skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consulting is in a weird spot right now. It used to pay well and give good projects that allowed to get experience and nice exit opportunities (aka skip few years of usual career grind).

Now lots of projects are uninteresting. There are still elite and specialized consultants who do complicated stuff but they are a minority.
Often the teams now are just 'staff augmentation' - headcount outside of headcount.

For programmers consulting never really made much sense anyway. Why sit at BIG4 company making slides when you can sit in FAANG coding?
Consulting was always for finance guys. But now top finance guys go to investment banking, machine learning or (as funny as it sounds) crypto.
There are still good projects with good exit opportunities in finance, but it is night and day when compared to 80s or 90s - when consultants were the true elite.. just because they could see how things are made in different companies. Now the companies blog how they do stuff.
And just like capitalism was better than feudalism which was better than what came before it, capitalism has been inching towards its end game and we need a better system that works for all citizens rather than the few who have the capital to capture rents
You can now try Microsoft Loop, a Notion competitor with futuristic Office docs
Manifold New Geometry Kernel for OpenSCAD
Im pretty sure most guns are owned by hoarders sitting in a cabinet somewhere they aren’t likely to be in someone’s car who is ready to use it. Gun owners are a minority and they are just very enthusiastic individuals that they seem like a larger contingent than they are.
Isn't that a different product? This thread is about Little Snitch Mini
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LOL you’d have to ask PG, probably. But, you asked for a plausible reason behind an arbitrary choice.

What color would you choose?
There is some truth to it. However, you need to understand the business model behind this. Accenture is maybe one of the largest proxy employer. This way you can onboard and offload large numbers of teams - at least in theory.

I worked a lot with Accenture, enterprise context.
Try at https://loop.microsoft.com/learn
We’re getting there. Pair ChatGPT with this kind of technology, and you have a very impressive AI assistant.
I asked chatgpt to make it a full article and posted it on my satirical tech news website. I'm curious to see if Bing or Bard end up using it as a source.

https://thetechtrout.com/story/google-bard-shutdown
I sort of thought so. The screen acts as an external cognitive attention hold and thus you do not need to as much manage your own. You can externalize your attention via screens, just like we can externalize memory to our computers, etc.
What’s going on with SHA-1? (it’s in SHAmbles)
Thanks - we're going to first see if our homeowner's insurance will do something for us, at least enough to cover some kind of authorized repair.
You introduce technology to increase transparency and fight corruption. You increase transparency by having video recordings of human counting votes linked to the electronic record of the totals.

When you introduce technology to eliminate manual counting and paper trails, then transparency is eliminated and you give a green light to fraud, corruption, very juicy contracts and death.
You can walk into any bank there, sign up with your drivers license, and wire money from your other bank same day.

I needed a deposit for a sublet there, and needed lots of cash for that. So when it posted the next business day, I walked to the teller and asked for cash. It wasn’t a problem except for everyone else that didn't imagine and was trying to use fintech apps and learned about arbitrary transaction amount limits.
Whereas in this new tiling there's a single shape and its rigid transformations.
> “I Paid Them Hitters Through Cash App”: Block Paid To Promote A Video For A Song Called “Cash App”, Which Described Paying Contract Killers Through The App.

> The Artist, “22Gz”, Was Later Arrested for Attempted Murder

It astonishes me how many rappers do this. It’s one thing to be a criminal, and it’s another to rap about your crimes and do the job of the investigators…they probably think it makes them tough or something.
Reading the code, and running it. You can ask it for a complete project tree and even test scripts (you have to ask it to continue as it gets interrupted sometimes). I e.g. had it write a simple database engine with an API, and it produced Rust code as well as curl-based examples to test the database. It even correctly added up the data items it sent into the DB via curl to show what the output would probably look like. Pure sci-fi technology.
I would say: the bandwidth and high dimensionality of video, combined with the algorithm, blasting subversive ideas into people's minds... And many of these ideas are not just undoing the ones written by the government, but overriding them with opposite, much more accurate ones.

If I was running an illusory regime, I would take them out too.
Test and reiterate. I don't think you should take whatever is coming out of chatGPT verbatim. It should be used as an interactive tool to amplify your knowledge.
There are definitely a few issues with it especially in the skin stretch and squeeze around the lips, nose, and cheeks areas. There are a lot of muscles and skin movement that’s supposed to happen and rendering that needs time and good attention to detail with the materials.

