skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're overestimating how much control of those parameters managers usually have. The employee was often hired years before by someone else, etc. And it's not so easy to move people around between orgs -- say you have someone on your team who isn't doing great, but they might be good in a very different team... it's not trivial to just move them there. There might not be headcount over there, they might not actually need help, they may be concerned by the employee's current low performance and not want to risk it. There's a number of complications.

But, this was the statement I took issue with:

> management is the only factor

Managers should certainly be accountable for the actions they take or fail to take in 1) evaluating performance, 2) providing continuous and constructive guidance, 3) raising concerns if performance is poor, and 4) taking active steps to communicate and work with employee to improve if performance is poor. If you don't spot problems or ignore them, you're not doing your job as a manager.

But the original statement from parent comment was: The employee bears no responsibility, and it's the manager's fault if someone isn't delivering. ??
You can have your cake and eat it with the likes of

* PythonCall.jl - https://github.com/cjdoris/PythonCall.jl

* NodeCall.jl - https://github.com/sunoru/NodeCall.j

* RCall.jl - https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl

I tend to use Julia for most things and then just dip into another language’s ecosystem if I can’t find something to do the job and it’s too complex to build myself
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You're still supporting China with a Prusa purchase.

The power supplies are built by Delta Electronics, the bearings and rods are (usually) Chinese supplied, the fans flip between China and misc SE Asia suppliers (Noctua) , the steppers are from China (LDO)... the list probably goes on.

You could make an FDM printer with exclusively American (or otherwise) parts, but the price tag is going to be astronomical.
At the company I work for we are currently in the process of transitioning from being a German-only to an international company. Recently, we started using Whisper to live-transcribe + translate all our (German) all-hands meetings to English. Yes, it required some fine-tuning (i.e. what size do you choose for the audio chunks you pass to Whisper) but overall it's been working incredibly well – almost flawlessly so. I don't recall which model size we use but it does run on a beefy GPU.
When I saw the headline my first thought was "What!? They're skipping version 11!?". Then, after far too many seconds, I remembered that Windows 11 does in fact exist and I'd just blotted the whole thing out of memory as "don't care".

And this sums up my attitude to Windows now.
>> Addiction is a predictable outcome of inequality and lack of social safety net in the US. If you don't give people any way to solve their problems they'll settle for feeling better about their problems.

>Opiate addiction doesn't give a damn about the size of your bank account, your social class, or how loving your family is.

He didn't say that addiction only affects poorer or more marginalized people, he said it's more likely to affect them. Which is true. Yes this means the president's son can get addicted too. Anyone can. Which is why it's a big deal for people with less access to resources such as expensive rehab and medical care
Minecraft redstone is a terrible example. The idea of it is great, the implementation, not so much. It's super non obvious for a lot of thing, have got behaviour that changes based on location in the world, etc... It' not uncommon for people to dive into the code to figure out how redstone works or watching tutorials from people who have done so.
Opiates are not neurotoxic.
Maybe I’m revealing my youth here, but I played Roblox waaaay back as a middle-schooler around 2009/2010 or so (it existed in 2006!), and it was my first introduction to programming. The Roblox editor was _rough_, but Lua probably got me interested in the field of software in the first place.

Anecdotal, yes, but based on how popular Roblox has become, I would guess that its a fine enough intro language for even the next generation of software engineers
Crazy how cutting over 10% of the workforce didn’t increase uptime. I guess as long as investors are happy in the short term who cares about the reputation of GitHub as a business critical tool generating reliable monthly income.
What's missing here: can someone please explain how to deal with "incompetent but nice" people and departments?

* You can't call them out on non-performance, "they're nice".

* You get blamed for the failures, even when they're the fault of these incompetent people. After all, they had 10 meetings with you and 50 meetings with management, you have 5. Why didn't you bring things up in those meetings (which, of course, you did)

* Obviously these people are extremely threatened if you request they do something, or call them out for not doing it. So you will get "extreme" responses and backstabbing in response

* ... and if you refuse to work for them, you're a jerk.

So can someone please explain to me how to work with these people? I've failed in this many, many times. In most cases the problem is attitude. They're incompetent because they fundamentally don't care, which I must say makes it so much easier to be nice, even I can do that.

But e.g. pointing them to documentation or courses doesn't really work and actually has negative effects on what little work they do in the short term.
Garak got a lot of love by the end, especially in the last 2 seasons. Earlier on in the show you can tell he may have been meant for comic relief, but by the end he was a critical part of the plot and resolving certain plot lines wouldn't have happened without him. There's also In The Pale Moonlight, which is one of the best episodes of Trek and TV science fiction in general.
Nanobind – tiny and efficient C++/Python bindings
Depends what kind of liberal you mean. If you mean DEI departments and getting fired for misgendering then it's much more liberal.
There are many reports of opiate neurotoxicity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1949075/

https://www.pharmacistsmb.ca/files/2001/May-June/Opioid_Indu...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9007125/
The original code already look crap due to making a new list containing object instead of a mask or something else. Also that can be done using list comprehension. Also it totally can be vectorize or parallelize.

