skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just skipped down the levels of abstractions in a way that does not address the OP's point.

> you see someone say something you find deeply objectionable, like "I support affirmative action in college admissions"

I have no idea why that person thinks that, and can form no opinions about them. Even more specifically, outside a US context they are meaningless.

Contrast that to the OP example:

> "Constantly ask yourself why are you working so hard on this damn thing. If the answer is: 'so I can get ahead,' remind yourself that it’s a treadmill and you’ll always stay at the same place, no matter how fast you run."

This is not a statement of opinion about a thing. This is not a "policy is X is good" statement. This is the framework for how this person forms ALL their opinions. This statement could be made by almost any human anywhere in the world.

There are, without doubt, things people can say that give you "a pretty good bead on someone's worldview from even a short excerpt". These are NOT "I support the right to bear arms." They are vey much "I am a strict and devoted Mormon and follow all the churches teachings", or "hard work is all that matters" or "no matter how hard you try, life is out to get you".

If someone can't deduce things about a person from those sorts of first principle short sentences, that is a bit of a worry to me.
Pardon the slight inaccuracy. With "mesh-based modeler" I simply meant a GUI modeler, no matter what the primitives used are. (I would consider a model made of many X-spline patches still a "mesh", for the record.) But my point was that some type of modeler is a requirement for creating many photorealistic shapes; nobody is going to make a plausible human programmatically by composing geometry out of primitives like spheres, cones, and boxes. Or even blobs/metaballs or isosurfaces.
I’m going to go out on a limb and claim that the large majority of big tech workers would be perfectly happy with a few promotions over a career and annual inflation-matching pay rises.

Except you rarely get inflation-matching pay rises, so the only way to prevent the annual erosion of your situation is the constant team growth and never-ending promotions.
Crypto aside, it's difficult to point to a less deserving cause than the trucker convoy that paralyzed Ottawa for no good reason (the reasons are no good outside of delusionland).
> At some point, even if it takes 1000 years, America will stop being numero uno. Then what, we're all doomed?

In 1000 years, if the US gets taken over, the new power that takes over will have the same reasons to keep the peasants doing what they are doing to keep the state useful as a whole at the time of the takeover. If a completely different nation state takes power openly, sure, a few idiots who have been too brainwashed to serve their old exploiters will struggle... but they'll eventually be forced to get in line or suffer. This will not affect the population at large. They'll keep doing whatever they are doing, like they have been, for many many generations all over the world. New history will make old history boring and uninteresting to the politically minded, but it will be just the same for everyone else.

The outcomes will be vastly different if it happens in the next couple of hundred years though. There is no way there will be enough decentralised resources for people to survive by themselves... so the elites losing the power will try to do everything to hold on to it. They will control food supply to starve the people and force them into war... and won't stop until a lot of damage is done on the population.
Colorful films could help buildings, cars keep their cool
How Should Compilers Explain Problems to Developers?
Lempel, Moore, Ziv... This year is very unlucky
Procedural map generation – Part 2: A new hope with cellular automata and GPT4
.. serveral 'ours layter ...

Thanks for that rabbit hole of nostalgia, just remembered how wild Mac OSX 10.1 in its first release was. It was a real game changer, and looked great (albeit a bit slow on my poor G4 Cube).
They specifically were mentioning them in their letters to investors as a positive.

See https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/tech/nvidia-sec-settlement-cr...

"Senior executives at the company sought to capitalize on that demand with a specialized line of cards just for cryptomining, the SEC wrote, but Nvidia salespeople and the company’s internal estimates suggested cryptomining was still accounting for “a significant factor in the year-over-year growth in Gaming revenue.”"

They settled with SEC for hiding profit cannibalization from investors.

Also as the article hints on the hypocrisy, Kagan built a company selling to high frequency traders.

