skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wages for construction workers have not kept up with inflation, much like other fields. Unless you're a Master - tier specialist in your field, you will probably be making at best $15/hr to $25/hr with minimal (if any) benefits.

There's simply few reasons to enter the field and risk long term health issues when you can make the same amount, or better doing paperwork in an office.
There are still professional, high quality hand knitters in the world.

Of course, having people hand knit garments used to be the only way to get a knitted garment at all.

Then we invented industrial knitting machines, and those hand knitters found their roles had changed. Instead of knitting a whole garment, they would be closing up the toe on the socks, or doing finishing work on a sweater. Of course, companies didn't need anywhere near as many knitters under this system, so a huge proportion of them lost their jobs.

Then the knitting machines got better. They could close the toes on the socks themselves, could do most of the finishing work automatically. Some of the remaining knitters became industrial knitting support workers, but most of the actual knitting jobs dried up.

But there are still professional, commercial hand knitters, even today! They test hand knitting patterns for the hobby market. Make the samples up for photographing, and make sure that all the sizes come out right.

They number... Dozens? Maybe? And most of them treat it as a side gig, despite being the absolute pinnacle of hand knitting talent, since it pays terribly.

A job doesn't have to have been totally replaced to be effectively replaced. As we find ways to hand over larger and larger pieces of the work to an automated system, the number of real roles in that field diminishes, until it eventually becomes infeasible as a career choice.

This is what a lot these digital content creation jobs are heading. Gradual obsolescence.
Homeless != jobless. Theyre not the same thing.

The statistics are pretty clear that the 80s were a MUCH better time to rent.

Drug usage is mostly caused BY homelessness. There is a strong economic incentive in play explaining why you believe the opposite.

We're told that homelessness is caused by drugs rather than endlessly rising rents because a lot of very rich people are making ungodly sums of money from endlessly rising rents and theyd like to continue. For that they need ownership of media and a good scapegoat - both of which many of them have.

Not too many magazines owned by homeless people rather than property developers but if there were theyd tell the opposite story.
It’s been about 2 WEEKS since I had apt shoot itself in the foot and basically deadlock in a state where I can’t perform a repair, upgrade, downgrade or reinstall. Time to forcefeed dpkg everything apt and libc
All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization (2020)
For client code sure. Not server code that protects user data that could be exploited with a 0-day exploit.
Not being that sensitive to variation in test scores doesn’t mean an employer isn’t sensitive to pass or fail.

Or that a score at the extreme high end wouldn’t get an employer’s attention.
The more debt you have to sell the higher the interest rate you need to offer to clear the market.
> The nuance is that, if you tell yourself you have the power to see into people's hearts and understand what makes them tick - rather than you've simply chosen not to engage with this particular person at this particular time - you may exercise bad judgment in circumstances that require you to understand other people.

That's a good point and easy to forget.
A feature that a lot of Apple apps have that doesn't seem talked about much is they can use standard protocols and not require iCloud.

Mail.app/Reminders.app/Notes.app can use IMAP, Cal.app with CalDAV, and Contacts.app with CardDAV [1].

It doesn't offer a lot of the features iCloud has like advanced formatting or collaboration, but is a useful for simple standards based syncing and portability.

I've done this with my iPhone/Macs and Fastmail for the last few years and it works great [2].

1. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-mail-contacts-...

2. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279941
Just keep a list of exemptions in a file
Have you used it yet? Was it actually that easy? I can't wait to try.
I think this is good - shows confidence that they've finally licked the nagging security problems that have plagued them since the Brain Virus in 1986.
I wrote a short post last week on burger menus using the <summary> tag. It should be accessible, being more or less the intended use for the element, but curious to see HN rip it apart :)

https://lucas-levin.com/code/blog/burger-navigation-menu-wit...
Yahoo!'s cache still has a cache of the page:
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2fgithub.com%2...

