skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not acceptable. You should click the link that is the source of that quote.

The guy is not heartless; he's lamenting the situation.

> But three years ago, “as part of the overall environmental justice resetting of the federal government Corps of Engineers, OMB, Congress, all recognized that if you exclusively looked at benefit-cost ratios you wouldn’t fund projects in areas that were typically lower-income,” Townsley said.

> So the Corps initiated a study that resulted in a report demonstrating “there would be some value for life safety, even though the project benefit-cost ratio was pretty close to unity for the costs to equal the benefits,” he said.

...

> “It’s tragic that we got this just before we’re starting construction,” Townsley said, referring to the breach and flooding.

Later on:

> Although the Army Corps had close to $150 million in federal funding, state and local communities were required to foot 50% of the cost, of which up to 70% was the state’s responsibility. The rest fell on local communities.

There you go.
Edit: It looks like you can migrate from a team to a personal account:

> You can migrate from a Free Team organization to a Personal account by opening a support ticket. No action will be taken against your account while your ticket is being processed.
How is this not constructive dismissal? If you signed a contract stating that you work remotely, does Amazon have the power to unilaterally change that?
I did a coding bootcamp in 2014, and couldn’t get a job afterwards. I spent the next three years trying to break into tech. I had tried starting a startup, failed at that, interviewed at a handful of companies, failed those too. At one point, I was literally begging startups to let me work for them for free. Nothing.

I finally managed to get into Triplebyte’s program. I did a phone interview with them, failed it, then came back a few months later and passed it. They flew me out to California where I interviewed at five companies. No offers at four of the five. It was the very last company that I interviewed at where I got a job. Had I not gotten that job, I would probably be trying to sell insurance right now or something.

I’ve been at Google for a year now, so it ended up working out pretty well in the end.
There's actually interesting info about this in the site guidelines.
Doesn't the persistent daemon/server that keeps them pre-loaded in RAM make a difference here over just repeatedly loading something that's cached on disk?
> ...we recently emailed accounts that are members of Free Team organizations, to let them know that they will lose features unless they move to one of our supported free or paid offerings. This impacted less than 2% of our users.

What percentage of those orgs / users hosted popular docker images? Surely, 2% is a small enough number to warrant a public apology?
Yeah i too wanted but couldn't. Downloaded the weights and all but it isn't running in colab. Can someone help
I worked in a research capacity in the voice assistant org of a big tech company until very recently. There was a lot of panic when ChatGPT came out, as it became clear that the vast bulk of the org's modeling work and research essentially had no future. I feel bad for some of my colleagues who were really specialized in specific NLP technology niches (e.g. building NLU ontologies) which have been made totally obsolete by these generalized LLMs.

Personally - I'm moving to more of a focus on analytical modeling. There is really nothing interesting about deep learning to me anymore. The reality is that any new useful DL models will be coming out of mega-teams in a few companies, where improving output through detailed understanding of modeling is less cost effective than simply increasing data quality and scale. Its all very boring to me.
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>It almost always works.

Maybe.

Wages can be hard if you end up having to compete with FinTech, BigTech, and some other fields--or even just some company that really wants a person.

And working conditions covers a lot of ground. People just get itchy feet even when conditions aren't objectively bad. Or they liked the company when it was smaller but it has outgrown them.

But I'll agree that companies change and people change, and both should just be prepared to move on when the mutual bargain no longer works.
>Musk is a hero.

Insane.
In a monorepo with project references where each symlinked (not paths) package has a src/ and output lib/, I've always had issues with VsCode incorrectly proposing to import from src/ over lib/ from other packages. Never got it to work just right.

Does anyone know if the new package.json resolution settings can help resolve these issues?
How much do unicorns eat?
Forget about free speech, this should be a trade issue.

In what other trade context would it be acceptable for one trading partner to block all access to its own market (social media) whilst still enjoying full access to everybody else's?

How is this remotely acceptable?
But it's weird how for certain questions it says it's not an expert in that field, or simply that it doesn't know what you're asking for, yet sometimes it goes ahead and isn't just slightly wrong but makes up a lot of BS. Like,I asked it about a band's members and it made up three names. When I said that it's wrong it apologized and made up three different names. I googled the names and nothing came up. Then I asked for some songs by that band and I got more completely made up stuff that wasn't even titles of any band according to more Google and YouTube searches.
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The training code, parameters and training dataset got released, and the training process only takes a few hours. Anyone can recreate it.
What bet should management have made instead of buying US treasuries and Grade A MBS? Should they have held all deposits in cash? How should they have funded operations because eventually, holding $180 billion in cash with no interest and thus no profit while running a large operation will start to eat into shareholder equity and eventually depositor capital. I think a thought experiment about what should have been done is important if we are going to assign blame for anyone. When I do that, its not clear that SVB management made some profound mistake as there were structural challenges they faced that were unique to them (large capital inflows that were a majority of deposits during a very low rate interest rate environment, client mix that kept balances that were much higher than FDIC limits, client mix that was highly concentrated in one industry with much greater sensitivity to interest rates than most companies since fundraising is now clearly seen as tightly coupled to rates) and forces outside of their control in that the Fed raised rates very quickly without providing any mechanism for member banks to exchange long term low rate securities.

