skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may have high performers (and low performers), including people that perform very well in a particular context or even help the whole team performing better. There is no question on this.

Putting an actual individual factor on it and especially on engineer productivity, like we were at a line factory producing everything in a repeatable and measurable way is more questionable. 1x, 10x, 1000x? People here are discussing 10x becoming 2x, it sounds very mathematical. Now if there is an actual scale with an industry baseline and an individual measurement, I'm more than interested to learn about it and I think employers should fairly compensate engineer based on the scale factor you would put on your CV.
Part of why I don't use ChatGPT very much for work is that I don't want to feed significant amounts of proprietary code into it. Could be the one thing that actually gets me in trouble at work, seems risky regardless. How is it you're comfortable with doing so? (Not asking in a judgmental way, just curious. I would like to have a LLM assistant that understood my whole codebase, because I'm stumped on a bug today.)
I don't like Javascript but you're mistaken on the performance part, even I have to give the JIT people props for how fast they've made the language in general.
There's a fairly long history to it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_gendering_of_AI_technol... (consider ELIZA named after Eliza Doolittle)

And some other articles on it:

How AI bots and voice assistants reinforce gender bias - https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-ai-bots-and-voice-ass...

Gender Bias in AI: Why Voice Assistants Are Female - https://www.adaptworldwide.com/insights/2021/gender-bias-in-...
There are actually quite a lot of possible shapes that don't degrade aerodynamics. If you take a look on the conception of any modern car, you'll see that the original design is always completely different from the one it gets after it's adapted to factory.
It was also created 16 years before the first version of Python, 36 years before Python2.

It was written in time with completely different paradigms and the two languages weren't even built with the same design considerations in mind.

Obviously, newer languages are going to tend to be easier to work with for beginners, that should be a given. We've made massive improvements in the field in the last few decades.
???

You'd expect Pastors or Ethicists to be more moral/ethical because they spend a lot of time thinking about being moral/ethical compared to members of the general population. Seems pretty intuitive to me.
It works perfectly as an argument. If you can't convince the companies who are in the business of auditing to audit you, it's entirely reasonable to think "maybe that points to systemic issues in this business model". And we're talking about firms that are routinely willing to audit and look the other way and sign off on all sorts of obviously shady practices.
I feel like hunting down drivers hasn't been an issue on Linux for any relatively modern machine I've run in over 10 years.

If it really is something that you have had problems with, maybe try PopOS instead of Debian. The restricting non-free repos by default out of principle with Debian can sometimes get annoying when you need to install certain non-free drivers (looking at you Nvidia), but PopOS is a really well-polished ootb experience that is trivial to install. Second to PopOS for a set it and forget it experience, OpenSUSE is a rock-solid distro that does not seem to get much praise.
You're right, the thing limiting the value is not demand - there are more than enough faculty and high-level staff that want to live there.

The thing limiting the value is the other restrictions that Stanford imposes on these houses - namely they essentially control the price the houses sell for because they all have to be financed through a Stanford-controlled lending program.
Yeah, being able to negotiate with the PM to still solve the problem in a easier way than initially proposed is probably where I've had the most impact over the years.
Feature request: it might be nice to see a one sentence summary of why it matters on the front page - assuming that the results are valuable.
Considering how aggressive GitHub is with marking new accounts as spam, it's unlikely they signed up with a VPN or Tor. My money is on them being identified.
These were things like keybinds and shortcuts within his editor (which 10 years ago this was Eclipse at Amazon). There were other scripts he had but I do not really recall at this point what they were doing. If you google macros for software engineers you can probably find some useful stuff.
There is a conspiracy theory out that that nuclear weapons are easier to manufacture - that uranium enrichment is the "difficult path" to creating them, that the easier path is via the accumulation of heavy water, and that the Powers That Be™ have hidden that fact because uranium enrichment provides a plausible means of suppressing proliferation.

To be very clear, I do not believe the above to be true. If it were, though, the implications on nuclear proliferation would be similar to trying to control AI research. Basically everyone has to insist that the only way to do it is to through nation-state levels of resources at a corpus to train a model, while knowing full well that it can be done with much more meager resources.

... honestly, I'm not sure where I'm going with this thought, it just seemed an interesting parallel to me.
> Precisely, I don't know. I would not expect such a specific group, or any other, to significantly differ

Do you mean for this specific item or in general? The former makes sense, but the latter I'd find a little weird given how publically well-known it is that there are group differences (take educational attainment in the United States for example).
Its a genius political move because you can sell opposing it as serving the rich, while the primary effect (and the entire intent) is to create political pressure on states to transfer tax burden from the rich downward to the less rich.
popos maybe?
Tesla have reduced their palette to just five colors, presumably to cut costs.