But outside of that, there are the limits of rotoscoping coming into play. Human motion has a lot going on and our 3d captures aren’t anywhere near that kind of fidelity yet. Therefore we still need to rely on what the old masters of animation discovered when they were getting past the rotoscoped era. To make a performance more believable there has to be a little more acting and exaggeration brought in. The eyes can’t just get wider. They need to have anticipation, movement, secondary movement through other pieces of the face, etc. Same with the mouth. It’s not that the mouth can’t stretch in an abnormal way. It’s that it requires a little bit extra like a neck movement creating anticipation of an angry snarl.

As far as we have gotten along with mocap tech, when it comes to film, there’s a loooot of hard work that goes into fine tuning done by professional animators to make the performance of each actor look good when it’s translated to the 3d character.
The merging of both compiler (cpu and software) is the main reason of the success of Nvidia.

Make the chip simpler and more parallel (way more cores)
Make the compiler smarter to better use the capabilities of the hardware.

Watching Jim Keller interview made me realise how much transistors are wasted because the cpu is trying to predict what the code is going to do.

There is an insane amount of complexity in chips trying to make single threaded code fast when what need the most cpu time in our code is usually parallels problem.

Maybe Triton will break that paradigm and will allow diverse parallels hardware to emerge and be used effectively.
> And the ltt video was an obsolute joke because they made little to no effort to learn anything about Linux and operated it like they do windows.

The point of the video was to approach desktop Linux in a way similar to how your average layman might (which when considering the dominance of Windows probably means using it like it’s Windows) to see if it’s ready for the less-technical masses.

It might sound silly but this is the exact sort of test that desktop Linux needs to pass with flying colors if it’s to have any hope of gaining traction beyond the extremes of the technically capable minority and grandparent who only needs a box with a browser capable of checking their Yahoo email.
> But most of the engineers I personally know are sort of squinting at it and thinking, “Is this another crypto?” Even the devs at Sourcegraph are skeptical. I mean, what engineer isn’t. Being skeptical is a survival skill.

> Remember I told you how my Amazon shares would have been worth $130 million USD today if I hadn’t been such a skeptic about how big Amazon was going to get, and unloaded them all back in 2004-ish.

If you buy into the hype & think this wave is going to be equivalently (or 10x) as impactful as cloud computing, what's the equivalent to buying Amazon stock in 2003?
Outright purchase has worked pretty well throughout the history of publishing. So renting would have to offer enough of an improvement over that model to make it worthwhile.

I might be ok with renting a book if more of the money went to the author. Theoretically it could work out well for everyone. A lot of cookbooks would be a great option. Rent them for a month or do for, say, $1? Cheaper access to books for a period of time, like O'Reilly's Safari for technical books.

But I don't think that's how it's going to work out if renting is the only way to get books. I think that everyone will for forced into onerous terms of the publishers get too much power.
That (now withdrawn) copyright notice Mike Masnick shows which is part of (some editions of) The Awakening (Zodiac Academy #1) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti is really shocking to anyone who even remotely likes books:

> This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only.

> This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it wasn’t purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite book retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

They apologised after getting criticized¹, but as Mike notes, someone consciously put that text there. Was that some experiment by their publisher? To get young adult readers to get used to such silly stipulations in order to turn it into law later? If I was one of the authors I would be pissed at the publisher² for slipping that in and damaging their reputation.

1: https://www.facebook.com/100063768668342/posts/pfbid02WRJwn8...

2: I am hoping this was not actually put in at the author's behest.
> The ratio of unreflected to reflected tiles is φ^4 : 1

I just love this
One of my concerns is what happens when machines start making their own money. This could be possible with cryptocurrencies (another reason to loathe them.) Machines can do things online, make sex-working 3d-modelled chat-bots for instance, or do numerous other types of work, like things you see people do on Fivver. If machines start making their own money and deciding what to do with it, they could then pay humans to do things. At this point they are players in the economy with real power. This doesn't seem too far out of an idea to me.
"The “magic” behind Block’s business has not been disruptive innovation, but rather the company’s willingness to facilitate fraud against consumers and the government, avoid regulation, "

Isn't that the whole point of 'disruptive innovation'?
Same way we know that any piece of code is correct.

Debugging, testing.
Feels like it’s to raise the bar a bit higher to use it in an automated manner and becomes for casual user who found its way to Discord.
Block shares plunge 19% after Hindenburg says Dorsey’s company facilitates fraud
I might have misread your post somewhat. My point was that just because the AirBnB happen to have the highest willingness-to-pay (mostly due to budget set constriants, not their preferences) doesn't mean that they're the most deserving from a social or moral perspective.
> LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both.

