skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Standard of living shouldn't be judged purely in terms of "stuff"; that's not how human brains work. There's relative effects ("keeping up with the joneses") as well as the effects of having options and possibilities for advancement ("American dream"). Make those things less accessible and people will feel less well off.

And outside of electronics a lot of physical-goods/land stuff is less attainable in many places in the country anyway.

The problem with non-redistributive approaches is that generational wealth rarely goes away. So if you don't have it, the number of people who don't have to try to out-spend you for whatever you want only goes up as time passes.
In another plot twist TypeScript is supporting the Types as Comments TC39 proposal that would provide a true 0-transpilation workflow.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a-proposal-for-typ...
That is not at odds with my statement. It is only a legal wildcat strike if you request to be unassociated with the union first and if you don't request that while there is a union but you strike anyway, then it is an illegal wildcat strike
Made the larger context needs to be considered. Being in a place at the right time. The choice of lens, the type of camera, the direction of the sun.
A camera captures a moment in time, and that moment will never be repeated.
If AI removes blemishes from a face, it's still a photo of a face, and that face only existed that way in that moment.
low probability answers get shot to a human and reviewed for model improvement.
YouTube allows advertisers to hijack videos without uploader's consent for ads
> externalize all the costs to future suckers

I literally just had this exact meeting yesterday.

So much basic maintenance had been skipped that a suite of apps was costing too much money to migrate to a new platform. Instead of asking for more budget for that app, the dev manager suggested using the money from an upcoming project for an unrelated app to finish off this one!

It's a literal Ponzi scheme, using funds from newcomers to pay off the technical debts of previous projects.

Which of course never ends. Now the next project will go over budget, leading to rushed work, corner cutting, and drawing down on the project after that, which in turn will be a mess, etc...

It's fascinating to watch this kind of stuff unfold as an outsider.
I realize that my comment doesn’t scale and only works for a minority of people but…

Just try really hard to not work for shortsighted people or bad companies. There are tons of great workplaces out there that will treat you like a king and pay you very well. Keep looking, these “almost too good to be true” companies exist. Vote with your feet at every opportunity.
Isn't this just a specific case of the general risk of devoting your career to pushing the envelope (science/research/business, etc)? You can work 30 years on a problem, finally come out with a solution only to find you're a week late and someone already published/patented exactly what you independently came up with. Then the only thing you have to show for your 30 years of work is everyone calling you a copycat. Weren't there other physicists like a week behind Einstein with relativity? And probably tons of other examples.
At least in the US the 2G networks have already gone. It made news for long-lived devices like cars and ebook readers that had 2G modems built-in.

Nissan Leafs used AT&T and it was shut down at the end of 2016.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1102612_nissan-leaf-con...
Yes, the point at which the prompt, and not the AI, is found to determine a sufficiently substantial part of the expressive elements. From what I’ve seen it’s probably difficult to make a prompt that specific with the current models.
Flox has some solution for this.

Other than that, this is being worked on :).
JS world has a long running tradition of embracing things that in retrospect they should've not.
>They hired as though the COVID trajectory would continue

Some would argue that management's sole goal is to effectively measure which direction the wind is blowing and predict course accordingly. The fact that so many did so poorly may make some question why management gets reimbursed as well as they do.
So not only do you now acknowledge you were lying about these programs (not) existing for non-drug offenses, now you're expecting me to take on your (shot) credibility that only drug-related offenses make it into the program. This is WRONG as evidenced by BOP's report which shows significant underlying offenses for RDAP participants in fraud, immigration, firearms, and "other" offenses.

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...

>he dependent defendant will never get a meaningfully shorter sentence

Up until the BOP report showed to me you were lying about the programs, I probably would have take your word on this. Now I'm not so sure. Would be interested in seeing the evidence that this never happens.

I have no idea what you're talking about regarding me operating off of "memes." They may exist, but they're not something I've looked for nor noticed.
In fairness to the scene, this was the code in question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65753731/why-searching-a...

Hardly clean, I think you'd agree.

In any case, you shouldn't use explicit iteration to solve this problem without a good reason. Every language should have both linear and binary search as part of its standard library.
Good and bad are such boring descriptions for code. It tells me nothing about it. Readability is incredibly subjective and it needs a point of comparison.

What properties of the code need improvement or demonstrate what other should aspire to? -- Getting someone to really articulate that is quite difficult.
> which is possibly the hand-waviest possible means of estimating what is next to occur

The "this time it's gonna be completely unlike anything seen before!" is much more suspect.