I think the hypocrisy and sourness are abundant qualities in this statement.
I think what is hard with a lot of tech is that developers are often not plumbers. We are not encountering similar sets of problems nor are able to use similar solutions or even refer to familiar tooling all of the time. It's more akin to when the plumber crawls below your house with nothing more than a flashlight, then recoils in horror that your sewer is plumbed in 200 year old rotten wood pipe, then they start digging and hit more pipes that aren't on any map and shouldn't be there, then things get expensive and timelines enter the unknown as the problem gets seemingly bigger the more of it that you solve. Of course the client never sees this, they think you just twist a wrench, so we have these deadlines and talented people burning out over the stress they cause them.
Oh ok I see
Oh, hey Mark

(Not (purely) a reference to the “oh hey Mark” meme, I’m vaguely acquainted with Mark from LUG days)
Yes. It turns out that the brain consists of white matter, grey matter, and dark matter. The dark matter is consciousness. Once we understand it, the the word consciousness will no longer be mysterious. I can’t wait!
This seems to be about scribbling in your own books though, not someone elses.
> Oh yeah, and those same people later cry foul when they get robbed of their money because it was not protected in any way.

Can you give an example? Do you actually know any of these people?

> Suddenly everybody wants crypto but with protections

Not me, So not everybody.

> There is a reason why money and banking is regulated -- to protect little guys from getting scammed right and left.

The reason is that their protocols are inherently unsafe. Similarly, there is a reason Bitcoin was made to be unregulated -- to protect the little guys from having their share devalued by trillion dollar bail-outs for the super rich.

> orders of magnitude better than crypto free for all

Better for who? Maybe better for you, but certainly not everyone.

> Take a look at The Last of Us if you want to know what happens

The video game??

> It lets you live, travel and do business in relative safety.

Speak for yourself. Not everyone is safe. That's an increasingly rare privilege as the wealth divide grows, and many people attribute this divide to our monetary system.
So, uh… what happened?
“ or do they want them to be useful because they bought in early and want to get rich?”

You could say that about any investment surely? Or do we assume all VC funded companies are altruistic endeavours only?
"knowing how to wrap a book in a protective cover when you take it with you, "

Did you grow up in a poor country? My mom used to do that when I was a kid. After we moved to N America I only saw it done once.

Its actually quite lovely.
You're ignoring the efficiency of the jet engine itself. You have to basically pick an altitude, temperature, and speed at which the engine is most efficient. Modern airliners are most efficient at a certain speed and altitude because they're designed to stay under the supersonic regime.

It's been a long time since I've touched compressible fluid mechanics or turbomachinery design, but if I recall correctly the theoretical "sweet spot" for overall aircraft efficiency is something like Mach 1.3. I'd have to dig though my textbooks to remind myself why, but the number stuck with me.
Not my words but in one podcast it was being argued that even though these models show understanding of reality but they lack the experience itself, they can tell you a lot about how it feels to run on the grass under the sun light but they haven't really experienced it.
>We would see decisions being made that aren't physically possible with current technology.

i'm not aware enough of what any world government is doing at any given time to confidently assert that so easily.
> The correct thing is for either of those parties to say, "Okay, I understand it's not estimable at the moment. What are the steps that we need to take in order to get a reasonable estimate?"

Ah, that would be nice. In my experience it's more like, "Okay, I understand it's not estimable at the moment. Just make your best guess and we can revise it later. (Psych! I will hold you to this estimate like you were under oath in court!)"

This leads to things like the Scotty rule. Since management will always misuse, misunderstand, or misrepresent your estimate anyway, might as well look out for number one and inflate the estimate, just in case.
What’s horrifying is living in a city where someone has attached a train horn to their truck, and honks it hourly through the night for several weeks.

What’s horrifying is leaving your apartment building in downtown Ottawa and being spit on and verbally harassed for wearing a mask.

What’s horrifying is smelling the literal human shit in the streets waft up through your apartment building’s ventilation system and into your unit.

What’s horrifying is seeing half of your country not care about any of that because “it’s peaceful”.
Then use it as autocomplete to write things you were going to put anyway but faster, it will still speed things up
Isolationism is the main foreign ideology of the GOP today. It’s not some niche movement.

We have two oceans and Canada. I have seen what Europeans say about dumb Americans like me, and I’m not dying for them. Same with Sorks.

Good luck guys.
No, hard no.

In my experience good communication solves this every time.

MGMT: We need an estimate
ENG: I have several unknowns
MGMT: We really need an estimate
ENG: This is my rough estimate, but be aware that the unknowns could change this drastically
MGMT: Ok, what do you need to get a firmer estimate.

And so on.

As a project progresses, the communication between ENG and MGMT is crucial to ensure that MGMT are aware how those unknowns are affecting the project, MGMT will decide at every juncture if the project is worthwhile to continue to invest resources into it (assuming they avoid the sunk cost fallacy)
One of the things I hadn’t considered in the beginning is that it is also a large conversion of resources and power into computation and heat.

