skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I get it. We wanted to get a local version out there as it's what a lot of people want, but as you can imagine a full native mac app takes a ton of time to deliver.

We thought Electron would be a nice interim until we go down the route further.

I know Electron doesn't get a lot of love, is it the file size, the UX, or what about it makes it less desirable for you?
Sure! I'll file it this weekend.
The OP is going on the quality of discussion rather than the platform itself.

Reddit has always required self-curation even before they went full dark-pattern.
What if the 0.1% of the users are the ones that you should deeply care for?
> No such thing as negative press

Tell that to Silicon Valley Bank after that WSJ article that started the run lol
The point I'm trying to make is that you don't need continuous training to absorb new information about current events
Amazon and big corp will win this. Probably best for these engineers to move on and find a company that will allow 100% working. Good luck

> The same engineers upset about the RTO policy here to stay are also talking about canceling their Prime memberships or boycotting Amazon.

ohhh scary

> At the same time, looking at the market, it’s hard not to ask the question: if people want to leave, where will they leave to? Meta just announced more cuts - and closing all 5,000 open positions. Dozens of tech companies have put similar, 3-day return to office policies in place starting from December,

I've been saying this for ages. Big corp were always going to go BACK to hybrid working which was in place pre-pandemic. BAU
Is there a toxic fume that smells like bologna? Because every southwest plane I have been on has smelled distinctly like processed meat.
They don't use the words "spirit of the policy", that was just me. The policy lists a bunch of things are not allowed. You aren't allowed to generate content that is prohibited, and also not allowed to try to break the safeguards.
Ah. But... If you don't want to trust the front page's ordering of items, then why trust its choice of which to include? Seems a bit weird to me. Or, well, at least arbitrary.
Doesn't current US law suggest that you can't copyright model weights?
That one was supercharged by the Media Lab's PR organ. But even without that assistance, the regular MIT "news" office is head and shoulders above its peers in making the trivial appear transformational and the outstanding appear...boring.

My favorite was a publicity piece about a new proof for the behavior of higher-order manifolds with some absurd justification as to why you should care, something like how it would revolutionize battery electrodes or something like that.

PS: "living example" was a nice touch.
If you want actual reproducable, actual portable software, Nix. Otherwise there are countless other OCI runtimes, cri-o, containers, etc. Kubernetes doesn't even use Docker.

What a thing, docker. I can't get over the staying power it has had despite... Everything.
This is somewhat an extension of modern politics, which is largely seen by political professionals as a problem of "messaging", where policy details are secondary to how people can be persuaded to think about those policies.
> I'm pretty sure almost all technologies at some point were solutions looking for a problem to solve. Examples include the internet, the computer and math.

I think the opposite -- nearly all technologies came about as a result of people trying to solve existing real problems. Examples include the internet, the computer and math. (Although I don't think "math" counts as a technology.)

The internet came about from darpanet, which was solving the problem of network resiliency. Computers automated what used to be a human job ("computer") of doing very large amounts of computations. That automation was solving the problem of needing to do more computations than could be done with armies of people.
That doesn't sound like something that could get you off of the Earth.

It's probably a great choice for once you're already in space, where being able to apply even very small thrusts nearly-continuously really adds up.
Organizational gaslighting?

I personally hate the term “gaslighting”, but it could be apt here.
As the person who most often pushed for .org, I can say it was because I wanted to emphasize the community nature. React isn’t a commercial offering. (I had to talk the team out of react.com as the main brand for this launch; although that URL works, I think react.dev is more reflective than .com of what we’re trying to do.)
吹いている ought to be 降っている and 今天 is not a word, it should be 今日
hn is much more ... extreme
Podman is pretty good, and more or less a drop-in replacement.
Sure. But what share of their users use those 2% images. Surely way more.

Also I don't think Docker grasps how much their users value a one way stop for pulling images of OSS.

It is a really stupid move.
This is a truly great writeup: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
How will decreasing NL’s food exports result in a decrease in emissions? Honest question.
Can you let us know how you do industrial scale dairy without pollution then, because it sure causes pollution everywhere else in the world
>It's the fact that Marco Polo is bullshitting, and Kublai Khan knows it, and does not care. The whole point is that this guy is a borderline fraud, weaving tall tales, but no one cares because the stories are good. Its a comedic absurdist view, a mirror held up to fiction, basically asking, "who cares?"

I never quite thought Marco Polo was bullshitting, per se, but rather revealing aspects of a city (perhaps even the same exact city, or all cities, for that matter) that are otherwise left unexamined.
Every day at 5pm, I do three things:

1. I turn off my work computer and exit my home office.

2. I get a big hug from my 1 year old daughter.

3. I remind myself how glad I am that I left Amazon, because it was obvious in 2021 that they'd do this eventually.

Tech survey 2021 showed that most devs preferred remote at least half of the time or more. The S-team had those numbers. Then they sent out an email saying "we know you all can't wait to be back in the office!". They simply don't care what you think or want.
Neither of those are proper threads, and they have various limitations placed on them.

