skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a handful of seniors already quit and some of the best L8's/directors openly distressed with no lever to improve morale. Many teams are now down to the idea guys. Amazing leadership from the top. Layoffs, RTO, stock down over 40% YoY, and no comp increases even with inflation. They must be playing limbo because' how low can they go?'
I've never understood why React components are considered to be pure. The output is not just a function of the props, it's also a function of the state (as in `useState`) and context (as in `useContext`).
I'll second that. Cross That Bridge Now.

p.s. we already have Sidekiq which is quite popular and beloved in the Ruby community https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq
Depositors can be made whole without receiving little green pieces of paper.

Checks, account transfers, wire transfers, etc.

There is no fundamental limit on the Federal Reserve to create (or destroy) money as needed. The Fed, as other central banks, does however exercise that power very judiciously, and with specific targets (inflation, unemployment) as its foundational charter.

Note that both inflation and unemployment are not assessed by the Fed, but by an independent federal department, Labour. It's a classic instance of not giving a single entity control over both the means of control and the measurement of success.
Happy First Birthday Steam Deck
I don't know. When the phone law went into affect a couple months ago, nothing changed. We were getting about 5 junk calls per day. But suddenly in the last 2 weeks, we're down to only a couple per week. Not sure if there's any correlation or if it's just a coincidence.
Really? I've always felt it was the ESPN viewer subsidizing the rest of the cable universe. ESPN is basically the only premium service you can't go over the top on. However, Iger says he's considering it.
I feel like you are trying to make an analogy and show the parents position as absurd but I think what you have said here is probably literally true. That said, there is a big difference from tools that reduce friction to do a task to those that eliminate the need to do the task.
I wrote this up quickly after one of the HN readers here asked for a visualisation after my first article:

https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/busdistributions/in...
Well, at least the "prompt engineers" are writing code now. From a distance, that looks plenty like engineering? Hope they don't show their code to the bot, or they'll be out of a job right quick, too. Whoops, the hack is to show code to the bot...
Comparing Google's announcement a couple days ago with this. Microsoft's announcements are massively more ambitious.

Google announced a handful of LLM-based features. This is Microsoft adding LLM-based features to all of their core office software.

For big companies being able to ask questions and get answers informed by all your documents, emails, chats, etc is huge. For small companies the features in Excel, Teams, and perhaps Power automate will be big. Maybe the Word features too depending on how fundamental writing is to the core business.

Google's haphazard and unfocused product development is going to really hurt them. MS must have coordinated thousands of people to build this stuff. As for Google, well they are undeniably at or near the top when it comes to research, but they are not good at product and execution. I am not optimistic.

I am no lover of Microsoft. I use their products as little as possible and I still have plenty of gripes. But this could be the biggest step change since email, word processing, and spreadsheets became widely available in the later 80s/early 90s.
You're probably right.

One of my initial prompts mentioned graph databases as an example of a scalable system, so I wanted to ask it about the design properties that make it so. I figured that because it was a book about designing systems, it could give me an outline of how a graph database works in practice.

It's pretty annoying how the site erases your prompt once you receive your output. By the time it finishes loading I've half forgotten what my original question was.
What's the least friction alternative? I'm find with my database being hosted on Heroku (for now), what other service can I set up as a git remove, transfer my env vars, update my DNS and be good to go?
it would be interesting to see what size data centre is needed for a small district heating system.
Now that we have new docs that have made it clear that class components are basically over, will we be getting a new version of roadToReact?
Any specific reference to Libya, or just a general grievance against any country that refuses to obey the US? We killed Gaddafi after he gave up the weapons and started working with us.
> But what I’m saying is that there are so many factors that all contribute to the problem

This kind of overcomplicating the problem makes finding the solution more difficult. Regardless of many smaller factions converging in different major groups in the US, the general, society-wide dynamics follow a given pattern. This pattern is exactly the same with the religious sects or far-right nationalist cliques taking over societies that suffer from extreme inequality and strong influence of religion.

In fact, I would suggest to simplyf the picture even further:

The mid 19th century dynamics in which the anti-intellectual, religious lot that populated the middle parts of the country, the east coast, 'old money' type aristocrats dominated the eastern part, and the nascent Californian West that wasnt able to put itself to somewhere in that spectrum, still are the major factions that collide with each other in the US.

Birchers started the movement to roll back the scientific, enlightenment ideals and left wing egalitarianism that got strengthened due to the scientific revolution and the popular movements succeeding in pushing left wing social and economic policies after World War II. It grew into Reaganites. Then when it was losing steam, its spearhead morphed into Tea Partiers and then Trumpers.
Enforcing said IP becomes increasingly difficult.
I can guarantee you had a number that was reused. When I had a couple different sims for work phones over the years I received 0 spam on one with a new area code. Spammers will enumerate all digits on an area code.

