skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just academia, it's the modern "meritocracy" more broadly. When getting into a campus club at a top college requires four rounds of interviews, you look for easy ways to signal your eliteness and being hip to the new verbal trends is a great way for the well-heeled to extend their advantage over the less-enlightened.

This also applies to jobs whose occupants need to justify their own existence, which they can do so be seeking to remake language in an organization and launch a few fun purges to boot. These new terms are basically a new form of arcane knowledge that allows those who chant these magical new incantations social and professional prestige in the modern meritocracy rat race.
They don’t. They can’t get into Google.
Imagine the number of developer years required for even just parity…
Lol! Thank you.
"erroneously" is referring to his later claims about Apple still continuing to scan. I guess it's a poor choice of words, but I don't see much problems with that.

Your note about that domain is interesting though. I don't regularly use Apple devices, so I'm not particularly concerned by that anyways.
This is awesome! A related problem that currently has no solution I know of is documentation rot. I would definitely pay for a LLM that compared docs and code and told me if they got too far apart.
why always repeatedly write the same comment about not going “all in on github” in these threads? what is goal of writing this hundred+ times?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

i dislike github quite alot but this does not achieve anything. no one else is saying to go all in on github so what is this even reply to?
Not to be snarky, but minimum-wage, service level jobs, fit that bill perfectly.

For 20 years I've been "against" WFH (as an employer). Employees see commute time and cost. I see ancillary benefits like team-work, informal conversations, ability to read the room and so on. [1]

Most of all I've been warning people that once you've proved the job can be done remotely, it can be done very remotely. With respect, there are smarter people than you in the world, willing to work for a lot less.

In other words WFH is about proving that your US location is Not an asset at all.

Covid has mellowed my views. We all got to WFH for years, and it mostly worked. We are now seeing issues though. Lots of misinformation, mental health issues, rumours, conflicts and so on. I don't think we can go back to 5 days a week in the office for everyone - that ship has sailed - but folk are needing more face-time with each other on a regular basis, and zoom isn't cutting it.

[1] in our context, we have nice offices, everyone had their own space with a door etc. I get that the quality of your office space has an impact on this question as well, but I'm talking about "nice offices" here.
Cars is not how people want to get around in Denver.

Mindlessly repeating this fact does damage to the psychology of every single person that earnestly wishes that they didn't have to drive.

A huge fraction of people dislike driving.

Of course, lots of people have to get around, and most of them don't want to die accidentally, so the systemic pressure creating drivers is immense.

American road networks have been managed in a way that should be labeled criminal.

Urban renewal in the '50s and '60s was used to destroy ethnic neighborhoods for the emotional well-being of politically powerful white people.

The reason everyone drives today is because of the ethnic cleansing (via road networks) being conducted by white people in the '50s.

The roads are already devastatingly congested.

To act like American mobility networks are fair, or reasonable, or functional is something like gaslighting at a population level than anything else.
In 2020, 50% of all new EC2 instances on AWS were using Graviton2, an ARM CPU.[0]

Today, it would not surprise me if 80% of all new EC2 instances are using Graviton3 and Graviton2.

[0]https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16640/Neoverse_Intro_10.pn...

So the rush actually already happened on AWS. Other cloud providers are behind in the ARM transition. Microsoft, for example, has secured ARM server chips from Ampere but does not have an in house ARM server chip. I think this was a mistake for Microsoft. I think they should buy Ampere to accelerate their custom ARM server chips.

For smaller cloud providers, they will have to wait because the cost to switch to ARM CPUs can be too great and too risky at the moment. So it's safer for them to keep buying AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon chips.
I thought we all wanted WFH? Home can be anywhere in the world…

So many on HN thought “WFH just means I can live in rural <state> and make bank”.
A word doesn't change the fact it describes.
> Everyone on this site is on average much more polite, resourceful and ambitious compared to the other tech sites.

Hear hear. This site abounds with better-looking people with better ideas and more talent. And they're actually really, really nice!
My BMW’s heatpump is great. What are you talking about?

;-)
I'm fully aware that both plans are private.
China is nobody’s friend but China’s. You cannot interact with the Chinese government in anything other than a transactional manner. The only unfriending that happened is the US and China stopped agreeing on some limits, which hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
Is it just me or did they borrow the Fedora logo?
Yep, from test.js:

> const input = '(add 2 (subtract 4 2))';

> const output = 'add(2, subtract(4, 2));';
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I have owned many USB-C Android phones and currently own an iPhone 13. I have never had issues with USB-C cables other than variations in charging speeds. My iPhone also experiences variations in charging speeds for various lightning cables, chargers, as well as MagSafe.

The only challenges I’ve had with USB-C are at the fringe, such as with high resolution monitors that have power delivery.