And the language and the VM has been, and will be for any foreseeable future, single-threaded.
Right, and so you should be compensated at the rate of the profession your former employer is preventing you from working.

I don't see why an employer gets to say "well actually if you want to change your job you have to take a massive pay cut for 6 months. oh that means you can't afford your mortgage? ... that must suck. Have you considered working here for your current compensation indefinitely? that way you can keep your house"
Sure, if you invert the sign of "summary"
You could also take the conversation and use it as part of the reinforcement learning dataset. I feel like that's the closest thing to long term memory ChatGPT is capable of right now.
The concept of FAANG hoarding workers to deprive competitors of talent is an idea that has been bandied about on HN for quite some time. Finally, some solid substantiation of this practice.
And you think Holland is an agricultural friendly region? You have clearly never seen the amount of glass houses from a satellite photo of Holland. They cover a vast area!

Polluting farms will get downsized in Holland over time.
In 1965 the Atomic Energy Commission put the cost of plutonium 239 at $10/gram, which by simple consumer price indexing (only a rough guide, admittedly) would make it $96/gram today.

See Table I in this publication "Values In Spent Fuel From Power Reactors":

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4618921

At $96 per gram instead of $4000, that's a much more attractive $154 million to put 1600 tons in orbit. Uranium enrichment costs have fallen greatly since the 1960s as centrifuges have replaced gaseous diffusion, so uranium-fueled units would probably cost less (despite the greater mass of uranium required).

I'd say that the main modern problems of a terrestrially launched Orion are treaty violations and giving a plausible cover for nations to again pursue developing "peaceful" nuclear explosives.
Yes, a view-only mode would work. Ideally it would not just be a static view, but would allow users to run some queries (perhaps constrained?) on the table, so they can get a list of their customers who ordered last quarter but not this quarter, for example, or other similar queries.

But disallowing them from modifying the DB would be fine.

Maybe limiting it to tables established by the Creator, and with a certain View/Dashboard arrangement, would work.
> “Everyone else that I worked with got to work on stuff but I didn’t. So I am one of those employees that was hired into a really strange position where they immediately put me into a group of individuals that was not working.

> “I mean, like, we were just sitting there. We had to basically fight to find work. It was a very strange environment and it kind of seemed that Meta was hiring people so that other companies couldn’t have us and they were just hoarding us like Pokémon cards.”

People claim they want autonomy, they accept a position at a company that famously has a bottoms-up hacker ethos.

Then they complain that they weren't immediately "assigned" work on Day 1.

WTF.
My university professor who specialises in NLP kinda feels like what's the point of research in the time of chatgpt. He says for now it's not possible to scale retrieval easily when using these llms so that's what he is looking into for now
It cannot even answer correctly to "What is heavier: one kilogram of lead or two kilograms of feather?"
The Libyan Army has found the 10 missing drums with 2.5 tons of natural Uranium
Appreciate the response. Thanks!
If performance is the only concern to pick a language, world is far simpler.
Federal agency hacked by 2 groups thanks to flaw that went unpatched for 4 years
Is there any justifiable explanation for this hiring strategy? "Keep us from working for others" seems like flawed reasoning. If they went to work for others, then wage pressure should drop, but by hoarding developers on fake projects wage pressure increases. A strategy that raises median wages doesn't seem like it would come from a FAANG.
Not really; I have plenty of quibbles with the GOP, but its nowhere near the Taliban. Your somewhat racist and sexist uncle is also not literally Hitler.
This speaks to the product culture at Docker. They are unable to admit they are changing direction after negative customer feedback, so they are pretending this was always their plan, and shifting the blame to their customers.

It is similar to pseudo-blameless engineering cultures, where engineers won't admit to bugs, or update the status indicator, least they face the shame of writing a post mortem, or having it brought up in their performance review.
agreed! it's important to communicate, and studying distant worlds makes us human (but as a physicist im biased).

maybe an international mission to mars could be useful. dunno.
Is this effort sponsored by OpenAI so they can auto-label their crawled data as human-authored vs everything else? <adjusts tinfoil hat>
The "2% of our users" is indeed misleading since most users don't run organizations, and it's mainly orgs that were affected. A better metric would be what % of orgs were impacted.
In at-will employment the terms of employment can be changed at any time. As long as the terms weren’t changed because of membership in a protected class it’s completely legal in the US.
I think a really interesting area of further research into LLMs is going to be how to further decouple "intelligence" from "knowledge". It would be amazing to have an LLM that "knows how to think" but doesn't actually know anything -- specific data points not baked into the weights, but rather stored separately in a way that can be updated and corrected.