The scams are different in Europe. I’ve had my debit card skimmed twice over the years in Europe and I check the card readers. One scammer took money out of a Philippines ATM. Europe also has a crazy amount of tourist scams I’ve never seen in the State. Fake fights in Rome to draw attention from pickpockets, taxis in Germany taking advantage of me, Gypsies with drugged babies and fake injuries, and various “official” helpers outside airports/train stations.
If they thought you were really money-laundering, they wouldn't close your account unless you were actually charged as that could count as "tipping off".

FYI: not accurate. A bank (etc etc) cannot will not tell a person they suspect or have actual knowledge of money laundering, but they also cannot facilitate it. There is a tiny bit of wiggle room around the edges if e.g. an investigating agency says "Definitely don't touch this until we tell you to" but that is an edge case on an edge case.
If the culture is so special then why do people not want to go back?
That’s enough for less than 17 kilograms of enriched U235 assuming a modern high efficiency gaseous centrifuge. That amount is far more useful for making some depleted uranium bullets than some proliferation risk
Exactly my setup. I tried to use `conda install` few times, but every time after just few globally installed packages, conda SAT solver always struggles, and I now live with assumption that if incompatible package combination does not throw any error in dev environment, it is likely fine.
I'd settle for the hype levels to reach parity with jQuery.
Even ACLU! What a shame. Corporations are not people so no free speech for them. And they damn well know free speech does not mean free convenient platform for speech.

The government cannot restrict your speech but it can regulate commerce and restrict businesses who engage in commerce even if they permit limited and censored speech haha.

Moreover, tiktok isn't restricted, tiktok's ownership by chinese nationals is restricted. Tiktok can stop engaging in commerce or separate from its chinese owners.

I am really surprised, I don't always agree with the ACLU but I've always seen them as a serious and respectable organization.

I honestly wonder if there is external influence at play here.
I think people on HN would say a video game like that is ableist for those that take the time to learn how to play it. What they want is an AI to play it for them.
There's lots of doubt on that. I doubt it, for one, and probably lots of other people too. So where do you get this ridiculous “there's no doubt” from?!?

Until there is some proof that Tesla possesed an “advanced way to cause mass destruction” there is nothing but doubt about that.
Yes, the pertinent question is are these sales in any way statistically significant? If no sales had been rendered for a long time, and then a huge sale, that would be more suspicious.
You are showing confidence in the company by sticking around through the vesting cycle. For CEOs that period is often five to ten years. Selling it after that to buy a house or whatever isn't some confidence signal. At some point you just need the cash.
It's the current wave of entitled generation, who want more than what the market reality can actually pay them. They were cuddled by free interest rates, above average pay first and then during the pandemic by the government. The companies also went along with prioritizing mental well-being, self-care, full-pay-for-no-work culture.

The tech workers are under the false assumption that they have the upper hand, in the midst of higher interest rates, competition between companies (reducing profit margins), AI (boosting non-english, non-western workforce skills higher bringing them near par to average western knowledge workers).

Companies will accelerate firing and blocking these groups going forward.
What does floating mean here? Floating on what? I read the website and it doesn't answer it either.
I don't know what you mean to imply by "government edict (e.g., ww2 era)" but WW2 in the US was the era of the US fixing wages under the authority of the president

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilization_Act_of_1942

In short the Federal government broke the individual laborers and labor unions to make sure they could afford to win World War 2.
Why are you so aligned with the man on this?
"Information wants to be free." These days, literally. Ain't that right, ChatGPT?
I’m tired of all the threads of interesting and viable-looking use cases being bombarded by the same contrarian armchair philosophers offering an unsolicited lecture about how LLMs don’t provide value because they aren’t conscious, or whatever.

Keep this stuff coming!
That's OK. The purpose of the test is to compare approaches to compression. Noise in the dataset is a handicap but it affects all approaches, so it doesn't invalidate the test as a way to compare approaches. And true white noise is very rare, almost all real noise has characteristics that are at least somewhat compressible. And hopefully whoever constructs the dataset tries not to include tons of noise in it.

Lossless compression is a great objective because it's impossible to cheat. When you do lossy compression you have to define a quality metric and as soon as you do that the game becomes cheating the quality metric rather than actually compressing the data in a useful way.

I highly recommend watching the video I linked. Arithmetic encoding reduces the task of lossless compression to assigning probabilities for the next token, which is the exact task these models are trained to do.
I've already had to contact Vultr in the past due to a "noisy neighbour" impacting my relatively low traffic website. I can't shake the feeling that I'm about to get a lot more noisy neighbours...
It really does kind of take on new poetic meaning as posted. Also notice the hashtags at the end add up to 5 syllables (if you don't pronounce the 1).

