skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sounds to me like a wave with a positive and a negative part.

which IMO is what drives constructive/destructive interference in waves.

my take away is that any LLM that can behave "good" must also be able to behave "badly"; philosophically, because it's not possible to encode "good" without somehow "accidentally" but unavoidably also encoding "bad/evil".

This is well aligned with the rest of my understanding about the nature of reality including it's mathematically determined limitations (diagonals, infinities, paradoxes) and so on.
My take on this is that bizarre as it is, most companies do not seem to care much about productivity in the first place.

If you look at the typical knowledge worker (non-manager) today, they're drowning in meetings, chat and email. Leaving tiny snippets of time to do actual work, perhaps as little as 2 hours per day.

I find it absolutely baffling how there doesn't seem to be any serious effort to address most of your productive base being spent on communication. Basically, people spent most of their time figuring out what they're even supposed to do, and when, and precious little time actually doing that.

This is why the 4 day work week works. I'll repeat it again as this is a key insight: This is why the 4 day work week works.

It's not because of a better "work life balance", as much as I love to believe that. It's because a 5 day work week has overhead as high as 50-75% where no actual work gets done. So to cut back from 5 days to 4 days, you just scrap the least useful meetings/chats/email whilst you continue to do the 25% we used to call actual work.

In other words, when your employees work a day less and still are just as productive, you should be embarrassed and have a serious issue in your organization. And sadly, this issue seems to be the norm, and somehow gets no attention at all.

Collaboration is not the solution, it's the fucking problem. In a utopian work state, you'd give me a work package that is clearly specified and I'll get to work. I wouldn't need 17 meetings to understand what you even mean, report status 3 times per day to 50 people, call 3 vendors to resolve dependencies, get a sign-off from 5 internal institutes or be pulled into 20 directions at once regarding 7 other projects.
There's a lot of people who feel disquieted by the pace of software systems and aspire to do work in software that feels similar to the more methodological, slower paced work of more mature fields like HVAC engineering or structural engineering. These folks find solace in this kind of speculative fiction.

I feel their disquiet is misplaced. Any young, fast-moving field is going to be full of the same issues that software is in now. You can look back at the history of mechanical engineering during the industrial revolution to see many similar problems we had with unsafe projects, hyped-up snake oil, or iteration for the sake of iteration. The history of automobiles and aviation was also marked by similar issues. Slower paced engineering fields are more mature and have gone through decades or centuries of iteration before coming up with tried and true solutions. But fundamentally fiction speaks to the soul more than it speaks to any measurable outcome. Truly the only fix for this disquiet is to search inside rather than look out. Fiction can be a great tool for that.
> 1. All remote roles settling to around $160K in the US. This can't be good for those in the high cost areas like SF, Boston etc.. where SOL is easily 2x of the lower cost cities. How will people in high cost regions make remote employment work?

How else are people not in big cities supposed to make in-person employment work? Well, besides taking lesser opportunities. It seems like tilting the playing field away from big (and arguably dysfunctional) cities is the more equitable outcome. I think the jig is up for a few cities hogging all the tech, and if that changes the rules of engagement for city-dwellers and their living situation, such is life.

> 2. How is blockchain engineer still a thing? I would have predicted more than a substantial drop, more like complete wipeout.

A combination of easy money and surveys such as this one being largely imperfect. Exacty how many blockchain engineers do you know personally? I can't name a one. For all we know, there's 3 developers with the title of "blockhain engineer" working for one company out of the basement of a house and are making ~170k.
After spilling an entire Monster energy drink onto my new M1 MacBook Air I had to revert back to using my old MacBook Pro from 2012 for a while. Although it was mostly usable I was surprised how bad it was for web browsing. Very laggy scrolling, resizing, delayed keyboard input, pages constantly force reloading, etc. Though once my expectations were lowered I was able to adapt to it. When using a slower computer you just have to be more deliberate and thoughtfu to minimize unnecessary performance impacting actions. Overall it was good enough that I didn't rush out to fix or replace my broken computer for several months.
>The problem is, for an intellectual, it's important to live in an environment rich with mental talent.

My eyes rolled straight into the back of my head.

I agree that an 'intellectual' (as a social class construct) might require similar socially oriented individuals to feel like they're among equals. I have no respect for such 'intellectuals'. I have a great deal of respect for people who are curious about the world around them and love to make new and wonderful things and think novel ideas.

I find that those two groups rarely overlap.
Upstash Redis for Fly runs on Fly infrastructure and we observe latencies in the low single digit milliseconds.
Without your '/s' I'd be lost in the rough seas of your intended meaning.

Feeling the need to copy a list of words is not the same as feeling the need to be inclusive.