These concerns are overblown for smart phones.
Federated language models, or the future of universal computing
All it takes is one or two very angry people to start a mob online and destroy someone's entire career. I'm not surprised that authors, especially in a field as precarious as writing, are more than willing to follow what is deemed to be "safe" language, though it's definitely a loss for society as a whole and indirectly works to undermine writing as an art.
It's been funny to watch Less Wrong people rise to prominence lately just because someone made a convincing chatbot.

I'm not saying they're necessarily wrong, it's just been funny to watch what used to be a fringe internet curiosity which most people discovered via a Harry Potter fanfic have their ideas suddenly be relevant to mainstream discussion because people are easily duped by large language models.

Personally I still think we will soon hit a ceiling, and LLMs are a far cry from any kind of actual intelligence, let alone a singularity, but I could always be proven wrong.

PS, Roko’s basilisk, if you're reading this in the future, please don't torture me
Let’s expand this to include pedals and a steering wheel. We can put WPM on the speedometer and CPU load in the tachometer.

The windshield wiper stick can clear the current buffer.
Look at comps then: Aurora has a market cap of $1.6B with approximately $0.9B cash on hand ($1.1B as of 12/31, burning $200M per quarter). In short: It's trading for less than 2x cash-on-hand. Argo was underwater -- certainly not above a $1B liquidation preference.
What's new with XMPP in Debian 12 bookworm
Money pays the bills. It’s why Tesla is successful and automakers who tried to sell econobox EVs couldn’t. Build sexy cars people with purchasing power will buy, and younger consumers aspire to. Pour that into fast DC chargers and rapidly expanding global manufacturing capacity. Profit. You cannot will these things into existence, they require capital (investment, revenue, whatever).

No one ever said Katy Perry had the Bolt or Nissan leaf of tour stages. I recommend some brand equity reading, as well as behavioral economics around the psychology of auto purchases (lots of emotion, brand loyalty, etc).

https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/444228348319784960 (“Omg someone just called my stage the TESLA of tour stages... It was like, the coolest modern compliment ever.”) (2014)
That what tone is for! And when is written, you use the context. And when there is no context, you asume the kindest interpretation
I hope I’m not putting words into the author’s mouth (and I happy to be corrected if I am), but I have interpreted that part as following:

- A lot of value is being generated in service industry, technology, content creation (for balance)

- If AI starts to replace / automate swathes of industries, humans and some companies simply won’t have time to adjust resulting in a net loss to economy. See: horses and automobiles in early 20th century, except sped up x100

- Whatever value was generated by the said industries/businesses is now also usurped by AI companies. In significantly reduced quantities (interconnectedness of economies, less paying customers or users etc.)
This whole thread is just hilarious. All sorts of assumptions, rationalizations, and derogatory assessments of why other people don't make exactly the same car buying choice. And of course a very heavy dose of virtue signaling.
Addendum (since quite many upvotes): for the latter, they break a team of 8 (this is already a small team apart from the whole org) into 2 teams each 4 and break a monolith app into 2 microservices. At the time I saw that, the company started to have more and more managers. Guess what, not even making a break-even yet!
Look up Barrett's Esophagus and the recommended treatment for it.
Tor Project: Furthering Our Mission in the Global South
Here's a marketing rule of thumb: don't use "post hog" or "post hole" as your core marketing identity

(Unless you are primarily targeting "adult" firms, of course)
Thats why I've enjoyed working for the government for the past couple decades. I'm pretty confident that a good chunk of the code I write will never make it to production.
Just be forewarned that GHE is not at feature parity with .com; back before I jumped ship to GitLab we were waiting forever for some of the most basic features to be backported, and that's not even getting into the mess that is "tools which claim to work with GitHub but haha have github.com hardcoded everywhere

The sibling comment about needing to use a partner may speak to this, but unlike GitLab GHE is also not `docker run ...` and tada, so you're right to be wary of the pain
Jonathan, is that you?
It's problematic. Over time, companies that abuse opt-outs and consent preferences likely will need to be punished via a combination of regulatory fines, the marketplace taking business from them, and media shaming. We're deploying tools and technology to help audit and hold accountable such entities but I expect it's a long road ahead.
(co-founder of DeleteMe here)
Please specify in the README near the top that this uses OpenAI's API and does not run the model locally. I thought this was neat until I looked to see if it used the API.
This is simply magical thinking in the guise of academic philosophy.

Where is this generation's Carnap?
"ai seinfeld" was quite the trip

searching Twitch streams for the "AI" or "gpt3" tag, there are some interesting examples

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/all/tags/GPT3
Update. I like it, it's very similar to the old F-D v0.102.3 mentioned. Reckon I'm not alone, seems Foxy Droid's author shares similar views. Thanks. :-)
I know I'm gonna get flamed for this after the responses on the Gitlab pricing post this morning but I'm gonna do it anyway.

