skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a small logistics company for a bit. Looking it up, their revenue is $5.6M annually with 50 employees. Ignoring the operational costs, the revenue per employee is $112k. When factoring in operational costs, benefits and such, if the company is paying that much, it is losing money.

The city where it's based out of has a median household income $55,000 and a per capita income of $30,000. When I was working there on the wages that I got I was comfortably above what my neighbors were making - and way below what you'd make at a more profitable tech company.

Tech companies are easily making $500k to $2M revenue per employee. Microsoft has a profit per employee of $315k and a revenue per employee of $918k. If I was to go to work for Microsoft instead, there is no way that the small logistics company could pay me enough to be competitive with that offer and remain profitable.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm (from which you can get a customized table)

Columns are percentile wages in dollars. Data is for "multiple occupations for one geographic area (nation)"

Occupation (SOC code) 10th 25th median 75th 90th
Overall (151250) 60820 79320 102930 132070 167810
Computer Programmers 47560 62840 93000 122600 155240
Software Developers 64470 90870 120730 151960 168570
Software Quality Testers 48960 71910 98220 124550 153250
Web Developers 38280 51100 77030 100670 129760
Web Designers 38550 57220 79890 126110 168200

This doesn't take into account stock or bonuses - just wages. Nationwide, most software developers are "just" comfortably paid at an amount far less than the big tech companies or startups trying to compete with big tech can offer.

For the median developer, a big tech job will always be able to out compete others on wages. And the big tech job is (up until recently) always hiring. Much of levels.fyi represents that 75th and above percentile compensation. But most developers are not working there when looked at on a national view rather than a west coast view.
I've had showdead on for years, as I don't always agree with the 'moderation'/groupthink
Question is if they allocate it in ways the democratic majority wants it to be allocated.
>the people should band together, put aside the market system, and produce all 5000 units. More people are served.

You just described a command economy, which have a poor track record historically.
The downvotes this received amplify my fear for the future of this species.
Knowing nothing about the bill, the title of it tells me it's something that will compromise online safety -- and indeed, seems like it.

The one tasty morsel here is the (unprecedented?) threat of holding corporate executives criminally liable for harms. Of course it's over something so nebulous as "would someone think of the children!?" -- I would love to see this become more of a trend over the massive harms corporations are routinely causing and getting away with.
Patents are interesting. IIRC, Apple has a patent on a method of creating a fast Gaussian blur by combining multiple low-radius blurs to create a large radius blur in real-time.

I remember looking into this because I was so confused how Apple could create a fast real-time Gaussian blur with a large radius with no latency.

Even game developers fail to do this, utilizing other blurs like box blurs instead to create the effect.

Turns out this approach is mathematically equivalent or such a close approximation that it's visually indistinguishable.

Not related to laptop speakers, of course, but just a thought that came up as I was thinking about patents on small but important concepts.
> I can't help but wonder who's pushing this "AI safety" narrative, and why.

After watching Facebook evolve the last ~20 years, I think a bit of skepticism is warranted.
Yes, I think you're right.

I was first thinking of laws, but they are slow & contentious to pass (esp with one party consistently acting in bad faith), so I quickly landed on copyright, which of course has all the problems you cite and more.

Maybe start with (C), and pass laws to implement your solution? Or, maybe there's a way prosecutors can leverage existing laws.
Aside from dumping a very large amount of compute and human-supervised learning into existing technology, what major progress has been made in the past six months?
1) Should horses be banned from human consumption in California? I don't find the concept of eating horses appetizing, but morally speaking, is there any difference between eating say a cow or a goat instead of a horse or donkey? Why should one be legal and the other is not?

2) At a casual glance, this feels much more like an FDA or FTC issue than an Amazon flaw. Even if nutritional supplements are less loosely regulated than regular medications, this supplement advertising itself as "100 percent pure, natural herbs" seems to be misleading enough to warrant some scrutiny from the government solely on this basis. Is Amazon supposed to be the one with the expertise to determine if a supplement is legal or not if the manufacturer is making an arguable false health claim? Is Amazon supposed to be the government now?
Perhaps if they had focused on developing Firefox OS they wouldn't have to put up this.
> Very few libertarians talk about what it would really be like to live in an “anarcho-capitalist paradise”.

Actually, a lot of libertarians have talked about that – and it's pretty much a solved problem. I can't recommend any particular resources in English, but if you happen to speak Russian (or don't mind doing a bit of Google Translate), https://ancapchan.info/ talks a lot about this for example.
F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org

Also all apps there are open source, I see this as an absolute win!
26,000 light years is a freaking long way away.

The fact we can determine -anything- is mind blowing.
With respect, this is backwards. This is recipe for burned out and isolated employees that have no buy in or ownership of organizational goals.