Porsche is the leader in paint color choice, no doubt about that, with 14 basic colors plus custom options. And to your point, consumers are willing to wait for the Porsche factory to build their car, rather than driving one off the lot that day.
This article is silly. Look at anything over the course of history. All buildings built in 1920 look the same. Everyone dressed the same.

The author cherry picks stuff that is popular in Western culture. Of course it looks similar... it's popular.
this is like yahoo in 1999 asking Google to pause their search engine research and activities so they can catch up and build something equally as good ...

or, ironically Google doing the same thing to bing/openai in 2023.
They didn't. I was one of two technical interviewers. We both recommended on passing [not hiring]. It was only a seasonal internship, so we weren't super grilling, but we still recommended a pass. We were overruled by the hiring manager who mentored this person outside of of the office.
Show HN: Ben's Bites AI Search
I built an open source search across all of the best, highly curated resources in AI.

It supports semantic search (powered by OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone vector DB) and traditional keyword search (powered by Meilisearch).

Search indexes are updated regularly via cron by crawling and extracting links from the Ben's Bites AI Newsletter (https://www.bensbites.co/), which now has over 60k subscribers.

By default, search results are sorted by recency because things move so fast that we found ourselves often wanting the latest news on a given AI sub-topic. But you can also change it to sort by relevancy instead.

I built this as a tool for Ben Tossell's newsletter as he had reached out asking for help, and I hope that other AI enthusiasts will find it helpful in staying up-to-date with the latest in AI as well.

Source on GitHub: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/bens-bites-ai-search
I asked it to explain how to use a certain Vue feature the other day which wasn't working as I hoped. It explained incorrectly, and when I drilled down, it started using React syntax disguised with Vue keywords. I definitely could have tried harder to get it to figure out what was going on, but it kept repeating its mistakes even when I pointed them out explicitly.
Ecosystem Graphs: A Framework to Document the Foundation Models Ecosystem
Home Assistant is such a cool project :) great idea!
That's fair. Also, not everyone can pay the premiums due to having a much smaller market either, I suppose.

Too bad many that can don't. There's no way for the little players to achieve economies of scale of the big players if folks keep buying Windows hardware from the big players.
I think they used a pretty slow computer for demonstration purposes.

Cynicism about modern software aside, I’m glad to see Teams, an app that many of us are forced to use by our employers, improve performance. It was desperately needed.

I don’t think this type of performance is some kind of horrid modern software epidemic, it’s just Teams being a garbage application that was thrown together to try and answer to Slack.
This is true, the question isn't inconsistent with the bus and the racecar travelling in opposite directions, it's just implied that they're going in the same direction.
How much is TikTok’s US business worth?
Maybe. I can certainly see a scenario where a vp/manager disagrees with growth in a new product area, is then proven right, but still must eliminate positions. Should they still be fired? Non rhetorical, I can see the case either way.
> every book, movie, TV show, video game and song fails to give me an interesting or meaningful experience

I'm curious, have you tried watching shows like Russian Doll? Andor? The Last of Us? The Leftovers?

These are shows that deal with the very deepest of human themes -- growth overcoming trauma, political radicalization, paradoxical aspects of love, and finding meaning in life (respectively, for those four shows).

They're some of the most exciting and well-written pieces of art to come around in a long time. And then after each episode, you can easily spend a couple of hours reading story analysis and criticism, listening to podcast analysis and so forth. Because there is a lot to unpack -- the patterns there aren't simple at all.

I can't help but wonder if you're not finding things like these that are actually pushing the envelope. (Obviously we're not talking about things like the NBC reboot of Night Court.)
Those are all upstream bugs, not Arch's. That's the trade off when you're running bleeding edge, but you can't blame Archlinux for packaging a buggy application.
I'm working on a feature that will let you adjust the writing style with the click of a button and could easily add something to explain posts in one sentence, which would also affect the post title on the front page. Not exactly what you're asking for, but might get close.
I run Mint on my primary desktop and it's fantastic. What Ubuntu LTS would've become if it had continued to focus on a good desktop experience and pushed Flatpak instead of Snap
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste and and and what that means is... I don't mean that the small way I mean in a big way. In the sense that they they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."

- Steve Jobs
https://archive.ph/jDJBH
How do you actually find decent documentation for Lazarus though?
> More likely has to do with the relative failures of "Marvel's Avengers" (the video game)

That was really striking while the iron was luke warm. I'd gleefully followed Marvel up to Endgame, watching all my childhood geeky dreams come true, but by the time that game came out I was over it and didn't want to run around with knock-off versions of the characters I loved in loot box, live service hell.
> shouldn't be work in the first place.

