skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably good to go into a post like this with some basic assumptions about the context: works in/around/with SV "good new boys" network, easy 6-figure software jobs and weird jockeying around securing vast sums extracted from inbred billionaire weirdos and distributed for blood by fast-talking VC weirdos.

The outsider perspective on this is to fancy yourself a smart inventor who's going to outwit/outsmart/outplay the competition with your own company, find product market fit. This factory makes software widgets, and striking gold with such ephemeral products is as hard as striking gold with making sounds (which is the magic that the pop music industry makes happen regularly, somehow). (So, smart enough to write and release quality, reliable software to the public, or build a team capable of doing this).

Demand is so high for any software that becomes popular, that proxies for value are accepted with a "we'll worry about profit later" kind of attitude. So this justifies focusing on a hyped technology even if it isn't real. But if the hyped technology is real, even better.

A rational agent, selling their intellectual labor, understanding the current lay of the land, will see that the subject of "improving AI and integrating AI into applications" is going to be in high demand for a period of time, which means higher income.

I can explain why a higher income is desirable, if you like.
If that was true, why don't Meta and all the others simply hire people from those countries, like they offshored production? In some cases they even set up physical offices there to try to do exactly as you say. Yet they keep coming back to more expensive workers.
Come on, at least the Mexican peso has appreciated considerably this last year. Swiss francs, BTC.
Investigative journalism isn't at risk from LLMs, which simply regurgitate the consensus view of their datasets. This is an excellent tool in the arsenal of a real journalist.

What I would like to know (and what few if any of the whining "Journalists" are investigating), is:

Exactly what biased filtering is being performed:

1) On the input datasets used in various LLM training, and

2) On the "guard rails" enforced on LLM output (ie. the target of the various jail-breaks that prevent LLM's true outputs being perverted by the LLM's owner)

LLMs trained, restricted and run by these huge, clearly biased organizations are inherently untrustworthy, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, no "Investigative Journalists" are interested in providing useful insights in this critical area.
What's really fascinating is listening to Sean talk about his _process_ for preparing for his interviews in such a short amount of time.

Listening to him talk, he really sounds like a hacker. He figured out a way to optimize preparation to organize extremely in-depth, thoughtful questions in a way that others have not. And ultimately, it's what sets him apart in a very saturated field.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTRLCSWfq7I
I dump my old macbooks on friends and family when I do an upgrade for speed reasons. I usually rotate every 2-4 years. My parents are still using a 2014 air that I got out of a box my previous employer was going to send to recycling. It's probably about time to upgrade them. They generally have the same usecase. They use iPads for most things, but sometimes they want a physical keyboard. They have rejected generally the ipad keyboards as 'weird'.
Careful with anthropomorphising. Communication is much more than vocalisation of abstract thought (i.e. the way humans mostly use it).

Animals don't communicate the same way we do and it might be very misleading to associate concepts such as grammar with their utterances. While some species use distinct sounds to express certain situations (like "careful, there's an airborne predator" vs "careful, there's a snake"), not all "verbal" expressions serve such purpose.

The general consensus in contemporary science is that bird songs in particular are utilities to attract mates, mark territory, and the like; not exchanging information (other than things like "this is my nesting place" or "I'm healthy and available", but not in a sense of words or sentences, but more like the acoustic equivalent of gesturing).
Because I think "AI" is the handicap.

"AI" will help at first, sure, but as it is used more and more, the code will become less and less well-designed and built. My code, on the other hand, will retain full quality, and my long-term velocity will out-pace anyone using those tools.

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept." [1]

[1]: https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/e83ed02eac6cc8d7e185
Because it's path of least resistance, but not a path to well being.
Format your distribution. You probably messed some config file up, while trying to fix something.

They work completely fine. I use them all the time and have been using them for about a decade.
I don't believe it was version 4 yet.
>Paraphrasing Paul Graham, “the most ambitious challenges attract the smartest people”.

What is said here could almost have the same logical outcome as saying "the most challenging problems have no brilliant solution until one of the smartest people come along".

Nothing about attraction whatsoever, factored out instead.

Still seems pretty sensible when it works.

Now pick 3 top mathematical wizards.

Would it have been possible to achieve that status unless they had already accepted (and overcome!) challenges that were too much for those who came before?

And maybe still have their hands full with remaining challenges which were already accepted before AI came near enough to be considered within reach?

