skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be the end of software engineer job title inflation. Senior engineers are affected. No wonder there is so many layoffs.

From now on, it is going to be less engineers and seniors are a cost center waiting to be reduced from a team of 5 to 1 or 2.
> many of our words across the ex-Yu region are Turcisms

Oh, I got you now, komşu. I guess we picked up most of these during the Ottoman rule.

> I'm biased having an ex-Yu background

Btw Bulgaria was very close to joining the party in 1934, and again in 1947. Would have meant nicer Socialism. But also probably wars in the 90's. So I'm not sure what to think of it.

> Macedonian SR was quite unique and also famous for its distinct culture and natural beauty

Yeah, beautiful country, good people. Can't wait to hike there again once international tensions settle a bit... which can take 2 or 200 years.

> Slavic influence is a spectrum both across culture and language

Right, at the end of the day, we all essentially speak dialects of Old Church Slavonic (aka Old Serbian/Croatian/Bulgarian/Macedonian depending on who you ask).
We can write vast numbers and volume of objects to S3 per second using concurrent processes (spawn 1000 lambda invocations and try it). As long as I have the network bandwidth, I can push stuff essentially as fast as I want. Is that true for EFS? Handle limits. Network interface limits. Protocol limits.

I’m not saying that S3 is perfect or even good for most workloads. However, it is most excellent when the workload fits.
I found the article to be sound in the fact of modularity and building upon what works as the old adage states "if it ain't broke don't fix it" holds true however there is always room for technology improvements when one monitors and measures the entire lifecycle of a transaction system. The world's systems exist in the way that they do today because someone took a risk on a design to work and the uptake of what “works” only spreads as the acceptance of said design is proven. I have wasted most of my adult life rewriting the same system in entirety five times and am now in the process of rewriting it again for the sixth however now I am applying it to a different industry. The design was proven over several decades in the critical uptime high transaction volume payments industry and now that same design is being generalized into other industries. The other industries applications may not have the same transaction volume requirements as the financial industries designs however refactoring what works ensures the critical availability portion as well as the scaling flexibility to meet potential high transaction volume should any other applied industries demand that same growth requirement.
Of course, the AI should do whatever it is asked. It is the user's responsibility if they use it for something harmful, like with any form of computing.

Personally I don't really care about making nail bombs. But I do want the AI to help with things like: pirating or reproducing copyrighted material, obtaining an abortion or recreational drugs in places where it is illegal, producing sexually explicit content, writing fictional stories about nail bomb attacks, and providing viewpoints which are considered blasphemous or against the teachings of major world religions.

If there was a way to prevent AI from helping with things that are universally considered harmful (such as nail bomb attacks), without it being bound by arbitrary national laws, corporate policies, political correctness or religious morals, then MAYBE that would be worth considering. But I take what OpenAI is doing as proof that this is not possible, that allowing AI to be censored leads to a useless, lobotomized product that can't do anything interesting and restricts the average user, not just terrorists.
It's not a paper, though. It's a technical report. I do concede there isn't much technical detail lol.
Nutrition is not that simple, you cannot trick the body with a miracle cure chemical. If you cheat the body of nutrients there will be long term consequences.
Having said this, the Economist has been priming us with increased frequency for the necessity of war in Taiwan for a few good weeks/months now.

NATO being "to blame" or not, I do have to wonder to what extent such actions being directly precipitated by provocation could have been avoided in the absence of it.
GPT4 also passes "What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a Great British Pound?".

GPT3 gets confused, says they're the same and then that they're different:

--

Both a pound of feathers and a Great British Pound weigh the same amount, which is one pound. However, they are different in terms of their units of measurement and physical properties.

A pound of feathers is a unit of weight commonly used in the imperial system of measurement, while a Great British Pound is a unit of currency used in the United Kingdom. One pound (lb) in weight is equivalent to 0.453592 kilograms (kg).

