skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a $40,000 cap, therefore the gamble does not sound that bad.

I guess the contention point is companies promising a 6 figure base salary with no experience or college degree. While there is precedent for this, it's not the median income for bootcamp graduates, and if it was, it would be restricted to specific geographic locations.
Is this the same l0pht that wrote l0pthcrack, the legendary Windows password brute force tool from the 90s? I used that a lot though these days it's long been replaced by hashcat of course.
From high-speed rail to the Olympics, why do big projects go wrong?
>So again these comparisons are very subjective especially when something has upsides at the cost of dramatically reduced lifespan.

Yeah a phone might be more fragile than a pocket calculator, but if you need a phone anyways and it comes with a calculator for free, the "replacement" calculator is effectively free and has infinite durability. You can knock off some points for not having tactile buttons, but then again it being effectively weightless and volumeless seems like a benefit.

> The simplest argument for the BLS’s bias is comparing how often they accused of over vs under estimating inflation.

That's a poor heuristic because even assuming the BLS was 100% accurate, you'd expect more people to complain about CPI being higher than lower. Squeaky wheel gets the grease as the saying goes, and there simply isn't much to complain about for low inflation. There are certainly downsides, but those are more academic/abstract than having to pay for bread with wheelbarrows full of bills. Same goes for conspiracies, eg. "everything is getting more expensive and the government is covering it up!". From there, motivated reasoning takes over and it's just a numbers game.
Since we're on the topic, I would highly recommend https://cryptlex.com/
I have used them for a few projects. They have great support and features.
Aren't most student loans already loaned directly by Sally Mae / the government? Private loans aren't the issue afaik.
Used Sitecore at my last job, so I'm curious what they're migrating to. All I could find mentioned .NET Core. Do you have a link that covers what they're moving to?
That quote reveals either that they are 1) delusional or 2) a fraudster. Your comment leans more towards 2) but I think 1) is also a possibility, which in some ways I find more concerning (delusional cult leaders being potentially more dangerous than common fraudsters).
Low marriage rate is a one of the root cause of low birth rate. It was common that people met at office and then be married. So remote work could make it worse. (regardless of which life is better for individuals)
The problem of toxic reviews would be mitigated by publishing them. It’s a well known issue:

https://www.science.org/content/article/rude-paper-reviews-a...
> Jesus Christ, this is literally peak Hacker News. You realize you are saying what is the equivalent of "Big O notation is unnecessary for Computer Science".

Sorry but it absolutely isn’t. Pointedly, the HDI is a composite indicator weirdly mixing together criteria with a formula which doesn’t make sense. It’s a total ass pull from the UNDP and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

> ADJUSTED TO THE PRICE LEVEL OF THE COUNTRY;

No need to all caps. As stated the issue of the HDI is that it’s a non sensical composite aggregating together correlated variables using arbitrary weights, not that it doesn’t adjust for price level.

> Literally in any Developmental Econ 101 class HDI is pointed to as the primary metric to compare regions.
Of course there are valid criticisms with weightages in HDI, but no one and literally no Economist or Policymaker worth their salt has straight ignored it.

I have a degree in economics and I have yet to meet someone taking the HDI seriously.

I did appreciate your comment about ”valid criticisms”. It did remind of one of my friend mentioning his “little issue” with alcohol. I will concede that the HDI is a composite indicator for which there are valid criticisms regarding variables selection and weights and by that I mean that it is a garbage indicator.

> GDP PPP per Capita and Gini are critically important as well

Yes, it helps that they actually make sense.

Equivalently, one could also look at proper metrics for the rest of the HDI components if they wanted but most of them are tightly correlated to GDP PPP anyway.
I was involved with one of the more reputable code schools a few years ago, my information is out of date and not necessarily representative but firsthand.

It's not really true that the students at these were trying to fast-track into highly paid jobs per se. Half or more were skilled professionals with masters degrees. A lot of high-burnout fields represented: disproportionate (and alarming) number of teachers and nurses in there, as well as like ex-goldman analysts, tons of mechanical and civil engineers as well.

Everyone assumes these were full of like, bartenders chasing money (which there is nothing wrong with that either) but in my experience it wasn't true at all. It was mostly late 20s-early 30s professionals who were looking to change to another skilled career, mostly due to burnout, poor fit in the first one, or more autonomy.

> turns out you cannot easily get into a tech job doing some simple cookie cutter courses.