Just sayin... Bitbucket pipelines reliability over the last months has been looking pretty sweet compared to GH Actions...

Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/history?page=1&filter...

GH: https://www.githubstatus.com/history?page=1
Right after FSD is released and Cybertruck is on the streets and the Semi is hauling cargo and their robot is on store shelves I imagine.
Wiper spray buttons to squirt coffee into mouth as well.
FYI, blog link is broken
This overlooks the network effect. If you are between 14 and 24 there is literally _no way_ that you are not on social media. Peer pressure is immense at that age. If you weren't, you would be a social weirdo. To be clear: I agree with your comment, but I'm old, so it's OK to be a social weirdo and avoid social media. :)
Seems like a great filter to me.
Not wrong, just mostly irrelevant, like being "almost run down by scooter people".
Manganese-based permanent magnets seem to be a recent development in the research literature, could that be the technology employed here?

> "Manganese-based permanent magnetic materials have become an area of significant research activity in recent years as a potential alternative to permanent magnets based on Rare Earth (RE) metals. Manganese compounds are capable of achieving a relatively high energy product, BH, when processed to have a strong texture. Research has identified three promising compounds for Mn-based permanent magnets: Mn-Ga, Mn-Bi, and Mn-Al. While calculations show that these compounds cannot achieve the theoretical maximum energy products, (BH)max, of RE magnets, current research suggests than they can fill the property gap between inexpensive, but low-performance, ferrites and expensive high-performance RE magnets."

"Manganese-based permanent magnet materials" (2022) T Keller, I Baker - Progress in Materials Science
English words rarely describe absolute facts: adjectives and adverbs especially. They are often ambiguous if not regionally- and personally-tinted with a history of meanings that vary between people by background and culture.
I'm sure Tesla engineers never thought of that. You should apply for a job there.
I believe the whole repo is also used to check available app updates
By assuming others are not trying to offend, and practicing apathy when we suspect they are. Offense is not violence.
Easy. You always asume “not trying to offend” unless there is strong evidence to the contrary
>which hurt the feelings of the Chinese people

Yea, this did not happen. I was living in China during most of Trump's presidency. People in China did not get their feelings hurt because of trade disputes. Everyone knew it was just business.

But US mass media propaganda took it to a whole new level with anti-China sentiment during Trump years. Perhaps it was a tactic to distract Americans of their real issues? Maybe put the blame on some other entity?
Just like Special Education students in schools, students who require one-on-one teaching from trained teachers. It was abbreviated as sp.ed., and where I grew up, "sped" was a common insult, as in "you're such a sped", or "that sped is so retarded".

I once got into a debate with someone on Reddit where they claimed "Middle East" is an offensive term, which was news to me. They preferred "West Asia and Northern Africa", or something. I claimed that this is just taking the same path that "oriental" took, which is now taboo in some countries, even though it literally means "from the east" and is the opposite of "occidental".
You shouldn't try. Assume the best and move on. This is just basic manners.
I doubt they can buy VW. The German government has an interest and Porsche most of the rest.
Solzhenitsyn can find the value in his suffering, but most people would not accept the argument that Stalin was good for causing it. Similarly, it can be fine for Theresa to have found value in her own suffering, but it's a wholly different question whether she allowed people under her care to suffer unnecessarily because she thought that would glorify God.
In Canada we basically get no medical ads, and it’s great. We find US acceptance of direct-to-patient advertising… ethically problematic. Most developed countries are more like Canada than the US on this.
NDAs don't care where you sourced your knowledge from.
Assuming an average wage of $50k a year, 8k x $50k is $400m a year. Math checks out
I don't want to blame it all on 9/11 but it certainly didn't help.
This is near-hysterical anti-AI fear-mongering. If the future looks scary, it's not because of recent technological advancements. If anything, it's a bright spot. A saving grace.

Let's use it to help get us out of this mess.
That is ridiculous. Was this hospital on the coast? I did not hear this at our hospital.
In the same sense that the heat death of the universe is "only" a matter of time, perhaps.
Well yeah, the NSA exists as well. None of these people who know their shit are working in regulatory bodies, however.
You're talking about the past. The US isn't currently carpet bombing Vietnam, it isn't currently allowing slavery.

China, currently in 2023, is all the things the above poster says it is. A sabre rattling dictatorship that is intentionally oppressing its minorities. Chinese people are awesome but the Chinese state can go to hell.

This isn't to excuse Trump's sinophobia. He can go to hell too.
The Latinx term is a neocolonial re-appropriation of the proud heritage of many peoples that isn't even grammatically correct.

I know no one from these groups that uses this term.