I personally feel the technology is over-hyped. Sure, the ability of LLMs to generate "decent" code from a prompt is pretty impressive, but I don't think they are biger than Stack Overflow or IDEs.

So far my experience is that ChatGPT is great for generating code from languages I not proficient in or when I don't remember how to do something and I need a quick fix. So in a way it feels like a better "Google" but still I would rank it as inferior than Stack Overflow.

I am also hesitant about the statement that it makes us 5 times as productive because we only need to "check the code is good" for two main reasons:

1. It is my belief that if you are proficient enough in the task at hand, it is actually a distraction to be checking "someone else code" over just writing it yourself. When I wrote the code, I know it by heart and I know what it does (or is supposed to do). At least for me, having to be creating prompts and then reviewing the code that generates is slower and takes me out of the flow. It is also more exhausting than just writing the thing myself.

2. I am only able to check the correctness of the code, if am am proficient enough as a programmer (and possibly in the language as well). To become proficient I need to write a lot of code, but the more I use LLMs, the less repetitions I get in. So in a way it feels like LLMs are going to make you a "worse" programmer by doing the work for you.

Does anyone feel that way? Maybe I am wrong and the technology hasn't really clicked for me yet.
Something can both pass the Howey test and be considered a security by the SEC, but simultaneously fail to be a security in court.
> It says “what a coincidence”, and perhaps “how did they not notice?!”

I did not say any of that. Not even close. If you read that, that's you.
Why Learn Compilers (2021)
Beyond explaining what the author meant, and also the hype and hypotheticals which are rampant, this is a valid concern which I also share personally. This is more imminent than “AI overlords ruling us” and I am afraid the motivation behind creating this particular system, is to bring on the automation (the creators don’t even hide this). Therefore I think the point you are making is actually important too.
But LLMs are good at those tests because they've seen (some version of) the answers on the internet.

Give students concurrent access to the internet and I'm sure they can pass all sorts of tests.
Basically what Microsoft has been doing since Windows 8 in 2012 is the equivalent of deprecating open(2). The people writing the new APIs have no idea how to design them, they think something like having a flag to overwrite the existing file is useless, confusing, legacy cruft.

I doubt people working in the Linux space would be so brazen.
Same. Had a Pixel 2 and tried to flash lineageOS on there but it didn't work.

Picked up a newer Pixel and it worked then, but found it was hard to live without the goog services. It was either that or trust some rando packages in F-Droid, so went back to the Play store
This technique is no secret, it's officially mentioned over OpenAIs whitepapers, docs and code samples on how to use GPT in a real-world workflow.
I'm using UN Data - https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks

I think the issue was Google Search's summarization algorithm parsed the wrong sentence in a non-verified website (I did the same search you did and recreated your issue).

Also, the same thing holds for China as well. BKK =/= Thailand and Shanghai/Beijing/Tianjin =/= China as well. Not to mitigate the massive amount of development that China has seen the past 20 years, but Thailand's subregional development (measured via HDI) is very even - the poorest region (Isan) has a HDI of around 0.781 and the richest (BKK the prefecture, not the city) is around 0.839 in 2021. Compared to China outside of Tier 1 cities it's a significant difference (and on a separate note Ik Chinese policymakers have been looking into Thailand's anti-poverty policies to replicate them in Shaanxi)
Asteroids aren't intelligent, either.
> If the results were electronically tallied to generate an official result

Electronic voting doesn't make bad politicians less bad. In this instance, the bad guys were prepared to deliberately remove CCTV so when they sent their goons out at night to shoot protestors there would be no evidence.

"Electronic tallies" are never going to give a free and fair election if those in power are prepared to go that far. Safer to stick with paper ballots and election observers equipped with Mark I eyeballs.
There is no will in the government to enforce that stuff anymore
OpenAI CEO admits a bug allowed ChatGPT users to see others’ conversation titles
How quick people forget what exactly happened in the 2000s lmao. Bethesda’s horse armor, Blizzard releasing the cash shop in what many people believe is the best World of Warcraft expansion, and Valve introducing purchasable hats in TF2. Golden era lmao

Horse armor in 2006. Oblivion was also commercially successful and showed a game would still be successful even if it was a buggy mess on release.

Blizzard introduced WoW’s cash shop in 2008 and sold its first pet, all as part of the incredibly successful Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Although really the first sign of things to come was with the trading card game and its in-game tie-ins. That was released in 2006. First pet in 2008 and the first mount available for cash at the battle.net shop was in 2010 with the Celestial Steed. Oh yes, people were upset and mad. But that mount was /everywhere/ in-game.