It seems very much intentional. You could just keep multiple different, vulnerable versions around and keep everything working. Instead distros say "Nope. We support exactly one version. Update or die."

That is also why you have runtimes, grafting, support sunset,... . I agree that a different trade off makes much more sense for desktops. For servers though...
Algebraic effects is a fantastic type system feature that needs to break into mainstream ASAP.
With current tech? GPT appears to learn by studying a large corpus of words and learning how to (apparently intelligently!) put them together. And it can “few/zero-shot learn” to do new things in line that what it was trained on. Don’t get me wrong: this is amazing!

But humans have been manipulating language, apparently intelligently, for tens of thousands of years, and billions of us have spent the last 30 years or so making a huge corpus of digitized words.

What we have not done is to make a huge corpus of digital things that can be manipulated by a computer program. We have books about machining, engineering, etc, and we are still pretty bad about turning written descriptions into working objects. (Read about “technology transfer”. For better or for worse, a lot of manufacturing seems to need experience, not just manuals.) Nicely drawn schematics don’t necessarily work at all, let alone replicate.

It seems quite likely that the robotic AI revolution will happen, but I expect it to be a while.
Somewhere in the depths of a comms room at a Very Very Big Company, there's a very very old laptop running a very very old install of Slackware, which does one job - run a server that Radio-over-IP boxes connect to, so they can have their G.711 streams picked apart, some DSP applied to add or remove certain high frequency tones and generally clean up the audio, and be fired back out into another interface.

That was all made possible by Beej's Guide to Network Programming and the RBJ Biquad Cookbook, mostly.

Just a temporary bodge until the vendor got their shit together. I doubt it'll ever be replaced.
For clarity 7,000 jobs are being eliminated while the division is being folded into other business units and will no longer exist separately. Division being eliminated, while still correct in a way, can easily sound like the entire division is no more not moved around.
That can't be his logic because Zuck has shipped a capable 2D viewer with the OS since the beginning.
Or we could just use the damn anti-trust regulations on the books to actually keep markets open and competitive. There doesn't have to be a worry that Monsanto will lock down seeds if they get split into different companies and some of those companies continue to sell seeds that aren't locked down.

I think any market segment without at least 10 comparably sized companies AND the option to just not transact with ANY of them is not competitive and will not benefit from any "free market" supposed benefits.
I don't get what you were trying to add here besides things that have already bee said.

If you did your research and made sure to buy linux supported hardware, then good for you mate, you're free to do whatever you want now, but for us with less linux friendly hardware or unknown to the user, my point still stands, you should first update everything under windows (including usb-c/thunderbolt docking station FW) to ensure a good linux experience later.
That makes no sense. The one thing chatgpt does _really_ well is setup unit tests, which is the part of unit tests I hate.

My ChatGPT workflow is give requirements -> have it create unit tests -> give it test results until it passes.

Been playing around with a generated-code-only project: https://github.com/JerkyTreats/scrivr/

In that workflow I don't really look closely at the code. In most cases I've found it isn't really necessary.
Prosecutors: Bankman-Fried bribed Chinese officials in 2021
> location and install .IPA files

???
Did they mean APK file?
While not Aspirin alone Etheresia Pretorius has been pioneering research on microclots in LC. In a recent preprint they used Aspirin and a bunch of other stuff:

>The anticoagulant regime included dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT- Clopidogrel 75mg + Aspirin 75mg) once a day, and a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC- Apixaban) 5mg twice a day. A proton pump inhibitor (PPI) pantoprazole 40 mg/day was also prescribed for gastric protection.

Results:

>..Following completion of treatment, each of the different symptoms resolved in the majority of patients.

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2697680/v1
Performance just isn't prioritized. If you spend a week optimizing making something faster, you just get hit with the ill-quoted premature optimization line and shamed for not working on higher priority tickets. Fine, I'll just leave it slow then.
Great point! But even those services seem to have stagnated after an explosion in their growth phase maybe 10 years ago with novel attempts to capture eyeballs, and are becoming relatively samey in terms of content. The article even talks about the phenomenon of "instagram face" and "UGC all looks the same."

One of the weirdest to me is twitch, before twitch/justin.tv existed did you think a platform for live streaming by anyone on the planet would be used largely for watching strangers play video games?
I used to love driving my wife's sporty little Carolla. Felt kind of like a go-kart compared to my Tacoma. Now I have a Chevy Bolt and I'm so spoiled by the quiet, the lack of engine shake, very smooth acceleration curve, rarely moving my foot onto the break. It handles better, it accelerates faster, it feels better in normal traffic conditions, and it feels MUCH better in heavy traffic because I have so much more control. I like it better in pretty much every way.
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Wonder if these were managed by a defunct team from India?
How do you propose to use RCTs to test the claim?

