skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of videos of Linotypes on YouTube. Really interesting stuff. This one is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU
I'm working on a team that's >50% 30+ year career engineers. It's the best team I've ever worked on by an enormous margin.

I don't know how many dollars any of them spent on education, but I know everyone I work with has spent many tens of thousands of hours of their time practicing, working on, and becoming extremely good at what they do.

I don't know anything about you, or your life, what field you work in, and I won't presume anything, but I would like to suggest that you may be encountering negativity due to an outlook that you 'have been basically turned back into a child', or were 'forced to spend 478k for [your] education'.

...

Moving in with your aging mother to help her during a global pandemic does not turn you back into a child. I'll likely live with my mother again before she dies because I wouldn't want to live in a long-term-care home, so I won't put her though that.

Similarly, having spent a small fortune on your education doesn't mean anything other than you're capable of, and have (or had) the means to, spend a bunch of money.
Yeah, I don't have a Switch myself but now I'm going to need to find a friend's and work out how to slip in a sneaky cartridge lick just to have this experience.
The SaaS shop that I worked in had two Java devs, two JavaScript devs, a python gluer, and a mobile developer.

Building the even a basic framework takes hundreds of hours of developer time... for no real competitive advantage.

It's fine to work on innovative things (there was a point were something about Java annotations clicked and the report writing part got rewritten in a week)... but building big things that give small gains aren't viable in small shops.

Doing innovation on "how can we compress this web page even more" makes no sense at a small shop - if it's an issue grab Minify off the shelf and use that. Don't spend half a year writing your own that you'll need to support.

The small company is best served by working on things that give the competitive advantage - not working on those big ideas (unless that big idea is the competitive advantage).

Big tech companies have the advantage that they've got thousands of developers some of whom have some free time or the competitive advantage is removing another 200 bytes from a web page.

That small tech shop had 4000 hours of Java dev time to "spend" a year.. and another 4000 hours of JavaScript, and 2000 hours of python, and 2000 hours of android/iOS. There's a stack of 5000 hours of bugs and features for each of those parts of the app. Spending 500 hours of anyones time on something that can be solved off the shelf for under 10 hours to integrate is far from an optimal use of time.
I'd assume that 33B model should fit with this(only repo that I know of that implements SparseGPT and GPTQ for LLaMa), I, personally, haven't tried though. But you can try your luck https://github.com/lachlansneff/sparsellama
Since around 2021, I've reported privately (with MSRC on copy) a number of Bing infrastructure issues where their internal webpages were misconfigured and exposed to the public. I had access at some point to a bunch of their dashboards, content curation tools, build farms, stuff that exposed user search query strings, user logs, etc. I had no idea a bounty program existed and MSRC never responded. The team did fix the issues and seemed appreciative. To see such a different response (and a large cash bounty) is frustrating (to me). Happy it got fixed though!
Could be that those in charge of preparing this open sourced repository did it begrudgingly, and so they perceived the fact that it looked bad as a positive thing. "Hey, you wanted us to release the code. Happy now?"
I actually agree that I don't think there's anything particularly special about our meat and chemical GPUs, but analog's fidelity has historically been difficult to replicate precisely in digital space. Maybe since we don't care for emotion in our intelligence, we don't need the analog. But I think our brains are a little more (but not that much more) complex than fancy statistics. After all, the math models the real world, not the other way around.
100% agreed that it's dumb to require extremely specific knowledge of one product, and 100% disagree that a Googler is "clearly qualified" simply because they came from Google. I have absolutely no idea why we've all just accepted the narrative that any FAANG employee is automatically better than the rest of us, despite evidence that FAANGs are nothing more than code mills optimizing for exploitable ambition over actual intelligence or engineering ability.
37, not sure which part of the probability spectrum on immortality by technical means that puts me in :-)
No. Centralised IM is bad in design by default. We need decentralisation. Like email still has and it is also a reason wh is it so popular.

I would rather say "Give time to decentralisation". It slowly became a standard. If more people abandon abusive software.
You are worth what the market will bear. That includes timing and luck.
Algorithm exists and is non-trivial, therefore it favors those groups of posters that spend more effort to hack it.
> This really seems like the opposite direction auto manufacturers should be taking.

For sure. GM is operating based on fear here — just as carriers were terrified of being "dumb pipes", vehicle makers are terrified of being "dumb boxes". Somehow GM is under the delusion that Google is their friend, and that alienating Apple users won't impact vehicle buying decisions. GM will learn the hard way that both are incorrect.
> https://layoffs.fyi/

There's 120k US layoffs documented here in 2023, or 0.07% of the US workforce. We could imagine the ~50% reemployment rate for FANG is a fair estimate for the rest of the tech layoffs (fang employees might be easier to be rehired, but might have more savings and be less inclined to return). So 0.035% of the workforce would potentially be running out of severance.