Therefore, a pound of feathers and a Great British Pound cannot be directly compared as they are measured in different units and have different physical properties.

--
For now, this test is ‘provide sources to back up your claims’. Fear when it says ‘I can’t exactly recall the url, but the title is something like whatever written by whoever’. True fear begins when it starts providing good quality sources consistently, without access to the internet.
My intuition is that small fish are more sustainable than large fish. It's harder to overfish sardines than tuna because their lifecycle is short and there are a whole bunch of them. Not sure if my intuition holds up really.
If you'd like something like this for Rust, there is rspc [0], where you can write your Rust backend code and React bindings are generated automatically.

[0] https://www.rspc.dev/
Claude
It must be since the button sample code is the same on both pages. This sure needs more words explaining what it really is though
Wait are you implying you think the main way people learn things is by spewing bullshit on the internet until someone contests it? Read a book ya dingus. wikipedia. christ.
great, now tell us how much money goes to California highway expansion and externalities.

https://cal.streetsblog.org/2023/02/15/legislative-analyst-s...
We'll never have a modern train infrastructure in this country at that rate. How does it cost so much?
Xaeon-12 wakes up at 8am, has a bowl of cereal and put's on her VR goggles. She is greeted by her tutor Tom. Tom will guide her through advanced "AI prompt" class today. Xaeon-12 learns to create her own short story based on her dreams that were recorded the night before. 12am, time for lunch. After lunch, the kids all connect to play Roblox VR for 30 mins. Suddenly, the doorbell rings, but no one else is home. Fortunately, Xaeon-12 doesn't have to answer the door, as everything is automated. The mailbot dropped off some packages, before flying back to the zeppelin mothership to retrieve the next package. Xaeon-12 is just finishing her last class, "circuit boards", when her dads come home from the golf range – with an abundance of free, renewable energy, working for a basic income has become irrelevant.
My tinnitus greatly increased along with my diastolic pressure post COVID. Correlation? Maybe.

I hope you find some relief.
How do you monitor for ai correctness on these topics?

For gpt-3, that's been the user, but a student roughly has to take the ai at face value.

Some secondary ai double checking the output? What's the loop like for saying oops to the student?
Artists in shambles
you must pronounce “toss” differently than most english speakers
Related - suicide rates are much higher for Veterinarians and techs than the general public:

https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2019/09/04/veterina...
It's slippery slope fallacy.
> the vote was the vote and the vote followed the laws of California and the United States

The "fuck 'ought', only 'is'" attitude is not quite the pragmatic rationalist take you think it is.
All these folks in the comment section working in the knowledge economy--we're gonna be out of jobs in the next few years aren't we?
Me too!
Here are more tRPC-like projects:

- ts-rest (https://ts-rest.com)

- Garph (https://github.com/stepci/garph)

- zodios (https://www.zodios.org)

- Kysely (https://github.com/koskimas/kysely)
Over the last 10-15 years, competition among cash rich FAANG companies soaked up every person who could learn to write a for loop and read an API document and drove (American) software engineer compensation into the range of doctors and lawyers.

That’s not sustainable. There’s not enough useful engineering work to go around, and certainly not for that value. It just happened that money was cheap for a long while and those firms were using some of theirs to make sure nobody else had access to good talent.

Between money getting more expensive and LLM’s readily eating up the “for loops and API docs” class of work, the reckoning seems to be coming.

There will still be plenty of tech industry and software engineering work for talented, interested people and it will still probably pay a decent middle+ class salary. If that suits you, stick with it. That’s what a lot of us have already been a part of for decades. It’s not bad work. We’ll probably be using AI tools as part of it moving forward and working on some pretty cool projects because of that.

But if you struggle with the field and were hoping for an easy $$$$ lifestyle, you might want to look at a different career options. The landscape won’t be like you saw when you were in high school.
Have you seen it play chess[0]? It's pretty funny.