As an aside, do you think that the data, not the hypothesis, is accurate (i.e., that mental health has declined in teens)?
Good step towards exposing someone that should never have access to any company's proprietary source code. They could be out looking for a job ready to do this again.
Hi, I'm responsible for our marketing which includes educational content like this. I'm looking into this urgently. Thank you for flagging it.
You called me delusional in another comment not made to me so let me explain. I used to be in a position of influence, but I'm an old man now, a recovering alcoholic whose had his ego smashed by alcohol, old age and a spiritual practice similar to Ram Dass' "Becoming Nobody."

With that setup, what's surprising to me is that I see the potential for the merging of myself with AI to form a new form of consciousness. It feels natural. Not having much of an ego, I don't feel threatened or afraid. I notice that a lot of younger people, mostly men of some position and status, are afraid of AI, I think because it threatens their status and prestige. They want to concern troll about how it threatens everyone else, but it's about them.

So go ahead, call me delusional. You're probably right. Old brains don't always think properly. But maybe this is what Jesus meant when he said the meek shall inherit the Earth.
Not only that, merely naming their laws with words that are opposite to what they do appears to completely take the heat off them.
Scientists Created a New Recyclable Plastic Not Made from Crude Oil
It's middle-of-the-road IME. Arch with good (but not amazing) defaults and a team that has had a number of controversies that kinda give them a shady vibe overall.
Not accepting contributions by email. I ain't gonna use my employer's github account for my own contributions. I ain't gonna sign some contribution agreement. I ain't gonna register somewhere that requires 2fa.

Once I did cold send a patch by email but I assume it ended up in spam.
This Neovim colorscheme: https://github.com/marko-cerovac/material.nvim
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.” – Voltaire
This is simply not true. According to Merriam-Webster, its use in a figurative context goes back 300 years. And hyperbole has a real function in language - it's not just laziness. Omitting 'quite literally', or worse, replacing it with 'figuratively' in the original sentence would communicate something quite different.
So I checked the local market and while metallic grey is the most popular here in Ireland, white is fifth, compared to its clear first place when I've been to California. White is established in popular culture as the colour of transit vans and small traders, which isn't an image that inspires demand in personal vehicles. I think in recent years, Tesla marketing has rehabilated the image of white cars a little, but I don't see them getting US levels of use in the near future, especially as there aren't actually that many Tesla's being sold here.

So I think there's some level of marketers adapting to at least what they think works in the market rather than simple volume discounts on white paint.
His timeline sounds exactly right to me, I basically did the same thing.

Mid-late 90s I used Beej's network programming guide to write an IRC client.
It didn't raise taxes on people in California and New York - California and New York did that. It's just that until that law passed, those states were able to hide this by cutting into federal tax receipts via the SALT deduction.

Why should the federal government subsidise runaway state taxes though? Which colour states does that advantage? And what kind of incentive does that create for states?

If the residents of California and New York want lower state taxes, I strongly encourage them to lobby / vote for lower state taxes, rather than demanding to be subsidised by poorer states.

Edit: I'm seeing responses to things I'm "suggesting" or "essentially arguing", but which actually appear nowhere in what I wrote. My comment is about the SALT deduction.
Sounds like she has a bad or even toxic manager. A big problem research
orgs have is the 'publish or perish' mentality imported from academia. The business version of this is the "what is the last thing you did for me?" mentality which is toxic.

Managers need to be more Ted Lasso than Led Tasso.
Google search's ads were not subtle in the beginning. Similarly, Youtube ads were shorter and easier to skip at first. Amazon also had very subtle ads in their marketplace search results for a while. I don't see them identify results as ads at the moment, but I don't know if that's because they don't include them anymore.

It seems like there's a trend in tech giants creating unobtrusive ads when a product is growing, but then adopting dark patterns once they have captured a sizeable market.
> Maybe not watthout caveats.

If you keep buying Windows hardware and slapping Linux on it, you'll have to be the systems integration team all by yourself. Without documentation of the hardware, or support.

It's a mug's game. Don't play it. Buy Linux hardware, with support.
This is good for bitcoin. /s
Sure, but Phelps is a history grad.
We are talking about being taught in an academic context, not a practical context. So, a better analogue might be that you wouldn't necessarily expect a martial arts historian to be better at the application of martial arts than the average person.
Just charge 120V. I honestly think a lot of people overthink this. 120V works fine, I also installed a transfer switch to switch between my charger and my clothes dryer.

You don’t need 400A service or any of that nonsense.