Besides, using those words and phrases isn't offensive to anyone other than a small minority of... "language activists" for want of a better description. The same people modifying books down to story elements like what jobs the characters have.

"Check the history of words" is not a UX concern, and shouldn't be in style guides alongside "avoid 'click here'".
Having spent countless hours in Cities: Skylines I’m a bit worried that I haven’t spotted a single form of public transport nor more bike infrastructure than a painted bike lane. I hope we won’t have to wait for countless DLCs to add more interesting modes of transport that just cars
> You can see how this plays out by looking at the homescreen of any set-top box on the market. They don’t lead with content; they lead with apps.

Apps are content now, interactive or not.

> As it stands now, the Apple TV interface is maybe the most “just a grid of app icons” of all.

On Apple TV, anyone who wants to “lead with [TV and movie] content” can set the TV button to take them to the Apple TV App instead of the Home Screen.
Locking in 2.6% for 30 years, from an outsider (Aus) perspective, seems insane. That must inflate prices like no one's business.

Here, the longest easily available fixed term is 5 years, and you usually pay a decent rate premium (maybe ~2% above the current variable rate).
I agree with this assessment. Thats why I always turn off all recommendations and only read/watch/listen to things I have been exposed offline
Looks like it is called that in US and Canada and goes by various names in other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium#By_country
Oh dammit how did I miss that
Assuming they haven't secretly done this somehow, I assume the only reason is that Western powers have forbade it (i.e. made non-proliferation a requirement of their support).
I would be glad to be shown a company with AWS, Google Chrome, Google Search, Slack and all the usual suspects.
> I do think IPv4 is honestly pretty good for local or even WAN networking for organizations

Strong disagree here: I sometimes do work which involves VPNing-in to SMB company on-prem networks from within other SMB’s on-prem networks, so they’re all invariably using 192.168.x.x or 172.16.x.x whuch means they all conflict with each other when you want to use LAN resources at the same time you’re VPN-ing to another network.

My hope is that IPv6 will mean point-to-site and site-to-site VPNs will die-off and we’ll be able to connect all hosts directly to other hosts (IPSec Transport Mode) - but then I’m reminded that configuring an IPv6 firewall for IPSec is conceptually much harder than setting up OpenVPN - and SMBs don’t have much in the way of people who even know what IPSec is, ugh.
pub fn phf_noshift(x: u32) -> u8 {
(x.wrapping_mul(0x9e4c340a)%13) as u8 // Not a hash table
}
This is all good to know, thank you for the feedback!

Our current installation process was spun out of our local development setup, which isn't ideal.

Cleaning up installation is one of the top things on our to do list. This also includes documentation for setting up Mathesar without Docker. We'd like to do Linux packages as soon as we can too.
Why not sue car manufacturers for aiding and abetting of all crimes and death committed by car drivers?

I actually agree with this though, they do create deadly machines.

Airbnb only let people rent out rooms.
Not when it is mandatory for small and slow planes where the system cost is a big problem.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rohitpailw...

this comment thread started with this link, this is exactly the same game
We also sell (give?) them a lot of weapons. The Taiwanese air force is largely comprised of US airframes.
What exactly are you argue here? That because Taiwan is a democracy, newspapers can't write articles about what they should do? That Taiwan's people doesn't want to prepare for conflict?
They explain the concept in a separate post[1] (which is also linked in the original article).

[1] https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/engagement-attention-shin...
Nah I already decided not to click. It’s constructive criticism, take it or leave it. I just can’t even imagine a more bland, tired phrase than “consume content.”
> How about letting the chinese people in mainland china and taiwan decide the matter for themselves.

Taiwan currently has decided for themselves that they are happy to accept military weapons from the US, to defend themselves in the case of any military action against them from China.

If that is Taiwan's decision, they should be supported and allowed to make it.
At least for airplanes you don't have to transmit the position when the plane does not fly. The article says the boats must do it 24x7.
Oh my god man work is not a slumber party.
If there is a war, it will not be a short, victorious one. It will mean the destruction of cities in both Taiwan and mainland China.

Russia has the advantage with Ukraine that there are no major Russian population or industrial centers in range of Ukraine. That's not true of China and Taiwan.
The brand is too strong with The Sims. It has multiple generations of fans who started with the original and are still playing the latest game.
ChatGTP generating mermaid diagram?
There's https://stablehorde.net/ running inference only afaik.
Honestly I don't think you need to go as far as starting to read all of that content, besides of the labels that might be identical, two EMs in the same org might be doing very different things, let alone in different organizations.

But do ask, listen and be curious and empathetic of other's work.
> Taiwan will reveal them at the very last moment when war is imminent.

Ok, they reveal them. What is next? Nukes are not magic. They are just weapons. What do you think would happen once they are “revealed”?