So Management has to invest in something and it has to have some interest. I would love to hear an investment thesis that would have been able to deploy over $100 billion in new capital during the low interest rate 2018-2021 time period that wouldnt have been ill prepared when rates drastically increased in 2022-2023.

Edit: after reading this article posted by lordfrito below I stand corrected. SVB executives knew the risk and took it anyway. But not for personal gain but to maximize firm value as it allowed higher profit which increased the valuation (so yes they benefited personally, but to a greater extent than just a few million in bonuses).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-13/svb-failu...
Maybe, but content generated by an LLM will be everywhere and anyone can use the same model to generate the same content. Sure, a lot of traffic to search engines are simple information lookup, so those might become obsolete, but when you are browsing the internet, how often are you searching for facts? I will tell you that a lot of the interesting things that I search for (and why I like old school forums like hacker news and reddit) is the discussion that happens in the comments. I.E. authentic content.
It's exactly the second time - so far.

There are so, so many great things we can do. Removing or mitigating toxic chemicals from airplane air is on that list for sure.

But I think it's responsible to consider things not in isolation, but with the understanding that doing any one of those awesome things come at the expense of many other things. I don't often see folks trying to quantify the level of goodness that comes from an activity or the level of effort involved in attaining it. Simply recognizing this as a trade off would be a healthy step.
I get why you'd include him in the "having a laugh" group, but I don't really get that from Vonnegut, overall. The most-uplifting I usually find him is on par with Camus' "Myth of Sisyphus", so a kind of dark, existentialist sort of uplifting. Even most of his "jokes" are a pretty big downer when you think about it, and much of the time he's not telling jokes at all (Mother Night or Deadeye Dick or Galapagos or Bluebeard have humorous and absurd parts, but I'd not characterize the overall effect as funny or absurd, at all—the humor's so you come away with "well, that's life" and not "Jesus, I guess I should go kill myself")
Exactly ! I remember the original email mentioned deletion and now they say "we never said that".

Time to get rid of Docker in our world.
Based on the amount of time a Kerbal can survive orbiting the sun in their barely-shielded capsules, I am inclined to think that they are immune to radiation damage, like tardigrades.
Project Orion uses a pusher plate mounted on giant springs to spread out the force of each explosion. If the system is designed correctly it should result in constant acceleration.
Sure, but a lot of people are afraid of fireworks and would like to ban those, too.

Perspective is all I'm trying to offer.
IANAL, but I don't think that the part in the GPL about modification makes any requirement that you facilitate modifying compiled binaries. My understanding is that the requirement is essentially that distributing the binary requires you to distribute the source as well; if someone modifies that source code you provide and distributes a binary they compile from that modified code, they need to share the modifications as source as well.

This is also my understanding of why the AGPL was created to try to close the loophole of running GPL code on the backend; since running code on a server doesn't entail distributing the server binary to people who access the service, the GPL didn't enforce any requirements on sharing any modifications to code that was modified and used as part of the backend for the service. Some felt that this went against the spirit of the GPL, so a new license that made this also explicitly disallowed was created.

As for the LGPL, my recollection is that it differs from the GPL in creating an exception for dynamically linking to the compiled binary; the phrasing of the (non-L) GPL requires that any "derivative works" of the GPL-licensed product (I can't remember if that's the exact term, but it's a something similarly general) must abide by the GPL, which could be interpreted as applying to something that dynamically links to a library licensed under the GPL. Licensing something under the LGPL gives permission for users to dynamically link to your product without requiring them to share the code linking to it.
they knew those were obviously dangerous when they was invented, would a better list be:

Arsenic in everything eg coloring wallpaper

radiation

asbestos

leaded gas
These points are all so well-reasoned and difficult to argue against, I can't fathom how they managed to get all the way to this point without these things coming up and causing a rethink of the base approach. Quite incredible.
Not as "spicy" an idea as the Nuclear saltwater rocket however, which instead of discrete bombs involves dissolving a load of bomb-grade fissiles into water and then ejecting them out a conventional rocket engine, with the idea the solution goes critical somewhere in the vincinity of the exhaust nozzle. Now if you're thinking "Does that replace singular discrete nuclear explosions with a continual nuclear explosion shrouded in an expanding cloud of radioactive superheated steam?", the answer is yes, yes it does.