> fleshing out your position here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

The parallels with your theory are unmistakable. Prosperity doesn't come from jobs that are little more than make-work.
British passport officers to take five weeks of strike action
Fair point, and totally agree, but it won't stop people from betting or gambling. I wonder what it would take to ban Powerball or other lotteries? Worth the discussion for sure.
The original reasoning was, I kid you not "cause classes are too difficult concept to understand".
Yes. Now all I want is something like Rust traits or Swift protocols for unions.
not an email and password but a username and password is fine. Just like hackernews!
It's all part of Neofeudalism. We need to control the working class so they can't act like fully autonomous humans instead of our peons.
It’s not clear to me how playing video games is any better or worse than watching TV, other than it appears to be your preferred choice of entertainment.

I’ll watch TV for an hour or so a day before calling it a night and it gives my spouse and me a lot to talk about, something to bond over, build a corpus of inside jokes, be able to talk to other people who might have watched a particular show, etc.
I've seen snippets of the back-end code of a public cloud, and it is full of multi-page "switch" statements where they have hard-coded lookup tables for what SKUs support what features.

It's ugly, it's a maintenance headache, but it does function, and very robustly too. There are no API calls, no microservices, no performance issues, etc...
More of a legacy code thing, but in my experience a lot of devs will race towards labelling legacy code as "bad" code because it doesn't meet some superficial standard. If I had a dollar for everytime I heard this from a dev as they start discovery on some new feature or necessary refactor, only for them to come back and say they realised there's a good reason the legacy code is the way it is. I was certainly guilty of this too when I was a junior/mid.
I like to watch people play with Midjourney in the public Discord channels, and I can only assume that if the AI generated an image for somebody, it could generate the same image for me.

(If the seed and prompt just happen to be exactly the same)

People using AI generated images are not going to be able to sue for copyright infringement because they can never be sure the AI didn't just generate the same image for somebody else. (and more importantly, whose image was generated first :))
The production of this gadget will create more pollution.
How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?
Have you tried Alpaca yet? It's a massive improvement on base LLaMA.
Right, but in practice unions often confer a lot of benefits to creators. See the other major tech company to unionize: Kickstarter. They basically unionized in response to management bending to the whims of Brietbart who threatened to sue. Stronger worker voices means more backbone to stand up to external influences like that
Between GPT-3 and GPT-4 the precision required for prompts was decreased significantly. In theory it should reach the point where a project manager type person would be able to describe what is needed and it would simply do it, the main thing missing from attaining that is that GPT-4 basically never responds to questions with requests for clarification, otherwise, a whole team of developers could be reduced to just one proofreader.
Pretty sure the office said the arrange of the book was itself protectable but the individual images were not.

https://www.onmanorama.com/news/world/2023/02/23/comic-book-...
It's not about our "standard of living", it's more about class mobilization. If you were born poor, you could still get a job at McDonalds, go to college on those wages, and buy a home/start a family and live middle class easily, if not upper-middle class if you chose a high-earnings potential career.

Today, that's close to impossible unless you take student loans, go through the gauntlet of getting a higher paying job, and then have to grapple with home prices assuming you don't live in a place with reasonably affordable home ownership.

If you think the DMV and government offices are "make-work" then we need to start with cutting military spending because it's the biggest "make-work" government program we have that the vast majority of U.S. spending goes to.
It was such a terrible and unnecessary idea.

I know real people and communities are being hurt by this but what really broke my heart was watching baseball, where they've banned all time great players for life over very small or unproven gambling offenses, be turned into a fancy roulette wheel for cell phone casinos.

I grew up watching baseball, but now I watch these broadcasts and think "how could I let a kid watch these announcers talk about money lines and parlays ad nauseum?" That's a sad thought.
>> Your corporation picked literally worst way to do it.

I disagree. The worst way would be to make a blanket decision for all projects on their behalf.

This way they let the project maintainer decide.

For projects that don't get updated, it's better to leave them where they are.

For projects that are changing the maintainers can choose to delete (or move to a paid / OSS plan).

Choice is good, and giving that choice to maintainers is good.

The final act if goodness (and I'm not clear yet) is whether maintainers will be able to delete an image at some point in the future. Like say a year from now. Possibly by creating a paid account, and "reclaiming" that image.

Personally I agree that your advice to delete them may be the best option for most maintainers who have decided to leave. And they currently have the ability to do that.

Hence my assertion that your statement is incorrect.
How is this not getting any news?
> Director of ML" who's never heard of the words "word2vec" or "pytorch" before

Reminds me of Computer Security academic and professional pedigree where these people aren't even programmers
isn't this a massive privacy violation? any employer would most likely not be okay with this.
I love little stuff like this, we often times get so lost in abstraction and complexity that we forget many things can have humble beginnings.
The system gave them work to keep them busy, now its been automated and keeps the system busy. I only regret it didn't exist when I was in school.
This is a good thing. Although I have an amusing impact from it. I've had a setup at steampunk conventions where attendees could text a message to a phone number, it was printed on an antique Teletype machine in a brass and glass case, and uniformed messengers delivered the messages around the con.[1] I still have a Twilio SMS account for this. To keep it, it looks like I'll have to register as a "marketing campaign" and may have to pay a monthly "campaign fee". The latter is the annoying part.

