skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re missing the entire point the op was making.

The fact that these queries are correct are not because that is the intent of chatgpt’s “query engine” it because it just so happens to have been fed data that synthesizes to something sane this time (vs confident crap any other time).

Compare this to a database where queries are realized against an actual corpus of data to give actual answers.

The purpose of Chatgpt is to provide fluent gibberish when given a prompt. It’s a LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL. It’s only able to give you response that looks good for a language (over a distribution or words), not anything actually knowledgeable.
Ask HN: What do you think about rust enthusiast?
In real life I've noticed most low level people think rust is silly or uninteresting.
---I for one think its nice and memory leaks are bigger problem than thought, I also don't think C++ will be able to fix.

----However the proselytizing of rusters, notably on reddit.....Sometimes I just want to create a big fat noodle nest C++ program with raw pointers thats so fast and unconstrained that memory leaks into mainstream vernacular.

Think about the nested loops with no memory deallocation, circular data structures with self-referential pointers. Memory leaks so big the rusters won't have any bandwidth left to give sermons about lifetimes and rewrites and other non-secular talk.
So much speed and no cargo to hold me down.
> Define woman simply

Define love. Define consciousness.

These words are fractals, simultaneously simple and complex. It’s alarming that we’re unable, as a matter of discourse, to accept this useful ambiguity anymore.

At its simplest, a woman is a person who identifies as such. At among its most complex, it’s an empowered expression of femininity. That there isn’t a single definition doesn’t make the word bad, it makes it human.
Ironically, I noticed that in the Posthog Website (as is the case with a number of other companies).

I think the best option would be a mix of the two (which AWS does). You have a tileset of companies which "use" your product, but you also back that up with individual testimonials which link back to case studies on your blog.
Interesting. Hadn't heard of a scheme like that before. Appreciate the explanation.
Ask HN: How does YT do live captioning and make it look like a TV show?
I just saw on the live SpaceX docking video, the captions were appearing before the narrators even said anything.

It was subtitled like it was pre-recorded instead of the traditional letter by letter scroll.

Are they just delaying the video? Anyone know how they are doing this, technically?
On the false positive rate of bloom filters [pdf]
Yeah, these interviews can be a knowledge base. You could have links to past interviews by category for people to read through. But do give people an option if they want their interviews publicly listed or not. Great for practice and clarity of thought.

Edit: Just read my own chat again. I did the "interview" quite hurriedly. I can't believe how far we have come with these tools. I think a lay person who is not aware of this technology would not be able to discern that the interviewer is not a human and that's saying something.
Why not just use a SQLite db ? Far more size efficient than JSON.
I think this has been covered in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687205

On a related note, a number of us from IBM pronounced "SQL" as "Squeal", mostly to irritate Ted Codd when he visited Almaden.
$30/hr is very affordable. Maybe try to pick up some clients on UpWork or Fiverr? It’s very common for all communication to be digital.
That's more than the median income in the US
I concur on the magical thinking. Calls for a new Carnap are a bit excessive though. The position displayed in the article is fringe. It does not in any way represent the academic mainstream.
Meta releases LLaMA, a state-of-the-art foundational single-gpu large language model
Part of the reason rule based language processing failed, is because language does not fall into hard and fast categories with no exceptions.

Normal people instinctively understand this, and “woman” and “mother” are completely understandable and useful terms, even if there are a handful of exceptions out of millions are exceptions to the strict definition.
> “Protecting pay for store closures…and for workers who leave early or are sick” also doesn’t really make sense in an _hourly_ work environment.

Yes, it does. Hourly environments can (and some do) have paid leave for special circumstances based on, e.g., scheduled time during which the special circumstances prevent work. I’ve seen this in both private unionized environments and public sector (union or not) ones.

Some of this (e.g., paid sick leave) may be balance-driven, whereas paid leave for closures, and external events which force early unplanned shift termination often would not be, since these conditions would be decided by management, but the decision would trigger paid leave for individuals impacted.
Andy Weir answered this already. The moon is on Kenya time.
This needs moving one hand back and forth though. Maybe pedals? When I think about it, perhaps humans need more outputs :)
Then the rebuttal to OP isn't that they're remote, it's that they can pay salaries competitive with other US companies.
Teresa made millions for personal gain while their institutions were reusing needles, had no medical training, and were essentially torturing sick people.
Yeah I don't think using the chatbot to have sexually explicit or romantic interactions is a good approach if the end-goal is a human match. It makes more sense to have the role of the LLM be the outgoing/socialite friend that knows what you're looking for, and vice versa with who it matches you with.
Yeah a companion bot is the future of dating profiles.
> your statement is incorrect because trans men exist and they can get pregnant

So that’s an edge case. They can call themselves a mother or father or birthing person or pink elephant. That shouldn’t mean someone else can’t identify as a mother or father or whatnot.