It should be most obvious to those having the best numerical abilty, to figure that more than just 3 of the smartest people will be needed with the growing number of challenges that nobody has even tried to overcome, sometimes not even recognize.
How to split Meta: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp.

Easy! Hard part: Who gets Occulus?
> The economy is ricocheting from giant boom to bust.

2000, 2008, earlier crises that were less global. Certainly not a new concept from 2020.

> Inflation is causing a cost of living crisis all over the world.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

I wonder what may have caused that large spike in energy prices in the beginning of 2022 and what other non-covid events might have caused that.

> We are risking a large banking crisis.

True, but if banks are only sustainable at 0% interest rates, is that not an issue already?

> We are experiencing massive layoffs in our own industry.

IT employment is dramatically up since 2020, even after layoffs.

> Cities are being hollowed out.

If housing policy hadn't been mismanaged so much in the west over the last 30 years, I'm sure there'd be much less pent up demand to leave now that people have the option.

> We have an epidemic of loneliness.

You think this started in 2020? Never heard anyone discuss NEETs, the frankly dismal prospects of anyone graduating without a qualification in one of the few popular fields these days, the negative effects of social media, etc, before 2020? Must be a nice bubble.
When Ginsburg was interviewed on Al-Hayat TV in 2012 about where the new Egyptian government should look for inspiration, she cited the South African constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the European Council on Human Rights positively and said "I would not look to the U.S. Constitution" as a model for establishing a new state:

https://africasacountry.com/2012/02/ruthbaderginsburg/

On the matter of free speech, note that the South African and Canadian constitutions, and the ECHR, all protect freedom of expression exclude hate speech as protected speech. It is VERY much in line with modern statecraft to do so, and the doctrinaire approach of the First Amendment (only established in 1969, by the way, before which the USA implemented speech restrictions not dissimilar from those seen elsewhere) is the outlier here. Also note that getting rid of the First Amendment is not getting rid of freedom of expression.

Granted, her position was not even as radical as mine, which is that we must rethink the constitution from the ground up and implement a new form of government more resistant to corruption, again drawing from examples of more modern statecraft -- a multiparty parliamentary system, for instance. All she was saying was that new governments should look elsewhere for a template.

Ginsburg's views that the U.S. constitution is the supreme law of the land, and must be hewed closely to and not played fast and loose with for as long as it is active, were congruent with mine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HF5x_24kKOM

Interview with some of these people is really tough. The main person they follow through this talks about that choice between life or sadness through shame and even says he “…doesn’t have the courage to honorably kill oneself” during that interview. I can’t imagine having to contend with that belief structure. I would choose life and sadness, and I do daily. I can’t fault someone for not wanting that but especially so when I cannot understand the approach or belief.
How is propping up Firefox's market share and slowing down their own development the right thing to do as a business?

If Firefox wants to have a competitive market share they should actively compete instead of begging people to increase their market share.
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+1 For Measurement.
I am not going to try to compare the 2002 Soderbergh film version, but I like how they both compare the human mind to an a nearly unknowable alien (ocean of clones that appear on the ship)

I haven't read or seen the full 1972 version, but does anyone know if this line is in Stanislaw Lem's book?

"“We're proud of ourselves.
But when you think about it,
our enthusiasm's a sham.
We don't want other worlds. We want mirrors.” -it is from the 2002 screenplay, but I am curious if it has any analogue in the Polish book or Russian film.
Just a few years ago our office (two floors, Fortune 500 company, more than 100 people on site) had a 100Mbps connection to the Internet (and a dedicated 1Gbps to a branch office). We had video conferences, mirrored OSS and back'ed up over the 'net. The dedicated link was at times a bottleneck, but I don't recall that the link to the Internet ever was.

With the shift to cloud computing, at least in the awkward hybrid phase, that won't suffice for a business of that size, but it really isn't obvious what a single person would _need_ a gigabit connection for. Perhaps you can elaborate.
Does anyone done some course online that was super high quality? I'm thinking about Computer Vision, NLP, MLOps. Stuff like that.
If a user cares about privacy and security why would they be using an outdated, unsupported OS? That would be like double dead bolting the front door but leaving the window next to it wide open.
Now we just need to find a business model for Real Journalism that actually works so that we can pay journalists to do it.