It wasn't obliviously named at all. The toplevel folders were:

- adp

- ann

- auth

- aws-dal-reg-svc

The README.md file just said "PublicSpace"

And the breakdown of languages used is odd for twitter:
- Scala 56.2%

- Java 27.3%

- Python 7.9%

- Starlark 4.7%

- Shell 2.4%

- Thrift 1.2%

- Other 0.3%
There's also "integration". Outside of the big tech companies are lots of stodgy old companies that will need to connect their legacy stuff to anything new.
Training compute goes up with approximately the 3rd power of the window size.

So turning a 4k window to a 32k window means a 512x increase in compute they'd need (just to maintain similar output quality).

I suspect they must have found a better solution to be able to scale the window so big. They haven't announced what it is.
this is actually an understatement - a nickname for him around here is The Mighty Malik
Right, the specialized chips are still catching up. And Dell forecasts a 20% revenue drop this quarter.

https://www.electropages.com/blog/2023/02/semiconductor-over...

I had read that rpi started selling bulk to companies which is leaving little supply for consumers. Maybe upstarts like Orange Pi will step in to fill the void for consumers.

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontro...

>> payments may have ended, but the money is still sloshing around in the system.

How would existing money cause additional inflation? It would flat-line, not increase.
If you have an open can then all bets are off - if out for more than a few hours (or definitely if overnight) safest to toss it. Canning only preserves as long as the can is sealed!
I can assure you that incredible software is being built and deployed. It's just a matter of time. Go ahead and come back to this post in a year and see.
In Spanish the H is silent, except with the C consonant (like in chat, champagne...).

So, Th would be pronounced like just T. For example, thermo and now culitho.
> Emergent is just a way for an atheist to cover up that they have no idea.

We don't. I don't think many try to cover that up.

Emergence just means that a system has properties not apparent from the parts going into it. It's not a tool to handwave away that fact and ascribe it to "emergent hocus pocus", it's a tool to frame the search for why that happens.
I haven't seen anyone paid to pump gas in my country for decades?

Labour intensive services dealing with unpredictable environments or interfaces will be here for a while yet - cleaning, nursing and aged care, etc.
I think a lot of this thread (and HN in general) seems to think that their case is special and AI will not make any dent there. While this is true for many comments, it reminds of several studies that a majority of people think they are better than average in their field. We tend to view our tasks as special cases. People are trying to see how the current AI fits in their current process.

However this won't be the case. The AI might improve and improve. And companies might change processes to revolve around the AI. Just like how companies change their processes to cater to ERP systems, they might change them to cater to AI systems. AI won't have to talk to 10 teams and play politics for prioritisation.
Where does it say he uses a raspberry pi?
No, the implication is that most of us fake it until we make it. And The Peter Principle says we're all always faking something. My comment was just about humanity. ChatGPT isn't worth writing about.
We admittedly haven't put much effort into the this yet because we're genuinely curious about people's unbiased reactions to it since it's an mvp. This reaction in itself is great feedback though :)
>He is not a player in the industry, and cannot stand it.

He's running out of people to fire.
I would expect the headquarters building of a fortune 500 company to also have a non-trivial level of security, so in that regard I'm not convinced the internet has changed much.

The average home is probably more analogous to a consumer router—and the security story there is not exactly great.
Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
Ukraine’s scramble for “game-changer” drone fleet
The Arch derivative CachyOS[1] has ZFS-enabled kernels by default. And their repos can be added to existing Arch installs[2], so I've found this a nice way of working around the non-ideal state of ZFS integration in Arch. (Plus their kernel choices have other interesting features.)