It probably will have an impact. This alone isn't a crisis level event. It's hard to determine regional data for the laid off workers because of WFH, but we could imagine tech heavy regions receiving a bigger share of the impact than national averages. The impact is probably more spread than it would have been if the layoffs happened in 2019.
Yeah I think part of the challenge is keeping things very distributed and not centralizing outside of the core management of the structure only.

So for example, structurally I think we can nudge the organization such that any of our individual seegull "communities" can stay smaller than about 200 co-owner/operators/employees. That is to say perhaps each has their own specific bylaws (like states) treasury etc...IDK how to make it last 1000 years I'm just hoping for 100
Does that make the nation of Italy Luddite, and will the rest of the world pass them by?
Set time aside for active reflection and meditate.
We need another word when the capture is beneficial to the government because it solves a quasi governmental problem which is easier without oversight.
It's all deterministic, or at least there's no reason for there not to be and there's no valid reason to believe for any reason that it's not deterministic. Ultimately it wouldn't matter anyhow, because everyone is controlled by their desires, feelings and these have developed throughout evolution to make sure that you are likely to survive, so likely you would keep going, unless the environment changes to an extent that evolution didn't prepare you for, of course. Which might very well happen, but it won't have anything to do with sentience, determinism or anything else.

Anyway the point is that just try to enjoy the ride if you can.
I guess now managers would be way less willing to accept underperformance though... and more picky on recruitment.
Looks like it’s time to unplug the unused echo dots.
At first I thought this post was a joke - and it was actually a pretty good joke. Yikes.
Show HN: Estacaido.com – Is It Down?
Hey HN,
As my small apps have grown, I have started to have the need for a monitoring system. I decided to take a bit of influence from some of the top sites around. It is far from done, but presentable. EstaCaido, in spanish means "Is it down" so I thought the name was fitting. Hope to hear your thoughts
> it feels disingenuous to act like the impact so far has been positive for everyone

I definitely didn't mean to give that impression. They are not positive times; my point was that these times were expected. An entire system has been built around the industrial prison complex that compounds these issues. We won't see improvement for a bit.

> Please consider our perspective: even if we double the police force and start addressing crime more promptly, our neighborhood is still worse off because we have more crime.

100%. Money was diverted away from neighborhood groups and given to racial identity groups years ago. That's when this decline started; just this week that money has been reallocated to neighborhood groups. The county has picked up funding of the racial identity groups; if you notice, those donations come from one person and most of these organizations help that person get elected materially.

> Other parts of the city don’t seem to appreciate that.

I'm still newish to Portland, but if it's any comfort I live in SouthEast. These points aren't just forum talking points to me, they are the very way I understand my immediate world and experiences.
Have you checked your RAM memory?
Bill Gates vs "networks" leaps to mind.
How should it know? Increasing its bank balance was merely the task it dutifully set out to accomplish, per instructions. Everything else is just a means to that end.
Meta as a company has shown pretty blatantly that they don't really care about ethitcs, nor the law for that sake.
>There is no overlap between the ecological niches of humans and GAI, in other words, there is no cost to the GAI for allowing us to continue to exist.

We are made of atoms that the GAI can use for something else. Ditto our farms and cities. Moreover, unlike most of the atoms in the universe, the GAI doesn't have to spend time traveling to get to us. If we could arrange for the GAI to appear in some distant galaxy, then yeah, by the time it gets to us, it'd already have control over so many atom that it might just leave us alone (because we are so different from most of the atoms).

The GAI will know about the prime directive because it will have been trained on internet conversations about the prime directive, but there is no particular reason to hope that exposure to moral arguments will alter the GAI's objectives similar to what tends to happen with young human beings: instead it will have whatever objectives its creator gave it, which (given the deplorable state of most AI research) is unlikely to be the objectives that its creator thought it was giving it. (By "creator" I mean of course a team of human researchers.)

Your poetical imagery might make you feel better, but won't save us.

>Humans are the densest source of information in the known Universe.

You feel that way about humans because evolution made you that way. It is unlikely that any of the leading AI research teams will make the first transformative AI that way: they do not know how. They certainly know how to train AIs on human cultural information, but that is different from inculcating in the AI a desire for the continued cultural output of humanity. It will create its own culture (knowledge and tools) that is much more powerful than human culture where "power" means basically the ability to get stuff done.
Yeah if anything all ChatGPT is doing is highlighting that a lot more noise-work can be automated. "Make my random thoughts sound business-y", "double check this code doesn't have anything completely stupid" etc.
I really struggle to think about a language that doesn't usually need a runtime. Some can produce binaries that don't need a runtime, but usually you need to jump through hoops to make that happen.