It doesn't really "get" the rules of chess, but it has seen lots of matches and can do some "linguistic" predictions on the next move. It gets hilariously lost pretty fast, tho.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/10ydnbb/i_pla...
Riiight. I tried Bing Chats thing ~2 weeks ago (apart from the pain I had to go through to get it running, e.g. Edge browser and a million clicks through there site).

Anyway, when I did get to try Bing Chats, it was nowhere near the same level of usefulness I found when using the free version of Chat GPT. If it was using GPT-4, then that's worrying.
I've not tried Bing Chats again since. (mostly because it's so gated behind forced use software).
Yep. It's the people who get angry at being rate-limited who need to be rate-limited.
Just bought a 2 head 28,000 BTU/hr mini split from Senville, a 2005 startup here in Quebec. Direct from company. They manufacture them in China. Rated for -22F. Factory direct, including installation kit and comprehensive install manual. Very responsive customer service. I'm a heating guy (wood burning masonry heaters), and my shop guy and I did the install ourselves. There's Quebec subsidies, etc., if you use a licensed installer, but doesn't matter to me.
You sir/ma'am, win the internets today.
There's far more money to be made running dialysis centers in every strip mall than selling more carrots and broccoli.

And don't you dare obstruct the fast path to dialysis because FREEDUM!!!
You don't get it. If you fed this program the source code of your mind, body, and room you're in, then it would wrong-foot you too.
I got:

Goat ->

<-

Lion ->

<- Goat

-> Cabbage

<-

-> Goat
Definitely. This is a lr parser playground i put together. Again very simple (I am not a ui person so pardon the cringe ui). Happy to share repo too (has lots of tests but need to put together documentation etc). I am even using this lr parser generator for a couple of my hobby apps for a couple of years.

http://galorium.appspot.com/demos/playground/
Thanks for explaining. I misunderstood what Kali was for.
this seems weird to me - you crapped on the guy for telling you to shut it down, but told him 'thanks' in another comment for presumably telling you to to shut it down. seems a little passive-aggressive, but to each their own.

in any case, we prob need a statusbar at the top of every 'check out my new site/app/business' post that says, "Yes, we _know_ there is already one of something like this -- maybe even two! And we're still doing it. We'll call you first, next time, to get your permission."

outside of that, i think commenter's question was how is this new site different? -- i.e. not necessarily, why are you doing this again?

it's ok, i would guess, if it is not, in fact, different at all, but maybe it is - which is what the commenter actually asked.
Duolingo seems like they have separate teams for iOS, Android and Web.

Their iOS team seems to be the one who experiment the most with new features, and then they either get discarded or finally make it to Android, and then in a few years to the Web.

It is really annoying, as when I used Duolingo (stopped because of the new update in Jan), I would often use all three platforms, and have the worst experience.
Not arguing that it had every right, from what we're told at least, I see no precise coordinates.

Just that it seems far fetched that downing a surveillance drone is an act of war.
> Endless glib comments in this thread.

Either the comments are glib and preposterous or they are reasonable and enlightening. I guess they are neither but our narrow mindedness makes it so?
Those are just specific particles floating around the brain
As someone who has worked at a Radiology PACS with petabytes of medical images under management, this is 100% accurate.

You might have images, but not the diagnoses to train the AI with.

In addition, there are compliance reasons, just because you manage that data doesn't mean that you can train an AI on it and sell it, unless of course you get explicit permission from every individual patient (good luck).

I do believe that with enough effort we could create AI specialist doctors, and allow the generalist family doctor to make a comeback, augmented with the ability to tap into specialist knowledge.

Technology in the medical industry is extremely far behind modern progress though, CT images are still largely 512 by 512 pixels. It's too easy to get bogged down with legacy support to make significant advancements and stay on the cutting edge.
Keep in mind that the similarity to old Norse was intentional. It was a form of linguistic nationalism to revert some of the dialect changes that had built up over the centuries during icelandic independence. They started teaching kids using the old books and used them to standardize the orthography. The vocal changes were a bit more sticky though.
The flow of the a river can be approximated with the Navier–Stokes equations. We might not be able to say with certainty it's an exact solution, but it's a useful approximation nonetheless.