>What I want you to do is concentrate on the tasks in front of you and do those well. You shouldn't be caring about the total amount of tasks to do, or if we are going to finish the project on time. That is my problem, not yours.

Most likely you're not a perfect oracle and therefore will not be able to do what you describe here. So you're already set up for failure by attempting to shield the team from "politics" or however you would describe them.

>People with a lot of work assigned to them will report how stressed they are and how they are working too hard.

No they won't. At the point someone is telling you this, they are burned out. In which case you already failed and now you're behind the curve with a burned out and alienated team member.

I suggest you take a step back and evaluate how you view yourself in relation to your other teammates. If you believe you are smarter or better than them then you need to re-evaluate whether you should be in management.

Your job as a manager is to care for your employees without being parochial, giving them as much information as appropriate (which is USUALLY all of the information) while ensuring that they have the tools and environment that fit their individual working style, and mediating between team members to align incentives across the organization.
Semi-automatic.

I have a Solis Perfetta Plus. Grinder is a Eureka Mignon.
its only unsound if you are using standard summation. That is not the only kind, nor is it the only useful kind. The same can be said about zero or negative numbers, or the real number line. Those are also "fanciful fictions"
Seems like a clusterfuck:

"Johnson & Johnson has registered the symbol for their medicinal products."

How did this ever get approved?

"The appropriation of the symbol has led to further irritation due to the practice of hospitals, first aid teams, and ski patrols in the United States reversing the symbol to a white cross on a red background – so undoing the original idea of the Red Cross emblem, namely reversing the Swiss flag – thus inappropriately suggesting an affiliation with Switzerland."
Life inside one big text file (2005)
That's not true - they are not always passed on to the customer. It depends. Unless the corporation has a monopoly, it can not just increase the prices. There is a concept in economics called elasticity of demand, to simplify, it states that with increase in price there will be a drop in demand. So corporations have to balance, and in most cases the tax increase will be shared between the consumer and the corporation.
> If you're talking about language integration, I've got no quarrel with that

I am. Because we are talking about these mythical Java programmers who couldn't do something that Vim would have done in seconds

> I won't beleive your assertion, however, that this invalidates the benefits of learning Vim bindings

And the reason to learn them is because there's a fairy tale of some programmers not doing the job that we're led to believe could be solved in seconds in vim.

> If you're talking about normal minute-to-minute text handling and creation of text files

Are we? Let me remind you: "I have quite some anecdotes about e.g. creating integration tests where my colleagues wouldn't test something properly just because doing so would involve 10 minutes of drudge work in their simplistic editors, instead opting for "deploy & pray" when the task was totally doable in a couple of seconds with a Vim macro."

Oh look. We're literally talking about programming.

> we're at the point where I have trouble believing you.

Let's start with your fairy-tales before we come to believing or disbelieving what I wrote.
I think its both.

AI stuff has made some legit impressive advances recently.

A bunch of people interested in getting rich quick smell the gold rush.
>> John Rennie’s New London Bridge of 1831 was relocated to Arizona in 1973 and replaced by today’s three-span version.

And they all lived happily ever after...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_Cit...
Speaker engineers have been doing this for decades too. Not necessarily by the specific method chosen by Apple (didn't read the patent), or with laptop speakers, but dynamic control of signals to achieve greater loudness within a specific power rating has been a thing for a long time AFAIK. Here's an example:

https://testing.eminence.com/d-fend/
They’re “louder and better״ for techno fans who like the sssssst ssssssst ssssssst.
> this has all happened already , but we're observing it now.

In a real sense, it only happens when the light from it reaches you. Reality propagates at the speed of light.
I think this sort of skepticism is healthy — I think explainability and overfitting doesn't get enough attention for example — but AI strikes me as a bit different from crypto in that it's creeping into our everyday lives. Instructors are wrestling with assignment submissions, you wrestle with the uncanny valley in customer support lines, and people are posting about their troubled relationships with Bing in various places.

If crypto had been showing up everywhere to the same extent, I think these discussions would be a bit different. That's not to say there isn't rampant hype in AI but I do think there's a continuum from blatant fraud to truly life-changing tech with plenty of grey, and AI is closer to the genuine end of the spectrum.

My guess is AI isn't monolithic either, just as I don't think crypto was. Some areas of AI will probably end up having been overhyped more than others.