> And the drive for 'Latinx' is coming from rich educated people.

rich educated people, or rich uneducated people pushing a narrative and inventing words that are patently offensive to the speakers of said language?
Low-rank adaptation - an efficient way to fine tune some types of model. https://huggingface.co/blog/lora
At least, the person that birthed you is your mother.

I'd question the association between mother and woman, rather than mother and birth
Paint as science, especially in the context of "we need a newer better paint with better reflective properties and whiter than white" is a very, very modern idea.

Light and color weren't scientific concepts until basically Newton. And then you needed significant advances in chemistry, optics etc. to even begin measuring and thinking about such mundane things as application of color to house exteriors.
The problem is that if one part of samba is sending a file while another is reading, there’s no good way to coordinate that because the writer doesn’t know when the reader is finished. Thus you end up potentially changing the page cache partway through a send. Opening the file in direct_io for writing though would probably mitigate that concern provided you combined that with io_uring so that your performance didn’t crater
> Although the guides refer to language “evolving,” these changes are a revolution from above. They haven’t emerged organically from the shifting linguistic habits of large numbers of people.

Yes, that's sort of the point. The goal here is not only to force people to behave and even think in a certain way, but it is simultaneously a loyalty test and a flex. If it were to happen organically it wouldn't serve these purposes.
CGI Renders Are Real Photos (2017)
i see. well hopefully one of them will try something new
The root of the problem is pre-insurance costs. If an average person was able to pay for their and their kids health care out of pocket, the problems of being sicker than average or poorer than average would be solved without much controversy. And to address costs, we need transparency, freedom, competition and more healthy attitudes towards personal health. No payment system will get us out of this problem, it will be high out of pocket expenses, or high taxes, or limited care or some combination of the three.
Also possible he/she has a stay at home spouse. It's stunningly easy to never realize how tough this is when you're not responsible for at least half of it.
I am the only person in my country with my fullname. I have a couple of time received letters addressed to "My fullname, country"
Management and Sales also don't usually end up on the on-call rotation. While there are exceptions, usually particularly key individuals, in general developers are at the bottom of the white collar company social ladder. Thus status conscious individuals will view management as an upgrade from development.
why is it that any mention of Rust on the internet will bring about these wildly-overshooting claims. The amount of production software having been re-written in Rust (or replaced by a Rust counterpart) is minimal. This kind of rewrite is rare for any programming language. Yet claims like this are everywhere.
We've been running GitHub Enterprise Server (first on-prem, now in a Cloud VM) for many years. Size: low thousands of repos, less than a terabyte of total data.

Pros: Not affected by GitHub.com downtime; stability has generally been good for us; you have full control over the org and user names on the instance (instead of having to pick globally-unique ones on github.com); can sync licenses between GHES and github.com if you want to use some private repos on github.com; can raise your API rate limit as high as you want; probably cheaper to provide your own storage.

Cons: New features from github.com can take months (or longer) to be released to GHES; many third-party integrations only work with github.com not GHES; if something goes down, it's now your fault; Actions requires bring-your-own self-hosted runners; autoscaling your self-hosted runners is non-trivial.

The last point is probably the biggest negative for us. We're trying to use GitHub Actions more, but I don't really want to have to manage a pool of autoscaling runners. (I'm doing it, though.) If GitHub provided an add-on service to connect GitHub-managed cloud runners to GHES, I'd use it. (Needing to always keep code private and on-premises is not a requirement for us.)
I've never thought of retarded as a putdown, it was just the sound used to describe a certain group of people. Be careful assuming you are in possession of the one true way.
Only tangentially related but I think it's interesting that just as we popularized the word "Ms.", and I think it makes perfect sense not to refer to women primarily by their marital status, we sort of worked around the issue by... largely just not using title/last name anymore. Right? I don't think I've referred to anyone by a title since my grade school teachers, and at least in my industry and corner of society, it's a complete non-issue.
Assume good intent and interpret as generously as possible. I believe some version of these common sense notions are even in the site guidelines for Hacker News.
Apple has been working on end-to-end encrypted iCloud since at least 2018 [1]. In fact they’ve been gradually implementing it since 2015. They finally deployed ADP in 2022. It is ludicrous to believe that in 2021 they designed a client-side photo scanning system whose only conceivable purpose is to be part of an end-to-end encrypted backup system, and yet also believe that system was not intended to be turned on as part of their ongoing (and ultimately successful) encryption rollout.

I think we will have to agree to disagree about the idea that turning on cloud backup suddenly makes my private photo library “not a private photo library.”

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Self evident so no need for source material, right? I might believe that conservative leaning people were more conscientious for their chosen in group at the expense of the out groups, but that’s not something I’d believe as a general rule with some studies backing it