This isn’t even a novel delineation; adoption and surrogacy have long dealt with the separation of parenting and reproductive roles. Besides, history’s foremost feminists would cringe at womanhood and motherhood being reduced to a biological function.
> accepts Medicare and Medicare won't pay for a procedure

Dermatologist accepts Medicare and Medicare Assignment but Medicare won't pay for cosmetic surgery. Sounds fair.

> Medicare limits the ability to which non-participating providers or providers who accept assignment can charge patients for additional services beyond what Medicare will cover

First, non-participating providers can charge whatever they want; they're non-participating and not bound by Medicare rules. After that you'd have to show me the rule that says a participating dermatologist can't charge what they want for cosmetic surgery.

Medicare has rules for what they cover (What's Covered) and what they'll pay (Medicare Assignment). Medicare Advantage has some rules but it also manages your costs and their profit.
Why it is weird? In both cases, as the GP said, the concept of womanhood is being erased.
> but how people respond to them speaks volumes about who they are

Does that mean they are bad, immoral people? I think equity is faulty concept. Seems like an attempt to create equality of outcome by policing language. But I'll defer to arguments made by the likes of Sam Harris, Julia Galef and Coleman Hughes. Or the Atlantic author of this article.
I am almost certain the person who told you that was offensive was not someone from the group allegedly being offended, but by some person from a highly educated privileged background deciding to be offended on that group’s behalf.
I largely agree with your first paragraph, but I do think the term “birthing parent” is important in contexts such as parental leave policies.

“Mother” could be inadequately specific in situations involving same-sex relationships, surrogacies, and/or adoption. For example, Washington state offers up to 6 weeks of medical leave to the birthing parent, in addition to the 12 weeks of bonding leave that are offered to both parents.

Policy language needs to be specific and able to accommodate minority or edge cases.
Humans (or a human in singular, all humans might actually be easier in a sense) probably can't be simulated into the future very well at all. A human brain is a highly chaotic system, so the ability to simulate it would be affected by the inability to get precise state information in the first place (probably bumping into uncertainty, if you could somehow even get that far), and after that I suspect you would get massive divergences due to quantum effects. If that's not enough, if I suspected I was being simulated I would fuzz my decision making with fundamentally unpredictable random numbers to put a stop to that problem. Probably something along the lines of the quote "all processes that are stable we shall predict. All processes that are unstable we shall control" would work better. Just brain chip everyone so they can't diverge from the simulation.
Does your noodle code solve a customer problem? Solving customer problems = immortality.
This isn't a simple definition!

But I'm OK with this. One of the original people demanding "define a woman" was a law maker. If we're making laws that use the word woman we need to have a stringent definition.
This sounds like it would fall under

"Earns trust"

For the Amazon leadership principles.

(From an Amazon cdo engineer looking over at aws, nothing official of course)

Developers gain trust in AWS lambda by having it support the current runtimes, and keeping the old ones running for a long time. Lambda will always run the functions you want it to.

For some tension:

When I've taken free beers to chat with the lambda folks, it seems like they have a linearly growing oe burden for each new runtime version they support, and at least 4 or 5 years ago, I couldn't see a path towards avoiding that
I'll play ball here. What do you classify intersex people as? Especially those born with either completely mixed gonadal representation or genitalia? Are they neither male nor female? These things are bimodal in distribution, but they are not perfectly binary.
> we're making laws that use the word woman we need to have a stringent definition

Not ex ante. That’s the strength of common law. If you have a problem with this, consider why we need laws which define womanhood. (Yes, I am an ERA proponent.)
Yes, I disagree that fining a company with nearly $117 billion in revenue a billion euro is “large.” That’s “cost of doing business” money, not any kind of punishment or deterrent.
Not if intellectual property law has a say in it. Big tech is here to stay because they have amassed so much IP that it's almost impossible to create something they can't pull a patent for. If we are to have true innovation, we need to start revoking patents not in use.
I don't have a need to define 'woman'. Can I have an example where I would need to make a binary distinction where things aren't binary?