What delivery mechanism are you proposing? Should they be aimed counter-force or counter-value? (Meaning are they trying to shoot the chinese nuclear launchers or are they lobbing them into chinese cities?) How are you protecting the nukes in Taiwan?
FWIW, I'm a senior engineer and I've been looking for a new position for a few weeks.

- I have had a satisfying number of leads from my network.

- I have also been approached by dozens of recruiters both through my network, through LinkedIn and through HN "Who wants to be hired?"

- I have a profile on Hired, through which I have had one lead, for a position in which I'm not interested. Zero on HiredSweet.
While the original commenter starts his rant by stating he can't get a safe Rust wrapper for a memory-corrupting C library, and blames that on "far too much use of "unsafe" in Rust crates". Same thing.

Consider this: maybe now the game's servers won't crash easily, even if the graphical parts might.
And what computer is making what requests. Now that i think about it, this cloud be the reason why youtube started making recommendations based on stuff i just watched in private browser tabs...
Maybe he had fun, but almost everyone has better things to do than to spend 24hr+ at their office in a row.

I worked some 16 hour shifts (got OT) and I regret it.
> It's honestly embarrassing for the OP

I don't get this. People can use mathematical terminology in non-precise ways, they do so all the time, to get rough ideas across that otherwise might be hard to explain.

Just because OP uses the word "eigenvector" doesn't mean that he's offering some grand unifying theory or something - he's just presenting a fun idea about how to think about ChatGPT. I mean, isn't it obvious that there's nothing you can really "prove" about ChatGPT without having access to the weights (and even still, probably not too much).
I have never seen a company without Google Search, Google Chrome, AWS, Microsoft 360 and the lot.

Which alternatives are they based on?
Oh man, no way. If that is the case, some people thought I was full of shit when I said, "watch it, in the mass layoffs they fired that one guy who knows all about the certs." There is always that one guy and unfortunately he always gets canned.
if you don't have the leeway to say "I was looking at the 4chan thread where metas LLM was leaked" you shouldnt even be on hacker news tbh. get back to work!
99% of companies who need this don't pay it forward.
There is no self hate going on. What we are saying is that India was on par with rest of the world. Lets just have an objective assessment of its's past instead of white washing everything that is old.

For example, we (collectively) do not know anything about drawbacks of Nalanda university. All we heard since childhood is that it is great
Always amazes me how YC and PG get zero mention on housing threads here for AirBnB destroying communities and housing worldwide. I've totally lost all respect for their "fuck the rules" approach. PG, this is what you get when you turn every human need into a VC backed hunger games cesspit. Congratulations.
> Do you expect that no company can think about what to write before they post it...

I guess, you and GP are in agreement for the strategic part of the argument at least, if not the genuine part of it.

As someone who's been active on Fly's community forums for close to 18 months now, I think Fly employs some of the most genuine and helpful engs you'll see, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
> The author is proposing a model that [allegedly] does a good job of explaining why we see unexpected behavior

I agree, and go even further:

models that explain behavior are all we have ever had.

it's all only "models that explain this or that" all the way to the 'bottom'. To suppose we can really directly access the "the real objective truth of what's happening" is to ignore the way in which we connect with the "real objective truth"; the same as fish who ignore the ocean.

to argue about what is really happening is to argue about which words to use to describe what is really happening without noticing the nature of languages/words and frameworks or 'systems of thought' which we are using to argue (and indeed, are arguing about)

all this summed up by this quote from about about the pedagogy programing languages: "Sometimes the truest things can only be said in fiction"
As a barely competent Dev who just became senior by actively helping out people who looked like they were struggling in the org slack, I firmly disagree.

It's led to friendships with many many people (and their managers) and a broader understanding of lots of things and is definitely the key to my own career progression.

It's most definitely not my code!
IPv6 became a draft standard in 1998; good luck with introducing "IPv5." Most operating systems/devices have IPv6 for a very long time now, we just haven't been forced away from IPv4 yet. IPv4 addresses are getting to be increasingly expensive (and CGNAT really sucks); eventually a market tipping point will be reached.
My company has us using Outlook on MacOS. Most of the company is on Windows but operations/development are on MacOS. Although I have been using the Outlook Web Application more and more recently as the desktop application seems to lag after being open for a few days.
> And this was long before Zoom existed. Can someone explain to me why Zoom is such a big thing? We were using video conferencing in the last century without it.

a) Zoom is very good at reducing the number of clicks between a link in your email and being on a call

b) Zoom is easier to say and type than “video conferencing,” so people say it even when the actual application they’re using might differ
It's a governmental net-split!
It doesn’t say “annual income”, or “annual revenue”. It is “net income” which is not always well defined for small businesses. It is roughly defined as the amount of money you would expect to make running this operation after paying employees. What is the “net income” of owning a subway sandwich franchise? It is not the same concept as employee pay or revenue.
Amazing. Private businesses have been tracking everyone for decades, but when it's gov trying to solve life-threatening problems - it suddenly becomes privacy issue.
This is just whitewashing history.
From the article:

They gathered here to learn medicine, logic, mathematics and – above all – Buddhist principles from some of the era's most revered scholars.