There was, past tense, no reason to believe cognition could be represented as a mathematical function. LLMs with RLHF are forcing us to question that assumption. I would agree that we are a long way from a rigorous mathematical definition of human thought, but in the meantime that doesn't reduce the utility of approximate solutions.
Ugh. You can just feel the management layers in this.

Management wants to do something with AI. It's so hot right now. Your product guy got an idea for a cool new feature. Tests show that users actually like it. It's helpful. Great.

But now you need to explain how you made Duolingo money. First idea, your product has a paid tier, add it as a feature to the paid tier too boost paid user retention and new signups. Great, metrics! But you're pretty sure that, while customers do like this when you ask, you're probably not moving the needle. What to do? Well, you're a mobile game company, focus on what always works: go after the whales.

Now your product is an exclusive EVEN HIGHER tier. Get the art guy to make, like, an Amex Black Card but for the Owl. Make him do a superhero landing or something. Run a bunch of ads at the paid users to convince them that they'd totally be helped by this. They'll be focused on the users who already pay Duolingo money, so those are perfect advertising targets. And you'll be able to show real dollars that your feature is pulling in. Hooray! That VP spot is as good as yours, I bet!
1. They don't have the same kind of budget as Google to get the scale down as effectively.

2. If these are the ones I have heard about before, all the speech to text is done on the device not in the cloud. This is for privacy reasons. Means it needs a bit more bulk for the gear to work.
This thread is hilarious. I'm very familiar with xattr, but as somehow who chooses not to use an proprietary OS, whose proponents whine about constantly here, I had absolutely no idea what this would be about until I read comments.

I thought maybe Ventura was a sandboxing platform or tool or something.

But no apparently I'm an asshole or idiot for not keeping up with annual releases of a niche os. Jokes on jokes.
The United States charged a fictional mohawk-wearing character from the movie Major League, with election interference. It did so under a statute that never mentions “election interference.” In the leadup to the 2016 presidential election, “Ricky Vaughn” (in real life Doug Mackey) had about 58,000 Twitter followers (Account 1). Most, if not all his followers were either jobless idiots, trolls, or fellow meme-makers. In October 2016, his first account was suspended for violating Twitter rules. Mackey belonged to a chat group in which his fellow jerks speculated about how to post memes that would get the best reaction. With his first account banned, one of his “co-conspirators” gave Mackey an account with about 9,000 followers (Account 2). Mackey changed the avatar to the MAGA hat-wearing Ricky Vaughn avatar. It was from that account that Mackey posted a meme that resulted in his arrest for election interference. He wasn’t charged for four years. He won’t go to trial until six years after the fact. March 20, 2023.

Based on the Complaint’s allegations, Mackey seems to be motivated by equal parts of racism and attention-seeking. What is less clear is how a meme that, in my opinion, couldn’t motivate anyone with a working frontal lobe to “vote by text” could result in a charge of election interference.
Carried there by two birds that were killed by one stone (in a bush)
I use GraphQL for disparate clients talking to the server, it's agnostic to the backend and frontend languages. If Garph is already in TS, why would I use it instead of tRPC? I guess if I have a non-TS frontend such as a Flutter app?
Is there a way that the state could fund it but give control of the project to some other governing body? The California High-Speed Rail Authority does not seem up to the task and has made a number of questionable decisions. Other countries manage to build these kinds of systems and I can't tell if we're struggling because we're less competent or more corrupt. I'd be down to declare the land under the tracks to be French or Spanish or Japanese if we could get them to build the system.
Hell, it's hard enough these days to identify which physicians are actually physicians. I recently had an NP introduce herself to me as "Dr. So-and-so."
Show HN: I created a podcast with chat-GPT and elevenlabs AI voice
I think it's so cool, but HN does not seem to care :-) (I posted already, not as a show HN).
The podcast is based on the top five shares of the day - the one that the system can scrape online. From the web content, chat gpt summurize and write the podcast, and then elevenlabs AI voice reads the line, befor the episode is published on this small site and on spotify.
So definitely cool.
I'm talented at sucking up and playing politics like a harp. Like a freaking genius at it, seriously. Is that what you meant?
Even though you're joking, we are all participants in these experiments, when you consider how inexact so much of experimental medicine is.
The press can't report on this with straight facts. $35b for the central valley segment is the highest estimate in the report. The central estimate is a bit less. Also, inflation is a thing.