No, you can't easily get into a tech job from these courses. But more interesting to me it showed that you can do a tech job from doing these courses. I've worked with code school grads a lot after that as well, in fact I seek them out when hiring. It's true that a fresh code school grad has a narrow slice of competence and needs more and different kinds of support than other junior devs. But they can succeed if given it, and ones a couple years or more into their careers tend to punch well above their weight in my experience. It's a group that is basically self-selecting for confidence and calculated risk-taking. They do well.
When people literally joke about being to sound like each other, why would you go "voice recognition for id? outstanding!"
"Making it harder to switch is by definition anti-competitive"

It isn't. Anti-competitive would be using one's market power to drive out competition or keep competition from arising. There is no reasonable definition of "anti-competitive" for Amazon in this case, since Google and Microsoft are (arguably) even better positioned to compete (since they are tech companies, where Amazon is not). To avoid the lock-in, simply choose a different provider, or self-host. There is literally tons of competition in AWS' market.
I disagree about sexual morals. We live in a time where everything that was kept locked away from "polite society" in the 80s is now celebrated and held up as morally correct and right. The only people deemed depraved today are those who adhere to a more traditional view, and that was absolutely not the way things were in the 80s.
I consider the fact that these systems appear to create a very complex human-like internal model to be one of the, quite suddenly, most pressing philosophical problems of our time. If we had introspection into ML models, would they be sensible, like how humans think and model in the abstract? Is there a "carry the one" weight somewhere, that's linked to numbers that triggers when GPT is given a pattern that invokes that subnetwork, it adds almost like humans do with pen and paper? Or is it entirely different?

I'm not sure we can say whether it "understands" until some questions like that have a start of an answer. Perhaps it's possible to model and predict something, even abstractly reason, without understanding that can be related in a way a human would comprehend. That would be unsettling in its own way.
As for Japan, language barrier is big and salary is far lower than SV, so not much a big concern like your workplace.
Excited to see this being in progress. Have you checked out the docs effort spun up with the Nix Documentation team?
Doom comes to Raspberry Pi Pico (2022)
Sounds like the hospital had their infosec well in hand. That's rare.
So that's what those social media sites are for. It all makes so much sense now.
They are subjects, not citizens
> Did an emperor even need to loot that much?

dunno about looting specifically, but yes, the emperors always needed an insane amount of money to finance the wars.
I don't think you can reflect onto the standard library anymore, with the recent "strong encapsulation".
> Nothing seems like the obvious next step.

Rather than focusing on "next steps", it might help to think 10 years out and work backwards.

Where do you want to live? When do you want to retire? How do you want to spend your time? How busy do you want to be?

It sounds like your network is of no value to you right now because you don't have a clear vision of your future.

> I sometimes help others produce events utilizing my network.

I'm organizing a tech conference right now!

Feel free to schedule a quick call with me and we can chat about your career vision.

I'd also like any event-planning wisdom you have to offer :)

[1] https://outland.sh

[2] https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min
that will definitely happen.
Would it be better if memorisation could be achieved through distributed practice, vocabulary learned through reading and listening, spaced repetition achieved through well written textbooks, curriculum, mentorship, etc? Absolutely, but these factors aren't always a given and often are often outside of one's own control. If failing to keep good Anki hygiene is considered in the ROI calculations, these issues should be included to.

Maybe your textbooks just don't distribute problems well enough, the curriculum changes drastically such that what you've just learned isn't touched on again before you forget it, or maybe you just don't have the time or material to consistently practice foreign languages for 1-2 hours a day. In these cases, the 10-20 minutes spent reviewing cards serves as a useful crutch in preventing that information being forgotten entirely, which undoes all the time spent trying to learn it in the first place.
Bad advice. A user unable to properly configure their device should be buying a Windows machine. Or a MacBook / Chromebook.
category theory has a very hard "k" sound at the front and a g sound which is also hard, which makes people react more strongly to the name than order theory or abstract algebra.
Did you get severance?
One problem with tavern style pizza is that you are going to be hard pressed to find someone who really knows the whole city and can really say what the best one to go out of your way to is. Because at the end of the day it’s just what your local pizza spot has. It’s like what you get at a kids birthday party or when you go out after a softball game.

I don’t know even if the spots I picked are standouts. They just are the ones near where I am when it’s appropriate to eat pizza.

Unlike say Chicago bbq a topic on which I have opinions.
> and then swear up and down that their code is perfect

Even worse when they don't do this and just flat out admit they broke a usecase intentionally and label it Won't Fix because the team that implemented the breaking change is also the team that triages the issue. See logcat access being completely broken in Android 13: https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/wpt39b/dev_warning_...
+1 we should have more info tomorrow :)
I did it to automatically generate blogs and post them to shopify.
Another benefit might be protection from asteroids and meteorites if built underground.
Severance is mandatory in my country, so yes.
>The attempt to provide a second JPEG-XL implementation has stalled

What do you mean by "the attempt"? There are at least three independent decoder implementations:

jxl-oxide (Rust): https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide

J40 (C): https://github.com/lifthrasiir/j40

jxlatte (Java): https://github.com/thebombzen/jxlatte

None of them is feature complete, but it's because each of them is a hobby, single-person project. You're making it sound like some billion-dollar company tried to implement JPEG XL and failed, because it's too complex or something.