And we desperately need it. Part of why everything is getting more corrupt is that we don't have newspapers funding journos to go and dig up the dirt.
It's because, like it or not, NordVPN is a great product. The apps are great, the design is slick, they have more servers in more countries, and offer additional value through things like Smart DNS, dedicated IP. Not to mention solid customer service.
Working machines are different from thinking machines.
That's true. An earlier version of my comment called out hardware problems as an exception—insufficient error correction for neutrino bit flips is fundamentally a hardware problem—but I removed it before posting. In a way, I feel hardware bugs do still follow this principle: The electrons in the circuits are behaving as they always do, just not in the way we intended. But I agree this gets philosophically messy—no one "programmed" the electrons.

My underlying point is that, at least in 99.999% of cases, the problem isn't the calculator, it's the human using the calculator incorrectly. And although you could draw some parallels between calculators and AIs with regard to selecting the right tool and knowing when and how to use it, I'd say the randomness involved in an LLM is fundamentally different.
> Humanity is different than nature

This is a dogmatic statement influenced by religions that put humanity as a separate creation.

Humanity is part of nature. Fixing the world requires accepting that.
It's always been an upper middle class, aspirational middle class affair no?
lenovo makes better workhorses than apple. you seem to be attributing the plateau of necessary machine performance to apple's quality. the reality is that for general computation no one really needs more machine than was produced in ~2010.

you simply don't need to upgrade computers like you did in the 90s and early 2000s.
Which would probably explain as well why only Amazon can sell it. I've been trying to buy only Kobo as of late, but the book literally does not exist (in English) in their library:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=solaris
What is so special about Europe?
Our Hyderabad associates tend to do that every time they come visit our office. Or they did, when we still had an office. It also helps that we don't have sales tax in Oregon.
They easily could by actually putting in family friendly policies into place and abandoning the educational policies which turned childhood in Korea into a constant drill 24/7.
What disappoints me is that other people can't interact with you (see where you're looking) while wearing it. Just putting a little cartoon face on the front would be enough to let you know whether the person is looking at you, surprised, distracted, or focused on something else. Based on the leaks they have cameras for facial and eye tracking for remote interaction so why not even a nod to those in RL. Certainly those in virtual will see those things.

No reason they can't do good merged reality so that your kitchen or tiny office becomes a full featured remote conference room, while still letting you see what the kids/wife are up to. Even in the SV developer sardine cans something like it could help with distraction.

Best reason I can think of for not doing it? Weight and power/temp. You can't wear any of these for more than an hour or two.
Not buying that the richest 1% would have anywhere close to 40% of the wealth just by age and savings effects. Makes no sense.
> The new base M2 Air begins at €1500 after taxes which is genuinely an absurd amount of money to ask for a device that comes with 8 GB and 256 GB of non-replaceable ram and ssd respectively.

I wonder why the Apple executive leadership doens't come together and say:

1. let's lower prices

2. let's keep prices the same but offer 16GB + 512GB of storage

my hypothetical retort would be "they don't need to if people keep buying their product" but, if the article headline is true about sales being down, then they need to run some kind of sale or re-evaulate i guess

i wonder what their margins are on their M2 Mac line of hardware

> It is generally believed that Apple has a profit margin of around 40-45% on its products.

> Using the mid-point of that range (42.5%), we can approximate the hypothetical cost of manufacturing an Apple M2 laptop as follows:

> Hypothetical Cost = Sale Price / (1 + Margin)

> Hypothetical Cost = $1200 / (1 + 0.425)

> Hypothetical Cost = $842.11
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Check out the DisplayLink stuff. I think it works pretty well. I even devote one DisplayLink screen to security cameras (4-6 640x480 cameras at 15fps). I also use that screen to play YouTube videos, if I'm following along with something

It handles it just fine at 8-10% CPU usage on an M1.
You are buying into a distorted image of the typical US population experience. Access to healthcare is pretty much instant and high quality for all but the very bottom of the society. 85%+ of the population can get an appointment within a day or two and if it’s urgent can access numerous urgent care clinics with almost no wait.

Best I can tell for many European countries the situation is significantly worse in terms of access.

There is a lot of strange misconceptions about US quality of life from people in other countries.
I use VR primarily for social interactions. Not everyone I interact with loves in the same city as me, but we regularly play VR games to maintain a social relationship.

Thats not being antisocial at all, and I don't replace in-person social events with virtual ones anymore than someone who jumps into Fortnite with their friends on Friday nights.
>FWIW, macs are high quality and last a long time.