I agree with the sentiment of the post that sometimes I think semi-fraudulent to outright fraudulent overhype is a defining feature of our time. I wish the institutions responsible for public discourse would approach things accordingly.
You don't need to be dismissive - demonstrating what can be achieved with a lot of data/compute and additional human-supervised learning is progress.
They look vaguely like demonic sigils, but I think for me its more the sharp black/yellow contrast
Yeah well, they should, but again they pay so good that it’s not really worth arguing about.
I think of it as the difference between understanding a lot about water and knowing it's made of hydrogen and oxygen versus building a microscope that can actually see the molecules and atoms interact. You can predict a lot of the behaviors via understanding the macro effects of these objects, but when you can finally the (scale considered) micro effects you may observe some deviations from your theoretical expectations.
I suspect that there are plenty of Crypto enthusiasts who would say the say the same thing about crypto - the tragedy is that if the grifters are successful it's going to poison the AI market for another 5-10 years.
We took on a client on Azure 4-5 years ago. something happened to my MS account at that time, that made it impossible to sign in to a random subset of MS services (it would either report that the pw was invalid, or I didn’t have permissions).

It was something like two accounts existed in the system with the same email address and one of them had permissions, but we couldn’t sign in to it and the other we could sign in to, but didn’t have permissions and there was no way to grant it permissions.

I spent several hours with MS support over a few days while they tried to sort it out, reset passwords, sign in via different systems, etc. Eventually they recommend we create a new account.

I stopped working with Azure clients, instead.
Even though the sign shows the test tube holders, what it invokes in my mind is the image of dust or skin mites under the microscope. Those that look like alien monsters with claws and armor. DANGER, Will Robinson! Weird, but that's the power of association.
I think this is supposed to be a general technique that can be applied to any classification algorithm. Whether the performance is practical for DNNs is another matter. As I understand it there is ongoing research in the area. I think there is overlap between the inventors of SVMs and conformal prediction, so that might explain why they are mentioned!
Cool, but I asked for a Big Mac, and so did 99.99% of the world.

You're just in the 0.01% that would have stopped and listened, just like you're in the 0.01% that would buy his album or go to his concert.

My point is that classical music soloist is a niche hobby, just like my playing cards collection is a niche hobby, and that to expect that more than 0.01% of the world would stop on their way to work to look at my playing cards collection is simply laughable. This whole article is a joke.
It is for this very reason that I have a half dozen Microsoft accounts, Google accounts and so forth. Using your personal accounts for any business purposes is likely to end up like this either sooner or later (when the provider decides to change some organization schema).

Given the advent of and ease of use of password managers, I'd rather just have another set of credentials than risk the inconvenience.
Maybe it is smaller blackhole with gas around itself
I generally like to have the catchalls come to me. If they get spamjacked, then I'll block them. Has not been a problem, to date.

These weren't frequent, so it wasn't a big deal, and I didn't want these to get lost, as they were of critical importance to the people they concerned (like life/death jail/free stuff).
Privacy is a human right that needs no justification.
If spying on a passcode is really the only way to get into an iPhone I say Apple is doing its job.
It's easier to not understand the risks. It takes extra effort to understand AI safety problems and more effort again to solve them. People who blow off AI safety are being blithe and not engaging the arguments.
Probably a C level. They don’t need control over accounts to get an account recovered.
Learning languages like these feels like the premise of Arrival(2016) where learning a new language expands the way you think about and solve problems. I'm trilingual like most Indian people but I suspect learning languages like Japanese or Mandarin which use a different, pictorial way of representing words would be a similar way to improve cognition.
Small scale paid writing is going extinct. I can't even envision a sustainable way to fight it... just imagine when we have specific "SEO" or "Amazon" optimized finetunes.

But truly free writing (like AO3) might be OK? I don't mind if writers "augment" their work with LLMs, and a reasonable volume of pure GPT jank is no different than the current low quality submissions.
Most é (like the one in your comment) are just encoded as U+00E9 but manually creating it as a combination and testing on Chrome it does just convert back to being an e on paste.
> sold 28,000 copies

Which is a really good amount, isn't it?
The Astrolabe: The Original Smartphone
We still have choice of jurisdiction for cryptography projects. Look at Liberland[0]. So the UK is fast becoming a mini-china. Just don't do crypto projects there then.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdj9k/inside-liberland-a-cr...
1978 Basic Super Star Trek Game Meets 25th Anniversary
Oh hey I’m quoted in this article as a cautionary tale :D

It is true: Migrating ~10 years worth of Wordpress mess to markdown that can be slurped in by something like Gatsby was a pain in the arse in my case. So many strange little things regularly broke that I’m pretty sure some are still broken. Naturally I no longer had source files, just what was live in Wordpress.

Also a word of warning – host images yourself. So many lost images (and links) on my site due to link rot. Makes me sad

But I now have all my content in text files on a github repository. The next migration will be easier.
I don't get the enthusiasm for raising money from corporate income taxes versus individual income tax. Mr. Rich Moneybags pays the same corporate income taxes per share of Berkshire as Joe Schmoe, whose entire retirement pot might be a single BRK.A.
>This is weasly language for "price gouging". There's literally no problem with Qantas just selling the seats they had at reasonable prices and then saying, "sorry, no more seats available".