[1]: https://cachyos.org/

[2]: https://github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos#cachyos-repositorie...
This idea is awesome
You can say this, but when a plumber or an electrician comes home, they are always expected to provide quotes and duration of work
Cruise is owned by GM
Nope. Spanish dialects vary mainly by consonant sounds, for example, the lisped ("fervefa") vs non-lisped ("servesa") sound in words like "cerveza", and the standard ("yamas") vs Argentine ("shamas") sound in words like "llamas". The vowel sounds - "a", "e", "i", "o", and "u" - are extremely consistent throughout the Spanish speaking world.
As far I can tell Steam does have two mechanisms. First is chunk based matching using rolling checksums, which is something like zsync/precomputed rsync. This allows to switch between arbitrary build manifests and resuses matching chunks from previous file. Second is based on computing patches with smaller granularity, but generation of these is only triggered when enough clients download the update. They are more efficient but valid only for updating between exact build manifest pair they were generated for.

When compressed packfiles are used they should be built with equivalent of gzip --rsyncable option, which restarts compression stream based on rolling hash values. Otherwise patching methods are defeated. For example UnityFS packfiles with chunked LZ4 compression normally don't do that, which results in huge updates. However it is possible to repack them into patch friendly form while keeping file format compatibility.
Plenty of things are totally open, yet innovation is still directed by the inventor.
Yes, "The Road Ahead" (IIRC), First Edition, had nothing at all about the Internet even though the Internet was already in existence and had been for at least 10-15 years.

I'll give Gates kudos though. When he realised that Windows 95 could be a disaster in the Internet age, he brought MSFT up to speed with the Internet in a very short six months or so.
Well, China's ban didn't negatively affect global demand enough that any relevant companies closed up shop. Just reporting to you what happened.

Most of these blockchain R&D companies (and their investors) are still in the bootstrapping phase anyways. They're looking ahead 3+ years before they expect their product to go parabolic, so the actions of one or two governments in the mean time is just noise.
While there's an inherent conflict between copyright warrior corporations disrespecting the licenses of FOSS work, AI tooling will be an unprecedented boon for FOSS productivity. It's like giving every lonely cowboy developer a bunch of very skilled interns.
Elon Musk reportedly values Twitter at $20B
Vowels were a later addition to many semitic languages as one example. Not sure that it would work so well in tonal or vowel-heavy languages but information is denser in consonants (no real surprise, I guess, given that they outnumber vowels).
Reminder that these models have no concept of truth, no abstract reasoning abilities, and there's no guarantee that the plausible-looking text they spit out isn't complete bullshit.

Their output is impressive considering that they're incapable of reasoning, but it desperately needs to be sanity-checked by someone with relevant knowledge before using it for anything serious.
Linux is open source. PHP is open source. Mastodon is open source.

Ruby on Rails, WordPress, ssh. I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of things too.
Graphic shows all the changes in global temperature since 1850
Everybody is different, but the 33800 laugh reaction in the Facebook post https://m.facebook.com/NVIDIADataCenter/photos/a.33432954734... (versus just 811 likes, 180 love, 115 surprise, 104 care and 14 sad reactions) suggests that most Spanish speakers read without the H.
Study describes new technique for producing babies of the desired gender
The hash values are part of his implementation and don’t have anything to do with APFS or HFS. The sentence after your quote says, “I picked the BLAKE3 hash function…” indicating it was something he chose, not a FS implementation detail.
You are no longer a teenager in the 80s my friend.
Worse more craven shit than the Patriot Act, by a country-mile.

Impossible to imagine such sad sliding into control by arbitrary bureaucrats. But here we are.

Yeah Mark, let's just let the military declare whatever adversaries it wants & cut off American connections to those places in the world.
I agree it depends, but my hot take is almost universally the time people like to say ORMs save them they end up paying back in spades debugging them. Learn SQL!
Holy taking the goalposts and running with them Batman.

> Apple is even doing it with file transfers. *On an iPhone* there's no way to select a default file save location; it always starts in your iCloud folder, and third party file sync tools are third class citizens.

We’re not talking about iOS here, we’re talking about macOS.

The bit about Samba is nonsense. It just works and always has. If you’re going into the command line to turn on file sharing you’re quite literally doing it wrong.

Yes it’s harder to run any random binary or delete an important system file, but that’s probably a good thing. Computers these days are people’s entire lives and therefore have to be reliable and resistant to user carelessness and external maliciousness.