Someone else who uses my software for SMS to Teletype was just notified by Twilio to register their "marketing campaign". He just uses it as a demo at ham radio conventions.

[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314
Here in Indiana, we share the roads with both horse-drawn buggies, and agricultural equipment. We haven't prohibited them from being on most roads.

I only used my old phone for actual calls... I use my smartphone wayyyyy more.
Oh nice- hope it went through!
I find it far more likely that they are just more concerned about leaving behind a messy corpse for someone to deal with/ are less willing to die painfully.
The difference is that a human employee would normally own it, and only because the corporation pays the employee to do it does the ownership transfer to the corporation, whereas in the case of an AI there is no copyright to begin with, because it’s an AI and not a human that creates the work. This is because the existing law ties copyright to human creations exclusively.
I thought the point of an Xserver is that it has no input devices, it simply receives instructions about cursors and rectangles and text, no? Perhaps I do not understand X.
I think women are also awful to one another. I have seen it myself. Granted. Men are terrible. Women are often far nastier and more indirect which can wreak complete havoc in a workplace or remote work environment.

I know many women who have a very weird instinct to compete against the other women in their environment which is not exactly the same as how men compete. And the WAY women compete is NASTY.

I have met a lot of women who have said they greatly prefer to work with men over women and that some women have extremely aggressive instincts towards other women.

It’s something evolutionary along the lines of: “If there are few women and many men (typical in most tech environments), you are competing not only for male attention and prestige but it is also a zero sum game based on appearance so another woman is threatening across multiple attack vectors … if she is more attractive, the men will give her more resources. If she is more talented, she will get more attention etc.

I think it reminds me of Chinese dynasty politics where an emperor who has many wives - They all understand that it is a zero sum game and the children of the woman who gets the most attention will have the most resources. Go read about how Chinese imperial concubines handled one another. It was very, very, very bad.

It is incredibly sexist to talk about. But the effect is real. Humans have hormones. They don’t go away because we have been in an office for 50 years out of the last million years.

I personally think that the chemistry between men and women can be magical for work and create super productivity. I prefer to work with and for women. It’s because if I work with men everything becomes a sort of dominance contest and I personally don’t care for it.
Sometimes they accidentally include tomatoes but they rarely include bombs.
Can I use it in Deno? It requires a worker (fails in node because "self")
Provided the campaign contributions were substantial enough.
How dare a company change their mission in 8 years.

Disclaimer: when I was young I said I’d never work for a big company, and now I do. So I am every bit as much of a hypocrite and wrongdoer as openai. I admire the rest of you who have steadfastly stuck to every stated principle, without regard to a changing world.
This is very true. IME it’s really an empathy problem.

- “It passes the linter so don’t give me any advice on how it can be improved”

- “YAGNI”

While both of the above could be good counter-arguments in some contexts, I’ve seen them used disproportionately often by set-in-their-ways senior engineers who don’t care anymore or who forget that we write code for other humans, not for machines.
I haven't heard the name TomTom in over a decade.
Definitely true for GPT-3, but after using GPT-4, I am not so sure. I am sure there are cases where a specialized NLP model can beat GPT-4, but I think they might be in the minority now. Whether I tried summarization, data extraction, or code generation, GPT-4 just kinda worked.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

I was on an EDGE connection in Mexico just last month.
I'm glad things are better there now.
That doesn't make much sense- if its code, rejection should have come in the earlier rounds. If it was not about code, why make me write it. This is like days worth effort and a working deliverable at the end.

Either way it shows poor judgement on the part of the company.
On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, having played a lot of live poker, I'm fond of my local OMCs (old man coffees) who just want to chat and play cards, and are slightly losing over time (most to the house). That doesn't feel nearly as inequitable as the whale-hunting gaming ultimately depends upon (and which drove me away from it).

Which isn't to suggest that pachinko doesn't have whales (or blackjack, or the state lottery, or slots), or that the picture you paint isn't depressing (I've seen it around the world in different forms, and it's always very depressing).
It wouldn’t be the first time that major players lobby for regulation to raise the barrier-to-entry. Requiring ai to be “psychologically safe” would be an effective way of doing this.
I work at Meta :) The growth I watched in headcount over the last 4 years has been pretty amazing. Before Meta I worked at Reddit. More people were in my bootcamp class at Meta than the entirety of Reddit at the time. And they did bootcamps like that every week for years.