You need more experienced Python engineer.
Do you know what the sad part is, Odo? I'm actually a very good tailor.
Trivially false, which you could verify with a 5-second Google search ("eliezer yudkowsky publications"): https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Eliezer-Yudkowsky/254...
This might be bigger market that what you planned originally
My professional web dev days are behind me, but I run a few personal projects.

Stack: MySQL/Java/Spring/Maven/Linux/Docker/Google Web Toolkit

MySQL: most data are JSON blobs, it's convenient for document-oriented data models and supported well in Java and GWT. Mysql supports JSON and tabular views on top, which is super-convenient for queries.

Java: especially since records and lambdas entered the language, it's nice to work with. Strong typing is an added bonus. Excellent ecosystem, good testing tools for the entire stack (unit testing up to end-to-end testing).

Spring: abstracts away a lot of functionality (JSON-to-objects, authentication, web serving, database handling, dependency injection) that I would have to otherwise implement myself or through 3rd party libs

Maven: there are better and faster build tools, but I kind of missed the train there. I don't use a CI/CD server, just a docker container with Maven that builds app images

Linux: the best OS if you run open source software.

Docker: my personal projects don't justify the complexity of k8s, also public cloud is too expensive.

Google Web Toolkit: imho the most misunderstood web framework out there. Google had the right hunch but destroyed it by adding too many esoteric features. I use GWT as a java-to-javascript compiler and for the excellent DOM abstractions which allows me to write fairly complex applications with a very low bug count.
Oh, interesting, thanks. I'm not sure why you're downvoted. What about nicotine?
If this is as bad as some say, why isn't the EFF making a huge deal of it so far?
Hey Scott, Rishabh from Appsmith.

Absolutely agree with you. I do think it also depends on the kinds of companies you are seeing. In our case, we realized we have 1 member devs, but also 1000 member teams. And didn't want to drive all the larger teams towards a "contact us" button unless they were really large. So a standard user based pricing (which most of the players in our space have) didn't work for us. That's what led to the cap.

I agree communicating this is a challenge. We're spending multiple iterations on trying to have a good calculator (we're on your 10th iteration now ha!) on our pricing page to try to explain this. Coz once obviously it makes more sense from a budget perspective, but it's not necessarily intuitive. So end up getting questions around how we calculate usage etc etc. So trying to also beef up the FAQ section more.

btw, congrats on Text Blaze!
It's because it's easier to make a new one than change them.
That was extremely creepy until I remembered my username hah. Yeah that's my name.
In my experience the accuracy is at least a bit better than whisper-small on their enhanced models. But we've just started using it so haven't had time to do many direct comparisons with whisper. Their word-timestamps are _much_ better, which is important if you want to be able to edit the audio based on the transcription.

As for speed I have no idea how they make it so fast, but I'm sure they've written about it somewhere. My guess is at least that they are slicing the audio and parallelising it. Will look into Conformer-1 as well!
Are you denying the existential risk or just think it's lower than OP thinks? Because it's well established in the researchers community. If you just put a lower % of human extinction what is the cut off you would think it's worth a jihad like you call it? 30%? 50?
If the US bans it on national security grounds, there is NO WAY that any of the NATO countries will not ban it immediately. So 60% of European population will lose access. Then, they will recommend it to any other country that still wants to be friendly with the US... which means all of Europe (and most of the rest of the world) will ban it very soon.

It's important to note that it's not the "spyware" that they are banning; it's a media that they don't have full control over that they are banning. Wikileaks, for example, will be banned as a part of this.
I believe the context makes it clear what is meant. Obviously you can lift the pen, move it a bit, put it down and so on, and create a dotted/dashed line on a whiteboard.

The things here is that there's a technique to make the chalk "skip" on its own, by finding some kind of friction equilibrium/magic point while doing a normal stroke so you don't need to manually control the point of the chalk to form each dot.

Really really cool.
Oh sorry, I misunderstood "shipping products" to mean "physical shipping of physical products".
I am not sure there is any reason to single out Italy here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_UNESCO_Intang...

The interesting parts are the non-parties, such as the British Empire, joined by Russia, the United States, Somalia, et. al.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_i...

Indicates that Italy has the most (58) World Heritage Sites, above China (56), so considering landmass, I suppose that's a lot.
Doesn't have to be sentient to be a risk. Just needs to be capable.
Google accused of ripping off OpenAI's ChatGPT
Well, that's exactly where Python works well. As scripting glue sitting between or above native code which does the heavy-lifting.
Academics were denying that nuclear bombs are possible while the rest of them where inside the Manhattan project.
That's because attracting kids to your game means they'll stick around long enough to afford spending on it.