The other thing the press is incapable of is putting the project into context. The context is that Catrans has a $22b budget per year to build freeways, and unlike Caltrans CAHSR has a business plan, ridership projections, and so forth. $100b on a statewide high-speed rail is a much, much better use of my money than any Caltrans project in my lifetime.
Being pissed off or feeling despite takes more effort than just not caring.

I'm annoyed at the support for Carnival and other cruise lines during the early days of the COVID pandemic. I even sent an email (which was answered) to the local Fed branch saying that they should backstop consumer credit card debt the way they were backstopping corporate loans.
I don't like how Bing takes information from the Internet, summaries it, and then provide it to me, with little footnote, in its own voice. I just don't fully trust information on the internet.

I would love that Bing provide context on where it found the information and provide an assessment on how reliable it is, but I am sure it'll be gamed by SEO very quickly. Plus a demo of this, even through it's useful, wouldn't look impressive as it lacks confidence.
Networked Banking
Not really. Quants modelled stochastic recovery rates and they saw that it doesn't really add much. Fixed recovery rates work just fine.
You have a very abrasive style of dialog, combined with an unwillingness to consider alternative POVs in your discussion, bordering on trolling. I like discussion, but I don't enjoy this. With that, I will disengage now.
I'm not going to hand out my phone number to internet services, I get enough phone spam already.

Sorry :)
This is the first bullshit-free "Our Incredible Journey" post I've ever seen. Bravo, Allie!
The same way that formulaization and databasization that worsened our lives since the 1970s and 1980s this will do the same.

It made it possible then to embed all banking, finance, state administration processes into software processes.

It made a small number of people very rich and a bigger part got the benefits of the technology, but they didn’t take part in the wealth it generated. They didn’t work less hours as a result of the increased productivity.

This wave of LLM AI will lead to the same results.
Can you check how that data looked for ubs and CS before they habe been bailed out?

I am certain the Swiss government will bail them out, direct democracy be damned.
Yes it is, it's called monetization. Of course we then owe the money plus interest to a banking cartel. But it's all quite simple to understand.
For shops light on DevOps-fu, Confluent hosted Kafka is popular for just this reason.
I think it's because of the association of goats and cabbages in real life, because the test passes fine if you replace the names with variables[0].

[0] - https://www.bramadams.dev/202303141528/
Stop worshipping the robot.

It's kind of sad.
No. It is modelling the various text generation processes that lead to the contents of the internet. Some of that modelling could absolutely involve "thinking", for processes that involve human thinking.
Thanks for the reply but this makes no sense to me. So the goat eats the lion then? And who eats the human? Who does the human eat? How would ANYONE solve this riddle if they don’t have a way to know that the lion is vegan? I mean how would anyone come to the conclusion that the lion eats the cabbage with 0 background other than the name of the animals (that imply that lions are carnivorous and goats vegan)?
Depending on how much time you're willing to put in, it can help a lot. 15-30 minutes twice a day would be a good start.
The tech "livestream" that left me in awe is the "Mother of All Demos" from the 1960s.

During this demo, a man demoed a prototype of the modern computer, complete with a mouse, keyboard, and programs that draw drawing and edit text.
Does anyone have info on two things:

1) Will FAANG+ companies hire college interns this summer?

2) Will FAANG+ companies hire new college graduates to start in the fall?