Perhaps a step forward is the "toolformer" router, making the LLM recognize when it is referencing a fact and have it look that up (use a "tool") instead of trying to infer it. I realize that even semantically this is kind of a fine line, hard facts vs inferences, so there's some philosophy to ponder here. What can be 'stored' and what can be 'calculated'. What kind of knowledge is innate to intelligent reasoning and what kind acts more like a lookup table.

But, exactly because we can't easily define these two categories, I have a feeling that if LLMs are trained to actually learn by themselves how to distinguish them in a "fuzzy" way, we might start getting somewhere.
I am curious where this is coming from because TFA implies that this policy applies to people who were hired remote. What is the actual distinction between those who have to RTO and those that do not?

> Many employees accepted offers from Amazon with the understanding that their position will be full remote.
Its not wrong its an experimental observation based on systematic tests I've done. Maybe, with great strain either in quantity of training or ad hoc tweaking, this particular low bar can be hurdled. But it is still the case in general that numeracy is not prone to naturally and unexpectedly emerge from this type of system. The extent to which that matters depends on what your goal is. If you care about results in the here and now, then random patches optimized to use cases is fine. If you care about figuring out where to look for things we can do cognitively that are not very well suited to these generator models, the surprising lack of numeracy so far is a great starting point. The next obvious question is why it takes billions to notice the numbers 1 - 10? What models wouldn't suck at that?
I think that TypeScript, properly managed with things like zod or typebox, does an excellent job of giving me those benefits of types that I've come to expect while also having a really, really first-class development experience that reminds me (unsurprisingly?) of how actually-delightful using C# was in its heyday, with ReSharper and Visual Studio making it enjoyable. I genuinely don't feel any hassle around using it; the way that I can start with type signatures and then make the red squiggles go away is a really comfortable way to write code for me.

For me, I was out of the JavaScript cinematic universe for a long time (from about 2011 to 2018) and TypeScript was my entree back in. What got me deeply into it, and has kept me there, is not that it's better than JavaScript, but that, for my purposes, it's better than my at-the-time common languages: Ruby, Java, and C#. It gives me most of the linguistic flexibility that I'm used to with Ruby, while preventing me from dealing with the worst thing about it (Other People's Ruby being high on my list of terrible things). At the same time, it provides a level of "fall into the pit of success" structure around the type system that's superior to Java or C#, while not being as difficult to access as Rust can be.

(I like Rust, too! But the level of experience and skill necessary for somebody to be a "TypeScript operator" remains low, while letting those folks leverage really nice tooling built by folks like me who write TypeScript tools and libraries.)
Probably just a rug pull by the original "investors"/founders
Tiktok is defacto doing the CCP's bidding. They don't have a choice not to. There is no rule of law or separation of powers in China. It's not like tiktok can sue the CCP to leave them alone (let alone the idea even come up in the boardroom).

I think this debate would be much clearer if people didn't (probably without even realizing it) think they understand how China works because they understand how American works.
I mean, that could be changed.

Currently: either string OR number

Possible: either string | number OR just number
Basically my thoughts as well. Mainly I take a cyberpunk-esque view of things where the net is a big ecosystem with lots of weird environmental niches, and so it breeds software, people, and organizations to occupy these niches. Asking what this one request is supposed to mean is kind of beside the point, like asking what a particular log in a forest means.
HN is still 100% distinguishable from Reddit which is now worse than YouTube used to be for commenting. I can't think of anywhere worse than Reddit right now.
Its important to note that most of these farm products are exported. This is an argument about market protection, not food supply protection.
Yeah it's no accident SpaceX built their test launch facility on the beach in Texas, less than 10 miles from the southernmost point in Texas. Brownsville is about 20 miles away and is a natural, true deepwater port which is also helpful, but primary reason was to get as close to the equator as possible while still being on the US mainland. You can throw about 9% more mass into orbit on the equator than from NYC. Florida coastal property is mostly built out and southern Texas is mostly vacant + has a very favorable business climate and lax (state-level) environmental regulations which doesn't hurt either.
You started out in Boston Dynamics, destined to fail :) j/k

(The again, everyone I worked with from BD seems has a similar pattern after leaving!)
It is too late for me to edit my other comment, but IBM offered ratchet wheels with double the normal number of teeth (54 rather than 27), providing quarter-line motion, for the Selectric.

p11 https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/typewriter/selectric/PCE-008-1...
The quick answer is Hooks killed class
There always 2 sides of a story. This just does not sound trustworthy.