However, it should be noted that those independent implementations, despite being hobby projects, helped to iron-out some minor issues in the standard.

>Then AVIF got in, because AV1 was already in.

AVIF uses its own container format that had to be implemented. Implementing AV1 does not give you AVIF support for free.
Your forgetting about radiation. You don't need to conduct it all away, there are 3 modes of heat transfer, conduction, convection and radiation. In this case it's the radiation they'd rely on.
That's what I've been thinking about, too.

As a non-expert in the field I was hesitant at the time to disagree with the legions of experts who denounced said dude and his claims. I know enough to know, though, that there is a longstanding tradition/bad habit of advances being dismissed by those in the field itself as "not real AI". Anyone, expert or not, in 1950, 1960, or even 1970 who was told that before the turn of the century a computer would defeat the world chess champion would conclude that said feat must have come as part of a breakthrough in AGI. Same if told that by 2015 many people would have in their homes, and carry around in their pockets, devices that can respond to spoken queries on a variety of topics.

To put another way, I was hesitant to be as self-assuredly certain about how to define consciousness, intelligence, and sentience—and what it takes for them to emerge—as the experts who denounced the ex-Google AI guy. The recent GPT breakthroughs have made me more so.

You may find a recent Sabine Hossenfelder video interesting. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5zGh2fui0>
Knowing is not the same as understanding though. For example, I do not see any value of winning the spelling bee in real life applications. This is actually widely accepted as the downrisk in Asian education systems - the emphasis on rote learning vs practical application.
It's a very fuzzy line isn't it? There are quite a few axes you could measure to decide what is developed vs undeveloped, and even the richest countries of the early 20th century would look undeveloped in the modern world.

But in the context of birth rates, I would say the three factors that matter the most is the infant mortality rate, the state of retirement, and the existence of child labour laws.

High infant mortality increases birth rates because parents have more "backup" children in case some die. A good retirement system reduces the number of children because people are less likely to have children just to look after them in old age, and child labour laws reduce birth rates because it turns children from an economic benefit to an economic burden.

Alternatively you could consider a country "more developed" if it has better support for parents through parental leave and baby bonuses.

So ultimately more developed = less children is a bit of a simplification, but I think it's _less_ of a simplification than more money = less children which is what I was arguing against.
I just accept the dispute, it’s really not worth my time to fight a costly dispute when it isn’t garunteed that I would win.

I would much rather win more business and sales to cover the for the cost of that dispute.

At the minimum, put in place strict terms of service and add chargeback protection.
> On one hand, I find it hard to imagine not using nix now

for what specifically?
Doing a search for "TCC compiler" (to avoid very unrelated stuff) gives a homepage of:

https://www.bellard.org/tcc/

... which says at the top:

Note: I am no longer working on TCC. Check the mailing list to get up to date information.

So, sounds pretty dead. But actually following the suggestion and taking a look at the mailing list helps:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2023-03/t...

And the source code repo seems pretty active:

https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git
Reading this exhaustive list, I couldn't help but think... this is what regulators are for. They're supposed to do all this homework so that the individual consumer doesn't have to, because they couldn't possibly hope to.
It could be useful by allowing you to ask chatgpt to summarize top rated posts regarding a specific topic.
I am not sure which is more amazing: that someone informed you in a timely fashion that you were no longer under consideration or that they told you why.
Yahoo video chat in the late 1990s was pretty wild for sexual openness.
The big picture isn't about "nuclear vs. fossil fuel" anymore, it is "nuclear vs. renewables".

I write "vs." because we need to tackle the climate challenge as quickly as possible and have limited resources, therefore the need for optimization is clear: boosting the better approach and neglecting anything else.
The 2 aren't mutually exclusive. If you give 2 middle schoolers a test and one knows all of his time tables by rote, he's going to fly circles around the "kid with deep understanding" that's writing out the multiples manually.
It appears that simply preloading either mimalloc or tcmalloc has a significant speedup for clang-16 and -15 for that matter. I wish these Linux systems came with better defaults!