>Instead, you're trying to portray it as totally natural and just that they take advantage of any circumstances to squeeze as much out of their customers as possible.

Would you not have done the same? Seeing that we're on HN, there's a good chance that you took advantage of the pandemic tech bonanza (ie. tech companies paying astronomical amounts for developers). If you were currently making $150k, and some tech company was offering you $250k, would you turn down that offer because you want to sell your labor "at reasonable prices"?
Given the centre of the Milky Way is about 26000 light years away, shouldn't the title read "was" instead of "is being"?

And if so, wouldn't adherence to HN's context policy require suffixing with a "(23977BC)"?
“We” refers to the WSJ hive mind of employees.

In the dark ages before ChatGPT, the only access individuals had to large language models was through the editing process that newsrooms use to harness the power of dozens of human brains. These archaic processes had severe bandwidth limitations that prevented the level of individualized interaction that we all benefit from today.
How about EdgeDB? Never used it, but I found it when looking for a similar thing to you after reading this article. It's built on top of PostreSQL, uses it as a storage engine and provides a NoSQL interface to it. It calls itself a "graph-relational database."
I make experimental electroacoustic instruments. Even when I'm not at my workbench, it gives my mind a constantly unfolding playground to explore.

I can't keep a beat or play conventional instruments at all, so I design my own music systems that let me make music my own way.

Most of these experiments over the past few years have been with a device I call the Electroduochord which is 2 strings with 2 used electric guitar pickups and a rotary magnetic bow.

https://github.com/spDuchamp/OSCRMB
GPUs aren't need for blockchain. Bitcoin is stuck in the past and is a shame it's what everyone looks at, along with the misnomer "cryptocurrency". Ethereum is the leader in the space and the only one innovation and uses PoS which can run a validator on very little hardware, such as a raspberry pi.
> consequences for false DMCA requests (it amounts to perjury, a prison sentence in some jurisdictions)

> it also follows that the victim could seek damages

In practice, no-one has ever been prosecuted for filing a fraudulent DMCA request, and civil suits against offenders, while not unheard of, are quite rare.
>>the keys are migrated to a school account.

>>Of course he has his important files in cloud storage anyway

So MS's defective key system is pushing people to keep their files in the MS cloud? When a defect in one product pushes users towards are more profitable/addictive product, that isn't a defect. It sound like the plan to keep users hooked into the MS ecosystem is progressing nicely. Once upon a time it was Apple getting its hooks into users while at school. Now it is MS.

Does one still need an MS account to play minecraft?
Definitely not the same people. I think it's by someone who was bitter that 'mainstream' science didn't respect their crackpottery, or something like that.
> Unsurprisingly the real reason is “Apple was granted a patent on this over a decade ago and no one is risking an Apple patent infringement lawsuit over laptop speakers”.

It is not exclusive. I cannot believe that there is only one way of doing something like this. They just need to care enough to put some R&D money into this.
Maybe this helps people understand what they are doing at index time.

* Version 1. Ask the LLM to describe the code snippet. Create an embedding of the description. LLM generation + embeddings required.

* Version 2. run the code snippet directly through the embedding API. Skip the LLM text generations step. Now run the code snippet through the bias matrix and finally index the resulting embedding.

I assume this only works b/c they fine tuned a bias matrix on code snippet and text pairs. Feels more like a light version of transfer learning to me.

The article was a little unclear in the actual approach for V2 so if I have anything wrong please correct me.
I lived in a place that did contact tracing for SARS-Cov-2 and it definitely worked. Other places in Canada had large outbreaks they had to quell with extensive lockdowns to prevent hospital overwhelm.

Nova Scotia did extensive contact tracing when a case first appeared and often could get rid of small outbreaks without additional measures (beyond border controls.)

The spread of SARS and MERS around the world was via airplanes. That doesn’t mean they for firmly established in any population.
In 1984, Warren Buffett wrote an article to address this criticism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-a...
Seems ripe to group-up and buy a pallet, but Ill take two. Now we just need another 20 to be bought...

What about getting the power ut of the panels? What kind of other kit is required to accomplish this? a transformer and marine batteries?
Disapppointing summary from someone whose imagination should allow them to see more.

Generative text models might spit out "garbage", but this "garbage" has been more interesting than the garbage we have seen before in how it breezes through the Turing test.

It's telling that not a word was said about image generation, which is benefitting from the same GPU usage, has not stopped progressing, and produces stuff that creates economic value. Like in this example: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-co...

The author seems to identify with VCs too much, if all the AI hype means is more grift. Sure, that might be a factor, but the general condemnation of the sector is too much.
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EFF perhaps. They have lawyers.