You can still run totallynotavirus.app or delete Finder if you want, but it rightly makes you work for it.
Oh man, excited to see this. Was brainstorming doing something this in rust last week. Beat me to it!
Theoretically an agent exposed to the internet could improve itself. But this one can not do that. There is no way (as far as we know) for anyone or anything with internet access to change the code running on GPT-4 short of finding out who works at OpenAI and blackmailing them. This would be easily detected.

You’re right that it could do something bad with your IP, but it’s not really correct to say that GPT-4 could improve itself if given internet access. It’s just not hooked up that way.
I think predictive is a bit of a stretch, too. There isn't any prediction happening.

As complex as they can be, every continuation is wholly dependent on the text in the training corpus and the text in the prompt.
It really emphasizes how weak and ineffectual Russia actually is. Drones are not high-tech. They are toys. The fact Russia needs to import them from Iran shows it has barely progressed beyond the Soviet military industrial complex it was left with in 1991. HIMARS would have been highly vulnerable to swarms of smart drones, in absence of pervasive, mobile air defenses which Ukraine generally lacks.
> He was not asked for evidence. Think why.

Because he has none, obviously. I'm sorry, was this supposed to be witty? If the author's conclusions are so obvious then presenting evidence should be easy.

> Many people do. You don’t.

I'm obviously talking about your personal negative experience of small town life. Argue about the environmental effects of urban sprawl all you want, but trust me when I say that precisely zero people are going to move to the city because you didn't like your neighbors that one time you lived in suburbia. That's what nobody gives a shit about. Do you realize how staggeringly narcissistic it is to present that as a reason other people should abandon rural life?

"Chocolate ice cream should be outlawed because it's bad for the environment AND because I don't like the way it tastes."

Do you not see anything patently fucking ridiculous about that statement?
Nit: fair value is more an accounting thing related to observed market price. It’s not really a theoretical concept.

You can make up some valuation using a variety of methods.

Today stock price is gonna be heavily sector specific but for tech it’s mostly comparables + signals, not really future earnings.
Good idea to include this comment in the readme too
Take a look at Bitcoin. It's up 80% from the recent bottom.

NVDA is up 140% for similar reasons: the market anticipates the tightening cycle is over.

It's up more than Bitcoin because of the AI narrative. It's also possible money is moving out of bank stocks (compare to KRE or XLF), small/mid-cap stocks (compare to IWM), and other semiconductor stocks (compare to SMH). This trend could mean-revert into the new quarter.

The comment I was originally addressing was about the decline, not the rally.
Now you have like three problems instead of one - N+1 queries in the cold-cache case is slow, cache invalidation when something changes, and much more overall complexity...
> The open-source client does not emulate operations like directory renames that would require many S3 API calls or POSIX file system features that are not supported in S3 APIs.

At this point I'd probably be fine with using a different API than the filesystem, perhaps one inside of whatever backend language I was using

Feels more fused than mounted
>Better than first year residents - but not necessarily experienced clinicians.

The point is to be better than self diagnosis with webmd ...
Exactly, or, you know, maybe it's a problem. But it is the same problem I would have had anyway.
Death From Above
I think the RealSense line has been discontinued, but a different company called Luxonis has kind of taken its place using the same Intel/Movidius platform.
I really think it is more a matter of exposure and familiarity than bell-curve positioning. If any backend engineer with 1 year of ORM experience had spent that year instead becoming familiar with SQL, the speed bump would be practically nil.
> The problem is that in programming the discovery part is often 90% of the task.

That's exactly it. Scoping out the solution is 90% as hard as just doing it. By the time you've figured out enough of the details that you're sure there are no more surprises waiting... you're just about done.

I suspect that a lot of counter-examples people have witnessed are examples of poorly factored codebases. I've seen teams/projects where they estimated projects accurately because the "new" thing being created was a slight variation on a kind of thing they'd created many times.