Worst offender by far was valve’s introduction of TF2 hats in 2009 and their continuation of cs:go loot boxes in the 2010s. This is not some outsider company btw, this is industry veteran and industry darling valve.

Golden age is such a joke.
Similar to how you know someone's stackoverflow answer is correct. Read the code, find the documentation of API calls, think of any missed cases, write tests etc.
That demo would just learn to sideload their apps.
Not sure what is exactly your thought, since the optimizations you quote don't really takes advantage of any exposed optimization feature of the language.

Are your asking why we could not expose optimization feature (e.g. branch hint to replace branch-prediction) in the programming language ?

Are you asking if it's difficult for a compiler to optimize some type of high-level languages ?

Since "higher-level" language is C in your question, what the "language that already exposes the optimizations in a friendly way" ? Are you thinking the CPU µop as a language ?
Okay, but their actions are _not_ stopping AI research, they are doing plenty of AI research internally. They're just hindering competitors and non-profit researchers.

I suppose you could make an argument that nobody can be trusted to do AI research as responsibly as them, so that's why they should not share anything and should hinder others' research... but it kind of looks like plain old nothing-to-see-here profit-oriented decision to me. Which isn't necessarily a scandal, they are a profit-oriented company of course (although they try to take advantage of the misperception that they aren't).

But if they really took those "alignment" concerns seriously, wouldn't they be seriously slowing down or even stopping their own research too?
This is kind of gibberish IMO.

A nice introduction to some similarities but the details and constraints are quite different.

Transmeta however...
Well, another way of dealing with inflation could be tax reform, but it'd require finding people and organizations with excess capital and reeling some of it in.
LTT YouTube channel has been compromised, account suspended
Wavefunction interactions are beautifully abstract, a lot to learn still.
40% of student debtors never managed to graduate
Actually, the peeve is that capital (and profit) is now permitted to be mobile, while labor is generally not. The EU trade zone is the one, shining notable exception.

That is: we move our money into whatever markets we want, we withdraw our profits as we choose, but heaven forbid that labor should be allowed to move as it pleases.
"Brazilianization" is a real phenomenon, isn't it? One wishes we weren't going that way in the West, but we are.
Even without autonomous enhancement of AI, the argument that "[the] idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities" is BS...

A theoritical AI which thinks like a person, but (due to computing power) can think through and evaluate 1,000,000 ideas the time it takes a person to think through 10 of them, it already has surpassed human ability by a big margin. Same for memory capacity etc.

That the input the machine is trained on is the output created by "human abilities" is irrelevant to whether it can surpass human ability.
Watching the Mandalorian straight up felt like watching someone live an Open World game, complete with sidequests (his bounties) and quest rewards and gear upgrades (here, for turning in that bounty you get another ingot of beskar steel and bam! new breastplate)

The only thing missing was Mando landing on a new planet and climbing the comms tower at the Spaceport to highlight all nearby Points of Interest.
Thank you again for the reference!
I'm pretty happy using t12n ;) but I'll definitely check it out!
People are confusing what AI is exactly.

It’s a feature, not a product.

Which is why so many incumbents were able to embedded it so quickly into their own product.
This coming just mere weeks away after people on this forum (and some of the people running the forum itself, like the CEO of YCombinator) were supporting (and more) much more bigger fraudsters compared to the rap lyricists presented here as examples of financial fraud, I'm talking about the VC industry in connection with the SVB case.

On a more general note I'm also curious about what you mention at the end of your comment, i.e. those higher societal costs are keep piling up, I'm wondering where is it all going to end.
> The cost to maintain all of that infrastructure and storage is most likely not worth it.

Your analysis is likely correct; but at the same time, a system like this has never been more affordable, possible.

Also, imagine getting a video of your brand new car’s construction at the time of purchase.
I know someone who bought 2 apartments to rent out, then he himself moved back in with his parents.
This is some compelling writing. I know this has real life implications for real people so I hope it's not in poor taste to say it would make a good movie.
This is generally only true with CGO_ENABLED=0.

I've found many times that a go binary, even if it has no cgo or cgo dependencies, will randomly require glibc on the target system to execute if you don't explicitly disable cgo in your build.
Nobody is being punished. It's simple supply and demand. If you don't want to work on marvel movies there are millions of young men and women that would do it for pennies. Why is Disney going to pay them more if they don't have to?
Seeing how many people stopped using Firefox, maybe they have a point?