What is a reproductive class?
This is more like a cult than a hackathon especially if it’s crypto which has no redeeming qualities.
XX instead of XY. The fact that 1 in a million people is neither a man or a women has no bearing on this fact.
> I’ve taken lunch to school in paper bags that were literally brown

Are you sure they weren't a certain shade of orange?
I was looking for open alternatives to self hosted, or crowd hosted finetuned LLMs like ChatGPT and found LAION Open Assistant. Then found resources to further optimize inference as well as training:

- Open source fine tuned assistants like LAION Open-Assistant [1]

- inference optimizations like VoltaML, FlexGenm Distributed Inference [2]

- training optimizations like Hivemind [2]

1 https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

2 https://github.com/underlines/awesome-marketing-datascience/...
Preview: IBM z/OS 3.1, an AI-infused operating system
The concern is that all the humans die as a result of AI researchers who believe or hope they know what they are doing but in reality do not.
I don't know why we need laws that define woman or womanhood. Would you offer an example?

An ERA proponent is in reference to an Equal Rights Amendment?
Totally agree. It's insulting.
In Australia yes - many big companies now ask you to put your preferred pronoun in your email footer.
I saw the link and thought from Tenderlove? Is this a reference to Initial D? And he didn’t disappoint :D

I guess we can now listen to Eurobeat while programming in Vim.

Let’s start with Running in the 90s. XD
Axel Springer says journalists could be replaced by AI
> One of the original people demanding “define a woman” was a law maker. If we’re making laws that use the word woman we need to have a stringent definition.

We don’t (and, contrary to a sibling comment, this is not particular to common law, it applies in civil law jurisdictions as well, though it may be more true in the common law). If every word in law needed a “stringent definition”, the law would be so full of definitions you’d never be able to find the rules that actually apply them to the real world. Laws sometimes need stringent definitions, and they sometimes need disambiguation between plausible alternatives that don’t actually require a stringent definition, and sometimes they get by just fine with no definition at all.
Realistically I think what has happened is the puritanical culture has donned new clothes. Blind subservience and self-flagellations to ever increasing standards of a sacrificial victim sky man who never asked for these things in the words they twisted, replaced with blind subservience to sacrificial victims in the present who one again, never asked for these things in the words they twisted.

It makes me feel like a pawn in their own self-actualization, not someone they remotely ever gave a thought or care about.
The whole thing is NOT about the app, it is about the provided service.

Some companies are becoming base infrastructure and so they need some regulation. What do you think if your piped water company would refuse to sell you water just because your house number ends with 8?
Scooter as in a type of motorcycle with a step through frame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(motorcycle)
They are heavy and stable, unlike the standing type.

They may be less dangerous than a bike because they can go quite fast, matching the speed of cars when riding on the road, which helps you avoid dangerous situations in which car drivers try to pass you without enough space to do so. Good bicycle infrastructure can minimize this, though it doesn't seem like Denver has it.
Isn't that mostly a result of how much you want to focus on the outliers? XX male syndrome is estimated to exists in 1:20000 - 1:30000 people. It's so rare that we have a name for it. Somewhat like rebutting to what a car is by arguing that a handful of cars through history actually had two wheels. And yes, I'm aware that XX syndrome isn't the only outlier but the point still stands.
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These days a generation (major version) can be under a year.

How far back do you lag to feel safe?
A significant problem is earbuds. People wear them anywhere: walking in the middle of auto traffic, in saunas and pools. Unless a cellphone is visible one
may not realize a person is in a conversation.

Years ago It was depressing to see someone talking to himself in the middle of a parking lot; now it's an everyday occurrence but not madness b/c there's a real conversation.

Every now and then I ponder whether the cellphone and earbuds combo hasn't become the perfect disguise for schizophrenics.
It would be great if every interview was like this. But I see system design, even at top tier companies, to be similar to leetcode. An algorithmic problem with a standard solution, where the interviewer is looking for that standard solution. There is more degrees of freedom, but not really. Interviewers are looking for memorized answers from the same few prep materials.
Reminds me of Norm McDonald commenting on Patton Oswalt saying the worst thing about Bill Cosby was the hypocrisy. But he thought it was the raping.

https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1437871709911195655?s=...

I doubt slaves care so much about being called slaves or enslaved people, but having their freedom and autonomy stripped from them and treated horribly with no avenue for recompense.
Electricity is a natural phenomenon, yes, in the clouds, maybe elsewhere. But using giant turbines to generate electricity by manipulating the electromagnetic field mechanically, thus harnessing electricity to flow into wires and into our homes required a lot of invention.

We also invented a method to refine electricity into nanometer sized channels and sinks that enable bits that enable computing.

Nuclear fission is also a natural phenomenon. And we invented bad things with it. But also some power plants. Meltdowns aside.

Inventions aren’t good or bad. People are. If all soldiers choose to lay down arms the weapons lose their badness.

I don’t see ML systems as they currently are, to be nuclear bombs i.e. the end. But rather akin to the nascent forms of harnessing electricity with basic inventions and their basic functions.

Invention of electricity contributed necessarily to the creation of computing. And ml systems will contribute to many developments. Time will tell.