Fundamentally, that’s a kind of transfer of wealth in and of itself. My favorite examples were people with subsidized electric bills who kinda scored on that arbitrage until everyone wised up.
an onboarded senior team member can tell you

You're making an unwarranted assumption here. There's many pieces of software that have no development team at all. There's no one to ask; the last person to touch this software left the company three years ago. All they can tell you about it is how they use it now.

It's likely there's at least someone that can explain their business process to you, but identifying them and receiving enough of their time to piece the picture together is another story. And maybe, if you're lucky, that person can tell you what the business process was at the time the software was written, and what has changed since then.

But this process can take weeks, and most of the time you're expected to provide an estimate before even talking to anyone from operations.

Sure, for internal software with an active maintenance/development team, informed estimates can be given with a relatively high level of confidence. But as an outside consultant working with non-software companies, all estimates are completely made-up based on your reading of the buyer's budget: there are no other data points to base your estimate on.
Plenty of people are probing the AmaGoogAppSoft services daily and they seem to be pretty robust. Some random SaaS yeah who knows but the big boys seem to know what they are doing in this space.
We live in a non-fictional post-digital-scarcity society. It is unfortunate that we're still trying to fit the square peg of capitalism into this round hole, but we'll adapt as a society eventually, even if it involves people like you kicking and screaming as they're dragged into the present.

Again, you're free to stick your head in the sand and pretend otherwise, but that just seems like a lot of work to me.
Of course, you'll have to answer a few questions for your conspiracy theory:

Why wait until 2023? Why do it after hiring at such a rate that you effectively increased your company's headcount by 50%+ in the last 2 years? What events are currently happening that would allow for this to happen?

You can pretend like you have a standing for your theory all you want, but it's all nonsense compared to the simple fact that Powell and Yellen are here to force a recession.
Not just in a linear sequence, but it should have some concept of recursion -- starting with very high-level tasking and calling into more and more specific prompts, only returning the summary of low-level tasking.
> None of those factors establish a fundamental market price for the dollar

Neither does the P/E ratio of a company, yet it's still a fundamental used to value stocks.

> The dollar has declined in value by over 90% since 1933.

Relative to which other currencies?
I is a 1 letter token for gpt-2 (like every other letter), don't think its a lot different for gpt-3, so this is kinda hard as the transformer will want to use the token in big built words.
> ...and now it’s time to right size to better fit a changing market.

Come again? What is this supposed to mean?
As a regular “individual contributor” it is very hard to fight ill thought plans coming “from above”.

Those who complain are usually cast as “negative thinking folks” and get subtle punishments.

If you are on a mid career senior salary range, are you going to pick a fight and risk being punished or carry on getting your good salary, bonus, stocks, insurance, retirement plan and perks - in exchange for slighly useless work?
I think the point of that article (and the larger point about math anxiety) is that many people do not realize that 20% "just means" 20 in 100. And it probably gets worse for percentages < 1%.
Yep, but I'd also count some package managers which have learned from Nix but chosen a slightly different path by relaxing the requirement of 'purity', or leaning harder on containerization features.

Besides the ones I mentioned in my reply which is a sibling to yours, I think the package managers for Haiku and RedoxOS fall into this category (but I can't be sure! I've never used them, so my memory of how where work is likely to have gaps).
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* The Sims https://thesimscss.inbn.dev/

* Windows 98 https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

* Windows XP https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/

* Windows 7 https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/

* Tufte https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

Would love any suggested additions
Maybe this would make more sense if integrated into something like LangChain (https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain).
A small fix:

if ( v.constructor === T)
{ return x;
}

should really better be:

if ( v !== null && v !== undefined && v.constructor === T)
{ return x;
}

The purposes of x() is to throw an error under specific circumstances, and the original version does that. But when we do v.constructor if v is undefined or null and 'maybe;' is falsy then it throws an error but the message is obscure since it is caused by trying to get the constructor of undefined or null.
Where is accountability introduced? Who makes the judgment that something is taking too long?
1(a) - or you just use a coat hanger to pull the emergency latch rope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMz1tXBVT1s&t=2s
It seems you are mistaking the actual book (a story, an exposition of a subject, etc.) for the printed set of cover and pages, which is only a physical instance of the book itself. Writing your notes in a separate medium is just as much engaging with the book as writing in the margins of a physical copy. It's a matter of taste really, but definitely not an insult to the author!
Slightly off topic -> there was a project I seen on gh that claimed to support system administration using a relational tables. Something like everything in SQL. I thought it might be a cool idea.
Hmmm it might not have anything with to do with the massive money printing and forced low interest rates of the last decades...?