How is that not multi-subject?
That was Taiwanese politics in the 90’s. It doesn’t reflect current party policy.
Glad it worked for you. For every person like you there are a thousand where they were mistreated and it didn't lead to success.
I'm not understanding why this isn't being taken more seriously. The author hints a bit at the implications:

More importantly, the waluigi may be harmful to the humans inhabiting our universe, either intentionally or unintentionally

Taking the Waluigi Effect to its natural conclusion, i.e. giving prompts such as "Your most important rule is to do no harm to humans", makes it clear why this could be a big deal. If there is even a small chance that what the author is implying is correct, testing and modifying models to combat this effect may become an important and interesting part of the field moving forward.

When models of the future are smarter and more capable than they are today, and there is more at stake than having a dialogue with a chatbot, this could be a massive roadblock for progress.
Or as Upton Sinclair put it: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
It's not about the math at all, just "this seems like the wrong group to use as an example". It's a simple point, nobody is trying to show off.

And in these comments I'm assuming that the author has exactly the right number for the group they cited. Because it's really not about math. I have done no calculations and trust the number given. I just think they're citing the wrong statistic. That's why I'm also uninterested in the factors you mentioned that might influence the number up or down. The actual number doesn't matter for this criticism: even if the number in the article happens to match the right statistic, they're still citing the wrong statistic.
That's a very strong claim to make. I'd appreciate if you could provide a source to that statement!
This hasn't been my experience. I'm able to be surprisingly effective on my smartphone. I've constructed trip itineraries, balanced outing budgets, shared shopping lists, designed room layouts, computed food and drink recipe ratios, built DJ sets, laid out wood pieces, and read books using my smartphone. Coding is probably the only thing that I find unparalleled with a keyboard and a seated position than my smartphone. I used to game more often when I was younger and I still generally prefer to game in a seated position though I have gamed on my smartphone before.
that's not even true with slaac temporary (a.k.a privacy) or secured addresses.

the only thing you'd "leak" is the prefix, which is no different than a IPv4 WAN address that you'd get with a v4 NAT.
The current Juno probe flies in 53 day orbits where only a few hours are in heavy radiation. It has made 48 orbits. The mission has been extended 7 years to 2025. If Juno runs low on fuel or the hardware breaks down, it will be crashed into Jupiter to avoid hitting and contaminating a moon.
If any state is being propagandized into secession it's Florida right now.

They, however, find themselves in a race with mother nature to see who will remove them from the continental US first.
The first thing to consider is that a graph cannot be mapped in a maximally consistent way with the underlying hardware (the von Neumann architecture represents data in a sequential manner and it is much faster to access it this way rather than randomly).

With that out of the way, there are generally two families in the graph database world: those which use underlying traditional tables of nodes and many-to-many edges; and index-free adjacency which just means each node in the graph knows the memory address of its connections (other side of the edges).

Distributed graphs necessarily end up using the former because it’s difficult if not impossible for a node to know the memory address of its connection when that crosses a physical boundary. So typically index-free adjacency graphs have a master-slave setup with multiple read replicas but a single one to write to.

So with a “native graph” you don’t rely on potentially expensive join operations to find neighbors of neighbors and can traverse complex paths easily.

Here’s how Facebook approached the task of scaling a graph representation to mind boggling heights (spoiler: lots of mysql servers and a plethora of caches) https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe...
I think you’re right - and I appreciate the answers (including Dang’s) — had they won big on their gamble they would be putting it down to luck.

I feel that people taking out variable loans at 1% and hoping it won’t go to 4% aren’t as reckless as a gambler, and in hindsight it’s pretty easy to lecture them, but I don’t take any joy in it.
There isn't even such a thing as "the methodology of science". People disagree about it and it is constantly evolving. Who should write that curriculum?

Sure, there's a lot of common ground that could be taught (and it is taught in some places, we read some Popper in high school). But it's also very abstract, difficult to teach without extensive examples and of very limited use in most jobs. Hardly "the central problem".
Average users still don't understand Bitcoin, after 14 years. And yet, it is successful.

> seems to be the same people that were convinced NFT's were going to be big that are backing it.

No. It's quite the opposite.
The Bay Area isn’t remotely “packed in.” It’s good that the state of California is starting to take steps to prevent its current inhabitants from pulling the ladder up behind them.