I don’t totally disagree with you. People at Meta work hard and they optimize everything and psc for better or worse definitely encourages performance. But I don’t know where numbers like “overhired by 10-15%” come from. I don’t think things were falling through the cracks and not being optimized before the company doubled in size.
> Making each webapp target & optimize ML for every possible device target sounds terrible.

Yes it does.

Did something I said imply that?

OpenXLA is an intermediate layer that frameworks like PyTorch or JAX can use. It has pluggable backends, and so if there was a web-compatible backend (WebGL or WASM) then everyone could use it and all models that were built using something that used OpenXLA[1] would be compatible.

[1] Not 100% sure how low-level the OpenXLA intermediate representation is. I know it's not uncommon when porting a brand new primitive (eg a special kind of transformer etc) to a new architecture (eg CUDA->Apple M1) that some operations aren't yet supported, so this might be similar.
Curious about the coorelation between scalability and performant vs over time and over budget.

Of course scalable and performant is nice. I have also been on teams that delivered absolutely nothing because the KPIs were more important than the product.
If you’ve got an easy solution, I think you can access tons of money and game while also establishing AI safety!
> "What do you do instead of rewrite?" "You iteratively rewrite"
Can someone Eli5 how machine learning compilation works? Is site basically A1111's SD web ui with fewer bells and whistles but way less intensive?
Is nuclear proliferation not the single most expensive pursuit in the world though?
Looks like gibberish to me, and you're conveniently skipping all the documentation and argument parsing that docopt is providing.
I would love to borrow your crystal ball if you can spare it.
Also Australia. My experience is different. We absolutly have a bunch of pokies room, but these go hand in hand with pubs, bistros and other standard entertainment options. The only thing pokies seem to have largely wiped out is the live music option which used to be fairly standard.

As for socialising, it's the same. At least for me, very few people I know hit the pokies. Plently of bars, pubs, cafes etc. It seems more to be lonely people who aren't socialising that take to pokies from my limited view.

Personally I think the need to wind them down. Do something like ban advertising and reduce licensed machines ~3% a year type thing and they can slowly disappear.
Startups play poker, big companies play chess (2010)
Uhhh not sure why you were downvoted to oblivion. I can easily see other people disagreeing with you, and I’m not saying I agree, but what you said was not unreasonable.

Vouched.
Then why hasn't Zuckerberg fired everyone?
Cooking also activates other nutrients, such as for dark greens such as spinach which is full of oxalic acid which breaks down during cooking so you can absorb more calcium and iron.

The mushrooms you posted definitely are absorbed better in the body by cooking them. All mushrooms have chitin in the cell wall that needs to break down by cooking to digest.
There is so much more to creating a successful software system than writing code. Getting your code to work is, in my experience, about 10-20% of the effort involved in making software effective IRL. And it's by far the easiest 10%. Data modeling, architecture, performance tuning, tech decisions, design, load testing, running on a novel infrastructure, scalability, migrations, operations, security, a process for adding new features and fixing bugs, integration with other systems, etc.. tend to make up the vast majority of the work in a real world software project.

These aspects of programming are relatively impervious to AI takeover because a) they require clear intentions (i.e. a group of humans must collectively agree on the business outcomes they are shooting for) and b) they require constant collection of and tuning against empirical data (novel data that is absent from the AI training sets by definition).

If your job is solely to write code according to someone's prompt, AI will replace your job. But the person deciding what that prompt should be in the first place... that's the value proposition that AI cannot touch.
He was killed because of his speech on 23 Sep 2009 at the United Nations General Assembly
In the early days of the dotcom era someone thought "internet technology" was a niche and tried to make me sign an NC, after I moved to take the job.

I said "I'm not signing this", they did the old it's not a big deal thing and I said if it's not a big deal you can change it.

In theory he was supposed to give me a reworded NC, but he promptly forgot it. Un/fortunately for him they didn't have anything that I would compete with.
I think this move probably saved the FDIC money. If you had a massive bank run(1), it's probably cheaper to pay back 250k+ depositors of one bank than for the FDIC to pay out < 250 on 40. Not to mention unloading enormous amounts of MBS's could trigger further insolvencies.

1. which seemed pretty likely, I know people who over the weekend were planning to pull all of their money out of a regional bank and put it in one of the 4 super banks Monday morning)
Or how about this one.

A physicist, a mathematician and logician are on the train going to Scotland. As they cross the border into Scotland they see a black sheep on the hillside. Physicist proclaims,"Oh look at that. All the sheep in Scotland are black". The mathematician replies,"Oh no you can't conclude that. Really you can only conclude that one sheep in Scotland is black." And finally the logician pipes up and says, "Oh no you can't conclude that. You can only conclude that one sheep in Scotland is black, on one side."