We just don't notice that typical C programs need libc and pthreads. Or that C++ programs on Windows require that cursed Microsoft Visual C++ Runime DLL which is always missing, but has few dozens of copies all over the system of the miserable Microsoft slave.

Go doesn't produce fully statically linked binaries by default. I used to make "from scratch" Go containers and, in general case, you need libc in them, unless you are willing to go through pain of statically linking with it.

Typical / practical Rust programs will also depend on libc and pthreads (but, sure, you can do w/o).
I mean, you cut off the rest of that paragraph ;P. Sure: it sounds like maybe a reasonable opportunity for Circle, but Coinbase would effectively be adding no value anymore and would have to attempt to charge (a lot, if they wanted to have any hope of making anywhere near as much money as their current business model) for something that not only are they currently doing for free but which they aren't really doing in the first place (as they are just a thin wrapper around Circle). The only reason Circle isn't bothering with this market is seemingly that they didn't want to deal directly with retail and they don't really have to because Coinbase was willing to integrate it for free... but like, Paxos (which is also regulated) does deal with individual users, so there is no reason Circle can't in a world where Coinbase is otherwise irrelevant. (The reality, though, is that there is still benefit for traders to having centralized exchanges due to their limit order book model, so I wouldn't discount Coinbase just yet, anyway ;P.)
LLaMa was trained on data of Meta users, though.
That’s the clever bit about the so-called Turing Test. It’s a sophisticated way of saying “I don’t have to define it, I know it when I see it.”
Pavlov’s cows: Is this remote-control cow system creepy, or the future?
Would it not be just as annoying to see a slant the other direction, or in any extreme direction?
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of projects using some language just because the developer likes it. Even in a company, personal preference could still affect a lot in choosing the language though they might concern more than that.

And after that, the language might become popular because some big companies use it/develop it, or someone makes a killer library. Most reasons are just not relevant to the language itself.
IANYL - This is not legal advice.

As you may be aware, a counter-notice that meets the statutory requirements will result in reinstatement unless Meta sues over it. So the question isn't so much whether your counter-notice covers all the potential defenses as whether Meta is willing to sue.

The primary hurdle you're going to face is your argument that weights are not creative works, and not copyrightable. That argument is unlikely to succeed for the the following reasons (just off the top of my head): (i) The act of selecting training data is more akin to an encyclopedia than the white pages example you used on Twitter, and encyclopedias are copyrightable as to the arrangement and specific descriptions of facts, even though the underlying facts are not; and (ii) LLaMA, GPT-N, Bard, etc, all have different weights, different numbers of parameters, different amounts of training data, and different tuning, which puts paid to the idea that there is only one way to express the underlying ideas, or that all of it is necessarily controlled by the specific math involved.

In addition, Meta has the financial wherewithal to crush you even were you legally on sound footing.

The upshot of all of this is that you may win for now if Meta doesn't want to file a rush lawsuit, but in the long run, you likely lose.
It's not about "fake difficulty" it's about real difficulty.

It's about a game that actually expects you to overcome hard things, not just wander through the theme park.

There are plenty of other easy mode games out there, people are welcome to play those. I highly respect FromSoft for standing firm that the challenge is the experience they want to deliver and they aren't putting in easy mode.

People can complain about it, but that's what FromSoft wants to do with their product and the success shows that it's a very popular choice.
Ok that makes lots of sense from an engineering perspective. It's pretty insane from a statistical perspective though, which I think was the original point.
With forced RTO and "hardcore" mandates, it's difficult to find 6+ hours of time to interview at other companies (assuming there are any open visa sponsorships available).
Dodge CEO Explains Why You Shouldn't Pay a Markup on Demon 170
I have not used Macs in years but the one observation I would offer, a good amount of linux/OSS software seems to break when Apple updates the OS and it does not seem a good platform if you want to keep using such software. This observation is based off of the dozen or so projects I follow the development of (mostly audio related) so may not be at all accurate to the wider view and I just may have found one of the little niches where these problems are more common.
That's why I reference a net removal of spending

> So tax $1.10 for every $1 redistributed
Hydrogen is literally identical to electricity in this regard. It is as green as it's energy source.
There are millions of lines of code existent. There are thousands added. Your prior for it being Elon's addition should be something like 10,000/1,000,000 or roughly 1/100. The prior that it wasn't Elon's change is going to be something like 99/100.

When you add the additional information that Elon wants the code removed, but existing Twitter engineers think it appropriate to keep this actually increases the probability of it being added by the existing Twitter engineers and decreases the probability it was added due to Elon.

