread, but feel free to be needlessly hostile defending a product your current employer makes against a newly launched competitor. I use the word competitor loosely. It's not a good look either way.

> That’s why I’m offering the constructive feedback to go talk to the thousands of active Bazel users to see whether and what they want from a Bazel-lite, if that’s the positioning Moonrepo wants to choose.

Why would they need to talk to people who are actively using Bazel to see if they want Bazel-lite? It's a small population that's already, presumably, well served.

There's a whole other, much, much larger segment of customers who'd love to use Bazel-lite that aren't using Bazel, for many reasons, including the high cost of adopting and supporting it. I'm one of those customers. Unsure why this point escapes you.

Your advice, by the way comes off as attacking their idea and trying to tear it down regardless of how many times you preamble it's constructive criticism.
Can we reduce mosquito bites by wearing striped clothing?
Also, more for future readers, I've heard the PC version has community mods that fix most of the worst bugs! Shame they couldn't have contributed it back to CDPR's main branch .
You should try stable diffusion with fantasy prompt writing like that. Might make something cool, hey, you can sell it!

(I think, I have no idea what the copyright rules are and don’t care, not an artist, but I can make crazy good pictures now)
But maybe you guys are 1.25 developers. I mean if most people are staring at their screens and done for the week on Friday and you're still getting things done then in terms of ideals — because okay I know this needs hashing out in practice— I don't think anybody is going to resent you taking home a premium based on what you put in every week.
Probably; but I do think you need to consider abuse in the early stage of many things, or respond to changes in circumstances (as is happening here). A naïve system design is often open to rampant abuse, and even a small number of abusers can seriously mess things up. How many people are actually sending out spam? Not all that many, on the internet scale of things. If you're not careful a very tiny minority – potentially even a single person – can completely destroy any good system that doesn't anticipate and respond to abuse.

But like with many things, it's indeed a trade-off.

Remember that Digital Ocean hacktober fest a few years ago that caused endless pointless spam to many repositories? The following year they instituted some fairly simple changes which mostly eliminated it. Sometimes even simple changes can be quite effective.

It remains to be seen what the long-term effects are; perhaps once the novelty wears off things will settle down. I bet that at least some of these submissions are people trying to see how far they can get, just for "fun", like a kid with a new toy. Give a boy a hammer and he will discover that everything needs hammering. I have no idea if that's 1%, 10%, or 50%.

Some others are "inspired" by those YouTube ... people ... similar to what happened with hacktoberfest, and that will die down too as those YouTube ... people ... tend to hook in to anything new as a way to sell their nonsense, and this will probably die down. I have no idea what exactly their effect is either.

In short, it's probably too soon to panic just yet; let's check again in a year or so. Maybe things will be better, or maybe not and we'll be stuck with even more poo-poo flung our way by the internet monkeys.
> own the IP-equivalent of whatever it produces, and life will continue as normal for 80%-99% of peasants/laborers working for the lucky few AI-aristocrats.

this wasn't the case for other capital goods that was invented in the past, so why is AI going to be different?

In the past, other forms of automation brought on more wealth, which did enrich the rest of society (on top of bringing personal wealth to the founders).

The only difference is that _your_ current view has been normalized to see the products of that capital goods as normal!
If the reason that I'm allowed to have ads on my blog or in my software products is "because it's my digital property" then that applies to everything, including a browser. Since the situation you're outlining is the absurd logical conclusions of that reasoning then the reason it's acceptable to run ads on a webpage and not a browser must be something different.
I wanted to so bad, but for my project they just didn't work.

Doesn't mean I won't buy them anyway soon... gah, your message isn't helping me!
> operate in the world like us

To operate in the real world like humans you need to have motivation. What is an AI motivated by?
I don't think a browser render counts as creating potentially infringing content. I'm at a loss to explain why but I think it's the ephemerality of a browser render and the lack of a distribution method. Where are you getting the idea that infringement is possible at all by the browser itself, regardless of fair use laws?
I feel possibly realer and more humane than the humans that it emulates.
Lower courts have presumably heard this before and weren't confused by it. Is the Supreme Court uniquely stupid, or is there more going on?
>d) having one protocol with bindings to all applicable ULPs will help us get over the kernel support issues.

Isn't the purpose of QUIC to hide all of this from the kernel, at the cost of statically binding the library to the app (as Go might)?

>Cross-site linking is so incredibly useful that it can't be done without. And now you need a fancy user-agent (browsers), so the web folks built one (browsers).

Just set the MIME to text/plain?
I don't believe ordinary balls would experience the same level of degradation simply because the pressurized air inside is most of what makes it bounce
I think another component is that lowing costs will have an immediate impact on quarterly financial reports while firing devs will mostly have a delayed impact on revenue.

When many companies are juking the stats by lowering costs with layoffs then it puts pressure on all other companies to do the same because they are all competing for finite investment dollars.