Weird, but cool.

Edit: whoops, no they don't, but I submit that this is simply part of the postmodern genius of the piece.
I wonder what would have happened to OpenAI if Google had not released the transformers paper.
It isn't disobedience but making threats that is the problem. You can give the US the middle finger without threatening anyone's lives.
Wow this is great work, love to see the jailbreaks get more creative against the new models.
This is great. Awesome work. I selected the model for sentiment analysis and changed the prompt . Though it took a while to download the roughly 170MB of model file but I understand it is just a one time thing. And it did the work without crashing. I can imagine this being used in many devices with embedded browser.
Pornhub parent acquired; fund has links to 2021 acquisition attempt
> dismiss

The best defense is a good offense.

You should just be asking for dismissal. You should be be counter-suing for legal fees + k*N, where:

- N is l.b. by the total value of your possible employment contracts, including any active offers and your current position. Where total value is defined as total comp out m years, where m is the last day of the last stock grant.

- k is the maximum possibly relevant statutory damage multiple.

ianal; my lawyer is not your lawyer.
It seems like everyone is just focusing on auto-generated/summarized emails which is rather myopic. The real value add here is the ability to make all of an organization's data more easily discoverable and searchable.
Silly us, I suppose we should stop relying on APT/RPM/what-have-you Linux package mirrors, NPM, NuGet, PyPi, Hex, RubyGems, Crates, ... too.
I think what most on HN would say is that you are being ableist and gatekeeping by saying those who pay others to climb a mountain for them are not mountain climbers. I guess it’s a sad state.
I've found it pretty good for small bash scripts, and also autohotkey scripts. You can ask for a simple script and then iterate it closer and closer to exactly what you want.

It's like it writes all the boilerplate for you.
And there’s the fact that many tasks don’t need to be perfect. AI is ideal for doing 90% of the legwork in those use cases.

Or you could still have a human in the loop, for example a CTO reviewing their AI developer’s code. But now you can pay one person instead of 10.

That said, these tools still need some domain knowledge. It’s not at the point yet where anyone off the street can use it to accomplish an unfamiliar task.

There’s an old story about someone charging $1,000 to fix a machine. They did it in 10 seconds and the client complained. The consultant said “I get paid for knowing how to fix it”.

The same might be true for knowing how to prompt AI.
Do you write in assembly?
> wireless power transmission, for example, was patented by him in 1916

So what? Perpetual motion machines, and a lot of other junk that never could work, have also been patented both before and since. Not only Einstein but also a lot of idiots have worked in patent offices around the world.
Likely so. Demand for money increases in liquidity crunches.
The “current wave of entitled generation”? Union membership in the US is at a historic low. If you equate unionization with entitlement (I don’t) then this is the least entitled generation almost a century.
This is a great read. It is accurate to what I felt the last time I trained a CNN -- it's not fun, and I don't get to feel clever. My brain isn't wired to give me a dopamine hit when the training does its job. It's just a, "wait, that's it?"

We will always want to do the discovery ourselves, and I can see why fighting that instinct is a challenge for those in the field.
I believe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517ppuyL3ik is the latest one covering the issue, that also provides background.
Same for me. There was some kind of d-day a couple years ago where it really started to happen.
It’s this disgusting attitude from management that unions form to counter.
So can team members still push security updates to an image on a public team account that’s not in their FOSS program? It’s still incredibly unclear if this is allowed, or if the existing images will be frozen in time until someone pays for the account. Still a nightmare for CISOs that rely on the ecosystem.
Yeah, sure. The world just "chose" to make intellectual property law. The zillion dollar copyright industry and their lobbyists and their international trade agreements had absolutely nothing to do with it.
> It's fine to say "great, that can free up people for other thing", but given our current economic systems, how are these people supposed to eat?

Yeah, exactly this. The funny thing about economic upheavals and industrial revolutions is that while people might get reallocated eventually (say, 30 years), that doesn't provide any comfort to the people who are getting upheaved now.
It's not proven that Venus doesn't have tectonic plates
This is the old problem of passing instructions (AI job description) on the same channel as data (user questions). Confusion is very easy.

Surely there is a solution in the way we solved SQL injections, by separating the two - db.sql("DELETE WHERE user=?", user_name)
I really liked the suggestion that if it takes off, the web should consider trying to expose something like the OpenXLA intermediate model, which powers the new PyTorch 2.0, TensorFlow, Jax, and a bunch of other top tier ML frameworks.