Obviously, these are rough numbers, but hopefully seeing any numbers at all helps you to get an intuition for the math.
> I really don't believe any of that.

Okay, you don't believe that Trump attempted to follow this fringe legal theory. We have the Eastman memos, we have communications inside the trump administration about them, it just so happened that "alternative electors" stood ready, and the protest - which Trump specifically scheduled to get to the location of the EC election at the right time (remember, he even said he'd walk there with them) - just so happened to be led through the building, as you yourself stated.

Is there anything in the above paragraph that you disagree with? I can produce the evidence I've seen since the insurrection for each of the points, but you'll have to accept it in good faith if you ask for it (reasonably, of course, if you have specific disagreements).

> This entire "fringe legal theory" idea is pure conjecture.

No, it really is not. As I said we have internal communications, and I even distinctly remember it being floated on public conservative forums before Jan6. But the worst part for me? I can't point to anything that Trump would have done differently had he actually followed this strategy. That's the thing that puzzles me. Isn't it a bit eery just how well everything lines up around his actions? So he can keep plausible deniability?

> Trump even told people to go home and to be peaceful.

Like, let's go over this point. The capitol police started getting overwhelmed and pushed back around 1:30pm. Some time around, or slightly after, this I remember watching a livestream from one of the protesters. Then, at 2:24pm Trump tweeted:

Trump> Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

He must already have been aware of the protest. I was, and I was on the other side of the world. Then, at 2:38pm he tweets:

Trump> Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

Great, at last, a call for peace.

But now explain to me. Let's say you were in Trumps position AND you wanted to follow the previously-described legal theory AND you wanted to keep plausible deniability. What would you have done differently?
Why would you want to convince yourself in the first place?
I'd love to read more about this; do you have a link?
I have to admit I am geeking out whilst skimming source code I barely understand.
With ever growing context windows, you can upload your entire codebase (or at least the public API) in the prompt and have the model reason off of that.
I love Linux, but oh my God it is so unstable for me. Updates crash things all the time. The whole Nvidia driver takes me days to sort out each time. Depending on segment, commercial software tends to be less available. You also need to know just so much low level stuff just to keep going. Wayland vs X, display managers, grub config... Too much for me.

Linux has many redeeming features but it can be a full time job just to keep it running. By contrast, Mac comes in one size and configurability is limited, but out of the box it just works.
Also includes a commit “Remove politicians from Twitter”; wouldn’t it be better to discuss that in a separate PR?

Other PRs are similarly creative, like the one called “blue tick for all accounts”: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/357
Certainly not complaining lol just that I understand why another org might not want that. No solution needs to be one-size-fits-all.
> I mentally group Flash, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro together as dying because they were unfashionable in tech circles despite being highly productive and practical.

I don't think any of those died because they were unfashionable. They died because the world/environment they were designed for changed or left them behind.

Flash was built for the world of desktop computers with a mouse, keyboard, and relatively large amounts of RAM. It was optimized for Windows/x86 but could also be made to run on other platforms and architectures. Even on Windows it was unstable and extremely insecure. On mobile its performance was atrocious and all on onMouseDown() events (the typical click event people used) just went nowhere. Flash as written also didn't tend to handle portrait aspect ratios nor window dimension change events well if at all. Adobe was also a terrible steward of the plug-in. They did not want to put the resources into making it good, they barely kept it up with security updates.

VB was similar in that it was designed for the unconnected 32-bit desktop world. Microsoft wanted to drop the VB6 runtime and just make the VB language hosted on top of the .NET runtime. It wasn't that the language was out of fashion, lots of LOB apps were written in VB in many companies, Microsoft was just uninterested in continuing development and had a new hotness they were pushing. VB.NET was an imperfect upgrade path for VB6 developers.
I've seen WhatsApp doing it. It start with 1.5G anyway, so after some images and stuff it inflates quite a lot.
Agreed. Where I live, the government has a very progressive approach on climate change. There is a large carbon tax. Home owners can get a large credit to retrofit their home with a heat pump. Yet in this market, there is a shortage of rental housing, so landlords have little incentive to renovate in any way, let alone to reduce heating costs for tenants.

Like Boston, renters suffer with leaky windows and exorbitant heating bills while home owners tap climate change refit incentives and reap the considerable rewards. Need I also remind everyone that, during the pandemic, almost no home owner had to pay their mortgage, whereas there was no such abatement for renters.
Imagine being happy for not leaving on the wealthiest nation on earth because a specific magic beans trading venue is shutting down.

It's like the maga incels who work at walmart but complain taxes are too high.
100%. I use this great strategy as well, but on Android. I just don't pick up any calls that's not in my contacts list. Works out great.