I had also a job where I was reading Wikipedia all day. Management forgot to buy me a software license and I had nothing to do. I silently quit.
Can't they say something like "a small and important group", yada yada, etc. Just laying out the % alone is derisive and pointless.
I think, even if for the pure marketing of it, one of Deere’s competitors should seize the opportunity to offer “open” equipment. I’m not a farmer, but I did grow up fixing my own cars and such… I can’t imagine any “killer feature” farm equipment has that Deere provides that would require such a closed package. Reliability and serviceability could be those killer features.
> it seems slightly surprising to claim that a Chinese company has the full benefit of first amendment protections

The first amendment isn't a law that says "these people have freedom of speech".

Instead the law is written such that it's a restriction placed upon the legislature.

"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech..."

It doesn't indicate whose freedom of speech cannot be abridged by congress, so (barring any overriding jurisprudence or "original intent" I'm unaware of), this therefor apparently refers to the freedom of speech of everyone... everywhere. (I feel compelled to point out that I do not have a law degree of any kind)

Later amendments draw a clearer and more deliberate distinction between who the law is targeted at.

For example, in the 14th Amendment, it states in the first clause:

"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

It's still a law designed to restrict the power of government. However, "any person" is a clearly and deliberately defined category of people that's different from "citizens of the United States" (a phrase which was used in the same section). It's therefor clear that this protection is meant to cover non-citizens as well.
This feels like a win for capitalism to me. The actually innovative Docker did is open source, and replacements already exist for DockerHub. So, we get the good tech they created, and the company with the user-hostile choices dies, or becomes irrelevant.
Unbelievable that they’ve gone ahead launching this, going all in on hooks, while the fundamental problem with them, which was raised in 2018 is still unsolved: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/14099

And they just handwave it away in the docs with an imaginary future API. Embarrassing.
oh glorious docker thank you for completely changing course and not deleting our data and then acting like you never said you’d delete it in the first place.

fuck docker!
Typescript was born of JScript. Check the history and the docs.
> There is no good reason this should not work everywhere else, in exactly the same way. Take for example a large retailer who has a large internal knowledge base. Train an LLM on that corpus, ask the knowledge base any question.

Since LLM’s can’t scope themselves to be strictly true or accurate, there are indeed good reasons, like liability for false claims and added traditional support burden from incorrect guidance.

Everybody is getting so far ahead of the horse with this stuff, but we’re just not there yet and don’t know for sure how far we’re going to get.
This is a covert operation to get human generated contented to be tagged appropriately to be incorporated to the next training set for GPT-5/SD3.0.

/S but only a bit.
im looking forward to hipster posts about compiling and running your stack directly on a machine. probably one, and it'll be faster. that'll be great
Livestock are what emit most of the Nitrogen - specifically cow pee
San Francisco Bay Area to phase out natural gas heating appliances
Actually it seems that Alpaca is not actually released. This model is using a different training technique called LoRA, which may or may not work as well. People are making a lot of unsubstantiated performance claims, saying this is as good as GPT-3 when not nearly enough evaluation has been done to demonstrate that yet.
Yeah we had a windows version as well, it was a bit buggy so we decided to launch without it.

I'm curious why does use case sound niche? We love to think that giving everyone access to data is a pretty big challenge to solve. Is it in our messaging or do you think the overall vision is off? Would love to understand how we could be more clear in what we are providing.
most companies are not this sloppy

i said "some of those will make mistakes", which means, most won't. there is no contradiction.

And what will you use instead?

BSD stuff i suppose, or write my own, or pay for a commercial license which is usually a lot easier to follow than the GPL, because it doesn't require me to give anything to my users. i just pay and then i can use the code however i want as long as i don't resell the source.

Why should I care about the market share of FOSS

that's up to you.
i care because FOSS, and the GPL in particular give me and other FOSS users more freedom in how they use the software. in want this freedom to spread. making it risky for businesses to use FOSS is not the way to do that.
Even Antonio Elias, the person behind Pegasus and main designer, admitted that it didn't work out at all the way they predicted. You had the complication and rigmarole of launching from an aircraft but you still had to launch close to a range for comm and safety reasons.
Access to space for the military is right up there with having a tank factory, rifle factory and bullet factory. You cannot be a superpower, let alone have a functional independent military without access to space.
Meaning I can't download it because their account was zapped after the 30 days? I could certainly download it before all this.
I can anticipate that this would be actively pushed for under many administrations... What stops such a vote from being called until the French presidency forms into a form that parliament likes?
Except what normally happens for professional jobs in the US is that someone lines up a new job, then they quit (and maybe take a few weeks off between jobs). In general, in the US, not being able to start a new job for 6 months would be a non-starter in many situations. And, while some occupations may be very hot, depending upon your age/experience/etc. being able to just quit and count on quickly lining something up when you start looking seems risky.
I hope your editor supports TS.