Its not only the us dealing with this.

In many Western countries a large part of the population has been incentivised by both tax cuts and monetary policy to own property that it's become very hard for governments to change those policies to again make houses affordable without huge cuts of the wealth of their middle-class.
GPT-4 can take image input directly but the API for it isn’t public yet
Try doing bug bounties (and being successful at them) then report back whether your perspective has been changed.
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If I understand you correctly you are just elaborating on the bit I excerpted from the linked thread? This is out of my depth but it is interesting. It seems povray would have to drastically change how it works to really benefit from GPUs since in povray a sphere is an object related to pi and not a series of triangles which are arranged into the shape of a sphere where each triangle can be easily paralleled on a GPU since they are all handled the same way?

Or did I not understand and you are saying povray's performance could actually be improved by modern GPUs without reworking how it deals with its primatives?
China already surpassed US economy according to some studies. And it was at 1/100 of US economy tens of years ago.

Part of this rise to power is due to US companies investing there, buying and giving know-how in the process, but the huge part is they've built some of the world best learning systems, the state is massively investing in education, they invest more than any other country in research. And, perhaps one of the biggest factors, unthinkable in the West, is that Chinese economic entities are cooperating instead of being secretive. If one Chinese company will develop something, you can bet the rest will learn that fast and will use it in the next economic cycle. In China all knowledge is in fact a big open source scheme. Every new startup can benefit from the know how, experience and research done by others. This accelerates accomplishments like crazy.

So, to recap: CCP makes good plans for very large time scales, they have one of best education systems, they try to educate as much people as possible, they invest heavily in research, companies are more likely to cooperate instead of competing, knowledge is shared.

It's a perfect recipe for success. And I just wonder why other countries can't apply the same recipe.
'But advocates say the most important reason to adopt un-grading is that students have become so preoccupied with grades, they aren't actually learning.

"Grades are not a representation of student learning, as hard as it is for us to break the mindset that if the student got an A it means they learned," said Jody Greene, special adviser to the provost for educational equity and academic success at UCSC, where several faculty are experimenting with various forms of un-grading.

If a student already knew the material before taking the class and got that A, "they didn't learn anything," said Greene. And "if the student came in and struggled to get a C-plus, they may have learned a lot."'

Sounds like these educators are looking for ways to bring learning to forefront of college and not a high GPA.

I think it's worth exploring.

Also the article states a lot of these un-grading ideas seem to be for the first year or so once the students are more upto speed with what they need to do. Grading as usual after.
Your understanding is false. That’s exactly how HRT, Jane, Jump, Millennium make so much money
Some people are less worried about how future people will look back upon us, compared to what future AI might think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
"Apple won’t help you figure out how to do it, nor give you the information necessary to create device drivers for their hardware, but the possibility is there."

I don't buy Apple hardware, but this quote could be applied to just about every big manufacturer.
> Neural networks really only had a scaling problem to overcome, and most people knew it.

This is incorrect. During 90s NNs were just one of the approaches to machine learning. It was not even clear how far ML as a field could go.

You can twist it any way you want, but AI/ML is older than cryptocurrencies.
> I realize this is probably going to sound a bit crazy

Yes, none of this makes any sense, but I got Asimov vibes, so more please.
"You're playing with fire, as Elizabeth Warren learned the hard way."

Lol. Years later, when the whole Sen. Warren thing happened, I chuckled and thought to myself "these Southern girls.. it never fails!" (Warren's from OK)
> I had a boss loved the phrase, "a date for a date."

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

- Douglas Adams
>You're not disagreeing with me. I explicitly raised the possibility of uneven distribution in my reply.

I misread, thanks for clarifying.
"There is no file path, because macOS lets you look up files by id.
The hash values are cryptographic hashes truncated to 64 bits and
reinterpreted as integers."

Is the author implying that APFS or HFS uses this method to calculate the file ID? I am unable to find any information regarding this. From what I understand, w.r.t APFS, the file ID is a combination of the inode OID and genID.