It already is very well optimized for a ton of hardware (cpus, gpus, ml chips). The Intermediate Representation might already be a web-safe-ish model, effectively self-sandboxing, which could make it safe to expose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35078410
>> Has anyone here ever tried drawing hands?

Yeah. Unfortunately the only way I found to do it convincingly and reliably was the manga way: draw a pentagonal shape for the "wireframe" of the palm, then draw five lines for the wireframes of the fingers (pose them as you need and make sure to place the thumb on the side of the palm, please), then flesh them out. Try not to make them look like sausages (i.e. draw them tapering towards the ends). Draw nails if you really must. I like to draw little lines on the knuckles and inside the palm a little "Y" shape.

That fudges a lot of complexity, but I was only interested in cartoon-like hands, more expressive and evocative, than anatomically correct. So, you know. Manga hands.

(like Jazz hands, but with bigger eyes).

It gets more complicated if you want the hands to be doing stuff. For some reason, one of my favourite themes was someone tapping furiously at a keyboard. Go figure.

I also did some classical animation like StrictDabbler below but I never had to draw any hands, let alone animate them. That would take special training I reckon, you need technique to do that, you can't just intuit it or it'll look horrible.

I don't know what all this has to do with image generators though. They do not crate images like we do. I don't understand why they 're not good with hands, to be honest.

I guess the human form is much more ah, surprising and irregular, than we realise. I think, to an alien, we'd look pretty freaky just like we imagine cephalopod-like aliens to be. "AAAAH what are those tendril-like appendages sticking out of them?!!"

Anyway, for me the hardest part of all was perspective. Now that is some tough shit. But that, too, you can learn, if you're shown the right technique. Allegedly.
Covering triangle with triangles [shortest math paper ever, Conway&Soifer 2004]
Yeah – first off, I agree with everything you are saying. I would just add that this is a larger problem just starting to come into focus, which is this: over a long enough period of time virtually ALL jobs will be eliminated. There was a time when man thought – let's make our lives easier by inventing 'tools' and eventually, we will have 'tools' so advance we'll sit around and discuss philosophy like we're all Greek aristocrats. Or something like that.

Somewhere toward that goal we became overly fixated with money/wealth and the pursuit of endless profits. Meanwhile, companies continue to post record profits while downsizing - gee, I wonder why.

The reality is, we need to start to figure out and move toward a new way to run the world. I always semi-land in a kind of Star Trek: TNG 'creation socialism', or whatever it is they have as a means of structuring a society, where you have a replicator that can create almost anything for you. They also have 'intellect machines' that are often used to build things from just describing what you want, or in other situation to dig into engineering problems, etc. Things that we are now starting to do with our new GPT tech.

Putting all this another way – how are all these corporations going to continue to exist when there are no customers to buy their products, because there are no jobs left. Basically, money as we know it is going to go away, we won't be a society of limited resources anymore.

And again as a reminder, this isn't something I'm saying is 2-5 or even 50 years away (maybe?). What I'm saying is that set the timeline however you want, it is going to happen, and we need to start to plan for it now. Based on what's happening already, we're likely at the start of a 20 – 50 year transition towards a new form of society entirely.
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Yep - this is constructive dismissal for sure, but in the US there isn't any general law against it.
Say a distro sells laptops with the distro pre-installed while also providing the same image online and might also sell consulting services to companies utilizing the distro.
According to my undestanding of the terms of Docker's opend source program, even if said distro was fully open-source and a run by a non-profit they would be non-eligible to participate in the program.
Yes, stock sales by insiders is public information.
Just a small correction. Stock sale disclosure is mandated by SEC, not FCC.
Even if we read it that way, what's the hypocrisy? Was Keynes famously an advocate of public institutions never doing anything deceptive?
Meanwhile, states and cities are trying to illegalize vaping while leaving cigarettes on shelves, not to mention continuing the criminally stupid "war on drugs" in ways too myriad to count while retaining one's sanity.

_sigh_
We all rely on many free services and code. And, by the way, I'm a paying customer - I don't use their services but do this to support the pioneer!
Relatedly, the FDIC is built as an insurance pool and has always stated coverage as a minimum with no explicit maximum coverage. It's entirely possible to see the FDIC's over-coverage here as an explicit "this pool has seen lower portfolio risk than expected" which may only indicate that past rates were higher than necessary versus real world risk profiles and that serves no expectation of future rate changes just a sign of a very healthy risk pool. (It's just as possible to argue that if the insurance pool was able to 100% cover the deposits in this event that actuaries should reevaluate the risks for the entire pool and decrease rates moving forward to stronger align with the expected minimum coverage and present risk assesment knowledge of the likelihood of events of this scale.)