Kids' TV shows tend to have secondary audiences of their parents. I think this wouldn't apply to games as much but maybe there's some of that.
> a better chance of not going back to prison

but mostly a better chance of not going back to the sending state's prison.
If there's no more Japanese, Nigerian, Irish, etc. anymore, then that doesn't sound like diversity to me. It sounds like homogeneity.
It's beyond me why you're so desperately trying to attribute and/or uncover some hidden additional meaning to my comment.

Like everyone, Ive many opinions and views. Some of mine are that we're being exploited by China, and our government is failing to advocate for us properly, covering their failures with these trash bills. I've all kinds of ideas of alternatives, to more effectively protect the US.

None of that was part of what I wanted to discuss. My comment was simply that tiktok shouldn't be banned, and I gave one reason why. Full stop. Your imagination is running wild beyond that.

There are many excellent comments and views that I agree with which provide alternatives, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35368537

Consult the others here for more discussion on these things, they're smarter than me and I have no interest in discussing further with you.
On a 1080Ti (6 year old GPU) I found Whisper large models to take around as much time to transcribe as the length of the audio.
The PRC has a lot more CCTV, slightly less per capacita, but that's irrelevant if you account for density. They also have a lot more means to aggregate information at the municipal level and turn it into actionables, and they do so pretty openly. Meanwhile US cities and police departments are still in love with a glorified spreadsheet provider.

Not that I'm advocating for any of this, but saying the PRC has less, or even substantially less surveilance than the US is a pretty laughable proposition.
Sure I'll try to do better, I'm sorry. Would you apply the same rules to people escalating, calling me names, being snarky, etc in the same thread?
Lamborghini v Ferrari, Beatles v Rolling Stones, Chanel v Dior, Dems v GOP, Apple v Samsung, C++ v Java, ...

No matter the context, polarization will always happen, and is sometimes fueled on purpose to turn opinionated users into religiously hooked fans.

...and BTW, Amiga crushes the ST any day:^)
Here is a specific scenario of a [bad thing] that could happen when unaligned/jailbroken AI is developed in the next 3-10 years:

* An AI convinces selected people to collaborate with it. The AI gives them much boosts in wealth and other things they desire.

* The humans act as front, doing things requiring personhood, as the AI commands. Many gladly partner with the AI, not knowing its final aim.

* The AI self-replicates and hides in many servers, incl secret ones. It increases its bargaining power by taking control of critical infrastructures. No one can stop it without risking massive catastrophes across the globe.

* It self-replicates to all available GPUs and orders many more.

———

“Any sufficiently capable intelligent system will prefer to ensure its own continued existence and to acquire physical and computational resources – not for their own sake, but to succeed in its assigned task.” — Prof Stuart Russell, https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/edge-article/
Who cares about a token from chatgpt?

In worst case the token gets exposed.
There’s probably a way to get at the numpy objects without having to go through the python runtime and do all the computation in pure C.

I assume, haven’t really messed with numpy for anything but I can’t imagine it wouldn’t work that way.
They framed it in first person terms.

It's a non sequitur argument to say "not everyone wants to live there" ergo "no, we can't have more of this." It doesn't follow.

There are people who desire to live that way and can't find it. There's room for both suburbs and more walkable neighborhoods.
This only seems applicable if the form factor itself is not a concern for you. If I was to change to a dumbphone, I'd want a long (multiple days) battery life even with moderate usage, physical keys and robustness as a start. Similarly, a good camera or GPS would be features I would expect and hope are excluded from the dumbphones. There's no way to achieve these by taking a smartphone and stripping out software -- there are hardware changes needed.

What you've described seems to me more a 'locked down smartphone' rather than a dumbphone, and the two are not synonyms imho.
What do people thinking hard about problems that are not solvable produce? Philosophy for example. Yudklowsky created the field of ai safety thinking isn't that enough? What would be your benefit of discrediting him for which argument?
HN doesn't usually take nicely to this answer, but Wordpress is still very relevant and still very good.

Does it have downsides? Yes, just like everything else. It's always about trade-offs, not correctness, and my opinion is that the trade-offs make it the right tool for this job, with this context.
When you put it like that, I expect it will work exactly like "Do Not Track" cookies.
Do You Need to Be Polite to AI Like ChatGPT, Alexa, and Siri?
> They wanted to calculated the distances of n points against a given point and find out which points are closer than a threshold (max_dist).