For example, I once worked for a company that generated e-commerce sites for clients. They'd make a new one basically by copy/pasting an existing site from another client and changing some text/images here and there. Super predictable after doing this a bunch of times... but also a maintenance nightmare having dozens of slightly different codebases. And how do you iterate? They couldn't evolve.

Shopify ate their lunch. I bet Shopfiy has a really hard time estimating the time to ship a new feature. But they add it once for everybody.
AirPods are not as complex as virtual reality goggles. It’s like comparing apples to VR goggles.
I'd want one day battery life for any device, like my phone.

Before bed I plug in all my devices.
TL;DR: Most likely the captain hijacked the flight, depressurized it to kill all the passengers, and then crashed it to commit suicide.
Why though? Our brains have different processing centers. Why would it be different for a general purpose A.I?
Linux creator wants to run Linux? What a useless quote.
And the fact that you attribute good things to “many sides”, but bad things solely to “the hegemony” shows no bias whatsoever!
Your friends (and animals) have brains, which produce consciousness, which you take for granted when you interact with them. That’s not a superstition. Can you say more about “a collection of things”? What causes that collection of things?
I would like to see examples of these “ok code reviews”. Everything I’ve seen has been fairly plain and not too insightful.
The usual: underlining, highlighting, and bracketing paragraphs of note.

I dog-ear pages that include a lesson that I really wish to internalize and take away from the book. Something I expect to revisit often.

On top of that, I’m writing in the margins. Questions I have about what the author has written, counter-arguments when I disagree, check-boxes with descriptions of actionable tasks I can do, tangential thoughts that were inspired in the course of reading (often unrelated), ideas that I think might combine well with an insight by the author, and generally anything that I think about in the process of writing.
I would support this. Downvote away.
Won’t be long until we have hardware that can change this no?

You won’t understand Spanish but it will translate in real-time for you ? Just like how this robodog doesn’t know what a stair is but knows how to navigate it. It doesn’t understand the way you do but it’s still useful.
Flan-Alpaca: Instruction Tuning from Humans and Machines
I've worked at Wings Over the Rockies a bit, and they have an old F4. It's not good looking/elegant. It just looks like a bunch of giant metal cylinders welded onto each other that holds a lot of very explosive liquid with mounting points to put smaller cylinders on with more explosives. I get that the status quo has marketed fighter jets as sexy, but they just are there to do a job and that job is to kill.
What seems clever to me is the super cool hack of getting sensor data while the video data is captured, then training a model on realtime video and backward time-shifted sensor data; result is a network that can predict sensor data 30 seconds ahead of time with visual data. This is then used to feed the walking model. That's the sort of super 'dumb' thing ML folks can do now; that task would have taken many many person years of work before, now, I speculate thinking of the idea to testing a network would be under a week. Verry cool.
Haven’t LLMs been shown to be able to identify its own output vs not accurately? So this isn’t testing GPTs ability to evaluate a candidate against the Turing test so much as its ability to recognize GPT output. Totally different LLM models or even non-LLMs might perform very differently. Same goes for the observation that OP’s human mistakes easily distinguish from the AI output

It’s a neat experiment as a demo so kudos to the author for coming up with the creative idea.
“After training our robot on a large set of terrains in the Berkeley campus, we verified generalization of the visual policy in the Stanford campus.”

Sublime. Almost a koan for meditating on AI research.
The more countries that get sanctioned with the US Dollar, the less the US Dollar will be used. But the US politicians are too blind to see that.

It's usually called "shooting yourself in the foot". Except in this case of stopping people from using the US Dollar, it's more like "shooting yourself in the head".
Gp probably in his 50s as he posts this.
How do websites handle under 13s? Blocking the United States?
Mig-25 is 80% stainless steel, compare to SR-71 which was 85% titanium.
Eventually the ‘me’ part hits diminishing marginal returns if AI is capable of getting you 90% of the way. As good as you + AI? Maybe not. Good enough? Probably.