My own personal anecdote is that I spilled a trivial amount of booze on my MacBook 9 years ago and was left with the option of whether I wanted to replace the entire lower case. While it was my fault for drinking and computing, I just see it as being an expensive device to maintain when you accidentally damage it. I'd rather play a lower stakes game with a cheaper product that I'd buy more frequently as my needs change over the years.
Great idea! The world needs this - if it works.

Just like some strong pressure will bend a tape measure - will a strong wind gust damage your sails?
people "avoided" it because up until fairly recently in its history, the only available compilers were priced to sell to the US Department of Defense and the language was too complex for other people to bother implementing a standards compliant compiler. it's an absurd language with a few good ideas buried underneath a mountain of engineering cruft. it's a fantastic reflection of the environment it was born out of.
I got one a few weeks ago. I'm using it from Germany. There is definitely a morning peak on the west coast in the US that affects reach ability. Though with a paid account it usually works for me. And I've used less than a dollar of tokens so far. So, it's not super expensive. You can get the 20$/month subscription as well in which case they prioritize you some more. IMHO the pricing makes it a no brainer and I've definitely gotten some value back.

The advantage of the cheap API key is also that you can use it with all sorts of tools. CodeGPT for intellij is amazing for example. I have a vs code plugin and I found an extension for Google docs. And I've written a few small integrations myself for some private projects. All good value. And less than a dollar spent on tokens.
Will second. Viola Davis' performance is worth it alone along with a character twist.
I'm a big advocate of remote work, but my role has changed it's value significantly:

* As an IC, remote is amazing. It gives me distraction free space to focus and be productive. With moderate process, I'm able to be extremely productive and unblock myself.

* As a manager, remote can be challenging when trying to drive cross-team/cross-org impact - especially on ambiguous projects. It's far more challenging to drive outcomes when you can't simply walk into someone's office for a quick conversation . Good process can help with this, but most companies don't reward for this.
Yes, and I even have one. Doesn't change the fact that Linux is the least popular supported OS.
> Ukraine is the only country to have fought off Russia, except Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Germany.

It (presuming it succeeds) will be the only country to have fought off the Russian Federation, or anything referred to (even if only somewhat loosely) as “Russia” in the third millenium.

Fought (and in some of the cases you cited got steamrolled by) the USSR in WWII is... not particularly relevant.

> Ukraine is already a buffer state by virtue of its geographical position

Its not if it becomes a Russian satellite.
> Why would you assume it's not both?

I do not believe parent assumes that, but rather states they hope it's not the latter on its own (or at least not a major driver in the decision process).
I think the answer isn't that simple. It depends.

For me my M1 Macbook Pro has the following pros:

* It just works. I detest Windows. I love Linux but lately I started spending too much time maintaining it, I have busy life and decided that taking care of my OS is a luxury and I would rather use something that is acceptable than spend a lot of time getting to perfect.

* It is viable powerful workstation. I just connect it to a good docking station and have a nice setup with two 60Hz 4k monitors. It is silent and usually cold while in this setup. And it is surprisingly (and I mean it) powerful.

* It has gorgeous display. For hugging together and watching movies with my kids and wife.

* It is a status symbol. All people at my company who mean anything have one and it is easier for me to just fit in and pick other, more meaningful battles.

* It is durable. It will last me a long time, hopefully. It is true that it is fragile, but it is mostly fragile in certain ways that I can manage around. I am generally gentle and caring about my gadgets. If I don't kill it in a stupid way there is good chance it will be perfectly good working laptop for many, many years to come. I can hand it down to one of my family while I get a newer machine.
From a software compatibility perspective, nothing beats Windows. Your windows laptop will continue to run flawlessly until the hardware stops working (although you may have to do a clean reinstall from time to time). Microsoft takes software compatibility very seriously.

Hardware as high quality as Apple is harder to come by though, and generally commands the same price premium.
I could totally imagine a big map game having 50gb+ of textures, and demand loading them. If you have more VRAM, there will be less SSD reading/writing as textures are loaded and unloaded when you move about the map.
I hate it with a burning passion. I can get used to it, but I wush I could just runlinux on it. Apple absolutely has a worst software engineering culture on a planet.
I feel that is an answer for americans.
There is no sports or arts classes where I live. Most people work and go home to watch TV.
A lot of places in the world don't have such option with activities or outdoors.
I'm kinda curious why though, and I'm speaking as someone who bought a mirrorless camera (I think my first camera ever?) about a year ago.
Robots are getting good at dribbling soccer balls (video from MIT)
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