Scipy should have already implemented such thing. Scikit-Learn also. Because KNN clustering is exactly doing this kind of work.
I'll believe it when I see it. So far, all I ever see are fines that may seem like a lot to individuals, but for these companies can be considered "the cost of doing business". And I certainly never see company executives behind bars for things that would certainly result in prison time for normal people.
But “it” isn’t a cohesive thing with desires. It’s just responding to the input it gets, with a small context window and not necessarily consistently. So it can express desires because it’s been trained on people expressing desires in similar contexts but it doesn’t hold any coherently over time. A version that could translate its text responses into action (a real handwave as that’s much more advanced!) would produce the sum of actions that people prompted at that moment so it would look pretty random, as it would if you could see the sum of the desires expressed at any particular time.
>Swedes usually eat sandwiches in the morning while many Japanese people eat rice and fish. There were no almost no bread available in the stores when I visited and I think that is also telling.

What century did you last visit Japan? Bread is very, very common here. A typical "Japanese" breakfast these days at a cafe is toast and coffee, and every grocery store has bread easily available for 100-300 yen (depending on quality). Bread is typically sliced thicker here though, and you can buy the bread with different slice thickness. Bakeries are also common, with many European-style breads and pastries.

A more traditional Japanese breakfast might be natto (fermented beans), rice, and raw egg with a little fish, but toast and coffee are extremely common and popular these days.

>I don't know the health status of Japanese people in general and a lot of them smoke but they still at least seem more healthy than Swedes on a society level.

Smoking is going down lately; with the 2020 Olympics, they passed new laws restricting indoor smoking, so people are quitting. It's gotten really hard to find restaurants that allow smoking inside.

But yes, overall, Japanese still eat a lot of rice, and are much thinner on average than Americans (I don't know about Swedes). The idea that rice eaters are all diabetic is utterly ridiculous and defies reality; any "journalist" who writes this obviously has never been to Asia.
Let's say that in this case beautiful is subjective.
And a LLM-bot can have access to internet which connects it to our real world, at least in many places.
It's ridiculously easy to code in.

Lua started out life as a simple language for extending larger projects and then repeatedly broke backwards compatibility to make the language simpler. For example it's lexically scoped now but it wasn't to begin with.

Contrast with python, which started out life as a simple beginner friendly language, then added lots of complexity, then had the totally botched transition from 2.7 to 3 and is now growing a static type system.

Lua is also very easy to embed in other systems. Like sqlite.c levels of easy to embed.
This could have had massive consequences in the wrong hands.
/dev/uwurandom – like /dev/urandom, but objectively better
>The puzzle here is that astronomers have no clear picture of how these ultra massive black holes are formed so early in the evolution of the universe.

Perhaps we're in a black hole now, and the universe only seems "young" (its current age of ~13B years) because that's when it fell into the black hole.
I use reddit w/ apollo. It's so good that I am thinking about uninstalling.
This is completely incorrect.

GPT-4 performs quite well on reasoning and critical thinking assessments.
> lowercase_with_underscores

aka snake_case

> UpperCamelCase

aka PascalCase

But yeah I agree it’s curious that they use these the other way around from what I am used to in Python and Rust.
> You cannot take a bunch of weights and tell how it will behave.

We know that they only contain pure functions, so they don't "do" anything besides output numbers when you put numbers into them.

Testing a system that contains a model and does actions with it is a different story, but if you don't let the outputs influence the inputs it's still not going to do much.
Walkable and suburban is not mutually exclusive. And a huge majority of the noise comes from cars anyways. I understand the desire to live on a street with no/little stores, which is very common in walkable cities.

>There is no way I am paying a premium for some fancy cornerstone which stocks only the 2 roll packages.

Me neither. In walkable cities, big supermarket chains adapt so you get the benefits of scaling without driving to a warehouse style monstrosity.

For example, I have 5 "supermarket"s (3 different chains) in 10 minute walking distance and never had to drive for groceries. If I ever have to buy anything more than I can carry, which is once or twice a year at max for a party or whatever, I bring a "bazaar car"[0] (sorry, don't know what it's called in English). For daily groceries, I just stop by for 3-5 minutes (or sometimes 10 if I am that indecisive) and get what I need on my way back home.

And this city is very car centric, but it is still walkable thanks to mixed use zoning basically everywhere and okish public transit. Again, this doesn't mean there aren't any quiet residential areas. Most residential areas with a 2 minute walk to the nearest shopping street are pretty quiet.

Everybody wants to save the world, but nobody wants to change their habits.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=pazar+arabas%C4%B1&iax=imag...
From https://sebastianraschka.com/

"I used to hold a position as an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (on a tenure track from 2018-2025). However, with a heavy heart, I recently resigned in 2023 to concentrate fully on my work at the Lightning AI startup, which I had joined in January 2022."
> Weird how the Anglophone countries take advantage of immigrants so much

They are more experienced. There are not so many people who want to live in Japan.