Weirdest thing is the design doesn't actually have as much potential ISP as a pulsed detonation system like an Orion, despite being a bonafide torchship. Go figure

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket
Can we run it in colab. It isn't working for me.
Yeah, to me, that's a real reason not to buy a Tesla (I mean, if you needed another one). For my entire driving live (nearly 40 years at this point) I've been able to learn how to manipulate the climate control and radio by feel, without taking my eyes off the road.

With a giant-ass feedback-free touchscreen, that's no longer possible. Hard pass.
They also don't play videos of skimply dressed students walking around campus for their classes.
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What happens if you twist that joke into something that doesn't make sense? Like having the bartender ask "can I bring anyone of you a drink?"
> you need to work for a different type of company

This is the correct interpretation.

There is a max time of 6 months for non-compete (and non-solicit). So in practice this is never an issue – you just wait out your 6 months.
I don't even think that is a fair assessment because it places the US in the same bin as China, but functionally the US is very different.

If Biden wanted to show you videos of daises on youtube, their really isn't any practical way of doing so. If Xi wanted to show you videos of daises on tiktok, you would open tiktok and get wall-to-wall flower videos tomorrow.

China is functionally a dictatorship. The US is not. Hence why we even get to have a debate about a foreign adversary controlling the the most popular app on the country's phones.
Pretty hard to get NET30 invoicing on a transaction which is less than $450, especially if you've chosen the monthly plan. It's just not worth the labor chasing an unpaid $450 invoice every damn month.
Yes, every cent. If they don't it is effectively a ponzy scheme where the last bag holding investors are the ones getting zeroed out. All the previous holders made money on them.
> It is becoming increasingly tiresome to see any benefit touted as UBI.

This is an explicit right wing talking point designed to raise the retirement age or abolish social security entirely.

Just imagine what GPT-4 will do to online propaganda...
Doesn’t this effectively target all the best employees? Those that can walk away like that.

This would reinforce my suspicion that big tech companies don’t really believe in the concept of engineer quality. They just hire quantity and convince them all that they’re exceptional.
> One of the difficulties of public relations is communicating to multiple audiences at once.

Why not just release multiple statements and links?

"Click here for customized PR statement if you are a open source developer"

"Click here for customized PR statement if you are a closed source developer"

"Click here for customized PR statement if you are an executive who can't code"

"Click here for customized PR statement if you are a billionaire who invested in Docker but secretly don't know what it is"

etc.
That's awesome! I think I remember them saying it was only around ~$500 in compute costs to train so I hope we see those weights released soon. I am hoping someone releases the 13B model fine-tuned.
Yes, for a maximum of 6 months, which is the maximum time you can enforce a non-compete in Denmark.
Alternately, it assumes that the risk matrix of an executive also includes:

1. Their reputation. How much less likely is it that a board of directors would think twice before hiring them to be a steward of shareholders' assets?

2. Their egos. How much less likely is it that people will be willing to invest time delivering projects whose value can be wiped out by poor risk management in the same way that SVBs has?
Lots of people outraged here, but did any organization step up to fill this (perceived) gap?

Docker is way too generous IMO. Petabytes of freeloader data they'll never generate a nickle from. Everyone around here wants people to pay $20/month for some newspaper, and spend $0/month on infrastructure that helps run the internet. It's crazy town.
Oh I don't know, it looked futuristic maybe? No idea
If Biden bans TikTok, and it gets before SCOTUS, I expect a lot of amicus briefs supporting him from conservative think-tanks, Republican Congresscritters, former Republican Attorneys-General, etc. If Trump doesn’t suffice as a signal to the conservative SCOTUS majority that “in this case we are all on the same side”, all those conservative amici probably will
> non competes can still hurt candidates big time once they go back to the job market because many companies actually have provisions to disqualify those coming in with the extra baggage of a non compete.

Get a lawyer, ensure it's not enforcable, then sign it.

If you're in CA, sign it. If you're in MA and there is no garden leave clause, sign it. Then do what you want.

When a hiring company asks if you have a non-compete, specify: "I am not bound by an enforceable non-compete". If they ask for specifics, explain and mention the law firm you consulted. This has always worked for me.

I suppose you could also just say you're not bound by a non-compete, and leave it at that, as that's also not a lie. If I sell myself into slavery in the USA, then I can -- without lying -- tell everyone I'm definitely not a slave. Because I'm definitely, absolutely, not. Non-competes are no different: if it's prime facie unenforceable, then you are NOT bound by a non-compete, full stop, end of story. But I like to be a bit more up-front.