The coming apocalypse has always been us, not the things we create.
> I don’t agree because not all interviews work that way, especially for teams that write cpp and c — they don’t let candidates interview in JS for instance.

I think this is a bit of a special case since these languages are largely restricted to specialized domains these days. I don't think many people are deciding between building a Web app with Python or C.
I acknowledge that language shapes the way people think. But the replacement of cost-benefit analysis and evidence-based debate with arguments regarding the connotations that different words pull in has been a huge mistake in my view.

There might have been a point at which language policing was done in good faith. But I strongly suspect that the replacement of the word felon with the term justice-involved person is essentially attempting a fait accompli on a debate regarding the extent to which convicted criminals should be considered culpable for their crimes. The problem with this mode of debating is that winning correlates with the ability to wield social power, not with having facts on your side.
> Maybe that's what you want :shrug:

That just seems rude...but to the larger point, there are a lot of signals that you can pick up if you have the ability...if you have zero ability to read people and you can literally only understand if they are answering abstract technical questions correctly, you as an interviewer would probably better be replaced by a web form.
> don't know why we need laws that define woman or womanhood

I don’t. And I’m struggling to play devil’s advocate, which is uncommon.

> ERA proponent is in reference to an Equal Rights Amendment

Yes.
Was about to post this!
I can't tell if you're referring to the phenomenon of banning words, or the phenomenon of criticizing banning words. The first sentence makes it seem like you're referring to the word-banning, but the second sentence is about magazines, which makes it seem like you're referring to The Atlantic (which is criticizing the word-banning).
Who is banning words?

I feel like people are deliberately misunderstanding what a style guide is.
"Mail carrier" instead of postman started in the 70's. Same with "flight attendant" instead of stewardess. This has been going on a long time.
I’m going to start using this terminology. It’s good to have simple phrases for this. It’s so much easier to say “I’m not going to engage in perpetuating a purity spiral” or “your not helping anyone by continuing the purity spiral long past the point of helping anyone who was genuinely affected by this”

It’s short and pithy, and it can sort of cover the core concept without needing deep academic understanding of the social dynamics involved.
> If I was an AWS exec I’d say managed runtimes are legacy, with the introduction of containers move to containers for new deploys.

If they do that they remove one of the key benefits of AWS Lambda and that's that customers don't have to care about the underlying operating system and just have to care about their function code.

And I'm sure if they'd would look at the numbers of how many AWS Lambda Functions use zip packages vs. Docker images they'd see that something like >90% use zip packages. Based on that they'd be insane to deprecate the use of zip packages.
I'm not entirely sure how to parse your comment.

Did you notice this section?

>Equity-language guides are proliferating among some of the country’s leading institutions, particularly nonprofits. The American Cancer Society has one. So do the American Heart Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the National Recreation and Park Association, the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, and the University of Washington.

>....

>Public criticism led Stanford to abolish outright its Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative—not for being ridiculous, but, the university announced, for being “broadly viewed as counter to inclusivity.”

Even if no one is arguing back, it seems like the language police are winning.
> If the companies involved in the current layoffs are, by your definition, "efficient", what would you make of Apple [1] in this situation? Super really efficient?

I’m going to first answer that question by speaking about the $BigTech company I know best because I work their and my RSUs are worth half their all time highs - Amazon - and the industry I know best - cloud - because I work at AWS.

Amazon Retail thought that the Covid induced online shopping was going to be the new normal and over hired.

AWS didn’t really get hit with layoffs (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-employees-amo...). Azure also didn’t suffer layoffs (https://www.channelfutures.com/business-models/microsoft-lay...).

Google has so many useless money losing products and the attention span of a crack addled flea. No one ever accused Google of being well managed. I can’t speak about GCP.

Apple outsources most of the people who build its products. While Apple hasn’t laid off people, the contractors who create its phones who work for Apple for all intents and purposes have laid off people.

Facebook now is down to its employment level of a couple of years ago.

My moral would be fine if I was working for Facebook [1] for a couple of years at FB salaries. I would have saved more than I already do.

And many 2nd tier tech companies aren’t profitable. The easy money ran out.
[1] I don’t hate myself enough to work for Facebook.
I personally believe that 2 things have greatly affected P2P communications. Anonymity and attempting to hold meaningful conversation strictly through text. When we communicate with text we cut off non-verbal communications that are a major source of interpreting the intent of the speaker and the receptiveness of the listener. In-person conversations are constantly adjusting what and how things are said depending on non-verbal cues. This becomes impossible in text only communications so the words have to convey everything and word choice the dominant replacement for non-verbal cues. The fact that we are communicating primarily via text these days has spilled over into in person communication. IMHO