With mimalloc, a medium-sized C++ test repeatedly takes exactly 43.7s to build and link on this system, while with the default allocator it's all over the place from 46s to 49s. I would loosely characterize that as a free 10%.
It definitely doesn’t have a comprehensive real world model like a human, but there’s probably something extra besides just statistics:

https://thegradient.pub/othello/

> They suggest language models can develop world models for very simple concepts in their internal representations (layer-wise activations), such as color [9], direction [10], or track boolean states during synthetic tasks [11]

But I don’t think there have been any probes like this for ChatGPT yet

This is better evidence than the Twitter example but I bet it still wouldn’t be well received in that thread
You can pause animated .gifs, Opera had this feature over twenty years ago.
Thanks for sharing, good to know. I think it also speaks to the shady underside of the coding camps that they always seem to advertise some random person doing some side jobs, then they do a coding bootcamp and boom! they are into tech. Literally a couple of days ago[1], Austen Allred (the guy running BloomTech getting sued) was tweeting how some housewife has landed a tech job after being out of the workforce for 15 years. People would be lot more careful if they knew that 1/2 the cohort is people with Master's degrees.

[1] https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1636176434380296194
In the other model terms are described up front and you are given terms for support which the company factors into the price.

In both models minimizing cost is the goal. In your model the customer loses ownership which means after the break even period the company keeps getting paid vs the loyal user can keep getting usage for free. The customer loses control over the tool.

The subscription model is designed against loyalty and needs to cast a wider net they do this by offering free tiers and free periods where the hope is to hook the user. This gets them many low value users who are looking to extract as much value without paying and they will wait for black friday sales, subscribe for brief periods, share services or abuse free tiers.

Better for users to have a version that always works on certain operating systems than ongoing payments and out of your control system changes
I mean, what language got everything exactly right from day 0? Yes, Go started from a minimalist position, but that’s been a wildly successful decision—Go lacks a lot of the cruft of other languages. Go is an easily understandable language, it compiles super quickly, it has top notch tooling (e.g., compiling almost any Go project on any system with ‘go build’ and even cross compile by changing a couple of env vars), it compiles to relatively small[^1] static binaries by default, and it does all of this with pretty good performance.

[^1]: Someone is going to come in with some rant about how big a “hello world” binary is compared to C, as if this is emblematic of some real-world use case.
This will do nothing for freedom of speech, but will greatly help spammers “optimise” their messages.
According to leaked decks: https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-promised-lucra...

Total cost per student was $13,000, of which $2,500 went to student acquisition (online ads?). Average revenue per students was $5,750.

Since 2021, they've lost a ton of their executive team, including a cofounder. I find that a pretty clear sign of where things are going.
> How wide a range of subjects one might discover on ones own is arguably broader

The original claim was about concepts beyond an orthodoxy, but whether concepts or subjects, it's very unlikely you will discover on your own more than a university full of domain experts who spend lifetimes discovering and studying these things. It's not remotely plausible.

> I am largely self taught in CS (my degree was in another subject), but that had not prevented me from having multiple patents and having published academically too.

Good for you. It doesn't mean you wouldn't have been better off learning CS from experts - especially with all your talent - nor is it a representative sample of education. Most people who don't go to college have no hope of matching its benefits on their own.

Also, your field of study was CS. I don't know about orthodoxy taught in CS, but again, in humanities and social sciences, what's taught is how to develop your own thinking. For example, parroting this orthodoxy (and rhetoric) of the anti-intellectual reactionaries is not a sign of well-developed critical thinking.
Indeed, I've talked to a number of 20-something tradespeople in these fields and many of them already have back problems. I think if you go into the trades, you need to plan your career carefully and plan on stepping into management or business ownership by the time you reach middle age. They are hard jobs.
> summarize the article as Anki cards

that's a very clever prompt mechanism you used there
> I know math professors who would freely tell you that they were never aware of any application for their PhD work and never cared, because it was interesting

Exactly, but that's the opposite of an anti-intellectual attitude. It's not anti-intellectual to engage with pure maths-- on the contrary lol! What's anti-intellectual is to say that if you can't see the value of maths, that it's not worth engaging with. You'll never see the value of anything if you don't engage with it, and also I'm pretty sure that by now people shouldn't need any convincing that maths is worth learning.

And when I say "engage with maths" I don't mean "I read an article or a book once but I didn't get it so I decided that it wasn't worth the time".
> Not more crazy than giving it at the restaurant or store

But why would you let your card leave your sight? I don’t understand.

The waiter brings over a payment terminal or you go over to it, then you tap or insert your card. When could they take a picture? How would they even use the details without your PIN number? The whole system isn’t built on trust because that would be stupid when it comes to money.

Or are you saying the trust element is that they are not using a terminal that somehow clones your card and pin?
Arbitrary limits are fine as long as they are powers of 2.