> If candidate A and B have very similar skills and experience and A has a non compete and B doesn't, why would anyone bother with A?

I've admittedly never been in this situation -- at least as far as I know -- because my skill-set is pretty niche (ie, I am pretty sure that I have always known all the other people in the world who are interchangeable with me for a particular position when I get to the stage of negotiating the offer).
cringe and seethe
Georgi rewrote the code on top of his own tensor library (ggml[0]).

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml
I thought about that but 1) it seemed like cheating to write to standard out, 2) you're assuming that the column to sort by is an integer whereas I broke that code up a little bit.

But yours has the advantage of being able to support more complex CSVs.
I fly a lot, and have noticed a very strong smell of fuel several times on various aircraft, while still at the gate just before taxiing to the runway. It always baffles me that passengers don't overreact to it, because it can be very pungent and will cause a mild headache.

I've always wondered how toxic this is. Apparently it's caused by wind blowing jet fuel fumes into the air conditioning intake so it's indeed fumes that make it into the cabin for a few minutes.
This all sounds great for the softcore porn market though
> the ones who get "taken down" in ways that actually affect their lives are invariably the ones who already have the least

I'm not sure that was the case with personal computing in 1980-s. What was the significant part of society which had the least and got "taken down"?
The colouring of the double and triple letter squares confused me because they are like the colours on a scrabble board but don’t share the same meaning. I thought TROVE would get me 27 points in today’s puzzle but it was only 11. :-(

Edit: 27, not 24. Another useful thing would be the ability to view the puzzle and your answer. I had to reverse engineer the squares from the possible scores. :-)
Is that why the Twitch CEO is leaving
Yes! It's called constructive dismissal in Canada, not sure about other jurisdictions.
I thought java stopped after version 8 (/s)
They've historically had trouble having that loss leader lead to a non-loss.
Would love to see an engineering union form from this
Exactly what I was thinking, it's a win/win for Amazon. Attrition through policy the half-steppers, with automatic self-culling enabled.
> Here's a new trend happening these days. Upon releasing new non-fiction books to the general public, authors are simultaneously offering an LLM-based chatbot box where you can ask the book any question.

Can you link to an example?
> Comments are shortening and discussions are now almost indistinguishable from Reddit.

I couldn't disagree more. Comments here are still substantial, jokes are downvoted, trolls are flagged.

HN has actually gotten better in the last few years afte4 they resumed demoting of political content. It's much harder to find a flamewar on HN than it was in, say, 2017.
Doesn't podman use docker.io images by default?
I am thinking about making the leap. If it’s really an important message they have my email and can text.

Edit: I just did. Voicemail is an option too.
> I don't get it. It's still exactly the same problem for me.

So you do get it then.

Sorry, not sorry.
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Just as nobody was ever fired for buying IBM, nobody was ever fired for buying a Deere.
An awful person on a contract I'm on was ordered back into the office. She quit. I'm confident that was the goal.
Instead of a matrix NN they use two matrices, Nd and d*N, and assuming d << N it would be like a lightweight addition. Keeping the original matrix unchanged, this new addition is simply added in parallel and initialised to low values.
> [The image is a snapshot…] Well, be sure to back it up. … Text doesn't crash…

So don't back up the image snapshot, back up text, backup the Change Set:

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Change-Set....

:backup the Change Log:

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/The-Change-Log....
Cool. I'm just glad I don't have to replicate all these images to my own ECR.
They say that their separate "open source program" (DSOS) is completely better than Free Teams. Why didn't they just migrate everyone on Free Teams to DSOS and then worry about the qualifications for those migrated afterwards (and less stringently)?
If you use things like `import('some-package').SomeType` in JSDoc I don't think it's fair to say you don't use TypeScript. You do, that's only supported in TS.
Dougie Hofstadter has a great bit of work on superrationality about this line of thinking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality
>So, it might not be what you personally want. But to a lot of people, it’s more important to read/consume something popular...

Count me in the "don't care" group. Which is why I always browse HN by "New" [0]. I neither know nor care which stories have been voted to prominence on the default frontpage, nor how this ranking has been determined. I just want to see what's new and select for myself what looks interesting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/OntarioUniversities/comments/tm44ex... (I like it better)
My impression was that it's mostly about particle pressure and 100% O_2 at 0.2 atmospheres would also be possible. ISS keeps with the normal atmospheric pressure and 80% nitrogen but from what one reads on the internet, that is more for compatibility reasons and not because we humans cannot sustain a pure oxygen, low pressure environment, once you go all in (and stay there for prolonged times).
The Future of AI and Its Impact on Society